Re: RMF Spreadsheet Reporter

2012-11-22 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 10:20:33 +1100, Andrew Rowley wrote: You might be interested in EasySMF: Thanks Andrew, you saved me a search. I've seen your previous posts, but never had a need to look at it till now. Shane ... -- For

Re: Running server

2012-11-22 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:54:08 +, Rob Scott wrote: ... I would not get too concerned about them. That from a fella that uses more than a couple of them ... ;-) I can understand Miklos concern though - in small shops people (other people) tend to watch the sdsf da screen and scream in your

Re: Regarding Time Sharing

2012-11-19 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:12:05 -0500, Mike Myers wrote: ... I quit to become a consultant, due to my dissatisfaction with the project as a whole. That was in 1984. Some of us have been disillusioned with this business for only slightly less time g,d,r Shane ...

Re: New way to do UCB lookups

2012-11-14 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:17:54 -0500, John Gilmore wrote: The question whether these disagreeable consequences are tolerable is a judgment call. Sam and others think they are. I think not. So be it. John at his imperious best - consider me one of the others (in this case). Shane ...

Re: z10BC Memory Upgrade All-But Impossible

2012-11-09 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Fri, 9 Nov 2012 16:59:33 -0800, Edward Jaffe wrote: A memory upgrade is both hardware (the physical DIMMs) and microcode (enabling the memory). The only way to get additional memory for a z10 these days is to buy it on the used market. And, IBM is charging a premium price for the magic

Re: CPU Utilization

2012-11-08 Thread Shane Ginnane
Workload Manager is your friend. Hmmm - *IF* you understand the (history of the) workload, the SLAs, the expectations of the customer, the politics, ... And WLM itself of course. Take it from me, it is bloody difficult to walk into a site and make sensible determinations that will be

Re: RedBook EPUBs - How can you read them?

2012-11-02 Thread Shane Ginnane
Thanks Neil - might come in handy on the occasions I deign to use Windows. Shane ... On Fri, 2 Nov 2012 13:07:16 -0400, Neil Haley wrote: I have a PDF viewer (SumatraPDF) that can open epubs. I just download the epubs, double click and Sumatra opens them with no problem.

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-23 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:06:40 -0500, Shmuel wrote: at 06:42 PM, shai hess shai.h...@gmail.com said: Sorry if I hurt anybody feeling but if we inform about closing sites why I can not post what I posted? You can; you have as much authority as ted does. Indeed. And given the dearth of

Re: RMF Spreadsheet Reporter

2012-09-26 Thread Shane Ginnane
H ... I must admit to a relationship with the reporter that swung from ho-hum to WTF . The current version is now a you-beaut java all-new-and-shiny interface. Rigt ... Having recently attempted a re-acquaintance with this tool, all I can say is not much has become more intuitive -

Re: Strings

2012-09-18 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:40:11 +0800, David Crayford wrote: In fact, I find it difficult to fathom why anybody would still write C code when C++ is such a superior language. I seem to recall some fella named Torvalds having his say about this a few years ago. People (no, not Dave) keep coming up

Re: IARVSERV

2012-09-13 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 07:50:08 +, David Stokes wrote: I do wonder if the sample was actually useful to someone. Wonder not - samples are *always* useful to someone, sometime. Maybe here and now, maybe not - but someone will benefit from it. Shane ...

Re: Gilbert Saint-flour's stuff is still being supported

2012-09-13 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:25:23 -0400, Sam Golob sbgo...@cbttape.org wrote: Hi Folks, Gilbert Saint-flour's software is alive and well, and it is still being skilfully supported by Carlos Aguilera. Thanks Sam and Carlos - good news all round. Never met GSF although we did converse

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-31 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 02:29:12 -0400, Jim Mulder wrote: I still like the concept of having IPL and NIP somehow resident on the SSD for very fast loading. Perhaps in z/OS 2.3 grin. I would recommend against spending any of our development resources on that. The actual loading of code

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Shane Ginnane
So IBM obviously couldn't use the z11 name and so the marketing intelligentsia came up with that marvellous ploy to fill the gap. Let's hope they have dibs on the next few iterations of znumber, so we can avoid this farce again in future. Shane ...

Re: What size memory object backs an IARCP64

2012-08-25 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 19:42:08 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: As usual for macros of this class, usable only in assembly language and PL/X, the only really good, usually very current documentation is in the prolog of the macro itself. Read it. Then ask questions. That might just be a less than

Re: OS/390 CD collection free to a good home

2012-08-25 Thread Shane Ginnane
I have the complete 9 CD Online Library OS/390 Collection, dated September 1998, SK2T-6700-10. If anyone has any use for it, I will gladly mail them the CDs and the IBM binder. lol ... I just looked at my rack - finding a -05 and a -19 (no others). The latter was kept as it had the last

Top posting

2012-07-29 Thread Shane Ginnane
Might I request the luminaries of the list perhaps indulge those of us unfortunate enough to be using the (severely crippled) web interface and *top post* in replies ?. That way we may get the gist of the response from mouse over without having to select every post. Yes, that is how bad things

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-26 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:38:14 +, Bill Fairchild wrote: Perhaps Occam was the most devious conspirator ever. Hmmm - personally Hanlon's razor has always had (more) appeal. Shane ... (fortunately my tussles with the site seemed to have spared me most of this thread)

Re: useful? XML encoded SMF.

2012-07-25 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:00:47 +0200, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: ... ??? Lol - well, what followed didn't transcribe too well. Interesting product - some time ago I looked at knocking up some C code to ship RMF data from the Distributor down to a Linux client so I could do a poor

Re: Who's blacklisting IBM-MAIN

2012-07-25 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:13:50 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: And access to the archives is unbearably slow to impossible from elsewhere. Likewise profundo. Getting a full listing of (this) month on the web interface can take days (of attempting to refresh the page) to accomplish. And I though it

Re: Secure Encryption Keys vs Protected Keys

2012-07-10 Thread Shane Ginnane
Shane, just curious - why? I will defer to Gregs subsequent response which pretty-well hit it on the head. I spin through my mail first thing in the morning. And for us in Aus that usually means after threads have had time to ripen somewhat overnight. Often that means run off track, but in this

Re: Shrinking a ZFS aggregate

2012-07-04 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 10:00:44 +0300, GADI wrote: I have a ZFS aggregate that I would like to shrink. IS there a way to do this, and tell it the final size I want it to be? ROTFLMAO ... C'mon Gadi, where's the business case. IBM want you to buy more not less. It should be noted that the

Re: Sad News About Rick Fochtman

2012-07-02 Thread Shane Ginnane
Sorry folks, that wasn't supposed to hit the list. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Account transfer error

2012-06-20 Thread Shane Ginnane
Pffft - only a mill and a half. The kiwis do it properly lol http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18406004 Shane ... On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 01:25:35 -0500, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com wrote: Bank of America transfers a LaSalle Bank account, and allows unlimited withdraw. In 17

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