Re: When to start security product?

We are starting CAS9,SUB=MSTR which start TSS,SUB=MSTR .. TSS starts JES2/NETVIEW/SA390.. then SA/390 takes over everything else being started. Works pretty well. For CPF logs.. just issue the F TSS,CPF(REFRESH) after JES2 is fully up. We made the move primarily for System Automation... plus all

Re: IEC145I 413-08

I ran into just this situation on Monday. The entire SMF processing "system" stopped in its tracks because one of the daily SMF data tapes was marked as scratch, in RMM, but the dataset was actually still in a user catalog. So, to get around it, I uncataloged the SMF data tape, coded LABEL=98000

Response to Timothy's Article...

http://mainframe.typepad.com/blog/2007/04/whats_the_point.html Another point of view, from Microsoft's point of view. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / ar

Am I the only one that did not know about this...? (MF Article)

http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid80_gci125 1098,00.html IBM dropped 31 bit support? Have I been asleep all this time? -- Fo

Re: DFHSM cleanup of orphaned MCC records.

On Apr 11, 2007, at 1:37 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: At 22:46 -0500 on 04/10/2007, Ed Gould wrote about Re: DFHSM cleanup of orphaned MCC records.: Robert, I did it a different way as HSM used to choke on 100+ commands at a time. One thing I did was to break it up to say 75 at one ti

Re: When to start security product?

I disagree Rick. If it starts too late, then you will never know if you have certain started tasks defined correctly, until you have to recycle one of them without and IPL, and it fails for security. Dave Jousma Principal Systems Programm

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: Effects of Linux on z...ISV support and z/OS (Was: IBM to the PCM market)

>One of them is a batch processor that can talk to CICS, telling it to close >files, open files, etc. All well and good, but the snarl called production data is so complex that we would never be able to find a combo that can close the appropriate files and still allow something to run! The app

Re: Extract listing of production datasets

>Do you want to include data sets not cataloged also? Do people still have that? For 15+ years, my/our attitude has been: "If it ain't catalogued, it don't exist"! With terrabytes of disk, how do you identify them? - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -

Re: Extract listing of production datasets

-- I have a need to generate a listing of all production datasets. The way the production datasets are identified is via the 4th byte of the high level qualifier. If the 4th byte is a P, it is production. For example: EGMP.DATASET.ONE and D

Re: When to start security product?

- We use Top Secret. A consultant made a recommendation late last year that Top Secret should be the first task started during the IPL procedure. The Security Administrator has requested this change. Currently, we start Top Secret after JES2 complete

Re: The Mainframe in 10 Years...

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Binyamin Dissen) writes: > ISAM did not "die". It changed into KSDS. > > Indexed-sequential access is used on almost every platform, some even now

Re: gdg question

can one of you gurus out there please shed some light on this, since i am not sure what the answer should be or whether or not this is normal, since these jobs supposedly have been running and working for the last 20 years (although i

Re: IBM to the PCM market(the sky is falling!!!the sky is falling!!)

>My IBM mainframe career has very limited CICS/IMS/DB2 exposure, and a lot of >IDMS exposure. Non sequiter! What's the maximum number of IDMS licences. You deliberately ducked! - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-

Re: IMBED/REPLICATE/KEYRANGE Question

--- . Anyone else remember the DFP deltas? - Thanks a bunch for restarting my nightmares! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: IEC145I 413-08

In a message dated 4/11/2007 5:46:40 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried the bypass label (2,blp) but it still hammered me. >> CA-1 needs EXPDT=99365 to tell it to ignore tape management, don't know equivalent in RMM(thought it was honored there too?) Also for

Re: The Mainframe in 10 Years...

You might want to do a quick memory refresh. MVCL was a 370 op-code; 360 only had the MVC. - Sometime ago I read a question from [EMAIL PROTECTED] if a sharp sudden unexpected pain would often result in a verb

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: Effects of Linux on z...ISV support and z/OS (Was: IBM to the PCM market)

Ted MacNEIL wrote: You really start and stop CICS every day? We would get shot if we tried that. We do. I hate it, but we have a bunch of jobs that cannot run with CICS up! - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For

Re: The Mainframe in 10 Years...

>Weren't there lots of bipolar technology mainframes running in early 1997 Yes, but we can't hold it against the poor mainframes! We still can't deliver PROZAC electronically. Sorry, couldn't resist! - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -

Re: IEC145I 413-08

I tried the bypass label (2,blp) but it still hammered me. Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In a recent note, Ed Finnell said: > Subject: Re: IEC145I 413-08 > > In a message dated 4/11/2007 4:30:35 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > REQUEST FAILED BY DFSMSrmm

Re: whiny question: Why won't z/OS support the HMC 3270 emulator

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:02:28 -0500, McKown, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >After all, z/VM does. Is z/VM so much superior to z/OS ? >z/OS does support that terrible old HMC "system console" interface, >after all. Or is it all a plan by IBM to sell OSAs configured as >OSA-ICC? > John, We've loo

Re: IEC145I 413-08

In a recent note, Ed Finnell said: > Subject: Re: IEC145I 413-08 > > In a message dated 4/11/2007 4:30:35 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > REQUEST FAILED BY DFSMSrmm > IEC145I > 413-08,IFG0194K,O00130J,STEP01,SYSUT1,4611,,AMR4.PSEL$08.PFG98.Y2K.DRTES > > Well te

Re: IEC145I 413-08

In a message dated 4/11/2007 4:30:35 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: REQUEST FAILED BY DFSMSrmm IEC145I 413-08,IFG0194K,O00130J,STEP01,SYSUT1,4611,,AMR4.PSEL$08.PFG98.Y2K.DRTES >> Well tell RMM it's a foreign tape then use last seventeen bytes as DSN and go to 2,N

Re: IEC145I 413-08

-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of willie bunter Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 4:58 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IEC145I 413-08 Can I force RMM to allow me to read the tape even though it is in scratch status? You

Re: Extract listing of production datasets

Bob, You did say easy. On the ISPF 3.4 Enter P for print dataset list Enter %%%P.*in the DSNAME LEVEL I would only do this online with less than 10,000 datasets or so. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: IEC145I 413-08

Willie, Can you change the tape from SCRATCH to MASTER? If it is changed in RMM to MASTER you should be able to read it. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of willie bunter Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 4:58 PM To: IBM-MAIN@

Re: IEC145I 413-08 (and implications for SMP/E GIMDTS)

Gil, I can answer the question as to why somebody would want to read a scratch tape. The tape management system scratched a master tape due to configuration rules. Later, before the tape was overwritten, it was realized that the data on the tape was still valid and needed to be kept. One way o

Re: IEC145I 413-08 (and implications for SMP/E GIMDTS)

In a recent note, willie bunter said: > Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:30:01 -0700 > > We are having a difference of opinion with the following issue. A gener job > is failing on an IEC145I 413-08. My interpretation is that the job failed > because of an I/O error. The other opinion is th

Re: IEC145I 413-08

Can I force RMM to allow me to read the tape even though it is in scratch status? "Pommier, Rex R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, you're kinda both right. It is failing due to an I/O error trying to read the input tape. The reason you're getting the I/O error is that RMM isn't letting you re

Re: IEC145I 413-08

Well, you're kinda both right. It is failing due to an I/O error trying to read the input tape. The reason you're getting the I/O error is that RMM isn't letting you read the scratch tape. So the underlying cause is that it is a scratch tape. So, the other opinion is more right... Rex -O

Re: Extract listing of production datasets

DCOLLECT and MXG or the language of your choice. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richards.Bob Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 2:20 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Extract listing of production datasets In addition t

IEC145I 413-08

We are having a difference of opinion with the following issue. A gener job is failing on an IEC145I 413-08. My interpretation is that the job failed because of an I/O error. The other opinion is that because the tape is scratch (in RMM) and it does not permit the processing of a scratch tape

Re: Extract listing of production datasets

In addition to what others have replied, tools like FDREPORT, Catalog RecoveryPlus, T-REX, Catalog Solutions and the good old free Catalog Search Interface (CSI) can do this VERY fast. See SYS1.SAMPLIB members: IGGCSILC IGGCSIRX for examples you can use. CSI is much, much faster than ISMF or 3.4.

Re: When to start security product?

Nah, the early start of TSS doesn't buy anything useful. Also, if you wait till JES is up you can see TSS output in SDSF, which often contains useful information, and diagnostics. Potayto, Potahto. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behal

Re: Extract listing of production datasets

Do you want to include data sets not cataloged also? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Imbriale, Donald Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 4:51 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Extract listing of production datasets >From IS

Re: When to start security product?

I normally start CAS9 first through the subsystem name table member. Then have CAS9 start TSS, then have TSS start everything else, including JES2. On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:28:46 -0400, Craddock, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> We use Top Secret. A consultant made a recommendation late last y

Re: Extract listing of production datasets

"listcat level names" from the hlq(s) of choice, then parse. In our case we were matching Top Secret against the catalogs, looking for orphans. Catalog Search Interface would be faster if volume dictates. My favorite parse tools, in preference sequence, are DF/SORT, SAS, REXX. -Original Me

Re: Extract listing of production datasets

Robert, Sorry, must have had a brain cramp - that's option 1 from the ISMF panel and your filter would be (in your case) %%%P.** HITACHI  DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mail

Re: Extract listing of production datasets

Robert, You can try either ISPF 3.4 or ISMF option 2 (data set). Both will allow you to generate a list of data set names using %%%1.** as a filter and then save the resultant list to a data set. Hope this helps. HITACHI  DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (4

Re: Extract listing of production datasets

> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Imbriale, Donald > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 3:51 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Extract listing of production datasets > > > From ISPF 3.4, specify a dsname level of %

Re: Extract listing of production datasets

>From ISPF 3.4, specify a dsname level of %%%P. Then after the list is displayed issue command SAVE PRODDSNS. Similar functionality can be built into a program which calls ISPF services. Don Imbriale -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Beh

Re: Extract listing of production datasets

> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Fake > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 3:39 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Extract listing of production datasets > > > I have a need to generate a listing of all producti

Extract listing of production datasets

I have a need to generate a listing of all production datasets. The way the production datasets are identified is via the 4th byte of the high level qualifier. If the 4th byte is a P, it is production. For example: EGMP.DATASET.ONE and DNUP.DATASET.ONE are production. EGMT.DATASET.ONE and DNUT

Re: Rexx to Extract XCF Structures

>DASDONLY logstreams don't require CF structures. I thought those were going away. Also, on the point of 'forgetting' to put JCL for creating logstreams into a production/dr library: 1. Why? 2. That is a dangerous practice for managing production! Do you 'forget' to put your Production VSAM c

Re: When to start security product?

> We use Top Secret. A consultant made a recommendation late last year > that Top Secret should be the first task started during the IPL > procedure. The Security Administrator has requested this change. > > Currently, we start Top Secret after JES2 completes its start procedure. > I really don'

Re: Interesting Mainframe piece

On Apr 11, 2007, at 8:56 AM, Gary Green wrote: Discusses MS HIS 2006. http://mainframe.typepad.com/blog/2007/04/microsoft_mainf.html Yea, But look who its written by. Mr (EXCUSE) IBM. Ed -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: When to start security product?

-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Yuhas Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 3:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: When to start security product? We use Top Secret. A consultant made a recommendation late last year that Top

whiny question: Why won't z/OS support the HMC 3270 emulator

After all, z/VM does. Is z/VM so much superior to z/OS ? z/OS does support that terrible old HMC "system console" interface, after all. Or is it all a plan by IBM to sell OSAs configured as OSA-ICC? -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage A

When to start security product?

We use Top Secret. A consultant made a recommendation late last year that Top Secret should be the first task started during the IPL procedure. The Security Administrator has requested this change. Currently, we start Top Secret after JES2 completes its start procedure. I really don't see the me

Re: EMBED/REPLICATE/KEYRANGE Question

QUERY - It is my impression that if I try to allocate a dataset with any of these options, the resulting dataset will get allocated as if they had not been requested (and the Catalog Record will no longer show these options for that dataset [ie: It will reflect the actual allocation status not

Re: EMBED/REPLICATE/KEYRANGE Question

At 10:08 -0400 on 04/11/2007, Mark Jacobs wrote about Re: EMBED/REPLICATE/KEYRANGE Question: It would be nice if IBM could add that support to HSM now instead of waiting for the zOS release that removes support. Murphy says that once we clean up all DASD datasets with these attributes someone

Re: DFHSM cleanup of orphaned MCC records.

At 22:46 -0500 on 04/10/2007, Ed Gould wrote about Re: DFHSM cleanup of orphaned MCC records.: Robert, I did it a different way as HSM used to choke on 100+ commands at a time. One thing I did was to break it up to say 75 at one time. Good suggestion. Thank you. My suggestion has to do wit

Re: IBM Direct

Thanks Gary, The directed me to some one else and then to a real IBM direct person. IBM Direct 1-800-388-7080 then opt #2, #1. Just for other folks reference. --- Gary DiPillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you tried 1-888-SHOP-IBM? > > > Would any one out there have a phone number for > I

Re: gdg question

IFF the file had been created on DASD you probably would not have seen a problem. BUT because the file was created on a removeable media (TAPE/CART), the CATALOG process does not complete until JOB END (which I would think should be step end, but hey, what do I know?). This happens whether or no

Re: IBM Direct

Have you tried 1-888-SHOP-IBM? > Would any one out there have a phone number for IBM > Direct. Googled it but can't seem to find a good > number...I to buy some KVM cables for our blade > centers and they are only available from IBM. > > Thanks. > > > > > > __

IBM Direct

Would any one out there have a phone number for IBM Direct. Googled it but can't seem to find a good number...I to buy some KVM cables for our blade centers and they are only available from IBM. Thanks. __

Re: gdg question

Yes, JOBB did start first, but apparently for the first time in 20 years!! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fletcher, Kevin Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 1:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: gdg question Eileen, I b

Re: gdg question

Thank you Steve, I never knew about the differences in allocation between tape and dasd. Very interesting. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thompson, Steve Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 1:48 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject

Re: gdg question

I'm no guru but I would say that the JOBB has and ENQUE on the base because you said DISP=OLD with a releative #. If you specified the actual generation by dataset name .GVnn I believe you would be allset. Thanks, Dave Hanson 464-8889 ---

Re: gdg question

-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barkow, Eileen Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 12:39 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: gdg question can one of you gurus out there please shed some light on this, since i am not sure what the a

Re: gdg question

Eileen, I believe what you are seen is the enqueue on the GDG base and not a specific level, since the +1 level is not actually resolved until DSN closing time. You never specified which one started first (unless the started exactly the same time), but MVS will get all the allocation stuff out of

Re: gdg question

Eileen, If I understand correctly, The GDG BASE is being ENQUEUED. Kevin (not a guru) Clark >>> 3. JOBA remains on the execution queue waiting for the dataset: IEF863I DSN = .PTNT.SASFILE.NEW JOBA IEF099I JOB TBCDAILY WAITING FOR DATA SETS now, why is the IEF863

Re: gdg question

> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barkow, Eileen > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 12:39 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: gdg question > > can one of you gurus out there please shed some light on this, since i > am

gdg question

can one of you gurus out there please shed some light on this, since i am not sure what the answer should be or whether or not this is normal, since these jobs supposedly have been running and working for the last 20 years (although i am not sure if they ever ran at the same time). normally th

Re: IMBED/REPLICATE/KEYRANGE Question

Mark, It WON'T happen. If it does, it will be the biggest break fix IBM will have had in recent memory (20+ years). Anyone else remember the DFP deltas? Bob Richards -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Sent: Wednesday

Re: IF/THEN/ELSE/ENDIF

"An unenforced prohibition is meaningless." Not really, with all due respect to Justice Holmes. The possibility of future enforcement hangs over my guilty head. Specifically, I am testing symbolic parameters in procs, although they are not among the valid operands. For example: PRO

Re: CRC Checksum Calculation

The CBT tape has some callable checksum routines. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 5:34 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CRC Checksum Calculation On Wednesday 11 April

Re: The Mainframe in 10 Years...

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Bain) writes: > I have been asked by my management as well as a couple of clients to try > to predict the future of the mainframe. Although I have done some > re

Re: Are there standard IBM dsects for the P-L-O functions that require one?

> Subject: Are there standard IBM dsects for the P-L-O functions that > require one? > > Or need I write my own? I did not find any and so I wrote my own. You probably ought to do the same. CC -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signof

Re: Are there standard IBM dsects for the P-L-O functions that require one?

You need to write your own. Bob Shannon Rocket Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.

Are there standard IBM dsects for the P-L-O functions that require one?

Or need I write my own? -- Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother respondi

Re: GRS CNS apar OA11382

Hi, We had been tracking this and have applied it along with a lot of other service to a SYSRES set that is rotating into our test partitions this coming Friday. I will let you know next week how it has gone. I don't understand why when different IBM teams are doing functions which reside in o

Re: original JCL via SAPI

Hi again, not quite so, SAPI is not involved in this process at all. Please see Appendix B of the "JES2 Initialization and Tuning Guide" for a description of the SDSB Interface: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/HAS2A350/APPENDIX1.2.4?SHELF=HAS2BK61&DT=20060630010801 Reg

Re: VSAM Extent Reduction - Any way to disable for selected jobs

Do you have these datasets assigned to a Data Class? You can set up a Data Class to specify the maximum number of volumes (candidates) and/or dynamically add more volumes when needed (Dynamic candidate volume). On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:23:41 -0400, Clark, Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Mike, >

Re: re IF/THEN/ELSE/ENDIF

> > > > A propos of the deficiencies of IF/THEN/ELSE/ENDIF JCL > processing Paul Gilmartin writes: > > Amen. It's to the point of 'why read anyrthing with > Gilmartin's name on it'. > > Jack Kelly > Simply because more than only once he has something to say. It's by exposing ourselves to differ

Re: IMBED/REPLICATE/KEYRANGE Question

That gave me a headache... For better or worse, I test new OS versions in a LPAR with fully shared DASD, catalogs, RACF and etc. (NJE not MAS). What I envision if this ever comes to pass is that testing will cause way more problems than production. Those test datasets are the ones living on ML2.

Re: re IF/THEN/ELSE/ENDIF

A propos of the deficiencies of IF/THEN/ELSE/ENDIF JCL processing Paul Gilmartin writes: Amen. It's to the point of 'why read anyrthing with Gilmartin's name on it'. Jack Kelly LA Systems @ US Courts x 202-502-2390 -- For IBM

Re: IMBED/REPLICATE/KEYRANGE Question

It most likely won't happen, but if: 1) All DASD Datasets are fixed. 2) Install new OS without support. 3) User(s) restore datasets from HSM to DASD with IMBED/REPLICATE/KEYRANGE attributes. 4) Implement OS without support 5) User can't access datasets Will HRECOVER then perform the attribute rem

GRS CNS apar OA11382

Has anyone applied the ptf for apar OA11382 on a 1.7 system that allows you to move the grs/cns to a different system via operator command? It was retro- fitted from z/OS 1.8. Work as adverstised ? brought everything to a screeching halt ? ---

Re: IMBED/REPLICATE/KEYRANGE Question

Mark, It already is a benign issue. The three keywords are ignored. I would rather IBM spend their copious free time working on solving *real* problems. Bob Richards -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Sent: Wednesday,

Re: The Mainframe in 10 Years...

On 11 Apr 2007 05:46:57 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerhard Adam) wrote: > >1. There is a limit to the complexity a personal system can tolerate due to >the lack of expertise in the general user, so this becomes a limiting factor >in deployment. These systems will tend to remain portals into lar

Re: IMBED/REPLICATE/KEYRANGE Question

I've wondered if it will ever happen, the fix to HSM may cost more than the benefit of the fix. What was the benefit again? Just disk space? Any dataset that has been reorged in the last few years doesn't have the obsolete options. However, the solution to a recently recalled dataset in your scen

Re: Interesting Mainframe piece

Yeah, but I did not want to bring it to anyone's attention... ;) On Wed Apr 11 8:01 , Steve Comstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >Gary Green wrote: >> Discusses MS HIS 2006. >> >> http://mainframe.typepad.com/blog/2007/04/microsoft_mainf.html >> > >Did you notice the author was Timothy Sipples

Re: IMBED/REPLICATE/KEYRANGE Question

It would be nice if IBM could add that support to HSM now instead of waiting for the zOS release that removes support. Murphy says that once we clean up all DASD datasets with these attributes someone will recall datasets with the attributes right before we go into production with the new operatin

Re: IMBED/REPLICATE/KEYRANGE Question

Hello David, I would hope that Ed and I weren't saying different things, but there had been relatively newer information added to II13894 (which was copied here) on the topic, so perhaps that was the difference. Before this information was added to II13894 (which said that the recall would *not* b

Re: Interesting Mainframe piece

Gary Green wrote: Discusses MS HIS 2006. http://mainframe.typepad.com/blog/2007/04/microsoft_mainf.html Did you notice the author was Timothy Sipples? -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com ** Spring Promotion ** 10% - 15% off for classe

Interesting Mainframe piece

Discusses MS HIS 2006. http://mainframe.typepad.com/blog/2007/04/microsoft_mainf.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search t

Re: Rexx to Extract XCF Structures

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:19:24 +, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Does anyone know of a Rexx exec that can read the XCF dataset and extract the definitions needed to re-create it for DR purposes? > >Don't you keep the JCL used to create all your SYSPLEX policies? > Easy to do with CFRM

Re: VSAM Extent Reduction - Any way to disable for selected jobs

Mike, I went back to the storage guy. He said that the problem was with the absence of candidate volumes being defined. Did some ALTER ADDVOL(s) and all is well in the SHARK pool again. Thanks. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf O

Re: Capacity Planning 101

We (CMG) are in the planning stages of making past papers available. Stay tuned. In the meantime, you can purchase a CMG membership for $175, which includes the proceedings (on CD) from CMG2006. And now is a good time to start working on your management to let you attend this year's conference!

Capacity Planning 101

Hello. It has been sometime since I've done Capacity Planning & Tuning so I am looking for web-sites (CMG), papers, etc. that I can study/read to brush away the cobwebs; get ideas for a plan, strategy. Any advice, tips, etc. will be greatly appreciated. I think you have to be a CMG member to a

Re: RACF and Member Level Protection

> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe > Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 6:36 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: RACF and Member Level Protection > > > That's all well and good. But, the suggestion was t

Re: original JCL via SAPI

Hi If I understand correctly , I got the browse token from SAPI , and I can make a dynalloc for the dsn : user.jobname.jobid.JESJCLIN Klaus Stanislawiak wrote: Hi Miklos, the SAPI (SYSOUT Application Interface) only provides support to read SYSOUT data sets. What you are looking for (DDNA

Re: CICS recycle (was Effects of Linux...)

Hi Radoslaw, I agree. We recycle many test/development regions daily both to pickup changes and because they do tend to become less stable over time with active development and testing. Production regions only come down for releases or IPLs and may be up for months at a time. I just peeked and on

Re: The Mainframe in 10 Years...

Where will the mainframe be in 10 years? We know from the history >of ISAM that it will take 30+ years to die after the vendor announces >its demise and the timer has not started yet. I'm not sure I understand the question. The concept of a "mainframe" will certainly be dominant, however tha

Re: The Mainframe in 10 Years...

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:05:40 -0400 IBMsysProg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :>Sometime ago I read a question from [EMAIL PROTECTED] if a sharp sudden unexpected pain would often result in a verbal response? Now Mr. Bain from a company with ISAM in its name wonders about

Re: Effects of Linux on z...ISV support and z/OS (Was: IBM to the PCM market)

Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/09/2007 at 03:21 PM, Bruno Sugliani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: As for security , there are more hackers in the world than MVS sysprogs or MVS installation on this earth . MVS applications do not normally run user-supplied code

Re: CRC Checksum Calculation

On Wednesday 11 April 2007 08:03, Amlan Prasad wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any COBOL code or subroutine available to do the CRC checksum > calculation? If no, please advise. > > Thanks, > Amlan It doesn't do checksum but ICSF has API's for other types of hashes. One-Way Hash Generate (CSNBOWH and

Re: original JCL via SAPI

Hi Thank you. I will look the SDSB description Klaus Stanislawiak wrote: Hi Miklos, the SAPI (SYSOUT Application Interface) only provides support to read SYSOUT data sets. What you are looking for (DDNAME JESJCLIN) is not a SYSOUT data set, so you won't be able to read it through SAPI. If yo

Re: Effects of Linux on z...ISV support and z/OS (Was: IBM to the PCM market)

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/09/2007 at 03:21 PM, Bruno Sugliani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >As for security , there are more hackers in the world than MVS >sysprogs or MVS installation on this earth . MVS applications do not normally run user-supplied code; m$ applications do. That's the mai

Re: DFHSM cleanup of orphaned MCC records.

Thanks to all who have responded. As I now have a bread crumb trail to follow which makes this cleanup much easier. Many thanks to Ed, Robert and Brian, Claude Richbourg Florida Department of Corrections Systems Programmer III 850-921-1383 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussi

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