Re: openCOBOL

2014-05-05 Thread J. Leslie Turriff
On Monday 05 May 2014 10:49:22 Neale Ferguson wrote: I saw the following on a LinkedIn group: Customers who are proposed to migrate from zOS to zLinux may have a concern about the presence of cobol programs. Porting the cobol code to a different language not only may affect the migration

Re: [ANNOUNCE] s390 31 bit kernel support removal

2014-02-13 Thread J. Leslie Turriff
On Thursday 13 February 2014 18:25:12 Marcy Cortes wrote: Well I understand why the VM and VSE ( I used to work with those kinds of customers in a previous life and moved a boatload of them from old HW to new 937x with vm/esa 370 which actually lowered their bills. ) but putting a modern

Re: HMCs - was:IPLing from tape

2013-08-20 Thread J. Leslie Turriff
On Tuesday 20 August 2013 14:59:09 Alan Altmark wrote: If I ever get the information and the time, maybe I'll write one Sounds like a good topic for a Red Book. If the HMC can really do such things easily (well, as easily as other Linux systems), then it needs to be usably

Re: New DASD

2006-11-03 Thread J Leslie Turriff
But that's always been an issue with traditional minidisks, and as long as one is using non-fullpack minidisks one has to suffer with it. Leslie Rob van der Heij [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/03/06 2:14 am On 11/1/06, J Leslie Turriff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When using DEVNO, the volume's VOLSER

Re: New DASD

2006-11-03 Thread J Leslie Turriff
attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by = reply e-mail and delete the e-mail from your system. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J Leslie Turriff Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 5:36 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: New

Re: Central vs Expanded Storage

2006-11-03 Thread J Leslie Turriff
Unless I remember wrong, expanded storage was (as already stated) composed of slower memory, and was only addressable on 4K boundaries. The simplified addressing scheme made for less expensive storage, and the timestamping made the paging algorithm work better. J. Leslie Turriff VM Systems

Re: New DASD

2006-11-01 Thread J Leslie Turriff
sharing the volume if desired. I use the more conventional MDISK statement only when mapping minidisks. J. Leslie Turriff VM Systems Programmer University of Central Missouri Room 400 Ward Edwards Building Warrensburg MO 64093 660-543-4285 660-580-0523 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ray Mansell [EMAIL

Re: New DASD

2006-11-01 Thread J Leslie Turriff
When using DEVNO, the volume's VOLSER is not consulted, and the volume must not be attached to SYSTEM. The rdev value following the DEVNO keyword refers to the real device number of the volume. Leslie Rob van der Heij [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/01/06 8:54 am On 11/1/06, J Leslie Turriff [EMAIL

Re: PL/I and C cross compilers

2006-09-20 Thread J Leslie Turriff
IBM390 port of GCC (http://www.cozx.com/~dpitts/gcc.html) J. Leslie Turriff VM Systems Programmer Central Missouri State University Room 400 Ward Edwards Building Warrensburg MO 64093 660-543-4285 660-580-0523 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jon Brock [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/20/06 1:30 pm What would interest me

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-28 Thread J Leslie Turriff
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 01:27:06PM -0500, J Leslie Turriff wrote: Okay, now, wait; are you saying that the storage device _does_ have a mechanism for communicating with the Linux filesystem to determine what filesystem pages are still cached in main storage and have not yet been commited

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-28 Thread J Leslie Turriff
to an outside observer (see also Schroedinger's cat). J. Leslie Turriff VM Systems Programmer Central Missouri State University Room 400 Ward Edwards Building Warrensburg MO 64093 660-543-4285 660-580-0523 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/28/06 10:31 am From what I've seen, a lot

Re: MDISK vs DEDICATED DASD

2006-07-28 Thread J Leslie Turriff
I believe that this is also true of minidisks that use the DEVNO rdev format. J. Leslie Turriff VM Systems Programmer Central Missouri State University Room 400 Ward Edwards Building Warrensburg MO 64093 660-543-4285 660-580-0523 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/28/06 12:11 pm

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-26 Thread J Leslie Turriff
of the kernel to be made safe? J. Leslie Turriff VM Systems Programmer Central Missouri State University Room 400 Ward Edwards Building Warrensburg MO 64093 660-543-4285 660-580-0523 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/26/06 9:04 am On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 02:28:53PM +0200, Carsten Otte wrote

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-26 Thread J Leslie Turriff
Okay. I may be wrong, but it seems to me that the majority of Linux applications (probably excepting database packages and such) rely on the filesystem to eventually get their data to disk without them doing anything besides open, write and close operations. J. Leslie Turriff VM Systems

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-25 Thread J Leslie Turriff
Earlier in this thread there was mention of using clustering services to avoid outages while doing backups. Wouldn't that involve the same sort of data-in-flight issues? J. Leslie Turriff VM Systems Programmer Central Missouri State University Room 400 Ward Edwards Building Warrensburg

Re: GCC compiler for CMS now available

2006-05-10 Thread J Leslie Turriff
should return the output from gcc '--help'. I'm running it in a 16M XC-mode CMS virtual machine; the package is residing in an SFS subdirectory which is accessed with FORCERW. Any suggestions? J. Leslie Turriff VM Systems Programmer Central Missouri State University Room 208