Re: Senior project title about MF

2008-09-24 Thread David Andrews
ment environment (FSVO "free"). We could use a gcc for z/OS, as well as a glibc. That would have a snowball effect, and would make porting of applications to z/OS more palatable. > - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BOINC) client for z/OS. Considering what we pay per z/OS MSU, that's an expensive

Re: z10 BC announcement

2008-08-29 Thread David Andrews
lease-end approaching and I'm evaluating tea leaves. > If so, make noise to your IBM sales rep. Thank you for your advice. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Dependencies between subsystem initialization routines

2008-08-26 Thread David Andrews
ed in their installation reference. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

Re: Way... Back question...

2008-08-19 Thread David Andrews
On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 12:45 -0400, Gary Green wrote: > I looked in the CPAC loadlib(s) and it's not there. Look in the SCPPLOAD library for CPPUPDTE. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For

Re: Historical question -- GDG allocation

2008-08-12 Thread David Andrews
ons. Something else I can get rid of now. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAI

Re: z10 BC announcement

2008-08-08 Thread David Andrews
x27; reassurance that we are not forgotten. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN

Re: z/OS 1.10 announcement

2008-08-05 Thread David Andrews
ng requested 2002 Standard features (some of which would > enable us to fully process SMF 30 records without hokey workarounds). To be fair though, it "builds on leadership capabilities, enhances time-tested technologies, and leverages deep synergies". We really should be grateful for th

Re: Tracing USS IP flows

2008-07-22 Thread David Andrews
product renamed to "ServicePilot NBA for z/OS". It can be had at: http://www.servicepilot.com/download1/ -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signof

Re: Going unsupported - time to fold?

2008-07-11 Thread David Andrews
igned to loss-of-service to the business -- an equally dubious figure. X is likely yielding a net expected gain, which is why they're moving to peecees. But they shouldn't be looking *only* at expected gain, 'cause sometimes you get a bad beat. -- David A

Re: Going unsupported - time to fold?

2008-07-08 Thread David Andrews
plex infrastructure. Your mainframe operation provides dial tone too, in a sense. Reliable by design, it also needs care-and-feeding behind the scenes -- just like your telephone does. Make 'em think of that expense as insurance, and make 'em see what life

Re: EXCP access methods

2008-06-11 Thread David Andrews
CA-ENF -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives a

Re: Webcast next week: Migrating to z/OS V1.9

2008-06-04 Thread David Andrews
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 14:37 -0400, John Eells wrote: > z/OS webcast on June 12th What is the client requirement? The registration page doesn't say. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For

Re: Just for consideration: offloading regex processing to zIIP / zAAP?

2008-05-29 Thread David Andrews
sed. Y'all do good work. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search t

Re: Just for consideration: offloading regex processing to zIIP / zAAP?

2008-05-29 Thread David Andrews
do you mean by "clear-channel hipersockets"? Co:Z is using ssh for data transport, and ssh always encrypts... no? (A little googling suggests that encryption can be defeated if you have the HPN patchset installed on your OpenSSH end nodes. Is this what you're referring to?) -- Dav

Re: Just for consideration: offloading regex processing to zIIP / zAAP?

2008-05-28 Thread David Andrews
s, too much real work to do. busybusybusy -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MA

Re: SUB=MSTR STC with DSNs in User Catalog

2008-05-28 Thread David Andrews
ning with the SMF datasets in a usercat for quite a long time now. (Though to be sure Greg Dyck recommended against it ten years ago, pointing out that SMF can end up allocating your usercat forever.) -- David Andrews A. Duda and S

Re: Practical jokes for mainframe systems programmers

2008-05-21 Thread David Andrews
verrated. (BTW creative misuse of the TSO "TERMINAL" and "PROFILE" commands was always good for laughs if you found someone's line-mode TSO session unguarded. Sort of like remapping someone's 3270 emulator today.) -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: absurd programs that used to be everywhere ...

2008-05-12 Thread David Andrews
it'll still assemble! (Props to Jay Ullius, wherever he is.) -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Java Batch

2008-05-05 Thread David Andrews
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 14:32 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: > SDK 6 has a feature (AOT) whereby these optimizations > can be reused over and over between different jobs. Kirk, does this do much to reduce the startup cost for Java-in-batch? -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PRO

Re: Emulators (again ...)

2008-04-29 Thread David Andrews
etDevice 3279-5-E D4C32XX3 ; 132 column screen TelnetDevice 3279-5 D4C32XX3 ; 132 column screen TelnetDevice DYNAMIC ,D4C32XX3 ; TelnetDevice 3287-1 ,D4C32XX3 ; -- David Andrews A. Duda and S

Re: Emulators (again ...)

2008-04-28 Thread David Andrews
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kirk, have you ever been able to get [x3270] to support something like > (say) 140x60 On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 08:45 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: > Not that size specifically, but I commonly use 132x50. And me: 140

Re: zIIPs & zAAP exploitation

2008-04-25 Thread David Andrews
Yeah, yeah, replying to my own post. On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 14:53 -0400, David Andrews wrote: > My notes say that she asked about zAAPs and zIIPs in one question Which conflicts with Cheryl's own notes, which has those broken apart. So I yield to you again, Mr. Jaffe. (I do that a lot,

Re: zIIPs & zAAP exploitation

2008-04-25 Thread David Andrews
ake notes at those things. Good thing too, 'cause they don't have handouts anymore - not to start crying the blues about THAT again.) -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscr

Re: zIIPs & zAAP exploitation

2008-04-25 Thread David Andrews
ay be interested in anecdotal evidence of their popularity. At Cheryl's "Hot Flashes" session back in February she asked for a show of hands -- how many people are using those offload engines? Over a third of hands shot up in a room with maybe 160 people in it. -- David Andrews A. Du

Re: IBM propose to migrate all servers to z10 , what's the upgrade path for p595 or p6

2008-04-21 Thread David Andrews
that vaguely relate to the competition's clock rates.) -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the messa

CF pricing [was: SPFEDIT does a RESERVE!?!]

2008-04-09 Thread David Andrews
itioned and marketed as IBM's competitive advantage, but instead it was priced out of reach and sits there stopped 24/7. What a waste. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / s

Re: Sequential Data Striping

2008-04-09 Thread David Andrews
amic space reclaim function. Maybe one of these days I'll turn that off and see if interval space management improves DADSM scratch any. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / s

Re: JOB00045 $HASP165 IBMUSERB ENDED AT N1 - JCL ERROR CN(INTERNAL)

2008-04-09 Thread David Andrews
job previously worked with a lowercase dsname? Curious. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the mess

Re: Sequential Data Striping

2008-04-09 Thread David Andrews
y SMS-managed nowadays, but I took my time walking applications and users over, inch by inch, bit by bit. Having "SMS" in the class names was meaningful to me at the time, and because nobody else sees them it's no big deal. It's not like I have a namespace issue, so I leave well enoug

Re: Sequential Data Striping

2008-04-08 Thread David Andrews
END The STRIPED(2/4/8) storage classes are defined with SUSTAINED DATA RATES of 8/16/32. The number of stripes I assign versus the dataset size was arbitrary. I have eight ESCON paths to my Iceb

Re: Sequential Data Striping

2008-04-07 Thread David Andrews
aven't seen this, but I have plenty of space. Why does this happen? -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Duplicate temporary dataset names

2008-04-04 Thread David Andrews
erences to it in later steps to use a STEPNAME.DDNAME > referback. This should solve your problem. Good catch, Ulrich (and Norbert). Wouldn't have thought of that. Thanks! -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: Duplicate temporary dataset names

2008-04-04 Thread David Andrews
On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 10:48 -0500, Kelman, Tom wrote: > Wow, the jobs must be submitted awfully close together and the dataset > allocated close together also. Isn't the first to levels of the DSN > SYSyyddd.Thhmmss where yyddd is the date the dataset was allocated and > hhmmss the time? Isn't th

Duplicate temporary dataset names

2008-04-04 Thread David Andrews
ENQUEUE RETURN CODE IS 0 ENQUEUE REASON CODE IS 528 How can I influence the system's selection of a temporary dataset name (by e.g. replacing the jobname with the JES2 jobid)? -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROT

Re: Faxing from the mainframe

2008-04-04 Thread David Andrews
t 20 years ago, a few years before I ever heard of anyone else's product. We probably should have marketed it... but management reminded us at the time that we're not in the computer business. Oh well; lost opportunities.) -- David Andrews A.

Re: Faxing from the mainframe

2008-04-04 Thread David Andrews
your document. Really, that's a big deal. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

Re: Faxing from the mainframe

2008-04-03 Thread David Andrews
and accountability. I take your point that a (e.g.) Hylafax instance would be relatively easy to throw together. But making a robust fax server that integrates well with your local information system is a surprisingly complex undertaking. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DFSMSrmm basic question

2008-04-02 Thread David Andrews
o give you an authoritative answer on that. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAI

Re: CPU-Time in z/Os-System. Is The Cpu Time In z/Os-systems A Meaningful Indication?

2008-04-02 Thread David Andrews
e enabled compression for a handful of big sequential datasets. This significantly increased CPU consumption for readers, yet reduced the actual run time by half. Perhaps your storage admin gremlins have done something similar? -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread David Andrews
0 99.4 00.00.00.360 99.4 > (old school was that at least 80-90 percent should). I *said* I had some noisy TSO users! > Does anyone do anything other than hitting enter at > your shop? :-) I wonder sometimes, boy. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread David Andrews
99% complete within 00:00:00.300 2 14000 190% complete within 00:00:02.000 3 3Execution velocity of 10 Yeah, we've got some noisy TSO users. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: ISPF Backup Files

2008-03-25 Thread David Andrews
becomes orphaned. Thanks for this lucid description. I've got lots of these things lying about, and a number of users who logoff by clicking that little X at the upper right corner of their emulator sessions. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons,

Re: Cloning a RACF user profile

2008-03-17 Thread David Andrews
r is there a surefire > way to clone a new userid from an existing one? RDEF ACCTNUM UACC(NONE) AU ... TSO(ACCTNUM()...) PE CL(ACCTNUM) ID() SETR REFR RACL(ACCTNUM) -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [

Re: TN3270 server OBEYFILE processing?

2008-03-14 Thread David Andrews
On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 10:50 -0500, [several helpful people] wrote: > V TCPIP,,O, Easy Margie, works as advertised. Thanks all! -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sign

TN3270 server OBEYFILE processing?

2008-03-14 Thread David Andrews
n external TN3270 server running, to which it'll pass the OBEYFILE commands under the table? I hesitate to try this out live, so I'd appreciate some advice from someone who has been there. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, I

Re: Hiper PAVs

2008-03-12 Thread David Andrews
er if it had > been. My understanding from Horst Hummel's LVM talk was that the driver support had been submitted very recently, within a couple of weeks. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For I

Re: CATALOG Quesiton

2008-03-12 Thread David Andrews
SAM days that you can end up with a cluster full of half-filled control intervals. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Share your GRSRNLnn member?

2008-03-12 Thread David Andrews
a.com/client_files/callpapers/attach/SHARE_in_Orlando/S2819SK131543.pdf -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with th

Re: Hiper PAVs

2008-03-12 Thread David Andrews
is standardizing on HyperPAV because it's quicker to react than WLM PAV. If you're a Linux-on-z shop, then you should know that HyperPAV support has been submitted to upstream for inclusion in the kernel. So soon Linux will have PAV support too. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EM

Re: Recatalog a GDG - accidentally deleted the base

2008-03-11 Thread David Andrews
hen use ALTER ROLLIN on the the generation datasets to reconnect them. If you've deleted the GDSes along with the base then you'll have to recover them from your backup. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tapeless backup

2008-03-07 Thread David Andrews
o you think they get to be old ladies?" -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-M

Re: Batch job to perform sftp transfer

2008-02-22 Thread David Andrews
n at the end of the line. The ftp client will ignore anything past that. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: SMS managed volume

2008-02-20 Thread David Andrews
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 10:05 -0500, Mark Pace wrote: > Is there an easy way to tell if a DASD volume is SMS managed or not? IEHLIST will tell you in a LISTVTOC. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Shark to EMC

2008-01-30 Thread David Andrews
re who's vending it these days) does too. If you are using the snapshot-like features of Shark and EMC ("Flashcopy" / "Timefinder"?) then Innovation's FDRINSTANT can be used as a sort of shim to interface with either of those subsystems. -- David A

Re: Dumb idea - pandering to the "other systems" people?

2008-01-28 Thread David Andrews
know that sometimes it's like beating your head against a wall, but keep spoon-feeding them. Otherwise you'll walk into the machine room (as I did a couple of weeks ago) to overhear one of the operators telling another that we had to "reboot IDMS". Aarrgh. -- David Andrews A. D

Re: No local ports available IP printers

2008-01-22 Thread David Andrews
S to use a wider range of ports for its LPR clients (the TCPLPORT parameter in the printer definition). Perhaps your EPS product has an equivalent tweak? -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN sub

Re: IDC3009I return code *5*??

2008-01-20 Thread David Andrews
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 15:34 -0600, Dave Kopischke wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:28:28 -0500, David Andrews wrote: > >NONVSAM --- ..'{... ..2. > I've seen something similar to this before. Are these catalog component or > cluster

IDC3009I return code *5*??

2008-01-18 Thread David Andrews
200F' I haven't any idea what these are; they're obviously old and crusty. IDC3009I RC5 is not documented in the messages book. Anyone seen this before? -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Re-hosting IMB-MAIN (was RE: z890 2086-160 w/ 2 IFLs on eBay)

2008-01-18 Thread David Andrews
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 14:53 -0600, tony babonas wrote: > We would self-moderate Yeah, like THAT's gonna happen. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message:

Re: Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?

2008-01-11 Thread David Andrews
nt and realized I hadn't missed it. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INF

Re: COBOL is simple -- NOT!!

2008-01-07 Thread David Andrews
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 07:32 -0600, Chase, John wrote: > All we want is the equivalent of > TMMAP-FIELD-ATTRIBUTE,X'80' > How is that done in COBOL?? Can it even be done in COBOL?? Look at CEESITST. (I agree that bit testing is cumbersome in COBOL.) -- David Andre

Re: Batch Tuning

2007-12-27 Thread David Andrews
ot;) though IMO they tend to under-initiate. Take a look at your catalog performance, too. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email t

OT: tinyurl [was 2007 Year in Review on Mainframes - Interesting]

2007-12-20 Thread David Andrews
vance where it's going. Work politics, y'know. And clicking through tinyurl (or any proxy) provides yet *another* leak for your browsing history to escape through. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: The future of PDSs

2007-12-14 Thread David Andrews
per" at session O232 of SHARE 70 (Anaheim, Feb 29 - Mar 4 1988). The proceedings of the time was paper and microfiche. Nine pages total. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Uh, oh ...

2007-12-07 Thread David Andrews
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 10:50 -0500, (IBM Mainframe Discussion List) wrote: > BTW, what is the real derivation of that term? Just curious. (Friday notwithstanding, I expect we'll soon see if Darren *really* retired.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_words_for_British -- David A

Re: CATALOG QUESTION - CISIZE

2007-12-05 Thread David Andrews
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 06:45 -0800, willie bunter wrote: > We will be implementing Z/OS 1.8 soon. I have to reorg some USER CATS Oh, and lest I forget: you may want to disable autotuning, which has had problems in z/OS 1.8. (Has IBM fixed this yet? I haven't been paying attention.) -

Re: CATALOG QUESTION - CISIZE

2007-12-05 Thread David Andrews
s for Catalogs" presentation. She recommends that you do not exceed a data CISZ of 8K. She also said you should not let index CISZ default; small index CI size can result in "dead" data CIs. Also: allocate in cylinders, not tracks. This affects CA calculations. -- David Andrews

Re: z/OS 1.8 Book Collection online?

2007-11-15 Thread David Andrews
id of the "LY" pubs as of z/OS 1.7 -- I don't know if this only applied to the CS manuals. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructio

Re: Bruce Black passed away

2007-11-05 Thread David Andrews
I cannot, this one time, resist a "me too" post. Bruce was spectacularly competent, well spoken, professional in every sense of the word -- and a heckuva nice guy. I will indeed miss him. Thanks for letting us know, Russ. - Dave -

Re: tso racf

2007-10-24 Thread David Andrews
ort it out. Makes me nuts. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Re: "System z"? "System z9"? "eServer zSeries"? which?

2007-10-15 Thread David Andrews
On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 11:47 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On various IBM pages I see "System z", "System z9", and > "eServer zSeries nnn" Which should we use? Other (specify)? The PrincOps refers to "z/Architecture". -- David A

Re: CPU Utilization by GRS

2007-10-12 Thread David Andrews
high as yours. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http:

Re: COBOL called subroutines

2007-09-25 Thread David Andrews
;s a bunch of discussion in the archives. (Just FWIW, I had him run the RB chain rather than pick the first one, because during COBOL internal sorts the sort program sits on top.) -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: COBOL called subroutines

2007-09-25 Thread David Andrews
RBLINK->RB until RBLINK=TCB -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Sear

Re: JAVA un z/OS

2007-09-21 Thread David Andrews
YMMV and all that. Like everything else in this business, the answer to whether or not a Java program will perform better than another is "it depends". -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: 1401 simulator for OS/360

2007-09-10 Thread David Andrews
er than a TOD clock. Yeppers. Google "ivan sutherland clock" and "I feel lucky". Sun Research has several circa-2001 papers on tap that discuss Sutherland's asynchronous design methodology. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Splitting a large physical sequential dataset

2007-09-04 Thread David Andrews
t; the right control cards. You could use IDCAMS REPRO. Check out the SKIP and COUNT operands. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send ema

Re: Secure Delete for OMVS files

2007-09-04 Thread David Andrews
o that the Iceberg/RVA/SVA might compress away unused spool space. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Dynamic Allocation Error in EDGHSKP

2007-09-04 Thread David Andrews
ing and the DFRMM address space. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Sea

Re: OSA

2007-08-24 Thread David Andrews
dvanced facilities -> View port parameters -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM

Re: Operating System #6 for the IBM Mainframe: Solaris

2007-08-21 Thread David Andrews
On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 06:53 +0430, legolas wood wrote: > Is there any prediction or announcement about a release date? Not yet. It's a work in progress. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Ways to update PS files?

2007-08-21 Thread David Andrews
he sysprog (me, in one unfortunate case) enabled compression. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GE

Re: Operating System #6 for the IBM Mainframe: Solaris

2007-08-17 Thread David Andrews
undertaking of Sine Nomine Associates. See: http://www.sinenomine.net/node/607 -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: Domain Name Server (DNS) on z/OS?

2007-08-16 Thread David Andrews
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 13:25 -0400, Pinnacle wrote: > I recall reading a recent IBM announcement that DNS was being pulled from > z/OS (sorry, I don't remember when). You might be thinking of DHCP? -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAI

Re: SMF type 30 record question.

2007-08-15 Thread David Andrews
some SORT that I could do which would > guarantee that the "split" type 30s would be in order after the sort? I don't think they have to be in order, 'cause they aren't segments in the traditional sense. Each record can stand alone, and

Re: How to fine IBMLINK

2007-08-07 Thread David Andrews
n encoded (and possibly time-limited) session state. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

Re: PCI Compliance - Encryption of all non-console administrative access.

2007-07-31 Thread David Andrews
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 09:56 -0500, Hal Merritt wrote: > Note that SSH (secure shell) does not seem to qualify as ID's and > passwords flow in the open. Ohno! This is never the case! -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAI

Re: KEY8 CSA: Pro/JCL and Info/XE

2007-07-27 Thread David Andrews
t timer. Are there any V=R users around anymore? -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

Re: How much do you value Share ( Was Spam from SHARE)

2007-07-27 Thread David Andrews
ouple of minutes. Nothing urgent there, so I can take my time. Email is more demanding, and (the way many of us operate) requires close attention -- if for no other reason than to evaluate an incoming message to see if it's urgent or not. It is intrusive, in the same way that a telephone

Re: Spam from SHARE

2007-07-26 Thread David Andrews
ducts or services that may be of interest to members or prospects". They just don't get it. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, s

Re: Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?

2007-07-25 Thread David Andrews
ng ibm-main and my Linux hat when I'm over on linux-390.) -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

Re: Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?

2007-07-25 Thread David Andrews
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 16:15 -0400, Warner Mach wrote: > Intel is going to open-source a C++ compiler for parallel Processing No, they're releasing a threading library (which I doubt will be of much value to us here). -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL P

Re: Regarding SDSF pgm

2007-07-20 Thread David Andrews
EANUP-CODE END-IF. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the messa

Re: web IBMLINK STILL down - fix time now supposed to be 1:30 pm

2007-07-20 Thread David Andrews
ed level-2 for a fix, I took it to an Ellay SHARE as a requirement. Hutch said "That sounds like a bug. Give it to me." and he plucked it from my hand. IBM's a big place. You can get stuff done, but you have to talk to the right people (who aren't always easy to find). --

Re: Regarding SDSF pgm

2007-07-20 Thread David Andrews
[address of SMF record, perhaps in heap storage] + SMF30IOF - 4. SET ADDRESS OF SMFREC-30-IDENTIFICATION TO SMF30-ID-ADDRPTR. Easy Margie. A little tedious, but straightforward enough. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Son

Re: web IBMLINK STILL down - fix time now supposed to be 1:30 pm

2007-07-20 Thread David Andrews
ferent age; the IBM of today isn't your father's IBM.) -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Migrating JES2 MOD from z/OS 1.4 to z/OS 107

2007-07-17 Thread David Andrews
you do. *If* HASPAMI still exists as a module in HASPSSSM (I'm not at your OS level or I'd look) there's a chance that the technique will still work. YMMV and all that. Contact me privately and I'll send you (old, moldy, crusty, dubious) code. -- David Andrews A. Duda

Re: PL/I will rule the world ... not

2007-07-03 Thread David Andrews
TCB that was given control in a dependent region had to be the same TCB that issued PLITDLI calls. So no IMS for me! -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access in

Re: IBM obsoleting mainframe hardware

2007-06-28 Thread David Andrews
gt; the yearly support charge is higher than if they ran a supported level. Works for me... as long as I can write a similar contract that says "I don't want to pay for new development work on a product that works well enough as it is." Cuts both ways, y'know. -- David Andre

Re: IBM obsoleting mainframe hardware

2007-06-28 Thread David Andrews
that had been written on Itel leases (eight year terms weren't uncommon). Many leases were cancelled when the cheap 43xx machines came out. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

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