Re: IBM to Break Petaflops Barrier with Blue Gene/P

2007-07-06 Thread Birger Heede
Edward Jaffe wrote: Ed Gould wrote: IBM to Break Petaflops Barrier with Blue Gene/P Computer Business Online via Yahoo! UK Ireland News Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:44 PM PDT The race is on to build the first supercomputer that can break 1 petaflops of aggregate number-crunching power, and IBM is

Re: Copy DSS Dump File to DASD

2007-07-06 Thread Scott Barry
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 07/05/2007 11:28:50 AM: I think I'm out of luck, but wanted to verify first. We're z/OS 1.7. We've had a number of small DSS DUMP files written to tape that I want to move to DISK. Unfortunately, it seems that the dump files on tape

Re: HSM tapes

2007-07-06 Thread Perryman, Brian
I'm still not getting anywhere with this, folks.. :-( (I'm assuming that recycling tape backups onto DASD backups is actually possible..? I don't like giving up on things easily but if it's flogging a dead horse, as they say..) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: IBM to Break Petaflops Barrier with Blue Gene/P

2007-07-06 Thread Shane
On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 09:20 +0200, Birger Heede wrote: Will it run z/OS, z/VM, z/VSE or any other mainframe operating system? My guess is that it will 'similar' to the support by Blue Gene/L that use a 'Linux like kernel' (Blue Gene Runtime System). Well in that case (if it has USB

Re: Mainframe Blog Posting re: Mainframe Migrations to z

2007-07-06 Thread Paul Gillis
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Friday, 6 July 2007 4:47 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe Blog Posting re: Mainframe Migrations to z On Jul 5, 2007, at 12:47 AM, Clem Clarke wrote: Hi Tim, I

Re: Copy DSS Dump File to DASD

2007-07-06 Thread Chicklon, Tom
Thanks Scott. Going forward, when DSS creates the new dump data sets on DASD, there's no problem. I was only trying to copy previous back ups to DISK, which apparently can't be done. Tom --- I think I'm out of luck, but wanted to verify first. We're z/OS

Re: IBM to Break Petaflops Barrier with Blue Gene/P

2007-07-06 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Ed Gould wrote: IBM to Break Petaflops Barrier with Blue Gene/P Computer Business Online via Yahoo! UK Ireland News Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:44 PM PDT The race is on to build the first supercomputer

Re: Copy DSS Dump File to DASD

2007-07-06 Thread Chicklon, Tom
Todd, this is not a stupid suggestion at all. Many (most?) of these data sets contain back up copies of existing VSAM datasets, so restoring them without a rename would be a problem, unless I: - restore them to my test system (no shared catalogs) - rerun DSS back up on test system, with output to

Re: Copy DSS Dump File to DASD

2007-07-06 Thread Chicklon, Tom
Thanks for the confirmation Andrew, this is as I suspected. I guess we'll just have to wait for the tape data sets to roll off (they are all GDGs). Tom Chicklon --- Tom, I'm sorry, but there is no way that I know of to do that. Thanks, Andrew Wilt

Re: Copy DSS Dump File to DASD

2007-07-06 Thread Burrell, C. Todd (CDC/OCOO/ITSO) (CTR)
This may be a stupid suggestion, but why not just restore the data to spare volume(s), and then recreate the dump on disk with the same dataset name as the current tape (rerun the dump)? Since the COPYDUMP command does not seem to be a good option, I'd just try to recreate the dump in another

Re: HSM tapes

2007-07-06 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Brian, Have you submitted an ETR to IBM? It might be the best way to find out if this is doable and where you(we) are going awry. Dave From: Perryman, Brian Sent: Fri 7/6/2007 5:04 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: HSM tapes I'm still not getting

Group Capacity

2007-07-06 Thread Errol Van staden
Hi List. Does anyone know whether or not the z/OS 1.8 new feature which enables a group of LPARs to be managed at a defined capacity, would require the elligable LPARs to all be in the same Sysplex, or not -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: IBM to Break Petaflops Barrier with Blue Gene/P

2007-07-06 Thread Thomas H Puddicombe
Probably not. And it probably won't even calculate the exact value of PI g,d,r This is a PRIVATE message. If you are

Re: 9840C allocations on z/OS 1.7

2007-07-06 Thread Lieven Borgs
Oops, missed that one. If they are stan-alone there is no need for HSC or SMC. The only option is to work with esoterics as for any other stand-alone tape drive. Cheers, Lieven -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: HSM tapes

2007-07-06 Thread Staller, Allan
Check arccmdxx for SETSYS RECYCLEOUTPUT also RECYCLEINPUTDEALLOCFREQUENCY. The latter has nothing to do with The output, but it can keep you from getting into trouble on the input side HTH, -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: 1.7 and Internal Reader

2007-07-06 Thread J R
There is a feature in JCL processing, long since forgotten, which allows to place nearly any JCL onto the IEFRDER statement when needed. long since forgotten by whom? From: Kenneth E Tomiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To:

The Mainframe Lives!

2007-07-06 Thread Howard Brazee
Network World article: http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/17133 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the

Re: The Mainframe Lives!

2007-07-06 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 8:43 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: The Mainframe Lives! Network World article: http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=3Dnode/17133 SNIP I

Re: Group Capacity

2007-07-06 Thread Errol Van staden
I was kinda hoping it would not require all the LPARs to be in the same Sysplex, as that can be achieved by a combination of soft capping and IRD (same Sysplex) now anyway. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Group Capacity

2007-07-06 Thread Shane
On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 07:50 -0500, Errol Van staden wrote: Hi List. Does anyone know whether or not the z/OS 1.8 new feature which enables a group of LPARs to be managed at a defined capacity, would require the elligable LPARs to all be in the same Sysplex, or not Has to be same CEC. RMF

Re: Looking for sample TRANSMIT output files

2007-07-06 Thread Rick Fochtman
-snip--- XMITMGR is nice but has some limitations. I plan to include it in FILE760 on the CBTTAPE in August. Maybe not. Does anybody have 3330 (or even older), 3350, 3375, or 3380 transmit files with something more than a three record member in

Re: Tape Image? (was: Copy DSS Dump File to DASD)

2007-07-06 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 18:15:01 -0500, Kenneth E Tomiak wrote: Check out AWSTAPE and see if that helps. Thanks! Looks very promising with a few hundred Google hits. Can someone help me narrow the search for conversion utilities? Do any run on z/OS? Do I need to explore the H-word? I should have

Re: The Mainframe Lives!

2007-07-06 Thread Ken Porowski
Steve, Take out the '3D' in your link. http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/17133 Yes, Yahoo did appear to be down this morning, it's working for me now. Ken Porowski AVP Systems Software CIT Group E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Thompson, Steve -Original

Re: The Mainframe Lives!

2007-07-06 Thread Thompson, Steve
Thanx. I missed that 3D. And Yahoo! is now back and functioning for me again. I wonder if they would be a good candidate for z/ARCH... Later, Steve Thompson -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Porowski Sent: Friday, July 06,

Re: Tape Image? (was: Copy DSS Dump File to DASD)

2007-07-06 Thread Bruce Black
To create on disk (preferably stream rather than CKD) an image of a tape suitable for transmission by FTP BINARY even to a non-IBM system, and from there recreating the original tape with all labels and data sets intact. Good thought. The TSO TRANSMIT command can convert a DSS dump into an

Re: FORTRAN

2007-07-06 Thread Bruce Black
But you can't get rid of it: many of the engineers that developed the code have calculated their last structural element tensor, pocketed their slide rule, and moved on to wherever engineers go (there are definite theological debates over the fates of engineers vs. non-engineers ;-) )...

3590-e11

2007-07-06 Thread Crispin Hugo
Has anyone had problems with 3590-E11 on A60 in system mode and z/OS ? We have 3590-B11's on A50 in system mode and they work fine. We have just acquired 2 3990-E11's on an A60 controller and when in system mode, they do not load tapes . They just sit there with MPRIVAT flashing away. The

Re: Tape Image? (was: Copy DSS Dump File to DASD)

2007-07-06 Thread Rick Fochtman
-snip Check out AWSTAPE and see if that helps. Thanks! Looks very promising with a few hundred Google hits. Can someone help me narrow the search for conversion utilities? Do any run on z/OS? Do I need to explore the H-word? I should have

Re: 3590-e11

2007-07-06 Thread Crispin Hugo
Bill, The engineers are looking into that. They seem to think its our fault, that we have not done something. Just wanted to know if anybody in the great outside had had a similar problem. All suggestions gratefully received Crispin Hugo Systems Programmer, Macro 4

Re: Group Capacity

2007-07-06 Thread Al Sherkow
The LPARs do not need to be in the same sysplex. This is one of the very interesting features of the Group Capacity Limit. Sites have asked for this for a very long, perhaps back to the beginning of Workload License Charges. You can now set this parameter for all LPARs, and achieve for example:

Re: 3590-e11

2007-07-06 Thread Bill Wilkie
You may want to see if there is a microcode upgrade for that device. Bill From: Crispin Hugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: 3590-e11 Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 17:15:43 +0100 Has anyone had problems with 3590-E11 on

Re: 3590-e11

2007-07-06 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 7/6/2007 11:21:08 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: we have not done something. Just wanted to know if anybody in the great outside had had a similar problem. All suggestions gratefully received Stuff I can think of: 1)Did you make a new

Re: Group Capacity

2007-07-06 Thread Jacky Hofbauer
Group Capacity Limit is a technical enhancements for z9 to falicitating management. and not a cost control enhancement. It works inside a group and so it works overall for the CPC that if all the lpar are in same and single group. I think that it is not satisfactory but it is better than the

Re: The Mainframe Lives!

2007-07-06 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 11:11:58 -0400, Thompson, Steve wrote: And Yahoo! is now back and functioning for me again. I wonder if they would be a good candidate for z/ARCH... IBMLink would be another good candidate, IMO. -- Tom Marchant

Re: Looking for sample TRANSMIT output files

2007-07-06 Thread Tony Harminc
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 08:53:18 -0500, Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What, no 2311, 2321 or 2305 stuff?? :-) IIRC, 3340 was also fairly popular at one time. There never existed an IBM OS that supported both 2311/2321 and TSO XMIT. Tony H

Re: Tape Image? (was: Copy DSS Dump File to DASD)

2007-07-06 Thread Tony Harminc
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 09:19:13 -0500, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone help me narrow the search for conversion utilities? Do any run on z/OS? Most certainly. Search the CBT file list for AWS and HET. Do I need to explore the H-word? I should have recalled that such a facility

Fw: Calling a Web Service from COBOL

2007-07-06 Thread Bill Klein
See long ongoing thread with same subject in comp.lang.cobol morde1ac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hi All. My company is currently running IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS V3.4. We are also running SAP. I would like to create a web service in SAP, then call

Re: Looking for sample TRANSMIT output files

2007-07-06 Thread Kenneth E Tomiak
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 12:52:27 -0500, Tony Harminc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 08:53:18 -0500, Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What, no 2311, 2321 or 2305 stuff?? :-) IIRC, 3340 was also fairly popular at one time. There never existed an IBM OS that supported both

Re: Group Capacity

2007-07-06 Thread Shane
Al Sherkow wrote: The LPARs do not need to be in the same sysplex. Thanks Al,that all sounds like goodness. Sorry I missed your session in Sydney a few weeks back - as you know I was *real* close to occupying a seat. Jacky Hofbauer wrote: I think that it is not satisfactory but it is better

Re: Group Capacity

2007-07-06 Thread Edward Jaffe
Shane wrote: Jacky Hofbauer wrote: I think that it is not satisfactory but it is better than the Lpar single Softcapping. Also I noted a problem: if just one LPAR in a group undergoes a loop of CPU, all the group can be softcapped: It is dangerous! This is inherent with any capping

Re: Group Capacity

2007-07-06 Thread Al Sherkow
Ed -- An LPAR may have an individual defined capacity and be part of a Group with a Group Capacity Limit. The LPAR defined capacity can keep an LPAR from having an 4-hour rolling average that is too high. The group capacity limit keeps the simultaneous 4-hour rolling average of the group from