GlobalCopy SMF

2019-08-29 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hello! Global Copy bytes transferred (Out of Sync)... is this available in SMF anywhere, by any chance? - Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure MARKSANDSPENCER.COM Unless otherwise stated above: Marks and Spencer plc Registered Office: Waterside House 35 North Wharf

Re: [EXTERNAL] zOS GENCERT

2019-08-28 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hi Joel, Yes, by exporting it to a dataset, PKCS12DER or PKCS12B64. Make sure you set a password when you export. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.icha400/le-export.htm – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: GDPS, Metro Mirror, Global Mirror

2019-08-27 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Very likely to be Freedom units $$$. - Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: 27 August 2019 07:21 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: GDPS, Metro Mirror, Global Mirror Tom Conley wrote

RACFICE2 CERTEXP DFSORT

2019-07-26 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hello All, This is more of a SORT question than RACF or certs, so posting here. Below is the 'CERTEXP' JCL member in RACFICE2 that shows all certs that are expiring in the next 'n' days. //USER01I JOB MSGLEVEL=(1,1),NOTIFY=&SYSUID,CLASS=A, // MSGCLASS=H,REGION=19M //* //RACFICE EXEC PG

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: z/OS 2.4 Announcement Letter

2019-07-24 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Very neat! – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Marna WALLE Sent: 24 July 2019 13:29 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: z/OS 2.4 Announcement Letter All, For many of the newly announced z/OS V2.4 functi

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit

2019-07-18 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
There are samples in SYS1.SAMPLIB(HWTH*) too.. – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Kurt Quackenbush Sent: 15 July 2019 17:10 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit On 7/1

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: WLM Service Definition Formatter

2019-06-13 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
If you're up for it, there's this site where you can upload your WLM and you'll get a formatted copy --> https://www.pivotor.com/wlm2html.html – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Alan Young Sent: 12 June 2019 22:42 To:

Re: [EXTERNAL] Hybrid SMS Storage Group - Database

2019-06-11 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hi, Probably not the kind of input you're expecting but it'll be helpful to someone nonetheless. If you're a huge shop where a terabyte is not really a big deal, I would urge you to check out VAST data, and some of their Tech Field Day talks on YouTube. That stuff looks pretty much bulletproof f

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Client Web Enablement Toolkit

2019-06-11 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
ITschak Mugzach Sent: 11 June 2019 11:55 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Client Web Enablement Toolkit I looked in my code. You nedd to add a call (hwthset) for HWTH_XLATE_RESPBODY_A2E as well. ITschak On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 11:22 AM Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh < vigne

Re: [EXTERNAL] Client Web Enablement Toolkit

2019-06-11 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
you set verbose mode a trace is written to sysout, so you will be able to see the http headers and response. ITschak בתאריך יום ג׳, 11 ביוני 2019, 11:29, מאת Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh ‏< vignesh.v.sankaranaraya...@marks-and-spencer.com>: > Code order -- > > ReturnCode = -1 >

Re: [EXTERNAL] Client Web Enablement Toolkit

2019-06-11 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
"RequestHandle ", "HWTH_OPT_REQUESTBODY ", "JSONPayload ", "DiagArea." - Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion L

Client Web Enablement Toolkit

2019-06-11 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hi, It looks like I'm unable to translate the request body from EBCDIC to ASCII (in REXX), when using the HWTH_OPT_TRANSLATE_REQBODY with a value of HWTH_XLATE_REQBODY_E2A .. in the address hwthttp call. I'm using code based on SYS1.SAMPLIB(HWTHXRX1). I see a HTTP 400 error saying Bad request,

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Comparing SMP/E to Git

2019-05-20 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
d Error Holds against a PTF can even allow an informed choice of whether it makes sense to install a PTF that fixes a serious problem even though it may introduce some other unresolved problem that might not be an exposure at your installation. Joel C. Ewing On 5/20/19 8:28 AM, Sankaranarayana

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Comparing SMP/E to Git

2019-05-20 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
imilar to RPM. On 5/20/19 9:49 AM, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: > Fine, didn't intend to say they were meant for the same thing, wanted to > start a convo about both.. > > If you have a few minutes, can you expand on your statement.. ? > > – Vignesh > Mainframe Infr

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Comparing SMP/E to Git

2019-05-20 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Sent: 20 May 2019 14:44 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Comparing SMP/E to Git That's like comparing a airliner to a boarding ramp. sas On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 9:29 AM Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh < vignesh.v.sankaranaraya...@marks-and-spencer.com> wrote: > .

Comparing SMP/E to Git

2019-05-20 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
... in what ways are they similar, and what ways are they different? Is the world better off with SMP/E-like structure for code, or is z/OS etc. better off with Git-like structure? - Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure MARKSANDSPENCER.COM Unless otherwise stated ab

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-05-08 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
I guess the point of contention really is "vULnErAbiliTIeS"... Words have meaning, a vulnerability is not equal to a loosely configured/hardened system. Of course, I could be wrong but I take the word to mean zero-days or something that breaks a module/function, and the way it breaks is exploited

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-05-08 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Another reason for lot of focus on white/black hat focus on USS -- that's what most of the non-mainframe world is already familiar with, lower barrier to (unauthorized) entry to mainframe. Don't know if any individual/team has/have *started* their break-the-mainframe journey from core MVS... –

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-05-08 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Don't know about shared accounts but I reckon this allows for auditing what goes on with privileged AD accounts... https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/jepayne/2017/12/08/weffles/ – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Cha

Re: [EXTERNAL] Batch edit of large dataset

2019-03-29 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
ISPF Edit Macros in batch... ? – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: 28 March 2019 07:52 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Batch edit of large dataset Hi to all, I've got a requir

Re: [EXTERNAL] Vacation over, back to work

2019-03-26 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hilarious... DMARC covered up your identity but your ProtolMail signature gave you away! – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Sent: 26 March 2019 12:06 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Vacatio

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Highly technical question - how do I only get my posts?

2019-03-17 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
If you use Outlook, you may be able to work something out using Microsoft Flow. A bit overcomplicating, maybe, but it is likely doable. Otherwise, the idea of adding a constant string to the subject and then relying on a static Outlook rule seems the simplest. Re: [keywordman] Highly technical q

Re: [EXTERNAL] How many asterisks to change a lightbulb?

2019-03-05 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Skip, Wait till you hear about EGNs! 😊 – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: 04 March 2019 17:07 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] How many asterisks to change a lightbulb? The mea

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: What was that link again for IBMLINK?

2019-02-28 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hello! I usually just go to ibm.com/ibmlink and of redirects me to the right place. – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure On 01-Mar-2019, at 01:50, Tom Conley wrote: > On 2/28/2019 2:56 PM, Lizette Koehler wrote: > I know, it seems several people I know are struggling with the new enhanced > IBM

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: New look and linking for V2.3 product documentation PDFs

2019-02-28 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
+1000 Poor use of top half of the screen (I'm referring to KC pages) 1. The 'IBM Knowledge Center' banner needn't be permanent, could be an auto-close area 2. The blue area showing the section that is currently open (Home > z/OS 2.3.0 > etc etc), and the huge section header 3. Table of Conte

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Tapetool question

2019-02-27 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
It's likely that you can do this with /LIBRARY REQUEST,... commands from the host z/OSsystem. - Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gadi Ben-Avi Sent: 27 February 2019 12:42 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: z/OS 2.4

2019-02-26 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Et voila http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/2/877/ENUSZP19-0012/index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en v2r4 preview - Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Allan Staller Sent: 21 February

Re: [EXTERNAL] RESOURCE PARTITION USAGE parameter

2019-02-25 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Any hardware ninjas in here today? – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure On 25-Feb-2019, at 18:50, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: Want to correct my question... I've following both pre-requisites (setting a HCDPROF variable and setting stand-alone IOCP to No in the build IOCP input s

Re: [EXTERNAL] RESOURCE PARTITION USAGE parameter

2019-02-25 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
al Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh Sent: 25 February 2019 11:27 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] RESOURCE PARTITION USAGE parameter Hi List, Can anyone please point me to documentation on how to use the USAGE= parameter in th

RESOURCE PARTITION USAGE parameter

2019-02-25 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hi List, Can anyone please point me to documentation on how to use the USAGE= parameter in the RESOURCE PARTITION statement. I couldn't find anything, and want to know how to be inclusive of a statement with LPARs in multiple CSS-es. Thanks. - Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure MARKSANDSPENCER

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: CTC

2019-02-22 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
lf Of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh Sent: 22 February 2019 07:58 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: CTC Hi Skip, Thanks for sharing your learnings, I do remember reading a similar post on the same topics a few months ago here. I'm going cross-eyed trying to decipher what's already

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: CTC

2019-02-21 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
pany Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh Sent: Monday, February 18, 2019 9:

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Is there an HCD for Dummy's book anywhere?

2019-02-20 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
right. It builds various statements to support the installation of a disk array that is attached via cascaded FICON switches, with two-byte link addressing, etc. I'm sure it could be improved by a willing reader; did the job for me at least. cheers, Peter On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 05:32:59 +0000, San

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Is there an HCD for Dummy's book anywhere?

2019-02-19 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hi Peter, Curious.. what sort of edit macros? – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Peter Bishop Sent: 20 February 2019 02:33 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Is there an HCD for Dummy's book anywhere?

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: z/OS 2.4

2019-02-19 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Any bets on it being renamed from "z/OS" to IBM Z OS? Or, like Apple, call it "the new z/OS".. – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Styles, Andy (ITS zPlatform Services) Sent: 19 February 2019 07:51 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: CTC

2019-02-18 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
. of position is not zero, > the >> value is the next word. >> 4. result may be enclosed in parentheses, separated with commas. know >> what you are looking for for second level parsing. >> 5. I use a stem to store the single line macro calls at step 1. >> &

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: CTC

2019-02-18 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
cond level parsing. > 5. I use a stem to store the single line macro calls at step 1. > > > best, > ITschak > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 2:32 PM Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh < > vignesh.v.sankaranaraya...@marks-and-spencer.com> wrote: > >> Hello All, >&g

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: CTC

2019-02-18 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
config ... Roger > On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 14:25:15 +0000, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh > wrote: > > Just me, to understand and map out the connections.. > > – Vignesh > Mainframe Infrastructure > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behal

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: CTC

2019-02-18 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
configuration, you can use tso console command and analyse the results in the same exec with the IOCP deck. I would email the results a comma separated file to excel. Who need to read it? ITschak On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 3:33 PM Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh < vignesh.v.sankaranaraya...@marks-

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: CTC

2019-02-18 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
know what you are looking for for second level parsing. 5. I use a stem to store the single line macro calls at step 1. best, ITschak On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 2:32 PM Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh < vignesh.v.sankaranaraya...@marks-and-spencer.com> wrote: > Hello All, > > I know

CTC

2019-02-18 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hello All, I know this is a long shot but does anyone have any REXX that parses IOCP and "makes sense" of the CTC definitions? I'm losing my mind trying to learn what I'm seeing.. - Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure MARKSANDSPENCER.COM Unless otherwise stated ab

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Quick Q - OSA and FICON

2019-02-16 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Thanks Kevin and Parwez. I looked only at the ResourceLink publications for the related machines and I couldn’t find any info on PCHID and port association, so I later searched for SHARE presentations and found my answer there. Will keep a copy of the connectivity handbook close by! – Vignesh Ma

TS7700

2019-02-15 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hello List, In the installation & planning guide for TS7700, I see only a single diagram for the I/O area. Is there anything that mentions the interface IDs of each port in the I/O area? Like how we have I names for the ports in the DS8K. Thanks in advance, I'm going mad trying to find docum

Quick Q - OSA and FICON

2019-02-15 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hi, This should be a quick one.. FC 0404 for OSA 4S GbE LX and FC 0409 for FICON 8S LX - they're both cards for the PCI/e I/O Drawer, with 2 ports, and both ports come under the same CHPID, yes? - Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure MARKSANDSPENCER.COM Unless ot

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Tape Mount Mangement

2019-01-30 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hi John, Apart from the z/OS-inbuilt Volume Mount Analyzer, you could look at 2 other items for reviewing your tape activity: 1. IBM has a utility called tapetool that mainly allows reporting on the TS7700; additionally, they offer a PROC which you can run as STC, which will cut extra SMF reco

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IKJEFT1B program name SMF

2019-01-30 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
That's a cool job Charles! – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: 29 January 2019 18:24 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: IKJEFT1B program name SMF "Programs" do not get to write or d

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IKJEFT1B program name SMF

2019-01-29 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
recorded anywhere, not in SMF 30, nor elsewhere. SMF 14 should record the SYSLIB dataset being closed but that is about it. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2019

IKJEFT1B program name SMF

2019-01-29 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hello List! Let's say there's a REXX program being run in batch with PGM=IKJEFB1B,PARM='%SOMETHING'. I'm sure SMF records program names.. but is there any field that also captures the REXX that's being run via IKJEFT01 or IKJEFT1B? Thanks in advance! - Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure MARKSA

Re: [EXTERNAL] Restore dataset with a different prefix

2019-01-28 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
RENAMEU allows you to either swap the HLQ or specify the full alternative name. If I remember right, there is some rule about your replacement string being the same length as the original string, when you are trying to replace more than 1 qualifier with one or more qualifiers.. – Vignesh Mainfra

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: how many OSes run on IBMz

2019-01-28 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hi Arthur, Thank you, always open to history lessons 😊 Didn't mean to attempt to give an actual explanation as such.. was just thinking of it in a comical sense, that's all. – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Arthur F

Re: Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: how many OSes run on IBMz

2019-01-27 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
BS = bull $hit Meaning,.. one is talking meaningless, foolish, s#it. So either BS or horse s#it. Seeing a name like BS2000 or BS3000 made me think of a hypothetical marketing department where their product is so useless, but they proudly sell it, by naming it BS2000. They call the new and impr

FW: Re: [EXTERNAL] Ca7 auto-ticketing with ServiceNow tool

2019-01-25 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hi Lizette, Guess you meant this for Rajesh... – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: stars...@mindspring.com Sent: 25 January 2019 11:41 To: Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh Subject: RE: Re: [EXTERNAL] Ca7 auto-ticketing with ServiceNow tool This is probably internal

Re: [EXTERNAL] Ca7 auto-ticketing with ServiceNow tool

2019-01-24 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Super generic question. Best to check the ServiceNow documentation for info on integrations. This isn't a mainframe question as much as it is a ServiceNow question, so... edging on wrong forum, maybe! – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion Li

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: how many OSes run on IBMz

2019-01-24 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
I can't help but laugh at the names BS2000 and BS3000. LMAO! – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bernd Oppolzer Sent: 24 January 2019 23:11 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: how many OSes run on IBMz

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: how many OSes run on IBMz

2019-01-24 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Now this reply, I like! - Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Kevin Mckenzie Sent: 24 January 2019 16:48 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: how many OSes run on IBMz Strictly speaking, you could include

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: how many OSes run on IBMz

2019-01-24 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Oh how about zAWARE ?? – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: 24 January 2019 14:37 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: how many OSes run on IBMz On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 13:25:48 +0100, R.

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: how many OSes run on IBMz

2019-01-24 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
KVM on bare metal! Don't know if it's the same as zLinux.. I think zLinux is SLES or RHAT on top of zVM.. ? – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bernd Oppolzer Sent: 24 January 2019 12:52 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sub

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: zos program to supply web based client

2019-01-13 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Woohoo, I've (probably) helped one person.. I'm a community champion! – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Brian Westerman Sent: 13 January 2019 08:27 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: zos program to su

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: zos program to supply web based client

2019-01-11 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
How about a socket server with listener and workers.. ? No clue how straightforward it is.. – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Brian Westerman Sent: 11 January 2019 08:39 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL]

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Zowe question for IBM

2019-01-10 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
d test. Matt Hogstrom m...@hogstrom.org +1-919-656-0564 PGP Key: 0x90ECB270 Facebook <https://facebook.com/matt.hogstrom> LinkedIn <https://linkedin/in/mhogstrom> Twitter <https://twitter.com/hogstrom> “It may be cognitive, but, it ain’t intuitive." — Hogstrom >

Zowe question for IBM

2019-01-09 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hello All, The recent Zowe discussion got me wondering... Let's say there are thousands of components or subsystems in z/OS, such as the service for catalog services, ISPF, ISMF, SMS, SDSF, JES2, RACF/ESM, XCF, IOS, parts within CICS, DB2, IMS, etc. etc. Is it not possible to create a module for

SAS

2019-01-08 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Well well well ... https://blog.coursera.org/coursera-and-sas-bridge-analytics-skills-gap-with-new-sas-programming-specialization/ - Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure MARKSANDSPENCER.COM Unless otherwise stated above: Marks and Spencer plc Registered Office: Wate

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Zowe?

2019-01-08 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Having seen a beautifully orchestrated mainframe environment with loads of REXX and in-house assembler, it breaks my heart to see everything being wrapped up, exposing only a standardised API. Key word being standardised. Devs change their preferences by the hour. What's cool today will be 'meh'

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Zowe?

2019-01-07 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Had pretty much the same answer but with less polished words, so.. happy that you've got the same points across in a better manner than I was about to 😊 – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: 07 Januar

DSCHA and RESET

2019-01-03 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hello list! Let's say I run a backup job on Sundays without DSCHA, i.e., backup everything under A.* Mon-Sat, I want to backup only files that were changes or are new. I thought DSCHA EQ 1 will do this, but apparently, a lot more datasets are being picked than were created anew or changed (since

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Fixes from CA

2018-12-18 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
MSM in the shop. However, it can be set up with HTTPS and do the downloads of fixes and products for you. Then you can use the tool to install when needed. Lizette > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh > Sen

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Fixes from CA

2018-12-18 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
ubject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Fixes from CA On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 14:36:34 +, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: > >Yes, I get scart0.zip and unzip it on a PC. >I then set quote site parameters and mput them bunch by bunch. >Like... mput *.bin, mput *.txt, and so on. > Ouch! >Should I just c

Re: [EXTERNAL] Fixes from CA

2018-12-18 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //IDIOFF DD DUMMY //SYSUDUMP DD DUMMY //

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Fixes from CA

2018-12-18 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Fs. I believe that there is some documentation and sample JCL for CAUNZIP on the CA site. HTH Tony From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh [vignesh.v.sankaranaraya...@marks-and-spencer.com]

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Fixes from CA

2018-12-18 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hi Carmen, The link you gave was RECEIVE ORDER.. same as connecting from MF to external site, right? – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo Sent: 18 December 2018 14:20 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject:

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Fixes from CA

2018-12-18 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Are you connected to IBM, if so, why not to CA? Kees. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh > Sent: 18 December, 2018 14:52 > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: [E

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Fixes from CA

2018-12-18 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
80 is wrecking the transfer. – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: 18 December 2018 13:48 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Fixes from CA Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote:

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Fixes from CA

2018-12-18 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
cture -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: 18 December 2018 13:48 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Fixes from CA Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: >On getting a bunch of Solutions downloaded from the CA site for a

Fixes from CA

2018-12-18 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hi, On getting a bunch of Solutions downloaded from the CA site for a product, the subsequent uploads to mainframe fail because the .txt files go on for more than 80 cols. This is super annoying as I'm looking to upload hundreds of PTF HOLDDATA. I've used quote site lrecl=80 but when the first l

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Knowledge Centre - (was Re: Rant)

2018-12-06 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Piling on to the ranting.. I find it super annoying that everything is a sub-section now (at least in v2r2 links). Example: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.f54sg00/lmdlist.htm Having at least some amount of info in each page is good (like this) -- htt

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IFASMFDP

2018-12-04 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
ee SMF Data getting bigger and bigger as the years to come. What is needed for AUDIT functions and what is needed for Capacity Planning/Performance Tuning. Lizette > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh > Se

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IFASMFDP

2018-12-04 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
TERNAL] Re: IFASMFDP On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 16:45:26 +, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: >Hello! > >Say there's a file called SMF.WEEKLY and it is a huge, multi-volume file, and >is an aggregate of all SMF.DAILY files (data is sequential). >If I want to pick out data from

IFASMFDP

2018-12-04 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hello! Say there's a file called SMF.WEEKLY and it is a huge, multi-volume file, and is an aggregate of all SMF.DAILY files (data is sequential). If I want to pick out data from just the first day of the week from SMF.WEEKLY, using IFASMFDP, apart from specifying DATE(yyddd,yyddd), is there a mo

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Search Engines

2018-11-28 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Y'all need this --> https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced-search-operators/ I don't know if all of them work, but I definitely use some of them every day. - Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: 28 N

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IRRDBU00 format

2018-11-27 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
8 06:51 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: IRRDBU00 format Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: >Elardus, I was looking at >https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos >.v2r1.icha300/dbutypes.htm >Heh, looks like the answer is within the sa

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IRRDBU00 format

2018-11-27 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: 27 November 2018 13:40 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: IRRDBU00 format Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: >Can you please point me to a link for the format of the different record types >in IRRDBU00. >From what I see, I could find

IRRDBU00 format

2018-11-27 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hello List, Can you please point me to a link for the format of the different record types in IRRDBU00. >From what I see, I could find only some pictures for some parts of some record >types. Thanks in advance. - Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure MARKSANDSPENCER.COM __

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Storage question

2018-11-22 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
SERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh > Sent: 22 November, 2018 13:47 > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Storage question > > There are some 30 HLQs I need to look at with volume *.. so doing that > in 3.4 gets boring after a whi

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Storage question

2018-11-22 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
M Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh > Sent: 22 November, 2018 13:03 > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Storage question > > Well... the points I've listed below. > > If an alias

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Storage question

2018-11-22 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh > Sent: 22 November, 2018 9:28 > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Storage question > > Hello again List! > > Is there a way to produce a listing of datasets (given the HLQs) base

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Storage question

2018-11-22 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
ct: [EXTERNAL] Re: Storage question Don't forget SMS backups and migrated datasets. On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 2:28 AM Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: > > Hello again List! > > Is there a way to produce a listing of datasets (given the HLQs) based > entirely on VTOCs? &

Storage question

2018-11-22 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hello again List! Is there a way to produce a listing of datasets (given the HLQs) based entirely on VTOCs? The assumption would be that the following are no longer available: 1. RACF profile HLQ.* 2. RACF user/group named 'HLQ' 3. Alias named 'HLQ' defined to some UCAT When the above

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Checksum or hashing

2018-11-20 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
A genius, gentleman, and a scholar. Thank you so much! – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Dyck, Lionel B. (RavenTek) Sent: 20 November 2018 16:30 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Checksum or hash

Checksum or hashing

2018-11-20 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hello again List! Is there any utility for z/OS that lets us create SHA1 or MD5 or some such hash/fingerprint of a dataset or USS file. The use case is to compare these hashes at source (z/OS) and destination (linux) after transferring some sizable datasets. Thanks in advance! - Vignesh Mainfr

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Spool volume

2018-11-19 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
gt; is needed, then clip the volume to something that is not a JES2 SPOOL > Volume name > > > What problem are you trying to solve? > > Lizette > > > > -Original Message- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of > > Sankaranarayana

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Spool volume

2018-11-19 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
lf Of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 5:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Spool volume Hello List! Let's say there is a mod27 volume of unit abcd. This is available to an LPAR (via IODF), but is defined with OFFLINE=YES, so not immediately available at IPL,

Spool volume

2018-11-19 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hello List! Let's say there is a mod27 volume of unit abcd. This is available to an LPAR (via IODF), but is defined with OFFLINE=YES, so not immediately available at IPL, but can be brought online (vary ad-hoc or via COMMNDxx). Is there any constraint that a spool volume needs to be OFFLINE=NO

Compiled XMITIP

2018-11-14 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hello Listers! Does anyone have any experience with compiled REXX, in general... is it worth it? Any thoughts on compiled XMITIP.. As always, thanks for all your feedback. - Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure MARKSANDSPENCER.COM Unless otherwise stated above: Ma

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Service class changes

2018-11-12 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Beautiful, thanks, I'll check this out. – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Horst Sinram Sent: 12 November 2018 21:14 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Service class changes See SMF Type 90, subtype 3

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Service class changes

2018-11-09 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
So it's just a flag to say it happened? Can't find the from and to srvclass info anywhere.. ? – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: 09 November 2018 13:16 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EX

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: I/O priority

2018-11-09 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
I hope/expect to present on the topic at the next SHARE. Scott Chapman Enterprise Performance Strategies On Fri, 9 Nov 2018 04:52:01 +, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: >Hello everyone, > >Has anyone here had any experience with enabling I/O priority >groups/management in

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Profiles specific to user

2018-11-09 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Ahhh, SORT is my kryptonite.. – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: 09 November 2018 09:17 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Profiles specific to user Sankaranarayanan

I/O priority

2018-11-08 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hello everyone, Has anyone here had any experience with enabling I/O priority groups/management in WLM.. ? I understand it has to be enabled in all systems connected to the DASD... what are the gotchas or things to watch out for. Thanks. - Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure MARKSANDSPENCER.COM

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Profiles specific to user

2018-11-08 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
: Profiles specific to user Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: >Thanks all, so we've roughly come to the same answer, i.e., processing DBU00 >using SORT/ICETOOL/REXX or Nigel's utilities.. >Will wait to hear from Elardus on whether he can share his sweet >pre-existing REXX 😊

Service class changes

2018-11-08 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hello list, Apart from 99.2, can I find info on service class changes to jobs on any other record type? – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure MARKSANDSPENCER.COM Unless otherwise stated above: Marks and Spencer plc Registered Office: Waterside House 35 North Wharf

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