IBM Hardware support website

2011-12-01 Thread Matt Simpson
and I haven't been able to find any other site for hardware support. Having just spent 30 minutes on hold to check a PMR status via phone, I'd really prefer to work online if possible. -- Matt Simpson -- University of Kentucky m...@uky.edu -- (859) 257-2243 630 S

Re: SQL Issue

2011-12-02 Thread Matt Simpson
B >WHERE B.PLNYR >=2012 > AND B.EMPNO = A.EMPNO > AND A.PAYDT <= '2012-01-30' ) Doesn't the SELECT DISTINCT MAX(B.PAYDT) cause it to select the record with PAYDT 2012-01-21? -- Ma

How to reload SSL certificate for z/OS TN3270 server

2007-05-15 Thread Matt Simpson
that some action is necessary to reload it? And if it has to be reloaded, what is the least disruptive way to do it? I assume restarting the TCP/IP system would do it, but that tends to make the phones ring. -- Matt Simpson -- z/OS Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of

Re: How to reload SSL certificate for z/OS TN3270 server

2007-05-15 Thread Matt Simpson
ssions? Or does it just prevent new connections for the brief time that the port is being restarted? -- Matt Simpson -- z/OS Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 http://jms.cc.uky.edu/ ---

Another one bites the dust

2007-07-02 Thread Matt Simpson
ainframe". For example, all the databases for our administrative systems were previously about 30 gigabytes. This has been replaced by a system consuming dozens of terabytes. Progress is grand. -- Matt Simpson 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

Re: Another one bites the dust

2007-07-02 Thread Matt Simpson
tive system is such a huge boondoggle that it's hard to tell how many people are involved in providing the kind of support formerly provided by a single sysprog. -- Matt Simpson -- z/OS Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington

Re: Another one bites the dust

2007-07-03 Thread Matt Simpson
se). Why in the world would IBM want to warn customers in advance how much it's going to cost to get rid of the "expensive mainframe", when they stand to make far more as the customer keeps rolling in more "cheap servers"? -- Matt Simpson -- z/OS Support 219 McVey Hall

Re: Suggestions for New Laptop.

2007-07-23 Thread Matt Simpson
for the Mac, at no cost, which can allegedly handle all those documents. I haven't worked with them enough to know how well they work. -- Matt Simpson -- z/OS Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 http://jms.cc.uky.edu/ --

Re: Unusual FTP request.

2006-03-03 Thread Matt Simpson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown, John) wrote: > If the "ftp processor" has a problem, then the "ftp team" > would be alerted that an ftp failed. The "ftp team" would be able to > look at the ftp output and hopefully determine what failed, why, and > then fix it. This wo

IODF and IOCDS out of sync

2006-04-03 Thread Matt Simpson
other suggestions for some slick way to dynamically get things back in sync? -- Matt Simpson -- z/OS Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://jms.cc.uky.edu/> ---

Re: IODF and IOCDS out of sync

2006-04-04 Thread Matt Simpson
on to match the IODF being loaded? And what configuration am I really running with now? The one in the IOCDS, or the one in the active IODF? -- Matt Simpson -- z/OS Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 http://jms.cc.uky.edu/ --

Re: job schedulers - Beta 42

2006-04-14 Thread Matt Simpson
e tender age of 38. > > It was simple to use and install and worked very well. We're still using it. It's still simple to use and install, and still works very well. I think the product name is now officially ASG Workload Scheduler. -- Matt Simpson -- z/OS Support 219 McVey Hall --

Re: OT IBM Takes UNIX Crown

2005-08-30 Thread Matt Simpson
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 15:02:41 -0500, Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF > >IBM captured 31 percent of the $4.3 billion in Unix server sales in the >second quarter, edging out Hewlett-Packard Co. and Sun Microsystems >Inc., who recorded 30 percent and 29.5 percent respecti

Re: How to move JES2 checkpoint dataset

2005-10-11 Thread Matt Simpson
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:36:15 EDT, Ed Finnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I got in a hurry once and forgot to make one of the CHKPTs >PSU and first DEFRAG moved it about 4 cylinders. Got real familiar with >RECONFIG. > I'm curious ... what are you sharing your checkpoint volume with that would mak

Re: CA Trying to hide from its past?

2005-11-16 Thread Matt Simpson
They can run, but they can't hide. It seems like every couple of years, their marketing geniuses come up with another plan to convince the customers that things are better. It never seems to occur to them that it might be easier and cheaper in the long run to actually make things better instead o

Re: CA cuts 300 Customer advocate Positions (they had any?)

2005-11-17 Thread Matt Simpson
They gotta cut expenses somewhere to pay the PR consultants that came up with the latest re-branding, and all those new business cards. At least this time we probably don't have to worry about any CA reps coming to tell us, again, that everything is going to be better. It sounds like they're not

Re: SSL Problems

2005-12-12 Thread Matt Simpson
It's interesting that the error message says access to the runtime library is denied, but the explanation says the library is unavailable. They don't exactly mean the same thing. Are the LE runtime libraries in the linklist, or otherwise available to the application?

Re: SSL/TLS Woes FTP

2006-06-23 Thread Matt Simpson
nt active. This can be toggled via a parameter on the client; syntax depends on which client you're using. If you have firewalls at both ends, you're going to have to open up some ports on at least one end. -- Matt Simpson -- z/OS Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University O

Re: SSL/TLS Woes FTP

2006-06-23 Thread Matt Simpson
If you have activated GSK trace via the environment variable someone mentioned earlier, the grace will be written to a file in the /tmp directory. It will have gsk somewhere in the name, and some kind of numeric qualifier to make it unique. I forget exactly what it looks like, but you should be a

Re: SSL/TLS Woes FTP

2006-06-23 Thread Matt Simpson
Consider using the PASSIVEDATAPORTS parameter in the server's FTP data file to specify the range of ports used for the data connection. That can reduce the size of the hole that the network guys have to poke in the firewall. -- F

Finding withdrawal of support dates?

2006-09-05 Thread Matt Simpson
M web page that provides end-of-life dates for various products? I've tried searching for announcement letters that might announce withdrawal of support, but that's not an easy task. -- Matt Simpson -- z/OS Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington

Re: FDRABR documentation

2006-10-10 Thread Matt Simpson
#x27;t want to download a 10-megabyte manual to look up an error message. -- Matt Simpson -- z/OS Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 http://jms.cc.uky.edu/ -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Software Pricing mathematics

2006-10-13 Thread Matt Simpson
mean that 100% cheaper would make it free? So how can anything be more than 100% cheaper than anything else? If saying "37 times cheaper" is intended to mean it costs 1/37 (or approximately 2.7%), then wouldn't it really be about 97.3% cheaper? -- Matt Simpson -- z/OS Supp

Re: Inflating Severity

2006-11-15 Thread Matt Simpson
ittle more attention than it had been getting. (And I was told that the alleged "policy" about not being able to talk to a duty manager unless the problem was Sev 1 was BS and I should never have been told that). -- Matt Simpson -- z/OS Support 219 M

Re: PDF vs BookManager

2005-05-24 Thread Matt Simpson
On Tue, 24 May 2005 10:02:07 -0500, Jim Liebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >As an aside - Compuware is currently "surveying" their customers as to >whether to keep books in pdf/bookmanager/html format(s). So if you're a >Compuware site you can log onto Frontline (the tech support site) and vote

Re: FTP.DATA

2005-06-02 Thread Matt Simpson
On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 09:18:05 -0500, Rob Wunderlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"FTP.DATA" is a generic name. The actual dataset names and search order are >documented in "Communications Server: IP User's Guide and Commands" for the >FTP client, and in "Communications Server: IP Configuration Refere

Re: FTP.DATA

2005-06-03 Thread Matt Simpson
On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 13:05:26 -0400, Craig Kittendorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm not sure what you're after but we use a proc to exec FTP. That's not an option for executing the FTP client interactively via TSO. Well, I suppose the user could use an ALLOCATE command to concatenate the datase

Advice on expanding VTOC index

2005-06-03 Thread Matt Simpson
I have some volumes (Shark logical 3390) with VTOC Indexes that are full, or very close to it. If possible, I would like to expand the indexes without taking the volumes offline or making them unavailable. The problem is that the index, the VTOC, and the VVDS are all adjacent (in that order, s

Re: Advice on expanding VTOC index

2005-06-06 Thread Matt Simpson
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 10:28:22 -0400, Bruce Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Are you certain that the VTOCIX is full? Pretty sure. Or at least it was. It got a little better after a migration run over the weekend. On Friday, an attempt to rename a dataset on the volume got: IEC603I VTOC ERRORS M

Re: Advice on expanding VTOC index

2005-06-06 Thread Matt Simpson
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 15:02:55 -0500, Matt Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >That doesn't seem to be true here. We have several 3390-3 volumes with >75-track VTOCs and 14-track VTOCIXes. Running the report you suggested shows >VTOCs ranging from 85-95% full, and VTOCIXe

Re: Advice on expanding VTOC index

2005-06-08 Thread Matt Simpson
I just took a quick look at one of the affected volumes. Of 3800 datasets on the volume, 1600 of them have 0 tracks allocated, and have 44-character dsnames. This is a great example of how to fill up a VTOC and VTOCIX before the volume runs out of space, if the VTOC and VTOCIX were sized based

Re: Testing & symbols with JCL IF

2005-06-23 Thread Matt Simpson
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:14:17 -0700, Charles Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I got frustrated at the inability to test anything other than return >codes the like with JCL IF. This isn't quite as flexible as yours, but I got some JCL from a vendor that creatively inverted the usual way the test

Re: BOOKMGR PDF support

2005-06-30 Thread Matt Simpson
On Tue, 31 May 2005 12:38:29 -0700, Gibbons, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >To create an extended shelf with documents which only exist as >PDFs requires that the meta data from the PDF is in the catalog. >With LibraryServer 3.0 this cannot be extracted directly from the >pdf (this functionali

Re: BOOKMGR PDF support

2005-07-01 Thread Matt Simpson
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:18:35 -0700, Edward E. Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >They can indeed be stored in MVS data sets. An extended shelf is not >necessary if you have a PDF that corresponds to a BOOK. In that case, >the normal bookshelf will suffice to describe them both. An extended >shelf i

Re: StorageTek NCS V5

2005-07-01 Thread Matt Simpson
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 08:47:25 -0500, Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Roland, let me know how that upgrade goes. I was unofficially >warned aginst going to 6.1 (although that was several months ago), >so we are sticking with 6.0 still for now. > Any specific problems with 6.1, or just a gen

Re: rsh under z/OS

2005-08-11 Thread Matt Simpson
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 04:19:42 -0500, Andy Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Do IBM ship it??? > >AFAIK the sshd daemon is part of IBM Ported Tools, but rsh is not available > You looking for the client or the daemon? Client should be available "out of the box" (i.e. you can issue "rsh" on z/O

Re: Checking if all UNIX Filesystems were mounted successfully at IPL

2005-08-11 Thread Matt Simpson
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:37:34 +0930, Fred Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi folks. > >I'm looking for a way of automatically verifying that all Filesystems >specified in BPXPRMxx were successfully mounted at IPL. >Please tell me that there's an easier and more reliable way. > I suppose that