Re: IBM Knowledge Center beta

2013-12-19 Thread Shane Ginnane
Welcome to the discussion Dave :p Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: VARY OFFLINE fat finger

2013-12-19 Thread Ron Hawkins
I regularly vary 1000s of volumes online/offline several times a day, and sometimes several times in a few minutes. I don't want no steenkin' changes unless the default remains as it is now. I do recall doing this on the z9 was a major pain and slow as watching grass grow, but on a z196 it's all

Re: IBM Knowledge Center beta

2013-12-19 Thread David Crayford
Must have missed that thread :^\ On 19 Dec 2013, at 4:52 pm, Shane Ginnane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au wrote: Welcome to the discussion Dave :p Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: VARY OFFLINE fat finger

2013-12-19 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Ron Hawkins wrote: I regularly vary 1000s of volumes online/offline several times a day, and sometimes several times in a few minutes. Just curious if you don't mind please, but how are you doing it? Manually, programmatically (REXX with CONSOLE or Assembler with SVC 34 or something else?) or

Telnet Solicitor panel

2013-12-19 Thread Jim McAlpine
Is there a way to customize the ACTUAL Telnet solicitor panel. I would like to add a list of available applications as text to the panel. I can't seem to find the panel itself anywhere. Anyone done this ? Jim McAlpine -- For

Re: Telnet Solicitor panel

2013-12-19 Thread Juergen Keller
Hello Jim, its a standard USS-Table from Vtam. So you can create your own and activate it with OBEY. BEGINVTAM PORT USSTCP regards Juergen -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: APF authorization and JOBLIB DD card

2013-12-19 Thread Kenneth Wilkerson
The short answer is that any module loaded by an authorized program must come from an authorized library. I've been reading this post with interest since I've had to do a lot to deal with authorized services loading programs from unauthorized libraries. I have a utility that copies the

Re: Telnet Solicitor panel

2013-12-19 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Jim McAlpine wrote: Is there a way to customize the ACTUAL Telnet solicitor panel. 'solicitor' is an unknown word to me in this context. Are you perhaps referring to a USS Table load module and its Logmode table as served by TN3270 on a z/Os machine? I would like to add a list of available

Re: Telnet Solicitor panel

2013-12-19 Thread Jim McAlpine
the Telnet solicitor panel looks like this - Enter Your Userid: Password:New Password: Application: and you just have to enter the application name in the application field. Jim McAlpine On 19 December 2013 12:11, Elardus Engelbrecht

Re: Telnet Solicitor panel

2013-12-19 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Jim McAlpine wrote: the Telnet solicitor panel looks like this - Enter Your Userid: Password:New Password: Application: and you just have to enter the application name in the application field. Oh, yes, thanks. I know it as 'USS logon panel' and we are

Re: Telnet Solicitor panel

2013-12-19 Thread Juergen Keller
it should be a combination of USSMSG USSCMD USSPARM described in SNA Resource Definition Reference -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message:

Re: Telnet Solicitor panel

2013-12-19 Thread Scott Ford
It's USSTCP in ADCD z/1.13. It's a stand non-SNA screen with SBA, SF ..etc Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On Dec 19, 2013, at 8:02 AM, Juergen Keller juergen.kel...@deutsche-boerse.com wrote: it should be a combination of USSMSG

Re: IBM Knowledge Center beta

2013-12-19 Thread Steve Comstock
On 12/18/2013 11:42 PM, David Crayford wrote: The new IBM knowledge center, which will replace Information Center, is available for beta http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/. First impressions are quite good. It's snappy, well laid out and allows customers to add content. A quick look

Ralf Zantopp ist nicht erreichbar

2013-12-19 Thread ralf . zantopp
Ich bin ab 19.12.2013 außer Haus und ab 06.01.2014 wieder im Büro. I'm out of the office from 19.12.2013 and will be back on 06.01.2014. Gerne werde ich Ihre Nachricht nach meiner Rückkehr beantworten. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Ralf Zantopp

Re: Telnet Solicitor panel

2013-12-19 Thread Thomas Conley
On 12/19/2013 6:47 AM, Jim McAlpine wrote: Is there a way to customize the ACTUAL Telnet solicitor panel. I would like to add a list of available applications as text to the panel. I can't seem to find the panel itself anywhere. Anyone done this ? Jim McAlpine Jim, AFAIK, you can't modify

Re: Telnet Solicitor panel

2013-12-19 Thread Scott Ford
Tom, Exactly, clone and modify Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On Dec 19, 2013, at 9:11 AM, Thomas Conley pinnc...@rochester.rr.com wrote: On 12/19/2013 6:47 AM, Jim McAlpine wrote: Is there a way to customize the ACTUAL Telnet

CryptoExpress3 to 4S migration - any gotchas?

2013-12-19 Thread R.S.
We are going to change our hardware. One of the changes will be transition from CryptoExpress3 (old, long cards) to CryptoExpress4S (short, PCIe cards). The number of engines will remain the same. The system is z/OS 1.13 with HCR77A0 ICSF fmid. Should I expect any troubles? Hidden traps? --

Re: CryptoExpress3 to 4S migration - any gotchas?

2013-12-19 Thread Jousma, David
Sounds like you will be ok. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 10:38 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: CryptoExpress3 to 4S migration - any gotchas? We are going to change

Re: APF authorization and JOBLIB DD card

2013-12-19 Thread Robert Hahne
Hello Chris , This is a very good explanation . But that still leaves OP's last question If IDCAMS requires APF authorization for called modules, why does IDCAMS work when the JOBLIB is supposedly not authorized by introducing a non-authorized library to the JOBLIB? I assume OP ran the job

Re: CA Top secret to RACF conversion

2013-12-19 Thread Craig . Pace
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg245677.pdf There is also an IBM Tool, which you must license that can help with the migration. There are also Technical Services which can be contracted to help, if that is of interest. Thanks, Craig From: Robert Hahne

Re: IBM Knowledge Center beta

2013-12-19 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2013-12-19 01:42, David Crayford wrote: The new IBM knowledge center, which will replace Information Center, is available for beta http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/. First impressions are quite good. It's snappy, well laid out and allows customers to add content. A quick look

Re: CA Top secret to RACF conversion

2013-12-19 Thread Burrell, C. Todd (CDC/OCOO/OCIO/ITSO) (CTR)
We did this a few years ago and I ended up writing a great deal of REXX code to read in Top Secret reports and then create the appropriate RACF commands. It was not an overly painful conversion, but we did spend a couple of months testing out the process on our test system. I don't have

Mounting /var/wbem to a SERVICE mountpoint for maintenance.

2013-12-19 Thread Brett Danals
I am attempting to mount my target datasets in /SERVICE directory to apply maintenance. I am having diffaculty mounting the CIM zFS file into /SERVICE/var/webm - my /var is a SYM to /SYSTEM.. if i direct my mount to /SERVICE/SYSTEM/var/webm, i get an error : BPXF135E rc81.. if i create a new

Re: Mounting /var/wbem to a SERVICE mountpoint for maintenance.

2013-12-19 Thread Scott Ford
Brett, What is the return code telling you ? That's the first step. Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On Dec 19, 2013, at 11:53 AM, Brett Danals bdan...@hastingsmutual.com wrote: I am attempting to mount my target datasets in /SERVICE

Re: Mounting /var/wbem to a SERVICE mountpoint for maintenance.

2013-12-19 Thread Jon Perryman
The message should have included a reason code. If so, then TSO BPXMTEXT x will display information that will help you determine what may be your problem. Jon Perryman. From: Brett Danals bdan...@hastingsmutual.com I am attempting to mount my

Re: APF authorization and JOBLIB DD card

2013-12-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 21:21:01 +0530, Robert Hahne wrote: Hello Chris , This is a very good explanation . But that still leaves OP's last question If IDCAMS requires APF authorization for called modules, why does IDCAMS work when the JOBLIB is supposedly not authorized by introducing a

Re: VARY OFFLINE fat finger

2013-12-19 Thread Ron Hawkins
Elardus, Sometimes manually, sometimes through batch JCL, sometimes automated as part of a test suite, but usually just a variation on RO *ALL,V 8000-8FFF,ONLINE. I work in a lab, so we usually do this when starting up a test, but when testing replication you can be taking things

Re: Mounting /var/wbem to a SERVICE mountpoint for maintenance.

2013-12-19 Thread Jousma, David
I had to create ./wbem in var. That filesystem is really just an empty work filesystem, came with serverpack, but nothing in SMPE references that on my systems. I do not mount a Service version. I instead copied it and made system specific filesystem and mounted in /var for each system I

Re: Mounting /var/wbem to a SERVICE mountpoint for maintenance.

2013-12-19 Thread Jousma, David
A small correction. It is not *empty*, and does have a directory structure. It is part of CIM. Here is the relevant info from one of the manuals: To place the CIM server repository and the log files in a separate file system, perform the following steps. For a better maintainability, it is

Re: IBM Knowledge Center beta

2013-12-19 Thread Tony Harminc
On 19 December 2013 01:42, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com wrote: The new IBM knowledge center, which will replace Information Center, is available for beta http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/. There seem to be two quite different Knowledge Centers here: the one for z/OS is very

Re: IBM Knowledge Center beta

2013-12-19 Thread Tony Harminc
On 19 December 2013 12:48, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net wrote: There seem to be two quite different Knowledge Centers here: the one for z/OS is very different from then one for IBM i. The z/OS one seems to just point to PDFs, but the IBM i one is more like the Information Centre, with

Re: APF authorization and JOBLIB DD card

2013-12-19 Thread Blaicher, Christopher Y.
I think I covered that, but obviously not well enough. If no called/loaded modules exist in the JOBLIB/STEPLIB, and all are in the LINKLIST, then that meets the requirement that all LOADs occur from authorized libraries. It doesn't matter if JOBLIB/STEPLIB are authorized or not. I think he

Re: Mounting /var/wbem to a SERVICE mountpoint for maintenance.

2013-12-19 Thread Brett Danals
Thank David, I was attempting to create a separate directory/mountpoint and mount my target version to the new location.. which is when i get the 79 EINVAL, which refers to a root of an already mounted file system.. doesnt seem to like anything i attempt. Never thought about making a copy of

Re: VARY OFFLINE fat finger

2013-12-19 Thread Mike Schwab
This is going to be a SAMPLE exit. Modification before manual installation might be frequent.. On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Ron Hawkins ronjhawk...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Elardus, Sometimes manually, sometimes through batch JCL, sometimes automated as part of a test suite, but usually

Re: Mounting /var/wbem to a SERVICE mountpoint for maintenance.

2013-12-19 Thread Brett Danals
1.13 was installed by someone else.. so i'm playing catch up. I attempted to mount at /SERVICE/var/wbem at first that's when i received the rc81.. so i tried other locations.. that's the rc79.. thought about the copy to other zfs.. may have a problem there too, it won't be mounted in the

C threading question

2013-12-19 Thread Scott Ford
I have a C threading question.. My scenario multiple C threads, posix(on), who all can call a Cobol thread aware program in the threads, with their own local-storage. My question is will each thread have storage that will be separate from each other ? These called programs have the same

Re: Mounting /var/wbem to a SERVICE mountpoint for maintenance.

2013-12-19 Thread Scott Ford
Suggest you do you homework like several of us has suggested, he is 2 mins on google BPXF135E RETURN CODE return_code, REASON CODE reason_code. THE MOUNT FAILED FOR FILE SYSTEM fsname. Explanation: The system was unable to mount the file system because of the condition indicated by the

Re: C threading question

2013-12-19 Thread John McKown
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: I have a C threading question.. My scenario multiple C threads, posix(on), who all can call a Cobol thread aware program in the threads, with their own local-storage. My question is will each thread have storage that

Re: Mounting /var/wbem to a SERVICE mountpoint for maintenance.

2013-12-19 Thread Brett Danals
Got it Scott... Thanks for the help -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: CA Top secret to RACF conversion

2013-12-19 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 10:03:09 -0600, craig.p...@fotlinc.com wrote: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg245677.pdf There is also an IBM Tool, which you must license that can help with the migration. There are also Technical Services which can be contracted to help, if that is of interest.

Re: Mounting /var/wbem to a SERVICE mountpoint for maintenance.

2013-12-19 Thread Scott Ford
Brett, Good, return codes for modules are hard to find ...I know the feeling Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On Dec 19, 2013, at 2:18 PM, Brett Danals bdan...@hastingsmutual.com wrote: Got it Scott... Thanks for the help

Re: IBM Knowledge Center beta

2013-12-19 Thread Barry Merrill
When I provided feedback that a search for a current DB2 APAR number and a search for a System Message (IEF032I) (i.e., A Look-AT query), returned no hits, in spite of Google responding with many hits for each search, I received this reply. Barry APARS and PMRs are outside the scope of IBM

Re: IBM Knowledge Center beta

2013-12-19 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 12/18/2013 10:42 PM, David Crayford wrote: The new IBM knowledge center, which will replace Information Center, is available for beta http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/. Obviously, it's not yet been populated with z/OS content. I did a simple search for IEA101A. It came up with

Re: IBM Knowledge Center beta

2013-12-19 Thread Gibney, Dave
I can wait for the search population :) It does seem responsive, but it took a lot of clicks to find z/OS. Once, in a document, it still has what is for me a primary irritation just like the Info Center. I want keyboard based forward and backward navigation when reading subjects sequentially.

Re: Mounting /var/wbem to a SERVICE mountpoint for maintenance.

2013-12-19 Thread Jon Perryman
Return codes are documented in 'SYS1.MACLIB(BPXYERNO)'.  Using BPXMTEXT with the reason code usually provides the information you need in resolving these problems. Jon Perryman. From: Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com Good, return codes for modules are

Re: APF authorization and JOBLIB DD card

2013-12-19 Thread Scott Ford
Gil, Like Jim, we call IDCAMs from a STC and we had to be APF authorized we process define/deletes for aliases... Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On Dec 19, 2013, at 1:02 PM, Jim Mulder d10j...@us.ibm.com wrote: It's possible that

Re: IBM Knowledge Center beta

2013-12-19 Thread Gibney, Dave
On the search. I did find z/OS 1.13 and the migration manual. Yesterday, I discovered the Auto-reply feature (new with 1.12). Today, in the Knowledge Center, looking at the page in the migration manual containing the string AUTOR00, I entered the string in the search and found nothing.

Re: APF authorization and JOBLIB DD card

2013-12-19 Thread Pommier, Rex
Chris et al, Since I'm the OP, here is the detail of what has me so confused. Sorry for the length of the post, but it's the only way to show why I'm befuddled. I read your first post talking about the APF versus LINKLIST versus JOBLIB and I agree with you - that was/is how I understood APF

Re: C threading question

2013-12-19 Thread Scott Ford
Thank you John, I missed it in my old age mucho thx Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On Dec 19, 2013, at 2:16 PM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com

WTO confusion

2013-12-19 Thread zMan
I’m missing something here (as usual). Assembler program, running in Batch, wants to write a message to the job log. I’m doing WTO with ROUTCDE=11, which puts the message in the JESMSGLG. Is that my only real option? Seems like it should be easy to write to SYSPRINT, but I can’t find a way to do

Re: WTO confusion

2013-12-19 Thread Anthony Thompson
WTO doesn't write to SYSPRINT. Use normal OPEN - WRITE/PUT - CLOSE to the SYSPRINT DCB processing. Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of zMan Sent: Friday, 20 December 2013 9:12 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: CA Top secret to RACF conversion

2013-12-19 Thread Skip Robinson
Consulting assistance is certainly a good idea, but the coin has two sides. My shop converted from ACF2 to RACF before I came here in the mid 90s. Without being familiar with the environment, the consultant employed a fairly mechanical conversion that attempted to carry forward as much as

Re: WTO confusion

2013-12-19 Thread Scott Ford
zMan, did you look at the WTL macro ? Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On Dec 19, 2013, at 6:41 PM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote: I’m missing something here (as usual). Assembler program, running in Batch, wants to write a message

Re: CA Top secret to RACF conversion

2013-12-19 Thread Ed Gould
Mark: I do not care for consultants in general. But when you have a project such as conversion like this I will say this. HIRE a Good consultant it is well worth the time and the money. Ed On Dec 19, 2013, at 1:33 PM, Mark Zelden wrote: On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 10:03:09 -0600,

Re: WTO confusion

2013-12-19 Thread Jon Perryman
WTL won't help either. It's just a more specific form of WTO. Jon Perryman. From: Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 4:16 PM Subject: Re: WTO confusion zMan, did you look at the WTL macro ?

Re: WTO confusion

2013-12-19 Thread Scott Ford
Jon, So all you can do is define a DCB, open it and issue a PUT ? Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On Dec 19, 2013, at 7:55 PM, Jon Perryman jperr...@pacbell.net wrote: WTL won't help either. It's just a more specific form of WTO.

Re: CA Top secret to RACF conversion

2013-12-19 Thread Mitch
Mark: I agree with Ed. And, make sure they have done this before and preferably, have an automated solution that is proven in the marketplace. My partner and I are about to embark on another such project after the first of the year. Regards, Mitch McCluhan, Legacy Modernization Consultant

Re: WTO confusion

2013-12-19 Thread John McKown
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 5:41 PM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote: I’m missing something here (as usual). Assembler program, running in Batch, wants to write a message to the job log. I’m doing WTO with ROUTCDE=11, which puts the message in the JESMSGLG. Is that my only real option? Seems

Re: WTO confusion

2013-12-19 Thread Charles Mills
It's a crazy shortcoming of z/OS and why the console is littered with OPENING MASTER INPUT FILE messages: way easier to write a message to the console than to SYSPRINT. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of zMan Sent:

Re: WTO confusion

2013-12-19 Thread John McKown
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: It's a crazy shortcoming of z/OS and why the console is littered with OPENING MASTER INPUT FILE messages: way easier to write a message to the console than to SYSPRINT. Too bad HLASM did not include some of the ASSIST

Re: WTO confusion

2013-12-19 Thread Ed Gould
Charles: I made sure that part of the COBOL standards( COBOL was the only language permissible). DISPLAY UPON CONSOLE were not permitted nor was accept from console allowed. Ed On Dec 19, 2013, at 8:17 PM, Charles Mills wrote: It's a crazy shortcoming of z/OS and why the console is

Re: APF authorization and JOBLIB DD card

2013-12-19 Thread Jim Mulder
Since I'm the OP, here is the detail of what has me so confused. Sorry for the length of the post, but it's the only way to show why I'm befuddled. I read your first post talking about the APF versus LINKLIST versus JOBLIB and I agree with you - that was/is how I understood APF to work.

Re: VARY OFFLINE fat finger

2013-12-19 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Ron Hawkins wrote: Sometimes manually, sometimes through batch JCL, sometimes automated as part of a test suite, but usually just a variation on RO *ALL,V 8000-8FFF,ONLINE. I work in a lab, so we usually do this when starting up a test, but when testing replication you can be taking things

Re: WTO confusion

2013-12-19 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
zMan wrote: Assembler program, running in Batch, wants to write a message to the job log. I'm doing WTO with ROUTCDE=11, which puts the message in the JESMSGLG. Is that my only real option? Seems like it should be easy to write to SYSPRINT, but I can't find a way to do that! Neither me, but

Re: APF authorization and JOBLIB DD card

2013-12-19 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Pommier, Rex wrote: Since I'm the OP, here is the detail of what has me so confused. [ ... snipped ... ] I'm also confused, but before you follow Jim Mulder's recommendation, could you perhaps reread in 'MVS Initialization and Tuning Guide' these two parts: 'Placing Modules in the System's