Hello;
I wanted to use the IBM WEB BASED tool CFSIZER at
http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/z/cfsizer/ and specifying SMF.
After filling in the criteria and depressing the SUBMIT I am directed to
https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z
This is a recent change in behavior. Has this tool
Todd Burrell wrote:
>Hopefully this is not a stupid question - but
>is it possibly via RACF (maybe with DASDVOL)
>to allow a particular system to have only read
>access to a DASD volume? We have a need to
>possibly vary some devices onto a system in one
>plex while it is being updated on another p
On 7/06/2018 7:36 PM, Tom Marchant wrote:
On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 15:50:34 +0800, David Crayford wrote:
The good thing about Stack Exchange is that moderators can jump in an
close a thread when it starts to drift and delete answers/comments that
are inappropriate.
Censors. Terrific.
Doesn't IBM-M
Odd thing about CICS people is that they don't install REXX/CICS when it's
basically *free* with CICS.
The DB2 interface is simple, CICS commands and CICS APIs are a snap. It can
read and write a PDS or flat file. TSQ browse/write/delete is simple and it
has a full screen interface similar to ISPF
Rammstein
Thanks,
Tom Savor
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Wayne Bickerdike wrote:
>You missed REXX/CICS. Am I the only person who uses this variant?
John McKown wrote:
>I don't have that product and so cannot code for it.
You have it if you have CICS Transaction Server for z/OS, which includes
the functions that were previously in the CICS REXX Runtime
Yeah, I accused them of using their own software. This should not be a fool's
errand. "Hey y'all watch this" usually does not lead to expected results. Do
you have "Project Planing Software"? Can you drive it? M$ just bought github!
In a message dated 6/7/2018 9:01:37 PM Central Standard Time,
On 8/06/2018 3:15 AM, Peter Hunkeler wrote:
It's amost Friday, right. At least here in Zurich
Rap music is performed by those that can not sing so others can not think.
rap music? Isn't this a contradiction in terms ;-)
What do you listen to, Beethoven? Ramstein? :)
Apologies to all the
Hi Skip,
Looks like you tried PPRC over "long distance" and had a bad exp back then.
PPRC-XD should work fine for actual long distance, assuming that the LPAR
itself can get an outage to let the final delta synchronize.
– Vignesh
Mainframe Infrastructure
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Hi Jerry,
Replication over IP is really cool and simple; I suppose it needs the same
trick to make the TDMF copy consistent as is required for PPRC-XD (quiescing
all workload), in TDMF's case because it's host-based.
Let's say ther's channel extension between A <-> B, and PPRC / PPRC-XD is used
On 2018-06-07, at 20:05:25, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>
> Here's my test code page generator:
>
Oops. Trying again:
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On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 19:28:25 -0600, Roger Bolan wrote:
>OK. I'm at my desk.
>Using a PCOMM session defaulting to 1047.
>In ISPF Browse, using DISPLAY CCSID 1047
>I see "010:MLCFGPROCESSCONFIGSTMT:TOKENARRAYÝ0M 5 Ý1M , I 7,"
>but if I use DISPLAY CCSID 037
>I see "010:MLCFGPROCESSCONFIGSTMT:TOKENAR
On 6/7/2018 12:02 PM, Peter Hunkeler wrote:
I'll pass these comments on to the initiative leads so that they're
aware of the specific problems and can hopefully direct resolutions ASAP.
if your faint-hearted, don't read on.
Someone better go off and kick'em in the ... and tell thos
OK. I'm at my desk.
Using a PCOMM session defaulting to 1047.
In ISPF Browse, using DISPLAY CCSID 1047
I see "010:MLCFGPROCESSCONFIGSTMT:TOKENARRAYÝ0M 5 Ý1M , I 7,"
but if I use DISPLAY CCSID 037
I see "010:MLCFGPROCESSCONFIGSTMT:TOKENARRAY[0] 5 [1] , I 7,"
and I can see the brackets.
Oddly, when
Jesse,
Round trip delay time is the same on ESCON and Fiber Channel, but the
mother-may-I nature of ESCON protocols used to pump-up the droop factor, even
at 10km. Fiber Channel links changed the viability of synchronous at metro
distances substantially.
Personally, I think that the myth of ze
Nice.
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018, 5:33 PM Marna WALLE wrote:
> I was thinking of possibly another method that you could look at...how
> about making that volume have a READ-ONLY attribute in HCD? Read up on
> this, as there are some restrictions.
>
> Marna WALLE
> z/OS System Installation and Migrat
Thanks!
I commented out that statement and got the same results to see with my own
eyes.
I also missed Sean's confirmation that "all is well" based on jobclass
updates.
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 2:34 PM Peter Hunkeler wrote:
> >Are you specifying "EXPORT SYMLIST" in your JCL?
>
>
> That one is not
In ISPF if you open the calendar in the status area and (for my setup) double
click on the 'Day of year' a pop-up allows you to get any ddd/ converted.
Standard Date -
Enter the day and year below:
On 06/07/2018 02:26 AM, Peter Hunkeler wrote:
> There are some statements around zIIP utilization which I read here and
> there. Statements like:
>
> - "You should not utilize one zIIP more than 30%, two zIIPs more than 60%..."
> - "A task may become delayed for up to 3.2 ms (actually ZIIPAWMT) be
I've determined that rap music is very boring, to me anyway.
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 3:15 PM Peter Hunkeler wrote:
> It's amost Friday, right. At least here in Zurich
> >Rap music is performed by those that can not sing so others can not
> think.
>
>
> rap music? Isn't this a contradiction in te
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I was thinking of possibly another method that you could look at...how about
making that volume have a READ-ONLY attribute in HCD? Read up on this, as
there are some restrictions.
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On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 3:17 PM Wayne Bickerdike wrote:
> You missed REXX/CICS. Am I the only person who uses this variant?
>
I don't have that product and so cannot code for it.
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Rap music is performed by those that can not sing so others can not think.
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I seem to remember similar problems, and telling sort an estimated amount of
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On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 4:48 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
> Yes, I like to have ISPF aware applications that use ISPF services when
> available and support ISPF variables. As an exampled, I'd like to do I/O
> to/from a table.
>
> I fo
I understand now. Tape sortwks do work. My company used to have several
jobs using them.
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 1:44 PM David Betten wrote:
> Just a few thoughts on ways you might be able to reduce the sort work
> requirement.
>
> Since the input is on tape, do we know if DFSORT is getting ac
>I have a fairly simple ISPF dialog to work with the ZSTART variable. Get it
>from www.lbdsoftware.com/zstart.zip or www.cbttape.org file 314.
Great! Thanks for the pointer.
I just think it's a typical shame that the product (ISPF) delivers halfway
features. How small an effort would this b
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 1:32 PM Jesse 1 Robinson
wrote:
> (This time with text)
>
> Before you kick out the PFCSKs, keep in mind that they will choose our
> retirement homes.
>
Mine is already picked out, by Moore's. It has a nice soft velvet lining
and a pillow with good neck support.
>
> .
>Are you specifying "EXPORT SYMLIST" in your JCL?
That one is not needed for system symbols to become available in batch JCL. It
the jobclass SYSSYM=ALLOW | DISALLOW that decides. BTW, the symbols are
resolved at conversion time.
The EXPORT SYMLIST is needed so that JCL symbols can be used on
I have a fairly simple ISPF dialog to work with the ZSTART variable. Get it
from www.lbdsoftware.com/zstart.zip or www.cbttape.org file 314.
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>If you like the benefits of many split screens then have a logon proc
>(Clist/REXX) create the split screens automagically for you each logon. I have
>8 session created behind the scenes.
Have a look aht the ZSTART ISPF variable. It is there for just this reason. As
usual with the ISPF guy
It's amost Friday, right. At least here in Zurich
>Rap music is performed by those that can not sing so others can not think.
rap music? Isn't this a contradiction in terms ;-)
Apologies to all the rappers out there, and the ones who like that
contradiction, ahem.. music. No offense intended.
>... however, we were warned that 'some customers' were experiencing serious
>performance problems when zIIP eligible work spilled over to general CPs.
Yeah, that is what I read and hear also, and I have no reason not to believe
it. In fact, I suspect we've just been bitten by zIIP overload. How
Right. Though you've never been in my audience :-( you would've got the
same message about DB2 V10, a fortiori 11, 12 from me.
Cheers, Martin
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As you'll see from my slides you really wouldn't want to delay the
Prefetch and Deferred Write engines in any DB2 you care about.
That's one example, perhaps the main one.
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Yes, I like to have ISPF aware applications that use ISPF services when
available and support ISPF variables. As an exampled, I'd like to do I/O
to/from a table.
I forgot to mention TSSO as another environment.
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Just a few thoughts on ways you might be able to reduce the sort work
requirement.
Since the input is on tape, do we know if DFSORT is getting accurate file
size information? Do you see DFSORT messages in the output like UNKNOWN
FILE SIZE or INTERMEDIATE MERGE...?
The reason I ask is that if DFSO
If SYNCSORT, check out MAXSORT.
DFSORT probably has something similar.
I do not recall using SORTLIB when running MAXSORT.
HTH,
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T
(This time with text)
Before you kick out the PFCSKs, keep in mind that they will choose our
retirement homes.
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On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 12:57 PM Seymour J Metz wrote:
> There were still 3290s used as consoles in the 2000s. I wish that I had a
> 3290-compatible TN3270 client.
>
YES, from your mouth to a vendor's ear. I would love the ability to have a
single TN3270E client which implemented "partitioned"
Data consistency was one of two reasons we chose circa 2000 to use XRC rather
than PPRC. I know the technology has changed, and I've been *told* that PPRC is
now capable of maintaining consistency, but I have not seen it in action. The
other reason for XRC BTW was the synchronizing problem: we c
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 12:21 PM Seymour J Metz wrote:
> ISPF
>
Ah, yes, I guess you mean using ISPF display services to get input,
display output, and possibly update ISPF variables rather that TSO
CLIST/REXX variables.
>
> NETVIEW
>
Unfortunately, I know nothing about NETVIEW because I'v
When I use the link, I get back:
Sorry, this content isn't available right now
The link you followed may have expired, or the page may only be visible to
an audience you're not in.
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 12:21 PM Nightwatch RenBand
wrote:
> My FB just popped up a pic from the "For the love of bl
Yes I know DFSORT, but many moons ago, we used SYNCSORT's tape sort, which was
expressly for this type of problem.
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Let me reiterate. The problem job tries to allocate more DASD work space than
*exists* on the system. SORTIN is on tape--multiple files. We have the
capability of putting more volumes online temporarily, but this is a major PITA
and requires intervention from the Storage boys. I'm hoping that ta
Well, RC=24 is Incorrect parameters were supplied to the PUTGET service
routine., so I would guess yes. I miss Bruce.
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There were still 3290s used as consoles in the 2000s. I wish that I had a
3290-compatible TN3270 client.
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Poncelet
Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 201
>z/OS UNIX files can be tagged with a code page,
Yes, if it's a tagged Unix file than the code page should be taken from the
file. Otherwise they should use the locale.
>Has anyone a scheme to translate the SYSOUT CHARS
>parameter (available through SDSF) to/from a CCSID?
It would be installat
On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 09:27:26 -0500, John McKown wrote:
>...
>2) REXX via IRXJCL - "pure" non-TSO REXX
>6) REXX under UNIX - program invoked with a UNIX shell script written in REXX
>
It's a shame that UNIX directories are not supported in SYSEXEC concatenation.
I do it anyway to a
On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 17:14:46 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>That doesn't solve the problem of incompatible EBCDIC code pages. Perhaps an
>option to translate from the current locale?
>
z/OS UNIX files can be tagged with a code page, but not Classic data sets, nor
SYSOUT, nor Linux files. Has anyo
SE would be a useful supplement, but even for technical question it is by no
means a replacement. It has both significant advantages and serious problems.
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On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 10:42:14 -0400, Gord Tomlin wrote:
>On 2018-06-07 09:01, John McKown wrote:
>> I do like what CA
>> does in some of their products which would be nice to have in these
>> facilities. They display the date as either dd/mm/.ddd or
>> mm/dd/.ddd . I think that having a new
I hate PC code pages! How much wasted effort have PC code pages caused? Take
the m$ versions of the ISO code pages please!
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On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 09:27:26 -0500, John McKown wrote:
>I've already written a utility program which is designed to run as a UNIX
>command, mainly interactively from a UNIX shell, but it works from TSO
>OSHELL and in batch via BPXBATCH or Co:Z launcher just fine. So, from a
>"practical" viewpoint t
ISPF
NETVIEW
System REXX
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That doesn't solve the problem of incompatible EBCDIC code pages. Perhaps an
option to translate from the current locale?
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Sounds like you should write an RFE for z/OS to support ASCII and/or UTF-8 for
all system and subsystem interfaces.
:-)
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IMHO timeouts are a security issue, period. The resource issues of the 1960s
and 19702 have not been relevant in a long time.
That said, I don't see sending a periodic Enter as a safe option. Isn't there
something that you could sent that will have no effect on the session other
than terminatin
We've had zIIPs for years. We monitored usage but were never terribly concerned
as long as numbers didn't skyrocket. When we moved to DB2 V10, however, we were
warned that 'some customers' were experiencing serious performance problems
when zIIP eligible work spilled over to general CPs. The rea
I have long questioned the validity of TSO timeouts during normal working
hours. I question whether the resource savings, outweigh the resource
costs, including user time, of repeated logons and lost work.
MY personal solution is to take advantage of the excellent scripting which
comes with my 327
We have always used TDMF as it's a vendor neutral solution.
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06/07/2018 01:36:55 AM:
> From: Ron hawkins
> To: IBM-MA
>Isn't "fall back to the CP" because one would typically want one's work to
run *somewhere* even if a zIIP were not available but perhaps a CP was?
If you meant no zIIPs are available to the LPAR (not configured or the CEC does
not have some), then there is no fall-back. Work units get queue
My FB just popped up a pic from the "For the love of black cats" group
showing a home desk, two monitors and two black cats. The screen on the
right appears to be a 3270 emulation into zOS running IOF which is an SDSF
alternative. Interesting to see others are still there. Wish my desk were
that
>Scheduling an SRB isn't cheap. I don't know whether that's why, but for
>whatever reason, IBM has built this "fall back to the CP" mechanism.
What falls back is still SRBs. The scheduling overhead has already been done
before.
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It also helps if one is accurate. EDT == AST, not CST. Confused myself as
CDT == EST. Now everbody's confused, I hope.
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 12:06 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
> Schedule international meetings only on unambiguous dates (6/6/18,
> 12/12/12...). :-) And don't say EST, when you real
>Once the delay is long enough, the CP does the work. They cost about 10X the
>price of zIIPs.
I understand the potential impact on the software bill zIIP-on-CP might have.
That is not the point I want to get a better understanding. I'm interested in
the technical aspects, only.
IMHO, from
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 10:38 AM Gord Tomlin
wrote:
> On 2018-06-07 11:05, John McKown wrote:
> > I thought that mm/dd/.jjj (US) or dd/mm/.jjj
> > (non US) would be "better"
>
> For anyone that needs to look at US and non-US syslog output, this would
> lead to unhappiness. Especially here
Schedule international meetings only on unambiguous dates (6/6/18,
12/12/12...). :-) And don't say EST, when you really mean CST (i.e. EDT).
Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/1179/ Like grammar and spelling, you can do
what you want; but if you want to be understood, follow the standard.
sas
On Thu
Ditto! Kick out the PFCSK's
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Subject: Re: Where is the WLM website???
>I'll pass these comments on to the
>I'll pass these comments on to the initiative leads so that they're
aware of the specific problems and can hopefully direct resolutions ASAP.
if your faint-hearted, don't read on.
Someone better go off and kick'em in the ... and tell those useless m to
go and look for another job.
Isn't "fall back to the CP" because one would typically want one's work to
run *somewhere* even if a zIIP were not available but perhaps a CP was?
zIIP's are all about software costs, right? So scheduling work is like
buying a seat on Southwest. I need to get there, so if none of the "wanna
get aw
I am always ordering software, ptfs, etc. for myself or the company I am
working at, so I will continue to select the second radio button. Maybe
resellers need to check the first button??
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Bob,
Okay, then I don't have a good answer then. I guess by the nature of GDPR, you
have to make sure everyone involved has received a copy of the GDPR notice. I
noticed the Phil Smith responded, with not those words, but almost the same.
The thing with this GDPR, I am no expert and really ta
And we have a winner in the 15-20 year range.. *UGH*
Really takes the wind out of my "rant filled sails".
I guess I should really expect such things... mainframes.. like the old
Timex commercials "takes a licking, and keeps on ticking"
Rob Schramm
On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 9:35 PM CM Poncelet wro
Bob Richards wrote, in part:
>On the subject of GDPR and Shopz, what would be the
>reason for selecting the first radio button?
If you're ordering for someone else, the GDPR privacy notification needs to go
to them. GDPR defines specific rules about notifying folks, so this is [at
least perceive
Al,
Yes, the radio buttons were just added at the bottom. However, the review or
approval was not on that web page, if I remember correctly. It showed up when
the order was validated?? (Not sure of this at the moment and I have nothing to
order today that would provide the ability to verify thi
Peter Hunkeler wrote, in part:
>There are some statements around zIIP utilization which I read here and there.
>Statements like:
>- "You should not utilize one zIIP more than 30%, two zIIPs more than 60%..."
>- "A task may become delayed for up to 3.2 ms (actually ZIIPAWMT) before the
>busy zIIP
On 2018-06-07 11:05, John McKown wrote:
I thought that mm/dd/.jjj (US) or dd/mm/.jjj
(non US) would be "better"
For anyone that needs to look at US and non-US syslog output, this would
lead to unhappiness. Especially here in Canada where there is little
consistency in the use of dd/mm
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 10:14 AM Ed Jaffe
wrote:
> On 6/7/2018 7:59 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
> > I am just talking off the top of my head here but couldn't one write an
> SDSF macro where if the user positioned the cursor on a "Julian" date and
> hit the appropriate PF key, a pop-up would display
Same as the WLM pages. Very pretty, but functionally useless!
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Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2018 10:09 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Where is the WLM website?
> The date/time at the current position is displayed there:
I'll be darned! You learn something every day. Every good day anyway.
Charles
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On 6/7/2018 7:59 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
I am just talking off the top of my head here but couldn't one write an SDSF macro where
if the user positioned the cursor on a "Julian" date and hit the appropriate PF
key, a pop-up would display the date in a more user-familiar format?
The OP's dile
Tom Conley wrote:
>FWIW, the RACF website is also off the air. Good luck finding DBSYNC anyhere.
> Keep on keepin' on, IBM.
Groan. I also find it to my dismay all my favourite RACF goodies are "poof"
gone! :-(
Mind you, I wanted to review a [old] SHARE presentation at
... http://www-1.ibm.co
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 9:42 AM Gord Tomlin
wrote:
> On 2018-06-07 09:01, John McKown wrote:
> > I do like what CA
> > does in some of their products which would be nice to have in these
> > facilities. They display the date as either dd/mm/.ddd or
> > mm/dd/.ddd . I think that having a ne
AMEN!!!
Charles
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Subject: Re: SYSLOG / OPERLOG displaying date.
On 2018-06-07 09:01, John McKown wrote:
> I
I am just talking off the top of my head here but couldn't one write an SDSF
macro where if the user positioned the cursor on a "Julian" date and hit the
appropriate PF key, a pop-up would display the date in a more user-familiar
format?
I know it burns me sometimes. I will do an F whatever PRE
Susan Shumway wrote:
>All teams have been working hard to move content and set up URL redirects,
>but, as Horst mentioned, the work continues.
>I'll pass these comments on to the initiative leads so that they're aware of
>the specific problems and can hopefully direct resolutions ASAP.
Many tha
On 2018-06-07 03:50, David Crayford wrote:
The good thing about Stack Exchange is that moderators can jump in an
close a thread when it starts to drift and delete answers/comments that
are inappropriate.
Doing that on IBM-MAIN would shrink it by 90%. ;)
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On 2018-06-07 09:01, John McKown wrote:
I do like what CA
does in some of their products which would be nice to have in these
facilities. They display the date as either dd/mm/.ddd or
mm/dd/.ddd . I think that having a new value for HCFORMAT(...) in the
CONSOLnn member would be nice.
If
I've already written a utility program which is designed to run as a UNIX
command, mainly interactively from a UNIX shell, but it works from TSO
OSHELL and in batch via BPXBATCH or Co:Z launcher just fine. So, from a
"practical" viewpoint the following is not really necessary.
But I am considering
Paul is correct. The DEBUG message indicates that the statement cannot have
brackets.
Former IBM employee.
Mike
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Once the delay is long enough, the CP does the work. They cost about
10X the price of zIIPs.
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 4:36 AM Elardus Engelbrecht
wrote:
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> Peter Hunkeler wrote:
>
> >- "You should not utilize one zIIP more than 30%, two zIIPs more than 60%..."
>
> Who said it? And why 30%? Just cu
On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 04:05:16 -0600, Roger Bolan wrote:
>There ARE brackets. Brackets are not at consistent code points in all code
>pages. In this line
>"010:mlCfgProcessConfigStmt:tokenArrayÝ0¨ 5 Ý1¨ , i 7,"
>there are brackets. View that line using different code pages and you
>should see them
On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 12:51:52 +, Allan Staller wrote:
>No impact unless you happen to have conflicting symbols.
>
That shouldn't matter. If CA7 substitutes a symbol, downstream processors
will never see it as a symbol. However if CA7 does not perform a substitution
it's exposed for SYSSYM sub
Hi Cheryl (and all),
You're spot on when you say it's the entire IBM website. There was a
huge initiative to streamline ibm.com by removing pretty much everything
except marketing-related content, with last week marking the end of the
line for most pages. All teams have been working hard to mo
If these links are where I believe they are in the ordering process then, I
believe the GDPR entries have been added to the same links that have always
been there.
Now when I was putting the order for z/OS 2.02 together, I used the first link
to have my IBM sales/software rep review the order a
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 8:21 AM Charles Mills wrote:
> Yeah, and further, they are called "Julian" dates in the Z community and
> that is a misnomer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day
>
> I like one thing about them: they are compact. 18158 is the most compact
> (generally acceptable) way t
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