Re: MCA, IIRC that's because IBM wanted to charge an arm and a leg to the other
PC manufacturers to license MCA. I believe NCR did license it and their PCs
were relatively expensive.
Rex
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The troll who said he would stop commenting on here a few months ago? My vote
would be to have his account tagged as restricted from posting.
Rex
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Allan Staller
Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2023 7:16 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LIST
uPnNDHR_xS$
On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 21:19:34 +0000, Pommier, Rex
wrote:
>Hello list,
>
>I'm pretty sure I know what I did wrong and what I must do to fix it, but
>would like validation from the SMP/E gurus here.
>
>DFSMSdss has a module ADRPATCH for activating optional behavi
Hello list,
I'm pretty sure I know what I did wrong and what I must do to fix it, but would
like validation from the SMP/E gurus here.
DFSMSdss has a module ADRPATCH for activating optional behavior. The DFDSS
manual shows the use of AMASPZAP for turning these flags on/off. Very simple
zap
You beat me to it. :-)
Check option 7 (automatic class selection) in ISMF, then take option 5
(display). That should show you what ACS routines are active and where they
came from.
Rex
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Mark Jacobs
Sent: Wednesday
You can't delete the libraries from the active configuration. You need to
determine what SCDS the active configuration was loaded from and delete the
libraries from the SCDS, then validate and activate the modified configuration
from the SCDS. Once you've determined the correct SCDS and delete
Back to "not serious", does your RSU e-mail indicate that you're installing
maintenance from 50 years ago or does it mean IBM is answering the recent
thread asking if z/OS and the mainframe will be obsolete in 10 years?
Rex
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Discussion List On Behalf Of
Pommier, Rex
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2023 10:23 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [EXT] Ars Technica: The IBM mainframe: How it runs
and why it survives
"potential"? :-)
Rex
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From: IBM Mainframe
I assume the library physically doesn't exist anymore?
Go into ISMF, Library Management, tape library and display your active
libraries. Proceed at your own risk but I would guess you can delete the
library from ISMF here and it should stop OAM from complaining about it.
Rex
-Original M
nsition tool that has the potential to turn into a permanent solution.
Robert Crawford
Abstract Evolutions LLC
(210) 913-3822
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Pommier, Rex
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2023 9:39 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re:
And then there's this handy little tool from MacKinney systems called MLI that
allows macro level code to still run in 2023! Was macro code deprecated around
1988?
Rex
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Crawford Robert C (Contractor)
Sent: Wednesday
We still have remnants of IDs from M&A activities. Some of them are a 2
character department followed by 3 random digits, the other is EMP. Not
sure if they used CON for contractors or some other combination of letters
for non-employees.
Rex
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From: IBM Main
My current employer is 3 initials of name (X,Q,0 etc for those who have no
middle name) followed by 4 random digits.
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Phil Smith III
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2023 4:22 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNAL
Yes, typically a task runs as a single TCB, and a TCB can only be dispatched on
a single processor. I don't know if the logger spawns subtasks that could run
on additional CPUs or not.
Rex
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Jason Cai
Sent: Wednesday
Hey all,
I just got this tossed at me by an application developer. Cobol 6.3. Is there
some built-in function or something that they can put into a program to report
out the amount of CPU (TCB) time the program has consumed thus far in execution
of the program? We have a program that process
Bob,
If you see the underscores buried in the URL, all you really need is the stuff
between them to get to the URL. Since it happened to split right before the
second underscore, it worked for you. Just to try it, I dumped the whole link
into notepad and pulled out just the subset between the
Ehhh, I just found my "current" BLSR documentation. GC28-1469 that somebody
already pointed out, MVS/ESA 5.1, June 1994. Guess the old brain cells are
getting foggier than I thought they were.
Rex
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From: Pommier, Rex
Sent: Thursday, July 6, 2023 2:19 P
I activated BLSR at *current job* a few years back. I had used it very
successfully at prior jobs but nobody here had heard of it. I convinced a
couple of the application teams to try it on some heavy hitters and they were
astonished at the difference. At the time I activated it I thought I h
VSAM Demystified has a short (a couple paragraphs) blurb about BLSR as well.
Rex
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Steve Estle
Sent: Thursday, July 6, 2023 12:56 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNAL] What happened to GC26-1672 Batch Loca
Billy,
To answer one of your questions specifically -
While we have been talking here, I have looked, and found some jobs with
//SORTWK01 DD UNIT=(WORK,5)...
and this will not work, is that right, Sri Kolusu? I would only get the first
volume anyway?
You are correct, this will only use the fir
nframes process more transactions now that at any point in
history. And will process more 10 years from now than today.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
On Wednesday, June 28, 2023, 8:53 AM, Pommier, Rex
wrote:
Unfortunately that (pricing) train left the station a long time ago. For
whate
Michael,
Are you planning on eventually going to a full VIPA configuration as
active/active? If not, consider just removing the VIPA configuration, assign
IP addresses to each card, start them both and point your client community to
one of the cards. That was the basic setup I had at a prior
WPS is now Altair.
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Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2023 6:46 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: SAS Replacement
Classification: Confidential
Sounds like bean counters run amuck.
You might
Are you looking at perchance a replacement to MXG in order to get away from the
SAS licensing costs? There was a SAS alternative called "world programming
system" that was ostensibly a drop in replacement to SAS. It got bought out by
Altair in 2021. I played with it probably 15 years ago and
Brian,
Not to be picky, but what point is being missed? Who are you responding to?
This thread took off in a couple different directions and there is no context
to your comment.
Rex
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Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: z/OSMF
On Tue, 27 Jun 2023 13:35:47 +0000, Pommier, Rex
wrote:
>We're running a 2-way, 316 MSU machine and my business customers would squawk
>loudly if I had to move our workload to a 4 way with no more horsepower. We
>have several single-thr
On Behalf Of
Andrew Rowley
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2023 5:37 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: z/OSMF
On 27/06/2023 11:35 pm, Pommier, Rex wrote:
> If a company is using a 20 MSU system and is forced to buy a 200 MSU system
> because that's the smallest availa
Seems to me that a "use case" in this situation would be simply a comparison of
pros and cons of upgrading. Part of it would simply be a business case of why
the upgrade should happen, part could be more of a "here are the enhancements
in the upgraded software and here is how our company could
Sorry, finger check that went unnoticed. Ours is a 216 MSU machine, not 316.
Rex
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From: Pommier, Rex
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2023 8:36 AM
To: 'IBM Mainframe Discussion List'
Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: z/OSMF
If a company is using a 20 MSU system and is
If a company is using a 20 MSU system and is forced to buy a 200 MSU system
because that's the smallest available, unless something drastic happens to
hardware AND software pricing, the company isn't going to be looking for "what
else can I put on this expensive and woefully underutilized machin
IBM has their IPL CPU boost function. Maybe they could somehow flag zOSMF to
speed up the processor while it's running so as to not kill the small machine?
Rex
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Brian Westerman
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2023 11:46 PM
T
Frank,
The whole 'back door' idea comes from the fact that you have shared DASD
between prod and test, separate RACF databases between them. The UID really
doesn't play much of a part here since it's your UID on both sides. The
concern (rightfully so) is that test boxes and test RACF database
Hi Frank,
The short answer is 'yes, you can have the same UID across LPARs/RACF
environments'. Longer answer is that it may not be as easy as you'd like
depending on how your RACF environments are set up. There are several RACF
FACILITY class profiles (like BPX.NEXT.USER and BPX.UNIQUE.USER)
I resemble that remark! Been in z/OS since the MVS 2.1.7 days. Due to a
buyout several years ago it was decided we had too many z/OS people so I was
magically transformed overnight to an IDMS DBA. You can imagine how well that
worked out. :-)
Rex
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GIYF...
Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), when observing daylight saving time
(spring/summer), are four hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−04:00).
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Seymour J Metz
Sent: Tuesday, June 6, 2023 7:27 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LI
2 Jun 2023 16:39:30 +0000, Pommier, Rex wrote:
>
>What about things like tapetools? Do I need to be concerned whether my TS7760
>libraries or my DS8910F disk arrays have these certs embedded in them in order
>to send diagnostic information to IBM (if needed)? I have no visibility int
Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Dana Mitchell
Sent: Friday, June 2, 2023 11:23 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: IBM download server root CA change
On Fri, 2 Jun 2023 15:55:47 +0000, Pommier, Rex wrote:
>Hi list,
>
>I'm a bit perplexed about this c
Hi list,
I'm a bit perplexed about this certificate change. Kurt gave us ample warning
about the SMP/E changes (thanks, Kurt). I also got a red alert telling me of
the impending change. In addition, I got an e-mail earlier this week from the
tapetools folks telling us that TT will start usin
Very true - and that isn't just Windows. MS Office anyone? It seems like
every new release they tape the user interface icons and menu items to scrabble
pieces, then give them a good shake in a hat, pulling them out randomly to
build the next user interface. OK, it isn't that bad but they do
Really? I just looked at my z/OS SCDS (2.4). Definitely a PDS structure and
here's what it looks like:
Name
.G.3
.GXc'...
../.
.Z7X>...
_{..
_...
nGXc=...
Rex
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Seymour J Metz
Sent: Tuesday
Tom,
I have gotten the privilege of reinstalling 2 Windows machines in the past year
that were so messed up from failed installs/updates that it was easier to just
low level the hard drive and start over. Could I have fixed 1 or both of them?
I don't really know, because Microsoft has hidden
Hi all,
I have a question about routing FTP traffic. First a bit about the
environment. Z14-zr1 with (2) 1-GbE OSA adapters shared across 3 LPARs. The 2
adapters are not in a VIPA configuration. Right now on this LPAR, only 1 of
the adapters is defined to TCP/IP. I can easily get the secon
Bob,
I think what it means is that you will only "suffer" .3 seconds of application
outage in a year. Of course that means you have a fully redundant SYSPLEX set
up with duplicated everything such that when you do have to bring down a CEC,
the application workload is pushed to a different node
+1
Rex Pommier
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Charles Mills
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2023 5:06 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Are you serious about wanting a better IBM doc RCF-type
process?
For those who have not been following
... watch out ... be wary of the folks who mislabel it "Linux for z/OS".
Even with more than 20 years of "Linux for Z", there are still many people out
there who cannot separate z/OS the operating system from Z hardware.
-- R; <><
On 5/22/23 10:40, Pommier, Rex wrot
Hi Bob,
Linux on Z and OMVS are 2 completely different animals. OMVS is an integral
part of z/OS (try running TCP/IP without it for example). zLinux is a
completely separate operating system, running in an LPAR or on top of VM just
like another OS image. Another difference is that OMVS (as p
Hopefully this comes thru with the URLs intact.
From: IBM Announcement Letters mailto:g...@us.ibm.com>>
Sent: Tuesday, May 9, 2023 11:00 AM
To: Pommier, Rex mailto:rpomm...@sfgmembers.com>>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] IBM United States Announcement Letters
This message contains graphics. I
ginal Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Tuesday, May 9, 2023 12:26 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: IBM announcement letter summary
On Tue, 9 May 2023 16:56:56 +0000, Pommier, Rex wrote:
>...
>
>This weekly e-mail co
t the process elsewhere. Or maybe they
"released" everyone who knew anything about it.
IMO, IBM doesn't really care about that much about z anymore.
Neither do I. I'll be playing with Linux on Intel when I get kicked to the curb
(kerb) come 1 aug 2023.
On Tue, May 9, 2023,
Why, IBM? Was sending out an announcement letter summary that taxing on your
limited resources that you had to eliminate this convenience for your customers?
Instead of the normal Tuesday announcement letter summary I got this:
This weekly e-mail communication is now sunset. You can find the w
I see a problem with this scenario. It appears to me that there is a call (not
necessarily by Shmuel) to potentially have JES2 wait for OMVS to be up before
it does its startup (or at least completes the startup). Due to a
self-inflicted screw-up on one of our LPARs, OMVS decided it had to do
We're using Automon from Macro4 and it has that capability as well.
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kekronbekron
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2023 10:34 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: IOF End of Support Direction.
Phoenix Sof
I would say Tubes would be vital to a production system - it is a 3270 session
manager.
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Beverly Caldwell
Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2023 7:46 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: ABEND S0C1 start TUB
That doesn't matter. We run a z14 at the home office and have a z15 at DR and
DR comes up just fine.
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Mark Jacobs
Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2023 6:25 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: ABEND S0C1 st
Thanks, all, for your suggestions. It is as I feared/figured. ISPF edit
doesn't have any mechanism to actually search for information in =NOTE= or
==MSG> lines without converting them to full data lines.
Rex
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Horne
Hi Colin,
I'm assuming they/you mean the userID that runs the (ftp like) daemon process,
not users that are sending/receiving datasets. I have a note that I wrote to
myself 6 years ago that said that the userID that runs IBM's FTPD daemon
requires UID(0). I don't know if that's still the case
ctive, then we must never avert our eyes
from those elements in it which seem puzzling or repellent; for it will be
precisely the puzzling or the repellent which conceals what we do not yet know
and need to know. -CS Lewis, "The Weight of Glory" */
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From: IBM Mai
Hello list,
Yes, this is an ISPF question but I don't know of anybody in the z/OS world
that doesn't use ISPF - and I don't know if the ISPF list (if it is still
operational) has much traffic. So here goes.
Running certain ISPF macros and/or commands, we get lines added to the ISPF
edit scre
Enzo,
Knowing nothing about the internal workings of the TS77xx boxes I should
probably keep my mouth shut but I don't think this is a good idea. Where does
the TS keep metadata on the virtual volumes? Is there a db2 or other database
holding pointers to the virtual volumes? Will internal li
Here's a different take on AI taking over and wiping out humanity. Last month
an AI chatbox allegedly convinced a Belgian man to commit suicide after
convincing him that if he "sacrificed himself", the chatbox could save mankind
from climate change. Obviously the guy had other issues but someb
Gadi,
Gary presented this (presumably) same material in the US on March 21.
Unfortunately I don't have the replay information. Perhaps somebody can
provide you that information.
Rex
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Gadi Ben-Avi
Sent: Thursday, Mar
Bill,
Just a word of caution on the SMPPTSn spill datasets. Once you create them you
have to keep them in sequence with no gaps. For example if you end up with
SMPPTS1-4 (in addition to SMPPTS), and you later notice that SMPPTS2 is empty,
don't just delete it. SMP/E stops looking for additio
Are you sure this is a program and not the result of a cat dancing a jig on
your keyboard? LOL
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Schmitt, Michael
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 9:41 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Stop the raggin
ssion List On Behalf Of
Mike Schwab
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2023 5:05 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Stop the ragging on COBOL please
JCL COND is similar to an assembler branch, skip if true.
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 5:01 PM Pommier, Rex wrote:
>
> That's
Bill,
I've done both and for myself personally, I found it easier to have them
completely separate. One reason for this is that I can easily clone my system
and SMP/E environment onto a separate set of volumes and play with it. If I
completely hork up the install I can just restore the volume
simplify the tax code, 2000-04-09 */
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Pommier, Rex
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2023 16:18
Using my most basic definition of a computer language - it's a list of commands
that can be saved to run it multiple times just by
-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Pommier, Rex
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2023 16:29
Sorry, I'm going to "rag" on a language... :-) Admittedly I know next to
nothing about it. My exposure to it consists of reading an article where
somebody took a 14 lin
uldn't (well back in the 1990s). I
wonder if that is still true.
Back to enjoying this thread. :)
Steve Thompson
On 3/27/2023 4:17 PM, Pommier, Rex wrote:
> Using my most basic definition of a computer language - it's a list of
> commands that can be saved to run it multiple tim
Sorry, I'm going to "rag" on a language... :-) Admittedly I know next to
nothing about it. My exposure to it consists of reading an article where
somebody took a 14 line JCL job and converted it to JOL and the JOL code ended
up somewhere around 70+ lines plus comments to explain what the prog
Using my most basic definition of a computer language - it's a list of commands
that can be saved to run it multiple times just by invoking the list name, then
both JCL and CLIST are languages (as is HTML), and both have redeeming
qualities. How many of you (hypothetically) are running JCL "dec
We did... Had several discussions on TRUNC and various other options in the
compiler/runtime. Plenty of heartburn.
Rex
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Steve Thompson
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2023 12:27 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTER
I just sent you an e-mail (2 actually). Did you get them?
Rex
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Michael Watkins
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2023 3:55 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNAL] DITTO/ESA V1R3 User’s Guide, SH19-8221
DITTO/ESA V1
Charles, I can only speak for the couple sites I've worked at but when IBM gave
us the choice of HTTPS or secure FTP, we jumped to HTTPS and never looked back.
I'm guessing most other sites did similar.
Rex
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Charles M
I actually learned it as 'kicks' from an IBM class waaa back in the 1.7
days! That was how the instructors referred to it.
Rex
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bob
Bridges
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2023 2:34 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject:
Robin and Barbara,
Interesting. My 2.4 system looks a lot like Robin's.
Prod2:RRP:/usr/lpp/hzc/lib: # ls -l
total 4560
drwxr-xr-x 2 BPXROOT AOPOPER 8192 Sep 25 2019 IBM
-rwxr-xr-x 2 BPXROOT
commination coherent if I am to get the answers I need.
Please let me know how this response comes thru to you.with the rest of the
thread, or not?
thanks
Bill
On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 16:50:28 +, Pommier, Rex
wrote:
>Thanks, Matthew.
>
>Bill, if my initial post asking you to stop del
lr2sSEsiF-TbO09xxofw$
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of
Pommier, Rex [rpomm...@sfgmembers.com]
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2023 10:51 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Bad backup stories (was: Re: Ransomware in VSAM and
DB2)
My turn.
My turn. :-)
BUNCH computer back in mid '80s. No tape on it so backups were removable disk
to removable disk. Director was too cheap to spring for tape drives/media and
also decided we didn't need to back up load modules because "if we lose one we
can just recompile it". Part of a bigger
Thanks, Matthew.
Bill, if my initial post asking you to stop deleting the context came across as
rude, I apologize. I didn't mean it that way, I didn't realize the listserv
web site automatically whacked the earlier parts of the thread by default.
Rex
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From: IBM M
Bill,
And your post doesn't make sense to anybody. Please stop stripping all the
context from your posts.
Rex
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Bill Giannelli
Sent: Thursday, March 9, 2023 4:20 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re
Hi Rob and Terri,
I'll weigh in here from the opposite end of the spectrum. From my POV, z/OSMF
is nothing but overhead for us. We have a very small system. 2 LPARs, no
sysplex, nothing difficult about it. We build a new OS on one of them and
clone it to the other and we're done. All z/OSM
;)
>> has up to 190 general processors while the z15-T02("BC") is limited
>> to 6. It
goes
>> back to the number of possible drawers on the CEC.
>>
>> Traditionally, the BC machines have many more sub capacity settings
>> compared with EC. You can
Barbara,
Can you actually log onto ShopZ? I get the "welcome to ShopZ" and am able to
log in, but once logged in is when I get the page not found error.
Rex
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Barbara Nitz
Sent: יום ב 06 מרץ 2023 10:19
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: S
Hi Kurt,
Will there be more announcements, saying the new IPs and DNS entries are in
place and when the old ones will be shut off?
Thanks,
Rex
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Kurt J. Quackenbush
Sent: Wednesday, March 1, 2023 12:25 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@
IBM dropped the EC/BC nomenclature, much to my chagrin. I'm guessing I'm not
the only one that still refers to the big one as the EC and the smaller sibling
as the BC, even though IBM doesn't.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom
Brennan
Sent: Thur
I think this may have been discussed before, but I just read (reread maybe) the
article mentioned. Uhh, sure, let's take a 14 line job and change it to a 60+
line (without blank lines added for clarity) python script.
My eye caught this gem of a paragraph toward the end of the article.
Now w
Actually IBM supports this and has a model of the DS8910F that is designed to
fit in the 16U of free space in the BC z14 and z15 machines.
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Paul Gorlinsky
Sent: Thursday, March 2, 2023 8:53 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.ED
And IIRC, the Hollerith company who invented the tabulating machine that
counted the census was one of the 3 smaller companies that merged into what
became IBM. So yeah, the writers played a bit fast and loose with the early
history...
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IIRC they use the same regional breakouts for Z, I, P, and when they had it, X
series machines.
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Tony Harminc
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2023 11:33 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: z/OS 3.1 Anno
ebruary 27, 2023 5:58 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Silly JES2 question
On Mon, 27 Feb 2023, at 23:09, Pommier, Rex wrote:
> We have COMMAND=EXECUTE on a couple job classes.
Do you limit who can use those classes?
Does anything (RACF or whatever) limit which co
We have COMMAND=EXECUTE on a couple job classes.
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Jeremy Nicoll
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2023 5:05 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Silly JES2 question
On Mon, 27 Feb 2023, at 22:48, Steve Smith
19 PM, Pommier, Rex wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a silly question that I'm pretty sure I know the answer to but want
> verification in case there's some obscure reason for having this. We have
> multiple batch job steps that close and open CICS files within the JCL.
That's what I was thinking. We have no exits looking for it.
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Steve Smith
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2023 4:49 PM
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Silly JES2 question
Looks to me as useless as the tr
Hi all,
I have a silly question that I'm pretty sure I know the answer to but want
verification in case there's some obscure reason for having this. We have
multiple batch job steps that close and open CICS files within the JCL. They
look similar to this:
//STEP010 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER
Your comments are worth much more than $.01. What these point-and-click
developers are rapidly forgetting is that all their gui is doing is
(predominantly) hiding the fact that the gui is just populating config files
somewhere on the back end. What happens when the gui breaks and they have no
Ignore my last question - you just answered it.
Rex
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Pommier, Rex
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2023 4:30 PM
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Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: SCRT and not operating LPAR
Hi Radoslaw,
I'
Activated but not IPLed LPAR. I had discussion with my
coworker and that's why I'm asking about it.
Regards
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
W dniu 23.02.2023 o 23:09, Pommier, Rex pisze:
> With all due respect, I have to disagree. Granted I haven't had to make any
> explanat
I just double-checked the latest report I submitted with comments added to my
mainframe CSV file, and the comments are on the report on the LMS site.
Rex
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Pommier, Rex
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2023 4:10 PM
To
SMF IDs. Now it's the opposite - any SMF loss causes explanations requirement,
but SMF ID need not to be unique any longer.
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
W dniu 23.02.2023 o 21:33, Pommier, Rex pisze:
> Hi John,
>
> Actually I think you remembered right the first time. :-)
Hi John,
Actually I think you remembered right the first time. :-) When our sandbox is
down for an extended period, I get the "(required)" in the CSV file as well. I
just change "(required)" with "LPAR down for refresh" or whatever reason the
LPAR isn't reporting SMF data and then send the C
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