Re: How much CPU percentage can be expected to be reclaimed?

2012-06-15 Thread Mike Schwab
You might reduce your utilization some with the increased memory from the LPARs not in use. If you go too small of memory for them you would have to shut all of them down to redistribute memory to start them up. -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it

Re: Alan Mathison Turing

2012-06-23 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18561092 One investigator thinks Alan Turing's death was an accidental release of cyanide from lab experiments instead of suicide. On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Cool Google Doodle marking the occasion today

Re: Backup Solutions for Open Systems and Mainframe

2012-06-27 Thread Mike Schwab
As far as a physical tape choice, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open . Shared specs, multiple manufactures. Mainframe and Open system compatible hardware, but no dual use drives. Mainframe probably can't read Open systems tapes directly (or vice versa), Should be able to re-init the

Re: 'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's blunder led to banking meltdown

2012-06-27 Thread Mike Schwab
Banking rules say you have to process the day's deposits before the day's withdrawals. Basically, you post the transaction to a transaction file which is applied to the account after the cutoff time. On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Bill Fairchild bfairch...@rocketsoftware.com wrote: I

Re: 'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's blunder led to banking meltdown

2012-06-27 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Phil Smith p...@voltage.com wrote: Bill Fairchild wrote: I understand why all accumulated transactions have to be processed in the correct sequence if they are batched up daily, but why is an individual transaction not instantaneously and permanently processed

Re: QUESTION ABOUT REF*

2012-06-28 Thread Mike Schwab
RETAIN keeps the tape mounted and at the end of the file just written. The REFerback to any prior step gets the VOLSER that you are working with. Your job is coded correctly and changing it will not affect processing, as long as it remains on one volume. If a step goes to another volume, the

Re: ROI of zIIP investment on kneecapped z Systems

2012-06-29 Thread Mike Schwab
As far as I know, only full service CPs are kneecapped. Low cost specialty processors run full speed (I. E. as fast as the fastest CP processor with the same number of processors). On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Jan Vanbrabant vanbrabant...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Mgt wants to know the ROI of

Re: DCOLLECT Ouput recort Structure

2012-06-30 Thread Mike Schwab
1, It is a Variable length record with a 4 byte length not shown. 2. Offset 0 is the 1st byte. Offset is 4 is the 5th byte. On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Ravi Gaur gaur.ravi2...@gmail.com wrote: Could somebody please explain me the ICETOOL INCLUDE Parm for copying only Dcollect TYPE  = 'D

Re: The Truth Will Set You Free -- on Destination z

2012-07-01 Thread Mike Schwab
AVAST Infection Details URL:http://ads.keypromedia.com/www/delivery/... Process:C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexpl... Infection: JS:ScriptSH-inf [Trj] On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+...@patriot.net wrote: In 4fedf3c7.7010...@gabegold.com,

Re: Shopz

2012-07-03 Thread Mike Schwab
x'09' in x'0F' or x'90' in x'FF' is 60% x'09' in x'FF' is 3%. On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 7/3/2012 1:52:52 P.M. Central Daylight Time, john.mck...@healthmarkets.com writes: It's likely base 16 (hex).

Re: Quantas hit by leap second issue?

2012-07-05 Thread Mike Schwab
http://katdish.net/2012/02/the-art-of-beating-a-dead-horse/ On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Mohammad Khan mkkha...@hotmail.com wrote: Sure, but one could still beat them :) On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 17:16:28 -0700, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: So USS and USS would be a case of

Re: New code MFNetDIsk and ISPF 3.4 and files delete.

2012-07-08 Thread Mike Schwab
Over the last 12 years, we have certain volumes with large number of small datasets that are frequently created and deleted. Sometimes the VTOC Index would get corrupted, all allocations to that group would get assigned to that volume, then all allocation would blow because that volume was full,

Re: New code MFNetDIsk and ISPF 3.4 and files delete.

2012-07-08 Thread Mike Schwab
miracle to return the file back to the disk. On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.comwrote: Over the last 12 years, we have certain volumes with large number of small datasets that are frequently created and deleted. Sometimes the VTOC Index would get corrupted, all

Re: . Searching for a cross=reference list of manuals ...

2012-07-09 Thread Mike Schwab
The page I gave you is for 1 version of z/OS. Make not include manuals for additional products. The third part consisting of the 9th and 10th character change with each published edition, most manuals have at least one change with every version of z/OS. So if the first 8 match the title

Re: Enabling RRS Error

2012-07-10 Thread Mike Schwab
*Explanation:* The system logger couple data set defined by the LOGR policy has no free space for the type of entry you are trying to define. Logstreams are tracked within the coupling dataset, and you have run out of that type of entries. Change the coupling dataset to have more entries for

Re: Sad News About Rick Fochtman

2012-07-10 Thread Mike Schwab
I managed to find the Funeral home page. Looks like a mainframe computer diagram. Too blurry for me to read. http://www.beidelmankunschfh.com/obituaries/Richard-Fochtman/#/PhotosVideos/525bc8eb-6f6f-47d0-9b43-b0c2fb376fe3/b3c86b78-7d68-4448-89c2-d82e3535a2b3 On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Ed

Re: Import image to overlay

2012-07-11 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Mohamed Juma mmj...@yahoo.com wrote: We are trying to design a new overlay using OGL/370, we decide instead to make the design under Windows, then importing the image to overlay. Did any one went through this steps before. any help is appreciated. Mohamed

Re: Urgent help needed - Message ISN000E

2012-07-16 Thread Mike Schwab
There are companies out there that sell and service used mainframes. If you can't get the part replaced, then a used mainframe could be purchased. With a new minimum z114 starting at $75,000, z9 or z10 should be a bit cheaper. On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 1:42 PM, peter novack peter.nov...@gmx.com

Re: Unsetting a JCL symbol.

2012-07-18 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Bass, Walter W bill_b...@uhc.com wrote: Aha. I get it now. I failed to consider that the initial state of not defined was the desired condition to revert to. In fact, I had fully expected that a reference to an uninitialized symbol on the right side of the

Re: Storage utililzation Optimization

2012-07-21 Thread Mike Schwab
Reduce migration thresholds so you scan dasd volumes. If a storage group has low utilization set a few volumes to disable new, migrate the datasets, and return the volumes to spare for other uses. Large sequential datasets place on VTAPE. On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 6:54 AM, mfstorage

Re: Submitting a requirement for z/OS to at least acknowledge SIGNAL SHUTDOWN by printing a message

2012-07-23 Thread Mike Schwab
It would be nice if an JES INIT could be set to abend a job at the end of a step to allow faster shutdown, cleaner restart. I.E. a status of draining-step would continue to run, but when the step ends .the job is cancelled. You would not want to apply this to some inits, because a STC or online

Re: [z390] Anyone want Source code listing of last VSE program product Supervisor?

2012-08-03 Thread Mike Schwab
Pehaps he could send it to the Computer History Museum, on the condition that it not be used until the copyrights expire? On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: There is a copyright doctrine called first sale that basically says that when you buy a legal copy of

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-08 Thread Mike Schwab
A zero byte VB record is expanded to 1 blank x'40' so the minimum is a block of 9 bytes including block size and record size field. I tried to allocate a FB 6 0 to hold a list of volsers for a table, LRL under 10 would not work. On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-08 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+...@patriot.net wrote: In CAJTOO58735VUTbFZ-GL2hvGg5=p=zoaf0271gsclbqt0y4j...@mail.gmail.com, on 08/08/2012 at 10:11 AM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com said: deleted I tried to allocate a FB 6 0 to hold a list of volsers

Re: IBM DS8100 to DS8870 Migration

2012-08-15 Thread Mike Schwab
I have one volume left Comm and LPA paging pack. What settings so I can move this during the day? On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu wrote: I just did a EMC Symmetrix 8350 to an EMC DMX-4 using their z/OS Migrator (a TMDF). It thought some CA-OPS log files were

Re: Z900 (2064 - 216) Problem.

2012-08-16 Thread Mike Schwab
Isn't capacity capping a 4 hour rolling average? So wouldn't it kick in before 4 hours? Unless the workload is slow for about 9 hours, then CPU utilization picks up. On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Knutson, Sam sknut...@geico.com wrote: Hi Manshadi, You might check to see if you have

Re: REPLACEMENT ASID SHORTAGE

2012-08-16 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Dale McCart dale.mcc...@kmc-usa.com wrote: As spoken/sung by Pete Seeger - Seeds: The Songs of Pete Seeger, Vol. 3 deleted You can comb through the annals of history, but not just one annal. deleted One annus (year). Be careful of the number of 'n's.

Re: HSM - space for full recall

2012-08-21 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:14 PM, retired mainframer retired-mainfra...@q.com wrote: :: -Original Message- :: From: Uriel Carrasquilla uriel.carrasqui...@mail.mcgill.ca :: Sent: Aug 20, 2012 2:34 PM :: To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU :: Subject: Re: HSM - space for full recall :: ::

Re: GOFF

2012-08-21 Thread Mike Schwab
Several times in that era. On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Do customers of ISVs generally welcome products that require PDSE? I have encountered push-back on this issue. Not recently, but perhaps because I have learned to stop asking the question.

Re: Thanks for the memories

2012-08-22 Thread Mike Schwab
If this is a work email, you can re-subscribe with a personal email. And you can join the hercules groups and get Turnkey 3 MVS3.8J to keep up you skills / develop solutions at home as a consultant. On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Hal Merritt hmerr...@jackhenry.com wrote: Next week, life as I

Re: ISPF Panel and LPAR name

2012-08-22 Thread Mike Schwab
As long as you always have a GUI on screen keyboard. Heck, get an iPad or touch screen device and throw away the mouse too. On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: Can I throw away my keyboard and use only my mouse? On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:02:36 -0400, Dave

Re: Changing Size of DFSMShsm Auto Backups of the Control Datasets

2012-08-23 Thread Mike Schwab
Run a consolidate on the dataset or defrag the volume (which would also release extents, which could be bad on system data sets that are limited to 1 extent). Say, could we make that a customer request? Defrag should not release space if the secondary space amount is 0. On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at

Re: IEC161I 037(108,000,IGG0CLFE)-0257 under ZOS 1.10

2012-08-23 Thread Mike Schwab
A PTF can add new error code, documented in the next release of the manual. And since the two past versions could be getting PTFs, the first manual with the changed could be version + 3. On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: Alvaro: What is really odd is

Re: ISPF Panel and LPAR name

2012-08-26 Thread Mike Schwab
On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+...@patriot.net wrote: In 503996a6.8030...@bcs.org.uk, on 08/26/2012 at 04:23 AM, CM Poncelet ponce...@bcs.org.uk said: What's your problem, Metz? Dealing with hypocritical fools. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ivUOnnstpg

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-27 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 9:02 PM, retired mainframer retired-mainfra...@q.com wrote: Doesn't anyone use model DSCBs anymore? We still have some hanging around. -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all?

Java 7 vulnerability

2012-08-28 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9230656/Macs_at_risk_from_super_dangerous_Java_zero_day Has Java 7 made it to z/OS? Has anyone tested for this vulnerability? The problem was new to Java 7, so one suggestion is to uninstall Java 7 and re-install Java 6 until patched. -- Mike A Schwab,

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-30 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Pew, Curtis G curtis@austin.utexas.edu wrote: On Aug 30, 2012, at 9:58 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: Makes me wonder why IBM did not implement it on an SSD PCIe card. The way I read the Technical Guide, that's what they did. --

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-30 Thread Mike Schwab
They don't build far ahead. What is on the factory floor is already sold and will be installed in 2 months. So a customer can get a z196 in 2 months (or DR replacement in 2 weeks) or a EC12 in 6 to 12months. Resellers of used equipment will start to drop prices when they start getting a lot of

Re: OT, but a perfect story for a Friday.

2012-08-31 Thread Mike Schwab
Paid for but never delivered? Like the empty warehouse in 9 to 5? Before he got free and stocked it up? Who signed for those deliveries? How many people worked there every day? Or ask the neighbors how busy was the place? 3 or 4 semis a day? On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Paul Gilmartin

The start of electronic stock market training

2012-09-01 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-how-the-nasdaq-got-hacked-20120830,0,3152687.story -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee

2012-09-02 Thread Mike Schwab
...@garlic.com wrote: mike.a.sch...@gmail.com (Mike Schwab) writes: Put a Hercules emulator and z/OS on that blade, 50 z/OS MIPS per hyperthread, so 100 MIPS per core, 1600 MIPS per blade (per TurboHercules). Perhaps $5,000 per blade? Some blades do have 4 sockets. re: http://www.garlic.com

Re: another DCOLLECT question

2012-09-06 Thread Mike Schwab
In the Management class, there is one field that says to delete so many days after creation, and another field that says to delete so many days after the last access. Zero means don't apply this rule. On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Uriel Carrasquilla uriel.carrasqui...@mail.mcgill.ca wrote:

Re: another DCOLLECT question

2012-09-06 Thread Mike Schwab
, that can cause a delete of a GDG member on a totally unpredictable moment. Or I'd rather say: on yet another predetermined moment, not calculable from DCOLLECT data. Kees. Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com wrote in message news:CAJTOO58m6b3Qax7+9zA3Tp7P-4mvixp_YQsBvVEpqb=c2k

Re: Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee

2012-09-06 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 3:55 PM, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: I meant it's hard to justfiy the choice: to buy IFL (plus rest of mainframe) or x64 servers. I meant Linux on IFL is *much* more expensive than on x64 servers. Things like power, cooling, floor space, staffing won't

Re: another DCOLLECT question

2012-09-06 Thread Mike Schwab
Well, read the management classes into a table, with name, number of days to keep after creation, number of days to keep after last access. Then read each dataset, look up the management class, and report creation date, last access date, and the two deletion dates. I believe the data set is

Re: SMP/E - Applying service to WAS

2012-09-09 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA36700 GIve these instructions a shot. On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 5:14 AM, גדי בן אבי gad...@malam.com wrote: The volume where the WAS ZFS resides definitely has room. I confirmed this by using the zfsadm grow command. Could the output be going

Re: Disk data set space allocation, philosophy

2012-09-09 Thread Mike Schwab
SORTWK does not use secondary extents. Gradully change the SMS SPACE default toward 1/16th of a volume (up to 64K Cylinders) for primary and secondary. That would allow it to fill up an empty volume before going to the next volume. Actually, if they could look at the size of their dataset after

Re: ShopzSeries SSL Connectivity Test

2012-09-13 Thread Mike Schwab
TRACETCP does route tracing using the port number you specify to find the IP address that is blocking the connection. Freeware download. On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:04 PM, John Chase jonboy...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 06:44:53 -0700, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Turn on some

Re: Creating .xls on z/OS

2012-09-14 Thread Mike Schwab
Have you tried putting in =A1+B2 between commas for a cell value? 1,2,=SUM(A1:B1) 11,22,=SUM(A2:B2) =SUM(A1:A2),=SUM(B1:B2),=A1+B2 On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Martin Packer martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com wrote: .CSV won't contain formulae. Don't know if that's what bothers the OP - but it

Re: Phony IBM press release from 1980 for Mainframe-Attached Toilet

2012-09-15 Thread Mike Schwab
Or TCP/IP (Toilet Control Program / Internet Protocol). On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: The response has been gratifying. My only regret is that it does not reference the USS (Universal Sanitary System) feature. That must have been a follow-on

Re: Shana Tova (Happy new Jewish year)

2012-09-16 Thread Mike Schwab
Lets hope none of them is the horn from The Horn Blows At Midnight. On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Steve Thompson sthomp...@us.ibm.com wrote: Chag Sameach. [In English, Feast of Trumpets] I'm not Jewish, but I do observe. Obviously I will not be in the office tomorrow. Regards, Steve

Re: Is there a correspondence between 64-bit IBM mainframes and PoOps editions levels?

2012-09-17 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 5:42 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: I doubt that what you want is available without caveats. The notices section of all recent versions of the publication you call the PoOps---Why the 's'?--- and I prefer to call the PrOp contain some such weasel language

Re: OT - disappearing responses

2012-09-19 Thread Mike Schwab
Yahoo gets the Yahooties every few months. Messages back up until some server is rebooted, then you get weeks of posts all at once. Really bad for yahoo groups. I much prefer gmail as my message handler. On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: Rich, Mail

Re: PoOps, Poo, PrOp and friends (was Is there a correspondence between...)

2012-09-19 Thread Mike Schwab
zPlane! zPlane! - Tatoo. On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 3:07 AM, David Cole dbc...@colesoft.com wrote: deleted zProOps deleted -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-19 Thread Mike Schwab
Try larger blocksizes. Much older program. On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Tsai Laurence ltsai85...@gmail.com wrote: Dear listers , as the subject, test file transfer through TSO IND$FILE TCP/IP FTP , and found TSO IND$FILE is much slower than FTP. Any idea why ? Regards, Laurence --

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-19 Thread Mike Schwab
Here is Microsoft's suggestions for increasing the speed, from 2004. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/125881 On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: Mike, I use 32k on Qws3270p ... Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Sep 19, 2012, at 8:16 AM, Mike Schwab

Re: OT - disappearing responses

2012-09-19 Thread Mike Schwab
Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 4:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: OT - disappearing responses Mike Schwab wrote: Yahoo gets the Yahooties every few months. Messages back up until some server is rebooted, then you get weeks of posts all at once. Really

Re: OT - disappearing responses

2012-09-20 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 10:19 AM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.comwrote: That account goes away if you change providers or move and have to change providers. Plus it enables a lot of impersonation. And when you upload

Re: OT - disappearing responses

2012-09-20 Thread Mike Schwab
This is not YOUR PC at home or work. This is the HACKER's PC and they enter your email address or a fake email as the sender. On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:02 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: Nobody can start my PC at home without a password. At work, a administrator can do

Re: ShopzSeries SSL Connectivity Test

2012-09-20 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 2:43 PM, John Chase jonboy...@gmail.com wrote: deleted By chance, does the ECuRep server (where we upload PMR documentation) require the GeoTrust Global CA as well? I've had similar fun trying th test an SSL connection there, too. Thanks, Once you accept a

Re: PL/I Compile error unresolved symbols

2012-09-29 Thread Mike Schwab
Here is the library page for Enterprise PL/I http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/pli/plizos/library/ The Compiler and Run time migration books should contain what changes you need between versions. There is a DCL STR BUILTIN, but it is not actually refered to by anything. You can remove it.

Re: Help with DF-Sort not being able to allocat enough work data set space

2012-10-03 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4) peter.hunke...@credit-suisse.com wrote: deleted Is there any other option I could try, or am I stuck to DYNALLOC=(SYSDA,nnn) with a reasonably high nnn? -- Peter Hunkeler You could split the input file into parts by number of records or

Re: Zero length records outlawed! (Again.)

2012-10-03 Thread Mike Schwab
Yep. The MVS 380 project ran into that. Empty lines were stored as 1 blank and could not remove without an error. On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: In: Title: z/OS V1R13 DFSMS Using Data Sets Document Number: SC26-7410-11 2.1.2.2.1 Record

Re: Has anyone taken out hardware support for z196 from anyone other than IBM

2012-10-04 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Timothy Sipples1 sipp...@sg.ibm.com wrote: Aren't they under IBM warranty for the first year? Timothy Sipples I thought it was a 3 year minimum. Its only

Re: Problems with GIM SMP installation

2012-10-08 Thread Mike Schwab
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/bit.listserv.ibm-main/aPtNlOsWlMQ Insufficient space. On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Alvaro Guirao Lopez alvarogui...@gmail.com wrote: Hi listers, I'm trying to download SW package through GIM SMP installation, but I have some problems:

Re: Reorganizing Partition Table Space With REBALANCE Option Problem.

2012-10-08 Thread Mike Schwab
SORT FIELDS=(5.0,00028.0,A),FORMAT=BI,FILSZ=E04979426640, DYNAOC=(SYSDA,04) RECORD TYPE=V,LENGTH=(00070,00070,00070) 5 billion record, 70 bytes per record, 350GB. 4 SORTWK files, so 350GB / 3 = 120GB per volume. If you have smaller volumes you will need more of them. -- Mike A

Re: DFSMSHSM Management Class Question

2012-10-09 Thread Mike Schwab
When a dataset is deleted, the migration information is also deleted. The backup is deleted when the 'retain days only backup' has been expired. It could have migrated before a backup was taken. And it won't automatically delete unless there is a backup. If you issue the HBACKDS on it, I would

Re: DFSMSHSM Management Class Question

2012-10-10 Thread Mike Schwab
You can require a backup before allowing migration to prevent this. Might increase utilization of primary volumes with datasets needing a backup. On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Staller, Allan allan.stal...@kbmg.com wrote: If you wish to change the default behavior of DFHSM to *NOT* require a

Re: DFHSM Recalls and Tape

2012-10-10 Thread Mike Schwab
When it HSM finishes a recall, it checks the que in order for any recall on the same tape. When it reaches the end of the que, it unmounts the tape, and starts recalling the first waiting dataset on the que. Haven't done as massive a quantity as 10,000 though. No sorting of any kind, just

Re: Delete Catalogs from VVCR

2012-10-11 Thread Mike Schwab
I have this jcl to run before taking a volume offline. //jobname JOB acct,programmer,CLASS=c etc //SDELVVDS EXEC PGM=IDCAMS //Vvolser DD UNIT=DISK,VOL=SER=volser,DISP=SHR //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSINDD * DELETE SYS1.VVDS.Vvolser CAT(ICFCAT.usercat1) FILE(Vvolser) NSCR DELETE

Re: Humor for Friday: Reasons for not coming to work.

2012-10-12 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGlmXBxQZl8 Seven Year Itch scene. On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 3:36 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: deleted Employee's toe was stuck in a faucet deleted -- John McKown -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away

Re: DFSMShsm Abend S878

2012-10-17 Thread Mike Schwab
We had z/OS 1.13 HSM abend S878-10 at 1am Monday. IBM tracked down an open APAR. It allocates a small amount of space for each volser during migration. Forgets to free the memory, and eventually chews up all private memory below the 24 bit line in SYSHSM*. It was opened in Sept, Should be out

Re: DFSMSHSM Management Class Question

2012-10-17 Thread Mike Schwab
Correct. You can require a backup before a migration is allowed. On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Munish Sharma mf291...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Sometimes due to Manual migration ... .. DFSMShsm... doesn't get time to backup a DSN.. and it ended up on ML1/ML2.. depending upone MC allows it.

Re: Pars Ipars TPF and APC

2012-10-17 Thread Mike Schwab
LPAR (Logical Partition) = 1 region of mainframe memory assigned to an operating system. The host is microcode in the mainframe. LPARs is the plural. It was released in the 1990s as an outgrowth of VM/ESA. z/TPF (Transaction Processing Facility) is a very high speed operating system that

Re: Looking after Steve Samson's book

2012-10-19 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.cmg.org/measureit/issues/mit65/m_65_7.html Mostly replaced by Workload Manager. On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Thierry Deleris thierry.deleris_s...@i-bp.banquepopulaire.fr wrote: Hello, I'm looking after Steve Samson last book 'MVS Performance Management - z/OS Version 1 (I've

Re: Nested enclaves and POSIX(ON)

2012-10-20 Thread Mike Schwab
Most levels are for breaking an area of memory into various fields. Not an 88 level. DATA DIVISION. ... 10 FIELD-NAME PIC X(5). 88 FIELD-NAME-TRUE VALUE 'TRUE ;. 88 FIELD-NAME-FALSE VALUE 'FALSE'. ... PROCEDURE DIVISION ... IF FIELD-NAME-TRUE THEN is equivalent to IF FIELD-NAME = 'TRUE

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Mike Schwab
Almost everything you do (did) under S/370 does still run under z/OS 1.13, excluding ISAM, VSAM IMBED / REPLICATE characteristics. Everything done under S/360 that was incorporated into S/370 is included. You could download the Turnkey3 CD and run it on your PC as a developement environment. If

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Mike Schwab
http://xkcd.com/163/ On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Roberts, John J jrobe...@dhs.state.ia.us wrote: deleted Actually, speaking of Professor Knuth, I use his name as an interview question. Any Candidate that doesn't immediately recognize the name doesn't get my recommendation. John --

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/taocp.html#vol4 On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: Actually, speaking of Professor Knuth, I use his name as an interview question. Any Candidate that doesn't immediately recognize the name doesn't get my

Re: Correction to Carmine's Book Cost

2012-10-29 Thread Mike Schwab
Yes, emails are (implied) copyrighted when you make them available for other computers to see (post on a web page or send an email, drafts or password protected files excluded), even without an explicit copyright notice. Reworking someone else's copyrighted work it becomes a jointly authored work

Re: Correction to Carmine's Book Cost

2012-10-29 Thread Mike Schwab
Corporations never die. They get bought out or go bankrupt and assests (including book, movie, and song copyrights) are sold for a figurative song. On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Steve Thompson sthomp...@us.ibm.com wrote: deleted At one point, the extension past demise was based on whether or

Re: Strange z196 LOAD behavior

2012-10-30 Thread Mike Schwab
Hardware / License Internal Code / ESC hardware service call. On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 1:32 PM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote: ? So the HMC isn't a component? Sure it is... On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:59 AM, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.plwrote: Well, I do have hardware and I do have a

Re: Command to display devices that exist but are offline

2012-11-01 Thread Mike Schwab
TSO ISPF ISMF 2 (Volumes) 1 (DASD) Y to display values in 2 fields. On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com wrote: Such as displaying the devices that went offline during IPL because they had duplicate serials. -- Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com

Re: The Internet

2012-11-02 Thread Mike Schwab
That is the town that Jersey Shore is filmed in. Looks like Snooki might be out of a job one season early. On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: Steve and Ed: Its been really interesting. The place Seaside Heights they have been showing on the news, we

Re: switching to new shared sms commds

2012-11-06 Thread Mike Schwab
How are the migrated datasets and backup tapes being merged in? On secondary systems recall all migrated datasets then backup and migrate from primary system and deleted backup on secondary system before swap MCDS BCDS? On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Leong, Dennis, ITD dennis.le...@acgov.org

Re: HMIGRATE in parallel

2013-09-25 Thread Mike Schwab
How about adding a VSAM keyword that after reading the VTOC, looks up the VSAM CLUSTER and migrates the entire VSAM SPHERE too? Yes, it is slower, but doing each dataset is even slower. Any way of doing something with 0 track or invalid datasets? I.E, reallocating them on another volume then

Re: HMIGRATE in parallel

2013-09-25 Thread Mike Schwab
Oh, and how about a RETRY(#minutes) that retries after a pause of #minutes for datasets that don't migrate, and a SHUTDOWN option to retry during SHUTDOWN and a STARTUP option to retry when the system is restarted. This would help get DISABLED volume empty. On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Mike

Re: Using DFDSS to move multi volume SMS managed datasets.

2013-09-25 Thread Mike Schwab
until the next use. If the use of any of these datasets can't tolerate the recall delay, then you will need to ensure it get's recalled before that time. Jon Perryman. From: Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r11

Re: HMIGRATE in parallel

2013-09-25 Thread Mike Schwab
Oh. If you want to recall a dataset, and the ML volume is busy, use the last backup volume instead of taking away the ML volume from a migrate task. On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Staller, Allan allan.stal...@kbmg.com wrote: I would like to see similar option w/HRECOVER. Not for the

Re: Using DFDSS to move multi volume SMS managed datasets.

2013-09-25 Thread Mike Schwab
Oh, and since the dataset is written to ML1, the space it occupies is available for allocation when it is recalled. You don't occupy the space for a second dataset while it is copying. On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com wrote: When you Migrate by VOLUME

Re: Using DFDSS to move multi volume SMS managed datasets.

2013-09-26 Thread Mike Schwab
in minutes? Kees. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 18:34 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Using DFDSS to move multi volume SMS managed datasets. When you

Re: SPLEVEL SET=2

2013-09-27 Thread Mike Schwab
Probably got 31 bit code instead of 24 bit only code. On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 2:35 AM, Manfred Lotz manfred.l...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Ed Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.comwrote: On 9/26/2013 2:51 AM, Manfred Lotz wrote: Hi all, I've got a very old assembler

Re: Work long hours (Was Re: Pissing contest(s))

2013-09-28 Thread Mike Schwab
I know in the Banking Industry, you have to take one whole week of vacation sometime during the year. Makes sure other people can do you job and that no funny accounting is going on. On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In

Re: Quote on Slashdot.org

2013-09-30 Thread Mike Schwab
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)#History On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: Gerhard, I wonder why the government chose Ada...? Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On Sep

Re: Quote on Slashdot.org

2013-09-30 Thread Mike Schwab
www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On Sep 30, 2013, at 2:25 AM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com wrote: On 30/09/2013 2:11 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)#History There is no doubt that Ada is a much, much

Re: Java SDK for z/OS

2013-10-01 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=cainfotype=anappname=iSourcesupplier=897letternum=ENUS912-249 Withdraw announcement includes links to Java SDK for z/OS 1.6 and 1.7, and various manuals. On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Kurt Eastwood kurtms...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, I

Re: Work long hours (Was Re: Pissing contest(s))

2013-10-01 Thread Mike Schwab
, on 09/28/2013 at 10:40 PM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com said: I know in the Banking Industry, you have to take one whole week of vacation sometime during the year. What happens if they won't approve leave for the weeks that you want to take? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz

Re: Interested in up to date open source software or low cost utilities?

2013-10-04 Thread Mike Schwab
Did they Python 3 released with UTF8? https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-bugs-list/2007-October/041524.html On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 10:57:06 -0600, Mark Post wrote: On 10/3/2013 at 04:22 PM, Gord Tomlin wrote:

Re: Performanxe Of BPX1GHN (WAS NSLOOKUP MVS vs OMVS)

2013-10-06 Thread Mike Schwab
Some have written and run a program. Runs at IPL and issues a LOAD for various programs, then ends. Actual use never decrements the count to zero, so it is never unloaded. On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 2:10 PM, esst...@juno.com esst...@juno.com wrote: I was reading the thread regarding NSLOOKUP (MVS

Re: NSA foils much internet encryption

2013-10-07 Thread Mike Schwab
...@gmail.com wrote: The WIRED piece Mike Schwab provided a link to recounts things that are commonplaces within the crypto community; but it is a useful brief conspectus for others. Worth remembering is that these situations are always layered. Duiring the Korean War it was usual

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