Re: [EXTERNAL] Zowe install woes

2018-08-17 Thread zMan
Whatever you do, don't look up Zowe on Urban Dictionary. On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 2:23 PM Jerry Whitteridge wrote: > You have it exactly. And thanks. > > My concern is/would be the number of WLP servers with each service taking > their own. I'd like to see something more along the lines of

Re: does anyone remember a program called BLKTAPE?

2018-08-17 Thread Phil Smith III
Mark Waterbury wrote: >I recently was given a tape image of a tape made on VM/370 circa 1977 or so >... and looking at the tape image with AWSBrowse it looks "similar to" a CMS >TAPE DUMP or VMFPLC2 DUMP ... but it's not ... >It has similar looking headers for each file, but instead of fixed

Re: does anyone remember a program called BLKTAPE?

2018-08-17 Thread Mike Schwab
Do you have a record layout of what the resulting file should be? I.E. Fixed length fields? I would look for short binary lengths at the start of the record, then blank trimmed fields after that. Would need to copy field by field the number of bytes in the length field. On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at

does anyone remember a program called BLKTAPE?

2018-08-17 Thread Mark Waterbury
I recently was given a tape image of a tape made on VM/370 circa 1977 or so ... and looking at the tape image with AWSBrowse it looks "similar to" a CMS TAPE DUMP or VMFPLC2 DUMP ... but it's not ... It has similar looking headers for each file, but instead of fixed length records, it has

Re: DFSMS dates, names, numbers and references for wiki

2018-08-17 Thread Seymour J Metz
Hierarchical storage management >From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from DFSMS) )-: -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Steve Smith Sent: Friday, August 17, 2018

Re: [EXTERNAL] Zowe install woes

2018-08-17 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
You have it exactly. And thanks. My concern is/would be the number of WLP servers with each service taking their own. I'd like to see something more along the lines of "Customer" and "Systems" instances so for example z/OS Connect EE would fall under the "Customer" bucket, and z/OSMF and Zowe

Re: DFSMS dates, names, numbers and references for wiki

2018-08-17 Thread Jim Ruddy
Great News! I have learned that Wayne is working part time at IBM and has been contacted with the link. As said in the PM "hopefully he will respond". Jim On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 10:34 AM, Don Poitras wrote: > Someone should let him know he retired as he keeps showing up at Share and > the IBM

Re: DFSMS dates, names, numbers and references for wiki

2018-08-17 Thread Don Poitras
Someone should let him know he retired as he keeps showing up at Share and the IBM TDMs. :) In article you wrote: > Wayne Rhoten (Morgan Hill, CA) probably knows more than most. He was Mr SMS > until he retired from IBM in 2014. I don't know how to contact him but if > you could find someone

Re: [EXTERNAL] Zowe install woes

2018-08-17 Thread Bruce Armstrong
I think you mean "z/OS Connect EE" ..as I have history with z/OS Connect let me summarize positioning - z/OS Connect EE focus is customer COBOL or PL/I applications running in CICS and IMS - it can do other environments too (MQ, WAS for z/OS) but let's generally say Line of Business

Re: DFSMS dates, names, numbers and references for wiki

2018-08-17 Thread Jim Ruddy
Wayne Rhoten (Morgan Hill, CA) probably knows more than most. He was Mr SMS until he retired from IBM in 2014. I don't know how to contact him but if you could find someone who has contact information, he would be a gold mine. I do know someone who *might* know how to get a hold of him if you get

Re: [EXTERNAL] Zowe install woes

2018-08-17 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
How does Zowe play with the zConnect product ? Sounds like I'm starting to get WLP servers breeding over night ! Jerry Whitteridge Delivery Manager / Mainframe Architect GTS - Safeway Account 602 527 4871 Mobile jerry.whitteri...@ibm.com IBM Services IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on

Re: [EXTERNAL] Zowe install woes

2018-08-17 Thread Bruce Armstrong
Correct (and I am interpreting you definition of a "z/OS system" to mean one LPAR...In addition to 2 Libertys there is at least one node.js instance for the web ui. There are also started tasks for API Mediation (using Spring boot) and currently a security server - we are looking how

Re: DFSMS dates, names, numbers and references for wiki

2018-08-17 Thread Steve Smith
[citation needed] Couldn't resist, but it's true. On Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 11:16 Seymour J Metz wrote: > Currently, DFSMS and Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem in > wikipedia redirect to HSM, which is mind boggling. I believe that the best > way to get past the Kafkaesque wiki

Re: [EXTERNAL] Zowe install woes

2018-08-17 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2018-08-17 10:56, Bruce Armstrong wrote: Zowe is open source ..it uses z/OSMF (which runs on Liberty and is not open to additional uses)..Zowe ships a copy of Liberty and we are working on how to allow extensions to run in the Zowe supplied Liberty. To ensure that everyone is 100%

Re: [EXTERNAL] Zowe install woes

2018-08-17 Thread Jerry Callen
NOTE: I'm not a Zowe developer, but I sit near some of them at Rocket and have some understanding of its structure via osmosis. :-) This should not be considered "authoritative." There are several pieces to Zowe: * A web client (code that runs in the browser: HTML, CSS and JavaScript). This

DFSMS dates, names, numbers and references for wiki

2018-08-17 Thread Seymour J Metz
Currently, DFSMS and Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem in wikipedia redirect to HSM, which is mind boggling. I believe that the best way to get past the Kafkaesque wiki bureaucracy is to write an article on DFSMS. For that purpose, I'd like to solicit whatever information you have,

GSE UK - Large Systems Webex

2018-08-17 Thread Leanne Wilson
We are beginning the process to build the agenda for the September Large Systems Working Group WebEx meeting This event will be held on 26th September 2018 at 15:00 BST If you would like to present at this event, please send the following to Leanne Wilson(lean...@rsmpartners.com): * Your

Re: [EXTERNAL] Zowe install woes

2018-08-17 Thread Bruce Armstrong
Zowe is open source ..it uses z/OSMF (which runs on Liberty and is not open to additional uses)..Zowe ships a copy of Liberty and we are working on how to allow extensions to run in the Zowe supplied Liberty. Zowe also ships a node.js server and we are also working on how that can be

Re: [EXTERNAL] Zowe install woes

2018-08-17 Thread Kirk Wolf
Bruce, I'm not sure that I understand - Zowe is open-source, but it must run in z/OSMF Liberty and you aren't free to deploy your own code there ? On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 5:42 AM, Bruce Armstrong wrote: > David - deploying into the z/OSMF Liberty instance is a no-no as it is > > part of the

Re: "Library Server" Access Now "Forbidden"?

2018-08-17 Thread Seymour J Metz
> Would there be sufficient community interest to maintain it? If they only open sourced BM/READ? Probably not. If they open sourced the whole suite from DCF through BM/READ? Probably yes. > On what variety of platforms? Well, a Linux port would be 99% of the way to *bsd and Unix ports?

Re: [EXTERNAL] Zowe install woes

2018-08-17 Thread David Crayford
Bruce, That's what I thought WRT z/OSMF. We ship a turnkey Apache Tomcat server but our servlet WARs and native code run fine in WLP. But there are license issues. Having a WLP instance that we can deploy into would dramatically reduce the footprint of our product if we want to integrate with

Re: [EXTERNAL] Zowe install woes

2018-08-17 Thread Bruce Armstrong
David - deploying into the z/OSMF Liberty instance is a no-no as it is part of the z/OS operating system and IBM wants to control what runs there for support reasons/security, etc. (I think there maybe be T that limit what runs there. I have not dug into the specifics to know if there is any

Re: [EXTERNAL] Zowe install woes

2018-08-17 Thread David Crayford
On 17/08/2018 4:27 AM, Kirk Wolf wrote: You can use the files, data sets, and jobs services in Zowe without z/OSMF ? I don't think so. There's nothing wrong the the z/OSMF APIs it's the UI that people don't like. We've got a new product with a REST API that's basically a JAX-RS Java

Re: CF - CFRM Question.

2018-08-17 Thread Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM
Did you deactivate and activate the new CF LPARs? The CFRM CDS has 8 slots to store policies by 'PGM=IXCMIAPU' and different names from 'DEFINE POLICY NAME()'. With SETXCF START,POL,TYPE=CFRM,POLNAME=xx you make one of the policies the active policy. This policy is copied to the