Re: Sorting output from PIPE REXXVARS TOLOAD for dumping a stem variable

2008-05-05 Thread Fred Schmidt
Ah, I got it to work by changing... spec ws = fs . substr f2 of w1 1.10 r 1-* n | sort 1.10 | substr 11-* to spec ws = fs . substr f2 of w1 1.10 r 1-* n | sort 1.10 | spec 11-* 1 Thanks for your help Rob. Regards, Fred Schmidt Department of Corporate and Information Services (DCIS) Data Cent

Re: Sorting output from PIPE REXXVARS TOLOAD for dumping a stem variable

2008-05-05 Thread Fred Schmidt
On Mon, 05 May 2008 22:54:23 -0700, Rob van der Heij wrote: >What you do is you add an extra field to the record to sort them on, >and then drop that extra field again. Like this: >spec ws = fs . substr f2 of w1 1.10 r 1-* n | sort 1.10 | substr 11-* Thanks Rob, Is SUBSTR something I need to get

Re: Sorting output from PIPE REXXVARS TOLOAD for dumping a stem variable

2008-05-05 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Fred Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >PIPE rexxvars TOLOAD | pick 2.6 == /TABLE./ | sort | ... > > This, and the other proposed solutions to dumping stem variables' contents, > do not sort the values correctly if there are more than 9 values. Eg:... What you

Re: SFS

2008-05-05 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Dave Wade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That almost three years later, in March 92 PROFS would not support SFS "A" > disks. I don't think real PROFS ever supported SFS "A" disk, I think we had > to have OV/VM for that... I vaguely recall that "support" was in tha

Re: SFS

2008-05-05 Thread Dave Wade
> -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jim Bohnsack > Sent: 06 May 2008 03:15 > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: SFS > > Alan Altmark wrote: > > > > Yeah, but anyone who was around in VM/SP R6 days remembers SFS as b

Sorting output from PIPE REXXVARS TOLOAD for dumping a stem variable

2008-05-05 Thread Fred Schmidt
On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 19:45:36 -0800, Alan Ackerman wrote: (Was Re: Another PIPE how to) >REXXVARS TOLOAD produces strings like /TABLE.0101/value -- only there is >no guarantee that >the delimiter will be a slash. So instead, I always use: > >PIPE rexxvars TOLOAD | pick 2.6 == /TABLE./ | ... >

My 45th Anniversary at SRU

2008-05-05 Thread Fran Hensler
This is cross-posted to VSE-L and IBMVM-L. Today is my 45th anniversary in data processing at Slippery Rock University of PA. On May 6, 1963 I founded the Data Processing Center at the then Slippery Rock State College. The center consisted of one half-time key punch operator and me. My mission

Re: TCPIP GATEWAY statement

2008-05-05 Thread Miguel Delapaz
A couple things... The GATEWAY statement format changed in z/VM 5.2...the order you show below is the new format. The stack will complain (not nearly as loudly as it should) if you tried to use that format in 5.1... "Ip network address" in your list is really "any IP address in the target subnet

Re: SFS

2008-05-05 Thread Jim Bohnsack
Alan Altmark wrote: Yeah, but anyone who was around in VM/SP R6 days remembers SFS as being something that you wanted to stay away from. Jim So while I appreciate the frustration of having to worry about SFS when you haven't in the past, the time has come for us to exploit something we int

Re: Software on tape

2008-05-05 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
We have one IBM customer number for Resource Link for our San Francisco data center and another for our Kansas City data center. Those are the only two in the US that have z/VM. Neither number worked for ShopzSeries. I have asked our IBM rep what I should use. Alan Altmark's answer was sufficie

Re: SFS

2008-05-05 Thread Alan Altmark
Everyone has heard me say it before, but SFS is where the VM POSIX Byte File System (BFS) lives. As we bring new functionality to the platform, it often comes as a POSIX application, with LDAP being the most recent addition to the stable. We cannot afford to port POSIX applications to native

Re: SFS Locked Directory

2008-05-05 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 05/05/2008, "Wandschneider, Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Richard. I too have worked with SFS for, well since day one, a long > time now. I have never had this situation. I tried all the suggestions, etc > in HELP nothing worked. Any ideas? Your output to QUERY FIL

Re: SFS Locked Directory

2008-05-05 Thread Schuh, Richard
Go to your SFS administrator for help? The last time I had any real SFS problem, I had to send DDR dumps of my catalog to the Support Center so that my problem could be analyzed and zaps constructed to bypass the error. My problem was that referencing certain files abended CP. Your situation do

Re: SFS Locked Directory

2008-05-05 Thread Wandschneider, Scott
Thanks Richard. I too have worked with SFS for, well since day one, a long time now. I have never had this situation. I tried all the suggestions, etc in HELP nothing worked. Any ideas? Thank you, Scott R Wandschneider Senior Systems Programmer Infocrossing Office 402.963.8905 -Original

Re: Software on tape

2008-05-05 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 05/05/2008 at 06:26 EDT, "O'Brien, Dennis L" wrote: > Have IBM or any other software vendors made statements of direction for > offering alternatives to delivering software on tape? The products in the SDO, including z/VM itself, are available for download via ShopzSeries. No other

Re: TCPIP GATEWAY statement

2008-05-05 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 05/05/2008 at 03:56 EDT, "Gentry, Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the correct format of the tcpip gateway statement for vm 5.1 > and/or vm 5.2? > The book (SC24-6125-02) shows it being coded in the following order > Ip network address > Subnet mask > First hop > Link name

Re: Software on tape

2008-05-05 Thread Schuh, Richard
Sorry - that CA was for California, not the vendor. I was referring to IBM customer numbers. Regards, Richard Schuh > -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L > Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 3:44 PM > To: IBMVM@

Re: Software on tape

2008-05-05 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Richard, We have a CA customer number for each data center. My comment about ShopzSeries was related to IBM customer numbers. It's my understanding that California does not charge sales tax on downloads, but only if physical media is sent to California. We dealt with this when we were a Califor

Re: Software on tape

2008-05-05 Thread Schuh, Richard
We get our software from VSSI, Velocity-Software and CA via FTP. I have gotten an RSU and individual PTFs from IBM that way. I don't know about an initial distribution, though. About your customer number - has BoA started having its software sent to Charlotte because of the tax burden that CA imp

Software on tape

2008-05-05 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I've been asked whether our z/VM systems could convert to using only virtual tape. One of the possible sticking points is vendor software. If necessary, we could keep a couple of manual tape drives around for software installs. I'm trying to determine if it's necessary. Have IBM or any other sof

Re: PROP restart of OSA

2008-05-05 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 05/05/2008 at 10:32 EDT, Shimon Lebowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, a manual restart does help. > I log in through a different connection and do > IFCONFIG SGLAN UP > > That is what I want PROP to do too. I could be mistaken (maybe Mary Ellen or Miguel can jump in here), but I

Re: SFS Locked Directory

2008-05-05 Thread Schuh, Richard
Here is an extract from the HELP for the message: HELP MSG DMSJEN1137E System Action: RC=31 or 70. RC=31- A rollback of active work has occurred. RC=70- The system status remains the same. User Response: Try to enter the command a few more times. If the lock persist

Re: A word from our moderator, Re: [IBMVM] whitehouse email

2008-05-05 Thread Jack Woehr
Daniel P. Martin wrote: opinions and insights regarding the clever antics of both past and present administrations "You don't trust your government!? Hell, I work for the government and I don't trust it." - GWB, or rather, the actor playing him in "Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay"

SFS Locked Directory

2008-05-05 Thread Wandschneider, Scott
Can anybody tell me how to unlock this directory? enroll user maint techsrv: (blocks 1000 storgroup 2 DMSJEN1137E Object is locked or in use, or there is an outstanding DMSJEN1137E lock or disable in the object's directory hierarchy Ready(00070); T=0.01/0.01 16:49:40

Re: SFS

2008-05-05 Thread Marcy Cortes
Mike the man wrote: >DFSMS/VM has some parts on minidisks, and REQUIRES some parts in filespaces. IMHO, the requirement for >SFS when only running DFSMS/VM for managing VTLs or VTSs makes the while thing overly complicated. Agree. As an aside, the SHARE requirement I submitted about this wa

Re: VM TCP/IP Secure Telnet

2008-05-05 Thread Adam Thornton
On May 5, 2008, at 2:56 PM, Tim Joyce wrote: Ah, I will look into 1.5 then ... Thanks! Actually, 1.2 is the latest 1.x release currently available. There will probably eventually be a 1.3 release, but the updates are minor; if you're not going to have more than 120 simultaneous users conn

Re: VM TCP/IP Secure Telnet

2008-05-05 Thread Tim Joyce
Ah, I will look into 1.5 then ... Thanks! Tim -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 3:51 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VM TCP/IP Secure Telnet > I saw this link on your previous

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TCPIP GATEWAY statement

2008-05-05 Thread Gentry, Stephen
What is the correct format of the tcpip gateway statement for vm 5.1 and/or vm 5.2? The book (SC24-6125-02) shows it being coded in the following order Ip network address Subnet mask First hop Link name Max. pack. Size I've listed them vertically, however this is the order, according to the doc.,

Re: VM TCP/IP Secure Telnet

2008-05-05 Thread David Boyes
> I saw this link on your previous email, but it looked as if it would > only work with z/VM 5.3 ! We are still 5.2 . We plan to migrate sometime > this year, but not before I need to start on this secure telnet project. Version 2.0 requires 5.3. Version 1.5 will work with 5.2 down to 3.1.

Re: VM TCP/IP Secure Telnet

2008-05-05 Thread Tim Joyce
Hey Dave, I saw this link on your previous email, but it looked as if it would only work with z/VM 5.3 ! We are still 5.2 . We plan to migrate sometime this year, but not before I need to start on this secure telnet project. Thanks, Tim -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating Sy

A word from our moderator, Re: [IBMVM] whitehouse email

2008-05-05 Thread Daniel P. Martin
Ladies, gentlemen, dear colleagues: All of us, perhaps most especially your humble moderator, cherish and hold dear our opinions and insights regarding the clever antics of both past and present administrations, sundry other governmental entities and assorted business concerns both public and

Re: VM TCP/IP Secure Telnet

2008-05-05 Thread Dave Jones
Oh, an easy one:-) Go grab the SNA VMSSL enabler tool. It will save you a lot of headaches, imho. Look on: www.sinenomine.net for more details on how to get it, etc. Tim Joyce wrote: Thanks for the responses! I understand that I will need a Linux guest for VMSSL. As this will be my fir

Re: VM TCP/IP Secure Telnet

2008-05-05 Thread Tim Joyce
Thanks for the responses! I understand that I will need a Linux guest for VMSSL. As this will be my first attempt at installing Linux, any recommendations on documentation and the best place to start with Linux, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Tim From

Re: Reading/Writing To Remote Network File Shares (Samba?)

2008-05-05 Thread David Boyes
Use the CMS NFS client. It makes the remote system look like a BFS to CMS (with all the BFS weirdness that that implies).

Re: SFS

2008-05-05 Thread Mike Walter
Chris, My recall of the general guidance from the list over the years is to define your OWN filepool with it's own filespaces for _your_ SFS applications. That way they are independent of anything IBM might do to the IBM-supplied SFS servers. That said, since DFSMS/VM is IBM-supplied, that wa

Re: SFS

2008-05-05 Thread Schuh, Richard
You do not have to install VM into SFS in order to have the ability to use SFS for other purposes. Did you run INSTVM, SERVICE and PUT2PROD as specified in the Installation Guide? If so, the needed machines have been built. Do you allow AUTOLOG1 to run when you IPL? It usually starts the SFS servic

Re: VM TCP/IP Secure Telnet

2008-05-05 Thread David Boyes
You have server support for SSL-wrapped telnet, via a Linux guest. The telnet client on VM doesn't gain that support until 5.3. The option you reference is just what you want the 5.3 client to default - secure or plaintext telnet. You still need the Linux guest, etc.

Re: SFS

2008-05-05 Thread Michael Coffin
The VMSYS: filepool is there, it's where CMS, CP and a ton of other system code lives. >From MAINT type: ACCESS VMSYS:DFSMS. Z You'll probably find it was already installed in the SDO. Even if it's not there you can execute: ACCESS VMSYS:MAINT. Z MAINT will definitely be there. Make sur

Re: VM Newbies with Operations Manager

2008-05-05 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Some of the more general things that we schedule Disaster recovery backups. Shared File Backups SPXTAPE backup of spool Scheduling SFPURGER to clean the spool files EREP processing Clearing the DISKACNT files Automatic cycling of certain machines Issue a SPOOL CONSOLE CLOSE to certain machines

SFS

2008-05-05 Thread Hilliard, Chris
Hello List, I'm reviewing the installation requirements for the DFSMS/VM feature. I notice that it requires the VMSYS file pool. When I installed VM many months ago, I selected to install to minidisks instead of SFS. As a result, the SFS subsystem is not active or configured. My questi

Re: FW: SWAPGEN version 0803

2008-05-05 Thread David Boyes
I've removed the extraneous line end from the copy on www.sinenomine.net. Should be happy now.

Re: VM Newbies with Operations Manager

2008-05-05 Thread Huegel, Thomas
Tell us a little more about your system... What guests do you support? LINUX? z/OS? z/VSE? none of the above.. ? How about backups? ? -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Phillips.Val Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 1:47 PM To: IBMVM@

VM Newbies with Operations Manager

2008-05-05 Thread Phillips.Val
Hi, hoping someone on the list can provide us with some guidance. We're new to VM and have installed Operations Manager in order to do some automation. The thing is, we don't know enough about VM to know what to automate. Anyone have recommendations? Or a list of typically-automated messages?

Re: whitehouse email

2008-05-05 Thread Stracka, James (GTS)
PROFS had two formats for e-mail: documents and notes. It was documents that could not be deleted. Notes in the OFSLOGfl files could be deleted. Olie used documents. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch Sent: Monday

Re: whitehouse email

2008-05-05 Thread Jack Woehr
Tom Duerbusch wrote: They got into trouble because, at that time, PROFs had no option to EVER delete an email. Everything that ever came thru PROFs was always retrieveable. Of course this time, they're lying. Not because we can prove it, but because the officials current administration lie even

Re: whitehouse email

2008-05-05 Thread Tom Duerbusch
They got into trouble because, at that time, PROFs had no option to EVER delete an email. Everything that ever came thru PROFs was always retrieveable. That is, unless you formatted over the disks and tapes. There was no method to selectively destroy emails. PROFs was modified afterwards to

Re: Reading/Writing To Remote Network File Shares (Samba?)

2008-05-05 Thread Richard Troth
Neale Ferguson ported an old release of SAMBA to OpenVM years ago. That would give you a server on VM to which you could map from Windows. There is also, of course, the VM NFS server, which would let you mount VM content onto Linux or Unix. *But it sounds like you want CMS to be the client in thi

Reading/Writing To Remote Network File Shares (Samba?)

2008-05-05 Thread Michael Coffin
Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a way to mount for reading/writing under CMS a share on a remote server? This document: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg245330.html talks about Samba for VM/ESA - and says there is a "Samba freeware package for VM/ESA that can be downloaded from the inte

Re: VM TCP/IP Secure Telnet

2008-05-05 Thread Adam Thornton
On May 5, 2008, at 9:54 AM, Dave Jones wrote: Hi, Tim. I think what your are looking for is the VMSSL server. It can secure Telnet (TN3270) sessions to your z/VM system quite nicely, and it is supported on your release of VM. You can read more about it in Chapter 22 of the TCP/IP Planning

Re: whitehouse email

2008-05-05 Thread Phillip Parmelee
Yes, but the operator who suggested to the FBI that they look at the backups ended up being fired. Phil Parmelee IBM Global Services VM/VSE Team Harrisburg, PA 717-526-1250 T/L 239-1250 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Augus

Re: VM TCP/IP Secure Telnet

2008-05-05 Thread Dave Jones
Hi, Tim. I think what your are looking for is the VMSSL server. It can secure Telnet (TN3270) sessions to your z/VM system quite nicely, and it is supported on your release of VM. You can read more about it in Chapter 22 of the TCP/IP Planning and Customization Guide. It is somewhat of a pai

Re: PROP restart of OSA

2008-05-05 Thread Stracka, James (GTS)
Shimon, I write VM:Operator macroes instead of PROP execs but this looks as if two routines are needed. The first would key off the DTCOSD309W message and set a session globalv variable with the timestamp The second would key of the DTCQDI001I message to check the time stamp in the session gl

Re: whitehouse email

2008-05-05 Thread August Carideo
he was using PROFS so it was MF based and of course it was backed up "Edward M. Martin"

VM TCP/IP Secure Telnet

2008-05-05 Thread Tim Joyce
Hey Guys, We are looking into using secure telnet on our z/VM 5.2 TCP/IP stack. When looking over info on the VM site, I found the following : Changes Introduced in TCP/IP Level 530 A new statement, SECURETELNETCLIENT, may now be specified in the TCPIP DATA file. This statement provides the

Re: PROP restart of OSA

2008-05-05 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Yes, a manual restart does help. I log in through a different connection and do IFCONFIG SGLAN UP That is what I want PROP to do too. Original message >Date:   Mon, 5 May 2008 08:38:04 -0400 >From:   Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject:   Re: PROP restart of OSA >To:   IBMVM@L

Re: whitehouse email

2008-05-05 Thread Edward M. Martin
Seems that Oliver North got in trouble because there were off-site backups. Seems like that minor problem (having off-site backups) got fixed. Ed Martin 330-588-4723 ext 40441 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L

Re: PROP restart of OSA

2008-05-05 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 05/05/2008 at 08:03 EDT, Shimon Lebowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I have occasionally had an OSA go down, as happened today. > Here are the messages I got from user TCPIP on the operator > console: > > * 05/05/08 * > 06:37:34 DTCOSD309W RECEIVED ADAPTER-INITIATED STOP

PROP restart of OSA

2008-05-05 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Hi, I have occasionally had an OSA go down, as happened today. Here are the messages I got from user TCPIP on the operator console: * 05/05/08 * 06:37:34 DTCOSD309W RECEIVED ADAPTER-INITIATED STOP LAN * 05/05/08 * 06:37:34 DTCOSD082E OSD SHUTTING DOWN: 06:37:34 DTCPRI385IDEVICE