Re: Sort Question

Wow - that dooms Excel. I think a million lines might be the max for it Lizette > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Edward Gould > Sent: Monday, July 17, 2017 9:34 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re:

Re: Sort Question

> On Jul 15, 2017, at 3:43 PM, Lizette Koehler wrote: > > Does this need to be a mainframe solution? > > How many records are involved? > > If not a lot of data, I load this type of data to Excel. > > The using the DATA tab, I then highlight the column and use the

Re: LE strikes again

Of course that's up to you, but for every ARCH step you decrement you're leaving compiler optimizations behind on the cutting room floor. For example, if you're shipping an ARCH(5) build (z900/z800 compatible) to a customer that can run ARCH(11) (z13/z13s), you're leaving about a decade and a half

Re: Z14 Redbook

Full list of all current z14 Redbooks: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks.nsf/pages/z14?Open The z14 Configuration and Setup Guide will be available 'later' -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: Get off JES3 is the message was Re: IBM Unveils New IBM Z with Pervasive Encryption

> On Jul 17, 2017, at 2:21 PM, Clark Morris wrote: > > [Default] On 16 Jul 2017 21:36:43 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main > sipp...@sg.ibm.com (Timothy Sipples) wrote: > >> IBM's press release is available here: >> >>

Re: IBM z14 Multilayered Encryption

Timothy Sipples wrote: >Phil, I don't know anybody arguing against application-based encryption and >hashing. Certainly IBM is all in favor of that (also). Encryption facilities >have been available since the early 1970s, arguably -- certainly for a long >time. Application programmers have

Re: IBM z14 Multilayered Encryption

Phil, I don't know anybody arguing against application-based encryption and hashing. Certainly IBM is all in favor of that (also). Encryption facilities have been available since the early 1970s, arguably -- certainly for a long time. Application programmers have been able to code to encryption

Re: SMFLIMxx sample?

Hello, First question: Have you seen the update to the Initialization & Tuning Guide? https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.ieae100/smflim.htm There is information there about selecting these values, and how they relate to each other. This book was not

Re: IBM z14 High-lights

Just updated on Sunday. http://www.os2world.com/ On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 7:09 AM, Parwez Hamid wrote: > I know some folks who are still using DOS and OS/2. Time to move. > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Z14 Redbook

Found this: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg248450.pdf The IBM Security VP (I think his name was Barlow) was on Bloomberg Technology and he had a Z14 chip in his hand not much bigger than a Forever stamp. It holds 6.1 billion transistors and over 14 miles of wire Most of it is

Re: Running unsupported is dangerous was Re: AW: Re: LE strikes again

I sort of "specialize" in upgrading sites that have put off an upgrade to a more current OS for (quite) a while and I can tell you from experience with over 100 of these sites that there are LOTs of reasons for them being at that old release, and all (well, the vast majority any way) of them

Re: IBM z14 High-lights

So virtual flash is essentially disk cache, using regular memory? (As a long-time VMer, I almost wrote "minidisk cache", but then realized that would be wrong :)) And it's managed at the HMC, not by the OS, so it differs from MDC that way, too. But the same basic concept. Makes TONS of sense!

Re: IBM z14

When I specifically asked about this, I was told that if you did not have rights to both SAF profiles, you could not read the data set at all. Are you reading things that suggest this is not the case? Sure, access to two profiles is a bit more security than one—that is, it’s more likely that

Re: IBM z14

Phil, I agree with most of your comments, but only half of this sentence: Transparent, whole-file encryption has its uses, but adds very little real security: if you can read the data set, you get the cleartext. Pervasive encryption does encrypt the whole file, but getting read access to the

Re: IBM z14

On 17Jul17:1306-0700, Phil Smith wrote: > David L. Craig wrote: > >This is a golden opportunity, IBM. Please don't blow it. > >This will require better than usual marketing. Prove to us > >there are no backdoors and that decrypted data cannot be > >exfiltrated by SEs and HMCs. > > Not

Re: z/VM subcapacity pricing

gib...@wsu.edu (Gibney, Dave) writes: > As an aside, I spent several years with a uni-processor (z800). There > are significant benefits to having at least 2 processors. The benefits > of fewer/faster processors go hockey stick when fewer becomes 1. I remember in the 90s when they complained NT

Re: z/VM subcapacity pricing (Was: IBM Unveils New IBM Z with Pervasive Encryption)

W dniu 2017-07-17 o 22:17, Gibney, Dave pisze: As an aside, I spent several years with a uni-processor (z800). There are significant benefits to having at least 2 processors. The benefits of fewer/faster processors go hockey stick when fewer becomes 1. Amen to that! The less processors the

Re: IBM z14 High-lights

W dniu 2017-07-17 o 18:39, Parwez Hamid pisze: Re: VFM Vs Flash Express: Much simpler management of VFM resource (HMC task) No hardware repair and verify (no cables, no adapters) Better performance since no “I/O” to attached adapter takes place. Doesn't use I/O slots. RAS: Memory protected by

Re: z/VM subcapacity pricing (Was: IBM Unveils New IBM Z with Pervasive Encryption)

As an aside, I spent several years with a uni-processor (z800). There are significant benefits to having at least 2 processors. The benefits of fewer/faster processors go hockey stick when fewer becomes 1. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: IBM z14

David L. Craig wrote: >This is a golden opportunity, IBM. Please don't blow it. >This will require better than usual marketing. Prove to us >there are no backdoors and that decrypted data cannot be >exfiltrated by SEs and HMCs. Not understand concern re backdoor-it's AES; if it's keys you're

Re: Why buy / rent z for small users was Re: z/OS 2.3 announcement

On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 2:44 PM, Clark Morris wrote: > [Default] On 17 Jul 2017 10:34:08 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main > john.archie.mck...@gmail.com (John McKown) wrote: > > >http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/ >

Why buy / rent z for small users was Re: z/OS 2.3 announcement

[Default] On 17 Jul 2017 10:34:08 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main john.archie.mck...@gmail.com (John McKown) wrote: >http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/6/897/ENUS217-246/index.html=en_locale=en If you had a relatively small organization why would you get a z

Re: IBM z14 High-lights

3906 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Monday, July 17, 2017 2:40 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM z14 High-lights What is the machine type number? The four-digit code in the CPUID?

Re: IBM z14 High-lights

What is the machine type number? The four-digit code in the CPUID? I am sure it is in some FM but I don't know which. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Parwez Hamid Sent: Monday, July 17, 2017 9:39 AM To:

Get off JES3 is the message was Re: IBM Unveils New IBM Z with Pervasive Encryption

[Default] On 16 Jul 2017 21:36:43 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main sipp...@sg.ibm.com (Timothy Sipples) wrote: >IBM's press release is available here: > >https://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/52805.wss > Ater reading the release one strong message I got was that shops should get off JES3.

Re: DFRMM Request For Enhancement 106021

Mike, You said that when EDGSSSI is in the subsystem entry then DFRMM must be in control but that's not what happened. Following is the explanation from DFRMM level two; When RMM failed to initialize the situation is similar to when RMM is started with the following command 'S

Re: IBM z14 High-lights

parwez_ha...@hotmail.com (Parwez Hamid) writes: > z14 Key H/W high-lights: > > Up to 170 Customer PUs @ 5.2 GHz each on a 14 nm 10 core chip > Up to 32 TB Memory > Uni = 1832 'mips', 170-way = 146462 'mips' z900, 16 processors, 2.5BIPS (156MIPS/proc), Dec2000 z990, 32 processors, 9BIPS,

Re: Re-branding again? Is "IBM z Systems" now "IBM Z" (watch the case)?

How about IBM Zed? From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Phil Smith Sent: Monday, July 17, 2017 8:03 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Re-branding again? Is "IBM z Systems" now "IBM Z" (watch the

z/OS 2.3 announcement

http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/6/897/ENUS217-246/index.html=en_locale=en Some niceties When RACF is invoked to map UID(0) to a user ID, it returns the same value defined in the SUPERUSER keyword of BPXPRMxx. This provides a consistent mapping to the user

Re: IBM z14 High-lights

Re: R Journal for z14. From past experience its normally 6-9 months after System is announced. For the z14 its likely to be during 1Q2018 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Sort Question

On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 12:33:31 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: > >... there is currently no other Tony in the email list at >this domain, so Tony is enough to reach me. That will surely change >one day, but what will the algorithm be? Reject, ignore, stick to the >existing rule and send to me...? >

Re: IBM z14 High-lights

The clock times are not getting any faster so all of the performance improvements of the past few generations have been (1) more powerful instructions (store on condition, atomic storage add, etc.); and (2) things like larger cache, "better" cache, more main memory, etc. If you have a limited

Re: IBM z14 High-lights

Is there a research journal for the new z? Rob Schramm On Mon, Jul 17, 2017, 12:39 PM Parwez Hamid wrote: > Re: VFM Vs Flash Express: > > Much simpler management of VFM resource (HMC task) > No hardware repair and verify (no cables, no adapters) > Better performance

Re: IBM z14 High-lights

Re: VFM Vs Flash Express: Much simpler management of VFM resource (HMC task) No hardware repair and verify (no cables, no adapters) Better performance since no “I/O” to attached adapter takes place. Doesn't use I/O slots. RAS: Memory protected by RAIM and ECC (internal / main memory) Re: 10

Re: Sort Question

On 16 July 2017 at 10:28, Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > (From RFC 822: > addr-spec = local-part "@" domain; global address ) ... > If the local-part contains special characters, it must be surrounded by > quotation marks. If there are no

Re: IBM z14

On 17Jul17:0205-0500, Parwez Hamid wrote: > https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/52805.wss This is a golden opportunity, IBM. Please don't blow it. This will require better than usual marketing. Prove to us there are no backdoors and that decrypted data cannot be exfiltrated by SEs

Re: IBM Unveils New IBM Z with Pervasive Encryption

Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: >Just to make sure I understood it: >Let's assume I have z/VM licensed for 2 processors and machine >5CP+2IFL+2ICF+2zIIP, and another machine 1CP. Before the announcement I >was able to legally run z/VM on IFLs on primary machine or on 1CP on >secondary machine (but not

Re: IBM dangles carrot of full encryption to lure buyers to new z14 mainframe

On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 08:50:08 -0700, Nightwatch RenBand wrote: >Interesting... Z14 >https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/16/ibm-dangles-carrot-of-full-encryption-to-lure-buyers-to-new-z14-mainframe/ >? "... those relics from the earliest days of computing. ..." "Fair and balanced™"? -- gil

IBM dangles carrot of full encryption to lure buyers to new z14 mainframe

Interesting... Z14 https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/16/ibm-dangles-carrot-of-full-encryption-to-lure-buyers-to-new-z14-mainframe/ ? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Sort Question

>>I see the following room for improvement: 1. Do NOT limit domain field to first dot. Just take it as whole string. Example of sorted domains R.S My earlier job was just an untested sample that I wrote on the weekend to meet Edward's requirement. Here is a fully tested version and it takes

Re: IBM Unveils New IBM Z with Pervasive Encryption

IBM has posted its Large Systems Performance Reference (LSPR) tables for the new IBM z14. The z/OS 2.2 tables (including for the IBM z13s and for prior models) are available here: https://www.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/lib03060.nsf/pages/lsprITRzOSv2r2?OpenDocument z/VM 6.4 ITR ratio tables

Re: IBM z14

This is interesting. I had no idea that legislation was driving encryption. (i.e.. EU GDPR for 2018) Looks like it supports three times the memory of a z13 as well. On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 3:05 AM, Parwez Hamid wrote: >

Re: Re-branding again? Is "IBM z Systems" now "IBM Z" (watch the case)?

On 2017-07-17, at 08:03, Phil Smith wrote: > ... > Absolutely. “IBM i” is quite possibly the stupidest name ever from a branding > perspective, as it’s *not searchable*: when you look for it, you find “When I > was at IBM, I used to…” and the like. “z Systems” and “System z” weren’t > great,

Re: Sorting email addresses

I routinely render email and website addresses with upper and lower case to make them intelligible to the naked eye. A long address before and after the '@' can be difficult to comprehend and especially hard to type if copy/paste is not feasible. As Radoslow says, case differentiated addresses

Re: Sorting email addresses

On 2017-07-17, at 08:06, R.S. wrote: >>> >> By Internet standard, the domain is case-insensitive. RFC 822 et al. >> leave interpretation of the local-part entirely to the target site, >> which is free to treat it as either case-sensitive or insensitive. > > Theoretically yes, but practically I

Re: IBM Unveils New IBM Z with Pervasive Encryption

Timothy, Just to make sure I understood it: Let's assume I have z/VM licensed for 2 processors and machine 5CP+2IFL+2ICF+2zIIP, and another machine 1CP. Before the announcement I was able to legally run z/VM on IFLs on primary machine or on 1CP on secondary machine (but not concurrently:

Re: Sorting email addresses

R.S. wrote: >Theoretically yes, but practically I have never met case-sensitive email >address, even the part before @ character. >Of course this is very subjective, limited, 22-years old observation, not a >rule. YMMV ;-) Seconded, except for the YMMV part. I'd submit that any domain that had

Re: Sorting email addresses

W dniu 2017-07-17 o 15:56, Paul Gilmartin pisze: On 2017-07-17, at 05:58, R.S. wrote: 2. Uppercase and lowercase sorted in same order. ... By Internet standard, the domain is case-insensitive. RFC 822 et al. leave interpretation of the local-part entirely to the target site,

Re: Re-branding again? Is "IBM z Systems" now "IBM Z" (watch the case)?

R.S. wrote: >I'm not marketing specialist, so just my €0.02 IMHO names like System z or System p or System i are not good. For us it's clear what is "z", but for uneducated people it looks like typo, just unnecessary character in the sentence. Here in Poland people still tend to use RS/6000

Sorting email addresses (was: Sort Question)

On 2017-07-17, at 05:58, R.S. wrote: > > 2. Uppercase and lowercase sorted in same order. ... > By Internet standard, the domain is case-insensitive. RFC 822 et al. leave interpretation of the local-part entirely to the target site, which is free to treat it as either case-sensitive or

Re: Re-branding again? Is "IBM z Systems" now "IBM Z" (watch the case)?

I'm not marketing specialist, so just my €0.02 IMHO names like System z or System p or System i are not good. For us it's clear what is "z", but for uneducated people it looks like typo, just unnecessary character in the sentence. Here in Poland people still tend to use RS/6000 (with silent

Sorting email addresses (was: Sort Question)

(Subject: changed to be more relevant) On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 07:38:36 -0700, Sri h Kolusu wrote: > >Can you send me a sample of data with all the challenging scenarios and I >will *try* to see if I can solve it. For a fully tested solution it would >be only on Monday. > This page has a few more

Re: Re-branding again? Is "IBM z Systems" now "IBM Z" (watch the case)?

Bill Wilkie wrote: >I wrote to IBM years ago and complained that after downloading manuals, I had >cut and paste the manual name, but could not include the "/" and it was very >cumbersome. Glad to see they are changing it. I would also like to see the >MANUAL number as part of the title so you

Re: z/OS under z/VM (Was: IBM Unveils New IBM Z with Pervasive Encryption)

Tim, I am not sure I have a good understanding of this. Now, to your post. You actually hit a problem we have. We have a z/10 that is running 5 z/OS LPARs and memory allocation is not the best. You indicate that running z/OS under VM might be the answer. But, a few years ago, some testing

Re: z/VM subcapacity pricing (Was: IBM Unveils New IBM Z with Pervasive Encryption)

Tim, I am not sure I have a good understanding of this. Some background: In our case, we have 7 physical z10 or higher machines. All the current processors have 1 CPU, but we are looking at replacing 2 of the machines with multi-processors. Most of the machines are running multiple z/OS

Any way to run RMF 3 DDS Interface (GPMSERVE) accessing "private" RMF 3 Clusters?

RMF 3 gatherer VSAM clusters are wrap around. I sometimes need to be able to access the one minute intervall data for a longer period than the wrap around. I then make a copy of the online clusters (using ERBV2S followed by ERBS2V) for long term usage. I allocated them and then start RMF/ISPF.

Re: Re-branding again? Is "IBM z Systems" now "IBM Z" (watch the case)?

I wrote to IBM years ago and complained that after downloading manuals, I had cut and paste the manual name, but could not include the "/" and it was very cumbersome. Glad to see they are changing it. I would also like to see the MANUAL number as part of the title so you can cut and paste the

Re: IBM z14 High-lights

W dniu 2017-07-17 o 14:06, Parwez Hamid pisze: While you don't care about some of the new enhancements, others do and want them :-) Sure! YMMV! That's why I clearly stated "for me" and "My €0.02". BTW:Can you provide some *customer* benefits of the following: * 14nm manufacturing process *

Re: IBM z14 High-lights

W dniu 2017-07-17 o 14:09, Parwez Hamid pisze: I know some folks who are still using DOS and OS/2. Time to move. "Time to move" can be general excuse/justification for any change. Even unneeded or unwise. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland

Re: Hiding cross LPAR capacity information

In addition, by removing Global Performance Data Control authority one would also disable some CPC-wide optimizations in z/OS HiperDispatch. Horst Sinram - STSM, IBM z/OS Workload and Capacity Management -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: IBM z14 High-lights

I know some folks who are still using DOS and OS/2. Time to move. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: IBM z14 High-lights

While you don't care about some of the new enhancements, others do and want them :-) As regards Classic UI. as I have already stated, its history and changes have been made to the Tree UI to address user concerns. BTW: More technical details about the z14 in the redbook. This is a draft

Re: IBM z14 High-lights

W dniu 2017-07-17 o 13:49, Parwez Hamid pisze: Classic UI Style NO longer available on HMC/SE 2.14.0 Its not an option you can turn on/off.. Class UI is history and IBM has been stating this was going to going to happen for a while giving users ample time to 'migrate' to Tree UI mode. Yeah,

Re: IBM z14 High-lights

W dniu 2017-07-17 o 13:39, Lucas Rosalen pisze: Hi Radoslaw, HMC - I HATE TREE MODE! GIVE ME CLASSIC MODE BACK! I think you can turn on Classic Style from HMC by doing: Logon, click your ID in the up right corner, tab UI Style, select Classic Style, apply, OK. Lucas, Classic style is no

Re: Sort Question

I see the following room for improvement: 1. Do NOT limit domain field to first dot. Just take it as whole string. Example of sorted domains a...@domain.com a...@domain.com.pl a...@domain.de a...@domain.in a...@domain.pl How to change "%02=(ENDBEFR=C'.',FIXLEN=30)" to something like "%02=rest of

Re: IBM z14 High-lights

Ah, nice to know - I tested on 2.13.1 --- *Lucas Rosalen* Emails: rosalen.lu...@gmail.com / *lrosa...@pl.ibm.com * LinkedIn:

Re: IBM z14 High-lights

Classic UI Style NO longer available on HMC/SE 2.14.0 Its not an option you can turn on/off.. Class UI is history and IBM has been stating this was going to going to happen for a while giving users ample time to 'migrate' to Tree UI mode.

Re: IBM z14 High-lights

Hi Radoslaw, HMC - I HATE TREE MODE! GIVE ME CLASSIC MODE BACK! I think you can turn on Classic Style from HMC by doing: Logon, click your ID in the up right corner, tab UI Style, select Classic Style, apply, OK. Regards,

Re: Re-branding again? Is "IBM z Systems" now "IBM Z" (watch the case)?

The new family name is IBM Z but the product names remain lowercase like z14, z/OS, z/VM, Linux on z Systems etc etc -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with

Re-branding again? Is "IBM z Systems" now "IBM Z" (watch the case)?

>From Timothy's post and the linked documents, I conclude that IBM re-branded >its "z Systems" into "Z" (in uppercase). Will it soon be supported by a new >operating system called Z/OS (don't confuse with z/OS)? -- Peter Hunkeler

Re: IBM z14 High-lights

W dniu 2017-07-17 o 11:03, Parwez Hamid pisze: z14 Key H/W high-lights: Up to 170 Customer PUs @ 5.2 GHz each on a 14 nm 10 core chip Up to 32 TB Memory Uni = 1832 'mips', 170-way = 146462 'mips' New Crypto and OSA Express6S features New FICON Express 16S+ with increased I/O rate New IBM

Re: IBM Unveils New IBM Z with Pervasive Encryption

I'd like to focus a bit on one of the many unique features in the new IBM z14: "Pause-Less Garbage Collection." The IBM z14 is the first and only server in the world with this interesting, useful capability that works to maintain consistent, high Java performance. There's nothing else like it. If

Re: IBM z14 High-lights

z14 Key H/W high-lights: Up to 170 Customer PUs @ 5.2 GHz each on a 14 nm 10 core chip Up to 32 TB Memory Uni = 1832 'mips', 170-way = 146462 'mips' New Crypto and OSA Express6S features New FICON Express 16S+ with increased I/O rate New IBM zHyperlink Express, uses a direct connect short

Re: IBM Unveils New IBM Z with Pervasive Encryption

OK, I'll start offering some personal thoughts on today's major announcements, and in no particular order. I'll start in what might be an unexpected place: sub-capacity z/VM licensing. That announcement letter is available here:

Re: LE strikes again

Thanks for the pointer. But I suppose I should build at ARCH(5) which is the lowest common denominator to deal with any other customers who refuse to upgrade! Robin -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples

IBM z14

https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/52805.wss -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN