I believe SMIT gave that option and I have often wished there was a similar
function on z/OS with ISPF panels.
Rex
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom
Brennan
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2023 1:58 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNAL]
Bill,
Dump and restore is a different animal. Dump creates a backup copy in DFDSS
format so it will NOT use flashcopy because it has to reformat the data into
the DFDSS format. Restore takes the dump file and rebuilds the original
dataset. COPY is what will use flashcopy if you're set up for
Bill,
A couple questions back. Do you have DFDSS/DFSMS-dss/ADRDSSU? Are you
licensed on your DS8K for flashcopy? Is the target disk volume involved in a
PPRC replication scheme (global mirror or the like) with a secondary array? If
you answer yes to the first 2 questions and no to the thir
ou can add the new ID to the SMS definitions before the change then remove the
old value after. Our site did do a removal.
On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 10:40 AM Pommier, Rex wrote:
>
> Hi Al,
>
> Thanks for the SCRT information. As far as how to change it, I would be
> look
it with ISPF and issue SAVE on empty dataset. ;-)
BTW: it is also good moment to check and change other identifiers like JES node
name, MAS member name, etc.
HTH
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
W dniu 14.02.2023 o 17:18, Pommier, Rex pisze:
> Hi,
>
> I've been following the
Are you thinking of ISRDDN?TSO ISRDDN APF for example?
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Bill Giannelli
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2023 1:47 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNAL] CLIST for APF and link list datasets
I was shown a clis
Hi Bill,
We have a daily job that uses a home-grown Cobol program to parse the SMF data.
We report on types 14, 15, 17, 18, 61, 62, 64-66 to get changes made to both
VSAM and non-VSAM datasets. I will probably go look at the CBT program that
Radoslaw mentioned, just from curiosity, to see how
Hi Al,
Thanks for the SCRT information. As far as how to change it, I would be
looking at doing it at an IPL , definitely. One of my coworkers says she tried
it some time ago (probably years ago) and had SMS issues after changing it.
IDK if she changed it at an IPL or how she tried, but she'
rame Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Pommier, Rex
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2023 10:10 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Befuddled
Are your dates off?
> IFA834I RELATIVEDATE PARAMETER RESULTS IN START DATE 2023.044, END
>
>
Hi,
I've been following the thread on LPARNAME, SYSNAME and SMFID with interest,
namely because of a naming issue at my site that has been a minor irritation
for me for years. We run a small shop, 2 production LPARs not in a sysplex.
One of the LPARs is set up as SYSNAME=SMFID=ZOS1. Unfortun
Are your dates off?
> IFA834I RELATIVEDATE PARAMETER RESULTS IN START DATE 2023.044, END
>
> DATE 2023.044
>
>SUMMARY ACTIVITY REPORT
>
> START DATE-TIME 02/14/2023-06:00:00 END
> DATE-T
DATE=23.044 = Feb
Bob,
OK, most auditors don't shoot the survivors directly, but in many instances,
the company's management simply takes the auditors at their words and shoot the
survivors on behalf of the same auditors. In my career, I've been in both
positions; that of having blind management and having mana
BTW, we don't have SDSF, we have a competitor called Automon from Macro4.
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Pommier, Rex
Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2023 2:37 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNAL] JES2 PURGEd output
Greetings lis
Greetings list,
I just had a strange one tossed at me and my first inclination is to tell the
person "no, it isn't possible", but thought I'd check the combined expertise of
the list first.
We all know that a job's output in JES2 consists of multiple output groups. If
one output element for
They had a bad COBOL instructor! We were writing our first program in the
first 2 weeks of my first COBOL course. We didn't understand all the details
of the FILE DIVISION et al at that point, but we were at least learning the
language and applying it.
Rex
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From: IB
Hi Bill,
I understand the "basic claim" in the lawsuit differently from what you're
saying below. While I agree that a mainframe cloud is essentially no different
from any other cloud, actually not much different from the old timeshare from
decades ago, I understand the basic claim completely
Ed,
I think you're using the ++RELEASE incorrectly. The ++RELEASE isn't to tell us
the fixing PTF is available, it's to say "this APAR is no longer needed".
AFAIK, you simply SUP the APAR within the corresponding PTF and SMP/E handles
the hold.
Rex
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From: IBM Main
Thanks, Mike.
Rex
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Mike Schwab
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2023 4:36 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Beware IBM PTF UJ09197 (APAR OA63062)
z900/800 was last IBM machine with bare IPL. z990+ requi
Tom,
Yes, I believe there was a period of time and certain CPU models when the
hardware supported what (IIRC) was called either basic mode or LPAR mode.
Basic mode ran the OS on bare hardware and obviously only 1 OS image on the box.
Rex
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussi
Kurt,
Your response brings up a related question. I understand the SECINT HOLDDATA
is only available from the security portal. Are PTFs that get a SECINT hold on
them also flagged in the normal holddata with some other hold reason? Asking
another way, am I missing PTFs that have holddata on
Is EQUALS implied if you're running a program sort instead of a JCL sort? I
thought Chuck said he was running the sort inside a program which is why he
couldn't just split the data apart and merge it back together.
Rex
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er matter.
Rex
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Tony Harminc
Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2023 3:55 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] ICKDSF
On Tue, 3 Jan 2023 at 15:16, Pommier, Rex wrote:
> Steve,
>
> Don't you simply mea
CKDSF
I'm not Steve, but yes, I spoke incorrectly also
Carmen
On 1/3/2023 2:16 PM, Pommier, Rex wrote:
> Steve,
>
> Don't you simply mean converting the IXVTOC to an OSVTOC - ie an unindexed
> VTOC? If my old memory cells are recalling correctly, a CVOL was an ancient
>
List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Pommier, Rex
Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2023 1:54 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] ICKDSF
The PURGE parameter deletes the VTOCIX dataset so using the BUILDIX will build
a new one and not reuse the old, corrupt dataset.
-Ori
-p4F3GGnpKkUQ$
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of
Pommier, Rex [rpomm...@sfgmembers.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2022 2:34 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] ICKDSF
Steve,
I'm not sure if a CV
Shmuel,
Peter is asking why you called WordPerfect "word pervert". I'm guessing it was
an autocorrect thing...
Rex
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Seymour J Metz
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2022 6:47 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNA
Esmie,
No, VSAMs won't get corrupted by "unindexing" a volume. Are you mixing VTOC
index up with the VVDS?
Rex
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esmie moo
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2022 2:27 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re
Steve,
I'm not sure if a CVOL is the same as a non-indexed VTOC (I didn't think so)
but to remove the IXVTOC, use ICKDSF BUILDIX OSVTOC PURGE which will unindex
the VTOC and delete the VTOC index. Then run an ICKDSF BUILDIX INDXVTOC to
rebuild a new one.
If you have access to the ICKDSF manua
What I remember from a discussion long ago was that the reason a VBS dataset
can't be put back together again is that when the VBS dataset is sent to a
Windows intermediary, some of the binary metadata defining the records and
blocks is lost by the Windows side, making it impossible to recreate
Gil,
How does a site not having space to "store tens of gigabytes" of data make IBM
technically backward? There are plenty of legitimate concerns about IBM where
this case can be made but not here. We're a small mainframe site yet we have
VSAM datasets ranging upwards of 300 GB. Large sites
Hi Guillaume,
I take it these SMF files are on tape. Can terse take a tape dataset as input
and write out a tersed tape? If so, and you're then PUTting the file to
Ituriel, FTP should work fine reading the file from tape to transmit it to the
intermediary Windows box. We do this on a regular
We don't have a plex so I can't answer your question directly, but do you have
any kind of automated console monitoring? We set up a rule so that if test
jobs go over a certain percent of spool space, we just automatically cancel and
purge them, no questions asked. We implemented this after a
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Mark Zelden
Sent: Thursday, December 1, 2022 3:09 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: SMP/E oddity?
On Wed, 30 Nov 2022 15:25:35 +, Pommier, Rex
wrote:
>
>The second example se
Thanks for the clarification, Kurt. I didn't think RESTORE processing had
changed.
Rex
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Kurt J. Quackenbush
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 9:35 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: SMP/E oddity
That's not the way I am reading it from the SMP/E commands manual. Here's what
I see.
The RESTORE command replaces the affected elements in the target libraries with
the unchanged
versions from the distribution libraries. (As a result, once you have accepted
a SYSMOD into the
distribution libr
Hi Tom, yes and no. :-)
No, it isn't true on the physical back end because all the disk is emulated on
top of FBA architectures and especially with thin provisioning, only actually
used tracks are really used. However, from a z/OS perspective yes the space is
still wasted because it is still
bcopy rename hlq??
Hi Rex,
Yeah, I know.
That's why I do each one individually with my ISPF Editing tricks.
Regards,
David
On 2022-10-21 09:38, Pommier, Rex wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> I think the issue is that James wants to move these datasets and
> prepend a new HLQ onto each of th
Hi David,
I think the issue is that James wants to move these datasets and prepend a new
HLQ onto each of them without the need to rename each dataset individually.
Unfortunately DFDSS doesn't provide that as an option. I've occasionally
wished for the same function, something akin to
COPY
sing SMF data over and hour I think, it will flag that missing data and you
have to comment on why there's an exception, that's all I recall
Carmen
On 9/9/2022 8:37 AM, Pommier, Rex wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'd like to know how you are submitting your SCRT reports to IBM.
Hi list,
I'd like to know how you are submitting your SCRT reports to IBM. Since they
just stopped accepting reports via e-mail we are manually uploading them to
IBM. Would somebody be willing to share what they've done to automate this
submission using the web interface?
Thanks,
Rex
-
;> I just used a Special character to denote the start of a comment. You can
>> have any character.
>
>And using # as that character shows we are being assimilated :)
>
Kolusu was just trying to make me comfortable.
On Tue, 6 Sep 2022 19:02:41 +, Pommier, Rex wrote:
>
&
Gil,
I see in the very next section of this manual is something called "Coding
restrictions". Apparently you don't even need a special character to delimit a
comment, errr, remark...I tagged "#" the relevant restrictions. To
summarize, asterisk in column 1 is a comment, anything after a b
Thank you, everybody, for correcting my understanding of what the LNKLST
UNALLOCATE/ALLOCATE does and doesn't do.
Rex
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Peter Relson
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2022 6:41 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNA
d Syncsort confusion
correction:
in my SYS1.LINKLIB, IEBGENR is an alias of OLDGENER, since if SYNCGENER cannot
perform as IEBGENER it will call OLDGERNER IIRC
Carmen
On 8/22/2022 2:19 PM, Pommier, Rex wrote:
> Answers embedded.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainfra
y ISRFIND shows IEBGENER in my linklist in the SYNCSORT LINKLIB, did the
vendor change the usermod to assign an alias rather than use the IEBGERNER
module name?
in my SYS1.LINKLIB IEBGENER is an alias of OLDGENER
maybe the usermod changed since I last supported SYNCSORT.
Carmen
On 8/22/20
ve wrote:
> You might have got away with a F LLA,REFRESH. I think you are correct, all
> UNALLOCATE/AlLOCATE does is ENQ related. No re-reading the libraries involved.
>
>
>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On
>> Behalf Of Pommie
Hi list,
I don't know if this is specifically a Syncsort issue or a more generic
confusion about linklist datasets. Here goes.
We have the SYNCLINK library defined in the linklist. We have installed
Precisely's IEBGENER replacement as part of our install. We determined
SYNCLINK was too smal
Hi Carmen,
Just taking a SWAG based on prior history, I would guess you're looking at the
end of 2026 for the z13 or z13s to fall off support.
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-mainframe-life-cycle-history
Rex
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
> Burger King has been in France since at least the 80's. I remember seeing
> them there in 1989.
>
> Charles
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU]
> On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex
> Sent: Thurs
Timothy,
I don't think people go to France to eat Burger King. :-)
Rex
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Timothy Sipples
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2022 7:08 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Worldwide IBM zSystems Security Conferen
k$
--- Original Message ---
On Thursday, August 11th, 2022 at 10:57 AM, Pommier, Rex
wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> Just a wild guess, would something like this work?
>
> DUMP PATH(INC('sourcedir/\*')) WORKINGDIRECTORY('/service')
> OUTDD(OUTDD)
>
>
Hi Mark,
Just a wild guess, would something like this work?
DUMP PATH(INC('sourcedir/\*')) WORKINGDIRECTORY('/service') OUTDD(OUTDD)
I know it looks weird but the ref manual says that the DSS wildcard needs to be
escaped to make it work and the backslash is the escape character. If this
backs
Steve,
Do you need to use ARM? Do you have any kind of console automation that could
"see" the abend and just do a restart of it?
I'm hoping the vendor of TcVision is trying to get you a permanent fix. Just
restarting it when it falls over doesn't sound like a good long term solution.
:-)
Tom,
"WAS pretty common"? I believe most people still use some kind of scheme like
this.
Rex
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom
Brennan
Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2022 10:12 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Looking for old
INITCHECK(LAX) as well as
STRICT dropped by 90%, back to the roughly 54 CPU seconds.
Thank you, IBM Cobol team for sticking with it and fixing the issue.
Rex
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Pommier, Rex
Sent: Wednesday, May 4, 2022 11:23 AM
To: IBM
Shouldn't be an issue. We're running 2.4 and just disabled our Cobol 4.2
compiler to keep people from trying to use it. We also just finished migrating
our Cobol code from 4.2 and Cobol 2. We didn't recompile any of that code when
we migrated to 2.4.
Rex
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Bill,
I'm not trying to get political here, but when was the last time politics and
common sense intersected? I'm not saying this to be snarky but realistic. The
politicians (at state and local levels who actually have to balance budgets)
have people and special interest groups clamoring for
Hi Timothy,
You bring up some interesting points but I'd like to look at it from a
different POV. Do most companies have a fully redundant hot-site where they
can move a single piece of equipment (whether it be a mainframe or a
midrange/Unix system or windows server) to the alternate site with
Yup, just another example of management by airline magazine.
> On Jul 26, 2022, at 3:12 PM, Bill Johnson
> <0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> It amazes me how little most laypeople know about IT and how easily they are
> brainwashed into believing the cloud will solve
"move it to the cloud and that'll fix all our problems."
Maybe, just maybe, if your government would have allowed your IT department the
resources to maintain your systems you never would have hit this fiasco in the
first place? Yes, I used to work for a state government and while there wa
Behalf Of
Peter
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2022 12:01 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] HSM Recycle command
Yes with percentage 0 it means to delete the empty tapes (virtual in my
case)
So to execute (delete) with percentage 5 is fine I believe?
On Mon, Jul 25, 2022, 8:58 PM Pommier
Hi Peter,
Does this command even do anything? I'm not an HSM guru but PERCENTVALID(0)
says only process if the tape is empty. Doesn't HSM automatically recycle
empty tapes? If you want to recycle tapes that are getting close to empty you
need to increase the 0. I would try running it with 5
That's a very interesting question that I would like to know the answer to as
well. In addition, will QUINEW volumes subsequently allow large secondary
extents to go onto these volumes?
Rex
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Michael Watkins
Sent: Th
Hi Phil,
That is odd that there isn't more written about sibling pend. IDK if solid
state disk suffers to the same extent as spinning spindles but I would guess
not. Short description is that typical disk array configuration was to take
the disks and carve them up into a bunch of smaller LUNs
Colin,
Similar situation. 3rd party vendor enterprise level disk hardware. Sharing
the spindles between z/OS and Oracle on *nix. Everything was happy until one
day the mainframe performance hit a wall. Disk vendor blamed everybody else
until I got some RMF reports that showed response time
Bob,
No, we run a small amount of java as straight batch. One example is the IBM
SCRT monthly processing. Straight batch job:
//JAVAJVM EXEC PGM=JVMLDM86,REGION=0M,PARM='/ com.ibm.scrt.SCRTe '
Rex
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bob
Bridges
Sen
Hi Paul,
No extra checking is needed. You give RACF the userID and resource you want
checked and it handles the rest. RACF has a well-documented flowchart it goes
through, where it checks the userID first and if that doesn't grant specific
access, it moves to the groups the user is a member o
Now I'm second guessing myself. You can skip the excludes, but you might need
the bypass - I'm assuming you mean bypass holdsys. Try it with a CHECK and see
what you get. :-)
Rex
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Pommier, Rex
Sent: Thur
Typically, yes, because unless you tell it otherwise, the accept will only
accept PTFs that have already been applied.
Rex
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Bill Giannelli
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2022 5:02 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [E
determined blocksize
is used
Check to see if your SMS ACS routine assigned a Data Class that has the "force
SDB" option set.
sas
On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 12:42 PM Pommier, Rex
wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> Good idea, unfortunately our
; Also.. you say that the Tape data set is unblocked.. I question that as
> well. But I don't see that you included the data set information for the
> non-sms and the tape data sets.
>
> Rob.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 6:07 PM Pommier, Rex
> wrote:
>
> >
uded the data set information for the
> non-sms and the tape data sets.
>
> Rob.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 6:07 PM Pommier, Rex
> wrote:
>
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I had a strange one thrown to me from a developer and I'm hoping
> > somebody can
t you included the data set information for the
non-sms and the tape data sets.
Rob.
On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 6:07 PM Pommier, Rex
wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I had a strange one thrown to me from a developer and I'm hoping
> somebody can point me to something to explain why this is
Hi list,
I had a strange one thrown to me from a developer and I'm hoping somebody can
point me to something to explain why this is happening. Environment is z/OS
2.4 and Cobol 6.3,pretty vanilla. I've read through SDB explanations in
several manuals but haven't found the explanation as to wh
Hi list,
Does anybody have experience with BMC's "Control-M Mainframe Extension Pack"
which purports to be a tape management system? I had never heard of it and
would like to know how it stacks up against "the big 3", CA-1, TLMS, and
Dfsms/rmm.
TIA,
Rex
---
GIYF or duck duck go or whatever your search engine of choice. Not only is
greenbar paper still available (Staples, anyone?) but you can even still get it
in carbon paper (shudder).
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bob
Bridges
Sent: Wednesday, June
I see where the cringe-worthiness comes from though, seems to me that "I wrote
a Rexx" is akin to "I wrote a Cobol". You write a program or an exec in Rexx.
My $.02.
Rex
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bob
Bridges
Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2022 9:25
Bob,
I don't have the original question (other than what's repeated below) so based
strictly on what's below, DFDSS uses a similar criterion for determining
dataset filter lists for dump, copy, restore operations. That's just one
example of a non-security-package where this type of logic is us
Bob,
Or maybe people are mixing it up and actually trying to say a troupe of troops.
OK, I'll go back to lurking before I'm tempted to say something about "I'm a
Rex, that other thing is a 'Rexx exec'".
Rex
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bob
Br
esses will work until IBM sends us a
note telling us that they will be discontinued.
Am I wrong on either point of my understanding?
Bob
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Pommier, Rex
Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2022 10:20 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
S
Yes, part 1 was supposed to take place either June 4 or 5, and part 2 June 12 I
think.
From an e-mail I got on June 1.
Preparing customer firewalls and proxies for the upcoming infrastructure
changes on IBM Electronic Fix Distribution / IBM Fix Central system
Notification
Risk classification
Bob,
I have outlook as well and yes, you can set it up to send "troll messages" to a
separate location as well as having IBM-Main messages go to a separate folder.
I've had mine set up like that for years.
Rex
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ISPF List/Log Viewing
Ha, that does not work either. Fortunately Paul sent a link that was not cut
off anywhere.
René.
> On 3 Jun 2022, at 14:49, Pommier, Rex wrote:
>
> I couldn't get René's link to work. If you can't either, try this one.
>
> shorturl.a
I couldn't get René's link to work. If you can't either, try this one.
shorturl.at/uwPSY
Rex
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
René Jansen
Sent: Friday, June 3, 2022 6:25 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: New IBM Community Blog
t that's a decision to be
made by sales people, while running z/OSMF remotely would be work (and maybe
even a fun project) for a programmer. Now... which group would more likely say
yes? In my experience, don't even bother trying to get something for free from
someone in sales :)
At some sites, the most gargantuan thing about making a change like this is
getting past the politics of getting managers who don't want to change anything.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Radoslaw Skorupka
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2022 6:53 PM
To: IBM
One would think that since IBM is forcing everybody to use z/OSMF they would
accommodate their own customers and not force their smallest ones into
expensive upgrades just to run this software. As Seymour mentioned, since
zIIPs and the like are all normal processors, IBM should be able to build
Yes IBM allows for soft capping but that doesn't take care of the problem in 2
ways. First the soft cap only reduces a portion of the software license fees.
Second, you still have the larger hardware costs of buying the bigger machine
just to kneecap it.
Rex
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From
your application from lost updates due to a failure. I have
used deferred writes where I have a temporary VSAM used to hold large arrays
where the array is initially empty and all records deleted before closing the
VSAM file.
Michael
At 02:51 PM 5/16/2022, Pommier, Rex wrote:
>Thanks, all re
two and just a few BUFNI five or so) usually provides about
the best you can get (incudes over-lapping read I/O to the data component).
I still see BLSR in the 2.5 IEFSSN00 member.
Michael
At 09:36 AM 5/16/2022, Pommier, Rex wrote:
>Hi list,
>
>Is the BLSR subsystem (batch local shared r
Hi list,
Is the BLSR subsystem (batch local shared resources) still a viable/valuable
thing or has it been replaced by something bigger/better/faster? I seem to be
stuck in the mid-90s because the most current documentation I can find on it
is from MVS/ESA 5.1 dated 1994. Is there more curre
does not happen.
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Pommier, Rex
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David,
Here's another solution to that scenar
David,
Here's another solution to that scenario. We have several datasets that
historically got allocated like you show here on a nightly basis. The jobs
would either populate the datasets or not even open them. I had the developer
change the JCL to allocate them with SPACE(CYL(1,500),RLSE).
Be careful what you wish for in sharing storage - especially if they're running
Oracle. We hit something called "sibling pend" at my last site - not DS8K
disk, but a different vendor. Had mainframe LUNs and Oracle LUNs on same
spindles and whenever the Oracle folks would kick off some kind of
Mike,
Does the 8950 HMC based encryption require an ISKLM license? We are currently
replicating from an 8910 to an 8884 and the 8884 is falling off support at the
end of the year so we'll be replacing it with another 8910 most likely. I'm
wondering if I'll still need ISKLM for disk if we move
Hi Tom,
I'm not so sure you can eliminate your ISKLM servers. You may want to log onto
the DS8884 and check your security settings. I have both an 8884 and an 8910F
array and both of them have ISKLM servers assigned to them. I believe the box
needs the ISKLM server when it starts up.
On th
Hi Mike,
I believe that depends on what you mean by "not write them to the SMF
datasets". If you mean that you don't want them to go to the MANx datasets
where SMF actually writes records, I believe the answer is no. However, if you
want them to not go to where your SMF DUMP process goes, abs
blem as well as continuing to look to see
if there is in fact a problem with the compiler. Thank you also to the
IBM-Main soldiers who are willing to lend a hand when this type of weird thing
crops up.
More to come.
Rex
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Because somebody will come back showing the corporate standard that says ALL
Windows PCs must be kept current with patches and anti-virus software. Network
connection or not. A prior site I worked at had a key card entry system that
worked just fine but it had an old PC running it on an unsupp
25, 2022 5:02 PM
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Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] ATO gives itself two years to replace IBM mainframe
W dniu 25.04.2022 o 15:37, Pommier, Rex pisze:
> So the way I read the article, they're basically outsourced on-prem with a
> z14 that's out of gas and a 10+
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