Re: It's feeding time in Jurassic Park . . .
Radoslaw Skorupka writes: zBX can run only ONE version of Windows: 64-bit edition of 2008 Enterprise (or so). No, that's not correct. IBM currently supports any of the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 or R2 64-bit X86 editions, not only Enterprise. Datacenter Edition is recommended due to Microsoft's licensing practices, but it is not required. As for 32-bit installation, you might pursue that complaint with Microsoft. Microsoft removed the option to install 32-bit Windows Server from Windows Server 2008 R2, introduced almost three years ago. (The zBX arrived well after that.) If you really wish to run an older 32-bit operating system you can virtualize it: install your chosen hypervisor on a supported operating system, then run the older operating system within that. Timothy Sipples Resident Enterprise Architect (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: It's feeding time in Jurassic Park . . .
On 10/05/2012 8:20 AM, George Henke wrote: ty, David, for the interesting point of view, but it certainly does conflict with the comparison numbers IBM showed at the zEnterprise Summit. That's not really surprising considering the actors involved! For a lucid perspective you may want to read Mike Shorkends excellent share presentation http://mobile.share.org/client_files/SHARE_in_Atlanta/Session_10441_handout_2139_0.pdf. Interestingly, IBM have just published information wrt connecting z to the new pureSystems hardware. Maybe the zBX wasn't received as well as IBM hoped. Although probably not surprising when you consider the political ramifications of managing distributed systems under a mainframe umbrella. http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/news/announcement/20120411_annc.html IBM, Timothly/Alan, what say ye? I look forward to hearing that too. On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:29 AM, David Crayforddcrayf...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/05/2012 2:55 AM, George Henke wrote: tyvm, John, Mark, Edward. Mark, Do I need an Enterprise Class z114 box or will a Business Class one suffice? John, A compelling reason for server consolidation on zBx as IBM pointed out in their z Summit is that zMIPS GCPs are totally dedicated to regular workload processing, no I/O - that is done by the channels, CHPIDs. Whereas all other servers use the GCPs for both normal processing and I/O. So all MIPS are not equal. What IBM didn't mention in the Z Summit was that offloading I/O to peripheral hardware hasn't been exclusive to mainframes for a very long time. Let's take the platform you want to replace (SPARC) as an example. http://developers.sun.com/**solaris/developer/support/** driver/wps/pci/html/Sun_SPARC.**doc.htmlhttp://developers.sun.com/solaris/developer/support/driver/wps/pci/html/Sun_SPARC.doc.html The terminology may be different but it sure looks like all the I/O, including interrupts, is offloaded to peripheral processors. Even the much maligned (on this forum) Intel x86 has DMA and the new E5 range even has integrated 10GBe and PCIe-3 on the board. Mainframe didn't get PCIe-2 until last year, which it re-branded FICON Express8S. Years ago when my wife was working for HDS and I had a lively discussion at a Christmas lunch with some of her colleagues about the the mainframes superior I/O. They scoffed at me like I had been living in a cave for the last decade. I was respectfully informed that the high-end UNIX boxes easily kept pace with the mainframes wrt I/O performance. Most embarrassing was the fact that mainframes were still huffing and puffing away on half-duplex ESCON when the competition was racing away on super fast fibre channel. That was a very humbling experience for me. Since most commerical workloads are I/O, not CPU, bound this amounts to substantial CPU savings. Also, it is the IBM operating system architecture, FLIH, that enables this to happen and there is no other server in the world that is configured thus. Maybe I'm missing the point but what does a z/OS FLIH have to do with porting workloads to zLinux? On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:39 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com**wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of George Henke Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 1:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: It's feeding time in Jurassic Park . . . and the dinosaurs are very hungry. I need to migrate 50 Solaris servers to zLinux under z/VM on a z114 and about the same number of Windows servers to zBx. Congrats! Does anyone have experience with this, some ideas? Experience, no. Ideas, sure! Why not?grin Need a migration path. Some questions: Can z114 be upgraded to include zBx or must I upgrade to a z196 for that? I am not sure. Can zBx be SYSPLEXed between 2 CECs? No. a zBx can be attached to at most 1 CEC. If not, how do I eliminate the SPF, how do I do failover for the blade servers? SPF? Single point of failure? You need to have multiple z114s with and associated zBX. I think you'd do failover just like you would with any other racked mounted servers. If the rack fails, all the servers fail. So you need the same techniques with a zBX rack. I'm not a PC person, but I think this involves TCP connections between a server and it's failover twin. How do I convert Solaris to zLInux under z/VM? Solaris is not supported by zBx. Must I recompile the applications running under Solaris to run them under zLinux? Yes, you must recompile. z/Linux runs on the z/Architecture instruction set. Solaris runs on Intel or SPARC(?). You can't run Intel or SPARC instructions on a z. However there are two exceptions that I can think of which __may__ not need recompilation. The first is Java code. The .jar and .class files should run on any compatible JVM, regardless of the underlying hardware architecture. Another possibility is .NET applications. They __might__ run on a z/Linux using
Re: It's feeding time in Jurassic Park . . .
So the moral of this story is that the Big Bad Wolf (the IBM MF) ate all the little sheep (Windows, Solaris, HP-UX, CITRIX servers, and switches) even though everyone in town was warned 3 times. On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Kerneels de Wet kerne...@absoftwareconsultants.com wrote: George/Timothy/Radoslaw, This is were you should start saying ? ETC. ETC. ETC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-t7uVdID3s George: or maybe you should tell everybody the story about The Boy that cried WOLF .. but wait.. let me first put my running shoes on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrDhoS37cegfeature=related Kerneels P.S. I'm not zBX enemy. I'm not biased - I don't sell neither Dell blades, nor zBX. I only say the king is naked (hope you know The Emperor's New Clothes by Andersen). -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- George Henke (C) 845 401 5614 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Implementing CA-MIM using FCTC
CA-MIM is now working! I'm not exactly sure how, but the sequence of events was: - Tuesday IBM wanted to do some resiliance testing on our FICON infastructure, 'cos it's new, so we varied offline all our FICON devices, and Configed the CHPids off on our production systems, so that the ops didn't get panicked (bless 'em) CA suggested we put the latest maint on - this hadn't been done (I inherited this remember), so I did that, but with the FICON testing going on, I restricted myself to trying to get MIICTC printing useful messages, which I never got. Wednesday FICON testing complete, all CHPids configured back on, all FICON devices varied back on the system. Discovered I had not installed all the maint, so did that. Started CA-MIM without the resource serialisation bit switched on (management mode) and it came up! So it was either an issue with the FICON, which was sorted out during vary / config off / on, or a PTF being applied. My money is on the FICON! Thanks to all! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Get JES[2|3] Output from a job with REXX
Uwe Oswald wrote: ... since I need a [ REXX - my insertion ... ] solution which is independent of JESx and SDFS, IOF, EJES Independent? AFAIK in REXX, you need to find out in what environment, what JESx, etc, you are running, then you need to call from REXX something externally using SAPI to get your output. Perhaps you could look at Shmuel's answer he kindly provided to your question. Look in JES Application Programming. Hopefully there is something useful there. Or ... look at SDSF's REXX. (System REXX) There are documented sample REXX programs where you use REXX with calls to SDSF to extract outputs from jobs. Look in 'SDSF Operation and Customization' book. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Discussion groups devoted to Mainframe(zos) automation tools
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UPDATING LAST REFERNCE DATE
G'Day To All, Is there a batch job/utility I could use to update the last reference date of a dsn? I understand that I can do it by browsing the dsn, however since I have about 335 dsns it would be cumbersome. I tried a LISTCAT but it did not change the last reference date. The reason why I want to do this is to prevent the expiration of these dsns. I realise that SMS management class modification would do the trick but these dsns are not in a SMS managed environment. There is a DFDSS job which runs to delete these dsns if they haven't been referred for 6 months. Thanks. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: UPDATING LAST REFERNCE DATE
John Dawes jhn_da...@yahoo.com.au wrote in message news:1336651313.17657.yahoomail...@web162603.mail.bf1.yahoo.com... G'Day To All, Is there a batch job/utility I could use to update the last reference date of a dsn? I understand that I can do it by browsing the dsn, however since I have about 335 dsns it would be cumbersome. I tried a LISTCAT but it did not change the last reference date. The reason why I want to do this is to prevent the expiration of these dsns. I realise that SMS management class modification would do the trick but these dsns are not in a SMS managed environment. There is a DFDSS job which runs to delete these dsns if they haven't been referred for 6 months. Thanks. CA-DISK has a utility to update F1-DSCB fields. Otherwise: IDCAMS steps with ddnames Fnnn and PRINT INFILE(Fnnn) COUNT(1) statements. This reads only 1 record, not the entire file. Kees. For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
RES: JES/328X Print Facility problems
Hi, We do have JES328X working on z/OS 1.12 and 1.13 with no issues. It's a kind of software that is rarely modified, even when changing z/OS releases. Did you change any VTAM or JES2 definition ? Don't discard a hardware problem too. I don't know if it helps but our BUFSIZE is 1520. Atenciosamente / Regards / Saludos Ituriel do Nascimento Neto BANCO BRADESCO S.A. 4254 / DPCD Engenharia de Software Sistemas Operacionais Mainframes Tel: +55 11 3684-2177 R: 42177 3-1402 Fax: +55 11 4197-2814 -Mensagem original- De: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] Em nome de Thomas Lawrence Enviada em: quarta-feira, 9 de maio de 2012 16:19 Para: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Assunto: JES/328X Print Facility problems We've been running JES/328X for years with mostly just success. The version we have is Version 3.2.0. Recently we've been encountering this series of errors: BAZ202 TLU SESSION STARTED BAZ012 T023,RTNCD=0C0B REQUEST CANCELLED - SESSION TERMINATED BAZ254 T023,NSEXIT - SESSION TERMINATED BAZ254 T023,NSEXIT - SESSION TERMINATED BAZ254 T005,NSEXIT - SESSION TERMINATED BAZ254 J006,NSEXIT - SESSION TERMINATED BAZ201 STOPPED A normal print sequence will have these two messages: BAZ202 TLU SESSION STARTED BAZ210 TLU SESSION ENDED Always seems to be the same error series. On some occasions we've changed the BUFSIZE from whatever it was to 1024 and that has seemed to help in most instances. The only thing we've done lately in the software arena is upgrade to Zos 1.11. Any Ideas. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN AVISO LEGAL br...Esta mensagem é destinada exclusivamente para a(s) pessoa(s) a quem é dirigida, podendo conter informação confidencial e/ou legalmente privilegiada. Se você não for destinatário desta mensagem, desde já fica notificado de abster-se a divulgar, copiar, distribuir, examinar ou, de qualquer forma, utilizar a informação contida nesta mensagem, por ser ilegal. Caso você tenha recebido esta mensagem por engano, pedimos que nos retorne este E-Mail, promovendo, desde logo, a eliminação do seu conteúdo em sua base de dados, registros ou sistema de controle. Fica desprovida de eficácia e validade a mensagem que contiver vínculos obrigacionais, expedida por quem não detenha poderes de representação. LEGAL ADVICEbr...This message is exclusively destined for the people to whom it is directed, and it can bear private and/or legally exceptional information. If you are not addressee of this message, since now you are advised to not release, copy, distribute, check or, otherwise, use the information contained in this message, because it is illegal. If you received this message by mistake, we ask you to return this email, making possible, as soon as possible, the elimination of its contents of your database, registrations or controls system. The message that bears any mandatory links, issued by someone who has no representation powers, shall be null or void. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Modern users of old tech
http://www.itworld.com/hardware/270936/living-computing-fossils-old-tech-holding-dear-life Interesting. A company in Texas still using an IBM 402 tab machine is an example. John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: UPDATING LAST REFERNCE DATE
Kees, We don't have CA-DISK in this partition nor do we have FDR. This is a bare bones LPAR. I tried the IDCAMS PRINT and it worked. Thanks for your suggestions and help. From: Vernooij, CP - SPLXM kees.verno...@klm.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thursday, 10 May 2012 8:08 AM Subject: Re: UPDATING LAST REFERNCE DATE John Dawes jhn_da...@yahoo.com.au wrote in message news:1336651313.17657.yahoomail...@web162603.mail.bf1.yahoo.com... G'Day To All, Is there a batch job/utility I could use to update the last reference date of a dsn? I understand that I can do it by browsing the dsn, however since I have about 335 dsns it would be cumbersome. I tried a LISTCAT but it did not change the last reference date. The reason why I want to do this is to prevent the expiration of these dsns. I realise that SMS management class modification would do the trick but these dsns are not in a SMS managed environment. There is a DFDSS job which runs to delete these dsns if they haven't been referred for 6 months. Thanks. CA-DISK has a utility to update F1-DSCB fields. Otherwise: IDCAMS steps with ddnames Fnnn and PRINT INFILE(Fnnn) COUNT(1) statements. This reads only 1 record, not the entire file. Kees. For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Discussion groups devoted to Mainframe(zos) automation tools
Are there discussion groups similar to IBM-MAIN that are devoted to Mainframe automation tools? For Tivoli System Automation for z/OS and Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms you will find links on the last page in the System Automation for z/OS: 101 https://www-03.ibm.com/systems/resources/servers_eserver_zseries_software_sa_techresources_System_Automation_for_zOS_Basics.pps -- Zaromil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: UPDATING LAST REFERNCE DATE
I'm not aware of anything distributed by IBM. Why not just write some REXX code
to use IGGCSI00 to find the DSNs you want (or parse a LISTCAT) and use that to
generate a series of jobs. Each job just does something like:
//JOBNAME JOB ...
//TOUCH EXEC PGM=IDCAMS
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//INDSN DD DISP=SHR,DSN=dsn
//SYSIN DD *
PRINT INFILE(INDSN) COUNT(1)
/*
//
Submit those from your REXX simply by using EXECIO to a DD name such as:
//SUBMIT DD SYSOUT=(*,INTRDR)
Now for my obligatory weird way to use UNIX to do this. Install Dovetailed
Technologies' Data Set Pipes and Co:Z launcher. In fact, get all their stuff.
It's really great and is freely licensed (you don't even need to register, or
give them an email address or anything). Run a job such as:
//TOUCH EXEC PROC=COZPROC
//STDOUT DD SYSOUT=*
//STDERR DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSIN DD *
catsearch -l 'HLQ.**'|\
awk '$9 == PS $1 != MIGRAT {print $NF;}' |\
while read i;do
fromdsn $i|head -1 /dev/null 21
done
/*
//
No, I don't suggest doing this! I just sometimes like to mess around with some
of the other members' minds. You know who you are! grin
http://www.dovetail.com
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G'Day To All,
Is there a batch job/utility I could use to update the last
reference date of a dsn? I understand that I can do it by
browsing the dsn, however since I have about 335 dsns it
would be cumbersome. I tried a LISTCAT but it did not change
the last reference date. The reason why I want to do this is
to prevent the expiration of these dsns. I realise that SMS
management class modification would do the trick but these
dsns are not in a SMS managed environment. There is a DFDSS
job which runs to delete these dsns if they haven't been
referred for 6 months.
Thanks.
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Re: Convert CPU time to MSUs
SU_SEC = SU_HOUR / (ENGINES * 60 * 60) Not quite, I think. You don't get the full 60 seconds for each additional engine. Better: SU_SEC = SU_HOUR / ((ENGINES * 60 * 60)*FACTOR) Where FACTOR is less than 1.0. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of K Zafirop Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 8:33 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Convert CPU time to MSUs Hello all We would like to convert CPU seconds copnsumed by an address space in 1 hour (CPUSECs) to Service Units (SU). Our machine has 5 engines. Is it true that we have available 18000 CPU seconds? SU = CPUSECs * SU_SEC where SU_SEC = SU_HOUR / (ENGINES * 60 * 60) Where SU_HOUR is the number of our machine available Service Units per Hour and SU_SEC is the equivalent Service units /sec factor. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any files transmitted with it are intended exclusively for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. The message, together with any attachment, may contain confidential and/or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, printing, saving, copying, disclosure or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply email and delete all copies. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: corrupt zip files
Too many unknowns to be of much help. Can't even begin to answer your question about what software would produce a given corruption pattern; there are -so- many possibilities where a translation might occur and thus corrupt the data. Indeed, the corruption might be as massive as what you are seeing, or as small as just a single charaer. The translation may even be happening more than once. For example, I have seen Windows translate a file sent in binary mode. I had to actally name the incomming file xxx.BIN to get Windows to leave it alone. I don't know of any good way to attack this withoug going all the way back to initial file creation, understand the file attributes (to include local code page), then step through the transmission process understanding exactly what is happening at each step. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Edwards Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2012 8:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: corrupt zip files I have a zip file that appears to have been produced using pkzip for z/OS. However, it looks like it has been transmitted using some sort of text protocol, because the high bit has been stripped from most bytes, and some other bytes appear to have been translated. e.g. I think x'0a' in the input file has been mangled to x'b6' on the way. Does anyone know what software would do a translation like that? ..snip NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any files transmitted with it are intended exclusively for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. The message, together with any attachment, may contain confidential and/or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, printing, saving, copying, disclosure or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply email and delete all copies. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: corrupt zip files
On Thu, 10 May 2012 14:23:10 +, Hal Merritt wrote: I don't know of any good way to attack this withoug going all the way back to initial file creation, understand the file attributes (to include local code page), then step through the transmission process understanding exactly what is happening at each step. Why are checksum utilities so rare in the Classic mainframe and Windows worlds? -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Convert CPU time to MSUs
Hal Merritt wrote: SU_SEC = SU_HOUR / (ENGINES * 60 * 60) Not quite, I think. You don't get the full 60 seconds for each additional engine. Better: SU_SEC = SU_HOUR / ((ENGINES * 60 * 60)*FACTOR) Where FACTOR is less than 1.0. You are right of course. Could you be kind to please post any documentations or links about that 'FACTOR'? Just curious if you don't mind please. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Convert CPU time to MSUs
Factor is in fact a decreasing function of ENGINES. It drops off in a moderately but clearly convex way with increasing values of ENGINES. You need a table of the form ENGINES(1) = 1 ENGINES(2) = . . . . . . ENGINES(n) = . . . There is a recent SHARE presentation that contains such a table. Unhelpfully, I cannot remember its title or who gave it. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Convert CPU time to MSUs
On Thu, 10 May 2012 10:55:42 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: Factor is in fact a decreasing function of ENGINES. It drops off in a moderately but clearly convex way with increasing values of ENGINES. You need a table of the form You could derive such a table from the charts on https://www-304.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/lib03060.nsf/pages/srmindex?OpenDocument . Or you could use the SU/second information for your processor from the tables. Or you could get the factor from the SRM control block that contains it. Search the MVS bookshelf for SERVICE UNIT and you will find several hits. The IRARMCTZ looks promising. SHOWMVS is another possible resource. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Fw: UPDATING LAST REFERNCE DATE
Forgot that I had to reply to mailing list not post to newsgroup ...
Don numberfiveplus...@gmail.com wrote in message
news:qWRqr.1478$rd5@newsfe02.iad...
I used to invoke the TSO LISTDS command to reset the last ref date on my
TSO libraries in the bad old days when HSM recalls were less than
snappy.
:-)
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McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote in message
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I'm not aware of anything distributed by IBM. Why not just write some
REXX
code to use IGGCSI00 to find the DSNs you want (or parse a LISTCAT) and
use that to generate a series of jobs. Each job just does something
like:
//JOBNAME JOB ...
//TOUCH EXEC PGM=IDCAMS
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//INDSN DD DISP=SHR,DSN=dsn
//SYSIN DD *
PRINT INFILE(INDSN) COUNT(1)
/*
//
Submit those from your REXX simply by using EXECIO to a DD name such as:
//SUBMIT DD SYSOUT=(*,INTRDR)
Now for my obligatory weird way to use UNIX to do this. Install
Dovetailed
Technologies' Data Set Pipes and Co:Z launcher. In fact, get all their
stuff. It's really great and is freely licensed (you don't even need to
register, or give them an email address or anything). Run a job such as:
//TOUCH EXEC PROC=COZPROC
//STDOUT DD SYSOUT=*
//STDERR DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=*
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G'Day To All,
Is there a batch job/utility I could use to update the last
reference date of a dsn? I understand that I can do it by
browsing the dsn, however since I have about 335 dsns it
would be cumbersome. I tried a LISTCAT but it did not change
the last reference date. The reason why I want to do this is
to prevent the expiration of these dsns. I realise that SMS
management class modification would do the trick but these
dsns are not in a SMS managed environment. There is a DFDSS
job which runs to delete these dsns if they haven't been
referred for 6 months.
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Re: Discussion groups devoted to Mainframe(zos) automation tools
Ken: There are a number of them on LinkedIn. If you are looking for an overall suite of tools for automating the mainframe, look at the RES Suite from Visiant Arcares (www.res-it.com). Regards, Mitch McCluhan, Legacy Modernization Consultant -Original Message- From: Kenneth J. Kripke kenneth_kri...@att.net To: IBM-MAIN IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thu, May 10, 2012 4:07 am Subject: Discussion groups devoted to Mainframe(zos) automation tools Hello; Are there discussion groups similar to IBM-MAIN that are devoted to Mainframe automation tools? Kenneth J. Kripke (kkri...@mindspring.com) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Convert CPU time to MSUs
Some experimentation for plausible ranges of FACTOR values strongly suggests that this computation should be done with an appropriate mean in each specific context. My suggestion of a table was thus a more valuable one than I realized when I made it. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Modern users of old tech
In a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea00e924b4...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom, on 05/10/2012 at 07:25 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com said: Interesting. A company in Texas still using an IBM 402 tab machine is an example. Masochism? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Convert CPU time to MSUs
On Tue, 8 May 2012 08:33:18 -0500, K Zafirop kzafiropou...@eurobank.gr wrote: We would like to convert CPU seconds copnsumed by an address space in 1 hour (CPUSECs) to Service Units (SU). Here is how SHOWMVS calculates SU/Second: * *Service units per second (using RMCTADJC) * *Source: IRARMCPU module in SYS1.NUCLEUS(IEAVNP10) * HARD20 L R6,WKCELL3 restore CPU noRS0101 L R3,=F'1600' 16,000,000 M R2,=F'1'10K L R14,CVTOPCTPRESOURCE MANAGER CONTROL TABLE D R2,RMCTADJC-RMCT(,R14) adjustment factor for CPU CVD R3,WKCELL3 R3=SU*1 MVC WORK256(11),=X'4020202020214B20202020' 9. EDWORK256(11),WKCELL3+3 EDIT STRING ' This system can deliver',(WORK256,11), X ' service units per second',X INTO=LINE -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
### of GDG Entries
We have a business application that creates literally 100s of GDGs a day; please don't ask. Is there any way to create or pretend to create a GDG base greater than 255... John Donnelly Texas Instruments SVA 2900 Semiconductor Drive Santa Clara, CA 95051 408-721-5640 408-470-8364 Cell john.p.donne...@ti.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: ### of GDG Entries
Short answer... NO. The data can be kept after it rolls off the GDG, but it is just a file at that point and must be referenced by the fully qualified DSN e.g. x.y.x.gvnn snip We have a business application that creates literally 100s of GDGs a day; please don't ask. Is there any way to create or pretend to create a GDG base greater than 255... /snip -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: ### of GDG Entries
I really doubt it. How about creating one GDG base for each hour of the day and include the hour of the day created in the data set name? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Donnelly, John Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 3:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: ### of GDG Entries We have a business application that creates literally 100s of GDGs a day; please don't ask. Is there any way to create or pretend to create a GDG base greater than 255... John Donnelly Texas Instruments SVA 2900 Semiconductor Drive Santa Clara, CA 95051 408-721-5640 408-470-8364 Cell john.p.donne...@ti.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: ### of GDG Entries
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Donnelly, John john.p.donne...@ti.comwrote: We have a business application that creates literally 100s of GDGs a day; please don't ask. Is there any way to create or pretend to create a GDG base greater than 255... Short answer: No. Max GDG limit is 255. A GDG dataset with the NOEMPTY,NOSCRATCH in an SMS managed environment will recatalog entries over the limit to a rolled-off status. These datasets will no longer be associated with the GDG base. Entries not associated with a GDG base will NOT be automatically concatenated when the related GDG base is used as a family. You will also have to delete rolled-off datasets defined as noempty, noscratch via some type of utility. Sam John Donnelly Texas Instruments SVA 2900 Semiconductor Drive Santa Clara, CA 95051 408-721-5640 408-470-8364 Cell john.p.donne...@ti.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Modern users of old tech
On 5/10/2012 1:58 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: Ina6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea00e924b4...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom, on 05/10/2012 at 07:25 AM, McKown, Johnjohn.mck...@healthmarkets.com said: Interesting. A company in Texas still using an IBM 402 tab machine is an example. Masochism? Either that or a latent death wish. :-) Rick -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: ### of GDG Entries
Hi John, I have had I similar GDG 'thing'. It would be helpful to know more details... In my case, we were receiving a widely varying number of reports that we were to backup and print for our customer. We scheduled the print job to run every 8 hours. The operations staff fit the actual printing in to meet customer needs. Would that work for you? Another option might include merging the generations to another dataset. HTH, Linda Sent from my iPhone On May 10, 2012, at 1:12 PM, Donnelly, John john.p.donne...@ti.com wrote: We have a business application that creates literally 100s of GDGs a day; please don't ask. Is there any way to create or pretend to create a GDG base greater than 255... John Donnelly Texas Instruments SVA 2900 Semiconductor Drive Santa Clara, CA 95051 408-721-5640 408-470-8364 Cell john.p.donne...@ti.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: ### of GDG Entries
Thankyou all John Donnelly Texas Instruments SVA 2900 Semiconductor Drive Santa Clara, CA 95051 408-721-5640 408-470-8364 Cell john.p.donne...@ti.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Linda Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 2:28 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: ### of GDG Entries Hi John, I have had I similar GDG 'thing'. It would be helpful to know more details... In my case, we were receiving a widely varying number of reports that we were to backup and print for our customer. We scheduled the print job to run every 8 hours. The operations staff fit the actual printing in to meet customer needs. Would that work for you? Another option might include merging the generations to another dataset. HTH, Linda Sent from my iPhone On May 10, 2012, at 1:12 PM, Donnelly, John john.p.donne...@ti.com wrote: We have a business application that creates literally 100s of GDGs a day; please don't ask. Is there any way to create or pretend to create a GDG base greater than 255... John Donnelly Texas Instruments SVA 2900 Semiconductor Drive Santa Clara, CA 95051 408-721-5640 408-470-8364 Cell john.p.donne...@ti.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Codepages and locales
How many z/OS shops actually run with a different locale (codepage)? I mean both globally for the entire system as well as within one or more databases. I'm assuming the second set is much larger than the first; it's the first I'm really interested in. Thanks. ...phsiii -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: ### of GDG Entries
W dniu 2012-05-10 22:12, Donnelly, John pisze: We have a business application that creates literally 100s of GDGs a day; please don't ask. Is there any way to create or pretend to create a GDG base greater than 255... g NO. THE LIMIT IS 255. However... a) you can live with rolled off generations. You will see all the generations you created (up to ) and max. 255 of them can be referenced as relative - that means HLQ.GDGNAME(-200) vs HLQ.GDGNAME.G0200V00. b) (I think nobody mentioned it!). You can use your batch scheduler facilities. Mostsuch products do offer an alternative to old stinking GDG. For example, in ControlM you can use HLQ.SOMENAME.D%%ODATE - which could mean HLQ.SOMENAME.D120510. HTH -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- Tre tej wiadomoci moe zawiera informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wycznie do uytku subowego adresata. Odbiorc moe by jedynie jej adresat z wyczeniem dostpu osób trzecich. Jeeli nie jeste adresatem niniejszej wiadomoci lub pracownikiem upowanionym do jej przekazania adresatowi, informujemy, e jej rozpowszechnianie, kopiowanie, rozprowadzanie lub inne dziaanie o podobnym charakterze jest prawnie zabronione i moe by karalne. Jeeli otrzymae t wiadomo omykowo, prosimy niezwocznie zawiadomi nadawc wysyajc odpowied oraz trwale usun t wiadomo wczajc w to wszelkie jej kopie wydrukowane lub zapisane na dysku. This e-mail may contain legally privileged information of the Bank and is intended solely for business use of the addressee. This e-mail may only be received by the addressee and may not be disclosed to any third parties. If you are not the intended addressee of this e-mail or the employee authorised to forward it to the addressee, be advised that any dissemination, copying, distribution or any other similar activity is legally prohibited and may be punishable. If you received this e-mail by mistake please advise the sender immediately by using the reply facility in your e-mail software and delete permanently this e-mail including any copies of it either printed or saved to hard drive. BRE Bank SA, 00-950 Warszawa, ul. Senatorska 18, tel. +48 22 829 00 00, fax +48 22 829 00 33, www.brebank.pl, e-mail: i...@brebank.pl Sd Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydzia Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru Sdowego, nr rejestru przedsibiorców KRS 025237, NIP: 526-021-50-88. Wedug stanu na dzie 01.01.2012 r. kapita zakadowy BRE Banku SA (w caoci wpacony) wynosi 168.410.984 zotych. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Modern users of old tech
And the owner of the last blank punch card supplied died and the company closed up. On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net wrote: On 5/10/2012 1:58 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: Ina6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea00e924b4...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom, on 05/10/2012 at 07:25 AM, McKown, Johnjohn.mck...@healthmarkets.com said: Interesting. A company in Texas still using an IBM 402 tab machine is an example. Masochism? Either that or a latent death wish. :-) Rick -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
SFTP
We have a Linux server which grabs files from the mainframe using FTP. We need to use SFTP to get the files. I have the IBM ported tools. Do we need to have the SSHD daemon running to recognize the FTP's or am I going down the wrong path. Or could we use SCP? We are z/os V1r11. Any help would be appreciated. Any setup information would be helpful. Thanks *** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE *** This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with it may contain legally privileged and confidential information intended solely for the use of the addressee. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reading, dissemination, distribution, copying, or other use of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message from your system. Thank you. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Modern users of old tech
And the owner of the last blank punch card supplied died and the company closed up. So of course, I bought 100,000 cards, just in case. Actually, I have been helping the widow a little to close up shop for good. Anyone need an 083, cheap? She has two. Great for the family room or office. -- Will -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Codepages and locales
On Thu, 10 May 2012 14:52:17 -0700, Phil Smith wrote: How many z/OS shops actually run with a different locale (codepage)? I mean both globally for the entire system as well as within one or more databases. I'm assuming the second set is much larger than the first; it's the first I'm really interested in. Different from what. Everything is different from something else. Perhaps different from IBM-1047? -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: ### of GDG Entries
does it have to be a gdg? what about mod'ing onto the file then emptying it out when it's processed? back it up with a gdg with that batch job at regular intervals suggestion. From: Donnelly, John john.p.donne...@ti.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 5:36 PM Subject: Re: ### of GDG Entries Thankyou all John Donnelly Texas Instruments SVA 2900 Semiconductor Drive Santa Clara, CA 95051 408-721-5640 408-470-8364 Cell john.p.donne...@ti.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Linda Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 2:28 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: ### of GDG Entries Hi John, I have had I similar GDG 'thing'. It would be helpful to know more details... In my case, we were receiving a widely varying number of reports that we were to backup and print for our customer. We scheduled the print job to run every 8 hours. The operations staff fit the actual printing in to meet customer needs. Would that work for you? Another option might include merging the generations to another dataset. HTH, Linda Sent from my iPhone On May 10, 2012, at 1:12 PM, Donnelly, John john.p.donne...@ti.com wrote: We have a business application that creates literally 100s of GDGs a day; please don't ask. Is there any way to create or pretend to create a GDG base greater than 255... John Donnelly Texas Instruments SVA 2900 Semiconductor Drive Santa Clara, CA 95051 408-721-5640 408-470-8364 Cell john.p.donne...@ti.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: SFTP
Mark, Can you clarify... Is z/OS the client or the server? Rob Schramm Senior Systems Consultant Imperium Group On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Mark Steely mark.ste...@wnco.com wrote: We have a Linux server which grabs files from the mainframe using FTP. We need to use SFTP to get the files. I have the IBM ported tools. Do we need to have the SSHD daemon running to recognize the FTP's or am I going down the wrong path. Or could we use SCP? We are z/os V1r11. Any help would be appreciated. Any setup information would be helpful. Thanks *** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE *** This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with it may contain legally privileged and confidential information intended solely for the use of the addressee. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reading, dissemination, distribution, copying, or other use of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message from your system. Thank you. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN M -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: XPAF replacement
Hello Mr. Neto, I suspect that the information you have received may have been misinterpreted from a notice that went out last year which stated that End of Support for XPAF V3.X would be effective December 15th, 2011. The notice further mentioned that all current XPAF customers should migrate to V5.0 prior to the V3.X End of Support date. As previously mentioned in this thread we have just released updates for version V5.0 and are actively supporting this product. XPAF 5.0 Software Link - http://www.support.xerox.com/support/xpaf/software/enus.html XPAF 5.0 Documentation Link - http://www.support.xerox.com/support/xpaf/documentation/enus.html?operatingSystem=_alloperatingsystemsfileLanguage=en With the recent enhancements added in XPAF V5.0 including the Xerox Forms Generator module, the industry trend to move away from channel connectivity in favor of TCP/IP connectivity and the XPAF CPU based licensing strategy with no per printer charges, XPAF is gaining momentum in the marketplace. Best regards, Troy Wilson Technical Program Manager Alliance Partnership Management The Xerox Connection - TXC BGO / PSG / APM / TXC Xerox Corporation 555 S. Aviation Boulevard MS: ESM1-052 El Segundo, California 90245 Ph.: 310-333-6424 / Internal: 8*823-6424 FAX: 310-333-6560 Internal: 8*823-6560 Email: troy.wil...@xerox.com Internal Website: http://xww.txc.world.xerox.com External Website: http://partner.xerox.com/xeroxbusinesspartners -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Comments on DFSMS verbose messages?
Mark, Based on the feedback that we had received from the ESP customers, the comments that I have received here were a surprise; I had expected the comments to have gone in other directions. W. Kevin Kelley -- IBM POK Lab -- z/OS Core Technical Development -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: SFTP
Hi Mark, I customised an SSH client setup via ported tools on z/OS 1.11 a couple of years back: 1. The SSHD (daemon) is only required if your z/OS system is to be the SSH server, ie if your remote Linux server needs to initiate a connection to your z/OS system on port 22 (SSH). If your z/OS system only initiates connections to the remote Linux server, then you do not need SSHD, just SSH setup (ie /etc/ssh/... files as per Ported Tools users guide). 2. I didn't use scp, instead set up ftp style scripts, then invoked them via a shell ssh command in JCL, eg: //STDPARM DD * sh sftp -vvv -F /etc/ssh/sshconf -b /hfs/dir/sftpbat.file userid@remote_host The sftpbat file looks just like an FTP script, eg: Password Cd /remote/dir/ Pwd Dir bin Get remote_file local_file Dir Exit 3. The public/private key pair may be generated to a hfs file via the ssh-keygen, which may be read and thus used by anyone with superuser (UID 0) in your USS environment (no, not Unformatted System Services even though I'm a VTAM guy). The more secure approach is to generate your keys in a RACF keyring, then reference them via the 'IdentityKeyRingLabel' parameter in a zos_user_ssh_config file, in the case of an SSH client configuration. Note the default search list for this file is ~/.ssh/zos_user_ssh_config, eg /u/userid/.ssh/zos_user_ssh_config. Cheers, MARK DOUGLAS -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Steely Sent: Friday, 11 May 2012 8:19 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: SFTP We have a Linux server which grabs files from the mainframe using FTP. We need to use SFTP to get the files. I have the IBM ported tools. Do we need to have the SSHD daemon running to recognize the FTP's or am I going down the wrong path. Or could we use SCP? We are z/os V1r11. Any help would be appreciated. Any setup information would be helpful. Thanks *** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE *** This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with it may contain legally privileged and confidential information intended solely for the use of the addressee. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reading, dissemination, distribution, copying, or other use of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message from your system. Thank you. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN * Disclaimer * The contents of this electronic message and any attachments are intended only for the addressee and may contain privileged or confidential information. They may only be used for the purposes for which they were supplied. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that any transmission, distribution, downloading, printing or photocopying of the contents of this message or attachments is strictly prohibited. The privilege of confidentiality attached to this message and attachments is not waived, lost or destroyed by reason of mistaken delivery to you. If you receive this message in error please notify the sender by return e-mail or telephone. Please note: the Department of Public Works carries out automatic software scanning, filtering and blocking of E-mails and attachments (including emails of a personal nature) for detection of viruses, malicious code, SPAM, executable programs or content it deems unacceptable. All reasonable precautions will be taken to respect the privacy of individuals in accordance with the Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld). Personal information will only be used for official purposes, e.g. monitoring Departmental Personnel's compliance with Departmental Policies. Personal information will not be divulged or disclosed to others, unless authorised or required by Departmental Policy and/or law. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: It's feeding time in Jurassic Park . . .
Well, all is not lost, David. Thanks for the tip on PureSystems. I just set up a meeting for tomorrow with our IBM zSeries rep. According to him, the PureFlex product of the PureSystems family, announced April 19 and April 11 respectively, is the next generation zBx and much more open systems oriented. He admitted that zBx was somewhat limited to IBM and recommended PureFlex instead. Evidently, the zBx is more IBM facing, whereas PureFlex is much more open systems facing and able to support VMware among other things. It also has better access to mainframe data and there are plans to increase its internal lan speed from 10G to 40G. My faith in IBM MF is beginning to be restored. IBM had said at their Summit that their approach is to move the processing to the data not the data to the processing. The data resides on the MF which is best suited for processing it. So it makes no sense to move the data to less efficient platforms for processing. Much better to move the processing closer to the data on the MF. This appears to be what PureFlex is designed to do. I will know more tomorrow after I meet with 2 IBM zSeries SMEs. On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 4:17 AM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/05/2012 8:20 AM, George Henke wrote: ty, David, for the interesting point of view, but it certainly does conflict with the comparison numbers IBM showed at the zEnterprise Summit. That's not really surprising considering the actors involved! For a lucid perspective you may want to read Mike Shorkends excellent share presentation http://mobile.share.org/* *client_files/SHARE_in_Atlanta/**Session_10441_handout_2139_0.**pdfhttp://mobile.share.org/client_files/SHARE_in_Atlanta/Session_10441_handout_2139_0.pdf . Interestingly, IBM have just published information wrt connecting z to the new pureSystems hardware. Maybe the zBX wasn't received as well as IBM hoped. Although probably not surprising when you consider the political ramifications of managing distributed systems under a mainframe umbrella. http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/**z/news/announcement/20120411_**annc.htmlhttp://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/news/announcement/20120411_annc.html IBM, Timothly/Alan, what say ye? I look forward to hearing that too. On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:29 AM, David Crayforddcrayf...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/05/2012 2:55 AM, George Henke wrote: tyvm, John, Mark, Edward. Mark, Do I need an Enterprise Class z114 box or will a Business Class one suffice? John, A compelling reason for server consolidation on zBx as IBM pointed out in their z Summit is that zMIPS GCPs are totally dedicated to regular workload processing, no I/O - that is done by the channels, CHPIDs. Whereas all other servers use the GCPs for both normal processing and I/O. So all MIPS are not equal. What IBM didn't mention in the Z Summit was that offloading I/O to peripheral hardware hasn't been exclusive to mainframes for a very long time. Let's take the platform you want to replace (SPARC) as an example. http://developers.sun.com/solaris/developer/support/**http://developers.sun.com/**solaris/developer/support/** driver/wps/pci/html/Sun_SPARC.doc.htmlhttp://developers.** sun.com/solaris/developer/**support/driver/wps/pci/html/** Sun_SPARC.doc.htmlhttp://developers.sun.com/solaris/developer/support/driver/wps/pci/html/Sun_SPARC.doc.html The terminology may be different but it sure looks like all the I/O, including interrupts, is offloaded to peripheral processors. Even the much maligned (on this forum) Intel x86 has DMA and the new E5 range even has integrated 10GBe and PCIe-3 on the board. Mainframe didn't get PCIe-2 until last year, which it re-branded FICON Express8S. Years ago when my wife was working for HDS and I had a lively discussion at a Christmas lunch with some of her colleagues about the the mainframes superior I/O. They scoffed at me like I had been living in a cave for the last decade. I was respectfully informed that the high-end UNIX boxes easily kept pace with the mainframes wrt I/O performance. Most embarrassing was the fact that mainframes were still huffing and puffing away on half-duplex ESCON when the competition was racing away on super fast fibre channel. That was a very humbling experience for me. Since most commerical workloads are I/O, not CPU, bound this amounts to substantial CPU savings. Also, it is the IBM operating system architecture, FLIH, that enables this to happen and there is no other server in the world that is configured thus. Maybe I'm missing the point but what does a z/OS FLIH have to do with porting workloads to zLinux? On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:39 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.comwrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of George Henke Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 1:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: It's
Re: Modern users of old tech
An 083 for the living room, great conversation piece Scott ford www.identityforge.com On May 10, 2012, at 6:21 PM, William Donzelli wdonze...@gmail.com wrote: And the owner of the last blank punch card supplied died and the company closed up. So of course, I bought 100,000 cards, just in case. Actually, I have been helping the widow a little to close up shop for good. Anyone need an 083, cheap? She has two. Great for the family room or office. -- Will -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Away friday, back monday
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Re: ### of GDG Entries
At 20:12 + on 05/10/2012, Donnelly, John wrote about ### of GDG Entries: We have a business application that creates literally 100s of GDGs a day; please don't ask. Is there any way to create or pretend to create a GDG base greater than 255... Why not concatenate all of them daily and create a new GDG entry from the result (ie: Have as single master GDG dataset for each day). That way you would have the last 255 days worth of data. Is there any need to be able to separately access each of the GDGs created? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: ### of GDG Entries
We have Mobius that creates report files with the date and time as part of the file name. Huge numbers of 1 track datasets. On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Robert A. Rosenberg hal9...@panix.com wrote: At 20:12 + on 05/10/2012, Donnelly, John wrote about ### of GDG Entries: We have a business application that creates literally 100s of GDGs a day; please don't ask. Is there any way to create or pretend to create a GDG base greater than 255... Why not concatenate all of them daily and create a new GDG entry from the result (ie: Have as single master GDG dataset for each day). That way you would have the last 255 days worth of data. Is there any need to be able to separately access each of the GDGs created? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
