Re: Using DB2 and MQ under JZOS

2014-04-10 Thread Peter Ondruška
:-) actually, Mohammad, you have received answers to make your (work) life easier (and deliver results); in the end it is your decision which way to go. On 10 April 2014 06:19, Timothy Sipples sipp...@sg.ibm.com wrote: Mohammad Khan writes: Nice argument and something not unexpected of a

Re: How often does SMS update its free space information?

2014-04-10 Thread Vernooij, CP (SPLXM) - KLM
Greg, I hope it is clear now, that it was working as expected, but it should not have done so at this very moment. Apparently the 150 sec. appears to be the algorithm, although I hoped that SMS had a more accurate view on its storagepools. Kees. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

OT:Watson supercomputer by the IBM and the cancer research

2014-04-10 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi There has been several articles (here in the newsgroup also) about the Watson machine and cancer research. If someone could know a person who knows the details, maybe contact me privately. It is a serious meter, thank you in advance. -- Kind regards, / Mit freundlichen Grüßen Miklos

Re: OT:Watson supercomputer by the IBM and the cancer research

2014-04-10 Thread Aled Hughes
Hi Miklos Try this link http://www-05.ibm.com/innovation/uk/watson/watson_in_healthcare.shtml Schöne Grüße ALH -Original Message- From: Miklos Szigetvari miklos.szigetv...@isis-papyrus.com To: IBM-MAIN IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 8:59 Subject: OT:Watson

Re: OT:Watson supercomputer by the IBM and the cancer research

2014-04-10 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Thank you very much I will try the link and hope to get some answer, thank you. On 10.04.2014 10:09, Aled Hughes wrote: Hi Miklos Try this link http://www-05.ibm.com/innovation/uk/watson/watson_in_healthcare.shtml Schöne Grüße ALH -Original Message- From: Miklos

Re: S0C4 abend on old assembler program when upgrading to z/OS 1.13

2014-04-10 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
Ok, sounds interesting. If this is indeed a license check, you may run into legal issues, if you change the program not doing this any more. But: if the old software provider is not on the market any more and you still need to run this 24 bit version AND it is only - for example - done to

Re: Using DB2 and MQ under JZOS

2014-04-10 Thread John McKown
I don't want to put words in Mohammad's mouth, but from what I gather, he simply would like JZOS itself to have RRS capabilities. But that is _not_ what it is designed to do. JZOS, to my limited understanding, is designed as a way to easily run Java programs in a batch job. Wanting RRS

Email disruption, brought to us by Yahoo!

2014-04-10 Thread John McKown
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/04/09/2047205/yahoo-dmarc-implementation-breaks-most-mailing-lists quote On April 8, Yahoo implemented a new DMARC http://www.dmarc.org/ policy that essentially bars any Yahoo user from accessing mailing lists hosted anywhere except on Yahoo and Google. While

Re: Email disruption, brought to us by Yahoo!

2014-04-10 Thread John Gilmore
DMARC, like the traffic engineer's no-left-turn sign, solves one putative problem by creating many others elsewhere. The issue here is not really a technical one. Yahoo and its cohorts are guilty of radical failures in judgment and taste, just the sort of thing to be expected from people who

Re: Watson supercomputer by the IBM and the cancer research

2014-04-10 Thread Lizette Koehler
Perhaps this link? http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/ Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Miklos Szigetvari Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 12:59 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject:

Re: S0C4 abend on old assembler program when upgrading to z/OS 1.13

2014-04-10 Thread John Gilmore
Is it the case, as now seems all but certain, that the CP check explains the different behavior in your production and non-production environments? And if so, how and why is this a new problem? John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA

HearBleed issue and OPEN/SSL

2014-04-10 Thread Bill Bishop (TEMA TPC)
Does anyone know who we can check with at IBM to determine our exposure to the HearBleed issue? Management wants to know. I am more interested in whether the HMC or the TS7700 console environments are using OPEN/SSL as they are both Linux-based systems. Thanks Bill Bishop Specialist

Re: HearBleed issue and OPEN/SSL

2014-04-10 Thread Nims,Alva John (Al)
Try the following: https://www-304.ibm.com/connections/blogs/PSIRT/entry/openssl_heartbleed_cve_2014_0160?lang=en_us https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21669823 Al Nims Systems Admin/Programmer 3 Information Technology University of Florida (352) 273-1298 -Original

Re: HearBleed issue and OPEN/SSL

2014-04-10 Thread Mark Jacobs
On 04/10/14 09:51, Bill Bishop (TEMA TPC) wrote: Does anyone know who we can check with at IBM to determine our exposure to the HearBleed issue? Management wants to know. I am more interested in whether the HMC or the TS7700 console environments are using OPEN/SSL as they are both

Re: Accessing DASD areas that have no DSCB (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-04-10 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 4/9/2014 2:49 PM, R.S. wrote: IMHO remote access to the DASD box does not include access to data on disks. Yes, CE can switch off the machine, but not access data. Do you know any confirmed case where CE access to data was given with remote (or even local) access? While I can't speak to

Re: HearBleed issue and OPEN/SSL

2014-04-10 Thread Ken Porowski
How about z/OS Comm Server System SSL? CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow...@cit.com This email message and any accompanying materials may contain proprietary, privileged and confidential information of CIT Group Inc.

Re: HearBleed issue and OPEN/SSL

2014-04-10 Thread Mark Jacobs
According to IBM, System SSL isn't affected (That's what RACF uses). Mark Jacobs On 04/10/14 10:37, Ken Porowski wrote: How about z/OS Comm Server System SSL? CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow...@cit.com This

Re: HearBleed issue and OPEN/SSL

2014-04-10 Thread Charles Mills
1. Gee, if people are going to be able to search the archives, it really helps to spell keywords correctly: Heartbleed. OpenSSL. 2. I know IBM has its own product, GSK, that is roughly comparable to OpenSSL, so I would think that *many* IBM products would not use OpenSSL. Note that OpenSSL is

Re: HearBleed issue and OPEN/SSL

2014-04-10 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 14:37:46 +, Ken Porowski ken.porow...@cit.com wrote: How about z/OS Comm Server System SSL? No. System SSL is not openSSL. But I heard in person yesterday because I also opened an SR with Ported Tools OpenSSH support Tuesday evening when word hit the street and

Re: z9BC - HMC access via Chrome or FireFox?

2014-04-10 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 4/7/2014 5:40 AM, John McKown wrote: Does anybody use Chrome or Firefox with the system messages function on the HMC? Did you need to do anything special, such as enabling something? I keep getting messages about an obsolete Java, but I dare not touch it because it is used for critical

Re: HearBleed issue and OPEN/SSL

2014-04-10 Thread Kirk Wolf
Hi Mark, IBM Ported Tools OpenSSH statically links in parts of the OpenSSL library. But, OpenSSH does not use SSL/TLS so, the heartbleed exposure would not apply. I assume that IBM's response means that, when statically linking, the parts of OpenSSL that implement TLS are not included. A

Re: Email disruption, brought to us by Yahoo!

2014-04-10 Thread Tony Harminc
On 10 April 2014 08:22, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: Messages posted to mailing lists (including listserv, mailman, majordomo, etc) by Yahoo subscribers are blocked when the list forwards them to other Yahoo (and other participating ISPs) subscribers. Presumably this to some

Re: S0C4 abend on old assembler program when upgrading to z/OS 1.13

2014-04-10 Thread Walt Farrell
On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 09:42:44 -0400, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: Is it the case, as now seems all but certain, that the CP check explains the different behavior in your production and non-production environments? And if so, how and why is this a new problem? It's new to them because

Re: ISPF START command remains on the command line

2014-04-10 Thread Peter Hunkeler
Lots of great suggestions in this thread. Use what you like and ignore the rest. I fully agree. Nevertheless, I do have my own great ways to jump around without the need to take my fingers off the keyboard (no mouse needed). I'm using PCOM macros. My problem is not how to get around but to

dynamic unallocation / permanent attribute

2014-04-10 Thread Paul Schuster
[Reposting due to the email disruption.] Hi: I dynalloc a data set with the 'permanent' attribute. Later, I do a dynamic unallocate DD name without specifying the DUNUNALC key. The SVC 99 completes RC=0, but the DD is not de-allocated. Specifying the DUNUNALC key also gets RC=0 from SVC 99

Re: ISPF START command remains on the command line

2014-04-10 Thread John P Kalinich
Have you ran a panel trace yet? Regards, John K C.2 Panel trace command (ISPDPTRC) © Copyright IBM Corp. 1980, 2011 Topic lines 1 to 16 of 236 The

Re: z9BC - HMC access via Chrome or FireFox?

2014-04-10 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2014-04-10 17:29, Ed Jaffe pisze: On 4/7/2014 5:40 AM, John McKown wrote: Does anybody use Chrome or Firefox with the system messages function on the HMC? Did you need to do anything special, such as enabling something? I keep getting messages about an obsolete Java, but I dare not

Re: Diagnosing QSAM CLOSE RC4

2014-04-10 Thread Alan Haff
Following up on this problem. The close fails because the DEB address in the DCB is pointing to a DEB that's not in the TCB's DEB chain. I don't know why/how the DEB chain in the TCB is losing this particular DEB. I'm certainly not manipulating the TCB in any way. Perhaps ADRDSSU is keeping

Re: Diagnosing QSAM CLOSE RC4

2014-04-10 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:26:34 -0700, Alan Haff wrote: The close fails because the DEB address in the DCB is pointing to a DEB that's not in the TCB's DEB chain. Are you being called by different tasks? Just a wild guess. -- Tom Marchant

Re: Accessing DASD areas that have no DSCB (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-04-10 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 53459a09.8020...@bremultibank.com.pl, on 04/09/2014 at 09:05 PM, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl said: There are several tools which allows user to read free disk space. ADRDSSU, AMASPZAP, DITTO are few of them. However those tools require some special authorization, all of the tools

Re: Another Golden Anniversary - Dartmouth BASIC

2014-04-10 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 99d5c.23d3405a.40771...@aol.com, on 04/09/2014 at 05:07 PM, Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com said: Fortran II on SS80 Rara avis! I started on the IBM 650, which was much more common. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: Real programmers eat foo

2014-04-10 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 358faca9f291d54398b2108eb58b1e3a60f...@livexcmbxp02.citnet.cit.com, on 04/08/2014 at 08:57 PM, Ken Porowski ken.porow...@cit.com said: If it came out of a vending machine it was edible and/or drinkable. You must have had a better class of vending machines. The sandwiches were soggy and the

Re: 3270 Emulators and consoles

2014-04-10 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a90e503c23f97441b05ee302853b0e629384573...@fspas01ev010.fspa.myntet.se, on 04/08/2014 at 11:02 AM, Thomas Berg thomas.b...@swedbank.se said: Does that mean it communicates with z/OS in the same way as e g PCOMM ? I believe that HOD is TN3270 only while PCOMM still has other options. --

Re: Real programmers eat foo

2014-04-10 Thread Pommier, Rex
He didn't say they were good, just edible. :-) Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 5:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Real programmers eat foo

Re: Rather nice article on COBOL on Vulture Central

2014-04-10 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
jcew...@acm.org (Joel C. Ewing) writes: The sentence where VMS appears has a subject of computer firms (plural), so it is possible the intended reference was to non-IBM software such as VAX/VMS rather than a typo. Since COBOL was supplied by multiple manufacturers, only two of the four items

Re: Diagnosing QSAM CLOSE RC4

2014-04-10 Thread Tony Harminc
On 10 April 2014 14:26, Alan Haff alanh.ibmm...@gmail.com wrote: Following up on this problem. The close fails because the DEB address in the DCB is pointing to a DEB that's not in the TCB's DEB chain. I don't know why/how the DEB chain in the TCB is losing this particular DEB. I'm

Re: Diagnosing QSAM CLOSE RC4

2014-04-10 Thread Alan Haff
Are you being called by different tasks? Good question. I don't know. One of the data items that ADRDSSU passes to the exit is the ADRDSSU internal task id. I have confirmed that I am working with the same ADRDSSU task but I haven't confirmed if the exit is running in a new TCB each time it's

Re: Diagnosing QSAM CLOSE RC4

2014-04-10 Thread Alan Haff
Is the DEB in question on any TCB's DEB chain? Hmm, I haven't checked. I'll take a take a look around... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message:

Re: How often does SMS update its free space information?

2014-04-10 Thread Neil Duffee
Caveat: I get the daily digest so you might already have discussed this... Kees: I notice that DINTERVAL is an option on SETSMS. Maybe you could automate reducing the value (say 10-15 seconds) before raising it after the re-org/load+replace work occurs? That way your system overhead is not

Re: Using DB2 and MQ under JZOS

2014-04-10 Thread Mohammad Khan
I'm not expecting JZOS to have any such capabilities, it does what it set out to do and does it well. I only mentioned it describe my program environment. What I do expect is that a programming platform would allow a programmer to make use of the facilities / features that the platform offers

Re: Real programmers eat foo

2014-04-10 Thread John Gilmore
'foo' is being denigated unfairly in this caption. foo == fu is an important Chinese culinary term. Pork fu, for example, is a dried, shredded pork product much like spun sugar in consistency but tasting better; and then of course there is egg foo yung . . . John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 -

Re: Email disruption, brought to us by Yahoo!

2014-04-10 Thread Mark Post
On 4/10/2014 at 08:47 AM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: ... just the sort of thing to be expected from people who use subliterate synonyms for 'conformity' like 'conformance'. (This wholly dispensable non-word got into circulation in HTML and XHTML documents, from which it has

Re: Email disruption, brought to us by Yahoo!

2014-04-10 Thread John Gilmore
Mark, The OED documents the fact that the locution them guys has been in wide use in certain circles since Chaucer's day, but it remains substandard. Antiquity does not confer respectability. The word 'conformance' entered our subculture with the HTML and XHTML documents, and it is entirely

Re: How often does SMS update its free space information?

2014-04-10 Thread Graham Harris
You might want to check your VTOC Index's havent got trashed on some of your volumes. Without an enabled VTOCIX, SMS will never update its view of free space info for that volume (I think it just continually sees what it had free the last point in time the VTOCIX was enabled).Cant work out if

Re: OT: How would you like _this_ as your z/OS has hard waited message?

2014-04-10 Thread Mike Schwab
You would need to do something like a Tiny URL link to the big link. On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Ken Porowski ken.porow...@cit.com wrote: How large would the QR code have to be to replace a stand alone dump? CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1

Re: Rather nice article on COBOL on Vulture Central

2014-04-10 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.hercules-390.eu/hercfaq.html#3.01 VM/370 on a Compaq iPAQ 5450 handheld PDA. An iPhone should be able to add S/360 Cobol. On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za wrote: John McKown wrote: