I want to add virtual printer to my MFNetDisk, Any value?

2008-01-18 Thread Shai Hess
HI, I want to add a small feature which I call it virtual MF printer. This will enable MVS user to print to MVS virtual printer any MVS file. Ofcourse the printer is a PC attach printer and to MVS it will be a MF printer. In other words, I want to emulate MF printer in MVS. My question is

Re: z890 2086-160 w/ 2 IFLs on eBay

2008-01-18 Thread Ken Porowski
Up to $6500 now. If I recall from the marketing, you only 'buy' an IFL once and when you upgrade your IFL's are already paid for. Now if I can pick up this 2 IFL box for $10-20K can I just have IBM turn on 2 IFL's on my z990 and just trash the z890? Quite a savings from the list price of $100K+

Re: z890 2086-160 w/ 2 IFLs on eBay

2008-01-18 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ken Porowski Up to $6500 now. If I recall from the marketing, you only 'buy' an IFL once and when you upgrade your IFL's are already paid for. Now if I can pick up this 2 IFL box for $10-20K can I just have

Re: Re-hosting IMB-MAIN (was RE: z890 2086-160 w/ 2 IFLs on eBay)

2008-01-18 Thread Thomas Kern
You could save some money by running SLES10 and the linux version of LSoft's LISTSERV product. No z/OS or z/VM necessary. /Tom Kern On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:18:41 -0600, tony babonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why don't we take up a collection to buy an old CPU, zOS and all else needed, then

Re: New Mainframes coming in February

2008-01-18 Thread Ken Porowski
I've only seen the software ones, maybe someone else on the list has found one for hardware. I would usually just search the announcement letters. -Original Message- Mark H. Young On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:56:33 -0500, Ken Porowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From IBM's 4Q 2007 Earnings

Re: Re-hosting IMB-MAIN (was RE: z890 2086-160 w/ 2 IFLs on eBay)

2008-01-18 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of tony babonas Why don't we take up a collection to buy an old CPU, zOS and all else needed, then host IBM-MAIN, RACF-L, CICS-L, VM-L, DB2-L etc etc. I'd think z/VM would be a better choice for a LISTSERVE

Re: Re-hosting IMB-MAIN (was RE: z890 2086-160 w/ 2 IFLs on eBay)

2008-01-18 Thread Ted MacNEIL
No z/OS or z/VM necessary. Somebody has gone over to the Dark Side, Luke! - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message:

Re: Re-hosting IMB-MAIN (was RE: z890 2086-160 w/ 2 IFLs on eBay)

2008-01-18 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Thomas Kern You could save some money by running SLES10 and the linux version of LSoft's LISTSERV product. No z/OS or z/VM necessary. But z/VM would provide cheap insurance against outages, especially if

Re: Flash memory arrays

2008-01-18 Thread Ron Hawkins
Bill But 1999 is more than half a decade ago. I think you are talking about the 1 inch pixie dust drives. They are made by Hitachi now. You'll find them in your IPOD, but not in EMC. The last contract I recall between EMC and IBM for HDD was the 36GB drive, and that was cancelled due to heat

Re: IEFACTRT exit

2008-01-18 Thread Richard Peurifoy
O'Connor, Ruth wrote: Hello We have an intermittent problem with IEFACTRT and are wondering if anyone else has ever seen this phenomenon. We're running z/OS 1.7 with Top Secret 9.0 but the problem goes back at least several years and software levels. Like many shops, we use the exit to write

Re: Re-hosting IMB-MAIN (was RE: z890 2086-160 w/ 2 IFLs on eBay)

2008-01-18 Thread Ken Porowski
So we take up a collection, buy the z890 and have it shipped to Darren ;-) -Original Message- Tom Schmidt You have completely missed the point: the list owner (Darren, in our case) is the true fundamental value to this list. The hardware operating system are meaningless in our

Re: IDC3009I return code *5*??

2008-01-18 Thread Dave Kopischke
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:28:28 -0500, David Andrews wrote: I did a LISTC VOL against one of my catalogs today and was rewarded in part with these entries: NONVSAM --- ..'{... ..2. HISTORY I've seen something similar to this before. Are these catalog

Re: IEFACTRT exit

2008-01-18 Thread O'Connor, Ruth
Richard, That's a good question. We do use IEFYS to write some messages to JESYSMSG but the messages that were missing are WTOs that we send to syslog and to JESMSGLG. Until you asked about IEFYS I hadn't noticed that the JESYSMSG messages did appear correctly in the affected jobs. That means

Re: I want to add virtual printer to my MFNetDisk, Any value?

2008-01-18 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
shai hess wrote: Can anyone help me to find IBM books which give the data about the CCWs of the MF attached printers? I did not find anything on bitsavers.org (there is a 1403 manual, but it's for the 1401 system). A google.com search turned up lots of hits, but nothing relevant. And

Re: Flash memory arrays

2008-01-18 Thread Tom Moulder
Fry's in the Dallas/Fort Worth area has a 500GB SATA drive on sale this week for $90. How low can you go? Tom Moulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Kopischke Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 1:02 PM To:

Re: IEFACTRT exit

2008-01-18 Thread Ed Gould
On Jan 18, 2008, at 4:50 PM, Shane wrote: On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 16:19 -0500, O'Connor, Ruth wrote: Any ideas about what could have happened to the initiator to affect an smf exit's WTOs? Have a look at the subpool for any getmains. I would take a look at logrec to see if there were

Re: I want to add virtual printer to my MFNetDisk, Any value?

2008-01-18 Thread shai hess
HI, Few questions: 1. In today market, what MVS sites use for printing? TCP printers or MF local attach printers? 2. I think the printers are not like disks. They can not have complicate CCWs, So I think if someone will give me GTFTRACE of Vary online,offline console command to local

Re: CFW with Syncsort

2008-01-18 Thread Ron Hawkins
John, I have been told many times that SYNCSORT uses CFW, but I have never observed any change in the RMFCR counters when I turn CFW on in a controller with SYNCSORT Sort Work datasets. For DFSORT my experience is there is a significant increment in the CFW counter, and a very apparent change in

Re: Flash memory arrays

2008-01-18 Thread Ed Gould
On Jan 18, 2008, at 7:48 PM, Tom Moulder wrote: Fry's in the Dallas/Fort Worth area has a 500GB SATA drive on sale this week for $90. How low can you go? Tom, I saw a 1TB for $300 and heard about the same for under $300 at Walmart (unconfirmed). Ed ps: They have a Fry's here in the

Re: How to find current tape length programatically

2008-01-18 Thread gah
Someone wrote: I have an obvious question on the 3490E though. You say there is a set of tracks going AND coming. Since actual tape length isn't a specification, just a minimum is, how would a hardware duplication device handle a 3490E? In theory it wouldn't be able to, would it? If one

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