ou; you're much better at it than
I am.
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the balloon goes up it won't matter how unlikely the particular failure mode
was.
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S
W dniu 08.07.2020 o 00:40, Grant Taylor pisze:
On 7/7/20 8:52 AM, R.S. wrote:
Few words about RAID:
RAID is more reliable than single disk. Assuming same reliablity of
disk used in RAID.
That starts to get questionable when you have more and more disks in a
RAID array.
That's why you
.
On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 2:52 PM R.S. wrote:
Disclaimer: I HAVE NEVER SAID THAT.
RAID is fallible. Everything is fallible.
I used RAID rhetorically, just as example of "pretty good".
And even then I urged to make backups.
Few words about RAID:
RAID is more reliable than single disk. Ass
oslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
W dniu 07.07.2020 o 17:09, Jackson, Rob pisze:
Settle down, R.S. I was agreeing with you, and I certainly wasn't putting
words in your mouth.
TS7740 definitely wasn't "cheap." Obviously it was flawed.
I _think_ our TS7760s are described as RAID-S. I f
I would say it is not because of extra workload, but rather result of
some "epidemic" - the reason which caused first drive failure also
somehow affect other drives. Last, but not least array controler
(electronics) is also suspected.
My €0.02
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Lodz, Poland
W dniu
W dniu 07.07.2020 o 16:52, Edward Finnell pisze:
1200lbs Semtex make you realize what backups are for and where is your cold
site?
In a message dated 7/7/2020 9:37:20 AM Central Standard Time,
rwjack...@firsthorizon.com writes:
R.S. is spot on: make backups. Because of the trauma from
ok tape for granted. It was astonishing how much of our processing depended
on it.
R.S. is spot on: make backups. Because of the trauma from this one event, we
now have a three-way VTS grid, synchronous-mirrored SANs, and two mainframes on
the floor.
First Horizon Bank
Mainframe Technical Suppo
Just curious: how big is the user base of SuperWylbur?
And how many of them treat it as more like a hobby?
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Jeśli nie jesteś adresatem tej wiadomości:
- powiadom nas o tym w mailu
It it feasible. However using PS files on tape you loose many DFSMS
facilities including backup, MC features (when to delete, how many
backup versions), replication is possible, but it's not DASD remote copy
(and no consistency between VTS and DASD), etc.
Also no sharing for input. And many
W dniu 07.07.2020 o 07:28, Timothy Sipples pisze:
Radoslaw Skorupka wrote:
I forgot something obvious for me: NEVER USE TAPES FOR APPLICATION
DATA. No jobs should write or read tapes.
Nothing except backup and restore and (optionally) ML2. Managed by
HSM or FDR. Some excepions for archive
s that any different from having it all on
DASD?
- KB
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐
On Monday, July 6, 2020 4:25 PM, R.S. wrote:
I forgot something obvious for me: NEVER USE TAPES FOR APPLICATION DATA.
No jobs should write or read tapes.
Nothing except backup and restore and (optionally) ML
W dniu 04.07.2020 o 19:12, Peter pisze:
Hello Group
Apology for being ignorant.
Is there a formula or any constraints for initialising a specific dasd Mod ?
How do arrive to a specific vtoc and index value while initialising a dasd ?
Please help me to understand
There is no formula. No
shining tape. Migration
from older tape is no nightmare at all. It is simple.
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W dniu 06.07.2020 o 12:49, R.S. pisze:
W dniu 05.07.2020 o 14:12, kekronbekron pisze:
Hello List,
Just wondering ... assuming there's a primary storage product out
there that can
W dniu 05.07.2020 o 14:12, kekronbekron pisze:
Hello List,
Just wondering ... assuming there's a primary storage product out there that
can store how-many-ever hoo-haa-bytes, and is a good product in general, it
should make sense to begin eliminating all tape (3490/3590) use right?
First, ML1
W dniu 02.07.2020 o 20:13, Tom Conley pisze:
On 7/2/2020 2:06 PM, Kirk Wolf wrote:
How about the original question -
Is there a way to unload from a PDS the "group" (name plus aliases)
for a
given member name and reload it to another PDS ?
Kirk,
If you don't have it already, you should
. If there are people such as you described, they are certainly not the
ones criticizing IBM's licensing policies on this list.
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R.S
W dniu 03.07.2020 o 13:36, Seymour J Metz pisze:
The problem is not in the money, not only here.
Speak for yourself. Others are more honest, and the problem *is* the money.
Maybe you've never had to live on a budget, but for some of us $5K is not chump
change.
Speak for yourself. Others may
W dniu 02.07.2020 o 23:51, Tony Thigpen pisze:
I am seeing some DS8000s where a mod-27 is defined as 30051 cylinders.
I am seeing other sites were the mod-27 is defined with 32760 cylinders.
I know the architectural limit of a mod-27 is 32760 cylinders, but if
you work with multiples of mod-1
W dniu 03.07.2020 o 07:34, Brian Westerman pisze:
How much would a hobbyist pay for a Harley, a really nice drone, or some of the
other expensive hobbies. People pay upwards of $1K a year for a new phone. I
did get a discount on that, but I suppose you are correct, if you can't justify
the
at?"
How about ... and IBM builds in things to the next release of z/os that
make it completely impossible for it to run on Hercules? Or z/VM? or z/VSE?
Joe
On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 6:33 AM R.S. wrote:
And what?
I can subscribe to IBM-MAIN using John Doe and some anonymous email.
Will they t
W dniu 02.07.2020 o 16:39, Clark Morris pisze:
[Default] On 2 Jul 2020 02:13:34 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl (R.S.) wrote:
snip
BTW: As a mainframe bigot I sometimes am forced to explain why so old
things are still in use. Yes, z14 or z15 is veery old
W dniu 01.07.2020 o 20:57, Frank Swarbrick pisze:
Thanks Tim.
I can't imagine being comfortable writing new code, at least, for a compiler
that has not been updated in 35 years, but maybe that's just me.
Now that we know what languages are still supported, I am still curious if
anyone out
W dniu 01.07.2020 o 14:53, David Crayford pisze:
On 2020-07-01 8:26 PM, John McKown wrote:
And what?
I can subscribe to IBM-MAIN using John Doe and some anonymous email.
Will they track the IP from Joh Doe sent the message?
Using TOR (The Onion Router), it would be very difficult to get to
14/15
records?
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W dniu
And what?
I can subscribe to IBM-MAIN using John Doe and some anonymous email.
Will they track the IP from Joh Doe sent the message?
IBM is aware of illegal users of Hercules + some current OS. They also
know a lot of Hercules users are IBMers.
No, it is nothing pro and against Hercules,
W dniu 30.06.2020 o 21:53, PINION, RICHARD W. pisze:
We are attempting, on our QA LPAR, to use the SMS DC attributes,
Data Set Name Type . . . . . : EXTENDED
If Extended . . . . . . . . : PREFERRED
Extended Addressability . . : YES
for all of our sequential data sets. Of several
Every console can receive a message. Every console may be used to REPLY,
however SYSCON is handicapped - it cannot be used for RACF-related tasks
since it does not support LOGON.
Any other console like OSA-ICC or legacy 3270 box attached to 3174
channel attached, or VTAM console, or SYSG
This is good thing to start, but it is part of the story.
It covers new datasets and ...do nothing for existing ones.
For batch datasets you should also copy them to move them to new volumes.
Things get more complex for database files, however those datasets can
be moved without and outage (vast
26, 2020 10:05 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNAL] DASD migration -- Re: Hitachi RAID box going out of support
On 6/26/20 3:16 AM, R.S. wrote:
3. 18 months is close to half of typical service contract for new dasd
array. Still we don't know how sure is 18 months - maybe it would be
3
W dniu 26.06.2020 o 17:04, Grant Taylor pisze:
On 6/26/20 3:16 AM, R.S. wrote:
3. 18 months is close to half of typical service contract for new
dasd array. Still we don't know how sure is 18 months - maybe it
would be 36 months? Even 12 months means the dasd array would have
some residual
herwise). How else could we have added the additional memory without
act/deact?
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 3:54 AM R.S. wrote:
No, you did not that way.
Probably you added some memory to LPAR profile, but this is not an LPAR
itself. It is LPAR definition which is used during LPAR activation. Fo
W dniu 17.06.2020 o 22:35, Steely.Mark pisze:
Anyone on this list have experience upgrading Compuware ISPW from v17 to v18?
Is there a listserv for Compuware and / or ISPW ?
What problem do you have?
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Lodz, Poland
W dniu 17.06.2020 o 20:09, Frank Swarbrick pisze:
What FTP client do you use to access MVS data sets? Do you like it?
I personally use the FTP Client that is part of Micro Focus (formerly
Attachmate) Reflection Desktop for IBM (Reflection Workspace). Being an
application suite dedicated to
W dniu 25.06.2020 o 21:57, Nightwatch RenBand pisze:
We have a 10 year old Hitachi RAID box which Hitachi tells us is going out
of support. Only two applications are left of the old z9 machine but they
are critical. Latest estimate from programmers is that they will migrate
off in 12 to 18
show. We had to deactivate the LPAR and reactivate it
to add the memory.This was on a z14-ZR1 with z/OS 2.3.
On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 5:31 AM R.S. wrote:
W dniu 23.06.2020 o 02:07, Charles Mills pisze:
Today is real storage day. Sorry for the elementary questions.
The folks that o
W dniu 23.06.2020 o 02:07, Charles Mills pisze:
Today is real storage day. Sorry for the elementary questions.
The folks that own the box as a whole have added memory to our LPAR. Do we
need to IPL to pick that up in z/OS, or is there a command or similar
process? I thought I heard at a SHARE
Well, I also worked for Volvo. In Poland, Wrocław.
Hint: Volvo is swedish company, but they also have Renault trucks.
So, polish guys in Wrocław worked on swedish terminal emulator to
connect to french mainframes with french messages from some exits
(ridiculous IMHO). Polish guys called it
W dniu 12.06.2020 o 00:34, Christian Svensson pisze:
Hi,
A bit of a niche question maybe, but this list usually enjoys those!
I need to move my z114, and sadly I don't have the possibility of
inspecting it physically right now. I was wondering if anyone knows if it
is possible to reduce the
Well...
The only country I can imagine such approach is France.
I don't know Japan, so I cannot say.
However I met mainrame people from South America and they told me they
orderd and use English documentation due to quality (Spanish doco is
horrible - they said).
I have never heard about such
W dniu 12.06.2020 o 12:59, Seymour J Metz pisze:
Well, if they come from a world where there is no messages manual, it may not
occur to them to RTFM; that should be part of their initial training, but we
all know how generous education budgets are these days.
I teach mainframe courses in
Well, I wrote an article on my internal company blog, recently. It was
exactly about messages and codes.
People couldn't believe in some statements:
1. Every message has its own ID. Fortunately readers agreed that msg ID
is far better than "Oops! Something went wrong, try again later".
2. Every
AFAIK IBM sometimes give some software to universities for free.
It can be operating system, access to remote system or just IBM course
(also include access to mainframe in Poughkeepsie).
To complement: several years ago they sold BC class machine to some
polish university at very good price.
Regarding 100% customers:
- Did you think about replatforming?
- Yes.
(OK, another one on the list)
- And what?
- And concluded it would be very stupid idea. We did the analysis and we
know that.
Another explanation:
Mainframe shops are sometimes big companies. It is very likely to find
an
W dniu 09.06.2020 o 14:24, Peter Bishop pisze:
Interesting re 2):
"The survey found that organizations are running an average of four
mainframes with an average age of 17 years. Sixty-four percent are
running mainframes between 10 and 20 years old, with 28% running
machines that are 20 to 30
W dniu 04.06.2020 o 15:46, Lizette Koehler pisze:
Do you have any tools like EASYEXIT? Or ACC? Or BMC Tools (use to be Stop-X37
or PROSMS)?
In ISMF You can set up a class to include dynamic volume count.
In SMS environment we see Seq and VSAM regularly take up to 100's of extents
when a
pka
Lodz, Poland
W dniu 02.06.2020 o 16:19, R.S. pisze:
I have never used punched cards, so forgive me my questions.
As far as I know, a character set on punched cards was somehow
limited, so it is not EBCDIC or similar set of 256 characters.
Of course that means some limitations for DD
channels across LPARs.
The purpose of the switch is to connect multiple physical CECs to a single
device.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 3:26 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
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[CAUTION
Yes.
Even 10 LPARs may share the chpids and proper CU definitions allow to
create logical "any to any" connection between LPARs.
I'm not sure about translation, we call it complete polygon.
For 3 LPARs there are 3 paths
For 4 LPARs there are 6 paths
For 5 LPARs there are 10 paths
For n LPARs
d provicer or just spare device in server
room.
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Lodz, Poland
W dniu 04.06.2020 o 09:21, Brian Westerman pisze:
SO just how much are the peanuts? What exactly am I looking for and do you
have any vendors that you can suggest?
Brian
On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 10:26:16 +0200, R
It's tricky.
Dana said about LOGICAL CUs, that means single physical box with
multiple CUADDs. Usually DASD array or virtual tape (also disk array in
fact).
However in Dana case we have single physical connection CPC to CU-box.
CUADD or logical CU is like LPAR on CPC.
However in order to
Note: CTC and CNC are from ESCON world. Ideed, that required different
CHP definition on each end.
Nowadays we have FICON and FC chpid definition on each end.
The topology may be
FC CHP 1A FC CHP 1B
or
FC CHP 1A switch.
1A and 1B ard example values of th CHPID.
Of course for
W dniu 03.06.2020 o 15:05, Allan Staller pisze:
You cannot share chpid without the switch. It is point to point topology, not
daisy chains like in Bus
That is incorrect. I routine share channels across LPARs.
The purpose of the switch is to connect multiple physical CECs to a single
W dniu 03.06.2020 o 06:09, Brian Westerman pisze:
no switches exist at the site.
I can't see how to share the CTC and NON CTC Control units on a Ficon card, it (HCD)
keeps generating a message that you can't "share" CTC and NON CTC on the same
CHPID, but maybe I'm doing something wrong.
1. As documentations says, CTC over FICON require two ports connected
with a cable (similar to ESCON), or single port, but it has to be
connected to a switch. Absolutely no loopback is ever used.
2. Don't confuse loopback and dust-cover. The first is really a piece of
fiber optic with
I have never used punched cards, so forgive me my questions.
As far as I know, a character set on punched cards was somehow limited,
so it is not EBCDIC or similar set of 256 characters.
Of course that means some limitations for DD * datasets - if coded on
real punched cards.
Nowadays I'm
Good question. However better question is why LPARs withing single CPC
cannot communicate via some emulated channel like ICP or IQD. The only
reasonable answer is because IBM decided. Was the decision reasonable?
That's another question.
Fortunately for FICON CTC it is enough to use *one*
W dniu 01.06.2020 o 02:27, Brian Westerman pisze:
The box isn't maxed out, but it's pretty close. It's a base z13s and no money
to upgrade it. The cards are a cheap way to get by (they are under $400 with
$0 increase in maintenance costs), whereas the cost of a CF is far greater. We
can't
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W dniu 28.05.2020 o 16:04, Edgington, Jerry pisze:
We currently have 3 CECs with multiple different IODFs.
Question #1) How can I do combine/move all the CECs into a single IODF?
Question #2) How can I update the CEC's IOCDS from a different CEC? What steps
are needed to run a batch job from
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Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2020 6:26 AM
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Subject: Re: HMC in Service Mode, IPL Question
You're remote - so what?
Don't you have remote access to HMC?
Well, I established it approx 19 years ago and visi
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To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
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esday, May 27, 2020 11:34 AM, R.S.
wrote:
W dniu 27.05.2020 o 15:14, Mark Jacobs pisze:
When the CE places the HMC in service mode will a V XCF,,OFFLINE,REIPL
command work as expected?
My guess: yes.
However, why don't you change the mode in case of failure of
W dniu 27.05.2020 o 15:14, Mark Jacobs pisze:
When the CE places the HMC in service mode will a V XCF,,OFFLINE,REIPL
command work as expected?
My guess: yes.
However, why don't you change the mode in case of failure of the reIPL?
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Skip,
In the past I implemented STK tapes, the largest tape system in Poland at
the time. Interesting job. :-) It seems, you
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I think there is no important difference between moving VOLCAT and
moving regular VSAM file.
For VSAM I would use ADRDSSU with RESTORE IMPORT NMC NSC.
BTW: I have system clones available on demand. You want clone of whole
system - voila. I love it!
Almost all possible operations can be tested
W dniu 22.05.2020 o 17:42, Dana Mitchell pisze:
On Fri, 22 May 2020 14:10:02 +0200, R.S. wrote:
Personally I used to start with "the last system" - that means HSA
update, and then ACTIVATE SOFT on rest, however the "more recommended"
way is the above.
Did this actually w
General rules for HCD activation
It is easier to add than to remove (or alter) devices.
For remove, you have to vary/configure device/chp offline. Where?
Everywhere on the CPC, that means each LPAR.
It is nothing weird in having multiple non-sysplexed LPARs on CPC and
dynamict activation.
For
f you mean: an SMSplex cannot cross Sysplexes: that is true.
Kees.
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Sent: 20 May 2020 17:14
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Creating new SMS environment in a monoplex
To complement: there is strict requireme
it, is that an SMS environment
has no specific dependence on a parallel sysplex, CFs, couple datasets, etc.
All that is left for me is to finish building the system and IPL it.
Bob
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W dniu 18.05.2020 o 20:36, Richards, Robert B. pisze:
It has been a few decades since I have created a new SMS environment.
Current environment is parallel sysplex replete with CFs and lots of lpars.
I am trying to create a simple SMS environment that will be part of a monoplex
consisting on
W dniu 16.05.2020 o 21:54, esst...@juno.com pisze:
I am Not a DASD Administrator -
.
However I used the following JCL to move a PDS -
//STEP1EXEC PGM=ADRDSSU
//SYSPRINT DDSYSOUT=A
//DASD1DDUNIT=3390,VOL=(PRIVATE,SER=USER12),DISP=OLD
//DASD2DD
Excuse me, but IMHO RECOVERY does "format" CIs within CA - that means
proper values are written into CIDF and RDF (in any).
That means VSAM knows the CI is empty, or partially filled. Unused space
within CI is not cleared, there is no need for that.
From the other hand physically full block is
file). I know you could punch
both 80 and 96 (in separate files).
The VTOC design was also used in the Optical Media Attach Feature, which
was actually 'emulated' on the P360/P390 in the AWSOMA dirver.
(All "facts" subject to dropped memory bits due to old age.)
Tony Thigpen
R.S. w
W dniu 14.05.2020 o 12:43, Gadi Ben-Avi pisze:
Hi,
Does anyone know of a way to activate an SMS configuration in batch?
I know I can issue the SETSMS SCDS(xx) command in batch, but I am long for a
way that will wait until the activation is complete before continuing to the
next step.
We are
from diskette, how to recognize volume ID, etc.
No, I'm not going to use it, but I'm just curious.
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
W dniu 13.05.2020 o 16:55, R.S. pisze:
Excuse me, what is IBM 3540?
This is mainframe forum so I checked all historical DASD, including
drum device
Excuse me, what is IBM 3540?
This is mainframe forum so I checked all historical DASD, including drum
device and 2305 (which is not a drum) and found no such device. I also
reviewed disks for small systems (S3 System 32, System 34... AS/400) and
still no such device. Finally I found ~500MB
of those types of workloads.
-Original Message-
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Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 10:45 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: IGDSMSxx setting PDSE_VERSION(2)
My humble opinion:
Everybody who want or really need PDSE v2 will create
My humble opinion:
Everybody who want or really need PDSE v2 will create such dataset
explicitly by specifying DSNTYPE=(LIBRARY,2). That's OK.
You want to create PDSE v2 by default. This is the best way to find out
which system components or application still not tolerate new PDSE
flavour.
To summarize:
There are many ways to skin a cat.
You can use LDAP. You can have looong user id's within LDAP. You can
type anything in JCL (especially in comments or DD *).
You also should distinguish between z/OS and RACF (TSS, ACF2), and JCL
and JES2.
However for security you have to keep
W dniu 04.05.2020 o 14:09, Nai, Dean pisze:
Anyone know if we need a POR to activate a new Z/VM LPAR
No. Not nowadays.
However if you are using z990 or older, then it may be needed.
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Lodz, Poland
==
W dniu 27.04.2020 o 17:48, Bernd Oppolzer pisze:
Am 27.04.2020 um 15:39 schrieb Clark Morris:
I wanted USAGE BIT 50 years ago because I was dealing with
bit switches on customer, product and open account files.
In 1992, my customer at that time (local transport) wanted to help
the local
W dniu 27.04.2020 o 11:14, Juergen Kehr pisze:
Hello,
where just in the process to migrate our z/OS systems to V2.4. As you know, on
z/OS V2.4 BookManager/READ isn't available anymore. But unfortunately some
developers come up with a requirement to read some very old homegrown
documentation
W dniu 22.04.2020 o 19:54, Pew, Curtis G pisze:
On Apr 22, 2020, at 11:40 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
It's nowhere near as bad as Y2K. Y2K potentially affected just about
everything. Everything with a date calculation. Everything that accepted or
printed a date.
That’s an important point. Dates
W dniu 23.04.2020 o 16:29, Peter Vander Woude pisze:
Ok, building parallel sysplex. For the catalogs I am planning on using ECS for
the shared catalogs (which is all of them).
What is the recommended method for handling the catalogs in a parallel sysplex,
ECS or VSAM RLS?
What is
W dniu 22.04.2020 o 22:04, Phil Smith III pisze:
I sure hope someone got a big bonus for saving that byte...
Oy. Did not mean to cause a firestorm over this. Sure, it can add up; but a big database
back then was what, 10M rows? So saving one byte was 10MB, not nothing, but still only 5%
Adam,
Believe me or not, but I (my folks) saved a lot of space by changing
BLKSIZE to correct one, means SDB. It was not only JCL, but also COBOL.
What is "a lot of space"? It was enough free space on our huge 500GB
DASD box to NOT PURCHASE ANOTHER BOX. Multiply it x2, because we used PPRC.
We
W dniu 22.04.2020 o 13:04, Feller, Paul pisze:
In two of our JES2 environments we use MOD-27s and in one other we use MOD-54s.
All three environments use TGSIZE=36. I don't recall when it changed to
TGSIZE=36, but it has been that way for years. We have not seen any issues
with either size
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W dniu 09.04.2020 o 02:11, Rob Schramm pisze:
I am considering sharing some usercats outside of a sysplex. What I can
find is that sysiggv2 must be kept as a reserve to do so.
Looking for others that have had to do this.
One question I had was, what happens on a ispf 3.4 when the data set is
W dniu 15.04.2020 o 07:59, Timothy Sipples pisze:
Charles Mills wrote:
A trivia question: Which of these is UNIX? Windows Server or Linux?
I replied:
Neither.
Charles Mills then replied:
Which *used to be* UNIX?
Still neither.
I can find no evidence that Microsoft ever obtained a UNIX(TM)
W dniu 14.04.2020 o 21:13, Seymour J Metz pisze:
It's freeware
No, it's open source. Freeware is something very different, and more
restrictive.
No, it DOESN'T MATTER. Really. The point is one can get it and use it
for free.
2. Use Virtual Box. It is "z/VM",
That is, if you've never
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It's pleonasm.
BTW: In Poland we also call it "masło maślane".
It is hard to translate since masło is butter - noun (substantive). And
maślane is butter - but adjective.
What a language cannot distinguish between noun and adjective! English
has definitely to many overloaded words. ;-)
Now
W dniu 13.04.2020 o 14:06, John McKown pisze:
Other than the implicit use of UNIX by things such as FTP, I mean. In
particular I am speaking of keeping production data in a UNIX file, rather
than a legacy dataset; use of scripting via /bin/sh, awk, or other, use of
any of the BPX* UNIX callable
W dniu 12.04.2020 o 03:11, CM Poncelet pisze:
Yes - I still use DOS and SPF/PC, which are about 20 times faster
CPU-wise than Windows XP (the last version that still supports DOS
applications.)
XP is the last version that supports DOS applications?
I think it is matter of 32-bit vs 64-bit
W dniu 09.04.2020 o 13:05, John McKown pisze:
Is there a consulting company which hires "part timers"?
Yes. It's not common, that means most of people are full-time employees,
but I met several part-timers.
Even guy who was living in Warsaw, Poland and supported large
installation on East
W dniu 06.04.2020 o 21:21, Tony Thigpen pisze:
Many years ago, a programmer where I worked was told to write a
program in Cobol instead of RPG (which he preferred). So he did, but
all the variables were in Spanish. Management was not impressed.
This was in North Alabama early 1980's and there
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