I know a little something about the history of that URL hot spots
feature, which has been available for many years now. Yours truly opened
the marketing requirement for that feature way back in February, 2001,
inspired by a particular iSeries customer in Texas. The marketing
requirement that I
In 2649511304607384.wa.paulgboulderaim@bama.ua.edu, on
03/21/2012
at 03:33 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said:
Yes, but one must sometimes contend with readers of these lists
who insist that Rexx compound tails _must_ be consecutive positive
integers, and the count _must_ appear
In blu149-w1257798a95186876f1faa8a1...@phx.gbl, on 03/21/2012
at 11:05 AM, Dave Salt ds...@hotmail.com said:
Using the ISPF Workstation Agent (WSA.EXE).
That can be problematical at some sites. The issues are normally
political rather than technical.
That said, I like that approach where it
In m3obrpeoga@garlic.com, on 03/21/2012
at 03:36 PM, Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com said:
there was work on hyperthreading
Virtual multiprocessors go back to the late 1950's[1] and early
1960's[2], although IBM and Intel came late to the game.
[1] Honeywell 800
[2] Peripheral
RECEIVE FROMNETWORK is faster for me than performing separate download, then
upload, etc etc. Make sure you compare the full process.
The data transfer speeds are the same, but time is saved through not having to
do the separate manual steps.
In other words, RECEIVE FROMNETWORK does not appear
The PEMODE password is calculated from the system serial number (CEC, 12
characters), current date, and a mutate table which is specific to the SE
software main release version and MCL. The only secret part is the serial
number ... I guess it was never intended to be a very secret method, but
Some days it is faster than others. I guess I would ask, why worry about it?
Submit the job just before you leave for the day. As others have mentioned,
it is a lot less manual effort than a PC intermediate step.
It will also depend on how often you run it, as it will only download what
Well, I cannot agree. Serial number is know as well as the date. The
only secret part is the method, algorithm.
BTW, disclaimer: I wish I knew the PEMODE password, but I didn't look
for it. I was looking for Service Manuals.
Regards
--
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W dniu 2012-03-22
I write that the S/N is secret, as it is the only thing specific to a certain
installation. The method is present on all the SEs in the world, and the tables
on all the SEs with the same MCL - this makes them not so secret. But the S/N
is unique, known by IBM and the client - it may be not
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:38:28 -0700, Cris Hernandez #9 wrote:
-use DROP to free memory for any array that's no longer needed
But be careful. I have an example that shows that DROPping
members of a stem can actually increase memory usage.
-- gil
The CPU usage of the compiled REXX code was here, about 1/10 of the
interpreted REXX code.
On 3/21/2012 4:38 PM, Tim Brown wrote:
What can be done to prevent REXXX programs from being so CPU intensive
Thanks,
Tim Brown
Systems Specialist - Project Leader
Central Hudson Gas Electric
We can dispute how effective the protection is, but S/N is (can be)
perfectly known to every customer and every IBMer, and even DHL employees.
What is not know is the method to calculate the password. Maybe it's not
so hard to hack SE and disassemble this method, but is NOT known
neither to
G'Day
I am trying to delete a duplicate dsn via TSO. Since the cataloged version
which resides on volume MPR003 is in use, I thought that I could rename the
duplicate dsn which resides on MPR027. However when I try to rename the dsn
(via TSO) it gave me the message Duplicate data set name
I use IDCAMS in batch and do a DEL ... NVR command.
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IIRC, 'execution velocity' is rooted in the ratio of the time spent waiting for
the CPU and the time actually using the CPU. The 'mean time to wait' metric.
But I think the CPU critical attribute pretty much negates the effects of
velocity. I seem to recall a display or report somewhere that
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes:
Virtual multiprocessors go back to the late 1950's[1] and early
1960's[2], although IBM and Intel came late to the game.
[1] Honeywell 800
[2] Peripheral Processors on CDC 6600
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#73
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 06:24:01 -0700, John Dawes jhn_da...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
I am trying to delete a duplicate dsn via TSO. Since the cataloged version
which resides on volume MPR003 is in use, I thought that I could rename the
duplicate dsn
which resides on MPR027. However when I try
Dave,
I don't completely understand what you changed here. Do you mean the 'after'
code was something like this:
vol = '012345'
dsn.vol = 'file.name.here'
What were you using 'before'?
Dana
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:53:34 +, Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu wrote:
I once greatly improved
Even though it violates everything about being Managed by SMS.
IDCAMS Delete Noscratch on a dataset that is SMS controlled will indeed leave
the
dataset on the volume. Found this out the hard way by the use of a
restart/rerun
vendor product. You can send me a note offlist and I can give you
Rename the cataloged version to some [newname].
Catalog the uncataloged version and rename it to some [newname2].
Rename the [newname] back to the [original name].
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On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:42:39 -0700, Pesce, Andy wrote:
Even though it violates everything about being Managed by SMS.
IDCAMS Delete Noscratch on a dataset that is SMS controlled will indeed
leave the
dataset on the volume.
Is this a bug or a feature?
Well, I suppose you need to be able to
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:44:16 -0400, Sevetson, Phil wrote:
Rename the cataloged version to some [newname].
Catalog the uncataloged version and rename it to some [newname2].
Rename the [newname] back to the [original name].
Won't work.
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It is still a feature. There are some small shops that do not use DFSMS.
Shops that do have DFSMS just need to be aware that you can have
datasets on SMS volumes that are not cataloged. Also, if you have products
like STOP-x37 that create multi-volume datasets and something happens can
also
W dniu 2012-03-22 15:54, Paul Gilmartin pisze:
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:44:16 -0400, Sevetson, Phil wrote:
Rename the cataloged version to some [newname].
Catalog the uncataloged version and rename it to some [newname2].
Rename the [newname] back to the [original name].
Won't work.
Why?
I
Lynn,
I didn't get to work with the 3880-13, but with the 3880-23 I think I recall
sequential pre-fetch was initially fetching three tracks, using a
wrap-around buffer to keep track of the last block read and maintaining two
tracks beyond the last track accessed in cache.
With 3990-3 I think
With the PSF 4.1 release in 2005 (IBM United States Software Announcement
205-271
October 25, 2005) the Enhanced ACIF feature of PSF is now a separately ordered
and priced feature. A base PSF license is no longer required when ordering
Enhanced ACIF.
Enhanced ACIF has a substantially more
At 06:24 -0700 on 03/22/2012, John Dawes wrote about UNABLE TO DELETE
DUPLICTE DSN:
G'Day I am trying to delete a duplicate dsn via TSO. Since the
cataloged version which resides on volume MPR003 is in use, I
thought that I could rename the duplicate dsn which resides on
MPR027. However
John,
Have you tried the following:
//STEP1EXEC PGM=IDCAMS,REGION=6M
//SYSPRINT DDSYSOUT=*
//DD1 DDVOL=SER=xx,UNIT=3390,DISP=OLD
//SYSINDD *
DELETE -
I have had luck using TSO ISMF Dataset.
Enter the DSN and volume.
Enter a D on the display DSN line.
It should detect if it is uncataloged or an additional volume to the
cataloged dataset.
It will give you a warning and reply as directed to continue.
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 8:24 AM, John Dawes
So over the years I've heard a few good stories about accidental (or
deliberate) Halon dumps and BRS pressings. Like operators playing Frisbee
in the machine room and discovering that the Halon button really, really
needs a cover on it...
Who else has stories to share?
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zMan wrote:
So over the years I've heard a few good stories about accidental (or
deliberate) Halon dumps and BRS pressings. Like operators playing Frisbee
in the machine room and discovering that the Halon button really, really
needs a cover on it...
Who else has stories to share?
A retired
Well, our old computer room had a exit button to unlock the magnetic lock.
Located right next to the Halon discharge button. And both were painted red,
for some weird reason. Neither was secured. So, to exit one night, a
maintenance worker pushed the Halon discharge instead of the exit button.
Before I joined IBM I worked for a mid sized company near Atlanta.
We had our electrical company install a UPS. They got everything
installed and decided, mid day on a working day, to test the system.
The hit the button and the ENTIRE building went dark.
Oops.
Ken Hume
IBM PD Tools Client
Ah, yes. I remember a similar story now. I don't know if it is true or not.
Building had emergency electric generators, diesel. The starter for the engines
was run off of city power. Need I say more about what __didn't__ happen when
city power failed?
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I wasn't the original author who did, as others have described with the epithet
you can write FORTRAN in any language
Vol.i = '012345'
Dsn.i ='file.name.here'
Cdate.i =
Etc.
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Behalf Of Dana
Similar to what I heard happened in the San Fran quake. Only it was pumps
for the oil from the tanks in the basement to 8th floor for generators
that were on city power when the quake took the power out.
Got from QUAKE FORUM for those who remember it. :-)
Cheers, Martin
Martin Packer,
2 incidents at a shop where I no longer work.
1) Fire alarm started sounding. Checked the zones and found an electrical
smell, but no flames.
Couldn't find the fire, and the Ops Manager said Everyone out!. The Halon
dumped. Sounded like
the building collapsing. That was in the good ole
Who else has stories to share?
Not my personal story but...
Customer designs a new datacenter, moves in, has an issue where a guy in a
backhoe clips the incoming power source. Customer is patting themselves on the
back for the wisdom of having two separate power lines, one on each side of the
Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com writes:
data-transfer channel program. Cache operation was also write
store-through ... aka synchronous to disk ... and no indication that
3880 controller would do its own seek operation (to move to different
track for pre-fetch) independent of what was
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:59:09 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
At 06:24 -0700 on 03/22/2012, John Dawes wrote about UNABLE TO DELETE
DUPLICTE DSN:
G'Day I am trying to delete a duplicate dsn via TSO. Since the
cataloged version which resides on volume MPR003 is in use, I
thought that I could
maryanne4...@gmail.com (Mary Anne Matyaz) writes:
Customer designs a new datacenter, moves in, has an issue where a guy
in a backhoe clips the incoming power source. Customer is patting
themselves on the back for the wisdom of having two separate power
lines, one on each side of the building.
John Deere's data center in the 70's had two
independent power supply companies, but with
Midwest lightning strikes still had several
to many outages each year.
Data Center Manager could NOT get approval for
a diesel power backup UPS because:
The only backup system that was large enough for
I worked for a major ny pharm company, one day an electrician dropped a wrench
into the air handlers on the roof while working creating a major DR panic..
I have been involved in one disaster in Indy in operations, when an entire city
block was a blaze..we were 10 stories up and the windows
ronjhawk...@sbcglobal.net (Ron Hawkins) writes:
I didn't get to work with the 3880-13, but with the 3880-23 I think I recall
sequential pre-fetch was initially fetching three tracks, using a
wrap-around buffer to keep track of the last block read and maintaining two
tracks beyond the last
I worked for a financial institution that had multiple power grid
feeds coming into a set of transformers located in the same room with
an earth quake switch. Add workers using jack hammers ... viola dark
building. Earth quakes and jack hammers are remarkably similar.
Rob Schramm
On Thu, Mar
Also was working in Europe, Switzerland during the first gulf war..for a large
American company..
Came through the mantrap...day after the bombing campaign started..saw a dude
with an ear jack and a huge bulge under his jacket, he was packing a Uzi .
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Rob,
That's funny
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On Mar 22, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Rob Schramm rob.schr...@gmail.com wrote:
I worked for a financial institution that had multiple power grid
feeds coming into a set of transformers located in the same
(apologies for the LookOut! top-posting. In addition, I get the digest so all
list responses are delayed.)
Dave: while still a manual process, you could exploit the array itself to
track your list of indices. While my example had 4 pre-defined TagNames I
was looking for, you could just as
This wasn't Halon... but it was worth sharing.
Travelers, the insurance company, in the days before they became part of
Citigroup (and there's a lot more history there), had a data center in Hartford
(CT) in a freestanding building. Data center power supply from the grid ran
across busses
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:27:43 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote:
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:59:09 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
Since the problem is that the DSN Name is enqueued upon (which is
That's not what the OP wrote. The problem is that the data set is on
an SMS-managed volume and the catalog
Unless they discharge a thousand lbs. of Halon at $72 USD per pound.
In a message dated 3/22/2012 12:43:50 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
ee...@us.ibm.com writes:
Hydrotesting is cheap
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Someone told while working in Europe they worked not far from a big radar
station..
Every time the disc made a sweep they crashed on the mainframe, anyone heard
that before ?
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On Mar 22, 2012, at 4:44 PM, Ed
Grace Hopper used to tell about the destroyer that lit up the Naval Yard
outside of D.C. and crashed the data center. Personally, my fav was the Ops
manager that upgraded the walkie-talkies for tech support from 1 watt to 3
watts(I think)-anyway if they were within 25' of a Memorex
I have heard that, yes. I don't remember much else about it.
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I worked at a place that had a cold site for D/R and the Halon dump switch
was just above the light switch. One time a service guy got called in
because the always on lights in the room were out, he opens the door but
because of the dark, instead of stepping in and hitting the switch, slaps
This may be another weird desire on my part. But I'm wondering why IBM does not
enhance the QSAM and BSAM access methods to support the OPTCD=Q and CCSID=
parameters on the DD statememt to work with datasets on media other than tape.
Especially z/OS UNIX files. There are times when I would
While working in Galveston for an insurance company, each time the
radar would sweep our building we would get an I/O error on the drum.
We had to but tin foil in a few windows to stop the errors, about
1971.
Don
Don Bolton
Director of Technical Services
OpenTech Systems, Inc.
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Design Flaw(s)?
Given requirements for DR/alternate sites, I'd think physical protection of the
primary site has lapsed a bit. Out of curiosity, what is the current thinking
on high floor vs. basement/sub-basement for primary hardware in a densely
populated urban environment?
Possible
I am trying to get rid old an VTAMLIB dataset.
We have in the vtam PROC a DD that has a VTAMLIB.
A different VTAMLIB exists in our LNKLST.
My question is: does VTAM use the VTAMLIB from the LNKLST?
My gut feeling is that it does not.
John Norgauer
Senior Systems Programmer
Mainframe
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:17:30 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
This may be another weird desire on my part. But I'm wondering why IBM does
not enhance the QSAM and BSAM access methods to support the OPTCD=Q and CCSID=
parameters on the DD statememt to work with datasets on media other than tape.
I was told that at the old DEC plant in Maynard, they got a lot of HDA
crashes about the same time of day. They finally figured out that a
delivery was made at that time every day, and the truck would back up to
the loading dock and bump it. The old wooden building would shiver, and the
HDAs would
Ghosts?:
In the mid-1980s (about 1 block from the Empire State Building), our hard-wired
3270s would suddenly start typing away, no one on the keyboard. Special
shielding had to be added. (It usually worked.)
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Guys,
We use it all the from ASCII to ebcdic using one of the supplied tcpip library
modules works great..also from ebcdic to ASCII
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On Mar 22, 2012, at 5:27 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote:
On Thu, 22
I would rename the old vtamlib, and the migrate this library. You need your
vtamlib in your NET startup proc, because this is allocated to a non-steplib
library.
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Subject: calling all Vtam old-timers(or heavy-weights)
I am trying to get rid old an VTAMLIB dataset.
S=SYSTEM SYSDSN SYS1.VTAMLIB
SYSNAMEJOBNAME ASID TCBADDR EXC/SHRSTATUS
UCDMC1VTAM 0022 00AFF890 SHARE OWN
John Norgauer
Senior Systems Programmer
Mainframe Technical Support Services
University of California Davis Medical Center
2315
Hi,
Is there a way, in Cobol, to specify JRNAD module exit to access a VSAM file ?
In Assembler we can specify:
ACB01ACB AM=VSAM,DDNAME=VSAM01,MACRF=(KEY,SEQ,DIR,OUT),
EXLST=EXLST01
EXLST01 EXLST AM=VSAM,JRNAD=(JRNEXIT,A,L)
JRNEXIT DCCL8'EXITJRN'
Thanks in advance,
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Jose ADAUTO Ribeiro jada...@uol.com.brwrote:
Hi,
Is there a way, in Cobol, to specify JRNAD module exit to access a VSAM
file ?
In Assembler we can specify:
ACB01ACB AM=VSAM,DDNAME=VSAM01,MACRF=(KEY,SEQ,DIR,OUT),
EXLST=EXLST01
EXLST01
Temporarily rename the catalogued dataset (must not be in use currently).
Issue a DEFINE NVSAM command and specify the RECATALOG parameter.
Delete the newly catalogued dataset.
Rename the original dataset back to proper name.
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Early 80s. Brand new data center. Brand new hardware. Brand new halon
system.
Facilities decided to test the halon system. They didn't expect the force
of the dump. Shredded ceiling tiles everywhere. CEs were still picking
pieces out of cabinets years later.
So in case it dumped again, to
On 2012-03-22 10:33, zMan wrote:
Who else has stories to share?
Not business production critical, but...back at the community college where I was a student and eventually worked as lab manager, we had a few EPO buttons scattered around the public terminal room. One of these was next to a
Hi,
is it possible to find out how long a single JES job has run (Start-Time-Date
- End-Time-Date)? I had a look into the SMF30 record but haven't found a
field / fields where this information's seems to be in. Perhaps I haven't seen
the field but it would be perfect if someone can write me 2
John -
There is a utility available from CBTTAPE.ORG called BYPASSNQ that was
developed by Gilbert St. Flour (RIP). It has worked quite well on a number of
occasions so you might want to check it out. I believe it is FILE183 on that
site.
Frank.
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Hi,
Please, not diminishing the quick response from Sam Siegel, but someone has any
other information (if that is possible)?
I would like to use this facility to spend the minimum effort to alter a legacy
of programs.
This is part of a project I'm evaluating.
José ADAUTO Ribeiro
Em
The SMF30 record is broken down into many parts.
For job info you need a JOB record SMF30TYP == 5
Then in the identification section you need SMF30SIT and SMF30STD, time and
date the job started. Use the SMF30TME and SMF30DTE of the record as the job
end time and date.
For step totals you
Jose,
Sam is correct, COBOL doesn't ave the facilities that I know of unless you call
assembler or C .
You could try looking through the LE books on COBOL, maybe there is something
there...
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On Mar 22, 2012, at 7:56
On 3/22/2012 6:28 PM, Scott Ford wrote:
Jose,
Sam is correct, COBOL doesn't ave the facilities that I know of unless you call
assembler or C .
You could try looking through the LE books on COBOL, maybe there is something
there...
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On 2012-03-22 16:56, Jose ADAUTO Ribeiro wrote:
Hi,
Please, not diminishing the quick response from Sam Siegel, but someone has any
other information (if that is possible)?
I would like to use this facility to spend the minimum effort to alter a legacy
of programs.
This is part of a project
Ray,
That was a good suggestion...the cbttapes
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On Mar 22, 2012, at 9:06 PM, Ray Mullins m...@lerctr.org wrote:
On 2012-03-22 16:56, Jose ADAUTO Ribeiro wrote:
Hi,
Please, not diminishing the quick response from
Hi,
is it possible to find out how long a single JES job has run
(Start-Time-Date - End-
Time-Date)? I had a look into the SMF30 record but haven't found a field
/ fields
where this information's seems to be in. Perhaps I haven't seen the field
but it would
be perfect if someone can write
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(back in the 70's) had a union operator shop.
The company wanted to put HALON into the DC and the union went on
strike.
If I remember correctly both sides backed down.
Ed
On Mar 22, 2012, at 12:33 PM, zMan wrote:
So over the years I've heard a few good stories about accidental (or
John,
I have never heard of putting VTAMLIB in the linklist and never did
it in the 20++ years I was in the business.
Ed
On Mar 22, 2012, at 4:27 PM, John Norgauer wrote:
I am trying to get rid old an VTAMLIB dataset.
We have in the vtam PROC a DD that has a VTAMLIB.
A different
I second that and confirm I have never seen VTAMLIB in a LINKLST either. To be
sure, I searched the z/OS 1.12 Communications Server bookshelf
(http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/Shelves/F1A1BKC1) for
LINKLST, and only found a reference to RIT for NCP.
So it seems the VTAMLIB
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