Re: Retiring after 43+ years with IBM

2012-05-19 Thread John Chase
Hi, Frank, I don't know why the web interface to IBM-MAIN does not allow quoting the original post, but your subject line says what needs to be said. I'll offer to you the same "advice" I offered to Walt Farrell of RACF Development when he announced his retirement: "Whatever you choose to do i

Re: IBMLink outages in 2012

2012-05-19 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 5/19/2012 8:20 PM, Pinnacle wrote: Let me know if I missed any. Clearly we still have a way to go for 24/7. 100%, 99%, 98.4%, 97.5%, 97.4%: clearly trending in the wrong direction. The average up-time so far in 2012 is 98.46% ... not even two nines. Of course, things look far worse if yo

IBMLink outages in 2012

2012-05-19 Thread Pinnacle
I compiled the following list of IBMLink outages in 2012, and the % availability (total hours - outage hours/total hours * 100) for calendar year 2012. February 18-19 (12-hour outage)99.0% availability March 2-3 (12-hour outage)98.4% availability May 4-7 (54-hour outage)97.5

Re: Early IPL problems

2012-05-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <4fb69a54.7050...@phoenixsoftware.com>, on 05/18/2012 at 11:52 AM, Edward Jaffe said: >Seriously, I remember OS/2 had a similar issue. Before you could >write down the information about a catastrophic trap, it would >restart and blow away the screen. There was a special CONFIG.SYS >parame

Re: Early IPL problems

2012-05-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 05/18/2012 at 12:54 PM, Doug Fuerst said: >Are we saying that we cannot look at the current PSW, get the WSC, >and look it up? No, she's saying that she can't get to the associated messages. >I've been looking at WSC's since System 360 days. Those are not the issue. -- Shmu

Re: D SMF,O -- what do DEFAULT, PARMLIB and SYS mean?

2012-05-19 Thread Mark Zelden
Yes. My description would have been better if I had written "took those values from the SYS statement" instead of "took their defaults from the SYS statement". BTW, I'd like to know when SYSIN applies too. Time for an RCF / manual update. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services -

Re: D SMF,O -- what do DEFAULT, PARMLIB and SYS mean?

2012-05-19 Thread Charles Mills
Ah, Mark, quite possibly! Thanks. Yes. Looking at my system, I see, for example SUBSYS(STC,INTERVAL(SMF,SYNC)) -- SYS SUBSYS(STC,DETAIL) -- SYS SUBSYS(STC,EXITS(IEFUSO)) -- PARMLIB SUBSYS(STC,EXITS(IEFUJP)) -- PARMLIB Looking then at the member I see SYS(NOTYPE(14:19,62:69),EXITS(IE

Re: D SMF,O -- what do DEFAULT, PARMLIB and SYS mean?

2012-05-19 Thread Mark Zelden
What do you see for SYS on your output? I think SYS means it is subsystem parms that took their defaults from the SYS statement. IOW, if you code something like SYS(EXITS(IEFU83,IEFU84,IEFU85),DETAIL) SUBSYS(OMVS,INTERVAL(003000)) all the exit parms for OMVS will come from the SYS statement

Re: D SMF,O -- what do DEFAULT, PARMLIB and SYS mean?

2012-05-19 Thread Charles Mills
Would you think that SYS was shorthand for SYSIN? Can anyone point me to the doc for how SMF parms are read from SYSIN? Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Terry Sambrooks Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2012 10:01 AM To: IBM-M

Re: D SMF,O -- what do DEFAULT, PARMLIB and SYS mean?

2012-05-19 Thread Terry Sambrooks
Hi Charles, I believe the answer to your question was provided by Jonathan Goossen in his reply of 18th May. The System Commands manual indicates that the output from the command is displayed as message IEE967I. This manual states that "orig The origin of the keyword parameter, which is one

Re: D SMF,O -- what do DEFAULT, PARMLIB and SYS mean?

2012-05-19 Thread Charles Mills
Doesn't anyone know the answer to this? I'm sure some of you think it is the world's stupidest question. Let me assure you I did not post this question just so I could see my name in print on IBM-MAIN. I am trying to write product documentation. I need to write "if you see X, change Y thusly." I a

Re: Early IPL problems

2012-05-19 Thread R.S.
I prefer to have system solution, which would allow me to view/manage TEXT FILE. It's far more convenient than using video camera. And in fact I miss the facility. BTW: I haven't investigated it: I have some 3270 emulator which allow to view few previous screens - sometimes usable for ISPF activ