In all the 30 years of attending SHARE this is a first and the US Taxpayers
thank SHARE for this along with the US Govt rate.
Well, this is actually a Disney thing, not a SHARE thing.
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In the announcements from yesterday, they have spoken about an API for zIIP
for software vendors. Any detail about this ?
Any member of the developers association can sign an NDA and receive the
information. Any vendor that touts zIIP exploitation already did.
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is no fun either, nor is foreign
travel for US citizens. It's unfortunate.
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, only INDIA and CHINA is still buying. The rest of us
is down sizing.
Based on what I heard at SHARE, and based on the people to whom I spoke, these
comments are ludicrous. The new machines are being received very well.
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could still be non-profit
About 15 years ago the IRS decided that SHARE (and GUIDE) are not non-profits.
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in violation of using an unlicensed interface.
References to DOS aren't relevant.
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AFAIK, METAL is an option not a compiler
That is correct.
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CICS TS2.1
I would not expect CICS to exhibit this behavior
I wouldn't either, but CICS/TS 2.1 went out of service in 2002.
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I show it as OPC/A dialog user. Probably communicating with a scheduling
package.
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This was discussed at a vendor disclosure. Now that it's public knowledge, I'm
just curious about who will actually use it. Before responding, be sure to read
all of the caveats.
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As far as I know, TDMF will move Mod3s to Mod-9s while the files are open. The
only caveat was with page datasets.
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Ed - Have you looked at PK62243?
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Here in the USA that means you should have migrated to V8 before V7 went past
end-of-support last month
I show DB2 V7 EOS as 30 June 2008.
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IIRC, if you look at these jobs via SDSF you will see the name IEESYSAS. If you
use (E)JES you will see the correct jobname (free plug for Ed). As Ed has
shown, they should display =correctly using a D A command.
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resources.
And just for the record, I have one of the largest HFSes in our company, just
to pull maintenance.
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Thanks JES2 team! OA21346 is CLOSED and PTFs are now available.
About six months late :-(
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See PK52910.
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I was curious, too, so I entered $D JES2 on my z/OS 1.7 system and got
the following:
$HASP649 $DJES2INVALID COMMAND
We're current on 1.7 maintenance and we get the same response. It must have
been introduced in 1.8.
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MPUT
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Use Scheduling Environments. They are easy to set up and work great for this
purpose. It also allows you to move the product (program) to a different
system. It does require users to change their JCL.
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What about VANILLA /*XEQ
I believe that will only direct you to a specific node. If each system is a
unique node, XEQ will work. I assumed, erroneously, that the systems were in
the same Sysplex.
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You can force it down
No. Do this first:
1. FORCE ARM
2. CANCEL
3. If it still isn't down now do the FORCE
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pioneer in the VM community.
That's my opinion.
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, private storage subpool, with BNDRY=PAGE
specified.
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did you register that IBM is no more delivering z/OS MVS Data Areas!
Data Areas are still available, but unfortunately only in PDF format, not in
Book Manager format.
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I have the Bookmanager format z/OS 1.10 MVS Data Areas Vol. 1 manual open in
a Firefox window as we speak. Vols. 2 - 6 also display in the list of
books in the MVS Bookshelf.
Interesting. This is a very late addition which was not in the original 1.10
bookshelf.
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FIXCAT is a recent introduction. You can continue without change but may see
additional error (noise) messages. PTFs are available to SMPE 3.4 to tolerate
FIXCAT.
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The largest i right now is the 595. It maxes out at 2TB of physical RAM,
381TB of DASD and is 64 way. An impressive machine.
And what are the largest installed values?
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My main complaint was that the change was undocumented
I don't know whether the change is documented, but it was disclosed to vendors
at the TDM. IMO you shouldn't have spent any time trying to debug vendor code.
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VB 255 was very common years ago. One of the reasons is that Stage 1 Clist
processing will scan to the end of the line looking for another command. One
could eliminate a lot of overhead by using VB. Personally, I have always been
an FB 80 guy.
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So I guess now you can convert off z/OS to Solaris, and then run OpenSolaris on
your System z processor and continue to run your CICS applications under
OpenSolaris, on System z, using MTP. :-)
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Can anyone send me a URL for, or a PDF of, The ESA Principles of Operation,
SA22-7201-04 or 03? It's from circa 1998. TIA.
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Thanks, but my bad. I need a PDF version, either via URL or an actual PDF.
Although I prefer boo format, it's not for me. It's possible that the pub was
never available in PDF.
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Robin Jackson created a PDF for me. My thanks to him and to all who replied.
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I'm partial to BlueZone, but then again it is one of our products grin.
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Did you do a $S? Did your console messages go to an unexpected console? You can
always take a SAD to determine the state of your system.
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It's good to see that T3 Technologies has not yet given up the struggle to
bring back competition into the IBM mainframe market.
Or it could be construed as beating a dead horse
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Look for an SVCDUMP. Look in Logrec for error information.
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CDC made mainframe-compatible disk drives, though, I think, but not
central processors.
I thought the C was CDC. They most certainly made processors.
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IOW, were there any undocumented APARs/PTFs you had to apply that aren't GA?
IIRC, if IBM creates a PTF for you, under terms of the extended service
agreement you can't disclose what it is even to someone who also has the
extended service agreement.
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why can't SERVERPACK be shipped with an initial value of NO?
Stay with NO. I'll be glad to help anyone who can't figure out how to change it
to YES.
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Interesting. We have them too. I have no clue as to what they are.
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All I can say is that in a full page spread is:
Did you know that Xephon is now a division of z/Journal?
and the rest of the page is verbage
That's fine, but IBM Corporation does not publish zJournal.
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As much as I didn't care for it. IBM (when it co-hosted SHARE) never pulled
this type of crap (excuse my english). The DEFAULT for any mailing should be
NO unless I say YES
IBM never co-hosted SHARE. Check your facts once in a while.
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Interview about why everyone should migrate away from the mainframe.
Sure. And who is the Mainframe Migration Alliance? It's every vendor who wants
to steal IBM's mainframe customers. Click the Membership Directory. IMO this
article is FUD and the Mainframe Migration Alliance is bogus.
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views.
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of the standard Linux distributors, Red hat,
Suse, etc.
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SCKPF
OK. What is it?
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experience. As a rookie I went to classes all the time.
Ah, the good old days ;-)
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Is the SHARE MVS group getting this type of information out?
Given that the TechDoc was written by Bette Brody, and given that Bette attends
every SHARE, it's a given that the information was disseminated.
If it makes you feel better, Bette was a GUIDE rep.
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Like Ed Jaffe, I receive notification one year in advance of the drop date.
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There's at least one CIO who met with his system programmers and said,
closely paraphrasing, that if they'd like they could keep their favorite
Product X. However, if they did, he'd like the names of Y people in their
department for immediate termination.
I have worked at a shop where FileAid
We update CVTVERID with the maintenance level as part of our cloning process.
This works much better than I thought it would. It's also
reported on by MXI.
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Lizette - It's a zap to the nucleus. I can send you the job if you're
interested. It obviously has to be changed each time maintenance is applied.
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device range, putting the command in COMMNDxx is
probably the simplest thing to do.
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No one replied so I guess no one cares. I'm surprised.
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Compuware is
that would not even be half full.
As I've said before, we define Mod-15s for the sysres. They're about 15Gb. It's
a good size for us. The entire sysres fits on 1 volume.
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and no one dares to question
the guru.
We do this so that we don't have to worry about sizing the PLPA page dataset.
We just define a large common page dataset and let PLPAQ overflow into it.
There is no performance degradation.
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GOT THAT RIGHT!!! Especially those that seem to feel the need to quote all
the various privacy acts, chapter and verse!!!
It's annoying, but usually beyond the control of the submitters. Thank the
corporate attorneys.
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Does anyone else here remember the NYU CPS (Continuing Prof'l Studies)
2-semester course on MVS Internals and Debugging that was available back in
the early 80's?
The one I remember was the CSR course given by Howard Gilbert. Most excellent.
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The new ETA is 2pm EST (yes, Eastern Standard Time). That's 4.5 hours after
What a joke. Maybe IBM should outsource IBMLink so we can get one that works.
I've had an order on ShopZSeries that's been stuck in final packaging all
day. Presumably it uses the same authentication facility as IBMLINK.
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Operators (especially console operators) are extremely competent and if
they screw up, IMO, they need to be fired.
As a systems programmer I'm glad I wasn't fired every time I screwed something
up.
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I should have mentioned that we already run MIMIT (MIM Integrity) to stop
programmers from destroying datasets (such as by linking into a source PDS).
In 1.9 the Binder will not link into a PDS unless it is RECFM=U. This was done
for PDSEs in an earlier release.
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Pardon the question, but I've lost the ability to logon to the archives. I see
to recall discussion a few weeks back of a Java interface to issue MVS
commands. Can anyone provide a URL? Thanks.
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I encountered a brief outage Sunday, but otherwise have had no problems. In our
shop FireFox seems to work better than IE for accessing IBMLINK 6.0.
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Oh, and Firefox doesn't work any better here than IE
Interesting. I'm in Russia and it works fine.
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be an interesting, albeit tedious topic, all
interested parties should work with IBM through the vendor partnership
instead of making noise on IBM-MAIN. Nothing will get resolved here.
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It sounds like you are looking at a Strobe report, or the report form a
Strobe-like product. IEAVESLK and IEAVESLL are Lock Management modules.
Check with the vendor to see how their product reports on these modules.
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You need to write your own.
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to interested parties.
Anyone is free to donate dsects to the CBT tape. Whether a software
developer can use them without expicit permission is questionable.
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What are the odds that IBM has a PLO parm list mapping for PL/X that
they use internally? Pretty good I'll wager.
What are the odds it stays internal? Pretty good I guess. :-)
OTOH, just about everyone that needs a PLO DSECT has already written
one.
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Developer)to
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an SE
in a long, long time.
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support 9/30/2007, I would encourage them to upgrade to 1.8 ASAP after
migrating to the z9.
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But, can an ISV depend all customers' having Dynamic ISPF
Yes, this is SOP. All a vendor needs to do is code a clist
or exec that does the LIBDEFs and have the customer activate
it from a panel.
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The idea of exchanging server heat for building heat is interesting
though.
We did this at Aetna twenty five years ago. The heating system didn't
come on until the outside temperature reached 32 F. Until then all the
heat for the data center came from the processors.
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What does CSST give over PLO?
I don't understand the question. CSST is a subfunction of PLO. At least
according to my older POPS manual.
Although there is a CSST option for PLO now there is also an instruction
called Compare Swap and Store (CSST).
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lazy to look.
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with less than one year
of experience each reporting to me. I feel their pain,
but they are taught to take problems as far as they can
before asking for help. That is part of the learning/teaching
paradigm.
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I ordered a single APAR earlier this morning and the job timed out.
I ordered DB2 V9 maintenance for internet delivery through Shop zSeries
Thursday. It took 6-7 hours before it was ready. Normally it takes 30
minutes max.
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away
with it).
I think the right people are involved. I think they are working to
resolve the problem.
It is only by embarrassing IBM in public you will get them to change.
In my opinion there are better ways to resolve conflicts.
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in final packaging.
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presentation. Is there a
way to do that ???
The presentations from the most recent SHARE are available to everyone
on the SHARE website. The older presentations are available online to
members only. Go to www.share.org and request an Id and password.
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the presentations. If the speaker was an IBMer,
often the presentation will be on an IBM website.
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A number of years ago I grew tired of people borrowing my
Candle Report, so I took out a subscription for the
department in the name of Herman Hollerith. The day the
first issue arrived the secretary came over asking whether
I knew this Herman guy.
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If we don't set anything in the IEFUSI exit to control Hiperspaces,
does
the system establish any limits on the size of a Hiperspace an
application can request?
Yes. The defaults are clearly explained in Installation Exits.
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while it is true that IBM has not had anything to process the data in
the past
Some years ago Barry Merrill wrote a paper on the history of SMF. He
described an SMF-processing system IBM developed but never released
(SMFMAN?).
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Goal is 2 months and a company called Mainstar will bring in the box
with ZOS on it.
Do you perchance mean Mainline?
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No mention of Wards or Montgomery Ward and Co.
Search on Monkey Ward
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_Ward
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Therefor the CLISTs are be staged to VLF by the command processor after
phase 1 interpretation, REXX execs cannot, because Rexx does not
support this.
Execs can be cached in VLF, but the entire exec is cached. There is no
stage 1 processing as for clists.
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years is
about the max shops should consider. IBM tends to offer attractive
upgrade packages to lessen the impact of rapid obsolescence.
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No reason for SYSRES and DLIB (mod-9 is big enough).
We use Mod-15s for sysres. Mod 9s aren't big enough for everything.
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other sizes are defined as customized Mod 9.
Mod-1s fall into this category.
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Please kill this thread.
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