Re: Goodbye, Farewell and Amen

We run SAP on Windoze with about 200 users online at once. It works reasonably well, and I can't recall when we last re-booted the SAP servers. I know they are shut down over daylight saving changes for some reason, but other than that perhaps the odd tine when applying MS updates. However SAP

Re: Am I not supposed to use this size?

entry for the user might be best with passwords obscured, but if its long just the settings lines and the minidisk that's failing 2. The actual commands you issue in full. 3. The actual response in full Thanks in advance... Dave Wade > -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/V

OT: Humour was Re: OS390 Guests using GRS and Sharing DASD with virtual RESERVE/RELEASEbgggtggncv under z/VMnjxjgj

And (for the older readers on the list) I thought it was AppleTalk Dave P.S. pity Google doesn't have an Apple Speak to English translator - Original Message - From: Neale Ferguson To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2010 2:36 PM Subject: Re: OS390 Guests us

Re: Windows Enabler Appliance on System z Now Available

> -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of David Boyes > Sent: 07 May 2010 15:39 > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: Windows Enabler Appliance on System z Now Available > > > > I guess I'm more frighten by M$ lawyer

Re: Windows Enabler Appliance on System z Now Available

It's the same as any other virtual environment. At present MS don't limit the hardware platform used. Until recently you needed one Windows licence for each virtual instance of Windows you ran. This has been amended recently and the rules are now more complex. For example if I have read the rules p

Re: Converting Text to XLS

Why Excel then? What about HTML, Postscript or PDF? Or to be really devious send them a REXX Script that runs in Regina, creates a spread sheet and then loads data in using OLE/COM/Active X. Kind of like using Windows as a batch processor Dave G4UGM Illegitimi Non Carborundum -Original

Re: ACM award - they deserve it....

In my humble opinion the main reason VMWare (an to a lesser extent HyperV) is popular at present is because it allows bean counters to demonstrate huge instant savings. Where I work we have around 200 Windows servers, many were bought around 5 years ago so will need replacing soone. In general we h

Re: After getting PerfKit working...

> -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark > Sent: 30 March 2010 20:40 > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: After getting PerfKit working... > > > On Tuesday, 03/30/2

Re: After getting PerfKit working...

I always thought allowing OPERATOR to IPL CMS was a BAD thing. Its been a while since I used VM but in the past issues like this were often spool related. Is something flooding the spool.. > -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Be

Re: IBMLINK

Mark Jacobs wrote: On 02/25/10 07:18, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] wrote: Typed in www.ibm.com/ibmlink this morning and it is now https://www-304bluecoat.ibm.com with a certificate that Firefox doesn't trust. Anybody else seeing this? Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Insti

Re: serial number's (Lengthy and slightly off topic)

Folks, Well whilst its no longer connected to an IBM Mainframe we do have a selection of HDS SAN's 2xAMS and 2xWMS. As some one who has to sort out the mess his boss makes of its config from time to time I can understand the sort of issues that may have resulted in this question. However as Peter

Re: Moving on: The University of Maine (System) shuts down mainframe

lue" because I already said Windows DOES have some value.) Using Windows for server service in your data center is vanity. Unless driven by vendor requirements for software that you chose for other reasons than flexibility or scalability, Windows is simply NOT the right choice for that infrast

Re: Moving on: The University of Maine (System) shuts down mainframe

. Might as well use the vanity mirror in > your bath room for the furnace at Odeilo. > > Another English definition of "vanity" is triviality or > hollowness. (Am trying to avoid the blunt "lack of value" > because I already said Windows DOES have some value.

Re: Moving on: The University of Maine (System) shuts down mainframe

> -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Troth > Sent: 05 January 2010 01:04 > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: Moving on: The University of Maine (System) > shuts down mainframe > > > Actually, Jack nai

Re: VM Best Practices

Do you mean something like this:- http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-09-03/ However what is "Best Practice" is to see what you customer needs are and then make sure that you have the appropriate procedures and practices in place to enable you to deliver these under all circumstances. Dave

Re: Freeware 3270 emulation on Windows XP to connect to z/VM

> -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John > Sent: 10 November 2009 20:13 > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: Freeware 3270 emulation on Windows XP to connect to z/VM > > > > -Original Message-

Re: SENDFILE with SMTP

There isn't, but if all you want to do is display the HEX I can send you a WORD file with a macro to read and display it. Is that allowed or is VBSCRIPT disabled/not permitted... Dave G4UGM > -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On

Re: LOGOFF/FORCE PENDING

I do, but only for fun Dave G4UGM > -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard > Sent: 01 October 2009 00:11 > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: LOGOFF/FORCE PENDING > > > Are you still using a

Re: CMS Command to Read TSO XMITed File

Then put it on the reader! SPOOL PUN * PUNCH DSN NAME A1 (NOH Dave G4UGM > -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On > Behalf Of John Della Torre > Sent: 25 September 2009 23:11 > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: CMS Command to Re

Re: XEDIT Problem

>-Original Message- >From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of LOREN CHARNLEY >Sent: 30 August 2009 21:44 >To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU >Subject: XEDIT Problem > >I am trying to blank data from cc:15 to cc:70 on all lines of a file (373 lines). I know

Re: MP effect on z/VM Linux hosting

> -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On > Behalf Of John McKown > Sent: 08 August 2009 04:04 > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: MP effect on z/VM Linux hosting > > On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Marcy Cortes wrote: > > > I'm getting co

OT: RE: Hercules; more information please.

> -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On > Behalf Of Rich Smrcina > Sent: 01 August 2009 14:46 > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: Hercules; more information please. > > Howard Rifkind wrote: > > > > Greetings all, > > I've jus

Re: z/VM 6.1 and Hercules on Z9

> -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On > Behalf Of Adam Thornton > Sent: 29 July 2009 02:26 > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: z/VM 6.1 and Hercules on Z9 > > On Jul 28, 2009, at 6:32 PM, John McKown wrote: > > > On Tue, 28

Re: z/VM 6.1 and Hercules on Z9

> -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On > Behalf Of Rob van der Heij > Sent: 28 July 2009 22:26 > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: z/VM 6.1 and Hercules on Z9 > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Mark Post wrote: > On 7

Re: Operator Console

> -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On > Behalf Of Ivan Warren > Sent: 21 July 2009 20:51 > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: Operator Console > > Dave Wade wrote: > > However if you want to v

Re: Operator Console

$pedant mode on Be careful. The question was "is source code updated by PTFs" I would have said changed the "YES" to a "NO" but left the rest the same. Source Code updates are delivered with PTFs but the BASE SOURCE isn't actually changed. Rebuilding a module will have the updates applied and a T

Re: Find command

> -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On > Behalf Of P S > Sent: 21 July 2009 14:24 > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: Find command > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Bob Woodside > wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Philip

Re: Virtualized Desktop

> -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On > Behalf Of Stephen Frazier > Sent: 29 May 2009 21:25 > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: Virtualized Desktop > > Ward, Mike S wrote: > > Hello, all. I have a question. It seems that we

Re: Eliminating screen-scraping

> -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On > Behalf Of Ian S. Worthington > Sent: 21 May 2009 18:42 > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Eliminating screen-scraping > > Hi. > > As a proof of concept I've thrown a client/server app to

Re: How long is YOUR signature/disclaimer?

dismissible offence So any e-mail list relating to work suffers the indignity of the 22 line legalese that the user has to scroll down too. Dave Wade G4UGM Illegitimi Non Carborundum -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of

Re: z890 power: 3 phase vs 1 phase?

adio transmitter. I think this is basically covered here:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthing_system Dave Wade G4UGM Illegitimi Non Carborundum > -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On > Behalf Of Kris Buelens > Sent:

Re: z890 power: 3 phase vs 1 phase?

three phase equipment performs the balancing internally so are "desirable" from the suppliers point of view. Even when we ran 4381's we still had a mix of three phase and single phase, but of course we are on 22volts. I don't think there is any three phase stuff left in our machin

Re: Installing IBM z/VM to Hercules

> -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On > Behalf Of Dave Jones > Sent: 21 April 2009 14:22 > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: Installing IBM z/VM to Hercules > > Hi, Marc. > > The unfortuate status of the z/VM 5.3 evaluation

Re: Secure FTP

ly Employed VM Hack. Fully employed in IT, yes, but VM no longer as a paid employee.. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Jack Woehr Sent: 05 April 2009 23:18 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Secure FTP Dave

Re: Secure FTP

> -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On > Behalf Of Jack Woehr > Sent: 05 April 2009 22:49 > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: Secure FTP > > Dave Jones wrote: > > > > If you are asking if Linux as a guest of z/VM can write re

Re: MDISK DEFINITION in MAINT DIRECTORY ENTRY

honest I can't say which (if any) of these are still needed. Dave Wade G4UGM Illegitimi Non Carborundum -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Martin, Terry R. (LOCKHEED MARTIN Performance Engineering/CTR) (CTR) Sen

Re: Must be Friday: Mainframe USBs!

Assembly. He was pretty sure it was the HDA and arrived with one, which was left to acclimatize (I think it needed 4 hours) while he ran through the MAP. Glorious days, Dave Wade G4UGM Illegitimi Non Carborundum -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib

Re: Second level VM systems

s Kris said you only needed HPO6 for machines with >16megs of RAM (or perhaps more than 16 channels).. Dave Wade G4UGM Illegitimi Non Carborundum -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Kris Buelens Sent: 24 February 20

Re: DASD VOL1 doc

Apr73.pdf> GC28-6628-9" Dave Wade G4UGM Illegitimi Non Carborundum -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Jim Bohnsack Sent: 25 January 2009 02:26 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: DASD VOL1 doc I used

Re: DASD VOL1 doc

Not sure if I am jumping into the fire here, but the DASD VOL1 labels always used to be "Classic" (z)OS(MVS?) labels with an empty VTOC and no free space so if an OS system found one it wouldn't/couldn't use the space. Any way as such they were not documented in the VM manua

New release of Hercules - 3.06

Folks, I am not sure if any one is interested in this. I have copied from the Hercules-390 list just in case. Dave Wade G4UGM Illegitimi Non Carborundum What's new in release Release date: 11 January 2009 * Integrated 3270 (SYSG) console support (Roger Bowler

End of VM at Stockport MBC

for around 1000 staff. RIP Dave Wade G4UGM Illegitimi Non Carborundum P.S. If any one is interested in the remains dave.wade can be contacted at stockport.gov.uk and I'll pass the info on to the undertakers.

Re: Setting a code page in z/VM

Florian, I have never managed to edit "C" programs using any thing other than the US code page 1047, so if any one else has an answer to this I would also like to know the answer... Dave Wade G4UGM Illegitimi Non Carborundum > -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM

Re: Virus Software for z/VM

There was once a worm or perhaps a trojan. .. very similar to the "I Love You" Dave Wade G4UGM Illegitimi Non Carborundum -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: 26 November 2008 16:33

Re: Telnet Translation Table

meeting... What is it the more things change the more things stay the same Dave Wade G4UGM Illegitimi Non Carborundum > -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Alan Altmark > Sent: 25 November 2008 18:08

Re: VMFPLC Command

Try using the HELP commands. Dave Wade G4UGM Illegitimi Non Carborundum -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) Sent: 22 November 2008 18:19 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: VMFPLC Command

Re: Purdue Univ Batch System

Tom, Thanks for that, if it is ok I am sure I can find a site to store it on. I asked about restrictions because some of this old stuff came with "odd" distribution restrictions, some of which might be hard to satisfy these days... Dave Wade G4UGM Illegitimi Non Carborundum >

Re: Purdue Univ Batch System

Thom, Is it freely distributable? Could it be put on a download site some where? Dave Wade G4UGM Illegitimi Non Carborundum > -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Thomas Kern > Sent: 18 November 2008 18:19

Re: INCREASE space on my A DISK

Folks, For small minidisks I used to use "DISK DUMP" to store it in the spool. I know its slower and you need to be sure you don't fill the spool space, but, if you are tight on DASD space, it can be quicker... I assume this will stil work ? Dave Alan Altmark wrote: On Thursday, 11/06/2008

Re: Value added by z/VM versus VMWARE

> -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barton Robinson > Sent: 01 November 2008 23:34 > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: Value added by z/VM versus VMWARE > > > One thing that really bothers me about VMWARE. When I a

Re: TN3270 for Apple's iPhone....

Mocha have been doing a tn3270 for other devices for ages, e.g.:- http://www.mochasoft.dk/tn3270ce.htm But no free version Dave Wade G4UGM Illegitimi Non Carborundum > -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Tom

Re: z/VM 5.2.0 on z10

eir memory. The last thing I want these is to be on an unsupported release and hit a problem for which I am not going to get a fix... Dave Wade G4UGM > -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Berry van Sleeuwen >

Re: LOGONBY

David Boyes wrote: It was a user mod for a while (pre-XA). I think VM/XA or VM/ESA 1.x was when it became "official". That was a long time ago, though. I know I had it on SP5 as a usermod and remember that I was really glad to not have to maintain it any more. A very long time... http://v

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

I think though this only support Alans statement. If managment are happy with lots of Intel boxes (ours are) then they will stick with them. If they are not they look for a different solution. We certainly have lots of Wintel boxes, but there again we now have a lot more apps than we ever had o

Re: Where Do I Go From Here?

It still is... (meant to be humorous) Dave Wade G4UGM Illegitimi Non Carborundum -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: 25 August 2008 17:20 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Where Do I Go From Here

Re: Where Do I Go From Here?

does not need any 370 mode accomodation settings, it just works fine "out of the box" so to speak. Dave Alan Altmark wrote: On Friday, 08/22/2008 at 02:26 EDT, Dave Wade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Look the GCC compiler I built on VM/370 R6 runs fine in 370 mode in zVM5.2 Th

Re: Where Do I Go From Here?

BCMODE PSW. As I know nothing of the guts of Jovial I can't say if this would affect it. If it does then will it run on a really old VM system on Hercules. Critical question is what apps are you running and where do they get there data from and send it too. Dave Wade G4UGM Illegitimi

Re: CMS Multi-tasking - How is it different from z/OS task management

Its been a while , but I suspect that WTO causes the CMS machine to become ineligible for dispatch. Have you tried using a CMS I/O macro Dave Wade G4UGM Illegitimi Non Carborundum > -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: Afterthought on Trying to Learn z/Linux ISHELL Scripting (tongue in cheek)

ubject: Afterthought on Trying to Learn z/Linux ISHELL > Scripting > >To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > > > > Dave Wade wrote: > > > > For most "UNIX" commands (and many other features > > of UNIX) the man pages are a great reference. >

Re: Trying to Learn z/Linux ISHELL Scripting

and frankly the man pages were absolutely useless for this. Dave -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Woehr Sent: 30 May 2008 20:41 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Trying to Learn z/Linux ISHELL Scripting

Re: Trying to Learn z/Linux ISHELL Scripting

Any online resources you would recommend? -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Woehr Sent: 30 May 2008 19:51 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Trying to Learn z/Linux ISHELL Scripting McKown, John wrote: The "s

Re: SCANCMS, was: Re: old DIRECTXA on MAINT 51D

http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/browse?fn=SCANCMS &ft=MEMO&args=KEYS#hit -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: 23 May 2008 21:28 To: I

Re: SFS

> -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jim Bohnsack > Sent: 06 May 2008 03:15 > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: SFS > > Alan Altmark wrote: > > > > Yeah, but anyone who was around in VM/SP R6 days remembers SFS as b

Re: whitehouse email

I personally think that this is more a comment on the government tendering systems generally in use, which despite all protests to the contrary, use the cheapest rather than the best solution. Dave Still smarting after having a week of downtime on our VM System due to an HMC fault. > -Origin

Re: x3270 for OSA ICC

There are some previous versions on SourceForge so you might find them in there.. I also appear to have these files on my Windows box if you need them. I know they came with X3270 for Solaris and I copied them to my Windows laptop so that X3270 would work with "Xmingw" to Hercules, so I suspec

Re: Ten Questions to ask a Prospective z/VM Systems Programmer

One place I went too also wanted you to have a "normal" personality profile... -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Rifkind Sent: 09 April 2008 22:15 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Ten Questions to ask a Prospecti

Re: VTAM R.I.P.

Whilst I never had the luxury of working in the labs I did do a lot of work on implementing code on GCS. When SP4 came out I was working for the University of Salford who at the time, in conjunction with IBM UK, produced a package of software and hardware that allowed VM to be connected to an X.25

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

From my experiments with GCC on VM/370 I would say that the 16megs of address space (i.e. real i370) is not enough space to run a "modern" linux in, so I would think XA/ESA type hardware would be needed Dave G4UGM Illegitimi Non Carborundum - Original Message - From: "Gentry, Step

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Wade Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:01 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system Why would the Microsoft Licensing be "tricky"? Expen

Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system

Why would the Microsoft Licensing be "tricky"? Expensive perhaps as you need one license per virtual machine, but not tricky... - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 6:52 PM Subject: Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system The

Re: Article: In Search of Mainframe Engineers

> Alan Ackerman wrote: > > > http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/januaryfebruary08/features/1896 > > 3p3 > > .aspx said: > > > > "The typical organization > > might have one technician for every two or three > users." > > > > Hunh? When was this ever true? > > Most MVS sites? > > Alan Acker

Re: RECEIVE question

--- Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday, 01/22/2008 at 05:36 EST, Dave Wade > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Its been a while since I looked at this code but > from > > what I remember RECEIVE calls DMSDDL for files in > > NETDATA for

Re: RECEIVE question

--- "Huegel, Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just off the top of my head, you might want to look > at pipe stages READER or > UR .. I think that might work .. or look at READCARD > which is what RECEIVE Its been a while since I looked at this code but from what I remember RECEIVE calls DMSDD

Re: Security Updates

--- Rob van der Heij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 16, 2008 3:39 PM, Huegel, Thomas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I just can't let this go. > > Has anyone ever had some 'WINDOZE' auditor come in > and ask if you are > > up-to-date with your z/VM security patches from > IBM? > > Oh yes

Re: {SPAM?} Is it possible to install AIX 5.3 or 5.2 in z/VM?

--- legolas wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > Thank you for reading my post > Is it possible to install AIX 5.3 or 5.2 in z/VM? > > Thanks. > As some one else already said, NO. As the film says long ago and far away in a distant galaxy there was a version of AIX that ran on ESA/370 Archite

Re: VMARC copyright

--- David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know who's currently responsible for > VMARC, and what the > copyright status of it is? The old help file I have > lists it as > copyright John Fisher, but several other folks have > hacked on it since > John had anything to do with it... >

Re: Testing new CMS / CMS components

--- Rod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unix pipes verses CMS Pipelines is nothing...just > wait until the Xedit > > community takes on those unwashed vi-ers;-) > > Reminds me of something I read somewhere (and now > can't find > a reference for): > > "There are two types of people: those who

Re: Testing new CMS / CMS components

Tosh! EMACS for ever... --- Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unix pipes verses CMS Pipelines is nothing...just > wait until the Xedit > community takes on those unwashed vi-ers;-) > > DJ > > Mike Walter wrote: > > It's posts such as these last two (coming from far > across the globe

Re: z/VM usability

--- David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anyone written a third party OS that can > easily replace CMS? > > None are "easy" replacements, but IMHO there are > several possible > candidates: > > MUSIC > Linux > Solaris (coming soon) > > Only MUSIC is really "CMS-like". The other two a

Re: VM-VTAM/VSCS question

--- Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday, 05/04/2007 at 02:05 MST, Thomas Kern > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Isn't YVETTE also supplied strictly OCO with the > three obligatory sample > exits? > > > > If source code were available some enhancements > like SNA functions > (w

Re: VM-VTAM/VSCS question

--- Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday, 05/04/2007 at 02:05 MST, Thomas Kern > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Isn't YVETTE also supplied strictly OCO with the > three obligatory sample > exits? > > > > If source code were available some enhancements > like SNA functions > (w

Re: z/VM usability

environment.. In fact I think this is what Roger Bowler originally intended for Hercules... > -- > Rod (who heartily seconds what Mike Walter said) > Dave Wade __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: QUERY CAPABILITY question

--- David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I never claimed to be a math whiz, but wouldn't ie > be impossible to > reach > > zero my dividing any number repeately by 50%? > Granted, you can end up > > with a lot of numbers to the right of the decimal > point, and the > result > > gets ahrd to

Re: Hackers

--- David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One reason for the absence of reported z/VM system > penetrations may be > > that it is not a target of choice for black-hat > hackers. This follows > > from the argument that there may be far fewer > reports of successful > > attacks on the Mac OS b

Re: Two Questions About VM

> > As already replied; DDR cannot restore to a > disk of > another device type. So if your input is on tape, > you will need to find a system with that type of > DASD. I don't know by heart, but may DITTO is able > to restore DDR tapes to another type of disk. > Hercules s

Re: Two Questions About VM

--- Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday, 04/11/2007 at 03:42 AST, David Boyes > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Was a 3174 ever a supported device for TCPIP? I > don't think so, so > regardless, > > he's going to need a different device (OSA, > LCS/3172, something > else...

Re: Historical curiousity question.

--- "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is not important, but I just have to ask this. > Does anybody know > why the original designers of VM did not do > something for "minidisks" > akin to a OS/360 VTOC? Actually, it would be more > akin to a "partition > table" on a PC disk. It jus

Re: DASD cylinders

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does Hercules emulate 2311's ?? > > Yes, its fine with smaller DASD. It will also emulate larger than normal FBA. However there are some issues with larger devices, when the file used to contain the image goes over 2GB. __

Re: Dirmaint

You might want to choose a different period to 31 days. If you choose 31 the passwords will start expiring at the week end, and you may get extra service calls on Modays because folks have problems. --- "Benedict, Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Help! > > We have set up the 31 day requir

Re: OT:I/O in Emulated Mainframes (Was Re: PSI story)

t is down to a price not up to an commited I/O bandwidth and throughput. We recently upgraded the SAN and saw a significant improvement in both Mainframe and PC operation. A quick question. Do users with Sharks dedicate them to their Mainframes? or share with PCs? > > > From: &

OT:I/O in Emulated Mainframes (Was Re: PSI story)

--- "Jeff Gribbin, EDS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With a small amount of trepidation (but inviting > stomping from anybody who > feels that I'm off-base here) can I remind folk > that, on IBM mainframe > hardware, MIPS aren't the whole story. There's > channels too - and in an > I/O-related

Re: Active Directory from CMS

--- Alan Ackerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:54:19 -0800, Dave Wade > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I wonder why you need two LDAP directories. AD is > >basically an LDAP directory. You use LDAP to access > it > >like an

Re: PSI story

> ... > > > it is not running Itanium software, it is > emulationg > > > the zSeries arch. > > How does this make it slower? > > Another interesting argument. If the basic > assumption is that the > emulated zArch performance is proportional to the > underlying Itanium > performance, there's a lot

Re: PSI story

--- Paul Raulerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see two problems with this story - one is they > quoted Phil Payne, whose has some kind of vendetta > against IBM going. (I suspect he lost money in an > emulator solution) and two, His input is pretty small and pretty accurate. Even for us Mainf

Re: Active Directory from CMS

--- Alan Ackerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone been able to access the Microsoft Active > Directory from CMS? > (This is an alternative to > the web services access to the Corporate LDAP > Directory that I mentioned > in my other append.) The > idea would be to have people accessin

Re: http://www.vm.ibm.com/

but not for me... --- "Schuh, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It works for me. > > Regards, > Richard Schuh > > > -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Alan Ackerman > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:17 PM > To: I

Re: IBMLink 2000 Finding ESO levels

> I've come to the conclusion > that upper IBM > management is trying to move all its customers to > the PC/Microsoft > model of software support: apply the latest service > level, cross > your fingers, and be quiet if all hell breaks loose. Any one who runs applying support like that deserv

Re: C Support for TAP/PRT/PUN

ly, you still have OS compilers. (Some people > say these improvements were a mistake.) > Perhaps it would have been better to update the OS emulation, so the tweaks were not needed... > On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:58:41 -0500, Alan Altmark > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > &g

Re: DNS question

> Adam Thornton wrote: > > I haven't ever approached Theo about a 390 port. > But with Hercules, > > you could get started for very very cheap > Of course, Theo would probably sooner jump off a > cliff than allow OCO > stuff to intrude into his OS. > Is it possible to put OBSD efficiently on

Re: C Support for TAP/PRT/PUN

--- Rob van der Heij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/30/06, Dave Wade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > For block i/o to DASD so you can access non-cms > > formatted DASD directly? Why not > > > > Wonder how you could code that using PIPES

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