Re: SMPE 3.5 and Message Severity

2011-01-09 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 17:52:06 -0600 Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: :On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 17:34:34 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: :In ul5ei6t2poqs32hc2nfq04rmin8f7k5...@4ax.com, on 01/07/2011 : at 03:36 PM, Binyamin Dissen said: :This issue is that the binder considers this

Re: can I dynamically increase tso size

2011-01-09 Thread Bob Rutledge
Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: At 08:22 -0500 on 01/08/2011, Bob Rutledge wrote about Re: can I dynamically increase tso size: Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: At 15:13 -0500 on 01/07/2011, Bob Rutledge wrote about Re: can I dynamically increase tso size: Krishnan wrote: Hi All I am having a

Re: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook)

2011-01-09 Thread Marian Gasparovic
I agree, Kindle is great for reading a book, not very usable for reference material. When I want to read a PDF on Kindle I send it to my Kindle account via email with subject convert. It usually provides very good results. iPad is much better for manuals, I bought GoodReader application. It has a

Re: SMPE 3.5 and Message Severity

2011-01-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In in0ji6dcf18ovd069s9328aa0jssv82...@4ax.com, on 01/09/2011 at 11:44 AM, Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com said: Pity that Shmuel didn't refer back to the original post AS I recall, the original post had only the message number, not the text. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz,

Date representations: Y2k revisited

2011-01-09 Thread john gilmore
I have been bemused by the Ewing-Gilmartin debate on date representations. It recapitulates en petit a good many of the jejune Y2k discussions of the past, complete with their defenses of the indefensible and their characteristic crackpot realism. Perhaps even more seriously, it omits to

Migration to Trusted Key Entry Workstation 7.0 tips

2011-01-09 Thread Naqvi Aman
Hi all, I would be interested to know if anyone has any experience migrating to Trusted Key Entry Workstation 7.0 (especially from 5.x+ versions). I find some important information missing from the user's guide migration chapters (how to copy roles, user profiles, etc from the old TKE version to

Re: Date representations: Y2k revisited

2011-01-09 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
Apparently a camouflaged attempt to instigate a denial of service attack against several of the more popular on line dictionaries and possibly search engines also. Declining to participate, I cannot tell if astonishres is a typo or just another example of my limited vocabulary. I also wonder

Re: SMPE 3.5 and Message Severity

2011-01-09 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Sun, 9 Jan 2011 09:01:27 -0500 Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: :In in0ji6dcf18ovd069s9328aa0jssv82...@4ax.com, on 01/09/2011 : at 11:44 AM, Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com said: :Pity that Shmuel didn't refer back to the original post :AS I recall,

Re: Date representations: Y2k revisited

2011-01-09 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 9 Jan 2011 11:58:41 -0800, Schwarz, Barry A wrote: I also wonder what dataset names have to do with dates and calendars and why the epoch origin should be 1 and not 0. Day Serial Number. Kinda like USS. Why would astronomical or geological efforts require doublewords? Has anyone

Re: Date representations: Y2k revisited

2011-01-09 Thread john gilmore
Mr Schwarz's comments are a mixed bag. His conjectured typo was a typo, and it would be rude for me to comment further on the paucity of his vocabularity, of which I should in any case need a larger sample to make a judgment. DSN is a systematically ambiguous acronym. In the context in

Re: Date representations: Y2k revisited

2011-01-09 Thread Sam Siegel
snip Mr Schwarz wants me to write my posts in a species of subliterate English he judges appropriate. unsnip A very smart man said: Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA

Re: Date representations: Y2k revisited

2011-01-09 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 4:36 PM + on 01/09/2011, john gilmore wrote about Date representations: Y2k revisited: Internal date formats are much simpler and not at all controversial among coloro che sanno. Choose an epoch origin, the putative birth date of Jesus, that of the Moslem hegira, Scaliger's -4713

Re: can I dynamically increase tso size

2011-01-09 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 9:17 AM -0500 on 01/09/2011, Bob Rutledge wrote about Re: can I dynamically increase tso size: Here's an example, admittedly a pathological one: - Allocate a dataset RECFM=VB, LRECL=27000 - Populate it with 75,000 5-byte records (one data byte) You'll end up with a seven-track dataset

Re: can I dynamically increase tso size

2011-01-09 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 10:09 PM -0500 on 01/08/2011, Gerhard Postpischil wrote about Re: can I dynamically increase tso size: On 1/8/2011 8:55 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: That formula seems to assume RECFM=FB. Since the RECFM is VB, the formula would seem to me to actually be (Number of records*40) +

Re: Migration to Trusted Key Entry Workstation 7.0 tips

2011-01-09 Thread Brian Peterson
Did your CE just install something? You wrote Miscellaneous Equipment Specification Instructions which sounds to me like the printed paperwork the IBM CE gets from manufacturing when they get an MES upgrade for installation onto a machine. Ask your CE for the MES paperwork that came with the

z/OS 1.11 upgrade - WLM couple datasets

2011-01-09 Thread Sue Chiam
Hi All, We are in the process of upgrade z/OS 1.11 into a SYSPLEX. It is going to be a rolling upgrade. I would like to know how other sites migrate the LPARs to the new WLM couple data sets. Do they only upgrade to the new WLM couple data sets when all the LPARs are upgraded? Really

Re: Date representations: Y2k revisited

2011-01-09 Thread john gilmore
Robert A Rosenberg writes: begin snippet It is not as simple as that since you have to allow for calenders getting out of sync. When the Julian calender was replaced by the regorian one, there were (depending on where you were since the switch occurred in different years in different

Re: Date representations: Y2k revisited

2011-01-09 Thread Sam Siegel
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 8:12 PM, john gilmore john_w_gilm...@msn.com wrote: Robert A Rosenberg writes: begin snippet It is not as simple as that since you have to allow for calenders getting out of sync. When the Julian calender was replaced by the regorian one, there were (depending on

Re: Date representations: Y2k revisited

2011-01-09 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 01/09/2011 10:36 AM, john gilmore wrote: I have been bemused by the Ewing-Gilmartin debate on date representations. It recapitulates en petit a good many of the jejune Y2k discussions of the past, complete with their defenses of the indefensible and their characteristic crackpot

Re: Migration to Trusted Key Entry Workstation 7.0 tips

2011-01-09 Thread Naqvi Aman
Hi Brian, Indeed our IBM CE just installed the Trusted Key Entry Workstation 7.0, but no one including IBM pocs here seem to know where these MES instructions are. The phsyical installation was done without this and our CE has also raised the question back to IBM... Regards, Aman Date: