Re: Cheryl's List #148

2011-03-15 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.bsp-gmbh.com/turnkey/cookbook/bsppilot.html Possible automation on CBT tape 249, file 33. Was rewritten for MVS 3.8 Turnkey project. I was thinking BSP was licensed for non-commercial use, but I don't see any distribution or licensing sites other than Turnkey 3. I did see a message abou

Re: Purging and Cancelling own jobs

2011-03-15 Thread ibmnew
Hi I found the reason: SDSF checks ISFAUTH *before* it looks at JESSPOOL. Thanks a lot! Best Regards, Jason Cai ibmnew pisze: > Hi all > > My shop is z/OS 1.11(RACF). > > I want to know how to only purge and cancel own jobs from the SDSF pannels. > > SDSF,OPERCMDS and JESSPPOL cl

Re: SMP/E Diagnosing GIM45500S

2011-03-15 Thread Linda Mooney
Hi Paul, We use java also. Especially since you can point SMPJHOME to something bogus and get the same result, I would suggest checking to make sure that the DDDEF (or the JCL DD card) and the pathname match and that it is mounted and that you can list the directory in your hsf/zfs.

Re: Replacement product for CA-Vantage

2011-03-15 Thread Norman Hollander
I can suggest Tivoli solutions. --Original Message-- From: Renato Schweizer Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu ReplyTo: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Replacement product for CA-Vantage Sent: Mar 15, 2011 8:06 PM Hello List does anybody know a product

Re: Replacement product for CA-Vantage

2011-03-15 Thread Lizette Koehler
> does anybody know a product to replace CA-Vantage ? Should be a cheaper one. Any > suggestions ? > > Thanks > Renato > I guess what function s do you need, want desire. Vantage has many facilities that are integrated. So you should help us by telling what specifically you need. There is no on

Replacement product for CA-Vantage

2011-03-15 Thread Renato Schweizer
Hello does anybody know a product to replace CA-Vantage ? Should be a cheaper one. Any suggestions ? Thanks Renato -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the m

Replacement product for CA-Vantage

2011-03-15 Thread Renato Schweizer
Hello List does anybody know a product to replace CA-Vantage ? Should be a cheaper one. Any suggestions ? Thanks Renato -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with

SMP/E Diagnosing GIM45500S

2011-03-15 Thread Paul Gilmartin
My test system has no ICSF; I'm trying to use the Java surrogate. I get: GIM45500S ** VERIFICATION OF HASH VALUE OF FILE .../package/GIMPAF.XML FAILED. SMP/E WILL NOT RETRY FILE RETRIEVAL. GIM20501IRECEIVE PROCESSING IS COMPLETE. THE HIGHEST RETURN CODE WAS 12. It's probably my

Re: Purging and Cancelling own jobs

2011-03-15 Thread Jonathan Goossen
Jason, I have used the following in SDSF where jobnamepattern is a pattern for job names that you want to affect. /$CJ(jobnamepattern)Cancel /$PJ(jobnamepattern)Purge For instance, to cancel all jobs starting with JG: /$CJ(JG*) There is also a user ID parameter.

Re: Trouble Reading a Spanned File with an Assembler Program - Working Program

2011-03-15 Thread Hunt, Bruce
Thanks again for everyone's help. If anyone cares, here is the assembler program that reads the spanned file and creates a fixed length 136 byte file padded with blanks where necessary. I don't claim to be the best assembler programmer. I hope that worked in my favor in keeping it simple. But I

Re: ETR sunsets on 26 Mar 2011?

2011-03-15 Thread Linda Mooney
Hi Don, Well said.  I am not against change. But, at least in the land of the mainframe, our careers focus on making and implementing changes that work, not just to the developers' satisfaction, but to the satisfaction of our customers.  In this case, we are the customers.  As long at SR is

Re: Cheryl's List #148

2011-03-15 Thread Linda Mooney
Hi Timothy, Case #1: Business as usual. Business as usual has already been taken by the budget woes. Case #2: Minimize the cost of overnight operators as much as possible (through increased automation, alerting, etc.), and compare the cost of that skeleton crew (of one?) to the likely s

"Social Security Confronts IT Obsolescence"

2011-03-15 Thread Gabe Goldberg
Quite a deep hole SSA's dug itself into. Interesting "According to a project plan released in August, the facility will reach its maximum electrical distribution capacity within four years", given increased mainframe efficiency and higher storage densities. --- "Social Security Confronts IT

New SUDO command in USS

2011-03-15 Thread Jousma, David
All, Just came across this today. PTF UA59179 to add SUDO support in USS required GID(0) just to install it. I opened a ETR with IBM. The PTF runs a script to do a CHGRP & CHOWN to UID/GID (0). Seems the port from open source into USS requires GID (0). We didn't have any profile with

Re: ETR sunsets on 26 Mar 2011?

2011-03-15 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
That's a good way of explaining the issues. I agree. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Don Williams Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: ETR sunsets on 26 Mar 2011? >From my informal p

Re: This is a TCP/IP USS Issue

2011-03-15 Thread Pires, Antonio
This looks like it might be an issue on the Java side then. I don't want to hijack to the dark side(java), but how are you defining the connection? RESTRICLOWPORTS should only apply to whoever opens port 514 for listening, not whoever connects to it. Antonio -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: This is a TCP/IP USS Issue

2011-03-15 Thread McKown, John
If you want to log messages from your Java application to the UNIX syslog, try looking at this: http://web.mit.edu/javadev/packages/Acme/Syslog.java I even understood it, so it must be fairly simple! -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151

Re: This is a TCP/IP USS Issue

2011-03-15 Thread Donald Likens
Thank you all for your help… To explain a little further… I have a TCP/IP Socket port open to receive information and I am attempting to write messages to the SYSLOG daemon (UDP port 514). I have written this process in java. Java gave a lot of error messages but the only one with meaning is

Re: ETR sunsets on 26 Mar 2011?

2011-03-15 Thread Don Williams
>From my informal poll, the vast majority of z/OS sysprogs agree with Jim. They are not against change. It has been their job to implement change. However, the change had to be non-disruptive to business. The migration from PCP in 60's, to MFT, to MVT, etc. to z/OS today was 50 years of incrementa

Re: ETR sunsets on 26 Mar 2011?

2011-03-15 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
I agree with Jim. Most of IBM's 'simplification' efforts have kept in mind the experienced SYSPROGs and tried to give us the opportunity to maintain the touch and feel of the old ways while giving the newer folks the touch and feel of the web-based apps. So far I have seen each change in the ETR

Re: ETR sunsets on 26 Mar 2011?

2011-03-15 Thread Petersen, Jim
Christian, You made this comment in one of your emails: SR processes roughly five times the service request volume of ETR today and is designed to support a common IBM business process and customer work flow. My comment to this is: So what if it handles 5 times the request volume if it is unusab

Re: Migrate from zOS 1.7 to 1.11 ...

2011-03-15 Thread Staller, Allan
This is certainly do-able. Please be aware that migration coexistence/fallback support is not available. Whatever technique is used to migrate from 1.7 to 1.11 will be required in the reverse direction if needed to go back from 1.11 to 1.7 That being said, download all of the migration guides (1.7

Re: Migrate from zOS 1.7 to 1.11 ...

2011-03-15 Thread Chris Mason
Mostafa There's one topic which will give you a big shock if you haven't dealt with it already. If you run a TN3270 server in the z/OS Communications Server (CS) IP component, you need to make sure that you run it as a separate address space in V1R11. Not supporting the TN3270 server within

Re: How to modify/add an OUTPUT-Statement to an DD at runtime?

2011-03-15 Thread Michael Knigge
Dynamicly allocate or one output per file. //OUTPUT1 OUTPUTCOPIES=1,PRMODE=LINE,ROOM=12, // TITLE="TITLE ONE" //TSTFILE1 DD SYSOUT=A,OUTPUT=(*.OUTPUT1) Eh, where is this dynamic? ok, once again, maybe I wasn't clear enough... The JCL: //OUTPUT2 OUTPUTCOPIES=1,PRMODE=LINE,ROOM=1

Migrate from zOS 1.7 to 1.11 ...

2011-03-15 Thread Moussadak Mostafa
Hi, We are currently in zOS 1.7 and we plan to migrate to 1.11. Is there any hindrance or complication to do this migration in one shot ? What are the requisites and measures to take before this type of migration ? Thanks very much.

Re: Purging and Cancelling own jobs

2011-03-15 Thread R.S.
ibmnew pisze: Hi all My shop is z/OS 1.11(RACF). I want to know how to only purge and cancel own jobs from the SDSF pannels. SDSF,OPERCMDS and JESSPPOL classes are involved. Could you help me? Any suggestion would be helpful! Could you be more specific? We don't know anything about yo

Purging and Cancelling own jobs

2011-03-15 Thread ibmnew
Hi all My shop is z/OS 1.11(RACF). I want to know how to only purge and cancel own jobs from the SDSF pannels. SDSF,OPERCMDS and JESSPPOL classes are involved. Could you help me? Any suggestion would be helpful! Best Regards, Jason Cai -