Tax chooses dead language - Austalia

2006-02-28 Thread Bruce Hewson
Hello all, I expect Bill will be disappointed to read the questions regarding COBOL. http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,18288578%5E15306%5E%5Enbv% 5E,00.html Regards Bruce Hewson -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Automating ISMF

2006-02-28 Thread Gibney, Dave
DCOLLECT also -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Black Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 7:20 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Automating ISMF i'd like to automate a query to list all accessible DASD

Re: Automating ISMF

2006-02-28 Thread Rob Scott
For this sort of thing there is a lot of goodness on the CBT tape (www.cbttape.org) - including programs to list DASD information and sample DCOLLECT reports. The latter is probably your best bet. Rob Scott Rocket Software http://www.rs.com/portfolio/mxi/

Fw: Tax chooses dead language - Austalia

2006-02-28 Thread Bill Klein
I assume you saw the paragraph, Under questioning from Senator Fielding, Mr Farr agreed the local project was based on old technology, but it is still very widely used for large mainframe applications. Any guess about what the author of this article things about THAT platform (he asked

Re: Fw: Tax chooses dead language - Austalia

2006-02-28 Thread R.S.
Bill Klein wrote: I assume you saw the paragraph, Under questioning from Senator Fielding, Mr Farr agreed the local project was based on old technology, but it is still very widely used for large mainframe applications. Any guess about what the author of this article things about THAT

Re: Fw: Tax chooses dead language - Austalia

2006-02-28 Thread Steve Flynn
On 28/02/06, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW: Isn't COBOL the most primitive language in use ? OK, I assume Basic (BASIC ?) is not in use. Isn't COBOL unpopular on other platforms ? Visual BASIC still seems quite popular... OK, so it's not basic BASIC, but it's basically the same. (OK, I'll

Re: Changing an IODF in batch

2006-02-28 Thread Roy Hewitt
BTW: 3494 Library ID is not hardcoded in metal. It can be easily changed from operator panel (although requires Service logon). It is quick and easy. Is it the option for you to chaneg LIB ID instead of IODF ? BTW2: AFAIR It is not required to code LIB ID in IODF at all. Having ID is more

Re: Data Set Name Hiding

2006-02-28 Thread Barry Schwarz
When I went through altitude chamber training, the instructor expalined that as external pressure decrease, gases in the body would try to expand. As internal pressure grew, they would exit the body any way they could. If you could smell the gases, it meant your oxygen mask was not on

Re: Data Set Name Hiding

2006-02-28 Thread Craddock, Chris
If you could smell the gases, it meant your oxygen mask was not on properly and you would be well advised to deal with it quickly. This smells the same to me. If someone can convince a privileged product into giving them information they cannot get on their own, then there is a security

Re: IEE345I command authority error from batch

2006-02-28 Thread Walt Farrell
On 2/27/2006 4:04 PM, Bob Henry wrote: I'm migrating to z/OS 1.6 from an OS/390 2.10 system where I had batch jobs set up to issue MVS Modify commands to CICS. In the 1.6 system I receive an IEE345I MODIFY AUTHORITY INVALID, FAILED BY MVS error using a batch job which includes something like:

Re: Esoterics set in SMS we are very quick to make HCD changes.

2006-02-28 Thread Pat Schlehuber
I believe the esoteric must be defined as it is interegated before the SMS routines take control. We have a few Esoterics with only one device in them used as a placeholder to keep from having JCL errors in our legacy JCL. We override the UNIT in our SMS routines, but this is takes effect after

Re: Encryption Facility Client

2006-02-28 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John Eells Chase, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John Eells snip Note: Data that is to be processed using the Encryption Facility Client cannot be

Re: HDS backup process

2006-02-28 Thread John Ticic
-- snip -- I was told that in order to do this the secondary volume labels' must be clipped before I can bring them online but by clipping them I also loose the primary-secondary volume relationships. Besides using another lpar or other 3rd party utilities to run the backups, how does one

Re: Hercules 3.04 announcement

2006-02-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/26/2006 at 04:12 PM, Anne Lynn Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: mss/3850 provided simulated 3330s (icebergs) staged from tape cartridges. 3330 was Merlin. later there was a mss/3850 option that would use 3350 drives for staging the simulated 3330 data. But not

Re: Data Set Name Hiding

2006-02-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/26/2006 at 06:49 PM, Thomas Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I must say that I don't understand You both. That says more about you than about us ;-) If You don't want to support the code then don't. And that avoids the interruptions how? And what happens if

Re: Tax chooses dead language - Austalia

2006-02-28 Thread Charles Mills
Many news media have style guidelines that call for long (more than four letters?) acronyms to be written in lower case, because they feel that otherwise the look of the long strings of caps is distracting to readers. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

z/OS 1.8 (pre) announcement

2006-02-28 Thread ibm-main
Just about choked on my beer ... Support is planned for up to 4 TB of real memory on a single z/OS image. This is expected to allow the use of up to 512 GB of real memory on a single z/OS image on IBM System z9T servers and up to 256 GB on z990 servers. Yep - definitely need that. Well, maybe

Our D.R. situation (was:RE: Changing an IODF in batch)

2006-02-28 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 6:00 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Changing an IODF in batch snip Ok, I get it now. In fact I didn't even think about such scenario, I

Re: Tax chooses dead language - Austalia

2006-02-28 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bruce Hewson Hello all, I expect Bill will be disappointed to read the questions regarding COBOL. http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,18288578%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E ,00.html Family First Senator

Re: z/OS 1.8 (pre) announcement

2006-02-28 Thread ibm-main
Sorry fogot this cutie - yet another over-loaded (IBM) TLA. WLM execution delay monitoring services are planned to be mapped to appropriate Application Response Measurement (ARM) services. This is expected to simplify the EWLM instrumentation of subsystems that are already instrumented with WLM

Re: Fw: Tax chooses dead language - Austalia

2006-02-28 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of R.S. [ snip ] BTW: Isn't COBOL the most primitive language in use ? I believe Assembler is the most primitive language in use, regardless of platform. -jc-

Re: z/OS 1.8 (pre) announcement

2006-02-28 Thread Jon Brock
Depends on exactly what simplifying has been done; it needn't necessarily equate to dumbing down. OTOH, including the phrase for the new generation of IT professionals has started alarm bells ringing in my head. Jon snip Increased focus on simplifying z/OS for the new generation of IT

Re: Tax chooses dead language - Austalia

2006-02-28 Thread Ed Gould
On Feb 28, 2006, at 4:36 AM, Bill Klein wrote: ---SNIP P.P.S. Any news writer who spells it Cobol shows how knowledgeable they are about the language. Or knows the current sad state of affairs with the new one. Sorry Bill, hero worship is over in

Re: Esoterics set in SMS we are very quick to make HCD changes.

2006-02-28 Thread Knutson, Sam
My understanding is you can allow a unit to be coded in UNIT=unit which is not defined to HCD but only handled by SMS. We have some of these. We had to add them to our Thruput Manager parameters in order to avoid an error when it analyzes the jobs. TM UNIT HANDLE UNIT(PTMP) AS(SYSALLDA) /*

Re: Adabas db 3380 - 3390

2006-02-28 Thread Larry Burch
Radoslaw: *BEFORE* changing devicetype for an Adabas database, be very sure that you run (or someone else has run) the Adabas verification utilities, ADAACK, ADADCK, ADAICK -- **and** that any and all errors are corrected/eliminated. I *still* wish I had done that myself 10 years and 28 days

Re: Fw: Tax chooses dead language - Austalia

2006-02-28 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 2/28/2006 4:45:01 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW: Isn't COBOL the most primitive language in use ? OK, I assume Basic (BASIC ?) is not in use. Isn't COBOL unpopular on other platforms ? Not so sure that's all bad. With precompilers pretty

OMEGAMON z/OS Management Console sans OMEGAMON?

2006-02-28 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi, I loved the Health Checker prototype and have found the full Health Checker for z/OS very useful as well if slightly more work to get going. I have had conversations with a couple folks who have tried to convince me to explore the OMEGAMON z/OS Management Console. I went back and read over

Re: z/OS 1.8 (pre) announcement

2006-02-28 Thread Mark Zelden
Still don't see anything about support for the VSAM IMBED, REPLICATE, and KEYRANGE attributes being withdrawn. Does anyone know? Can anyone say? Haven't we been warned long enough (wasn't that way back in OS/390 R10)? Not that I expect it to still be an issue for us by then, but we still have

Re: z/OS 1.8 (pre) announcement

2006-02-28 Thread Robert Wright
Jon Brock wrote on 02/28/2006 09:23:41 AM: Depends on exactly what simplifying has been done; it needn't necessarily equate to dumbing down. OTOH, including the phrase for the new generation of IT professionals has started alarm bells ringing in my head. It shouldn't. It is talking about

IEW2413I -- Just Curious

2006-02-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
When Binder and I were both very young (well, at least Binder), I was delighted to get messages such as IEW2413I 5690 SECTION x FROM DATASET y IS A DUPLICATE AND HAS NOT BEEN ADDED. I had long wanted to know this sort of information. A few releases later, I noticed I was no longer getting this

Re: IEE345I command authority error from batch

2006-02-28 Thread Bob Henry
I successfully used a 'D A,L' as a batch JCL command which tells me that the MVS side is ok, right? I actually have multiple 'F CICSxx,'CEMT INQ TAS'' commands in a job which get directed to multiple CICS regions (jobs, not stc). If the CICS region is not active, I get an IEE341I NOT ACTIVE

Re: Encryption Facility Client

2006-02-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Chase, John said: Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 07:03:38 -0600 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John Eells Note: Data that is to be processed using the Encryption Facility Client cannot be created using compression.

Re: IEE345I command authority error from batch

2006-02-28 Thread Peggy Andrews
Hi, Bob. Does APAR OA09652 describe your environment? Regards, Peggy On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 09:36:40 -0600, Bob Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I successfully used a 'D A,L' as a batch JCL command which tells me that the MVS side is ok, right? I actually have multiple 'F CICSxx,'CEMT INQ TAS''

Re: Tax chooses dead language - Austalia

2006-02-28 Thread Ray Mullins
I've noticed that the initial-upper-rest-lower style for acronyms appears to have originated in the UK. The BBC refers to Nato, Nasa, and Cobol (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4021093.stm as an example). -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IEE345I command authority error from batch

2006-02-28 Thread Steve Arnett
I am running z/OS 1.7 and TS 1.3 and I was able to run the job below and it functioned properly... // JOB (000),'', // MSGCLASS=X,CLASS=C,MSGLEVEL=(1,1), // NOTIFY=SYSUID //BR14 EXEC

Re: HDS backup process

2006-02-28 Thread Bruce Black
If you CLIP the secondary DASD, just remember that a subsequent RESYNC will not copy the label since that wasn't changed on the primary subsystem. You may want to CLIP it back. I believe that RESYNC will copy any tracks which have been modified on the source OR target. Ron Hawkins, can you

Re: Tax chooses dead language - Austalia

2006-02-28 Thread Tom Schmidt
Well, shouldn't they be known as the Bbc then? On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:27:46 -0800, Ray Mullins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed that the initial-upper-rest-lower style for acronyms appears to have originated in the UK. The BBC refers to Nato, Nasa, and Cobol

Re: Anyone using RMM and TSM?

2006-02-28 Thread Gee, Norman
Volume Name J00092 Storage Pool Name EXCHANGE-3592 Device Class Name 3592 Estimated Capacity 307200.0 Scaled Capacity Applied - Pct Util 30.8 Volume Status FILLING Volume . . . . . . : J00092 VOL1 volser : Rack number : J00092 Media name . . . . : 3592

Re: Tax chooses dead language - Austalia

2006-02-28 Thread Chris Hoelscher
I think the OP stated that only acronyms 4 characters or longer were converted to lowercase (i'm quite sure that had the BBC been the BBBC, the cut-off would have been 5 characters ...) Chris Hoelscher IDMS DB2 Database Administrator Humana Inc 502-710-3038 [EMAIL PROTECTED] The

Re: Encryption Facility Client

2006-02-28 Thread Walt Farrell
On 2/28/2006 10:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The good intention was to dispel the expectation, or wishful thinking, that the EFC could invert all transformations performed by ICSF. Clearly it fell short of the mark insofar as it easily misled you and me. A clarification might be helpful,

Re: IEE345I command authority error from batch

2006-02-28 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bob Henry I successfully used a 'D A,L' as a batch JCL command which tells me that the MVS side is ok, right? I actually have multiple 'F CICSxx,'CEMT INQ TAS'' commands in a job which get directed to multiple

Re: Tax chooses dead language - Austalia

2006-02-28 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:58:05 -0500, Chris Hoelscher wrote: I think the OP stated that only acronyms 4 characters or longer were converted to lowercase (i'm quite sure that had the BBC been the BBBC, the cut-off would have been 5 characters ...) Yes, I saw that, but I've upped the ante (or

Re: Tax chooses dead language - Austalia

2006-02-28 Thread Nigel Hadfield
BBC is an abbreviation, not an acronym. On 28/2/06 16:55, Tom Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, shouldn't they be known as the Bbc then? On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:27:46 -0800, Ray Mullins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed that the initial-upper-rest-lower style for acronyms

705 Programmer Request

2006-02-28 Thread Eugene S. Hudders
Hi All: The following message was posted on VSE-L by Mr. Dave Stuart. He has authorized me to also post it on IBM-MAIN. Regards, Gene Morning all, Yes, the subject line is correct. Were you an IBM 705 Programmer? Why, you ask, would I be looking for a 705 Programmer? Well, personally, I am

Finding embedded short blocks

2006-02-28 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, Is there an easy way to find any short blocks that might exist in a FB dataset? We don't have DITTO (IBM File Manager), and I haven't found a way with File-Aid yet. TIA, -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

MONITOR command

2006-02-28 Thread R.S.
The following command MN JOBNAMES,T turns on messages IEF403I, IEF404I. The messages appear in job output, as well as hardcopy log (syslog in this case). However, when the console from which the command is entered is switched off, the messages are turned off. I can enter the command from master

Re: Tax chooses dead language - Australia

2006-02-28 Thread john gilmore
Nigel Hadfield writes BBC is an abbreviation, not an acronym. There is no viable way to distinguish abbreviations and acronyms. Traditionally, acronyms were viewed as a pronounceable subset of abbreviations; and this distinction certainly makes BBC an abbreviation and COBOL an acronym.

Re: Data Set Name Hiding

2006-02-28 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
Craddock, Chris wrote: It would be folly to depend on information hiding as the only security strategy, especially as the feature has only lately been grafted on and is (ahem) less than bullet proof. But at the same time, adding another layer of Kevlar to the vest may look like a fine idea if

Re: Encryption Facility Client

2006-02-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Walt Farrell said: Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:08:09 -0500 On 2/28/2006 10:47 AM, [log in to unmask] wrote: The good intention was to dispel the expectation, or wishful thinking, that the EFC could invert all transformations performed by ICSF. Clearly it fell

Re: Encryption Facility Client

2006-02-28 Thread Bruce Black
Is The IBM Encryption Facility for z/OS different from ICSF? If so, I'm quite wrong. Yes. ICSF is the encryption component of the operating system, no extra cost. The IBM Encryption Facility for z/OS is a cost program which includes a facility to copy and encrypt a sequential dataset, and

Re: Encryption Facility Client

2006-02-28 Thread R.S.
Paul Gilmartin wrote: In a recent note, Walt Farrell said: Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:08:09 -0500 On 2/28/2006 10:47 AM, [log in to unmask] wrote: The good intention was to dispel the expectation, or wishful thinking, that the EFC could invert all transformations performed by ICSF.

Re: MONITOR command

2006-02-28 Thread Knutson, Sam
Activate MONITOR independent of a console was an enhancement to z/OS R7 as part of the console restructure. David Hom did a nice presentation at SHARE in Boston 2881 Now Playing at a Screen Near You: z/OS Console Restructure that mentioned this. Sure enough it is in the R7 documentation. We

Re: HDS backup process

2006-02-28 Thread Bruno Sugliani
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:45:37 -0500, Bruce Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe that RESYNC will copy any tracks which have been modified on the source OR target. Ron Hawkins, can you confirm? I dont think so ( i am not Ron) A cestpair resynch in a pprc IBM disks environment will only synch

Re: Tax chooses dead language - Australia

2006-02-28 Thread Weidt, James
We should rename this list to LOD - List Of Digression... Thanks, Jim Weidt Senior Systems Engineer Jostens Inc. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information contained in this e-mail communication and any attached documentation may be privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from

RACF Structure and Performance

2006-02-28 Thread Alan Schwartz
We're looking at merging two RACF databases. As part of our initial analysis we are interested in placing RACF into a coupling facility. We are curious about changes in RACF performance using the structures. Better? Worse? No appreciable difference? Are there any published documents

Re: Data Set Name Hiding

2006-02-28 Thread David Andrews
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 10:21 -0800, Edward E. Jaffe wrote: But, in this case, I'm afraid the potential resource consumption increases of MLS might be more like strapping an extra 100 Lb (45.359 Kg) pack on your back! Tough choice Depending on your naming conventions and willingness to cut

Re: Encryption Facility Client

2006-02-28 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Black Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 12:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Encryption Facility Client SNIP The compression is pretty well documented in the zSeries

Re: IEE345I command authority error from batch

2006-02-28 Thread Bob Henry
Thanks to Tom Schmidt over on the CICS list! This was one of those can't see the forest ... problems. I spent hours looking at RACF profiles, CICS definitions, reading MVS doc, etc. I think I was getting close when I discovered that the job was running in a JOBCLASS with AUTH=IO and when I

Re: RACF Structure and Performance

2006-02-28 Thread Fletcher, Kevin
Alan, We did this years ago and found no appreciable performance difference. It did improve our security adminstration as there was only one point of maintenance. As always depending on your setup UMMV. Thanks, Fletch 817-3545 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

RMF Mon III Reports

2006-02-28 Thread Dean Montevago
Hi, I have to run some reports against a weeks worth of SMF data (3 LPAR's, 24 hr per day). Do I need to pre-allocate a MFRx for each interval ? or is there a way to allocate 1 dataset and have all the reports written to it ? TIA Dean Dean Montevago Sr. Systems Specialist Visiting Nurse

Re: RMF Mon III Reports

2006-02-28 Thread Ulrich Krueger
Dean, are you talking about running the Post Processor, PGM=ERBRMFPP ? If so, my RMF User's Guide, Chapter 17, says that you can use a DDname of PPRPTS instead of having MFRx DDs allocated, one for each interval. Regards, Ulrich Krueger Mainframe Systems Services National Semiconductor Corp.

Re: IBM Supported method to empty PDS in Batch

2006-02-28 Thread Hal Merritt
No, I can't. The job I used many, many moons ago does not work as I remembered. What I recall doing was to pry the covers off of the IMS utility DFSUOCU0, which did exactly what was desired. That is, completely replaced a target PDS with a source PDS. Worked great, and I used it extensively to

Re: RMF Mon III Reports

2006-02-28 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:35:58 -0500, Dean Montevago [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have to run some reports against a weeks worth of SMF data (3 LPAR's, 24 hr per day). Do I need to pre-allocate a MFRx for each interval ? or is there a way to allocate 1 dataset and have all the reports

Re: Finding embedded short blocks

2006-02-28 Thread Blaicher, Chris
I have to ask, WHY? Unless you really meant RECFM=FBS. No access method I know of cares about short blocks in the middle of the file. They just deal with it. If you really don't want any short blocks, use IEBGENER or either of the sort products to copy it to a new file. That would take no

Re: Finding embedded short blocks

2006-02-28 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:23:17 -0600, Blaicher, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to ask, WHY? Unless you really meant RECFM=FBS. No access method I know of cares about short blocks in the middle of the file. They just deal with it. ... I'm probably way out of date, but I thought IPCS

Re: RACF Structure and Performance

2006-02-28 Thread Walt Farrell
On 2/28/2006 2:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're looking at merging two RACF databases. As part of our initial analysis we are interested in placing RACF into a coupling facility. We are curious about changes in RACF performance using the structures. Better? Worse? No appreciable

Re: IXFP No Longer Supported

2006-02-28 Thread Desi de la Garza
Well. We are still using an old RAMAC and use IXFP. I do have a question on IXFP Can a pack name be renamed on the fly? Thanks, Desi de la Garza Systems Programmer Bexar County Information Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Jim Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: IXFP No Longer Supported

2006-02-28 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I do not think this was widely publicized and I know it will cause us concern for a while. Is anyone addressing this with IBM and are you finding the same story. IBM has a life-cycle site. They DO announce at least three years before support is dropped. I remember hearing about IXFP a long time

Re: Australian Tax Office chooses dead language

2006-02-28 Thread Fenner, Jim
de gustibus non est disputandum IMPORTANT The information transmitted is for the use of the intended recipient only and may contain confidential and/or legally privileged material. Any review,

Re: HDS backup process

2006-02-28 Thread Clark, Maurice
-Snip-- I believe that RESYNC will copy any tracks which have been modified on the source OR target. Ron Hawkins, can you confirm? -Snip- Kinda depends whether you are talking about Trucopy of Shadowimage... That is true for Trucopy (see below from the manual): - If the RCU accepts write

Re: Australian Tax Office chooses dead language

2006-02-28 Thread Ted MacNEIL
de gustibus non est disputandum I'd better tell our APPDEV people QUICK. Our company is doing quite well. And, our bread--butter application is CICS/COBOL. COBOL (while I haven't programmed in it for over 20 years) is alive and kicking. Even some of our web-weenies know how to, at least, read

Re: Australian Tax Office chooses dead language

2006-02-28 Thread ibm-main
From: Fenner, Jim de gustibus non est disputandum Indeed. And it could probably be added that this is about as comprehensible as most of the correspondence I get from the ATO ... Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: IXFP No Longer Supported

2006-02-28 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
If it's no longer supported does that mean I can quit paying for it? They still support the hardware, though. What sense does it make to support the hardware but not the software that makes it usable? Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Finding embedded short blocks

2006-02-28 Thread Blaicher, Chris
No ignorance there, Pat. If you wrote a program that only worked with a given blocksize, then short blocks becomes a problem. Even then, you still have to write the program to work with a short block because the last block may not be full. My ignorance will now show. How do you get short

Re: IXFP No Longer Supported

2006-02-28 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
I can't find the announcement that shows where IXFP is withdrawn. Can somebody point me to it? Thanks. Rex -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message:

Re: IXFP No Longer Supported

2006-02-28 Thread Ted MacNEIL
They still support the hardware, though. What sense does it make to support the hardware but not the software that makes it usable? THAT does not make sense! I missed that because we got off of RAMAC ICEBERG aeons ago. We were on ESS (Shark) in September 2000. - -teD I’m an enthusiastic

Re: Finding embedded short blocks

2006-02-28 Thread Bill Godfrey
You didn't say if this was for a small file, or if you only need to do it once, but under those conditions you might try this. Run IEBPTPCH on the dataset using just ' PRINT TYPORG=PS,TOTCONV=XE' for printing in hex, and allocate SYSUT2 to an output dataset that you can later edit with ISPF.

Re: IXFP No Longer Supported

2006-02-28 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I can't find the announcement that shows where IXFP is withdrawn. Can somebody point me to it? I am not at work, but I can give you the steps I used to find it. Go to www.IBM.com Enter ILC on the search tab (Information Life Cycle) [If my memory has not failed me, you will see a list of all the

Re: Finding embedded short blocks

2006-02-28 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 12:53, Chase, John wrote: Is there an easy way to find any short blocks that might exist in a FB dataset? We don't have DITTO (IBM File Manager), and I haven't found a way with File-Aid yet. The BLKSIZE2 program in file 183 of the CBT tape prints the size of each

INFO REFCARD

2006-02-28 Thread Mark Watson
INFO REFCARD -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

Re: IXFP No Longer Supported

2006-02-28 Thread Glenn Miller
Hi Jim, You may want to call STK ( Sun ). They have a product called: SVAA ( Shared Virtual Array Administrator ). According to their website, the supported storage systems are: V-Series (SVA) or RVA, any model. HTH Glenn Miller

Re: CBT Delinker

2006-02-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Greg Price said: Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:46:59 +1100 I can only think that the CSECT order is different in the two modules. For programs with a large number of CSECTS it would be tiresome to compare. If this is the problem then how about relinking with a series

Re: z/OS 1.5 open dataset limit

2006-02-28 Thread Wayne Driscoll
As Brian mentioned, DB2 uses the XTIOT, which is stored in non-contiguous storage, above the 16 MEG line. However, in z/OS 1.4 and before, the DSAB chain, which is used to manage all allocations, was still below the 16 MEG line, which limited the the total number of allocations available.

Security Erase Feature on DASD

2006-02-28 Thread Ed Gould
Can anyone shed some light on the feature of erasing data on DASD? I am just curious thats all. For instance does it erase one track at a time or a range of tracks (or ?), once the command has been issued does it tie up the channel until the command ends ? (or is it asynchronous?) Is there

Re: INFO REFCARD

2006-02-28 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 2/28/2006 6:59:28 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: INFO REFCARD ++ Like it says at the bottom of each post send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- For

Re: Security Erase Feature on DASD

2006-02-28 Thread Bruce Black
BTW there was an item in an IBM pub that at first attempted (IMO) to come across as an article of fact finding as it turned out it was an ad for FDR erase product. It was cleverly disguised, IMO but after reading about the page after page of platitudes it was, come to find out, an ad from the

Re: Fw: Tax chooses dead language - Austalia

2006-02-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/28/2006 at 11:44 AM, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: BTW: Isn't COBOL the most primitive language in use ? No. Not even close. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We

Re: Fw: Tax chooses dead language - Austalia

2006-02-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/28/2006 at 08:00 AM, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I believe Assembler is the most primitive language in use, regardless of platform. C is considerably more basic than HLA. In fact, any assembler with a decent macro facility is higher level than C. --

Re: MVCY

2006-02-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/27/2006 at 02:40 PM, Patrick O'Keefe [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Ok. I give up. You probably weren't refering to Alaska, Above the Knee, or a type of automatic rifle. What is AK in this context? It's an abbreviation for an Yiddish phrase for an old person, roughly

Re: Security Erase Feature on DASD

2006-02-28 Thread Ed Gould
On Feb 28, 2006, at 10:02 PM, Bruce Black wrote: BTW there was an item in an IBM pub that at first attempted (IMO) to come across as an article of fact finding as it turned out it was an ad for FDR erase product. It was cleverly disguised, IMO but after reading about the page after page of

Re: z/OS 1.8 (pre) announcement

2006-02-28 Thread Timothy Sipples
Just about choked on my beer ... Support is planned for up to 4 TB of real memory on a single z/OS image. This is expected to allow the use of up to 512 GB of real memory on a single z/OS image on IBM System z9T servers and up to 256 GB on z990 servers. Yep - definitely need that. Well, maybe

Re: Data Set Name Hiding

2006-02-28 Thread Leonard Woren
Walt Farrell wrote: In a more normal shop, I personally don't see much of an exposure. True, but not much consolation to the guy who got fired when I showed management one of his, er, impolite (ok, unprintable) dsnames. :-) I think I ran into it while investigating a full vtoc, which turned

Re: Security Erase Feature on DASD

2006-02-28 Thread Doc Farmer
While FDR's got a fine product, I'm still curious as to what the native Erase on Scratch process from IBM provides. I mean, does it do a single pass, or is it DoD compliant? Does it run a byte-by-byte erasure or a block/track/cylinder overwrite of binary 0's and 1's? How much CPU overhead is

Re: Finding embedded short blocks

2006-02-28 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 11:53 -0600 on 02/28/2006, Chase, John wrote about Finding embedded short blocks: Hi, All, Is there an easy way to find any short blocks that might exist in a FB dataset? We don't have DITTO (IBM File Manager), and I haven't found a way with File-Aid yet. TIA, -jc- There is no

Re: ABCs of z/OS System Programming Volume 6

2006-02-28 Thread Doc Farmer
When I tried the link below, it just asked me to sign in (which I did) but then didn't open the actual document. Do I have to request access to the document specifically? And if so, do you know the process? Thanks. Jack Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've been reviewing vol6 via ibm's