Re: ATS STAR question

2007-12-21 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
Scott Fagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Kees Vernooy wrote first: -snip- My question is: Does anybody share ATS units over sysplexes and does this work? -snip- Brian Peterson implemented ATS Star this way at St. Paul Fire and Marine:

Re: Multiple Subchannel Set Usage

2007-12-21 Thread Martin Reeday
Are you on at least z/OS v1.7? If not, subchannel set 1 will not be recognized which would explain why the aliases cannot be seen. Martin Reeday Senior z/OS Systems Programmer Mainframe Business Services Group Technology HBOS Plc * (01422 8) 30289 * 07770 535099 Team mailbox: $GT zSeries

Jim Franklin/AUST/CSC is on holidays

2007-12-21 Thread Jim Franklin
I will be out of the office starting 21/12/2007 and will not return until 21/01/2008. Administrative Issues can be addressed to Ian Davidson 0417 477 652 Technical Issues to Ute Eremin 03 86951569 or Peter Hopper 08 92545362 Regards Jim Franklin

3590 Tape Automated TApe

2007-12-21 Thread Jacky Bright
These standalone 3590 drives killing me. Daily some kinda errors in 3590 drives which in turn affects the backup. I wish if cud have new Robo operated Automated Tape Library... Anyone hav an idea about this ? I have 2 3590 Drives and 2 3490 Drives. Is there any model available which will have

Re: index cisz - does it change when cluster is EA/EF?

2007-12-21 Thread R.S.
AFAIK, EF means that to every PB (physical block) is added one cell. Cell on 3390 is (AFAIR) 34 bytes. It affect allocation of VSAM for the following CI sizes: 0.5 1.5 18 kB. You just fall in the exception: DATA CISZ=18k. Thats why you have less CI per CA when compared to non-EF. Index parameters

Re: Problem fetching a program object (CSV031I)

2007-12-21 Thread Peter Relson
The problem is, that the bytes we have to patch are on different byte offsets with every release - so we also have to create new control cards for AMASZAP for every release. Can you put each thing that needs to be patched in a separate CSECT that is bound with the rest of your program object?

ACF2 and PADS equivalent LIB rule?

2007-12-21 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)
We face the problem that some people can no longer update a dataset from within a program. The access to the dataset should be allowed, from what I understand, by ACF2's implementation of the RACF PADS function. I understand that a rule like this $KEY(HLQ) U.P0.- UID(*)

Re: New Videos on IBM TV about IT Costs

2007-12-21 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples There is a new series of videos posted to IBM TV that I found interesting. First, start here: http://www.ibm.com/software/info/television/index.jsp Click on the Select a topic button, then

Re: Problem fetching a program object (CSV031I)

2007-12-21 Thread Michael Knigge
Peter, Can you put each thing that needs to be patched in a separate CSECT that is bound with the rest of your program object? I will give this a try. Thank you, Michael -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Flushing SMF Records from Buffer

2007-12-21 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason To Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 9:15 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Flushing SMF Records from Buffer Is there a way to flush SMF records from buffer to immediately

Re: ACF2 and PADS equivalent LIB rule?

2007-12-21 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:21:03 +0100, Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We face the problem that some people can no longer update a dataset from within a program. The access to the dataset should be allowed, from what I understand, by ACF2's implementation of the RACF PADS function.

Re: Max. number of physical blocks on 3390 track

2007-12-21 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 12/20/2007 5:22:42 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I seem to remember macro TRACKCAP (?) that would return the needed information to you (or I may be confused and it had a different function). That would be TRKCALC, which is documented in the

Re: IBM Beacon Award (for Business Partners) Nominations Now Open

2007-12-21 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 8:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: PR: IBM Beacon Award (for Business Partners) Nominations Now Open IBM is now accepting nominations for

Re: ATS STAR question

2007-12-21 Thread Scott Fagen
Kees Vernooy wrote: -snip- Scott, I can't access the post in the archives, maybe this link requires administrator functions? I have not been able to find it through normal searces for ATS STAR. -snip- I'm not an expert on LISTSERV functions, but I had to join the IBM-MAIN-ARCHIVES list to be

Re: OT: tinyurl [was 2007 Year in Review on Mainframes - Interesting]

2007-12-21 Thread daver++
From: David Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] And clicking through tinyurl (or any proxy) provides yet *another* leak for your browsing history to escape through. Interestingly enough, my work internet filters block tinyurl. In order to get to a page referenced by a tinyurl, I have to chain through

Re: 3590 Tape Automated TApe

2007-12-21 Thread Russell Witt
Jacky, I am sorry if this sounds like a marketing plug, but have you considered a small virtual-tape solution? With only 4 physical drives, you probably don't have a need for a large robotic device; but CA-Vtape is a software virtual-tape solution that can be scaled very small. This way, your

Re: Max. number of physical blocks on 3390 track

2007-12-21 Thread J R
I seem to remember macro TRACKCAP (?) TRKCALC Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:14:38 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Max. number of physical blocks on 3390 track To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU At 12:29 -0500 on 12/20/2007, (IBM Mainframe Discussion List) wrote about Re: Max. number of

Developer productivity

2007-12-21 Thread Dave Salt
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On the buy more side, I generally favor looking first at application developer productivity, because that's where you'll find significant IT cost. That's also where business benefits result, if developers can deliver quicker and with higher quality. I get very

Analyzing zIIP engines at z/OS v1.6 and DB2 v7

2007-12-21 Thread Kelman, Tom
This has been cross posted to the MXG Listserv. I have been following the recent thread about doing an analysis for zIIP engines. However the suggestions in that thread used the ZIEUNITS variable in the TYPE72GO observations. It is my understanding that to get that value you need to have DB2

Re: OT: tinyurl [was 2007 Year in Review on Mainframes - Interesting]

2007-12-21 Thread Howard Brazee
On 20 Dec 2007 13:11:28 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Walt Farrell) wrote: In response to that concern, TinyUrl allows you to specify that you want to preview the long link before clicking through. You can specify that option at tinyurl.com if you want. In addition, anyone creating a TinyUrl link

Re: OT: tinyurl [was 2007 Year in Review on Mainframes - Interesting]

2007-12-21 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Howard Brazee On 20 Dec 2007 13:11:28 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Walt Farrell) wrote: In response to that concern, TinyUrl allows you to specify that you want to preview the long link before clicking through.

Re: Max. number of physical blocks on 3390 track

2007-12-21 Thread Rob Wunderlich
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:39:40 +0100, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I find further information (some RTFM) ? According to notes in a blocksize calc exec I wrote years ago, the track layout and calculations are documented in sc26-4574 3390 dasd in an mvs environment. I can't seem to

Re: Flushing SMF Records from Buffer

2007-12-21 Thread Michael Cleary
Greetings, SMF records generally fall into two categories - event driven and time driven. This means that the creator of the SMF record does so either based on a specific event happening or by the passing of an interval of time that it has setup. Most SMF interval record creators have a way

Re: ACF2 and PADS equivalent LIB rule?

2007-12-21 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)
It shouldn't AFAIK. Is the update being allowed regardless or not being allowed at all? If not at all, have you run a violation report? Have you tried using the rule test facility? You can also do a SECTRACE. The update is not allowed since there is another rule (pure DSN rule?) which

Re: 2007 Year in Review on Mainframes - Interesting

2007-12-21 Thread Howard Brazee
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:51:14 -0500, Anne Lynn Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there is also some gimick on how much is paid, it is currently 15.3% ... but for standard salary workers ... the company has to pay half of it over and above the salary ... and then there is the other half deducted

Re: ACF2 and PADS equivalent LIB rule?

2007-12-21 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:39:32 +0100, Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The update is not allowed since there is another rule (pure DSN rule?) which allows them only read access. Lack of the PADS-rule (what does ACF2 call this after all?) snip Program pathing. the DSN rule is

Re: 2007 Year in Review on Mainframes - Interesting

2007-12-21 Thread Rick Fochtman
--snip And the money I've paid into Social Security all my life will be returned in my retirement with interest ! I'm so sure that will happen that I've already started to spend it. -snip--- I don't know what

Re: Developer productivity

2007-12-21 Thread Kelman, Tom
Ok, I have two comments/questions. First, from what I see the link points to an ISPF replacement. That might have helped a few years ago, but now most developers are not doing their work on ISPF. They're using tools on Windows or Unix. I know that we're mainframe bigots, but that's just the

Re: IBM Beacon Award (for Business Partners) Nominations Now Open

2007-12-21 Thread Eric Bielefeld
Something tells me that IBM wouldn't approve too highly of those choices. You should go through the formal process, whatever that is, and recommend them though. Eric Bielefeld Thompson wrote: I propose either T3 or PSI. Regards, Steve Thompson -- Eric Bielefeld Des Moines, Iowa

Re: OT: tinyurl [was 2007 Year in Review on Mainframes - Interesting]

2007-12-21 Thread Howard Brazee
On 21 Dec 2007 07:52:12 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chase, John) wrote: http://makeashorterlink.com/ says this now: Make A Shorter Link has been acquired by TinyURL.com TinyURL is committed to making sure that the short links made via Make a Shorter Link, TinyURL, and similar services remain

Re: z/OS V1R9 Migration Checker for z/OS Tool Now Available!

2007-12-21 Thread Daniel McLaughlin
Downloaded yesterday, uploaded and ran today. Great tool. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Re: Flushing SMF Records from Buffer

2007-12-21 Thread Logan, David
I am not close to a manual ATM, but is there an exit that gets control for each record written? It is possible the original asker would want to utilize one if one were available. David Logan -Original Message- From: McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU

Re: Developer productivity

2007-12-21 Thread Ted MacNEIL
If anyone has worked in a company that has successfully measured developer productivity I'd be interested in how they did the measurement. I don't know how successful it was, but years ago we used function points. Rather than counting lines of code, we would count new functionality (or modified

Re: 2007 Year in Review on Mainframes - Interesting

2007-12-21 Thread Rick Fochtman
--snip--- It's a tax. The nature of taxes is that we may or may not good value from the tax. It is designed to get money to old or infirmed from current taxes. -unsnip-- Piece of trivia here: We've had more than

Re: FICON vs ESCON CTC's

2007-12-21 Thread Matthew Stitt
BSC NJE is needed if you are communicating with a system which does not support (or is not configured) SNA NJE. I currently have one with a VM RSCS system. :-( On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:53:49 +0100, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Skip Robinson wrote: Just to clarify: if GRS is part of a basic

Re: 2007 Year in Review on Mainframes - Interesting

2007-12-21 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Piece of trivia here: We've had more than 100 new taxes imposed on us since 1900. What happened in that time? GOVERNMENT HAPPENED!!! Come to Canada. There are few countries taxed as heavily as we are. Great Britain is one of them. Even our cities are allowed to impose additional taxes. - Too

Re: It keeps getting uglier

2007-12-21 Thread Rick Fochtman
snip Why not? Intellectual property is what keeps a technology company running. I'm more surprised, as others have said, that people are astonished/annoyed/upset that IBM is keeping secrets, than the fact that IBM has secrets. Any large company has

Re: ISPF Action Bar Menus

2007-12-21 Thread Roach, Dennis
I do not know how to turn them off, but in settings you can turn off the ability to tab to them. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Bielefeld Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 11:12 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: ISPF

Re: It keeps getting uglier

2007-12-21 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I'd like to see them release information on what exists today. In Canada, at least, once you release trade secrets, or intellectual property, to the public domain, you cannot 're-protect' it. In any litigation, you have to prove that you did due diligence to keep secrets. I think the same

ISPF Action Bar Menus

2007-12-21 Thread Eric Bielefeld
I've got something that is bugging me since I started here at Aviva. How do I get rid of the Action Bar menus at the top of every ISPF screen? I know I've done that before, but I can't think of the command. You would think it would be in the settings panel, but I don't see it there. -- Eric

Re: ACF2 and PADS equivalent LIB rule?

2007-12-21 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Hunkeler Peter , KIUK 3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 10:41 AM Subject: Re: ACF2 and PADS equivalent LIB rule? It shouldn't AFAIK. Is the update being allowed regardless or not being allowed at all?

Re: Analyzing zIIP engines at z/OS v1.6 and DB2 v7

2007-12-21 Thread Brian Peterson
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:14:05 -0600, Kelman, Tom wrote: This has been cross posted to the MXG Listserv. I have been following the recent thread about doing an analysis for zIIP engines. However the suggestions in that thread used the ZIEUNITS variable in the TYPE72GO observations. It is my

Re: ISPF Action Bar Menus

2007-12-21 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Bielefeld Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 11:12 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: ISPF Action Bar Menus I've got something that is bugging me since I started here at Aviva.

SV: Developer productivity

2007-12-21 Thread Thomas Berg
I would prefer to measure developers by inverting the cost of maintenance. I don't want maintenance programmers to be productive, I want them to be whithout anything to do ! ;) _ Thomas Berg Specialist IT Utveckling Swedbank AB

Re: ISPF Action Bar Menus

2007-12-21 Thread e'Silva, Joaquim J
Is it possibly in ISPF configuration table definition, exec ISPCCONF! Regards Joaquim e Silva z/OS System Programmer Standardbank of South Africa email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (w) +27 011-700-1465 (c) +27 083-307-9223 (f) +27 011-700-1222 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: Developer productivity

2007-12-21 Thread Don Leahy
On Dec 21, 2007 11:06 AM, Kelman, Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I have two comments/questions. First, from what I see the link points to an ISPF replacement. That might have helped a few years ago, but now most developers are not doing their work on ISPF. They're using tools on Windows

Re: ISPF Action Bar Menus

2007-12-21 Thread Imbriale, Donald
To remove them from View and Edit, go into edit, then issue command EDITSET. For other panels, they would need to be rebuilt without the action bars. Don Imbriale -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Bielefeld Sent: Friday,

Re: ISPF Action Bar Menus

2007-12-21 Thread Lizette Koehler
Try the ISP.SISPEXEC data set. Lizette What library is ISPCCONF in, Joaquim? Is it possibly in ISPF configuration table definition, exec ISPCCONF! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: ISPF Action Bar Menus

2007-12-21 Thread Richards, Robert B.
SYS1.ISP.SISPEXEC - Robert B. Richards(Bob) US Office of Personnel Management 1900 E Street NW Room: BH04L Washington, D.C. 20415 Phone: (202) 606-1195 Email:

Re: Use of TinyURLs - Unnecessary?

2007-12-21 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:07:50 -0800, Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The list participants, using email clients that break long URLs, should upgrade to a newer version of their client or, in the absence of a newer client with acceptable functionality, change to an email client without this

Use of TinyURLs - Unnecessary?

2007-12-21 Thread Edward Jaffe
I've done some experimentation -- without claim that it has been 100% exhaustive -- using my email client (Thunderbird) and I find there are no problems with long URLs being wrapped, even in plain text messages! I have seen others successfully posting very long URLs to IBM-MAIN as well. For

Re: Developer productivity

2007-12-21 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
Ted MacNEIL wrote: I don't know how successful it was, but years ago we used function points. Rather than counting lines of code, we would count new functionality (or modified function). Last millennium I was a contractor at a government agency that used function points to evaluate programs

Re: ISPF Action Bar Menus

2007-12-21 Thread Lindy Mayfield
What library is ISPCCONF in, Joaquim? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of e'Silva, Joaquim J Sent: Fri 12/21/2007 6:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ISPF Action Bar Menus Is it possibly in ISPF configuration table definition, exec ISPCCONF!

Re: ISPCCONF, was Re: ISPF Action Bar Menus

2007-12-21 Thread e'Silva, Joaquim J
Yep, excellent presentation, IMO. Regards Joaquim e Silva z/OS System Programmer Standardbank of South Africa email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (w) +27 011-700-1465 (c) +27 083-307-9223 (f) +27 011-700-1222 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: Use of TinyURLs - Unnecessary?

2007-12-21 Thread Edward Jaffe
Ed Gould wrote: Ed, I agree with your entry. I am puzzled though. I believe the last time we went through this discussion that if the sender puts the (beginning and a at the end everything should work. Was that not true or only in some cases? I thought I had followed that advice when I

ISPCCONF, was Re: ISPF Action Bar Menus

2007-12-21 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Lindy Mayfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 1:25 PM Subject: Re: ISPF Action Bar Menus What library is ISPCCONF in, Joaquim? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of

Re: ISPF Action Bar Menus

2007-12-21 Thread Eric Bielefeld
Don, Thanks. That got rid of the action bars from Edit, but I thought there was a way to get rid of them from all ISPF panels. I certainly don't want to do it in ISRCONFG, as I only want to get rid of them for my session. I could have swore I put a note in my SCRIPT.TEXT file long ago when

Re: ISPF Action Bar Menus

2007-12-21 Thread e'Silva, Joaquim J
In ISP.SISPEXEC, It has a lot of useful information settings in the configurator and allows us to build a usermod at the end Regards Joaquim e Silva z/OS System Programmer Standardbank of South Africa email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (w) +27 011-700-1465 (c) +27 083-307-9223 (f) +27 011-700-1222

Re: Use of TinyURLs - Unnecessary?

2007-12-21 Thread Ed Gould
On Dec 21, 2007, at 12:07 PM, Edward Jaffe wrote: I've done some experimentation -- without claim that it has been 100% exhaustive -- using my email client (Thunderbird) and I find there are no problems with long URLs being wrapped, even in plain text messages! I have seen others

Re: Use of TinyURLs - Unnecessary?

2007-12-21 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Mark Zelden wrote: Unfortunately one of the things that breaks long URLs is posting from the web interface... which is how I monitor and post to this list from the office. While typing text

Re: Use of TinyURLs - Unnecessary?

2007-12-21 Thread Edward Jaffe
Edward Jaffe wrote: Mark Zelden wrote: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=ansubtype=caappname=Demonstrationhtmlfid=897/ENUS207-175 In the message I received, the above URL was perfectly in-tact. No wrap. I clicked on it and I was taken to the correct web page. I

Re: Use of TinyURLs - Unnecessary?

2007-12-21 Thread Edward Jaffe
Mark Zelden wrote: Unfortunately one of the things that breaks long URLs is posting from the web interface... which is how I monitor and post to this list from the office. While typing text into the window wraps at the end of the window, pasting a long URL into the window seems to work at least

Re: It keeps getting uglier

2007-12-21 Thread Ed Gould
On Dec 21, 2007, at 10:57 AM, Rick Fochtman wrote: snip Why not? Intellectual property is what keeps a technology company running. I'm more surprised, as others have said, that people are astonished/annoyed/upset that IBM is keeping secrets, than the

Re: Use of TinyURLs - Unnecessary?

2007-12-21 Thread Michael Stack
FWIW, Eudora handles all this just fine. Michael Stack At 01:11 PM 12/21/2007, you wrote: Edward Jaffe wrote: Mark Zelden wrote: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=ansubtype=caappname=Demonstrationhtmlfid=897/ENUS207-175 In the message I received, the above URL was

Re: Use of TinyURLs - Unnecessary?

2007-12-21 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:11:13 -0800, Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edward Jaffe wrote: Mark Zelden wrote: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=ansubtype=caappname=Demonstrationhtmlfid=897/ENUS207-175 In the message I received, the above URL was perfectly

Re: Developer productivity

2007-12-21 Thread Dave Salt
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok, I have two comments/questions. First, from what I see the link points to an ISPF replacement. SimpList isn't an ISPF replacement but rather an add-on product that increases productivity for people who works in ISPF environments. Think of it as something like

Re: It keeps getting uglier

2007-12-21 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 1:38 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: It keeps getting uglier SNIPAGE Now that Big Blue is pretty much alone in the mainframe processor market,

Re: Use of TinyURLs - Unnecessary?

2007-12-21 Thread J R
The quoted long URL was also perfectly in-tact. Yes, I received everything in one piece also. The only thing that didn't arrive intact was the word intact. ;-) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:11:13 -0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Use of TinyURLs - Unnecessary? To:

Re: It keeps getting uglier

2007-12-21 Thread Ed Gould
Phil, Thank you so much for posting the document. It was a long read but, IMO worth the time to do so. Ed -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message:

Re: Problem fetching a program object (CSV031I)

2007-12-21 Thread Ed Gould
On Dec 20, 2007, at 6:31 AM, Peter Relson wrote: The conclusions in this thread are correct. Internal structures keep data for validation. If you update the program object in any way other than by using supported interfaces, the entire risk is yours. In the case mentioned, you broke the

Re: It keeps getting uglier

2007-12-21 Thread Howard Brazee
On 21 Dec 2007 11:41:16 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Gould) wrote: Interesting option there. I briefly browsed through Phil's online copy of the suit. One of the facts IBM alleges (IIRC ) or was that PSI (it was a long read) but one of the parties said that IBM made this public at one time

Re: Multiple Subchannel Set Usage

2007-12-21 Thread Tom Moulder
Yes. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Reeday Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 3:15 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Multiple Subchannel Set Usage Are you on at least z/OS v1.7? If not, subchannel set 1 will not be

Re: Developer productivity

2007-12-21 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Second, how do you measure developer productivity? Some people have mentioned counting lines of code or functions points, but IMO that's only part of the picture. For example, SimpList increases the productivity of almost everyone who works in an ISPF environment You changed the question.

Re: Use of TinyURLs - Unnecessary?

2007-12-21 Thread Eric Chevalier
On 21 Dec 2007 11:03:47 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edward Jaffe) wrote: With an email client that understands hwo to properly handle URLs, no extra effort is required. You simply post in the URL -- whether long or short -- and it is not wrapped. For example, this should (hopefully) not wrap:

Re: Analyzing zIIP engines at z/OS v1.6 and DB2 v7

2007-12-21 Thread Kelman, Tom
Thanks Brian. Since I'm going to be one of the few people at work on Monday :-( I should have a nice quiet day to peruse this information and apply it. Tom Kelman Commerce Bank of Kansas City (816) 760-7632 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Use of TinyURLs - Unnecessary?

2007-12-21 Thread Edward Jaffe
Chase, John wrote: I was busted when I got it. Of course, Outhouse mangled it further The IBM-MAIN archives, and Mark Zelden, using the LISTSERV web interface, and Mike Stack, using X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9, and J R, using whatever mail agent he is using, and

Re: Developer productivity

2007-12-21 Thread Don Leahy
On Dec 21, 2007 3:51 PM, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second, how do you measure developer productivity? Some people have mentioned counting lines of code or functions points, but IMO that's only part of the picture. For example, SimpList increases the productivity of almost

Re: Use of TinyURLs - Unnecessary?

2007-12-21 Thread Roland Schiradin
Ed, the IBM-Main web reader works also just fine. Roland Edward Jaffe wrote: Mark Zelden wrote: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias? infotype=ansubtype=caappname=Demonstrationhtmlfid=897/ENUS207-175 In the message I received, the above URL was perfectly in-tact. No wrap. I

Re: Developer productivity

2007-12-21 Thread Ted MacNEIL
True, but some of the most time-consuming tasks that a developer has to do have nothing to do with writing lines of code. I'm not disputing that. What I am disputing is expanding the sample set to everybody who touches a TSO keyboard. The question was developers. Not all the others. BTW, the

Re: Use of TinyURLs - Unnecessary?

2007-12-21 Thread Shane
On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 10:07 -0800, Edward Jaffe wrote: The list participants, using email clients that break long URLs, should upgrade to a newer version of their client or, in the absence of a newer client with acceptable functionality, change to an email client without this problem.

Re: Use of TinyURLs - Unnecessary?

2007-12-21 Thread Edward Jaffe
Eric Chevalier wrote: On 21 Dec 2007 11:03:47 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edward Jaffe) wrote: With an email client that understands hwo to properly handle URLs, no extra effort is required. You simply post in the URL -- whether long or short -- and it is not wrapped. For example, this

Re: FICON vs ESCON CTC's

2007-12-21 Thread Dave Barry
Job A on system A issues static SQL query to DB2 on system B. Which is faster: 1) DDF call to DB2 on system B via APPC over FICON CTC or 2) Local call to DB2 member of datasharing group w/ FICON CF links? Considering the overhead of DRDA protocol and independent enclave

Re: Developer productivity

2007-12-21 Thread Dave Salt
Don Leahy said: some of the most time-consuming tasks that a developer has to do have nothing to do with writing lines of code. Ted MacNeil said: I'm not disputing that. What I am disputing is expanding the sample set to everybody who touches a TSO keyboard. The question was developers. Not

Re: ISPF Action Bar Menus

2007-12-21 Thread Doug Fuerst
They are defined in the panel definitions, and I don't think they can be deleted without redefining the panel. They are defined at specific places in the panel, and with specific functions. This might be a question for the ISPF list. Doug At 12:32 21-12-07, you wrote: -Original

Re: It keeps getting uglier

2007-12-21 Thread Ed Gould
On Dec 21, 2007, at 1:58 PM, Thompson, Steve wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 1:38 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: It keeps getting uglier SNIPAGE Now that Big Blue is

Re: Use of TinyURLs - Unnecessary?

2007-12-21 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 13:39 -0600 on 12/21/2007, Michael Stack wrote about Re: Use of TinyURLs - Unnecessary?: FWIW, Eudora handles all this just fine. It does NOT unfortunately correctly handle URLs that are intentionally split with a blank at the end of the split part and delsp=yes used to flag this to

Re: Use of TinyURLs - Unnecessary?

2007-12-21 Thread Ed Gould
On Dec 21, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Eric Chevalier wrote: On 21 Dec 2007 11:03:47 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edward Jaffe) wrote: With an email client that understands hwo to properly handle URLs, no extra effort is required. You simply post in the URL -- whether long or short -- and it is not

Re: Use of TinyURLs - Unnecessary?

2007-12-21 Thread Ed Gould
On Dec 21, 2007, at 4:07 PM, Edward Jaffe wrote: E After all, whatever one might think of Ed G's technical contributions to this group, or his opinions of IBM, I don't believe he is at all malicious! Not malicious. But, he did admit to manually altering his URLs (by surrounding them with

Re: Problem fetching a program object (CSV031I)

2007-12-21 Thread Ed Gould
On Dec 20, 2007, at 6:31 AM, Peter Relson wrote: The conclusions in this thread are correct. Internal structures keep data for validation. If you update the program object in any way other than by using supported interfaces, the entire risk is yours. In the case mentioned, you broke the

There appears to be a server...

2007-12-21 Thread Ed Gould
There appears to be a sever sending messages twice to the IBM-MAIN server tonight. I have gotten back at least 10 rejected postings as duplicates. Is anyone else experiencing this? Ed -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: Use of TinyURLs - Unnecessary?

2007-12-21 Thread Ed Gould
On Dec 21, 2007, at 1:05 PM, Edward Jaffe wrote: Ed Gould wrote: Ed, I agree with your entry. I am puzzled though. I believe the last time we went through this discussion that if the sender puts the (beginning and a at the end everything should work. Was that not true or only in some

Re: Use of TinyURLs - Unnecessary?

2007-12-21 Thread Edward Jaffe
Ed Gould wrote: OK I will do so from now on but will take your word as definitive. I will no longer put the per your authority. Don't take my word for anything. Send yourself plain text (not HTML) email containing long URLs. Then you can see the effects of various settings for yourself