Re: IBM now employs more workers in India than US

2013-10-17 Thread RCG
bigsnip If India was very poor in terms of economy, There are many others poorer than we think, why dont IBM think of it then? B-) On Oct 17, 2013 11:11 AM, Ron Hawkins ronjhawk...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Ed, That's great news. Good for the economy of a very poor country. Ron -Original

Re: Why use IEFJOBS?

2013-10-17 Thread Brian Westerman
Started jobs also allow you to use DD * and some other features that were not available for STC's. I think use of a JOBcard for CICS regions and the DD * were the top uses that I have seen at shops I've consulted with. Unless there was a really good reason to do so, I don't think I would try

Re: IBM now employs more workers in India than US

2013-10-17 Thread Robert Hahne
If India was very poor in terms of economy, There are many others poorer than we think, why dont IBM think of it then? B-) IBM is not doing business to raise the economy of poor countries . But they should also know that , they get only what they pay for . You make more profit by paying less

Re: IBM now employs more workers in India than US

2013-10-17 Thread RCG
Thats absolutely right.. On Oct 17, 2013 1:44 PM, Robert Hahne roberthahne...@hotmail.com wrote: If India was very poor in terms of economy, There are many others poorer than we think, why dont IBM think of it then? B-) IBM is not doing business to raise the economy of poor countries .

Re: 0C4 reason code 4 TSO command processor returning from verify exit

2013-10-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 5db5e473-e316-49cc-8abb-27adb00c6...@optonline.net, on 10/16/2013 at 08:00 AM, Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.net said: I think the main problem is not whether I am writing authorized code But the documentation or lack of, on The TSO verify exit The documentation seems perfectly

Re: Why use IEFJOBS?

2013-10-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAPtSOKxxsPYXW0Epomk9sgo=tzmx9q4fkg1bkbcarzgxsnu...@mail.gmail.com, on 10/16/2013 at 10:35 AM, Bill Ashton bill00ash...@gmail.com said: 1. Why is a Started Job better than a Started Task? Better? It's different, e.g., you supply a job statement instead of letting the system generate one.

Re: Explanation of S0C4 reason 4

2013-10-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 569dedf0-9d6b-4cc6-becf-6c8c78207...@optonline.net, on 10/16/2013 at 08:58 AM, Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.net said: I just looked in the Assembler Authorized Guide on Virtual Storage And it says subpool 0 is always 8 I could find no such statement; I could find statements that say

Re: OT - from June, an article on how fantastic healthcare.gov is

2013-10-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In ca+ndcobjhm8vi1by1eurhht9pstzrovzuqxs25i4wcckcm4...@mail.gmail.com, on 10/16/2013 at 04:50 PM, Lou Losee llo...@gmail.com said: Real word processing came into being in the early 1970's Data centers were part for the real world. ATS and RUNOFF may seem primitive to me today, but they were

Re: How FTP server assigns DCB attributes

2013-10-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 9324615384719645.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 10/16/2013 at 05:45 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Damn! So I should change all the JCL samples I distribute in order not to inconvenience customers. As long as you accept that it was your suggestion and not mine,

Re: OT - from June, an article on how fantastic healthcare.gov is

2013-10-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 525f3848.5040...@gmail.com, on 10/17/2013 at 09:07 AM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com said: Most of the articles I've read about healthcare.gov criticise the design of the website for being old fashioned Tufte should write a book on web design. Form follows function. As long as it

Re: OT - from June, an article on how fantastic healthcare.gov is

2013-10-17 Thread David Crayford
On 17/10/2013 8:24 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In 525f3848.5040...@gmail.com, on 10/17/2013 at 09:07 AM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com said: Most of the articles I've read about healthcare.gov criticise the design of the website for being old fashioned Tufte should write a

Re: IBM now employs more workers in India than US

2013-10-17 Thread esst...@juno.com
Robert Hagne wrote: IBM is not doing business to raise the economy of poor countries . But they should also know that , they get only what they pay for . You make more profit by paying less ,but at the xpense of service quality . That is Absolutly correct .. IBM is first and Formost a

Possible To Remove Both CFRM Couple datasets?

2013-10-17 Thread Andrew Metcalfe
Folks I think I know the answer but here goes . We have (by oversight) an active base sysplex with CFRM couple datasets defined in COUPLExx. As it is a base sysplex there is obviously no active CFRM policy. Is there any way to remove the CFRM dataset definitions from the running sysplex

Re: Possible To Remove Both CFRM Couple datasets?

2013-10-17 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
We have (by oversight) an active base sysplex with CFRM couple datasets defined in COUPLExx. As it is a base sysplex there is obviously no active CFRM policy. Are you sure you don't have an active CFRM policy? The policy that was last active on those CFRM CDSs would have been activated, no

Re: IBM now employs more workers in India than US

2013-10-17 Thread David L. Craig
On 13Oct17:1203+, esst...@juno.com wrote: Robert Hagne wrote: IBM is not doing business to raise the economy of poor countries . But they should also know that , they get only what they pay for . You make more profit by paying less ,but at the xpense of service quality . That is

Re: Google F1 was: Re: MongoDB

2013-10-17 Thread Charles Mills
Interesting. Googling F1 gives me Formula One results. (Yes, Googling F1 database yields relevant results.) http://research.google.com/pubs/pub41344.html Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent:

Re: Unit-count default with UNIT=group-name?

2013-10-17 Thread Charles Mills
Thanks all. I think I am either 100% safe or about 99.99% safe without changing the JCL. If it turns out to be .01% unsafe I will cross that bridge when I come to it. Barbara, my application is named the IBM Enterprise COBOL compiler so I have no knowledge whether it does an EOV, but I would

Re: IBM now employs more workers in India than US

2013-10-17 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#47 for other reference to latest activity Stockman in The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America pg464/loc9995-1: IBM was not the born-again growth machine trumpeted by the mob of Wall Street momo traders. It was actually a

Re: Google F1 was: Re: MongoDB

2013-10-17 Thread David Crayford
On 17/10/2013 9:17 PM, Charles Mills wrote: Interesting. Googling F1 gives me Formula One results. (Yes, Googling F1 database yields relevant results.) Try google spanner http://research.google.com/pubs/pub41344.html Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Unit-count default with UNIT=group-name?

2013-10-17 Thread Lizette Koehler
Charles, I have to do something similar for SORTWK dd statements. And there are many flavors of Sortwk that have to be coded for. But Sortwk cannot span volumes. So, as far as my shop would be concerned, it would just be part of the product requirements. So not a big deal. Your product just

Re: Possible To Remove Both CFRM Couple datasets?

2013-10-17 Thread Andrew Metcalfe
Barbara Definitely no CFRM policy active - D XCF tells me so. I did suspect that I would need to do a cold (newly formatted Sysplex CDS) sysplex-wide IPL. It's only a infrastructure (SDM) sysplex so it shouldn't be that big a deal to correct it. Thanks Andrew -Original Message-

Re: Possible To Remove Both CFRM Couple datasets?

2013-10-17 Thread Lizette Koehler
Andrew, If you have RLS in place (Record Level Sharing), that will be lost on a COLD start. So, just have the information available when you IPL from a D SMS,SMSVSAM,ALL command. You will need it to put it back. Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Why use IEFJOBS?

2013-10-17 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 03:04:24 -0500, Brian Westerman brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com wrote: Started jobs also allow you to use DD * and some other features that were not available for STC's. I think use of a JOBcard for CICS regions and the DD * were the top uses that I have seen at shops I've

Re: Explanation of S0C4 reason 4

2013-10-17 Thread suresh chacko
In my shop we were using lots of tape jobs which are of 3490 old VTS kind. Currently migrating to IBM7700 VTL. We experience lots of batch jobs failures from 3490 VTS followed by equipment check 0C4 -11 or 4. These jobs are reading dataset written on multiple logical volumes. What I noticed the

Re: Explanation of S0C4 reason 4

2013-10-17 Thread DASDBILL2
Ask the vendor of VTS. This may be a known problem with a fix available.   Or it may be a new problem that they should fix.   Bill Fairchild Franklin, TN - Original Message - From: suresh chacko surecha...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013

Re: Explanation of S0C4 reason 4

2013-10-17 Thread John McKown
I do _not_ know why your are getting these types of abends after a tape I/O error. My _guess_, without any kind of dump available, is that the program code is reading beyond the I/O area. On a PC, this is usually called a buffer overflow type error. On z/OS, if the virtual memory behind the I/O

Re: Why use IEFJOBS?

2013-10-17 Thread Staller, Allan
S taskname,,,MSGCLASS=class snip Besides the sysin mentioned, the biggest use I've seen is to change the MSGCLASS from the STC default. For example, to send all the output to a output management product.How else would you do it outside of starting the STCs you want with the MSGCLASS=n

Re: Why use IEFJOBS?

2013-10-17 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 14:15:43 +, Staller, Allan allan.stal...@kbmg.com wrote: S taskname,,,MSGCLASS=class snip Besides the sysin mentioned, the biggest use I've seen is to change the MSGCLASS from the STC default. For example, to send all the output to a output management product.

You've got to be kidding me! (Enterprise COBOL V5.1 DD overrides)

2013-10-17 Thread Tom Ross
For Enterprise COBOL v4.1 and 4.2, if you are loading the compiler from an assembler program and want to override SYSOPTF or DBRMLIB, they are entries 20 and 21 respectively in the Alternative DD name list. For Enterprise COBOL v5.1, if you want to override SYSOPTF or DBRMLIB, they are reversed

Re: You've got to be kidding me! (Enterprise COBOL V5.1 DD overrides)

2013-10-17 Thread Charles Mills
Well okay. Thanks. I wondered if I might report an error but I was not sure where the error might be (V4 doc? V5 doc? or no error, the doc truly reflects the software) and did not take or had not taken the time to test to figure it out. I was working from the 4.1 U/G when I noticed the problem

Re: IBM now employs more workers in India than US

2013-10-17 Thread Eric Bielefeld
This topic is very interesting to me. When I worked for IBM for my last job, the team I was on did the systems programming for a number of z/OS accounts in the US. Most of the accounts had their computer operations in India. Most of the people I talked to had good English, but it's not the

Re: Google F1 was: Re: MongoDB

2013-10-17 Thread Lloyd Fuller
And this product is called NOMAD from Select Business Solutions.  It has only been available since 1976 or thereabouts.   And you can even MIX hierarchical and RDBMS if you want.   Geez.  Another wheel reinvented.   Lloyd From: David Crayford

Re: IBM now employs more workers in India than US

2013-10-17 Thread Tony Harminc
On 17 October 2013 09:23, Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com wrote: Stockman in The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America pg464/loc9995-1: IBM was not the born-again growth machine trumpeted by the mob of Wall Street momo traders. It was actually a stock buyback

Re: hsm cds question - can we update cds to add new abars version at d.r?

2013-10-17 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
At the DR site, issue the Arecover with the Prepare parameter. In this example, the ARECOVER command for the aggregate group, PAY1.C.C01V0001, is prepared. This preparation eliminates the overhead of verification processing or data movement associated with the VERIFY or EXECUTE

Re: NSLOOKUP on MVS vs OMVS

2013-10-17 Thread Rob Schramm
I have only 2 cents to add. 1) is there an actual STC proc? Or is it a shell command starting a Unix process? 2) there are a couple of C or Unix environment variables that can be set that would precede SYSTCPD. Rob Schramm On Oct 16, 2013 1:21 PM, Jon Perryman jperr...@pacbell.net wrote: Stop

An IPCS question

2013-10-17 Thread Hardee, Chuck
Hello Everyone, I have a REXX in which I have coded various commands that I do every time I have to look at a dump. In those commands is a DROPSYM statement, in fact, several of them. What I would like to do is eliminate the message: BLS18064I No symbols found that is produced by the DROPSYM

Re: You've got to be kidding me! (Enterprise COBOL V5.1 DD overrides)

2013-10-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:58:24 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: Agreed on both points. (And failing that, c'mon man, how about a little consistency?) Built into ATTACH would be a big architectural deal. But keywords are easy! Tom Ross's explanation of the problem provides a powerful argument for

Re: You've got to be kidding me! (Enterprise COBOL V5.1 DD overrides)

2013-10-17 Thread Charles Mills
Thread drift I see a lot of design issues with trying to do magic DD overrides. What about products that check the TIOT for a DD's existence? Do they see the actual DD name or the name they expect to see? What does SVC 99 info retrieval reflect? If you target just the average application

Re: Google F1 was: Re: MongoDB

2013-10-17 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
leful...@sbcglobal.net (Lloyd Fuller) writes: And this product is called NOMAD from Select Business Solutions.  It has only been available since 1976 or thereabouts.   And you can even MIX hierarchical and RDBMS if you want. recent post in thread on cloud killing traditional hardware

Re: OT - from June, an article on how fantastic healthcare.gov is

2013-10-17 Thread Kirk Wolf
News today: After bragging about using and contributing open source, healthcare.govviolated a open source license for a popular javascript UI toolkit: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obamacare-website-violates-licensing-agreement-copyrighted-software_763666.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed

Re: IBM now employs more workers in India than US

2013-10-17 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#47 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#61 NSA Revelations Kill IBM Hardware Sales In China http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/10/wolf-richter-nsa-revelations-kill-ibm-hardware-sales-in-china.html from above: But there was nothing to spin in

Re: IBM now employs more workers in India than US

2013-10-17 Thread Ron Wells
They had to go to China and else where---idiots still buying WINDOWS servers From: Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 10/17/2013 04:03 PM Subject:Re: IBM now employs more workers in India than US Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Explanation of S0C4 reason 4

2013-10-17 Thread EXT-Schwarz, Barry
You need to tell us what software is experiencing the 0C4 abends. You also should start your own discussion, with a new subject, for this since it is not at all related to the discussion you chose to reply to. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: An IPCS question

2013-10-17 Thread Don Poitras
Chuck, Try: SETDEF FLAG(TERMINATING) In article 9b26bc6a6df52d4483dd73b1fe7b4b066ceed21...@uspho-mxvs07.amer.thermo.com you wrote: Hello Everyone, I have a REXX in which I have coded various commands that I do every time I have to look at a dump. In those commands is a DROPSYM

Re: An IPCS question

2013-10-17 Thread Hardee, Chuck
Thanks Don, but I already have the following in my REXX: setdef local noconfirm flag(terminating) setdef global noconfirm flag(terminating) I know, I could have left off the local and global and just issue a single command and it would be treated as global. Charles (Chuck) Hardee Senior

Re: IBM now employs more workers in India than US

2013-10-17 Thread Doug Fuerst
Everything else aside, it's sad that IBM has come to this. TJ Watson must be spinning. A good part of the demise of the Poughkeepsie and Kingston areas is the decline of IBM influence in those areas. The result has not been pretty. On 10/17/2013 5:03 PM, Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote: snip... NSA

Re: OT - from June, an article on how fantastic healthcare.gov is

2013-10-17 Thread David Crayford
On 18/10/2013 4:26 AM, Kirk Wolf wrote: News today: After bragging about using and contributing open source, healthcare.govviolated a open source license for a popular javascript UI toolkit:

Re: Explanation of S0C4 reason 4

2013-10-17 Thread Jon Perryman
John is completely correct that you need to look at a dump. It could be almost anything. Most programs have an expectation about the data they read (e.g. specific record layout and specific lengths). If the program ignores the I/O error and assumes the data is valid, then you could have any

Re: Explanation of S0C4 reason 4

2013-10-17 Thread Ed Gould
Well everyone is right (or something close anyway). The s0C4 could be something like trying to write a logrec record (possibly an error occurred during the format of the new record or... it could just about be anything without basic info its hard to say). Ed On Oct 17, 2013, at 10:58 PM,