Re: LARL vs literal alignment

2010-08-22 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 8:40 PM + on 8/21/10, john gilmore wrote about Re: LARL vs literal alignment: Did the literal that originally gave John Baker trouble contain an odd number of hexadecimal digits? No relevant. If you define a X string with an odd number of hex digits it will be right padded so the firs

Re: z196 sysplex question

2010-08-22 Thread Ron Hawkins
Radoslaw and Steve, >> Well, that's a good point. I remember a few years back someone posted >> on this group that if you thought about 64-bit address spaces it's >> really absurd: > He was obviously wrong. 64-bit addressing does not imply full sized > adddress space. [Ron Hawkins] If I remem

z196 sysplex question

2010-08-22 Thread Peter Relson
>can z/OS support 80 x 32 = 2560 active CPs per sysplex? No sysplex cares how many CPs an individual system has. If a single z/OS system can have n CPs, and if you can have m of those in a sysplex then by definition you can have n*m CPs in a sysplex. The n*m number is basically "content free" --

Re: z196 sysplex question

2010-08-22 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>Very funny, but again: you cite not mine words. They may not be your words, but they are similar in intent. >If you want to discuss my opinions, then don't put third persons (and unrelated to the topic) opinions. They are NOT unrelated. >I said: the largest sysplex is bigger than any custom

Re: PoPs

2010-08-22 Thread Ivan Warren
On 8/22/2010 10:49 PM, Bob Rutledge wrote: Try http://www-05.ibm.com/e-business/linkweb/publications/servlet/pbi.wss?CTY=US and search for SA22-7832. That think is half broken.. On Firefox it sends me to a page that says : Error 404: SRVE0190E: File not found: / Probably because of some coo

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - FINDING LIST OF DSNS

2010-08-22 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
For future reference, you do not need to empty a pack to expand the VTOC. You only need to identify a contiguous block of tracks large enough to hold the new size. If you are able to obtain a list of the datasets that affected by this action, such as by the LIST command already suggested, what

Re: z196 sysplex question

2010-08-22 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2010-08-22 00:01, Steve Comstock pisze: [...] Well, that's a good point. I remember a few years back someone posted on this group that if you thought about 64-bit address spaces it's really absurd: I don't want to be responsible for someone's else opinions! 1. The system could not suppo

Re: PoPs

2010-08-22 Thread Bob Rutledge
Rick Fochtman wrote: Could one of you fine ladies or gentlemen kindly download the PF of the latest Principles of Operations and E-Mail it to me as an attachment? (I'd also accept BookManager format, but I'm told that it's not available.) I am having no end of difficulty in getting any sort of

PoPs

2010-08-22 Thread Rick Fochtman
Could one of you fine ladies or gentlemen kindly download the PF of the latest Principles of Operations and E-Mail it to me as an attachment? (I'd also accept BookManager format, but I'm told that it's not available.) I am having no end of difficulty in getting any sort of access to that page.

Re: z196 sysplex question

2010-08-22 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
t...@harminc.net (Tony Harminc) writes: > The largest salesman's bonus in IBM history? there was story they told when I was at boeing ... about when the first 360s were announced ... boeing had studied the announcement and walked in to the salesman and placed a really big order ... the salesman ha

UK GSE 2010 Conference is now open for registration

2010-08-22 Thread Mark Wilson
Hi, Registration is now open for the UK 2010 GSE Conference. The invitation can be found at: http://www.gse.org.uk/tyc/Email01.html This is the largest UK GSE conference in our history and will boast 13 stream on the Tuesday and a whopping 14 streams on the Wednesday. Look forward to seeing so

Re: Please explore CBT Tape File 830 - Xephon MVS articles

2010-08-22 Thread Matan Cohen
hi , is there any a content map for all of this Xephon magazines? On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Sam Golob wrote: > Hi Folks, > > CBT Tape File 830 contains 926 articles (with their code, as an EBCDIC > pds) from Xephon's MVS Update magazines, ranging from July 1987 thru > December 1996. Th