n doing something more in this area
-- non-trivial performance benefits, notably -- then at least in principle
I'd be in favor, if I get a vote.
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non-substantial, trivial.
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e Linux Fast Path feature alone is a treasure. It's quite likely some of
these new features are going to not only be valuable (in direct business
terms) but also reduce other costs and complexity.
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at this ISDS WAT is so well hidden. It shouldn't be. If I get a
vote it'd be nice to pull the ISDS WAT into z/OS Management Facility.
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ment in time -- and that's a
very good thing. Let z/OS be z/OS and do its job(s) which it does very,
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) run Geronimo on z/OS.
I tend to think all the use cases for Apache Geronimo are covered, better,
with WebSphere Liberty Profile for z/OS nowadays. I'd look at both options
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to buy your Geronimo support
services from IBM, ask your friendly IBM representative. Or if you'd like
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There are many ways to print (and pseudo-print, i.e. generate output that
doesn't generally land on paper) from z/OS. But would you add some "color"
to what "viable" means for you?
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every week -- yes, on mainframes, too -- and so should we.
Yes, I think it's "crazy" that a typical downloaded smartphone application
occupies more flash storage than the capacity of the entire hard disk I
purchased in 1984 for US$699 -- a bargain! -
obviously then reachable via JDBC.
You've also got the various access options via CICS TS, and CICS TS
obviously knows how to access VSAM. Nowadays I would certainly have the
JSON-related options on my short list, but there are many, many options.
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ia
IMAP -- iPhone or iPad, as examples -- using the built-in mail client is
encrypted. Access via the free Zimbra Desktop software is also encrypted,
to pick another example. Or don't use Yahoo! Mail at all.
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If you want N-character user IDs (N>7), go for it. Enjoy.
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n. Feel free to borrow my
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Compression is also an option -- in DB2, for example -- if you're not using
it.
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ink you can do what you want with the ingredients in base z/OS and a
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nt if you have a lot of developer deploy/test cycles into
CICS, particularly for complex applications.
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share stuff. It's a good impulse. But
there are some limitations we should be careful to respect.
If I'm totally misinterpreting the post, mea culpa in advance.
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Pipes portion -- might be relevant,
particularly with Eclipse-based user interfaces. More details here:
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I'd also make inquiries there.
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her company's Parallel Sysplex course that claims to have a
"virtual classroom" version as well:
http://www.protechtraining.com/z-os-parallel-sysplex-concepts-for-system-programmers-pt3459
. What's not to like?
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standard, no additional charge zEnterprise features and
functions that IBM should instead make separately chargeable so that some
customers pay less and others pay more, tell that to your friendly IBM
representative, too. Be careful what you wish for, though. :
a spin and kick the tires, at no additional charge.
You'll probably like them very much. Unless perhaps you're the person John
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substantially the same function the programmer is
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coexistence/fallback available (to pick an example).
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one of those reasons as far as I can see.
My views are my own here. My views sometimes change upon consideration of
new evidence. They are not necessarily those of my employer or my dentist.
If I happen not to repeat this reminder, it still applies.
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nd utilities, but ample work
it would be. And IT work keeps getting to be a bigger share of IT costs.
Anyway, these are rather different architectural approaches to delivering
shared services. I happen to think there's a big role for both approaches.
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erprise COBOL 5.1. What's the solution? Upgrade at least to a
minimum supported model and z/OS release to satisfy the prerequisites. But
doesn't upgrading require doing something? Yup.
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Innovate (or at least improve), or die. I know IBM understands that.
My views are my own here, as always.
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to make this path even easier, I'll do that, too.
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bit of platform-specific code elsewhere
such as on a test PC/Mac.
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croprocessor
chip as the PU(s).
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pecial printing, run other
client/server API applications, or otherwise have "hardcore" emulator needs
then one of the other options might be better. "It depends."
Hope that helps, and please follow up if I didn't explain these ideas
clearly
then investigate from there.
There are probably other, maybe even easier ways, but that's one option off
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ng a signature image delivered with GDDM (as a 3179G
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You don't need GDDM-PGF for anything in Frank's use case -- or for GDDM
printing. Everything required for the use case and a GDDM solution approach
should be in base z/OS.
ady, right now. What's the problem?
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s, and outputs the results (in EBCDIC):
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/pdthelp/v1r1/topic/com.ibm.entcobol.doc_5.1/PGandLR/ref/rputf8e.html
Thus interacting with MongoDB in UTF-8 from your COBOL applications should
be no problem whatsoever.
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Still yet another example (depending on what you're doing) is to come in
via the z/OS Management Facility interfaces.
Anyway, those are just a few examples. There are others.
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hardware revenues up YY%" where XX > YY then unit prices are obviously
declining -- that's just basic math. And that's good for both IBM and its
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otality of your platform selection policy for workloads consists of
something like the two words "MIPS bad," then you're really going to screw
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There are actually already some "MVS aware" file I/O services in z/OS UNIX
which might already do the trick, or at least which are very close to
what's required.
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rce community about z/OS are not
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ly viable) idea would be a userland
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QoS factors.
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blown in many organizations (compared to
what alternatives? again), but nonetheless I think there might be some room
for improved sub-LPAR workload control capabilities.
Of course these opinions are my own, and I'm often far too open and candid
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Would the following functionality help?
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v2r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.zos.v2r1.icha800%2Fomvsaud.htm
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If you need to get to the correct page in the interim, here is the link:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/lookat/
Thanks, Paul.
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Do you mean this Java-based version?
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24000251
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that the advice on how to optimize for *performance*
differs.
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hing except the universal format. There's also the
fact that practically anybody can record DVDs, and they're trivially easy
to ship, so any delays associated with media
manufacturing/recording/distribution are at least minimized relative to
other formats.
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Here's a YouTube video with today's (November 12's) NTV Kenya news
broadcast.
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separate question what code(s) those media will be making live in
the future. Wooly mammoth and Neanderthal DNA sequences have been
recovered, so DNA is a pretty durable storage medium as long as the
environmental parameters are kept within certain bounds or as long as you
reproduce the storage pe
nlike Scott, Edison could play his recordings back in his own era.
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nother way, the zero lower bound matters.
A lot of people overlook this reality, but it's a frequent phenomenon in
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s, other things
being equal.
That's a pretty good list!
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27;s in there.
Hasn't IBM already done everything you're asking for -- and for some years
now?
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Power: z Systems Engines of Progress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtX0naUx6Qo
We're Ready! #IBMz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM5CAKSTNRI
More to come soon, I suspect.
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ides excellent interoperation capabilities
should you wish to use them. But such interoperation requirements exist, if
they exist, no matter where you run.
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Tuned Linear Algebra Software (ATLAS)
are among the functions arriving on z/OS and on Linux on z Systems that
exploit SIMD. Yet another piece of fantastic news.
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al preview (if you'd like), take a look at POWER processors'
VSX instructions. That'd be good technical grounding if you're anxious to
do some reading. Treat VSX as inspirational.
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eted, eventually, and nobody else cared. Idle
time was just wasted time if not consumed. Has this principle been
forgotten? I hope not.
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ntroduce new models, configurations, and features
into the indefinite future, and I'm confident you'll also have great
upgrade choices in the future, too.
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Car model upgrades don't seem to be common.
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