Re: Junk your IT. Now. Before it drags you under

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 11:32 PM, Ed Gould wrote: > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/15/junk_your_it_now_before_it_drags_you_under/ > > Legacy systems tie you to unproductive legacy thinking and lead to > stagnation. > > Really? > > ​If "legacy" means "static and

RRSF Vtam vs TCPIP

Maybe someone can help me here: I thought IBM made a SOD for RRSF that we should go to TCPIP vs APPC. We currently have 15+ systems using RRSF via APPC and we are on z/OS 2.1 on all of them. I know it's been said many times at SHARE its recommended you change to TCPIP so the links can be

Re: COBOL V5 and IMS Concerns

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Charles Mills wrote: > Didn't IBM bring one of those missing NUMPROC options back in COBOL 5.2 or > am I confused? > > Charles > ​This "problem" (hardware checks invalid data & terminates), to me, to violate​ the "spirit and intent" (as my

Re: Invoke AMODE31-only Code from AMODE6

On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 18:49:07 -0500 "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" wrote: :>In :>, :>on 10/14/2015 :> at 08:22 AM, Peter Relson said: :>>For exactly the reasons I described.

Re: Junk your IT. Now. Before it drags you under

While there are some nice sparklings, like vendors acting more like psychologists, the overall text shows no knowledge about IT industry, specially "Embracing change means abandoning the false sense of stability IT has offered management as part of its bargain to increase productivity.

Re: Junk your IT. Now. Before it drags you under

Doesn't seem to be targeting mainframes. Are other old platforms now getting lumped into the term "legacy"? Ed Gould wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/15/junk_your_it_now_before_it_drags_you_under/ Legacy systems tie you to unproductive legacy thinking and lead to stagnation.

Re: Junk your IT. Now. Before it drags you under

On 15Oct14:2332-0500, Ed Gould wrote: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/15/junk_your_it_now_before_it_drags_you_under/ > > Legacy systems tie you to unproductive legacy thinking and lead to > stagnation. > > Really? You didn't read the comments--picture a piranha feeding frenzy. Every

Re: Unicode services Red alert

The PTFs are out there see http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA48941 for version specific fixes On 8 October 2015 at 18:27, גדי בן אבי wrote: > I was told, by our IBM person, that the official PTF we be made available > on October 16th. > Gadi > >

Re: Invoke AMODE31-only Code from AMODE6

In , on 10/15/2015 at 03:59 PM, Binyamin Dissen said: >The OP was referring to a service that documents a >requirement of AMODE31 and that returns via BR. >If your API requires BASSM linkage Is there a special on red

Re: RRSF Vtam vs TCPIP

The APPC Application Suite is long gone if you're on any supported release of z/OS. That was AFTP etc. and provided IP-like functions over APPC. However, that's not relevant to RRSF. APPC/MVS is still a supported part of z/OS and may be used for RRSF amongst other things. Your choice for RRSF

Re: Syncsort changes hands

On 14/10/2015 20:25, Timothy Sipples wrote: > Fun fact: Syncsort's new owners also own Jacuzzi. So we can look forward to the return of the bubble sort! Badaboom...and it's not even Friday yet. -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444-2983 dgrins...@mt.gov Vogonism: (n) originally

Re: RRSF Vtam vs TCPIP

White, Andy wrote: Maybe someone can help me here: I thought IBM made a SOD for RRSF that we should go to TCPIP vs APPC. We currently have 15+ systems using RRSF via APPC and we are on z/OS 2.1 on all of them. I know it's been said many times at SHARE its recommended you change to TCPIP so

Re: RRSF Vtam vs TCPIP

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/zos_sods.html then search for APPC: z/OS statement of direction August 8, 2006 IBM plans to take the following actions effective with the general availability of z/OS V1.8: The APPC Application Suite is a set of common applications originally designed to

Re: Big Blue’s big storage iron gets bigger: DS8880 array uncloaked

Newest I can find in the IBM Offerings is DS8870. HTH, Any one has url for IBM announcement letter of DS8880? I can´t find it and didn´t remember to see annoucement in last letters. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: Big Blue’s big storage iron gets bigger: DS8880 array uncloaked

Here's a link with some info. It's not an announcement letter but http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/disk/ds8000/ On 10/15/2015 10:46 AM, Staller, Allan wrote: Newest I can find in the IBM Offerings is DS8870. HTH, Any one has url for IBM announcement letter of DS8880? I can´t find

Re: Unicode services Red alert

Post applying this Fixes, Are there any kind of Verification's needs to be done ? On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 6:44 PM, Mike Shorkend wrote: > The PTFs are out there > > see http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA48941 > > for version specific fixes > > On 8

Re: Junk your IT. Now. Before it drags you under

W dniu 2015-10-15 o 15:05, John McKown pisze: ​If "legacy" means "static and unchanging" (think ancient Egypt), then _maybe_ there is a small amount of truth. Surrounded by a bunch of idiocy. For me that could mean punched cards ;-) , VSAM passwords (OK, no longer available), OS/390 in use,

Re: Big Blue’s big storage iron gets bigger: DS8880 array uncloaked

Any one has url for IBM announcement letter of DS8880? I can´t find it and didn´t remember to see annoucement in last letters. CARLOS BODRA IBM Certified zSystem São Paulo - SP - BRAZIL Em 15/10/2015 01:35, Ed Gould escreveu: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/14/ibm_ds8880_array/ There

Re: COBOL V5 and IMS Concerns

Perhaps ILBOABN0 (zero)? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Junk your IT. Now. Before it drags you under

http://acumen.lib.ua.edu/u0001_1831001_124/image/u0001_1831001_124?p age=1=40=move Few years back. Looked like this. Got this much horsepower in tooth brush... In a message dated 10/15/2015 9:29:29 A.M. Central Daylight Time, r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl writes: BTW: I

Re: (External):Re: Unicode services Red alert

Skip, Thanks for sharing this. I used this to check my systems that have the PTF on them, against those that have not yet been IPLed. I didn’t press IBM for this in the ETR I had opened on this, but should have. _ Dave

Re: (External):Re: Unicode services Red alert

We have installed the R13 PTF and tested with assistance from IBM. To see your vulnerability, use IPCS ACTIVE or Omegamon MLST or Mainview (???) to display data currently in the UCCB control block at +10: 10?+220?+3C?+10 Before the PTF, you will see something like CFA83DBE 87F18D69 , which is

Re: (External):Re: Unicode services Red alert

I wish we could take credit for discovering the problem. I've learned that many sites do time-warp testing on a regular basis. Remember the Y2K Flash Mob scene when we all did that incessantly? I seriously doubt that this problem was discovered by IPLing at Dec. 15. There was undoubtedly some

Re: Unicode services Red alert

On 2015-10-15 17:37, J O Skip Robinson wrote: > I think I received the following link internally rather than from IBM-MAIN. > It's a good discussion of the issue. > > http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA48941 > I'm curious: how (not when) does this problem occur? Is it some

Re: Unicode services Red alert

I think I received the following link internally rather than from IBM-MAIN. It's a good discussion of the issue. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA48941 . . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager

Re: (External):Re: Unicode services Red alert

On 2015-10-15, at 21:06, J O Skip Robinson wrote: > I'm piecing together various clues. It appears to me that: > > 1. The UCCB is a defined control block, mapped in several (!) MACLIB members > such as CUNBAIDF. > A more modular design might map it in one macro and call it from all the

Re: (External):Re: Unicode services Red alert

I'm piecing together various clues. It appears to me that: 1. The UCCB is a defined control block, mapped in several (!) MACLIB members such as CUNBAIDF. 2. Various flags are defined beginning at UCCB+10. 3. Somehow during IPL the system clock has been overlaying UCCB+10 by (presumably)

COBOL V5.x and CSP descendants was Re: New and improved IBM migration recommendations for COBOL V5

On 14 Oct 2015 15:35:36 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >Several things have come together to give us a better recommendation >for customers who want to migrate to COBOL V5 but who also want to avoid >discovering 'differences' when they deploy into production. Have the descendants of

Re: Having the mainframe on YouTube

Thanks Jack! - Chad > On Oct 15, 2015, at 2:49 PM, Jack J. Woehr wrote: > > Mark Post wrote: >> Related to this, Chad Rikansrud has written a blog post about APAR OA43999 >> and just how much that APAR improves RACF's encryption. >>

Re: Invoke AMODE31-only Code from AMODE6

On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 10:19:34 -0500 "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" wrote: :>In , on 10/15/2015 :> at 03:59 PM, Binyamin Dissen said: :>>The OP was referring to a service that documents a

DB2 v10

Hi, we are coming a bit late to the DB2 v10 party, having stayed on DB2 v8 for a bit longer than most. Various reasons for this mostly around a requirement to re-write a lot of application code to get it compliant for DB2 v10. Moving to DB2 v10 compatibility mode and we expect a fairly stable

Re: DB2 v10

> Various reasons for this mostly around a requirement to re-write a lot of > application code to get it compliant for DB2 v10 I'd be equally interested in knowing what you had to redesign for compliancy, if you have an opportunity to share. Regards, Scott -Original Message- From: IBM

RSU1509 PTFs showed up today

I usually have a RECEIVE RECOMMENDED run every couple of days for my z/OS GLOBAL zone. Today it pulled in 204 PTFs of which 202 were marked RSU1509. These PTFs had not previously shown up. The email from IBM with Subject: "New IBM z/OS RSU testing complete" came in back on Oct 7th. None of

Re: Having the mainframe on YouTube

Mark Post wrote: Related to this, Chad Rikansrud has written a blog post about APAR OA43999 and just how much that APAR improves RACF's encryption. Seehttp://www.bigendiansmalls.com/racf-gets-serious-about-password-encryption if you're interested. The improvement is actually pretty

Re: Unicode services Red alert

Great! Thanks Al. I did not see the fix in the link. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 15, 2015, at 1:40 PM, Nims,Alva John (Al) wrote: > > PTF UA79203 for z/OS 1.13 is available today, I just received it and when I > did an APPLY CHECK, it was the only one applied. > > Al Nims >

Re: DB2 v10

Beating Liz Koehler to the punch, there is an excellent DB2 mailing list. Join at IDUG.org. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Rodger Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2015 10:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: Unicode services Red alert

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