The ASID is available at the point just before the message is sent to the
console. Our SyzMPF/z product gets the messages before they go to hardcopy
(you can have SyzMPF/z keep them from getting there if you want), and one of
the fields that I have access to (and we allow you to use in the
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Neale Ferguson
I¹m attempting to enable ATTLS on my z/OS 1.12 and 1.9 systems for the
purpose of running secured NJE. I have installed the z/OS Configuration
Assistant to create the appropriate policies, created
We don't have that product. And we basically have no money for any new product.
But we do have CA-OPS/MVS. Maybe I can pervert it to do that.
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John,
Yeah, I have been there, what about MPF..I know that was the original point in
z/OS where Netview got its messages.
Scott J Ford
Software Engineer
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From: McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com
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Yes, I could do that, I suppose. I'm a bit lazy. Also, my manager dislikes
non-vendor stuff because who's going to support it if you leave? Which is now
hilarious to me. Why? Because we are now running unsupported software and we're
having problems with it. Since we don't have source code,
efinnel...@aol.com (Ed Finnell) writes:
Thanks for getting us back on track. We used to drift to old hardware and
microfiche. Now we drift to polymorphism...sign of the times
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#12 Chaos feared after UNIX time-zone
database if nuked
for the fun of it,
Have had both CMF and RMF in house on various customers. RMF gets my vote.
CMF always had that bubble gum and baling twine sorta feel to it IMHO. Options
are good and I'm glad it's there for people who cant afford RMF.
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The following has been posed by one of our mainframe users.
QUESTION: What options (if any) are available for migrating these old study
files and contents of accounts to storage media such as DVDs and external hard
drives that could be securely held (off-line) by the agencies?
Looking at the
W dniu 2011-10-19 17:08, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] pisze:
The following has been posed by one of our mainframe users.
QUESTION: What options (if any) are available for migrating these old study
files and contents of accounts to storage media such as DVDs and external hard
drives that
We are worried about exhausting esqa during early NIP, we are adding 10+ DS8800
devices on the next IPL.
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member.
e.g. INITSQA K 0512K
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Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 11:04
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject:
Dave,
This is a data migration problem, something very common in mainframe
migration/modernization projects. There are ETL tools (Extract-Transform-Load)
to help with doing such projects.
But first you need to establish the goal of migrating the data. From what you
describe, I could see
First off, I've already sent the following to the CICS-L listerv. I
figured I check in with my fellow dinosaurs at IBM-MAIN...
A client of mine is interested in bringing in CICS Performance
Analyzer for historical reporting. They are a huge shop (40M CICS
trans/day) and in the past have run
Dave,
In 2006 I did a project in Ohio to offload a bunch of data files to MS SQL.
They had completed a SAP implementation, but had not bothered to deal with all
the historical data left behind on the old mainframe. They had VSAM files,
QSAM disk files, thousands of tapes, and even a few IMS
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Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 10:08 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Data offload to DVDs or external drives
The following has been posed by
John,
Thank you to all who have responded.
Looking at the supplied HLQ, all of the VSAM appear to be KSDS.
I believe the intent is to remove the data from the mainframe and subsequently
access it using PC SAS, if necessary.
Dave O'Brien
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From: McKown, John
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:08:09 -0400, O'Brien, David W. wrote:
What options (if any) are available for migrating these old study
files and contents of accounts to storage media such as DVDs and
external hard drives that could be securely held (off-line) by the
agencies?
If you really mean DVD,
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:04:26 -0500, J Ellis jerry.el...@libertymutual.com
wrote:
We are worried about exhausting esqa during early NIP, we are adding 10+
DS8800 devices on the next IPL.
(sorry if this post is a duplicate)
10+ or 10K devices being added?Do you already have something
Tom:
What ever media is decided on remember this. The life expectancy (readability)
is at most 10 years for DVD and CD's .
I had a long discussion with an expert and he just does not have a satisfactory
answer (IMO) for anything long term.
I suspect tape (even IBM's tape drives) to be iffy at
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/10/17/ibm_q3_2011_numbers/
IBM's mainframe upgrade cycle weakens
* * * * *
Power Systems, software fill in most of the gap in Q3
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/10/17/ibm_q3_2011_numbers/
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[mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Gould
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 1:44 PM
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Subject: Re: Data offload to DVDs or external drives
Tom:
What ever media is decided on remember this.
Responding to Ed's comments: At least if the data is under HSM control, it (the
data) gets recycled to newer media every time the tape media changes. The same
cannot be said for the private media be it tape or DVD that my user seems to
have in mind.
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From: McKown,
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:21:14 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote:
IBM DVD media is not very reliable.
I meant to write IMO DVD media is not very reliable. I don't
know how my fingers wrote IBM or why my eyes didn't catch
the error.
And when I say that it is not very reliable, I'm not just talking
The life expectancy (readability) is at most 10 years for DVD and CD's .
Whenever you are archiving data, you need to ask the question: what is the
expected Standard of Care.
IMO, data archival is often a CYA proposition. You may think that the data is
a bunch of old junk, but you are unsure
With the reference to moving data files from z/OS to an ASCII platform
and intending to read that archived data, for any binary file, that
is, a file that can contain non-pure-text data, the PGM=FTP on z/OS will
delete ALL of the BDWs and RDWs from any dataset with RECFM=V or VB or VBS,
and you
I have a developer that is not being able to make a call to SETENV from within
Cobol (Cobol snippet: call 'setenv' using envname,...).
I found that the C routines in the LE run time environment must be available.
Does anybody know what I need to check in the linklist/lpa to make sure that
Cobol
Uriel,
You can call BPXWDYN real easy from Cobol, I think there are a lot of examples
if you google 'z/OS BPXWDYN '
Regards,
Scott J Ford
Software Engineer
http://www.identityforge.com
From: Uriel Carrasquilla uriel.carrasqui...@mail.mcgill.ca
To:
To all:
I need to know the dataset names of the files that are allocated (DD stmts) of
a STC.
Can some one point me to the initial CB, I looked at TCB , do I assume this is
the place to start ?
Scott J Ford
Software Engineer
http://www.identityforge.com
I've been asked to find out what the industry standard is for the length of
time to keep a backup tape for coop purposes. Obviously, in a coop situation,
one would use the most current backup tape but how many versions of backup
tapes need to be kept and when is a tape too old to be of any
My little subprog:
***
*SUBROUTINE TO OBTAIN SYSTEM INFORMATION *
***
GETJINFO CSECT
GETJINFO AMODE 31
GETJINFO RMODE ANY
LENTRY
I need to know the dataset names of the files that are allocated (DD stmts) of
a STC.
Can some one point me to the initial CB, I looked at TCB , do I assume this is
the place to start ?
Start with the PSA at absolute address zero (IHAPSA). Field PSATOLD contains
the address of the current
SCEELKED contains SETENV and PUTENV.
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[mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Ford
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 3:53 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: z/OS Control block question
To all:
I need to know the dataset names of the files that are
The solution I suggested presumes that you are adding code to the STC program
itself (inside looking out).
If you are on the outside looking in (i.e. another task wants to see what
resources the STC is using), then my solution won't work, since most of the
control blocks are in the private
On 10/19/2011 5:29 PM, Roberts, John J wrote:
My little subprog:
SR1,1
ICM 1,B'0111',TIOEJFCB LOCATE JFCB
MVC 10(44,15),16(1)
This always works only in older systems. For current ones, the
TIOEJFCB field is a double index into SQA, and you need to use
Good time to ask a lawyer as they would/should now.
It is federal and state laws.
Ed
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Thank you ,Thank you , so much appreciated
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From: Roberts, John J jrobe...@dhs.state.ia.us
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: z/OS Control
Probably C would be a lot easier if you are comfortable in C to write it.
Scott J Ford
Software Engineer
http://www.identityforge.com
From: McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 5:33 PM
Subject:
Our standard for offsite DR tapes is 14 versions or 14 days which for us is a
complete pay cycle.
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Richard Sceniak
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 3:54 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
I am calling ldap_xxx services from (ref IBM Tivoli Directory Server Client
Programming for z/OS) from IBM C.
I have a CINET environment, the ldap calls are working fine using my default
TCPIP region. In my RTM, I haven't found a way to tell the ldap_xxx to use one
of the other TCPIP(n)
David,
Great reply. Thank you for pointing this out.
As a small side question (I have never had to do this) how does one identify
tapes that need recycling?
I have just done recycles on percent valid and was never worried about doing
it based on device type.
Ed
John,
Come on egypt tech??? And certain types of paper can last with the proper
conditions can last a few hundred years but when we are talking IT we are
talking machine readable.
Ed
Ps OCR is not an option.
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I just ran a test using my z/OS 1.11 system and it worked.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Gerhard Postpischil
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 4:56 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: z/OS Control block question
On
Thank you John
Scott J Ford
Software Engineer
http://www.identityforge.com
From: Roberts, John J jrobe...@dhs.state.ia.us
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 6:38 PM
Subject: Re: z/OS Control block question
I just ran a test using my
Why not print it all out? Then get an army of Monks to transcribe to archival
parchment scrolls using quill pens and an ink formula from about 2000 years
ago. Seal the results into ceramic pottery vessels and place in a cave,
somewhere near the Dead Sea. Roll a big rock in front of the cave
In
676130350.1050634.1318977735961.javamail.r...@sz0042a.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net,
on 10/18/2011
at 10:42 PM, Linda Mooney linda.lst...@comcast.net said:
If you take the all of the VSAM datasets off of the volume, you can
delete the VVDS
ObNVR it's not my dog.
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In
93891f43642f3c419a7d75acc2b1db6f3c005da...@exchangemb2.dhs.state.ia.us,
on 10/19/2011
at 04:29 PM, Roberts, John J jrobe...@dhs.state.ia.us said:
Start with the PSA at absolute address zero
No. In fact, he can't. He should start with virtual address zero,
which will map into real address
In
93891f43642f3c419a7d75acc2b1db6f3c005da...@exchangemb2.dhs.state.ia.us,
on 10/19/2011
at 04:29 PM, Roberts, John J jrobe...@dhs.state.ia.us said:
My little subprog:
Won't work if SWA is above the line.
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ISO position; see
In
1867132420.1042181.1318969175813.javamail.r...@sz0042a.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net,
on 10/18/2011
at 08:19 PM, Linda Mooney linda.lst...@comcast.net said:
We used to have a 3494 ATL. We had it for over 10 years. A couple
of times, we had a tape go missing with last status of being in
In
CAPD5F5q14Cf+DXY3KF7hV7TGqt1S9irb5-EHdBEFJHTd89S=c...@mail.gmail.com,
on 10/18/2011
at 12:29 PM, John Gilmore johnwgilmore0...@gmail.com said:
I would not write a program that had embedded in it the heroic
assumption that a time value was a time value for some current day
(bad) and time
You can also specify volsers. Very useful if one is damaged.
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Ed Gould ps2...@yahoo.com wrote:
David,
Great reply. Thank you for pointing this out.
As a small side question (I have never had to do this) how does one identify
tapes that need recycling?
I
John.
I know you are kidding, right?
Have you seen some pictures f the scrolls? They are not easily readable cracked
with age and the only thing that helped save them was the lack of humidity in
the desert. Now I realize. There are people that have partially that deciphered
them but we are
At 19:18 -0500 on 10/19/2011, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about
Re: z/OS Control block question:
field TIOEJFCB contains a three byte address
No. It contains an SVA. While I believe that SWAREQ is the easiest way
to get to the JFCB, the documentation says not to use it but to use
RDJFCB.
On 10/19/2011 6:38 PM, Roberts, John J wrote:
I just ran a test using my z/OS 1.11 system and it worked.
And a stopped clock is correct twice a day.
If I had a dollar for every problem in your little code segment,
I could buy something nice at Starbucks.
1. There is no check to handle
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