Re: Free Online Introductory zEnterprise Courses Available
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 14:18:56 +0800, Timothy Sipples sipp...@sg.ibm.com wrote: Since IBM has just added another free online introductory zEnterprise course to the catalog, and I'd like to draw your attention to these courses. Simply visit this Web site: http://www.ibm.com/services/weblectures/dlv/ibm/z101 and you (and/or your colleagues) can take any of four online courses at no charge. Here's the current lineup: The Value of Cloud Computing on System z (just added) The Value and Differentiation of System z The Value of Business Analytics on System z The Value of Linux on System z It's a bit of a stretch to describe these as courses. They're nothing more than thinly disguised IBM marketing materials. Here is a sample question from the so-called course The Value and Differention of System z: True or false? System z is the world’s best server for mixed, complex workloads and large-scale consolidation Guess what answer they want? Here is a clue: if you click False you get this: Good attempt, but the statement is true. System z is the world’s best server for mixed, complex workloads and large-scale consolidation. I have seldom seen anything more risible. Roger Bowler Hercules the people's mainframe -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
More mainframe software price rises
Today IBM announces price rises for Cobol, IMS, DB2, MQ, and WebSphere in EMEA, effective January 1, 2014: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/7/877/ENUSZA13-1127/index.html http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/8/877/ENUSZA13-1128/index.html - RB -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: zBC12 article on one of my PC sites!
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:56:57 -0500, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/ibm-unveils-new-mainframe-for-the-rest-of-us/ Not a lot in it, but some $ figures. quote The zBC12 includes a number of performance enhancements over IBM's previous midrange offering, the z114. It uses a faster, 4.2GHz 64-bit z/Architecture processor (an improvement over the z114's 3.8GHz CPUs), and has twice the maximum memory of the z114 at 498GB. And as far as mainframes go, the zBC12 is priced to move, starting at $75,000 - or for lease starting at $1,965 a month. That's roughly half the cost of buying the equivalent computing power in commodity x86 hardware. /quote Roughly half the cost of equivalent x86? Who do they think they're trying to kid? The $75,000 model is going to be the absolute rock-bottom low-end model -- when the z114 was announced they were very coy about exactly what were the specs of the entry level model, but it's probably going to be 1 IFL core, 8GB RAM, and no disk storage. Possibly not even a network adapter. You can get the equivalent x86-64 computing power for well under $5000, and that includes 8-core Xeon processor, 16GB memory, 4TB disk storage, dual hotswap power supply, and dual Gigabit ethernet http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=becte4model_id=poweredge-r420c=usl=ens=bsdcs=04 Oh, and the x64 fits in a standard rack and has less than half the power and cooling requirements of the zBC12 (ref: IBM zEnterprise BC12 Technical Guide) http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg248138.html Roger Bowler Hercules the people's mainframe -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: ISPF screen pre-occupied message
On Thu, 30 May 2013 03:22:46 -0700, Shameem .K .Shoukath shameemkshouk...@yahoo.com wrote: In all ISPF screen(s) there is one place been configured to have a ' PROD ' message (in row 20,col 40 to 45) stamped there. I feel somebody at some stage might have tweaked the LOGMODE or something for this. This becomes irritating when we look thru the log for certain problems Anybody has ideas how to remove this field and have the default. If Netview Access Services is doing this you can turn it off in the Maintain User Parameters menu. From the NVAS Application Selection menu, type ADM on the command line and press Enter, then 1 (Maintain User Parameters) and press Enter, then type the name of the application (TSO for example) in the first field and press Enter. Then change Application ID Display to N, type u on the command line, and press Enter. Regards Roger Bowler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: ISPF screen pre-occupied message
On Thu, 30 May 2013 13:06:16 +, Rob Scott rsc...@rocketsoftware.com wrote: I seem to recall there being some sort of public domain utility program, modification or TSO/ISPF exit that forced the z/OS system name on ISPF screens. This facility predated the ISPF provided SYSNAME command. Hey Rob, thanks! I didn't know about the ISPF SYSNAME command. Shameem: the string displayed by NVAS for each application and the row/col are defined in ADM option 2 (Maintain Group Parameters). Rgds Roger Bowler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Phil Payne
On bit.listserv.ibm-main 15 Dec 2012 Gordon de la Mare wrote: For those of you who were long term subscribers to this newsgroup you will have had memories of Phil. Lots of bust ups with IBM (especially their lawyers) as some of his postings attest. They can rest now. Phil decided he'd had enough of the planet and decided to save on any future expenditure on health costs by getting out early. He posted a write up of his life on his website: http://www.isham-research.co.uk/biog.html The end bits explains why he had had enough. I had pleasure (?) in working with Phil at Amdahl back in the 1980-90s. He'd have made a great agent provocateur in times of war. Regards Gordon (a once upon a time JES3 specialist - oh how nice to write those words again!) He was a very clever bloke. Highly knowledgeable and a master of the withering put-down. I never met him in real life but I consider it an honour to have been insulted by him on a number of occasions via the internet. Roger Bowler Hercules the people's mainframe See also http://www.quattroforum.com/index.php?threads/phil-payne.18061/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Phil Payne
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:42:45 -0700, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com wrote: Whoa! I got this Re: Phil Payne before I see the Phil Payne The original message appeared on google groups. For some reason messages posted on listserv.ua.edu are mirrored to google groups but not vice versa. - RB -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
More price rises for z/OS products
On Monday IBM announced further price rises for z/OS products: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/9/877/ENUSZA12-1059/index.html According to this announcement, prices for WebSphere for z/OS as well as sundry Websphere, Tivoli, and DB2 tools will rise by 5% in UK and South Africa, and 3% in the rest of EMEA from January 1, 2013. Meanwhile, my France Telecom mobile phone subscription went down earlier this year from 61 euros a month to 24.90 following the entry of a new competitor (free.fr) into the French mobile phone market: http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2012/01/12/pour-l-autorite-de-regulation-des-telecoms-l-arrivee-de-free-va-reduire-la-marge-des-autres-operateurs_1628621_3234.html Roger Bowler Hercules the people's mainframe -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Has anyone taken out hardware support for z196 from anyone other than IBM
On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 12:04:38 -0500, Peter Gammage peter_a_gamm...@standardlife.com wrote: We currently have IBM Mainframe Hardware maintenance through a 3rd party and are considering options for how we do hardware maintenance of the next upgrade (z196 or z12 are most likely). So far have been unable to source hardware support for these from anyone other than IBM. According to last year's ruling by the European Commission, IBM are obliged to make spare parts and technical information swiftly available, under commercially reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, to independent mainframe maintainers. http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/1539 It will be interesting to know how this will work out in practice. The EC press release goes on to say If IBM were to breach its commitments, the Commission could impose a fine of up to 10 per cent of IBM's total turnover without having to prove a violation of EU competition rules. That would be quite a hefty fine. Regards, Roger Bowler Hercules the people's mainframe -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 16:16:03 -0500, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com wrote: You can buy and power 300 servers cheaper than one IFL? IBM says that many servers would cost 10 times as much to power and cool. As Mandy Rice-Davies[1] famously said: they would, wouldn't they? Roger Bowler Hercules the people's mainframe [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandy_Rice-Davies -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
IMS and CICS prices to increase by 9% in 2013
Lost in among the excitement of the zEC12 announcement were a couple of other announcements: IBM announced that the price of IMS V9 and V10 will rise by between 7% and 11% from Jan 1, 2013: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/4/877/ENUSZA12-1054/ZA12-1054.OI.BODY.pdf Similarly, the price of CICS V3 and V4 is to rise by 9% from July 1, 2013: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=ANsubtype=CAhtmlfid=897/ENUS312-100appname=USN Strangely, this has not received so much press coverage as the hardware announcement. Roger Bowler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Rick Fochtman
It's thanks to Rick Fochtman that mainframe enthusiasts can today run MVS at home. In 1999, during the early days of Hercules development, Rick sent me a set of XMIT files containing some unloaded OS/360 libraries (NUCLEUS, LINKLIB, SVCLIB, etc) dating from the early 70s. This provided the motivation to get Hercules working and prove that it was possible to run classic IBM operating systems on a cheap PC. Subsequently it inspired others to do the same with MVS 3.8, which at the time could still be ordered on tape from IBM. So I salute Rick as a pioneer of software archeology. Regards, Roger Bowler Hercules the people's mainframe -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
