Re: Splitting the DATA and INDEX Components of Extended Addressing Dataset

2012-06-20 Thread Joel C. Ewing
costs when that micro-management is done less than perfectly). Joel C Ewing On 06/20/2012 11:12 AM, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] wrote: George, It might help to know what you're trying to accomplish by doing this. Given the size of today's disks, there is no guarantee that placing

Re: SMS processing setup for secondary extents

2012-06-21 Thread Joel C. Ewing
on the last used volume of the data set (so a multi-volume primary allocation used for a very small dataset could consume a large amount of pool space on subsequent unused volumes even after RELEASE). Joel C Ewing On 06/21/2012 03:56 PM, David Betten wrote: I personally prefer using a volume count

Re: SMS processing setup for secondary extents

2012-06-21 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 06/21/2012 06:42 PM, Lizette Koehler wrote: From: Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org And better yet, also use a DATACLAS with the Extended attribute so you are not constrained to only 16 extents per volume. With Space Constraint Relief. Extended attribute, and Dynamic Volume Count, both primary

Re: SMS processing setup for secondary extents

2012-06-21 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 06/21/2012 07:47 PM, Joel C. Ewing wrote: On 06/21/2012 06:42 PM, Lizette Koehler wrote: From: Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org And better yet, also use a DATACLAS with the Extended attribute so you are not constrained to only 16 extents per volume. With Space Constraint Relief. Extended

Re: RACF question

2012-07-07 Thread Joel C. Ewing
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Re: OT: I received a purported .doc file which appears to be a zip file full of XMLs

2012-07-16 Thread Joel C. Ewing
to read 2007 files: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/open-a-word-2007-document-in-an-earlier-version-of-word-HA010044473.aspx Alternatively, the sender might be able to use save as in Word and save it to a Word 2002 file format. Regards Andrew Rowley -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR

Re: Problem Going to VSAM from IAM

2012-07-19 Thread Joel C. Ewing
, but also generally requires knowledge that others don't need access to the file during this process. Joel C. Ewing On 07/19/2012 10:45 AM, Yifat Oren wrote: Hi, Like others have suggested BLSR or SMB ACCBIAS=DO is the way to go if the VSAM is accessed in a non-sequential manner (which seems

Re: Problem Going to VSAM from IAM

2012-07-19 Thread Joel C. Ewing
or calculated by VSAM) may be grossly inaccurate, making my estimates of average records per CI equally inaccurate. Joel C. Ewing On 07/19/2012 10:53 AM, Sambataro, Anthony (NIH/NBS) [E] wrote: In addition to more buffers, would a re-org help? Any CI/CA splits? -Original Message

Re: Problem Going to VSAM from IAM

2012-07-19 Thread Joel C. Ewing
at the time buffers are allocated to understand how the program will really be accessing the file. I knew there was a good reason I avoided BUFSP. Joel C. Ewing On 07/19/2012 01:49 PM, Brown, Larry - RD, St. Louis, MO wrote: Wow, the programmer dropped the bufsp parm, and his run time actually

Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 21 Jul 2012 to 22 Jul 2012 (#2012-204)

2012-07-23 Thread Joel C. Ewing
/deactivating LPARS, so there is no way a production image could be selected for deactivation or IPL when a test image is intended. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

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

2012-07-23 Thread Joel C. Ewing
... -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-23 Thread Joel C. Ewing
bought by a major TelCom for them to have been granted an exclusive monopoly on the Internet, totally changing its character. No one else in Congress was pushing for expanded information access at the time. That's why Vint Cerf gives Al Gore credit. Joel C. Ewing On 07/23/2012 04:11 PM, Steve

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-26 Thread Joel C. Ewing
that you might have hardware it couldn't tolerate. If those problems prevented you from getting on the Internet to find solutions you were S.O.L. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Drowning in service units on z/os 1.13 after migrating from v1.11

2012-07-27 Thread Joel C. Ewing
this seems an unlikely explanation for what the site is observing. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: Friday: What you've been waiting for! Build an 80 column punched card reader!

2012-07-28 Thread Joel C. Ewing
of implementation! -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Print Option from Mainframe to Microsoft Note

2012-08-04 Thread Joel C. Ewing
overlays. The pdf text data source can either be a Physical Sequential dataset, or a member of a PDS. The TXT2PDF program can also be used apart from XMITIP if you want to save a PDF form of a text document on z/OS. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org

Re: X86 server

2012-08-14 Thread Joel C. Ewing
yourself a bit more. -- zMan -- I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: Possible to run a jobstep with a different timezone?

2012-09-10 Thread Joel C. Ewing
, it intercepted when the module was loaded, found any STCK instructions and changed them such that their code would happen. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Possible to run a jobstep with a different timezone?

2012-09-11 Thread Joel C. Ewing
Comment embedded On 09/10/2012 07:12 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 18:20:46 -0500, Joel C. Ewing wrote: Ways other than STCK/STCKE for getting time involve an SVC, or calling a system service, or calling a subsystem service (CICS), where front-ending the service

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

2012-09-19 Thread Joel C. Ewing
transfer was available and the experience in those few cases was frequently unpleasant by comparison. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: OT - disappearing responses

2012-09-21 Thread Joel C. Ewing
account via SMTP by only getting your email address. No password required. Web pages do require passwords to access your account. -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ... -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, arjcew...@acm.org

Re: Questions about IARST64

2012-09-25 Thread Joel C. Ewing
. IARCP64 and IARST64 are implemented based on the algorithms described here: http://www.google.com/patents/US20090100243 Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY ... -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org

Re: Another Light goes out

2012-09-26 Thread Joel C. Ewing
hardware and encouraging users to stay on non-IBM hardware. If the termination of Pacbase support was indeed imminent, that may have been the real reason that forced the migration decision by Ohio. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org

Re: SMP/E or 11 years of stupidity (rant)

2012-09-27 Thread Joel C. Ewing
described as ACTION HOLD data on the PTFs that require it. You shouldn't have to hunt down some ancient Informational APAR. If there is some reason IBM recommends not applying the affected PTFs, that should be handled by some means other retaining the element RMID mismatch. -- Joel C. Ewing

Re: Restore JES2 spool/chkpt to new volumes?

2012-10-01 Thread Joel C. Ewing
that test system cannot touch prod drives or other prod resources by accident and there are no cross system enqueues or other unintended cross-system communication to confuse things. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org

Re: Mainframe Power - Was RE: Another Light goes out

2012-10-02 Thread Joel C. Ewing
cache, and then also have potential concerns about how long it might take to physically de-stage the cache data in the event of a system shut down? -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: IBM, id's to open pmr's, lot$a $$$$ now involved?...

2012-10-11 Thread Joel C. Ewing
if the resolution had taken a significant effort on our part and finding an APAR resolution would be an obvious benefit for others (and if we didn't want to fight the same problem in the next product release). -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org

Re: SMS Diagnosis/trace?

2012-10-24 Thread Joel C. Ewing
data sets are isolated to specific user catalogs and not mixed indiscriminately with non-tape data sets. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: RedBook EPUBs - How can you read them?

2012-11-01 Thread Joel C. Ewing
proprietary formats) at http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=70921. Howard Turetzky Ricoh/InfoPrint ... -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: change SL tape to NL

2012-11-06 Thread Joel C. Ewing
made any more difficult by an empty file. Having actual data may make it possible to verify that known data set attributes are consistent, but would in general be inadequate for unambiguously determining the correct data set attributes if they are unknown. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR

Re: Standard TSO/MVS way to delete a PDS(E) member

2013-10-02 Thread Joel C. Ewing
, it is subject to random ABEND failures if its execution conflicts with other PDS update activity that also uses SHR allocation of that PDS. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: TN3270 emulator application scripting

2013-10-03 Thread Joel C. Ewing
. We used this for years to generate and print a daily CPU performance graph from SMF CPU data until the cost of GDDM-PGF became excessive and better alternatives were by then available. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org

Re: Standard TSO/MVS way to delete a PDS(E) member

2013-10-03 Thread Joel C. Ewing
time. Joel C Ewing On 10/03/2013 09:46 AM, Bass, Walter W wrote: I fail to see why you would expect an abend if the member was being edited in ISPF when it was deleted in batch. My expectation was that the batch delete would work fine and that user performing the ISPF edit would

Re: Standard TSO/MVS way to delete a PDS(E) member

2013-10-03 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 10/03/2013 02:52 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Thu, 3 Oct 2013 12:11:55 -0500, Joel C. Ewing wrote: To test this properly requires either extraordinary timing ability, or getting a program which will OPEN a PDS for output without the appropriate ISPFEDIT enqueue and keep it open for long

Re: Standard TSO/MVS way to delete a PDS(E) member

2013-10-03 Thread Joel C. Ewing
there may be a much higher conflict potential. Joel C. Ewing On 10/03/2013 04:31 PM, Bass, Walter W wrote: Ah - OK. Somewhere back in the mists of time I was once aware that the Edit SAVE only enqueued the PDS momentarily, but I failed to recall that fact when needed. So the abend

Re: SMPTABL data set severe error

2013-10-05 Thread Joel C. Ewing
invocation in split screen was not allowed and would produce a failure message.. Joel C. Ewing On 10/05/2013 07:59 AM, Lizette Koehler wrote: Please post your JCL statements where your SMPTABL is coded. Next, check that ALL of the libraries on the DD statement where your SMPTABL is coded

Re: Need to include ACF2 SMF 230 in SMFPRMxx?

2013-10-05 Thread Joel C. Ewing
you to eyeball specific SMF record types, and that should be pretty definitive as well. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: SMPTABL data set severe error

2013-10-05 Thread Joel C. Ewing
ALLOC F(SMPTABL) DA('DCTR.SGIMTENU') SHR REUSE ??? Sure looks like that may destroy your intended Logon proc SMPTABL allocation. Joel C. Ewing 10/05/2013 10:07 AM, saurabh khandelwal wrote: Hello Lizette, Thanks for response .Below is my logon proc containing

Re: SMPTABL data set severe error

2013-10-05 Thread Joel C. Ewing
may have introduced some garbage members. Joel C. Ewing On 10/05/2013 10:50 AM, saurabh khandelwal wrote: Hello Joel, Initially I also thought same but not sure how can I confirm that this dataset been destroyed. Data Set Name . . . : DCTR.SGIMTENU General Data

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

2013-10-26 Thread Joel C. Ewing
, possibly to the point other useful I/O would be degraded. One would expect any overhead or contention effects associated with an inappropriate JOBLIB to be less significant with today's hardware and with PDSE libraries, whose directories may be cached in main memory. Joel C Ewing On 10/26/2013 07:37

Re: ObamaCare Web Site Problems

2013-10-30 Thread Joel C. Ewing
consideration to web-page display efficiency early in the game! Joel C. Ewing On 10/30/2013 10:23 AM, DASDBILL2 wrote: Thanks for the link, Jim. I am reading through the article now. The first seriously GLARING problem I see is that It seems they forgot to merge CSS and JS files together

Re: Preventing the deletion of unreferenced strings by optimizing compilers

2013-10-31 Thread Joel C. Ewing
sophisticated optimizing compiler in the future to deduce that copyright_text is expendable and ignore it? Maybe some languages need a formal element attribute to say useless but keep. Joel C. Ewing On 10/31/2013 12:55 PM, John Gilmore wrote: I wanted to test my notion before presenting

Re: Flashcopy on a DS6800 question

2013-11-01 Thread Joel C. Ewing
the same tracks, not on ordinary reads and writes involving the tracks of either the source or target. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers

2013-11-07 Thread Joel C. Ewing
) -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: IF (was: Aging ...)

2013-11-08 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 11/07/2013 12:04 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Thu, 7 Nov 2013 10:06:14 -0600, Joel C. Ewing wrote: I share your celebration of the IF Statement; although I have been bit on one occasion by a non-intuitive behavior of IF statements as well: the first EXEC in a JOB is always unconditionally

Re: APF in JCL step

2013-11-11 Thread Joel C. Ewing
(this was done all the time during Y2K testing), but you do have to follow all the rules. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: When should we ACCEPT DB2 PTFs?

2013-11-23 Thread Joel C. Ewing
installation) have done rigorous RSU-level testing. Joel C. Ewing On 11/22/2013 05:30 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: How about not until IBM tells you to? As in you must accept before apply this PTF? On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Staller, Allan allan.stal...@kbmg.com wrote: IMO

Re: 4-Hour Rolling Average in sub capacity reporting

2013-12-05 Thread Joel C. Ewing
and it won't really matter when you make the change during off-peak weeks. Joel C Ewing On 12/05/2013 02:09 AM, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote: Suresh, Maybe Mike went home, so I will answer your question: IBM will always charge the peak of the month, no matter how you changed the MSUs

Re: hexadecimal?

2013-12-08 Thread Joel C. Ewing
versus an EBCDIC character value, and behave accordingly, but this is only plausible in specific instances. Typically only one specific data format is expected, that format must be supplied, and the documentation should reflect that requirement. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew

Re: Check out Ternary flip-flap-flop

2013-12-08 Thread Joel C. Ewing
. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: VB FTP z/OS to z/OS (again?!)

2013-12-30 Thread Joel C. Ewing
, then this parameter value is mis-named. Joel C. Ewing On 12/30/2013 03:03 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 12:37:36 -0800, Frank Swarbrick wrote: Is there any reason why I would not prefer binary/record over ebcdic/blocked?� The former seems to make much more sense, since

OT: Digital Fortress Was:: NSA seeks ...

2014-01-03 Thread Joel C. Ewing
platform of which the virus writer was ignorant: the popular movie Independence Day has the same fault. Joel C. Ewing On 01/03/2014 12:40 PM, Ken Hume IBM wrote: Has anyone else read Digital Fortress by Dan Brown? Hmm. ... -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR

Re: Scary Sysprogs and educating those 'kids'....

2014-01-06 Thread Joel C. Ewing
on these platforms in the past may have been responsible for originating the fix-after-multiple-failure mentality, since a single failure could always be written off as a random hardware glitch. Joel C. Ewing On 01/06/2014 02:42 PM, Dan Skwire wrote: I have written a book that explains

Re: Hardware failures (was Re: Scary Sysprogs ...)

2014-01-08 Thread Joel C. Ewing
, but these were always non disruptive to the data and to z/OS. Joel C. Ewing On 01/08/2014 07:16 AM, John McKown wrote: Back in the z890 days, we had a CPU fail. Of course, the hardware automatically recovered and we only knew about it due to a logrec record being written and a message

Re: LLA/VLF -- NAMED LNKLST?

2014-01-09 Thread Joel C. Ewing
address spaces instead of globally, but which may be subjected to 1000's of load requests in a short time frame. From Peter's viewpoint these would be user libraries since they are not owned by z/OS but by applications that run under z/OS. Joel C. Ewing On 01/09/2014 02:11 PM, Frank

Re: Dataspace versus common area above the bar

2014-01-22 Thread Joel C. Ewing
for a specific hardware model and not tied to the number of bits in a memory address. I would expect the fetch time for the same sequence of instructions on the same model processor to be independent of run-time address mode. Joel C. Ewing On 01/22/2014 01:57 AM, Itschak Mugzach wrote: 64 bit

Re: System Symbols Question

2014-01-22 Thread Joel C. Ewing
system symbols. If for some reason a vendor needed to have a system symbol defined for their product, I would think the only safe way to avoid conflicts would be to allow each installation to customize the name when the product is installed. Joel C. Ewing On 01/22/2014 01:13 PM, Paul Gilmartin

Re: ISMF QUESTIONS - VIEWING STORAGE GROUP STATS

2014-01-24 Thread Joel C. Ewing
prefixes. Joel C. Ewing On 01/23/2014 02:52 PM, Neil Duffee wrote: [insert Digest caveat] Well, will you look at that! *grin* I seem to recall that the panels were, at one time/version, in KB but I notice my current v1.12 help does, indeed, indicate MB. In fact, it also indicates

Re: OT: Entry Level System Programmer Job Description

2014-01-31 Thread Joel C. Ewing
for their needs just a few years down the road. I would suspect a logical mind, interest in continuing education, and a general fascination for computers are still the most critical skills for a good Systems Programmer. Joel C. Ewing On 01/31/2014 10:46 AM, Stephen Bielskie wrote: I was fortunate

Re: RACF USERMOD APPLY

2014-02-04 Thread Joel C. Ewing
And if you follow what ought to be standard practice of applying but NEVER accepting a USERMOD (so it can always be RESTOREd if necessary), then the DLIB specified will never be used for storing the modified ICHRDSNT MOD anyhow, since a store into a DLIB only occurs on ACCEPT. Joel C Ewing

Re: RES: Implicit VVDS creation

2014-02-07 Thread Joel C. Ewing
the controlled placement of VTOC, VTOCIX, and VVDS these days is more a matter of aesthetics and emulated-media fragmentation avoidance than performance. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Check whether job still running

2013-05-01 Thread Joel C. Ewing
is to have conditionally executed steps at the end of one job submit the following job, and somehow make the appropriate person aware of any failure in the process. Joel C. Ewing On 05/01/2013 07:38 AM, Charles Mills wrote: I am NOT a shop sysprog so take this with a grain of salt but my

Re: Check whether job still running

2013-05-01 Thread Joel C. Ewing
of knowledge any way. I am not very JES3 literate, but I've heard that it solves this problem with DJC (Dependent Job Control). And, of course, not letting a job into an initiator when it would cause a JOB WAITING FOR DATA SETS message. ... -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew

Re: Check whether job still running

2013-05-02 Thread Joel C. Ewing
equipment shuffle was judged to be the victim of an error waiting to happen (and continued to be a valued employee). Joel C. Ewing On 05/02/2013 12:03 AM, Ed Gould wrote: DASDBILL2: Yes I know about the option. My question is why would anyone want to have it allowed. Trying to resolve

Re: OT - What is the proper term for K notation?

2013-05-02 Thread Joel C. Ewing
. There surely must a programming language somewhere with direct support for such an output format. I'm just not personally aware of any. Joel C. Ewing On 05/02/2013 12:34 PM, Charles Mills wrote: Or phrasing the question differently: consider the integer 4560. It may be expressed as 4.56 x 10**7

Re: OT - What is the proper term for K notation?

2013-05-03 Thread Joel C. Ewing
, we even have precise notation for 1000*1024 as KKi (which makes it more precise, but still aesthetically displeasing). Joel C. Ewing On 05/03/2013 05:08 PM, Scott Ford wrote: Shmuel, I always used K, with the understanding it was 1024 ...if you write assembler a base register used

Re: OE Historical article re: Mainframes

2013-05-04 Thread Joel C. Ewing
, and more sophisticated operating systems largely removed users and application programmers from having to think in base 2 to effectively use binary hardware, slower decimal-oriented hardware was considered better than binary by many business customers. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR

Re: blue sky thought: new class of member name in a PDS

2013-05-06 Thread Joel C. Ewing
of the weird, confusing things that used to be possible, either deliberately or by accident, was that one could end up with an orphaned (but still functional) alias entry that pointed to a different TTR and data than the TTR in the then-current entry for the main member name. -- Joel C. Ewing

Re: ternary logic, was: What is... K notation?

2013-05-08 Thread Joel C. Ewing
eventually replaced ternary development in the Soviet Union as well. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: ternary logic, was: What is... K notation?

2013-05-09 Thread Joel C. Ewing
the costs of the hardware itself. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM

Re: HOST feature or understand a sentence

2013-05-16 Thread Joel C. Ewing
. Joel C. Ewing On 05/16/2013 07:08 AM, zMan wrote: First sentence: What? Second: It might. That's certainly the hobbyist's argument. IBM doesn't see it that way, clearly. On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 1:11 AM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: You run just about any system in vbox

Re: B37 för FTINCL in ISPF for userid.ISPnnnnn.SPFTEMPn.WORK datasets

2013-05-23 Thread Joel C. Ewing
, overall availability of the system is more important than just the convenience of an individual user. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Really? No FTP SITE RLSE?

2013-05-25 Thread Joel C. Ewing
to reuse the inadequate-sized existing dataset and blow again. Even if the FTP sender knew the size of the dataset and communicated that to the receiver, the FTP receiver would have to assume any value sent was informational only and not to be fully trusted. Joel C. Ewing On 05/25/2013 11:50

Re: Really? No FTP SITE RLSE?

2013-05-26 Thread Joel C. Ewing
relate to JCL allocation parameters, and that after taking that correspondence into consideration standard z/OS data set allocation and extension rules apply. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM

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

2013-06-03 Thread Joel C. Ewing
documented compatibility issues with old source code and previously compiled code. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: Check out Moto X: Motorola reveals plans for ink and even pills to replace AL

2013-06-04 Thread Joel C. Ewing
something only known by the individual, not solely based on something they possess. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Age of datasets in hours, not days?

2013-06-06 Thread Joel C. Ewing
for HSM migration bumps at midnight local time (which means a 1-day-old dataset might actually only be seconds old just after midnight). -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: XRC Volume Resync on a Return Home

2013-06-06 Thread Joel C. Ewing
are not. Does anyone know if this is a proprietary thing? -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ... -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Storage paradigm [was: RE: Data volumes]

2013-06-11 Thread Joel C. Ewing
every release always has a number of fix PTFs, some of which address problems that were highly fatal to one or more installations. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Unix ID command and username value

2013-06-18 Thread Joel C. Ewing
with a UID-related profile violates the spirit if not the letter of the UNIX standards. Joel C Ewing On 06/18/2013 07:04 AM, John McKown wrote: I've had it change on occasion. But it may well have been done due to my messing around with RACF definitions. I don't remember ever reading in the books

Re: z/OS subroutine in assembler, used in both batch CICS , making re-entrant

2013-06-25 Thread Joel C. Ewing
begin to get Short-On-Storage. Those CICS Server services are only available in a CICS server region, not in batch, which complicates the design of any subroutine which needs to run in both environments. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org

Re: Missing HSM backups

2013-07-17 Thread Joel C. Ewing
in the DFSMSdss Storage Administration Guide under DFSMSdss handling of the data-set-changed indicator during restore. Joel C. Ewing On 07/17/2013 06:12 AM, Richard Marchant wrote: New David and original David, You are correct you can add the RESET parameter to a DSS dump be it dataset(s

Re: Is it possible to open PCOMM session up to 50?

2013-07-17 Thread Joel C. Ewing
. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Old usercatalogs with IMBED and REPLICATE

2013-07-17 Thread Joel C. Ewing
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Old usercatalogs with IMBED and REPLICATE W dniu 2013-07-16 21:19, Ted MacNEIL pisze: Preach all you want. It's management who sets priorities. That's me. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org

Re: Old usercatalogs with IMBED and REPLICATE

2013-07-20 Thread Joel C. Ewing
unavailable solely for the purpose of removing these attributes. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com ... -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: SMP/E vs. NON SMPE Installs (Was BLKSIZE=3120)

2013-07-23 Thread Joel C. Ewing
they ask you to create cross-links to some libraries, so DB2 CSI has a DDDEF to SYS1.CSSLIB, etc. 12. No consistent (included in SMP/E) way for samples customization. I mean HLQs, dzone, tzone, etc. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org

Re: IBM vs. Amazon for Cloud

2013-07-23 Thread Joel C. Ewing
they believe they will be able monitor everyone else's cloud activities more easily if they are managed by Amazon rather than IBM. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: BLKSIZE=3120

2013-07-23 Thread Joel C. Ewing
also end up spreading the data over more real physical tracks on the DASD subsystem, which would surely raise the overhead there as well, even if that impact on performance might be hard to measure. Joel C Ewing On 07/23/2013 12:20 PM, Eric Bielefeld wrote: I believe that the net result

Re: Unix ID command and username value

2013-07-24 Thread Joel C. Ewing
, the short answer is from the user's standpoint the systems choice seems arbitrary, is most often not usually what the user would prefer/expect to see, and there is no interface to allow the user or system programmer to control the systems choice. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew

Re: Is there a reverse bits hardware instruction?

2013-07-25 Thread Joel C. Ewing
(15,143,79,207,47,175,111,239,31,159,95,223,63,191,127,255) which are consistent with the original macro. Joel C. Ewing On 07/24/2013 12:54 PM, Kenneth Wilkerson wrote: The macro at the end of my reply will generate a reverse translate table. I tested it enough to see that it looked right but it has nothing to do with my original

Re: Is there a reverse bits hardware instruction?

2013-07-25 Thread Joel C. Ewing
don't panic at their first exposure! Joel C Ewing On 07/25/2013 09:13 AM, Victor Gil wrote: Here's a single DC instruction I've posted May 2003 [search for what's your most difficult assembler concept] BYTE_FLIP DS 0CL256 TDC 256AL1*-T)/001)-((*-T)/002)*2)*X'80

Re: Blame the COBOL, how cliché

2013-07-26 Thread Joel C. Ewing
for the plugboard emulator program and moved that function into hardware. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: The z/OS V2.1 Migration PDF available

2013-08-10 Thread Joel C. Ewing
book, or has it been there all along? I wouldn't like to keep paging up and down online either, so I'd like to see if there is something to be done about it. -Marna WALLE z/OS System Installation -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org

Re: Large BLKSIZE

2013-08-21 Thread Joel C. Ewing
for the possibility of 256K transfers with 32K logical blocks, that suggests a minimum somewhere between 9 to 16 buffers. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: SCRT question

2013-08-25 Thread Joel C. Ewing
they are not. What, for example, does 'track oriented' mean when the underlying architecture is FBA? When the underlying architecture is random-access storage? John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org

Re: Rexx Execio to PDS

2013-08-26 Thread Joel C. Ewing
outstem.0 to the counter on loop exit. (I would still be inclined to set outstem.0 for tracking purposes even though the EXECIO doesn't use it in the code shown) Joel C. Ewing On 08/26/2013 01:21 PM, George Shedlock wrote: Gentle Listers; I am trying to write a Rexx routine that takes in 3

Re: Rexx Execio to PDS

2013-08-26 Thread Joel C. Ewing
prior outstem values each time. JC Ewing On 08/26/2013 08:57 PM, Joel C. Ewing wrote: The problem is outstem.=0 which sets an infinite number of instances of outstem.x to the non-null value 0 for all x. DISKW from a stem variable does not stop based on a count in outstem.0, it stops

Re: Rexx Execio to PDS

2013-08-27 Thread Joel C. Ewing
divides on word boundaries, I think the original version would drop intentional leading blanks in a line). Joel C. Ewing On 08/27/2013 07:45 AM, George Shedlock wrote: To All: First, the output dataset was created immediately prior to executing the exec. It was defined as a standard FB

Re: UNIT=SEP still alive (?)

2013-08-30 Thread Joel C. Ewing
reference wouldn't make sense, since tape data set names aren't required to be cataloged and might not be unique even within the same job step! -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Syncsort v1.4 doesn't support Tape sorting - Need help !

2013-09-03 Thread Joel C. Ewing
that might be close together but on different records. Syncsort MAXSORT is a new feature only in comparison to very ancient usage of tape SORTWK. MAXSORT has been around for at least 15 years, maybe longer. Joel C Ewing On 09/03/2013 01:29 PM, Roger Steyn wrote: Yes . That would work fine

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