Re: Brain drain: Where Cobol systems go from here

2012-06-17 Thread Ed Gould
On Jun 17, 2012, at 2:06 AM, Tom Ross wrote: I know there is no reaching cranky Ed, but for others I can help: The only reason I am cranky is I have been on the receiving end of *SO* many irate calls to the systems group complaining about the bad manuals. AFter 50 you give up. Somewhere

Re: Questions about WEBs (Dispatchable Unit identity)

2012-06-17 Thread John Gilmore
Thank you Peter Relson. If the operating systems reuses WEBs systematically, the rest of us should leave them strictly alone. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA On 6/17/12, Peter Relson rel...@us.ibm.com wrote: I suppose anything could be considered reused if one includes FREEMAIN followed

Re: Brain drain: Where Cobol systems go from here

2012-06-17 Thread Ed Gould
Scott: I do not know if your STC's are production or not. I would hope changes go through change control. I also do not know how you manage change when a OS demands that the program goes though the update process. Generally I am for COBOL (whatever works for you). What I am finding is that

Re: installing serverpac for 1.13 using 1.11 system

2012-06-17 Thread John Chase
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:08:02 -0500, Mark Steely mark.ste...@wnco.com wrote: The format looks correct - this is what I had: /Service/etc OS130508.OMVS.ETC /Service/usr/lpp/java/J6.0.1 OS130508.OMVS.JAVA31M1 /Service/usr/lpp/java/J6.0.1_64