Re: GDG Base alteration report

2012-06-16 Thread Donald Likens
There is a product that can do what you want called MEAS. For more information see http://www.infosecinc.com/meas.php -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with

Re: Familiar

2012-06-16 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
scott_j_f...@yahoo.com (Scott Ford) writes: > Check this out, boy this looks vaguely familiar like CICS or DB2 .. >   > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hadoop_1.png note that CICS was originally to avoid having to use as few os/360 resources as possible ... because os/360 processing was horrendo

Re: Familiar

2012-06-16 Thread Scott Ford
Rob, Based on what I saw and my limited knowledge , I agree. Interesting how other apps mimic z/os Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jun 15, 2012, at 3:07 PM, Rob Schramm wrote: > DB2 is more comparable. > > As far as I can tell Hadoop is more targeted at data large enough (like a > data w

Re: Brain drain: Where Cobol systems go from here

2012-06-16 Thread Scott Ford
Ed, We have our STCs written in COBOL calling assembler sub routines, which works great. We are a tcpip socket server and client ...the client is like a hybrid app. The point is the only drawback I see to using COBOL, is the ability to multi- task or thread, I know COBOL can, but haven't seen s

Re: Questions about WEBs (Dispatchable Unit identity)

2012-06-16 Thread John Gilmore
I once went to some trouble to investigate the reusability of WEBs, tracking them over several 15-minute intervals; but 1) I was unable to relate the occasions upon which they were overwritten to any related event I could identify and 2) the absence of even minimal information--the usual, not very

Re: Questions about WEBs (Dispatchable Unit identity)

2012-06-16 Thread Chris Craddock
Since SRBs come and go all the time, the more interesting question is whether WEBs are (or could potentially be) reused after the unit of work ends. I think I know the answer but have never got around to asking. I have always assumed that the WEB address is insufficient to guarantee identity unl

Re: Questions about WEBs (Dispatchable Unit identity)

2012-06-16 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:45:03 -0500, Justin R. Bendich wrote: >Thank you very much, Mr. Mulder. But don't you just wish he'd desist with all the circumlocutory answers ;-) Dry and pithy - all too rare on this list. Shane ... ---