Working Set = Real Frames + Aux Slots?

. Something happened (not sure what yet) and lots of asids were stolen from with resulting usage of aux. Now when I add real + aux I see much higher allocation than before aux usage. TIA Ken Porowski -- This email message and any

Re: zEnterprise...the Next Generation of Enterprise Systems webcast on August 28

Anyone know if this is something new or just an update on z196/z114/zBX ? And I heard it was 59 of the top 60 worldwide banks run on IBM System z? The Future Runs on System z! -- This email message and any accompanying

Re: Z114 or a zBC12

z114 MES upgrades are withdrawn as of June 30, 2014. You may find that the price of a zBC12 is the same (or possibly lower) than the z114 (there may even be 'special' pricing available towards the end of this year). CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1

Re: Extents limit for HFS (UNCLASSIFIED)

IIRC you can get 127 extents for a VSAM dataset but only in the 123rd extent is satisfied with 5 extents CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow...@cit.com This email message and any accompanying materials may contain

Re: Maximum Capacity Feature

The data sheet says 8.5 TB native (uncompressed) capacity. CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow...@cit.com This email message and any accompanying materials may contain proprietary, privileged and confidential

Re: OT: Friday - Alternative Alphabeth

Looks like Congress is 26 for 26 ... CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow...@cit.com This email message and any accompanying materials may contain proprietary, privileged and confidential information of CIT Group Inc

Re: Check out Moto X: Motorola reveals plans for ink and even pills to replace AL

Strain the sewer lines out of the pentagon for the little pills CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow...@cit.com This email message and any accompanying materials may contain proprietary, privileged and confidential

Re: Other hardware discontinued. (was 2084-D48?)

Did anyone notice that z890's (2086) were left out of the list? CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow...@cit.com This email message and any accompanying materials may contain proprietary, privileged and confidential

z/OS Configuration for Security - Not RACF or other ESM

of LPALIST, LINKLIST, APFLIST, SCHEDxx/PPT Does anyone know of a book/paper/guide/reference that would outline a 'best practice' for z/OS security configuration. I've been searching this list, redbooks, Google, but not finding much that isn't RACF/ESM specific. TIA Ken Ken Porowski VP Mainframe

Re: VTOC Location

LISTVTOC FORMAT,VOL=SYSDA=MVS001 CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow...@cit.com This email message and any accompanying materials may contain proprietary, privileged and confidential information of CIT Group Inc. or its

Re: Is there a TSS mailing list?

Last message I got was in 2011 CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow...@cit.com This email message and any accompanying materials may contain proprietary, privileged and confidential information of CIT Group Inc. or its

z/OS 1.13 Last date to order ServerPac

Anyone know the cutoff date for ordering z/OS 1.13 via ServerPac? [CIT.com]http://www.cit.com Ken Porowski VP Mainframe Engineering Information Technology +1 973 740 5459 (tel) mailto:{{smtp:sender}}ken.porow...@cit.commailto:ken.porow...@cit.com One CIT Drive

z/OS 1.13 Last date to order ServerPac

Anyone know the cutoff date for ordering z/OS 1.13 via ServerPac? Ken Porowski VP Mainframe Engineering CIT Information Technology +1 973 740 5459 (tel) One CIT Drive Livingston, NJ 07039 ken.porow...@cit.com www.cit.com This email message and any accompanying materials may contain

Re: OT: Obscurity Is Not Security... Or Is It?

No need, they have a copy already. CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow...@cit.com This email message and any accompanying materials may contain proprietary, privileged and confidential information of CIT Group Inc

Re: Check out IBM - Archives - Documents - United States

Love the 'Quintessential Quotes' Watson Sr. has one liners, everyone else is paragraphs. CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow...@cit.com This email message and any accompanying materials may contain proprietary

Re: OT: How would you like _this_ as your z/OS has hard waited message?

How large would the QR code have to be to replace a stand alone dump? CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow...@cit.com This email message and any accompanying materials may contain proprietary, privileged

Re: Real programmers eat foo

If it came out of a vending machine it was edible and/or drinkable. CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow...@cit.com This email message and any accompanying materials may contain proprietary, privileged and confidential

Re: HearBleed issue and OPEN/SSL

How about z/OS Comm Server System SSL? CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow...@cit.com This email message and any accompanying materials may contain proprietary, privileged and confidential information of CIT Group Inc

Re: Beyond the EC12

It's always referred to as zNext until the formal announcement and final name is released. CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow...@cit.com This email message and any accompanying materials may contain proprietary

Re: New install library size

are/have been available I'm pretty much stuck with 3390-9 (and -3 in some cases). Whatever you do please make sure we know about the change before we try to install. CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow...@cit.com This email

Re: 3590 tape drives

E05 is a TS1120/3592 not a 3590 3590 would be B1A, E1A I can't find an announcement of End of Service for the 3590 and I just signed a 1 year maint agreement with IBM for my 3590's. CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow

Re: 3590 tape drives

the machine types and models listed below, effective June 30, 2014. Storage products - tape Machine type Model 3590B1A 3590B11 CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow...@cit.com -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: non-IBM: SONY new tape storage - 185 Terabytes on a tape.

But can it still read/write at 6250BPI CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow...@cit.com This email message and any accompanying materials may contain proprietary, privileged and confidential information of CIT Group Inc

Re: Costs of core

http://www.jcmit.com/memoryprice.htm 1960 $5,242,880/M IBM 1401 core memory 1965 $2,642,412/M IBM 360/30 core memory 1970 $734,003/M IBM 370/135 core memory CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel

IBM Announcement Letters

Anyone having trouble with their Announcement Letter subscription? I haven’t gotten one since 05/20 and I know there are new ones out there. Ken Porowski VP Mainframe Engineering CIT Information Technology One CIT Drive Livingston, NJ 07039 +1 973 740 5459 (tel) ken.porow

Re: IBM Announcement Letters

Html or text version? CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow...@cit.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Tuesday, June 10

Re: How to? Designing a graph of information

hard capping (FSVO better). CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow...@cit.com This email message and any accompanying materials may contain proprietary, privileged and confidential information of CIT Group Inc. or its

Re: international cuisine; was Re: OT: Re: Freebie software; was Feebie software

I have heard tell of a dish they call haggis. CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow...@cit.com This email message and any accompanying materials may contain proprietary, privileged and confidential information

Re: NL Virtual Tape

IIRC you can use an SL tape, just have to hit load 2 (or is it 3) times to get to the IPLable file. Or you should be able to load the SA Restore to DASD and IPL from that. CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow...@cit.com

Remote HMC or HMC with Remote Access

will be at a premium so they don’t want to waste it on an HMC if they can avoid it. Thanks all for your input. Ken Ken Porowski VP Mainframe Engineering CIT Information Technology One CIT Drive Livingston, NJ 07039 +1 973 740 5459 (tel) ken.porow...@cit.commailto:ken.porow...@cit.com www.cit.comhttp

Re: OT - Huge Maple Syrup heist solved.

Canada produces more than 80 percent of the world's maple syrup, producing about 26,500,000 litres (7,000,000 US gal) in 2004. The vast majority of this comes from the province of Quebec, which is the world's largest producer, with about 75 percent of global production totalling 24,660,000

Re: z/OS v2.1 preview

3 options 1 - Upgrade your box. 2 - Stay on 1.13 forever. 3 - Move off the Mainframe. -- This email message and any accompanying materials may contain proprietary, privileged and confidential information of CIT Group Inc.

Re: Syncosrt EMC

I believe (but cannot confirm) that they have some sort of hardware assist for SyncSort sorts. Ken -- This email message and any accompanying materials may contain proprietary, privileged and confidential information of CIT

Re: Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all

One of the comments on that article left this link http://mainframes.wikidot.com/ which claims to be a partial listing of all Mainframe shops in the world. Ken -- This email message and any accompanying materials may

Re: ASG/Mobius

Not sure if these fit your needs but products like VPS (LRS), Infoprint Server (IBM), and I think MacKinney has something. These products have components (probably optional, priced) that can transform various input to various output formats. I do not have any of these products but AFAIK they

Re: Strange response to SDSF PREFIX command

IIRC it could also pick up from the USER= or NOTIFY= CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow...@cit.com This email message and any accompanying materials may contain proprietary, privileged and confidential information

Re: Strange response to SDSF PREFIX command

Take a look at your ISFPRMxx or equivalent setting in your security product for SDSF authorization. Specifically the group you belong to, the IDSP and DEST settings and the DSPAUTH setting. CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel

Re: Missing Records in SMS Managed PS Dataset - Dataclass dependant

Is it possible you are OPEN/WRITE/CLOSE SYSPRINT multiple times? Not sure why that would make a difference but if the last record is part of a separate OPER/WRITE/CLOSE the dataset may be reset to zero prior to the write. Try preallocating the file and use DISP=MOD CIT | Ken Porowski | VP

PSF OGL PPFA ACIF alternatives?

Anyone know of a viable alternative to PSF, OGL, PPFA, and ACIF on z/OS? TIA Ken Ken Porowski VP Mainframe Engineering CIT Information Technology One CIT Drive Livingston, NJ 07039 +1 973 740 5459 (tel) ken.porow...@cit.commailto:ken.porow...@cit.com www.cit.comhttp://www.cit.com

Re: PSF OGL PPFA ACIF alternatives?

for the software is around 30K per year. Just trying to see if I have any cost saving alternatives (preferably a 3rd party PSF, OGL, PPFA, ACIF that is compatible with IBM).. CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow...@cit.com This email

Re: Big data - Google wants *all* of you

I have no mouth and I must scream Harlan Ellison 1967 CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow...@cit.com This email message and any accompanying materials may contain proprietary, privileged and confidential information

Re: 3494 tape library with B20 VTS

. If you are not rewriting or deleting tapes then you usage will not change and reclaim will do nothing other than shuffle the same data around, CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow...@cit.com This email message and any

Re: (My) John Ehrman Assembler Book

Oh please, please, please can we have the updates in TNL fashion! I so miss the hours of shuffling pages! CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow...@cit.com This email message and any accompanying materials may contain

Re: smart phone = lazy user

TLDR can I Google a synopsis? CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow...@cit.com This email message and any accompanying materials may contain proprietary, privileged and confidential information of CIT Group Inc. or its

Re: Check out Friday is Pi Day

And if you go sub-second the rest of the digits are there too CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow...@cit.com This email message and any accompanying materials may contain proprietary, privileged and confidential

OT - Spock (Leonard Nimoy) has died

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/27/entertainment/feat-obit-leonard-nimoy-spock/index.html Ken Porowski VP Mainframe Engineering CIT Information Technology One CIT Drive Livingston, NJ 07039 +1 973 740 5459 (tel) ken.porow...@cit.commailto:ken.porow...@cit.com www.cit.comhttp://www.cit.com

Re: Forbes: Nice Mainframe, How Do I Turn It On?

Is there even a real Power On switch? I know there's an EPO switch and probably some circuit breakers in the back but I thought the power on/off was done from the SE or HMC? CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow...@cit.com

Re: VSAM record size larger than 32K

. v CI/CA represents the number of control intervals per control area. v CISZ is the control interval size. Restriction: With REPRO and EXPORT, you cannot use data sets with record sizes greater than 32 760. CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459