Re: Running a Coupling Facility using a CP for a test Parallel Sysplex 0 anyh gotcha's?

2023-03-07 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
CICS/VSAM transparency may not solve this problem. You would need to implement DB2 data sharing and that's not simple if you don't already use data sharing. ISI Pty in Melbourne also market a VSAM transparency product. I supported this product for many years and it is still in use at one large

Re: zOSMF

2023-03-07 Thread David Spiegel
Hi R'Shmuel AMV"SH, I worked for 2 quirky customers in a row. Both had MVS 3.8J. When I arrived at the 2nd one in 1983, they were still running OS/VS1 7D with BPE. Regards, David On 2023-03-07 17:11, Seymour J Metz wrote: ITYM OS/VS2 3.8J. I would have expected that by 1986 most MVS

Re: Ad TCP/Socket programs in REXX (Re: Mainframe REXX (Re: Badmouthing Rexx and ooRexx - again (Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-03-07 Thread David Crayford
On 7/3/23 16:59, René Jansen wrote: On 7 Mar 2023, at 08:45, David Crayford wrote: The industry has spoken! Python is the most popular programming language in the world so haters will have to just suck that up. That is a very funny statement. Nobody hates Python - the hype will blow over

Re: Retrieve HiperDispatch CP Polarity information ?

2023-03-07 Thread Attila Fogarasi
Additionally, GPD has to be specified for the lpar's activation profile in the HMC. On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 6:53 AM Boesel Guillaume wrote: > Hi, > Thank you very much for the STSI tip. > > "But then what kind of action are you going to take that would differ > depending on the result?" > It is

Re: Running a Coupling Facility using a CP for a test Parallel Sysplex 0 anyh gotcha's?

2023-03-07 Thread Dale R. Smith
On Wed, 8 Mar 2023 11:35:09 +1300, Laurence Chiu wrote: >Just to explain why we need two LPARs. The application uses a VSAM dataset >which is updated for all incoming transactions. If we want to run two >instances of that application on two different LPARs to provide >availability even if one

Re: REXX, ooRexx, BSF4ooRExx (Re: Ad TCP/Socket programs in REXX (Re: Mainframe REXX (Re: Badmouthing Rexx and ooRexx - again (Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-03-07 Thread David Crayford
On 8/3/23 02:26, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: There also appears to be bugs in SysThread where the "attached" member variable is not initialized in the constructor that takes a pthread_t argument. Ah, interesting that this is regarded a stumbling block, how about pthread_getunique_np() or such

Re: Running a Coupling Facility using a CP for a test Parallel Sysplex 0 anyh gotcha's?

2023-03-07 Thread Laurence Chiu
Just to explain why we need two LPARs. The application uses a VSAM dataset which is updated for all incoming transactions. If we want to run two instances of that application on two different LPARs to provide availability even if one of the LPARs goes offline for any reason, then the VSAM dataset

NJE history

2023-03-07 Thread Seymour J Metz
I've added an NJE section to the wikipedia [[Remote job entry]] article. I would appreciate it if anybody familiar with the detailed history of BITNET, NJE or VNET could flesh it out and source it. --

Re: zOSMF

2023-03-07 Thread Seymour J Metz
ITYM OS/VS2 3.8J. I would have expected that by 1986 most MVS customers would have installed MVS/SE if not MVS/SP; both MVS/SE and MVS/SP V1 installed on top of OS/VS2 3.8 with an appropriate SU repertoire.. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: Retrieve HiperDispatch CP Polarity information ?

2023-03-07 Thread Peter Relson
The polarity information can apparently be retrieved via STSI or via a licensed interface. I'd guess that the licensed interface also provides additional information. RMF gets the information from the Data Gatherer which gets it using the licensed interface (although the Data Gatherer itself,

Re: zOSMF

2023-03-07 Thread David Spiegel
Hi Terri, Maybe you mean OS2/MVS 3.8(J)? That could've been circa 1986. (I also have a similar progression, but, did VS1 7D with BPE before MVS.) Regards, David On 2023-03-07 15:25, Shaffer, Terri wrote: It was 1984/1985, maybe 1986 even, as my memory is foggy.. yes mvs/sp 3.8 I added the 1.

Re: NTS

2023-03-07 Thread Keith Gooding
Steve. Did you define your file system as extended addressable so that it can be bigger than 4GB ?. (If you define it as type ZFS rather than LINEAR this is implied). I cannot remember what happens if you do not define it as EA. Keith > On 7 Mar 2023, at 18:53, Steve Beaver wrote: > > I

Re: zOSMF

2023-03-07 Thread Rob Schramm
there is some sample rexx that you can execute to perform the gethostbyname and some others. I remember them in sezainst but that may be incorrect. These are handy for debugging setup issues with websphere, db2 and any other IP basics. Rob On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 2:19 PM Steve Beaver wrote: >

Re: zOSMF

2023-03-07 Thread Shaffer, Terri
It was 1984/1985, maybe 1986 even, as my memory is foggy.. yes mvs/sp 3.8 I added the 1. Then XA/ESA/OS390/z-OS Ms Terri E Shaffer Senior Systems Engineer, z/OS Support: ACIWorldwide - Telecommuter H(412-766-2697) C(412-519-2592) terri.shaf...@aciworldwide.com -Original Message- From:

zOSMF

2023-03-07 Thread Steve Beaver
I'm having getting zOSMF to even stay up. When I started on zOSMF, I all of sudden remembered why MVS1 was unserviceable. Which begs the question: How did the prior team get zOSMF to even stay up and work? On that I have no idea what was done. The one glaring message before IZUSVR1

Re: NTS

2023-03-07 Thread Kurt J. Quackenbush
> I have run into a problem that I have never seen. My NTS is a complete > MOD27. But I'm told EDC5133I No space left on device. After you've actually received the content into the global zone and SMPPTS there's no reason to keep the subdirectories in the SMPNTS, so delete any old stuff. If

Re: NTS

2023-03-07 Thread Gibney, Dave
Extend/Make it multi-volume. Or MOD54 > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Steve Beaver > Sent: Tuesday, March 7, 2023 10:53 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: NTS > > [EXTERNAL EMAIL] > > I have run into a problem that I have never seen.

Re: NTS

2023-03-07 Thread Mark Jacobs
Two. 1) Delete old data that's in the NTS 2) If you're licensed for zEDC and have the hardware available you can enable compression on the file system level. 2a) zfsadm compress -aggr file.system.dataset.name Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key -

NTS

2023-03-07 Thread Steve Beaver
I have run into a problem that I have never seen. My NTS is a complete MOD27. But I'm told EDC5133I No space left on device. Any easy ideas? GIM66400ITHE TRANSFER IS COMPLETE FOR FILE /u/smpe/smpnts/U02418528/GIMPAF.XML. GIM44336S ** AN UNUSUAL CONDITION OCCURRED.

REXX, ooRexx, BSF4ooRExx (Re: Ad TCP/Socket programs in REXX (Re: Mainframe REXX (Re: Badmouthing Rexx and ooRexx - again (Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-03-07 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
On 07.03.2023 08:45, David Crayford wrote: On 7/3/23 02:39, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: On 06.03.2023 02:43, David Crayford wrote: ... cut ... I did notice that CMake is being used for the build. That's good as IBM have ported CMake to z/OS. It's hidden away on a personal Github repo by an

Is there any documentation for message FC0294 ftpAuth: security values

2023-03-07 Thread Charles Mills
Is this message documented anywhere? Where? (The Goo Gal does not seem to know.) FC0294 ftpAuth: security values: mech=TLS, tlsmech=ATTLS, tlsreuse=N, sFTP=R, sCC=C, sDC=P Some of the values (tslmech=) are pretty obvious. I am particularly interested in the meanings of the various codes that

Re: zOSMF

2023-03-07 Thread Harris Randy - Nashville
Same here. I build a new OS on one lpar and do rolling IPL's to upgrade the rest. Again, a new option is fine for those that want it, but one size does not fit all. Why remove a working option and force everyone to use something they don't need? Randy Harris P 615-344-3244 C 662-401-8552

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: zOSMF

2023-03-07 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hi Rob and Terri, I'll weigh in here from the opposite end of the spectrum. From my POV, z/OSMF is nothing but overhead for us. We have a very small system. 2 LPARs, no sysplex, nothing difficult about it. We build a new OS on one of them and clone it to the other and we're done. All

Re: zOSMF

2023-03-07 Thread Seymour J Metz
I remember 1.3.3 and have located an announcement letter for 1.3.6; I vaguely recall seeing a reference to later sub-releases. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of David Spiegel <0468385049d1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Tuesday,

Re: zOSMF

2023-03-07 Thread David Spiegel
Hi R'Shmuel AMV"SH, Do you remember MVS/SP V1 R3.8? I don't. Freilichen Purim Regards, David On 2023-03-06 23:39, Seymour J Metz wrote: MVS/SP V1 R3.8? I believe that was the last release that did not require XA or better. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz

Re: BMC IAM and DFHSM DATALOSS

2023-03-07 Thread Dave Jousma
On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 22:20:59 -0500, Rob Schramm wrote: >Is CICS involved? > >Rob > >On Mon, Mar 6, 2023, 13:41 Joel C. Ewing wrote: > >> I see two possibilities: >> Hey there Rob.That's where it was detected first, however we've been able to recreate outside of CICS. I now believe the

Re: Ad TCP/Socket programs in REXX (Re: Mainframe REXX (Re: Badmouthing Rexx and ooRexx - again (Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-03-07 Thread René Jansen
On 7 Mar 2023, at 08:45, David Crayford wrote: > > The industry has spoken! Python is the most popular programming language in > the world so haters will have to just suck that up. That is a very funny statement. Nobody hates Python - the hype will blow over like Perl, Visual Basic, Ruby,