On 4 Jan 2010 15:22:46 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
In a6d1k5hsqsjkmo5c9ues4h18tktqlta...@4ax.com, on 01/03/2010
at 11:28 AM, Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca said:
JCL was designed for OS360 on a 256K real machine (the original design
point for PCP was 64K).
256 KiB? We
On 4 Jan 2010 12:08:58 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
JCL has been criticized by those who have not mastered it since the time of
OS PCP.
I've been using JCL since February 1981.
I started in this business as a JCL jockey in Production Support for a
Canadian Railway Company that
On 5 Jan 2010 07:17:48 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Mike Myers wrote:
Steve:
I do know that the formatter in IPCS (TCBEXIT IECDAFMT - at least I
think that's the right exit - if not, then it's probably IECIOFMT) will
display the DCB as a block of data, but does not format
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:33:29 -0500, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you
wrote:
hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com writes:
Watson pushed S/360 out the door so fast partly because his product
line was stale and competitors were gaining on him. Honeywell was
'stealing' his 1401 customers with their machine and
On 5 Jan 2010 09:54:17 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Clark Morris wrote:
On 5 Jan 2010 07:17:48 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Mike Myers wrote:
Steve:
I do know that the formatter in IPCS (TCBEXIT IECDAFMT - at least I
think that's the right exit
On 7 Jan 2010 12:27:09 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
The chip is not just data; it is a processor. All data exchanged between the
card (ie. the chip) and the terminal is encrypted.
Why can't their web-site say that?
There's obviously a lot more to it than that but, right from
On 12 Jan 2010 16:21:08 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Rick of course you are quite correct. The newer portions of Z/os like OE and
TCP/IP/COBOL are horrendously documented.
How long ago did you last check, Ed, when you were working on IBM Mainframes 5
years ago? :-)
Yes I know
- we can't find the
right pointer in the cbt tapes - would you direct us please- thanks
While old, file 175 on the CBT tape - Philips Utilities from Clark
Morris can give you a good start. There is an exit 6 that works on XA
and I believe worked on ESA which takes the submitter, job card time
On 3 Feb 2010 06:51:55 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
I saw a roadshow this past summer and immediately came away with the
implications to licensing. A small group of us also talked about what you do
below, IBM changing the licensing or breaking the software.
To me anyway, it's a
On 10 Feb 2010 11:59:39 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
PDSEs have been available for a long time, and provide many
advantages over PDSs. Why are people reluctant to use PDSEs?
John Ehrman
One of the things that I have against the PDSE is the same thing that
I had against SNA attached
On 10 Feb 2010 23:19:42 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Greetings,
In the DAF source, there is a list of DAF related APARs, most everything that
you run into should be in there, including DAF assembly errors and DAF
encountering invalid SMF data. Here is the list from the last few
On 11 Feb 2010 20:44:37 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
No one seems to have pointed out that even for large members requiring
more than 4 KiB there is more wasted space for PDSE than for a PDS:
Since all space allocation is in 4KiB blocks, one should expect on
average 50% of the last
On 16 Feb 2010 08:56:25 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
I sometimes use a trailing @ (in a symbol's name) as a personal
convention to indicate that the field contains an address. But as
noted elsewhere, the Assembler treats the @ (and the $ and the #) no
differently from an
On 17 Feb 2010 05:39:17 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Bruce Hewson of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
wrote on 02/17/2010 04:09:59 AM:
Hello John,
there have been many responses.some positive some negative...this is
another negative I am sorry!
1.
On 16 Feb 2010 10:10:22 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
I know it's the one not taken!. But of the B, J, or BR, can they be ordered?
I am 99.9% certain that having the branch address in a register is the
fastest. But is it significant enough that I should dedicate a register for
it?
On 18 Feb 2010 12:22:33 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:48:04 -0500, Richards, Robert B.
robert.richa...@opm.gov wrote:
snipAccording to the programmer, the job issued IGZ0026W after an ICE46A
message and the program DID NOT abend and finished with a return
On 20 Feb 2010 09:06:32 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
On 2/20/2010 11:41 AM, J R wrote:
They wore lab coats?
They were called MVS administrators?
I was being facetious, but I get it - allow me to back-peddle. Sorry, I
didn't mean to condescend. I'm just tired of
On 24 Feb 2010 14:53:28 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
In 4b80038c.1050...@gmail.com, on 02/20/2010
at 10:45 AM, Gabriel Tully gjtu...@gmail.com said:
The days of the typical MVS administrator wearing a
lab coat are over.
No. They would have had tohaveto existed at some time in
On 25 Feb 2010 05:11:20 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
I suspect he may have meant ORVYL, the interactive exuction companion to
WYLBUR. We never ran it, so I don't know much about it.
Did anyone use it other than Stanford?
WYLBUR was used at University of Cincinnati in the mid 80's
On 25 Feb 2010 11:12:51 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
OK, could we please drop all political discussions? Pretty please? With sugar
on it?
Or, if we're going to be nasty, then let's go after the Windows Weenies.
How much of the problems with Windows in a commercial environment
On 26 Feb 2010 17:59:33 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
IBM was about to sunset VSE a few years ago until it found out that in
mainland China, VSE was the operating system of choice.
Given their population, I don't think it will be disappearing anytime soon.
And to think it all was
On 1 Mar 2010 06:03:06 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Let's keep the politics out of the Listserv discussions, because it'll get
very ugly!
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On 1 Mar 2010 13:07:29 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
On 3/1/2010 2:24 PM, Bill Fairchild wrote:
The flip side of this coin is that we who build the technical
guts of products all too easily can become arrogant. If
there weren't dumb end users, we developers would have much
On 1 Mar 2010 17:23:07 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
I guess I should note that I am speaking only as an application developer. So
I come at it from a different perspective than most of those on this list.
But a few things I miss from VSE:
- Superior JCL symbolics.
- System level
On 1 Mar 2010 07:28:07 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Fast food restaurant chains have a lot of experience with successfully dumbing
down the keyboard of their cash registers. You might try contacting the chief
architect of cash register design for McDonald's:
On 31 Mar 2010 09:04:19 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Thanks, Rick. I was beginning to think that my post didn't hit the list,
and I had figured it to raise more than a few hairs on the backs of heads.
;-)
Anyway... Yes! I think (don't know at all, for sure, so this is just my
On 30 Mar 2010 19:02:40 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Ken Brick wrote:
On 31/03/2010 06:01 AM, Jon Brock wrote:
Steve,
How are you attached to the Net? I think (not sure, though) that
some routers have built-in network monitoring capabilities, at least
basic stats like
On 6 Apr 2010 08:39:36 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 13:28:11 +0200, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote:
Of course in every case we should know the meaning of the profiles and I
believe that the GIM.** profiles will be documented. It does not
contradict
On 9 Apr 2010 09:38:43 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 09:01:19 -0700, John Norgauer
john.norga...@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu wrote:
Does the ICHRDSNT module have to be in a LNKLST'ed dataset? Or can it be
in PLPA?
As we document, it must be in a linklist library. There
On 12 Apr 2010 05:57:51 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Our Windows and Network Brethren are still in the Chaos stage. But have
to admit, Windows is finally getting some order (so they say); like
being upward compatible.
LOL
IMO, Windows has never heard of upward compatability. I
On 13 Apr 2010 15:36:51 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
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On 14 Apr 2010 12:13:53 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:01:52 -0300 Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca
wrote:
:Also given the problem found with SMP/E, I would hope that IBM and
:other vendors are checking to see if there are similar exposures in
:other
On 15 Apr 2010 12:10:48 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Don Williams writes:
| Chicken Little does not know which came first, the
| chicken or the egg.
From the egg's perspective, which is clearly the right one here, a chicken is
only an egg's device for reproducing itself,
On 16 Apr 2010 08:52:13 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 11:43 -0400, Walt Farrell wrote:
Why would you want to do math on a pointer?
One example: in a COBOL program I wrote awhile ago, I process SMF
type-30 records. Those records contain segments whose offsets
On 21 Apr 2010 06:57:50 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
In a message dated 4/21/2010 8:25:18 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
m...@cartagena.com writes:
Yesterday Canada's well-respected auditor-general released a report
complaining that aging government computer systems could halt
On 21 Apr 2010 08:22:23 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Who cares whether the universities are requiring COBOL or not? There are
plenty of places and ways to learn it, and any Programmer worth employing
should be able to pick it up relatively easy. They may not be as good as a
On 22 Apr 2010 03:48:05 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:35:00 -0500, Kelman, Tom
thomas.kel...@commercebank.com wrote:
John,
That WikiPedia article also states that DMSII was created by Burroughs
(later UniSys) as a database to run on its processors. Does that
On 21 Apr 2010 07:35:48 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
John,
That WikiPedia article also states that DMSII was created by Burroughs
(later UniSys) as a database to run on its processors. Does that mean
they are still running UniSys machines. If so they have problems over
and above
On 22 Apr 2010 14:59:57 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
From: Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Sent: Thu, April 22, 2010 10:05:02 AM
Subject: Re: COBOL - no longer being taught - is a problem
Considering how many different
On 27 Apr 2010 12:37:45 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
Radoslaw Skorupka wrote:
What about South Africa - how many new customers do you know? How
many closed (migrated) mainframe shops do you know? What's the balance?
Anywhere between 20 to 200
On 27 Apr 2010 19:32:43 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Clark Morris
cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.cawrote:
.Many of the applications currently running on z are
in need of serious overhaul or replacement...
Based on what? Do they work? If so, why do
On 28 Apr 2010 12:18:47 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
About mainframe business applications, Zman writes:
| OK, but if they work, they're good enough. Sure, you
| and I would be itching to 'fix' them, but that's an urge we | should resist.
I disagree.
My own experience of
On 28 Apr 2010 10:40:17 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.cawrote:
Granted this is based on the applications that I worked on personally
over the past 20 years but most of them were difficult to change, had
On 28 Apr 2010 17:55:35 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Some people are.
Other than on Hercules and similar as a hobby, where, on what and why?
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On 28 Apr 2010 14:01:43 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
-snip--
What do the Linux machines provide? Web serving? Free donuts? Inquiring
minds want to know!!
Ask the various organizations that are making serious use of them. My
On 29 Apr 2010 07:14:25 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
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Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 9:50 AM
Subject: ETR is down
FYI,
Getting internal error occurred trying to submit an
On 3 May 2010 11:42:47 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
On Mon, 3 May 2010 08:58:16 -0700, Ed Gould wrote:
This might be of interest to those wanting to do floating point arithmetic.
Please *NOTE* I do NOT know if this pertains to IBM or not.
http://floating-point-gui.de/
Common
On 6 May 2010 16:53:34 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
On 6 May 2010 17:35, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote:
On Thu, 6 May 2010 17:14:07 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote:
JCL doesn't restrict the characters allowed in a DSNAME, as long as
the DSNAME is quoted. But if it's quoted,
On 6 May 2010 14:14:33 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
First, some terminological clarification:
o BFP is IEEE-standard binary floating point;
o DFP is IEEE-standard decimal floating point; and
o HFP is IBM-standard hexadecimal floating point.
To repeat myself now, both
On 7 May 2010 15:32:13 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Quite a coincidence
Planned IBMLink Outage - May 7
5 May 2010
This is to inform you that IBMLink will have a planned outage starting on
Friday, May 7th at 9:00 PM Eastern Time through Saturday, May 8th at 9:00 AM
Eastern
On 16 May 2010 16:12:03 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
In
45d79eacefba9b428e3d400e924d36b9036ed...@iwdubcormsg007.sci.local,
on 05/10/2010
at 01:13 PM, Thompson, Steve steve_thomp...@stercomm.com said:
I will not say these are mainframe, but I know they are being used:
Subject to
On 19 May 2010 06:17:35 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
I remember much levity in my time at Amdahl and IBM's inability to build a
machine that scaled
past 10 (?) engines.
We managed to skip past that o.k. - didn't have anything to do with
limitations in the OS - all the
relevant
On 20 May 2010 09:55:47 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
snip--
Countless other professionals did corresponding good work and as a
direct consequence Y2K was not a disaster at all. One suspects that
sections of the media were
On 21 May 2010 14:48:58 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
I do have SETSYS INCREMENTALBACKUP(ORIGINAL) specified. I want HSM to be
the product turning off the change bit.
It seems that it is not doing this during the AUTOBACKUP cycle. I no
longer run an AUTODUMP cycle.
HSM really
On 25 May 2010 07:27:41 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
One of these days, for your sins, you will have to work in a (x86)
little-endian world.
Byte (pair) reversal will be visited upon you.
Not just x86 -- Solaris, Apple, DEC, HP, Honeywell, etc. have models that are
little-endian.
standard,
I am disheartened by the trends I see away from COBOL and have to
doubt that my belief that things I would use to bring value to my
employer or client (I'm now semi-retired) would be used in most shops.
Clark Morris
The reason for BFP in COBOL is to interoperate easily with Java and
other
the system? For security purposes are we better off with
some kind of regulated hobbyist access to z/OS running under z/VM at
data centers?
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with on a dedicated system with no
oversight. Of course criminal enterprises looking to make decent
money on finding holes for profit may already have a z machine
purchased or leased with the software through legitimate or less than
legitimate channels.
Clark Morris
This brings to mind a thread
knock Microsoft Windows. Somehow the reliability and design of
PDSE seems to be lacking. For starters it isn't even a superset of
PDS when it comes to function because it can't be used for
SYS1.NUCLEUS, SYS1.LINKLIB or SYS1.LPALIB.
Clark Morris
On 7 Jun 2010 16:31:17 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
-snip
Well I hate to look like a solicitor, but, if there is anyone out there,
particularly in the Houston area, with a multiprise (actually, any mainframe
for that matter, I
of having your own system to explore
vulnerabilities is that you don't get anyone's security people aroused
when you probe.
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and tool use will be
efficient enough.
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in the late 1980s). For most SMF mashing in batch that is
a trivial concern.
Clark Morris
Vision (I knew it as DYL280) from CA also has been used as has Easytrieve.
DYL is not a bad choice.
Clark Morris
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On 25 Jun 2010 15:59:23 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
snip---
My take is that most of the execution time of any given unit of work
such as a job step or CICS transaction is spent executing system code
not be acceptable in a given environment.
Clark Morris
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keep access to assembler expertise is playing with fire. Assembler
can be largely self taught by looking at generated code from the HLL
of choice although a course on Macros was helpful.
Clark Morris
The LM management Services callable from REXX are of course vendor
supplied utilities probably
want to touch that code let alone things that get
into locks so knowing your limitations is important.
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On 29 Jun 2010 13:20:53 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
I love it and I am thinking of stealing it for use elsewhere
A person of great taste!
And, a sense of humour.
I yam what I yam.
And, that's all that I yam!
I should resist but you're just a sweet potato.
-
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On 1 Jul 2010 08:27:02 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
af dc pisze:
Hello,
today we had problems on one catalog that tried to expand over 4GB that it
was not EA. From your experience is there a way to prevent these
out-of-space conditions ??
Env is z/Os V1.10
Yes, SPLIT THE
on the JCL, OLD is assumed. And then if there isn't a shell
interface to flock() (I don't know if there is one or not), that is a
major difference between UNIX and z/OS.
Actually, the default is (NEW,DELETE,DELETE) when no DISP is coded.
This can lead to interesting results.
Clark Morris
lengthy job
step (a minute or more versus a fraction of a second) and minimize the
time the ENQ was in force. Also this update step could be moved to
the end of the job so all other enqueues were released.
Clark Morris
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-- gil
. Remember the vulnerability can be in the
browser, the web-server, or the email package.
Clark Morris
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In another post, I noted my reasons for choosing compression/compaction
over segmentation techniques.
Rick
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to bring them all and in the cloud bind them
Apologies to JRRT
Will there be a way to get the information at a later date since I
will probably be out of town on that day?
Clark Morris
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DATE: Thursday, July 22, 2010
TIME: 12:00 - 2:00 PM EDT
LOCATION: Meet us virtually at http
correctly without having to do multiple
invocations of IPCS or other tools.
Clark Morris
Good Luck
Best Wishes / Mit freundlichem Gruß
John Grimmette
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Phone
(Cross System Product I
think) and CSP version 4 generated horrific COBOL code this is an open
question. Depending on the business and what the code is doing, there
are a number of possibilities. Of course personally unless EGL is A
LOT BETTER than CSP, I would want to ditch EGL.
Clark Morris
On 16 Jul 2010 19:21:48 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 17:17 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
using Java would allow elimination of the licenses for COBOL and runtimes
COBOL runtime generally speaking is called Language Environment, right? It's
pretty much a
CANCEL should
not be a part of normal shutdown practice.
Clark Morris
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On 21 Jul 2010 11:38:27 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
On 7/21/2010 1:25 PM, Edward Jaffe wrote:
Binyamin Dissen wrote:
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:59:19 -0300 Clark Morris
cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca
wrote:
:While I am semi-retired (offer me a good contract and ...), I am
:appalled
On 21 Jul 2010 14:48:39 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Clark Morris wrote:
... If I understand other postings and from what
I recall from 20 years ago when I was an active systems programmer,
FORCE ARM was a last resort...
FORCE is a last resort. FORCE ARM is how you cancel a non
(a feature my phone company decided I needed).
Clark Morris
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OSMVT / MVS / OS390 /
zOS differs substantially from either Windows or Unix/Linux of choice
such a book could be useful in general.
Clark Morris
Regards,
Michel Castelein
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!! WAY TO GO IBM!!!
Could Unix directories handle all of the functions of PDSE? When I
read that we would still need PDSs, I wondered what pointy haired
idiot designed the PDSE where one needed a started address space even
to read it.
Clark Morris
Sheesh,
Tom Conley
and out of date to someone coming from a
UNIX or Windows environment.
Clark Morris
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protected.
Ops was not given the password.
So in 40 yrs, the same design flaw has bit how many people/shops?
But none of those should perceive a problem, since the behavior
is documented.
Just because a stupid design is documented doesn't make it any less
stupid.
Clark Morris
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something else.
I know that VSE has/had libraries and I wouldn't be surprised if the
OS400 and follow-on operating systems had similar constructs. I don't
know anything about the BUNCH operating systems and their successors.
I don't see anything comparable in either Unix/Linux or Windows.
Clark Morris
participation I question the
absolute need for a degree. The industry needs people who enjoy making
certain the system is reliable and customizing it to meet the needs of
the organization.
Clark Morris
and useless information.
Clark Morris
Tom Kelman
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Subject: Re: SMF records for data set open/close
of
their mainframes. Many organizations have consolidated data centers
and reduced the number of mainframes owned by the organization. Most
of the shops in the Maritime provinces of Canada that ran mainframes
are no longer doing so. From what I see on this forum, the market is
shrinking.
Clark Morris
Groete
to be
proprietary and non-published.
From a security point of view I would hope that it would be impossible
for one LPAR to know about another LPAR except through the sysplex
mechanism and security package protected shared dasd. I would be wary
of even read access.
Clark Morris
Certainly not a good idea
On 27 Aug 2010 13:43:29 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
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I still have horrible memories of a CEO that ordered me to develop and
install, via ZAP, the multiple-level alias feature two years before IBM
provided
things without success.
If we can be prompted on a delete, why can't we have an installation
or user setting that prompts us every time ISPF insists on turning on
or off something line NUM, CAPS or RECOVERY?
Clark Morris
-CAUTION- Profile changed to NUMBER ON STD (from NUMBER OFF
Bank of Canada being fouled up for about 3
days with everybody's bank accounts being only sometimes accessible. I
was afflicted by this one. There also are some fiascos that real-time
backup won't guard against.
Clark Morris
Tom Kelman
Capacity Planning
Commerce Bank, Kansas City
-Original
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Getting things straightened out can be interesting. Been there, got
the clients respect for being someone who had good ideas on how to fix
things.
Clark Morris
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than amateur hour.
Probably executed by the legal and purchasing departments with little
input from the auditors and technical staff. Also many companies
don't understand backup and recovery.
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that can take much time to fix.
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by the failure of the mirroring device. If
this is the case, what are the probabilities of the same thing on IBM
devices regardless of the operating system?
Clark Morris
Regards,
Stan Weyman
Senior Software Engineer
stan.wey...@emc.com
where information lives
It is wise to keep in mind
for that matter).
And a backup program will blithely copy bad data to the backup
mechanism.
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is a follower of
transportation issues (and a member of Transport Action Atlantic), I
doubt a reporter would be able to determine easily which side of an
argument is flat out wrong, even with some hours of research.
Clark Morris
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