Re: More SDSF security questions

2008-03-25 Thread Hank Medler
Rick, I don't believe you have a security issue. It has been a while, but I tend to remember having to use OWNER with no operand in order to see all the jobs on the system (not just my own) when running SDSF in batch. Please feed that into ISFIN on in.1 with DA on in.2 and in.0 set to 2. Let

Re: Cloning a RACF user profile

2008-03-25 Thread Robert S. Hansel (RSH)
Ituriel, You may want to include the processing of 0205 User Group Connect Detail Records. By relying solely on 0102 records, you will miss any connections to Global groups. Perhaps what you could do is process the 0205 records first to create the group connects followed by the 0102 records to

Re: New HSM function in z/OS 1.9

2008-03-25 Thread R.S.
Bill Cochran wrote: Can anyone tell me if this new function is worth using? Also, I found the note at the bottom about using this new function with Large Block Interface. We don't currently use LBI, but were wondering which of these functions is more beneficial since you can't use both per the

Re: More SDSF security questions

2008-03-25 Thread Rich Smrcina
Hank, I tried this... in.2 = DA in.1 = OWNER in.0 = 2 execio * diskw isfin (STEM IN. finis) address linkmvs SDSF execio * diskr isfout (STEM SDSF. finis) FREE F(ISFIN ISFOUT) And got the same output. Thanks for the response. Any other ideas? Hank Medler wrote: Rick, I don't believe you

Re: More SDSF security questions

2008-03-25 Thread גדי בן אבי
1. Issue the OWNER command before the DA command 2. Issue the WHO command. This will tell you many settings, and might help explain the problem. Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Smrcina Sent: Tuesday, March 25,

Re: ISPF Backup Files

2008-03-25 Thread David Andrews
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 23:01 -0500, Joel C. Ewing wrote: the backup dataset itself doesn't get deleted until you exit normally from EDIT. If your TSO/ISPF session terminates abnormally (like a timeout) while EDIT is in this state, the backup dataset is not deleted and becomes orphaned.

Re: More SDSF security questions

2008-03-25 Thread גדי בן אבי
You should also add the PREFIX command before the DA command. Adding the SET DISPLAY command is also a good idea. It will show you the settings of the OWNER. PREFIX and SYSNAME parameters. Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: More SDSF security questions

2008-03-25 Thread Rich Smrcina
It is. in.1 is the first command issued 'OWNER', in.2 is the second command issued 'DA'. גדי בן אבי wrote: 1. Issue the OWNER command before the DA command 2. Issue the WHO command. This will tell you many settings, and might help explain the problem. Gadi -Original Message- From:

Re: More SDSF security questions

2008-03-25 Thread Rich Smrcina
Your previous response also asked for the WHO output, here it is. USERID=P390,PROC=BATCH,TERMINAL=BATCH,GRPINDEX=3,GRPNAME=ISFUSER,MVS=z/OS 01.04 RMF/DA=NOTACC,SERVER=YES,SERVERNAME=SDSF,JESNAME=JES2,MEMBER=SYS1,SYSNAME=P390, Are PREFIX and SET DISPLAY commands entered by themselves (like

z9 over-heating prevention

2008-03-25 Thread Joel M Ivey
What safety guards are there on z9bc hardware to prevent over-heating? (Such as when the building's coolers are inoperable.)Are there messages to console to prompt for shutdown?I searched for white paper, flash, archives, etc. Thanks, Joel M Ivey University of SC

Re: More SDSF security questions

2008-03-25 Thread גדי בן אבי
Yes, The PREFIX and SET DISPLAY command are entered by themselves I thing the PREFIX command is the actual command your are missing. Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Smrcina Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 2:47 PM

Re: Stand alone Dump with ICC cards

2008-03-25 Thread Mark Zelden
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:41:38 -0700, Skip Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dug into the doc once again for more info on Mark's reference to 'striping'. I find this comment in Diagnosis: Tools and Service Aids: Extended format data sets are supported by z/OS V1R6 and later releases. Extended

Re: z9 over-heating prevention

2008-03-25 Thread Patrick Falcone
Google IBM z9 cooling. Also check out http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/511/harrer.pdf. The z9 has a MRU, modular refrigeration unit. Joel M Ivey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What safety guards are there on z9bc hardware to prevent over-heating? (Such as when the building's coolers are

Re: Is IT becoming extinct?

2008-03-25 Thread Howard Brazee
On 24 Mar 2008 14:03:15 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerhard Adam) wrote: What's much harder for both data processing and for users is to figure out how to collect and use data that might give us that competitive advantage - without spending more than the return. Agreed. But that's a question

Re: Is IT becoming extinct?

2008-03-25 Thread Howard Brazee
On 24 Mar 2008 16:02:53 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick O'Keefe) wrote: That depends on who defines competetive advantage. In most businesses there must be protection of confidential or proprietary information. I've heard ads for a company that provides Sales Leads. Of course, that

Re: ISPF Backup Files

2008-03-25 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joel C. Ewing Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 11:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: ISPF Backup Files Also look at prior discussion on this list for ispf edit recovery from May 2007: For

Re: Is IT becoming extinct?

2008-03-25 Thread Daniel McLaughlin
From desktops to mainframes and all flavors of servers in between lies a vast ocean of opportunities for IT folks. In my daily non-work life I run into people who buy a computer but can't set it up even following the pictures. I run into people who don't understand why an undersized PC won't

Re: More SDSF security questions

2008-03-25 Thread Rich Smrcina
I tried PREFIX and I get COMMAND NOT AUTHORIZED. גדי בן אבי wrote: Yes, The PREFIX and SET DISPLAY command are entered by themselves I thing the PREFIX command is the actual command your are missing. Gadi -- Rich Smrcina VM Assist, Inc. Phone: 414-491-6001 Ans Service: 360-715-2467

Re: Need MASS recall advice

2008-03-25 Thread Gilbert Cardenas
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:25:01 -0500, Rugen, Len [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm doing some planning for a end-of-life for the mainframe conversion project, as in the 9th year of our 5 year plan to get off this system. We have View Direct / Mobius report viewer. It has 100,000's of HSM

Re: z9 over-heating prevention

2008-03-25 Thread Joel M Ivey
Thanks, Patrick. The link, btw, is harrer.html . On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:14:16 -0700, Patrick Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Google IBM z9 cooling. Also check out http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/511/harrer.pdf. The z9 has a MRU, modular refrigeration unit. Joel M Ivey [EMAIL

Re: More SDSF security questions

2008-03-25 Thread גדי בן אבי
The you have to change your security settings either is ISFPARMS or RACF. Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Smrcina Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 3:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: More SDSF security

Re: z9 over-heating prevention

2008-03-25 Thread Joel M Ivey
No, my mistake. It's either pdf or html. On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:45:11 -0500, Joel M Ivey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Patrick. The link, btw, is harrer.html . On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:14:16 -0700, Patrick Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Google IBM z9 cooling. Also check out

Re: Can forked/spawned address spaces be identified as such?

2008-03-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/21/2008 at 09:26 AM, Peter Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: You have no way of knowing what intricate ramifications there might be for bits that are not programming interfaces that you happen to think do what you want. And we have no reason to avoid making changes in

IBM Customer-Submitted Requirements

2008-03-25 Thread Cal McCracken
Anyone have a link to the list of the current user requirements that have been submitted to IBM (requirements in the context of Share Requirements)? Thanks, Cal -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

SMF System Logger

2008-03-25 Thread Bill
Anyone using this new facility,looking for any feedback-positive or negative. We are going to ZOS 1.9 and are considering using this new facility. Bill Shelaga Mainframe,Technical Specialist -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: More SDSF security questions

2008-03-25 Thread Rich Smrcina
That was actually part of the original post. I added: ILPROC(BATCH), to: GROUP NAME(ISFSPROG), in ISFPRM00. I also have this entry below: NTBL NAME(BATCH) NTBLENT STRING(BATCH),OFFSET(1) To catch the PROC name BATCH when my job runs and authorize it as a ISFSPROG TSO User instead of

Re: z9 over-heating prevention

2008-03-25 Thread Bielskie, Stephen
There is a message about the temperature threshold posted to the HMC under hardware messages. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joel M Ivey Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 8:46 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: z9

ABCs of z/OS System Programming Volume 6

2008-03-25 Thread Mark Zelden
Unless I previously missed it, I think this is the first time volume 6 has been available. Volume 6: Introduction to security, RACF® , Digital certificates and PKI, Kerberos, cryptography and z990 integrated cryptography, zSeries® firewall technologies, LDAP, Enterprise identity mapping (EIM),

Re: ABCs of z/OS System Programming Volume 6

2008-03-25 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Unless I previously missed it, I think this is the first time volume 6 has been available. Volume 6: Introduction to security, RACF(r) , Digital certificates and PKI, Kerberos, cryptography and z990

WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Aimee Houghton
I am no performance expert and I am basically mostly using Cheryl Watson quickstart (or whatever it is called). We are only using one service class for TSO users. For the most part it works fine but during batch window we have times when the operators let a bunch of stuff run in high priority

Re: More SDSF security questions

2008-03-25 Thread Dennis Trojak
And see if the PREFIX is set to * for all names. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ??? ?? ??? Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 7:07 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: More SDSF security questions 1. Issue the OWNER command

Re: SMF System Logger

2008-03-25 Thread Wayne Driscoll
Look in the archives for the past 2-3 weeks, particularly for posts by Sam Knutson, Skip Robinson, Mark Zelden, Ed Jaffe and Peter Relson. My feeling is that the support will benefit huge shops that have hit a slowdown due to the limitations of the MANx dataset issues, but it will require (at

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Staller, Allan
QDF (quick dirty fix) is to set TSO period 2 to importance 3. This should change things from intolerable to manageable G If you want no further calls for ever and ever, Set TSO period 2 to importance 2. This will place TSO ahead of PRODHI. (be careful!). RMF SYSRPTS(WLMGL) provides a wealth of

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Rugen, Len
I have 3 periods, adjusted to your imp's, they would be something like this: # Duration Imp Goal description - - - 1 1500 280% 2 sec 2 5000 380% 15 sec 3 4vel+IO ? 10% I suspect your

Re: More SDSF security questions

2008-03-25 Thread Rich Smrcina
Evidently not, this appears to be the output from SET DISPLAY (it's hard to tell): PREFIX=P390* DEST=(ALL) OWNER=* SYSNAME= Dennis Trojak wrote: And see if the PREFIX is set to * for all names. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: More SDSF security questions

2008-03-25 Thread Ulrich Krueger
in.2 = DA OJOB perhaps? Regards, Ulrich Krueger -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Smrcina Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 04:44 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: More SDSF security questions Hank, I tried this... in.2

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Dave Thorn
It depends on your CPU speed and characteristics of TSO usage. If your users run lots of long transactions like searches, CLISTs, foreground things, they could suffer. Most TSO activity (in my experience) is of the short variety, so as you see below I'm not shy about making 1st period imp=1, but

Re: ISPF Backup Files

2008-03-25 Thread Ulrich Krueger
I've got lots of these things lying about, and a number of users who logoff by clicking that little X at the upper right corner of their emulator sessions. In that case, I'd recommend setting up the following DASD space management rule: If this type of dataset goes unused for 7 days, delete it.

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:00:39 -0500, Aimee Houghton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am no performance expert and I am basically mostly using Cheryl Watson quickstart (or whatever it is called). We are only using one service class for TSO users. For the most part it works fine but during batch window

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Aimee Houghton
Thanks for the quick and informative response. I will look into your suggestions. I am a little leery about putting TSO above hot batch as well. Part of the problem is that the operators pretty much open the flood gates at about 10 pm and let all the batch compete. That is a whole different

Re: More SDSF security questions

2008-03-25 Thread Rich Smrcina
Now I don't even appear on the list (the list is empty). :( Ulrich Krueger wrote: in.2 = DA OJOB perhaps? Regards, Ulrich Krueger -- Rich Smrcina VM Assist, Inc. Phone: 414-491-6001 Ans Service: 360-715-2467 rich.smrcina at vmassist.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/richsmrcina Catch the

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread David Andrews
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 10:20 -0500, Rugen, Len wrote: 1 1500 280% 2 sec 2 5000 380% 15 sec 3 4vel+IO ? 10% On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 11:24 -0400, Dave Thorn wrote: Duration Imp. Description

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Hoesly, Bret
If the operators are opening the floodgates, have you considered using WLM managed initiators? That will let WLM initiate only whatever it believes it can handle. As for your TSO vs. Prod batch issue, how many TSO users are competing with the batch, what are they doing that's running so long

Re: SMF System Logger - limitations of MANx

2008-03-25 Thread R.S.
Wayne Driscoll wrote: Look in the archives for the past 2-3 weeks, particularly for posts by Sam Knutson, Skip Robinson, Mark Zelden, Ed Jaffe and Peter Relson. My feeling is that the support will benefit huge shops that have hit a slowdown due to the limitations of the MANx dataset [...]

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Matthew Stitt
In your case, the correct solution would be to set up SDSF command security to prevent the operators from changing the service classes. Of course this will probably become a management political hot potato. As a carrot I would also sit down with operators and determine what changes could be made

Re: ATT AGNS Drops DLSW

2008-03-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/21/2008 at 08:39 AM, Jim Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: They are offering Enterprise Extender. Isn't it easier to configure your VTAM's to use enterprise extender and forget ATT? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: Can forked/spawned address spaces be identified as such?

2008-03-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/21/2008 at 05:20 PM, Kirk Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This distinction has no analog in modern operating systems, where interfaces are expressed *entirely* by APIs and service routines, and not by skipping through PSA-ASCB-etc.etc. That's certainly the preference

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Rugen, Len
If they are running batch that is causing resource contentions with itself, it's not good. If their batch is done in time to have 4 idle hours at the end of their shift, you don't have a performance problem. If you are paying measured usage rates on a high-cpu value that happens AT NIGHT, it's

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Matthew Stitt
Yes, WLM managed initiators can be your best friend. When the machine gets saturated, WLM will bring the work under control. Also a good starting point would be to back off the goals for batch. It's better if the work is over-achieving rather than under-achieving. On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:38:59

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Craddock, Chris
Here is my service class for TSO: Base goal: CPU Critical flag: NO # Duration Imp Goal description - - - 1 800280% complete within 00:00:00.300 2 4Execution velocity of 40 Unless you're

Re: SMF System Logger - limitations of MANx

2008-03-25 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:40:31 +0100, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wayne Driscoll wrote: Look in the archives for the past 2-3 weeks, particularly for posts by Sam Knutson, Skip Robinson, Mark Zelden, Ed Jaffe and Peter Relson. My feeling is that the support will benefit huge shops that have

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:38:23 -0400, David Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1 100199% complete within 00:00:00.300 2 14000 190% complete within 00:00:02.000 3 3Execution velocity of 10 100 service units for P1 and 99% complete?!What percentage of your

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Edward Jaffe
David Andrews wrote: Guess I'll contribute my $.02. Tiny (2096-G01) uniprocessor. 1 100199% complete within 00:00:00.300 2 14000 190% complete within 00:00:02.000 3 3Execution velocity of 10 Hey! This is fun! (2096-L03) # Duration Imp Goal

Re: Can forked/spawned address spaces be identified as such?

2008-03-25 Thread Kirk Wolf
Service routines that take structure pointers aren't a problem so long as the structure is part of the interface and not the actual kernel implementation structure. On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/21/2008 at

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread David Andrews
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 10:59 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: 100 service units for P1 and 99% complete?!What percentage of your transactions actually fall into P1? 00.00.00.150 98.6 00.00.00.180 98.9 00.00.00.210 99.0 00.00.00.240 99.2 00.00.00.270 99.3 00.00.00.300 99.4 00.00.00.330 99.4

Import Connect:Direct self-signed certificate into RACF?

2008-03-25 Thread pilgrimpez
Hi folks Has anyone managed to successfully import into RACF a self-signed server certificate generated by Sterling Commerce's Windows-based Certificate Wizard? I've been sent one by one of our customers; they use it on their Windows-based C:D server, apparently quite successfully on their

Re: ABCs of z/OS System Programming Volume 6

2008-03-25 Thread Rick Fochtman
--snip--- Unless I previously missed it, I think this is the first time volume 6 has been available. Volume 6: Introduction to security, RACF(r) , Digital certificates and PKI, Kerberos, cryptography and z990 integrated cryptography, zSeries(r) firewall

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Rick Fochtman
-snip--- Thanks for the quick and informative response. I will look into your suggestions. I am a little leery about putting TSO above hot batch as well. Part of the problem is that the operators pretty much open the flood gates at about 10 pm and let all the batch

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Rick Fochtman
-snip--- In your case, the correct solution would be to set up SDSF command security to prevent the operators from changing the service classes. Of course this will probably become a management political hot potato. As a carrot I would also sit down

Re: More SDSF security questions

2008-03-25 Thread Arthur T.
On 25 Mar 2008 06:37:16 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main (Message-ID:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rich Smrcina) wrote: I tried PREFIX and I get COMMAND NOT AUTHORIZED. You had given us the output of the WHO command in batch, but you never showed us the output from what you

Re: More SDSF security questions

2008-03-25 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:47:07 -0500, Arthur T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many years back I found out that the userid used to search the SDSF tables is *not* the RACF userid when done from batch. Instead, it's the jobname-minus-last-character. I had opened a PMR; I forget details of the

Re: More SDSF security questions

2008-03-25 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:08:37 -0500, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:47:07 -0500, Arthur T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many years back I found out that the userid used to search the SDSF tables is *not* the RACF userid when done from batch. Instead, it's the

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Edward Jaffe
Matthew Stitt wrote: In your case, the correct solution would be to set up SDSF command security to prevent the operators from changing the service classes. Of course this will probably become a management political hot potato. As a carrot I would also sit down with operators and determine

Re: SMF System Logger - limitations of MANx

2008-03-25 Thread R.S.
Mark Zelden wrote: [...] As mentioned... lots in the archives about this (even before the recent threads). 1) Speed of offloading (being able to keep up with records being written). IMHO I can live with it (YMMV). In case of SMF (expected accepted) flood I can use more MANx datasets as a

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Aimee Houghton
WOW. I REALLY appreciate all the feedback. I signed up for this listserv quite a long time ago and then promptly forgot about it for the most part. Not a lot happening in our shop mainframe-wise and I haven't had to think about much for awhile. This WLM thing has been an intermittent problem

Console exits

2008-03-25 Thread Mark Pace
I would like to write a console exit. I have an example for msg IEE362A, but it is a single line message. The message I want to trap and process is IEE391A which is a multiple line message. Can anyone point me at the manual that describes exits for the console? -- Mark Pace Mainline

Re: Console exits

2008-03-25 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Console exits I would like to write a console exit. I have an example for msg IEE362A, but it is a

Re: Import Connect:Direct self-signed certificate into RACF?

2008-03-25 Thread Wolfgang Schäfer
Hi Brian, could you send the RACDCERT command you used? Cheers Wolfgang - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 5:19 PM Subject: Import Connect:Direct self-signed certificate into RACF? Hi

Re: Import Connect:Direct self-signed certificate into RACF?

2008-03-25 Thread Denis Gäbler
Hi Brian, the following once worked for me: //?? EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01??? ? //SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=*??? ? //SYSABEND DD SYSOUT=*??? ? //SYSTSIN DD

Re: Console exits

2008-03-25 Thread Mark Pace
Thanks, John. On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:40 PM, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MPF exits: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/iea2e481/2.11 -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative

Re: Import Connect:Direct self-signed certificate into RACF?

2008-03-25 Thread pilgrimpez
Hi Wolfgang I used the following (real names changed) RACDCERT - ID(CDTASK) - ADD('SSCROOT.CER') - TRUST - WITHLABEL('My WindowsCD Partner') RACDCERT - ID(CDTASK) - CONNECT(ID(CDTASK) LABEL('My WindowsCD Partner') -

Enhanced PSP Compare Program

2008-03-25 Thread Matt Dazzo
When attempting to use this tool I get the error; MSG 004: SYSTEM ERROR: Target Zone Not Valid Report Level:1.04.4 Last Update:2005/08/17 For target zone PZOS17A MSG 004: SYSTEM ERROR: Target Zone Not Valid An smpe list for zone PZOS17A is

Re: Enhanced PSP Compare Program

2008-03-25 Thread Mark Jacobs
Matt Dazzo wrote: When attempting to use this tool I get the error; MSG 004: SYSTEM ERROR: Target Zone Not Valid Report Level:1.04.4 Last Update:2005/08/17 For target zone PZOS17A MSG 004: SYSTEM ERROR: Target Zone Not Valid Your

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Aimee Houghton
One more question. Are the durations cumulative or per period? i.e. if I setup as follows, does a transaction fall to period three after 5000 service units or 7500? I looked in the redbook System Programmer's Guide to: Workload Manager but couldn't find the answer. Thanks again. Aimee

Re: Enhanced PSP Compare Program

2008-03-25 Thread Ken Porowski
You may get that error if you are in the SMP Dialog while running the EPSPT tool in batch. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 2:49 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN]

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Ted MacNEIL
As a carrot I would also sit down with operators and determine what changes could be made with the batch service classes to keep them from moving things around. Considering that operators tend to look only at the near term and not always realise that their 'helpful' changes usually cause more

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Staller, Allan
IIRC the durations are cumulative (and inclusive). e.g. Per 1 dur 1000 per 2 dur 1 (includes the previous 1000) per 3 (unending) IOW, PER 1 (and associated characteristics will last for the 1st 1000 SU's PER 2 (and associated characteristics will last for the next

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:26:10 -0500, Aimee Houghton wrote: We have talked a little bit about WLM managed initiators and may wind up doing that. It's really easy to do. And if you have problems, it's just as easy to go back. One consequence is that you can't see what's happening on the SDSF

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Rick Fochtman
---snip-- As a carrot I would also sit down with operators and determine what changes could be made with the batch service classes to keep them from moving things around. Considering that operators tend to look only at the near term and not always

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Aimee Houghton
just realized I never put in the as follows stuff. One more question. Are the durations cumulative or per period? i.e. if I setup as follows, does a transaction fall to period three after 5000 service units or 7500? I looked in the redbook System Programmer's Guide to: Workload Manager but

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Staller, Allan
After 5000.. snip One more question. Are the durations cumulative or per period? i.e. if I setup as follows, does a transaction fall to period three after 5000 service units or 7500? I looked in the redbook System Programmer's Guide to: Workload Manager but couldn't find the answer. #

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:50:16 -0500, Aimee Houghton wrote: One more question. Are the durations cumulative or per period? From Planning:Workload Management: Duration is the amount of service that period should consume before going on the next goal. -- Tom Marchant

Re: Console exits

2008-03-25 Thread Shane
I don't know that it is. You will get re-entered for each line, and will need to keep track of the msgid as you can't be sure the lines will be presented consecutively for the same message for the same address space. A real problem if you have the potential for more than one address space to issue

Re: Long translate (TR) instruction?

2008-03-25 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 3/24/2008 2:10:15 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Even if the z10 offered a Translate Extended instruction, the OP couldn't count on it being there on every Customer's machine for quite a while. The OP can use dual paths. If executing on

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:13:48 -0500, Staller, Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After 5000.. snip One more question. Are the durations cumulative or per period? i.e. if I setup as follows, does a transaction fall to period three after 5000 service units or 7500? I looked in the redbook System

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:56:53 -0500, Staller, Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIRC the durations are cumulative (and inclusive). e.g. Per 1 dur 1000 per 2 dur 1 (includes the previous 1000) per 3 (unending) That is not correct. It may not be in the Redbook, but it says this in

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Staller, Allan
Thanks for the update SNIP snip One more question. Are the durations cumulative or per period? i.e. if I setup as follows, does a transaction fall to period three after 5000 service units or 7500? I looked in the redbook System Programmer's Guide to: Workload Manager but couldn't find the

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:42:46 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: ... This is really easy to test. Define a batch service class with 3 periods. P1 with a DUR of 2 and P2 with a DUR of 20001. Then submit a job that you know will run for at least a few minutes. You should be able to see via SDSF that

Re: Convert EBCDIC to ASCII in batch?

2008-03-25 Thread gah
Actually, I think that I've found the problem. There appears to be a firewall between the mainframe and the Windows box. The ftp which is failing is large (small ftps succeed!) and my estimate is that it is taking just a bit over 2 minutes to complete the data transfer. I think the firewall

Re: More SDSF security questions

2008-03-25 Thread Rich Smrcina
In TSO, I get this from the WHO command on the P390 user: USERID=P390,PROC=DBSPROC,TERMINAL=LCL701,GRPINDEX=2,GRPNAME=ISFOPER, MVS=z/OS 01.04.00,JES2=z/OS 1.4,SDSF=HQX7707,ISPF=5.2,RMF/DA=NOTACC, and from batch: USERID=P390,PROC=BATCH,TERMINAL=BATCH,GRPINDEX=3,GRPNAME=ISFUSER,MVS=z/OS 01.04

Re: Convert EBCDIC to ASCII in batch?

2008-03-25 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of gah Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 3:15 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Convert EBCDIC to ASCII in batch? Actually, I think that I've found the problem. There appears to be

Re: More SDSF security questions

2008-03-25 Thread Dennis Trojak
Add ILPROC=BATCH to your ISFOPER group name parameters in ISFGRP and it should let you run batch jobs with your ISFOPER definitions for userid=P390. Dennis -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Smrcina Sent: Tuesday, March 25,

Re: More SDSF security questions

2008-03-25 Thread Rich Smrcina
I'm trying to override an existing definition. can I not do that? Do I need to create my own? Mark Zelden wrote: The biggest problem I have found with batch is that many shops have SDSF security set up (from the default/sample parms) based on TSO authorities (JCL, OPER, ACCT) and TSOAUTH is

Re: Console exits

2008-03-25 Thread Mark Pace
Yep - I had one setup and working. Then I changed the name of my MANx datasets, and then the message number changed! Changed from using SYS1.MANx datasets to SYS1.MISZOS.MANx it appears that the dump message has changed!?!?! From: *IEE362A SMF ENTER DUMP FOR SYS1.MAN2 ON PCAT01 To: *IEE391A SMF

Re: Is IT becoming extinct?

2008-03-25 Thread Clark F Morris
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:41:29 -0700 (PDT), in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: Pete Dashwood wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=666 (Not from where I'm standing - but I might not be standing the right place) I

Re: Console exits

2008-03-25 Thread Richard Peurifoy
Mark Pace wrote: Yep - I had one setup and working. Then I changed the name of my MANx datasets, and then the message number changed! Changed from using SYS1.MANx datasets to SYS1.MISZOS.MANx it appears that the dump message has changed!?!?! From: *IEE362A SMF ENTER DUMP FOR SYS1.MAN2 ON

Re: Console exits

2008-03-25 Thread Shane Ginnane
Use IEFU29 - the one in SAMPLIB has code to handle either. Minor modifications to get it working. Shane ... IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 26/03/2008 06:45:11 AM: Yep - I had one setup and working. Then I changed the name of my MANx datasets, and then the

Re: Is IT becoming extinct?

2008-03-25 Thread Ted MacNEIL
That estimate may be vastly overstated. A large number of in-house COBOL systems and packages written in COBOL have been replace by things like SAP. I disagree with that, but there is no (recent) evidence to support it either way. The last studies I saw were for Y2K, and there was still a lot

Re: SSI function code 68

2008-03-25 Thread Bill Planer
Thanks, Bob. That makes sense. They used to use OPC/A on this LPAR. I can drop this exit in the bit bucket. Bill Bob Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. .. I show it as OPC/A dialog user. Probably communicating with a scheduling package. Bob Shannon

Re: More SDSF security questions

2008-03-25 Thread Mark Zelden
I'm not sure I understand the question. If you are using parms similar to hlq.SISFJCL(ISFPRM00) and want to do something in batch based on userid, then you will have to add the group prior to the groups defined in those parms (or at least prior to the ISFUSER group) since the first match is what

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