Re: How old are you?

2007-08-03 Thread Jimenez Coloma, Jesus
40 - Jesús Jiménez Coloma -Mensaje original- De: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre de Shaffer, Keith C WDC31 Enviado el: viernes, 03 de agosto de 2007 1:53 Para: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Asunto: Re: How old are you? 26 -

Re: How old are you?

2007-08-03 Thread Jim McAlpine
On 8/3/07, Steve Comstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lester, Bob wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 4:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How old are you?

Re: MVS - Z/OS Job Market, What should the rates be?

2007-08-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 07/27/2007 at 07:50 PM, Danielle Duarte [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I do apologize for the misspelling in my previous email and if I offended anyone by using this listserv as a resource for my recruiting efforts. I am sorry. The general rule is to get prior approval from

Enable TCP/IP function in mainframe

2007-08-03 Thread Lanny Niu
Hi guys, If I want to enable the TCP/IP function in our z/os(z800) enviroment; what matters (risk) I sholud be concern? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

FW: Distance between primary and DR site

2007-08-03 Thread David Boyes
-Original Message- From: David Boyes Sent: Fri 8/3/2007 6:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: David Boyes Subject: Distance between primary and DR site If you can't afford (or your bosses are too cheap) to do a full risk study, I use what I call the Greek Elements model: Consider the

Fw: COBOL Group moves

2007-08-03 Thread Bill Klein
Farley, Peter x23353 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... -Original Message- snip Tables are another reason to use INITIALIZE, I don't believe VALUE on table elements works. snip One can use a VALUE clause on an element of a table (and have since the '85

Re: How old are you?

2007-08-03 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
How did all of you keep your sanity... Herbie 42.359 Who says any of us are sane??? Don't you read the rants that come up in these posts??? Jon (58) Jon L. Veilleux [EMAIL PROTECTED] (860) 636-2683 This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you think you have

Re: How old are you?

2007-08-03 Thread Bill Wilkie
Not only are you counted, you are NEEDED to skew that average age down! Bill From: legolas wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How old are you? Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 09:09:57 -0700 Hi all I am 26, but I am a

Re: OT query, but related to m/f -s

2007-08-03 Thread Fletcher, Kevin
snip I read that the company hosting the servers decided to move them and haven't been able to get them running again. /snip Read Willie Favero's blog at http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/database/db2zos/archives/what-happens-when-yo u-cant-move-3700-servers-18087 you will probably get wrap so

Re: Damaged Catalog Alert

2007-08-03 Thread Joel C. Ewing
Blair Svihra wrote: APAR OA19870 As the result of IBM's AUTOTUNE feature attempting to re-open a BCS, message IEC331I 026-008(21080018) was issued by the Catalog Address Space. This error indicates that a VSAM record management error has occurred. The RPL Feedback Word (RPLFDBWD) reported by

EMC Microcode Upgrade

2007-08-03 Thread Jim Marshall
Last Sunday we upgrade all our microcode to the latest level in our DMX boxes to the 5671.65.69 level. EMC assured us it was not bleeding edge and has been done in many other places with no problems reported. Since Sunday we have been experience problems with SNAPs and have reported it as a

Re: How old are you?

2007-08-03 Thread Fletcher, Kevin
How did all of you keep your sanity... Sane? I am on the wrong list? BTW - 45 Fletch -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

FW: Re: IBMLink down

2007-08-03 Thread Chase, John
FYI From: CICS List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mary Rees Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 7:11 AM I also contacted Mark about the IBMLink outages, and he said I could post this information to the CICS List:

Re: Distance between primary and DR site

2007-08-03 Thread Mark Jacobs
Thomas Berg wrote: == FRASER, Brian == wrote2007-08-03 13:37: snip If there was water nearby, you should be at least 2.5 times the width of the body of water. /snip The Pacific Ocean is nearby, I guess we'll have to build the DR where? On the Moon !! *That* would be a

Re: EMC Microcode Upgrade

2007-08-03 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 08:11:39 -0500, Jim Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last Sunday we upgrade all our microcode to the latest level in our DMX boxes to the 5671.65.69 level. EMC assured us it was not bleeding edge and has been done in many other places with no problems reported. Since

Re: IBMLink down

2007-08-03 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 7:49 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: FW: Re: IBMLink down FYI SNIPAGE Due to the IBMLINK/ServiceLink Web outages over the

IBM buys Princeton Softech

2007-08-03 Thread Phil Smith III
...hot off the presses, no announcement even on Princeton's site yet. ...phsiii -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the

Re: IBM's Project Big Green Spurs Global Shift to Linux on Mainframe

2007-08-03 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 13:23:32 -0500, Eric Chevalier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that's certainly good news about System z hardware. But I don't see very many jobs opening up for *z/OS* Systems Programmers as a result of this project. But it may help reduce job closings for z/OS folks. Linux on

Re: Why is not AIX ported to z/Series?

2007-08-03 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
William, Except of course that the perceptions is still that Linux is Open Source / unsupported / bug-prone / security risk / not for a Production workload... If CA or IBM released an official Linux, and charged for it, maybe... Regards Herbie -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Why is not AIX ported to z/Series?

2007-08-03 Thread William Richter
Why is not AIX ported to z/Series? It should provide the customer the same benefits as Linux on z/Series -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message:

Re: OT query, but related to m/f -s

2007-08-03 Thread Mark Hammond
I read that the company hosting the servers decided to move them and haven't been able to get them running again. Mark Hammond -Original Message- in addition to this great list, i am subscribed to a db2 listserver. about 3 or 4 days ago, i ceased to receive any messages from that db2

Re: Why is not AIX ported to z/Series?

2007-08-03 Thread Chris Mason
All, Note that Tom's reference - at least in the version of the post I received - seems to cause dropping of the final right bracket. Probably all most folk would need to know about this is contained in the following paragraph from the Wikipedia article: quote AIX on IBM Mainframes In

Re: Why is not AIX ported to z/Series?

2007-08-03 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
I think you might actually be correct. I worked for an Oil company that had an Amdahl 57?? and they bought an Australian written package (MIMS) that was developed on UNIX, this was then later ported to the 'AIX' on the 5700, I don't think that AIX on the mainframe is still available though... Is

Re: Why is not AIX ported to z/Series?

2007-08-03 Thread Thomas Kern
I think it was ported to IBM's mainframes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_AIX_(operating_system) /Tom Kern /301-903-2211 On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:19:44 -0500, William Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is not AIX ported to z/Series? It should provide the customer the same benefits as Linux on

Re: Heads up: Planned IBM Automated Delivery Requst server Outage this weekend

2007-08-03 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 8/3/2007 9:42:37 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, I already know it would be nice if such outage info were posted to a public website thus avoiding the need for this posting, and yes I know it would be nice if the upgrade were implemented

Re: IBMLink down

2007-08-03 Thread Robert Justice
Remind me not to ever work with the IBM Web Authentication system. Jon. I second that. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

Re: IBMLink down

2007-08-03 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 8/3/2007 9:06:27 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: guess going to the top and making things painfully visible does get results. Probably gets the audit all flag turned on too ** Get a sneak peek of the

Re: How old are you?

2007-08-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/02/2007 at 07:52 AM, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: We have created a new poll to determine the average age of mainframe IT people. If I don't count my thumbs I'm 77. 3F forever! -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: Why is not AIX ported to z/Series?

2007-08-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of William Richter Why is not AIX ported to z/Series? It should provide the customer the same benefits as Linux on z/Series At this point in history, it would probably be considered redundant to do so. In

Re: OMVS

2007-08-03 Thread Ron Wells
In OMVS how can you send a control-c (SIGINT) to a foreground process? -- Email Disclaimer This E-mail contains confidential information belonging to the sender, which may be legally privileged information. This

Re: How old are you?

2007-08-03 Thread Robert Fake
I'm 46 years old now. I started Assembler programming on a 360 when I was 18. Best move I ever made. I've always thought that the mainframes were here to stay and the move to non-mainframe platforms was driven significantly by the trade rags in the 90's. Our product and services business is

Re: How old are you?

2007-08-03 Thread Bielskie, Stephen
Mikael, That's the golden question...make it another 30-40 years? Retirement...what's that? 31 years old - 10 years experience... -Steve -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mikael Wargh Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 4:44 AM

Re: Why is not AIX ported to z/Series?

2007-08-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Van Dalsen, Herbie William, Except of course that the perceptions is still that Linux is Open Source / unsupported / bug-prone / security risk / not for a Production workload... If CA or IBM released an

Re: IBM buys Princeton Softech

2007-08-03 Thread Andy White
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0286134.htm Andy Internet: Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 08/03/2007 09:09:27 AM: ...hot off the presses, no announcement even on Princeton's site yet. ...phsiii The

OT query, but related to m/f -s

2007-08-03 Thread Bonno, Tuco
in addition to this great list, i am subscribed to a db2 listserver. about 3 or 4 days ago, i ceased to receive any messages from that db2 listsever. my query * to the list owner/moderator are bouncing as undeliverable. the address i had for the db2 listserver owner is/was [EMAIL

Re: PDS to SEQ and back to PDS

2007-08-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 07/24/2007 at 09:13 AM, Earnie Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I am in need of a fairly straightforward method of turning a PDS into a flat file (for modifications) and then back into a PDS. I would advise against that approach. Some assistance/suggestions, please?

Re: How old are you?

2007-08-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shaffer, Keith C WDC31 26 Welcome to Big Iron! The naysayers notwithstanding, I predict the opportunities that await you in this segment of IT will be nothing short of spectacular! -jc-

Re: How old are you?

2007-08-03 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 10:54:04 -0500, Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... My sympathies. Turned 57 today ... Don't worry; you'll outgrow it ... youngster. Pat O'Keefe -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: How old are you?

2007-08-03 Thread Roberto Halais
57 On 8/3/07, Patrick O'Keefe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 10:54:04 -0500, Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... My sympathies. Turned 57 today ... Don't worry; you'll outgrow it ... youngster. Pat O'Keefe

Re: How old are you?

2007-08-03 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
How did all of you keep your sanity... Herbie 42.359 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim McAlpine Sent: 03 Augustus 2007 09:04 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How old are you? On 8/3/07, Steve Comstock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How old are you?

2007-08-03 Thread Mikael Wargh
Congratulations! I'm 26 and been working with mainframes over seven years. Wonder how to manage it to 70 (or even 60)... ;) -Mikael -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Samson Sent: 3. elokuuta 2007 2:13 To:

Re: Unicode Code Dynamic Table Loading

2007-08-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs SYS1.SCUNIMG is only needed [in the linklist] if you expect DB2 to load its default unicode image without having to build and load it at ipl time Thanks. Another question I'll have to try to remember

Re: Distance between primary and DR site

2007-08-03 Thread Thomas Berg
== FRASER, Brian == wrote2007-08-03 13:37: snip If there was water nearby, you should be at least 2.5 times the width of the body of water. /snip The Pacific Ocean is nearby, I guess we'll have to build the DR where? On the Moon !! *That* would be a serious DR site ! --

Re: OMVS

2007-08-03 Thread Ron Wells
John--- Yes---TSO OMVS as for pref of what the Linux guys want...do not think they would care..if easier to get into OMVS that would be better/easier they would be happy... How would that be setupnot familiar with what you are saying ...

Re: OMVS

2007-08-03 Thread Mark Jacobs
Ron Wells wrote: John--- Yes---TSO OMVS as for pref of what the Linux guys want...do not think they would care..if easier to get into OMVS that would be better/easier they would be happy... How would that be setupnot familiar with what you are saying ... Setup and run the SSH daemon

Re: How old are you?

2007-08-03 Thread SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN Christian Blesa
Last tuesday I celebrated my birthday... 28 years old so I'm in the 7%! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Re: COBOL Group moves

2007-08-03 Thread Kirk Talman
I vote for abend S0C7 on MOVE N2 TO N4. IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 08/01/2007 07:15:30 AM: Hi, I have a query regarding the following group move: 01 GRP1. 05 N1 PIC S9(9) COMP-3 VALUE +0. 05 N2 PIC S9(9) COMP-3

Re: OMVS

2007-08-03 Thread Ron Wells
Mark Yes I did...only because the control-c did not work for user...they are on Linux logged into OMVS and was running java and could not interupt it..(control-c) -- Email Disclaimer This E-mail contains confidential

Re: Distance between primary and DR site

2007-08-03 Thread FRASER, Brian
snip If there was water nearby, you should be at least 2.5 times the width of the body of water. /snip The Pacific Ocean is nearby, I guess we'll have to build the DR where? On the Moon !! --- This e-mail is sent

Re: COBOL Group moves

2007-08-03 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
-Original Message- From: Bill Klein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 6:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Fw: COBOL Group moves Farley, Peter x23353 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... -Original Message- snip

Heads up: Planned IBM Automated Delivery Requst server Outage this weekend

2007-08-03 Thread Kurt Quackenbush
In an effort be proactive and hopefully avoid (1) some headache on your part, and (2) unnecessary calls to IBM support, I am writing to let you know about a planned outage this weekend for the IBM Automated Delivery Request server infrastructure. More specifically, the backend server that

Re: Distance between primary and DR site

2007-08-03 Thread Shane
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 21:37 +1000, FRASER, Brian wrote: snip If there was water nearby, you should be at least 2.5 times the width of the body of water. /snip The Pacific Ocean is nearby, I guess we'll have to build the DR where? On the Moon !! Get serious fella. Birdsville sounds good

Re: OMVS

2007-08-03 Thread Mark Jacobs
Ron Wells wrote: In OMVS how can you send a control-c (SIGINT) to a foreground process? - Have you tried the kill command with the pid number of the process? -- Mark Jacobs Technical Services Time Customer Service - Tampa, FL -- The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can

Re: OMVS

2007-08-03 Thread Peter X. DeFabritus
In OMVS, at the bottom of the screen you should see definitions for various PF keys, and also the esacpe character. This usually shows as ESC=cents sign. To send SIGINT, enter the escape character followed by the letter c. On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 11:24:12 -0500, Ron Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Unicode Code Dynamic Table Loading

2007-08-03 Thread Mark Jacobs
Chase, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs SYS1.SCUNIMG is only needed [in the linklist] if you expect DB2 to load its default unicode image without having to build and load it at ipl time Thanks. Another question

Re: OMVS

2007-08-03 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Wells Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 12:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: OMVS John--- Yes---TSO OMVS as for pref of what the Linux guys want...do not think they

Re: Distance between primary and DR site

2007-08-03 Thread Thomas Berg
== Mark Jacobs == wrote2007-08-03 14:21: Thomas Berg wrote: == FRASER, Brian == wrote2007-08-03 13:37: snip If there was water nearby, you should be at least 2.5 times the width of the body of water. /snip The Pacific Ocean is nearby, I guess we'll have to build

Re: IBMLink down

2007-08-03 Thread Jon Brock
Remind me not to ever work with the IBM Web Authentication system. Jon snip The IBMLINK/ServiceLink Web service was disrupted on July 30 and 31 for approximately 3 hours each day due to a Information Technology Infrastructure problem with the **IBM Web Authentication** system . . .

Re: Unicode Code Dynamic Table Loading

2007-08-03 Thread Fletcher, Kevin
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs SYS1.SCUNIMG is only needed [in the linklist] if you expect DB2 to load its default unicode image without having to build and load it at ipl time There is also an APAR (OA19072) if you try to start

Re: OMVS

2007-08-03 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Wells Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 11:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: OMVS Mark Yes I did...only because the control-c did not work for user...they are on Linux

Re: How old are you?

2007-08-03 Thread Kirk Talman
The best discounts are that in Cobb county GA you don't pay school taxes after 62 (1/2 the bill) and in GA there is hefty discount on state income taxes after 62. More to come at 65. pup IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 08/02/2007 12:17:19 PM: I keep forgetting

Re: OMVS

2007-08-03 Thread Ron Wells
John Thanks...will look into thiswe use por 23 for tn3270 thought the older telnet had to be defined in BPXparm and TCPIP parm's for port to use?? not just in OMVS...guess I'm wrong?? -- Email Disclaimer This E-mail

Re: OMVS

2007-08-03 Thread Edward Jaffe
Ron Wells wrote: In OMVS how can you send a control-c (SIGINT) to a foreground process? If you logon to the same system where the user's process is running, you can issue the kill -s INT pid command from the OMVS shell or telnet/ssh session. To find out the pid, you can issue ps -A or use

Re: How old are you?

2007-08-03 Thread Howard Brazee
On 3 Aug 2007 10:14:10 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The best discounts are that in Cobb county GA you don't pay school taxes after 62 (1/2 the bill) and in GA there is hefty discount on state income taxes after 62. More to come at 65. I find that I take senior discounts - but guiltily.

Re: SMS library definition [was: SMS version]

2007-08-03 Thread Neil Duffee
On 3 Aug 2007 at 03:31, concerning Re: SMS version, Víctor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote to IBM-Main: This question is related to our true problem. We have a Sysplex, with its only SMS configuration. [snip] We get the error RC 12 RS 62. It means the SPECIFIED LIBRARY IS NOT DEFINED TO THE ACTIVE

Re: OMVS

2007-08-03 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Wells Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 12:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: OMVS John Thanks...will look into thiswe use por 23 for tn3270 thought the older telnet had

Re: OMVS

2007-08-03 Thread Mark Jacobs
Ron Wells wrote: John Thanks...will look into thiswe use por 23 for tn3270 thought the older telnet had to be defined in BPXparm and TCPIP parm's for port to use?? not just in OMVS...guess I'm wrong?? - You might want to check with your security officer about using telnet even in your

What's the new support for large files called?

2007-08-03 Thread Lindy Mayfield
When you forget the terminology it's impossible to Google or anything. Sorry about the stupid question, but: What is this new support for large datasets in, I think z/OS 1.7 or 1.8 called? I wanted to Google to find the size differences. I've Googled for 10 minutes and without the proper

Re: What's the new support for large files called?

2007-08-03 Thread Mark Jacobs
Lindy Mayfield wrote: When you forget the terminology it's impossible to Google or anything. Sorry about the stupid question, but: What is this new support for large datasets in, I think z/OS 1.7 or 1.8 called? I wanted to Google to find the size differences. I've Googled for 10 minutes and

Re: What's the new support for large files called?

2007-08-03 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lindy Mayfield Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 12:40 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: What's the new support for large files called? When you forget the terminology it's impossible

Re: What's the new support for large files called?

2007-08-03 Thread John P Kalinich
Lindy Mayfield of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 08/03/2007 12:40:19 PM: When you forget the terminology it's impossible to Google or anything. Sorry about the stupid question, but: What is this new support for large datasets in, I think z/OS 1.7 or 1.8

Re: What's the new support for large files called?

2007-08-03 Thread David Betten
Check out this manual for a good description of large format datasets. z/OS DFSMS: Using the New Functions Document Number SC26-7473-02 Have a nice day, Dave Betten DFSORT Development, Performance Lead IBM Corporation email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DFSORT/MVSontheweb at

Re: What's the new support for large files called?

2007-08-03 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Now that you say it... (-: Doh! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Sent: 3. elokuuta 2007 20:42 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: What's the new support for large files called? Lindy Mayfield wrote: When you

Re: OMVS

2007-08-03 Thread Edward Jaffe
Ron Wells wrote: John Thanks...will look into thiswe use por 23 for tn3270 thought the older telnet had to be defined in BPXparm and TCPIP parm's for port to use?? not just in OMVS...guess I'm wrong?? We use port 23 for TN3270 and port 1023 for OMVS telnet. We continue to configure

Re: How old are you?

2007-08-03 Thread Gary Green
There's always vitamin V. ;) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Porowski Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 12:20 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How old are you? Old enough to know better but young enough to do it

Re: How old are you?

2007-08-03 Thread Gary Green
As am I; 56 that is! However, my S.O. who is older than I, but on bad days, you would think she was my daughter. :( -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richards.Bob Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 12:17 PM To:

Re: How old are you?

2007-08-03 Thread Gary Green
You're only as young, or old, as you feel. So Steve, how old do you feel? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 6:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How old are you? Stephen

VSAM Linear Dataset n00b question

2007-08-03 Thread Lindy Mayfield
I must be having bad luck today with docs and googling. Is it possible to access VSAM linear data sets without going through the DIV macros? By using VSAM macros? I have to admit a bit of confusion. When I look at data spaces and hiperspaces they say: You can use temporary, or persistent via

Re: How old are you?

2007-08-03 Thread Richards.Bob
My S.O., who many SHARE attendees met in Anaheim, *IS* young enough (37) to be my daughter! g,dr When we got back from SHARE, she installed Hercules on her PC before I did on mine! (Then she said to me: What else is this stuff good for? What games can I play on it? grin) Bob Richards

Re: What's the new support for large files called?

2007-08-03 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 8/3/2007 12:52:00 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Check out this manual for a good description of large format datasets. z/OS DFSMS: Using the New Functions Document Number SC26-7473-02 A later version is available now dated SEP 06 -

Re: Enable TCP/IP function in mainframe

2007-08-03 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
It depends on what the network connects to. Our mainframe is on a network with a few dozen work stations but the network never leaves our office. Other mainframes are connected to the internet. The issues are very different between the two. -Original Message- From: Lanny Niu

Re: What's the new support for large files called?

2007-08-03 Thread Scott Barry
And, the individual application (or software) must also support the interface, for example consider SAS. Per their SAS.COM support information, specific maintenance on top of SAS 9.1.3 SP4 is required for disk-allocated SAS data libraries, but it's not clearly stated about a SAS PROC COPY

Re: Enable TCP/IP function in mainframe

2007-08-03 Thread Matthew Stitt
I would worry most about the security people at your company. g For some reason managers seem to feel the mainframe is a more vulnerable machine for outside access than the other systems in the same room. On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 11:37:07 -0700, Schwarz, Barry A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It depends

Re: How old are you?

2007-08-03 Thread Rick Fochtman
---snip--- How did all of you keep your sanity... ---unsnip-- Coffee, alcohol, tobacco, beating our heads against the wall until we got tired of the squishy sound. Sanity is relative, but I got no sane relatives.

Re: Enable TCP/IP function in mainframe

2007-08-03 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Stitt Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 1:43 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Enable TCP/IP function in mainframe I would worry most about the security people at your

Re: How old are you?

2007-08-03 Thread Rick Fochtman
--snip-- Not funny, Steve, not funny! (Well, actually it is, because I am smiling, but.) :-) -unsnip- At least you still have ahir, Bob. I've got a real good solar panel for a sex machine. :-D

Re: Question on Fille Allocations

2007-08-03 Thread Jim Mulder
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 08/02/2007 07:25:00 PM: In base JCL there is a parameter SUBSYS= for file allocations on a DD statement. Does anyone happen to know what the equivalent parameter is when using TSO ALLOCATE command? I've looked at the TSO Command

Re: How old are you?

2007-08-03 Thread Rick Fochtman
Or you could blow your Social Security check on a Geritol binge!!! :-D -snip--- There's always vitamin V. ;) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Porowski Sent: Thursday, August

Re: Theft of mainframe DASD

2007-08-03 Thread Salway, Nigel
Everyone I believe the incident described below occurred at the Regina, SK office of ISM, an IBM subsidiary. The incident in this case involved an IDE drive from a server or other Wintel platform. As I understand the details of this incident, the disk contained, or may have contained, a

Re: Question on Fille Allocations

2007-08-03 Thread Edward Jaffe
GAVIN Darren * OPS EAS wrote: Does anyone happen to know what the equivalent parameter is when using TSO ALLOCATE command? I've looked at the TSO Command Reference and don't see anything like a Subsys parm. It's not supported by ALLOCATE. Use BPXWDYN instead. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix

Re: Enable TCP/IP function in mainframe

2007-08-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Matthew Stitt I would worry most about the security people at your company. g For some reason managers seem to

Re: Why is not AIX ported to z/Series?

2007-08-03 Thread William Richter
IMHO,IBM has not ported and licensed AIX to zSeries... because IBM does not want zSeries competing directly with AIX and Pseries servers. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Why is not AIX ported to z/Series?

2007-08-03 Thread Jack . Hamilton
Amdahl had its own Unix called UTS. I think it was well regarded, but never really took off. Did another company take it over when Amdahl was acquired? And there was Amdahl's Huron, a rule-driven database. I ended up teaching an internal class on it at Amdahl when the regular instructor

Re: Why is not AIX ported to z/Series?

2007-08-03 Thread Craddock, Chris
Amdahl had its own Unix called UTS. I think it was well regarded, but never really took off. Did another company take it over when Amdahl was acquired? Disappeared into history I think. And there was Amdahl's Huron, a rule-driven database. I ended up teaching an internal class on it at

Re: What's the new support for large files called?

2007-08-03 Thread John Eells
John P Kalinich wrote: Lindy Mayfield of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 08/03/2007 12:40:19 PM: When you forget the terminology it's impossible to Google or anything. Sorry about the stupid question, but: What is this new support for large datasets in, I think

Re: Unicode Code Dynamic Table Loading

2007-08-03 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 15:02:12 -0500, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Better late than never? From:Michael Babcock Date:Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:06:12 -0500 If I remember correctly, you must have SYS1.SCUNIMG in the linklist for the dynamic to work. We don't, and it works

Re: Unicode Code Dynamic Table Loading

2007-08-03 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 17:33:34 -0400, Mark Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SYS1.SCUNIMG is only needed if you expect DB2 to load its default unicode image without having to build and load it at ipl time It's been a while, but I thought I couldn't even get a DISPLAY UTF8 command to work in ISPF

Re: OMVS

2007-08-03 Thread Ron Wells
John... Below conflicts with something else that is there ..?? 2023 stream tcp nowait BPXROOT /usr/sbin/otelnetd otelnetd -l -D login Below is what is currently in etc/inetd.conf otelnet stream tcp nowait OMVSKERN /usr/sbin/otelnetd otelnetd -l shell stream tcp nowait OMVSKERN

Re: OMVS

2007-08-03 Thread Ron Wells
Also conflict with what is in # Start the INET daemon for remote login activity _BPX_JOBNAME='INETD',/usr/sbin/inetd /etc/inetd.conf the/\ comma is not present ??? typo ?? -- Email Disclaimer This E-mail

Re: OMVS

2007-08-03 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:47:56 -0700, Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For services we've configured more recently, we share the *same* port number between the native z/OS server and the z/OS UNIX server by using VIPA. For example, here's our TCPIP port definition for REXECD/RSHD: 512 TCP OMVS

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