On Tue, 27 May 2008 12:17:33 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote:
>Tom Schmidt wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 May 2008 10:23:17 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote:
>>
>>> You should be using 'JESINTERFACE:EVEL 2'
>>>
>>
>>
>> They spelled 'EVIL' wrong, d
>>
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>You should be using 'JESINTERFACE:EVEL 2'
They spelled 'EVIL' wrong, didn't they?
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and not much
in terms of Oracle skill sets either. Nothing to bother writing home about
anyway.
If any company is considering a move from z/OS and DB2 to SQL Server or Oracle
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to the
wrong hands) or also require the cracker to physically possess something
presumably uniquely identifiable. (Like a physical key but usually
electronic.)
It isn't so much that good guys are getting harder to find as it is that bad
guys are getting a little
nly reference to a "CICS 4.2" that I can find is the TXSeries product,
circa 1998.
(Does Rich run it as a unix daemon on his z/OS 1.7 system, maybe?!??)
Meanwhile, we have a CICS 2.1.2 region up under a z/OS 1.8 system
and a Plan C seemed like a really good idea.
I don't hate the idea of defining a fresh CFRM at the DR site; I dispute the
widely held belief that there is no other option.
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and for Cwi, too. (Once might be lucky but more than once in a row is
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logic would change for the better if it was ALWAYS working from the viewpoint
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You are almost finished -- you just need to issue one more command:
setxcf force,structure,strname=DSNDSNY_SCA
...and that should do the trick!
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Report: HP to buy EDS for $12-13 billion (possibly to be announced as early as
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hardware).
I don't see any compelling reason why customers would want to have to
maintain such a value. (Customers don't see other customers' dumps so they
don't have the need.)
Perhaps some ISVs use the licens
on't expect that you will find that many sites customize that
field. I won't be surprised if many on this list are unaware of it.)
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On Sun, 4 May 2008 15:39:47 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
>At 16:23 -0500 on 05/03/2008, Tom Schmidt wrote about Re: SVC99:
>
>>I suspect that the problem your program is having has less to do
>>with the SYSDSN enqueue that S99WTDSN was designed to cope with, and
>>mor
hat S99WTDSN was designed to cope with, and more to do with the
SYSVSAM
enqueue that Catalog management and VSAM use for proper serialization during
the
catalog compression processes. I do not recall any user control over
tasks in the system."
The softcap issue could be resolved by Dave Thorn's suggestion of putting it
into a resource group with a max specification.
Other sites may not necessarily have the bandwidth to support NDM eating
half an engine; if the bottleneck is in the pipe then they won
>
>>I really wish that somebody would write a native 3270 emulator for
>>Linux/Intel.
>
>Has anyone ever asked Tom Brennan if he'd consider porting Vista to run on
>Linux?
Alternatively, has anyone tried to run Vista under WINE on Linux?
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programmer would just take screen shots to a file -
or just take snapshots with a camera (or continuous video) to capture the
data for post-processing by OCR software. (I do something very similar with
my genealogy hobby... not terribly difficult or expensive if you are
determined.)
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pointless. (Besides, someday you might lose the source and his will become
the backup.)
Perhaps this is more of a contract issue with the creative programmer and not
so much a technical contest?
We all read & post here to both seek & share our
it would to page through several thousand lines of source
on the screen. Many TN3270 packages may even provide sample code with
the distribution.
Either you trust your programmer's ethics or you shouldn't provide access to
t;R9" in that line is what's wrong.
Either the OP needs to execute (EX) the CLC or make use of CLCL or (in this
specific case) use the correct length for the string "FILTER(" (which would be
7, not 9). Better yet for this specific case, use L'FILTER as the CLC length
s
re only that easy to deprive that specific city of its largest
employer!
That would be worth losing a few winks pondering.)
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was the first but it certainly is (happily) infrequent here.
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Great news! One (more) Jedi returned from the Death Star of Bellevue.
(Now if we could just get the Wookies to stop writing code for Tivoli...)
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"Us (old mainframers)" grew up knowing how to preserve our knowledge and
pass it along. Anyone claiming the contrary is woefully unin
David,
Could you clarify whether you perform the concatenation just once per run, or
am I understanding that you perform multiple concatenations during each run?
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>The entry that was filling up was actually
ehalf Of Bill Johnson
>Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 10:35 AM
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>Subject: SYSAFF card
>
>If you do not use a SYSAFF card thereby taking the default of SYSAFF=ANY
>will a job run only on the LPAR that it is submitted from? Can it ever
>run on an LPAR oth
large amounts of data in operations like searching, sorting, and indexing, so
that the host application need not even access most of the data.
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s 1.5, but that's another matter; my desktop has to
support 2 Java vendors and that's at least one too many.
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>>
>> Tom Schmidt wrote:
>> > See SA22-7832-06 for the EXRL instruction.
>> > (I'm sure Ed's been aware for several months now, but the
>> rest of us may be happy now.)
>>
>> Give 'em an inch
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:33:01 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote:
>On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:31:04 -0500, Arthur T. wrote:
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Schmidt) wrote:
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>>>>The z10 LSPR data is now available too.
>>>>
>>>>http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/z
Is that why IBM is experimenting with the
physical manipulation of single atoms - to be able to fit oodles of
atomic-sized
lines onto a single sheet of paper for the 2013 version of LSPR?? We'll see.)
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(I'm sure Ed's been aware for several months now, but the rest of us may be
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>> From: mark.zelden
>>
>> HCSA - because 510T of shared storage is not enough. :-)
>>
Yeahbut... what happened to 'Grande' in the naming scheme?
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On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:37:02 -0600, McKown, John wrote:
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>> Subject: Re: System z10 announcement (in English)
>>
>> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:05:16 +1000, Shane wrote:
>>
>> >Nice green stripe
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:05:16 +1000, Shane wrote:
>Nice green stripe.
>
>"Big page" only 1 Meg. Interesting.
...
>anything else of interest ??? ... :0)
Hmm... is it interesting that it doesn't do Windows Serv
ed from the sysplex. AutoIPL
capability is
intended to help you achieve faster failure data capture and recovery after
system
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OS's support
larger 'big page' sizes... even AIX allows for much bigger pages, doesn't it?
(ISTR 16MB)
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>new z10.
You might want to ask your question again AFTER next Tuesday, Feb. 26th,
since a 'z10' has not been announced just yet. (Rumored heavily, sure, but
not announced.)
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"mop up" cycles then it isn't so
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>>
>>
>> Unfortunately even if the mainframe were considered, the probability
>> of finding COTS software that both meets the business need and runs on
>> the mainframe is slim.
>
>Sorry. What is COTS?
COTS == Cheap, Off-The-Shelf (software
n at 11am on Feb 26th says (or said)
that his
presentation would be announced prior to the session. (I read that as
confirmation that the
announcement would be sometime prior to 11am on 26Feb.)
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t to go that route might be that the HE washers use very little
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the are environmentally friendly - very "green" (low water, lower power, low
detergent)
but isn't IBM Global trying to sell mostly SOAP services?)
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On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:20:22 +, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
>The z9EC model number is 2097.
No, it isn't. The z9EC model number is 2094; the z9BC number is 2096.
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(Or do you retire before then?)
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swiped a
copy of someone's desk in POK to be able to fulfill my order. (Sorry about
that,
whomever it was! I still have the pub even though it is pretty long in the
tooth now.)
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in the VM/HPO or (maybe) early VM/XA days it was true that VM
put itself
into a tiny loop while it waited for work. The loop was in a unique-to-VM PSW
key so that
the hardware monitor (the "speedometer") could tell the difference between work
and wait.
Or am I the only person who &
U loop (so it doesn't need to come out of a wait state
when it is waiting) so it would run just as hot when it was idle as otherwise.
(Unless there is special code to account for machine perspiration?)
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replacement?
Oh, that makes sense -- the new PTF instruction must mean:
Play The Flute
(or Play The Fiddle?)
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>silence, much less an apology to customers.
Why not end your constant ranting and submit a requirement to IBM Marketing
or SHARE (or your favorite other user group, if any) so that you are using the
official channels and NOT wasting everyone's bandwidth on
Lynn has answered that question a while ago. Check the archives. (His or
ibm-main's)
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to very
unfortunate near outages. The APARs referenced appear to be a fit for our
issues. (Time will tell, of course.) The APARs have been rolled back to z/OS
1.8 at least.
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The CPU% is of the total - if you have more than one processor then your
total is more than a single engine, so adjust your calculations accordingly.
(We have a 6-way and were off by a factor of 6 until we adjusted; then i
John,
Two words: resource groups.
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BP supported it after the
APAR.) (*shrug*)
I guess people are happy writing data to storage, using FTP to ship it from
storage to storage via sockets, then reading it back into a program. ALL that
FTP I/O is unnecessary overhead.
Without BP, to paraphrase Popeye th
ustomers, themselves
and IBM? (Maybe that's something that FSI already proposed to IBM?)
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working on the mainframe platform. I can count the number of successful
small mainframe developers today on the fingers of my third hand... and I only
have two hands.
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>Thanks for your responses.
>
>I have access to the old system in other LPAR and the displays of the
>command D IKJTSO,SEND are exactly the
ly
notice what is (and is not) happening.
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VSAM file processing while still maintaining data buffer
coherency and integrity. It does what it says it does without hurting
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Is there anyone willing to speak of using IBM's BatchPipes with a IP socket
stage which they are (or were) using to connect LPAR-to-LPAR via
hipersockets?
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u can run it, you just can't perform the linkedit yourself; find a friendly
sysprog to do that for you and then you ought to be good to go.
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On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 12:25:45 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote:
>On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 12:13:24 -0600, Tom Schmidt wrote:
>>On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 11:54:58 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote:
>>
>>> The hightest address below the line is x'00FF'.
>>>The first address abo
The first address above the line is x'0800'.
Check your hex arithmetic: The first address above the line should be
x'0100'.
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>The book says you can.
Doh!! Thanks, John!
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to sign for your copy (on an annual basis) several years ago, but all of
that may well have changed in the past decade or so. (Your manager and his
manager had to sign for you to get access (annually) then, too.)
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>I also recognize that there are exceptions to this rant out there and to
>them I apologize for my statements and wish them much luck.
Yeah, me too.
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(Good time to be doing that, what with the Hollywood writer's strike looming.)
Alternatively, with material like yours (above) you could maybe replace Dave
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opportunity to catch up on your reading while you wait for
it to respond.
(We do it with a sandbox system and it is pretty pokey when the other LPARs
are guzzling MIPS. Still, it all works but at an HO-scale. Just not the way to
run a re
see IBM bite the bullet and unleash us from the
3390 geometry tyranny. Though I'll probably sprout wings & fly before I see
any more 3390 relief under z/OS, I suppose.)
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on the system where I had no write access to their APF libraries.
That's why it was a joke.
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p was that anyone
>who had logged on TSO while the date was 1 year behind couldn't log on.
>That was me, and a few of the programmers and the operator.
Eric,
Nobody died as a result of the operator error, right? ;)
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:53:05 -0500, Ed Gould wrote:
>On Oct 23, 2007, at 3:17 PM, Tom Schmidt wrote:
>>PCF was a joke as far as 'TSO security' was concerned.
>>
>> As long as you understood how TSO's command processors work and a
>> quick understanding o
nterface by IBM before using it. (I've used it in
the dim past for a few things but none were particularly long-term. It worked
for me, for example, when running a CLIST in a started task doing TSO
RECEIVE (as in XMIT/RECEIVE) processing many years ago.
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PCF was a joke as far as 'TSO security' was concerned.
As long as you understood how TSO's command processors work and a quick
understanding of PCF's working storage it can be a matter of minutes before
you can build a working prototype to bypass PCF. (At least it w
sometimes address management problems by technical means,
the overall satisfaction rate isn't as high as most folks might expect.
Maybe it would help us help you if you could describe your problem a little
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rform this "trick".
All you need to do is stop looping through the open/close once the open fails.
(You ought to provide for error recovery if the open fails anyway so that might
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On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:24:12 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:24:19 -0500, Tom Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>z/OS has the venerable OPEN-J service that might be what you are looking
for
>>here. Check the z/OS publications for the OPEN macro's TYPE=J ope
for the OPEN macro's TYPE=J operand.
If you are looking from the perspective of a higher-level language such as C
(although I might otherwise argue that point) then you can use BPXDYN
service to switch both member name a
ces. (The reason the example works within a single space is
that the default ALET value (0) in both the source and target specifications;
the primary space is just a special case that works well in their example.)
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