r z/VM. (It was just hallway talk, after all.)
Jim's post was addressing a jump from a newer-than-your machine to a z/9-BC
and he posted it back in (or around) February. (Thanks, as always, Jim!)
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We would all like IBM to be all things to all customers... but what are the
odds
of that working out equally well for all?
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els publication.. BTDT
Oops! You were correct. (Who do I make out my tuition payment to again?)
((I actually still miss the days of MVTDEBE.))
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File 1 is the v
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>slowly. And I suspect it is, regrettably, not over yet.
I believe that the web-based IBMLink is
a 21st Century version of: OS/VS2 Release 2.
Lets hope that IBM hears our plea for an expedited Release 3.
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>
>// DCB=(RECFM=FB,LRECL=133,DSORG=PS)
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>Would you copy it first, changing its format?
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why should we?
You just might want to get out of D.C. and see the world before you make too
many more assessments like that about Brazil, Russia, India or China. There
are certainly highly developed pockets in each of those countries - and there
are, conversely, underdeveloped pockets here
te much of my time or energy on them.
I suspect that many of the rest of you have noticed that over the years.
(Maybe you are just too polite to mention it here? Seems somewhat unlikely
given the tone of the list of late.)
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t not want to discuss it much
after that... that is up to you.
Good luck! (Can you tell that we are not recommending the freeing of common
storage?)
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* I recall the need to be in supervisor state when you issue the STORAGE
imes do software
and hardware. (Or so the IBM marketeers have always seemed to believe.)
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How much progress has been made (if any?) towards setting up the Linux
instance to have a maximized number of read-only memory segments that are
able to be defined as shared (in VM's terms)? It seems that VM's shared
segment support could do wonders to reduce the Linu
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:24:08 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote:
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>
>
>>You could also find the answers to your questions in the z/OS Principles of
>>Operation, Chapter 3 ("Storage").
>
>That's the z/Architecture PofOp -- z/OS is not a h
they get that way when they know that auditors will be getting
extra-huffy with the security folks for letting the sysprogs get too slippery.)
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titled "Dynamic Address Translation" which explains the hardware and the
process in decent detail.
The z/OS Principles of Operation (SA22-7832-05) is available online at URL:
http://publibz.bould
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[ snip ]
>> Not every poster on this list is a systems programmer -- many
>> are applications programmers, some others
licopters, NAFTA, or other similar conspiracies
are in the wrong listserve here.
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e seeing interactions with UNICODE and z/OS. (What release of
z/OS are you operating DB2 v8 with?)
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datasets owned by a given person.
What do you then do for dataset security? Does the browser prompt for RACF
Userid and Password? (Is that information then sent by the browser in an
unencrypted format to the HTTP Server for authentication
beam experiments...
not coincidentally.)
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oblem are
>realized.
Then what about IPLs? The catalogs would also be opened during a normal
IPL process. Are sites with, say, weekly IPLs exposed more than those sites
able to stay up & running?
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SYSTSIN? That would give you the standard TSO continuation that you were
expecting.
That might also be a blind alley, since a search of the current IBM Redbook
site revealed zero hits using BLSCBSUQ as the sole search argument.
It might (or might not) be worth a try though.
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tyle-Fourth-William-
Strunk/dp/020530902X> you might think they could lower their cut... but that
just isn't going to happen with recruiters, is it.)
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. This can occur with sample job CEEWIVP2.
Cause
Accidentally using the old COBOL run time library.
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The acronym: FISH
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Be aware that some command are undocumented for a reason.
In this case improper use could cause message flooding, which could
subsequently cause other system problems. See APAR OW32819.
If a command is not documented, use it at your own risk.
Greg
Greg Dyck
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/support have increased
substantially (what with SOX, HIPPA, etc.). Cover-ups don't stop at the
boardroom, you know.
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ompanies run
modern business applications on System z using in-house expertise. The
announcements help demonstrate how System z can deliver superior benefits
over distributed systems."
Full article on cnn.com at:
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0269455.htm
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amount of time (15 vs. 30 in those four sections of 2.5 different
STIGs). They generally say 15 but at least one says 30. (I didn't produce an
exhaustive list.)
Much of this will depend upon just how secure you are required to become
(Secret, Top Se
ould just learn the Queen's
>English.
That's your cue Chris Mason!
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easy answers enable & encourage continued abuse.
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that " EXPORT entryname INFILE(x) OUTFILE(y) TEMP " would be the proper
syntax. You are missing the "entryname" field.
Try using:
EXPORT SYS1.DFSMS.SCDS INFILE(IN5) OUTFILE(OUT5) TEMP
and lose the UNIT=DISK,VOL=SER=Z14CT1 keywords on the IN5 DD, too.
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tures, since they use incompatible
mechanisms. Note 4 indicates that CSST may or may not be implemented in
hardware, depending upon the specific machine implementation.)
Programming Note 5 suggests a reluctance on the part of the architecture
team to even add the instruction apart from PLO.
Gil,
Do you have anything specified for SPACE in the active ALLOCxx member in
your PARMLIB?
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On Tue, 22 May 2007 10:51:31 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote:
>Tom Schmidt wrote:
>> On Mon, 21 May 2007 14:25:20 -0500, Eric Bielefeld wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe Tom should sue Microsoft. They obviously took his name, which
was
>>> there long before Vista.
>>>
&
ou may have to convert an index VTOC (IXFORMAT) volume to nonindexed
(OSFORMAT) before rerunning the DEFRAG operation. Otherwise, the volume
free-space values may be incorrect.
* The hexadecimal qualifier is used to prevent you from deleting this data.
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ot, so they
purposefully "need them" for one reason or another all of the time.
They could just tie things up in court until he ran out of money, then win by
default whether they were "right" or not. It happens all the time.
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ough BATCH JCL? No.
(Started Job, sure, and started tasks are easily done, too. Batch is where it
gets pesky... like "current time by which means of counting" (RDR,C/I,INIT).)
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underground via earthen berms.
St. Paul gets a LOT colder than 32 F. but the building was always toasty.
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>>
>Why does RACF not support rules restricting the set of users who may ENQ
>on protected data set names?
RACF would support them just fine - it simply has never been asked to do so!
SMF would support them just fine, too, but it has never been as
me. If the elapsed time
improved 'enough' and the CPU was 'reasonable' then I could move on to
other 'opportunities'.
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'Administrator' in the title, being the trendy folks that HR/ER groups
like to
think they are.
The best title I have held to date (besides 'Co-Owner') was 'IBM Technical
Expert'. (Well, I'm kind of fond of the title 'Dad', too.)
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mes.)
So we can kick the position around on ibm-main - until Darren calls it a halt -
but this particular job doesn't look (to me) like it was ever intended for
general
consumption. I would even bet that the position was filled before the ink was
dry.
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t on going with the rename/front-end route then
you should at least use XCTL (or maybe CSRL16J) to transfer from your front-
end into ADRDSSU. That would keep the environment closer to what DSS
expects at execution time.
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On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:10:15 -0700, John R. Ehrman wrote:
>The new updated to the z/Architecture Principles of Operation is now
>available
...
So where is the MVCOS instruction? (I was expecting to find it in this
update.)
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.com:
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0241650.htm
("zIIP Assisted IPSec" announced for z9, among other things...)
((And maybe the mainframe's not so dead after all?))
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concept device??? (Think: TEMPEST)
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(I wouldn't have thought that the currency conversion effort needed would
have made the attack on 45+ million cards into a worthwhile project myself.
One card worth $45 million, s
will
vote - strongly - in any other direction.
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On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 12:54:39 -0400, Alvaro Quintupray wrote:
>-Mensaje original-
>De: IBM Mainframe Discussion List En nombre de Tom Schmidt
>Enviado el: Miércoles, 04 de Abril de 2007 12:49
>Asunto: Re: ADR793E -PDSE indicators in the VTOC and VVDS do not match
>
>On Wed
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 10:57:45 -0500, Alvaro Quintupray B. wrote:
>
>Can I modify the VTOC to change the attributes of a file? .. how?
>
What release of z/OS are you currently operating?
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On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 08:57:33 -0500, Tom Schmidt wrote:
>IBM traditionally makes hardware announcements of that ilk around the May or
>September timeframe.
...snip...
>But if I was going to be pinned to a date I would put it towards the end of
>May (22nd or 29th). (May 15th would mak
ind all of that paper. IBM may,
in fact, have nothing. (I don't have any inside information here in the wilds
of
Wisconsin. It is difficult to read the contents of the jets as they fly
overhead,
after all.)
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Stanford also has Unix-SPIRES available via MPL 1.1 ... maybe that would be
useful (and entertaining)?
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the cross-memory functions.
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Y few worthwhile features
that are missing from Vista32 -- and it is a remarkably thin client on the Win
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Chris' observations are otherwise on the money. While I have used
ISPF to edit C and C++ code for z/OS Unix, it was far more work to do the
editing in those languages than should have been necessary. And far, far
more messing around there than editing a C/C++ program for
a nice thought) for the little guys.
Small
customers need to be nurtured and small ISVs ought to be encouraged, too.
(If my users can claim that their programs have "always" been bug-free then I
can claim that free hardware/software should "always" be within reach of
de
unt on the idea of attempting a 'mainframe migration'. After all,
you don't hear about any mainframe migration failures in the press, right?
(If only it were true that migrations don't fail.)
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, but there isn't much being done to help
their business use of z/OS (or z/VM for that matter; and does z/VSE even
matter anymore?).
SHARE doesn't have near the impact that the zBLC has and that may not be
able to change - unless the zBLC members wish to make it
Protected xCB is reflected
back to the user's Unprotected xCB as the I/O operations progress.
This is documented (more or less) in the various DFSMS (DFP) publications ...
and a whole lot of older, not-completely-obsolete PLMs and FE handbooks.
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to look at the bookmanager (or pdf) version it is (still) free. Try:
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sy right now.
(By the way, Tim isn't an 'old guy' like most posters on this list. He is
moderately young (certainly by ibm-main standards) and very enthusiastic
for the z/Series platforms. Lets keep him that way.)
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the question.
No, your information is very dated and obsolete. Multiple copies of GTF
have been allowed and supported since z/OS 1.6... for which support ENDS
this September (Sept 2007). The announced successor z/OS releases also
support multiple concurrent GTF trace STCs.
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eem to be. And I suggested that z/OS 1.6 be
omitted, since it is off service in September even though I'm at a 1.6 shop
now. (We will convert to 1.8 "soon".) I wouldn't argue if IBM said that
1.7 was too much effort if they would commit to rolling it back to 1.8 this
yea
could have pity on its customers and package those SMF
changes as an SPE for z/OS 1.7 and 1.8?
Not many shops will be on 1.9 for a year and a fair number won't be on 1.9
for up to 2 years. That's a long time to make customers
ither (a) take a
quarterly backup or better yet (b) lie down & rest until that urge passes.
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. patent is 7,174,274.
I'd say he is alive & kicking... just kicking it out West (still).
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uot; (black/secret) z/OS project where
their e-mail domains alone would divulge too much information to the
outside world?
Were either of them at the recent SHARE? (Both were in Baltimore last
summer.)
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On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:15:58 -0600, Graying MVS Sysprog wrote:
>On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:47:47 -0600, Tom Schmidt wrote:
>
>>Do you know if your company is looking at outsourcing your mainframe
(yet)?
>
>Why? You need the business? Actually, I don't think they know enough
ll have a job
>doing what I love. I know many of us have been retired lately.
Do you know if your company is looking at outsourcing your mainframe (yet)?
Did your new boss want this new position or was he/she pushed into it fr
So IBM lost a Baby Computer (z9BC) on Wall Street... Can Unicics really
handle that load reliably? (Why did Sun part with it if it was so good?)
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for higher-security systems.
In these cases the vendor is not trusted, at least not enough for that type
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king at them for customers since 1985 and I have NEVER seen one be
completely correct from IBM.
So, no, don't use IBM as an example of a company with a clue how to deal
with keys. I suspect IBM does not use keys for that very re
-M site before and I saw that behavior... I believe that's how
they figure out the job's success/failure, etc.)
You should also be able to get the issue straightened out then, too.
Everything else is a waste of your time on th
ying GETMAIN macro?
As John Gilmore already pointed out, LE generally uses heaps so the storage
management is done by LE and not so much by GETMAIN/STORAGE. To really
track down the causer you may need to get much closer to LE's heap
management... which can be done by studying Chapter 5 of the
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 20:20:41 -0600, Rick Fochtman wrote:
>Pardon me; my education is lacking.
>
>DWDM ?? "Dark fiber" ??
Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
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On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 15:35:59 -0600, Tom Schmidt wrote:
>On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 06:48:46 -0600, Len Rugen wrote:
>>I think I missed something, WHY does the Cicso CIP need to be replaced?
...
>>So, if the CISCO CIP is going away or someting, I may need to "onload"
>>
that it was time to move
along.
Also, OP made it quite clear that "onload" was not the correct
direction. "Offload options" was (and is) the subject for this thread.
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problem - is too easy to get around.
Maybe not; see my suggestion above.
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>> On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:40:55 -0600, Chase, John wrote:
>>
>> >Also, our current limitations notwithstanding, a
cranks it up during logon. (I know that I
do; I have to look at dumps sometimes and my region is very considerably
larger than 6M or even 32M.) Check TSO MAXSIZE.
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27;t know where my paper copy is these days and I cannot find
anything on the web except a tangential reference to James' paper by Jim
Keohane. I know that James was an occasional poster and lurker around here
about 7-8 years ago... maybe he'l
As I said, a puzzlement.
I don't believe you will see the same kinds of issues with mainframe
encryption and I really would be astonished if the errors were within 3
orders of magnitude of the PC (or even blade server) world. Reliability is
key to the
On Sat, 6 Jan 2007 20:26:03 -0600, Ed Gould mumbled out loud:
>IBM a few years ago introduced a 3838 (?) for number crunching. IIRC
>it went down in flames.
The IBM 3838 Array Processor was introduced in 1976 -- 30+ years ago.
That's more than "a few years ago".
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a stronger (hybrid) organism. That is what IBM has been doing with its
iSeries and pSeries and (I surely hope) it is doing that with zSeries,
too.
We, on this list, need to be doing the same. Most good sysprogs that I've
k
f users with 4 monitors per
workstation having more than one workstation per desk.
Some of these bad boys are hungry, hungry hippos.
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(My own desktop has well over 35 sessions active to try to monitor the
cra
ow the DA display works (Is is 'SzIIP' meaning 'System zIIP
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On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 13:45:12 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>And indeed it is! Now what do I do?
Well, what would you LIKE to do? (You can't ignore it, you can't recover
and you can't delay... in the DCB ABEND routine.)
Have you tried specifying a SYNAD exit for that DC
from the original post. This does not sound to me as if it is
>a successful execution of QSAM GET to drive the EOV. I guess I just read
>it wrong.
While the "Using Data Sets" publication certainly says what you said (in
your earlier post), the Messages manual for IEC036I
; 2. In any event, DFSMS is calling it when it is calling it, and that's
>> during a GET.
>>
>> I'm getting the ABEND exit invoked for an S002-04 condition, which is
>> clearly a read-type situation.
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; and 6,801,993."
- - - - -
(Hoping to end speculation subthreads, at least; if this whole thread dies
so much the better. This whole thing is so far from being settled there
really isn't much point in discussing it at this
as 999... apparently they don't expect to have more
than 99,999 open IBMLINK incidents at any given point in time. (The
IBMLINK PMR format is n,999.) With the reliability I've seen lately I
would not be so sure the PMR incident number (n) won't overflow... I
wond
impatiently waiting for the new PoOp (-05?) to be available,
largely because of the MVCOS instruction and partly for the other nifty
stuff. Is there an estimated date for SA22-7832-05?
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>this is becoming a weekly event. now if ibm would only schedule the day(s)
>that servlink is not going to be available.
It seems that, so far, they have only been selecting the days of the week
that end in 'y'.
PLPA.
Jerry (and Rex),
All good advice. I would recommend running an AMBLIST LISTLPA and 2
AMBLIST LISTLOADs with SYSLIB pointing to (one each) the two SDFHLPA
libraries on disk. That way you could establish the module sizes, both in
storage and on disk in order to diagnose this, a
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