We have z/OS 2.3 lpars running on z14_ZR1 machines without impact to
availability in as little as 3 GB. We do of course see message:
IAR057D LESS THAN 8 GB OF REAL STORAGE IMPACTS SYSTEM AVAILABILITY - ADD
STORAGE OR REPLY C TO CONTINUE
Automation replies C. These are not production workload
Does IBM plan to hand out zIIP engines for free to allow sites without access
to them to run z/OSMF with reasonable performance? We have zIIPs, but just for
the heck of it I tried starting z/OSMF on a non-zIIP LPAR. It took 8 hours to
initialize, driving the (admittedly very small) LPAR at 100%
I've heard "my job is paged out" when what is meant is "my job is swapped out",
perhaps this is the OP's situation.
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Hawkins
Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2019 7:39 PM
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ASM, in this context anyway, likely refers to the Natural Authorized Services
Manager, which I believe (I've been out of SAG product support for many years
now) is shipped in base mainframe Natural. Rather than starting yet more SAG
address spaces though, I would convert the Natural Global BP
Yes it will, do not do anything further without discussing with your site's
system programming/technical support staff.
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raji ece
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Subject: [EXT] Re: Job
We had an IBMer give a presentation a couple weeks back, an update on all
things z. He mentioned that one of the biggest users of zLinux on the planet
was ADP, who of course use it for...payroll.
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ACF2 speak for multi-user address space, eg CICS, IMS, DB2, as opposed to a
single user address space like TSO, batch job.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Peter Hunkeler
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2017 12:16 AM
To:
Venkat,
Go to https://dovetail.com/solutions.html and get yourself a copy of their
utterly fine product Co:Z SFTP, which will enable you to do exactly what you
want. The installation doc has examples which will have you sftp-ing sequential
and PDS datasets in no time. And best of all, you may
I once worked in Montreal, the Anglophones always had to suppress smirks when
the Francophones were discussing CICS and DB2, "Keeks" and "Debbie duh".
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Porowski, Kenneth
Sent: Friday,
Way I read it he's saying IBM has no overall strategy, just reacting to the fad
of the day, usually arriving at the party just as it's starting to wind down
and all the cool kids have moved on to the next one.
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Using Ed's math, I have determined that the new interface is available 342% of
the time the old one used to be.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Staller, Allan
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2016 8:53 AM
To:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27041176 gives a bit of
detail, following the statement:
"IBM has investigated the possibility of changing COBOL V5 to support Load
Modules and PDS load libraries, however, it is not possible."
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No idea what Adm Hopper might have done to illustrate a light second, or indeed
if she ever did, but if you take one of the 12 inch nanosecond wires, and wrap
it around a half inch diameter sphere like a glass marble or a steel ball
bearing, then imagine that the sphere is planet Earth, the 12
Since we're recalling ancient history stuff...In the 80s I was at a site that
replaced a small HDS box (approx 4341 equivalent) with a much large one (approx
3081 equivalent). The UPS itself was big enough so they just plugged in the
same cables. Problem is nobody had rethought the cables,
The Knowledge Center provides this link:
ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/integration/wmq/docs/V8.0/PDFs/
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Derrick Haugan
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 10:45 AM
To:
I'm with Ant on this one, don't even bother cleaning up the old version, simply
create a new SMPE environment for your new CICS release and eventually delete
the old one when all regions are converted. My CICS v5.2 environment creation,
once the download from ShopZ was completed, took about
Here's what I don't understand
Our development management are telling is (Systems Operations) that it is
cheaper to upgrade the mainframe than to have the application programmers
review their code for performance opportunities.
I wouldn't characterize the underlying attitude as new,
To get nitpicky (not that arbitrary rule enforcers would ever do that), IBM
Ported Tools for z/OS is also 'free' software, in the sense that it is 'a
program product available at no cost to you'.
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Try this link:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSYKE2_7.0.0/welcome/welcome_javasdk_version.html
Set PATH something like this:
PATH=/bin:/usr/lpp/java/J7.0_64/bin:.
export PATH
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Let us hope that none of our IBM friends and colleagues on this list are
included in the alleged 26%.
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Of imugzach
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 9:35 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
But it's a dry cold...
Winnipeg, Manitoba here, ie first go to North Dakota, then keep heading north
for a few hours!
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Skeldum, William
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 5:10 PM
To:
Look in the /samples directory, you should find a sample magic file there.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of venkat kulkarni
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 4:22 AM
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Subject: /etc/magic
Option 10 on the gskkyman Key Management menu.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Rob Schramm
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 1:50 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: gskkyman stash file
This seems like it is a
Hey, I remember that old m/f when it was a brand new m/f. Back when eThekwini
Municipality was known as Durban Corporation, I'm thinking 1988 timeframe, the
company I worked for then, Persetel, replaced an (I'm going to say, but memory
may fail me here) ICL mainframe with one of our Hitachi
Isn't this a bit like saying that because the price of the chips in a 1990
Lexus vs those in a 2014 Lexus has dropped by a factor of (say) 1000, a 2014
Lexus should cost $50?
Silly analogy I know, but more seriously, what proportion of the current $33M
does go to pay for the chips?
http://www.syzygyinc.com/
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Paul Peplinski
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 2:26 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: The automation product mentined here
Who and what? I want to say
The CICS Betas released over the last few releases (I believe betas
were/are available for 4.2, 5.1 5.2) have built in expiry dates. IBM
states that the betas Contain a disabling device that will prevent it
from being used after the test period ends.
SETRRS SHUTDOWN has always worked fine for us.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Miklos Szigetvari
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 6:29 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Machine power off and CF
Hi
I have PCOMM 6.0 on my workstation, a quick test confirms that it allows
exactly 26 sessions.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Ed Jaffe
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 12:13 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re:
There's a mention of DUPL_JOB in the OS/390 V1R3 JES2 Init Tuning
Reference, SC28-1792-02, but only in a sample JES parameter deck in
Appendix A. The parm isn't mentioned in the book's JOBDEF parameter
description section.
JOBDEF ACCTFLD=OPTIONAL, /* Accounting field optional ohwnc*/
Or run SDSF in a batch job, EXEC PGM=SDSF, with the commands in ISFIN.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
Behalf Of Steve Comstock
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 10:28 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: JES/2 Spool
On
Similarly, everywhere I've lived (UK, South Africa, Canada), a spell
checker would be confined to use by Harry Potter and his chums. To
check spelling in electronic documents, I use a spelling checker.
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