Not very java like...
It's Classic REXX with object-oriented extensions. Sadly the GUI stuff is
only for Windows (at least out of the box).
More importantly it OUGHT to be ported to z/OS, preferably not just USS.
Volunteers?
Martin
Martin Packer
Performance Consultant
IBM United Kingdom Ltd
This is the point. I am not sure about the z/os side, but USS is fully posix
compliance and OOREXX claimed to run on UNIX . I just wonder if the address
command will work (like ISPEXEC, TSO, etc). I am looking for someone that
already passed this route
Regards,
Itschak
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at
Martin,
I have a PLX program that I wrote to do this kind of thing last year. That
program would not be of much use to you, so I've written you a short REXX
sample as follows:
/* REXX */
trace i
ALLOC
Thanks, Phil! Very much appreciated.
Now, how about extending it to create JPEGs directly? :-)
Cheers, Martin
Martin Packer
Performance Consultant
IBM United Kingdom Ltd
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They're figuring out that
Martin,
I came across a reference to TRANSMOGRIFIER several years ago and made a
note of it. I've never tried it. I don't know whether it could be used to
convert ADMGDF files to JPEGs. For more information see:
http://www.ibm.com/software/applications/office/bkmgr/transmog.html
Did you check out the group suggested?
http://www.mail-archive.com/oorexx-de...@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00299.html
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We use GDPS and EMC DMX dasd. We did use IBM ESS but replaced with EMC
dasd. Works fine. There was very little we had to do to change our DR procs.
GDPS works much the same whatever the dasd.
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No, but I ljust read it. Very interesting, thanks.
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On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Ian S. Worthington
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Did you check out the group suggested?
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Not at this time
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Customer is using HSM and claims that HSM won't let him put more then 99
disk volume backups on one cartridge.
Is there is a way to overcome this limit?
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I need to be able to access some file on a Windows system from z/os 1.4 USS.
I think I can do this either via an SMB client (if z/os 1.4 has one) or NFS
(if I install a NFS server on Windows). Or maybe there's
We let them have at it, but protect the system.
They can request what they want. IEFUSI will protect a preset amount of
storage for system use (LSQA, etc.) and also protect the user against a
give me all getmain.
If they abuse the issue, we will start seeing paging or aux storage
shortages.
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 07:22:09 -0700, Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
dennis.ro...@lmco.com wrote:
We let them have at it, but protect the system.
They can request what they want. IEFUSI will protect a preset amount of
storage for system use (LSQA, etc.) and also protect the user against a
give me all
No one needs 3490's, and haven't for years.
I'd steer well clear of used tapes; they have a finite life span starting from
the day they left the factory. And, the last I heard, the last factory was
converted some time ago.
Using such antique media would suggest to me that your company is not
Dennis Roach
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As mentioned earlier we DO supply some customers on CD. I suppose it's just
a case of persuading the others to accept them. Even re-furbished 3490E's
are going for 5-7 GBP EACH here (7-10 USD) and they won't get any cheaper.
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From: Hal Merritt
Thanks again to everyone responded.
This was very educational!
Looks like values unique within a week can be compressed into 8 bytes:
1) 6 bytes as a day fraction of TOD obtained via STCK [reminder of
TOD/X'0141 DD76 ']; since the highest nibble of the result is always zero,
it can be
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 08:35:56 -0700, Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
dennis.ro...@lmco.com wrote:
[dr] Real is not the issue, aux is.
For this discussion (which I probably should have changed the subject
on several posts ago), of course - if you wan't to protect you system from
crashing.
The kids today
Hello,
We are running an REXEC to a server running Redhat enterprise linux 5.3 and
receiving the following error. This was previously running to a server running
HP/UX 11.0 with no problems. Has anyone run into this exact scenario before
that might be able to offer some help?
Thanks
Kurt
I wouldn't bother trying to 'persuading' anyone. As another so correctly
posted, getting through to the right person is sometimes quite the challenge.
I'd simply announce the change as a new feature, and 'spin' it as a way for
your customers to cut costs.
Indeed, many of us are being
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 08:59:34 -0800, Kurt Eastwood kurtms...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hello,
We are running an REXEC to a server running Redhat enterprise linux 5.3 and
receiving the following error. This was previously running to a server
running HP/UX 11.0 with no problems. Has anyone run into this
On 3/3/2009 at 11:59 AM, Kurt Eastwood kurtms...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hello,
We are running an REXEC to a server running Redhat enterprise linux 5.3 and
receiving the following error. This was previously running to a server
running HP/UX 11.0 with no problems. Has anyone run into this exact
Hi, We have an ancient Magstar with A50 controller and 4 B1A drives.
Needless to say, it is a bottleneck and we have done what we can to
ameliorate. I'm interested in replacing the tapes with one of these virtual
tape solutions. I wonder if anyone is using them and, if so, what kind of
Hello,
I tried 0M. No alarms. Still an S0C1. I guess that rules out REGION.
Also, I should mention that the utility we use to compile, namely CA Workbench,
is an in-house one. The CA stands for Common Architecture. It builds and
submits the JCL.
However, the DML processor is from Computer
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 18:52:51 -0500
Peter Farley wrote
I can confirm that the BUFND specifications are in fact cumulative.
When we first implemented a huge application with BLSR in the OS390
days, we had to be careful that for all SHRPOOL's added together, all
the BUFND's times BUFSD did not exceed
It must really be wonderful when all your customers keep up to date.
However, pontificating for those of us whose customers don't merely
demonstrates the limits of your experience.
I guess we could have abandoned our customer who didn't convert from
round reels until after the turn of the century
I tried 0M. No alarms. Still an S0C1. I guess that rules out REGION.
Yes, it appears so.
Please don't get in the habit of using it.
While I have never had a system crash from it, it can cause issues with
auxillary storage if too many jobs start using it, and accessing all of it.
Like I
Are you referring to data set backups or full volume dumps?
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From: Arye Shemer
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 9:13 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: HSM filing up 3592 cartridges
Hello,
Customer is using HSM and claims that HSM won't let him put more then
It must really be wonderful when all your customers keep up to date.
However, pontificating for those of us whose customers don't merely
demonstrates the limits of your experience.
Well said!
I've been at places that are so out of date, that you want to cry.
As long as it makes business sense
Thank you Rob. I was able to get all three sets of Name/Token Pairs
however I believe you were right about the CA user table as I could not
find the pairs I was looking for that I am positive exist.
Sean
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Use bigger volumes?
Arye Shemer ary...@matrix.co.il 3/3/2009 12:13 AM
Hello,
Customer is using HSM and claims that HSM won't let him put more then 99
disk volume backups on one cartridge.
Is there is a way to overcome this limit?
The customer would like to utilize his 3592
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 20:10:23 +, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca wrote:
It must really be wonderful when all your customers keep up to date.
However, pontificating for those of us whose customers don't merely
demonstrates the limits of your experience.
Well said!
I've been at places that are
I would expect different SHRPOOLS to be cumulative, would probably bet big
money on it, even though I don't really know such from documentation much
less a dump. But what about multiple BLSR requests for the same SHRPOOL.
Does it sum them up and BLDVRP for the sum, just the largest, or what?
The
I question your logic with regard to BUFNI. If the access pattern is truely
dynamic, then the ideal would be to have space for the index sets and all of
the sequence sets, so that it never reads an index CI more than once. I have
done this on many occasions to save huge amounts of time.
That is a perfectly valid consideration. But only one of many. Since
most of our products carry nine-figure price tags, I don't think we
would sell too many in the future if customers didn't have faith we
would continue to support them.
At that price, customers intend to use the product for
Itschak Mugzach wrote:
Any other ideas?
Don't write code that branches into the middle of an instruction
- with proper choice of base registers and displacements, it's
possible to write a chain of code contained in another, but
definitely not recommended.
Gerhard Postpischil
Bradford, VT
Hello,
Given these JCL statements:
//OUT01A OUTPUT CLASS=R,WRITER=W1,FORMS=F000
//OUT01 DD SYSOUT=(,), OUTPUT=(*,OUT01A)
//OUT02A OUTPUT CLASS=R,WRITER=W1,FORMS=F999
//OUT02 DD SYSOUT=(,), OUTPUT=(*,OUT02A)
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That is a perfectly valid consideration. But only one of many. Since
most of our products carry nine-figure price tags, I don't think we
would sell too many in the future if customers didn't have
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On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 16:40:31 -0500, Gerhard Postpischil gerh...@valley.net
wrote:
Itschak Mugzach wrote:
Any other ideas?
Don't write code that branches into the middle of an instruction
- with proper choice of base registers and displacements, it's
possible to write a chain of code contained in
This is an abend in a CX* module, that is not the IBM COBOL compiler. In
addition,
the COBOL compiler does not run in LE, so it it strange that you got a CEE*
message from
a CA? module. The COBOL compiler would be assembler modules starting with IGY*.
CEE3201S The system detected an operation
I don't see a logical connection between buying modern airplanes and running
obsolete computing hardware.
Maybe.
But, I think you've missed the point!
If I have a group of customers who are running obsolete equipment, and what
they are paying me is enough to be profitable, what IS the problem?
Itschak Mugzach wrote:
I am looking for some rules of Thumb regarding what is improper to code in a
program (say Cobol, but in general, any language) from security point of
view. Are there any resources on that any where? Some examples:
- Do nit use literals of variables containing Account
There are others. But even if we had no competition, we still wouldn't
get the deal if we didn't support the customers to the expected level of
satisfaction.
The connection I was shooting for was between flying old airplanes and
updating IT for no operational benefit.
Based on the assembler
Up :-)
Seriously, this is not a technical issue. Ask your management to assign a
relative importance to each LPAR. Give them a budget of 100 percent, and have
them slice it up any way they want.
It is of no importance if the answers don't add up to 100. The numbers you
enter will be
I wouldn't call this a live system.
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Eric Bielefeld
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 10:41 AM
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Subject: It Can Be Done
I know there is has been a lot of discussion
On 3 Mar 2009 14:14:45 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
(Message-ID:listserv%200903031608076036.0...@bama.ua.edu)
joa...@swbell.net (John McKown) wrote:
Well, that defeats one of my forced abend techniques:
BRC cond,*+2
This branches into the middle of the BRC (Jump)
instruction, which in
The binary transfer mode does not seem to stop Windows. The only way I have
been successful in stopping Windows translations is to name the files with a
BIN suffix.
Even so, the codepages on the platforms may need a look.
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On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 18:05:42 -0500 Arthur T. ibmm...@intergate.com wrote:
:On 3 Mar 2009 14:14:45 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
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:joa...@swbell.net (John McKown) wrote:
:
:Well, that defeats one of my forced abend techniques:
:
: BRC
Arthur T. wrote:
Well, that defeats one of my forced abend techniques:
BRC cond,*+2
This branches into the middle of the BRC (Jump) instruction, which in
this
case is always x'0001', resulting in an S0C1 abend.
SOC1s are too common to stand out. I prefer
EX R15,*(Of course, it
In a message dated 3/3/2009 5:01:39 P.M. Central Standard Time,
eamacn...@yahoo.ca writes:
running obsolete equipment, and what they are paying me is enough to be
profitable, what IS the problem?
Gravity and friction always win no matter how much you throw at it. While it
might be short
I have To agree with Ben
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Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen
Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 3:19 PM
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On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 18:05:42
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg225e70f97c817951b85256d5e006398cdaid=1
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Hello
We recently implemented the Diligent VTFM virtual tape solution.
The VTFM product is something of a mixed bag of worms. While it is
performing very well, when the cycles are available, it is not what I would
consider a good fit for DR. Since this software has NO standalone compoent
and
If possible, convert the file to extended format and use system managed
buffering (covered in VSAM Demystified). It's easier to implement than BLSR.
It will probably use more memory than BLSR, but that can be controlled easily
if necessary. I've had great results with it. The programmers of
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 16:22:50 -0500
Scott Rowe wrote
I question your logic with regard to BUFNI. If the access pattern is truely
dynamic, then the ideal would be to have space for the index sets and all
of the sequence sets, so that it never reads an index CI more than once. I
have done this on
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 10:29:25 -0800, Schwarz, Barry A wrote:
It must really be wonderful when all your customers keep up to date.
However, pontificating for those of us whose customers don't merely
demonstrates the limits of your experience.
I guess we could have abandoned our customer who didn't
I agree, if you use larger volumes, you won't find the 99 volume count an issue.
Brian
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Question: Are you referring to data set backups or full volume dumps?
Question
Answer: The customer is doing full volume dumps
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Behalf Of Schwarz, Barry A
Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 10:10 PM
We suggested to the customer to switch to larger volumes, but he said:
They are small software developing shop and need small volumes for the
developers' teams.
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