Re: Sub Capacity Reporting for non IBM Vendors

2009-09-14 Thread R.S.
Edward Jaffe pisze: R.S. wrote: It is also worth to mention that IBM is the only company which is not try to catch the customer. I read several horror stories on this forum, on ISVcosts list, from own experience - almost any other company presents license agreements that HAVE to be

Re: Sub Capacity Reporting for non IBM Vendors

2009-09-14 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:50:02 +0200 R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: :I recant. :I shouldn't say that IBM is the only honest company. That should be the :only honest company *I know* . This statement does not preclude other :companies. :Obviously I didn't mean PSI, because I had

Re: Sub Capacity Reporting for non IBM Vendors

2009-09-14 Thread R.S.
Binyamin Dissen pisze: On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:50:02 +0200 R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: :I recant. :I shouldn't say that IBM is the only honest company. That should be the :only honest company *I know* . This statement does not preclude other :companies. :Obviously I didn't

Re: Sub Capacity Reporting for non IBM Vendors

2009-09-14 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:24:20 +0200 R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: :Binyamin Dissen pisze: : On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:50:02 +0200 R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl : wrote: : :I recant. : :I shouldn't say that IBM is the only honest company. That should be the : :only honest company

Re: PDSE HELP Required.

2009-09-14 Thread Greg Price
Rick Fochtman wrote: In case you forgot: regular load modules only contain a note list if they are in OVERLAY format, which is both archaic and unnecessarily complicated. OVERLAY format does use a second entry in the NOTE list, but *all* PDS load modules have at least one entry in the NOTE

Re: Sub Capacity Reporting for non IBM Vendors

2009-09-14 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I don't have to look for gotchas. I negotiate prices, but usually not TsCs. Boy! Are you naive! TC are negotiable! - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

WLM initiators and IEF196I messages

2009-09-14 Thread Gil Peleg
Hi all, A little something I noticed... We have some code in IEFACTRT that issues WTO messages with route code 11 (don't ask..). When a job is running under a JES-managed initiator, the messages are displayed fine in the JESMSGLG. When a job is running under a WLM-managed initiator, each message

Re: Sub Capacity Reporting for non IBM Vendors

2009-09-14 Thread R.S.
Ted MacNEIL pisze: I don't have to look for gotchas. I negotiate prices, but usually not TsCs. Boy! Are you naive! TC are negotiable! I'm not naive. I know that TsCs are negotiable, as everything in business. It is strange: when I complained about IBM on the list, I was scolded. Now I said

SV: SV: SV: CLIST/REXX Library Formats

2009-09-14 Thread Thomas Berg
:D -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] För Steve Comstock Skickat: den 11 september 2009 20:06 Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Ämne: Re: SV: SV: CLIST/REXX Library Formats Thomas Berg wrote: [snip] This makes it somewhat

SV: CLIST/REXX Library Formats

2009-09-14 Thread Thomas Berg
-Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] För Paul Gilmartin Skickat: den 11 september 2009 23:26 Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Ämne: Re: CLIST/REXX Library Formats On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:38:21 +0200, Thomas Berg wrote:

Re: SRDF/A, DB2

2009-09-14 Thread Jim Marshall
We will soon be installing an EMC V-Max and SRDF/A in an DB2 environment running on an Z/OS LPAR(s). Can anyone share what their best practices are or Point me to where I can find any Documentation on this subject? Thanks in advance! You did not say if you were doing SRDF/A prior to the DB2 so

Re: SRDF/A, DB2

2009-09-14 Thread Mike Liberatore
Do you still have to install Consistency Group Software? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Terri E Shaffer Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 1:31 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: SRDF/A, DB2 I think this is where I

Wanted: SHARE Volume I proceedings

2009-09-14 Thread Bob Shannon
SHARE used to publish two volumes of Proceedings: Volume I was a book containing papers; Volume II was microfiche of everything else. I have started to convert the Volume I Proceedings to PDF. I have Volume I from SHARE 74 (Anaheim, Winter 1990) and SHARE 77 (Chicago, Summer 1991). If you have

Re: Sub Capacity Reporting for non IBM Vendors

2009-09-14 Thread Kelman, Tom
Peter, Yes, all SMF records are written by SMF. However, it is system programs or application programs that request SMF to write them. I know of many vendor programs that request the writing of various SMF records, and type 89 is no exception. Any program could set up the application oriented

Re: Sub Capacity Reporting for non IBM Vendors

2009-09-14 Thread Kelman, Tom
What is said here might be true for those products that are doing sub-capacity pricing based on MSUs. They just need to register/deregister their product to write the MULC data. However, as I said in a previous post, I know that the IBM CPCS and imaging software cause SMF89 records to be written

T-Rex and Dino-Software

2009-09-14 Thread גדי בן אבי
Hi, A few days ago I asked a question about a replacement for Dino Software’s T-Rex. From the way my question was phrased, it could have been inferred that I was dissatisfied with T-Rex or Dino Software. First I would like to apologize to the great people at Dino Software. I have always been

(ssh Client) z/OS to OpenSSH (CopSSH sshd) on Win Y2K SP4

2009-09-14 Thread Marco Gianfranco Indaco
Hi to all. I've a problem when I connect via ssh my USS session to CopSSH using pubkey and after starting a VbScript to exceute a MsExcel macro. When I start the vbscript that make a CreateObject(Excel.Application) it gives a Permission denied but this doesn't happens if I authenticate using

Re: Wanted: SHARE Volume I proceedings

2009-09-14 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
bshan...@rocketsoftware.com (Bob Shannon) writes: SHARE used to publish two volumes of Proceedings: Volume I was a book containing papers; Volume II was microfiche of everything else. I have started to convert the Volume I Proceedings to PDF. I have Volume I from SHARE 74 (Anaheim, Winter

Re: WLM initiators and IEF196I messages

2009-09-14 Thread David Andrews
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 06:48 -0400, Gil Peleg wrote: We have some code in IEFACTRT that issues WTO messages with route code 11 Yes, we changed our ACTRT to issue messages with another route code so to avoid those superfluous (IMO) IEF196I messages. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc.

Re: [turnkey-mvs] turnkey mvs and cobol/jcl environment

2009-09-14 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Andreas F. Geissbuehler Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 9:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [turnkey-mvs] turnkey mvs and cobol/jcl environment SNIP I second Jo on this and URGE

Re: T-Rex and Dino-Software

2009-09-14 Thread Mark Zelden
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:00:16 +0300, #1490;#1491;#1497; amp;#1489;#1503; #1488;#1489;#1497; gad...@malam.com wrote: Hi, A few days ago I asked a question about a replacement for Dino Software’s T-Rex. From the way my question was phrased, it could have been inferred that I was dissatisfied with

Re: Sub Capacity Reporting for non IBM Vendors

2009-09-14 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 9/14/2009 1:51:24 A.M. Central Daylight Time, r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl writes: company. However *every* ISV's license agreement I met needed negotiation. Not only for the price, but first of all terms and conditions. Sometimes it was small change, but sometimes

Re: Sub Capacity Reporting for non IBM Vendors

2009-09-14 Thread Rick Fochtman
Let's face it: some vendors are very fair and accomodating while others have practices that can only be characterized as predatory. I've dealt with both kinds. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: Sub Capacity Reporting for non IBM Vendors

2009-09-14 Thread Rick Fochtman
--snip-- Let me understand this correctly. You accept all IBM boilerplate agreements with zero negotiation??? -unsnip If so, I want whatever it is that he's smoking!

Re: Sub Capacity Reporting for non IBM Vendors

2009-09-14 Thread Kelman, Tom
That's all well and good. However, I just did a D PROD,STATE on my systems and several products - CPCS, the imaging software, CICS, DB2, and MQ - are not in this list, but they are all producing SMF Type89 records. The ones for CICS, DB2, and MQ are run though SCRT every month to produce the

Re: T-Rex and Dino-Software

2009-09-14 Thread David Andrews
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 10:02 -0400, Mark Zelden wrote: On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:00:16 +0300, #1490;#1491;#1497; amp;#1489;#1503; #1488;#1489;#1497; gad...@malam.com wrote: From the way my question was phrased, it could have been inferred I didn't take it that way. For what little it may be

Re: Use of RETAIN

2009-09-14 Thread Daniel McLaughlin
Here is a short version of the job...and it croaks trying to open up the tape in the second part of the second step. We thought maybe it was a DD name conflict and changed the scheme for a test, same results...opened with IBM and will do the same with FDR folks. This job will be all generated

Re: [turnkey-mvs] turnkey mvs and cobol/jcl environment - hit send too soon

2009-09-14 Thread Steve Comstock
Thompson, Steve wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Andreas F. Geissbuehler Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 9:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [turnkey-mvs] turnkey mvs and cobol/jcl environment SNIP I

Re: [turnkey-mvs] turnkey mvs and cobol/jcl environment - hit send too soon

2009-09-14 Thread Howard Brazee
On 14 Sep 2009 08:25:19 -0700, st...@trainersfriend.com (Steve Comstock) wrote: Marketing, probably. The current COBOL developers have been pushing the edge of modernity constantly. Which current CoBOL developers? The compiler writers at IBM? The majority of people who develop CoBOL

Re: Carrier Pigeon beats Internet Speed

2009-09-14 Thread Howard Brazee
On 11 Sep 2009 18:59:04 -0700, tom_moul...@1scom.net (Tom Moulder) wrote: I am working with a company that literally did this. They shipped a very large disk array to the central computing center and placed it next to the production array; synchronously copied all the data; found a quiet

CEEPIPI incorrect recovery processing?

2009-09-14 Thread Gord Tomlin
Just looking for input as to whether this is working as designed before I report it as a defect... If a program that uses CEEPIPI to call HLL subroutines abends while *not* in any of the HLL subroutines, LE recovery processes the abend and transforms a system abend into a LE user abend.

Re: Sub Capacity Reporting for non IBM Vendors

2009-09-14 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Let's face it: some vendors are very fair and accomodating while others have practices that can only be characterized as predatory. I've dealt with both kinds. So have I. As a Capacity Analyst, I have been more involved in costing, than I've ever wanted to be. I knew this was going to happen

Re: [turnkey-mvs] turnkey mvs and cobol/jcl environment - hit send too soon

2009-09-14 Thread Steve Comstock
Howard Brazee wrote: On 14 Sep 2009 08:25:19 -0700, st...@trainersfriend.com (Steve Comstock) wrote: Marketing, probably. The current COBOL developers have been pushing the edge of modernity constantly. Which current CoBOL developers? The compiler writers at IBM? The majority of people

Re: [turnkey-mvs] turnkey mvs and cobol/jcl environment

2009-09-14 Thread Steve Comstock
Thompson, Steve wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Andreas F. Geissbuehler Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 9:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [turnkey-mvs] turnkey mvs and cobol/jcl environment SNIP I

Re: Sub Capacity Reporting for non IBM Vendors

2009-09-14 Thread Edward Jaffe
Kelman, Tom wrote: What is said here might be true for those products that are doing sub-capacity pricing based on MSUs. They just need to register/deregister their product to write the MULC data. However, as I said in a previous post, I know that the IBM CPCS and imaging software cause SMF89

Re: Use of RETAIN

2009-09-14 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 9/14/2009 9:47:57 A.M. Central Daylight Time, daniel_mclaugh...@us.crawco.com writes: and it croaks trying to open up the tape in the second part of the second step. We thought maybe it was a DD name conflict and changed the scheme for a test, same results...opened with

Re: z/VM GDDM install

2009-09-14 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:45:35 +0200, J D Cassidy s...@jdcassidy.net wrote: appreciate the advice, thank you. Bloody hard way to get a manual though... Perhaps you weren't around when you had to fill out a paper form and send it to the branch office? :-) By the time L-class books were

Re: Sub Capacity Reporting for non IBM Vendors

2009-09-14 Thread Edward Jaffe
Kelman, Tom wrote: That's all well and good. However, I just did a D PROD,STATE on my systems and several products - CPCS, the imaging software, CICS, DB2, and MQ - are not in this list, but they are all producing SMF Type89 records. The ones for CICS, DB2, and MQ are run though SCRT every

Re: CEEPIPI incorrect recovery processing?

2009-09-14 Thread Don Poitras
If you change to SYSMDUMP and use the IPCS command IP VERBX LEDATA 'ALL', you may be able to get a traceback and PSW/regs at time of ABEND. Gord Tomlin wrote: Just looking for input as to whether this is working as designed before I report it as a defect... If a program that uses CEEPIPI

Re: Use of RETAIN

2009-09-14 Thread Joseph Butz
Hi Daniel, On quick look, I don't see a problem. Have you sent this problem to us at Innovation? We haven't seen it yet. Please submit the job and output to the support email for us to review at your convenience. Thanks, Joseph Butz jb...@fdrinnovation.com

Re: CEEPIPI incorrect recovery processing?

2009-09-14 Thread Gord Tomlin
Thanks Don, but my mission here is not how to get at the LE information in the dump, but rather to have LE's recovery routines entirely out of the way when an abend occurs outside of the LE environment. The LE Programming Guide says that when control is returned to the caller of CEEPIPI, the

Hiperbatch, Smartbatch, Dynamic Cache Management

2009-09-14 Thread gsg
Wondering if Hiperbatch, smartbatch, Dynamic Cache Management are still valid for improving performance with todays processors, DASD, OS etc... I don't think that we use any of these and are only now starting to look at SMB. Any feed back would be appreciated. And yes we are having

Internal Reader Problem

2009-09-14 Thread Mark Yuhas
We have 3 LPARs in our sysplex all in the same MAS. All running z/OS 1.7. We have an anomaly we can't explain. When a job is submitted on System A, it is converted on system B. Due to the scheduling environment, the job executes and ABENDs on System A. Designating SYSAFF=A resolved the

Re: Internal Reader Problem

2009-09-14 Thread Mark Zelden
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:21:24 -0700, Mark Yuhas mark.yu...@paccar.com wrote: We have 3 LPARs in our sysplex all in the same MAS. All running z/OS 1.7. We have an anomaly we can't explain. When a job is submitted on System A, it is converted on system B. Due to the scheduling environment, the

Re: Internal Reader Problem

2009-09-14 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:21:24 -0700, Mark Yuhas wrote: Even though both systems have the same PROC name. The PROCs our different on each system. ... Is there a way, besides an exit, to force a job without a SYSAFF designation to be converted on the same system that it was submitted on?

Re: CEEPIPI incorrect recovery processing?

2009-09-14 Thread Steve Comstock
Gord Tomlin wrote: Just looking for input as to whether this is working as designed before I report it as a defect... If a program that uses CEEPIPI to call HLL subroutines abends while *not* in any of the HLL subroutines, LE recovery processes the abend and transforms a system abend into a

Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In jhkka59q0bavje123mfp9mp5cgdnmhm...@4ax.com, on 09/11/2009 at 07:37 AM, Howard Brazee howard.bra...@cusys.edu said: So how do you use it? What do you do differently when you get a 97 than when you get a 00? Depending on the application, I might put out a message saying to reconstruct from

Re: Carrier Pigeon beats Internet Speed

2009-09-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a30a9f528e618748a8ef5199e80c4a1c69a...@wkpp1infmb03.cbsh.com, on 09/11/2009 at 02:00 PM, Kelman, Tom thomas.kel...@commercebank.com said: Subject: Carrier Pigeon beats Internet Speed Using RFC 1149? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: $HASP050 JES2 RESOURCE SHORTAGE OF BUFX - 0% UTILIZATION REACHED

2009-09-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In lkkka5lk61hs8pbmnvs4c43gc80bnff...@4ax.com, on 09/11/2009 at 07:39 AM, Howard Brazee howard.bra...@cusys.edu said: I also once wrote a check out using mills, when the calculation indicated I should do so, and there were no instructions on how to round. It may be legal tender, but they

Re: CLIST/REXX Library Formats

2009-09-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4aa9651c.4010...@ync.net, on 09/10/2009 at 03:44 PM, Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net said: Which is more effieient for CLIST/REXX libraries? the choices are RECFM=FB, LRECL=255 or RECFM=FB,LRECL=80? If you can't use RECFM=VB, then use the smallest LRECL that your code will fit into.

Re: CLIST/REXX Library Formats

2009-09-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 32208482.1252616974481.javamail.r...@elwamui-cypress.atl.sa.earthlink.net, on 09/10/2009 at 05:09 PM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com said: I think the Lrecl80 came from the punch card days. The people I worked with back in 1980 preferred the 80 byte record because they came from

Re: CLIST/REXX Library Formats

2009-09-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 6134cdf9e3c17546be1c9d525bdeef95f07eebe...@hqmail.rocketsoftware.com, on 09/10/2009 at 06:04 PM, Bob Shannon bshan...@rocketsoftware.com said: With VLF, it pretty much doesn't matter. For SYSPROC; it does for SYSEXEC. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position;

Re: CLIST/REXX Library Formats

2009-09-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In dc74548a025aff4a85f46926802a9b2303723...@chsa1035.share.beluni.net, on 09/11/2009 at 08:24 AM, Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4) peter.hunke...@credit-suisse.com said: Interesting that you can see 80 characters in the 72 positions the ISPF editor has to display the data ;-) It would have been had

Re: CLIST/REXX Library Formats

2009-09-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In db9405830909102240xade49f9o9adc503905547...@mail.gmail.com, on 09/11/2009 at 03:40 PM, Wayne Bickerdike wayn...@gmail.com said: So many times have novices asked me why their REXX was failing and it was sequence numbers in 73-80. Can still happen for VB 255 No; for RECFM=VB the sequence

Re: Internal Reader Problem

2009-09-14 Thread Scott Rowe
I didn't think you could put it on the INTRDR statement, but I've been using $T INTRDR,SYSAFF=* in the init deck for decades, no need for a system symbol ;-) Mark Zelden mark.zel...@zurichna.com 9/14/2009 4:36 PM On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:21:24 -0700, Mark Yuhas mark.yu...@paccar.com wrote: You

Re: CEEPIPI incorrect recovery processing?

2009-09-14 Thread Gord Tomlin
Hi Steve, You're close! I'll go through your points in order: 1. Correct. CEEPIPI is called with request code 3 (init_sub). The PIPI table is set up correctly. For the demonstration case (IBM's sample to keep things simple) I took a working program and added an intentional ABENDS0C3. For

TCB Address

2009-09-14 Thread Digestani, Raul
Hello all. I'm asking about how to obtain current TCB address in an assembly pgm. Any help will be appreciated; thanks in advance. __ Raúl Daniel Digestani Bco. Santander Río S.A. CC 011 - Desarrollo de Sistemas II Gral. Hornos 238 - Piso 3 - Buenos Aires

Re: TCB Address

2009-09-14 Thread Chuck Arney
The field PSATOLD in the PSA contains the address of the TCB of the active task. Chuck Arney illustro Systems International, LLC http://www.illustro.com Internet-enable your applications with z/Ware V2 Voice: 214-800-8900 X#5562 -- This e-mail is private and may be confidential and is for the

Re: TCB Address

2009-09-14 Thread William H. Blair
how to obtain current TCB address in an assembly pgm. USING PSA,0 PSA addressability L R3,PSATOLD - Current TCB USING TCB,R3 TCB addressability ... IHAPSA LIST=NOPSA DSECT IKJTCB LIST=NO

Re: CEEPIPI incorrect recovery processing?

2009-09-14 Thread Steve Comstock
Gord Tomlin wrote: Hi Steve, You're close! I'll go through your points in order: 1. Correct. CEEPIPI is called with request code 3 (init_sub). The PIPI table is set up correctly. For the demonstration case (IBM's sample to keep things simple) I took a working program and added an intentional

Re: stop-x37 type of function in SMS

2009-09-14 Thread Neil Duffee
On 2009-09-11 at 16:14, concerning stop-x37 type of function in SMS, jam...gr...@efir...com wrote to IBM-Main: While at SARE a couple weeks ago my manager was told by an IBM'er that SMS could handle space abends like a STOP-X37 product. Has anyone heard this and if so how is it

Re: CEEPIPI incorrect recovery processing?

2009-09-14 Thread Gord Tomlin
I agree, the cut-and-paste out of the PDF is painful. I've sent you ASMPIPI off list. You already have HLLPIPI. Steve Comstock wrote: Gord Tomlin wrote: Hi Steve, You're close! I'll go through your points in order: 1. Correct. CEEPIPI is called with request code 3 (init_sub). The PIPI

Re: CEEPIPI incorrect recovery processing?

2009-09-14 Thread Steve Comstock
Gord Tomlin wrote: Hi Steve, You're close! I'll go through your points in order: 1. Correct. CEEPIPI is called with request code 3 (init_sub). The PIPI table is set up correctly. For the demonstration case (IBM's sample to keep things simple) I took a working program and added an intentional

Re: CEEPIPI incorrect recovery processing?

2009-09-14 Thread Gord Tomlin
Definitely, the key item is the meaning of dormant. Clearly, the environment exists until it is destroyed by the term call. The question is what should happen when the environment exists but is dormant. IBM states in the description of init_sub that it sets the environment dormant so that

Re: [turnkey-mvs] turnkey mvs and cobol/jcl environment

2009-09-14 Thread Clark Morris
On 14 Sep 2009 07:38:40 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: Thompson, Steve wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Andreas F. Geissbuehler Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 9:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu

Re: Hiperbatch, Smartbatch, Dynamic Cache Management

2009-09-14 Thread John Baxter
For DCME, have a look at Ron Hawkins' recent post: http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0909L=ibm-mainP=R37609I=1X=- If you are batch-constrained, the old Red Book: System/390 MVS Parallel Sysplex Batch Performance - SG24-2557-00 has many pointers still valid in even non-sysplexed environments.