Re: Suppressing PER messages

2006-11-01 Thread Tom Schmidt
PRINTER CMD DUMP 0.20;BASE3' command as: 'SILENTLY PER DIAG 58 PRINTER CMD DUMP 0.20;BASE3' instead. It is in the z/VM 5.1 CP Commands and Utilities documentation. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: NEVERMIND :Question on extending a VSAM ESDS

2006-10-31 Thread Tom Schmidt
efficient method of programming. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- 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

Re: Meeting in Parsippany

2006-10-27 Thread Tom Schmidt
, NY. ...snipped... If anyone would like me to register them for the session please either call or email me and I'll get you signed up. Thanks. I'm looking forward to seeing you at this event. You didn't say who signed it -- Darl McBride, maybe? -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI

Re: Software Pricing

2006-10-14 Thread Tom Schmidt
person the ability to produce a listing instead of trying to order a (one-time pricey) manual then I say more power to IBM for seeing where the customer problems were and being creative at circumventing them. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI

Re: REAL memory column in SDSF

2006-09-29 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:31:36 -0600, Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Schmidt) writes: For zSeries to do it you would either be looking at creative use of MIDAW to read/write the 1M pages from/to existing DASD (with less-then-ideal performance) or you would be looking at new

Re: REAL memory column in SDSF

2006-09-28 Thread Tom Schmidt
page size. (Which appeared near the time that the SYMBOL-2R was being modified (again) along similar lines, but again that memory is too vague to be trusted it seems.) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: 20 Years of IBM-MAIN

2006-09-27 Thread Tom Schmidt
and the work he did. Is Darren the cover photo or the centerfold? g,dr Seriously, a discussion of ibm-main should start and end with Darren. Hats off to you, dude! -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: COBOL Compiler APF

2006-09-27 Thread Tom Schmidt
PROC? (Do you allow compiles via CICS or something?) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Re: Overhead caused by LE options with (XREF, MAP, LET)

2006-09-26 Thread Tom Schmidt
want to improve the that performance, block the output files and avoid the EXCP doubling. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Overhead caused by LE options with (XREF, MAP, LET)

2006-09-26 Thread Tom Schmidt
compile option as you (and I) suspected. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Re: 2007 DST Changes

2006-09-26 Thread Tom Schmidt
.) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- 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

Re: SMP/E

2006-09-20 Thread Tom Schmidt
(of everything) first! (When you're already in a hole there's not always a need to keep on diggin'.) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Sun DTrace

2006-09-15 Thread Tom Schmidt
enough to cover this invention. I'd say this one ought to do it: http://www.usd.edu/~bwjames/humor/ms/zerosNone.html (It originally appeared in Madison's own The Onion but I couldn't immediately find it on their web site.) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI

Re: Sun DTrace

2006-09-15 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:33:08 -0500, Tom Schmidt wrote: (It originally appeared in Madison's own The Onion but I couldn't immediately find it on their web site.) Ah! They went to school with Vice President Dan Mr. Potatoe Quayle*: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29130 -- Tom Schmidt

Re: IDCAMS and DF/SORT support for LBI

2006-09-14 Thread Tom Schmidt
also has its similar alternative. LBI is limited to tapes, not DASD. (Too bad - I would like to see the 3390 geometry disposed of at long last. 3390's track length is getting cramped.) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI

Re: IDCAMS and DF/SORT support for LBI

2006-09-14 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:29:19 -0400, Thompson, Steve (SCI TW) wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Schmidt Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 5:22 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IDCAMS and DF/SORT support for LBI

Re: IDCAMS and DF/SORT support for LBI

2006-09-14 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:21:22 -0500, Tom Schmidt misspoke: On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:29:19 -0400, Thompson, Steve (SCI TW) wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Schmidt Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 5:22 PM To: IBM-MAIN

Re: SHARE attendance

2006-09-13 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:37:15 -0400, John S. Giltner, Jr. wrote: Ed Gould wrote: Anyone have the number for attendance of SHARE in Baltimore? One of the chairs said that it was less than 2,000. Do you hear furniture talking often, or was that the only time it has happened to you? -- Tom

Re: SHARE attendance

2006-09-13 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:10:41 -0500, Ed Gould wrote: On Sep 13, 2006, at 11:23 AM, Tom Schmidt wrote: On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:37:15 -0400, John S. Giltner, Jr. wrote: Ed Gould wrote: Anyone have the number for attendance of SHARE in Baltimore? One of the chairs said that it was less than 2,000

Re: Non-SMP/e packaging

2006-09-12 Thread Tom Schmidt
work location has contract requirements that ALL software must be installed via SMP/E (if SMP/E is at all an option). Software that is not available via SMP/E is generally not allowed here. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI

Re: FW: Non-SMP/e packaging

2006-09-12 Thread Tom Schmidt
Exactly right. Back in the good old days when real sysprogs were cowboys and COBOL programmers ran away, scared (and scarred). *smirk* -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:50:56 -0400, Veilleux, Jon L wrote: You are thinking back to the days when UCC1 zapped IBM O/C/EOV

Re: How to find source of JES2 change

2006-09-08 Thread Tom Schmidt
believer in the entire Health Checker implementation from IBM, but there are bits and pieces that make sense. This is one.) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI (I'm also not a believer in best practices since I have seen it used too many times to stifle innovation and growth. The term your

Re: The squirrels are still at it

2006-09-05 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 13:07:49 -0400, Daniel A. McLaughlin wrote: Scully, Muldar, report for an X-files investigation Sorry, Scully and Mulder have been ab-duck-ted. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: IBM announces Encrypting tape drives

2006-09-01 Thread Tom Schmidt
that into the controllers in the field. I really would have liked the tape encryption announcement much better if IBM would have retrofitted it into existing (or even new model) 3490s. I wonder how many lost tape incidents with banks have happened with 3590 tapes vs. 3490 tapes? -- Tom Schmidt

Re: IBM announces Encrypting tape drives

2006-08-31 Thread Tom Schmidt
processors have to do the work). Too bad that wasn't offloaded to zIIPs/zAAPs/zEEPs (Enhanced Encryption Processor - I just made that up) to generalize the support somehow. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: IBM announces Encrypting tape drives

2006-08-31 Thread Tom Schmidt
copies - especially sensitive system volumes - and then not be able to restore under dire circumstances. Surely that's an issue raised and cured before now... ??? -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: DASD Response Time (on antique 3390?)

2006-08-23 Thread Tom Schmidt
, it dies philosophy? -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- 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

Re: really stupid question - z/OS 1.6 and CSTOR 2Gb

2006-08-22 Thread Tom Schmidt
for big central (to date). They gouge for big CPU but don't charge for memory size. (IBM could probably reduce the monthly maintenance changes for memory IMHO, but that's my quibble.) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM

Re: US Domestic Air Travel - Piece of Cake!

2006-08-12 Thread Tom Schmidt
be snubbing Ed all week. Please let me know if you are here because its always a shame to be snubbed unintentionally. -- Tom Schmidt Baltimore, MD (this week) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Vendor JCL (was: WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC ... )

2006-08-08 Thread Tom Schmidt
managers and executives for customers instead? THAT would be a worthwhile goal!) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: SMF Records recording

2006-08-08 Thread Tom Schmidt
.) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- 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: +DFHFC0987 Problem in CICS when access a file.

2006-07-25 Thread Tom Schmidt
CATALOG.PRD25 The IEC161I messages tells you what you need to know: The file was open to another ACB and the file specified SHROPTIONS(2). -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Mainframe population

2006-07-19 Thread Tom Schmidt
month - at SHARE. Be there. (Couldn't resist!) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI (I plan to be there) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN

Re: cataloging dataset on 2 lpar's master catalog

2006-07-07 Thread Tom Schmidt
the master catalog between the 2 LPARs? Then you wouldn't have this he said-she said game between your 2 existing master catalogs and the remainder of your problem would be simple. (Sysplex it.) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI

Re: Identify Paging Datasets

2006-06-29 Thread Tom Schmidt
point that's a more of a curse than a help.) zSeries with z/OS can be so stable it literally runs itself, apparently. (But I certainly hope IBM doesn't start marketing that concept.) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM

Re: Curiosity

2006-06-28 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:05:02 EDT, Ed Finnell wrote: Old what's her name also, but haven't heard from her since the tape problems? Old? OLD (Maybe we're thinking of two different people.) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI

Re: Trying to locate someone

2006-06-26 Thread Tom Schmidt
. Didn't he return to the planet Krypton for a few years? Have you tried using the Bat signal, Ryan? -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: SYSLOG and Incorrect Days Extra

2006-06-24 Thread Tom Schmidt
). -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- 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: z/OS 1.7 JES2 Checkpoint Reserves?

2006-06-23 Thread Tom Schmidt
but not on the 1.7 LPAR.) That would account for the lack of reserve activity. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

Re: Need Urgent Help, Please

2006-06-16 Thread Tom Schmidt
. (Now I get to reinstall since it won't boot due to the damage Windoze did to its SYSTEM/CONFIG directory.) It is a baad idea on pretty much any system that you need. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Mainframe Linux Mythbusting (Was: Using Java in batch on z/OS?)

2006-06-16 Thread Tom Schmidt
there.) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- 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

Re: POR needed?

2006-06-15 Thread Tom Schmidt
? (1994 maybe?) Or just plain old CRS yesterday? -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Re: Patent #6886160

2006-06-15 Thread Tom Schmidt
, the drawings in the patent reference IND$FILE, IEBGENER, etc... Just thought that was interesting... Hmmm... it looks like a whole lot of prior art to me. A WHOLE lot. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: SSI experience

2006-05-31 Thread Tom Schmidt
something else at PSI. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI From: Victor Gil Subject: Re: SSI experience Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 11:09:46 -0500 Ed, My tests indicate that DYNALLOC is in fact colliding on SYSZTIOT with the SSI Open/Close logic. Could you elaborate a bit on how exactly your BPAM

Re: IGGPRE00

2006-05-26 Thread Tom Schmidt
. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI On Fri, 26 May 2006 09:56:59 -0700, Ruegsegger, Jeff wrote: AMBLIST only lists PLPA...In the case where you are searching for what is being executed, if it is an MLPA module AMBLIST LISTLPA wont work. As sent from prior posts the search order is FLPA, MLPA, and finally LPA

Re: Sending CONSOLE/SYSLOG To Off-Mainframe Server

2006-05-18 Thread Tom Schmidt
for OPERLOG. That might also give you a method of extracting history data... although I haven't spent much time pondering that approach yet. Either way I wouldn't mess with 3270 emulation at this point in SNA's life. Let SNA face its ultimate end with some dignity. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI

Re: IBM left as the Betamax of mainframe tape crypto?

2006-05-17 Thread Tom Schmidt
. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- 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: Sending CONSOLE/SYSLOG To Off-Mainframe Server

2006-05-17 Thread Tom Schmidt
usage.) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- 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

Re: rexx or other macro processor on z/os?

2006-05-10 Thread Tom Schmidt
, if not decades. Dice.com is another source, as well as Monster.com and the list goes on and on. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI (one such coder who knows of plenty of others out there, lurking.) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: rexx or other macro processor on z/os?

2006-05-10 Thread Tom Schmidt
unimpressed. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI (no where near retirement age - I've got a good decade-and-a-half at least!) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Capping in Z890

2006-05-05 Thread Tom Schmidt
advocate use of zLinux for the purpose of mopping up 'excess' MSUs but then again this mess is due more to the burdensome software charges than anything else (as far as I've been able to see in my customer-world experience). -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI (zLinux doesn't REQUIRE the use

Re: Capping in Z890

2006-05-05 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Fri, 5 May 2006 12:40:28 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: Tom Schmidt wrote: Ed Jaffe wrote: I don't get it! Is this soaker some sort of stand-alone IPLable program you've written? Or do you need to IPL z/OS to run it? If the latter case, how does it keep your z/OS VWLC peak from reaching 32 MSU

Re: SSI experience

2006-05-04 Thread Tom Schmidt
! That was a lost opportunity if there ever was one.) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI On Wed, 3 May 2006 17:00:16 -0500, Victor Gil wrote: I was thinking of doing dynalloc in the subtask attached by Open. Why? Any sort of ENQ I should be aware of? I've seen products that parse the SUBSYS dd and perform

Re: SSI experience

2006-05-03 Thread Tom Schmidt
to determine the file DSORG. For each DSORG there will be a correspondent server routine to perform requested I/O. Victor, You aren't planning on (or needing to be) doing dynamic allocation within the SSI Open/Close routines, are you? -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI

Re: Dataset Contention

2006-05-02 Thread Tom Schmidt
The HiperBatch components are part of the z/OS license ('free'). -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI (about 15+ years ago my then-organization assisted IBM in finding the bugs in the VSAM portion of HiperBatch... but what are 20-30 APARs among friends? The 'seamless' transition over the 2GB

Re: Anyone have a good guess as to current number of z or 390 shops?

2006-05-02 Thread Tom Schmidt
reports laud the number of mainframe MIPS shipped (but not necessarily the number of mainframes themselves). Mainframes are the mass transit of computing. (Everybody's on an increasingly larger bus these days.) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI

Re: Securing consoles

2006-05-02 Thread Tom Schmidt
; once the operator gets out of range the screen automatically locks (but you can still see what is on the screen) so keyboard input is prohibited without the screen saver password. If you (or anyone) uses it, please post the outcome. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI

Re: IEC141I 013-C0 during SUBSYS open

2006-05-01 Thread Tom Schmidt
Victor, So does it work now? -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI On Mon, 1 May 2006 14:02:06 -0500, Victor Gil wrote: Auch! This must be MVC SSOBRETN,=A(SSRTOK) Thanks a lot, Binyamin! On Mon, 1 May 2006 13:57:22 -0500, Victor Gil wrote: MVC SSOBRETN,=Y(SSRTOK) On Mon, 1 May 2006 21:05

Re: 0C4 reason=11

2006-04-28 Thread Tom Schmidt
). You'll be fine then. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- 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

Re: 0C4 reason=11

2006-04-28 Thread Tom Schmidt
to fill in your I/O routine address on your way by, by the way. Otherwise the first GET/PUT will bring up your next S0C1/S0C4. (I'd expect an S0C1 - branch to low-storage - without a GET/PUT routine.) On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:45:58 -0500, Tom Schmidt wrote: The field is right where

Re: Adding LPARs without POR

2006-04-25 Thread Tom Schmidt
with multiple Linux instances and it can scale up (or down) very quickly. Ideal for what you seem to be looking at. You only need one (or perhaps two, for a test z/VM) LPARs to get the concept up off of the ground and running smoothly. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI

Re: Static Symbols in JCL

2006-04-19 Thread Tom Schmidt
as designed (BAD). They do it sometimes but they really try hard to avoid it. (I am fairly certain this topic has been discussed to death here several years ago.) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Static Symbols in JCL

2006-04-19 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 22:35:56 -0500, Ed Gould wrote: On Apr 19, 2006, at 10:19 PM, Tom Schmidt wrote: Ed, I suspect that the reason for the rejected support was the fear that they would/could add an impediment to system growth (and an impediment to a mainframe sale). If they provided

Re: A very basic question

2006-04-10 Thread Tom Schmidt
... you get the drill. We got a boatload of CPU cycles back in the process, of course. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI (Lest anyone think that couldn't happen at their site -- wanna bet?) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: MVS Batchpipes Pipe Works

2006-04-09 Thread Tom Schmidt
you can probably write what you need in REXX and use the REXX pipe stage to drive it inline (intercepting and manipulating output data via the SUBSYS DD statement). Chapter 3 introduces the fittings and how you can define rather complex filters as fittings to address needs such as yours. -- Tom

Re: MVS Batchpipes Pipe Works

2006-04-06 Thread Tom Schmidt
will more than make up for it, but some folks had issues with that.) Hopefully someone authoritative from IBM will answer your questions. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: SVC Screening -- again

2006-04-05 Thread Tom Schmidt
screening on the same TCB? Is there a de facto method that vendors use similar to the one used for front-ending SVC's? -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Support for MVS/SP 3.2.2 on zSeries???

2006-04-04 Thread Tom Schmidt
maintenance from the vendors beyond old tapes. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI On Tue, 4 Apr 2006 09:50:44 -0500, Steve Arnett wrote: Tom, I was not picking on you. I was trying to get the thread back on track. I was curious about the correct answer to the question and did not feel that the thread

Re: SSI questions

2006-04-04 Thread Tom Schmidt
several folks were pointing you at the possibility of an OPEN SVC intercept?) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI On Tue, 4 Apr 2006 12:56:38 -0400, Gil, Victor x28091 wrote: I am probably missing something obvious - When setting up a subsystem, how do I tell the system to call a custom function to Allocate

Re: Support for MVS/SP 3.2.2 on zSeries???

2006-04-03 Thread Tom Schmidt
addressing this scenario. Thank you, BK Kosmach 412 433 1639 Was that level of MVS Y2K compliant? I don't believe it was (and I'm sure it wasn't certified as such). I'd expect you have licensing issues with IBM... can't help you there. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI

Re: Support for MVS/SP 3.2.2 on zSeries???

2006-04-03 Thread Tom Schmidt
years past y2K that he is not concerned with that and if he is presently running ESA on another box then he has the license. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Schmidt Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 11:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Support

Re: Support for MVS/SP 3.2.2 on zSeries???

2006-04-03 Thread Tom Schmidt
fits for ESA/370 hardware. September 5, 1990 was the announcement date for MVS/DFP 3.3.0. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Support for MVS/SP 3.2.2 on zSeries???

2006-04-03 Thread Tom Schmidt
be able to connect to any 3390 models larger than a mod 3 but your VM (s) can emulate a lot of little disks, I suppose. Your next trick will be to access the tape data that (presumably) you are resurrecting this software for... good luck with that! -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI

Re: Over my head in a JES exit

2006-04-01 Thread Tom Schmidt
months in order to pass on current information. Given that, and especially given IBM's considerable web sites I would have to say that they are generally doing better than they ever did. I would, of course, like to see IBM do even more. But Ed's out of line (and out of touch) on this subject. -- Tom

Re: Systems Programmer Levels Justification

2006-03-28 Thread Tom Schmidt
them. You generally pay more to the guy with the answers. (That's a key premise behind consulting anyway. Right answers are usually worth more, but sometimes it is a function of presentation and not content so much. That is a key premise of marketing.) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI

Re: Wonder why IBM code quality is suffering?

2006-03-26 Thread Tom Schmidt
the world.) The PL/X genealogy included PL/S and PL/AS, but not PL/C. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

Re: CICS down after transaction exec wait macro.

2006-03-25 Thread Tom Schmidt
was not properly initialized/setup. My other suggestions (above) should be considered once you get past that failure (by inserting the '0' where appropriate). (Free advice - worth at least what you paid for it.) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI

Re: CICS down after transaction exec wait macro.

2006-03-25 Thread Tom Schmidt
value of now that would NOT include his version of CICS (CICS 220). His level of CICS precludes threadsafe processing by several releases. (It might even preceed the TRUE processing I previously mentioned, I'm not sure.) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI

Re: How to marry subsystem and dynamic allocation

2006-03-24 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 22:54:44 -0600, Tom Schmidt wrote: On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 15:13:57 -0500, Gil, Victor x28091 wrote: Good afternoon, IBM-MAIN We'd like to be able to prevent certain confidential fields in production files from being revealed to unauthorized users while still allowing access

Re: How to marry subsystem and dynamic allocation

2006-03-24 Thread Tom Schmidt
that if you are looking for help justifying the expense). But if you are determined to write your own subsystem, knock yourself out. (It is fun.) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: How to marry subsystem and dynamic allocation

2006-03-23 Thread Tom Schmidt
they expect where they expect it? -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- 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

Re: CA's TCPAccess question.

2006-03-17 Thread Tom Schmidt
issue? -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- 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

Re: FW: Wishing for a JCL based PARMLIB Concatenation search

2006-03-15 Thread Tom Schmidt
by/for the CBTTAPE community. Some of the better vendors will, no doubt, support it. Others probably not. Wider usage may push them into supporting it. (By support I mean allowing for its usage within their products.) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI

Re: Offloading Reports

2006-03-15 Thread Tom Schmidt
Report Broker.) Larry, You want to offload the sysouts to a non-MVS system then, correct? (Wild guess is that your boss would prefer something free or nearly so, like maybe a Linux solution?) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM

Re: Batch TMP RECFM(VB) Input

2006-03-14 Thread Tom Schmidt
JCL for Command Execution subheading SYSTSIN DD Statement. (You can have any color car you want as long as you only want black - H. Ford) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:50:39 -0600, Ed Gould wrote: On Mar 13, 2006, at 2:38 PM, Chase, John wrote: Ever hear of the Internet? John, Yea and its a pretty big place isn't it? Ed But not endless: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI

Re: SYSLOG purging . . .

2006-03-13 Thread Tom Schmidt
Jon, JES2 or JES3? How many syslog records does the site produce on an average week? How many syslog records does the site produce in its busiest week? -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Need help with msg IEE114I

2006-03-07 Thread Tom Schmidt
on each line. * V=V jobs, virtual=real (V=R) tasks, and V=R attached transaction programs (ATX) created by the START command. One entry appears on each line. I would expect (but haven't spent any more of my time to confirm) that ATX is the current nomenclature for APPC transactions. -- Tom Schmidt

Re: z/OS 1.6 NFS server question

2006-03-06 Thread Tom Schmidt
REALLY growl, right? Meet them halfway with NFS and if either side breaks the standard they need to get it fixed. Simple enough for management to understand. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: SMP/E for non-sysprogs?

2006-03-06 Thread Tom Schmidt
that every SMP/E process has all of the appropriate SMPLOG files available for review? Failing all of that... is your resume up-to-date and offline? -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI (Yes, I have been asked those questions by auditor(s) before

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-03 Thread Tom Schmidt
are not very timely ... a lot of RACF databases can become corrupted between the idea and the implementation. Maybe the APAR should be appealed to get a code change rather than a doc change? (Oh yeah, like the RACF people are gonna let that happen!) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI

Re: Max # of SYS1.MAN datasets

2006-03-01 Thread Tom Schmidt
value. Whether the underlying software supports that maximum value is another question. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Tax chooses dead language - Austalia

2006-02-28 Thread Tom Schmidt
/4021093.stm as an example). -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- 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

Re: Tax chooses dead language - Austalia

2006-02-28 Thread Tom Schmidt
(or lowered the bar) to 3 character acronyms to give them a dose of their own medicine (and to show how silly they are being). -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: z/OS 1.6 Withdrawal Date

2006-02-17 Thread Tom Schmidt
the first zAAPs in production. Tim has discussed this on the list before.) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM

Re: z/OS 1.6 Withdrawal Date

2006-02-17 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 09:56:58 -0800, Edward E. Jaffe wrote: Tom Schmidt wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 08:36:57 -0800, Edward E. Jaffe wrote: Timothy Sipples wrote: I know of one customer that's been in production on z/OS 1.6 since September 1, 2004. (Maybe they read this list.) That's 23 days

Re: z/OS 1.6 Withdrawal Date

2006-02-16 Thread Tom Schmidt
that formula gives Sept 2006 as EOS (announcement) for z/OS 1.6. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

Re: DASD allocation guidelines

2006-02-15 Thread Tom Schmidt
in the DCB on the DD card vs coding BLKSIZE=0 by itself as a parameter of the DD. mass snippage from this point -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Multiple address spaces

2006-02-12 Thread Tom Schmidt
and another common area above-the-line. The nucleus itself straddles the line (some of the nucleus is below and the rest is above). -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Multiple address spaces

2006-02-10 Thread Tom Schmidt
exceed 4G although in theory each address space can have a max size of 2G? No, see above. The max size of all the address spaces is currently limited to approximately 1 TB. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

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