Re: Release 6.1 of IBMLink

2008-06-02 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: Controlling the execution sequence of dependant jobs in JES2 (a suggested fix)

2008-05-23 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: Harry Yudenfriend - IBM Fellow

2008-05-22 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: ISPF STATS - Defined Where?

2008-05-20 Thread Thompson, Steve
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

ISPF STATS - Defined Where?

2008-05-19 Thread Thompson, Steve
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

Re: ISPF STATS - Defined Where?

2008-05-19 Thread Thompson, Steve
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

Where do I find Instruction/Function Defs

2008-05-09 Thread Thompson, Steve
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

Re: Where do I find Instruction/Function Defs

2008-05-09 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: Another one bites the dust.

2008-05-07 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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...

Re: Connect:Direct (NDM) CPU Usage

2008-05-06 Thread Thompson, Steve
Original Message- 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.

Re: 3420 old tapes

2008-05-06 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: Supported Documentation

2008-04-29 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: Planned IBMLink Outage April 25 - 26

2008-04-29 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: ATT Network Client Connection Problems

2008-04-28 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: COBOL / VSAM question.

2008-04-14 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: Workable Mainframe Debuggers

2008-04-11 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: Workable Mainframe Debuggers

2008-04-11 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: TIOT filling up: too many dynamic concatenations

2008-04-09 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: Software cost savings from a zIIP

2008-04-02 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: Another one bites the dust.

2008-03-31 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: Link for I-Series?

2008-03-27 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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!

Re: SVCDUMP processing question

2008-03-26 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: SVCDUMP processing question

2008-03-26 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Link for I-Series?

2008-03-26 Thread Thompson, Steve
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. --

Re: ISPF Backup Files

2008-03-25 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: Stupid? MS patent

2008-03-24 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: Changing the MF IP Address

2008-03-21 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: Convert EBCDIC to ASCII in batch?

2008-03-20 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

ISPF Backup Files

2008-03-18 Thread Thompson, Steve
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

Re: ISPF Backup Files

2008-03-18 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: ISPF Backup Files

2008-03-18 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Posting Etiquette [Was Disclaimers]

2008-03-13 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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,

Re: Legal Issues with WEB

2008-03-12 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Legal Issues with WEB

2008-03-11 Thread Thompson, Steve
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. --

Re: Is PSATOLD always zero when in SRB mode?

2008-03-07 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: SDSF User Manual

2008-03-04 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: zIIP API for ISV's

2008-03-03 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul

Re: Price of CPU seconds

2008-02-20 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: Price of CPU seconds

2008-02-20 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: Replacement for CA - TPX - Session Manager?

2008-02-20 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: Price of CPU seconds

2008-02-19 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: Price of CPU seconds

2008-02-19 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: IBM contact for documentation servers?

2008-02-19 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: Price of CPU seconds

2008-02-19 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: Question on Out Sourcing

2008-02-13 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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.

Re: Question on Out Sourcing

2008-02-12 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: Javascript disabled in Firefox. Was Re: redirect.www.ibm.com (IBMLink)

2008-02-12 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: Why isn't OMVS command integrated with ISPF?

2008-02-08 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: VSAM Surprise

2008-02-06 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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:

IBM Link is Down -- Even the 3270 Purple Screen

2008-01-29 Thread Thompson, Steve
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

Re: IBM Link is Down -- Even the 3270 Purple Screen

2008-01-29 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: IBM Cuts Employee Salaries

2008-01-28 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: IDC3009I return code *5*??

2008-01-21 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: IDCAMS Repro vs ICETOOL

2008-01-16 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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.

Re: Extra Session and the clock symbols

2008-01-14 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

IEBGENER is BROKEN

2008-01-14 Thread Thompson, Steve
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. --

Re: IEBGENER is BROKEN

2008-01-14 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: Worst Predictions of All Time

2008-01-11 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: CRBE, CRJE, and WYLBUR

2008-01-11 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: CA support site DOA this morning

2008-01-10 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: LSQA orphan storage

2008-01-09 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: LSQA orphan storage

2008-01-09 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: LSQA orphan storage

2008-01-09 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: loose vs. lose

2008-01-09 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: LSQA orphan storage

2008-01-09 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

LSQA orphan storage

2008-01-08 Thread Thompson, Steve
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

Re: COBOL is simple -- NOT!!

2008-01-07 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: JCL parms

2008-01-04 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: It keeps getting uglier

2008-01-03 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: IBMLink down sev1 ticket 34216258

2007-12-31 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: IBMLink down sev1 ticket 34216258

2007-12-31 Thread Thompson, Steve
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. --

Re: It keeps getting uglier

2007-12-31 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: Controlling COBOL DDs named SYSOUT

2007-12-27 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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).

IBMLINK -- Web Version

2007-12-26 Thread Thompson, Steve
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

Re: It keeps getting uglier

2007-12-24 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: How to migrate z/OS to new h/w when no common disk or tape between systems

2007-12-24 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: IBM Beacon Award (for Business Partners) Nominations Now Open

2007-12-21 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: It keeps getting uglier

2007-12-21 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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,

Re: Bad JOB card through NJE

2007-12-20 Thread Thompson, Steve
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

Re: Bad JOB card through NJE

2007-12-19 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: Bad JOB card through NJE

2007-12-19 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: Bandwidth for connectivity with mainframe

2007-12-18 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Re: Starting STCs with Sub=MSTR

2007-12-18 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- 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

Bad JOB card through NJE

2007-12-18 Thread Thompson, Steve
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

Re: Bad JOB card through NJE

2007-12-18 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 4:56 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Bad JOB card through NJE On Dec 18, 2007, at 4:38 PM, Thompson, Steve wrote: How many of you have had

Re: Bandwidth for connectivity with mainframe

2007-12-18 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 5:53 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Bandwidth for connectivity with mainframe Nobody should need to do IND$FILE, anymore. SNIP Unless you

Re: IBM Link notification emails...

2007-12-13 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 8:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM Link notification emails... On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:33:26 -0500, Thompson, Steve wrote: Ever

Re: Virtual Storage Controls - Was Re: REGION=0M and LSQA

2007-12-13 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Packer Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 2:51 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Virtual Storage Controls - Was Re: REGION=0M and LSQA THIS is one thread where the controls on memory

Re: REGION=0M and LSQA

2007-12-12 Thread Thompson, Steve
Of Thompson, Steve -Original Message- 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

IBM Link notification emails...

2007-12-12 Thread Thompson, Steve
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. --

Re: REGION=0M and LSQA

2007-12-12 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Poil Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 3:15 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: REGION=0M and LSQA SNIP The problem is the variability of (2) through (4) which cannot be calculated

Re: REGION=0M and LSQA

2007-12-12 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Poil Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 10:49 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: REGION=0M and LSQA Steve, The word leak is the normal term for memory that is allocated by not

Re: REGION=0M and LSQA

2007-12-12 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick O'Keefe Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 3:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: REGION=0M and LSQA On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:45:32 +0100, Barbara Nitz nitz- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Redbooks - Systems Programming Series

2007-12-07 Thread Thompson, Steve
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

Re: Conversion aid for ROSCOE RPF's to TSO CLISTS or TSO REXX EXECS

2007-12-07 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hessong, Keith Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 6:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Conversion aid for ROSCOE RPF's to TSO CLISTS or TSO REXX EXECS SNIP I am looking for a 3rd party software

Re: Redbooks - Systems Programming Series

2007-12-07 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grant Ward Able Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 8:51 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Redbooks - Systems Programming Series Does this help ?

Re: Redbooks - Systems Programming Series

2007-12-07 Thread Thompson, Steve
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,

Re: T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly

2007-12-07 Thread Thompson, Steve
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

Re: T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly

2007-12-06 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Bowler Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 7:53 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 19:35:38 -, Phil Payne wrote: SNIP

Re: T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly

2007-12-06 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Bowler Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 9:38 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly SNIP Looks like PSI have already spotted this angle: see

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