Re: John Dvorak explains why the z is doomed (indirectly)

2013-10-22 Thread Schumacher, Otto
In the good old days IBM had Customer Service Reps and Field Engineers that assisted in the Education. The best we can hope for now is Web presentations. Regards Otto H Schumacher Transaction and Database Systems - CICS Specialist U. S. Mainframe HP Enterprise Services Telephone +1 864 987

Re: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5

2013-09-12 Thread Schumacher, Otto
What is the downtime when a PDS has to be compressed? We have eliminated the downtimes for PDS compressions by using PDSE. We have not had any problems attributed to PDSE's since we changed the loadlibs from PDS to PDSE. Regards Otto H Schumacher Transaction and Database Systems - CICS

Re: load module scan

2013-08-14 Thread Schumacher, Otto
There is a product call EDGE Profolio Analysis that supports load modules. The product only supported modules stored in PDS's. The last time I used the product did not support PDSE's. The product was not expensive but I do not know the current price for the product. Regards Otto H

Re: To recompile or not recompile, that's the question

2013-06-06 Thread Schumacher, Otto
I one of the accounts that I support the Production Environment is the last Environment upgraded. This means that the development environments maybe at higher releases or maintenance than production that means that there maybe an incompatibility between development and production. This requires

Re: Rather interesting article on hacking the mainframe using ftp

2013-05-18 Thread Schumacher, Otto
If you think about it the hacking was on the PC. I use of a exposed userid from the PC is the error. Regards Otto H Schumacher Transaction and Database Systems - CICS Specialist U. S. Mainframe HP Enterprise Services Telephone +1 864 987 1417 MobileĀ +1 864 569 5338 Email

Re: SMF type 42 record - Renaming PDSE member

2013-04-02 Thread Schumacher, Otto
Lizette, Do you not feel like there is a whole in the SMF collection process created by IEBCOPY? The omission to create the SMF 42 type 25 records to document the changes to members of a PDS/ PDSE results in an inability to produce an accurate audit of member change activity. Regards Otto H

Re: ADRDSSU Large block performance

2012-08-16 Thread Schumacher, Otto
No, the data still had to be mirrored and the data had to be put on tape. Regards Otto H Schumacher Transaction and Database Systems - CICS Specialist U. S. Mainframe HP Enterprise Services Telephone +1 864 987 1417 MobileĀ +1 864 569 5338 Email otto.schumac...@hp.com -Original