Re: Remote tape drive

2008-05-14 Thread Timothy Sipples
You might take a look at the following channel extenders: Brocade Edge M3000 Ciena CN 2000 - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: CICS/TS 2.3 and z/OS 1.7

2008-05-14 Thread Timur Alpaslan
Why don't you try this one? It's a bit long, but... http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&dc=DA400&q1=Language+Environment+within+CICS+TS&uid=swg27006638&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&cc=us&lang=en Cheers > Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 15:13:00 -0500 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: CICS/TS 2.3 a

Re: SUB=MSTR STC with DSNs in User Catalog

2008-05-14 Thread Barbara Nitz
Without knowing *where* what Mark Thomen said is now documented, the restriction still applies. Go to SDSF DA screen, look at all asids and sort them by asid. There will be an asid in the upper 20 not used (in my case it was x'10'). That was limited function CAS, the one only capable of accessin

Re: Mainframe programming vs the Web

2008-05-14 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 23:25 -0400 on 05/14/2008, Gary Green wrote about Re: Mainframe programming vs the Web: I did not know about the sequels. Thanks. The three books are Colossus, The Fall of Colossus, and Colossus and the Crab. Amazon Marketplace has copies that will run you less than $4 a piece (plus the

Re: Mainframe programming vs the Web

2008-05-14 Thread Gary Green
I did not know about the sequels. Thanks. Oh, my son says the movie is available on Netflix. He promised to add it to his list and perhaps move it towards the top. Gary Green I can use all the help I can get with my fight against cancer! Please support my efforts! Thank you. http://www.activ

SUB=MSTR STC with DSNs in User Catalog

2008-05-14 Thread William H. Blair
Distinguished IBMers that might be lurking, (especially of the CATALOG ADDRESS SPACE-knowledgeable variety) On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:55, Mark Thomen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > THIS RESTRICTION HAS NOT BEEN REMOVED! Until CAS is "full function", > which doesn't occur until after Master Schedule

Re: CICS/BMS greenies to GUI's

2008-05-14 Thread Graham Hobbs
About the XMI info - thanks. - Original Message - From: "Shedlock, George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:01 AM Subject: Re: CICS/BMS greenies to GUI's Graham, I had to ask. ;) (snip) Craig - I can't read CBT775; its a

Rich Jirsa/Rochester/IBM is out of the office.

2008-05-14 Thread Rich Jirsa
I will be out of the office starting 05/14/2008 and will not return until 05/19/2008. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search t

Re: Cleanup a unconnected Coupling Facility

2008-05-14 Thread Skip Robinson
Since we provide our own DR from one enterprise data center to another, we have the luxury of knowing exactly the characteristics of the CFs in the recovery environment. That allows to include both production and DR CFs in one CFRM policy and to include them in the PREFLIST for all structures. That

Re: Remote tape drive

2008-05-14 Thread Skip Robinson
These are certainly viable options for long distance channel extension. We also used both NSC and CNT in the past to support tape and disk. That's why I can say with some certainty that the cost of either approach for a single tape drive would be very high. There's got to a more economical solution

Re: how do I pause a set of commands

2008-05-14 Thread Raymond Noal
Arthur, We developed our own program for this function and it incorporates a SLEEP function. Here is a code snip from the program: A010 DS0H GET SYSIN,CMDIN CLI CMDIN,C'*'

Re: CLIST and REXX list locations

2008-05-14 Thread Lizette Koehler
Are you looking for something specific or just general snooping? I have used the GOOGLE link for searching in TSO-REXX http://groups.google.com/group/bit.listserv.tsorexx/topics?lnk=rgr Lizette [>] --> Snip Does anyone know the location to access the CLIST and/or REXX lists archives? REXX g

Re: Remote tape drive

2008-05-14 Thread Glenn Miller
We use the former Inrange ( then CNT, now Brocade ) 8200 Channel Extenders. These are older machines and Brocade plans to remove then from service support in 2009. We have BUS/TAG and ESCON interface cards in the 'remote site' machines, which gives us multiple connection possibilities for th

Looking for concise (!) OPERATOR-oriented manual(s) to manage & drive CICS, DB2 and IMS

2008-05-14 Thread Jan Vanbrabant
*** cross-posted to IBM-MAIN, IMS-L, CICS-L and DB2-L listservers *** 1° Looking for concise (!) OPERATOR-oriented manual(s)to manage & drive CICS, DB2 and IMS instead of thesejust PARTLY oriented operator manuals, which are much too overloaded for them: SC18-7416-05 DB2 UDB for z/OS V8 --- Com

Re: Mainframe programming vs the Web

2008-05-14 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 14:34 -0400 on 05/13/2008, Gary Green wrote about Re: Mainframe programming vs the Web: Are you certain it was a DOS system. I thought it was an MFT, or MVT, and "housed" in a 165/95, was it...? It has been so long I forget. I'd have to locate my copy (which I think is boxed away) to che

Re: Mainframe programming vs the Web

2008-05-14 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 15:05 -0400 on 05/13/2008, Daniel McLaughlin wrote about Re: Mainframe programming vs the Web: ["The Forbin Project"] Great movie! The book (and its two sequels which explain why Colossus did what it did - It had detected an external threat and was defending Earth against it) was even be

Re: Cleanup a unconnected Coupling Facility

2008-05-14 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Wed, 14 May 2008 15:42:47 -0500, Field, Alan C. wrote: >For DR we used to do this but for the last couple of years we define our >home CFs (CF1 and CF2) in the CFRM policy. We also define the DR CFs >(CF3 and CF4) in the same policy and in the structure preflist put >(CF1,CF2,CF3,CF4), > >At ho

Re: absurd programs that used to be everywhere ...

2008-05-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 05/09/2008 at 09:20 AM, "F. J. Kelley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Anyway, I've been asked if I can provide banners If you can read an FDR dump I may have a "bird"[1] for 3277 under TSO. Or Gerhard might have a copy more conveniently at hand. If you just want block l

Re: S33E abend and X33E slip

2008-05-14 Thread Jim Mulder
Miklos Szigetvari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/14/2008 06:56:39 AM: > In the dump I see only the IEAVAR00 (RCT) and IEAVTSDT (dump task). > For this application, it is happening only if I start as an STC, if I > start as batch job, it complets normally for the STOP command. > > Rob Scott wrot

Re: Cleanup a unconnected Coupling Facility

2008-05-14 Thread Field, Alan C.
For DR we used to do this but for the last couple of years we define our home CFs (CF1 and CF2) in the CFRM policy. We also define the DR CFs (CF3 and CF4) in the same policy and in the structure preflist put (CF1,CF2,CF3,CF4), At home the structures allocate in CF1 and CF2. When we go to DR they

Re: Cleanup a unconnected Coupling Facility

2008-05-14 Thread Brian Peterson
This is a really important point. I have been involved with numerous DR tests for my employers over the past several years, and ONLY delete / define the CFRM Couple data set. That is, the LOGR and the SYSPLEX couple data sets are NOT deleted or modified - only the CFRM Couple data set gets del

Re: CICS/TS 2.3 and z/OS 1.7

2008-05-14 Thread Richard Peurifoy
Ward, Mike S wrote: Following the provided link gave me an error. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timur Alpaslan Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 1:26 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CICS/TS 2.3 and z/OS 1.7 I'll also r

Re: CICS/TS 2.3 and z/OS 1.7

2008-05-14 Thread Ward, Mike S
Following the provided link gave me an error. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timur Alpaslan Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 1:26 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CICS/TS 2.3 and z/OS 1.7 I'll also recommend following Whi

Re: CLIST and REXX list locations

2008-05-14 Thread Arthur T.
On 14 May 2008 12:25:27 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main (Message-ID:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jack Kelly) wrote: Does anyone know the location to access the CLIST and/or REXX lists archives? REXX group seems to be bit.listserv.tsorexx but I can't get to the archives. You're r

Re: Cleanup a unconnected Coupling Facility

2008-05-14 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 14 May 2008 13:43:55 -0500, Tom Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >We, too, experienced this problem in DR testing. I chose to recreate the >problem - and FIX it > >My DR view is that that "clean shutdowns" are for whimps. Perfect the error >recovery path and skip everything else.

Re: Mainframe programming vs the Web

2008-05-14 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Wed, 14 May 2008 12:14:15 -0400, Arthur T. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... > Isn't it time to kill this thread? I can't see any >connection between the last half dozen posts (at least) and >mainframes. >... I agree that this thread is seriously off-topic, but I'd like to comment that I'

Re: estimating number of records.

2008-05-14 Thread Gary Green
Ah... Kicking and scratching all the way, huh... On Wed May 14 13:56 , 'McKown, John' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >> -Original Message- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]','','','')">[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Green >> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 1:53

CLIST and REXX list locations

2008-05-14 Thread Jack Kelly
Does anyone know the location to access the CLIST and/or REXX lists archives? REXX group seems to be bit.listserv.tsorexx but I can't get to the archives. CLIST seems to be a loss cause? Jack Kelly 202-502-2390 (Office) -- For

Re: crazy thoughts - keeping product installation infomation

2008-05-14 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>Because ... >I once had an operator ring me because an IPL failed - after a maint shutdown >of the site. >I told him to go read the change doco, and let me go back to sleep. >All the change management was on MVS filesystems . I had a similar problem, in 1981. All our start up procedures, in

Re: VMWare more reliable

2008-05-14 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 14 May 2008 12:30:41 -0400, Gary Green wrote: >than the mainframe. Or so it was reported back in January... > >http://redmondmag.com/features/article.asp?editorialsid=2400#reliable > >But disputed... > >Watch the wrap. > >http://serverspecs.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/13/vmware-esx-more-

Re: estimating number of records.

2008-05-14 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Green > Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 1:53 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: estimating number of records. > > If it the file were VSAM, could you not call the CSI to get >

Re: how do I pause a set of commands

2008-05-14 Thread Arthur T.
On Wed, 14 May 2008 11:36:34 -0700 (PDT), in bit.listserv.ibm-main (Message-ID:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a shutdown routine that submits a bunch of MVS commands ie(/* $VS,'STOP RMF.RMF). The problem I have is I have a child/parent relationship and the child MUST

Re: estimating number of records.

2008-05-14 Thread Gary Green
If it the file were VSAM, could you not call the CSI to get that information, somewhat, directly? On Wed May 14 13:49 , 'McKown, John' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >> -Original Message- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]','','','')">[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: Cleanup a unconnected Coupling Facility

2008-05-14 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Wed, 14 May 2008 07:19:34 +0200, Barbara Nitz wrote: >Given that we had done the exact same thing in the past, I don't think that there is *any* way to do 'cleanup' of the old structures. I tried all of the force commands way back when, they all got rejected. (And as that was a test plex, I

Re: estimating number of records.

2008-05-14 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Harminc > Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 1:02 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: estimating number of records. > > 2008/5/14 Gary Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Well, disk dat

Re: Cleanup a unconnected Coupling Facility

2008-05-14 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Tue, 13 May 2008 14:42:12 -0700, Skip Robinson wrote: >As I said in a previous post, we've previously experienced this problem >only in DR testing where the mirroring connection is brutally interrupted >on purpose. In the case of CEC upgrade/replacement, all systems would be >shut down cleanly

Re: estimating number of records.

2008-05-14 Thread Gary Green
Okay, okay, you found the flaw in my suggestion... grumble, grumble, grumble... ;) On Wed May 14 14:01 , Tony Harminc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >2008/5/14 Gary Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Well, disk datasets should be relatively easy... (if the information is >> returned from the LMDIST

Re: VMWare more reliable

2008-05-14 Thread Gary Green
I did not notice. As you said, interesting... On Wed May 14 13:59 , Tony Harminc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >2008/5/14 Gary Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> than the mainframe. Or so it was reported back in January... >> >> http://redmondmag.com/features/article.asp\?editorialsid=2400#reliable > >

Re: estimating number of records.

2008-05-14 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/5/14 Gary Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well, disk datasets should be relatively easy... (if the information is > returned from the LMDIST call) > > Number of tracks used * % of space used * blocks per track divided by record > length. > > Or am I missing something in the question? RECFM=V ?

Re: VMWare more reliable

2008-05-14 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/5/14 Gary Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > than the mainframe. Or so it was reported back in January... > > http://redmondmag.com/features/article.asp?editorialsid=2400#reliable Interesting that Google Desktop's malware warning is triggered by this site. Tony H. ---

Re: Mainframe programming vs the Web

2008-05-14 Thread Martin Packer
What if I suggested we turned this thread into a discussion about how Ajax could be used to pull disparate datasources such as the HMC and RMF together for z/OS installations' benefit. Would we still want to kill the thread? I guess so as we should start another thread for THAT. Martin Martin

Re: Mainframe programming vs the Web

2008-05-14 Thread Steve Comstock
Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: At 09:51 -0600 on 05/12/2008, Steve Comstock wrote about Re: Mainframe programming vs the Web: It's a real dilema for webpage developers. I recently redesigned our home page. My initial design was to be very minimalist, just a few lines, but if you clicked a line it

Re: estimating number of records.

2008-05-14 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Green > Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:49 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: estimating number of records. > > Well, disk datasets should be relatively easy... (if the > i

Re: estimating number of records.

2008-05-14 Thread Gary Green
Well, disk datasets should be relatively easy... (if the information is returned from the LMDIST call) Number of tracks used * % of space used * blocks per track divided by record length. Or am I missing something in the question? On Wed May 14 10:31 , 'McKown, John' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent

Re: Mainframe programming vs the Web

2008-05-14 Thread Arthur T.
On 14 May 2008 08:38:36 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main (Message-ID:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Packer) wrote: What it means is that - with suitable protections (such as NoScript), suitably deployed - javascript is perfectly safe. So I don't think we're disagreeing at all.

VMWare more reliable

2008-05-14 Thread Gary Green
than the mainframe. Or so it was reported back in January... http://redmondmag.com/features/article.asp?editorialsid=2400#reliable But disputed... Watch the wrap. http://serverspecs.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/13/vmware-esx-more-reliable-than-the-mainframe-says-mag/?track=NL-576&ad=639921&asr

Re: How to cancel with just the JES jobid?

2008-05-14 Thread Mark Jones
On Fri, 9 May 2008 23:14:56 -0500, Kenneth E Tomiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How is it you came to have a jobid and not know the jobname? Maybe instead >of fighting to find the name you can backtrack to what captured the jobid, it >must have had a jobname at that point too. > No. The assemble

Re: estimating number of records.

2008-05-14 Thread Big Iron
For DFSORT, there is a documented exit ICETPEX which supplies tape dataset size information to DFSORT. I think that typically the tape management software would include a version of this exit for use by DFSORT. Bill On Wed, 14 May 2008 10:31:11 -0500, McKown, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I k

Re: Mainframe programming vs the Web

2008-05-14 Thread Martin Packer
What it means is that - with suitable protections (such as NoScript), suitably deployed - javascript is perfectly safe. So I don't think we're disagreeing at all. Now, if one's browser has no NoScript equivalent that's another matter. I just assume sensible people go into battle with a whole cl

Re: crazy thoughts - keeping product installation infomation

2008-05-14 Thread Rick Fochtman
OK, I admit to not having had enough sleep. But the following insanity came to me today. So I thought that I'd ask some, hopefully, sane people about it. I always seem to have problems finding documentation on how a product was installed. That is,

estimating number of records.

2008-05-14 Thread McKown, John
I know that DFSORT and other products can estimate the number of input records, given a disk dataset or even a tape. Is there some GUPI interface where I can get this information myself, easily? Reason: I have a web page which can list datasets. It uses the ISPF LMDLIST function to get the datset

Re: crazy thoughts - keeping product installation infomation

2008-05-14 Thread McKown, John
Well, thanks to all for your thoughts. I guess that we're going to go with the old "tried and true" PDSes and put the PDFs on the LAN, not the mainframe. I'll try to get more sleep tonight . -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administr

Re: Documentation

2008-05-14 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 14 May 2008 09:48:29 -0400, Daniel McLaughlin wrote: > >Sorry, cut my teeth on MFT and don't like no Undeciperable Sub Systems >(USS). > What were we saying a couple days ago about dinos' contempt for the "new and nifty"? (BTW, cue Shmuel.) -- gil

Re: Remote tape drive

2008-05-14 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 5/14/2008 2:09:19 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ftp has also another advantage: it is not distance-constrained. For channel extenders it's not so easy - some limits (or timings) cannot be covered by "better equipment". >> Some of the heavier hitt

Re: crazy thoughts - keeping product installation infomation

2008-05-14 Thread Mark Zelden
Every shop I've been at did it slightly different. The ones I like best have a PDS with an index and a member for each product that has all the information you need (install dsns, SMP/E CSI, FMIDs, install date, STCs, start command, stop command, exits, etc.). hat doc can point to a network

Re: crazy thoughts - keeping product installation infomation

2008-05-14 Thread Daniel McLaughlin
I can cramp myself within the 44 characters. Also, since there is a need to store in more than one place, these PDS files can be brought down to a PC or a server and stored there as well. As for OPS, nothing seems to have replaced the printed copy kept in a procedures book. If you really like

Re: Documentation

2008-05-14 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel McLaughlin > Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:48 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Documentation > > Aside from the alien file system...there is a benefit of not > having to

Re: crazy thoughts - keeping product installation infomation

2008-05-14 Thread Burrell, C. Todd (CDC/OCOO/ITSO) (CTR)
We generally create a dataset with the low level qualifier of "OUTPUT" and keep all of the job output from a product's installation in that PDS, and we try to name the members something meaningful (like the install doc name of the job submitted). We also have CA-View, and I also keep the output th

Re: crazy thoughts - keeping product installation infomation

2008-05-14 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel McLaughlin > Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:39 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: crazy thoughts - keeping product installation infomation > > I create PDSE files under th

Re: crazy thoughts - keeping product installation infomation

2008-05-14 Thread Shane
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 08:35 -0500, McKown, John wrote: > So I got this weird idea. Why not keep all this stuff in the UNIX > filesystem on the z/OS system itself? Because ... I once had an operator ring me because an IPL failed - after a maint shutdown of the site. I told him to go read the chang

Documentation

2008-05-14 Thread Daniel McLaughlin
Aside from the alien file system...there is a benefit of not having to drag ZFS file stuff across updated ZOS revisions. A PDS is there. I keep a DOC, INSTALL JCL, and OUTPUT LISTINGS PDSE for products. Sorry, cut my teeth on MFT and don't like no Undeciperable Sub Systems (USS). Daniel McLau

Re: crazy thoughts - keeping product installation infomation

2008-05-14 Thread Staller, Allan
I use a standard OS PDS with the "install instructions". JCL/JOBS are stored in the "install: datasets' PDF's for doc are loaded to a standard "LAN" directory. I (personally) use the web for most doc lookups, but I also have the doc on the LAN if needed. What you have proposed will work just fine,

Re: crazy thoughts - keeping product installation infomation

2008-05-14 Thread Daniel McLaughlin
I create PDSE files under the HLQ.XXX.XXX... of the product and document there. If you want to play in Grok land...enjoy. Daniel McLaughlin Z-Series Systems Programmer Information & Communications Technology Crawford & Company 4680 N. Royal Atlanta Tucker GA 30084 phone: 770-621-3256 fax: 7

Re: Remote tape drive

2008-05-14 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shane > Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:32 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Remote tape drive > > On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 06:42 -0600, David Logan wrote: > > > In other words, th

crazy thoughts - keeping product installation infomation

2008-05-14 Thread McKown, John
OK, I admit to not having had enough sleep. But the following insanity came to me today. So I thought that I'd ask some, hopefully, sane people about it. I always seem to have problems finding documentation on how a product was installed. That is, what jobs were run, where were they submitted from

Re: Remote tape drive

2008-05-14 Thread Shane
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 06:42 -0600, David Logan wrote: > In other words, the CD-ROM itself is never mounted to MVS. Can it be? Or are > you referring to something like ship software on CD-ROM and have the systems > programmer upload it via FTP or otherwise? *Everybody* (even us luddites) use a PC

Re: Remote tape drive

2008-05-14 Thread R.S.
David Logan wrote: " There are no datacenters without CD-ROM." Is this really true? Yes! Otherwise, then buy them CD-ROM drive (approx. 20$), you can afford it. I mean it. And how do you mount a CD-ROM to an MVS machine? Don't try. Mount CD-ROM in your PC's drive. Then transmit files fro

Re: CICS/BMS greenies to GUI's

2008-05-14 Thread Shedlock, George
Graham, I had to ask. ;) (snip) Craig - I can't read CBT775; its a zip containing one .XMI; on a PC, what can read a .XMI? Would really like to look into this one. You really started something with POX:-) (/snip) If you go to http://cbttape.org on the top left part of the page is a link to

Re: Cleanup a unconnected Coupling Facility

2008-05-14 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 14 May 2008 03:26:11 -0500, Cwi Jeret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello Tom , > >You wrote : > >"No, I stand by my previous statement that: > > setxcf force,structure,strname=DSNDSNY_SCA > >...should do the trick for this specific case. > >I didn't understand the reason why it should work

Re: Remote tape drive

2008-05-14 Thread David Logan
Yes, we distribute media monthly, via internet download and 3490 and 3590 tape. I find your statement interesting: " There are no datacenters without CD-ROM." Is this really true? And how do you mount a CD-ROM to an MVS machine? I am used to the Flex and MP3000, where you use the CD-ROM with OS/2

Re: Java; a POX

2008-05-14 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Michael Poil > > I am surprised that nobody has yet figured out a way to do it > with valve technology or something even more primitive. There > must be someone out there who can best the last post. Well, the "old-t

Re: Remote tape drive

2008-05-14 Thread R.S.
David Logan wrote: Re the question about how things are discussed quite thoroughly without the author weighing in...I am always humored at how threads develop a life of their own :) The details are pretty simple: We have a new mainframe in Maryland, we are in Colorado. We need a single 3490 (and

Re: Remote tape drive

2008-05-14 Thread David Logan
Re the question about how things are discussed quite thoroughly without the author weighing in...I am always humored at how threads develop a life of their own :) The details are pretty simple: We have a new mainframe in Maryland, we are in Colorado. We need a single 3490 (and a single 3590) in Bo

Re: S33E abend and X33E slip

2008-05-14 Thread Rob Scott
The batch initiator program IEFIIC must therefore being covering the ATTACH of your program with an EOT routine or completion ECB - which makes perfect sense as it needs to re-use the address space for the next batch job. Rob Scott Rocket Software, Inc 275 Grove Street Newton, MA 02466 617-614

Re: Mainframe programming vs the Web

2008-05-14 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 13 May 2008 20:49:44 +0100, Martin Packer wrote: >You're NOT differing. :-) What's that supposed to mean? I replied to your post that issues with Javascript were a thing of the past, if I understood correctly. This came up a few months ago and that was when I installed NoScript. It h

Re: S33E abend and X33E slip

2008-05-14 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi Rob In the dump I see only the IEAVAR00 (RCT) and IEAVTSDT (dump task). For this application, it is happening only if I start as an STC, if I start as batch job, it complets normally for the STOP command. Rob Scott wrote: S33E may or may not be an error depending on what the developer int

Re: S33E abend and X33E slip

2008-05-14 Thread Rob Scott
S33E may or may not be an error depending on what the developer intended - it is quite common to see it (and ignore it) when an address space is terminating. It basically means that a TCB has been DETACHed before it had completed processing - and the main reason for this will be those TCBs that

S33E abend and X33E slip

2008-05-14 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi Is the X33E and S33E bad or just ugly ? If someone can tell the resaon for the 33E abends -- Miklos Szigetvari Development Team ISIS Information Systems Gmbh tel: (+43) 2236 27551 570 Fax: (+43) 2236 21081 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hotline: +43-2236-27551-111

Remote tape drive

2008-05-14 Thread gah
>I would like to have a tape drive at a remote office from where the > mainframe is physically located. Preferably a (normally) channel > attached tape drive, rather than a SCSI type of thing, although I > would take the latter if given no other choices. I have done it on unix using rsh (or ssh),

Re: Cleanup a unconnected Coupling Facility

2008-05-14 Thread Cwi Jeret
Hello Tom , You wrote : "No, I stand by my previous statement that: setxcf force,structure,strname=DSNDSNY_SCA ...should do the trick for this specific case. I didn't understand the reason why it should work , but I followed Your tip , AND IT WORKED MY PROBLEM IS RESOLVED !!! Tha

Re: Java; a POX

2008-05-14 Thread Michael Poil
I am surprised that nobody has yet figured out a way to do it with valve technology or something even more primitive. There must be someone out there who can best the last post. (This is beginning to sound like "when I was young, I used to walk twenty miles to school every day, come rain or shi

Re: CICS/BMS greenies to GUI's

2008-05-14 Thread Shane Ginnane
> Craig - I can't read CBT775; its a zip containing one .XMI; on a PC, what > can read a .XMI? Would really like to look into this one. Xmit manager - front page of cbttape.org. Excellent piece of work. Fine if you just want to look at the package. If you want somewhere to play, you might have

Re: CICS/BMS greenies to GUI's

2008-05-14 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
Graham Hobbs wrote: Craig - I can't read CBT775; its a zip containing one .XMI; on a PC, what can read a .XMI? Would really like to look into this one. You really started something with POX:-) This may be more work than it's worth, but there is a mainframe simulator named Hercules at http://w

Re: Remote tape drive

2008-05-14 Thread R.S.
Ted MacNEIL wrote: I know it's bf to respond to one's own post. But, we did it with a couple of tape drives, printers and cheque processors. It was cheaper than putting a mainframe onsite. Cheap and expensive are relative. If one wants to have entire ATL (Automated Tape Library) offsite, then