Re: VMFTP Return Code -5

2008-09-05 Thread Jim Bohnsack
30 years ago, we would have a turnover meeting at the beginning of the day. The Operations Mgr. and a couple operators and some of the mgrs. and sysprogs would meet in a conference room. One day, there was a Styrofoam cup in the middle of the conf. table with a big cockroach in it. The opera

Re: VMFTP Return Code -5

2008-09-05 Thread David Boyes
> Is there a cat belonging to somebody named Schrodinger somewhere in the > neighborhood of your system? Maybe not, but he's certainly got a local demon named Maxwell. 8-) -- db

Re: VMFTP Return Code -5

2008-09-05 Thread Schuh, Richard
Is there a cat belonging to somebody named Schrodinger somewhere in the neighborhood of your system? Regards, Richard Schuh > -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fran Hensler > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 9:37 AM > T

Re: VMFTP Return Code -5

2008-09-05 Thread Fran Hensler
Alan - I began running my VMFTP macros with the ECHO ALL TYPE options last Friday. From the HELP VMFTP: Type causes all FTP output to be displayed on the virtual machine console. Yes, there is a lot of output to the console but I haven't had a RC -5 since. ???

Re: MORE THAN HALF THE MAINFRAME MIPS IBM SELLS ARE LINUX?

2008-09-05 Thread Tom Duerbusch
>From a smaller shop perspective (z/890) I sure can understand it. The 390 side is efficient, due to historic reasons. CICS: Efficient DB2: Efficient (more due to it can't do the relative recent inefficient stuff) Cobol: Much more efficient than Java. We have 89 MIPs on the 390 side, and 366

Re: MORE THAN HALF THE MAINFRAME MIPS IBM SELLS ARE LINUX?

2008-09-05 Thread David Boyes
I've added a corrective comment to the posting as well. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of Alan Ackerman Sent: Fri 9/5/2008 12:18 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: MORE THAN HALF THE MAINFRAME MIPS IBM SELLS ARE LINUX? Any truth to this? So

Re: MORE THAN HALF THE MAINFRAME MIPS IBM SELLS ARE LINUX?

2008-09-05 Thread David Boyes
*sigh* No, it certainly wasn't a SNA project, although a number of us did participate while part of other lives. As to the more than half number, what I said was that it was likely that the majority of the *increase* in MIPS was specialty engines of *some* type. I'm not sure the reporter got

Re: z/VM Capacity Planning tools and methods

2008-09-05 Thread Bill Munson
We too use Velocity Software's ESAMAP and feed the information to BMC's Best/1-Visualizer and also to MXG Bill Munson Brown Brothers Harriman z/VM System Programmer 201-418-7588 President MVMUA http://www2.marist.edu/~mvmua/ pdowns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System

Re: z/VM Capacity Planning tools and methods

2008-09-05 Thread Tim Joyce
I use ESAMAP (Velocity) also. Since I do capacity planning for VM and VSE using different monitor/reporting tools, I massage data from reports on each platform (average CPU per hour) using REXX and port data to a predefined EXCEL spreadsheet. From the spreadsheet I can chart CPU by hour, day, weekd