Re: OT: Electrician cuts wrong wire and downs 25,000 square foot data centre

2015-12-14 Thread Pommier, Rex
OK, my tale of ancient electricity. Early '80s, NCR minicomputer (size of a large refrigerator) installed 3 feet in front of main breaker box to computer room. NCR was on site doing maintenance work inside the computer so skins were off when the electricians decided they needed to do some

Re: Is there an Standard Size for 3390-27's?

2015-11-18 Thread Pommier, Rex
Actually I think you meant 30051, not 30015. I seem to remember somewhere in the past, that IBM recommended the 30051 rather than the 32760 because the DS boxes carved out the physical storage in multiples of 1113 cylinders, which is an old mod1 size. Whether or not that still holds true,

Re: I just bought an IBM z890

2015-11-09 Thread Pommier, Rex
Another thought on disk, whatever happened to MFNETDISK from Shai Hess? Don't know if it would work in this environment or not. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Monday, November 09, 2015 5:13 AM

Re: Dataset enqueue, how to find the culprit.

2015-09-24 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hi Gil, I don't have time to play with it right now, but short answer to your question is "yes". I got this from the help screen within ISRDDN. Unfortunately it doesn't give syntax on how to actually use the parms. Commands for viewing ENQs and ENQ contention:

Re: Accept nothing less than Z

2015-09-22 Thread Pommier, Rex
She hasn't been in charge at HP for 10 years. I rather doubt she had anything to do with this. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of J O Skip Robinson Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 5:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: RSU or maintenance level on a system

2015-09-16 Thread Pommier, Rex
Devious! I'll have to put that in my bag of tricks. :-) That could have easily worked with any auditors I've encountered in the past, but Sharon's auditors apparently know z/OS. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf

Re: Term "Open Systems" (as Sometimes Currently Used) is Dead -- Who's with Me?

2015-09-14 Thread Pommier, Rex
Charles, Many years ago I sat in a vendor presentation peddling a particular application geared for the healthcare industry. They were competing for business against a different application whose software happened to run on MVS (yes, back in those days). The vendor kept going on and on about

Re: SMP/E Help

2015-09-10 Thread Pommier, Rex
Scott, I know nothing about how to package items for SMP/E, but there is a book in the SMP/E bookshelf called "Standard Packaging Rules for z/OS-Based Products" that looks like it might give you what you need to know. 1.13 number is SC23-3695-10. HTH Rex -Original Message- From:

Re: Problem with FTP into a PDS

2015-08-05 Thread Pommier, Rex
This is just a SWAG, but can you do mget *.BIN * (REPLACE? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Ashton Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2015 8:45 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Problem with FTP into a PDS This

Re: Cleaning Out a PDS (Was Re: Library out of space issue while APPLY RSU)

2015-07-22 Thread Pommier, Rex
DEL (*) gives invalid dataset name However: DEL /(*) gives me an empty PDS and IDC0553I ALL MEMBERS IN DATA SET RRP4912.TEMP.JCL DELETED In addition, it works on an empty PDS to free space (as I expected it to). Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Cleaning Out a PDS (Was Re: Library out of space issue while APPLY RSU)

2015-07-22 Thread Pommier, Rex
OK, poor choice of words, it doesn't free the space, it compresses it. Either way, I didn't know IDCAMS had been enhanced like this, so Thanks Steve! Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Wednesday

Re: Deleting data sets in use

2015-07-22 Thread Pommier, Rex
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 1:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Deleting data sets in use On 2015-07-21, at 11:08, Walt Farrell wrote: On Tue, 21 Jul 2015

Re: Funny learning curve for various, UNIX, editors

2015-07-02 Thread Pommier, Rex
Jan, I took the comic as just the opposite. The learning curve for VI is very high right from the beginning, in that you have to learn a lot about vi before you can do anything with it. I know the first time (several times???) I was exposed to vi by thoughts were along the lines of what

Re: BMC AutoOPERATOR questions.

2015-06-30 Thread Pommier, Rex
John, Can you find something called LAUNCH.PDF? That looks to me to be the menu to make sense out of the nice manual names. I just found some documentation for AutoOperator 6.2 and 6.3 from back around the 2002-2003 timeframe. Might be time to do some cleanup around here. Rex

Re: BMC AutoOPERATOR questions.

2015-06-30 Thread Pommier, Rex
Engelbrecht Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 8:18 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: BMC AutoOPERATOR questions. Pommier, Rex wrote: Can you find something called LAUNCH.PDF? That looks to me to be the menu to make sense out of the nice manual names. Indeed. Or 'Launch.html' which I

TS7740 question

2015-06-04 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hi All, Is there any way to configure all or a portion of a TS7740 to not write cache data to back-end tapes? Here's the situation I am facing. I have a TS7720 without any tape drives. Our DR facility has only a TS7740. We are preparing for a test and we don't want to have to provide

Re: Mysterious U4088-63 from RPTSTG(ON)

2015-05-29 Thread Pommier, Rex
Lizette, You are absolutely correct. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2015 7:53 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mysterious U4088-63 from RPTSTG(ON) SDSF I

Re: Question on 3270 Devices

2015-05-22 Thread Pommier, Rex
What machine are you planning on plugging this 3x74 into? IIRC, the 3274s were strictly bus and tag, and there were some 3174s that were ESCON-capable. I have no experience with the 9074 machines, but IBM doesn't support ESCON on anything more current than the z196/z114, do they? So you're

Re: Question on 3270 Devices

2015-05-22 Thread Pommier, Rex
Sorry, make that 2074, not 9074 - getting my numbers messed up Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 10:25 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Question on 3270

Re: Question on 3270 Devices

2015-05-22 Thread Pommier, Rex
Probably the last time they sold one. :-) Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 10:44 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Question on 3270 Devices revision date

Re: IDCAMS QUESTION

2015-05-05 Thread Pommier, Rex
Try renaming the non-SMS one to something outside your mask and trying it again. If it works, you have your answer and your SMS datasets altered. Then just rename the non-SMS one back. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf

Re: DFDSS QUESTION :

2015-04-29 Thread Pommier, Rex
Willie, do you have your syntax backwards? You are looking to backup older datasets, right? The way I read the syntax (and I could very well be wrong here) is you're saying by BY(CREDT,GE,(*,-3))) Is if the create date is greater or equal to 3 days ago select it. If you want datasets that

Re: Thoughts on DFSMShsm ABARS in today's environment

2015-04-29 Thread Pommier, Rex
Shane, Re: BTDTGTS, is that been there, don’t that, got (the) t-shirt or is it been there, got that, got the scars? Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Shane Ginnane Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 7:01 PM To:

Re: RACF POSIT follies

2015-04-17 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hi Elardus, Easter Egging in the more general sense is trying to fix something by randomly replacing elements when you don't have any idea what to fix and hoping you get the right thing. Based on the custom in various parts of the world of hunting for Easter Eggs. Also known as shotgun

Re: RACF POSIT follies

2015-04-17 Thread Pommier, Rex
Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 11:23 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: RACF POSIT follies Pommier, Rex wrote, on IBM-MAIN, in response to What is 'Easter Egging'?: Easter Egging in the more general sense is trying

Re: Forbes: Nice Mainframe, How Do I Turn It On?

2015-04-02 Thread Pommier, Rex
I know the comment about the start button was supposed to be funny, but isn't that a picture of the front of the machine accompanying the article? And isn't the power switch pretty much in the center of the machine? Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Forbes: Nice Mainframe, How Do I Turn It On?

2015-04-02 Thread Pommier, Rex
- Pommier, Rex I know the comment about the start button was supposed to be funny, but isn't that a picture of the front of the machine accompanying the article? And isn't the power switch pretty much in the center of the machine? Rex -Original Message- Tom Marchant On Thu, 2 Apr

Re: Forbes: Nice Mainframe, How Do I Turn It On?

2015-04-02 Thread Pommier, Rex
...and cleaning people. Bumping switches with mop handles etc. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jerry Whitteridge Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2015 10:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Forbes: Nice

Re: More big brother/big data

2015-03-23 Thread Pommier, Rex
That line coupled with We'll be adding value to the consumer when they give up their information Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Shane Ginnane Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2015 5:47 AM To:

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

2015-03-20 Thread Pommier, Rex
Karl, This is probably a dumb question/observation, but in step CRE#A1D the SYSUT1 DD has DSORG=PO on it. Is this correct? Granted it is a dummy dataset, but what happens when you try to use *GENER to copy a PDS into a PDS member? I tested it on 1.13 and it works the same either way, but I

Re: APF-authorized calling non-authorized

2015-03-16 Thread Pommier, Rex
John, Does IEBCOPYO exist on z/OS 2.1? On my 1.13 system, IEBCOPY is not APF authorized, but I have what appears to be an identical module, IEBCOPYO that is authorized. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John

Re: APF-authorized calling non-authorized

2015-03-16 Thread Pommier, Rex
10:46 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: APF-authorized calling non-authorized On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Pommier, Rex rpomm...@sfgmembers.com wrote: John, Does IEBCOPYO exist on z/OS 2.1? On my 1.13 system, IEBCOPY is not APF authorized, but I have what appears

Re: APF-authorized calling non-authorized

2015-03-16 Thread Pommier, Rex
and the IEBDSCPY alias now applies to the standard non-APF-authorized form of IEBCOPY. On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Pommier, Rex rpomm...@sfgmembers.com wrote: John, Does IEBCOPYO exist on z/OS 2.1? On my 1.13 system, IEBCOPY is not APF authorized, but I have what appears to be an identical

Re: valid ftp address

2015-03-13 Thread Pommier, Rex
Tuco, I just tried to ftp to ftp.emea.ibm.com both from within a browser and straight from a command prompt, and got domain name does not exist. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bonno, Tuco Sent: Friday, March

Re: Time change effect on JES2 AUTO commands

2015-03-10 Thread Pommier, Rex
I don't know if I would infer that JES2 resyncs to the top of the hour. I would infer that JES2 simply restarted its 3600 second timer at the point of time the time changed. I would guess that if, for example, at 5:35 PM you changed the time to 5:36 PM, your hourly automatic command would

Re: Data formatting

2015-03-03 Thread Pommier, Rex
Ron, Your site has replaced IEBGENER with the sort product (I'm guessing in your case Syncsort). Can you get to the real IEBGENER? Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ron Thomas Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 1:53

Re: DFSORT question....

2015-03-02 Thread Pommier, Rex
Dave, Ask away. :-) There are plenty of DFSORT Q/A going on in this list - and at least one very knowledgeable IBM'er from the sort team frequents the list and answers questions. There used to be a couple of them, but Frank retired. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: setting up a new, improved SMP/E environment

2015-02-25 Thread Pommier, Rex
Gil, In the scenario you mention below, there would be 3 different DLIB zones, so the PROD DLIB wouldn't be at a higher level than the PROD TARGET zone. If it were me I wouldn't bother with having 3 DLIB zones, I would have a single DLIB and not do any ACCEPTs until after the maintenance was

Re: setting up a new, improved SMP/E environment

2015-02-25 Thread Pommier, Rex
else). But always ADRDSSU backup your SMP/E environment beforehand. CP Pommier, Rex wrote: Gil, In the scenario you mention below, there would be 3 different DLIB zones, so the PROD DLIB wouldn't be at a higher level than the PROD TARGET zone. If it were me I wouldn't bother with having 3

Re: Restore error with adrdssu

2015-02-20 Thread Pommier, Rex
What happens if you replace RECATALOG(x) with CATALOG? Do the datasets end up in the proper catalog? CATALOG uses the standard catalog search order for cataloging the datasets. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf

Re: John Ehrman Assembler Book

2015-02-09 Thread Pommier, Rex
I just downloaded the book and glanced through a bit of it. Does anybody else who looked at it find an incomplete index on pages 10 and 11, right after the intro, and before chapter 1? Just wondering if it is a glitch in my download (I tried it twice) or if it is an error in the book.

Re: (My) John Ehrman Assembler Book

2015-02-09 Thread Pommier, Rex
John, Thank you, sir, for this book. I hope you understand I wasn't nitpicking when I asked about the fragmentary index. I was more looking to see if the download had somehow messed it up. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU]

ISKLM on a windows server

2015-01-29 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hello all, I'm back to working on implementing tape encryption on my 3584 library. Is anybody running ISKLM for Windows to serve up keys for a 3584 platform? We're looking at using z/OS for one of the key servers and Windows for the other one due to DR considerations. Can I run the Windows

Re: FTP MGET

2015-01-28 Thread Pommier, Rex
Presuming your workstation is a Windows machine, from what I have found on their documentation, doing a rename on an mget is not supported. I think that with Windows, you're stuck downloading the PDS without the extension then renaming the files to add the .TXT afterwards. As John M pointed

Re: FTP MGET

2015-01-28 Thread Pommier, Rex
Can you just download them without the extension, then from a command prompt, just do a rename * *.txt? Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of J O Skip Robinson Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 12:54 PM To:

3494 tape library with B20 VTS

2015-01-27 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hi all, I have a couple questions about tape reclamation and statistics. We have a 3494 tape library that is currently exclusively being used as physical (stacked) tapes for a 3494-B20 VTS. We're in the process of migrating off this hardware so we have no new allocations going to the B20 and

Re: Gizmodo article about the z13

2015-01-14 Thread Pommier, Rex
Elardus, The link worked just fine for me. Check to see if your browser dropped extra junk in the URL. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 8:02 AM To:

Re: JCLLIB in started proc?

2014-12-18 Thread Pommier, Rex
Dave and Charles, I would guess that SYS1.PROCLIB is in your MSTJCL00 member under the IEFPDSI DD card concatenation. I just did a bit of high level testing, as I have a PROCLIB that is in my JES2 concatenation, but not in the IEFPDSI concatenation. I placed a simple job in this PROCLIB and

Re: Binder SYSPRINT wrap?

2014-12-01 Thread Pommier, Rex
Or possibly when the precursor to the binder was developed that long ago, whoever wrote this section figured with a 44 character DSN being the longest available, they padded it with 20 bytes to make sure it was plenty long. Then when Unix-style path names came along later, whoever added the

Re: TS3584 and TS1120 encryption

2014-11-19 Thread Pommier, Rex
Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 5:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: TS3584 and TS1120 encryption Russ, Thanks for confirming how I thought it was supposed to work. I am missing something else, then because when

Re: HSM ML2 on disk

2014-11-18 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hervey, I did this at a previous site but it was a very small system. My entire ML2 environment fit quite nicely on 10 mod54 volumes with room to spare. I also had the luxury of being able to perform a complete full volume backup of my entire DASD subsystem (including the ML2 volumes) every

Re: TS3584 and TS1120 encryption

2014-11-14 Thread Pommier, Rex
PRIMARY ENCRYPTION KEY MANAGER WAS SUCCESSFULLY CONNECTED IOS631I SECONDARY ENCRYPTION KEY MANAGER WAS SUCCESSFULLY CONNECTED Ken On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Pommier, Rex rpomm...@sfgmembers.com wrote: Dave, I found a couple issues with my library manager. Fist issue (minor) was that I

Re: TS3584 and TS1120 encryption

2014-11-14 Thread Pommier, Rex
AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: TS3584 and TS1120 encryption SECONDARY HOSTNAME=NONE I would think this has to be filled in to proceed. On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Pommier, Rex rpomm...@sfgmembers.com wrote: Hi Ken, Thanks for that verification - about the key management

Re: TS3584 and TS1120 encryption

2014-11-13 Thread Pommier, Rex
Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 6:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: TS3584 and TS1120 encryption Russ, Thanks for confirming how I thought it was supposed to work. I am missing

Re: TS3584 and TS1120 encryption

2014-11-13 Thread Pommier, Rex
, Poland W dniu 2014-11-13 o 17:39, Pommier, Rex pisze: Hi Dave, Actually I have the older EKM running, configured to use certs located within the RACF DB. I was told the library manager was already ready to do encryption but I'll check that out. Rex -Original Message

Re: TS3584 and TS1120 encryption

2014-11-13 Thread Pommier, Rex
for. Have you updated SYS1.PARMLIB(IECIOS00) to define your key managers? Ken Smith State of Maryland On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Pommier, Rex rpomm...@sfgmembers.com wrote: Hi Dave, Actually I have the older EKM running, configured to use certs located within the RACF DB. I was told

TS3584 and TS1120 encryption

2014-11-12 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hi list, We have an existing 3584 tape library with encryption-capable TS1120 tape drives installed in it. We haven't used encryption up to this point, but are trying to get encryption started. We don't want to encrypt everything going to the TS1120s, but want to, for example, encrypt our

Re: TS3584 and TS1120 encryption

2014-11-12 Thread Pommier, Rex
Russ, Thanks for confirming how I thought it was supposed to work. I am missing something else, then because when I run a very simple job to attempt to encrypt a tape, I get a JCL error as follows: 16.57.46 JOB03624 IRR010I USERID RRP4912 IS ASSIGNED TO THIS JOB. 16.57.47

3494 tape library and B20 VTS question

2014-10-30 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hi all, We have a 3494 tape library with 3590 drives in it that is back-ending a 3494-B20 virtual tape library. We have about 17 TB of data sitting on physical 3590 tapes in the 3494 as stacked logical volumes from the B20. Does anybody know of any way of getting a list of the logical tapes

Re: 3494 tape library and B20 VTS question

2014-10-30 Thread Pommier, Rex
Of Thomas Conley Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 9:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: 3494 tape library and B20 VTS question On 10/30/2014 10:31 AM, Pommier, Rex wrote: Hi all, We have a 3494 tape library with 3590 drives in it that is back-ending a 3494-B20 virtual tape library. We

Re: 3494 tape library and B20 VTS question

2014-10-30 Thread Pommier, Rex
be different. On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Pommier, Rex rpomm...@sfgmembers.com wrote: Hi all, We have a 3494 tape library with 3590 drives in it that is back-ending a 3494-B20 virtual tape library. We have about 17 TB of data sitting on physical 3590 tapes in the 3494 as stacked logical

Re: 3494 tape library and B20 VTS question

2014-10-30 Thread Pommier, Rex
Unfortunately this document... IBM TotalStorage Virtual Tape Server 3494 Bulk Volume Information Retrieval Function User's Guide (WP100430) Appears to have vanished. The replacement doc, for the TS770 series is there, but the older doc is gone. snipped stuff The BVIR function must be

Re: 3494 tape library and B20 VTS question

2014-10-30 Thread Pommier, Rex
Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 10:44 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: 3494 tape library and B20 VTS question Tom, How would CA1 even know about the back-end tapes? AFAIK, all it knows about are the virtual tapes

Re: 3494 tape library and B20 VTS question

2014-10-30 Thread Pommier, Rex
library and B20 VTS question On 10/30/2014 12:44 PM, Pommier, Rex wrote: Tom, How would CA1 even know about the back-end tapes? AFAIK, all it knows about are the virtual tapes in the B20, although I will admit I don't know much about CA1. Thanks, Rex Rex, CA-1 tracks the stacked volumes

Re: 3494 tape library and B20 VTS question

2014-10-30 Thread Pommier, Rex
Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 12:16 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: 3494 tape library and B20 VTS question On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Pommier, Rex rpomm...@sfgmembers.com wrote: Hi John

Re: 3494 tape library and B20 VTS question

2014-10-30 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hi Don, The concern is that the 3590 tape drives are soon to be end of life, January 31, 2015 to be exact. IBM's externally available documentation says the 3590 H1x drives will be supported until October 2015, but our CE's manager told us that is incorrect, and All the 3590s fall off

Re: Abend s0077

2014-10-30 Thread Pommier, Rex
Well, I'm in Peter's corner on this one. Is it an irritant to see contact the sysprog in an error manual? Yes, it can be, but maybe my developers are weird, but some of them actually look at the books before coming running to me. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

BLSR question

2014-10-28 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hi all, I found a thread from 2012 discussing BLSR and whether or not it supports dynamic changes via the SETSSI command. That thread indicated that BLSR had been updated to support SETSSI, and that upon a SETSSI ACT, the subsystem would be added and activated. That part appears to work, but

Re: QUESTION ABOUT VSAM / VSAM EXTENDED

2014-10-22 Thread Pommier, Rex
Willie, Just gleaning from the various replies on the list (without actually doing any research of my own), the answer is it depends - are you looking at a single volume VSAM dataset? If so, I believe the 65536 track (about 4369 cylinders) is the max - nothing to do with the fact that it is

Re: BPXOINIT and SYSPLEX Mode Question

2014-10-22 Thread Pommier, Rex
If you want the UID in the ps -ef command, try this instead: ps -e -ouid -opid,ppid,pcpu=C -ostime,tty=TTY -oatime,args=CMD -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Re: old EKM software question

2014-10-17 Thread Pommier, Rex
Rapids, MI  49546 MD RSCB2H p 616.653.8429 f 616.653.2717 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 5:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: old EKM software question Hi

Re: old EKM software question

2014-10-17 Thread Pommier, Rex
, MI  49546 MD RSCB2H p 616.653.8429 f 616.653.2717 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 5:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: old EKM software question Hi, Is anybody

Re: DFDSS QUESTION - LOOKING FOR EXAMPLE.

2014-10-17 Thread Pommier, Rex
John, You say the first vol of the multi-vol DSN is on SYS306, yet your INPUT1 is pointing to SYS301. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Dawes Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 12:17 PM To:

old EKM software question

2014-10-16 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hi, Is anybody using the old encryption key manager for tape encryption? I'm working on setting it up using RACF as my key store. The documentation that comes with it says specifically that the userid that the EKM runs under does not need to be UID=0. However, when I try to start the EKM

Re: Linklist load during IPL message

2014-10-06 Thread Pommier, Rex
Jake, You mentioned that SDSNLINK is in a USERCAT. Do you have VOLUME(xx) defined in PROGxx for your SDSNLINK or are you relying on the catalog to find it? It is documented (at least at z/OS 1.13) that it must either be cataloged in the master catalog or have a VOLUME parameter to be

object/load module sizes - was RE: Enterprise COBOL v5.1 Implemented?

2014-10-02 Thread Pommier, Rex
In an attempt to not hijack the thread I'm changing the subject line. Do you have some significant differences in your compile or link parms between COBOL 4 and COBOL 5? What would be accounting for the rather significant load module size growth between 4 and 5? Rex -Original

Re: More on the Bash Security Vulnerability: CVE-2014-6271 CVE-2014-7169

2014-10-01 Thread Pommier, Rex
Radoslaw, About whether your microwave is safe or not. Is it connected to the internet? If so, it may be safe but other devices may not be because of it. Does it have enough compute power and memory for somebody to remotely inject code into it? Could this code then be used to send bogus

Re: ISRDDN SHOWS MEMBER ALIAS

2014-09-30 Thread Pommier, Rex
What is giving you the indication that they're ALIASes? Can you show a snapshot of your ISRDDN screen? When I browse the SYSPROC concatenation in ISRDDN I get the list of members along with which library they're in. I see the BLS* members and ISRDDN indicates they're in library 8 which on my

Re: ISRDDN SHOWS MEMBER ALIAS

2014-09-30 Thread Pommier, Rex
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 8:43 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ISRDDN SHOWS MEMBER ALIAS On 2014-09-30, at 07:03, Pommier, Rex wrote: What I did

Re: ISRDDN SHOWS MEMBER ALIAS

2014-09-30 Thread Pommier, Rex
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 9:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ISRDDN SHOWS MEMBER ALIAS On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 14:03:27 +, Pommier, Rex wrote

Re: ISRDDN SHOWS MEMBER ALIAS

2014-09-30 Thread Pommier, Rex
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 9:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ISRDDN SHOWS MEMBER ALIAS Menu RefList RefMode Utilities Workstation Help

Re: ISRDDN SHOWS MEMBER ALIAS

2014-09-30 Thread Pommier, Rex
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 10:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ISRDDN SHOWS MEMBER ALIAS On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 13:03:45 +, Pommier, Rex wrote

Re: RSU APPLY ISSUE GIM23911E

2014-09-09 Thread Pommier, Rex
Isn't the C library and compiler shipped and installed with all serverpacs? It just isn't activated until you do so in IFAPRDxx? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mainframe Mainframe Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Re: RSU APPLY ISSUE GIM23911E

2014-09-09 Thread Pommier, Rex
HCLB201 appears to be C/370 version 2.2 from 1999. Is there a specific reason you're installing what appears to be a very old C? If you need this old version of C for some reason, you may need to build a completely separate SMP/E environment to install it. I think your problem may be that

Re: GDG Job issue

2014-09-08 Thread Pommier, Rex
The dataset called GDG in your DCB also needs to exist and be cataloged somewhere on your new z/OS 2.1 system. In your DCB=(GDG,LRECL=...), the GDG is called a model DCB and it is another dataset name that needs to exit and be found in the normal catalog search. Rex -Original

Re: RSU APPLY ISSUE GIM23911E

2014-09-05 Thread Pommier, Rex
I've been watching this exchange from a distance. Are we now confusing 2 issues here? We have the original problem of CEEPLPKA and the secondary one of his running apply jobs bypassing holderrors without knowing what he was bypassing. The OP has gotten an apply check to run with RC=0

Re: RSU APPLY ISSUE GIM23911E

2014-09-05 Thread Pommier, Rex
system matches Anthony's 2.1 system. Is the fact that the OP's system appears to be different in SCEELKED another problem? Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 11:51 AM To: IBM

Re: java on Z maintenance level question

2014-08-28 Thread Pommier, Rex
.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/tools/java/services/j6servsum31.html -- Donald J. dona...@4email.net On Tue, Aug 26, 2014, at 12:05 PM, Pommier, Rex wrote: Hi, I have a question on java versioning and maintenance levels on z/OS. I have 2 different copies of Java 1.6.0 and am trying to decipher

Re: [Bulk] Re: [IBM-MAIN] General question on moving DFHSM work from mix TAPE/DASD to More DASD

2014-08-26 Thread Pommier, Rex
Ron, One of your explanation paragraphs caught my attention so I'm asking out of curiosity, for my own benefit. your paragraph What I find important is there is no data transformation or recall latency: it is all transparent to the application. You have to read 12 months of General Ledger

java on Z maintenance level question

2014-08-26 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hi, I have a question on java versioning and maintenance levels on z/OS. I have 2 different copies of Java 1.6.0 and am trying to decipher which is the more current. I've been under the assumption that the SRmFPn gave the maintenance level, and that the higher the numbers, the more current

Re: U4093-92

2014-08-19 Thread Pommier, Rex
Ron Thomas wrote: The Program is running in production, when we browse the loadlib it is showing ABEND U4093-92 . We are now planning to make the changes and move to production, was wondering why this is showing like this ? When we browse the loadlib... Are you getting an ISPF abend?

revisiting the documentation dilemma

2014-08-19 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hi list, I've been meandering through the archives and saw several threads regarding documentation changes that IBM has been implementing, with knowledge centers et al. So my question is a rather basic one. We just upgraded to 1.13 a couple months ago. Do the documentation DVDs no longer

Re: revisiting the documentation dilemma

2014-08-19 Thread Pommier, Rex
- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 8:25 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: revisiting the documentation dilemma Hi list, I've been meandering through the archives and saw several threads

Re: revisiting the documentation dilemma

2014-08-19 Thread Pommier, Rex
/ Kolusu IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU wrote on 08/19/2014 08:24:52 AM: From: Pommier, Rex rpomm...@sfgmembers.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 08/19/2014 08:25 AM Subject: revisiting the documentation dilemma Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN

Re: revisiting the documentation dilemma

2014-08-19 Thread Pommier, Rex
/2014 11:24:52 AM: From: Pommier, Rex rpomm...@sfgmembers.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 08/19/2014 11:25 AM Subject: revisiting the documentation dilemma Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Hi list, I've been meandering through the archives and saw

Re: revisiting the documentation dilemma

2014-08-19 Thread Pommier, Rex
it to download all of the IBM Manuals I want. I think I downloaded 678 PDFs from IBM in about 10 mins maybe 20 mins. Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM- m...@listserv.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 8:25

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - UNABLE TO FIX MSG 909 - AUDIT

2014-08-15 Thread Pommier, Rex
Willie, While I can't comment on what you need to do to actually fix the problem, I can comment on your confusion about the SDSP. The description in the storage mgmt manual (I have a slightly older revision of the book) for message 909 (you documented 908) says: MSG 909 ERROR OPENING

Re: Extracting SMF records with IFASMFDP

2014-08-13 Thread Pommier, Rex
Try running the extract again, using TECH.SCRT.PART2 as your input and see what dates you get. I think it MIGHT be giving you the beginning and ending dates of the data it found in the input report. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

MASPEGH? (was new JVM based language)

2014-08-11 Thread Pommier, Rex
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 8:40 AM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: snipped it is lucid enough, but to read it easily you will need to be comfortable with and tolerant of current computer-science jargon. (The acronym MASPEGH ought, for example, to have been strangled at or, better,

Re: MASPEGH? (was new JVM based language)

2014-08-11 Thread Pommier, Rex
Agreed, it is a rather strange acronym. Maybe somebody in ACM likes the Muppets (MASPEGHI sounds suspiciously like Miss Piggy). smile Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Gilmore Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014

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