Re: How many asterisks to change a lightbulb?

2019-03-11 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2019-03-09 o 17:05, Barry Merrill pisze: Construction sites in Ireland can not use the standard 220v tools, they had to set up a 110 converter and network. Battery powered hand tools have reduced that need somewhat. Really? 110V? Many places, including construction sites have a requireme

Re: SMF/RMF records for 4hr rolling average MSU?

2019-03-11 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2019-03-06 o 13:29, John McKown pisze: On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 5:31 AM R.S. wrote: W dniu 2019-03-05 o 21:37, John McKown pisze: On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 2:34 PM Carmen Vitullo wrote: Great product, EasySMF ! blackhillsoftware.com Forgot to mention: "The mainframe is going away. The

Re: SMF/RMF records for 4hr rolling average MSU?

2019-03-11 Thread John McKown
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 6:26 AM R.S. wrote: > W dniu 2019-03-06 o 13:29, John McKown pisze: > > On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 5:31 AM R.S. > wrote: > > > >> W dniu 2019-03-05 o 21:37, John McKown pisze: > >>> On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 2:34 PM Carmen Vitullo > >> wrote: > Great product, EasySMF ! > >

Re: SMF/RMF records for 4hr rolling average MSU?

2019-03-11 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
John McKown wrote: >> What would you do if they insist to use database without paying for database >> license? >The database in question has a permanent license, so that it not a problem. Excellent. Do you need to pay the vendor every x period? Or is that license just an once-off annoyance? >

Re: SMF/RMF records for 4hr rolling average MSU?

2019-03-11 Thread John McKown
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 7:37 AM Elardus Engelbrecht < elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za> wrote: > John McKown wrote: > > >> What would you do if they insist to use database without paying for > database license? > >The database in question has a permanent license, so that it not a > problem. > > Exce

Re: SMF/RMF records for 4hr rolling average MSU?

2019-03-11 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2019-03-11 o 13:37, Elardus Engelbrecht pisze: John McKown wrote: What would you do if they insist to use database without paying for database license? The database in question has a permanent license, so that it not a problem. Excellent. Do you need to pay the vendor every x period?

Re: SMF/RMF records for 4hr rolling average MSU?

2019-03-11 Thread John McKown
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 8:57 AM R.S. wrote: > W dniu 2019-03-11 o 13:37, Elardus Engelbrecht pisze: > > John McKown wrote: > > > >>> What would you do if they insist to use database without paying for > database license? > >> The database in question has a permanent license, so that it not a > pr

Re: SMF/RMF records for 4hr rolling average MSU?

2019-03-11 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: >> I got burned by a similar situation. Some hardware broken down, but luckily >> I could scavenge some 'newish' hardware. I tried to install windoze 2008, XP >> and 98, only got a nasty BSOD during initial phase of installation despite >> fiddling around with BIOS sett

Re: instruction clock speed

2019-03-11 Thread Seymour J Metz
I'm not sure what "While REGISTER 3 settles" means. Even on a pipelined machine register settings appear to be synchronous; the only reason that a prorammer needs to take pipelines into account is for performance, and hand optimization can do the opposite of what you wanted when you move to a ne

Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS)

2019-03-11 Thread Seymour J Metz
Doesn't z/OS come with curl and wget these days? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2019 9:21

Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS)

2019-03-11 Thread Matt Hogstrom
Don’t think so. RocketSoftware makes them available for download. I think the key issue is they are GPL IIRC. Matt Hogstrom m...@hogstrom.org PGP Key: 0x90ECB270 "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” - Hanlon’s Razor > On Mar 11, 2019, at 10:24 AM, Seym

Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS)

2019-03-11 Thread Seymour J Metz
GPL v3 says "6. Conveying Non-Source Forms. You may convey a covered work in object code form under the terms of sections 4 and 5, provided that you also convey the machine-readable Corresponding Source under the terms of this License, in one of these ways:" They would still need a notice of ho

Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS)

2019-03-11 Thread Matt Hogstrom
You are correct about GPL. The concern is likely historical and not the one that would be made today. There is some discussion at the OMP about hosting the Rocket Ports as a no-registration download. Regardless, USS needs a serious facelift to include tools and utilities commonly available on

Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS)

2019-03-11 Thread Seymour J Metz
Well, it's not as bad as it used to be, but the original OE option was designed around passing certification and was missing most of the tools that aren't required but everyone has. What is the current status of Perl, Python and Ruby in z/os? What about bash? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http:/

Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS)

2019-03-11 Thread John McKown
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 9:52 AM Matt Hogstrom wrote: > You are correct about GPL. The concern is likely historical and not the > one that would be made today. There is some discussion at the OMP about > hosting the Rocket Ports as a no-registration download. Regardless, USS > needs a serious f

Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS)

2019-03-11 Thread Matt Hogstrom
Here is a list of the tools Rocket Ported I just compiled for my reference for discussions about what would be nice to have in USS … just my opinion, not an IBM statement. Big priorities for me are bash, python, perl , git, sed. Others are nice to have and often are used to build other packag

Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS)

2019-03-11 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 10:04:16 -0500, John McKown wrote: > >IMO, if IBM is really serious about z/OS UNIX being something other than a >"POSIX compliant? Check!" portion of z/OS, they need to invest (pay) for a >group to port and maintain all of the main GNU utilities that they don't >have any real e

Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS)

2019-03-11 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
I would add gawk 4.x to that list, V4.2.1 if at all possible. Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Matt Hogstrom Sent: Monday, March 11, 2019 12:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: calling a webservice usi

Writing the Definitive Systems Programmer Resume

2019-03-11 Thread Joe Gallaher
I would like to invite anyone attending this week's SHARE conference in Phoenix to come to my session entitled "Writing the Definitive Systems Programmer Resume" (session 2, Wednesday, March 13, 2019: 1:45 PM-2:45 PM). This will be the 12th time I have given this presentation at SHARE and i

Re: Writing the Definitive Systems Programmer Resume

2019-03-11 Thread David Spiegel
Hi Joe, Please send me the presentation. Thanks and regards, David Spiegel On 2019-03-11 13:40, Joe Gallaher wrote: > I would like to invite anyone attending this week's SHARE conference in > Phoenix to come to my session entitled "Writing the Definitive Systems > Programmer Resume" (session 24

Re: CPU time and zIIP

2019-03-11 Thread Edward Finnell
Is the overhead noticeable from a thruput standpoint?  Say we have a 100 MSU box and a 200 MSU box capped at 100 will same workloads complete in close proximity?In a message dated 3/4/2019 9:36:11 PM Central Standard Time, edja...@phoenixsoftware.com writes: So a better analogy might be that eac

Re: CPU time and zIIP

2019-03-11 Thread Mike Schwab
On the full speed box the delays will be real. On the faster kneecapped box the delays will be counted as part of the kneecapping. On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 3:40 PM Edward Finnell <000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Is the overhead noticeable from a thruput standpoint? > > S

STCKE faster than STCK! (was: instruction clock speed)

2019-03-11 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 20:18:55 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >The 360/40 had one: 7 us for LR, 10 us for L. > >It is not possible now. A single instruction may literally add no time at >all to some instruction sequence. > >My imperfect model is that main storage is the new disk. Figure that >instructio