Finding Aliases? Symbolic Aliases?

2005-11-08 Thread Peter Pfaffner
Nobody answered so I'll jump in: Gil wrote: I'm considering, as an alternative to compress, a tactic of copy/rename/ DEFINE ALIAS. ... Experiment shows that when I do the rename; create new version; DEFINE ALIAS; their aliases continue to refer to the obsolete content by its new name rather tha

IBMMAIN Strategy Develoment

2005-08-16 Thread Peter Pfaffner
Well, gentle listers, I've learned some of the lessons. YES, our BUILD process is quite different and cruical to sucess. But this is a chicken-and egg discussion. If we do need BUILD-Support we HAVE to participate and create it. No matter what it is based on (SCLM, SMP/E etc) WSED is too expen

IBMMAIN Strategy KnowledgeBase

2005-08-16 Thread Peter Pfaffner
Hi again, just needed some time to sort posts to the original thread (news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): My first impression is, that Wiki's are well known by some listers and are highly accepted by them. Special thanks to (in alphabetical order, I love movies :-): Ian Metcalfe, Jantje and Rob Wunderl

IBMMAIN Strategy Base

2005-08-15 Thread Peter Pfaffner
orm for DEV+BUILD - and this might be not trivial because of several early design desicions but should be a no-brainer for professionals OK, 'nough said, to start a fair and open discussion. PLEASE take this subject for flame and stay away

the standalone CF vs ICF debate

2005-08-15 Thread Peter Pfaffner
Jan wrote: In this kind of discussions, you have believers and non-believers (whatever arguments are advanced by the other clan), it's like a religious war. I have 3 questions. Q1. Are you a sysplex-er which went the ICF-only way (by applying (more than probably) System- or User-Managed Duplexin

Proposal (was: Wouldn't it be WIKI and SourceForge time?)

2005-08-15 Thread Peter Pfaffner
Hi all gentle listers, thank you very much for all the substantial responses (even good or bad) and I'm looking forward for much more ;-) But may be I made a substantial design error in my question. Even though it had a Friday afternoon title I wanted to discuss the general future of our communi

Wouldn't it be WIKI and SourceForge time?

2005-08-11 Thread Peter Pfaffner
First of all, sorry for the double post. The first one I posted short before midnight and didn't see it in the morning. I didn't wear my eyeglasses or whatever happened. Sorry for that. But know back to subject: I did expect some harsh criticism/responses and I'm not sure about my official react

Wouldn't it be WIKI and SourceForge time?

2005-08-11 Thread Peter Pfaffner
Hi all gentle listers, I'm a MVS/OS390/zOS professional for many years (oops more than 25, but STILL under 50 ;-). One thing that bothers me for at least 2-3 years, following many discussions about the future of the "MVS"-Platform, is the slow adoption rate to new technologies for OUR use. If we

Wouldn't it be WIKI and SourceForge time?

2005-08-10 Thread Peter Pfaffner
Hi all gentle listers, I'm a MVS/OS390/zOS professional for many years (oops more than 25, but STILL under 50 ;-). One thing that bothers me for at least 2-3 years following many discussions about the future of the "MVS"-Platform (I hate marketing bull..it) is the slow adoption rate to new techn

MVS - Cobol-Java Out of Memory Issue

2005-08-10 Thread Peter Pfaffner
SK wrote: But even without the using the NewStringPlatform JNI call, the code runs out of memory in the manner as mentioned earlier. I had tried to find some kind of information related to this but in vain. Well, like USS stuff Java integration is not documented very well :-) AFAIK it is necess

FICON Express2

2005-08-10 Thread Peter Pfaffner
Salah Balboul wrote: How can you tell if the FICON Express2 is operating at 2Gbit/Sec speed? They are connected to a 2105 device type. Nobody answered, so I jump in :-) AFAIK FiconE2 is compatible with equal/slower speeds of other Ficon-Adapters because it uses auto negotiation for speed. So it

RSVNONR -DB2

2005-07-24 Thread Peter Pfaffner
Hi all, I tried to read and understand everything posted ;-) But there is only one baseline. Do not recycle DB2 unnecessarily There's no need to do so. If SAP/Peoplesofr and some other really tough applications are happy, you're applications should confirm. If not, they're worse, and this

RSVNONR again

2005-07-24 Thread Peter Pfaffner
Radoslaw wrote (partially quoted): As I understood the manual, the address space is marked as unusable not to the end of life, but until all other address apces which co-operated with my a/s are ended. Am I right ? Well Radoslaw, AFAIK quite close, but far more complex. Please let me try to e

Re: Newbie doubt about Supervised State

2005-07-24 Thread Peter Pfaffner
Roland wrote: Same apply to Cobol but also require an assembler prog to issue the MODESET. We have one to create system name token. Hi Hacker ;-), don't try to teach newbies the wrong things !!! It's really dangerous what you are doing, especially if they (the newbies) don't know the things y

Sysplex X RACF

2005-07-04 Thread Peter Pfaffner
Rosangela wrote: Can I have one sysplex in two machines with any Lparts at in more than one place, but the Lpars machine 1 not look machine 2, but >same racf using the sysplex; or I need will do installation of RRSF? Rosangela, I really tried hard to figure out your question but I'm not sure wh

CSRCTABL pointed by ECVTCTBL

2005-07-04 Thread Peter Pfaffner
Roland wrote: I would report usage in SHOWzOS but don't know which slot is assigned to whom.. Hi Roland, unfortunatly no chance :-( AFAIK there is no public repository (There may be an internal vendors-only one). But good vendor code uses eye catchers. May be you could print the first 16/32 byte

Hardware compression Software

2005-05-11 Thread Peter Pfaffner
Salah wrote: The book mentions Hardware Assisted Data Compression as a standard feature, however the corequisite software is needed. No mention of that corequisite. Searched IBM and found nothing to point to that software coreq. Any ideas? Well, this usually means that you need some software makin