z10 presentation on 26 Feb

2008-02-21 Thread Phil Payne
. Another z10 source: http://topgun-tech.com/resource-center/zseries-library/articles/marketplace-trends-ibm-zseries And you may care to check out the definition of NDA at http://www.isham-research.co.uk/dd.html -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800

The Isham Research web site

2007-07-23 Thread Phil Payne
- demanding money with menaces - which is a very serious offence. I keep reporting them to Google and Nominet, but another one springs up every month or so. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM

Solaris on z

2007-08-20 Thread Phil Payne
servers using Microsoft System Center. THEY GOT THEMSELVES INTO THAT MESS, AND THEY'RE _PROUD_ OF IT ?!? -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

1401 simulator for OS/360

2007-09-10 Thread Phil Payne
tape trimmings by taping them to the tops of all grey boxes so the fans made them stream upwards. If you saw one down, the fan had failed - call your friendly CE. We gave CEs free parking spots, free canteen meals, free coffee. Never had to look far for one. -- Phil Payne http

1401 simulator for OS/360

2007-09-15 Thread Phil Payne
way you could talk back was via sense switches. Flick 'A' on, press start - that kind of thing. Not a console in a conventional sense. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN

Mir habe' schon widder Freitag

2007-09-15 Thread Phil Payne
to Linuxgram - it's at http://www.isham-research.co.uk/ibm_vs_psi_update.html I've also got a whole load of stuff on z6 (or zNext, or whatever) and even zFuture. What price an IFL when you can have a real Intel chip sniffing around prefixed storage? -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk

how to know CPU MIPS ?

2007-10-12 Thread Phil Payne
MIPS charts are available from a variety of sources some free, some will cost you (www.watsonwalker.com) Not yet for z6/zNext - haven't sent them over yet. 17? -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800

how to know CPU MIPS?

2007-10-13 Thread Phil Payne
, the key metric will be the MIPS/MSUs ratio. And that's purely a marketing decision. The open question is whether IBM will be able to connect a reasonable (non-tricky, non-quirky) software pricing plan to the baby z6 expected in 3Q08. There is actually a major opportunity. 17? -- Phil

FW: IBM's Next Generation Mainframe Processor

2007-10-14 Thread Phil Payne
.) 17? -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives

Hardware slowdown sours IBM numbers

2007-10-18 Thread Phil Payne
to its own internal goals and not enough to industry benchmark goals. Many expect the Baby z6 to have much finer granularity with an entry level system having much lower product costs than a z9 BC. But the dear old HP41 says that by the end of 2008 it won't actually help. -- Phil Payne http

Dead operating systems

2007-10-19 Thread Phil Payne
Dr Goebel is the most fanatical anti-Flex-ES person within the whole of IBM. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Another squirrel strike

2007-10-24 Thread Phil Payne
ISTR one of their number taking hte list down a while back ... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/24/kamikaze_squirrel/ -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

IBM Confidential

2007-10-26 Thread Phil Payne
about the z890 data before using it. And being shat on for my trouble. I've now got more than one unsolicited copy of the z6 stuff - what in hell am I (or we, including PSI) supposed to do about this? -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800

IBM Confidential

2007-10-27 Thread Phil Payne
to describe HTML features that are really obsolete and have been replaced by better ways of doing things. Hmmm. Has LSPR been deprecated on z6? A poisoned chalice, if ever I heard of one. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800

IBM Confidential

2007-10-28 Thread Phil Payne
driver holdng up a sign saying: Phil Payne - Amdahl without turning a hair. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

High order bit in 31/24 bit address

2007-11-06 Thread Phil Payne
bits. I had a word with Gene Amdahl about it once - he said the word 'algebraic' in the BXLE/BXH definition was the biggest mistake in the /360 design and the ultimate reason XA was only 31-bit. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800

High order bit in 31/24 bit address

2007-11-07 Thread Phil Payne
generations of machine in the UK market that IBM was trying to address - e.g., the KDF9 - were also stack machines. You can turn any feature or the lack of a feature into a benefit with enough marketing. Look at the inanity surrounding the very ordinary iPhone. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham

Bruce Black passed away

2007-11-07 Thread Phil Payne
I suspect he'll go on answering questions from the archives for some time to come. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

High order bit in 31/24 bit address

2007-11-08 Thread Phil Payne
her to the train. She didn't say why. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message

Even got the capitalization right!!!

2007-11-08 Thread Phil Payne
more generation viable (zFuture) but the economic environment and IBM's FLEX-ES stupidity ... They just won't admit the flight of ISVs. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Even got the capitalization right!!!

2007-11-09 Thread Phil Payne
instead. I strongly suspect the original target was rolling on the floor with several colleagues sitting on him, trying to stifle his paroxisms of laughter. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800

The Sky is indeed Falling

2007-04-14 Thread Phil Payne
Forget PSI. Forget Fundamental. And forget PWD. It's about zSeries End of Life, and how to control the collapse. http://www.isham-research.co.uk/ibm_vs_psi.html -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800

Are you developing for the Web?

2007-05-04 Thread Phil Payne
to have curled up its toes. I've been messing around with XHTML and multi-media CSS - it looks like a huge proportion of modern handheld devices support this, sometimes better than the classic browsers like IE. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800

Leann and Mean: 150,000 U.S.layoffs for IBM?

2007-05-05 Thread Phil Payne
pretty hard to do all the things I see IBM do. I'd suggest giving these guys calculators, but that would be like giving Cheney a loaded duck gun. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM

Analysts squash rumors of 150,000 IBM layoffs

2007-05-10 Thread Phil Payne
the table and clear the way for the PSI issue? $1 damages? -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Where did the term clip come from?

2007-05-10 Thread Phil Payne
I yield to the expansions, but the term predates System/360. I remember a Software CE ordering a copy for us back in 1969 and getting something unuseable. I was present when he called home and said: No, I want it for a /360. It was a very small and very useful little deck. -- Phil Payne

OT - The antikythera mechanism

2007-05-13 Thread Phil Payne
Alexander Thom has pointed out that the Hill o' many Stanes in mid-Clyth can be used to solve the general equation of the parabola. Circa 1500BCE. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800

3350 failures

2007-05-20 Thread Phil Payne
every three months. They also pull a fair bit of current - it would be that that worried me, rather than the weight. And, of course, the weight of a 3880. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800

Is WaveMind spamming entire IBM-MAIN readership?

2007-05-30 Thread Phil Payne
show the public they can code cleanly. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

mainframe = superserver

2007-06-07 Thread Phil Payne
lawsuit. Indeed, I've commented several times on the deafening silence from Fremont (and Ann Arbor). Hercules references are a bad joke in this context and I just wish people would GROW UP and stop making them. A lot more care is needed, guys. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk

Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules

2007-06-15 Thread Phil Payne
could save the bandwidth. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

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

2007-06-17 Thread Phil Payne
Spam, and reported to Google. At least the version Copscape found on the ezine site has been spell checked. Still makes as little sense. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN

IBMLINK Planned outage?

2007-06-19 Thread Phil Payne
Some techie yelled it over the cubical walls: IBM´Link is coming down for maintenance! Some techie yelled it over the cubicle walls: IBM´Link has come down for maintenance! -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800

OT Funny IT Movie

2007-07-02 Thread Phil Payne
Finnish can be cured by antibiotics. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

Re: IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones

2006-12-08 Thread Phil Payne
specification was: a) Don't get sued by IBM b) Don't sue IBM c) Repeat for the rest of the industry -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones

2006-12-09 Thread Phil Payne
to the German Orthography Reform there are now only 9.) -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones

2006-12-09 Thread Phil Payne
? -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- 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

IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones

2006-12-09 Thread Phil Payne
hadn't fired a shot across their bows. I cannot understand PSI's business model. Not only can I not make it work - I can't make it work by several orders of magnitude. I just don't know why they started. I'd love to know what they told their VC. We may not have seen the last lawsuit. -- Phil

IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones

2006-12-09 Thread Phil Payne
and so on that make Flex-ES so valuable, over and above simple zArchitecture emulation. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones

2006-12-11 Thread Phil Payne
/ibmpsiex1.pdf Interesting, in passing, that it took IBM six months to ratify the agreement. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones

2006-12-12 Thread Phil Payne
not far from shipping, honest that's been going on for more than two years now. If IBM can get a summary judgement next week, at least it will have the monkey off its back for the end of fourth quarter. Amdahl is dead. It should lie down. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44

IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones

2006-12-17 Thread Phil Payne
every instruction. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones

2006-12-22 Thread Phil Payne
Mainframes are the first mainframe servers that can run the z/OS, Linux, Windows and UNIX on a single server foorprint. Bolleaux. Even some configurations of the late unlamented IBM xSeries 430 could do that. Some of PSI's claims really stretch credibility. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham

IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones

2006-12-22 Thread Phil Payne
the Friday before Christmas. Best to all. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones

2006-12-22 Thread Phil Payne
(hours) involved. At that time IBM charged $200,000 to open the doors. British Telecom, once advised of this policy, went _NUTS_. We called it Lego bricks - hardly a week went by without a request to take an engine out of box X and put it in box Y. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham

Super-Friday

2006-12-22 Thread Phil Payne
and a happy family time. Enjoy those close to you. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones

2006-12-22 Thread Phil Payne
SEC filing at http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/51143/000110465906069905/a06-19062_710q.htm For the nine months ended 30 September 2006 IBM's gross margin on software was 84.6%. I apologise to IBM for overstating the figure as 85%. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44

So, OK, no more promotions for me - after this one

2007-01-11 Thread Phil Payne
It's Darren's ball - he gets to choose who plays. If in doubt, ask him first. I must confess I've seen no promotional activity that I would object to for a very long time. We are a bit embattled in this space - those who try and keep it going should be applauded. -- Phil Payne http

The Windows attitude...

2007-01-11 Thread Phil Payne
Check out http://www.isham-research.co.uk/dd.html - Rerun the job -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

[SPAM] Transactions per Watt

2007-01-28 Thread Phil Payne
) than zSeries. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

[SPAM] PSI sues IBM in mainframe emulator spat (Not Phoenix !)

2007-01-28 Thread Phil Payne
. There's also a chance this won't be the only lawsuit. Fundamental Software has patents that are specific to emulation of IBM's architecture. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN

Vehicle Automation Fee Systems??

2007-02-12 Thread Phil Payne
, the punch card we've only recently retired stemmed from the 1880s - could you tell if a given card was punched by a Hollerith operator on a manual from or by a 3525? -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800

Interesting PDF doing the rounds

2007-02-15 Thread Phil Payne
/news/Itanium_Alliance_Final.pdf and open it from a hard drive to see PSI's PDF creator.) I'm not at all sure this is a bona fide document. Was it only released to the venture capitalists? The thot plickens. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800

Interesting PDF doing the rounds

2007-02-15 Thread Phil Payne
of reference to the Nether Regions in the hope Darren doesn't get snowed under with bounces.) -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Interesting PDF doing the rounds

2007-02-15 Thread Phil Payne
://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/16/psi_ibm_hp/ -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Missing IBMers on whois.ibm.com

2007-03-02 Thread Phil Payne
can claim that. What it does has worked so far - telling IBM it is wrong requires some depth of proof. And http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/01/spado_vs_watsons/ -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800

IBM S/360 series operating systems history

2007-03-02 Thread Phil Payne
COS stood for Card Operating System. ISTR it was very similar in practical ways to the BPS card loader, but 8 cards instead of 6. You just loaded the 8 cards, and then it watched for not-ready to ready transitions at the loading card reader -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk

z/OS on the ISERIES

2006-01-15 Thread Phil Payne
of a declared system on an Amdahl comparator rather than an IBM one? An Omniprise, for example. What happens if Hewlet-Packard - with comprehensive patent license exchange agreements with IBM - purchases Platform Solutions? -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800

zSeries: Big Plans Ahead?

2006-01-18 Thread Phil Payne
and such, she indicates. As I've been predicting for some time, a DB2 offload engine. I wonder when that idea was first mooted? (Answers chiseled on stone tablets to the usual address.) Another take on DB2 from today's Register: http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/01/18/db2_neglected/ -- Phil Payne

Hercules and MVS 3.8

2006-01-22 Thread Phil Payne
for a software house. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

IBM up for grabs?

2006-01-22 Thread Phil Payne
the IBM/Ford investment credit swap in the 1980s? BAU. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Hercules and MVS 3.8

2006-01-23 Thread Phil Payne
and irrelevant. No, it's precisely what I meant -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

zIIPs

2006-01-24 Thread Phil Payne
I don't think anyone's posted anything about this yet, Search Google on 'IBM zIIP -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

zIIPs

2006-01-24 Thread Phil Payne
another MCM it costs money - if it blows the configurability of a single-MCM system, it costs a lot more. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

zIIPs

2006-01-24 Thread Phil Payne
ZNIBME = zero number of IBM employees ? You may have a long wait. 2003: 319,273 2004: 329,001 Source: IBM's 2004 Annual Report -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

State of the Mainframe - News Article

2006-01-24 Thread Phil Payne
janitor says: Fine, but you have to pay for the building's entire 80,000m3 space, even though 79,998m3 won't use it. PSLC. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

zIIPs

2006-01-25 Thread Phil Payne
Interesting that no announcement letter yet ... I expect one tomorroiw. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

zIIPs

2006-01-26 Thread Phil Payne
. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- 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

State of the Mainframe - News Article

2006-01-26 Thread Phil Payne
come close to solving the problem. In fact, after two and a half decades of attrition, it has almost no effect at all except partially helping to contain increases due to extra MIPS capacity with succeeding generations. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800

Have you ever abended IDCAMS?

2006-01-26 Thread Phil Payne
be something on the current CBT tape? -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM

zIIPs

2006-01-27 Thread Phil Payne
of the materials. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives

zIIPs

2006-01-27 Thread Phil Payne
is it done? Because IBM's software charging schemes are inherently business-unfriendly. I was told that the four-hour scheme was dreamed up after 70-odd customers submitted SMF tapes for IBM to analyse. Terrific. The happenstance of the past becomes the strait-jacket of the future. -- Phil

What happens if CR's are directly changed?

2006-01-27 Thread Phil Payne
the covers ... -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Fujitsu Facom M-760 - What IBM system is this a clone of ?

2006-01-28 Thread Phil Payne
used to get very, very annoyed at the clone word, largely because that was the one thing they daren't do. IBM guards its patents very carefully. The /158 was different because IBM forgot to protect the design. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800

Pod slurping?

2006-02-17 Thread Phil Payne
A point made in http://www.isham-research.co.uk/dd.html for about the last couple of years. Scan down to data stick. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Pod slurping?

2006-02-17 Thread Phil Payne
used to percolate. The glass house no longer sets the standards, and that's not good. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

OT who is/was Joshka Fischer? was Re: Disk vs Tape scenario

2006-02-23 Thread Phil Payne
+krischer - produces a #1 hit alleged to be his biography on the Gartner site. Clicking on the hit may be amusing. (If you click on the cache link, you'll see him in all his glory.) How many analysts publicise their competitors? -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800

Fw: Tax chooses dead language - Austalia

2006-03-04 Thread Phil Payne
ISTR a language/function called Concept 14? It was, IIRC, precisely this sort of thing - a custom high-level language written in macros. IASTR it was in some way associated with IMS/360 DB/DC. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800

Fw: Tax chooses dead language - Austalia

2006-03-04 Thread Phil Payne
environmen, common skils and common tools still offers business benefits. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

IBM System z9 zSeries Tech Conference: 20-24 March-Duesseldorf

2006-03-08 Thread Phil Payne
A fortnight's notice is a little tight. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message

IBM 3880 control units

2006-03-09 Thread Phil Payne
it away. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives

IBM 3880 control units

2006-03-09 Thread Phil Payne
-Field Product Manager, DASD, 1982-1985, National Advanced Systems Germany.) -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

D SMF - programatically

2006-03-12 Thread Phil Payne
ACB -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Z9-109 - Processor Selection

2006-03-15 Thread Phil Payne
.. otherwise, your guess is as good as mine or anyone else's. Not necessarily true. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

z990 multiprocessor overhead issue.

2006-03-27 Thread Phil Payne
You have one physical system. All processors (even including SAPs) compete for the physical resources such as cache, storage bandwidth, etc. Of course, any processors visible to an MVS image will also compete for MVS' structures. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833

Wonder why IBM code quality is suffering?

2006-03-27 Thread Phil Payne
. He wants to allow foreigners to stay for a set time in specific jobs, but his Republican Party is divided. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

FLEX-ES

2006-03-27 Thread Phil Payne
Could you solve this problem in the future by upgrading to something past the z890 (whenever that is) ... Castor-less mainframe? 25th April, from what I hear. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800

FLEX-ES

2006-03-29 Thread Phil Payne
for the next one, but I suspect that will be it. There's always Gartner. http://armadgeddon.blogspot.com/2006/03/does-gartner-podcasting-from-ibm.html -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM

z/OS 1.7 and Large Sequential Data Set Offering

2006-03-29 Thread Phil Payne
allocation and clear it afterwards. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM

z8 ???

2006-04-04 Thread Phil Payne
. One suspicion is that the potential degrades (such as the z890 f/c 6110) have been held undefined in case IBM decides to move with its own emulation. But that is pure speculation on my part. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800

Mainframe Evil

2006-04-14 Thread Phil Payne
and 2314s the ERP used a recalibrate command - a seek to cylinder zero and a read of Track 0. This would read the prayer before the heads went back for another go at reading the error track. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800

IBM 3380 and 3880 maintenance docs needed

2006-04-15 Thread Phil Payne
is in the Functional Characteristics manual. There also used to be a contraption called a Holly Box for checking a controller's tag timing. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

z8 ???

2006-04-17 Thread Phil Payne
You might want to revisit the site. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

z8 ???

2006-04-17 Thread Phil Payne
to call me. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

z8 ???

2006-04-17 Thread Phil Payne
of a sudden the juveline laughed, slapped its knee, poked the female and pointed. She followed the outstretched finger to look at whatever the juveline had spotted, and laughed herself. I never saw what it was, but it obviously amused them both immensely. Hey, Mum, look at THAT! -- Phil Payne

z8 ???

2006-04-17 Thread Phil Payne
and was overridden by my CEO, who submitted a bunch of lies to IDC. Who then printed them. http://www.isham-research.co.uk/dd.html#statistics -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN

z8 ???

2006-04-24 Thread Phil Payne
SNAPSHOT: Please join us for an IBM System z9 Business Class announcement on Thursday, April 27 at 16:30 UK. Who thinks of these things, and do they have ANY contact with reality? OK, guys. We've had an increasingly tough time over the past couple of decades, mostly because of IBM's software

offensive language

2006-04-27 Thread Phil Payne
Last year I wrote something about .. it's just something else for them to bitch about .. and Bell Helicopters sent me an automated nastygram about offensive sexist language. Didn't do their reputation any good with me. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800

z9 Business Class

2006-04-27 Thread Phil Payne
Google z9BC for the MIPS. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN

Offensive Language

2006-04-28 Thread Phil Payne
mine is worth less than you're paying for it. Pollux was an odd choice - alternate days in heaven and hell. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

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