Re: Question on SPKA and Control Register 3

If it is critical for you to have the key mask set and you do not want to play with CR's, set up a basic CP PC routine with the EKM you desire and invoke it. >From that time on the KM is set. And there is no need to "return" from the PC. On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 15:04:17 -0800 Charles Mills

Re: Prevent allocation of unknown-HLQ data sets?

Jesse Robinson wrote: >And once you have all protections in place, remember that someone has to have >the key to master catalog. Whoever that is--including you--may occasionally >get caught by a missing alias. At every shop I've worked in, userids are >defined and managed by a non-sysprog

Re: HSM old tape cleanup

Linda wrote: >Listed in the system catalog or the HSM tape catalog, both? >You should be able to list the catalogue entries, and IF they match, you could >reset the HSM expiration values to a date in the close future, and let them >expire through normal HSM processing. >Once the datasets

Re: HSM old tape cleanup

Hi Tony, Listed in the system catalog or the HSM tape catalog, both? You should be able to list the catalogue entries, and IF they match, you could reset the HSM expiration values to a date in the close future, and let them expire through normal HSM processing. Once the datasets are expired

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld - Multiprise 3000

http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/0/897/ENUS199-240/ Am 13.12.2016 um 22:44 schrieb Tony Harminc: On 13 December 2016 at 13:10, Pommier, Rex wrote: Tony, one correction to your comments. The H70 was the two-way machine. The H50 was the full speed uni, and

Re: IPSEC

TCP packet size issue comes to mind. IPSEC adds to the total. Causing packet fragmentation and has been know to uncover other issues that would not normally be a problem. Check with the network folks what it should be set to for IPSEC. Rob On Mon, Dec 12, 2016, 10:12 PM scott Ford

Re: IBM Lays Out Plans to Hire 25,000 in U.S. Ahead of Trump Meeting

Roger W Suhr wrote: Yeah, but what kinds of jobs? It doesn't matter, I won't go back to work for IBM, because their whole philosophy is outdated and backward. To many levels of management, who do only administrative work and talk your head off, but don't have a clue what's going on in the

Re: HSM old tape cleanup

Fails. :-( Issued: HSEND DELVOL 153818 MIGRATION(PURGE) Response was: ARC0260I MIGRATION VOLUME 153818 ENTRY NOT DELETED - VALID DATA MAY EXIST ON ARC0260I (CONT.) VOLUME For the one of the volumes: Issued: HSEND DELVOL 152215 MIGRATION(PURGE) Response was: ARC0378I TTOC RECORD AND TAPE MEDIA

Re: z/OS PDFs

And this evening it's working fine ... no idea what was going on. But thanks for checking! Greg Greg Boyd www.mainframecrypto.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: IBM Lays Out Plans to Hire 25,000 in U.S. Ahead of Trump Meeting

> On Dec 13, 2016, at 7:27 PM, Jack J. Woehr wrote: > > wjanu...@yahoo.com wrote: >> Yeah, and when they finish their three months probation, they will get laid >> off. > > IBM is on its way up again. Up is a loose term. Like in space. > > The institution with the broadest

Re: IBM Lays Out Plans to Hire 25,000 in U.S. Ahead of Trump Meeting

> On Dec 13, 2016, at 6:21 PM, Edward Finnell > <000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Maybe they'll put a half dozen on the network availability team? Anything greater than 1 would be nice > > > In a message dated 12/13/2016 5:05:57 P.M. Central Standard Time, >

Re: IBM Lays Out Plans to Hire 25,000 in U.S. Ahead of Trump Meeting

Yeah, but what kinds of jobs?  It doesn't matter, I won't go back to work for IBM,  because their whole philosophy is outdated and backward.  To many levels of management, who do only administrative work and talk your head off, but don't have a clue what's going on in the industry.  Sent

Re: IBM Lays Out Plans to Hire 25,000 in U.S. Ahead of Trump Meeting

wjanu...@yahoo.com wrote: Yeah, and when they finish their three months probation, they will get laid off. IBM is on its way up again. The institution with the broadest view of business computing in the entire world is about to enter its 2nd Golden Age. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is

Re: IBM Lays Out Plans to Hire 25,000 in U.S. Ahead of Trump Meeting

Yeah, and when they finish their three months probation, they will get laid off. Sent from my mobile phone -- Original message-- From: Edward Finnell<000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Date: Tue, Dec 13, 2016 7:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU; Subject:Re: IBM Lays Out

Re: IBM Lays Out Plans to Hire 25,000 in U.S. Ahead of Trump Meeting

Maybe they'll put a half dozen on the network availability team? In a message dated 12/13/2016 5:05:57 P.M. Central Standard Time, g...@gabegold.com writes: 25,000 people in the U.S. and invest $1 billion over the next four years, laying out her vision for filling technology jobs in

Re: 3800 printers

> We know that as of a few years ago there were still functioning 3800s. People > were buying up the remaining supply of toner on Ebay. However, since formal > support ended years ago, and the last functioning machine in our lab was > decommissioned, we have no information on where any working

Re: IBM Lays Out Plans to Hire 25,000 in U.S. Ahead of Trump Meeting

> On Dec 13, 2016, at 5:05 PM, Gabe Goldberg wrote: > > IBM Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty said she plans to hire about 25,000 > people in the U.S. and invest $1 billion over the next four years, laying out > her vision for filling technology jobs in America on the

Re: 3800 printers

We know that as of a few years ago there were still functioning 3800s. People were buying up the remaining supply of toner on Ebay. However, since formal support ended years ago, and the last functioning machine in our lab was decommissioned, we have no information on where any working 3800s

IBM Lays Out Plans to Hire 25,000 in U.S. Ahead of Trump Meeting

IBM Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty said she plans to hire about 25,000 people in the U.S. and invest $1 billion over the next four years, laying out her vision for filling technology jobs in America on the eve of a meeting of industry leaders with President-elect Donald Trump. To read

Re: Question on SPKA and Control Register 3

To close the loop on this, it seems pretty clear that any SVC form of MODESET (MODE= and/or KEY=), if the exit condition from the SVC is problem state, resets the PKM in CR3 to the settings quoted below. There is no way to get KEY=ZERO, problem state, while retaining the ability to issue SPKA

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

Tony Harminc wrote, re MP3000: >Ah - you are quite right. And the P30 was the PWD machine, which did >not change its model number when (effectively) converted to an H50 by >the Linux add-on. There was never a P50 or P70, to my knowledge. We were doing Linux at Linuxcare (who'd'a thunk), and I

Re: HSM old tape cleanup

HSEND DELVOL volser type PURGE IIRC From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Tony Thigpen Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 4:02:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: HSM old tape cleanup I am

Re: Prevent allocation of unknown-HLQ data sets?

In addition to protecting the master catalog, you should prohibit HLQs for which there is not a group or user profile. Then make it part of your procedures whenever a new user or group is created to simultaneously create the catalog alias. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

HSM old tape cleanup

I am looking at my HSM TTOC listing. I have 3 old 3490s that are still listed. I actually have the tapes, but they are unreadable. On two of them, I get a label error: IEC514D DCK OR LBL ERR On the other one, the TTOC shows: RC0378I TTOC RECORD AND TAPE MEDIA CONTENTS ARE INCONSISTENT

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

On 13 December 2016 at 13:10, Pommier, Rex wrote: > Tony, one correction to your comments. The H70 was the two-way machine. The > H50 was the full speed uni, and the > H30 was a knee-capped uni. Ah - you are quite right. And the P30 was the PWD machine, which did not

Re: Prevent allocation of unknown-HLQ data sets?

And once you have all protections in place, remember that someone has to have the key to master catalog. Whoever that is--including you--may occasionally get caught by a missing alias. At every shop I've worked in, userids are defined and managed by a non-sysprog department. If they set up a

Re: I/O error substituting symbols in sysin

On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 15:29:53 -0500, John Clifford wrote: >I was always under the impression that any DD * implied lrecl=80 only. >Adding a lrecl=222 should cause the i/o error. No > I believe that restriction was removed about z/OS 1.5 JES2. Just TSO SUBMIT hasn't heard about it yet. And

Re: I/O error substituting symbols in sysin

I was always under the impression that any DD * implied lrecl=80 only. Adding a lrecl=222 should cause the i/o error. No John Clifford On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 8:40 PM, Anthony Thompson < anthony.thomp...@nt.gov.au> wrote: > Pardon for getting the input wrong. New JCL: > // > // EXPORT

Re: Prevent allocation of unknown-HLQ data sets?

Way, Richard wrote: >Realize this is a pretty basic question, but my Google-fu isn't working out >today Can someone tell me the most common / easiest way to prevent >allocating a data set that doesn't have a catalog alias defined yet? We're >hitting situations where someone creates a data

Re: Prevent allocation of unknown-HLQ data sets?

Protect the master catalog Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 13, 2016, at 1:57 PM, Paul Gilmartin > <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > >> On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 18:55:21 +, Way, Richard wrote: >> >> Realize this is a pretty basic question, but my Google-fu isn't working out

Re: Prevent allocation of unknown-HLQ data sets?

Rich, A couple items you need to implement to address this. First is to make the master catalog read-only to the vast majority of your world, then to implement protect-all. The first will keep rogue items from showing up in your master catalog, the second will keep people from willy-nilly

Re: Prevent allocation of unknown-HLQ data sets?

Your Welcome, I have those moments more now... Carmen - Original Message - From: "Richard Way" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 1:07:29 PM Subject: Re: Prevent allocation of unknown-HLQ data sets? D'oh Thanks!!! Rich Way

Re: Prevent allocation of unknown-HLQ data sets?

Amen - one shopped I worked in had the master catalog defined with a UACC of UPDATE and it took a LONG time to get it cleaned up. If a new user got created with no alias - all their files went into the MASTER. Took a lot of REPRO MERGECAT commands to clean up that mess. -Original

Re: Prevent allocation of unknown-HLQ data sets?

D'oh Thanks!!! Rich Way -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 10:59 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Prevent allocation of unknown-HLQ data sets? What I've

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

Re: MP3000 - nothing good about? If you wanted a full 'function' z System, there were alternative options available at the time. The MP3000 addressed the requirements of a certain customer type/set with a different price point and. They didn't need the same functionality as other z customers

Re: Prevent allocation of unknown-HLQ data sets?

What I've done in 2 shops was to protect the master catalog(s) set UACC(READ) and only update access to your SYSPROG's you trust :) Carmen - Original Message - From: "Richard Way" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 12:55:21 PM

Prevent allocation of unknown-HLQ data sets?

Realize this is a pretty basic question, but my Google-fu isn't working out today Can someone tell me the most common / easiest way to prevent allocating a data set that doesn't have a catalog alias defined yet? We're hitting situations where someone creates a data set by the HLQ of "TEST",

Re: Question on SPKA and Control Register 3

I think it is in a less than ideal spot in the text. It appears to apply to the SVC form of MODESET in general, not just to the use of the MODE= parameter. I believe I am seeing that MODESET KEY=ZERO, in problem state, sets off the "other" bits in the PKM. Charles -Original Message-

Re: Question on SPKA and Control Register 3

On Mon, 12 Dec 2016 22:04:45 -0500, Jim Mulder wrote: > The MODESET documentation says: > >,MODE=PROB, > MODE=SUP >Specifies that the PSW problem state indicator >(bit 15) is to be either turned on (PROB) or turned off (SUP). If the >MODESET operation completes with a problem state PSW,

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

My turn. :-) Tony, one correction to your comments. The H70 was the two-way machine. The H50 was the full speed uni, and the H30 was a knee-capped uni. At a prior job, we ran an H50 for several years, ESCON attached to an RVA (anybody remember them? :-) ) and parallel attached to tape

Re: Question on SPKA and Control Register 3

Thanks. Yes, adding MODE=SUP to my KEY=ZERO MODESET would obviously solve the problem, short-term. I have resisted that for three reasons, listed below roughly in order of importance as I see it. I would welcome comments on my logic. 1. How do I get back to problem state? I don't want to run the

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

Tony Harminc wrote, re MP3000: >It was *much* better than the MP2000. Very much faster. It was a 390 >G5 CPU. Even 2 x G5 on the top model (H50). >A note on the "development only" idea about this machine. There *were* >development (PWD) models. We had one, at a much reduced price, and we >also

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

I worked on a production 7060 (MP3000) H30 for several years. We did not use the internal DASD. The H30 was connected, via ESCON, to a 2105. The only thing emulated on that box was the OSA, which used the Ethernet card(s) on the PC. Was it better than a z800 or z900, definitely not! But

Re: Question on SPKA and Control Register 3

Yep, it is a bug. The PSW key mask has key 0 and key9 after the combination. Not key 8. I would not expect MODESET to alter the key mask. Of course, I have never found the occasion to run key zero problem state (since it doesn't prevent overlays). I would use supervisor state and switch out of

Re: I/O error substituting symbols in sysin

On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 01:40:07 +, Anthony Thompson wrote: > >So you've got an 80-byte SYSUT1 input but you're telling the system it's >really 222 bytes. Bang. I/O error. > >I put the same JCL above into a dataset with LRECL 222 and submitted it to an >internal reader via IEBGENER (ICEGENER).

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

It's been said, those who do not understand Unix are condemned to re-invent it ... poorly. We could have a lively discussion about that on this list, but likely we all agree that those who don't understand mainframes are condemned to re-invent them (poorly). I really don't know anything good

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

On 13 December 2016 at 10:34, R.S. wrote: > I dare to disagree. My turn... > Although MP3000 was better than MP2000, it was still nothing good. It was *much* better than the MP2000. Very much faster. It was a 390 G5 CPU. Even 2 x G5 on the top model (H50). A

Re: Question on SPKA and Control Register 3

Just to continue the experiment and confirm my conclusion, all I have to do to get the below to "work" is remove the last MODESET: MODESET KEY=NZERO Make sure we are in Key 8 MODESET MODE=PROB Allow SPKA 8 * *** MODESET KEY=ZERO Get access to CSA

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

"As a production or development machine the I/O was really poor." Production, sure; we had one for dev, and while it wasn't an I/O screamer, it was *dev*. So I'll have to disagree. Sure, a z800 would have been better. So would a z900. On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:34 AM, R.S.

Re: pdf manuals cannot be accessed

Bob, Thank you for your offered help and support. The links seem to be working again! Dejan Stamatovic CROZ D.O.O. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

I dare to disagree. Although MP3000 was better than MP2000, it was still nothing good. As a demonstration/learning/portable machine it was much to big. As a production or development machine the I/O was really poor. No real channels except ESCON. No sysplex capability. A lot of SPOFs. z800 and

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

In the 2000-2001 timeframe we were indeed pitched MP3000 as a replacement CPU for a production workload. As I understood it at the time, the z infrastructure and internal DASD ran under, and was dependent upon an OS/2 hypervisor. Dana On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:53:14 +0100, R.S.

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

Oops, yeah, sorry. For some reason I do that with Gmail threads a lot. Dumb on my part. Thanks. MP3000 was a nice machine. Too bad IBM killed the follow-on. On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:12 AM, R.S. wrote: > zMan, > > Please, re-read the message you responded to. >

Re: Question on SPKA and Control Register 3

ok, thanks, all the example I have specify both for some reason, thanks Carmen - Original Message - From: "Charles Mills" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 9:20:36 AM Subject: Re: Question on SPKA and Control Register 3 Neither. They

Re: Question on SPKA and Control Register 3

Neither. They are independent. You can specify either or both independently. KEY=0 lets you access everything. MODE=SUPE lets you do everything. (More or less.) Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

zMan, Please, re-read the message you responded to. Hint: Itschak asked the question, Radoslaw answered. Regarding zPDT - indeed, it is licensed to "non production" activities (*some* development tasks, learning). The difference is zPDT is a license - you buy the hardware, IBM delivers you

Re: Question on SPKA and Control Register 3

Sorry again folks - I forgot NOT to send replies via my work email Not sure my assembler is very weak, but don't you have to specify supervisor state when setting key ZERO, or is that just assumed. MODESET KEY=ZERO,MODE=SUP ? Carmen - Original Message - From: "Carmen P

Re: Question on SPKA and Control Register 3

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Re: Question on SPKA and Control Register 3

> When? Does it fail during stuff 1 or stuff 2? Not certain. At the end of the sequence for sure. Probably in stuff (two). Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Re: Question on SPKA and Control Register 3

Okay, there is just no doubt in my mind that the use of MODESET precludes the use of SPKA (and I'm not certain how to get around it other than to use MODESET (with its attendant SVC) rather than SPKA). It's code that runs millions of times per hour on multiple LPARs so I am trying to minimize

Re: pdf manuals cannot be accessed

Dejan, If you need a specific manual. Let me know. I have the 2.2 PDF library downloaded. Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Dejan Stamatovic Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 9:34 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

As others have noted, No, it wasn't. I suspect you're confusing MP3000 and zPDT. 2016-12-13 6:53 GMT-05:00 R.S. : > W dniu 2016-12-13 o 11:52, Itschak Mugzach pisze: > >> Isn't mp3000 licensed to development only? >> > No. > However I would use past simple tense.

Re: pdf manuals cannot be accessed

It's not just you! Working with pdfs is something I do day in day out! Dejan Stamatovic CROZ D.O.O. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message:

Re: Question on SPKA and Control Register 3

Charles Mills wrote: >* Enter APF-authorized and with Key=8 > MODESET KEY=ZERO,MODE=SUP >* do stuff (one) > MODESET MODE=PROB >* do stuff (two) > MODESET KEY=NZERO >leaves you in a state in which SPKA 8's will fail. When? Does it fail during stuff 1 or stuff 2? From what you

Re: pdf manuals cannot be accessed

Susan Shumway wrote: >Yes, indeed, both http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/ and >http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/ seem to be down. >I'm sure the necessary folks already know about it and are working on getting >them back up and running. Thanks. I'm grateful for your kindness. >Use KC in the meantime

Re: Question on SPKA and Control Register 3

@Peter, @Bin, it's really failing and there is no flaw (I believe!) in the SPKA code. Not much code or dump is relevant. Hard to go wrong with SPKA 0(R1) when the contents of R1 in the minidump is xx80 (and yes, the instruction is still B20A1000 in the display of the code near the PSW

Re: Position available

Alan: I would be interested if this can be done remotely. If so, please fill in the details. I am in Goldsboro, NC an hour east of Raleigh. I am a long-time z/OS sysprog. Mike Myers On 12/12/2016 04:51 PM, Alan Haff wrote: I work for a multinational ISV and we have an opening for a z/OS

Re: pdf manuals cannot be accessed

Yes, indeed, both http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/ and http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/ seem to be down. I'm sure the necessary folks already know about it and are working on getting them back up and running. Use KC in the meantime for the z doc. If you're desperate for a particular Redbook/etc.,

Re: Question on SPKA and Control Register 3

>I had guessed that an APF-authorized but otherwise "ordinary" program >running with Key 8 would be able to issue an SPKA with an "address" of >xx8x in problem state without getting a S0C2. Whether APF-authorized or not, it can. If your program is getting S0C2, then you are most likely not

Re: Shopz Hung?

Nah, it migrated over to the Redbooks site! But I agree with the Shopz assessment. Everything I submitted yesterday "eventually" was processed. Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent: Tuesday,

Re: Shopz Hung?

Yea, that was the symptom I was seeing. All seems fine this morning however. _ Dave Jousma Manager Mainframe Engineering, Assistant Vice President david.jou...@53.com 1830 East Paris, Grand Rapids, MI  49546 MD RSCB2H p

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

W dniu 2016-12-13 o 11:52, Itschak Mugzach pisze: Isn't mp3000 licensed to development only? No. However I would use past simple tense. ;-) -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland --- Treść tej wiadomości może zawierać informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wyłącznie do użytku

Re: pdf manuals can not be accessed

No Probs Crispin Hugo Systems Specialist Macro 4 Limited d: +44 1293 872121 | m: +44 7753951308 | t: +44 1293 872000 | www.macro4.com     Registered office: The Orangery, Turners Hill Road, Worth, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 4SS Registered in England no: 00927588 Please consider the

pdf manuals can not be accessed

Does anybody have problems with accessing pdf manuals on the following link: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/library/bkserv/v2r2pdf/#IEA Dejan Stamatovic CROZ D.O.O. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Question on SPKA and Control Register 3

It would not fail under MVS. My guess is that you are not checking the correct thing. Post the minidump. On Mon, 12 Dec 2016 13:49:09 -0800 Charles Mills wrote: :>I had guessed that an APF-authorized but otherwise "ordinary" program :>running with Key 8 would be able to

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

The MP3000 came with integrated disk and was not restricted to dev only. A lot of 'small' customers used it for production work. Having said this it was ideal for dev. End of Service for the system was in 2012. -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: redbooks can not be accessed

The website is down and they are working on it. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: redbooks can not be accessed

I get the same as you. Crispin Hugo Systems Specialist Macro 4 Limited d: +44 1293 872121 | m: +44 7753951308 | t: +44 1293 872000 | www.macro4.com     Registered office: The Orangery, Turners Hill Road, Worth, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 4SS Registered in England no: 00927588 Please

Re: redbooks can not be accessed

Yes, I am seeing the same thing. It just spins... Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Dejan Stamatovic Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 5:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: redbooks can not be accessed

redbooks can not be accessed

Anybody seeing the problem I see? http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/ can not be accessed. Dejan Stamatovic CROZ D.O.O -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

Isn't mp3000 licensed to development only? ITschak בתאריך 13 בדצמ 2016 12:50,‏ "R.S." כתב: > W dniu 2016-12-13 o 11:05, Dave Wade pisze: > >> [...] >> There are many sites out there that have been deserted by IBM who only >> want to sell "Big Iron". There is

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

W dniu 2016-12-13 o 11:05, Dave Wade pisze: [...] There are many sites out there that have been deserted by IBM who only want to sell "Big Iron". There is nothing like the MP3000 for price/performance available today, yet many were sold. What options are there for users of small mainframes? I

Re: z/OS PDFs

Greg, I tried all three links and they responded instantly. Sorry... Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Greg Boyd Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 5:38 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: z/OS PDFs Anyone else

z/OS PDFs

Anyone else having problems getting to the z/OS PDFs? I went thru http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/library/bkserv/ and then tried to get to PDFs for each version of z/OS: z/OS 2.2http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/library/bkserv/v2r2pdf/ z/OS 2.1

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

>The legacy, legacy, legacy everywhere on their site is pure indoctrination, >sorry, psychologically-inspired advertising, easily >impressed on the brain-pans of those with no genuine knowledge of Mainframes >who are already "modified" to believe that a >Mainframe is a dusty-old-thing running

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

According to the marketing literature, it does binary. Both Raincode and IT-COBOL are partners. If a binary doesn't work, you go to a COBOL-IT recompile. They have a demo-film for batch, with this stern and impressive prologue: "The recording has not been edited or shortened. Everything you