Re: migrating compiler versions

2015-04-06 Thread David Magee
We're going with VLR(STANDARD) also. Any problems encountered with FILE-STATUS 04 will be treated as something that needs to be investigated. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Data formatting

2015-04-06 Thread Tim Hare
A couple of questions I haven't seen yet 1. Was the original FTP done in binary or text mode? 2. Do the corrupted records make any sense as EBCDIC characters when you browse/view the corrupted file? This smells like an issue we had once, someone FTPed a PC file with some option set that caused

Re: A New Perfromance Model ?

2015-04-06 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
IMHO, You are not clueless, just unlucky to have to support applications developers and application management as unprofessional as those you seem to have. I have never heard of nor worked for any organization that would tolerate even for a minute an application group or application management

Re: A New Perfromance Model ?

2015-04-06 Thread Clark Morris
On 6 Apr 2015 14:27:21 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: IMHO, You are not clueless, just unlucky to have to support applications developers and application management as unprofessional as those you seem to have. I have never heard of nor worked for any organization that would

Re: A New Performance Model ?

2015-04-06 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Tim, Though your points are well spoken and reasoned, you still did not address the basic organizational issue the OP is facing - How does any application team or management justify the level of profligacy described, all by itself? While it may be true that the fixed costs of the

Re: Data formatting

2015-04-06 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 6 Apr 2015 16:00:26 -0500, Tim Hare wrote: A couple of questions I haven't seen yet 1. Was the original FTP done in binary or text mode? 2. Do the corrupted records make any sense as EBCDIC characters when you browse/view the corrupted file? (Or, do they make any sense as ASCII

Re: A New Performance Model ?

2015-04-06 Thread Rob Schramm
I am not sure what to say. Throw hardware at the issue is an easy and progressive fix ( Moore's law). I am with the balanced approach. Put the effort in and determine where the biggest bang for the buck is. Not to give development a pass.. But they have agendas and time lines and people

Re: EXSPATxx member

2015-04-06 Thread michelbutz
That seems to Sent from my iPhone On Apr 6, 2015, at 3:48 AM, Jim Mulder d10j...@us.ibm.com wrote: will settting SPINRCVY to SPIN allow a CPU to sping endlesssly as leaving out the SPINTIME parameter seem to make it default to 40 seconds if not is there a way to make a CPU keep spining and

EXSPATxx member

2015-04-06 Thread michealbutz
Hi, will settting SPINRCVY to SPIN allow a CPU to sping endlesssly as leaving out the SPINTIME paramter seem to make it default to 40 seconds if not is there a way to make a CPU keep spining and have z/os take no action thanks

Re: EXSPATxx member

2015-04-06 Thread Jim Mulder
will settting SPINRCVY to SPIN allow a CPU to sping endlesssly as leaving out the SPINTIME parameter seem to make it default to 40 seconds if not is there a way to make a CPU keep spining and have z/os take no action If the system has uses up all of the actions on the SPINRCVY statement

Re: EXSPATxx member

2015-04-06 Thread michelbutz
Sorry for the typo I am going to send an example an explanation shortly Sent from my iPhone On Apr 6, 2015, at 3:48 AM, Jim Mulder d10j...@us.ibm.com wrote: will settting SPINRCVY to SPIN allow a CPU to sping endlesssly as leaving out the SPINTIME parameter seem to make it default to 40

Re: migrating compiler versions

2015-04-06 Thread Greg Shirey
Great! Glad to hear that helped.We decided to go with the same option as well. As far as we can determine, we have no programs that read variable length record files but someone might create one in the future, and, if so, they should play by the rules. No sense encouraging poor

Re: Secure FTP

2015-04-06 Thread Kurt Quackenbush
snip GET 12345678910/PROD/GIMPAF.XML /xx/xx/xx/x/GIMPAF.XML (REPLACE EZA1701I TYPE I 200 Type set to I. EZA1460I Command: EZA1701I PORT nn,n,nn,n,nn,nnn EZA2589E Connection to server interrupted or timed out. Waiting for reply EZA1721W Server not responding, closing

Re: HMC Integrated console and JAVA

2015-04-06 Thread Alan Field
An update, and more weirdness. Alan Altmark posted an update to create a .java.policy that didn't appear to work for me. I had our CE upgrade the HMC microcode to Driver 22 and I still couldn't access the integrated console or operating system messages. One of our sysprogs who works

Re: A New Perfromance Model ?

2015-04-06 Thread Steve Thompson
On 04/04/2015 04:11 PM, esst...@juno.com wrote: Hi Im not a performance analyst, Im a CICS MQ Sys-Prog. I dont understand this new paradyne. SNIPPAGE Did I miss a performance lecture at SHARE ? . Can someone explain and rationalize for this new paradyne ? . cheaper to Upgrade the mainfame

Re: A New Performance Model ?

2015-04-06 Thread Scott Ford
Timothy, I agree you have made many valid points. Many times in my career I have heard from various managers, do it quick and dirty, no time, no money. I also have seen the IBM full court press on a customer, ending up causing customer alienation. Part of the issue , IMHO, is that management

Re: Fw: IBM Destination z - Open-Source Support on IBM z Systems Platform

2015-04-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 9909925785010044.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 04/03/2015 at 04:07 PM, Paul Gilmartin 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu said: Where I read: A great example of this is Perl 5.8.7 is rather long in the tooth. Even under OS/2 I can do better than that, and it's

Re: A New Performance Model ?

2015-04-06 Thread John McKown
On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 9:28 PM, Timothy Sipples sipp...@sg.ibm.com wrote: snip optimizations. If the operations and development teams are working well together, it's wonderful. Some of John McKown's previous posts, for example, suggest he's going above and beyond in helping his colleagues in

Re: A New Performance Model ?

2015-04-06 Thread John McKown
On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 7:02 AM, Scott Ford idfzos...@gmail.com wrote: Timothy, I agree you have made many valid points. Many times in my career I have heard from various managers, do it quick and dirty, no time, no money. I also have seen the IBM full court press on a customer, ending up

Re: A New Performance Model ?

2015-04-06 Thread Scott Ford
John, Sounds all to familiar my man when I worked in Europe they used to make fun of Americans doing a project 6x , it was sad...to say the least . But on the flip slide we have all worked with super good people as well as the bad. Btw the money doesn't make it to our pockets , when it

Re: A New Perfromance Model ?

2015-04-06 Thread Mullen, Patrick
Here's what I don't understand Our development management are telling is (Systems Operations) that it is cheaper to upgrade the mainframe than to have the application programmers review their code for performance opportunities. I wouldn't characterize the underlying attitude as new,