21st Century Migrates Mainframe with Clerity
Greetings, Here's one I came across a few minutes ago. Not much information as to the size of the installation, but it's apparently a successful re-hosting. And it only took a year ??? http://www.insurancetech.com/architecture-infrastructure/232301250?cid=nl_ins_dailyelq=98a33fd7dd5849f58313c5f02c397bd6 Thanks, Dave K. -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
XML Generate String Length
Greetings, One of our developers is performing an XML GENERATE with a string that's variable. When it gets above about 100K, it ASRA's. No error codes or anything. Is there a maximum message length ??? 100K seems too small for an IBM limit, so there's probably a parameter somewhere that I'm missing. I'm still looking, but let me know if you can point me to a manual reference. Thanks, Dave K. -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
HYPERPAVs
Greetings again, We're finally starting a trial on HyperPAVs. I just activated an IECIOS member with HYPERPAV=YES. I see the devices display with the -H now, but I don't see any aliases bound to the base. Am I missing something required to activate PAVs ??? We installed the license keys in the Hitachi USP-V. We have 192 bases defined with 64 aliases in each LCU range. I added the HYPERPAV=YES parameter and activated it. Thanks, Dave K. DS QP,SSID=4500 IEE459I 11.46.05 DEVSERV QPAVS 185 HOST SUBSYSTEM CONFIGURATION CONFIGURATION --- - UNIT UNITUA NUM. UA TYPESTATUS SSID ADDR. TYPE - -- -- -- 04500 00 BASE-H 4500 00 BASE 04501 01 BASE-H 4500 01 BASE 04502 02 BASE-H 4500 02 BASE 04503 03 BASE-H 4500 03 BASE ... DS QP,453D,VOLUME IEE459I 11.45.48 DEVSERV QPAVS 129 HOST SUBSYSTEM CONFIGURATION CONFIGURATION --- - UNIT UNITUA NUM. UA TYPESTATUS SSID ADDR. TYPE - -- -- -- 0453D 3D BASE-H 4500 3D BASE 1 DEVICE(S) MET THE SELECTION CRITERIA -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
RMF Summary Reports
Greetings again, I'm trying to get some performance comparison numbers from RMF for tape activity. The summary report looks good for this, but I can't find a more specific description of what DASD RATE and TAPE RATE means. DASD RATE The activity per second for all direct access storage devices included in the report. The value reported corresponds to an accumulation of each DEVICE ACTIVITY RATE field in the Direct Access Device Activity report. TAPE RATE The activity per second for all magnetic tape devices included in the report. The value reported corresponds to an accumulation of each DEVICE ACTIVITY RATE field in the Magnetic Tape Device Activity report. Is this counting channel commands ??? I/O's per second ??? Some combination ??? Something else ??? Thanks again, Dave K. -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
HMC Web Interface
Greetings again, I was recently upgraded to Windows 7. With it came Internet Explorer 8. And with that came an inability to use the HMC web interface. After much consternation and attempts to blame our network folks for blocking ports that I want to use, I was pointed to this. I can't speak to its authenticity, but it purports to be an E-Mail from within IBM. http://www.itjungle.com/fhg/fhg032410-story03.html http://www.itjungle.com/fhg/fhg032410-story03.html Anyway, our desktop people are against letting us use FireFox. Something about not liking how it is patched... They're looking to get us back to IE7 using some witchcraft within Windows 7 that allows it to emulate Windows XP. -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Emulator Sessions Hung
Greetings again, I've been trying to track down the cause of several emulator sessions not coming back alive after IPL's. We have two PC's running EXTRA! 3270 emulators. Each has four emulator sessions defined and running. When we IPL, one set of sessions on one PC come back alive just fine. Of the four sessions on the other PC, only one comes back alive. I double checked all the session definitions. They match. I had EXTRA! reloaded on the PC. I checked for weird things in TN3270 and VTAM, but find nothing to explain this inconsistent behavior. We can bounce the CICS regions these are defined to and they recover the sessions just fine. We only experience the connectivity issue after IPL's. Any ideas on what to check next -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Moving a Dataset to a Non-SMS Volume
Greetings, I'm trying to move a bunch of datasets to a non-SMS managed volume via DSS. I found examples in the manuals, but it's not working: COPY DATASET( - INCLUDE(DataSet.Name)) - OUTDDNAM(TARGET) - ALLDATA(*) - BYPASSACS(*) - NULLMGMTCLAS - NULLSTORCLAS - DELETE - CATALOG TARGET is a DD that just specifies UNIT=SYSDA,VOL=SER=DRTST1. I also tried OUTDYNAM pointing to DRTST1 and DSS allocates a dataset on it, but it apparently isn't the dataset I'm trying to move. Everything I try just moves the dataset to another volume in the same storage pool. Any ideas ??? Thanks, Dave K. -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Staffing Levels for zServer Environments
I know this has been discussed many times in the past, but I thought I'd bring it up again. Does anyone know of any research involving recommendations for staffing levels for z shops ??? And what it is based on; MIPS, Employee count, etc ??? Thanks again, Dave K. -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
LPAR Group Controls
Greetings again, I have two LPARs that I'm trying to group softcap to 76 MSU's. I set the defined capacity in each to 76 and made them both members of the DEFAULT group and set that group capacity to 76. I expect this to allow resources to shift between both LPARs as needed. What I'm observing is the test LPAR looks like it's hard-capped based on its weighting and is not getting the resources the production LPAR doesn't need below the 76 MSU softcap. I still need to ensure more preference is given to the production LPAR, so I believe weighting is appropriate. But I also need the unused resources to be available to the test LPAR. Any ideas of what I'm missing ??? Thanks, Dave K. -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
WLM and FTP GETS From Open Systems
Greetings, I am trying to adjust a WLM service class for an FTP GET process coming from another host. The process is assigned a service class from the interactive workload group. I added a new transaction name to assign a different service class in the interactive group and it was ignored. Then I noticed that the process actually runs as a started task. So I swapped the transaction name rule to the STC group. Still didn't assign the proper service class. The process is picking up the default interactive group service class. This is meant for TSO users, so it has 2nd and 3rd period defined. The FTP usually runs right at the start of our batch cycle, so there aren't many resources available. When the process drops into 2nd and 3rd period, it basically hangs. If I manually increase the service class, it runs fine and completes fairly quickly. Any ideas on how to properly assign a service class to a process like this ??? Thanks, Dave K. -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Virtual Tapes and Esoterics
Greetings, We're in the midst of a migration to virtual tape. I defined the virtual devices as 3590's. I assigned them esoterics so we can direct some to be replicated to a remote virtual tape device. Replication is based on data written to certain devices. Things started out great. These devices are fast. But now I find when I run a JOB with multiple tape allocations in one step specifying the same esoteric, they all try to mount on the same device. Is this normal ??? I don't recall ever seeing this before with our other devices. I ran the JOB again specifying the generic unit name and they allocated separate devices and the JOB ran good. Any pointers are appreciated. Thanks, Dave K. -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
CEAServer Character Special File
Greetings, I came across this while trying to expand a /var linear file. crwxrwxrwx 1 BPXDFLTU BPXDFLTG 6, 0 Jan 14 2009 CEAServer* Since DSS likes to restore at the defined size, I defined a new VAR linear file and mounted it and copied all the entries from /var. This character special file won't copy. I don't know what this is for other than Common Event Adapter. I searched the archives and find a couple references to the process, but not this file nor how to manage it. If I just leave it out of the new /var, will the process regenerate it ??? Thanks, Dave K. -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
HYPERPAV Definitions
I've been trying to find doc that my meager intellect can understand, but alas, I have failed yet again... I defined a 2107 control unit. I defined 192 3390B devices behind it. I defined 64 3390A devices behind it. During the prompts for the 3390A devices, HCD asks: Parameter/ FeatureValue + WLMPAV Yes Is Yes the proper response for HYPERPAV ??? I would expect that to be proper for Dynamic PAV, but since this is my first foray into this topic, I'm confused. The manuals I've come across aren't particularly revealing on this topic either. Any guidance is appreciated. Thanks, Dave K. -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
HYPERPAV Support on Hitachi Disk
Greetings, I'm researching using HYPERPAV on some new Hitachi disk we're getting. I'm coming across mixed indications of whether HYPERPAV is supported on non-IBM DS8* arrays. I read one post in the archives hinting that EMC is supporting it as of mid-2008. But what about Hitachi ??? And is this an added cost feature ??? One paper I read seemed to indicate that, but it also seemed to indicate it was an added cost feature of the array, not the OS. Thanks, Dave K. -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Mainframe Hall of Fame
From a zJournal E-Mail that just came in... MAINFRAME HALL OF FAME Seventeen new members have been added to the Mainframe Hall of Fame. Click here to see who they are! http://www.zjournal.com/redir.cfm?rid=1295 -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Announcement for UNICOM, Macro 4, SoftLanding and Eden Customers
I came across this in a z/Journal E-Mail article today: http://www.zjournal.com/index.cfm?section=news February 18, 2009 :: Important Announcement for UNICOM, Macro 4, SoftLanding and Eden Customers From Corry Hong, Founder, President and CEO of UNICOM Group: I am delighted to formally announce the acquisition of Macro 4 plc by UNICOM Systems, which closed in January 2009. I would like to take this opportunity to underscore our continued commitment to deliver the highest standards of software and sevices to our customers. This acquisition brings together two strong organizations, each with a reputation for technical excellence and dedication to customer service. Together we will continue to drive forward innovation and provide an even greater range of market-leading solutions. -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Website Blacklists
Greetings, I came across a weird situation late last week. I tried to reply to a post via the web interface and our netnanny software blocked it. I E-Mailed our security folks to ask why and they said they got an updated blacklist that classifies bama.ua.edu under the category of Alcohol. I understand it's a college, but Has anyone else seen this ??? -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
PSF and APKACIF
Greetings, A couple years ago, I was researching the relationship between PSF and the APKACIF module within it. At the time, IBM was coming out with a new release of PSF which decoupled APKACIF. If you wanted APKACIF, you had to buy the Enhanced ACIF offering. We don't use PSF and acquired it only to be able to use APKACIF. I don't know anything about the product or the APKACIF module. A 3rd party vendor said we needed it for their process, so we got it. Our release of z/OS 1.9 came with the newest release of PSF integrated. This is missing the APKACIF module. Now we either buy Enhanced ACIF which essentially doubles our monthly bill for this product set or we revert to our previous release of PSF (3.4 I believe). IBM won't assure compatibility of PSF 3.4 with z/OS 1.9. In discussing this with our vendor, the possibility of dropping PSF and picking up Enhanced ACIF alone was brought up. In our previous discussions, I remember Enhanced ACIF as only being available as an extension of PSF. In other words, not available by itself. Does anyone else license this product like this ??? I don't want to commit to a strategy that isn't possible nor reasonable. Thanks, Dave K. -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
IRS Mainframe Not Secure Enough
From SearchDataCenter today IRS MAINFRAME NOT SECURE ENOUGH, GOVERNMENT REPORT SAYS Mark Fontecchio, News Writer The federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a report detailing information security issues at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and among them are lax mainframe management monitoring. This isn't the first time the GAO has found issues with the IRS' data centers and mainframes. Last year the GAO found 115 weaknesses in information security at the IRS. To the agency's credit, 49 of them have been fixed. But this isn't a two-year thing. There have been information security problems at the IRS for years. http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/mainframe-blog/irs-mainframe-n ot-secure-enough-government-report-says/?track=NL-576ad=683880asrc=EM_ NLN_5568886uid=279318 -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
IBM mainframe migration boosts OLTP, batch processing
From SearchDataCenter today Mark Fontecchio, News Writer For some companies, making the decision to migrate off the mainframe is tough, but not for Meritz Financial Information Services. Even though the company added capacity frequently, at peak times it still encountered application slowdown. So Meritz took the plunge and dumped big iron for Itanium-based Hewlett-Packard Co. Superdome. But the process of migrating off the mainframe onto Superdomes was hardly easy. Meritz had several hurdles to overcome, including doing an inventory of all its mainframe data, choosing an application migration strategy and grappling with less-than-perfect documentation. http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid80_gci13 43627,00.html?track=NL-576ad=682564asrc=EM_NLN_5496982uid=279318 -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Computer History Museum
Here's an interesting one from Intelligent Enterprise today - Computer History Museum Tour in Pictures http://www.intelligententerprise.com/channels/information_management/sho wArticle.jhtml?articleID=212501470cid=nl_ie_week By Doug Henschen Our favorite event venue of 2008? Hands down it was the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. Take the tour in pictures. http://www.intelligententerprise.com/galleries/showImage.jhtml?galleryID =23imageID=1articleID=212501470 -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
IFL Extended to OpenSolaris
From IBM Announcements today... Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) authorization is expanded to include the OpenSolaris operating system http://www.ibm.com/vrm/newsletter_10577_3590_95481_email_DYN_1IN/ngn1227 27252 -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
OSA ICC Consoles
Greetings, I searched the archives and didn't find anything that might help explain what I'm observing. I'm at the end of a console replacement project and had an issue after a POR last night. None of the PC consoles came back online after the POR/IPL. All had to be varied as consoles and then MSTCONS on the master. The operators didn't mention how NIP went, but we've still got the old 3270 console attached so I assume they got NIP messages there. Anyway, after the IPL, all of the PC consoles came up with the OSA information page. None were consoles. I can imagine the POR caused all timeout information to be lost on the card, but these PCs were all powered on at IPL. They are all defined in the OSA cards by IP and LUname. All are defined in CONSOL00. Do I need to add VARY commands to COMMND00 ??? I didn't catch that in the manuals. How are you managing yours around IPL's ??? Thanks, Dave K. -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
z990 Hardware Withdrawal
And so passes another generation Hardware withdrawal: IBM eServer zSeries 990 systems, features, and upgrades http://www.ibm.com/vrm/newsletter_10577_2783_67113_email_DYN_1IN/cyf1227 27252 -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
SMF Under VM
Greetings, We are getting ready for our semi-annual DR test this week-end. One of the things that came out of our last test was we found we couldn't generate our usual utilization reports from the SMF data that was returned. I'm not the capacity planning person and I don't know much about what he does with the data, but the %CPU BUSY fields seem to be blank. I think there were a couple other fields acting like that as well. We run in LPAR mode at home and as a guest under VM at our DR site. The SMF data is further massaged and loaded to some sort of database by MXG processes. From what I understand, we just use canned processes to extract SMF, load databases and create reports. But since we don't use VM at home and have no experience with it, maybe we're just not understanding where this data is in that environment ??? Is there any documentation that specifies what SMF data is available under VM and what is not ??? With respect to %CPU BUSY, I understand it's virtual under VM, but there still has to be some method of gauging how much CPU a guest is using, isn't there ??? How do VM shops report this ??? Thanks again, Dave K. -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
FW: NYSE Undertakes IBM Mainframe Migration to Unix and Linux
Greetings, About six months ago, a story appeared in SearchDataCenter concerning the NYSE migration to UNIX/LINUX platforms. Since it's been six months, I wrote to the author this morning requesting a follow up. He responded almost immediately that he'd look into it. I'll post again when I hear anything new. Feel free to contact the author as well. More responses might indicate a high level of interest in this kind of story ??? Thanks, Dave K. NYSE undertakes IBM mainframe migration to Unix and Linux By Mark Fontecchio, News Writer 14 May 2007 | SearchDataCenter.com The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is migrating off a 1,600 millions of instructions per second (MIPS) mainframe to IBM System p servers running AIX and x86 Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) servers running Linux, with the first part of the move going live today. -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
PSI CONSOLIDATES IBM MAINFRAME
From SearchDataCenter today PSI CONSOLIDATES IBM MAINFRAME, UNIX, LINUX AND WINDOWS ON SINGLE BOX | Mark Fontecchio, News Writer Platform Solutions Inc.'s new System64 DS and ES servers run not only IBM z/OS but also Intel Itanium operating systems. Mind the wrap: http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid80_gc i1274056,00.html?track=NL-576ad=606082asrc=EM_NLT_2269328uid=279318 -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
SAS ITRM vs MXG
Greetings, Preface: I am not a performance analyst. I have no idea what these products do, hence my question. Our capacity analysis team is looking at SAS ITRM 3.1 functionality. In breezing through the synopsis: http://www.sas.com/solutions/itresource/fact.pdf this reads like extensions intended to replace MXG. What's your opinion ??? Can anyone help enlighten me on this ??? Thanks, Dave K. -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Chips the Size of Dust ??
From Intelligent Enterprise today: IBM's Computing Breakthrough Promises Chips the Size of Dust By Thomas Claburn IBM's new techniques may well lead to the use of atoms for digital storage, which could store the entire contents of YouTube--about 1,000 trillion bits of data. http://www.intelligententerprise.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=2018033 83 -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Load Profile Icon on a Service Processor
Greetings, A couple weeks ago, we lost our network connection from the HMC to the service processors in our z9. Comedy of errors. Our Operations people were mid-IPL when they realized the HMC was unusable. When I went to IPL from the service processor, I had trouble remembering how to fire up the image from there. None of the load icons were in the GROUPs section. I finally figured it out after speed reading a manual, but I thought it would be nice to try to make it simpler. Basically make it look and work like the HMC. When I tried to create an icon in the GROUPs area on one of the service processors, I don't get an option to create a new icon. I was kind of expecting it to work similarly to the HMC. I admit it's been a long time since I've had to define anything new on the HMC and I know I have a problem intuitively walking through the process, but I don't see a way to define a load profile in the GROUPs area of the service processors. Does anyone know if it's possible and can suggest a way to do it ??? Thanks, Dave K. -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
SearchDataCenter Article
MAINFRAME SHOPS HELD HOSTAGE, ITANIUM ALLIANCE SAYS Mark Fontecchio, News Writer After joining the Mainframe Migration Alliance this week, an Itanium Solutions Alliance spokesperson discusses why migrating off the mainframe to Itanium is a sound choice. http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid80_gci1265623,00. html?track=NL-576ad=598272asrc=EM_NLT_1860683uid=279318 Mind the wrap... I'm speechless.. There's a radio show here in Denver; The Dom Jane Show that has a regular segment called Idiots on Parade. I believe this guy qualifies. -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
MAINFRAME CUSTOMER BASE SEEMS TO SHRINK
Here's an interesting SearchDataCenter interview of our friend and past IBM-MAIN poster Vincent Re of CA: = MAINFRAME GURU LOOKS ON AS CUSTOMER BASE SEEMS TO SHRINK Mark Fontecchio, News Writer In this QA, a CA software architect talks about the mainframe's importance, the platform's image problems and why its customer base might be dwindling despite increasing revenues. http://go.techtarget.com/r/1543309/279318 -or- http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid80_gci1259784,00. html?track=NL-576ad=591778asrc=EM_NLT_1543309uid=279318 -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
IPLINFO Question
Sorry to clutter the list with this, but it might be useful for others: We just got through with a DR test. During this test, management wanted to emulate as close as possible the resources we would have available at the DR hotsite based on the current contract with a DR service provider. To do this, the service provider was to limit CPU available to our z/OS image. It looked like they did this, but when we execute Mark Zelden's fine freeware IPLINFO EXEC, the results appear to be for the entire complex and not just for our image under VM. Is this correct ??? Is there a better way to get a MIPS or MSU calculation from just our single z/OS image ??? -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
3584 Tape Library Power Source
Lot's to admire about them Aussies I'm told this could run a 3584 Tape Library though. (Gratuitous attempt to redirect On Topic). From SearchDataCenter today: I'LL TAKE A BEER AND 2KW, PLEASE | BLOG Researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia, with the help of the good people at Fosters, have successfully used brewing waste to generate electrical power. http://serverspecs.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/05/03/ill-take-a-beer-and-2 kw-please/?track=NL-455ad=588873asrc=EM_NLN_1408512uid=279318 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/03/microbial_fuel_cell/ -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Attractive Alternatives to Mainframes
I sure hope they do a follow-up on this one early next year. Attractive Alternatives to Mainframes Are Breaking Their Decades-Old Hold on Wall Street http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197007742 -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
z/OS 1.7 Upgrade of JES2 Exit 52
Greetings, I am trying to convert a JES2 EXIT2 to EXIT52. When I enable the exit, it gives me: *** INCORRECT JCL/JECL RETURNED BY EXIT 2/52 ** $HASP106 JOB DELETED BY JES2 OR CANCELLED BY OPERATOR BEFORE EXECUTION This exit is supposed to scan JOB cards searching for a USER= parameter. If it doesn't find one, it puts a comma at the end of the last JOB card and inserts a line with the USER= parameter on it. The USERID is formatted based on the first 5 characters of the JOB name. I get the comma on the last JOB card, but there's something about the inserted card that JES2 doesn't like. MVC X052JXWR,USRCARD USE5JOB MVC X052JXWR+8(5),JRWSJNAM ... USRCARD DCCL8'// USER=' The original exit used JCTJNAME for the JOB name. I don't see that in the new macros, so I found JRWSJNAM that looks to hold the same information. I'm thinking this field is the problem, but I'm not certain and time is my enemy. Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks ! -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Jes2 Exit52 Again
Greetings again, I'm having a hard time getting this exit to work. My assembler skills are pretty much non-existent. I'm trying convert an old JES2 EXIT2 to work as as an EXIT52. Following the manuals, IBM's sample exit and the old exit, I put this together. I yanked all the doc so it would post without being too terribly long. It abends S0C4 whenever it is executed. I don't see where it's wandering off, but that's no surprise. If anyone can spare some time to help, I'd appreciate it again. I originally had the load of register 5 wrong, so it errored off. It was working up until the point where it formatted and inserted a jobcard though. I'm guessing there's something wrong with the address in R5. More likely the way I'm using it. The manuals say X052JXWR is supposed to point to an area to be used to format an inserted card. I also backed it off to look like the old exit and set R5 to the address starting at byte 8 of R1, but that S0C4's too. Thanks again, HASX52A TITLE 'USER EXIT 52 MODULE -- PROLOG (MODULE COMMENT BLOCK)' TITLE 'USER EXIT 52 MODULE -- PROLOG ($HASPGBL)' COPY $HASPGBLCOPY HASP GLOBALS TITLE 'USER EXIT 52 MODULE -- PROLOG ($MODULE)' HASX52A $MODULE ENVIRON=(USER,ANY),C RMODE=ANY, C IBMJES2=SAMPLE, C TITLE='USER EXIT 52 MODULE',C $BUFFER,GENERATE HASP BUFFER DSECT C $CADDR, GENERATE HASP CADDR DSECT C $HASPEQU, GENERATE HASP EQU DSECT C $HCCT, Generate HASP HCCT DSECTC $HCT, GENERATE HASP HCT DSECT C $JCT, GENERATE HASP JCT DSECT C $JRW, Generate HASP JRW DSECT C $MIT, GENERATE HASP MIT DSECT C $MITETBL, Generate HASP MTE dsect C $PADDR, GENERATE HASP PADDR DSECT C $PARMLST, GENERATE HASP PADDR DSECT C $PCE, GENERATE HASP PCE DSECT C $PSV, GENERATE HASP PSV DSECT C $USERCBS, GENERATE HASP USERCBDS DSECTC $XECB, GENERATE HASP XECB DSECTC $XIT, Generate HASP XIT DSECT C $XPLGenerate HASP XPL DSECT TITLE 'USER EXIT 52 MODULE -- JOB STATEMENT SCAN' USING JRW,R7 JRW addressability USING XPL,R8 XPL addressability SPACE 1 EXIT52 $ENTRY BASE=R12,SAVE=YES Provide exit routine entry point LRR12,R15 Load base Register USING JCT,R10 Provide JCT addressability TMX052COND,X052SECSecond time thru for this card ? BNZ USERFND Yes, get out TMJCTJOBFL,JCTBATCH Is this a batch JOB? BZUSERFND No, get out L R2,0(R1)Put the address of the current JOB * statement in Register 2 CLC COMMENT,0(R2) Is this a comment card ?? BEX2RC00 Yes, skip this card LAR2,3(,R2) Start scan on card column 4 LAR3,68 Set scan limit to stop after col 72 L R4,4(R1)Put the address of the exit flag * byte(RDWFLAGX) in Register 4 L R5,X052JXWR Put the address of the X052JXWR * field in Register 5 XC0(1,R5),0(R5) Clear first byte to use as a flag CHK4USER DS 0H CLI 0(R2),C' 'Is this a blank ? BNE CHKEQUAL No, continue with other tests * Yes, why is there a blank here ?? TM 0(R5),OPNQUOTE+OPNPAREN Are we within quotes or * parens? BNZ CHK4U01 Yes, Blank within quotes or parens * is OK. Ignore it and continue scan * at next character * Else TM 0(R5),POSPARM Has a positional parm been found ?? BNZ ADDCARD Yes, then we have found the end * Else B CHK4U01 Continue scan at next character CHKEQUAL DS 0H CLI 0(R2),C'='Is this part of a positional parm ?? BNE CONTINUE No, continue with other tests
EMC SNAP Copy on Datasets
Greetings again, We use EMC's SNAP copy on a couple very large datasets. This offloads the copy to the array, frees up the initiator and lets our JOB stream move on once the SNAP command is issued to the array. The difference being a couple seconds vs. a couple hours. The physical copy is not complete in a couple seconds, but the software on the array hides that fact. Since we started using it, we've had issues with our SRDF process. There are always several dozen volumes in HELD status when SRDF comes along to replicate to our DR site. It turns out SNAP copies of datasets require a manual RELEASE command be issued for each of the target volumes. A SNAP copy of an entire volume automatically releases the target volume once the SNAP completes. I don't know why there is a difference, but there is. Has anyone else used this feature ??? Do you experience the same issues ??? Have you come up with a way around it ??? Thanks, Dave K. -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
KOREAN INSURER RETIRES 7,000 MIPS MAINFRAMES
Greetings, Another interesting story today on SearchDataCenter. This is the biggest one I've read about so far. Thanks, Dave K. === KOREAN INSURER RETIRES 7,000 MIPS MAINFRAMES | Matt Stansberry, Site Editor Korean insurer Samsung Life Insurance shut down its IBM zSeries mainframes, shifting a 7,000 MIPS workload, including loan, contract, and payment systems to two HP Itanium 2-based Superdomes running HP-UX. http://go.techtarget.com/r/514132/279318 --or-- http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid80_gc i1214459,00.html?track=NL-576ad=563694asrc=EM_NLT_514132uid=279318 -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
ROI and Mainframe Migration Analysis Report
Here's an interesting one that came in my morning E-Mails: ROI and Mainframe Migration Analysis Report Sponsored by: HP A major provider of support services for business and industry replaced their mainframe with a cluster of integrity UNIX servers. This report examines the migration project in detail, including the processes that were used, the cost reductions that were realized, the choice of partners, risk mitigation and the business benefits that resulted from the project. Download this report now: http://go.techtarget.com/r/492109/279318 -or- http://searchdatacenter.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1154349695_883.html?src=R U_sdc_08_29_06_1li=27469 -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: ROI and Mainframe Migration Analysis Report
The link to this paper requires you to sign up for a spam list, so you might consider that before following the link. Sorry. -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
MIGRATION FROM THE MAINFRAME: CAN DO, BUT NO, THANKS
From a SearchDataCenter E-Mail this morning. MIGRATION FROM THE MAINFRAME: CAN DO, BUT NO, THANKS | TIP For the last fifteen years, some commentators have predicted the demise of the mainframe, as customers move away from mainframes to Wintel or Linux/Unix platforms; and for fifteen years, for very good reasons, mainframe users have failed to do so. http://go.techtarget.com/r/268589/279318 or http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid80_gci1189800,00.html?track=NL-451ad=552513USCA -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
MAINFRAME LABOR POOL
Here's one I came across in a SearchDataCenter E-Mail. Just to be clear, you ladies still look marvelous to me. But the guys are definitely showing some mileage. Have a great day !!! == MAINFRAME LABOR POOL BOLSTERED BY IBM CONTEST | Joe Spurr, News Writer Mainframes aren't going away any time soon. What is fading, though, is the platform's aging labor force, whose wrinkles worry hiring managers that are hustling to snag young mainframe talent. http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid80_gci118,00.html?track=NL-451ad=552499 -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
z8 ???
Greetings again, We're in another cycle of hardware upgrades. It seems our z800 tapped out after a frenzy of migrations from tape to DASD in order to prepare for a lights-out type of operation while the bird flu pandemonium was in full swing. Enough of the history... Now that we're looking for a new machine, does anyone out there with their finger on the pulse of IBM know anything about a possible date for a z8 size processor ??? IBM did it with the z900 and then the z990, now I'm predicting they'll follow the z9 with a z8. The timing is the problem for me. I'm trying to hold off a z890 purchase so our hardware doesn't go obsolete during shipment. Any crystal balls in the audience ??? Thanks, Dave K. -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Migrating Off IBM Mainframes
Greetings, From SearchDataCenter yesterday: Simon Schuster Inc. plans to save $1 million a year on hardware costs and licensing fees as a result of migrating off its old IBM mainframes. http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid80_gci1172792,00.html?track=NL-451ad=544960 I'd like to see a follow up to this next fall to see how well they fared. -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Migrating Off IBM Mainframes - Part 2
Greetings again, Another link on that page pointed to a company that already made this migration. This story is from March 2005. Has anybody heard how well it worked for them and how well it's working now ??? Ancor IT director Kelly Colohan had a decision to make. Informed by IBM that it would no longer support MVS 2.10, the operating system he was running on his mainframe, Colohan had two choices. He could either stick with Big Blue by buying a new mainframe, or bump his ancillary servers up to the varsity and migrate. http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid80_gci1066535,00.html -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
z/OS 1.6 Withdrawal Date
Infrequent Greetings, I'm trying to get moving on a z/OS upgrade. Using IBM's original stated direction of supporting four z/OS releases concurrently, I planned to upgrade to z/OS 1.6 this spring. I just reviewed the z/OS withdrawal dates and 1.6 is proposed to be withdrawn September 2007. This is a year earlier than I had planned and a year earlier that what I thought was IBM's stated direction. It's currently listed as a proposed date, so it might extend, but I need a more solid date in order to plan properly. I don't recall seeing anything that would indicate IBM has changed their four release policy. So what gives ??? Is everyone else upgrading every year ??? Thanks, Dave K. -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Mainstar
Greetings, I just came across this in an E-Mail from IBM isource. Hm http://www-306.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/4/897/ENUS906-004/ENUS906-004.PDF Developer Relations withdrawal: Mainstar Family of Products - Replacements available Overview Effective January 10, 2006, IBM will withdraw from marketing the following products under the Developer Marketing Partnerships-Remarketing Software program. Program number Program name 5620-FGY Catalog RecoveryPlus 5620-FHA Backup Recovery Manager 5620-FHB ASAP 5620-FHD Catalog BaseLine 5620-FHE Incremental ABARS 5620-FHI HSM Fast Audit 5620-FHJ Tape Audit 5620-FHK Catalog DASD Audit 5620-FRL HSM FastAudit-Media Controls Replacement product information Program number Program name 5619-FTW Catalog Management 5619-FTX Business Resiliency 5619-FTY DFSMShsmä Solutions For additional information, refer to Software Announcement 206-004, dated January 10, 2006. This withdrawal applies to the IBM Developer Marketing Partnership relationship only. Other relationships between Mainstar Software Co. and IBM worldwide, are unaffected. -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
z/OS 1.4 Slowdowns
Greetings, I'm having an issue with z/OS 1.4 slowdowns. We've got a product extension we're testing that appears to be causing the issues, but I'm having a hard time associating the two. I'm monitoring this through Omegamon. Basically, once the testing begins, I see the product begin to use more CPU than normal, but not so much that it is alarming. Then undispatched tasks start growing and MVS overhead shoots up to 30 - 50 - 90 %. Once testing stops, it takes several minutes for the system to recover and stabilize. For those who run Java, how do performance issues manifest themselves ??? I'm not seeing a correlation between resources and an address space. In Omegamon, MVS overhead is defined as anything that cannot be associated with an address space, so it's a pretty nebulous resource. Any ideas are greatly appreciated. Thanks, Dave K. -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
