Re: "Library Server" Access Now "Forbidden"?

2018-09-17 Thread John Eells
John Eells wrote: I cannot speak for anyone else, but I have been on vacation the past two weeks and do not know the current state of affairs.  I can try to find out what's happening with this later today if time allows and the people I'd need to ask about it are available. I'

Re: Report volumes with IPLText

2018-09-17 Thread John Eells
It's not that there's *no* IPL text, in other words, but that there's no IPL text that will actually do anything useful. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arc

Re: Installing zOS from scratch experience

2018-09-17 Thread John Eells
DVD with standalone DSF and DSS. ("There is no magic.") As Parwez said, get the Redbook. There are a number of other steps involved, such as creating or editing an IOCDS, configuring the disk arrays, and so on, and all of them should be covered in the book. -- John Eells IBM Po

Re: S106 abends after copying into LINKLIST

2018-10-02 Thread John Eells
cation for system software volumes. "Just let the disk controller manage the actual real estate" is my (new) recommendation for system software volumes. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subsc

Re: S106 abends after copying into LINKLIST

2018-10-02 Thread John Eells
John Eells wrote: exceeding the link list extent limit the topic of this thread That should read, "...exceeding the link list extent limit *and* the topic of this thread" -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

Re: S106 abends after copying into LINKLIST

2018-10-04 Thread John Eells
be in x37 City before you know it. ServerPac production is smart enough to adjust space on the fly, BTW, so the free space allocated by default stays at a fixed percentage even as PTFs consume more space in the data sets for the products included. For CBPDO, you get to guess yourself. -- John

Re: S106 abends after copying into LINKLIST

2018-10-05 Thread John Eells
you had to walk to school. It was always uphill both ways and it was always cold and snowing. At least, that's what people used to tell their kids who rode those cushy heated (FSVO "heated," at least in Maine) buses, right?

Re: ISPF issue - new system

2018-10-05 Thread John Eells
a.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ib

Re: S106 abends after copying into LINKLIST

2018-10-08 Thread John Eells
ve a successful program fetch with the wrong module. And then attempt to execute it with the parameters and environment of the old module. What would that cause? Program checks? Mangled data? -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -

Re: Bad Design but nobody cares

2018-10-16 Thread John Eells
nly at IPL time.  That's why IBM's method of changing it is so cumbersome, since (I think) IKJEFXSR, which starts up TSO, has to put that number into the CVT. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For

Re: Bad Design but nobody cares

2018-10-16 Thread John Eells
sbgo...@cbttape.org wrote: Hi John, I don’t think user logs deal with global notifications. This is strictly a Broadcast Dataset issue, I think. All the best. Sam ...as "someone" (thanks, JimM) just pointed out to me. Sorry for the misdirection! -- John Eells IBM Pough

Re: downloading an older version of a component

2018-10-24 Thread John Eells
order products that have been replaced with new releases on Shopz. (I sent you a note about a possible alternative offline.) -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive a

Re: SMP/E

2018-10-25 Thread John Eells
and installation within a few years. (If you have not been following along, you can find my SHARE presentations and others from IBM and other vendors online.) -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM

Re: Serverpac products maintenance clarification

2018-10-31 Thread John Eells
chains were installable on that day, it should have been installed during ServerPac production. If it was not, please open a PMR. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Is there a utility or command that will show load module characteristics?

2018-11-01 Thread John Eells
uot;program object." I'm most interested in alternative entry point names and their addresses. I'd prefer an IBM utility to a CBT program just because it would be quicker to do. Few vendor products available in my datacenter. Charles -- John Eells IBM Pou

Re: Speaking of time change...

2018-11-06 Thread John Eells
grown applications that read SMF and cannot handle the overlap ... If DB2 is so broken, shouldn't IBM accept an APAR on it? SMF ought to use GMT. What century is this? What makes you think that either (a) Db2 is broken or (b) SMF does not use UTC? -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

Re: ShopzSeries redirects to 404?

2018-11-15 Thread John Eells
eries/ShopzSeries_public.wss This isn't right... looks like it injects ';www-03.ibm.com/'. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: Checksum or hashing

2018-11-20 Thread John Eells
to compare these hashes at source (z/OS) and destination (linux) after transferring some sizable datasets. Thanks in advance! -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: IBM Automatic (COBOL) Binary Optimizer Now Availabile

2015-11-30 Thread John Eells
), but as I understand it, it will not yield the same performance gains a V5 recompile can gain. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: IBM Automatic (COBOL) Binary Optimizer Now Availabile

2015-11-30 Thread John Eells
John Eells wrote: Charles Mills wrote: If you are running *programs compiled with V3 or V4* (and are not in the mood to recompile them on V5). It is essentially an alternative to V5 (although I suspect IBM would not be happy with that statement). It is of course an alternative to V5 (as is

Re: Straightforward way to determine hardware architecture level?

2015-12-01 Thread John Eells
ion time change, The SU Bit String had been frozen for quite a while when I came along and caused IHASUBIT and its associated macros to be removed from the (then) MVS/ESA SP Version 4 product after System Generation was finally withdrawn in all its flavors. --

Re: RLS implementation for CDS's in DFHSM

2015-12-08 Thread John Eells
obtain an index-wide lock in z/OS V2.2. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Memory for z/OS 2.1

2015-12-11 Thread John Eells
t for z/OS 2.1 to run on a z10 box ? -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: DFdss does not release space

2015-12-15 Thread John Eells
tive to suggest that DFSMSdss could optionally use DS1CREDT to determine whether a data set with DS1LSTAR set to zero should have its space released. Or, that an "unknown" flag be added to the F9DSCB. Or... -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com ---

Re: D M=STOR causes disaster

2016-01-04 Thread John Eells
), and though I did not check on the rules, a spot check seems to bear this out. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: D M=STOR causes disaster

2016-01-04 Thread John Eells
longer minor and it would be equally appropriate that its status should be re-visited and changed to a Defect APAR worthy of some resolution. I won't disagree. But, as someone already suggested, R.S. should open a PMR if he would like us to consider it. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeeps

Re: Migration from z196 to z13 encryption aspect

2016-01-06 Thread John Eells
tall a z13. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: z13 PSP for z/OS 2.1

2016-01-08 Thread John Eells
First, download the latest Enhanced Holddata, which contains all of the Fixcat information that REPORT MISSINGFIX uses.> -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access in

Re: RESTORE JOB on z/OS 2.1 Serverpac failing

2016-01-12 Thread John Eells
Would some kind soul please open a PMR? An FMID is one type of SYSMOD. SYSMODs include APARS, PTFS, FUNCTIONS (FMIDs), and USERMODs. Lizette Koehler wrote: Sharon, Is HQX7790 a SYSMOD? I might have thought it is an FMID. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: SMP/E error in my z/OS 2.1 Serverpac OS212016.

2016-01-13 Thread John Eells
neration error. As a workaround, you can RESTART the job from step UCLIN, removing all updates which were already done the previous run and also removing all occurences of statement DEL SYSMOD(HQX7790) CIFREQ( (UK96644,UK96643)). -- John Eells IBM Poughkeep

Re: SMP/E error in my z/OS 2.1 Serverpac OS212016.

2016-01-13 Thread John Eells
I checked with someone in ServerPac design, and this is indeed what's up. They will look at the alternatives for solving this, including the one below. John Eells wrote: So...I infer, perhaps incorrectly, that the RESTORE job is also doing a ZONEMERGE for the SDSF zone. If that'

Re: Cloning a Sysres and ZFS

2016-01-18 Thread John Eells
ses, so I don't see any reason why you would need your zFS in Master for your 1.13 systems. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Cloning a Sysres and ZFS

2016-01-18 Thread John Eells
Tom Marchant wrote: On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 09:04:53 -0500, John Eells wrote: - You can use SYMBOLICRELATE on DEFINE ALIAS to point to the catalog thusly named in the master catalog on the production system. There used to be a requirement that the alias and the data set name be in the same

Re: ShopZ

2016-01-25 Thread John Eells
s) I found it quite straightforward. The hardest part was finding out what the right IBM internal customer number was and getting authorized to use it. YMMV, and you know who I work for...but I think the Shopz team has done a fairly nice job of it. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie e

Re: COBOL v5

2016-01-26 Thread John Eells
turn out to have more value than the originally intended purpose. It happens. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

LinuxONE Press Release

2016-01-26 Thread John Eells
For those running Linux on z Systems: http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/48827.wss -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: COBOL v5

2016-02-01 Thread John Eells
Appendix E., Using ISAM Programs with VSAM Data Sets, in the Using Data Sets book. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@lists

UADS (was Re: [Bulk] Re: COBOL v5)

2016-02-01 Thread John Eells
gment, it's a data mining operation. This difference alone has inhibited conversion in some shops. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send em

Re: z/OS 2.2 compatibility check for IBM Products

2016-02-01 Thread John Eells
://service.software.ibm.com/holdata/390holddata.html That page says what I'd remembered, which is that: "The new FIXCAT statements are available only in the full.txt and full.bin files." Those are the 730-day files. Also, I don't find FIXCATs in the "Year" file. -- John Eells IBM

Re: Stand-Alone DSS RESTORE with 3584 Library - How??

2016-02-05 Thread John Eells
Bob beat me to it! But I'll add this: ...when you specify NOVERIFY (or NVFY) on the RESTORE command. Robert Haimowitz wrote: You no longer need an ICKDSF IPL tape with the current DFDSS. Bob -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ib

Re: BookManagerBUILD and DGW HTTP Server under z/OS V2.2

2016-02-09 Thread John Eells
l the service you want to have installed on those FMIDs before running BUILDMCS. Unless they have to be installed in the same zones as z/OS, consider installing them in their own libraries and zones so that you don't have to do this again. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

Re: SMPE: Un-ACCEPTing USERMOD

2016-02-12 Thread John Eells
iple of Least Effort solution. This could provide the safety net the OP (or a later poster) was looking for. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access ins

Re: SMPE: Un-ACCEPTing USERMOD

2016-02-12 Thread John Eells
n a function SYSMOD. Or am I misunderstanding what is written? I read it as saying that you can't use it for ++USERMODs. No, I'm sure it's right. I hadn't looked it up. So it has to be a ++FUNCTION, then.

Re: SMPE: Un-ACCEPTing USERMOD

2016-02-12 Thread John Eells
Paul Gilmartin wrote: So, PRE a FUNCTION which is APPLYed only in the Target zone which NPREs another function which is ACCEPTed in the DLIB zone. Not what I suggested. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] UADS (was Re: [Bulk] Re: COBOL v5)

2016-02-15 Thread John Eells
always reply 'Y' to each of those prompts (except for the first few IIRC). -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listser

Re: Apply PTF on DB2 10 (z/os 1.12)

2016-02-25 Thread John Eells
tp://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0110&L=ibm-main-archives&P=R58709 -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.ed

Archive (was Re: Apply PTF on DB2 10 (z/os 1.12))

2016-02-25 Thread John Eells
Tom Marchant wrote: On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 10:25:56 -0500, John Eells wrote: Anyone know why I get this trying to follow the link? "Sorry, you are not authorized to search the archives of the IBM-MAIN-ARCHIVES list from the email address (ee...@us.ibm.com) you entered on the login s

Re: Problem applying UA71619 anyone ?

2016-03-02 Thread John Eells
ice and HOLDDATA and use GROUPEXTEND to pull in the fixes. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: z/OS Security Level 3 woes

2016-03-08 Thread John Eells
rote: By the silence, I guess everyone thinks this will work, or are too polite to tell me I'm crazy and aiming at my foot. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive a

Re: Problem applying UA71619 anyone ?

2016-03-08 Thread John Eells
ORRSUM) on as one long parameter instead of 9, so obviously the resulting LA instruction gets an error. If we are the only ones having this problem, we must be doing something very weird ... Regards, Jonathan -Message d'origine- De : John Eells [mailto:ee...@us.ibm.com] Envoyé : m

Re: z/OS Security Level 3 woes

2016-03-08 Thread John Eells
ataset(s)(patterned after what IBM sent you), and add a DDDEF entry for it. As John Eells mentioned you could still have some issues with modules at differing levels of maintenance. But lets get your buildmcs done, received, and an applycheck run and see where to go next... SMP/E APP

Re: Problem applying UA71619 anyone ?

2016-03-09 Thread John Eells
So, just to close the loop...do we correctly document the required options? ESHEL Jonathan wrote: Thank you John. The problem was found thanks to Tony H. as a wrong HLASM compile option used by us - COMPAT(SYSLIST). Regards, Jonathan On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 12:29:48 -0500, John Eells wrote: In

Re: IBM secure z/OS software delivery: Don't get locked out!

2016-03-09 Thread John Eells
com/software/support/BlueDiamondRegistration.html -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Freeing up space in a VSAM file

2016-03-15 Thread John Eells
have heard of only one pathological application so far. Of course, it was one of ours here at IBM. (You can't make this stuff up.) -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arch

Re: z890 in my basement

2016-03-24 Thread John Eells
Neale Ferguson wrote: > For those who saw Connor at SHARE or Hillgang. He spoke at POK today: > > https://twitter.com/rossmauri/status/712740819376193536 > And, it was a lot of fun to hear the story again! -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee..

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: IBM z/OS Product Documentation 2016

2016-03-25 Thread John Eells
ris's survey...there's a write-in box you can use for the page forward and back function you want. Here's the link again: https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/2626267/IBM-z-OS-Product-Documentation-Survey-2016 -- John Eells IBM Poughkeep

Re: IMS V14 Installation

2016-03-28 Thread John Eells
f these pack files on Order and content directory separately. 4) Or do we have any other way of making this process. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: What is SMC-D?

2016-03-30 Thread John Eells
://www-01.ibm.com/software/network/commserver/SMCR/ -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO

Fwd: Re: IMS V14 Installation

2016-03-31 Thread John Eells
ks.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedpieceAbstracts/sg248329.html?Open Forwarded Message Subject: Re: IMS V14 Installation Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 15:42:17 -0400 From: John Eells To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List As you are the one who would select the z/OS UNIX file system path, and only

Re: ISPF library Full

2016-04-01 Thread John Eells
new, larger library. This library will need to have another name. - Change your logon procedure to use the new library. If we try the above method, there might be impact to the users who are logged in. yes, its in sysplex and it is allocated in non-sms volume -- John Eells IBM Poughkeep

Re: Fixcat vs Hardware PSP Buckets

2016-04-07 Thread John Eells
ration book. But we have tried to structure them to make it easy to find what you need and to provide the FIXCATs needed to streamline checking for the PTFs you need. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM

Re: Fixcat vs Hardware PSP Buckets

2016-04-13 Thread John Eells
z12BC FIXCATs). Following the directions in the PSP should pull those in as needed. On the other hand, if you followed the directions in the PSP to specify all the FIXCATs we say you should use, and you were still missing PTFs needed for your z13s, we need to fix that! -- John Eells IBM

Re: Fixcat vs Hardware PSP Buckets

2016-04-14 Thread John Eells
ones, but for simplicity's sake I'd recommend using IBM.Device.Server.* and whatever functional FIXCATs you need as described in the PSP. Please let us know if the PSP's instructions should be clarified somehow. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge

2016-04-21 Thread John Eells
how large a volume you need very quickly and you can see the effects by displaying what's on each volume if you have more than one. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signo

Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge

2016-04-21 Thread John Eells
ume set). Can you elaborate a bit? -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: FW: Respack Volume Size Challenge

2016-04-22 Thread John Eells
) and other SMPxxxx data sets. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge

2016-04-25 Thread John Eells
ets - HFS data sets - Parmlib concatenation data sets - XRC Control, Master, or Cluster non-VSAM data sets This should *not* be read to mean or imply that everything that is not listed here is supported above the line. It's just the list of things I know about that don't work.

Re: Question about space allocation from Listcat display

2016-04-26 Thread John Eells
i don't understand is that HI-A-RBA and HI-U-RBA is 4194828288, which corresponds to phyrec-size*phyrecks/trk * 85344. I would expect that at least the HI-A-RBA should be 85344 * 56K = 4893966336 ??? => there is about 0.8 GB wasted in this allocation In the listcat data displayed, there is

Re: How to copy one pack IPL'able z/OS to DVD.

2016-04-27 Thread John Eells
ump files of your own on DVD and restore from them using the HMC's DVD drive, I suggest you put in a requirement using RFE. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arc

Re: How to copy one pack IPL'able z/OS to DVD.

2016-04-27 Thread John Eells
lable on DVD, and you can get z/OS using either one (ServerPac is, of course, recommended as it's far less work). A fairly high percentage of ServerPac orders are on DVD. As Jim posted, z/OS IPL from the HMC is not supported. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

Re: How to copy one pack IPL'able z/OS to DVD.

2016-04-27 Thread John Eells
UILDSA sections.​ -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: PDS I/O Performance Improvement

2016-04-28 Thread John Eells
t's a "parmlib" in the generic sense, and not "a data set in the systems parmlib concatenation," then convert away... -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arc

Re: How to copy one pack IPL'able z/OS to DVD.

2016-04-29 Thread John Eells
tall it. Not quite what you were imagining but at a macro level this is the same as "get a basic z/OS going," and "use SMP/E to download your" ServerPac or CBPDO, install it, and customized it for IPL. This has all been there

Re: IBM secure z/OS software delivery: Don't get locked out!

2016-05-10 Thread John Eells
just install the feature from a CBPDO. -- John Eells (reloading brain after vacation) IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu wit

Re: CSA Shrank in DR

2016-05-10 Thread John Eells
elbow room for day-to-day changes. You should be able to find my old post in the archives somewhere... -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send emai

Re: IBM secure z/OS software delivery: Don't get locked out!

2016-05-10 Thread John Eells
John Eells wrote: Gibney, David Allen wrote: If you look back a bit in IBM-MAIN this year, you will find the thread where I also had missed ordering these FMIDs with z/OS 2.1 IBM was able to send me (via DVD) an z/OS 2.1 order which did contain them. And I was able to use BUILDMCS to extract

Re: Dataset space information

2016-05-10 Thread John Eells
What information are you trying to get, exactly? michelbutz wrote: Hi I need to obtain dataset space information -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Dataset space information

2016-05-10 Thread John Eells
documentation Specifically the volser followed the DSN followed by a '1' I assume for format 1 DSCB for by the volser again Sent from my iPhone On May 10, 2016, at 2:52 PM, John Eells wrote: What information are you trying to get, exactly? michelbutz wrote: Hi I need to obtain

Re: smp/e sha-2 support?

2016-05-16 Thread John Eells
lling you that any use of SHA-1 for anything at all is not acceptable whether or not it's security related? Something else? -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: smp/e sha-2 support?

2016-05-16 Thread John Eells
7;m the first to raise this nor will I be the last. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: smp/e sha-2 support?

2016-05-17 Thread John Eells
in a situation where you can get a hash to verify but can't verify a signature? - Anything else to think about? Lots, I'm sure! It's probably worth also looking at the implementation of signed SMF data to see how they do it. Andrew Rowley

Re: z/OS Master/User catalog dataset re-organization

2016-05-24 Thread John Eells
sary*, one last time and then enabled for CA Reclaim like (nearly) any other KSDS. After that, let them manage themselves... -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access ins

Re: Proper way to resolve existing GDG GnnnVnnn by relative reference

2016-05-27 Thread John Eells
e. * We were going for an even thousand until we weighed the value of "one more generation" against the cost of updating a bazillion messages to add space for another digit and decided 999 was close enough! -- John Eells IBM

Re: pdse v2 generations arg!

2016-05-31 Thread John Eells
w beyond the limit as it does not wrap. Has anyone stumbled across a better way to find the member generations? Using the loop process I've found you have to do an almost infinite limit, or set it fairly high or you risk missing a generation or 100. And the overhead of the edit isn't tri

Re: IEAIPS parmlib member

2016-06-02 Thread John Eells
Lopez, Sharon wrote: Does anyone remember when IEAIPSxx member went away? In 2001, whatever release that was... -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: IEAIPS parmlib member

2016-06-02 Thread John Eells
John Eells wrote: Lopez, Sharon wrote: Does anyone remember when IEAIPSxx member went away? In 2001, whatever release that was... Sorry, it was 2002, in z/OS V1.3. (We created the IWMINSTL sample for installing a starter policy a year before V1.3 to ease the migration slightly and I

Re: Re cataloging IODF jcl

2016-06-09 Thread John Eells
Nathan Astle wrote: Hello, Can someone please share me a sample JCL on recataloging the IODF dataset ? Did you try DEFINE RECATALOG? http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/dgt3i210.pdf -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Enhancement RFE for TSO DELETE xxx MASK Function

2016-06-10 Thread John Eells
mands book to find that out (if you didn't happen to know already). A number of other commands (perhaps all of them) are also "passed along" to IDCAMS by TSO/E, such as DEFINE, ALTER, IMPORT, EXPORT, and LISTCAT. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeep

Re: Copy pdse v2 generations

2016-06-27 Thread John Eells
Lionel B. Dyck wrote: Does anyone know if PDSFAST supports copying generations? IEBCOPY currently does not. However, DFSMSdss does. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

2016-06-28 Thread John Eells
What is the *smallest* volume size everyone sees in general use? For example, will we create any problems if we assume that "everyone" has or can define at least a 3390-9 size volume these days? What if we chose 3390-27? -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

Re: ZOS 2.2 Install - Alias to Catalog

2016-06-28 Thread John Eells
ASM M CATALOG.Z22MCAT MCAT -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.

Re: ZOS 2.2 Install - Alias to Catalog

2016-06-28 Thread John Eells
olumes, the SU path will create a job that basically only adds new entries to your master catalog, which ought to be harmless. You can also fool Mother Nature by creating a temporary catalog, but that will still leave you the task of reconciling catalog entries with actual data set placement later

Re: z/OS V2.1 MVS Data Area manuals missing in the Knowledge Center

2016-07-01 Thread John Eells
whom to contact to tell them that the zOS/ V2.1 MVS Data Area manuals are missing in the new Knowledge Center? The feedback link on the page seems to be just general feedback about IBM. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: z/OS V2.1 MVS Data Area manuals missing in the Knowledge Center

2016-07-01 Thread John Eells
/v2r1pdf/#IEA John Eells wrote: I forwarded this to someone I think can get it taken care of. As Monday is a holiday here, though, and many are off today as well (it was very easy to get a nearby parking space!), I would not expect instant action. Peter Hunkeler wrote: Would anyone of the

Re: Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

2016-07-05 Thread John Eells
default but it's easily changed there.) -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: ISPF Profile basic question

2016-07-07 Thread John Eells
h ISPF keeps the "characteristics" of REXX or CNTL, especially the highlighting? If one wanted to define "PROFILE FOO" with highlighting suitable for FOO files, where is the process documented? Which FM under what topic? -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

2016-07-07 Thread John Eells
es2 Checkpoint and Couple DS. m9 will be used for some system volumes (page, spool) on our small systems. We use m27 for SYSRES and DLIB today and will continue to do so until z/OS outgrows them. We use 2 m54 for SMP/E and other installation data, which we may eventually consolidate onto

Re: subscribing options

2016-07-12 Thread John Eells
cause nobody would ever receive an original email. Some might even consider it to be a bit "rude" - "I can talk to you at any time, but don't talk to me without my permission." . I'm sure that's not your intent. I wanted something like this way back when too.

Re: subscribing options

2016-07-12 Thread John Eells
The browser I use prepends partial URLs with http://www when what you type does not get resolved, and my newsreader does not render that partial URL as a link. I guess that's not true of everyone's toolset! John McKown wrote: On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 8:05 AM, John Eells wrote: So

Re: RDW corruption

2016-07-18 Thread John Eells
assigned me this problem As an aside if I register my IRS e-mail on IBM-Main is there a way not get every e-mail I don't mind it in my personel e-mail But I have a lot of other stuff on my irs.gov e-mail -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ib

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