CA Splits - Clearing CIs

2008-02-22 Thread Ron Ferguson
. We're cruising these days on a 42' Nordic Tug (www.nordictugs.com), built locally here in good 'ole Anacortes, WA. And no, the VSAM reference book doesn't go with me. Take care everyone. Ron Ferguson -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: VSAM Internals

2006-05-12 Thread Ron Ferguson
of VSAM Manager to you, at no cost, and then help you analyze the file in question. Respond back to me with an offline e-mail and we can discuss this further. Best regards, Ron Ferguson CR+ Product Architect Mainstar Software Corporation www.mainstar.com [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: DFHSM - BCDS QUESTION

2006-05-04 Thread Ron Ferguson
Storage Management. After reading this White Paper, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to write to me (offline if you wish, at [EMAIL PROTECTED]). I hope this helps. Ron Ferguson Mainstar Software Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.mainstar.com

Re: Disaster Recovery, order of things

2006-04-05 Thread Ron Ferguson
ICF catalogs and tape management system database), then you can start the DB2 system recoveries, followed by the applications themselves. Best regards, Ron Ferguson Mainstar Software Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.mainstar.com

Re: ICF Catalog with lots of redundant datasets

2006-03-26 Thread Ron Ferguson
understand what you're asking, drop me a note (on the Listserv, or privately). Ron Ferguson President and CEO Mainstar Software Corporation www.mainstar.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: ICF Catalog with lots of redundant datasets

2006-03-26 Thread Ron Ferguson
it, you'll have problems with the catalog for some totally unrelated reason, and now you have 8,000+ data set entries that only complicate the situation. Take care, Ron Ferguson Mainstar Software Corporation www.mainstar.com [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Enhanced Catalog Sharing

2006-03-21 Thread Ron Ferguson
eLesson, but we'll include all previous eLessons. While ECS is not one of the course topics, we might add it as a seventh eLesson Best regards, Ron Ferguson President and CEO Mainstar Software Corporation www.mainstar.com -- For IBM

ICF Catalog Training

2006-02-01 Thread Ron Ferguson
, at: http://www.zjournal.com/News.asp?NewsID=1343. If you want more information about the course content, you can post your questions offline to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ron Ferguson President and CEO Mainstar Software Corporation www.mainstar.com

Re: IMBED in R8

2005-09-29 Thread Ron Ferguson
, at no charge, to run this command against any catalog to remove IMBED and/or REPLICATE, and to make any attribute changes. Let me know offline if this is of interest to you. Best regards, Ron Ferguson Mainstar Software Corporation President and CEO CR+ Product Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED

VSAM KSDSs: To Reorg or not to Reorg

2005-07-06 Thread Ron Ferguson
Hello listserv members, Mark Thomen really hit my hot button on his last response: Ask Ron Ferguson who preaches don't reorg based on split counts, or check out the VSAM Demystified Redbook. Or do your own studies. Which is better - downtime for a major application, or reorging a file