I want to echo something Martin Packer wrote that's really very important,
and it also applies to the IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator and many other
technologies.
Yes, you can very accurately project how much of your current z/OS-hosted
workload will benefit from a zIIP. A far more interesting
I've recently been writing web servers using Lua/Orbit.
From the reports I've read there doesn't seem to be any particular problem
compiling Lua on z/OS (via make posix). As mentioned previously, if you
want to operate on EBCDIC data there might be additional steps you have to
take (might), but
On 30/10/2013 3:01 PM, Timothy Sipples wrote:
I've recently been writing web servers using Lua/Orbit.
From the reports I've read there doesn't seem to be any particular problem
compiling Lua on z/OS (via make posix). As mentioned previously, if you
want to operate on EBCDIC data there might be
On Tue, 29 Oct 2013 14:00:59 +, Martin Packer wrote:
The standard caution is if you're not already running the workload it
won't show up through PROJECTCPU. A good example of this might be IPSec.
That's one aspect - another that has been itching me as I also keep an eye on
these potential
ISPF statistics are only maintained by ISPF and some other utilities (like
PDSMAN and ISPF OPT 3.5). RECFM=U libraries are MVS load libraries (not
ISPF ones) and the directory entry holds some of the module attributes.
ITschak
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:11 PM, nitz-...@gmx.net nitz-...@gmx.net
Erk - I wrote:
...so we see a [TS]CB - thus no projected saving.
Sorry - TCB/SRB.
Shouldn't type whilst watching the World Series game from last night.
Shane ...
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That's one aspect - another that has been itching me as I also keep an eye on
these potential savings is:
is there any software out there that is smart enough to recognise the
presence (absence) of zIIP and alter the entity created for dispatch to match
the environment. So, no zIIP, so we see a
Shane Ginnane wrote:
Sorry - TCB/SRB.
Shouldn't type whilst watching the World Series game from last night.
With or without beer? ;-)
World Series can really gets your attention, so much you can't multitask! ;-)
One way to watch those attention-grabbers during office hours is: some of my
Bob Shannon wrote:
begin extract
I suspect that every product that exploits zIIPs already does this.
Vendors cannot count on zIIPs being installed at customer locations.
If no zIIPs are available, the work must run in TCB mode. Vendor
products can't just terminate if zIIPs aren't available.
/end
The HWNAME value is not surfaced as a system symbol. You would have to
create such a symbol yourself, such as by using the approach that Richard
Peurifoy showed of having a SYSDEF statement for each HWNAME and setting
the symbol that way.
To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a
Dear group,
Not sure if this was already discussed / notified... So for the benefit of
everyone..
The FACILITY class profile BPX.DEFAULT.USER is not supported in z/OS 2.1.
BPX.DEFAULT.USER provides users without OMVS segment a 'temporary' OMVS
segment when USS services are invoked.
So,
In 526fb218.8050...@gmail.com, on 10/29/2013
at 09:03 PM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com said:
I'm guessing that John is referring to UTF-32 or UTF-16 and
subsets would be encodings with fewer bits.
UTF-8 is not a subset. Presumably either he was referring to UCS-2,
which contains only
In 0137612305587011.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on
10/29/2013
at 05:25 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said:
It could be worse than that. How would you compare two strings,
otherwise identical, where the embedded word is, respectively,
My mail reader can't handle UTF-8,
In
caarmm9sj2zww1+wp9znexngtrt8wmvhkwjtfp08_qjpnrpz...@mail.gmail.com,
on 10/29/2013
at 07:21 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net said:
On 28 October 2013 19:36, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote:
The locale-dependent services will treat a string as being in a single
http://www.itworld.com/security/380406/how-your-compiler-may-be-compromising-application-security
quote
Compilers: can’t live with ‘em, can’t live without ‘em - at least not if
you write code for a living. Compilers are great at taking your hand
crafted human-readable program, translating it into
In
CAArMM9Qz9D-E=ormh7zbi3g8e+67janyxk+kmx3fd7mwr2l...@mail.gmail.com,
on 10/29/2013
at 07:27 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net said:
[Listserv decided that my message had already been posted,
It had. I replied to the other copy.
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ISO
Thanks to all..
I now have it working! I modified Dave's program and then called it from batch.
Then I used linkmvs from a REXX to call it for each member that I wanted
processed. No sense
in doing all the string manipulation and file i/o in the assembler program ..
at my age and skill level
If you have not done so, you can join the RACF newsgroup with this URL
http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/racf-l.html
Lizette
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht
Sent: Wednesday, October 30,
W dniu 2013-10-30 13:35, Elardus Engelbrecht pisze:
[...]
This was mentioned since z/OS 1.11 (if I remember correctly) and that
z/OS v1.13 would be the last z/OS which support it. In fact,
BPX.UNIQUE.USER was introduced in z/OS v1.11.
Usually customers have more time to migrate off fading
It's better than that: If there is no zIIP (or zAAP) the work runs just
fine on a GCP. And RMF reports this as zIIP-eligible (or zAAP-eligible)
and it comes out of the GCP headline numbers.
I think there's at least one vendor that does check for a specialty engine
and explicitly takes
Steve,
I've been using SPF/PRO 5.04 for probably over a decade or more. My
experience is the same as yours. When I tried it on WIN 8, it failed to start.
I forget the symptom, but my PC guru, Frank, says, 64-bit WIN8
expressly prohibits 16-bit programs, and SPF/PRO starts up as a
16-bit
Being a Linux bigot (only use Windows at work), I am wondering if there is
any documentation on SPFPRO or other ISPF-like environments. In particular,
do these products emulate all of ISPF or only the ISPF editor? Can the
editor run macros? If so, only REXX or can it use other scripting
facilities
At 10/30/2013 09:40 AM, John McKown wrote:
Being a Linux bigot (only use Windows at work), I am wondering if there is
any documentation on SPFPRO or other ISPF-like environments. In particular,
do these products emulate all of ISPF or only the ISPF editor? Can the
editor run macros? If so, only
I have _no_ desire to obtain SPF/PRO or any other Windows software. I was
just curious how much of ISPF it actually mirrors. Only the editor?
Editor+macros (what macro languages?)? Complete Display Manager?
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Dave Cole dbc...@gmail.com wrote:
At 10/30/2013 09:40
There is a NetworkWorld story which is worth a read revealing some of the
problems. Much thanks to Compuware using some of its Application Performance
Monitoring tools to uncover certain things. It is worth it to click on the
gentleman's Blog for more detail. Of course this is only the
Hello fellow IBM-MAINers!
I'd like to point out a new WSC Techdoc in case you missed it. You can find it
at: http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/PRS5188 .
This Techdoc has instructions on how to use the existing Service Portal
function, MyNotifications, to give you
On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 12:58:52 +0200, Itschak Mugzach wrote:
ISPF statistics are only maintained by ISPF and some other utilities (like
PDSMAN and ISPF OPT 3.5). RECFM=U libraries are MVS load libraries (not
ISPF ones) and the directory entry holds some of the module attributes.
It's certainly
The thing find interesting is if the Affordable Care Act is so good then why
was congress who passed the law were exempted ?
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I have _no_ desire to obtain SPF/PRO or any other Windows software. I was
just curious how much of ISPF it actually mirrors. Only the editor?
Editor+macros (what macro languages?)? Complete Display Manager?
SPF/SE is just an editor. The macro language is a C-like language (not Rexx).
Further
This is pretty old ... Have seen this several times in the past .
And of course...There are bigger fishes to fry :)
On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 6:57 PM, Lizette Koehler
stars...@mindspring.com wrote:
If you have not done so, you can join the RACF newsgroup with this URL
On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:29:27 -0500, John McKown wrote:
http://www.itworld.com/security/380406/how-your-compiler-may-be-compromising-application-security
quote
Compilers: can�t live with �em, can�t live without �em - at least not if
you write code for a living. Compilers are great at taking your
On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 08:38:30 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
Isn't PCRE written in C?
Yes, and that's why I had to provide binaries which is NOT ideal,
because the binaries are IBM1047 specific
What prevents you from testing the locale? Also, isn't gcc available
for z/OS?
So the
On 30/10/2013 9:55 PM, Dave Cole wrote:
At 10/30/2013 09:40 AM, John McKown wrote:
Being a Linux bigot (only use Windows at work), I am wondering if
there is
any documentation on SPFPRO or other ISPF-like environments. In
particular,
do these products emulate all of ISPF or only the ISPF
Thanks for the link, Jim. I am reading through the article now. The first
seriously GLARING problem I see is that It seems they forgot to merge CSS and
JS files together as they are currently loading about 55! Individual
JavaScripts files and 11! Individual CSS files!
I don't know the exact
Usually customers have more time to migrate off fading solution/technique.
Not to mention ISAM or IMBED...
It's a bit more complicated than just migrating to BPX.UNIQUE.USER. You have to
be at AIM (Application identity Mapping ) stage 3 for RACF. However, you can't
convert to AIM 3 if you
On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 11:21:22 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote:
In IBM's implementation I think both the US Spanish and UK English
produce better results than the known-to-be-defective US English
tables.
I know I haven't a great deal of credibility in the z community. But
do you mean that people other
W dniu 2013-10-30 16:27, Mark Zelden pisze:
Usually customers have more time to migrate off fading solution/technique.
Not to mention ISAM or IMBED...
It's a bit more complicated than just migrating to BPX.UNIQUE.USER. You have to
be at AIM (Application identity Mapping ) stage 3 for RACF.
IMO, use of UID(0) for a non-BCP component by a vendor or by IBM is simply
an indication that the software designer is too damn lazy to determine what
access they really need and simply refuse to spend the effort (and money)
to determine which of the UNIXPRIV authorities might actually let them do
Possible answers:
1. The contractors decided that one and two-thirds lines of code were
necessary for each person in the USA.
2. When it is finally working, we can read it and then know what it says.
[paraphrasing Nancy Pelosi's comment that we should first pass the legislation
and then
Modern compilers mostly generate branches to error sinks for
constructs they do not understand|understand as errors.
What are deleted are blocks of 'unreachable' code. Executable source
statements are divided into what have historically been called 'busy
blocks', defined as statement
Long ago there was a reactionary American radio news 'commentator'
named Sokolsky whose views were so consistently wrong that one could,
my father judged, safely defend whatever he attacked and vice versa.
You are not in that category.
John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
I have questions about XCF Groups.
I enter the following command on our production SYSPLEX
D XCF,GROUP
And receive the following output
IXC331I 11.43.28 DISPLAY XCF 060
GROUPS(SIZE):$$TM(3) $DTSDTS6(1)
Hi,
Issue D XCF,GROUP,grpname to get a list of members in the group.
Then you'll have the input you need for the delete utility.
Issue D XCF,GROUP,grpname,ALL to get detailed information about each
of the members in the group.
Mark A. Brooks
z/OS Sysplex design and
Since some of the load times quoted are not also astronomical, it would
appear this is merely ignorant punctuation excess on the part of the
writer intended to convey OMG!, and which should have been eliminated
by a competent editor with an ounce of understanding of mathematical
notation.
Using
Many of you may be unaware that you don't necessarily need to use this site in
order to apply for individual health insurance. Certainly no one that has a
job relevant to IBM-MAIN needs to use it.
You only need to use HealthCare.gov if:
A) You think you qualify for a subsidy (income less than
Before any health care issues are processed, all personal information and data
are first copied to the NSA, the FBI, the CIA, Naval Intelligence, Defense
Communications Agency, DEA, BATFE, etc., except that such information is not
really copied to those agencies if anybody asks about it later.
Thank you for the assistance on Question #1
Does anybody know about Question#2
Question #2.
We will be adding three new LPARs to this production syspex.
Is there something special we have to do to add the LPAR group name or does it
automatically get added when it first
joins the SYSPLEX?
anthony.sambat...@nih.gov (Sambataro, Anthony [E] , NIH/NBS) writes:
I've read that the Obamacare software contains 500 million lines of
code, how can that be?
I thought more like 5m LOC ... but may come to reach $400M-$500M (but
that includes everything not just writing code, but also full
In
of5f4879d8.ef7c6ebe-on48257c14.0023d7b0-48257c14.00269...@sg.ibm.com,
on 10/30/2013
at 03:01 PM, Timothy Sipples sipp...@sg.ibm.com said:
If I could coach a little bit on the Perl conversation within
the open source community, Perl's maintainers seem to be
particularly hung up on EBCDIC
In 2013103055.cad113aeefb80a97d6a04...@gmx.net, on 10/30/2013
at 11:11 AM, nitz-...@gmx.net nitz-...@gmx.net said:
The ISPF user guides are the only books that also call the data
shown for recfm=U data sets 'ISPF statistics'.
Have you submitted an RCF?
Do the RECFM=U statistics also
In
d13168079720cd45a71005fdcc22426f415e3...@retdaymbxp007.legal.regn.net,
on 10/29/2013
at 12:26 PM, Klan, Rob (RET-DAY) rob.k...@reedelsevier.com
said:
Which is the most ISPF like?
ObColdDeadFingers Tritus SPF.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see
In
caodpegr-87jsaybxw-z8ccrnlboqolw62rcjzf5nve3+64m...@mail.gmail.com,
on 10/30/2013
at 12:58 PM, Itschak Mugzach imugz...@gmail.com said:
ISPF statistics are only maintained by ISPF and some other
utilities (like PDSMAN and ISPF OPT 3.5). RECFM=U libraries are
MVS load libraries (not ISPF
In 2349677958380831.wa.dlikensinfosecinc@listserv.ua.edu, on
10/28/2013
at 09:55 PM, Donald Likens dlik...@infosecinc.com said:
STCK time is based on micro seconds.
Well, microseconds in bit 51.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see
Acoustic coupler and no module greater then 64k? Yee-hah
In a message dated 10/30/13 11:55:39 Central Daylight Time, jcew...@acm.org
writes:
with designing a high-volume web site should
be required to test using a 56 Kbs network interface so they would be
forced to give greater
R742JOBM might give you a clue - in RMF XCF Activity data.
Cheers, Martin
Martin Packer,
zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator,
Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM
+44-7802-245-584
email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com
Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker
Blog:
1. The contractors decided that one and two-thirds lines of code were
necessary for each person in the USA.
Easy enough :)
EVALUATE TRUE
WHEN SSN = '1'
WORK-SSN = '1'
...
--
On 2013-10-30 12:18, John Gilmore wrote:
What are deleted are blocks of 'unreachable' code.
Some compilers issue a warning or error message if they encounter
unreachable statements. For example, see messages CCN3472, CCN3520,
CCN6274 and CCN7640 in z/OS V1R13.0 XL C/C++ Messages.
--
Me dummy :-) it's R742MJOB
Martin Packer,
zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator,
Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM
+44-7802-245-584
email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com
Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker
Blog:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker
On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 09:10:03 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
ISPF statistics are only maintained by ISPF and some other
utilities (like PDSMAN and ISPF OPT 3.5). RECFM=U libraries are
MVS load libraries (not ISPF ones)
While that is by far the most common use for RECFM=U, it is not the
At first, aggressive drivers drove faster than the posted speed limit. Then
the police equipped themselves with radar guns to digitize the speed of cars.
Then aggressive drivers got radar detectors in their cars. Then police states
(pun intended) made radar detectors illegal. Now there are,
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote:
deleted
Also, isn't gcc available for z/OS?
http://gccmvs.sourceforge.net/
--
Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA
Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all?
I get those too. Seems like the message is going two different routes
(NSA feed?). Might be interesting to compare the list of IP addresses
in the original the rejected duplicate.
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote:
In
On 10/30/2013 5:37 AM, Shane Ginnane wrote:
Anyone ever figured out why IBM (still) doesn't allow all of the
eligible workload to be dispatched on the zIIP ?
$$
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Edward E Jaffe
Phoenix Software International, Inc
831 Parkview Drive North
El Segundo, CA 90245
On 30/10/2013 10:11 PM, Jim Marshall wrote:
There is a NetworkWorld story which is worth a read revealing some of the
problems. Much thanks to Compuware using some of its Application Performance
Monitoring tools to uncover certain things. It is worth it to click on the
gentleman's Blog for
Thanks Timothy.I get it.
IFL costing across models is more to do with marketing and product positioning.
On Tuesday, 29 October 2013 2:45 PM, Timothy Sipples sipp...@sg.ibm.com wrote:
Bob Shannon writes:
Each book has to have at least one configured PU, so
the minimum configured PUs for the
On 10/30/2013 6:55 PM, Al Sherkow wrote:
Yes, I too have heard of one vendor that checks to see if a zIIP is available
and if not does not setup for the zIIP. So for this vendor and their software
that would use a zIIP they are not included in the eligible time and hence not
in any analysis
Shmuel Metz writes:
...z/OS does require EBCDIC.
It does not (if referring to ported applications), and repeating a
falsehood does not make it any more true.
EBCDIC support is required if and only if there is a requirement to operate
on/with EBCDIC-encoded data. z/OS does not require an
You speak with great authority about this Timothy. Do you have any
real world experience with open source and porting to z/OS?
On 31/10/2013 1:35 PM, Timothy Sipples wrote:
Shmuel Metz writes:
...z/OS does require EBCDIC.
It does not (if referring to ported applications), and repeating a
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