Re: SHARE Atlanta March numbers

Hi: In many cases people are waiting for approval to attend SHARE which is in March. Check the figures after mid-February to get a better figure. Regards, Gene In a message dated 1/30/2012 4:13:35 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, charl...@mcn.org writes: I am looking at an e-mail from

Re: Book: What On Earth is a Mainframe?

Hi: I guess IBM did not get the message. Look at this URL. It clearly states MVS just under Metal C. This is for z/OS R12. _http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/_ (http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/) Regards, Gene In a message dated 8/26/2011 5:55:18 P.M.

Re: Lines, Bars and ... mini-bars???

Hi: isn't the reason it is called a Bar is because it is 2 GB in size and not a simple 1 byte from 16 MB to 16+1 MB? Regards, Gene In a message dated 7/5/2011 8:09:42 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, ibm-m...@tpg.com.au writes: Unselectable Storage Segment ... ??? Seems a reasonable

Re: ZCIOWAIT message

Hi: Resource Name = 16 bytes Resource Type = 8 bytes Regards, Gene In a message dated 3/2/2011 10:27:10 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, colin.pea...@baml.com writes: Hi, While I don’t have access to Tmon, I am amazed that it doesn’t display the Dispatcher Task Summary Table the same as

Re: Current SHARE Proceedings

Hi: You need to sign on and click on the right hand side where it says conference schedule. Regards, Gene In a message dated 8/4/2010 9:22:04 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, michaeljosephcle...@yahoo.com writes: Greetings, For the last few SHAREs, I was able to look at the proceedings

Re: CICS OPENAPI

Hi Frank: Do you have SUBTSKS=1 set on to get the CO TCB to offset the write activity for VSAM files? If you have a lot of VSAM writes, you could probably see around a 3-5% CPU on this TCB. The RO TCB should reflect some RACF and progr am load activity. Finally, the FO TCB should show some

Re: Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture

Hi: This is a little self-serving for Accenture. If banks continue to modernize their legacy systems, Accenture won't be able to sell their services and the software they developed for BBVA and I believe for BS (Spanish banks). I am sure the software, hardware and consulting costs will be

Re: VSAM CA Splits, still a performance problem?

Hi: The considerations for CI/CA splits varies with either on-line or batch processing. Here is some information from the CICS TS Performance Guide and VSAM Demystified manuals that may be useful. Free space provides a tool for deferring splits to occur. From CICS TS 4.1 Performance

Re: CBT page at www.cbttape.org is now up-to-date

Gracias!! Pedro: Como uno puede coger un listado y convertirlo a .txt para poder verlo en una PC? Saludos, Gene In a message dated 8/18/2009 12:08:02 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, sbgo...@cbttape.org writes: Hi Folks, We finally brought the file entries on the CBT page of

Re: MSU question z800 vs. z9BC

Hi: I am not sure why you would want to do this at the end of the lease. Usually the residual value for the box (z9BC) is very low at the end of the lease. Depending on where you are software wise, you may not be able to back level your software to run on z800 and even if you can, there

Re: MSU question z800 vs. z9BC

Hi Mark: Depending on where you are software wise That is the point and you are assuming that because he is a small shop they are not using any new feature. Regards, Gene In a message dated 7/14/2009 9:23:50 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, mark.zel...@zurichna.com writes: Depending on

Re: MSU question z800 vs. z9BC

Hi Mark: I guess that you don't need any software support to support these features? Regards, Gene In a message dated 7/14/2009 10:20:26 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, mark.zel...@zurichna.com writes: On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:29:34 EDT, Gene Hudders eshudd...@aol.com wrote: Hi Mark

Re: MSU question z800 vs. z9BC

: Gene Hudders wrote: Hi Mark: I guess that you don't need any software support to support these features? Regards, Gene Mark's right. While new software is often required to support *new* features, it's not required to support *older* hardware. Going from a z9 BC to a z800

Re: DEFINE CLUSTER MYSTERY

Hi: The new algorithm uses 1/3 the key size for its calculations. So, looking at your example using a 4 K data CISZ which generates 180 CI/CA, you would roughly need (180*((44+3)/3))=2640. This formula is lacking a few other things such as the CIDF, the 24 byte header and internal fields

Re: Has z/Journal gone to the dark side

Hi: I have had the privilege of knowing Bob for several years and firmly believe that he is a promotor of IBM mainframes. Regards, Gene **It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms and advice on AOL Money Finance. (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolcmp0030002850)

Re: TIOT filling up: too many dynamic concatenations

Hi Ed: Maybe not the best solution but you can increase the size of the TIOT in the ALLOCxx parmlib member in the z/OS MVS Initialization and Tuning Reference _http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/iea2e261.pdf_ (http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/iea2e261.pdf) page 73. The

Re: Questions Regarding Disk Cache

:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gene Hudders Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 1:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: [IBM-MAIN] Questions Regarding Disk Cache Hi: These were a few questions posted on another topic in CICS-L for which no reply was received. The topic was CI/CA

Questions Regarding Disk Cache

Hi: These were a few questions posted on another topic in CICS-L for which no reply was received. The topic was CI/CA splits and I asked the following questions, which were embedded in the response: 1) Two of the processes of completing a CA split is to format the new CA and clear out

Re: KSDS CA split, no CI split

In a message dated 12/5/2007 12:07:04 P.M. SA Western Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ted MacNEIL wrote: It appears that VSAM can create a CA split without a CI split, see z/OS DFSMS Using Data Sets Chapter 9. See the RedBook De-Mystifying VSAM. It tells us that splits are

Re: KSDS CA split, no CI split

. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU 05/12/2007 18:00 Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU cc Subject Re: KSDS CA split, no CI split Gene Hudders wrote: [...] I sure would hate to take

Re: DASDs Extents in DB2 world

Hi: The real cost of extents is when you have to create/get one as you have to update the VTOC and catalog information. Processing is not a major issue. The only danger is when you are running close to the mqximum extents. Regards, Gene Sent via BlackBerry by ATT -Original Message-

Re: PLPA and COMMON PAGESPACE Size

And to reduce having to seek over empty cylinders because you would allocate more space to the PLPA for growth. Regards, Gene --Original Message-- From: Ted MacNEIL Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU ReplyTo: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Sent: Sep 12, 2007

Re: VSAM in extents

Hi John: The cost for extra extents occurs when the extent is required because of thbe overhead of having to go to the catalog and VTOC. There is a little more virtual storage required. The only other danger is that you run out of available extents allowed for the component. Regards, Gene