Re: TSO LOGON Reconnect confirmation.

2012-08-28 Thread Ron Hawkins
With TN3270 reconnect works fine, and so far always for at least half a decade. I rely on it to switch from my laptop to my desktop and back. Yes there is the proviso of the same screen size. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > O

Re: C Compiler on z/OS 1.11

2012-08-28 Thread saurabh khandelwal
Hello, I have checked in Server pac installation document and that talks about some of the target and distribution library required for this setup. But I dont find any more detail to setup this compiler. I have two requirements 1) To run the z/OS 1.10 C/C++ compiler on z

C Compiler on z/OS 1.11

2012-08-28 Thread saurabh khandelwal
Hello Group, We have a requirement to to run the z/OS 1.10 C/C++ compiler on z/OS 1.11 system. I didn't find any documents to setup this. But I believe, I will have to copy some of the RES volume dataset from z/OS 1.10 system to z/OS 1.11 with differen

Re: QUESTION ON HSM ; BYPASSING DSNS ON A ML2 TAPE

2012-08-28 Thread retired mainframer
Since the tape is bad, why would you want to keep it? :>: -Original Message- :>: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On :>: Behalf Of willie bunter :>: Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 4:29 PM :>: To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU :>: Subject: Re: QUESTION ON HSM

IBM embiggens iron with System zEnterprise EC12 mainframe "ZAWARE"

2012-08-28 Thread Ed Gould
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/28/ibm_system_zec12_maiframe/ page2.html Interesting talk on "ZAWARE" that was skimped on in the IBM announcement. Ed -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: TSO LOGON Reconnect confirmation.

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:04:24 -0400, Gerhard Postpischil wrote: >> >> I'd like it to prompt me: >> >> Another session is active. R(econnect) or C(ancel)? > >Yes, but you probably won't like it. The method is to implement >a pre-logon exit, which entails doing your own screen I/O, error >recove

Re: Does IDCAMS really do that?

2012-08-28 Thread Roger W. Suhr
>>20.2.13 Delete a Member of a Partitioned (Non-VSAM) Data Set in a Catalog: >>Example 13 ?? ... ?? DELETE - >> EXAMPLE.NONVSAM2 - >> PURGE - >> CATALOG(USERCAT4) >> >>The [second] DELETE command deletes all remaining member

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-28 Thread Roger W. Suhr
:>: Well, it depends on the point of view. :>: Datasets "by definition" are for keeping data, not to make GRS ENQ, not Everything depends on the point of view! Roger -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of retired mainframer S

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Roger W. Suhr
> Using LINUX or ZOS? Both + z/VM Roger -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of shai hess Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 1:59 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment On Tue, Aug 28,

Re: TSO LOGON Reconnect confirmation.

2012-08-28 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 8/28/2012 8:48 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: In the TSO graphic LOGON panel, I can either "S Reconnect", in which it preempts any active session, or I can not select "Reconnect", in which case it rejects the LOGON if another session is active. Either of these behaviors is extreme. If there's ano

Updated z/Architecture Principles of Operation

2012-08-28 Thread John P. Baker
Has any information been forthcoming in respect to when an updated z/Architecture Principles of Operation will be made available? John P. Baker -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

TSO LOGON Reconnect confirmation.

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In the TSO graphic LOGON panel, I can either "S Reconnect", in which it preempts any active session, or I can not select "Reconnect", in which case it rejects the LOGON if another session is active. Either of these behaviors is extreme. If there's another session, I'd like it to prompt me: A

Re: HELP - RECATALOGING VSAM COMPONENTS

2012-08-28 Thread John Dawes
Lizette,   You are a gem.  Your suggestion worked.  Thanks very very much. From: Lizette Koehler To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Tuesday, 28 August 2012 7:51 PM Subject: Re: HELP - RECATALOGING VSAM COMPONENTS And you should use the CLUSTER not the Data comp

Re: HELP - RECATALOGING VSAM COMPONENTS

2012-08-28 Thread John Dawes
Thanks Lizeete I will give it a try. From: Lizette Koehler To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Tuesday, 28 August 2012 7:51 PM Subject: Re: HELP - RECATALOGING VSAM COMPONENTS And you should use the CLUSTER not the Data component.  Sorry I missed that when I p

Re: HELP - RECATALOGING VSAM COMPONENTS

2012-08-28 Thread Lizette Koehler
And you should use the CLUSTER not the Data component. Sorry I missed that when I pasted your statements. Lizette -Original Message- >From: Lizette Koehler >Sent: Aug 28, 2012 4:48 PM >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Subject: Re: HELP - RECATALOGING VSAM COMPONENTS > >I usually do not u

Re: HELP - RECATALOGING VSAM COMPONENTS

2012-08-28 Thread Lizette Koehler
I usually do not use the CATALOG parm, but since this is your job, here is what I might code: DEFINE CL (NAME(VDB2U.DSNDBD.PENDBD10.PENTS113.I0001.A001) - VOLUMES(SMP116) - LINEAR- RCTLG) -

Re: HELP - RECATALOGING VSAM COMPONENTS

2012-08-28 Thread John Dawes
Lizette,   Would you have an example using LINEAR?  From: Lizette Koehler To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Tuesday, 28 August 2012 7:24 PM Subject: Re: HELP - RECATALOGING VSAM COMPONENTS John, I have not done this but I would catalog the DB2 Cluster Name w

Re: QUESTION ON HSM ; BYPASSING DSNS ON A ML2 TAPE

2012-08-28 Thread willie bunter
By using FORCE would I lose the tape?  I remember once before I did that and I think it got deleted from HSM.  From: "Staller, Allan" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Tuesday, 28 August 2012 1:10 PM Subject: Re: QUESTION ON HSM ; BYPASSING DSNS ON A ML2 TAP

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:45:42 -0700, Skip Robinson wrote: > >I know that ISPF Browse will show 'no data' if it judges from the VTOC >that utilization is zero, as in 3.2, regardless of what might be there >physically. OTOH IEBGENER attempts read a file until EOF regardless of >VTOC info. I ran GENER

Re: HELP - RECATALOGING VSAM COMPONENTS

2012-08-28 Thread Lizette Koehler
John, I have not done this but I would catalog the DB2 Cluster Name with LINEAR in the IDCAMS control cards. Lizette -Original Message- >From: John Dawes >Sent: Aug 28, 2012 4:18 PM >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Subject: Re: HELP - RECATALOGING VSAM COMPONENTS > >The cluster and the d

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:33:15 -0500, Richard Peurifoy wrote: >> >> But for CKD doesn't there have to be some place to write the EOF? > >I think BSAM/QSAM will simulate an EOF without doing any I/O >to the data set if you try to read it. > Yup. As I said here lately, I've depended on that behavior

Re: HELP - RECATALOGING VSAM COMPONENTS

2012-08-28 Thread John Dawes
The cluster and the data component have a different names.  Do I need to recatalog the cluster too?  From: Skip Robinson To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Tuesday, 28 August 2012 7:13 PM Subject: Re: HELP - RECATALOGING VSAM COMPONENTS The most common proble

Re: HELP - RECATALOGING VSAM COMPONENTS

2012-08-28 Thread Skip Robinson
The most common problem with VSAM is failing to specify the proper value for indexed/nonindexed. It must match the actual cluster. . . JO.Skip Robinson SCE Infrastructure Technology Services Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.ski

Re: HELP - RECATALOGING VSAM COMPONENTS

2012-08-28 Thread Lizette Koehler
Did you look up the IDC3009I message 6 Explanation: Either the primary VSAM volume record (VVR) points to another catalog, or the primary VVR or non-VSAM volume record (NVR) for the object being

HELP - RECATALOGING VSAM COMPONENTS

2012-08-28 Thread John Dawes
G'Day,   I restored a DB2 VSAM dsn (which was deleted in error) on to the volume which it used to reside on.  The restore was from a full volume dump.  All went well however it didn't catalog the CLUSTER & COMPONENT:   2012.241 17:51:51 EXECUTION BEGINS

Does IDCAMS really do that?

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In: Title: z/OS V1R12.0 DFSMS AMS for Catalogs Document Number: SC26-7394-11 http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dgt2i290/20.2.13 I read: 20.2.13 Delete a Member of a Partitioned (Non-VSAM) Data Set in a Catalog: Example 13 ... DELETE -

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Skip Robinson
With the EC12, according to our IBM rep, all cables come down from the ceiling, which is provided for in a slab-only data center. . . JO.Skip Robinson SCE Infrastructure Technology Services Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Eric Bielefeld
I'm curious - what do you do with all the cables coming in to the machine. Obviously you have a power cable, and all the channel cables. Do they get hung from the ceiling if you have no raised floor? -- Eric Bielefeld Systems Programmer Skip Robinson wrote: > No one has mentioned the

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-28 Thread retired mainframer
:>: -Original Message- :>: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On :>: Behalf Of R.S. :>: Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 10:17 AM :>: To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU :>: Subject: Re: Space Allocation In Bytes :>: :>: W dniu 2012-08-28 17:59, Roger W. Suhr pisze

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-28 Thread Skip Robinson
My 'interested colleague' Meral Temel supplied a crucial piece of the puzzle. She filled up a volume totally with ordinary data sets to where external indicators showed zero tracks of free space. She then allocated a zero-space data set on the volume with no error. There could not have been a s

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-28 Thread Richard Peurifoy
On 8/28/2012 3:19 PM, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote: Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. wrote: In <503bf5eb.5010...@bremultibank.com.pl>, on 08/28/2012 at 12:34 AM, "R.S." said: Valid, but illogical. Data set with zero size is illogical. No. That's exploitation of "side effect". Stilla valid (i

Re: Java 7 vulnerability

2012-08-28 Thread John Gilmore
IBM should be consulted, certainly; but there is strong evidence that this vulnerability is an ORACLE-specific one. Code-sharing aside, vulnerabilities are implementation-specific; and code sharing between IBM and ORACLE would be enormously interesting, not least because of the vanishingly small p

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Knutson, Sam
Many shops especially IBM's largest customers have requirements that are met by the new zEC12. There are significant costs savings possible. They can save money by consolidating multiple footprints using the increased capacity and meeting performance challenges. Some applications are limited to

Re: Java 7 vulnerability

2012-08-28 Thread Kirk Wolf
According to this: http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-240A.html the vulnerability is limited to Oracle Java 1.7.0 Also, the vulnerability is an exploit that allows java code to break out of a Java SecurityManager. This is most important when Java is being run on a machine under a browse

Re: zEC12 IFL

2012-08-28 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 8/28/2012 at 03:52 PM, Jose Correa Saldeño >>> wrote: > Hi all. > > How much improvement in speed can we expect going from z10 IFLs to the > zEC12 IFLs The same as what was claimed for the full-speed general processors (CPs). Mark Post ---

zEC12 IFL

2012-08-28 Thread Jose Correa Saldeño
Hi all. How much improvement in speed can we expect going from z10 IFLs to the zEC12 IFLs - CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: This email communication and its attachments contain information that are proprietary and confidential to EVERTEC, INC., its affiliates

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 8/28/2012 8:26 AM, Jousma, David wrote: Pretty sad. There is no traditional telephone call in access, and apparently there are problems with the delivery of the announcement. Customers and IBMer alike cannot it to work. It worked great for me! If you missed the announcement due to timi

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 8/28/2012 7:27 AM, Knutson, Sam wrote: The biggest surprise for me was zAware the new monitoring appliance running in an LPAR. This appears to be chargeable and currently just monitoring messages but moving infrastructure overhead and function out of the z/OS space into an LPAR is the MIPS

Java 7 vulnerability

2012-08-28 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9230656/Macs_at_risk_from_super_dangerous_Java_zero_day Has Java 7 made it to z/OS? Has anyone tested for this vulnerability? The problem was new to Java 7, so one suggestion is to uninstall Java 7 and re-install Java 6 until patched. -- Mike A Schwab, Sp

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Mark Pace
MP3000. MP2003, z800, z9, z10, z114 I've run all of these on non-raised floors. On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 3:04 PM, August Carideo wrote: > who says you cant install a Z/9 or z/10 w/o a raised floor LOL > > > > > From: Skip Robinson > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, > Date: 08/28

Re: "execs" or "scripts"

2012-08-28 Thread John Gilmore
This is a novel and not, I think, a very useful definition of context-sensitive; but à chacun son goût. The useful practical distinction is that between languages, like C and COBOL, that employ reserved words and languages, like PL/I, that do not. Academic computer scientists like reserved words,

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-08-28 19:54, Mark Post pisze: On 8/28/2012 at 01:31 PM, shai hess wrote: Why IBM manufacture new MF? Because customers will buy them. Any new customers using MF or any increasing MF processing? According to IBM, a total of 142-150 new customers since 2009. How do you know? D

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread August Carideo
who says you cant install a Z/9 or z/10 w/o a raised floor LOL From: Skip Robinson To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, Date: 08/28/2012 02:22 PM Subject:Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List No one has mentioned the enhancement

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcement

2012-08-28 Thread August Carideo
and how many have been trying for 10 years plus and $ wasted just because some manage by airline magazine type would not just back down and admit it was wrong decision so forced it to so called completion anyway From: Dave Day To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, Date: 08/28/2012 0

AW: Exclude SMF Records by date&time with DFSORT

2012-08-28 Thread Uwe Oswald
I definitly have to spend some time on this to get a better understanding what I can achieve with that stuff... Thx for your feedback -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im Auftrag von Elardus Engelbrecht Gesendet: Dienstag,

AW: Exclude SMF Records by date&time with DFSORT

2012-08-28 Thread Uwe Oswald
Hi Chris, thank you very much for the statement. That's exactly what I have been looking for. I'll try to use OMIT but has to read the manuals for the OMIT statement. I appreciate your help. Cheers from Germany, Uwe -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:I

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Mark Zelden
Too bad IBM wasn't ready a few weeks earlier to announce. There would have been a lot more to talk about at SHARE. -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.c

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread shai hess
I agree. We need more feedback from IBM about success story of returning users to MF or companies which try to leave to Linux or Windows and feel sorry about it. Keeping the issue a a secret make me and I am sure other to feel bad about the future of MF. If there are many success stories about ne

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Skip Robinson
No one has mentioned the enhancement that most interests us:the EC12 can be installed in a data center *without raised floor*. Slab floors have become de rigour for new built-from-scratch data centers. The z114 can be mounted on slab but not the z196. This is the first Enterprise Class mainfra

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-28 Thread Bill Fairchild
Everything depends on the point of view. "... not usable as intended... ... usually we expect dataset to contain some data... ... no real (as intended) use..." -- some may intend a data set to hold data; others may intend an "empty" data set not to hold data but rather to hold metadata. Fro

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Dave Day
To me what would be more interesting would be some statistics on shops that migrated off the platform, and have since come back. I doubt if after having gone thru the time and expense of converting to a unix or windows based platform, many would be willing to pay that time and expense again, to

Re: IBMLink down again?

2012-08-28 Thread Thomas Conley
On 8/28/2012 1:33 PM, Paul Peplinski wrote: Down for me all day. Been trying since 8:30 Central -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 8/28/2012 at 01:59 PM, shai hess wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Mark Post wrote: > >> >>> On 8/28/2012 at 01:31 PM, shai hess wrote: -snip- >> > Any new customers using MF or any increasing MF processing? >> >> >>According to IBM, a total of 142-150 new customers since 2009.

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread shai hess
I wish IBM will publish the real number about the total number of customers of MF in all world. The reason is that the feeling is that many MF site shutdown MF site. Publish the real number can support many of us who work and support mainly the MF computers. On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:59 PM, shai h

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread shai hess
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Mark Post wrote: > >>> On 8/28/2012 at 01:31 PM, shai hess wrote: > > Why IBM manufacture new MF? > > >>Because customers will buy them. > > OK. > > Any new customers using MF or any increasing MF processing? > > >>According to IBM, a total of 142-150 new cust

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-28 Thread Linda
We still have some too. Linda Sent from my iPhone On Aug 27, 2012, at 8:17 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 9:02 PM, retired mainframer > wrote: >> >> Doesn't anyone use model DSCBs anymore? >> > We still have some hanging around. > -- > Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA >

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 8/28/2012 at 01:31 PM, shai hess wrote: > Why IBM manufacture new MF? Because customers will buy them. > Any new customers using MF or any increasing MF processing? According to IBM, a total of 142-150 new customers since 2009. Workload growth rate of existing customers is averaging a

Re: Exclude SMF Records by date&time with DFSORT

2012-08-28 Thread Sri h Kolusu
Uwe, The SMF dates DT1, DT2, DT3 are of the format (X'0cyydddF') in their raw form. So you can treat them as PD fields and extract the data you want. ex: //STEP0100 EXEC PGM=SORT //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* //SORTIN DD DISP=SHR,DSN=Your Input SMF file //SORTOUT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSINDD * O

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread August Carideo
and it fits very few environments running now ( other then up-to-date Z/os shops ) and eliminated ESCON there would have to be major lic cost saving to even look into this, which I did not see mentioned From: shai hess To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, Date: 08/28/2012 01:31 PM

Re: "execs" or "scripts"

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:21:14 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: >Other people's parsing machinery is, in my experience, usable only for >context-free 'languages'; and since I devise and use only >context-sensitive--yes, PL/I-like--languages, I have found that I must >build my own parsing machinery; and th

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Scott Ford
1 pt for Kees Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 28, 2012, at 9:53 AM, "Vernooij, CP - SPLXM" wrote: > "Hunkeler Peter , KIUP 4" wrote in > message > news:> ... >>> Why not ZZtop? >> >> Copyright violation? >> >> -- >> Peter Hunkeler >> > > And you cannot top *the* top, even not wit

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-28 Thread John Gilmore
I made 'Radoslaw' into 'Ron', for which I apologize. --jg On 8/28/12, John Gilmore wrote: > Attempting to distinguish empty files from nul strings and the like > Ron Skorupka writes: > > > Zero-space dataset is real object, consuming real resources (VTOC, > maybe catalog) with no real (as inten

Re: IBMLink down again?

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Peplinski
Down for me all day. Been trying since 8:30 Central -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Exclude SMF Records by date&time with DFSORT

2012-08-28 Thread Blaicher, Christopher Y.
Uwe, There are numerous ways to solve the problem you have outlined. One way you can do it is using an INCLUDE or OMIT statement. Every SMF record has the same format header portion that has the type (offset 5, sort column 6), time (offset 6, sort column 7) and date (offset 10, sort column 11

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread shai hess
Why IBM manufacture new MF? Any new customers using MF or any increasing MF processing? On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Kirk Talman wrote: > I thought we called them engines because each engine was two cores for > redundancy and error detection. > > IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on > 08/

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-28 Thread John Gilmore
Attempting to distinguish empty files from nul strings and the like Ron Skorupka writes: Zero-space dataset is real object, consuming real resources (VTOC, maybe catalog) with no real (as intended) use. but nul strings also consume resources in just this way. The PL/I varying character string

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-08-28 16:29, Paul Gilmartin pisze: On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:55:43 +, Meral Temel (Garanti Teknoloji) wrote:  One cryptographic/compression co-processor per core Presumably optionally disabled to comply with export restrictions? I'm told we have the cryptographic PRNG disabled o

Re: "execs" or "scripts"

2012-08-28 Thread John Gilmore
Other people's parsing machinery is, in my experience, usable only for context-free 'languages'; and since I devise and use only context-sensitive--yes, PL/I-like--languages, I have found that I must build my own parsing machinery; and this is easy enough to do using REXX. --jg --

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-28 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-08-28 17:59, Roger W. Suhr pisze: No, it's not illogical. We use Format 1 DSCB entries as model DSCB for GDG's and other things. No data space use is needed for that, so we allocate TRK=0. No problem there! Well, it depends on the point of view. Datasets "by definition" are for k

Re: QUESTION ON HSM ; BYPASSING DSNS ON A ML2 TAPE

2012-08-28 Thread Staller, Allan
HSEND RECYCLE EXECUTE VOL(xx) FORCE ? What you have described is usually successful. You might also recall the datasets past the damaged point individually. When all have been recalled HSEND RECYCLE EXECUTE VOLUME(xx) FORCE This tape should then free up without a mount. HTH, I am try

Re: QUESTION ON HSM ; BYPASSING DSNS ON A ML2 TAPE

2012-08-28 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Use the FORCE parameter with the recycle command. -Original Message- From: Hervey Martinez [mailto:hervey.marti...@custserv.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 12:46 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: QUESTION ON HSM ; BYPASSING DSNS ON A ML2 TAPE Willie, The problem is not th

Re: Exclude SMF Records by date&time with DFSORT

2012-08-28 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Uwe Oswald wrote: >has somebody ever tried to exclude (!) SMF records from a dataset with DFSORT? >My interest is especially to exclude several (more than one) date and time >ranges. Has someone an example for me, please? Not sure which date field you're using for subsetting your data, but I h

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Kirk Talman
I thought we called them engines because each engine was two cores for redundancy and error detection. IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 08/28/2012 06:52:08 AM: > From: Mike Schwab > EC12, 120 cores, z196, 96 cores. -

IBMLink down again?

2012-08-28 Thread Thomas Conley
Anybody having trouble accessing IBMLink? Getting the Our apologies Server 500 error page. Regards, Tom Conley -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the

Re: QUESTION ON HSM ; BYPASSING DSNS ON A ML2 TAPE

2012-08-28 Thread Hervey Martinez
Willie, The problem is not the migrated file, it just happens to be that the tape has a bad spot and it happens to be the spot where this file is physically on the tape; thus, you can't get past it. You should mark the tape full to keep it from being written to again; Then, you can: 1) just si

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:29:48 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: >From: >http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/core/basic/intl/faq.jsp#core-textrep > > The primitive data type char in the Java programming language is an >unsigned 16-bit integer that can represent a Unicode code point in the >range U+ to

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread August Carideo
IBM System z z114 2818 mainframes IBM System z z196 2817 mainframes IBM System z z10 BC 2098 mainframes IBM System z z10 EC 2097 mainframes IBM Series z z9 BC Danu 2096 mainframes IBM Series z z9 EC Danu 2094 mainframes IBM zSeries 2086 mainframes IBM zSeries 2084 mainframes IBM zSeries 2066 mainfr

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Kirk Wolf
From: http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/core/basic/intl/faq.jsp#core-textrep The primitive data type char in the Java programming language is an unsigned 16-bit integer that can represent a Unicode code point in the range U+ to U+, or the code units of UTF-16

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Bob Shannon
>Can anyone list out the 11 previous generations 9672 G1-G6 z800/900 z890/990 z9 EC/BC z10 EC/BC z196/z114 Bob Shannon Rocket Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@lis

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:44:32 -0500, Todd Last wrote: >According to today's virtual event, the EC12 is the 12th generation of modern >mainframes. Can anyone list out the 11 previous generations? > Something like: Matthew 1 King James Version (KJV) 1 The book of the generation of Jesus Chris

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:39:03 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: > >UTF-16 is used in Java (and other languages) as the internal representation >of characters and strings (each character represented by two bytes). > No. Not according to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16 UTF-16 (16-bit Unicode Tra

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread McKown, John
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Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-28 Thread Roger W. Suhr
No, it's not illogical. We use Format 1 DSCB entries as model DSCB for GDG's and other things. No data space use is needed for that, so we allocate TRK=0. No problem there! Roger -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Shmue

Re: "execs" or "scripts"

2012-08-28 Thread Scott Ford
Shmuel, Parsing for me is not an issue. I understand it's not 'NIX' like, but if you understand the language you craft your programs or scripts to perform what you want. After using Rexx since VM/SP up through Object Rexx, it's ain't rocket science to me . Buts that's my understanding and my ap

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Bill Fairchild
Speaking of acronym overuse, the last time I heard about an EC it was an Engineering Change. What is it now, an Enterprise Cluster? Bill Fairchild Programmer Rocket Software 408 Chamberlain Park Lane • Franklin, TN 37069-2526 • USA t: +1.617.614.4503 • e: bfairch...@rocketsoftware.com • w: w

QUESTION ON HSM ; BYPASSING DSNS ON A ML2 TAPE

2012-08-28 Thread willie bunter
Hallo All,   I am trying to recycle a damaged ML2 tape.  The RECYCLE rolls along however when it hits a particular dsn the recycle terminates.  I deleted the migrated dsn (ML2) so as to bypass the problem however it doesn't work.  Is there a way of having the RECYCLE bypass this troublesome dsn 

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Todd Last
According to today's virtual event, the EC12 is the 12th generation of modern mainframes. Can anyone list out the 11 previous generations? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to list

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Kirk Wolf
Gil, UTF-16 is used in Java (and other languages) as the internal representation of characters and strings (each character represented by two bytes). UTF-8 continues to gain ground as a standard external encoding. Makes sense to want to accelerate conversion between the two (which is not trivial

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Jousma, David
Pretty sad. There is no traditional telephone call in access, and apparently there are problems with the delivery of the announcement. Customers and IBMer alike cannot it to work. Can get into the conference, but the content isn’t playing. _

AW: Exclude SMF Records by date&time with DFSORT

2012-08-28 Thread Uwe Oswald
Yes, I know but not in a form like "datea from 8-9", "dateb from 10-11" aso. as far as I know. I do not want to let the job run x times in order to exclude all time slices -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im Auftrag von

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-28 Thread retired mainframer
:>: -Original Message- :>: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On :>: Behalf Of Ed Gould :>: Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 10:31 PM :>: To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU :>: Subject: Re: Space Allocation In Bytes :>: :>: LiZette: :>: :>: I think you can get a fr

Re: Exclude SMF Records by date&time with DFSORT

2012-08-28 Thread Williamson, James R
You can also select date and time ranges with the IBM program IFASMFDP //DUMP EXEC PGM=IFASMFDP //DUMPIN DD DISP=SHR,DSN=SYS1.MANX //* //DUMPOUT DD

Exclude SMF Records by date&time with DFSORT

2012-08-28 Thread Uwe Oswald
Hi, has somebody ever tried to exclude (!) SMF records from a dataset with DFSORT? My interest is especially to exclude several (more than one) date and time ranges. Has someone an example for me, please? Thx in advance. Cheers, Uwe --

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread burgess, christopher
It may be that is a generation 12 CMOS CPU. Thanks, Chris Burgess Phone: 1-800-445-2588 x42149    1-508-249-2149 Fax: 1-508-544-2076 Email: burgess_christop...@emc.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Pau

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:49:21 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: >>> >> Presumably optionally disabled to comply with export restrictions? > >Is there really anywhere these days you can send a mainframe to that >you can't send a crypto processor to? Surely no one in Cuba or Iran >can order up a zEC12 in any

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Tony Harminc
On 28 August 2012 10:29, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> One cryptographic/compression co-processor per core >> > Presumably optionally disabled to comply with export restrictions? Is there really anywhere these days you can send a mainframe to that you can't send a crypto processor to? Surely no one

Re: "execs" or "scripts"

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 09:29:05 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > >>But the bare word handling is treacherous, > >Indeed; there is a contingent that advocate always having NOVALUE >active. ... > That would be me. Restoring your snippage: >>It would be precious if Rexx supported expressions in

Re: No Data returned in PPLANS area

2012-08-28 Thread Tony Harminc
On 27 August 2012 23:47, Micheal Butz wrote: [...] > TSO CMD JOBNAME(JOBNAME) ASID(X'0037') DUMP(YES) [...] > The following is the layout of the IKJ macros I am using to parse this > statement [...] > CANCEL IKJPARM DSECT=PARSEAT > JOBNAME IKJKEYWD > IKJNAME 'JOBNAME',SUBFLD=JOB > A

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:55:43 +, Meral Temel (Garanti Teknoloji) wrote: > > One cryptographic/compression co-processor per core > Presumably optionally disabled to comply with export restrictions? I'm told we have the cryptographic PRNG disabled on most of our processors because it's separately

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Knutson, Sam
These were the most interesting links I found so far and sent to my team in addition to the announce itself Announce http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname=iSource&supplier=877&letternum=ENUSZG12-0262 Draft - IBM zEnterprise EC12 Technical Introduct

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