SAP runs extremely well on System z. (Highest QoS SAP implementation you
can get, as a matter of fact.) Something called the SAP Central Instance
runs on z/OS, and SAP application modules run on Linux on System z. SAP
exploits zIIPs and DB2 9.
Again, I don't know why people (not here, usually)
Hi
I have a situation in a TSO REXX pgm, where i will not be knowing the
linenum which is being updated, before hand.It will be known only at
runtime. So i have setup a counter which gets incremented and when the
condition gets satisfied for updating a row in a sequential file i try to
use a
sabarish kannan sabarishkanna...@gmail.com on 2009-04-01 at 09:53 wrote:
Hi
I have a situation in a TSO REXX pgm, where i will not be knowing the
linenum which is being updated, before hand.It will be known only at
runtime. So i have setup a counter which gets incremented and when the
condition
Rather than hijack the thread
Hot off the Redbooks press
SAP on DB2 9 for z/OS: Implementing Application Servers on Linux for
System z
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg246847.html?
Open
Regards
Gerard Ceruti
may the 'z' be with you
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From:
Laine, Rogers pisze:
We are looking to install two OSA cards to support two ICC OSC ports to
handle our remote consoles.
We have a z890 installed and my concern is when the CE applies
maintenance to the OSC will this interrupt these active consoles?
Are these OCS ports handled any differently
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:50:16 -0500, Eric Bielefeld eric-ibmm...@wi.rr.com
wrote:
Thanks for clearing up how the current drives actually work. It just seems
like IBM could get away from the track and cylinder stuff, which
artificially restricts the amount of storage you use. If you use short
Hi
I am having a problem of the entries being shown on a panel from a ISPF
table sometimes showing multiple entries wrt actual entries in a file during
the first time of invoking the panel. I am reading from a file and
displaying in a panel using ISPF tables.If actually there are only 7 entries
Jeez Jim, sorry about that.
Haste makes waste and in this case I hurriedly replied without confirming, hate
when I do that...
--- On Tue, 3/31/09, Horne, Jim - James S jim.s.ho...@lowes.com wrote:
From: Horne, Jim - James S jim.s.ho...@lowes.com
Subject: Re: SMF70PMU question
To:
Do U use Control Errors return? If so, you need to TBEND the table before
trying to create it (Control errors return might cause that your TBCREATE
failes, but the table is already in memory, thus TBADD will waork on the
currently opened table:
Control errors return
TBEND tbl
TBCREATE tbl
TBADD
Hi Jim,
One more thing to keep in mind is that MXG converts the SMF70PMI, SMF70PMU,
SMF70PMW variables to average per second values (Barry divides these
variables by NRSAMPLE). Barry often renames variables when he changes the
raw SMF value by some algorithm, but he did not do so in this
At the SHARE in Austin last month, several IBM presentations on FlashDrives
said that sequential access is still faster on controllers with devices that
spin than with FlashDrive. That was what I meant about lower access times.
They also discussed the problem with rewriting into the same
Don,
Thanks. I had already looked at VMAC7072 and multiplied them by NRSAMPLE to
turn them back into totals.
Great minds think alike :). I always check Barry's code so I know that what
MXG is telling me is the same thing RMF uses in report generation.
Jim Horne
Systems Programmer
Large
Hi Itschak
Thanks for the reply. But i am not using CONTROL ERRORS RETURN.I am only
using CONTROL NONDISPL for one more ISPF table XTB , as you can see from my
code.
Sabarish
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Itschak Mugzach imugz...@gmail.com wrote:
Do U use Control Errors return? If so, you
Hi Gary
Thanks. It works.
Sabarish
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Gary Threadgold threa...@unhcr.org wrote:
sabarish kannan sabarishkanna...@gmail.com on 2009-04-01 at 09:53
wrote:
Hi
I have a situation in a TSO REXX pgm, where i will not be knowing the
linenum which is being
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/redAlerts/20090331.html
Abstract:
VSAM Key Sequence Data Sets with IMBED Attribute that are DUMP'd using Logical
Data set DUMP are not RESTORE'd properly using z/OS 1.10 and therefore are not
accessible from any z/OS release.
Description:In z/OS
Sam,
Thanks for the info. I signed up for the alerts and passed that along to
our team as well.
Regards to the gecko.
Daniel McLaughlin
Z-Series Systems Programmer
Information Communications Technology
Crawford Company
4680 N. Royal Atlanta
Tucker GA 30084
phone: 770-621-3256
fax:
Just got that this morning too. Good timing I guess. We were to start
our 1.10 roll into our development LPAR's starting tomorrow.. Close
date on the APAR is July 14th.seems pretty long for a HIPER of this
sort.
_
Dave
This is the best (recent) article I've seen on Flash issues -
http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3531
Ron, I'd be *REAL* interested to see any test results on Enterprise
Flashdrives - especially if you can fill a drive and see the same
degradation.
Anyone else having access to test
Doesn't HSM use DSS to restore datasets? I was assured that recalling or
recovering VSAM KSDS with Imbed would not be a problem. Now I'm not so sure.
If Marne Walle is monitoring perhaps she could give us an update.
Dave O'Brien
NIH Contractor
From:
Read the APAR. HSM recalls are affected by this too.
_
Dave Jousma
Assistant Vice President, Mainframe Services
david.jou...@53.com
1830 East Paris, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 MD RSCB1G
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Good news is that IBM does have an APARFIX available if you ask.
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Dave Jousma
Assistant Vice President, Mainframe Services
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p 616.653.8429
f 616.653.8497
This
Jousma, David wrote:
Good news is that IBM does have an APARFIX available if you ask.
I just received it this morning.
++APAR is available for OA28159. It has been placed on the testcase
server (testcase.boulder.ibm.com) in the fromibm/mvs directory as
AA28159.HDZ1A10.TR.
Hi
Thank to Timothy Sipples to point to the IBM System Journal article
about CPMF.
It is the Central Processor Measurement Facility but there is a Channel
Path Measurement Facility also or they are the same ?
If you ever have tried to make some code performance evaluation, you
would see ,
R.S Thanks for your information.
Also referred z/OS V1R7.0 DFSMS Using Data Sets as follows
1.3.2.3 Maximum VSAM Data Size
A VSAM data set is limited to 4 GB across all volumes unless Extended
Addressability is specified in the SMS data class definition. System
requirements restrict the
The person who supports file transfer in our shop reports this.
Further, we concluded that FTPS does not satisfy PCI encryption
requirements because there is no alternative to passing clear-text
passwords for authentication during batch processing. The sftp protocol
provided in ssh-Tectia
Walt,
I understand that changing the track and cylinder architecture would involve
lots of changes, and that it would also involve a lot of vendor changes to
their software too. I'm not saying IBM should change it - it just seems
overly complicated. I have no idea how IBM could change it,
We use a product that used to be called CIMS by CIMS Labs. A couple of
years ago CIMS was bought by IBM and the product is now IBM Tivoli Usage
and Accounting Manager (ITUAM).
Tom Kelman
Enterprise Capacity Planner
Commerce Bank of Kansas City
(816) 760-7632
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From:
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:50:08 -0500, Eric Bielefeld wrote:
... I read a lot about it the time, but in the end we didn't get
one. What you wrote below I remember, especially the compression, and
writing all new and updated data in a new location. BUT, you define so many
volumes. Once you have
What, exactly, is 'FTPS'? As Timothy alluded, there are a large number of
solutions out there.
For example, TLS FTP is certificate based and does not pass log on credentials
in the clear. It's free on z/os and easy to automate. The downside is
certificate management.
SSH seems to be PCI
David,
I'm not sure exactly what this statement means wrt passing clear-text
passwords. Can you supply more details?
With FTPS or SSH/SFTP, clear-text passwords are NOT sent over the network.
(Note: FTPS needs to be configured properly to encrypt the control
connection)
To use a password from
I'd like to mention some reminders, concerning IMBED, REPLICATE, and
KEYRANGE and z/OS. (There's no new news here. We've been saying for a long
time that VSAM data sets with these attributes have been involved in
unplanned outages, and now there's a Red Alert on a problem in this area...)
a)
Good point.
An observation of mine is that the costs of setting up and running a charge
back infrastructure are not trivial. Indeed, some might argue that they may not
be cost effective.
More, pragmatic costs per unit of work on most MF's are so small as to be
difficult to accurately
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Subject: Re: A foolish consistancy or 3390 cyl/track architecture
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:50:16 -0500,
Kirk,
Thank You for that explanation.
An example would be
anonymous
cebe...@aafes.com
cd /toibm/mvs/
binary
I must not be current on this but what you are suggesting is the
password,
In this case anonymous can be stored in a protected dataset and then
Two questions:
1. Has anyone actually done this? If so, how did you do it?
2. There was an excellent article in the 'Hot Topics' newsletter on this;
can someone point me to a copy?
Thanks!!
NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any files transmitted with it are
intended
David,
Correct - you can use REXX or a shell script to read the password from a
file or dataset. You could do this for either FTPS or SSH.
For FTPS, there are pros and cons to using X.509 certificates vs
passwords. Certificates are more protected, but both partners have to
manage them and
I understand that changing the track and cylinder architecture would involve
lots of changes, and that it would also involve a lot of vendor changes to
their software too.
That's why IBM promised to not change the geometry again.
I've lived through 3330-3350-3380-3390(compat)-3390 conversions.
For those of you who read German readily, there is a new book:
Siegele, Ludwig, Joseph Zepelin. Matrix der Welt. SAP und der neue globale
Kapitalizmus. Frankfurt und New York: Campus-Verlag, 2009.
available that describes---publicly and in very much greater detail than I have
seen
You might want to check out this IBM Redbook:
IBM Communications Server for z/OS V1R10 TCP/IP Implementation Volume 3: High
Availability, Scalability, and Performance
It's available at http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/pdfs/sg247698.pdf
Table of contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction to CS for
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 15:15:45 +, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
I DO NOT want to see a conversion to FBA, or anything else, until well
after we see conversion of all allocations to an SMS-based device
independent scheme.
It has been available since at least DFP 3.2, with MVS version 3. If
conversion is
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 09:56:20 -0500, Cebell, David cebe...@aafes.com wrote:
Kirk,
Thank You for that explanation.
An example would be
anonymous
cebe...@aafes.com
cd /toibm/mvs/
binary
I must not be current on this but what you are suggesting is the
password, In this case anonymous can be
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Cebell, David
The person who supports file transfer in our shop reports this.
Further, we concluded that FTPS does not satisfy PCI encryption
requirements because there is no alternative to passing clear-text
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 09:37:26 -0500, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote:
I'm not sure exactly what this statement means wrt passing clear-text
passwords. Can you supply more details?
Excellent question, Kirk.
With FTPS or SSH/SFTP, clear-text passwords are NOT sent over the network.
(Note: FTPS
Yes I do it a BMW Munic,
we build a real SYSPLEX CS environment, with 24x7 availability, and
workloads for DB2-Connect TELNET-Server and IMS and MQ-Series including
SSL-Connections.
Do you have special questions about the concept?
please sent me an email.
regards
Wolfgang
Walt,
I guess its cool now for IBM security audits to prefer passwords to
certificates, now that z/OS 1.10 TSO supports 8 character passwords ;-)
Its a pity that RACF (and hw keystores) can't store SSH-style public/private
keys (DSA, RSA) and support sign/check functions, to be exploited by z/OS
Now that we are using electronic delivery for all of our maintenance a lot of
documentation is coming on files with a ISO file extension. I am wondering how
other sites are handling these files?
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On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 09:32:13 -0700, Craig Bakken craig.bak...@yahoo.com wrote:
Now that we are using electronic delivery for all of our maintenance a lot of
documentation is coming on files with a ISO file extension. I am wondering
how
other sites are handling these files?
Personally, since I
We currently have a VTAM network that includes 1 network node and 7 end
nodes that use the same NETID. We also have a few connections between
the network node and outside networks (different NETIDs).
The network node is not currently a border node. I want to make the
network node a border
I'm not sure about mounting an ISO as a subdirectory, but there are a
variety of programs that will allow you to mount ISO files as virtual
drives on a Windows machine. And if I'm remembering properly, Mac OS will
automatically mount an ISO file as a virtual drive.
---
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External
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 11:16:48 -0500, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote:
I guess its cool now for IBM security audits to prefer passwords to
certificates, now that z/OS 1.10 TSO supports 8 character passwords ;-)
We don't prefer passwords to certificates. Our Common Criteria security
evaluation
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 09:32:13 -0700, Craig Bakken craig.bak...@yahoo.com wrote:
Now that we are using electronic delivery for all of our maintenance a lot of
documentation is coming on files with a ISO file extension. I am wondering
how
other sites are handling these files?
Google is your
Look at Virtual Clone Drive at http://www.slysoft.com/en/download.html.
Dennis Roach
GHG Corporation
Lockheed Martin Mission Services
Flight Design and Operations Contract
NASA/JSC
Address:
2100 Space Park Drive
LM-15-4BH
Houston, Texas 77058
Mail:
P.O. Box 58487
Mail Code H4C
Gil,
If you are using a windows xp and above; you have a program called Movie Maker.
You could use this to make video using screen capture.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/howto/articles/screencap.aspx
HTH,
Natarajan
Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com 3/28/2009 10:14 AM
How
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Subject: Re: Documentation Delivered as ISO files
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 09:32:13 -0700, Craig Bakken
i have Daemon Tools Lite, also free and works very well with iso files.
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John Kelly wrote:
Been a while since I did stand alone DSS restores. I see that DSS now has
a FILE parameter which can specify the file number from the beginning of
the tape. I would assume the number is tape marks, ie with standard label
tape file 1 would be FILE(2). Does anyone know, rather
This is a question from management. I don't like the question. But I will
ask anyway. is there any way, using normal JES2 facilities, which could
include an EXIT in JES2 to limit the wall-clock time that a job is
permitted? I am thinking that I could put the ESTIME parameter in the JES2
parms with
John, I think the Hasp308 won't come out until minutes have passed
If you meant changing that to 30 or 60 or whatever you wanted, then
proceed...
Mary Anne
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:35 PM, John McKown joa...@swbell.net wrote:
This is a question from management. I don't like the
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Subject: JES2 exit?
SNIPPAGE
I don't like doing the above, but management basically wants a rule of
any
job which
For windows boxes you can use a software called virtual clone drive. With
this software you do not have to burn the ISO in to DVD or CD. You just mount
them and use. Do a search using google or yahoo to find the same.
Micorsoft also has a tool called virtualcd control panel which you can use to
is there any way, using normal JES2 facilities, which could include an EXIT in
JES2 to limit the wall-clock time that a job is permitted?
IIRC, /*JOBPARM T=nn does that/did that, unless it's exit/parm enforced.
The first shop I worked at (1981) had that in place.
BTW, where is the productivity
I'm using an STK (now Sun, soon to be IBM?)SVA 9500 attached to a z9.
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Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 10:42 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
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snip
I have a couple of questions. Does
Thank you, Chris.
Luke
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Luke
You must already have APPN
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The biggest problem is that
2009/4/1 john gilmore john_w_gilm...@msn.com:
For those of you who read German readily, there is a new book:
Siegele, Ludwig, Joseph Zepelin. Matrix der Welt. SAP und der neue
globale Kapitalizmus. Frankfurt und New York: Campus-Verlag, 2009.
available that describes---publicly and in
Hi List,
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with that company. I have now subscribed to this list using my personal
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Walt,
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Walt Farrell wfarr...@us.ibm.com wrote:
SSH private/public keys do not have appropriate management controls,
however. The Security Administrator can not expire them, nor control their
strength, for example.
I take your point, but I don't completely
In reality, why do you care? It is email going to prior employers email
servers. Just subscribe under the new email address. I had this
before, and the only way to fix was to have Darren fix it. Not sure he
can anymore.
The only way that may work is to use the web interface and sign-on with
The first physical file on a standard labeled tape is the label. It is
lrecl=blksize=80. The first record is the VOL1 header. The second record
is the HDR1, which describes file 2 on the tape.
The second physical file on the tape is the first user file.
Dennis Roach
GHG Corporation
Lockheed
Eric,
the SUN/STK Virtual Tape system (VSM) uses this kind of DASD as their
internal buffer (SVA).
John
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All,
We have two systems that need to have identical ICF Catalogs (we are
implementing a tape grid and this catalog will contain tape entries).
These systems are in different SYSPLEXes and we can't share DASD between
them (partly because of GDPS) so a shared ICF Catalog isn't possible.
2009/4/1 Timothy Sipples e99...@jp.ibm.com:
As Kirk alluded to, there are also numerous private protocol file transfer
products, and they do have advantages in many missions.
And it's important to choose a vendor who understands the subtleties
of mainframe datasets in a mostly non-mainframe
This is exactly what we did (vnc2swf and x3270) for an old demo that is on
our website, if you want to see how one looks.
http://dovetail.com/demos/coz/demo1.html
(Look ma', no Windoze!)
Kirk Wolf
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Philippe Seveur psev...@nsiservices.comwrote:
A free
Dump/Restore using DFDSS
Copy to tape/Copy from tape using DFDSS
Export/Import/Import using IDCAMS
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Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 2:16 PM
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We have two systems that need to
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