Re: OT: Electrician cuts wrong wire and downs 25,000 square foot data centre

Ed Gould wrote: >http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/11/electrician_cuts_the_wrong_wire_and_brings_down_25000_square_feet_of_data_centre/ Cool, what a super great war story! Shame that person, "JF", handed in his notice despite being innocent. Granted, he should asked the management what

Re: OT: Electrician cuts wrong wire and downs 25,000 square foot data centre

In 2012 I was at a data center in Colorado where we were upgrading them from OS/390 2.10 to z/OS 1.13 and simultaneously replacing their 9672 with a z/114. We had just completed the "2 weeks in production" period for the z/114 and was going so well that the site decided to have the 9672

Re: How distinguish User ABEND from return code?

FWIW: The Attach ECB's post code is the value from TCBCMPC of the terminated task. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: How distinguish User ABEND from return code?

@Peter, thanks. If I am reading your post from 2011 correctly, TCBCMPC is valid to use as a termination code if dealing with a task that has truly completed; TCBCMPC is only misleading when a task is still executing (and presumably has had an event like a S0C4 that is fatal in some but not the

Re: OT: Electrician cuts wrong wire and downs 25,000 square foot data centre

Showing my age I worked for Burroughs as an engineering technician. A customer with 360/65 instantaneous loss of power. I was there only for a couple hours to drop off some equipment. Later heard they lost a couple disk packs. Not IBM but Burroughs B6500, B4700, B3500, B1700 in one room.

COBOL Code Gened for MOVE COMP-3 S9(9) to S9(8)

A coworker posed the following question. Given a COBOL statement that moves a field defined as S9(9) comp-3 to a field defined S9(8) comp-3, the generated assembler code looks like this: 01A598 D204 5E58 17B3 MVC 3672(5,5),1971(1) 01A59E 940F 5E58

Re: COBOL Code Gened for MOVE COMP-3 S9(9) to S9(8)

At 17:39 -0400 on 12/13/2015, Clark Morris wrote about Re: COBOL Code Gened for MOVE COMP-3 S9(9) to S9(8): 01A598 D204 5E58 17B3 ZAP 3672(5,5),1971(1) 01A59E 940F 5E58 NI3672(5),X'0F' would be adequate. Clark Morris > That should be ZAP 3672(5,5),1971(1,5)

Re: OT: Electrician cuts wrong wire and downs 25,000 square foot data centre

p...@petelancashire.com (Pete Lancashire) writes: > Showing my age > > I worked for Burroughs as an engineering technician. > > A customer with 360/65 instantaneous loss of power. I was there only for a > couple hours to drop off some equipment. Later heard they lost a couple > disk packs.

Re: COBOL Code Gened for MOVE COMP-3 S9(9) to S9(8)

Another side effect of the ZAP is that the sign halfbyte will be X'C' or X'D' after the ZAP, no matter what it was before (CAFE or DB); that is, ZAP forces the sign halfbyte to the preferred values. I recall that there are some COBOL compiler options that deal with this. Kind regards Bernd

Re: COBOL Code Gened for MOVE COMP-3 S9(9) to S9(8)

On 13 Dec 2015 12:53:23 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >A coworker posed the following question. > >Given a COBOL statement that moves a field defined as S9(9) comp-3 >to a field defined S9(8) comp-3, the generated assembler code looks like this: > > 01A598

Re: OT: Electrician cuts wrong wire and downs 25,000 square foot data centre

We had a couple of Halon oops as well. One was arc welder in boiler room with exhaust into the print shop. Other was Halon service. Test was wired incorrectly. Test meant DISCHARGE. And this was just couple weeks after the $45 per pound surtax. Life and times In a message dated

Re: OT: Electrician cuts wrong wire and downs 25,000 square foot data centre

My 'why' did any disk packs get damaged was never answered, or I've forgotten. I do know when I visited a few days later in the IBM FE's office was at lease one disk pack and either a couple heads and other parts. On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: >

Re: OT: Electrician cuts wrong wire and downs 25,000 square foot data centre

We had added another raised floor area into the data center and installed a 3090J mod 5, the one that looked like a huge H. We also had a 3081K in another room on the raised floor. DASD farm, print land, break down room with bursters, trimmers, and decolators, tape land, Network, and Command

Re: OT: Electrician cuts wrong wire and downs 25,000 square foot data centre

tony.j.new...@btinternet.com writes: > This happend to us, 3380 continued to write x'00' over VM byte > allocation map on cyl 0. Original CMS filesystem from the mid-60s almost had a fix for this ... updated filesysem control information was written to new locations ... and then the MFD was

Re: Adding Real memory Dyanamically

On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 07:05:56 +0530, Nathan Astle wrote: >Is there a way to track the Real >storage Frame Allocation ? Are there any monitoring solutions that can be >kept especially for tracking Real Storage Frame Allocation ? I suppose, but IMO, it isn't very interesting or important. The Real