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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Mark Zelden
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 10:44 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Release 6.1 of IBMLink
Let's hope the authentication problems are a thing of the past.
From the IBMLink main
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of David Cole
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 1:17 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Controlling the execution sequence of dependant jobs in
JES2 (a suggested fix)
As noted in my prior post, I
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Edward Jaffe
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 4:38 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Harry Yudenfriend - IBM Fellow
Ted MacNEIL wrote:
Who is Harry Yudenfriend?
The z/OS IOS guru.
SNIP
Follow up:
One of my co-workers showed me two things, for programming purposes:
IHAPDSKeyword controls if BLDL expansion or not
ISPDSTAT In the ISPF/PDF macro library
Regards,
Steve Thompson
-- All opinions expressed by me are my own and may not necessarily
reflect those of my
I have been scanning manuals (IBM online) and various books here in my
office.
I know that IBM, somewhere, defines the Directory User area where ISPF
writes statistics information.
Could someone point me to the layout of this area?
Regards,
Steve Thompson
-- All opinions expressed by me are my
STATS - Defined Where?
Thompson, Steve wrote:
I have been scanning manuals (IBM online) and various books here in my
office.
I know that IBM, somewhere, defines the Directory User area where ISPF
writes statistics information.
Could someone point me to the layout of this area?
It's
I have been searching IBM-Main, and the current PoOP, as well as a few
Migration manuals.
Where does IBM state that this or that feature/function is the minimum
requirement for a given release of z/OS?
I am trying to take advantage of some new instructions, but I have to
make sure that they
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Steve Comstock
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 3:55 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Where do I find Instruction/Function Defs
Edward Jaffe wrote:
Thompson, Steve wrote:
I have been
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Gary Green
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:15 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Another one bites the dust.
As the subject says...
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Hal Merritt
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 4:03 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Connect:Direct (NDM) CPU Usage
My test results differ. I've seen upwards of 60% over some very large
pipes.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Todd Burrell
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 2:24 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: 3420 old tapes
--part-8eaESvSN5abbYQ7dIJvWcCFUpBaxuqMmA0CLvzTGoZnc3
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Martin Kline
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 9:13 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Supported Documentation
Does anyone know why IBM refuses to update their documentation any more?
Once
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Alan Altmark
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 5:33 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Planned IBMLink Outage April 25 - 26
SNIP
Everyone needs In case of emergency, break glass. Here is the
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Timur Alpaslan
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 9:11 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: ATT Network Client Connection Problems
Hi all!
Today I'm away from the office/home and try to connect to
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of McKown, John
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 9:55 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: COBOL / VSAM question.
I don't like what we are doing, but since when did that matter?
We have a COBOL batch
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of David Logan
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 11:35 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: FW: Workable Mainframe Debuggers
I was wondering if there are any function debuggers on z/OS these days.
Our
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 1:46 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Workable Mainframe Debuggers
If the OP is also interested in post-mortem dump analysis tools (as
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of David Eisenberg
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 1:17 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: TIOT filling up: too many dynamic concatenations
Anyone,
I have a mainframe assembler application which
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Kelman, Tom
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 2:28 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Software cost savings from a zIIP
This has been cross posted to the MXG-Listserv.
=20
We will be moving
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Eric Bielefeld
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 2:44 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Another one bites the dust.
Martin,
I'm sorry to hear you shut your MP3000 down for good. We had the
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of McKown, John
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 7:49 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Link for I-Series?
SNIPAGE
Try this:
http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/
Very good people there!
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Patrick O'Keefe
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 3:23 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: SVCDUMP processing question
I need remedial training in MVS disagnostic techniques. :-(
I seem to have
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Bob Rutledge
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 4:54 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: SVCDUMP processing question
Thompson, Steve wrote:
snip
QUIESCE is a new one on me, and I can't find
Is there an equivalent list server for the AS/400 systems as we have
here with IBM-Main?
I have this ugly feeling I'm going to need it.
Regards,
Steve Thompson
-- All opinions expressed by me are my own and may not necessarily
reflect those of my employer. --
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Joel C. Ewing
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 11:02 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: ISPF Backup Files
Also look at prior discussion on this list for ispf edit recovery from
May 2007:
For
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of McKown, John
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 12:54 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Stupid? MS patent
SNIPAGE
This does not sound very innovative. CA' CAS9 does something similar.
IFAPRDnn
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Steve Grimes
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 10:02 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Changing the MF IP Address
Hello,
I'm going to a meeting next week where I will advocate moving our MF
behind
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of McKown, John
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 10:04 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Convert EBCDIC to ASCII in batch?
I cannot think of an easy way to do this, so I thought that I'd ask. I
I was going through all the files associated with one of my TSO IDs and
I found a number of ISPF Backup datasets that have been archived.
How or why would these get orphaned (if they have been archived, I
consider them orphaned)? The format of the names is:
userid.ISRn.BACKUP which matches
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Eric Bielefeld
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:06 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: ISPF Backup Files
I believe that the way you described the backup datasets is the way it
works. If
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Kirk Talman
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:44 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: ISPF Backup Files
Thanks for APAR info.
SNIP
And that goes for me, as well as for the link to the
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 6:09 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Disclaimers
Ted, I like you, but you're guilty of starting this thread. ;-)
Yes, I am.
If it offends you,
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Kirk Wolf
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 6:00 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Legal Issues with WEB
I'm not familiar with the specific patents in question, but it should be
obvious by now
Anyone see this or run into such issues?
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic;
articleId=9067863source=NLT_PMnlid=8
(watch wrap)
Regards,
Steve Thompson
-- All opinions expressed by me are my own and may not necessarily
reflect those of my employer. --
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Peter Relson
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 6:45 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Is PSATOLD always zero when in SRB mode?
The answer is yes.
But you might want to ask the converse
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Howard Brazee
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 2:23 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: SDSF User Manual
On 4 Mar 2008 12:03:30 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Schwarz, Barry
A) wrote:
I've never
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Chase, John
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 8:47 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: zIIP API for ISV's
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Gerhard Adam
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 5:16 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Price of CPU seconds
That example stated that $800 per CPU/hr was the cost for a machine
(undefined
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:42 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Price of CPU seconds
If all other things are equal, the cost per CPU second for a machine
with two
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 1:32 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Replacement for CA - TPX - Session Manager?
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:30:44 -0600 Todd Blandford
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Miklos Szigetvari
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 8:53 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Price of CPU seconds
Hi
If someone can tell me the price of a CPU second in a larger z/OS system
(we
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Miklos Szigetvari
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 9:30 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Price of CPU seconds
Hi
For me this more or less clear.
I have here a number of collegues
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Cal McCracken
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 9:36 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: IBM contact for documentation servers?
IBM recently (a couple of weeks ago) implemented a slightly new
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Gerhard Adam
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 12:50 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Price of CPU seconds
SNIP
One of the other examples uses $0.22/second which results in nearly
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Pat Mihalec
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 9:44 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Question on Out Sourcing
I know this but I needed it from someone else to show the current
director.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Pat Mihalec
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 4:16 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Question on Out Sourcing
I have a question on Out Sourcing. When you sign a contract does that
mean you no
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Martin Packer
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 4:40 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Javascript disabled in Firefox. Was Re: redirect.www.ibm.com
(IBMLink)
Remind me why you'd run Firefox
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 7:55 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Why isn't OMVS command integrated with ISPF?
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:15:35 +0100, Lindy Mayfield
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Patrick O'Keefe
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 2:48 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: VSAM Surprise
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 08:38:52 -0800, GAVIN Darren * OPS EAS
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was in IBMLink 2000 and it failed while trying to pull up an open ETR,
giving a panel that says Request for entitlement followed by more
text and Internal Server Error.
So I decided to switch over to the purple screen system. It doesn't
recognize my password. So the support person tried to
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Dean Montevago
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 1:03 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: IBM Link is Down -- Even the 3270 Purple Screen
I got the same thing this morning when accessing
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Dave Kopischke
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 11:47 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: IBM Cuts Employee Salaries
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:57:35 -0600, Ed Gould wrote:
What wasn't posted was
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of David Andrews
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 3:28 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: IDC3009I return code *5*??
I did a LISTC VOL against one of my catalogs today and was rewarded in
part with
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Carl Edwards
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 10:40 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: IDCAMS Repro vs ICETOOL
We have a series of jobs that use IDCAMS to move data from one platform
to another.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Lizette Koehler
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 9:50 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Extra Session and the clock symbols
I have a client using EXTRA and they are confused by the two clock
Try to copy a VB 125 to a VB 140 and see what happens.
Then go read APAR OZ72277. Make sure you do not have a mouth full of
some beverage.
Regards,
Steve Thompson
-- All opinions expressed by me are my own and may not necessarily
reflect those of my employer. --
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Peter X. DeFabritus
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 2:47 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: IEBGENER is BROKEN
Steve, are you really concerned about a 24-year-old APAR?
SNIP
I'm concerned
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Dave Thorn
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 2:46 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Worst Predictions of All Time
She forgot the one from the half wit who predicted the date time of
the
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of gah
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 4:18 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: CRBE, CRJE, and WYLBUR
Someone wrote:
Back in the sixties American Management Systems sued IBM for
giving away
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Knutson, Sam
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 9:02 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: CA support site DOA this morning
Argh! CA Support Connect is DOA this morning...
Notice
The site you are
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Bob Rutledge
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 6:52 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: LSQA orphan storage
Craddock, Chris wrote:
I could have sworn there was a new keyword something like
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Tom Marchant
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:01 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: LSQA orphan storage
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:07:45 -0500, Thompson, Steve wrote:
And like I originally
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Mark Zelden
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:18 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: LSQA orphan storage
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:07:45 -0500, Thompson, Steve wrote:
And like I originally
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Arthur T.
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 11:47 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: OT: loose vs. lose
X-No-Archive: yes
I'm sorry about this rant, but one annoying spelling problem
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Walt Farrell
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 1:12 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: LSQA orphan storage
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 16:07:51 -0800, George Fogg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've only
I have come upon an interesting situation.
If a JOB (NOT STC) is cancelled, it appears that its LSQA storage is not
cleaned up (I will use ELSQA for above the line). Over a period of days
with a JOB here and there being cancelled (and by chance in the same
INIT), I noticed that the amount of PVT
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Chase, John
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 7:33 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: COBOL is simple -- NOT!!
Hi, All,
This is almost embarrassing to ask, but how in blazes does one code the
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 4:21 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: JCL parms
However, initial discussion and concensus might be of some use to those
who would like to
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Mohammad Khan
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 3:08 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: It keeps getting uglier
Nice argument but do you have any law firbidding reverse engineering to
make
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Knutson, Sam
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 7:33 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: IBMLink down sev1 ticket 34216258
Sadly IBMLink ends the year the way it has been treating me too often
this
I am finally able to get in via the web.
Sure glad I still have the VM/3270 interface still available.
Later,
Steve Thompson
-- All opinions expressed by me are my own and may not necessarily
reflect those of my employer. --
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 2:45 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: It keeps getting uglier
SNIPAGE
could. But would it happen? Is z/OS at any price a preferred
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of McKown, John
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 12:24 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Controlling COBOL DDs named SYSOUT
SNIPAGE
Judicious use is, barely, tolerable to me (see below).
Anyone having problems getting SIS to work, or in opening an ETR?
I am unable to get searches to complete without an error telling me that
I need a search argument, date range, or something, even though I have
given a very specific search argument.
And, I get through the process of opening an
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Ed Gould
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 8:57 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: It keeps getting uglier
SNIP
Steve,
WHich bar is that, the one at SCIDS or the legal type?:)
Ed
SNIP
The
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Arthur T.
Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 12:59 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: How to migrate z/OS to new h/w when no common disk or tape
between systems
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:15:38
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Timothy Sipples
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 8:35 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: PR: IBM Beacon Award (for Business Partners) Nominations Now
Open
IBM is now accepting nominations for
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Ed Gould
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 1:38 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: It keeps getting uglier
SNIPAGE
Now that Big Blue is pretty much alone in the mainframe processor
market,
card
through NJE:
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:46:48 -0800, Edward Jaffe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thompson, Steve wrote:
... If you want blind ship then use /*XMIT not /*XEQ
In this day and age, it's best to avoid JECL altogether when possible.
As of z/OS 1.4, JES2 finally supports the XMIT JCL
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Ed Gould
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 7:09 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Bad JOB card through NJE
On Dec 18, 2007, at 5:30 PM, Thompson, Steve wrote:
SNIP
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Ed Gould
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 1:48 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Bad JOB card through NJE
SNIPAGE
Steve,
I think I understand your issue, but to muddy the water (a
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Jacky Bright
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 8:48 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Bandwidth for connectivity with mainframe
Anyone hav idea how much communication bandwidth is required for
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of McKown, John
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 10:32 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Starting STCs with Sub=MSTR
SNIP
Nothing started with SUB=MSTR may specify SYSOUT= in the JCL. You'll
How many of you have had to chase down some JOB that had a bad parm on
it, but the submitting system was not the detecting system, even though
both are JES2 systems?
Is it time for IBM to sync JCL processing again? Do we still need this
because one system is running MVS/SP1 and another is running
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Ed Gould
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 4:56 PM
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On Dec 18, 2007, at 4:38 PM, Thompson, Steve wrote:
How many of you have had
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Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 5:53 PM
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Nobody should need to do IND$FILE, anymore.
SNIP
Unless you
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Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 8:29 PM
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:33:26 -0500, Thompson, Steve wrote:
Ever
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Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 2:51 PM
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THIS is one thread where the controls on memory
Of Thompson, Steve
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Michael Poil
SNIP
The problem is the variability of (2) through (4) which cannot be
calculated due to its complexity. Also there is the ever present issue
of defects which cause some memory leaks
Ever read the whole email from the server machine telling you that some
ETR has been updated?
Notice anything different about it?
Regards,
Steve Thompson
-- All opinions expressed by me are my own and may not necessarily
reflect those of my employer. --
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Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 3:15 AM
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SNIP
The problem is the variability of (2) through (4) which cannot be
calculated
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Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 10:49 AM
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Steve,
The word leak is the normal term for memory that is allocated by not
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Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 3:07 PM
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On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:45:32 +0100, Barbara Nitz nitz- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Well, somehow I managed to lose the copies of this series (IBM Redbooks
| ABCs of z/OS System Programming Volume n), and right now in the
Redbook area I can only find Vol 1, 2, 9.
Does anyone have a link to where the rest of them are, or did they get a
name change? In that case, what name should
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Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 6:54 AM
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SNIP
I am looking for a 3rd party software
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
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Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 8:51 AM
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Subject: Re: Redbooks - Systems Programming Series
Does this help ?
Thank you to all that responded.
I had gone to
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/Shelves/REDB0304
And to
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/s390/os390/bkserv/redbooks.html
And then in the search window I put VOLUME, ABC, SYSTEM, and a few other
keywords (single keyword searches,
A few things stated in the attached posting may really cause heartburn
and a form of legal colitis (or some such) if it can be demonstrated
that Hercules and/or PSI's technologies are (or may reasonably be) based
on Linux or z/Linux code provided by IBM (again, I've not had the time
to peruse the
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Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 7:53 AM
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Subject: Re: T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 19:35:38 -, Phil Payne wrote:
SNIP
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Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 9:38 AM
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SNIP
Looks like PSI have already spotted this angle: see
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