Re: z10BC Memory Upgrade All-But Impossible

2012-11-11 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-11-11 00:45, Edward Jaffe pisze: On 11/10/2012 2:25 PM, John Gilmore wrote: It is possible, even usual in many shops, to continue to use machines well after they have been withdrawn from marketing. The inability to obtain more storage or to activate a spare, already acquired CP is

Re: z10BC Memory Upgrade All-But Impossible

2012-11-11 Thread John Gilmore
Edward Jaffe wrote: begin extract Understand, this is not the price for the memory. This is just the price to _enable_ the memory. end extract It is indeed the price of some trivial, off-the-shelf µcode changes; and these changes are not very size-sensitive. A [small] flat charge would have

FICON card and apc connector

2012-11-11 Thread R.S.
All FICON singlemode cables I have seen are pc (physical contact). Q: is apc connector supported? -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- Treść tej wiadomości może zawierać informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wyłącznie do użytku służbowego adresata. Odbiorcą może być jedynie jej

Re: z10BC Memory Upgrade All-But Impossible

2012-11-11 Thread Leslie Turriff
On Friday 09 November 2012 19:59:33 Edward Jaffe wrote: Those of you with z10BC machines waiting for the z12BC to come out had better learn to make do with what you have. Keep in mind that z10BC is just _one_ generation removed from the current z114 business class machine. Nevertheless,

PPT NOPASS setting

2012-11-11 Thread Anthony Fletcher
Does anyone remember whether there was once a reason to set NOPASS against programs GIMSMP (or HMASMP before that) or the dump services module IEAVTDSV? We have them set in PROGA0 and some auditors want to know why since thet is apparently not the default. If it was the default for those

Re: PPT NOPASS setting

2012-11-11 Thread Anthony Thompson
IEAVTDSV is set to NOPASS is the IBM-supplied PPT, there shouldn't be any need to specify it in your SCHED member. GIMSMP sounds dodgy to me... maybe it was once set to be allowed to access it's DDDEF datasets to save cycles (?), but then anyone could compose a DDDEF / Usermod to update just

Re: z10BC Memory Upgrade All-But Impossible

2012-11-11 Thread ibmmain
And if you listen to Martin, everyone out there on zSeries (of any sort) is apparently wallowing in memory anyway. They are. The memory just isn't for z/OS, it is for zLinux. After all, everybody knows that z/OS makes do without adequate resources, when Linux applications fail. You wouldn't

Re: SRB

2012-11-11 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 11/9/2012 4:30 AM, Peter Relson wrote: The Space Token (STOKEN) for an address space is in ASSBSTKN. It used to be that this was not considered a programming interface and that you were expected to use ALESERV EXTRACTH to obtain it. We decided that was relatively ridiculous since internal

Re: PPT NOPASS setting

2012-11-11 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Anthony Fletcher wrote: Does anyone remember whether there was once a reason to set NOPASS against programs GIMSMP (or HMASMP before that) or the dump services module IEAVTDSV? GIMSMP - (Living in SYS1.MIGLIB) - No need to be there. AFAIK, it is not needed to be in SCHEDxx. The same applies