Re: Any way to monitor Member Updates in a PDS
eventACTION does much more than monitoring at the member level. We using it to audit sysprogs activity by userid, all PARMLIB changes, USS changes, and specific dataset access to suspected obsolete datasets. In a large shop, you might have to split the database. 11 LPARs in our case hammer the drive, but some of the tracked application library datasets have thousands of updates per day. It also has a job scheduler. Your results may vary... Yes, much of this information can be done via SMF analysis. Do you want home-grown or COTS? Budget? Audit requirements? David Purdy -Original Message- From: Gord Tomlin To: IBM-MAIN Sent: Thu, May 26, 2011 8:41 am Subject: Re: Any way to monitor Member Updates in a PDS Action Software International has a product, eventACTION, that tracks hese changes in real time rather than performing comparisons on an nterval basis. See http://www.actionsoftware.com/ for details. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin ction Software International a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) el: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 On 2011-05-26 06:52, Jousma, David wrote: Serena has a product too: http://www.serena.com/products/changeman-ssm/index.html _ Dave Jousma Assistant Vice President, Mainframe Services david.jou...@53.com 1830 East Paris, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 MD RSCB1G p 616.653.8429 f 616.653.8497 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of izette Koehler Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 6:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Any way to monitor Member Updates in a PDS I remember a tool called Softaudt that could create reports when members in a PDS were touched. Is there anything else that can do that? SMF does not provide that level of information. If not, what procress (assembler, cobol, REXXX, etc) could I create do to that? Lizette -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html This e-mail transmission contains information that is confidential and may be rivileged. It is intended only for the addressee(s) named above. If you eceive this e-mail in error, please do not read, copy or disseminate it in any anner. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, istribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. Please eply to the message immediately by informing the sender that the message was isdirected. After replying, please erase it from your computer system. Your ssistance in correcting this error is appreciated. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- or IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, end email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO earch the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook)
I bit the bullet and bought an Apple iPad, and bought a $1 PDF reader. Reads IBM manuals just fine, including PDF bookmarks (called OutLine in the particular reader I installed. I didn't get the Kindle DX for exactly your reasons. Pros: - readable size, and you can zoom the full page display to get rid of the blank margins and still have a full page displayed, or zoom a lot and get one paragraph or diagram. - personal preference: I like the touch screen for paging and zooming - storage capacity of more manuals than I'll probably download - in the several thousand range - easier to carry than a laptop Cons: - spendy little sucker - I can print a lot of manuals for the same cost. - tied to the iTunes interface - somewhat clunky IMHO - not upgradable - get the size right the first time. I have the 32GB, probably could have gotten away with the 16 GB for z/OS library only. - eyes get tired after a couple of continuous viewing hours - 10 hour battery life - not so viewable in the sun - at the edge of being too heavy for long term viewing; I wish it was lighter, but the weight is not offensive. If you want further information, I'd be delighted to talk with you directly. David Purdy -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4) Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 4:34 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook) I bought a Kindle DX ebook reader. One reason being that I wanted to read IBM manuals while travelling. The Kindle displays the PDFs nicely but lacks the possibility to jump from the TOC or links. For that reason and because other ebook formats, such as MOBI, have other advantages, I'm looking for a way to transform IBM manuals into the MOBI format. So far my experiments in transforming from PDF to MOBI did not show satisfactory results. I'm hoping that HTML for MOBI would yield in better results. Does anyone know if IBM manuals are available in HTML format? I'm not thinking about the format show by the Library Server which is split into too many small pages. I'm think about the manual as one large HTML file or possibly one HTML file per chapter. Any other suggestions are welcome as well. -- Peter Hunkeler CREDIT SUISSE AG -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Compromised email account
Apologies to all. My AOL account was compromised, and several listers received bogus email messages. This has been fixed. David -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them
-Original Message- From: Tom Marchant >..Data set aliases are required to be defined in the same >catalog as the data set. I would swear that we had an applications manager STEPCAT during a dataset creation to a different catalog than where the alias was defined. Of course, finding it without the STEPCAT was an issue (silly rabbit). Memory may be going bad. Has catalog verification changed/improved? David -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
OT Previously Re: jes2 parm syntax checking
One second shift operator placed his life-size Army standalone soldier cardboard cutout in the dark entry, for the enjoyment of the 6 AM folk. Woke 'em up, it did. Ultrasonic scream woke up neighborhood dogs, most likely. Happy Friday. David Purdy -Original Message- From: Elardus Engelbrecht To: IBM-MAIN Sent: Fri, Jul 9, 2010 7:08 am Subject: Re: jes2 parm syntax checking Dana Mitchell wrote: >Although if you do this on a closely watched system, those messages tend to disturb operators a little bit, it helps to warn them before doing it Is it dangerous to disturb them? Awake them by accident or what? ;-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: PROG750
>From the search box on WWW.IBM.COM, four hits, two broken links. In Redbook SG24-4689 (August 1999) page 22: If you attempt to connect from PCOMM through a firewall to a CS/NT or s CS/2 gateway providing a TN2370/5250 service, you might get a PROG750 in the OIA of the session Screen. This problem has now been fixed but requires you to install a modified DLL. Connection from PCOMM through a firewall directly to a host systems does not have this problem. In http://www.vm.ibm.com/service/rsu/tcip510.html 701RSU PK27201 UK19084 TCPIP PROG750 TN3270 WHEN LOGOFF FROM VM LOGO CMD LINE All I found on a Sunday night, dude. David -Original Message- From: Frank Swarbrick To: IBM-MAIN Sent: Sun, May 30, 2010 6:09 pm Subject: PROG750 Where can I find out what PROG750 means for a TN3270 session? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: ftping a gdg from the z box
I often placed (+1) GDGs on Win servers for PDFs, accounting data, bank deposit/transfer, payroll deduction, etc. Yes, the FTP step could have been a separate job using a (0) generation, but not mandatory. I used the correct combination of DISPs and sometimes IFs in the JCL to keep the GDG if the FTP step failed. An FTP failure was normally not enough to stop the rest of the production jobstream from releasing. It was sometimes hit and miss if the Win server was available, especially across the country. David -Original Message- From: John Kelly To: IBM-MAIN Sent: Fri, May 28, 2010 7:09 am Subject: Re: ftping a gdg from the z box we are trying to put a gdg to a windows server. You loss me there. IF the server(mainframe) is putting to Windows, why would you send a new DSN. I could see (-1) or (0) but putting (+1) seems wrong. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: IBM 9393 RVAs "Obsolete" for Sure
When I worked for a state government, we swapped out a 165 of-some-kind for a 168 MP. The credit for the returned hardware went into a state-wide general funds account, and we immediately were "over budget". The same folks approved one 3350, when they came only in pairs, if long-term memory serves. (Okay, the request could have been more precise....) David Purdy -Original Message- From: McKown, John To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Wed, Dec 30, 2009 2:09 pm Subject: Re: IBM 9393 RVAs "Obsolete" for Sure > -Original Message-> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of David Andrews> Sent: Wednesday, > December 30, 2009 1:00 PM> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> Subject: Re: IBM 9393 > RVAs "Obsolete" for Sure> > When I worked for the state government about a > million years ago, the> *last* thing we ever wanted to do was to put out a > RFP for > new purchased> equipment. Because we had a competitive bidding > process, we couldn't> just do a make-and-model RFP -- we had to write general > specifications> for what we wanted, perhaps with the services of a technical > > consultant,> run it through the lawyers, publish it, accept bids, judge the > "lowest> and best", make a recommendation to the Board, wait for the Board > to> make an award... and THEN deal with the unsuccessful bidders who would> > frequently contest the bid award, and sometimes have to go through the> > bidding process a second time.> > If Jim has an Iceberg that runs perfectly > well, I can understand if> maintaining it is preferable to going through the > acquisition process.> You're not always able to run the business like a > business, not when> public money is involved.> > -- > David Andrews -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Opinion time: SMF data in XML format?
John, If you have any business intelligence products onsite, you might want to talk to those folks. I FTPd SMF data and built a Cognos cube, while defining record types as I needed them. Fairly straightforward process. And yes, record maintenance was my responsibility. I can't remember if XML format was an option, as your requirement specifies. Another BI product might, though. David -Original Message- From: McKown, John To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thu, Nov 12, 2009 4:07 pm Subject: Opinion time: SMF data in XML format? OK, probably nobody else is interested in this sort of thing. But I would like to process the SMF data off of the z/OS system. Most likely on a Linux system. And most likely in JAVA. Already proves that I'm brain damaged. But one thing that I like is that the RACF SMF data can be converted from "binary" format to XML using an exit in IFASMFDP. It would be helpful to me if the parties responsible for the generation of a particular SMF record would also supply a program which could do the same. Now, why don't I do it? I probably could. But then maintenance would be my responsibility. And so I'd need to monitor every PTF for any change to the SMF records that I am interested in. IOW: I'm a lazy SOB. Does anybody else thing this might be useful? Or do most of you not care because you use MXG and SAS? We no longer have SAS on the mainframe, but we do have it on a Windows box that I am supposed to have access to. I'll talk to the person here who has been doing the MXG work on it to learn how to use it. But I want to take the data home, in XML, because I have a screaming PC there (i7-920) which is not as frustrating to use as the lower powered desktops here. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Secret Service plans IT reboot
It probably was a 3081 - I may have a memory leak. Tek had seven business data centers and one engineering data center at the time. Engineering was running a 3083 with VM/HPO5 for circuit simulation, and circuit board design system for a time. The disclaimer, "...if I remember" is becoming more and more relevant. Sorry for the misinformation. David Purdy -Original Message- From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 2:49 pm Subject: Re: Secret Service plans IT reboot dpurd...@aol.com (David Purdy) writes: > Yup, Speed Matching Buffer is correct. 168 had timing issues with > state-of-the-art 3380's (STK 8380's if I remember). Worst thing was > the 168 shared DASD with a 3033 - the 168 always came in second. actually the 168 had "faster" channels than 3033. after the demise of future system effort, there was a mad rush to get stuff into the 370 software&product pipeline. ... 303x was stop-gap while they got 3081 & 370-xa moving. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Secret Service plans IT reboot
>>Speed Matching Buffer, probably. Yup, Speed Matching Buffer is correct. 168 had timing issues with state-of-the-art 3380's (STK 8380's if I remember). Worst thing was the 168 shared DASD with a 3033 - the 168 always came in second. -Original Message- > >>>Is that even possible for 1980 era hardware? > > -Not sure about parts, but in 1989 at Tektronix, we turned off supposedly > the last 168 (MP of course) running west of the Mississippi. We had about a > half-dozen CE's there, who wanted a picture taken with each powering down > the frame. After the first one did the power-off, the sucker wouldn't come > back up, even with the half-dozen working on it for 30 minutes. Didn't shed > a tear about it - those SMB APARS were a PITA. And there were no parts > locally in Portland. > I probably once knew what SMB was, but nowadays my brain says "Small/Medium Business" or "Server Message(ing?) Block". What was it then? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Secret Service plans IT reboot
>>>Is that even possible for 1980 era hardware? -Not sure about parts, but in 1989 at Tektronix, we turned off supposedly the last 168 (MP of course) running west of the Mississippi. We had about a half-dozen CE's there, who wanted a picture taken with each powering down the frame. After the first one did the power-off, the sucker wouldn't come back up, even with the half-dozen working on it for 30 minutes. Didn't shed a tear about it - those SMB APARS were a PITA. And there were no parts locally in Portland. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Loading SMF data into a DB2 database.
No, but I generated a Cognos cube with SMF data. ?Fairly trivial task for Cognos. David Purdy -Original Message- From: Michael Wickman To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thu, Aug 6, 2009 12:44 pm Subject: Loading SMF data into a DB2 database. Does anyone try to load SMF records into a database (DB2) for performance and capacity usage data mining? Just trying from keep from re-typing all the DB2 definitions if somebody has already done it or have any suggestions along that line. Thanks. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
