Re: VSWITCH not working with VLANs

2009-03-23 Thread Jan de Wet - Business Connexion
Hi Alan Thank you This solved the problem Thank you Jan de Wet Deployment (Business Connexion), Services Building, Midrand, South Africa Cell: +27 (0)82 902 1996 Office: +27 (0)11 990 1695 Fax:+27 (0)86 572 5720 e-mail: jan.de...@bcx.co.za Jesus Christ is my Lord -Original

SMSG to RACFVM to do SMF SWITCH

2009-03-23 Thread Martin, Terry R. (LOCKHEED MARTIN Performance Engineering/CTR) (CTR)
Hi I am testing gout the RACFSMF SMF switching process and I want to issue the SMF SWITCH command to RACFVM. When I try to issue the SMSG RACFSM SMF SWITCH it tells me that in this case that my MAINT user id does not have the authority to issue the SMSG. What do I need to set this authority

Re: SMSG to RACFVM to do SMF SWITCH

2009-03-23 Thread Kris Buelens
You need to be authorized in CSTCONS. This file tells not only who RACFVM must send messages too, but also who can send SMSG commands to it. It is an ASSEMBLER file, but the standard ASSEMBLE coimmand can still compile it into CSTCONS TEXT. Don't tell the enemy: OPERATOR is by default in the

Help mounting tape on IBM ATL

2009-03-23 Thread Philip Tully
Hello, I'm trying to have a 3590 z/VM install tape mounted inside an IBM ATL. T he customer I am working with is not sure how to tell the library to mount t he tape. Does anyone have suggestions? Phil

Changing text to postscript

2009-03-23 Thread Mary Zervos
Hello all, Does anyone know if there is software available on z/vm that converts a text file to a postscript file? Thank you, Mary Zervos VM Systems Programmer Binghamton University

Re: Changing text to postscript

2009-03-23 Thread Neale Ferguson
Does it have to be postscript or would PDF suffice? For postscript DCF (aka script) can create PS files. The TXT2PDF command does what it says: converts text to PDF. On 3/23/09 10:21 AM, Mary Zervos zer...@binghamton.edu wrote: Hello all, Does anyone know if there is software available on

Re: SCSIDISC SAMPEXEC on z/VM 5.4.0

2009-03-23 Thread David Boyes
On 3/22/09 10:26 PM, Alan Ackerman alan.acker...@earthlink.net wrote: Endicott has a bad case of NIH. (Not Invented Here.) Not just Endicott. Becoming more endemic by the day. -- db

Re: SMSG to RACFVM to do SMF SWITCH

2009-03-23 Thread Martin, Terry R. (LOCKHEED MARTIN Performance Engineering/CTR) (CTR)
Thanks Kris! Thank You, Terry Martin Lockheed Martin - Information Technology z/OS z/VM Systems - Performance and Tuning Cell - 443 632-4191 Work - 410 786-0386 terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf

Re: Changing text to postscript

2009-03-23 Thread Rich Greenberg
On: Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:21:35AM -0400,Mary Zervos Wrote: Does anyone know if there is software available on z/vm that converts a text file to a postscript file? An old friend had one at one time. He is retired from VM but I have coppied him on this note to ask if it is still available

Re: Changing text to postscript

2009-03-23 Thread Lionel B. Dyck
While browsing the internet (google) I came across this site: http://www.tavi.co.uk/os2pages/ews.html which has this tools that might be useful as a starting point: NameDescription FilenameMore information PRINTPS REXXprogram to print a text file on

Re: Help mounting tape on IBM ATL

2009-03-23 Thread Imler, Steven J
Assuming the tape has the scanable bar coding on the external label, have the customer insert the tape into the convenience station (the slots where you insert tapes into the ATL). Then issue the DFSMS command to move the tape from INSERT status to VOLSPECIFIC ... --- DFSMSRM SET VOLCAT volser

Re: SMSG to RACFVM to do SMF SWITCH

2009-03-23 Thread Martin, Terry R. (LOCKHEED MARTIN Performance Engineering/CTR) (CTR)
Hi I was able to issue the command as you pointed out but received an error when it tried to autolog the RACFSFM machine. When I look at the SMF CONTROL file I see the following: CURRENT 301 K PRIMARY 301 K SECONDARY 302 K 1 LVA1 CLOSE 001 SEVER NO 0 RAC Note that RAC should be the

Re: Changing text to postscript

2009-03-23 Thread David Boyes
PPS EXEC. Supplied with RSCS. It will at least produce a printer-friendly spool file (if you SP PRT TO *) and you can grab that and read it back to disk. On 3/23/09 10:21 AM, Mary Zervos zer...@binghamton.edu wrote: Hello all, Does anyone know if there is software available on z/vm that

Re: Help mounting tape on IBM ATL

2009-03-23 Thread LOREN CHARNLEY
Phil, Here are the commands that I used when we had a 'Tape Robot' and DFSMS. DFSMSRM MOUNT VOL XX (RDEV 0600 VDEV 0600 ATTACH VSEPROD READWR DFSMSRM DEMOUNT RDEV 0600 DETACH 0600 FROM VSEPROD WHERE XXX WILL BE THE VOLUME YOU WANT TO INITIALIZE SUBSTITUTE 0600 FOR 0601 WHEN

Re: Changing text to postscript

2009-03-23 Thread Mary Zervos
Thanks! Lionel B. Dyck wrote: *While browsing the internet (google) I came across this site: **http://www.tavi.co.uk/os2pages/ews.html* *which has this tools that might be useful as a starting point:* Name * *Description * *Filename * *More information PRINTPS REXX * *program to print a text

Re: BFS SSLSERV question

2009-03-23 Thread David Boyes
On 3/22/09 3:31 PM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: Sorry, David, that would just make things worse since we'd keep shipping a new CONFIG filepool in each release as we do with VMSYS and VMSYSU, and then there would be two *global* CONFIG filepools in the collection. Two objects

SMF CONTROL FILE FOR RACFVM

2009-03-23 Thread Martin, Terry R. (LOCKHEED MARTIN Performance Engineering/CTR) (CTR)
Hi I asked this in another thread but I thought it might be better in a separate one for archiving purposes. Anyway I am trying to get the RACFSMF SMF switch process to work. I modified the SMF CONTROL file to specify the correct LPAR and added the RACFSMF machine name at the end of the

Re: SMSG to RACFVM to do SMF SWITCH

2009-03-23 Thread Kris Buelens
Here SMF CONTROL is RECFM F LRECL 100. So maybe: Link to RACFVM 191: VMLINK RACFVM 191 COPYFILE SMF CONTROL fm = = A (LRECL 100 XEDIT SMF CONTROL A Verify 1 * overtype RAC by RACFSMF FILE SENDFILE SMF CONTROL A RACFVM SET SECUSER RACFVM * CP SEND CP RACFVM Q RDR *

Re: SMF CONTROL FILE FOR RACFVM

2009-03-23 Thread Kris Buelens
I guess your SMF CONTROL is RECFM F LRECL 80; Another problem can be caused by XEDIT: the default will be VERIFY 1 80, meaning you view cols 1 to 80. If you overtype beyond col 80, XEDIT throws that away. That's why I suggested COPYFILE (LRECL 100 and VERIFY 1 100 in the other tread?

Re: SMF CONTROL FILE FOR RACFVM

2009-03-23 Thread Martin, Terry R. (LOCKHEED MARTIN Performance Engineering/CTR) (CTR)
Thanks Kris. I will follow your advice and see what happens! Thank You, Terry Martin Lockheed Martin - Information Technology z/OS z/VM Systems - Performance and Tuning Cell - 443 632-4191 Work - 410 786-0386 terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating

RSCS Query

2009-03-23 Thread Wandschneider, Scott
I would like to issue an RSCS QUERY LINKS and queue the results so I can spin through the response looking for information. Here is a snippet from an experimental REXX EXEC. The results from the query are displayed back at my terminal and the @HowMany variable is always zero. Any ideas?

Re: SMF CONTROL FILE FOR RACFVM

2009-03-23 Thread Martin, Terry R. (LOCKHEED MARTIN Performance Engineering/CTR) (CTR)
HI Kris, My CONTROL file is F 100. BTW, when I issued the: CP SEND RACFVM EXEC RECEIVE 0039 (replace I received an error from the EXEC stating the no data was found on line 0. I did update the SMF CONTROL file in RACFVM by linking to it and updating the SMF CONTROL file on the 'A' disk. I did

Re: RSCS Query

2009-03-23 Thread Peter . Webb
The may be a better way, but when I did it I did it like this: snip CP SMSG RSCS (ML.signature) QUERY FILES ON printer SHOW ID, FROMUSER FILENAME FILETYPE CLASS STATUS RECORDS RECSDONE FORM /snip ... snip /**/ /* Receive

Re: RSCS Query

2009-03-23 Thread Mark Wheeler
Scott, I use an RSCS pipelines stage written by Robert Fowles.I don't recall where I got it (maybe someone else remembers), but it does exactly what you need without a lot of fuss. Here's some doc: /* * * ROUTINE:

Re: RSCS Query

2009-03-23 Thread Dave Jones
Scott, try setting SMSG to IUCV before issuing the PIPE command: CP SET SMSG IUCV Wandschneider, Scott wrote: I would like to issue an RSCS QUERY LINKS and queue the results so I can spin through the response looking for information. Here is a snippet from an experimental REXX EXEC. The

Re: RSCS Query

2009-03-23 Thread Kris Buelens
This could work, if WAKEUP must be started before one issues the SMSG command to RSCS. So: 'WAKEUP +0 (IUCVMSG' 'CP SM RSCS QUERY do forever WAKEUP +wait (IUCVMSG QUIET end 'WAKEUP RESET' And, seconds1 = time(seconds) should better be seconds1 =

Re: RSCS Query

2009-03-23 Thread Feller, Paul
Here is part of some code I have to capture output from commands to put in the file to browse. If Substr(CMDINPUT,1,2) = 'SM' Then do 'pipe cp q s |', /* Q SET to get current MSG setting */ 'split string /,/ |',/* Split at the comma */ 'take 1 |',

Re: RSCS Query

2009-03-23 Thread Mark Wheeler
Scott, Also, find the QRSCS REXX example under Trapping the Responses to RSCS Commands in the z/VM V5R2.0 CMS Pipelines User's Guide at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zvm/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.zvm.v53.dmsc5/hcsh1b10187.htm Mark Wheeler Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009

Re: SMF CONTROL FILE FOR RACFVM

2009-03-23 Thread Kris Buelens
So you had F 100, so I guess the SMF CONTROL was OK, but you didn't see it. I looked on my system and with VERIFY 1 80, what you just see ends with RAC; but V 1 * would make you see RACFSMF. EXEC RECEIVE may indeed fail: RACF's 190, S-disk has not all CMS tools. a CP SEND RACFM to LINK MAINT

Re: RSCS Query

2009-03-23 Thread James Stracka (DHL US)
Scott, Try this: /* REXX */ address COMMAND CP SET MSG IUCV PIPE (ENDCHAR ?) STARMSG *MSG CP SMSG RSCS QUERY LINKS , | specs 17-* 1, /* Drop the first 16 chars */ | STEM REC., | LITERAL +5 | DELAY, | PIPESTOP say HowMany rec.0 CP SET MSG

Re: SMF CONTROL FILE FOR RACFVM

2009-03-23 Thread Martin, Terry R. (LOCKHEED MARTIN Performance Engineering/CTR) (CTR)
Thanks Kris! Thank You, Terry Martin Lockheed Martin - Information Technology z/OS z/VM Systems - Performance and Tuning Cell - 443 632-4191 Work - 410 786-0386 terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf

Re: RSCS Query

2009-03-23 Thread Wandschneider, Scott
Thanks to all who responded with some very good solutions. I have it working and it sends emails when it determines a problem with one of the links. Thanks again to all. Scott R Wandschneider Senior Systems Programmer|| Infocrossing, a Wipro Company || 11707 Miracle Hills Drive, Omaha,

Re: RSCS Query

2009-03-23 Thread Mark Wheeler
The advantage that Robert Fowles' RSCS REXX stage has over any of the solutions I've seen so far (including the QRSCS REXX sample I pointed out) is its use of a CRI-prefix to uniquely identify the responses coming back from RSCS as being those from the specific command you issued. The others

DDR i/o error on 3592s

2009-03-23 Thread Marcy Cortes
Am I doing something wrong here? I'm dumping a bunch of mdisks to tape: 'rew 181' 'tape dvol1' queue 'sysprint cons' queue 'prompt off' queue 'in 100 dasd' queue 'out 181 tape

possible routing problem in SMTP

2009-03-23 Thread Gentry, Stephen
I (we) recently got a 550 Source routing is not permitted. I think this problem is self induced but I don't know exactly how to fix it, so I'm consulting the group. We send emails to customers directly from the mainframe. ( and excuse me if I don't use all of the correct technical terms).

Re: possible routing problem in SMTP

2009-03-23 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 03/23/2009 at 07:06 EDT, Gentry, Stephen stephen.gen...@lafayettelife.com wrote: Our server/email sysadmin has been wanting me to route emails through an smtp relay. Is there a way I can tell SMTP to send all out bound email through that relay? I?ve looked in the manual but

OT: Anyone have a copy of the IBM Systems Journal, vol 17, number 3?

2009-03-23 Thread David Boyes
I'm trying to locate some of the early NJE networking articles, which all seem to be in vol 17, #3. Does anyone have a copy they would let me borrow long enough to copy the NJE/NJI related articles? Please let me know off-list. Thanks. -- db

Ross Johnson wants to chat

2009-03-23 Thread Ross Johnson
--- Ross Johnson wants to stay in better touch using some of Google's coolest new products. If you already have Gmail or Google Talk, visit: http://mail.google.com/mail/b-7dfd1e727b-230c67126c-e0d9bc43deb80368 You'll need to

Support of z/VM and zLinux environments

2009-03-23 Thread Ross Johnson
This is also being cross posted to the Linux-390 group. In your organization, do you support the zLinux distribution as well as z/VM, or are there separate groups in place, one to support z/VM and one for zLinux? Thanks. Ross

Re: OT: Anyone have a copy of the IBM Systems Journal, vol 17, number 3?

2009-03-23 Thread Dale R. Smith
How about an online version? http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/173/ibmsj1703C.pdf - Job networkin g http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/173/ibmsj1703D.pdf - Network job entry facility for JES2 For anyone who is interested, online versions of the IBM Systems Journal and the IBM Journal

Randy Burton: last day at Wachovia 12/19

2009-03-23 Thread Randy Burton
I will be out of the office starting 12/19/2008 and will not return until 01/01/2010. My last day with Wachovia is Friday, December 19. After that, you can reach me personally at: randy.bur...@earthlink.net For any issues at Wachovia, please contact: john.hoff...@wachovia.com or