Re: WLM TNG's what order and can you exclude?

2008-09-11 Thread Steve Samson
John, If the job has a constant name, just insert a TN rule for that job preceding the TNG for the rest. HTH, Steve Samson (Yes, I'm still around and lurking) John Mattson wrote: Been trying to figure this one out in the manuals and searching the net, but no luck. I have a few transaction

Re: IBM buys PSI

2008-07-02 Thread Steve Samson
If you can't beat 'em, eat 'em? Dave Jones wrote: This might be of some interest to the folks here http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/24560.wss DJ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Has z/Journal gone to the dark side

2008-04-14 Thread Steve Samson
Tom, I just got the same e-mail and thought the same thoughts. With friends like these Kelman, Tom wrote: I just got an email titled “Legacy Modernization Spotlight”. When I clicked on the links in it they took me to articles that look like they’re in the online version of z/Journal but

Re: IBM sites on Google Maps

2008-04-10 Thread Steve Samson
On the one hand, the ripples in the Hudson seem to be sharper than the cars in the parking lot. On the other, I think I can see Gordon MacKenzie playing his bagpipes at the edge of the parking lot... Flashback over Steve Samson Roger Bowler wrote: On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 18:05:56 -0400, Tony

Re: WLM setup for long running server

2007-12-18 Thread Steve Samson
Miklos, If it is a trusted server, the natural choice is SYSSTC. Steve Samson Miklos Szigetvari wrote: Hi I'm asking for the best practices for a long running server address space. It is an authorization server , pooling a number of sockets. Is it possible , that in an empty , idle

Re: High order bit in 31/24 bit address

2007-11-06 Thread Steve Samson
the HO bit is treated as any other. TSS did not use the sign bit as a signal, just as an address bit. HTH, Steve Samson Mohammad Khan wrote: Mr. Samson, Would you please clarify another point in this regard for me. Is it the hardware that ignores the high order bit or the OS that plays some

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-06 Thread Steve Samson
It's the peril of upward compatibility. If no one took a 24-bit or 31-bit program and bound it in AMODE 64, there would be no problem. Who's willing to take that bet? Steve R.S. wrote: Correct. For an amode24 program, the entire universe ends at address x'00FF'; the next step wraps

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-05 Thread Steve Samson
Radoslaw, A 24-bit program using fullword (24-bit) addresses in a variable length parameter list will have the high-order bit on in the last such address. This bit is ignored in addressing modes less than 64-bit. It is significant in 64-bit mode, placing the address in the dead zone. A

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-04 Thread Steve Samson
zone is necessary in z/VSE for the same reason. Other operating systems did not use the high order bit in the same way, so there is no need for the dead zone in virtual addresses. Has this helped to achieve clarity? Steve Samson , IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote: In a message dated 11/3

Re: WLC, WLM and all the rest: how optimize them ? to Steve Samson - errata corrige

2007-10-20 Thread Steve Samson
Max, I thought a lot about this one. My belief is that WLM does almost nothing on a lightly loaded machine. Unless you performed this experiment many times under rigidly controlled conditions, I would hesitate to draw any conclusions. You did not state whether the elapsed run time changed. I

Re: WLC, WLM and all the rest: how optimize them ? to Steve Samson

2007-09-21 Thread Steve Samson
Max, I realize that I did not fully answer your second question: since passage through periods is based on service accumulation, a unit of work (batch job) accumulating only initiator delay (no service) will stay in first period until it is fully in the system and receiving CPU and I/O

Re: WLC, WLM and all the rest: how optimize them ? to Steve Samson - errata corrige

2007-09-20 Thread Steve Samson
what you asked for. Hope this helps and keep asking. Best regards, Steve Samson Max Scarpa wrote: Resent as there was an error in the previous mail --- Hi Steve and thank you a lot for your replies. I read (I think most

Re: Mir habe' schon widder Freitag

2007-09-16 Thread Steve Samson
Phil, How does one find the material alluded to in the last paragraph? Phil Payne wrote: And I'm off to see Carnival at the Broadfield in the excellent company of not-mad-Alison. http://www.isham-research.co.uk/fb/index.html Been a fun couple of weeks. For students of the IBM vs PSI

Re: How old are you?

2007-08-02 Thread Steve Samson
Gotcha beat. I'm 70. Steve Samson Steve Comstock wrote: Stephen Wolf wrote: I turned 61 this year (same as Gorge W. and William J.). DO I hear 62? Jeez! I turned 63 in March. I _can't_ be the oldest guy on the list, can I

Re: Suggestions for New Laptop.

2007-07-24 Thread Steve Samson
Firefox has an add-in called IE Tab which will open a URL with IE as the rendering engine. It works with Windows Update and other IE-oriented pages flawlessly. Cheers, Steve Samson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23 Jul 2007 17:05:35 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Gould) wrote

[Fwd: Re: Multiple TSO logons]

2007-06-17 Thread Steve Samson
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Re: WLM problem

2007-06-11 Thread Steve Samson
and at least one Redbook on the subject. If you need something else, let me know and I can send you some of my presentations. You might also want to get my softcopy book, MVS Performance Management. Let me know and I'll give you a link to purchase it. Good luck! Steve Samson Tommy Tsui wrote: Hi

Re: Help settle a job title/role debate

2007-05-09 Thread Steve Samson
you called to order manuals, as all of them with half a brain were pulled into the S/360 development effort. Just my opinion and recollections... Steve Samson Bruce McKnight wrote: Greetings all, What is the difference between a systems engineer and a systems programmer? I'm referring

Re: Leann and Mean: 150,000 U.S.layoffs for IBM?

2007-05-05 Thread Steve Samson
... not to mention that F.X. Cringely is a notoriously inaccurate and fanciful rumor monger. This time, we SHOULD consider the source. I buy Phil's analysis. Cheers, Steve Samson Phil Payne wrote: I don't believe a word of it. I _might_ if persuaded believe a couple of the full stops

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

2007-04-24 Thread Steve Samson
My recollection is different. SVC 99 (Dynamic Allocation) was a necessary element of the TSO infrastructure. When TSO went GA, SVC 99 had to be there. TSO was available when I moved from New York to Poughkeepsie in 1972. Steve Samson Staller, Allan wrote: snip [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clem

Re: z/OS V1R8 WLM CICS Performance Observation

2007-02-27 Thread Steve Samson
Jim, There's not enough information yet. Are you running CICS with response time goals? Are they being met? If you are using velocity goals only, are those goals being met both before and after the queue buildup? Input! Input! Steve Samson Jim Marshall wrote: We run CICS TS ADABAS

Re: IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones

2006-12-14 Thread Steve Samson
If the current contribution supersedes or outweighs what came before, top posting is clearly superior. This assertion of course illustrates the foolishness of such rules. Charles Richmond wrote: Howard Brazee wrote: On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:54:23 -0500, CBFalconer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: RENT and REFR -- Real Intent v. Actual Use?

2006-10-26 Thread Steve Samson
Tom, I don't know when RENT changed, but here's how it was born. This passage was OCR'd from GC28-6535-0 (OS/360 Concepts and Facilities, copyright 1964) Note that the idea of REFR wasn't around at that time. (I think that REFR was added when some boy genius proved that a self-modifying

Re: WLM profile for Tomcat job/started task

2006-07-12 Thread Steve Samson
Markus, Sorry, WLM can't do it. If you have OMEGAMON, you can use a command to make any address space nonswappable. Similar products may offer the same capability. Steve Samson damonty wrote: Hi I'm running a tomcat webcontainer in JZOSVM (java for zos) environment as started task. I

Re: Musings on a holiday weekend

2006-07-04 Thread Steve Samson
Dunno if it was C++ for sure, but there was a lot of borrowing from some object-oriented programming language. Andy Wood wrote: On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 10:39:48 -0700, Steve Samson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Complexity? Blue sky? FS was the champion. From where I sat in FS Architecture in the 1973

Re: Musings on a holiday weekend

2006-07-03 Thread Steve Samson
in VS2 marketing support. Your recollection may differ. That's OK. Steve Samson Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote: While FS was incompatible ... there were lots of other issues. It was extremely ambitious with seemingly every blue-sky concept that ever existed being thrown into the pot. At the time, I

Re: Identify Paging Datasets

2006-06-29 Thread Steve Samson
Bob, Did you really do that and remain conscious through the whole book? Cheers, Steve Richards.Bob wrote: Howard, When I was a newbie, I read the MVS Init and Tuning manual cover to cover. That held me in good stead for many, many years. Try it and see! Bob Richards

Re: fewer/faster vs more/slower in same plex

2006-05-23 Thread Steve Samson
Jerry, Now would be a good time to move to response time goals for CICS (before the upgrade). In the mixed environment, the achieved velocities may vary widely, but the RT goals should be met on either platform. Good luck! Steve Samson J Ellis wrote: We are going to have a 2094-604- 4

Re: fewer/faster vs more/slower in same plex

2006-05-23 Thread Steve Samson
Chris, I am enjoying retirement greatly--keeping busy playing bridge a lot more than any time since college. I still get my daily fix of IBM-MAIN and am happy to contribute when I can. What's new with you? (answer off-list if you want) Cheers, Steve Craddock, Chris wrote: --- I

Re: Offensive Language

2006-04-27 Thread Steve Samson
Must be the umlaut. Ted MacNEIL wrote: small town in Austria named F**king Pronounced ficking! - -teD -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message:

Re: WLM Service Definition for DDF Thread

2006-04-24 Thread Steve Samson
transactions are more important or much more numerous than the others, put the MANTIS rule as the first level 2, to save some minuscule increment of processing time. The asterisk catcher is unnecessary here. It was a leftover from the days of implicit classification of STCs. Cheers, Steve Samson

Re: IRA400E

2006-04-07 Thread Steve Samson
on this problem. Good luck! Steve Samson Mark Steely wrote: Several day ago we received the following messages: IRA400E 04,PAGEABLE STORAGE SHORTAGE IRA403E PXXX SWAPPED TO RECLAIM PROCESSOR STORAGE; 001759 PAGES 000117 FIXED etc... Then we received: IRA401E 04,CRITICAL PAGEABLE

Re: IRA400E

2006-04-07 Thread Steve Samson
Sorry folks. I must have just gotten up from a nap when I read the original message. Shane, no trout fishing here, just bridge and taxes. Cheers, Steve Knutson, Sam wrote: We are talking about a shortage of PAGEABLE storage not paged storage. Nothing Mark can do with his PAGE data sets is

Junk mail from this sender

2006-01-20 Thread Steve Samson
and worms. Thanks, Steve Samson -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

Re: Dead Beef

2005-08-22 Thread Steve Samson
Kinda hard to create with hex digits... Ed Gould wrote: On Aug 22, 2005, at 9:41 PM, Paul Hanrahan wrote: FREEBEEF sounds good to me. Dead or alive doesn't matter to me. Dave Potter's dad owned balogna factory. Dave new all about dead beef. Anyway thanks for being patient with my off topic

Re: z/OS 1.7 manuals on the Web.

2005-08-11 Thread Steve Samson
No sign of PDF availability yet. Steve Samson McKown, John wrote: I don't remember anybody mentioning this, but the z/OS 1.7 manuals are available at http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/Shelves -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer UICI Insurance Center Information

Re: ILR005E PLPA PAGE DATA SET FULL

2005-07-25 Thread Steve Samson
and the messages manual explanation were not so obtuse. (The sizing recommendations in the Initialization and Tuning Guide should be revisited as well.) Maybe a doc change would make the issue go away for good. FWIW, Steve Samson Ted MacNEIL wrote: .. Your disk technology makes the single pack PLPA

Newsgroup signup

2005-06-27 Thread Steve Samson
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Re: WLM using default service classes - RESOLVED

2005-06-01 Thread Steve Samson
... Cheers, Steve Samson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to all who responded, especially to those who offered to look at my WLM specifications. Here's what happened: I had specified a couple of System Name Groups (SYG's), something I had not done in this policy before. It turns out that if a task

Re: WLM - separate goals for CICS TOR and AOR initiated transactions?

2005-05-26 Thread Steve Samson
to fix it? Cheers, Steve Samson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello fellow listers. We currently have 2 WLM service classes defined for CICS and managed to transaction-based goals. One is for transactions entered via TOR regions, classified by SI (Subsystem Instance), i.e. by CICS region. The other