Re: LzLabs

2020-05-02 Thread Mike Schwab
Just one county, Germany. 1400KM, 12 hours drive. On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 2:48 AM Tom Brennan wrote: > > Sounds great!! I'm sure I would have loved the country - I just wasn't > too keen on the company's product. By coincidence, my wife came by my > desk this morning and asked if Switzerland

Re: LzLabs

2020-05-02 Thread scott Ford
I loved the vacations, I had 5 weeks , man ..Denmark would also be nice. I saw France, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands and the U.K. working in several. Scott On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 10:48 PM Tom Brennan wrote: > Sounds great!! I'm sure I would have loved the country - I just wasn't > too keen on

Re: LzLabs

2020-05-02 Thread Tom Brennan
Sounds great!! I'm sure I would have loved the country - I just wasn't too keen on the company's product. By coincidence, my wife came by my desk this morning and asked if Switzerland is far from Denmark, so she's got something in the early planning stages. Probably for after the vaccine is

Re: IEALIMIT Linkedit Example?

2020-05-02 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
Not sure how this played out. In a previous life, we replaced IEALIMIT with USILIMIT when XA arrived. USILIMIT can control more areas of storage than USILIMIT. If both exits are present, USILIMIT takes precedence. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team

Re: LzLabs

2020-05-02 Thread scott Ford
Tom, I got to Switzerland due to a job phase out in NYC. It was an overall great experience. Scott On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 9:38 PM Tom Brennan wrote: > Years ago I was offered a trip to Zurich (both me and my wife) to check > things out. I said no thank you. My wife was upset :) > > On

Re: LzLabs

2020-05-02 Thread Tom Brennan
Years ago I was offered a trip to Zurich (both me and my wife) to check things out. I said no thank you. My wife was upset :) On 5/1/2020 3:59 AM, David Crayford wrote: I used to work with the guy that was the tech lead for the LzLabs CICS project. He tried to recruit some of us!

Re: it was 20 years ago today ....

2020-05-02 Thread Seymour J Metz
I don't agree that COVID-19 is more far reaching; if, e.g., the financial institutions, railroads, did not ultimately address their Y2K issues, it would have been grim. Likewise manufacturing relying on JIT inventory. But I was never concerned with, e.g., power generation, heavy manufacturing.

Re: BPXBATSL and message "FSUM1007 Unable to open the message catalog"

2020-05-02 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
I hit this recently too. As Seymour says, check your OMVS segment and any mandatory setup files that may be missing, or permissions. I'm not able to access our system but I did get this problem while installing and setting up RRSF and the PAGENT started task. Pretty annoying too, Google was no

Re: LzLabs

2020-05-02 Thread Seymour J Metz
They are all the same, but it hardly qualifies as bait-and-switch. When has IBM denied that they were market segmentation? As for the 9370, you'd have to look at the CE manuals to be sure, although I'm inclined to doubt it. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: Mainframe user ID length

2020-05-02 Thread Seymour J Metz
> You can specify pretty much anything you want in JCL. According to MVS JCL Reference, SA23-1385-40, both USER=abcdefghi and EMAIL=foo+...@patriot.net are illegal. That's not a JES issue. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From:

Re: LzLabs

2020-05-02 Thread Seymour J Metz
360/44, 360/75, 360/95 and 360/195 were the only shipped S/360 models to be hard wired. The 360/44 wasn't a full S/360 but there was a feature for simulating the missing instructions in bump storage. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: BPXBATSL and message "FSUM1007 Unable to open the message catalog"

2020-05-02 Thread Seymour J Metz
What's in your OMVS segment? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Steve Bagshaw [steve.bags...@itmetrics.com] Sent: Saturday, May 2, 2020 8:21 PM To:

BPXBATSL and message "FSUM1007 Unable to open the message catalog"

2020-05-02 Thread Steve Bagshaw
Hi z/OS guys Does anyone know why I might be getting this message when I try and execute the BPXBATSL TSO command? " FSUM1007 Unable to open the message catalog. FSUM1009 Unable to execute the shell. " The IBM manual simply says: " Explanation The message catalog cannot be opened. Processing

Re: z/OS performance question

2020-05-02 Thread Edgington, Jerry
Wow, thanks Mark. this is great. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Mark A. Brooks Sent: Saturday, May 2, 2020 5:27 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS performance question This message was sent from an external source outside of

Re: LzLabs

2020-05-02 Thread scott Ford
Yeah, I remember Neon On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 8:55 AM Mike Schwab wrote: > Yep. They drop the interrupt handling in zIIPs and zAAPs to get full > speed processing. > > Could have checked the chips on the boards. Most S/360 models had > some microcode, only the highest model had all

Re: z/OS performance question

2020-05-02 Thread Mark A. Brooks
So you have only one signal structure per transport class? If your traffic is like most, the small traffic is an order of magnitude more than any other size, and it's all flowing to the same place. Each target system will have a unique list, so you get some distribution from that. But if you

Re: Mainframe user ID length

2020-05-02 Thread Charles Mills
> You talk about authenticating with a certificate, but how would permissions work in that case? FWIW, authentication ("signing on") and authorization ("permissions") are separate issues. RACF (and its sisters) do both, so it is easy to run them together, but they are separate issues.* You are

Re: it was 20 years ago today ....

2020-05-02 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
(Old post) I don't have any citations, but some of the most notorious doomsters recanted their gloomy predictions well BEFORE January 2000. They presumably sold a lot of $19.99 books in the meantime. I doubt that Tom received an offer of refund. So how did we dodge the Y2K asteroid? I can

Re: Mainframe user ID length

2020-05-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 2 May 2020 14:34:26 +0800, Timothy Sipples wrote: >Frank Swarbrick wrote: >>"more than 8"? What's the limit, if any? > >The z/OS LDAP Server's CN limit is 256 characters, so it's at least that >large. > >>Which system components/products permit/prohibit this? >>(Start your list with

Re: Mainframe user ID length

2020-05-02 Thread Bob Bridges
But...but... (Still expostulating, here, you see.) When I want to open a dataset for editing in TSO, the OS sends a question to the security system, asking "is allowed to ?". To identify it specifies my ID. The question is routed to RACF, ACF2 or Top Secret, and the part of the OS that is

Re: Using Windows ssh with z/OS

2020-05-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 2 May 2020 10:51:01 -0600, Jack J. Woehr wrote: >On 5/2/20 9:53 AM, Wendell Lovewell wrote: >> When connecting to z/OS (USS) using ssh, I'd like the USS shell to handle >> keys the same way Ubuntu does. I have these settings: >> >> echo $TERM displays xterm-color256 >> echo $SHELL

Re: Using Windows ssh with z/OS

2020-05-02 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 5/2/20 9:53 AM, Wendell Lovewell wrote: When connecting to z/OS (USS) using ssh, I'd like the USS shell to handle keys the same way Ubuntu does. I have these settings: echo $TERM displays xterm-color256 echo $SHELL displays /bin/sh As Gil pointed out, run bash. It's often there somewhere.

Re: Using Windows ssh with z/OS

2020-05-02 Thread Don Poitras
In article <6643888504611180.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu> you wrote: > On Sat, 2 May 2020 18:26:48 +0200, Mike Beer wrote: > >Maybe using putty might help: > >https://www.putty.org/ > >https://www.ssh.com/ssh/putty/putty-manuals/0.68/Chapter4.html > > > >Best regards > >Mike > > >

Re: AW: Using Windows ssh with z/OS

2020-05-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 2 May 2020 18:26:48 +0200, Mike Beer wrote: >Maybe using putty might help: >https://www.putty.org/ >https://www.ssh.com/ssh/putty/putty-manuals/0.68/Chapter4.html > >Best regards >Mike > >-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- >Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Im Auftrag von >Wendell

AW: Using Windows ssh with z/OS

2020-05-02 Thread Mike Beer
Maybe using putty might help: https://www.putty.org/ https://www.ssh.com/ssh/putty/putty-manuals/0.68/Chapter4.html Best regards Mike -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Im Auftrag von Wendell Lovewell Gesendet: Saturday, May 02, 2020 17:54 An:

Using Windows ssh with z/OS

2020-05-02 Thread Wendell Lovewell
When connecting to z/OS (USS) using ssh, I'd like the USS shell to handle keys the same way Ubuntu does. I have these settings: echo $TERM displays xterm-color256 echo $SHELL displays /bin/sh Specifically, I'd like: a) The cursor-up key to perform the "history-search-backward" function b) The

Re: LzLabs

2020-05-02 Thread Mike Schwab
Yep. They drop the interrupt handling in zIIPs and zAAPs to get full speed processing. Could have checked the chips on the boards. Most S/360 models had some microcode, only the highest model had all instructions in hardware. On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 4:58 AM Wayne Bickerdike wrote: > > It's

Re: Mainframe user ID length

2020-05-02 Thread Timothy Sipples
Frank Swarbrick wrote: >"more than 8"? What's the limit, if any? The z/OS LDAP Server's CN limit is 256 characters, so it's at least that large. >Which system components/products permit/prohibit this? >(Start your list with JCL.) You can specify pretty much anything you want in JCL. Do you