Re: Differences in IEFTMS7 and IEFTMS8

2008-11-11 Thread John Giltner
You remember correctly, those messages have been with the product since UCC1 days. Linda Mooney wrote: If I remember correctly (and I don't remember if I do ;-), this may have been with the product since UCC1 days. Anyway, (and this I definitely remember), years ago we used to run without any

Re: Measuring performance with job elapsed time

2008-11-10 Thread John Giltner
Roded Bahat wrote: Hello, We're rewriting a batch application to work with more than one task as it does now. The basic idea is to divide the work needed to be done into 2 or more different tasks in order to allow parallel processing and decrease the job's elapsed running time. The improvement

Re: Comparing Mainframe and Windows Server CICS Transactions per kWh

2008-10-30 Thread John Giltner
Fred Schmidt wrote: The latest z/Journal has a study by Microsoft comparing Windows against the mainframe in terms of electrical power usage for CICS web-based applications. It claims that Windows is many times more efficient. You can find the PDF document at

Re: Using RACF for Single Signon ( logon )

2008-10-17 Thread John Giltner
As Rich Smrcina said, this can be accomplished by using LDAP. For OS that support using NIS servers (Unix/Linux), you can even use LDAP on z/OS as a NIS server, thus you don't even have to add users to the local security database. In addition to politics you may also run into password length

Re: RACF DB2 DDF

2008-10-15 Thread John Giltner
Look for RACF messages at the same time for the same userid. Could be that: userid is not valid password is wrong userid and password is correct, but userid is not authorized to access DB2. MVSGuy wrote: I'm getting a security error when accessing DB2 9.1 from DB2 connect on the PC -

Re: Simple VTAM-Question?

2008-10-15 Thread John Giltner
Look up the MODIFY NET,TABLE command in the SNA Operation. I think it is something like: F NET,TABLE,NEWTAB=tablename,OLDTAB=tablename but it has been a long time since I had to use it. Michael Knigge wrote: All, I've modified my VTAM Logon Screen and now want to activate it. Is this

Re: dynamically generating Netview global variable names

2008-08-26 Thread John Giltner
Here is code that I use to check and set global variable that uses dynamic variable: /* DCGLOBS */ /* Display and Set Global Variable */ 'GLOBALV GETC 'MSGVAR(1) SAY 'Old value of 'MSGVAR(1)' is ' VALUE(MSGVAR(1)) ' and will be MSGVAR(2) INTERPERT MSGVAR(1) ' = MSGVAR(2)' GLOBALV PUTC

Re: TSO PING command

2008-08-13 Thread John Giltner
Look at what you posted, you are missing the paren before the options: ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (TCP TCPIP Mohd Shahrifuddin wrote: Dear all, Try this command PING XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX TCP TCPIP follow from the manual get this error: EZZ3109I Extraneous parameter TCP. We in z/OS 1.4. Below is

Re: IBM's financial results ?

2008-08-09 Thread John Giltner
Anton Britz wrote: Hi, Just to get all these Wandering minds on to something more productive : How do you think IBM keeps their financial results so rosy ? All the other vendors have annouced buy backs ex. Dell/Sun etc but IBM still announced fantastic results. Something smells fishy some

Re: Can I tell whether a site is Linux on z

2008-08-04 Thread John Giltner
Well if this is the same company, it seems that some of the company runs SUSE Linux on Intel/AMD and zSeries along with some other OS on zSeries. They don't mention what the other OS is. http://www.novell.com/success/deutsche_bahn.html The software that they use HAFAS is avaliable for IBM

Re: Can I tell whether a site is Linux on z

2008-08-04 Thread John Giltner
After re-looking at it, I don't think it is Linux at all. If you go http://bahn.hafas.de/ you will see you are re-directed to: http://bahn.hafas.de/bin/query.exe/d Notice the query.exe.I would say off hand that this is a Windows box. However, they could be running Wine under Linux or just

Re: z/OS BIND9 DNS Vulnerable to Cache Poisoning Attack Problem?

2008-08-04 Thread John Giltner
Edward Jaffe wrote: John Giltner wrote: Edward Jaffe wrote: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/149022/faq_how_to_dodge_the_dns_bug.html http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicarticleId=9110622 http://www.doxpara.com/ Is z/OS vulnerable

Re: Any way to make printer continue after an error?

2008-06-03 Thread John Giltner
Rick Stetser wrote: I have a developer asking if there is any way to cause a printer to continue printing after encountering an error such as a missing page segment or a missing font. He says why should that kind of error be a complete show stopper such that any subsequent documents in the

Re: MULC availability

2008-04-25 Thread John Giltner
We are still under MULC and we are on z990's. I know when we upgraded from z900 we looked at both z990 and z9 and we were still going to be allowed to do MULC on the z9 if we had gone with a pair of those. Rob Wunderlich wrote: We asked our IBM Business Partner to do a study of PSLC + MULC

Re: SALC pricing for MQ

2008-04-17 Thread John Giltner
Rob Wunderlich wrote: We license MQ V5 on MLC for about 2k/month. We have very little MQ activity, so we are looking at changing this to SALC (usage based) to save money. The quote from IBM for 1 MSU, the lowest band, is 10k/month! This doesn't make sense based on our experience with other

Re: MVS initiated FTP to Windows

2008-03-18 Thread John Giltner
Hal Merritt wrote: Not possible with standard Windows because it don't come with a FTP server. Yes it does. You install the Personal Web Services or Server and it installed Web Server (IIS), FTP server, and a SMTP server. Initiation and control of FTP always comes from the client.

Re: Printing a PDF or PS doc

2008-01-04 Thread John Giltner
If you have IP Printway or something like it you can (I am sure VPS can do it). IP Printway can act like a LPD server and IBM has software available on their printer web site for free that allows you to print from Windows to the mainframe printer. You can print PDF document, or from any

Re: OT: For the History buff's an IBM 5150 pc

2008-01-01 Thread John Giltner
Ed Gould wrote: http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/feature-modder-hacks-1980s-ibm-pc-to-play-full-motion-color-video This represents itself to be the first PC ever. I do not know if this is true or not. You can make up your own mind. Ed http://www.blinkenlights.com/pc.shtml

Re: Forcing a userid and password prompt on session connect

2007-12-10 Thread John Giltner
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:19:23 -0600, Support, DUNNIT SYSTEMS LTD. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To John, I think I mentioned earlier on that SSL is not what we're looking for because our goal here is to place a sentry on the Flex-Es box's Telnet port 23 and not allow anyone to pass without a valid ID

Re: Forcing a userid and password prompt on session connect

2007-12-09 Thread John Giltner
Support, DUNNIT SYSTEMS LTD. wrote: Yes, I found the short reference to it in the IP Configuration Guide but I'm not sure as to exactly what needs to be changed and where and what the consequences are in contrast to our current use of the default USSTAB. Helping this knucklehead out

Re: Any details on this migration

2006-04-07 Thread John Giltner
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 14:38:10 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/05/2006 at 09:10 PM, John S. Giltner, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Our director point to this as see it's possible to migrate a large scale applications off of a IBM mainframe and

Any details on this migration

2006-04-05 Thread John Giltner
Does anybody have any details on the size of the IBM mainframe that was replaced in this migration? http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/3825/49/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: TCP/IP and CMC?

2005-08-06 Thread John Giltner
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 22:10:20 -0500, Ed Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 5, 2005, at 8:47 PM, John S. Giltner, Jr. wrote: Ted, Yes you can have a CMC in a TCP/IP envorment. In fact IBM even renamed it to something else NET390. It included everything you had in a traditional SNA and

Re: DFHSM...Can it be controlled via RACF?

2005-06-21 Thread John Giltner
You might try giving DFHSM access of NONE to the files you do not want it to migrate. However, IMHO, this would be as much work as updating/maintaining management classes. Why do you not want to use management classes? On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 08:26:43 -0500, Daniel Moshief [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: IBM to Acquire Isogon Corporation

2005-06-16 Thread John Giltner
Sure the heck does. We've been told that NetView Access Services is functionally stable and will not be enhanced, that IBM Session Manager was the way of the future. However, that was before Candle and Isogon. On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:28:12 -0500, Eric Chevalier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Sync A z/OS Clock To An SNTP Time Server?

2005-06-15 Thread John Giltner
z/OS gets it time from TOD. The TOD gets it time from either an operator or a sysplex timer. A sysplex timer can be sync'ed with an external time referece, but that is using special hardware (a modem dialing out) and not SNTPD server on the internet. On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:39:27 -0400, Jim

Re: Setting the Creation Date for datasets

2005-06-14 Thread John Giltner
Unless I am misunderstood he is creating a MVS file and not a Unix System Services file, so what attributes is he attempting to keep? Even if is he ftp'ing to Unix System Services what system attributes will he be maintaining, other than create date/time? The owner and group ID's and permissions