IBM announced z10 ..why so fast...any problem on z 9

2008-02-26 Thread Tommy Tsui
Hi all, Anyone know why IBM announced z10 so fast...is there any problem on z9 because our shop migrated toz9 this week any big differences between z9 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: IBM announced z10 ..why so fast...any problem on z 9

2008-02-26 Thread Timur Alpaslan
Hi all! As far as I'm aware of, these are the highlights. As you'll notice, there's nothing wrong with z9, but the z10 Series is more energy efficient with higher capacity and enhancements as you can read below. IBM recently announced the IBM System z10 Enterprise Class mainframe, the

How to find uncatalog datasets.

2008-02-26 Thread Sivakumar, Manikandan
Folks, I would like to know information how to list the uncatalog datasets. I would like to know whether we can use IDCAMS utility or any other utility. Thanks. Regards, Mani -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: How to find uncatalog datasets.

2008-02-26 Thread Varun Manocha
Mani, I use a JCL as below : //STEP01 EXEC PGM=ADRDSSU,PARM='TYPRUN=NORUN', // REGION=2M //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //INNDD1 DD UNIT=SYSDA,VOL=SER=zz,DISP=SHR //DSNOUT DD DUMMY //SYSINDD * DUMP INDDNAME(INNDD1) OUTDD(DSNOUT) -

Re: IBM announced z10 ..why so fast...any problem on z 9

2008-02-26 Thread Tommy Tsui
any upgrade path for z9 currently? On 2/26/08, Timur Alpaslan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! As far as I'm aware of, these are the highlights. As you'll notice, there's nothing wrong with z9, but the z10 Series is more energy efficient with higher capacity and enhancements as you can read

Re: IBM announced z10 ..why so fast...any problem on z 9

2008-02-26 Thread Timur Alpaslan
No, not yet. Will be announced soon I believe. Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:33:49 +0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IBM announced z10 ..why so fast...any problem on z 9 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU any upgrade path for z9 currently? On 2/26/08, Timur Alpaslan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New version of TSSO under zOS v1.8

2008-02-26 Thread Marty French
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:48:56 -0600, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:09:38 -0600, Marty French [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I bump this since I'm having the same problem going from 1.7 to 1.9. We just have SUBSYSTEM consoles. What a pain. I don't see an answer to

Re: How to find uncatalog datasets.

2008-02-26 Thread Marty French
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:30:12 +0800, Sivakumar, Manikandan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, I would like to know information how to list the uncatalog datasets. I would like to know whether we can use IDCAMS utility or any other utility. Thanks. Regards, Mani I use ADRDSSU with a

Re: IBM announced z10 ..why so fast...any problem on z 9

2008-02-26 Thread Marian Gasparovic
Hi Tommy. There is nothing wrong with z9. If you buy a car and manufacturer announces a new model, is there anything wrong with the old one ? There is upgrade path from any z990 and z9 EC to any z10 EC. Marian Gasparovic IBM Slovakia On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 5:33 AM, Tommy Tsui [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Creating AWSTAPEs on MVS

2008-02-26 Thread Knutson, Sam
Here is the job stream I use. The first step uses VTT2DISK which can be found in source on file 533 and a binary ready to run module in file 35. File # 035 LOAD MODULE file - Quick install of useful programs http://www.cbttape.org/ftp/updates/CBT035.zip http://www.cbttape.org/updates.htm

Re: IBM announced z10 ..why so fast...any problem on z 9

2008-02-26 Thread Wayne Driscoll
Tommy, I wouldn't call 3 years between the z9-109 announcement and the z10 fast. The z10 does a lot of things that weren't feasible (or necessarily recognized as needed by customers) in 2005. However, that doesn't mean that the z9 has problems. Intel announced the quad4 recently, but there was

Re: CSVDYLPA DCBPTR=CVTLINK

2008-02-26 Thread Peter Relson
It means that LLA is not simply managing data sets, as I thought I understood it to do. Rather, it must be managing data sets within linklist sets. Data sets are managed one by one. But directories are managed both one by one and for (every) entire LNKLST. This is where FREEZE and NOFREEZE come

Re: IBM announced z10 ..why so fast...any problem on z 9

2008-02-26 Thread Tommy Tsui
Actually, I worry becuase there are no competitors in the market, why IBM announced the new CPU model so fast, it doesn't like a desktop computer ..I think z9 is announced around 3 years...As I remember, IBM never try to announced a new model of mainframe computer just three years later...a market

Re: New version of TSSO under zOS v1.8

2008-02-26 Thread Marty French
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:08:25 -0600, Marty French [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:48:56 -0600, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:09:38 -0600, Marty French [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I bump this since I'm having the same problem going from 1.7 to 1.9.

Re: IBM announced z10 ..why so fast...any problem on z 9

2008-02-26 Thread R.S.
Tommy Tsui wrote: Actually, I worry becuase there are no competitors in the market, why IBM announced the new CPU model so fast, it doesn't like a desktop computer ..I think z9 is announced around 3 years...As I remember, IBM never try to announced a new model of mainframe computer just three

Has IBM provided a link to the z10 POPs?

2008-02-26 Thread Binyamin Dissen
Has IBM provided a link to the z10 POPs? -- Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely

Re: IBM announced z10 ..why so fast...any problem on z 9

2008-02-26 Thread Shane
Is it too frequent for you ? Then stay with old machine. Any bets on how long before another ALS ??? Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

Re: IBM announced z10 ..why so fast...any problem on z 9

2008-02-26 Thread Anthony Saul Babonas
All this why so fast speculation reminds me of my dearly departed mother. For my birthday she presents me with 2 gifts, a red shirt and a blue shirt. I try on the red shirt, and she asks, what's the matter, you don't like the blue shirt? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Newbie RACROUTE question: how to *test* authorization?

2008-02-26 Thread Don Leahy
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:48 AM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:08:53 -0600, Dave Kopischke wrote: We have a JCL checker application that verifies dataset access for a JOB. Through routine use of this product, we end up with thousands of access warnings on

Re: IBM announced z10 ..why so fast...any problem on z 9

2008-02-26 Thread Shane
from the announcement: quote Planned availability dates • Features and functions for the System z10 EC: February 26, 2008 • System z10 EC Models E12, E26, E40, E56, and E64: February 26, 2008 • z990 upgrades to System z10 EC: February 26, 2008 • z9 EC upgrades to System z10 EC: February 26, 2008

System z10 announcement (in English)

2008-02-26 Thread Tom Schmidt
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias? infotype=ANsubtype=CAhtmlfid=897/ENUS108-154appname=USN -- Tom Schmidt -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: How to find uncatalog datasets.

2008-02-26 Thread Sivakumar, Manikandan
Thanks Varun. Is there any other utilities to determine this? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Varun Manocha Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 4:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How to find uncatalog datasets. Mani,

Re: System z10 announcement (in English)

2008-02-26 Thread Shane
Nice green stripe. Big page only 1 Meg. Interesting. HiperDispatch ... way overdue. 16 Gig HSA. anything else of interest ??? ... :0) Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Newbie RACROUTE question: how to *test* authorization?

2008-02-26 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:48:34 -0600, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder that you get thousands of access warnings ... daily. Are your programmers commiting so many potential access errors in the course of coding their JCL? How many programmers does it take to do that? In many

z/OS 1.10 Preview

2008-02-26 Thread McKown, John
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/index.wss?DocURL=http://www-01.ibm.com/ common/ssi/rep_ca/2/897/ENUS208-042/index.htmlInfoType=ANInfoSubType=C AInfoDesc=Announcement+Letterspanelurl=index.wss%3Fbuttonpressed%3DDET 003PT011%26hfdd%3D%26hfud%3D%26timestamp%3D As usual, watch out for the wrap!

Re: Newbie RACROUTE question: how to *test* authorization?

2008-02-26 Thread Walt Farrell
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 20:32:13 -0600, David Eisenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And of course (as I indicated in my original post), I need to be able to do this without producing a RACF violation if the user is not authorized to read the resource. What you haven't said, though, is why you need to

Re: How to find uncatalog datasets.

2008-02-26 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
The Datafinder component of Spacefinder Workbench from TeraCloud also has this capability. From: Sivakumar, Manikandan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 2/26/2008 8:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How to find uncatalog datasets. Thanks Varun. Is

Re: ACF2 vs RACF

2008-02-26 Thread Walt Farrell
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:02:25 -0800, James Chappell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LOGON/JOB INITIATION - SUBMITTER IS NOT AUTHORIZED BY USER That message might mean that the sending system did not, in fact, send the password along, and so RACF on the receiving system saw this as a case of someone

Re: z/OS 1.10 Preview

2008-02-26 Thread Mazer Ken G
What wrap. Try using www.TinyURL.com and your URL will be shorted and they never get deleted. Best of all it's free. The following URL: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/index.wss?DocURL=http://www -01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/2/897/ENUS208-042/index.htmla

Re: Newbie RACROUTE question: how to *test* authorization?

2008-02-26 Thread Walt Farrell
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:08:53 -0600, Dave Kopischke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:07:24 -0600, Walt Farrell wrote: One could argue that letting you determine your access to resources without actually trying to use them (and thus without causing audit records) is a form of

Re: System z10 announcement (in English)

2008-02-26 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:05:16 +1000, Shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice green stripe. Big page only 1 Meg. Interesting. HiperDispatch ... way overdue. 16 Gig HSA. anything else of interest ??? ... :0) Curiously missing today is a new z/VM announcement or preview. But there is some

Re: IBM announced z10 ..why so fast...any problem on z 9

2008-02-26 Thread Tommy Tsui
z10 quad-core 4.4Ghz..how fast compared with z9 ...? A new 16GB reserved for HSA ..is it necessary??? to avoid outages..is it means more available for dynamic activate IOCDS... On 2/26/08, Shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: from the announcement: quote Planned availability dates • Features and

Re: How to find uncatalog datasets.

2008-02-26 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
If you have CA-DISK: //DMS EXEC DMS SCAN REALVOLS SELECT SGNAME=/,CRIT=(CATSTAT,NE,OK) *not-cataloged and incorrectly cataloged datasets.* REPORT MVD Kees. Sivakumar, Manikandan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in

Re: System z10 announcement (in English)

2008-02-26 Thread Roy Hewitt
Shane wrote: Nice green stripe. Big page only 1 Meg. Interesting. HiperDispatch ... way overdue. 16 Gig HSA. anything else of interest ??? ... :0) There is no ETR feature listed.. so I presume this is STP only.. Roy -- For

Re: Newbie RACROUTE question: how to *test* authorization?

2008-02-26 Thread Brian Fitzgibbon
There are also newer JCL checkers on the market that allow remote checking of JCL on production from the users on the test side. Similar to the description outlined by Walt Farrell. Brian Walt Farrell wrote: On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:08:53 -0600, Dave Kopischke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

z/OS 1.10 announcement -DASD size

2008-02-26 Thread McKown, John
From the web page that I previously posted about z/OS 1.10 quote Architectural limit of hundreds of TB for DASD volumes, up from the current limit of approximately 54 GB per volume. Called Extended Address Volume (EAV), this function is planned to initially support 223 GB per volume on z/OS V1.10

Re: System z10 announcement (in English)

2008-02-26 Thread Marian Gasparovic
No, ETR comes by default in z10. Marian Gasparovic IBM Slovakia On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Roy Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shane wrote: Nice green stripe. Big page only 1 Meg. Interesting. HiperDispatch ... way overdue. 16 Gig HSA. anything else of interest ???

Re: IBM announced z10 ..why so fast...any problem on z 9

2008-02-26 Thread Marian Gasparovic
16 GB HSA - all 60 LPARs, all 4 CSSs, all devices are there, just use them. I think it is great. Marian Gasparovic IBM Slovakia On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Tommy Tsui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: z10 quad-core 4.4Ghz..how fast compared with z9 ...? A new 16GB reserved for HSA ..is it

Re: IBM announced z10 ..why so fast...any problem on z 9

2008-02-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/26/2008 at 04:28 PM, Tommy Tsui [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Anyone know why IBM announced z10 so fast Before asking why, ask whether. Why do you believe that they should have waited? I don't see the pace of announcements as being unusually rapid. is there any problem

Re: Newbie RACROUTE question: how to *test* authorization?

2008-02-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/24/2008 at 12:13 PM, IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: OTOH, I can readily imagine a utility that attempts an access but on failure proceeds with restricted function. As an example for Shmuel, see message GIM69158I, or perhaps IEB1099I. I was thinking

Re: Newbie RACROUTE question: how to *test* authorization?

2008-02-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In ![EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/24/2008 at 07:10 PM, Reza Fatemi [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: You may be thinking of ISPF 3.4 and data set name hiding or may be thinking of ISPF 3.4 checking for ALTER access to the catalog. The latter sounds familiar; it was in a thread about violation messages for

Re: Batch job to perform sftp transfer

2008-02-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/25/2008 at 11:06 AM, IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: o What use is SYSPRINT in an IKJEFT01 step? Perhaps not needed in this case, but in general it saves having to allocate and free SYSPRINT every time you want to run a utility. -- Shmuel

Re: Batch job to perform sftp transfer

2008-02-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/25/2008 at 09:41 AM, Betsy Jeffery [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Therefore, sftp does not (and should not if it is to remain open source) recognize MVS data set structures. There is nothing in GPL2 and similar licenses that prohibits system-dependent code. In fact, a

Re: Batch job to perform sftp transfer

2008-02-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/23/2008 at 07:25 PM, Kirk Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: IBM's port of ssh has code that detects an OMVS environment and explicitly prohibits execution. Ouch! Thanks. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: 256 bytes again

2008-02-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/25/2008 at 07:32 AM, (IBM Mainframe Discussion List) [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: he guy who precipitated all this extra discussion was trying to get the thread oriented to remembering that the key length must be considered when determining how many blocks will fit

Re: ACBUSER

2008-02-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/25/2008 at 03:31 PM, Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Isn't that a VTAM field? The ACB has a high degree of commonality across access methods. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: 256 bytes again

2008-02-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/25/2008 at 08:51 AM, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: No. First - when you calculate number of blocks, you have to take into consideration many physical aspects of data storing, like Count field, gaps, data cell size, data cell existence, track size, R0, etc Only if

Re: 256 bytes again

2008-02-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/24/2008 at 09:37 PM, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The documentation is correct. No. One could add Count and Key to the size, but *he shouldn't*. It's not what you don't know that hurts you, it's not what you know that isn't so. Failure to take the key into

Re: How to find uncatalog datasets.

2008-02-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/26/2008 at 06:30 PM, Sivakumar, Manikandan [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I would like to know information how to list the uncatalog datasets. FDREPORT if you're licensed for it. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: How to find uncatalog datasets.

2008-02-26 Thread Mark Zelden
Been discussed many times. Search the archives! If you don't have DFSMSdss or other purchased software that will do it, you can use the VTOC command from CBT file 112: http://www.cbttape.org //TMP EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01,REGION=2M //STEPLIB DD DISP=SHR,DSN=vtoc.LOADLIB //SYSTSPRT

Re: System z10 announcement (in English)

2008-02-26 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:05:16 +1000, Shane wrote: anything else of interest ??? ... :0) AutoIPL! (At last!) AutoIPL support will provide the capability to request that the system automatically IPL stand-alone dump, z/OS, or both, when a disabled wait state is requested by a system

Re: Newbie RACROUTE question: how to *test* authorization?

2008-02-26 Thread Randy Evans
...and the QUERY SECURITY command invokes a RACROUTE to perform this function. So CICS is documenting use of preemptive RACROUTE requests as reasonable design in presenting usable options on a user's menu. --unsnip--- IIRC, under this particular set of

Re: Portmap start task

2008-02-26 Thread Steve R Wolf
Tim, We run HSC/Libstation for an EMC product called Alphastore and have not experienced any problems. We run our Port mapper at SC SYSSTC. Also while moving the Libstation to its own LPAR we discovered HSC needs the port mapper. One more thing about HSC 6.0. It does not support all the

Re: Is IBM/Tivoli turning into CA?

2008-02-26 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
I'll take Pat's comments one step further. I am supposed to be having a telephone discussion with a couple folks from IBM regarding this issue (including the person who is responsible for Omegamon documentation) on Thursday. If you have specific issues that you would like me to forward to them,

Re: IBM announced z10 ..why so fast...any problem on z 9

2008-02-26 Thread Martin Packer
Marian wrote 16 GB HSA - all 60 LPARs, all 4 CSSs, all devices are there, just use them. I think it is great. I agree... When the PR/SM architect told me about it a few months ago he said it was to simplify sizing by ensuring ALL configs were already contained within the 16GB. And he

Re: 2097?

2008-02-26 Thread McKown, John
Well, according to the announcement today, a 2097 is a z10 EC. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or

Filemaster LASTREC

2008-02-26 Thread Gerry Anstey
Hi Listers, anyone help with this. For our sins we are blessed with CA-Filemaster and one of our offshore guys recently found a new way to screw up based on a command called LASTREC. this is what happened: He wanted to edit a trailr record and went into Filemaster to do so. For reasons as yet

Re: IBM announced z10 ..why so fast...any problem on z 9

2008-02-26 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] (Tommy Tsui) writes: Actually, I worry becuase there are no competitors in the market, why IBM announced the new CPU model so fast, it doesn't

Re: 2097?

2008-02-26 Thread Marian Gasparovic
Yes, and so somebody who did not trust D M=CPU can trust it again... On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:37 AM, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, according to the announcement today, a 2097 is a z10 EC. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of

Re: SPAM: Re: 256 bytes again

2008-02-26 Thread Rick Fochtman
-sniip he guy who precipitated all this extra discussion was trying to get the thread oriented to remembering that the key length must be considered when determining how many blocks will fit on the track. That's part of it. There's also code

Re: How to find uncatalog datasets.

2008-02-26 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:02:51 -0600, Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --snip- Thanks Varun. Is there any other utilities to determine this? --unsnip--- If you have FDR, FDREPORT can give you lists of uncataloged datasets.

Re: How to find uncatalog datasets.

2008-02-26 Thread Rick Fochtman
--snip- Thanks Varun. Is there any other utilities to determine this? --unsnip--- If you have FDR, FDREPORT can give you lists of uncataloged datasets. -- For

IBM System z10 Enterprise Class announcement web sites

2008-02-26 Thread Pamela Christina on z10 announce day (snowy)
Hi, It's no longer a rumor. Here's some web sites for your reading pleasure IBM System z10 announcement web site: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/news/announcement/20080226_annc.html US Announcement Letter:

Re: 1.9 vs 1.7Console

2008-02-26 Thread Ron Wells
Gather Master console...concept is gone.. Applications/systems that uses consoles MUST use names assigned...Not by the old ID number... Been changing---altering for sometime...BUT when we came up on 1.9 we havd a named console in CICS--as example--saying it was not found??

Re: System z10 announcement (in English)

2008-02-26 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:05:16 +1000, Shane wrote: Nice green stripe. Big page only 1 Meg. Interesting. ... anything else of interest ??? ... :0) Hmm... is it interesting that it doesn't do Windows Server (yet)? -- Tom Schmidt

Re: System z10 announcement (in English)

2008-02-26 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Schmidt Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 11:32 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: System z10 announcement (in English) On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:05:16 +1000, Shane wrote:

Re: System z10 announcement (in English)

2008-02-26 Thread Mark Jacobs
McKown, John wrote: snip [shudder] From what I've read, you can run Windows on a zArch machine using the BOCHS emulation code. Now, why would I want to put the world's least reliable OS onto the world's most reliable hardware? -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets

Re: System z10 announcement (in English)

2008-02-26 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 11:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: System z10 announcement (in English) McKown, John wrote: snip [shudder] From what

IBM Preview of z/OS V1.10

2008-02-26 Thread Mark Zelden
HCSA - because 510T of shared storage is not enough. :-) -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's

Re: IBM announced z10 ..why so fast...any problem on z 9

2008-02-26 Thread Ted MacNEIL
A new 16GB reserved for HSA ..is it necessary??? to avoid outages..is it means more available for dynamic activate IOCDS... Also, it means you no longer tie up part of your investment in memory with that needed for HSA. So, if you buy 64GB (for example), you have 64GB available for your LPARs.

SV: System z10 announcement (in English)

2008-02-26 Thread Thomas Berg
By the same reason You have to install a new version of Windows on Your new, powerfull PC: - To obliterate any progress in hardware performance ! Thomas _ Thomas Berg Specialist IT Utveckling Swedbank AB (Publ)

Re: System z10 announcement (in English)

2008-02-26 Thread Staller, Allan
John, Sounds like things are looking up for you! snip Perhaps so! [grin} Our new head of Open Systems is said to be an AIX bigot. I've heard it said that he wants to replace as many Windows servers (Intel) with AIX servers (pSeries) as possible. Well, it's a start. I've also heard that he would

Re: CPU time differences for the same job

2008-02-26 Thread Petersen, Jim
This has been a question which dates back to the times of old. Back in the late 60's early 70's when I was running MFT and MVT, it was the question most on people's minds. Back in those days, it was because when an I/O interrupt occurred some of the time of processing that interrupt (no matter

Re: Is IBM/Tivoli turning into CA?

2008-02-26 Thread Andrew McIntyre
Stephen Hall wrote: Doug, It's in the XE component, which means you have to access it via the TEP (Tivoli Enterprise Portal GUI). It hangs off the MVS Operating System window, and is called z/OS Unix System Services Window. However, it is a basic overview only. HTH, Stephen Hall IAG

Re: Is IBM/Tivoli turning into CA?

2008-02-26 Thread Doug Fuerst
Andrew McIntyre wrote: snip It's true that the base TEP USS workspace has the word overview in it. However, as with all OMEGAMON TEP workspaces, you have to right click to see what else is available. In the USS case, there are hundreds of metrics externalized to the out of the box

Re: IBM Preview of z/OS V1.10

2008-02-26 Thread J R
A new virtual storage area, the High Common Storage Area (HCSA), is defined. Did they really call it that? Or, did they mean to say, High Common *Service* Area? Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:53:36 -0600 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IBM Preview of z/OS V1.10 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU

Re: Is IBM/Tivoli turning into CA?

2008-02-26 Thread Andrew McIntyre
Doug Fuerst wrote: ICKY. So I have to put in the XE piece and access the TEMS to look at anything. The setup for that has pretty bad and confusing documentation, and is an unwieldy implementation. Besides, I was told by Omegamon support that there was nothing in the GUI that I couldn't get to

Re: System z10 announcement (in English)

2008-02-26 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:37:02 -0600, McKown, John wrote: -Original Message- On Behalf Of Tom Schmidt Subject: Re: System z10 announcement (in English) On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:05:16 +1000, Shane wrote: Nice green stripe. Big page only 1 Meg. Interesting. ... anything else of

Re: System z10 announcement (in English)

2008-02-26 Thread Jon Brock
Good ideas on both counts. AIX is good stuff, and so is pSeries. Jon snip Our new head of Open Systems is said to be an AIX bigot. I've heard it said that he wants to replace as many Windows servers (Intel) with AIX servers (pSeries) as possible. Well, it's a start. I've also heard that he

Re: System z10 announcement (in English)

2008-02-26 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:00:33 -0600, Staller, Allan wrote: John, Sounds like things are looking up for you! It seems as if the longevity of the managers at John's shop is about 12-18 months (about the life of a typical CIO). Give this guy some time and he'll be out of there, too. Right,

Re: IBM Preview of z/OS V1.10

2008-02-26 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:25:13 -0500, J R wrote: A new virtual storage area, the High Common Storage Area (HCSA), is defined. Did they really call it that? Or, did they mean to say, High Common *Service* Area? Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:53:36 -0600 From: mark.zelden HCSA - because

Re: System z10 announcement (in English)

2008-02-26 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Brock Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 12:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: System z10 announcement (in English) Good ideas on both counts. AIX is good stuff, and so is

Re: CPU time differences for the same job

2008-02-26 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. recent posts mentioning doing dispatching in the 60s for improving both uniprocessor as well as multiprocessor cache hit ratios (including a form of low-overhead

Re: System z10 announcement (in English)

2008-02-26 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Schmidt Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 12:42 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: System z10 announcement (in English) On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:00:33 -0600, Staller, Allan

CA-FAVER to DFDSS conversion

2008-02-26 Thread Kevin Fletcher
Greetings IBM-MAIN, We are in the process of converting using CA-FAVER to using IBM's DFDSS and would like to know if anyone had been through this process. Any tips, tricks or pitfalls identified would be greately appreciated. Fletch

Re: ZOS V1R9 and Old APPS

2008-02-26 Thread Daniel McLaughlin
Found out this week that DB2 will be retiring this year, so that is out of the equation. Then there are a few oddities like Nomad, but that made the trip from OS/390 2.10 through ZOS 1.4 and ZOS 1.7. Have y'all seen the new IBM mainframe announcement?

Re: ZOS V1R9 and Old APPS

2008-02-26 Thread Fletcher, Kevin
snip Found out this week that DB2 will be retiring this year, so that is out of the equation. Then there are a few oddities like Nomad, but that made the trip from OS/390 2.10 through ZOS 1.4 and ZOS 1.7. Have y'all seen the new IBM mainframe announcement? /snip Dan, if you are talking

Re: IBM Preview of z/OS V1.10

2008-02-26 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:44:22 -0600, Tom Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:25:13 -0500, J R wrote: A new virtual storage area, the High Common Storage Area (HCSA), is defined. Did they really call it that? Or, did they mean to say, High Common *Service* Area? I know I've

Re: How to find uncatalog datasets.

2008-02-26 Thread Kevin Mckenzie
I would like to know information how to list the uncatalog datasets. I would like to know whether we can use IDCAMS utility or any other utility. Thanks. I've written REXX execs in the past to do this. Give it a list of volumes, use TSO utilities to get a list of datasets on the pack, and

Re: SMS : WILD CARD USE IN FILTLIST

2008-02-26 Thread John Kington
Looking at it again, I noticed that John was looking for range of 0 to 9 as the last character in the second and fourth nodes of his dataset. I setup the filtlists to look for 1 though 9. The filtlists should have been: FILTLST NUMA INCLUDE(%%0,%%1,%%2,%%3,%%4,%%5,%%6,%%7,%%8,%%9) FILTLST NUMB

Re: Newbie RACROUTE question: how to *test* authorization?

2008-02-26 Thread Dave Kopischke
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:48:34 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:08:53 -0600, Dave Kopischke wrote: We have a JCL checker application that verifies dataset access for a JOB. Through routine use of this product, we end up with thousands of access warnings on our daily RACF

Re: IBM Preview of z/OS V1.10

2008-02-26 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I know I've heard many people refer to the S in CSA as storage. So I think using storage makes more sense now. I've seen the 'S' stand for service, storage, system, over the last 28 years, so I have given up. The 'S' stands for 's'. - Too busy driving to stop for gas!

z10 books at www.redbooks.ibm.com

2008-02-26 Thread Marian Gasparovic
There are several books available at www.redbooks.ibm.com since today IBM System z10 Enterprise Class Technical Introduction, SG24-7515-00 IBM System z10 Enterprise Class Technical Guide, SG24-7516-00 IBM System z Connectivity Handbook, SG24-5444-08 Server Time Protocol Implementation Guide,

Re: How to find uncatalog datasets.

2008-02-26 Thread Scott Barry
I believe your site is licensed for the CA MICS DASD Space Collector/Analyzer components, which provides an option to collect catalog-status information for each scanned VTOC/dataset. Recommend this option be used infrequently due to the additional overhead. Check with your MICS

Re: IBM Preview of z/OS V1.10

2008-02-26 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] (Ted MacNEIL) writes: I've seen the 'S' stand for service, storage, system, over the last 28 years, so I have given up. The 'S' stands for

Re: Newbie RACROUTE question: how to *test* authorization?

2008-02-26 Thread Dave Kopischke
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:35:10 -0600, Walt Farrell wrote: On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:08:53 -0600, Dave Kopischke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:07:24 -0600, Walt Farrell wrote: One could argue that letting you determine your access to resources without actually trying to use them

Re: Has IBM provided a link to the z10 POPs?

2008-02-26 Thread George Young
Binyamin Dissen wrote: Has IBM provided a link to the z10 POPs? -- Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the

Re: Has IBM provided a link to the z10 POPs?

2008-02-26 Thread Steve Comstock
George Young wrote: Binyamin Dissen wrote: Has IBM provided a link to the z10 POPs? -- Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize

Re: System z10 announcement (in English)

2008-02-26 Thread Gibney, Dave
Because my shop has a small number of Linux or Unix servers to take advantage of server consolidation and z/VM virtualization. And a couple thousand cubic feet of Window$ servers that are overwhelming the environmentals in a room the used to hold a 3090-400j, a 3081, and a lot of 3390 and

Re: Newbie RACROUTE question: how to *test* authorization?

2008-02-26 Thread George Fogg
Dave wrote: I can change this by coding JCL parameters to mimic production, but if I don't notice it or don't know what the proper parameters are, I get security violations. If it's a large JOB, I get lots of security violations. It's still not a hacking attempt. Perhaps someone else could use

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