Re: The new POO (Props / ProP ) is available

2010-09-04 Thread Abe F. Kornelis
Steve, thanks for the pointer. Nice to have the book. I'll seek to find time asap for updating the opcode charts on www.hlasm.com\english\opcd00.htm and associated pages. Cheers, Abe Kornelis. = - Original Message - From: Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com To:

Re: Code names for zSeries

2010-09-04 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2010-09-03 23:46, Phil Smith pisze: Well, as of z9, they were System z, not zSeries, but: z900 - Freeway z800 - Raptor z990 - T-Rex z890 - Ptero z9 - Danu z10 - can't remember z196 - Gryphon aka zNext Well, I'm definitely not a marketing specialist, but I believe that names like

Re: PC Upgrade (Was: How often do you upgrade your zOS operating system?)

2010-09-04 Thread Eric Bielefeld
I agree with your statement to a point. Generally, the newer PCs have more real memory, and a bigger hard drive, all for the same or less money. Of course every time MS updates Windows, they use up more of the memory and storage so you can't use it for your own stuff. I bought a new Dell

Re: Virginia DOT outage

2010-09-04 Thread Rick Fochtman
--snip--- The way I read the articles, there was mirroring and the failure of primary was made disastrous by the failure of the mirroring device. If this is the case, what are the probabilities of the same thing on IBM devices

Re: Virginia DOT outage

2010-09-04 Thread Ron Hawkins
Stan, Oracle has HARD (Hardware Assisted Resilient Data) initiative, which is supported by EMC, HDS and a few other vendors. My recollection is that it came about after one of the HBA vendors had a rather nasty bug that caused in flight data to be corrupted without detection - well at least not

Re: Code names for zSeries

2010-09-04 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 9/3/2010 2:46 PM, Phil Smith wrote: Well, as of z9, they were System z, not zSeries, but: z900 - Freeway z800 - Raptor z990 - T-Rex z890 - Ptero z9 - Danu z10 - can't remember z196 - Gryphon aka zNext zNext is just the external name for the next hardware generation. All System z

Re: Code names for zSeries

2010-09-04 Thread John McKown
On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 16:04 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: On 9/3/2010 2:46 PM, Phil Smith wrote: Well, as of z9, they were System z, not zSeries, but: z900 - Freeway z800 - Raptor z990 - T-Rex z890 - Ptero z9 - Danu z10 - can't remember z196 - Gryphon aka zNext zNext is just

Re: Code names for zSeries

2010-09-04 Thread Ted MacNEIL
For use on Fantasy Island, there is no-frills machine called zPlain! Which only makes sense in one country in the world. In the US, it's pronounced 'zee'. Everybody else pronounces it 'zed'. - I'm a SuperHero with neither powers, nor motivation! Kimota!

Re: Virginia DOT outage

2010-09-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In p06240801c8a76e260...@[192.168.1.11], on 09/03/2010 at 11:35 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg hal9...@panix.com said: Since = means set-to-the-value-of In FORTRAN, but not in all languages. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: Where doc for STORAGE LINKAGE=SYSTEM

2010-09-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4c814848.9080...@ync.net, on 09/03/2010 at 02:11 PM, Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net said: besides, ASMH was a slightly better performer and didn't require in-house support. I actually had cases where Assembler (G) was faster, but the macro language in Assembler (H) was better, and that

Re: O/T IBM to Ship World's Fastest Computer Chip

2010-09-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4c8147a8.7050...@ync.net, on 09/03/2010 at 02:08 PM, Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net said: When have you EVER heard of a reporter that knew what he was talking about? Or an editor? I could probably name half a dozen; I certainly couldn't name a dozen. My father (zl) would kill a story if

Datamation issue coining term nybble?

2010-09-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
Does anybody still have the issue of Datamation coining the term nybble? If so, would you mind posting the details? Thanks. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're

Re: Code names for zSeries

2010-09-04 Thread Field, Alan C.
I always thought it was zPlane. - Original Message - From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Sat Sep 04 20:06:39 2010 Subject: Re: Code names for zSeries On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 16:04 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: On

Re: Code names for zSeries

2010-09-04 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 9/4/2010 6:28 PM, Ted MacNEIL wrote: Which only makes sense in one country in the world. It makes sense in every country in which Fantasy Island reruns aren't dubbed into another language. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA

Re: Code names for zSeries

2010-09-04 Thread zMan
Yeah...Ted probably saw the one dubbed into Canadian. On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote:  On 9/4/2010 6:28 PM, Ted MacNEIL wrote: Which only makes sense in one country in the world. It makes sense in every country in which Fantasy Island reruns