Re: High order bit in 31/24 bit address

2007-11-08 Thread Edward Jaffe
Phil Payne wrote: You can turn any feature or the lack of a feature into a benefit with enough marketing. Look at the inanity surrounding the very ordinary iPhone. Exactly. I could argue my cell phone is more accessible for blind -- or even just aging -- people because it has keys. --

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-08 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 2:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CSA 'above the bar' -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Test message

2007-11-08 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 11/8/2007 9:47:00 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is IBM Main down? This is a test message. IBM-Main is not down as far as I can determine. It's downness for others is undetermined. Bill Fairchild Franklin, TN

Re: zAAP question

2007-11-08 Thread Timothy Sipples
I think the GP engines generally are priced at around twice the price of the specialty engines. And add to the MSU cost of IBM and third party software Not necessarily nowadays, and it's a very important point to understand. The world has changed. If you're on IBM VWLC (Variable Workload

Re: SMP/E change volumes on DDDEF in new Target Zone

2007-11-08 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 11:37:15 -0500, Pinnacle wrote: Run the UNLOAD command to get the DDDEF's in UCLIN format. Then you'll have to hack the UCLIN yourself to add VOLUME and UNIT parms, and run the UCLIN through SMP/E. What data sets will SMP/E create NEW? If SMP/E creates the data sets, must

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-08 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
John, Apologies, I keep on forgetting that the '8' just signals the above the line, you and Tom and all the others are quite correct with the x'7fff', I have it now... it is a pitty that IBM did not use the lowest bit to signal the line... x'0001' for 24-bit and x'0002' for 32-bit, it

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-08 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Last one... I have not checked this for myself yet, and probably won't have the time in the next few weeks... In theory... If I allocate 200 bytes of storage at x'7f00', and my program, the way some Cobol programs are, writes 1600 bytes there, what would the addresses be, would it jump across

Re: zAAP question

2007-11-08 Thread Knutson, Sam
GP = $$$ ICF = $$ IFL or IFA = $ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 1:22 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: zAAP question -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Test message

2007-11-08 Thread Thompson, Steve
Is IBM Main down? This is a test message. If this had been a real message, then various of the members could argue as to whether or not this message contained any intelligence. Alas, this is only a test message, similar to a sharp stick, with which to poke the IBM Main server to see if it will

Re: MFNetDisk secrets and internal.

2007-11-08 Thread Shai Hess
New documentation with some of the secrets and internal of this product. People are testing and people are working with these product. www.mfnetdisk.com thanks, Shai -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

SV: COBOL COPY statement w REPLACING...

2007-11-08 Thread Thomas Berg
If You have an example of a work-around for the partial word replacement I would be grateful for that. Note that a change in existing copys is not an option. (If that would change the field names or other functional changes.) You cannot use nested COPY statements with COPY REPLACING. (IBM)

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-08 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Van Dalsen, Herbie Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 4:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CSA 'above the bar' Last one... I have not checked this for myself yet, and

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-08 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Thanks -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: 08 November 2007 04:12 nm To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CSA 'above the bar' -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: SA/Netview forwarding msg to TEC

2007-11-08 Thread Mark T. Regan, K8MTR
While we don't have SA, we use regular NetView to do this. You have to run the NetView Event Automation Services (EAS) started task. If you need additional assistance, join the NetView Yahoo group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NetView/ The IBM NetView people also participate in this

Re: Real storage usage - a quick question

2007-11-08 Thread Max Scarpa
Jumping from 4 to 25 Gb isn't a good idea, but if I have 4 Gb used and 4 unused I think there's no difference in adding, say, 2 Gb (so using 6 Gb as total). Consider we have bursts or spikes in paging and for instance our DB2 isn't performing well even if 'all runs well' as someone say.

Fw: COBOL COPY statement w REPLACING...

2007-11-08 Thread Bill Klein
I assume (but could be mistaken) that you are trying to replace a part of a string rather than a COBOL text word. Besides the fact that there are work-arounds for doing partial word replacement, you might be interested that the current ('02) standard DOES allow for replacing a leading or trailing

Free Cell Phone (was RE: High order bit in 31/24 bit address)

2007-11-08 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Phil Payne wrote: You can turn any feature or the lack of a feature into a benefit with enough marketing. Look at the inanity surrounding the very ordinary iPhone. Exactly. I could argue my cell

Be careful: Opened APARs

2007-11-08 Thread Christian Blesa
OA22716 WLM INITIATORS DO NOT START WHEN THERE IS NO CPU USING OR DELAY APAR status OPEN Error description Problem is the same as described in OA19711. OA19711 changed the algorithm in IRAPAQUE. But the change also needs to be done in IRAPABQD. When a service class is missing its goal and

Re: SMP/E change volumes on DDDEF in new Target Zone

2007-11-08 Thread Bruce Hewson
Mark, I wrote some similar REXX last December, during our end of year change freeze. Because of our procedures/standards, I know the VOLSER format of all our target/dlib/smpe volumes. Passing a volser mask for target and dlib volumes, and knowing the standard smpe volsers, the code finds all

Re: Best way to clean up NOT Cat datasets in SMS

2007-11-08 Thread Scott Barry
If you are a CA MICS customer and have the MICS DASD component, there is a CATCHECK=Y option with the VCC (VTOC/Catalog Collector) - very efficient. I have a few MICS customers I support who run a weekly VCC with the option on (left off for the regular daily runs) and then their Monday AM MICS

Re: Real storage usage - a quick question

2007-11-08 Thread Knutson, Sam
You should have the PTFs for z/OS APAR OA17114 installed if you are using paged fixed buffers in DB2 V8. Not having it was one of the causes of a z/OS outage here when a DB2 DBA accidently overcommitted storage to DB2. APAR Identifier .. OA17114 Last Changed 07/07/03 IRA400E

SA/Netview forwarding msg to TEC

2007-11-08 Thread Jie J Zhang
Hi, Any one ever tried to forward console msg to TEC using SA/Netview? We need to know some detail about how this is working and how to config it. Say we want to forward all VTAM msgs start by IST*** to TEC. With Utmost Sincerity ZHANG, Jie [Andy] 张�� TSS, zSoftware, SWG, IBM China [EMAIL

Re: COBOL COPY statement w REPLACING...

2007-11-08 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
-Original Message- From: Bill Klein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 10:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Fw: COBOL COPY statement w REPLACING... I assume (but could be mistaken) that you are trying to replace a part of a string rather than a

Re: Bruce Black passed away

2007-11-08 Thread Michael Seeman
I've been lurking this site for many years and, up to this point, had nothing significant to contribute, however; the news of Bruce's passing really had an impact. It is unusual to have an individual of Bruce's caliber so accessible, and will to share his immense storage management knowledge

Re: SMP/E change volumes on DDDEF in new Target Zone

2007-11-08 Thread Chicklon, Tom
Why would anyone ever use uncatalogued data sets? Multiple SMP/E zones with the same named datasets on different volume sets. One could use an alias (like the SSAs that server pac generates), but I prefer to know that when I set a boundary to a particular zone, that the right set of data sets

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-08 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 11/8/2007 10:02:17 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have not checked this for myself yet, and probably won't have the time in the next few weeks... In theory... If I allocate 200 bytes of storage at x'7f00', and my program, the way some Cobol

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-08 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 08:43:03 -0800 Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :There is also a one-page hole at 7000. (Another handy :implementation choice made by your friendly-neighborhood z/OS developers!) Interesting. Is that hole documented? Is there any 24 bit virtual address which is

copytree

2007-11-08 Thread Jim McAlpine
Anyone got a copy of copytree that they can send me. I've been to the unix tools and toys page and it is listed on there under the link for unix tools but if I go to that page it isn't there aggg. Jim McAlpine

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-08 Thread Edward Jaffe
Van Dalsen, Herbie wrote: Last one... I have not checked this for myself yet, and probably won't have the time in the next few weeks... In theory... If I allocate 200 bytes of storage at x'7f00', and my program, the way some Cobol programs are, writes 1600 bytes there, what would the

Re: Test message

2007-11-08 Thread Thompson, Steve
This message arrived in my inbox about 45 minutes after sending it. And that was after contacting the BAMA EDU help desk to ask questions. I had gone to the web site and noticed that it was not showing any postings for 8-NOV-07. Bill Klein's COBOL copy message was the first to show up, at about

Re: High order bit in 31/24 bit address

2007-11-08 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Rick, Ummm, the same person who figured out it was cheaper to just build all the ATM's with the same keypad, whether they were a drive-up one or one in the wall at the mall? Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman

RMDS

2007-11-08 Thread Dean Montevago
Hi, Does anyone know what product this is ? It's an IBM product, I can't find anything on IBMLINK that discribes the product. TIA Dean Dean Montevago Sr. Systems Specialist Visiting Nurse Service of New York (212) 609 - 5596 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: copytree

2007-11-08 Thread Peter X. DeFabritus
Jim, at least as far back as z/OS 1.4, copytree is now being shipped by IBM in the '/samples' directory. You no longer need to go the the Tools and Toys page. On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 17:33:41 +, Jim McAlpine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone got a copy of copytree that they can send me. I've

Re: RMDS

2007-11-08 Thread Mark Jacobs
Dean Montevago wrote: Hi, Does anyone know what product this is ? It's an IBM product, I can't find anything on IBMLINK that discribes the product. TIA Dean Dean Montevago Sr. Systems Specialist Visiting Nurse Service of New York (212) 609 - 5596 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Report

Re: High order bit in 31/24 bit address

2007-11-08 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 11:58:10 -0600 Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :And what intellectual paralytic decided that drive-up ATM's had to have :Braille keys? DU Nothing wrong with that - if placed on the passenger side, not the driver side. -- Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: High order bit in 31/24 bit address

2007-11-08 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman snip--- You can turn any feature or the lack of a feature into a benefit with enough marketing. Look at the inanity surrounding the very ordinary

Re: RMDS

2007-11-08 Thread Dean Montevago
Thanks Mark. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 1:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: RMDS Dean Montevago wrote: Hi, Does anyone know what product this is ? It's an IBM

Re: RMDS

2007-11-08 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Montevago Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: RMDS Hi, Does anyone know what product this is ? It's an IBM product, I can't find

Re: High order bit in 31/24 bit address

2007-11-08 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 11:58:10 -0600 Rick Fochtman wrote: :And what intellectual paralytic decided that drive-up ATM's had to have :Braille keys? DU Nothing wrong with that - if placed on

OPTABLE option of Disassembler

2007-11-08 Thread Lynd, Eugene (Contractor) (J6C)
The High level Assembler accepts and uses an OPTABLE parm which lets you limit the valid op codes to an architecture level such as XA or 370 (and optionally list the valid OP codes at that level). The Disassembler (ASMDASM) has a comparable ÓPTABLE option which Specifies the operation code table

Re: Bruce Black passed away

2007-11-08 Thread Ray Mullins
I am playing catch-up from fighting (and still fighting) Vista x64 fires on my own computer that has blocked my reading of e-mail...and I find this. I don't do me too type stuff, but here I must. Bruce was an excellent (and that word is not encompassing enough) contributor to this list; I have

Re: RMDS

2007-11-08 Thread Dean Montevago
Thanks John. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 1:13 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: RMDS -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Test message

2007-11-08 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 11/8/2007 9:47:00 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is IBM Main down? It was, but the three finger salute made it all better. I was mentioning Parker Brothers and Monopoly but doesn't seem as funny today

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-08 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Thanks -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of (IBM Mainframe Discussion List) Sent: 08 November 2007 04:20 nm To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CSA 'above the bar' In a message dated 11/8/2007 10:02:17 A.M. Central Standard

Re: Real storage usage - a quick question

2007-11-08 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Knutson, Sam) writes: You should have the PTFs for z/OS APAR OA17114 installed if you are using paged fixed buffers in DB2 V8. Not having it

Re: High order bit in 31/24 bit address

2007-11-08 Thread Rick Fochtman
snip--- You can turn any feature or the lack of a feature into a benefit with enough marketing. Look at the inanity surrounding the very ordinary iPhone. Exactly. I could argue my cell phone is more accessible for blind -- or even just aging --

ATMs (Was: High order bit in 31/24 bit address)

2007-11-08 Thread Edward Jaffe
Pommier, Rex R. wrote: Ummm, the same person who figured out it was cheaper to just build all the ATM's with the same keypad, whether they were a drive-up one or one in the wall at the mall? A bunch of low-life attorneys made a ton of money on this. But, it turns out that the braille

Re: OPTABLE option of Disassembler

2007-11-08 Thread Edward Jaffe
Lynd, Eugene (Contractor) (J6C) wrote: The High level Assembler accepts and uses an OPTABLE parm which lets you limit the valid op codes to an architecture level such as XA or 370 (and optionally list the valid OP codes at that level). The Disassembler (ASMDASM) has a comparable SPTABLE option

Re: High order bit in 31/24 bit address

2007-11-08 Thread Hardee, Charles H
And a lot of the roads have those bumps between the lanes. Aren't they for Braille driving? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:10 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: High

Re: High order bit in 31/24 bit address

2007-11-08 Thread Howard Brazee
On 8 Nov 2007 09:59:30 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Fochtman) wrote: And what intellectual paralytic decided that drive-up ATM's had to have Braille keys? DU Who wants to pay for the companies to supply two sets of ATM keys, one which can be used anywhere, and the other can only be

CANCEL TRANSACTION

2007-11-08 Thread HELIO
Hi, Someone I know say the way to set in omegamon for cics so a transaction automatically cancel after an excessive consuming of resources. -- Hélio José da Silva Depto. Software Básico -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: RMDS

2007-11-08 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: RMDS [...] RMDS is Report Management and Distribution System or something like that. It

Poster of computer hardware events?

2007-11-08 Thread Phil Smith III
(Cross-posted to IBM-VM and IBM-MAIN) A buddy asked me: At a previous employer, someone had an article, poster or something (I know - real specific - it was 15+ years ago) that tried to put the time for computer events into perspective. It started with the quickest instruction (RR) having a

Re: High order bit in 31/24 bit address

2007-11-08 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 11/8/2007 12:46:39 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Who wants to pay for the companies to supply two sets of ATM keys, one which can be used anywhere, and the other can only be used in walk-up ATMs? Which is also why we now have assembly and

Re: High order bit in 31/24 bit address

2007-11-08 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
Rick Fochtman wrote: And what intellectual paralytic decided that drive-up ATM's had to have Braille keys? DU My bank has a prominent sign at the entry to the drive-in lane Caution - Watch for pedestrians using ATM. And I've used it both ways. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: Poster of computer hardware events?

2007-11-08 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 11/8/2007 12:55:16 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: tried to put the time for computer events into perspective. A 100-MIPS processor can execute 100 million average instructions per secon d, so one average instruction takes one hundred-millionth

Re: Restricting a SYSPLEX LPAR with WLM

2007-11-08 Thread Bob Stark
In all the years since this post, has anyone come up with a new, good, foolproof way to have one LPAR in a JES2 SYSPLEX only run SYSPROG jobs during a test window? $P XEQ seems to work great to run no batch at all $T JOBCLASS affects the other LPARs as well as this one. $T

Re: High order bit in 31/24 bit address

2007-11-08 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 11/8/2007 11:59:26 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And what intellectual paralytic decided that drive-up ATM's had to have Braille keys? Doncha think it was same one that said standards and interchangeability were cheaper than maintaining

Re: Bruce Black passed away

2007-11-08 Thread Craddock, Chris
I'm surprised no one pulled this tidbit up to remember Bruce. From Google: Top posters: All time 4471 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3769 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3622 [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip Notice Bruce is #3 on the all-time list with 3622 posts, only following our very own mainframe historian

Re: Bruce Black passed away

2007-11-08 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Jousma, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 2:53 PM Subject: Re: Bruce Black passed away I'm surprised no one pulled this tidbit up to remember Bruce. From Google: Top posters: All time 4471 [EMAIL

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-08 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Mulder Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 6:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CSA 'above the bar' IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 11/08/2007 06:23:58 PM:

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-08 Thread Jim Mulder
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 11/08/2007 12:24:52 PM: On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 08:43:03 -0800 Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :There is also a one-page hole at 7000. (Another handy :implementation choice made by your friendly-neighborhood z/OS

Re: Even got the capitalization right!!!

2007-11-08 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
-Original Message- From: Phil Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 4:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Even got the capitalization right!!! YES!! http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.isham- research.co.uk/mainframe_2008.html Check out

Re: IBM-MAIN deliveries

2007-11-08 Thread Dave Kopischke
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 14:53:36 -0500, Jousma, David wrote: We expect that now that you are going part-time. :-) Yeah, part time: Cast out the line, Check IBM-Main Reel in a fish, Check IBM-MAIN Cast out the line again, Check IBM-Main Pop the top on a frosty one, Check IBM-Main That

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-08 Thread Jim Mulder
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 11/08/2007 07:20:09 PM: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Mulder Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 6:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CSA 'above

Re: ATMs (Was: High order bit in 31/24 bit address)

2007-11-08 Thread Ray Mullins
Most I dealt with in the mid-1980s were Tandem NonStop. Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ German is essentially a form of assembly language consisting entirely of

Re: OPTABLE option of Disassembler

2007-11-08 Thread Craddock, Chris
Roland Schiradin wrote: doesn't make sense to me. If an instruction exists in the code the disassembler should decode them based on the latest level of possible opcodes. Why would you limit this? It's all a guess. One would typically assume that, if you're disassembling code that runs on a

Re: OPTABLE option of Disassembler

2007-11-08 Thread Tony Harminc
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 13:43:23 -0600, Roland Schiradin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: doesn't make sense to me. If an instruction exists in the code the disassembler should decode them based on the latest level of possible opcodes. Why would you limit this? It's useful to limit the opcodes understood,

Re: High order bit in 31/24 bit address

2007-11-08 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 11:58 -0600 on 11/08/2007, Rick Fochtman wrote about Re: High order bit in 31/24 bit address: And what intellectual paralytic decided that drive-up ATM's had to have Braille keys? DU The one who decided that if they were in a car, they'd be in the back left seat behind the

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-08 Thread Craddock, Chris
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 10:14:42 -, Van Dalsen, Herbie wrote: Apologies, I keep on forgetting that the '8' just signals the above the line, you and Tom and all the others are quite correct with the x'7fff', I have it now... it is a pitty that IBM did not use the lowest bit to signal the

Re: OPTABLE option of Disassembler

2007-11-08 Thread Edward Jaffe
Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: Any idea which opcodes are duplicates? Where are the vector facility opcodes documented? I don't know about official IBM documentation, but Abe Kornelis has an excellent overview at his hlasm.com site. Check this out: http://www.hlasm.com/english/opcd00.htm

Re: Restricting a SYSPLEX LPAR with WLM

2007-11-08 Thread Gary Green
Not sure if this helps but I had a two step method that worked What I did was setup the JESPARMS so all Jobclasses but 1 were specified SCAN=YES (so anything submitted was scanned as though TYPRUN=SCAN was specified on the jobcard) and we, the SP's, knew what that 1, non SCAN=YES, class was.

Re: OPTABLE option of Disassembler

2007-11-08 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
-Original Message- From: Edward Jaffe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 3:13 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: OPTABLE option of Disassembler David Cole wrote: Because sometimes opcodes change meanings? Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to

Re: OPTABLE option of Disassembler

2007-11-08 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 2:13 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: OPTABLE option of Disassembler David Cole wrote: Because sometimes opcodes change

Re: OPTABLE option of Disassembler

2007-11-08 Thread Roland Schiradin
Hi Gene, doesn't make sense to me. If an instruction exists in the code the disassemble should decode them based on the latest level of possible opcodes. Why would you limit this? Roland The High level Assembler accepts and uses an OPTABLE parm which lets you limit the valid op codes to an

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-08 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 10:14:42 -, Van Dalsen, Herbie wrote: Apologies, I keep on forgetting that the '8' just signals the above the line, you and Tom and all the others are quite correct with the x'7fff', I have it now... it is a pitty that IBM did not use the lowest bit to signal the

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-08 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 6:27 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CSA 'above the bar' Thompson, Steve wrote: You did say dedicated. And it certainly appears to me to

Re: High order bit in 31/24 bit address

2007-11-08 Thread Ed Gould
On Nov 8, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 11:58:10 -0600 Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :And what intellectual paralytic decided that drive-up ATM's had to have :Braille keys? DU Nothing wrong with that - if placed on the passenger side, not

Re: OPTABLE option of Disassembler

2007-11-08 Thread Edward Jaffe
David Cole wrote: Because sometimes opcodes change meanings? Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that some of the new opcodes that came out in the late 90s were the same as some of the old vector processor opcodes. ... I never knew that! I always assumed all new opcodes were

Re: OPTABLE option of Disassembler

2007-11-08 Thread David Cole
Because sometimes opcodes change meanings? Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that some of the new opcodes that came out in the late 90s were the same as some of the old vector processor opcodes. ... Dave Cole REPLY TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cole Software WEB PAGE:

Re: IBM-MAIN deliveries

2007-11-08 Thread Jousma, David
We expect that now that you are going part-time. :-) Dave Jousma Mainframe Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] 616.653.8429 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren

Re: High order bit in 31/24 bit address

2007-11-08 Thread Ted MacNEIL
And what intellectual paralytic decided that drive-up ATM's had to have Braille keys? The one that decided it was cheaper to make one kind of key-pad, than to make specialty ones. Just plugplay. - Too busy driving to stop for gas!

Re: RMDS

2007-11-08 Thread R.S.
[...] RMDS is Report Management and Distribution System or something like that. It takes reports from the SPOOL and places them in VSAM files, possibly indexing and or subsetting them. Users can then logon and look at their list of reports and view them or print them. Without this product,

Re: Bruce Black passed away

2007-11-08 Thread Anton Britz
Vista X64 ? .. You did not get the X128 version it's got less BLACK holes in it... and no ZIIP/ZAAP processors. Anton Ray Mullins wrote: I am playing catch-up from fighting (and still fighting) Vista x64 fires on my own computer that has blocked my reading of e-mail...and I find this.

Bruce Black - Viewing

2007-11-08 Thread Ken Porowski
Anyone on the list going to the viewing tonight? Ken Porowski AVP Systems Software CIT Group E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

Re: RMDS

2007-11-08 Thread Ulrich Krueger
Radoslav, The advantages of having such a software product are as follows: - Report archival: An important production report is preserved for a certain period of time, as long as you / the law requires. - Online viewing: A user can view a report on the screen instead of having to wait for the

Re: Restricting a SYSPLEX LPAR with WLM

2007-11-08 Thread Diehl, Gary (MVSSupport)
Bob, Using just WLM? Not that I know of. Using just one class of initiators that only SYSPROGS know are there, and stopping/starting them on a schedule, might get you there, but it's far from foolproof. JES2 exits can get you there (to help make the one jobclass thing foolproof). Thruput

Re: Poster of computer hardware events?

2007-11-08 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 11/8/2007 1:02:40 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A Direct Access Storage Device read of a 4K block, if the data is not in the DASD Subsystem's cache, would take at least one millisecond, which is ten to the minus three power seconds. The

Re: Restricting a SYSPLEX LPAR with WLM

2007-11-08 Thread Dave Thorn
You could set up a Scheduling Environment for Sysprog jobs (ONLY) and another one for everything else that's batch. During normal operation both are active on all sysplex LPARs. During the test window, turn OFF the Everything Else environment on the LPAR you're testing on, leaving only the

IBM-MAIN deliveries

2007-11-08 Thread Darren Evans-Young
We had a little mail glitch with our primary mail server yesterday. All is well now. Sorry for the delays or burps. Darren On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Thompson, Steve wrote: This message arrived in my inbox about 45 minutes after sending it. And that was after contacting the BAMA EDU help desk to ask

Re: Bruce Black passed away

2007-11-08 Thread Jousma, David
I'm surprised no one pulled this tidbit up to remember Bruce. From Google: Top posters: All time 4471 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3769 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3622 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3419 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2507 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2217 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2104 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2088 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2041

Re: Bruce Black - Viewing

2007-11-08 Thread Art Celestini
I am planning to, at least at this point in the day. Art At 02:15 PM 11/8/2007, Ken Porowski wrote: Anyone on the list going to the viewing tonight? == Art Celestini Celestini Development Services Phone: 201-670-1674

Re: OPTABLE option of Disassembler

2007-11-08 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 2:13 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: OPTABLE option of Disassembler David Cole wrote: Because sometimes opcodes change

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-08 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 11/8/2007 6:21:04 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the MVS world, if a Problem State program attempts to modify 0xxx (where x is 0-512 decimal and regardless of the content of the current base register) and LAP is on... So it is not truly

Re: Bruce Black passed away

2007-11-08 Thread Ken Porowski
I first met Bruce back in the mid/late 80's as part of a local NaSPA chapter (SPONJ - Systems Programmers of New Jersey). He stuck with us as long as we lasted (2 years or so, the memory is fading) and even held a few meetings at Innovation in Little Falls. He was always supportive of us in

High order bit in 31/24 bit address

2007-11-08 Thread Phil Payne
From a Hasselblad brochure: The Hasselblad 6 x 6 cm ( 2 1/4 x 2 1/4) square format uses size 120 film and the square format eliminates the need to turn the camera sideways for landscape or portrait. It's very nearly Friday now. I travel very frequently from Sheffield Midland Station with a

Even got the capitalization right!!!

2007-11-08 Thread Phil Payne
YES!! http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.isham-research.co.uk/mainframe_2008.html Check out the capitalization in the second paragraph. Posted in July 2005 - OVER TWO YEARS AGO - and as accurate today as the day it was written. Anyone still subscribing to Gartner? Why? You'll all hear

Re: OPTABLE option of Disassembler

2007-11-08 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 16:07:15 -0600 Tony Harminc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 13:43:23 -0600, Roland Schiradin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :doesn't make sense to me. If an instruction exists in the code the disassembler :should decode them based on the latest level of possible

Arbiter, DASD emulation? Historical trivia ..

2007-11-08 Thread Andrew McLaren
Hi all, Does anyone remember, or have any details about a product called Arbiter? It was a kind of client-server thing which (as best I can remember) allowed host apps to see PC hard disks as DASD. This was a way of sharing data between PCs to the Host - save data on local hard disk, then

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-08 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Mulder Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 4:48 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CSA 'above the bar' IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 11/08/2007 12:24:52 PM:

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