On 8/21/2014 7:08 PM, Shane Ginnane wrote:
Some 23 of the world's top 25 retailers, 92 of the top 100 banks,
and the 10 largest insurers all entrust core operations to Cobol
programs running on IBM mainframes, says Deon Newman, vice
president, IBM System z. Since 2010, around
On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 23:26:05 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote:
IIRC, when Greg Lotko referenced these same statistics during his
keynote address at SHARE in Boston, he mentioned that approximately 40%
of those new customers were z/OS.
I wonder where I was at the time - I'm pretty sure that would have
On 22/08/2014 3:08 PM, Shane Ginnane wrote:
Having said that, my understanding is that this count of new customers
includes customers that completely reversed previously confirmed,
in-progress business plans to migrate off the mainframe. IMHO, it is
completely fair to count them as new since
Hi Ed,
I recollect the same as you do from Greg Lotko.
IMHO opinion though, one big thing I see as missing are the user focused tv
commercials and print ads. The end user customer used to push for each new
upgrade. Now the voices of the tech folks are hard for them to hear above the
noise
Lizette Koehler wrote:
This is a very simple issue.
Indeed. This is sysprog 101. :-)
Issue the MVS Command D GRS,Cand see what else needs the data set.
Next, contact your system programmer in your shop for assistance.
Usually, GTF should be idle and not holding something - this is then
I see variants on the moribund 9672s running just a few hard-to-kill apps
under OS/390 V2R4 have now been replaced with zEC12s running z/OS 2.1 and
a renewed business focus to move work onto the platform (to quote Ed)
scenario quite frequently.
It then becomes a matter of dragging said
On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 02:38:56 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
To Chandramohan, Harish : I'm just curious, who/what is issueing message
'ISGECM1 ...' ? Searches on GOOGLE and IBM gave me false hits...
A modified version of SYS1.SAMPLIB(ISGECMON)? Just a guess...
Norbert Friemel
Norbert Friemel kindly wrote:
To Chandramohan, Harish : I'm just curious, who/what is issueing message
'ISGECM1 ...' ? Searches on GOOGLE and IBM gave me false hits...
A modified version of SYS1.SAMPLIB(ISGECMON)? Just a guess...
That is that! I know the prefix ISG, but ECM got me stranded. I
Does anyone know if IFASMFDP supports large tape block sizes - those greater
than 32760?
Thanks,
Jim Horne
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I think I have to disagree.
Disagree is an interesting choice of words. What I stated is a fact.
Just because you have not seen it in no way means that it does not exist.
If there are fetches anywhere in process, they may fail in unpredictable
ways.
I think there would be a lot of angry
On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 11:36:25 +, Horne, Jim - James S
jim.s.ho...@lowes.com wrote:
Does anyone know if IFASMFDP supports large tape block sizes - those greater
than 32760?
Thanks,
Not supported in z/OS 1.13.
IEC141I 013-E1 for input data sets with blksize 32760.
A (JCL-)blksize 32760
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Peter Relson rel...@us.ibm.com wrote:
I think I have to disagree.
Disagree is an interesting choice of words. What I stated is a fact.
Just because you have not seen it in no way means that it does not exist.
If there are fetches anywhere in process, they may
In 53f69bf0.40...@acm.org, on 08/21/2014
at 08:25 PM, Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org said:
I don't know how colleges train people in IT these days, but in the
old days students were taught basic programming concepts and
algorithms and exposed to many different programming languages in
order to
In 0302225330497145.wa.brianwestermansyzygyinc@listserv.ua.edu,
on 08/21/2014
at 09:50 PM, Brian Westerman brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com said:
If that were the case, I think there would be a lot of angry people
opening problems with IBM support,
Even when the manual warns you that it is
I have had issues where I would run GTF for days if not weeks for IOS or VTAM
type issues.
So I have no problem with a GTF task staying up for long periods.
What I have found is a lot of shops use the IBM names instead of create LPAR
specific names for TRACE or unique names for the event
On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 06:51:20 -0500, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com
wrote:
Thanks for the kind words. My time left may be short because my company is
discontinuing use of z/OS hard by no later than Dec 2015.
Sorry to read that.
Educate your management?
We've all tried that...
W dniu 2014-08-07 14:04, Tom Russell pisze:
AFAIK accessing the Integrated 3270 session is impossible from an
HMC browser session. It is also tricky mounting a DVD in the HMC
drive if you want to Gen a new z/VM system in a first level Logical
Partition.
You can use a device on an OSA-ICC to
And you would probably be asked, in a nice way, something that correlates
to can't you read? and the PMR would be closed.
You (and IBM support) asked me the same thing when the problem occured 36 hours
(!) after the setprog lnklst,update command (that I had not even issued). Thank
goodness
The LRSN delta can be the equivalent of years. Do not get the LRSN
delta confused with the leap second or time zone offsets. As Wayne
said, the output from DSNJU004 will show you what the delta is.
There is at least one known case where the LRSN delta is over 25 years.
There are other
Though it may also be possible that this shop is trying to run multiple
GTF Tasks
at the same time on the same LPAR. Which, as I recall, still cannot be
done.
Only one GTF to rule them all.
Support for multiple GTFs on the same z/OS image was introduced in
z/OS 1.6.
Jim Mulder z/OS
Huge differences usually come from going out of data sharing that uses a
special value to jump out of DS.
This causes LRSN delta to be generated.
Isaac Yassin
IBM Gold Consultant
IBM Champion - Information Management
IBM Certified Solution Expert
IBM Certified System Administrator - DB2 10, 11
Am 22.08.2014 03:25, schrieb Joel C. Ewing:
As for the coming critical shortage of COBOL programmers: I don't know
how colleges train people in IT these days, but in the old days
students were taught basic programming concepts and algorithms and
exposed to many different programming languages
Was there an ISPF error Message?
One possible error message from z/OS ISPF Messages and Codes:
ISPD148
BLDL error - Error processing LIBDEF search for program . BLDL return
code = .
Explanation:
A LIBDEF was specified for ISPLLIB and BLDL encountered an error trying to
locate
I just get a non zero RC
I think I need to so TSOLIB ACTIVATe DDNAME(ISPLLIB)
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On Aug 22, 2014, at 3:36 PM, Nims,Alva John (Al) ajn...@ufl.edu wrote:
Was there an ISPF error Message?
One possible error message from z/OS ISPF Messages and Codes:
ISPD148
BLDL error -
On 8/1/2014 12:26 PM, Chase, John wrote:
I'm the OP, and that RECEIVE ORDER job timed out at 120 minutes. I
resubmitted, and the new job just wrote the 60-minute wait message.
Meant to ask this a while ago. Would have asked when I saw you at SHARE
in Pittsburgh except I didn't realize you
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