This might be a sign that the mainframe (and by implication, you) are being
de-emphasized. OTOH, he may quickly realize that the mainframe is strategic
(is it at your shop?) and that he is responsible for it (in a management
sense of "responsible") and that you are his lifeline. Could be a good thi
Well, you've got two choices.
1) You can take the time to educate your boss on the history of mainframes,
how they transformed the business world, how they have a greater transaction
throughput than the PC, servers or even midranges, how they're far more
stable and secure than the PC, and how they
Get your resume in shape fast.
Ed
On Feb 22, 2007, at 8:18 PM, Graying MVS Sysprog wrote:
Any sage words would be appreciated. Or job offers. :)
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On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:47:47 -0600, Tom Schmidt wrote:
>Do you know if your company is looking at outsourcing your mainframe (yet)?
Why? You need the business? Actually, I don't think they know enough to
have thought of it.
>Did your new boss want this new position or was he/she pushed into it
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:18:01 -0600, Graying MVS Sysprog wrote:
>Yikes. So, because of a reorg, I have a new boss that knows nothing about
>mainframes at all. Not even Unix. Just Windoze, as far as I can tell.
>I've always had a manager that used to do my job or one very close to it.
>Now I hav
Change your on-call number to your cell phone. Then forward it to his
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Yikes. So, because of a reorg, I have a new boss that knows nothing about
mainframes at all. Not even Unix. Just Windoze, as far as I can tell.
I've always had a manager that used to do my job or one very close to it.
Now I have to explain to him all the projects I'm working on, etc. In oth
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> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 3:26 PM
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> Subject: How to FTP to mainframe using .NET Framework
> Dear Friends,
>
> I am helping a colleague se
Probably won't be humming this in the elevator...
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However, they admit they are trolling for new stories.
Later,
Ray
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To:
Basically, I agree with Steve (Yes, is the default with "IS INITIAL" and
"CANCEL" being the major exceptions).
However, I do NOT think that RENT will have any impact; nor will whether or
not it is under CICS. If the subprogram is called dynamically, then
Working-Storage (not Local-Storage) should
Speaking of reboot hill does someone have a current URL for it? I
tried www.rebootthill.com and got back a not found.
Ed
On Feb 22, 2007, at 12:13 PM, Robert Justice wrote:
I detect a "reboot hill" on this one showing up soon.
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:47:47 -0700, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>How come I find OA16505 only when I search for "msgEDC5153I",
>but OW41024 only when I search for "EDC5153I"? Ain't there
>suppose to be some kinda rule or standard or somethin? Or is
>there a convention of wildcarding the search pattern
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Alan C. Field wrote:
One of the application programmers asked: If I have program A doing a
dynamic call to Program B, is the working storage of program B preserved
between calls?
By observation he seems to recall in the past (years ago) it was, but
current program behaviour would suggest that
How come I find OA16505 only when I search for "msgEDC5153I",
but OW41024 only when I search for "EDC5153I"? Ain't there
suppose to be some kinda rule or standard or somethin? Or is
there a convention of wildcarding the search pattern that I'm
unawares of?
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Well it depends and I haven't looked at it in the last years.
So I might be wrong.
YES this is true on the same call level and unless you code IS INITIAL in the
Program-ID
Program-Id. CALLTEST.
Sorry can't remember if the old WSCLEAR (now LE STORAGE runtime option) apply
in the case
One of the application programmers asked: If I have program A doing a
dynamic call to Program B, is the working storage of program B preserved
between calls?
By observation he seems to recall in the past (years ago) it was, but
current program behaviour would suggest that the storage is reset.
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Subject: Re: IBM S/360 series operating systems history
As I recall, some of the "registers" actually had hard-
Dear Friends,
I am helping a colleague set up a .NET Framework 2.0 FTP WEB Request to
ftp a file to a z\OS 1.4 system. The file should end up in the Z\OS file
system. Using some examples found on the net, my colleague has been able
to write a script that will logon to z\OS (confirmed in the z\
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:27:59 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
>...
>It was the only one that was grossly incompatible. The others may have
>been missing instructions but the instructions they did have behaved
>in accordance with S/360 PoOps.
>...
As I recall, some of the "registers" actual
Hi folks,
please apply the following source code changes:
If assembly runs on z/OS R7 with zIIP support (Version or 01.07.01)
or z/OS R8 (zIIP support in the base) and execution starts on an earlier OS it
will overlay the PSA+800 while invoking the CNZQUERY on a OS which doesn't
support
this
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I sure hope th
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:32:36 -0700, Lance Kopplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Actually, I put together a rexx exec that works out what command reference
>characters are being used (it goes through JES3 DLOG, so only commands
>actually used can be found).
>If anyone is interested, it's free for
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> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 12:14 PM
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>
>
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:54:01 -0700, Kopischke
David Kopischke wrote:
> I sure hope they do a follow-up on this one early next year.
Attractive Alternatives to Mainframes Are Breaking Their Decades-Old
Hold on Wall Street
Why do you want to see a follow up? They'll just tell you how wonderful
their new system is and "it's almost as reliabl
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:54:01 -0700, Kopischke, David G. wrote:
>I sure hope they do a follow-up on this one early next year.
Lets see... Gartner called it "a reasonable sized mainframe shop" and the
VP mentioned that it was a 1600 MIPS system. That is, what, a 3-way z9?!?
So IBM lost a Baby
I detect a "reboot hill" on this one showing up soon.
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I sure hope they do a follow-up on this one early next year.
Attractive Alternatives to Mainframes Are Breaking Their
Decades-Old Hold on Wall Street
http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197007742
In a message dated 2/22/2007 11:12:13 A.M. Central Standard Time,
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Yes, it is.
>>
Do a NETSTAT HOme from TSO. The nodename should match the TCP nodename. If
you're using EZAZSSI it's the P=&SYSNAME parm. If omitted uses the JES
NODENAME. Can see from SDSF NOD
On 2/22/07, John P Kalinich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is N1 your NJE node name?
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wrote on 02/22/2007 11:00:46 AM:
> On 2/22/07, John P Kalinich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > You need to customize the SMTPNOTE exec on TCPIP.SEZAINST. There are
> > customization instructions in the beginning of the Rexx exec. The
> > no
On 2/22/07, John P Kalinich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You need to customize the SMTPNOTE exec on TCPIP.SEZAINST. There are
customization instructions in the beginning of the Rexx exec. The
nodename
would be the JES defined NJE node name on your system.
OK, I've switched SMTP debug on and thi
You need to customize the SMTPNOTE exec on TCPIP.SEZAINST. There are
customization instructions in the beginning of the Rexx exec. The nodename
would be the JES defined NJE node name on your system.
Regards,
John Kalinich
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wrote on 02/22/2007
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:59:04 -0600, Patrick Lyon wrote:
>On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:32:28 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>
>>Awe, come on! Not one person on IBM-MAIN knows the naming rules for LPARs,
>>and/or where the rules are documented?
>>
>>Charles
>
>
>From the HCD Help panel:
>
>Partition Name
>
Thank you!
Charles
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I miss the beginning of this thread, so I am not sure what the
original question was. But if it is a matter of renaming a loadlib
in the LNKLST and hope that all will be well I believe that it
will not be the case. It is my opinion that LLA will come up without
an issue, but an I/O error
I want to send emails from z/OS to users on our email system. I did this
many many years ago and had problems understanding which of the many
available "nodename" parameters needed to be plugged into the SMTP and
SMTPNOTE definitions. Now that I've come to do this again I see my
understanding h
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:32:28 -0800, Charles Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Awe, come on! Not one person on IBM-MAIN knows the naming rules for LPARs,
>and/or where the rules are documented?
>
>Charles
>From the HCD Help panel:
Partition Name
Mark is absolutely correct on this too.
Raj
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In the case of renaming "current to old" and "new to current" on the
same volume, I think LLA would restart without complaining. LLA just
wouldn't be managing the "new" library since the LNKLST still has the
old
Awe, come on! Not one person on IBM-MAIN knows the naming rules for LPARs,
and/or where the rules are documented?
Charles
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On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:07:41 -0600, Tom Schmidt
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:13:59 -0600, Matthew Stitt wrote:
>
>>As was pointed out by Mark, the LNKLST is accessed through LLA. VLF only
>>does the memory storage based on LLA requests.
>>
>>So even though you restarted VLF,
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:13:59 -0600, Matthew Stitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>As was pointed out by Mark, the LNKLST is accessed through LLA. VLF only
>does the memory storage based on LLA requests.
>
>So even though you restarted VLF, you must also restart LLA. This might
>make your changes ava
Is there an IBM APAR number yet?
From: Jim Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: z/OS V1R8 & Thruput Manager (cont)
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:51:50 -0600
Would be interested in knowing if anyone has gone all z/OS V1R8 on all
LPA
>From Shmuel Metz:
> Did he specify a member name or just a bare PDS name? If the former
then I'd suggest > opening a PMR; if the latter then I would say tha
There is an ETR and IBM has recreated the problem. Yes, there was a
member name.
Jon L. Veilleux
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looks like OA20072
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up to date. The last site I checked two weeks ago was two versions out
of date.
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Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 4:05 PM
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Is there an APAR number?
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Hi,
I'm trying to configure A3270 server which is part of APPC Application
Suite. (Just for selft-learning purpose)
According to the manual (Appc Application Suite Administration:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/F1A1E500/CCONTENTS?DT=20010606010244)
the configure proc
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