Re: z/OS job market (I could just scream!)

2007-07-28 Thread Graeme Gibson
Sheesh! You guys seem to lose the plot pretty quick. I guess it's Friday so a bunch of you are off re-fighting WW2 or whatever, while your putative employers are selling your jobs off at one-third price and you're puzzled about it all. I suspect Gary Green was spot on when he wrote:

Re: Usage of KB and KiB

2007-07-28 Thread R.S.
Bruce Hewson wrote: Well folks, until M$ came along, and before KiB became a standard, I was taught the convention as: Disk: always use decimal value, i.e. KB = 1000 Bytes. Memory: always use binary value, i.e. KB = 1024 Bytes. That made it easy:. It's not easy. For example, you

Re: Usage of KB and KiB

2007-07-28 Thread Steve Comstock
R.S. wrote: Bruce Hewson wrote: Well folks, until M$ came along, and before KiB became a standard, I was taught the convention as: Disk: always use decimal value, i.e. KB = 1000 Bytes. Memory: always use binary value, i.e. KB = 1024 Bytes. That made it easy:. It's not easy. For

Re: KEY8 CSA: Pro/JCL and Info/XE

2007-07-28 Thread Peter Relson
The point I was making was that the PKM for a newly-attached TCB did not include key 9. Yet, after recovering from an abend via ESTAE, the key 9 bit in the PKM was magically added! Was I dreaming that? Didn't it work that way just a few years ago? Dreaming, I'm afraid, Ed. If storage protect

Re: KEY8 CSA: Pro/JCL and Info/XE

2007-07-28 Thread Peter Relson
For a job, your key is the key you get control in which is the TCB key. If you are authorized enough to get into supervisor state, once there you can of course switch to any key. And the system will happily let you get storage in that key, prior to the check for preventing user key csa,

Re: ICC Console

2007-07-28 Thread Chris Mason
Andy Can anyone out there who are using ICC consoles tell me how they have the console itself defined both in the consol member and hcd. This all worked for us when we had a z8 hardware we are now on z9 but I don't see why there is a difference. Here are some observations V 1001,CONSOLE

Re: XMIT loses the AC(1) attribute

2007-07-28 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:21:11 -0400, Fletcher, Kevin wrote: snip I just XMITted a load module and it lost the AC(1) attribute. snip if it was M$, it would be a feature More likely, if it was M$, it would have turned on AC(1). -- Tom Marchant

Re: Snubbing at SHARE (Was: How much do you value Share ( Was Spam from SHARE))

2007-07-28 Thread John P Kalinich
Greg Shirey of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 07/27/2007 11:42:47 AM: Yes, I got snubbed by a few of the same people as in Baltimore (and I think they were snubbing each other) though I didn't get a sticker this time. I got snubbed by a fellow Lister whose

Re: KEY8 CSA: Pro/JCL and Info/XE

2007-07-28 Thread Edward Jaffe
Peter Relson wrote: Dreaming, I'm afraid, Ed. If storage protect override exists on the machine, the PKM will start as tcbkey+key9 and will be maintained that way. If id does not exist, it would start as just tcbkey and stay that way. I searched the archives to see if this had been

Re: KEY8 CSA: Pro/JCL and Info/XE

2007-07-28 Thread Shane
On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 14:54 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: I guess Chris and I both had the same dream. Weird! So you're asserting both you and Craddock are weird ???. Can't see anyone arguing ... ;0) Shane ... (been away for a few days - must go back and see what this (thread) was all about.)

Re: KEY8 CSA: Pro/JCL and Info/XE

2007-07-28 Thread Shane
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Re: System automation subplexing

2007-07-28 Thread W. Kevin Kelley
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:27:56 +0200, Barbara Nitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There appears to be a strong connection to Notify operators within Netview/Automation. We have two operators defined that on the 'issuing' system aren't necessarily logged on. Whenever they are logged on, the message is

Re: Who is the supplier of Favor?

2007-07-28 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Chris Mason Herman Alternatively the product may now be offered by a British company in which case it could have been rebranded Favo*u*r. But given the currently correct spelling of the product's name, shouldn't