Re: IBMLink web is down SEV1 ticket opened with IBMLink help desk

2007-03-29 Thread Low, David
Shopz appear to be down also, or just incredibly slow. I'm stuck on the signon screen for 2 mins now... Dave Low -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

Re: Allocating HFS datasets - TSO vs Batch problem

2007-03-19 Thread Low, David
Actually, this isn't due to any difference between ALLOCATE in batch and ALLOCATE from TSO. Reason 0210 means that the dataset is unavailable because it is allocated to another address space, most probably your TSO session. You need to FREE FILE(NEWHFS) first; you could also logoff. You

Re: z9 crypto express 2

2007-03-19 Thread Low, David
Setting Control and Usage domain to 0 did not work for our PROD lpar. For some reason the cryptos still think they are owned by TEST. Perhaps a POR would have corrected the problem. I'm beyond annoyed now... I will have to get our CE involved. Dave Low

Allocating HFS datasets - TSO vs Batch problem

2007-03-16 Thread Low, David
Hi Listers, Our system is z/os 1.6 with current maintenance. I'm struggling with a problem I'm hoping to fix before this weekend. I have a batch job executing IKJEFT1B that allocates an HFS dataset like so: ALLOCATE FILE(NEWHFS) NEW DATASET('OMVS.DAVE.TEST') DSNTYPE(HFS) + UNIT(3390)

Re: z9 crypto express 2

2007-03-13 Thread Low, David
If you'll fill in the missing numbers ??... I am assuming that it is 0,1,2,3 for the Candidate List and the Online List. Yes the candidate and online list are set to 0,1,2,3. 1) Have you IPL'd your PROD system since you made the HMC settings for domains? You must IPL after changing the

z9 crypto express 2

2007-03-12 Thread Low, David
Hi all, I'm setting up the z9 hardware crypto express 2 coprocessors for the first time. I was able to get 1 coprocessor online to our TEST lpar and everything looks good there. We don't expect to use it there so I unchecked everything on the crypto tab on the test image activation profile.

Re: z9 crypto express 2

2007-03-12 Thread Low, David
Dave, The crypto-stuff is lots of fun. I am going to ask you some questions... the answers will help you lay-out your system. 1. Are you going to have any crypto co-processors online to TEST? 2. Are you going to share any crypto co-processors between TEST and PROD? 3. Is the

Re: Mainframe still user surly, File-aid and Endevor aroused my ire.

2006-10-27 Thread Low, David
Endevor, the premier change management system keeps the listings from program compiles but doesn't provide a way to display them from the display elements list where you can find other information about your program. Instead the designers decided you should use the L option of display

Re: Interesting Challenge

2006-09-21 Thread Low, David
Why to alter CBRUXENT? What TMS? snipped As it turns out, we didn't have to change the exit. I entered the tape and TLMS allowed the mount with no squawking. Are you processing the tape as SL? I seem to remember having to use BLP since the internal volser didn't match the external volser.

Re: Interesting Challenge

2006-09-21 Thread Low, David
Are you processing the tape as SL? I seem to remember having to use BLP since the internal volser didn't match the external volser. Back then I didn't know much about the ATL. What I probably should have done is Think the Software Delivery tapes are all NL so they can

Re: Systems Programmer Levels Justification

2006-03-29 Thread Low, David
At the same time provide management with information as to why SysProgs are higher salaried than application programmers. They are at a loss as to why that is. Weird that they do not question why a network tech makes more than the applications also. I think many sysprogs are also

Converting from local time to GMT

2005-11-10 Thread Low, David
I'm engaged in an internal dispute about best practice for the TOD clock: should it be set to universal time (or whatever GMT is now called) with the appropriate local offset, or alternatively, to local time (with an offset of zero)? I'm glad you brought this up. If converting to GMT

Re: DCB attributes for USS file

2005-10-13 Thread Low, David
How can we determine DCB attributes for a USS file? We're trying to do an IEBGENER (SYNCSORT's flavor) from a particular path and getting IEB317I JOB TERMINATED, NO INPUT BLKSIZE/LRECL because we don't know what values to use for RECFM, LRECL, BLKSIZE. I assume it's not the same as the

Re: DFSORT - Case insensitive sorting possible?

2005-09-27 Thread Low, David
Sorry for the delayed response - I was out of town on vacation (now I'm in town on vacation :) Thanks for taking the time to answer my question. I'm sure the user will be very happy. Dave Low Auto-Owners Insurance Co. --

Re: automatic program / JCL crossreferencing utility???

2005-09-16 Thread Low, David
We have a request from our users to provide a utility that will tell them which jobs a specified program is run in, and which JCL elements (procedures, include members, etc) the program is coded into. This has expanded into a request for a comprehensive list by program of the procedures

Transferring text files with ^M characters

2005-09-09 Thread Low, David
Hello, A user asked if it's possible to remove or correctly translate what appears to be ^M characters (ascii code 37) from an ascii text file transferred to z/OS. The current procedure is to open it Wordpad first and click save, then do the transfer. My research turned up a unix command

Re: Transferring text files with ^M characters

2005-09-09 Thread Low, David
Solution found: I discovered that unix command iconv will do what I want. I transferred the offending file to z/OS as binary. Then this command: iconv -f ISO8859-1 -t IBM-1047 test1.asc test1.ebc The resulting file was properly formatted and stripped of the CRLF characters. This will

Re: Transferring text files with ^M characters

2005-09-09 Thread Low, David
John, Thank you for the explanation. We are receiving these text files from a vendor. Maybe the best solution is to have them fix it on their end. Dave Low -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: MISSING CHANNEL AND DEVICE END

2005-06-24 Thread Low, David
In our case, it seemed to be a 3480 vary timeout that affected our OSA. Our OSA is an OSA-Express FENET running SNA only on z/OS 1.4. We've had this happen twice now, and each time it sets the XCA PU's IINOP. So far, IBM refuses to believe that the errors are related.

Re: MISSING CHANNEL AND DEVICE END

2005-06-21 Thread Low, David
In our case, it seemed to be a 3480 vary timeout that affected our OSA. Our OSA is an OSA-Express FENET running SNA only on z/OS 1.4. We've had this happen twice now, and each time it sets the XCA PU's IINOP. So far, IBM refuses to believe that the errors are related. Do

Re: MISSING CHANNEL AND DEVICE END

2005-06-20 Thread Low, David
I do not believe that the MAXSPACE is related to 'dropping the OSA channels', at least not directly. What probably happens is a long time of system-wide non-dispatchability in extremely short succession that causes some sort of timeout to be reached on this or another system. If the

MISSING CHANNEL AND DEVICE END

2005-06-17 Thread Low, David
Good morning and TGIF, We have a recurring problem that I'm hoping someone else may have run across. When multiple SVC dumps occur in succession sometimes it will cause the following message: IEA043I SVC DUMP REACHED MAXSPACE LIMIT - MAXSPACE=1500 MEG This in turn causes other

Re: PAX command to copy /etc not working as expected

2005-06-15 Thread Low, David
The z/OS 1.6 migration guide tells me that I can run this pax command to copy/noreplace my new z/OS 1.6 /etc to a copy of my old /etc pax -rvwk -pe /ServerPac/zOS_Rx/etc /Service/ImageX/etc However, when I run this, I end up with this: /Service/ImageX/etc/ServerPac/zOS_Rx/etc (the

Re: Batch utility to strip blanks on F to V copy?

2005-06-14 Thread Low, David
Is there any utility that is conventionally present in a z/OS installation that will in an MVS batch jobstep copy an F(B) dataset to a V(B) dataset while stripping the trailing EBCDIC blanks from the RECFM=F(B) records? I wrote a small rexx to do exactly that. I call LMCOPY like so:

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2005-06-08 Thread Low, David
All, Could anybody tell me of an easy way to obtain the IP address of a 2074 thats connected to our MF, it's an OS/2 box You should have a 2074 Configuration Guide. If not, download it here http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/s390/os390/bkserv/hwpdf/2074.html Page 1-13 Update LAN Configuration

Re: ViewDirect question.

2005-06-06 Thread Low, David
Thanks so much. Maybe now I can start to understand the manual. Maybe. Sort of. It has to be one of the worst organized manuals I've run across. If you're looking at the CD-ROM you want the section Database Maintenance. Since you're adding users, Recipient Table is what you'll be interested

Re: ViewDirect question.

2005-06-06 Thread Low, David
If you repro your INVERS and INDIST files to seq, you can read through those and build your control cards. I've done that in the past with Easytrieve to build recall cards. Ha! I thought I was the only one in the world using Easytrieve to do the same thing. I don't use Easytrieve for

Re: Userids

2005-06-02 Thread Low, David
Totally unnecessary. UADS is needed only for the emergency User ID -- used when no security product is available. Wow. That's very good to know, thanks. Dave Low -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Impossible? convert PDF to Book/Manager format?

2005-05-25 Thread Low, David
Thomas Conley wrote: You want detail, you got it. I click on a pdf file in Explorer, then I click on another one. I get two instances of Acrobat and toggle between them with Alt-Tab (seriously, that's all I do. Do you not get multiple instances with your version of Acrobat 7?)

Re: 80 byte jcl record limit

2005-05-16 Thread Low, David
Hmm... I would hate to have to scroll 32K to the right... I definitely prefer 72 columns in 400+ lines to 32k columns in 1 line - -- I agree, it is nice to have all the data accessible such that only vertical scrolling is required. But what if you coded one of those lines wrong and had to