Re: any shops hiring in DFW?

2015-12-03 Thread Steve Dover
John, Fidelity is in Dallas, and I know they have a big mainframe presence. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Restoration of IAM datasets

2014-05-27 Thread Steve Dover
Rajesh, After the restore, make sure the dataset-owner got set properly. Ours shows an owner of $IAM. If you do not put the owner in, it defaults to native VSAM and you cannot read the file. Steve On Mon, 26 May 2014 14:57:53 -0500, Rajesh Janakiraman wrote: >Dear Mates, > >I'm facing an

Re: DS6800 disk - was support is ending for Windows XP - Microsoft Windows

2014-03-28 Thread Steve Dover
On the occasions that IBM service has been in to work on our DS6800, they have never used the SMC. They always use the serial connection to the Kona cards directly. And if you are using replication of your DS6800 for DR purposes, you need the SMC more often than you might think. On Wed, 26

Re: DS6800 disk - was support is ending for Windows XP - Microsoft Windows

2014-03-26 Thread Steve Dover
Rex, I am running mine on a virtual server running Server 2008 Standard SP2. The one time I opened a software call on this, IBM immediately told me I was running an unsupported configuration. They helped me with my problem, but griped the entire time. I would not look for IBM to update the S

Re: My Last Days as a Sysprog

2013-01-29 Thread Steve Dover
Eric, color me green with envy. Good luck and best wishes in your new adventures. Steve On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:26:48 -0600, Eric Bielefeld wrote: >I'm finally calling it quits. I have this week off, and then I work 2 more >weeks. Then I will retire. I find it harder to do my job as I get

Re: DIFFERENTIATION OF VSAM DSNS

2013-01-25 Thread Steve Dover
Willie, this might be a foolish way to find what I need, but I always search our production JCL library before I do anything. All but a handful of our VSAM datasets have allocation JCL in there somewhere. On the odd, one off clusters, that takes more digging. On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:25:07 -

Re: HMC and SE Ethernet connection

2013-01-08 Thread Steve Dover
Mike, When you login to the HMC as acsadmin, you add the SE IP address when you define a new object. You must be logged in as acsadmin to do this. HTH. Steve On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 07:52:31 -0500, Mike Myers wrote: >Can anyone tell me how an HMC determines the IP addresses of the primary >and al