Re: "The Truth Will Set You Free" -- on Destination z

2012-07-01 Thread Mike Schwab
AVAST Infection Details URL:http://ads.keypromedia.com/www/delivery/... Process:C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexpl... Infection: JS:ScriptSH-inf [Trj] On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > In <4fedf3c7.7010...@gabegold.com>, on 06/29/2012 >at

Re: gdg levels

2012-07-02 Thread Mike Schwab
ALTER dsn LIMIT(nnn) on a TSO ISPF 3.4 list: ALTER / LIMIT(nnn) On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Tim Brown wrote: > How does on increase the levels of a gdg in an sms environment > > I > > Thanks, > > Tim Brown -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it

Re: Quantas hit by leap second issue?

2012-07-03 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: > > By the way you mean Homophone not Homonym. The former are words that sound > alike but are spelled differently while the latter are words that mean the > same thing but are spelled/pronounced differently. There are also words that > a

Re: Shopz

2012-07-03 Thread Mike Schwab
x'09' in x'0F' or x'90' in x'FF' is 60% x'09' in x'FF' is 3%. On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Ed Finnell wrote: > > In a message dated 7/3/2012 1:52:52 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > john.mck...@healthmarkets.com writes: > > It's likely base 16 (hex). ===>x'E2E4E7' --

Re: Quantas hit by leap second issue?

2012-07-05 Thread Mike Schwab
http://katdish.net/2012/02/the-art-of-beating-a-dead-horse/ On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Mohammad Khan wrote: > Sure, but one could still beat them :) > > On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 17:16:28 -0700, Edward Jaffe > wrote: >>> >>> So "USS" and "USS" would be a case of a ... >> >>Dead horse. >>-- >>Edwa

Re: Searching for a cross=reference list of manuals ...

2012-07-05 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/v1r13books.html has various lists of all manuals for base product. http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/Shelves/ez2zo111 is the list of all manuals for base z/OS 1.13 On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Mark Yuhas wrote: > I am searching for a

Re: New code MFNetDIsk and ISPF 3.4 and files delete.

2012-07-08 Thread Mike Schwab
Over the last 12 years, we have certain volumes with large number of small datasets that are frequently created and deleted. Sometimes the VTOC Index would get corrupted, all allocations to that group would get assigned to that volume, then all allocation would blow because that volume was full, a

Re: New code MFNetDIsk and ISPF 3.4 and files delete.

2012-07-08 Thread Mike Schwab
become zero and expect miracle to return the file back to the disk. > > On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: > >> Over the last 12 years, we have certain volumes with large number of >> small datasets that are frequently created and deleted. Sometimes the >> V

Re: New code MFNetDIsk and ISPF 3.4 and files delete.

2012-07-09 Thread Mike Schwab
SLIST 3.4 your chance to failed is > high. > > > > On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Mike Schwab wrote: > >> Yes. As recently as last year, we went to display the files on the >> full volume with TSO ISPF 3.4 and it hung. We were concerned on >> getting the probl

Re: . Searching for a cross=reference list of manuals ...

2012-07-09 Thread Mike Schwab
The page I gave you is for 1 version of z/OS. Make not include manuals for additional products. The third part consisting of the 9th and 10th character change with each published edition, most manuals have at least one change with every version of z/OS. So if the first 8 match the title probably

Re: Enabling RRS Error

2012-07-09 Thread Mike Schwab
> *Explanation:* The system logger couple data set defined by the LOGR policy > has no free space for the type of entry you are trying to define. Logstreams are tracked within the coupling dataset, and you have run out of that type of entries. Change the coupling dataset to have more entries for

Re: Sad News About Rick Fochtman

2012-07-10 Thread Mike Schwab
I managed to find the Funeral home page. Looks like a mainframe computer diagram. Too blurry for me to read. http://www.beidelmankunschfh.com/obituaries/Richard-Fochtman/#/PhotosVideos/525bc8eb-6f6f-47d0-9b43-b0c2fb376fe3/b3c86b78-7d68-4448-89c2-d82e3535a2b3 On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Ed

Re: Import image to overlay

2012-07-11 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Mohamed Juma wrote: > We are trying to design a new overlay using OGL/370, we decide instead to > make the design under Windows, > then importing the image to overlay. > Did any one went through this steps before. any help is appreciated. > Mohamed Juma I did a

Re: Printing barcodes on mainframe generated reports

2012-07-14 Thread Mike Schwab
It has been 14 years since I worked on an application. It printed signature and postal bar codes. Xerox DJDE commands I believe. The font did all the hard work. Then your JES2 SYSOUT has to end up with a list of fonts. And position where you want the printing. Then you print the value you wan

Re: Urgent help needed - Message ISN000E

2012-07-16 Thread Mike Schwab
There are companies out there that sell and service used mainframes. If you can't get the part replaced, then a used mainframe could be purchased. With a new minimum z114 starting at $75,000, z9 or z10 should be a bit cheaper. On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 1:42 PM, peter novack wrote: > OK, here's th

Re: Unsetting a JCL symbol.

2012-07-18 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Bass, Walter W wrote: > > Aha. I get it now. > > I failed to consider that the initial state of "not defined" was the > desired condition to revert to. In fact, I had fully expected that a > reference to an uninitialized symbol on the right side of the SET > stat

Re: Storage utililzation Optimization

2012-07-21 Thread Mike Schwab
Reduce migration thresholds so you scan dasd volumes. If a storage group has low utilization set a few volumes to disable new, migrate the datasets, and return the volumes to spare for other uses. Large sequential datasets place on VTAPE. On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 6:54 AM, mfstorage wrote: > Hi, >

Re: Submitting a requirement for z/OS to at least acknowledge SIGNAL SHUTDOWN by printing a message

2012-07-23 Thread Mike Schwab
It would be nice if an JES INIT could be set to abend a job at the end of a step to allow faster shutdown, cleaner restart. I.E. a status of draining-step would continue to run, but when the step ends .the job is cancelled. You would not want to apply this to some inits, because a STC or online r

Re: Friday: What you've been waiting for! Build an 80 column punched card reader!

2012-07-27 Thread Mike Schwab
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 07:21:26 -0500, McKown, John wrote: > >>For the truly strange hardware hackers among us. >> >>Hardware: >>http://codeincluded.blogspot.co.nz/2012/07/punch-card-reader-hardware.html >> >>software: >>http://codeincluded.blo

Re: [z390] Anyone want Source code listing of last VSE program product Supervisor?

2012-08-03 Thread Mike Schwab
Pehaps he could send it to the Computer History Museum, on the condition that it not be used until the copyrights expire? On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Charles Mills wrote: > There is a copyright doctrine called "first sale" that basically says that > when you buy a legal copy of something you

Re: [z390] Anyone want Source code listing of last VSE program product Supervisor?

2012-08-06 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 3:14 PM, David Andrews wrote: > On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 15:02 -0400, Clark Morris wrote: >> I just googled wooden paddle MVT and got one place where you can get a >> machine readable copy, http://www.cbttape.org/mvtturnkey.htm along >> with all of MVT and Hercules. Thanks Sa

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-08 Thread Mike Schwab
A zero byte VB record is expanded to 1 blank x'40' so the minimum is a block of 9 bytes including block size and record size field. I tried to allocate a FB 6 0 to hold a list of volsers for a table, LRL under 10 would not work. On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: <> > > What a

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-08 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > In > , > on 08/08/2012 >at 10:11 AM, Mike Schwab said: >>I tried to allocate a FB 6 0 to hold a list of volsers for a table, >>LRL under 10 would not work. > > What happened when you tried? >

Re: GUIfication of tn3270 screens

2012-08-10 Thread Mike Schwab
This sound like you want to develop a debugging tool like the built in CICS debugging environment. You start your address space with the debugging tool, then start your application while monitoring. While halted, various commands display various memory areas, instruction sequences, screen areas,

Re: IBM DS8100 to DS8870 Migration

2012-08-15 Thread Mike Schwab
I have one volume left Comm and LPA paging pack. What settings so I can move this during the day? On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Gibney, Dave wrote: >I just did a EMC Symmetrix 8350 to an EMC DMX-4 using their z/OS Migrator > (a TMDF). It thought some CA-OPS log files were paging datase

Re: IBM DS8100 to DS8870 Migration

2012-08-15 Thread Mike Schwab
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] >> On Behalf Of Thomas Conley >> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 5:57 PM >> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >> Subject: Re: IBM DS8100 to DS8870 Migration >> >> On 8/15/2012 8:48 PM, M

Re: Z900 (2064 - 216) Problem.

2012-08-16 Thread Mike Schwab
Isn't capacity capping a 4 hour rolling average? So wouldn't it kick in before 4 hours? Unless the workload is slow for about 9 hours, then CPU utilization picks up. On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Knutson, Sam wrote: > Hi Manshadi, > > You might check to see if you have Defined Capacity or Gr

Re: REPLACEMENT ASID SHORTAGE

2012-08-16 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Dale McCart wrote: > As spoken/sung by Pete Seeger - Seeds: The Songs of Pete Seeger, Vol. 3 > You can comb through the annals of history, but not just one annal. One annus (year). Be careful of the number of 'n's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annals -- Mike A

Re: IPL sequence question

2012-08-20 Thread Mike Schwab
We use the RESERVED keyword to keep spare volumes offline. It only appears on the INIT command, so you are also wiping out the volume. Clip only renames the volume and you can access the uncataloged datasets from another system or clip back to the original name. On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:34 PM,

Re: HSM - space for full recall

2012-08-21 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:14 PM, retired mainframer wrote: > :>: -Original Message- > :>: >From: Uriel Carrasquilla > :>: >Sent: Aug 20, 2012 2:34 PM > :>: >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > :>: >Subject: Re: HSM - space for full recall > :>: > > :>: >We have all the HSM ML2 on VTL and the

Re: GOFF

2012-08-21 Thread Mike Schwab
Several times in that era. On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Charles Mills wrote: >> Do customers of ISVs generally welcome products that require PDSE? > > I have encountered push-back on this issue. Not recently, but perhaps because > I have learned to stop asking the question. > > EVERYONE has

Re: Thanks for the memories

2012-08-22 Thread Mike Schwab
If this is a work email, you can re-subscribe with a personal email. And you can join the hercules groups and get Turnkey 3 MVS3.8J to keep up you skills / develop solutions at home as a consultant. On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Hal Merritt wrote: > Next week, life as I know it ends. At the sa

Re: ISPF Panel and LPAR name

2012-08-22 Thread Mike Schwab
As long as you always have a GUI on screen keyboard. Heck, get an iPad or touch screen device and throw away the mouse too. On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > Can I throw away my keyboard and use only my mouse? > > On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:02:36 -0400, Dave Salt wrote: > >>Pa

Re: Changing Size of DFSMShsm Auto Backups of the Control Datasets

2012-08-23 Thread Mike Schwab
Run a consolidate on the dataset or defrag the volume (which would also release extents, which could be bad on system data sets that are limited to 1 extent). Say, could we make that a customer request? "Defrag should not release space if the secondary space amount is 0." On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at

Re: JES/2 Spool

2012-08-23 Thread Mike Schwab
We use http://www.docstoc.com/docs/52553279/MVS-Freeware-SYSOUT-Retrieval-Services-(SRS) On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Pesce, Andy wrote: > Has anyone seen a program out there that will take an output from JES/2 spool > and write it to a dataset? > I know of a couple of software companies t

Re: IEC161I 037(108,000,IGG0CLFE)-0257 under ZOS 1.10

2012-08-23 Thread Mike Schwab
A PTF can add new error code, documented in the next release of the manual. And since the two past versions could be getting PTFs, the first manual with the changed could be version + 3. On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Scott Ford wrote: > Alvaro: > > What is really odd is the 0257 return code..

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-25 Thread Mike Schwab
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > Also surprisingly, SPACE=(0,9) allocates 8,334 tracks; > SPACE=(1,9) allocates 1,163 tracks. Did I do something > wrong? Did someone divide by zero? > 9 / 8334 = 12 blocks per track. Assumes a 4KB block size? 9 / 1163 =

Re: ISPF Panel and LPAR name

2012-08-26 Thread Mike Schwab
On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > In <503996a6.8030...@bcs.org.uk>, on 08/26/2012 >at 04:23 AM, CM Poncelet said: > >>What's your problem, Metz? > > Dealing with hypocritical fools. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ivUOnnstpg -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-27 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 9:02 PM, retired mainframer wrote: > > Doesn't anyone use model DSCBs anymore? > We still have some hanging around. -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Mike Schwab
EC12, 120 cores, z196, 96 cores. On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Alvaro Guirao Lopez wrote: > I did'nt see it, but I understand EC12 means Enterpise Class 12 (why 12?) > > That could be the reason mainframezone had chaged the name to Enterprise > Class. -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Wher

Java 7 vulnerability

2012-08-28 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9230656/Macs_at_risk_from_super_dangerous_Java_zero_day Has Java 7 made it to z/OS? Has anyone tested for this vulnerability? The problem was new to Java 7, so one suggestion is to uninstall Java 7 and re-install Java 6 until patched. -- Mike A Schwab, Sp

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-29 Thread Mike Schwab
No z/VSE growth? On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Roger W. Suhr wrote: >> Using LINUX or ZOS? > > Both + z/VM > > Roger > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of shai hess > Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 1:59 PM > To: I

Re: Cobol programs abend after re-linking on z/OS 1.11

2012-08-30 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:41 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > John Norgauer wrote: > >>We are experiencing Cobol program abending on z/OS 1.11. > >>Programs are compiled and linked with 20 year old Cobol subroutines. When we >>were running on z/OS 1.9, there were no problems compiling and re-link

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-30 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Pew, Curtis G wrote: > On Aug 30, 2012, at 9:58 AM, "McKown, John" > wrote: > >> Makes me wonder why IBM did not implement it on an SSD PCIe card. > > The way I read the Technical Guide, that's what they did. > -- > Curtis Pew (c@its.utexas.edu) Could you c

Re: Too true to be funny - 51% of the surveyed Americans think that stormy weather can interfere with the functionality of the cloud.

2012-08-30 Thread Mike Schwab
And they just had that Derecheo that shutdown off the Amazon Cloud server farm in Virginia. 95% of american are able to use the internet? Seems a bit high. I thought the usage rate was about 80%. Q. Is the cloud a subset of the internet that runs on servers that are assigned on demand, instead

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-30 Thread Mike Schwab
They don't build far ahead. What is on the factory floor is already sold and will be installed in 2 months. So a customer can get a z196 in 2 months (or DR replacement in 2 weeks) or a EC12 in 6 to 12months. Resellers of used equipment will start to drop prices when they start getting a lot of e

Re: OT, but a perfect story for a Friday.

2012-08-31 Thread Mike Schwab
1 Semi is 80,000 pound limit - 32,000 pount vehicle weight = 48,000 pound cargo per load. 50,000 * 20 = 1 million pounds, So 200 maximum weight semi loads. On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Grinsell, Don wrote: > So how does one stealthily make off with that much maple syrup? It's not > exactly

Re: OT, but a perfect story for a Friday.

2012-08-31 Thread Mike Schwab
Paid for but never delivered? Like the empty warehouse in 9 to 5? Before he got free and stocked it up? Who signed for those deliveries? How many people worked there every day? Or ask the neighbors how busy was the place? 3 or 4 semis a day? On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Paul Gilmartin w

Re: DFDSS

2012-09-01 Thread Mike Schwab
Since dataset can have 16 (or 123) extents on a volume (or another limit like 64K tracks), I like to recommend 1/16 or (1/123) of the volume's capacity as the primary and secondary allocation amount. If an additional extent is added next to the last extent, the space is added to the previous exten

The start of electronic stock market training

2012-09-01 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-how-the-nasdaq-got-hacked-20120830,0,3152687.story -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acc

Re: DFDSS

2012-09-02 Thread Mike Schwab
Our site used to have datasets fail recall and give an unable to allocate space messages on very small datasets. Would fail several times in one day. Try it the next and it was able to allocate the very small amount of space and recall the dataset. Happened about every three months for about 2 y

Re: Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee

2012-09-02 Thread Mike Schwab
Put a Hercules emulator and z/OS on that blade, 50 z/OS MIPS per hyperthread, so 100 MIPS per core, 1600 MIPS per blade (per TurboHercules). Perhaps $5,000 per blade? Some blades do have 4 sockets. On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Clark Morris wrote: > On 1 Sep 2012 08:04:00 -0700, in bit.lists

Re: Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee

2012-09-02 Thread Mike Schwab
er wrote: > mike.a.sch...@gmail.com (Mike Schwab) writes: >> Put a Hercules emulator and z/OS on that blade, 50 z/OS MIPS per >> hyperthread, so 100 MIPS per core, 1600 MIPS per blade (per >> TurboHercules). Perhaps $5,000 per blade? Some blades do have 4 >> sockets. &

Re: OT, but a perfect story for a Friday.

2012-09-02 Thread Mike Schwab
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Gerhard Postpischil wrote: > On 9/2/2012 9:07 PM, Linda wrote: >> >> Sounds like a good theory. Or maybe it got loaded onto a freight train. >> Wonder how many tank cars it would take > > The smallest tank cars hold 4000 gallons; typical ones about 1. FRA >

Re: another DCOLLECT question

2012-09-06 Thread Mike Schwab
In the Management class, there is one field that says to delete so many days after creation, and another field that says to delete so many days after the last access. Zero means don't apply this rule. On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Uriel Carrasquilla wrote: > David, thank you. The UMCLASS prov

Re: another DCOLLECT question

2012-09-06 Thread Mike Schwab
> a delete of a GDG member on a totally unpredictable moment. > Or I'd rather say: on yet another predetermined moment, not calculable > from DCOLLECT data. > > Kees. > > > "Mike Schwab" wrote in message > news:>... >> In the Management class, there

Re: Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee

2012-09-06 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 3:55 PM, R.S. wrote: > I meant it's hard to justfiy the choice: to buy IFL (plus rest of mainframe) > or x64 servers. I meant Linux on IFL is *much* more expensive than on x64 > servers. Things like power, cooling, floor space, staffing won't change it, > but the software li

Re: another DCOLLECT question

2012-09-06 Thread Mike Schwab
Well, read the management classes into a table, with name, number of days to keep after creation, number of days to keep after last access. Then read each dataset, look up the management class, and report creation date, last access date, and the two deletion dates. I believe the data set is delet

Re: Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee

2012-09-07 Thread Mike Schwab
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: > this is compared to 80 processor z196 with 50BIPS, ??GFLOPS, 31.7Kw at > $28M (and IBM claiming it effectively earns roughly $5.25M in mainframe > services, software, and storage for every $1M in mainframe sold) ... > bringing 80 proce

Re: SMP/E - Applying service to WAS

2012-09-09 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA36700 GIve these instructions a shot. On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 5:14 AM, גדי בן אבי wrote: > The volume where the WAS ZFS resides definitely has room. I confirmed this by > using the zfsadm grow command. > Could the output be going to a different

Re: Disk data set space allocation, philosophy

2012-09-09 Thread Mike Schwab
SORTWK does not use secondary extents. Gradully change the SMS SPACE default toward 1/16th of a volume (up to 64K Cylinders) for primary and secondary. That would allow it to fill up an empty volume before going to the next volume. Actually, if they could look at the size of their dataset after

Re: ShopzSeries SSL Connectivity Test

2012-09-13 Thread Mike Schwab
TRACETCP does route tracing using the port number you specify to find the IP address that is blocking the connection. Freeware download. On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:04 PM, John Chase wrote: > On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 06:44:53 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: > >>Turn on some FTP tracing. You can do it in F

Re: Creating .xls on z/OS

2012-09-14 Thread Mike Schwab
Have you tried putting in =A1+B2 between commas for a cell value? 1,2,=SUM(A1:B1) 11,22,=SUM(A2:B2) =SUM(A1:A2),=SUM(B1:B2),=A1+B2 On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Martin Packer wrote: > .CSV won't contain formulae. Don't know if that's what bothers the OP - > but it bothers ME as I'd like to ge

Re: Phony IBM press release from 1980 for Mainframe-Attached Toilet

2012-09-15 Thread Mike Schwab
Or TCP/IP (Toilet Control Program / Internet Protocol). On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Charles Mills wrote: > The response has been gratifying. > > My only regret is that it does not reference the USS (Universal Sanitary > System) feature. That must have been a follow-on announcement. > > Char

Re: Shana Tova (Happy new Jewish year)

2012-09-16 Thread Mike Schwab
Lets hope none of them is the horn from The Horn Blows At Midnight. On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: > Chag Sameach. > > [In English, Feast of Trumpets] > > I'm not Jewish, but I do observe. > > Obviously I will not be in the office tomorrow. > > Regards, > Steve Thompson --

Re: Is there a correspondence between 64-bit IBM mainframes and PoOps editions levels?

2012-09-17 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 5:42 PM, John Gilmore wrote: > I doubt that what you want is available without caveats. > > The notices section of all recent versions of the publication you call > the PoOps---Why the 's'?--- and I prefer to call the PrOp contain some > such weasel language as > > > All f

Re: OT - disappearing responses

2012-09-18 Thread Mike Schwab
Yahoo gets the Yahooties every few months. Messages back up until some server is rebooted, then you get weeks of posts all at once. Really bad for yahoo groups. I much prefer gmail as my message handler. On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Scott Ford wrote: > Rich, > > Mail list via yahoo > > Sco

Re: PoOps, Poo, PrOp and friends (was Is there a correspondence between...)

2012-09-19 Thread Mike Schwab
zPlane! zPlane! - Tatoo. On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 3:07 AM, David Cole wrote: > "zProOps" -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive ac

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-19 Thread Mike Schwab
Try larger blocksizes. Much older program. On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Tsai Laurence wrote: > Dear listers , > as the subject, test file transfer through TSO IND$FILE & TCP/IP FTP , and > found TSO IND$FILE is much slower than FTP. Any idea why ? > > Regards, > Laurence -- Mike A Schwab,

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-19 Thread Mike Schwab
Here is Microsoft's suggestions for increasing the speed, from 2004. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/125881 On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Scott Ford wrote: > Mike, > > I use 32k on Qws3270p ... > > Scott ford > www.identityforge.com > > On Sep 19, 2012, a

Re: OT - disappearing responses

2012-09-19 Thread Mike Schwab
n > Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht > Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 4:58 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: OT - disappearing responses > > Mike Schwab wrote: > >>Yahoo gets the Yahooties every few months. Messages back up until some >>server i

Re: OT - disappearing responses

2012-09-20 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 10:19 AM, zMan wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: > >> That account goes away if you change providers or move and have to >> change providers. Plus it enables a lot of impersonation. And when >> you upload any attachm

Re: OT - disappearing responses

2012-09-20 Thread Mike Schwab
This is not YOUR PC at home or work. This is the HACKER's PC and they enter your email address or a fake email as the sender. On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:02 AM, McKown, John wrote: > Nobody can "start my PC" at home without a password. At work, a > "administrator" can do so. But, since they have

Re: ShopzSeries SSL Connectivity Test

2012-09-20 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 2:43 PM, John Chase wrote: > By chance, does the ECuRep server (where we upload PMR documentation) require > the GeoTrust Global CA as well? I've had similar "fun" trying th test an SSL > connection there, too. > > Thanks, > Once you accept a Certificate Authority, you

Re: PL/I Compile error unresolved symbols

2012-09-29 Thread Mike Schwab
Here is the library page for Enterprise PL/I http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/pli/plizos/library/ The Compiler and Run time migration books should contain what changes you need between versions. There is a DCL STR BUILTIN, but it is not actually refered to by anything. You can remove it.

Re: Help with DF-Sort not being able to allocat enough work data set space

2012-10-03 Thread Mike Schwab
> ICE248I 0 ATTEMPTED TO ALLOCATE 469577MB OF DISK WORK SPACE ON 3 > WORK DATA SETS Make sure you have 469,577MB of sortwork space available. On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4) wrote: > We've got a Cobol program (vendor software) that finally invoked DF-Sort > to sor

Re: Help with DF-Sort not being able to allocat enough work data set space

2012-10-03 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4) wrote: > Is there any other option I could try, or am I stuck to > DYNALLOC=(SYSDA,nnn) with a reasonably high "nnn"? > -- > Peter Hunkeler You could split the input file into parts by number of records or the high part of the key, sort eac

Re: Zero length records outlawed! (Again.)

2012-10-03 Thread Mike Schwab
Yep. The MVS 380 project ran into that. Empty lines were stored as 1 blank and could not remove without an error. On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > In: > > Title: z/OS V1R13 DFSMS Using Data Sets > Document Number: SC26-7410-11 > > 2.1.2.2.1 Record Processing for UNIX File

Re: Has anyone taken out hardware support for z196 from anyone other than IBM

2012-10-04 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Timothy Sipples1 wrote: > Aren't they under IBM warranty for the first year? > > > Timothy Sipples I thought it was a 3 year minimum. Its only been out for 2 y

Re: Design of Key Matching application

2012-10-04 Thread Mike Schwab
I would definitely put the unique key into a searchable store then process the other file in current order. Or is there a report that needs to be in a certain order. On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 6:47 PM, David Speake wrote: > One of my application programmers asked for information on design decision.

Re: Problems with GIM SMP installation

2012-10-08 Thread Mike Schwab
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/bit.listserv.ibm-main/aPtNlOsWlMQ Insufficient space. On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Alvaro Guirao Lopez wrote: > Hi listers, > > I'm trying to download SW package through GIM SMP installation, but I have > some problems: > > -- > -

Re: Reorganizing Partition Table Space With REBALANCE Option Problem.

2012-10-08 Thread Mike Schwab
> SORT FIELDS=(5.0,00028.0,A),FORMAT=BI,FILSZ=E04979426640, > DYNAOC=(SYSDA,04) > RECORD TYPE=V,LENGTH=(00070,00070,00070) 5 billion record, 70 bytes per record, 350GB. 4 SORTWK files, so 350GB / 3 = 120GB per volume. If you have smaller volumes you will need more of them. -- Mike A Sch

Re: DFSMSHSM Management Class Question

2012-10-09 Thread Mike Schwab
When a dataset is deleted, the migration information is also deleted. The backup is deleted when the 'retain days only backup' has been expired. It could have migrated before a backup was taken. And it won't automatically delete unless there is a backup. If you issue the HBACKDS on it, I would b

Re: DFSMSHSM Management Class Question

2012-10-10 Thread Mike Schwab
You can require a backup before allowing migration to prevent this. Might increase utilization of primary volumes with datasets needing a backup. On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Staller, Allan wrote: > If you wish to change the default behavior of DFHSM to *NOT* require a backup > before deleti

Re: DFHSM Recalls and Tape

2012-10-10 Thread Mike Schwab
When it HSM finishes a recall, it checks the que in order for any recall on the same tape. When it reaches the end of the que, it unmounts the tape, and starts recalling the first waiting dataset on the que. Haven't done as massive a quantity as 10,000 though. No sorting of any kind, just checki

Re: Delete Catalogs from VVCR

2012-10-11 Thread Mike Schwab
I have this jcl to run before taking a volume offline. //jobname JOB acct,programmer,CLASS=c etc //SDELVVDS EXEC PGM=IDCAMS //Vvolser DD UNIT=DISK,VOL=SER=volser,DISP=SHR //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSINDD * DELETE SYS1.VVDS.Vvolser CAT(ICFCAT.usercat1) FILE(Vvolser) NSCR DELETE SY

Re: Humor for Friday: Reasons for not coming to work.

2012-10-12 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGlmXBxQZl8 Seven Year Itch scene. On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 3:36 PM, McKown, John wrote: > Employee's toe was stuck in a faucet > -- > John McKown -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---

Re: Convert data tape to ASCII format

2012-10-15 Thread Mike Schwab
SDSF requires the string first, so Set PF19=F '1' 1 prev Set PF20=F '1' 1 next On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 1:26 PM, McKown, John wrote: >> >> And thinking about it, does ISPF BROWSE/VIEW support scrolling by >> the page markers in the data, perhaps with Page Up/Page Down keys? >> (Yah, I know, "You c

Re: DFSMShsm Abend S878

2012-10-17 Thread Mike Schwab
We had z/OS 1.13 HSM abend S878-10 at 1am Monday. IBM tracked down an open APAR. It allocates a small amount of space for each volser during migration. Forgets to free the memory, and eventually chews up all private memory below the 24 bit line in SYSHSM*. It was opened in Sept, Should be out b

Re: DFSMSHSM Management Class Question

2012-10-17 Thread Mike Schwab
Correct. You can require a backup before a migration is allowed. On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Munish Sharma wrote: > Hello > Sometimes due to Manual migration ... .. DFSMShsm... doesn't get time to > backup a DSN.. and it ended up on ML1/ML2.. > depending upone MC allows it. > > Regards > M

Re: Pars Ipars TPF and APC

2012-10-17 Thread Mike Schwab
LPAR (Logical Partition) = 1 region of mainframe memory assigned to an operating system. The host is microcode in the mainframe. LPARs is the plural. It was released in the 1990s as an outgrowth of VM/ESA. z/TPF (Transaction Processing Facility) is a very high speed operating system that spread

Re: Looking after Steve Samson's book

2012-10-19 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.cmg.org/measureit/issues/mit65/m_65_7.html Mostly replaced by Workload Manager. On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Thierry Deleris wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking after Steve Samson last book "'MVS Performance Management - z/OS > Version 1" (I've got the OS/390 one thanks to CBT Tape) >

Re: Nested enclaves and POSIX(ON)

2012-10-20 Thread Mike Schwab
Most levels are for breaking an area of memory into various fields. Not an 88 level. DATA DIVISION. ... 10 FIELD-NAME PIC X(5). 88 FIELD-NAME-TRUE VALUE 'TRUE ;. 88 FIELD-NAME-FALSE VALUE 'FALSE'. ... PROCEDURE DIVISION ... IF FIELD-NAME-TRUE THEN is equivalent to IF FIELD-NAME = 'TRUE

Re: need 2006 NaSPA articles and downloads

2012-10-20 Thread Mike Schwab
XMIT manager. http://www.cbttape.org/njw/ On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Richard Tsujimoto wrote: > Lizette, > > Thanks! I downloaded the package (although I don't recall how to unpack the > .XMI file). Now, if I could just find the PDF files... -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Mike Schwab
Almost everything you do (did) under S/370 does still run under z/OS 1.13, excluding ISAM, VSAM IMBED / REPLICATE characteristics. Everything done under S/360 that was incorporated into S/370 is included. You could download the Turnkey3 CD and run it on your PC as a developement environment. If you

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Mike Schwab
http://xkcd.com/163/ On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Roberts, John J wrote: > Actually, speaking of Professor Knuth, I use his name as an interview > question. Any Candidate that doesn't immediately recognize the name doesn't > get my recommendation. > > John -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/taocp.html#vol4 On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Lizette Koehler wrote: >>Actually, speaking of Professor Knuth, I use his name as an interview >>question. Any Candidate that doesn't immediately recognize the name doesn't >>get my recommendation. >> >>J

Re: Correction to Carmine's Book Cost

2012-10-29 Thread Mike Schwab
Yes, emails are (implied) copyrighted when you make them available for other computers to see (post on a web page or send an email, drafts or password protected files excluded), even without an explicit copyright notice. Reworking someone else's copyrighted work it becomes a jointly authored work

Re: Correction to Carmine's Book Cost

2012-10-29 Thread Mike Schwab
Corporations never die. They get bought out or go bankrupt and assests (including book, movie, and song copyrights) are sold for a figurative song. On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: > At one point, the extension past demise was based on whether or not the > creator was well

Re: Strange z196 LOAD behavior

2012-10-30 Thread Mike Schwab
Hardware / License Internal Code / ESC hardware service call. On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 1:32 PM, zMan wrote: > ? So the HMC isn't a component? Sure it is... > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:59 AM, R.S. wrote: > >> Well, I do have hardware and I do have a problem (actually I found >> walk-around - LPA

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