What is the supposed difference between HI and HE to REXX?
I have never been able to terminate an errant exec under TSO
with an HI (even though the response to ATTN tells me I can).
Is there anything that would make HI work in some installations
but not others?
I specifically said "in some instal
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:41:27 -0500, Hal Merritt
wrote:
>...
>Frankly, I would much rather all that effort be put into making the
>product more robust and easier to use. ...
Doubly so since anything that succeeds in "protecting" the code
will make debugging the code harder Debugging and crack
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 16:40:08 -0400, Clark, Kevin
wrote:
>...
>I would go with setting up Quality of Service (QoS) mechanisms on
your
>CISCO router, if FTP traffic is impacting your interactive workload.
>...
However, you should not ignore what John McKown said. Look at
the Policy Agent's QoS
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 11:56:11 -0500, John Au
wrote:
>...
>We included a default COS definition in our startup options
>(APPNCOS=#CONNECT) and now everything is working great!
>The information you provided was very helpful. Thanks a million.
>...
Actually, I was talking about DYNMODTB. Good th
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 10:18:11 -0400, Thomas David Rivers
wrote:
>...
>That's why we suggest doing those compiles with our C/C++ compiler
>running in IBM compatibility mode on a local workstation... saves
>a lot of memory & CPU.. and, if you are being billed for those,
>it can save a ton of $$$.
>.
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 06:03:01 -0600, Steve Comstock
wrote:
>...
>Ah! Maybe part of the problem is language. In [American] English:
>
> ( and ) are parentheses
> { and } are braces (not "curly braces", just "braces")
> [ and ] are brackets (not "square brackets", just "brackets")
>
>Of course
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 20:53:52 +, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
>...
>FTP is not unsafe.
>Accessing the data is (potentially).
>...
In the shops (ok, shop) I've worked that prohibited FTPs to/from the
mainframe they allowed SOME FTPs - FTPs with those business partners
that, for whatever reason, could not
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 06:41:53 -0600, Steve Comstock
wrote:
>..."They seem to regard UNIX on z/OS as an abomination.")
>
>I'd like to understand this visceral reaction, with an
>eye to seeing what can be done to moderate it down to at
>least a level of skepticism ("OK, what can this do for
>me?").
>
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 12:53:06 -0700, John Au
wrote:
>...
>Do you remember if you had to convert all the APPLIDs to use
>APPC=YES?
Yes I do (remember) , and know I didn't (have to make the change).
No LU definition changes were needed. The only thing beyond
the actual connectivity-related defin
On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 18:43:15 -0500, Chris Mason
wrote:
>...
>Incidentally, a systems programmer there has even researched
>using VTAM generic resources with Supersession with success.
>We hope to put that into production in the near future all in support
>of the general objective of introducin
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 09:23:52 -0700, John Au
wrote:
>... he was able to get APPN working, but
>now he is struggling with CL/Supersession. Any help you can provide
>would be most appreciated.
>...
I haven't been in a shop with Supersession for over 5 years but I had
no trouble getting it to work
On Sat, 30 May 2009 11:43:13 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>...
>Someone here once suggested that all local storage of unloaded
>relative files should be eliminated: it shouldn't be RECEIVE
>FROMNETWORK, but APPLY FROMNETWORK, accessing "the Great SMPPTS
>in the Sky." ...
That would be great for
On Fri, 29 May 2009 13:14:10 -0600, Howard Brazee
wrote:
>...
>I guess I don't understand. The temp file doesn't need a name?
>...
You not only don't have to supply a name, the JCL Ref manual
recommends you do not specify one if you want to assure unique
temporary dataset names. If you spec
On Wed, 27 May 2009 18:22:22 +, Ted MacNEIL
wrote:
>>When I was a systems programmer at ADR, we had one
programmer with the bad habit of resting his box of punch cards on the
1403
>
>BTDT.
>...
Or, ... On the the punch side of the 2540 there was a little platform
about 1 card's width an
On Wed, 27 May 2009 08:45:06 -0500, Eric Bielefeld wrote:
>...
>By the way, for the 96 column card, did each row go from left to
>right, or on one row did the columns go from right to left? I was
>just thinking that when you punched a 96 column card in a
>keypunch, it would be easier to move
On Tue, 26 May 2009 23:37:49 -0400, Scott T. Harder
wrote:
>...
>Never heard of 96-column cards, though. Just some ignorance on my
>part with that one.
>...
The "96-column" card was really 3 tiers of 32 columns. 6 bits per logical
column.It was small (3-1/4 inch wide by 2-5/8 inch high) wi
On Tue, 26 May 2009 11:18:58 -0500, Rick Fochtman
wrote:
>...
>the 1442 "Multifunction Card Machine", also known as "Mother
>Fletcher's Card Mulcher"? ...
I remember things a bit differently.
Back in the late '60s I was an operator in an IBM Datacenter and
Busuness System Center. In t
On Thu, 21 May 2009 15:09:38 +, Ted MacNEIL
wrote:
>...the architecture should NEVER get in the way of the business!
Unfortunately, "religion and politics" sometimes trump business logic.
If upper management has its collective ego tied up with the current
architecture and knows that that a
On Tue, 19 May 2009 14:40:02 -0500, Shedlock, George
wrote:
>You can also find a copy of this white paper here: (watch the wrap)
>http://www.acxiom.com/SiteCollectionDocuments/website-
resources/pdf/White_Papers/AC-2011-08%20The%20Relaity%
20Facing%20The%20Manframe%20World.pdf
>...
An oursourci
On Tue, 19 May 2009 08:37:47 -0500, Field, Alan C.
wrote:
>I can't access IBMLink through the web this morning. Any one else?
>
>Greenscreen works, as usual.
>...
This was a test. They are making sure they are ready to support
the sunsetting of Green Screen access. They are. After July 1 w
On Mon, 18 May 2009 10:03:22 -0600, Howard Brazee
wrote:
>...
>My age only matters of one thing - if I wanted to retire today, I'd
>get my pension.
>...
Really? My knees envy you.
But getting back to the memory lane slide show, I'm a bit surprised
the 650 is not included. It may not have bee
On Fri, 15 May 2009 18:44:43 -0500, Rick Fochtman wrote:
>...
>Yup. 59 on August 2. Started as a Systems Programmer on January 2, 1970.
>...
Gees. The youngsters we've got around here. At least 59 is respectable
- approaching maturity.
63 here, but who's counting.
Pat O'Keefe
---
On Fri, 15 May 2009 09:48:41 -0700, Gibney, Dave wrote:
> Well, it's only been a couple months since the last spate of missives
>on this list about the web ibmlink being down :(
>
> I won't enjoy my drop in efficiency needing to GUI around without
>command line shortcuts.
>...
I won't enjoy i
On Fri, 15 May 2009 12:17:00 -0400, Michael Sullivan
wrote:
>Nice visual walk down memory lane, for you old timers out there ; )
>...
Excuse me, but that's "Long timers". We prefer to avoid the word "old".
What is sequence here? ASCII collating sequence? It's not by date.
Their jump from
On Mon, 4 May 2009 15:17:55 -0500, Field, Alan C.
wrote:
>++ USERMOD (LM00062) REWORK(2008001)
>...
>++ ZAP (INMXM) .
>...
Uh, thanks, but that probably isn't going to fly. We've got all
non-HIPR maint frozen until we disappear from the face of the
earth later this year. :-(
But I guess tha
Is there any way to get TSO XMIT to use a reasonable blksize?
I reblocked an XMIT dataset of a PDS to BLKSIZE=27920 and
TSO RECEIVE had no trouble processing it. I assume that means
there is no technical reason that the blocksize has to be 3120
(at least for my simple purposes).
Is there an op
On Sat, 2 May 2009 21:34:38 -0400, Scott T. Harder wrote:
>Wow, Pat. Is there anything you can do to try to create an environment
>such as is with the long x-missions? I hate to be trite, but it sounds
>like you have too many things going on and you need to take them one
>at a time.
>...
My
We have recently run into a very odd performance problem with Sterling
Commerce's CONNECT:Direct (aka NDM). We've opened a problem
ticket on this but I'd like to see if any other users C:D users have seen
anything similar.
Some time over the last 2 or 3 weeks we've seen a very large increase
in
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:07:30 -0500, Paul Gilmartin
wrote:
>...
>The scenario presented is that someone elsewhere has unloaded
>a load module library, to which he has proper authority, with
>ADRDSSU and transmitted the archive by FTP, carrier pigeon,
>whatever, to me here, where I have at least R
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:31:00 -0700, Lionel B Dyck
wrote:
>...
>type e
>mode b
>cd LIONEL.LOAD
>lcd LIONEL.LOAD
>Put TESTMOD
>Close
>Quit
>/*
>...
I know that the Type and Mode are necessary if you want to
transfer ISPF stats, as in
Type E
MODE B
LOCSI
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:35:17 -0700, John R. Ehrman (408-463-3543
T/543-) wrote:
Cross-posted to the Assembler Listserver.
>Check the SHARE proceedings for presentations by David Bond titled
>"Coding Assembler for Performance". Excellent advice therein.
>John Ehrman
I found it as "Session 8192
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:39:29 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353
wrote:
>...
>Many business processes *do* require the "real" data. Format
>preservation does not help when sort order is affected. When a
>business needs to determine a 9-digit zip code from the customer
>address, format preservation w
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:26:53 -0400, David Andrews
wrote:
>> Does anybody else think that [SMF data as XML] would be useful for
>> most, if not all, of the SMF data?
>...
>> With XML, I can more easily write my own stuff in Java or a
>>number of other languages which can handle XML (such as Perl
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:53:55 -0500, Brian Peterson
wrote:
>Just in case you hadn't heard about this, here's an alternative for your
>consideration:
>
>http://dovetail.com/products/sftp.html
>...
I have seen mention of that. That may be the next step, but as I
understand it, the Tectia product
Sorry if this is a dupliccate posting. I think my first attempt went
into the bit bucket.
One of my coworkers has been asked to evalutate the Tectia Server
for z/OS as a way to do SFTPs to/from z/OS datasets.He can
read the manuals, but is more interested in what users think of the
product.
The subject is to give the false impression that this is on topic.
The real topic: "The status of Lionel".
Lionel, you are still around with a Kaiser email addr.
Is this good news or just bad news delayed?
I was afraid we might have heard the last of you - especially with
the disclaimer on your
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:11:21 -0500, Paul Gilmartin
wrote:
>...
>>But, why with such short notice?
>>
>To encourage use of domain names rather than IP addresses.
>...
A worthy goal, but not an effective technique. Access lists, NAT
tables, etc., usually require IP addresses, not domain names.
A
I rarely (like twice now) do batch executions of XMITIP but I just tried
a batch execution of XMITIP 09.03 and got no errors.
Can you post a copy of the IVP (with enough stuff munged to satisfy
your minders)?
Pat O'Keefe
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:51:12 -0500, Mark Steely wrote:
>It just sending
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:17:00 -0500, Mark Steely
wrote:
>I am not using UDSMTP.
I should have said UDSMTP or XMITSOCK.
If you aren't using either of them XMITIP shouldn't be using
sockets.
What is your IVP trying to do?
Pat O'Keefe
---
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:37:44 -0500, Mark Steely
wrote:
Mostly just changing the subject so this problem doesn't get buried
in our email rant thread. This could be a serious problem.
>I am receiving the following messages after installation on the IVP job
>steps:
>
>IRX0250E System abend code
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:30:33 -0500, Paul Gilmartin
wrote:
>...
>Yah, but if someone wants to put a graphic letterhead/foot
>on his message, he'd prefer that you not need to open it
>with an external viewer.
>...
Ah. Curmudgeon bait. And bait I cannot resist!
Someone that wants to put a graph
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:55:19 -0700, Edward Jaffe
wrote:
>...
>In which publication/URL are these maintenance classes documented?
>Which publication/URL lists the various access methods and the class
>of maintenance assigned to them?
>...
Creation of the maintenance classes certainly preceded
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:44:23 -0500, Rick Fochtman
wrote:
>... IIRC, BDAM went Class-C on maintenance before the Format-1
>CCW existed. ...
Ok. I have a faulty memory. Please 'splain me again "Class-C".
I vaguely remember back when IBM was going OCO that they came
up with some support classe
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 09:56:23 -0500, Frank Swarbrick
wrote:
>On VSE we are able to build symbolic names for use within FTP
>commands.
>...
>Any thoughts about how I can do something similar using the z/OS
>FTP client program? ...
I haven't tried it, but there is the FTP REXX API where FTP can
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 10:37:04 -0500, Anton Britz
wrote:
>...
>h) Ed Jaffe
>
>You looked too young for your postings on IBM-MAIN. I was
>looking for an older person , that are about to retire.
>...
Yup. Pretty soon he'll be old enough to drink. :-)
Scott Fagen is another one. I expected a gr
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 11:12:55 -0500, Paul Gilmartin
wrote:
>...
>What about:
>
>704 -> 709 -> 7090 -> 7094
>...
They should have mentioned upgrades like that. But to be fair,
the progression you mention is mostly a temporal one (with
overlap, to be sure). The ability for the S/360 custome
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 15:22:26 -0400, Dave Barry
wrote:
>... IMHO, feature-by-feature comparisons are less important than the
>total solution. It depends on how the performance analyst's role is
>defined in your organization.
>...
I'd say that feature-by-feature comparisons are VERY important i
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 10:54:08 -0600, Steve Comstock
wrote:
>...
>> Big Problem.
>
>Well sure, if your talking Character hex; ...
Whew! Glad you got that straightened out. I was afraid we
were going have to find a class that could explain characters
sets, hexidecimal numbers, etc. to you. :-)
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 18:49:59 -0700, Mark T. Regan, K8MTR wrote:
>There is a NetView group on Yahoo Groups that has been in
>operation since 2000.
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NetView/
>The Group Email Addresses
>Post message: netv...@yahoogroups.com
>Subscribe: netview-subscr...@yahoogro
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:22:47 -0700, Edward Jaffe
wrote:
>..."After a September of turmoil in the financial services sector ..."
>...
>...far from transitioning away from Big Iron, customers seem to be
>doubling down."
>...
Those customers left after the turmoil in the financial sector, that is
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:50:16 -0500, Eric Bielefeld wrote:
>... It just seems
>like IBM could get away from the track and cylinder stuff, which
>artificially restricts the amount of storage you use. If you use short
>blocksizes, or long ones that just go over 1/2 track, you waste an
>awfull lo
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:54:51 -0400, Bill Fairchild
wrote:
>...
>In 1982 I attended a SHARE session in New Orleans in which the IBM
presenter said that he had surveyed a huge number of data sets in an
internal IBM development data center, and had found that the single
most commonly used block
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:21:20 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote:
>...
>If there is a block size coded in the DCB macro (or FD), that is the
>block size that will be used. JCL will not override it. Neither will
>the label or the DSCB.
>...
It's worth remembering something said much earlier in this thr
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:34:47 +, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
>>You can't use VTAM messages as a model. NetView and VTAM have a very
special relationship.
>
>The suppression was more than VTAM messages.
>The only reason I mentioned VTAM was because our VTAM/SNA team was
responsible for NetView, as well
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:56:34 -0500, Gregory Pinkowski
wrote:
>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?
>...
The guidelines are not particularly easy to find. I think they are
included in th
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:23:45 +, Ted MacNEIL
wrote:
>...
>We caught our VTAM ex-SYSPROG doing that over 20 years ago.
>
>Any commands he issued, through NetVIEW, were never logged
anywhere (nor the results).
>
>I forget the exact combination, but there were options for:
>NETLOG(Y/N) and
>SYS
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:28:46 -0700, daver++
wrote:
>...
>While this list does tend to be somewhat z/OS centric, my
understanding
>is that it is open to users of IBM mainframes (or similar) without
>regard to operating system. I am fairly certain that there a number of
>contributors to the list
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:21:12 -0500, Paul Gilmartin
wrote:
>...
>The infrequency of use of a facility fails to justify the incorrect
>description. Rather, it aggravates the astonishment factor when
>the programmer encounters the behavior, perhaps inadvertently.
>Suppose:
>
>X. = 'something'
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:36:24 -0500, Paul Gilmartin
wrote:
>On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:21:31 -0500, Ian S. Worthington wrote:
>
>>Regrettably you can only set a default for the stem as a whole, not
for a
>>subset of the variable space.
>>
>It is *not* a default, and Rexx documentation avoids
>the po
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:48:10 -0500, Ian S. Worthington
wrote:
>>> It implements them as a conceptual subset of stems, and
>>> they are indexed with strings rather than by integers which
>>>actually makes them rather more powerful once one breaks
>>>out of the array mindset.
>> I'm not sure
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:03:48 -0400, STEVEN DAHARI
wrote:
>Running an ad is a waste of money and a waste of time.
>The replacers already know what they are doing.
>Economist, if they are worth a plug nickel, know what is being done.
>Elected officials know what is being done.
>The solution lies i
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:39:26 -0700, Edward Jaffe
wrote:
>...
>Austin was a great event. Lots of new and interesting information was
>presented. Hopefully, the proceedings will give those of you unlucky
>enough to have missed Austin a taste of what was presented and
>even more justification to c
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:12:08 -0800, Edward Jaffe
wrote:
>...
>Why would existing definitions suddenly "break" if the length
>restriction on symbolic values was removed? Seems to me that it
>would be a transparent change.
>...
Nothing currently working would break ... until you change a
symbol
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:08:39 -0600, Paul Gilmartin
wrote:
>...
>And to enforce the misguided restriction on other users of system
>symbols is throwing the baby out with the bath.
>...
Miguided nor not, one or more of the above have been thrown
out. You could submit a formal request to have thi
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:42:44 +0200, Itschak Mugzach wrote:
>I RTFMed before asking, but it looked strange to me that the length
>of the variable value is forced by the length of the variable name...
>...
I think the logic was to prevent JCL errors when symbols were expanded.
Whether or not that
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:19:33 -0800, Gibney, Dave
wrote:
> What's not secure about FTP with TLS/SSL or sftp using SSH?
>
If you don't like those solutions ...
and all involved have shelled out big bucks for the base product,
and all involved have shelled out big bucks for the security add-on,
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:58:35 -0600, Chris Mason
wrote:
>...
>The mystery is why CS IP selects an attempt to activate presumably -
if I
>dare to assume anything after this episode! - any interface as an
excuse to
>complain about the IUTSAMEH interface definition lacking an address
defined
>in
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:23:19 -0600, Mark Zelden
wrote:
>On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:48:51 -0600, P S
wrote:
>
>>...your:
>>
>>network folks
>>security folks
>>sysprogs
>>applications programmers
>>?
>>
>
>1) Network folks
>2) Security folks
>3) Sysprogs
>4) Application programmers
>
>:-)
>
>Ok... o
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:14:14 -0700, Mark Post wrote:
>...
>I don't know how successful they'll be, but I wish them well.
>...
I take it, then, that you are an exponent of Mantissa.
Sorry. I couldn't resist.
Pat O'Keefe
--
F
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:13:10 -0800, Frank Yaeger
wrote:
>...
>//SORTIN DD *
>151.123.108.5
>10.251.6.170
>151.123.129.129
>151.123.236.18
>151.123.111.5
>151.123.113.5
>...
>10.251.6.170
>151.123.108.5
>151.123.111.5
>151.123.113.5
>151.123.129.129
>151.123.236.18
>...
A more revealing test mig
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:38:33 -0500, Gary DiPillo
wrote:
>John,
>
>The P command should do it.
>
>On my system, the D A,L command shows that the server is called
>FTPSERVE, so I use P FTPSERVE to shut it down. S FTPSERVE (the
>name of my FTP Server proc) starts it again.
>...
A side comment (
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 07:45:16 -0800, Edward Jaffe
wrote:
>... There are even a few "hand's in" opportunities (noted
>as such in the session titles) that provide an opportunity to
>help shape IBM's direction without the need for those "pesky"
>formal requirements. ...
As someone with a passing i
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:44:14 -0600, Rob Lister
wrote:
>
>A lot of the products I used, Omegamon, Netview, OPC, etc have now
>all been rebranded as Tivoli so pretty much every site I come across
>has Tivoli. Does that mean they just have one or two products and
>still use other vendors?
>.
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:08:50 +, Jim McAlpine
wrote:
>>> Are there "partial" SHARE membership options? ...
>That's the question I was asking.
You may be able to get a SHARE userid and password without
being a SHARE member. I think that used to be available but I'm
not sure it still is.
T
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:08:50 +, Jim McAlpine
wrote:
>...
>>Are there "partial" SHARE membership options? Can one
>>purchase the proceedings DVD for a price without being a
>>member?
>...
>That's the question I was asking.
>
Well, on the SHARE website under "Trial Membership" is says
"If
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:21:16 -0800, Scott Ford
wrote:
>...Control Data Corporation was CDC
>...
>>I don't know what the "C" was for, but CDC ...
Uh, I meant the C in BUNCH, not the Cs in CDC, but I can see
how that might not have been completely clear. I guess.
Pat O'Keefe
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:05:27 EST, IBM Mainframe Discussion List
wrote:
>...
>I thought that the "C" in BUNCH was Compagnie des Machines Bull.
>CDC made mainframe-compatible disk drives, though, I think, but
>not central processors.
>...
I don't know what the "C" was for, but CDC definitely
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:46:00 +0100, Thomas Berg
wrote:
>...
>> I disagree. It ensures everybody is running the same code.
>>...
>And that is the problem.
>If You - as we - have several DB2 systems in the same lpar/os.
>And You MUST NOT upgrade them at the same time.
>The reason for the latter i
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 19:44:51 +, Ted MacNEIL
wrote:
>>Just as a side note, I remember learning long ago to always
>>initialize static areas
>
>Again, basic.
>Again, I agree.
>
>And, I can't understand the defensive stants, of those who
>don't/won't believe that basic programming is wrong!
>
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 15:45:42 -0600, Hal Merritt
wrote:
>Awesome! That was too easy. Now All I have to do is figure out what
was displayed. The FM just identifies the message number as a
response to a display.
>
>GSK01009I Cryptographic status 024
>Algorithm HardwareSoftware
>DES
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:13:03 -0600, Walt Farrell
wrote:
>...
>Assuming you have an application that is using the System SSL
function of
>z/OS (or the Application Transparent TLS function of z/OS
Communications
>Server, which uses System SSL):
>
>(a) z/OS R7:
>http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-
On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 15:31:05 -0500, Tony Harminc
wrote:
>...
>> However it's likely to be liquid gas, rather than water.
>
>Hmmm... probably dihydrogen monoxide. That, or the equally
>dangerous hydric acid.
>...
Or the equally caustic hydrogen hydroxide.
Each of them a liquid gas (when not a ga
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:46:15 -0600, Chris Mason
wrote:
>...
>To which "product doc" package would you be referring?
>...
Chris,
I'm having a bit of a senior moment here, but there was something
that could easily be called a "product documentation package" that
used to be orderable with VTAM
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:55:57 -0600, Chris Mason
wrote:
>...
>A good way to locate the most recent SNA architecture manuals,
>including the SNA Formats manual, is to go to the web page of
>the APPN Implementers Workshop
> http://www.networking.ibm.com/app/aiwhome.htm
>and select the "Documents
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:26:59 -0600, gsg
wrote:
>We are using TMON, but we're looking to replace it. We may go
>back to Omegamon, but I want to see what other products are
>available.
I don't have a suggestion (and by corporate rules, would not be
allowed to make one even if I had one), but I
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:32:35 +0100, Dr. Stephen Fedtke
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>...
>does anybody know/have a simple tool, any freeware or sample
>code, to establish an APPC LU connection in order to perform a
>basic communication test. just to test the principal establishment
>of a connection - like using te
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:39:00 -0600, George Mitjans
wrote:
>...
>19:06:50.63 0090 *$HASP9211 JES2 MAIN TASK NOT
RUNNING 916
> 916 0090 DURATION-000:00:21.02
>19:07:10.69 0090 *$HASP9207 JES2 CHECKPOINT LOCK
HELD 917
> 917 0090
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:55:37 -0600, Rabbe, Luke
wrote:
>...
>I modified VTAMOPTS to give TCPNAME a value.
>...
>Now I want to change it back to the initial value of *BLANKS*, but
VTAM
>won't let me enter a blank or the value *BLANKS* in the modify
command.
>Has anyone ever done this or have
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:47:26 -0600, Lieven Borgs
wrote:
>...
>Does Z/OS 1.8 and above still support the 3278 device type and is
only the
>hardware support for the real physical 3278's dropped?
>...
Others have answered "yes"for what you are probably asking.
z/OS still apparently supports the d
On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:35:35 -0600, Chris Mason wrote:
>...
>In the days when I played with real stand-alone machines, typically the
>old '360s, I seem to remember the "external interrupt" was a plastic
>rectangular button on the face of the machine - probably I have a Model >30
in mind. ...
I c
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 21:06:01 +, Ted MacNEIL
wrote:
>>I guess our mangement forgot to read the definitions. And come to
think of it, that has been true in every shop I've seen.
>
>Yes. But, who carries the hammer?
The management that called for the audits in the first place.
They have no way
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 19:43:51 +, Ted MacNEIL
wrote:
>...
>Also, must everybody reply to the list for surveys?
>...
I believe Darren's rules forbade us from resonding on-list to
surveys, but I think this is one survey that is worth having
public responses.
I expected the majority of respo
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 20:37:06 +, Ted MacNEIL
wrote:
>...
>>> 2. Auditors don't approve; they report on compliance.
>
>>Maybe that's how it works where you live. It is different elsewhere.
>
>True auditors just report on compliance.
>SME's define.
>Compliance officers enforce.
>
>Anything else
On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 10:43:19 -0600, Patrick O'Keefe
wrote:
>...MAXTHREADS ...
>How do we tell if the value is really being overridden? A
> D OMVS,O,A=
>gives no indication that it is showing the address space's parm
>...
Someone here found the answer: D O
We have supposedly told out SAF product - ACF2 to override the
MAXTHREADS parm for a specific address space. After looking at a
dump IBM (Tivoli Storage Manager lvl 2) says we are still using our
BPXPRM value.
How do we tell if the value is really being overridden? A
D OMVS,O,A=
gives n
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:42:26 -0600, Mark Zelden
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>Personally, until there is a supported / alternate "STORAGE" function
>that I can use, I probably won't be doing much with it.Console
>automation packages can be used instead.
>...
I know this is the wrong forum to discuss this,
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:04:13 -0500, Jim Mulder wrote:
>> PLMs.
>>
>> IBM's promise to improve the doc included getting rid of PLMs. That
>> way there wasn't as much information to go obsolete. ...
>
> That's not exactly how things happened.
I assume nobody will be surprised to hear I did
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:47:29 -0800, Scott Ford
wrote:
>... source code and PLMs to understand the workings of a lot of
>the VM and MVS components.
>...
PLMs.
IBM's promise to improve the doc included getting rid of PLMs. That
way there wasn't as much information to go obsolete. We are so
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:10:39 +0100, CAPRON Romain
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>We're currently using the XMITIP freeware.
>Is there any product with a "real" technical support ?
>...
I don't have an answer in any case, but the answer probably
depends on which features of XMITIP are important to you. Which
fe
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:12:25 -0500, Warner Mach
wrote:
>... presentations at SHARE, including "SOA" and
>how to virtualize everything; ...
>
>Over the years IBM puts forth various conceptual "themes"
>that they think are important trends and which, coincidentally,
>involve the purchase of addi
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