Re: CFRM formating IXCl1DSU Item name(connect) number(1-255)

2010-09-09 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
"gnalu" wrote in message news:<5a3fe851-b22c-4c35-9841-01b57f21a...@y31g2000vbt.googlegroups.com> ... > On 7 sep, 13:49, gnalu wrote: > > Can somebody explain me what is a connection and who I can estimate > > howmuch I need ? > > I didn't find an good explanation int the "setting up a sysplex bo

Re: Archive login rejects

2010-09-09 Thread Barbara Nitz
>Anyone else having "password rejected" problems on the archive ?. >Has happened twice in the last week, and now it won't let me in at all. >Might be Darren giving me a (not so) subtle hint. Must be Darren giving you a hint :-) I am always logged in to the ibm-main archives and was also able to g

Archive login rejects

2010-09-09 Thread Shane
Anyone else having "password rejected" problems on the archive ?. Has happened twice in the last week, and now it won't let me in at all. Might be Darren giving me a (not so) subtle hint. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sig

Re: O/T IBM to Ship World's Fastest Computer Chip

2010-09-09 Thread Ed Gould
--- On Wed, 9/8/10, Mike Schwab wrote: ---snip Just got a good example of journalistic incompetence. http://twitpic.com/2lqaqh >>> >>> The accompanying map is clipped, but appears to locate Bornholm on the >>> western side Sweden. Must be a secret astronaut t

Re: JES2 vs. JES3

2010-09-09 Thread WalterR
WalterR wrote: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In <1792f2.291be9b9.39b92...@aol.com>, on 09/08/2010 at 01:30 PM, Ed Finnell said: Huh? HASP was the efforts of NASA Houston and came out as Half ASP. Do you have a citation for that? I never saw the term before I suggested "HASP is

Re: Where is APF documented?

2010-09-09 Thread Chris Craddock
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: > On 9 September 2010 12:39, Chris Craddock wrote: > > > ... I'd like a dollar for every loadlibrary that has AC(1) sprayed around > like confetti... > > > > Every one of those wished-for dollars is a potential exposure. >

Re: Disable Wait After Maintenance

2010-09-09 Thread Mark Zelden
IPLTEXT I'm sure one of the PTF had a ++ACTION hold to rebuild. It's a bad idea to apply mass maintenance and not look at ACTION holds (in particular) closely. Of course all holds should be reviewed because even doc holds sometimes contain actions (although they shouldn't). Mark -- Mark Zelden

Fw: [TSO-REXX] Is CLIST on its way out?

2010-09-09 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Sorry, this may be my ISP faul. It was intended for the list, and I'm not sure which one. - I'm a SuperHero with neither powers, nor motivation! Kimota! -Original Message- From: "Ted MacNEIL" Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 22:55:21 To: Paul Gilmartin Reply-To: eamacn...@yahoo.ca Subject: Re: [TS

Re: Possible DFSORT problem?

2010-09-09 Thread William M Klein
John, You don't mention whether your Enterprise COBOL 3.4 program was compiled with FASTSRT or not. My guess is that it was. You might try recompiling and running it with NOFASTSRT. You said (later in the thread) that you have created a PMR, but trying with NOFASTSRT might (or might not) hel

Re: EMC DLm Memory Leak Heads Up

2010-09-09 Thread Mike Schwab
We had our EMC hang July 7/8 and we are apply patches for memory leaks. On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Mark Young wrote: > We had the EXACT same problem.  Funny, it seemed to take our EMC service > folks a couple of weeks to figure this out.  We put the 2.1.2p2 on a week > ago and so far no prob

Re: EMC DLm Memory Leak Heads Up

2010-09-09 Thread Mark Young
We had the EXACT same problem. Funny, it seemed to take our EMC service folks a couple of weeks to figure this out. We put the 2.1.2p2 on a week ago and so far no problems. (Although it takes a while for the memory leak to show itself.) ---

Re: Disable Wait After Maintenance

2010-09-09 Thread Dazzo, Matt
Thanks to all who responded, I took pieces from each response and put it all together. It was the IPLTEXT that was the problem. Matt -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 4:23 PM

Re: Disable Wait After Maintenance

2010-09-09 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 16:07:43 -0400, Jim Mulder wrote: > >++ HOLD(UA54213) SYS FMID(HBB7760) REASON(ACTION) DATE(10133) > COMMENT > > This apar fix modifies modules IEAIPL00 and IEAIPL01. Both > parts need to have the same assemble date when they are applied > to a system, otherwise a

Re: JES2 vs. JES3

2010-09-09 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
previous ibm-main (at google) references were direct couple at la science center and ucla (that morphed into ASP on 360) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#3 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#7 ibm 7090 wiki page mentions two 7094/7044 direct couple systems at caltech/jpl http://en.wikipe

Re: Where is APF documented?

2010-09-09 Thread Tony Harminc
On 9 September 2010 11:20, Charles Mills wrote: > Thanks, Walt. That clarifies things. > >> wasn't your question more about what a program running APF-authorized >> can do? > > Nope. Not at all. As I have said several times now I have a good working > understanding of the practical effects APF-aut

Re: Moving JES2 NJE function from one system to another in a MAS?

2010-09-09 Thread Norman Hollander on DesertWiz
Mark- Mark Z. has it right. You could set it up so both MAS members are defined so that they each have connections to the other NJE nodes. Good for throughput, since you can have other nodes send to both halves of the MAS, and good for availability, since each half is active in case one side is d

Re: Moving JES2 NJE function from one system to another in a MAS?

2010-09-09 Thread Mark T. Regan, K8MTR
Mark, My answers are just after your questions: 1) Is this something that was done prior to acquisition and you just need to documented it, or was it never set up to do this before? As far as I know, it has not been done before. 2) Are both LPARs in the same MAS? Yes they are 3) Are there

Re: Moving JES2 NJE function from one system to another in a MAS?

2010-09-09 Thread Mark T. Regan, K8MTR
Norm, Yes, these two are in the same MAS. What we want to do is to set up a process to move NJE in case of an extended outage on the owning NJE LPAR. Right now this JES2 MAS has a couple of SNA/NJE external connections with business partners. We will also want to do the same for TCP/NJE, but

Re: Where is APF documented?

2010-09-09 Thread Tony Harminc
On 9 September 2010 12:39, Chris Craddock wrote: > True. One point to note is that the AC attribute has no effect whatsoever on > programs that are not job step programs, but I'd like a dollar for every > loadlibrary that has AC(1) sprayed around like confetti. A related point is that (duh) the

Multi-Factor Authentication

2010-09-09 Thread Sumi, Joseph J. (CMS/CTR) (CTR)
I posed this question to the RACF list but want to hit this audience: Does anyone use Multi-Factor Authentication with RSA on the mainframe ? If so, please share your experience and the product you are using. You can email me off list at: js...@cms.hhs.gov Thanks! Joe -

Re: Moving JES2 NJE function from one system to another in a MAS?

2010-09-09 Thread Norman Hollander on DesertWiz
It's not that straight forward. Are the systems in a MAS? You can setup JES2 to have the NJE definitions on both systems, and have the connections started on both, or on one and waiting on the other. Several different options depending on what you are trying to do. -Original Message- Fr

Re: z990s still running?

2010-09-09 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of R.S. > > Timothy Sipples pisze: > > Is anybody assuming that people (and thus organizations) always and > > everywhere act rationally? I hope not. :-) Lots of actions and attitudes > > are irrational, and some of those

Re: Where is APF documented?

2010-09-09 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Stan Weyman > > >In other words we will never, EVER shoot you in the foot but will make it quite easy for you to > shoot yourself. Does that about cover it? "We'll provide you with a gun and all the ammo you wan

Moving JES2 NJE function from one system to another in a MAS?

2010-09-09 Thread Mark T. Regan, K8MTR
We've never had to do this before, but since acquiring these two JES2 (we're a JES3 shop) systems via an acquisition, we need to set up a process to move NJE from one JES2 LPAR to another. Can anyone supply me with the commands to move NJE? Thanks, Mark Regan ---

Re: Disable Wait After Maintenance

2010-09-09 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Dazzo, Matt > Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 2:16 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Disable Wait After Maintenance > > I installed z1.11 and it's up and running in our sand b

Re: Disable Wait After Maintenance

2010-09-09 Thread Mark Jacobs
Did you re-write the IPLTEXT from SYS1.SAMPLIB on the target volume? Waitstate 75 rsn 06 says, The IPL text on the volume used to IPL did not match the nucleus code resident on that volume. Mark Jacobs -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Dazzo, Matt Sent

Re: Disable Wait After Maintenance

2010-09-09 Thread Craig Pace
IPLTEXT "Dazzo, Matt" Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List 09/09/2010 02:17 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject Disable Wait After Maintenance I installed z1.11 and it's up and running in our sand box with no problems. There wer

Re: Disable Wait After Maintenance

2010-09-09 Thread Ken Porowski
Did you redo the IPLTEXT after the maint? WAIT075 RC06 The IPL text on the volume used to IPL did not match the nucleus code resident on that volume -Original Message- Dazzo, Matt I installed z1.11 and it's up and running in our sand box with no problems. There were approximately 310 PT

Disable Wait After Maintenance

2010-09-09 Thread Dazzo, Matt
I installed z1.11 and it's up and running in our sand box with no problems. There were approximately 310 PTF's that were in the smpe zones not applied, so I ran an smpe apply with no issues to an alternate set of res volumes. When attempting to ipl from the alternate res volume I get a disabled

Re: Disable Wait After Maintenance

2010-09-09 Thread Clifford McNeill
Matt, Use volser TZ11A1 in the verify parm and elsewhere VERIFY(TZ11A1) Cliff McNeill > Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 16:08:51 -0400 > From: mda...@pch.com > Subject: Re: Disable Wait After Maintenance > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > > I had that originally, the job asked me to over write TZ11P1, so I >

Re: Disable Wait After Maintenance

2010-09-09 Thread Ward, Mike S
We had the same problem. A ptf required that new IPL code is required on the IPL'Able volume. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 2:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Disa

Re: Disable Wait After Maintenance

2010-09-09 Thread Staller, Allan
>From the MVS Systems Codes: xrr00www 00600075 is Wait State 75 Reason code 6 00900074 is Wait State 74 Reason code 9 >From the description for Wait State 74: 09 Code was loaded from a new restart PSW. This code will be loaded when a restart is issued on a processor that has a zero pref

Re: Disable Wait After Maintenance

2010-09-09 Thread Dazzo, Matt
John, thanks for the sample. My jcl used is below, I got cc=12. Volser=TZ11A1 is the volser with the maint, my current running res volume is TZ11P1 without maint. Is this jcl correct? tks //STEP001 EXEC PGM=ICKDSF, // REGION=2M //S

Re: Disable Wait After Maintenance

2010-09-09 Thread Dazzo, Matt
I had that originally, the job asked me to over write TZ11P1, so I terminated. Didn't want to write over the ipl text on the volser with no maint. *05 ICK21836D IPL TEXT EXISTS ON TZ11P1. REPLY U TO OVERLAY, ELSE T So you are saying to setup like this, that will over write the TZ11P1 volser.

Re: Disable Wait After Maintenance

2010-09-09 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Dazzo, Matt > Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 2:57 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Disable Wait After Maintenance > > John, thanks for the sample. My jcl used is below,

Re: Disable Wait After Maintenance

2010-09-09 Thread Jim Mulder
> I installed z1.11 and it's up and running in our sand box with no > problems. There were approximately 310 PTF's that were in the smpe > zones not applied, so I ran an smpe apply with no issues to an > alternate set of res volumes. When attempting to ipl from the > alternate res volume I get

Re: Disable Wait After Maintenance

2010-09-09 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Dazzo, Matt > Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 3:09 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Disable Wait After Maintenance > > I had that originally, the job asked me to over wri

Re: Disable Wait After Maintenance

2010-09-09 Thread Michael Wickman
I use a steplib of the linklib pds on the new ipl volume. Use volser for the A1 volume on all three locations. Mike Wickman -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Dazzo, Matt Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 3:09 PM To: IBM

Re: Where is APF documented?

2010-09-09 Thread Andy Wood
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 09:58:19 -0500, Walt Farrell wrote: . . . >And all this ignores programs that run in supervisor state or system key, >which is very closely related to running APF-authorized. > Included in the breed of programs that reside in APF-authorized libraries, are *not* link-edited

Re: Moving JES2 NJE function from one system to another in a MAS?

2010-09-09 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 10:57:52 -0700, Mark T. Regan, K8MTR wrote: >We've never had to do this before, but since acquiring these two JES2 (we're a >JES3 shop) systems via an acquisition, we need to set up a process to move NJE >from one JES2 LPAR to another. Can anyone supply me with the commands to

Re: Where is APF documented?

2010-09-09 Thread Chris Craddock
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Charles Mills wrote: > Yeah, it's documented "bottom-up" and in the wrong place. APF is not an > "authorized assembler service." APF authorization is in the realm of > operations and security, not assembler programming. Sure, it impacts > assembler programs and pro

Re: Where is APF documented?

2010-09-09 Thread Stan Weyman
thank you for clarifying that Walt! Stan Weyman Senior Software Engineer stan.wey...@emc.com EMC² (508)249-3966 where information lives It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m.

Re: Where is APF documented?

2010-09-09 Thread Stan Weyman
In other words we will never, EVER shoot you in the foot but will make it quite easy for you to shoot yourself. Does that about cover it? Stan Weyman Senior Software Engineer stan.wey...@emc.com EMC² (508)249-3966 where information lives It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor f

Re: REXX : how to determine the member name of a DD card

2010-09-09 Thread Itschak Mugzach
I would try LISTDSI('xxx file). It might return the dsnname into SYSDSNAME which you can investigate using member=(word(translate(sysdsname,' ',()'),2) ITschak On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 5:35 PM, CUNY Yann wrote: > Works fine ! thank you ... > > -Message d'origine- > De : IBM Mainframe Disc

Re: REXX compiler for CGI REXX execs

2010-09-09 Thread zMan
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Miklos Szigetvari wrote: > Thank you Thimoty. > If I remember correctly, for a while the REXX compiler was free, anyhow I > will try to get it > (we are business partner) On at least one platform, the runtime is included -- but I disbelieve that the compiler was E

Re: z990s still running?

2010-09-09 Thread zMan
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Matthew Stitt wrote: > We say "Elephant is mouse built to government specifications" Or rather, Robert A. Heinlein did. -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" -- For IBM-

Re: EPILOG question

2010-09-09 Thread Norman Hollander on DesertWiz
Hopefully that SYSPRINT actually has a SYSOUT= or other appropriate options other than *. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Cobe Xu Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 Wednesday 10:42 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: E

Re: Where is APF documented?

2010-09-09 Thread Birger
Elardus wrote: >>Agreed. Chap 21 is indeed useful, but could be too technical for >>auditors. Maybe someone should suggest to IBM that they write a redbook about audit related items? Auditing z/OS - for dummies (not sysprogs but aud.) Birger Heede On 09-09-2010 15:02, Elardus Engelbrec

Re: Where is APF documented?

2010-09-09 Thread Charles Mills
Thanks, Walt. That clarifies things. > wasn't your question more about what a program running APF-authorized > can do? Nope. Not at all. As I have said several times now I have a good working understanding of the practical effects APF-authorization. I was looking for a formal statement that I co

Re: z990s still running?

2010-09-09 Thread Matthew Stitt
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 16:28:45 +0200, R.S. wrote: >Timothy Sipples pisze: >> Is anybody assuming that people (and thus organizations) always and >> everywhere act rationally? I hope not. :-) Lots of actions and attitudes >> are irrational, and some of those are a lot of fun. > >BTDT. :-( > >BTW: Wha

Re: Where is APF documented?

2010-09-09 Thread Walt Farrell
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 07:34:23 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >YES! That's it! Exactly. > >Charles > >...snipped... > >This looks pretty good: > >http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IEA2E2B0/1.6 > > >The authorized program facility (APF) allows your installation to identify >syst

Re: REXX compiler for CGI REXX execs

2010-09-09 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
On 9/9/2010 2:24 PM, Timothy Sipples wrote: IBM has a REXX compiler (IBM program number 5695-013, if I recall correctly). Yes, there's a performance benefit, and if you run a "sufficient" amount of REXX it's a prudent business decision to get the compiler (and associated library). Compiled progr

Re: Where is APF documented?

2010-09-09 Thread Bill Fairchild
It's authorized because of how it is defined on disk. How it behaves when running determines whether or not it truly needs to be authorized to accomplish what it is attempting to do. IEFBR14 could be linkedited as AC(1) into an authorized library. That particular instantiation of IEFBR14 woul

Re: Where is APF documented?

2010-09-09 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Charles Mills wrote: >YES! That's it! Exactly. I've quoted only the very same first sentence from the same book for you to keep my post rather short. And I agree with John McKown about the first sentence of course. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht --

FW: Where is APF documented?

2010-09-09 Thread J R
Doh! I forgot the URL for the Statement of Integrity ... http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/features/racf/zos_integrity_statement.html > Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 10:34:41 -0400 > From: jayare...@hotmail.com > Subject: Re: Where is APF documented? > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > > > 'Programme

Re: REXX : how to determine the member name of a DD card

2010-09-09 Thread CUNY Yann
Works fine ! thank you ... -Message d'origine- De : IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] De la part de Veilleux, Jon L Envoyé : jeudi 9 septembre 2010 16:04 À : IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Objet : Re: REXX : how to determine the member name of a DD card Here is some sampl

Re: Where is APF documented?

2010-09-09 Thread J R
> 'Programmers Writing Authorized Applications: Programmers writing authorized > applications (that is, APF-authorized programs) can use the RACROUTE macro > to request security-related services,...'. > > It means, being in APF status, you can do 'privileged' things. It means that APF-authorize

Re: Where is APF documented?

2010-09-09 Thread Charles Mills
YES! That's it! Exactly. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 7:08 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Where is APF documented? This looks pretty good: http://publib

Re: z990s still running?

2010-09-09 Thread R.S.
Timothy Sipples pisze: Is anybody assuming that people (and thus organizations) always and everywhere act rationally? I hope not. :-) Lots of actions and attitudes are irrational, and some of those are a lot of fun. BTDT. :-( BTW: What camel is? The camel is a horse designed by committee... -

Re: Where is APF documented?

2010-09-09 Thread Shane
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 09:07 -0500, McKown, John wrote: > > The authorized program facility (APF) allows your installation to > identify system or user programs that can use sensitive system > functions. To be APF-authorized, programs must reside in > APF-authorized libraries, and be link-edited w

Re: Where is APF documented?

2010-09-09 Thread McKown, John
This looks pretty good: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IEA2E2B0/1.6 The authorized program facility (APF) allows your installation to identify system or user programs that can use sensitive system functions. To be APF-authorized, programs must reside in APF-authoriz

Re: REXX : how to determine the member name of a DD card

2010-09-09 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
Here is some sample REXX code that will list the dataset allocated to ddname DD1 using Listalc st. /* rexx */ Z=OUTTRAP(SYSOUTLINE.,'*',"NOCONCAT") ADDRESS TSO INDEX=' '

Re: z990s still running?

2010-09-09 Thread Timothy Sipples
Is anybody assuming that people (and thus organizations) always and everywhere act rationally? I hope not. :-) Lots of actions and attitudes are irrational, and some of those are a lot of fun. That said, I can think of a couple rational situations in which operating a z990 makes sense, even though

Re: REXX compiler for CGI REXX execs

2010-09-09 Thread Timothy Sipples
IBM has a REXX compiler (IBM program number 5695-013, if I recall correctly). Yes, there's a performance benefit, and if you run a "sufficient" amount of REXX it's a prudent business decision to get the compiler (and associated library). Compiled programs are still able to run on any z/OS system us

Re: Where is APF documented?

2010-09-09 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
"Elardus Engelbrecht" wrote in message news:... > Charles Mills wrote: > > >I'm fine. I'm just surprised that something so important is not defined but > rather is described in a scattershot manner. > > Yup. I agree with you and thanks for the new word of the day: 'scattershot'. > > ;-D (can't

Re: Where is APF documented?

2010-09-09 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Charles Mills wrote: >I'm fine. I'm just surprised that something so important is not defined but rather is described in a scattershot manner. Yup. I agree with you and thanks for the new word of the day: 'scattershot'. ;-D (can't resist this one...) >I am technical and I know pretty-much what

Re: Where is APF documented?

2010-09-09 Thread Stan Weyman
<< Everything else is a detail. >> truer words have yet to be said ... Stan Weyman Senior Software Engineer stan.wey...@emc.com EMC² (508)249-3966 where information lives It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final... -Original Message- From: IBM Mai

Re: Where is APF documented?

2010-09-09 Thread Charles Mills
I'm fine. I'm just surprised that something so important is not defined but rather is described in a scattershot manner. As I said in another post, I'm not dealing with auditors; that was just a way of framing the question. I am technical and I know pretty-much what APF does. I just thought that

Re: Where is APF documented?

2010-09-09 Thread Charles Mills
Yeah, it's documented "bottom-up" and in the wrong place. APF is not an "authorized assembler service." APF authorization is in the realm of operations and security, not assembler programming. Sure, it impacts assembler programs and programmers, but it also impacts COBOL and Rexx programs. Catalog

Re: help with error bpxp006e

2010-09-09 Thread Bonno, Tuco
there's a great site out there that you can use to research those kind of problems: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/lookat/index.html I researched your bpxp006e there and there's a whole laundry list of things that might be going on ... hope this helps /s/ tuco bonno; Graduate,

EMC DLm Memory Leak Heads Up

2010-09-09 Thread Patrick Lyon
This is a heads up for anyone who has a EMC DLm(Disk Library for Mainframe) at firmware level 2.1.1. On August 24th we were called by the operators that there were pending tape mounts on the DLm of over 10 minutes. Upon further investigation we were able to determine all of the pending mounts

Re: help with error bpxp006e

2010-09-09 Thread Staller, Allan
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/lookat/index.html and specifically: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IEA2M3A1/SPTM 004277 found 21 hits here: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/advsrch.wss?rs=0&loc=en_US use BPXP006E as the keyword. I get this error ever

Re: REXX : how to determine the member name of a DD card

2010-09-09 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
Can you use ISRDDN and parse the output? Jon L. Veilleux veilleu...@aetna.com (860) 636-9179 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Dana Mitchell Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 9:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject:

Re: JES2 vs. JES3

2010-09-09 Thread Graeme Gibson
ISTR hearing, circa 1967, that ASP had its roots in the 7xxx world, with a 1440 or some other 14xx series machine(s) used as the "Attached Support Processors" effectively doing the card and printer I/O to relieve the main processor(s?) of these I/O intensive tasks. I also most definitely heard

help with error bpxp006e

2010-09-09 Thread Larry Macioce
I get this error every so often on my test lpar . The system would hang for several minutes sometimes release and continue but once in a while stop dead.I would just reipled and it worked. I always thought that the production lpar had a dataset the test lpar needed. BUT last night during a sched

Re: REXX : how to determine the member name of a DD card

2010-09-09 Thread Dana Mitchell
On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 10:58:14 +0200, CUNY Yann wrote: > >//IN DD DSN=P3CUN.YANN.JCL(TEST14),DISP=SHR > >I need, in my rexx, to retrieve the member name of the DD CARD IN. With the LISTDSI, I just have the pds name. > >Any idea ? > You can use OUTTRAP function to trap the output from the

Re: Where is APF documented?

2010-09-09 Thread Charles Mills
Thanks all. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Veilleux, Jon L Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 4:26 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Where is APF documented? You can also look at Chapter 4.21 of the ABCs of

Re: Where is APF documented?

2010-09-09 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Charles Mills wrote: >Thanks. That's certainly better than anything else I found. Agreed. Chap 21 is indeed useful, but could be too technical for auditors. >But I would really like a formal or fairly formal *definition* of APF authorization. This could be messy as I just found out. May I joi

Re: Where is APF documented?

2010-09-09 Thread Stan Weyman
I really have to chuckle at the question Charles since I'll wager at some point in time every person on this list has asked this same question. To date I really know of no single place where APF is outlined, explained, and/or documented other than what's in the Authorized Guide. Not the gre

Re: Where is APF documented?

2010-09-09 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
You can also look at Chapter 4.21 of the ABCs of z/OS System Programming Vol 2 RedBook. Jon L. Veilleux veilleu...@aetna.com (860) 636-9179 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Wednesday, September 08

Re: (closed) Extended Beta program for TSSO replacement Product

2010-09-09 Thread Brian Westerman
Hi all, Thanks to everyone that responded so quickly. We had to close the enrollment because we got 90 responses before noon today and we wanted to leave some slots open for our existing client base. Those that responded should receive a email back from the client support people by tomorrow ni