Re: Brain drain: Where Cobol systems go from here

I'm almost old enough to admit I'm old. I remember a time when businesses would take the brightest young business minds they had, turn them over to folks like Steve (good teachers) for 90 days, and get back ... COBOL programmers who understood the business. Oddly enough, it was those 90-day

Re: Confused on DFSORT SORTWK

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Re: Leaving IBM

Walt, Sad to see you leave. Glad (and more than a bit envious) to see you made it. You go on ahead, the rest of us will try to catch up to you in a bit. Tom Tom Puddicombe Mainframe Performance Capacity Planning CSC 31 Brookdale Rd, Meriden, CT 06450 ITIS | (860) 428-3252 |

Re: Personal: bad news

Perhaps the last round of tests identified a residual cash balance remaining in either your or your insurance company's bank account. May the word acute, properly parsed, describe your nurse. And in the words of my neighbor the dog trainer, HEAL! Tom Puddicombe Mainframe Performance

Re: The plural of 'virus'

Latin is a dead language It's dead as it can be First it killed the Romans And now it's killing me. Tom Puddicombe Mainframe Performance Capacity Planning CSC 71 Deerfield Rd, Meriden, CT 06450 ITIS | (860) 428-3252 | tpudd...@csc.com | www.csc.com This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not

Re: How to get the CPC name on which the current system is running

0xE2C8C9E3 (EBCDIC) Tom Puddicombe Mainframe Performance Capacity Planning CSC 71 Deerfield Rd, Meriden, CT 06450 ITIS | (860) 428-3252 | tpudd...@csc.com | www.csc.com This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by

Re: Converting a DSECT to a SAS INPUT statement?

There's this product called MXG ... SAS-based, reads DCOLLECT, most every known SMF record, a whole bunch of other things, and it's updated pretty near every time an input record is changed - or added. Reasonably priced, too. Tom Puddicombe Mainframe Performance Capacity Planning CSC 71

Re: share mainframe disk experience

I agree - 400,000 SSCH/sec @ .7ms is fast. Curious as to the configuration of both the channel subsystem and the USP-V. Tom Puddicombe Mainframe Performance Capacity Planning CSC 71 Deerfield Rd, Meriden, CT 06450 ITIS | (860) 428-3252 | tpudd...@csc.com | www.csc.com This is a PRIVATE

Re: share mainframe disk experience

% read misses and 9ms response time was a pretty good number also. Ron -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas H Puddicombe Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 5:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] share

Re: PROP instead of POPS, PoO, et al.

Principles Of Operation: POO Principles Of OPeration: POOP Tom Puddicombe Mainframe Performance Capacity Planning CSC 71 Deerfield Rd, Meriden, CT 06450 ITIS | (860) 428-3252 | tpudd...@csc.com | www.csc.com This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete

Re: searchdatacenter.com article

Once. In 1971. Tom Puddicombe Mainframe Performance Capacity Planning CSC 71 Deerfield Rd, Meriden, CT 06450 ITIS | (860) 428-3252 | tpudd...@csc.com | www.csc.com This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail

Re: invitation to paracalls.com - legit or address scraping

I got one and deleted same. I didn't recognize the invitor, couldn't figure out why someone would invite me to join some network instead of just initiating an email exchange. Tom Puddicombe Mainframe Performance Capacity Planning CSC 71 Deerfield Rd, Meriden, CT 06450 ITIS | (860) 428-3252

Re: Significant Bits

Thank you, Shmuel ... I suddenly no longer feel quite so old ... vbg Tom Puddicombe Mainframe Performance Capacity Planning CSC 71 Deerfield Rd, Meriden, CT 06450 ITIS | (860) 428-3252 | tpudd...@csc.com | www.csc.com This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please

Re: Future of MXG?

Good - I'd hate to have to break in a new support technician! Tom Puddicombe Mainframe Performance Capacity Planning CSC 71 Deerfield Rd, Meriden, CT 06450 ITIS | (860) 428-3252 | tpudd...@csc.com | www.csc.com This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete

Re: Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture

IIRC, Arthur Andersen's consulting group. Tom Puddicombe Mainframe Performance Capacity Planning CSC 71 Deerfield Rd, Meriden, CT 06450 ITIS | (860) 428-3252 | tpudd...@csc.com | www.csc.com This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and

Re: AUTO: Leonard Sasso/GIS/CSC is Out-of-the-Office.

I've already filled it with those little plastic peanuts - one for each message received by each member of IBM-MAIN. Tom Tom Puddicombe Mainframe Performance Capacity Planning CSC 71 Deerfield Rd, Meriden, CT 06450 ITIS | (860) 428-3252 | tpudd...@csc.com | www.csc.com This is a PRIVATE

Re: additional processor?

Get a copy of zPCR from IBM (it's a download, the price is right), RTFM, follow the instructions, and you can model your throughput on any z model / configuration you like. Tom Puddicombe Mainframe Performance Capacity Planning CSC 71 Deerfield Rd, Meriden, CT 06450 ITIS | (860) 428-3252 |

Re: Suggested MEMLIMIT value for SMFPRMx

The basic problem is that any control scheme I put in place to protect my system is not perfect. The control scheme cannot be made foolproof because fools are too ingenious. I can take the current production environment and empirically determine the virtual storage profile of everything in

Re: What is System Completion Code FD6?

Yeah, we all faxed you a beer. Tom Puddicombe Mainframe Performance Capacity Planning CSC 71 Deerfield Rd, Meriden, CT 06450 ITIS | (860) 428-3252 | tpudd...@csc.com | www.csc.com This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise

Re: Need single character unique identifier for each system in a sysplex. 0-F is fine.

The number of characters on 1442 printer bar? g,d,r Tom Puddicombe Mainframe Performance Capacity Planning CSC 71 Deerfield Rd, Meriden, CT 06450 ITIS | (860) 428-3252 | tpudd...@csc.com | www.csc.com This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without

Re: Assembler Question

BAS/BASR worked just fine on 360/20 (in 16-bit mode). Who's living in the past? g,d,r Tom Puddicombe Mainframe Performance Capacity Planning CSC 71 Deerfield Rd, Meriden, CT 06450 ITIS | (860) 428-3252 | tpudd...@csc.com | www.csc.com This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended

Re: Assembler Question - AMODE=24

360/20 (vintage 1970) didn't have BAL/BALR instructions, it had BAS/BASR. Tom Puddicombe Mainframe Performance Capacity Planning CSC 71 Deerfield Rd, Meriden, CT 06450 ITIS | (860) 428-3252 | tpudd...@csc.com | www.csc.com This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient,

Re: Memory Instrumentation - was largest parallel sysplex around?

Hi Martin, Your mantra = my mantra Self-documenting systems are absolutely essential. Configuration issues (how much central storage is installed and not allocated/committed) should not require hours of research from multiple sources. Tom Puddicombe Mainframe Performance Capacity

Re: Performance Question - Dynamic PAV

The expected benefit of all performance options is invariably it depends. All you need to know is the characteristics of the I/O workload the mod-27's will be supporting and you'll know how to respond to the IBM peddler's attempt to peddle FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt). If the mod-27 is

Re: Practical jokes for mainframe systems programmers

If that many people misunderstood, it was the author that failed, not the readers. Tom Puddicombe Mainframe Performance Capacity Planning CSC North American Public Sector - Civil Group Computer Sciences Corporation Registered Office: 3170 Fairview Park Drive, Falls Church, Virginia 22042,

Re: z/OS-MVS Control Block Layout - Offsets

No it's not ... just turn the page over, it's toward the left middle, right next to the IOHS g,d,r Tom Puddicombe Mainframe Performance Capacity Planning CSC North American Public Sector - Civil Group (203) 949-1401 (860) 428-3252 (cell) Computer Sciences Corporation Registered Office: 3170

Re: IDMS batch jobs getting increased dispatching priority

When a batch job uses services of an IDMS Central Version, it works like this: The batch job makes a request of the IDMS central version (used to be via an SVC), then waits. The IDMS central version processes the request - at the IDMS CV's dispatching priority. When the request finishes, CV

Re: Bob Richards Update

Welcome back. Your continued presence on this list is greatly appreciated. Tom Puddicombe Mainframe Performance Capacity Planning CSC North American Public Sector - Civil Group (203) 949-1401 (860) 428-3252 (cell) Computer Sciences Corporation Registered Office: 2100 East Grand Avenue, El

Re: ATL drive allocation problem.

Dumb question you've already checked: is the appropriate esoteric defined with the correct address range? Tom Puddicombe Mainframe Performance Capacity Planning CSC North American Public Sector - Civil Group Computer Sciences Corporation Registered Office: 2100 East Grand Avenue, El Segundo

Re: Archives for IBM-MAIN

Darren, If the current archive were to contain the most recent 3 years (roughly IBM's current - 3), I wouldn't complain - as long as I could go to the vintage archive for the moldy older stuff. Thanks, Tom Puddicombe Mainframe Performance Capacity Planning (203) 949-1401 (860) 428-3252 (cell)

Re: ADMINISTRIVIA: Announcement!

I consider it an honor and privilege that you'd continue your service to this newsgroup. Who'd have thought ownership of this newsgroup would expand into a full-time position. Tom Puddicombe Mainframe Performance Capacity Planning Computer Sciences Corporation Registered Office: 2100 East

Re: Logical to Physical CPU ratio ROT (was Re: IXC454I messages)

Far be it for me to add flammable material to an already-raging forest fire, but ... Consider a z9 processor with CP, IFL, zAAP and zIIP processors ... with n LPARs, all with both defined and reserved LPs in case someone invokes CUOD managed by IRD - which can and will (and does) fiddle with

Re: Concurrent Upgrade Puzzlement.

It would seem that the upgrade/downgrade/CUoD microcode change merely sets the limit on the maximum number of physical processors that can be placed in-service concurrently, but will not remove from service physical processors that happen to be in-service at the time the microcode change is

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

IIRC, coding VOL(* * *) - one splat for every candidate volume - works for multivolume VSAM datasets. This is a PRIVATE

Re: RMF Spreadsheet Reporter Overview

Statistician's First Commandment: Know your data and know it well Have you empirically and independently proven beyond any doubt that the range of timestamps in the input dataset meets or exceeds all of the desired reporting interval? Does the date range in the data make more sense if you

Re: Deleting datasets with invalid names

DSN='DOS SYSTEM RESIDENCE VOLUME' Gee, that thought makes me feel old ... This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not

Re: IBM to Break Petaflops Barrier with Blue Gene/P

Probably not. And it probably won't even calculate the exact value of PI g,d,r This is a PRIVATE message. If you are

Re: How to measure actual usage of BLSR buffers?

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Re: latest Principles of Operation

6 minutes later, if coding in APL ... This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete

Re: IBM to the PCM market

Many workloads exhibit a linear relationship between CPU utilization and throughput up through 100% CPU busy. Some do not. Workloads exhibiting these characteristics are not unique to any operating system or hardware platform. Mainframers are used to cramming disparate workloads into a

Re: Dirichlet

But to prove it empirically, now that's a challenge ... g,d,r This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended

Re: Dirichlet

An easier (albeit seasonal) proof: from late autumn until early spring here in New England, I can see more than one tree with zero leaves. g,d,r

Re: ps dataset

Ted, Are you making the assumption that SMS is going to open the newly allocated dataset using an access method (BSAM/QSAM) that depends on DCB information? SMS might open the dataset via another access method (EXCP?) that doesn't give a rip about DCB parameters. The EOF marker isn't

Re: Ibmuser time out.

IIRC, abend S522 is wait time limit exceeded. The limit is/was specified in the PARMLIB member SMFPRMxx's JWT parameter. What's it waiting for?

Re: ps dataset

ISTR that SMS will put an EOF at the beginning of a newly allocated SMS-managed dataset if/when SMS determines that the dataset's DSORG=PS. It didn't seem to matter if this information came from the DATACLAS or DD statement. I don't remember where it was documented, only that I stumbled across

Re: FIXCDS to delete records from mcds

Long time ago (1980-something), someone I worked with discovered that specifying an arbitrarily large BUFSP (829440 for 3390 topology) made a big difference in CA-split duration. BUFND and BUFNI were specified and seemed to cause the appropriate data and index buffer pools to be built and be used

Re: How to Write SAS Output to MVS external file?

Hi Carol, The answer is ... it depends. If you'd like SAS to produce a report (PROC PRINT) in a flat file, you can PROC PRINTTO PRINT=MYOUTPUT; followed by a PROC PRINT DATA=RMMDTL; If you want to produce a flat file with some SAS variables in it, then ods listing close; ods csvall

Re: What is command reject trying to tell me?

I've been a long time away from the entrails of the storage management system, so this may be worth even less than the price you paid for it. If SMS, and if DSORG=PS, then at allocation time, SMS will put a valid EOF marker at the beginning of the newly allocated DASD extent. Without knowing

Re: Forbidding Special characters in passwords

The assumption that everyone has a first name and middle initial is similarly invalid: J. Paul Getty, J Fred Muggs, J. Edgar Hoover

Re: Standalone Dump on DASD

Assume that standalone dump is going to copy the contents of real storage and the live contents of the page datasets to the standalone dump dataset. You don't want to run out: if you do, the one page not dumped successfully will contain the key datum to solve the problem.

Re: Health Checker and RACF

There's 4 dots in the resource name HZS.ZOS1.IBMCNZ.CNZ_AMRF_EVENTUAL_ACTION_MSGS.MESSAGES and only 3 dots in the RACF profile name HZS.*.*.MESSAGES Mayhap the RACF profile should look like HZS.*.*.*.MESSAGES or HZS.**.MESSAGES or somesuch?

Re: http:// mainframeweekly.blogspo­t.com/ What's Project ECL ipz?

s'ok - Shmuel regularly expands my USENET acronym vocabulary ... In this context, I think by PKB he means: Pot - Kettle - Black, a reference to an old adage the pot calling the kettle black.

Re: S237-04 and tapes

The 237-04 is due to the count of blocks actually read not matching the number that was in the trailer label. The error likely happened at the time the tape dataset was created. Possibilities: The tape drive said it wrote a block but it lied (I haven't seen this in a very long time). Tape was

Re: RES: JES2 SPOOLDEF

The JES2 spool is not a multi-volume dataset. Rather, it is a collection of individual single-volume datasets, each residing on a different volume. JES2 Initialization and Tuning (zOS 1.4 and 1.7 both) state acceptable values for SPOOLNUM are in the range from 1 to 253, inclusive.

Re: CKBR Instances on Mainframe MQ/CICS Bridge

I've one CICS region that has two bridge tasks active, but the two CKBRs do not process the same queue. CICS is generally able to keep up with message arrivals. Queue depth occasionally will spike to 20, but will return to 2 or less within 3-5 seconds. This at CKBP transaction completion

Re: DFSMSdss Performance Question

The performance of a single DF/DSS job using OPT(4) will be better than OPT(1). N concurrently executing DF/DSS jobs, each specifying OPT(4) may not be a good thing for overall performance - depending on channel configuration, make and model of I/O devices, etc. - for sufficently large

Re: DFHSM - ARC0521I

I suggest URL http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/bkserv/lookat/ This is a PRIVATE message. If you are

Re: Capping in Z890

One way would be to define a third LPAR. Assign a weight to the new LPAR equivalent to 4/32 of the total of all the LPAR weights. Cap this new LPAR. Put a looping task into this LPAR. PR/SM will then ensure that no more and no less than 4/32 of the total CPU is wasted running a silly loop.

Re: Capping in Z890

CFCC loops very nicely.AFAIK, running a copy doesn't affect zOS usage charges. Creating an IPL-able single purpose one instruction loop doesn't sound like an insurmountable technical challenge. Might even be fun (or not). It wouldn't affect zOS usage charges, either. Happy Friday!

Re: Max # of SYS1.MAN datasets

FSVO 9 and 5 and 6 and 13 and 10. g,d,r This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE:

Re: OT post RE: SDSF profile.

That's our shortstop! This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content,

Re: Mainframe Jobs Going Away

Mainframe jobs going away? They seem to be moving to India, Malaysia, and/or China. I've seen only small mainframes displaced by Unix and/or WinTel. The line between small and big seems to be around 120 MIPS (but is inching upward). Big mainframes seem to just get bigger. Tom

Re: z/OS and z/OS.e support withdrawal dates

The best always wins ... FSVO best g,d,r This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE:

Re: JES2 exit 52 jobclass override

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Re: Mount a tape

And humble too g,d,r This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content,

Re: TIMEMARK and JWT question

Unfortunately, in order to reconnect to an existing TSO session, you need to arrive with the same VTAM LUNAME as before - which is unlikely with TCP/IP. If you attempt to logon/reconnect from a different VTAM LUNAME, the message you get is already logged on, reply logon or logoff.

Re: VSAM freespace 0

A long while ago, someone much smarter than I said that specifying freespace as anything other than (0 0) was a waste of otherwise good DASD space along with the time required to format it, back it up, restore it, reorg it, etc. Leaving freespace evenly distributed through the dataset implies

Re: Can not shutdown CICS region

ISTR CICS needed a terminal definition to represent the console. Been too long now, my memory leaks. This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and

Re: 3390-81

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Re: MVCIN instruction

I just love it when he talks dirty ... g,d,r This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE:

Re: MVCIN instruction

IIRC, the only spinning disks in the 1419 all had little rubber tires on them and were used to move the paper through the machine. IIRC, the only CCWs the 1419 understood were Read Backward, Select Stacker and Disengage.

Re: MVCIN instruction

I suspect both Ed and Art work for software vendor(s). If engaged in product support, they probably spend entirely too much time down in the dumps g,d,r (or, if not actively engaged in product support, know people who do)

Re: Another z9 question

snip /snip Say what are you and Jaffe doing working on Sunday? They're not working - they do this for the pure joy of it. The fact that somebody pays them money to do it is purely coincidental ... vbg,d,r

Re: HASP/ASP JES/JES2/JES3

Is that MXG as in Merril's eXpanded Guide to performance? This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in

Re: Short term paging spike

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