Re: IEAIPS parmlib member

2016-06-02 Thread TeD MacNEIL
Lower: 1.3 or 1.4, IRC. Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Bell network.   Original Message   From: Steve Beaver Sent: Thursday, June 2, 2016 15:19 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: IEAIPS parmlib member About OS390 1.6 or so

Re: SUSPEND/RESUME is slower than WAIT/POST. PAUSE/RELEASE is slower than both.

2016-05-26 Thread TeD MacNEIL
He said z13 & ‎z/OS2.2. Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Bell network.   Original Message   From: michelbutz Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2016 13:35 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: SUSPEND/RESUME is slower than WAIT/POST. PAUSE/RELEASE is

Re: What was a 3314? (was: Whither VIO)

2016-05-19 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Memory is abundant‎ in most shops and cheap overall. So, why all fuss about VIO? Make s decision, implement it, forget it. -teD   Original Message   From: Norman.Hollander Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 12:19 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: What

Re: Mirror/back up your Development DASD

2016-05-19 Thread Ted MacNEIL
You may, if the source changed after the last backup. -teD   Original Message   From: van der Grijn, Bart (B) Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 11:24 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Mirror/back up your Development DASD Andy, we mirror our production

Re: JCL "COMMAND" statements - Follow-up question

2016-05-17 Thread Ted MacNEIL
OC is part of OPS/MVS. So you need to look in its libraries. -teD   Original Message   From: Jeremy Nicoll Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 07:30 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: JCL "COMMAND" statements - Follow-up question On Tue, 17 May 2016, at

Re: z890 in my basement

2016-05-16 Thread Ted MacNEIL
into English please? :) On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Ted MacNEIL < 010d3e53f7a3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > He deserves the internship of ot more! > > -teD > Original Message > From: Mark Post > Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 16:00 > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.ED

Re: Dataset space information

2016-05-16 Thread Ted MacNEIL
VTOCIX is the index -- required for SMS, along with the VVDS. The VTOC is unnamed. -teD   Original Message   From: michelbutz Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2016 11:29 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Dataset space information Hi I need to obtain dataset

Re: Alter access to datasets

2016-05-16 Thread Ted MacNEIL
In an ideal world: 1. Subject ma‎tter experts set the guidelines (with mgt approval) 2. Auditors have no authourity, they merely report. 3. Compliance officers enforce the rules. -teD   Original Message   From: Arthur Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 00:31 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM

Re: WLM issue with a proposed solution

2016-05-16 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Dispatching priorities mean nothing if the work is getting done. You're using the WLM; you should learn and use its terminology. -teD   Original Message   From: Tracy Adams Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 15:57 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: WLM

Re: PDS I/O Performance Improvement

2016-05-16 Thread Ted MacNEIL
That's the way PDS's work. Bigger directory more connect time. Member access is trivial. -teD   Original Message   From: Kreiter IBM-Main Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 08:33 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: PDS I/O Performance Improvement Hello,

Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge

2016-05-15 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Years ago (pre-9) respacks had ‎to be 'split up'. Now, we ask the risk! -teD   Original Message   From: Lucas Rosalen Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 05:14 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge As far as I have seen, it's

Re: z890 in my basement

2016-05-15 Thread Ted MacNEIL
He deserves the internship of ot more! -teD   Original Message   From: Mark Post Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 16:00 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: z890 in my basement >>> On 4/19/2016 at 03:11 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: >

Re: Using TYPE=MEMORY (or VIO?)

2016-05-09 Thread Ted MacNEIL
SYS IO is, I believe, the original name shipped for VIO. A lot of shops added the 'new' since that's what was in the instructional books. -teD   Original Message   From: Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Friday, May 6, 2016 13:01 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject:

Re: Religion provides statistical proof of the Creation of our civilization. This is .. really ... the Apocalypse. Today, see Eden and Exodus in superposition.

2016-03-28 Thread Ted MacNEIL
How can you even have a semblance of logic intertwined with faith? Go drink the kool-aid! -teD   Original Message   From: Adam M. Dobrin Sent: Monday, March 28, 2016 07:29 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Fwd: Religion provides statistical proof

Re: Religion provides statistical proof of the Creation of our civilization. This is .. really ... the Apocalypse. Today, see Eden and Exodus in superposition.

2016-03-27 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Our religious beliefs are our business. This is SPAM! -teD   Original Message   From: Adam M. Dobrin Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2016 16:31 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Religion provides statistical proof of the Creation of our civilization. This

Re: Grace didn't coin the term "bug"?

2016-03-18 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Relay #70. -teD   Original Message   From: John Ehrman Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 00:17 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Grace didn't coin the term "bug"? The association of bugs with computers may go back to the Mark I (I think it was) relay

Re: Grace didn't coin the term "bug"?

2016-03-18 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Yes, it was. -teD   Original Message   From: Clark Morris Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 09:09 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Grace didn't coin the term "bug"? On 18 Mar 2016 05:18:44 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main Ted wrote: >Relay #70. Was

Re: Grace didn't coin the term "bug"?

2016-03-16 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Smithson. It was a moth caught in relay 71 -teD   Original Message   From: CM Poncelet Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 22:08 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Grace didn't coin the term "bug"? AFAIK The original Grace Hopper 'bug' was an actual bug

Re: Cannot allocate Steplib?

2016-03-13 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I saw some documentation, dated 1981, talking about TSOLIB. It's been around a long time. -teD   Original Message   From: Edward Finnell Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2016 03:25 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Cannot allocate Steplib? Maybe that's why

Re: Cannot allocate Steplib?

2016-03-12 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I believe there are/were(?) products that allow(ed) dynamic allocation of steplib, but you never could do it with raw (native) TSO. -teD   Original Message   From: Tony Harminc Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2016 01:10 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re:

Re: This is it... the (shortened) #Apocalypse. A message from Adam, your Messiah.

2016-03-12 Thread Ted MacNEIL
This is SPAM. Totally unsolicited and unrelated to the list serve's topic. NOT interested!! -teD   Original Message   From: Adam Marshall Dobrin Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2016 02:10 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Fwd: This is it... the (shortened)

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Corrupt PDSE dataset

2016-03-11 Thread Ted MacNEIL
IBM has always stated that you CANNOT share a PDSE outside SYSPLEX boundaries without a risk of corruption. It sounds like you did just that.  That's a big OOPS! -teD   Original Message   From: R.S. Sent: Friday, March 11, 2016 10:29 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe

Re: How long can a TSO command be?

2016-03-10 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I believe a path can be up to 1024. -teD   Original Message   From: Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 20:04 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: How long can a TSO command be? On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 17:38:27 -0500, Steve Thompson wrote: >On

Re: [SURVEY] What ISPF terminal model do you use

2016-03-10 Thread Ted MacNEIL
It wasn't private. -teD   Original Message   From: Farley, Peter x23353 Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 10:36 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: [SURVEY] What ISPF terminal model do you use David, I'm replying privately rather than to the list so as

Re: Does everybody use chargeback?

2016-03-09 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I've worked for, and as a customer of, many sites with chargeback in place. Your two vectors were RARELY taken into account! Some even tried to do capacity management with the data. "Oh look! The unit cost per transaction is going down! We DO NOT need an upgrade!" Funny thing, aside from

Re: Does everybody use chargeback?

2016-03-08 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Your first example is not necessarily bad behavior. I bet it performed! -teD   Original Message   From: Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Wednesday, March 9, 2016 00:59 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Does everybody use chargeback? Ah, bad or perverse

Re: rexx and tso alllocate

2016-03-02 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Why not just create a VBA file with a very long LRECL and not worry about it at all? Longer  LRECLs don't introduce any more ov‎eReader than short ones. -teD   Original Message   From: Kjell Holmborg Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 02:54 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe

Re: CBU test

2016-02-29 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Best question! When I ran the tests we never considered anything smaller than the full size of our CBU agreement. -teD   Original Message   From: Ambros, Thomas Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 15:38 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: CBU test I

Re: Debugging APAR statement

2016-02-28 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I Googled IBM APAR closing codes and found a doc in the IBM Knowledge Centre. You could have done this, too. -teD   Original Message   From: Peter Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2016 09:31 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Debugging APAR statement Hi

Re: WLM managed initiators

2016-02-28 Thread Ted MacNEIL
me to a manual? Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2016 12:58 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: WLM managed initiators Per system? Per PLEX‎? Also, what happens

Re: WLM managed initiators

2016-02-28 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Per system? Per PLEX‎? Also, what happens if there aren't enough resources to support that minimum? Have a look at Resource Classes. It may ‎answer your needs -- it's based on resources rather than jobs. -teD   Original Message   From: גדי בן אבי Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2016 04:37 To:

Re: Prefix save area - confused

2016-02-25 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Not confused. Just didn't remember the hardware correctly. But, I do remember the complaints for 4K out of an entire HIPERSPACE. -teD   Original Message   From: Jim Mulder Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 02:15 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re:

Re: Prefix save area - confused

2016-02-25 Thread Ted MacNEIL
With ESA it was 'absolute' zero. I remember because we had users complain about the unusable portion of a HIPERSPACE which was the PSA. -teD   Original Message   From: Robert Hahne Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 01:36 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject:

Re: Outsourcing Stories Good or Bad!

2016-02-25 Thread Ted MacNEIL
What he said! -teD   Original Message   From: Savor, Thomas (Alpharetta) Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 19:39 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Outsourcing Stories Good or Bad! Vignesh, Until you have had your job (your way of life) ripped away

Re: Introducing the New z13s: Tim's Hardware Highlights

2016-02-24 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Those Christmas/Birthday cards that 'sing' when you open them contain, individually, more computing power than was on the face of the planet in 1950. -teD   Original Message   From: zMan Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 21:00 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Lower ibm-main

2016-02-03 Thread Ted MacNEIL
In general, e-mail servers are case insensitive. -teD   Original Message   From: Ed Finnell Sent: Wednesday, February 3, 2016 02:47 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Lower ibm-main Hopefully it doesn't matter and either case will be routed to the

Re: Lower ibm-main

2016-02-03 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I said "in general" -teD   Original Message   From: Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, February 3, 2016 13:33 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Lower ibm-main On 2016-02-03, at 05:43, Ted MacNEIL wrote: > In general, e-mail ser

Re: RMF monitor III panel restriction

2016-02-02 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I don't really understand 'the security reason'. I can't think of anything that RMF shows you that would be a security exposure. -teD   Original Message   From: Adnan Can Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2016 07:14 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: RMF

Re: [Bulk] Re: IEFSSREQ SSOBUSER Validate A JES2 Destid

2016-01-29 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I think the IKJ message is from send/receive. -teD   Original Message   From: Tony Harminc Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 00:42 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: IEFSSREQ SSOBUSER Validate A JES2 Destid On 29 January 2016 at 00:02, Skip

Re: z13 BC????

2016-01-27 Thread Ted MacNEIL
404 not found -teD   Original Message   From: Ed Finnell Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2016 16:25 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: z13 BC They've been doing announcements around SHARE so might be a good place to find out more faster. WSC's Harv

Re: the Queen of Coding - Adm. Grace Hoper

2016-01-24 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I always thought it was a relay. -teD   Original Message   From: Ed Finnell Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 01:17 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: the Queen of Coding - Adm. Grace Hoper Chicken fried moth between the vacuum tubes. In a message

Re: SMFxTME field

2016-01-08 Thread Ted MacNEIL
That that is is that that is not is not is that it it is - -teD -   Original Message   From: Ed Finnell Sent: Friday, January 8, 2016 03:33 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: SMFxTME field That that is is that that is not is not? In a message

Re: Change CPC name in HMC

2016-01-07 Thread Ted MacNEIL
We 'had' to do this, once. IBM originally recommended that LPAR names be independent of the 'name' of the image name running within it. Then, with GDPS, they recommended the reverse. The implementation went without a hitch. All our reporting/billing? Not so well. - -teD -   Original Message  

Re: BPXBATCH "SH ...; su; pax ..." does not do what you think it does

2015-12-29 Thread Ted MacNEIL
If you understand how UNIX works, this is quite sensible. See how the ISPF interface to USS works. - -teD -   Original Message   From: Alan Young Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 12:13 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: BPXBATCH "SH ...; su; pax

Re: slight reprieve on the z.

2015-12-18 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Obviously misinformed! - -teD -   Original Message   From: Mike Schwab Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 05:21 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: slight reprieve on the z. They are running the LAST IMS MAINFRAME in North America in 2003? Why does IBM

Re: TAR Files:" Extracting" on a IBM Mainframe

2015-12-18 Thread Ted MacNEIL
It was converted from PASCAL for OS/390 1.7 (1990's). So, any doc would be of that vintage - -teD -   Original Message   From: Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 06:21 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: TAR Files:" Extracting" on a

Re: HCD Switch Report

2015-12-09 Thread Ted MacNEIL
If you're interfacing with ISPF programmes then ISPEXEC SELECT works, as well. I've done it for years. Of course, you have to have a valid ISPF environment set up. - -teD -   Original Message   From: Ravi Gaur Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2015 05:12 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM

Re: HCD Switch Report

2015-12-08 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Did you try using ISPF Services to load it? I believe: address ISPEXEC "SELECT PGM()" Or it might be CMD - -teD -   Original Message   From: Lizette Koehler Sent: Tuesday, December 8, 2015 22:14 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: HCD

Re: IBM z Systems Development Blog

2015-12-07 Thread Ted MacNEIL
'. Check John's original 24x7x365. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: 07 December, 2015 9:09 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM z Systems Development Blog 24x7x52 is already a year (less a few days

Re: IBM z Systems Development Blog

2015-12-07 Thread Ted MacNEIL
‎In Texas Hold'em is what I was talking about. - -teD -   Original Message   From: Randy Hudson Sent: Sunday, December 6, 2015 23:03 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: IBM z Systems Development Blog In article

Re: IBM z Systems Development Blog

2015-12-07 Thread Ted MacNEIL
24x7x52 is already a year (less a few days). Multiplying by 365 makes it 365 yrars. - -teD -   Original Message   From: Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM Sent: Monday, December 7, 2015 02:35 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: IBM z Systems Development Blog

Re: OT: How much does software weigh? (was:What's a "ton" of JCL?)

2015-12-04 Thread Ted MacNEIL
It is true, we only use the holes in the punchcards.' Kees. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: 04 December, 2015 6:33 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: OT: What's a "ton" of JCL? Is that

Re: IBM z Systems Development Blog

2015-12-04 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Easier to get a Royal Flush. 265,000:1 - -teD -   Original Message   From: Vince Coen Sent: Friday, December 4, 2015 16:17 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: IBM z Systems Development Blog The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation - UK) does *NOT*

Re: OT: What's a "ton" of JCL?

2015-12-03 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Is that counting the weight of the boxes themselves? - -teD -   Original Message   From: Thomas Kern Sent: Friday, December 4, 2015 00:14 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: OT: What's a "ton" of JCL? Approximately 274905 cards. 2000 cards per box

Re: WLM and Dispatching Priority

2015-11-26 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Put monitors in SYSSTC. This gives them the second highest DP in the system. You cannot completely control the DP in Service Classes. - -teD -   Original Message   From: phil yogendran Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 11:02 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: CC usage in Germany (Europe) [WAS: Were you at SHARE in Seattle? Watch your credit card statements!]

2015-11-23 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Our cards are still embossed here in Canada. - -teD -   Original Message   From: Smith III, Phil (HP Data Security (Voltage)) Sent: Monday, November 23, 2015 17:52 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: CC usage in Germany (Europe) [WAS: Were you at

Re: Interesting Article About Cobol

2015-11-23 Thread Ted MacNEIL
My understanding is that ABO is not required for modern COBOL compilers. Only for the 'old' binarys. - -teD -   Original Message   From: Lizette Koehler Sent: Monday, November 23, 2015 09:47 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Interesting Article

Re: (External):Re: Deleting all members of a pds

2015-11-20 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Or, more recent versions of IDCAMS. - -teD -   Original Message   From: J O Skip Robinson Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2015 19:07 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: (External):Re: Deleting all members of a pds Can also be accomplished with PDS[85]

Re: SMF/RMF Reporting question

2015-11-20 Thread Ted MacNEIL
ERBRMFPP Comes free. See the RMF USER'S GUIDE - -teD -   Original Message   From: Lizette Koehler Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 08:50 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: SMF/RMF Reporting question Do you have any tools like

Re: Fastest way to read OLDEST GDG entry

2015-11-17 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Versioning - -teD -   Original Message   From: Peter Hunkeler Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2015 16:42 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: AW: Re: Fastest way to read OLDEST GDG entry > What makes "V00" ever Vnn, where N<>0? IIRC, the system does not

Re: Releasing Orphan Storage without IPL

2015-10-30 Thread Ted MacNEIL
You can do it (carefully) with OMEGAMON, but it's error-prone and tricky (as previously stated). It's documented in a separate manual that the vendor advises be kept under lock and key, which I agree with. We let people free up CCA on the development box, since the alternative was an IPL.

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

2015-10-27 Thread Ted MacNEIL
What's so special about Sunday? I used to work for an international bank. Sunday. Was no excuse for an outage! - -teD -   Original Message   From: Vince Coen Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 07:11 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: RE-IPL for the

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

2015-10-26 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I've been wondering how long it would take for time-change questions to start. It's a little later this year. - -teD -   Original Message   From: Charles Mills Sent: Monday, October 26, 2015 17:29 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: RE-IPL for the

Re: IEAVAPE2/IEAVPSE2 another address space

2015-10-18 Thread Ted MacNEIL
So, why michelbutz? - -teD -   Original Message   From: michelbutz Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2015 19:44 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: IEAVAPE2/IEAVPSE2 another address space Thank you My real name is Joseph Reichman And I have licensed

Re: IBM Mobile Systems Remote

2015-10-16 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Is it? We had people supporting that from home because the company was trying to get more to work that way because it was cheaper than the cost of having them in the office. - -teD -   Original Message   From: Clark Morris Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 11:59 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply

Re: CICS suffering from Page-In delay: Page Stealing versus Paging Out

2015-10-09 Thread Ted MacNEIL
There is an option in the WLM to make a service class memory critical. It was designed especially for this issue with CICS. If CICS is not requesting the page out, this will protect all the regions in the service class. - -teD -   Original Message   From: Peter Hunkeler Sent: Friday, October 9,

Re: Subscribing to IBM-MAIN

2015-10-08 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Don't use the angle brackets. It's just notation - -teD -   Original Message   From: Ed Finnell Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2015 18:20 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Subscribing to IBM-MAIN Darren will probably respond when he gets off his day

Re: How to limit tiny SMS-managed VSAM KSDS to one volume?

2015-09-30 Thread Ted MacNEIL
What problems are you attempting to solve by enforcing this? - -teD -   Original Message   From: Farley, Peter x23353 Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 12:25 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: How to limit tiny SMS-managed VSAM KSDS to one volume? I

Re: How to limit tiny SMS-managed VSAM KSDS to one volume?

2015-09-30 Thread Ted MacNEIL
[mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 12:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How to limit tiny SMS-managed VSAM KSDS to one volume? What problems are you attempting to solve by enforcing this? - -teD -   Original Message   From

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

2015-09-27 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Model 204: The Bank of Nova Scotia (under VM) Becker's The Canadian Depository and Clearing Corporation To name but 3. - -teD -   Original Message   From: Anthony Thompson Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2015 02:48 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re:

Re: Testing with dates in the future

2015-09-23 Thread Ted MacNEIL
We did for Y2K. - -teD -   Original Message   From: Markus Haselbach Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 04:55 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Testing with dates in the future Hallo, in our installation we do application testing with special dates

Re: Dataset enqueue, how to find the culprit.

2015-09-18 Thread Ted MacNEIL
There is NO SUCH THINGS as a culprit! They are just doing their job and so are you. They just happened to collide. - -teD -   Original Message   From: Richard Pinion Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 14:31 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Dataset

Re: RSU or maintenance level on a system

2015-09-16 Thread Ted MacNEIL
What would the auditors gain with this knowledge? - -teD -   Original Message   From: Jousma, David Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 08:30 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: RSU or maintenance level on a system IBM is correct. No way to do that.

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

2015-09-10 Thread Ted MacNEIL
There are a couple of shops in Toronto that use it. It was developed by a couple of. CROWN TECH/DATACROWN ex-employees. - -teD -   Original Message   From: Shane Ginnane Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 14:52 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re:

Re: LOADING An AMODE64 Program

2015-08-11 Thread Ted MacNEIL
It was -- divisible by 400. - -teD -   Original Message   From: Jon Butler Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 11:16 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: LOADING An AMODE64 Program Did she realize 2000 was not a leap year?

Re: Limit number of frames of real storage per job

2015-08-04 Thread Ted MacNEIL
1. IiRC, V=R is no longer supported. I could be wrong -- it happens sometimes. 2. The reason for the 'high' frame count is because the job needs‎ them. Limiting them, yourself if it were possible, would strangle the job. z/OS (srm/wlm) knows best as to who needs what and, in general, it's

Re: Limit number of frames of real storage per job

2015-08-04 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Okay. I knew I might have been wrong. - -teD -   Original Message   From: John Eells Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2015 13:01 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Limit number of frames of real storage per job eamacn...@yahoo.ca (Ted MacNEIL) wrote: 1

Re: XCF HELP!

2015-07-30 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Which is worse? The alleged SPOF? Or, what happens when GRSRNLxx doesn't match? - -teD -   Original Message   From: Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 10:51 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: XCF HELP! Better? I don't like

Re: XCF HELP!

2015-07-30 Thread Ted MacNEIL
SPOF - Single Point of Failure I don't need to see the post: that was my point! - -teD -   Original Message   From: Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 11:22 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: XCF HELP! Ted MacNEIL wrote: Which

Re: Article on COBOL's inevitable return

2015-07-29 Thread Ted MacNEIL
of a Cobol book - Cobol unleashed! . Vince Cobol since 1963, IT since 1961 (from 1403, 7094, 360/30 et al). On 29/07/15 17:20, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 12:11:56 -0400, Ted MacNEIL wrote: Why is it so ludicrous? The USDOD did develop COBOL for some reasom. And a generation

Re: Article on COBOL's inevitable return

2015-07-29 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Why is it so ludicrous? The USDOD did develop COBOL for some reasom. - -teD -   Original Message   From: zMan Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2015 11:28 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Article on COBOL's inevitable return Fairly decent except for

Re: Article on COBOL's inevitable return

2015-07-29 Thread Ted MacNEIL
for code written for DoD projects, but DoD is not [yet] omnipotent. JC Ewing On 07/29/2015 12:04 PM, Ted MacNEIL wrote: Hence NOT ludicrous! - -teD - Original Message From: Vince Coen Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2015 12:54 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: model-9 and model-27 mixture

2015-07-20 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I'm constantly amazed at the number of times this type of question still comes u‎p considering how long the technology has been around! - -teD -   Original Message   From: Buckton, T. (Theo) Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 10:32 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Corrupt PDSE

2015-07-15 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Look into the fact that you can't share PDSE's across SYSPLEX's. - -teD -   Original Message   From: Jake Anderson Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 17:31 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Corrupt PDSE Hello, I get below message when i try to access a

Re: SMS ACS ROUTINE VARIABLES

2015-07-03 Thread Ted MacNEIL
A point of curiosity. Why are your users not allowed to create PDSE datasets? - -teD -   Original Message   From: willie bunter Sent: Friday, July 3, 2015 09:34 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: SMS ACS ROUTINE VARIABLES I saw the USER variable in

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

2015-07-02 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Statistics can always show what you think you want. But, showing 24-hour averages doesn't prove a lack of performance impact. You're doing your customers a disservice if you don't demonstrate the impact during peak times. 10-15 minute duration. - -teD -   Original Message   From: Toni Cecil

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

2015-07-02 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Less money usually means less skill, too. So it seems from my experience up here in Canada. (less care, too) - -teD -   Original Message   From: Leonard Sasso Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2015 13:36 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Forbes: IT

Re: SMFDUMP CBT S0C4 under z/OS 2.1

2015-06-22 Thread Ted MacNEIL
The IBM supplied utility IFASMFDP. - -teD -   Original Message   From: Rich Szabo Sent: Monday, June 22, 2015 00:32 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: SMFDUMP CBT S0C4 under z/OS 2.1 SMFDUMP V10 from the CBT tape is giving us a S0C4 under z/OS 2.1.

Re: How is CAMASTER started?

2015-06-19 Thread Ted MacNEIL
So, how is it done? - -teD -   Original Message   From: Scott Fagen Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 17:59 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: How is CAMASTER started? On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 11:12:27 +0200, nitz-...@gmx.net nitz-...@gmx.net wrote: Does

Re: OT STCK question

2015-06-17 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: OT STCK question Aw geez, where's Gilmore when we need him? On 6/17/2015 3:48 PM, Ted MacNEIL wrote: It's generally for generic usage. It's okay when used colloquially, ie: Pat enjoys a drink when he's alone. OR: Pat enjoys a drink when she's alone

Re: OT STCK question

2015-06-17 Thread Ted MacNEIL
It's generally for generic usage. It's okay when used colloquially, ie: Pat enjoys a drink when he's alone. OR: Pat enjoys a drink when she's alone. Exaggerated examples are akin to straw-person arguments. - -teD -   Original Message   From: Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 16:31

Re: Is there any tools or interface which could analyse or monitor SYS1.MANX directly?

2015-06-15 Thread Ted MacNEIL
'waste' depends on frequency of use, ease of maintenance, skill set(s), AND impact to th 4HRA. - -teD -   Original Message   From: David Crayford Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 10:46 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Is there any tools or interface

Re: OT STCK question

2015-06-12 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Canada and the US: two countries separated by a common language. - -teD -   Original Message   From: J O Skip Robinson Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 14:21 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: OT STCK question My head is about to explode. In US English

Re: GRS Control Unit ( Was IBM mainframe operations in the 80s)

2015-06-12 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Now I remember! In 1981, I had to go in when I was on nights (mornings) and switch all the printers over. - -teD -   Original Message   From: Norman.Hollander Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 12:17 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: GRS Control Unit (

Re: OT STCK question

2015-06-11 Thread Ted MacNEIL
‎A common choice, at least in Canada, is to use the plural pro-noun, since, in English, it in gender neutral. It's difficult to get used to, at first. - -teD -   Original Message   From: Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 10:46 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe

Re: IND$FILE Resource Log Monitoring

2015-06-11 Thread Ted MacNEIL
It was the TV show. - -teD -   Original Message   From: Tony's Outlook via Mozilla Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 22:11 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: IND$FILE Resource Log Monitoring Not wishing to be a Black Hat and not wanting to think like a

Re: OT STCK question

2015-06-11 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I don't know about politically correct. But, it is recommended in the Canadian Press Book of Style. - -teD -   Original Message   From: Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 18:11 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: OT STCK question On Thu, 11

Re: List of all on-line volumes com106.226.661

2015-05-29 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Sorry. Spellchecker -- OH should read OC. - -teD‎ -   Original Message   From: Ted MacNEIL Sent: Friday, May 29, 2015 11:11 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: List of all on-line volumes com106.226.661 OH is part of OPS/REXX which is part of OPS/MVS

Re: List of all on-line volumes com106.226.661

2015-05-29 Thread Ted MacNEIL
OH is part of OPS/REXX which is part of OPS/MVS, iirc. - -teD -   Original Message   From: Jousma, David Sent: Friday, May 29, 2015 10:01 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: List of all on-line volumes com106.226.661 I suspect OC is a site REXX exec

Re: Did I really need a CLIST???

2015-05-24 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Real programmers don't document code  It was hard to write; it should be hard to read! - -teD -   Original Message   From: CM Poncelet Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2015 20:35 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Did I really need a CLIST??? I spake in jest

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