Flashcopy

2010-03-18 Thread FRANCIS SOUSA
Hi Everyone, whenever a flashcopy of a volume is done using ADRDSSU, the target volume goes offline, it has the same VOLID as the source volume, now my question is as to how can I backup the target volume to tape ?, we do not have FDR. will appreciate any input Frank

Re: Flashcopy

2010-03-18 Thread Stephen Mednick
Without having the ability to backup an offline volume or being able to bring the volume online to an LPAR where the original source disk is not online, your only option is to perform an ICKDSF relabel of the disk and then vary it online and do a regular backup with DFSMSdss. You will need to

FTP problem

2010-03-18 Thread גדי בן אבי
Hi, I have to transfer a unix encoded file (has LF as line delimiter) that is stored on a windows platform to the MF. The transfer is initiated in a batch job and is part of a production process. Is there a ftp parameter that will help me? We are using z/Os 1.9. Thanks Gadi

Re: FTP problem

2010-03-18 Thread Itschak Mugzach
CRLF? ITschak 2010/3/18 גדי בן אבי gad...@malam.com Hi, I have to transfer a unix encoded file (has LF as line delimiter) that is stored on a windows platform to the MF. The transfer is initiated in a batch job and is part of a production process. Is there a ftp parameter that will help

Re: FTP problem

2010-03-18 Thread גדי בן אבי
As far as I know, the is no CRLF option in ftp. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Itschak Mugzach Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: FTP problem CRLF? ITschak 2010/3/18 גדי בן

Re: FTP problem

2010-03-18 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:59:56 +0200 ??? ?? ??? gad...@malam.com wrote: :I have to transfer a unix encoded file (has LF as line delimiter) that is stored on a windows platform to the MF. :The transfer is initiated in a batch job and is part of a production process. :Is there a ftp parameter that

Re: FTP problem

2010-03-18 Thread גדי בן אבי
Unix files use just LF as the end of line character Windows files use CR and LF as the end of line character. Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 11:01 AM To:

Re: FTP problem

2010-03-18 Thread Binyamin Dissen
Look at http://www.mail-archive.com/ibm-main@bama.ua.edu/msg78550.html On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:07:25 +0200 ??? ?? ??? gad...@malam.com wrote: :Unix files use just LF as the end of line character :Windows files use CR and LF as the end of line character. :-Original Message- :From: IBM

Re: Flashcopy

2010-03-18 Thread Alan Playford
Frank, Shame you don't have Innovation's FDRInstant, as you say. This product has the interesting ability to both utilise Flashcopy (or TimeFinder, ShadowImage etc) and then take a normal backup even though the duplicate volume is now offline. Otherwise, I think Stephen's suggestion of clipping

Re: FTP problem

2010-03-18 Thread גדי בן אבי
Thanks, but I don't think that would work here. I think I have a solution. I looked at the file and it looks like it has a fixed record length of 224. I used LOCSITE LRECL=225 WRAP The file is allocated with an LRECL of 224 (224 for the data and an extra byte for the LF character). WRAP tells the

Re: FTP problem

2010-03-18 Thread George Rodriguez
For those that don't know what CRLF means, it's an acronym for Carriage Return Line Feed and if you look at your yellow or green hex converter card, you'll see the hex equivalent of CRLF. That's what it means and it's used to end each line. That's what determines the record length of a file.

Re: SMP/E datasets question

2010-03-18 Thread Luis Andrade
Thank you for your remarks Joel. That's what I was trying to state. The SMP environment is permissive enough to meet all needs, but each one must be aware of possible consequences. Although we must always follow IBM recommendations, it is better to have small deviations than try to rebuild the

Re: Flashcopy

2010-03-18 Thread Reiner Markus
Francis. Do a flashcopy ADRDSSU job without COPYVOLID. So your target volume keeps online and you can back it up. When you want to recover you have to copy your volume back to the original labeled volume. Hope this helps. Reiner Markus

Re: Flashcopy

2010-03-18 Thread Walter Marguccio
subparameter DUMPCON how can I backup the target volume to tape ? subparameter DUMPCOND of the COPY command is your friend. Try to flash your volume with the following jcl: //FLASHEXEC PGM=ADRDSSU //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSINDD *

Re: Flashcopy

2010-03-18 Thread Scott Rowe
Yes, DUMPCONDitioning is your friend. This is the way HSM uses FlashCopy, this is exactly what it was created for. When you restore a volume dumped this way, it will restore the original volser. If you have HSM, look into the FRBACKUP function to see how HSM can manage the entire process for

Re: XMIT Manager

2010-03-18 Thread Shane Ginnane
Oh joy - Virtual PC. Last I looked at it, it was the worst of the virtualizers available - by a long shot. And (of course) this is only available on the premium Win7 versions. Careful, or IBM might adopt this view of compatability in future. Don't bother supporting all that old stuff - just

Re: XMIT Manager

2010-03-18 Thread R.S.
BTW: Is there any alternative product to XMIT Manager, INCLUDING COMMERCIAL ONES? I'm aware of PDS Magician (free), XMIT Manager is better, but still has some shortcomings. Of course price/performance is still excellent ;-) Back to the topic: It seems the problem occurs only on 64-bit version

Re: FTP problem

2010-03-18 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of ??? ?? ??? Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 5:03 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: FTP problem Thanks, but I don't think that would work here. I think I have a solution. I

Re: FTP problem

2010-03-18 Thread גדי בן אבי
None of our users currently use USS. I would like to avoid it if possible. I heard from the people who actually create the files (They belong to another organization and will not change the files), and the files are actually fixed length, so my solution would work. If the next step in the

Re: Encryption software?

2010-03-18 Thread Daniel McLaughlin
This topic is getting bounced around here and on the RACF-L as well, yet responses are scarce and sporadic. We in the hinterlands are looking for experiences with any of the major encrypting products to help in selecting one, without being hounded by vendors. Our site has mentioned TKLM and it

Re: VTS Migration

2010-03-18 Thread Sebastian Welton
Many thanks for all the replies, they've been very helpful. I'll admit I'm pretty rusty in this area but got roped in to doing it as I've done similar (but not this type of migration) in the past so forgive my seemingly 'dumb' questions. I've now found some material to read through (changing

Re: VSAM APARs involving zFS corruption

2010-03-18 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
Thanks for the info Dave. That is very troubling to me. I would consider this hiper as well, due to dataloss. The apar doesn't seem to indicate the severity either, in that you 'think' it was extended. Mary Anne -- For

Re: Any FOCUS performance guru's here?

2010-03-18 Thread Dana
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:05:14 -0500, David Briars dbri...@comcast.net wrote: Is the batch job running on the same LPAR, as the sink machine? Same LPAR Thanks Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: XMIT Manager

2010-03-18 Thread Bob Woodside
On Thursday 18 March 2010, Shane Ginnane wrote: Oh joy - Virtual PC. Last I looked at it, it was the worst of the virtualizers available - by a long shot. And (of course) this is only available on the premium Win7 versions. I think you can import Virtual PC images into either VMware or

Re: FTP problem

2010-03-18 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Gadi, If this is an ASCII file which I am assuming it is, there is a parameter you can try. The parameter is sbsendeol and it can be set to crlf, cr, lf, or none. If you are running the ftp client from z/OS and getting the file from the wintel box, it would be part of the locsite command.

Re: Any FOCUS performance guru's here?

2010-03-18 Thread Larry Crilley
I don't know much about FOCUS, and we don't run it here, but does it use LSR to process the VSAM files? Is it possible the size of the LSR pool built by FOCUS needs to be increased due to the added data? In other words, since you have more data, has the random access pattern (assuming FOCUS does

Re: FTP problem

2010-03-18 Thread גדי בן אבי
Hi Rex, Sbsendeol only works when you are transferring a file from z/OS to another platform. This is the way it's documented. Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex R. Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 3:52 PM

Re: VTS Migration

2010-03-18 Thread Scott Rowe
I am at SHARE right now, so I don't have this in front of me, so I may be a bit off (if so, someone should be able to correct me), but you should not have to change your ACS routines at all. All you need to do is remove the old VTS from your STORGRP and add the new VTS. All new allocations

Re: Flashcopy

2010-03-18 Thread Don Bolton
Francis, ASRDSSU has a new parameter DUMPCONDITIONING specific to aid in making flash copies without having the target volume going offline. Opentech Systems has a product to completely automate the flash copy process besides audit your DASD farm so as you add volumes none are missed. Please

Re: Encryption software?

2010-03-18 Thread Ward, Mike S
We use opentech, fdr, and megacrypt. We have icsf and MF encryption cards. All products that I mentioned are using the encryption cards for encrypting our tape backups. They have been working that for a few years now and we haven't had any issues. We use opentech for DR and have not had any issues

Re: FTP problem

2010-03-18 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
You're right, I missed that line. You could always use the old IND$FILE. That gives you the ability to tell it what the EOL characters are. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of ??? ?? ??? Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010

Re: FTP problem

2010-03-18 Thread גדי בן אבי
IND$FILE cannot be initiated from the z/OS side. Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex R. Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 4:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: FTP problem You're right, I missed that

Re: VTS Migration

2010-03-18 Thread Ward, Mike S
We told SMS in ours to use the new VTS for creating new datasets, the old VTS will be used for reading only and won't be used in creating any new datasets. Since the old datasets are cataloged the system knows where to get them. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

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Re: VTS Migration

2010-03-18 Thread Darth Keller
The good news is that once your new allocations are pointed to the new VTS, you can use the HSM recycle to move the data from your 'old' ML2 HSM backup tapes to the new VTS. Your comment about other 'random' data concerns me a little. It reminded me that someone should caution you about

Portable? XMIT Manager

2010-03-18 Thread Angel-Luis Dominguez
I have a lot of mainframe documentation in XMI format so I can have a look at it in any place. But today it is a common practice not allow to install any software product in PC's, specially in big companys. Due to this, I need to carry a laptop to extract xmi files to a plain text, put on a

Question about ENF

2010-03-18 Thread John Norgauer
We have a product that has a routine that is supposed to execute at midnight every day. The routine is not executing and the vendor says that our problem has to do with ENF. This failure only happens in my Sandbox LPAR. The routine executes fine in my production LPAR. Any thoughts on this

Re: Portable? XMIT Manager

2010-03-18 Thread Kirk Wolf
We have been thinking about this for some time and what we would like to write an XMIT tool in Java that would run anywhere. It would have at least a command line interface and a Java Ant interface, and possibly a GUI. If we do it, we will make it open source, but I can't promise a timeframe.

Notify a user if a job ends with non zero RC

2010-03-18 Thread Jim McAlpine
There are probably a number of ways to achieve the above but I'm looking for the best way. Basically if any step in a job ends with a non zero return code, I want to notify a particular user who will not be the submitting user. I've done this in the past but I'm looking for the latest tricks to

Terse for PC

2010-03-18 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Hello, does anyone know about terse for windows? i see a couple of messages mentioning it, but i couldn't find anything else. thanks! Lindy -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: FTP problem

2010-03-18 Thread Howard Brazee
On 18 Mar 2010 02:08:09 -0700, gad...@malam.com (??? ?? ???) wrote: Unix files use just LF as the end of line character Windows files use CR and LF as the end of line character. There may be some options on his Unix machine. For instance, there are editors available on Macs that will save a

Re: Notify a user if a job ends with non zero RC

2010-03-18 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:21:37 + Jim McAlpine jim.mcalp...@gmail.com wrote: :There are probably a number of ways to achieve the above but I'm looking for :the best way. Basically if any step in a job ends with a non zero return :code, I want to notify a particular user who will not be the

Re: Notify a user if a job ends with non zero RC

2010-03-18 Thread Mark T. Regan, K8MTR
If you have SMTP running on your system, you can send the user a e-mail message. At my site we use XMITIP for this purpose all the time.  Mark T. Regan, K8MTR, CTO1 USNR-Retired (1969-1991) - Original Message From: Jim McAlpine jim.mcalp...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent:

Re: HSM utilization of 3490 emulated 9840D tape?

2010-03-18 Thread John Kelly
snip It would appear both tapes have the same amount of data. /snip Dave, Not only does it look like both tapes have the same amount of data but the 9840D only used 189 feet of the 825 feet available, about 23%. of the media. Obviously there's a reason for you to keep the 3490 emulation but

Re: FTP problem

2010-03-18 Thread Hal Merritt
This has been discussed here many times. IIRC, the issue is a parameter on the originating *nix FTP that controls how a 'record' is delimited. You have to go to the originating *nix box and set that FTP parameter to send CRLF instead of just LF. Once you do that, all is well with the world.

Re: Flashcopy

2010-03-18 Thread Lucy Arnold
We clip them to a different name and then bring them online. Lucy Arnold Storage Manager U.C. Davis Medical Center 916-734-5498 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: SDSF DOC for USER -- NOT SYSPROG/SEC ADMIN

2010-03-18 Thread John Kelly
snip IBM's position seems to be that you can hit PFK1, so why do you need a manual /snip and if the tutorial EVER had any usable information, that would be good advise. The only good thing to say about SDSF's tutorial is that it make the manual look good. Jack Kelly 202-502-2390 (Office)

Re: Notify a user if a job ends with non zero RC

2010-03-18 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jim McAlpine Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:22 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Notify a user if a job ends with non zero RC There are probably a number of ways to achieve the

Re: FTP problem

2010-03-18 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: FTP problem On 18 Mar 2010 02:08:09 -0700, gad...@malam.com (??? ?? ???) wrote: Unix

Re: Notify a user if a job ends with non zero RC

2010-03-18 Thread Luis Andrade
Nevertheless, as XMITIP is written in REXX you can always enhance the notication with your own code, or include a step to test the completion codes of each step in a job and send different messages to different users depending on the results. see:

Re: FTP problem

2010-03-18 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Hal Merritt Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:41 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: FTP problem This has been discussed here many times. IIRC, the issue is a parameter on

Re: Notify a user if a job ends with non zero RC

2010-03-18 Thread Luis Andrade
By the way... If you in z/OS 1.9 or above; If you like programming with REXX; Take a look at the new SDSF interface with REXX... You can, for instance, check your job output hourly, as you would do with SDSF panels and check for results... then inform your users if anything goes wrong... even

Re: Notify a user if a job ends with non zero RC

2010-03-18 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jim McAlpine Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:22 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Notify a user if a job ends with non zero RC There are probably a number of ways to achieve the above

Re: Question about ENF

2010-03-18 Thread Rob Scott
John, I would advise asking the vendor which ENF event code they are listening for as there is not one for midnight. However, I can put forward a guess that they *might* be listening for event code 37 (SMF accounting events) and then examining the time when their ENF listener exit gets

Any tools for managing z/OS system software products inventory?

2010-03-18 Thread Mark T. Regan, K8MTR
For almost 20 years we've been using a homegrown application that runs on one of our z/VM LPARS to manage the inventory of the various z/OS system software products we have installed. Since it looks like z/VM may be going away at my site in a few years, except for the ones used to manage our

Re: FTP problem

2010-03-18 Thread Hal Merritt
Where/how, exactly, are these options set? Is there a z/os client action/command that will work? For example, can I: FTP unixserver USER ... QUOTE ascii_upload_enable=YES QUOTE ascii_download_enable=YES GET anyoldfile -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Question about ENF

2010-03-18 Thread John Norgauer
Rob - You are correct. The vendor is looking for event code 37. I have since found out that we do have CA-ENF running on our production LPAR. The person responsible for the CA products was not too helpful about the CA-ENF. What is the significance of event code 37 and the SMF data?

Re: FTP problem

2010-03-18 Thread Ray Pearce
There is a pair of GNU utilities called dos2unix and unix2dos which fix up the line endings. If you can't find these on the Unix box then you can get them as part of CygWin on your Windows machine. If this needs to be initiated from the z/OS end then perhaps it could be run via ssh? I've never

Re: Any tools for managing z/OS system software products inventory?

2010-03-18 Thread Jim McAlpine
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Mark T. Regan, K8MTR netsfw-ibmm...@yahoo.com wrote: For almost 20 years we've been using a homegrown application that runs on one of our z/VM LPARS to manage the inventory of the various z/OS system software products we have installed. Since it looks like

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - CLEAN UP OF BACKUP TAPES

2010-03-18 Thread willie bunter
Too late.  I didn't see the warning before I entered the DELVOL command.  I am checking with IBM to see if the tape can be reinstated in HSM. --- On Wed, 3/17/10, Staller, Allan allan.stal...@kbm1.com wrote: From: Staller, Allan allan.stal...@kbm1.com Subject: Re: DFHSM QUESTION - CLEAN UP OF

Re: Question about ENF

2010-03-18 Thread Scott Rowe
I don't believe Rob was referring to CA-ENF, there is an ENF function in z/OS. John Norgauer john.norga...@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu 03/18/10 12:15 PM Rob - You are correct. The vendor is looking for event code 37. I have since found out that we do have CA-ENF running on our production LPAR. The

Re: Question about ENF

2010-03-18 Thread Rob Scott
ENF is a z/OS supplied service that enables tasks to listen for certain events that occur in the system. Normally these are significant events or configuration changes (eg new WLM policy, device varied on/offline etc etc). (I do not know about CA-ENF however I would imagine that it provides

Re: Portable? XMIT Manager

2010-03-18 Thread Tony Harminc
On 18 March 2010 11:03, Angel-Luis Dominguez angel_luis_dominguez_mar...@yahoo.es wrote: I im thinkg in the possibility to build XMIT MANAGER as a portable application, more or less in the form of applications in   http://portableapps.com/ I think this use of portable is quite different from

Re: FTP problem

2010-03-18 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Hal Merritt Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 11:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: FTP problem Where/how, exactly, are these options set? Is there a z/os client

Re: FTP problem

2010-03-18 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:36:55 +0200, G+D+J+ B+N% #B+J+ wrote: None of our users currently use USS. I would like to avoid it if possible. Avoiding a possible solution to a problem fits the definiton of bigotry. When the file arrives at OS, what are the line separators? If they are, in fact, 0x15

Re: FTP problem

2010-03-18 Thread Kirk Wolf
You could use PuTTY psftp on Windows along with (free) Co:Z SFTP for z/OS: c:\ psftp u...@myzos psftp ls /+mode=text,linerule=lf psftp ls /+recfm=fb,lrecl=1028,space=cyl.3.1 psftp put test.txt //HLQ.TEST.DATA Setting linerule is actually unnecessary, since the default in text mode is flexible,

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - CLEAN UP OF BACKUP TAPES

2010-03-18 Thread Staller, Allan
Check the HSM Audit command for tape/file reinstatement... Too many variations to point out in an email. Check the FM's HTH, snip Too late.  I didn't see the warning before I entered the DELVOL command.  I am checking with IBM to see if the tape can be reinstated in HSM. /snip snip Agreed.

Re: Encryption software?

2010-03-18 Thread Revard, Thomas (T)
What is it that you want to encrypt? TKLM is IBMs recommended (cost) replacement for EKM (free). I believe that it is nothing more than a key manager and serves up keys to whatever hardware that requests them. In our environment our Java EKM serves up keys and utilizes RACF as the backend

Re: Portable? XMIT Manager

2010-03-18 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:35:40 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: On 18 March 2010 11:03, Angel-Luis Dominguez wrote: I im thinkg in the possibility to build XMIT MANAGER as a portable application, more or less in the form of applications in   http://portableapps.com/ I think this use of portable is

Re: FTP problem

2010-03-18 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 11:43 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: FTP problem On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:36:55 +0200, G+D+J+ B+N% #B+J+ wrote: None of our

Re: Notify a user if a job ends with non zero RC

2010-03-18 Thread Barkow, Eileen
I wrote an email messaging system that triggers off IBM Systems Automation trapped msgs- runs clists which invoke a proc invoking SMTP with custom msgs and userids as per msg. However, any triggering off msgs would depend upon the msgs being written to the console and I do not think that the

Re: FTP problem

2010-03-18 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Kirk Wolf Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 11:43 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: FTP problem snip But if you already have an HFS file on z/OS and you want to convert it to

Re: FTP problem

2010-03-18 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:43:20 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: But if you already have an HFS file on z/OS and you want to convert it to a dataset, you can use the todsn command on z/OS: cat ascii.txt | todsn -s ISO8859-1 //HLQ.TEST.DATA Again, the default is to recognize lf, crlf, or cr as a line

Re: FTP problem

2010-03-18 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 12:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: FTP problem On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:43:20 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: But if you already

Re: Any tools for managing z/OS system software products inventory?

2010-03-18 Thread Barkow, Eileen
One of our users has been running McKinney DP Manager for years, but I think that they also have a full blown, more expensive version of the product. We have the cheaper one. New York City has spent tens of millions of dollars or more on an atrocity known as 'REMEDY', which is basically just a

Re: FTP problem

2010-03-18 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Avoiding a possible solution to a problem fits the definiton of bigotry. Especially if the product is 'free', and you can set up a canned procedure to do it. I recently showed our Canadian accounting team how to use FTP, replacing their cumbersome dependency on TSO and IND$FILE through RHUMBA.

Re: Portable? XMIT Manager

2010-03-18 Thread Hal Merritt
USB stick based solutions are a good thing for the weary warrior just trying to do a job in spite of the 'services' of the PC folks. However, such solutions have been drawing attention from both the auditors and miscreants as an attack vector. -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: Notify a user if a job ends with non zero RC

2010-03-18 Thread Ted MacNEIL
However, any triggering off msgs would depend upon the msgs being written to the console and I do not think that the IEF142I msg containing the condition code could or should be outputted to a systems console. IIRC, and it's been years since I've been involved in automation, you can catch the

Re: Notify a user if a job ends with non zero RC

2010-03-18 Thread Barkow, Eileen
I think that with IBM SA, the msg has to first be routed to the console in order to be trapped. I have had problems trapping msgs which were being suppressed in the MPF list and had to un-supress them. But even if IEF142I could be trapped it would obviously have to be done for only a

Re: Any tools for managing z/OS system software products inventory?

2010-03-18 Thread Luis Andrade
Isn't your homegrown application portable to z/OS ? Anyway, take a look at Tivoli Asset discovery: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/asset-discovery-zos/index.html You can also include your penguin machines and manage them with Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed.

Re: DFSMSrmm Tape encryption

2010-03-18 Thread Justin Eastman
DFSMSdss supports encryption for DUMPs. I believe you need the software encryption facility on your system and then a license to allow DSS to use it. Usage is explained in the z/OS V1R11.0 DFSMSdss Storage Administration guide. DFSMSdss can use the following types of host-based encryption to

Re: Terse for PC

2010-03-18 Thread Natarajan Mohan
Lindy, You would have to login to yahoo groups for hercules-390 @ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hercules-390 and go to files. You will find terse.zip file containing executables for windows/dos/mac/linux etc. HTH, Natarajan On 3/18/2010 at 8:28 AM, in message

IDC3009I RC=4 RSN=108 (from IGGCSI00)

2010-03-18 Thread Joachim Appel
I am using CSI (catalog search interface) to obtain some catalog information for a data set. For some data sets IGGCSI00 returns with RC4 and reason code 108 and also message IEF705I is issued. Description of IDC3009I RC=4 RSN=108 says the catalog could not be dynamically allocated in the catalog

Re: IDC3009I RC=4 RSN=108 (from IGGCSI00)

2010-03-18 Thread Rick Fochtman
-snip-- I am using CSI (catalog search interface) to obtain some catalog information for a data set. For some data sets IGGCSI00 returns with RC4 and reason code 108 and also message IEF705I is issued. Description of

Re: Terse for PC

2010-03-18 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:20:38 -0700, Natarajan Mohan wrote: You would have to login to yahoo groups for hercules-390 @ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hercules-390 and go to files. You will find terse.zip file containing executables for windows/dos/mac/linux etc. Both terse and unterse? Ummm.

Feature-by-feature comparisons for ISV vs IBM software?

2010-03-18 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Has anyone here seen or heard of a place on the net where one could view various ISV vs IBM software product *features* side by side? I am particularly interested in comparing IBM Fault Analyzer and File Manager versus competing tools on a feature basis. Not interested in comparing cost or

Geting Unable to SEND Message in TSO

2010-03-18 Thread Lizette Koehler
I am not sure what this is trying to tell me. Does this require TSO be cycled? Or just the TSO USERID logoff and back on? IKJ579I CANNOT EXECUTE SEND Explanation: The SEND command handling routines are unable to perform their functions for one of the following reasons: * There is an

Re: DS8700 Feature FlashCopy SE

2010-03-18 Thread Dan Murphy
Dave, If you haven't found it yet, here's an excellent Redpaper on FlashCopy SE: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp4368.pdf You're right, FC SE will help you out a lot with your backups. And your fears about the repository are true. Be conservative about your storage estimates. If

Re: Geting Unable to SEND Message in TSO

2010-03-18 Thread Staller, Allan
1) user logoff/logon and retry 2) run TSO SYNC Retry. If retry fails repeat step1 and retry again. 3) download Broadcast utils from CBT tape. Run as required. Check for the obvious, abends, dumps, BROADCAST full (usually caused by notifys to invalid/or non-logonable UIDS), etc. snip I am not

Re: FTP problem

2010-03-18 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
The problem is, IMHO, that the file is stored on Windows with LF delimiters. This is probably not due to a previous FTP transfer from Unix to Windows, but some other way. The file exists and cannot be changed. Now the question is, how to transfer it to z/OS? I don't believe that the Windows FTP

Re: Geting Unable to SEND Message in TSO

2010-03-18 Thread Lizette Koehler
Allan, Thanks. We have on Brodcast dataset (SYS1.BRODCAST) and we have just installed ESP which has over loaded this file. I am trying to get my team to go with individual Brodcasts which I believe will correct my problem. I just don't understand why IBM cannot do better with these older

Re: FTP problem

2010-03-18 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
sorry all, should have read all the other posts. if FTPing such a file with LF using text transfer, the 0x0a will probably not trigger a new line on the z/OS dataset, correct? so the single 0x0a does not mean new line to the windows FTP client, and several lines of windows are combined into

Re: Terse for PC

2010-03-18 Thread Ted MacNEIL
For that matter, can terse be used for interchange between z/OS and z/VM? PDS[E] -- SFS directory? Correct me if I'm wrong; didn't terse start out on VM (pre-z)? - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Feature-by-feature comparisons for ISV vs IBM software?

2010-03-18 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:03:20 -0400 Farley, Peter x23353 peter.far...@broadridge.com wrote: :Has anyone here seen or heard of a place on the net where one could view :various ISV vs IBM software product *features* side by side? :I am particularly interested in comparing IBM Fault Analyzer and

Re: Terse for PC

2010-03-18 Thread Tony Harminc
On 18 March 2010 14:57, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:20:38 -0700, Natarajan Mohan wrote: You would have to login to yahoo groups for hercules-390 @ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hercules-390 and go to files. You will find terse.zip file containing

Re: Geting Unable to SEND Message in TSO

2010-03-18 Thread Staller, Allan
Sam did a great job with the BC Utils. They can find the offenders and clean them up. (A sync may also work, but no guarantees). They are worth the download (IMO), even if you go with individual BC datasets. Good Luck, snip We have on Brodcast dataset (SYS1.BRODCAST) and we have just installed

Re: Notify a user if a job ends with non zero RC

2010-03-18 Thread carlos roberto visconde
You can configure Jes2 and TCP/IP - SMTP to send e-mails. In Jes2: JES2PARM - using a class of impression: OUTCLASS(F) OUTPUT=PRINT,TRKCELL=NO,OUTDISP=WRITE execute a Job: //JOBNAME JOB--- //STEPNAME EXEC PGM=IEBGENER //SYSUT2 DD SYSOUT=(F,TCPSMTP) //SYSUT1 DD * helo

Re: Terse for PC

2010-03-18 Thread Natarajan Mohan
Gil, I have not tried to decompress a file created using terse on PC. But on OS/2 Days terse was used to send dump's to IBM. I did a quick -h on terse and found the following... Let me do a test of PDS and let you know. I:\tersepcterse -h

Re: Terse for PC

2010-03-18 Thread Natarajan Mohan
Paul, I was successful in decompressing a sequential tersed file with PACK option created on the mainframe to PC. I ftp'd the file to PC with binary option. This converted the file content from EBCDIC to ASCII when decompressed. I:\tersepc\Dcollect..\terse dcollect.dcollog.tersed dcollect

Re: Terse for PC

2010-03-18 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
eamacn...@yahoo.ca (Ted MacNEIL) writes: Correct me if I'm wrong; didn't terse start out on VM (pre-z)? HUFF/PUFF predated terse (done in YKT on cms from the 70s) ... mentioned here http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/browse?fn=PACKEDft=PROB some number of 1991 posts that mention applications/tools

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