Re: American Airlines

2008-06-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/02/2008 at 06:05 PM, Tony Harminc [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I suppose this sounds like a precursor to RPS on the 3330, More like a precursor to the cache on a 3880-12. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

re; American Airlines

2008-06-03 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
American Airlines http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#34 American Airlines http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#35 American Airlines http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#37 American Airlines http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#38 American Airlines http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#39

Re: re; American Airlines

2008-06-03 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 6/3/2008 11:31:03 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: there were some early -13 ( -23) literature showing 90percent cache hit rate. i pointed out that the example was actually 3880 with 10 records per track and reading sequentially. I remember a SHARE

Re: re; American Airlines

2008-06-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of (IBM Mainframe Discussion List) In a message dated 6/3/2008 11:31:03 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: there were some early -13 ( -23) literature showing 90percent cache hit rate. i

Re: American Airlines

2008-06-03 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 6/3/2008 1:22:43 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IIRC, ho-hum = 256GB:-) That doesn't sound right. For 2105 it's 198MB per LU for NVS. **Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch Cooking with Tyler Florence on AOL Food.

Re: American Airlines

2008-06-03 Thread Richards, Robert B.
03, 2008 2:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: American Airlines In a message dated 6/3/2008 1:22:43 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IIRC, ho-hum = 256GB:-) That doesn't sound right. For 2105 it's 198MB per LU for NVS. **Get trade secrets

Re: American Airlines

2008-06-03 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 1:20 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: re; American

Re: American Airlines

2008-06-03 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Finnell Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 2:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: American Airlines In a message dated 6/3/2008 1:22:43 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IIRC, ho-hum = 256GB

Re: American Airlines

2008-06-03 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 6/3/2008 2:01:59 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Regardless, it is larger than it used to be! :-) I don't remember if LISTDATA return counts for NVS or not. Anyway, 'bout the only time it matters is when Murphy lurks. Few years back one of the SWC

American Airlines

2008-06-02 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
hancock wrote: Question: SABRE took years to develop. Did it take equally long to develop systems for competing airlines? For those using IBM platforms, could they use any code or designs for SABRE or were they propriety to American Airlines? re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#19

Re: American Airlines

2008-06-02 Thread Warren Brown
for competing airlines? For those using IBM platforms, could they use any code or designs for SABRE or were they propriety to American Airlines? re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#19 American Airlines there was airline control program (ACP) that was (vendor) operating system used

Re: American Airlines

2008-06-02 Thread Lynn Wheeler
On Jun 2, 10:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Warren Brown) wrote: Actually, IBM built special hardware for this type of software to run on. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#19 American Airlines http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#34 American Airlines http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html

American Airlines

2008-06-02 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
On Jun 2, 10:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Warren Brown) wrote: Actually, IBM built special hardware for this type of software to run on. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#19 American Airlines http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#34 American Airlines http://www.garlic.com/~lynn

Re: American Airlines

2008-06-02 Thread Eric Chevalier
On 2 Jun 2008 07:32:46 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Warren Brown) wrote: Actually, IBM built special hardware for this type of software to run on. OK, it's been almost thirty years, so my memory may be a bit hazy... Between mid 1977 and mid 1979 I worked for Continental Airlines. At the time we

Re: American Airlines

2008-06-02 Thread John P. Baker
Control Buffer, I _think_ the feature allowed the drive to disconnect from the channel while doing a seek. Whatever the details, it was something that became standard on later mainframe drives from IBM. http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#19 American Airlines http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html

Re: American Airlines

2008-06-02 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/6/2 Eric Chevalier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: However, we were using 2314s attached to these boxes, and I believe there _was_ a hardware RPQ on the drives. Called something like Airlines Control Buffer, I _think_ the feature allowed the drive to disconnect from the channel while doing a seek.

Re: American Airlines

2008-06-02 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
John P. Baker wrote: I seem to recall something called the Limited Lock Facility (LLF), which provided some specialized CCW support in the controller. Was it developed for use in situation such as that described here? re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#19 American Airlines http

Re: American Airlines

2008-06-02 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In the ESS/2105 book I have, there is an entire chapter on the Multi-Path Lock Facility. There are also some options that can be set in the Define Extent operands that are ACP (now called TPF, the Transaction Processing Facility) specific, such as record caching. These facilities were

Re: American Airlines (was: Practical jokes for mainframe systems programmers)

2008-05-24 Thread Phil Smith III
Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the problem is (and was then) that the folks wanting to make an reservation switch to another airline that could sell them a ticket. That would be the problem today; back in 1989 when SABRE (to the best of my knowledge) was the main airline

Re: American Airlines

2008-05-24 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Smith III) writes: That would be the problem today; back in 1989 when SABRE (to the best of my knowledge) was the main airline

American Airlines (was: Practical jokes for mainframe systems programmers)

2008-05-23 Thread Phil Smith III
Matthew Stitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember an article in Computer World around the early 1990's about American Airlines getting wrecked by the volume initialization joke. It was not a joke, but lack of finger checking that cause several disks of DB2 data, etc to be initialized instead

Re: American Airlines (was: Practical jokes for mainframe systems programmers)

2008-05-23 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
Phil Smith III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Matthew Stitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember an article in Computer World around the early 1990's about American Airlines getting wrecked by the volume initialization joke. It was not a joke, but lack of finger