Re: IBMLink's unavailability

2007-11-14 Thread Barbara Nitz
Ed, Does IBM have a similar support phone number to use (in Germany?) I guess I would just inundate the support line with sev 1 issues When I called in early Monday morning our time, a minute after they opened, I was told that there is already a sev1. They don't take another one, and I have no

Re: Converting DB2 Workload from IBM Z-Series to P-Series (AIX

2007-11-14 Thread Sarel Swanepoel
NB: This email and its contents are subject to our email legal notice which can be viewed at http://www.sars.gov.za/Email_Disclaimer.pdf Hi All We have been tasked by management to do a Siebel DB2 workload conversion exercise from an IBM Z-Series to P-Series (P6) and I would appreciate any

Re: z9BC as Web Server

2007-11-14 Thread Timothy Sipples
Eric Bielefeld writes: I really think one of the biggest reasons for not running web applications on the mainframe is the high software costs. Leaving aside the critical facts that the software world has changed, that software full costs, and that no IT activity is free (in a full cost sense),

Re: IBMLink's unavailability

2007-11-14 Thread Bob Shannon
Oh, and Firefox doesn't work any better here than IE Interesting. I'm in Russia and it works fine. Bob Shannon Rocket Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/07/2007 at 10:02 AM, Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This is simply not true!! Want to bet? The two AMODE bits (BA EA) are in the PSW, not in address words. There are specific instructions that interpret bit 0 of the 32-bit[1] branch address as AMODE31. See

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/07/2007 at 12:38 PM, Eric Bielefeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Isn't that what they said when MVS first came out? I don't know what they said, but certainly I never said that 2 GiB was near infinite. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/06/2007 at 02:12 PM, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: However I don't understand the reason why any bit in any 24-bit address could mess someting in 64-bit addressing mode. What you don't understand is that typically a 24-bit address is not used by just 24-bit code.

Re: z9BC as Web Server

2007-11-14 Thread Shane
On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 18:13 +0900, Timothy Sipples wrote: Jim's idea seems very smart to me Jim was preaching to the congregation ... (Whitespace is free.) For the majority (all ???) of the customers I deal with, whitespace is an opportunity to screw down the cap, and save bucks. The

Re: IBMLink's unavailability

2007-11-14 Thread Robert Justice
Wow, the 3270 interface is still available? the 3270 interface is working just fine and happy, and yes, you can actually update your pmrs today via the 3270 interface. web ibmlink interface however, is continually broken as designed. Did IBM hire bill gates to implement their web ibmlink

Re: (OT) Former IBM consultant selling Waffles

2007-11-14 Thread daver++
Kelman, Tom wrote: Ed, actually I think this is just someone who decided he'd enjoy selling waffles a lot more than the day-to-day grind if IT, and it appears he's doing great at it. From: Ken Porowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe someone on the list can go buy a waffle and ask

3590 TAPE Drive F-BOX status

2007-11-14 Thread Jacky Bright
Hi, Since last 2 days I am pissed of this 3590 tape drive issue. D U,,,680,1 IEE457I 12.18.00 UNIT STATUS 244 UNIT TYPE STATUSVOLSER VOLSTATE 0691 359S F-BOX/REMOV D M=DEV(680) IEE174I 12.20.01 DISPLAY M 286 DEVICE 0680 STATUS=DEVICE IS BOXED: RESIDUAL DATA

Re: z9BC as Web Server

2007-11-14 Thread Aaron Walker
I'm biased as well, but it works great for me. Now, if only the HTTPServer work went on a specialty processor... and all the TCP/IP work :) Aaron On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:43:34 +1000, Shane ibm- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 18:13 +0900, Timothy Sipples wrote: Jim's

Re: 3590 TAPE Drive F-BOX status

2007-11-14 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
Jacky Bright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hi, Since last 2 days I am pissed of this 3590 tape drive issue. D U,,,680,1 IEE457I 12.18.00 UNIT STATUS 244 UNIT TYPE STATUSVOLSER VOLSTATE 0691 359S F-BOX/REMOV D

Re: z9BC as Web Server

2007-11-14 Thread Jim Marshall
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:43:34 +1000, Shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Whitespace is free.) For the majority (all ???) of the customers I deal with, whitespace is an opportunity to screw down the cap, and save bucks. The (second ???) age of the dinosaurs is coming to an end for all but the

Re: IBMLink's unavailability

2007-11-14 Thread Schramm, Rob
At least there is an easy to find indication on the page that there is an issue. I always viewed other outages with a certain disdain due to the fact that they had the ability to put something on the webpage to indicate that there is an issue but would not place an indicator on any of the pages.

Re: (OT) Former IBM consultant selling Waffles

2007-11-14 Thread legolas wood
daver++ wrote: Kelman, Tom wrote: Ed, actually I think this is just someone who decided he'd enjoy selling waffles a lot more than the day-to-day grind if IT, and it appears he's doing great at it. From: Ken Porowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe someone on the list can go buy a

Re: IEC507d

2007-11-14 Thread Murrell, Aldridge (CDC/OCOO/ITSO) (CTR)
Thank you all very much on this, we are looking into this to see what we can do. Aldridge Murrell -Original Message- From: Russell Witt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 10:04 PM To: 'IBM Mainframe Discussion List' Cc: Murrell, Aldridge (CDC/OCOO/ITSO) (CTR)

Re: LPA not in a dump?

2007-11-14 Thread Peter Relson
You ought to re-read the description of the LPA SDATA option. That indicates to put into the dump things in LPA that are known to be loaded (represented in contents supervsion LLEs) in the address space(s) being dumped. If you want to dump LPA, then you must specify an address range that spans

Re: TN3270 SSL/TLS

2007-11-14 Thread Schramm, Rob
I worked on the tn3270 ssl using Top Secret to store the private key and certificate. Works just fine and was pretty easy. 1) gencert tcpip 2) genreq tcpip 3) ftp request to desktop, e-mail info security 4) info security performed the versign portion 5) ftp cert to mainframe 6) add CA cert to

Re: IBMLINK ETR Update Issues

2007-11-14 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
We had someone else (from another company) close a crash-related PMR. We have another PMR open for that. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Finnell Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 11:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: SMS Advanced Feature

2007-11-14 Thread John Kington
Jason, We are planning to implement SMS data compression. I've read that we cannot implement compression on VSAM file that is open for update. Is this true? Aside from this, any other considerations? Compression will not take place until you recreate the vsam dataset. The danger with updating

Re: 3590 TAPE Drive F-BOX status

2007-11-14 Thread Jacky Bright
It was typo error .. Devices are not managed ..Device is 891. I tried all commands ... I am not getting CHP PHYSICALLY ONLINE for 891. I am fed of this problem ...I can not think of IPL at this stage .. D M=DEV(890) IEE174I 13.07.26 DISPLAY M 329 DEVICE 0890 STATUS=ONLINE CHP

Re: (OT) Former IBM consultant selling Waffles

2007-11-14 Thread daver++
btw, does he earn more from wafel than what he was earning from his IT job? I did not ask him that, but according to the originally linked news story, he does not. His business is still young, however. I believe he has been active for only about a month.

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-14 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Tom Chris, Haven't looked at the thread for some time... a bit late now... What I meant was this... The bit signaling the line is x'8000' which is the only reason why x' 8000' - x' 0001' is not addressable. IBM decided that using the Highest bit to do this

Re: z9BC as Web Server [warning: contains ad material]

2007-11-14 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Steve Comstock [ snip ] You can use any version of z/OS (and even some versions of OS/390) to host a webserver without paying for WebSphere or whatever the BEA product is called. I've been harping on that for

Re: IBMLINK ETR Update Issues

2007-11-14 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gray, Larry - Larry A I haven't had any problems getting in today. It is somewhat odd to select revise and look at someone elses or some other companies ETR. Not to mention the possibility of being charged with

Re: IBM z-OS book search

2007-11-14 Thread Kelman, Tom
I think there was a problem with your URL for the find books site. Try this one instead http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/bkserv/find_books.html Tom Kelman Commerce Bank of Kansas City (816) 760-7632 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: (OT) Former IBM consultant selling Waffles

2007-11-14 Thread Gregg
Follow your dreams. 29 years ago, an industrial psychologist knocked me out an IT job with, you're not cut out for programming. 28 years later, I've proven him right, over and over, but I'm still having fun. On 11/14/07, legolas wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: daver++ wrote: Kelman, Tom wrote:

Re: IBMLink's unavailability

2007-11-14 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Roger Bolan Ok. Just a thought. I am not responsible in any way for IBMLINK. I don't even have access from the outside the way you do to test this idea. I am not telling you to do this. Try it at your own

Re: (OT) Former IBM consultant selling Waffles

2007-11-14 Thread August Carideo
its not how much you make , its how much you keep daver++ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IBMLink's unavailability

2007-11-14 Thread Ed Gould
On Nov 14, 2007, at 7:06 AM, Schramm, Rob wrote: At least there is an easy to find indication on the page that there is an issue. I always viewed other outages with a certain disdain due to the fact that they had the ability to put something on the webpage to indicate that there is an issue

Re: (OT) Former IBM consultant selling Waffles

2007-11-14 Thread Kelman, Tom
btw, does he earn more from wafel than what he was earning from his IT job? I did not ask him that, but according to the originally linked news story, he does not. His business is still young, however. I believe he has been active for only about a month. I believe the article said he

Resetting the service class of a job in a WLM managed initiator

2007-11-14 Thread Steven Werth
We only recenctly started using WLM managed initiators, and I would like to know what happens when the operators change the service class for those jobs. We have service classes that can be used if critical work needs to get a boost; do I need separate ones for the WLM managed initiators?

Re: IBMLINK ETR Update Issues

2007-11-14 Thread Ed Gould
On Nov 14, 2007, at 7:52 AM, Chase, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gray, Larry - Larry A I haven't had any problems getting in today. It is somewhat odd to select revise and look at someone elses or some other companies ETR. Not to

Re: 3590 TAPE Drive F-BOX status

2007-11-14 Thread Hale, Bob
We have had this issue also. The only cure we have found so far is to IML the controller. The IML was done during a quite period and did not cause any other problems. Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM

Re: 3590 TAPE Drive F-BOX status

2007-11-14 Thread Ed Gould
On Nov 14, 2007, at 7:10 AM, Jacky Bright wrote: It was typo error .. Devices are not managed ..Device is 891. I tried all commands ... I am not getting CHP PHYSICALLY ONLINE for 891. I am fed of this problem ...I can not think of IPL at this stage .. Try IBMLINK oops that isn't

Re: IBMLink's unavailability

2007-11-14 Thread Schramm, Rob
I don't think the mind-meld is working.. name is Rob.. sort of sounds like John.. if you say it real fast. VBG Rob Schramm -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 9:17 AM To:

Re: IBMLINK ETR Update Issues

2007-11-14 Thread Ron
So any chance on a refund from IBM, seeing that we're paying top dollars for something that hasn't been working for the past 4-5 days? Ron -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: IBMLINK ETR Update Issues

2007-11-14 Thread Ron Wells
now I would vote on that..maybe if ya put money issue in front of this it may get a response .. my alternative to asking q a is here and other's I subscribe to...can not and have not depended on ibmlink in (2) years ...

Re: IBMLINK Outages

2007-11-14 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
Maybe we should pass this on to IBM: Dear Reader, You're invited to attend this live Webcast. It's TOMORROW! Register now. Test, Analyze Understand Your Embedded and Real-Time Applications Date:

Re: IBMLink's unavailability

2007-11-14 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Bolan Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 5:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBMLink's unavailability Ok. Just a thought. I am not responsible in any way for IBMLINK. I don't

RES: Resetting the service class of a job in a WLM managed initiator

2007-11-14 Thread ITURIEL DO NASCIMENTO NETO
You should have two sets of service classes, onde for WLM managed and other for JES INITS. Since sometimes there is a delay in starting WLM inits, this delay is considered when WLM does its measures. But since the job has started, you can use any service class with RESET command.

Re: Resetting the service class of a job in a WLM managed initiator

2007-11-14 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
The basic difference is that WLM takes the inputqueue time for WLM managed classes into its considerations and it does not for JES2 classes. Mixing those classes in one Service Class will mess up WLM's calculations. Kees. Steven Werth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-14 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 11/14/2007 7:45:09 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My thinking, right or wrong was that if they used the lowest bit to do the signaling, they would have lost addressability to less. The lowest bit was assigned a meaning in the mid-1960s, namely an

Re: Resetting the service class of a job in a WLM managed initiator

2007-11-14 Thread Steven Werth
Thanks for your response. We do, of course, have a separate service class defined for the WLM inits. I am curious as to what decisions WLM makes regarding those inits when one or more jobs are reset. I'm in the process of reviewing our service policy and we have way too many service classes

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-14 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Bill, You are probably right... the amount wasted is minimal in the 64bit scheme... Regards Herbie -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of (IBM Mainframe Discussion List) Sent: 14 November 2007 03:14 nm To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU

Re: IBMLINK ETR Update Issues

2007-11-14 Thread Big Iron
Flash on IBMLink: ServiceLink ETR Problem 14 November 2007 We are experiencing a problem with the ServiceLink ETR application. As a result, we have had to temporarily disable the Assign, Revise, and Complete functions. However during this restriction you will be able to view your records from the

Re: IBMLINK ETR Update Issues

2007-11-14 Thread Jon Brock
You have hit on a sore point with me. I'm still not sure why we have to pay extra for IBMLink in the first place. Jon snip So any chance on a refund from IBM, seeing that we're paying top dollars for something that hasn't been working for the past 4-5 days? /snip

Performance Improvement Possible For Remote TCP Access to z/OS

2007-11-14 Thread Aaron Walker
http://www.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/FLASH1 0621 Abstract: Identified problem in TCP/IP on z/OS 1.8 which could lead to degraded performance for remote access to DB2 or other application on z/OS using the TCP network protocol. Problem is that additional acknowledgements

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-14 Thread Ted MacNEIL
You are probably right... the amount wasted is minimal in the 64bit scheme... I remember when HIPERSPACEs first came out. I had a 2GB space, but everybody complained about the lowest page (4K - PSA) being unavailable. Same issue. - Too busy driving to stop for gas!

Re: (OT) Former IBM consultant selling Waffles

2007-11-14 Thread Ken Porowski
Maybe next time there is a SHARE or MVS EXPO in NYC we should have him supply goodies for SCIDS or the vendor area. Unless he wants to stay as far away from IT as he can. -Original Message- daver++ Well, I didn't ask that one. I think that it is safe to say that he is not ready for that

Re: 3590 TAPE Drive F-BOX status

2007-11-14 Thread Bill Wilkie
When a device is boxed, you should first have a ce take a look at it and make sure there are no hardware errors. Bringing it online if there is a hardware error can cause other problems. He should be able to clear it if there are no other problems. Bill From: Jacky Bright [EMAIL

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-14 Thread Martin Packer
Ted said: I had a 2GB space, but everybody complained about the lowest page (4K - PSA) being unavailable. I believe that was a 3090E vs 3090S thing. And I thought it was DATAspaces that had that problem. The S corrected the problem., Cheers, Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM

Re: copy zfs dataset

2007-11-14 Thread Jim McAlpine
On 11/9/07, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look at the zfasdmin command. It can dynamically add secondary and/or extend to a second volume. I'm trying to grow a zfs file aggregate with the following command - zfsadm grow -aggregate zfs.was510.comfig.zfs -size 30 and getting the

Re: SV: SV: COBOL COPY statement w REPLACING...

2007-11-14 Thread Howard Brazee
On 13 Nov 2007 10:33:54 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Berg) wrote: How many copy members have you created designed for the REPLACING option? None. (The new COPY's must be backwards compatible with old programs.) Old programs don't use new COPY statements unless they are modified to do so.

Re: copy zfs dataset

2007-11-14 Thread Jim McAlpine
On 11/14/07, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the bpxmtext function says the EF17623E means: aggregate not found. Is the zFS filesystem mounted? I think that it must be. Sorry, I had a typo in the last attempt at the command. The previous attempts with the correct name return the

Re: 3590 TAPE Drive F-BOX status

2007-11-14 Thread Jacky Bright
There are no Hardware errors. When I issue the V 891,online,uncond I am getting V 891,ONLINE,UNCOND IOS444I DYNAMIC PATHING NOT OPERATIONAL ON DEVICE 0891 IEE103I UNIT 0891 NOT BROUGHT ONLINE 771 IEE763I NAME= IOSCCMSG CODE= 0030 IOS291I CONFIGURATION DATA COULD NOT BE READ ON

Re: SV: SV: SV: COBOL COPY statement w REPLACING...

2007-11-14 Thread Steve Comstock
Thomas Berg wrote: -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] För Howard Brazee Skickat: den 14 november 2007 17:34 Till: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Ämne: Re: SV: SV: COBOL COPY statement w REPLACING... On 13 Nov 2007 10:33:54 -0800, [EMAIL

Re: SMS Advanced Feature

2007-11-14 Thread Hal Merritt
We have seen an ongoing problem (through 1.7) where C programs cannot reliably read compressed files. The programs apparently perceive an end of file before the data ends. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason To Sent:

Re: copy zfs dataset

2007-11-14 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim McAlpine Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 10:33 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: copy zfs dataset On 11/9/07, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look at the

SV: SV: SV: COBOL COPY statement w REPLACING...

2007-11-14 Thread Thomas Berg
-Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] För Howard Brazee Skickat: den 14 november 2007 17:34 Till: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Ämne: Re: SV: SV: COBOL COPY statement w REPLACING... On 13 Nov 2007 10:33:54 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-14 Thread Edward Jaffe
(IBM Mainframe Discussion List) wrote: In a message dated 11/14/2007 7:45:09 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My thinking, right or wrong was that if they used the lowest bit to do the signaling, they would have lost addressability to less. That's

IBM Academic Innovation Initiatives

2007-11-14 Thread Ken Porowski
IBM and Illinois State University Collaborate to Equip Students With 21st Century Computing Skills http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/071114/0328578.html Loaning them a z890, no mention of z/OS, only Linux -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: copy zfs dataset

2007-11-14 Thread Gray, Larry - Larry A
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Re: 3590 TAPE Drive F-BOX status

2007-11-14 Thread Ulrich Krueger
Jacky, After the tape drive went offline, did it have to be repaired? You might want to try the following: - Vary offline the remaining tape drives on this controller, 890 - 893, I presume. - Reboot the control unit that these tape drives are attached to - Wait about 3 - 5 minutes for the

Re: 3590 TAPE Drive F-BOX status

2007-11-14 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Or a V 891,offline,f -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Finnell Sent: 14 November 2007 05:23 nm To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: 3590 TAPE Drive F-BOX status In a message dated 11/14/2007 6:22:44 A.M. Central Standard

Re: IBMLink's unavailability

2007-11-14 Thread Ed Gould
On Nov 14, 2007, at 8:52 AM, Thompson, Steve wrote: ---SNIP- You are absolutely right. Wish I'd thought of it. Next time we can't get CICS/TS to run correctly, we'll just do a bunch of DELPAGEs and VARY off of the SPOOL Volumes and then re-run the whole z/OS

Re: SV: SV: SV: COBOL COPY statement w REPLACING...

2007-11-14 Thread Howard Brazee
On 14 Nov 2007 08:42:26 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Berg) wrote: Old programs don't use new COPY statements unless they are modified to do so. But future programs will. Old programs that are recompiled get the new copys/versions. And fails in compilation if they contains the :tag:

Re: 3590 TAPE Drive F-BOX status

2007-11-14 Thread Ulrich Krueger
Herbie, That may be another possibility. However, the clunkers I worked with in the past seemed to require a different touch. If I had a tape drive go offline/boxed because of a hardware error in the drive and the drive had to be repaired, quite frequently a 'vary online' wouldn't work. Don't ask

FW: IBM z-OS book search

2007-11-14 Thread Lucymarie Ruth
Yes, that's the correct URL. IBM fixed it overnight. It's working again now. -Original Message- From: Kelman, Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 6:10 AM To: Lucymarie Ruth Subject: FW: IBM z-OS book search Lucymarie, I thought I'd send this directly to

latest ibmlink news (still not working, shock and surprise)

2007-11-14 Thread Robert Justice
from ibmlink web site Voice Support alternative for SoftwareXcel customers 14 November 2007 An emergency process has been instituted for customers with an active contract for SoftwareXcel basic edition or SoftwareXcel enterprise edition when IBMLink or an IBMLink function is unavailable.

Re: latest ibmlink news (still not working, shock and surprise)

2007-11-14 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Robert Justice from ibmlink web site Voice Support alternative for SoftwareXcel customers 14 November 2007 An emergency process has been instituted for customers with an active contract for SoftwareXcel

Re: SMS Advanced Feature

2007-11-14 Thread Jason To
Hi John, Thanks for the info and confirmation. From the book, it looks like it did mentioned about cannot implement compression on dataset open for update but later realized it was actually for QSAM etc and not VSAM. We have also already tested to compressed VSAM files that is open for

Re: 3590 TAPE Drive F-BOX status

2007-11-14 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Ulrich, The last time I had a boxed one... on a R14... I took all the tape units offline, took the chpid offline, Varied the chpid online, varied the units online, and it was OK. I normally don't go near the hardware inside the Steel casings... Regards Herbie -Original Message- From:

SV: SV: SV: SV: COBOL COPY statement w REPLACING...

2007-11-14 Thread Thomas Berg
-Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] För Steve Comstock Skickat: den 14 november 2007 17:47 Till: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Ämne: Re: SV: SV: SV: COBOL COPY statement w REPLACING... Thomas Berg wrote: -Ursprungligt

Re: copy zfs dataset

2007-11-14 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim McAlpine Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 10:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: copy zfs dataset On 11/14/07, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the

Re: latest ibmlink news (still not working, shock and surprise)

2007-11-14 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gray, Larry - Larry A Some people, based on support contract, are not allowed to call that number for QA, only for problems. I beleive in the interim, they are allowed to call for QA. I believe the same

Re: 3590 TAPE Drive F-BOX status

2007-11-14 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
No Problem. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ulrich Krueger Sent: 14 November 2007 05:56 nm To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: 3590 TAPE Drive F-BOX status Herbie, That may be another possibility. However, the clunkers I

Re: latest ibmlink news (still not working, shock and surprise)

2007-11-14 Thread Gray, Larry - Larry A
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Re: latest ibmlink news (still not working, shock and surprise)

2007-11-14 Thread Gibney, Dave
Next thing you know, they'll start shipping microfiche again :) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 10:02 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: latest ibmlink news (still not

SV: SV: SV: SV: COBOL COPY statement w REPLACING...

2007-11-14 Thread Thomas Berg
-Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] För Howard Brazee Skickat: den 14 november 2007 18:35 Till: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Ämne: Re: SV: SV: SV: COBOL COPY statement w REPLACING... On 14 Nov 2007 08:42:26 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: latest ibmlink news (still not working, shock and surprise)

2007-11-14 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: latest ibmlink news (still not working, shock and surprise) -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: IBMLink's unavailability

2007-11-14 Thread Edward Jaffe
Ed Gould wrote: On Nov 14, 2007, at 8:52 AM, Thompson, Steve wrote: You are absolutely right. Wish I'd thought of it. Next time we can't get CICS/TS to run correctly, we'll just do a bunch of DELPAGEs and VARY off of the SPOOL Volumes and then re-run the whole z/OS install, and then IPL. Oh,

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2007-11-14 Thread Lucymarie Ruth
I spoke too soon. It worked once, but now it busted again. It is not now working for anyone at our site. Does it work at anyone's site? http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/bkserv/find_books.html -Original Message- Yes, that's the correct URL. IBM

Re: IBMLink's unavailability

2007-11-14 Thread Roland Schiradin
It's a shame for IBM. Perhaps they should still develop 3270 applications. Roland By MS you mean Microsoft?? Who are you kidding? Microsoft's support sites appear to be highly available. I have *never* personally experienced an outage when I run Windows Update or when I need to look something up

Re: IBM Academic Innovation Initiatives

2007-11-14 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:21:46 -0500 Ken Porowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :IBM and Illinois State University Collaborate to Equip Students With :21st Century Computing Skills :http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/071114/0328578.html :Loaning them a z890, no mention of z/OS, only Linux I wonder why Northern

Re: IBMLink's unavailability

2007-11-14 Thread HUTCHISON Gregory
I am in the habbit of always starting here because I never find that it is down. http://www.elink.ibmlink.ibm.com/publications/servlet/pbi.wss It takes a couple more steps because you need to tell it your country but then this is why the link address never changes and is seldom down - it is for

Re: IBM Academic Innovation Initiatives

2007-11-14 Thread Michael Stack
At 01:32 PM 11/14/2007, you wrote: On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:21:46 -0500 Ken Porowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :IBM and Illinois State University Collaborate to Equip Students With :21st Century Computing Skills :http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/071114/0328578.html :Loaning them a z890, no mention of

Re: IBM z-OS book search

2007-11-14 Thread Imbriale, Donald
I just tried it and was successful. 29 manuals found when searching for acc* meth* Don Imbriale -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lucymarie Ruth Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 2:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: I

FW: NYSE Undertakes IBM Mainframe Migration to Unix and Linux

2007-11-14 Thread Kopischke, David G.
Greetings, About six months ago, a story appeared in SearchDataCenter concerning the NYSE migration to UNIX/LINUX platforms. Since it's been six months, I wrote to the author this morning requesting a follow up. He responded almost immediately that he'd look into it. I'll post again when I

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2007-11-14 Thread Kelman, Tom
It still works for me. Tom Kelman Commerce Bank of Kansas City (816) 760-7632 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lucymarie Ruth Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: I spoke too

Re: IEC507d

2007-11-14 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
Shouldn't the first question be why do anything at all? -Original Message- From: Murrell, Aldridge (CDC/OCOO/ITSO) (CTR) [mailto:snip] Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 4:41 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IEC507d Thank you all very much on this, we are looking into this to

USS SMP/E ACCEPT Question

2007-11-14 Thread Mark Yuhas
I have applied maintenance for a processor upgrade. Some of the maintenance involved updating the OMVS ROOT HFS. Today, I began the ACCEPT of this maintenance. When I checked the output from the ACCEPT CHECK, I noticed that the OMVS ROOT HFS file was not allocated. I found this strange, as

Re: USS SMP/E ACCEPT Question

2007-11-14 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Yuhas I have applied maintenance for a processor upgrade. Some of the maintenance involved updating the OMVS ROOT HFS. Today, I began the ACCEPT of this maintenance. When I checked the output from the

Re: USS SMP/E ACCEPT Question

2007-11-14 Thread Mark Yuhas
I just realized I could have examined the CSI to determine the DLIB. The Alzheimer's must be kicking in. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

COBOL COPY statement w REPLACING...

2007-11-14 Thread Bill Klein
Thomas Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. .. snip My initial point when I started this thread was that if You make an effort to create a functionality, why doing it badly ? Thomas * * * The answer is that you want COPY/REPLACING to be something that it was

COBOL COPY statement w REPLACING...

2007-11-14 Thread Bill Klein
Thomas, I posted this already, but in case it didn't make it to you (or others) There *IS* a method of insuring that old programs will compile cleanly and that new programs can use partial word replacement with :TAG:. This method does allow the original owner to still own the COPY

Re: USS SMP/E ACCEPT Question

2007-11-14 Thread Kurt Quackenbush
... When I checked the output from the ACCEPT CHECK, I noticed that the OMVS ROOT HFS file was not allocated. I found this strange, as there was a number of PTFs that modified this HFS file. ACCEPT does not allocate, read, nor update target libraries, and the directories in the UNIX file

Re: IBMLink's unavailability

2007-11-14 Thread Ed Gould
On Nov 14, 2007, at 1:28 PM, Edward Jaffe wrote: -SNIP Steve, If MS gets away with it, IBM will be a close second. By MS you mean Microsoft?? Who are you kidding? Microsoft's support sites appear to be highly available. I have *never* personally experienced an

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/08/2007 at 06:23 PM, Thompson, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Actually, yes. It is address x'00' and was called PSA (but is actually absolute page 0). PSA is real address 0; it's absolute address 0 for at most one of the processors in the complex. Neither real

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