Re: Flashcopy for Non-SMS volume backup?

2021-05-02 Thread Brian Westerman
Yes, you are correct. In the HSM startup you define the volume(s) that you want and the dumptype(frequency) that you want them to have: This is for NON-SMS volumes and in this case it's for a z/OS res volume ADDVOL C24RES /* ADD A VOLUME (PROVIDE SERIAL) */ - UNIT(3390)

Re: Now it's easier to find stuff on the CBT Tape

2021-05-02 Thread Brian Westerman
Actually that makes a lot of sense now. Brian On Sun, 2 May 2021 12:38:29 -0500, Steve Horein wrote: >If I'm not mistaken, "locsite fwfriendly" accommodates data connections >other than port 20. > >On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 1:22 AM Brian Westerman < >brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com> wrote: > >> Than

Re: Now it's easier to find stuff on the CBT Tape

2021-05-02 Thread Brian Westerman
But you had the direction to move in. Having a lot of enthusiasm isn't going to get you anywhere if you don't have a direction to move. Thanks again, Brian -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, sen

Re: z/OS Conda install questions

2021-05-02 Thread David Crayford
You're posting in the wrong forum again Lionel ;) We use Conda internally at Rocket, however, the z team install all the ported tools into a read only file system which is shared between LPARs/Sysplexes. Your sysprogs can use Conda to create an environment to download the tools and then move t

Re: Testing MQ connections using telnet from z/OS to external host

2021-05-02 Thread Matt Hogstrom
TRACERTE to the mid-range server will hopefully give you an idea of where the network is stopping you. Matt Hogstrom PGP key 0F143BC1 > On May 2, 2021, at 18:10, Laurence Chiu wrote: > > In the process of setting up some new MQ connections from our Z/OS > mainframe to new mid-range servers. T

Re: And the survey says...

2021-05-02 Thread Seymour J Metz
I have grander ambitions. Direct TSO support for TN3270 over SCTP with an SFTP over SCTP client and appropriate encryption. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf

Re: And the survey says...

2021-05-02 Thread Seymour J Metz
I remember zmodem over telnet. As with IND$FILE, it was all the same session. BTW, while with TCAM you could attach ASCII tty and other s/s terminals via WP mode, with VTAM you needed NTO or some other protocol converter. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ___

Re: And the survey says...

2021-05-02 Thread Tom Brennan
Like using standard ASCII telnet to a mainframe for what I always called line-mode TSO? I think that still works today, although I've never used it except by accident. On 5/2/2021 3:24 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: I was imagining the latter, recalling days of yore when I could connect to TSO or

Re: And the survey says...

2021-05-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 2 May 2021 12:03:00 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: > >How would such a separate IND$FILE client work? Would it somehow share the TSO >session with the emulator? Or would it somehow log onto TSO on its own, >despite its lack of "ability to format a display"? > I was imagining the latter, rec

Testing MQ connections using telnet from z/OS to external host

2021-05-02 Thread Laurence Chiu
In the process of setting up some new MQ connections from our Z/OS mainframe to new mid-range servers. The development team is trying to check if the connection from Z/OS to the mid range service is working by issuing a telnet command. Telnet ip address. 1414 Where they have set 1414 as the port

Re: And the survey says...

2021-05-02 Thread Don Leahy
They could model it on WSA. :-) On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 3:03 PM Charles Mills wrote: > > Is there a possibility of a separate IND$FILE client with all the > > In the late 1980's/very early 1990's Spectrum Concepts (XCOM 6.2) had a > product called IND$VTAM which was an IND$FILE that ran outside

Re: And the survey says...

2021-05-02 Thread Charles Mills
> Is there a possibility of a separate IND$FILE client with all the In the late 1980's/very early 1990's Spectrum Concepts (XCOM 6.2) had a product called IND$VTAM which was an IND$FILE that ran outside of TSO, on its own SNA session. I have forgotten the exact details, but I remember its existe

Re: Flashcopy for Non-SMS volume backup?

2021-05-02 Thread Gibney, Dave
I've not done this, but, I remember that you can add non-SMS volumes to HSM as Primary volumes. I've generally thought that this would be so that you can do the kind of processing you are looking for. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Ed Jaffe > S

Re: Flashcopy for Non-SMS volume backup?

2021-05-02 Thread Ed Jaffe
Crickets. Fab. 😕 Here's what I'm thinking we should do: Use DSS to periodically create flashcopy backups of our Non-SMS volumes using COPY FULL or COPY TRACKS with FASTREPLICATION and DUMPCONDITIONING. The flashcopy targets would then be dumped using HSM BACKVOL with VOLUMES and DUMP (or perh

Re: Now it's easier to find stuff on the CBT Tape

2021-05-02 Thread Steve Horein
If I'm not mistaken, "locsite fwfriendly" accommodates data connections other than port 20. On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 1:22 AM Brian Westerman < brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com> wrote: > Thanks to some timely help from Peter Vels who suggested tracing the FTP > routine, I was able to find the problem.

Re: New Spectre Vunerability

2021-05-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 3 May 2021 03:03:48 +1000, Greg Price wrote: > >1. Does this new development rely on "powerful" instructions (as they >exist in application object code) being broken down to simpler >instructions? ("millicode"?) > I understand that the Classic Spectre even put Javascript at risk. The fixes

Re: New Spectre Vunerability

2021-05-02 Thread Greg Price
On 3/05/2021 1:16 am, David L. Craig wrote: https://engineering.virginia.edu/news/2021/04/defenseless doesn't mention if zArchitecture is immune, but I suspect it is not. Does anybody know for sure? My mud-brain can barely comprehend this stuff, but... 1. Does this new development rely on "p

Re: And the survey says...

2021-05-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 2 May 2021 08:18:38 -0700, Tom Brennan wrote: >On 5/2/2021 4:15 AM, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: > >> ... IMHO there is no reason to embed FTP client in 3270 emulation package. > >I guess it was natural for users to look for FTP on the terminal >emulator since that's where they did transfers b

Re: New Spectre Vunerability

2021-05-02 Thread Mike Schwab
Micro-op caches are different in all processors. But S/360 had them, and 80286 and up. On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 10:16 AM David L. Craig wrote: > > https://engineering.virginia.edu/news/2021/04/defenseless > doesn't mention if zArchitecture is immune, but I suspect > it is not. Does anybody know f

Re: And the survey says...

2021-05-02 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
W dniu 02.05.2021 o 17:18, Tom Brennan pisze: On 5/2/2021 4:15 AM, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: ... IMHO there is no reason to embed FTP client in 3270 emulation package. I guess it was natural for users to look for FTP on the terminal emulator since that's where they did transfers before TCPIP

Re: IBM snew DOC Web SIte

2021-05-02 Thread Cheryl Watson
I agree about the overhead on a handheld. It takes at least half of the screen. Cheryl Watson On May 2, 2021, at 9:33 AM, Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 09:55:53 -0500, Geoff Smith wrote: > ... > We are working with the develop

Re: And the survey says...

2021-05-02 Thread Tom Brennan
On 5/2/2021 4:15 AM, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: ... IMHO there is no reason to embed FTP client in 3270 emulation package. I guess it was natural for users to look for FTP on the terminal emulator since that's where they did transfers before TCPIP on the mainframe. But I always thought that w

New Spectre Vunerability

2021-05-02 Thread David L. Craig
https://engineering.virginia.edu/news/2021/04/defenseless doesn't mention if zArchitecture is immune, but I suspect it is not. Does anybody know for sure? -- May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave_Craig__ "So the universe is not quite

Re: Now it's easier to find stuff on the CBT Tape

2021-05-02 Thread Charles Mills
DEBUG xxx where xxx is documented in the Comm Server IP U/G & Commands manual. DEBUG BAS is a good first shot. The only problem is that is many cases FTP does not process the DEBUG command until after it has attempted session setup, which is often where a problem occurs. To overcome that: 1. D

Re: IBM snew DOC Web SIte

2021-05-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 09:55:53 -0500, Geoff Smith wrote: >... >We are working with the development team to improve performance, but until >this is fixed, the Adobe Indexed collections are a good substitute. There a >several PDF collections available for download on our Internet Library, (

Re: And the survey says...

2021-05-02 Thread Colin Paice
Some sites do not allow FTP, but do allow transfer through the 3270 emulator. On Sun, 2 May 2021 at 12:15, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: > My responses below > > W dniu 01.05.2021 o 23:31, Bob Bridges pisze: > > Pan Skorupka, I'm not sure whether I'm about to agree or disagree about > FTP. I use FTP

Re: And the survey says...

2021-05-02 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
My responses below W dniu 01.05.2021 o 23:31, Bob Bridges pisze: Pan Skorupka, I'm not sure whether I'm about to agree or disagree about FTP. I use FTP as much as possible for file transfer, but I don't understand why a terminal emulator needs it built in: What's wrong with just using Window

Re: Now it's easier to find stuff on the CBT Tape

2021-05-02 Thread David Spiegel
Hi Peter/Brian, Where did you turn on debug? Thanks and regards, David On 2021-05-02 03:40, Peter Vels wrote: Brian, you are too kind. You did 99% of the work. Peter On Sun, 2 May 2021 at 16:22, Brian Westerman wrote: Thanks to some timely help from Peter Vels who suggested tracing the FTP

Re: Now it's easier to find stuff on the CBT Tape

2021-05-02 Thread Peter Vels
Brian, you are too kind. You did 99% of the work. Peter On Sun, 2 May 2021 at 16:22, Brian Westerman wrote: > Thanks to some timely help from Peter Vels who suggested tracing the FTP > routine, I was able to find the problem. At my site the "locsite > fwfriendly" is required. I still don't kno