Re: Recommendations on download monitor

Steve, How are you attached to the Net? I think (not sure, though) that some routers have built-in network monitoring capabilities, at least basic stats like you may need. Also, I think that Microsoft -- among others -- used to have a Network Manager program that would allow to

Re: Senior Java Developer vs. MVS Systems Programmer (warning: Conley rant)

I quite liked Lisp. I haven't messed with it in years, but I just downloaded a version of Common Lisp that I plan to install on my laptop PC . . . where, no doubt, it will sit unused like so many other evidences of good intentions. Jon snip

OT: Was spam sender

Making an OT thread even more OT, that reminds me of something I read just yesterday -- the case of the 500-mile email: http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html It's an interesting tale if you're into problem-solving. Jon snip Faking an email address is fairly simple. Well, at least

Re: Anybody use a Wiki for internal information?

I set up a Wiki (using PMWiki -- very easy) for our department, runnning in a Linux guest under z/VM. I thought it worked pretty well. Unfortunately, we no longer have z/VM or Linux on the mainframe, so it is down for the moment. If I can ever get another box on which to host it I

Re: Movin' on Up!

In keeping with the name of your company, you should have burnt your old building. Jon snip Subject: Movin' on Up! http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/newlocation.htm /snip -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Antwort: How to access FIELDS in a RECORD using Java? (was:RE: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?)

The next time you start a compile, toss some coins on the floor. The shiny money usually distracts them. Jon snip Unfortunately, I'm now back at my previous problem of can I download this jar to my PC in order to do my compiles (not tests!) using it so that management stays off my back? I

Re: Copy from JES2 to a file

I generally just use the point-and-shoot options from the SDSF Print menu. Jon snip You described the more archaic (and IMO, more cumbersome) version of the XDC line command Lizette mentioned. You might want to look into the XDC line command ;-) /snip

Re: How often IPL a production LPAR (any good practice)

(Leaving lurk mode.) I think a distiction needs to be made between applying maintenance and simply changing some things. Applying SMPE maintenance to a running system can be a very Bad Idea. (Not that I haven't ever done it.) Changing system parameters, load libraries, linklists, etc. is no

Google groups and IBM-MAIN

As long as I have temporarily left lurk mode, has anyone else begun having problems with searching IBM-MAIN posts in Google Groups? I always used it because: a) It kept some load off the archive servers; and b) It was faster anyway. These days, though, it seems as if it has forgotten all of

Re: Amid Economic Turbulence, Mainframes Counter IT Cost-Cutting Trend

In that case, I'd be safe! snip Always a good idea. Let the people with the knowledge go. /snip -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET

Re: another one biting the dust?

Indeed. Linux on z/VM Linux on bare-metal. Jon snip Linux will run on the bare metal on any architecture, including S/390 and System z (recognizing that Basic mode has gone away with System z). z/VM isn't a requirement, but it is a fantastic way to get the most out of your hardware

Re: FTP MEMBERS FROM PC TO MAINFRAME (HOW TO)

That surprises me. The point of turning prompting off was so that you wouldn't need to answer Y for each member. Jon snip This worked...only thing I had to do was answer 'Y' to each member... /snip -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: EXEC PGM=??? to issue operator commands from the JCL stream?

We use a program from the CBT tape for this very thing. Todd's original need has been satisfied for the moment, as he didn't need to synchronize commands within a job stream. Even so, I prefer to use the program, as differing security parameters at our installation mean the IEFBR14 method

Re: Virtual (was: IBM PR: System z Announcement ...)

Can anybody get to this document? It keeps coming up as corrupted for me. Musta been around Chuckie too long. That would corrupt anybody. Jon snip An early prototype of this sort of technology has been demonstrated at the last few SHAREs. z/VM Live Guest Migration:

Re: IBM PR: System z Announcement Webcast on October 21, 2008

Maybe by the last few, but certainly not by his whole body of posts. Radoslaw is a good contributor, and a mainframe guy from way back. He is in the position now, though, of trying to maximize price/performance from a larger standpoint, and that means making decisions based on the data at hand.

Re: foxit, was: Re: zOS R10

OK, that was my laugh-out-loud moment for the day. Jon snip I work as a consultant these days. I guess i am supposed to tell you things you already know :-)) /snip -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: IBM THINK original equipment sign

We still do that sort of thing. You know, wear a competing vendor's polo shirt to a meeting, etc. It keeps things lively sometimes. Jon snip When I was at Amdahl, the tech services manager of one of (the ???) biggest Aussie customers had a pretty good collection of vendor mugs. He made a

Hardware inventory

As part of a project here, I need to provide a Hardware Inventory for one of our vendors. The description is Please include an inventory of all hardware that includes the vendor, model, and feature code. I thought I might be able to go to the HMC or the SE and print a listing from there, but no

Re: Hardware inventory

Thanks for the tip. I thought of that after John McKown sent his suggestion. I'll have to see whether I can figure out how to get OS/2 to start up a web server. Jon snip Plug a laptop or some such to your HMC/SE lan. Start the web server on the HMC. Use the laptop to access anything you need

Re: Moving 3390-3 to 3390-9

Yes, they do, but we don't have them. We do have TDMF, though. Jon snip Innovation Software ( FDR ) has some slick products to do this. /snip -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Moving 3390-3 to 3390-9

No, actually I'm looking to move one 3390-3 to one 3390-9. These particular volumes are pretty much full and it's starting to cause us application problems. The application in question has its own means of parceling out which data sets go where. I would much prefer to move these things a volume

Moving 3390-3 to 3390-9

I potentially have a need to move -- preferably on the fly -- some volumes from 3390 model 3 to 3390 model 9 devices. I can use the wonderful TDMF to move like-to-like volumes, and it seems to me that I figured out a way to move mod-3s to mod-9s. Unfortunately, I can't remember what I did, and I

Re: Moving 3390-3 to 3390-9

I stated my question poorly. I know that I would user the REFVTOC command to refresh the VTOC. What I don't remember is whether that is what I used to accomplish this when I did it before. I'm not even completely sure I did it successfully. Thanks, Jon snip ICKDSF's REFVTOC command? /snip

Re: Moving 3390-3 to 3390-9

Thanks, John. That's just the ticket. Jon snip You can move a mod3 to a mod9 but not three mod3 to one mod9. You need to specify ICKDSF on your options statement if you do not have AUTOMATIC ICKDSF=YES. TDMF will invoke ickdsf to refresh the vtoc to show the increased capacity on the

Re: Moving 3390-3 to 3390-9

I had considered that, but there are tons of data sets on these volumes, some of which rarely get reorged. The volumes aren't SMS-managed, so I can't use the pool method that Lizette mentioned, either. Jon snip I have another possibility that I have used when moving to new dasd. Just

Re: Going unsupported - time to fold?

FWIW, I pretty much agree with you. I'm not terribly comfortable with the Let it fail philosophy, though; I would feel obligated to try to save the company/agency some pain if I could do it simply by pointing out some potential red flags. To address the OP, I would think the risks of not doing

Performance report help

We have a mystery that needs to be solved, and I am having trouble coming up with a report that would help me do it. Here are the particulars along with a couple of questions: Our CPU usage had been trending upward -- as it generally does -- for several weeks, when we finally started hitting the

Re: Performance report help

Take a look at the type 30 records. Ah, yes. That would be the section in the book on my desk with a sticky-label bookmark . . . that says, Type 30 CPU. In my own handwriting. Heavy sigh Perhaps I should just give up now. CBT file 529 (among others) has a program which can print a report

Re: Performance report help

It has been a long time since I looked at it, but I don't think we can use MXG. We don't have SAS, and isn't that an MXG requirement? Thanks, Jon snip When I've had to determine what job(s) have caused a large CPU increase over an interval I've used the SMF type 30 interval records. If

Re: Performance report help

Thanks for that information, Tom. I think I might start running it on a full-time basis. I'll need to check the parms first, though. Jon snip Jon, FWIW, I always run RMFMON II. The overhead is minimal compared to when I use it, which is often. YMMV, Tom Conley /snip

Re: Performance report help

OK, thanks for that. I'm having vague memories (the only kind I have any more) about going through this exercise before. I can't find any of the jobs I had worked up, though; it may be that I didn't get any useful information at the time. I'll see what I get, though. Thanks, Jon snip Yes.

Re: Shop zSeries Ordering Issues

Does the Internet receive still require cryptographic services? Jon -- 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: Shop zSeries Ordering Issues

Thanks for the tip. I have avoided FROMNETWORK in the past since we haven't configured cryptographic services, but I may give it a shot next time. Thanks, Jon -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex R. Sent: Tuesday,

Re: IBM sites on Google Maps

Do they have a Front Side Bus? Jon snip I pass by streets tape drive and disk drive next to Storage Tech near Boulder, CO. /snip -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: CPU-Time in z/Os-System. Is The Cpu Time In z/Os-systems A Meaningful Indication?

Chris has said (better than I could) what I was thinking. First stop should be DB2. Jon snip If the amount of data really is about the same then you have to look to the organization of the data. For your input files; the block size may have changed which could lead to an increase in CPU time,

Re: Batch job to perform sftp transfer

To those of you who helped me with this problem earlier: thank you. After a bout of illness, I resumed working on our transfer and eventually -- with the help of the sysadmin at the server site -- got it working. Morals of the story: 1) Google is your friend, but he can be a confusing friend.

Re: z/OS 1.7 with toleration PTFs for 1.9

But he's still on 1.7, isn't he? I don't think TN3270 was required to be split out until 1.8, was it? Or was it 1.7? Jon snip I don't know what you are calling it, but you must be if you are using TN3270. It is required as of z/OS 1.9. If it is falling into some low priority service

Re: Video of mainframe being shaken

I wonder if you were battling tin whiskers. NASA had to deal with those on some of their space-race spacecraft. Jon snip We had a bunch of Amdahl 6280's that had a problem with a string of some metallic substance that would grow (as a crystal) from the nameplate down to the platter. /snip

Re: System z10 announcement (in English)

Good ideas on both counts. AIX is good stuff, and so is pSeries. Jon snip Our new head of Open Systems is said to be an AIX bigot. I've heard it said that he wants to replace as many Windows servers (Intel) with AIX servers (pSeries) as possible. Well, it's a start. I've also heard that he

Batch job to perform sftp transfer

WE have a need to begin electronically sending data to a state agency which has formerly received a tape from us. They have set up an sftp server on their end and given us the user ID and password they want us to use. I can sign on to their site from Windows and from a Linux guest hosted on our

Re: Interesting ibm about the myths of the Mainframe

For that matter, I have run (well, started, anyway) Tomcat under Unix on z/OS using Dovetailed Technologies' JZOS. WebSphere not required. Jon snip I've suggested to IBM they should do exactly that, and in addition they should provide a port of Apache and Tomcat (outside of WebSphere) to

Re: New Opcodes

I think it's Pity The Fool. It's a very dangerous op-code to attempt. Not many people know that Mr. T moonlights as a hardware architect. Jon snip Second, there was one mnemonic that caught my eye. I do not know what it does, but it's probably one that none of us will forget: PTF.

Re: Wheeler Postings (Was: How does ATTACH pass address of ECB to child?)

Here, for instance: http://groups.google.com/group/bit.listserv.ibm-main/msg/7941aee482af5b4 8? Jon snip Lynn has answered that question a while ago. Check the archives. (His or ibm-main's) /snip -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Copying Unix tar file to tape

Just to clarify this from my experimenting, SDB does not do the trick; IEBGENER hurks up a hairball if you try this. Thanks, Jon //STEP1 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSIN DD DUMMY //SYSUT1 DD PATH='/path/to/file.tar',FILEDATA=BINARY, // DCB=(RECFM=FB,LRECL=1,BLKSIZE=8000)

Re: Copying Unix tar file to tape

Thanks for the tips, folks. I think I'm going to switch to pax for now, and I have downloaded omvstape to look at later. By the way, there is a slight misprint in the 1.8 Unix commands manual. To add parameters to dictate space allocation and such, the format is something like this: pax -W

Re: Copying Unix tar file to tape

Glen, Thanks for this information. I don't think I have seen this any place else. Jon snip Unix tar files have a length that is a multiple of 512. I would expect either RECFM=FB LRECL=512, or RECFM=U and a block size some multiple of 512. Each file stored in a tar file has a 512

Copying Unix tar file to tape

I am trying to write out a Unix System Services file -- a tar archive -- to tape. For simplicity's sake, I was planning on using IEBGENER, but I'm a bit confused as to what file characteristics to use for this. Anybody out there have any sample JCL? Thanks, Jon

NFS mount of zLinux file system -- port

I am experimenting with mounting a Linux file system (RHEL 4, running under zVM) on z/OS. I can get it to work, but it wants to use an unsecured port (4005, I think it was). How can I get NFS on z/OS to use a particular port? Is it a matter of setting it in the TCP/IP profile? Is it a parm

Re: Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?

The authors were discussing the use of Java as the students' *first* programming language. Anyway, I'm not so sure I hold to the it's just another language mindset as much as I used to. It seems to me that there are important differences between the way you conceive of and design a program in

Re: Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?

From the first link below: jfmiller call to our attention two professors emeritus of computer science at New York University who have penned an article titled Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow? in which they berate their university, and others, for not

Re: The future of PDSs

Instead of z/BASIC, it should be z/PLAIN. Jon snip z/BASIC, z/DEVELOPER, z/BUSINESS, z/ENTERPRISE, and of course z/ULTIMATE . Keep in mind that I'm in the U.S.A. where we pronounce z as zee, not zed. Also keep in mind the bad German accent in English movies where zee is the. /snip

Re: The future of PDSs

Exactly. Jon snip As in Boss! z/PLAIN, z/PLAIN!? /snip -- 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: The future of PDSs

Depending on how things go here in the next couple of years, either Nessus or Laomedon. Jon snip Any nominations? :-) /snip -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The future of PDSs

No, they denied it. See here: http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/faq/index.html#slot7 Jon snip I don't know if it was a dig, but Arthur C. Clark and Stanley Kubrek did admit HAL was based on IBM's name. /snip -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: How do you collect your Discribuetd systems jobs?

Similarly to Bruno, we schedule everything from z/OS, except that we use CA-Scheduler instead of TWS. As for the sysout, we just leave it on the individual machine concerned and browse it there at need. Jon snip We use TWS ( OPCPLEX) on our Z/os Sysplex with end to end feature , we schedule

Re: T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly

No, I'm going for the popcorn franchise for all those people watching this play out. Jon snip I think it is time to 'get tough' on this issue of laptop mainframes. In the letter to Sam Palmisano we should threaten a mass migration of mainframe professionals over to 'Waffle Dinges.' (Will

Re: I Got a Job

I highly recommend In a Sunburned Country. Jon snip Ironically, I was just talking about him a week or so ago. I bought his book A Walk in the Woods about hiking the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. A pretty good read but I hadn't heard the name in years until now. /snip

Re: IBMLINK ETR Update Issues

You have hit on a sore point with me. I'm still not sure why we have to pay extra for IBMLink in the first place. Jon snip So any chance on a refund from IBM, seeing that we're paying top dollars for something that hasn't been working for the past 4-5 days? /snip

Re: IBMLINK Release 6.0

Part of agile programming is continuous testing as the product is developed. This seems more fragile than agile. Jon snip Welcome to the wonderful world of the Web and agile programming! Why waste money paying for testers? Just release the product and the buyers will become your unpaid QA

Re: IBMLINK Release 6.0

In the immortal words of Bill Cosby, Never challenge 'Worse.' Jon snip that was me that said it couldn't possibly get any worse , okay, bad mistake on that one. I apologize /snip -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: Another squirrel strike

From the article Phil linked to: As a rather poignant footnote, the Jersey Journal notes that the Millars' house is fully decked out in anticipation of Halloween, complete with a tiny plastic tombstone on their front lawn. Tony Millar said the family will consider dedicating the tombstone to the

Re: multiple z/OS sharing considerations.

A couple of questions, to try to avoid the risk of entering a teaching grandma to suck eggs scenario: How do you upgrade z/OS or ISV software currently if you are only running one image? Do you have a Coupling Facility in this CEC? FWIW, I can't see any advantages at all to going with

Re: VARY too many devices offline

I hate to even think about the pain that might have caused. Jon snip or the operator who put a future date at IPL time and really screwed up RACF. (story I heard from another company) /snip -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: multiple z/OS sharing considerations.

Another possible -- although perhaps a bit questionable -- benefit of multiple images is that it gives you another layer of control over system resources allocated to your production work. WLM is a fine thing, but it does have its gotchas; LPAR weighting can assure that the production

Re: multiple z/OS sharing considerations.

It kinda depends on how your work is separated. We have a production LPAR and a development/test LPAR. We IPL production and off it goes whether test is up or not; there's no waiting for test. Jon snip If you have one machine, and it crashes or loses power, then your whole sysplex crashes,

Re: VARY too many devices offline

Color me disbelieving. snip I think in the 30+ years I have been around OS360 and MVS and z/os, there has never been an operator mistake of a typo. /snip Not buying this, either: snip I have seen operators make errors but the OS has caught all of them and no harm was done. /snip Jan's

Re: ADABAS vs DB2 vs IMS - Another View

Part of your basic question -- will each of these do the job I need -- can be out of the hands of the technical staff on-site. At this shop, we run CA-Datacom, Model 204, and DB2 on the mainframe. We don't run three DBMSes just for kicks, though. Our decision, back in the 80's,

Re: RES: ADABAS vs IMS vs DB2 Who is faster?

It's funny you should mention the provided utilities. IBM recently (last year? The year before?) unbundled at least some of their utilities from the base DBMS. You have to buy them separately now. Jon snip Also, I believe that there are more DB2 and IMS utilities available than there are

Re: ADABAS vs IMS vs DB2 Who is faster?

Did you have a different answer than Allan's It depends, or were simply taking the opportunity once again to take a potshot at someone for no good reason? Jon snip Summarized : a) So you never worked with ADABAS in your life b) You only worked with IMS and DB2 for 5 years... maybe as a user

Re: ADABAS vs IMS vs DB2 Who is faster?

. . . except that you haven't done anything to answer the original question, from Itschak: I spoke few days ago with an ADABAS specialist that claimed that ADABAS is much faster and has low overhead compared to IMS and DB2. Is this true? Radoslaw and Allan, among others, have actually attempted

Re: ADABAS vs IMS vs DB2 Who is faster?

Two excellent points. The first design decision mentioned -- re resource accounting -- is helpful in many ways but makes this particular comparison fairly difficult. It is also worth noting -- and I think someone may have already mentioned this -- that different DBMSes often perform well at

Re: FW: Industry Standard Time To Analyze A Line Of Code

OK, for those who have (rightly) pointed out the problems with LOC as a performance measure: what can we come up with that would be better? Ted mentioned function points. Is there anything else? Measuring stuff is a large part of our job; do we have any worthwhile metrics? Jon

Re: Tech Notes - Any body know about them or where they are hidden?

I wouldn't mind so much using the search function at ibm.com if: a) You could get it to work without timing out most of the time; b) You could filter the results better; c) When you click on a search result link, you could actually get the page referenced most of the time rather than the Link not

Re: The future of IBM Mainframes [just thinking]

Here's one that I remember reading a while back: http://www.cio.com/article/131500/Eight_of_the_Worst_Spreadsheet_Blunder s The article itself even has an amusing error in blunder #3, entitled Fannie Mae Discovers $1.3 Billion Honest Mistake. They quote from PC World: 'Fannie Mae, which

Re: Wikiscanner

Which reminds me: Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years of American Independence! http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50902 It's a classic. Jon snip Thats why I never go to Wikipedia to look something up. If anyone can change it, how can you trust any of it? /snip

HFS in master catalog

Our HFS datasets are all currently SMS-managed and cataloged in the master catalog. I'm thinking of moving them to a usercat to facilitate OS upgrades. To judge by the IBM-MAIN archives, this seems like a reasonable thing to do. Are there any particular things I need to keep in mind when I do

Re: Chips the Size of Dust ??

It's only fair. I have dust the size of chips. Jon -- 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: zOS Unix DOS2UNIX

I had a Java-based editor (jEdit, I think) loaded on my old PC that I could use to edit files under z/OS. It was perfect for editing ASCII files that needed to reside on OMVS. Perhaps I'm odd, but I like both vi and OEDIT, at least to some degree. NFS-mounting a z/OS file system is on my to-do

Re: zOS Unix DOS2UNIX

That is what I did. It worked fine. snip In fact, jEdit can be configured with an ftp plugin to edit files on z/OS. It is a little tricky to setup, but works very cool, and supports setting the encoding and line-terminators of the file. /snip Hmmm, never tried that. I don't do much in

zOS Unix DOS2UNIX

Is there a version of DOS2UNIX that runs on z/OS Unix? I thought there might be one on the Tools and Toys page, but it appears not. Thanks, Jon -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: zOS Unix DOS2UNIX

Thanks, John. The tr command seems to have worked. I don't have perl installed yet. Jon snip However, if you want to remove all 0x0D characters, even those in the middle of a line, you can: tr -d '\015' input.file output.file.without.x0d If you have Perl installed, then this will do what I

Re: zOS Unix DOS2UNIX

Thanks for the tip. I haven't tried accessing OMVS from a telnet session yet. When I do, I plan to give this a try. Jon snip The following works for me: #! /bin/sh # DOS text to UNIX -- convert CRLF to LF exec sed -e 's/^M$//' $@ ... where ^M represents an actual 0x0d

Re: zOS Unix DOS2UNIX

Using normal 3270 access? I get FSUM9140 Terminal dumb has insufficient capabilities for Curses. Jon snip I don't understand. You don't have to wait for telnet. You can do this under omvs directly. /snip -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Age Poll Results: 49.47

I went to a class once. Jon snip I had the opposite experience. As a rookie I went to classes all the time. /snip -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

Re: IBMLink down

Remind me not to ever work with the IBM Web Authentication system. Jon snip The IBMLINK/ServiceLink Web service was disrupted on July 30 and 31 for approximately 3 hours each day due to a Information Technology Infrastructure problem with the **IBM Web Authentication** system . . .

Re: Linux - any specific DASD requirements?

A couple of links for Linux documentation: The Linux documentation project: www.tldp.org The Linux-390 list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/index.html CentOS: http://www.centos.org/ CentOS is a re-creation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux from source, without any of Red Hat's

Re: MVS - Z/OS Job Market, What should the rates be?

Thanks for this reference, Lizette. I hadn't heard of that one. I'm not interested in changing jobs, but it's nice to know that there is a place to look for this sort of thing. Jon snip My website of Choice for salary ranges is in SALARY.COM. The wizard is free and seems fair in its

Re: MVS - Z/OS Job Market, What should the rates be?

Thanks for the link, Dave. The one I had no longer worked. Jon snip From: Jon Brock [EMAIL PROTECTED] All the witty repartee is great, but does anyone have any actual numbers that would be relevant? I thought I had the 2007 Robert Half survey, but I can't find it. I don't have

Re: MVS - Z/OS Job Market, What should the rates be?

All the witty repartee is great, but does anyone have any actual numbers that would be relevant? I thought I had the 2007 Robert Half survey, but I can't find it. Jon -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: z/OS job market (I could just scream!)

Maybe I'm a bit unusual, but I have always wanted to visit Poland. Russia, too. Jon snip Well, I was watching a Rick Steve's Europe show about Krakow and Warsaw last night. They both look like nice cities to live in and I understand that Poland is looking for mainframe expertise. Maybe it's

Re: z/OS job market (I could just scream!)

Of course, one of the downsides is that whole neuter thing. Jon snip Oh Lindy I dont know - free board and lodging, someone to clean up after you and cuddles whenever you want them and no other expectations at all. Not even taxes. You'll be looked after until the end of your days (if you

Re: [BULK] Re: MXI 4.3 (was Re: SMP/E question - how to find dsname ?)

Egad, that's a stressful life. I don't think I could take that for very long. My sympathy to you. Jon snip . . . these days my working day starts at about 9am and finishes about midnight. /snip -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Stooped to What? And for Whom?

For my part, I stoop to concur. Jon -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of john gilmore Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 9:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Stooped to What? And for Whom? Famously, one may stoop to conquer;

Re: PSI MIPS (was: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article)

You left out: c) Amazingly good-looking, intelligent, and affable technical staff. Jon snip It means Itanium is 4.3 times faster than AMD. I doubt it. BTW: IMHO comparison of CPUs is senseless when we talk about *computer speed*. What about I/O ? I saw Hercules on PC, almost 40MIPS, but TSO

Re: IBM withdraws Z890 ?!?!?!

After a few years' experience, I have come to wonder whether it's even possible to be too pedantic for this list. Jon snip That also uses the term properly, since (as a trademarked term) it is an adjective, not a noun. (But that may be getting too pedantic :-) /snip

Re: Operating systems are old and busted

. . . and for those of you who -- like me -- were made curious by Shane's remark, here is the minix3 URL: http://www.minix3.org/ From the site: What hardware do I need to run MINIX 3? You need an Intel 386 or higher with 4 MB of RAM, an IDE hard disk with100 MB of free disk space, and an IDE

Re: Help with UNIX abend

From horrid experience, I can recognize the 0F01C008 as a dubbing failure, most likely a security problem, such as the lack of an OMVS segment (the 44 in R1 supports this). As for finding the error codes, good luck. They are harder to find than facts in a political speech. Jon

Re: Any way at all to detune JES2MON?

Curious. On my production system, JES2 has used about 6 times the CPU as JES2MON. Jon snip Mark Zelden wrote: Even in my sandbox it looks like this: NET 5278.54 XCFAS 2947.96 WLM 2565.59 MIA 1887.83 GRS 1862.82 MII 1800.62 RMFGAT

Re: Any way at all to detune JES2MON?

The curious part was that I thought you were seeing JES2MON eating more CPU than JES2 on your production system. Upon looking back, though, I see it was your sandbox. That makes a lot more sense. Jon snip Why curious? That would be more normal behavior. The monitor is looking at things

Re: z/os publications...can't get to website...help wanted

It isn't just those pages. Just about every time I have gone to ibm.com for any reason over the past week or so I have had problems retrieving pages. It has been a source of great frustration for me. (Oddly enough, IBMLink is the only thing I have found to be halfway reliable over that time

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