Fwd: Big blksize in MFNetDisk

2012-06-12 Thread shai hess
-- Forwarded message -- From: Shai Hess Date: Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:26 PM Subject: Big blksize in MFNetDisk To: shai.h...@gmail.com ** HI, Many time I was asked if it is better to run MFNetDisk PC component in Linux or Windows. It seem to me that for big block size above 20K

Fwd: mfnetdisk - A new message was received in your Site

2012-04-26 Thread shai hess
-- Forwarded message -- From: Shai Hess Date: Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 9:58 AM Subject: Re: mfnetdisk - A new message was received in your Site To: thomas.cothm...@ppi.de Cc: shai.h...@gmail.com ** HI, OK, I think you right. Three months is a little short time between activation

Fwd: MFNetDisk PTFID=206 is ready for download.

2012-04-25 Thread shai hess
-- Forwarded message -- From: Shai Hess Date: Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 9:10 PM Subject: MFNetDisk PTFID=206 is ready for download. To: shai.h...@gmail.com ** HI, I attach some data from my DOWNLOAD page in MFNetDIsk site, which describe the new MFNetDIsk with the new activation key

Re: MFNetDisk news

2012-04-22 Thread shai hess
ol or choose to migrate to a ! > commercial product. > > That is just my .02 on a rainy day. > > Best Regards, > > Sam Knutson, GEICO > System z Team Leader > mailto:sknut...@geico.com > (office) 301.986.35

Re: MFNetDisk news

2012-04-19 Thread shai hess
HI, Someone ask me if the product is still free. My answer, Currently, the product is free. New downloading will required activation key for real MF every 3 months for real MF. For real MF, fill the CODE_REQUEST and specify the CPUID of your real MF to receive KEY. For emulated MF, just fill the

Fwd: MFNetDisk news

2012-04-19 Thread shai hess
-- Forwarded message -- From: Shai Hess Date: Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 8:14 AM Subject: MFNetDisk news To: shai.h...@gmail.com ** HI, Many try to download lately my product but it was disable for download because the need to think about the future of MFNetDisk. This step come

Re: Fwd: MFNetDisk future

2012-03-30 Thread shai hess
e law, CIT and others may inspect, review, > monitor, analyze, copy, record and retain any communications sen! > t from or received at this email address. > -- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:I

Re: Fwd: MFNetDisk future

2012-03-30 Thread shai hess
for MFNETDISK by those > that are interested. > > It worked for Linus Torvalds. > > Ron > > > -Original Message- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On > > Behalf Of shai hess > > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 8:02 AM &g

Fwd: MFNetDisk future

2012-03-30 Thread shai hess
*From:* Shai Hess *To:* Urtzi Larrieta Alvarez *Sent:* Thursday, March 29, 2012 6:19 AM *Subject:* Re: MFNetDisk future HI, Many users ask me for more details about the future of my product, so I will add some information. MFNetDisk product will continue to be alive! I plan to continue

Fwd: MFNetDisk future

2012-03-28 Thread shai hess
-- Forwarded message -- From: Shai Hess Date: Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:02 AM Subject: MFNetDisk future To: shai.h...@gmail.com ** HI, In the coming days I will stop to work for IBM as a part time employee. IBM makes the move to let me go and I respect it. As you know I think

Fwd: New documentation about MF emulation and MFNetDisk.

2012-02-08 Thread shai hess
-- Forwarded message -- From: Shai Hess Date: Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:20 AM Subject: New documentation about MF emulation and MFNetDisk. To: shai.h...@gmail.com ** HI, I add documentation about MF emulation and MFNetDisk. Shai * MF emulation and MFNetDisk * I want to thank

Fwd: MFNetDisk new featrues and tape LBI.

2012-02-04 Thread shai hess
-- Forwarded message -- From: Shai Hess Date: Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 12:43 PM Subject: MFNetDisk new featrues and tape LBI. To: shai.h...@gmail.com ** HI, I receive request from one of our user to support the tape LBI. LBI enables working with record length bigger than 64K to

Fwd: MFNwetDisk new code with snapshoot backup, compressed pc file, tape LBI and more.

2012-02-02 Thread shai hess
-- Forwarded message -- From: Shai Hess Date: Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:11 PM Subject: MFNwetDisk new code with snapshoot backup, compressed pc file, tape LBI and more. To: shai.h...@gmail.com ** HI, After long time of massive new development my code is ready to be tested with

Fwd: MFNetDisk in youtube part 2. Update to snapshot backup and simulated DR condition.

2012-01-12 Thread shai hess
-- Forwarded message -- From: Shai Hess Date: Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:15 AM Subject: MFNetDisk in youtube part 2. Update to snapshot backup and simulated DR condition. To: shai.h...@gmail.com ** HI, Update to MFNetDisk Snapshot backup. Up to 8 mirrors per one snapshot backup

Re: Fwd: MFNetDisk snapshot backups video is in youtube.

2012-01-09 Thread shai hess
are many thusands. Thanks, Shai On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:39 AM, shai hess wrote: > If you see the movie the last of the movie I add mirror to the snap shot > pc devcie which create full mirror from the snapshot backup. > In the movie I add local compressed pc file mirror. You can c

Re: Fwd: MFNetDisk snapshot backups video is in youtube.

2012-01-08 Thread shai hess
, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) < shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net> wrote: > In > , > on 01/08/2012 > at 12:19 PM, shai hess said: > > >This solution eliminate the need to run standard backup at all!! > > How do I get back on the air when a tornado

Fwd: MFNetDisk snapshot backups video is in youtube.

2012-01-08 Thread shai hess
-- Forwarded message -- From: Shai Hess Date: Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 12:18 PM Subject: MFNetDisk snapshot backups video is in youtube. To: shai.h...@gmail.com ** HI, The video is in one shot! 34 minutes. with great sound and video quality! I happy that I study how to make very

Re: Coming soon new MFNetDisk great features

2012-01-02 Thread shai hess
Just forward my email. On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Shai Hess wrote: > ** > HI, > > The snapshot new feature of MFNetDisk come sooner that I expected. > It will be much more better compared to what I planed. > > > The new features will include: > > 1. Sup

MFNetDisk new features coming soon [ad]

2011-12-28 Thread shai hess
HI, I will enable users to check and let MFNetDisk verify if the PC is totally synchronize with the real disk 3390 by checking if pending tracks in MF and PC to be synchronize. I will support new compressed MFNetDisk 3390 disk format in open systems. This new format will not reduce the IO performa

Re: TCPIP question

2011-12-21 Thread shai hess
little impact to performance. Best Regards, Urtzi Larrieta On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 5:22 PM, shai hess wrote: > Thank you Chris. > god bless you, > Shai > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Chris Mason w

Re: TCPIP question

2011-12-21 Thread shai hess
ution was the "simple" one. Unless the Policy > Agent has already been set up - and, if it had been set up, such an > on-the-ball customer would not be asking the question! - this is not really > a "complicated" matter but a labour-intensive one involving lots of reading &g

Re: TCPIP question

2011-12-20 Thread shai hess
between or within one or more TCPIP > stacks should be answered in WLM brochures. A more general approach of > this is distributed source VIPA in parallel sysplex -- well, focus here > is non-disruptive TCPIP service but load balancing is kind of a spin-off. > > Cheers > Michael >

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-20 Thread shai hess
Yes, I also read it as TOPLESS, so I smile. I hope I did not make to myself bad name, more then before. On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Timothy Sipples wrote: > Am I the only one who read the subject line too quickly, mentally > substituting an "o" for the "a" and dropping the first "e"? > > I

Another new customer in Spain[ad]

2011-12-20 Thread shai hess
HI, Another email from Spain. I assume that more then 90% of the MF users never heard about MFNetDisk. I only publish my product in this forum and sometime in the past in Hercules forum. So, the product is spread by old and happy users to new users and that make me happy. Some people offer me

Re: TCPIP question

2011-12-20 Thread shai hess
m/redpieces/abstracts/sg247996.html > http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg247997.html > http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg247998.html > http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247899.html > > Note that I have been obliged to include the V1R12 version of V

Re: TCPIP question

2011-12-20 Thread shai hess
-Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of shai hess > Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 12:45 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: TCPIP question > > HI, > > I have a customer question: > > > 1.

TCPIP question

2011-12-20 Thread shai hess
HI, I have a customer question: 1. How could I configure MFNetDisk in ZOS in order to use ONLY the IP 192.168.254.200, instead of 192.168.254.254, because the last one is used for production traffic? MFNetDIsk uses TCP EZASMI API. Can I run 2 TCPIP procedure running together? TCPIP which

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-19 Thread shai hess
MFNetDisk also support tapeless solution for emulated tapes. MFNetDisk tape emulation let you select MFNetDisk tape manager soultion or CA or IBM or any other tape manager solution. MF only trasfer the data and the CCW commands to PC and by that reduce the CPU utilization in MF. The PC emulates th

Re: case from DR in France.

2011-12-14 Thread shai hess
I wish I knew why this man so angry at me whenever I breathe. On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Ed Gould wrote: > Don: > > I have decided to change my email account so I can delete his entries and > a few others. > The others that contribute to the list do not make a point of pushing > their co

Re: Fwd: case from DR in France.

2011-12-13 Thread shai hess
HI, >>This month, Mark Zelden and Clark Morris referenced their >>contributions to the CBT tape. Just small fix, MFNetDisk is one man (me) product. If I understand the meaning of "their" (more then one). Thanks, God bless you all Shai On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:18 AM, Don Imbriale wrote: > Give

Re: Fwd: case from DR in France.

2011-12-13 Thread shai hess
Right. On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Ron Hawkins wrote: > Or you may use one of the many flavors of asynch mirroring products with > multi-volume consistency that do not have a delay in the IO performance > when > they transfer to the remote storage controller. XRC for example... > > > > > So,

Re: Fwd: case from DR in France.

2011-12-13 Thread shai hess
to the specific time. On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Ron Hawkins wrote: > Are you supporting multi-volume consistency? > > > -Original Message- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of > > shai hess > > Sent:

Fwd: case from DR in France.

2011-12-12 Thread shai hess
-- Forwarded message -- From: Shai Hess Date: Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 7:45 AM Subject: case from DR in France. To: shai.h...@gmail.com ** HI, Two days ago, I receive email with the title "big problem for me ! help !" from customer from France name Will_fashion from Fr

Fwd: Administration note about MFNetDisk

2011-11-13 Thread shai hess
-- Forwarded message -- From: Shai Hess Date: Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 10:43 AM Subject: Administration note about MFNetDisk To: shai.h...@gmail.com ** HI, Many users complain about filling the CODE_REQ many times for update the code even if the data was not changed. So, I change

Fwd: MFNetDisk dramatic improvement in CPU utilization for all emulation.

2011-11-09 Thread shai hess
-- Forwarded message -- From: Shai Hess Date: Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 11:08 AM Subject: MFNetDisk dramatic improvement in CPU utilization for all emulation. To: shai.h...@gmail.com ** HI, I uploaded MFNetDisk new code (this fix is the MF load file) which improve the CPU

Fwd: Introduction to VTS using MFNetDisk in Spanish

2011-11-04 Thread shai hess
-- Forwarded message -- From: Shai Hess Date: Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 4:16 PM Subject: Introduction to VTS using MFNetDisk in Spanish To: shai.h...@gmail.com ** HI, User in Spain,Urtzi Larrieta Alvarez , wrote beautiful introduction to VTS using MFNetDisk. The link to the site is

Fwd: MTL and NONMTL Tapes and MFNetDisk and NON MFNetDisk tapes managers

2011-11-04 Thread shai hess
-- Forwarded message -- From: Shai Hess Date: Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 1:34 PM Subject: MTL and NONMTL Tapes and MFNetDisk and NON MFNetDisk tapes managers To: shai.h...@gmail.com ** People ask me about MFNetDisk supports for tapes manager. So, MFNetDisk supports MTL or NONMTL drive

Fwd: New MFNetDIsk PRO GUI code.

2011-11-02 Thread shai hess
-- Forwarded message -- From: Shai Hess Date: Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 9:55 PM Subject: New MFNetDIsk PRO GUI code. To: Shai Hess Cc: shai.h...@gmail.com ** HI, I putted new code for MFNetDisk. There is no special fix for the new MFNetDisk, so if you loaded the previous code that

Fwd: MFnetDisk and commong soon GUI for PC Server.

2011-10-28 Thread shai hess
-- Forwarded message -- From: Shai Hess Date: Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:38 PM Subject: MFnetDisk and commong soon GUI for PC Server. To: shai.h...@gmail.com ** HI, These days I work to add MFNetDisk PC Server as a GUI. MFNetDisk will support also the regular console MFNetDisk PC

Re: Moving 3390 volumes from Dallas RDP site to z z/PDT

2011-10-22 Thread shai hess
'With MFNetDIsk you can replicate your real 3390 disks to PC files which are supported by Z/PDT. As far as I know, this is the easiest way to copy your real disks to other format which are supported by ZPDT/MFNetDIsk and other emulated MF software. Shai On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Dave Day

Fwd: MFNetDisk new fixes PTFID=189

2011-10-15 Thread shai hess
-- Forwarded message -- From: Shai Hess Date: Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 12:48 PM Subject: MFNetDisk new fixes PTFID=189 To: shai.h...@gmail.com ** HI, 3 new fixes. PTFID=188 is much better than PTFID=185. This fix may improve the performance a little. I recommend to use the 188

Sharing disks between real and emulated MF.

2011-10-08 Thread shai hess
One new respond from user in the UK. Required MFNetDisk feature (All, Disk, tape emulation, replication) disk & tape emulation MFNetDisk experience and comments. You can attach text file instead. Works well for the 1 testing disk we have that can be ''attached'' to z9 real h/w or emulationed h/w.

Fwd: MFNetDisk new code in my site PTF 184.

2011-09-22 Thread shai hess
-- Forwarded message -- From: Shai Hess Date: Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:51 PM Subject: MFNetDisk new code in my site PTF 184. To: shai.h...@gmail.com ** HI, This time I pay attention to my messages in MF. User from Germany ask request and I did what he asked. No more MPC999

Fwd: mfnetdisk - A new message was received in your Site

2011-08-26 Thread shai hess
HI, Latly I change the CODE_REQ condition to download my code. The change is that everyone who download my product must agree to enable me to publish their experience with the product. Before this change I enable the user to select option to "do not publish my feedback and my id". Lately I dele

MFNetDisk feedback

2011-08-24 Thread shai hess
Feed back from Germany. The email is as is. No changes was done to the email. Shai Hi Shai, we are an ISV for financial software in germany and use a System z10 BC with DS6800. The operating system, is z/OS

Re: Rockets in Ashdod, very near to my home, yesterday and today.

2011-08-19 Thread shai hess
, paying attention to this nonsense and passed event. I feel that praying to God change my vision to the world. After the explosion I hate what I see, after the pray I love it. try it. Shai On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:18 AM, shai hess wrote: > Many Rockets fire from Gaza to Ashdod, near

Rockets in Ashdod, very near to my home, yesterday and today.

2011-08-19 Thread shai hess
Many Rockets fire from Gaza to Ashdod, near my home, yesterday and today. 30-45 seconds from the start of the siren to the explosion. If you outside with your car, continue to drive. You do not have enough time to look for a shelter. If you stop the car and run, your chances are the same as if you

Fwd: MFNetDisk what I see after you download my code using CODE_REQ.

2011-08-08 Thread shai hess
-- Forwarded message -- From: Shai Hess Date: Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 2:49 AM Subject: MFNetDisk what I see after you download my code using CODE_REQ. To: shai.h...@gmail.com ** HI, Many new and return MFNetDisk users are download MFNetDisk code. I attach CODE_REQ message I received

Fwd: Tape emulation in France.

2011-07-29 Thread shai hess
-- Forwarded message -- From: Shai Hess Date: Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 5:45 AM Subject: Tape emulation in France. To: shai.h...@gmail.com ** Few words about France, Paris. OS ZOS 1.10. Nobody in the MFNetDisk life, test my product from up to down, all the features were tested

Fwd: Fw: MFNetDisk replication become very popular in many sites.

2011-07-28 Thread shai hess
think that now is the time to try the replication. Tapes emulation was tested by many users. The code is now stable. Disk emulation is stable for very long time, so there is no risks to use the disk emulation as well. Thanks, Shai Hess, MFNetDisk product

MFNetDisk CCW trace and PCI bit in CCW.

2011-07-17 Thread shai hess
HI, Small activity in the MF forum. So I decide to send email also to the forums. If you do not like it, delete it. One user in France ask me to enable send script from MF to PC even if the user do not have in his PC defined emulators or replicators PC device. The users separate the functionalit

my users list.

2011-07-11 Thread shai hess
HI, I send message to the old and the new users list to indicate that "YOU ARE IN MY LIST". I receive many requests. Most of the people are in the list. If somebody did not receive my note, please send me email and I will add you. One point to mention. I used the word "without *** nothing w

Re: Status of my posts

2011-07-10 Thread shai hess
HI, If somebody in the forum will send me private or public note in the past to stop my posts, I am sure do it. And sure somebody did not like it and I decide to stop publish about my product. Still nobody say NO to my other posts, but if that will be done I will stop as well. I sometime try

Re: Status of my posts

2011-07-10 Thread shai hess
ma.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of shai hess > Sent: 10 July 2011 04:36 > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Status of my posts > > --- > > - > This email has b

Re: Status of my posts

2011-07-10 Thread shai hess
member how many "newbie" questions that Jags has > posted recently. As for the complainers (mainly one) about MFNetDisk > posts : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegitimi_non_carborundum > > > On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 20:36 -0700, shai hess wrote: >> Many people ask me to

Status of my posts

2011-07-09 Thread shai hess
Many people ask me to joint my users list. Some of them write to me that they do not have deep knowledge in the area I mention. Some said that they do not have the knowledge, but will test my product, other say that they will help me with documentation etc.. So, I felt bad about it. So, what I am g

New user list.

2011-07-09 Thread shai hess
HI, >>I thank God for everything and I know that everything is happen by God. >>God helps me all the time and I am sure that also in this time. >>Even if this event looked to me at first, bad. I know the outcome >>will be good to me as always,because God beside me. For sure, the outcome is go

New users list with some area experties.

2011-07-08 Thread shai hess
HI, I am looking for some people which have deep knowledge in IO, ZOS internal, TCP and open systems. This users list will not deal with MFN*** at all. This group will help me with performance, IO effectiveness, net, IO internal, MVS internal, value to set to improve the IO and the net, replica

Re: End of of Ads thread

2011-07-07 Thread shai hess
>>Shai - I'm sorry to hear about your father Nothing make my tears going down except my father sickness and his death and the outcome of my father sickness to my belief. Again, MFNetDisk is only fun. MFNetDisk is not issue which suppose to make anybody of us unhappy. Thanks, Shai On Thu, Jul 7,

End of of Ads thread

2011-07-07 Thread shai hess
HI, I like to stop this thread which last too long time. I will not post anymore to IBM-MAIN about my product. The last 2 posts target to keep my and my product good name. I create a new Forum in my site. I hope it will works. I really do not need forum because I like that people will use my

Re: Ads on IBM-MAIN

2011-07-07 Thread shai hess
Dave, When you mention the product many time with its right name and you never forget to add WHATEVER ITS CALL that sound like try to hurt the product and its developer. As always after few minutes I felt that maybe I hurt ED. So my apology to you ED. Have a good day. Shai On Wed, Jul 6, 2011

Re: Ads on IBM-MAIN

2011-07-06 Thread shai hess
>>MFNET (or whatever its called) I am sorry that many people do not care about (WHAT ITS CALL) that is OK. I think most of the people are in this status. Some people love WHAT ITS CALL. One person in this list the inventor of WHAT ITS CALL hate this product. It is better to hate WHAT ITS CALL than

Re: Ads on IBM-MAIN

2011-07-05 Thread shai hess
IBM-MAIN to my opinion is not suppose to be democratic forum. I was wrong when I came to conclusion that I contribute to this forum by talking technically about my product to everyone. I came to conclusion that good feed backs mean that all the people of this forum like my posts. I was wrong. I wa

Re: Ads on IBM-MAIN

2011-07-05 Thread shai hess
pray to God and when the bug solved, I thank God. Because without God nothing was possible. Shai On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > shai hess wrote: > >>I think that technical issue is very proper to this forum. All this forum is > technical question and a

Re: Ads on IBM-MAIN

2011-07-05 Thread shai hess
Alan Altmark: >>discussing the technical aspects of the product I think that technical issue is very proper to this forum. All this forum is technical question and answer. I never wrote to this forum how to specify MFNetDisk statements and if I wrote one time or two that was a mistake. Maybe ment

Re: Ads on IBM-MAIN

2011-07-04 Thread shai hess
HI, Sometime when the time passed, I feel that the system will canceled because of SYSTEM 522 abend. The forum is idle for long time. At this time, I send thread which to my opinion is MF related thread. Most of the thread I sent speak about MF issue. I feel sorry that some people think that MF

MFNetDisk PRO and fix to unknow feature.

2011-07-02 Thread shai hess
HI, First I want to apology if I send too much emails about this product. Because the price of this product is zero and even that my cost is high but my fun is more high, I am happy. I do not feel that I am doing something wrong by sending you emails which is not for purpose of making money, bu

MFNetDisk PRO TCP issue PTF=160

2011-07-01 Thread shai hess
HI, As I said yesterday the change in MVS make big improvement using DFDSS with almost 64K block size. I tried to change the same value in Windows, Windows did not react to the change at all. I looked in the Internet and I saw that Windows uses it way to deal with this parameter and it is depen

MFNetDisk PRO new code ready to be downloaded.

2011-06-30 Thread shai hess
HI, The new code make big improvement in running jobs which use large block size or many CCWs in one IO. For example, I see big improvement running tape BACKUP and RESTORE using DFDSS. This improvement related to my value set in TCP MF parameters, so if your parameter set OK, your improvement w

Re: MFNetDisk another dramatic performance improvement

2011-06-30 Thread shai hess
: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 8:01 AM, shai hess wrote: > >> HI, >> >> >>  This time I change the TCP defaults for socket from my product. >>  Until now I did not touch the TCP parameters. I expect the users to >> tune its MF and TCP. >>  I used DFDSS to

Re: MFNetDisk another dramatic performance improvement

2011-06-30 Thread shai hess
ee , if we have a problem after a year we get the proper > support ? > If a product is not working, it is bad, but if you don't access suddenly > your disks it is very bad ... > > On 6/30/2011 9:01 AM, shai hess wrote: >> >> HI, >> >> >>  This time

MFNetDisk another dramatic performance improvement

2011-06-30 Thread shai hess
HI, This time I change the TCP defaults for socket from my product. Until now I did not touch the TCP parameters. I expect the users to tune its MF and TCP. I used DFDSS to backup 9GB disk with many files. I used the MFNetDisk PRO with the stacked CCW feature for both tests. I made test befo

MFNetDisk PRO PTFID=155 is ready to be downloaded.

2011-06-27 Thread shai hess
HI, Many fixes in tapes and disks. All the fixes are in the PRO, some of the fixes are needed to the standard. In tapes many errors fixes, Especially working with big tape file (> 2GB). Improve dramatically some CCW performance using tapes and disks emulation. Less traffic in TCP for some CCW. All

MFNetDisk PRO important fixes

2011-06-25 Thread shai hess
HI,  Fix number 1 is important to tape and to disk emulation.  If running with TASKS number low, MFNetDisk will queued all the IO request until the MFNetDisk TASKS will run the request when the TASK will be free to serve.  I add a bug which may cause the queue IO request to not be served. This is

MFNetDisk first service pack for the beta PRO

2011-06-23 Thread shai hess
HI, I upload PTFID=151 which include important fixes to PRO. Fixes bugs for the tape emulation. some CCWs x0af and 0x34 may cause TCP write errors for tape. More fixes in PC for better display the CCW stacked new feature in PC. Fix bug when create new PC file for disks. This important if you

Re: Some tests with MFNetDisk PRO

2011-06-22 Thread shai hess
>Doesn't MFNet use TCP/IP? Yes, that is the media to communicate with the PC if you do not like to use special HW for FICON, ESCON. >Software that emulates a device like MFNet could be done with a supported means/interface NO. MFNetDisk uses code to catch all the IO. MFNetDisk uses sometime STA

Fwd: Some tests with MFNetDisk PRO

2011-06-19 Thread shai hess
the -- Forwarded message -- From: shai hess Date: Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 8:45 AM Subject: Some tests with MFNetDisk PRO To: "IBM Mainframe Discussion List (E-mail)" , hercules-...@yahoogroups.com One of our user run test for MFNetDisk PRO. PANMVS(REXX$BAT42) LRECL=

Re: Some tests with MFNetDisk PRO

2011-06-19 Thread shai hess
of us who don't have the brain power to reverse engineer the macro? > > i think it would be a wonderful contribution to the mainframe community if > you ever find the time to do that. > > regards > lindy > > > ____ > From: shai hess [sha

Some tests with MFNetDisk PRO

2011-06-19 Thread shai hess
One of our user run test for MFNetDisk PRO. PANMVS(REXX$BAT42) LRECL=80,BLKSIZE=4000,RECFM=FB DE42150,000 records 12 seconds IBM DS6800 Storage MPC000 150,000 records 17 seconds XP hard drive C MFNetDisk PRO MPC000 150,000 records 36 seconds

MFNetDisk PRO. Another lovely quote from user in Germany.

2011-06-18 Thread shai hess
first of all thanks a lot for your wonderful piece of code making us think working with areal DS8X or ATL library. >From Lower Bavaria, Germany Christian -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send em

MFNetDisk PRO, new important fix and PTF management.

2011-06-17 Thread shai hess
HI, I upload new MFNetDisk PRO with new fix and management new handling. The stacked CCW collect many CCW and its data and send to PC to emulate the disk or tape. If the CCW in the stacked modify other CCW in the stack, before the new fix, MFNetDisk PRO was not aware to that. So, in rare case

MFNetDisk PRO version. More fix and much better performance.

2011-06-16 Thread shai hess
HI, I uploaded new MFNetDisk PRO version today which improves dramatically the MFNetDisk performance. The new MFNetDisk PRO support stacked CCWS, this enable to send many CCW in one TCP request. This reduce the load on TCP and reduce the CPU utilizaion and increase the IO per second by factor o

MFNetDisk secreats of the stacked CCWs (all rights reserved) and controlling CPU utilization

2011-06-14 Thread shai hess
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 8:39 PM, shai hess wrote: > HI, > > OK, I decide that everyone can try MFNetDisk PRO beta from now. > Again, this is beta. If you use it you are taking the risk that many bugs > may be in the new code. > I run some tests and it look OK to me but I kno

Re: MFNetDisk first results of stacked CCWs

2011-06-11 Thread shai hess
No, look at the MACRO and try to reverse engineer the module in the MACRO. Shai On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Lindy Mayfield wrote: > Do you have some good documentation for STARTIO? > > > From: shai hess [shai.h...@gmail.com] > Sent: 11 June

MFNetDisk first results of stacked CCWs

2011-06-11 Thread shai hess
HI, After massive code changes and creating the new MFNetDisk PRO version 13, I advance to point of being able to run jobs. Be aware that the MFNetDisk PC side will be able to run MFNetDisk PRO and the standard MFNetDisk code version 12. I run jobs which doing DX (x63), LOCATE(x47), and one for

Re: Personal: bad news

2011-06-08 Thread shai hess
HI John, Trust God, ask him to help you. Everything is under control of God. Do not be afraid, everything with God help will be OK. Trust God, everything is under control of God. Trust him, please. When you trust God, you are not afraid anymore. Talk to God, ask him to help me. Ask him what

MFNetDisk tape emulation.

2011-06-08 Thread shai hess
HI, Many good feedbacks from MFNetDisk product. One small short respond which I like: T*hanks and I am really surprised to see the tape emulation on PC. Great work!* --- 23.27.43 TESTMVS JOB02128 IEF403I DUMPDSA - STARTED - TIME=23.27.43

Re: OT: Personal update

2011-06-04 Thread shai hess
I pray for God to make you healthy. Shai On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 7:14 AM, jagadishan perumal wrote: > Hi John, > > I pray for your speedy recovery. > > Regards, > Jags > > On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 7:37 PM, John McKown >wrote: > > > I have been in the hospital since monday the 23rd. I had a gangreno

Users who willing to test the stacked CCWS MFNetDisk PRO new feature.

2011-06-03 Thread shai hess
HI, What is stacked CCWs? New feature which stack as many as possible CCWs in one IO for one TCP request. I am now testing my new stacked CCWs feature. Slowly slowly I make progress and soon I will let you to test my MFNetDisk PRO product. If someone want to test the new MFNetDisk PRO with the

Re: It got very quiet

2011-05-23 Thread shai hess
I am happy to see strong energy with this subject "It got very quiet". At least we have energy when we are dealing with non MF issues. Next issue can be "to marry or to die". I am sure that this forum will be active at least as my pupular forum here in Ashdod "how to make falafel". Shai On Mon, M

Re: It got very quiet

2011-05-22 Thread shai hess
HI, So, maybe it is good time to discuss more and more MFNetDisk product :>. Because the alternative is a deep good sleeping time even in Ashdod. >>There's a rumor that the most annoying >>posters have left us in peace.;-) I hope you do not point to me. Shai On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 10:36

MFNetDisk new feature in queue.

2011-05-21 Thread shai hess
HI, I am in processing and planing and development of a big change in the way MFNetDisk handle emulation. Until now each CCW was sent to PC to be process in PC. Each CCW require TCP read and write operation. The new feature which I plan now and I have in mind is to stack many CCWS until speci

MFNetDisk 25-30% dramatic improvement in performance and CPU utilization.

2011-05-08 Thread shai hess
HI, I am happy to announce that I made the performance of MFNetDisk much much better compared to what it was before. Using the emulation (tapes and disks), I saw that MFNetDisk runs better 25-30% in the IO production and reduction of CPU utilization. Even the replication using the transfer tracks

MFNetDisk and many new testers and users

2011-05-03 Thread Shai Hess
HI, Many new users ( and testers ) to MFNetDisk, much better new code for all MFNetDisk features. Better replication, tape and disk emulation, and much better MFNetDisk recovery process. All messages about new fixes and features are sent directly to MFNetDisk users list. To register and be

MFNetDisk in Russia

2011-04-26 Thread shai hess
HI, Talking about my product in forum in Russia. http://s390soft.org.ru/news/2011-04-03-85 Shai -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM

Re: Transmission files

2011-04-18 Thread shai hess
HI, There is a product which can share your disk between z/os at any distance. It can emulated 3390 disk. The data is stored in PC. You can access all the files in the disk from any system using the standard OS utilities. I heard that the product is free. Shai On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 5:27 AM,

Re: Fwd: MFNetDIsk and living in Ashdod

2011-04-12 Thread shai hess
>>There is only one bug left - It is named 'Shai Hess' (hehehehehe. Just a little >>joke my friend... [1] ) :-( Shai On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Elardus Engelbrecht < elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za> wrote: > I know this is off-topic, but I feel I must co

Fwd: MFNetDIsk and living in Ashdod

2011-04-11 Thread shai hess
-- Forwarded message -- From: shai hess Date: Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 9:42 AM Subject: Re: MFNetDIsk and living in Ashdod To: rpin...@netscape.com HI Richard, Very important to me to say that we feel secure to live in Ashdod, Israel. That was spontaneous reaction. After I sent

MFNetDIsk and living in Ashdod

2011-04-08 Thread shai hess
HI, Tonight we have another sirens in Ashdod, Israel. That is another time of waking in the middle of the night wait 30-60 seconds, hearing the rocket bomb and going back to sleep. Tonight the surprise come in 3am. and after another few minutes another rocket hit Ashdod. So, we are now do not f

MFNetDisk automatically recover of TCP connection error

2011-04-02 Thread shai hess
HI, Last MFNetDisk recovery was better then before but not good enough. I rewrite all the error recovery to be automatically after fixing the TCP connection. I made my test to my CIOD (PAV) and regular 3390 MFNetDisk disks and tape, but I need more feedback and tests. I put the new code and docu

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