Re: Heads Up: Possible Data Loss for Temporary Data Sets starting 2010

2010-01-08 Thread Shane Ginnane
Imagine if Amadeus had gone down on the 1st rather than Sunday ;-) Wouldn't *that* have drawn some heat. Shane ... > The BoQ one was the first I saw. That quacks like a Y2K-type problem > despite a claim to t

Re: Is there any work on z/OS ports of current OOREXX and Perl?

2010-01-11 Thread Shane Ginnane
John McKown wrote on 12/01/2010 07:45:46 AM: > Perhaps this will be in Perl 6. "Waiting for Godot" comes to mind. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists..

Out damn'd GMT ...

2011-11-03 Thread Shane Ginnane
This would be primarily for the gratification of gil: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-03/time-for-change-gmt-could-be-history/3617226 Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: 5 Byte Device Addresses?

2012-02-16 Thread Shane Ginnane
"To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods" (Robert A Heinlein) Some-how seemed appropriate. Must be time I went back and re-read some of his work. Shane ... -- Fo

Re: Linux LVM vs z/OS SMS Storage Group

2012-02-21 Thread Shane Ginnane
the last time we had a Linux on z space issue, we bit the bullet >and just added a new physical volume to the LVM group (after first updating the >IODF/IOCDS). :-( pvresize not available ?. pvscan ?. Gotta ask as I don't have a system to check. Shane ...

Re: Wanna know (practically) everything in z/OS V1R13??

2012-02-22 Thread Shane Ginnane
mes; executable code above 2GB line; many other >goodies. > >Thanks to all IBM z/OS developers and their management. Lol - wowser (sp) has an entirely different connotation in this neck of the woods ... But yes, looks good. Have to wonder why the VVDS needed enlarging; one volume, one

Re: Fwd: User datasets wrongly catalogued under Master Catalogue

2012-02-29 Thread Shane Ginnane
file into IDCAMS. Worked fine last time I had to do it - a while ago admittedly. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: How convert "historic" STCK to local time?

2012-02-29 Thread Shane Ginnane
M hasn't gotten sufficiently organized to embrace it for z/OS Damn, I guess that places me alongside gil/John. Thus a (nominal) triumvirate - perchance to progress to a fully populated cabal someday ? Shane ... -- For IBM-M

Re: FTP question

2011-04-01 Thread Shane Ginnane
Whoa there fella ... !!! One could impute JGs influence here. I don't know how you'd live with yourself. Shane ... On Fri, Apr 1st, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: ... > It's dismaying how many followups presumed a z/OS client, or > imputed facilities present o

Re: Retired

2011-04-04 Thread Shane Ginnane
Much as I think Java is the spawn of the devil, I fully to intend to look at Dons little baby now that I too have some free time. As for tracking the drivel on the so called "social" networks - not bloody likely. Shane ... On Mon, Apr 4th, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Don Higgins wrote: >

Re: New job for mainframes: Cloud platform

2011-04-08 Thread Shane Ginnane
And how is any of this news ?. (comment aimed at the wider community, not Lynn specifically) Make it happen folks. Shane ... On Fri, Apr 8th, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: > New job for mainframes: Cloud platform > http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic

Re: ZG11-0127 EMEA windows on zbx fourth quarter 2011

2011-04-12 Thread Shane Ginnane
Check the A-P announcement link on the left. Personally I'm more interested in the Linux support. Shane ... On Tue, Apr 12th, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Anthony Thompson wrote: > Not for Asia-Pacific??? -- For IBM-MAIN s

Re: IBM Announcements Today

2011-04-12 Thread Shane Ginnane
Really ?. The IBM zEnterprise System includes the zEnterprise 196 (z196), the zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension (zBX) with its integrated optimizers and/or select IBM blades, and the Unified Resource Manager (zManager). . Shane ... On Tue, Apr 12th, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Matthew Stitt wrote

Re: CPU utilization/forecasting

2011-04-16 Thread Shane Ginnane
fer to lower the cap to eliminate it, and lower their (potential) software charge exposure. Where do you lot get 80% CPU ? ... ;-) Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: What is the point of FFST?

2011-04-19 Thread Shane Ginnane
eled away years ago. Came from OS/2 methinks. I never saw any usage of it (on MVS, OS/390, z/OS), but then I avoid Comms Server whenever I can, and it seems to be the only product team that ever embraced it. Shane ... -- For IBM

Re: OT but an interesting read for MVS system Programmers

2011-04-20 Thread Shane Ginnane
an be quietly killed - much like Apple and the lobotomy performed on dtrace. Shane ... On Wed, Apr 20th, 2011 at 5:18 PM, David Crayford wrote: ... > Some of the free tools for windows are superb. The free sysinternals > suite is an example of a top developer > who knows the internals of wi

Re: Deleting post

2011-04-22 Thread Shane Ginnane
Morality ... computing ... I thought we'd beaten the (recent) oxymoron thread to death. Or maybe I've just spent too much time dealing with the marketing side of the industry ... Shane ... On Fri, Apr 22nd, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Ted MacNEIL wrote: > >I've removed the post

Re: Mixing Auth and Non-Auth Modules

2011-04-25 Thread Shane Ginnane
ROTFL ... Interesting concept Peter. Shane ... On Mon, Apr 25th, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Peter Relson wrote: ... > Curious: Does anyone use SVC screening for its documented intended > purpose: -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / s

Re: Anyone good with DFSORT? Does DFSORT have the ability to multiply offsets that are not known until that time?

2011-04-25 Thread Shane Ginnane
Why ?. >From you, I was surprised at your other (preferred ?) suggestions. I would have thought perl a natural fit. Shane ... On Mon, Apr 25th, 2011 at 10:41 PM, "McKown, John" wrote: > I will refrain from suggesting

Re: Hercules, friend or foe?

2011-04-28 Thread Shane Ginnane
). Last I looked SLES was still available for download, and the RHEL6 Beta(s) installed fine. Plus Fedora now of course. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua

Re: Hercules, friend or foe?

2011-04-29 Thread Shane Ginnane
t an emulator will presumably be slower, the benefit of access to zSeries specific resources should always be a benefit to those seeking satiation of "techie needs". Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arch

Re: POHD: vs UTE (was: USS vs USS)

2011-05-04 Thread Shane Ginnane
A least the change in subject got me to read it Kirk ;-) It's a pity the list doesn't support (per subscriber) blacklisting threads/contributors *at the server*. Would save an awful lot of bandwidth. ISTR an OT group was set up a while back. Doesn't seem to have

Re: Migration Webcast

2011-05-13 Thread Shane Ginnane
check out the flash requirements and can't get the site to respond ... And yes, I use privoxy there too. Shane ... On Fri, 13 May 2011 11:06:35 -0400, John Eells wrote: >If you are planning to migrate from z/OS R10 or R11 to R12, you might >find this free webcast useful: "Acceler

Re: Migration Webcast

2011-05-13 Thread Shane Ginnane
D'oh ... Friday -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

Re: Migration Webcast

2011-05-13 Thread Shane Ginnane
check(s). It even "ticked" Linux 64-bit as a supported O/S. Shane ... > On Fri, 13 May 2011 11:06:35 -0400, John Eells wrote: > >... >Preregistration is required. Register at: >http://events.unisfair.com/rt/ibm~zosr12mig >l >There are workstation system requiremen

Re: Running z/OS On Your Laptop

2011-05-16 Thread Shane Ginnane
LOL - I don't think so. Would take a lot more than that is offering to convince me to fork out my hard earned to go to Melbourne at this time of year. Shane ... On Tue, May 17th, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Eric Bielefeld wrote: > I think there was a discussion about running z/OS on your laptop

Re: Running a SYSPLEX - what's needed

2011-05-18 Thread Shane Ginnane
they can move stuff over. Your gun, your foot ... Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at h

Re: Encrypting offsite data ...

2011-05-18 Thread Shane Ginnane
This being the site that a couple of years ago was 20 years into its 5 year plan to get off the mainframe ?. Pity to see another one (finally) bite the dust. With all this (encrypted) data, how are you going to read (most of) it after the box goes away ?. Shane ... On Thu, May 19th, 2011 at 4

Re: Running a SYSPLEX - what's needed

2011-05-18 Thread Shane Ginnane
acts when they bring up the sandpit. Seems likely they will run predominantly as 2 (active) system even with the new LPAR. Performance impacts can be mitigated. If they can be made acceptable, ring (or base sysplex) can be a good cheap answer. Maybe not the best, but possibly accep

Re: Running a SYSPLEX - what's needed

2011-05-19 Thread Shane Ginnane
ustomers are prepared to pay for the privilege. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

Re: Running a SYSPLEX - what's needed

2011-05-19 Thread Shane Ginnane
miss something? Toss a few shekels Al Sherkows way and find out for sure. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Re: Reading dumps with secondary address spaces

2011-05-19 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Thu, May 19th, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Peter Relson wrote: > >Might that be *HOME*? > > Yes. > > Home = Primary = Secondary when a sysabend/sysudump/sysmdump is taken. :-) Of all the people to argue with, this fella just has to be one of those you should choose to s

Re: It got very quiet

2011-05-22 Thread DOWLING,Shane
Have a hangover from the end of the world party They Lied... Shane -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Ford Sent: Monday, 23 May 2011 12:58 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: It got very quiet

Re: Accelerrate your migration z/OS v1r12

2011-05-26 Thread Shane Ginnane
No sympathy from me. Rapidly approaching 01:00 ... If I can figure it out from here, you lot in North America should be able to. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: Problems with TSO TEST

2011-05-29 Thread Shane Ginnane
lol We've all probably had times when we've wondered that when we've had maintenance arrive Jim ... Shane ... On Sun, May 29th, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Jim Mulder wrote: > As to the "performance reasons (in allocation)" > for which IEFBR14 was removed from SY

Re: Continuations (was: My first mainframe experience}

2011-05-31 Thread Shane Ginnane
I coulda sworn you'd said that before ... ;-) Shane ... On Tue, May 31st, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > I hate JCL! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: 1021 STP

2011-06-12 Thread Shane Ginnane
> Can any third party Vendor still selling this STP and Maintaining it. It's not STP that has gone unsupported, but the z9. That includes features and upgrades - see the ibm site and search for "z9 withdrawal". Shane ... --

Re: UTC offset for dates in the past?

2011-06-14 Thread Shane Ginnane
ot; should be listed under /usr/share/zoneinfo/ Shane ... On Wed, Jun 15th, 2011 at 4:47 AM, "Schwarz, Barry A" wrote: > It would seem you need more than just the date. The rules vary > considerably by location. In Japan, local is always UTC+9. Europe and > the US do not swit

Re: UTC offset for dates in the past?

2011-06-16 Thread Shane Ginnane
e the presumption of time base is (always) wrong. Bin there, dun that ... Shane ... On Thu, Jun 16th, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Dale Miller wrote: > I forgot to respond to an assertion made on this thread to the effect > that operating systems other than Z/OS gets this right. My daughter > audits

Re: more on startio...

2011-06-21 Thread Shane Ginnane
fun ensued for the techos who stayed the distance. Wouldn't be at all surprised if a certain (current) HDS employee who recently un-subscribed from this list was also present. Seeds planted ... Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN s

Re: WSC Techdocs down?

2011-06-26 Thread Shane Ginnane
No, it looks broken Cheryl. A search on ibm.com retrieves the same address. Same result too ... Shane ... On Mon, Jun 27th, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Cheryl Watson wrote: > I haven't been able to access WSC techdocs for over 24 hours. Is anyone > able to > get to it? The link I usual

Re: Lines, Bars and ... mini-bars???

2011-07-05 Thread Shane Ginnane
Unselectable Storage Segment ... ??? Seems a reasonable acronym - shouldn't cause any controversy. Shane ... On Tue, Jul 5th, 2011 at 9:43 PM, David Cole wrote: > So what is the name for the 2G to 4G range of storage? Ok, you guys > can go ahead and fight it out. Me? I'm just

Re: Z/OS Maintenance

2011-07-06 Thread Shane Ginnane
H - well, I did finally see some hardware fail. C'mon software vendors, your turn to step up to the plate ... Shane ... (I deleted all addresses as otherwise some may see it as disingenuous - gawd knows how) > >There's that old saw about not fixing something that ain'

Re: Ads on IBM-Main

2011-07-07 Thread Shane Ginnane
I must admit I've been ignoring/deleting this drivel till now, but anybody pissing on Sam and/or Frank (and their ilk) need to pull their bloody head(s) in. But as Sam just said, enough. Shane ... On Fri, Jul 8th, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Sam Golob wrote: > Hi Folks, > > In response to

Re: Transfer files from Z/OS and Linux with conversion data

2011-07-12 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Tue, Jul 12th, 2011 at 9:18 PM, John McKown wrote: > One problem is that the z's "packed decimal" simply doesn't have any > equivalent on a Widows (ASCII) based machine. Not to mention the small matter of big-endian ve

Re: O/T Pathing the Kernal on the fly

2011-07-25 Thread Shane Ginnane
Thank you Mark, I missed that. The following looks interesting ... Oracle does not plan to support the use of Ksplice technology with Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SUSE Enterprise Linux. Maybe we should take this off to a

Re: Saving US$1M deploying a cloud on z/Series over x86/ x64

2011-07-25 Thread Shane Ginnane
And for those others of you that object to the marketing gumph IBM presents you with, the paper is available for direct download from Clabby Analytics. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: Cobol - STC design issue

2011-07-27 Thread Shane Ginnane
; control but could be considered overkill if you have proper recovery. Maybe depends on ones definition of intercepting. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.u

Re: Another looking for documentation

2011-07-27 Thread Shane Ginnane
mebody decided some renaming of (lots of) pages was in order to themselves busy. Forgot to fix the links maybe. Pages failing all over the place - including the "Search IBM" link offered. Well d'oh. Maybe wait for a while, and it'l

Re: looking for documentation

2011-07-27 Thread Shane Ginnane
ome not online. I go get all the pdfs and set up an index html page. Several releases fit easily on a 4G key. You lose the cross referencing, but I can live with that. As usual, many ways to skin this cat. Shane ... --

Re: Another looking for documentation

2011-07-28 Thread Shane Ginnane
starting here; http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/support/ Not all nicely together, but the any restructure was no doubt done "for your convenience". Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access ins

Re: looking for documentation

2011-07-28 Thread Shane Ginnane
Softcopy reader in the past - java; should have been easy right ?. Was an unmitigated shemozzle. So much for "write once, run anywhere". Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send e

Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

2011-07-31 Thread Shane Ginnane
I must admit most of this thread has made its way into the bin without more than a perfunctory glance. Toms latest contribution does however display admirable patience in the face of intransigence. Kudos to Tom. Shane ... -- For

Re: A nice website,go it

2011-08-05 Thread Shane Ginnane
> Looks like someone has hacked into John's email system. Did anyone else get this as a privately addressed mail, or merely via the list server ? Trying to work out if they got his contact list. Header IP looks like China

Spam

2011-08-05 Thread Shane Ginnane
My ISP just harvested some junk (supposedly) from John G - a vacation reply. Never had similar (from John). Let's hope he hasn't been using Internet Cafe(s) in Běijīng. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Spam

2011-08-05 Thread Shane Ginnane
Sorry - that would be Beijing in plain text. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archi

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread Shane Ginnane
t;flat out" over outback Australia. No doubt those more hardy souls that could survive such rigours were also impervious to the Concordes adverse impacts. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access inst

Re: I certainly was hacked

2011-08-05 Thread Shane Ginnane
atus over there due to incidents about a week ago (if you aren't aware). Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Sear

Re: GRS Ring complex on next generation of processors

2011-08-09 Thread Shane Ginnane
> Sysplex. Absolutely agree. Works a treat - and makes the definition debacle a whole lot easier to manage. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the mess

Re: file allocation dcb order

2011-08-10 Thread Shane Ginnane
Steve you are such a kill-joy - must be time we had another endless thread about this ... ;-) Nice post though. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: Dynamic ISPF ads in industry magazines

2011-08-13 Thread Shane Ginnane
our > ISPF apps instead of the LOGON proc. Sue the bastards Tom - prior usage should be worth a few million to top up your superannuation ;-) Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instru

Re: Book: What On Earth is a Mainframe?

2011-08-26 Thread Shane Ginnane
guest, but now you've got me thinking otherwise. Maybe I could just have a "dinosaur" machine - Herc with MVS 3.8 and OS/2. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lis

Re: [BULK] Re: Roll your own USS

2011-08-28 Thread Shane Ginnane
Now we're getting somewhere. Shane ... On Mon, Aug 29th, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Greg Dorner wrote: > Ugly Semantics Silliness -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bam

Re: repairing a "corrupted HFS file" / *IGW024E HFS DATA SET: xxx

2011-08-30 Thread Shane Ginnane
ck. Mighty impressive piece of work, but it still broke. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

Re: IOCP RESOURCE coding help needed

2011-09-12 Thread Shane Ginnane
least. Haven't checked that though ... Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

Re: HYBRID is now In Vogue

2011-09-15 Thread Shane Ginnane
"Female" and "X" (I kid you not). I wonder if your new "Hybrid" friends will now feel receptary Jim ?. Maybe just the Aussie ones ;-) Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archiv

Re: omvs.root full due to pfa

2010-04-12 Thread Shane Ginnane
I haven't played with this Have a look at the Problem Management manual , Part 2. Has some info on where you would be expected to install it (by default), and how to mount a [zh]fs for it. There is is even a script shipped to clear out things for you.

Re: Device Vary

2010-04-13 Thread Shane Ginnane
There is, however, the small matter of requirements: - page fixed - Supervisor state (or PKM 0-7) Obviously another of Craddocks cronies ... Shane ... On Tue, Apr 13th, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Rob Scott wrote: > If numerous volumes are to be varied online/offline, then I believe > that usi

Windoze 7

2010-04-13 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:31:12 -0300, Clark Morris wrote: >While I am still going through the joys of replacing an XP computer >with a powerful documentation-free ACER computer (quad core with >hyperthreading, terabyte hard drive, Blue Ray reader and 4 USB ports >on the top with 1 or 2 E-sata ports

Re: Device Vary

2010-04-13 Thread Shane Ginnane
Erk - did I really say that, or just think it ?. Apologies all round, my mind must have been elsewhere. Shane ... On Tue, Apr 13th, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Rob Scott wrote: > ... and the only real difference being you must be > non-swap (I see nothing in the doc for page-

Re: FTP to z/OS Problem

2010-04-15 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Thu, Apr 15th, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Chris Mason wrote: > To those using the archives searching for information on SYSTCPD Pull up a comfy chair ... Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructi

Re: IEFUSI - RESERVE SPACE

2010-04-15 Thread Shane Ginnane
I suspect at one time we (nearly) all did this - I've seen plenty of code that still does it. These days you should check out CHECKREGIONLOSS in the DIAG member - see the Init and Tuning reference. Shane ... On Thu, Apr 15th, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Casey Rhodes wrote: > Does anyone reser

Re: COUPLE DATA SET TIME STAMPS

2010-04-15 Thread Shane Ginnane
h to create new ones and import your (saved) policy. The complex will start up o.k. without your input, but you'll need your policy pretty soon there-after. After the last few days, I wouldn't even attempt to broach LOGR. Others will no doubt be able to deal

Re: IEBCOPY losing APF authorisation in middle of JOB.

2010-04-16 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Fri, Apr 16th, 2010 at 9:04 PM, "Hunkeler Peter" wrote: > Is step 8 doing something different from all > the other steps? Something that might need APF auth.? SMP maybe ?. Just joking. . . I hope. Shane ... ---

Re: WLM Service Class question

2010-04-17 Thread Shane Ginnane
rules. But SLAs always dictate the final outcome. Shane ... On Sat, Apr 17th, 2010 at 9:52 AM, gsg wrote: > We have two production LPARs and two test LPARs. We have different > service classes for Production batch and Test batch. My question is > should both production LPARs use

Re: ZFS

2010-04-29 Thread Shane Ginnane
>From the same people that foisted PDSE on an unsuspecting world no doubt. I use zFS (now), but you can't blame the customers for slow take-up IMHO. Shane ... On Fri, Apr 30th, 2010 at 2:00 AM, Brian Peterson wrote: > I agree 100 % with Mark. I've been using zFS for my root

z/OS Unix and VBA files.

2010-04-30 Thread Shane Ginnane
lse seen this - or got an explanation ?. gil maybe ... ? Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http:/

Re: z/OS Unix and VBA files.

2010-04-30 Thread Shane Ginnane
G'day Marco, I'm not so concerned with getting the data across to OMVS, but more with why the change in RECFM had such a major impact once the data was there. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arch

Re: z/OS Unix and VBA files.

2010-04-30 Thread Shane Ginnane
em I want to be aware of it (in advance). Shane .. On Sat, May 1st, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Kirk Wolf wrote: > Shane, > > Its always best not to copy the files at all if you don't need to. > Using our free BPXBATCH replacement, it is trivial to

Re: z/OS Unix and VBA files.

2010-04-30 Thread Shane Ginnane
cp //"'..'" /tmp/file.txt and/or cat //"'..'" > /tmp/file.txt Worked fine for VB input, not VBA. Hence my confusion. Shane ... On Sat, May 1st, 2010 at 12:46 AM, "Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4)" wrote: > > [snip]A GENER of the files to VB

Re: tso session timeout

2010-04-30 Thread Shane Ginnane
How's your short term memory - can you remember if you're in Sydney for the z Symposium next week ?. Shane ... On Sat, May 1st, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Greg Price wrote: > At least, that's the way I remember it... -

Re: z/OS Unix and VBA files.

2010-04-30 Thread Shane Ginnane
Thanks Bill - I'm off next week (as my post to Greg that went public indicates), so I'll check this after I get back in the office. Cheers ... Shane On Sat, May 1st, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Bill Godfrey wrote: > I think the explanation can be found in the "C/C++ Programming

Re: RACF - Any way to find out before hand what the user's access is to a file

2010-05-01 Thread Shane Ginnane
there - happened often when I had to dabble in ACF2 exits (some time ago). Shane ... On Sat, May 1st, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Ted MacNEIL wrote: > Coming from a Banking background, I believe a user should not have > the ability to check beforehand. > That's a security exposure, becaus

Re: zFS, etc, and z/OS V1R11

2010-05-07 Thread Shane Ginnane
ut lack of (customer) control over the migration. Shane ... On Thu, May 6th, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Mark Zelden wrote: > With OA29619, which became available a couple of weeks ago, you > can control this function on an individual file system basis.

Re: Cached TSO Clist and VLFNOTE

2010-05-07 Thread Shane Ginnane
Only time I had an issue where I needed VLFNOTE (some years ago) I just gave up, and forced the VLFNOTE into every other system in the 'plex. Slightly different situation to what you are seeing - every so often an update didn't show up on some other syst

Re: Migrating from z/OS V1.4 to z/OS V1.11

2010-05-08 Thread Shane Ginnane
I'm surprised it took Brian so long to respond; he's constantly berating us that such "non (IBM) sanctioned" upgrades are fine if handled sensibly. Just don't screw it up - guess whose private parts will be on the chopping block. Can't really blame customers for b

Re: Migrating from z/OS V1.4 to z/OS V1.11

2010-05-09 Thread Shane Ginnane
Yeahhh that must be the reason. Now why didn't I think of that ?. Shane ... On Sun, May 9th, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Brian Westerman wrote: > I guess I'm just getting mellow. ;) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sign

Re: z/OS Unix and VBA files.

2010-05-10 Thread Shane Ginnane
Spot on - thanks again. I wonder what bright spark came up with that idea. All the tools I tried (cp, cat, awk) showed the same symptoms. Of course if IDCAMS had produced the VB output I asked for, I'd have never known ... Shane ... On Sat, May 1st, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Bill Godfrey wrote:

Re: Windows on Z/os and Z/vm shortly?

2010-05-12 Thread Shane Ginnane
guest that then provides x86 emulation to the (nominally) Windoze code. You'd need bloody fast fast processors to support that lot. Shane ... On Wed, May 12th, 2010 at 8:06 PM, "R.S." wrote: > IMHO it would be much more exciting > to have Windows in LPAR or under VM - li

*MASTER* ... again

2010-05-12 Thread Shane Ginnane
s has been re-iterated here incessantly. Shane ... On Wed, May 12th, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Mark Zelden wrote: > Do you have any "tso app" running under master? (perhaps an > automation product or TSSO)? -- F

Re: *MASTER* ... again

2010-05-13 Thread Shane Ginnane
ly routinely Yeah, I know. Go back and read just about every thread you've contributed to in the last 12-18 months. Scary, ain't it. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruction

Re: RACF - ICH3031 & ICH304D Messages

2010-05-13 Thread Shane Ginnane
lert (email/SMS). Suspicious repetition (same or several ids) causes automation shutdown. They determine what is suspicious. Seemed reasonable to me, given the limited requirement for SPECIAL in a production environment. Shane ... -

Re: IBM to announce new MF's this year

2010-05-19 Thread Shane Ginnane
How so ? In our space there have been rumours along these lines since Hitachi floated "Hercules" to try and steal the thunder from the "Freeway" announcement. Others have "been there, done that". Nothin' new these days. Shane ... On Wed, May 19th, 2010

Re: IBM to announce new MF's this year

2010-05-19 Thread Shane Ginnane
nt powerPC architecture you'd have to think IBM have the smarts to do massively parallel these days. Shane ... On Wed, May 19th, 2010 at 11:06 PM, David Andrews wrote: > "Mainframe operating systems don't scale well past 64 cores in a > single > system image" >

Re: ZFS problems

2010-05-22 Thread Shane Ginnane
x27;d lean toward it attempting recovery. Shane ... On Sat, May 22nd, 2010 at 9:43 PM, "R.S." wrote: > However, possibly after some "unclean" system close (this is sandbox > > system) I had serious problems with IPL. OMVS could not initialize > for approx. 50 m

Re: ZFS problems

2010-05-22 Thread Shane Ginnane
customers. Fail the mount unilaterally - what sort of a default is that ?. Especially for things like the root ... Shane ... On Sun, May 23rd, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Mark Zelden wrote: > But also make sure you have this in your zFS parms: > > romount_recovery=on/* see APA

Re: Getting "BIND/LINK" date out of load module members

2010-05-24 Thread Shane Ginnane
Probably qualifies as descriptive though. And more socially acceptable than a few others I've heard. Shane ... On Mon, May 24th, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Peter Relson wrote: > ... "choked to death" is not a very tec

zFS thoughts

2010-05-24 Thread Shane Ginnane
trivial - especially if you use a shared BPXPRMxx; just roll it out with the resvol. And using the ServerPac to introduce zFS is the simplest - no conversions, no (unexpected) down time. Do it Art, nothing to lose IMHO. Shane ... Mark wrote: As a matter of fact, since those are your most crit

Re: How many LPARs in a ring ?

2010-05-25 Thread Shane Ginnane
beneficial. Anyone with a real CF will laugh at the numbers you get, but in our case they were significantly better than the ring. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send emai

Re: ZFS problems

2010-05-25 Thread Shane Ginnane
Fancy that - Barbara being cranky with the support centre who'da thunked ;-) Everyone in this discussion (except me) is probably a reasonable sized shop with a reasonable sized 'plex. I still say go zFS - HFS has had its day. Shane ... On Tue, May 25th, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Ba

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