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Does anybody remember the SHARE and players for the
it.
Then, I remembered I still had lots of archaic printed
manuals, and located the very old "MVS/XA Catalog
Diagnosis Reference for DFP Release 1.2", which confirmed
that the GATWRAP bit was indeed the first bit of the
GATGEN
It should be, but it's not:
Change 23.219 The ICF Catalog 05 record variable GATGEN should have
VMAC6156 been input as , instead of one byte, and variable
VMACCTLG GATWRAP='Y' is now set if the first bit of GATGEN is on,
Aug 29, 2005 to mark that this GDG member has "wrapped";
Fifty years ago today, October 9, 1972, I ran my first SAS Program.
I left the Navy in June, 1972, and in August, my Psychologist friend,
Dr. L. Rogers Taylor, now working at State Farm Automobile HQ in
Bloomington, IL, suggested I might find a home there and arranged for
an interview.
Button 157 at www.mxg.com/thebuttonman
VS2.2 came with a free Measurement Facility 1, but it was No Fxxxing Good,
hence this message. At the New York SHARE meeting 18 IBMers came down from
Poughkeepsie to meet with members of both the CME Project and the MVS
Performance Project, and what had
MXG decodes these raxflags:
SMF30_RAXFLAGS='AUDIT*USERKEY*CSA*FLAGS'
SMF30_RAXFLAG0='RAX0*USERKEY*COMMON*AUDIT*ENABLED?'
SMF30_RAXFLAG1='RAX1*USERKEY*COMMON*AUDIT*USAGE?'
SMF30_RAXFLAG2='RAX2*USERKEY*CADS*USAGE?'
SMF30_RAXFLAG3='RAX3*USERKEY*CHANGE*KEY*USAGE?'
MXG decodes as:
SMF30_RAXFLAGS='AUDIT*USERKEY*CSA*FLAGS'
SMF30_RAXFLAG0='RAX0*USERKEY*COMMON*AUDIT*ENABLED?'
SMF30_RAXFLAG1='RAX1*USERKEY*COMMON*AUDIT*USAGE?'
SMF30_RAXFLAG2='RAX2*USERKEY*CADS*USAGE?'
SMF30_RAXFLAG3='RAX3*USERKEY*CHANGE*KEY*USAGE?'
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ago, and I doubt it.)
But a third site got that return/error code, but had this
message from ftp:
EZYFS34W FTP will not remove TRAILING sequence numbers.
because their SYSIN was NUMBERED but must be UNNUMBERED.
Herbert W "Barry" Merrill, PHD
President-Programmer
Merrill Co
I received this email from Tim in January.
Barry
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added by this change
IMACTPFC
VMACTPFC DDDATASET Description
Jul 2, 2010
Jul 21, 2010 TPFC92TPFC92LPAR UTILIZATION
TPFC98TPFC98DASD SERVICE TIME
Thanks to Bob Wilcox, HP, USA.
Herbert W "Barry" Merrill, PHD
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Duh, Go to OFFSET and INPUT the LENGTH field.
Barry
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Subject: Re: Z15 zedc compression and CONNECT DIRECT, MFT compression
It is very
e segments that are present with
OFFSET and COUNT populated but with the LENGTH zero,
which means you have to go to OFFSET and INPUT the count field to
process those segments.
Barry
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MXG provides two Input Queue Time analysis programs in members ASUMJOBS and
ANALBATQ.
Barry
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Could you elaborate on why and when AVGRECLEN allocation is more efficient?
Barry
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supp.
%let macfile= %QUOTE( IF ID=30 and subtype=5; ) ;
%include sourclib(type30);
PROC SORT DATA=TYPE30_5;
BY JOB DESCENDING READTIME;
DATA TIMES;
BY JOB;
IF FIRST.JOB THEN PUTLOG JOB= JESNR= READTIME= TERMTIME= ABEND=;
Barry
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Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2020 10:02 AM
To: 'pr...@videotron.ca'
Subject: RE: SMF 71 long floating point fields
To SAS, they are straightforward RB8. fields with exponent and mantissa.
SMF71AFB=80737.714286 RBCHAR=4513B61B6DB6DB6D
SMF71AFB
by 1024 to convert their KB to bytes, and all
byte-containing variables in MXG are in bytes, but formatted
with MGBYTES format to print with K/M/G/ etc suffix.
Barry
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The SMF42PTS datetimestamp is the OPEN date AND the OPEN time.
Barry
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In z/OS 1.12, the original CPITCBTM and CPISRBTM "Initiator" TOTAL
CPU times were (finally!) separated into the Init-to-Load "INIT" CPU
times (CPITCITM/CPISRITM) for the CPU times prior to LOADTIME,
and into "TERM" CPU times (CPITCTTM/CPISRTTM) from the end of your
program
occurs when that
file
is concatenated.
Be happy that SAS was able to recover and read the rest of the file.
Barry
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type 23 (for SMF Logstreams and zEDC compression)
- SMF type 88 (again, for SMF Logstreams / compression)
- DCOLLECT – record types “D” (Dataset/VTOC), “M” (Migrated) and “B”
(Backup).
Barry Merrill
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President-Programmer
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at that point
without executing
further commands in the input stream.
Barry Merrill
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Construction sites in Ireland can not use the standard 220v tools,
they had to set up a 110 converter and network.
Battery powered hand tools have reduced that need somewhat.
Barry Merrill
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anywhere.
Barry
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Sent
I left z/OS as a development platform, going to Windows in 1996
for MXG Software totally because of the loss of everything under
TSO if I didn't hit enter every 45 minutes.
However, it is still the primary QA test platform, but using
batch instead of TSO.
Herbert W. "Barry" Me
Change 35.212 Support for SMF 30 User Key CSA Audit Enhancements adds
VMAC30 new SMF30_RAXFLAGS to TYPE30_1, TYPE30_V, TYPE30_4 and
Sep 28, 2017 the TYPE30_5 datasets. This code change has been in MXG
Feb 28, 2018 35.09 and later, but this change text replaced previous
In 1975 there was a BOF, Bird's of a Feather Session on Year 2000 Concerns
at the SPRING SHARE meeting, as I recall. BOF's were spontaneous evening
meetings posted/scheduled usually that day.
Barry
Herbert W. “Barry” Merrill, PhD
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he silicon substrate of those
devices near the silicon wall (platters or electronics??).
Barry
Merrilly yours,
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MXG creates a SUBTYPE for the many SMF records that contain a logical subtype
that is not contained in the standard SMF Header, including fields like the
SMF 80 RACF EVENT Code and the SMF 100-102 DB2 IFCID value.
Barry
Merrilly yours,
Herbert W. Barry Merrill, PhD
President-Programmer
The site's MXG job found the SMF 92 records were not enabled, and there were
no RACF UNMOUNT 55 records found.
Barry
Merrilly yours,
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Yes, MXG supports the all subtypes of the SMF type 92 records;
you'll may want the current MXG Version as IBM made recent changes
in those records, but primarily for z/OS 2.3.
Barry
Merrilly yours,
Herbert W. Barry Merrill, PhD
President-Programmer
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VIRT- ALLOC: 11M SHRD: 0M
has the REGION SIZE allocated in the sum of the EXT + SYS = 46616K+11788K=
58404K = 57 MegaBytes
Barry
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Button 287 "VSAM is the COBOL of Access Methods" was by Tom McSloy at GUIDE
in 1975. And COBOL programmers at the time thought that was a compliment!
www.mxg.com/thebuttonman/search.asp
Merrilly yours,
Barry Merrill
Merrilly yours,
Herbert W. Barry Merrill, PhD
President-
and reports to their heart's
content.
And you have the full power of SAS ODS to create output in HTML, EXCEL, etc.
With the already working and tested SAS language program unchanged.
Merrilly THANKSGIVING TO ALL,
Barry Merrill
Merrilly yours,
Herbert W. Barry Merrill, PhD
President-Programmer
All or almost all DB2 data can contain length=0 as documented
in DB2 Maclib SDSNMACS members, for one example below.
Barry
./ ADD NAME=DSNDQWA0,SSI=24351827
* %DCL DSNDQWA0_LIST CHAR EXTERNAL; 0001
* %IF DSNDQWA0_LIST ^= '' %THEN/*
of zero is now used to indicate that the
actual length is in the first two bytes at the offsed, if COUNT is
non-zero.
Barry
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For what it might be worth, considering free advice may only be worth the price,
the below code is used in MXG Software to decode JCTJOBID into TYPETASK and
JESNR, and
it tests for all SUBSYS names I have ever seen in any SMF record, which are
used only
to prevent warning messages about known
for z/OS systems.
Barry
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is a valid value for an access method to send over, e.g. SORTWORKs.
Barry
Merrilly yours,
Herbert W. Barry Merrill, PhD
President-Programmer
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It's not exactly what you asked for, but this 1995 Newsletter Note provides
some information on DB2 I/O counts in SMF 42 Subtype 6 records,
MXG dataset TYPE42DS.
2. It has always been impossible to track DB2 I/O activity (because the
Media Manager thought itself so fast that it was not
What a NICE thing to say!!
Barry Merrill
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Again, Barry
rs,
Barry
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Both DCOLLECT and SMF have flags for EAV volumes,
and programs like MXG Software know about them.
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the "long known" source.
Barry
Merrilly yours,
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Or just look at the count of type 21 SMF records created, in your daily
IFASMFDP "Dump" job, to get the total count of tapes dismounted.
Barry
Merrilly yours,
Herbert W. Barry Merrill, PhD
President-Programmer
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Doug Medland
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2017 10:27 AM
To: mx...@peach.ease.lsoft.com
Subject: [MXG-L] TSO Stats Under zOS 2.2
Good morning. All of our LPARs that have moved to zOS 2.2 have shown a
dramatic increase in
There was also a TOS for the 360/44 Serial Number 2 at Purdue's
Lab for Ag Remote Sensing, in '64 or '65, and it needed four tape
drives because the FORTRAN compiler was on four volumes, and it
was real fun to watch my compiles spin those tapes.
About two months later we got the Disk Drive and
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Subject: Re: Mainframe operating systems?
Barry Merrill wrote:
>At the Czech Tax Bureau in Brno in 1980 I saw what was described as a
>Ryad clone of an IBM 145 running DOS.
>They had 3420-ish 8 tape drives, and about 100 tapes in their tape
>libr
open with an
oscilloscope on a rolling cart, and I was told the problem was that
they were forced to get Bulgarian tape drives, and everyone knew you
need twice as many drives - one to work and one for spare parts.
Barry
Merrilly yours,
Herbert W. Barry Merrill, PhD
President-Programmer
Merrill
is not supported.
Barry
Merrilly yours,
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*/
NOTIFYND $EBCDIC8. /*SMF26NN-JOB END EXECUTE*NOTIFY*NODE*/
NOTIFYUS $EBCDIC8. /*SMF26NU-JOB END EXECUTE*NOTIFY*USERID*/
Barry
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>From MXG Newletter FIFTEEN Nov 1989 - First Part - 1000 line limit IBM-MAIN
CME 20/20: The History of SMF
Session M710
August 21, 1989
H. W. Barry Merrill,
>From MXG Newletter FIFTEEN Nov 1989 - First Part - 1000 line limit IBM-MAIN
CME 20/20: The History of SMF
Session M710
August 21, 1989
H. W. Barry Merrill,
urrah, BDC Computer Services
Saul Schiffman, IBM Japan Aron Eisenpress, CUNY
Ron Hankison, IBM Kingston Mario Morino, Morino Associates
Dick Armstrong, IBM Gaithersburg
Jim Doyle, IBM Poughkeepsie
Jack Higgins, IBM Publications
especially for their treasure-trove of ori
engine, and the board would not approve.
After the third or fourth outage, the data center manager was finally allowed
to build
a GREEN windowless building to house the diesel and generator, and they snuck
the yellow
Cat engine into its home in the middle of the night.
Barry Merrill
Merrilly
I recall a meeting with the President of Sun Information Services
with both the Marketing folks and all of the SYSPROGs, and one
SYSPROG raised the question of why the marketing folks got these
big bonuses but the SYSPROGs did all the work with no real bonus..
The president replied, "We'll, you
JCL===// EXEC SAS
JCL===//SYSLOG DD DSN=YOUR.SYSLOG,DISP=SHR
JCL===//SYSIN DD *
DATA _NULL_;
INFILE SYSLOG;
INPUT @;
IF INDEX(_INFILE_,'TEXT I WANT') GT 0 THEN LIST;
Nope, it ain't SPLUNK but will search any file and print the record.
Barry
south of Greenland and were copied by seven
receiver
sites on four continents.
(And, yes, the HF antenna must be above the water to
transmit HF radio signals - a 30 foot vertical on the top of the snorkel
mast
works great.)
Barry Merrill
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The only input to the IBM 610 at the University of Notre Dame
in October, 1959, was the standard 5-hole teletype paper tape.
Sophomore Year, Fall, 1959.
Fiftieth Anniversary of Digital Computing at the University of Notre
Dame, 2009:
In September, 1959, I was a sophomore at Notre Dame,
+3+4+5+6+7+-
---8+9+0
1 CHAR THIS IS THE TEST STRING IN RECFM V 42
ZONE 02000200ECCE4CE4ECC4ECEE4EEDCDC4CD4DCCCD4E
NUMR 0A0006003892092038503523023995709509536405
Barry Merrill
Merrilly
The only difference in the CMF and RMF SMF records is the value in the
PRODUCT name in CMF is either CMF-CPM or CMF-IPF.
But I don't know if those records are accepted by zOSMF.
Barry
Merrilly yours,
Herbert W. Barry Merrill, PhD
President-Programmer
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CSAA
HSAPIPLC HZR IFGEDI INIT JES2 LLA MIAMIMASC
MIMEDI RESOLVER RRS SOFTAUDT TFS TSS VLF
Barry
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that presumption.
Barry Merrill
Merrilly yours,
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The 180 error means SAS could not resolve the syntax,
and there is nothing VISIBLY wrong in your program.
Post the full SAS log of the job and/or look for an unprintable
character in your SAS program.
Barry
Merrilly yours,
Herbert W. Barry Merrill, PhD
President-Programmer
Merrill
I have this note from a few years ago that consurs:
- Early SAS notes recommended REGION=0M, but with early V9.1, only
for diagnostics AFTER an out of memory condition, a specific REGION
was recommended in http://support.sas.com/kb/18401:
"The thought is that if we
ch to deny software patent applications that were already state of the
art in 1984.
Barry
Merrilly yours,
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President-Programmer
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hat played a musical instrument, or knew more than one language,
or had a math/engineering degree.
Barry Merrill
Herbert W. Barry Merrill, PhD
President-Programmer
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This table from MXG should cover most device mappings:
/* COPYRIGHT (C) 1985,2015 BY MERRILL CONSULTANTS DALLAS TEXAS */
/* LAST UPDATED: OCT 15, 2015. CHANGE 33.249. */
/*/
/*** VMACUCB INCLUDED CODE
We use 7-zip to generate our MXG distribution file for ASCII platforms,
a zipped source director, and found that by naming the output file
extension of .zip instead of .7z, we've never had a reported problem.
Barry
Merrilly yours,
Herbert W. Barry Merrill, PhD
President-Programmer
Merrill
adly,
Barry Merrill
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Ok, now that I know there is an appropriate SYSLOG message,
should I then add that MXG also can create an SMF record from
any SYSLOG message, as part of the
MXG Tape Mount Monitor and SYSLOG Record SMF Recorder?
Barry
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MXG Softare, long ago, provided code for IEFU84 Exit to populate
the Initiator Name and Number into the SMF 30 subtype 1 record:
Change 22.136 The SMF Exit code to put Initiator Name and Init Number
IEFU84 if the PROGRAM field in the SMF 30 subtype 1 record that
Jun 24, 2004 was
Our output is VB LRECL=31996 BLKSIZE=32000.
> Using BUFL=32600 fixes our problem.
It looks like your error is too small a BLKSIZE.
The maximum BLKSIZE for VB or VBS is 32760, NOT your 32000.
If BUFL=32600 then your use of BLKSIZE=32000 is short of the mark.
To read ANY VB file, use
BLKSIZE=32760;
INPUT;
LIST;
IF _N_ GT 10 THEN STOP;
will print a nice hex dump of each of the first 10 block.
Barry
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ery at 7am that morning.
Prior to creating TSO, he had modeled expected TSO response and when the
product failed to match his model, HE CHANGED THE PRODUCT to match the model,
not the model.
Merrilly yours,
Herbert W. Barry Merrill, PhD
President-Programmer
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MXG Softw
One addition for the archives for this thread:
SMF 6 records written by PRINTWAY/INFOPRINT BASIC Mode contain
JCTJOBID='PSnn'.
(which could be confused with type 6 records written by PSF, which contain
PSFn).
Barry
Merrilly yours,
Herbert W. Barry Merrill, PhD
President
FWIW, this old change does document the actual existence of JCTJOBID='A':
Change 08.224 Support for MVS/ESA 4.2 (RMF 4.2.1).
Jan 28, 1991
d. The JCTJOBID field from which TYPETASK and JESNR are
extracted has changed with APPC. Instead of three
NO, but MXG has discovered these possibilities:
/* THIS ROUTINE EXPECTS JCTJOBID AND JOB AS 8-BYTE CHARACTERS, */
/* AND SUBSYS AS A 4-BYTE CHARACTER AS INPUT. */
/* JCTJOBID OF ONE LETTER AND 7 DIGITS EXIST, BUT THE MAXIMUM */
/* JESNR IS 99 BECAUSE THE 1ST WHEN SEVEN
I had so many 0Charlie4 "friends" during very early MVS testing in 1976 that I
knew them as 0-CHUCK-4's;
found out later the sysprogs called me "Chuck" behind my back, presumably as I
was out of step??
Barry Merrill
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I think its worse than that.
Change 34.115 Variable DCDTIMEC, Data Set Create Time in DCOLDSET is
VMACDCOL only populated if
May 11, 2016 - the dataset is on an EAV volume (more than 65K CYL)
- the volume is the first volume for the dataset
(DCDTIMEC
these enhancements, see the descriptions of the ALTER
command and the DEFINE GENERATIONDATAGROUP command in z/OS DFSMS Access Method
Services Commands.
Lizette
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> On Behalf Of Barry Merrill
> Sent: T
c printed
manuals, and located the very old "MVS/XA Catalog
Diagnosis Reference for DFP Release 1.2", which confirmed
that the GATWRAP bit was indeed the first bit of the
GATGEN field in the 05 Catalog Record!
Barry Merril
Not true; there will be the JES 26 Purge Record for the job,
and you can tell it's a JCL error because the STARTIME will
be missing (job never passed to z/OS) and possibly the CONVERTERTIME
will also be missing (depending on the JCL error).
Barry
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SYSK 2007114 00:51:10.44 JOB06647 0080 TMS014 IEF234E K
E351,D59438,PVT,XXXTDUHS
N 200 SYSK 2007114 00:51:10.44 JOB06647 00080084 IEF234E K
E351,D59438,PVT,XXXTDUHS
Barry
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Thanks, John, that solved the problem.
Barry
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On Sun, 3
that CLOSE TYPE=T prevents RLSE, but no reference
if FTP uses TYPE=T.
Barry
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And MXG's recommendation is
4. DCB attributes of TMC records need large BUFNO.
The TMC records are Fixed Length LRECL=340. If reading under MVS, use
very large BUFNO=220 to significantly reduce processing time.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
SAS is aware:
data; date='29FEB2100'D; day=weekday(date); put day=;run;
77
ERROR: Invalid date/time/datetime constant '29FEB2100'D.
ERROR 77-185: Invalid number conversion on '29FEB2100'D.
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From: IBM
to find a match, and
then confirm by comparing field-by-field visually, or just
by using that MXG code member to read the record.
MXG has only 260 user SMF record members to examine.
Barry
Herbert W. “Barry” Merrill, PhD
President-Programmer
MXG Software
Merrill Consultants
10717 Cromwell Drive
SMF 106 Subtype 1, SMF6ACPC, 17-characters.
Barry
Herbert W. "Barry" Merrill, PhD
President-Programmer
MXG Software
Merrill Consultants
10717 Cromwell Drive
Dallas, TX 75229-5112
ba...@mxg.com
Fax: 214 350 3694 - Still works, received as email
Tel: 214 351 1966 - Unreliable, please
(06JAN2016:12) and FORMAT VARIABLE
DATETIME13. can be used
report/summarize by DATE/HOUR/and MINUTE (06JAN2016:12:30) without creating new
variables.
MERRILLY NEW YEAR,
Barry
Herbert W. “Barry” Merrill, PhD
President-Programmer
MXG Software
Merrill Consultants
10717 Cromwell Drive
Dallas, TX 75229
Look at the value of SMF30SNF or SMF70NRM, divide it by 256,
and that is the speedup ratio of your zIIP engine compared
with the CP engine speed, and I've seen higher ratios than 4.
Barry
Herbert W. "Barry" Merrill, PhD
President-Programmer
MXG Software
Merrill Consultants
10717 Crom
miles of multi-conductor flat cables to all of the
devices that were also cut along with the carpet. I believe it
took a LONG time to replace/rerun all of those cables.
Barry
Herbert W. “Barry” Merrill, PhD
President-Programmer
MXG Software
Merrill Consultants
10717 Cromwell Drive
Dallas, TX
automatically send or had to
be
requested, but I think all possible card decks were in those cabinets.
Barry
Herbert W. "Barry" Merrill, PhD
President-Programmer
MXG Software
Merrill Consultants
10717 Cromwell Drive
Dallas, TX 75229-5112
ba...@mxg.com
Fax: 214 350 3694 - Still works, receive
I think a box of 2000 IBM cards is on the order of 6 pounds,
so a TON of JCL cards would be 333 boxes, or about 666,666
card images.
But, the useful weight is zero, since we only use the holes.
Barry
Herbert W. "Barry" Merrill, PhD
President-Programmer
MXG Software
Merrill Consult
forgot to put a password on
SYS1.NUCLEUS.
Rex
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Elardus Engelbrecht
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2015 1:23 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: IPL wait state
Barry Merrill wrote
At the Chicago SHARE 43 meeting in August, 1974, IBM had invited
attendees to a demonstration of the new MVS operating system on the 145
at the Chicago Ed center. At 8 p.m. Tuesday, three attendees found the
IBM demonstrator on duty was enthralling an attractive lady with his
expertise. Not
and ALIAS before posting my incorrect earlier posting.
Merrilly yours,
Barry
Herbert W. "Barry" Merrill, PhD
President-Programmer
MXG Software
Merrill Consultants
10717 Cromwell Drive
Dallas, TX 75229-5112
ba...@mxg.com
Fax: 214 350 3694 - Still works, received as email
Tel: 21
The only appearance in SMF of the Alias name is in the SMF 42 subtypes 21
and 24 for
delete member alias and delete alias events.
Barry
Herbert W. "Barry" Merrill, PhD
President-Programmer
MXG Software
Merrill Consultants
10717 Cromwell Drive
Dallas, TX 75229-5112
ba...@mxg.com
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