In a message dated 5/5/2008 10:29:31 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
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> convinced of the disadvantages of IEHIBALL, ...
ITYM Ed Finnell ...
>> Well, I go back to SMP-fiche days, so 'trust, but verify(often more than
once)' is pretty ingrained. Unfortunately, the syn
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> We have IMS 9 on z/OS and I am fairly new to the platform and have a
> vested interest in fixing it. Every night we have batch programs that
> run which
Paul Gilmartin wrote:
I wonder whether most of us, even Ed. J are now
convinced of the disadvantages of IEHIBALL, ...
ITYM Ed Finnell ...
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I'm planning to try the new z/OS v1.7 function of VSAM-RLS 64-bit data
buffers. There's one step to issue "D SMS,SMSVSAM" which is verify that the
SMSVSAM server for your system is at the V1R7 level to see whether our z/OS
v1.7 is eligible to use 64-bit data buffers. It says, the cache feature
cod
On 5 May 2008 15:51:01 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
>On Mon, 5 May 2008 16:03:33 EDT, Ed Finnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
>>Yeah, where are the symantiziers when you needs them? Ever hear
>an
>>Unauthorized P.A.R.?
30+ years ago the Westinghouse Fast Dump Restore program had
On Mon, 5 May 2008, Philip Hitti wrote:
> test
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (, IBM Mainframe Discussion List) wrote:
IBM may want us to think an APAR is an Authorized Program
Analysis Report,
but I'm not going to let them fool me.
In answer to the OP: I h
On Mon, 5 May 2008 16:03:33 EDT, Ed Finnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>...
>Yeah, where are the symantiziers when you needs them? Ever hear
an
>Unauthorized P.A.R.?
>...
Unfortunately, often. Usually it's worded "Working as Designed -
Not APARable". UPARs are go in the garbage, accompanie
Strange, I could have sworn you were one of the vocal dissenters when
IBM did away with JOBCAT and STEPCAT. Not all progress is in the
forward direction.
I find it a tad inconsistent that IBM provides a Linux for those who
don't want to bother with z/OS but those of us who do must deal with
Unix
Thanks, looks like I got lucky... Don't have any on.
Interesting that most are UK ...
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On Mon, 5 May 2008 15:11:47 -0500, Field, Alan C. wrote:
>Double crap, Ed still got it wrong C /UJK/UK/ * *
>
>In a message dated 5/5/2008 2:58:54 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>UK35424 UK35476 UK35479 1JK35500 UK35560
>UK35567 UK35659 UK35659 1JK35709 UK35716
>>>
>Cr
On Mon, 5 May 2008 11:27:41 -0700, Schwarz, Barry A wrote:
>I don't object to z/OS including Unix. I do object to being forced to
>use it for completely unrelated functions.
>
One uses the most convenient tools available.
c all /Unix/VSAM/
... in your tirade and reset your clock a couple de
The one advantage that AllowUserKeyCSA=(program1,program2)
would have over the current AllowUserKeyCSA=YES/NO is that
it would prevent any new code from allocating User Key CSA while
an installation is trying to get converted over to full protection.
(Better still would be a SAF call, but I don
On Mon, 5 May 2008 12:06:22 -0700, Schwarz, Barry A wrote:
>I really have to question whether reading or writing a file is that much
>easier than dealing with a dataset. In fact, one of the selling points
>used to be that DD names made your program device independent. A
At one time, that was pr
IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 05/05/2008
08:42:51 AM:
> If you are going to let it default or specify NO, make sure you can test
this
> well first. Even without testing, if you have a common storage monitor,
> or download MXI from the CBT you can find out who / what is using
> KEY 8
>Oh, sure. And I fought it tooth and nail for a while, too.
>But I've come to find out it can be kinda' fun. And on no other platform can
>you do all the ol' fun stuff and the new fun stuff at the same time.
I've used UNIX since 1976, so I was always pleased that IBM introduced USS to
MVS.
I hav
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IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 05/05/2008
03:59:25 PM:
> i do not understand why ALLOWUSERKEYCSA is such an issue now.
> things worked for years when it defaulted to (YES) under pre z/os 1.9
> releases, so why is it suddenly a security risk to reset the current
> default so that it remai
Daniel McLaughlin wrote:
We ran MVT without USS and we LIKED it!
Daniel McLaughlin
Oh, sure. And I fought it tooth and nail for a while, too.
But I've come to find out it can be kinda' fun. And on no
other platform can you do all the ol' fun stuff and the
new fun stuff at the same time.
IBM may want us to think an APAR is an Authorized Program Analysis Report,
but I'm not going to let them fool me. I know it is really a three-banded
South American armadillo (Tolypeutes tricinctus). Check it out:
_http://www.thefreedictionary.com/apar_ (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/apa
In a message dated 5/5/2008 3:12:37 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
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Double crap, Ed still got it wrong C /UJK/UK/ * *
>>
Thanks, I'll go play with my zigamorph...ain't these PC's wunnerul?
**Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on fam
Barkow, Eileen wrote:
i do not understand why ALLOWUSERKEYCSA is such an issue now.
things worked for years when it defaulted to NO under pre z/os 1.9
releases, so why is it suddenly a security risk to reset the current
default so that it remains set to NO.
It is not sudden. The risk has bee
Is there a filter on the panel? Or another thought is - Did you set yourself
up as a Storage Administrator on SETUP Panel?
Lizette
>
>What would prevent SMS from returning a list of all datasets that fit a search
>criteria?
>The list that I got only contains my datasets.
>
>
-
Double crap, Ed still got it wrong C /UJK/UK/ * *
In a message dated 5/5/2008 2:58:54 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
UK35424 UK35476 UK35479 1JK35500 UK35560
UK35567 UK35659 UK35659 1JK35709 UK35716
>>
Crap c/1JK/UJK/ * *
In a message dated 5/5/2008 2:21:02 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That is "Authorized ... Report", not "Authorized Program ...". IBM
authorizes the report by assigning the APAR id.
>>
Yeah, where are the symantiziers when you needs them? Ever hear an
Unauthoriz
Sorry, i meant default YES, not NO.
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i do not understand why ALLOWUSERKEYCSA is such an issu
In a message dated 5/5/2008 2:58:54 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
UK35424 UK35476 UK35479 1JK35500 UK35560
UK35567 UK35659 UK35659 1JK35709 UK35716
>>
Crap c/1JK/UJK/ * *
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favorit
i do not understand why ALLOWUSERKEYCSA is such an issue now.
things worked for years when it defaulted to NO under pre z/os 1.9
releases, so why is it suddenly a security risk to reset the current
default so that it remains set to NO.
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In a message dated 5/5/2008 11:58:18 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Here is the list, easier to just type it up, than everyone
complaining IEHEYEBALL it yourself...
>>
You beat me to it. I had to go get zapped my ownself...anyway.
1)Copy gif image into CLIP Boar
IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 05/05/2008
10:05:27 AM:
> Eileen Barkow of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List
> wrote on 05/05/2008 08:10:03 AM:
>
> > we have an old vendor written product (MEMO) which we could not change
> > and which was getting a b0a-5c abend under z/os 1.9 and we ha
Hi,
I'm getting a message in omegamon when I use the command = WRH .
KC20101OMEGAMON II for CICS
An internal OMEGAMON II problem occurred.
Contact your system administrator or refer to
the OMEGAMON II for CICS Messages Manual with
the following information:
OC
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 14:32 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote:
> SDK 6 has a feature (AOT) whereby these optimizations
> can be reused over and over between different jobs.
Kirk, does this do much to reduce the startup cost for Java-in-batch?
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- JZOS is actually part of the Java SDK for z/OS, not USS.
- and to the OP's question:
Java JVMs these days have "JIT" (Just in time) optimizing compilers
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instructions. SDK 6 has a feature (AOT) whereby these optimizations
can b
On Mon, 5 May 2008 13:54:18 +, john gilmore
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The standard interpretation of APAR is now
>
>Authorized . . . ;
>
>but it was once
>
>Applied . . .
>...
Really? It was "authorized" as long as I can remember.
That is "Authorized ... Report", not "Authorized P
On Fri, 02 May 2008 22:01:10 +0200, Thomas Zierer
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>JZOS has become part of Unix System Services in z/OS. Handling is very
>easy, especially if combined with other Java tools like ANT. There is an
>interesting sample shiped with JZOS: Installing an running a Apache
>To
I really have to question whether reading or writing a file is that much
easier than dealing with a dataset. In fact, one of the selling points
used to be that DD names made your program device independent. A
sequential file could be stand-alone or a member of a PDS. It could be
on cards, tape, d
> -Original Message-
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>
> All of you are starting to show your age Something you
> setup once, and forget.
Indeed. If you don't occasionally learn some "new tricks", your
"audience" will get bored and wander off...
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IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 05/05/2008
01:16:55 PM:
> What would prevent SMS from returning a list of all datasets that
> fit a search criteria?
> The list that I got only contains my datasets.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave O'Brien
Is the dataset filter in quotes?
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And it was completely optional whether I activated it or not. And then
it became mandatory to activate it but you could do so with a minimal
"dummy" configuration. Now I don't even have that choice.
Over the years, more and more functionality has been moved across the
fence, frequently with inad
We ran MVT without USS and we LIKED it!
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I don't object to z/OS including Unix. I do object to being forced to
use it for completely unrelated functions. <<< Have to agree with Barry
on this one!
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I don't object to z/OS including Unix. I do object to being forced to
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From: Timothy Sipples [mailto:snip]
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 10:22 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Shop zSeries Ordering Issues
Barry Schwarz wr
When federal legal restrictions (not company policy) prohibit
connection, age and popularity become somewhat irrelevant.
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I guess, yo
Scroll down through the screens and make sure you do not have something
set to filter it.
ThanksRick
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What would prevent SMS from returning a list of all datasets that fit a search
criteria?
The list that I got only contains my datasets.
Thanks,
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I'm told the FLASH has been updated, but I'm not sure how long it will
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Note that the list has 31 PTF's listed, but UK35659 is on there
twiceMakes me wonder if an IBM'er mis-typed one of them in the
original notice
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Here is the list, easier to just type it up, than everyone
complaining IEHEYEBALL it yourself...
UA40614
UA40675
UA40676
UK33915
UK34744
UK34987
UK35166
UK35167
UK35168
UK35169
UK35172
UK35186
UK35190
UK35355
UK35356
UK35357
UK35369
UK35407
UK35420
UK35421
UK35424
UK35476
UK35479
UK35500
UK3
I thought a PDS could not be multivolume and therefore could not
allocate it as multivolume?
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>> APAR = Authorized Program Analysis Report
>>
>But, as I'm certain you know, we accept APARs for both authorized and
>unauthorized code. I might not have been born when this term was coined, but
>I'll go out on a limb to speculate that "authorized" meant
something other than "AC(1)" in "APA
Good find! I did a RECEIVE ORDER on the 28th, so I had to check if I got any
of those PTFs, I was going to cut and paste the list of PTFs from the flash
into a job to do an SMPE LIST, but the list is not text, it's a freakin' GIF!!!
Who was the genius who did that?
>>> Brian Peterson <[EMAIL
We have found the enemy and it was me. According to IBM it was the Dynamic
volume count causing the problem.
Something that they have seen before so at least I'm not alone.
From: O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Sent: Mon 5/5/2008 11:01 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Thanks for posting your findings. I found it useful also.
Mark Hammond
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Hi Brian,
Thanks for the suggestions. I finally found it
I also can not find in the Implementation Guide anything about the OMVS
segment that is required. Is that documented elsewhere?
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Paul Gilmartin wrote:
But the hazard is manifest not when an authorized program obtains
storage in a user key, but when an unauthorized program modifies
that storage. Perhaps the solution would be to allocate user key
CSA only in a subpool that would be segment-protected from
modification by pro
On Mon, 5 May 2008 09:51:04 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>But the hazard is manifest not when an authorized program obtains
>storage in a user key, but when an unauthorized program modifies
>that storage. Perhaps the solution would be to allocate user key
>CSA only in a subpool that would be segm
On Mon, 5 May 2008 09:43:43 -0500, Brian Peterson wrote:
> http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/FLASH10644
>
>According to the Flash, 30 PTFs (one is listed twice) were
>released "truncated". We are asked to reject them, and then get them again.
>
Sheesh! The list appears
Great, I have two of them that I ordered on April 30.
Do I assume that their dates are correct and that I am OK or do I redo
them anyway ... decisions decisions.
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Brian Peterson
http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/FLASH10644
According to the Fla
On Mon, 5 May 2008 09:43:43 -0500, Brian Peterson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/FLASH10644
>
>According to the Flash, 30 PTFs (one is listed twice) were
>released "truncated". We are asked to reject them, and then get them again.
>The Fla
I agree. I can see this being added to the checklist for auditors.
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Gilmartin
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 9:51 AM
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Subject: Re: allowuserkeycsa
On Mon, 5 May 2008 09:
Ken,
According to the manual, you are correct:
£ Each PDS or PDSE must be on one direct-access volume. However, you can
concatenate multiple input data sets that are on the same or different
volumes.
On Mon, 5 May 2008 09:51:04 -0500 Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>On Mon, 5 May 2008 09:05:27 -0500, John P Kalinich wrote:
:>>Instead of an all inclusive ALLOWUSERKEYCSA=YES, why not something like
:>>ALLOWUSERKEYCSA=(program1,program2,...) for situations where there is no
:>>source
On Mon, 5 May 2008 09:43:43 -0500, Brian Peterson wrote:
> http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/FLASH10644
>
>According to the Flash, 30 PTFs (one is listed twice) were
>released "truncated". We are asked to reject them, and then get them again.
>The Flash does not say whe
I thought a PDS could not be multivolume and therefore could not
allocate it as multivolume?
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O'Brien, David W.
Tom,
Listcat only shows 1 volume.
VOLUMES
VOLSERDSP148 DEVTYPE--X'3010200F'
FSEQN-
0
ASSOCIATIONS(NULL)
A
Tom,
Listcat only shows 1 volume.
VOLUMES
VOLSERDSP148 DEVTYPE--X'3010200F' FSEQN-
0
ASSOCIATIONS(NULL)
On Mon, 5 May 2008 09:05:27 -0500, John P Kalinich wrote:
>
>Instead of an all inclusive ALLOWUSERKEYCSA=YES, why not something like
>ALLOWUSERKEYCSA=(program1,program2,...) for situations where there is no
>source code or support.
>
But the hazard is manifest not when an authorized program obtains
On Mon, 5 May 2008 10:38:38 -0400, O'Brien, David W. wrote:
>Got the following from one of the MVS Sysprogs:
>
>"I got the following error when I tried to update the linklist on sys5 but the
dataset doesn't look like a multi-volume dataset to me. I did a listcat but
don't
see where there is a
http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/FLASH10644
According to the Flash, 30 PTFs (one is listed twice) were
released "truncated". We are asked to reject them, and then get them again.
The Flash does not say whether the problem is limited to one kind of
deliverable, so y
Got the following from one of the MVS Sysprogs:
"I got the following error when I tried to update the linklist on sys5 but the
dataset doesn't look like a multi-volume dataset to me. I did a listcat but
don't see where there is a flag of multi-volume.
09:22:42.90 05 0090 CSV518I AC
On Mon, 5 May 2008 09:05:27 -0500, John P Kalinich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Eileen Barkow of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List
>wrote on 05/05/2008 08:10:03 AM:
>
>> we have an old vendor written product (MEMO) which we could not change
>> and which was getting a b0a-5c abend under z/os 1.9 an
that is a good idea assuming you know in advance all of the programs
which may need ALLOWUSERKEYCSA=YES. and in our case, the vendor product
executes more than 1 program and we cannot pretest all of the options.
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Eileen Barkow of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List
wrote on 05/05/2008 08:10:03 AM:
> we have an old vendor written product (MEMO) which we could not change
> and which was getting a b0a-5c abend under z/os 1.9 and we had to change
> the default to ALLOWUSERKEYCSA=YES.
>
Instead of an all inclus
The standard interpretation of APAR is now
Authorized . . . ;
but it was once
Applied . . .
instead, which then made sense in relation to the organizational terminology in
use within IBM but makes none now.
IBM's practice of jacking up acronyms to replace their current, notionally
ob
I haven't tried lately, either; I'm pointing out that program
behavior, especially in the early days of OS/360, was due more to
resource constraints (coding time, transient area fits, etc.) than
intent. It would be nice if the documentation matched the
On 4 May 2008 11:31:39 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott
Ford) wrote:
>I was involved in one of these at a MAJOR Pharm company,
>Going from mainframes to Unix, just plain didn't work. Programs couldn't be
>converted, ended up moving back to z/OS and mainframes.
It usually doesn't work for a con
i have not done this but i think that you would have to code the Dynamic
routing program to route the transaction issuing the start command to
the proper tor.
another way might be to make the transactions always remote to the aor
and the terminals always defined to one of the tors and shippable and
Edward Jaffe wrote:
Paul Gilmartin wrote:
Is it proper, then, to make the assumption that if two authorized
programs fall into a deadlock with each other, and fail to detect
or recover, a developer didn't know what he was doing, and at least
one of the programs should be APARable?
APAR = Au
Chase, John wrote:
[...]
You didn't mention how long you've been "registered" with Shopz, or how
long Shopz has been available in Europe.
It has been available for quite long time, but limited to service.
Now it's available for product ordering as well.
But I had a similar experience
when
we have an old vendor written product (MEMO) which we could not change
and which was getting a b0a-5c abend under z/os 1.9 and we had to change
the default to ALLOWUSERKEYCSA=YES.
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Got you 5x5.
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On Sat, 3 May 2008 05:58:25 -0500, Saravanan J wrote:
>In one of our programs say XYZ, we are accessing USER catalog by
>dynamically allocating the Catalog using SVC 99 (in shared access mode) to
>get some dataset related information from the catalog.
Do you really need to do that? Are you readi
On Sun, 4 May 2008 22:42:54 -0500, Tom Eden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I would like to know how many are specifying allowuserkeycsa=yes in a z/OS
>1.9 environment and if there have been any issues?
>
No one would have issues with running with the YES setting. The OS has
always allowed it in th
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of R.S.
>
> My adventure with ShopzSeries:
> I ordered JAVA SDK for z/OS. It is free product/ I can
> dowlnload it from IBM webpage without any paperwork. However
> web-downloadable form is non-SMP/E. SMP/E package is o
convoluted USS path?
I guess, I've never considered USS convoluted, depends on how you have
your shop set up. I'll take download anyday over having to deal with tapes.
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Daniel McLaughlin wrote:
Snipped: why would anyone bother with tapes anymore? yuck!
Not all of us like messing around with the convoluted USS path, that's
why.
Time to learn new tricks ?
But seriously, it is not only matter of big HFS and managing (long)
pathnames. It is also (unclear) "u
The only issue with allowuserkeycsa=yes is that you forego the protection
of disallowing it. It's been allowed 'forever' until recently. There used
to be no external control at all. Now the control defaults to 'no'.
We have to run with 'yes' on several systems because of some old software
that we
Snipped: why would anyone bother with tapes anymore? yuck!
Not all of us like messing around with the convoluted USS path, that's
why.
Daniel McLaughlin
Z-Series Systems Programmer
Information & Communications Technology
Crawford & Company
4680 N. Royal Atlanta
Tucker GA 30084
phone: 770-
>Can I call TRASMIT/RECEIVE from batch program ?
//XMITJOB JOB (XMIT)
//*
//
//* THIS JCL CONVERTS A PDS TO A FILE FORMAT THAT IS SUITABLE
//*FOR TRANFER THROUGH FTP TO AN OTHER MACHINE.
//*
/
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 11:24 +0200, R.S. wrote:
> OK, time for my pills...
Be sure to wash them down with a dark rum ... ;0)
Shane ...
(apparently makes the pills work better)
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My adventure with ShopzSeries:
I ordered JAVA SDK for z/OS. It is free product/ I can dowlnload it from
IBM webpage without any paperwork. However web-downloadable form is
non-SMP/E. SMP/E package is only from ShopZ - but it's still free of
charge. But not free of paperwork. It took several wee
>For example, Sabre (airline reservations, Travelocity) cut its total
>expenses 50% when it switched from mainframe to Unix.
I do not have any particular knowledge of Sabre, so I would assume absent
any information to the contrary that they're wonderful people.
But I do have a problem with whoeve
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