Re: SAP, mainframes, and multinationals

2009-04-03 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 15:17:45 +, john gilmore john_w_gilm...@msn.com wrote: For those of you who read German readily, there is a new book: Siegele, Ludwig, Joseph Zepelin. Matrix der Welt. SAP und der neue globale Kapitalizmus. Frankfurt und New York: Campus-Verlag, 2009. available

Re: 3270 emulator cost

2009-02-25 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:24:14 -0800, Natarajan Mohan nmo...@edfund.org wrote: I am not sure whether I have found any emulation software cheaper than mochasoft (not including x3270 on Linux or other flavors of Unix). Its $250 enterprise licence and maintenance is free of cost and includes

Re: Deleting UnExpired dataset using JCL

2009-02-24 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:23:16 +0200, גדי בן אבי gad...@malam.com wrote: I know about IDCAMS, but the user wants a pure JCL solution. In that case I think you will have to use one of the many PARM to control card programs to parameterise the dataset name (optionally volume) and pass

Re: TMON replacement

2009-01-30 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:26:59 -0600, gsg gsg_...@yahoo.com wrote: We are using TMON, but we're looking to replace it. We may go back to Omegamon, but I want to see what other products are available. Can I get some feedback on what other shops are using and what you like about the product. By

Re: Top z/OS Shareware Tools

2008-12-05 Thread Dave Cartwright
Hey wow, thank you Gilbert for digging up this thread. I read IBM-MAIN via the archives and I definitely missed this one - too much Marines noise blocked the signal. AND a big thank you to Gilbert for FASTPATH - you are forgiven blowing your own trumpet on that, it deserves a fanfare.

Re: is there anyp rogram can read all user catalog from master catalog

2008-11-28 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:27:31 +0800, Tommy Tsui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually I want to seach all volumes entry catalog for tape volume only You may be able to use LISTICF in file 172 of the CBT tape as a start. This reads catalogs directly and processes each record type. I guess you

Mainframe files under AIX etc.

2008-11-26 Thread Dave Cartwright
We are finally looking at decommissioning our mainframe after a successful global SAP rollout. Minor bugs, but it works. SAP runs on System-P under AIX sharing the same DS8000 as the mainframe disks. I thought I read recently of a module that allows Linux systems to access mainframe files.

Re: Mainframe files under AIX etc.

2008-11-26 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:25:42 -0600, John McKown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is strictly for z/Linux use. I really doubt that you can connect mainframe DASD to your AIX system. The interface is different. The mainframe uses FICON. The AIX likely uses FCP (or maybe some SCSI variant). To the

Re: CA-JMR question

2008-11-12 Thread Dave Cartwright
John, Our ALTERN and MASTER datasets are indeed one track, but our HOLD file is now up to 1095 tracks in 9 extents. HTH Dave -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CA-JMR question

2008-11-12 Thread Dave Cartwright
John, I would re-read the manual, those seem pretty screwy rules, especially in this day and age. Here are our Rlse 4.6 dataset names; SOFTWARE.CAJMR46.ARCH.ARC04291 106337 SOFTWARE.CAJMR46.ARCH.ARC04298 102056

Re: Need someone to fix a free HTTP Server written in Assembler

2008-11-05 Thread Dave Cartwright
. This is not an official site of Richard L. Rice, the CBT tape or anyone else. It is just an information exchange. Good Luck Dave Cartwright -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: VBM to VBA?

2008-10-14 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:10:53 -0500, John McKown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luckily, this is not going to be printed. It's going to be placed in a report repository on a Intel server. Wouldn't be __my__ choice, but the same type of software on z costs considerably more money. And we are in a

Re: Program that can monitor CPU usage

2008-09-29 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:37:07 +0900, Timothy Sipples [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's also worth pointing out that Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for z/OS Management Console is no charge. This is the basic OMEGAMON product for very core OS monitoring, and it may be useful to you in this situation. You can

Re: Way... Back question...

2008-08-21 Thread Dave Cartwright
Leaping to j.c.'s defence; On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:41:50 -0400, Ralph Kaden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip . (Sorry. I don't usually criticize on forums like this, Then don't. Thank you for using your lofty position to correct an error but you must realise without going through the

Re: Compiled Rexx portabilty

2008-08-07 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 12:47:35 +0200, Itschak Mugzach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does compiled Rexx need a run-time library to operate? Yes, but you can use the free Alternate Run Time Library http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/rexx/rexxzseries/altlibrary.html If so, will static bind

Re: NFS Windows.XP

2008-08-06 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 15:52:15 -0500, Ron Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: any examples someone may have on the commands issued fro z/os to Windows-XP to mount a file..or from Windows to z/OS...running z/os1.9 Ron, I looked up my JCL library and found this example from April 2005. I only ever

Re: z/VM Evaluation Edition Now Available

2008-07-24 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:10:17 -0700, Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't mind waiting hours for the DVD to load. It can run all night for all I care. It only has to be loaded once. Right? The way I read the installation material, wrong. It is a RAMdisk, updates are saved to the DVD

NASPA NY

2008-05-29 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Wed, 28 May 2008 08:36:38 -0500, Eric Bielefeld eric- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone going to the New York Naspa chapter meeting on June 17? The New York Naspa meetings have really great speakers, on really great and applicable topics. I've always wanted to go to one, but so far haven't

Re: Off-the-wall Auditor Requests (was RE: Hardware Alerts)

2008-05-22 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Wed, 21 May 2008 12:19:16 -0500, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could also have said (truthfully) that RACF doesn't store passwords. As documented in the SecAdmin Guide, RACF uses the tendered password as a key to one-way encrypt the userID, and stores the encrypted userID. Thus,

Re: Old hardware (Was: Mainframe programming vs the Web)

2008-05-16 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Thu, 15 May 2008 20:27:31 -0500, William H. Blair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The System/360 Model 75 was not an UNcommon machine (as were the Models 91, 95, 85 and 195) but it was not exactly common. Only VERY large shops would feel the need for one. NASA had five which were used to support

Re: Remote tape drive

2008-05-15 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Tue, 13 May 2008 13:37:20 -0600, David Logan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to have a tape drive at a remote office from where the mainframe is physically located. Preferably a (normally) channel attached tape drive, rather than a SCSI type of thing, although I would take the latter if

Re: Moving DASD Volumes from Mod3 to Mod9

2008-04-15 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:24:06 -0400, Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any suggestions? Here is a clist I use for migrating stuff from 3380 technology to 3390. It is no good if HSM won't handle the file e.g. multi-volume, enqueued, APf blah blah. TDMF or whatever is the best bet, but

Re: MPF exit to start IMS stopped programs/transactions

2008-04-07 Thread Dave Cartwright
Jim, as a long time resident of the list you must know that I am going to say TSSO. It even has a mechanism to reply to the correct IMS system. Regards Dave -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: Clock Change

2008-03-28 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:00:20 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I keep my z9BC's HMC on GMT all the time (I would probably do that even if I was in New Zealand or Australia, regardless of being in the UK). I don't recall it adjusting time last March or last October, but then I probably wasn't

Re: Console exits

2008-03-26 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:35:28 -0400, Mark Pace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to write a console exit. I have an example for msg IEE362A, but it is a single line message. The message I want to trap and process is IEE391A which is a multiple line message. Can anyone point me at the manual

Re: Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-13 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:31:38 -0700, Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm. When a data set is migrated, the VTOC entry is removed. But, the catalog entry is still there (though the volume ID is changed to MIGRAT). Can't IDCAMS tell from the catalog whether the migrated data set is VSAM or

Re: Need a SMF tool

2008-01-30 Thread Dave Cartwright
Hal, Try the SE30 programs in file 172 of the CBT tape to list SMF30 data. HTH Dave -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Re: IBM Dataset Prefixes

2007-11-26 Thread Dave Cartwright
Thank you gentlemen, that's excellent. Peter, special thanks your consideration in supplying a tinyurl. Dave -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message:

Re: IBM Dataset Prefixes

2007-11-26 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:02:34 -0600, Dave Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you gentlemen, that's excellent. Well, I meant it was really nice of you to supply that information, but that information itself is not complete. I am building a one pack system and I want to know if I really

IBM Dataset Prefixes

2007-11-25 Thread Dave Cartwright
I've searched the archives and the online library, but I can't find it. Can anyone point me to a list of IBM dataset name prefixes and what function they support? e.g. CEE = Language Environment TIA Dave -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Multiple Copying Program

2007-06-05 Thread Dave Cartwright
Twit! Once again answering my own question. DFSMSdss supports the COPY operand for logical and physical copies. That'll do, although I would still be interested if anyone has an alternative. Dave -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: ALIAS2

2007-04-03 Thread Dave Cartwright
Sorry, got it. The referenced dataset is on HSM ML2 Dave -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Re: IBM-Main Archive change?

2007-03-20 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:26:15 -0500, Patrick O'Keefe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I purposefully set nomail. The archive is the only way I access IBM-Main. A lot of people do, Patrick. I haven't made up my mind about the upgrade yet, but I normally use Google's shadow of IBM-MAIN first, it's

Re: ISAM and/or self-modifying channel programs

2007-03-09 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:32:31 EST, IBM Mainframe Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is ISAM still used anywhere under MVS/ESA/OS-390/z? I don't quite know if I should admit to this, but we still have seven ISAM files in use under ZOS 1.4 The application guys have been told that 1.7

Re: TSSO and z/OS 1.8

2007-03-07 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 09:25:19 +0100, Miran Cotic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It works well on z/OS 1.7 without any changes. Any suggestions ? 1) Check your console definitions. 2) When upgrading always pull the latest version of TSSO from the CBT site, probably in Updates. DC

Re: HFS Directory

2007-02-26 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:44:20 -0600, Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm. I tried using escape characters, but it didn't work, strangely. One choice is ISHELL. The other is: create another directory there (mkdir fred) - then delete both (rm -r fred -m), in that order, so it doesn't try

Re: JES2 and XEROX printer

2007-02-07 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 04:32:01 -0800, Walter Marguccio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /-snip/ We are going to remove above printers from JES2 control, both XEROX will be IP-controlled printers. Once JES2 is excluded from this process, Exit1 will not be triggered anymore to pass above control

Re: TRSMAIN question

2007-01-31 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:35:07 -0600, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And is there anyway to ftp that to an ASCII based server and uncompress it? Yes - this relates to my previous question about RACF IRRADU00 reformatted records. John, I suggest you convert the tapes to AWS, ftp to a PC

Re: ADRDSSU and AWS

2007-01-29 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:30:00 -0600, Dave Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:27:14 -0600, Dave Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why would QSAM ignore DCBIBLKSI and write the block at 65520? Typo. DCBEBLKSI Doh! SMOP If the system ignores the control block you

Re: ADRDSSU and AWS

2007-01-26 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 06:20:51 -0600, Dave Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to restore from some backup tapes that I converted to .AWS format, but I am having problems handling the 65520 blocksize. How do people manage this? Most AWS utilities I have tried cannot recreate a tape

Re: ADRDSSU and AWS

2007-01-26 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:27:14 -0600, Dave Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why would QSAM ignore DCBIBLKSI and write the block at 65520? Typo. DCBEBLKSI DC -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: ADRDSSU and AWS

2007-01-22 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:41:50 -0600, Sebastian Welton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried just using IEBGENER? I know it sounds silly but I create a full disk backup using ADRDSSU and then convert it to AWS format. To restore it I then just use IEBGENER to copy the AWS file to a sequential

ADRDSSU and AWS

2007-01-19 Thread Dave Cartwright
I am trying to restore from some backup tapes that I converted to .AWS format, but I am having problems handling the 65520 blocksize. How do people manage this? Most AWS utilities I have tried cannot recreate a tape like this. Anyone know of a utility that can? Dave

CUNIMG00

2006-12-05 Thread Dave Cartwright
I'm just building our ZOS1.7 system to eventually replace 1.4, and I just want to say that the berk who put a thirty thousand record member in PARMLIB is a right SYS1.SCUNTBL. Dave -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

CA-Spool Banner Page

2006-09-18 Thread Dave Cartwright
When CA-Spool sends a print to one of our Xerox IP printers it creates a Banner Page that has the Userid of the CA-Spool task as its main header. This has never worried us before, but now we are getting rinky-dink new Xerox printers that will respond to a RFID tag to output only that User's

Re: 3480 to 3490

2006-09-14 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 04:25:33 -0500, Mike Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use of MTL is also an option. It avoids JCL changes, ICF Catalog changes, and makes it easy to get volumes mounted on suitable drives. Yes, a Manual Tape Library would be a good answer but it is a heck of a lot of work to

II13894

2006-09-06 Thread Dave Cartwright
Does anyone know from where can I download a copy of FINDIMBD? I don't think the website mentioned in this APAR exists anymore - linkrot. Dave -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: HSM Tape Utilisation

2006-07-26 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:47:52 -0400, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this what you had in mind? LIST TTOC SELECT(BACKUP) ODS('$DOB.TTOC.BKP.JUL25A') That will do nicely. Thank you, sorry I forgot the basics. Dave

HSM Tape Utilisation

2006-07-25 Thread Dave Cartwright
I would like to list the percent valid data on my HSM backup tapes. Is there a way to do this directly without setting some percentage valid data then doing a RECYCLE REPORT? Alternatively does anyone have any information about the format of the HSM OCDS dataset that I could process it to list

Re: Replace hexa string

2006-06-02 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Friday 02 June 2006 05:29, Eric wrote: I seek a Batch program same as POUPDTE which could accept in its sysin the modifications with Hexadecimal x' 00 ' etc... I once modified IPOUPDTE to work on lower case characters; I think it is LOWUPDTE in CBT file 172. This probably does not support

Re: Using Java in batch on z/OS?

2006-05-31 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Wed, 31 May 2006 08:13:23 -0500, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is just a curiousity question. I downloaded JZOS the other day and have it working. Nice. But I wondering if anybody really uses Java for batch processing. Shame on you John for forgetting your own post about

Re: Structure of VVDS

2006-05-23 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Mon, 22 May 2006 22:37:30 +, Manuel Tabares Solórzano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List..I need the structure (data areas) of VVDS. Anyone can give me ? I don't think IBM provide a Programming Interface for the VVDS. Some people have figured out bits of it. Take a look at the

Re: Valid TSO Users

2006-05-17 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Tue, 16 May 2006 09:21:45 -0500, Dave Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody know how to do it? Thanks for all the responses. Driving home last night I realised I should have said we use SyncSort, although I think there is a version of RACFICE for that. We cancelled our DB2 license

Re: *DM*N*STR*V**: Archive access

2006-05-17 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Tue, 16 May 2006 15:17:00 -0500, Patrick O'Keefe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess it's too late to provide reasons, but sinece I use the archive exclusively I want go on record. In the past I've logged on only when posting or responding, and then without setting a cookie. To do otherwise is

Valid TSO Users

2006-05-16 Thread Dave Cartwright
I would like to report on those Users who are defined to RACF, who have a TSO segment and who are not revoked. Unfortunately our RACF DB contains many revoked Users and many Users without a TSO segment (IMS Users). If I unload the Database there are different record types for Userid and TSO

Re: Support for MVS/SP 3.2.2 on zSeries???

2006-04-04 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 10:07:53 -0500, Jay Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Of course, if IBM had a sane licensing policy, he could run it on Hercules...) IANAL but I would have thought that he could run it under Hercules under zLinux on a z890. That solves all the problems, architectural and Y2K

Re: Convert 3490E Tapes to CD or DVD

2006-03-26 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:16:16 -0600, Eric Bielefeld Eric- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of any companies that can convert mainframe tapes to DVDs or CDs? As many of you know, our mainframe is going out the door at the end of April. All of the historical data and otherwise tape data

Re: PROTECTION EXCEPTION 0C4 - Job Doesn't Work When Dataset Used

2006-02-27 Thread Dave Cartwright
Robert, This looks like a SORT application. Are you using SyncSort and have you applied mandatory maintenance SY62470? We did, even though it fixes hardware we do not have and then started getting 0C4's on jobs restarted by CA-11 (i.e. having funny delete/define processing - don't quote me). I

Re: creating the versions of a member with the same name in a PDS file

2006-02-02 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 09:27:10 +0100, Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thinking about it, I am quite sure that: - CA-PDSMAN can keep versions of member for you in one PDS. - CA-Lbrarian uses DA datasets, which look like PDS to you and it van also keep archived versions of members.

Re: TSSO

2006-01-26 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:46:40 -0500, Kittendorf, Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TSSO from FILE 404 solved my problem. We have a routine which does OSCMD D A,REGION. Then if CMDOUT 0 it checks the last line to see if REGION was not found. On the previously installed version, we got CMDOUT = 3.

Re: TSSO

2006-01-23 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:45:01 -0500, Kittendorf, Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, For z/OS 1.4 on z890, is TSSO on CBT file 404 the one I need? I assume others have 'been there, done that, got the t-shirt. Yup, no problem on 1.4 Problems ? Gotchas? Always pull the latest version from

Re: Does any have a program that can delete non-standard member names from a PDS

2006-01-11 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:08:07 -0500, Stocker, Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would anyone have a utility that can be given a hex member name to delete? Or any ideas as to how to delete these unwanted members? Another one is DEMEMBER in file 172 of the CBT tape. DC

Re: Email Adobe PDF files from Z/OS

2006-01-10 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 15:48:38 -0500, Hugh Lapham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry . . . can't really help then. We schedule our jobs via Control-M and everything seems to work fine, although I vaguely recall some weird problems earlier on that were solved by ensuring the appropriate C/C++ libraries

Re: Performance study

2006-01-06 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 14:30:02 -0500, Karl Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will be doing a performance study using SMF data to discover trends. Does anyone know of a free utility that can be used to do this. I do have SAS but as yet have not decided to use it. If you have a SAS procedure I could

Re: Define and start JES2

2006-01-04 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 16:32:27 +0800, Johnny Luo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two questions: 1,here you use 'JES4' and maybe I could use another name such as 'ABCD'.Then, how could the system know that the subsystem you want to initialize is JES2? Put it in another word,how to establish the

Re: Define and start JES2

2006-01-03 Thread Dave Cartwright
Short answer is that the primary subsystem (for JES2) must be named JES2 and the procedure must have the same name. Baloney. Here is the start of the IEFSSNxx member from my Test system called MVS4 so JES2 runs as JES4; SUBSYS SUBNAME(SMS) /* SMS SHOULD BE THE FIRST ENTRY*/

Machine Type

2005-11-29 Thread Dave Cartwright
Can anyone point me to a table of machine types and the values set by each in the Store CPUID instruction? I couldn't find it in the archives nor Pop. Dave -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: MEMLIMIT and IEFUSI

2005-11-01 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 09:18:42 +0100, Barbara Nitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And now that I have gotten the good idea to write my own monitor to show me who is using storage above the bar, I still wonder why RMF for 1.6 doesn't show this. Barbara, Please get your company to agree to your donating

VTAM Priority

2005-10-20 Thread Dave Cartwright
What's the perceived wisdom on VTAM dispatching priority these days (zOS1.4) ? The IBM-MAIN archives are rather ambiguous about it. Yesterday afternoon one of the AS400 guys did some mammoth data transfer and locked the mainframe up completely. When we reset VTAM from SYSSTC to a low importance

Re: VTAM Priority

2005-10-20 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:21:08 +0200, Barbara Nitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am now advocating leaving VTAM as a lower priority task to pre-empt such lock-outs. Is this sensible? Well, I would not do it if it were an online system running IMS or CICS relying on a VTAM connection to get data to

Re: Disclaimers

2005-10-20 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 08:34:10 -0500, Martin Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone here know how to disable a company-inserted disclaimer such as the one below? Disclaimer appears on any message that includes an external ID in the TO: field. Mail system is Lotus. Disclaimer appears to be

Re: Starting Over

2005-10-19 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:10:10 -0400, Habres, Richard (GTI) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only problem with leaving it on ML1 is the CPU used to do the compression. Tape compression is in the hardware. ML1 compression is in the software. Not necessarily. We have ML2 on Flex-ES FakeTape(tm) and our

Re: Data space addressability

2005-10-12 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 23:41:33 +0200, John Krew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone who is well versed in Unix and less so in the mainframe world has asked me a question which sounds preposterous on the face of it. He asked if it would be at all feasible for a C program to establish addressabilty to

Re: (OT) Hats Off To IBM

2005-10-06 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 23:15:28 -0500, Ed Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IBM is helping out in the aftermath of the hurricane. http://www.ibm.com/news/us/en/2005/09/2005_09_26.html See what they're up against; http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid7_gci1130910,00.html?

Lift and Shift

2005-09-23 Thread Dave Cartwright
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/23/microfocus_lift_shift/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Re: IBM and gaming

2005-09-16 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 01:04:39 -0500, Brad Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe they can use it to replace the IBM 360 CPUs on the Space Shuttle. Or are they 370s? I believe there are 4 of them I came across an interesting titbit on that, starting from El Reg. Look at the Avionics

Re: mainframe shops in Orlando?

2005-09-14 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 19:53:57 +0300, Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is T3 really mainframe? They are more involved in writing Hercules^W zArchitecture emulation. That's very rude and factually incorrect. T3 are resellers of the Flex-ES system from Fundamental Software Inc. and of the

Re: Non-Windows version of IBM Softcopy Librarian?

2005-09-06 Thread Dave Cartwright
John, Have you tried it under WINE? I have not myself worked with WINE, I just know how to spell it. Dave On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 10:42:58 +1000, Fenner, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John, Always enjoy your posts! Have you considered buying VMWare for Linux and running (a licensed copy of)

Re: Dead Beef

2005-08-26 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:00:14 -0400, Bruce Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always assumed that SPZAP did RDJFCB, and when it noticed that you specified FORMAT4.DSCB it did an OPENJ for X'040404...' (which is hard to specify in JCL). absolutely correct. X'0404' is the dataset name of the

Re: Dilemma of a young Mainframe Systems Programmer

2005-08-04 Thread Dave Cartwright
Not much OT; http://www.guidenet.net/resources/programmers.html DC -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Re: Third party Maintenance of z/OS R4 after March 2007

2005-07-28 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:10:12 +0200, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is possible to take money for that. Without access to source code it is quite impossible to fix something. BTW: I don't knowe their prices, but I can support you for half of their price! Obviously I'' be Ltd. vbg Me too

Re: Another - Another One Bites the Dust

2005-07-08 Thread Dave Cartwright
May have been a bad move; http://www.itsecurity.com/security.htm? s=5378sid=96a9001ffa68496bc8a3351f8e0cb085 (sorry if it wraps) DC -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: HSM statistics

2005-06-30 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:53:06 +0100, Perryman, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah yes, forgot about those HSM records going to SMF! Brian, Member HPR of file 172 in the CBT tape is a report program for HSM's SMF records. It doesn't do what you want, but maybe you could use it as a starting

Re: Newsgroups (Was Another OS/390 to z/OS 1.4 migration

2005-06-27 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 09:49:57 -0500, Eric Bielefeld Eric- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---snip- 2. Do other companies restrict newsgroups or usenet like we do? Oh yes. Our Net Nanny is VERY strict, no possibility of smut is allowed. At least in EAME, I couldn't

Re: OS390 2.10 to zOS 1.4 JES2 problem

2005-06-20 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 07:50:21 -0400, Bill Planer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably hundreds of conversions from 2.10 to 1.4 have been done over recent years without running into this problem. If it were me, I would really really really want to know why this is happening. It may indicate an

OS390 2.10 to zOS 1.4 JES2 problem

2005-06-13 Thread Dave Cartwright
We were finally due to migrate our production system to a supported level last weekend, but had to back out because JES2 kept falling over. It is a monoplex running on Flex-ES. We have had a test system and full clone of Prod running for months with no problem. I cloned the JES spool volume

Re: IBM MF-theme vanity plates (was RE: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-09 Thread Dave Cartwright
In the seventies at IBM Havant one of the sysprogs got a German transit plate with the number MFT 11. Sadly I am old enough to remember the judge's words at the Jeremy Thorpe trial, commenting on one of the many unsavoury characters; The sort of man who has personalised number plates. DC

Re: Performance and Capacity Planning

2005-06-03 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 06:09:20 -0400, Paul Hanrahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shane, Walker wants me to pay for a chart. Gartner wants me to pay. If Phil made the charts available then I thank him. My boss didn't seem to think I had a need to know even though I was doing monthly MIPS reports so

Re: Get rid of EXPDT in catalog and format-1 DSCB?

2005-06-02 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 07:37:21 -0500, Jan Vanbrabant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Do you know (other) means to get rid of the expiration date in catalogs or format-1 DSCBs? Have a look at CDSCB on the CBT tape. There are many versions, there should be a Y2K compliant version in file 172. This will

Re: Filezilla FTP updated 2.2.13c May 3, 2005 my last z/OS bug squash ed

2005-05-24 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Mon, 23 May 2005 15:54:39 -0400, Knutson, Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, FileZilla is a fast FTP and SFTP client for Windows with a lot of features available as GPL (free distribution source and binary) software. I like it! http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ The latest release is 2.2.13c