On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:27:46 -0400, Richards.Bob wrote:
>And all that time I thought it was a cubicle wall!
>
Back in the Green-bar days, I almost completed two walls inside my cubicle.
The door was going to be a problem. And it's surprising how sound proof a ten
inch thick stack of paper is !
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:49:43 -0500, Tom Schmidt wrote:
>
>The term for this that I have used (stolen from the early '80's at an insurance
>company in Southern California) was: First-In, Still-Here.
>
>The acronym: FISH
>
Doh !!! I resemble that remark.
-
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:55:26 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
>
>In terms of validation, I was more thinking along the lines of "I know
>that RACF ids can be a maximum of 8 characters, and are composed of the
>characters A-Z,@#$,0-9. So I'll check that the id doesn't contain
>anything else." I don't cons
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 23:45:40 +1000, Shane wrote:
>Fishing ???.
>A (first) *anonymous* post ???.
>
>Wonder who will be inclined to respond to such ...
>
>Maybe just my suspicious mind at work.
>
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 09:58:51 -0500, Compton, John wrote:
>It might help to give a proper name and possi
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 10:51:46 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote:
>Thanks for the pointer. I missed it in my (brief) search because I
>misread/misunderstood the post and thought this marketing withdrawal
>applied to all zSeries processors ... not just z890.
>
I think the z890 is the last of the zSeries thou
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:30:36 -0400, Pinnacle wrote:
>IBM would help tremendously if it did not obsolete its mainframes every 5
>years. In my client's case, they bought their 9672 in 1997, and it was
>effectively dead-ended in 2001 when they installed OS/390 V2R10. IBM just
>withdrew the z890, an
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:52:50 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote:
>
>That was indeed a shock. But, not as big the shock we got when it was
>discovered that none of the z800 Activation profiles could be converted
>automatically to the z9. IBM was as surprised as we were. Our install
>was a push-pull and the
On Mon, 21 May 2007 13:08:55 -0500, Dave Kopischke wrote:
>Also, if you lose the timer, you can recover and run without it. It takes a few
>seconds for error recovery and to present the option on the console. By this
>time, most of our communication sessions time out, so we've got
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:41:12 -0400, Robert Pelletier wrote:
>Hi All. I need to put together a document that IBM is taking the
>mainframe seriously and is actively trying to get it taught in our
>schools. Would anyone have any good articles available for my use?
>Thanks all.
>
There was a post or
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:27:40 +1000, Ken Brick wrote:
>This thread was originally entitled "How to list LE Options".
>
>One of the responses was to browse the LE options member of PARMLIB. I
>see this as a valid requirement for an application programmer. Hence
>they need READ access to PARMLIB.
>
DD DSN=MFD.PARMADLY.MFDE0S0G(POPDATE),
// DISP=SHR
//DUMMYFIL DD DUMMY,
// DCB=BLKSIZE=80
//*
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. DUMMYPGM.
AUTHOR.DAVE KOPISCHKE.
DATE-WRITTEN. JULY 23, 2003.
DATE-
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:23:56 -0700, Gibney, Dave wrote:
>I might have to look at capping if we go further down the SCRT and
>perhaps zNALC route, but for now, no hard capping.
>
You might seriously consider over-buying capacity and going with a soft cap.
That allows you to get 100% of your machi
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:32:21 +0100, Phil Payne wrote:
>> "Some techie yelled it over the cubical walls: IBM´Link is coming down for
maintenance!"
>
>"Some techie yelled it over the cubicle walls: IBM´Link has come down for
maintenance!"
>
Are you sure this isn't a typo ??? Shouldn't this be "
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:42:47 -0700, Gibney, Dave wrote:
> If I f***-up, my ass is grass :) I'm hoping for some moral courage :)
>
>-Original Message-
>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>Behalf Of Shane
>Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 2:29 PM
>To: IBM-MAIN@BAM
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:35:46 +0100, Phil Payne wrote:
>From the Register:
>
>http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/06/15/ibm_mainframe_support/
>
It's interesting that the quotes used in this article are from this list. Is
this a
support group ??? Or a BLOG ??? Maybe both ???
-
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:32:06 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote:
>I don't know what it suggests. It looks like the doc should say
>Linux for zSeries or something like that... not z/OS Linux.
>
Exactly. That's why the conspiracy theorists are implying LINUX may be a
replacement for UNIX System Services in
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:37:17 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote:
>What... no takers, no war? I'm disappointed. An *IBM representative* used
>the "U" word not once, but twice. Does that mean it's officially ok to use
>again casually when the context is clear?
>
Someone posted this link on the LINUX list
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:53:19 -0400, John S. Giltner, Jr. wrote:
>
>The 1164 from DYNALLOC means that the system could not find the model
>DSCB. Sounds like this was a new GDG and somebody had not defined the
>model DSCB for it.
>
I saw this years ago in a UNIX shell script I wrote. The answer is
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:32:11 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote:
>
>I'm with you. Except for the "cheap" part, of course.
>
Maybe a more precise word to use would be "affordable" ??? ;) But what I
think is affordable is probably not what others think is affordable.
If it were up to me, I'd do more to k
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:49:07 -0400, Tim Hare wrote:
>What if they were allowed to sell us a single OS license that included
>everything we needed to run our apps, including CICS, WebSphere, and DB2,
>and they priced it for what z/OS goes for now? Would our bean counters be
>happy?
>
Your bean cou
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 13:42:25 -0400, Tim Hare wrote:
>Most virtual tape systems eventually write to physical tape as they
>internally perform hierarchical storage management. There's an OS that
>does HSM functions on a bunch of disk, and when the disk space gets full,
>the "datasets" representing v
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 10:24:32 -0400, Tim Hare wrote:
>
>If anyone has actual cost figures for their virtual tape box separately,
>could you give me a ballpark of what the ratio of the cost of the virtual
>compontents to the tape components should be so I can do a sanity check on
>what I'm hearing?
>
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 17:06:54 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
>There is a PDF for session 2814, which was (I think) the same presentation
>with a different number (happens a lot at SHARE when projects present
>sessions jointly).
>
>Sign onto share.org with your ID, then paste this into your brows
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 16:40:26 -0400, Imbriale, Donald wrote:
>If the presenter made them available, they should be accessible from the
>SHARE web site. In this case, it appears that no slides/presentation
>material was made available for download.
>
It sounds like this was an ongoing presentation
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 16:04:58 -0400, Bob Shannon wrote:
>The presentations from the most recent SHARE are available to everyone
>on the SHARE website. The older presentations are available online to
>members only. Go to www.share.org and request an Id and password.
>
I already have an ID. I signed
On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 16:35:26 -0500, Kenneth E Tomiak wrote:
>>9314 - Linux in an LPAR - Here's How It's Done, since i do not have access
>>to SHARE I'm unable to look at it further.
>>
I am a member, but it took a while to find this. I finally found "9314 - Linux
in
an LPAR - Here's How It's Don
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 19:47:25 -0400, John S. Giltner, Jr. wrote:
>zSeries mainframes can NOT run Windows. That I am aware of, IBM is not
>even trying. They can run Linux and a LOT of server functions that you
>would use Windows for you can also use Linux.
>
I was reading a few weeks (or months)
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 10:08:06 +1000, Shane wrote:
>No, you just hate USS abend codes.
>Uh-oh; did I type that, or just think it
>
Oh yeah, the USS Abend Codes. I remember when that ship was christened.
Sorry I can't help either. But I couldn't resist.
--
On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 11:28:42 +0100, Roy Hewitt wrote:
>You dont even need to create the IOCDS, remember the IOCDS is only ever
>used at POR time...so if PORs are hard to come by, then you can defer it
>until you really need to...
>
If you don't create and activate a new IOCDS with the IODF, I beli
On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 08:42:23 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
>
>This last weekend we did a Shark upgrade and I needed a new IODF / IOCDS
>for the new addresses. I did not notice the bad processor type (2086),
>but when I tried to create the IOCDS, I got:
>
>Sev MsgidMessage Text
> E CBDA670I The
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 08:37:18 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>>"ALLOC F(SYSIN),
>> RECFM(F,B) LRECL(80) BLKSIZE(27920),
>> SPACE(1) TRACKS CATALOG"
>>
>What is the effect (and purpose) of specifying CATALOG with
>what appears to be a temporary data set.
>
Nothing. This is really old stuff
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 03:25:00 +0530, Varun Manocha wrote:
>The other option that I know would be to temporarily allocate a dataset,
>EXECIO the control statements I need to that dataset and then delete the
>temporary dataset after the call to IEBCOPY. However, I was just wondering
>if I can 'pick-up
On Thu, 31 May 2007 07:46:39 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote:
>
>Perhaps the OP could test this by using a data set with a different DSNAME.
>
Or stop and restart LLA, or refresh LLA. The LLA hook seems to ring a bell with
me, but I've no time to try it myself.
---
On Thu, 24 May 2007 14:51:59 +0200, R.S. wrote:
>That means buy 9037 or STP (it's not free) and connect it to every CPC you
have.
>I don't know STP prices, but 9037 costed approx. 50k$. You need at least
two for redundancy.
You don't NEED two timers unless you have a requirement for fault tole
On Wed, 23 May 2007 22:05:57 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>On experimenting, reading, and receiving input from this list,
>I've lowered my sights and retreated to DISP=(NEW,{KEEP|CATLG})
>
Be careful with your disposition on good completion with MOD. I came across
an issue years ago where JCL ma
On Wed, 23 May 2007 16:18:48 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
>I just received two e-mails from WaveMind with the subject "Need help
>on your IBM Mainframe project?", one addressed to an address that I
>use only for IBM-MAIN. Nothing in the message suggests that it is in
>response to anythin
On Wed, 23 May 2007 16:31:31 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>>
>Will they permit SPACE=(0,(0,0),,CONTIG,ROUND)?
>
>Will allocating 0 cylinders succeed if the volume has no
>free cylinders?
>
Do you really want to know this stuff Or are you just trying to send
someones brain into an infinite l
On Wed, 23 May 2007 12:11:53 -0500, Eric Chevalier wrote:
>I get the impression that an ETR (or something like an ETR) might
>still be required with STP. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm
>wrong! :-)
>
I too am confused by this. Although in my case, that's not a particularly
impressive fea
On Wed, 23 May 2007 15:07:26 -0500, Patrick O'Keefe wrote:
>>...
>>//SYSUT1 DD DSN=Your.Data.Set.Name,
>>// DISP=(MOD,DELETE,DELETE),
>>// UNIT=(SYSDA,,DEFER),
>>// SPACE=(TRK,(0,0),RLSE)
>>...
>
>Good thing you're releasing all that unused space. :-)
>Does
On Wed, 23 May 2007 02:19:19 -0400, Doug Fuerst wrote:
>Actually, this was recently explained to me by IBM. (MOD,DELETE)
>indicates that the dataset might exist, if it does, then MOD it. If
>it does not, then create it and then delete it. But SPACE would be
>required in any case where the dataset
On Mon, 21 May 2007 15:59:21 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote:
>
>My IPLINFO exec is only a rough guestimate based on the SU value in the
>RMCT which it converts to SUs per second:
>
> "The approximate total MIPS (SUs/SEC / 48.5 * # general CPUs)"
>
>This is the best I was able to do with (unauthorized)
On Mon, 21 May 2007 13:32:55 -0700, Neubert, Kevin (DIS) wrote:
>You could look at the user directory for the primary address space size,
>but this can change-#CP DEFINE STORAGE size. From the guest
>representing your system #CP QUERY VIRTUAL STORAGE or from another
guest
>#CP INDICATE USER user
On Sat, 19 May 2007 17:02:52 +0200, R.S. wrote:
>
>1. I don't know whether STP solution can use 'atomic clock' as a time
>reference. AFAIK, it was asked on the list, but noone answered.
>2. (**) Two sysplex timers are required, because of redundancy. AFAIK if
>you loose ETR (sysplex timer or timer
On Fri, 18 May 2007 18:19:20 -0400, Thompson, Steve wrote:
>But then, my experience with TOD drift against a known standard has been
>rather remarkable. Quite seriously, it has been only a few seconds over
>a year's period of time.
>
Our old z800 would drift a few seconds every month. I haven't h
On Fri, 18 May 2007 10:27:43 -0500, David Day wrote:
>I don't know if you can do this, but if you can get a dump of the code at
>the time it is making the call to ISPLINK, you can check the parm list. R1
>will point to a parmlist of full word pointers, with the last one set with
>the high order b
On Thu, 17 May 2007 21:29:43 +, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
>>However, the issue is that, there is no "definitive" value of "current date."
>
>The issue is more than just "current" date (and "current" time is worse).
>
I think the point in posts previous was to come up with a unique file name.
One th
On Thu, 17 May 2007 14:44:54 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
>Bustech http://www.bustech.com
>FlexCUB http://www.funsoft.com
>IDG9480 http://www.secureagent.com/securevts/VTStech.htm
>
There also:
Luminex - http://www.luminex.com
Sepaton - http://www.sepaton.com
Data Domain - http://www.datadomain.com
On Thu, 17 May 2007 12:30:15 -0500, Mark H. Young wrote:
>
>What about the *KEYS* command in ISPF?
>Type KEYS and your PFKey settings (either 12 or 24) will pop up.
There's a separate set of key lists for ISPF and SDSF. They KEYS command
works for either environment. If you're looking to make o
On Wed, 16 May 2007 20:47:49 -0500, Russell Witt wrote:
>Actually, CA announced last February at Share that both CA-Vtape and CA
Tape Encryption will be using the zIIP (if available) for both compression and
encryption. So, while a zIIP is not free; it is much cheaper then main CPU
cycles. Plus
On Tue, 15 May 2007 16:04:50 -0400, Arthur T. wrote:
> I recently tried twice to get information about a
>government agency's privacy provisions and was ignored. On
>my third try, I suggested that local newspapers might be
>able to get the information for me, but would also likely
>be intere
On Tue, 15 May 2007 13:34:12 -0400, Gary Green wrote:
>Do you really think we will get the real story/facts about the savings?
>
No, but if you don't ask, you can't complain about the FUD they're generating
with a story like this, can you
I've already sent follow up requests on 3 or 4 of t
On Tue, 15 May 2007 10:23:17 -0400, Gary Green wrote:
>SIAC is migrating 1600 MIPS from the mainframe to save money.
>
>http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid80_gci1
254860,00.html
>
I saw a similar story a couple months ago concerning the start of this project.
I se
On Mon, 14 May 2007 13:35:24 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote:
>An interesting article on this subject:
>
>Tape and Disk Costs - What It really Costs to Power the Equipment
>http://www.clipper.com/research/TCG2007014.pdf
>
>From the article:
>
>Key Findings
>1. SATA disk system has nearly 26 times higher
On Thu, 10 May 2007 14:15:39 -0400, Jack Kelly wrote:
>
>COBOL job that gets a return code of 90 when it attempts to
>write a record to a VSAM file.
>
>
>generally all of vsam rc are explained in msgIDC3009I. RC90 (delete error)
>doesn't seem to make much sense unless it's the application's RC not
On Wed, 9 May 2007 14:43:46 -0400, Kirk Talman wrote:
>My son is sgt in iraq at moment (4th tour of duty in ME). Other than diet
>and humidity, little has changed. he is "battle nco" running a unit. when
>"battle captain" is not there, he has to do that job in addition to his
>own.
>
>before dep
On Wed, 9 May 2007 07:26:34 -0400, Veilleux, Jon L wrote:
>What elites are you talking about? Is that a synonym for 'liberal'???
>The ones who decide on CEO compensation now are mostly CEOs from other
>companies who are on the boards of directors of multiple companies. I
>know you're not talking a
On Tue, 8 May 2007 21:08:26 +0200, R.S. wrote:
>
>Oh, yeas, there are such regulators!
>Invented by Marx, Engels, implemented by Lenin, tuned by Stalin.
>Been there.
>
Wisdom from someone who's been where this thread is headed.
Be careful of what you wish for.
--
On Mon, 7 May 2007 22:12:43 -0400, Robert Justice wrote:
>exactly, we need to cut ceo compensation by 90% in this country, and in
some
>cases, like the one idiot that got almost 400 million, by 99%.
>
I'd really like to be that stupid. For that kind of money, you can call me
whatever names you
On Fri, 4 May 2007 14:26:36 -0400, Steven Conway wrote:
>Dave, one thing you can check out is if there is a CMG chapter near you.
>See the US list at : http://www.cmg.org/groups/regions.html and the
>international list at:http://www.cmg.org/groups/intreg.html. Local CMG
>groups generally offer 1
I am a "just starting to turn gray" mainframer. I've still got about 20 years
before retirement, so I'm thinking "WalMart Greeter" might enter my career
path before it's all done.
==I'm interested in what you're seeing -- in industry, schools, user
==groups, etc. -- regarding new generations of
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:23:35 -0500, Rick Fochtman wrote:
>
>We're on a z9BC.
>
>We've got some other code changes in the process that I'm trying to
>isolate from the ARITH(EXTEND) impact to see if this is really 30%
>attributable to the ARITH option chan
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:19:41 -0700, Steve Comstock wrote:
>
>So of course, the answer to your question is, "it depends"; on
>what your programs are doing. Still, 30% seems high? If you are
>not running on a machine that supports the new floating point
>registers and instructions you may also be se
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 10:49:45 +0100, Jim McAlpine wrote:
>I'm looking at the Enterprise COBOL Performance Tuning paper regarding the
>ARITH(EXTEND) compiler option which says -
>
.
>
>| On the average, ARITH(EXTEND) was 1% slower than ARITH(COMPAT),
> with a range of equivalent to 38% slower.
>
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:53:25 -0400, Bob Shannon wrote:
>>Then again, given what a f*ck-up 6.1 was with "star-join" ...
>
>DB2 6.1 is AFH Shane.
>
AFH ??? I tried to look up this acronym, but I can only find stupid things
like:
American Fork and Hoe
Assassins for Hire
Australian Fluid Handling
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:20:53 +, Steve Flynn wrote:
>On 13/03/07, Ed Finnell wrote:
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 3/13/2007 11:21:51 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
>> dgkopischke writes:
>>
>> We use 235 for CA-7.
>>
>> >>
>> Again, user defined SVCs. Specified in IEASVCxx and for type 3/4 reside
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:28:13 -0400, Gray, Larry - Larry A wrote:
>We use 235 for DADS/Plus from CA. Don't remember if that is the
>recommendation though.
>
We use 235 for CA-7.
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On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:23:54 +1000, Shane wrote:
>> Any "horror stories" out there?
>
>The rest of the world deals with this on a regular basis.
>Enough of the "Chicken Little" syndrome from the yanks already.
>
>Shane ...
We "Yanks" deal with it on a regular basis too. Twice a year the last time
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 11:17:44 -0700, Howard Brazee wrote:
>>
>Ahh, ISF.SISFEXEC(SUMMARY) exists as well.
>
I don't find this command in my SDSF manual. What does it do ??? Is it
documented somewhere ???
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On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 14:48:03 +, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
>I remember when an electonics engineer was in an IMS course with me (circa
1981), and he was continually getting confused about PCB.
>
>Programme Control Block
>Printed Circuit Board
>
I thought you were going on a tangent towards Poly Chlor
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:16:25 +1000, FRASER, Brian wrote:
>John Deere Technology Center
>Cyber City, Magarpatta City, Hadapsar
>
I read a story this morning on IGNITES about Franklin Templeton Investments
launching a new mega-campus in Hyderabad, India. According to the
article, "It's the firm’s
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:38:02 -0700, Dave Reinken wrote:
>> Because I want to know if it worked or not. As you imply, it will be next
>> to impossible to get an objective answer, but SIAC is a high visibility
>> company and process within the industry. They won't fail without someone
>> knowing it.
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:43:54 -0500, Veilleux, Jon L wrote:
>
>David Kopischke wrote:
>> I sure hope they do a follow-up on this one early next year.
>Attractive Alternatives to Mainframes Are Breaking Their Decades-Old
>Hold on Wall Street
>
>
>Why do you want to see a follow up? They'll just tell
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:32:59 -0500, Bruce Black wrote:
>Perhaps some of us should move to India, to be sure that there are at
>least a few competent z/OS people there
>
>--
What if nobody wants to go ???
Does that mean we need to vote someone off the island ???
--
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 11:13:26 -0600, Hal Merritt wrote:
>Elegant. I like that. It ought to work just fine.
>
>We make heavy use of such symbols. The price we pay is a setup
>(MOD,DELETE) step to position for a rerun. Now, this works very well,
>but the MOD,DELETE step for hundreds and hundreds of st
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:17:43 -0600, Rick Fochtman wrote:
>I can't speak for your particular situation, but I know from prior
>experience that "SleazyTrieve" does a LOT of OPEN/CLOSE activity. And
>the more complex the selections, the more OPENs/CLOSEs it seems to do.
>
Can you tell which DD is g
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:37:55 -0500, Jon Brock wrote:
> Has anyone else had trouble with CA's SupportConnect web site for
the last several days? I am unable to use the Knowledge Base feature. I
thought for a little while the problem was an Internet access-monitoring
package we have, but
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:45:35 EST, Ed Finnell wrote:
>From Dell site...
>_http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/solutions/en/winvista?
c=us&cs=
>19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=anavml_
>(http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/solutions/en/winvista?
c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=anavml)
>
>or tiny'd
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:26:23 -0800, Skip Robinson wrote:
>I didn't see anything in this thread about WHY you want to do this, but
>you seem to have ruled out the simpler, safer techniques. I hate to say
>it, but if you have to ask for a more sophisticated approach, you probably
>should not even tr
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:25:09 -0500, Salway, Nigel wrote:
>I was wondering if anyone
>the list who underwent a similar upgrade can pass on any experiences,
>suggestions or warnings.
>
I went through a z800 to Z9BC upgrade a few months ago and encountered
problems with the 2096DEVICE PSP bucket.
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:44:29 -0600, Jeffrey Deaver wrote:
>Its too easy for one of those 'secure' tapes to walk out the door with a
>disgruntled employee. And when the audit turns up a tape missing - its not
>going to care how or where it went - only that its missing and not
>encrypted. More tha
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:53:01 -0600, Hal Merritt wrote:
>The complete loss of mission critical data even for a few days could be
catastrophic to the company. One solution is to have backups that aren't
encrypted. But, then, what would be the point of encryption in the first
place? As I said, a p
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:45:10 -0600, Johnston, Robert E wrote:
>Thanks Roy and Kevin for the info. I'll put this on the back burner until I
>foresee some downtime coming up. Those old definitions don't bother me so
>much after all! :)
>
I think you'll still want a POR though. I don't know of any o
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:44:00 -0700, Daver! wrote:
>>I am preparing for the
>> >>installation of a z890 with an implementation of OS390 V2R10 in about
4-6
>> >>months.
>> >
>> >With that great a gap, if you aren't reusing DASD, why not just go for
>> >current z/OS and do some testing?
>>
>>
>> Can
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:03:59 -0400, Clark Morris wrote:
>On 11 Jan 2007 10:07:57 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
>
>>Here at the City of Portland in Oregon, USA we have OS/390 V2R4 in
>>production on a Multiprise 2003-125 (G3) processor. I am preparing for
the
>>installation of a z890
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:27:47 -0600, Alan C. Field wrote:
>Alan said: Here's the source:
>
It doesn't get much easier than that. Unless you'd like to drop by and
install it too !?!?!?!? The skiing is great right now...
Thanks
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:34:41 -0500, Lizette Koehler wrote:
>Thanks to everyone, especially Alan.
>
What did Alan say Would it be of interest to the rest of us ??? If
he's sharing an easy way to blaze this message, I'd be interested in
reading about it.
---
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:44:05 -0500, Lizette Koehler wrote:
>IOS357I MANUFACTURER EMC LOAD MODULE IOSTEMC NOT FOUND IN THE LNKLST
>
>
>Anyone using EMC DMX3000 Dasd see this? Is this something new with EMC &
Dynamic Channel?
>
We've been getting these since we implemented EMC DASD several years
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:13:08 -0800, Edward Jaffe wrote:
>"Single Object Operations" is nothing more than a remote control session
>of the Support Element desktop. I was looking for a function on the HMC
>itself.
>
Correct.
OK, then I don't know of any way to do that. Maybe open a console session
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:56:52 -0800, Edward Jaffe wrote:
>So, you're able to do this only from the SE -- via remote session from
>HMC (aka single object operations). There's no equivalent HMC
>functionality? Seems like a pretty major oversight. :-(
>
No, from the HMC console. You'll need to sign o
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:25:31 -0800, Howard Rifkind wrote:
>On the Test side it shows up as follows:
>
>SYS1.IODF11 ,
> , SHR92B
>SYS1.IODF11.CLUSTER ,
> , *VSAM*
>SYS1.IODF11.WORK,
> , SHR92B
>SYS1.I
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:33:45 +, Jim McAlpine > wrote:
>That'll do nicely thanks.
>
>Jim McAlpine
>
>
You'll still have to aware of any files with names greater than 8
characters. PDS's still won't support long file names.
-
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:01:48 -0500, Harold Zbiegien wrote:
>
>Do you know of anyway I can SPEED up this process??
>
We do essentially the same thing at our DR tests.
I have a REXX EXEC that runs through all the catalogs and verifies
datasets in each catalog actually reside on the volume the cat
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 12:43:16 -0800, Howard Rifkind wrote:
>No, I want to get rid of the catalog entry and the
>dataset.
>
>I'm not sure, but I think some how the dataset is also
>been deleted but I don't know how they did it.
>
If the original problem was the dataset got deleted but the catalog en
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 14:11:23 EST, Ed Finnell wrote:
>
>In a message dated 12/6/2006 12:52:26 P.M. Central Standard Time,
writes:
>
>It's kind of a neat place if you've got kids who like water parks.
>
>
>
>>>
>Aren't they slippery in -degrees? or are they computer controlled to switch
>over to ic
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 20:21:01 -0600, Eric Bielefeld
>Last Wednesday I started my new job at Land's End in Dodgeville
>Wisconsin.
Congratulations !!!
I love that part of the country. A bit cold this time of year though.
I'll be back in the area in a couple weeks for Christmas. My sister is
t
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 14:38:37 -0600, Joe Mscisz wrote:
>Hello All,
>We are currently running z/OS 1.4, and testing 1.7. This weekend I brought
>my 1.7 LPAR into my Sysplex. My Master console for the 1.7
machine "freezes"
>after NIP... The IPL contines with no console and the system can be managed
>
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 11:56:27 -0800, Howard Rifkind
>So quick, so clean, Gee how come I forgot about that
>one.
>
>Thanks.
>
>--- "O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]"
>
>> Have you tried delete dsn noscratch?
>>
This just gets rid of the catalog entry. The dataset is still on DASD,
although uncatal
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 11:48:12 -0800, Howard Rifkind
>The first entry is o.k. and they don't want to
>delete that one because it's really there.
>
>
Are you trying to delete it using relative gen numbers ???
As in:
DELETE TEST.HRSG.CKOLHS(-1)
Try specifying the absolute name:
DELETE TEST.HRSG.CKOL
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 17:14:59 -0500, Petersen, Jim
>How many of you (companies), especially those running SAP, run GMT Time
>with NO offset so that during Daylight Savings Time, the systems don't
>need to be brought down.
>
We don't use SAP locally, but we run GMT with an offset for local. No
d
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 07:49:21 +1000, Shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Walt, pulling John into line, wrote:
>>
>> > I know that, among other things, 'antipodes' is Britspeak
for 'Australia
>> > and New Zealand', and thus legitimately plural; but I prefer the
>> > definition that makes antipodes co
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