Re: Bad joke mobile app for System z

2012-06-10 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Sat, 9 Jun 2012 11:15:01 -0400, Gabe Goldberg wrote: Quick Reference mobile app for IBM System z *that* got my interest - except I read it as Reference Summary ... click on an opcode, get linked t the relevant sections of PoPs; that sort of thing. D'oh. Now, having looked at it, it's hard

Re: Can DFSORT do pattern matching?

2012-05-29 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Wed, 30 May 2012 07:37:11 +0530, #3240;#3262;#3223;#3271;#3254;#3277; #3256;#3265;#3244;#3277;#3248;#3257;#3277;#3246;#3235;#3277;#3247; wrote: What would be cool is a regex pattern engine that DFSORT can invoke. Absolutely. once the tiny detail of invoking the Java class using a (new,

Web post quoting

2012-05-20 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Sun, 20 May 2012 00:44:13 -0500, John Chase wrote: I don't know why the web interface to IBM-MAIN does not allow quoting the original post, ... Bottom right, two green inverted quote marks. Mouse-hover should give a tool-tip. Shane ...

[Almost OT] my raspberry pi thinks it's a mainframe

2012-05-17 Thread Shane Ginnane
Maybe something for John ;-) http://www.designspark.com/content/my-raspberry-pi-thinks-its-mainframe Been thinking of getting one for a while (no, not a 4381 ...) Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: SFTP

2012-05-11 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Fri, 11 May 2012 07:29:50 -0500, McKown, John wrote: But, wait! There is a solution! Dovetailed Technologies By jove, that fella must be on a good percentage of the sale price of that software ... ;-) Shane ... -- For

Re: SFTP

2012-05-11 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Fri, 11 May 2012 21:20:34 +0800, David Crayford wrote: ... - but you can't knock *free* software on z/OS, especially when it's of the quality that Dovestail churn. Perish the thought. I don't believe I've ever disparaged Kirk or their software. Our only jousts have probably been the result

Re: It's feeding time in Jurassic Park . . .

2012-05-09 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Wed, 9 May 2012 12:29:31 +0800, David Crayford wrote: What IBM didn't mention in the Z Summit was that offloading I/O to peripheral hardware hasn't been exclusive to mainframes for a very long time. Careful Dave, you're starting to sound like Craddock ... :o) Shane ...

Re: STCBSST bit of STCBFLG1 of STCB DSECT

2012-05-03 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Thu, 3 May 2012 08:37:59 -0500, Justin R. Bendich wrote: Jim, Walt and Peter -- Thank you very much for your responses. They are truly helpful. Ditto. In rare instances (like this) a thread comes up that I thought I wasn't interested in, and the responses prove me wrong. All too often the

Re: XML Parsing

2012-04-30 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:37:22 -0500, John Roberts wrote: Depending on the answers to these questions, the answer could involve the COBOL XML PARSER, the DotNet DocumentObjectModel (DOM), an outboard XML appliance, or the ISPF Editor. If one has a reasonable grasp of the nuances of regex, I'd be

Re: Mainframe Skills Scarce? (z/OS Mainframe CA Product training ...)

2012-04-27 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:38:49 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: On 4/26/2012 9:09 PM, Scott McFall wrote: MAINFRAME SKILLS ARE BECOMING SCARCE!particularly Systems Programmers. I hear this paradoxical conjecture all the time. If true, why are so many skilled mainframe professionals -- particularly

Re: Confused on DFSORT SORTWK

2012-04-27 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:03:08 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: Well that cleared that up! Now I understand. :-) Yep - always pays to get the definitive answer in plain English ... d'oh Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: The care and feeding of dongles (was: Progress Toward z/OS Personal Use License)

2012-04-25 Thread Shane Ginnane
Hmmm - might get some of us slapped too ... lol Personally I thought this sounded interesting. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9712128.stm As for dongles, they were a lame solution when they were introduced in some other millennium. Hell, I've even had USBs vaccuumed up by

Re: Sclm / PDSE

2012-04-05 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Wed, 4 Apr 2012 23:48:03 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: On 4/4/2012 11:32 AM, Mary Anne Matyaz wrote: I was actually trying to break a PDSE last week, so that I could get an example of the IEBPDSE utility run against a hosed PDSE, and I couldn't seem to break one. I have two sysplexes so I

Re: New z/OS 1.13 Health Checks - Friday Rant

2012-03-30 Thread Shane Ginnane
And, as more than a few members of this list are already aware, you can now also enjoy the pleasures of HC on Linux. Primarily aimed at those of you with zLinux ... ;-) Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

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

2012-03-27 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:17:21 -0500, McKown, John wrote: Every time it rained, they'd be down. Rain would stop and dry out, they'd come back up. Telephone company said I was lying. Sounds like my ADSL link - and man, have we had some rain in the last year or two ... Shane ...

Re: Friday fun: Halon dumps and POK Resets

2012-03-24 Thread Shane Ginnane
O.K., Halon story - only time I've been in a live event. Flew interstate to do a system build as a relatively new sysprog. That meant sitting at the console - probably a 145. So this guy I didn't know walks in puffing on the fattest cigar you've ever seen. Probably done for effect - and it

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

2012-03-23 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 07:12:15 -0500, Steve Dover wrote: Then they closed the data center and made it a call center. Best prepared call center I have ever seen. Sick - seriously sick . ;-) You never get what you need until you don't need it any more. Reminds me of a telecom exchange

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

2012-03-23 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 05:22:53 -0700, Lloyd Fuller wrote: For awhile, every morning we would get a system crash: a hardware crash, the CPU just died. We had a system where intermittently the overnight batch update would die - after several hours. Non-restartable - we're talking old-school here;

Re: Execution Velocity

2012-03-21 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:05:25 -0500, gsg wrote: Can someone please explain execution velocity for Workload Manager, I'd really appreciate it. If you're really asking if anyone can explain the (sometimes bizarre) results, then I think the short answer is *NO*. Not without a lot more data re your

Re: A stupid idea? Using twitter like service for z/SO, et al., event notification.

2012-03-10 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 10:29:51 -0600, McKown, John wrote: I'll admit that my mind is not running quite right today. And how does that make today any different . ;-) I remember a time (not so long ago) when we were assured technology would free us from the shackles of our daytime desk. Yeah,

Re: Backlevel IPCS issue at z/OS 1.13

2012-03-10 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:49:48 +0800, Timothy Sipples wrote: If you're running OS/390 V2R10's IPCS, you haven't stopped running OS/390 on your machine. Which means you wouldn't be eligible for sub-capacity licensing. Say what ???. How does running a module constitute running OS/390 ?. So IBM is

Re: Fwd: User datasets wrongly catalogued under Master Catalogue

2012-02-29 Thread Shane Ginnane
Just uncat them (with nscr) define the alias, recat. No need to mess with the data itself. See RCNVTCAT on the cbt. And yes, it works on SMS datasets as well. You'll need to massage the file RCNVTCAT generates so as not to hit innocent bystanders, but its just a mindless edit. Feed the file

Re: How convert historic STCK to local time?

2012-02-29 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:44:46 -0500, John Gilmore johnwgilmore0...@gmail.com wrote: I cannot be the only one who finds these discussions tedious. C'mon John, at least they tend to stray less than some (most ?) others. ... The table involved is short; it is ordered; it can be searched using

Re: Wanna know (practically) everything in z/OS V1R13??

2012-02-22 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:47:58 +, Bill Fairchild wrote: EXCELLENT job on the Education Assistant. I just skimmed the whole overview section and listened closely to all of a few of the bullets. And an even more excellent job with the new release. Wowzers - 1 TB DASD volumes; executable code

Re: Linux LVM vs z/OS SMS Storage Group

2012-02-21 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:09:58 -0800, Edward Jaffe wrote: To grow LVM physical volumes in Linux for z (RHEL6) we had to one-by-one drain (pvmove) the volumes to be resized, remove from LVM, vary offline, dynamically grow, vary online, reformat and add back to LVM. If not enough free space is

Re: 5 Byte Device Addresses?

2012-02-16 Thread Shane Ginnane
To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods (Robert A Heinlein) Some-how seemed appropriate. Must be time I went back and re-read some of his work. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN

Out damn'd GMT ...

2011-11-03 Thread Shane Ginnane
This would be primarily for the gratification of gil: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-03/time-for-change-gmt-could-be-history/3617226 Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: HYBRID is now In Vogue

2011-09-15 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Thu, Sep 15th, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Jim Marshall jim.marsh...@opm.gov wrote: Has anyone been notified of IBM changing their handles from zSeries or z something to Hybrid something. Nice timing ... Australia today announced a third option on passports for gender - Male, Female and X (I kid you

Re: IOCP RESOURCE coding help needed

2011-09-12 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Tue, Sep 13th, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Mike Myers wrote: I'd love to, but I'm installing a system where there is no prior system, so I have no operating system available to run the HCD. Gawd - the last time I did that was on a new-ship 580. And even then it was only necesary to define a *very*

Re: repairing a corrupted HFS file / *IGW024E HFS DATA SET: xxx

2011-08-30 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Wed, Aug 31st, 2011 at 3:26 AM, McKown, John wrote: You're dead, as far as I know. IBM never designed an fsck for either of their z/OS UNIX filesystems. I was under the impression that the MOUNT itself had the fsck fixing in it. And fsck is typically more concerned with ensuring a valid

Re: [BULK] Re: Roll your own USS

2011-08-28 Thread Shane Ginnane
Now we're getting somewhere. Shane ... On Mon, Aug 29th, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Greg Dorner wrote: Ugly Semantics Silliness -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: Book: What On Earth is a Mainframe?

2011-08-26 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Sat, Aug 27th, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Gerhard Postpischil wrote: In 1984 I built a PC from parts - Intel 386 on an AT format motherboard, with one 5 and one 3.5 floppy. It's not connected to the internet, has never been hacked, and stays up during power outages Ooooh - I need one of them ...

Re: Dynamic ISPF ads in industry magazines

2011-08-13 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Sat, Aug 13th, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Pinnacle wrote: There's a vendor advertisement being posted in many industry trade pubs using the term Dynamic ISPF. Dynamic ISPF is a term I coined over 20 years ago to describe the installation method of using LIBDEFs for your ISPF apps instead of the

Re: file allocation dcb order

2011-08-10 Thread Shane Ginnane
Steve you are such a kill-joy - must be time we had another endless thread about this ... ;-) Nice post though. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: GRS Ring complex on next generation of processors

2011-08-09 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Wed, Aug 10th, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Scott Rowe wrote: I would consider using a base Sysplex across all your LPARs, and have GRS use XCF signalling over FICON CTC. This is a far superior solution over the older style of GRS-Ring, and it gets you all the other benefits of Sysplex. Absolutely

Re: A nice website,go it

2011-08-05 Thread Shane Ginnane
Looks like someone has hacked into John's email system. Did anyone else get this as a privately addressed mail, or merely via the list server ? Trying to work out if they got his contact list. Header IP looks like China. Shane ...

Spam

2011-08-05 Thread Shane Ginnane
My ISP just harvested some junk (supposedly) from John G - a vacation reply. Never had similar (from John). Let's hope he hasn't been using Internet Cafe(s) in B#283;ij#299;ng. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: Spam

2011-08-05 Thread Shane Ginnane
Sorry - that would be Beijing in plain text. -- 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

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Fri, Aug 5th, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Chase, John wrote: Thus was the Concorde left without competition, and restricted to supersonic flight only over the open ocean (whose inhabitants, apparently, are immune to cancer and/or sonic booms). Not quite. It also flew flat out over outback Australia.

Re: I certainly was hacked

2011-08-05 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Fri, Aug 5th, 2011 at 11:41 PM, john gilmore john_w_gilm...@msn.com wrote: The whole operation was very clever. Two booby traps that I was apparently expected to find were backed up by a third; and I suspect that there is a trapdoor I have not yet found. I'm installing a new non-MS

Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

2011-08-01 Thread Shane Ginnane
I must admit most of this thread has made its way into the bin without more than a perfunctory glance. Toms latest contribution does however display admirable patience in the face of intransigence. Kudos to Tom. Shane ... -- For

Re: Another looking for documentation

2011-07-28 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Thu, Jul 28th, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Mark Steely wrote: At one time IBM had a roadmap of z/os version and what you could upgrade to and dates that the version went out of support. My favorite was not available any more. Can't find were it moved too. Any help Try starting here;

Re: looking for documentation

2011-07-28 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Fri, Jul 29th, 2011 at 7:33 AM, zos...@juno.com wrote: My apologies. I hadn't worked with the softcopy librarian before and didn't realize I could download multiple bookshelves with it. Thank you for not giving up on me. :-) I have bookshelves downloading right now. I have a

Re: Cobol - STC design issue

2011-07-27 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Wed, Jul 27th, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Peter Relson wrote: -- intercepting cancel strikes me as a horrible idea. TERM=YES ESTAE(X) routines will get control on cancel and can do what they want. Task termination RESMGR routines (requiring authorization) will also get control but could be

Re: Another looking for documentation

2011-07-27 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Thu, Jul 28th, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Mark Steely mark.ste...@wnco.com wrote: At one time IBM had a roadmap of z/os version and what you could upgrade to and dates that the version went out of support. My favorite was not available any more. Can't find were it moved too. Any help Looks like

Re: looking for documentation

2011-07-27 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Thu, Jul 28th, 2011 at 7:24 AM, zos...@juno.com zos...@juno.com wrote: Hi List, I have been looking on IBM's web site for a downloadable copy of the z/OS softcopy collection for 1.12. Somehow I managed to procure the 1.10 library in both PDF and bookmanager format. My site is licensed for

Re: O/T Pathing the Kernal on the fly

2011-07-25 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Tue, Jul 26th, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Mark Post wrote: Ksplice works, and fairly well, to apply security updates to the Linux kernel. No re-IPLs needed. It's not ready for enterprise use, however, but it might be someday. I suppose that's why Oracle bought the company. Thank you Mark, I

Re: Saving US$1M deploying a cloud on z/Series over x86/ x64

2011-07-25 Thread Shane Ginnane
And for those others of you that object to the marketing gumph IBM presents you with, the paper is available for direct download from Clabby Analytics. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: Transfer files from Z/OS and Linux with conversion data

2011-07-12 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Tue, Jul 12th, 2011 at 9:18 PM, John McKown wrote: One problem is that the z's packed decimal simply doesn't have any equivalent on a Widows (ASCII) based machine. Not to mention the small matter of big-endian versus little-endian. Shane ...

Re: Ads on IBM-Main

2011-07-08 Thread Shane Ginnane
I must admit I've been ignoring/deleting this drivel till now, but anybody pissing on Sam and/or Frank (and their ilk) need to pull their bloody head(s) in. But as Sam just said, enough. Shane ... On Fri, Jul 8th, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Sam Golob wrote: Hi Folks, In response to the following

Re: Z/OS Maintenance

2011-07-06 Thread Shane Ginnane
H - well, I did finally see some hardware fail. C'mon software vendors, your turn to step up to the plate ... Shane ... (I deleted all addresses as otherwise some may see it as disingenuous - gawd knows how) There's that old saw about not fixing something that ain't broke. And the one

Re: Lines, Bars and ... mini-bars???

2011-07-05 Thread Shane Ginnane
Unselectable Storage Segment ... ??? Seems a reasonable acronym - shouldn't cause any controversy. Shane ... On Tue, Jul 5th, 2011 at 9:43 PM, David Cole wrote: So what is the name for the 2G to 4G range of storage? Ok, you guys can go ahead and fight it out. Me? I'm just going to call it

Re: WSC Techdocs down?

2011-06-26 Thread Shane Ginnane
No, it looks broken Cheryl. A search on ibm.com retrieves the same address. Same result too ... Shane ... On Mon, Jun 27th, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Cheryl Watson wrote: I haven't been able to access WSC techdocs for over 24 hours. Is anyone able to get to it? The link I usually use is

Re: more on startio...

2011-06-21 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Wed, Jun 22nd, 2011 at 6:02 AM, Bill Fairchild wrote: Warwick is alive and well in Hong Kong I recall Warwick presenting a paper along the lines Bill was describing to Share here in Aus - similar timeframe I suspect. Full (assemled) listing handed out and discussed in detail. Much fun

Re: UTC offset for dates in the past?

2011-06-16 Thread Shane Ginnane
Windoze runs in time=local. Yep, you read that right ... Causes all sorts of issues in multi-boot systems for folks that aren't aware, and choose to install their Linux systems in the default time=UTC. Every re-boot can cause the (hardware) clock to be reset. And NTP is no help, because the

Re: UTC offset for dates in the past?

2011-06-14 Thread Shane Ginnane
Go to any Linux system and issue zdump -v location-of-interest - text file output can be manhandled over to z/OS in need. Here (Australia/Brisbane) lists from Dec 31 1894 to Feb 29 1992. The latter being the last time our elected intellectual pygmies insisted on (yet another) enforced trial.

Re: 1021 STP

2011-06-12 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Sun, Jun 12th, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Azim Syed wrote: Hi , Please can some one help in this, we have 2 z9 BC machines . We want to install STP 1021 (Sysplex Timer Protocol) but SBM (IBM Rep) in our region saying its withdrawn from Marketing since June 2010. Can any third party Vendor

Re: Continuations (was: My first mainframe experience}

2011-05-31 Thread Shane Ginnane
I coulda sworn you'd said that before ... ;-) Shane ... On Tue, May 31st, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: I hate JCL! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Problems with TSO TEST

2011-05-29 Thread Shane Ginnane
lol We've all probably had times when we've wondered that when we've had maintenance arrive Jim ... Shane ... On Sun, May 29th, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Jim Mulder wrote: As to the performance reasons (in allocation) for which IEFBR14 was removed from SYS1.LINKLIB in SP4.1.0, I have no

Re: Accelerrate your migration z/OS v1r12

2011-05-26 Thread Shane Ginnane
No sympathy from me. Rapidly approaching 01:00 ... If I can figure it out from here, you lot in North America should be able to. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Running a SYSPLEX - what's needed

2011-05-19 Thread Shane Ginnane
I'm guessing your definition of acceptable performance is different than mine. Probably not. As techos we want the latest and greatest with the best speeds and feeds. Having dealt with a few smaller shops, I'm just reconciled to the fact that not all customers are prepared to pay for the

Re: Running a SYSPLEX - what's needed

2011-05-19 Thread Shane Ginnane
Several folks commented off-line that if we only use a single CEC there is no possibility of savings. Planning for Sub-capacity Pricing on z/OS indicates the sub-capacity pricing metric operates at the LPAR level. I did not see anything about CEC limitations. Did I miss something? Toss

Re: Reading dumps with secondary address spaces

2011-05-19 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Thu, May 19th, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Peter Relson wrote: Might that be *HOME*? Yes. Home = Primary = Secondary when a sysabend/sysudump/sysmdump is taken. :-) Of all the people to argue with, this fella just has to be one of those you should choose to sidestep ... Shane ...

Re: Running a SYSPLEX - what's needed

2011-05-18 Thread Shane Ginnane
Anybody asked *why* you need a sysplex at all ?. Not that I'm against it, a base sysplex seems an eminent fit You currently fire up 2 LPARs - let's hope you use GRS (lots of small sites think they can be careful enough not to need it for a sandbox ...). If you already have GRS ring, adding a

Re: Encrypting offsite data ...

2011-05-18 Thread Shane Ginnane
This being the site that a couple of years ago was 20 years into its 5 year plan to get off the mainframe ?. Pity to see another one (finally) bite the dust. With all this (encrypted) data, how are you going to read (most of) it after the box goes away ?. Shane ... On Thu, May 19th, 2011 at

Re: Running a SYSPLEX - what's needed

2011-05-18 Thread Shane Ginnane
If you already have GRS ring, adding a system won't be too big a deal. That's true only if performance doesn't matter. Rubbish. Performance matters to everyone - GRS ring users included. If they already have a ring, they already have a handle on 2 system impacts when they bring up the

Re: Running z/OS On Your Laptop

2011-05-16 Thread Shane Ginnane
LOL - I don't think so. Would take a lot more than that is offering to convince me to fork out my hard earned to go to Melbourne at this time of year. Shane ... On Tue, May 17th, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Eric Bielefeld wrote: I think there was a discussion about running z/OS on your laptop or other

Re: Migration Webcast

2011-05-13 Thread Shane Ginnane
Hmmm - that would be 01:00 Thurs AEST ... yawn Let's hope their site is back up in time. It's not responding to pings at present, and when it was (on a Linux machine) privoxy blocked (presumably) the redirections they are using to get to (e.g) the FAQ page. Found a Windows machine to check

Re: Migration Webcast

2011-05-13 Thread Shane Ginnane
D'oh ... Friday -- 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

Re: Migration Webcast

2011-05-13 Thread Shane Ginnane
For those interested, despite not being listed as a supported O/S, it seems you should be able to view this on Linux. If you happen to have installed such monstrosities as flash and javascript. I keep one such system (normally locked away in a dark cupboard), and was able to pass (all) the system

Re: POHD: vs UTE (was: USS vs USS)

2011-05-04 Thread Shane Ginnane
A least the change in subject got me to read it Kirk ;-) It's a pity the list doesn't support (per subscriber) blacklisting threads/contributors *at the server*. Would save an awful lot of bandwidth. ISTR an OT group was set up a while back. Doesn't seem to have helped. Shane ...

Re: Hercules, friend or foe?

2011-04-29 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Fri, Apr 29th, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: ... That's why my techie needs are now supplied by using and working with Linux/Intel (and hopefully Linux/ARM in the future). What about zLinux/Herc ?. No need for z/VM (although it would be nice to have as well). ??? What

Re: Hercules, friend or foe?

2011-04-28 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Fri, Apr 29th, 2011 at 5:44 AM, McKown, John wrote: ... That's why my techie needs are now supplied by using and working with Linux/Intel (and hopefully Linux/ARM in the future). What about zLinux/Herc ?. No need for z/VM (although it would be nice to have as well). Last I looked SLES was

Re: Mixing Auth and Non-Auth Modules

2011-04-25 Thread Shane Ginnane
ROTFL ... Interesting concept Peter. Shane ... On Mon, Apr 25th, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Peter Relson wrote: ... Curious: Does anyone use SVC screening for its documented intended purpose: -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: Anyone good with DFSORT? Does DFSORT have the ability to multiply offsets that are not known until that time?

2011-04-25 Thread Shane Ginnane
Why ?. From you, I was surprised at your other (preferred ?) suggestions. I would have thought perl a natural fit. Shane ... On Mon, Apr 25th, 2011 at 10:41 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: I will refrain from suggesting a Perl solution. grin

Re: Deleting post

2011-04-22 Thread Shane Ginnane
Morality ... computing ... I thought we'd beaten the (recent) oxymoron thread to death. Or maybe I've just spent too much time dealing with the marketing side of the industry ... Shane ... On Fri, Apr 22nd, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Ted MacNEIL wrote: I've removed the post from the UA archives.

Re: OT but an interesting read for MVS system Programmers

2011-04-20 Thread Shane Ginnane
I haven't tracked the Russinovich blog since he was hired by Microsoft when they bought sysinternals back in 2006. Must be the cynic in me, but I have to question whether an employee can be as forthcoming as an independent developer - no questioning his technical nous. Lots of things can be

Re: What is the point of FFST?

2011-04-19 Thread Shane Ginnane
I probably shouldn't get in between you two exchanging social niceties, but I would be most surprised if *anyone* (IBM included) has used FFST in years. Have a look at the changes section of the manual for example. I thought it was a good idea when I first saw it, but it shriveled away years ago.

Re: CPU utilization/forecasting

2011-04-16 Thread Shane Ginnane
I'm more interested (and concerned about) performance then capacity planning. S ... WLM is basically designed to allow you get the box ticking along at (or very near) 100% without too much angst to anyone. I've found that if you happen to have white space, customers prefer to lower the cap

Re: ZG11-0127 EMEA windows on zbx fourth quarter 2011

2011-04-12 Thread Shane Ginnane
Check the A-P announcement link on the left. Personally I'm more interested in the Linux support. Shane ... On Tue, Apr 12th, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Anthony Thompson anthony.thomp...@nt.gov.au wrote: Not for Asia-Pacific??? --

Re: IBM Announcements Today

2011-04-12 Thread Shane Ginnane
Really ?. quote zEnterprise home-page The IBM zEnterprise System includes the zEnterprise 196 (z196), the zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension (zBX) with its integrated optimizers and/or select IBM blades, and the Unified Resource Manager (zManager). /quote. Shane ... On Tue, Apr 12th, 2011 at

Re: New job for mainframes: Cloud platform

2011-04-08 Thread Shane Ginnane
And how is any of this news ?. (comment aimed at the wider community, not Lynn specifically) Make it happen folks. Shane ... On Fri, Apr 8th, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote: New job for mainframes: Cloud platform

Re: Retired

2011-04-04 Thread Shane Ginnane
Much as I think Java is the spawn of the devil, I fully to intend to look at Dons little baby now that I too have some free time. As for tracking the drivel on the so called social networks - not bloody likely. Shane ... On Mon, Apr 4th, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Don Higgins wrote: Now I still have

Re: FTP question

2011-04-01 Thread Shane Ginnane
Whoa there fella ... !!! One could impute JGs influence here. I don't know how you'd live with yourself. g,d,r Shane ... On Fri, Apr 1st, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: ... It's dismaying how many followups presumed a z/OS client, or imputed facilities present only in IBM clients to

Re: SR might be palatable if (part 1, updating an open PMR)

2011-03-23 Thread Shane Ginnane
plenty snipped what was that Dave was saying ? ROFLMAO Christian asked for input - I wonder if this was sufficiently expansive. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Region size

2011-03-22 Thread Shane Ginnane
I'd tell the SE to go away and come back when s/he has some decent code. Not your problem. Dataspaces have been around for just a little while - then there is all that room above the (not so) new- fangled bar. Shane... On Wed, Mar 23rd, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: zIIPs and zAAPs

2011-03-19 Thread Shane Ginnane
So (once again) the tech support bods (vendor and customer) are dancing around on egg-shells trying to accommodate policy decisions made by sales/marketing/legal droids. Nothing novel there. Shane ... Note that this is not an LPAR limit. An individual LPAR does not have such a limitation

Re: PSAAOLD question - when is it updated?

2011-03-14 Thread Shane Ginnane
Hmmm - not wishing to be rude John, but I'll have a quiet two bob each way on Rob. Shane ... On Tue, Mar 15th, 2011 at 4:10 AM, McKown, John wrote: -Original Message- [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Rob Scott ... From what you are saying it sounds like the products

CA doco - (was: Is RMF Better?)

2011-03-14 Thread Shane Ginnane
Thanks Jeff - I just took the opportunity to do so. Much better. I see a request for feedback on the Documantation page - I may just accomodate them. Shane .. On Tue, Mar 15th, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Jeff Gross wrote: For the CA doc, all you have do is register with your Email and you can get

Re: Is RMF Better?

2011-03-10 Thread Shane Ginnane
Been many years since I have dealt with CMF - (at least) before z/OS I would think. Had some nice additions, but as an RMF user I had no issues adapting to it. But I don't pay the software bills, I just do the grunt work. As a free-lancer, I like to concentrate on the tools I'm most likely to find

Re: Is RMF Better?

2011-03-10 Thread Shane Ginnane
Follow-up to my last post. As an independent, it is useful to keep abreast of the product documentation and problem database(s) for products I may be queried on. Ever tried to do that for CA if you don't have a customer number ?. They have always been anal about that, and on just (re-)checking I

Re: SMF data question - an opinion poll, of sorts

2011-03-04 Thread Shane Ginnane
I'm with Jim on this - don't see the (full) requirement. I've always been ambivalent to XML, but the RMF CIM provider(s) certainly showed it's potential. That's about as much as I need. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: HTTP codepage

2011-03-04 Thread Shane Ginnane
Steve, what codepage you using on the 'net ?. I can't see your responses. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Re: HTTP codepage

2011-03-04 Thread Shane Ginnane
C'mon fella, stay with the game. I got an email from you to the list with content saying it was in another codepage. So I clicked on the (useless) link to see it in all it's glory. nada. So. it's either you or Windoze (which I rarely use) to blame. Shane ... On Sat, Mar 5th, 2011 at 1:45 AM,

Re: If Else JCL question

2011-01-20 Thread Shane Ginnane
I usually keep an IEFBR15 laying around for test purposes. And like Eds', this does as advertised. Best to keep such away from your incident manager ;-) Shane ... On Fri, Jan 21st, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Erik Janssen wrote: We use EXEC PGM=IEFBR15, but the funny thing was when I used EXEC

List spam

2011-01-14 Thread Shane Ginnane
Any/every-one else getting spammed by recoveryknowledge ?. Must have been done as a harvesting of the list as both addresses I use to post have been hit. No way I would have signed up (twice) for DB2 paraphernalia. Probably seen it before and just trashed it.

Re: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook)

2011-01-06 Thread Shane Ginnane
Personally I prefer regex - it would be a doddle in perl/awk/sed ... Shane ... On Thu, Jan 6th, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Martin Packer wrote: Inspired by Peter's mention of REXX and HTML in the same post... REXX could really use a DOM Tree Walker API (DOM = Document Object Model and is how most

Re: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook)

2011-01-06 Thread Shane Ginnane
For a group so comfortable as a community, we should all find CPAN fits like a favourite old leather jacket. Can be done with (raw) regex, but the contributions are available as well. Shane ... On Thu, Jan 6th, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Martin Packer wrote: The received wisdom is that regex has a hard

REXX, the new Cobol ?

2011-01-06 Thread Shane Ginnane
Following on from my (most recent) jousting with Martin ... I find myself inexorably drifting away from REXX. Seems to be the dying language. Just me ??. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: 64 bit mode disabled

2010-12-02 Thread Shane Ginnane
I was thinking something along the lines of; when DB2 wants it, the rest of us will get it. It's happened before. Shane ... On Thu, Dec 2nd, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Tom Harper wrote: I'm not so sure. Many CICS shops have pointed out to me that they are forced to run hundreds of CICS regions for

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