Re: When DB2 V10 sits around the house...

2014-01-01 Thread Timothy Sipples
If you haven't already, please take a look at this summary of techniques to minimize the amount of storage (memory) that DB2 10 for z/OS uses: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/dzichelp/v2r2/topic/com.ibm.db2z10.doc.perf/src/tpc/db2z_improverealvirtualstorageuse.htm Please note that that

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2014-01-01 Thread Scott Ford
Happy New Year to all the great people who frequent this listserv Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

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2014-01-01 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Scott Ford wrote: Happy New Year to all the great people who frequent this listserv Too late. The year is old and gray and is nearing expiring. ;-D You have 364 days left to rectify this. ;-D Thanks very much for your kind message. I hope you and other IBM-MAIN members have also a great

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2014-01-01 Thread Scott Ford
Elardus, Yeah, your 8 hrs ahead in SA Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On Jan 1, 2014, at 12:08 PM, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za wrote: Scott Ford wrote: Happy New Year to all the great people who frequent

Check out Top 10 Strategic Technologies | Gartner

2014-01-01 Thread Ed Finnell
_Top 10 Strategic Technologies | Gartner_ (http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/top-10-technology-trends/) We'll see how this goesHave a Happy -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - YouTube

2014-01-01 Thread Warren Brown
Actually, there was a desktop computer called GENIAC which came out in 1955.  Quite crude but it worked fine.  I got an unmolested one off ebay about a year ago.  I first saw one when I was an IBM CE in the sixties. Heathkit had an analog computer in 1956.  Again I got one off ebay two years

Re: IODF Channel Assignment

2014-01-01 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2013-12-31 15:26, Dazzo, Matt pisze: We have a new IBM DS8870 that I have to define to the IODF. We are going to have (16) 2107 type LCU's controllers and about 3k total devices defined to those 16 LCU's. We also have 16 FICON channels available to use, I was thinking about defining 8

Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx]

2014-01-01 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
PMFJI here, but IMHO the pipeline paradigm, though obviously powerful and useful, is not the major advantage of VM and CMS over z/OS and TSO for developers, Rexx or otherwise. Rather, I would argue that it is the even more the powerful concept of DVM's, Disconnected Virtual Machines, and the

Re: Maximum Capacity Feature

2014-01-01 Thread R.S.
Yes, both numbers apply to uncompressed capacity. However the difference between 8.0 and 8.5 comes from the Maximum Capacity Feature. In my understanding (I've just read about it a little) the feature is resignation of some buffers which allows to fill more data on the cart. As far as I

Re: Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx]

2014-01-01 Thread Scott Ford
Peter, Totally agree with you, worked VM for a long time. Liked all of its features..still do.. Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On Jan 1, 2014, at 2:23 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 peter.far...@broadridge.com wrote: PMFJI here, but

Re: Check out Top 10 Strategic Technologies | Gartner

2014-01-01 Thread Aled Hughes
Personally, never held much store on anything that Gartner ever said or commented on since the mid-80s. I doubt if they know what a 'mainframe' is or can do these days. On that note, I wish y'all a 'Blwyddyn Newydd Dda' as we say in Wales. -Original Message- From: Ed Finnell

Re: ¢† One day , a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - YouTube

2014-01-01 Thread Randy Hudson
In article p06240802cee6934cf57b@[192.168.1.11], Robert A. Rosenberg IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU wrote: [Arthur C Clarke] also invented/predicted the synchronous satellite being used for communications. I saw a picture of him at a Science Fiction Convention wearing a T-Shirt which read I

Re: Check out Top 10 Strategic Technologies | Gartner

2014-01-01 Thread Ed Finnell
Yeah, well it was more of talking points than twerking and jerking on other top trends feeds. Probably mobile, 3d printing and robotics are at top of list of things to watch. Saw that NASA is using 3d print for replacement parts and food. They're also using Nexus tablets for short lived

Re: Check out Top 10 Strategic Technologies | Gartner

2014-01-01 Thread Scott Ford
Ed, I be willing to bet there are a lot of specialized computers with a lot of horsepower and memory we know nothing about as US Citizens. Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On Jan 1, 2014, at 2:57 PM, Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com wrote:

Re: Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx]

2014-01-01 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 1 Jan 2014 14:23:58 -0500, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: Rather, I would argue that it is the even more the powerful concept of DVM's, Disconnected Virtual Machines, and the resulting ability for even ordinary application developers, not just sysprogs, ... Are you suggesting that I, as

Vacancy - WashDC area - z/VM zLinux Sysprog

2014-01-01 Thread Jim Marshall
Vacancy Announcement – z/VM zLinux Systems Programmer I am helping a local software company locate a z/VM Linux Systems Programmer needed in the Arlington, VA area. This firm will hire the person as an employee to work on a US Government contract with 3 years to go. The firm has contracts

Re: Major, Minor CDE

2014-01-01 Thread Peter Relson
I doing it from the outside XMEM I do not know what that means, but guessing that you mean that you are trying to access another address space's data from yours while within a work unit of yours, that in general is not possible. You cannot reliably access another address space by cross-memory

Re: Major, Minor CDE

2014-01-01 Thread Micheal Butz
Thank you :) code worked Thanks again ill do a sysevent From memory I think I may have to may have to do it by scheduling. SRB Sent from my iPhone On Jan 1, 2014, at 6:18 PM, Peter Relson rel...@us.ibm.com wrote: I doing it from the outside XMEM I do not know what that means, but

Re: IODF Channel Assignment

2014-01-01 Thread Mike Schwab
The total number of paths must be kept at 256 or less. With 2 cascading directors: (LPAR - CNTRL1) * (CNTRL1 - CNTRL2) * (CNTRL2 - DASD). 4 * 8 * 8 would be 256. With a single director 16 * 16 is possible but not usually needed. On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Dazzo, Matt mda...@pch.com wrote:

Re: Check out Top 10 Strategic Technologies | Gartner

2014-01-01 Thread Mike Schwab
More than a 24 bit IBM mainframe. On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com wrote: Yeah, well it was more of talking points than twerking and jerking on other top trends feeds. Probably mobile, 3d printing and robotics are at top of list of things to watch. Saw that NASA

Re: Check out Top 10 Strategic Technologies | Gartner

2014-01-01 Thread Ed Gould
DITTO On Jan 1, 2014, at 1:34 PM, Aled Hughes wrote: Personally, never held much store on anything that Gartner ever said or commented on since the mid-80s. I doubt if they know what a 'mainframe' is or can do these days. On that note, I wish y'all a 'Blwyddyn Newydd Dda' as we say in

Invoking CSVLLIX1

2014-01-01 Thread MichealButz
Hi, I have coded LIBRARIES with a MEMBER in CSVLLA00 of the module I would like to monitor I start LLA LLA=00 Then in a program I have the following CSVDSYNEX macro invocations However CSVLLIX1 never gets invoked * CSVDYNEX

Re: Invoking CSVLLIX1

2014-01-01 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 22:14 -0500 on 01/01/2014, MichealButz wrote about Invoking CSVLLIX1: I have coded LIBRARIES with a MEMBER in CSVLLA00 of the module I would like to monitor I start LLA LLA=00 Then in a program I have the following CSVDSYNEX macro invocations However CSVLLIX1 never gets invoked [snip]

how to get XM(cross memory) jobs on zOS

2014-01-01 Thread lltvw
Dear list, Thanks for your help. I am wondering to how to get the jobs using XM on zOS, i think maybe some tools can do this job, thanks -- 发自我的网易邮箱手机智能版 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: Local Page dataset sizing/quantity ROT?

2014-01-01 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
I agree, overall sizing is a minor issue: make sure there is enough, what does 100GB more cost these days? The more important issue is parallelism. Make sure ASM can do mass page outs if it needs to. Page in should not be your problem I suppose. This brings in the missing info: what is your