Re: z16 ETS setup question - where's the best documentation?

2022-10-18 Thread Ambros, Thomas
ur machine and download it an hour or so later. On 10/17/2022 1:03 PM, Ambros, Thomas wrote: > We've been looking but haven't been finding. > > What has us puzzled is the ETS/STP interface setup on the SE. The machine is > on a /24 vlan. If we try to define each ETS LAN Adapte

z16 ETS setup question - where's the best documentation?

2022-10-17 Thread Ambros, Thomas
We've been looking but haven't been finding. What has us puzzled is the ETS/STP interface setup on the SE. The machine is on a /24 vlan. If we try to define each ETS LAN Adapter with an IP address and interface subnet mask where the IP addresses are in the same subnet there is an address conf

Re: Rexx parse using period as placeholder

2020-02-25 Thread Ambros, Thomas
e var parms parm1 parm2 parm3 parm4 parm5 . > >parse var options opt1 opt2 opt3 opt4 opt5 opt6 . > >parse var localopts lopt1 lopt2 lopt3 lopt4 lopt5 . > > > > > > > >Tony Thigpen > > > >Seymour J Metz wrote on 2/24/20 5:50 PM: > >> Isn't that the same, except for the choice

Re: Rexx parse using period as placeholder

2020-02-24 Thread Ambros, Thomas
7; . -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mason.gmu.edu_-7Esmetz3&d=DwIFAg&c=Y1KkN7JyAPjrAJTUCirS0fy9vQY8xn4_Oh4EEEpbXx4&r=7ds2LAJ99_WyGG6a4BwzaJ7R0vee6JgTc4Txes6yEew&m=RwHovw9Jb8ZzPnV0Fb8JtuHSrWfHboK75HB0QKXv7Dw&s=7RT-emP8kpFQ1NAQn6MxdRyt8N1z8blOyGY0-o_XwNw&e=

Rexx parse using period as placeholder

2020-02-24 Thread Ambros, Thomas
A trivial item, but this surprised me. I wanted to parse out the string 'word3' using the period as a place holder. The input could have a blank delimited string containing an embedded period before the one I wanted to parse out. The Parse Var as coded didn't work. Using the Parse Value as c

Re: Submitting batch if you don't have TSO

2019-09-05 Thread Ambros, Thomas
If I had to guess I'd say that it is the CICS region that is permitted to submit jobs with USER= in the absence of any evident surrogate profiles. However one still needs to have a chain of logging events where one can tell which job was submitted from which CICS transaction running under whi

IBMLink, searching SRs

2019-09-03 Thread Ambros, Thomas
Anybody know how, in the "upgraded" IBMLink, how one searches for PMRs opened by their account and not just their own? I unchecked the "Search my service requests submitted online only" selection and selected "Search all service requests" for all customer numbers associated with my account and

Disaster recovery, alternatives to CBU machine in alternate site

2019-02-20 Thread Ambros, Thomas
Currently we're handling our hardware or site level disaster recovery with an essentially cold machine in an alternate site, a CBU entitlement allows us to spin it up and run recoveries. We've been pitched CMP (Country multiplex pricing) because there is a potential requirement to be able to r

ShopzSeries redirects to 404?

2018-11-15 Thread Ambros, Thomas
Anybody else having issues getting to shopz? This is what we're getting, different browsers, different nets: https://www.ibm.com/;www-03.ibm.com//software/shopzseries/ShopzSeries_public.wss This isn't right... looks like it injects ';www-03.ibm.com/'. Thomas Ambros zEnterprise Operating Sys

Re: z/OS V2R1 content in KC (and Google)

2018-06-15 Thread Ambros, Thomas
It's almost as if Google hasn't crawled the 2.2 and 2.3 Knowledge Center content, because the material is certainly there but it doesn't appear in the results - at least not in the first pages presented before, for example, I start getting license plate results when I'm looking for a message id.

Re: Knowledge Center bugs getting creative

2017-09-20 Thread Ambros, Thomas
Could be worse. You could be dealing with another vendor's support site that just got redesigned and now you can't search for a PTF by its id if you want to download it. They removed the capability. Restoring the function is called an 'enhancement' with no timetable for correction. That sai

Re: Mirror/back up your Development DASD

2016-05-19 Thread Ambros, Thomas
Mirroring development because we don't want to toss out a week or so worth of work, also allows our guys to fix apps fast (OK, not fast but you get the idea) if it comes to that. It doesn't cost that much more to do it in our environment so it's worth the investment. Thomas Ambros zEnterprise

How to log or trace BCPII activity on the SE?

2016-03-19 Thread Ambros, Thomas
I have a puzzling situation. Receiving HWI022I with APPLDATA matching SE SNMP community name when HWIBCPII attempts to start at IPL. Machine has one standalone partition with its own RACF DB, this one fails. The other partitions on the machine work fine, with their own RACF DB. RLIST of the

Re: CBU test

2016-02-29 Thread Ambros, Thomas
I think the real question is whether a temporary upgrade within a temporary upgrade counts as two temporary upgrades: 2. Single CBU test is limited up to 10 days, AFAIK. Is it allowed to perform model conversion more than once during the period? For example activate model 703 and if performanc

Conversion from Unisys Cobol file definitions to zOS

2016-01-12 Thread Ambros, Thomas
My apologies if there is a Cobol listserv that I should have subscribed to and submitted the question there, if someone knows of it please let me know so I can redirect to the correct place. Pardon me, also, if I use terms incorrectly in phrasing my question because I couldn't be weaker in ap

Re: Intermittent, not consistently reproducible problems with PDSEs on z/OS V2R1 (incl. infrequent S0F4-20 RSN 1C0752EE ABENDs)

2015-03-23 Thread Ambros, Thomas
Sorry for the OT, but that response somehow made me think of this: An astronomer, a physicist and a mathematician are on a train in Scotland. The astronomer looks out of the window, sees a black sheep standing in a field, and remarks, "How odd. All the sheep in Scotland are black!" "No, no, no!"

Re: zSeries HMC forcible disconnect issue - anybody seen this one before?

2015-03-09 Thread Ambros, Thomas
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 12:48 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: zSeries HMC forcible disconnect issue - anybody seen this one before? Call MS. Ed On Mar 9, 2015, at 10:45 AM, Ambros, Thomas wrote: > Remote access to our HMCs is controlled through a 'jump host' we >

zSeries HMC forcible disconnect issue - anybody seen this one before?

2015-03-09 Thread Ambros, Thomas
Remote access to our HMCs is controlled through a 'jump host' we access through Citrix in normal circumstances. I'm experiencing this problem when I use Windows Remote Desktop access to that jump host, bypassing Citrix, so I believe it is something to do with the Windows machine that is the jum

Re: Parallel Sysplex split

2015-02-17 Thread Ambros, Thomas
That's not true in our case. We share the IODF between two sysplexes, it is cataloged in a user catalog that is connected to the master catalogs of all systems in both sysplexes. We have a couple very limited use catalogs for that kind of system resource - SMPE zones for example. Of course, t

Re: Inquiry looking for education HCD

2015-01-30 Thread Ambros, Thomas
I know you don't like virtual, but one of our guys is taking an online class 2/17-2/20. If you want info on it let me know, if you want a review afterward let me know. The person taking the class is fairly sharp and doesn't like wasting time so I think his opinion would be valid. -Origi

Re: Google got its own airport

2014-11-12 Thread Ambros, Thomas
You started it... My OT contribution is that apparently they have this world sewn up so they're going for galactical domination. Thomas Ambros zEnterprise Operating Systems zEnterprise Systems Management 518-436-6433 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM

Re: V xcf clarification

2014-06-13 Thread Ambros, Thomas
Why? >From the Upsetting a Sysplex Manual: Removing a system from the sysplex means that: All XCF group members in the sysplex know that the system is being removed, so they can perform any necessary cleanup processing. All I/O to sysplex-shared resources is completed, to ensure data integri

Re: IODF/HCD query reg DASD

2014-06-12 Thread Ambros, Thomas
I might be wrong, but if you added CUs you changed the hardware configuration and activating only the software portion isn't going to do you any good. Thomas Ambros zEnterprise Operating Systems zEnterprise Systems Management 518-436-6433 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discuss

Sysplex Distribution with Datapower

2014-06-11 Thread Ambros, Thomas
I believe there is a TCPIP list, if anybody has the address I can send this along there too. This subject might be general enough that somebody following this list has expertise on it, though. Is anybody doing sysplex distribution with Datapower where Sysplex Distributor is the load balancer

Re: HMC and SE network configuration - follow up.

2014-06-03 Thread Ambros, Thomas
erprise Systems Management 518-436-6433 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ambros, Thomas Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 3:22 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: HMC and SE network configuration - detailed setu

Re: HMC and SE network configuration - detailed setup and debugging documentation?

2014-05-28 Thread Ambros, Thomas
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 6:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: HMC and SE network configuration - detailed setup and debugging documentation? W dniu 2014-05-27 21:22, Ambros, Thomas pisze: > I&

HMC and SE network configuration - detailed setup and debugging documentation?

2014-05-27 Thread Ambros, Thomas
I'm trying to figure out a slightly vexing issue with SE to HMC connectivity from one of the four CECs on the floor. One of the LAN adapters on one SE does not seem to be functioning, I walked through the physical connectivity with one of the network infrastructure people here and all follows

Distributed database access from zOS: Transactional Integrity?

2014-05-21 Thread Ambros, Thomas
Revealing how little I know about Java and the JDBC, I'm looking into something our app guys are pondering. Is it possible to implement some kind of transactional integrity if one is trying to access a database off platform? I don't know yet if they plan on read access or update to a single

Re: SSH connectivity with OMVS

2014-05-20 Thread Ambros, Thomas
If you want to spend some money, Tectia makes an SSH server for zOS. It has the advantage that it handles MVS datasets ('legacy') directly. It also, if you want spend even more money, has a key manager product so if you have a large SSH population (mushroom farm of *ix machines in little boxes