Re: Z/Journal issue June/July 2007

2007-07-25 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 7:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Z/Journal issue June/July 2007 Today I was at another doctors office waiting for my appointment and was surprised

Re: Suggestions for New Laptop.

2007-07-23 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Z Z Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 7:59 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Suggestions for New Laptop. Hello All. I am in the market for a new notebook/laptop. I am looking at DeLL, Toshiba and

Re: Suggestions for New Laptop.

2007-07-23 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 9:37 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Suggestions for New Laptop. I am in the market for a new notebook/laptop. I'm still trying to figure out how

Re: PSI MIPS (was: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article)

2007-07-23 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Richter Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 9:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PSI MIPS (was: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article) This thread still begs the issue of

Re: PSI MIPS (was: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article)

2007-07-20 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Kent Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 4:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PSI MIPS (was: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article) snip Frankly, I think it is a very commonly

Re: PSI MIPS (was: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article)

2007-07-20 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 5:59 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PSI MIPS (was: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article) A dual core CPUs actually cause

Re: Dyn Alloc gives 2nd instance of same GDG name

2007-07-20 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 3:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Dyn Alloc gives 2nd instance of same GDG name I have a task that allocates a few GDG files during its running

Re: PSI MIPS (was: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article)

2007-07-20 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 1:55 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PSI MIPS (was: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article) SNIP I wasn't aware that people think

Re: PSI MIPS (was: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article)

2007-07-18 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 1:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PSI MIPS (was: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article) SNIP Let me try to make it simple

Re: PSI MIPS (was: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article)

2007-07-18 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 9:01 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PSI MIPS (was: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article) HOWEVER, the TCO and TCO (ownership,

Re: MXI 4.3 (was Re: SMP/E question - how to find dsname ?)

2007-07-17 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 12:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: MXI 4.3 (was Re: SMP/E question - how to find dsname ?) On 17 Jul 2007 09:00:49 -0700, in

Re: PSI MIPS (was: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article)

2007-07-17 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Kent Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 2:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PSI MIPS (was: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article) SNIP Instead, Timothy Sipples suggests

Re: PSI MIPS (was: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article)

2007-07-17 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thompson, Steve Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 2:26 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PSI MIPS (was: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article) SNIP Or, like a former client

Re: catalog problem why?

2007-07-16 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Wells Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 2:33 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: catalog problem why? Has anyone used an iebgener(JCL) to transfer and convert ASCII to EBCDIC an mvs file... I

Re: catalog problem why?

2007-07-16 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Wells Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 3:28 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Fw: catalog problem why? Steve can you share what you did... snip Well, it has been about 15 years now, but as I

Re: Deleting datasets with invalid names

2007-07-13 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 7:59 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Deleting datasets with invalid names -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Deleting datasets with invalid names

2007-07-13 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 10:47 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Deleting datasets with invalid names On 12 Jul 2007 19:04:57 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:

Re: Deleting datasets with invalid names

2007-07-13 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thompson, Steve Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 11:06 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Deleting datasets with invalid names SNIP I can create it, but I can't delete it -- because I get a JCL

Re: Deleting datasets with invalid names

2007-07-13 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 11:23 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Deleting datasets with invalid names SNIP I gave up CAPS ON a long time ago. SNIP Yeah, but I guess I

Re: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article

2007-07-13 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Hare Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 1:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article

Re: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article

2007-07-13 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Porowski Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 2:58 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article The processor clock speed may be slower but it is

Re: Share z/OS Mastery Test

2007-07-12 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 6:23 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Share z/OS Mastery Test I was taught not to memorize the information because it changes. Instead, learn

Re: Legacy matters

2007-07-12 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lindy Mayfield Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 8:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Legacy matters Great article, and nice picture, too. rant I happen to disagree with the author's use

Re: Share z/OS Mastery Test

2007-07-12 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 10:19 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Share z/OS Mastery Test snip- I too have very messy

Re: Share z/OS Mastery Test

2007-07-12 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Share z/OS Mastery Test SNIP What appears to be missing in public edjamacation these days is teaching

Re: FW: Deleted PDS

2007-07-11 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of (IBM Mainframe Discussion List) Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 9:04 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: FW: Deleted PDS SNIP I've been kinda following this, and it leaves me with a

Re: pre-validating RACF userids and passwords in application.

2007-07-11 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Lyon Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 3:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: pre-validating RACF userids and passwords in application. On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:00:04 -0500, McKown,

Re: JOB STEP TASK and REGION parm

2007-07-10 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johnny Luo Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 10:47 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: JOB STEP TASK and REGION parm Hi, SNIP 1. To get a job step task, you first need to have an authorized job

Re: JOB STEP TASK and REGION parm

2007-07-10 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johnny Luo Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 12:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: JOB STEP TASK and REGION parm SNIP Oh...that finally answers my question. I remember I once submitted an

Re: JOB STEP TASK and REGION parm -SYSPROG TEST

2007-07-10 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 3:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: JOB STEP TASK and REGION parm SNIP That's a pretty confusing description, Steve, and I already know how

Re: The Mainframe Lives!

2007-07-06 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 8:43 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: The Mainframe Lives! Network World article: http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=3Dnode/17133 SNIP I

Re: The Mainframe Lives!

2007-07-06 Thread Thompson, Steve
Thanx. I missed that 3D. And Yahoo! is now back and functioning for me again. I wonder if they would be a good candidate for z/ARCH... Later, Steve Thompson -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Porowski Sent: Friday, July 06,

Re: Mainframe Blog Posting re: Mainframe Migrations to z

2007-07-05 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 5:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Mainframe Blog Posting re: Mainframe Migrations to z I'd like to draw IBM-MAINers' attention to the latest

Re: Another one bites the dust

2007-07-03 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of wtrovijo Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 6:32 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Another one bites the dust How many Administrators are they hiring to replace you? I'm still here, just

Re: Another one bites the dust

2007-07-03 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Simpson Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 1:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Another one bites the dust In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems like IBM would

Re: Operating systems are old and busted

2007-06-22 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 10:34 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Operating systems are old and busted On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:56:04 -0500, McKown, John wrote: Plainfield,

Re: Operating systems are old and busted

2007-06-21 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of (IBM Mainframe Discussion List) Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 10:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Operating systems are old and busted SNIP Speaking of old, busted systems and ones

Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules

2007-06-21 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 1:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules SNIP So, there's a big difference between Unix System Services on

Re: Mainframe Datacenter Migration

2007-06-20 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jacky Bright Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 2:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe Datacenter Migration Yep thts true .. I just wanted some document which will explain the

Re: The Development of the Vital IBM PC in Spite of the Corporate Culture of IBM

2007-06-18 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 12:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: The Development of the Vital IBM PC in Spite of the Corporate Culture of IBM On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 21:22:24

Re: IBM mainframe support takes a break

2007-06-18 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Kopischke Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 3:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM mainframe support takes a break On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:35:46 +0100, Phil Payne wrote: From the

Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules

2007-06-15 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of (IBM Mainframe Discussion List) Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 8:18 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules On Jun 14, 2007, at 8:51 PM, FRASER,

Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules

2007-06-14 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 1:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules now Sterling Commerce) that markets NDM (now

Re: ISPF Panel Issue with HEX Data

2007-06-12 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 1:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: ISPF Panel Issue with HEX Data Hi All, We are z/OS V1.7. I am trying to validate HEX data in an ISPF

Re: ISPF Panel Issue with HEX Data

2007-06-12 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 1:59 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ISPF Panel Issue with HEX Data Thompson, Steve wrote: SNIP I'm going to take a guess: your numbers may

Re: mainframe = superserver

2007-06-11 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 7:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: mainframe = superserver SNIP ... Microsoft Exchange servers are not supported on z/OS nor am I aware of

Re: ServiceLink is taking the day off

2007-06-08 Thread Thompson, Steve
Sounds like you need to re-open it if you can. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Justice Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 1:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ServiceLink is taking the day off I seem to remember a

Re: mainframe = superserver

2007-06-07 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Mason Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 10:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: mainframe = superserver Kees Didn't IBM wait until there was a clear definition of what a system that

Re: USS pedantry (was Friday musings on the future of 3270 applic ations

2007-06-06 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chicklon, Tom Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 2:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: USS pedantry (was Friday musings on the future of 3270 applic ations Ted, sorry to hear about the job

Re: Double Postings

2007-06-05 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Evans-Young Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 3:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Double Postings That may be my fault. I've been trying to update the Listserv mailer and the Windows

Re: USS pedantry (was Friday musings on the future of 3270 applications

2007-06-05 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick O'Keefe Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 2:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: USS pedantry (was Friday musings on the future of 3270 applications On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 08:21:35 -0500, Mark

Double Postings

2007-06-04 Thread Thompson, Steve
Is it me [our system], or is anyone else getting two of every posting? Regards, Steve Thompson -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN

Re: Questions to the list

2007-06-01 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Schwartz Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 11:11 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Questions to the list snip I think part of the reason there are more posts of this type is that some

Re: IKJ56228I error

2007-05-31 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Ten Eyck Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 3:00 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: IKJ56228I error The following job gets the following result? Dynamic allocation error? The job ...

Re: [META] Is WaveMind spamming entire IBM-MAIN readership?

2007-05-24 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Hawkins Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 11:43 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [META] Is WaveMind spamming entire IBM-MAIN readership? As is my want, I always respond with a terse

Re: [META] Is !#$%^* spamming entire IBM-MAIN readership?

2007-05-24 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeffrey D. Smith Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 2:26 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [META] Is !#$%^* spamming entire IBM-MAIN readership? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: [META] Is WaveMind spamming entire IBM-MAIN readership?

2007-05-24 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 4:23 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [META] Is WaveMind spamming entire IBM-MAIN readership? As an FYI, by law this email is not spam. along with

Re: PDS caused JCL error - WHY

2007-05-23 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pinnacle Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 11:02 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PDS caused JCL error - WHY - Original Message - From: Ken Leidner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups:

Re: Non-Standard Mainframe Language?

2007-05-23 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Green Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 11:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Non-Standard Mainframe Language? Am I missing something here? The below is an excerpt from a blog where the

Re: Abend S0C7 in PL1 program

2007-05-23 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Tutor Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 2:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Abend S0C7 in PL1 program Good day! One of our programs written in PL1 recently encountered a S0C7 abend.

Re: Non-Standard Mainframe Language?

2007-05-23 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 2:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Non-Standard Mainframe Language? On 23 May 2007 10:14:58 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thompson, Steve) wrote

Re: [META] Is WaveMind spamming entire IBM-MAIN readership?

2007-05-23 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 2:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: [META] Is WaveMind spamming entire IBM-MAIN readership? I just received two e-mails from

Re: Synchronize Time Between Mainframe and Servers?

2007-05-22 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 1:20 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Synchronize Time Between Mainframe and Servers? SNIP I don't know microwave owen design, but I can imagine a device

Re: Vista Tn3270 (was: Re: calling ISPLINK from COBOL)

2007-05-22 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 12:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Vista Tn3270 (was: Re: calling ISPLINK from COBOL) Tom Schmidt wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2007 14:25:20 -0500,

Re: Synchronize Time Between Mainframe and Servers?

2007-05-21 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 8:22 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Synchronize Time Between Mainframe and Servers? As usually in mainframe world, we have a lot of proofs that

Re: Technical Support magazine

2007-05-21 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 9:32 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Technical Support magazine SNIP I'm not able to get in via any of the links. For

Re: Synchronize Time Between Mainframe and Servers?

2007-05-21 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Wood Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 2:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Synchronize Time Between Mainframe and Servers? On Mon, 21 May 2007 09:55:13 -0400, Thompson, Steve [EMAIL

Re: Synchronize Time Between Mainframe and Servers?

2007-05-18 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 4:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Synchronize Time Between Mainframe and Servers? On Fri, 18 May 2007 16:06:12 -0500, Field, Alan C. wrote:

Re: z/os publications...can't get to website...help wanted

2007-05-17 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Finnell Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 9:02 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/os publications...can't get to website...help wanted In a message dated 5/17/2007 8:16:19 A.M. Central

Re: Data Areas Manuals to be dropped

2007-05-17 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Yuhas Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 11:05 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Data Areas Manuals to be dropped We use Quick-Ref which has the Data Areas as well. I asked if Quick-Ref

Re: Another 'migration' from the mainframe

2007-05-15 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Kopischke Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 12:53 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Another 'migration' from the mainframe On Tue, 15 May 2007 13:34:12 -0400, Gary Green wrote: Do you

Data Areas Manuals to be dropped

2007-05-14 Thread Thompson, Steve
Folks: Just in case some of you weren't around in the mid-80s doing development and the like, IBM decided to go OCO (we will drop the cause of this decision) and the CEO (Ackers - if I remember the spelling of his name) promised that nothing would go OCO until it had been correctly documented.

Re: MVS as a guest OS at D/R

2007-05-02 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark H. Young Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 10:04 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: MVS as a guest OS at D/R SNIP For some unknown and undetermined reason, z/OS is NOT looking for the

Re: Ulterior Motive for IBM's Lawsuits

2007-05-01 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Hawkins Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 8:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Ulterior Motive for IBM's Lawsuits Steve, North of NZ - you mean New Caledonia and Vanuatu? SNIP Uh, I

Re: Ulterior Motive for IBM's Lawsuits

2007-05-01 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richards.Bob Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 9:20 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Ulterior Motive for IBM's Lawsuits Hey, watch it there! To broad of a sweeping statement! :-) Bob Richards

Re: Help with IKT011I Message RC=100

2007-05-01 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 10:41 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Help with IKT011I Message RC=100 No - no network issues, the D NET,PENDING has nothing queued. NETSTAT

Ulterior Motive for IBM's Lawsuits

2007-04-30 Thread Thompson, Steve
Has anyone seen this article? Or one similar to it? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18325591/ I have had several people (some retired from programming, some not involved in IT) send me links to this or similar articles about IBM preparing to turn z/Series into some super gaming system. Could this

Re: Ulterior Motive for IBM's Lawsuits

2007-04-30 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 9:25 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Ulterior Motive for IBM's Lawsuits snip I don't know, but I don't see any connection. snip If I read the

Re: Better way to count records

2007-04-26 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 7:36 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Better way to count records I have about a billion ways - well not quite - to count records in a data set.

Re: FW: Do we have to defrag MVS volumes on newer generation disk arrays?

2007-04-25 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 12:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: FW: Do we have to defrag MVS volumes on newer generation disk arrays? Chase, John wrote: Forwarded

Re: Lnnnnn tapes mystery

2007-04-24 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 7:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Ln tapes mystery In a recent note, Ed Gould said: Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:56:24 -0500

BR14 APAR 1 (was Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes)

2007-04-24 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Wilkie Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 7:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes In case anyone lost it, assemble this: BR14

Re: Installation of Hercules(s390 Emulator) on Windows

2007-04-24 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aven Brett Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:38 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Installation of Hercules(s390 Emulator) on Windows I tried installing hercules on windows XP but could not

Re: Lnnnnn tapes mystery

2007-04-23 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Hare Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 9:07 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Ln tapes mystery Is there ever really a reason for using NL tape, these days? I may be wrong, but it seems

Re: Z/Linux download

2007-04-19 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruno Sugliani Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 10:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Z/Linux download Hello I am looking for a URL in order to download a Z Linux suite to use on my IFL The

Re: T.J. Maxx data theft worse than first reported

2007-04-19 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Dineen Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 1:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: T.J. Maxx data theft worse than first reported Check out the 4/19 Mainstar press release regarding TJX and

Re: The Death of the Mainframe (?)

2007-04-19 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doc Farmer Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 4:39 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: The Death of the Mainframe (?) The mainframe's been declared dead more times than a security officer under

Re: SP230?

2007-04-18 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 12:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SP230? SNIP I *always* code //SYSMDUMP DD SYSOUT=x rather than straight to a data set. This solves

Re: The Sky is indeed Falling

2007-04-18 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Blackledge Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 1:13 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: The Sky is indeed Falling SNIP Denied. = How they can deny the POO (Amdahl and PSI term), I'll

Re: Maximum PS dataset size

2007-04-17 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Bardos Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 7:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Maximum PS dataset size Fellow IBM-MAINers, SNIP Doing the math, at a blocksize of 27648 that would make 2

Re: Maximum PS dataset size

2007-04-17 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 9:57 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Maximum PS dataset size SNIP It depends on a setting in IGDSMSxx. The new default in z/OS 1.8 is to allow

Re: non-IBM documentation (Friday, but on-topic)

2007-04-16 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Spencer Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 8:27 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: non-IBM documentation (Friday, but on-topic) I resisted PDF's in bookmanager for a long time because of the

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

2007-04-16 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 10:23 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes In a recent note, McKown, John said: Date: Mon,

Re: IBM to the PCM market(the sky is falling!!!the sky is falling!!)

2007-04-13 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 3:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IBM to the PCM market(the sky is falling!!!the sky is falling!!) SNIP They might. But some really paranoids

Re: non-IBM documentation (Friday, but on-topic)

2007-04-13 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 4:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: non-IBM documentation (Friday, but on-topic) SNIP I'm wondering why. The quality difference is not a question, but it can

IBM DOC for Interfaces

2007-04-12 Thread Thompson, Steve
Is it just me, or does anyone else have the understanding that an interface needs written documentation? Example: If you are using some of the Unix Systems Services, or TCP/IP, you are told to look in the macro library for doc. It seems to me that if a system service is documented (say a

Re: Response to Timothy's Article...

2007-04-12 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Green Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 8:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Response to Timothy's Article... http://mainframe.typepad.com/blog/2007/04/whats_the_point.html Another point of

Re: gdg question

2007-04-11 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barkow, Eileen Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 12:39 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: gdg question can one of you gurus out there please shed some light on this, since i am not sure what the

Re: When to start security product?

2007-04-11 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Yuhas Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 3:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: When to start security product? We use Top Secret. A consultant made a recommendation late last year that Top

Re: IEC145I 413-08

2007-04-11 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of willie bunter Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 4:58 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IEC145I 413-08 Can I force RMM to allow me to read the tape even though it is in scratch status? snip

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