location/ was RE: Pre-Friday fun: Halon dumps and POK Resets

Design Flaw(s)? Given requirements for DR/alternate sites, I'd think physical protection of the primary site has lapsed a bit. Out of curiosity, what is the current thinking on high floor vs. basement/sub-basement for primary hardware in a densely populated urban environment? Possible

Re: Pre-Friday fun: Halon dumps and POK Resets (keyboard ghosts)

Ghosts?: In the mid-1980s (about 1 block from the Empire State Building), our hard-wired 3270s would suddenly start typing away, no one on the keyboard. Special shielding had to be added. (It usually worked.) lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: rexx cpu intensive

Hi Tim, You may want to look at what may be keeping huge amounts of data in memory see if there's a way to pre-sort aggregate it. If you are not seeing a lot of I/O, the code may very well be reevaluating entire [sets of] arrays with each record. The sort packages will far outperform an

Re: XL CPP z/OS first use problem

Possibly (we always hope) simple? XPLING(ON) is not supported Spelling XPLINK? Good luck. Peter /Now, I'm compiling with the standard proc CBCCB, which specifies inline that XPLING(ON) is not supported. Using compiler options: LOCALE(En_US.IBM-1140) MAR(1,80) NOSEQ LO /

Re: IMS in its own LPAR?

Hi Peter, I believe you need to be on the same LPAR as the IMS region for DBCTL. For IMS connect, this is not an issue. The DBCTL connect attachment is local to the host system in the same way as attachment to a local DB2 subsystem (vs. distributed, e.g. DRDA 3-part name or jdbc type 4). A

Re: How can I display whether the sendmail daemon is running ?

Perhaps: NETSTAT (CLIENT SMTP* /or NETSTAT (PORT 25 NETSTAT (PORT 1026 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Peculiar issue related to TSO logons

In the days of frequent address space creation failure endless logon proceeding type msgs, I found issuing logon (vs logoff) seemed to both log me off preserve my slot so I'd be able to log on while everyone who issued the traditional logoff had to wait to log back on in such circumstances

Re: TCP IP How to retrieve hostname from Ip address from CICS or IDMS program

Hi Jacques, You may be able to issue nslookup with the IP address as a system call parse the result (also available via USS). I don't know if you can call rexx from IDMS, but I believe the gethostbyaddr is a standard socket call. A more complicated solution via rexx, written many moons

USS RIP

USS: a term coined on the IBM-MAIN listserv to denote a poorly or ill defined acronym. Universally Specious Soliloquy Requiescat In Pace -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Chaos feared after Unix time-zone database is nuked

Tom, There is a fair body of scientific evidence regarding the validity of circadian rhythms. I don't like clocks period, never mind having to reset them. (That only compounds the problem of clocks themselves.) I do like sunrise/sunset for my measure of time (at least on a daily basis, not