Re: Dynamic CPU ADD to a z/OS lpar

2016-05-13 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Greg, In your opinion, would it be okay to specify a reserve value to all partition profiles that equals the highest number of CPs that my CBU records allow? This would allow for total flexibility of CP assignment to any or all lpars. In my case, it would also apply to a second set of backup p

Re: IBM secure z/OS software delivery: Don't get locked out!

2016-05-13 Thread Kurt Quackenbush
On 5/11/2016 8:59 AM, Bigendian Smalls wrote: However, you will be able to use HTTPS. Kurt - that hasn’t been my experience on z/OS 2.1. Without Sec Lvl 3 (JCPT411) the test SMP/E download job fails - captures show that it cannot negotiate a common cipher suite with the server - and fails rig

Re: ACF2 SMF Record Question

2016-05-13 Thread Donald Likens
Thanks to all... It turns out the ACFMFWHY and ACFMFTXT fields are what I needed to understand. The ACFMFWHY field refers to a message. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@lis

Re: Dynamic CPU ADD to a z/OS lpar

2016-05-13 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 5/13/2016 4:07 AM, Richards, Robert B. wrote: ... would it be okay to specify a reserve value to all partition profiles that equals the highest number of CPs that my CBU records allow? This would allow for total flexibility of CP assignment to any or all lpars. In my case, it would also app

Re: SMP/E Feature?

2016-05-13 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 12 May 2016 23:16:43 -0500, Edward Gould wrote: >When I do JCL I have 1 PROC (total) for Receive, Apply and Accept. >The symbolics in JCL allow for overrides for APPLY & Accept volumes. So when you APPLY or ACCEPT you have to update the symbol(s) for the volume(s) AND specify the matching

Suggestion for conditioning step on symbols

2016-05-13 Thread Charles Mills
I know this has been kicked around before but I don't have a good answer off the top of my head and I don't know exactly how to Google for the answer. Does anyone have suggestions for conditioning a jobstep on &symbol1 != &symbol2? I know that COND= and IF are only on return codes and similar thin

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: SMP/E Feature?

2016-05-13 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
Totally agree with Tom here - JCL leads to everyone specifying their own values instead of one consistent standard for the relevant zone. Our shop mandates the use of DDDEFs for each zone. Jerry Whitteridge Manager Mainframe Systems & Storage Albertsons - Safeway Inc. 925 738 9443 Corporate Tiel

Re: Suggestion for conditioning step on symbols

2016-05-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 13 May 2016 09:39:43 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >I know this has been kicked around before but I don't have a good answer off >the top of my head and I don't know exactly how to Google for the answer. > >Does anyone have suggestions for conditioning a jobstep on &symbol1 != >&symbol2? I k

Re: Suggestion for conditioning step on symbols

2016-05-13 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
I don't have a solution for the string comparison issue, but the DISP=NEW issue I can tell you with confidence "just works" under JES2. For either a COND= or an IF bypass of a step, all of the DD's are bypassed and no allocation error occurs. I use this feature all the time in my testing. For

Re: Suggestion for conditioning step on symbols

2016-05-13 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Charles Mills wrote: >I know this has been kicked around before but I don't have a good answer off >the top of my head and I don't know exactly how to Google for the answer. Can you search IBM-MAIN archives itself? Of course, you may try out different search arguments... >Does anyone have sug

Re: Suggestion for conditioning step on symbols

2016-05-13 Thread Charles Mills
Thanks. I do NOT need JES3. This is for internal use, not a product, and our datacenter is all JES2. Thanks for your experiment below. That's the right idea even if it did not work. I always forget about the UNIX tools from batch. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Another WLM question

2016-05-13 Thread Tracy Adams
If you remember I had a situation where the CPU was hitting its four hour avg and soft capping itself. When this happens CICS and DB2 aren't allowed to flex above and I get max socket errors within the busiest CICS. At the advice of the group I set up a resource group and associated to a servi

Re: Dynamic CPU ADD to a z/OS lpar

2016-05-13 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
Furthermore, even in 2.1, if the parameter is not specified (we do not), the default is 16 for . That's plenty for us. . . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-302-7535 Office robin...@sce.co

Re: Another WLM question

2016-05-13 Thread Staller, Allan
If there is room, the cpu will be used. When things get tight, the RG cap will be enforced. HTH, If you remember I had a situation where the CPU was hitting its four hour avg and soft capping itself. When this happens CICS and DB2 aren't allowed to flex above and I get max socket errors wit

Re: Suggestion for conditioning step on symbols

2016-05-13 Thread Nims,Alva John (Al)
You may want to set: AOP_MVS_RETURN_CODES Specifies whether the afpxpcl, afpxpdf, and afpxps commands return MVS return codes or UNIX exit values: Value Meaning YES MVS return codes: 0 Successful. 4 A warning occurred during t

Re: Another WLM question

2016-05-13 Thread Tracy Adams
So at what point with the service class get restricted based on the resource group settings? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Staller, Allan Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 1:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: Another WLM question

2016-05-13 Thread Greg Shirey
I think you have it right, the RG cap should be enforced, based on the goal & importance for the service class and system scope -- From the Knowledge Base: If work in a resource group is consuming more resources than the specified maximum capacity, the system caps the associated work accordingl

Re: SMP/E Feature?

2016-05-13 Thread Edward Gould
> On May 13, 2016, at 10:15 AM, Tom Marchant > <000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Thu, 12 May 2016 23:16:43 -0500, Edward Gould wrote: > >> When I do JCL I have 1 PROC (total) for Receive, Apply and Accept. >> The symbolics in JCL allow for overrides for APPLY & Accep

Re: IBM secure z/OS software delivery: Don't get locked out!

2016-05-13 Thread nitz-ibm
> Just because I specify deliverycb-bld.dhe.ibm.com doesn't mean that when > it resolves that it is the same: > > Connecting to: dispby-117.boulder.ibm.com 170.225.15.117 port: 21 > > I ran into this with our Firewall weenies and it took a bit of work for them > to get it right. > > This

smp/e sha-2 support?

2016-05-13 Thread Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA)
We asked IBM support about implementing SHA2 for the SMP/E FTP download process and was told to open an RFE. That seems kinda insane given that SHA-1 seems to be heading to the heap of obsolete technologies. Can anyone shed any light on this? Opening an RFE seems absurd given that this is an i

Re: Suggestion for conditioning step on symbols

2016-05-13 Thread Bill Godfrey
On Fri, 13 May 2016 09:39:43 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >I know this has been kicked around before but I don't have a good answer off >the top of my head and I don't know exactly how to Google for the answer. > >Does anyone have suggestions for conditioning a jobstep on &symbol1 != >&symbol2? I k

Re: Suggestion for conditioning step on symbols

2016-05-13 Thread Charles Mills
Now you're talking! Great! Simple, and real obvious what is going on there. Thanks. That's the kind of hack I was hoping for. Yes, I would be running on JES2/V2R1. Darn! I was looking forward to writing a Rexx script that would do an INTERPRET on PARM= Charles -Original Message- From

Re: smp/e sha-2 support?

2016-05-13 Thread Lizette Koehler
I would think that the RFE would provide IBM with documentation on the number of customers interested in this. And to show IBM MGT it is worth the investment in time and coding. >From what I have seen working with vendors, just because it makes sense does >not mean it would be a priority for wor

Re: smp/e sha-2 support?

2016-05-13 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 13 May 2016 14:07:22 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote: >I would think that the RFE would provide IBM with documentation on the number >of >customers interested in this. And to show IBM MGT it is worth the investment >in >time and coding. > >From what I have seen working with vendors, just

Re: smp/e sha-2 support?

2016-05-13 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 5/13/2016 at 03:21 PM, "Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA)" >>> wrote: > We asked IBM support about implementing SHA2 for the SMP/E FTP download > process and was told to open an RFE. That seems kinda insane given that SHA-1 > seems to be heading to the heap of obsolete technologies. > > Can anyone

Re: smp/e sha-2 support?

2016-05-13 Thread Tom Conley
On 5/13/2016 5:31 PM, Mark Post wrote: On 5/13/2016 at 03:21 PM, "Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA)" wrote: We asked IBM support about implementing SHA2 for the SMP/E FTP download process and was told to open an RFE. That seems kinda insane given that SHA-1 seems to be heading to the heap of obsolete techn

Re: smp/e sha-2 support?

2016-05-13 Thread Charles Mills
I have seen specific customer pushback against SHA-1. Serious "you need to change this" pushback, not "we were just wondering." "SHA-1 is no longer considered secure against well-funded opponents. In 2005, cryptanalysts found attacks on SHA-1 suggesting that the algorithm might not be secure enou

Suggestion for conditioning step on symbols

2016-05-13 Thread Bill Woodger
DFSORT using JPn symbols: // SET PARM1=XY // SET PARM2=AB //STEP0100 EXEC PGM=SORT,PARM='JP1"&PARM1",JP2"&PARM2"' //SYMNOUT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* //SORTOUT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSINDD * OPTION COPY,STOPAFT=1 INREC OVE

Re: How to copy one pack IPL'able z/OS to DVD.

2016-05-13 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2016-05-07 o 22:11, Clark Morris pisze: [Default] On 29 Apr 2016 08:58:52 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main r.skoru...@sninp-it.com.pl (R.S.) wrote: It's Friday... 1. I would like to have whole z/OS installation material (read tape content) on pendrive. I could accept multiple volumes (pen

Re: How to copy one pack IPL'able z/OS to DVD.

2016-05-13 Thread Tony Harminc
On 13 May 2016 at 19:19, R.S. wrote: > It's absurd. Completely ridiculous. > Pendrive from IBM is not likely to have a virus. True. But it's related to the argument that airline pilots should not be security screened at airports. Of course it's not about screening pilots, but rather those who *lo

Re: How to copy one pack IPL'able z/OS to DVD.

2016-05-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2016-05-13 17:47, Tony Harminc wrote: > On 13 May 2016 at 19:19, R.S. wrote: >> It's absurd. Completely ridiculous. >> Pendrive from IBM is not likely to have a virus. > > True. But it's related to the argument that airline pilots should not > be security screened at airports. Of course it's no

Re: Suggestion for conditioning step on symbols

2016-05-13 Thread Charles Mills
It worked, once I un-fat-fingered it. Thanks again, Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Godfrey Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 1:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Suggestion for conditioning step on