Re: how to delete the vsam FILE while I got IEC161I (return code 052) SFI=009

2009-03-25 Thread John McKown
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:30:49 +0800, Tommy Tsui tommyt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I checked with GRSMON, there is nothing resource enqueue and can't delete the file with rc IEC1611 rc=52 SFI=009 . Is there any way to delete the VSAM file? 009SUBTSKMS - First open of a data set, not

Re: In trouble!

2009-03-25 Thread John McKown
I've explored the following: (1) Issue a RACF ALU command from the console. I get the following: IRRV003I (#) YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO ISSUE THE ALTUSER COMMAND AS AN OPERATOR COMMAND. Can you update PARMLIB? In particular, if you know the userid of a RACF SPECIAL user, then

ICETOOL - date subtraction?

2009-03-24 Thread John McKown
I don't see a way to do this, but maybe I'm just missing it. I am writing a report which read the RACF database unload report. The report basically shows IDs which have not been used in the last 90 days. This is rather simple with a statement similar to: INCLUDE

Re: ICETOOL - date subtraction?

2009-03-24 Thread John McKown
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:16:36 -0700, Frank Yaeger yae...@us.ibm.com wrote: DFSORT/ICETOOL doesn't have any built-in function for calculating n = (Current_date) - (-mm-dd) Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM) - yae...@us.ibm.com Specialties: FINDREP, WHEN=GROUP, DATASORT, ICETOOL,

Re: Old discussion about Windows running on a mainframe ( I brought up)

2009-03-24 Thread John McKown
I'm a bit curious. If I understand what is being done, it is similar to a Java JVM. The z/VOS reads and interprets the x86 arch instructions, with some JIT on the side. However, other companies, such as AMD, need cross licensing to create chips which run x86. That cross licensing is part of IBM's

Re: Old discussion about Windows running on a mainframe ( I brought up)

2009-03-24 Thread John McKown
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:49:26 -0500, Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com wrote: On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:36:42 -0500, John McKown wrote: I'm a bit curious. If I understand what is being done, it is similar to a Java JVM. The z/VOS reads and interprets the x86 arch instructions, with some JIT

Current version of IEFACTRT?

2009-03-24 Thread John McKown
Is IEFACTRT on CBTTape file 109 still good (for z/OS 1.10)? I have a very old version from IBM which appears to be giving wrong data. I.e. I look at an SMF type 30 subtype 5 record and it says 109312 1/100ths of a second CPU time. But looking at the output from the IEFACTRT exit on the job itself

Implementing CA-1 / RACF

2009-03-20 Thread John McKown
I was told Tuesday that I must implement the CA-1 / RACF functions to restrict use of EXPDT=98000 and BLP. Wednesday, I came down with something. I'm now back with this deadline looming over me. I'm still a bit fuzzy headed, so I'll ask the corporate intelligence for any advice on what I need to

Re: Implementing CA-1 / RACF

2009-03-20 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:14:05 -0400, Dean Montevago dean.montev...@vnsny.org wrote: You have to turn on the various options to use external security functions in CA-1's parmlib, so if the classes have a default rc=4 and initally the functions are set to NO you should be ok. You can define the

Re: FW: SYSOUT dynamic allocation in COBOL

2009-03-17 Thread John McKown
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:18:11 -0500, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:39:50 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: 2009/3/17 Ulrich Krueger: At my shop, when I was finally able to pinpoint where the SMTP performance problems originated from, I was lucky. A single

Re: Is There VSAM Equivalent for BUFNO?

2009-03-15 Thread John McKown
in ascending sequence anyway. My replacement was basically a read each file and do a 'match merge' of the transaction with the master'. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: Ein Stein. Maranatha! John McKown

Re: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

2009-03-15 Thread John McKown
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, HyoungSeok Yim wrote: help Nice Beatle's song, but not on topic to this forum. Please try again. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: Ein Stein. Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM

Re: SYSOUT dynamic allocation in COBOL

2009-03-15 Thread John McKown
'BPXWDYN' USING BPXWDYN-PARM END-CALL http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/bpxzb680/6.6 -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: Ein Stein. Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Splitting files into a variable number of cataloged files

2009-03-13 Thread John McKown
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:55:40 +0200, Itschak Mugzach imugz...@gmail.com wrote: John, Write a small rexx program that will read the number of records from the catalog and then generate the appropriate IDCAMS control cards ;-) No empty files, exact number of control cards, faster IO. Itschak I

Re: Splitting files into a variable number of cataloged files

2009-03-13 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:50:52 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za wrote: SNIP 2. Other solution is to write a COBOL/REXX program with dynamic allocation and using a loop of 10 open/read/write/close. Read up the service BPXWDYN. You can use BPXWDYN in COBOL or REXX. This

Re: Splitting files into a variable number of cataloged files

2009-03-12 Thread John McKown
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:36:21 -0600, Howard Brazee howard.bra...@cusys.edu wrote: I need to create a routine that can be used with a bunch of different extracts to split files into new files of 100,000 records each. They need to be FTPd to the same location with different names, but I don't want

Re: Splitting files into a variable number of cataloged files

2009-03-12 Thread John McKown
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:18:42 +0200, Itschak Mugzach imugz...@gmail.com wrote: Idcams skip Count... I don't think that would word in this case. 1) the OP wants CEIL(n/10) output files, where n is the number of input records, which is not known beforehand. He stated that empty output files

This applies here too! Do's and Don't's

2009-03-11 Thread John McKown
John Pape: Five ways to sabotage your chance of getting help from community forums. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/0903_col_pape/0903_col_pape.html?S_TACT=105AGX01S_CMP=HP -- John -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: z/OS 1.9 installation ROOT ETC and VAR

2009-03-11 Thread John McKown
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:21:48 -0400, Jerry Fuchs jerry.fu...@wendysarbys.com wrote: Mark, My predecessor and DB2 guy did install directly into the root rather than new files. My problem now is how to carry that forward into z/OS 1.9. Java was not ordered with z/OS 1.9 either. Any ideas or am I

Re: one IKJEFT01 job, 2 outputs in sdsf - why?

2009-03-10 Thread John McKown
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:28:08 -0400, Bonno, Tuco t...@cio.sc.gov wrote: THANK YOU. this example [infra] of bpxbatch works very well in terms of solving my original problem/issue. but it's at the expense of making it much more complicated (imo) to process long complicated commands that go across 3

Re: OpenTech DBS

2009-03-09 Thread John McKown
. This was very helpful when we were learning the products. IOW - we are really sold on the product. We also use their VDR and VTAR products. We are very pleased with all three. -- John McKown HealthMarkets, Inc. -- For IBM-MAIN

Media manager is the future?

2009-03-06 Thread John McKown
Or perhaps whatever has/will replace it? The reason that I ask is that it seems that while DFSMSdfp clings tenaciously to the 3390 DASD architecture, it is also using this interface (with 4K physical blocks) for all new I/O. IIRC, it was first just a part of VSAM. I am not sure, but I'd bet that

Re: S/390 Resolve

2009-03-05 Thread John McKown
than what the vendor thinks that they can get away with. Even if the historical method actually costs more. Business makes no sense to me. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: Ein Stein. Maranatha! John McKown

Re: S/390 Resolve

2009-03-05 Thread John McKown
theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: Ein Stein. Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives

Re: Request help with REXEC

2009-03-03 Thread John McKown
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 08:59:34 -0800, Kurt Eastwood kurtms...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello,   We are running an REXEC to a server running Redhat enterprise linux 5.3 and receiving the following error. This was previously running to a server running HP/UX 11.0 with no problems. Has anyone run into this

Re: 3490E cartridges

2009-03-03 Thread John McKown
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 20:10:23 +, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca wrote: It must really be wonderful when all your customers keep up to date. However, pontificating for those of us whose customers don't merely demonstrates the limits of your experience. Well said! I've been at places that are

Re: Do and don't in programing (Security wise)

2009-03-03 Thread John McKown
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 16:40:31 -0500, Gerhard Postpischil gerh...@valley.net wrote: Itschak Mugzach wrote: Any other ideas? Don't write code that branches into the middle of an instruction - with proper choice of base registers and displacements, it's possible to write a chain of code contained in

Re: Cobol: Maximum number of FD Statements

2009-03-02 Thread John McKown
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 22:04:35 +, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca wrote: It wouldn't tell you much at my shop. Users are penalized for coding REGION=0M and dropped down to the IEFUSI default of 256M. OTOH, one can get a larger region size by actually coding it here. About 5 years ago I updated

CEECRINI+X'2BC' abend S0C4-10 in CICS/TS 3.2

2009-02-27 Thread John McKown
I have looked on IBMLink and got no hits on this. So I thought I'd ask for any ideas. We are running z/OS 1.8 on a z9BC. CICS/TS is release 3.2. We have two different programs which abend with an S0C4-10 in CEECRINI at offset x'2BC'. The abending instruction is L 4,4(,4) which is preceeded by a L

Re: CEECRINI+X'2BC' abend S0C4-10 in CICS/TS 3.2

2009-02-27 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:26:41 -0500, Barkow, Eileen ebar...@doitt.nyc.gov wrote: see if CICS ptf UK40899 is on the system. No, it is not. if so, LE fix in pk73422 is required for z/os 1.9 - there may also be something for z/os 1.8. the apar does not exactly match your problem but there are

Xpeditor (Re: CEECRINI+X'2BC' abend S0C4-10 in CICS/TS 3.2)

2009-02-27 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:27:48 -0600, Chase, John jch...@ussco.com wrote: snip Any pointers? Oh, we are running RENTPGM=NOPROTECT because (IIRC) Xpeditor won't work otherwise. Current releases (8.x) of Xpediter will work fine with RENTPGM=PROTECT. -jc- Thanks! I'll mention that to the main

SMF reporting question

2009-02-26 Thread John McKown
I realize that most people likely use SAS for SMF reporting. We did this in the past. Management has declared that SAS on the z is simply too expensive. They also declared that installing the Windows version on our main user's PC is also too expensive. End of discussion on that point. So, what

Re: SMF reporting question

2009-02-26 Thread John McKown
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:32:49 -0600, Mark Zelden mark.zel...@zurichna.com wrote: What does hard money mean. Zero? Correct. Hard money means a check made out to somebody. Soft money is possible, but that basically means that __we__ do something to get the report so our salary is paying for it.

Re: What do you call...

2009-02-25 Thread John McKown
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:02:25 -0500, Bill Fairchild bi...@mainstar.com wrote: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 12:48 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: What do you call... I got my Certificate in

Re: Large 3270 screen size and TSO/ISPF 6.0 on z/OS v1.10

2009-02-25 Thread John McKown
I have a 43x162 working here on z/OS 1.10. However, to get it, I had to specify a queryable logmode in my VTAM command which connected to the system. E.g. tso logmode(sna3270q) where we created a logmode called SNA3270Q which has the query bit on. When I didn't do this, I got a mod5 screen. --

Re: Deleting UnExpired dataset using JCL

2009-02-24 Thread John McKown
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:57:05 +, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca wrote: I know about IDCAMS, but the user wants a pure JCL solution. Then the user is out of luck. The best that can happen is there's a WTOR, to ask if it's okay. And, I believe that's only if there is write activity to the

Re: UnixSS and C

2009-02-24 Thread John McKown
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:55:35 -0800, O'Mara, Kevin, ITD kevin.om...@acgov.org wrote: I contend that in Windoze Linux world, maybe most other operating systems, there is at least one free C compiler readily available. When I found that we did not have any C compiler, because of cost, I was very

Re: USS and C

2009-02-23 Thread John McKown
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:10:02 -0600, P S zosw...@gmail.com wrote: Do folks care about USS? That is, do most z/OS shops actually use USS for anything beyond the things they're forced to (TCP/IP stuff, for example)? My experience suggests that the general answer is No (with exceptions, of course).

Re: Mantissa Presenting at SHARE (March 6, 2009)?

2009-02-20 Thread John McKown
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:41:24 +0900, Timothy Sipples e99...@jp.ibm.com wrote: Now this is interesting http://www.mantissa.com/SHARE-conference - - - - - Timothy Sipples Looks like the web jockey totally messed up the HTML on that page. And all the others that I looked at as well. It just

Re: Mantissa Presenting at SHARE (March 6, 2009)?

2009-02-20 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:56:42 -0600, John McKown joa...@swbell.net wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:41:24 +0900, Timothy Sipples e99...@jp.ibm.com wrote: Now this is interesting http://www.mantissa.com/SHARE-conference - - - - - Timothy Sipples Looks like the web jockey totally messed up

Re: Mantissa Presenting at SHARE (March 6, 2009)?

2009-02-20 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:28:39 -0500, Tony Harminc tz...@attglobal.net wrote: snip It also seems inplausible that running Windows desktop on a z box is going to make sense. Surely it will be Windows server flavours that have the potential go move to big iron. And Windows servers are much easier to

Re: validator (was: Mantissa Presenting at SHARE (March 6, 2009))

2009-02-20 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:58:44 -0600, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: snip There's little pride of craftsmanship left nowadays. Management doesn't care and won't pay for it. If it works 80% of the time and does 80% of what is required, and only costs half of what 100% would cost, then

Re: Using a PC as DASD

2009-02-19 Thread John McKown
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:47:25 -0500, Mark Pace mpac...@gmail.com wrote: Luminex used to have a product called VirtualBlue 3990. It was a PC with ESCON cards to turned it into a 3990 emulator. I haven't worked with them in a few years so I don't know if the product still exists. FlexCUB at

Re: Error trying execute a shell on z/OS

2009-02-19 Thread John McKown
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:54:30 -0600, Carlos Cordero jccorde...@hotmail.com wrote: Colleagues, somebody can help me to find what happen when i try to execute a shell in z/OS? the error is this: Errno=82x The exec call contained a format error; Reason=5B4B000D. Press Enter to continue.

Re: Error trying execute a shell on z/OS

2009-02-19 Thread John McKown
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:28:07 -0600, Mark Zelden mark.zel...@zurichna.com wrote: On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:15:19 -0600, John McKown joa...@swbell.net wrote: What confuses me is the SELECT RUN MEHTOD: DIRECT which I do not recognize at all. ISHELL pull down option under Tools to run a program

Re: Error trying execute a shell on z/OS

2009-02-19 Thread John McKown
Carlos, From looking at Mark's post, I have a few questions: 1) is the file you're trying to run marked with the eXecutable bit in the directory. Be sure that when you check, you check the proper one (ie, the owner and the group and the other section of the attributes). 2) If it is executable,

Internet/ServerPac install - did I miss a step?

2009-02-12 Thread John McKown
I'm installing z/OS 1.10 using the Internet download instead of tapes. Due to the way that things are, the only option that I had was to download the files to my Windows desktop, then ftp upload them to a z/OS UNIX directory. Not really too bad. However, when I ran the installation dialog, the JCL

Re: Crypto-DASD?

2009-02-10 Thread John McKown
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:58:08 -0600, Eric Bielefeld eric-ibmm...@wi.rr.com wrote: I haven't heard anything about this new dasd, but I have a question. Why would you want everything encrypted? If you have a dasd box in your datacenter, what is the reason to encrypt all your data? I can see that

Re: Crypto-DASD?

2009-02-10 Thread John McKown
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:31:16 +, Eric Bielefeld eric-ibmm...@wi.rr.com wrote: Scott, snip I can see the value of encrypting data on PC hard drives, after all of the problems people have had with stolen PCs with sensitive data on them, but mainframe dasd? I just can't see it, or any

Re: JCL job execution order

2009-02-10 Thread John McKown
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:29:40 -0500, Dave Salt ds...@hotmail.com wrote: I'm trying to help someone create a process that will automatically submit several jobs at a time. For example, it might submit 20 jobs right after each other, with only a fraction of a second between each job. It's very

Re: Assembler Question

2009-02-09 Thread John McKown
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 12:19:53 -0800, Don Russell russell@gmail.com wrote: BAL was pretty much obsolete when IPM came into existance. Unless of course your code had to run on an old box. I have not come across an instance yet when I needed BAL, and often use OPSYN to map BAL/R to BAS/R. If I

APAR OA25205 - SMF 42 for member add/del/rename

2009-02-06 Thread John McKown
Now this is interesting (to me). APAR OA25205. PROBLEM SUMMARY: * USERS AFFECTED: Users of DFSMS that use PDS or PDSE data * * sets that require an SMF audit trail at * * the member

Re: Interesting APAR OA27291 an undocumented change to GETMAIN Behavior in z/OS 1.10

2009-02-06 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 07:53:03 -0600, Chase, John jch...@ussco.com wrote: snip This thread should also reinforce the notion, If you want it done right, do it yourself. IOW, if you want GETMAINed storage to be clean, then clean it yourself, every time you GETMAIN. -jc- I generally agree.

Re: z/Linux

2009-02-06 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 12:57:31 -0500, Mark Jacobs mark.jac...@custserv.com wrote: Not exactly true. You can charge for LINUX, the question is will anyone pay for it. True. But we do pay for it. Why? Not for Linux, per se, but for the support. And the support only comes when you buy that vendor's

Re: Interesting APAR OA27291 an undocumented change to GETMAIN Behavior in z/OS 1.10

2009-02-05 Thread John McKown
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 13:39:32 -0500, Guy Gardoit ggard...@gmail.com wrote: For the life of me, I can't understand why this is such a surprise or problem. How many bad programmers were-there/are-there anyway? Sorry, but one who breaks the rules, end ups broken. Guy Gardoit z/OS Systems

Re: Copy SMF Records With Syncsort

2009-02-05 Thread John McKown
FileAid could do this sort of fix as well, if you have it. If you're really masochistic, you could even use REXX! -- John -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with

Re: Copy SMF Records With Syncsort

2009-02-05 Thread John McKown
the following COBOL program will do what you want. Well, in my minor test it did. Compiled with Enterprise COBOL 3.4. 000100 PROCESS MAP,TRUNC(OPT),OPTIMIZE,VBREF,XREF,APOST,LIST 000200 ID DIVISION. 000300 PROGRAM-ID. SMFALTER. 000400 AUTHOR. JOHN MCKOWN. 000500 INSTALLATION. HEALTHMARKETS, INC

Re: insanity? process SMF with Java on non-z?

2009-02-05 Thread John McKown
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 08:52:11 -0600, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: John, The JZOS Cookbook (on alphaWorks) has code samples and a nice little class for reading RDW-delimited records. Not ugly at all :-) Do these classes work on a non-z? I.e. are they pure Java? If not, then that doesn't

Re: convert DB2 data to a flat file

2009-02-04 Thread John McKown
Oh, you might also want to look at the CPYTOIMPF command on the iSeries. It is built-in. But I don't really know what its output looks like. iSeries info center is at: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/index.jsp -- John

Re: convert DB2 data to a flat file

2009-02-04 Thread John McKown
I asked this question on the midrange-l forum and got the following response from one person: quote You can go directly from I to Z via ftp. Beware of Date fields and packed fields. Depending on which language the Z is going to use, it may not be able to handle it. When I do this, I make

Re: convert DB2 data to a flat file

2009-02-04 Thread John McKown
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 08:10:12 -0500, Chauhan, Jasbir jasbir.chau...@fiserv.com wrote: One of my clients is running a DB2 application on an iSeries system (not sure about the version). Their goal is to send us DB2 application data in the form of a flat file that can then be loaded to a non-DB2

insanity? process SMF with Java on non-z?

2009-02-04 Thread John McKown
We are losing our SAS license. Cost containment. We are looking at getting our main SAS user a Window desktop license so that he can continue to use MXG. Apparently this is fairly popular. But I was curious if anybody has ever used anything else, such as Java, to process SMF data on a Windows or

Re: insanity? process SMF with Java on non-z?

2009-02-04 Thread John McKown
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 10:36:21 -0800, Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu wrote: I would think it'd take a long time to redo the several thousand man-years of work that MXG represents. And Dr. Merrill might get upset if you were to just translate the SOURCLIB into Java or Whatever. Dave Gibney

Re: insanity? process SMF with Java on non-z?

2009-02-04 Thread John McKown
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 12:51:24 -0600, Scott Barry sba...@sbbworks.com wrote: Most definitely consider the SAS-alternative WPS from World Programming (WPS). The software runs most SAS Base application language, and it is certified for MXG on both Windows and z/OS. The product is evolving and

Re: insanity? process SMF with Java on non-z?

2009-02-04 Thread John McKown
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 12:59:23 -0600, Walt Farrell wfarr...@us.ibm.com wrote: If you did decide to use Java, why does that require moving the data off of z/OS? Just curious... -- Walt 1) no CPU power to run Java on our current system 2) no money to get a zAAP 3) Intel is dirt cheap compared to

Re: insanity? process SMF with Java on non-z?

2009-02-04 Thread John McKown
cycles on z/OS vs. desktop? -- gil about 200 zillion to one grin. My desktop is basically free due to its age. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: Ein Stein. Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: SMTP server

2009-02-03 Thread John McKown
On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 14:01:33 EST, Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com wrote: Block all incoming port 23 on your switch to z/OS(s). Every now and then do SMSG SMTP QUEUE to see if anything's passing the wrong way. IIRC, port 23 is TELNET. SMTP is port 25. Haven't heard all the fallout yet. Couple

Re: SMTP server

2009-02-03 Thread John McKown
On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 12:28:21 -0600, Hal Merritt hmerr...@jackhenry.com wrote: I've been asked to look into killing the SMTP service. We are very heavy users of XMITIP, but inbound email is blocked at the firewall. However, that does not seem to be good enough and we need to 'block the port' on the

COBOL question - NOTE

2009-02-03 Thread John McKown
It seems to me that I remember a COBOL version which had a NOTE verb. It definitely is not in Enterprise COBOL. Am I once again confused, or did that disappear in some primeval version? -- John -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: COBOL question - NOTE

2009-02-03 Thread John McKown
theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: Ein Stein. Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives

Re: zOS PDF Documentation

2009-01-29 Thread John McKown
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:30:22 -0500, Matt Dazzo mda...@pch.com wrote: I found this site that has the z1.9 collection in PDF format, but they are all separate down loads. Is there a site where they all be down loaded with a single click? Thanks Matt

Re: zOS PDF Documentation

2009-01-29 Thread John McKown
Slightly better script because the old one had an error: #get all the pdfs wget -O - \ http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/df/zosv1r9paz.des |\ perl -p -e next unless m/ELM_DIRECT_NAME/; if (m/\.pdf/) { s/ELM_DIRECT_NAME//; s/\//g; print; } | \ while read i;do wget

Re: zOS PDF Documentation

2009-01-29 Thread John McKown
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:57:31 -0800, Natarajan Mohan nmo...@edfund.org wrote: :-) If you really want to use wget on a windows box all you have to do is search for unix tools for windows and you will land up in the URL http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ I use Cygwin. I should have mentioned that.

Re: Converting HMC to Unix

2009-01-29 Thread John McKown
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:52:25 -0600, gsg gsg_...@yahoo.com wrote: Is converting the HMC to Unix a fairly simple process? Anyone did this recently? TIA You do this by the simple expedient of getting a brand new HMC. This is not a customer installable device. -- John

z/OS 1.8 PTFs for z10 processor

2009-01-28 Thread John McKown
Just a quick question. We are running z/OS 1.8. Or disaster recovery site is upgrading to a z10 or some sort. There are apparently PTFs needed to run z/OS 1.8 on a z10. Are these PTFs still __required__ if z/OS is running under z/VM? -- John

Re: z/OS 1.8 PTFs for z10 processor

2009-01-28 Thread John McKown
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:58:06 -0600, Mark Zelden mark.zel...@zurichna.com wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:36:58 -0600, John McKown joa...@swbell.net wrote: I highly doubt you'll get a definitive answer because there any many PTFs across different FMIDs. And it depends on what you mean by running

Re: Changing LPAR Weights

2009-01-28 Thread John McKown
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:21:12 -0800, Patrick Falcone patrick.falco...@verizon.net wrote: Just checking, is there any other way to change the LPAR weights other than HMC or the Service Element? No system commands that I'm aware of that allow this, correct?   TIA... z/OS does not come with any

Re: z/OS 1.8 PTFs for z10 processor

2009-01-28 Thread John McKown
Thanks for all replies. The problem is that our DR test is in February. It is now 28 Jan. And I can only make changes on Infrastructure Weekends. I simply don't see how I can get all these PTFs into my sandbox tested, then into the development LPAR and test and then into the production LPAR and

Re: /*XEQ /*XMIT question

2009-01-28 Thread John McKown
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:31:55 -0800, Don Russell russell@gmail.com wrote: I would like to submit a job from a VM system to one MVS system, have it expand a JCL PROC, and submit those JCL statements to another MVS system. I cannot think of a way to do this. The JCL is expanded by the

Re: HMC screen refresh rate

2009-01-27 Thread John McKown
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:18:36 -0600, Hal Merritt hmerr...@jackhenry.com wrote: snip All of which seem to point to environmental issues. Have you tried removing power from your new desk lighting? Many modern offices are too bright anyway. Too true! I know if keeps me awake! -- John

Re: AIX gets 64 bit COBOL but still none for Z/os ...

2009-01-26 Thread John McKown
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:49:24 -0800, Tom Ross tmr...@stlvm20.vnet.ibm.com wrote: In one sense as someone who is sem-retired, I have no vested interest other than as someone who believes that COBOL still MAY have a future. My belief is that in order for that future to exist, COBOL programs or

Re: Media conversion providers?

2009-01-22 Thread John McKown
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:58:11 -0600, Steve Horein steve.hor...@harcourt.com wrote: Hi listers, Our core mainframe business application was sunset on 12/31/2008, with our data migrating from the z platform to an SAP solution. Now we are faced with what to do with data on tape (3490/3490E). Our mix

Re: Media conversion providers?

2009-01-22 Thread John McKown
I forgot to mention that you can also attach SCSI tape drives to the FlexCUB and use them for data storage instead of DASD. So, attach your LTO to the FlexCUB and just copy the data. -- John -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: GDG Question

2009-01-21 Thread John McKown
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:38:57 -0600, Martin Kline martin.kl...@yrcw.com wrote: I prefer to order GDGs with odd generations in LIFO order followed by the even generations in FIFO order - except on the second Tuesday of the month, when I want to read the data backwards in random file sequence. Why

Re: GDG Question

2009-01-21 Thread John McKown
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:53:01 -0600, Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:06:41 -0600, John McKown wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:38:57 -0600, Martin Kline wrote: You can't satisfy everyone. I suspect it was a performance choice made many years ago. For whatever

Re: Amid Economic Turbulence, Mainframes Counter IT Cost-Cutting Trend

2009-01-21 Thread John McKown
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:55:22 -0600, Anton Britz antonbr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I still do not understand how these companies, listed on Wall Street can use their Labor force as a Make our Financial Results look good resource ? snip Single word: greed. On the part of management and the

Re: zSecure Audit Concern with EJES SVC

2009-01-21 Thread John McKown
Ed will likely need to reply. However, it could be simply that the zSecure Audit function is simply not aware of what the EJES SVC does and so flags it. There is an SVC in CICS which could be considered problematic if one did not know how it worked internally to ensure that it is not called

Re: zSecure Audit Concern with EJES SVC

2009-01-21 Thread John McKown
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:43:36 -0800, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: Ulrich Boche wrote: Recently, I ran a zSecure Audit MVS Tables status scan and one of its findings was the following: I have never heard of zSecure. IBM's rebranding of the old Consul/RACF products. -- John

Re: GDG Question

2009-01-20 Thread John McKown
the encoding be for local time or GMT? OK, it's a stupid idea. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: Ein Stein. Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

z/OS 1.8, UTF-16 ftp?

2009-01-16 Thread John McKown
Is there any way to ftp a UTF-16 encoded file from Windows to z/OS 1.8, converting it to CP-037 or CP-1047? What about z/OS 1.10? I'm a bit confused by the 1.10 documentation on this. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: z/OS 1.8, UTF-16 ftp?

2009-01-16 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:00:25 +0100, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: John McKown wrote: Is there any way to ftp a UTF-16 encoded file from Windows to z/OS 1.8, converting it to CP-037 or CP-1047? What about z/OS 1.10? I'm a bit confused by the 1.10 documentation on this. Wild

Re: z/OS 1.8, UTF-16 ftp?

2009-01-16 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:28:10 -0700, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com wrote: John, What are you using the data for on z/OS? I don't have any idea. * You can browse UTF-16 data (browse the file then on the command line, enter === disp utf16 ) This didn't work for me. It said it did,

Re: z/OS 1.8, UTF-16 ftp?

2009-01-16 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:49:58 -0600, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: John, You could write a simple Java program to convert from UTF-16LE to IBM-1047/IBM-037. Java supports UTF-16 encoding as its native encoding for characters, but uses a BOM to determine endian, whereas UTF-16LE does not.

Re: z/OS 1.8, UTF-16 ftp?

2009-01-16 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:49:58 -0600, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: John, You could write a simple Java program to convert from UTF-16LE to IBM-1047/IBM-037. Java supports UTF-16 encoding as its native encoding for characters, but uses a BOM to determine endian, whereas UTF-16LE does not.

Re: z/OS 1.7 , FTP PROBLEM

2009-01-16 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:26:16 -0600, Chase, John jch...@ussco.com wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Sewell, Raymond K. [ snip ] This Lpar does not work. z/os 1.7 operating system. C:\Documents and Settings\rksewellftp 10.73.6.160 Connected

Re: z/OS 1.8, UTF-16 ftp?

2009-01-16 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:26:34 -0700, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com wrote: snip Many thanks! I don't know if my boss will go for this or not. I just ordered z/OS 1.10, which supposedly can handle UTF-16. Of course, that's going to take a while to get in and installed. I don't

Re: z/OS 1.8, UTF-16 ftp?

2009-01-16 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:53:30 -0600, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: John, - If you change the code to use a BufferedReader/BufferedWriter with readLine() and then write()/newLine() , then it will handle any line end combo you give it. The output will use the lineend convention of the

Re: 3278 device Hardware support

2009-01-15 Thread John McKown
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:47:26 -0600, Lieven Borgs lieven.bo...@sun.com wrote: Hi, Does Z/OS 1.8 and above still support the 3278 device type and is only the hardware support for the real physical 3278's dropped? We are on z/OS 1.8. We have a Visara control unit which is Escon attached to our

Eclipse articles

2009-01-14 Thread John McKown
I know this is not directly applicable. However, there may be mainframe shops which are using the RDz (or whatever IBM is calling it this week) IDE in addition to ISPF. RDz is based on Eclipse. I've never gotten the hang of Eclipse. These articles may help.

Re: Some kind of hint!!!

2009-01-14 Thread John McKown
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:07:10 -0200, Carlos Bodra cbo...@terra.com.br wrote: Hi Listers, (xposted to VSE-L and OS/390 List) I need to read an IBM 3490 cartridge recorded by OS/390 program in a Linux system. If this works fine in intel server, I can migrate it to Linux under mainframe later. I

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