W dniu 2013-06-05 00:49, gsg pisze:
We have been told by auditors that all of our JES2 JOBCLASSes should have
COMMAND=VERIFY. This would protect from someone coding an unauthorized command
in a JCL that could go undetected. Has anyone else ran into this type of
problem and if so, how did you
Radoslaw Skorupka pisze:
>Yes, there is a solution, quite good IMHO. It is called OPERCMDS - a RACF
>class.
>Instead of operator decision I strongly prefer the rules enforced by security
>server.
Indeed. Ability to block commands despite source [1] is still the best.
Here, I agree to agree wit
John McKown wrote:
>Have IT management "risk accept" they way you need. Then tell the auditors
>that. Auditors do not have any authority beyond what management gives them.
Agreed. Actually, as Ted always said, auditors only recommends. They cannot
enforce.
>This assumes management has tener c
Hello Robert ,
Changing the wait interval from 500 Milliseconds to 3 secs on Jobtrac might
introduce a small delay on all other auto-sched jobs that goes through normal
conversion phase which we dont want .Instead ,I would go with your first
solution to flag the JCLLIB datasets as non-migrate .
An attempt to migrate an APF authorized library will result in the following:
ARC1299I rc=14 where
14The data set is an authorized program facility (APF) authorized
library.
Unless of course the migration is running on an L
IBM states that it uses an internal protocol that replaces the old SNMP
one. from the installation guide, it is clear that they use SNMP (community
name is defined on both HMC and BCPII) but it runs from the SE to the HMC
over private lan.
So, what exactly is this "private protocol"?
ITschak
If you add an LPAR, you typically increase the number of devices by 100%, and
if you add 2 LPAR’s, then by 200% and so on. So, if you have 64 devices
defined on your FCP channel, 1 LPAR is 64 devices, 20 LPAR’s is 1280 devices.
In this instance, your limit is 480 devices, as per the CBDA291I me
One would expect reads to be faster with ZFS because of the caching but
what astonished me was the efficiency of writes. Writes to a ZFS file
system were well over 10x faster than QSAM. I profiled the
tests and QSAM spent most of it's time waiting for I/O to complete. BSAM
was worse. Maybe if we
O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] wrote:
>An attempt to migrate an APF authorized library will result in the following:
>ARC1299I rc=14 where
>Unless of course the migration is running on an LPAR where said library is not
>APF authorized.
Good catch. You can avoid this nasty surprise by placing al
Please don't tell me that with a DSS copy operation with RENAMEU the
Data Class ACS routine isn't called.
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I did it about month ago:
1. stop tcpip
2. SET OMVS=01
BPXPRM01 where I have INET commented out and these options for CINET:
FILESYSTYPE TYPE(CINET) ENTRYPOINT(BPXTCINT)
NETWORK DOMAINNAME(AF_INET)
DOMAINNUMBER(2)
MAXSOCKETS(64000)
TYPE(CINET)
INADDRANYPORT(2000)
INADDRANYCOUNT(325)
SUBFI
No idea. Secret squirrel stuff. Do you really have a need to know?
>From 'MVS Programming: Callable Services for High-Level Languages, Ch 14':
"An SNMP community name is associated with a particular CPC. The same SNMP
community name that was defined in the support element configuration for a
part
Mark Jacobs wrote:
>Please don't tell me that with a DSS copy operation with RENAMEU the Data
>Class ACS routine isn't called.
Logical Copy or Physical Copy? With or without REPLACE? There is a difference
AFAIK.
Or alternatively, please post what problem are you having plus any messages
you'r
Mark,
Please reference section 11.6.4 ACS routines invoked for copying and importing
data sets in z/OS V1R13.0 DFSMSdfp Storage Administration.
The short answer to your question is No, the Data Class ACS routine is not
invoked on a DSS Copy.
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From: Elardus Engelbrec
On 06/05/13 07:51, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
Mark Jacobs wrote:
Please don't tell me that with a DSS copy operation with RENAMEU the Data Class
ACS routine isn't called.
Logical Copy or Physical Copy? With or without REPLACE? There is a difference
AFAIK.
Or alternatively, please post what
Mark Jacobs wrote:
>Logical copy without a replace.
>The newly allocated SYSZFS dataset gets assigned the correct storage and
>management class, but the data class assigned isn't from the ACS routine, but
>from the source dataset.
>I know the SMS routines are working since a regular allocation
Must make Eric Arthur Blair spin in his grave.
Shane ...
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>if no ENF signal, nothing to do .
That seems to imply that if there were such an ENF signal there would be
something (for your application, presumably) to do.
That seems not to be a good idea.
Can you explain?
Peter Relson
z/OS Core Technology Design
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Understood. Can anyone give me some ideas on how to copy ZFS file
systems from non-EAV volumes to EAV volumes when the Data Class that
they're defined with doesn't have EATTR(OPT) assigned?
I'm a little leery having our Storage Admin change the existing Data
Class, I'd rather have the datasets
W dniu 2013-06-05 14:29, Mark Jacobs pisze:
Understood. Can anyone give me some ideas on how to copy ZFS file
systems from non-EAV volumes to EAV volumes when the Data Class that
they're defined with doesn't have EATTR(OPT) assigned?
I'm a little leery having our Storage Admin change the exist
Radoslaw,
Kindly refer to 11.6.5 ACS routines invoked for restoring, recalling,
recovering, and
converting data setsin the DFP Storage Admin. Manual
DSS Restore does not invoke the Dataclass routine.
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From: R.S. [mailto:r.skoru...@bremultib
On 06/05/13 08:31, R.S. wrote:
W dniu 2013-06-05 14:29, Mark Jacobs pisze:
Understood. Can anyone give me some ideas on how to copy ZFS file
systems from non-EAV volumes to EAV volumes when the Data Class that
they're defined with doesn't have EATTR(OPT) assigned?
I'm a little leery having ou
I have used of the PL/I preprocessor to modify client's COBOL source
programs for many years.
It is at once powerful and expressive; and its support for
compile-time arrays, which can be used as lists, makes it easy to
'remember' the things one needs to know in order to make global
changes in a
This application is try to listening a list of signals, events (I find
it useful), for example:
- job END jes event
- logrec event
- Health Checker event
- Different config changes
etc. etc
If an event occurs from the selected type, it writes, to a LOG stream,
the event record as it is.
I can
> IBM states that it uses an internal protocol that replaces the old SNMP
> one. from the installation guide, it is clear that they use SNMP (community
> name is defined on both HMC and BCPII) but it runs from the SE to the HMC
> over private lan.
> So, what exactly is this "private protocol"?
My
W dniu 2013-06-05 14:37, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] pisze:
Radoslaw,
Kindly refer to 11.6.5 ACS routines invoked for restoring, recalling,
recovering, and
converting data setsin the DFP Storage Admin. Manual
DSS Restore does not invoke the Dataclass routine.
I don't have access to t
In article <51af2080.6080...@gmail.com> you wrote:
> One would expect reads to be faster with ZFS because of the caching but
> what astonished me was the efficiency of writes. Writes to a ZFS file
> system were well over 10x faster than QSAM. I profiled the
> tests and QSAM spent most of it's tim
poit...@pobox.com (Don Poitras) writes:
> I don't know what IBM uses under the covers, but it's probably the same
> thing that SAS/C did. Calculate the CCHHR from the byte offset and use
> EXCP to read the block directly. No need to use POINT. FBS is guaranteed
> not to have any short blocks, so t
On 06/05/13 08:55, R.S. wrote:
W dniu 2013-06-05 14:37, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] pisze:
Radoslaw,
Kindly refer to 11.6.5 ACS routines invoked for restoring,
recalling, recovering, and
converting data setsin the DFP Storage Admin. Manual
DSS Restore does not invoke the Dataclass r
BTW, is the reason FBS is fast for seeks because it makes it easier to
calculate the track position for a POINT? I've never seen FBS used before.
I don't know what IBM uses under the covers, but it's probably the same
thing that SAS/C did. Calculate the CCHHR from the byte offset and use
EXCP to
We'll need IBM to chime in for a definitive answer but my guess is that DFDSS
invoked Idcams Define under the covers and that drove the ACS Dataclass routine.
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From: Mark Jacobs [mailto:mark.jac...@custserv.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 9:17 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSE
Why couldn't it have done it the first time then? The world may never know.
Mark Jacobs
On 06/05/13 09:20, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] wrote:
We'll need IBM to chime in for a definitive answer but my guess is that DFDSS
invoked Idcams Define under the covers and that drove the ACS Dataclas
Mark Jacobs wrote:
>> A last resort I would try IDCAMS REPRO to preallocated cluster.
>Ding, Ding, Ding. We have a winner, but I broke up in laughter after it worked.
Careful. Radoslaw's failing memory is still working... ;-D
I'm glad for your part everything is Ok.
Groete / Greetings
Elardus
I thought "s" stood for "standard" rather than "spanned". It's the "s" in
VBS that's "spanned".
But I can't answer your question. :-(
Cheers, Martin
Martin Packer,
zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator,
Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM
+44-7802-245-584
email: martin_pac...@uk.i
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Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 15:19
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>> BTW, is the reason FBS is fast for seeks because it makes it easier
>> to
On 6/5/2013 7:19 AM, David Crayford wrote:
BTW, is the reason FBS is fast for seeks because it makes it easier to
calculate the track position for a POINT? I've never seen FBS used before.
I don't know what IBM uses under the covers, but it's probably the same
thing that SAS/C did. Calculate the
The 'S' in FBS does not stand for SPANNED. It stands for STANDARD meaning all
the blocks are a standard size.
There are a few cautions to using FBS files.
Do not MOD data to a FBS file. A short block in an FBS file is a EOF
condition. This means that if you luck out and fill the last buffer
"Standard" for FBS, not "spanned".
Spanned is for VBS.
=
> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 21:19:09 +0800
> From: dcrayf...@gmail.com
> Subject: Re: I/O Optimization
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>
> >> BTW, is the reason FBS is fast for seeks because it makes it easier to
> >> calculate the trac
David Crayford wrote:
Where does "spanned" come into play? Why does that make the difference?
The short answer is that it does not come into play.
For fixed-length records, S means 'standard', without short blocks.
For variable-length records, S means 'spanned', a [logical] record may
span a
I agree with Chris Blaicher, but I should put the matter more brutally.
It has important uses, but FBS is for experienced, highly competent
people and only for them..
John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
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On Wed, 5 Jun 2013 09:32:18 -0400, Blaicher, Christopher Y. wrote:
>
>Do not MOD data to a FBS file. A short block in an FBS file is a EOF
>condition. This means that if you luck out and fill the last buffer of a
>file, you can MOD to it, but 99 44/100 percent of the time it doesn't work and
>
On Wed, 5 Jun 2013 19:26:56 +0800, David Crayford wrote:
>I've never seen FBS used before.
I see it regularly for dumps that are processed by IPCS.
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As I understand it, the filesystem knows the last byte written. With an FBA
device, the access method reads that block and starts writing after the
last used byte within the block. It then rewrites the entire block. I don't
know why BSAM could not do something similar with FBS files. Of course,
thi
The overloaded 'S' is a gratuitous trap for novices, and QSAM could
have been designed to write an initial dummy record of standard length
when it allocated a DASD extent for a RECFM=FBS dataset.
We live in an imperfect world in which, in particular, not everyone is
perfectly prescient.
John Gi
According to the FM;
If REPLACEUNCONDITIONAL is specified with the COPY command:
• The SMS constructs already associated with the preallocated target
data set remain the same. If the preallocated target data set is
scratched and reallocated, the SMS constructs used are those
returned by the ACS
Hello Michael,
We are actually migrating z10(2097-E26) to zEC12( 2827-H43)
Mainframe.
So, I have updated the Machine type model as well in HCD along with new
LPAR defination.
Initial I had 4 LPAR but I have added 6 more new LPAR. Also below are my
defination of FCP chip id .
CHPID
Hi John,
"The SUPPRESS phrase makes the compiler output unusable to the Compuware post
processor program. And we must use that because the version of Compuware we
have (and have no support for..."
First, I'm so sorry you no longer have support for Compuware tools. But there
is a parameter for
Thanks very much. I'll pass that on to the person who maintains the Endevor
processors.
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Roland Kinsman wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> "The SUPPRESS phrase makes the compiler output unusable to the Compuware
> post processor program. And we must use that because the version
Excellent, thanks Rafal. I'll try that out next week.
Jim McAlpine
On 5 Jun 2013 12:49, "Rafal Hanzel" wrote:
> I did it about month ago:
> 1. stop tcpip
> 2. SET OMVS=01
> BPXPRM01 where I have INET commented out and these options for CINET:
> FILESYSTYPE TYPE(CINET) ENTRYPOINT(BPXTCINT)
>
I found the explantaion for a volume pool. According to the doc :
A volume pool associates volumes from which data sets migrate with other
volumes, to aid in the selection of target volumes for recall.
I checked the VATLIST and these vols are not in it. Hence the reason for the
ADDVOL.
T
On 6/5/2013 10:12 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
How, then, do OSes with native FBA filesystems manage to
support appending to files? Couldn't QSAM have been
designed to to likewise?
Either they fill every block, or they keep a pointer. When xSAM was
designed, every byte was precious, and most co
In article
you wrote:
> The 'S' in FBS does not stand for SPANNED. It stands for STANDARD meaning
> all the blocks are a standard size.
> There are a few cautions to using FBS files.
> Do not MOD data to a FBS file. A short block in an FBS file is a EOF
> condition. This means that if you
On 6/5/2013 9:55 AM, John Gilmore wrote:
It has important uses, but FBS is for experienced, highly competent
people and only for them..
Unfortunately you may replace FBS with any non-trivial computing
concept, and still be correct.
What's important is the work environment. With a couple of e
Correct. VATLST deals with new dataset allocations for non-specific
non-sms volumes.
Volume pools deal with HSM Recalls to non-specific non-sms volumes.
Similar concepts for different uses.
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 11:33 AM, esmie moo wrote:
> I found the explantaion for a volume pool. According
Ok, that is dynamic. But at least here, stoP TCPIP and fully down are close
enough to the same that I'd still rather IPL :)
Dave Gibney
Information Technology Services
Washington State University
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Same here. No TCPIP means no users because they are all TN3270 and HTTP
connected. No users == down.
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Gibney, Dave wrote:
> Ok, that is dynamic. But at least here, stoP TCPIP and fully down are
> close enough to the same that I'd still rather IPL :)
>
> Dave Gibne
Well, we use the Dallas RDP centre which allows access via SNA as well as
TCPIP so no IPL required here.
Jim McAlpine
On 5 Jun 2013 18:50, "John McKown" wrote:
> Same here. No TCPIP means no users because they are all TN3270 and HTTP
> connected. No users == down.
>
> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 12:
On Wed, 5 Jun 2013 12:49:26 -0400, Gerhard Postpischil wrote:
>
>It is still possible to add extra code to OPEN MOD to read the last
>block, and adjust the buffers, but there is no business case for it.
>Whenever direct addressing was convenient, I used BSAM or BDAM, and
>handled MOD and short buf
Is it possible to enable LPAR soft capping in a basic sysplex, or does WLM
require a CF for this? Thanks!
Tom
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Tom Sims wrote:
Is it possible to enable LPAR soft capping in a basic sysplex, or does WLM
require a CF for this? Thanks!
It has been working quite happily in our basic sysplex.
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Thanks.
/T
From: Bob Rutledge
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Sent: Wed, June 5, 2013 2:21:47 PM
Subject: Re: Quick question about soft capping
Tom Sims wrote:
> Is it possible to enable LPAR soft capping in a basic sysplex, or does WLM
>require a CF for this?
>Where does "spanned" come into play? Why does that make the difference?
An acronym conflict!
I hate IBM's tendency to use the same letters (in the same position) to mean
different things!
vbS -- Variable Blocked Spanned
fbS -- Fixed Blocked Standard
(BTW: why "Standard"? What the H-E-Double-T
On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 02:42:32 +, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
>
>An acronym conflict!
>
It has been pointed out that one of the great challenges to be dealt
with in the 21st Century is that there are only 17,576 possible three
letter acronyms.
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