So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish

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Tech museum reps

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Re: S00C Slip trap for any Stc

On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 08:51:08 -0500, Peter Relson wrote: >>Can I set slip trap for abend s00c for any failing Address space ? > >To be unhelpful, the answer is "yes" Peter, I can not (ever) recall an unhelpful answer from you - or Jim. Some other respondents - now, that's a whole 'nuther kettle

Re: Advanced Assembler Language and MVS Interfaces

On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 00:14:37 -0600, Brian Westerman wrote: >I have both the original and the newer version. One at work, the other at >home and I still refer to them both several times a year. Thanks Brian, that is good to hear. Mine is the second edition - after I've had a quick read for old

Re: Advanced Assembler Language and MVS Interfaces

On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 13:43:42 +, Bob Shannon wrote: >I have a copy of "Advanced Assembler Language and MVS Interfaces" by Carmen >Cannatello for sale for $60 which includes shipping (USA only). It's in good >shape with a few light coffee stains. The cheapest one on ebay today is >$176.00.

Re: IBM z Systems Development Blog

On Fri, 4 Dec 2015 07:34:25 -0600, John McKown wrote: >​too true. I may even start playing the state lottery, even though that's >not really a good idea. I understand enough statistics to know that. ​ Don't do that. I was listening to the BBC overnight a few weeks back, and they must have been

Re: IBM z Systems Development Blog

On Fri, 4 Dec 2015 06:43:23 -0600, John McKown wrote: >I've bookmarked that in my browser. Thanks. Me too. Pity the z business here has gone so far down the toilet I've had to wind up my company and wander off into retirement.. Interest only now. Shane ...

Re: IBM Automatic (COBOL) Binary Optimizer Now Availabile

On Mon, 30 Nov 2015 22:43:37 +, Gibney, David Allen,Jr wrote: >And it doesn't stick you with the requirement for the loadlib to be PDS/E... ;0) I wonder if this hasn't been such an impediment to V5 take-up that it enabled a business case to be built to release the ABO. So, what could

Re: IBM Automatic (COBOL) Binary Optimizer Now Availabile

On Mon, 30 Nov 2015 16:05:43 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >But in order to take advantage of those new instructions, two things have to >happen: (a.) IBM had to release a dramatically improved COBOL compiler (they >did) and (b.) Mr. CIO has to recompile everything. But Mr. CIO

Re: WLM and Dispatching Priority

On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 21:08:28 +, Martin Packer wrote: >I'm puzzled: Why do you think those dispatching priorities are >inconsistent with the WLM goals DP are (almost ?) *never* inconsistent with sane WLM goals. PI is usually a better indicator of out-of-whack goals. > (and your technical

Re: z/OS and hiperspaces

On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 11:39:19 +, Rob Scott wrote: >For MVS/ESA and upwards, dataspaces were great for expanding the virtual >storage available horizontally Which I always thought was a monumental kludge - especially as IBM was peddling the corporate myth that "our platform" didn't need

Re: Fastest way to read OLDEST GDG entry

On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 18:20:34 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 17:57:46 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >>On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 03:06:10 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote: >>> >>>Is there another process that could be used to identify the OLDEST GDG for >>>Input >>>and then delete that

Re: Stop GPMSERVE ?

Why ?. I'm a bit (?) old-school, but I always try to insist that DDS is active. I would use RMF III all the time, but having a web page with all that data (and more) available with a simple URL is a boon. And doesn't the z/OSMF plugin require it ?. And the price is pretty damn good. Shane ...

Re: Premature SYMBOL substitution in SYSIN?

On Fri, 13 Nov 2015 22:05:19 +, J O Skip Robinson wrote: >Where and how would appropriate substitution take place? In a several open >forums over the years, attendees (customers) often disagreed on the 'right' >place and method to do it. Yep, be careful what you wish for. Most of the old

Re: Fortran, assembly programmers ... NASA needs you – for Voyager • Job For Shane?

I wonder if they have a massively parallel collection of (modern) GPUs on board ?. If so and they can wait just a little while longer they may be in luck. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/11/llvm-to-get-fortran-compiler-that-targets-parallel-gpus-in-clusters/ Shane ...

YAFWS

It ain't just NUCLEUS the system will run happily without. One day a fellow (senior) sysprog wandered over and asked if I knew the system would continue to run without the master cat. Never thought about it. Guessed he was talking about our sandpit. Nope, he had the Prod system set online and

Re: Releasing Orphan Storage without IPL

On Wed, 4 Nov 2015 21:16:42 -0800, Steve Beaver wrote: >... the system will survive without your intervention, s/will/may/ Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Fortran, assembly programmers ... NASA needs you – for Voyager • Job For Shane?

On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 09:30:38 -0800, John Mattson wrote: >This is just too sweet. Decisions decisions, retire and spent lots of time >in Italy, or code assembler for NASA. Hmmm let me have a glass of Pinot >grigio and some pasts and think about it. zzz I've no desire to go to Europe, and I

Re: Opportunity for Mainframers

On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 00:58:03 +, David Mingee wrote: >I know of an opportunity to be an instructor for a z/OS Boot Camp class(7 >weeks) in Panama City, Panama.It is with a reputable training company. Good to hear such things (still) exist - hopefully you will get some-one suitable to stand

Re: (External):Re: RE-IPL for the Daylight to Standard time conversion?

On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 18:31:30 +, J O Skip Robinson wrote: > These so-called Victory Gardens were deemed more manageable by working stiffs > if there were still some daylight left at the end of the job day. Yep - this is why we've never done daylight saving. All that extra sunlight at the end

Re: Releasing Orphan Storage without IPL

On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 13:48:08 +0530, Jake Anderson wrote: >Is it possible to release the Unused Storage without IPLing ? Of course. But you'd better be right. Junior sysprog was using a well-known monitor that showed a bunch of "unused" shared storage. He decided we could use it, so decided to

Re: File Placement Utility

On Sun, 11 Oct 2015 07:30:26 +, Gibney, David wrote: >I still maintain that ADRDSSU will "just do it" Dave, why do you presume the OP has already existing datasets to copy ?. If this is just allocating new datasets, sort the files by size, or whatever, and knock up some rexx to generate the

Re: IBM PDFs (was: SK3T-4271-28)

On Mon, 5 Oct 2015 06:58:29 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >What tool did you use to create the index? Nothing - doesn't look like I've even unrolled the zip. When I said "Other than that I just download all the pdfs per release, and create an index page." I meant for other releases, I download

Re: SK3T-4271-28

On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 08:37:17 +, Robert Prins wrote: >I'm trying to find the full (~5GB collection) of z/OS 1.12 manuals, >does anyone know if the above (.zip) is still around anywhere. Tried >changing URL's, but to no avail... Can't help with 1.12, but I have sk3t-4271-31.zip for 1.13. I

Watching paint dry ....

On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 05:33:14 -0400, Richards, Robert B. wrote: > For any sailing enthusiasts, America's Cup is there in 2017 and they are > already gearing up for it. If interested, accommodation reservations should > be made NOW as they are going to go fast as the year approaches. And those >

Re: Watching paint dry ....

On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 08:01:24 -0400, Richards, Robert B. wrote: >Even if you don't like sailing, the beaches there are some of the best in >world due to the finely-grained pink coral. lol ... I can drive to several of the best beaches in the world in less than an hour. And if I see more than

Re: T-Mobile Data Hacked

On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 05:54:40 -0400, Aled Hughes wrote: > But blaming mainframes is the choice of these journalistic experts isn't it? > >Sad. Careful fella, this business may make you cynical. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: More "ageing mainframe" (bad) press.

On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 15:31:13 +0800, David Crayford wrote: >CentreLink is a 26,000 MIP customer >http://www.techworld.com.au/article/303153/centrelink_ups_it_reform_keeps_model_204_legacy_/?pp=2. >Phew, that's going to be a big blow for big blue when they move off. Nope. At

Re: OS/390 hard wait

On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 01:43:41 -0400, Jim Mulder wrote: > Thinking about such things is more productive with stand-alone dump >at which to gaze. My recollection of SADump at OS/390 2.10 (and z/OS 1.1 for that matter) in 64-bit is less than happy. Me-thinks we had a discussion about memory not

More "ageing mainframe" (bad) press.

http://www.itnews.com.au/news/the-top-five-green-screen-systems-that-run-australia-409614 Some large (by Aussie standards) mainframe customers that may be no more in the foreseeable future. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: More "ageing mainframe" (bad) press.

On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 08:00:37 -0600, Jack J. Woehr wrote: >Seems like actually only one of the apps actually going away, the rest being >Web front-ended, which is entirely appropriate. > >And as we all know, some of these conversions never succeed and they're forced >to drop back on maintaining

Re: z/OS pricing question (and Single Version Charge)

What a bloody schmozzle. Imagine if something like this was foisted on Ubuntu customers with the LinuxONE. Wouldn't get a single taker I imagine. Any news on that licensing model ?. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Current market share breakdown for EACH of the three z/OS ESM products: RACF, CA-ACF2 and CA-Top Secret

On Wed, 9 Sep 2015 08:47:27 -0500, Steve Harner wrote: >(a) When SKK was sold in 1986, ACF2 had a 60% market share while IBM’s RACF >and CA’s Top Secret split the other 40%; and (b) Currently , RACF has 75% >market share while ACF2 and Top Secret from CA share the other

Re: Current market share breakdown for EACH of the three z/OS ESM products: RACF, CA-ACF2 and CA-Top Secret

On Wed, 9 Sep 2015 20:40:49 +0300, Itschak Mugzach wrote: >The market is is split between TSS & RACF. I know of only one ACF2 site, >but they droped the mainframe... Interesting - as I said I have never seen TSS in any shop in Aus. Just never got a foothold here. That

Re: z/OS Upgrade 1.13 to 2.2

On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 14:25:33 -0500, Jerry wrote: >The z Channel, an online user group, is hosting a two-part presentation by >Marna Walle (IBM) titled "Migrating to V2.2" on Monday, September 14, 2015 at >2 pm EDT (Part 1) and on Tuesday, September 15, 2015 (Part 2). Hmmm; 14:00 American

Re: Setting up Sublime Text to edit PDS members

On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 21:11:41 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >>Hipster kids all seem to be using Atom which I must admit is very slick. >>It's amazing what you can do with HTML and Javascript these days. >> >I'll check it out. Unlike (apparently) gil, I'm not at all sure I fit the demographic, but I

Re: Smaller Private Area in DR

On Thu, 3 Sep 2015 00:27:17 -0400, Jim Mulder wrote: > The first thing I would do, using a dump of PROD and a dump of DR, >is for each dump, under IPCS, do > >IOSCHECK ALLUCBS >FIND 'UCB AT 00' ALL > > This will count the number of UCBs in SQA below 16MB. I wonder how many other people

Re: IPCS Magicians (was: Smaller Private Area in DR)

On Thu, 3 Sep 2015 15:58:16 +, Cannaerts, Jan wrote: >In my preliminary research that I started just now some of the SHARE >presentations have been valuable. >I'd love to make it out to a SHARE event one (or more?) time(s), but as a >European working for a small

Re: TRUSTED attribute for IBM tasks

On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 03:04:35 +, J O Skip Robinson wrote: The idiot should have been fired, but I'm still here. Luckily for your shop. All too often the old knowledgeable incumbents are let go, and the outsourcers minions have no bloody idea of the history of the shop. What happened, how

Re: Linux Without Limits: IBM Launch LinuxONE Mainframes

On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 22:47:07 -0600, Mark Post wrote: That has never been the case. We have always supported installing on z/VM or in an LPAR. Hmmm - I was sure I had a migration doc that said z/VM was now required for the install scripts (rather than just recommended). My bad maybe. Shane

Re: Linux Without Limits: IBM Launch LinuxONE Mainframes

On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 11:54:24 -0600, Mark Post wrote: It appears their KVM offering also comes with some monitoring capability, although I haven't seen any details there. Oh joy, ILM for Linux :( Given this: quote IBM now has three strategic virtualization platforms: IBM z/VM®, IBM

Re: Limit number of frames of real storage per job

On Fri, 7 Aug 2015 10:59:00 +1000, Andrew Rowley wrote: There can also be performance advantages from GC. Were one to be slightly nefarious, one might suggest that if the JVM was doing its (GC) job properly, there would be very little code left to run. Not an intrinsic shortcoming of the

Re: SYSTEM KEY Programming Was: IVSK and SPKA

Two threads in a couple of weeks re the inability of people to learn MVS principles properly these days. Terrible indictment of the OCO decision years ago that public lists like this are now the proxy mentor that some of us were fortunate enough to have had when we needed one. Enough from me -

Re: Forbes: IT Professionals Don't Have What The Tech Industry Wants

On Sat, 4 Jul 2015 13:34:58 -0400, John Clifford wrote: Most companies are strictly bottom-liners, IMO, and will always go with the cheapest option. ... Just venting a bit. No harm in venting. We have an analogue to the H1B - sell your soul, then bleat about all those unemployed people

Re: z/OS DASD: Way to gather DASD Response Time ?

On Thu, 2 Jul 2015 10:38:31 +0100, Toni Cecil wrote: Hi Shane, it might sound strange to you, but we need to demonstrate to one our clients that moving data from mod3, or mod9 to mod27 didn't cause any dasd performance problems for their applications. That's a living. No, not strange at all -

Re: Funny learning curve for various, UNIX, editors

On Thu, 2 Jul 2015 13:27:27 +, Cannaerts, Jan wrote: Wow, anyone that touches Vi is instantly proficient and insanely productive with it! ;-) editing in vi is easy - getting out of the session is the challenge. As for emacs, the origin should be somewhere above the proficiency level of vi.

Re: Leap Second today!

The people most concerned were (automated) equity traders. Bloomberg reports 1.4 million trades per second. And, of course, they only count (continental) USA. That's a lot of capital that can go missing. And it was a trading day, not like 2012. Different parts of the world managed this

Re: z/OS Systems Software Developer Position

On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 22:37:04 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: I do not claim to have deep knowledge of z/OS system internals, but since when is source code required to obtain it? I don't believe that the best Windows hackers have the source code...the very best don't even bother with disassemblers :-)

Re: z/OS DASD: Way to gather DASD Response Time ?

I've decided to use RMF: DINTV(2400) That's like asking for the average speed for all the taxi drivers in a company over an entire day. It might be the one number you may have been asked for, but it's useless. You need to educate your users/managers. Shane ...

Re: z/OS DASD: Way to gather DASD Response Time ?

On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 16:02:42 +0100, Toni Cecil wrote: Hello, can you pls tell me what is best (and easiest) way to gather dasd response time values by StorageGroup?? We need to have a DASD PERFORMANCE picture for 2 weeks and by storageGRoup. The data are all there in the report - by default RMF

Re: How is CAMASTER started?

On Sun, 21 Jun 2015 11:05:34 +0200, Barbara wrote: Scott, ... am I correct in assuming Barbara, do you still get to the European z conferences?. Scott was at Boston. I'm sure he'd be in Europe as well. Take him out to get (at least) one of those excellent German beers, and find out in person.

Re: How is CAMASTER started?

On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 16:59:48 -0500, Scott Fagen wrote: Does anyone know? Yes. oooh yeah, I bet he knows ;-) No-brainer decision really given the emphasis on known attack vectors. IBM just had to provide an API. Shane ...

Re: Network Switch Refresh

*NEVER* trust the network folks when they have a small change going in. This little oops in Malaysia, as innocuous as it seems, disrupted all of Oceania for a couple of hours, not just their customers:

Re: Why major financial institutions are growing their use of mainframes

On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 11:15:59 -0400, Tony Thigpen wrote: Good story, but my BS meter is pegged on this one. And not just on that bullet point. The big banks are moving off-host here. I just got locked out of internet access to my business account because my bank is in the process of moving to a

Re: Share IODF in different sysplex same CPC

On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 03:37:48 -0500, Jorge Garcia wrote: I've found more information about GRS configuration between systems outsite GRS complex: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1II14297 The information APAR says there is a possible GRSRNLxx configuration. I suppose is not

Re: Address location

On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 01:32:26 -0400, michelbutz wrote: Given address how I can I tell whether this is SQA LSQA PVT, or CSA GDA. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Webcast about mainframe Agile Development

Join us June 18 at 11 a.m. ET for the webcast Hey Sam, long time no hear. Hmmm, that would equate to 01:00 Eastern for us poor souls. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: DFSORT - How to select last 8 bytes in variable length records

On Sun, 7 Jun 2015 14:11:30 -0500, Bill Godfrey wrote: That would mean there could be end-of-line characters and hex 00 characters in a record, which would mean sed would not work. sed won't (shouldn't) care about the nulls, but won't like newlines (yes, I noted your careful language given the

Re: Fault Analyzer experts?

On Thu, 4 Jun 2015 08:11:31 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: Of course. An IBMer who is an Fault Analyzer expert was very ACTIVE on IBM-MAIN last week. (26 May 2015 for example) Jim Mulder ?. I'd describe him more as an expert at analysing faults ... ;-0 The times I've had to deal with FA

Re: AW: Re: JES2 Exit 23

On Tue, 2 Jun 2015 07:47:58 -0400, Ed Finnell wrote: The toner bags were like 18x18x48 and said when it hit the floor TNF spewed out like a volcano. The hazmat crew spent 2 days decontaminating the room. Dammit, Ed stoppit. I'm trying to concentrate on watching a soccer game with a glass of

Re: Cache Fast Write (CFW) - Data in the CFW is *not* mirrored, is it?

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Re: LPAR MOBILITY

z/VM V6.2 release made available the Single System Image feature and Live Guest Relocation, which is the ability for a Linux guest to be moved from one z/VM system to another within the SSI cluster. IBM is chasing smoke on this. On the way back from Boston Share, I dropped in to the VMWORLD

Re: Slow storage creep in SYSTEM.SYSSTC

On Wed, 27 May 2015 13:51:23 +, Vernooij, CP wrote: It is very tempting for sysprogs to give themselves absolute performance, just because they can, not because they need it. True 'nuff. As I don't live in any site, I try to placate the troops. When I need to get in and fix things, I get

Re: Slow storage creep in SYSTEM.SYSSTC

On Tue, 26 May 2015 23:25:42 +, Gibney, David wrote: ... I neither have nor really can control what falls into SYSSTC. It's all z/OS. You can, and probably should at least look at some of your heavy hitters. Just tossing it out here for thought on identifying the guilty software? Grab a

Re: z/OS Platform Software Products on ... Tape?

On Sat, 23 May 2015 20:45:26 +1000, Andrew Rowley wrote: Who do you trust is the fundamental issue with digital certificates. That's what key signing parties are for. How about we combine them with a few frozen margaritas after a long day at Share - we could all vouch for the veracity of each

Re: Is there a good EBCDIC IBM-1047 Emulator?

On Wed, 20 May 2015 09:18:40 -0500, John McKown wrote: ​My response to Mr. Hansen would be to just use either digraphs or trigraphs in his C code. ref: ... In Ubuntu: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/natty/man1/entrigraph.1.html John you are a font of information. How the hell did you dredge

Re: Did I really need a CLIST???

On Wed, 20 May 2015 07:58:38 -0700, Tom Brennan wrote: J O Skip Robinson wrote: Coding subcommands in reverse order just to save one letter in each REXX command would be absurd. Completely you with agree I, Skip. Tom gets my vote for this years Yoda award. Shane ...

GIYF - **offlist **

Google ??? ... Friend You sick puppy. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: GIYF - **offlist **

or not. Shane .. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Is there a good EBCDIC IBM-1047 Emulator?

On Mon, 18 May 2015 10:36:41 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: I don't pursue cosmetic changes to 3270. The data sets I use are NFS exported. I use desktop editors. My principal need for 3270 is for SDSF; lesser for DSLIST and DDLIST. People who do real work on the host need 3270. I'm with Dave -

Re: PCI DSS compliance for z/OS

On Sun, 17 May 2015 11:39:25 -0700, Phil Smith wrote: Warning: long post ahead, and of course it’s pushing the hammer that we sell My eyes tend to glaze over when these threads arise, but I did at least learn that HP had acquired Voltage ;-) Shane ...

Re: DFSORT and RACF

On Fri, 15 May 2015 06:51:45 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: This is what I try to tell our people. Protect the source and custodians (people), not the tools. So, this is why I'm asking to see what others think - is it practical to protect DFSORT keywords or not. Nope. As David said, let the

Re: QAFF on JOBCLASS statement

On Thu, 14 May 2015 14:29:17 +0300, Mike Shorkend wrote: My question is more on the philosophical side: Why did IBM choose to ... Many a mind have pondered that. Tread not that path ... ;-) Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: [DB2-L] - ICF catalog management for a new DB2 subsystem

On Sun, 10 May 2015 11:26:54 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: What terrible? Are you referring to gazillion DB2 logs being spewed out or what? GRS traffic - particularly for all the catalog accesses. Very noticable in a ring. Shane ...

Re: [DB2-L] - ICF catalog management for a new DB2 subsystem

On Sun, 10 May 2015 07:44:38 +, Anthony Thompson wrote: Catalog performance generally isn't any kind of problem if you are using Enhanced Catalog Sharing, or, better, Record Level Sharing on the catalogues. Been a while since you've used a multi-system ring Ant ? ;-) DB2 is a classic

Re: For your weekend viewing pleasure on You Tube

On Thu, 7 May 2015 23:06:34 -0500, Ed Gould wrote: Is it me or is his presentation off? Nah Ed, it's just you. . . . ;0) Even an Aussie like me can understand him - except for the bloody zeee ... Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Performance question - handling of max CPU % utilization

On Thu, 7 May 2015 06:51:42 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: If I combine these values for the day, they're sometimes over 100% which is undesirable or difficult to explain. Don't. Simple as that - I am constantly trying to disavow people of the notion of one number per day. RMF is a sampler

Re: OT: If you think Daylight Savings Time or leap seconds are a bother...

On Thu, 7 May 2015 16:33:32 -0400, Gabe Goldberg wrote: ...read this. I wonder if any mainframes were affected. Not likely. A few years prior to that they changed the side of the road they drove on. 06:00 one morning, they changed. Now *that* would have made life interesting. Even banned grog

Re: OT: Fake Apple watch

Knock-offs in Shenzhen, who'da believed that ?. I wouldn't lower myself to buy anything Apple, much less a knock-off. Now if there was a custom ROM for it ... hmmm, I have a copy of the Android Wear SDK somewhere ... Shane ...

Re: O/T Strontium atomic clock accurate to the second -- over 15 billion years --

You would really hate to be more than a second late for being vapourized by the sun when it goes red giant. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: Thoughts on DFSMShsm ABARS in today's environment

On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 13:46:00 +, Pommier, Rex wrote: Re: BTDTGTS, is that been there, don’t that, got (the) t-shirt or is it been there, got that, got the scars? The latter - severe mental scars. During a test IPL of our sandpit we found we had no ability to IPL *any* system. Including the

Re: Thoughts on DFSMShsm ABARS in today's environment

On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 11:00:48 -0500, Glenn Wilcock finished with: So, when determining your backup strategy, first determine your recovery needs and then determine which backup technique will best fit those needs. The elephant in the room is that there is no way to have complete confidence in

Re: DUMP parm recommendation

On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 13:01:38 -0400, Richards, Robert B. wrote: I am thinking of adding HCSAByASID,HCSANoOwner,HCSASysOwner. Advice? Thoughts? CSA by itself covers everything - above and below the bar. Your preferences will exclude data above the bar for ASIDs not in the dump. Me, I always

Re: Ads in Redbookd.

On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 09:32:52 -0300, Clark Morris wrote: Given what we pay for Redbooks, I can understand IBM wanting some kind of revenue stream and find print ads easy to ignore. And how long before we have sponsored authors - if you can't bring some bucks, you aren't welcome (F1 drivers come

Ads in Redbookd.

How long have we had ads (sorry, Promotions) in Redbooks ?. Just pulled the z13 Tech Intro Ed posted about - can't be that long since I downloaded one, and I certainly don't recall included ads. As bad as the bloody trailers on hired DVDs. quote Imagine the power of being seen by users who

Re: Preaching to the choir? A good article

Undisguised airline magazine marketing fluff. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Catalog Recovery Software

On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 09:37:33 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote: Side note: The Catalog Recovery Plus and TREX are very similar. .. :0) I still have my little green dino somewhere from when they were first starting up. Talking to the devs really meant face-to-face. Having been present whilst a

Re: IBM z/OS Service Survey

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I will do some research to see if and how we can disable this message. Cheers Iris, I doubt your survey partners will give a tuppenny damn about people (such as I) who disable js. I'm happy to remain on the fringes, and ignored by the mainstream.

Re: A New Perfromance Model ?

On Wed, 8 Apr 2015 16:15:44 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote: A friend of mine that does contract work, was engaged to tweak a CICS transaction. He could only shave .1 second off of the time. 1/10 sec However, the transaction was called millions of times, saved the company from upgrading their

Re: EXSPATxx member

On Mon, 6 Apr 2015 03:48:07 -0400, Jim Mulder wrote: There is no way to specify endless spinning. No doubt a good thing. I do recall once placing a CPU in a hard stop - caused all the other CPUs to go into spin loops. Back in the days of running on the bare metal. Fortunately I had the

Re: Forbes: Nice Mainframe, How Do I Turn It On?

Mark you gotta stop including the Thanks in (as part of) your posted links. You did it last month too :o) Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: OT: Digital? Cloud? Modern And Cost-Effective? Surprise! It's The Mainframe - Forbes

On Sun, 29 Mar 2015 14:45:53 -0600, Mark Post wrote: IBM has been investing a lot of money in developing OpenStack and related software to manage and run Linux on z Systems. In addition to that they've been updating their various middleware products to capitalize on what they see as the

Re: Intermittent, not consistently reproducible problems with PDSEs on z/OS V2R1 (incl. infrequent S0F4-20 RSN 1C0752EE ABENDs)

* USERS AFFECTED: IEBCOPY of a RECFM=F or RECFM=FB PDSE * results in a broken PDSE. The only members * which can be accessed in the target PDSE * are the empty members.

Re: $HASP311 jobname re-queued at end of memory and held

On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 09:02:49 +0100, Peter Hunkeler wrote: So, the action taken at next warmstart will be determined by the setting of JOURNAL and RESTART on JOBCLASS. However, you could decide to release the job ($AJ) or cancel it ($PJ) immediately. ... And an additional hint: The job is

More big brother/big data

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-31916942 Gotta love the final sentence ... The bottom line is, if it's free, you are the product and your privacy is the currency. Time for a new sig methinks. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Need assembler trick to quickly get second and third DS qualifiers

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:12:50 -0700, Ed Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: Poor TRT has become a casualty of modern hardware economics. It's a complex instruction, with no analog on other platforms, that is no longer used often enough to rate prime-location silicon chip real-estate. It was

Re: Knowledgecentre versus the library server

On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 11:38:03 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: What a sad comment that people have to write shell scripts and use browser plugins to make the z/OS documentation usable. Perhaps, but at least we (currently) still have the option. I dread the day KC becomes the only option - I've tried

Re: Economics of Mainframe Technology

On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:36:30 -0500, Art Gutowski wrote: Given the armies of sysadmins to support *nix and windoze platforms, I gotta believe labor costs on these platforms eclipse those of the mainframe. As Lynn mentions, the move to cloud affects them too - maybe most of all. The time of the

Knowledgecentre versus the library server

Reading Kolosu's latest admonishment to gil, I trundled through the links for completeness. The first (knowledgecentre) took minutes to load - yes *minutes*. The others just popped up. Another great technological leap backwards. Shane ...

Re: (slightly) OT - developmentworks outage

Of course that should be developerWorks :( -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

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