On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:37:38 +0900, Timothy Sipples
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There are other effects. For example, another wise thing IBM did in my
opinion is to release Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for z/OS Management Console. This
product is available for download at no additional charge to anyone --
I at least implied in an earlier post that IBM acquired Dovetail. Some
corrections:
1. The correct name of the company is Dovetailed Technologies, LLC. Their
Web site is http://www.dovetail.com
2. IBM acquired JZOS, the Java batch technology, not the whole company.
I regret the errors. My
Hello Gil,
One thing you never do with IEPUPDTE input or managed datasets is access
them with any editor that modifies line numbers.
Even though the source or macro member has line numbers, you can only EDIT
them in UNNUM mode.
I also recommend that you only access such data using a screen
Mark
Indeed I did spot it[1] - which is only by chance since there's no guarantee
I review each contribution in each thread in exhaustive detail. Then I
looked for the opportunity for an unwary reader to become confused over the
two possible meanings. I couldn't find it - so I - thought to -
Let's see if this version gets through whatever was the unintelligible
problem with the last effort!
Mark
What... no takers, no war? I'm disappointed. An *IBM representative*
used
the U word not once, but twice. Does that mean it's officially ok to
use
again
casually when the
Mark
There is no question that yours is a cursed post. I have sent two versions
of my reply and both have produced a fatwa condemning it in the following
terms: rejected because it contains an attachment of type
'APPLICATION/OCTET-STREAM'. for which I was certainly not responsible.
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 02:50 -0500, Bruce Hewson wrote:
++SRCUPD and ++MACUPD via IEPUPDTE is only usable when the original data
is supplied with line numbers that are guaranteed never to be changed.
Trusting soul Bruce ???.
I wouldn't trust any vendor that far - I always refit usermods using
Yes, I was encountering issues too, and reported it to IBM. However, it
appears to be working now.
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Hi
If someone can suggest a HSM command to get a list of all ML2 datasets
on an ML2 volume
( we would need the dataset name and the migrated dataset name )
We could generate list's but can't find out the migrated dataset names
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ISIS Information Systems
Try List TTOC - sample below with output.
Unless I'm missing something, migrated datasets are listed under their
catalogued dataset names. You may be thinking of HSM Backup tapes which have a
HSM name associated with each backup version.
LIST TTOC(H10037) DSI
Bruce,
You bring up many of the limitations of IEBUPDTE, which leads to another
option. Stop using IEBUPDTE and go to full ++SRC for user exits. This means
the sample is the entire exit with comment blocks were we suggest you place
your user-code. The downside is that if we (the vendor) change
Resending, rejected the first time. Something about OCTET stream.
Snipped original content.
Here's a simple, but handy piece of REXX code. Change hlq to match
your shop's naming conventions. From 3.4 or option 6, invoke as: %HTRUE
ZDB2IUS.P.DSQDBCTL.DSQTSCT3.D070515.T001229
Sebastian Welton wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:37:38 +0900, Timothy Sipples
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are other effects. For example, another wise thing IBM did in my
opinion is to release Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for z/OS Management Console. This
product is available for download at no
From Timothy's Quote
Yet another effect is that BT/Is (Basement Tinkerers and Inventors)
who create innovative z/OS software products might find that their young
companies are worth more. There's at least one more company, IBM,
interested in buying certain software companies. A company's buyer
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:37:11 -0500, Russell Witt wrote:
And should these user-exits be SMP controlled to begin with?
YES
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Dave Kopischke wrote:
Mark Zelden wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:07:28 +0200, Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark
There is no question that yours is a cursed post. I have sent two versions
of my reply and both have produced a fatwa condemning it in the following
terms: rejected because it contains an attachment of type
Hi
Thank you very much, we will try out.
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I share your pessimism on this, we aren't going to have a z/OS (or a clone) to
play with. IBM has made it clear enough - if you want to develop pay big buck
or you can play with MVS 3.8 if you are just a hobbyist. I guess all that is
left
to hobbyists is to start hacking the guts of MVS 3.8
I'm sure most financial people have heard of the Hogan Integrated
Banking system. Back in the 70's Bernie Hogan did exactly what was
discussed here - he and a couple of programmers would spend their nights
and weekends in downtown Dallas at I believe RepublicBank. In the end
they received a
I remember one of the first projects I worked on as a systems
programmer was updating JES2 with a level set Apar. This was back
around 1979, using SMP Release 3. The JES2 updates were one big
IEBUPDTE stream. I never realized that SPF did an automatic renumber
of the data. Since JES
Indeed, if we look at the Candle acquisition, the investments in those
products have been reinvigorated.As just one
example, we here in Japan were waiting years (decades?) for OMEGAMON
to
get full Japanese language translation
That's true, but none too compelling (to me) because Candle
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:37:11 -0500, Russell Witt wrote:
You bring up many of the limitations of IEBUPDTE, which leads to another
option. Stop using IEBUPDTE and go to full ++SRC for user exits. This means
the sample is the entire exit with comment blocks were we suggest you place
your user-code.
Greetings,
I am working on sizing a new processor to carry us through the next few
years. During the discussions, It was asked if the additional capacity
that we are adding, If there is available Capacity to handle a
Relational Database. We are not using a Relational Database today.
My
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:50:00 -0500, Bruce Hewson wrote:
One thing you never do with IEPUPDTE input or managed datasets is access
them with any editor that modifies line numbers.
ISPF's numbering facilities can be useful in providing valid
numbers for inserted lines.
Although it can be done,
Vary true ... There used to be a product (it may still exist for all I
know) that was a competitor to IBM's DFHSM
ASM2 was eventually acquired by CA and become CA-DISK, then Brightstore
CA-DISK, and now CA Disk Backup and Restore. I think there was an
intermediate acquisition that I have
ASM2 was a Cambridge product, Cambridge was acquired by UCCEL at about
the same time that SKK (ACF2) was. Cambridge had the exclusive
marketing rights to the SKK product line in the US at the time. UCCEL
was then acquired by CA about 6-9 months later.
Wayne Driscoll
Product Developer
JME
No!
It is far from correct to conclude that, and I'm sure that's not
at all what Timothy meant. We have a really substantial
investment in z/OS development spread across several sites
worldwide. Much of that development has been and continues to be
for the MVS part of z/OS.
Clem Clarke
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Vary true ... There used to be a product (it may still
Bruce Black wrote:
Vary true ... There used to be a product (it may still exist for all
I know) that was a competitor to IBM's DFHSM
ASM2 was eventually acquired by CA and become CA-DISK, then
Brightstore CA-DISK, and now CA Disk Backup and Restore. I think
there was an intermediate
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:04:28 -0400 Mark Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
:Bruce Black wrote:
: Vary true ... There used to be a product (it may still exist for all
: I know) that was a competitor to IBM's DFHSM
: ASM2 was eventually acquired by CA and become CA-DISK, then
: Brightstore CA-DISK,
Binyamin Dissen wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:04:28 -0400 Mark Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
:Bruce Black wrote:
: Vary true ... There used to be a product (it may still exist for all
: I know) that was a competitor to IBM's DFHSM
: ASM2 was eventually acquired by CA and become CA-DISK, then
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On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:04:28 -0400 Mark Jacobs
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No!
It is far from correct to conclude that, and
This appears to be getting a life of it's own on vse-l now (which is
also searchable on Google), complete with a sidetrack about Oracle on
VM! Careful what you wish for... :)
Timothy Sipples wrote:
Rich Smrcina says:
I should start putting Linux on z/VSE in random blog posts to see if I
can
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:53:08 -0600, Steve Comstock
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
this is because DSNAME is one of the possible
responses to the message put out by receive,
not part of the receive command
Ya know, I'd feel very bad about missing that except so did 3 other
system programmers here.
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:38:04 -0400, Bruce Black [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Vary true ... There used to be a product (it may still exist for all I
know) that was a competitor to IBM's DFHSM
ASM2 was eventually acquired by CA and become CA-DISK, then Brightstore
CA-DISK, and now CA Disk Backup and
In my experience, fewer new sysprogs know about IEBUPDTE because they
have no need to run it on their own. Serverpac creates jobs that many newer
people just submit and if they get the desired return code have no idea what
they ran because they never scroll through the job. So even if Serverpac
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:09:18 -0600, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you
wrote:
Researchers at Intel are working on ways to mask the intricate
functionality of massive multicore chips to make it easier for computer
makers and software developers to adapt to them, said Jerry Bautista,
co-director of
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:57:28 -0500, Patrick O'Keefe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now, if you're offering to provide the training for free, ... :-)
Pat O'Keefe
Free: A wonderful PDF on Steve Comstock's website.
Free: www.cbttape.org has a wealth of examples.
Free:
Patrick O'Keefe wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:53:08 -0600, Steve Comstock
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
this is because DSNAME is one of the possible
responses to the message put out by receive,
not part of the receive command
Ya know, I'd feel very bad about missing that except so did 3
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:57:28 -0500, Patrick O'Keefe wrote:
...
I probably just need more training ...
We can arrange that!
...
...
Now, if you're offering to provide the training for free, ... :-)
Oh, I'm sure he is.
And I'll bet he'd love to buy you lunch while he's at it.
/sarcasm
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On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:01:06 -0500 Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
: but I don't think CA
:was the original developer.
I think you will have to offer at least 30 to 1 for anyone to take that bet.
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Here's what I do to pass a DB2 plan name to a subroutine 10 level below the
step-level prog:
//SET PLAN=PlanName
...
//DB2PLAN DD DISP=(,PASS),SPACE=(0,0),DSN=amp;PLAN
The DSN expands into SYSx.Txx.RAxxx..PlanName.Hxx, and so
the subroutine issues RDJFCB against
Timothy Sipples [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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OK, moving on to the separate issue you raise. It's an excellent question.
As said, to a first order effect, IBM buying Candle (for example) did not
expand the mainframe market. And what I think you mean is expanding the
snip
CA acquired ASM2 so long ago that I forgot where they got it from - but
I don't think CA was the original developer.
/snip
I can think of very few products *EVER* developed by CA. Including their
very 1st product CA-SORT.
Their old motto Software Superior by Design should have read
On Jun 14, 2007, at 8:07 AM, Mark Zelden wrote:
Mark and others:
I had two posts rejected because of the same issue. One was probably
legit and the other I couldn't find anything in it that was wrong.
Darren must be experimenting again:(
Ed
I think Manage/SMF was one of them. Not content to have a very useful
product, they imbedded it into CA-JARS. In the last couple of years it
was been split out again as SMF Director, but they want too many $$$ for
a functionality that most sysprogs developed a workaround for 20 years
ago.
Bob
On 14 Jun 2007 09:58:46 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
By 'expanding the market', I was referring to the context of
the original post - which was essentially about opportunities for
entrepreneurs, not about end users. I simply cannot see how anyone,
anywhere, in any position can
On Jun 14, 2007, at 11:02 AM, Kenneth E Tomiak wrote:
In my experience, fewer new sysprogs know about IEBUPDTE because they
have no need to run it on their own. Serverpac creates jobs that
many newer
people just submit and if they get the desired return code have no
idea what
they ran
CA Dynam/D, CA Dynam/T and CA Dynam/FI
Gary Garland Gregory, MS
CA
Senior Software Engineer
Tel: +1-214-473-1863
Fax: +1-214-473-1050
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now Sterling Commerce) that markets NDM (now Connect:Direct).
NDM, Connect/Direct Connect/Enterprise are separate products.
At least, they are keyed separately.
Having had to fight our service provider over them, that's one thing I learned!
-
Too busy driving to stop for gas!
Oh yeah, how could I forget the product I work on - CA Tape Encryption.
Gary Garland Gregory, MS
CA
Senior Software Engineer
Tel: +1-214-473-1863
Fax: +1-214-473-1050
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Hi -
Has anyone been asked by their DB2 DBAs (or DB2 Sysprogs) on the MVS Mainframe
what it would take to place their Tables into Storage? We are DB2 V8 nfm with
z/OS V1.7 on a z9 and z860 systems.
Some of our DB2 folkes have been asking us and we cannot see why they would
want to do that
CA-DISK AKA BrightStor CA-Disk, et al was SAMS:DISK from the Sterling
Software acquisition.
GGG
snip
Vary true ... There used to be a product (it may still exist for all I
know) that was a competitor to IBM's DFHSM
ASM2 was eventually acquired by CA and become CA-DISK, then Brightstore
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now Sterling Commerce) that markets NDM (now
In a message dated 6/14/2007 1:31:52 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
CA acquired ASM2 so long ago that I forgot where they got it from - but
I don't think CA was the original developer.
UCCEL acquired ASM2 on DEC 1985 from Cambridge Systems, which was somewhere
in
I was at UCCEL during that period of time. During all of those acquit
ions they also bought a little Boston company, CORADALE (or something
like that) for their VSE System/Manager (Space/Manager, Tape/Manager)
and System/Scheduler products. So UCCEL had System/Manager and CA had
DYNAM. UCCEL
CA's original products were all developed internally. They were VM and VSE
based products. The original products were IDOS (cut down VSE that ran
under CMS), SYMBUG and SYMDATA. Dynam/D and Dynam/FI were internally
developed but Dynam/T was acquired from Viking Computer.
Chuck Arney
illustro
If you remember -- shortly after UCCEL acquired ASM2 they killed UCC3.
snip
I was employed by Cambridge Systems Group at the time of the takeover by
UCCEL. As it was explained to me by folks there who seemed to know what
was happening, UCCEL wanted to buy only ACF2, but CSG had
Mark,
I am fairly sure it was imbedded and in order to get it, you had to also
get CA-JARS (a very bad idea. IBM's Performance Reporter was worse, at
the time, though...LOL). Yup, VERY convenient and useful tool.
Bob Richards
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Lizette Koehler wrote:
Hi -
Has anyone been asked by their DB2 DBAs (or DB2 Sysprogs) on the
MVS Mainframe what it would take to place their Tables into Storage?
We are DB2 V8 nfm with z/OS V1.7 on a z9 and z860 systems.
Some of our DB2 folkes have been asking us and we cannot see why
It looks like they're talking about the IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting
Manager (ITUAM) in this paper. That is the old CIMS package which my
company has had for several years. IBM purchased CIMS at the end of
last year.
Tom Kelman
Commerce Bank of Kansas City
(816) 760-7632
-Original
I should have mentioned, this is due to apar OA17114 that is just coming into
the light.
Lizette
Hi -
Has anyone been asked by their DB2 DBAs (or DB2 Sysprogs) on the MVS Mainframe
what it would take to place their Tables into Storage? We are DB2 V8 nfm with
z/OS V1.7 on a z9 and z860
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now Sterling Commerce) that markets NDM (now
Steve,
I assume that Lizette's question has to do with DB2 V8 and defining DB2
bufferpools large enough to hold most of the data in the DBM1 above the
bar private storage, so it will still be DB2. As for doing this, the
big question is how much real memory do you have on your machine?
Making the
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:40:40 EDT, IBM Mainframe Discussion List
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
UCCEL acquired ASM2 on DEC 1985 from Cambridge Systems, which was
somewhere in the San Fran bay area.
CSG was for a while subtitled The Stanford Center for Software Development,
until someone connected to
I have a question from a colleague:
What is the best way to flush ARP cache from a TCPIP stack at the OS/390
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Thanks.
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On Jun 14, 2007, at 2:07 PM, Kelman, Tom wrote:
It looks like they're talking about the IBM Tivoli Usage and
Accounting
Manager (ITUAM) in this paper. That is the old CIMS package which my
company has had for several years. IBM purchased CIMS at the end of
last year.
Tom,
I found it
In a message dated 6/14/2007 3:50:56 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just before another group took over SMF processing we acquired a
package that put to shame anything on the market (then and now),
unfortunately
it is probably defunct. I don't know since then if
I'm curious, has anyone received information as to why the 3270 IBMLINK
interface was made operational? Or, are we to believe that some VM console
operator found the 'interface' or 'applciation' was down and did what they
always did and re-started it. All without management awareness or
Gerhard Postpischil wrote:
Rick Fochtman wrote:
Probably because 40+ years ago, when this was designed, nobody in
their wildest dreams could envision a need for a PARM longer than 100
bytes. :-)
I doubt it. There were several components, Assembler F for one, where
specifying most options
Steve, I started at Sterling Commerce a few weeks after it was spun off
from Sterling Software. I was told the motivating factor was divide out
the financial (Vector: xxx banking software) and commerce software
(Connect:Direct, Connect:Enterprise, GENTRAN, etc) from the systems
software
Sebastian Welton wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:37:38 +0900, Timothy Sipples
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are other effects. For example, another wise thing IBM did in my
opinion is to release Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for z/OS Management Console. This
product is available for download at no
-snip--
And should these user-exits be SMP controlled to begin with? Or should
we simply give sample assemble/linkedit JCL along with the source and
let the end user control their own destiny? The downside is that it
might not always be obvious to new
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Steve, I started at Sterling Commerce a few weeks after
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:55:38 -0500, Ed Gould
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am mixed (as I have said in
the past about serverpac) about servpacs on one hand they do the job
but at the other its a dumbing down of the sysprog, IMO. I expect to
hear a lot of noise because I am criticizing IBM again
snip--:
snip
CA acquired ASM2 so long ago that I forgot where they got it from - but
I don't think CA was the original developer.
/snip
I can think of very few products *EVER* developed by CA. Including their
very 1st product CA-SORT.
Their old
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
5. Buy to acquire skills. It is interesting that Univac bought
the RCA design, but didn't keep the computer designers after they
built their RCA like computer. So IBM hired the laid off engineers
and built theirs.
Univac was
Gregory, Gary G wrote:
CA Dynam/D, CA Dynam/T and CA Dynam/FI
CA Dynam/T from memory had a manual in the early days that was almost an
exact copy of EPAT
Ken
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Hello: The manual z/OS
DFSMS Macro Instructions for Data Sets SC26-7408-01 in Chapter 5 BLDL
section states that When the system returns control to the problem program,
the low-order byte of
register 15 contains a return code. The low-order byte of register 0 contains a
reason code.
Can one
--snip---:
Hello: The manual z/OS
DFSMS Macro Instructions for Data Sets SC26-7408-01 in Chapter 5 BLDL
section states that When the system returns control to the problem program,
the low-order byte of
register 15 contains a return code. The low-order byte of
Rick Fochtman wrote:
Most default/desirable options for the Assembler and the compilers, etc.
could be set at System Generation time, avoiding those long parm
strings. And as I recall, SYS1.JOBQUEUE had a record size limit but it
was significantly larger that 100 bytes; 1024 comes to mind, but
Paul Schuster wrote:
Hello: The manual z/OS
DFSMS Macro Instructions for Data Sets SC26-7408-01 in Chapter 5 BLDL
section states that When the system returns control to the problem program,
the low-order byte of
register 15 contains a return code. The low-order byte of register 0 contains a
Paul,
I would take the manual literally. If it talks about the low order
byte, I would not presume anything about any other bytes in the register.
If what you are wanting to do is to check the return code then AND the
register with x'00ff' and branch on the condition code. Better
Dave Jones wrote:
I have a question from a colleague:
What is the best way to flush ARP cache from a TCPIP stack at the OS/390
V2.10 level? (besides the obvious of stopping TCPIP and then restarting)
Thanks.
DJ
I am not sure if it works under OS/390, but you can try:
V
On Jun 14, 2007, at 1:40 PM, (IBM Mainframe Discussion List) wrote:
In a message dated 6/14/2007 1:31:52 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
CA acquired ASM2 so long ago that I forgot where they got it from
- but
I don't think CA was the original developer.
UCCEL
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:03:15 -0500, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Theology. Dogma. Simply to start doing it right, you must
stop doing it wrong. Somehow I feel a major culprit is VTAM
because whenever this issue arises an expert starts spouting
VTAM jargon. Get rid of VTAM; let
On Jun 14, 2007, at 5:18 PM, Kenneth E Tomiak wrote:
As I heard it, Corporate Executives, not system programmers, told
IBM they
needed the software installation simplified. ServerPac is the
answer. It is
dumbing down the field. You did mention looking at the apply, well
here I am
again
John McKown writes:
I would love more than that would be a port of the entire GNU
tool chain. I know that IBM has done some of this, but I miss some of my
favorite GNU utilities. As an example, GNU tar is, IMO, significantly
better than pax (except that it cannot do the on-the-fly code
I don't think CA was the original developer.
What mainframe software did CA originally develop?
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Im trying to find out from anyone out there who might be doing the same
thing.
We are planning for a disaster recovery site we control and mirror
using XRC over distance. We currently have the JES2 check point for a few
systems in a sysplex in an external CF, then the second check
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:30:43 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote:
I've looked at this, and it isn't pretty doesn't even begin to describe
it. Unless IBM has severely modularized things since the last non-OCO
version of this stuff, it is full of hardcoded knowledge of not only VTAM
(and TCAM!) module names,
On Jun 14, 2007, at 9:24 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:13:26 -0500, Ed Gould wrote:
Of course there are many ways to do this my suggestion is a common
sense one I believe, but there are others. I personally find it hard
to believe that a typical sysprog would not know about
On Jun 14, 2007, at 10:03 AM, Lester, Bob wrote:
---SNIP
Vary true ... There used to be a product (it may still exist for
all I
know) that was a competitor to IBM's DFHSM
ASM2 was eventually acquired by CA and become CA-DISK, then
Brightstore
CA-DISK,
In a message dated 6/14/2007 8:19:07 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The person I dealt with was Shawn Mcclaren (sp?)
and I am pretty sure he was on the west coast as seemed to take the
red eyes quite a bit.
I remembered the name CSG earlier but had forgotten
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:03:43 -0500, Ed Gould wrote:
I was suggesting such context lines as guidance not so much for
the programmer as for the (ISPF) editor in creating valid sequence
numbers in the IEBUPDTE command file. Likewise, the provider
should make the sequence numbers sparse in the
On Jun 14, 2007, at 8:51 PM, FRASER, Brian wrote:
I don't think CA was the original developer.
What mainframe software did CA originally develop?
My vague recollection was the cobol optimizer capex. I could be wrong
its been ages and ages.
Ed
John Eells wrote:
No!
It is far from correct to conclude that, and I'm sure that's not at
all what Timothy meant. We have a really substantial investment in
z/OS development spread across several sites worldwide. Much of that
development has been and continues to be for the MVS part of
You forgot steps 2a (update usermod with correct REQ or fail the apply check)
and 2b (determine if the update needs to be modified as a result of the PTF).
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Sent: Thu 6/14/2007 7:05 AM
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