Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-13 Thread Art Gutowski
. Thanks, Art Gutowski -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-12 Thread Art Gutowski
to download packages to a workstation and transfer them to z/OS later, is not affected by this change and is planned to remain available. This is very good news. Curious. How so? Regards, Art Gutowski -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: IBM Doing Some Restructuring?

2012-02-13 Thread Art Gutowski
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:24:17 -0800, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: It's funny how so often, despite Santayana's admonishments, new management teams implement the same failed ideas (with new names) all over again. Politicians do this every 4-8 years or so. Must be human nature...

Re: IBM announces 6% price increase for z/OS

2012-01-28 Thread Art Gutowski
/OS are anything but beneficial for anyone, including IBM, except *nix vendors, MS, and Apple. Regards, Art Gutowski Compuware Corporation -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: PDSE

2012-01-24 Thread Art Gutowski
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:11:49 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In 0474239580859420.wa.arthur.gutowskicompuware@bama.ua.edu, on 01/23/2012 at 04:14 PM, Art Gutowski arthur.gutow...@compuware.com said: On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:54:52 -0600, Tom Marchant m42tom

Re: PDSE

2012-01-23 Thread Art Gutowski
target/execution libraries by VR/M and/or Maintenance level *and* insulate applications and users from dataset name changes. [...] Regards, Art Gutowski Compuware Corporation -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: APPLY RSU Question

2012-01-06 Thread Art Gutowski
, and after the task is done. Good luck, Art Gutowski Compuware Corporation -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: CFRM Policy Number

2011-12-01 Thread Art Gutowski
format new CFRM couple datasets. Based on responses thus far, seems you have a handle on this part. By 'rotate them into service' I mean using SETXCF COUPLE,TYPE=CFRM,... to activate the new CDS. Regards, Art Gutowski

Re: CFRM Policy Nmuber

2011-11-30 Thread Art Gutowski
, or resizing structures, CFs, or machines that often? If you want a running history, there are better ways. Regards, Art Gutowski Compuware Corporation -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: z/OS UNIX file can't be deleted. (Was confusing and confused)

2011-10-26 Thread Art Gutowski
of their corrections to errant references in their products and documentation. Cut some slack. Let it go once in a while. Or at least take it up with the offenders offline (we don't all need to repeat the lesson). Regards, Art Gutowski

Re: IOCP RESOURCE coding help needed

2011-09-13 Thread Art Gutowski
in one LCSS, it will be available to all of the other LCSSs defined to the processor. IIRC, SPANNED. SHARED applies only to LPARs within the LCSS. Regards, Art Gutowski Compuware Corporation -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: load mmodules copying to other site

2011-08-31 Thread Art Gutowski
., no RECEIVE FROMNETWORK / FROMNTS) for non-SMP/E installable packages. IOW, GIMZIP/GIMUNZIP can be directly invoked froim JCL. Review the SMP/E books for details. HTH, Art Gutowski Compuware Corporation -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Parallel sysplex

2011-08-22 Thread Art Gutowski
RedBook (System Programmers Guide to Parallel Sysplex Aggregation) is available here: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp3967.html Toward the end of this book, as should be so for Merging Systems, there is a list of related publications resources. HTH, Art Gutowski Compuware Corporation

Re: SHARE Hotels Sold Out!

2011-08-08 Thread Art Gutowski
On Sat, 6 Aug 2011 20:16:30 -0700, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: Wow! SHARE sold out its room allocation at the Dolphin. Overflow at the Swan also sold out. Some people are staying at an off-site hotel. Yikes! Glad I booked when I did... That's a good problem to have! Things

Re: SYSPLEX

2011-07-28 Thread Art Gutowski
well through a parallel sysplex implementation project at my last shop (about 3 years ago). Not to say we were problemfree, but I cannot imagine how bumpy it would have been without some formal training. Regards, Art Gutowski Compuware Corporation On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:14:54 +0300, #1490

Re: Allocations greater than 65535 tracks

2011-07-18 Thread Art Gutowski
On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:29:34 +, Mingee, David david.min...@libertymutual.com wrote: Yes, I think the number than causes the failure is cyl 4104? The math is too hard for me. 4369 Cylinders = 65535 Tracks Regards, Art Gutowski Compuware Corporation

Re: SMPE how-to question

2011-07-11 Thread Art Gutowski
is another shining example. Regards, Art Gutowski Compuware Corporation -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives

Re: SMPE how-to question

2011-07-08 Thread Art Gutowski
Since when did IBM condone UCLIN to update RMIDs on supplied elements? According to the latest z/OS Packaging Rules, SC23-3695-10, this is still frowned upon (Section 5.10), and Section 8 offers MCS alternatives. Regards, Art Gutowski Compuware Corporation On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 07:09:02 -0400

Re: Z/OS Maintenance

2011-07-06 Thread Art Gutowski
poor soul somewhere. And the one that states: Hardware will eventually fail. Software will eventually work. Art Gutowski Compuware Corporation -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Inactive WLM CDS Information

2011-06-21 Thread Art Gutowski
, at least not by means accessible to us. That is where the WLM ISPF dialog comes in for Define/Install/Activate, or SETXCF to migrate the existing definitions to a new CDS. Regards, Art Gutowski Compuware Corporation -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: BDT and PDSEs

2011-06-14 Thread Art Gutowski
it continually chewed up modules with unusual linkage attributes like page-aligned and scatter-load. So now it's FTP for PDSE and BDT for PDS? Argh. Regards, Art Gutowski Compuware Corporation -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: When is performance really an issue? Was: Running an ISPF applicction from one pds

2011-06-14 Thread Art Gutowski
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:50:27 +, Bill Fairchild bi...@mainstar.com wrote: So what is the exact location, velocity, and/or mass of one particular electron? 42 We apologize for the invonvenience, Art Gutowski Compuware Corporation

Re: Running an ISPF applicction from one pds

2011-06-13 Thread Art Gutowski
. Argh. Regards, Art Gutowski Compuware Corporation -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu

Re: Accelerrate your migration z/OS v1r12

2011-05-31 Thread Art Gutowski
to exploit new function, not just maintain the status quo. I have to be more sensitive to that now. Can't risk using a feature a customer might not yet have. One of very few tough adjustments. Take care, and keep spreading the word! Art Gutowski Abend-Aid Development Compuware Corporation

Re: Accelerrate your migration z/OS v1r12

2011-05-31 Thread Art Gutowski
Sorry, list, please ignore, that was obviously meant for offline... Art -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the

Re: How do XCF couple datasets get serialized in a sysplex?

2011-05-25 Thread Art Gutowski
is to prevent a RESERVE for *other* datasets residing on the volume, thus locking out sysplex functions, most importantly, XCF. Regards, Art Gutowski Compuware Corporation -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Regarding Hot or Warm start of Jes3

2011-05-17 Thread Art Gutowski
?SHELF=iat2bka0DN=SA22- 7550-09DT=20100630152447 Regards, Art Gutowski Compuware Corporation -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

Re: Decentralized Install Work

2011-05-11 Thread Art Gutowski
that's the way the server teams do it. SIGH. One of a short list of reasons why I moved on... Cheers, Art Gutowski -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: Leaving IBM-MAIN

2011-05-09 Thread Art Gutowski
On Fri, 6 May 2011 18:45:25 +, Bob Shannon bshan...@rocketsoftware.com wrote: He expressed the feelings of a lot of people. Where is Darren when we need him? Darren has far more important concerns, of that I am certain. Regards, Art Gutowski

Re: USS

2011-05-06 Thread Art Gutowski
On Fri, 6 May 2011 03:39:55, Chris Mason chrisma...@belgacom.net wrote: I do enjoy literary references. It's not always certain that others do. For example, it's not completely clear that Art Gutowski appreciates that the smell of a rose is sweet - although his remote smell-detection technology

Re: POHD: vs UTE (was: USS vs USS)

2011-05-05 Thread Art Gutowski
On Wed, 4 May 2011 21:03:24 -0500, Chris Mason chrisma...@belgacom.net wrote: This was and continues to be a technical exchange about proper words. Unlike with a rose, we don't have smell to guide us. Oh, I can smell it alright... Art

Re: Submit a series of jobs in order after the previous has completed

2011-04-15 Thread Art Gutowski
, when I saw an example of this at my last shop, the programmer chose, or was forced, to use ftp to submit the jobs to the internal reader. Not sure which, not sure why. Regards, Art Gutowski Compuware Corporation -- For IBM

Re: ACS routine coding philosophy

2011-04-15 Thread Art Gutowski
Food for thought... If your FILTLISTS are numerous and onerous, you might consider defining some RACF (or your favorite alternative, if the constructs are available) profiles and segments to assign appropriate defaults and allow for specification based on user or group. Of course, that puts

Re: Copy OMVS file system after service to production system

2011-04-13 Thread Art Gutowski
On 4/13/2011 6:36 AM, Anthony Thompson wrote: We had a similar issue here: occasionally a mountpoint directory and/or associated symbolics went missing after an OS upgrade and a new root file system was moved into production / development systems. This is not a good answer for upgrades, but