On 22/01/2014 11:53 PM, Skip Robinson wrote:
IBM is currently warning customers that over-using ZIIPs may lead
to serious performance problems because of the way z/OS manages them vs.
the way it manages general purpose CPs.
Can you supply a link wrt that information?
In 1672677481329115.wa.brianwestermansyzygyinc@listserv.ua.edu,
on 01/22/2014
at 03:38 AM, Brian Westerman brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com said:
I have handled the HTML/TEXT email stuff, currently I build both
parts of the email, and send it, unless the client site has specified
NOHTML, in
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:59:23 +0800, David Crayford wrote:
On 22/01/2014 11:53 PM, Skip Robinson wrote:
IBM is currently warning customers that over-using ZIIPs may lead
to serious performance problems because of the way z/OS manages them vs.
the way it manages general purpose CPs.
Can you
Hi to all.
I have a rexx program that changes behavior using:
REXX-Regina_3,7 5.00 14 Oct 2012
or
rexxsql 2.6B3 23 May 2011 WIN32 ODBC
the problem happens when I try to capture the output of a command using the
instruction:
Address system command with output stem std_out. error std_err.
With the
I'm also talking about this. In the final throes of having a presentation
I aim to put on Slideshare (and give at any suitable venue).
The message is important: DB2 V10 changes the way we view zIIP capacity.
The other message is important: zIIP Capacity Planning IS very feasible.
And at the
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 00:18:09 -0600, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote:
Now after some reading and testing, I've found a way to get TSO/E
to keep my natively connected session active when I need to shutdown
my laptop which involves issuing 2 VTAM commands as follows (which
I think that's a better overview of the issue Martin, because you bring out the
important fact that z/OS doesn't forget about how to prioritize work just
because it's on a specialty engine. It's probably would also be a similarly
good rule of thumb that you shouldn't let your GPs get over 50%
Hi
For us was the benefit, that we get online the actual SMF data, from a
job's WEB site we can access
all the SMF details (30, 14 92 etc etc records) .
On 22.01.2014 22:14, gsg wrote:
What are the benefits of converting to SMF Log Streams?
That said, the convention that the length of an identifier (plus one
for its prefixed ampersand) determines the maximal possible length of
its values is a bizarre one. Worse, it suggests (but does not of
course prove) that a naif storage-overlay-reuse scheme figures in the
implementation.
The
But I take it that
SYMDEF(IPSUBNET1='121.122')
will be okay?
Thanks,
Mark Regan
From: Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: System Symbols Question
On Tue, 21 Jan
+1 for Martins blog post, which is excellent.
Having said that, the whole zIIP concept is baroque from root to branch.
Why couldn't IBM have come up with something much simpler?
On 23/01/2014 8:29 PM, Scott Chapman wrote:
I think that's a better overview of the issue Martin, because you
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Jantje. jan.moeyers...@gfi.be wrote:
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 00:18:09 -0600, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com
wrote:
Now after some reading and testing, I've found a way to get TSO/E
to keep my natively connected session active when I need to shutdown
In
cae1xxdhdqs_qmqcs0m1fpvbxbf9dov4-rnb5bmds6p9fog-...@mail.gmail.com,
on 01/22/2014
at 11:27 AM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said:
Tom Marchant wrote
begin extract
There might be cases where an 8 character symbol name won't work.
For example, when a symbol represents a volume serial
In
!!AAAYAJXIDufoOyhGhgKtFLrs5tbCgAAAEJxtFH/WwD1Mnt0mSSJO0/UBAA==@optonline.net,
on 01/22/2014
at 11:57 AM, MichealButz michealb...@optonline.net said:
As I get s0c4
Your DCB and OPEN list are in your csect instead of in dynamically
acquired storage.
--
Shmuel
In 8592377061499272.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on
01/22/2014
at 05:33 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said:
I try to double check my facts
The relevant fact was that I overlooked something[1]. You assumed that
it was deliberate; nothing remotely like checking your facts.
In
CAE1XxDGxrBsij_=UFO=UzZ0DSdGupE_=QWr=y5dggtju9d3...@mail.gmail.com,
on 01/21/2014
at 07:44 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said:
and it may be that what we have here is a misunderstanding of my
language.
Or it may be your ignorance.
Let me begin with a little history. On System/360
In 6648464504487393.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on
01/22/2014
at 08:09 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said:
I can reconnect to the running session with tn3270,
absent VTAM.
I doubt it.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see
In 0384493556120387.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on
01/22/2014
at 08:21 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said:
On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 20:14:58 -0600, Mike Schwab wrote:
http://publibfi.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/dz9zr009.pdf
Sept 2012.
Isn't that what I said I *didn't* want?
In
3d72083b2cb67b46b4b20f9a717dc1034aaa3...@chw20013603.ch.ad.hedani.net,
on 01/23/2014
at 07:49 AM, Hunkeler, Peter peter.hunke...@credit-suisse.com
said:
You mean the excellent, unbeaten, yet spoken to death BookMaster
format ;-) I thought I once had it, but can't find it right now
either.
(My humble opinion)
Benefits:
- single repository for sysplex is possible
- logstream is more flexible when SMF flood occurs, less chance to
loose SMF records
- it is supported and promoted by IBM
Disadvantages:
- a bit more complex to set up, especially in monoplex (when compared to
legacy
Since us technicians don't see the benefits, they must be non-technical, and
will probably be marketing...
Kees.
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Of David Crayford
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 14:26
To:
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 06:30:43 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
The relevant fact was that I overlooked something[1]. You assumed that
it was deliberate; nothing remotely like checking your facts.
[1] Well, that plus misleading text in the manual.
Cite. I saw only an apparent excerpt with
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 06:39:14 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
on 01/22/2014 at 08:21 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said:
On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 20:14:58 -0600, Mike Schwab wrote:
http://publibfi.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/dz9zr009.pdf
Sept 2012.
Isn't that what I said I *didn't*
Paul,
The last .BOO version I was ever able to find was for the fourth edition,
SA22-7832-03, here:
http://publibfp.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/dz9zr003/
I do not believe any more .BOO versions were created after that one. I haven't
found any current non-PDF versions anywhere
http://www.itworld.com/hardware/401502/lenovo-agrees-buy-ibms-server-business-23-billion
For 2.3 billion dollars (U.S., Australian, or Canadian not specified, but I
guess U.S.).
--
Wasn't there something about a PASCAL programmer knowing the value of
everything and the Wirth of nothing?
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:35:19 -0500, Peter Relson wrote:
Having said that, we are considering a convention under which symbol
values can be longer than the symbol name, with the user's understanding
that any truncation that results may be ignored.
I would much favor a convention that reports the
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Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 16:24
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: System Symbols Question
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:35:19 -0500, Peter Relson wrote:
Having
Hi,
One more thing to try before capturing a dump and opening a pmr is to try an
HRECALL with the WAIT option. It appears that the recall request is queued up
and not being selected for processing. No-wait type requests will wait
indefinitely, but if there is something that is preventing
There is now long experience with the PL/I convention that assigns a
source string that is longer than the [maximal allocated or declared]
length of the target string with 1) truncation on the right and 2)
silently.
It works well, at least where it is understood. Complaints about it
among PL/I
Seymour's statement is correct, but slightly misleading.
The problem is not that the DCB and OPEN parameter list are in your CSECT. The
problem is that your DCB and OPEN parameter list are in virtual storage above
the 24-bit address line, and this is because your CSECT is in storage above the
In order to cut the delays with a busy zIIP, wouldn't another
workaround be to reduce to the delay from 3200 microseconds?
Experiment with 2500, 2000, 1500, 1000, 700, 500, 400, ... until delay
is reduced. Then creep it up by 100 if the zIIP utilization drops or
GP rises and a little more delay
ZIIPAWMT fiddling has issues as well as limits: With Hiperdispatch it's
3.2ms, double the 1.6ms without. That is the limit part of it. The
issues part is, I think, to avoid too much IIPCP time and also I would
expect undesirable cache effects.
I actually don't cover ZIIPAWMT in the new
For logon reconnect, you also have to make sure that TSOKEY00 contains a
nonzero value for RECONLIM= , This is the number of minutes that the
system will 'preserve' a disconnected session. For reasons lost to time,
we had '0' for this parameter for a long time. Zero says not to preserve
such a
I've spent several hours reading news reports from far and wide about this much
anticipated development.
What I would like to know is, what does this now mean to IBM's core business.
More importantly, what is IBM's core business? Do I detect that System z is
becoming more important? Mrs
aledlhug...@aol.com (Aled Hughes) writes:
I've spent several hours reading news reports from far and wide about
this much anticipated development. What I would like to know is, what
does this now mean to IBM's core business. More importantly, what is
IBM's core business? Do I detect that
Sorry to impose an OT topic on this list but Google has failed me.
I am looking for a general tutorial on how SSL/TLS program distribution
signing works.
Level set: I *am* quite conversant with SSL/TLS technology as it applies to
Web and similar clients and servers.
Thanks much. (Not totally
I'm applying some maintenance and noted an ACTION item on a PTF.
*If /dev/null currently has a file tag, issue chtag -r /dev/null before
APPLY to remove the file tag.
If
/dev/null has a file tag after APPLY, remove /dev/null
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm applying some maintenance and noted an ACTION item on a PTF.
*If /dev/null currently has a file tag, issue chtag -r /dev/null before
APPLY to remove the file tag.
Perhaps the same way you would sign anything else, compute digest and sign
that(?)
On Thursday, 23 January 2014, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote:
Sorry to impose an OT topic on this list but Google has failed me.
I am looking for a general tutorial on how SSL/TLS program distribution
Lenovo. LENOVO. Spelling it right sure helps with search a couple of years
from now.
I think IBM's core business is (1) services and (2) software.
Charles
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Behalf Of Aled Hughes
Sent: Thursday,
Thank you, John.
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 12:40 PM, John McKown
john.archie.mck...@gmail.comwrote:
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.com
wrote:
I'm applying some maintenance and noted an ACTION item on a PTF.
*If /dev/null currently has a file tag, issue
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:40:09 -0600, John McKown wrote:
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Mark Pace wrote:
I'm applying some maintenance and noted an ACTION item on a PTF.
*If /dev/null currently has a file tag, issue chtag -r /dev/null before
APPLY to remove the file tag.
On 1/23/14, 7:33 AM, Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. wrote:
In 0384493556120387.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on
01/22/2014
at 08:21 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said:
On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 20:14:58 -0600, Mike Schwab wrote:
Consider the timing of this announcement (though not the announcement itself).
It coincides with, and is almost certainly intended to distract from, IBM's
earnings announcement, which was dismal. IBM is only only member of the DOW to
lose in 2013.
The biggest thorn in IBM's fourth quarter
I hope there will be an improvement. End users used to see well done
commercials on TV (especially for major sporting events like the super bowl,
bowl games, and the Olympics for new mainframes, especially new mainframe
capabilities. Not now. Most ens uswrs remember the 'who stole the servers'
Don't watch much TV, usually have it on to News or Sports. The Smarter
planet adds are pretty but not very pithy. More like recruitment posters. The
other one is the 'Watson' MIPs ad for big data. Void of practical solutions
to business problems. Back to shutterfly-it's fun for a while.
[insert Digest caveat]
Well, will you look at that! *grin* I seem to recall that the panels were, at
one time/version, in KB but I notice my current v1.12 help does, indeed,
indicate MB. In fact, it also indicates they're not using the 1E6 factor but,
rather, MB is 1,048,576 bytes. At any
Here is the Info System reference to Machine Instructions.
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v2r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.zos.v2r1.asma400%2Fasmr102113.htm
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Eric Chevalier et...@tulsagrammer.com wrote:
On 1/23/14, 7:33 AM, Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. wrote:
Test test
I've not been receiving posts so this is just a test.
Bill George
Senior Programmer Analyst (Specialist)
FTB | Tax Systems and Applications Bureau | BETS Interface Team
Office: 916.845.6459 | ms: L-210 | location: LA2B-B-5-02
email:
[insert daily Digest caveat]
Gil: From what I've found, your short answer seems to be No. [1] I suspect
that there might not *be* a non-pdf PoOps produced. For v1.12, v1.13, v2.1
[2], the PoOps is found as the 1st link on their respective Information Centre
Home Pages but the links are
On 23 January 2014 12:43, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote:
I think IBM's core business is (1) services and (2) software.
I don't think IBM has been in the core business since the early 1970s.
Tony H.
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Nyuck nyuck.
Charles
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Behalf Of Tony Harminc
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 2:26 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: IBM sells x86 server business to Lenovo (was Levono)
On 23 January
And if you switch to GB, a storage group with one Mod 9 shows up as 7
GB in z/OS 1.13.
The DCollect records are calculated by the Track size in bytes *
number of tracks, divided by 1024, and stored. To determine the
number of cylinders from this size, I add 1 and divide by a slightly
smaller
In 52e15bde.7020...@tulsagrammer.com, on 01/23/2014
at 12:13 PM, Eric Chevalier et...@tulsagrammer.com said:
That's strange, I thought it was perfectly obvious from the original
post that Paul did NOT want PDF.
How do you get that from I'd rather have a web interface to a current
copy than
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Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 5:47 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: P[ro]Ops and Infocenter?
In 52e15bde.7020...@tulsagrammer.com, on 01/23/2014
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 21:26:04 +0800, David Crayford wrote:
+1 for Martins blog post, which is excellent.
Having said that, the whole zIIP concept is baroque from root to branch.
Why couldn't IBM have come up with something much simpler?
baroque implies (to me) some degree of ornate.
Given the
How did the PofOp (z/Architecture Principles of Operation, SA22-7832-09) get to
be 37MB?!?! Are there hidden pictures of nekkid zEC12s hiding in there?
Seriously, I remember when it was ... ok, I remember when I could pick up a
printed copy in one hand. But that *was* a while ago.
...phsiii
Phil:
It probably has the hiding place of the infamous Darren around page 337a
Ed
On Jan 23, 2014, at 11:03 PM, Phil Smith wrote:
How did the PofOp (z/Architecture Principles of Operation,
SA22-7832-09) get to be 37MB?!?! Are there hidden pictures of
nekkid zEC12s hiding in there?
somebody over in linkedin ibm group just mentioned that
they are trying to figure out how much of the sale is
cash and how much is levono stock.
Then they're not trying very hard. That exact information is contained in
paragraph one of IBM's press release:
On 24/01/2014 4:28, Charles Mills wrote:
I am looking for a general tutorial on how SSL/TLS program distribution
signing works.
Level set: I *am* quite conversant with SSL/TLS technology as it applies to
Web and similar clients and servers.
Thanks much. (Not totally OT: one thing I want to
I think that might be the best solution. It seems that I will have to keep
track of how much detail I'm inserting into the link, but it seems doable,
Thanks for your idea,
Brian
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That's how I currently send it. Both parts currently contain exactly the same
data (although the HTML one looks nicer), and if the recipient doesn't support
HTML, they only see the TEXT part.
It's probably the best solution for the normal data that gets sent, I think I
iwll use Tim's
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