Re: cpu upgrade

2009-10-21 Thread Timothy Sipples
Just to expand a little bit on CBU, your CBU agreement generally allows a finite number of tests within a certain time period. Also, customers decide whether and when to activate CBU capacity. IBM (and presumably other vendors -- but I don't speak for any company) reserve the right to question

Leonard Sasso/GIS/CSC is Out-of-the-Office.

2009-10-21 Thread Leonard Sasso
I will be out of the office starting 10/21/2009 and will not return until 10/22/2009. If you require immediate attention please contact Deb Hext (518) 257-4212, Tony Alfonso (518) 257-4640 or Joyce Brooks (518) 257-4208 . You may also contact my Team Lead, Sharon King (518) 257-4784 or my

Re: wto buffer shortage and k q' cmnd no longer works.

2009-10-21 Thread Bonno, Tuco
thanks for taking the time to write all this up and for posting it to this thread .. what you wrote explains things quite well ... the case that message floods can overwhelm EMCS consoles just as they do MCS and SMCS consoles (although not as easily). You are using MPF to suppress a lot of

Re: Daylight Saving Time changes effect on CICS Transaction Server

2009-10-21 Thread Scott Chapman
Agreed--or at least periodically check to see if the timezone has changed. Or even better, listen for the ENF that indicates that the local timezone offset changed. Of course applications may still have local time issues, but system-level things shouldn't. Surely there is a good reason why

Re: Daylight Saving Time changes effect on CICS Transaction Server

2009-10-21 Thread Don Williams
Why hasn't IBM fixed the time change issues? Have IBM's customers made it a high priority requirement? Will IBM make a profit by fixing it? Why fix it when it only happens twice a year? -Original Message- snip Surely there is a good reason why IBM hasn't fixed this obvious problem for

Re: wto buffer shortage and k q' cmnd no longer works.

2009-10-21 Thread Robert Birdsall
Just to be sure this is clear, the 'K Q,L=consolename' command can still be issued from an EMCS console, in case you're trying to clear MCS or SMCS buffers from an EMCS console. You just can't use it to clear the EMCS console buffers. On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:43:23 -0400, Bonno, Tuco

Re: Looking for a job

2009-10-21 Thread Norris Jackson
Here are couple of links. I here IBM is looking for about 1300 people to live and work in Dubuque Iowa. Must be having a difficult time, I've been getting several emails a week about these jobs for about a month and a half. Unfortunately I've been told that if you're not raised in that type

Re: Looking for a job

2009-10-21 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 10/21/2009 8:09:50 A.M. Central Daylight Time, norris_jack...@colonialbank.com writes: Plus the only thing I've heard of that comes from Iowa is corn, cows, and Radar O'Riley. Can't speak for the rest of the industry but the two big ten schools Iowa and Iowa State are

Re: Looking for a job

2009-10-21 Thread David Andrews
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 09:08 -0400, Norris Jackson wrote: Plus the only thing I've heard of that comes from Iowa is corn, cows, and Radar O'Riley. Well, there is James Tiberius Kirk. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

OFF TOPIC - DELL CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2009-10-21 Thread esmie moo
Good Morning Gentle Readers,   Please forgive me for my post but I didn't know who or where to turn to.  Recently I bought a laptop from Dell.  All is well however, they keep sending me the paper work (including the warranty) in French.  Despite my numerous calls to their not so attentive

Re: Off Topic Dell Customer Support

2009-10-21 Thread Ed Finnell
_Dell - Welcome to Order Support_ (http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/order_support/order_support?c=usl=ens=genredirect=1) Googled for about ten seconds and found this, HTH. -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: OFF TOPIC - DELL CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2009-10-21 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of esmie moo Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 8:26 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: OFF TOPIC - DELL CUSTOMER SUPPORT Good Morning Gentle Readers,   Please forgive me for my post

IEFSD095 Alias

2009-10-21 Thread Andrew Metcalfe
Hi Listers Could any of you running z/OS 1.10 please tell me if you have module IEFSD095 in SYS1.LINKLIB as an alias of IEFSD094? I have - and I don't think I should have, but I'm struggling to see where it's come from! Thanks Andrew Metcalfe Barclays Bank This e-mail and any attachments

Re: Looking for a job

2009-10-21 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:08:46 -0500, Norris Jackson norris_jack...@colonialbank.com wrote: Plus the only thing I've heard of that comes from Iowa is corn, cows, and Radar O'Riley. You forgot John Wayne. And Radar was from Ottumwa. Also, about the most depressing part of Iowa is Depuke.

Re: Looking for a job

2009-10-21 Thread Dana
Don't forget Tommy Bolin and John Wayne Well, there is James Tiberius Kirk. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the

Re: Looking for a job

2009-10-21 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:15:20 EDT, Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com wrote: Can't speak for the rest of the industry but the two big ten schools Iowa and Iowa State are good places to learn. Then there's pork skins The University of Iowa is a Big Ten school, Iowa State University is a Big XII

Re: IEFSD095 Alias

2009-10-21 Thread Bob Shannon
Yes. We do. Bob Shannon Rocket Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Re: IEFSD095 Alias

2009-10-21 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:51:22 +0100, Andrew Metcalfe andrew.metca...@barclays.com wrote: Hi Listers Could any of you running z/OS 1.10 please tell me if you have module IEFSD095 in SYS1.LINKLIB as an alias of IEFSD094? My newly installed 1.11 version does. My 1.9 version does not have

Re: IEFSD095 Alias

2009-10-21 Thread Bob Shannon
I should have included this: attr IEFSD095 IEFSD095 ATTRIBUTES ARE: RENT, REUS ENTRY POINT AT 000B70

Re: IEFSD095 Alias

2009-10-21 Thread Andrew Metcalfe
I guess that goes some way to explain it. I don't have the alias on z/OS 1.8. We have just migrated to z/OS 1.10 and I have a user getting errors calling IEFSD095. IEFSD095 is (and always has been) an alias of an in-house written block character routine (that pre-dates me). Obviously they are now

Re: IEFSD095 Alias

2009-10-21 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:51:22 +0100, Andrew Metcalfe andrew.metca...@barclays.com wrote: Hi Listers Could any of you running z/OS 1.10 please tell me if you have module IEFSD095 in SYS1.LINKLIB as an alias of IEFSD094? I have - and I don't think I should have, but I'm struggling to see where

Re: OFF TOPIC - DELL CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2009-10-21 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
esmie moo wrote: Please forgive me for my post but I didn't know who or where to turn to.  In South Africa we have this: www.hellopeter.co.za where you can moan, b*tch or lambasting about bad/good/ugly service... ;-D I checked the DELL website to see if there is a complaints department in

Re: IEFSD095 Alias

2009-10-21 Thread Mark Jacobs
Andrew Metcalfe wrote: Hi Listers Could any of you running z/OS 1.10 please tell me if you have module IEFSD095 in SYS1.LINKLIB as an alias of IEFSD094? I have - and I don't think I should have, but I'm struggling to see where it's come from! Thanks Andrew Metcalfe Barclays Bank

Re: OFF TOPIC - DELL CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2009-10-21 Thread Hal Merritt
I don't know much about US law and even less about Canada Law, but I found this: A Federal law in Canada regulates the use of bilingual packaging across the country. Inside the province of Quebec a provincial legislation regulates bilingual labels and packages, as well as instructions inside the

Re: Looking for a job

2009-10-21 Thread Chuck Arney
Plus the only thing I've heard of that comes from Iowa is corn, cows, and Radar O'Riley. It's famous for large heavy rack whitetail bucks too! Chuck Arney illustro Systems International, LLC http://www.illustro.com Internet-enable your applications with z/Ware V2 Voice: 214-800-8900 X#5562

Re: Looking for a job

2009-10-21 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 10/21/2009 8:56:44 A.M. Central Daylight Time, ptly o...@midamerican.com writes: Big Ten school, Iowa State University is a Big XII school. Sorry, Hay fever makes me yuckee...One of my childhood neighbors is associate Director at Ames. Haven't seen her in ages, but

Re: OFF TOPIC - DELL CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2009-10-21 Thread esmie moo
John,   I do live in the French province of the country, but we are allowed (imagine that) to receive English material (if we ask for it, which I did repeatedly).  Thanks for the link I will e-Mail the DELL head honchos my diatribe.    Thanks again. --- On Thu, 10/22/09, McKown, John

Re: Looking for a job

2009-10-21 Thread Howard Brazee
On 21 Oct 2009 06:16:17 -0700, efinnel...@aol.com (Ed Finnell) wrote: Can't speak for the rest of the industry but the two big ten schools Iowa and Iowa State are good places to learn. Then there's pork skins Iowa State (My undergraduate alma mater) is Big-12 (was Big-8 then). But

Re: Looking for a job

2009-10-21 Thread Guy Gardoit
Gee, I wonder why they're having a hard time? Why would IBM want to put a call center out in the middle of nowhere and expect to find anyone that would actually WANT to move there? Must be looking for cheap labor from you know where. On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:08 AM, Norris Jackson

Re: Unknown Error - LM5030E

2009-10-21 Thread Neil Duffee
On 2009.10.21 08h38 concerning Unknown Error, Larry Martin ldmar...@co..m..us wrote to IBM-Main : We are getting the following sequence in our syslog several times a day: TSS7000I KOBAT Last-Used 20 Oct 09 00:08 System=TEST Facility=STC IEF196I TSS7000I KOBAT Last-Used 20 Oct 09 00:08

Re: OFF TOPIC - DELL CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2009-10-21 Thread esmie moo
Elardus,   I tried that as well, needless to say that I haven't heard from them.  In the future, before I buy anything I will do my homework.  The first question I will ask where is your customer support center.  If the center is not based in the US or Canada, then I will avoid the product like

Re: OFF TOPIC - DELL CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2009-10-21 Thread Bob Shannon
If the center is not based in the US or Canada, then I will avoid the product like the plague. Unfortunately that means you won't be buying much. Bob Shannon Rocket Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

APS Cobol Code Generator Mainframe

2009-10-21 Thread Nuttall, Peter (P.)
Hi All, Tried looking in the archives but no joy ... Maybe it hasn't come up. Anyone know who currently markets (if at all) the above product. From what I can gather it was marketed by Sage Software ? Many thanks and kind regards, Peter

Re: OFF TOPIC - DELL CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2009-10-21 Thread esmie moo
Yeah, come to think about it you are right.  --- On Thu, 10/22/09, Bob Shannon bshan...@rocketsoftware.com wrote: From: Bob Shannon bshan...@rocketsoftware.com Subject: Re: OFF TOPIC - DELL CUSTOMER SUPPORT To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Received: Thursday, October 22, 2009, 4:56 AM If the center

Is it possible to put 2 subnets on 1 phy osa card

2009-10-21 Thread larry macioce
A discussion has come up to move the mainframe off the old network to another.The network people said they could do a vlan segment off of thier switch and this would allow traffic to flow from either network a or network b to our osa port . The question then came up to see if we could tell out IP

Re: OFF TOPIC - DELL CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2009-10-21 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Try http://www.yellowpages.com/name/Round-Rock-TX/dell. The first 2 hits were Round Rock. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract Strategic Technical Engineering NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston,

Re: Looking for a job

2009-10-21 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Guy, I, for one, will take some (good-natured) exception to your comment about anybody wanting to live out here in the Midwest. While I wouldn't want to live in Iowa either due to their political makeup, I live across the border in South Dakota. Wide open spaces, fresh air, the occasional

Re: Is it possible to put 2 subnets on 1 phy osa card

2009-10-21 Thread Hadaway, John
As usual it depends on how you are set up now...one Physical OSA card has two ports...you could could segregate the two subnets by port...lots of things like QDIO or Passthru and what applications use what...load balancing turned on in your IP stack etc etc...there are some very good OSA redbooks

Re: Looking for a job

2009-10-21 Thread Howard Brazee
On 21 Oct 2009 07:47:14 -0700, efinnel...@aol.com (Ed Finnell) wrote: Sorry, Hay fever makes me yuckee...One of my childhood neighbors is associate Director at Ames. Haven't seen her in ages, but they showed up for her grandmothers funeral a couple years back. They were doing Peoplesoft

Re: OFF TOPIC - DELL CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2009-10-21 Thread esmie moo
Dennis,   Thanks for the number.  I will give them a call. --- On Thu, 10/22/09, Roach, Dennis (N-GHG) dennis.ro...@lmco.com wrote: From: Roach, Dennis (N-GHG) dennis.ro...@lmco.com Subject: Re: OFF TOPIC - DELL CUSTOMER SUPPORT To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Received: Thursday, October 22, 2009,

Re: Looking for a job

2009-10-21 Thread Wissink, Brad [ITSYS]
My $0.02 from an Iowa native. The Atanasoff-Berry Computer was the world's first electronic digital computer. It was built by John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry at Iowa State University during 1937-42. It incorporated several major innovations in computing including the use of binary

Re: OFF TOPIC - DELL CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2009-10-21 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Bob Shannon Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 10:57 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: OFF TOPIC - DELL CUSTOMER SUPPORT If the center is not based in the US or Canada, then I

Re: APS Cobol Code Generator Mainframe

2009-10-21 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Nuttall, Peter (P.) Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 10:59 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: APS Cobol Code Generator Mainframe Hi All, Tried looking in the archives but no

Re: Unknown Error - LM5030E

2009-10-21 Thread Lizette Koehler
Neil, LMS is Compuware product. You probably need to talk to them LM5030E LMS ABEND @@ IN MODULE @@ AT @@ Severity: Error Explanation: The named module has experienced the system or user ABEND, which is also indicated. The main storage address of the offending instruction is given as

Re: OFF TOPIC - DELL CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2009-10-21 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
esmie moo wrote: I tried that as well, needless to say that I haven't heard from them.  In the future, before I buy anything I will do my homework.  Ok. I'm not surprised that you get no feedback. Seemed that company is too big for you in terms of service delivery... If you can, get another

Re: APS Cobol Code Generator Mainframe

2009-10-21 Thread Dirk Johann
Peter, APS is now available from Microfocus (www.microfocus.com). They bought InterSolv, the former product owner, a while ago, then InterSolv was sold again, but APS did stay in the Microfocus portfolio. Have been working with APS some years (8 yrs? 10 yrs?) ago, but don't know anything about

Health Checker setup

2009-10-21 Thread Avelino
Hi gurus, good morning! I know that it is not the best place to post this ( and I apologize for that ) but I tried the CA Online Forum without any success. On a recent past I setup the z/OS Health Checker using RACF without any problems. Anyway, I was requested to do the same under a set of

Re: Is it possible to put 2 subnets on 1 phy osa card

2009-10-21 Thread Hal Merritt
I seem to recall a 'Hot Topic' about this a while back. Try that resource. To answer your question: yes, it is possible. With static routing, you specify which adapter to use for outbound to various IP address(es). With dynamic routing, the first hop router supplies the list of address ranges.

Re: Looking for a job

2009-10-21 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex R. Guy, I, for one, will take some (good-natured) exception to your comment about anybody wanting to live out here in the Midwest. While I wouldn't want to live in Iowa either due to their political

Re: Is it possible to put 2 subnets on 1 phy osa card

2009-10-21 Thread Chris Mason
Larry The best forum for this topic is the IBMTCP-L list: quote For IBMTCP-L subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO IBMTCP-L /quote You will be able to find folk there who have done something similar to what you want to

Re: Unknown Error - LM5030E

2009-10-21 Thread John Kelly
snip We are getting the following sequence in our syslog several times a day: /snip The IEF196I is just an echo message, which I turn off with MPF and TSS7000I is a Top Secret audit trail type of message. Jack Kelly 202-502-2390 (Office)

Re: Looking for a job

2009-10-21 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Yup, sure is! I just wish they'd upgrade the mass transit system that takes people to the airport. Those stagecoach rides are so dusty and bumpy! :-) Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Wednesday,

ServerPac Management Questions

2009-10-21 Thread Vinson Lee
Hi All, Just had a few questions regarding how other people are managing ServerPacs. How can you apply 2 different configurations to the same installation order. For z/OS, our Test and Production LPARs have slightly different configurations. We have separate spool, checkpoint, page, catalog

Re: OFF TOPIC - DELL CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2009-10-21 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/10/21 esmie moo esmie_...@yahoo.ca: Good Morning Gentle Readers, Please forgive me for my post but I didn't know who or where to turn to.  Recently I bought a laptop from Dell.  All is well however, they keep sending me the paper work (including the warranty) in French.  Despite my

z/OS Health Checker setup

2009-10-21 Thread Avelino Ferreira
Hi gurus, good morning! I know that it is not the best place to post this ( and I apologize for that ) but I tried the CA Online Forum without any success. On a recent past I setup the z/OS Health Checker using RACF without any problems. Anyway, I was requested to do the same under a set of

Re: Health Checker setup

2009-10-21 Thread George Fogg
Hi gurus, good morning! I know that it is not the best place to post this ( and I apologize for that ) but I tried the CA Online Forum without any success. On a recent past I setup the z/OS Health Checker using RACF without any problems. Anyway, I was requested to do the same under a set of

Re: Looking for a job

2009-10-21 Thread Paul Peplinski
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:08:46 -0500, Norris Jackson norris_jack...@colonialbank.com wrote: Plus the only thing I've heard of that comes from Iowa is corn, cows, and Radar O'Riley. I was there a couple weeks ago and wondered if I would see the IBM facility. Maybe Eric could visit the chunk of

Re: Health Checker setup

2009-10-21 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:18:20 -0200, Avelino afmf...@gmail.com wrote: Hi gurus, good morning! I know that it is not the best place to post this ( and I apologize for that ) but I tried the CA Online Forum without any success. On a recent past I setup the z/OS Health Checker using RACF without

Re: Health Checker setup

2009-10-21 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:11:45 -0500, Mark Zelden mark.zel...@zurichna.com wrote: On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:18:20 -0200, Avelino afmf...@gmail.com wrote: Hi gurus, good morning! I know that it is not the best place to post this ( and I apologize for that ) but I tried the CA Online Forum without any

Re: Health Checker setup

2009-10-21 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:23:48 -0500, Mark Zelden mark.zel...@zurichna.com wrote: There is an ACF2 cookbook, but I doubt it has this. Many vendors (especially IBM) don't supply equivalent OEM security definitions for RACF like CA does (not a surprise since they own TSS and ACF2). You just have

Re: Health Checker setup

2009-10-21 Thread Avelino Ferreira
First of all, many thanks for the tips until now. As a matter of fact I do have a question opened on CA Forum ( npt a problem opened ) as I thought it was a trivial question and there should be many ( some ) specialists checking that list. I was wrong as I am receiving more info on this List that

Re: Health Checker setup

2009-10-21 Thread Avelino Ferreira
Thanks a lot Mark !! On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Mark Zelden mark.zel...@zurichna.comwrote: On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:23:48 -0500, Mark Zelden mark.zel...@zurichna.com wrote: There is an ACF2 cookbook, but I doubt it has this. Many vendors (especially IBM) don't supply equivalent OEM

Re: Health Checker setup

2009-10-21 Thread Avelino Ferreira
Just an information. RussD has answered me with a nice post! There might be others in the future ( I hope not ) with similar doubts so I think It would be nice to put here what I received for future archive reference ( somewhat similar to Mark's post but in a different format ). --

Re: big iron mainframe vs. x86 servers

2009-10-21 Thread Rick Fochtman
---snip-- Depending on the application and the OS, an Intel quad core high end might well match a z10 quad core for all but decimal arithmetic. How many z10s would it take to run the equivalent of 1500 blades linked in a cluster

Re: IEFSD095 Alias

2009-10-21 Thread Rick Fochtman
---snip-- Hi Listers Could any of you running z/OS 1.10 please tell me if you have module IEFSD095 in SYS1.LINKLIB as an alias of IEFSD094? I have - and I don't think I should have, but I'm struggling to see where it's

Re: Looking for a job

2009-10-21 Thread Eric Bielefeld
I never saw the point in standing in front of a machine, putting in my money, pushing the button, and watching my money disappear. I think I was in a casino twice. Once to get a meal, and once because there was a job fair there. They didn't get any of my money except for the meal. -- Eric

Re: big iron mainframe vs. x86 servers

2009-10-21 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman ---snip-- Depending on the application and the OS, an Intel quad core high end might well match a z10 quad core for all but decimal

Re: big iron mainframe vs. x86 servers

2009-10-21 Thread John P. Baker
The big advantages of the IBM mainframe architecture have always been application upward compatibility, I/O throughput, and RAS (reliability, availability, and serviceability). Application upgrade compatibility requires both hardware instruction set upward compatibility and software system

Re: Looking for a job

2009-10-21 Thread Timothy Sipples
For the record, the state-by-state U.S. unemployment rates for September were released yesterday, and South Dakota has the second lowest unemployment rate. (North Dakota has the lowest.) Iowa's unemployment rate is well below the U.S. national average. To the original poster: McMaster-Carr (in