Re: Restore DS8884 firmware without ibm support contract

2022-06-12 Thread Timothy Sipples
Enzo, I think you’ve got two questions, really. The first I can answer: updating the microcode on this class of equipment requires a qualified “chaperone," either on-site or remote. So I’m afraid you can’t just go to a Web site, grab a microcode bundle, and install it. Assuming no microcode

Re: SLIP IF not working

2022-06-12 Thread Seymour J Metz
I would naïvely expect MODE=HOME to cause fewer hit rather than causing more. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Peter Relson [rel...@us.ibm.com] Sent:

Re: ISPF WSA and ISPF Plugin for z/OSMF

2022-06-12 Thread Seymour J Metz
Can you start to a new window as an alternative to a new tab? That was my common use case for WSA. Also, what is performance like? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU]

Re: tape management from BMC

2022-06-12 Thread Timothy Sipples
Jack Zukt wrote: >Between those three, I would say that rmm has an unfriendly user interface, >but I suppose that is just the IBM way. I really liked Control-M ease of >use. CA1 was, and I am sure it still is, a great product, and the >transition to Control-My was easy to do. The transition to rmm

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2022-06-12 Thread Gabe Goldberg
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/22/06/12/0023234/museum-restores-21-rare-videos-from-legendary-1976-computing-conference -- Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. g...@gabegold.com 3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Church, VA 22042 (703) 204-0433 LinkedIn:

Restore DS8884 firmware without ibm support contract

2022-06-12 Thread Enzo D'Amato
Hello. I am a high school student who has recently purchased a z114 mainframe (I have posted about the project before here). I have been working to find CKD storage for my machine, so that I can do a proper z/OS installation. I have an opportunity to acquire a DS8884 storage unit that I know

Re: ISPF WSA and ISPF Plugin for z/OSMF

2022-06-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 12 Jun 2022 16:15:11 -0400, Don Leahy wrote: >Yes, ISPF stats are too easily manipulated to be reliable. I regard them >as a convenience and would not try to use them for serious source control >purposes. > Here, I laud SMP/E for employing relations in a VSAM data base rather than file

Re: ISPF WSA and ISPF Plugin for z/OSMF

2022-06-12 Thread Don Leahy
Yes, ISPF stats are too easily manipulated to be reliable. I regard them as a convenience and would not try to use them for serious source control purposes. On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 12:31 Paul Gilmartin < 042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jun 2022 10:26:38

Re: ISPF WSA and ISPF Plugin for z/OSMF

2022-06-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 12 Jun 2022 10:26:38 -0400, Don Leahy wrote: >It was also aware of ISPF stats, so on a WS to host xfer it could compare >dates and only transfer changed files. > But beware. Timestamps at both ends may be under user control. I have scripts that deliberately change timestamps of some

Re: ISPF WSA and ISPF Plugin for z/OSMF

2022-06-12 Thread Seymour J Metz
I like big screens with lots of open windows. Even though the WSA GUI was clunky and had poor cut-and-paste support, it did let see see multiple ISPF splits concurrently. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe

Re: ISPF WSA and ISPF Plugin for z/OSMF

2022-06-12 Thread Don Leahy
It was also aware of ISPF stats, so on a WS to host xfer it could compare dates and only transfer changed files. It’s always mystified me that the non-GUI functionality supported by WSA never really caught on. The trifling task of installing the WSA.EXE seemed to be too big an obstacle for many