I usually run the TSO OMVS shell with auto-scrolling off. You
can set that at invocation (HELP OMVS for details) or use PF2
(subcommand) and type NOAUTO. Then if you ran into the same
situation you could use PF2 and QUIT. :-)
You should be able to use PF2 (entering OMVS Subcommand mode)
Hi -
The doc for the lastest ICSF web deliverable (HCR7750) is out in the z/OS
Internet Library for z/OS V1R9. The books are under the Cryptographic
Services Element. The migration information is in the System Programer's Guide.
Regards,
Peggy LaBelle
ICSF Development
IBM
That is probably the reason that our auditors decided that we should
implement a encryption package on a different server, in the second
server room, to do the encryption on all UNIX and NT servers(which can
be shifted be a single man). They claim that it is useless to have the
decryption code on
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When we upgraded the application to Invision which moved the data from the
S2K database to VSAM files
running on CICS, the main CICS TCB was pegging one of the CPUs and the other
was way under-utilized.
Was that before CICS started using more TCB's?
Also, could you have run other work on the
I used to work at a site that was using the Seimens (formerly SMS -
Shared Medical Systems) software. We upgraded our software from the
former Independence application suite which was using system 2000 as a
database manager alongside the CICS application. At that time, we were
running a 2 CPU
Herbie,
3592 encyrption IS available; but the key's are stored in one of a couple of
different places. The EKM (the IBM Key Manager) can store them in its own
database (running on a unix/linux box or even on z/OS) or in the security
system (RACF/ACF2/Top Secret) database. So stealing a tape drive
On Nov 30, 2007, at 11:35 AM, Eric Bielefeld wrote:
I seriously doubt if you could steal a mainframe very easily. As
soon as the power was turned off, at least if it was running and in
use, hundreds of users would complain. Also, most mainframes are
in locked areas. A laptop in a bag
Every time I think I understand these issues I find something that
demonstrates the problem is even messier than I originally thought.
The root cause is that there are two different and conflicting EBCDIC
conventions in use on MVS: codeset IBM-1047 (which uses X'AD' and X'BD'
for left and
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 12:28 -0600, Patty Mabie wrote:
Anyway, good points all. Our print conversion and DB2 workload could take
advantage of a second cp even if CICS is still single threading. However,
it's
hard to take a risk like that with a critical app
I wouldn't normally recommend a
Seriously, I read that about the dog avatar while I was drinking some
juice, laughed and nearly died when the black currant mixed berry
cocktail went down the wrong pipe.
It's all fun and games until someone chokes to death.
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It took four of us to push our new minimum sized z9 into the freight
elevator. Anyone strong enough to steal it solo could probably make
more money playing American football a dozen weekends a year.
It is not all that hard to move this big iron around* solo, I do it
all the time. Just two
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Hi -
The doc for the lastest ICSF web deliverable (HCR7750) is out
in the z/OS Internet Library for z/OS V1R9. The books are
under the Cryptographic Services Element. The migration
information is
We had a couple of shared packs. I even had datasets in the linklist on
both the PROD and TEST Lpars. I only updated them on the PROD Lpar, and
then did a LLA refresh on the test lpar. Whenever I rebuilt the test lpar,
I just went with 3.4 and catalogued the PDSs I needed in the Test Lpars
I don't know about anyone else who is following this thread, but I would
really like to hear an explanation from Siemens as to why their code should
run on a UP. Was it ported from an Atari 400 application?
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Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 12:12 PM
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Subject: Re: Transactional VSAM (DFSMStvs) question - performance
You are probably right - having a
On 30 Nov 2007 08:45:59 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown,
John) wrote:
Didn't see the original.
You know how to submit email via JCL. Why not have your COBOL program
create a JCL stream for each message it wants to email and just write
that JCL stream out to a DD statement allocated to an DD
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We ended up using MPF and running a little home-grown routine
whenever the system generates msg CSV210I about the LLA being
started,stopped or refreshed. This program parses the msg to
deterine if it
John,
AFAIK TVS is a paid feature. May be you should look at SMSVSAM, that is
free and
has funcionality you're looking for, with great performance.
Atenciosamente / Regards / Saludos
Ituriel do Nascimento Neto
Banco Bradesco S/A
4254/DPCD Alphaville
Engenharia de Software - Sistemas
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:28:08 -0600, McKown, John wrote:
Does anybody have any statistics about how much impact (slowing down of
the batch program) using Transaction VSAM for accessing VSAM data in
batch would have compared to accessing the same data without it. Any
comparisons with SYSB from HW?
We ended up using MPF and running a little home-grown routine whenever
the system generates msg CSV210I about the LLA being started,stopped or
refreshed. This program parses the msg to deterine if it was issued for
the START, END or REFRESH and then cuts a tiny local SMF record. These
SMF
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:16:32 -0600, McKown, John wrote:
DISPLAY=local.desktop export DISPLAY
oedit some.file
... and have a new, genuine x3270 window running ISPF/PDF pop
up on one's desktop? No need to enter user ID and password;
Now that sounds interesting! And I even understand
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Subject: Re: Send email from MVS cobol
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:56:09 -0800 (PST), Bill Gentry
[EMAIL
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On Nov 30, 2007, at 2:55 PM, Patrick O'Keefe wrote:
From MVS in the '80s, maybe? I thought it was an official IBM term
but I can find no references to it so maybe it was a local term where
I was working. Damage assentment Routine Dump? If it was an
official term, what was it? An SVC dump?
Hi folks,
I'm looking for some Fortran load modules. I want to expand my freeware
COBANAL program to identify such modules and report them.#
So if someone have old or new FORTRAN load modules please isolate them in a
seperate load and XMIT this lib to me.
Thanks a lot.
Roland
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snip
And more on your perplexity about my
We are looking for a change and configuration management product and are
considering Endevor, ChangeMan ZMF, Rational ClearCase and ISPW. We have a
lot of information on the first three, but as ISPW BenchMark is not as well
known, could anyone reply either to the forum or me personally about
In order for JES2 to actually use a big volume, you have to change SPOOLDEF
to LARGEDS=ALLOWED. Also, all MAS members must at a minimum release level:
I believe it's 1.7. Furthermore, once the large spool is in use, no member
can fall back to a pre-minimum level. You might also need to increase
I hope next week I will have a new version with the support of the Shark
CCWs. The new version is now ready and we are testing it now (so far so
good).
Now the FastSync mode can also work to Sync any 3390 real disks.
The support also enables me to emulate the 3390 as a Shark device (the
Shark
Use this JCL to allocate all of a 3390-9, or 99% of it.
//DEFSPOOL EXEC PGM=IEFBR14
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//ALLOCDD DSN=SYS1..HASPACE,DISP=(NEW,KEEP,KEEP),
// SPACE=(CYL,9940),UNIT=3390,VOL=SER=XX,
I was just amazed when I was in 3.4 and I had a list of all my datasets
based on the first HLQ of my userid and hit PF11. We've recently
installed z/OS 1.9.
Admittedly I'm easily amused, but I'd give this a coolness factor of
3.01296 out of PI.
(If you don't have 1.9 yet, a window pops up
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Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 9:41 AM
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Wow, I am terrible at supplying info...must be the end of the week.
It
It took four of us to push our new minimum sized z9 into the freight
elevator. Anyone strong enough to steal it solo could probably make
more money playing American football a dozen weekends a year.
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From: Clark Morris [mailto:snip]
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 8:11
Hi, Yes, I remember the zjournal with the red sports car on the cover. I think
I may have said something immature (like See I told you!) when it arrived in
my office. Possible.
Anyway, good points all. Our print conversion and DB2 workload could take
advantage of a second cp even if CICS
On 11/30/07, Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
That's ok if you are in the US but AFAIK there is no code page
for the UK (for instance) with the correct square bracket
conversions.
Sure! IBM-1047 is as correct for the UK as it is for the US.
I don't think so. There are 6
But a CFL engine on our z9BC supposedly costs US $201,000! OUCH.
Yes! OUCH! The first quote I saw was $125,000.
And, I've heard they are down around USD90,000.
Can you verify with IBM?
Negotiate a discount?
-
Too busy driving to stop for gas!
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Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 11:36 AM
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Subject: Re: Transactional VSAM (DFSMStvs) question - performance
John,
Do you have a coupling
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 08:43 -0600, McKown, John wrote:
Using SMCS, you can now run a true z/OS console on a VTAM
3270 LU. Works identically to a DIDOCS 3270 console.
M - try and see a NIP failure on a SMCS console.
Has it's place, but doesn't replace the flight-deck IMHO.
Shane ...
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:56:09 -0800 (PST), Bill Gentry
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Have an interesting challenge. I have a requirement that dictates
that email be sent from an MVS (z/OS) cobol program. In
oversimplified terms, this means that I'd read a file that would
contain email addresses and
Wow, I am terrible at supplying info...must be the end of the week.
It says I don't have enougn NON-SMS managed volumes available. The input is
on 3490 and we would like the output in the VTS, with the whole process
eventually going inside.
REQUEST FAILED - NOT ENOUGH NON-SYSTEM MANAGED
My bad for not including the JCL. Here is the offending step:
/*
/DP107S30 EXEC PGM=IFASMFDP,REGION=2048K,COND=(0,NE)
/SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
/SYSIN DD
On 11/30/07, Jim McAlpine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't think so. There are 6 differences between 1047/037 and 4 of
those are down to the square brackets changes. There are 11 differences
between 1147/285 but importantly characters such as the UKP (£) sign are in
the correct place.
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Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 8:55 AM
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Subject: SMCS ... was something else entirely.
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 08:43 -0600, McKown, John wrote:
Using
Daniel McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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We're moving datasets into our VTS and on occasion we run into one
which
doesn't seem to want to go. For example, and SMF copy job has been
running
on 3490 and we want it to go into the VTS. When I change the
The Register has now picked up the story.
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/11/29/t3_wants_piece_of_psi_lawsuit/
I've collected the court filings together by date - they're linked from
http://www.isham-research.co.uk/t3t_vs_ibm.html
The date for T3's motion to be heard may be 10 January
I can think of one good reason to allow changing the name of SYS1.DUMP
data sets. Currently they are included at most sites in the GRS
exclusion list
SYS1.PARMLIB(GRSRNL00) - 01.06 Columns 000
=== Scroll =
We're moving datasets into our VTS and on occasion we run into one which
doesn't seem to want to go. For example, and SMF copy job has been running
on 3490 and we want it to go into the VTS. When I change the esoteric for
the output tape from (TAPE90) to (TAPEV) it balks and JCLs out. The code
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:20:49 -0600, Kirk Wolf wrote:
It is no doubt futile to try to reign in this thread, but many of the
responses have been very helpful to me. Thanks.
For me, key points are:
1) OMVS works in a pinch, but I'm not the only one that finds it painful.
OEDIT or OBROWSE commands
John Ticic wrote:
[...]
Radoslaw, let me give you an example (not restricted to SYSLOG output).
You do a lot of SMP/E work and would like to keep the output (for what ever
reason!). Without a spool archival product you have to do it yourself. You
either plan early and direct your SMP output to
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I agree. It works well and no performance problems. We use 3390-27
(large volume support 32760 cylinder volumes).
SYS1.HASPACE is 490800 tracks on each one.
$DSPOOLDEF
$HASP844 SPOOLDEF
Hi,
I'm beginning to play with large (64K tracks) JES2 spool datasets. I'm
attempting to allocate one entire 3390-9 volume (150239 tracks or 10015+
cylinders).
However, I'm receiving message IGD17051I, indicating the primary allocation
can't exceed 65535 TRKS. Its an SMS message but the
You are probably right - having a sysplex is a better way to go, but running
two Lpars on the same box with most of the dasd offline to the opposite lpar
is a pretty safe way to go, if done right. At PH Mining, we ran that way
for years, and never had a problem. Granted, the TEST Lpar was
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:56:09 -0800 (PST), Bill Gentry
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Have an interesting challenge. I have a requirement that dictates
that email be sent from an MVS (z/OS) cobol program. In
oversimplified terms, this means that I'd read a file that would
contain email addresses and
Larry,
I'd like to point out that the SMTP task is a very single-minded process.
It can only do one thing at a time. So, while SMTP is reading in your
400-email spool file, nothing else happens until all 400 email have been
prepared for sending and stored on disk in SMTP-internal format. No
On 11/30/07, Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Sorry I should have said characters such as the UKP (£) sign
are in the correct place for code page 285 and not for 1047/037.
I didn't mean to imply that 1047 is feasible for the UK (sorry, if
I gave the impression).
Have you
Daniel McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
My bad for not including the JCL. Here is the offending step:
/*
/DP107S30 EXEC PGM=IFASMFDP,REGION=2048K,COND=(0,NE)
/SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
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Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 6:09 PM
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Subject: Re: Why isn't OMVS command integrated with ISPF?
snip
It has also been mentioned a couple
On 11/29/07, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 3:59 PM
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Subject: Re: Square Brackets in Java?
I used
That's ok if you are in the US but AFAIK there is no code page
for the UK (for instance) with the correct square bracket
conversions.
Sure! IBM-1047 is as correct for the UK as it is for the US.
However, and this is probably what you mean, there are more
characters that map to different code
I can only dimly remember planned outages.
In my capacity as Customer Services Marketing Manager in Amdahl UK, one of the
metrics I had
to deal with was MTBUI - Mean Time Between Unscheduled Interruptions. It was
essentially
downtime with scheduled maintenance factored out - a planned two-hour
Sorry I should have said characters such as the UKP (£) sign
are in the correct place for code page 285 and not for 1047/037.
I didn't mean to imply that 1047 is feasible for the UK (sorry, if
I gave the impression).
Have you tried to change the locale to En_EN.IBM-285?
--
Peter Hunkeler
Does anybody have any statistics about how much impact (slowing down of
the batch program) using Transaction VSAM for accessing VSAM data in
batch would have compared to accessing the same data without it. Any
comparisons with SYSB from HW?
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I will address that to our storage maven. Thank you.
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On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:43:38 -0600, McKown, John wrote:
It has also been mentioned a couple times in this thread that the
z/OS operator's 327x console is free of the half-duplex constraint:
the operator never needs to press ATTN before entering a command.
I'd be delighted to see an
On 20 Nov 2007 00:32:26 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Another case of don't trust a machine you can lift? :-)
These days I suspect that both the mainframe and storage units would
be relatively easy to steal.
Martin
Martin Packer
Performance Consultant
IBM United Kingdom Ltd
Another option is, from inside your program, you write the email output to
a dd with SMTP as the form..
Such as:
//OUTPUTDD DD SYSOUT=(B,SMTP)
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Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007
You could look at Andy Roberson's XMITMAIL
here is the url: http://home.clara.net/andywrobertson/mvsxmitmail.html
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I seriously doubt if you could steal a mainframe very easily. As soon as
the power was turned off, at least if it was running and in use, hundreds of
users would complain. Also, most mainframes are in locked areas. A laptop
in a bag would be easier to steal, as so many people carry them
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schwarz, Barry A
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 12:49 PM
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Subject: Re: Data Center Theft
It took four of us to push our new minimum sized z9 into the freight
Larry,
If email sent from the mainframe is not time-critical (i.e., users don't
expect to receive their email within a couple of minutes from the time the
mainframe job created it), then you don't have to do anything. However, ...
At my last shop, the mainframe was used to send email for just
Ulrich,
Thanks for the information. I did not know that SMTP was so single-minded!
That answers a question of why it took so long to get some emails out the
door at a client I was at back in 01. It was a PITA but not enough for the
client to dedicate my billable hours to finding the answer.
From MVS in the '80s, maybe? I thought it was an official IBM term
but I can find no references to it so maybe it was a local term where
I was working. Damage assentment Routine Dump? If it was an
official term, what was it? An SVC dump?
This is just idle curiosity mostly.
Pat O'Keefe
Character-drawn window popups? Yeah, this is some really cool UI
technology :-)
What next, a GDDM-rendered dog avitar that pops up with suggestions while
you are trying to figure out the ISMF screens?
3270-ISPF development should be quiesced in favor of the likely follow-on
product:
ISPF-Link
Gary,
You're welcome.
It took me quite some time, observing the flow of messages through SMTP, to
figure out what was going on. Some helpful soul at IBM SMTP support then
filled in a few more blanks, but eventually I got the picture (I think).
The traditional[1] SMTP server is written in PASCAL
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:39:42 -0500, Gerhard Postpischil wrote:
It does, but the closest you'll come to that is to put a flower
box (why tombstone?) ...
Possibly because ISPF often displays ABEND messages in that style.
-- gil
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