Re: USS pedantry (was Friday musings on the future of 3270 applications

2007-06-05 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Thompson, Steve SNIP And in an ETR I had open with IBM, they [the TCP group] had to agree that using USS for Unix System Services was causing confusion when we also needed to discuss USS [VTAM] while

SHARE: JES2 Songbook

2007-06-05 Thread Chase, John
Who's the current custodian? I have a small contribution to make. TIA, -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the

Re: TSO LOGON Issue

2007-06-06 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 15:00:43 -0700, Neubert, Kevin (DIS) wrote: Just a guess... Determine the variable in question then remove it via ISPEXEC VERASE. From a batch job? From a linemode TSO

Re: operator display command with response

2007-06-06 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Harold Zbiegien Anyone know of any program that I could issue an operator display type command and receive back the response? Something like a vtam programmed operator but for system commands. SDSF? -jc-

Re: ServiceLink is taking the day off

2007-06-08 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Robert Justice I seem to remember a sev1 ticket I created about web ibmlink in which they replied to me that the 3270 interface wouldn't be eliminated until the web version was STABLE. H. Well, dead

Re: ServiceLink is taking the day off (# 32130396)

2007-06-11 Thread Chase, John
Oops. I'll add some content this time -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Knutson, Sam Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 9:20 PM Hi, IBMLink is down completely again. I contacted the IBMLink help desk at 800-543-3912 as I am trying to update a

Re: IBMLINK

2007-06-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Veilleux, Jon L Anyone else having IBMLINK problems today? Or maybe I should say, is anyone NOT having problems??? I had zero problems with it -- until I tried to sign in -jc-

Re: IBMLINK-SEV1 32141089

2007-06-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Robert Justice YES IT IS DOWN AGAIN, SHOCK AND SURPRISE Again? or Still? -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: IBMLINK-SEV1 32141089

2007-06-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Fletcher, Kevin It maybe down, but they are very apologetic about it. But apologies don't bring home the bacon. The call-bot says to try it again at/after 09:15 EST -jc-

Re: IBMLINK-SEV1 32141089

2007-06-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Down all weekend as near as I can tell. Unacceptable since we (and most other shops) do weekend upgrades. Luckily I didn't run into any issues with a 1.8 roll out to a production LPAR this weekend

Re: IBMLINK-SEV1 32141089--now 10:15 maybe

2007-06-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Finnell I don't see what SHARE/Expo has to do with it. This is bread and butter 'bidness'. Services offered, services not rendered...unfortunately it's tied in to the support contract. So non-payment could

Re: IBMLINK-SEV1 32141089--now 10:15 maybe

2007-06-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Robert Justice something has to be done, because this is absurd. I think it passed absurd last week. Perhaps someone envisions this possible future scenario: Support: We've had zero problem reports for the last

Re: IBMLINK-SEV1 32141089--now 10:15 maybe

2007-06-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Finnell Seems that once upon a time access to IBMLINK was an extra-cost option called SoftwareXcel Extended. Is that no longer true? Yeah, but with long term service contracts it all gets lumped

Re: IBMLINK-SEV1 32141089--now 11:15 maybe

2007-06-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Robert Justice hmm, 9:15, then 10:15, now 11:15 anyone seeing a trend here? Second Tuesday of next week? -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: CA-1 install - user exits?

2007-06-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Knutson, Sam The CA-1 team including Russell Witt who participates here is generally very good. CA like many large software companies feels to users more like many small companies with some variations in culture

Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules

2007-06-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Howard Brazee On 11 Jun 2007 08:27:26 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: I happen to agree with everything you said, but sadly common sense usually isn't common anymore. You're implying it was once

Re: IBMLINK-SEV1 32141089--now 11:15 maybe

2007-06-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Robert Justice It looks like its back up. FSVO up. I signed on, checked my AST apar and saw that it had closed and a PTF was available, ordered the PTF for Internet delivery, navigated to SRD and saw the order

Re: IBMLINK-SEV1 32141089--now 11:15 maybe

2007-06-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Barkow, Eileen Many times the order status does not change right away but the order is still available. Do not wait for the status to change before going to the ftp site to download it if you know the current

Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules

2007-06-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Snipped If PWD doesn't provide you with what you need, then you have someone to hear your

Re: Use of the MQSeries API Crossing Exit

2007-06-13 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Kelman, Tom To all, I think that the way I worded this created a little misunderstanding. What is happening is that a process comes into our AIX servers from a client. At that point MQ Broker in the AIX

Re: Multiple TSO logons (was: Patents, ...)

2007-06-13 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Craddock, Chris snip To address the who would pay for it? question; the original business plan called for a

Re: BLDL question

2007-06-15 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Schuster Hello: The manual z/OS DFSMS Macro Instructions for Data Sets SC26-7408-01 in Chapter 5 BLDL section states that When the system returns control to the problem program, the low-order byte of

Re: DR and JES check point question

2007-06-15 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Andy White Im trying to find out from anyone out there who might be doing the same thing. We are planning for a disaster recovery site we control and mirror using XRC over distance. We currently have

Re: When SMP/E First Introduced?????

2007-06-18 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Finnell In a message dated 6/18/2007 1:44:19 P.M. Central Daylight Time, Mark.Young writes: OK thanx. And yes, I'll bite.KQ ?! He's the IBM lead for SMP/E and a regular contributor to IBM-Main

Re: The Development of the Vital IBM PC in Spite of the Corporate Culture of ...

2007-06-18 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Finnell In a message dated 6/18/2007 1:48:50 P.M. Central Daylight Time, Steve_Thompson writes: have found that it actually cost MORE to get a machine W/O M/$'s Windows! I don't know where you

Re: Multiple TSO logons

2007-06-18 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman -snip-- We took a slightly different approach, Ed. ALL private SVC's and modules that front-ended or replaced IBM modules had to be provided to us in

Re: how to list LE options

2007-06-20 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Schramm, Rob wrote: I keep looking thru the manuals, but all I see is the use of RPTOPTS(ON) on some current LE using program. I am sure (ok.. hoping) that there is a way list out all LE run-time

Re: how to list LE options

2007-06-20 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tim Hare I never understood the auditor/sysprog paranoia about letting normal users have access to the operator Display commands I don't know about your shop, but at ours it gets to be a pain when users call

Re: how to list LE options

2007-06-22 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Thomas Berg -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List För Ed Gould The consultants howled as they could no longer assemble programs (no access to sys1.maclib) ??? If you hire

Re: Off Topic But Concept should be Known To All

2007-06-22 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Staller, Allan LOL, To carry this argument to it's logical conclusion, each application would have it's own OS snip Subject: Off Topic But Concept should be Known To All

Re: how to list LE options

2007-06-22 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Barkow, Eileen that in most medium to large organizations, lines do need to be drawn in order to keep people focused on the jobs they are hired to do I take this to mean keep them stupid so that they cannot

Re: SV: how to list LE options

2007-06-25 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Gould On Jun 22, 2007, at 7:05 AM, Thomas Berg wrote: == Ed Gould == wrote2007-06-21 21:58: On Jun 21, 2007, at 4:44 AM, Thomas Berg wrote: --SNIP-- The consultants

Re: The USS Heresy (was Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules)

2007-06-25 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of R.S. Chris Mason wrote: [ lots of stuff ] [ snip ] I read all the posts, including yours. A lot of text. Actually I have other duties as well, so I did not pay to much attention to each of them. Now I'm trying

Re: SV: how to list LE options

2007-06-25 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL The consultants were using our resources to compile programs for the consultants essentially stealing resources from our company. ... You let them off easy! I would have dismissed them, right

Re: CICS TS 3.1 Customers: Last Chance to Order the Service Flow Feature

2007-06-25 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Barkow, Eileen -Original Message- Can someone tell me how to just order the service flow feature without reordering all of cics. I selected customized products and tried to just select the service flow

Re: Testing System Programmer Capabilities

2007-06-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Doc Farmer Okay, I'll give it a shot: [ snip ] 2) The CIO, a big-iron neophyte, wants an explanation why you need an upgrade from a z890 to a z900, with an addition of 6 new CPUs and 256GB of main

Re: Testing System Programmer Capabilities

2007-06-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Marchant On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:55:50 -0500, Chase, John wrote: E) Explain why a z900 would be a *downgrade* from a z890. Sure, the z900 is a bit older technology, but how do you figure that it would

Re: Unable to compile Java - iconv_init problem

2007-06-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex R. Can you check that again? The most current level is z/OS 1.8. ESP? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Nagesh We are at z/OS 1.9. ... -jc-

Re: HR policy

2007-06-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Gould That tells me it was WARDS why is everyone so afraid of a defunct company? What part of Montgomery Ward and Company begins with S and ends with L? For that matter, what part of Montgomery Ward and

Re: IBM PROMOTING the Teaching of COBOL/ZOS in the Colleges (saving frame)

2007-06-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Robert Pelletier Is it unstable? Isn't 1.9 out? z/OS 1.9 should be GA in September, 2007. The Announcement Letter should be published around the end of July or early August (normally on a Tuesday). -jc-

Re: HR policy

2007-06-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of August Carideo was Spiegel ( spelling ) part of Wards ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiegel_catalog http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Bauer No mention of Wards or Montgomery Ward and Co. -jc-

Re: HR policy

2007-06-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bob Shannon No mention of Wards or Montgomery Ward and Co. Search on Monkey Ward http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_Ward No mention of Spiegel there -jc-

Re: Utility to print tracks

2007-06-27 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Alan Schwartz I'm scratching at some dead brain cells. I'm thinking there was some utility, IBM or ISV, I had at some point that I could supply a TTR address for some volume and print what was at that address.

Re: IBM obsoleting mainframe hardware

2007-06-28 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Howard Brazee Car salesmen tell us that lease is just another way of paying for the car you buy. But at the end of a lease you have to give it back (absent a purchase option). When you buy it, you get to keep

Re: IBM obsoleting mainframe hardware

2007-06-28 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Howard Brazee On 28 Jun 2007 09:43:30 -0700, Ted MacNEIL wrote: The 'old' computer was an ES/9021-RX2. It had started out as a 3090. The replacement was a 9672-R64 (circa 199?). It's still on the floor (I no

Re: IBM withdraws Z890 ?!?!?!

2007-07-02 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Marvin Lukasik wrote: Edward E Jaffe wrote: I haven't seen this announcement. But, even if they've stopped selling zSeries processors. So what? System z is all the rage now! OK, I'll

Re: WLM Question

2007-07-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL You say your using region mode for CICS. Does that mean you haven't set up CICS for transaction response time processing? I would recommend that you do that. CICS will run a lot better that way -

Re: Share conference schedule

2007-07-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Schwarz, Barry A Has anyone been successful in using the grid view of the conference schedule? When I select a date, I usually get a display marked rooms 1 - 0 of 0 rooms. On the rare occasion when I do see

MEMLIMIT again -- Consensus on Default Size?

2007-07-03 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, I see in the CICS TS 3.2 Migration Guide that this newest CICS release requires a minimum MEMLIMIT of 2G, or it will refuse to start up. Last time this topic came up here, there didn't seem to be a consensus on what a good system default should be for MEMLIMIT; and only two posters gave

Re: MEMLIMIT again -- Consensus on Default Size?

2007-07-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Chase, John wrote: [ snip ] On a somewhat related note, I vaguely recall someone posting that DB2 v8 (might have been v9) takes a MEMLIMIT of 4T, without regard to what installation default

Re: MEMLIMIT again -- Consensus on Default Size?

2007-07-05 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Grieve To be pedantic, the 2G MEMLIMIT value for CICS TS 3.2 is a recommendation, not an absolute value. CICS will start up as long as MEMLIMIT is at least as large as EDSALIMIT (which is obviously less than

Re: What is the main publication site (was: PL/I will rule the world . . . not

2007-07-05 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John P Baker The main publication site for the US is: http://www.elink.ibmlink.ibm.com/publications/servlet/pbi.wss?CTY=US The one I use is: http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/bkserv/ But it

Re: SHARE meeting

2007-07-05 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Marchant On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 10:13:04 -0400, Ken Porowski wrote: Wonder if we should start a 'long-hair' table at SCIDS ... but the short-hairs might complain... ... not to mention the no-hairs...

Re: SHARE meeting

2007-07-05 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Alan Schwartz Is the glass half empty or half full? This is one of the times I like to quote my father: I'm not getting bald. The problem is that my brains are growing faster than my hair. I thought that was

Re: IBM to Break Petaflops Barrier with Blue Gene/P

2007-07-06 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Ed Gould wrote: IBM to Break Petaflops Barrier with Blue Gene/P Computer Business Online via Yahoo! UK Ireland News Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:44 PM PDT The race is on to build the first supercomputer

Re: Share z/OS Mastery Test

2007-07-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman [ snip ] Part of my now copious free time is taken up with tutoring high school math and physics students. My first step is to take away all calculators. First they do the math with pencil and

Re: Share z/OS Mastery Test

2007-07-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Thompson, Steve -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Chase, John SNIP What appears to be missing in public edjamacation these days is teaching *how* to think, and *how

Missing Component IXM* ??

2007-07-13 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, A link-edit in the installation of CICS TS 3.2 is failing with this: IEW2322I 1220 16519INCLUDE SIXMEXP(IXM4C56X) TYPE=UTIN IEW2303E 1030 MEMBER IXM4C56X OF THE DATA SET SPECIFIED BY SIXMEXP COULD NOT BE FOUND. The Installing Your Order manual says that **IF** you

Re: Missing Component IXM* ??

2007-07-13 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Chris Mason John Try http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=1083context=SSGMG Vdc=DB520uid=swg21263586loc=en_UScs=UTF-8lang=enrss=ct1083other the first hit Googling on IXM4C56X. Thanks. I seem to forget

Re: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article

2007-07-16 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John S. Giltner, Jr. [ snip ] Heck, for the distributed applications we have our users would LOVE to ONLY wait 4-5 seconds. One application we converted from 3270 to Web went from 2 seconds response time to

XML Toolkit for z/OS -- HFS Size?

2007-07-16 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, Anybody have a realistic size for the HFS space required by the z/OS XML Toolkit v1.9? The Program Directory says 29,325 tracks (3390), but that seems intuitivly extravagant, given that the combines sizes of all the RELFILEs for v1.7 thru 1.9 are about a quarter of that. Corollary

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

2007-07-17 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jon Brock 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.

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

2007-07-18 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL If your point 1 were accurate, management would dump those servers. Two points that substantiate the TCA argument (or, to be more presice ICA (initial cost of acquisition)): 1. Mainframe DASD costs

Re: Manual on Implementing a Parallel Sysplex

2006-12-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Carol Srna Hi All. I'm looking for information on Implementing a Parallel Sysplex. I've googled that title , but not finding any good hits. Does anyone have any website, etc. that I can try? Thanks In

Re: IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones

2006-12-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John P Baker If I understand the filing, I believe that the difference is that both FLEX-ES and Hercules are in fact instruction simulators, whereas PSI was producing an instruction emulator. From

FW: AST notification for OA16143 - FO

2006-12-12 Thread Chase, John
Got this from the AST-bot: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A notification for the following APAR or PTF has been added to your AST tracking list: APAR/PTF Reason -- OA16143 FO Foxtrot Oscar??? :-) -jc-

Re: FW: AST notification for OA16143 - FO

2006-12-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Choate, Bill I believe that FO stands for future objective. When I signed in to IBM ServiceLink, I saw that PTFs had been made available today for OA16143. Maybe in this context it means final outcome? -jc-

Re: Decimal FP (was: vendor JCL)

2006-12-14 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL CoBOL doesn't fit the standard acronym My memory is failing me on this one. I thought it was: Common Oriented Business Operating Language So, you're saying: COmmon Business Operating

Re: IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones

2006-12-14 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Charles Mills [ snip ] I say we should not throw out the baby of software patents with the bath water of protection for inventors -- of any type. Two more things: 1. Disclaimer: I'm not totally

Re: ICF catalogs with IMBED

2006-12-14 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John We are at z/OS 1.6. Most of our catalogs date from the deep, dark past of MVS 4.3. In effect, they all have IMBED. I know that IBM has deprecated IMBED, but that datasets (including catalogs) which

Re: HSM Missing Member from Recalled Dataset -- Update

2006-12-14 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jack Kelly or the changed bit was reset and hsm thought that the dsn had not changed and then reconnected? Opened a PMR with DFSMShsm, and among other things they explained how hsm determines a dataset's

Re: HSM Missing Member from Recalled Dataset -- Update

2006-12-14 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Richards.Bob Just for fun, can you post the dump and restore JCL from your test? Dump: //STEP001 EXEC PGM=ADRDSSU,REGION=8192K //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*

Re: HSM Missing Member from Recalled Dataset -- Update

2006-12-14 Thread Chase, John
Latest update on my PMR: DFSMSdss is WAD. The change bits are reset on physical RESTOREs (i.e., RESTORE FULL and RESTORE TRACKS), but not on logical RESTOREs (i.e., RESTORE DATASET). What this means is that RESTORE FULL does NOT create a true and correct copy of the source volume that was

Re: A new tool to help z/OS migrations - the IBM Migration Checker for z/OS!

2006-12-18 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Staller, Allan Shall I download this and try it? Especially in view of the extended conversion schedule.. Give it a whirl! I ran it on our sandbox last Friday, for our upcoming z/OS 1.5 to 1.7 upgrade, and it

Re: S0C1 with ILC 6

2006-12-18 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/14/2006 at 03:08 PM, Chuck Arney

Re: Plurals and language confusion

2006-12-18 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Patrick O'Keefe Words change over time. There used to be a legume called the pease in English. But that sounded plural so people started using as such. And a word means what people think it means, so that

Re: Plurals and language confusion

2006-12-18 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin In a recent note, McKown, John said: Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:53:38 -0600 Yes. And it likely will. A judge has ordered the US Treasury to make it easier for blind people to

Re: Plurals and language confusion

2006-12-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John S. Giltner, Jr. ATM in an Hotel across the street from where I work: Please choose Language to continue: English (Inglés) Español (Spanish) Better yet why most ATM's have

Re: Plurals and language confusion

2006-12-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Charles Mills . . . At the new ATT (formerly Pac Bell and then SBC) Ball Park in SF, the umpires' dressing rooms have Braille signs, a source of some amusement. Have to comply with ADA, you know, whether or

Re: Plurals and language confusion

2006-12-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Chris Mason . . . How did I survive being in the cadets at school? And I was even selected to participate in a guards competition once - what mental agony! Did you get to toss the rifles (with bayonets

Re: Dataset Name Report

2006-12-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Roberto Halais Dear Listers: I have a need to create a report of all catalogued datasets and to produce totals by high level qualifiers (at different levels) of space allocated and used, etc. If there is a

Re: WLM APPL% Questions

2006-12-20 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John S. Giltner, Jr. Gerry Borja wrote: I have been monitoring our single CICS region which has been hitting the single TCB limit lately. I have checked the WLM service class report and found out that APPL%

Re: Data replication at a remote site - elementary doubt

2007-01-02 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mautalen Juan Guillermo Hi, Sorry for this very basic question, but i am not a system programmer (just a RACF administrator). When you implement synchronuous (or asynchronuous) copy of your DASD data to a

Re: Data replication at a remote site - elementary doubt

2007-01-02 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of August Carideo how is Z/os not installed ? The machine (z890 in CBU configuration) is not plugged in yet. your not replicating your system packs ? We replicate everything. our SRDF environment copies all , so

Re: How to write a full-screen Rexx debugger?

2007-01-02 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Weiss, Mark Charles, I have spent over 22 years with Compuware Corporation ... many of those years working on Xpediter/CICS. I have never worked for CA. Compuware Corporation is NOT abbreviated CA -

Re: IEW2611E

2007-01-02 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- Paul Gilmartin wrote: Trying to do a link edit lately, I got: IEW2611E 4313 ALIAS CANNOT REPLACE MODULE WITH SAME NAME. Why is this considered an

Re: Withdrawal of VM ServiceLink

2007-01-02 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Richards.Bob And according to my Alabama wife, the plural of y'all is All y'all :-) Pronounced Awlayawl. :-) -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Withdrawal of VM ServiceLink

2007-01-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL And a native Pittsburgher will say Yunz can. And, we say: yoos can, eh?. To canadians, all statements are questions, eh? Canadians are easy to spot in a crowd: They're the ones with Eh fever. :-)

Re: IEW2611E

2007-01-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 13:08:15 -0600, Chase, John wrote: Paul Gilmartin wrote: Trying to do a link edit lately, I got: IEW2611E 4313 ALIAS CANNOT REPLACE MODULE WITH SAME NAME

Re: IEW2611E

2007-01-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin In a recent note, Veilleux, Jon L said: Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 08:13:10 -0500 Not so. I was trying to make Paul an alias not of Paul, but of another load module name, say Fred.

Re: RACF - Password rules.

2007-01-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mautalen Juan Guillermo Bob: It has been repetedly explained by IBMers at the RACF forum that, even if RACF in z/OS 1.8 is prepared to handle this new type of authentication called passphrases, none of the

Re: VTAMSWITCH and muliple MSwindows of CICS screens.

2007-01-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Davis Kriss P We have asked the vendor (Mackinney) and they have said no, but we are thinking, if we are willing to give up some functions in VTAMSWITCH, we can get where we want to go with it. It could be we

Re: RACF - Password rules.

2007-01-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman ---snip-- I'm a little confused. I know I can EXclude words/characters with ICHPWX01, but how would I INclude rules that require the national (or any

Re: Just another example of mainframe costs.

2007-01-04 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tony Harminc R.S. wrote: It will cost over $1000.00 to just discontinue service for this box. Excuse me, why do you need to pay for DISCONTINUE ??? Is my English so bad, so I should understand it as

Re: Costs not to go to z/OS 1.7 by March 31, 2007.

2007-01-04 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Richbourg, Claude All, For those who have not made the migration off z/OS 1.4 by March 31, 2007, it will become VERY expensive. We are cutting over the end of this month to z/OS 1.7, so we are okay. But, we

Re: Costs not to go to z/OS 1.7 by March 31, 2007.

2007-01-05 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL [ snip ] Are you saying that we will have to pay extra just because we didn't get to 1.7 'fast enough'? The pay extra comes into play if you encounter a previously-unreported and undiagnosed problem in

z/OS 1.7 Standalone Dump REXX Utility -- Where?

2007-01-05 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, In z/OS V1R7.0 MVS Diagnosis: Tools and Service Aids, I see the following: == 4.2.3 Using the AMDSADDD utility The REXX utility AMDSADDD resides in SYS1.SAMPLIB. === However, in SYS1.SAMPLIB furnished with our

Re: Withdrawal of VM ServiceLink

2007-01-08 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave Y'all aren't taking the original topic seriously enough. Ending 3270 access to ibmlink should be protested on principal! And ending VPL, while not a problem for me at my level, is a serious problem

Re: Withdrawal of VM ServiceLink

2007-01-08 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Wayne Driscoll And then if they (the ISV) agrees to this price from IBM, and tries to pass the cost onto their customers they will be blasted by certain members of this list for price gouging. Yup. You can't

Re: HUMOR: Not to cast dispersions on any of IBM-MAIN

2007-01-08 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman -snip-- I wonder, though, if anyone has compared prostitution to politics. But that's a thread for a very different listserv group...

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