Personally, I'm tired of getting recruiters emailing and/or calling (yes, they
do both) about an urgent need for a 25+ year experience position that maxes out
at $40/hour 1099. So, those, I do not care if their job is harder or not.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion Li
In a previous role, we replaced CA-11 with Encore from Cybermation (now
CA/Broadcom).
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
Behalf Of Steve Beaver
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2022 11:17 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: CA-11
Do
Have you confirmed the feature is installed and all parms set properly? It
almost appears it's GP's instead of zEDC.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Compagno Renato (Consulente per BCC Sistemi Informatici)
Sent: Tuesd
We went from z14 to z15's and didn't notice any difference in compression.
I would be curious to see listcat of both showing the user data size and the
comp data size as well as the dataset DCB attributes.
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ent: Thursday, April 29, 2021 11:56 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: And the survey says...
On 4/29/21 7:33 AM, Chuck Kreiter wrote:
> My firm uses Hummingbird. As a sysprog, I loathe it. PCOMM and Vista
> are the tops in the emulator space IMO.
Would you please elaborate on wha
My firm uses Hummingbird. As a sysprog, I loathe it. PCOMM and Vista are
the tops in the emulator space IMO.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
Behalf Of Allan Staller
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2021 10:09 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.
hrough twelve of the requested VVR
name.
(There was no IEC331I with an sfi.)
Help!
Charles
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
Behalf Of Chuck Kreiter
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 10:55 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subjec
IDCAMS DELETE dsn NOSCRATCH
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
Behalf Of Charles Mills
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 1:49 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Help with non-existent catalog
I've got a catalog problem. I have n
During our 2.2 to 2.4 migration, we just took a backup prior to the first
system being cut over. I don't believe there is anything special required.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of TSDunlap
Sent: Wednesday, December
Thanks. I got the ticket resolved. If the DB2 library is not in the linklist,
then a steplib is needed in the HSM procs. Per the ticket, the docs will be
updated.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Glenn Wilcock
Sen
I've been working with the HSM function to move datasets off of MOD-3
devices. I'm testing out the feature to code Serialization Error Exit = DB2
in the management class to invoke the DB2 CAF interface to close and
unallocate DB2 tables if they aren't in use. I'm getting an 806 abend when
DSS loo
Some laptops (maybe it's windows 10), allow you to remap a key from a windows
perspective. Perhaps your laptop/windows has SHIFT+F9 mapped to something
completely different?
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Bob Brid
I used to manage 4 monoplexes on the same CEC. That's how I did my updates.
Activate on one monoplex and copy the IODF to the others and activate soft.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Mark Jacobs
Sent: Thursday, Ma
This would be a great add for Naviquest. Perhaps this can get kicked around
at the next Share storage Free for All.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
Behalf Of Gadi Ben-Avi
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2020 6:43 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSE
Take a look at Ed Jaffe's Share presentations about going "off the grid" for
IBM support.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
Behalf Of IBM user
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2019 12:54 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Softw
Do you have to also go into the office for "off-hours" support? During an
outage, I would expect that is when you are needed to be most productive so
being on-site seems logical (according to the management explaination).
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IB
I found the same thing this morning with a case on the new system. Much
slower load times for selection criteria and to review updates. We pick on
IBM for the support site but I've found the new Broadcom support sight to be
pretty bad as well.
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From: IBM Mainframe Dis
We run with a single MOD-27 cluster with no problems. Looking to take that to
a MOD-54 and then split into multiple clusters.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Hervey Martinez
Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2019 11:06 AM
To:
Really hard to feel bad for this company.
1. Left a platform that worked well for year for something "shiny and new"
2. Apparently didn’t test security after implementation or keep current on fixes
3. Unless this is just a billing company, I have a hard time feeling sorry for
any "debt collector"
Did you active the SMS configuration after adding the volume? Are you looking
at the ACTIVE ACDS or SCDS in ISMF?
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Elaine Beal
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2019 12:30 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSER
Did you press F1 after getting RC=08 in ISMF. Sometimes you can get a better
explanation that way.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Mark Pace
Sent: Friday, March 8, 2019 12:24 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject:
hanks..
Paul Feller
AGT Mainframe Technical Support
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
Behalf Of Chuck Kreiter
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2019 10:03 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Anyone ever seen/hear about a set of pro
We had them at an insurance company I worked at in the past. We dropped
them at YR2K as we were updating all of code/JCL since it was no longer
supported. I don't recall the details of where we acquired it from. If I
recall, it was a gener like tool that took care of some of the allocation
for y
Subject: Re: HSM Migrate Storagegroup Command APAR OA56695
Hi Chuck,
So, what you're saying is that the command ignored management class
attributes for each of these files?
Hervey
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Chuck Kreiter
Sent: Wedn
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Subject: Re: HSM Migrate Storagegroup Command APAR OA56695
Hi Chuck,
So, what you're saying is that the command ignored management class
attributes for each of these files?
Hervey
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Chuck Kreiter
Sent: Wedn
My firm was recently hit with a bug in the MIGRATE STORAGEGROUP command.
When issued, HSM began migrating the storage group requested but then moved
on to other volumes in different storage groups. We discovered this after
several CICS datasets were migrated while the region was down and the
resta
Because if you give users a means to save more datasets that they don't need,
they will do it.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Ed Jaffe
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2019 8:48 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: R
Last office I worked in did this. Everyone said it would kill productivity but
we were told we were wrong. I now work from home and get more done than I ever
have in my career.
This is the key paragraph in this article:
"What if you're just a worker-bee? Well, tread lightly. As a general ru
Thanks.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Glenn Wilcock
Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2019 2:10 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: HSM Migration Question
HSM uses the Base Data Component to determine data set m
If a VSAM cluster has a data component that was last accessed yesterday and
in index component that was last accessed 15 days ago and is in a management
class that has primary data on-usage of 8, will the index component trigger
the migration of the cluster?
It doesn't need to be RLS.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Hervey Martinez
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2018 12:51 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Multi-volume HSM MCDS
The MCDS is taking up a full mod-9 and it
Enjoy your retirement. You will be missed on IBM-Main and at Share.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of John Eells
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 8:41 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Thanks For All the Fish
THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK
Chuck: 3277?
On 2018-11-19 13:32, Chuck Kreiter wrote:
> First OS/390 install I did kept failing on the Unix System Services steps.
> The terminal I had only did uppercase. Once I swapped it out with one
> that did both cases, it worked fine. Beat
First OS/390 install I did kept failing on the Unix System Services steps.
The terminal I had only did uppercase. Once I swapped it out with one that
did both cases, it worked fine. Beat my head on the desk for a couple of
days on that one.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discus
HSEND LIST DSNAME ODS('your.dataset.name') select(age(60)). This will give
you anything migrated 60 days or more ago. You can then use the program of
your choice to pare down the list.
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Behalf Of
You will probably need to put something in VATLSTxx. Read the init and tuning
guide for that parmlib member.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Vinoth M
Sent: Friday, October 5, 2018 1:18 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.ED
And Cybermation. Company I worked for was getting rid of CA products and
CA-11 and Jobtrac were up. Migrated to Cybermation's ESP and Encore only to
have CA buy them about 6 months after the conversion completed.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@L
I was shocked when this article showed up on my front page on Reddit.
Perfectly stated!
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Cheryl Watson
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2018 10:42 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Wo
If a user is commonly creating empty files, have them use a tiny primary with a
large secondary extent.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Gadi Ben-Avi
Sent: Tuesday, May 1, 2018 8:24 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sub
Where I'm at, our virtual desktops are controlled by our normal password.
To log on to any mainframe session, we have to use our RSA soft-id or token
generated password. Each one can only be used once. We use TPX which then
uses passtickets to log us on to CICS, TSO, Omegamon, etc. Because of th
We recently did an upgrade to z14's and have seen some unexplained problems.
It appears (unconfirmed as of yet, but should be soon) to be related to some
CA products. We should have confirmation later today or tomorrow. Our
upgrade was z12's to z14's and we are running z/OS 2.2. If I get
confirm
My first install was OS/390 2.8 to upgrade an OS/390 1.2 system and I did
exactly what you are proposing. To keep catalog issues from biting me, I'd do
an export and import of the user catalogs to new clusters between tests.
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I've found my last two mainframe positions on LinkedIn by doing a nationwide
search for z/OS. You might also hit up the guys at spci.net. They specialize
in mainframe positions and usually attend Share. Indeed also has a nice
selection of z/OS jobs. Best of luck in your search.
-Origi
Great...following the path of a failed company and leader.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Mark Regan
Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2017 7:15 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: IBM's Marissa Mayer moment: Staff o
Sent from my iPhone
Steve Beaver
> On Feb 2, 2017, at 12:29, John McKown wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 12:18 PM, Chuck Kreiter
>
> wrote:
>
>> Management at my company wants to see a delta compare of the ACDS and
>> the "to be activated"
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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU]
> On Behalf Of Chuck Kreiter
> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2017 11:19 AM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: SCDS/ACDS Compare Tool
>
> Management at my company wants to s
a non-human account run through a
scheduler.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of John McKown
Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2017 1:30 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: SCDS/ACDS Compare Tool
On Thu, Feb 2, 201
Management at my company wants to see a delta compare of the ACDS and the
"to be activated" SCDS so that they can see what is going to be implemented
with a given change. I've asked IBM and they were not aware of anything.
I've looked at Naviquest and it can do some but not everything. A
FileMang
Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Elardus Engelbrecht
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2016 11:04 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: SMS Volume Status
Chuck Kreiter wrote:
> What has happened over time is that some volumes have been DISNEW'ed to clear
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Sent: 12 October, 2016 16:17
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: SMS Volume Status
I guess I should have clarified a little more. I'm looking to find volumes
that have a current status that does not match what is defined in the
storage group. We r
) report. I've looked
through Naviquest but not seen anything that reports this yet.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
Behalf Of Chuck Kreiter
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2016 9:09 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: SM
I'm looking for a way to identify volumes in a SMS storage group that have a
different status than what was defined in the storage group (i.e. volumes
that are enabled in the storage group that are currently DISNEW because a
vary command was issued). Anyone know of a way to identify this?
Than
I've been working remotely for the last 2.5 years and absolutely love it. Some
of my team does go in to the office but the rest are spread throughout the
country and other parts of the world. We use Skype for Business for IM and
desktop sharing. We also use MS Group Chat for notifications and
They just can't leave a functional interface alone. They always seem to try to
"improve" it. Omegamon is another one they keep trying to "improve".
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Tony Harminc
Sent: Thursday, August
We are actively eliminating mod-3's and mod-9's from our environment. Next
DASD refresh will only have 27's and 54's.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of John Eells
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 10:19 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LIS
I'm running a storage group report on a z/OS 1.13 system.
The parms for my ISMF list in batch are:
PROFILE PREFIX(IMBUSER)
ISPSTART CMD(ACBQBAIG SAVE SGNAMES +
SCDS('ACTIVE') STORGRP(*) STGTYPE(POOL) SPACEGB(Y)) +
NEWAPPL(DGT) BATSCRW(132) BATSCRD(27) BREDIMAX(3) BDISPMAX()
According to his Reddit post, he paid $237 for it. At the Share
presentation, he indicated there wasn't any noticeable increase in his
parents electric bill.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
Behalf Of michelbutz
Sent: Friday, Ma
I've used REPRO MERGECAT to do this in the past. Once this is done, define
your alias. The datasets should be unallocated when you do this.
REPRO INDATASET(old catalog) -
OUTDATASET(new catalog)
LEVEL(hlq) MERGECAT
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From: IBM Mainframe Disc
VIO might not be an option as the dataset is 1400 cylinders.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Ron Hawkins
Sent: Monday, May 2, 2016 2:05 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: PDS I/O Performance Improvement
Ski
Thanks. I will check in to see if that is an option.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Ron Burr
Sent: Monday, May 2, 2016 7:34 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: PDS I/O Performance Improvement
I haven't see
At my last employer, I opened up a support ticket with Attachmate and they
do not support modern sizes.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
Behalf Of Jerry Whitteridge
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 10:55 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA
I always reserve SEV 1 to issues that have made my primary systems unusable. I
have had IBM'ers tell us to raise to SEV 1 in the morning and then drop to SEV
2 at quitting time. This never set well with me. I had a supervisor (who was
and remains an idiot) who wanted me to open a SEV 1 ticket
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