Re: IBM withdraws Z890 ?!?!?!

2007-07-03 Thread Timothy Sipples
Like Edward, I'm puzzled by some of the reaction to this withdrawal-in-the-future announcement. Some people beat up IBM for *not* withdrawing older models soon enough, because they begin to think IBM isn't busy designing the next model! This announcement is simply 6+/12+ months' advance notice,

WLM Question

2007-07-03 Thread Sheldon Davis
Hi We work with CICS DB2 and IMS DBCTL At the moment we use region mode for CICS. Should I have one service class for CICS DB2 and IMS Or one for CICS and one for DBMS's Thanks in advance Sheldon Davis -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: WLM Question

2007-07-03 Thread Meir Zohar
Sheldon The straightforward answer is it depends. You really shouldn't group all the DB components into a single service class as some must have priority and the TP should remain separate from the DBMS. For example, your IRLM address space must have higher priority than the other DBMS

Re: ICC question

2007-07-03 Thread R.S.
Tim Hare wrote: The ICC is just like a TN3270E server - your PC's emulator program specified the LU name, which is matched to an LU name in the ICC to select that particular device. You have to match a device in order to become a console, since consoles are assigned by device number. You can

Re: WLM Question

2007-07-03 Thread Ted MacNEIL
For example, your IRLM address space must have higher priority than the other DBMS address spaces. That's not entirely accurate. With the WLM, you have little (or no) control over priorities. The WLM can/does figure out who/what is using what as a 'server', and creates pseudo-service classes

Re: Require tapes to be cataloged on z/OS 1.7

2007-07-03 Thread Mike Wood
Bryce, There is no option like that in a z/OS component, nor in RMM. The closest RMM can get to this is to use VRSes with WHILECATALOG and enforce that all tape data sets are cataloged else they are expired. Create it, then bin it.. An installation exit such as 'File Validate' (IFG019FV)

Re: Require tapes to be cataloged on z/OS 1.7

2007-07-03 Thread R.S.
Mike Wood wrote: Bryce, There is no option like that in a z/OS component, nor in RMM. The closest RMM can get to this is to use VRSes with WHILECATALOG and enforce that all tape data sets are cataloged else they are expired. Create it, then bin it.. An installation exit such as 'File

Re: Another one bites the dust

2007-07-03 Thread wtrovijo
How many Administrators are they hiring to replace you? I'm still here, just doing different stuff (SAN management and high-performance computing at the moment). The new administrative system is such a huge boondoggle that it's hard to tell how many people are involved in providing

WLM Setup Question

2007-07-03 Thread Lizette Koehler
List - I am just starting down the road to understanding WLM and how it is setup at my shop. I am a little confused as to why they are doing what they are doing and am looking for some input. Here they have elected to place everything into separate buckets. I should say that they

Re: ICC question

2007-07-03 Thread Andy White
This is my problem right now for testing the PC's are using a static IP address but this becomes a pain if we are in a DR mode and now we need that hard coded PC with an IP or keep track of the IP addresses by PC. Andy Internet: Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU cc

Re: Require tapes to be cataloged on z/OS 1.7

2007-07-03 Thread Walt Farrell
On 7/3/2007 6:24 AM, R.S. wrote: What about CATDSNS in RACF ? Does it work for tape datasets ? BTW: This option can be misleading: a job step which created the dataset can access it despite of catalog disposition. The dataset will be unavailable later. The SETROPTS CATDSNS option in RACF

Re: WLM Setup Question

2007-07-03 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... List - I am just starting down the road to understanding WLM and how it is setup at my shop. I am a little confused as to why they are doing what they are doing and am looking for some input. Here

Re: WLM Question

2007-07-03 Thread Kelman, Tom
When WLM first came out I was in a shop with CICS, DB2, and IMS. I set up a separate service class for each of them. I felt it was easier to control the goals desired. You say your using region mode for CICS. Does that mean you haven't set up CICS for transaction response time processing? I

Re: WLM Question

2007-07-03 Thread Kelman, Tom
Actually I feel your IRLM should run in SYSSTC. Every request is going to go through that. You don't want to take a chance on it waiting for some TSO user for CPU. Tom Kelman Commerce Bank of Kansas City (816) 760-7632 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: WLM Setup Question

2007-07-03 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Lump DB2s together or give them separate Service and Report classes? The current thought is it gives them a better idea of how the work is flowing. I am not so sure due to my limited knowledge of WLM at this time. I would lump them all in one service class and use separate report classes for

Re: WLM Question

2007-07-03 Thread Ted MacNEIL
You say your using region mode for CICS. Does that mean you haven't set up CICS for transaction response time processing? I would recommend that you do that. CICS will run a lot better that way - in my opinion. I would first 'clean up' the DB2 issues first. And, when I first implemented

Re: WLM Question

2007-07-03 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Actually I feel your IRLM should run in SYSSTC. Every request is going to go through that. You don't want to take a chance on it waiting for some TSO user for CPU. Actually, that's what I said in my post (... all three address spaces in SYSSTC ...). Also, what I said was that it all runs

Re: WLM Question

2007-07-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL You say your using region mode for CICS. Does that mean you haven't set up CICS for transaction response time processing? I would recommend that you do that. CICS will run a lot better that way -

Re: WLM Question

2007-07-03 Thread Kelman, Tom
From John Chase We run only around 6 - 7 million txns/day, and we haven't yet tried transaction goals for CICS. Don't really see any need to try; velocity goals seem to work fine. Especially since installing the z9, we've consistently seen response times under 0.05 seconds.

Re: IBM withdraws Z890 ?!?!?!

2007-07-03 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 15:31:27 +0900, Timothy Sipples wrote: Some people beat up IBM for *not* withdrawing older models soon enough, Really? I can't say that I've ever heard that before. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: IBM withdraws Z890 ?!?!?!

2007-07-03 Thread Richards.Bob
Tom, Think bleeding-edge large shops, which is where I have worked a fair amount of my career. I certainly have heard it before. Bob Richards -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 9:07 AM

Re: WLM Question

2007-07-03 Thread Ted MacNEIL
usually set up service agreements to give the customer a certain response time that it would be easier to manage to response time goals. Yes, but are you going to 'guarantee' sub-0.1? And, when we looked into it, we were ending up with one CICS transaction class: 90% within 0.5. You can't

Re: WLM Setup Question

2007-07-03 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 07:40:28 -0400, Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question is - What is the bettert approach. Lump DB2s together or give them separate Service and Report classes? The current thought is it gives them a better idea of how the work is flowing. I am not so sure due

Re: WLM Setup Question

2007-07-03 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 08:31:53 -0500, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure most if not all of this has been covered many times. Hit the archives, read the Redbook(s). To summarize: Use as few service classes as you can to separate the work and as many report classes as you like / need

DFHSM QUESTION - TTOC RECYCLE

2007-07-03 Thread John Dawes
G'day to all, I have a potential problem with one of our migrate (DFHSM) tapes. I would like to perform a recycle of the tape so as to move the dsns off it. I did a HSEND LIST TTOC of the volser of the suspect tape. It gave me a list of dsns on it. My question is how could I find out

Re: Another one bites the dust

2007-07-03 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of wtrovijo Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 6:32 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Another one bites the dust How many Administrators are they hiring to replace you? I'm still here, just

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - TTOC RECYCLE

2007-07-03 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Dawes Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 8:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: DFHSM QUESTION - TTOC RECYCLE G'day to all, I have a potential problem with one of our

Re: IBM withdraws Z890 ?!?!?!

2007-07-03 Thread Eric Bielefeld
If you're in the market for a new or upgraded CPU, for whatever reason, why would you not want to get the latest - in this case a z9. Why would you go with the z890? I don't know whether the CPU costs more or less, but the MSU rating of the z9 and subsequent lower software costs make the z9 a

Re: IBM withdraws Z890 ?!?!?!

2007-07-03 Thread Itschak Mugzach
This makes z900/z890 perfect solutions for a DRP site. A low MSU rate machine with 1-15 CBUs. Best deal for a five years deal. Itschak -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Bielefeld Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 4:06 PM To:

Re: IBM withdraws Z890 ?!?!?!

2007-07-03 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Bielefeld Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 9:06 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM withdraws Z890 ?!?!?! If you're in the market for a new or upgraded CPU, for whatever

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - TTOC RECYCLE

2007-07-03 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
John, To answer your question the following command will give you a list of all connected volumes HSEND LIST TTOC SELECT(CONNECTED) DSI - ODS('$DOB.TTOC.CONN.JUL02A') However the previous post is quite correct, simply issue the recycle against the volume in question and HSM

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - TTOC RECYCLE

2007-07-03 Thread John Dawes
Thanks David and John. I will heed your advice. Much obliged. O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John, To answer your question the following command will give you a list of all connected volumes HSEND LIST TTOC SELECT(CONNECTED) DSI -

Re: WLM Setup Question

2007-07-03 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 7/3/2007 8:32:27 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm sure most if not all of this has been covered many times. Hit the archives, read the Redbook(s). To summarize: Use as few service classes as you can to separate the work and as many report

Re: Another one bites the dust

2007-07-03 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 7/3/2007 9:26:38 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: REGATTAs (each was physically larger than the z/800 1b0). Each REGATTA produced MORE BTUs than the z/800 (to the point that if you were cold in the computer room you could walk behind one of them to

Share conference schedule

2007-07-03 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
Has anyone been successful in using the grid view of the conference schedule? When I select a date, I usually get a display marked rooms 1 - 0 of 0 rooms. On the rare occasion when I do see some rooms, clicking on next 5 rooms or a quantity of more than 5 results in 0 rooms I sent a query to

Re: WLM Question

2007-07-03 Thread Dave Barry
Not running IRLM at a higher dispatching priority runs counter to IBM's advice. Before goal mode, DB2 would write a warning message when IRLM was not at a higher DP than the other DB2 address spaces. The reason for this is that IRLM runs in SRB mode (asynchronously) as opposed to cross-memory

Re: IBM withdraws Z890 ?!?!?!

2007-07-03 Thread Blaicher, Chris
I would look at history and see that machines are withdrawn as new machines come on line. My guess is that a new one will be announced before fall. I would also look to other product lines of IBM to see what might be coming. They have done some amazing things with the P-Series. It would not

Re: Share conference schedule

2007-07-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Schwarz, Barry A Has anyone been successful in using the grid view of the conference schedule? When I select a date, I usually get a display marked rooms 1 - 0 of 0 rooms. On the rare occasion when I do see

Re: ICC question

2007-07-03 Thread Alan Scott
We are in the process of implementing this at this time. As I understand it; In your ICC configuration, leave the client IP address set to 0.0.0.0 This will allow a client from any address to connect to this session. Alan Scott.

Re: Share conference schedule

2007-07-03 Thread Michael Stack
Barry, I just now tried the grid view, and it worked - apparently - just fine using Firefox 2 (I've never before tried that view). But if I switch away from Show all tracks I wind up in some non-Kansas location. There does appear to be a problem there. Michael Stack Product Developer

JES2 Question: Which command to change all output class=1 to class=2?

2007-07-03 Thread McKnight, Lee
We try to keep certain JES output classes on our spool for from 1 to 5 days and keep it clean using daily auto-commands to delete all output over 5 days old. But the console operators delete one of the output classes throughout the day. Is there a JES command to change all output class Z, for

Re: IGD17272I sms extended dataset allocate

2007-07-03 Thread Larre Shiller
Hmmm. I'm not a storage administrator, but I thought that one of the reasons to allocate a data set as extended was so that the allocation *could* exceed the size of any one volume in the storage group by striping the pieces to fit on the selected volumes. No? And, for what it's worth, SMS

Re: ICC question

2007-07-03 Thread Rafa Pereira
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 10:12:47 -0500, Alan Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are in the process of implementing this at this time. As I understand it; In your ICC configuration, leave the client IP address set to 0.0.0.0 This will allow a client from any address to connect to this session. Alan

Re: IBM withdraws Z890 ?!?!?!

2007-07-03 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blaicher, Chris Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 10:05 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM withdraws Z890 ?!?!?! I would look at history and see that machines are withdrawn as new

Re: WLM Setup Question

2007-07-03 Thread Norman Hollander on h-WiZ.biz
There appears to be multiple questions in this one little thread. The following is what I generally recommend for many of our large customers. Your Mileage will vary. 1. If you are lucky enough to have 70 million identical transactions running on your system, and they all have a SLA of 100%

Re: IBM withdraws Z890 ?!?!?!

2007-07-03 Thread Walt Farrell
On 7/3/2007 10:10 AM, Itschak Mugzach wrote: This makes z900/z890 perfect solutions for a DRP site. A low MSU rate machine with 1-15 CBUs. Best deal for a five years deal. Don't you run the risk, when using an older generation of hardware for disaster backup, that it might not support some

Re: JES2 Question: Which command to change all output class=1 to class=2?

2007-07-03 Thread Kurt Gramling
Lee, I believe this command will do what you want. $TO JOB(*),/Q=Z,Q=J Kurt Gramling snip We try to keep certain JES output classes on our spool for from 1 to 5 days and keep it clean using daily auto-commands to delete all output over 5 days old. But the console operators delete one of

Re: JES2 Question: Which command to change all output class=1 to class=2?

2007-07-03 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 10:25:51 -0500, McKnight, Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We try to keep certain JES output classes on our spool for from 1 to 5 days and keep it clean using daily auto-commands to delete all output over 5 days old. But the console operators delete one of the output classes

Re: JES2 Question Resolved: Which command to change all output class=1 to class=2?

2007-07-03 Thread McKnight, Lee
Hello Kurt, Thanks! Exactly what we wanted to do. Regards, Lee... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kurt Gramling Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 11:08 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: JES2 Question: Which command

Re: WLM Setup Question

2007-07-03 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 08:56:28 -0700, Norman Hollander on h-WiZ.biz wrote: ... If you are like most other sites, with different transactions with different SLAs, and the potential for the work to grow, I'd still recommend Transaction Goals. Since you can set it up by region(s), it

Re: WLM Setup Question

2007-07-03 Thread Staller, Allan
snip As a result, you may find that your not loved transactions will go along for the ride, based upon the other transactions that are processed by the server regions. /snip Isn't that the whole point? If the loved ones are not happy, no one is happy. If the loved ones are happy, everyone is

Re: WLM Setup Question

2007-07-03 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 11:54:27 -0500, Tom Marchant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Discretionary is good too. I even used discretionary for the third period TSO that Mark referred to. Ditto! -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance

Software only VTS?

2007-07-03 Thread Greg Grimm
We are going to replace our tape hardware (Tape Library (ATL), VTS). In investigating how our other operating systems use tapes I found that they use IBM TSM to talk directly to the ATL - and get high tape utilization (i.e. stacking multiple files on tape). kind of like a software VTS. Is there

Re: WLM Setup Question

2007-07-03 Thread Norman Hollander on h-WiZ.biz
Be sure your durations are properly set so only those SPUFI/FOCUS/SAS folks running in the foreground (I think these are best served as Batch) are impacted by transitioning to 3rd (or last) period with the DISC goal. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: WLM Setup Question

2007-07-03 Thread Norman Hollander on h-WiZ.biz
EXACTLY right. We care about the highest priority transactions getting the service they need. If there are no loved ones, then the Region priority rises to the needs of the default transactions. And so on for the not loved. That is what Delivery of Service is about. Right? -Original

Re: Another one bites the dust

2007-07-03 Thread Matt Simpson
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems like IBM would put a few summer interns to work writing conversions GUIs showing the conversion balloon. In many cases, the replacement hardware/software also comes from IBM (pseries/AIX/Shark/DS4000 in our case). Why in the

Re: Another one bites the dust

2007-07-03 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Simpson Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 1:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Another one bites the dust In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems

Career Advice Sought

2007-07-03 Thread Eric Bielefeld
I just had some disappointing news. The systems programmer job I was really hoping to get, about 30 miles from my house, fell through. You keep hearing about shortages of people, but as far as I can tell, there were at least 7 or 8 qualified applicants for the job. Since this is one of

Re: Another one bites the dust

2007-07-03 Thread Rich Smrcina
Don't forget to add the outsourcing biz as well. System z lost a 9 IFL bid to IBM outsourcing for a SMB SAP on z implementation late last year. This is a long time mainframe customer, too. Not large by any stretch, but a great early Linux reference. Tsk, tsk... McKown, John wrote: We

Re: Career Advice Sought

2007-07-03 Thread Gregory, Gary G
Eric, For what it's worth I was in your same situation a couple of years ago. I had a fantastic opportunity to take two years off go to graduate school and ended up graduating a semester early. When that happened I hadn't even started to look for a job. When it did happen I was commuting 360

Re: Another one bites the dust

2007-07-03 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Simpson Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 1:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Another one bites the dust In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems like IBM would

Re: Career Advice Sought

2007-07-03 Thread Timothy Sipples
Eric Bielefeld writes: I've thought about learning Java. I know a few places around here are looking for Java progarmmers on the mainframe. The local technical college offers a Java class staring nex semester. Also, I used to do Cobol programming, but I haven't done that for about 25 years.

Re: WLM Setup Question

2007-07-03 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 10:49:50 -0700, Norman Hollander on h-WiZ.biz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Be sure your durations are properly set so only those SPUFI/FOCUS/SAS folks running in the foreground (I think these are best served as Batch) are impacted by transitioning to 3rd (or last) period with the

Re: Career Advice Sought

2007-07-03 Thread Gary Green
Curious you should ask that question Tim Why? On Wed Jul 4 3:45 , Timothy Sipples [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: Eric Bielefeld writes: I've thought about learning Java. I know a few places around here are looking for Java progarmmers on the mainframe. The local technical college offers a

MEMLIMIT again -- Consensus on Default Size?

2007-07-03 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, I see in the CICS TS 3.2 Migration Guide that this newest CICS release requires a minimum MEMLIMIT of 2G, or it will refuse to start up. Last time this topic came up here, there didn't seem to be a consensus on what a good system default should be for MEMLIMIT; and only two posters gave

Re: Career Advice Sought

2007-07-03 Thread Eric Bielefeld
Tim, Thanks, I'll check that out. I actually worked as a student programmer converting PL/I programs from OS/360 (Mod 40) PL/I to run on a Honeywell computer before I became a systems programmer. Eric Bielefeld Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer Milwaukee, Wisconsin 414-475-7434 - Original

Re: MEMLIMIT again -- Consensus on Default Size?

2007-07-03 Thread Mark Jacobs
Chase, John wrote: Hi, All, I see in the CICS TS 3.2 Migration Guide that this newest CICS release requires a minimum MEMLIMIT of 2G, or it will refuse to start up. Last time this topic came up here, there didn't seem to be a consensus on what a good system default should be for MEMLIMIT; and

PL/I will rule the world ... not

2007-07-03 Thread Chris Hoelscher
when I was a freshman at (The) Ohio State University wy back in 1975, I took a PL/I class - we were told then that this was *such* an all encompassing and easy-to-learn language that COBOL and FORTRAN would be non-existant as a commercial programming language within 5 years well, they

Re: Career Advice Sought

2007-07-03 Thread Ken Porowski
Don't forget about related areas. With a Mainframe background, storage management would easily fit, maybe security (we do do it best after all), and DR (for a reasonable shop size it's easily an FTE (or 2 or 3)), maybe even change management. Then you can tell the squatty box gang The Mainframe

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - TTOC RECYCLE

2007-07-03 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
If you really have to know which volumes are involved before you do the actual recycle (a management issue, not a technical one), look at the DISPLAY and VERIFY operands of the RECYCLE command. -Original Message- From: John Dawes [mailto:snip] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 6:54 AM To:

Re: MEMLIMIT again -- Consensus on Default Size?

2007-07-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Chase, John wrote: [ snip ] On a somewhat related note, I vaguely recall someone posting that DB2 v8 (might have been v9) takes a MEMLIMIT of 4T, without regard to what installation default is

Re: MEMLIMIT again -- Consensus on Default Size?

2007-07-03 Thread Richbourg, Claude
As we all know, JAVA and other apps can now be quite a consumer in storage consumption. I have set up a 16G default and we have had no trouble with JAVA so far But, we are going to be ramping up the amount of work done in JAVA, for web apps, so I'll wait and see how that goes. We are CICSTS31.

Re: Career Advice Sought

2007-07-03 Thread Kelman, Tom
Don't forget about related areas. With a Mainframe background, storage management would easily fit, maybe security (we do do it best after all), and DR (for a reasonable shop size it's easily an FTE (or 2 or 3)), maybe even change management. Then you can tell the squatty box gang The Mainframe

Re: MEMLIMIT again -- Consensus on Default Size?

2007-07-03 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 13:54:06 -0500, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, All, I see in the CICS TS 3.2 Migration Guide that this newest CICS release requires a minimum MEMLIMIT of 2G, or it will refuse to start up. Last time this topic came up here, there didn't seem to be a consensus on

zLinux and MySql

2007-07-03 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, Is there anybody out there that are running MySql on zLinux ? Anton -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives

Re: zLinux and MySql

2007-07-03 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anton Britz Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 2:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: zLinux and MySql Hi, Is there anybody out there that are running MySql on zLinux ? Anton You

Re: WLM Setup Question

2007-07-03 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 12:18:56 -0500, Staller, Allan wrote: As a result, you may find that your not loved transactions will go along for the ride, based upon the other transactions that are processed by the server regions. Isn't that the whole point? If the loved ones are not happy, no one is

Re: zLinux and MySql

2007-07-03 Thread Rich Smrcina
Yes, runs well. But, John is right, this should really be on the linux-390 list. Anton Britz wrote: Hi, Is there anybody out there that are running MySql on zLinux ? Anton -- Rich Smrcina VM Assist, Inc. Phone: 414-491-6001 Ans Service: 360-715-2467 rich.smrcina at vmassist.com

Re: Software only VTS?

2007-07-03 Thread Timothy Sipples
Greg Grimm writes: We are going to replace our tape hardware (Tape Library (ATL), VTS). In investigating how our other operating systems use tapes I found that they use IBM TSM to talk directly to the ATL - and get high tape utilization (i.e. stacking multiple files on tape). kind of like a

Re: PL/I will rule the world ... not

2007-07-03 Thread Jeffrey Deaver
when I was a freshman at (The) Ohio State University wy back in 1975, I took a PL/I class Had PL/I at the University of South Dakota in 1987. I think '89 was the last year they taught it there. PL/I still survives in my current shop - in maintenance mode, anyway. Jeffrey Deaver, Engineer

Re: PL/I will rule the world ... not

2007-07-03 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Had PL/I at the University of South Dakota in 1987. I learned it after graduating. For some reason, the University of Waterloo never considered it as a credit course for Computer Science students. - Too busy driving to stop for gas!

Re: PL/I will rule the world ... not

2007-07-03 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 15:02:14 -0400, Chris Hoelscher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when I was a freshman at (The) Ohio State University wy back in 1975, ... You're making me feel old. (Ok, ok. I already felt old.) ...I took a PL/I class - we were told then that this was *such* an all

Re: Software only VTS?

2007-07-03 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 12:43:29 -0500, Greg Grimm wrote: We are going to replace our tape hardware (Tape Library (ATL), VTS). In investigating how our other operating systems use tapes I found that they use IBM TSM to talk directly to the ATL - and get high tape utilization (i.e. stacking multiple

Re: zLinux and MySql

2007-07-03 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, Thanks for the responses but Rich, I am not sure why you are posting me a pointer to your house and what your GrandMother likes for breakfast. Note: a) I have subscribed to the zLinux list b) There is very little acitivity on this list .. Google does not even know about it. c) There is

Re: PL/I will rule the world ... not

2007-07-03 Thread Steve Comstock
Jeffrey Deaver wrote: when I was a freshman at (The) Ohio State University wy back in 1975, I took a PL/I class Had PL/I at the University of South Dakota in 1987. I think '89 was the last year they taught it there. PL/I still survives in my current shop - in maintenance mode, anyway.

Re: PL/I will rule the world ... not

2007-07-03 Thread David Andrews
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 15:22 -0500, Patrick O'Keefe wrote: I found an old draft copy of an early PLI/F Reference manual and taught myself PL/I. I was never really proficient, and never tried esoterica like its subtask (synchronous processing) support Event variables were annoying in those

SHARE meeting

2007-07-03 Thread Jeffrey Deaver
So SHARE is only 5.714 weeks away now, so I need to start planning. Main question for this group - How do I go about meeting some of you while I'm there? While I attended the 2001Minneapolis meeting, it was in a limited fashion, and I was not following IBM-Main back then. Now I'd like to meet

Re: Career Advice Sought

2007-07-03 Thread Phil Kingston
Believe me, there's the same problem over in the UK. I've been a sysprog for the last 16years, the last 11 as a contractor and now at 37 there doesn't seem to be any work any more... What work there is, is chased after by the same people. Rates are holding up, but that's about it. You try

Re: SHARE meeting

2007-07-03 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 7/3/2007 4:04:32 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: of you as possible while I'm there. I seem to remember receptions in the evening where the tables had certain themes? Is there an IBM-Main table? Or should I just wear a t-shirt that says IBM-Main

Re: Software only VTS?

2007-07-03 Thread Russell Witt
As Timothy stated, there are may options. Some (CA-1/Copycat, TLMS/Copycat, Tivoli Tape Optimizer, TAPESAVER, FATSCOPY) will copy tapes files AFTER they have been created and stack them together. CA-Vtape is a true virtual-tape emulation that uses existing dasd as the cache and then stacks the

Re: SHARE meeting

2007-07-03 Thread Michael Stack
At 05:18 PM 7/3/2007 -0400, you wrote: ... No the PFCSKs objected to the presence of 'the Sign'. Sam Knutson kindly packaged it and sent it to Darren. These days you must wear a pocket protector and flash the secret sign with the decoder ring. Well, that's a shame. Of course, the

Re: IBM withdraws Z890 ?!?!?!

2007-07-03 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 3, 2007, at 1:31 AM, Timothy Sipples wrote: Like Edward, I'm puzzled by some of the reaction to this withdrawal-in-the-future announcement. Some people beat up IBM for *not* withdrawing older models soon enough, because they begin to think IBM isn't busy designing the next model!

Re: SHARE meeting

2007-07-03 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 7/3/2007 5:01:17 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PFCSKs at SHARE is a bit mind-boggling since all I usually view is a sea of gray (especially in the mirror). :-D Used to be a 370 was a requirement for entry. Think it got down to PS/2 in the

Apple looses to IBM

2007-07-03 Thread Ed Gould
with zero green credentials. http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070703/tc_pcworld/134123 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

Re: Apple looses to IBM

2007-07-03 Thread Campbell Jay
IT suppliers as well as other businesses. IBM leads the IT pack while Apple, Amazon and eBay are bottom with zero green credentials. http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070703/tc_pcworld/134123 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: SHARE meeting

2007-07-03 Thread Kenneth E Tomiak
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 16:03:42 -0500, Jeffrey Deaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I go about meeting some of you while I'm there? While I attended the 2001Minneapolis meeting, it was in a limited fashion, and I was not following IBM-Main back then. Now I'd like to meet as many of you as

Re: ICC question

2007-07-03 Thread Andy White
Rafa - I like the idea of using the 0.0.0.0 then setting the LU in my emulator. This way we can control who logs in to the console, do you know if there is anyway to setup a password. I cant seem to find away. I guess its either you use hard coded IP address for the better security.

Re: Career Advice Sought [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

2007-07-03 Thread Fenner, Jim
Hello Eric, Just on principle, you need never apologise for lack of experience, it's all relative. Gotta think positive to sell yourself, all negative thinking must be eliminated. For example- You are far ahead of the pack in so many of the areas that count; you offer your next employer

Re: DFSMShsm Common Recall Queue

2007-07-03 Thread reynaldo nobre muntoreanu
Jim You can find theses requirements in z/OS DFSMShsm Implementation and Customization manual, It describes step by step how can you implement CRQPLEX. It´s very simple, with about tree or four steps. I recommend you verify if PTF`S are needed as prereq´s for your instalation. Regards

Re: Career Advice Sought [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

2007-07-03 Thread Eric Bielefeld
Jim, Thanks for the kind words. I do have problems with negative thinking, although I think in the last couple of interviews I came across pretty positively. I know in one interview, the hiring manager said that no one she had interviewed thus far had everything she wanted. I think I'm

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