Re: Mainframe REXX (Re: Badmouthing Rexx and ooRexx - again (Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-03-01 Thread David Crayford
Have you heard of Dave Plummer's Primes benchmark project, which is widely regarded as a reliable way to test the speed of programming languages? In this test, ooRexx only managed to complete 13 passes in 5 seconds, while Python with numpy completed 6969 passes, thanks to its ability to leverag

Re: Mainframe REXX (Re: Badmouthing Rexx and ooRexx - again (Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-03-01 Thread Rick Troth
On 3/1/23 06:15, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: As ooRexx is CMake based this should be quite feasible for such a huge computer company (having so many excellently skilled employees) like IBM. CMake seems to work well for ooRexx. But I counter the idea that it really facilitates building of ooRexx

Re: Mainframe REXX (Re: Badmouthing Rexx and ooRexx - again (Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-03-01 Thread René Jansen
I agree with Rony. I think your ‘benchmarks’ are a bit synthetic but I understand your goal. I think calling ISPF ‘a relic’ and constantly badgering Rexx does not serve any purpose in front of this audience, most of which see ISPF as something shiny and worthwhile (e.g. to have on OS VS2 r3.8 (c

Re: Mainframe REXX (Re: Badmouthing Rexx and ooRexx - again (Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-03-01 Thread Seymour J Metz
: Wednesday, March 1, 2023 6:15 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Mainframe REXX (Re: Badmouthing Rexx and ooRexx - again (Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers On 28.02.2023 20:55, David Crayford wrote: > I respectfully express my opinion without intending to badmouth anyone. I > b

Mainframe REXX (Re: Badmouthing Rexx and ooRexx - again (Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-03-01 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
On 28.02.2023 20:55, David Crayford wrote: I respectfully express my opinion without intending to badmouth anyone. I believe that benchmarking the performance of reading a large file is not an artificial test but rather a real-world use case that we encounter regularly. It is no secret that REXX

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-28 Thread David Crayford
Your points are quite compelling. Speaking of documentation, it's fair to say that most developers dread writing it! While I'd love to create a comprehensive tutorial for pyzfile, the package reference is already quite thorough. https://daveyc.github.io/pyzfile/html/index.html On 1/3/23 07:05

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-28 Thread Seymour J Metz
: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers On Tue, 28 Feb 2023, at 20:19, David Crayford wrote: > Utilizing > package managers to install packages is a fundamental aspect of > utilizing contemporary programming languages. The package manager aspect os more or less irrelevant though. What matte

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-28 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Tue, 28 Feb 2023, at 20:19, David Crayford wrote: > Utilizing > package managers to install packages is a fundamental aspect of > utilizing contemporary programming languages. The package manager aspect os more or less irrelevant though. What matters is the wealth of add-ons. (And to my

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-28 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 28/02/2023 11:28 pm, Seymour J Metz wrote: What about Java? How well does JIT work? Java and the JIT compiler is very good. It always depends on the benchmark. For some stuff I think it's close to C. JIT compiles to machine code, and there are optimizations available in a JIT compiler tha

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-28 Thread Matt Hogstrom
My sentiments exactly. I spend most of my time in USS and just get used to crossing the border when needed. Matt Hogstrom “It may be cognitive, but, it ain’t intuitive." — Hogstrom > On Feb 28, 2023, at 1:48 AM, David Crayford wrote: > > On 28/2/23 13:55, Gibney, Dave wrote: >> LIKE=a good

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-28 Thread David Crayford
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers The pyzfile module source code has been available on Github [1] since its inception, and it can be considered the benchmark implementation for MVS data set I/O in Python. Many people, including IBM employees, have expressed interest in

Re: Badmouthing Rexx and ooRexx - again (Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-28 Thread David Crayford
seen fit to integrate it into z/OS or z/VM. However, for off the shelf package libraries, Perl and Python are admittedly ahead of REXX. What are the Python and Ruby equivalents of CPAN? I've found extending REXX for CMS and TSO to be easy, although admittedly assembler is mothers' mi

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-28 Thread Farley, Peter
Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2023 3:10 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers The pyzfile module source code has been available on Github [1] since its inception, and it can be considered the benchmark

Re: Badmouthing Rexx and ooRexx - again (Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-28 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
On 28.02.2023 16:15, Seymour J Metz wrote: What happens if you change the benchmark to use the array class and DO OVER? Not much. ooRexx uses references to objects which can be of any type unlike strictly typed languages that restrict the types that can be assigned to arrays. Any such stored o

Re: Badmouthing Rexx and ooRexx - again (Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-28 Thread Seymour J Metz
- again (Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers On 28.02.2023 13:44, David Crayford wrote: > ooRexx has two main issues: its a superset of REXX, which is a subpar > programming language, and it > consumes a lot of CPU resources. Each language clause in ooRexx is a C++ > object

Badmouthing Rexx and ooRexx - again (Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-28 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
is ooRexx, but IBM has not seen fit to integrate it into z/OS or z/VM. However, for off the shelf package libraries, Perl and Python are admittedly ahead of REXX. What are the Python and Ruby equivalents of CPAN? I've found extending REXX for CMS and TSO to be easy, although admittedly assembler is mothe

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-28 Thread David Crayford
You may want to take a look at MIR (Medium Internal Representation) which is a framework for writing JIT's. It's experimental but looks to build on and improve LLVM. It supports codegen for s390x so should run fine on z/OS. [1] https://github.com/vnmakarov/mir [2] https://github.com/dibyenduma

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-28 Thread Seymour J Metz
: Tuesday, February 28, 2023 7:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers On 28/2/23 20:41, René Jansen wrote: > Depending on what you test and what you want to see of course. You did use > the Rexx compiler? My tests are quite straightforward. I

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-28 Thread René Jansen
That is interesting because I was benchmarking it years ago it was only slower with programs that did a lot of external calls, and all programs with arithmetic were a lot faster than the interpreter. Anyway, all very good observations for new Rexx implementations. I share your observations about

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-28 Thread Seymour J Metz
[jaymayn...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2023 7:31 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers The discussion about standard libraries like Python's came up in a recent discussion on LinkedIn about REXX, and David Boyes said he was working on something

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-28 Thread David Crayford
On 28/2/23 20:41, René Jansen wrote: Depending on what you test and what you want to see of course. You did use the Rexx compiler? My tests are quite straightforward. I take a 12,000 cylinder SMF sequential file and read it using different programming languages and then compare the timing re

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-28 Thread Seymour J Metz
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers ooRexx has two main issues: its a superset of REXX, which is a subpar programming language, and it consumes a lot of CPU resources. Each language clause in ooRexx is a C++ object that invokes dynamic dispatch whenever it's executed. Unlike

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-28 Thread David Crayford
On 28/2/23 20:41, René Jansen wrote: Depending on what you test and what you want to see of course. You did use the Rexx compiler? Yes, and the REXX compiler was slower than the interpreter. I profiled it using Application Performance Analyzer and it was spending 90% of it's time in GETMAIN

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-28 Thread Seymour J Metz
__ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of David Crayford [dcrayf...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2023 12:39 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers While I understand that it may be an unpopular opinion

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-28 Thread David Crayford
28, 2023 12:47 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers On 25/2/23 01:23, Farley, Peter wrote: Python on the mainframe is pretty good, but still can't beat out Rexx in performance even when the Rex script needs to use BPXWUNIX and friends to access z/

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-28 Thread René Jansen
Depending on what you test and what you want to see of course. You did use the Rexx compiler? René. > On 28 Feb 2023, at 06:47, David Crayford wrote: > > On 25/2/23 01:23, Farley, Peter wrote: >> Python on the mainframe is pretty good, but still can't beat out Rexx in >> performance even when

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-28 Thread Jay Maynard
__ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf > of David Crayford [dcrayf...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2023 12:47 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers >

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-28 Thread Seymour J Metz
LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of David Crayford [dcrayf...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2023 12:47 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers On 25/2/23 01:23, Farley, Peter wrote: > Python on the mainframe is pretty good, but still can&

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-28 Thread Seymour J Metz
23 12:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers On 28/2/23 13:41, Gibney, Dave wrote: > How many decades have we had System Determined Blocksize, and other artifacts > of SMS. These details are surely not anything than new folks need to deal &g

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-28 Thread Seymour J Metz
: Tuesday, February 28, 2023 3:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers The pyzfile module source code has been available on Github [1] since its inception, and it can be considered the benchmark implementation for MVS data set I/O in Python. Many people

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-28 Thread David Crayford
ion List On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2023 1:53 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers On 28/2/23 13:47, David Crayford wrote: On 25/2/23 01:23, Farley, Peter wrote: Python on the mainframe is pretty good, but still can't beat

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-27 Thread Farley, Peter
the admins there. Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2023 1:53 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers On 28/2/23 13:47, David Crayford wrote: > > On 25/2/23 01:

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-27 Thread David Crayford
On 28/2/23 13:47, David Crayford wrote: On 25/2/23 01:23, Farley, Peter wrote: Python on the mainframe is pretty good, but still can't beat out Rexx in performance even when the Rex script needs to use BPXWUNIX and friends to access z/OS Unix file systems, I have conducted a series of benc

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-27 Thread David Crayford
: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers [EXTERNAL EMAIL] On 28/2/23 13:41, Gibney, Dave wrote: How many decades have we had System Determined Blocksize, and other artifacts of SMS. These details are surely not anything than new folks need to deal with at the o

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-27 Thread Gibney, Dave
LIKE=a good representative existing library. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of David Crayford > Sent: Monday, February 27, 2023 9:53 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers > >

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-27 Thread David Crayford
a C++ source data set?" what would you suggest? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Monday, February 27, 2023 9:27 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers On 27/2/23 06:46, Andrew Rowley wro

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-27 Thread David Crayford
On 25/2/23 01:23, Farley, Peter wrote: Python on the mainframe is pretty good, but still can't beat out Rexx in performance even when the Rex script needs to use BPXWUNIX and friends to access z/OS Unix file systems, I have conducted a series of benchtests, and the results suggest that REXX

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-27 Thread Gibney, Dave
ay, February 27, 2023 9:27 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers > > On 27/2/23 06:46, Andrew Rowley wrote: > > On 25/02/2023 8:03 am, Bob Bridges wrote: > >> Oh, I was going to mention that surely allocating datasets, eithe

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-27 Thread David Crayford
/ISPF) that gives most of the newcomers fits, they seem to pick that up without too many problems. It's the fundamental system operational differences that make it harder for them to grasp, at least at first. OTOH, the VSCode/ZOWE interfaces were (for me anyway) easy to learn and underst

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-27 Thread David Crayford
On 27/2/23 06:46, Andrew Rowley wrote: On 25/02/2023 8:03 am, Bob Bridges wrote: Oh, I was going to mention that surely allocating datasets, either in batch or TSO, has got to seem like one of the dumbest and most incomprehensible things we do on the mainframe, to a foreigner. Allocating data

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-26 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 25/02/2023 8:03 am, Bob Bridges wrote: Oh, I was going to mention that surely allocating datasets, either in batch or TSO, has got to seem like one of the dumbest and most incomprehensible things we do on the mainframe, to a foreigner. Allocating datasets shouldn't be that hard to grasp. "

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-26 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 25/02/2023 4:23 am, Farley, Peter wrote: The other issue is CPU usage in today's frequently-CPU-constrained-due-to-cost mainframe shops. This is a major issue on z/OS today. My laptop has 10 cores/12 logical processors. I'm developing on the laptop for z/OS. I constantly have to be aware t

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-24 Thread Farley, Peter
Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers Oh, I was going to mention that surely allocating datasets, either in batch or TSO, has got to seem like one of the dumbest and most incomprehensible things we do on the mainframe, to a foreigner. -Original Message- From: robhbrid...@gmail.com Se

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-24 Thread Mike Schwab
Exactly. No other system cares about the contents of the file. On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 3:04 PM Bob Bridges wrote: > > Oh, I was going to mention that surely allocating datasets, either in batch > or TSO, has got to seem like one of the dumbest and most incomprehensible > things we do on the ma

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-24 Thread Bob Bridges
Oh, I was going to mention that surely allocating datasets, either in batch or TSO, has got to seem like one of the dumbest and most incomprehensible things we do on the mainframe, to a foreigner. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Just as the people who were alive whe

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-24 Thread Bob Bridges
In the semi-famous Logica hack in Sweden - I did some research into the details, some years ago - the intruders seemed competent to write their own binary code and run it in OMVS. But they bogged down when they had to link-edit something; they had a number of failures because of a laughably bad

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-24 Thread Lionel B. Dyck
ISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers Lionel, respectfully I must disagree. I have been using the IBM Zxplore website on my own time for over a year now for enhanced learning of some of the "new" technologies available on our mainframe systems, and I have been c

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-24 Thread Farley, Peter
ional differences that make it harder for them to grasp, at least at first. OTOH, the VSCode/ZOWE interfaces were (for me anyway) easy to learn and understand. Sometimes annoying to use but very effective. Especially Zowe utilities at a command prompt, the help features are annoyingly verbose

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-24 Thread Mike Schwab
f dealing with non-mainframe developers > accessing z/OS (programs, jobs, DB2) and an attitude that we need to leave > the mainframe. > In trying to leverage our z/OS environment, might ZOWE (and the required > zOSMF) provide a better transition and/or "access" to z/OS &quo

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-24 Thread Lionel B. Dyck
annelli Sent: Friday, February 24, 2023 10:35 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers It's a cultural, generational thing also. I'm surprised I havent been asked for a cell phone app! Bill

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-24 Thread Bill Giannelli
It's a cultural, generational thing also. I'm surprised I havent been asked for a cell phone app! Bill -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: IN

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-24 Thread Pommier, Rex
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers Just my $0.01 (not worth $0.02). These developers who want/need access to z/OS and don't want to learn how to work with z/OS, don't they learn new things all the time - new IDE's, different operating systems (windows, ma

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-24 Thread Bill Giannelli
I agree! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-24 Thread Lionel B. Dyck
24, 2023 8:02 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers So I hope you all dont mind a general question... We have the common struggle of dealing with non-mainframe developers accessing z/OS (programs, jobs, DB2) and an attitude that we need to leave the

zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-24 Thread Bill Giannelli
So I hope you all dont mind a general question... We have the common struggle of dealing with non-mainframe developers accessing z/OS (programs, jobs, DB2) and an attitude that we need to leave the mainframe. In trying to leverage our z/OS environment, might ZOWE (and the required zOSMF

Download zowe

2023-02-06 Thread ITschak Mugzach
I am trying to download Zowe from Zowe.org and get an error on jfrog.IO. When trying shopz, the login page is in error. Tried that from several computers. Any idea how to successfully download zowe? ITschak Mugzach *|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring for z

Learn more about z/OSMF zERT and Zowe on Wednesday!

2022-07-19 Thread Marna WALLE
A late advertisement, but maybe still some haven't yet seen this: Be sure to register for the z/OSMF Guild session tomorrow, Wednesday July 20th! The July session will focus on the IBM zERT Network Analyzer and Zowe V2 + z/OSMF. This is a public session and all are welcome. Feel free to

Help Required on ZOWE Desktop Errors Please

2022-02-17 Thread Jasi Grewal
Hi, We are trying to install ZOWE Desktop and experiencing the following errors - APIML 500. 2022-02-17 14:37:52.236 ZWESVUSR WARN (_zsf.auth,webauth.js:364) ZWED0003W - User=undefined (org.zowe.zlux.auth.safsso):Session authenticate failed. Plugin response:{"success":false,"r

Fwd: Tutorial to start Zowe in Kubernetes - Open Mainframe Project

2022-02-11 Thread Mark Regan
Just FYI. https://www.openmainframeproject.org/blog/2022/02/11/tutorial-to-start-zowe- in-kubernetes Regards, Mark Regan, K8MTR General, EN80tg CTO1 USNR-Retired (1969-1991) Nationwide Insurance, Retired, 1986-2017 z/OS Network Software Consultant (z NetView, z/OS Communications Server

Re: ZOWE for dummies?

2022-01-15 Thread kekronbekron
https://www.youtube.com/c/BillPereiraZ/videos There are some/many videos in here you may find useful. - KB ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, January 16th, 2022 at 1:05 PM, kekronbekron <02dee3fcae33-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Yeah, it's just really weird for us syspr

Re: ZOWE for dummies?

2022-01-15 Thread kekronbekron
Yeah, it's just really weird for us sysprog types (at least me) to understand developer-prepared documentation. It's all "just one click", but of course, there's hours of env. building or whatever context that is assumed. In that regard, IBM zOS docs are great. - KB ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐

Re: ZOWE for dummies?

2022-01-15 Thread Brian Westerman
Bummer, I had thought it should be really easy, but they seem to make a lot of assumptions on setting it up. Brian -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with t

Re: ZOWE for dummies?

2022-01-15 Thread kekronbekron
Hi Brian, Your best bet would be sessions from SHARE or openmainframeproject (via their site or their GitHub repo). - KB ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, January 16th, 2022 at 5:02 AM, Brian Westerman wrote: > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > se

ZOWE for dummies?

2022-01-15 Thread Brian Westerman
Does anyone know of a ZOWE for dummies type of book or directions that covers the installation for those that have never used any of the parts that are necessary to install it all? Brian -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Serverpac installs January 2022 and beyond (+hungry ZOWE concerns)

2021-07-18 Thread Mike Hochee
Thank you for all the help with this Colin. Your findings appear to have obvious benefits to both; organizations concerned about high z/OSMF CPU associated with software maintenance (due to a shortage of specialty engine resources) and those interested in ZOWE but turned off by the grossly

Re: Serverpac installs January 2022 and beyond (+hungry ZOWE concerns)

2021-07-18 Thread Colin Paice
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2021 4:32 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Serverpac installs January 2022 and beyond (+hungry ZOWE > concerns) > > Caution! This message was sent from outside your organization. > > If z/OSMF uses a lot of CPU when idle. You should in

Re: Serverpac installs January 2022 and beyond (+hungry ZOWE concerns)

2021-07-18 Thread Mike Hochee
[mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Colin Paice Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2021 4:32 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Serverpac installs January 2022 and beyond (+hungry ZOWE concerns) Caution! This message was sent from outside your organization. If z/OSMF uses a lot of CPU when

Re: Serverpac installs January 2022 and beyond (+hungry ZOWE concerns)

2021-07-18 Thread Colin Paice
IIP, and zAAP contributions individually. > > Another item, in the context of z/OSMF resource utilization as part of the > ZOWE software stack is what I regarded as high EXCP counts when the system > is idling. Over a 30hr period this translated to approximately 300 > EXCPs/second from

Re: Serverpac installs January 2022 and beyond (+hungry ZOWE concerns)

2021-07-17 Thread Mike Hochee
cpu bucket (as I was) rather than GP, zIIP, and zAAP contributions individually. Another item, in the context of z/OSMF resource utilization as part of the ZOWE software stack is what I regarded as high EXCP counts when the system is idling. Over a 30hr period this translated to

Re: Anyone here uses Zowe?

2021-07-13 Thread ITschak Mugzach
uce Armstrong, armst...@us.ibm.com He > is the Z Offering manager and has answered my Zowe questions. > > HTH, > Mike > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of ITschak Mugzach > Sent: Tuesday,

Re: Anyone here uses Zowe?

2021-07-13 Thread Mike Hochee
Hi ITschak, I would direct your question to Bruce Armstrong, armst...@us.ibm.com He is the Z Offering manager and has answered my Zowe questions. HTH, Mike -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of ITschak Mugzach Sent

Anyone here uses Zowe?

2021-07-13 Thread ITschak Mugzach
I wonder if Zowe is already implemented in shops which are not for development. ITschak ITschak Mugzach *|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring for z/OS, x/Linux & IBM I **| z/VM coming

Z/OSMF Performance PTFs -- NOT ZOWE

2020-10-23 Thread Ed Jaffe
These PTFs are against IBM's z/OSMF product, not the Linux Foundation's OMP Zowe open source project https://www.zowe.org/ On 10/22/2020 5:29 AM, Mike Schwab wrote: https://twitter.com/A_Hermelink/status/1319196681527754753?s=20 @mwalle I'm looking at a list of recent z/O

Re: Sept 2020 ZOWE performance PTFs

2020-10-22 Thread Martin Packer
Hence “In like Flynn” in Uncharted 2. :-) Well, it IS Friday... :-) Cheers, Martin > On 22 Oct 2020, at 21:07, Ken Smith wrote: > > Are you referring to > > Z.O.W.I.E. (Zonal Organization World Intelligence Espionage)? They’re the > good guys and employ Superagent Derek Flint. Dipicted in t

Re: Sept 2020 ZOWE performance PTFs

2020-10-22 Thread Doug Henry
On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 07:29:11 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: Thanks Mike for posting this and thanks to Marna for the tweet. We are in the process of working on a maintenance rollout . The timing is perfect. Doug >https://twitter.com/A_Hermelink/status/1319196681527754753?s=20 > >@mwalle > >I'm loo

Re: Sept 2020 ZOWE performance PTFs

2020-10-22 Thread Ken Smith
Are you referring to Z.O.W.I.E. (Zonal Organization World Intelligence Espionage)? They’re the good guys and employ Superagent Derek Flint. Dipicted in the excellent “In Like Flint” movie series from 1966-7. Some say events therein really happened. Okay, one guy said it. https://en.m.wikipedia.

Sept 2020 ZOWE performance PTFs

2020-10-22 Thread Mike Schwab
https://twitter.com/A_Hermelink/status/1319196681527754753?s=20 @mwalle I'm looking at a list of recent z/OSMF performance APARs associated w/ improved startup by reducing EXCP count. They are fairly recent (Sept 2020), so I'll paste them here for your consideration: PH28921, PH28920, PH28971,

Re: ZOWE Open Editor - baby's first steps questions

2020-01-09 Thread Support, DUNNIT SYSTEMS LTD.
Hi Steve, Yes, I have since been told and indeed it works. My problem was not knowing that initially, plus basing myself on the online documentation example, which indeed shows both download and upload icons next to the member name in the ZOWE explorer window. So, all's working. T

Re: ZOWE Open Editor - baby's first steps questions

2020-01-09 Thread Steve M Bohn
File-Save works for me. From: "Support, DUNNIT SYSTEMS LTD." To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 01/06/2020 08:15 AM Subject:[EXTERNAL] Re: ZOWE Open Editor - baby's first steps questions Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List OK, I have an error some

Re: ZOWE Open Editor - baby's first steps questions

2020-01-06 Thread Seymour J Metz
z3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Sunday, January 5, 2020 6:23 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ZOWE Open Editor - baby's first steps question

Re: ZOWE Open Editor - baby's first steps questions

2020-01-06 Thread Seymour J Metz
Link saved. Thanks. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Pew, Curtis G Sent: Monday, January 6, 2020 8:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ZOWE Open Editor - baby&#

Re: ZOWE Open Editor - baby's first steps questions

2020-01-06 Thread Pew, Curtis G
On Jan 5, 2020, at 5:23 PM, Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > >> Do they also despise the shebang? While I spell it Eunix, that's one of the >> good things about it. >> > "Eu" as the Greek prefix meaning "good"? I suspect it’s like “eunuchs”. https://dilb

Re: ZOWE Open Editor - baby's first steps questions

2020-01-06 Thread Support, DUNNIT SYSTEMS LTD.
OK, I have an error somewhere. I asked how I can save a PDS member back to z/OS. Went here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Zowe.vscode-extension-for-zowe#data-sets The GIF under section "Download, edit, and upload existing PDS members" shows an example of pulli

Re: ZOWE Open Editor - baby's first steps questions

2020-01-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2020-01-05, at 14:24:01, Seymour J Metz wrote: > >> WPS? > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_Shell > >> Pick one: > > Why? None of them is relevant. > Well, then, make one up. >> ISPF has long treated the LLQ of the DSN as a file type. > > TSO used the LLQ before ISPF did, but

Re: ZOWE Open Editor - baby's first steps questions

2020-01-05 Thread Seymour J Metz
on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Sunday, January 5, 2020 3:55 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ZOWE Open Editor - baby's first steps questions On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 19:46:36 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >There is no file

Re: ZOWE Open Editor - baby's first steps questions

2020-01-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 19:46:36 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >There is no file type in the PC world, other than OS/2 extended attributes. >There is a file extension, but that's really part of the name. I wish that >someone would port WPS to Linux. > WPS? Pick one: https://acronyms.thefreedictiona

Re: ZOWE Open Editor - baby's first steps questions

2020-01-05 Thread Seymour J Metz
: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Support, DUNNIT SYSTEMS LTD. Sent: Sunday, January 5, 2020 9:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: ZOWE Open Editor - baby's first steps questions Hi All, Playing with ZOWE extension for MS VS Code editor. 1. How the heck do you save y

Re: ZOWE Open Editor - baby's first steps questions

2020-01-05 Thread Charles Mills
-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ZOWE Open Editor - baby's first steps questions Gil, Thanks but I think management is going to respond "not gonna happen" when suggesting that they move all of their PDSs to UNIX. Besides, that would only resolve the file ty

Re: ZOWE Open Editor - baby's first steps questions

2020-01-05 Thread Support, DUNNIT SYSTEMS LTD.
Gil, Thanks but I think management is going to respond "not gonna happen" when suggesting that they move all of their PDSs to UNIX. Besides, that would only resolve the file type name issue, right? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / s

Re: ZOWE Open Editor - baby's first steps questions

2020-01-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 08:28:48 -0600, Support, DUNNIT SYSTEMS LTD. wrote: >Playing with ZOWE extension for MS VS Code editor. > >1. How the heck do you save your edited changes back to the z/OS side for the >PDS member which you edited? > >2. What is the difference between the m

ZOWE Open Editor - baby's first steps questions

2020-01-05 Thread Support, DUNNIT SYSTEMS LTD.
Hi All, Playing with ZOWE extension for MS VS Code editor. 1. How the heck do you save your edited changes back to the z/OS side for the PDS member which you edited? 2. What is the difference between the menu commands "Pull from mainframe" versus "Copy dataset"? 3. Since

Fwd: Zowe now at Version 1.0

2019-02-17 Thread Mark Regan
https://it.toolbox.com/blogs/trevoreddolls/zowe-now-at-version-10-021719 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Fwd: How Zowe Is Bringing the Mainframe into the Modern Age - The Linux Foundation

2019-02-07 Thread Mark Regan
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2019/02/how-zowe-is-bringing-the-mainframe- into-the-modern-age/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message

Re: Zowe?

2019-01-10 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 17:59:07 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: > >for the code written in PL/S (nee BSL), the optional source has the generated >assembler with the source PL/S as comments; I found that reasonably easy to >work with even though I would rather have had a PL/S compiler. > Ugh! Working

Re: Zowe?

2019-01-10 Thread Seymour J Metz
ugh I would rather have had a PL/S compiler. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Tony Harminc Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2019 12:28 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Zowe

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Zowe question for IBM

2019-01-10 Thread scott Ford
; hoping that like CBT and other open source venues to have folks contribute > and make their creations available via Zowe. > > Matt Hogstrom > m...@hogstrom.org > PGP Key: 0x90ECB270 > > It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. > It's what you kno

Re: Zowe?

2019-01-10 Thread Tony Harminc
On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 16:47, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > was “open source” if you call fiche open source. > > There were optional source material tapes. For the base it was not uncommon. But while PTF source was, in theory, RPQable, in the real world no one had complete source matching the MVS the

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Zowe question for IBM

2019-01-10 Thread Matt Hogstrom
For good or bad I work for IBM :) The community is mostly made up of system engineers that have been building Z products for years. We’re hoping that like CBT and other open source venues to have folks contribute and make their creations available via Zowe. Matt Hogstrom m...@hogstrom.org P

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Zowe question for IBM

2019-01-10 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Thank you Matt, are you working on something in this area.. ? Just wanted to hear from experienced z folk on whether the thing I've mentioned below sounds doable. And if it seems simpler than zOSMF + Zowe. Reckon the "security module" for IHSA can even be baked into core IHSA,

Re: Zowe question for IBM

2019-01-10 Thread Matt Hogstrom
that are developed by IBM and are closed so the priority of what is being worked on is dependent on the IBM development community. Of course they take input from customers and address issues that they prioritize as best for the platform and customers. Zowe is an opportunity for the community to

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