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XX IXG254I SMS IS NOT ACTIVE. ACTIVATE SMS OR REPLY C FOR LOGGER TO
CONTINUE REGARDLESS OF SMS BEING ACTIVE.
I get the following message IPLing zos 1.08. Not really a problem,
goes
away once SMS gets there, but
It's been a while since I worked on VSE but IDCAMS is not as quick as DITTO
and IDCAMS won't give you the tape control, as you say there is
allocation/deallocation. If you can listen to the tape drive you should be
able to detect if there is rewind and re-position occurring.
On 1/17/08, Carl
This time some fixes for cancelling MFNetDisk MVS address while it is serving a
lot of IO requests for all devices modes (Sync, ASync and FastSync). These
fixes are in both programs, MVSLOAD and PCSERVER .January 18, 2008.
MFNetDisk will recover safety and quickly in PC and MVS.
Be aware that
Herbie,
Good Guess, but IBM, EMC and HDS send faulty drives back to Seagate and
Hitachi for analysis for their modular products as well. There is no
difference between drives used in Enterprise and Modular arrays. IT's not a
hidden service, it's simply the warranty that the Disk manufacturer
Maybe the new record being added causes a CI (control interval) split and
there is no free CIs in the CA (control area) causing a CA split which
would possibly try to add a new extent to the file and there is no more
space in the volume for the new extent. So you get an out of space condition
in
Ok, let's stop this off-topic thread before it balloons.
Thanks.
Darren
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David Logan
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For the chess afficionados.
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:17:09 -0800, Frank Yaeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Zelden wrote on 01/17/2008 03:33:11 PM:
I used SORTGENR for years (in the old days) at shops that didn't
have ICEGENER or SYNCGENR installed:
//STEP1EXEC PGM=SORT
//SORTIN DD DISP=SHR,DSN=input
//SORTOUT
For the chess afficionados.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/18/fischer.obit/
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Hi,
Darren, I still think you should introduce a Yellow Card system because it's
the same posters posting junk every day.
It's as if they think we do not have a TV at home and we need to see ALL the
news on an IBM discussion list.
One warning/strike and after that, they should be limited to
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Thanks for all the kind replies..
Space on the volumes should not be a problem. They have
checked the storage group and space allocation.
However, I missed to mention one info.
Yes, they didn't
Hi Mark:
A real professional tool like *AutoMan* is virtually all you need. See *
www.exspans.com
*They use it in the USA and Germany as far as I'm aware.
Bob Ruwel
On Jan 16, 2008 3:53 PM, Mark Pace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a way to automate the shutdown of z/OS? I hate having to
Hi,
I encountered a strange problem with a KSDS data set. At this time, I only
have some description of the problem from my colleague. Since it's so
urgent, I would like to get some hints before I get more detailed info.
(Sorry for that, I never did things like this before. But it's urgent..)
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Good Morning Gentle Readers.
I am attempting to pose a question on IBMLINK. I have a
valid userid and password. I was able to access the link
:http://www.ibm.com/ibmlink
However, I
Ron,
Thanks for the enlightenment... I'll have to speak the engineer that
spun me the big story... And to myself for believing him...
Still, I can format the ESS for MF / Open systems, but I have never had
the chance to compare the actual GB available to Open systems compared
to the actual
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Does anyone know the procedure to rename an LPAR on a z9 without a
POR?
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We happened to try this last week and found out it was not possible.
Kees.
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If I was to a tape, is there a way to programmatically know when I am
nearing, or have hit, the end of the guaranteed tape length? I
forget if
it's 3480 or 3490E tape that guarantees 1100 feet, but if I were
writing to
a
If I was to a tape, is there a way to programmatically know when I am
nearing, or have hit, the end of the guaranteed tape length? I forget if
it's 3480 or 3490E tape that guarantees 1100 feet, but if I were writing to
a tape, is there a way to find out that I was still under this value?
Our
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/03/2007
at 06:09 PM, Ed Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
How could you respect anyone that worked for CA?
A bit superficial, what? Yes, CA has done some things that I considered to
be unethical[1], but so has IBM.
but to leave a company and essentially sell their
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 ?
Thanks John, I will give it a try.
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Good Morning Gentle Readers.
I am attempting to pose a question on IBMLINK. I have a
valid userid and password. I was able to
Yes if the index does not have secondary extents I would give it secondary
extents and think it may fix your problem. If I remember correctly adding
records to the end will not cause a split until you fill up that extent or
delete one out of the middle but if you insert records you cause the
In a message dated 1/18/2008 9:05:19 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
IBM, EMC and HDS send faulty drives back to Seagate and
Hitachi for analysis for their modular products as well. There is no
difference between drives used in Enterprise and Modular arrays. IT's not
Look at the index and see if it is full and if it is setup to allocate
secondary extents. I had something similar before happen and it was the
index. Also if it was created to span multiple volumes and it is NONSMS
make sure the other volumes actually exist.
Michael Saraco
Systems Consultant
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 WTO messages at the end
Thanks for all the kind replies..
Space on the volumes should not be a problem. They have checked the storage
group and space allocation.
However, I missed to mention one info.
Yes, they didn't specify any free CIs.
Is this a problem? I mean, even I don't specify free CIs in a CA, CA-split
can
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Hi,
I encountered a strange problem with a KSDS data set. At this
time, I only have some description of the problem from my
colleague. Since it's so urgent, I would like to get some
hints before I
Does anyone know the procedure to rename an LPAR on a z9 without a POR?
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Riley: Find the next number in the sequence: 313, 331, 367, ...? what?
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The Doctor: Just enter
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on
01/17/2008
at 10:16 AM, Wayne Driscoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
When they do similar things,
A submarine and an airplane do similar things, but neither will do the job
of the other.
but the question of safer is clearly answered.
No. If you want to go under an ice
tony babonas wrote:
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.
Manpower to support it shouldn't be an issue.
Why? Isn't bama doing a good enough job?
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Can anyone help me to find IBM books which give the data about the CCWs of
the MF attached printers?
I do not know much about MF printers but my MFNetDisk is ready to implemnt
any MF printer emulation. All I need is books.
Thanks,
Shai
On 1/18/08, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I did a LISTC VOL against one of my catalogs today and was rewarded in
part with these entries:
NONVSAM --- ..'{... ..2.
HISTORY
DATASET-OWNER-(NULL) CREATION2001.282
RELEASE2 EXPIRATION--.000
Tom,
Thanks for the link.
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Of Tom Moulder
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 4:31 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: WLM and DB2
I did a presentation on WLM and DB2 at IDUG 2006. Follow this
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:55:24 -0800, Edward Jaffe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
Why? Isn't bama doing a good enough job?
...
I'll take Ed's question a step further.
I'd say that bama is doing a good job and I'd hate to see
this turned over to a bunch amateurs, not matter how well
--snip---
The desired character is the CCW command code, with a normal CCW 0
format (code/address/flags/length). Many printers also used FCB and
UCS load commands, but I couldn't find a decent source for those (and
they're device and model dependent).
I'm anxious for more posts on this topic. We don't yet have a z9, but I
thought that one of the selling points was being able to define 'dummy'
LPARs in advance, then make them 'real' as needed by 'renaming' and
assigning memory, CPs, and I/O connections, all without a POR.
Am I missing something
I opened up an ETR with IBM on my question and I received this answer.
You can change the name dynamically. Basically have to change the image
to reserve and then from reserve to the new name. To change the
partition to reserve, you have to disconnect all channel paths and
devices from the
In a message dated 1/18/2008 3:58:54 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If UA is trying to get rid of IBM-Main then yes, we should help find
another home for it, and a z platform would be worth looking at.
Otherwise, let's not rock the boat.
With next year's
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
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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
Lindy,
The child doesn't need to know anything about that ECB. The ECB
specified on the ATTACH macro is used by the system. When the subtask
completes and returns to the system (via the oldest PRB on the task
queue issuing an SVC 3), the system will post the ECB to notify the
mother task that it
Initiators have a historic tendency for storage problems, especially the
longer they run. Fixing your WTO problem by restarting the initiator is a
classic workaround for such problems.
It's possible that you're taking abends you're not seeing because of DAE
dump suppression. As a first pass, look
I wonder if I am missing something.
Here is what I think: My main program does an
ATTACH,EP=CHILD,ECB=ECB1
WAIT ECB=ECB1
DETACH (R1)
The program CHILD does its thing and then when done
POST ECB1
Which IIUC causes the main program to stop waiting. How does CHILD know
the address of ECB1 in
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.
Shane ...
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(I might be able to pick up an old 2105-F20 for the cost of a rental
truck. It's currently at 1.2 TB)
Someone with an MP3000 or the like might be happy to have it.
Or anybody thinking of bidding on an 890 maybe ...
Shane...
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We would self-moderate
unsnip-
Right after I shoot down the pig that's circling my chimney!!! :-)
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On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:25:55 -0800, Skip Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I'm anxious for more posts on this topic. We don't yet have a z9, but I
thought that one of the selling points was being able to define 'dummy'
LPARs in advance, then make them 'real' as needed by 'renaming' and
assigning
Lindy,
The ECB= on the ATTACH is used to notify the ATTACHing program that the
ATTACH'd program (a subtask) has terminated (normally or abnormally).
If you wish to synchronize the ATTACHing program with the ATTACH'd
program you would pass an ECB in the plist for the ATTACH'd program
using
--snip--
Thanks. That makes sense.
What doesn't is that Cannatello's book has a page and a half on doing
POST, with one example of how to change the ECB without using the POST
macro.
He even has the child checking the ECB to see if a WAIT had been issued.
John:
Yes, SyncSort does use CFW. I wrote the code myself in a previous life,
17 or so years ago. However, IIRC, there may be circumstances where it is
turned off due to other performance considerations. Check with SyncSort's
Customer Service if you need to know when, if ever these days.
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What doesn't is that Cannatello's book has a page and a half on doing
POST, with one example of how to change the ECB
Rick Fochtman wrote:
--snip--
Thanks. That makes sense.
What doesn't is that Cannatello's book has a page and a half on doing
POST, with one example of how to change the ECB without using the POST
macro.
He even has the child checking the ECB to see if a
Hi all, hopefully an easy one here.
Can anyone confirm whether or not Syncsort uses CFW? I know DF/Sort does
but I'm not sure about Sync.
Thanks,
JB
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On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:40:16 -0600, Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't help but wonder: when a purchased storage array device is
decommissioned, are all those little drives of any use for PC
replacements? What sorts of interfaces do those drives require? (E)IDE
or SCSI of SCSI-2 ??
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 14:53 -0600, tony babonas wrote:
We would self-moderate
Yeah, like THAT's gonna happen.
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Continuing to blaspheme, my theory is that zOS should be able to host such
an application, labor being provided by a collective of experienced sysprogs.
We would self-moderate(after all it's our DASD), self-fund,
Simple philosophy. Over the years we're seen the toy computers undercut
most of what we do. We continue to reassure each other on this
list that we're the best. Just ask us.
We should be able to prove our point. Let's start taking some apps back and
awaken the dinosaur.
If we can..
Okay, Then I will gladly be your z/VM sysprog. My experience on the 'dark
side' goes back to June 23, 1976 when I first logged onto a virtual machine.
/Tom Kern
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:09:03 -0600, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 2:18 PM, in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED], tony babonas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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.
Manpower to support it shouldn't be an issue.
Why not
If I recall from the marketing, you only 'buy' an IFL once and when you
upgrade your IFL's are already paid for.
That is correct.
Now if I can pick up this 2 IFL box for $10-20K can I just have IBM turn on 2
IFL's on my z990 and just trash the z890? Quite a savings from the list price
of
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Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 1:23 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: I want to add virtual printer to my MFNetDisk, Any value?
The XMITIP package - a freeware tool for sending e-mail from z/OS using
SMTP - has just been updated with significant enhancements to the NLS
capabilities (thanks to Hartmut Beckmann).
I have also released a text to csv (comma separated value) tool to
compliment the existing text to pdf, text
Why don't we take up a collection to buy an old CPU, zOS and all else
needed, then host IBM-MAIN, RACF-L, CICS-L, VM-L, DB2-L etc etc.
Manpower to support it shouldn't be an issue.
Possible? Would be a great proof of concept. How much would each of us
have to pony up?
Imagine the
Ruth,
It is possible that the WTO operation in the exit is failing - maybe due to a
overlay in the exit working storage or some other bad parameter list error. I
would check any code in the exit that varies with userid/jobname values and
also check the bounds of any other variables around the
Two great answers right away, thanks! I *love* the get the compression
ratio solution, it sounds perfect so far.
I have an obvious question on the 3490E though. You say there is a set of
tracks going AND coming. Since actual tape length isn't a specification,
just a minimum is, how would a
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Around mid-1999 EMC signed a multi-$billion contract to buy a HUGE number of
little disks from IBM
Thanks. That makes sense.
What doesn't is that Cannatello's book has a page and a half on doing
POST, with one example of how to change the ECB without using the POST
macro.
He even has the child checking the ECB to see if a WAIT had been issued.
Lindy
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From: IBM
I have belonged for years to a list called PICLIST which is for
programming of PIC microcontrollers and other electrical engineering
topics.
They've been using tags in the subject. [PIC] for PIC programming and
related, [EE] for subjects that talk about hardware, [AD] for ads, and
[OT] for other
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:31:21 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote:
Is
there a system determined BLKSIZE on a PATH= DD statement, or is the sort
program left to deal with it?
see above
For a while, SDB always set BLKSIZE for PATH= to 80. This was much fixed
as a side effect of an APAR directed to JES,
I have not read the book in question, but I will often have task A
attach task B and pass a parameter list via R1 that has a pair of ECB's
in it. One ECB for the child (task B) to wait on and one ECB for the
parent (task A) to wait on. Also in the parameter list are some queues
that are used for
Mark,
You can use the IBM announcement website with the following URL:
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/index.wss
Within the Type of content: pull down, select the HW SW desc (Sales
manual, RPQ) item. Then select the Advanced search hyperlink. Then enter
machine type in the Product
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Connor, Ruth
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 3:20 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: IEFACTRT exit
Richard,
That's a good question. We do use IEFYS to write some messages to
Bama in general, and Darren in particular, have been doing a very good job.
As with any re-hosting discussion, the people involved (which is the most
important aspect) have been ignored.
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I first logged on in September 1976.
1st year course at Uwaterloo.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Kern) writes:
You could save some money by running SLES10 and the linux version of
LSoft's LISTSERV product.
No z/OS or z/VM
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:18:41 -0600, tony babonas wrote:
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.
Manpower to support it shouldn't be an issue.
Possible? Would be a great proof of concept. How much
I haven't seen such a problem in Top Secret or in IEFACTRT; I'd look at the
userids involved. Are they receiving other WTOs? Does NOTIFY= get through to
them? Have their TSO profiles gotten set to NOINTERCOM? Do they have full
TSO/E log datasets? Is a JES2 MAS devouring messages for
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of tony babonas
We don't want to do this on the cheap,necessarily. We want
to run it all on zOS.
No shortage of SYSPROGs:-)
z/OS would probably be the worst choice for this purpose. First, you'd
have to
From 'Clear and Present Danger'
Jack Ryan: I'm here to rent the Huey.
Helicopter owner: We don't rent it anymore, but it is for sale.
Jack Ryan: How much?
Helicopter owner: Two million dollars.
Jack Ryan: Uh, my pilot and I will have to take it for a test drive.
Helicopter owner: Of course,
We don't want to do this on the cheap,necessarily. We want to run it all on
zOS.
No shortage of SYSPROGs:-)
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Of Thomas Kern
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 1:39 PM
To:
Michael,
I will check that.
Does it matter? I mean, you can add records to the end of the KSDS. You just
can not insert records..
On Jan 19, 2008 12:07 AM, Michael Saraco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Yes it can do a split but it has to have the space. Did they define
secondary extents for the
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Possible? Would be a great proof of concept. How much would each of us
have to pony up?
$100k/mo would be a good start. Divide that by 4K users and only 20 bucks a
month. Nobody has ever
A tool would be nice. But buying additional software is not an option.
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Why don't we take up a collection to buy an old CPU, zOS and all else
needed, then host IBM-MAIN, RACF-L, CICS-L, VM-L, DB2-L etc etc.
Manpower to support it shouldn't be an issue.
Possible? Would be a great proof of concept. How much would each of us
Yes it can do a split but it has to have the space. Did they define
secondary extents for the index?
From:
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To:
IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Date:
01/18/2008 10:01 AM
Subject:
Re: KSDS insert failed with out of space
Thanks for all the kind replies..
Space on the
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:56:33 -0500, Ken Porowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
From IBM's 4Q 2007 Earnings announcement
http://www.ibm.com/investor/4q07/presentation/4q07prepared.pdf
Mark Loughridge, IBM's Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Now, this marks the tenth quarter of a
snip-
HI,
I want to add a small feature which I call it virtual MF printer.
This will enable MVS user to print to MVS virtual printer any MVS file.
Ofcourse the printer is a PC attach printer and to MVS it will be a MF printer.
In other words, I want
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:44:55 -0500, O'Connor, Ruth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hello
We have an intermittent problem with IEFACTRT and are wondering if
anyone else has ever seen this phenomenon. We're running z/OS 1.7 with
Top Secret 9.0 but the problem goes back at least several years and
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Around mid-1999 EMC signed a multi-$billion contract to buy a HUGE number of
little disks from IBM
To diagnose VSAM request errors one needs to report, via whatever means,
the return (R15), function and feedback codes (from RPL) and interpret
them (Using Datasets book?).
Hth...
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From IBM's 4Q 2007 Earnings announcement
http://www.ibm.com/investor/4q07/presentation/4q07prepared.pdf
Mark Loughridge, IBM's Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Now, this marks the tenth quarter of a long and successful technology
cycle for System z. In 2008 we'll move to our
I hate it when I forget words and my brain fills them in. If I was WRITING
to a tape...
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Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 7:03 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: How to find current
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:26 AM, in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Clark Morris
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VSAM is already FBA
Sort of. A VSAM file, once loaded, consists of blocks of all the same size,
but VSAM allows more than one block size (e.g., 4K and 8K). FBA, to me,
means that
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Subject: Re: Flash memory arrays
--snip
Around mid-1999 EMC
--snip
Around mid-1999 EMC signed a multi-$billion contract to buy a HUGE number of
little disks from IBM over a period of several years. So IBM was making
disks then. And I think that contract expired about half a decade ago.
I don't mind one or two posts that might be off-topic, but I DEPLORE
long OT threads. With 600-700 E-Mails per day coming in, I don't need
the additional noise. I get 300-350 from various desirable mailing
lists, maybe 50 from friends and the rest is spam. For the same reason,
I don't like
Hi Darren,
As you can see from Herbie's posting, it does not take much to be called
a Computer Professional these days..
Conclusion:
I will take the Yellow card, limiting me to ONE posting a day but I think
Herbie
deserves one too.
Herbie , just for the record, we all post junk some times
David,
For the older 3480/3490 with IDRC, it is much harder. With 3490/E, it is
much easier to determine by looking at the block-id. The logical block-ID
increases as the physical blocks of data are written out; and then decreases
as the second set of tracks are written coming back to the
I will be out of the office starting 01/18/2008 and will not return until
01/21/2008.
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On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:44:22 -0600, McKown, John wrote:
I think that they are either SCSI, or Fibre Channel. For a mere 1.2Tb,
you can use 3 500Gib eSATA drives.
I was at the PC store the other day and they had 1TB SATA drives for sale. I
didn't catch the price. I settled for a mere 250G for
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
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