Re: BMC iCAP

We are using BMC iCAP -- *Ricardo Gomez*  rica...@gomezr.com 2016-11-29 9:38 GMT-06:00 J Ellis : > Is anyone using the BMC iCAP tool ? > if you are and would like to chat about it, please email me or we can chat > here on the list. > thanks, > Joe > >

Re: LOOKAT gone?

Answered in sequence... On 12/05/16 7:58 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: On 5 December 2016 at 18:32, Susan Shumway wrote: I don't know about scripted access to KC search, but I can offer up some Google search tricks for those of you that prefer that method over the (still

Re: LOOKAT gone? - Doc Buddy? Seriously?

Hi Tony, I emailed the "spt...@cn.ibm.com" address that you also found. That's the official contact address for the IBM Doc Buddy development team, which is located in China (hence the "cn"). It's the only vehicle I know of for commenting or reporting problems on the app. From what I've

Re: LOOKAT gone? - Doc Buddy? Seriously?

On 5 December 2016 at 17:35, Susan Shumway wrote: > This is actually very valuable feedback - thanks! I forwarded it on to the > Doc Buddy team. > Hi again, Susan. Is there somewhere official (or semi-official) to sumit problems with Doc Buddy. I imagine it's not formally

Re: LOOKAT gone?

On 5 December 2016 at 18:32, Susan Shumway wrote: > I don't know about scripted access to KC search, but I can offer up some > Google search tricks for those of you that prefer that method over the > (still improving) KC search function. These are from a NaSPA deck I helped

Re: Dummy question on ISPF command

I did not know about the VER or LEV command. I can see how they could be useful if employed rigorously according to some protocol. We are not a huge shop, but there are multiple people who are allowed/encouraged to manage their own pieces of the bigger pie. I would still prefer a seamlessly

Re: LOOKAT gone?

I don't know about scripted access to KC search, but I can offer up some Google search tricks for those of you that prefer that method over the (still improving) KC search function. These are from a NaSPA deck I helped present early last year... IBM Knowledge Center allows you to use Boolean

Re: LOOKAT gone? - Doc Buddy? Seriously?

This is actually very valuable feedback - thanks! I forwarded it on to the Doc Buddy team. (I did happen to also see your snark apology, so I paraphrased your comments. ;-) ) Here's what I sent. If there's anything any of you want added to it, let me know... A customer recently posted some

Re: new JES2 MAS jobs will not run on member 2

Following this line of inquiry, get into SDSF and type MAS. There could be a discrepancy between the definition for the new member and its old gone-but-not-necessarily-forgotten ancestor. Replacing a member IIRC is a multistep process that involves first deleting the old guy, then defining the

Re: USS PFS Interface - 136 byte save area?

On Mon, 5 Dec 2016 14:01:47 -0600, Jerry Callen wrote: >I'm writing a Physical File System (PFS) for USS, and I've >come across an oddity in the interface documentation. The >"Environment for PFS Operations" section of z/OS UNIX >System Services File System Interface Reference says that, >on

Re: FLASHCOPY QUESTION

Hi Esmie, Yes, for all intents and purposes this means FlashCopy. Robert DFSMSdss Architecture and Development Tucson, AZ 1-720-349-5211 rgen...@us.ibm.com IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 12/05/2016 10:20:10 AM: > From: esmie moo

Re: new JES2 MAS jobs will not run on member 2

OK, thanks Tom, I understand, I know a cold start is using the big hammer and would add time, and another point of failure to a process that should be straight forward. I'll take your good advice and display current JES2 environment and use the reset ($T) command where needed. my next

Re: new JES2 MAS jobs will not run on member 2

On Mon, 5 Dec 2016 13:30:47 -0500, Carmen Vitullo wrote: >the more I review and diagnose the more I tend to think a warm >start is not good enough, I agree Tom, a cold start may be needed >to do this correctly. It isn't that you need a cold start, but you can't do it by changing your JES2PARM

USS PFS Interface - 136 byte save area?

I'm writing a Physical File System (PFS) for USS, and I've come across an oddity in the interface documentation. The "Environment for PFS Operations" section of z/OS UNIX System Services File System Interface Reference says that, on entry to VFS function routines, R13 is "Save area address, of

Re: new JES2 MAS jobs will not run on member 2

the more I review and diagnose the more I tend to think a warm start is not good enough, I agree Tom, a cold start may be needed to do this correctly. one thing I did fail to mention was there WAS another system in a MAS with SYSA, that is now defunked, SYSB, still defined in the old JES2PARMS,

Re: JES2 NJE Security

Yes, we tried that, and on our test plexes‎, but to no avail. As you say, it can generate tons of output, but unfortunately nothing to explain the problem. We think now that different products use different ciphers to encrypt the session key, thus don't get the same answer. Andy Styles

Re: Rename in-process catalog issue

I just dealt with this, need a 2.1 system with a storage admin profile,.. then delete NOSCRATCH will work. Rob Schramm On Mon, Dec 5, 2016, 12:25 PM Steve Emge wrote: > Rob, > > The VVDSFIX tool should get rid of the BCS entry for you by using . . . >

Re: DB2 DDF startup problem

Sorry - reposting for better reading of the REXX netstat all (port 1235 TSOV REXX /* REXX */ /* */ /* AUTHOR: MARK ZELDEN */ /* */ // /* There is really no advantage to

Re: JES2 NJE Security

You might look at the $TDEBUG command in JES2. There is a parm that allows security messages to display from JES2. It is humongous - so do not leave it on too long. It can flood syslog (and spool) Lizette > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: DB2 DDF startup problem

You can use the following commands in TSO (option 6 is good) to see what is going on netstat all (port 1235 And if you use the following REXX, you can place the output from NETSTAT (thanks Mark) into a dataset and VIEW it. /* REXX */ /* */ /* AUTHOR: MARK ZELDEN

Re: new JES2 MAS jobs will not run on member 2

yep, these command were prolly a throw back from prior to automation, I'm not 100% sure, the operators issue the same command ($HQ,ALL) prior to system maintenance downtime JES2 is started via OPS 'S JES2,PARM='NOREQ'' I'll make sure the debug for security is no on for long, thanks for that !~

Re: new JES2 MAS jobs will not run on member 2

the same status is what i found, scroll over to the right AWAIT CONV - my test job had /*JOBPARM S=SYSC, no real reason for the SYSAFF, just a test scenario I wanted to run, the other scenario was to submit from SYSC to SYSC, same results, job sitting in the input queue , but now shows the

Re: new JES2 MAS jobs will not run on member 2

On Mon, 5 Dec 2016 08:24:12 -0500, Carmen Vitullo wrote: >mermber definition in both systems jes2parms are; (snipped) You may be focusing unnecessarily on your JES2PARMS. Many parameters, including MASDEF cannot be changed with a warm start. The only way tho change them is with a cold start,

Re: new JES2 MAS jobs will not run on member 2

So the commands do the following $HQ,ALL Hold all JES2 queues $SStart JES2 ,ALL Still hold all queues. C=c1[...c36] The specified job queue(s) (classes A-Z and 0-9) are held. A maximum of 36 classes may be specified. ALL All job queues are held. Not

Re: FLASHCOPY QUESTION

I looked back at one my lightning fast Mod-27 volume copy jobs and indeed found ADR806I (001)-T0MI (02), VOLUME vv WAS COPIED USING A FAST REPLICATION FUNCTION I'm told that this indicates usage of the 'fast copy' microcode, available only when copying within the same DASD subsystem.

Re: new JES2 MAS jobs will not run on member 2

There are some fields in SDSF (by default way to the right) that attempt to explain why a job is not running. Some of these are Scheduling-Env Dly Mode Spin PhaseNamePhase Type DelayRsn I would expect to see something non-blank in one or more of these columns. We happen to have

Re: Rename in-process catalog issue

Rob, The VVDSFIX tool should get rid of the BCS entry for you by using . . . CMD=DELBCSR;dataset.name Then, if the volume is still around (believe you mentioned it was not) you can use DEL dataset.name NVR to remove the NVR record. Regards, Steve Emge

Re: LOOKAT gone? - Doc Buddy? Seriously?

On Fri, 2 Dec 2016 16:42:43 -0500, David Cole wrote: >Tried it. Don't much like it at all! I tried it, just to see what it is like. I can't really say that I liked it, but then I never liked LOOKAT either. I have Quickref available, and it is, IMO, far better than either LOOKAT or Doc Buddy.

Re: new JES2 MAS jobs will not run on member 2

we're a TSS show but I think if its security related any tracing I can activate would help, so far the only think I question is at the end of the JES2 PARM DECK my predecessor added a $HQ,ALL $S $HQ,ALL I'm wondering if this stopped my test job from hitting the converter also, we don't have

Re: new JES2 MAS jobs will not run on member 2

Carmen, sometimes it just helps to see others definitions. This is the definitions we use for a three member MAS. All three members are running z/OS 2.2. All three members share the same startup parms. I would put in the SECURITY=YES just in case there might be a RACF (security) related to

Re: CA-ACF2 User LID in MUSASS?

ACF2 does have a MUSASS attribute that is tied to the LID. Some APPS like CICS will Require it Steve Beaver st...@stevebeaver.com This electronic mail (including any attachments) may contain information that

Re: CA-ACF2 User LID in MUSASS?

On 12/4/2016 9:49 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: ... In general ACF2 keeps the ACUCB pointer in ACEEIEP, so you could start there. That was indeed the missing piece! :) Charles Mills also let me know (off-list) that ACEEIEP points to the associated ACUCB. That was lifesaving information... --

Re: zLinux

Just checked. In BETA3. See http://www.mantissa.com/mantissa-product-families/virtualization/ HTH, Sometime back Mantissa.com was attempting to write what I would term a thin translation layer such that Microsoft based products could be run Under Linux, under zVM. ::DISCLAIMER::

Re: FLASHCOPY QUESTION

Joel, Thanks for helping me understand DUMPCONDITIONING. With your help I am able to increase my understanding. On Sat, 12/3/16, Joel C. Ewing wrote: Subject: Re: FLASHCOPY QUESTION To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Received:

Re: FLASHCOPY QUESTION

Good Morning Gentle Readers, Thanks very much for answering my question. All your input has afforded me additional knowledge aboug FLASHCOPY. Robert, I checked your suggestion about looking for ADR806I. It does appear on the output which confirms what you said: ADR806I (001)-T0MI (02),

Re: zLinux

I think it is only a question of licensing. Probably they do not have the license to run Windows on z. ITschak ITschak Mugzach Z/OS, ISV Products and Application Security & Risk Assessments Professional On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Steve wrote: > > Sometime back

Re: 3957-VEA TS7720 power outage

Yea, I plan to ask him what they did and if we could do it next time (which, hopefully there is NEVER a next time..lol) I was able to put the TS7720 in service mode and shut it down fine (according to IBM directions). When the VTL came up, the GUI for the TS7720 just showed that the cluster

Re: 3957-VEA TS7720 power outage

I think we powered down and up three time but all before IBM fixed it. Do you think that may correct the degraded issue on the vnode and hnode? Anne D. Crabtree System Programmer WV Office of Technology Data Center 1900 Kanawha Blvd East Bldg 6, Room B-110 Charleston, WV 25305 (304)957-8292

Re: 3957-VEA TS7720 power outage

Anne, The @-signs in the D M=CHP(42)output indicate that the virtual units are available, but not responding. This could indicate that the V-node was not working (correctly). We have seen several occasions of deamons that had stopped, did not start or were hanging. Possibly this was your

zLinux

Sometime back Mantissa.com was attempting to write what I would term a thin translation layer such that Microsoft based products could be run Under Linux, under zVM. Does anyone know if that product went anywhere? Steve Beaver

Re: 3957-VEA TS7720 power outage

Thank you for all the people that responded! We did have to issue a PO for time and material and finally got IBM to correct it by dialing in. The tech did not tell me how he did it and if we could have done it ourselves through the console. Believe me, we dug through it for hours! Tape began

Re: new JES2 MAS jobs will not run on member 2

Thanks Gerhard - Carmen - Original Message - From: "Gerhard Adam" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Monday, December 5, 2016 8:00:17 AM Subject: Re: new JES2 MAS jobs will not run on member 2 Correct. Those define NJE APPL's ... -Original Message-

Re: Knowledge Center search link

AGREED! This will be about the first nice thing I have ever said about KC! I got into looking at the search option while researching a replacement for LookAt. ::DISCLAIMER::

Re: new JES2 MAS jobs will not run on member 2

Correct. Those define NJE APPL's ... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo Sent: Monday, December 5, 2016 5:53 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: new JES2 MAS jobs will not run on member 2 and

Re: new JES2 MAS jobs will not run on member 2

yep got ya ! from member(1)'s jes2parms MASDEF AUTOEMEM=ON, CKPTLOCK=ACTION, DORMANCY=(200,500), HOLD=50, LOCKOUT=1000, OWNMEMB=, RESTART=YES, SHARED=CHECK, SYNCTOL=120, XCFGRPNM=LITJES2 MEMBER(1) NAME=SYSA MEMBER(2) NAME=SYSC from member(2)'s jes2parms MASDEF AUTOEMEM=ON,

Re: new JES2 MAS jobs will not run on member 2

One correction to my previous comment ... you also need a MASDEF parameter. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Vitullo, Carmen P Sent: Sunday, December 4, 2016 2:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: new JES2

Re: new JES2 MAS jobs will not run on member 2

and along those lines I think my other issue is I don't need APPL(LITJES2A) NODE=1 <-- this is member( 1) APPL(LITJES2C) NODE=1 <--- this is member(2) APPL(LITJES2T) NODE=2 APPL(A6504JEA) NODE=4 - Original Message - From: "Gerhard Adam" To:

Re: new JES2 MAS jobs will not run on member 2

you are absolutely right, I was not sure if these definitions were still needed. I'm not sure that would cause the jobs to get submitted but not run but I'm going to remove these defintions thank you - Original Message - From: "Gerhard Adam" To:

Re: new JES2 MAS jobs will not run on member 2

I see the test job i submitted on both systems (SDSF) input queue as I would expect, MASDEF AUTOEMEM=ON, CKPTLOCK=ACTION, DORMANCY=(200,500), HOLD=50, LOCKOUT=1000, OWNMEMB=, RESTART=YES, SHARED=CHECK, SYNCTOL=120, XCFGRPNM=LITJES2 <- both systems alike MEMBER(1) NAME=SYSA

Re: new JES2 MAS jobs will not run on member 2

I'm sorry, but it seems that you're trying to set up an NJE node but you're calling it a MAS. A MAS doesn't require anything, except that the SPOOL and CKPT parameters point to the same data set. That's it. There's nothing else required. All these references to MEMBER and OWNMEMB are NJE

Re: new JES2 MAS jobs will not run on member 2

good suggesting, I have to check that out thanks, another weekend for that :( Carmen - Original Message - From: "Lucas Rosalen" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Monday, December 5, 2016 1:20:38 AM Subject: Re: new JES2 MAS jobs will not run on member 2

Re: new JES2 MAS jobs will not run on member 2

:) I'm not sure how many times I issued the $S command thinking the simplest resolution, I even released all job classes issued from both systems, nothing nada, a class W (WLM ) job submitted from member 2 ran ok on member 1 very strange. No scheduling environments here, I suggested setting

Re: new JES2 MAS jobs will not run on member 2

backing away from this for now, I ran out of time and had to back out, some good take away's, displaying the job, I knew there was a jes2 command to see why a job was held up just in the flurry of issue I did not think of this, next time for sure to answer your questions: we had one one WLM

Re: DB2 DDF startup problem

The problem was that port 446 was reserved to another started task in the TCP/IP Profile. I found this by issuing the command BPXMTEXT 744C7246 which gave me: JRPortAccessAuth: User does not have authority to access this port. This gave me a direction, and I check the TCP/IP Profile. Gadi

Re: DB2 DDF startup problem

1xx Explanation An attempt to obtain virtual storage for the MVPCOMM (common) table using the GETMAIN macro interface was unsuccessful. The xx portion of the completion code is the GETMAIN return code. System action The system terminates the task. Operator response Tell the system programmer

DB2 DDF startup problem

Hi, When I start DB2 DDF, I get this message: DSNL515I -DSN1 DSNLILNR TCP/IP BIND FAILED FOR PORT 446 WITH RETURN CODE=111 AND REASON CODE=744C7246 Does anyone know what the meaning of the return and reason codes are, or where I can find them. Thanks Gadi לתשומת ליבך, בהתאם לנהלי חברת מלם

Re: Dummy question on ISPF command

I have gotten into the habit of using VER and LEV commands from within an edit session. I use "VER n" sparingly, but "LEV 0" quite a bit. When I see a non-zero level and I know I didn't change it, I cancel back out and see who the last changer was before I proceed with my update. Nothing that I

Re: new JES2 MAS jobs will not run on member 2

Vitullo, Carmen P wrote: >Job sits on JES2 queue awaiting conversion - I've tried everything with node >and member statements and nothing works >If I submit from member 2 the jobs still sits in the input queue, now showing >the correct class, What input queue? What is your statements in that

Re: JES2 NJE Security

Classification: Public That's exactly what we're doing - using the APPCLU class. We've asked CA, and they're looking into it (I believe, that's the domain of the security folks), but I wondered whether we're bleeding edge here or if anyone else had tried to do it.. Andy Styles z/Series