Re: Tectia for ZOS STC Hang - Nessus Intrusion Detection Scans?
Everyone, I appreciate everyone's response - to bring everyone up to date I am working with network security team (owners of Nessus scans) and we are trying to isolate with Nessus vendor (unfortunately not much help - they point to us working with Tectia vendor which we already are - gotta love the finger pointing) but there are literally 100's of these scans packed into one iteration which runs ~30 mins so today we plan on running wireshark to try and "trap" offending activity that locks up the address space. Dennis Mruz, to answer your question / point we've updated the SSHD2_config file to latest updates that vendor / development recommends and still hang condition persists. Any other ideas please share but this is a fleeting one to "trap". Thanks again. Steve -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Tectia for ZOS STC Hang - Nessus Intrusion Detection Scans?
Hello All, Pardon the interrupt on all the religious discussions surrounding Python vs. Rexx (count me in the camp of a REXX biggot given my years in ZVM and ZOS) I see Rexx as a swiss army knife for so many tasks in our never ending myriad of tasks as Sysprogs, etc. - I do though wish Rexx could process SMF records better though. BTW - I have never have done any OO Rexx tasks so can't comment on that world but certainly hope to at some point given all the great comments surrounding it's capabilities. Now to the real reason for my post: We run Tectia for ZOS in our environment (SSH.COM). During our attempts to upgrade Tectia for ZOS to 6.7.1 it became very apparent the base SSHD2 started task would hang under certain conditions on our Sandbox LPAR. After much further investigation it is clear the trigger to the hang conditions is because of our external Nessus port scans that run periodically against our mainframe LPAR's. The "hang" condition issue has been reported to the vendor support team in which their initial response was to halt our scans which won't fly with our security teams of course. Tectia SSH Dev. team seems stymied on the issue although they are trying to recreate in lab environment (many debug logs sent to them - they don't appear to like dumps - prefer the debug logs). The hang strictly presents itself in the SSHD2 operator interface (in other words "F SSHD2, VERSION" & "P SSHD2" commands are no longer responsive, etc. and the task has to be cancelled to restart started task). My key questions are: 1. Anyone else out there that is running this product on ZOS (We are running ZOS 2.5)? 2. If so, anyone else experienced any similar issues? If so did you figure out workaround for the issue to avoid the hang conditions caused by the port scans? If you prefer to talk offline on this please email me. Thanks, Steve Estle sest...@gmail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
DFSORT Fixed Records to CSV - Trim Extraneous Blanks?
Hello All, I looked back at history of DFSORT questions / answers and didn't see anything that quite matched up on this. My question is the following - I have a sharp App Developer I work with who is very good with SAS but can't quite get SAS to do what he wants - long story. In a nutshell he has a very large input file (~500K records) that are in fixed length format / fixed position format that he wants to extract select fields from the input records and then the output records will be written in CSV format. Some of the fields are variable length in size but he knows max length of each of the fields. He is interested in using DFSORT ICETOOL if possible, but he and I do not see anything in DFSORT App Guide that allows you to strip off extraneous blanks (TRIM function?) at the end of these input fields before it is packed into the output CSV file. Is this doable in DFSORT? If so, can help point me to some examples / suggested reading / command statements? Thanks, Steve Estle -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Dump Analysis Best Training / Documentation
Seymour, I do not have access to Share proceedings unfortunately. Thanks, Steve Estle -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Dump Analysis Best Training / Documentation
Hello All, Way back in the day I used to read dumps fairly handily in the MVS/XA era. But have been away for so long I know things have evolved but appears everything is basically still intact relative to ASCB to PRB relationships. I'm working on a hang/loop condition that prevents started task from being stopped normally (P STC) and have taken SVC dump and want to interpret it. I'm somewhat fluent with IPCS and can bring up via panels, but from there am struggling with where to go to identify where the hang/loop condition is happening. Any shares of doc, presentations, tips, etc. are much appreciated as I still think this is one of the lost arts that in the end to be a top notch systems programmer you need to be able to interpret. I know IBM used to teach whole classes on this but believe much of that has gone way of dodo bird... Thanks in advance. Steve Estle -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Homegrown ZOS Dashboards?
Hello all you smart seasoned ZOS vets out there. We all know that ZOS contains a vast landscape of key mission critical applications and components running 7x24x365. I'm quite curious about this sujbect having spent a considerable time of my career in the performance / capacity arena. But what I am most curious about is whether anyone out there has either developed or knows of a very robust homegrown ZOS mgmt / executive health dashboard out there? Possibly you did something with SAS/MXG or other toolsets (REXX, open source, etc.)? I'm envisioning something that might have red, yellow, green sections that inspects data for ZOS ranging from SLA's, syslog, SMF data, performance data (response times, batch cycle completions, etc.), storage usage data, security data and have it all rollup into single view that is adaptable to a particular environment (not tied to anyone product - so for instance in security whatever solutions should be ubiquitous whether running RACF, Top Secret, or ACF2). I know there are paid for tools as well and if you don't have anything homegrown maybe you have a favorite one of those that doesn't cost arm & leg? - possibly something open source that is easily adaptable. There is no right or wrong answer here but wanted to just throw this out there to gather everyone's collective experiences, thoughts, and best ideas. May the games (I mean ideations) begin. Thanks, Steve Estle -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Anyone exploiting ZEDC?
David, We are using it - biggest benefit so far has been with our backups in converting DFSMSDSS (ADRDSSU) backups using "ZPREF" option. It reduced runtime on backups significantly (50%+) with also some reduction in CPU cycles. We also are using it in other scenarios. You do need to test though - think biggest areas of concern are with vendors that don't use standard access methods - few of note SAS, NOMAD - sure many others. Feel free to contact me at sest...@gmail.com but am a big proponent of using. I think I have white paper somewhere but need to track down. One of the reasons we went this route is we are starting to exploit pervasive encryption which for most part requires extended format datasets (also required for ZEDC). Best practice is to compress before you encrypt. One other area we exploited was DFHSM and activated that so it now compresses migrated and backed up datasets - hard to measure improvement, but am sure is much more efficient than prior settings. I know that large VSAM files see benefits as well - but just ensure you test before going to far in that direction - one other point - ZFS have the ability to compress as well which can be advantageous - especially when vendors send large ZFS packages - such as SAS does. Areas we haven't exploited yet but are intriguing are JES spool space compression as well as SMF data compression. One other key suggestion to look at is to run a ZBNA (free software from IBM) study as it helps you identify good candidate datasets from your batch job cycles. As others have noted it doesn't make sense to compress things that are relatively small - but do try and apply the 80/20 rule here. Anytime you can do less I/O in batch jobs is always a good thing of course and win-win situation! All the best, Steve Estle Peraton ZOS Systems Programmer -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
ZOS Sending Logs to Sumologic Experience?
All, We are embarking on an endeavor to explore sending logics to a tool called Sumologic(sumologic.com). For those who are unaware, Sumologic is a competitor to Splunk and contains a very powerful real time log parsing analytics engine which can be used to build dashboards, alerts, and more. My basic question is has anyone heard of or actually been involved in devising ways to send ZOS logs into Sumalogic - our initial efforts will be security related, but for now am just asking if anyone has any experience in this realm at all? Or maybe you are doing something similar to Splunk? If so, you can post in forum or feel free to reach directly out to me: Thanks much, Steve Estle sest...@gmail.com 303-817-9954 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Technical Reason? - Why you can't encrypt load libraries (PDSE format)?
Everyone, Our team is knee deep into pervasive encryption rollout on ZOS 2.5 and despite the fact such functionality has been out for years by IBM to do this, it is quite surprising how many software vendors when you contact them they have no clue what you're talking about - that is a complete aside - I'm not going to name vendors here but if you want some examples you can contact me offline. My true reason for composing this is that we've discovered the inability to encrypt load libraries - even in PDSE format. I've yet to get a straight answer from IBM on why this is?... Is this a "giant" technical hurdle for IBM? Or is it just cause there hasn't been anyone who raised the need yet? If the latter does this capability interest others here if I were to raise as an IBM idea - would you vote for it? I know this seems innocuous, but we'd like to encrypt as much as possible in our environment and due to Top Secret deficiencies we have to encrypt at high level qualifier level (HLQ) (all or nothing under each HLQ unfortunately). Given we have load module libraries under many differ HLQ's this is posing difficulties in moving forward with our rollout when an HLQ does have one or more load module libraries as part of that HLQ. You can only imagine the pain of renaming a load library given all the JCL, etc that is referencing that library name. Also, while encrypting load module libraries might seem a little far fetched, there are of course many malicious viruses that have been launched by injecting code into a suspecting piece of code. So two questions: 1. Why has IBM not already provided such functionality - can anyone speak to the technical hurdles to provide? 2. If I were to submit an IBM idea, can I count on this community for some backing here to help in upvoting such an idea submission? Thanks for your indulgence, Steve Estle sest...@gmail.com Peraton systems programmer -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: LISTDSI - hardcoded dsn vs. read in from file
Everyone, I so appreciate everyone's prompt feedback on my challenge. I ended up using ITschak Mugzach solution by turning off TSO profile prefix and removing quotation marks from my input file. I am now good to go. Again really appreciate the prompt response! Steve Estle sest...@gmail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: LISTDSI - hardcoded dsn vs. read in from file
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LISTDSI - hardcoded dsn vs. read in from file
All,
I'm sure I'm doing something boneheaded but can't quite figure out what. I
have a list of fully qualified datasets in a file that I want to read the
dataset names once per record and then once I've read the record with dataset
name then use that name in a LISTDSI command. When I hard code name in REXX
exec it works fine - when I read dsname from file it fails. I've hardcoded the
enclosing double quote/quote inside my file as follows:
"'SYS1.PARMLIB'"
When it fails (2nd version) I get this error message:
IKJ56712I INVALID KEYWORD, "'SYS1.PARMLIB'"
Two scenarios:
Works Fine:
/* REXX */
/*--*/
/*S E L E C T D S N S & L I S T I N F O*/
/*--*/
DSName = "'SYS1.PARMLIB'"
Say DSName
x = LISTDSI(DSName)
SAY 'Function code from LISTDSI is: ' x
SAY 'The data set name is: ' sysdsname
SAY 'The device unit on which the volume resides is:' sysunit
SAY 'The record format is: ' sysrecfm
SAY 'The logical record length is: ' syslrecl
SAY 'The block size is: ' sysblksize
SAY 'The allocation in space units is: ' sysalloc
EXIT
Failing Version:
/* REXX */
INDSN = "'P69792.LISTDSI.INPUT'"
OUTDSN = "'P69792.LISTDSI.OUTPUT.CSV'"
DDNI = "DD"||RANDOM(1,9)
DDNO = "DD"||RANDOM(1,9)
/*--*/
/* R E A D D S N L I S T */
/*--*/
ADDRESS TSO "ALLOC DA(" INDSN ") DDNAME( " DDNI ") SHR REUSE "
ADDRESS TSO "ALLOC DA(" OUTDSN ") DDNAME( " DDNO ") OLD REUSE "
ADDRESS TSO "EXECIO * DISKR " DDNI "(STEM Dsni. FINIS"
ADDRESS TSO "FREE DDNAME(" DDNI ") "
/*--*/
/*S E L E C T D S N S & L I S T I N F O */
/*--*/
Trace i
DO I = 1 TO Dsni.0
dsn = Word(Dsni.I,1)
Say dsn
x = LISTDSI(dsn)
SAY 'Function code from LISTDSI is: ' x
SAY 'The data set name is: ' sysdsname
SAY 'The device unit on which the volume resides is:' sysunit
SAY 'The record format is: ' sysrecfm
SAY 'The logical record length is: ' syslrecl
SAY 'The block size is: ' sysblksize
SAY 'The allocation in space units is: ' sysalloc
END I
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Migrating Loadlibs from PDSE to PDS?
Seasons Greetings all, I know this might sound like a strange request, but we are exploring what if any options there are to migrate load libraries from PDSE (version 1 or 2) back to traditional basic PDS's. It appears this is highly restricted based on my experiences trying to perform via IEBCOPY and ISPF 3.3 (which just involkes IEBCOPY under the covers)? Any thoughts/experiences on ways to do this or is it just one of those once you are there the "train don't go in reverse" situations? Thanks in advance for any ideas/suggestions. Steve Estle -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Performance i/o problem
Assuming you are running ZOS in native mode (not as guest under ZVM) where your dump/restores are occurring, I would definitely look at RMF reports - my first place to look is RMF Monitor III online - if not active, turn on with the recording VSAM files - typically "F RMF, S III" - this should show what is delaying / impeding the restore job. One other question - are you restoring from tape or disk - what is the source device type you are recovering from. We recently activated ZEDC on our LPAR's and found out dumping / restoring in DFDSS compressed mode speeds up our backups substantially (like by factor 3:1) if you have that option? You have to specify the proper "ZCOMPRESS" option on the ADRDSSU dump statement to take advantage if you have that feature / option active for your system / processor - we are running on Z15 hardware. Steve Estle ZOS Systems Programmer -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Lessons Learned - Mass Extended Format DS Conversion - ZOS 2.5
All, We are in the midst of rolling out pervasive encryption in our ZOS 2.5 customer environment. To get there of course we need to move to extended format datasets (sequential, VSAM, etc) which we have minimal exposure / experience with today (We have multiple 100K's of datasets in our catalogs across 4 LPAR's. We also will be leveraging hardware compression (ZEDC) as we migrate things as well towards path to pervasive encryption (PV) of course following best practice to compress before encrypting. Have reviewed redbooks on PV, extended format, and hardware compression (experiences with hardware compression so far have been outstanding - especially in our DFDSS backup processing). What I'm looking for are any gotchas / lessons learned / real life experiences in embarking on this mass migration from basic format datasets over to extended compressed format DSN's and encryption that aren't documented in standard doc or redbooks. Or maybe you ran across or developed some tools to aid in such large scale migrations? If you have anything you'd like to share feel free to share it here or if prefer to talk offline contact me at sest...@gmail.com. Thanks in advance for sharing. Steve Estle sest...@gmail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
SAS for ZOS 9.4.8 Install/Upgrade Experiences?
Everyone, I support a secure government environment that has limited ability to connect directly to vendor software download sites and am embarking on effort to upgrade our SAS for ZOS from 9.4.7 to 9.4.8 - you would think simple / simon but is my first time with this software package install/upgrade and am struggling with the process SAS dictates to get software from there sites. They use a tool called SAS download manager - one for ZOS, Windows, Linux, etc. Curious for those sites that have SAS for ZOS, how are you getting software from SAS site to your ZOS system(s)? SAS does not offer any sort of FTP like functionality and forces you to use download manager which unfortunately is not so simple to use - at least not on ZOS. SAS packaging for ZOS relies very heavily on Unix System Services for the packaging, install, maintenance, and deployments/customization. One other item, if you have engaged SAS support on regular basis, how would you rate your SAS support experience? Mine to say the least is challenging - one of the issues we've run into under SAS 9.4.7 is interfacing SAS 9.4.7 with CICS web services and ATTLS - they seem to not be too savvy in this space - found out they do not have / nor test CICS in there ZOS / lab test environment at all and we have programmer who has written code for SAS to talk to CICS web services to extract information. This is one of the reasons we are moving to SAS 9.4.8 as they repackage the OpenSSL such that it now relies on system SSL libraries / encryption routines vs. packing there own. Anyways if interested in talking further / sharing experiences / or maybe have some good contacts relative to SAS, please let me know. Appreciate any/all ideas. Thanks in advance, Steve Estle sest...@gmail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Preferred FTP Client for Windows
Hello All, I work in a secure government environment and moving files up and down from the mainframe (especially traditional ZOS datasets) is a '' pita with Winscp and everything I read (including IBMMAIN archives) is that tool is just plain dumb when it comes to datasets with standard ZOS HLQ's. I'm trying to do a non-scientific poll - what is the preferred FTP client to run on Windows platform out there everyone is using that you are happy with and can easily navigate to either traditional ZOS HLQ dataset or Unix System Services files. Of course freeware is preferred if user friendly. I know there is Filezilla but not sure it is much better than Winscp? Thanks for everyone's thoughts and input. Steve Estle steven.es...@peraton.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
What happened to GC26-1672 Batch Local Shared Resource(LSR) Documentation?
All, Unfortunately, I have to date myself a bit, but back in the 90's while with IBM, I implemented batch LSR on some VSAM batch jobs that significantly reduced some batch jobs run time and overall CPU usage - Hours to minutes and ~75% reduction in CPU time. I have now the need to use Batch LSR and work with applications team that owns a job, but can't locate the current Batch LSR documentation as it applies to ZOS (we are 2.5 shop). I'm now using ZBNA to do similar things on my current account (btw I can't say enough good things about ZBNA - thanks to John Burg and WSC team! I've looked on IBM's documentation and Book Manager sites and cannot locate. I've found some references via Google search and searched this forum / archives and see references that the document is out there in either the MVS collection (possibly OS/390 collection too), but truly not sure where to locate this invaluable documentation anymore, but certainly thought there would be a current version of the doc(?) somewhere online - but maybe not. Any IBMers out here monitoring this forum, can we get a current version in ZOS documentation? So here is best document number and name of document that I know of based online searches: GC26-1672 Batch Local Shared Resources If anyone has this document you can just email it to me at steven.es...@peraton.com as PDF file. Thanks very much for everyone's help, Steve Estle 303-817-9954 Peraton.com Systems Programmer / Performance Specialist -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Anyone Running / Experienced with ZOS Tectia Product / SFTP Transmissions
All, We have Tectia ZOS (https://www.ssh.com/products/mainframe-security-software) product running in our installation and need to setup for allowing public / private key SFTP transmissions related to EDI application / product used internally. Tectia Product manuals while quite verbose do not give much guidance in how to create / generate / public / private key certificates in allowing this to occur. Anyone with knowledge / experience in this world (of course highly "open systems" / Unix / Linux centric) would be much appreciated. I'm giving two contact methods should you want to talk offline: Steve Estle sest...@gmail.com 303-604-0925. TIA to all. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Open Job Positions? - ZOS / Performance / Tuning
Hello Everyone, I know this is primarily a "technical discussion" set of forums. But wanted to post this anyways. Little of my background - I worked at IBM 34+ years in a number of positions, but my predominant area of expertise was in MVS (SP, XA, ESA), OS390, etc. working in systems programming arena. I also am highly skilled in performance and tuning with deep experience with tuning (RMF, SAS, Omegamon, and others). I was the team lead for the MVS performance team in Boulder, CO for several years and got certified in this discipline. I performed these activities for ~20 years, but my skills are a bit rusty / out of date as I then moved into more leadership roles latter part of my career but know I can catch up relatively quickly and have been perusing docs, etc to do just that. I also have experience with VM as well - but not as extensive as my MVS years. My whole IBM career was spent in internal IS, Consulting, and outsourcing arena - so was in services role for 34+ years. Anyways I'm back looking for potential job positions if anyone is looking or knows of available positions - happy to share resume if anyone would like to talk further - my email is sest...@gmail.com. Thanks all in advance, Steve Estle -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Best catch up resources for MVS / ZOS Technologies (CA Migration tips?)
Everyone, I want to thank all for the ideas / suggestions / references on catching up on ZOS - I am now finding out the mainframe environment is very heavy CA/Broadcom vendor product centric (Top Secret, CA7, CA1, OpsMVS, MIM, etc) and am pretty green in that world (I predominantly worked in heavy IBM shops) and strategic plan is to migrate to IBM equivalents in near future. Any ideas, tips, suggestions to help jumpstart such planning and due diligence efforts? Is there an equivalent in the CA world to IBM Redbooks or anything like it? Any Share (or equivalent) presentations out there on experiences in such migrations? Thanks all for your input/suggestions. Very much appreciated. Steve Estle sest...@gmail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Best catch up resources for MVS / ZOS Technologies
Hello Everyone in Mainframe Land, I've been out of the mainframe world since about 2001, but spent the prior 20 years immersed in that world working with everything from MVS/370 to MVS/ESA and VM, performance and capacity planning disciplines across a variety of situations in the IT Services and consulting spaces. I, am, now as a "IT Infrastructure Engineer- IBM z/OS Mainframe Engineer" after nearly 20 years of other activities (Project Mgmt, entrepreneur, etc) am about to potentially come back into a new mainframe role and I need to catch up as quickly as possible. Any suggestions on ways to fill in the gaps for ZOS, ZVM, hardware, performance, etc? Bottom line I'm looking for that gap education to as quickly as possible get up to speed with changes in platforms since 2001. If prefer to call - all my info is below. Thanks, Steve Estle 303-604-0925 sest...@gmail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
TWS on ZOS Help / Educational Resources
Hello All, I am looking for anyone who might use and/or have experience with installing, configuring, and customizing TWS (Tivoli Workload Scheduler) on ZOS - especially in migrating from a "two "equal" node" TWS environment to the desired state with one single TWS controlling node and the other node being run as a TWS agent of the TWS controlling node. I am also looking for any educational resources anyone might know (beyond Google) of any TWS for ZOS education which you can post via IBMMAIN reply. If you are willing to talk about this effort further, please contact me offline via my email below so we might be able to talk. Thanks much in advance! Steve Estle sest...@gmail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: How Do I Search Current Year Postings?
Hi Lizette, Thanks for the feedback - it appears that when I use the "Search Archives" option (via webpages) I always get 2005 posts first, but I can get around it by using the "Since:" option (such as since 1 Jan 2017) then I get more current hits. It would be really nice if when I search I get chronologically descending from 2017 current date vs going to 2005 by default unless I enter the "Since:" option? Possibly I'm doing something wrong - here's my overall URL: https://listserv.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1709=ibm-main===653070 should that help - if supposed to be searching different archives not sure how I change that setting / preference? Thanks, Steve Estle -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
How Do I Search Current Year Postings?
Hello, Fairly new to using these mailings / postings / system, so probably "newbie" question (is there a "list" for "how to" on this listserv system?)... My question is how do I search the current year mailings by keyword? Whenever I "Search Archives" it shows matches from 2005 backwards but not current "hits" in current months/years? Thanks, Steve Estle -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Job Searching - Mainframe (zos/zvm) Performance or Sysprog Recommendations
Hello All, As a multi-decade IBMer, recently "asked" to retire and new to this forum, I am looking for best practices, pointers, advice, info, recommendations on best places to search / find / locate mainframe (zos and/or zvm and/or performance/capacity) related positions including contracting related jobs as I am actively searching. Referrals to recommended mainframe oriented recruiters and/or recruiting companies is also appreciated. If anyone is actively hiring please feel free to contact me offline or via linkedin. Any and all advice is very much appreciated and thanks very much for your consideration in advancing my search. Thanks, Steve Estle sest...@gmail.com 303-817-9954 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Any IBM pSeries gurus out there?
Mike, I sent you separate email. Contact me offline. Thanks, Steve Estle -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
