Re: Simple iinventory control products?

2012-02-11 Thread Linda Mooney
Greetings All, We had CICS for 12-15 years, and along with it several MacKinney products - Hot Print, Morning News and KwikKey.  We don't have CICS anymore, and our MacKinney products are gone now too.  The products worked well, and we did not have any support problems with MacKinney. 

Re: Question on Job Scheduling

2012-02-11 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-02-10 21:28, Dan Gillis pisze: I have a meeting with a customer next week to talk about z/OS batch job scheduling. They claim to have about 20 scheduling employees. In my past experience, that seems about 4x too high. So I thought I'd ask the group the following question: How many

Re: Question on Job Scheduling

2012-02-11 Thread Cris Hernandez #9
if it's a 24x7 shop, with 1 lead/mgr per shift, that sounds about right for any size unless workload is large. --- On Fri, 2/10/12, Dan Gillis gillis...@gmail.com wrote: From: Dan Gillis gillis...@gmail.com Subject: Question on Job Scheduling To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: Friday, February

BPX.EXECMVSAPF.program_name FACILITY class profile

2012-02-11 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In the recurrent tedious discussions here of relaxing the 100-character PARM length limit, the objection has been raised that this could subject authorized programs to the hazard of buffer overruns and the proverbial early termination, execution of arbitrary code, or escalation of privileges.

IBM Doing Some Restructuring?

2012-02-11 Thread Edward Jaffe
http://socialbarrel.com/ibm-job-cuts-in-germany-8000-may-be-laid-off/31574/ Rumor has it that IBM is laying off up to 40% of its workforce in Germany. At the same time they are testing a new global temporary worker program that they believe can speed up project implementation by 30% and reduce

Re: IBM Doing Some Restructuring?

2012-02-11 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
edja...@phoenixsoftware.com (Edward Jaffe) writes: http://socialbarrel.com/ibm-job-cuts-in-germany-8000-may-be-laid-off/31574/ Rumor has it that IBM is laying off up to 40% of its workforce in Germany. At the same time they are testing a new global temporary worker program that they believe

Re: IBM Doing Some Restructuring?

2012-02-11 Thread Dave Day
Well, hindsight being 20-20, it is obvious management within IBM has done both some incredibly smart, and incredibly dumb moves over the past 30 yrs. or so. I know every time I applied for a job, I always wanted to work on a part time basis, because I just didn't want that feeling of

Re: IBM Doing Some Restructuring?

2012-02-11 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 2/11/2012 8:31 AM, Dave Day wrote: The idea of hiring temporary workers, the 'liquid' people referred to in the article, seems to me to be at odds with long term, successful growth. It's hard for me to understand how any serious development projects can be done by temps. Software

Re: Turning on additional CPs

2012-02-11 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 2/9/2012 8:53 AM, Staller, Allan wrote: There is a well know impact of additional CP's known as the MP effect. Going from 1 to 2 engines does not get you twice as much horsepower. Only 1.9 times as much. In the early days 360/65 AP 305/65 MP, the effect was only 1.7 times. Specifically, if