Re: Some beginners Questions

Tom, I suggest you reserve 1 hour for yourself, enter the Edotor, hit PF1 and start reading. This will quickly learn you most of the techniques you need to work efficiently with the product. Kees. "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Hi! > > We migrate from V

Re: One sysplex across two z/800???

Mark Zelden writes: >I haven't seen anyone mention that the OP would need a sysplex >timer (which he doesn't need now). That cost alone my be good >enough reason to upgrade the box to newer technology. I was thinking that, too (and mentioned that in e-mail to the original poster). It does seem

Re: Catalog space reuse - possible?

Uri, As it becomes ISV game, You may also check CIM from HostSystems at http://www.hostsystems.de/en/cim_news.htm/. Email me if you need more information. Itschak +972 522 986404 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Crilley

Re: Whoever you are, you have my sympathy

>> ... could that not be a search engne crawler? >Nah. I get thousands of visits from them every day, >including IBM's crawler identifying itself as "IBM >Almaden" and downloading all of my copyrighted site >almost daily. But what can you do about 1,000lb >gorillas with asshole lawyers? No lawye

Re: Google Architecture

Inside the Google-Plex http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/07/10/216249.shtml http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,1985040,00.asp from above: Google runs on hundreds of thousands of servers—by one estimate, in excess of 450,000—racked up in thousands of clusters in dozens of data centers around th

Re: Not Your Dad's Mainframe: Little Iron

"Rostyslaw J. Lewyckyj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well I had exposure, access, to an IBM MVT product called TESTTRAN > which was sort of available on our system with assembler F and , if > I remember correctly, Fortran G, both in batch and TSO. One had to > compile/assemble with the TEST opti

Re: MVS Licenses/MVS sites

Charles Mills wrote: marketing pukes Excuse me? wondered how they found all that information A number of companies develop or once developed directories of sites by hardware type (AS/400, Univac, S/390, DEC, whatever). If you started with a mailing list for an enterprise softw

Re: DR and Virtual Tape

Try VDR from OpenTech in Dallas. Works like a charm, can back up your VTS and your tape library if you want. Great product. Doug At 04:15 PM 7/10/2006, you wrote: I'm sure this has been discussed off and on, but technologies have changed over time, too - so I would like to ask anyone has good

Re: MVS Licenses/MVS sites

> marketing pukes Excuse me? > wondered how they found all that information A number of companies develop or once developed directories of sites by hardware type (AS/400, Univac, S/390, DEC, whatever). If you started with a mailing list for an enterprise software type magazine and had the budget

Re: IBMLink 3270 Logon Trouble

Or maybe not :( Dave Gibney [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Programmer(509) 335-7359 Information Technology Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-1222 > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: DR and Virtual Tape

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:15:10 -0400, Tim Hare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm sure this has been discussed off and on, but technologies have changed >over time, too - so I would like to ask anyone has good advice for dealing >with virtual tape (STK VSM3 / VTCS 6.1) in a DR environment. We have some

Re: IBMLink 3270 Logon Trouble

Working now :) Dave Gibney [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Programmer(509) 335-7359 Information Technology Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-1222 > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: DR and Virtual Tape

We're using TapeCopy/VDR by OpenTech Systems and like it. VDR = Virtual Disaster Recovery The simple versionof our implementation: Applications creates all their DR tapes in our VTS and we vault them using special DR vault codes (CA1). Then we have a set of TapeCopy batch jobs that takes c

Re: IBMLink 3270 Logon Trouble

We've just got 1 in our museum. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Black Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 3:10 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBMLink 3270 Logon Trouble > > Two of 'em still! U being facetious? We were

Re: IBMLink 3270 Logon Trouble

In a recent note, Bruce Black said: > Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:09:45 -0400 > > > Two of 'em still! U being facetious? > We were probably picturing a room full of TRS80s > Running Hercules? -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---

DR and Virtual Tape

I'm sure this has been discussed off and on, but technologies have changed over time, too - so I would like to ask anyone has good advice for dealing with virtual tape (STK VSM3 / VTCS 6.1) in a DR environment. We have some application tape that may need to be recovered - but the last time I lo

Re: IBMLink 3270 Logon Trouble

Two of 'em still! U being facetious? We were probably picturing a room full of TRS80s -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software Developer for FDR Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300 personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sales info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tech support: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.innovationdp.fdr

Re: IBMLink 3270 Logon Trouble

Dennis Trojak wrote: Two of 'em still! U being facetious? And, Dennis has been a contributor to IBM-Main for years! -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/

Re: IBMLink 3270 Logon Trouble

Two of 'em still! U being facetious? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Pinion Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 12:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBMLink 3270 Logon Trouble Radio Shack has a mainframe --

Fwd: Re: PAnel 3.4 vtoc statistics

FYI... This took care of our problem locally. The data for %used in panels 3.2 and 3.8 were reporting incorrect information. Possibly due to use of mod-9's and mod-27's. Duane Hello Duane, If you are getting weird '%used' stats in 3.2/3.4 display, check out PTF UA22316 Regards, Tony -O

Re: MVS Licenses/MVS sites

It would be less than useless. It would be like taking a census of the US by asking all the members of slashdot to write in with how many people they knew. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mueller, David Sent: Monday, J

Re: MVS Licenses/MVS sites

About 25 years ago, near the end of my days at Amdahl, I saw a directory of DP shops. It was something that the marketing pukes used to use. I never had a clue any such thing existed until then. When I looked through it, I found every sitet hat I could think of. At the time, I was surprised that

Re: IBMLink 3270 Logon Trouble

You can open an issue via the Web IBMLINK Application Jon L. Veilleux [EMAIL PROTECTED] (860) 636-2683 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Black Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 2:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IB

Re: IBMLink 3270 Logon Trouble

same error here. Apparently this screen has not been updated in a while. Good luck trying to find the IBM Global Network Help Desk. I have reported this to the IBMLINK help line -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software Developer for FDR Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300 personal: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: FTP - Put Error - EZA2590E

Walter, Thanks for pointing out APAR PQ45544. This is not a "code-correcting" APAR but a "new function" APAR - and dating from 2001, meaning that the "new function" is available in z/OS 1.6, the level used by the OP. In effect what you have done is indicate where this relatively new parameter FTP

Re: IBMLink 3270 Logon Trouble

Radio Shack has a mainframe >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/10/2006 1:47 PM >>> Same error I got. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 12:27 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: IBMLink 3270

Whoever you are, you have my sympathy

> What does it use as input data? Google has bought out Urchin. It uses a Javascript stub. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: IBMLink 3270 Logon Trouble

Same error I got. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 12:27 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: IBMLink 3270 Logon Trouble Am I the only one unable to logon today? |LB0004 |

Re: IBMLink 3270 Logon Trouble

You are not alone Dave Gibney [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Programmer(509) 335-7359 Information Technology Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-1222 > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PR

IBMLink 3270 Logon Trouble

Am I the only one unable to logon today? |LB0004 |Global IBMLink | | HONE8 We are unable to process your LOGON REQUEST at this time. | |* |** This problem may be temporary.

Re: MVS Licenses/MVS sites

If people were reporting anonymously (no company names), it would be entirely possible for two or more people working in the same area to overlap each other by reporting on many of the same shops in their 'neighborhood'. It could be difficult to eliminate these overlaps and thus the results might

Re: OpenSSH installaion question

You are a brave soul if you are installing into your "live" system. What happens if you have an error? How do you back out? I would be sure to take full backups of any libraries or HFSes that might be affected and your SMP/E zones beforehand. At least you'll have something to go back to. Jon L. V

Re: MVS Licenses/MVS sites

Mark Zelden wrote: On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:28:52 -0700, Edward Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: R.S. wrote: BTW: *WE*, the IBM-MAIN group are able to research the number of sites. Some of us knows some numbers about own site and some neighbourhood. As long we don't mention company names, we c

Re: IOCP version problem on a 2086 (was Genning a 3745)

Bruce, OK, let's start with the most important question first: Do you have PTF UA90076 (IOCP 1.2 support, APAR OA06464) installed? If not, two things: 1. Get and install it, and try again. 2. Get any other service you are missing from the PSP bucket, upgrade name 2086DEVICE, subset 2086/ZOS,

Re: Catalog space reuse - possible?

No way to reclaim the space. That is just how all KSDS's will work. But, can you possibly change the keys of the records being placed into the catalog? For example, a Mobius catalog/application? If so, Mobius allows you to change the format of the key which helps quite a bit. Otherwise, might

Re: Catalog space reuse - possible?

I can highly recommend Catalog Recovery Plus from Mainstar. Among other things it allows you to re-org your user catalogs without disruption to on-going operations. Is this catalog used for Mobius by any chance? From: Uri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 7

Re: MVS Licenses/MVS sites

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:28:52 -0700, Edward Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >R.S. wrote: >> BTW: *WE*, the IBM-MAIN group are able to research the number of sites. >> Some of us knows some numbers about own site and some neighbourhood. >> As long we don't mention company names, we can share this d

Re: MVS Licenses/MVS sites

Edward E Jaffe wrote: > I don't think so. IBM-Main participants represent only a fraction of the > mainframe community. > And some of us don't have shops but are here because we have clients who aren't on the list. Bill Dodge email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (703)627-2455 "If you don't k

Catalog space reuse - possible?

My installation has a catalog with a high turnover rate which fills up pretty fast. Most of its entries, at the time the catalog is filled up, are logically deleted, meaning they will disappear after a reorg. Redefining the catalog to be larger will only delay the problem and take up more space.

OpenSSH installaion question

I am in the process of installing the OpenSSH product (FMID HOS1110). It wants to install some things in the "/Service" subdirectory and other things in the "live" subdirectories. Is there any reason why I cannot install this product directly in the "live" subdirectories for the running system? It

Re: MVS Licenses/MVS sites

R.S. wrote: BTW: *WE*, the IBM-MAIN group are able to research the number of sites. Some of us knows some numbers about own site and some neighbourhood. As long we don't mention company names, we can share this data. Even anonymously. Then one of us could aggregate and present the numbers. I

Catch inefficient code sooner, deliver quality apps faster

Note the following has been approved to be posted by the List owner Catch inefficient code sooner, deliver quality apps faster Don't let time constraints or code complexity stand in your way of high-performing and highly responsive mainframe applications. Join Compuware's we

Re: FTP - Put Error - EZA2590E

Hi, We've had a similar problem here in the past. Different platform, but similar symptons. In our case, we had problems ftpying to a wintel machine which in turn was writing data to another machine thru remote shared folder (MS networking); another thing was that remote machine was in a diff

Re: DB2 + ODBC

Hi Michael, First of all I think the best forum to post this question is DB2-L, you'll get better answers there. Anyway, have you tried CURRENTSQLID DSNAOINI parm? I don't have much experience with Mainframe ODBC, here we run most old fashion cobol + static sql, but based on ODBC guide info it

Re: DISP=MOD

In a recent note, Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM said: > Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:28:54 +0200 > > However, since HSM-migrated/CA-DISK-archived datasets and IDCAMS knowing > how to delete them without recalling/restoring them, the latter is > preferred, although it is hard to get all DISP=MOD JCL

Re: DISP=MOD

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Of course, DISP=MOD is probably used more often to delete datasets > than to modify them. I think you're right. However, since HSM-migrated/CA-DISK-archived datasets and IDCAMS knowing how to delete them without recalling/restorin

Re: ISPF 3.4

Is ISPF PTF UA22316 applied? APAR OA14046 sounds like it might be your problem. Brian On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:28:58 -0400, Duane Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >We recently went from zOS 1.3 to zos 1.7. > >We have noticed that ISPF 3.4 vtoc statistics are not reporting >accurately the space

Re: Whoever you are, you have my sympathy

In a recent note, Phil Payne said: > Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:37:48 +0200 > > Google is running an invitation-only program called "Google Analytics". This > collects > statistics about how the page was found - "referral" and other things such as > how long the > user stayed on the pag

Re: Help with TCB status

"First Do No Harm" Consider while you are holding this fellows LOCAL lock a variety of requests will cause work to halt in the target address space because of your attempts to watch it. Try to avoid being more intrusive than you really must and consider that intelligent sampling can produce data

ISPF 3.4

We recently went from zOS 1.3 to zos 1.7. We have noticed that ISPF 3.4 vtoc statistics are not reporting accurately the space usage on data sets. Has anyone else seen this? Duane Weaver -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Whoever you are, you have my sympathy

> ... could that not be a search engne crawler? Nah. I get thousands of visits from them every day, including IBM's crawler identifying itself as "IBM Almaden" and downloading all of my copyrighted site almost daily. But what can you do about 1,000lb gorillas with asshole lawyers? Google is r

Re: One sysplex across two z/800???

A Coupling Facility which is an ICF is just as functional as an external CF. The biggest consideration for an ICF is failure isolation. You need to understand which structures are used by which data sharing members. You may need an external CF or to use system managed structure duplexing to insu

Re: One sysplex across two z/800???

I haven't seen anyone mention that the OP would need a sysplex timer (which he doesn't need now). That cost alone my be good enough reason to upgrade the box to newer technology. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insu

Re: One sysplex across two z/800???

"Chase, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED] m>... > > -Original Message- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave > > > >I believe the answer is no, you can't use ICF (Internal Coupling > > Facility) to connect any two CECs. > >

Re: One sysplex across two z/800???

>>I believe the answer is no, you can't use ICF (Internal Coupling >> Facility) to connect any two CECs. >Works fine between our two Amdahl (G5) machines. >We're installing a pair of z9s; does this mean we won't be able to do Parallel Sysplex any more? No, it does not! z/OS (and its predec

Re: TCP/IP and connecting z to alternate platforms

>>But, it doesn't say directly, that OSA is required for other >>platforms. >It isn't. Where is it documented? >>It implies it >No, you inferred it. You can argue that way if you want, but it doesn't answer any of my questions. >>Can I use FICON (ESCON) connections to talk to alternate plat

Re: One sysplex across two z/800???

> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave > >I believe the answer is no, you can't use ICF (Internal Coupling > Facility) to connect any two CECs. Works fine between our two Amdahl (G5) machines. We're installing a pair of z9s; does this mea

Re: TCP/IP and connecting z to alternate platforms

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/05/2006 at 12:00 AM, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >But, it doesn't say directly, that OSA is required for other >platforms. It isn't. >It implies it No, you inferred it. >Can I use FICON (ESCON) connections to talk to alternate platforms? Yes. >Do I

Re: avgrec/avgblk history ?

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/07/2006 at 08:15 AM, "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I never use it. My reason is that when I update a file with DISP=MOD, >there is no way to __easily__ restart an abended step. Checkpoint/Restart, while it has serious limitations, does work. --

Re: avgrec/avgblk history ?

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/06/2006 at 10:03 PM, Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I said 25 years ago.. sorry if you thought I meant *TODAY* . I was happily using DISP=MOD 25 years ago. In fact, I was using it almost two decades earlier than that. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, Sys

Re: Need Urgent Help

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/06/2006 at 07:06 PM, Howard Rifkind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Is there any way to key in the paging parameters at IPL time. Yes, but it quickly gets stale, especially if you're not a good typist. > My test lpar is up but I can't get to the member with the err

Re: LSQA shortage

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/06/2006 at 09:14 AM, "(IBM Mainframe Discussion List)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >In addition to the suggestion (by some poster on this or a similar >thread) that we all read at least one dump per year to keep in >shape, I also suggest doing at least one hexade

Re: Help with TCB status

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/07/2006 at 10:27 AM, Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Not if the non-dispatachability is due to the top RB being in a wait. That's not nondispatchability, as defined by IBM. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: Dump Reading (was Re: LSQA shortage)

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/06/2006 at 07:19 PM, Edward Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I don't even know what a duty manager is. Someone else can probably provide a more accurate and complete description, but basically the duty manager is responsible for situations where a customer is not

Re: Dump Reading (was Re: LSQA shortage)

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/07/2006 at 07:20 AM, Barbara Nitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Good phrase. I'll remember that! With the way IBM pressures their >level1/2, they are reduced to going down a checklist and ask for >documentation, no matter if it has any bearing on the problem or not.

Re: cataloging dataset on 2 lpar's master catalog

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/07/2006 at 10:12 AM, Dennis Leong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I have a SMS managed dataset that is on master catalog that needs to >be added to linklst and is accessed by 2 lpars. Why? You're putting things in your master catalog that don't belong there. >To get

Re: One sysplex across two z/800???

On a z800 (machine 2066), is this still possible to do? I thought all machine conversions had been withdrawn from marketing on 12/31/2005 (letter 905-220) Brian On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 20:03:54 +0900, Timothy Sipples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Better yet, you

DB2 + ODBC

All, I guess I'm too stupid to understand the DB2-Manual or what I try to do just doesn't work. I have a application written in C runnting under z/OS. From this application I need to query different (dynamic!) DB2 databases. Let's compare to COBOL. In COBOL I usually write SQL Statements w

More No-Charge, Brain Stimulating IBM Classes

IBM has more no-charge(*) classes on offer for 2006, and there are more topics. As far as I know these classes are available to anyone who wishes to visit any city -- no geographic restrictions. You can apply to reserve a seat using the IBM Education enrollment Web site: http://www.ibm.com/se

Re: MVS Licenses/MVS sites

Charles Mills wrote: Yes, I started a thread like this a few months ago. I got some useful, but non-definitive, answers. Search the archives. Those who know don't tell. Those who tell don't know. Not necessarily. It was being estimated, the number of MVS sites is approx. 10.000. Of course 20k

Re: Whoever you are, you have my sympathy

Phil, re: that access to your Web site in the wee hours, could that not be a search engine crawler? A Windows PC infected by a worm ("virus") that was doing some probing to see if your system could receive the same infection? A user that's in another, friendlier timezone but accesses the Inte