Re: Retiring after 43+ years with IBM

[C. Ardillo]

Frank,
You've been more than awesome contributing to the various feeds for as 
long as I can remember.  I'm envious of your expertise and your 
retirement positioning.



On 5/15/2012 9:00 PM, Frank Yaeger wrote:

Just a note to let everyone know I'll be retiring at the end
of this month (5/31/2012).  I've been with IBM for 43+ years
(plus a couple of summers in college) and I've enjoyed my
career immensely.  I've especially enjoyed being able to
help people use the DFSORT/ICETOOL functions I developed,
over many years, in new and interesting ways.

Once I retire, I won't be posting solutions any more since I
won't have access to a mainframe to test them, and I don't
like posting untested solutions.  I may lurk a bit or I may
not.

I'm looking forward to retirement, but I'll also miss this
list.  I'm happy to say that others on the DFSORT Team will
continue to contribute.

Thanks to everyone for giving me the chance to earn a living
all these years doing something that was a lot of fun for
me.

Long live the mainframe, IBM, z/OS, DFSORT and ICETOOL!

Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM) - yae...@us.ibm.com
Specialties: JOINKEYS, FINDREP, WHEN=GROUP, ICETOOL, Symbols, Migration

  =>  DFSORT/MVS is on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort

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Re: DFSMS/DASD: Control SG occupancy

[C. Ardillo]

I'm just an application programmer but from my tool set I'd run an 
idcams dcollect job against the storage groups in question then use 
something like easytrieve to compute my thresholds and send an email if 
needed from same job.


On 12/15/2010 7:04 AM, af dc wrote:

Hello,
can anyone give me an hint about how to control SG occupancy, like, hourly
have a msg to syslog with a list of selected SGs with 75% of occupancy. I
have a request to monitor a  SG where after getting 70% of occupancy an
alert must be issued to us (storage administrators). Can this be done ??

Any hint, sugestion is welcome.
Many thx, Antonio Cecilio.

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Re: CA's Hyperbuf

[C. Ardillo]

I supported an app that was under ca-hyperbuf control.  Tweaked 
constraints, etc.  I can't provide test results but from what I recall 
it did a fairly decent job of providing automatic buffering for the 
remaining VSAM files we had.  I allowed buffering for PS files, which 
occurred, but cannot vouch for any performance improvement there.


Anyhow there are some 'systems' which were excluded from monitoring like 
CICS, NDM, control-m, DFHSM, TSO sessions... etc.., due to either real 
or potential issues.






Sharon Lopez wrote:
Does anyone have any comments on CA's Hyperbuf product?  We are replacing 
BMC's Batch optimizer and we are having alot of problems with Hyperbuf.


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Re: ftp.exe and Vista

[C. Ardillo]

This is something i'll look into.  The only impediment to attempting is 
that the authentication system that allows MF access may not allow me to 
alter the way programs are started up.  But I will look into.


Thanks.

Finley, Frank wrote:
I have run into something similar before with the VISTA UAC.  Command prompts aren't started as an administrator, even if you are an administrator of the box when you start it.  It lets you create a file, but not populate it, etc.  I don't understand completely the reasoning behind it, but I've seen it.  


It would have been helpful if sudo or something similar were built in for this, 
but the only way I am familiar to get around this is through the gui, or 
starting a new command prompt from a runas statement and switching to that.

If you create a shortcut to cmd.exe and then right click it, choose run as 
administrator, and then try using ftp.exe.

Or you can go to the start menu, and put in cmd and then hit ctrl+shift+enter and that will do it to.  


I don't know if this is your particular situation, but worth a shot.

Frank Finley

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Subject: Re: ftp.exe and Vista

I hear ya, but only certain apps can be authenticated for access into 
the MF.  WS-FTP is one and is much easier to use. I may end up shelling 
out for licensed copy as a viable option.


Ed Finnell wrote:
  
 
In a message dated 6/3/2010 9:10:40 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
cardill...@comcast.net writes:


Don't know how much farther i'll get on this before end of week but  will 
post a resolution, even if its drop back to XP.



  
How about switching to better FTP client?  _www.ipswitch.com_ 
(http://www.ipswitch.com)  or  something 





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Re: ftp.exe and Vista

[C. Ardillo]

Good idea, I tried that already was certainly something to look at - 
still same problem.


Natarajan Mohan wrote:

It could be as simple as Data connection not being established. You could try "quote 
PASV" in which case the data connection would be setup from client side.

Also you can check the settings via "quote stat" command. If it is passive try 
Active mode or vice versa.

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Re: ftp.exe and Vista

[C. Ardillo]

I hear ya, but only certain apps can be authenticated for access into 
the MF.  WS-FTP is one and is much easier to use. I may end up shelling 
out for licensed copy as a viable option.


Ed Finnell wrote:
 
In a message dated 6/3/2010 9:10:40 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
cardill...@comcast.net writes:


Don't know how much farther i'll get on this before end of week but  will 
post a resolution, even if its drop back to XP.



  
How about switching to better FTP client?  _www.ipswitch.com_ 
(http://www.ipswitch.com)  or  something 





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Re: ftp.exe and Vista

[C. Ardillo]

Well as suspected, the log shows 0 bytes input even tho the client shows byte 
counts.  All of the other connection and allocation messages are in order with 
successful transmits.

Empty file transmission
TRANS  MVS DSN=xx
TRANS  Stru=F Mode=S Type=A  Input=0 bytes
TRANS  Reply=250 Transfer completed successfully.

Don't know how much farther i'll get on this before end of week but will post a 
resolution, even if its drop back to XP.

C. Ardillo wrote:
Good Idea. Temporarily turned off both Vista and McAfee, but same 
occurs.  I've tried other files as well, they all appear to 
successfully transmit with byte counts but remain empty on MF.  
Interesting.  I'm going to check some FTP logs from yesterday, I don't 
have ability to view real time.


Thanks

Kirk Wolf wrote:
Sounds a little like the Vista firewall might be stepping on the FTP 
data

connections.
Try disabling the firewall completely (temporarily!!) and see if the 
problem

goes away.

HTH,

Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies
http://dovetail.com

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 2:05 PM, C. Ardillo  
wrote:


 

I hope some of the network guru's out there can point me in the right
direction.
I've been using command line FTP, doing PUT's and GET's to the MF 
for the

past couple of years.
I just migrated to a Vista PC. GET's work, PUT's appear to work - 
transfer

is successful, bytes are transmitted, the file is allocated but it is
empty.
Has anyone experienced this behavior?

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Re: ftp.exe and Vista

[C. Ardillo]

Good Idea. Temporarily turned off both Vista and McAfee, but same 
occurs.  I've tried other files as well, they all appear to successfully 
transmit with byte counts but remain empty on MF.  Interesting.  I'm 
going to check some FTP logs from yesterday, I don't have ability to 
view real time.


Thanks

Kirk Wolf wrote:

Sounds a little like the Vista firewall might be stepping on the FTP data
connections.
Try disabling the firewall completely (temporarily!!) and see if the problem
goes away.

HTH,

Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies
http://dovetail.com

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 2:05 PM, C. Ardillo  wrote:

  

I hope some of the network guru's out there can point me in the right
direction.
I've been using command line FTP, doing PUT's and GET's to the MF for the
past couple of years.
I just migrated to a Vista PC. GET's work, PUT's appear to work - transfer
is successful, bytes are transmitted, the file is allocated but it is
empty.
Has anyone experienced this behavior?

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ftp.exe and Vista

[C. Ardillo]

I hope some of the network guru's out there can point me in the right direction.
I've been using command line FTP, doing PUT's and GET's to the MF for the
past couple of years.  
I just migrated to a Vista PC. GET's work, PUT's appear to work - transfer
is successful, bytes are transmitted, the file is allocated but it is empty.
Has anyone experienced this behavior?

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Re: Dumb Question - Credit Card Number Scanner

[C. Ardillo]

"Do they have a way to specify the expression needed to determine if a random
number is a possible CC number?"

See:
 


http://barcodingworks.com/?document_srl=986

Chuck





Binyamin Dissen wrote:


On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 08:21:00 -0500 "Chase, John"  wrote:

:>> -Original Message-
:>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Doc Farmer

:>> Okay, this one came to me yesterday.  Somebody asked me if there were
:>a way
:>> to search all files on a mainframe for credit card number information
:>(you
:>> know, the 16-digit jobs) for a PCI audit.

:>> I know, I know, it could be 16 Alphanumeric, 16 Numeric, 9 Packed
:>Decimal,
:>> or 8 Binary.  I also know it would require searching EVERY file, and
:>would
:>> probably need to use "test" card numbers in order to determine if they
:>> really exist.

:>> However, for some reason they want to know if a scanner is available.
:>I'm
:>> figuring this could be done with ISPF's SuperC, or with CA-Easytrieve
:>or
:>> CA-PanAudit, but if anybody knows of a PCI scanner for z/OS, I'd
:>appreciate
:>> some names/links.  Many thanks.

:>In the most general sense, a utility like File-Aid, IBM File Manager, et
:>al could be considered such a "scanner".  One should probably include
:>such CBTTAPE utilities as DEBE.

Do they have a way to specify the expression needed to determine if a random
number is a possible CC number?

:>I suppose "they" also would want uncataloged datasets, z/OS UNIX files,
:>tapes, etc. included in the potential universe.

:>It might be "interesting" to see how one might detect and handle false
:>positives from such a scan

Yes.

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Re: Find the computer error

[C. Ardillo]

Timothy, you sly dawg.

Hillock, Timothy wrote:


Account number may have been used instead of the amount.

"Take my advice. I'm not using it."   :-)

TImOTHY Hillock

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090715/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_quadrillion_dolla
r_debit_2

a stunning $23,148,855,308,184,500

Number doesn't seem to be any special hex value.

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Re: Obtaining the Dsname in a Rexx Program

[C. Ardillo]

For a file allocated via DD

FC =  LISTDSI(ddname FILE)
DSN = SYSDSNAME

DSN will then contain your filename.

Baraniecki, Ray wrote:


Is there a way to obtain the dataset name for a file allocated in a Rexx 
program? This seems like a simple task but I just cannot think of how to do 
this.


Thanks,


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