Re: Mainframe Applications Development using a modern GUI

2010-05-14 Thread IBM MAIN
And of course there is Compuware Eclipse based offerings. On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Chase, John wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Eyal Rothfeld > > > > Does anybody know any new technologies which can be used in order to > > develop

Re: Benchmarking the IPL

2010-05-14 Thread Michael Cleary
Greetings, Generally speaking as I understand it CPU capacity is not a major factor in the duration of an IPL. It is mostly IO bound. Have you checked out the following somewhat recent IBM Redbook? System z Mean Time to Recovery Best Practices http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247816.htm

Re: Anyone using TCPAccess?

2010-05-14 Thread Norman Hollander on DesertWiz
I would open a support issue. I wasn't aware of that status in 2008. It still runs on our systems. Regardless, you should get help with whatever problem you are experiencing. znor...@ca.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of

Re: Anyone using TCPAccess?

2010-05-14 Thread Frank Swarbrick
So it was functionally stabilized but not operationally stabilized? :-) On 5/14/2010 at 5:26 PM, in message , Leif Rundberget wrote: > The CA-TCPaccess software was functionally stabilized in April 2008. A year > later we noticed stability issues with the software. And many third party > softwa

Re: Anyone using TCPAccess?

2010-05-14 Thread Leif Rundberget
The CA-TCPaccess software was functionally stabilized in April 2008. A year later we noticed stability issues with the software. And many third party software products don't support it anymore. I just got through migrating from CA-TCPaccess to IBM Communications Server the beginning of this mont

Another RACFTGT rant

2010-05-14 Thread R.S.
See the following exempt from the RACFTGT job (part of ServerPac): SETROPTS + GENERIC(DATASET STARTED XFACILIT PROGRAM + SDSF OPERCMDS JESSPOOL) + and guess - what wrong with that? (The answer is below) below below below Answer: PROGRAM class. This class

Re: Finding a member

2010-05-14 Thread Howard Brazee
On 14 May 2010 10:13:50 -0700, john_j_ke...@ao.uscourts.gov (John Kelly) wrote: >or give the retired person a call. That worked. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.e

Re: Finding a member

2010-05-14 Thread McKown, John
I don't have it, but I think that FDREPORT(?) can do scans of PDSes and listing of member names. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell john.mck...@healthm

Re: Finding a member

2010-05-14 Thread John Kelly
I need to find a PDS member, and I know it starts with QA05. Trouble is, I don't know the name of the PDS. As suggested scan the possible JCL/PROC libraries. If that doesn't find anything, either RECALL that user's DSN, scan SMF, eg SMF21, maybe SMF42.6, SMF42.21, or give the retired person

Re: Finding a member

2010-05-14 Thread Charles Mills
Wild-carded datasetnames? I don't think z/OS supports directly but there are clever things one can do with Rexx, etc. Perhaps there is something on the CBT tape. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee Sent: F

Re: Finding a member

2010-05-14 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Fri, 14 May 2010 10:30:32 -0600, Howard Brazee wrote: >I need to find a PDS member, and I know it starts with QA05. Trouble >is, I don't know the name of the PDS. (The person who created it >retired). I suspect the PDS is archived off. > >What do you recommend? > Option 3.4 has a membe

Re: Finding a member

2010-05-14 Thread Howard Brazee
On 14 May 2010 09:46:16 -0700, charl...@mcn.org (Charles Mills) wrote: >Would a search of JCL libraries for 'QA05' possibly turn up a reference to >it? I looked in the obvious candidate PDSes.Is there a way to submit a batch search with bigger wild cards?

Re: DFSORT Fill character

2010-05-14 Thread Frank Yaeger
Captain Paralytic wrote on 05/14/2010 09:24:59 AM: >If I do something like > > OUTREC FIELDS=(1,80,576:X) > >then I will have an output record filled with spaces between >position 81 and position 576 > >If I do > > OUTREC FIELDS=(1,80,576:C'#') > >I'll get a # in position 576 but 81-575 will be sp

Re: Finding a member

2010-05-14 Thread Charles Mills
Would a search of JCL libraries for 'QA05' possibly turn up a reference to it? Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 9:31 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Finding a member I n

Finding a member

2010-05-14 Thread Howard Brazee
I need to find a PDS member, and I know it starts with QA05. Trouble is, I don't know the name of the PDS. (The person who created it retired). I suspect the PDS is archived off. What do you recommend? -- For IBM-MAIN subsc

Re: Benchmarking the IPL

2010-05-14 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>I'm debating with management right now on the distance between our data centers being too close and I'm collecting information from anyone I can talk to about how far apart others have their's. I've worked at two shops, and they were at (potential) extremes. One had the primary just north of Tor

Re: Benchmarking the IPL

2010-05-14 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Jeffrey Deaver wrote: >I'm NOT looking for a mass response on data center distances. Only one mass response from me: If there is a fence between the two data centers, then they are too NEAR !!! ;-D Is it already Friday? Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht -

Re: Heads Up: APAR IO11698 - New SAF FACILITY class definition required for any SMP/E use

2010-05-14 Thread R.S.
Edward Jaffe pisze: Edward Jaffe wrote: The profile you create depends upon whether your shop uses the Enhanced Generic Naming feature. See: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ichza4a1/A.3.2 http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ichza4a1/A.3.3 I j

Re: Heads Up: APAR IO11698 - New SAF FACILITY class definition required for any SMP/E use

2010-05-14 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe > > Greg Shirey wrote: > > Okay, my RACF is a little rusty, but isn't there a difference between a > > profile define as 'GIM.*' and one defined as 'GIM.**'? The IBM APAR > > advises to rdefine GIM.* (and

Re: Benchmarking the IPL

2010-05-14 Thread Jeffrey Deaver
Obviously, that was an email forwarding mistake. I'm NOT looking for a mass response on data center distances. Thanks. Jeffrey Deaver, Engineer Systems Engineering jeffrey.dea...@securian.com 651-665-4231(v) IS - "Creating competitive advantage with technology. Providing service that excels." OS

Re: Heads Up: APAR IO11698 - New SAF FACILITY class definition required for any SMP/E use

2010-05-14 Thread Edward Jaffe
Edward Jaffe wrote: The profile you create depends upon whether your shop uses the Enhanced Generic Naming feature. See: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ichza4a1/A.3.2 http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ichza4a1/A.3.3 I just read these sectio

Re: Benchmarking the IPL

2010-05-14 Thread Jeffrey Deaver
Tom - General numbers here, but our 449 MIP z9 2096-S02 IPLs in about 5 minutes and the new z10 CBU machine we have at 26 mips, a 2098-A01 when its not turned up, manages to still IPL the same processes in 15 minutes or so. Hope that helps. Say.. if you have a second... can you share where your

Re: Heads Up: APAR IO11698 - New SAF FACILITY class definition required for any SMP/E use

2010-05-14 Thread Edward Jaffe
Greg Shirey wrote: Okay, my RACF is a little rusty, but isn't there a difference between a profile define as 'GIM.*' and one defined as 'GIM.**'? The IBM APAR advises to rdefine GIM.* (and echoed by Mark Z), but JC and Ed Jaffe are advising GIM.**. The profile you create depends upon whethe

Re: Heads Up: APAR IO11698 - New SAF FACILITY class definition required for any SMP/E use

2010-05-14 Thread R.S.
Greg Shirey pisze: Okay, my RACF is a little rusty, but isn't there a difference between a profile define as 'GIM.*' and one defined as 'GIM.**'? The IBM APAR advises to rdefine GIM.* (and echoed by Mark Z), but JC and Ed Jaffe are advising GIM.**. Actually no. However you shouldn't define bo

Re: Friday's Odd Question

2010-05-14 Thread Daniel Allen
It is working on our z/OS 1.9, 1.10 and 1.11 systems. On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht < elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za> wrote: > Daniel McLaughlin wrote: > > >What is the highest level of Z/OS you've run CICS 1.3 on? We're on Z1.7 > and > it's running fine, but have to upgrad

Re: Heads Up: APAR IO11698 - New SAF FACILITY class definition required for any SMP/E use

2010-05-14 Thread Greg Shirey
Okay, my RACF is a little rusty, but isn't there a difference between a profile define as 'GIM.*' and one defined as 'GIM.**'? The IBM APAR advises to rdefine GIM.* (and echoed by Mark Z), but JC and Ed Jaffe are advising GIM.**. Thanks in advance, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Co. -Original M

Benchmarking the IPL

2010-05-14 Thread Kelman, Tom
My management wants to benchmark the IPL process to see how long it will take at various levels of MIPS, MSUs, or whatever measurement criteria can be used. The purpose of this is to determine what the smallest z10 is we can contract for our DR site that will IPL in a reasonable time frame. The

Re: Friday's Odd Question

2010-05-14 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Daniel McLaughlin wrote: >What is the highest level of Z/OS you've run CICS 1.3 on? We're on Z1.7 and it's running fine, but have to upgrade the OS later this year. Look at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21207399 and (for 1.7) http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS

Friday's Odd Question

2010-05-14 Thread Daniel McLaughlin
What is the highest level of Z/OS you've run CICS 1.3 on? We're on Z1.7 and it's running fine, but have to upgrade the OS later this year. TIA -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

RV: Netview FTP xFNAME RDJFCB MACRO = 00000004

2010-05-14 Thread MONTERO ROMERO, ENRIQUE ELOI
Hi Bertus, In fact, it has my userid in front, but in the e-mail I cannot put it due to internal security policies, it is being substituted by MY.FILE.TO.SEND. In the sysout it replaces the filename correctly as it is created in the catalog. Regards, Enrique. _

Re: Netview FTP xFNAME RDJFCB MACRO = 00000004

2010-05-14 Thread Lizette Koehler
I found an old PTF for Netview V2.2 (1995) PTF List: Release 220 : UN86028 available 95/12/29 (F512 ) Release 230 : UN86029 available 95/12/29 (F512 ) Parent APAR: Child APAR list: ERROR DESCRIPTION: Transferring to an SMS managed VSAM dataset, using the NFTP sup- plied

PLO and program checks

2010-05-14 Thread Binyamin Dissen
It is not clear to me from the manual if PLO does a trial instruction verifying that the storage areas can be changes. For example, if PLO.CSDST is issued, are the possible results (assuming that nothing screws around with the page tables): 1. 0C4 on operand1 2. Operand1 stored, 0c4 on operand2

Re: Heads Up: APAR IO11698 - New SAF FACILITY class definition required for any SMP/E use

2010-05-14 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe > > Mark Zelden wrote: > > Not if you define only 1 profile as GIM.*. I suspect that will suffice for > > at least 95% of the shops out there. We've already discussed the > > unlikelihood of shops desiri

Netview FTP xFNAME RDJFCB MACRO = 00000004

2010-05-14 Thread MONTERO ROMERO, ENRIQUE ELOI
Hi team, Here once again with another issue. :-) Using the Tivoli Netview FTP to send a file from node A to node B. The JCL //STEP0001 EXEC NFTPX //FILE1 DD DSN=MY.FILE.TO.SEND,DISP=SHR //SYSINDD * FUNCTION=ADD

Re: Migration of RACF database

2010-05-14 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Aayush Tiwari wrote: >Thanks for the information Barry, will this create the differences in the >access list of various similar type of dataset and class profiles. Yes. Take a long and hard look at all the output datasets. Use side by side comparision. For example on one output you will see, s