Re: 21st Century Migrates Mainframe with Clerity

2012-01-05 Thread Denis Gäbler
Hi Tom, if you click on the link it shows the following: Up to 8 physical cores or 16 logical cores through Hyper-threading The old Hyperthreading implementation was not really two logical cores per physical core (some things were shared such as the floating point unit), but Intel changed

Re: Mixing XPLINK and Non-XPLINK

2011-06-30 Thread Denis Gäbler
The caller PL/I does not neccessarily have to be an XPLINK program, but you will require an LE enclave with XPLINK(ON). Then you are allowed to mix XPLINK and non-XPLINK modules. Denis. -Original Message- From: Bernd Oppolzer bernd.oppol...@t-online.de To:

Re: Virginia DOT outage

2010-09-02 Thread Denis Gäbler
From the IMS-L listserver is the following link: http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Microsoft-SQL-Server-2005-Enterprise-Edition/Virginia-Department-of-Motor-Vehicles/Virginia-DMV-Enhances-Decisions-Boosts-Safety-Through-Integration-with-Other-Agencies/404307 They actually spend a lot

Re: can't get a valid JAVAENV file specified for DB2 WLM address space

2010-05-26 Thread Denis Gäbler
Try ENVAR=(...) -Original Message- From: Jim McAlpine jim.mcalp...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Wed, May 26, 2010 6:27 pm Subject: can't get a valid JAVAENV file specified for DB2 WLM address space I'm trying to set up a DB2 WLM AE address space for Java and I

Re: can't get a valid JAVAENV file specified for DB2 WLM address space

2010-05-26 Thread Denis Gäbler
No, sorry, that was not correct. I took the sample from a CEEUOPT assembly. CEEUOPT CSECT CEEUOPT AMODE ANY CEEUOPT RMODE ANY

Re: can't get a valid JAVAENV file specified for DB2 WLM address space

2010-05-26 Thread Denis Gäbler
IBM_JAVA_OPTIONS=-Xmx64m export IBM_JAVA_OPTIONS -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Denis Gäbler Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 12:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: can't get a valid JAVAENV file specified

Re: What am I missing on XPLINK(OSCALL(N)) ?

2010-05-21 Thread Denis Gäbler
You cannot call 24bit modules with XPLINK(ON), XPLINK forces ALL31(ON), it is documented here: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/CEEA31A0/1.2.4.2?SHELF=CEE2BKA0DT=20090608042151 Here is an except from the z/OS 1.11 Language Environment Programming Reference:

Re: REPLY DEVICE NAME OR 'CANCEL' for FTP to mainframe and SMS ACS routines

2010-04-29 Thread Denis Gäbler
Hi, have you tried to activate SMS for FTP: ;MGMTCLASS SMSMGMT ; sms mgmtclass name ;DATACLASS SMSDATA ; sms data class name in the TCPIP.FTP.DATA (or whatever name it has in your installation)? Denis. -Original Message- From: Fred Schmidt

Re: REPLY DEVICE NAME OR 'CANCEL' for FTP to mainframe and SMS ACS routines

2010-04-29 Thread Denis Gäbler
I had a similar idea with an exit replying cancel to all WTORs for unavailable volumes. But that might not be suitable. Another thing could be to make the HFS directory the default when logging in with a FTP client. But that does not reject ZZZ. datasets to be created. Its just that you have

Re: REPLY DEVICE NAME OR 'CANCEL' for FTP to mainframe and SMS ACS routines

2010-04-29 Thread Denis Gäbler
- From: Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thu, Apr 29, 2010 3:44 pm Subject: Re: REPLY DEVICE NAME OR 'CANCEL' for FTP to mainframe and SMS ACS routines On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:20:20 -0400, Denis Gäbler wrote: Another thing could be to make the HFS directory

Germany: Free IMS Open Database and IMS Java Workshop March 18th 2010 IBM Forum Ehningen

2010-02-16 Thread Denis Gäbler
Hi List, for those who might be interested and also to be routed to interested parties in your companies... Just in case there is interest on trying out the new IMS Universal JDBC Driver to access IMS databases and to write your first IMS Java Batch and/or Online program, here is a free one

Re: COBOL v4.2 Books?

2010-02-15 Thread Denis Gäbler
Use: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/ Click on Link: Search Bookshelf Titles and Filenames, which is similar to directly opening: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/find_shelves.html Enter: COBOL click Find. Scroll down to the very end and the second entry from the

Re: Java Batch und JCL (DSN Disposition)

2009-09-17 Thread Denis Gäbler
I don't understand.The scheduling software and the operations people look at the return code and respond. But instead of poring through a dump, the displays tell them exactly what happened, making it easier and quicker to find out what they should do as a result of the failure. Thats the

Re: Java Batch und JCL (DSN Disposition)

2009-09-17 Thread Denis Gäbler
This is just poor man's control of processing. I fail to see why savepoint, rollback and commit are less effective than abending and forcing a rollback. I am sure that the shop has access to some sort of notification system (i.e. e-mail). Save off the offending stuff, send out a

Re: Java Batch und JCL (DSN Disposition)

2009-09-16 Thread Denis Gäbler
Some sub-systems have an implicit COMMIT at end of programme. And this for a very good reason, or would you like your programmer to decide whether to commit or rollback if an unexpected error occurs and let them ruin your databases data integrity? What if the error is such as that the program

Re: Java Batch und JCL (DSN Disposition)

2009-09-16 Thread Denis Gäbler
it. Denis. -Original Message- From: David Andrews d...@lists.duda.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Wed, Sep 16, 2009 2:10 pm Subject: Re: Java Batch und JCL (DSN Disposition) On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 07:35 -0400, Denis Gäbler wrote: would you like your programmer to decide

Re: Java Batch und JCL (DSN Disposition)

2009-09-15 Thread Denis Gäbler
Hi, I know for IMS, that in case e.g. a class is not found, there will be an U101 abend. So in order to force an U101 Abend in IMS you could do a: Class.forName(my.non.exisiting.Class); But I am not sure if that will create an abend in all environments such as JZOS and BPXBATCH?! Nevertheless

Re: Any Utilities to Archive Members of a PDS/PDSE - Load Libraries, Not Source

2009-08-18 Thread Denis Gäbler
I once heard about a product called SYSChange from Pristine Software. http://www.pristineusa.com/index.html However, I never tried it. Denis. -Original Message- From: King, Jeffrey E jeffrey.k...@ca.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tue, Aug 18, 2009 7:13 pm Subject: Re: Any

Re: Java question

2009-08-17 Thread Denis Gäbler
Hi Peter, sorry for the delay, but I have been traveling. For all the statements I did, one of the thoughts behind it was, that HPJ compiled code does not run in a JVM as HPJ was implemented years ago. So the whole JVM runtime was replaced by PDS members that are load modules just like

Re: Java question

2009-08-06 Thread Denis Gäbler
I believe one of the reasons is, that you need a JVM as runtime in order to get 100% Java certified. In addition your runtime components would have to implement the standard Java configuration switches, such as -classpath -cp or memory settings such as -mx in order to be standard. The runtime

Re: Authenticate with RACF from Web App

2009-07-17 Thread Denis Gäbler
Hi, the easiest approach I have ever seen works like this: The web server on distributed redirects (easy to implement in distributed http.conf) to the HTTP Server on z/OS (this is the free one, not WebSphere Application Server). I recall the ITSO wrote a simple CGI program/Exit, which allows

Re: Offload work to zIIP with zPRIME

2009-07-17 Thread Denis Gäbler
Thats true, but recent lawsuits in the distributed area had no luck forcing users to run only specific work on bought (owned) hardware, e.g. you can do number crunching on graphic chips, which were initially only intended for graphics work. It would be interesting to see, if there is any way

Re: Offload work to zIIP with zPRIME

2009-07-17 Thread Denis Gäbler
Taking the electric meter example. What if I install solar electicity panels? Am I stealing ressources and bypass the power companies meter? Am I not allowed to use the electricity that the panels produce, just because I have a contract with the power company? Or am I not allowed to replace

Re: Offload work to zIIP with zPRIME

2009-07-17 Thread Denis Gäbler
with zPRIME On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Denis Gäbler denisgaeb...@netscape.netwrote: Taking the electric meter example. What if I install solar electicity panels? Am I stealing ressources and bypass the power companies meter? Am I not allowed to use the electricity that the panels

Re: Batch Process Calling a Web Service

2009-05-14 Thread Denis Gäbler
Quoting: But before everyone gets carried away with the idea that that's the one, best option... I'm not so sure. Consider that Web Services are a reasonably fast moving target and a family of specifications, and it's probably not a good idea to go into the private business of having to

Re: Batch Process Calling a Web Service

2009-05-13 Thread Denis Gäbler
Hi Bill, tell your Java programmers to write an Java Client for the Web Service. Then create a COBOL wrapper for that Java program with Enterprise COBOL. Call that COBOL as subroutine from your Batch COBOL. Enterprise COBOL will create the JVM in the same address space and reuse it. An example

Re: COBOL and dynamic allocation (my two cents)

2009-03-17 Thread Denis Gäbler
I personally think its also a matter of setting standards. If there is no standard like always code destination in JCL or like always code destination in parameter dataset or there is no force to always use the parameter dataset both approaches will never be successful. I find the setting of

How to redirect IMS MFS (3270P/SCS1) printers to File?

2009-01-15 Thread Denis Gäbler
Hi List, I am posting this question here, because I think it is more VTAM related than it has anything to do with IMS. I was wondering if there is a way to redirect IMS MFS (3270P/SCS1) printers to a file or spool without loosing the formatting? There is a connection between the SNA node

Re: How to redirect IMS MFS (3270P/SCS1) printers to File?

2009-01-15 Thread Denis Gäbler
the VTAM printer. VVP is from MacKaenny Systems. The output from IMS gets queued to the JES Spool and then we define A VPS node to redirect output to an IP printer. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Denis Gäbler Sent

Re: AIX gets 64 bit COBOL but still none for Z/os ...

2009-01-09 Thread Denis Gäbler
For video on demand databases are too slow. You would use a streaming server, for which I don't know any available for System z OS except VM Stairs. In addition, a streaming server would serve a stream, so you need a small buffer (e.g. 128MB) and fast DASD for 1000 Users. For the 64Bit

Re: SV: Survey says...

2009-01-07 Thread Denis Gäbler
Thats true, but with truly mixing and dynamic calls you need a DLL and a no-DLL version of all modules, which is highly inconvenient and causes a lot of grief. LE supports mixing of XPLINK and non-XPLINK modules, why the heck it doesn't support mixing of DLL and no-DLL modules? That would make

Re: DLL and PDS(E) (was: Survey says...)

2009-01-07 Thread Denis Gäbler
The prelink step is for resolving the long name issues. I did not work with C++ but it works for PL/I and COBOL DLLs. -Original Message- From: Farley, Peter x23353 peter.far...@broadridge.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 4:10 pm Subject: Re: DLL and PDS(E)

Re: Storage usage of Java-Applications

2008-11-18 Thread Denis Gäbler
Hi, I had similar observations on one of my test systems and it seams that during garbage collection, although -mx was used to set a limit, up to 3 times the amount of storage was being used for a short period of time, causing out of memory conditions. One other observation we had was that

Re: Comparing Mainframe and Windows Server CICS Transactions per kWh

2008-10-30 Thread Denis Gäbler
z/10 Announcement probably is based on a specific usage pattern, that most of PC processors are idle. The microsoft study misses some points. I can hardly believe that the power consumption is equal with all different workloads. It is not clear if the mainframe also had just 2x73GB harddrives

Re: TN3270 for iPhone

2008-10-27 Thread Denis Gäbler
My point is, that Ebay sent me a secure id card which can be used instead of a fixed password. Userid password is not state of the art security these days. State of the art banks use smartcards in combination with userid and password in addition to indexed TANs for each transaction. When I

Re: TN3270 for iPhone

2008-10-27 Thread Denis Gäbler
And the user may then need to carry a smartcard for each account. My bank has the concept of combining multiple accounts to one login, so only one smartcard is enough. However, according the cost of smartcards? Wasn't it the US, UK and also parts of eastern Europe that use lots of Pay TV?

Re: Favorite Way(s) for COBOL as HTTP Client?

2008-10-23 Thread Denis Gäbler
Hi Timothy, you could use a mix of 1 und 2 and code/embedd the Java statements in a mixed mode COBOL application. Enterprise COBOL compiler allows that without the need to create a java class file. For IMS as runtime you could use the ICAL DL/I call which allows synchronous outbound calls, it

Re: Acessing LDAP data on other servers from z/OS

2008-10-15 Thread Denis Gäbler
Hi Andy, there are C and Java based samples on the web, which can be used to create a Module or Java class that runs on z/OS and connects to LDAP on other plattform. No LDAP Server on z/OS and RACF is required for this, because you simply have LDAP client code running on z/OS. You can then

Re: Korean insurer retires 7,000 MIPS mainframes

2008-08-27 Thread Denis Gäbler
I think this has been posted before...and is pretty old. By Matt Stansberry, Site Editor 06 Sep 2006 | SearchDataCenter.com Denis. -Original Message- From: Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 3:12 pm Subject: Korean insurer retires

Re: XPLINK

2008-06-16 Thread Denis Gäbler
Hi, I am not 100% sure, but I recall that coding //STEP1 PGM=JAVACALL,PARM='XPLINK(ON)' once worked for me. I prefer a CEEUOPT Module linked with the application, similar like the SYSIN below as input to assembler: //SYSIN??? DD * TITLE 'CEEUOPT' CEEUOPT? CSECT CEEUOPT? AMODE ANY

Re: Import Connect:Direct self-signed certificate into RACF?

2008-03-25 Thread Denis Gäbler
Hi Brian, the following once worked for me: //?? EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01??? ? //SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=*??? ? //SYSABEND DD SYSOUT=*??? ? //SYSTSIN DD

Re: Can a pdf document be create using COBOL?

2008-01-11 Thread Denis Gäbler
Another Idea, there is a PHP (programmig language just like ASP, Perl, etc.) port for z/OS running under Apache for z/OS. PHP has PDF routines. I don't know if PHP (running under z/OS Unix) can be called out of COBOL. Nevertheless PHP is open source, so there must be open source libraries with

Directions to IBM-Link 3270?

2007-07-30 Thread Denis Gäbler
Hi, IBMLink is currently not working for me, I am unable to upload a CSI Profile. I heard the list talking about the 3270 access to IBMLink, but could not find any instructions. Thanks in advance. Denis. Check Out the new

Re: DB2 for z/OS version 7 - accessing an Oracle database from CICS and batch

2007-04-16 Thread Denis Gäbler
Hi Jim, the easiest way is probably to write a Java Stored Procedure for DB2 on z/OS that uses JDBC to access the Oracle DB. Then its fairly easy to call that stored proc from CICS and batch. Another solution could be to write a Java Class that does the JDBC to Oracle, wrap that class with

Re: DB2 for z/OS version 7 - accessing an Oracle database from CICS and batch

2007-04-16 Thread Denis Gäbler
- accessing an Oracle database from CICS and batch On 4/16/07, Denis Gäbler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jim, the easiest way is probably to write a Java Stored Procedure for DB2 on z/OS that uses JDBC to access the Oracle DB. Then its fairly easy to call that stored proc from

CEEUOPT Unresolved?

2007-03-12 Thread Denis Gäbler
Hi List, I've created a CEEUOPT Member to be able to make a call to a XPLINK DLL. However, If I link the main program with INCLUDE(CEEUOPT) the linker reference shows CEEUOPT UNRESOLVED. Any ideas? It worked on another test system but not at my current z/OS. What do I need to check?

Re: Time Zone query for remote users API in LE or z/OS for PL/I programs?

2007-02-15 Thread Denis Gäbler
Hi Dave, that would be great. I'd really like to have a look at that subroutine. Thanks in advance. Denis Gäbler. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 3:20 PM Subject: Re: Time Zone query for remote users API in LE

Time Zone query for remote users API in LE or z/OS for PL/I programs?

2007-02-02 Thread Denis Gäbler
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Re: Time Zone query for remote users API in LE or z/OS for PL/I

2007-02-02 Thread Denis Gäbler
database, they will be applied by Java Maintenance, espessially for the daylight savings time changes which might be different and in different parts of the world this change might be on different days. Thanks. Denis Gäbler. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] As you have

Re: setting LE runtime options programatically.

2007-01-29 Thread Denis Gäbler
Hi, I had the same problem. This could be easily solved, by using a CEEUOPT Module. But that means that the LE Runtime Options that should be used by the module, have to be defined as being overridable by an CEEUOPT module. An example is appended. In addition, this scenario is supported

TCPIP Racf Protection for application?

2006-11-22 Thread Denis Gäbler
Hi, there is a COBOL application which is supposed to do TCP/IP calls nowadays. When starting the application (TCPIPAPP) it requests READ access to the following datasets: SYS1.TCPIP.HOSTS.SITEINFO SYS1.TCPPARMS The application is started with the callers Userid. RACF people don't like

Re: P390

2006-11-17 Thread Denis Gäbler
Hi, I have a question regarding developing z/OS Software education. Is that considered to be development or production use? Thanks. Denis Gaebler. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 7:25 AM Subject: Re: P390 On

Re: P390

2006-11-15 Thread Denis Gäbler
Hi, It would more interesting to have a z/OS (not z/OS.e) calculation with IMS and DB2, because thats what would be required by most developers I know. Are we still talking about 30.000 USD? And what monthly charges at the lowest level? Denis Gaebler. -Original Message-