Re: Any z/OS sandbox available for a university student I know?

Thanks to everyone who responded. In summary, I have passed the following links along to the student: https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/education https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/education/master-the-mainframe https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/ibm-z-mainframe? htt

Re: Any z/OS sandbox available for a university student I know?

[Default] On 16 Mar 2021 14:45:52 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu (Paul Gilmartin) wrote: >On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 19:57:59 +, Bill Johnson wrote: > >>There are quite a few colleges that offer mainframe classes & lots of young >>people working on it.

Re: z14 HMC log information

I'd run EREP on all lpars, for some hardware failures the other lpars will have an event recorded. On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 4:24 AM Pommier, Rex wrote: > Hi all, > > Probably a simple question but I'm not having any luck looking for it so > I'm asking here. > > Is there a centralized place on a z

Re: z14 HMC log information

Is there anything in the Hardware Messages Task for the LPAR, like a disabled wait event that SFM might have taken action on? Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&search=markjac...@protonmail.com ‐‐‐ Or

Re: Any z/OS sandbox available for a university student I know?

On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 19:57:59 +, Bill Johnson wrote: >There are quite a few colleges that offer mainframe classes & lots of young >people working on it. Too many have bought the mainframe is dead idiocy. For >decades. The mainframe still processes the vast majority of important work and >wil

Re: z14 HMC log information

Nothing out of the ordinary in the HMC logs. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 1:10 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [External] Re: z14 HMC log information so it looks like one place to check is fro

Re: [External] Re: z14 HMC log information

Yup, looked. Nothing there. Everything was running then suddenly it wasn't. Once we got it back up we checked the MVS SYSLOG and any other log we could get our hands on and came up blank. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bfishing Sent: Tuesd

Re: Any z/OS sandbox available for a university student I know?

Any time something can be downloaded and programmed in minutes, means millions do. Which drives down the wages they can earn. You can’t learn zOS, COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, MQ, and others in minutes and that’s why it pays well. Like I said, I’ve seen dozens of technologies that were going to render

Re: Any z/OS sandbox available for a university student I know?

Bill, It's so much more than just colleges. Anybody can download python to their PC and begin writing python in just a few minutes. The same is true for just about every distributed platform operating system and language. When I was 13, I was learning HTML, CGI, Perl, and javascript. In high schoo

Re: Any z/OS sandbox available for a university student I know?

What really bothers me is when someone says they want to work on a more modern or advanced platform. Nothing is more modern or more advanced than a z15 running zOS. Also more secure, more available, and more transactions. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Tuesday, March 16, 2021, 3:45 PM, Br

Re: Any z/OS sandbox available for a university student I know?

There are quite a few colleges that offer mainframe classes & lots of young people working on it. Too many have bought the mainframe is dead idiocy. For decades. The mainframe still processes the vast majority of important work and will for decades to come, long after most of us here are gone. Y

Re: Any z/OS sandbox available for a university student I know?

In my opinion, it's a shame that it is this difficult to find a free academic platform for individuals like the one you described. Master the Mainframe is a great place to start, but it does not go deep enough. There's a reason why preteens are writing python, javascript, ruby, etc. IBM needs to ch

Can you run sshd as a regular user?

>From what I've found on my googles it looks like perhaps this was once >possible, but I am wondering if it is still possible. Basically, I am getting >an issue with the __poe() function being called, and I have neither UID(0) nor >BPX.POE rights. Here is what I've tried. - Created my own dir

Re: Any z/OS sandbox available for a university student I know?

I used that first one (fandezhi) a few years ago, but the system then was somewhat limited and not always stable. That second link seems like better advice. Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lionel B Dyck Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 1:45 PM To

Re: Any z/OS sandbox available for a university student I know?

Lionel, thanks, but EFGLOBE.COM does not work in any which-way. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: z14 HMC log information

Any chance that the system abended? Seems worth looking into your operator logs. On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 1:51 PM Pommier, Rex wrote: > I found the log - nothing in it. Heading off to IBM. > > Rex > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf > Of Pommier, Rex >

Re: z14 HMC log information

so it looks like one place to check is from the HMC, /console actions/View control tasks performed, this may get you what you need another place is from console actions, View console events   Carmen Vitullo -Original Message- From: Rex To: IBM-MAIN Date: Tuesday, 16 March 20

Re: z14 HMC log information

I would suspect the HMC user logging is still available since the first CMOS processor I've managed, we had an operator get fired because he IPL'd 2 production LPARS when only one was schedule to be IPL'd - we found this in the HMC TASK/LOG, if you found nothing I suspect logging is not turned o

Re: z14 HMC log information

I found the log - nothing in it. Heading off to IBM. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 12:24 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [External] z14 HMC log information Hi all, Probably a simple question

Re: Any z/OS sandbox available for a university student I know?

I don't know if this is current but I found this via our friend Google https://himainframe.blogspot.com/2016/04/create-free-mainframe-id-and-zos.html https://mainframenation.com/mainframe/how-to-get-a-mainframe-access/ ___

z14 HMC log information

Hi all, Probably a simple question but I'm not having any luck looking for it so I'm asking here. Is there a centralized place on a z14 HMC to show activity occurring, LPAR activation/deactivation, pretty much anything that happens on an HMC or on a z. We just took a hit where one of our LPAR

Re: Any z/OS sandbox available for a university student I know?

There's always Hercules, and the free and legal MVS 3.8J. I believe there is a version of both VM and DOS. I found this by Googling for MVS Turnkey (Turkey). http://wotho.ethz.ch/tk4-/ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Matt Hogstrom Sent: Tuesday, Marc

Re: Any z/OS sandbox available for a university student I know?

IBM’s Master the Mainframe Perhaps reach out to the OpenMainframeProject  Matt Hogstrom m...@hogstrom.org +1-919-656-0564 PGP Key: 0x90ECB270 Facebook

Any z/OS sandbox available for a university student I know?

Hi all, I was approached by a university student who wants self study z/OS architecture and Assembler - including 64 bit programming - as an extra-ciricular activity. The guy is on a shoestring budget. Is there anything out there for such an aspiring mainframer? Thanks. ---

Re: Finding the NETNAME within TSO

Take a look at GTTERM 'CODEPG'. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steff Gladstone Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 5:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Finding the NETNAME within TSO How can I discover th

Re: Read REXX variables directly by an assembler program

Unless you're using IPCS to view a REXX application in the dump, I can't imagine why you would want to do that. The code would be harder to read and more prone to break after applying service. What's wrong with the documented and supported interfaces? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.g

Re: Read REXX variables directly by an assembler program

What is wrong with IRXEXCOM? I would say "yes, there is a way to read Rexx variables in assembler, and it is named IRXEXCOM." Anything is possible. I am sure that with enough hacking you could "find" Rexx variables in Rexx's storage areas and read them. But why? IRXEXCOM will do that for you, a

Re: Read REXX variables directly by an assembler program

On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 05:14:59 -0500, Willy Jensen wrote: >Some time ago I read something somewhere that indicated that there is a way to >read REXX variables directly by an assembler program, without using neither >IRXEXCOM nor IKJCT441. > o Why re-invent the wheel? o But might this be useful i

Re: Finding the NETNAME within TSO

If by netname you mean VTAM secondary LU name here's an example. /* REXX */ SYSTERMID = sysvar("SYSTERMID") say "LU name is" SYSTERMID exit Gives: LU name is MYLUNAME This will usually be a TN3270 SLU name or an SLU name in your multi-session application if you have one. It does not directly ge

Re: Querying WLM address space CPU delays

Scott, can you share a snip of code you have looking at delay samples from type 72 data? Thanks -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Scott Chapman Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 7:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Querying WLM address space

Finding the NETNAME within TSO

How can I discover the netname of a TSO user from within TSO? Either directly in REXX or via a called assembler subroutine? Thanks, Steff Gladstone -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Querying WLM address space CPU delays

SRM/WLM are already sampling the work running on the system. SMF 72 contains delay samples. Including by report class. You can define up to 2047 report classes so you can get a good bit of granularity. Maybe not down to a specific batch job, but probably more than granular enough to understand h

Re: Read REXX variables directly by an assembler program

I did this 30 years ago so it is possible, but if you cannot meet the call requirements for IRXEXCOM then it is very difficult to do in all Rexx environments. You'll catch blocks in transition so results are unpredictable -- hence the IRXEXCOM requirements for the environment. If your use case is

Read REXX variables directly by an assembler program

Some time ago I read something somewhere that indicated that there is a way to read REXX variables directly by an assembler program, without using neither IRXEXCOM nor IKJCT441. Any ideas? Willy -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sign