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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Michael Knigge
Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 3:34 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Does a DD-Statement waste memory after dealloc?
All,
I currently try to find a obscure memory leak in
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Eric Chevalier
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 3:47 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Calulators or Computers? (Was: Outsourcing your Computer Center
to IBM ?)
On 13 Oct 2009 07:30:14
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Dave Day
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 11:26 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Ownership of PC routines---what I will do
Has been an interesting discussion. What I originally wanted
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 10:07 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Long parms ... again (was: Reading DD card information)
SNIP
You are missing the point.
Thompson, Steve
steve_thomp...@stercomm.com wrote:
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:Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen
:Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 10:07 AM
:To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
:Subject: Re: Long parms ... again (was: Reading DD
, Thompson, Steve
steve_thomp...@stercomm.com wrote:
Might I suggest that you are being a bit myopic? Or perhaps suffering
from tunnel vision?
APF programs are to be written to a higher standard.
From what you have written, you believe that if someone passes an APF
program you have written
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Behalf Of Patrick O'Keefe
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 2:36 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Long parms ... again (was: Reading DD card information)
SNIPPAGE
Whatever technique used to pass a
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Umamaheshwar Iyer
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 7:48 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: 33 Years In IT/Security/Audit
I started mine on a WANG-VS which was user friendly. After
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Hal Merritt
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 12:12 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Is there any concern when added real memory from 5G to 7G
Apples and oranges.
The only
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Andreas F. Geissbuehler
Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 9:52 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: [turnkey-mvs] turnkey mvs and cobol/jcl environment
SNIP
I second Jo on this and URGE
Seems that Eloqua is Firefox unfriendly, so this link can only be read
from a computer system running Windows and IE.
Regards,
Steve Thompson
-- Opinions expressed by this poster may not reflect those of poster's
employer --
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Doc Farmer
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 8:05 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Dumb Question - Credit Card Number Scanner
Okay, this one came to me yesterday. Somebody asked me if
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Chris Mason
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 8:21 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: ist663i suppression
SNIPPAGE
You may or may not be familiar with the English expression, using a
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Chris Mason
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 1:29 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Catering for ESLs (was Re: ist663i suppression)
Steve
Well, I had hoped it was clear that a simple,
Duly ignored.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Anthony Fletcher
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 5:37 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Test Posting, please ignore
Test only
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 7:37 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: ISPF Counter
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:56:07 -0400, Dave Salt wrote:
The only way you could get the
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 8:35 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: ISPF Counter
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:21:46 -0400, Thompson, Steve wrote:
Why is the sky blue? Why
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Timothy Sipples
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 6:14 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: The Death of Servers and Software
Hewlett-Packard reported its 3Q earnings earlier today:
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 11:58 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Multi-file tape
SNIPPAGE
Thanks. Easy enough. An off-list communication described this:
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Tom Marchant
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 3:54 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: IBM halves mainframe Linux engine prices
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:24:56 -0600, Mark Post wrote:
SNIP
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 4:44 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Multi-file tape
This worked OK on a virtual tape. Now I must make
it work on a physical tape. My EXEC
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Behalf Of Patrick O'Keefe
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 1:41 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: IBM Satisfaction surveys (Was: The Shame Approach)
snippage
[Patrick O'Keefe Kicks open the door]
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Patrick O'Keefe
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 4:15 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Concatenations and blocksizes
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:20:53 -0500, Mark Zelden
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of McKown, John
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 1:40 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: DASD: to share or not to share
SNIPPAGE
It is VSAM Record Level Sharing (not Locking).
SNIP
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 4:12 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: USS misuse (was Re: Mainframe hacking)
Ted
Even IBM used USS ...
Sadly, some IBMers are as careless
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Scott Rowe
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 12:44 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: DASD: to share or not to share
I think the real question here is: Why don't you have a SYSPLEX?
45d79eacefba9b428e3d400e924d36b902557...@iwdubcormsg007.sci.local,
Thompson,
Steve steve_thomp...@stercomm.com wrote:
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Behalf Of Scott Rowe
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 12:44 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: DASD
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 12:40 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: DASD: to share or not to share
As part of our migration to z/OS from z/VSE we have started a
However, I was unable to find this on the US PTO site. That makes me
think that this is filed in the area that is not available for
publication for some months (I forgot the legally mandated number).
So, it appears to not be viewable by the public at this point.
Regards,
Steve Thompson
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of esst...@juno.com
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 8:23 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Mainframe Utility for EBCDIC to ASCII conversion
This may have been discussed before,
Is anyone aware
the writer didn't checking the wind direction ...
Perhaps considering listiquette before posting is to be recommended.
As long as I am attacked on this point, I will repel with equal vigour.
Chris Mason
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:33:15 -0400, Thompson, Steve
steve_thomp...@stercomm.com wrote
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Bott, Steven
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 4:38 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Operator Validation before Executing Command
We recently experienced an outage due to an operator command
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Anthony Giorgio
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 3:33 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Offload work to zIIP with zPRIME
Hal Merritt wrote:
Old days? Still very much so today here in the
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Chris Mason
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 11:19 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Mainframe hacking
SNIPPAGE
The interpretation Howard, Jim and Bruno arrived at is, of course, total
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Arthur Gutowski
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 7:50 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Article Mainframe Stolen
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:19:08 -0400, Thompson, Steve
steve_thomp
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 4:25 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: LE options
There appears to be (at least) two ways to change LE runtime options
system wide.
There's the
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Ed Gould
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 12:34 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: IBM error messages getting worse?
--- On Thu, 7/9/09, Patrick O'Keefe patrick.oke...@wamu.net wrote:
Sorry, that reply was the result of a comedy of errors.
Suffice to say that having multiple displays and M/S deciding that it
will take focus... Well it resulted in the focus changing to Outlook
with the mouse over the wrong SEND button (I had more than one reply
screen up)...
And my thoughts,
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Schwarz, Barry A
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 2:17 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Article Mainframe Stolen
There is no more worse than worst.
SNIP
So does that mean that wurst is
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of R.S.
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 2:42 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Find the computer error
Ted MacNEIL pisze:
Well, my understanding is that American English uses terms
a
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 4:46 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Submit a JCL from within another JCL
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:17:38 +0200, CUNY Yann wrote:
You can
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Lizette Koehler
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 11:42 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Article Mainframe Stolen
From the Palistine Herold in Palestine TX. This was repeated in the
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Bob Woodside
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 3:39 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Find the computer error
On Wednesday 15 July 2009, Roach, Dennis (N-GHG) wrote:
One too many digits
Sent from my Dick Tracy Two-Way Wrist Radio.
Nanny Nanny Boo Boo!
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Johnson, Larry W.
Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 12:11 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 10 Jul 2009
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snippage
I had something to do with that. My concern is that system
programs are usually reading that book at a time when they are
dealing with the gravity of some problem, and may not be in a mood
to appreciate its opposite, levity.
snippage
And we all know how
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Clark Morris
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 3:00 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Planned IBMLink Outage July 10-11
On 8 Jul 2009 10:01:22 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Michael Knigge
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 5:13 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Question about REUS=NONE
SNIPPAGE
But I wonder how to migrate the ASM-Subs nearly painless I could
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Bill Klein
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 10:31 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Fw: Language Environment runtime options and system dumps
I would check with any vendor as to whether this
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Bob Shannon
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 4:57 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Another one bites the dust
snippage
IBM used to give huge discounts to universities. About 15-20 or
I've run into a problem where I have TN3270 sessions attached to a VTAM
session manager.
The problem is this: When the system, where the VTAM session manager is
running, is at 100% for extended periods (5 minutes or more), AND, you
have a TSO session on the system where the session manager is,
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Hal Merritt
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 10:20 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: TCP Settings for KeepAlive
Hmmm.. almost sounds like QWS3270 may be getting impatient when waiting
for
Yes, the common item to this problem is the Session manager. We were
just discussing this among ourselves just a few minutes ago.
If QWS is connected directly to the TSO APPLIDs (as opposed to going
through the session manager first), then these timeouts do not happen.
However, because of a few
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Patrick O'Keefe
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 12:37 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: REXX HI vs HE
SNIPPAGE
This is a hare-brained idea, but I wonder if there could be something
in my
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Jim McAlpine
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 10:05 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Language Environment runtime options and system dumps
SNIPPAGE
Interesting, but it doesn't really help
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Jim McAlpine
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 11:12 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: First ipl of z/OS 1.9
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Binyamin Dissen
bdis...@dissensoftware.com
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Gibney, Dave
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 12:50 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Broken link on web ibmlink
I wanted to make my futile objection to the end of the tn3270 access,
but
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of McKown, John
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 5:36 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: EXEC Above the Bar (Was Large Page Support)
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Kelly Arrey
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 3:07 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX?
Also those of us who compile using the C/C++ compiler
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Robert A. Rosenberg
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 7:54 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: VSE RPG question
At 09:35 -0400 on 06/01/2009, Thompson, Steve wrote about Re: VSE
RPG
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Robert A. Rosenberg
Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 8:47 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: VSE RPG question
AT 16:23 +0200 ON 05/30/2009, GILBERT SAINT-FLOUR WROTE ABOUT RE: VSE
RPG
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Lionel B Dyck
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 9:16 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: service link down ?
I am getting an error code 500 when I try to connect to service link
this=20
morning :(
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Ward, Mike S
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 2:57 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: z/OS STORAGE service
Passing just to itself via a STCM R1,B'',MQCXP_EXITDATA at exit
init time.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Phil Smith III
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 12:36 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: TCB time question
The following is typical output found in the SYSMSG produced by a batch
job on our z/OS
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Phil Smith III
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 1:36 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: TCB time question
Thompson, Steve wrote:
The Friday Dumb Question:
Since I don't know your environment
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL
Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 3:21 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Untouchable architectures( Was: checking for the existence
of a file in batch REXX)
SNIP
Architecture
I have spent quite some time searching for the equivalent of a 3592
Functional Characteristics manual. Or a 3592 Tape Subsystem Hardware
Reference.
I need to get my hands on what the precise command codes (doing EXCP w/
CCWs) are for certain types of I/O, what the response is to, say a
BLOCKID
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of McKown, John
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 9:28 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: vse to z/os migration
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of R.S.
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 9:14 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Where Is a Functional Characteristics for 3592 Tape
Subsystem
Thompson, Steve pisze:
I have spent quite some
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 7:03 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: BLOCK CONTAINS
I have been a bit of experimenting with z/OS QSAM files from a Cobol
program
and I find
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Ward, Mike S
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 8:38 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: BLOCK CONTAINS
What if a new device came out and there was a better optimum blocksize
for it? Wouldn't
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 9:07 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: BLOCK CONTAINS
On Fri, 15 May 2009 09:27:42 -0400, Thompson, Steve wrote:
Welcome to the MVS world
Because of past conversions, I think this needs to be said:
1) VSE/ESA got to use XA I/O just like MVS. This means, to the VSE shop,
that some slick stuff that got offloaded to the I/O Subsystem (shall we
say parts of VM's and MVS' I/O Supervisor code) became available w/o any
JCL or application
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Eric Bielefeld
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 1:02 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: z/Journal Does it Again
I just received another z/Journal email sponsored by Microsoft urging us
to
get
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Anne Lynn Wheeler
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 12:40 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Fw: Re: 308x Processors - was Mainframe articles
SNIP
3033 and 3081 in 370 mode were 24bit
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of K Zafirop
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 8:30 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Accessing a big sequential file
Hi listers!
Do you have any idea on how to get only the last record of a very
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Joe Reichman
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 5:01 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Validating Addrees
Hi
would anyone know if you have a stroage address to determine its nature
e.g. CSA
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Lionel B Dyck
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 5:04 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Test
SNIPPAGE
NOTICE TO RECIPIENT: If you are not the intended recipient of this
e-mail, =
you are
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Rich Smrcina
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 9:13 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Test
Ron wrote:
Funny part is that these type of notices are always at the bottom of
the email.
Having done a few VSE to MVS migrations, let me speak to this at a
conceptual level.
What kind of security risk is it for someone to duplicate a volume with
sensitive data on it? This can be done with FLASHCOPY or physical volume
backup (DSS).
Granted, in a VSE shop, programmers get much more
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Kurt Eastwood
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 10:32 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Using FTP to send loadlib
Hello,
=A0
I have been digging through the OS/390 TCP/IP OE: User's Guide and
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On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:55:15 -0500, Ron Wells
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Subject: Mass Updates to JOB Cards for Account Code Changes
We have been tasked to update the
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Subject: Downloading IBM manuals
Every time a new z/OS operating system level comes along I go to the IBM
Title says it all.
Message I'm getting (this is after I had been logged in for a while):
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Please try again. If you continue to have difficulties, please contact IBMLink
customer support.
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Steve Thompson
Title says it all.
Message I'm getting (this is after I had been logged in for a while):
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Yeah, and my 3270 access is also toast this time.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 2:17 PM
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Subject: Re: Is it me, or is IBMLINK having problems?
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I didn't get it from Gary (although he reminded me of it). I got it
from an old friend who said something to that effect in the mid-70s.
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To:
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Kemosobe
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And you should
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Subject: JES2 exit?
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I don't like doing the above, but management basically wants a rule of
any
job which
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Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 5:23 PM
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Subject: Re: A foolish consistancy or 3390 cyl/track architecture
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:54:09 -0500, Eric
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Behalf Of Paul Schuster
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 4:05 PM
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Subject: SVC 50 (0A32)
Does anyone know what this SVC does? The diag ref manual only says
'reserved'.
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Subject: IBM in talks to acquire Sun Microsystems
This morning's Wall Street Journal is reporting that IBM is
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Behalf Of Jousma, David
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 9:00 AM
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Subject: protecting ISPF dataset allocations
All,
Is there any mechanism or approach to protect a TSO/ISPF user
The problem here is the OP is coming from a ROSCOE environment which has
a control mentality.
The TSO world can have that level of control, but to what end?
Having worked in and with ROSCOE, WYLBUR, TSO, etc. and having done
migrations between different environments (Univac, Honeywell, S/x,
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Subject: Re: FW: SYSOUT dynamic allocation in COBOL
SNIP
(DDName SYSOUT? Not SYSPRINT? Not SYSTERM? COBOL
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Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 6:36 AM
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Subject: Cost of CPU Time
Hello IBM-Main'ers,
I'm looking for some information on how to calculate the cost for
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Lizette Koehler
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 7:32 AM
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Subject: Tape Stealing in z/OS with CBR4000I
Running z/OS V1.9 with JES2, GRS, and CA1
I have a production
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Subject: Re: Pedantic Tape Analyzer?
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:31:09 -0500, Thompson, Steve wrote:
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Subject: 3270 emulator cost
As part of a replacement for a 12 year old system at a customer site in
Japan,
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Subject: Pedantic Tape Analyzer?
Lately, examining a dump of a tape output from SAS TAPECOPY,
I noticed that
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