At Lands End, about 3 weeks ago they converted the 2nd system from 1.4 to
1.7. They definitely didn't want to be unsupported.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
414-475-7434
- Original Message -
From: Blaicher, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups:
I still think that what you learned first and grew up on determines what
editor you like best. I worked with VM for about 15 years at PH Mining
until they retired VM. I never liked XEDIT as well as ISPF. I know that
some of the best people at PH liked XEDIT better, but they learned it
I didn't know Vista allowed that. I'll have to try getting Vista at my next
job then. We had Rumba at Lands End. At PH, we had some old thing that
was last supported around 1999. I can't even remember the name any more.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
My Garmin GPS didn't reset the time either, but then it never has. It
doesn't take much to tap the clock icon and then tap Daylight savings time.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
TekSystems
Dodgeville, Wisconsin
414-475-7434
- Original Message -
From: Doc Farmer [EMAIL
My PC at Lands End never reset the time. I noticed at about 11:30 that the
clock had the wrong time. We have Windows 2000 Professional with Outlook.
After the help desk got the time reset, then my Outlook calendar made all my
appointments for the week 1 hour off. As I understand it, only a
What I thought would be a longer term employment as a contractor, and
possibly a full time position, is ending in 2 weeks. Back to unemployment
again. They didn't have as much work as they thought, and a new hire in the
mainframe middleware department has been doing a lot in the z/OS areas.
George,
If the blocksizes are the same, IEBCOPY without copymod works fine. I think
you can copy to an equal or larger BLKSIZE without having to use copymod.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
TekSystems
Dodgeville, Wisconsin
414-475-7434
- Original Message -
From: George
I really don't think too many American companies are moving mainframe
computers to foreign countries, unless the business presence in the foreign
country demands a mainframe. I have to believe that most companies want
their mainframe at home on American soil where it is safe, and easy to
Why would anyone buy a product that has 9-5 service and keys to make it
work? I would think just a tiny amount of investigation would uncover that
fact. Of course, if the product is sold to another vendor, you maybe won't
get 24-7 support, but you can then make plans to get rid of it.
Eric
Michael,
I have a question about DAF. Have you ever made DAF so it uses less CPU
time? I really like DAF, and found it a great help under certain
circumstances. It just seemed that whenever I ran a DAF job, it buried the
CPU while the job ran. This was at my last job, where we had an
IFAPRDxx really isn't a key. You have to turn it on for each product to use
it, but there is no key that only works on your CPU. I'm not sure just what
IBM's reasoning behind IFAPRD is, but the only way IBM could limit your use
of different software products using IFAPRD would be if IBM was
Charles,
I sure hope they don't start charging for software by headcount. Every time
I see a headline about a company cutting thousands of workers, invariably
they say that the stock went up. If software costs go down whenever you
have a headcut, that will give management added incentives
Barry,
Actually, for the SCRT report, the reports need all Lpars for each CPU. The
prod and the test lpar both run on the same machine, and the SCRT report had
some flaky messages and wouldn't give the proper results. I'm not doing the
SCRT stuff, so I never really saw what the error
Victor,
Don't ever think of asking questions on IBM-Main as an abuse. That's one of
the main reasons for IBM-Main's existence.
I assume that you meant using VnRnMn in dataset names. My position is don't
use them. If you have JCL, Clists, or Execs that have system dataset names
in them,
The last 2 weeks I spent at my last job, I spent a lot of time FTPing stuff
to my PC. I made 2 CDs worth, as it wouldn't quite fit on 1 CD. I kept all
my JCL libraries, all of the mainframe system documentation libraries I
could find, and all of our Parmlib, system Proclib, etc. There was no
The previous shop I worked at had an MP3000-H50. Are you saying that
instead of 1 Prod Lpar and 1 Test Lpar, we should have had 2 Prod Lpars and
2 Test Lpars so we could run in sysplex mode? We also would need to define
a coupling facility, which I believe IBM always recommends 1 whole engine
I think my last company is a good example of old stuff costing more than
new. We built our datacenter in 1995. We ended up buying a 3090-600S.
That and all the real 3380 3390 dasd caused them to buy 4 big Liebert
units. At the time, the 9672 had been out for a while with about a 60 MIP
I really don't mind Steve's mentions of his courses, but I have to agree
with what Graeme said quoted below also. I know a few posters, specifically
Bruce Black, often mention their products. Bruce and Steve have so many
good answers, that even if you don't like their promoting their
Modern equipment is just so unsexy. With the old reel tapes, at least you
could see the tape spinning, and the tape bouncing up and down in the vacuum
columns. Cartridges you can't see anything.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Lands End
Dodgeville, Wisconsin
414-475-7434
-
I might ride my bike to work, but then I'd have to figure a way to strap on
my brief case.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Lands End
Dodgeville, Wisconsin
414-475-7434
- Original Message -
From: Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
To:
I remember on our 1410/1401 playing songs on the 1403 printer. There were
little object decks, maybe 1/2 inch thick. The Battle Hymn of the Republic
was a good song. Even the drums came through good. This was all done by
printing certain patterns to get different sounds. A couple of the
The safe way is to copy the IPL pack to another volume. Expand SYS1.LINKLIB
on that pack, and then IPL from that pack after clipping it to the same
volser as you had before. I hope you are not planning on running SMP jobs
agains the live IPL pack. That could lead to disaster. If you applied
I'm curious. Does anyone know if say a 6 CP model with one book costs the
same as a 6 CP model with 2 books in the z processors? I know that if you
really plan to expand, that it is probably cheaper to start with 2 books
than one if you are going to have more than 8 CPs eventually - at least
Hi Mohamed,
Using indirect volser support is a good way to go. I would suggest one
other change. Start the Prod Lpar disks with P, and the Test Lpar ones with
T, rather than put them in the middle of the name. That way they stand out,
and all the Prod lpar disks are together in a list of
If I remember correctly, the 2560 could read about 300 cards per minute.
Compare that to the 2540 (I think) being able to read about 1,000 CPM.
Punching on the 2560 was much slower, but I can't remember. I spent many a
day sorting decks of cards and running them through the 2560.
We also
I always used a 3278 mod 5 type device, not a PC. I had my PC right next to
my dumb terminal, which was really helpful when I was reading books in book
manager. I never used green for much, because that color was harder to see.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
Alan, thanks for sharing this article. Maybe there's hope yet for me in my
job search. Now all IBM has to do is give some of that flexible pricing to
its current customers, so they can afford to stay on the mainframe.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
a playing
card museum, but I can't remember the other 2. Me thinks this is getting a
little off topic.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434
- Original Message -
From: Richards.Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eric N. Bielefeld wrote:
Jeez Ed, your as bad as me
Someone just sent me the following link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_Conspiracy
I had no part in it!
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434
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For IBM-MAIN subscribe /
I don't think you can send attachments to the list. It either strips them
off or just rejects the post. Since the financial presentation was a
spreadsheet, I don't think it can be sent to IBM-Main.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434
- Original
Ed,
Twice I clicked on the link below, and each time it screwed up my Outlook
Express so I had to do CTL Alt Del and end the program.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434
- Original Message -
From: Ed Finnell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups:
I apply to almost every real systems programmer job posted on Monster,
careerbuilder, and Dice, which on average is about 3 jobs a week. Most
places, you never hear from. So far I've had one out of town interview.
There are systems progammer jobs out there, but there must be a lot of
people
This thread comes at an opportune time. It reminded me to back up the stuff
I really need on my PC. I hate to admit it, but I do an abominable job at
backing up my data on either of my PCs. I bought Roxio about 6 months ago.
I backed up everything at that time, but haven't since.
My
Radi,
I honestly don't think I would ever read a magazine online. I probably
won't renew when my subscription runs out. I can understand your reasons
for going that way, but I don't think I'll read it online. I know z/Journal
offered an online edition, but they still send you the magazine
I still like MIPS. I know, I'm getting old! I believe everything you say
about MIPS being meaningless or whatever, but I still think that if you are
looking at 3 or 4 models of CPUs, the MIPS rating gives you a good feel for
how fast they are, especially if they are all in the same processor
Thats why you always build a stand alone FDR tape or DFDSS tape. You IPL
that, and you can restore your RESCUE pack, and IPL that.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434
- Original Message -
From: Tim Hare [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ah - but when we
Bill,
There were several posts that strayed off of the topic, but if you read at
least the first post on this topic, I think you'll find this very on topic.
Flex-ES is a PC that is fitted with special software so it can run the MVS
operating system. It is also fully licensed by IBM, which
I just went to the web site posted previously. If you click on advanced
search, they list 33 programming languages, plus the choice of all
programming languages. They list Lex, Limbo, lua, Matlab, and Troff. I've
never heard of any of them. Guess which one they didn't list? Right -
Cobol.
I think most of what people have as their opinion of what editor is best
comes from the first editor you learned, either in school or on the job.
Especially if you used that editor for 5 or 10 years before using the next
editor. A couple of years ago I took 3 Linux Admin classes, and had to
This surely seems like a good way to start killing the mainframe. Get rid
of the developers of software products for your system. Also, get rid of
all of the really small companies off the mainframe that will never now grow
into large customers. There doesn't seem to be a lot of smarts in
So, if your a PWD member, you can run 64 bit mode, but if your company just
needs 10 - 30 MIPS or so, you can only run 31 bit mode? That doesn't make
any sense. Is there anyone out there from IBM who can explain this, and
tell us why IBM wants to kill the FLEX box? I'm sure that a few of the
Now I feel all wet!
OK. I think I understand it now.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434
Eric Bielefeld wrote:
Does the PDSE work similarly, or is my speculation all wet?
Oceanic. As others have stated, PDSE physical blocks are always 4K in
When PH Mining still had their mainframe, they had 6 operators who worked
standard the 3 shifts, with first shift working 8 1/2 hours, and 2nd and 3rd
shift working 8 hours. There was usually 2 people per shift, and 1 on the
weekend. They had a couple part time people who just worked
Shane,
I know Friday comes earlier in Australia than it does in the US, but not
this early!
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434
On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 08:32 -0500, Ward, Mike S wrote:
Does anyone have a job description for a z/os tuning expert, ...
I believe a page frame is 4096 bytes.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434
- Original Message -
From: Steve Rawlins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 5:16 PM
Subject:
This is a good place for my occasional reminder to spell out acronyms.
Granted, most acronmys used on this listserve are common enough to be
recognized by the majority of people on this list, but IGS for IBM Global
Services is a good example of something that I bet over half the people on
this
The easiest way to change any settings in IBM-Main is to click on the search
the archives link which is added as the last line of each email by the
listserve.
Near the top of that screen, click on Join or Leave the List (or change
settings).
On the bottom of that page, check the first box
21, 2006 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: DSS RESTORE - how to enforce CONTIG
Eric N. Bielefeld wrote:
Radoslaw,
I see no one answered your post from 9-18. Unfortuneatly, I won't
either. I did have a question though. Does the IODF have to be in one
extent?
I don't recall hearing that rule.
Yes
Radoslaw,
I see no one answered your post from 9-18. Unfortuneatly, I won't either.
I did have a question though. Does the IODF have to be in one extent? I
don't recall hearing that rule.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434
- Original Message
Brian,
Those sound like greate candidates for the CBT tape. Maybe you could send
them to one of the Sam's for inclusion, or are they proprietary code?
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434
- Original Message -
From: Brian Westerman [EMAIL
I wasn't going to say anything on this topic, but I finally decided to weigh
in on it. I have mixed feelings. I like being able to just unload a couple
libraries, run a couple of jobs, and then the product is installed.
Products like FDR and ChicagoSoft's QuickRef I think are a lot easier
Uh Oh! The dreaded ancient computer history thread has evolved again. And
to think that I started it too.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434
- Original Message -
From: Clark F Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Burroughs: B6500, B6700, B7500, B7800,
Actually, your only half right, since half the calls are incoming, although
your percentage may vary.
(Hey - its Friday)
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434
- Original Message -
From: David Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Every time you pick up a
I've been to 2 of each. Each has it's strong points. Share certainly has
many more sessions presented, which is good and bad. Its good in that there
is a lot to choose from, but thats also a bad point. You often get 5
sessions that you'd like to attend, but can only go to one. Also, both
A 7,000 MIPS mainframe in Korea was recently replaced by Unix Boxes. See:
http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid80_gci1214459,00.html?track=NL-576ad=563693asrc=EM_NLT_514124uid=1718791
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434
I'll second Jon's comments. I made a lot of use of two automation tools
from the CBT tape. AUTO and COMMAND were the tools. I mostly used COMMAND,
which lets you issue a series of commands by putting them in a PDS member.
If you have some automation software that can key on messages, that is
Shmuel,
I had a good laugh over your answer below. What good does it do the poster
to know that it is in your bookcase? Although he does know it exists!
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434
- Original Message -
From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
Are you kidding?
We had CA Datacom installed for some CA product that we never used. Then, I
was going to upgrade CA11, and I found out that CA Datacom was required for
that. I installed the current version of Datacom at the time, but never got
it working before we stopped upgrading any of
Robert,
It's hard to remember just what everyone says about every product. That
might be a good thing to keep in mind when saying something tongue in cheek,
myself included. With the number of people on this list who post regularly,
it's hard to remember just what each person said on a
Alan,
Thank you for giving us an I assume official word on VM's future viability.
I was pretty sure that IBM was not giving up on VM, but its good hear it
ffrom the developers.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434
- Original Message -
From:
I fit our rescue system on one 3390-3. I even had 800-900 free cylinders on
it. When PH finally did a disaster recovery test in 2004, I decided that
the free space on the Rescue pack was a good place for all my documentation
and several other key items needed in recovery. I wrote a copy of
Did anyone see the headline on SearchDatacenter.com today? PGE in
California is offering rebates of $700 to $1,000 on new Sun Servers that
cost around $3,995. IBM should get into that game. Customers should get at
least $100,000 rebate if they put a z box in to replace 100 or 200 servers
We had 3 6262 printers at PH Mining. None of them had lower case on the
print band. I think another reason you don't put lower case on the print
band is that it prints faster.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434
- Original Message -
From:
Craig,
I may be wrong, but I don't think there is an RMF report that tells you how
much CPU is used by paging. Obviously, you can tell just how many pages per
second you are doing. Someone may have a rule of thumb that says that for X
processor, so many pages per second equals 1% of the
Thats just plain old bad. I couldn't let it go.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434
- Original Message -
From: Daniel A. McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That's all right. Most of the stuff on this forum is Geek to me.
Daniel McLaughlin
ZOS
I have a question to all those who don't think sequence numbers are needed.
If you don't use sequence numbers either at the beginning or end of a
record, how do you electronically update a source deck, be it JCL, COBOL,
assember, a macro, or whatever? I don't think the DIFF command is the
Message -
From: Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In a recent note, Eric N. Bielefeld said:
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:25:18 -0500
I have a question to all those who don't think sequence numbers are
needed.
If you don't use sequence numbers either at the beginning or end of a
record
Several hours ago, I had entered a nice email on this topic that was running
under the subject of: Re: IBM Redbook: Introduction to the New Mainframe:
z/OS Basics . Since I spent about 10 minutes composing it, the **^% web
site that I use to read IBM-Main on my laptop timed out. Usually, I
I don't know anything about shadow volumes, but I bet that they need an
indexed vtoc. The MVS 3.8 vtoc wouldn't support an indexed vtoc. Maybe
that was the problem.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434
- Original Message -
From: Edward Jaffe
I used to use DISP=MOD solely for collecting SMF data - modding the daily
tape on the end of the monthly SMF tapes. It was mostly reliable, but when
it failed, which it did a few times over the years, you lost a good chunk of
your SMF data for the month. I eventually changed to keeping a
What good is a curtain with holes in it?
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434
- Original Message -
From: David Alcock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 11:46 PM
Subject:
Arthur,
I used to read IBM-Main almost exclusively through the newsgroup. At work,
the newsgroup often fell behind by 2 or 3 days. When it worked normally,
most of the time, it was about a half hour behind, but sometimes it went for
a week with no postings. I finally set up this account
Withdrawn from marketing just means you can't buy a new 9037 from IBM
anymore. You can still buy them on the open market, if anyone has one for
sale. IBM will still support the 9037 until they announce that they won't
support it anymore. And then, you can still get 3rd party support. I know
OK. What is spear phishing? I've never heard that term before.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434
- Original Message -
From: Elardus Engelbrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]
These 'bouncing' mails are actually bait to confirm e-mail addresses to be
used
After reading about the offshoring failure, I had another question about
offshoring. Does anyone know of a company that has actually moved their
computers to another country, and offshored the whole shootin match? I'm
thinking mostly MVS sites, but other large operations such as Unix sites
I guess if a British company were to offshore to the US, I'd be for it, only
because it would add jobs, and right now I need one. I still think that too
much could go wrong having your data 5 or 10,000 miles from home.
You bring up an interesting point though, that some software prices are
Whenever I've had x37 abends on the Nucleus dataset, there usually is space
available after the abend. I believe that if you were trying to link
IEANUC00, it knows it won't fit, so it never gets added to the dataset.
IEANUC00 is pretty big, taking several cylinders if I remember correctly.
I'm curious about something. I believe the z/900, which I'm sure can be
bought fairly cheaply on the open market, has multiple engines that can be
turned on or off by IBM. What if you buy a 3 engine machine, and 6 months
later you need 5 engines. I'm sure if you pay IBM to upgrade the box,
CA just announced password support for passwords of up to 128 charactors for
both ACF2 and Top Secret.
http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid80_gci1192663,00.html?track=NL-576ad=554057
Eric Bielefeld
414-475-7434
I think I've used the same argument, but there is a difference between
software and couches. Most software companies come out with new releases
and fixes for problems. I don't recall a furniture vendor coming out with a
new release of their couch, and then giving it to you.
Eric Bielefeld
I forgot who the original poster of this was, but when you said you had an
unused IFL engine, did you mean there was an IFL engine on your machine that
was just there, and if you used it you would then have to pay extra, or was
it an IFL that you actually paid for or IBM threw in the deal when
John,
Thanks for the info. I think its really cool that once you buy an IFL on
one machine, when you upgrade you don't have to pay for another one. I
don't think anyone else does that with hardware. Does that mean then that
IFLs are so useless that IBM can't even give them away? That's
Richard,
I think most states are at will employment states. Basically, unless you
have a contract, your employment can be terminated for any reason by the
employer. By the same token, you can quit at any time also. I know
Wisconsin is an at will state.
I have thought a lot about where I
I think the biggest benefit of the z9 is that the operating system is
supported. I believe next year z/OS 1.4 1.5 will go off support. Having
said that, the company I worked for last often ran unsupported software, and
to no real harm. We ran VM rel 5.1 until some time in 1999. I think
Phil,
So whats the percent of people in jail in England?
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434
From: Phil Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/05/21/D8HODD7G0.html
The report by the Justice Department agency found that 62 percent
Actually, my question to Phil obviously is off topic, but I'm curious just
the same. I'm sure the percent is a lot lower than the US.
More on topic: I've only been to 2 Share meetings. San Franscisco in 2003
and Long Beach in 2004. In San Francisco, the convention center seemed to
be
If you read the rest of my post, I thought it was very on topic, as it was
about how safe the area is around the Share convention.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434
- Original Message -
From: (IBM Mainframe Discussion List) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Howard,
Thanks for posting the PTF Apar closing codes. Even though I'm not
working now, I decided that I should collect the really good stuff like this
and put it in a folder I can transport to my next job.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434
Quote:
I used to look at the list online. The biggest problem I had is remembering
where you were. If I forgot to write down the post number, it was hard to
find just where I left off. Also, the only quick way to navigate from post
to post was to click on the next button. If I had to do something
I'm sure that two escon channels would greatly speed up your backups. I had
a similar experience at PH Mining around 2000. We got 4 3490E drives, and
1 controller with 2 escon channel interfaces. That was 16 transports for 2
channels. I think the backups actually took longer than with 24
I think that this is one of those areas where the real answer is it depends.
Every shop is different. I know at PH we had a lot of software that was
brought in, and then sat around unused.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434
- Original Message
Bruce,
I thought the compression took place in the control unit, so the full amount
of data went over the escon channel, and was compressed by the hardware
before writing or reading. How does that triple the effective tape rate to
27MB/sec. over the escon channel?
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS
Jon,
Why do you want to cap it at 28 MSU? I can't give you an answer to your
question, but I remember a presentation givin by Rick Ralston, who used to
belong to the Midwest Computer Measurement Group (MCMG). There was some
form of Lpar capping that you could put in, and it gave you several
I've said this before, but why not have IBM just cut their price for
software? I know the answer, but still, they are at war with Microsoft, HP,
Sun, and all the other hardware and software makers. Why not make it easier
to cut your mainframe costs and keep us employed setting up new systems.
Well, since we switched over to the new system running on AIX on an RS6000,
their stock has climbed from the upper 50's into the 70's. The switch was
done the first week in March.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434
- Original Message -
From:
I had a lurker on this list call me last week. I won't give his name or
company, but they are planning to get off the z/OS platform by 2008. I know
the Electric Company in Milwaukee is planning to be off the mainframe before
the end of this year. I figure there is probably 10 to 12 mainframe
Hi John,
When did PDS 8.6 come out? I don't remember seeing that, unless I've been
running it all along and forgot the number. I can't go check anymore as our
system is gone. I remember downloading something several months ago and
just putting it in a steplib so I wouldn't have to make any
Rick,
An even better tool is the PDS 8.5 tool from the CBT site.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434
- Original Message -
From: Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PDS Directory Question
The PDS 8.4 tool from the CBT site does a
Phil,
Great post, and since it's Friday, its only slightly off topic. You really
cracked me up.
Well - Me and PH are now history. I'm home and bothering my wife now. She
is so worried that she'll have to rearrange everything to fit my schedule.
Monday morning, I can start searching job
I've seen a bunch of posts on this. Are these the REP cards as are used in
AMASPZAP, or is this something different. For example:
VER 0012 AF21
REP 0012 2345
Eric Bielefeld
PH Mining Equipment
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