HCD HiperSockets problem

2010-01-06 Thread Stuart Willis
Hi All I'm trying to set up HiperSockets on our Z9 A02 and running Z/VM VERSION 5 RELEASE 3.0, SERVICE LEVEL 0701 and ADCD ZOS 1.10 running as a guest under VM. I'm using Redbook HiperSockets Implementation Guide March 2007. When I try to define IQD Page 26 Add Channel Path I get error

Re: dead zone

2010-01-06 Thread Shane
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 08:45 -0600, Mohammad Khan wrote: In other words more lipstick is being applied here. When are they going to realize that it's a pig ? Hard to argue ... :-)) Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: What happened to Eric Loriaux' web site

2010-01-06 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Sam Golob wrote: Does anyone know what happened to Eric Loriaux' web site? It doesn't seem to be there anymore. I did a quick check, but both sites http://phpnuke.loriaux.com/ and http://www.ping.be/~ping1475/ are unavailable or DSN unresolved... This very OLD one is working:

Re: dead zone

2010-01-06 Thread Bob Shannon
In other words more lipstick is being applied here. When are they going to realize that it's a pig ? Hard to argue ... :-)) So what's your alternative? Abandon Java on Z? Bob Shannon Rocket Software -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: useless message at IPL

2010-01-06 Thread Peter Relson
Could you please be more explicit about the message you did see, and possibly about the messages you eventually found in the hardcopy log (SYSLOG)? You wrote But when NIP was waiting for my reply, I could not see what was wrong so that I could fix it What message was it waiting for you to

Re: HCD HiperSockets problem

2010-01-06 Thread Mark Pace
IIRC - the first Hipersocket channel must be FF, then FE, etc. On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Stuart Willis stuart.wil...@willdata.comwrote: Hi All I'm trying to set up HiperSockets on our Z9 A02 and running Z/VM VERSION 5 RELEASE 3.0, SERVICE LEVEL 0701 and ADCD ZOS 1.10 running as a

Re: HCD HiperSockets problem

2010-01-06 Thread Stuart Willis
I have tried FF FE get the same +---+ | Channel path type IQD is not supported by channel path ID FF. | +---+ Stuart.

Re: HCD HiperSockets problem

2010-01-06 Thread Mark Pace
Here is the definition from my HCD. Processor ID . . . . : Z9 Configuration mode . : LPAR Channel Subsystem ID : 0 Channel path ID . . . . : FF PCHID . . . . . : Channel path type . . . : IQD Operation mode . . . . . : SHR Managed . . . . . . . . : No I/O Cluster . . : Description .

Re: HCD HiperSockets problem

2010-01-06 Thread Bruce Hewson
Hello Stuart, I use 0F and 7F for my IQD chpids. I usually use F* and *F for my ICP chpids. (legacy...ESCON 16 port cards only had 15 usable chpids...so last *F chpid unused.) But I haven't tried using FF. But this is on a z10does your z9 actually support IQD chpids?? On Wed, 6 Jan

Re: HCD HiperSockets problem

2010-01-06 Thread R.S.
There is no requirement for HiperSocket chipd. I use any (unused) number I want. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland Stuart Willis pisze: I have tried FF FE get the same +---+ | Channel path type IQD is not supported by channel

Re: HCD HiperSockets problem

2010-01-06 Thread Bruce Hewson
Hi Stuart, Pressing F1 do you get an extended help message? On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 05:28:44 -0600, Stuart Willis stuart.wil...@willdata.com wrote: snip +--- | Channel path type IQD is not supported by channel path ID F4. |

Re: useless message at IPL

2010-01-06 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Peter Relson Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 6:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: useless message at IPL snip What message was it waiting for you to reply to? It's

Re: PCI and Auditors perceptions thereof

2010-01-06 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Don, If your firewall folks just recently upgraded the firewall, it could be that the upgrade defaulted, or reset some configuration settings. For FTPS, the firewall cannot do what's referred to as stateful checking. I know ours does that, and if it does that on the control connection

Re: HCD HiperSockets problem

2010-01-06 Thread Stuart Willis
Hi Bruce I did that it tells me that the device is not supported on the system but if If display supported devices it tells me IQD is supported? +--- Supported Control Units ---+ |Row 1 of 134 More: | |

Re: OSA Express3 questions

2010-01-06 Thread R.S.
Bruce Hewson pisze: [...] i.e. 2 PCHID == 2 CHPID, and 2 CU per CHPID as CUADD=0 and 1. Bruce, You cannot do it. Dot. Caution! For OSD chpid type you can define multiple CUs (using CUADD), but all of them are tied to CHPID, not the port! Multiple CUs are needed only if you want to have many

Re: useless message at IPL

2010-01-06 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John [ snip ] . . . I guess what it really means is that I should never update an in-use member of PARMLIB, but copy it to a different suffix, modify it, then point to the modified PARMLIB member. That's

Re: Where have the control blocks gone?

2010-01-06 Thread Don Poitras
Clark Morris wrote: On 5 Jan 2010 09:54:17 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: Clark Morris wrote: On 5 Jan 2010 07:17:48 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: Mike Myers wrote: Steve: I do know that the formatter in IPCS (TCBEXIT IECDAFMT - at least I

Re: Where have the control blocks gone?

2010-01-06 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Don Poitras Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 8:44 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Where have the control blocks gone? SNIPPAGE There's nothing stopping any programmer changing his

Re: useless message at IPL

2010-01-06 Thread John Kelly
snip It should be noted that early IPL messages can be written to the HMC system console in addition to/or instead of the z/OS NIP console. While the HMC system console has a number of usability problems, it does allow scrolling backward to see messages. /snip I'll bite, how do you make

Re: OSA Express3 questions

2010-01-06 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 1/6/2010 8:42:15 A.M. Central Standard Time, r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl writes: You cannot do it. Dot. Caution! For OSD chpid type you can define multiple CUs (using CUADD), but all of them are tied to CHPID, not the port! Multiple CUs are needed only if you want to

Re: useless message at IPL

2010-01-06 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John Kelly Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 9:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: useless message at IPL snip It should be noted that early IPL messages can be written to

New cut of the CBT Tape - V478

2010-01-06 Thread Sam Golob
Hi Folks, If you go to www.cbttape.org, I've straightened out the CBT directory and the Updates directory so things are less confusing. The CBT directory now contains the contents of Version 478 of the CBT Tape, cut on Dec 27, 2009. The Updates directory now contains updated files that

Re: 360 programs on a z/10

2010-01-06 Thread Howard Brazee
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:52:59 -0500, Walter Bushell pr...@panix.com wrote: They weren't really beaten, either. They ran out of fuel, food and ammo. That constitutes being beaten. Logistics is a major, major component of warfare. And business.

Re: JCL replaced by Jol: - Was Why is JCL so bad

2010-01-06 Thread Howard Brazee
On 5 Jan 2010 14:08:59 -0800, pgil...@pc-link.com.au (Paul Gillis) wrote: I used Jol from 1970 through 1988 and was very happy with it, then when I changed jobs I had to relearn JCL. Jol certainly provided much of what has been discussed here since the early 70s. Never tried a parm greater

Re: useless message at IPL

2010-01-06 Thread Don Imbriale
I have found command SETOMVS SYNTAXCHECK=(xx) to be useful when making changes to BPXPRMxx members. It checks syntax as well as the existence of HFS and zFS data sets specified in the catalog. Mount points are not verified. -- -- Don Imbriale On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:04 AM, McKown, John

How long does an I/O take (very roughly)?

2010-01-06 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4)
Hi, I'm about to update a chart I'm using to illustrate the relative speed of various actions like CP cycle, storage access, etc. Does it still hold true that an I/O from controller cache (cache hit) takes about 1ms and and I/O from the platter (cache miss) takes about 5ms. All I want is two

Re: Where have the control blocks gone?

2010-01-06 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Thompson, Steve Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 10:08 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Where have the control blocks gone? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: HCD HiperSockets problem

2010-01-06 Thread Field, Alan C.
Have you checked the processor definition? ISTR that on ours there are 2 choices and whether IQD is supported is one of them - Original Message - From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Wed Jan 06 05:28:44 2010 Subject:

Re: PCI and Auditors perceptions thereof

2010-01-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In d9d0c4681001051505w592508dfh92c302da9e77f...@mail.gmail.com, on 01/05/2010 at 03:05 PM, Donald Russell russell@gmail.com said: Is USS the same thing as OMVS? Officially USS is Unformatted System Services, but many people unofficially misuse the acronym to refer to Unix System Services.

Re: 360 programs on a z/10

2010-01-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In dad7k5phqf6bsfl326rt7pqvng1cgpc...@4ax.com, on 01/05/2010 at 05:57 PM, Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca said: Which then got fouled by DOS360 being substantially different from OS360. To say nothing of a host of new lines announce *after* the S/360, e.g., S/3. -- Shmuel

Re: PCI and Auditors perceptions thereof

2010-01-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea005bde01...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom, on 01/05/2010 at 05:57 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com said: Why not use BPXWUNIX to run a UNIX command in REXX? That should work if he has an OMVS segement; my best guess is that he only has it on one of his

Re: Why is JCL so bad was Re: Basic question on passing JCL set symbol to proc

2010-01-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201001041743394524.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 01/04/2010 at 05:43 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Does that mean before there were PROCs? No. PROCs are little use without symbols. They were quite useful. Or was everything done with overrides? Yes. As I recall,

Re: Where have the control blocks gone?

2010-01-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4b42276c.90...@trainersfriend.com, on 01/04/2010 at 10:37 AM, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com said: * Instead of three (or more) SVRBs, there are only two Under what circumstances did you see three SVRB's in the past? I'd expect that for an ABEND in O/C/EOV, but not for an ABEND in

Re: Regina REXX under W/XP

2010-01-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea005bde01...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom, on 01/04/2010 at 02:46 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com said: Any chance that the file is UTF? If so, it might have a BOM (Byte Order Mark) as the first two (or 4) bytes of the file. The BOM might legitimately

Re: Sun/STK Holddata No Longer Included With Cumulative Maintenance

2010-01-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201001051154584348.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 01/05/2010 at 11:54 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: o Issuing HOLDDATA is not syncronized with our test cycle which drives our cumulative maintenance releases. Do you build your cum service with the then current HOLDDATA? If

Re: Why is JCL so bad?

2010-01-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In blu110-w1b72eb1614e390925c7adc6...@phx.gbl, on 01/04/2010 at 04:29 PM, john gilmore john_w_gilm...@msn.com said: JCL has been criticized by those who have not mastered it since the time of OS PCP. ObQoheleth Similar complaints were no doubt made by my Uncle Crow and Aunt Maggie. He begins

Re: useless message at IPL

2010-01-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea005bde01...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom, on 01/05/2010 at 10:51 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com said: Like somebody has a 3287 printer any more? Or any printers? Virtual 1403 under z/VM? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO

Re: PCI and Auditors perceptions thereof

2010-01-06 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 10:01:41 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: What I'd like to do is invoke sftp from a rexx clist Rexx and CLIST are completely different animals. Except that Rexx EXECs and CLISTs may be mingled in a single SYSPROC library. Magic Numbers. -- gil

Help with sysplex root filesystem.

2010-01-06 Thread McKown, John
I'm trying to go to the sysplex root filesystem set up. I'm getting the following messages: BPXF008I FILE SYSTEM /dev 906 WAS NOT MOUNTED. THE MOUNT POINT SPECIFIED IN BPXPRMF5 DOES NOT EXIST. BPXF008I FILE SYSTEM OMVS.LIHT.ETC 907 WAS NOT MOUNTED. THE MOUNT POINT SPECIFIED IN BPXPRMF5 DOES NOT

Re: Help with sysplex root filesystem.

2010-01-06 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 10:45:49 -0600, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: I'm trying to go to the sysplex root filesystem set up. I'm getting the following messages: BPXF008I FILE SYSTEM /dev 906 WAS NOT MOUNTED. THE MOUNT POINT SPECIFIED IN BPXPRMF5 DOES NOT EXIST. BPXF008I FILE

Re: useless message at IPL

2010-01-06 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Don Imbriale Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 10:01 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: useless message at IPL I have found command SETOMVS SYNTAXCHECK=(xx) to be useful when

Re: How long does an I/O take (very roughly)?

2010-01-06 Thread Scott Rowe
With a DS8300 Turbo, my overall average response time is around 1ms. It looks to me like a cache hit is a little less than .5ms, with less than .300ms of connect time. Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4) peter.hunke...@credit-suisse.com 1/6/2010 11:07 AM Hi, I'm about to update a chart I'm using to

Re: How long does an I/O take (very roughly)?

2010-01-06 Thread Hal Merritt
Ignoring a lot and oversimplifying, I believe that modern DASD should routinely deliver 0.1ms (hit) and 1ms (miss). -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4) Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 10:08 AM To:

Re: HCD HiperSockets problem

2010-01-06 Thread Mark Post
On 1/6/2010 at 6:28 AM, Stuart Willis stuart.wil...@willdata.com wrote: Hi All I'm trying to set up HiperSockets on our Z9 A02 and running Z/VM VERSION 5 RELEASE 3.0, SERVICE LEVEL 0701 and ADCD ZOS 1.10 running as a guest under VM. I'm using Redbook HiperSockets Implementation

Re: Help with sysplex root filesystem.

2010-01-06 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 10:57 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Help with sysplex root filesystem. snip Did you follow the procedure to create the

Re: HCD HiperSockets problem

2010-01-06 Thread Stuart Willis
Hi Mark No if I try and use one that is used it gives me another error message CU already used. Stuart. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message:

Re: useless message at IPL

2010-01-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea005bde01...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom, on 01/05/2010 at 04:11 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com said: Yes, it did go to HARDCPY in the CONSOLnn member. Which is set to SYSLOG. Which is a SPOOL dataset. Which really means that these messages are kept

Re: useless message at IPL

2010-01-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea005bde01...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom, on 01/06/2010 at 08:04 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com said: I guess what it really means is that I should never update an in-use member of PARMLIB, but copy it to a different suffix, modify it, then point to

Re: Help with sysplex root filesystem.

2010-01-06 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 11:18:55 -0600, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: -- I used the two jobs in SYS1.SAMPLIB to make two new ZFS filesystems. One problem that I have which might be my problem, is that I need to use my original root filesystem in this environment. I simply don't

Re: HCD HiperSockets problem

2010-01-06 Thread Neubert, Kevin
During Add Channel Path do you get a different result using F4 (Prompt) for Channel Path ID and Channel Path Type? In other words is Type IQD available in both instances? Regards, Kevin -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of

Re: PCI and Auditors perceptions thereof

2010-01-06 Thread Donald Russell
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 07:01, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net shmuel%2bibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In d9d0c4681001051505w592508dfh92c302da9e77f...@mail.gmail.com, on 01/05/2010 at 03:05 PM, Donald Russell russell@gmail.com said: Is USS the same thing as OMVS?

HCD HiperSockets problem

2010-01-06 Thread Jorge Arueira Campos
*Example 3-1 IOCP statements for the z/OS environment* *CHPID PATH=(CSS(1,2),F4),SHARED, ** *PARTITION=((CSS(1),(A12),(=)),(CSS(2),(A23,A24,A25),(=))** *),TYPE=IQD* *CHPID PATH=(CSS(1,2),F5),SHARED, ** *PARTITION=((CSS(1),(A12),(=)),(CSS(2),(A23,A24,A25),(=))** *),TYPE=IQD* *CHPID

Re: PCI and Auditors perceptions thereof

2010-01-06 Thread Kirk Wolf
FWIW - you should be able to run the sftp client from a z/OS userid that has an OMVS segment, but has a read-only home directory shared by multiple userids. It seems unlikely to me that the Unix shell will work this way, but I haven't tried it. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies

Re: Where have the control blocks gone?

2010-01-06 Thread Don Poitras
Thompson, Steve wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Don Poitras Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 8:44 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Where have the control blocks gone? SNIPPAGE There's nothing

LNKLST APF Help

2010-01-06 Thread George Rodriguez
This is a how to question. In the SYS1.PARMLIB(PROG00) member I have an existing library that I really need to delete but I can't. Instead I want to add a new entry in front of the one that's there now. As they say a picture is worth a 1,000 word, so here's the net result of what I want to do:

Re: dead zone

2010-01-06 Thread Mohammad Khan
No no no ... there is no suggestion / advice in my comment. Just an observation from a bemused observer on the latest installment in this effort. There was something called High Performance Compiler for Java in mid 90's IIRC. Mohammad On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 07:25:04 -0500, Bob Shannon

Re: Where have the control blocks gone? -- Now down in the dumps

2010-01-06 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Don Poitras Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 12:10 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Where have the control blocks gone? SNIPPAGE Use FREE=CLOSE on the SYSMDUMP DD. Snip That only

Re: LNKLST APF Help

2010-01-06 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
George, I believe that you may need to also do a LNKLST DELETE of the OEM#T library before you do the LNKLST ADD statements. I'm assuming the OEM#T library is in the current LNKLST so it would be copied to the new one. Just doing the LNKLST ADD statements will end up with 2 copies of OEM#T in

Re: PCI and Auditors perceptions thereof

2010-01-06 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Don, It's not so much as blocking ftps and allowing normal ftp. The normal ftp's go thru such that the firewall can do it's stateful checking and not cause a problem. With FTPS, the datastream is encrypted by the time it hits the firewall, and does not conform to what the firewall thinks

Re: Where have the control blocks gone? -- Now down in the dumps

2010-01-06 Thread Don Poitras
Thompson, Steve wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Don Poitras Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 12:10 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Where have the control blocks gone? SNIPPAGE Use FREE=CLOSE on

Re: OSA Express3 questions

2010-01-06 Thread R.S.
Ed Finnell pisze: Most of this should be covered in the SAPR with the z10. Only one session from Denver SHARE has reference to OSA Express. 2217 Software Considerations for z10 migration. SAPR is the thing that were *never* been done here in Poland. BTDT many times. Even got

Re: Where have the control blocks gone? -- Now down in the dumps

2010-01-06 Thread Wayne Driscoll
Or you can use SYSMDUMP DD SYSOUT=class And then use your handy dandy sysout management tool to save the dump to a disk dataset, and use IPCS. See http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0709L=ibm-mainP=R28921I=1X=- === Wayne Driscoll OMEGAMON DB2 L3

Subject: Re: VTOC Fmt6

2010-01-06 Thread David Staudacher
Re: Split Cylinder DASD allocation I was curious to know if split-cylinder allocation still worked, and tried submitting a job using the OS/360 syntax: //SPLITCYL DD DSN=...,DISP=(,CATLG), // UNIT=SYSDA,SPLIT=(6,CYL,10), // DCB=(RECFM=FB,LRECL=80) To my surprise, I did NOT get a

Cobol rewrite variable length record

2010-01-06 Thread Frank Swarbrick
We have a program that has the following in it: SELECT CVSCATF ASSIGN TO AS-CVSCATF ACCESS IS SEQUENTIAL FILE STATUS IS FILE-STATUS. FD CVSCATF RECORD CONTAINS 17 TO 69 CHARACTERS. 01

Re: LNKLST APF Help

2010-01-06 Thread Gibney, Dave
There's BEFORE and AFTER options on SETPROG LNKLST Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex R. Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 10:58 AM

Re: Cobol rewrite variable length record

2010-01-06 Thread Steve Comstock
Frank Swarbrick wrote: We have a program that has the following in it: SELECT CVSCATF ASSIGN TO AS-CVSCATF ACCESS IS SEQUENTIAL FILE STATUS IS FILE-STATUS. FD CVSCATF RECORD CONTAINS 17 TO 69

Re: LNKLST APF Help

2010-01-06 Thread George Rodriguez
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Re: PCI and Auditors perceptions thereof

2010-01-06 Thread Donald Russell
I guess it's a matter of interpreting their (security folks) intent. (Which admittedly I don't know)... Yes, I understand the technical part of your explanation... but the overall effect is that FTPS is blocked while FTP is not if their intent is to block file transfers, or selectively permit

Re: Cobol rewrite variable length record

2010-01-06 Thread Frank Swarbrick
On 1/6/2010 at 12:52 PM, in message 4b44ea14.4010...@trainersfriend.com, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com wrote: My question is, why does it work when the file is VSAM, even without the RECORD IS VARYING? Question: are you running your tests under VSE or z/OS? I tested sequential

Re: Help with sysplex root filesystem.

2010-01-06 Thread John McKown
I just got it working. Turned out I mixed up two of the filesystems (mounted on the other's mount point) and one of the filesystems upon which the mounts failed did not have the necessary subdirectories created. Sheesh! -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group

Re: LNKLST APF Help

2010-01-06 Thread Gibney, Dave
Sorry, only AFTER... From z/OS 1.7 System Commands: | | | SETPROG LNKLST,{DEFINE,NAME=lnklstname[,COPYFROM=lnklstname][,NOCHECK] } | | {ADD,NAME=lnklstname, |

Re: 360 programs on a z/10

2010-01-06 Thread Howard Brazee
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:20:46 -0500, jmfbahciv jmfbah...@aol wrote: The goal of a war is to win to the point of changing the mindset of the enemy, especially the populace. That's *a* goal of war. Goals in business or war are about of costs and benefits. The quoted goal (which doesn't define

Control-M and Schedule Groups question

2010-01-06 Thread William Bishop
A sister company of mine is attempting to use Control-M to support a new application. They have defined 25000 jobs into 3000 schedule groups. In operation, they have observered that it can take 6 minutes between the time a job ends and the next job takes off. Has anyone running Control-M

Re: PCI and Auditors perceptions thereof

2010-01-06 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Donald Russell Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 12:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: PCI and Auditors perceptions thereof snip The idea I was trying to convey is I

Re: LNKLST APF Help

2010-01-06 Thread Mark Zelden
Since the beginning of dynamic LNKLST - OS/390 R3 (seems like a life time ago). BTW, after you copy from current you can delete the old one and add the new one. ASsuming there are no other duplicate modules in the LNKLST, the order you specify those delete / add statements don't matter nor

Re: Cobol rewrite variable length record

2010-01-06 Thread Steve Comstock
Frank Swarbrick wrote: On 1/6/2010 at 12:52 PM, in message 4b44ea14.4010...@trainersfriend.com, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com wrote: My question is, why does it work when the file is VSAM, even without the RECORD IS VARYING? Question: are you running your tests under VSE or z/OS?

Re: LNKLST APF Help

2010-01-06 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 14:46:07 -0600, Mark Zelden mark.zel...@zurichna.com wrote: Since the beginning of dynamic LNKLST - OS/390 R3 (seems like a life time ago). BTW, after you copy from current you can delete the old one and add the new one. ASsuming there are no other duplicate modules in the

Re: LNKLST APF Help

2010-01-06 Thread Gibney, Dave
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 12:49 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: LNKLST APF Help On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 14:46:07 -0600, Mark Zelden mark.zel...@zurichna.com

Re: Cobol rewrite variable length record

2010-01-06 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 2:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Cobol rewrite variable length record We have a program that has the following in it:

Re: PCI and Auditors perceptions thereof

2010-01-06 Thread Hal Merritt
Some of us exchange data with outside business partners (customers). The strategy has to be the same on both ends. Some partners are willing to negotiate, some insist on a specific solution. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf

Re: PCI and Auditors perceptions thereof

2010-01-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In d9d0c4681001061003p5a67c4ek10365bb17379c...@mail.gmail.com, on 01/06/2010 at 10:03 AM, Donald Russell russell@gmail.com said: Which is the correct noun to refer to a program, read from SYSEXEC in a TSO address space? Command[1] procedure, optionally preceded by an expletive. But see

Re: PCI and Auditors perceptions thereof

2010-01-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201001061043523972.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 01/06/2010 at 10:43 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Except that Rexx EXECs and CLISTs may be mingled in a single SYSPROC library. Magic Numbers. Well, magic comments. If it makes you feel better, in CMS there are three script

Question on processing z/OS UNIX files using QSAM

2010-01-06 Thread Steve Comstock
In z/OS 1.11, a new option was provided for the DD statement FILEDATA parameter: FILEDATA=RECORD; this implies data is stored with each record having a 4 byte prefix that specifies the length of the following data (different format than RDWs for RECFM of VB). When reading such a file using QSAM,

Re: Cobol rewrite variable length record

2010-01-06 Thread Frank Swarbrick
On 1/6/2010 at 1:47 PM, in message 4b44f6c6.1010...@trainersfriend.com, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com wrote: Frank Swarbrick wrote: On 1/6/2010 at 12:52 PM, in message 4b44ea14.4010...@trainersfriend.com, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com wrote: My question is, why does it

Re: Cobol rewrite variable length record

2010-01-06 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 5:24 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Cobol rewrite variable length record On 1/6/2010 at 1:47 PM, in message

Re: Cobol rewrite variable length record

2010-01-06 Thread Frank Swarbrick
On 1/6/2010 at 3:48 PM, in message 053f2631ec9c584883847c8b4970a22805bcc...@josqems1.jsq.bsg.ad.adp.com, Farley, Peter x23353 peter.far...@broadridge.com wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent:

Re: Where have the control blocks gone? -- Now down in the dumps

2010-01-06 Thread Don Imbriale
If your handy dandy sysout management tool happens to be SDSF, be sure to use line command XFC (or its command line equivalents) to maintain proper formatting of the output data set. -- -- Don Imbriale temporarily retired On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Wayne Driscoll wdri...@us.ibm.com

Re: OSA Express3 questions

2010-01-06 Thread Ted MacNEIL
SAPR is the thing that were *never* been done here in Poland. BTDT many times. Even got (unofficially) SAPR manual for some of IBM devices. Many things are different here... The SAPR guides are publicly available. I've used them in Canada, before the reps start the process. I don't know all the

Re: New cut of the CBT Tape - V478

2010-01-06 Thread Paul Gillis
Hi Sam, Not a major issue, but I cannot access any of the cbttape.org links using Safari, but it does work OK on I.E.8. This is accessing the updates page etc. Cheers, Paul -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: useless message at IPL

2010-01-06 Thread Barbara Nitz
Back in OS/390 R5 days I was presented a standalone dump where the exact same problem (a syntax error in bpxprm on a test system that nobody cared about but that *was* part of a productive parallel sysplex) had brought down a productive system due to the fact that the message prompting for the

Re: OSA Express3 questions

2010-01-06 Thread R.S.
Ted MacNEIL pisze: SAPR is the thing that were *never* been done here in Poland. BTDT many times. Even got (unofficially) SAPR manual for some of IBM devices. Many things are different here... The SAPR guides are publicly available. Not exactly. They are available for customer (not secret),