Re: How to cleanup old datasets

2024-08-20 Thread Russell Witt
t the output report into the DELETE NONVSAM statements to clean up the old catalog entries. Russell Witt CA 1 Flexible Storage Developer -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard McIntosh Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2024 1:

Re: Anyone exploiting ZEDC?

2024-04-26 Thread Russell Witt
. Russell Witt Broadcom -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2024 11:17 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Anyone exploiting ZEDC? Is anyone exploiting ZEDC data compression

Re: Tape compression and modern encryption facilities.

2023-07-07 Thread Russell Witt
yet. And when they do, often times they do not compress the data first (which makes cache usage increase since the data will never be able to be compressed after encryption). Russell Witt Broadcom CA 1 Architect -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN

Re: VOLCAT RACF protection

2021-10-06 Thread Russell Witt
ass any security checking when the VOLCAT/TCDB is updated. Russell Witt CA 1 Architect Broadcom -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Juan Mautalen Sent: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 2:22 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subj

Re: Tape Report CA-TLMS

2021-09-01 Thread Russell Witt
Carlos, Open a Broadcom support ticket and we will get you a new EARL report that is similar to the CA 1 TMETPUSE EARL report. It will give you the size as written by the application and the size as stored in cache (after IDRC compression). Haven't published it yet, sorry. Russell Witt Bro

Re: Report on total tape usage?

2021-07-11 Thread Russell Witt
compression. 3. zEDC use very few CPU cycles. Thing are better in z15 because of completely re-engineered the zEDC. BTW: I *love* zEDC for PS data. I've been using it on z13, z14 and now on z15. Regards -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 10.07.2021 o 20:19, Russell Witt pisze:

Re: Report on total tape usage?

2021-07-10 Thread Russell Witt
frame Discussion List On Behalf Of Russell Witt Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2021 2:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Report on total tape usage? [External Email. Exercise caution when clicking links or opening attachments.] If the next Virtual Tape Server is an IBM TS7700 - mak

Re: Report on total tape usage?

2021-07-10 Thread Russell Witt
have it at hand now. By the new "z" compression, do you mean zlib? - KB ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, July 10th, 2021 at 7:55 PM, Russell Witt <025adb32e6d7-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Dave, > > Actually, with CA 1 you had that ability w

Re: Report on total tape usage?

2021-07-10 Thread Russell Witt
izing of the next virtual tape server 😊 > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Russell Witt > Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2021 7:25 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Report on total tape usage? > > Dave, > Actual

Re: Report on total tape usage?

2021-07-10 Thread Russell Witt
Dave, Actually, with CA 1 you had that ability with the supplied EARL report call TMETPUSE. That EARL report would give you the amount of data actually written by the application (not just block-count times block-size) and also the amount of data stored in cache (or physical tape) after compress

Re: How to determine the Dataclas Used for a TAPE

2020-10-22 Thread Russell Witt
need further assistance with the TMOKEYxx member, feel free to contact me at the office. Russell Witt russell.w...@broadcom.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 2:30 PM To

Re: Ransoming a mainframe disk farm

2020-09-05 Thread Russell Witt
John, But what happens if the virtual tape environment itself was over-written? That is where the concept of "virtual WORM" devices can help. A virtual WORM volume cannot be over-written. And if your tape management system itself is protected, the tapes will not be scratched until they should be

Re: TMSINIT

2020-05-12 Thread Russell Witt
ords, WHO is running TMSINIT as a started task. If the SECWTO option is set to NO, we won't ask and will simply allow anyone to run TMSINIT at any time (not exactly a secure way of running, but that is an option). Russell Witt CA 1 Architect Broadcom -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: Colossus, Strangelove, etc. was: Developers say...

2020-05-11 Thread Russell Witt
But what about the AI that develops autonomously? Remember Mike (Mycroft) from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Heinlein) and TANSTAAFL (still true today - so many people forget). AI might not be "developed" directly, which then rules out having any "rules". Russell -Original Message- Fro

Re: Tape Problem

2020-01-26 Thread Russell Witt
f-sync with the other 2 is simply reports it. No updating is performed. It is very useful when the problem is between the TCDB and the LM (which should never happen, but does) as well as between CA 1 and either of the IBM data bases. Russell Witt CA 1 Architect Broadcom -Original Message

Re: 3592-E07

2020-01-26 Thread Russell Witt
That would cut your DR time down to "how long to restore my backups" instead of "how long to ship my tapes". Price it out yourself. Russell Witt CA 1 Architect Broadcom -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On

Re: Tape problem

2020-01-17 Thread Russell Witt
ssion List on behalf of Russell Witt" wrote: > EXTERNAL:  Do not open attachments or click on links unless you recognize and > trust the sender. > >Brian and Dean, > >Yes, you are correct. If you insert or define a new range of virtual-volumes >to the VTS; that will dr

Re: Tape problem

2020-01-16 Thread Russell Witt
ages? If you get the CBR3770I first, and then the CBR3769I quickly after - that would be very strange and I would recommend contacting IBM. Russell Witt CA 1 Architect -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Brian Fraser Sent

Re: Alternative for VTL ?

2019-10-15 Thread Russell Witt
CA Vtape from Broadcom is another option. Russell Witt Broadcom -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jake Anderson Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 1:04 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Alternative for VTL ? Hi

Re: TLMS QUESTION - SCRATCH A TAPE

2019-10-05 Thread Russell Witt
John, Yes, that is the correct control statements to scratch the tape (assumption being that it is not an EDM tape). Russell Witt Broadcom -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Dawes Sent: Friday, October 4, 2019 6

Re: LPA - IPL or dynamic

2019-09-16 Thread Russell Witt
;s means you are always going to be VERY behind in maintenance and releases and taking advantage of new features/functions. Just my opinion. I have a sandbox that I can IPL as often as I want on a daily basis - lucky me. Russell Witt Broadcom -Original Message- From: IBM Ma

Re: WEEDING OUT DSNS WITH CATALOG ENTRIES ONLY

2019-08-15 Thread Russell Witt
Lizette is absolutely correct with regard to CA 1. We have a utility (TMSOSCAT) that will give you a list of all MVS/Catalog tape entries for which there is no actual record in the TMC for. A great way to eliminate obsolete catalog entries. Russell Witt CA 1 Architect Broadcom -Original

Re: SMS for tape

2019-07-17 Thread Russell Witt
Skip, No problem, SMS-managed tape still does NOT have the same catalog requirement that SMS-managed DASD has. So, having multiple un-cataloged tape data sets with the same name is perfectly fine. No changes needed. Russell WittCA 1 Architect -Original Message- From: Jesse 1 Robinson T

Re: Tape Mount Management

2019-02-11 Thread Russell Witt
unds like you simply need to have your chargeback system start to interface to your tape management system. Russell Witt CA 1 Development -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Benik, John E Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2019

Re: Ca7 auto-ticketing with ServiceNow tool

2019-01-28 Thread Russell Witt
Rajesh, I would recommend you go to the CA 7 Community page on the CA Communities site and ask there. https://communities.ca.com/ Better chance of getting product-specific questions from the community of users of that specific product. Russell Witt CA 1 Development -Original Message

Re: Another IBM tape not for z/OS

2018-12-07 Thread Russell Witt
or. I hope I understood this idiom correctly. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 2018-12-05 o 14:39, Russell Witt pisze: > So very true. And the concept of an "air-gap" backup has become a real issue > and shows one of the problems with replication. And nothing is better

Re: Another IBM tape not for z/OS

2018-12-05 Thread Russell Witt
R, CA-Disk) are one of the biggest users, and together with backup-solutions like DFDSS and FDR account for the majority of tape usage there are other uses as well. I have seen some production sites where DB2 backups from the DB2 utility use as much tape (measured in Mb of data) as either

Re: Another IBM tape not for z/OS

2018-11-23 Thread Russell Witt
ently. But the benefits of a VTS solution doomed that as well. Russell Witt -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent: Friday, November 23, 2018 10:03 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Another IBM ta

Re: automatic tape library - DR

2018-11-15 Thread Russell Witt
? If the I/O Gen says the device must be in a library, it must be in a library. Russell Witt res09...@verizon.net -Original Message- From: Nai, Dean To: IBM-MAIN Sent: Wed, Nov 14, 2018 2:08 pm Subject: automatic tape library - DR Hi, Did anyone ever run into this problem at

Re: Anyone decided to go to Share in Mar 2019 in PHOENIX AZ?

2018-11-06 Thread Russell Witt
Hey Lizette, I should be there. Stop by the MVSS Project Opening and say hi. Russell Witt -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Monday, November 5, 2018 1:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject

Re: SHARE App - Still no St. Louis?

2018-07-24 Thread Russell Witt
The SHARE App is now available and working for St. Louis. See you there Russell Witt -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael Babcock Sent: Monday, July 2, 2018 8:08 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: SHARE App

Re: VTL as 3490 vs 3590

2018-05-18 Thread Russell Witt
ed as 3590's, the block-id issue is non-existent because the Block-ID is a 4-byte field on the 3590's. So, if you like to define your virtual-volumes as large volumes; it might actually be better to define them as 3590's. Russell Witt res09...@verizon.net -Original Mes

Re: [External] Re: Filemanager and security

2018-04-17 Thread Russell Witt
? Was it the correct name? And when you say that CA 1 rejects the access when the DSN is less than 17-characters, what exactly is the rejection message? Lastly, is the FUNC option enabled (YES or EXT) within CA 1? This would allow you to control who can use 98000 to bypass CA 1. Russell Witt CA 1

Re: Disable DYNALLOC?

2017-12-20 Thread Russell Witt
My 2-cents; can you imagine if you had to hard-code all user-catalog's into the CATALOG started task correctly. The chance of missing one, or defining a new user-catalog and not including it in the JCL for the started task would be horrible. And if you are using a modern security product (RACF,

Re: CA1 to RMM conversion

2017-10-25 Thread Russell Witt
management system that requires you to stop tape processing - ever? And Skip, we haven't been one record per block for about 15 years now. Russell Witt CA 1 -Original Message- From: Allan Staller To: IBM-MAIN Sent: Wed, Oct 25, 2017 11:57 am Subject: Re: CA1 to RMM conversio

Re: TMS REPORT

2017-06-20 Thread Russell Witt
as other things. Russell Witt CA 1 Architect -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of esmie moo Sent: Monday, June 19, 2017 8:27 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: TMS REPORT Gentle Readers, I am trying to run a TMS rep

Re: Standard User Tape Labels in COBOL

2016-02-21 Thread Russell Witt
y to see if a simple COBOL program supports the OPTCD=B specification. Of course, worst situation is you simply read the tape with 98000 specified and that would disable the CA 1 intercepts that intercept the new Label call from z/OS. Russell Witt CA 1 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainfram

Re: Standard User Tape Labels in COBOL

2016-02-21 Thread Russell Witt
when the new feature was added to z/OS. Russell Witt CA 1 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of David Speake Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2016 11:26 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Standard User Tape Labels in COB

Re: Question on CA-1

2016-02-20 Thread Russell Witt
with unique un-shared MVS/Catalogs but use a single shared TMC. Or for clients that want to improve the performance of TMSCLEAN (doing thousands of un-catalog's takes a lot of time, so this off-loads that process). Russell Witt CA 1 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: Question on CA-1

2016-02-19 Thread Russell Witt
. Otherwise, once they are in DELETE status you can simply remove them from the TMC by using the TMSXTEND utility. Russell Witt CA 1 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 7:29 PM To

Re: Reading the CA-1 Tape Catalog

2016-02-12 Thread Russell Witt
o, if you only want to look at the active TMC you can eliminate the DD statement from your JCL and simply have the CA 1 OPEN macro dynamically allocate the ACTIVE TMC for you. Russell Witt CA 1 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Beha

Re: Even after all the Y2K work....

2016-02-10 Thread Russell Witt
The one date I wish I could be around to see is March 1st, 2100. That will be the first year since 1900 when the old standard "every 4 years" does NOT apply. No Feb 29th in 2100. But that date I don't have to worry about. Russell -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [

Re: Detect Tape Volume Switch

2016-02-06 Thread Russell Witt
events the Label Anomaly exit from getting control and supplying the NEXT-Volume as well. This works fine for an assembler program (tested with simple IEBGENER), so not sure if it will work with COBOL. Russell Witt CA -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailt

VMware is looking to buy-out it parent company - EMC

2015-08-05 Thread Russell Witt
This is actually weird. Even though EMC owns an 80% stake in VMware, VMware is looking to buy-out EMC. Never heard of a down-stream merger. http://fortune.com/2015/08/05/report-emc-considering-buyout-vmware/?xid=yaho o_fortune Russell Witt

Re: CA-1 programming example

2015-05-22 Thread Russell Witt
Ok, that brings up some follow-up questions. First of course is why do you want an XML formatted copy of the TMC records? And second is do other clients want to see an XML formatted copy of TMC records? Russell Witt -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM

Re: CA-1 programming example

2015-05-21 Thread Russell Witt
hat can be converted into excel spreadsheets or charts and graphs for management (remember, managers need pictures to understand anything). Have fun, and don't hesitate to contact me directly if you have any questions. Russell Witt CA 1 Principal Architect -Original Message- From

Re: PCI DSS compliance for z/OS

2015-05-17 Thread Russell Witt
d for you. Would it follow that tape encryption should also follow and require unique encryption keys that are only available to authorized users in order to read the data? Russell Witt -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of

Re: CA-Datacom

2015-03-24 Thread Russell Witt
://communities.ca.com/places?filterID=all~tag%5Bglobal%5D&sortKey=all~subjectAsc&sortOrder=1 Russell Witt CA Technologies On 03/23/15, Ron Thomas wrote: Hello. I am new to datacom & in my new project the database used is datacom. Could some one please let me know how to get the table layout of a da

Re: TS3584 and TS1120 encryption

2014-11-12 Thread Russell Witt
and later was used-again (after going scratch of course) as a non-encrypted tape. Just like Virtual-WORM and Replication. If controlled by Data Class it can switch on and off, so each usage is different. Russell Witt On 11/12/14, Pommier, Rex wrote: Hi list, We have an existing 3584 tape lib

Re: Tape Initialization Issue

2014-07-31 Thread Russell Witt
, which UCB addresses failed and which UCB address was successful? If it was the same device all 4 times and 3 out of 4 times it failed; then I would be leaning more to a hardware problem with that specific device. Russell Witt CA 1 Principal Software Architect On 07/31/14, R.S. wrote: W

Re: Tape Label Question

2014-06-03 Thread Russell Witt
g the data together). But, if you don't have a Virtual Tape solution and are still relying on physical media; this might be a solution you could look into. Again, if you use either CA 1 or CA TLMS it is already there. Not sure about other tape management systems. Russell Wit

Re: Change tape block size

2014-05-06 Thread Russell Witt
ed data. So the physical block of 256k on the tape might actually control 5 blocks of compressed data where each un-compressed block of data is about 200,000k in size. So the operating system "block" written down the channel has nothing to do with the physical "block" of compressed

Re: non-IBM: SONY new tape storage - 185 Terabytes on a tape.

2014-05-02 Thread Russell Witt
lling into this category. Russell Witt On 05/02/14, John McKown wrote: http://www.itworld.com/storage/416783/sony-develops-tape-tech-could-lead-185-tb-cartridges Just how long would it take to _find and restore_ an individual file backed up on such a monster? Or even just do a backup to it?

Re: Security definitions for OAM started task

2014-04-29 Thread Russell Witt
robotic information. Russell Witt CA 1 Architect On 04/29/14, baby eklavya wrote: Hi , We are implementing a new VTS on our shop , and trying to get OAM started . I have the CBR exits (CA 1 version

Last week for the 'Call for presentations' - SHARE in Pittsburgh

2014-04-14 Thread Russell Witt
to make it a full hour presentation. Either use the SHARE web-site's Call for Presentations at https://share.confex.com/share/123/cfp.cgi or feel free to send an email directly to David Astemborski at daste...@visa.com or myself. Russell Witt MVSS Project Manager res09...@verizo

Re: Is there any MF shop using AWS service?

2014-04-04 Thread Russell Witt
Why would you say that MF customers are too paranoid for Cloud storage? How is sending encrypted data to the Cloud any more or less dangerous then sending encrypted cartridges to an off-site vault via a truck? Personally, I would think that a TCP/IP connection that gets the data to a secure Clo

Re: Is there any MF shop using AWS service?

2014-04-04 Thread Russell Witt
quot;big enough" for your growth. And of course, you can get to your data from any location that has TCP/IP connectivity (as long as you have your passwords/credentials of course). Russell

Re: curious: volsers < 6 non-blank chars & non-numeric tape

2014-03-17 Thread Russell Witt
we found out yet another >little set up (the new system) task that could have been oh-so-easily >avoided. ... > Yup. On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 23:10:27 -0500, Russell Witt wrote: > >1) If you code VOL=SER=1234,UNIT= does that mean it is leading blanks or >trailing blanks? In either

Re: curious: volsers < 6 non-blank chars & non-numeric tape

2014-03-15 Thread Russell Witt
equest for 00-00 (base 36) and even 1 request for 00-00 (base 16). But as long as the Alpha's are on the left and numerics on the right; no exit is needed. Russell Witt CA 1 Principal Architect On 03/14/14, John McKown wrote: There is a thread over on TSO-REXX about

Re: How much can sysprogs steal was Re: OT: Obscurity Is Not Security... Or Is It?

2013-09-10 Thread Russell Witt
Arthur is correct. Back at my JCP days, that is one reason they broke the "SYSPROG" job into 3 different jobs. You had the assembler programers who wrote the exits and any assembler user-mods or in-house applications; the SMP jockeys that applied IBM maintenance and also tested the assembler ex

Re: Syncsort v1.4 doesn't support Tape sorting - Need help !

2013-09-03 Thread Russell Witt
Roger, In addition to reviewing your SMF14/15 records; you might also check what information might be available from your Tape Management System. Many record creating-program; and even better would be creating-DDNAME. I would do a test using TAPE as your SORTWK01; find the records created in y

Re: Looking for a CA-1 feature.

2013-07-31 Thread Russell Witt
Lizette, Yes, with that in mind you are correct. Of course, the whole business with DASD files is that there IS a backup on TAPE. So, if you have "special" files that you also want protected and move them to TAPE as the primary media, does that mean that the backup requirement is gone? If it i

Re: Looking for a CA-1 feature.

2013-07-31 Thread Russell Witt
ld be retained for a minimum of 7 days and only then would be put under CATALOG control. I believe what Kees is looking for is some way to have tapes under CATALOG control but kept for an extra xx days after they have been un-cataloged. Russell Witt CA 1 Principal Software Arch

Re: Looking for a CA-1 feature.

2013-07-31 Thread Russell Witt
d" to be applied to only selected tape files. This however then brings up the question of which files do you want protected with a "long grace period" and which ones do you not care about and want to scratch as soon as they are un-cataloged? That might then become another large

Re: Method to measure usage of a physical tape

2013-07-09 Thread Russell Witt
been used. So, once a tapes gets beyond 90 or 95% full you might want to stop adding additional data to it. Russell Witt CA 1 Principal Architect -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send emai

Re: Syncronize between CA-1 and IBM ATL and VTS

2012-09-20 Thread Russell Witt
already in SCRATCH and never have notified the LM. Which is probably where your problem lies. If you have any further problems, please contact CA 1 support. Even though this is an out-of-support release; they should be able to help. Russell Witt L2 Support Manager -Original Message-

Re: TLMS - CHANGING THE STATUS OF A TAPE

2012-08-16 Thread Russell Witt
sible and then test (run an IEBGENER or IDCAMS-PRINT or Tapemap) to see if the data is still there. And of course, you will have to re-catalog as the scratch process most likely caused the file to become un-cataloged as well. Russell Witt TLMS L2 Support Manager -Original Message- From

Re: DFHSM and CBRUXVNL - VOLUME NOT IN LIBRARY INSTALLATION EXIT

2012-07-26 Thread Russell Witt
use either. CBRUXVNL is a simple link-list module, so your first step is to find out whose version is installed. If you have some type of link-list search tool (LNKSRCH for example) that can tell you which link-list library it is found in, you can then look for some eye-catcher. Russell Witt CA 1