Dave,
when you are sure to back up _all_ files (including directories, mount
points, device nodes, symlink links etc.) from the Linux HFS then you have
most parts for a successful restore at hand. From my experiences a good
practice is to carefully review the TSM client's include/exclude
defin
Fred,
What do you consider a 'warm' and a 'cold' start of the system? Which
system? z/OS can only be IPL'd.
Kees.
"Fred Hoffman" wrote in message
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> Thanks for the reply. I think the user got accidentally logged off or
canceled. Maybe even timed out. Anyway, a
> warm start of the sys
Rick,
I think I am going to disagree a little with you on this. Where the
disagreement comes in is where companies hand out APF libraries like candy.
I actually had a programmer that was smart enough to copy amaspzap into an
authorized library and figure out where AMASPZAP was issuing the resou
>IFA705I HALT SMF PROCESS HAS SYNCHRONIZED THE BUFFERED LOGSTREAM
RECORDS.
I really like the suggestion in the books for this message , which
implies to use automation on a 'NOT synchronized' message, even after a z
eod. Strangely, z eod is only issued in this installation after *all* address
I had this same problem on Wednesday afternoon.
I opened a problem with BookManager Product Support. I received a reply
early on Thursday morning that they were having the problem as well. It had
something to do with the url being redirected. I received another email
later in the morning that the p
>"We've always done it that way." :-(
I feel with you! :-)
BUFSIZMAX is set to 512MB on both machines this occurs. We cannot go
higher, as this is already 10% of the available real storage, and there are at
least 2 DBs with their own buffers set high running on each of those lpars.
>I would gu
Fred,
with the previous posts, I am unclear on *what* you actually did. To me it
sounded as if you only see this address space in SDSF, not via normal MVS
system commands. Meaning that there is no address space by that name, it
is 'just' a bad entry left somewhere in JES2. This would explain wh
Hi,
you should see the message in both LPARs as Skip says.
Google is pretty handy, I found this
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/resources/servers_eserver_zseries_zos_racf_pdf_racf_v2r1_installation_implementation_gg244405.pdf
Seems to be an old manual, but does show the steps required, including
>Also accuse IBM of trying to subvert the organization's security.
Believe me, I did.
And there is no dependency on IE, as Opera fails even earlier. I wasn't in the
mood to install more browsers just to discover that they also fail. Because I
still believe that the reason they're failing is extre
I received the following note concerning the "CodeGen" problem in IBM-MAIN a
while ago.
Can someone in IBM-MAIN, please create a PMR for this?
Bill,
I apologize for the late reply.
Yes. please make a suggestion for a customer PMR in the IBM-MAIN list.
Again,
(to IBM-MAIN and CICS lists),
I have asked this "off-list" but so far can't find an answer. Can anyone
tell me if Metal C is supported with (works under) CICS or not?
I can imagine that it would be pretty unusual to want this, but as HLASM
(both LE-enabled and not) works with CICS, I was thinkin
Please issue TSO command 'RVARY LIST' on both LPARs. There should be no
indication of data sharing in the response on either system. That's what I
see in my basic sysplex.
Sharing options are indicated in bit flags in module ICHRDSNT. Even though
you are using the same RACF data base as named in I
Mark Zelden wrote:
Must have been a temporary glitch. It works for me now also. Bad timing,
I was just trying to show someone how to use it and of course it didn't
work. :-(
You're not the only one... I had the same problem in the last couple of
days. I tried on 2 different PCs, at work
On 1 May 2009 11:50:24 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
>We force Trunc(STD) for all programs in CICS. We have not had any
>reported problems.
If TRUNC(STD) which means truncate all binary based on picture doesn't
give you any problem, TRUNC(OPT) will work and give you better
performan
I use IBMLink without any issues with Safari on Mac OS X. I just logged in and
updated a PMR without any problem. I would submit a Feedback again.
My experience has been that the IBMLink Level 2 and develop teams are very
customer focused, open to customer feedback, and have demonstrated respon
Jim,
I have seen the same problem, BUT, only when our coupling
facilities are also shutdown as well. If the couplers
remain up, you should not experience data loss and logstream corruption.
What I see in the log after a Z EOD is issued is
IFA705I HALT SMF PROCESS HAS SYNCHRONIZED THE B
1) I can't seem to find any hits on this message from the web ... what's the
manual say? Which manual?
2) Is the file system containing this directory properly mounted R/W on your
system?
Regards,
Ulrich Krueger
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama
I am in the process of setting up a basic sysplex. (no Coupling Facility
available) from 2 separate monoplexes.
In the process of attempting to share the RACF database (in non
data-sharing mode) I am seeing something strange.
On LPAR1 of the SYSPLEX RACF comes up with no indication of data sha
Thanks for the reply. I think the user got accidentally logged off or
canceled. Maybe even timed out. Anyway, a
warm start of the system would not remove the entry, so a cold start was done
and solved the problem. If it occurs again,
I will post the information that was requested.
Thank yo
I am using CA ACF2 HFSSEC for UNIX directories on the Mainframe. Has anyone
else been able to use CA-ACF2 HFSSEC in their production environment?
When I run a batch job running program BPXBATCH, I receive the following
message:
DFHPI9526E Cannot write a file because directory
"/usr/lpp/cicst
Fred,
The information displayed by SDSF is not the same as all the information
provided by a "D A,SPRTREB". I suggest you issue that to get more
information. In addition, I'd review syslog to see who or what started it.
The one thing that is very clear from your SDSF display is that SPRTREB is
On 7 May 2009 00:44:15 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
>To revive this:
>I had opened a feedback record with Servicelink. Their comment was:
>
>"This is not a problem with Servicelink ,it is mandated across
>ibm.com,So please enable your ActiveX controls and plugins. "
>
>The Europe
and the RACF error seems to be with the directory access rather the file.
So when the file gets created, they should check the directory access
(write access to the directory seems a bit much unless it's trying to
create the file?)
Jack Kelly
202-502-2390 (Office)
"Field, Alan C."
Sent by:
I had a problem with LIBSRVE and opened a PMR with IBM. Here's some
notes:
"On the Administration page, put a check in the box labelled
"Generate Diagnostic Output" and save the settings.
Logging w
Datacom, the black hole, er, I mean, as c/a states, --> datacom, the black
box.
just when I thought I had seen it all, along came datacom.
Bobbie Justice
"Steven Conway" wrote in message
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Tom, I was in CA Devel
On Thu, 7 May 2009 10:02:55 -0700, Natarajan Mohan wrote:
>Mark,
>
>Softcopy librarian works for me, I was able to list and download updates as
well to my local disk. I doubt it is related to IP address or name.
>It could be your java runtime. Could you see what other errors it throws
before "nul
We were testing zos1.9 when we got this message. This came up on the system log
when we tried to access our intranet books online using a browser. I
understand that user PUBLIC is trying to either write this file/folder or
update it and can't. This file or folder (bookmgr.dbg) does not currentl
Bruno,
Thank you for your response.
Per your suggestion, I tried the following command with these results:
ANR2017I Administrator DOB issued command: DEFINE CLIENTACTION LSSB1
action=incremental
ANR2017I Administrator DOB issued command:
>3. It is a legal cya that some view as worthwhile
In Canada, it's called 'prior restraint'.
If you don't know about it before you read it, it's unenforcable.
And, as such a waste of time, space & band-width.
-
Too busy driving to stop for gas!
The SPRTREB is the entry I'm writing about. An ipl didn't get rid of it. (Warm
start). I'm wondering whether
a cold start will take care of it. It's a developer machine, Flex box, so I
can do just about whatever needs to
be done.
Any thoughts?
Fred
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
--
I have a tso id with no stepname, job id or owner and I can't get it out
of the system This an ADCD system at 1.7 and upon an ipl, the id come back.
Any attempt to cancel/purge gets "No JCT available". How do I get it out
o
I am using CA ACF2 HFSSEC for UNIX directories on the Mainframe. Has anyone
else been able to use CA-ACF2 HFSSEC in their production environment?
When I run a batch job running program BPXBATCH, I receive the following
message:
DFHPI9526E Cannot write a file because directory
"/usr/lpp/cicst
---
Does your storage admin have access to COBOL compiler and binder?
Is IDCAMS protected as ADRDSSU? IEBCOPY?
Programs are TOOLS. The holy rule of security says: Protect RESOURCES,
not the tools. Programmer can or cannot u
Mark,
Softcopy librarian works for me, I was able to list and download updates as
well to my local disk. I doubt it is related to IP address or name.
It could be your java runtime. Could you see what other errors it throws before
"null pointer exception" ?
Natarajan
>>> Mark Zelden 5/7/2009 7
On Thu, 7 May 2009 12:22:46 -0400, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
wrote:
>2 questions, I've been floundering in the manuals for several hours.
>We now have FCP attached Sata disk containing Linux data.
>No, I do not have TSM Administrator GUI screens available.
>
>Is it possible to issue a TSM c
Must have been a temporary glitch. It works for me now also. Bad timing,
I was just trying to show someone how to use it and of course it didn't
work. :-(
Mark
--
Mark Zelden
Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead
Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO
mailt
Eric asked if CA-11 worked with Datacom. FSVO "OK" Used to share CA11
between lots of systems Not simple, when the Datacom-running system needs
an IPL. Yeah, yeah, Shadow MUF, blah, blah. I'm not a Datacom guy, don't
want to be. We are a DB2 shop, and do you think the DB2 guys want
anythi
Now, THAT one I have done. Had to, after the first attempt to go
Production. The utility worked, just flagged a TON of stuff as bad. We
accepted that and kept going. Cleaning up the v3.5 history and checkpoint
files first will allow a successful fallback. Having to rerun VINIT to
get the r
On Thu, 7 May 2009 10:55:24 -0500, Fred Hoffman wrote:
>Greetings.
>
>I have a tso id with no stepname, job id or owner and I can't get it out of
the system This an ADCD system at 1.7 and upon an ipl, the id come back.
>
>Any attempt to cancel/purge gets "No JCT available". How do I get it out
I just used it (softcopy librarian v4.2h) to download some manuals.
Worked fine.
An email to book...@us.ibm.com regarding a particular bookshelf issue
was responded to and resolved in a timely manner in the past...
Eric Spencer
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion Li
Tom, I was in CA Development when the word came down the food chain that
ALL system management products were to be architected to have an
underlying Datacom DB. I stated that customers would hate it, and it would
cause problems. Since I was a transplanted Sysprog, and not considered a
real dev
2 questions, I've been floundering in the manuals for several hours.
We now have FCP attached Sata disk containing Linux data.
No, I do not have TSM Administrator GUI screens available.
Is it possible to issue a TSM command from a Mainframe server to backup a
client Linux node in its entirety?
Which is why I do not put a "delete if not for you" message. Makes about
as much sense as telling a jury to ignore testimony. Mine is simply to
release others from liability should I say something that I should not
say. I was taught a long time ago not to put anything in an email that I
did not min
Steve, good luck. I've been at it for months, finally implemented two
weeks ago. Still have a lot of problems with return code processing.
Be up to date on maintenance. As in, check to see what PTFs came out
TODAY. Be sure to load test thoroughly. What works fine on your testplex
may very
Has someone FORCED this ID out of the system earlier? If so, then an IPL may
be the solution.
Could you do a D A,userid and provide the display?
Lizette
>
>Greetings.
>
>I have a tso id with no stepname, job id or owner and I can't get it out of
>the system This an ADCD system at 1.7 and up
Greetings.
I have a tso id with no stepname, job id or owner and I can't get it out of the
system This an ADCD system at 1.7 and upon an ipl, the id come back.
Any attempt to cancel/purge gets "No JCT available". How do I get it out of
the system. The tso id is un-usable as it comes back and
This was a CMAS region and we should have issued a COSD transaction
instead of a CEMT. We are CICSPLEX novices here playing around with
CPSM.
Sorry for forgetting to post the resolution.
Bob
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On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:55:28 -0400, Richards, Robert B.
wrote:
>My CICS guy has an interesting problem that now has me a tiny bit
>concerned. He attempted to force a region down and a /D JOBS, shows
>the job is still out there:
>
>
>
>CICSRTT1 CICSRTT1 CICS IN NFS A=00C0 PER=NO SM
Unbelievable? Perhaps, but consider that this strategy can pay off big time
when you size your box for spikes instead of average load.
You can give management a knob to adjust how much they pay for software, and
they can change their mind every month.
A pleasant scenario: buy a box big enough
Steve is right - having the disclaimer at the bottom of the e-mail is
almost worthless for several reasons:
1. On a long e-mail you won't see it until you read down thru the e-mail
causing you to scroll to the bottom
2. Just because it is there will not prevent inappropriate usage of the
conte
Is anyone else having problems with getting internet manuals via
Softcopy Librarian? I get java.lang.NullPointerException.
I don't know if this is related to IP address changes or not. Thus far,
none of the changes affected us and we previously had checked with
the firewall group about the chang
David,
Here's a step-by-step:
1) Google "z10 prefetch" and you will find (today) the first hit to
be a link to an IBM Journal article:
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/531/jackson.pdf
If you click on it, you get the "Attention please send money" page :-(
But if you click in Google's
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Behalf Of Rich Smrcina
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 9:13 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Test
Ron wrote:
> Funny part is that these type of notices are always at the bottom of
the email.
>
> J
On Thu, 7 May 2009 12:48:22 +, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
>>> And may I enquire why you regularly do sysplex-wide IPLs?
>
>>"We've always done it that way." :-(
>
>Somebody should explain to your decision makers that SYSPLEX-wide sort of
defeats the purpose of having a SYSPLEX.
>
I would guess that
Ron wrote:
Funny part is that these type of notices are always at the bottom of the email.
Just the place I always scroll to immediately when receiving and reading an
email...
No, he was referring to the Netzero advertisement that was appearing in
his sent email, in addition to the customa
Funny part is that these type of notices are always at the bottom of the email.
Just the place I always scroll to immediately when receiving and reading an
email...
On Thu, 7 May 2009 09:47:48 -0400, Thompson, Steve
wrote:
The old BURN BEFORE READING ploy?
NOTICE TO RECIPIENT: If you ar
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Subject: Re: Test
NOTICE TO RECIPIENT: If you are not the intended recipient of this
e-mail, =
you are prohibited
>> And may I enquire why you regularly do sysplex-wide IPLs?
>"We've always done it that way." :-(
Somebody should explain to your decision makers that SYSPLEX-wide sort of
defeats the purpose of having a SYSPLEX.
-
Too busy driving to stop for gas!
---
>As to Ted's suggestion, I would not trust my local rep to know that
>information.
A rep is better than the (always out of date) web pages.
>Finally, Mark is entirely correct about the reference to the web pages.
Unless things have changed, the web pages were useless in our case of
CBU/Cood/DR
Kirk Wolf wrote:
Pretty funny - if you find an IBM research journal article in Google
and try to click on the pdf, then you get the "please send your $$$"
page. BUT - if you click in Google's "View as HTML" link, then you
can see the HTML version of the article. Google builds an HTML
version a
Small correction: the parameters BUFSIZMAX and BUFUSEWARN are available
from z/OS 1.8 on and the zap was available below 1.8.
Kees.
"Staller, Allan" wrote in message
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> There is a zap avail somewhere on IBM link that addresses t
There is a zap avail somewhere on IBM link that addresses this issue by
changing the size/expansion limits on SMF Buffers for 1.8 and below.
This is avail in 1.9 (Not as a zap) as BUFSIZMAX. Check the init/tuning
guide for details.
BUFSIZEMAX has solved our issues with lost SMF data at shutdown ti
Agree 100 %
These are tools and facilities ... not resources as such.
I remember we near spent few hundred thousand euros for a product,onto a non
mainframe platform because someone years ago had decided that FTP was not to
be used by anybody else than the system people.
Luckily because the new p
John,
yes, you can get more MSUs then is your defined capacity and SCRT will
still report only your defined capacity. This is nicely described in
SCRT User's Guide. So as others pointed out - you are never capped
below defined capacity to compensate for those MSU over limit.
Unbelievable, but true
Mark,
>>Recently we experienced an issue with TPX when someone who is a "SPECIAL
USER" whose ID got the following messages:
>>ICH301I MAXIMUM PASSWORD ATTEMPTS BY SPECIAL USER AT TERMINAL
.
>>*140 ICH302D REPLY Y TO ALLOW ANOTHER ATTEMPT OR N TO REVOKE
USER .
You s
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Barbara Nitz
>
> [ snip ]
>
> And may I enquire why you regularly do sysplex-wide IPLs?
"We've always done it that way." :-(
-jc-
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> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Phil Smith III
>
> I just got a notice about IP address changes for:
>
> download3.boulder.ibm.com Old Address: 207.25.253.76 -> New IP
Address: 170.225.15.76
>
> lindsey.boulder.ibm.com Old Address: 207.25
Lizette,
Your situation is precisely why I recommend Al Sherkow's LCS product
(www.sherkow.com) to audit SCRT. In the four years I did SCRT reporting,
I never once had IBM question any of my submissions *and* I always
caught those pesky situations that led to the problem you described
before the S
Ted MacNEIL pisze:
At the risk of flogging a dead horse, I truly believe in the minimum access to
do the job, and separation of duties.
If you have a storage administrator, they should be the only ones with access
to the storage administration tools.
Not a sysprog, and definitely not applicati
Scott,
I didn't take it personal and please don't feel it as personal from me.
My opinions regard only the tools and some organizational rules. It's
still not personal, since in many case you (in general) don't decide
about it.
Regarding the DSS - IMHO there is no place to have different opini
Jim,
thanks for that heads-up.
We are still at 1.8, but I had intended to use this functionality as soon as we
have migrated to 1.10. We are loosing SMF data regularly during shutdown of
*one* system at a time, because of all the SMF30 termination records that
get written at DB2 and IMS shutd
To revive this:
I had opened a feedback record with Servicelink. Their comment was:
"This is not a problem with Servicelink ,it is mandated across
ibm.com,So please enable your ActiveX controls and plugins. "
The European servicelink guy in the UK can reproduce my problem - he gets IE
(and O
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