Re: RCFs are no longer accepted by IBM???

2008-11-25 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)
>I'm attempting to send an RCF to IBM using the address supplied >by John Eells in this post: >>Your message >> Subject: Extraneous (And Confusing) Words in DFHSM Serialization Descriptions >>was not delivered to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shouldn't this read MHVrcfs instead of MVHrcfs? -- Peter H

Re: Add Storage To Lpar - z/800

2008-11-25 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 11/25/2008 2:30:08 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: knee of the curve - but the curve for what? >> DB/2 lives in Buffer pool city. The first bottle neck is underallocated pools. Lots of tuning opportunities. Craig Mullin's(formerly with Platinum)

Re: RCFs are no longer accepted by IBM???

2008-11-25 Thread Edward Jaffe
Bob Rutledge wrote: Pick a book, any book... BACK_2 Communicating Your Comments to IBM z/OS MVS Data Areas, Volume 1 (ABEP - DALT) I *did* pick a book -- z/OS DFSMShsm Implementation and Customization Guide (SC35-0418-08) -- the one with the problems I wanted to report. The Reader's Comment

Re: RCFs are no longer accepted by IBM???

2008-11-25 Thread Bob Rutledge
Pick a book, any book... BACK_2 Communicating Your Comments to IBM z/OS MVS Data Areas, Volume 1 (ABEP - DALT) Publication No. GA22-7581-11 ...  If you prefer to send comments electronically, use the following e-mail address: - [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can tease John at your leisure. B

Re: "The Register" article on HP replacing z

2008-11-25 Thread P S
If they start talking layoffs, suggest an 18-month schedule... On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Ken Gunther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rex, > >Sadly our goal of getting off the mainframe still persists. We are in > YEAR 15 of an 18 MONTH project to accomplish this goal ;-}. > >

Re: "The Register" article on HP replacing z

2008-11-25 Thread Ken Gunther
Rex, Sadly our goal of getting off the mainframe still persists. We are in YEAR 15 of an 18 MONTH project to accomplish this goal ;-}. Ken G. Pommier, Rex R. wrote: I concur also. I wonder what year my company was included in the "250 per 2 years" statistic. We bro

Re: RCFs are no longer accepted by IBM???

2008-11-25 Thread George Fogg
Try http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/webqs.html George Fogg -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 4:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: RCFs are no longer accepted by IBM???

RCFs are no longer accepted by IBM???

2008-11-25 Thread Edward Jaffe
I'm attempting to send an RCF to IBM using the address supplied by John Eells in this post: http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0610&L=ibm-main&P=R82229&I=1&X=- It doesn't work ... :-( Original Message Subject: DELIVERY FAILURE: User mvhrcfs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) not listed i

Re: sending snmp traps from z/OS

2008-11-25 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:23:10 -0500, Don Poitras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... >If you're willing to write some code, you can use DPI to issue the >traps. See: > >http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi- bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ezap4002/5.0 >... I hadn't looked at DPI for several years so I had to r

Re: sending snmp traps from z/OS

2008-11-25 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:04:10 -0600, Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... >Pat is stating that the SNMP command may also be used for >sending TRAPs. My experience with the SNMP command - from >about 15 years ago - regarding TRAPs is distilled into my >presentation material under the tit

Re: Add Storage To Lpar - z/800

2008-11-25 Thread Patrick Falcone
Hopefully you get what storage you need contiguous or it's not just an IPL anymore..I got bit by this just last week. --- On Tue, 11/25/08, Eric Bielefeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Eric Bielefeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Add Storage To Lpar - z/800 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Da

Re: Online volume mystery

2008-11-25 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 11/25/2008 7:57:03 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: UNIT TYPE STATUS 9090 3390 O-RAL RAL, as it turns out, means 'restricted to allocation', which I've never seen before. I'm still looking, but currently stumped as to how it managed to get into t

Re: S328 and EXTRACT

2008-11-25 Thread David Logan
As it turns out, this is exactly what it was. The "TCB" field of the extract macro data area had an x'0004' in it for some mysterious reason. I zeroed it out explicitly. It should work better now. Thanks for all of the suggestions! David Logan Manager of Product Development, Pitney Bowes Busi

Re: S328 and EXTRACT

2008-11-25 Thread Wayne Driscoll
Let me re-word this a little (I cut some out and garbled it badly) You may want to ensure that you are zeroing out the storage used for the list form. It could be that residual data is in the word that holds the TCB address. === Wayne Driscoll Omegamon

Re: S328 and EXTRACT

2008-11-25 Thread Wayne Driscoll
David, Are you may want to ensure that you are zeroing out the storage used for the list form. It could be that residual data is in the word that holds the input TCB address. === Wayne Driscoll Omegamon DB2 L3 Support/Development wdrisco(AT)us.ibm.com

Re: S328 and EXTRACT

2008-11-25 Thread Walt Farrell
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:30:05 -0700, David Logan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >A customer is reporting an abend S328 when they run our server. The message >text I have found is included below. Does anyone know why this may be >happening? It mystefies me, because all we are doing is calling EXTRACT >FI

Re: S328 and EXTRACT

2008-11-25 Thread Hal Merritt
Sounds like something I'd initially approach like I would an S0C4 - an addressing issue or perhaps an overlay. Than perhaps a timing issue where the target daughter task is gone but the word has not spread yet. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Add Storage To Lpar - z/800

2008-11-25 Thread Martin Packer
Standard plea to customers: Find out how much memory you actually have on each machine and ensure you deploy the right portions of that as reserved to the right LPARs. (This is not the only situation this quarter where a customer was forced to IPL to add memory out of idle to an LPAR.) And stan

Re: FALL BACK TIME CHANGE EST

2008-11-25 Thread Barry Merrill
Changes to Daylight Saving Time: MXG Software code is impervious to Daylight Savings Time; we give you the data that is in your RMF,SMF, etc. data, as you choose to create it. If you choose to set your clocks back on an active system, you corrupt many datetime values (i.e, jobs end before they st

S328 and EXTRACT

2008-11-25 Thread David Logan
This message is posted to both IBM-MAIN and ASSEMBLER-LIST, since I don't know who might be able to answer it. A customer is reporting an abend S328 when they run our server. The message text I have found is included below. Does anyone know why this may be happening? It mystefies me, because al

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2008-11-25 Thread Geoffrey K Smith
I am out of the office until 12/01/2008. If you require access to the z/OS Drafts respository, please send a note to Bob Pfeiffer at ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Note: This is an automated response to your message "IBM-MAIN Digest - 23 Nov 2008 to 24 Nov 2008 (#2008-329)" sent on 11/25/08 0:00:03. This

Re: Add Storage To Lpar - z/800

2008-11-25 Thread Eric Bielefeld
I just talked to our DBA, and yes, we did REBIND all of our packages. I suspect we are now just over the knee of the curve - but the curve for what? Eric Roland Schiradin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks the memory issue was already covered. For DB2 V8 did you REBIND all of > your pa

Re: FALL BACK TIME CHANGE EST

2008-11-25 Thread Hal Merritt
We issue the command and then refresh one of our (proprietary) online tasks. That's it. Full bore production to include batch and a 7x24 online which includes a DB2 component. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelman, Tom Sent: F

Re: Add Storage To Lpar - z/800

2008-11-25 Thread Eric Bielefeld
Thanks to all that replied. I'll only reply to this answer to avoid cluttering up the list. I suspected that I probably couldn't add any storage to this Lpar without at least an IPL. Both of LP01 and LP02 have 2 GB defined for real storage, and 1GB in reserve. I believe the 1GB in reserve g

Re: Mainframe Hosted BLOGs and WIKIs

2008-11-25 Thread Rob Schramm
Jim, You can run Tomcat on z/OS and doing so then run JSPWiki which has some blogging software already in it. JSPWiki moved to an official Apache project. They have incorporated all sorts of new things into it. You can also run JSPWiki within WebSphere Application Server. You can run multip

Re: Add Storage To Lpar - z/800

2008-11-25 Thread Roland Schiradin
Looks the memory issue was already covered. For DB2 V8 did you REBIND all of your packages??? Regards Roland -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: G

Re: Add Storage To Lpar - z/800

2008-11-25 Thread Jim Mulder
IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 11/25/2008 12:11:58 PM: > Can real storage be added to an Lpar on a z/800 without shutting > down the Lpar and re-IPLing? We have 4 Lpars defined, only two of > them running now. Both Lpars have 3G of memory. I think the 2 > Lpars that aren't running

Re: Add Storage To Lpar - z/800

2008-11-25 Thread Kevin Mckenzie
Did you define any storage as reserved in the activation profile? If so, yes, you can. If not, I don't know of any way. Note that it's not just a re-IPL you would need to do; you would need to redefine the activation profile with more storage and then reactivate the LPAR. Kevin McKenzie Ex

Add Storage To Lpar - z/800

2008-11-25 Thread Eric Bielefeld
Can real storage be added to an Lpar on a z/800 without shutting down the Lpar and re-IPLing? We have 4 Lpars defined, only two of them running now. Both Lpars have 3G of memory. I think the 2 Lpars that aren't running have .5G each. I know we have a little less than 1G that is free and unas

Re: Setting up Tape Encryption with EKM

2008-11-25 Thread Mark Jacobs
Lizette Koehler wrote: > I have some basice questions on setting up the Tape Encryption on our TS3500. > > We have installed JAVA 1.5. I have a Data Class defined. I have an ACS > routine to limit who can specifiy the encryption on tape. > > My basic Q's (and I have read the Planning Guide, the

Setting up Tape Encryption with EKM

2008-11-25 Thread Lizette Koehler
I have some basice questions on setting up the Tape Encryption on our TS3500. We have installed JAVA 1.5. I have a Data Class defined. I have an ACS routine to limit who can specifiy the encryption on tape. My basic Q's (and I have read the Planning Guide, the TS3500, and TS1120 Manuals and j

Re: Mainframe Hosted BLOGs and WIKIs

2008-11-25 Thread Edward Jaffe
Kirk Wolf wrote: Just curious - Which JspWiki plugins do you use? Had to configure filesystem that kept track of differences, email support, RSS feed, and some other things. Don't remember if any of them were plug-ins. Do you use our SAF interface for Tomcat? We use SAF for TOMCAT

Re: z/VM and Mirrored DASD owned by z/OS

2008-11-25 Thread Kline, Martin
>Are you now saying that you want to use the same set of target volumes for >Z\os AND Z\VM source volumes? Yes, and z/VM guest volumes as well. I could potentially bring up a z/OS guest under z/VM and want to share the DASD with other z/OS systems. Although that is not our current intent, it sho

Re: SMPE Applycheck Allocation Error

2008-11-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:42:36 -0500, Dean Montevago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >That I kind of figured. Wanted to know where the APF came into play. > Linkname: 26.1.5.1 "z/OS V1R10.0 MVS Authorized Assembler Services Guide" IBM Library Server URL: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bi

Re: z/VM and Mirrored DASD owned by z/OS

2008-11-25 Thread Scott Rowe
I don't he meant you were wasting anyone's time, just that you would likely get more answers from VMers who don't watch this list. Some questions are better asked on BOTH lists. >>> Martin Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/25/2008 10:36 AM >>> > You might want to re-post on the IBMVM listserv. Don

Re: z/VM and Mirrored DASD owned by z/OS

2008-11-25 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Martin, Nobody suggested you wasted anyone's time. Your original post concerned a problem with PPRC with VM interfering with a Z\os DASD mirror, i.e. Z\os target volumes not being available due to being attached to Z\vm. Are you now saying that you want to use the same set of target volumes for

Re: z/VM and Mirrored DASD owned by z/OS

2008-11-25 Thread Martin Kline
> You might want to re-post on the IBMVM listserv. Done, but I was under the impression that this was a 'mainframe' discussion list, whereas the IBMVM list is strictly VM, and that since my issue stems from a conflict between z/OS and z/VM that this list would be more appropriate. My apologies

Re: sending snmp traps from z/OS

2008-11-25 Thread Chris Mason
Henrique Pat's response reminds me that I wanted to say something about this when I first spotted it - but forgot! I'm glad he has been able to provide you with an easier solution than I would have offered since he is much more current with NetView than I am. Your surprise can be taken to indi

Re: BINDER instructions in source code?

2008-11-25 Thread Schneiderwent, Craig - DOT
Our solution is to bind twice, once for batch and once for CICS. There is one application load library for each. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message

Re: Delete with RC > 0

2008-11-25 Thread Howard Brazee
On 24 Nov 2008 14:09:23 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Big Iron) wrote: >IKJEFT01 returns the return code of the last TSO command executed (or, >in your case, the only TSO command executed). The behaviour of >IKJEFT1B will differ if there is more than one TSO command being >processed. See >http://publi

Re: SMPE Applycheck Allocation Error

2008-11-25 Thread Dean Montevago
That I kind of figured. Wanted to know where the APF came into play. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 9:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: SMPE Applycheck Allocation Error Dean

Re: z/VM and Mirrored DASD owned by z/OS

2008-11-25 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Martin, You might want to re-post on the IBMVM listserv. This is a different question than the one you originally posted about your Z\os based PPRC not working. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Kline [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Mainframe Hosted BLOGs and WIKIs

2008-11-25 Thread Kirk Wolf
Just curious - Which JspWiki plugins do you use? Do you use our SAF interface for Tomcat? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Edward Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Jousma, David wrote: > >> Jspwiki.org >> >> > > We use this one, with TOMCAT running under JZOS

Re: Merging systems into a sysplex. RACF problem

2008-11-25 Thread Arthur Gutowski
We, too, were under the "bronzeplex" gun. "Going Gold" is proving to be even more "interesting". We merged 7 systems in 8 months (windows are hard to come by) for a huge cost savings. Two were already sysplex, the rest were monoplex. Because we share only enough DASD for the Couple Datasets

Re: z/VM and Mirrored DASD owned by z/OS

2008-11-25 Thread Martin Kline
Thanks for the responses. Marking the devices 'notsupported' should fix the immediate problem. Is anyone successfully using PPRC devices in z/VM? The documentation indicates PPRC is fully supported by VM and its guests, but if the support is that every PPRC device must be marked 'notsupported'

Re: SMPE Applycheck Allocation Error

2008-11-25 Thread R.S.
Dean Montevago wrote: What does the WAIT function do ? Well... WAIT causes SMP/E to ...wait for dataset. Documentation says: WAIT=YES or WAIT= NO indicates whether SMP/E should wait for the data set to be allocated if the volume is not mounted or if the data set is already in use. Not waitin

Re: sending snmp traps from z/OS

2008-11-25 Thread Don Poitras
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:09:47 -0600, Henrique Seganfredo > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hello folks, > >... > >Surprisingly, the command line tool (/bin/snmp) that interfaces with > >the snmp agent task only gives me the opportunity to RECEIVE > >TRAP

Re: Merging systems into a sysplex. RACF problem

2008-11-25 Thread Eric Bielefeld
It sounded like there was very little shared dasd from what Skip said, so I don't think the security risk would be that high. Yes, if all dasd was shared, I can see that that would be a problem. This leads me to the last contract job that I had. The datacenter was contracted out to another co

Online volume mystery

2008-11-25 Thread Jeffrey Deaver
We have a set of volumes we snapshot our production data to each day so PPRC can replicate it offsite. Those target volumes stay offline, but yesterday, one of them managed to get into this state UNIT TYPE STATUS 9090 3390 O-RAL RAL, as it turns out, means 'restricted to allocation', which I

Re: SMPE Applycheck Allocation Error

2008-11-25 Thread Dean Montevago
What does the WAIT function do ? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kurt Quackenbush Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 8:25 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: SMPE Applycheck Allocation Error > Oops; I remember. BTDT. It's

Re: SMPE Applycheck Allocation Error

2008-11-25 Thread Kurt Quackenbush
Oops; I remember. BTDT. It's the WAIT problem. When necessary, I've dealt with this by removing the WAIT operand. Yes, it is the WAIT operand on the DDDEF entry. That wait function does indeed require the using program (GIMSMP in this case) to be authorized. Kurt Quackenbush -- IBM, SMP/E

Re: Merging systems into a sysplex. RACF problem

2008-11-25 Thread Walt Farrell
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:38:45 -0800, Skip Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In the interest of complete and brutal honesty, I can testify that it's >possible to merge 'full function' parallel sysplexes while keeping the >original RACF databases separate. It's not ideal, to be sure, but if you're

Re: How to stop NOTIFYs?

2008-11-25 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe > > Rick Fochtman wrote: > > I can HIGHLY recommend Shmuel Golob's (AKA Sam Golob's) Broadcast > > Management tools. > > There are two Shmuels on IBM-MAIN? There are at least three: Shmuel Koller occasi

Obtain zIIP information without RMF M-III

2008-11-25 Thread Jorge Garcia
Hello: We want to obtain information about zIIP processors but our record interval is too much high (INTVAL 15 minutes). Is possible obtain this information from another way and with less interval?. We don't want change del INTVAL. From RMF M-III we can only view the reports but we can't obta

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2008-11-25 Thread Steven M Payne
I am out of the office until 12/01/2008. For emergenices please call my IBM follow-me number 404-487-1405. Thanks. Note: This is an automated response to your message "IBM-MAIN Digest - 23 Nov 2008 to 24 Nov 2008 (#2008-329)" sent on 11/24/08 22:00:03. This is the only notification you will r

Re: BINDER instructions in source code?

2008-11-25 Thread Jan MOEYERSONS
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:39:37 -0600, Schneiderwent, Craig - DOT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I believe your fears are become manifest and that you must have DSNELI for batch, DSNCLI for CICS, and DSNRLI in a stored procedure environment. This can be solved by writing a COBOL routine named DSNHLI

Re: Little OT but its worth the 20+ minutes to watch it

2008-11-25 Thread R.S.
John McKown wrote: [...] Remember that doing the same Google search is non exact. I've done two identical searches within a few minutes of each other and gotten slightly different results. Remember this is "by design" feature of Google search. It's not text search, order of results depends on

Re: Preventing allocation on non-sms volsers - THANK YOU!

2008-11-25 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Good day Many many thanks for supplying suggestions online and offline! You all are GREAT! Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED