Re: Fixcat vs Hardware PSP Buckets

2016-04-14 Thread John Eells
but for simplicity's sake I'd recommend using IBM.Device.Server.* and whatever functional FIXCATs you need as described in the PSP. Please let us know if the PSP's instructions should be clarified somehow. -- John Eells IBM

Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge

2016-04-21 Thread John Eells
u can see the effects by displaying what's on each volume if you have more than one. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@lists

Re: z/OS Master/User catalog dataset re-organization

2016-05-24 Thread John Eells
, one last time and then enabled for CA Reclaim like (nearly) any other KSDS. After that, let them manage themselves... -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruct

Re: DEVTYPE INFO=DASD

2016-07-22 Thread John Eells
17,892 Free Extents . : 36 Disclaimer: No idea what he's working on Jay Campbell IBM OS Support Section -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 2:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@li

Re: Boulder and Rochester Servers

2016-07-26 Thread John Eells
DDATA. Same job I've used for years. GIM69195S ** RECEIVE PROCESSING HAS FAILED. THE SERVER AT https://eccgw01.boulder.ibm.com/service/projects/ecc/ws/ DETECTED AN ERROR: 404 - Not Found. Does IBM have a problem or did something change and I missed the notification?

Re: DEVTYPE INFO=DASD

2016-07-21 Thread John Eells
' would be 65520 cylinders. x'000F' would be 15 tracks per cylinder. Reasonable for a 3390-54. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send ema

Re: DEVTYPE INFO=DASD

2016-07-21 Thread John Eells
OS:CTO:AD:CP:I:IB Flex M,T,Th,F Home office (240) 863 - 3965 Office (240) 613-4350 Cell (917) 748-9693 TOD M - F 7:30 am - 4:00 pm -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 2:35 PM

Re: RDW corruption

2016-07-18 Thread John Eells
assigned me this problem As an aside if I register my IRS e-mail on IBM-Main is there a way not get every e-mail I don't mind it in my personel e-mail But I have a lot of other stuff on my irs.gov e-mail -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: subscribing options

2016-07-12 Thread John Eells
The browser I use prepends partial URLs with http://www when what you type does not get resolved, and my newsreader does not render that partial URL as a link. I guess that's not true of everyone's toolset! John McKown wrote: On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 8:05 AM, John Eells <ee...@us.ibm.

Re: subscribing options

2016-07-12 Thread John Eells
I just use a gmail account which I access via http://mail.google.com instead of "local delivery". -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Copy pdse v2 generations

2016-06-27 Thread John Eells
Lionel B. Dyck wrote: Does anyone know if PDSFAST supports copying generations? IEBCOPY currently does not. However, DFSMSdss does. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

2016-06-28 Thread John Eells
What is the *smallest* volume size everyone sees in general use? For example, will we create any problems if we assume that "everyone" has or can define at least a 3390-9 size volume these days? What if we chose 3390-27? -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

Re: ZOS 2.2 Install - Alias to Catalog

2016-06-28 Thread John Eells
CATALOG.Z22MCAT MCAT -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: ZOS 2.2 Install - Alias to Catalog

2016-06-28 Thread John Eells
olumes, the SU path will create a job that basically only adds new entries to your master catalog, which ought to be harmless. You can also fool Mother Nature by creating a temporary catalog, but that will still leave you the task of reconciling catalog entries with actual data set placement later. H

Re: ISPF Profile basic question

2016-07-07 Thread John Eells
ps the "characteristics" of REXX or CNTL, especially the highlighting? If one wanted to define "PROFILE FOO" with highlighting suitable for FOO files, where is the process documented? Which FM under what topic? -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com --

Re: Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

2016-07-07 Thread John Eells
DS. m9 will be used for some system volumes (page, spool) on our small systems. We use m27 for SYSRES and DLIB today and will continue to do so until z/OS outgrows them. We use 2 m54 for SMP/E and other installation data, which we may eventually consolidate onto EAV. -- John Eells IBM

Re: Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

2016-07-05 Thread John Eells
be the default but it's easily changed there.) -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Wait state 80009064 during IEAVNP26 Initialization

2016-07-29 Thread John Eells
My first reflex is always to ask...did you specify CLPA? Errol wrote: I tried to IPL a new zOS 2.1 system today and got this. I didn't see any migration actions for DFSMS (IEAVNP26) thsat looked likely to have caused it. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: z/OS V2.1 MVS Data Area manuals missing in the Knowledge Center

2016-07-01 Thread John Eells
whom to contact to tell them that the zOS/ V2.1 MVS Data Area manuals are missing in the new Knowledge Center? The feedback link on the page seems to be just general feedback about IBM. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: z/OS V2.1 MVS Data Area manuals missing in the Knowledge Center

2016-07-01 Thread John Eells
/v2r1pdf/#IEA John Eells wrote: I forwarded this to someone I think can get it taken care of. As Monday is a holiday here, though, and many are off today as well (it was very easy to get a nearby parking space!), I would not expect instant action. Peter Hunkeler wrote: Would anyone

Re: PTF order fulfillment issues and getting HOLDDATA

2016-08-15 Thread John Eells
or HTTPS. (I was waiting for Kurt to chime in but he's not on our internal IM system so he might be out.) -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: DIALOG PROCESSING ERROR

2017-02-01 Thread John Eells
to. Can someone (perhaps the OP) repost it? -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM

Re: DIALOG PROCESSING ERROR

2017-02-01 Thread John Eells
dialog starts fine but when I choose the order I want to install I get the following error: The dialog call shown in the ISPEXEC buffer issued a RETURN CODE of: 16 The contents of the ISPEXEC buffer was: /*0003*/LISTDSI SCPPEENU -- John Eells IBM

Re: System Symbol For Master Catalog

2017-02-10 Thread John Eells
gets the mastercat name from the IPA and set the symbol. It needs to be defined early as HZSPROC starts as a system a/s as of z/OS version 2. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sig

Re: Catch 22 with UA82156 / OA50517

2016-08-19 Thread John Eells
BM/') . ENDUCL. If this DDDEF was missing in your ServerPac, please open a PMR. Oh, and yes, you should define it if it's missing. It can't hurt to check on the other SHZ* DDDEF in the same sample job, either, just in case... -- John Eells IBM Poughkeep

Re: Question about PARMDD

2017-02-27 Thread John Eells
appearance, led by the designer. I am reasonably confident that you can find in that discussion why it was done as it was, if you care to look. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Question about PARMDD

2017-02-27 Thread John Eells
erv.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html If you are sufficiently interested, you can find the discussion. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send emai

Re: Elementary dataset alias question

2016-08-30 Thread John Eells
of the additional catalog entries that are perhaps maintained in different catalogs than the primary entries, and change them in concert in the correct catalog(s) when and if data sets move between volumes. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Elementary dataset alias question

2016-08-30 Thread John Eells
can't talk about yet...we'll see what happens, but perhaps I'll see you in San Jose. Charles Mills wrote: @John, most excellent. I should have asked the guru of catalogs to begin with. Thanks, -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

Re: Elementary dataset alias question

2016-08-30 Thread John Eells
0072 And, finally, I used IEFBR14 to allocate it: //EELLS2 JOB 'C8402P,B9222070,S=I','JOHN EELLS', // CLASS=J,MSGCLASS=H,NOTIFY=, // MSGLEVEL=(1,1),REGION=0M //* //S0EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 //DD1 DD DSN=EELLS.DELETEME.TEST, // DISP=SHR ...and all this works as expected,

Re: Elementary dataset alias question

2016-08-31 Thread John Eells
Paul Gilmartin wrote: BTW, is there a form of LISTCAT that lists both ALIAS and RELATED names? Yes. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Bypassing s322

2016-09-13 Thread John Eells
Actually, I misremembered how IEFUTL works, and just remembered (sorry)! IEFUTL gets control when the time limit set expires, and can extend the time allowed. It does not set lower values. John Eells wrote: For historical reasons lost in the Mists of Time, the explanations for z/OS BCP

Re: SDSF security with TSS ?

2016-09-12 Thread John Eells
tips, recommendation, pitfalls, etc. that can be shared would be appreciated. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: Bypassing s322

2016-09-13 Thread John Eells
initiators but still abends. I am not sure if IEFUTL exit is restricting it. The error message doesn't produce much information to diagnose. Is there a way to bypass any EXIT which might be timing out the Jobs ? -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: TSO User ID Rules (Was: z/OS and code pages)

2016-09-15 Thread John Eells
meone with a lot of attributes might have UADS members USERID0-USERID9. This causes the last character to be "reserved," and as PDS members may have 1-8 character names, TSO/E user IDs can be 1-7 characters in length. -- John

Re: Service Orders and Redbooks

2016-09-29 Thread John Eells
Timing is everything. Instantly after hitting Send, I switched to my e-mail client, only to find a note saying the problem with service (PTFs, HOLDDATA) is fixed. Redbooks appear to be up again, too. John Eells wrote: John Abell wrote: Still not working here. I am told

Service Orders and Redbooks

2016-09-29 Thread John Eells
of the Redbooks site outage, but I *do* know that service orders are affected. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: Weird idea? IPL LPAR from DVD ISO image on HMC?

2016-10-04 Thread John Eells
of things to make easier. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Weird idea? IPL LPAR from DVD ISO image on HMC?

2016-10-04 Thread John Eells
45 AM, R.S. <r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl> wrote: W dniu 2016-10-04 o 14:35, John Eells pisze: R.S. wrote: The notable exception is z/OS COD - Customized Offering Driver. While it can be IPL-ed from both DVD and ftp, the next activity is to restore DVD content to CKD disk and the source has to be

Installation Improvements (was Re: Links to IBM announcements for today appear to be broken)

2016-10-04 Thread John Eells
m/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=AN=CA=897/ENUS216-392=USN -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: AW: Re: Question on z/EDC - reading it compressed

2016-10-05 Thread John Eells
Mauri Kanter wrote: Hi, I wish I could FTP it compressed ... It could shorten a large FTP we execute daily :-( Why don't you think you can FTP it compressed? -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: PDSE supported for product dataset z/OS version

2016-09-22 Thread John Eells
Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 12:59:53 -0400, John Eells wrote: ..., but the reason why you can't use PDSEs early in IPL processing (think "parmlib concatenation or LPA list") is more prosaic. Much of the code needed to process PDSEs lives in LPA. Until CLPA is done, t

Re: Translating a DEVTYPE from LISTC into something usable?

2016-09-22 Thread John Eells
onths back!) -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: ShopzSeries orders change?

2016-09-16 Thread John Eells
orders go to DOWNLOAD! Thanks to whomever! -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: PDSE supported for product dataset z/OS version

2016-09-22 Thread John Eells
use PDSEs early in IPL processing (think "parmlib concatenation or LPA list") is more prosaic. Much of the code needed to process PDSEs lives in LPA. Until CLPA is done, they cannot be opened. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

Re: IEC361I Threshold value set up

2016-09-27 Thread John Eells
short of extents. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: JES2 Mods

2016-11-10 Thread John Eells
ly gave up. There are a lot of old mods on our system and we had to keep backing them off and could never get JES working. We actually got the maintenance (RSU1501) applied and the only thing that doesn't work is SYSAFF Any thoughts? -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

Re: JCL changes in z/OS 2.1

2016-10-19 Thread John Eells
ught important that would fit into an hour are here: https://share.confex.com/share/121/webprogram/Session13581.html -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructio

Re: Implementing ICSF - FOTS1949 PRNG is not seeded

2016-10-19 Thread John Eells
ck thereof matters in this context, I have no clue.) -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Where are PDSE limitations documented?

2016-11-14 Thread John Eells
f/dgt3d410.pdf -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Weird problem hoping to be saved by SMP/E

2016-11-02 Thread John Eells
) RETRY(YES) fails because HDZ1D10 was ACCEPTed. A RESTORE fails for GIM24501E RESTORE PROCESSING FAILED FOR SYSMOD sysmod BECAUSE OTHER SYSMODS WERE DELETED WHEN sysmod WAS APPLIED I am looking for ideas on how to get back to the correct versions of the modules. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee

Re: AW: How large are your system trace & master trace on z13?

2016-10-27 Thread John Eells
it appears to be. Speaking only for myself, 15X the default size seems like more than enough. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: Prevent allocation of unknown-HLQ data sets?

2016-12-14 Thread John Eells
it worked. BTW we used ALTER (IDCAMS) to put the password on. This is a quick and dirty way of doing it. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruction

Re: Freeware SMP/E installable product

2017-01-10 Thread John Eells
Nathan Astle wrote: Hi Are there any freeware product which uses SMP/E to install. Please point me Nathan Java for z/OS fits this description. You can order it from Shopz and get it over the net, on DVD, or on tape. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Catalogs in a SYSPLEX

2016-11-29 Thread John Eells
; indirect cataloging works even for multiple volumes using such derived system symbols. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: Catalogs in a SYSPLEX

2016-11-29 Thread John Eells
no problem. Old catalog entries that really ought to be deleted don't cause problems either except for OCD types. Of course, it introduces other steps, such as IMPORTing the usercats for each plex, and either freezing or keeping current and master-catalogs-to-be in sync. -- John Eells IBM

Re: SMP/E Tutorial

2017-03-27 Thread John Eells
, I know that fixes were packaged and shipped as MODs so SMP/E would re-link the load modules on site as part of the maintenance apply process. Can you still use PROGRAM elements for LE based modules ? Whether you know exactly what will be pulled in largely depends on your packaging. -- John

Re: 64 bit execution above the bar

2017-03-28 Thread John Eells
Tony Harminc wrote: On 27 March 2017 at 20:15, Mike Schwab <mike.a.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: ...it's the ability to IPL and run in ESA/390 architecture that's going. Exactly right. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.i

Re: SMP/E Tutorial

2017-03-27 Thread John Eells
something that ought to be on that list, but is missing, please let me know. * Of course, make sure your Legal Department concurs! -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arch

Re: z/OS Processor Requirements (was Re: SMP/E Tutorial)

2017-03-29 Thread John Eells
John Eells wrote: R.S. wrote: Off-topic note: the document mention z/OS 2.2 can be ran on z9 machine, which is untrue. You are, of course, correct. The book has been updated but not the link to the new level of it. Here is the new level of the book: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf

z/OS Processor Requirements (was Re: SMP/E Tutorial)

2017-03-29 Thread John Eells
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Re: SMP/E Tutorial

2017-03-28 Thread John Eells
Feel free to send me a note if you have any interest. It is a lot easier but might not be suitable for your particular product. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arch

Re: SMP/E Tutorial

2017-03-27 Thread John Eells
to the newsgroup. The footer of every post sent to the list appears at the bottom, and can get you started. If you BUILDMCS your current HBB FMID, you will doubtless find examples like this one: ++PROGRAM(IWMAM431) SYSLIB(SIEALNKE) ALIAS(LARM431) DISTLIB(AIEALNKE) RELFILE(9) . -- John

Re: Can SMPPTS datasets be consolidated?

2017-03-20 Thread John Eells
the sysmod from IBM, I would be very interested in knowing when it was and what product it was for (if you have that information handy) so I can "educate" the perpetr--um, that is, packager. Other limits, internal ones aside, are imposed by tape, DVD, and commonly-deployed DASD volume sizes.

Re: GSE UK - Large Systems - Free To Attend

2017-03-15 Thread John Eells
: · · IEFOPZ Debate -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Ordering IBM service without software excel

2017-04-07 Thread John Eells
ess instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to li

Re: z/OSMF-Based Installation (WasL Re: AW: Re: EAV volumes and SYSRES)

2017-07-12 Thread John Eells
ard the cursing all the way from Austin and Phoenix), but ISPF apps ought to continue as supported options for those who prefer them. That's my buck-two-eight-five, after adjusting for inflation. :) -- John Eells IBM Poughkeep

Re: z/OSMF-Based Installation (WasL Re: AW: Re: EAV volumes and SYSRES)

2017-07-12 Thread John Eells
t thought it was a neat graphic that helped illustrate the modernization of a 25+ year old installation process. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: EAV volumes and SYSRES

2017-07-11 Thread John Eells
process, just as many do for ServerPac today; here, I'll add that I particularly expect that early on. You might happen to fall into that group. Lizette Koehler wrote: @John Eells We would not consider using z/OSMF for creating SYSRES volumes or rolling out fixes. It does not allow for our

z/OSMF-Based Installation (WasL Re: AW: Re: EAV volumes and SYSRES)

2017-07-11 Thread John Eells
to catch up on the discussion thus far. More on the SHARE website, here: https://share.confex.com/data/handout/share/128/Session_20728_handout_10028_0.pdf -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: EAV volumes and SYSRES

2017-07-11 Thread John Eells
after previous deployments (as many likely do in ServerPac, too, by "merging with" a saved configuration). -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruct

Re: EAV volumes and SYSRES

2017-07-10 Thread John Eells
R.S. wrote: W dniu 2017-07-10 o 16:13, John Eells pisze: [...] 4. What about ServerPac Installation Dialog? Does it support EAV yet? It does not. It likely will never do so. We are moving in a different direction, with z/OSMF Software Management as our installer in a few years, I hope

Re: EAV volumes and SYSRES

2017-07-10 Thread John Eells
ith z/OSMF Software Management as our installer in a few years, I hope. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: EAV volumes and SYSRES

2017-07-10 Thread John Eells
they are processed by system utilities that understand how to address data in the EAS. The same goes for SMP/E CSI data sets and volume-specific user catalogs, which can live on the volumes they represent. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: How to see if a dataset is defined with CONTIG ?

2017-07-20 Thread John Eells
You can run a LISTVTOC and look for the DS1CONTG field in the F1 or F8 DSCB for the data set. (Sorry, not sure what authorizations are needed for that but I'd hope we document it.) -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: What to do with PTF dogies?

2017-07-20 Thread John Eells
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Re: What to do with PTF dogies?

2017-07-24 Thread John Eells
sually get PTFs (RECEIVE ORDER, Shopz service order, etc.) and whether you upload CSI data as part of the process (which would tailor the order to the zone). -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Identify EAV volume

2017-07-19 Thread John Eells
, including DS4DSCYL. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Logstreams

2017-06-30 Thread John Eells
. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Regitrating product prefix with IBM

2017-07-28 Thread John Eells
by sending a note to elem...@us.ibm.com. You can ask for a specific prefix, but there is an IBM-reserved range, and another vendor might have registered the one you want already, so there are no guarantees. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: events in the New York area

2017-08-01 Thread John Eells
גדי בן אבי wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of any mainframe related events in the New York are between now and August 9th? A few hours away by car will be the SHARE conference in Providence Rhode Island. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: ICH13005I

2017-08-22 Thread John Eells
it... Phil, there are plenty of people left on the RACF team in POK to read whatever you send in. But may I ask what the POSIT was? There could be a relevant APAR or two. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Mischaracterized HOLDDATA

2017-05-19 Thread John Eells
brought this one to the developer's attention yesterday. The current thought is that we will PE it and SUP it with a PTF that correctly specifies REASON(ACTION). Guys, when you find stuff like this...please open a PMR! -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: SDB (system determined Blksize)

2017-05-22 Thread John Eells
Ron Hawkins wrote: I would not recommend going to 32K as a blocking factor. Except, of course, for load libraries, the significant exception to this rule. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Component IDs?

2017-05-31 Thread John Eells
is used, it appears that this is not a problem. And, yes, names like WTO and SYS1.LINKLIB, and many others, are "grandfathered" exceptions to the naming standard we use today. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com ---

Re: Odd request of the day

2017-06-14 Thread John Eells
GENERATE to rebuild an entire zone's worth of stuff, a library, or a single modle (as above), but only if you set ACCJCLIN! HTH, -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: EREP Symptom and/or Software Records

2017-06-14 Thread John Eells
uot; in EREP reports. I will observe, though, that the system programmer action for ABEND13E could use some updates... -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access inst

Re: EREP Symptom and/or Software Records

2017-06-14 Thread John Eells
ay, that's my opinion. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: APF authorization and AC(00)

2017-06-12 Thread John Eells
implemented. A quick search indicates the latter was new in the 3090 announcement. REFR was implemented quite some time before that. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: curious: Anybody still use ADDRSPC=REAL ?

2017-06-09 Thread John Eells
to try it out, though (grin). -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: "New" Java-less Operating System Messages blips like crazy

2017-06-06 Thread John Eells
the console, the display collapses and expands at least 10x/sec. Anybody else's HMC console behave this way? If so, what was IBM thinking? We had to submit RFE's to get them to remove Java, do we have to submit more requirements to make it usable? Regards, Tom Conley -- John Eell

Re: John's spare time ... Job Scheduler Programmer Architect?

2017-06-06 Thread John Eells
(crontab ...). Is it just IBM's practice of not competing with ISVs? I expect to be informed of deficiencies of crontab, but at least it's there. Why do you think crontab is "not there" in z/OS? -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

Re: John's spare time ... Job Scheduler Programmer Architect?

2017-06-06 Thread John Eells
Kirk Wolf wrote: On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 5:44 AM, John Eells <ee...@us.ibm.com> wrote: Why do you think crontab is "not there" in z/OS? Oh but it is: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_1.13.0/com.ibm.zos.r13.bpxa500/crondmon.htm Precisely my point! -

Re: PDSE design flaws and need for COBOL 4.2 was Re: Lack of Support for Doc for COBOL

2017-09-13 Thread John Eells
program objects in SYS1.LPALIB. Much of the PDSE code lives in LPALIB. This precludes the use of program objects in any IPL-time LPA list data set. The use of the PDSE started tasks (SMSPDSE and SMSPDSE1) are secondary to being able to build PLPA to begin with. -- John Eells IBM

Re: OA49446 changed RACF behavior for ALIAS, PATH, and AIX

2017-09-18 Thread John Eells
ot; method and not this new method. Did everybody just define the profile with UACC(READ)? That seems easier than taking all the ICH408I's that could result the other way if you use dataset ALIASes and AIX's. What did you guys do for this -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

Re: OA49446 changed RACF behavior for ALIAS, PATH, and AIX

2017-09-21 Thread John Eells
uired to the entry name when defining a VSAM PATH or Alternate Index (AIX)." John Eells wrote: Your post confused me, so I just verified that my understanding was correct. The checks for PATH and AIX were added to the base name check, and do not replace it. Also, I am told nothing was added

Re: Dynamic Steplib and z/OS 2.3?

2017-09-21 Thread John Eells
ol that many authors update their tools and that others fix them up, all on a volunteer basis and that Sam and Sam maintain the collection and the site.) -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Keeping SSN init modules current

2017-09-22 Thread John Eells
John Eells wrote: For DIY, a ++MOVE usermod will get it on the books so you don't forget to update the module at system build time, but if the vendor ships JCLIN to change the module structure, SMP/E will, quite obligingly and without any fanfare, "put it back where it belongs" on y

Re: Keeping SSN init modules current

2017-09-21 Thread John Eells
e a cheap, dirty, and durable solution. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: ShopZ order response

2017-10-06 Thread John Eells
precludes all things that are USB-attached and not just memory sticks. We're starting to run shy of things we can send everyone that will remain usable for the foreseeable future. It's this, really, that might drive us toward Internet-only delivery at some future point. John Eells z/OS

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