Re: VTAMLST - Who needs to read it

2012-03-11 Thread Alan Watthey
Chris, I think you'll find Netview uses ATCCONxx just like VTAM does for deciding what is initially active at startup. However, CNMCONxx is for specifying any additional members that you want Netview to include in STATMON and that are not in ATCCONxx. Perhaps one doesn't activate much at all in

Host on Demand Installation

2012-03-11 Thread Jake anderson
Hi, Are there any specific minimum MSU requirement for installing HOD ? Since Our environment is capped at 13 MSU and 21 MSU wth no ZAAP and ZIIP facility. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: VTAMLST - Who needs to read it

2012-03-11 Thread Mark Douglas (CITEC)
Once you have interpreted which member(s) within VTAMLST are required by address spaces other than NET, you can always split them into a separate dataset and concatenate it under the VTAMLST DD. Then grant only the minimal access required to each VTAMLST dataset. We used to do this to separate a

Re: Program FLIH backdoor - This is a criminal breach of security!

2012-03-11 Thread John Gilmore
Swans, white and black, have a long history in scholastic and then mathematical logic, figuring too frequently in illustrations of modus ponens: All swans are white. A is a swan. Ergo, A is white. The heavy, unquestioning use of this scheme presumably reflects the fact that northern hemisphere

Re: Aprapros of Nothing

2012-03-11 Thread Ulrich Krueger
Just tell Outlook to _not_ mark emails from IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu as Spam. Regards, Ulrich Krueger -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Andy Coburn Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 2:48 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Aprapros

Mistyped: Meant Apropros of Nothing

2012-03-11 Thread Andy Coburn
Finger check. Sorry. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Aprapros of Nothing

2012-03-11 Thread Andy Coburn
Not due to anything I've overtly done, Microsoft Outlook 2003 has decided that any e-mail with the subject "Re: Program FLIH backdoor - This is a criminal breach of security!" is to be placed immediately in the Junk E-mail folder. And does so. Does Outlook know something I don't know? Andy ---

Re: Backlevel IPCS issue at z/OS 1.13

2012-03-11 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 03/11/2012 at 08:37 AM, Timothy Sipples said: >I did not post my (unofficial) thoughts as merely an academic, >theoretical exercise. In particular, I'm aware of one customer that >grabbed Language Environment from OS/390, ran it on z/OS, and... >well, that wasn't (isn't) free. Never m

Re: Program FLIH backdoor - This is a criminal breach of security!

2012-03-11 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 3/11/2012 9:07 AM, John Gilmore wrote: There is a long intellectual tradition which has it that the production of just one black swan is an unanswerable refutation of the proposition that all swans are white. I cringe at the word "production" - purportedly (google search came up empty) not

Re: VHow convert "historic" STCK to local time?

2012-03-11 Thread Ed Finnell
I think I paid $39 for a Casio Wave-ceptor two years ago. Keeps good time, DST has Auto, ON, and Off. Auto doesn't work. So have to set it when the hurdles move. In a message dated 3/11/2012 2:10:38 A.M. Central Daylight Time, dalelmil...@comcast.net writes: I can even get a wrist watch

Re: VTAMLST - Who needs to read it

2012-03-11 Thread Lizette Koehler
Chris, I have reviewed my JCL for TPX and it has an allocation for the SYS1.VTAMLST in it. How or why it is in the STC JCL, I am unclear. But thanks for checking further. Lizette > > Lizette > > After posting I realised that I had an example - other than VTAM - of a program which > needs to

TAPEMAP execution for multiple tapes

2012-03-11 Thread Sam Golob
Hi Folks, Here is a way that I TAPEMAP multiple tapes, with a PROC. All the best... Sam //* //* TAPEMAP UTILITY PROGRAM //* //TAPEMAP PROC VL=XX //TAPEMAP EXEC PGM=TAPEMAP //STEPLIB DD DISP=SHR,DSN=SYS2.LINKLIB //SYSUT1 DD DISP=OLD, // UNIT=562, // VOL=(,RETAIN,SER=&VL),

TAPEMAP generator

2012-03-11 Thread Sam Golob
Hi Folks, To TAPEMAP a bunch of volumes, I use a PROC. Then, to specify the volume list, all you have to do is have the volser as the one PROC variable, and it is just a list of 100 PROC executions. All the best... Sam Golob ---

Re: VTAMLST - Who needs to read it

2012-03-11 Thread Chris Mason
Lizette After posting I realised that I had an example - other than VTAM - of a program which needs to read members of VTAMLST partitioned data sets. This is the NetView STATMON component pre-processor program. Just as VTAM has its ATCCONxx member which provides the names of members as dreamed

Re: VTAMLST - Who needs to read it

2012-03-11 Thread Chris Mason
Bob There are a couple of points I missed from my previous post. - A. It was implied but I should have said that I would trust any advice regarding access to data sets *only* from a publication originating from the development authors of the product involved. Obvious really. I did check the m

Re: Program FLIH backdoor - This is a criminal breach of security!

2012-03-11 Thread John Gilmore
Since this sort of thing is expected of me, I will note that we find ourselves between Scylla and Charybdis here. Chris Craddock's formulation was open to the exception that Peter Relson took: there is fetch-protected storage the contents of which its owner is entirely free to make available to ot

Re: Program FLIH backdoor - This is a criminal breach of security!

2012-03-11 Thread Peter Relson
>this is true, but it is not interesting. (with respect to my pointing out some flaws in the examples) I respectfully disagree. When something is presented as a guideline or even perhaps a "rule of thumb", that is one thing. When something is presented as a rule, that is a different thing. If i