Re: Poll about telecommuting

2008-06-17 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Corneel, I have not lost my skills of the heavenly language, I am only using the language of my opressors, for the benefit of Dermot. There is an requirement in our organization to be able to use characters like ê in CICS free text fields for French customers... Yet, the guy on the other side

Re: z/OS messages libraries - continued

2008-03-04 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Francois, Ok, Now that I understand it better, There is another product, called Connect Direct that does pretty much what you are doing. If you have their (Sterling Commerce) product, have a look at how they do it. They have a message library that contains all the messages that you can get using

Re: TCPIP local hosts table not found

2008-02-29 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Gerrit, 1. when you do the makesite, does it create the TCPIP.HOSTS.SITEINFO, or does it create BAKKERG.HOSTS.SITEINFO, if the latter, then you need to delete/rename the current TCPIP.HOSTS.SITEINFO. The same with ADDRINFO. 2. I have found this site with a few pointers, although I suspect you

Re: z10 presentation on 26 Feb

2008-02-14 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Last I heard, it was going to be z6 to be in-line with p6... They must have changed their minds when they realized they don't know what to do after p8... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM Sent: 14 Februarie

Re: 2097?

2008-02-14 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Life would become _exceedingly_ interesting if either PSI or T3 (or both) applied for an injunction to prevent IBM from changing its product lineup until the outstanding legal issues are resolved. I can't see that happening. IBM has already proven its willingness to joint projects with credible

Re: z10 presentation on 26 Feb

2008-02-14 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
chip with the server :) Marian On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Van Dalsen, Herbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last I heard, it was going to be z6 to be in-line with p6... They must have changed their minds when they realized they don't know what to do after p8... -Original Message

Re: z/OS system programmer staffing

2008-02-13 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
That is just my point, Once you are happy that the Lead has the 'work styles' ethics that you want, that is it! He will make sure that that is carried forward/maintained. I think sometimes 'management' perceives the standards that will be set by the 'lead' to be to restrictive, and that they

Re: OpenSolaris successfully ported to an IBM Mainframe.. Was Question on Out Sourcing

2008-02-13 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Do you have a link for that report? No, but their main site is www.linuxformat.co.uk, I still like to have the paper in my hand and I can always go back to an old article as long as my attic still has space... Search for IBM and Sun snuggle up or Solaris hits big blue's mainframes shocker!

Re: z/OS system programmer staffing

2008-02-13 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
It all depends what your structure is. If it was me and I was say the head of IT where you are, I would appoint the team-lead sysprog( someone with all the credentials) first, and let him select his team... I have seen it many times, and this would be the best recipe. It would not pay him to get

OpenSolaris successfully ported to an IBM Mainframe.. Was Question on Out Sourcing

2008-02-13 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Ron, Why would the z/9 or z/6 not make a perfect Windows terminal server... It is stable and all the rest... I just read page 10 of the February edition of Linux Format where the claim is made that OpenSolaris was successfully ported to a System z IBM mainframe that is co-owned by Sun and Sine

Re: OpenSolaris successfully ported to an IBM Mainframe.. Was Question on Out Sourcing

2008-02-13 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
.. Was Question on Out Sourcing I understand from sources close to the port that it is indeed underway and should be sometime this year. Staller, Allan wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Van Dalsen, Herbie Sent: Wednesday

Re: OpenSolaris successfully ported to an IBM Mainframe.. Was Question on Out Sourcing

2008-02-13 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: OpenSolaris successfully ported to an IBM Mainframe.. Was Question on Out Sourcing Oops: David Boyes (I misspelled Mr Boyes name). Brian On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:15:41 -0600, Brian Peterson wrote: On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:13:28 -, Van Dalsen, Herbie wrote: (snip) I just read

Re: VLF - What's in your VLF

2008-02-12 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Kees, Two questions there, 1. CLASS NAME(PR*) IBM Data Propagators. Is mainly for IMS ? 2. We only have CA-ENDEVOR... a bit of a waste to run CAS9 just for one product, Not sure if CLASS NAME(CAENFU) CAIENF/USS cache. Will make that much difference to us. Regards Herbie

Re: VTOC size

2008-02-12 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
1. How long does it take to make a tape backup of a 32760 cylinder volume? We have 1.3 TB allocated on Production, Our weekly full volume backups using FDR starts Saturday evening 18:00, and runs to 4 drives (ESCON) that creates the master and the duplicate at the same time 2x2, and it runs for

Re: z/OS system programmer staffing

2008-02-12 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
IMHO it all depends how you define Sysprog. I have been in very nice sysprog jobs where you can actually get on with the sysprogging, and than I have been others where you spend more time babysitting the COBOL programmers who are 'business-orientated-specialists' they know the intrigued details of

Safest way to destroy 3590 Carts(Data Erasure Products)

2008-02-08 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
On this note... We have about 5000 Double-(blue) and 3000 triple density(green) Carts, due to the sensitivity of the data on them, company policy prohibits us from transporting them to the mother ship who is in the process to devouring us, even though they are encrypted, so how do you destroy

Re: Engineering changes and software version or service level

2008-02-08 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
My question is how (if any) do I check whether or not any specific EC/MCL requires a specific level of z/OS or specific PTFs? The only time I was in such a position was when we had a R14 with overdue service... The engineer that proposed the microcode was able to supply me with all the

Re: VTOC size

2008-02-08 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Mark, I suppose that you have already got the answers that you wanted, This is just an alternate idea. When we initialized our Shark array's in 2004, we create a few with 1113 cylinders, a few 10017 and most 3339 cylinders. The last two we installed, we had mainly 32760 Cylinder volumes, about

Re: VSAM Surprise

2008-02-07 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
IMHO, I would have coded it like this, at least I would have been certain of the outcome // SPACE=(CYL,(7,1),RLSE) Or // SPACE=(CYL,(7,1),RLSE),DSORG=PS Without seeing the actual output from the job it is very hard to determine what kind of indication there would

Re: VSAM Surprise

2008-02-07 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Just to disprove my previous point, I ran a job doing the opposite. //STEP1 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 //DD2 DD DSN=MY.SEQ.DFHCMACD,UNIT=SYSDA,DISP=(,CATLG,DELETE), // DCB=(LRECL=32756,BLKSIZE=32760,RECFM=VB),DSORG=PO, // SPACE=(CYL,(7,1),RLSE) This is the result... Data

Re: VSAM Surprise

2008-02-07 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
the manual where this is documented to be the way it was designed. Herbie -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: 07 Februarie 2008 03:20 nm To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: VSAM Surprise Van Dalsen, Herbie wrote: So you

Re: VSAM Surprise

2008-02-07 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
: VSAM Surprise Van Dalsen, Herbie wrote: Just to disprove my previous point, I ran a job doing the opposite. //STEP1 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 //DD2 DD DSN=MY.SEQ.DFHCMACD,UNIT=SYSDA,DISP=(,CATLG,DELETE), // DCB=(LRECL=32756,BLKSIZE=32760,RECFM=VB),DSORG=PO, // SPACE

Re: VSAM Surprise

2008-02-07 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Hi all, OK, My Friday started a bit early... Just could not resist it... This is what I ran... //STEP1 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 //DD2 DD DSN=MY.SEQ.DFHCMACD,UNIT=SYSDA,DISP=(,CATLG,DELETE), // DCB=(LRECL=32756,BLKSIZE=32760,RECFM=VB),DSORG=PS, //

Re: VSAM Surprise

2008-02-07 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Ted, The only point I am making is that it is not necessarily IDCAMS that is at fault. I got the same results using IEFBR14 and the original JCL. Both //STEP1 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 //DD2 DD DSN=MY.SEQ.DFHCMACD,UNIT=SYSDA,DISP=(,CATLG,DELETE), //

Re: Change DD SPACE-Allocation at runtime

2008-02-06 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Michael, I take it that you want to allocate the file closer to the correct size, which will only be known in the previous step(s). If you do not want any spare space in it after the step is finished, I would go for this solution... //FOO DD DSN=BLA.FOO,DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE) //

Re: Anybody used the new WLM service definition editor ?

2008-02-04 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
I have heard that the Australian government had good experience in this kind of thing. Maybe they have a loose $90,000.00 lying around that can be used to investigate this matter further? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark

Re: Anybody used the new WLM service definition editor ?

2008-02-04 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 11:26:04 -, Van Dalsen, Herbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have heard that the Australian government had good experience in this kind

Re: TWS HOST not reflecting FTA down

2008-02-01 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
-carts in such a small time-space... Regards Herbie From: Susan Rice [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 Februarie 2008 02:36 nm To: Van Dalsen, Herbie Subject: Fwd: TWS HOST not reflecting FTA down Herbie, Have you opened a problem record

Re: Dumb idea - pandering to the other systems people?

2008-01-31 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
This takes me back a few years... I worked for a building society, that was eaten alive by RBS, and when I joined I was told by the person who I was going to report to for the next few years... that there are 2 Systems Prod, and 'the LPAR'(referring to the development LPAR, of course for some

TWS HOST not reflecting FTA down

2008-01-31 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Hi all, Tivoli is great, but then again, sometime... I have searched the web, but came up with nothing for this one... We have z/890 Host and several Sun Solaris 10 FTA's Last night we had a problem where the jobs were failing with OSUF, which is understandable because the symphony file is not

Re: Keep only the tail of the dataset

2008-01-29 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Thanks. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: 29 Januarie 2008 03:56 nm To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Keep only the tail of the dataset On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:49:54 -, Van Dalsen, Herbie [EMAIL

Re: Keep only the tail of the dataset

2008-01-29 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Sorry, I am still on z/OS 1.6... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: 29 Januarie 2008 02:48 nm To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Keep only the tail of the dataset On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:04:26 -0600, Luis

Re: Keep only the tail of the dataset

2008-01-29 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: 29 Januarie 2008 01:50 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Keep only the tail of the dataset On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:51:47 -, Van Dalsen, Herbie wrote: Hang on, I must be missing

Re: [OT] Not exactly the best Friday off topic post

2008-01-29 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
] - -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Van Dalsen, Herbie Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 8:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [OT] Not exactly the best Friday off topic post Bob

Re: System abend D38 - what is that ?

2008-01-29 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: System abend D38 - what is that ? On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:05:01 - Van Dalsen, Herbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :What happens if you disable Fault Analyzer? Do you still get the SD38? :Regards :Herbie :-Original Message- :From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: System abend D38 - what is that ?

2008-01-29 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
What happens if you disable Fault Analyzer? Do you still get the SD38? Regards Herbie -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Berg Sent: 26 November 2007 05:32 nm To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: SV: System abend D38 - what

Re: System abend D38 - what is that ? Please ignore, Got my dates mixed up....

2008-01-29 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Van Dalsen, Herbie Sent: 29 Januarie 2008 01:05 nm To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: System abend D38 - what is that ? What happens if you disable Fault Analyzer? Do you still get the SD38

Re: [OT] Not exactly the best Friday off topic post

2008-01-28 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Bob, There is a MVS Position in USBank open at the moment... Maybe Richard Pinion can forward you the details, not sure if I will be able to pull it off to fill the position remotely... Regards Herbie -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: Keep only the tail of the dataset

2008-01-28 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
I take it IDCAMS have not been modified for the last 20 years... It would be nice if it could do what the tail command does in unix/uss/OMVS... Just a thought, maybe read thru the file or use some or other record counter, and only leave you with the last few records on display. Just my wish-list

Re: Keep only the tail of the dataset

2008-01-28 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Hang on, I must be missing something... This is my output from the tail command in OMVS in tso, which I am sure can be used in BPXbatch. So If you mount your dataset in OMVS / USS as /var/tailin OMVS.TAILIN and a second one as /var/tailout OMVS.TAILOUT(empty) and issue the command tail

Re: zOS 1.9 IEANUC01

2008-01-25 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: 25 Januarie 2008 06:05 nm To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: zOS 1.9 IEANUC01 On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:58:29 -, Van Dalsen, Herbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for coming in very late in this one... I was just reading through this whole thread, and I

Re: zOS 1.9 IEANUC01

2008-01-25 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Sorry for coming in very late in this one... I was just reading through this whole thread, and I was thinking this... It is probably over-simplified... If co-existence exists between 1.9 ; 1.8 ; 1.7... Then in SYS1.LINKLIB have GIMSMP17,18,19, also a IEBCOPY16 and IEBCOPY19, because no changes

Re: zOS 1.9 IEANUC01

2008-01-25 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
. Herbie -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: 25 Januarie 2008 06:05 nm To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: zOS 1.9 IEANUC01 On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:58:29 -, Van Dalsen, Herbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry

Re: DFSORT anomaly?

2008-01-23 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Rex, This is probably the neatest way of doing it, no extra datasets... Regards Herbie -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex R. Sent: 22 Januarie 2008 03:07 nm To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DFSORT anomaly?

Re: Z Education Needs

2008-01-23 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
This is my $0.01... If I get an engineer out on a call for a Cartridge drive, I expect the following: 1. Well dressed, Easy to communicate my problem to. 2. Competent in the use of all the procedures / manuals that has to do with the problem I am having. 3. Able to get the job done in a

DFSORT anomaly?

2008-01-22 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Hi all, WE are running z/OS 1.6 with no plans to upgrade because we aren't going to fork out any more for Tivoli 8.3. We also have Enterprise COBOL. This is the problem... The file was allocated Cyl,(15,5) and 16 records written to it by the COBOL program, it thus expanded to 3 volumes and

Re: DFSORT anomaly?

2008-01-22 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Kees, That is actually that happens... Step1 creates the file, Step2 Makes a backup, using IDCAMS, and the backup does have 16000 records, and step3 does the sort... very weird... //DEL005 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 //DD3 DD DSN=HUBRECHT.SORTINOUT, // DISP=(MOD,DELETE,DELETE), //

Re: DFSORT anomaly?

2008-01-22 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] t... Van Dalsen, Herbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Kees, That is actually that happens... Step1 creates the file, Step2 Makes a backup, using IDCAMS, and the backup does have 16000 records

Re: New Mainframes coming in February

2008-01-22 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Mark, I think the word is scalability... If you have a business that is growing at the pace of 26 MIPS per year, the BC is for you, which means you can go up with smaller increments not having the ISV's crippling your cash flow because you was forced to go to a MSU100 from the MSU50 you had, even

Re: DFSORT anomaly?

2008-01-22 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Van Dalsen, Herbie Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:59 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: DFSORT anomaly? Hi all, WE are running z/OS 1.6 with no plans to upgrade because we aren't going to fork out any more for Tivoli 8.3. We also have Enterprise COBOL. This is the problem

Re: DFSORT anomaly?

2008-01-22 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
PROTECTED] t... Van Dalsen, Herbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Kees, That is actually that happens... Step1 creates the file, Step2 Makes a backup, using IDCAMS, and the backup does have 16000 records, and step3 does the sort

Re: DFSORT anomaly?

2008-01-22 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
What confused me though was why could IDCAMS copy the whole file to a backup? Regards Herbie -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Van Dalsen, Herbie Sent: 22 Januarie 2008 01:20 nm To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DFSORT

Re: DFSORT anomaly?

2008-01-22 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
could IDCAMS copy the whole file to a backup? Regards Herbie -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Van Dalsen, Herbie Sent: 22 Januarie 2008 01:20 nm To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DFSORT anomaly? That was my initial

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

2008-01-22 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
I should not ask the question, but do they exist or is it a 'virus' inside IBM-MAIN? Herbie -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hardee, Charles H Sent: 22 Januarie 2008 04:08 nm To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Wheeler

Re: DFSORT anomaly?

2008-01-22 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Thanks to everyone for replying to this. I am definitely going to get the apps guys to change the JCL. I just haven't whether it would be to change it to a sort, or create a second dataset. Will read the recommendations between the lines of the DFSORT manual... Regards Herbie -Original

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

2008-01-22 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Thanks -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Schmidt Sent: 22 Januarie 2008 04:51 nm To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Wheeler Postings (Was: How does ATTACH pass address of ECB to child?) Lynn has answered that question a

Re: DFSORT anomaly?

2008-01-22 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Thanks, This way I will not have to impact the jobs lower down the stream... Regards Herbie -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Betten Sent: 22 Januarie 2008 04:36 nm To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DFSORT anomaly?

Re: Flash memory arrays

2008-01-18 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
since IBM made a disk drive). Ron -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Van Dalsen, Herbie Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 6:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Flash memory arrays I can certainly see why

Re: Bobby Fischer -- RIP

2008-01-18 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Yes, And Anton scores the first one for his participation on the email included below Hi, OK... now we are getting closer to the truth because , have you ever heard of a game where you play for FIVE days and at the end of it all you call it a DRAW and you have a Cup'o tea together ?

Re: Flash memory arrays

2008-01-18 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
I can certainly see why mainframe disk is more expensive, but is this the really case? Nowadays most unix / windows servers needs some sort of a SAN environment. That costs a lot of money, like an Clariion, or the like. I am still convinced that the hidden service that IBM provide where they

Re: Flash memory arrays

2008-01-17 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
IBM is just continuing on their path of least resistance... In this case the resistance would be the cost of the re-coding? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: 17 Januarie 2008 02:49 nm To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU

Re: Topic denotation suggestion (a Virtual Darren)

2008-01-14 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
And end Friday topics on Friday 23:59 hrs Would that be CET GMT ET Very difficult to end a topic until everyone had his say about the topic, Maybe what needs to happen is topics like this should be limited to 3 / 4 entries per lister... Also if a topic veers off the original path... Add

Re: Data Erasure Products

2008-01-14 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
My question on this topic is the following... If you are replacing your shark with a new one, once the data is migrated, would it not be possible to go to the ESS console and delete all your disk, and reformat them for opens stems, and create 100's of 1.2m disks, leaving the ESS format software to

Re: Data Erasure Products

2008-01-14 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
the next pass, so that overwrites do not occur in cache. It works exactly as advertised. Ron -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Van Dalsen, Herbie Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 3:05 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [IBM

Re: Logical Processor assignment - Processor Weight

2008-01-11 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
John, I know, this one is probably buried, I have to cleanup my mailbox so I have to read all these... I just want to test my thinking a bit here... As you know I got confused in the past, so no surprises there... If the money is not forthcoming, and no real data-sharing is taking place, it

Re: loose vs. lose

2008-01-10 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Arthur, All I can say is this... It amazes my that a sysprog with a gripe this size, have not put this fingers to the keyboard and wrote a utility to automatically invoke a spellchecker inside your email program to fix it before you have to look at it, I am sure if you google it, you might find

Re: Allocating Large SYS1.HASPACE

2008-01-09 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Ulrich, I don't have a spare array to test this on, but how much do you loose in creating PAV's in terms of usable space on the shark / performance / internal memory usage in the shark... Is 64 3390-3's such a bad thing considering the bottleneck on the control block? Regards Herbie

Re: Console

2008-01-09 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
I had a look the other day at cord-less keyboards... Works with some sort of infra red... I have only seen that work 1 - 1, never 1 - 2/15, but I am sure that if you have your infra red from the monitor/pc pointing in the right direction, so that you can only pick up one monitor at a time, you can

Re: Really stupid question about z/OS HTTP server

2008-01-09 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
From: Van Dalsen, Herbie Sent: 09 Januarie 2008 05:07 nm To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: RE: Really stupid question about z/OS HTTP server John, Not sure if this is what you are talking about... I have the basic out of the box

Re: Purge all members from a PDSE

2008-01-09 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Yes, but if the started task that has a PDSE loadlib can loose connectivity to that loadlib because the SMSPDSE started task falls over... risky... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clark Morris Sent: 09 Januarie 2008 04:44 nm

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - SYNTAX

2008-01-08 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
I would have expected HRECOVER '$WTQ$35.BACKUP.RPMSTAD.TOT.G2025V00' NEWNAME(X '$P160020.POSTAT.TEST') Or HRECOVER '$WTQ$35.BACKUP.RPMSTAD.TOT.G2025V00' NEWNAMEX ('$P160020.POSTAT.TEST') ??? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: Purge all members from a PDSE

2008-01-08 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Edward Jaffe wrote: DEL SYS1.PDSE ALLOCATE SYS1.PDSE Old habits die hard... I thought that the whole purpose of PDSE's was low maintenance... No more IEBCOPY compress jobs, No more delete/re-alloc jobs ? If this thing(not a sand fairy but a PDSE) is happy to continue forever without

Re: Inaccurate CPU% reported by RMF and TMON

2008-01-08 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Jason, What does your display in SDSF say? I once had this after an IPL, and guess what, the next IPL was a few hours after the discovery... The poor guy doing the IPL, managed not to use the saved profile, or something stupid, the result was the Config went back to 2xSap and 1xCP, thus where a

Re: Purge all members from a PDSE

2008-01-08 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Van Dalsen, Herbie Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 5:53 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Purge all members from a PDSE Edward Jaffe wrote: DEL SYS1.PDSE ALLOCATE SYS1.PDSE Old habits die hard... I thought that the whole purpose

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - SYNTAX

2008-01-08 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
] On Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen Sent: 08 Januarie 2008 01:25 nm To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DFHSM QUESTION - SYNTAX It is a TSO command. + or - at the end of the line On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 12:41:32 - Van Dalsen, Herbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :I would have expected : :HRECOVER '$WTQ$35

Re: IBM Hardware Group in Big Restructuring

2008-01-07 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Gee, might that mean that they will be extending z/OS down to the lower end? I am not so sure about that... The baby z800 could go al low as 40 MIPS, wasn't that the minimum that they could afford to sell with a Z/Server? Lower than that just wouldn't pay in terms of future revenue from HW

Re: RACF Training ??

2008-01-04 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Mark Wilson is your man there... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark H. Young Sent: 03 Januarie 2008 03:26 nm To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: RACF Training ?? Can anyone recommend a training class for IBM's RACF ?! I'm an

Re: Print Distribution and IP connected Devices

2008-01-04 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Lizette, How did you get on with this printer project? We (our mainframe group) thought we had static printer addresses... until they did a power test, and found out that some of the printers are not on the UPS, and OOPS, they changed addresses, and their old addresses... were reassigned to other

Re: SMP/E and why not.

2008-01-04 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
That's vaguely how I remember the GUI version of RMF(RMF/PM)?... I think it was a file in sys1.samplib that needs to be FTP'd to the PC... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Scott Sent: 04 Januarie 2008 10:31 To:

Re: Printing a PDF or PS doc

2008-01-04 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Lindy, Where is the PDF coming from? If it is coming from the Windows environment, and you have a print-server on z/OS using something like IP/Print way, then it can be routed there provided, As John pointed out, it is able to handle graphics. If it is a PDS member, and you want to

Re: New System Build (Part II) - Shai's PC Disk on Flex???

2008-01-03 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
What about Shai's PC DISK, is it possible to run his programs on flex, and then IPL the z System from it ? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: 02 Januarie 2008 10:11 nm To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU

Re: my free mainframe product

2008-01-02 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Shai, I haven't look at this, will do so soon, but how does the concepts that you employ to achieve this differ from what Hercules / Flex has done in the past in terms of MF disks on PC's? Regards Herbie -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: It keeps getting uglier

2007-12-31 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Someone Wrote... I just lost track... S/390-based technology is critical to the functioning of our society. IBM does not have the right to keep society-critical technology secret, nor to hold society to ransom by preventing competitors from producing compatible systems. I don't think there

Re: No more text messaging from mainframe?

2007-12-28 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Tim, We had to use all the cheapest ways to get around, to it is not spectacular at all, but it looks like this... A CBT product called TSSO picks up the message from the log and executes a rexx to send to the service provider... TSSO also passes on the relevant info to populate msgstring... The

Re: It keeps getting uglier

2007-12-28 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Personally I do not understand what the rant is all about... I have heard of several patents for non-petroleum vehicles that seemed practical, viable, and all the other nice words, but have been blocked by someone unknown. In fact even university students of the past have developed new concepts

Re: Exploiting Parallel Access Volumes

2007-12-18 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Hi all, We have a 2109-800 I think, and the reason we never implemented PAV's, was because we have a mainly batch workload, and the main benefit of PAV's is apparently on multiple reads. Is this still the case? Regards Herbie -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly

2007-12-05 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Van Dalsen, Herbie Sent: 4. joulukuuta 2007 20:15 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly Lindy, I agree with all the points you made below, but... Surely the copy of windows that you

Re: T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly

2007-12-05 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Kirk wrote: IMO - - The architecture *interfaces* (POP) should be completely public - An open-source software-based *reference* implementation should be available (Hercules++ ?) - Software should be available through something like PWD at costs that promote developers of all sizes to support the

Re: T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly

2007-12-05 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Steve, I did not say Amdahl was bad altogether, all I said was, and your statement But like I said before, Amdahl died because upper management lost their understanding of the company and their customers just proved my point, they were not committed enough to see it thru. My question then is...

Re: T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly

2007-12-04 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
David Cole wrote: I no longer believe that IBM is acting in the long term interest of the z/OS industry. Well here is my $0.05 worth... How long did Amdahl last ? Os shall I say How far were they prepared to support the people that trusted them enough to buy a mainframe off them... I firmly

Re: T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly

2007-12-04 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Lindy, I agree with all the points you made below, but... Surely the copy of windows that you are running is fully licensed? Why expect IBM to give it away for free. Dell gives discounts on desktops to employees of companies that buy enough Dell servers from them, but they do not give it away

Re: T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly

2007-12-04 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Monopoly -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Van Dalsen, Herbie Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 12:15 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly Lindy, I agree with all the points

Hardware encryption question(was Data Center Theft)

2007-11-30 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
That is probably the reason that our auditors decided that we should implement a encryption package on a different server, in the second server room, to do the encryption on all UNIX and NT servers(which can be shifted be a single man). They claim that it is useless to have the decryption code on

Re: Acceptable Syslog Policy(was Determine last LLA Refresh)

2007-11-29 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
LLA Refresh) In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/28/2007 at 10:45 AM, Van Dalsen, Herbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: What would be an acceptable Syslog policy I can think of at least three different ways to interpret the question. 1. For what interval must Syslog be available as SPOOL data sets

Acceptable Syslog Policy(was Determine last LLA Refresh)

2007-11-28 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
What would be an acceptable Syslog policy, I always thought that you need to keep at least between 2 IPL's in some form where I currently work it is kept for ages(in migrated form). If you only IPL once a year, it becomes a lot of data? Regards Herbie -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: Acceptable Syslog Policy(was Determine last LLA Refresh)

2007-11-28 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Radoslaw, Smaller z/OS sites just cannot fork out the money for DSS(ADRDSSU) and HSM, at one stage DSS was supposed to become part of the base, but since FDR has become a standard in many smaller sites, it is pointless to uncomment DSS just for the people like my-self... adapt/die? But I have

FW: Inbound Message Notification - Malicious Code detected

2007-11-22 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Thanks Anton ! Was expecting you on Dublin airport, not inside malicious code... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 November 2007 14:01 To: Van Dalsen, Herbie Subject: Inbound Message Notification - Malicious Code detected

Re: ISMF Question

2007-11-22 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Kees, This is probably not what you need, but I just created a mgmtclass, and went back in to list it, and saw all the values that it selected on my behalf. Herbie LINE MGMTCLAS AUTOLAST MOD LAST DATE LAST TIME CREATION OPERATOR NAME BACKUP USERIDMODIFIED

Re: Are any of us this desperate?

2007-11-19 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Well, with the dollar stooping so low... Not even the sysprogs in India would be interested... Herbie Elavon Financial Services Limited Registered in Ireland: Number 418442 Registered Office: Block E, 1st Floor, Cherrywood Business Park, Loughlinstown, Co. Dublin, Ireland Directors: Robert Abele

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-14 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Of Tom Marchant Sent: 08 November 2007 07:43 nm To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CSA 'above the bar' On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 10:14:42 -, Van Dalsen, Herbie wrote: Apologies, I keep on forgetting that the '8' just signals the above the line, you and Tom and all the others are quite correct

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