Hi Ted,
how often? - sems like every other week.
how much can you store? - at least one years data per system, in HSM ML2.
keeps it simple, no need to be concerned with sopme other archive system.
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:36:13 +, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca
wrote:
Not sure I would want
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 3:38 PM, John McKown joa...@swbell.net wrote:
Thanks for the good wishes! I'm doing so well that I was logged into
work yesterday for about 3 hours to help upgrade our first system to
1.12. It failed due to a missing PTF. I have ordered the current RSU and
just
Steve Horein wrote:
You can't keep a good man down! I'm glad you are doing well.
Agreed 100%! I'm also glad. Actually PTF is 'Pretty Tough Friend'!
John McKown wrote:
Thanks for the good wishes! I'm doing so well that I was logged into work
yesterday for about 3 hours to help upgrade our
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 13/06/2011
14:51:39:
You can think about it this way. Suppose you are designing a processor.
In order to process instructions, there are several things that have to
be
done. Something like this:
snip good explanation of CPU
HI,
Control cpu utlization in MFNetDisk.
if you run with the default MPCOPT configuration, then your TASKS number
equal to 8.
If you happy with your CPU utilization then you can continue to run with
this parameter.
If you run with high CPU utilization you can control it by changing the
Hi ,
I was able to get the fix level for the product I have installed but I am
curious to know about the other Products which were installed long back. In
this machine we have not applied any PTFs for long, so I am unable to fetch
out for the other product.
Regards,
Jags
2011/6/14 גדי בן אבי
And I was a big customer of both Duquesne Systems and Morino Associates
products at the time of their merger. I missed Mario's wine and cheese parties,
but accepted the merger and subsequent renaming of the merged entity.
I think I speak for a lot of folks when I say I was NOT thrilled with the
Hi ,
How to identify the fix pack level and installed version of a product. I
tried with TSO
ISPVCALL status but just got the product version but could'nt get the Fix
pack level. Is
there way where we can fetch out the details.
Regards,
Jags
The best way is to
1) identify the
Hi,
Thanks Lizette.
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.comwrote:
Hi ,
How to identify the fix pack level and installed version of a product. I
tried with TSO
ISPVCALL status but just got the product version but could'nt get the Fix
pack level. Is
Hi
Would anyone know the charcteristocs of being in HOME ASC mode
E.G. If I issue a number of space swiching PC and do a SAC 768 would
Intruction and data fetch refer to the orignal Address Space
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Micheal,
Home ASC mode means that data and instruction fetch use the home address space.
Home ASC mode is normally only used by low-level z/OS components - why do you
need to be in HOME mode ?
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Lead Developer
Rocket Software
275 Grove Street * Newton, MA 02466-2272 * USA
Tel:
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:19:21 +0530, jagadishan perumal wrote:
How to identify the fix pack level and installed version of a product.
There is no simple answer to the question of the PTF level of a product. It
is easy to determine the PTF level of an element by querying SMP/E. In the
old days,
Hi,
I can see the below error messages which were flooding up our console.
*IOS001E D784,INOPERATIVE PATH 91
*IOS001E D704,INOPERATIVE PATH 91
*IOS001E D778,INOPERATIVE PATH 91
*IOS001E D70B,INOPERATIVE PATH 91
*IOS001E D735,INOPERATIVE PATH 91
*IOS001E D736,INOPERATIVE PATH 91
*IOS001E
I wish there were redbooks such as these for the beginner 'sysprog' for
learning IBM i. I would find that quite useful at this stage.
Dana
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You have more than 1 path to your dasd, so that is why it is still online.
You are having a problem with path 91 which you need to resolse.
you could try to bring the pact back onliine then look at smf data to see what
caused it.
thanks
mace
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You have more than 1 path to your dasd, so that is why it is still
online.
You are having a problem with path 91 which you need to resolse.
you could try to bring the pact back onliine then
I made the path 91 online by : /cf chp(91),online, But when i display the
Device address I see that the Path is again is not Online.
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Larry Macioce mace1...@gmail.com wrote:
You have more than 1 path to your dasd, so that is why it is still online.
You are
John,
I'm glad to see you on the list and feeling better.
Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies
http://dovetail.com
PS Thanks for mentioning Co:Z. We will be doing a free webinar next week
on the distributed Co:Z Launcher.
For details and enrollment information, see:
Did the CF comman not say, that it could not bring all paths to the
devices online? There is a problem with the connection to the device
through CHPID 91.
Kees.
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I made the path
Thanks for the links, but the first one (to the IEEE site) requires a logon
which requires a subscription fee.
I know that's where the IBM Journal is published now, but it sure makes it hard
to keep up with the information when you are forced to pay for it.
I'll have to check my library system
I can see the below error messages which were flooding up our console.
*IOS001E D784,INOPERATIVE PATH 91
*IOS001E D704,INOPERATIVE PATH 91
Jags,
You need to work with the following commands
DS P
D M=CHP
D M=DEV
Look for the first IOS message, it might not be an IOS001E. It might be
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 14/06/2011
13:49:16:
From: Farley, Peter x23353 peter.far...@broadridge.com
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Date: 14/06/2011 13:50
Subject: Re: When is performance really an issue? Was: Running an
ISPF applicction from one pds
Sent by:
On learning of this update I went to the relevant Redbooks web page and
was disappointed not to see a What's Changed summary. Just to let y'all
know I've raised this with the Redbooks people (on Twitter, as it
happens). Assuming I get over to Pok this Summer I intend to discuss it in
more
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:44:19 -0400, John Eells ee...@us.ibm.com wrote:
I'd suspect that most people use FTP these days for PDS and PDSE
transfers, both of which it supports (including load modules and program
objects, I'm told by the developers). There are other ways to skin the
cat but (as
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applicction from one pds
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Sorry
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:50:27 +, Bill Fairchild bi...@mainstar.com
wrote:
So what is the exact location, velocity, and/or mass of one particular
electron?
42
We apologize for the invonvenience,
Art Gutowski
Compuware Corporation
Fair points.
However, there are two things I want to mention:
First, let me note that BDT, in its new incarnation as z/OS elements, is
still very much in service even though it has not not been under active
development. (The last update was in OS/390 R2.) Only the former
standalone product
With respect, I get spam all the time that is not addressed to me. It
completely baffles me why any decent spam filter would let this through. Since
anti spam writers are a lot smarter than I am, I have to assume that there is
nothing in the headers that is definitive proof of anything.
I am trying to verify if an FTP process is actually using secured FTP (SFTP).
Or when FTP is used (i.e. PGM=FTP) that the secured FTP process is being used.
Is there an easy way to do this? What SMF Records would help me with this
analysis?
Thanks
Lizette
When you pit your ip address in make sure you put specify the secure port
xx.xx.xx.xx
I hope this helps
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PGM=FTP is not sftp in any way. sftp is a different protocol which runs
over an SSH channel. An extension to FTP is FTPS, which is normal FTP
protocol over an encrypted TLS connection. I don't know how to validate
if TLS is used.
On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 10:28 -0400, Lizette Koehler wrote:
I am
Once you have the CHPID online, you may have to vary the paths online. I'll
leave it to you to find the command. If the problem is with the device or the
cable, varying the path won't do anything, but if everything is hooked up
properly, you may get the path online by doing that.
Depending
Lizette
For a clarification of what you might be talking about, see the following:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol#Secure_FTP
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_file_transfer_protocol
Then come back to us as necessary or pose your question on IBMTCP-L:
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You have to verify if SFTP(ssh ftp) or FTPS(ftp over tls) is used but on
z/OS, for what I know we use only the second.
Regarding port question, I'm almost sure that port may be also 21 for
ftps that doesn't matter...(and may also be high and not secured)
SMF if implemented can use default TYPE 119
SMF records 118 and 119 include FTP. I'm not sure if they tell you the transfer
was secure.
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Dear Listers,
Any suggestion of how to calculate what the offset between local time and
UTC is for a given day in the past?
My data contains UTC timestamp and I have to print the corresponding local
time on a report. That is the local time as it was at the date the data was
logged.
My attemps
Interesting John, as we are migrating v.10 to v.12 as well. But we are
still running con=shared and not con=(distributed,...
Did you go to distributed with your consoles?
Kenneth Klein
kenneth klein tema toyota com
John McKown joa...@swbell.net
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Hi John,
Thanks for the wonderful news update. Don't over do it... :-) Glad you are
doing well.
Linda
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Thanks for the good
AT-TLS on SMF 119
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r9/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.zos.r9.e0zh300/smfrt.htm
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Cheryl,
We use it heavily. Very good product.
Atenciosamente / Regards / Saludos
Ituriel do Nascimento Neto
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Look at the DEBUG directive and the invocation options controlling traces. For
example:
EXEC PGM=FTP,PARM='-v -d (EXIT'
That should produce a trace detailed enough to see what (if any) level of
security resulted from the handshake. If not, then explore the DEBUG directive.
It might be
never heard of either. where is that specified?
On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 11:18 -0400, Ken Klein wrote:
Interesting John, as we are migrating v.10 to v.12 as well. But we are
still running con=shared and not con=(distributed,...
Did you go to distributed with your consoles?
Kenneth Klein
Last week I taught a COBOL class for five days at a
small company up in Boulder. They have a refreshing
approach that I thought was pretty cool, and I wanted
to pass it on.
This company (I'll call it 'A') is a subsidiary of a
large transportation company ('B'). Although they are
small, they run
Steve,
A positive story.
Thanks.
Steven
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:06:57 -0600
From: st...@trainersfriend.com
Subject: An upbeat story
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Last week I taught a COBOL class for five days at a
small company up in Boulder. They have a refreshing
approach that I thought
There is a company in GA that does that as well.
The difference is that they hire tech school students after 1 year in
tech school. The kids work part time and go to school full time. Once
they graduate with an agreed upon GPA, they become real employees.
It's AMAZING how at the longevity
Jan,
This is a problem I have dealt with; and in its full generality it is difficult
or, perhaps better, messy.
Is your requirement for any arbitrary combination of dates and places? For
only a few? Or for just one place and a small range of dates?
In some parts of the world offsets
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:16:42 -0500, Jan MOEYERSONS wrote:
My data contains UTC timestamp and I have to print the corresponding local
time on a report. That is the local time as it was at the date the data was
logged.
My attemps so far with mktime(), localtime() and gmtime() all apply the
offset
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 08:44:03 -0400, Peter Relson wrote:
IBM very rarely will change an existing RC=0 to some non-0 value. This is
for compatibility reasons.
Even rarer (if ever) would be to do this in the service stream.
We would not want to break some potentially critical application that had
a
I know Illinois State University, Normal, IL was doing 3 month full
time class to create programmers from existing non-IT staff at State
Farm / Country Companies Insurance companies in the metro area. They
had completed several sessions last update I got. They had to sign an
agreeement to work
CF CHP(91),offline then back on can fix intermittent problems, but you
probably need vendor support at this time.
In a message dated 6/14/2011 7:47:35 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
jagadish...@gmail.com writes:
Device address I see that the Path is again is not Online.
It would seem you need more than just the date. The rules vary considerably by
location. In Japan, local is always UTC+9. Europe and the US do not switch to
or from summer time on the same date. In the US, some states don't switch at
all. A few years ago the US changed the dates on which
On 6/14/2011 9:16 AM, Jan MOEYERSONS wrote:
Dear Listers,
Any suggestion of how to calculate what the offset between local time and
UTC is for a given day in the past?
My data contains UTC timestamp and I have to print the corresponding local
time on a report. That is the local time as it was
The non-IT thing is interesting.
At my company we have many application developers that started elsewhere at the
company. Me, for one. I personally had previous IT skills, and some schooling
in programming, but most of the others I believe did not.
Do non-IT people make better COBOL
On 6/14/2011 1:06 PM, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
The non-IT thing is interesting.
At my company we have many application developers that started elsewhere at the
company. Me, for one. I personally had previous IT skills, and some schooling
in programming, but most of the others I believe did
one of the guys I work here with - started as a fork-lift driver out of HS
worked way into IT and is still here
Frank Swarbrick
frank.swarbrick@
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:17:57 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote:
On 6/14/2011 1:06 PM, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
Do non-IT people make better COBOL programmers? Why might that be?
Well, the rationale is, I think, that students in university IT
programs today will only have seen Windows / Unix / Linux
On 6/14/2011 2:04 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:17:57 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote:
On 6/14/2011 1:06 PM, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
Do non-IT people make better COBOL programmers? Why might that be?
Well, the rationale is, I think, that students in university IT
programs
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13726776
Article with video on IBM's history.
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Nadine Goldberg: 06/10/2011 09:53:38.970752the tod was 'gwbush'
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Gil / Steve,
Forgive me for interrupting
University IT programs ??.
If one needed brain surgery ... would that person settle for
a surgeon (??) that learnt everything using JAVA simulations ??.
No ?? why not ?? ... and, is that not what is being done in the
so called 'IT' field today
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Jim Thomas j...@thethomasresidence.us wrote:
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That said, is it any wonder that the world insists on adapting what
we know to be unstable software, onto the mainframe ??.
We've all become very familiar with the 'blue screen of death' ...
well .. if
Rob
I like you work for a vendor
Just want to understand home address space inst and data fetched from
home
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On Jun 14, 2011, at 7:59 AM, Rob Scott rsc...@rocketsoftware.com
wrote:
Micheal,
Home ASC mode means that data and instruction fetch use the home
address
On 6/14/2011 4:08 PM, Steve Comstock wrote:
Well, maybe. Or, they start out with minimal prejudices
or they don't have to unlearn habits that don't work
My first encounter was with Mike Guzik at ADR, who wrote the
sort program for the 709x and Stretch machines. He migrated to
applications
Basically, we have FTP Process. We implemented SFTP on a different stack,
earlier this year. No one went back to see if any of the FTP processes in
place need to be secured. So I am just researching if it is possible to report
on FTP and whether or not that FTP is secured.
In some of the
Check the TCP/IP 119 subtype TCP connection termination record and the fields
SMF119AP_LSCS and SMF119AP_LSST
Steve Finch
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On 14 Jun 2011 12:18:55 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
On 6/14/2011 1:06 PM, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
The non-IT thing is interesting.
At my company we have many application developers that started elsewhere at
the company. Me, for one. I personally had previous IT skills, and
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:38:16 -0500, John McKown joa...@swbell.net wrote:
Thanks for the good wishes! I'm doing so well that I was logged into
work yesterday for about 3 hours to help upgrade our first system to
1.12. It failed due to a missing PTF. I have ordered the current RSU and
just finished
after /cf chp(91),online
/vary path(D701,91),online - , i get the below messages.
IEE386I PATH(D701,91) NOT BROUGHT ONLINE
IEE763I NAME= IECVIOPM CODE= 0004
IOS555I UNABLE TO ESTABLISH DYNAMIC PATHING FOR THIS DEVICE
IEE764I END OF IEE386IRELATED MESSAGES
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011
George:
We had an operator who left to start a software company that made billions.
Skip sold it to CA.
Ed
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after /cf chp(91),online
/vary path(D701,91),online - , i get the below messages.
IEE386I PATH(D701,91) NOT BROUGHT ONLINE
IEE763I NAME= IECVIOPM CODE= 0004
IOS555I UNABLE TO ESTABLISH DYNAMIC PATHING FOR THIS DEVICE
IEE764I END OF IEE386IRELATED MESSAGES
What does the DS P
I like the DS QD stuff. If you can't remember. DS QD,? will show commands
and syntax.
The difference between Display and DevServ is that Display is what it was
when it failed whereas DevServ does the sense on the device. I'd still be on
the horn with the vendor and have an EREP covering
The IOS555I suggests either the fiber cable on chipid 91 is bad, or
the chipid in the mainframe is bad. Have your cabling person change
swap the fiber cable on chipid 91. If that doesn't work, have the IBM
CE test the chipid card or swap it for another card.
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 8:31 PM,
Go to any Linux system and issue zdump -v location-of-interest - text
file output can be manhandled over to z/OS in need.
Here (Australia/Brisbane) lists from Dec 31 1894 to Feb 29 1992. The latter
being the last time our elected intellectual pygmies insisted on (yet
another) enforced trial.
/ds p,D701,1 shows :
IEE459I 09.09.33 DEVSERV PATHS 740
UNIT DTYPE M CNT VOLSER CHPID=PATH STATUS
RTYPE SSID CFW TC DFW PIN DC-STATE CCA DDC ALT CU-TYPE
D701,33903 ,A,030,Z18RS2,81=+ 91=
21050008 Y YY. YY.N SIMPLEX 01 012105
John:
Thanks for the good information. I steered my client away from BDT when it was
first announced as being to expensive and did not meet all our needs as not all
the shops we talked to were IBM /or/ they were not likely to buy it as it was
expensive to small shops.
We ended up with the
Do you have cascading ficon switches?
This might result in more than 256 possible paths to the devices.
Once you hit the 256 paths the remaining paths can't be activated.
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:46 PM, jagadishan perumal
jagadish...@gmail.com wrote:
/ds p,D701,1 shows :
IEE459I 09.09.33
Many years ago, FAA Air Traffic Control Centers were using card-system
1130's to print out flight-strips, which contained info about known
flights and were handed off between controllers as the flights moved
from one screen/controller to the next. The Anchorage ATC and Honolulu
(if I
Sorry, I forgot to mention that their programming was done in Fortran,
and used the Commercial Subroutine Package, which was a set of Fortran-
callable subroutines which could do such things as decimal arithmetic,
etc.
Dale Miller
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