John,
Almost as funny as I heard a data center within a mile of a river , was housed
in a basement, guess what happened, because they were in a flood
plainwhatever happened to a four letter word ...p l a n
Scott ford
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On 29/10/2013 4:04 AM, Gord Tomlin wrote:
But I now see from what Mr. Gilmore has been saying that I am perhaps
wanting too much from a computer language. I will need to depend on the
programmer actually doing the proper things in all of his/her
programs. So
that when I use chorizo in English
Donald Likens wrote:
I figured out the problem... The SMFTIME is obtained by TIME BIN which returns
BIN returns the time of day as an unsigned 32-bit binary number with the
low-order bit equivalent to 0.01 second. The second word of the time value
returned is zero. STCK time is based on micro
David Crayford writes:
I wonder if there is a market for mainframe legacy applications to
access NoSQL data stores?
Of course. Case in point: the IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator. The PureData
System for Analytics which powers the IDAA is, as it happens, a NoSQL
data store. However, applications
Bob Shannon writes:
Each book has to have at least one configured PU, so
the minimum configured PUs for the CEC would be four.
Is that true uniquely for the 2827-HA1? It's not true for, say, the
2827-H43 as far as I know. Single engine 2827-H43 machines are reasonably
common. Could you be
Steve,
I don't know what's wrong with SPFPRO on Win 8, but maybe it is time for a
change. You may want to have a look at SPF/365 (well known as SPF/SE) that is
now selled at a much more reduced price. The subscription for one year is at 25
$ US (you can use it after the year, but you get no
You can only update in the ISPF stats format with LMMSTATS. In this case I
suppose there is a whole another format that is needed.
Best Regards
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Some of us find SAS's
INPUT @3 SMFTIME SMFSTAMP8.;
FORMAT SMFTIME DATETIME21.2;
PUT SMFTIME=;
easier and it prints
27OCT2013:13:14:15.99
Barry
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Barry Merrill wrote:
Some of us find SAS's
INPUT @3 SMFTIME SMFSTAMP8.;
FORMAT SMFTIME DATETIME21.2;
PUT SMFTIME=;
easier and it prints
27OCT2013:13:14:15.99
Indeed, it is very easy and there are many ways to skin this cat with the name
SMFTIME. :-)
Or if you're a hunter, aim for the
Hi,
I was asked to estimate the change in the time it would take to backup disks
when moving from one type of tape drive and cartridge to another.
We currently have 3590H’s and it takes about 30 minutes to back up a 3390-54.
What would happen if we convert to TS1120’s TS1130’s or TS1140’s.
Our
On 29/10/2013 4:47 PM, Timothy Sipples wrote:
David Crayford writes:
I wonder if there is a market for mainframe legacy applications to
access NoSQL data stores?
Of course. Case in point: the IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator. The PureData
System for Analytics which powers the IDAA is, as it
I found this thread from 1998 which references a 1996 thread:
http://www.listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9806L=rexxlistP=5824
With the following REXX. I think it might be adapted to the OP requirements.
From what I understand it is the USERDATA that needs to be updated and saved.
Does
Thanks Dave,
I'll try to modify what you've sent me .. I don't know why the crlf got left out
but that will be the easiest to fix and as I do that I will be reading the code.
-don
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Hi,
I was asked to estimate the change in the time it would take to backup disks
when moving from one type of tape drive and cartridge to another.
We currently have 3590H’s and it takes about 30 minutes to back up a 3390-54.
What would happen if we
digest entry
From:Steve Comstock
Has anybody gotten SPFPRO to run on Windows 8.1 (or
even 8.0, for that matter)?
Looks like I'll have to give up one of my favorite tools.
SNIPPAGE
Steve et al:
Because of problems I get when updating Windows, I generally run Windows under
VMware on a
One other consideration is if you are encrypting the data or not. Encryption
will also slow down the read/write of data.
If you are encrypting, will it be at the hardware level, the tape drive does
the encryption, or at the software level, you have a product like EKM/TLKM.
I found that in an
If you have the FICON cards available, do it now regardless. For any of the
other solutions, it would be silly (if even supported) to put them on ESCON.
This is a no-brainer. You will be very impressed by this alone. I just reviewed
a decade-old presentation that had FICON over 5 times faster
Hi
Which is the most ISPF like?
In reviewing Dave'ss page at: http://www.planetmvs.com/spfeditor/ I also learn
of uni-SPF by http://www.wrkgrp.com/index.html ?
Just curious
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What is a significant, relevant example of a subset implementation of
Unicode?
Charles
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Sorry - when I originally replied to Steve's question, I didn't realize that he
was running such a dated version of SPFPC. I'm successfully running SPF/SE v6.0
Graphic Edition under Win 8.0
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Sent: Tuesday,
Rob,
uni-SPF is much more like ISPF than SPF/SE - due to the fact that SPF/SE is
missing REXX
Bye,
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On 29/10/2013 8:48 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
What is a significant, relevant example of a subset implementation of
Unicode?
I'm guessing that John is referring to UTF-32 or UTF-16 and subsets
would be encodings with fewer bits.
Charles
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Thanks for that insight Michael.
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Rob,uni-SPF is much more like ISPF than SPF/SE - due
Hello:
We want to add a new variable in our IEASYMxx. A new SITE variable with the
last two positions cpc name. The problem is that the HWNAME variable doesn't
exist in IEASYMxx and we couldn't obtain the last two positions of this
variable. We have defined HWNAME in LOADxx.
The new
David's inference was on the mark. The rationale for the query is
less clear to me. Minimal acquaintance with the history andf
literature of Unicode would have acq
John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
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Hi everyone,
Does anyone know of a tool that will help us decide if we benefit from adding a
zIIP engine to our system?
Thanks
Gadi
לשימת לבך, בהתאם לנהלי החברה וזכויות החתימה בה, כל הצעה, התחייבות או מצג מטעם
החברה, מחייבים מסמך נפרד וחתום על ידי מורשי החתימה
Ref:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/iea2w1b0/20.2
quote
The SYS1.PARMLIB member IEAOPTxx provides statement PROJECTCPU. Specifying the
PROJECTCPU parameter allows you to project *zIIP* (and zAAP) consumptionwhen a
*zIIP* (or zAAP) processor is not yet defined to the
Gadi,
If you are looking for the $$$ savings that would be achieved by acquiring one
or more zIIPs, then I strongly suggest you contact Al Sherkow
(a...@sherkow.com) about LCS. I and others have cost-justified both the LCS and
zIIP acquisition costs due to the savings achieved. As usual, YMMV.
It will depend on your workload. More and more functions on the Mainframe
are using zIIP engines. However, they are not always documented.
PROJECTCPU will help you see if a zIIP might be useful. This Techdoc is
helpful for PROJECTCPU
On 29/10/2013 5:37 AM, Gerhard Adam wrote:
As for Google and many of these other companies, they are certainly
adequate for the markets they are in, what what technology are they
exploiting? Are they demonstrably cheaper to run? Do they require
less staff? In short, what is the basis for
W dniu 2013-10-29 14:32, גדי בן אבי pisze:
Hi everyone,
Does anyone know of a tool that will help us decide if we benefit from adding a
zIIP engine to our system?
One of the methods not mentione here is to get zIIP for evaluation.
Yes, it is possible to activate zIIP for a period of time - a
jwgli...@gmail.com (John Gilmore) writes:
Lynn Wheeler's numbers are arithmetically correct, but they are also
problematic.
Mainframe channels perform multiple concurrent I/O operations that are
not adequately reflected in them.
my references have been IBM's published numbers for the z196
john.archie.mck...@gmail.com (John McKown) writes:
Thanks for the pointers. No offense, but I still don't much like
InfoCenter. I may learn to like it. Right after I learn to like Lima beans.
So, IBM pubs center doesn't have an HA setup. Interesting. I guess they're
busy restoring. Have they
On 29/10/2013 11:23 PM, Tom Marchant wrote:
On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 13:47:19 -0500, John Gilmore wrote:
Lynn Wheeler's numbers are arithmetically correct, but they are also
problematic.
Mainframe channels perform multiple concurrent I/O operations that are
not adequately reflected in them.
And
I detail more the requirements for this configuration:
- Many LOADxx
- One IEASYMxx
The target is execute a ipl in the lpar in the main site and disaster recovery
site with the same IEASYMxx (for less maintenance) but with different LOADxx
Regards
On 10/29/2013 8:07 AM, Jorge Garcia wrote:
Hello:
We want to add a new variable in our IEASYMxx. A new SITE variable with the
last two positions cpc name. The problem is that the HWNAME variable doesn't exist
in IEASYMxx and we couldn't obtain the last two positions of this variable. We
UTF-16 and UTF-32 are not subsets, and they are not implementations.
Charles
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Subject: Re: Unicode
It has been quite some time since I set up a test sysplex. Does anyone have a
document, spreadsheet, project plan, outline laying around with the mojor
considerations?
I am try to save some time, hence the request. Saves trying to recall paged out
memory from aging brain cells. :)
Bob
On 10/28/13 14:47, John Gilmore wrote:
Lynn Wheeler's numbers are arithmetically correct, but they are also
problematic.
Mainframe channels perform multiple concurrent I/O operations that are
not adequately reflected in them.
my references have been IBM's published numbers for the z196 peak
l...@garlic.com (Anne Lynn Wheeler) writes:
Part of the issue with serial fibre-optic for fibre channel standard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_Channel
and similar work going on about the same time with scalable coherent
interface (that I also got dragged into)
Speaking of time: US Daylight Saving Time ends this Sunday November 3. We
all get to relive one hour. Good for sleeping, but problematic for some
software.
.
.
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Southern California Edison Company
Electric Dragon Team Paddler
SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager
626-302-7535 Office
Is the macro language still C?
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Steve,
I don't know
On 2013-10-29 16:29, John Gilmore wrote:
sharp, acerbic disagreement---has a place here.
Many here would disagree with you on that point!
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Acerbically perhaps?
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On 2013-10-29 16:44, John Gilmore wrote:
Acerbically perhaps?
Hopefully not! ;)
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Acerbically perhaps?
John Gilmore,
Enjoy your word games. Have fun.
Charles
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Acerbically
In
CAAJSdjgyhi03G1nw3MAiT06fMG1Y-=25wpwuuqpq8puga9x...@mail.gmail.com,
on 10/28/2013
at 02:08 PM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com said:
I wasn't wanting to translate words. But when we do a comparison on
the z, we basically just do a byte-for-byte compare.
While CLC et all basically
In 8360084032982097.wa.zatlas1yahoo@listserv.ua.edu, on
10/27/2013
at 08:00 AM, Ze'ev Atlas zatl...@yahoo.com said:
because they do not have C and cannot build it.
Isn't PCRE written in C?
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In 8164757574306449.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on
10/28/2013
at 03:15 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said:
It's built into LE for z/OS.
Locale-sensitive compares, perhaps, but not compares that will treat a
word in the middle of a string as having a different locale from
Hi Paul
If you are using PL/I for MVS and VM V1.1.1 and you attempt to rebind the
resulting PL/1 modules with MQ V7, your bind will likely fail.
MQ V7 version of CMQEPP contains declarations for many new entry points that
are not supported in the CICS or IMS environments, thus the problem.
A
On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 18:39:46 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
Locale-sensitive compares, perhaps, but not compares that will treat a
word in the middle of a string as having a different locale from the
rest of the string.
It could be worse than that. How would you compare two strings,
dcrayf...@gmail.com (David Crayford) writes:
But is that unique to a mainframe? When you compare it to a POWER
system or whatever Oracle are flogging these days it doesn't stand
out. Even commodity servers hooked up to an enterprise class HBA can
handle massive amounts of I/O throughput.
re:
On 28 October 2013 19:36, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote:
The locale-dependent services will treat a string as being in a single
locale, so if you are using an English locale then How much does the
chorizo cost? will sort according to US rules.
If you are using the
On October 28 2013 19:36, Seymour J. Metz (Shmuel )
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net said:
[Listserv decided that my message had already been posted, and
suggests changing a few characters. I have done so, in a way that I
trust does not change the meaning of anything that matters.]
The locale
Greetings!
All of these discussions of the new requirement that COBOL load libraries
be in PDSE datasets has been interesting. It made me realize that I was not
clear on the whole story, we started out with the PO and PDSE assumption and
went from there, from my perspective. Now that we have
Lynn,
Still old adage the channels are slower than the process, hence usually a
bottleneck. My past life before development I was a Comm guy ,hardware and
software..saw of lot of bottlenecks
Scott ford
www.identityforge.com
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'Infinite wisdom through infinite means'
On Oct 28,
On 29 Oct 2013 05:28:29 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Hi
Which is the most ISPF like?
In reviewing Dave'ss page at: http://www.planetmvs.com/spfeditor/ I also learn
of uni-SPF by http://www.wrkgrp.com/index.html ?
My recollection of UNI-SPF on HP-UX in 2001-2002 is that it was a
scott_j_f...@yahoo.com (Scott Ford) writes:
Still old adage the channels are slower than the process, hence
usually a bottleneck. My past life before development I was a Comm guy
,hardware and software..saw of lot of bottlenecks
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#94 SHARE Blog: News
On 10/28/2013 4:15 PM, Dan Skomsky wrote:
I have it running Win 98 mode on Windows 7 Pro 32 bit and tried it
successfully on the Windows 8 pre-release 32 bit.
Hmm. No luck on win 8.1 64-bit.
-Steve
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On 10/28/2013 11:42 PM, Brian Westerman wrote:
Steve,
I realize that this isn't exactly the answer you wanted, but While I can get my
copy to work on Windows 8.1 (I run it in compatibility mode by right clicking
on the executable and choose the compatibility option), I have (as of a couple
On 10/29/2013 3:18 AM, Michael Knigge wrote:
Steve,
I don't know what's wrong with SPFPRO on Win 8, but maybe it is time for a
change. You may want to have a look at SPF/365 (well known as SPF/SE) that is
now selled at a much more reduced price. The subscription for one year is at 25
$ US
because they do not have C and cannot build it.
Isn't PCRE written in C?
Yes, and that's why I had to provide binaries which is NOT ideal, because the
binaries are IBM1047 specific
ZA
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