Finding Aliases? Symbolic Aliases?

2005-11-08 Thread Peter Pfaffner
Nobody answered so I'll jump in: Gil wrote: I'm considering, as an alternative to compress, a tactic of copy/rename/ DEFINE ALIAS. ... Experiment shows that when I do the rename; create new version; DEFINE ALIAS; their aliases continue to refer to the obsolete content by its new name rather

IBMMAIN Strategy KnowledgeBase

2005-08-16 Thread Peter Pfaffner
Hi again, just needed some time to sort posts to the original thread (news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]): My first impression is, that Wiki's are well known by some listers and are highly accepted by them. Special thanks to (in alphabetical order, I love movies :-): Ian Metcalfe, Jantje and Rob

IBMMAIN Strategy Develoment

2005-08-16 Thread Peter Pfaffner
Well, gentle listers, I've learned some of the lessons. YES, our BUILD process is quite different and cruical to sucess. But this is a chicken-and egg discussion. If we do need BUILD-Support we HAVE to participate and create it. No matter what it is based on (SCLM, SMP/E etc) WSED is too

the standalone CF vs ICF debate

2005-08-15 Thread Peter Pfaffner
Jan wrote: In this kind of discussions, you have believers and non-believers (whatever arguments are advanced by the other clan), it's like a religious war. I have 3 questions. Q1. Are you a sysplex-er which went the ICF-only way (by applying (more than probably) System- or User-Managed

IBMMAIN Strategy Base

2005-08-15 Thread Peter Pfaffner
- and this might be not trivial because of several early design desicions but should be a no-brainer for professionals OK, 'nough said, to start a fair and open discussion. PLEASE take this subject for flame and stay away in the other threads. Kind regards Peter Pfaffner

Wouldn't it be WIKI and SourceForge time?

2005-08-11 Thread Peter Pfaffner
Hi all gentle listers, I'm a MVS/OS390/zOS professional for many years (oops more than 25, but STILL under 50 ;-). One thing that bothers me for at least 2-3 years, following many discussions about the future of the MVS-Platform, is the slow adoption rate to new technologies for OUR use. If we

Wouldn't it be WIKI and SourceForge time?

2005-08-11 Thread Peter Pfaffner
First of all, sorry for the double post. The first one I posted short before midnight and didn't see it in the morning. I didn't wear my eyeglasses or whatever happened. Sorry for that. But know back to subject: I did expect some harsh criticism/responses and I'm not sure about my official

FICON Express2

2005-08-10 Thread Peter Pfaffner
Salah Balboul wrote: How can you tell if the FICON Express2 is operating at 2Gbit/Sec speed? They are connected to a 2105 device type. Nobody answered, so I jump in :-) AFAIK FiconE2 is compatible with equal/slower speeds of other Ficon-Adapters because it uses auto negotiation for speed. So

MVS - Cobol-Java Out of Memory Issue

2005-08-10 Thread Peter Pfaffner
SK wrote: But even without the using the NewStringPlatform JNI call, the code runs out of memory in the manner as mentioned earlier. I had tried to find some kind of information related to this but in vain. Well, like USS stuff Java integration is not documented very well :-) AFAIK it is

Wouldn't it be WIKI and SourceForge time?

2005-08-10 Thread Peter Pfaffner
Hi all gentle listers, I'm a MVS/OS390/zOS professional for many years (oops more than 25, but STILL under 50 ;-). One thing that bothers me for at least 2-3 years following many discussions about the future of the MVS-Platform (I hate marketing bull..it) is the slow adoption rate to new

Re: Newbie doubt about Supervised State

2005-07-24 Thread Peter Pfaffner
Roland wrote: Same apply to Cobol but also require an assembler prog to issue the MODESET. We have one to create system name token. Hi Hacker ;-), don't try to teach newbies the wrong things !!! It's really dangerous what you are doing, especially if they (the newbies) don't know the things

RSVNONR again

2005-07-24 Thread Peter Pfaffner
Radoslaw wrote (partially quoted): As I understood the manual, the address space is marked as unusable not to the end of life, but until all other address apces which co-operated with my a/s are ended. Am I right ? Well Radoslaw, AFAIK quite close, but far more complex. Please let me try to

RSVNONR -DB2

2005-07-24 Thread Peter Pfaffner
Hi all, I tried to read and understand everything posted ;-) But there is only one baseline. Do not recycle DB2 unnecessarily There's no need to do so. If SAP/Peoplesofr and some other really tough applications are happy, you're applications should confirm. If not, they're worse, and

CSRCTABL pointed by ECVTCTBL

2005-07-04 Thread Peter Pfaffner
Roland wrote: I would report usage in SHOWzOS but don't know which slot is assigned to whom.. Hi Roland, unfortunatly no chance :-( AFAIK there is no public repository (There may be an internal vendors-only one). But good vendor code uses eye catchers. May be you could print the first 16/32

Sysplex X RACF

2005-07-04 Thread Peter Pfaffner
Rosangela wrote: Can I have one sysplex in two machines with any Lparts at in more than one place, but the Lpars machine 1 not look machine 2, but same racf using the sysplex; or I need will do installation of RRSF? Rosangela, I really tried hard to figure out your question but I'm not sure