Re: T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly

2007-12-05 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 6:11 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly Ever wonder how much money IBM is paying to Fujitsu for

Re: T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly

2007-12-04 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Van Dalsen, Herbie Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 11:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly SNIP Well here is my $0.05 worth... How long did

Re: T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly

2007-12-03 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Cole Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 4:44 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly As Ralph Johnson noted in his post to the FLEX-ES listserv,

IBM System z White Paper

2007-12-03 Thread Thompson, Steve
The mainframe has stood its ground - despite potshots from the camps of widely distributed technology. Now recent studies confirm that the resurgence of the mainframe is based on what we knew all along: Its continued value and longevity as the ultimate IT asset. Don't let your management be swayed

Re: DFHSM - URGENT HELP

2007-11-16 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of willie bunter Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 11:03 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: DFHSM - URGENT HELP Good Day, A files which was migrated by DFHSM (MIGRAT2)was uncataloged in error

Re: IBMLink's unavailability

2007-11-14 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Bolan Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 5:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBMLink's unavailability Ok. Just a thought. I am not responsible in any way for IBMLINK. I don't

Re: latest ibmlink news (still not working, shock and surprise)

2007-11-14 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: latest ibmlink news (still not working, shock and surprise) -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: SV: COBOL COPY statement w REPLACING...

2007-11-13 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Peplinski Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 1:49 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SV: COBOL COPY statement w REPLACING... On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 17:20:36 +0100, Thomas Berg [EMAIL

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-08 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 2:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CSA 'above the bar' -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL

Test message

2007-11-08 Thread Thompson, Steve
Is IBM Main down? This is a test message. If this had been a real message, then various of the members could argue as to whether or not this message contained any intelligence. Alas, this is only a test message, similar to a sharp stick, with which to poke the IBM Main server to see if it will

Re: Test message

2007-11-08 Thread Thompson, Steve
15 minutes after contacting the BAMA EDU help desk. Darren's retirement ripples being felt? Regards, Steve Thompson -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thompson, Steve Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 9:06 AM To: IBM-MAIN

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-08 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Mulder Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 6:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CSA 'above the bar' IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 11/08/2007 06:23:58 PM:

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-08 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 6:27 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CSA 'above the bar' Thompson, Steve wrote: You did say dedicated. And it certainly appears to me

Re: CSA 'above the bar'

2007-11-08 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Mulder Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 4:48 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CSA 'above the bar' IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 11/08/2007 12:24:52 PM:

Re: Bruce Black passed away

2007-11-08 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pinnacle Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 5:26 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Bruce Black passed away SNIP For at least 10 years before that, Bruce was easily the most active poster

Re: COBOL COPY statement w REPLACING...

2007-11-07 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Berg Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 4:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: COBOL COPY statement w REPLACING... ..just for my obscene curiosity: What IDIOT designed the COBOL COPY

Re: IBMLink down again second time today SEV1 Ticket# 33639291

2007-11-01 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Knutson, Sam Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:33 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: IBMLink down again second time today SEV1 Ticket# 33639291 IBMLink is down for the second time today and

Re: z/OS 1.9 Features summary

2007-10-31 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerhard Postpischil Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:33 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS 1.9 Features summary Ted MacNEIL wrote: The word Engineer is in my title as well.

Re: PL/S ??

2007-10-31 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 2:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PL/S ?? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: z/OS 1.9 Features summary

2007-10-30 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 3:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS 1.9 Features summary On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:05:02 +, Ted MacNEIL wrote: SNIP But SDB came

Re: z/OS 1.9 Features summary

2007-10-30 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 3:22 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS 1.9 Features summary Thompson, Steve wrote: Linkedit had a limit built into it that was never

Re: About dispatching process

2007-10-25 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Santosh Kandi Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 9:53 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: About dispatching process SNIP Repressible or Exigent? Do you have VM or Flex-Es? Otherwise, it

Re: VARY too many devices offline

2007-10-25 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 2:13 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: VARY too many devices offline snip Eric: What would you do with dishonest consultants? snip A clue was

Re: tso racf

2007-10-24 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 5:26 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: tso racf That way you know the user was safely tucked into ISPF. Why do we care? What problem are we

Re: VARY too many devices offline

2007-10-24 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 6:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: VARY too many devices offline On Oct 23, 2007, at 3:17 AM, Zaromil Tisler wrote: On Tue, 23 Oct 2007

Re: About dispatching process

2007-10-24 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Santosh Kandi Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 1:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: About dispatching process Since DISABLED applies to only I/O and External interrupts, if you dont

Re: tso racf

2007-10-23 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carroll, William Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 1:28 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: tso racf is there anyway to block or ignore or stop somebody from entering a command on the command

Re: Lost my hard drive and my IBM links

2007-10-19 Thread Thompson, Steve
https://www-304.ibm.com/jct03004c/ibmlink/link2/servicelink/servicelinkP age.jsp?lc=encc=US ibmlink http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/bkserv/ Pubs for z/OS -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Norgauer

Re: How to read source from a PDS member

2007-10-18 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 9:22 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How to read source from a PDS member On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:43:51 -0400, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you

Re: Are there tasks that don't play by WLM's rules

2007-10-15 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barbara Nitz Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 3:57 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Are there tasks that don't play by WLM's rules Has anyone else experienced this with Direct-Connect or

Re: System z? System z9? eServer zSeries? which?

2007-10-15 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richards.Bob Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 1:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: System z? System z9? eServer zSeries? which? System z for current z9BC and z9EC machines (replaced System

Re: System z? System z9? eServer zSeries? which?

2007-10-15 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richards.Bob Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 1:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: System z? System z9? eServer zSeries? which? Arts and Crafts at the Psych ward, Steve? :-) Bob Richards

Re: ADABAS vs. IMS vs. DB2 Who is faster?

2007-10-12 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 9:00 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ADABAS vs. IMS vs. DB2 Who is faster? Van Dalsen, Herbie wrote: [...] The reason why both(DB2/Adabas) are still

Re: ADABAS vs IMS vs DB2 Who is faster?

2007-10-10 Thread Thompson, Steve
SNIP Enough said... and this is my last posting, for those that had enough of this serious talk in a bar. Anton Britz SNIP One can only hope. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: RES: ADABAS vs IMS vs DB2 Who is faster?

2007-10-10 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anton Britz Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 3:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: RES: ADABAS vs IMS vs DB2 Who is faster? Hi, Jon wants us all to play nicely and I would try and show

Re: ADABAS vs IMS vs DB2 Who is faster?

2007-10-09 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anton Britz Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 11:37 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ADABAS vs IMS vs DB2 Who is faster? Hi, Summarized : a) So you never worked with ADABAS in your life

Re: SLIP sliding away

2007-10-09 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Cole Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 2:20 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SLIP sliding away SNIP I really don't see that there is a serious problem here. (Or am I still missing the

Re: OS/390 V2R4 on Z9

2007-10-07 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rankin, Bob Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 12:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: OS/390 V2R4 on Z9 Our production environment is running OS390 V2R4 (9708 PUT). My management wants to

Re: Tech Notes - Any body know about them or where they are hidden?

2007-09-17 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Walker Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 9:39 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Tech Notes - Any body know about them or where they are hidden? snip If the communications server

Re: JAVA un z/OS

2007-09-17 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Green Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 10:01 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: JAVA un z/OS Does anyone have any tuning/performance references/links for Java under z/OS? Some tentative

Re: ASMA142E Operation code not complete on first record

2007-09-14 Thread Thompson, Steve
It looks like data wrap. Verify that the source basically lines up in CC 1, 10, 16. If the data starts look ing like th is then you have a dat a wrap problem. Regards, Steve Thompson -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert

Re: ASMA142E Operation code not complete on first record

2007-09-14 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Pelletier Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 2:20 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ASMA142E Operation code not complete on first record This is the code: DAIR9900 DS0H

Re: ASMA142E Operation code not complete on first record

2007-09-14 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Pelletier Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 2:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ASMA142E Operation code not complete on first record It's 80: TECH.DITTO.SRCLIB(DITTDAIR) -

Re: ServerPac Installs and dataset allocations

2007-09-12 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 7:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ServerPac Installs and dataset allocations SNIP Oddly enough I'd looked already. I wrote the SMS

Re: PLPA and COMMON PAGESPACE Size

2007-09-12 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Shannon Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 7:34 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PLPA and COMMON PAGESPACE Size SNIP We do this so that we don't have to worry about sizing the PLPA

Re: FICON tape drive?

2007-09-12 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Deaver Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 12:40 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: FICON tape drive? Anybody ever seen a stand alone FICON attached 3490 capable tape drive? Yes, I know

Re: FICON tape drive?

2007-09-12 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thompson, Steve Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 1:24 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: FICON tape drive? SNIP Well, I got the wrong info. Something bothered me about what I was told

Re: meaasge OPS3731E

2007-09-11 Thread Thompson, Steve
I don't know the manual title, but it sure looks like an OPS/MVS-II message to me. Regards, Steve Thompson -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim McAlpine Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 4:46 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU

Re: ServerPac Installs and dataset allocations

2007-09-11 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George Dranes Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 5:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: ServerPac Installs and dataset allocations We just recently installed z/OS 1.8 using ServerPac. We then

Re: ServerPac Installs and dataset allocations

2007-09-11 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 9:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ServerPac Installs and dataset allocations SNIP The data set space allocations are not the result of a

Re: ServerPac Installs and dataset allocations

2007-09-11 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 11:47 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ServerPac Installs and dataset allocations SNIP Without the APAR numbers, it's a bit hard to say

Re: Is TCBECB supposed to be zero at end of task?

2007-09-10 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Relson Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 8:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Is TCBECB supposed to be zero at end of task? I don't feel a whole lot of need to answer this, as

TCP Appliance Query

2007-09-05 Thread Thompson, Steve
Does anyone know of a channel attached TCP device that supports 1-8MB Window size? [The amount of data that can be sent from stack to stack before having to wait for response.] Does anyone know how or if this can be changed on a z9's internal adapters for z/OS? Regards, Steve Thompson --

Re: 1401 simulator for OS/360

2007-09-04 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Britz, Anton - CO 7th Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 10:33 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: 1401 simulator for OS/360 Hi, I am still not sure why anybody would want to run an IBM

PDS to Sequential Question

2007-09-04 Thread Thompson, Steve
Ok, I confess, I'm suffering from old age. I know that there is a way to concatenate n PDSes together, and then extract a member from this to a sequential file. Why am I needing this? Well, I have several levels of source libraries (PROD, TEST, Private) and I need to pull a member from the

Re: PDS to Sequential Question

2007-09-04 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 4:10 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PDS to Sequential Question On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 16:36:28 -0400, Thompson, Steve wrote: Ok, I confess

IBM-Link Down 31AUG07?

2007-08-31 Thread Thompson, Steve
So far, I've timed out once, and am still waiting for a response in login into IBMLink (web). So before I do the 800 number thing... Anyone else not able to get in? Regards, Steve Thompson --- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: IBM-Link Down 31AUG07?

2007-08-31 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 1:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM-Link Down 31AUG07? SNIP Except for one anomalous occurrence, I use a 62x160 screensize without

Re: IBM-Link Down 31AUG07?

2007-08-31 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thompson, Steve Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 12:46 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: IBM-Link Down 31AUG07? SNIP Seems the problem is sporadic. Not everyone has it happening. Good thing

Re: Virtual Storage implementation

2007-08-31 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 5:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Virtual Storage implementation SNIP This was a problem when I worked with VM/SP and MVS guests 20 years

Re: Virtual Storage implementation

2007-08-30 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 1:45 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Virtual Storage implementation snip Very true. Although we act as if we invented it. IIRC, the first

Re: JES2 converter via /*JOBPARM SYSAFF=xxxx

2007-08-29 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark H. Young Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7:35 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: JES2 converter via /*JOBPARM SYSAFF= SNIP But the suggestion to use /*XMIT would work, so that

Re: Each CPU usage

2007-08-29 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerhard Adam Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Each CPU usage SNIP Since the conclusion was that they didn't even require a 4-way after the problem

Re: JES2 converter via /*JOBPARM SYSAFF=xxxx

2007-08-28 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark H. Young Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 2:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: JES2 converter via /*JOBPARM SYSAFF= In a JES2 MAS (Multi Access SPOOL) environ with two different

Re: IBMLINK SEV1 ticket # 32902392 ETA 5PM

2007-08-24 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Justice Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 6:44 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBMLINK SEV1 ticket # 32902392 ETA 5PM oh come now, web ibmlink can't possibly be down this much. SNIP

Re: Using IPCS (full screen) in a UNIX shell?

2007-08-24 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 10:27 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Using IPCS (full screen) in a UNIX shell? SNIP While this is going on, I cannot use my TSO session for

IBMLINK - SIS link broken?

2007-08-23 Thread Thompson, Steve
Anyone having problems getting to SIS? Regards, Steve Thompson -- This e-mail message is intended only for the addressee(s) and contains information that may be confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender by reply e-mail immediately.

Re: LPA Module Size 80MB impact on system?

2007-08-22 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johnny Luo Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 9:27 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: LPA Module Size 80MB impact on system? Thanks for the answer, Wayne. I remember that if a module comes

Re: Distance between primary and DR site

2007-08-20 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Berg Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 1:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Distance between primary and DR site SNIP To add to this slightly OT headed thread: the sun will slowly

Re: Dataset Recovery issue.

2007-08-17 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Rifkind Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 1:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Dataset Recovery issue. Well, I'm in a pickle. I have no test lpar with this volume (zosct3 and the

Re: Tech Notes - Any body know about them or where they are hidden?

2007-08-15 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Walker Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 9:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Tech Notes - Any body know about them or where they are hidden? Yes, it is not terribly well organized.

Re: linklisted load library failing

2007-08-15 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Wilkie Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 7:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: linklisted load library failing You may also want to check on the Blksize of the libraries and place the

Re: linklisted load library failing

2007-08-15 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 10:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: linklisted load library failing On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:29:51 -0400, Thompson, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Outsourcing loosing steam?

2007-08-14 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of esmie moo Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 12:53 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Outsourcing loosing steam? Just to add my 2 cents. Who is running the computer systems for LAX? My

Tech Notes - Any body know about them or where they are hidden?

2007-08-14 Thread Thompson, Steve
The subject basically covers the question. This came up when it was pointed out to IBM support that a certain item was missing in their doc. The next thing I know is, rather than updating the doc, they decided to publish the deficiency in the Tech Notes area. I'd never heard of it. How many of

Re: Tech Notes - Any body know about them or where they are hidden?

2007-08-14 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary DiPillo Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 3:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Tech Notes - Any body know about them or where they are hidden? Could this be it?

Re: Tech Notes - Any body know about them or where they are hidden?

2007-08-14 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Chappell Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 3:26 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Tech Notes - Any body know about them or where they are hidden? How about... Techdocs - the

Re: SERVICELINK @ IBMLink 2.5 hours still can't logon

2007-08-10 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark House Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 10:39 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: SERVICELINK @ IBMLink 2.5 hours still can't logon Okay, Give me the 3270 version back! Three calls to

SDSF Performance Issue

2007-08-10 Thread Thompson, Steve
I am doing some work using SDSF. I have a single spool file of about 1M records. I have done a max down and got there. Now I do a find prev for a non-quoted string. 15 minutes later the TSO session is still clocking, it has used (per SDSF) more than 4 CPU minutes and has done enough I/Os to have

Re: Are things that slow?

2007-08-10 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of CICS Guy Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 8:17 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Are things that slow? Seems like there's not much going on for a Friday. SNIP I was rather interested this AM

Re: Another why did they do it this way? question - SMF time stamps

2007-08-10 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Wood Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 5:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Another why did they do it this way? question - SMF time stamps On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:10:43 -0500, McKown,

Re: IBMLINK and missing ETR records (13 minutes to report an issue)

2007-08-09 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Knutson, Sam Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 10:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBMLINK and missing ETR records (13 minutes to report an issue) Hi, We have also reported it failing

Re: CA Sues Rocket Software

2007-08-08 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Staller, Allan Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 4:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CA Sues Rocket Software CA for suing. Just another (IMO) episode in CA's history of poor customer

Re: How to fine IBMLINK

2007-08-07 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 12:16 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: How to fine IBMLINK SNIP Wow, I thought we had a real legal thing going here, How we could Fine IBMLINK.

Re: IBMLink down

2007-08-03 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 7:49 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: FW: Re: IBMLink down FYI SNIPAGE Due to the IBMLINK/ServiceLink Web outages over the

Re: So, when does 3900 equal 33...?

2007-08-02 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Green Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 2:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: So, when does 3900 equal 33...? Read on... http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2164958,00.asp SNIP rant

Re: Poll - Distance between Data Center and DR

2007-08-02 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 9:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Poll - Distance between Data Center and DR SNIP I have been trying to determine this in a generic way.

Re: How old are you?

2007-08-02 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Porowski Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 10:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How old are you? Did the poll close already, I voted then passed around the link but everyone else here

Re: IBMLink SEV 1 OUTAGE AGAIN!!! #32644395

2007-07-31 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Shannon Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 10:48 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBMLink SEV 1 OUTAGE AGAIN!!! #32644395 I thought you might want to know that this is becoming a bone of

Re: web IBMLINK down again - so what ?

2007-07-31 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 9:49 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: web IBMLINK down again - so what ? Robert Justice wrote: and I won't say the other comment, I promise. Out of

Re: web IBMLINK down again -SEV1 32656350

2007-07-31 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 10:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: web IBMLINK down again -SEV1 32656350 SNIP Perhaps the time is coming for influential customers to start

Re: web IBMLINK down again -SEV1 32656350

2007-07-31 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne Driscoll Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 11:41 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: web IBMLINK down again -SEV1 32656350 I think I will copy Mr. Fyffe and inquire if this means that all

Re: Upgrading the processor

2007-07-30 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sabo, Frank Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 7:17 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Upgrading the processor Hello everyone, I have a question to ask of the group.=20 I currently have an IBM7060

Re: Upgrading the processor

2007-07-30 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richbourg, Claude Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 8:29 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Upgrading the processor I used to work with an H50. The three models are: The Multiprise 3000 models

Re: Upgrading the processor

2007-07-30 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sabo, Frank Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 8:51 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Upgrading the processor Steve, The machine that we are running on is a 7060 H75 with 210 MIPS. SNIP Yeah,

Re: IBMLINK Down again?

2007-07-30 Thread Thompson, Steve
He's dead Jim. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

Re: IBMLink SEV 1 OUTAGE AGAIN!!! #32644395

2007-07-30 Thread Thompson, Steve
I decided to take a bit of action. Here is the email I sent to Mr. Palmisano: - For years the mainframe was THE machine to have because it worked. Lots of effort went into that, one of the things being that from release to release the quality (RAS) had to improve for hardware as well as

Re: KEY8 CSA: Pro/JCL and Info/XE

2007-07-27 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Andrews Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 8:35 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: KEY8 CSA: Pro/JCL and Info/XE On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 15:39 -0400, Jim Mulder wrote: A V=R (ADDRSPC=REAL)

Email Client Settings

2007-07-26 Thread Thompson, Steve
From time to time I get postings from IBM-Main that only contain a block of something like the following: V2UgdXNlIGEgc2luZ2xlIENPQk9MLVNvdXJjZWNvZGUgKG1vc3RseSBzdWJwcm9ncmFtcykg Zm9y IG11bHRpcGxlIHVzZSB0byANCmF2b2lkIHJlZHVuZGFuY3kgKEJhdGNoLCBDSUNTLCBQQyku DQpT

Re: How much do you value Share ( Was Spam from SHARE)

2007-07-26 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 7:11 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: How much do you value Share ( Was Spam from SHARE) Listers - I must now put my two cents in. How much

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