Re: Performance and Capacity Planning

2005-06-04 Thread Ted MacNEIL
... capacity (in MSU) makes that possible ... It may make it possible, but I hope you don't have anything bigger than a 16-way, or else you will be overcharged. Of course, any arbitrary number can make anything possible. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for CICS (not CICSPLEX) Installation

2005-06-04 Thread Carol Srna
Good Morning Gentle Listers. As a part of the above install,I am also installing DB2/UDB on a server. I am following the instructions in the Installing OMEGAMON products on Windows (I think that is the name. I do not have the manual with me at this time). I use the DB2admin uid and password

Re: IEW2606S Doing C Programming

2005-06-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Robert Pelletier said: Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 16:01:56 -0400 Thanks for the quick response John. We don't use PDSE's either. Should be fun. Have a good weekend all. You should, then, consider the alternative big jump: HFS instead of PDSE. -Original

Re: IEW2606S Doing C Programming

2005-06-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Schiradin,Roland HG-Dir itb-db/dc said: Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 23:48:03 +0200 Unfortunally the process for the internal compress is a bit hidden to me. I had thought there is no compress. Space vacated by deleted members is simply recycled for new members; existing

Re: IEW2606S Doing C Programming

2005-06-04 Thread john gilmore
Paul Gilmartin writes You should, then, consider the alternative big jump: HFS instead of PDSE. This is good advice iff the C or C++ programs (functions) involved are to be executed under USS. It is very bad advice if they arre instead to be executed undrer MVS (which I suspect to be

Re: Reading a PDS (why couldn't you have just said Read Count?)

2005-06-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Greg Price said: Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 15:22:48 +1000 I agree about the WRITE. With READ if the BDW indicates a length larger than DCBBLKSI the a WRONG LENGTH RECORD error condition is raised. If the BDW length does not exceed DCBBLKSI then the residual count is

Re: IEW2606S Doing C Programming

2005-06-04 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
Paul Gilmartin wrote: ... PDSE implies SMS implies ... IIRC, non-SMS-managed PDSE became generally available March 31, 2000 with OS/390 V2R9. -- - | Edward E. Jaffe|| | Mgr,

3290 datastream question

2005-06-04 Thread Tim Alpaerts
Hello All, Bob, Steve many thanks for your tip, I've downloaded the datastream prog ref brochure and I also obtained the BlueZone emulator on trial (but not installed yet). The idea of tracing an emulator instead of the real hard device did not appeal to me at first, but it will definitly

Re: IEW2606S Doing C Programming

2005-06-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, john gilmore said: Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 14:44:04 + You should, then, consider the alternative big jump: HFS instead of PDSE. This is good advice iff the C or C++ programs (functions) involved are to be executed under USS. It is very bad advice if they

Re: IEW2606S Doing C Programming

2005-06-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Big Iron said: Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 16:02:37 -0500 There are also some binder options: COMPAT, CASE=MIXED, LONGNAME or DLL which can force the use of program objects. I couldn't resist trying this: //DOIT EXEC HLASMCL,PARM.C=(OBJECT,NOXOBJECT,TERM),

Re: IBM Plugs Big Iron to the College Crowd

2005-06-04 Thread John R. Grout
Ed Finnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Next thing you know they'll be giving discounts to .edu's? Until a consent decree made them keep their distance, IBM did lots of university work, including discounts, donations and collaborative research. I have been told that most of the folks at the

Re: IBM Plugs Big Iron to the College Crowd

2005-06-04 Thread Ted MacNEIL
... Because student batch jobs used Waterloo's student interpreters ... WIDJET--Waterloo Interactive Debug Job Entry Terminal. It used a Series/1 to submit jobs (mostly COBOL -- but some FORTRAN) to a VM box running an OS1 Job Service. I used it for 2 of my 4 years at UOW. In 2nd year, we had

Re: IBM Plugs Big Iron to the College Crowd

2005-06-04 Thread Bob Shannon
I have been told that most of the folks at the Cambridge Scientific Center who were asked, post-decree, to transfer to Yorktown Heights ended up at Route 128 minicomputer companies. Some years ago Melinda Varian published a paper on the History of VM. It chronicles the activities at the

Re: IBM Plugs Big Iron to the College Crowd

2005-06-04 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 6/4/2005 11:41:40 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Until a consent decree made them keep their distance, IBM did lots of university work, including discounts, donations and collaborative research. I have been told that most of the folks at the

Re: IBM Plugs Big Iron to the College Crowd

2005-06-04 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 6/4/2005 1:33:41 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some years ago Melinda Varian published a paper on the History of VM. It chronicles the activities at the Cambridge Scientific Center. Fascinating story.

Re: IBM Plugs Big Iron to the College Crowd

2005-06-04 Thread Ed Gould
on 6/4/05 2:18 PM, Tom Harper at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shameless plug for my daughter's session at Boston: Session Title: The Relationship Between College, Mainframes and Assembler Language. Oh Wait, There Isn't One! Session Abstract: As a recent computer science graduate from the

Re: IBM Plugs Big Iron to the College Crowd

2005-06-04 Thread Tom Harper
Ed, There will be handouts... Tom Harper -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 2:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM Plugs Big Iron to the College Crowd on 6/4/05 2:18 PM, Tom

Re: IEW2606S Doing C Programming

2005-06-04 Thread Craddock, Chris
Edward E. Jaffe wrote: Paul Gilmartin wrote: ... PDSE implies SMS implies ... IIRC, non-SMS-managed PDSE became generally available March 31, 2000 with OS/390 V2R9. True enough and at the same time non-SMS PDSE support was retrofitted all the way back to OS/390 V2R5. But hardly

Re: IEW2606S Doing C Programming

2005-06-04 Thread Schiradin,Roland HG-Dir itb-db/dc
Well the term internal compress is wrong. There is no compress for PDSE libraries and SMS will automaticly release/reuse the space when no connection exists. So what is a connection/connector in terms of a load library in the DFHRPL concat? What about space reuse (connector) for a PDSE in the

Re: IBM Plugs Big Iron to the College Crowd

2005-06-04 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 6/4/2005 2:18:50 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: about this lack of interest, and share some ideas I have to possibly increase awareness and make the mainframe and assembler language dinosaurs more appealing to today's generation of programmers.

Re: IBM Plugs Big Iron to the College Crowd

2005-06-04 Thread Tom Harper
Ed, I did not write the quotation below; it was written by Kristine Harper; I just posted it to the listserv. However, I don't understand your comment about the butcher dance??? Tom -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ed Finnell

Re: IBM Plugs Big Iron to the College Crowd

2005-06-04 Thread Horne, Jim - James S
Tom, Ed was butchering lyrics from a song called, I believe, Do The Hokey-Pokey. You put your left foot in (You Butcher, according to Ed), you put your left foot out, you put your left foot in and you shake it all about Personally, I thought he was pretty funny but then, I did know the song

Re: IBM Plugs Big Iron to the College Crowd

2005-06-04 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 6/4/2005 8:42:36 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, I don't understand your comment about the butcher dance??? Sorry, it was an ol' CS joke (rather long take off on the Hokey Pokey). Actually we've tried to invest in technology for

Can VTAMPRINT (Colmbus Z) replace Control-D?

2005-06-04 Thread גדי בן אבי
Hi, We've been approached by the local Macro4 rep. They say that VTAMPRINT (Columbus Z) can replace BMC's Control-D. Has anyone had experience replacing Control-D with VTAMPRINT? TIA Gadi -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /