Sometimes, Seymour does make idiotic
comments.
Sometimes?
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I've been a perf/cap analyst since 1981, and I can unequivocally state that the
original statement is specious! Upgrades are cheaper than they were, but
they're still not free! And, I've been fighting against capacity based pricing
sin tiers were introduced in 1984. It is still cheaper to
CA-NEUMICS used to have an accounting component. It probably still does.
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Is there a reason that it needs
their word as LAW :-) So I have had to do some
ridiculous things for the Auditors!
I think that was Ted MacNeil who always said that (more or less this) :
'Auditors recommend. Management Enforce!'
But, when I try to have my users comply to do something, I said this According
to Management
The active voice must always be ysed.
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Passive voice = weaseling
Mistakes were made
monitor III, panel 'PU'
On 31 January 2015 at 05:17, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca wrote:
There are also interval accounting which can do that.
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There are also interval accounting which can do that.
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On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn
Of Ted MacNEIL
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I'm one of those types.
The governor pretty well guarantees a re-submission.
Which means twice the resources (or more) spent to do nothing!
How can
I'm one of those types.
The governor pretty well guarantees a re-submission.
Which means twice the resources (or more) spent to do nothing!
How can they debug/tune something if we don't let complete?
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I was told that System Programming would be reduced to PARMLIB updates. Circa
1981.
And..
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Started Task Control
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Any guesses what STC *means*? Started TasC?
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Peter
: What are STC, JOB and TSU?
W dniu 2014-11-20 o 21:39, Paul Gilmartin pisze:
On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 14:04:37 -0500, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
Started Task Control
This was only confusing to me when I worked for Storage Technology Corporation
and was new to MVS.
Well, when I was working as Storagetek
Since you do NOT include any excerpts from other replies, I'm sure your
responses are unintelligible.
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Unfortunately, in the case of SMS, you have to write the message.
It's rigged for silent running.
PS: There a lot of people who hate verbose systems.
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Ethel Merman
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What about companies that allow HMC access from home?
I used to work for one.
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Security Vulnerability: CVE-2014-6271
CVE-2014-7169
W dniu 2014-10-01 o 19:02, Ted MacNEIL pisze:
What about companies that allow HMC access from home?
I used to work for one.
Did you use bash?
Note: As I said, I'm talking about this vulnerability, not about any
possible vulnerability.
BTW
1985? You're just a young'un.
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FWIW the vast majority of my customer set have multiple engines in
Ethel Merman
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1st about being Lazy, I hear ya, queue up
Library management services under ISPF -- LM*
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Is there any
Use LMSTATS others -- it's there!
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To further my
, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca wrote:
Native TSO EDIT does not have a bounds command.
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TSO commands that
provide (all but unknown and unused) line-mode analogs to a few ISPF
facilities with similar names, e.g. COPY, ASM, LINK, LISTCAT, etc.
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca wrote:
Native TSO EDIT does not have a bounds command.
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Native TSO EDIT does not have a bounds command.
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It was not clear if you are using NATIVE TSO EDIT or
Shouldn't the real question be: Why are my sort files staying around after the
job's complete?
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SMS management class
?
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Shouldn't the real question be: Why are my sort files staying around after
No. The recovery dataset is under the original user's prefix.
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On 2014-06-27, at 07:21, Vernooij, CP (SPLXM)
As Barry stated, look at the SMF Type26
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executing on a different
I've worked for a bank and a wholesaler that both routinely ran at 100%.
Service levels were met, but people were always griping about the usage.
As John said, no harm no foul.
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I don't believe the answer to (1) is YES if the vendor recommends it (which I'm
assuming since you said 'needs').
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RMF monitor I
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Hello,
in older archives I found the assembler program PUAUXMON, a small utility to
monitor auxiliary
/Thunk_%28compatibility_mapping%29
Kind regards
Bernd
Am 24.04.2014 23:36, schrieb Ted MacNEIL:
Early compiler writers used the term for languages that used 'call by name'
sub-routines (such as FORTRAN) when something like an expression was passed.
A 'thunking' routine was built
I rather not say anything about the errors [1] inside a spreadsheet program
like Excel, which will be missed if you're not extra special careful. Even for
that, there are specialised software to help you to spot errors in a
spreadsheet. A well trained spreadsheet user will catch those errors
I agree! And teachers are making it worse. When my older son did a science
project once there were a lot of spelling and grammatical errors. Not only did
the teacher not even bother to flag them; she said it was not her job to
correct them -- she was science not English!
When I went through, I
ERROR couldn't resolve host name
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You'd think IBM would make a documentary or something? Here's what we
I got a 404 error.
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My button collection www.mxg.com/TheButtonMan,
Have you got multiple periods in the associated WLM Service Class?
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The CPU
I learned at Mc Master in 1973.
WOW!
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Wow, I'm getting old. I learned basic at the
The following items should be noted when using the concatenate function:
...
If the data sets have different block sizes, you must specify the data set
with the largest block size first. ...
Didn't they remove that restriction last year?
A lot longer ago than last year.
Pre-z/OS,
.',999,CONCAT)
TSOEXEC LISTA ST
X = OUTTRAP('OFF')
etc.
and in e.g. (for Clist):
PROC 0 NODE() UID()
CONTROL END(ENDO)
IF UID = THEN SET UID = SYSUID
OPENFILE SYSIN INPUT
GETFILE SYSIN
DO WHILE MAXCC = 0
TSOEXEC TRANSMIT NODE..UID NOTIFY STR(SYSIN)
GETFILE SYSIN
ENDO
etc.
Ted MacNEIL wrote
Sorry, you do need it for transmit, but not for lista.
Apples oranges.
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But, do you need it?
My
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Do you mean not if there is an ADDRESS TSO before the LISTA? ('From
memory' as it takes 40 mins to IPL my machine.)
Ted MacNEIL wrote:
Sorry, you do need it for transmit, but not for lista
if LISTA is issued from Clist or
REXX ... which is what I was thinking of :-(
Ted MacNEIL wrote:
You don't need the TSOEXEC for LISTA.
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You don't need the TSOEXEC for LISTA.
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You can store/execute a REXX exec in your Clist library if you
IBM: We make mistakes so you don't have too!
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IBM has a strategy? Wow, that's a huge leap forward from what we've seen
Out of context!
I have NO idea what you mean!
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Data sets.
Bob Shannon
Rocket Software
It has been around long before SYSPLEX of any sort.
We called it 'Shared SPOOL'. Now it's Multi-Access SPOOL (MAS).
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W
VM was around in 1967. Iirc.
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Subject: Re: Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
Close. OS/VS2 was released having been already pre-morphed
I think your dates are wrong.
VM was CP67 released in guess what year?
MVS was first released in 1974.
SVS was OS/VS1 and MVS was OS/VS2, IIRC.
I'm sure, if I'm wrong, somebody'll correct me.
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A lot of non-military people in Canada use it.
Especially in IT.
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Subject: Re: Another reason to hate the time change
In Europe we used the 24 hr
When I worked for the Ontario government in the early 1980's, we had four
3033's all named after the original colours that they had been as 370's. They
were all blue by the time I started working there, but there we signs over each
one stating which colour they were and you could use the
Actually, wouldn't you say the production of the dump rather than the
suppression of such?
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Good news/bad news. Good news, I
Pride? Maybe.
But, a few have misinterpreted my comments.
I didn't say don't optimise.
I said why worry about a few instructions?
Even inside a loop, one instruction would have have to be executed a great
amount before it can/will impact MSU based costs.
Also, it have to be executed
Careful. In Canada the first four digits identify the issuer.
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On 2/18/2014 2:08 PM, Phil Smith
I have to ask: Why they big concern over a few instructions?
Optimisation of a few is not worth the effort
these days.
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On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote:
On 2014-02-17, at 10:36, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
I have to ask: Why they big concern over a few instructions?
Optimisation of a few is not worth the
effort these days.
Hmmm... No single instruction is worth
Actually IBM stopped recommending the 1/3 up the pack with 3380-D/E. In the
1980's. I made the old recommendation and they corrected me.
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From: Pommier, Rex
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 10:02
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As for location, in a distant galaxy long ago, SLED DASD liked VTOC and
VVDS (did that exist then?) located in the middle of the volume to
minimize head movement. (Nod if you agree.) That pra
It stopped nattering long before RAID came out.
3380-K was when IBM stopped recommending it.
Sent
It's not just VSAM.
SMS datasets use the VVDS, as well.
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Should ask on CICS-l.
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I know this is loading a gun :), but do any of
Hopefully, they are not counting time spent resolving page faults and such
that _validly_ belong in uncaptured time today.
I was taught by IBM that was in *MASTEr* SRB time.
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300,000 Kilometres per Second
Not only is it a good idea!
It's the LAW!!!
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On 2/3/2014 9:38 AM, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
Hopefully, they are not counting
the detailed MVS capture ratio discussions imply that MVS isn't even bothering
to do the clock accounting for large parts of the kernel (and in some cases
has been as high as 60%).
A long time ago, in a lab far far away, IBM made a (possibly erroneous)
decision when CPU was expensive to not
What blanket statement?
There are so many posts to this list, that if you don't quote part of what
you're responding to, nobody will understand you.
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There is probably a start-up overhead that is fixed, regardless of the
transaction rate.
So, the more transactions running the lower this per transaction cost appears.
Example:
Assumptions:
Fixed overhead: 10 seconds
Cost/transaction: 1 second
For one transaction: 10+1 = 11 seconds/tx
vm370 did accurately track time used ... but mvs is quite a bit sloppier ...
which gives rise to capture ratio ... ratio cpu accounted
for compared to total cpu busy.
I've been doing capacity planning since 1981.
VM is better than MVS, but it's not 100% accurate.
No software monitor can be.
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that was used by the task and by MVS.
Alas it is (AFAIK) no longer marketed.
Ed
On Jan 31, 2014, at 11:12 PM, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
vm370 did accurately track time used ... but mvs is quite a bit
sloppier ... which gives rise to capture ratio ... ratio cpu
accounted
for compared to total cpu busy
I truly believe that one ID per person with the ability to sign on once per
LPAR (and share the same ISPPROF) is simpler to implement.
I don't believe that the typical user needs multiple userids to do their job.
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300,000 Kilometres per Second
Not only is it a good idea!
It's the LAW!!!
When I said I truly believe anything more than one userid was needed by a
typical user, I NEVER said I would attempt to deny extra ones.
I would just have to have a valid reason why.
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300,000 Kilometres per Second
Not only is it a good idea!
It's the LAW!!!
There may be (more or less reasonable) reasons for an installation to insist
on unique userid/person.
Unique mapping of userid to person is a valid issue.
You must be accountable for what you do.
Sharing of ids negates that.
Multiple ids must still be assigned to single people for the same
You can access TSO from multiple LPARs with the same ID and password in the
same SYSPLEX.
As of a few years ago, you can even use the same ISPPROF dataset.
But, you cannot sign on twice to the same LPAR with the same ID.
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300,000 Kilometres per Second
Not only is it a good idea!
It's the
Suggestions can be emailed directly to me at greg_schme...@jbhunt.com
That defeats the whole purpose of sharing information -- which is one of the
main reasons for the existence of the list.
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address SYSCALL 'sleep 10'
You need a CALL SYSCALLS(ON)
first don't you?
Hope I spelled it correctly.
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you have the problem to decide what tab
positions this file is meant to have, and you always have to guess, and it's
wrong most
of the time, and the result looks awful
Your solution would also look awful with proportional text.
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I remember, from the early 1980's, a quote along the lines of:
If a SYSPROG hasn't p*ssed off at least one person a day, they aren't doing
their job!
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Details?
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I dabbled a bit in university, but I really got into in under MVS/ESA when it
came out under TSO.
Then, a few years later, I moved to VM/CMS and started coding it there.
Sort of the reverse of most.
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It was easy for me, too.
I just didn't get involved until it came out on ESA because I didn't work with
VM a long time after University.
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I started as a JCL-Jockey in 1981. This APF stuff seemed straight-forward back
then.
Why is it difficult for seasoned types 32 years later?
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Twitter: @TedMacNEIL
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Bug was a term used by engineers long before Grace Hopper arrived on the scene.
As quoted:
”First actual case of bug being found.
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From: Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za
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TSO appends a prefix of your userid to your data set name unless you specify
quotes.
Don't forget PROFILE NOPREFIX
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You can (in theory -- I have) create a dataset:
A.B.C...
Which would limit you to 22 levels.
The level is not the limit: it's the combination of node length (8 bytes) and
DSN length (44) that determines 'levels'.
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Software is difficult to write, so, of course, it should be difficult to read!
(8-{]}
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Date
I've always found a big difference in mindsets regarding availability.
In general:
Mainframers brag about how long systems stay up.
UNIX children (PFCSKs) brag about how quickly they can reboot.
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From: Ze'ev
Where do the -71 and -16 come from?
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Ted MacNEIL
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-Original Message-
From: Storr, Lon A CTR USARMY HRC (US) lon.a.storr@mail.mil
Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:11:58
So we have the same language there for CMS dialog and batch; you simply
disconnect from your CMS machine, and the execution continues as a batch
machine.
Don't you need a SET RUN ON first?
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Ted MacNEIL
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Twitter: @TedMacNEIL
grep stands for General Regular Expression
I had always thought it was:
Get Regular Expression and Print
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Ted MacNEIL
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Twitter: @TedMacNEIL
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They said enough -- just because some are doesn't mean there's enough!
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Ted MacNEIL
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Twitter: @TedMacNEIL
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From: George Rodriguez george.rodrig...@palmbeachschools.org
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PDSE is over 20 years old!
What makes it 'special' after all this time?
Welcome to the 1990-s!
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Ted MacNEIL
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Twitter: @TedMacNEIL
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From: Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org
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Oh how I wish there was just an option for the JCL stream to be
RECFM=VB,LRECL=255 (or more).
Can't be MORE until we can edit MORE interactively.
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Ted MacNEIL
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I'm not aware of one that is 'free'.
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Ted MacNEIL
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Twitter: @TedMacNEIL
-Original Message-
From: Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com
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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 15:56:28
To: IBM-MAIN
Has anyone else run into this and how did you solve it?
I must be missing something!
Why is this a problem?
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Ted MacNEIL
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Twitter: @TedMacNEIL
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He is silent these days. Wonder if he is retired?
My understanding is that he retired quite a while ago.
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Ted MacNEIL
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where the size is specified)
This crops up about once a year, even though it was identified over 20 years
ago.
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Ted MacNEIL
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Twitter: @TedMacNEIL
-Original Message-
From: willie bunter williebun...@yahoo.com
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These capabilities were announced over 10 years ago!
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Ted MacNEIL
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From: gsg gsg_...@yahoo.com
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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 18:06:13
To: IBM-MAIN
WLM can already do both weight and CPU changes.
Been at it for 10 years.
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Ted MacNEIL
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Twitter: @TedMacNEIL
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From: Roger Lowe roger_l...@bigpond.com
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Date: Thu, 3 Oct
That has been around since 1.3.4
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Ted MacNEIL
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-Original Message-
From: Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com
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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 17:51:24
To: IBM-MAIN
That's it, exactly.
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Ted MacNEIL
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From: Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net
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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 00:33:40
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