Re: Is a Hurricane about to hit IBM ?

2005-09-25 Thread Gibney, David Allen,Jr
Obviously, you folks don't follow SAG-L, where we've learned to ignore most of Anton's flame bait :) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blaicher, Chris Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 7:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject:

Re: Time Change Coming Up (no not again!)

2005-09-23 Thread Gibney, David Allen,Jr
It's not scheduled to take effect until fall 2007 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Finnell Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 7:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Time Change Coming Up (no not again!) In a

Re: time (also: Re: many services)

2005-09-11 Thread Gibney, David Allen,Jr
, but that is not an ETR in the zBox sense. On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 20:03:55 -0700, Gibney, David Allen,Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe the is a difference between a Sysplex Timer and an ETR (External Time Reference). I think ETR is a subscription, you might choose to do without and manually instruct

Re: Transferring text files with ^M characters

2005-09-10 Thread Gibney, David Allen,Jr
But, shouldn't a real NL imply a newline but not a carriage return? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 5:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Transferring text

Re: time (also: Re: many services)

2005-09-10 Thread Gibney, David Allen,Jr
I believe the is a difference between a Sysplex Timer and an ETR (External Time Reference). I think ETR is a subscription, you might choose to do without and manually instruct the Sysplex Timer. If I'm correct, the new function with z/OS 1.7 is of limited value for those of us who would like

Re: Most effective BUFNO?

2005-08-26 Thread Gibney, David Allen,Jr
Wherever possible, convert to SMS, Extended and stripped formats. Use Systems Managed Buffering and worry about some other minutiae. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 6:17 PM To:

Re: 1.5 Manuals, pdf's and bookshelves

2005-08-17 Thread Gibney, David Allen,Jr
Using Softcopy Librarian, I have all (PDF and Bm) supported versions of the z/OS manual (1.4 to 1.6) plus the CICS and Cobol manuals I need in 6G. Search with Bookmanager, print with PDF. It's not worth the controversy. As soon as 1.7 is available to Softcopy Librarian, I'll download them

Re: DFHSM Encryption

2005-08-09 Thread Gibney, David Allen,Jr
I'm back from wherever . I meant encrypt the files from the application. HSM and DSS don't quite do the encryption yet, looks like they are close. And Innovation does it now. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Staller, Allan

Re: DFHSM Encryption

2005-08-02 Thread Gibney, David Allen,Jr
Encrypt the data when the files are first written . -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Staller, Allan Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 12:45 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: DFHSM Encryption Is anyone aware of a method to

Re: ILR005E PLPA PAGE DATA SET FULL

2005-07-28 Thread Gibney, David Allen,Jr
I would guess that it did mean Error, until the first few times it didn't mean really bad error. The it was rationalized to Eventual Action, for downward compatibility reasons vvbg -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vernooy,

Re: Server Time Protocol (Was: Re: SMPE 3.4)

2005-07-28 Thread Gibney, David Allen,Jr
Just guessing, but the HMC does periodically dial out and call home. And the way you currently sync the clocks is to set the HMC clock, which sets the SE clocks. Today, you then POR to set the hardware clock. If they adapt the ETR code to query the SE which is set via the HMC dial out, well

Re: How to detect a missing link list library?

2005-07-27 Thread Gibney, David Allen,Jr
I've got a PROGxx parser, but it's written Natural and uses Entire System Server from SoftwareAG. Probably not what Sam needs :) Dave Gibney [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Programmer(509) 335-7359 Information Technology Washington State University

Re: z9 Announcement

2005-07-26 Thread Gibney, David Allen,Jr
Any rumors on the z8 for us little folks? :) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Shannon Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 9:53 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z9 Announcement Have patience. Search390.com

Re: IBMLINK

2005-07-25 Thread Gibney, David Allen,Jr
Any idea when/if it will be fixed. I've been accused of curmudgeonliness before, but I really prefer the TN3270 interface to ibmlink for basic tasks. Like AST, SRD, SIS -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward E. Jaffe

Re: The clamor begins for IBM to give up the code for OS/2

2005-07-24 Thread Gibney, David Allen,Jr
Ed Jaffe's point was subtle, but on point. I would estimate that SHARE's non mainframe content is close to 40 or even 50% these days. Anyway, a lot more than one or two sessions. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould