Re: Tapeless solution (IBM or Sun) Enterprise class

2012-03-28 Thread Michael Wickman
Ditto for us. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Vernooij, CP - SPLXM Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 7:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Tapeless solution (IBM or Sun) Enterprise class We have 2 7720

Re: different tape media for ML2 copies in HSM

2012-01-27 Thread Michael Wickman
We use VDR from OpenTech to copy ml2 tapes from VTL to have an offsite copy that is 3590 physical tapes. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Staller, Allan Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 7:39 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu

Re: different tape media for ML2 copies in HSM

2012-01-27 Thread Michael Wickman
...@mindspring.com] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 9:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: different tape media for ML2 copies in HSM I think if you have CA1 then you get COPYCAT. This can also be used to copy your VTS tapes to physical for shipping offsite. Lizette Michael Wickman We

Re: TCPIP Resolver Question

2011-07-22 Thread Michael Wickman
We found by trial and error, that we needed the resolver, and we specify only the default and global tcpip data file (same tcpip.data used everywhere else) and nocommonsearch. Mike Wickman -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - PRIMARY SPACE MANAGEMENT

2011-07-13 Thread Michael Wickman
Allocated in the STC and referenced to change the usage date are two different things. It's possible it could have been expired by HSM. Mike -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of willie bunter Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Re: ISMF QUESTION - BROWSING CONSTRUCT OF A STORAGE GROUP

2011-07-08 Thread Michael Wickman
I have found that if I exit with cancel instead of end that the last mod date and user fields do not change. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Mike Wickman Technical Services Phone   913-236-1663 Cell 913-449-6423 Fax   913-236-1555 email   mwick...@waddell.com

Re: Identifying Latest zOS Fixes

2011-04-08 Thread Michael Wickman
We do this monthly but receive just the fixes marked as critical CONTENT(CRITICAL). Mike Wickman -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 7:12 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re:

Re: ADRDSSU issue

2011-04-06 Thread Michael Wickman
SYS1 datasets needs the additional parameter of PROCESS(SYS1) that I didn't see in your JCL example. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Mike Wickman Technical Services Phone   913-236-1663 Cell 913-449-6423 Fax   913-236-1555 email   mwick...@waddell.com

Re: How Do I Eliminate ML2 Migration?

2011-03-16 Thread Michael Wickman
Another option is to just remove the auto migrate from all the SMS management classes. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Mike Wickman Technical Services Phone   913-236-1663 Cell 913-449-6423 Fax   913-236-1555 email   mwick...@waddell.com

Re: IBM Boulder site having problems?

2011-01-07 Thread Michael Wickman
I had the ftp timeout issue earlier this week. After a couple hours it worked fine. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Patrick Lyon Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 10:46 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: IBM

Re: DFHSM CDSs in extended format

2010-11-09 Thread Michael Wickman
Thanks all, I think we will go with the extended addressing route to get pass the 4GB limit. And since we are a monoplex, the vsam rls is not an issue. Mike Wickman font size=1 div style='border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in' /div This email is

DFHSM CDSs in extended format

2010-11-08 Thread Michael Wickman
Our MCDS is near the 4GB limit and is nearing the 80% utilize nag message notification, so we will need to split it or go extended format. All of our application data volumes are SMS so the SMS skill question is not an issue. I was just wondering how folks have handled this issue lately.

Re: zFS files at disaster recovery site

2010-10-18 Thread Michael Wickman
We do logical backup, followed by volume flash copy, then a full volume backup. The logical backup goes to DD Dummy, to the process is pretty fast. Mike Wickman -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Crabtree, Anne D Sent:

Re: Strange Allocation Behavior

2010-10-05 Thread Michael Wickman
Yes INFOPAC does behave in this manner. Watch your catalog since the same thing happens there as well. Mike Wickman -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 2:59 PM To:

Re: Help in troubleshooting CoD load

2010-09-29 Thread Michael Wickman
I have never had any luck with the copy function of HCD. I now always build a new one by modifying the existing one. Mike Wickman -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Larry Macioce Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 9:24

Re: Disable Wait After Maintenance

2010-09-09 Thread Michael Wickman
I use a steplib of the linklib pds on the new ipl volume. Use volser for the A1 volume on all three locations. Mike Wickman -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Dazzo, Matt Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 3:09 PM To:

Re: Soft Cap

2010-08-23 Thread Michael Wickman
IIRC, I read that if you were capped before you raised the value, you stay capped at the higher value (i.e. no 2 hour grace period to recalculate the 4 hour rolling value). Mike Wickman -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of

Re: Anyone Using z10 Large Pages in anger

2010-08-16 Thread Michael Wickman
Sounds like a future health check item. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Elpida Tzortzatos. Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 12:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Anyone Using z10 Large Pages in anger I

USS automount and migration

2010-07-01 Thread Michael Wickman
We are getting a couple application request to hold reference data long term in our USS file structures for user SMB access. Since the access can be little to none for weeks or months, we are considering using automount and allow HSM to migrate the idle file structures. I was just wondering

Re: Health Checker

2010-06-17 Thread Michael Wickman
We leave it up all the time (and our weekends are unattended, but we set the consoles roll mode). Mike Wickman -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Crabtree, Anne D Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 12:12 PM To:

Re: SMS QUESTION

2010-05-21 Thread Michael Wickman
You might want to consider the management class activity if there is a possibility the data/application could move to a lpar with DFHSM. If that's unlikely, then it's not necessary. Mike Wickman -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On

automation check for global mirror

2010-03-30 Thread Michael Wickman
We are just getting global mirror up and running here and I was wondering what others were doing along the lines of verifying global mirror session is still in active and ok or the verification when you do the B to D flash copy for the DRE (and all the pause, suspend, and resume steps that is a

Re: WEB Print Server Shopping

2010-01-21 Thread Michael Wickman
We too use Jes2FTP for PDF creation. We store them in USS user directories and let them use SMB to view the reports. Mike Wickman -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas Kern Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 8:48 AM To:

Re: Copying and/or expanding zFS

2010-01-14 Thread Michael Wickman
I run a batch shell that does the su and then cp -Rpv /wr/prod/TrfAgncSupt/ /u/tso14/TAS/ To split directories from one file structure to another. Mike -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent:

Re: HSM VTOC data sets on ML1 DASD volume

2009-08-27 Thread Michael Wickman
We use (from ISMF panel) the dataset option and then do the delete command. We get this whenever I remove a volume (both SMS and non-sms) Mike Wickman -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Glen Gasior Sent: Wednesday, August

Loading SMF data into a DB2 database.

2009-08-06 Thread Michael Wickman
Does anyone try to load SMF records into a database (DB2) for performance and capacity usage data mining? Just trying from keep from re-typing all the DB2 definitions if somebody has already done it or have any suggestions along that line. Thanks. Mike Wickman font size=1 div

Re: TCP/IP ports in use

2009-08-05 Thread Michael Wickman
David Alcock wrote a ISPF panel system that did all the netstat commands and captured the output into ISPF browse displays. Works very nice. Mike Wickman -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Chris Mason Sent: Tuesday, August

Re: printing JES output

2009-07-30 Thread Michael Wickman
Also Network Print Facility (NPF) from IBM (part of tcpip) Mike Wickman -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of ??? ?? ??? Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 6:19 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] printing JES

Re: JES and large volumes

2009-07-15 Thread Michael Wickman
I thought the large spool was a z/os 1.10 with ptfs available for 1.9. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Mike Wickman Technical Services Phone   913-236-1663 Fax   913-236-1555 email   mwick...@waddell.com *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* -Original

Re: code page help

2009-07-15 Thread Michael Wickman
I use OMVS CONVERT((BPXFX111)) LINES(3000) Mike Wickman -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 3:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] code page help On

Re: Control HSM Pri/SEC migration from batch job

2009-06-30 Thread Michael Wickman
We just use our scheduler to rung batch jobs that issue the hold/release commands and to set max tape task depending on the other batch job schedule/needs. Initial time settings are set in a very wide range. Mike Wickman -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: How to set priority (CPU) of a job?

2009-06-12 Thread Michael Wickman
You might also need a resource group to put a small max if the job is a CPU burner. Single CP machines need this more than the multi CP folks. Mike Wickman -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM

Secure PKZip using self sign certificate built in RACF

2009-06-09 Thread Michael Wickman
Although PKWare says the RACF built self sign certificate will work, we can't seem to get the private key loaded into PKZip. Has anyone done this? The other option is to buy a certificate and while the cost is small, I don't have a good feel for why this should work if the RACF built certificate

Re: Migrate at close

2009-05-20 Thread Michael Wickman
We have a SG with no automatic backups and a low utilization percentage and assign a MC with 0 days retention and just let the hourly interval migration keep the pool clean. Mike Wickman Technical Services -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Adding CPU engines without IPL

2009-05-12 Thread Michael Wickman
Another possibility is the software has a grace period and then stops working. We have one vender that if we use On/Off CoD for more than 7 days, the product stops working. Mike Wickman Technical Services -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: DFHSM MAXBACKUPTASKS(1) using 2 drives

2009-04-16 Thread Michael Wickman
of volume backup tasks to be run concurrently. Dave O'Brien NIH Contractor From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Wickman [mwick...@waddell.com] Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 2:58 PM To: IBM

Re: changing management class on about 10000 datasets

2009-03-17 Thread Michael Wickman
I'm in the same boat. We have a monthly job that reads a list of migrated files, and for those that are test and been archived longer that x years, we create HDELETE statements. With this in place, we never bothered to define separate management class for the test files. Mike Wickman

Re: How to CAP CICS cpu resource using WLM resource group

2009-02-09 Thread Michael Wickman
We cap a CICS region by job name. Our regions are not STC's. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Mike Wickman Technical Services *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On

HSM reusing backup tapes

2008-09-26 Thread Michael Wickman
We are evaluating HSM as a replacement for another vender's product and have not figured out what causes the daily backup tapes that are partially used to be reused for another backup cycle. We have tried both a 1 day and 7 day cycle, but always get a scratch mount when the auto backup cycle

Re: 3390-27

2008-08-27 Thread Michael Wickman
We went with the 30051 size for our M-27 type volumes. I believe the new IBM dasd box that can grow volumes does so in 1113 cylinder increments, and that is the only reason I have heard to stay with some multiple of 1113 cyl sizes. font size=1 div style='border:none;border-bottom:double

Re: Do you protect your power switch with a lock?

2008-08-05 Thread Michael Wickman
My first employer did have the emergency button covered and locked. One day the security guard making his rounds decided that the there was no need to have the lights on so he unlocked the box... font size=1 div style='border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt

Re: HSM Recalls

2008-07-28 Thread Michael Wickman
Just curious how you select for migration base on size. Do you set special management class based on primary space at allocation time? Or are there HSM commands that help with this selection process? *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Mike Wickman Technical Services email

Re: SMP/E Error

2008-06-02 Thread Michael Wickman
We got it when steplibing for newer linklib but using older uss mounts (converting from z/os 1.7 to 1.9) SMP wants both at the same level. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Mike Wickman Technical Services *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* -Original

Re: Electronic order of PTF

2008-05-21 Thread Michael Wickman
Maybe EPSPT. It is available as a download. Mike -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Miklos Szigetvari Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 4:00 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Electronic order of PTF Hi If we

Re: mvs output on pc printer

2008-02-19 Thread Michael Wickman
We use the IBM NPF (network print facility) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Mike Wickman Technical Services Phone 913-236-1663 *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: File to PDF Product

2007-06-29 Thread Michael Wickman
We use the JES2FTP product but write to USS directories instead of FTP to end servers. We wrote a file distribution around it converting reports to PDF format. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Schwartz Sent:

Re: Finding the last IPL time

2007-06-25 Thread Michael Wickman
Mark Zelden has a rexx routine called IPLINFO that provides this as well. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Cole Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 1:45 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: [IBM-MAIN] Finding the last IPL

Re: Trouble accessing IBM LMS site?

2007-06-04 Thread Michael Wickman
I got in today, but the sign on page was troubling. Had to use the click box on bottom of page and not the one on the left hand side === This email is intended to be reviewed by only the intended recipient and may

ftping of DFDSS logical dataset dumps

2007-02-02 Thread Michael Wickman
Greetings. Has anyone played with taking the output of DFDSS logical dataset backups and FTP'ed them off the mainframe and onto a network lan location. We have an application that wants to take several backups during the day and have them for disaster recovery. Right now our backups on tape

Re: DST2007

2006-11-10 Thread Michael Wickman
I was thinking of manually setting the TZ uss parm to include the start and end dates. Since I'm central USA time, something like: TZ=GMT6CDT,03.2.0,11.1.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/9/2006 4:02:26 PM Head's up: APAR PK24076; Language Environment Daylight Saving Time (DST) Changes Energy

Re: DST2007

2006-11-10 Thread Michael Wickman
Thanks for the correction. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/10/2006 10:11:53 AM Michael Wickman wrote: I was thinking of manually setting the TZ uss parm to include the start and end dates. Since I'm central USA time, something like: TZ=GMT6CDT,03.2.0,11.1.0 Close. You need: TZ=GMT6CDT,M3.2.0

Re: DST2007

2006-11-10 Thread Michael Wickman
,M11.1.0 Michael Wickman wrote: Thanks for the correction. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/10/2006 10:11:53 AM Michael Wickman wrote: I was thinking of manually setting the TZ uss parm to include the start and end dates. Since I'm central USA time, something like: TZ=GMT6CDT,03.2.0,11.1.0

Re: OSA-ICC Options

2006-06-20 Thread Michael Wickman
No problems with Attachmate for us after we got on the current release. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/20/06 9:02 AM Daniel A. McLaughlin wrote: Good day. We're trying to hook into OSA-ICC with Attachmate, and it's not an elegant solution. It makes me wonder about products like PCOMM and AF/Remote

Re: SEZATCP - Steplib or LNKLST?

2006-06-02 Thread Michael Wickman
We are z/os 1.4. No steplib in tcpip, and only sezaload in linklist. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/02/06 2:35 PM Hi List - I have a question on how other shops have their TCPIP.SEZATCP allocated. Recently I applied 3 PTFs (UQ95225, UQ95175, and UQ92269 respectively) to fix a problem with the CICS

Re: Scrolling NETSTAT displayed using TSO COMMAND panel

2006-05-25 Thread Michael Wickman
David Alcock has a nice freeware netstat panel system on his web site of planetmvs.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/25/06 8:37 AM Is there command or a freeware utility that will allow me to scroll forward and backward through the output of a NETSTAT command entered via TSO COMMAND panel. Thanks.

Re: Trex Catalog software.

2006-03-28 Thread Michael Wickman
I've used it for the same purpose. It worked great. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

MVS LTO tape usage

2006-03-24 Thread Michael Wickman
We have been approached with the idea of converting our tape backups from 3590 to LTO to get encryption for our off-site backups. There are claims by the vender that they interface with our DASD backup system and TMS (CA-Disk and CA-1). I'm just started asking questions like What about

Re: PROTECTION EXCEPTION 0C4 - Job Doesn't Work When Dataset Used

2006-02-24 Thread Michael Wickman
Are the tempy files being switched to VIO at your place? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Re: Auto-FTP

2006-01-20 Thread Michael Wickman
WE also use jes2ftp and second all that Jim mentions. We put the pdfs into a HFS and let the users view them through SMB. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/20/06 6:23 AM Does z/OS have a way to automatically FTP reports from JES to a destination host? YOu might look at a product called JES2FTP from

Re: OSA-ICC and PC's

2005-09-29 Thread Michael Wickman
We are using ICC with GIG Ethernet. Of course since it's a priovate network and the attached switch can't to GIG speeds. === This email is intended to be reviewed by only the intended recipient and may contain