Re: Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers

2013-07-12 Thread Timothy Sipples
Shmuel Metz asks: You don't think that, e.g., the Honeywell H-200, IBM 650, IBM 1401, RCA 301, UNIVAC 1004, UNIVAC SS-80/SS-90, had already destroyed the reproducer and tabulator markets and that the ubiquity of tape drives had already destroyed the collator and sorter market? Heading in that

Re: Installing HSM or rather: DFHSM woes

2013-07-12 Thread Gibney, Dave
I have to ask. What's harm of defining a couple 1 cylinder (or 2 track) OCDS, BCDS that will remain empty and unused? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of nitz-...@gmx.net Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 9:14 PM To:

Re: Installing HSM or rather: DFHSM woes

2013-07-12 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
I have to ask. What's harm of defining a couple 1 cylinder (or 2 track) OCDS, BCDS that will remain empty and unused? 'Business reasons'. I just didn't understand why something that looks to have correct syntax is getting a syntax error. Turns out that it *should* be correct. I will just

Re: Central Storage reallocation on z9 - requirement to be contiguous? - Never mind, didn't read enough... or reply with enough information,

2013-07-12 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2013-07-11 22:02, Tom Ambros pisze: OK, I'll try and make it clear. PR/SM Planning Guide spells out that at partition activation the initial storage allocation is made in contiguous segments. If you follow the sequence of the scenario I presented, you'll see that I am in fact asking

Re: PDS86 EAV compatibility

2013-07-12 Thread John P Kalinich
Anthony, SAS provided the modifications to PDS86 for access to PDSE's in cylinder managed space on EAV. Download from CBT Updates page. Regards, John K -IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu wrote: - To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu From: Anthony Fletcher Sent by: IBM

Re: Central Storage reallocation on z9 - requirement to be contiguous? - Never mind, didn't read enough... or reply with enough information,

2013-07-12 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Q1.You can add the second segment, which you must have defined as Reserved Storage in the LPAR's Activation Profile, with the command: CF STOR(E=1),ON If you then Reset the system without the Clear option, the Reserved Storage remains allocated to the LPAR, if you Reset with the Clear option,

Re: PDS86 EAV compatibility

2013-07-12 Thread Jousma, David
John, When did they do that? Is there a newer version than 86? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John P Kalinich Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 6:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PDS86 EAV compatibility

TSOLOGON TERMINATED. IKJEFRAF ERROR 016

2013-07-12 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Has anyone seen this error before and found that it is *not* that the RACF subsystem had not been started/activated (per SIS search in IBMLINK)? Any clue would be helpful. Seeing this on a new standalone lpar on a brand new zEC12. Was working yesterday. IPL'ed...no joy...same problem. Bob

Re: TSOLOGON TERMINATED. IKJEFRAF ERROR 016

2013-07-12 Thread Neil Haley
This is what I could find, IKJ56646I IKJEFRAF FAILED - RETURN CODE return_code. Explanation: IKJEFRAF passed an unexpected return code to IKJEFT01. The UPT, and other information associated with the user id could not be obtained. This message will be followed by IKJ56644, which indicates that

Re: TSOLOGON TERMINATED. IKJEFRAF ERROR 016

2013-07-12 Thread Sambataro, Anthony (NIH/NBS) [E]
How about the shutdown? http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA37537 -Original Message- From: Richards, Robert B. [mailto:robert.richa...@opm.gov] Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 7:10 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: TSOLOGON TERMINATED. IKJEFRAF ERROR 016 Has anyone

Re: TSOLOGON TERMINATED. IKJEFRAF ERROR 016

2013-07-12 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Thanks Neil and Anthony. I got a hold of a coworker and he was playing around with the RACF ICHRIX01 signon exit on that system. I'll let him resolve it...he is on his way in. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of

ACS routine imbed/include function?

2013-07-12 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Hello group, I vaguely remember reading, quite some time ago, about a function to imbed/include coding into ACS routines. E.g. if you have large filtlists, you code them in a separate member on your ACSsource and have them read (included) into your ACS routine at compile time. The advantage

Re: PDS86 EAV compatibility

2013-07-12 Thread Jousma, David
Nevermind, I downloaded the latest package, and see the updates. I wish that CBt would display the revision level of the PDS86. I always just assumed that since it was still 8.6 that the code wasn’t being changed. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: TSOLOGON TERMINATED. IKJEFRAF ERROR 016

2013-07-12 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Richards, Robert B. wrote: I got a hold of a coworker and he was playing around with the RACF ICHRIX01 signon exit on that system. I'll let him resolve it...he is on his way in. Playing with such exits without warning you? For his career safety, it helps it is on a new LPAR on a new toy, but

Re: Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers

2013-07-12 Thread Eric Bielefeld
Hi Timothy, You make many interesting points in your email. I think there are some things about IBM that you don't know, although that may not be the case. As many of you know, I worked a little over 3 years for IBM until February this year in Dubuque, Iowa. They have a very high turnover

Re: Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers

2013-07-12 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#71 Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers 2nd hand about testimony in the gov. legal action ... claim that top executive from one of the seven dwarfs testified that by the late 50s every computer company realized

Re: Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers

2013-07-12 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
sipp...@sg.ibm.com (Timothy Sipples) writes: Power servers are a good example of a success. IBM is the leader in the distributed UNIX server market and by quite a margin. Yet rewind the clock a couple decades and *nobody* would have predicted that. IBM doggedly, persistently focused on

Re: Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers

2013-07-12 Thread John Gilmore
Eric Bielefeld wrote: begin extract One other thing I didn't like was the computer operations was usually run from India. Many of the people were very sharp, but it was very hard to understand them. /end extract Unfamiliar accents are hard to understand; and Americans in particular often have

RMM CDS utilization vs 3.4 utilization

2013-07-12 Thread Schroeder, Wayne
Ladies and Gentlemen, My =3.4 reports my RMM CDS using 41910 tracks and 5 extents. My LISTCONTROL CNTL reports Utilization = 97%. What does this Utilization tell me? Should I expand the size of the CDS for a little breathing room or just size the CDS with enough space for 0 extents and let it

Re: RMM CDS utilization vs 3.4 utilization

2013-07-12 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2013-07-12 17:36, Schroeder, Wayne pisze: Ladies and Gentlemen, My =3.4 reports my RMM CDS using 41910 tracks and 5 extents. My LISTCONTROL CNTL reports Utilization = 97%. What does this Utilization tell me? Should I expand the size of the CDS for a little breathing room or just size

Re: ACS routine imbed/include function?

2013-07-12 Thread Gibney, Dave
As of z/OS a do by hand function. Would be useful as part of the ACS language :) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Vernooij, CP - SPLXM Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 5:02 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: ACS

Re: ACS routine imbed/include function?

2013-07-12 Thread Lizette Koehler
I will be interested in the answer. I know you cannot have more than 255 entire in one filtlist. But I was not aware of any include function Lizette -Original Message- From: Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu Sent: Jul 12, 2013 9:15 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ACS routine

Re: Dynamic LPA Services

2013-07-12 Thread Peter Relson
I'm basing everything I'm doing on the Principles of Operations manual (POM). The Z/Architecture is the final authority for any program even MVS. An interesting opinion. But I'd say not overly relevant. Sure, you can consider the Principles of Operation to be the final authority for what the

Re: Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers

2013-07-12 Thread Eric Bielefeld
Actually, I should have added that most of the time when we did IPLs or upgrades, we used Sametime to communicate with the people from India. Their English is actually pretty good. There was enough times when we had voice chats up though that often made things hard. I have to admit that I

Re: ACS routine imbed/include function?

2013-07-12 Thread Gibney, Dave
Sorry about the garble. The include function available to ACS routines is that of the editor. There is still value to a separate member(s) for common code, FILTLIST in particular. But it is a manual function to pull them into each member before compiling. Dave Gibney Information Technology

PASSWORD clause

2013-07-12 Thread R.S.
I just found the PASSWORD clause in Enterprise COBOL for z/OS V4.2 Reference, as a part of file specification. Now the question: what password can be specified in the clause? -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- Treść tej wiadomości może zawierać informacje prawnie chronione Banku

Re: PASSWORD clause

2013-07-12 Thread Walt Farrell
On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 20:05:16 +0200, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: I just found the PASSWORD clause in Enterprise COBOL for z/OS V4.2 Reference, as a part of file specification. Now the question: what password can be specified in the clause? My guess would be that it's for the

Re: Dynamic LPA Services

2013-07-12 Thread John Gilmore
Peter Relson's most recent post seems to me to strike the right note. That the PrOp makes a hardware feature available is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for its availability under an operating system, any operating system. (I know of one old proto-OS that effectively blocked all use

Re: Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers

2013-07-12 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#71 Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#73 Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#74 Future of

Re: Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers

2013-07-12 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 12, 2013, at 1:37 AM, Timothy Sipples wrote: ---SNIP-- IBM never seems to have acquired or internalized the value of the concept of a loss leader. I'm not 100% sure what you mean by loss leader here. Certain pricing practices can

Re: Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers

2013-07-12 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 12, 2013, at 10:33 AM, John Gilmore wrote: In the past Timothy has argued that market forces will over time adjust IBM salaries upward where they are too low. This does not always happen. The market for displaced, ageing IBM z/OS sysprogs in those parts of the world where the number of

SRCHFOR command

2013-07-12 Thread Roger Steyn
Greetings  , I know this is a silly question . Unfortunately I am not good at ISPF and needs some help to fix a problem . I have a problem with SRCHFOR command in ISPF . Normally , when a srchfor command is issued by passing a string in 3.4 , it returns a response 'String(s) found or not

Re: PDS86 EAV compatibility

2013-07-12 Thread Anthony Fletcher
I was testing using PDS 8.6 14.2 which I believe is the latest version. The Tracking is still occurring, so there must be some code that hasn't been updated. Can't tell whether the number of cases has reduced. We don't have any EAV volumes on the system I was using so this must be against

Re: PDS86 EAV compatibility

2013-07-12 Thread Don Poitras
You need 8.6.14.4. I don't know if you have to request it or if the CBT is current. See: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbt-tape/message/448 In article of66ce2cb1.a8256d93-oncc257ba6.0077aa08-cc257ba6.007ae...@nz1.ibm.com you wrote: I was testing using PDS 8.6 14.2 which I believe is the

Re: SRCHFOR command

2013-07-12 Thread Lizette Koehler
Roger SRCHFOR, might be a REXX/CLIST that does that or an ISPF Command table entry. The easiest thing to do is use ISRDDN TSO ISRDDN on any command line Then issue M SRCHFOR See where it turns up Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: SRCHFOR command

2013-07-12 Thread Roger Steyn
Hello Lizette ,  Thanks for quick response . I had already tried that , but it didn't show up .(It says member not found ) . I suspect that something is missing from my logon proc , but not able to locate what exactly it is .    From: Lizette Koehler

Re: SRCHFOR command

2013-07-12 Thread Robert Hahne
Hello , I just did a TSO ISRDDN and tried to locate SRCHFOR member , even for me it says member not found . But in my system , srchfor works as normal . So , i guess the invocation happens in a different way . BTW , which release of z/os are you using ? Regards, Bob Date: Fri, 12 Jul

Re: SRCHFOR command

2013-07-12 Thread Lizette Koehler
Can you post your logon proc JCL? SRCHFOR should be a command table entry (I think), therefore it should not be found in the LOGON Proc. In Opt 3 is the CMD table function, see what you are using there. ISF or a user defined table. The other option, Type in on the Command line TSO ISPVCALL

Re: SRCHFOR command

2013-07-12 Thread CM Poncelet
I suggest that you run your searches in batch (it's faster, allows you to search for multiple strings in multiple PDSes and also writes the 'hard-copy' output to a sequential dataset) - as follows: //*---* //* 'SEARCH FOR' IN

Re: SRCHFOR command

2013-07-12 Thread CM Poncelet
Here it is again, hopefully formatted correctly this time grin ... I suggest that you run your searches in batch (it's faster, allows you to search for multiple strings in multiple PDSes and also writes the 'hard-copy' output to a sequential dataset) - as follows:

IBMLink is DOWN

2013-07-12 Thread Pinnacle
IBMLink appears to be down. Not sure if it is IBMLink or the auth server yet. Guy on the line told me to try later, but I got a SEV 1 HEAH!! Regards, Tom Conley -- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

The amazing disappearing mainframe.

2013-07-12 Thread Shane Ginnane
John spake thus: : The market for displaced, ageing IBM z/OS sysprogs in : those parts of the world where the number of mainframe shops is : declining steadily has almost none of the characteristics of a : traditional 'free' labor market. Careful fella, I resemble that. Timothys platitudes

SMF record - IPADDR

2013-07-12 Thread mf db
Hello, Apology if this was question was repetitive. Is it possible to fetch Users Logon detail based on IPADDR from SMF ? IPADDR is the source IP from where the users open up the IBM 3270 emulator. The objective is for User logon id audit. Any idea or suggestions are appreciated. Z/OS : 1.13

Re: SMF record - IPADDR

2013-07-12 Thread Lizette Koehler
What tools will you use to get this data? REXX, SAS/MXG, SAS/MICS, Tivoli? There is a utility on the CBTTAPE.ORG called DAF. It is assembler but breaks down most SMF records. Check it out and see if it can help answer your question. Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: SMF record - IPADDR

2013-07-12 Thread Charles Mills
I can give you whatever level of detail you want on this question. The IP address (IPv6, but easy to make into an IPv4 address) is in the Type 119 record, subtype SNA Initiation. The format is IIRC in one of the Comm Server books. I can find it if you need. The SNA Init record will give you the

Re: Dynamic LPA Services

2013-07-12 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 7/8/2013 5:55 AM, Kenneth Wilkerson wrote: ... most of the stuff I write is RMODE64. Wow! That's ambitious! -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/