1+ year contract where I work

2012-02-21 Thread Gregory Pinkowski
Contract position in Los Angeles area for someone with very strong mainframe capacity planning experience and chargeback billing (lead). Possibly permanant later for the right candidate...? Great bunch of people to work with/for. Contact me gpinkow...@isd.lacounty.gov or m...@staff-tech.net

2 good contracts in LA

2011-10-04 Thread Gregory Pinkowski
Please excuse the bandwidth... 2 renewable 1-year mainframe contracting positions available in LA area (local government). These are positions with a great group of people downstairs from me, and the contracts I would prefer except I can't abandon my current security admin contract to bid on

IMS sysprog contract opportunity in SoCal

2011-05-10 Thread Gregory Pinkowski
I've been a long-time subscriber and mainframe contractor/consultant; there's nothing in this for me but I hope this referral might help someone. I am currently waiting to bid on a particular position.meanwhile there is another opportunity to be placed on-site at the same local-government

TSO session manager buffer size

2009-07-09 Thread Gregory Pinkowski
As I left work today I was looking at the TSO manuals for the session manager over TSO line mode, and started using it. I'm enjoying using it to scroll around in ACF2 X(RGP) LIST LIKE(-) TPUT output that won't go directly to a dataset (the other ACF2 LIST commands allow you to use

Are IBM-MAIN usage guidelines posted somewhere?

2009-03-23 Thread Gregory Pinkowski
Where are the rules for what subject matter is (or is not) permissible to post to this list? Where are the general conduct guidelines posted? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Display true hex as EBCDIC characters?

2009-02-02 Thread Gregory Pinkowski
I first ran into that technique in school, and have used variations of it many many times since, referring to pages 228-229 in Assembler Language with Assist first edition by Overbeek and Singletary (NIU) published by SRA. --

Re: Display true hex as EBCDIC characters?

2009-02-02 Thread Gregory Pinkowski
WITHOUT THE COMMENTS (SORRY, TOO LAZY TO TYPE) THIS IS FROM THE BOOK; SUBRTN CONVERTS CONTENTS OF R1, RESULT PLACED AT ADDRESS WHERE R2 POINTS, NO REGISTERS ARE ALTERED, RETURN IS VIA R10. * HEXDUMP STR1,FWORD UNPK

Re: CA ESD files Options

2008-04-04 Thread Gregory Pinkowski
You speak the truth, with the possible exception of VM. The nature of MVS is to share devices, files, and much of memory by default (to accomodate the integration of the most complex of applications) but take extreme protection and control measures. VM on the other had uses DAT, CCW

Re: Talk about short lived - IBM Suspension from Federal Contracts Lifted [WSJ article]

2008-04-04 Thread Gregory Pinkowski
Talk about 5 guys getting into some trouble at work LOL. - Original Message - From: Roach, Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120731162748989649.html?mod=googlenews_wsj -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Another RNL question

2008-04-04 Thread Gregory Pinkowski
Repeat after me, the 3-zeros chant: Kilo Mega Giga Tera Peta Exa (and in the other direction): Milli Micro Nano Pico Femto Atto - Original Message - From: Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Once I get past three zeroes, I cannot relate.

Re: system stalled message

2008-04-03 Thread Gregory Pinkowski
Security Center does have sysplex support using the coupling facility but that's been pretty reliable, it might be the victim. The product has mulitple address spaces. Did you give Vanguard a call? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Virtual tape questions

2008-03-27 Thread Gregory Pinkowski
Many thanks to all who responded so helpfully on-list and off-list. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Virtual tape questions

2008-03-26 Thread Gregory Pinkowski
This site uses an STK virtual tape system cluster, which accumulates many virtual tape volumes onto a disk array cache and then to multi-volume-cartridges loaded robotically. It also replicates those virtual tape volumes to a disaster recovery site where they are cached and a second robotic

Re: Can forked/spawned address spaces be identified as such?

2008-03-21 Thread Gregory Pinkowski
I don't want to instigate or contest in any public online flaming war, nor to be picking apart the appreciated response you took thoughtful time to compose; but I'm still a bit touchy on subjects with even tangents brushing upon Object Code Only (OCO) policy. This is a tangent off the original

Re: Can I know programmatically if a load module has been zapped?

2008-03-18 Thread Gregory Pinkowski
You can browse the load module and see IDRDATA if you know what to look for (easier in the object), but you don't have to make IDRDATA when you zap, AFAIK (and AMASPZAP is not the only thing that can edit a load module). So IMHO the only real way to know for sure is to take a digital signature

Re: Easy way to convert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-17 Thread Gregory Pinkowski
1) Does IDCAMS keyword NOSCRATCH make HSM bring in a dataset before deleting it just like NONVSAM does? I may have observed that behavour...job had NONVSAM NOSCRATCH and HSM brought it in first, after I removed the NONVSAM and I think it still came in (didn't confirm conclusively) until I

spam: Re: Video of mainframe being shaken

2008-03-14 Thread Gregory Pinkowski
Skip this if off-subject stuff irritates you...just some Friday war stories. Speaking of vibration testing...I remember back sometime in the 1970's we had an intermittent storage director. After a few SEV1 failures IBM would auto-escalate the support issue to page somebody and another guy in

clock, daylight savings time

2008-03-08 Thread Gregory Pinkowski
I'm new...to this list and at my new job... Question about setting the clock: Haven't IPL'd in 4 months, so tonight I'm going to IPL the production z/OS 1.7 LPAR and similar test LPAR (each a monoplex) to pick up a new SYS1.PARMLIB(CLOCK00) with a different offset to Greenwich Mean Time (7

Re: clock, daylight savings time

2008-03-08 Thread Gregory Pinkowski
Gil, - Thanks a ton. No coupling facility from what I'm told, GRS via couple dataset (I'm used to MIM via CTC, so this is new to me too). I just want to prove periodically an IPL works, I know it's not necessary. I just haven't seen one at this site since I started here, and I want to