Re: Question on MQ on the Z/os

2020-03-03 Thread Massimo Biancucci
Dennis, AFAIK if you're using standard application on zOS (Cobol, PLI etc.) you need a MQ Server AS up and running on the client lpars. MQ Server means license and costs. The amount of the cost depends on your licensing type. This case zNALC could be a good option. Of course you've to ask your IB

Re: Two related alias entry address questions

2020-03-03 Thread Chris Hoelscher
Someone has to say it . Don't call me shirley Thank You, Chris Hoelscher| Lead Database Administrator | IBM Global Technical Services| T 502.476.2538 or 502.407.7266 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 11

Re: JES2 - stopping users from sending output to specific outputclass

2020-03-03 Thread Bruce Hewson
Keith, I use JES2 EXIT 6 for this. One item is to change sysout psuedo dataset names by replacing "?" for "DDNAME" - enables "proper" RACF control of SYSOUT classes. Regards Bruce On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 11:13:16 -0600, John McKown wrote: >On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 4:13 PM Keith Costley >wrote: >

Re: JES2 - stopping users from sending output to specific outputclass

2020-03-03 Thread Anthony Thompson
Jantje pointed out what seems the sensible solution, use the ACF2 JESSPOOL resource class: https://techdocs.broadcom.com/content/broadcom/techdocs/us/en/ca-mainframe-software/security/ca-acf2-for-z-os/16-0/administrating/jes-security.html Using JES(2?) exits might be too much: not many shops li

Re: Two related alias entry address questions

2020-03-03 Thread Seymour J Metz
Shirley there is a better way to introduce new behavior in a compatible manner, e.g., with a new PARM option. Having two keywords that look like they should be synonyms but aren't is user hostile. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ___

Re: Two related alias entry address questions

2020-03-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 17:23:19 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >... >Makes my head spin. What was IBM thinking? It is beyond me why one would want >to use one versus the other. I can envision a test case where they behave >differently, but what is the situation where you would actively want to use

Re: Two related alias entry address questions

2020-03-03 Thread Charles Mills
Wow! Thanks. I had to read your description half a dozen times to get it. I've seen some user-hostile design in my life -- hey! I'm a mainframer! -- but that is about as bad as it gets. I believe you but I certainly don't see that in the IBM documentation. COPYGRP Statement Use the COPYGRP s

Question on MQ on the Z/os

2020-03-03 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
Wondering if anyone here is using MQ Series on the z/os box and knows about the licensing? If one had MQ on the Z and it was doing all the QMgrs/Queue work, do the clients (that aren't QMgrs/Queue) on the other boxes need cost/purchase licenses? What I am finding is: - The MQ clients are ava

Re: Two related alias entry address questions

2020-03-03 Thread Dale R. Smith
On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 12:37:31 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >"Getting the aliases" is not an issue; getting the alias's entry point offset >is the issue. > >I am copying to a PDS because the program objects are in a PDSE but what I >want at the other end is a PDS. > >I will try COPYGRP and COPYGROU

Re: Two related alias entry address questions

2020-03-03 Thread Charles Mills
Got it! Not sure exactly what the key ingredient was but I suspect that the problem was that I had @Gil's un-externally-named entry point: BAR DS 0D ... END BAR I changed that to BAR DS 0D ENTRY BAR END My experimentation took wy longer than it should have and I am uncertain of

Re: Two related alias entry address questions

2020-03-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 22:23:08 +, Pew, Curtis G wrote: >On Mar 3, 2020, at 3:14 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> >> Relink with INCLUDE -ATTR. Module by module. Ouch. I suspect >> this is used under-the-covers by IEBCOPY PDS<-->PDSE. > >Yes, I think you are going to have to use the binder for thi

Re: How to get a workstation name from ip address

2020-03-03 Thread Gibney, Dave
Having explored this a couple times in the past, I can say it's not easy or straight forward. There are exit points that can pass ip addresses from TCPIP/TN3270 server on into VTAM and subsequently to your applications. Depending on the level of logging happening in your network, including f

zOSMF/CIM problem

2020-03-03 Thread Chris Parker
Hello All! I am trying to get the CIM indication provider subscription defined for the asynchronous job notification for z/OSMF and am running into issues. I am in a z/OS 2.3 LPAR. Following the z/OSMF 2.3 doc, I am using cimcli to create the filter, handler and the subscription. I get no er

Re: How to get a workstation name from ip address

2020-03-03 Thread Seymour J Metz
rDNS is just DNS where the name server has PTR records. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of ITschak Mugzach Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 3:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject

Re: How to get a workstation name from ip address

2020-03-03 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
Your biggest issue will be if your users are using DHCP and the ip address is reassigned to a different user by the time the lookup happens. This assumes that you DHCP servers and DNS servers communicate when a DHCP request is satisfied. About the only way would be to do lookups at sign on time - a

Re: Two related alias entry address questions

2020-03-03 Thread Pew, Curtis G
On Mar 3, 2020, at 3:14 PM, Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Relink with INCLUDE -ATTR. Module by module. Ouch. I suspect > this is used under-the-covers by IEBCOPY PDS<-->PDSE. > > Yes, I think you are going to have to use the binder for this. INCL

Re: How to get a workstation name from ip address

2020-03-03 Thread John McKown
On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 1:15 PM Grant Taylor < 023065957af1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On 3/3/20 11:31 AM, John McKown wrote: > > There is a way. But it can be a bit "complicated". > > Fair enough. > > My experience is to start with a manual process that does achieve the > goal, ev

Re: How to get a workstation name from ip address

2020-03-03 Thread Grant Taylor
On 3/3/20 2:43 PM, don isenstadt wrote: Nslookup does not work on my pc or the MF ..ping -a works on the pc..is there an equivalent of ping -a on the MF? I am surprised that ping -a works when nslookup doesn't work. (Both on your PC.) Would you mind sharing the commands that you're running?

Re: Two related alias entry address questions

2020-03-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 13:26:53 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >Really! They even go so far as to say you can abbreviate COPYGRP as CG and >COPYGROUP as CP. They could just have one section and list three abbreviations >(in itself an excessive number). > Copy-and-paste of the paragraph is way easy for

Re: How to get a workstation name from ip address

2020-03-03 Thread Seymour J Metz
What about dig? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of don isenstadt Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 4:43 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How to get a workstation name from i

Re: Two related alias entry address questions

2020-03-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 13:32:30 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >COPYGRP produces exactly the same erroneous result. > I once relinked a program object into a UNIX directory. IIRC, the aliases were created as directory links, but there were no useful offsets. When I re-re-linked back to a PDS(E), the ali

Re: How to get a workstation name from ip address

2020-03-03 Thread don isenstadt
Nslookup does not work on my pc or the MF ..ping -a works on the pc..is there an equivalent of ping -a on the MF? I see the syntax is different than unix or the pc -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: Two related alias entry address questions

2020-03-03 Thread Charles Mills
COPYGRP produces exactly the same erroneous result. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 12:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Two related alias entry address

Re: Two related alias entry address questions

2020-03-03 Thread Charles Mills
Really! They even go so far as to say you can abbreviate COPYGRP as CG and COPYGROUP as CP. They could just have one section and list three abbreviations (in itself an excessive number). Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On

Re: Two related alias entry address questions

2020-03-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 12:37:31 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >"Getting the aliases" is not an issue; getting the alias's entry point offset >is the issue. > >I am copying to a PDS because the program objects are in a PDSE but what I >want at the other end is a PDS. > Relink with INCLUDE -ATTR. Modul

Re: How to get a workstation name from ip address

2020-03-03 Thread Jackson, Rob
I thought it was just a fun, intentional demonstration of hypoantipedanticaticry. I could be wrong, but that is next to unpossible. First Horizon Bank Mainframe Technical Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, March 3

Re: Two related alias entry address questions

2020-03-03 Thread Mike Schwab
2 less letters to type. Same command. On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 2:37 PM Charles Mills wrote: > > "Getting the aliases" is not an issue; getting the alias's entry point offset > is the issue. > > I am copying to a PDS because the program objects are in a PDSE but what I > want at the other end is

Re: How to get a workstation name from ip address

2020-03-03 Thread ITschak Mugzach
yes, the man page says -a resolve address to hostnames. resolver is DNS afaik. ITschak ITschak Mugzach *|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring for z/OS, x/Linux & IBM I **| z/VM comming son * On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 10:47 PM Grant Taylor < 023065957af1-dma

Re: Two related alias entry address questions

2020-03-03 Thread Seymour J Metz
Well, COPYGROUP will copy the main and all alias entries, even if you don't know all of the names. For COPY. "When selectively copying from a partitioned data set, you must specify every name that you want copied, including their aliases." I couldn't find anything about mucking with the entry p

Re: How to get a workstation name from ip address

2020-03-03 Thread Grant Taylor
On 3/3/20 1:03 PM, ITschak Mugzach wrote: how about ping -a? it returns the workstation name. Where does that name come from? Does it rely on reverse DNS? -- Grant. . . . unix || die -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / a

Re: JES2 - stopping users from sending output to specific output class

2020-03-03 Thread Tony Harminc
On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 at 09:58, Allan Staller wrote: > Not much can be done at the JES* level to prevent dynamic allocation of the > sysout class. JES2 Exit 31 would appear to be able to fail an attempt to allocate sysout that you don't want, whether from batch or dynamic allocation. Tony H. ---

Re: Two related alias entry address questions

2020-03-03 Thread Charles Mills
"Getting the aliases" is not an issue; getting the alias's entry point offset is the issue. I am copying to a PDS because the program objects are in a PDSE but what I want at the other end is a PDS. I will try COPYGRP and COPYGROUP. What's the difference? The description is word for word the s

Re: How to get a workstation name from ip address

2020-03-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 10:21:09 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >I hesitate a little to possibly just add to the noise because I don't really >know the answer; I'm just hypothecating. > (hypotheticating? Not that either. hypothesizing? Aren't spellcheckers fun?) >Does a workstation necessarily have a

Re: Two related alias entry address questions

2020-03-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 11:35:02 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >1. Is there a way to display the entry point address of a load module member >of a PDS? ISPF 3.1 shows Size, TTR, AM, RM, etc. but not the entry address. >The member in question is actually an alias FWIW. > When I was younger and foolisher I

Re: JES2 - stopping users from sending output to specific outputclass

2020-03-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 18:43:40 +, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: >We have controlled use of sysout classes for decades using JES2 exits and SAF. >What we have is way too complicated to share, but I can attest that it's >possible depending on how much work you want to do. If you have a working Exit >6

Re: How to get a workstation name from ip address

2020-03-03 Thread ITschak Mugzach
how about ping -a? it returns the workstation name. ITschak Mugzach *|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring for z/OS, x/Linux & IBM I **| z/VM comming son * On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 10:00 PM Seymour J Metz wrote: > A TN3270 client has an IP address, may have a

Re: How to get a workstation name from ip address

2020-03-03 Thread Seymour J Metz
A TN3270 client has an IP address, may have a domain name and does not have an LUNAME. The TN3270 has a pool of LUNAMEs that it assigns from when a client connects. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: Two related alias entry address questions

2020-03-03 Thread Pew, Curtis G
On Mar 3, 2020, at 1:54 PM, Charles Mills wrote: > > Thanks. I had the same thought myself. Just tried it. No difference. > I’m to lazy to look it up, but I thought there was some control statement or option in IEBCOPY to handle aliases. But my first question was why you were copying to a PDS

Re: Two related alias entry address questions

2020-03-03 Thread Mike Schwab
COPYGRP or COPYGROUP gets the aliases. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.idau100/cpogrp.htm On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 1:49 PM Charles Mills wrote: > > Thanks. > > > Probably the step that is failing. > > Yup! > > > How are you doing this copy? > > IEBCOPY >

Re: Two related alias entry address questions

2020-03-03 Thread Charles Mills
Thanks. I had the same thought myself. Just tried it. No difference. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 11:51 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Two related al

Re: Two related alias entry address questions

2020-03-03 Thread Seymour J Metz
AMBLIST. PDS. There are other ways, but those should suffice. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Charles Mills Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 2:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Su

Re: How to get a workstation name from ip address

2020-03-03 Thread Pew, Curtis G
On Mar 3, 2020, at 1:30 PM, Grant Taylor <023065957af1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > I suspect that the "LU name" is probably the TN3270's counterpart to "answer > back". > I think that’s right. -- Pew, Curtis G curtis@austin.utexas.edu

Re: Two related alias entry address questions

2020-03-03 Thread Seymour J Metz
Use COPYMOD instead of COPY? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Charles Mills Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 2:45 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Two related alias entry

Re: Two related alias entry address questions

2020-03-03 Thread Charles Mills
Thanks. > Probably the step that is failing. Yup! > How are you doing this copy? IEBCOPY COPY INDD,OUTDD SELECT MEMBER=((OTHERPGM,,R),(FOO,,R),(BAR,,R)) Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen Sent:

Re: Two related alias entry address questions

2020-03-03 Thread Charles Mills
Okay, I found the answer to #1. IEHLIST. Boy is that a blast from the past. That in turn reveals that the entry address turned to 0 on the IEBCOPY of the PDSE program object to a PDS load module. IEBCOPY kept the offset of the main entry point but lost the offset of the alias entry point. Any way

Re: How to get a workstation name from ip address

2020-03-03 Thread Grant Taylor
On 3/3/20 12:24 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: From the other responses it would seem that getting a "host name" for the remote IP address may in fact require a "reverse DNS" lookup to get that name. (Reverse) DNS is the contemporary way to get IP to host name mapping. There are others, but

Re: Two related alias entry address questions

2020-03-03 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 11:35:02 -0800 Charles Mills wrote: :>1. Is there a way to display the entry point address of a load module member :>of a PDS? ISPF 3.1 shows Size, TTR, AM, RM, etc. but not the entry address. :>The member in question is actually an alias FWIW. Use the binder API. For PDS, it

Two related alias entry address questions

2020-03-03 Thread Charles Mills
1. Is there a way to display the entry point address of a load module member of a PDS? ISPF 3.1 shows Size, TTR, AM, RM, etc. but not the entry address. The member in question is actually an alias FWIW. 2. The reason I ask is that I am trying to track down the following problem. Perhaps someone kn

Re: How to get a workstation name from ip address

2020-03-03 Thread Seymour J Metz
The LUNAME that you're seeing is the name for TSO, not the name for your PCOMM. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Farley, Peter x23353 Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 2:24 PM To: IBM

Re: How to get a workstation name from ip address

2020-03-03 Thread Grant Taylor
On 3/3/20 11:21 AM, Charles Mills wrote: Does a workstation necessarily have a name? That turns into a slippery slope of "What is a name?" / "What does the name actually mean?". I think that the host end has a name / ID for the connection, at least insofar as differentiating the connection

Re: How to get a workstation name from ip address

2020-03-03 Thread Seymour J Metz
There are two logical units in a session, each having its own LUNAME. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Pew, Curtis G Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 2:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA

Re: How to get a workstation name from ip address

2020-03-03 Thread Seymour J Metz
There is a field set by NVAS in the (CINIT?) that passes the IP address. Other session managers may do likewise. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Pew, Curtis G Sent: Tuesday, Ma

Re: How to get a workstation name from ip address

2020-03-03 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
My PCOMM emulator (V5.7) on my work PC displays the LU name that it connects to in the window area below the actual 3270 screen (below the 3270 "operator information area") when I connect remotely to my employer's system. I don’t see my Vista emulator dong the same, but Tom should be able to te

Re: How to get a workstation name from ip address

2020-03-03 Thread Pew, Curtis G
On Mar 3, 2020, at 1:18 PM, Pew, Curtis G wrote: > > You *may* configure the tn3270 server to use LUNAME to determine which USSTAB > to use for the session or even to connect directly to a particular VTAM > application. > I should have also said that the LUNAME in the tn3270E protocol doesn’t

Re: How to get a workstation name from ip address

2020-03-03 Thread ITschak Mugzach
Ping -a? בתאריך יום ג׳, 3 במרץ 2020, 21:15, מאת Grant Taylor ‏< 023065957af1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu>: > On 3/3/20 11:31 AM, John McKown wrote: > > There is a way. But it can be a bit "complicated". > > Fair enough. > > My experience is to start with a manual process that does achieve t

Re: How to get a workstation name from ip address

2020-03-03 Thread Pew, Curtis G
On Mar 3, 2020, at 12:21 PM, Charles Mills wrote: > > I don't recall anything in my 3270 emulator (Tom Brennan's Vista) where I say > "here is my name to give to the host." There is a space for an "LU name" but > it's blank and I have no idea what it is for. My Windows has a hostname but > the

Re: How to get a workstation name from ip address

2020-03-03 Thread Grant Taylor
On 3/3/20 11:31 AM, John McKown wrote: There is a way. But it can be a bit "complicated". Fair enough. My experience is to start with a manual process that does achieve the goal, even if it's annoying and completely manual. Once that proves itself, then you start streamlining & automating i

Re: BMC and Compuware

2020-03-03 Thread ITschak Mugzach
Yes, they renamed 4 dimension to new dimension. I was not aware of b&b. Interesting. ITschak בתאריך יום ג׳, 3 במרץ 2020, 19:14, מאת R.S. ‏: > There was also EagleEye Software somewhere between. > And 4th Dimension was named New Dimension, AFAIK > > However I got ControlM product with Boole&Babba

Re: DF/EF andd DFP the IBM predecessor was Re: OT Boeing flight software

2020-03-03 Thread Clark Morris
[Default] On 2 Mar 2020 10:10:07 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main sme...@gmu.edu (Seymour J Metz) wrote: >> DFP catalogs > >? > >DFP supported the CVOLs introduced by OS/360, the VSAM catalogs introduced by >VSAM and the ICF catalogs introduced by DF/EF. DFP did not introduce a new >catalog struc

Re: Hillgang - Save the Date

2020-03-03 Thread Neale Ferguson
In perhaps one of the finest examples of “great moments in bad timing” minutes after asking you to save the date I received notification that the venue is instituting new policies/procedures to deal with the threat from the spread of the corona virus. To this end it will not be possible to hold

Re: JES2 - stopping users from sending output to specific outputclass

2020-03-03 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
We have controlled use of sysout classes for decades using JES2 exits and SAF. What we have is way too complicated to share, but I can attest that it's possible depending on how much work you want to do. If you have a working Exit 6 that scans allocation units, you're most of the way there. BTW

Re: How to get a workstation name from ip address

2020-03-03 Thread John McKown
On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 11:50 AM Grant Taylor < 023065957af1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On 3/3/20 10:32 AM, don isenstadt wrote: > > Hello..we have many users who are still using port 23 unsecured..so we > > can easily identify them with a display tcpip command po=23. > > related n

Re: How to get a workstation name from ip address

2020-03-03 Thread Charles Mills
I hesitate a little to possibly just add to the noise because I don't really know the answer; I'm just hypothecating. Does a workstation necessarily have a name? In the protocol, I mean. A dumb terminal with no name can do telnet. Is there anything to the connection request other than "Hi, I'm

Re: How to get a workstation name from ip address

2020-03-03 Thread John McKown
On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 11:32 AM don isenstadt wrote: > Hello..we have many users who are still using port 23 unsecured..so we can > easily identify them with a display tcpip command po=23. The list of ip > addresses needs to be translated to a workstation name because the ip > addresses are voli

Re: How to get a workstation name from ip address

2020-03-03 Thread Grant Taylor
On 3/3/20 10:32 AM, don isenstadt wrote: Hello..we have many users who are still using port 23 unsecured..so we can easily identify them with a display tcpip command po=23. related n00b question: Is there a way to associate TCP connections to TN3270 (?) devices? Is there a way to associate TN

Re: How to get a workstation name from ip address

2020-03-03 Thread Seymour J Metz
Have you configured a dynamic rDNS server? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of don isenstadt Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 12:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: How to get a

How to get a workstation name from ip address

2020-03-03 Thread don isenstadt
Hello..we have many users who are still using port 23 unsecured..so we can easily identify them with a display tcpip command po=23. The list of ip addresses needs to be translated to a workstation name because the ip addresses are volitile. Ping -a does not work on the mainframe. We want the c

Re: BMC and Compuware

2020-03-03 Thread R.S.
There was also EagleEye Software somewhere between. And 4th Dimension was named New Dimension, AFAIK However I got ControlM product with Boole&Babbage logo on tapes and manuals. So it's good assumption it is (was) Boole & Babbage product. It's like with a car - when you buy Volkswagen Golf you b

Re: JES2 - stopping users from sending output to specific outputclass

2020-03-03 Thread John McKown
On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 4:13 PM Keith Costley wrote: > We are having an issue with users using a restricted output class based on > standards. We are looking for a way to prevent this from happening by > canceling the job if the JCL contains SYSOUT=X. We are an ACF2 shop but I > am unaware if AC

Re: BMC and Compuware

2020-03-03 Thread ITschak Mugzach
Radoslaw, Small fix. controlM was a product os (Israeli) 4th dimension before BMC bought them. ITschak בתאריך יום ג׳, 3 במרץ 2020, 18:35, מאת R.S. ‏: > Yes and no. > Yes, you invest only if you see the future of the business. > No, you can make saome quick "buy and sell" trick. > In my opinion

Re: JES2 - stopping users from sending output to specific outputclass

2020-03-03 Thread Charles Mills
Presumably SVC 99 to SYSOUT X is a minority of the cases. The OP might be happy if he could prevent the majority. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 6:41 AM To: IBM-MA

Re: BMC and Compuware

2020-03-03 Thread Charles Mills
Sure. But buying cash flow only makes sense if you think the cash flow is going to continue long enough to justify your investment. And KKR pretty obviously believes that is the case. That was my point. In any event KKR is of course business people, or more correctly, fiduciaries of their investo

Re: BMC and Compuware

2020-03-03 Thread R.S.
Yes and no. Yes, you invest only if you see the future of the business. No, you can make saome quick "buy and sell" trick. In my opinion, the first option is much more reasonable in this case. However it's nothing special to mainframe or IT. Number of automotive comanies is shrinking,the same fo

Hillgang - Save the Date

2020-03-03 Thread Neale Ferguson
The next Hillgang meeting will be held on Friday 27 March at the Broadcom office in Herndon Virginia. The full agenda will be available shortly but in brief: * z/VM Paging Configuration Options – Walter Church, IBM * Three Ms and an H Marriott, MongoDB, Mainframes and a Hybrid Cloud – K

Re: BMC and Compuware

2020-03-03 Thread Bill Johnson
Exactly. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Tuesday, March 3, 2020, 9:59 AM, Allan Staller wrote: The mainframe is (and has been for many years), a cash cow. KKR loves the cash flow generated.. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent:

NVAS

2020-03-03 Thread Steve Beaver
Has anyone transitioned to CL/Supersession 2.1 from NVAS yet? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: BMC and Compuware

2020-03-03 Thread Bill Johnson
Buying growth isn’t really believing in the mainframe.  Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Tuesday, March 3, 2020, 9:55 AM, Charles Mills wrote: > KKR, one of the world's largest private equity firms, owns 100% of BMC. ... and apparently believes in the mainframe. They're sure buying a lot o

Re: BMC and Compuware

2020-03-03 Thread Allan Staller
The mainframe is (and has been for many years), a cash cow. KKR loves the cash flow generated.. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 8:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: BMC and Compuware [CAUTION: Th

Re: JES2 - stopping users from sending output to specific output class

2020-03-03 Thread Allan Staller
Not much can be done at the JES* level to prevent dynamic allocation of the sysout class. However, for batch jcl IEFUJI, IEFUJV, or JES2 Exit 6 can all fail the job prior to execution. It is up to you to provide the logic and code. Check www.cbttape.org there might be something "pre-written"

Re: JES2 - stopping users from sending output to specific outputclass

2020-03-03 Thread Brian France
Sorry can't help ya. I have no ide'er... Maybe check broadcom's ( soon to be bmc ) website's knowledge center. On 3/3/2020 9:40 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 08:48:43 -0500, Brian France wrote: We too are an ACF2 shop and I don't know of a way to do this using ACF2 tho I have n

Re: BMC and Compuware

2020-03-03 Thread Charles Mills
> KKR, one of the world's largest private equity firms, owns 100% of BMC. ... and apparently believes in the mainframe. They're sure buying a lot of mainframe software companies. (They bought my former employer, CorreLog, a little over a year ago.) Charles -Original Message- From: IBM M

Re: JES2 - stopping users from sending output to specific outputclass

2020-03-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 08:48:43 -0500, Brian France wrote: >We too are an ACF2 shop and I don't know of a way to do this using ACF2 >tho I have not really researched that since we've used IEFUV exit to >perform jcl validation while the job is being interpreted in my time >here and before. > What can

Re: JES2 - stopping users from sending output to specific outputclass

2020-03-03 Thread Brian France
We too are an ACF2 shop and I don't know of a way to do this using ACF2 tho I have not really researched that since we've used IEFUV exit to perform jcl validation while the job is being interpreted in my time here and before. On 3/2/2020 5:03 PM, Keith Costley wrote: We are having an issue w

Re: z/OS Cross-memory server code walkthrough

2020-03-03 Thread David Crayford
There's nothing wrong with a "hello world" x-mem server! The gold dust is in the plumbing. On 2020-03-02 11:07 PM, Rob Scott wrote: A few caveats that I mentioned in the Share session : (1) The example code is pretty useless in what it delivers, but the structure behind the "uselessness" is i

Re: JES2 - stopping users from sending output to specific outputclass

2020-03-03 Thread Jantje.
On Mon, 2 Mar 2020 16:03:28 -0600, Keith Costley wrote: >We are having an issue with users using a restricted output class based on >standards. We are looking for a way to prevent this from happening by >canceling the job if the JCL contains SYSOUT=X. We are an ACF2 shop but I am >unaware i