Re: z14 and z/OS 2.3 Blog Post

2017-07-28 Thread Timothy Sipples
Frank Swarbrick wrote: >What is the likelihood of Microsoft phasing out a protocol they >invented (SMB) in favor of one they id not (NFS)? Barry Feigenbaum at IBM invented the original SMB protocol in 1983. Al Nims wrote: >It has been long time since I looked at this, but doesn't Samba >have a z/

Re: z14 and z/OS 2.3 Blog Post

2017-07-28 Thread Timothy Sipples
David Crayford wrote: >I'm not sure about that for Windows desktop OSs. AFAIK it's only >recently been a feature of Windows 10 since Windows 10 Pro (Version >10.0.14393 and above) as mentioned in the blog. Everyone is correct. :-) Microsoft includes NFS ("Services for NFS") in Windows 7 Enterpris

Local prefix was Re: Regitrating product prefix with IBM

2017-07-28 Thread Clark Morris
[Default] On 28 Jul 2017 08:39:14 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main ee...@us.ibm.com (John Eells) wrote: >ITschak Mugzach wrote: >> In a discussion about name-token vs user cvt, someone, I think it Scott >> Ford, reminds that they registered their z/OS product prefix with IBM. >> We would like to re

Re: JCL Convertor

2017-07-28 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Fri, 28 Jul 2017, at 22:00, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > I would have to somewhat disagree with that position. If a COBOL program > issues OPEN INPUT for a file, that file *can* be READ by that program. > If it issues OPEN OUTPUT or OPEN IO then that file *can* written to, and > possibly also

Re: JCL Convertor

2017-07-28 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
I would have to somewhat disagree with that position. If a COBOL program issues OPEN INPUT for a file, that file *can* be READ by that program. If it issues OPEN OUTPUT or OPEN IO then that file *can* written to, and possibly also read for the IO case. You are right about the most general cas

Re: JCL Convertor

2017-07-28 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Fri, 28 Jul 2017, at 21:18, ITschak Mugzach wrote: > Just to make sure... It is my understanding that JCL converter & > interpreter are only available by job submit and no direct call to these > services. My intent is to get the source code from the change management > product and look how files

Re: JCL Convertor

2017-07-28 Thread ITschak Mugzach
Just to make sure... It is my understanding that JCL converter & interpreter are only available by job submit and no direct call to these services. My intent is to get the source code from the change management product and look how files are opened. programs not found there, and none common utiliti

Re: z14 and z/OS 2.3 Blog Post

2017-07-28 Thread Nims,Alva John (Al)
It has been long time since I looked at this, but doesn't Samba have a z/OS server? I could be very wrong and could be a terrible implementation. Al Nims Systems Admin/Programmer 3 UFIT University of Florida (352) 273-1298 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:I

Re: Friday Fun: hcd charts to htm via b2h issue

2017-07-28 Thread Cieri, Anthony
Great minds must think alike After seeing this recently in a thread here, I decided to download B2H and try it. I initially received the exact same error you have listed below. To get past this issue, I changed the default MVS Dataset Allocations (search on MVSAlloc

Re: z14 and z/OS 2.3 Blog Post

2017-07-28 Thread Frank Swarbrick
True enough. Quite a cool feature that is, as well! From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Farley, Peter x23353 Sent: Friday, July 28, 2017 12:16 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z14 and z/OS 2.3 Blog Post Then again who would have expect

Re: FRR Clarification

2017-07-28 Thread Leonardo Vaz
Old thread, but I am curious based on a recent issue I had; it seems the ESTAE got control before the FRR, documentation seems to state that FRR gets control before the estae, is that right? So if my FRR never got control it must be that there was no space for an SDWA, or "the latest ESTAE alway

Re: EXTERNAL: JES2 Checkpoint question

2017-07-28 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Excellent idea also, there's a couple of recovery options for after I loose the CKPT that I'd be skeptical if they'd work, best to have a better plan prior to an outage :) I've moved my CKPT2 to DASD today with no issues, thanks Lizette and everyone here for their great help. Carmen -

Re: EXTERNAL: JES2 Checkpoint question

2017-07-28 Thread Lizette Koehler
So next time you are working on the CEC with the CF, you could use the RECONFIG to move the CKPT temporarily to DASD. Do what you need to do, then move it back. You do not always need to fill in all CKPT dataset info - once moved, you can leave CKPT2 empty till you are ready to go back. I th

Re: z14 and z/OS 2.3 Blog Post

2017-07-28 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Then again who would have expected M$ to support native Ubuntu Linux command line code running under Windows, but they did, and it works really well. Sometimes they surprise you. Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of

Re: z14 and z/OS 2.3 Blog Post

2017-07-28 Thread Frank Swarbrick
What is the likelihood of Microsoft phasing out a protocol they invented (SMB) in favor of one they id not (NFS)? From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Timothy Sipples Sent: Friday, July 28, 2017 2:03 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z14

Re: EXTERNAL: JES2 Checkpoint question

2017-07-28 Thread Carmen Vitullo
That's good to know Jerry, thank you. shutdown was normal and successful, the POR of the box and the fact I had both checkpoints in the CF's (both CF's on the same CEC) cause me to loose spool data, well and the fact I didn't have the luxury of time to research my alternatives during that shutd

Re: JCL Convertor

2017-07-28 Thread Charles Mills
That would be the not definitive part. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Friday, July 28, 2017 9:03 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: JCL Convertor On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 09:49:09 -

Re: DFHSM QUESTION

2017-07-28 Thread Lizette Koehler
Note the description in the manual for DFHSM AUDIT AUDIT usually identifies a repair (and takes repair action when FIX is specified) for error messages (*ERR) 30, 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, and 46. AUDIT recommends an additional diagnostic step for error messages (*ERR) 17 if the backup t

Re: DFHSM QUESTION

2017-07-28 Thread Gibney, Dave
Stop/Start DFHSM and end the confusion is to which command is getting which response by starting fresh. The reissue the AUDIT with the FIX option. If the error is still there, show both the command and the output > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN

Re: DFHSM QUESTION

2017-07-28 Thread willie bunter
Lizette, I have taken note of your suggestion and I will adhere to it. I checked my command and it shows that all the contents of the command is as follows as suggested by Brian: HSEND AUDIT DSCTL(BACKUP) FIX. I didn't have BDELETE or anyother parm in the command. I am not sure why HSM is co

Re: EXTERNAL: JES2 Checkpoint question

2017-07-28 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
We run with CKPT1 in the CF and CKPT2 on DASD for DR recovery. You should have no issues mixing. You certainly should not have lost your spool just because you shutdown - I'm assuming cleanly Jerry Whitteridge Manager Mainframe Systems & Storage Albertsons - Safeway Inc. 623 869 5523 Corporate

Re: JES2 Checkpoint question

2017-07-28 Thread Gerhard Adam
I wasn't sure if you were aware that you can make up a NEWCKPT dynamically and if it doesn't exist, JES2 will prompt you to create it. That way if you don't have an existing definition, you can still get a new data set created and migrated to. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Di

Re: JCL Convertor

2017-07-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 09:49:09 -0400, Mitch Mccluhan wrote: > One of the JCL automation products (J-MAN from RES) does that. It can read > the source program and determine how the file is accessed. > Oh. On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 07:04:05 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >> JCL gives no indication whether

Re: JES2 Checkpoint question

2017-07-28 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Great, I've used the reconfig dialog in test and it worked great, thanks again Lizette ! Carmen - Original Message - From: "Lizette Koehler" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Friday, July 28, 2017 9:32:35 AM Subject: Re: JES2 Checkpoint question Correct. The RECONFIG dialog i

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Regitrating product prefix with IBM

2017-07-28 Thread Charles Mills
No. Discussed at some length here recently. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA) Sent: Friday, July 28, 2017 8:43 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Regitrating produc

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Regitrating product prefix with IBM

2017-07-28 Thread Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA)
Is there a place to download all the current prefixes and their mapping? -- Lionel B. Dyck Mainframe Systems Programmer - TRA -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU]

Re: Regitrating product prefix with IBM

2017-07-28 Thread John Eells
ITschak Mugzach wrote: In a discussion about name-token vs user cvt, someone, I think it Scott Ford, reminds that they registered their z/OS product prefix with IBM. We would like to register the three characters if needed. Is there such process? Who should I talk to? ITschak You can start by

Re: JCL Convertor

2017-07-28 Thread ITschak Mugzach
The requirement is for application jcl only and the source code is available. The idea is ti perform 3rd party check based on the how the program opens the datasets. For utilities it is much more complex, Dfdss functions for example At list a warning message can be generated in such cases. Itschak

Re: JES2 Checkpoint question

2017-07-28 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Great, I've used the reconfig dialog in test and it worked great, thanks again Lizette ! Carmen -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-

Re: JES2 Checkpoint question

2017-07-28 Thread Lizette Koehler
Correct. The RECONFIG dialog is very good. You just need to know where you are going to. It is a lot of steps. So review each message as it occurs during the process. Until you enter that last "go for it" to JES2 there does not seem to be any impacts. Lizette > -Original Message-

Re: JES2 Checkpoint question

2017-07-28 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Answering you Lizzette via myself if you don't mind, your response came to my work email and not this account :( you Stated; Think IBM recommendation is for CKPT1 to be in CF and CKPT2 on DASD. That way if either fails, you should be okay. Side Note: Moving the CKPT from CF to DASD or f

Re: JES2 Checkpoint question

2017-07-28 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Finally received your reposne :) so using the JES CKPT dialog to move CKPT2 from the structure to DASD is a non issue? just wanted to be sure using $T CKPTDEF,RECONFIG=Y then using the option to reassign CKPT2 from STRNAME= to DATASETNAME= I've defined? thanks again Carmen - Origina

Re: JES2 Checkpoint question

2017-07-28 Thread Carmen Vitullo
thank you I decided to do a cold start due to the fact while an attempt to move to NEWCKPRT1 or 2 during startup I received I/O errors on the CKPT files, due to time constrains on my downtime I had to get the systems back up. I've since read there are somethings I could have tried to recover, b

Re: JES2 Checkpoint question

2017-07-28 Thread Lizette Koehler
Think IBM recommendation is for CKPT1 to be in CF and CKPT2 on DASD. That way if either fails, you should be okay. Side Note: Moving the CKPT from CF to DASD or from DASD to another DASD is very easy. We have done ours during the day time. The process is very quick. There is a SHARE presenta

Re: JES2 Checkpoint question

2017-07-28 Thread Gerhard Adam
You shouldn't need both on DASD. However, I am curious as to why you had to COLD start. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo Sent: Friday, July 28, 2017 6:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: JES2 C

Re: z14 and z/OS 2.3 Blog Post

2017-07-28 Thread David Crayford
On 28/07/2017 4:03 PM, Timothy Sipples wrote: David Crayford replied: Yes, NFS client is built in to Windows 10 but you have to jump through some hoopshttps://graspingtech.com/mount-nfs-share-windows-10/. All supported desktop and server releases of Microsoft Windows include NFS support. See he

Re: JCL Convertor

2017-07-28 Thread Charles Mills
> JCL gives no indication whether the data set will be written or only read Well, there's an *indication*. It is certainly not definitive, but it might be good enough for some purposes. DISP=SHR is an *indication* of only read. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: DFHSM QUESTION

2017-07-28 Thread Lizette Koehler
Willie It would be helpful to include just on pair of COMMAND and RESPONSE rather than all of your error messages. Without the context of what command syntax you entered, it is difficult to assist you. Next. For this message: ARC0085I (H)BDELETE REQUIRES ONE OF THE FOLLOWING MUTUALLY EXCLUSI

JES2 Checkpoint question

2017-07-28 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I've looked and looked at the Init and Tuning REF and Guide and I can't seem to find an answer to my question, I'm hoping someone can provide a sanity check for me. I have a 2 system JES2 MAS both running z/OS 2.1, both checkpoints are currently in a CF with mode=duplex and duplex=on. my issue i

Re: JCL Convertor

2017-07-28 Thread Mitch Mccluhan
One of the JCL automation products (J-MAN from RES) does that. It can read the source program and determine how the file is accessed. Mitch McCluhan mitc...@aol.com -Original Message- From: Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> To: IBM-MAIN Sent: Fri

Re: JCL Convertor

2017-07-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 07:49:38 -0500, Walt Farrell wrote: >On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 10:56:06 +0300, ITschak Mugzach wrote: > >>I know. This is a function i'll add if no product that doea that. > >It is not possible to completely duplicate the checking that RACF will perform >except by actually submittin

Re: DFHSM QUESTION

2017-07-28 Thread willie bunter
Brian, I tried your suggestion unfortunately it didn't get rid of the ERR 40. Here is the message that was sent to my terminal: ARC0085I (H)BDELETE REQUIRES ONE OF THE FOLLOWING MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE KEYWORDS: ARC0085I (CONT.) ALL, VERSIONS, OR DATE ARC0085I

Re: JCL Convertor

2017-07-28 Thread Walt Farrell
On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 10:56:06 +0300, ITschak Mugzach wrote: >I know. This is a function i'll add if no product that doea that. It is not possible to completely duplicate the checking that RACF will perform except by actually submitting the job and seeing what happens. For one, as others have me

AW: Re: JCL Convertor

2017-07-28 Thread Peter Hunkeler
> It just make it easier to identify the gap. So far, it seems to me, the talk was only about checking access to data sets. But there are many more RACF classes & profiles which can make the job fail when if finally runs. BPX.something in class FACILITY, all the profiles in class UNIXPRIV, etc

Re: Can I cause another user to refresh their ACEE?

2017-07-28 Thread Rob Scott
RACF maintains an in-storage cache of recently referenced profiles that is pointed to from the ACEE. A possible way of achieving what you desire in RACF would be for the user to perform a number of "RACROUTE REQUEST=AUTH" for different profiles to "flush" the previous entries in the cache. I k

Friday Fun: hcd charts to htm via b2h issue

2017-07-28 Thread Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA)
Has anyone successfully used b2h for an iodf chart on z/OS? I've uploaded b2h and created both lcu and switch charts and when I run them I get these errors on z/OS |B2H455 WARNING: :xmp scale='.6 ' :ih1.control unit, by # :i2.1000 |B2H455 WARNING: (in line 1789 of T311LBD.IODF1.REPORT) |B2H

Re: DFHSM QUESTION

2017-07-28 Thread willie bunter
Brian, I did that but it didn't clear the ERR 40 records (see below for an example of the message). Thanks for the suggestion however. /* ERR 40 DB2.ARCHLOG2.A0091613 HSMBACK.BACK.T592617.DB2.ARCHLOG2.I8257 MISSING /* FIXCDS B DUMMY.RECOVER.MCB CREATE(X'0014' X'0098257F')

Regitrating product prefix with IBM

2017-07-28 Thread ITschak Mugzach
In a discussion about name-token vs user cvt, someone, I think it Scott Ford, reminds that they registered their z/OS product prefix with IBM. We would like to register the three characters if needed. Is there such process? Who should I talk to? ITschak -- ITschak Mugzach *|** IronSphere Platfor

Re: REGION=0M leads to CPU through the roof

2017-07-28 Thread Rob Schramm
Turn on a monitor while the step is running? With 12 min of CPU, there is time to dig into it. Rob On Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 4:10 AM Ron Hawkins wrote: > Gerhard, > > Now what if the searching you describe was a sequential scan of said table, > and the LPAR had only 1GB of storage defined? > > Ron

Re: REGION=0M leads to CPU through the roof

2017-07-28 Thread Ron Hawkins
Gerhard, Now what if the searching you describe was a sequential scan of said table, and the LPAR had only 1GB of storage defined? Ron -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Gerhard Adam Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 8:19 PM

Re: z14 and z/OS 2.3 Blog Post

2017-07-28 Thread Timothy Sipples
Paul Gilmartin asked: >Does Windows support NFS client? David Crayford replied: >Yes, NFS client is built in to Windows 10 but you have to jump through >some hoops https://graspingtech.com/mount-nfs-share-windows-10/. All supported desktop and server releases of Microsoft Windows include NFS supp

Re: Questions about IPL with package IODF

2017-07-28 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2017-07-27 o 23:20, Jesse 1 Robinson pisze: A couple of assumptions. OP has only one CEC with multiple LPARs, right? IODF 'package' just means the (linear) VSAM cluster IODFxx, right? Not exactly. IDOF configuration package is *subset* of whole IODF definitions. It was especially usefu

Re: Questions about IPL with package IODF

2017-07-28 Thread Jorge Garcia
I answers all questions, Lizette: <> ACTIVATE IODF=01,SOFT IEF196I IEF237I 8318 ALLOCATED TO SYS00154 IEF196I IEF237I 8318 ALLOCATED TO SYS00155 IEF196I IEF237I 8318 ALLOCATED TO SYS5