Re: Long Passwords

2013-03-20 Thread John Eells
Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:50:25 -0400, John Eells wrote: Keith Smith wrote: In my experience password phrase must be at least 14 characters. By default, that's true. But you can allow it in an ICHPWX11 exit if you choose to (and there is a sample exit and accompa

Re: PARMDD?

2013-03-27 Thread John Eells
program from JCL. A new PARMDD DD statement keyword is ... Typo. It should have said EXEC statement. Obviously. Indeed! EXEC is correct. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IB

Re: 32760? (was: PARMDD?)

2013-04-08 Thread John Eells
ago. You can search the archives for the discussion, which was at least as extensive as this one has been. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arch

Re: Crypto Facility performance.

2013-04-29 Thread John Eells
It's a callable service that can also be run from REXX. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@li

Re: ANTMAIN takes a lot of CPU

2013-05-09 Thread John Eells
kes a lot of CPU Both these stc's have a higher priority than our CICS. Has anyone else experienced this problem? we use Z/OS version 1.13 -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- Fo

Re: IBMLINK SR Down?

2015-04-22 Thread John Eells
There was a problem. I'm told it's fixed now. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@lists

Re: FTP to IBM -- Problems?

2015-04-29 Thread John Eells
The folks who support the testcase server know about this problem, and they are working with our ISP to resolve it. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: FTP to IBM -- Problems?

2015-04-30 Thread John Eells
s.gov (Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN) wrote: I have some old Share doc that also says testcase is deprecated. Not sure if it is a reliable solution. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- Fo

Re: FTP to IBM -- Problems?

2015-04-30 Thread John Eells
Thompson) wrote: On 04/30/2015 09:24 AM, John Eells wrote: I'm reliably told the problem has been fixed. You beat me to it. I just sent two ftps this morning that worked (finally). -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ib

Re: FTP to IBM -- Problems? - THE TESTCASE SITE WILL NO LONGER ACCEPT DOCUMENTATION

2015-04-30 Thread John Eells
n about testcase is not coordinated to say the least. Thank you, Dave -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 8:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: FTP to I

Re: IEFBR14 question

2015-05-05 Thread John Eells
and post the step as "ran successfully with RC=0"? Being the way that I am, I don't really like a bunch of (IMO) _unnecessary_ special coding I don't know the answer to these questions. However, I feel certain that if we were to change the system in that way, we would find o

Re: IEFBR14 question

2015-05-05 Thread John Eells
r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl (R.S.) wrote: W dniu 2015-05-05 o 15:33, John Eells pisze: [...] The recurring confusion about what IEFBR14 itself actually does (clear GPR15 and return) and what people seem to think it does from the odd post here and their (not yours) is one reason I call

Re: Primary allocation of a dataset

2015-05-06 Thread John Eells
t-3390, but rather emulated on modern disk; however, the logical architecture remains the same even though the physical layer varies underneath it. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- Fo

z/OS Platform Software Products on ... Tape?

2015-05-11 Thread John Eells
e that *NO* decision has yet been made to set an actual date for removing tape as a delivery medium. However, it's clear which way the wind blows, and if you really, really need tape we need to hear from you. Thanks, -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie e

Re: z/OS Platform Software Products on ... Tape?

2015-05-12 Thread John Eells
it's hard to beat a nightly production job that runs RECEIVE ORDER for simplicity, keeping service on hand and HOLDDATA both dead current. "Set and forget." -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -

Re: z/OS Platform Software Products on ... Tape?

2015-05-12 Thread John Eells
elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za (Elardus Engelbrecht) wrote: John Eells wrote: Also...receive from tape? I'd hope fewer people are using RECEIVE processing for product installation every day, and for service it's hard to beat a nightly production job that runs RECEIVE ORDER for

Re: z/OS Platform Software Products on ... Tape?

2015-05-12 Thread John Eells
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu (Paul Gilmartin) wrote: Does IBM (or other vendors) make software available on Blu-Ray? We do not, for the z/OS platform at least. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Customized Offerings Driver and SA Utilities (was Re: z/OS Platform Software Products on ... Tape?)

2015-05-12 Thread John Eells
ore. Also, standalone restore knows how to use the HMC's file system to restore the Customized Offerings Driver (COD) volumes from DVD. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM

Re: z/OS Platform Software Products on ... Tape?

2015-05-13 Thread John Eells
necessary. (But again...continued focus on the vagaries RECEIVE/APPLY/ACCEPT for customers to install products is sort of quaint, and misplaced, in my view.) -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: VSAM file size

2015-05-15 Thread John Eells
, COBOL, etc.) and use a lot of LISTC ENT() ALL commands to a dataset If you're going to need it more than once, I'd suggest the Catalog Search interface rather than parsing LISTC output. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

Re: Notify for XMIT

2015-05-15 Thread John Eells
esign decisions were, and continue to be now. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing 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: z/OS Platform Software Products on ... Tape?

2015-05-21 Thread John Eells
least possible on z/OS. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing 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

Re: LPAR MOBILITY

2015-05-29 Thread John Eells
TPC-R support PTFs for Enhanced HyperSwap closed early too, but I have not gone back to check on the date and APAR numbers. (If the TPC-R support isn't available, it should be no later than the end of June.) -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ib

Re: QUESTION ABOUT SPACE ABEND

2015-05-29 Thread John Eells
n, there's VSAM...data space, index space, AIX space, etc. The abend codes and their return codes are a guide to help you answer the questions above and let you reallocate the data set, if appropriate, with more space, a higher volume count (if applicable), or with a larger PDS directory.

Re: AW: Re: JES2 Exit 23

2015-06-02 Thread John Eells
in the z/OS zones) and it supports enable/disable via IFAPRDxx. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...

Re: CF level z/OS 2.1

2015-06-10 Thread John Eells
CFCC level available for that processor should be fine. tcpipat...@gmail.com (Nathan Astle) wrote: I was looking for CFCC level required to run z/OS 2.1 running on z196. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

Re: Missing order information in PMA report

2015-06-19 Thread John Eells
Transforms - for AFP Common Transform HXFR221 IBM Infoprint Transform for AFP to HP PCL HXFR223 IBM Infoprint Transform for AFP to Adobe PDF If you list the PRODUCT entries, are the order numbers present in them? -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Product Remove from z/OS

2015-07-07 Thread John Eells
x that and try again. HTH, -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing 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: Product Remove from z/OS

2015-07-07 Thread John Eells
se. Doug raises a good point. I'd assumed separate zones for the different levels of CICS. If in fact they are in the same zone, he's entirely correct. Installing the new one will remove the old one. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeep

Re: Product Remove from z/OS

2015-07-07 Thread John Eells
elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za (Elardus Engelbrecht) wrote: John Eells wrote: Before doing anything at all, though, consider renaming the target libraries using an HLQ with UACC(NONE) to which nobody else has access, and waiting for an IPL. John is talking about usage of RACF to remove

Re: Product Remove from z/OS

2015-07-07 Thread John Eells
Kurt will be along any minute to remind me of steps I forgot...but I did remember two: making sure the zones themselves are used only for that level of CICS and not anything else, and removing deleted zones from the ZONEINDEX. ee...@us.ibm.com (John Eells) wrote: If the CICS CSIs are unique

TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS)

2015-07-07 Thread John Eells
us.ibm.com (Alan Schwartz) wrote: Or have someone stay logged on to TSO while updating the logon procs. If there's a problem they can fix it. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -

Re: Product Remove from z/OS

2015-07-20 Thread John Eells
with the retirement/withdrawal of obsolete or discontinued IBM and OEM vendor-licensed products. William J. Smith, M.A. EdFormer IBM DFSMS z/OS Integration and Product Packaging Team Lead -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM

Re: Redbooks.IBM.com is Down

2015-07-22 Thread John Eells
n they get the kinks out. Lots of goonies out there. Costco & Walmart reporting photo site hacked, Apple music 4 1/2 hour outage, etc., ad nauseum -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Library out of space issue while APPLY RSU

2015-07-22 Thread John Eells
the noise (grin). I would recommend FIXPDS RESET, from the PDS package, file 182 on your cbttape dial, www.cbttape.org. It zeroes out the directory and makes it look like an empty PDS. So does IDCAMS DELETE these days (I forget when we added this). Both likely use STOW INIT. -- John Eells

Re: Library out of space issue while APPLY RSU

2015-07-22 Thread John Eells
elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za (Elardus Engelbrecht) wrote: John Eells wrote: Yeah, we can't win there. You can and you have already won. The fact is, with each system there is a list of space requirements in the program directory and/or installation manual. Use these lists and add

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

2015-07-22 Thread John Eells
ee...@us.ibm.com (John Eells) wrote: pinnc...@rochester.rr.com (Thomas Conley) wrote: I would recommend FIXPDS RESET, from the PDS package, file 182 on your cbttape dial, www.cbttape.org. It zeroes out the directory and makes it look like an empty PDS. So does IDCAMS DELETE these days (I

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

2015-07-22 Thread John Eells
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu (Paul Gilmartin) wrote: On 2015-07-22 13:45, John Eells wrote: So does IDCAMS DELETE these days (I forget when we added this). Both likely use STOW INIT. Syntax? That would appear to DELETE the entire library. But DELETE followed by

Re: 1403 at 60Hz

2015-07-29 Thread John Eells
I don't recall any gears in the 1403, so it would be interesting to know where any were that got changed for operation at 50Hz. Are you sure they are gears and not hydraulic unit drive belt pulleys? -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poug

Re: 1403 at 60Hz

2015-07-29 Thread John Eells
print train motor certainly only drove the print train, so I suppose I'm leaning toward the existence of that third motor... -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: 1403 at 60Hz

2015-07-29 Thread John Eells
such that the speed is right. Proving, once again, that documentation beats memory! (I think the 3211 was direct drive and I confused the two.) I might tanke a trip down memory lane later by paging through the book...I haven't seen that book in a Long, Long Time! -- John Eells z/OS Tech

Re: Volume is offline after IPL (ADCD beginner question)

2015-08-03 Thread John Eells
e timely and HCD could be your only real alternative. HTH, -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listser

Re: Limit number of frames of real storage per job

2015-08-04 Thread John Eells
eamacn...@yahoo.ca (Ted MacNEIL) wrote: 1. IiRC, V=R is no longer supported. I could be wrong -- it happens sometimes. V=R remains supported. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For

Re: Limit number of frames of real storage per job

2015-08-07 Thread John Eells
d10j...@us.ibm.com (Jim Mulder) wrote: For a z13 machine, the limits are 10TB on the box, and 4TB in a z/OS partition. ...on z/OS V2.2, and planned for V2.1 at V2.2 GA. Still 1TB for z/OS V1.13. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Limit number of frames of real storage per job

2015-08-08 Thread John Eells
management overhead of a batch C++ program by removing all delete statements, and increasing the virtual storage available until it never ran out. You COULD, but no-one would recommend it as good practice. Overallocating the heap to avoid garbage collection is basically the same thing. -- John

Re: SDSF z/os 2.1 - z/OS upgrade

2015-08-11 Thread John Eells
BECAUSE IT DOES NOT EXIST Is this something can be removed or what actions can be taken. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, sen

Re: IDCAMS DELETE MASK and Recalls

2015-08-19 Thread John Eells
to recall the datasets again. Is this as intended, and documented? Why can't we have both great enhancements together? I forwarded your post to the developer, who was surprised, because the data sets should not be recalled by IDCAMS DELETE. He asks that you open a PMR. -- John Eells

Re: SMF30HVO

2015-08-20 Thread John Eells
martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com (Martin Packer) wrote: Which is precisely why a decent MEMLIMIT / IEFUSI is so important: ...or, with z/OS V2.2, a well-specified set of limits in the new SMFLIMxx parmlib member instead! -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Anyone Using...PSF-Managed, Channel-Attached Printers?

2015-08-25 Thread John Eells
ached printers! The question is only about PSF-managed printers that are channel-attached.) Thanks... -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access inst

Re: S0C4 running Disasembler ASMDASM

2015-08-25 Thread John Eells
' I would think the S0C4 points to missing DD card but I have SYSLIB,SYSPRINT,SYSIN pointing to a load modue csect -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: Stand-alone restore

2015-08-26 Thread John Eells
hat's pertinent for you, but perhaps someone from Innovation will comment. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send emai

Re: Stand-alone restore

2015-08-26 Thread John Eells
ee...@us.ibm.com (John Eells) wrote: sharon.lo...@nc.gov (Lopez, Sharon) wrote: How does one do a stand-alone restore with no tape drives attached? You need to have a tape drive or something that looks like a tape drive (e.g., a VTS) to use DFSMSdss Standalone Restore. I don't know

Re: Stand-alone restore

2015-08-26 Thread John Eells
narrowly specific scope of the COD, no IBM product I know of supports z/OS backups to or restores from DVD. Anyone who wants this function is welcome to open an RFE, of course. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Catalog entry not visible

2015-08-27 Thread John Eells
g of woes. One may also choose to specify this in IGGCATxx these days using ALIASLEVEL(n), where n is a number from 1-4. No matter where (un)specified, the default is the same. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

Re: Catalog entry not visible

2015-08-27 Thread John Eells
OADxx overrides SYSCATLG, but what about IGGCATxx? If these members specify different values for ALIASLEVEL, who wins the thumb wrestle? -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subs

Re: Smaller Private Area in DR

2015-08-27 Thread John Eells
, and (continue to!) monitor used CSA to make sure overt action (such as reducing what's in the LPA list) is not needed to pull the starting address back far enough to preserve CSA free space. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marke

Re: Smaller Private Area in DR

2015-08-28 Thread John Eells
a thought.) -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing 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: how to know the length and blocksize of each member in dataset

2015-09-01 Thread John Eells
? Something else? Perhaps the best question is, "What are you trying to do?" -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send emai

Re: how to know the length and blocksize of each member in dataset

2015-09-02 Thread John Eells
t Thanks a lot! -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing 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: how to know the length and blocksize of each member in dataset

2015-09-02 Thread John Eells
elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za (Elardus Engelbrecht) wrote: Mind you, max blocksize is 32768, but that info is useless. AMBLIST can *probably* help you, but ... The maximum block size for z/OS is actually 32760. (We have to reserve space for those pesky RDWs and BDWs.) -- John Eells z/OS

Re: IBM z/OS Internet Library trimmed to z/OS 1.13 and above

2015-09-02 Thread John Eells
research what release introduced a new facility or enhancement. I'm told they'll be back "soon," probably at the bottom of the page under a new heading that says, in effect, "Ye Olde Books Below." -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM

Re: IBM z/OS Internet Library trimmed to z/OS 1.13 and above

2015-09-03 Thread John Eells
I don't remember what was there originally...but books back to z/OS V1.9, and library centers back to V1.4 are now available on this page again: http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/library/bkserv/index.html -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ib

Re: CBPDO vs ServerPac

2015-09-21 Thread John Eells
rtainly in the USA). -- John Eells (catching up from vacation) z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.ed

Re: CBPDO vs ServerPac

2015-09-21 Thread John Eells
DO more quickly than with ServerPac. As others have said, the week saved by ordering the CBPDO would be overcome (and more) by the additional time spent for the vast majority of people. Moreover, the opportunities for error when installing via CBPDO are far more numerous than those for installing with S

Re: RSU or maintenance level on a system

2015-09-21 Thread John Eells
running system other than system programmer procedures and discipline. Based on the above it's hard to understand why we would write a display command to show something as fuzzy as an "RSU level"...but you could always ask formally if you wish. -- John Eell

Re: HP being sued, not by IBM.....yet!

2015-09-22 Thread John Eells
f with new stuff. Go figure.) -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing 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: Restore time question

2015-09-25 Thread John Eells
ur restores by physical cartridge to try to eliminate some of the physical mount contention. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructio

Re: IBM Electronic Service Agent V1.2

2015-09-28 Thread John Eells
some other product that I should have to provide its functionality in lieu of a replacement? At least they are giving plenty of lead time to resolve this. What are you using it for? -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: IBM Electronic Service Agent V1.2

2015-09-30 Thread John Eells
lity/information. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 6:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM Electronic Service Agent V1.2 Richards, Robert B. wrote: I received a notice

Re: Unicode Red Alert - Fix REQUIRED Before 15 December!

2015-10-01 Thread John Eells
2015, an alternative approach may be to install the fix on a SYSRES, and IPL with that SYSRES in the event of an unplanned IPL on or after December 15, 2015. A scheduled IPL should be planned for the fix as soon as possible afterwards, if not yet installed. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Mark

Re: z/OS 2.2 delayed?

2015-10-01 Thread John Eells
Why would you think it was delayed? Richards, Robert B. wrote: Did I miss an announcement that z/OS 2.2 was being delayed? It was planned for September 30, 2015 according to preview announcements. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Xerox Printers

2015-10-05 Thread John Eells
rint Server is a priced optional feature of z/OS. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu wi

Re: IRRD125I - The key size that was specified or defaulted is not acceptable.

2015-10-06 Thread John Eells
Shopz. BTW, there are actually *three* limits. Just because we can send technology /out of/ the United States does not mean it's OK to import it /into/ a particular country. (I am thankful that I'm not involved in that end of the business!) -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM

Re: Subscribing to IBM-MAIN

2015-10-09 Thread John Eells
help: https://www.lsoft.com/manuals/16.0/htmlhelp/list%20subscribers/LSCommands.html -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: File Placement Utility

2015-10-12 Thread John Eells
oints of view, because it does neither one. SMS might be the OP's friend here, as others have suggested. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arc

Re: File Placement Utility

2015-10-12 Thread John Eells
Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: John Eells wrote: (With today's disk sizes, it's more sensible in my view to just put all the target libraries on one volume, but what do I know?) Similar to Mark Zelden's One Pack solution? ;-D SMS might be the OP's friend here, as o

Re: RRSF Vtam vs TCPIP

2015-10-15 Thread John Eells
ould start planning for that tomorrow. But in my opinion, we won't.) -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Coupling facility users

2015-10-19 Thread John Eells
Roger Lowe wrote: Have a look at the CF Sizer tool - http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/z/cfsizer/ Now, why didn't I think of that? (Too simple and direct, I suppose.) Of course, that might well be a resource only for IBM exploiters of the CF, and there are others. -- John Ee

Re: Bookmanager BUILD and z/OS V2.2

2015-10-22 Thread John Eells
remarkably fast, and APPLYing something relatively small without any PTFs is pretty quick too. I'd be inclined to do some quick checking, try it, and see whether it works. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com ---

Re: (External):Re: Unicode Query

2015-10-23 Thread John Eells
x27;s definitely there in z/OS V1.13. Thus, all supported releases include some level of function for this command. What we did in z/OS V2.1 was teach it to work for PDS and not just PDSE. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ib

Re: (External):Re: Unicode Query

2015-10-26 Thread John Eells
ative?) ;-) -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing 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: ADR402E Message During Backup

2015-10-29 Thread John Eells
ServerPac, with plenty of opportunities to find latent problems or (just due to the sheer number of steps) make errors that require even more time to correct. There's a *reason* why gas grills come mostly preassembled these days... -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ib

Re: IPL wait state

2015-11-12 Thread John Eells
that) you should get a 00F wait if you try to IPL from a volume with no IPL text. However, the IPL text--at the level matching the system you are trying to IPL--is required to IPL. If you never wrote it to the IPL volume the IPL will fail. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

Re: IPL wait state

2015-11-13 Thread John Eells
et a wait state code because there is nothing there to load it. All zeros is what you would expect if the "bootstrap" records never got loaded. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 12, 2015, at 6:58 AM, John Eells wrote: Nathan Astle wrote: Hello, I did applied some maintenance to my sandbox

Re: RSU APPLY

2015-11-16 Thread John Eells
U* . For example Currently in our z/OS system we RSU1403 and now we planning to apply RSU1509 then in this case, in SOURCEID parameter what we should be specifying SOURCEID(RSU1509) or SOURCEID(RSU*) . -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com ---

Re: Deleting all members of a pds

2015-11-20 Thread John Eells
V1.12, so everybody running on a supported release can use 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

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