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

2012-03-23 Thread John Compton
Snack food manufacturer in UK. Computer room was a room *within* the main warehouse, with windows all around (ops hated it - said it made them feel like animals in a zoo). Engineer plus trainee running maintenance on the Halon system. Trainee fumbles something and triggers the gas dump. Pressure

z-VM guest z-OS system diagnostics....

2012-02-16 Thread John Compton
One of the first investigative tasks handed to me at my new job... ...and I don't know where to start. Got a z-OS 1.9 system, that runs as a guest under z/VM. (It's a long time since I last worked with such a combination. Last time it was VM/370(?) and MVS 1.3.0e, alongside a bunch of

Re: Physical record size query

2012-02-07 Thread John Compton
(dunno where that surrounding garbage came from, but the readable test is still good) John -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John Compton Sent: 07 February 2012 14:33 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Physical record size

Returning to the fold

2012-02-02 Thread John Compton
Hi all... just coming back to the list after nearly 19 months out of work. Finally got a new job! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO

HFS storage efficiency query

2007-12-06 Thread John Compton
Over the past year or so, I've seen various mentions of HFS with regard to it being a poor way to store data in terms of disk space utilization. Please can anyone tell me if that is actually true? If I have a file that occupies 1GB file in 'normal' space, how much more disk would I need to store

Different day, different WLM

2005-07-15 Thread John Compton
Any hints/tips/warnings, please, on concepts surrounding the idea of having a 'special' WLM policy that would get activated on specific day(s) (of the month)? I have a situation where one particular batch job becomes extra-important on the '5th working day of the month', and at those times it

WLM and DAS

2005-05-27 Thread John Compton
Have any of you had any experience of setting up the DB2 SERVICE Administrator functions as part of DB/2 Connect v8? If you did, have you any information to share with regard to changes to the WLM policy to cater for it, please? DAS is completely new to everyone here, and no-one can offer any

SDSF Command Line Placement

2005-05-26 Thread John Compton
OK, it's stupid question of the week time... On my SDSF panels, the command line appears at the bottom of the screen. I prefer it at the top, but can't find any option to allow me to place it there. It's at the top on all the other ISPF panels, so it's got to be something to do with a profile