Re: OT: loose vs. lose

2008-01-12 Thread Andrew Armstrong
This rant was brought you you as a public service message. Every you in that sentence is spelled correctly. (Make sure you're using the right words on resumes, cover letters, and any communication where you don't want to negatively impress the recipient.) Isn't to negatively impress a

Re: Radix Partition Trees

2008-01-12 Thread Michael Stack
The discussion of radix partition trees and radix partition sort has been going on for a while now, and I guess it's time to display my ignorance. glen herrmannsfeldt's comments in http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002q.html#10 below exactly match my notion of a radix sort. See

Re: zOS 1.9 IEANUC01

2008-01-12 Thread Mark Jacobs
I use the same SMPE procedure to run the RECEIVE and then the APPLY. If the level of SMPE in the steplib'd MIGLIB is different than the level of SMPE in production the RECEIVE fails as I described earlier but the steplib is needed for the APPLY. Using the same procedure for both functions is a

Re: Data Erasure Products

2008-01-12 Thread R.S.
Mark Jacobs wrote: Outside of FDRERASE and good old ICKDSF are there any products in the market that can erase data from mainframe DASD? If you want more or less certified method, you need to buy something. Degausser is most certified, but it destroys your disks. g If you need reasonable

Re: zOS 1.9 IEANUC01

2008-01-12 Thread Ed Gould
On Jan 12, 2008, at 9:09 AM, Mark Jacobs wrote: I use the same SMPE procedure to run the RECEIVE and then the APPLY. If the level of SMPE in the steplib'd MIGLIB is different than the level of SMPE in production the RECEIVE fails as I described earlier but the steplib is needed for the

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2008-01-12 Thread john gilmore
I do not routinely post to IBM-MAIN anymore, but I was alerted to this thread by someone who does, and I have a generic suggestion to make. To obtain technical information about these RPTs--- including information about Google's own patents on certain operations on them---use

Re: radix partition trees

2008-01-12 Thread john gilmore
duplicate with subject provided I do not routinely post to IBM-MAIN anymore, but I was alerted to this thread by someone who does, and I have a generic suggestion to make. To obtain technical information about these RPTs--- including information about Google's own patents on certain

Re: SMP/E and why not.

2008-01-12 Thread Ed Gould
On Jan 5, 2008, at 12:58 AM, shai hess wrote: Dave Salt: Totally agree with you. Imagine how easy it to return to your old load library in case of error and not pray that SMP/E with the APPLY/RESTORE/ACCEPT/RECEIVE/REJECT will work fine for you. As I said SMP/E and why not for some

Re: SMP/E and why not.

2008-01-12 Thread Ted MacNEIL
SAS? (I'm thinking of their dwindling C compiler and RTL; I don't know details of their main statistical products.) It's not SMP/E, or at least it wasn't 18 months ago. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: SMP/E and why not.

2008-01-12 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 1/12/2008 1:53:02 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's not SMP/E, or at least it wasn't 18 months ago. Well, in a cross platform environment why would you even consider SMP/E? So you write your own little installer and you're good to go on

Re: scholar.google.com (was: No subject)

2008-01-12 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 1/12/2008 1:46:58 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Headline news about how far ahead Vets were with stem cell therapy so scholar.google'd 'animal stem cell' and couldn't read a single one! Went the other way and found it on google.com/news

Re: SMP/E and why not.

2008-01-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:53:03 -0600, Ed Gould wrote: The current Major software vendors all use SMP/e(it took years of battling to get them that way THERE is a reason). The few that don't are not worth the effort to even look at. SAS? (I'm thinking of their dwindling C compiler and RTL; I don't

Re: scholar.google.com (was: No subject)

2008-01-12 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 1/12/2008 1:36:58 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks. I had heard rumors that Google was planning an alternative to wikipedia. Is this what we're seeing Well I've got a friend having hip replacement Monday and saw a thing on Headline news

scholar.google.com (was: No subject)

2008-01-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:51:58 +, john gilmore wrote: To obtain technical information about these RPTs--- including information about Google's own patents on certain operations on them---use http://scholar.google.com Thanks. I had heard rumors that Google was planning an alternative to

Re: Data Erasure Products

2008-01-12 Thread Stephen Mednick
Outside of FDRERASE and good old ICKDSF are there any products in the market that can erase data from mainframe DASD? I didn't see anything in the CBT archive for DASD, just some tape erasure programs. * * -- Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service Tampa, FL There are any

Re: Problem while recalling few datasets

2008-01-12 Thread Joel C. Ewing
... and if you haven't looked at implementing duplexing of HSM Backup and ML2 tapes, do so. Tape media are physically manipulated by both tape drives and Operations personnel, and either can occasionally fail in ways that are catastrophic for the tape media or its contents. To entrust 100's

Re: SMP/E and why not.

2008-01-12 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 22:58 -0800 on 01/04/2008, shai hess wrote about Re: SMP/E and why not.: Dave Salt: Totally agree with you. Imagine how easy it to return to your old load library in case of error and not pray that SMP/E with the APPLY/RESTORE/ACCEPT/RECEIVE/REJECT will work fine for you. As I said SMP/E

IBM APA vs Compuware Strobe

2008-01-12 Thread Andy White
Our management has asked us to compare IBM APA (Application Performance Analyzer) to Compuware's Strobe. We are Strobe users and have been for years both the technical staff uses it and the application programmers. Either way has anyone out there done this comparison and if so are you will to

Re: SMP/E and why not.

2008-01-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:55:27 -0500, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: My biggest gripe with the design of SMP/E is the use of a RESTORE design that will back-out a PTF (or set of PTFs) to get back to the state you were in (or would have been in) before you APPLY'ed the PTF(s). Right now you must RESTORE

Re: SMP/E and why not.

2008-01-12 Thread Ed Gould
On Jan 12, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:53:03 -0600, Ed Gould wrote: The current Major software vendors all use SMP/e(it took years of battling to get them that way THERE is a reason). The few that don't are not worth the effort to even look at. SAS? (I'm

SCOPE=COMMON in data spaces

2008-01-12 Thread Peter Relson
I am getting a system abend code 01D reason xxzz14xx from the DSPSERV macro. Yes and no. Actually you got system abend code 01D reason xx0014xx from the DSPSERV macro. (yeah, I hate that confusion factor too. I'm going to suggest that the system codes be updated for the xxzz14xx (and similar)

Re: SMP/E and why not.

2008-01-12 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 8:07 PM Subject: Re: SMP/E and why not. On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:55:27 -0500, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: My biggest gripe with the design of SMP/E is the use

Re: SMP/E and why not.

2008-01-12 Thread Ed Gould
On Jan 12, 2008, at 7:07 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: --SNIP- However, Kurt Q. is apt to point out, as he has done several times, that this was not the design objective of RESTORE; it's more like Revert as we know it on some of our desktop systems. He will be

Re: SMP/E and why not.

2008-01-12 Thread Edward Jaffe
Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:55:27 -0500, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: My biggest gripe with the design of SMP/E is the use of a RESTORE design that will back-out a PTF (or set of PTFs) to get back to the state you were in (or would have been in) before you APPLY'ed the PTF(s).