Re: First ipl of z/OS 1.9

2009-06-10 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jim McAlpine Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 11:12 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: First ipl of z/OS 1.9 On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: > > > No work wait. >

Re: Language Environment runtime options and system dumps

2009-06-12 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jim McAlpine Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 10:05 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Language Environment runtime options and system dumps Interesting, but it doesn't really help except to

Re: REXX HI vs HE

2009-06-15 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Patrick O'Keefe Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 12:37 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: REXX HI vs HE This is a hare-brained idea, but I wonder if there could be something in my shop (my las

TCP Settings for KeepAlive

2009-06-18 Thread Thompson, Steve
I've run into a problem where I have TN3270 sessions attached to a VTAM session manager. The problem is this: When the system, where the VTAM session manager is running, is at 100% for extended periods (5 minutes or more), AND, you have a TSO session on the system where the session manager is, AND

Re: TCP Settings for KeepAlive

2009-06-18 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Hal Merritt Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 10:20 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: TCP Settings for KeepAlive Hmmm.. almost sounds like QWS3270 may be getting impatient when waiting for

Re: TCP Settings for KeepAlive

2009-06-18 Thread Thompson, Steve
Yes, the common item to this problem is the Session manager. We were just discussing this among ourselves just a few minutes ago. If QWS is connected directly to the TSO APPLIDs (as opposed to going through the session manager first), then these timeouts do not happen. However, because of a few

Re: Another one bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Bob Shannon Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 4:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Another one bites the dust IBM used to give huge discounts to universities. About 15-20 or so years a

Re: Language Environment runtime options and system dumps

2009-06-25 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Bill Klein Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 10:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Fw: Language Environment runtime options and system dumps I would check with any vendor as to whether this

Re: Question about REUS=NONE

2009-07-07 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Knigge Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 5:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Question about REUS=NONE But I wonder how to migrate the ASM-Subs nearly painless I could rewrite al

Re: Planned IBMLink Outage July 10-11

2009-07-08 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Clark Morris Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 3:00 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Planned IBMLink Outage July 10-11 On 8 Jul 2009 10:01:22 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >

Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 10 Jul 2009 to 11 Jul 2009 (#2009-192)

2009-07-13 Thread Thompson, Steve
Sent from my Dick Tracy Two-Way Wrist Radio. Nanny Nanny Boo Boo! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Johnson, Larry W. Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 12:11 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 10 Jul 2009

Re: AMBLIST Funny

2009-07-13 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- I had something to do with that. My concern is that system programs are usually reading that book at a time when they are dealing with the gravity of some problem, and may not be in a mood to appreciate its opposite, levity. And we all know how humorless those "

Re: Article Mainframe Stolen

2009-07-15 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 11:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Article Mainframe Stolen >From the Palistine Herold in Palestine TX. This was repeated in the Enterpr

Re: Find the computer error

2009-07-15 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Bob Woodside Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 3:39 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Find the computer error On Wednesday 15 July 2009, Roach, Dennis (N-GHG) wrote: > One too many digits

Re: IBM error messages getting worse?

2009-07-16 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 12:34 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: IBM error messages getting worse? --- On Thu, 7/9/09, Patrick O'Keefe wrote: From: Patrick O'Keefe Subj

Re: IBM error messages getting worse?

2009-07-16 Thread Thompson, Steve
Sorry, that "reply" was the result of a comedy of errors. Suffice to say that having multiple displays and M/S deciding that it will take focus... Well it resulted in the focus changing to Outlook with the mouse over the wrong "SEND" button (I had more than one reply screen up)... And my thought

Re: Article Mainframe Stolen

2009-07-16 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Schwarz, Barry A Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 2:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Article Mainframe Stolen There is no more worse than worst. So does that mean that wurst is chop

Re: Find the computer error

2009-07-16 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 2:42 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Find the computer error Ted MacNEIL pisze: >> Well, my understanding is that American English uses terms >> a l

Re: Submit a JCL from within another JCL

2009-07-16 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 4:46 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Submit a JCL from within another JCL On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:17:38 +0200, CUNY Yann wrote: >You can u

Re: Article Mainframe Stolen

2009-07-17 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Arthur Gutowski Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 7:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Article Mainframe Stolen On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:19:08 -0400, Thompson, Steve wrote: >-Origi

Re: LE options

2009-07-17 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 4:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: LE options There appears to be (at least) two ways to change LE runtime options system wide. There's the a

Re: Mainframe hacking

2009-07-21 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Chris Mason Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 11:19 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Mainframe hacking The interpretation Howard, Jim and Bruno arrived at is, of course, total nonsense, c

Re: Offload work to zIIP with zPRIME

2009-07-23 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Anthony Giorgio Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 3:33 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Offload work to zIIP with zPRIME Hal Merritt wrote: > Old days? Still very much so today here in the

Re: USS misuse (was Re: Mainframe hacking)

2009-07-27 Thread Thompson, Steve
quot; I have no idea - perhaps the writer didn't checking the wind direction ... Perhaps considering "listiquette" before posting is to be recommended. As long as I am attacked on this point, I will repel with equal vigour. Chris Mason On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:33:15 -0400, Thompson, St

Re: Operator Validation before Executing Command

2009-07-27 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Bott, Steven Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 4:38 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Operator Validation before Executing Command We recently experienced an outage due to an operator command bei

Re: Mainframe Utility for EBCDIC to ASCII conversion

2009-07-30 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of esst...@juno.com Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 8:23 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Mainframe Utility for EBCDIC to ASCII conversion This may have been discussed before, Is anyone aware o

Re: ziip api for vendors

2009-08-04 Thread Thompson, Steve
However, I was unable to find this on the US PTO site. That makes me think that this is filed in the area that is not available for publication for some months (I forgot the legally mandated number). So, it appears to not be viewable by the public at this point. Regards, Steve Thompson -Orig

Re: DASD: to share or not to share

2009-08-05 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 12:40 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: DASD: to share or not to share As part of our migration to z/OS from z/VSE we have started a discuss

Re: DASD: to share or not to share

2009-08-06 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Rowe Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 12:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: DASD: to share or not to share I think the real question here is: Why don't you have a SYSPLEX? There

Re: DASD: to share or not to share

2009-08-06 Thread Thompson, Steve
n message <45d79eacefba9b428e3d400e924d36b902557...@iwdubcormsg007.sci.local>, "Thompson, Steve" wrote: > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Scott Rowe > Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 12:44 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.e

Re: DASD: to share or not to share

2009-08-07 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 1:40 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: DASD: to share or not to share > It is VSAM Record Level Sharing (not Locking). Within CICS it

Re: USS misuse (was Re: Mainframe hacking)

2009-08-07 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 4:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: USS misuse (was Re: Mainframe hacking) >Ted >> Even IBM used USS ... >Sadly, some IBMers are as carele

Re: Concatenations and blocksizes

2009-08-10 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Patrick O'Keefe Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 4:15 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Concatenations and blocksizes On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:20:53 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: >... >"CONCA

Re: IBM Satisfaction surveys (Was: The "Shame" Approach)

2009-08-13 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Patrick O'Keefe Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 1:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: IBM Satisfaction surveys (Was: The "Shame" Approach) [Patrick O'Keefe Kicks open the door] The one

Re: Multi-file tape

2009-08-14 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 4:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Multi-file tape This worked OK on a virtual tape. Now I must make it work on a physical tape. My EXEC s

Re: Multi-file tape

2009-08-17 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 11:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Multi-file tape Thanks. Easy enough. An off-list communication described this: MOUNT [dev

Re: IBM halves mainframe Linux engine prices

2009-08-17 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 3:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: IBM halves mainframe Linux engine prices On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:24:56 -0600, Mark Post wrote: He als

Re: The Death of Servers and Software

2009-08-19 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 6:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: The Death of Servers and Software Hewlett-Packard reported its 3Q earnings earlier today: http://h3026

Re: ISPF Counter

2009-08-21 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 7:37 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: ISPF Counter On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:56:07 -0400, Dave Salt wrote: > >The only way you could get the t

Re: ISPF Counter

2009-08-21 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 8:35 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: ISPF Counter On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:21:46 -0400, Thompson, Steve wrote: > >Why is the sky blu

Re: Test Posting, please ignore

2009-08-28 Thread Thompson, Steve
Duly ignored. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Anthony Fletcher Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 5:37 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Test Posting, please ignore Test only -

Re: ist663i suppression

2009-08-31 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Chris Mason Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 8:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: ist663i suppression You may or may not be familiar with the English expression, "using a sledgehammer

Re: Catering for ESLs (was Re: ist663i suppression)

2009-08-31 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Chris Mason Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 1:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Catering for ESLs (was Re: ist663i suppression) Steve Well, I had hoped it was clear that a simple, surgica

Re: Dumb Question - Credit Card Number Scanner

2009-09-01 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Doc Farmer Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 8:05 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Dumb Question - Credit Card Number Scanner Okay, this one came to me yesterday. Somebody asked me if the

Re: LLA Update

2009-09-03 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 11:01 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: LLA Update Peter Relson wrote: > LLA manages only load libraries (whether PDS or PDSE). > Is

Re: NEON zPrime Business, Legal and Technical Facts Webinar

2009-09-10 Thread Thompson, Steve
Seems that Eloqua is Firefox unfriendly, so this link can only be read from a computer system running Windows and IE. Regards, Steve Thompson -- Opinions expressed by this poster may not reflect those of poster's employer -- -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:

Re: [turnkey-mvs] turnkey mvs and cobol/jcl environment

2009-09-14 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Andreas F. Geissbuehler Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 9:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [turnkey-mvs] turnkey mvs and cobol/jcl environment I second Jo on this and URGE YOU t

Re: 33 Years In IT/Security/Audit

2009-09-16 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Umamaheshwar Iyer Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 7:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: 33 Years In IT/Security/Audit I started mine on a WANG-VS which was user friendly. After the

Re: Is there any concern when added real memory from 5G to 7G

2009-09-16 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Hal Merritt Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 12:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Is there any concern when added real memory from 5G to 7G Apples and oranges. The only meaningf

Re: Long parms ... again (was: Reading DD card information)

2009-09-22 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Patrick O'Keefe Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 2:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Long parms ... again (was: Reading DD card information) Whatever technique used to pass a long par

Re: Long parms ... again (was: Reading DD card information)

2009-09-23 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 10:07 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Long parms ... again (was: Reading DD card information) You are missing the point. The APF

Re: Long parms ... again (was: Reading DD card information)

2009-09-23 Thread Thompson, Steve
"Thompson, Steve" wrote: :>-Original Message- :>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On :>Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen :>Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 10:07 AM :>To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu :>Subject: Re: Long parms ... again (was:

Re: Long parms ... again (was: Reading DD card information)

2009-09-23 Thread Thompson, Steve
, Thompson, Steve < steve_thomp...@stercomm.com> wrote: > > Might I suggest that you are being a bit myopic? Or perhaps suffering > from tunnel vision? > > APF programs are to be written to a higher standard. > > From what you have written, you believe that if someone passe

Re: Ownership of PC routines---what I will do

2009-09-29 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Dave Day Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 11:26 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Ownership of PC routines---what I will do Has been an interesting discussion. What I originally wanted to

Re: Does a DD-Statement "waste memory" after dealloc?

2009-10-13 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Knigge Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 3:34 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Does a DD-Statement "waste memory" after dealloc? All, I currently try to find a obscure memory leak i

Re: Calulators or Computers? (Was: Outsourcing your Computer Center to IBM ?)

2009-10-13 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Eric Chevalier Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 3:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Calulators or Computers? (Was: Outsourcing your Computer Center to IBM ?) On 13 Oct 2009 07:30:14 -0700

Re: PSW question

2009-10-14 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 8:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: PSW question "Packed ASCII"? That sounds "interesting", do you know where I could find a definati

Re: IBM book prices

2009-10-15 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 7:53 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: IBM book prices >) It's easier to take hardcopy to the bathroom, and it has all these chapters you'l

Re: Fwd: Is There Such a Thing as a Mainframe Monopoly?

2009-10-19 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of larry macioce Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 6:37 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Fwd: Is There Such a Thing as a Mainframe Monopoly? Who else produces mainframes What is the

Re: Back to Work

2009-10-19 Thread Thompson, Steve
Congrats. I've been working with different people who are looking. It is really tough out there. Hopefully you will be able to continue to have access to IBM-Main. Regards, Steve Thompson -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of

Re: Fwd: Is There Such a Thing as a Mainframe Monopoly?

2009-10-19 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 3:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Fwd: Is There Such a Thing as a Mainframe Monopoly? -

Re: Fwd: Is There Such a Thing as a Mainframe Monopoly?

2009-10-20 Thread Thompson, Steve
...@stercomm.com (Thompson, Steve) wrote: >Please tell me what you consider to be malicious actions. > >Would suing a company and then buying them out to keep from losing the >case meet your definition? Not mine.You can't buy a company that doesn't accept your bid. If t

Re: big iron mainframe vs. x86 servers

2009-10-22 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John P. Baker Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: big iron mainframe vs. x86 servers The big advantages of the IBM mainframe architecture have alway

Re: OFF TOPIC - DELL CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2009-10-22 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 1:27 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: OFF TOPIC - DELL CUSTOMER SUPPORT I've been doing this almost since my first PC. Since I've always

Re: OFF TOPIC - DELL CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2009-10-22 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 2:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: OFF TOPIC - DELL CUSTOMER SUPPORT On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:40:44 -0400, Thompson, Steve wrote

Re: Secret Service plans IT reboot

2009-10-27 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ward, Mike S Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 9:11 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Secret Service plans IT reboot Why is it called a memory leak? I think that's a distributed term. We

Re: EZASMI Concurrent Server cann't handle mutiple open connections in the same port

2009-10-28 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Joe Reichman Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: EZASMI Concurrent Server cann't handle mutiple open connections in the same port Hi, All regarding

Re: Global CIO: As IBM Preps For Justice's Probe, Who Started This Nonsense? -- ...

2009-10-28 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Gabe Goldberg Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 1:42 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: web: Global CIO: As IBM Preps For Justice's Probe, Who Started This Nonsense? -- ... Here's a slant on

Re: asynchronous file open?

2009-11-03 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 12:20 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: asynchronous file open? This is likely a crazy question. But I'm wondering if anybody has come up w= it

Re: What SVCs are in use?

2009-11-03 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 3:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: What SVCs are in use? On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 14:23:55 -0600, Andy Wood wrote: >On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:16

Re: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal

2009-11-03 Thread Thompson, Steve
This reminds me of PL/1. Designed and implemented by committee. How about writing it up, and if you are a SHARE member, submitting it for a vote. Let IBM decide how they are going to deal with it (they will any way, given my experience with JES2 development). But, this is just one person's opin

Re: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal

2009-11-04 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 12:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal On 4 Nov 2009 09:02:35 -0800, cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca (Cla

ESTAE/ESTAEX are anchored, where?

2009-11-11 Thread Thompson, Steve
I have been searching manuals, books (MVS Power Programming, Invitation to MVS), searching the red books site, etc. and I can not find where an ESTAE (or ESTAEX) gets anchored. Does anyone know where these get anchored in a task structure? When looking at a dump under IPCS, I can see the SC

Re: ESTAE/ESTAEX are anchored, where?

2009-11-11 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Wayne Driscoll Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 2:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: ESTAE/ESTAEX are anchored, where? TCBSTAB points to the SCB stack. Thanks. Right after send

Re: ESTAE/ESTAEX are anchored, where?

2009-11-11 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Wayne Driscoll Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 2:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: ESTAE/ESTAEX are anchored, where? One possibility - your program set an ESTAE, then called anoth

Re: IPv6 or Regional registry IPv4 address exhaustion...

2009-11-11 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 5:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: IPv6 or Regional registry IPv4 address exhaustion... How many of you have implemented IPv6? Time grows

Re: SIGNIFICANCE OF (+0),DISP=OLD

2009-11-12 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John Dawes Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 7:59 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: SIGNIFICANCE OF (+0),DISP=OLD I am trying to trouble shoot a problem.=A0 The user's job received a :

Re: ESTAE/ESTAEX are anchored, where?

2009-11-12 Thread Thompson, Steve
bba...@iwdubcormsg007.sci.local>, on 11/11/2009 at 03:16 PM, "Thompson, Steve" said: >I have been searching manuals, books (MVS Power Programming, Invitation >to MVS), searching the red books site, etc. and I can not find where an >ESTAE (or ESTAEX) gets anchored. Does FESTAE stil

Re: IBM driving mainframe systems programmers into the ground

2009-11-13 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 7:25 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: IBM driving mainframe systems programmers into the ground >From this, what IBM wants is for the z t

Re: Opinion time: SMF data in XML format?

2009-11-13 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 9:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Opinion time: SMF data in XML format? Thank you very much for that information. I wonder why managem

Re: Mainframe running 1,500 Linux servers?

2009-11-17 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Staller, Allan Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 1:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Mainframe running 1,500 Linux servers? IIRC, an experiment was done a few years back to see how ma

Re: Reentrant Programs and Protected Storage

2009-11-18 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of David Shein Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 10:25 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Reentrant Programs and Protected Storage I grew up believing that if a program is link edited as reent

Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch

2009-11-19 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Alex UMX Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 11:34 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch Well, 99.999% reliability

Re: Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture

2009-12-01 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of HUTCHISON Gregory Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 12:48 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture Accenture is out for Accen

Re: Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture

2009-12-01 Thread Thompson, Steve
age- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Thompson, Steve > > > > I am so glad you brought this up. > > Does anyone remember who Accenture was? Arthur Andersen, IIRC. Arthur Anderson Consulting, and one should then ask/remember why they changed their

Re: Small Server Mob Advantage

2009-12-03 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 11:01 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Small Server Mob Advantage Chase, John wrote: > Frequently the problem is not that the informat

Re: Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture

2009-12-04 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 9:31 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture >And it is no longer

Re: Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture

2009-12-04 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Anne & Lynn Wheeler Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 11:17 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture The following message is

Re: file definition

2009-12-07 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 5:46 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: file definition This may or may not be a weird question, but... Is there a utility where I can give it

Re: IEC143I 213-30

2009-12-07 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 9:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: IEC143I 213-30 On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 09:53:26 -0500, Scott Rowe wrote: >I don't believe that's true,

Re: "Portable" data centers (was RE: Small Server Mob Advantage)

2009-12-07 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lloyd Fuller Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 2:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: "Portable" data centers (was RE: Small Server Mob Advantage) What do you mean Sun was the first? The

Re: Write JES data to an external data set?

2009-12-08 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Joe Aulph Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 2:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Write JES data to an external data set? Hello all, I have a user that want to, as part of a batch process,

Re: Small Server Mob Advantage

2009-12-09 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 1:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Small Server Mob Advantage Before Samuel Morse, they were all wireless. We are coming to a t

Re: Could DSNAME length restriction be bypassed if catalog allowed longer ALIAS names?

2009-12-15 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Martin Kline Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 9:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Could DSNAME length restriction be bypassed if catalog allowed longer ALIAS names? I'm just throwing thi

Re: Could DSNAME length restriction be bypassed if catalog allowed longer ALIAS names?

2009-12-15 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Kline, Martin Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 3:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Could DSNAME length restriction be bypassed if catalog allowed longer ALIAS names? I'm glad you p

PSATOLD = 0 when under "PRB" !?!?

2009-12-16 Thread Thompson, Steve
I was looking back in the archives at posts discussing PSATOLD being zero. The one thing pointed out is, in a dump, when processing by IPCS, one could see PSATOLD for a processor being zero. The problem is, we are examining PSATOLD while running. We are not using SRBs directly, so our code

Re: PSATOLD = 0 when under "PRB" !?!?

2009-12-16 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:08 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: PSATOLD = 0 when under "PRB" !?!? Thompson, Steve wrote: > So the question that I h

Re: PSATOLD = 0 when under "PRB" !?!?

2009-12-16 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 12:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: PSATOLD = 0 when under "PRB" !?!? On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:56:58 -0500 "Thompson

Re: PSATOLD = 0 when under "PRB" !?!?

2009-12-16 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Rob Scott Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 12:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: PSATOLD = 0 when under "PRB" !?!? Steve There is that pseudo-SRB mode state that Peter Relson talke

Re: PSATOLD = 0 when under "PRB"

2009-12-17 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Peter Relson Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 8:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: PSATOLD = 0 when under "PRB" While "pseudo-SRB" mode does exist, it basically applies only to use o

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