Re: New z9 models

2006-04-28 Thread David L. Craig
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 11:20:29PM -0500, Alan Ackerman wrote: Probably not. The ASCII-bit didn't do what you might think. All the ASCII-bit did was changed the zone created in zoned-decimal and packed-deciimal by the decimal instruction set. The result was NOT ASCII, but what IBM

Re: New z9 models

2006-04-28 Thread Rich Smrcina
System z is the new term for zSeries. Anything referred to as System z is the new mainframe architecture. The announcement does refer to the new features, some of them backward compatible with the z990/z900/z890/z800, some of them not. There is a section in the announcement that mentions

Re: [Fwd: A billion, anyone?]

2006-04-28 Thread Jim Bohnsack
Whoops, you're right. But that still doesn't explain how you make time=time('n', thensecs, 's') work, at least with the REXX distributed with z/VM. I'm not really losing a lot of sleep over it, but I'm still curious. Jim At 04:18 AM 4/28/2006, you wrote: On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:18:02 -0400, Jim

Re: New z9 models

2006-04-28 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thursday, 04/27/2006 at 11:50 EST, Alan Ackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That announcement keeps talking about the System z environment. New terminology? What's the System z environment? Do these new features work on all z* machine, or only z9 machines? There is a reverence to

Re: New z9 models

2006-04-28 Thread Schuh, Richard
I stand in awe of the hardware all the time :) Regards, Richard Schuh There is a reverence to Hardware Requirements that gives:

Another dasd question about dups

2006-04-28 Thread Larry Macioce
Something funny happened this last ipl of mvs. I got a dup vol name(on differnet devices) pointing at my Z/VM-Linux guest dasd. The operators replyed to one of them and MVS went alon it's merry way. Now when I added the vols I went into the user directory and checked dasd names allocated and

Re: New z9 models

2006-04-28 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 04/28/2006 at 10:03 AST, Neale Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: zArchitecture has PACKA and UNPKA opcodes to pack and unpack decimal. Apart from CVB/CVD ED/EDMK I don't think there's anything that ties zArchitecture to EBCDIC (writing to consoles, HMCs etc. do require the correct

Re: [Fwd: A billion, anyone?]

2006-04-28 Thread Jim Vincent
It is a simple matter of hacking the code to do the brute force conversion. Here is something that may work - probably not the best, but it works: In place of time=time('n', thensecs, 's') use: hh = Right(thensecs%3600,2,0) mm = Right((thensecs-(3600*6))%60,2,0) ss = Right(thensecs//60,2,0) time

Re: [Fwd: A billion, anyone?]

2006-04-28 Thread Jim Vincent
ARG! Marty Z found my bug: Replace the 6 with hh in the MM calc... It is a simple matter of hacking the code to do the brute force conversion. Here is something that may work - probably not the best, but it works: In place of time=time('n', thensecs, 's') use: hh = Right(thensecs%3600,2,0)

Re: Another dasd question about dups

2006-04-28 Thread Eric Schadow
Maybe they are Flashcopy volumes? If I am not mistaken you can have duplicate VOLSERS just not more then one attached to the SYSTEM One could have been dedicated/attached to a specific guest... eric At 11:59 AM 4/28/2006, you wrote: We don't have PAV on our ds6k. The 63xx addresses belong to

Re: [Fwd: A billion, anyone?]

2006-04-28 Thread Jim Bohnsack
Oh, a SMOP ;-) At 12:48 PM 4/28/2006, you wrote: It is a simple matter of hacking the code to do the brute force conversion. Here is something that may work - probably not the best, but it works: In place of time=time('n', thensecs, 's') use: hh = Right(thensecs%3600,2,0) mm =