On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Schuh, Richard rsc...@visa.com wrote:
After 48 years in the industry, involved with VM for the last 38 of them, I
will be retiring early next month. I don't think it is possible to find a
better group of people than the VM List. The professionalism, the
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Pamela Christina in rainy endicott ny
chris...@gdlvm7.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
Hi, just wanted to get this on your calendarswork is underway to
relaunch the VM Workshop as the VM and Linux Workshop.
Where's the Like button? ;-)
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Neale Ferguson ne...@sinenomine.net wrote:
Look for VM Workshop group on Facebook.
Dang... You're GOOD...
Now we get to wait for the announcements of licensing and support fees
for all the various software available for this platform. That has
the potential to take the bloom off the rose.
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote:
If you find that some vendor is trying to price differently on zBX, start
asking questions.
I believe you can count on the readers on this list to do just that,
and in the meantime that assurance permits defensible
I would like that associated with some definitive criteria of system
integration quality assurance; e.g., validated to some level of assurance
that the component plays nicely with other components at various
service levels of their own.
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Alan Altmark
[Quoting nobody in particular...]
Can I take all that to mean I need not locate my ceremonial sword,
then? Good. Now all I have to do is remember to keep my opinions to
myself. dlc out.
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May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly!
Dave_Craig__
'So
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:33 PM, George Henke/NYLICAlan Altmark wrote:
So if an SE's IP address can be pinged from the corporate intranet, does
not that mean anyone from the intranet could do a POR or would the Single
Object Operations portal stop them?
Doesn't quite sound like Best
My concerns are all about IBM Support's ability to detect cracking
activity, and worse, ubercracker exploits on a platform crucial to Z
security that the Z customer has no way of even being aware of. That
goes against my grain and would give me nightmares with the right set
of responsibilities
beliefs, then.
Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.'
__--from_Nightfall_by_Asimov/Silverberg
They obviously have not heard of the Anthropic Principle in quantum
physics which does indeed rearrange the universe.
*David L. Craig d...@radix.net*
Sent by: The IBM z
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:05 PM, David L. Craig d...@radix.net wrote:
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Mike Walter mike.wal...@aonhewitt.com
wrote:
Has the date been changed again since then?
Maybe--no one has actually _read_ the ObamaCare law. ;-) (and you
cannot check only the Federal
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote:
A VTAM question on IBMVM? Since before your sun burned hot in space, I
have awaited a VTAM question on IBMVM.
I do not believe even Chuckie is that old. :-)
'Twas very helpful of the article to bring these point out, as well as
the actual percentages of watts and BTUs related to mainframe gear and
non-mainframe gear including trend analysis. Say, you don't suppose
those data centers were were designed to house all that Internetwork
stuff, do you?
15, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Les Koehler vmr...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
Ah, the beauty of Firefox and AdBlockerPlus!
Les
David L. Craig wrote:
A huge Microsoft ad obliterated the article for 10-15 seconds when I
got there. That by itself was all I really needed to know. This is
one of the most
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Tom Huegel tehue...@gmail.com wrote:
The solution is to eliminate the SSA altogether..
Okay, but don't forget to maintain the records associated with
statutes of limitations as long as necessary.
Scott, would:
Apology accepted. --Darth Vader
make you feel better?
We don't think so, either. :-)
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.com wrote:
Just call me the straight man, Barton... still chewing on my foot. ;-)
Scott Rohling
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at
Indeed. I just polished off my resume. Chris has it, so I guess he
didn't think I needed to see your presentation. But if it's no
trouble, I would like to see what tips you have that might improve the
rascal. And thanks for SHARing. :-)
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Joe Gallaher
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Mike Walter mike.wal...@aonhewitt.com wrote:
Has the date been changed again since then?
Maybe--no one has actually _read_ the ObamaCare law. ;-) (and you
cannot check only the Federal Government, too--local politicians also
like to appear to do stuff that they
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:11:52AM -0500, Michael Short wrote:
I believe he also developed NetRexx, which was a lot
easier to comprehend than JAVA; at least for me.
I do not believe the TOOLS facility has been mentioned
so far. I can't imagine IBM's rediscovery of the business
value of the
I must be getting old, as I can't remember a single
time I accidently told a production system to close
up the shop. Maybe it was starting out as an
operator in a commercial data center with many paying
customers using RJE around the clock, then TSO was
added to the mix. But I learned UNIX well
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 08:35:01AM -0500, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote:
How do you accomplish this change? (Especially with guests O/S's, like
VSE, and timing related service machines, like VMUTIL).
I come into the Data Center, bring down our VSE/ESA 1.7
and 2.2 virtual machines, SET TIMEZONE
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 01:59:16PM -0600, sunny...@wcb.ab.ca wrote:
And our system names are associated with projects
instead of the platform, I choose Mark's script
as an easy approach even there is some human
adjustments needed.:)
This is amazing! No one suggested writing a script
to
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 08:29:01AM -0700, Schuh, Richard wrote:
If you look back in the thread, I am pretty certain
that I made just such a suggestion.
Sorry if I missed it--I was in a bit of a rush. Actually,
I still am...
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May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly!
Dave Craig
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 06:30:08PM -0500, John McKown wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Edward M Martin wrote:
I would suggest to you all, IBM LAWYERS are now watch everyone
involved with this Hercules conversation.
I can say that, 1) it is illegal to run z/VM (pick a version)
under
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 02:39:45AM -0400, Alan Altmark wrote:
I'm not sure what you expect IBM to do.
We have never used ICCF, only CMS for Applications
Development and Production Control. I'm sure you
can understand why. Management has had us stuck
in the 20th Century and now seems to be
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:29:47PM -0400, Alan Altmark wrote:
- The CMS VSAM feature of VSE/VSAM is no longer available. If you don't
have it, you can't get it.
- Someone who already has it cannot give it to you.
- If you already have it, you can keep using it as long as you keep paying
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:00:30AM -0400, David Boyes wrote:
On 5/20/09 4:29 AM, jose raul baron jba...@calculo-sa.es wrote:
- Does VSAM still exist in z/VM 5.4 ?
You can still use it if you have it, but no new licenses are available and
the product has been pulled from marketing. It
The shop I'm supporting still has quite a bit of
Xerox DJDE and XES output generated by COBOL apps
and is looking for alternatives. I couldn't find
anything on IBM-MAIN so I thought I'd just ask
here if anyone knows what is a good modern print
definition approach, especially one that has a
tool
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 02:10:24PM -0400, Richard Troth wrote:
ECKD (today) is an IBM hardware solution for a software problem.
Originally, CKD exposed not only counts and keys (thus the acronym)
but more significantly tracks and records. NO ONE but MVS (and TPF)
has a firm requirement for
I was collecting monitor data on the Monday holiday
to see what idle looks like on our 7060 running
VM/ESA 2.2 and noticed DASD Response Time was being
reported every ten minutes around 4 ms for the most
part, when 1-2 is normal. The average for the whole
day (8 AM to 6 PM) was only 1.6, though.
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 11:55:03PM -0600, Mike Walter wrote:
It's probably listed in one of Melinda's papers, or her fascinating
History of VM. The way I recall it, at one SHARE (maybe in SF?) Sandra
Hassenplug went shopping instead of to the General session. She came
across a roll of
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 04:00:03PM -0500, Gabe Goldberg wrote:
Do people plan to work as long as they're able? Because of enjoyable
jobs? From necessity? For other reasons?
Yes. While it IS enjoyable, even the off hours, the main reason is I got
caught in the dot.com crash, especially
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 08:17:49AM +0100, HARROP, Roy wrote:
I've also seen beige ones - I think they, like the green ones, were made
by someone other than IBM.
I noticed Pirelli on our beige cables.
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May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly!
Dave Craig
- - - - - - - -
I can't believe it, but I cannot find via Google
or the archives or inside www.ibm.com an explanation
of the speeds and color codes of parallel channel
cables. I think gray is 3.0 MBps and blue is 4.5,
but I've no idea what speed the beige|tan|brown
ones are.
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May the LORD God bless you
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:29:59AM -0400, Alan Altmark wrote:
An excellent goal. As a point of comparison, have you ever run Windows
using the Bochs emulator on zLinux? If so, on what machine? (I'd like to
see someone try it on a z10.)
Are you saying or asking if has run Bochs on a
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:59:00AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
Dave, yes, Boch, running Windows NT itself, has been hosted on top of a
zLinux guest, running under z/VM. This feat was accomplished by my
colleague Adam Thornton, who clearly has way too much free time on his
hands. ;-)
While
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:32:58PM -0400, Alan Altmark wrote:
I think you'll find the MP3K is just too slow (CPU speed). That was the
point of my talking about a z10; it's a much faster CPU than even a z9.
But as an experiment to determine feasibility of the technology it would
be ok.
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:19:42AM -0500, Mary Anne Matyaz wrote:
You know, I've been thinking about this and I just don't think I buy this
article, or this hoopla that we've heard for several years about the aging
mainframer and how to replace them and how scarce they are. I just don't see
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 02:00:28PM -0400, David Kreuter wrote:
Was this the stuff 'bout changing CCWs downstream
through one of the DIAG interfaces?
Yes. I believe the exploit was called Hugo. Melinda Varian
had something to do with its analysis. The details were kept
pretty quiet. You can
One of my printers on a VM/ESA 2.2 system has an FCB
name defined that I cannot figure out how to clear.
Any name or number I try causes CP to complain about
the FCB not being found and it drains the printer.
Is there an alternative to finding the field in real
storage and zapping it?
--
May
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:19:40PM -0500, John Franciscovich wrote:
You don't say what kind of printer it is, but if it is an impact printer,
the FCB you specify must be in the image library (IMG file) for that
printer. Issue Q IMG to see the image libraries that are defined on your
system.
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:54:12PM -0500, Alan Altmark wrote:
Try START ... DEFFCB. I don't know if CP will notice or care whether or
not you've used the LOADFCB command. But an impact printer needs an FCB
to print correctly (that's how it knows where channel 1 is located!).
DEFFCB
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 01:05:52PM -0500, David L. Craig wrote:
DEFFCB doesn't get around the problem. I just found the
LOADBUF command writeup and I'm going to try telling it
to use FCB1.
I started with START cuu FCB FCB1 and that seemed to make
it happy, but later a missing interrupt
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
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 10:47:16AM -0400, Jim Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And for those of us who are old enough to remember, this does not
derive from BC Mode (S/360) or EC Mode (S/370)!
How about the ASCII bit, which Linux would find helpful. :)
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May the LORD God bless you
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