Re: Question about MODEL DSCB

2010-10-21 Thread Elliot, David
Model DSCB does not work for SMS managed allocations use DATACLASS instead. Model DSCB can be used for non SMS allocations but is no longer required. Eg: DISP=(,CATLG),DSN=GDGNAME(+1),LRECL=BLKSIZE=RECFM= etc. No need for model DSCB. David Elliot zSeries Software Support -Original

Re: Using the CSNBKPI call in ICSF

2010-10-19 Thread Elliot, David
Difficult to know what to suggest as the steps you took appear logical. Just one thing comes to mind, when you generated the key using KGUP did you have special secure mode set to YES?. Is this your normal operating setting or could SSM have been set to NO since that key was generated?. I don't

Re: Two HSM's on one Lpar

2010-10-12 Thread Elliot, David
I guess you would have to change the catalog exit to determine which HSM got called. Why on earth are you considering such an idea? David Elliot zSeries Software Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Sent:

Re: Two HSM's on one Lpar

2010-10-12 Thread Elliot, David
I'm inclined to think it would not even be possible. There is probably an ENQ or some other device to ensure only one instance of HSM per system. There is a CVTHSM field in CVT which implies only one HSM. This sounds very much like a management type question. David Elliot zSeries Software

Re: Two HSM's on one Lpar

2010-10-12 Thread Elliot, David
Migration is not backup. I don't think you are going to do this easily with migrated data. The location of your migrated data has to match the contents of both the MCDS and the system catalog. So having migrated data both available to the system locally and at a DR site would not really help

Re: Two HSM's on one Lpar

2010-10-12 Thread Elliot, David
GUIDE Richard J Habres -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Elliot, David Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 5:46 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Two HSM's on one Lpar Migration is not backup. I don't think you are going

Re: Two HSM's on one Lpar

2010-10-12 Thread Elliot, David
you are looking for, but you can find more information in the DFSMSHSM IMPLEMENTATION AND CUSTOMIZATION GUIDE Richard J Habres -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Elliot, David Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 5:46 PM To: IBM

Re: IPLTEXT and NUCLEUS dates

2010-09-30 Thread Elliot, David
dates --- On Tue, 9/28/10, Elliot, David elli...@aafes.com wrote: From: Elliot, David elli...@aafes.com Subject: Re: IPLTEXT and NUCLEUS dates To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: Tuesday, September 28, 2010, 12:53 PM Exactly. It is (IMO) good practice to regenerate your IPLTEXT not just after

Re: IPLTEXT and NUCLEUS dates

2010-09-28 Thread Elliot, David
How did you find this out? David Elliot zSeries Software Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Arye Shemer Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 12:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: IPLTEXT and NUCLEUS dates Hello

Re: IPLTEXT and NUCLEUS dates

2010-09-28 Thread Elliot, David
...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Elliot, David Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:23 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: IPLTEXT and NUCLEUS dates How did you find this out? David Elliot zSeries Software Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m

Re: where does your OMVS Root file live?

2010-09-23 Thread Elliot, David
Here it lives in the appropriate SMS pool with the z/OS version, the LPAR and the PUT level in the name. David Elliot zSeries Software Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John Norgauer Sent: Thursday, September 23,

Re: Access z/OS 3270 TSO from smartphone?

2010-09-22 Thread Elliot, David
These guys are not going to get very far with comments like this: Uses Assembler runtime components rather than Java or C++ ones: nothing beats the speed and efficiency of Assembler on a mainframe David Elliot zSeries Software Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Access z/OS 3270 TSO from smartphone?

2010-09-22 Thread Elliot, David
smartphone? Actually, their product runs on the mainframe, and translates TN3270E data setreams to HTML Web pages. So any built in web browser accesses a remote mainframe with this product installed on the mainframe. On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Elliot, David elli...@aafes.com wrote: These guys

Re: not wise, but how to reduce CPU to receive SMP/E PTFs.

2010-09-21 Thread Elliot, David
Yes. I know what you mean. I do a similar thing. I ftp the SMPMCS.pax.Z file to z/OS. OCOPY that file into a HFS. UNZIP back to a sequential dataset. RECEIVE from that DS to SMPE. A rigmarole indeed but it works. Just waiting for them to close that loophole. David Elliot zSeries Software

Re: not wise, but how to reduce CPU to receive SMP/E PTFs.

2010-09-21 Thread Elliot, David
] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 4:26 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: not wise, but how to reduce CPU to receive SMP/E PTFs. On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:14:05 -0500, Elliot, David wrote: Yes. I know what you mean. I do a similar thing. I ftp the SMPMCS.pax.Z file to z/OS

Re: Question on WTO macro - Programming requirements

2010-09-16 Thread Elliot, David
Wasn't R0 used (at one time) for the message id to link multiline WTOs together? David Elliot zSeries Software Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 12:33 PM To:

Re: What are types of Work in SMF 30 record?

2010-08-11 Thread Elliot, David
That refers to the SMF30JNM field. David Elliot zSeries Software Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 10:11 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: What are types of

Re: STC is canceled and forced, but still won't go away

2010-08-09 Thread Elliot, David
Is that NFS? If so, have you stopped the file system? David Elliot zSeries Software Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 2:42 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: STC is

Re: History of Hard-coded Offsets (Was: TSSO problems)

2010-07-20 Thread Elliot, David
I remember learning that method from an assembler programmer I worked with. I can also remember poring over microfiche source code listings to get some of this information so maybe the information was not readily available from IBM in those days. The practice seemed to be fairly common in the

Re: SMF QUESTION - TRACKING VSAM CLUSTER

2010-06-14 Thread Elliot, David
Type 63? Have I stepped through a time warp this morning? I thought VSAM catalogs were obsolete years ago. David Elliot zSeries Software Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John Dawes Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010

Re: Turning on ACF2 SECURITY Privilege through an exit . . .

2010-04-23 Thread Elliot, David
It was an absurd discussion anyway even by Friday afternoon standards. At least now we know why the land of cow bells and cuckoo clocks needs to keep it's banking activities a secret. I must remember not to put any money in that bank! David Elliot zSeries Software Support -Original

Re: Recataloging VSAM Dataset

2010-04-16 Thread Elliot, David
Has this dataset been recovered with a full volume restore? Is there a VVDS available on the output volume? David Elliot zSeries Software Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Klein, Kevin Sent: Friday, April 16,

Re: An amusing REXX program - JES2DISK == copies JES output to disk using REXX's SDSF API

2010-03-26 Thread Elliot, David
Interesting. There I was looking around for something to do on a boring Friday afternoon and a ready made program drops into my lap. A sort of DIY sysout archiver. Better keep it to ourselves though. I know people who, having no trust in schedulers, return codes, SMF or any of that nonsense,

Re: An amusing REXX program - JES2DISK == copies JES output to disk using REXX's SDSF API

2010-03-26 Thread Elliot, David
Siegel Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 4:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: An amusing REXX program - JES2DISK == copies JES output to disk using REXX's SDSF API On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote: On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:51:12 -0500, Elliot, David

Re: Old assembler modules.

2010-02-11 Thread Elliot, David
Take care deleting old stuff. I once deleted these old assembler modules from a linklist library only to find the IMS people were using an out dated procedure for their PSBGEN and DBDGEN jobs. Nobody had told them to update their procedures and the old assembler was working fine for them.

Re: Reentrant Programs and Protected Storage

2009-11-18 Thread Elliot, David
Keep your hair on pal. People are only trying to help. David Elliot zSeries Software Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of David Shein Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 12:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re:

Re: user-written MVS subsystems

2009-11-16 Thread Elliot, David
This was the way things were done back in the days when IBM published things like debugging handbooks and logic manuals. I still have a copy of MVS Interface Facilities, a student text rescued from a trash bin, and dating from the days when writing this sort of home grown software was

Re: Justice Department probing allegations of abuse by IBM in mainframe computer market

2009-10-08 Thread Elliot, David
They'll be discovering steam next. Of course IBM is being unfair to its competitors. That's what being dominant means. David Elliot zSeries Software Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Thursday,

Re: BPXWDYN and the Internal Reader (INTRDR)

2009-06-30 Thread Elliot, David
Would a SYSOUT status keyword do the job? ALLOC FI(JOBOUT) SYSOUT(x) WRITER(INTRDR) MSG(2 Just a guess. David Elliot zSeries Software Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Terry Sambrooks Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Re: Finding CICS on an MVS image

2009-06-26 Thread Elliot, David
The SHOWZOS program does this. Look in the USERS section. David Elliot zSeries Software Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Dave Day Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 11:53 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Finding CICS

Re: Number of members in a PDS?

2009-03-26 Thread Elliot, David
Just out of purely idle curiosity, would you care to enlighten us as to what the requester intends to do with this information? David Elliot zSeries Software Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent:

Re: IEFSSSSA, IGDVLD and subsystem calls to SMS

2009-01-08 Thread Elliot, David
The information which you seek is not generally available to the average peasant. If you have some sample code you could fill in the gaps by reading the comments in the IEFSSSA macro in MODGEN. Alternatively you could use the IGWASMS callable service to obtain the DFSMS information for a dataset.

Re: JES2 Exit Migration from prior to z/OS 1.7

2008-11-05 Thread Elliot, David
JES2 exit processing for exit 4 (and 2 and 3) has been split into 2 parts, one for jobs submitted from BSC and SNA devices (4) and one for jobs submitted via TCPIP readers and internal readers (54). So. 1. Yes. If you need an exit 4 you will also need an exit 54. Note also that the entry

Re: SMS requests

2008-10-27 Thread Elliot, David
Take a look in IEFSSSA in SYS1.MODGEN David Elliot zSeries Software Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Wilkie Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 11:37 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: SMS requests Does anyone know

Re: SMS requests

2008-10-27 Thread Elliot, David
Actually, if you didn't want to get into programming too much, a look in SYS1.SACBCNTL would show you how to run ISMF in the batch (NaviQuest is what IBM calls it). Then you could come along with a REXX EXEC or something and format your reports or whatever from the output. David Elliot zSeries

Re: SMS requests

2008-10-27 Thread Elliot, David
Bill, The operator command you refer to tells you which subsystems are enabled for the specified subsystem function. I don't think this is what you are looking for. It might be useful to know what your objective is here. There are easier ways of obtaining this information than writing subsystem

Re: Third Party Tool Usage

2008-09-05 Thread Elliot, David
FWIW A situation I have been faced with many times. If the product is contained in its own library and not on the linklist then a security product audit should give the required usage. Also the SMF type 30 record will provide information at least about the lead module executed which should be

Re: SMF type 30, duplicate entries

2008-07-29 Thread Elliot, David
Are you saying the entire record is duplicated? That would be unusual. Or is it just your selected fields that are appearing to be the same? It is possible for several jobs of the same name to enter the system with the same time stamp, things are now moving so fast. It is possible to get around