Re: IBM(r) z/OS(r) Management Facility (z/OSMF)

2012-05-24 Thread David Andrews
On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 11:51 -0400, Edward Jaffe wrote: Lol! z/OSMF security has been a struggle for RACF shops too! :D MSM had its own set of security demands... -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com

Re: Screen Scraping TN3270

2012-05-22 Thread David Andrews
Integration. In one of the manuals I see that Java Connectors provide access to any application using Java APIs. So I'll guess that LegaSuite might provide a scraping interface via a Java API. That's a solution for which we have no known problem, so best check with your friendly Rocket rep. -- David

Re: Screen Scraping TN3270

2012-05-22 Thread David Andrews
halfway across the country was a painful exercise. -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message

Re: ### of GDG Entries

2012-05-11 Thread David Andrews
expanding the max number of generations much past 255 is problematic with the current key design. I guess IBM could walk in a new catalog format (by e.g. allowing more than one GDS per extension record), but I wouldn't look forward to all the coexistence woe that might provoke. -- David Andrews

Re: Old blank tape cartridges

2012-05-07 Thread David Andrews
rang up my local (central Florida) waste management authority the nice lady told me to simply dump 'em. I was astonished and asked her to confirm, which she did. Weird. When we dispose of old tape we have to send it to an eWaste company. Can you name the company? -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons

Re: ServerPac RACF* jobs (rant)

2012-04-30 Thread David Andrews
a changelog -does- exist, and I haven't noticed it?) -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message

Re: Strip column 1 from reports

2012-04-24 Thread David Andrews
datastream in an application-independent way, which satisfies most of our form-and-flash requirements. -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-23 Thread David Andrews
compiler generates equivalent code for: GO TO ... DEPENDING ON X (which I've always understood was a simple branch table) and: EVALUATE X WHEN 1 ... WHEN 2 ... Hey John, there's a research topic for you in your copious spare time! -- David Andrews

Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-16 Thread David Andrews
On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 09:52 -0400, Joel C. Ewing wrote: One proposal many years ago to totally eliminate the FORTRAN GO TO was to replace it with a COME FROM statement. Ah yes, an old chestnut: http://www.fortran.com/come_from.html

Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-16 Thread David Andrews
On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 11:08 -0400, McKown, John wrote: Ah, imagine the joys of writing CICS code in LISP (Lots of Insipid, Silly Parentheses). There are more parentheses in Java code than equivalent Clojure. Just sayin'. -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com

Re: Modernizing the BCP code ?

2012-04-12 Thread David Andrews
instruction sequences. -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Modernizing the BCP code ?

2012-04-12 Thread David Andrews
? -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: A stupid idea? Using twitter like service for z/SO, et al., event notification.

2012-03-09 Thread David Andrews
include. When email doesn't work - and it isn't foolproof - we rely on our users to call. Press 1 to wake somebody up. -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: WLM Capping

2012-02-07 Thread David Andrews
all that discretionary workload went to the meat locker, and we couldn't have that. Had to do some triage and creative stuff with velocity goals and performance periods to make things right again. -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com

Re: Regular Expressions (OMVS)

2012-02-06 Thread David Andrews
Linus never felt the need for it. -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Lots of *MASTER* CPU during a big sort

2012-01-25 Thread David Andrews
objects? -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Set Clock Command

2012-01-23 Thread David Andrews
. During weekly sysmaint the system is quiesced and we run a program by Axel Miller that interrogates a NTP server and issues appropriate SET CLOCK commands to sync local time to network time. -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com

Re: Set Clock Command

2012-01-23 Thread David Andrews
of local time varied from z/OS's idea. That was a small nuisance. Is the hardware used by STP well enough documented in the PoOp (PrOp?) that one could write RYO (E)TOD steering code, driven by NTP? I thought that STP was LIC, and contained some enabling bits? -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons

Re: deleting jes2 printers

2012-01-04 Thread David Andrews
On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 11:39 -0500, Tim Brown wrote: Is there a $del to delete jes2 printers http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/has2a2a0.pdf -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: TSO concern - sysplex multisystem logon.

2011-12-21 Thread David Andrews
PROD 0038 008FFB00 EXCLUSIVEOWN So could you specify your own (and other privileged ones) RNAME as an RNL exclude? -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com

Re: Determining MSUs

2011-12-09 Thread David Andrews
On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 14:35 -0500, Phil Smith wrote: So if a customer doesn't know the MSU capacity of an LPAR, what's the easiest way to find out? RMF Monitor III, option 1.3? (Overview - CPC) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: JCL sheesh! for today

2011-12-08 Thread David Andrews
On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 04:24 -0500, Ken Brick wrote: At that time (1960's) I doubt that the developers had the rigourous documentation requirements of even yesteryear much less recent years. Some of the PLMs of the time were quite useful. When the HIPO fad was mandated circa 1974 the PLMs

Re: SPOOL move

2011-10-09 Thread David Andrews
to do that for some years, probably since the last DASD geometry change. Yeah, I'm looking forward to that new spool migration function in R13. -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Fairwell to a Friend

2011-10-09 Thread David Andrews
Ohno! Gilbert was, as everyone has already pointed out, a class act. Knowledgeable, generous, polite. He left the world better than he found it. -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: SPOOL move

2011-10-07 Thread David Andrews
on the spool for *years*, making it impossible for me to completely drain spool volumes without an outage. Looking forward to trying out the new function. -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: 1TB EAV Support

2011-10-07 Thread David Andrews
hours simply to restore from DVD. But it might give me a warm feeling just to have a current DVD in a vault somewhere.) -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: 1TB EAV Support

2011-10-07 Thread David Andrews
three points understood, and Mark's onepack is indeed useful. I just thought the COD might be a warm fuzzy to stick in with the IOCP. Thanks. -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: SPOOL move

2011-10-07 Thread David Andrews
-term storage and I know a large-calibre warning shot when I see one. I MAKE the rules... I BREAK the rules. -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: CPU utilization/engine

2011-10-04 Thread David Andrews
On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 12:40 -0400, Ed Gould wrote: What should have been asked is Why. Sorry, why is none of our concern. It is sufficient that Miklos wants to know. -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com

Re: UNIX (USS)

2011-08-18 Thread David Andrews
On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 06:58 -0400, John McKown wrote: QWS3270 runs under WINE. I wonder if Tom's software would too. Vista did work when I tried it a couple of years ago. IIRC there were some font issues - which may well have been due to an ID10T error. -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread David Andrews
have to examine each bit in SMF30TFL before you add corresponding selected CPU fields. -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: running Assembler I/O macro code as AMODE 31, RMODE ANY

2011-07-22 Thread David Andrews
On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 08:30 -0400, Mark Jacobs wrote: Sounds almost thiotimoline like to me. Tells you something about a group of people when one guy mentions thiotimoline and nobody bats an eyelash. ;-) -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com

Who?

2011-07-22 Thread David Andrews
So I'm riffling the SHARE Orlando agenda and I find *this* guy: Dave Andrews is the IBM Development Director of the CICS product family based in Hursley, UK. My reputation can only improve. -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com

Re: Perl (was: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands)

2011-07-21 Thread David Andrews
On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 10:12 -0400, Lloyd Fuller wrote: /VERSYSB/usr/lpp/perl/lib/5.8.7/ As does our 1.10 system. But my Linux desktop is running 5.12.3 and Gil did say no current Perl. -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com

Re: Perl (was: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands)

2011-07-21 Thread David Andrews
On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 11:02 -0400, Paul Gilmartin wrote: (And David A. attributed to me a statement where I was merely quoting Shmuel. Erk. My bad, as the kids say. -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com

Re: Quick question

2011-06-30 Thread David Andrews
On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 09:44 -0400, Alvaro Guirao Lopez wrote: There is any program for delay a job execution in the serverpac of z/OS V1R11? Perhaps you're looking for something like this? //DELAY EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH,PARM='pgm /bin/sleep SECONDS' -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc

Re: how to backup data onto mainframe tape and restored read on windows ?

2011-06-22 Thread David Andrews
The z/OS ftp server will support SITE UNIT=[tape device]. Take your backup using ftp, then restore it via a MS-Windows client. -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: more on startio...

2011-06-20 Thread David Andrews
I remember - maybe - that Bill Fairchild had a SHARE presentation or two on the care and feeding of STARTIO. That was years ago. Bill? -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: retraction ...

2011-06-10 Thread David Andrews
, sensibilities, management. Sure you'll find some losers, but there are lots of winners too. -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: CPU utilization/forecasting

2011-04-18 Thread David Andrews
the course of a day, plus-or-minus one standard deviation. That drop-bar chart made it easy to visualize two-thirds of our daily workload at a glance. -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: ASSIST assembler language

2011-03-17 Thread David Andrews
, we binned the ASSIST JCL and never used it again. Does anybody know of any product which uses the @ sign as the leading character for its macros? IDMS is one. -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com

Re: ASSIST assembler language

2011-03-17 Thread David Andrews
Replying to my own posts again. Bad form, I know. On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 16:20 -0400, David Andrews wrote: He pushed through a utility that contained an SVC 13 Finger check: that should have been SVC 3. (Guess I don't blame ASSIST for not knowing about it, but privileged?) -- David Andrews

Re: Does ROUND dataset allocation mean cylinder boundary?

2011-02-22 Thread David Andrews
unappetizing standalone seeks. Define Extent was a goodness. -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: Redisc overing WW II's femal e 'com pute rs'þ

2011-02-10 Thread David Andrews
On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 16:23 -0500, Linda Mooney wrote: I don't know if DPMA stills exists. Wikipedia says it does, but that it renamed itself in 1996. See the Association of Information Technology Professionals website at: http://www.aitp.org/ -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc

Re: LINKLIB in use / Darwin

2011-02-04 Thread David Andrews
is required to prominently display in his office until someone else deserves it. An eagle bears a target on its wings, and the placard below reads: Nice shooting Tex -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM

Re: Does R OUND datas et allocat ion mean c ylinder bo undary?‏

2011-02-02 Thread David Andrews
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 08:31 -0500, john gilmore wrote: Old men and women in this business thus found themselves repeating the litany comma, comma, comma, round over and over again to the young Um... comma, comma, contig, comma, round?

Re: Does ROUND dataset allocation mean cylinder boundary?

2011-02-02 Thread David Andrews
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 13:20 -0500, john gilmore wrote: | Um... comma, comma, contig, round which appears to be a polite attempted correction of the litany I provided. No, you simply reminded me of a relic of the past that I can *still* find in my proclibs. As you say, it is another problem.

Re: z/OS Virus Checker zLinux Virus Checker

2011-01-31 Thread David Andrews
On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 14:22 -0500, Sam Siegel wrote: Hercules and pirated copies of zOS Do you have evidence of this? -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Long-running jobs, PDS, and DISP=SHR

2011-01-25 Thread David Andrews
then. -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http

Re: GDG Question

2011-01-18 Thread David Andrews
, and their base (+0) generation numbers. It is this static table that resolves relative generation numbers in JCL. -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

AUTOTUNING usable?

2011-01-04 Thread David Andrews
? -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives

Re: [AD] CA Technologies Delivers Ground-Breaking CA Mainframe Chorus

2010-12-08 Thread David Andrews
the same. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Re: Philosophy: curiousity question

2010-12-06 Thread David Andrews
of the virtual servers needed for DNS was being recalcitrant, something to do with their whizbang Active Directory... and they weren't able to investigate it because they didn't have a external copy of the server farm's IP addresses. Um... the IP addresses are documented on the wiki. Whoops. -- David

Re: spool to spool output transfer

2010-11-30 Thread David Andrews
On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 13:09 -0500, Jousma, David wrote: Looking for ideas for doing spool to spool transfer of output NOT using NJE. Maybe Sine Nomine's NJE/IP Bridge package would be useful here? http://www.sinenomine.net/products/vm/njeip -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc

Re: Relayng all WTORs to my cell phone via SMS

2010-11-24 Thread David Andrews
an escalation schedule - a list of people are paged one at a time, at intervals - until the trigger message is DOM-ed or one of the paged individuals hit 'reply' on their blackberries. Lionel's XMITIP is the cat's meow, BTW. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com

Re: Mainframe hacking?

2010-10-14 Thread David Andrews
were they thinking? -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Re: obtaining su/sec in real time

2010-10-05 Thread David Andrews
On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 07:46 -0400, Bob wrote: Mark Zeldon's IPLSINFO (http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsfiles/iplinfo.txt) Zelden. And thanks for this pointer. Mark, this is a pretty snazzy little exec. Among other things, it's taught me where to find that 4HRA. Nicely done. -- David

Re: Mainframe ids

2010-10-05 Thread David Andrews
On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 10:59 -0400, SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN Joe H. Smith wrote: we providing MAINFRAME ID's for FREE!!! Joe H. Smith doesn't say whom he represents. The IP address he offers belongs to an Indian ISP: role: TATA Communications nic-hdl: TC651-AP address: 6th Floor,

Re: Really dumb IPL question

2010-09-27 Thread David Andrews
product run all the time? http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r9/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.zos.r9.halz001/autolog.htm -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Access z/OS 3270 TSO from smartphone?

2010-09-23 Thread David Andrews
marches on! As I've mentioned here before, I've IPLed Volker Bandke's Tur(n)key MVS system on my N900. 5450 dimensions: 5.23 x 3.3 x .63 7.23 oz. N900 dimensions: 4.37 x 2.35 x .77 6.38 oz. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com

Re: JES2 vs. JES3

2010-09-08 Thread David Andrews
-archive.com/ibm-main@bama.ua.edu/msg09350.html -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM

Re: Set numbers off permanently.

2010-09-02 Thread David Andrews
-ddname. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives

Re: Set numbers off permanently.

2010-09-02 Thread David Andrews
. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http

Re: Help with IEWFETCH Error RC0F Reason 40

2010-09-01 Thread David Andrews
after the open? -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Re: Oracle: The future is diskless!

2010-08-13 Thread David Andrews
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 17:06 -0400, Carlos Bodra - Pessoal wrote: Last mainframe will turned off in 1996 hahahahaha That would be Stewart Alsop, quoted in 1991. He eats his words on page 2 of Jim Elliott's m/f retrospective: http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/jelliott/pdfs/zhistory.pdf (How did

Re: Who are the TOP Mainframe Tapesubsystems Vendors?

2010-08-07 Thread David Andrews
known RAID 5/6 write penalty to some extent.) I wouldn't call it strictly RAID 6. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Memory v. Storage: What's in a Name? (Was: IBM zEnterprise)

2010-08-03 Thread David Andrews
On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 11:23 -0400, Ted MacNEIL wrote: Ever since I started doing Capacity Planning, in 1981, it was called 'Storage'. Hell, I was still calling it core 'til 1991 - when Ehrman chided me for it. (Like Aldo Cella, I am no slave to fashion.)

Re: share mainframe disk experience

2010-08-03 Thread David Andrews
On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 13:26 -0400, Scott Rowe wrote: Any vendor who could not do FlashCopy compatibly would lose out. That's why we license FDR Instant - which knows about Snapshot / Flashcopy / Timefinder. Makes me less married to the underlying tech. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc

Re: History of Hard-Coded Offsets - etc

2010-08-02 Thread David Andrews
On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 08:01 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: The 3330 was available on S/360 and was supported by OS/360[1]. Ah, I remember scanning the IOGENs and seeing references to ZEUS, MERLIN and ICEBERG devices. The good ol' days. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc

Re: Another reason to hate PDSE's

2010-07-26 Thread David Andrews
mashup that was VSAM suballocated space. Thank FSM they stopped short of that. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: System x and Power 7?

2010-07-22 Thread David Andrews
From the redbook FAQ: Q: Will the zEnterprise System support for Microsoft Windows or IBM i OS operating systems? A: No, Windows or i OS are not supported at this time. IBM will initially support AIX, Linux on System x (SOD available 1H 2011) and

Re: System z Security Vulnerabilities

2010-07-19 Thread David Andrews
On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 09:27 -0400, Alan Harrison wrote: Please visit my developerWorks blog zSecurity here http://j.mp/aDJp10 ... which forwards to: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/zSecurity/entry/documenting_vulnerabilities5?lang=en

Re: 2 versus 4 processors

2010-07-16 Thread David Andrews
*within* a single processor line then all bets are off.) -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: searchdatacenter.com article

2010-07-01 Thread David Andrews
. Back on topic, I used IEBCOMPR to do the dataset verify. If all you want to do is compare entire datasets then IEBCOMPR works rather well. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: IEBCOMPR (was: searchdatacenter.com article)

2010-07-01 Thread David Andrews
mentioned above, when I transport the AWS dataset it is paired with a characteristics dataset that contained the real DCB information. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Disk replacing Tape?

2010-06-22 Thread David Andrews
On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 11:32 -0400, McKown, John wrote: WORN = Write once, read never. gee, if really WORN, then I'd suggest writting to DD DUMMY or /dev/null. Back In The Day, we'd have used STC 8350. -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Multiprise 3k for personal Use?

2010-06-03 Thread David Andrews
and accessible by forklift, still sits a bus-and-tag 3088 CTC - plastic wrapped against the elements. Some people don't throw ANYTHING away. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: ftping a gdg from the z box

2010-05-28 Thread David Andrews
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 17:53 -0400, larry macioce wrote: we are trying to ftp(put) a gdg using the (+1) notation Try: put //dd:sysut1 destfilename //SYSUT1 DD DSN=YOUR.GDS(+1),DISP=(OLD,PASS) -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com

Re: Significant Bits

2010-05-25 Thread David Andrews
of the mixed-endian-ness of PPC.) -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

Re: IBM to announce new MF's this year

2010-05-24 Thread David Andrews
always wondered if the guy telling me that story was full of it. (Of course, that tweak wouldn't have lasted long; the 3084 was upon us only a few years later.) -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com

Re: IBM to announce new MF's this year

2010-05-24 Thread David Andrews
if there was only one other processor in the system, maybe even reduced to a test-and-set followed by SIGP. Just idle speculation. As I said, my source wasn't necessarily credible, and it *was* 30 years ago. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com

Re: IBM to announce new MF's this year

2010-05-19 Thread David Andrews
Mainframe operating systems don't scale well past 64 cores in a single system image Wonder what made The Register say that? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: ICF Catalog performance options

2010-05-17 Thread David Andrews
catalogs on shared volumes, period. In the latter case every catalog lookup requires a VVR read, regardless of whether the entry has been cached. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com

Re: ICF Catalog performance options

2010-05-17 Thread David Andrews
a presentation she made in 2007. I haven't been to SHARE in awhile, so maybe Eileen has updated it? -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: ETR is down (hilarious resolution)

2010-04-30 Thread David Andrews
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 21:33 -0400, Clark Morris wrote: To have an application refuse input because of a special character in 2010 is archaic Nothing for it then, but to enter text base64-encoded. 'course, that'll complicate search queries.

Re: server pac install and RACFDRV

2010-04-27 Thread David Andrews
'. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http

Re: Multiple logon SMCS possibility

2010-04-27 Thread David Andrews
On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 11:32 -0400, Paul Gilmartin wrote: That becomes irrelevant (for TSO, at least), when the consoles are virtual screens on a single physical device. Oh... VNC. Good catch. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Arithmetic on COBOL usage is pointer

2010-04-19 Thread David Andrews
at all. If there's a better way to handle SMF30 records I'm all ears.) -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: Arithmetic on COBOL usage is pointer

2010-04-19 Thread David Andrews
it isn't all that future-proof. Guess I should fix that if I ever have to crack that code open again. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Arithmetic on COBOL usage is pointer

2010-04-16 Thread David Andrews
On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 11:28 -0400, Joe Reichman wrote: I redefined a usage pointer to PIC 9(8) comp to do arithmetic Have you compiled with TRUNC(BIN)? -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM

Re: Arithmetic on COBOL usage is pointer

2010-04-16 Thread David Andrews
arithmetic on the address of the SMF30 record. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message

Re: Hercules Emulator on window vista

2010-04-06 Thread David Andrews
the MVS volume. Hercules itself can be controlled via the xterm you started it in or through a web interface. wonder if I can get it running on my Droid? Don't think so - doesn't Android limit you to the Dalvik JVM? -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com

Re: Hercules Emulator on window vista

2010-04-05 Thread David Andrews
seconds on that cell phone, and brought back memories of a 3031 I used to know. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

How to be notified when softcap is set?

2010-03-29 Thread David Andrews
I'm experimenting with LPAR group capping (baby steps). How am I notified that the 4h average has exceeded the group cap and softcapping has begun? Is there a console message or event or specific SMF record? -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com

Re: SQL Server replacement

2010-03-25 Thread David Andrews
with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Subpools - specifically 241

2010-03-25 Thread David Andrews
On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 11:26 -0400, Rob Scott wrote: IBM used to use Key2 for some purpose years ago It was used for VSPC, I think. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Interact, was:Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-25 Thread David Andrews
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 19:44 -0500, jack.hamil...@kp.org wrote: I think there was another commercial version called Interact from Online Business Systems Yeah, this comes up every couple of years here. See: http://www.mail-archive.com/ibm-main@bama.ua.edu/msg45818.html -- David Andrews

Re: Senior Java Developer vs. MVS Systems Programmer (warning: Conley rant)

2010-02-25 Thread David Andrews
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 15:33 -0500, Ted MacNEIL wrote: Creators. Kernigan (sp?) and Ritchie. Hrm. You're thinking KR, the C book. Ken Thompson originated Unix. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: LPARs: More or Less?

2010-02-23 Thread David Andrews
One of you Old Ones (and I'm thinking of Shmuel in particular) correct me on this, but didn't bare MVT have a horrendous core fragmentation issue? My poor recollection is that HASP initiators essentially reintroduced partitions to MVT to help beat that problem. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons

Re: Senior Java Developer vs. MVS Systems Programmer

2010-02-22 Thread David Andrews
with deep knowledge retire or are RIFfed into oblivion. It doesn't take much imagination to foresee a time when we will only have enough expertise to reboot in an emergency -- just like the other MS-Windows sysadmins. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com

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