On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 00:09 -0500, Alan Altmark wrote:
Yeah, but it won't necessarily clear up any confusion since there are two
kinds
of Hipersockets: real and virtual.
Real Hipersockets provide LPAR-LPAR, LPAR-virtual machine, and virtual
machine-virtual machine communications.
Erk
Ken,
For (1), you add the SPMs as opcodes in the parser for HLASM.
Here at Rocket we use a modified version of the supplied REXX exec
FLMLRASM and add the SPMs into the opcodes.i stem variable.
Rob Scott
Rocket Software, Inc
275 Grove Street
Newton, MA 02466
617-614-2305
[EMAIL
It's still a hard sell at 100K per IFL plus 40K z/VM and no real
promises that the workload matches until you try it. You can buy fail a
lot of squatty boxes with that kind of money and you don't need it all
in one chunk.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
Hello all,
Any one here can help me with a mainframe macro or rexx/clist code to
replace string1 with string2 and string3 with string4 and so on in one
execution
of the code itself.
Thanks a lot in advance
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Hello;
I have a problem with our Z/OS 1.7 when I list the datasets (option 3.4 in
ISPF 5.7 ) which is giving wrong values for the number of tracks used, and
here is
the screen image as follows :
Menu Options View Utilities Compilers Help
Hello;
I have a problem with our Z/OS 1.7 when I list the datasets (option 3.4 in
ISPF 5.7 ) which is giving wrong values for the number of tracks used, and
here is the screen image as follows :
Menu Options View Utilities Compilers Help
Admittedly those prices are still higher than some folks want to see. I
personally know of an existing customer and long time mainframe shop
that turned down a considerably discounted (by 70%) z9 for an
outsourcing scenario. It is not to say that there may have been other
factors that came to
Nafez,
I would suggest reporting this to your friendly SBM PSR. It looks like a system
defect.
By the way, Is Daud Matthews still at KSU?
Regards,
Dave O'Brien
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Lizette,
Wouldn't an Iefbr14 against the base GDG result in all of the gdg's being
recalled?
Dave O'Brien
From: Lizette Koehler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Mon 4/9/2007 8:13 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Recalling GDG generations
If your
If he uses something other than HSM, we would need to know that process.
However, the program solution works well. However, each recall only happens
when that data set is accessed. With the TSO Batch recall, you can specify
nowait and just let it queue them all up at once. Plus you know what
IBM PSR? How many years has it been since IBM had PSRs? You might want to
call the support center.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. Systems Programmer
414-475-7434
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
O'Brien wrote:
Nafez,
I would suggest reporting this to your friendly SBM PSR. It looks like a
system
To call in all generations of a gdg you should be able to code DSN and disp
with nothing in parens. That should call in all of them .
Bill
From: Rashmi Nijaguni Mogali [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Recalling
Just make a ICETOOL or ICEMAN job to copy 1 record from the input to a dummy
output
and make input dataset DD point to GDG name.
HTH,
Walter.
Is there a way to recall the generations of a GDG which have been
archived on the tape?
I am talking of a batch method here. I need to recall
Check the CBT for program RECALL file 183, as well as, other files that have
recall programs.
www.cbttape.org
Regards, Herman Stocker
avis budget group
Phone:1973-496-4847
fax:1973-496-8201
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 4:23 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Effects of Linux on z...ISV support and z/OS
(Was: IBM to the PCM market)
It's still a hard
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rashmi Nijaguni Mogali
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 7:11 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Recalling GDG generations
Hi all,
Is there a way to recall the generations of a GDG which
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 17:24:34 -0400, Thompson, Steve
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried that one too. And I do not get the panel to come up to specify
an initial macro.
You have to edit a flat file (sequential, dsorg=ps).
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Zurich
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Hi All,
please find below the March schedule for Spotlight Sessions, for all you
Compuware users/customers out there.
Remember, our customers are required to register for FrontLine to access
these sessions, the March 6 Spotlight is
Timothy Sipples wrote:
Steve Comstock wrote:
Linux, Linux, and more Linux.
So I guess the message is Kiss z/OS goodbye, eh?
My goodness, is IBM really saying that? Please go back, look at the
context in which I provided that Linux-related URL, and please read between
the lines. Anyone
Is there a way to recall the generations of a GDG which have been archived on
the tape?
// -- Job Card
//RECALL EXEC PGM=IEFBR14
//DD1 DDDISP=SHR,DSNAME=gdg.base
Where: gdg.base is the base without any .GV00 qualifiers.
-
Too busy driving to stop for gas!
Shmuel,
The first question is what they mean by supports member level
security in a PDS or PDSE. Are they talking about checking access
only on OPEN, or also on FIND and STOW? It would be trivial to
circumvent controls on FIND for PDS.
I don't know the particulars of what, precisely, Top Secret
In a recent note, Ted MacNEIL said:
Subject: Re: Recalling GDG generations
// -- Job Card
//RECALL EXEC PGM=IEFBR14
//DD1 DDDISP=SHR,DSNAME=gdg.base
Where: gdg.base is the base without any .GV00 qualifiers.
Will this perform the recalls sequentially or concurrently?
Alan, I'm glad you spoke up. Your note is well-written, and speaks volumes.
And it was a good idea to keep Chuckie away from the keyboard. :-)
As Timothy and Marcia are both marketing folks, you're right, Alan, they
would not be able to speak for IBM regarding ISVs. But I think things would
In a recent note, Walt Farrell said:
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 10:12:02 -0500
Just move the members to another (protected) library.
That can work in some very restrictive cases, Ted, but not all cases.
Since BPAM now supports read access to HFS directories (barring
those utilities
I think that I'm out of luck on this, but I'll ask anyway. I wanted to
install the Oracle subsystem this last weekend. I thought that I had
already copied the subsystem modules into the LNKLST, but did not. So I
got the following message at IPL time:
IEFJ004I SUBSYSTEM ORST NOT INITIALIZED -
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave
It's still a hard sell at 100K per IFL plus 40K z/VM and
no real promises that the workload matches until you try it.
You can buy fail a lot of squatty boxes with that kind of
money and you don't
That's good to know (the 22.5K). The other issue for my site is the
ease of finding Windows people vs. even Unix people, let alone z/OS.
Windows apps (.NET) don't convert quickly to z/Linux
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf
Do you know about or have you considered Mono (gomono.net)?
Gibney, Dave wrote:
That's good to know (the 22.5K). The other issue for my site is the
ease of finding Windows people vs. even Unix people, let alone z/OS.
Windows apps (.NET) don't convert quickly to z/Linux
-Original
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 10:22:25 -0700, Bill Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
List,
We are looking at replacing Control-O. (BMC) We don't have any other
Control software. What software packages provide similar functionality to
Control-O? Which package is the most widely used?
TIA,
Bill Johnson
No, HSM does not 'single thread' unless the maxrecall is set to 1. In the case
of recall by jcl, the process is single threaded because the datasets are
recalled in the order in which they are allocated.
Optimally you would issue Hrecall commands against the set of datasets you
wanted to
Thanks, but I'm already a member of the choir.:) I've been trying to
convince my management of exactly that for sometime.
They want proof that Oracle really performs on z/hardware and it's
been awhile since we did VM :)
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
Trying again, with a bit of formatting this time:
Shmuel,
The first question is what they mean by supports member level
security in a PDS or PDSE. Are they talking about checking access
only on OPEN, or also on FIND and STOW? It would be trivial to
circumvent controls on FIND for PDS.
I
Besides the MAXRECALL there is also the issue of physical number of tape
drives. We are limited here to the number of things DFHSM can do because we do
not have sufficient Tape Drives for everything. That includes normal TAPE
processes as well as DFHSM. So another issue could be physical
That looks like the old oracle subsystem, is it still required for
10G?
Of course, you may still be using the old NET8 interface, I think it's
still available on my production system, but 10G can be used. On my
test system, I don't have NET8 running, so only 10G clients work. I
still have the
Actually I just tried this (the IEFBR14 job) because I have seen the
issue that Gil mentioned, where HSM recalls 1 dataset at a time for a
normal batch job. I just recalled 31 generations out of a 91 generation
GDG. I thought it would single reload the migrated generations but it
didn't. Using
Check through this list:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/linux/stories.html
I'm not sure if there are any Oracle refs here, if not I'm sure your BP
or IBM rep will be able to find them. I know they're out there.
Gibney, Dave wrote:
Thanks, but I'm already a member of the choir.:) I've
Rex,
What release of Zos are you on?
From: Pommier, Rex R. [mailto:]
Sent: Mon 4/9/2007 11:05 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Recalling GDG generations
Actually I just tried this (the IEFBR14 job) because I have seen the
issue that Gil mentioned,
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex R.
Actually I just tried this (the IEFBR14 job) because I have
seen the issue that Gil mentioned, where HSM recalls 1
dataset at a time for a normal batch job. I just recalled 31
generations out
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 09:29:17 -0500, McKown, John
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think that I'm out of luck on this, but I'll ask anyway. I wanted to
install the Oracle subsystem this last weekend. I thought that I had
already copied the subsystem modules into the LNKLST, but did not. So I
got the
Where: gdg.base is the base without any .GV00 qualifiers.
Will this perform the recalls sequentially or concurrently?
Sequentially, at each obtain from the catalogue.
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Too busy driving to stop for gas!
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On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 09:38:57 -0500, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, let's see:
Ass.u.me for ease of arithmetic that squatty boxes with one CPU can
be had for $5,000 (hardware and server operating system) each. Add in
an Oracle processor license at $40,000
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 10:12 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Idiot needs help - Subsystem initialization failed
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 09:29:17 -0500, McKown,
1.4.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 10:11 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Recalling GDG generations
Rex,
What release of Zos are you on?
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 10:11:40 -0500, Mark Zelden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
IEFJ004I SUBSYSTEM ORST NOT INITIALIZED - ORASSINI NOT FOUND
If the subsystem initialization routine supports dynamic SSI, then you
can add it now without IPL-ing. However, you would have to use
a different subsystem name
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bruno Sugliani
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 09:38:57 -0500, Chase, John wrote:
Well, let's see:
Ass.u.me for ease of arithmetic that squatty boxes with one CPU
can
be had for $5,000 (hardware and server operating
That's interesting because on my 1.4 system, HSM recalls invoked by Iefbr14 are
done sequentially as each dataset is allocated by Jes. I have not tried nor
observed how a base gdg is handled.
From: Pommier, Rex R. [mailto]
Sent: Mon 4/9/2007 12:00 PM
To:
Moving V1R4 to V1R7 and getting the following on V1R7:
)) OUTDDNAME(TAPE) SPHERE COMPRESS SHARE TOLERATE(ENQFAILURE)
0031
ADR101I (R/I)-RI01 (01), TASKID 001 HAS BEEN ASSIGNED TO COMMAND 'DUMP '
ADR109I (R/I)-RI01 (01), 2007.099 07:55:48 INITIAL SCAN OF USER CONTROL
From: Ranjay Sinha [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Any one here can help me with a mainframe macro or rexx/clist code to
replace string1 with string2 and string3 with string4 and so on in one
execution
of the code itself.
Ranjay,
Here's an example of a very simple edit macro that does what you asked:
/*
snip
Moving V1R4 to V1R7 and getting the following on V1R7:
snip
what's the jcl and joblog?
r/c 10 is
10 Invalid parameters passed in JCL. The following are the probable
reasons:
SYSIN/SYSOUT data set
DISP=MOD coded for the output data set
DISP=SHR coded for the output data set
BLKSIZE
On Monday 09 April 2007 12:26, John P Donnelly wrote:
Moving V1R4 to V1R7 and getting the following on V1R7:
Return code 10 from the ADR374 Message says;
10 Invalid parameters passed in JCL. The following are the
I'm guessing that somehow the GDG base is the differentiator as I've
seen the same sequential behavior as you in allocating multiple,
disparate datasets.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Sent:
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 11:01:17 -0500, Mark H. Young
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 10:11:40 -0500, Mark Zelden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
IEFJ004I SUBSYSTEM ORST NOT INITIALIZED - ORASSINI NOT FOUND
If the subsystem initialization routine supports dynamic SSI, then you
can add it now
ADR374E (001)-OPNCL(09), UNABLE TO OPEN DDNAME TAPE, 10
10 Invalid parameters passed in JCL. The following are the probable
reasons:
o SYSIN/SYSOUT data set
The JCL follows:
/STEP010 EXEC PGM=ADRDSSU,
/ REGION=8M
/SYSUDUMP DD SYSOUT=*
/SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
/TAPE DD DSN=CJPDSC.JOBTRAC.CPU111.DATASETS,
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John P Donnelly
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 11:49 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: DFSMSDSS
The JCL follows:
/STEP010 EXEC PGM=ADRDSSU,
/
John,
Bingo...
MODEL.DSCB...
Thankyou
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Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 9:52 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: DFSMSDSS
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
[mailto:[EMAIL
Paul Gilmartin wrote:
Since BPAM now supports read access to HFS directories (barring
those utilities that balk at this), might an alternative be to
use HFS rather than PDS, and protect the members with ACLs? If
so, it's a solved problem.
What about write access?
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Edward E Jaffe
Phoenix
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 11:10:53 -0500, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I know of no technical reason why Windows could not be coded to run on a
z box. There may be some lingering bad blood from the IBM - MS
divorce over Windows vs. OS/2 causing MS to eschew the z
platform
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 12:25 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: RACF and Member Level Protection
Paul Gilmartin wrote:
Since BPAM now supports read access to
We have some headless Windows servers. A Windows for zSeries could
use that same interface so that there would be no need for those devices
on a zSeries machine. Actually, they are of little use on a normal
server which is living in the machine room too. Except during
exceptional processing. Now,
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Marchant
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 11:10:53 -0500, Chase, John wrote:
I know of no technical reason why Windows could not be coded to run
on
a z box. There may be some lingering bad blood from the IBM - MS
Caution: reply contains snide remarks about MS and Windows.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chase, John
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 12:48 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Effects of Linux on z...ISV support and
Let's be fair - Windows security may or may not be bad.
What we usually see are examples of poor application programming security.
At least from my viewpoint, Internet Explorer, Word, Firefox, et al are
applications, they're not part of the core OS.
Which is, of course, not to say that
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Hare
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 1:08 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Effects of Linux on z...ISV support and z/OS
(Was: IBM to the PCM market)
Let's be fair - Windows
On 6 Apr 2007 13:10:39 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted MacNEIL)
wrote:
According to a Canadian IBM'r, there are approximately 6,000 mainframe
licences world-wide.
To put it in perspective, there are approximately 230,000 Oracle licences.
I'm not getting the perspective here - how do I compare
Can someone help me find alternative products to SYSB-II? For VSAM
files that are used by / open to CICS, we use SYSB to route batch access
to the VSAM files through the CICS region - especially the file updates.
David Mueller | Systems Programmer | DMS/EITS
Phone: 850-414-9134 (Rm 107 SRC) |
CA-Shareoption/5 may be appropriate, Dave - let me know if you would like to
discuss any technical issues or questions.
Regards,
Glenn Havelock, CA
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Glenn Havelock, Sr Consultant, CA
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To:
On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 20:09:55 -0500, W. Kevin Kelley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So hopefully
everything you ever wanted to know about how the exit interface
actually works is now explained. ...
And if it isn't, we know who to ask. :-)
Pat O'Keefe
W. Kevin Kelley wrote:
While the PDF is good, I think you will find the
actual commentary in the mapping macro to be better.
Having installed the fix and read the macro, I agree. Highly recommended for
anybody writing or revisiting MPF exits.
When they were looking for someone to assign
A few weeks ago, we went live on z/OS V1R8 and it was shaky at best with a
number of problems. Some were resolved quickly and others have lingered.
Here is a quick review of things.
1. JES2 $BR4 abends were definitely an IBM problem and resolved with a
JES2 fix.
2. Running
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 14:07:38 -0400, Tim Hare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Let's be fair - Windows security may or may not be bad.
What we usually see are examples of poor application programming security.
At least from my viewpoint, Internet Explorer, Word, Firefox, et al are
applications, they're
For those who care, SuperWylbur is running just fine in our z/OS 1.7
system (running version 4.3). Had to do some special fixes for JES
support. Otherwise, it is just wonderful!
Dennis Longnecker
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
snip
Is anything in Windows done correctly? I wouldn't want any MS code
anywhere near my z! Windows has absolutely crummy security.
-unsnip-
You're wrong. WinDoze Security is a complete
Running 5 LPARS in the Parallel Sysplex with a shared spool revealed
one
cause of the delay was because in CICS, there are a LARGE quantity of
batch jobs being submitted using the CICS Transient Data Queue (TDQ).
I found, years ago, that 5 systems was the effective maximum number of
systems
Hello All,
Can anyone tell me why this does not work with out the START step?
//IFTHEN JOB (999),'TEST JOB',
// CLASS=A,MSGCLASS=A,
// NOTIFY=MARKC
//*
Bruno
This reminds me of a question I was asked while grubbing for a grant to
take me through university:
Why is it absurd to say there are no two trees in the world with the same
number of leaves?
Chris Mason
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From: Bruno Sugliani [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The JCL statement's IF/THEN logic can only be used to step-completion
conditions, not current
symbolic state, such as a job-step completion, max cond-code, ABEND as
true/false, job-step
execution as true/false and ABENDCC (ABEND codes). Have a look at the JCL
Reference for more
specific
Dave Gibney writes:
That's good to know (the 22.5K). The other issue for my site is the
ease of finding Windows people vs. even Unix people, let alone z/OS.
Google is your friend. :-)
http://lug.wsu.edu
I'm assuming that WSU is your employer based on your e-mail address -- or
at least that you
Mark, post the JCL-Error you see
A neat trick (BYPASS.RC is always 0)
//EXEC SET DB2D=0, 0=BYPASS, 1=EXECUTE
// DB2C=0, 0=BYPASS, 1=EXECUTE
// DB2B=0, 0=BYPASS, 1=EXECUTE
// DB2S=0, 0=BYPASS, 1=EXECUTE
// DB2T=0, 0=BYPASS, 1=EXECUTE
//
Ray Mullins writes:
As Timothy and Marcia are both marketing folks, you're right, Alan, they
would not be able to speak for IBM regarding ISVs
I'm not a marketing guy. Nor (to anticipate the next question) do I get
commissions. To my wallet's shame, really. The occasional bonus, yes. I
In a recent note, Mark Carbaugh said:
Subject: IF/THEN/ELSE/ENDIF
Can anyone tell me why this does not work with out the START step?
//IFTHEN JOB (999),'TEST JOB',
// CLASS=A,MSGCLASS=A,
// NOTIFY=MARKC
//*
// SET TEMP=04
//STARTEXEC PGM=IEFBR14
//*
Dave,
I have already reported the problem to SBM. Daud Matthews has left KSU since
many years.
Regards;
Nafez Al-Besheeti
Sys. Prog.
KSU
Tel : 014675707
Mobile : 0504433206
Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In a recent note, Jim Harrison said:
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 17:28:54 -0400
Not really. Since the *ix boxes max out at 30% utilization, you need
This statement has been repeated so often among mainframe
partisans that it has come to be accepted without question.
Can someone provide a
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