In a message dated 8/6/2007 8:40:24 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It is not generally available. It costs a TON of cash and is only
distributed under an NDA, if I remember what others have said.
I have heard that is costs several hundred thousand U.S. dollars,
In a message dated 8/6/2007 12:50:27 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The HSA 'space' increase
from z900 to z990 is being caused by 1) new function support 2) support for
non-disruptive ( no POR ) addition of all engines/books. I would assume
that
the z9 is
In a message dated 8/3/2007 12:52:00 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Check out this manual for a good description of large format datasets.
z/OS
DFSMS: Using the New Functions
Document Number SC26-7473-02
A later version is available now dated SEP 06 -
Nobody else has brought this up yet, so I will. Was this job opportunity
posting approved by Darren? Or is it spam?
Bill Fairchild
Plainfield, IL
Doesn't anybody ask a question that's not on a press release handout
anymore? [24 JUL 2007; George Ure]
Careful reading of the 2105 Command Reference doc shows that valid sector
numbers are not documented as being ignored. I take that to mean they are
used
as documented; i.e., the next action on the track will commence with track
orientation at a predictable position on the track. If the
In a message dated 7/24/2007 1:33:11 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a need to determine if an address in storage is page protected
in order to determine if a PGSER UNPROTECT needs to be done.
One way, not necessarily the most elegant, is to establish an
In a message dated 7/24/2007 10:56:09 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
very bad idea in general. if the page is not protected, then you
don't know what other processes are updating that page nor how
they serialize their updates. the OI is not an interlocked update
and
In a message dated 7/24/2007 11:16:19 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
-snip
Does anyone know for sure which was the last DASD subsystem that cared
about Rotational Positional Sensing (RPS) values?
In a message dated 7/24/2007 11:14:10 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Because the fetch and the store are separated in time. Another CPU or an
I/O operation can store into the byte *after* your CPU fetches the byte
but *before* your CPU stores the byte. The other CPU
In a message dated 7/24/2007 1:12:43 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Using a sector number of x'00' effectively disabled RPS on devices that
did care.
Not true. It forces the controller to position the track at index point,
the very beginning of the track. A
In a message dated 7/24/2007 1:43:48 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Actually x'00' disconnects until position is just before index point so
the following search Id starts with
index point count at 1, maximum scan for the Id will be one revolution
till next time
In a message dated 7/23/2007 9:11:16 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Wouldn't this just be the PACK command?
Not sufficient.
Are you needing it in binary or Packed Decimal?
OP wants it translated to the real hex number. Without any further
technical
In a message dated 7/23/2007 2:31:04 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
H. ISTR that IBM has a DFSMS lab in sunny Tucson, Arizona..
Don't know about the software, but Tucson is where IBM develops its DASD
control units. I would have thought DFSMS would
In a message dated 7/23/2007 7:16:04 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I assume RPS sector numbers are *ignored* for ESS and newer devices.
Some are definitely NOT ignored and some other values may be ignored. The
ones that are not ignored are the ones that are
In a message dated 7/21/2007 11:12:37 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How many group members does it take
To change a lightbulb?
There are at least three other categories of posters.
(1) Five group members will discuss the entire history of the lightbulb
industry
In a message dated 7/20/2007 9:25:42 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jack Kelly wrote:
a
b
I'm not totally sure about this, but I think that Ed's reply of b may be
off topic. :-)
I also suspect this is a good thread for Friday grins and not much else.
Bill
In a message dated 7/12/2007 3:26:19 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ah err, well, we have an old Adabas application with 3380 emulation on
2105. This will be moot after 11/30/07. ... Now the whole kit is going the
way of outsourcing.
Outsourcing the whole kit
In a message dated 7/13/2007 7:24:13 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I know shop in Poland which used 3380 drives. *Real* ones, manufactured by
Comparex.
I believe Hitachi Data Systems manufactured them and Comparex marketed them
in Europe for HDS.
Bill
In a message dated 7/16/2007 11:11:00 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
U.S. Government budgets are quite often penny-wise and pound-foolish.
Money won't be spent to upgrade to 3390-type geometry because competent
people that can do that sort of work well simply won't
In a message dated 7/12/2007 2:39:10 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
... do access methods have calculations built in for allowing for the gaps?
Yes. Modern physical DASD is made by Seagate, IBM, et al, they are 3.5
inches in diameter, they are controlled as RAID,
In a message dated 7/17/2007 6:25:49 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There is a LOT of code still supporting the CKD structure and CKD gaps
that
have not existed for perhaps 15 years now.
My bad. I just remembered that there are still some data centers that use
In a message dated 7/12/2007 1:36:11 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why do we still keep the ~55k
track size and increase only the number of cylinders? With modern
DASD subsystems it shouldn't matter, right? What are the track size
limits in z/OS? I guess it's 64k,
In a message dated 7/11/2007 5:53:55 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I located the PDS at location
** TRACK(CCHH) 1A58 R0 DATA
COUNT 1A58010005A0
6CD385A3 40E2A8A2 7EE5C1E3 5E404040 40404040 40404040 40404040
40404040
0020
In a message dated 7/11/2007 10:33:15 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
PRIMARY SPACE EXCEEDS 65535 TRKS
Size is limited to 64 tracks, but not position on the volume.
You obviously meant 64K tracks. The position on the volume is irrelevant if
you allocate the PDS
In a message dated 7/11/2007 10:59:44 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Please kill this thread.
Amen, brother! Say Hallelujah!
Perhaps the true believers [1] and heretics [2] could continue their
discussions about that three-letter string only with each other and
In a message dated 7/11/2007 11:25:41 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I didn't know that ABSTR could be used to allocate a PDS. Was I wrong??
The fact that the JCL Reference book has the following text means this
combination is supported:
In a message dated 7/11/2007 12:03:42 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SPACE=(ABSTR,(primary=qty,address[,directory]}.
The author of this text omitted a necessary right parenthesis.
And I couldn't even correctly copy the incorrect text. I meant
In a message dated 7/11/2007 12:43:01 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
you aren't familiar with Ray's work and presentations over the years, this
is a treat.
The other speaker, Glenn Anderson, is also an excellent speaker who does a
lot of technical training. I
In a message dated 7/11/2007 2:05:38 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If the DR site has sufficient tape drives, you could do 9 concurrent
restores of -3s versus 1 restore of a -27.
Assuming that the restore software uses maximally shrunk extents in their
Define
In a message dated 7/9/2007 8:50:34 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
/STEP1 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14
//DD1INDDDSN=SYS1.PARMLIB.AEPLEX07,DISP=(NEW,CATLG),
// VOL=SER=SYI07A,LRECL=80,BLKSIZE=6160,RECFM=FB,UNIT=SYSALLDA,
//
In a message dated 7/9/2007 1:37:06 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Are we creating new terminology?
I assume a MOD15 is 15 GB?
Close.
Mod 1 (aka 3390-1) has 1113 cylinders.
Mod 3 has 3x1113=3339 cylinders.
Mod nn has nnx1113 cylinders.
Therefore mod 15 has
In a message dated 7/9/2007 2:37:34 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Therefore mod 15 has 15x1113=16695 cylinders = 250425 tracks = ca. 14 190
082 200 bytes = .
Alas, my poor attempt to send a post that is continent- and
culture-invariant with respect to writing
In a message dated 7/8/2007 10:20:21 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
someone who watches examination candidates to prevent cheating :-)
For this and all future unknown English words, try the Online
Merriam-Webster English-English dictionary at
There was a lot of discussion of this same issue within the last year. Check
the IBM-MAIN archives.
Bill Fairchild
Plainfield, IL
** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
--
For
In a message dated 6/30/2007 11:34:53 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
an IBM developer has, in effect, had to rap the redbook authors on the
knuckles for talking about an
unofficial command thereby indicating how the redbook authors are
independent of IBM
In a message dated 6/27/2007 2:15:00 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
IAC, you should be able to use either AMASPZAP[1] or ICKDSF.
[1] Perhaps not for VSAM.
I tried to print a VSAM data set once with AMASPZAP, and, IIRC, it didn't
work. Whatever you print with
In a message dated 6/25/2007 10:27:02 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
it is often true that - if the social side is done right -
the best help comes from fellow users who've been through the same problems.
And often the fastest. There's no bureaucracy involved. Of
In a message dated 6/25/2007 2:15:09 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I believe the diagnosis is rectocephaly.
I always thought it was CAIS (Cranial-Anal Insertion Syndrome).
Bill Fairchild
Plainfield, IL
** See what's free
In a message dated 6/21/2007 8:14:33 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So the operators used to put DEBE
in and let it crank the meter while they played hearts, but management was
happy that they used 4-5 hours of machine time. I wouldn't do it and got
called on the
In a message dated 6/22/2007 11:13:43 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
... and thereby put the wait light out[1]. Having been brought up with DOS
(the original DOS), and, generally, S/360 Model 30s, I was used to knowing
how busy the machine was by observing the
In a message dated 6/21/2007 10:40:26 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The use of the 2702 prepare command for terminal I/O would
effectively suspend I/O and the system meter would stop.
This is fascinating history, Lynn. I remember using the Prepare command in
In a message dated 6/21/2007 11:29:35 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think you are referring to ASPEN? It was killed.
That's the one. I didn't remember its name until your post. The only
detail I heard was that Tom Simpson, the ex-IBMer who was the original
On Jun 14, 2007, at 8:51 PM, FRASER, Brian wrote:
What mainframe software did CA originally develop?
In a message dated 6/14/2007 10:11:19 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My vague recollection was the cobol optimizer capex. I could be wrong
its been ages and ages.
In a message dated 6/15/2007 8:27:22 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On July 6, 1966, the name SMF - System Management Facility - was picked
in a brainstorming session. The philosophy of the project was that IBM
would provide a way to collect data, but the customer
In a message dated 6/14/2007 5:47:44 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
... BLDL section states that When the system returns control to the
problem program, the low-order byte of
register 15 contains a return code. The low-order byte of register 0
contains a reason
In a message dated 6/14/2007 1:31:52 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
CA acquired ASM2 so long ago that I forgot where they got it from - but
I don't think CA was the original developer.
UCCEL acquired ASM2 on DEC 1985 from Cambridge Systems, which was somewhere
in
In a message dated 6/14/2007 3:50:56 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just before another group took over SMF processing we acquired a
package that put to shame anything on the market (then and now),
unfortunately
it is probably defunct. I don't know since then if
In a message dated 6/14/2007 8:19:07 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The person I dealt with was Shawn Mcclaren (sp?)
and I am pretty sure he was on the west coast as seemed to take the
red eyes quite a bit.
I remembered the name CSG earlier but had forgotten
In a message dated 6/8/2007 7:52:38 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Wow, what are you trying to do Bill? Make those of us who started in
this business using punch cards feel like old geezers.
I'm an old geezer, too. I started programming in October 1965. My S/360
According to Wikipedia's On this day..., Herman Hollerith received a
patent for his punch card calculator on this day (8 June) in 1887. Go,
Herman!!
I still have a handful of blank cards that I liberated from a service bureau
ca. 1985. I use them sometimes to write notes to myself
In a message dated 6/7/2007 2:27:38 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Trace interrupt processing simply changes CR 12 to point to the
beginning of the next buffer for that CPU. There is no copying done
at this point.
Ah, that makes more sense that my guess as to how
In a message dated 6/5/2007 10:55:00 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have not been able to find command descriptions for the CCW commands 4B,
A5, A6, or E7 when accessing DASD.
4B is Locate Record Extended. It is documented in the 3990 and 2105 Control
Unit
In a message dated 6/6/2007 11:41:09 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Schramm, Rob wrote:
When I change the size of the System Trace Table (i.e. TRACE ST,512K),
where is the storage taken from?
Common Name: Master Trace Table Mapping Macro
Alas, the Master
A lighten-up topic for Friday which was, like, inspired by conversations
with, like, my 8- and 11-year-old grandsons who are currently, like, visiting
with us.
What if the dry, sometimes boring Principles of Operation had been written
in the pop American style of spoken English? We
In a message dated 6/1/2007 12:16:43 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Those 50 experienced people COULD just let the post sit out on the listserv
for
a day or two (or more) to quietly give the hint to the original poster.
Ah, now you're dabbling in the psychology
In a message dated 6/1/2007 12:35:22 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
there is some balance between answering questions where the askee has
actually made some attempt to learn something ... or is using the list
in lieu of having to learn anything.
For one person's
In a message dated 6/1/2007 12:53:18 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
us greybeards, all too soon to be whitebeards, are
the only teachers left to pass on these skills
My current colleagues and I affectionately refer to each other as
silverbacks. :-)
Bill
Most from IBM's Services Unit in North America.
_http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,132391-c,workplace/article.html_
(http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,132391-c,workplace/article.html)
Bill Fairchild
Plainfield, IL
As we know, civilization would devolve into chaos if the United States
Gilbert is well known (and appreciated) in these parts.
If you've ever used showmvs/zos you owe Gilbert (in addition to
Roland) a large vote of thanks. Not to mention his other
contributions - see the cbt index.
Shane ...
I believe Gilbert has also done work for Barry Merrill, which is
In a message dated 5/25/2007 9:27:17 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
bblack (I think):
That There is no easy way that I know to determine if the current
step is the last step that uses the dataset claim conflicts with
your then releases the dataset at the end of
In a message dated 5/26/2007 1:53:01 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Good idea. I'll ask my admins to add to my (and other users') TSO logon
PROCs DD statements for data set names that we're likely to allocate
dymamically in our TSO sessions.
So far, I thought this
In a message dated 5/25/2007 8:23:00 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Depending on your actual spinning DASD, compression may be counter
productive for actual disk utilization. It can save logical space and
cache space but if the controller is compressing the data in
In a message dated 5/25/2007 5:09:08 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That There is no easy way that I know to determine if the current
step is the last step that uses the dataset claim conflicts with
your then releases the dataset at the end of the last step that
In a message dated 5/17/2007 3:30:41 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 17 May 2007 15:01:48 -0400, William Donzelli wrote:
I have a lead on a few 3350s - obsolete, but that is the point
What point its that? By today's standards they are very slow. And
In a message dated 5/21/2007 1:02:57 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Will a 3880 with proper microcode control 3350s?
Yes.
Bill Fairchild
Plainfield, IL
** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
In a message dated 5/17/2007 2:08:14 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
the number is
meaningless until you know what it is measuring, even if it is
accurate. Of course, there's no reason to believe that it's accurate.
See the 16 MAY 2007 Dilbert for additional info on
In a message dated 5/21/2007 3:18:12 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How might we delete this little bugger?
SYS1.DFDSS.DEFRAG..PRD9LF.DUMMY
An untested suggestion:
Try IMASPZAP with //SYSLIB DD DSN=FORMAT4.DSCB,DCB=KEYLEN=44,vol=ser=whatever
CCHHR
In a message dated 5/16/2007 5:37:42 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The 32K limit is driven by the fact this binary integer is considered
Signed; so instead of 0 thru 65535 it's -32767 thru 32768
The last 8 bytes are lost to track marks and block marks reserved
In a message dated 5/21/2007 5:53:08 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's not enough to use a JES3 prefix character; he needs to use JES3
syntax.
From the IBM MVS System Commands book (SA22-7627-14): For devices managed
by JES3, issue a *VARY command instead of
In a message dated 5/11/2007 10:24:42 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No, I think it was because a DASD label could be UPDATED IN PLACE, as
opposed to CREATED.
You either create a volume label on the label track when there is no label
record there in the first
In a message dated 5/7/2007 10:19:08 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
... we need to cut ceo compensation by 90% in this country...
Who is we and how do we do that? Pass a law? With or without 100 pages
of fine print? Who enforces it? How do we keep him from
In a message dated 5/4/2007 9:11:40 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The second is concerning the minimal physical unit a program can process on
zos. I know acess method macros like QSAM are still at the high level. From
what you told me, I guess the minimal unit QSAM
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Assuming the following JCL:
//DD1 DD DSN=dsname1,disp=shr
// DD DSN=dsname2,disp=shr
// DD DSN=dsname3,disp=shr
Where DD1 is opened for input.
All files are on DASD.
How can I tell when dsname1
In a message dated 5/2/2007 12:04:15 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I read this to mean that in a multiple CP CEC, STIDP will store a '1'b
in bit 48, indicating this is a CEC identification, not a single CP
identification. In this case, you need to use the STAP
In a message dated 4/27/2007 5:28:48 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Unless you have gotten so old you can't remember what your own code does.
I have had that problem since way before I got old (or at least older). The
two main reasons why I write lots of comments
In a message dated 4/25/2007 1:41:31 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
With the new instructions, I now count 751 instructions documented in the
POO. That's up a lot from the (IIRC) 143 for S/360.
I do something similar, but less time-consuming. I look at the number
In a message dated 4/20/2007 6:45:19 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Isn't Data dead?
Don't know, but it is way past time for this thread to die.
Bill Fairchild
Plainfield, IL
Today it's oil, right? ... Ask them when they're running out. Ask them when
there's
no
In a message dated 4/20/2007 11:03:54 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there any macro to retrieve DASD box serial #?
Yes. Use UCBINFO with the GETCDR parameter. This will return to your
program the Configuration Data Record (CDR). It will be 256 bytes long.
In a message dated 4/20/2007 11:03:54 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there any macro to retrieve DASD box serial #?
Forgot to add that the 256 bytes are described under the Read Configuration
Data command in the control unit book. I think you want NED 4 on a
In a message dated 4/19/2007 2:39:38 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As far as I can see the CFW commands always apply to the whole subsystem,
and have never applied to a single volume.
My past experience is that subsystem means the whole Storage Controller. My
In a message dated 4/19/2007 9:19:02 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
commit is one of them that
will force the destage of tracks to disk.
I am 99.99% sure this is not true in HDS RAID, and I'd wager a few bucks
that EMC and IBM do not honour a request like this
In a message dated 4/19/2007 11:54:15 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't follow you here Bill. Of course the control unit doesn't know
about any
logical data structures. It does, however, have to keep track of where all
data is located. If there is a copy
In a message dated 4/18/2007 1:23:58 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
41.
Beginning with IBM's introduction in 1964 of its S/360 line of mainframe
computers and operating systems, and continuing with subsequent model
lines, IBM freely and broadly disseminated the
In a message dated 4/18/2007 1:30:38 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Are you sure, John? I seem to remember that CFW was boxen-wide, but
DASDFASTWRITE (DFW) was logical-device-wide.
The 3990/9390 reference manual, under the topic Set Subsystem Mode command,
shows
In a message dated 4/17/2007 8:42:07 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In Version 8 of the SAS System, extended sequential data set format cannot
be read or written using EXCP (Execute Channel Program) processing on disk.
As a result, SAS data libraries in that
In a message dated 4/17/2007 9:13:39 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's true! I guess I need to make up some protest signs, Hercules NOW,
and schedule a day of vacation.
Also, if you own at least one share of stock, they will mail you information
about the
In a message dated 4/17/2007 8:59:19 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Knoxville Tennessee, are you show about that?
You should be able to verify on IBM's website. If I owned one share, I
would seriously think about going.
Bill Fairchild
Plainfield, IL
In a message dated 4/13/2007 2:35:18 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have heard that a CE has to replace at least 1 disk per month on some of
these boxes. (DMX3000 - EMC, DS8000 - IBM, etc)
That appears to be awfully frequent.
Lynn Wheeler posted this
In a message dated 4/13/2007 3:55:35 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
the application crashes reported as flaws are actually by design.
Working as coded! ROTFLMAO.
Bill Fairchild
Plainfield, IL
The correct use of language must begin at the very top of
In a message dated 4/12/2007 9:37:17 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Because it's an instruction, not a service. Hardware engineers don't write
dsects.
However, IBM's software people have written DSECTs for many hardware
structures (aka control blocks), such as
In a message dated 4/12/2007 1:57:45 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am trying to determine if an OFFLINE volume exists without trying to
VARY it on-line.
Build a subroutine to do one I/O to a device, whose device number is passed
as a parameter, using STARTIO or
In a message dated 4/4/2007 7:42:19 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Online Software International is not the same company as Optimum
Systems Inc. They had nothing to do with SuperWylbur®.
Where they means Online Software International.
Bill Fairchild
Plainfield,
In a message dated 4/1/2007 11:44:00 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I remember Grace Hopper said Alan Turing had paging working on Burroughs
as DUZ, but wasn't popular until IBM invented it decades later...
When IBM announced its new virtual operating systems
In a message dated 3/30/2007 8:10:32 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
OBS, not OSI. Two totally different companies. OBS - Online Business
Services was a service bureau and software development entity in the SF
Bay area.
I definitely worked for Optimum Systems, Inc.
In a message dated 3/30/2007 8:52:06 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There are lots of reasons for not wanting a record of how we spend our money
I can think of several other reasons (all political) why cash is good.
There are many pros and cons with each choice.
In a message dated 3/30/2007 10:49:06 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
the answer is that the MP effect is in the hardware (using
the term loosely) operation of the CP(s) in coordinating the actions
that are largely invisibile to the operating system.
The MP effect
In a message dated 3/29/2007 3:07:20 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When did Wylbur become SuperWylbur?
To add a little more to Steve Thompson's reply:
WYLBUR, and its required telecommunications component ORVYL (might not have
spelled that one right, but how
In a message dated 3/29/2007 3:45:39 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Some jobs are real problems.
Which is, or was long ago, a very good reason to define and rigorously
enforce job classes. I worked on a massive local mod to JES2 in 1977 that
determined many
In a message dated 3/29/2007 4:01:12 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If a jobstep reports, for example
IEF374I STEP/STEP0010/STOP 2007086.1135 CPU0MIN 00.02SEC
then it is reporting .02 seconds on a single CPU of the box, is that
correct?
To answer only this part
In a message dated 3/28/2007 8:18:08 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Also - just to help a little with English - the strict answer to your
question is Yes - and that's it.
The question was Could you xx. This is correct as far as the English
that I learned 50+
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