Re: A z/OS Redbook Corrected - just about!

2012-03-21 Thread Sebastian Welton
I won't get into a lather about USS vs. UNIX but then maybe IBM will have to change all their manuals. For example, SC27-2353-01 - OMEGAMON XE on z/OS Users Guide (and nearly anything to do with monitoring) refers to USS in regards to Unix System Services although in this manual it does make a

Re: NetView (5.4) Web Services Gateway

2012-01-25 Thread Sebastian Welton
, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 MD RSCB2H p 616.653.8429 f 616.653.2717 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Sebastian Welton Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 6:57 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: NetView (5.4) Web Services Gateway

NetView (5.4) Web Services Gateway

2012-01-19 Thread Sebastian Welton
(Crossposted) We have been trying to get NetView Web Services Gateway working for a few days now to no great effect when I found what looks like a bug. Firstly the documentation is not that great as you have to install the XML Toolkit (and GSKit if not already installed) although it doesn't

Re: NetView Startup problem

2011-11-24 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:09:48 +0530, saurabh khandelwal sourabhkhandelwal...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I added my STEPLIB libraries to ROG00 and IPL'd system again. but still getting same error .. I have added DLIB.NV390.V5R3.ACNMLINK dataset on my PROG member. RC S0C4 and resason

Re: Suppress command output from SYSLOG

2011-09-14 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 11:24:04 +0300, A.Watthey a.watt...@gmail.com wrote: Sebastian, You should subscribe to the proper netview list where there is far more expertise than here (netv...@yahoogroups.com). However, what you need to do is check out the DEFAULTS SLOGCMDR value. You need either NO or

Suppress command output from SYSLOG

2011-08-31 Thread Sebastian Welton
We've been implementing IP Monitoring under NetView on our test plex and have noticed that for NetView to get the relevant information it issues MVS DISPLAY commands for TCPIP and then extracts the data it requires from the command output. The problem with this is that with a number of LPARs in

Re: ZIP and FTP

2011-04-28 Thread Sebastian Welton
I do this all the time, XMIT to a file, FTP down to a server (remember use BINARY), FTP back up to a mainframe (remember to use BINARY, LRECL(80) and RECFM(FB) and then receive. Sometimes I have to do a lot of datasets so a quick and dirty rexx which runs in batch and uses a PDS member as input:

Re: Check TAPE Contents

2011-03-30 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:04:18 +0300, Sergio Lima sergio...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello, We also tried use IDCAMS here from see tape contents and don't work. Can you please say what can I get a sample JOB ? I think it was determined that you don't have the necessary authority to use BLP which means

Re: CPPUPDTE for LRECL 80

2011-03-08 Thread Sebastian Welton
Possibly the PDS command from the CBTTape? I'm also looking in this area for a tool to do various search/change/update/replace functions, not only for PDS'es but also other types of datasets and so far a combination of CPPUPDTE, PDS and homegrown tools looks like being the way for me to go...

Re: DOWNLOADING PDS FROM MAINFRAME TO PC

2011-01-18 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:46:35 -0500, Dave Salt ds...@hotmail.com wrote: I highly recommend using the ISPF Workstation Agent (WSA.EXE). It makes file transfers really easy and doesn't require you to enter a userid and password. Check here for instructions: I used to use the WSA for some tasks but

Re: How to copy code from the publications of Xephon

2011-01-03 Thread Sebastian Welton
This is happening because it is not preserving the formatting, happens to me a lot when copying from PDF documents and so I just end up editing the pasted version. Some versions of Acrobat and other PDF readers have an option to copy with keeping the formatting, mine doesn't seem to but there may

Re: JES2 question

2011-01-03 Thread Sebastian Welton
From the $HASP050 message in JES2 Messages it is basically saying that JES2 has a shortage of BUFX (extended logical buffers) which requires changes to EXTBUF parameter on BUFDEF statement-

Re: HSM recycle of DUMP VOLUMEs

2010-12-20 Thread Sebastian Welton
I recently did this by using: HSENDCMD RECYCLE EXECUTE VOLUME( ) to move all HSM volumes from one VTS to another. Admittedly the new volumes had different volsers and so the SMS routines were changed to reflect the new VTS but it worked fine. Sebastian On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:26:49 +0200,

Re: HSM recycle of DUMP VOLUMEs

2010-12-20 Thread Sebastian Welton
-0500, Scott Rowe scott.r...@joann.com wrote: Sebastian, Do you mean to say that you were able to use RECYCLE for DUMP volumes? I didn't think that was supported. Scott On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Sebastian Welton sebast...@welton.dewrote: I recently did this by using: HSENDCMD RECYCLE

Re: Using ADDRESS SDSF in OPS/MVS

2010-10-14 Thread Sebastian Welton
For running Address SDSF under NetView I had to code the following: isfjesname = 'JES2' before the ISFCALLS(ON) mainly because NetView is started with SUB=MSTR and so doesn't run under JES2. Maybe the same for OPS/MVS? Sebastian

Re: Two HSM's on one Lpar

2010-10-13 Thread Sebastian Welton
Looked at it: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dgt2i480/1.11?SHELF=EZ2ZBK0IDT=20090605105438 but decided on other methods instead (i.e. ABARS.) Sebastian On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:04:22 -0400, Mark Jacobs mark.jac...@custserv.com wrote: Can I run two HSM's on one lpar

IDCAMS DEFINE and OWNER

2010-10-06 Thread Sebastian Welton
Just a quickie...I haven't been able to find much information on the OWNER option when defining a dataset, what is exactly for? I have a lot of datasets which have (NULL) but also defined a lot of datasets with a different HLQ to me but with my user as OWNER. Someone was concerned that if my user

SORT Numeric Field

2010-09-21 Thread Sebastian Welton
As a novice (very much so) I'm trying to use DFSORT to sort a dataset so that I have various fields in order. Basically the data looks like this: dataset_name volume_sequence so dsn1 1 dsn2 3 dsn3 12 dsn4 15 As you can see it is pretty random. Using DFSORT I've managed to get it to do this:

Re: SORT Numeric Field

2010-09-21 Thread Sebastian Welton
Many thanks Frank, that did it exactly. I have downloaded the book you suggested and am reading it, maybe not avidly yet, but it has given me some ideas for the rest of the project which looks like making my life easier. I've known about DFSORT for years but never really used it to my shame as I

Re: Mount Points in BPXPRMxx

2010-09-20 Thread Sebastian Welton
How about instead specifying: aggrgrow=on in IOEFSPRM making sure that you have the DDNAME=IOEZPRM in the JCL for zFS? Seb On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:49:15 -0400, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: I am having a discussion with one of my team mates on how to code BPXPRMxx for zFS

Re: Mount Points in BPXPRMxx

2010-09-20 Thread Sebastian Welton
Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: Sebastian Welton Wrote How about instead specifying: aggrgrow=on in IOEFSPRM making sure that you have the DDNAME=IOEZPRM in the JCL for zFS? Sebastian, That makes sense, since that would be the normal specification of AGGRGROW. What is the DDNAME

STATOPT

2010-09-08 Thread Sebastian Welton
Just setting up some VTAM definitions for TAF sessions and want to use the STATOPT statement but this does not seem to be documented anywhere. I presume that it should be coded on the last line as: * STATOPT='stuff' as removing the comment * and adding continuation characters

Re: STATOPT

2010-09-08 Thread Sebastian Welton
, John jch...@ussco.com wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Sebastian Welton Just setting up some VTAM definitions for TAF sessions and want to use the STATOPT statement but this does not seem to be documented anywhere. I presume that it should

Re: STATOPT

2010-09-08 Thread Sebastian Welton
Some good information here from Chris Mason (many thanks) who asked me to post it here: John Chase is correct that STATOPT is a statement associated with an obscure NetView component called - as John said - Status Monitor.[1,2] As to why it is specified as a comment in terms of VTAM definitions

Re: Passing commands to SDSF in REXX

2010-09-07 Thread Sebastian Welton
I suppose you could write your own 'SUBMIT' command which with outtrap would get the IKJ message, in turn getting the jobname, pass this to a REXX exec calling SDSF and setting isfprefix for the jobname and this would in turn then perform the ST command. However once you've got the job details

Re: Need tape compare program, was Re: Copy tape GDG (

2010-07-26 Thread Sebastian Welton
Thanks for that. Downloaded it but apart from the 32K restriction I don't think it will do the job. Looking at the documentation it seems to have originally been written for sequential datasets and then updated to only do PDS'es. I've tried a couple of other options. ICETOOL has the COUNT option

Need tape compare program, was Re: Copy tape GDG (

2010-07-20 Thread Sebastian Welton
anyway. Perhaps a call to IBM might result in a fix for you and for us too.  ;-) Thanks, Linda - Original Message - From: Sebastian Welton sebast...@welton.de To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Friday, July 9, 2010 1:14:33 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: Copy tape

Re: Copy tape GDG

2010-07-09 Thread Sebastian Welton
  Perhaps it might be of use here.  Google lists a good number of refernences too. HTH, Linda Mooney     - Original Message - From: Sebastian Welton sebast...@welton.de To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thursday, July 8, 2010 11:51:03 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re

Re: Copy tape GDG

2010-07-09 Thread Sebastian Welton
Reply to myself, from the IEBCOMPR documentation: The block sizes cannot exceed 32760 bytes. Seb Many thanks for pointing that out. I did actually remember reading the original article but didn't think anything about it. So I'm working on it now but of course I get S013-E1 abends as the blksize

Copy tape GDG

2010-07-08 Thread Sebastian Welton
I need to copy a number of tape datasets which are GDGs and just to clear my mind I just want to clarify that I'm doing this correctly (I have tested it and it all seems to be working just fine but...) Basically, I'm doing the following: - get fully qualified DSN, i.e. hlq.some.stuff.G0001V00 -

Re: AF/Operator

2010-07-08 Thread Sebastian Welton
Yes, you're correct there. Currently going that way and as far as I know there are a number of functions not available to AF/Operator for a GDPS, but then again I might be wrong... Seb On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 17:26:36 -0700, Norman Hollander on DesertWiz norman.hollan...@desertwiz.biz wrote: Just

Re: Copy tape GDG

2010-07-08 Thread Sebastian Welton
That actually looks quite good but I recall doing something similar some years back and we had quite a few problems afterwards. What concerns me is that: - a lot of the GDGs are not in the catalogue but are still required (which means I don't have to catalogue them though) which in turn indicates

Re: Copy tape GDG

2010-07-08 Thread Sebastian Welton
Santa Clara, CA 95051 408-721-5640 408-721-8364 Cell cjp...@nsc.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Sebastian Welton Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 5:01 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Copy tape GDG I need to copy

Re: AF/Operator

2010-07-06 Thread Sebastian Welton
the System Automation portfolio, please feel free to contact me. Allison Ferguson Product Manager, System Automation Solutions IBM Tivoli Software fergu...@us.ibm.com 512.286.2214 On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:34:02 -0500, Sebastian Welton sebast...@welton.de wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:12:08 -0500

Re: AF/Operator

2010-06-30 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:12:08 -0500, Betsy Jeffery betsy_jeff...@mgic.com wrote: Does anyone know of a list-serve, group, blog, etc for Candle (IBM) product AF/Operator? There is, or was, bit.listserv.candle-l but there hasn't been anything there for years except talk about...candles or spam.

Re: VTS Migration

2010-03-18 Thread Sebastian Welton
Many thanks for all the replies, they've been very helpful. I'll admit I'm pretty rusty in this area but got roped in to doing it as I've done similar (but not this type of migration) in the past so forgive my seemingly 'dumb' questions. I've now found some material to read through (changing

VTS Migration

2010-03-11 Thread Sebastian Welton
Currently starting a VTS migration to a B20 and have been doing a lot of RTFM'ing in preperation but there doesn't seem to be much out there in regards to the RMM - OAM - z/OS side of things. I have put a rough plan together, which is looking reasonably good, but it would be nice to see any

Re: VTS Migration

2010-03-11 Thread Sebastian Welton
You got me on the push-pull bit :-) That is pretty much what I plan to do by giving the new VTS a different range of addresses but I need to migrate all the existing data over (HSM, etc.) so I would have problems with UNIT=TAPE as I would not be able to determine into which VTS the data is being

Re: Mainframe hacking (getting back on topic)

2009-07-21 Thread Sebastian Welton
There is an article on the 2600 archives (and replicated elsewhere) on how to break into VM/370 systems but really requires you to know the maint password. I have (bows head in shame) 'hacked' into a system. This was open to the internet and was running an ADCD system and they had not changed the

Re: In trouble!

2009-03-26 Thread Sebastian Welton
Alternatively seeing as it an ADCD system and presumably all the CDs were used then there is a standalone system already there from which you can IPL. You'll need to go to the IBM ADCD site to check which disk your particular version has as the standalone system and then IPL from that with the

Re: Is there a Web enabled TN3270 on z/10's running z/OS 1.9

2009-03-18 Thread Sebastian Welton
Although not an answer (I would also suggest something like HOD or HATS) but some years ago Netscape actually packaged 3270 into their Communicator so you can access 3270 sessions via the browser. Basically just a 3270 session in a browser, no transformations, etc. This would be a nice idea for a

More IBM vs. Sun was The Register article on HP replacing z

2008-12-18 Thread Sebastian Welton
http://www.crn.com/hardware/212500803;jsessionid=ULQY55VGCN2DCQSNDLRSKHSCJUNN2JVN (watch the link wrap, possibly.) Seb. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with

Re: The Register article on HP replacing z

2008-11-12 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:16:38 -0600, Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Figures don't lie, but liars will figure. Smacks of management by airline magazine, with a generous dose of marketting Male Bovine Excrement. What about all those small VM, VSE, etc shops which were running on low end

Re: Flex-ES Help

2008-09-04 Thread Sebastian Welton
Should be pretty simple: - power up your laptop, FLEX and z/OS - you should have x3270 on it so start it and log on to TSO then exit to the READY prompt - plug in your USB stick which, hopefully, should be recognised by the underlying Linux system. If not, mount it - use IND$FILE on x3270 to

Re: IBM THINK original equipment sign

2008-08-28 Thread Sebastian Welton
I have an original IBM Thinkpad. This is a small brown pocket notepad with the word 'THINK' printed on the front and 'IBM' on the back (pn 520-6430 nad 520-6431) still with the original paper pad inside but I think I'll keep it as its quite amusing showing people. Seb.

Re: Can I tell whether a site is Linux on z

2008-08-04 Thread Sebastian Welton
More info: http://www.ibm.com/news/us/en/2005/02/2005_02_03.html http://www-01.ibm.com/webcasts/WCPGateway.wss? jadeAction=WEBCAST_LAUNCHPAGE_HANDLERWCP_WEBCAST_ID_KEY=071 0011 http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/7498.wss Seb.

Re: SDSF User Manual

2008-03-04 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 07:36:48 -0800, Schwarz, Barry A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of an SDSF user manual newer than the OS/390 2.10 version dated June 2000? The z/OS manuals are title Operation and Customization. The 1.8 version contains chapters for batch and REXX but nothing for

Re: System z10 announcement (in English)

2008-02-29 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:57:58 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/26/2008 at 12:55 PM, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'd hate to do word processing on z/OS Why? And if you want WYSIWYG, you can get it as easily under Linux as under

Re: IBM Preview of z/OS V1.10

2008-02-28 Thread Sebastian Welton
Well I've just seen my first one (actually 2) as they were being delivered. Don't look much different to the previous versions. Personally I'm waiting for the plethora of postings asking if OS/390 can run on it... Seb. -- For

Re: z10 presentation on 26 Feb

2008-02-14 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:53:00 +0100, Miklos Szigetvari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Just got an invitation for a z10 presentation (26 February) Searching for IBM and z10 gives the following: o Three-leaf clover--Z 9, Z 1 0 at http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/411/brunner.html (sorry,

Re: 2097?

2008-02-13 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:09:22 -0600, Tom Moulder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How many of you have heard of an IBM z9 model number 2097? It shows up as a z/HE in a CPU display (D M=CPU). The ZHE is the CPC (or processor name) which you define via the HCD so unless you did this then it could well be

Re: Javascript disabled in Firefox

2008-02-12 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:24:15 -0700, Steve Comstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: H. Where do you find this? I went to the Firefox site and did not find NoScript in the list of addons or plugins. Google is your friend here. I just typed in 'firefox noscript' and it was the first hit. Installed

Re: OT: IBM gives ITANIUM five years to live

2008-01-10 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:39:17 -0600, Ed Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/register/20080110/ttc-ibm-gives-itanium- five-years-to-live-d1d76f9.html (watch the wrap) Interesting item. IBM thinks its chips are in a better position than INTEL. From the article: Interesting

Re: New System Build

2007-12-27 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:17:16 -, Mark Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List, This question relates to migrating from a Flex server with no external tape or external disk to a new z9 + external DS6000 disk. We have no tape units installed on the z9 and zVM is not installed the flex box. We

Re: Forcing a userid and password prompt on session connect

2007-12-06 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 09:07:24 -0600, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have the ADCD setup, you could implement Netview Access Services (NVAS). If you don't have it already, you should be able to get it for no charge through the PWD program. Yep, it's there and to get it up and running

Re: Acceptable Syslog Policy(was Determine last LLA Refresh)

2007-11-28 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:41:00 +0100, Barbara Nitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is that a generel german rule or does it come from specific rules in your branch? I am not an expert on this, but I know certain financial information must by kept for 7 years and for SOx reasons other information has its

Re: No more text messaging from mainframe?

2007-09-29 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:26:02 -0400, Hare, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to some pointers from the list, I've been able to get some Rexx to do SNPP (Simple Network Paging Protocol) with our paging provider, not yet within AF/Operator, but since everyone on call has a cell phone anyway,

Re: replacing VSE and VM consoles with ?

2007-08-06 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 10:53:40 +0300, #1490;#1491;#1497; amp;#1489;#1503; #1488;#1489;#1497; [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to thank everyone who replied. Since the computer we are talking about is a 9672-RA6, OSA-ICC is not an option. I found that Visara (www.visara.com) has a few

Re: Web access to mainframe datasets

2007-08-02 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 01:39:53 +0900, Timothy Sipples [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. I don't think it's any secret that IBM itself has something called the Integrated Solutions Console (ISC). That's the pretty administrative Web interface you see embedded in products like WebSphere Application Server

Re: SMP/E question - how to find dsname ?

2007-07-16 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:31:14 +0200, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to check given dsname in SMP/E - is it defined as DDDEF or not ? For example I have SYS1.WEIRD.NAME and I want to check what DDDEF *if any* describes the dataset. As far as I found two metods, both rather unwise: a) use

Re: IBM System z Remote Development Program

2007-07-13 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:42:17 +0900, Timothy Sipples [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Salt writes: For small ISV's this is a big step in the right direction! Agreed. This is nice. But still does not address one thing that a FlexES laptop does. The ability to take a complete, live, system to a

Re: Products to send alerts from the mainframe to mobile devices

2007-07-11 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:04:36 -0400, Tim Hare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We currently use AF/Remote, in conjunction with AF/Operator, to send alerts to certain pagers; we're also trying to use it to copy some action messages to pagers. Last post went belly up, but AF/Remote has changed somewhat and

Re: FW: Deleted PDS

2007-07-11 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:55:25 -0400, Mark Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesn't look like a pds can be larger than 65535 tracks however. DATA SET AIMJ.TESTPDS NOT ALLOCATED+ IGD17051I ALLOCATION FAILED FOR DATA SET AIMJ.TESTPDS , PRIMARY SPACE EXCEEDS 65535 TRKS I found out the hard way

Re: How can I give the volume unit address and return the volume name from REXX

2007-07-10 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 11:10:22 -0400, Rob Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sebastian This code uses CVTUCBA - (ie the old UCB chain pointer) - you really should not be using it these days as it will not recognise/support dynamic devices. Thanks Rob. I went through it today not having used it for a

Re: How can I give the volume unit address and return the volume name from REXX

2007-07-09 Thread Sebastian Welton
There's a slight bug in there somewhere which on my 1.8 and 1.9 systems only shows the first 25 volumes and I can't beck level at the moment but this should help to start as I used to use parts of this for that exact purpose: (Origin unknown but its helped me over the years:) Arg parms

Re: SV: PCOM questions

2007-07-04 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 15:04:20 +0200, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, someone had to pay for PCOMM, the price is AFAIK approx.$250-350 per license, while Nexus is $40 (and, for example, x3270 is free). Maybe this is the reason why nobody upgraded your software ? g You can't buy PCOMM as a

Re: What do you call something like QMF?

2007-06-28 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:43:19 -0500, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:44:59 -0500, Sebastian Welton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't forget that you don't need to run it from the TSO ISPF interface (which also requires GDDM) AFAIK, QMF hasn't required GDDM in a long time

Re: What do you call something like QMF?

2007-06-28 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:38:05 -0500, Phil King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just started QMF and it uses GDDM to display the QMF home panel. I know this because, when I emulate pressing PA3, GDDM displays its PF key prompts at the bottom of the screen. These overlay the QMF home panel. I believe

Re: What do you call something like QMF?

2007-06-27 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:19:28 +0300, Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:03:57 +0200 Lindy Mayfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :Is there a word or term for how a product like QMF works that is started from ISPF but seems to take over the whole terminal? Could someone

Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules

2007-06-22 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:21:12 +0200, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words, the fact that Linux is not Unix, while USS is certified as Unix is completely irrelevant. Is is USS thats certified or is in fact zOS thats certified? Two different things really. Seb

Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules

2007-06-21 Thread Sebastian Welton
I remember when this came out: http://tinyurl.com/2ttd2v Seb -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules

2007-06-14 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:37:38 +0900, Timothy Sipples [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are other effects. For example, another wise thing IBM did in my opinion is to release Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for z/OS Management Console. This product is available for download at no additional charge to anyone --

Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules

2007-06-13 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:13:50 -0500, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People who want to develop commercial software for z/OS, z/VM, and z/VSE need to become members of PartnerWorld for Development (PWD). The whole purpose of PWD is to promote the development of products on our platforms.

Re: zOS 1.6 on z9BC

2007-05-24 Thread Sebastian Welton
believe it will be a done thing. thanks Seb. On Thu, 10 May 2007 09:01:41 -0500, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sebastian Welton wrote: An old customer has just called saying they're buying a z9BC, upgrading from a z890 and could I pop along to move them over. They're currently running zOS 1.6

Re: Cloning DB2 using Flashcopy

2007-05-23 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Tue, 22 May 2007 06:19:45 -0500, Brian Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For SAP customers, this is a routine requirement. Check out IBM Redbook SAP on DB2 for z/OS and OS/390: DB2 System Cloning. http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246287.html From the above web page: This is an

zOS 1.6 on z9BC

2007-05-10 Thread Sebastian Welton
An old customer has just called saying they're buying a z9BC, upgrading from a z890 and could I pop along to move them over. They're currently running zOS 1.6 (guest of zVM with other VSE and zLinux guests) and would preferably like to stay on the 1.6 system. I know that since I installed it a

Another REXX query

2007-03-26 Thread Sebastian Welton
I have a small bit of REXX which finds the running jobs, STC, TSO users, etc and sorts them nicely. Using BPXBATCH I can then output this to the console for some other purpose but I would like it to be tidy, it doesn't need to be but...Anyway the original code looks like this: output_line =

Re: Another REXX query (and another nonspecific Subject:)

2007-03-26 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:59:08 -0700, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The shell will retokenize its command line, so you may need to make it appear quoted to the shell, such as: 'BPXBATCH sh logger -d1 '''output_line .. but beware: you'll get syntax errors if output_line has

Re: Slightly OT Backups not Good on PC

2007-03-21 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 05:33:25 -0500, Doc Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is why you TEST your backup tapes, folks... I learnt that the hard, but not critical way, some time back. We were using FDR for backups and creating 1 original and a copy at the same time. One copy would go in the

Re: REXX Question

2007-03-20 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:23:12 -0400, Veilleux, Jon L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did that. It didn't work. What emulation program are you using? We use Rumba. I am also at 1.8 on this system. It works with 1.8 running PCOMM 5.7 (setup as a model 4) and I've just tested it with 1.5 running x3270

Re: REXX Question

2007-03-19 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:33:40 -0400, Veilleux, Jon L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tomas, I tried all of these methods and none worked. It doesn't look like any of the attribute bytes are being recognized. worked fine on a 1.8 system here. Just remember to move the cursor to between the '

Re: DB2 V9 z/OS GA (Was: What to do with extra storage on new z9)

2007-03-15 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:22:51 -0500, Tom Moulder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the subject of dot.zero release, did you also notice that there is never a dot.two release? Always new versions. New versions typically have a price increase on the MLC, whilst new releases do not. Unless you're on a

Re: z/OS 1.8 ISPF 3.4 repeat command

2007-03-08 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 15:39:03 -0500, Jousma, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Just playing on my z/OS 1.8 tech lpar, and noticed that commands issued on the dataset line in option 3.4, and then repeated with the '=' get truncated after 9 characters and fails. For example a LISTC ENT(/) ALL,

Re: How to change color for one particular message?

2007-03-02 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 07:27:43 -0600, Wallace, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think our operators missed it the first time because it was white. It happened at noon when the full-time operators were at lunch, and the student employees (part timers) usually ignore everything except tape mounts and

Re: Recalling A Message in Lotus Notes

2007-01-24 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:13:43 -0500, Walt Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Notes server (Domino) runs quite nicely on z/OS (I think that z/OS provides one of the better platforms for running it, in fact), so your question seems more relevant here than discussion of flying saucers, etc. It

Re: Mainframe vs. Server (Was Just another example of mainframe costs.)

2007-01-19 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:25:22 +0900, Timothy Sipples [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, whether this matters to you or not is another question. Still, I think it's a small but interesting detail that there are no closed source Linux drivers for System z, so far as I'm aware. It's all open source now.

Re: ADRDSSU and AWS

2007-01-19 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 06:20:51 -0600, Dave Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to restore from some backup tapes that I converted to .AWS format, but I am having problems handling the 65520 blocksize. How do people manage this? Most AWS utilities I have tried cannot recreate a tape like

Re: Forbidding Special characters in passwords

2007-01-10 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:45:29 -0500, Walt Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/10/2007 12:14 PM, Howard Brazee wrote: I'm amazed about the number of sites that believe that the consumers should do things their way.Some other examples include: ...snipped... 2. Not accepting 8 digit zip

Re: P390

2006-11-16 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:47:33 +0900, Timothy Sipples [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, agreed. As Dave Jones points out, PWD would provide development licenses at a very attractive price. I had a slightly different goal in mind with that blog post, a home mainframe with full license rights for time

Re: FW: The PSI Letter V4

2006-11-03 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 01:37:33 -0500, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please note that no PSI machines are listed at http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/library/swpriceinfo/hardware.html . Before making any assumptions, a customer with questions about IBM software may want to

DFSMS Full Volume Restore Oddity

2006-11-02 Thread Sebastian Welton
I have come across a rather strange problem in moving data between 2 systems. Using DFSMS DUMP FULL on an OS/390 2.10 system to dump a full volume to a file and then moving it over to zOS 1.4 and using RESTORE FULL to restore it to a new disk it seems that not all datasets are being restored. All

Re: DFSMS Full Volume Restore Oddity

2006-11-02 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 11:34:59 -0800, Schwarz, Barry A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A PDS without members can still be opened so that appears to be a secondary problem. Is there only one copy of each dataset on the target system? Are they on the IPL volume? Are they catalogued correctly? Did the DUMP

Re: http://mainframeweekly.blogspot.com/ What's Project ECLipz?

2006-10-24 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:42:26 -0400, Knutson, Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mainframeweekly.blogspot.com/ What's Project ECLipz? Just posted yesterday yet more speculation. Nothing I saw that Phil and others have not already speculated on but interesting the buzz on this seems to finally

Re: Mainframe Limericks...

2006-06-25 Thread Sebastian Welton
More than welcome to come and visit: http://www.backfischfest.de/ Seb -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Re: Migrating me from linux/bsd to zOS

2006-04-09 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Sat, 8 Apr 2006 09:13:43 -0400, Aaron Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am reasonably competent with Perl, and I have looked over some C, although Thats a good start and to really help you in the mainframe arean I would suggest then to learn REXX which with the above noted skills will

Re: FLEX-ES

2006-03-16 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 07:19:34 +1000, Shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, but every time I hear FLEX I think laptop with dongle. I have this recurring image of the DR site being folded up and taken home to finish that Gantt chart or somesuch ... One day I guess I'll see one that isn't in a bag on

Re: Mainframe Programmer on EBay

2006-02-07 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 16:28:49 -0600, Desi de la Garza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't see any operating systems conversions, smpe work or cics upgrades. What's up with that? Probably because he's a mainframe programmer which as far as I can tell it means he writes programs. Good luck to him.

Re: zIIPs

2006-01-27 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:48:23 +0100, Phil Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stealth announcement? I can still find no English language press coverage (there's a little piece in Computerwoche) and the only hits in Google are my site's index page and a short analysis I did. Nothing searchable from

Re: State of the Mainframe - News Article

2006-01-24 Thread Sebastian Welton
I do know that one of the persons interviewed who stated that his employer would never use FLEX-ES has got his facts wrong slightly. I know that his employer has contacted resellers of FLEX-ES regarding the purchase of such a system a number of times. However, this was not in the USA. quote He

Re: Manuals on modifying VTAM logon screen?

2006-01-10 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 18:31:37 +0100, Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sebastian, Thanks for your contribution to this rolling mystery. Perhaps my Googling went of course by starting with ADCD. URL http://dtsc.dfw.ibm.com/MVSDS/'HTTPD2.adcd.global.html(readme17)' led me into thinking that the

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