Re: *DM*N*STR*V**: Archive access

2006-05-16 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... In a recent note, Darren Evans-Young said: Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 10:24:32 -0500 I am *seriously* considering changing IBM-MAIN (2001-2006) archive access to subscribers only, and I may not have a choice. We have

Re: *DM*N*STR*V**: Archive access

2006-05-16 Thread Jan MOEYERSONS
It appears this is already in effect. I just attempted to view this month's archive index, and was required to log in. I was required to log in, just to view this message (I get the digest through e-mail and then click the message number for those messages, I want to read). Will this mean

Result back from IKJTSOEV

2006-05-16 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi How can I get back the result of a TSO/REXX command if I call under IKJTSOEV /IKJEFTSR ? (instead of SYSTSPRT ) -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards Miklos Szigetvari ISIS Information Systems GmbH Alter Wienerweg 12 2344 Maria Enzersdorf Austria

Re: question to backup on 3590

2006-05-16 Thread R.S.
Franz Josef Pohlen wrote: thank you all for your valuable answers. Another business partner told the customer that a second escon channel is not possible on 3590. This I could hardly believe because there was a feature code FC3312 called second escon adapter for 3590. Now I'm sure that the

Re: FTP Script/Password

2006-05-16 Thread Andrew Chillman
Hi I came across this in the archives and wondered if anyone had an answer. I am trying to do exactly the same - and having exactly the same lack of success as the original poster! Thanks Andy Chillman Lead Systems Programmer euroConex Technologies Ltd On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:11:44 -0500,

Re: Cost of tools (was: Migrating from OPS/MVS to AF/OPERATOR)

2006-05-16 Thread Tom Marchant
3.4? I abandoned 3.4 nearly ten years ago. Now I use the ISPF workplace instead. Tom Marchant On Mon, 15 May 2006 20:49:15 +, Dave Salt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruce A. Black wrote: IMHO, its not so simple. You are assuming that by installing such a tool, it would automatically and

Re: VTS Ejected volume

2006-05-16 Thread Mike Wood
Since this is a VTS stacked volume it might not be/need not be defiend to your tape management system. If defined to RMM, RMM will have no information about the volume or its contents other than it is a stacked volume and the library it should be in. Others have answered the 'vts' aspect of

MQ priority settings in z/os

2006-05-16 Thread Clark Lowery
We have recently seen overall system slowdowns while application programs wait on an MQ response to a PUT or GET. When this occurs, we also see high CPU delays in the MQ MSTR and CHIN. We run high-volume (1200 tran/sec) transactions through a CTG/CICS/DB2 structure, and are debating how the MQ

Re: question to backup on 3590

2006-05-16 Thread Rugen, Len
I get used equipment price lists monthly, from one of the last ones: 3590-A50 w/2 escon $675 3590-A60 w/2 escon $4700, 2 more escon $795 3590-B11 $3500 3590-E11 $4550 Rack mounting hardware for above $475 These are for example only, sent in email and not verified.

Re: MQ priority settings in z/os

2006-05-16 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi Clark, Check the IBM doc of course for the definitive documentation. We found that we needed to make the CHIN non-swappable as well in order to protect it from being swapped out shortly after IPL when all subsystems were coming up at once or when we were doing large scale subsystem recycles.

Re: question to backup on 3590

2006-05-16 Thread Patrick . Falcone
I can assure you that you can connect more than 1 ESCON channel to 3590 B's. A few weekends ago at DR our set-up was 16 3590 B's with 2 ESCON per/module or 4 UCB's (I don't know, are they still called a module?). This was verified by looking at RMF on the floor system, and well before I

Re: *DM*N*STR*V**: Archive access

2006-05-16 Thread Walt Farrell
On 5/16/2006 3:12 AM, Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM wrote: isn't it useless to protect your archives? The newsgroup version of the list is fully available in Google archives, so what is your purpose of protecting the list archives? As I read Darren's posting, the purpose is to avoid a load on his

Re: MQ priority settings in z/os

2006-05-16 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 16 May 2006 08:42:46 -0400, Knutson, Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Clark, Check the IBM doc of course for the definitive documentation. We found that we needed to make the CHIN non-swappable as well in order to protect it from being swapped out shortly after IPL when all subsystems

Re: FTP Script/Password

2006-05-16 Thread Charles Mills
Simple. Use the switch to read the command file. The free Windows FTP will read everything from the command file except the password, for which it will prompt. Example: Testftp.txt contains: userid Stat Quit Sample run: C:\DOCUME~2\Charlesftp 12.34.56.78 testftp.txt User

Re: MQ priority settings in z/os

2006-05-16 Thread Clark, Kevin D, HRC-Alexandria/EDS
Hello Clark, Follow that data. Defuse the wait conditions as much as possible. (is it a valid wait ?) Place the MSTR and CHIN s started tasks, but by all means use ENCLAVES for the actual transactions or programs that treverse the MQ/CICS/DB2 address spaces. Kevin -Original

Valid TSO Users

2006-05-16 Thread Dave Cartwright
I would like to report on those Users who are defined to RACF, who have a TSO segment and who are not revoked. Unfortunately our RACF DB contains many revoked Users and many Users without a TSO segment (IMS Users). If I unload the Database there are different record types for Userid and TSO

Password Complexity

2006-05-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
I read somewhere that the motivation for support of mixed case passwords in z/OS v1r7 is an external requirement that the password space have cardinality at least 10^13. Does any reader of this list know the source of this requirement? Sarbanes-Oxley (chapter and verse)? Other (specify)? While

Re: DFSAFMD0 USERMOD to update IGC0805A IEAVADFM any way to do this dynamically? Existing Requirements?

2006-05-16 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi, I opened a marketing request with IBM. If you are running IMS please take time to contact your IBM technical marketing representative and concur on this. I would appreciate this as having more customers standing up and saying they want this change to IMS operation and installation is going

Re: Valid TSO Users

2006-05-16 Thread Perryman, Brian
Dave Have you looked at the RACFICE downloads on the IBM RACF support website? (Just stick RACFICE into Google if you can't find it) Brian - This e-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s)and may contain confidential and privileged information of Transaction

Re: Valid TSO Users

2006-05-16 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Cartwright Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 9:22 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Valid TSO Users I would like to report on those Users who are defined to RACF, who have a TSO

Re: Result back from IKJTSOEV

2006-05-16 Thread Tony Harminc
Miklos Szigetvari asked: How can I get back the result of a TSO/REXX command if I call under IKJTSOEV /IKJEFTSR ? (instead of SYSTSPRT ) Well, you can preallocate (batch or DYNALLOC) SYSTSPRT to somewhere appropriate before you invoke IKJTSOEV. But if you want to get your output back on the

IRX0157E

2006-05-16 Thread R.S.
I've installed z/OS V1R7. IPLed. When leaving ISPF or logoff I'm getting the following message: IRX0157E Routine EAGRTXTR of the run time processor EAGRTPRC was not found. I did RTFM: IRX0157E Routine routine_name of the run-time

Re: Cost of tools (was: Migrating from OPS/MVS to AF/OPERATOR)

2006-05-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Edward Jaffe said: Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 07:57:06 -0700 Bruce Hewson wrote: I continue to be astonished/annoyed/aggravated etc by how many sysprogs/developers/operators insist on using basic Mod-2 (24x80) format 3270 emulator screens. Amen to that, Bro!

Re: Valid TSO Users

2006-05-16 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 16 May 2006 09:21:45 -0500, Dave Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to report on those Users who are defined to RACF, who have a TSO segment and who are not revoked. Unfortunately our RACF DB contains many revoked Users and many Users without a TSO segment (IMS Users). If I

Re: Cost of tools

2006-05-16 Thread Staller, Allan
Dave, You've been spending too much time reading Dilbert snip YOU: I'd like permission to buy a new software tool that upgrades the ISPF/PDF interface. BOSS: How much does it cost? YOU: $5,000. BOSS: What's wrong with the interface we have now? YOU: It's slow, cumbersome, difficult to

Re: IRX0157E

2006-05-16 Thread Peggy Andrews
Just a thought - did you have a usermod applied on your previous release for IRXCMPTM? The Compiler Programming Table (CPT) IRXCMPTM is the TSO/E module that identifies one or more alternate exec processors and their corresponding interface routines to TSO/E. Your installation uses either the

Re: IRX0157E

2006-05-16 Thread R.S.
Peggy Andrews wrote: Just a thought - did you have a usermod applied on your previous release for IRXCMPTM? The Compiler Programming Table (CPT) IRXCMPTM is the TSO/E module that identifies one or more alternate exec processors and their corresponding interface routines to TSO/E. Your

Re: IRX0157E

2006-05-16 Thread Hal Merritt
That is a TSO/E Customization issue. Check that manual using EAGRTPRC as a search argument. HTH and good luck. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 10:02 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject:

Re: Valid TSO Users

2006-05-16 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
If you can handle the REVOKEd users, you can simply run a LU command: LU (*) TSO NORACF This will list the TSO segment for all users who have the segment and nothing for those who don't. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: Password Complexity

2006-05-16 Thread Hal Merritt
IMHO, there are no known foundations for these 'requirements', legal or otherwise. The source is simply auditors making things up as they go. Sooner or later is should occur to someone that auditors spelling out such 'requirements' is a conflict of interest and not compliant with ISO 9000.

Re: IRX0157E

2006-05-16 Thread Peggy Andrews
If that did in fact APPLY, and you don't know if you needed it, then, yes, I think I would consider a RESTORE, and see... Peggy Peggy Andrews Sr. Systems Engineer Information Technology Department Technical Support Services Division City of Sacramento (916) 808-5438 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MQ priority settings in z/os

2006-05-16 Thread PERRY MAYES
Probably doesn't apply here but we were experiencing similar slowdowns and increased CPU usage in the CHIN. We dumped the address space and found evidence of a memory leak that was addressed by PTF UQ86724. Regards [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/16/06 8:21 AM We have recently seen overall system

Re: Delays or appears to be stuck tape in HSM.

2006-05-16 Thread Bruce Black
This sounds like IBM APAR OW55765 Customer noticed they do not receive a KEEP message for a tape, in this case on a VTS drive. The tape drive was still allocated to DFSMShsm but the backup task had ended. HSM was not hung. DFSMShsm had received msgARC0371I ERROR reading the BVR

Re: MQ priority settings in z/os

2006-05-16 Thread Hal Merritt
I think of the actual priority of my most loved ones as the lowest of any of the services required. For example, if your most loved CICS has to wait for MQ, and MQ is below, say, less important CICS's, then your most loved CICS will be held up by this less important work. In effect, the priority

Re: IRX0157E

2006-05-16 Thread Pierre Bodart
Radoslaw, Had same problem here. In z/OS 1.7 you need a new FMID for Rexx Alternate which is no more delivered with z/OS 1.7 New libraries is (SMPE) REXXALT.V140.SEAGALT. I'll sent you the FMID tomorrow. Or as workaround, you continue to use REXX.V1R3M0.SEAGALT (or something like that) from

Re: Result back from IKJTSOEV

2006-05-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Miklos Szigetvari said: Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 10:24:23 +0200 How can I get back the result of a TSO/REXX command if I call under IKJTSOEV /IKJEFTSR ? (instead of SYSTSPRT ) And I neglected to mention one obvious option: allocate your DD name to a POSIX pipe or

Re: Result back from IKJTSOEV

2006-05-16 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi Thank you for he ideas. I have a program to change the SYSTSIN/SYSTSPRT get/put pointers, but I neded for this APF auth. I done the SYSTSPRT access currently with OUTTRAP and a callback routine to access the results via IRXEXCOM. The original problem was that the IRXEXCOM has not worked for

Re: Password Complexity

2006-05-16 Thread Walt Farrell
On 5/16/2006 10:24 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read somewhere that the motivation for support of mixed case passwords in z/OS v1r7 is an external requirement that the password space have cardinality at least 10^13. Does any reader of this list know the source of this requirement?

Re: Valid TSO Users

2006-05-16 Thread Walt Farrell
On 5/16/2006 10:22 AM, Dave Cartwright wrote: I would like to report on those Users who are defined to RACF, who have a TSO segment and who are not revoked. Unfortunately our RACF DB contains many revoked Users and many Users without a TSO segment (IMS Users). If I unload the Database there

Re: MQ priority settings in z/os

2006-05-16 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I run production MQ in SYSSTC We had problems with doing that (pre-64-Bit). Because of the load on the system, MQ was constantly getting its data kicked into ESTORE. This caused many slowdowns. SYSSTC/SYSTEM tasks (except for GRS) have no memory management, because they have no goals. With

z/OS Load Balancing Advisor for z/OS Communications Server

2006-05-16 Thread PERRY MAYES
Good afternoon: We are looking at implementing z/OS Load Balancing Advisor for z/OS Communications Server. Are there any gotchas we need to keep an eye out for? Any installs in Canada? Thanks Regards -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: MQ priority settings in z/os

2006-05-16 Thread Tom Marchant
Are you saying that you were so memory constrained that MQ pages were stolen, but by giving WLM an unattainable goal the pages were protected? On Tue, 16 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I run production MQ in SYSSTC We had problems with doing that (pre-64-Bit).

Re: *DM*N*STR*V**: Archive access

2006-05-16 Thread Jon Brock
I usually go straight to http://groups.google.com/group/bit.listserv.ibm-main before I even try IBM. Jon snip I will be most disappointed if indeed the search engines would no longer have access. I use Google a lot to find information I need to do my job. And you can rest assured that I tend

Re: Valid TSO Users

2006-05-16 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Cartwright Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 9:22 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Valid TSO Users I would like to report on those Users who are defined to RACF, who have a TSO

Re: Result back from IKJTSOEV

2006-05-16 Thread Walt Farrell
On 5/16/2006 1:33 PM, Miklos Szigetvari wrote: I have maybe another question: to use authorised TSO call's , is it enough to switch off the non auth flag in the IKJTEFTSR parm list ? You cannot run authorized commands via IKJEFTSR in an environment established by IKJTSOEV. Walt

Re: MQ priority settings in z/os

2006-05-16 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Are you saying that you were so memory constrained that MQ pages were stolen, but by giving WLM an unattainable goal the pages were protected? No. I am saying, under 31-bit with only 2GB of central, in a large environment, if you did not have memory isolation (IE: non-SYS* goals), that MQ would

Re: Password Complexity

2006-05-16 Thread R.S.
Ted MacNEIL wrote: should occur to someone that auditors spelling out such 'requirements' Auditors neither make rules, nor enforce them. All they can do is report. A lot of people ascribe too much power to an auditor. Maybe I re-phrase it: Auditors neither SHOULD make rules, nor SHOULD

Re: Password Complexity

2006-05-16 Thread Ted MacNEIL
But seriously: I'm not sure about the above. Who should enforce the rules ? Corporate compliance officers. - -teD O-KAY! BLUE! JAYS! Let's PLAY! BALL! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Password Complexity

2006-05-16 Thread Kirk Talman
A faucet dripping while you are trying to sleep does not make you get up and turn it off. But if you cannot sleep, you are likely to do it. Ditto auditors. If you are a financial institution or one of their business partners, the size of the, uh, uh, flow is quite large and can dampen your

Re: obsolete

2006-05-16 Thread Gibney, Dave
You can rest assured, I make typos all the time, but there are none in this message :) Dave Gibney [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Programmer(509) 335-7359 Information Technology Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-1222 -Original

Re: obsolete

2006-05-16 Thread Steve Comstock
Gibney, Dave wrote: You can rest assured, I make typos all the time, but there are none in this message :) Dave Gibney [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Programmer(509) 335-7359 Information Technology Washington State University Pullman, WA

An unexpected lights out operation

2006-05-16 Thread Phil Payne
For those of you who haven't experienced it, it is quite un-nerving to walk into your computer room and it is Dead Silent. Well, not totally dead. This is quite a famous little story. Someone will doubtless find an old version in the archives. Many years ago (early 1980s) I had a customer

Re: An unexpected lights out operation

2006-05-16 Thread Craddock, Chris
Wow. One can only dream about such a stable commercial supply. Since the event I wrote about, we already have had one hit big enough to trigger the generator. It is the rare month the generator does not earn its keep. The UPS log of minor hits is quite lengthy. Here in southeast Texas the

Re: An unexpected lights out operation

2006-05-16 Thread Ray Mullins
Amen. Although my voltage does not seem to fluctuate quite so much, at least once a week my UPS kicks in. The drop is so quick and resumes so quickly that I only see the little APC Windoze agent saying You are back on utility power. (In fact, it just did this 2 minutes ago, while composing an

TSM under z/Linux on IFL

2006-05-16 Thread Harold Zbiegien
We are thinking of putting our TSM backup system on an IFL running z/Linux on our new z BC box. Anybody out there doing this? We'd like to hear you comments and expieriences If you care to respond you can email me privately at my work address HarolddotZbiegienatamgreetings.com tia

IBM left as the Betamax of mainframe tape crypto?

2006-05-16 Thread Ed Gould
CA catches z/OS data for encryption IBM left as the Betamax of mainframe tape crypto? http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/ 2006/05/15/ca_mainframe_crypto/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: IRX0157E

2006-05-16 Thread Ed Gould
On May 16, 2006, at 10:01 AM, R.S. wrote: I've installed z/OS V1R7. IPLed. When leaving ISPF or logoff I'm getting the following message: IRX0157E Routine EAGRTXTR of the run time processor EAGRTPRC was not found. I did RTFM:

Re: IRX0157E

2006-05-16 Thread Dave Salt
You could try adding the REXX Alternate Library ('hlvlq.SEAGALT') to the Linklist. I don't know if that will fix the problem, but it certainly couldn't hurt. HTH, Dave Salt SimpList(tm) - The easiest, most powerful way to surf a mainframe! http://www.mackinney.com/products/SIM/simplist.htm

Doubt regarding CDE chain

2006-05-16 Thread Rameswara Reddy Kummathi
Hello, In the below givn article reagrding Static/Dynamic calls in Cobol at http://www.naspa.com/PDF/2000/0600%20TS%20PDFs/T0006010.pdf, it is given how to retrieve the list of programs loaded into the memory. Is there any way to retrieve the library name also along with the program name? I

Re: Password Complexity

2006-05-16 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
Ted MacNEIL wrote: should occur to someone that auditors spelling out such 'requirements' Auditors neither make rules, nor enforce them. All they can do is report. A lot of people ascribe too much power to an auditor. Perhaps, but auditors have indirect powers. I can request detail

Re: IBM left as the Betamax of mainframe tape crypto?

2006-05-16 Thread Timothy Sipples
Provocative subtitle to that article, isn't it? Well, at least they put a question mark on it. :-) FWIW (and not speaking officially for IBM or anybody else), it's excellent that customers have lots of choices for tape encryption. It's a good idea to consider all options. Also FWIW, I've

Re: IRX0157E

2006-05-16 Thread Pierre Bodart
Radoslaw, FMID is HWJ9143 and can be order on ShopZseries. Pierre On 5/16/06, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed z/OS V1R7. IPLed. When leaving ISPF or logoff I'm getting the following message: IRX0157E Routine EAGRTXTR of the run time processor EAGRTPRC was not found. I did RTFM:

Re: IBM left as the Betamax of mainframe tape crypto?

2006-05-16 Thread Denis Gaebler
Why not control? Bying Market Share just like big companies buy other companies to increase market share, why that is not controlling? IBM bought Informix to increase database market share, Oracle bought Siebel, etc. Just to fulfil shareholders requests to groth. This is pure control, nothing