Ed Gould wrote:
On Jul 14, 2005, at 9:00 PM, Edward E. Jaffe wrote:
Ed Gould wrote:
On Jul 14, 2005, at 3:38 PM, Timothy Sipples wrote:
Timely and topical
http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/050714/090880.html?printer=1
---SNIP-
Too little too late.
Launched in 2003,
Carl Edwards wrote:
I have a Program (Batch COBOL(latest Version) that
runs forever. Here are the stats
RC EXCP CONNTCBSRB CLOCK SERV
00 1277K 2896K 47.51 1.18 1089.3 88511K
WORKLOAD PAGE SWAP VIO SWAPS
SYSTEM 460 0 0 0
Not a huge number of EXCP's
Timothy Sipples wrote:
[...]
The Academic Initiative zSeries Program reaches students globally:
-- In Europe, IBM recently signed Adam Mickiewicz University to join the
initiative. Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, is the 150th
participant of the program with over 20
There are possibilities for universities included in program to
connect to mainframes remotely. I saw some materials and for some
non-profit fee they can have second level zVM and both z/OS and Linux
as guests.
On 7/15/05, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Timothy Sipples wrote:
[...]
The
All,
I need to port a bigger project from Windows and UNIX to z/OS. It is
written in C and consists of several DLLs (aka shared libraries).
Now, it is possible to write DLLs under z/OS but I'm missing a special
feaure of Windows and UNIX:
Under Windows, if a DLL is loaded the OS checks if
Any hints/tips/warnings, please, on concepts surrounding the idea of
having a 'special' WLM policy that would get activated on specific day(s)
(of the month)?
I have a situation where one particular batch job becomes extra-important
on the '5th working day of the month', and at those times it
Lots of places have different policies for day/night.
Nothing mystical that I'm aware of. Never seen the need myself, but each to
their own.
I find it strange that you would be able to successfully automate a policy
change, but not a service class change.
Odd, downright odd.
Shane ...
From:
Why not do it with a commmand RESET JOBNAME,SRVCLASS=
i think this is the syntax . Then you can define an extra service class
where
your job can be set in on special days - no need for an extra Policy .
Frank Krueger
Freitag, 15. Juli 2005 10:30
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
cc:
From: John Compton
Hi Listers,
We have activated DCM for our DASD. We seems to be seeing lots of
IOS071I 1234,**,*MASTER*, START PENDING 158
*IOS450E 1234,B4, PERMANENT I/O, PATH TAKEN OFFLINE
for the managed dasd. I have logged an etr with IBM, but I would like to
discuss this on the list
as well. Is this
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 09:40:15 +0200 Marian Gasparovic said:
There are possibilities for universities included in program to
connect to mainframes remotely. I saw some materials and for some
non-profit fee they can have second level zVM and both z/OS and Linux
as guests.
On 7/15/05, R.S. [EMAIL
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Martin Kline
How about coding EXEC PGM=NULL (or whatever name you want)
instead of IEFBR14?
One could even go as far as making it a parmlib option as to
what program name is the null program. Maybe even add a
Please forgive me if I am sending this in the wrong format; I was
given the listserv information by a colleague and could not find
proper directions to ask for help in locating a consultant.
We have an immediate need in Tampa, FL for a short term contract
programmer with strong COBOL, JCL
http://theinquirer.net/?article=24625
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Only ever met one IBM storage Guru in Canada - does your guy have a name?
I can see the guy's face but cannot for the life of me remember his name --
lived up K/W direction I believe.
...
Mike Coombs.
From Toronto.
He wrote “The Storage Management Institute” course.
-teD
In God we Trust!
...
Someone here has raised the idea of having two policies, which would be
switched in and out automatically at the required time (persoanlly I think
that's opening a very large can of worms).
...
Not if the second policy is an override policy.
Both are stored at the same time.
You could have a
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Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 4:47 PM
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Subject: Re: Ordering WebSphere Developer for zSeries
snip
1. That's fantasy^H^H^H^H^H^H^H list
On Jul 14, 2005, at 10:33 PM, Gerhard Postpischil wrote:
Bill Fairchild wrote:
Best reason of all. Time saved is in the order of nanoseconds;
time spent on discussing, thinking about, different keystrokes,
etc., far outweighs the benefit UNLESS the code is executed
thousands of times
In a recent note, Chase, John said:
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 06:43:12 -0500
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Martin Kline
How about coding EXEC PGM=NULL (or whatever name you want)
instead of IEFBR14?
One could even go as far as
You could automate the reset Jobname command via an automation product such
as Netview SA.
Joel Wolpert
Director - Performance and Capacity Planning
Shared Data Center
Securities Industry Automation Corporation
2 Metrotech Center
New York, NY 11201
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Thanks for all the suggestions.
I uncatalogued everything and ran a merge cat and defined the alias. I
guess I was still numb from lack of sleep yesterday when I ran the merge
cat without uncataloging my files.
Cheers
Gene
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In a message dated 7/14/2005 11:33:29 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on
07/13/2005
at 06:52 PM, Arthur T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Most macros start with an optional label. Rather than tying
the label to the first generated machine
In a message dated 7/15/2005 4:09:00 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Do it as M$ specialists:
CANCEL the job and try to run again.
In case of trouble repeat the above.
After tenth time find CD z/OS Installation Disk.
You forgot to mention to reboot (aka reIPL)
In a message dated 7/15/2005 9:10:19 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can SAS V8.2.1 V9.1.3 run together ?
Yes and often do?
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Bill Fairchild wrote:
In a message dated 7/15/2005 4:09:00 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Do it as M$ specialists:
CANCEL the job and try to run again.
In case of trouble repeat the above.
After tenth time find CD z/OS Installation Disk.
You forgot to mention
In a message dated 7/15/2005 9:40:46 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So the LPA modules SVC are downward compatible ?
Probably the same module, but don't run in LPA so can't say
for sure. They did name the DB/2 plans differently so can run
v8 and v9 against same
Chris,
after having engulfed myself in this for a while now, I disagree with
your points:
IWMRCOL and IWMRQRY give you data at the SYSTEM level. All WLM goals are
calculated at the SYSPLEX level. IBM explicitly indicates that if you want this
data to mean anything you have to aggregate it
All,
I'm trying to find out if DFSORT can be called dynamically in a
multithreaded environment under UNIX System Services. There is no C/C++
API support for DFSORT (or syncsort) so I'll have to call it via
assembler. Is this possible?
Thanks!
-
Scott Wm. Jackson
Principle
thanks Ed
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Ed Finnell
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 10:48 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: SAS V9.1.3
In a message dated 7/15/2005 9:40:46 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL
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Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 10:12 AM
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Subject: DFSORT in a multithreaded environment under USS
All,
I'm trying to find out if DFSORT can be
Agreed. The problem is that the support for MVS DSN's is not universal in
all the tools. This is flat wrong, IMHO, if they ever hope to get
programmers who have to deal with MVS DSN's all day every day to use these
services.
Moving MVS DSN's to (x)FS via cp command or whatever is NOT the
John McKown wrote:
be careful to insure that each concurrent
instance uses its own set of SORTWKnn DD statements. E.g. one instance
uses SORTAAnn, another uses SORTBBnn, and so on.
Actually, that would be WKnn, WKnn, etc using the SORTDD=
option
to set , , etc.
Frank Yaeger
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Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 10:33 AM
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Subject: Re: Open MVS question
Agreed. The problem is that the support for MVS DSN's is not
Hi,
How can I use method 3 in JCL (unfortunately I can't drop the control
character. Believe me, I tried!!)?
TIA
Antonio
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1. Maybe you can drop control character.
2. You can use VSAM SPANNED records
3. You can define PS with LRECL 32760
No I'd rather post here first. This list provides an enormous amount of
valuable information that sometimes you don't get by calling a vendor because
your talking to level 1 support. There are also product developers on the list.
Sorry.
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From: IBM Mainframe
Precisely.
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From: McKown, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 11:51 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Open MVS question
Snipped
Of course, one could wonder why open() was not written
to support MVS datasets like fopen() was.
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...
Policy override isn't a good idea here since it will change the
entire SRVCLASS, not just a single job.
...
If you're willing to 'waste' an entire service class for one job (or set of
jobs), it's the simplest approach.
-teD
In God we Trust!
All others bring data!
-- W. Edwards Deming
In a recent note, Farley, Peter x23353 said:
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:32:57 -0400
Agreed. The problem is that the support for MVS DSN's is not universal in
all the tools. This is flat wrong, IMHO, if they ever hope to get
programmers who have to deal with MVS DSN's all day every
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward E. Jaffe
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 11:03 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: IBM officially kill OS/2
snip
it's IBM paying IBM. Just shuffling money around.
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The SVC is required for SAS Connect.
To avoid having the modules loaded into each address space which are large we
put them in LPA. I could probably get away with not having them in there
because we don't have a huge SAS population. It was carried over from previous
releases.
-Original
Hello,
I just ran an SMPE job which installed 2 FMID's. I noticed that several
datasets were placed on a work pack which isn't nice.
Can I move these datasets without causing major issues with SMPE?
Thanks
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ANTONIO FONSECA (ESI-Sistemas) wrote:
Hi,
How can I use method 3 in JCL (unfortunately I can't drop the control
character. Believe me, I tried!!)?
As I said, the simplest is method 1.
I don't know how to do it, but I know it is possible. Example: IFSMFDP
program which dumps SMF records is
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 09:34:47 -0700, Howard Rifkind [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hello,
I just ran an SMPE job which installed 2 FMID's. I noticed that several
datasets were placed on a work pack which isn't nice.
Can I move these datasets without causing major issues with SMPE?
Thanks
I assume
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of R.S.
[ snip ]
Not so simple. IBM delivers PCs with OS/2. These are
regular' PC's, so year after year (month?) they have larger
disk, new interfaces (USB, AGP, PCI-X to nam a few), new
graphic cards etc. All
Ed, how would I prevent this from happening again?
Ed Finnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 7/15/2005 11:41:56 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can I move these datasets without causing major issues with SMPE?
Probably. If they're the work of RECEIVE. I'd
In a message dated 7/15/2005 12:12:10 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ed, how would I prevent this from happening again?
It's a customization/initialization part of SMP/E. Have to
poke around and find HLQ and SMPTLIB defaults. Usually in the
program directory they
In a message dated 7/15/2005 12:12:10 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
to Oracle and Crystal Report writer. I liked Brio as much as
anything I've seen but they wanted too much per seat.
Kinda weird answering own messages. But for a view of a long
working D/W for
R.S. wrote:
Edward E. Jaffe wrote:
Jon Brock wrote:
Not being an OS/2 aficianado, I don't have much of a reaction to the
news, but I am curious as to what IBM will run on our zBox HMC. I
would imagine some flavor of Linux. Anybody know?
IBM is dropping standard support for Warp 4
...
To avoid having the modules loaded into each address space which are large we
put them in LPA
...
I know the reasons, I have just been recommending against it for over 15 years.
Still call SASLPA; just don't put it into the (E)LPA, nor the link list.
-teD
In God we Trust!
All others bring
I'm not sure what your point is here. And, why are you shouting? There
is absolutely no need for panic.
Who in their right mind would have purchased an OS/2-based PC in the
last five years? The imbedded OS/2 systems are one story, and Ed is
correct that there will be maintenance contracts
I seem to recall an earlier post stating that it is (currently) cheaper
in some cases to support the current stuff than to migrate it. That
being said, the answer to your question about people in their right mind
buying OS/2 based PCs would be those companies (I know of a couple at
least) that
Timothy Sipples wrote:
== A very wise man named David Andrews writes:
Sorry, that was me. -Steve Comstock
Not sure how wise I am, but that was
my opinion, not David's.
In this business, especially, you can never stop learning
and never stop pushing out of your comfort level. But you
know
Bob Shannon wrote:
[snip]
Bib Shannon
You need to start using a signature file, Dude! :-)
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Something to work on over the weekend!
Chinese IQ Test
Apparently this is an IQ test given to job applicants in China :
Everybody has to cross the river.
Go to this website: http://freeweb.siol.net/danej/riverIQGame.swf
http://freeweb.siol.net/danej/riverIQGame.swf
To start,
Does anyone know whether HSDM is a standard, enabled feature on
Storagetek SVAs or it has to be bought as an add-on? When I check our
Installed Features in SVAA, I can see Maintenance and Snapshot, but no HSDM.
Thanks,
Jon
McKown, John wrote:
I don't really know what expensive means either. The IBM C compiler
($1,200/month?) got cancelled due to it being too expensive.
John,
We can offer you a much cheaper alternative! Also - it runs on your
workstation, integrates into Microsoft's Developer Studio or
Does anyone know whether HSDM is a standard, enabled feature on Storagetek SVAs
or it has to be bought as an add-on? When I check our Installed Features in
SVAA, I can see Maintenance and Snapshot, but no HSDM.
HSDM is a chargable feature. It also requires FDRINSTANT, which is the
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas David Rivers
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 2:33 PM
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Subject: Re: Another - Another One Bites the Dust
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John,
We can offer you a much cheaper
Probably had fresh lobster for lunch!
Ed, you must be psychic. I'm working from home today and steamed a
lobster abut 30 minutes ago.
Bob Shannon
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Ok, that was cute...
It took a few minutes but they're all across.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of McKown, John
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 3:23 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: FW: Can You Master This Japanese IQ
This if for those that live in a culturally illiterate world, there is a
difference between Japanese and Chinese.
Something to work on over the weekend!
Chinese IQ Test
Apparently this is an IQ test given to job applicants in China :
Everybody has to cross the river.
Go to this
In a message dated 7/15/2005 2:57:07 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ed, you must be psychic. I'm working from home today and steamed a
lobster abut 30 minutes ago.
Probably closer to psycho...but anyway. Enjoy...I'm doing
Lean Cuisine(bleech).
Unless something has changed, TSO TEST did not used to allow setting a
break point on an EQU symbol:
NOBREAK EQU *
but did allow setting one on a DS symbol:
BREAK DS 0H
.
.
.
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Southern California Edison Company
SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager
626-302-7535 Office
323-715-0595
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
a city that has at least one representative from every country in the world.
It's been named the “Most Culturally Diverse City in the World” by the UN.
Can you name that city?
The United Nations
Bob Shannon wrote:
Since Ted brought it up, I'd guess Toronto.
According to UNESCO: Toronto, New York, London, Amsterdam, Los Angeles,
etc., etc.
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...
Since Ted brought it up, I'd guess Toronto.
...
I knew it would be to easy!
Toronto, Ontario, Canada is the correct answer.
I am just reporting what the UN said last year.
-teD
In God we Trust!
All others bring data!
-- W. Edwards Deming
...
The United Nations has at least one representative to the U.N. from almost
every country in the world, and the U.N. headquarters is in New York City.
Therefore I would guess Ulan Bator, Mongolia. I take that back. I guess New
York City, New York, USA.
...
Trick answer!
Not all of
Darn, beat me to it, I was going to pitch in with Toronto. I seem to remember
reading that somewhere..
I wish culturally diverse was synonymous with culturally tolerant. In fact,
I wish the word culture didn't exist, and that we didn't even see a skin
colour, a religion, a belief, but just
...
I wish culturally diverse was synonymous with culturally tolerant
...
I may be bragging on this one, but it is tolerant, here.
But, that could also be just because we Canadians are polite (in general).
I haven't heard (or said) a racial joke in over 20 years.
(At least from people where I
This actually INCREASES the cost to the company as an entity, but
DECREASES the IT budget. So it is good for IT to just shuffle the money.
or as this is also commonly called, penny wise and pound foolish
corporation saves 10 cents, wastes $10,000 dollars, but their report will
say, hey, look,
On Jul 15, 2005, at 12:05 PM, Howard Rifkind wrote:
Ed, how would I prevent this from happening again?
Ed Finnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 7/15/2005 11:41:56 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can I move these datasets without causing major issues with
On Jul 15, 2005, at 5:08 PM, Timothy Sipples wrote:
SNIP
I think it's unlikely that all of your programmers should learn Java.
However, a few probably should. Take a bureaucratic lesson from your
Windows friends who are probably nickel and diming your
You might also argue that IBM's need need to market OS/2 has been
preempted by at least one OEM that is doing it for them. Though there
may be others, the one I have in mind is Serenity Systems marketing the
eComStation brand, including significant improvements of their own.
While dubious on
Hi,
Jack Kilby, inventor of the integrated circuit in 1958 died recently.
Paul Hanrahan
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Jack Kilby, inventor of the integrated circuit in 1958 died recently.
True giant, literally and figuratively.
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Joe Zitzelberger wrote:
What was hyper-efficient last year might not be today. Many of the
'efficiency' tricks that programmers have used for decades are now
actually hinderances.
Depends on what we're talking about. LA r,0 vs. SLR r,r probably is
irrelevant these days. LA r,0(s) vs. LA
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