Re: How many cost a cpu second?

2012-06-12 Thread Joel C. Ewing
25,000 cpus / secs per month, and I spend two days optimizing it to reduce to 15,000. Am I gaining money or loosing time ? ... -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: SMS Dataset Alloc Issue

2012-05-26 Thread Joel C. Ewing
several options to correct this issue. Lizette ... -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message

Re: IEW4005I FETCH FOR MODULE Failed

2012-05-12 Thread Joel C. Ewing
. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: ### of GDG Entries

2012-05-11 Thread Joel C. Ewing
subroutine like CBT's DYNALLOC from compiled languages. Joel C Ewing On 05/10/2012 07:41 PM, Cris Hernandez #9 wrote: does it have to be a gdg? what about mod'ing onto the file then emptying it out when it's processed? back it up with a gdg with that batch job at regular intervals suggestion

Re: RES: XPAF replacement

2012-05-09 Thread Joel C. Ewing
out two base64 blocks back-to back, rather than, say, trying to merge the the data into a single base64 block, or resend the whole thing un-decoded with 8-bit MIME Email conventions. JC Ewing On 05/09/2012 10:34 AM, ITURIEL DO NASCIMENTO NETO wrote: ‰íz{S­©ì}êÄ�ÊŠxjǺà*... -- Joel C

Re: RES: XPAF replacement

2012-05-09 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 05/09/2012 01:40 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Wed, 9 May 2012 13:12:52 -0500, Walt Farrell wrote: On Wed, 9 May 2012 12:37:18 -0500, Joel C. Ewing wrote: Another one of those message formats that appears to Thunderbird as garbage. I can read it fine on the ibm-main online archive, where

Re: Progress Toward z/OS Personal Use License

2012-04-25 Thread Joel C. Ewing
home systems have been SE Linux (Fedora) for several years. A cost of $1000's per year for cool wouldn't fly for me. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Progress Toward z/OS Personal Use License

2012-04-25 Thread Joel C. Ewing
an otherwise unnecessary upgrade at great cost, but from the user's standpoint this is a very poor outcome, apparently forced by the decision to require a dongle. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM

Re: ZOS 1.13 SMPTABL Mystery

2012-04-24 Thread Joel C. Ewing
with help from the SMP/E log datasets; but it takes much more work and adds unnecessary opportunity for human error. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: ZOS 1.13 SMPTABL Mystery

2012-04-19 Thread Joel C. Ewing
have to clean up abandoned maintenance projects and obsolete SMPTABL members associated with abandoned target zones, but that can happen whether the SMPTABL dataset is shared or not. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org

Re: Execute certain steps based on input parm

2012-04-18 Thread Joel C. Ewing
statements. Such a utility could even be generalized to allow conditional setting of arbitrary step completion codes or even conditionally ABENDing with some user ABEND code. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org

Re: Execute certain steps based on input parm

2012-04-18 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 04/18/2012 10:51 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:47:05 -0500, Joel C. Ewing wrote: On 04/18/2012 08:46 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:30:59 -0400, Veilleux, Jon L wrote: According to the JCL manual that won't work: The following keywords are the only

Re: JCL help (yes, with COND)

2012-04-18 Thread Joel C. Ewing
time (except possibly for COND on the JOB statement). Also one can use IF/THEN/ELSE in the main JCL stream without the bizarre override issues you get with COND on the EXEC PROC. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org

Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-16 Thread Joel C. Ewing
... IF ... THEN ... IF ... THEN ... ELSE NEXT SENTENCE ELSE ... . Each internal IF had to have a corresponding ELSE with only NEXT SENTENCE in it. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Batch utility to show DCB info for files

2012-04-11 Thread Joel C. Ewing
. Output tends to be verbose, but at least it's a standard utility. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: Query about overcoming -- debunking, countering, and burying --mainframe myths

2012-04-11 Thread Joel C. Ewing
already licensed for running z/OS natively? -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM

Re: VSAM help wanted for random reads

2012-04-04 Thread Joel C. Ewing
the various index levels for each data record access. Just providing a few additional index buffers in such cases might be enough to cut the physical I/O's by a significant factor. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org

Re: Malicious Software Protection

2012-03-27 Thread Joel C. Ewing
anti-virus proof. ... -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Leaving IBM

2012-03-26 Thread Joel C. Ewing
and more strongly, and it's time to spend more time with them. Best wishes to you all, Walt ... -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: A z/OS Redbook Corrected - just about!

2012-03-26 Thread Joel C. Ewing
John's posts, I'm sure the interpretation of one of the later Google links was intended. :) -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Pre-Friday fun: Halon dumps and POK Resets

2012-03-24 Thread Joel C. Ewing
would by themselves be toxic in a closed area. That's why one should always assume the worse in the event of a discharge and exit. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: host codepge 0037 and the obscure not sign

2012-03-13 Thread Joel C. Ewing
for brackets, caret, and not sign. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Program FLIH backdoor - This is a criminal breach of security!

2012-03-05 Thread Joel C. Ewing
, and there was no easy way to verify that it did not have the potential to compromise SMP/E behavior for all other z/OS product maintenance. Needless to say that approach was not well received once it became known (and was discontinued). -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew

Re: JES2 STCCLASS and TSUCLASS - documented

2012-03-04 Thread Joel C. Ewing
is not obvious, you may have to find a manual old enough to have documentation on the old forms (or perhaps search for STCCLASS/TSUCLASS migration information on-line). -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org

Re: Writing article on telework/telecommuting

2012-03-04 Thread Joel C. Ewing
outs occurring between the end user and the session manager. Applications like TSO don't see a session failure that only affects the link between the user and the session manager (unless it lasts so long that application sessions time out from inactivity). Joel C Ewing On 03/04/2012 12:25 PM

Re: IKT100I USERID CANCELED immediately after TN3270 connection fail

2012-03-03 Thread Joel C. Ewing
. Recently I encounter a problem that IKT100I USERID CANCELED immediately after TN3270 connection fail, and It is unacceptable in our shop, because users will lose their work that do not save in time. ... -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org

Re: Why _TZ put times 7 minutes off?

2012-03-02 Thread Joel C. Ewing
), or the error would have been more obvious after the IPL.My recollection is it has worked this way ever since IBM mainframes have had HMCs for control. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Why _TZ put times 7 minutes off?

2012-03-02 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 03/02/2012 09:41 PM, George Kozakos wrote: On 02/03/2012 08:36 PM, Joel C. Ewing wrote: In absence of sysplex timer or the like, the processor TOD clock is set only at POR and is set based on the HMC clock, which may in turn sync once a day with the SE clock. The SE is sync'd to the CEC TOD

Re: Originality

2012-03-01 Thread Joel C. Ewing
at that point. Joel C Ewing - Original Message - From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:52:04 AM Subject: Re: Originality (was: Duplicating SYSOUT ...) In040601ccf67d$d7ea4060$87bec120$@mcn.org, on 02/28/2012

Re: Stupid JCL trick?

2012-02-21 Thread Joel C. Ewing
that will be skipped. If you really want guaranteed zero effects from the unwanted step without complete deletion of step JCL, changing the statements to comments is the only sure way. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org

Re: Batch process VS Started task

2012-02-19 Thread Joel C. Ewing
will soon to follow...)... Are there other advantages / dis-advantages regarding a self developed STC ? Are there any self developed STC's at your shop? Any other ideas on how to approach this issue? Thanks in advanced. Magen -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org

Re: O/T but curious (Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query) )

2012-02-19 Thread Joel C. Ewing
not arise in MVS because dataset names are always referenced by the full name -- roughly the equivalent to always requiring the full path name in Win/Linux -- and that makes direct lookup in a catalog possible. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org

Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-13 Thread Joel C. Ewing
is of lesser importance. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-13 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 02/13/2012 02:43 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:38:44 -0600, Joel C. Ewing wrote: It should be possible to just specify data set limits in terms of data bytes expected or records/average-record-length expected without regard for tracks, cylinders, extents, or volumes

Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-13 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 02/13/2012 04:26 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:11:53 -0600, Joel C. Ewing wrote: (I'd prefer, for legibility, SPACE=(1,54.000.000.000) with European thousands separators.) Not sure about your reference to half-word chunks. Although there are 16Mi limits on max

Re: Turning on additional CPs

2012-02-09 Thread Joel C. Ewing
on additional engines actually make a job run longer? Also, where can I find any read material on the affect of turning on/off engines. TIA ... -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: WLM Capping

2012-02-08 Thread Joel C. Ewing
discretionary - I always liked the MTTW algorithm. But when we softcapped 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. -- Joel C. Ewing

Re: Physical record size query

2012-02-07 Thread Joel C. Ewing
are emulated, usually on RAID protected disk arrays (*), but the 3390 geometry remains unchanged from z/OS point of view. So half-track blocks (**) are still the most effective in terms of storage utilisation and performance. ... -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org

Re: different tape media for ML2 copies in HSM

2012-01-27 Thread Joel C. Ewing
into CA Tape Management systems, but I don't remember any hooks into dfhsm. Trying to replicate dfhsm TAPEREPL functionality would take some serious dfhsm CDS record twiddling - not really sure I would want a non-IBM copy utility playing at that level. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR

Re: 3390s on SAN?

2012-01-26 Thread Joel C. Ewing
are it will not have any mainframe channel interfaces installed, and at a minimum some hardware upgrade will be required for that. I'm pretty sure IBM disk subsystems that support mix of SAN and mainframe storage require each entire physical array to be allocated to only one of those functions. -- Joel C

Re: MCDS Dataset Help

2012-01-26 Thread Joel C. Ewing
to me since no application code should be messing directly with KSDS INDEX CI's). -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: CU Resources Exceeded

2012-01-25 Thread Joel C. Ewing
CHPID offline to that LPAR. I doubt if varying the logical path offline is sufficient. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Going from mod-3 to mod9

2012-01-24 Thread Joel C. Ewing
to 3390-9 has more impact than acceptable -- and that might impact your decision on whether to attempt the migration. That's the long answer. The short answer is as always it depends. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org

Re: DFHSM: Backup tape lost due to errors

2012-01-23 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 01/23/2012 02:46 AM, R.S. wrote: W dniu 2012-01-22 05:21, Joel C. Ewing pisze: I've said it before, but will say it again: modern tape media has such a large capacity that a single dfhsm cartridge can contain an incredibly large number of datasets. It is almost inevitable that loss

Re: Going from mod-3 to mod9

2012-01-23 Thread Joel C. Ewing
patterns, response time on 3390-9 without PAVs is a crapshoot even with only a single large VSAM dataset. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Going from mod-3 to mod9

2012-01-23 Thread Joel C. Ewing
and assuming there is enough cache and different physical drives and internal bandwidth on the EMC backing the logical volume, you can in effect exceed 100% logical volume busy (have average number of active I/Os to the volume exceed 1.00) and still get acceptable response. -- Joel C. Ewing

Re: PDSE

2012-01-21 Thread Joel C. Ewing
failure is not be possible (without an independent z/OS recovery system). -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: PDSE

2012-01-21 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 01/21/2012 10:25 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:02:25 -0600, Joel C. Ewing wrote: So the only functionally-equivalent, officially-sanctioned way to accomplish this goal is still to (1) create a new dataset with a different name and copy the data to it, (2) modify PARMLIB

Re: DFHSM: Backup tape lost due to errors

2012-01-21 Thread Joel C. Ewing
volumes (e.g., CA-VTape), where similar exposures exist and where duplexing in some form is also highly recommended. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: PDSE

2012-01-21 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 01/21/2012 04:21 PM, retired mainframer wrote: ::-Original Message- ::From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On ::Behalf Of Joel C. Ewing ::Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 8:02 AM ::To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu ::Subject: Re: PDSE :: ::So the only functionally

Re: Catching a Phantom

2012-01-20 Thread Joel C. Ewing
that needs fixing. It would be better for MQ design to prevent the problem in the first place. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: PDSE

2012-01-20 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 01/20/2012 08:54 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:37:12 -0600, Joel C. Ewing wrote: On 01/19/2012 02:55 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:09:27 -0800, Schwarz, Barry A wrote: Someone might be failing to issue a DISConnect or RELEASE. (It's not at all clear

Re: PDSE

2012-01-19 Thread Joel C. Ewing
until the applications are also forced to de-allocate the PDSE - which is certainly not what I would have expected from my reading of the quoted DFSMS manual. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org

Re: PDSE

2012-01-19 Thread Joel C. Ewing
version available to the old A/S even across an LLA REFRESH; but I would also suspect this technique unlikely to be in use on a typical Installation library added to LINKLIST. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org

Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology

2012-01-12 Thread Joel C. Ewing
platform used by those applications. Joel C Ewing On 01/11/2012 03:16 PM, Henrichon, Ryan wrote: A common phrase used in ITIL to refer to mainframes in my shop is Enterprise Server. However the term Mainframe gets used more than Enterprise Server does by techies. What is true about any best

Re: Clarification on Sysres Volumes(RMF)

2012-01-03 Thread Joel C. Ewing
is obvious? Lizette -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: IBM Manuals

2011-12-31 Thread Joel C. Ewing
prefer to go with lower resolution adequate for human reading and preserve gray scale, and even color, where its use is significant. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: IBM Manuals

2011-12-30 Thread Joel C. Ewing
do the install. Bah humbug so much APPLE being user friendly. Ed ... -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: removing nulls from a file

2011-12-29 Thread Joel C. Ewing
occurring just on your receiving system, then hopefully you will have enough to be able to recreate and fix the problem on your end. Just cleaning up bad data after the fact will work, but is not as desirable as eliminating the creation of the bad data in the first place. -- Joel C. Ewing

Re: Question on adding an SVC routine dynamically to a running system

2011-12-29 Thread Joel C. Ewing
next IPL, so you don't get surprised by unexpectedly losing your updated SVC at next IPL. I always tried to do both updates at about the same time under the assumption that Murphy might arrange for unscheduled IPLs at his convenience, not mine. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew

Re: cpu / machine identification

2011-12-27 Thread Joel C. Ewing
and I'm not afraid to use it ... -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: cpu / machine identification

2011-12-27 Thread Joel C. Ewing
operations, so I hadn't considered that aspect. Obviously a company with no reservations about shafting its own IT department for short-term profit would probably have even less compunction about doing the same to its former software vendors. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew

Re: Imagine having to deal with THIS in production

2011-12-21 Thread Joel C. Ewing
his inspired interpretation of Revelations to confidently predict the exact date of the end of the world, attract a small following, and then vanish into richly-deserved obscurity when the date passes without incident. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org

Re: Imagine dealing with THIS in production

2011-12-19 Thread Joel C. Ewing
during the day, but is a terrible fit for people and businesses that have to deal with normal work hours and who would never tolerate the same period of daylight being called by two different dates. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org

Re: Imagine having to deal with THIS in production

2011-12-19 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 12/19/2011 05:39 PM, John Gilmore wrote: Joel C. Ewing writes (of Julian days): | That makes much sense for astronomers that work through | the night and sleep during the day, but is a terrible fit for people | and businesses that have to deal with normal work hours and | who would never

Re: One Less Mainframe Shop

2011-12-17 Thread Joel C. Ewing
total IT costs now with their prior mainframe IT costs, which could likely have been reduced by simply upgrading to modern z boxes and DASD and a more modest migration strategy. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org

Re: Is there an SPF setting to turn CAPS ON like keyboard key?

2011-12-15 Thread Joel C. Ewing
misfeature. also wondering if panels have the ability to enlarge font size by row. Does your terminal hardware (emulator) have this capability? -- gil ... -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM

Re: JCL sheesh! for today

2011-12-10 Thread Joel C. Ewing
., COBOL, FORTRAN, Assembler) with column restrictions that are an integral part of the language syntax; but a number of other languages (e.g.,PL/I, C, REXX) are essentially free-form with a syntax that is column insensitive. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org ... Ed

Re: JCL sheesh! for today

2011-12-09 Thread Joel C. Ewing
free-form with a syntax that is column insensitive. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message

Re: JCL sheesh! for today

2011-12-08 Thread Joel C. Ewing
in many different environments; and Operations personnel only have to have JCL expertise, not understand every programming language used in the shop. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: JCL sheesh! for today

2011-12-08 Thread Joel C. Ewing
Of Joel C. Ewing Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 10:45 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: JCL sheesh! for today I don't think Fred Brooks was really thinking things through when he said he would have preferred language-specific support within higher-level programming languages

Re: ROOT file system is out space

2011-12-06 Thread Joel C. Ewing
in general is to install to alternate libraries and alternate file systems and use some technique (such as IPL with suitable parmlib changes) to install all changes concurrently, with some way to revert to old libraries if there are any significant issues with the new code level. -- Joel C

Re: PS file record Delete - Query

2011-11-28 Thread Joel C. Ewing
the lines before and the lines after to a temporary and then copy it back. You can do the same with REXX. Etc. -- Binyamin Dissenbdis...@dissensoftware.com http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar Grill - Israel ... -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org

Re: Licence to kill -9

2011-11-28 Thread Joel C. Ewing
, not just following, standards, -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

Re: SETTING CONDITION CODE

2011-11-28 Thread Joel C. Ewing
)', // 'SEA(.) REP(X''40'')', //'SYSOUT(X)') //INPDS DD DSN=SYS2..INFO.CONFIG,DISP=SHR //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //* -- ... -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Java based Web Emulator

2011-11-22 Thread Joel C. Ewing
, there is always X3270 under some flavor of Linux, or somewhat less spiffy, X3270 under Cygwin under Windows. Works, but tends to be a little kludgy under Windows. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM

Re: ADRDSSU Compatibility

2011-11-18 Thread Joel C. Ewing
) and didn't have to constantly remember to verify DR site dfdss compatibility that only rarely would be an issue. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: ADRDSSU Compatibility

2011-11-18 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 11/18/2011 08:18 AM, Norbert Friemel wrote: On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:42:34 -0600, Joel C. Ewing wrote: ... But, take note that this backward compatibility does not always exist. It seems that about every ten years or so as tape technology advances IBM decides to raise the block size written

Re: ADRDSSU Compatibility

2011-11-18 Thread Joel C. Ewing
if there is some new construct in the dump file related to a new feature in version n that the old version can't fully handle. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: TSO SCREENSIZE

2011-11-11 Thread Joel C. Ewing
inside to be appreciably heavier than a 3278, which was already borderline for one person to carry. Trying to carry a 3276 by yourself was not wise if you wanted to avoid back problems. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org

Re: Segmenting an output spool file in z/OS - 2nd attempt

2011-10-20 Thread Joel C. Ewing
Division -- 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://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- Joel C

Re: DFSMS and HFS/ZFS Datasets.

2011-10-15 Thread Joel C. Ewing
much more serious issues. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Re: Sad News: [IP] Dennis Ritchie dies

2011-10-12 Thread Joel C. Ewing
of operating systems theory and the implementation of the UNIX. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: WLM Classification Rules question

2011-10-08 Thread Joel C. Ewing
other Email clients may behave differently on questionable Email formats. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: WLM Classification Rules question

2011-10-07 Thread Joel C. Ewing
y� ... -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- 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: SPOOL move

2011-10-07 Thread Joel C. Ewing
down time, unless you are willing to incur substantial down time for mass DASD moves. With one of the above migration tools, the moves can be done non-disruptively over at most several days. Joel C. Ewing On 10/07/2011 09:17 AM, Mark Jacobs wrote: If you have a product such as IBM's TDMF

Re: WLM Classification Rules question

2011-10-07 Thread Joel C. Ewing
the time?) -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- 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: DFSMShsm DUPLEX tapes.

2011-10-05 Thread Joel C. Ewing
, but delete the association with 654321 and return it to scratch. I know I can do it by SETSYS DUPLEX(MIGRATION(N)) and then RECYCLE EX VOL(123456), but I have thousands of volumes and dont want to have to recycle all of them. I've scanned the fine manual, but cant see anyway to do it. B. ... -- Joel C

Re: Suggestion for a Job running Under a Loop

2011-09-20 Thread Joel C. Ewing
loops and from non productive loops for an arbitrary program is a non trivial exercise. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Jabberwocky was:PTF question

2011-09-06 Thread Joel C. Ewing
: KFRoaXMgaXMgaG93IGl0IGxvb2tzIGluIG15IFNlbnQgZm9sZGVyLi4uKQ0KDQpBcyB0aGV5IHNh -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Re: PTF question

2011-09-05 Thread Joel C. Ewing
by displaying the appropriate global zone gzone data from the ISPF SMP/E dialog. Or alternatively, you can use the SMP/E dialog to search the target zone for a specific product FUNCTION FMID sysmod and see which is in your target zone. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org

Re: FTP JESLRECL Limit

2011-08-30 Thread Joel C. Ewing
on JES INTRDR LRECL was raised at some point to 32KiB. If so, the FTP jeslrecl maximum value is a restriction imposed by FTP, probably for consistency with older versions of MVS. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org

Re: ISMF QUESTION

2011-08-30 Thread Joel C. Ewing
associated with VSAM files (which is only on DATA and INDEX) for a specific MGMTCLAS, you may not be able to do this easily with ISMF. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: alter dataset blocksize

2011-08-29 Thread Joel C. Ewing
the user what he did to resolve the problem. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET

Re: Cryptography Processor

2011-08-23 Thread Joel C. Ewing
of application data for securing application data and for maintaining application encryption keys in a physically secure manner. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: UCAT allocation to CATALOG task

2011-08-21 Thread Joel C. Ewing
at that point even if not needed. If you are certain it is not needed, try closing the UCAT first (F CATALOG,CLOSE(catname) and then see if you can UNALLOCATE it. You can't un-allocate while it is still open. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org

Re: ABEND - 637-04

2011-08-19 Thread Joel C. Ewing
into physical super blocks and the physical block size on the tape is no longer under the control of operating system code. Joel C Ewing On 08/19/2011 06:48 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In 1240651948-1313637071-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-95694995-@b12.c1.bise6.blackberry

Re: Last card reader?

2011-08-18 Thread Joel C. Ewing
by repeated addition. No doubt would have been a slow as heck, but amazing that it could be done at all. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: ABEND - 637-04

2011-08-17 Thread Joel C. Ewing
states is a necessary condition for a block size greater than half-track to have any chance of decent track utilization on a 3390. Joel C. Ewing On 08/17/2011 12:54 PM, John Eells wrote: That really depends on the RECFM and, for variable blocked RECFMs, the distribution of block sizes

Re: Soft Capping an LPAR

2011-08-13 Thread Joel C. Ewing
being soft capped? TIA ... -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

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