(last call) Sysprog Developer (Vienna Austria)

We are searching here (Vienna Austria) for a long time, to my place a Sysprog Developer (C/C++). If you have interest, please send a CV off-list. -- Kind regards, / Mit freundlichen Grüßen Miklos Szigetvari Research& Development ISIS Papyrus Europe AG Alter Wienerweg 12, A-2344 Maria Enzersdor

Re: ZFS MountCall / Osi Wait

Thanks Lizette I have checked and all the fixes that you have mentioned have been applied or have been superseded by higher level fixex. our Maintenance level is RSU1303. Yes System does IPL successfully, it is just the first time IPL takes almost an hour or more to get there.. couple of me

Re: ZFS MountCall / Osi Wait

We ran into a similar problem several months ago. I don't remember the details, but the normal startup was elongated to something over an hour due to zFS recovery. It had something to do with a PTF that went on and there was a one-time cleanup that had to happen in certain situations. I think

Re: XRC Problem HDS (9980)

W dniu 2013-06-16 11:12, Mehrshad Manshadi pisze: Hello all, does anyone have a "rule of thumb" as to how much Replication for disaster recovery slows down overall disk I/O? We are replicating about 45 terabytes from HDS USP using asynch. We recently had issues that slowed our mainframe to

Re: ZFS MountCall / Osi Wait

Hi If I see correctly your ZFS is shared or at last used by other members, you can run the salvager utility IOAAGSLV to check/correct the ZFS in any LPAR anytime , before a "long" IPL. I don't think it is a good idea, to cancel the recovery for ZFS. On 17.06.2013 10:02, Munif Sadek wrote

Re: IBM commitment to academia (was:ataPower XML Appliance and RACF)

There is only ONE (pseudo-)University from Canada on the list! Canadian colleges don't cut it! Therefore: there is NO commitment in Canada. And, no propaganda will change that. - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Twitter: @TedMacNEIL -Original Message- From: Timothy Sipples Sender:

Re: Where might I find the DSECT for the WEB control block

>counter-intuitive It has been perhaps over 20 years since "MVS" (subsequently OS/390 and z/OS) stopped putting things in the data areas book under the "control block acronym" but instead put them under the "macro name", in part because the macro name is unique, and the control block name in so

Re: ZFS MountCall / Osi Wait

I have these notes from an IBM Redpiece. I can't find the original copy, but here are my notes. Doesn't answer your question of how to cancel the recoveries though. I'd be interested in that answer myself. We have a system with almost 700 ZFS filesystems, and IPLing that after a failure can

Re: ZFS MountCall / Osi Wait

A writable zfs must be cleanly unmounted or there will be a 65 second delay at IPL time for each one. This can be avoided by mounting it on another system and then immediately unmounting it. See Share 2012 document "zFS Diagnosis II: Problem Determination and File System Monitoring". -- Donald J

Re: XRC Problem HDS (9980)

On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 02:12:56 -0700, Mehrshad Manshadi wrote: >Hello all, �does anyone have a "rule of thumb" as to how much Replication for disaster recovery slows down overall disk I/O? "Don't overload the link(s) - or the cache". First time I saw problems was when the target controller "went

Question about LSR vs HiperBatch

We are looking into using either Batch LSR (local shared resources) or HiperBatch for batch jobs that use the same resources (VSAM files...) What (if any) are the recommendations, pitfalls of each or is the another option to do this? We are running z/OS V1.13. Thanks Norma Mowry DECC-Mechan

Re: IBM commitment to academia (was:ataPower XML Appliance and RACF)

The academic computer-science community has been hostile to IBM for a very long time. Some of this hostility was provoked, understandably, by long ago IBM hubris; but it remains pervasive in a period when most of that hubris has been dissipated. Things may change, but at the moment there is no gr

Ported Tools - Unix

Hello, Cross posted to IBM MAIN and MVS-OE list. we have a requirement of getting the ported tools feature to our Z/OS 1.13 system. I referred http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA22944. I understood that UA40677 is fix which introduces the ported tools features. I tried downloadin

Re: [MVS-OE] Ported Tools - Unix

Jake, According to the text this is not a FIX and was released in 2008. So not necessarily needed for your environment of z/OS V1.13 This is an SPE (Small Programming Enhancement) and released in 2008. So I do not think it would apply to your system at all. Have you looked on IBM.com for port

Re: [MVS-OE] Ported Tools - Unix

Looking at the z/OS 1.13 smp/e environment, it seems this PTF was included with the base OS. Check to see if it's already installed. Entry Type: SYSMOD Entry Name: UA40677

Re: Ported Tools - Unix

The actual Ported Tools is a set of products which are freely licensed. When you order z/OS (or later as an independent order), you need to order the Ported Tools from the same site. You can order Ported Tools to be "bundled" with your z/OS order. Or you can order them later. They are in the list u

Re: DataPower XML Appliance and RACF

Tim, AFAIK, that is a (relatively) recent *new* initiative. For several decades before that IBM had stopped providing free or very low-cost hardware and software to universities as they gravitated towards "client-server" (especially *ix-based) platforms for academic (as opposed to administrati

Re: Question about LSR vs HiperBatch

Hiperbatch is limited to 2GB of data for all files cached across the entire sysplex. It is a "stabilized" product no longer being actively updated. We use it for one particular file used across many applications, but that is the only file we can use it for since it is a large file (> 1.5GB).

Re: DataPower XML Appliance and RACF

It seems something of an artificial barrier standing in the way of propagating System Z skills out to the younger generation. If the same low cost X86 platforms supporting z/OS were made available to learned institutions which are already available to independent software vendors, then we could

Re: Where might I find the DSECT for the WEB control block

Even longer since everything OCO and no PLMs Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On Jun 17, 2013, at 7:33 AM, Peter Relson wrote: >> counter-intuitive > > It has been perhaps over 20 years since "MVS" (subsequently OS/390 and > z/OS) stoppe

Re: Question about LSR vs HiperBatch

It may be worth noting that HiperBatch only caches the data component of a VSAM cluster indeed making it quite useless for direct/random access. DFSMS SMB makes LSR in batch real easy to use - but it is a Local Shared Resource; in case many users need to access/update the VSAM cluster at the same

Re: Ported Tools - Unix

> From: Jake anderson > Subject: Ported Tools - Unix > Any idea or suggestion on why this PTF is included ? Is it licensed or a > priced feature that we need to purchase seperately ?   AFAIK the Ported Tools are now distribued by Rocket Software: http://www.rocketsoftware.com/portedtools and ha

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Re: IBM commitment to academia (was:ataPower XML Appliance and RACF)

On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:16:46 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: > >... The original Hanford, Washington, gaseous-diffusion >facility for the separation of uranium isotopes was designed by Enrico >Fermi, slide rule in hand. ... > My recollection is that gaseous-diffusion separation of uranium was perform

Re: Why does IBM keep saying things like this:

It does not actually matter whether their systems are "open" or not; just different from IBM. Yes, the total cost is less expensive, because they are smaller. Yes, the cost per transaction is higher. However, the cost per transaction may be out weighted by other factors. Regardless, they'll work ha

Re: IBM commitment to academia

jwgli...@gmail.com (John Gilmore) writes: > We are in a situation much like that of the atomic-energy industry > some years ago. The original Hanford, Washington, gaseous-diffusion > facility for the separation of uranium isotopes was designed by Enrico > Fermi, slide rule in hand. It then came u

Re: Question about LSR vs HiperBatch

SMB (System Managed Buffering) is one of the better Performance options to apply to VSAM datasets in a long time and should be considered. In order for a VSAM dataset to be suitable for SMB is must be SMS managed and defined to SMS in the appropriate Data Class as an Extended Format Data Set (D

Re: Why does IBM keep saying things like this:

donb...@gmail.com (Don Williams) writes: > It does not actually matter whether their systems are "open" or not; just > different from IBM. Yes, the total cost is less expensive, because they are > smaller. Yes, the cost per transaction is higher. However, the cost per > transaction may be out weigh

rmm variable

Hello, I am in the process of upgrading to zos 1.12 and running into an issue. We have a rexx that uses EDG@FILE.0 to determine file placement on a tape for stacking files on this tape. EDG@FILE.0 no longer provides the Physical File Sequence Number so I cannot use this to determine how to stac

Re: IBM commitment to academia

Ted MacNEIL wrote: There is only ONE (pseudo-)University from Canada on the list! Canadian colleges don't cut it! Therefore: there is NO commitment in Canada. And, no propaganda will change that. If you mean Academic Initiative members, I'm confused by your post. The efforts of Parti Quebecoi

Re: Ported Tools - Unix

On 06/17/13 10:09, Walter Marguccio wrote: AFAIK the Ported Tools are now distribued by Rocket Software: http://www.rocketsoftware.com/portedtools and have been rebranded. I can't tell you whether the PTF you claim is in the package, but I'd try to download the tools from then following t

Re: IBM commitment to academia (was:ataPower XML Appliance and RACF)

IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 06/17/2013 10:15:25 AM: > From: Paul Gilmartin > My recollection is that gaseous-diffusion separation of uranium was > performed at Oak Ridge and Hanford separated plutonium chemically. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project Thanks for th

Re: Ported Tools - Unix

There was mention of this by IBM on this at SHARE: https://share.confex.com/share/120/webprogram/Handout/Session12249/SHARE%20February%202013%20magdall.pdf (see page 9) According to this, the packages that will be picked up by Rocket include: perl, cURL, bzip2, sudo, and PHP This list does not

Re: IBM commitment to academia

This isn't really about IBM & academia, but I think it may speak to IBM's commitment to the mainframe. As many of you know, I worked for a little over 3 years for IBM in Dubuque Iowa. The Dubuque facility is primarily for outsourcing. They have some Mainframe clients, but many many more clien

Re: rmm variable

Kurt, I don't recall hitting this same issue when migrating to 1.12, but we do have some code that returns a value for the number of files on the tape, if that's helpful: sysauth.edgdate = "AMERICAN" /* RMM flag for edg vars*/

Re: DataPower XML Appliance and RACF

In , on 06/17/2013 at 01:07 PM, Timothy Sipples said: >That wasn't part of the original assertion. But, since you raised >the point, should IBM be providing free computing solutions for >non-instructional uses to organizations that often charge hefty >tuition rates and which have more accumul

Batch TSO COPY?

Dear Group, From my '=6' (Enter TSO or Workstation commands ) I enter COPY. It comes back and says "ENTER 'FROM' DATA SET NAME -". If I follow the prompts it will copy a PDS member for me. I thought this was TSO doing this. But I found no TSO COPY command. Q). Who's COPY program am I

Re: Batch TSO COPY?

Dave, A long long time ago there was a package called TSO Utilities from IBM. It had COPY, LIST, FORMAT and MERGE commands. I found COPY in one of our LINKLIBs that would appear to be from this package. We even appear to have the HELP for it. Alan Field Technical Engineer Principal BCBS Mi

Re: Batch TSO COPY?

I think this is a TSO version of the IDCAMS copy command. TSO get it's parameters between parentheses so it should be more COPY FROMFDN('xxx') todsn('xxx') ITschak On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN < dave.l.han...@usps.gov> wrote: > Dear Group, > >From my '=6' (Ent

Vintage IBM Manuals

I found this on another group I am on. This has entries for the old stuff if you are interested http://tk3.limewebs.com/Vintage_Manuals.html Here is a Short list of the manuals. There are many more Vintage Computer Manuals IBM Manuals - Bookshelf Miscellaneous Manuals IBM Manual

Re: rmm variable

Kurt, You should refer to the z/OS Migration books for the releases you skip and your target release. See http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/e0z2m171/9.2.26?SHELF=EZ2ZBK0I&DT=20100128170349 It is the documented migration item related to the rexx stem variables. There is e

Re: Anyone familiar with how z/OS CSRCESRV works?

Charles, hereby a piece of code I used (c++). input char_compressed, output char_decompressed, input max_ll_char_decompressed Hope this helps and sorry for comments in italian language. Best regards. Massimo Biancucci /* -- */ /*

Re: Anyone familiar with how z/OS CSRCESRV works?

Grazie. Nessun problema. Posso leggere un po d'italiano. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Massimo Biancucci Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 11:15 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Anyone familiar with how

Re: Vintage IBM Manuals

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Re: Vintage IBM Manuals

Unless it's a Win8 challenge, these pages don't open... Would like to get some of these gems... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 11:07 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject:

Re: Vintage IBM Manuals

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Re: Vintage IBM Manuals

I'm running FreeBSD on my workstation and FireFox was able to download the PDF's w/o a problem. Mark Jacobs On 06/17/13 15:08, Norman.Hollander wrote: Unless it's a Win8 challenge, these pages don't open... Would like to get some of these gems... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainfram

Re: Vintage IBM Manuals

stars...@mindspring.com (Lizette Koehler) writes: > http://tk3.limewebs.com/Vintage_Manuals.html bitsavers has lots of manuals (and software) with some mirrors around the world http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/ 360 http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360 and 370 http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360 also share

TSO exits

The TSO customization manual says A private steplib is checked When checking for when checking for TSO TEST exits IKJEGMIE IKJEGMTE can TSOLIB be used as a place the system searches for these exits Sent from my iPhone -- For I

Re: Ported Tools - Unix

Mark Jacobs wrote: What is the difference between the Rocket Software Ported tools package and the one ordered via ShopZSeries? (Posting on behalf of Jeff Magdall, who saw your post.) I wanted to respond to the questions you asked about IBM's Ported Tools offering. If you look at the IB

Re: rmm variable

Greg, Thanks for the info. Kurt From: Greg Shirey To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 12:00 PM Subject: Re: rmm variable Kurt, I don't recall hitting this same issue when migrating to 1.12, but we do have some code that returns a

Re: rmm variable

Mike, Thanks for the info. Kurt From: Mike Wood To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 1:09 PM Subject: Re: rmm variable Kurt, You should refer to the z/OS Migration books for the releases you skip and your target release. See http://

Re: Ported Tools - Unix

On 6/17/2013 1:12 PM, John Eells wrote: I will share that we (IBM) are working on plans to update our Apache HTTP Server and OpenSSH offerings, and we will try to make information available as we conclude. It would be nice if OpenSSH and cURL came with z/OS without the PITA separate order and

Re: Ported Tools - Unix

I'm fairly sure that went I ordered z/OS 1.12 back when, I just clicked on all the Ported Tools entry and the order included them, already integrated. But it's been a while and I've slept so many times that details are as fuzzy as the Scottish coast in the fog. On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Ed

Re: Batch TSO COPY?

Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN wrote: > From my '=6' (Enter TSO or Workstation commands ) I enter COPY. It comes > back and says "ENTER 'FROM' DATA SET NAME -". If I follow the prompts it > will copy a PDS member for me. I thought this was TSO doing this. But I > found no TSO COPY command. I

Re: Ported Tools - Unix

Thanks for the information, much appreciated but , it makes the job of the product install team (me for zOS) much harder to get pieces of the current operating system build from multiple vendors. Mark Jacobs From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN

Re: Batch TSO COPY?

In , on 06/17/2013 at 05:20 PM, "Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN" said: > Q). Who's COPY program am I running when TSO responds with the >dataset prompt? I could be the old kludgy IBM Data Set Utilities: COPY, FORMAT LIST ans MERGE. It could be ASI Superset utilities, a much nicer replacement, o

Re: Ported Tools - Unix

In , on 06/17/2013 at 11:17 AM, Kirk Wolf said: >According to this, the packages that will be picked up by Rocket >include: perl, cURL, bzip2, sudo, and PHP Will they only offer Perl 5.8.7, or will they offer a more current Perl? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/

Re: Vintage IBM Manuals

In , on 06/17/2013 at 03:42 PM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler said: >and 370 >http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360 ITYM http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/370 -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2 We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.

Re: Batch TSO COPY?

Enter TSO PROFILE command (at Ready, ISPF 6, or 'TSO xxx'). You should see MSGID. If not, enter PROF MSGID. The next time you enter COPY, you will see a message id on the prompt. That will/should tell what component you're running. . . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electr

Re: Ported Tools - Unix and Re: Batch TSO COPY?

On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:54:09 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote: >On 6/17/2013 1:12 PM, John Eells wrote: >> I will share that we (IBM) are working on plans to update our Apache >> HTTP Server and OpenSSH offerings, and we will try to make information >> available as we conclude. > Is OpenSSH under a GPL-like

Re: Ported Tools - Unix

On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:30:19 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) > wrote: > >Will they only offer Perl 5.8.7, or will they offer a more current >Perl? > Did Il cimento dell'EBCDIC e dell'UNICODE ever get resolved in Perl? -- gil -- F

Re: Ported Tools - Unix and Re: Batch TSO COPY?

>>> On 6/17/2013 at 09:32 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > Is OpenSSH under a GPL-like license? No. The Linux RPM for it says "BSD 3-Clause; X11/MIT" the same as curl. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acce

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