Need advice on implementing SCLM

2007-02-10 Thread Support, DUNNIT SYSTEMS LTD.
Time to standardize our change management procedures. We're looking into SCLM to accomplish this. Let me describe the application system we wish to migrate to SCLM. This app system runs on z/OS. It has batch and online source, copybook and load libraries. The files have the following naming con

Re: SVCs

2007-02-10 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. wrote: That's still wrong. The SVC instruction caused an interrupt, period. It was up to the SVC SLIH to index into the SVC table, etc. There was no SVC Assist feature on the S/360. To add to the fun, CP/67 and VM used the Diagnose instruction as a means for a problem[1]

Re: Running OS/390 on z9 BC

2007-02-10 Thread Alan Altmark
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:05:45 +0900, Timothy Sipples wrote: >Theoretically would it be technically possible to run a second level (or >even third level, if necessary) instance of backlevel VM, then OS/390 1.3 >within that, matching up the version combinations according to the >published lists? No.

Re: Running OS/390 on z9 BC

2007-02-10 Thread Alan Altmark
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 16:20:42 -0800, Edward Jaffe >There is no option in z/VM to run a guest in ESA/390 mode on a machine >supporting z/Architecture. IOW, if the guest understands z/Architecture, >it will issue the SIGP to run that way and there's no way in z/VM to >prevent that or "hide" the fact t

Re: FIXCDS to delete records from mcds

2007-02-10 Thread Joel C. Ewing
Ron Hawkins wrote: Brian, We are quoting the same reference - your quote is directly below mine. IBM are putting the cost of space as a priority, whereas Mainstar are putting performance. It really depends on just how busy the MCDS is. How long does a CA split take? It depends on the CI size,

Re: More questions. Now HFS-SMS

2007-02-10 Thread Shane
On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 20:28 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: > >I couldn't find a place with a recommendation for HFS allocation. So I'd > >like to hear your opinions about it. Do you prefer SMS or non-SMS? Why? > > Non-SMS. Then you can treat it just like and other sysres data set > and indirectly cata

Re: DF/dss dump equivalent of data=none

2007-02-10 Thread Brian Westerman
Thanks, I should have known that. I feel pretty dumb now. I kept looking in http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?MVS-OEdf/dss manuals because I "thought" it should be there. Thanks again, Brian -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sig

Re: More questions. Now HFS-SMS

2007-02-10 Thread Mark Zelden
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:46:51 +0100, Víctor de la Fuente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm here again. Hope one day I can be the answerer... > >I couldn't find a place with a recommendation for HFS allocation. So I'd >like to hear your opinions about it. Do you prefer SMS or non-SMS? Why? > Non-SMS.

Re: Running OS/390 on z9 BC

2007-02-10 Thread Timothy Sipples
Theoretically would it be technically possible to run a second level (or even third level, if necessary) instance of backlevel VM, then OS/390 1.3 within that, matching up the version combinations according to the published lists? Totally unsupported, of course. IMHO do it only if you absolutely

Re: Can anybody help with an OS/400 v5r1 install disk?

2007-02-10 Thread Clark Morris
On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:05:49 -0500, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >We need to upgrade an old OS/400 system, and need to go to 5.1 as an >interim step, and cannot get the disks anywhere. Would anybody have >access to a copy of the CD for this release. If someone has a copy, have IBM or the su

Re: Changing logon behavior using RACF

2007-02-10 Thread Lloyd Fuller
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 21:57:12 -0500, Walter Farrell wrote: >On 2/9/2007 12:00 PM, Steve Rawlins wrote: >> I work at a small company where our z9 is used just for our development and >> testing, not a production environment. So I sometimes am my own sysadmin, sysprog, security officer, etc. >> >>

More questions. Now HFS-SMS

2007-02-10 Thread Víctor de la Fuente
I'm here again. Hope one day I can be the answerer... I couldn't find a place with a recommendation for HFS allocation. So I'd like to hear your opinions about it. Do you prefer SMS or non-SMS? Why? Also, I found that if you choose SMS, at time of SSA definition you can't place the catalog for t