Re: APARs and PTFs for the z196

2010-11-12 Thread gclovis
Hi, George. Sorry by the delay: I had problems with my email server for the last days... To find corrections, I follow the IBM instructions; one page forward to the next. For this especific case, see the road: 1- http://www.vm.ibm.com Click Service 2-http://www.vm.ibm.com/service/ Click

Re: BRP

2010-11-12 Thread Brian Nielsen
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:10:49 -0800, Schuh, Richard rsc...@visa.com wrot e: In essence, we will be breaking the connections with the main system at a time not previously disclosed to us, and will not be allowed to go back to it or reference anything on it for the duration of the test. We will

Re: BRP

2010-11-12 Thread Schuh, Richard
It does indeed leave a window open; however, I am not setting the rules. The ones who do are aware of it and are willing to accept the risk. They have set the parameters such that we must get the system back up within 12 hours, and that the system brought up be no more than 24 hours out of

Re: APARs and PTFs for the z196

2010-11-12 Thread gclovis
George, That is a correction for a NON-SES product: EREP. Not managed by SERVICE/PUT2PROD. See Service Guide how to apply NON-SES PTFs. __ Clovis From: George Henke/NYLIC george_he...@newyorklife.com To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date: 08/11/2010

Re: APARs and PTFs for the z196

2010-11-12 Thread George Henke/NYLIC
ty, Clovis, but PK97799 is not an EREP APAR. VM64807 (#3 below) is the Non-SES EREP APAR to which I believe you refer. I was able to apply VM64807 following the instructions in the EREP PGMDIR which were quite good. PK97799 (#1 below), however, is an HLASM SES APAR which I have been told

Re: Streamlining the IPL

2010-11-12 Thread George Henke/NYLIC
I IPLed as Kris suggested: Q V CONS#SYSTEM RESET#TERM CONMODE 3270 IPL 125B LOADPARM CONS My cons was 0009. But it made no difference I put the commands in the OPERATOR directory but it made no difference. I put them in the 2d Level Machine directory, VMUVM, itself and it still made no

RACF SETROPTS MINCHANGE

2010-11-12 Thread Leland Lucius
While checking the SETROPTS one of our auditors happened to notice that RACF on z/VM no longer (or never has) supported the password MINCHANGE value. Was it every there on z/VM? Why wouldn't it be supported on z/VM while it is on z/OS? Just curious. Thanks, Leland

Re: APARs and PTFs for the z196

2010-11-12 Thread gclovis
Sorry, George. My mistake. HLASM isn't imbedded into z/VM. If needed, must be acquired separately. __ Clovis From: George Henke/NYLIC george_he...@newyorklife.com To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date: 12/11/2010 18:30 Subject: Re: APARs and PTFs for the

Re: APARs and PTFs for the z196

2010-11-12 Thread George Henke/NYLIC
Thank you, Clovis, I was wondering why? I do not know that and it did not leave me with a warm and fuzzy feeling. But thank you for letting me know. Now I will be able to sleep at night. gclo...@br.ibm.com Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 11/12/2010 06:40

Re: APARs and PTFs for the z196

2010-11-12 Thread Mike Walter
Disclaimer: I do not speak for IBM, this is only my understanding of these repeatedly discussed issues on this listserve. The IBM High Level Assembler is a separately orderable, and chargeable Licensed Program Product (meaning: it's not free, you must pay for it). Since it is NOT required, it

Re: RACF SETROPTS MINCHANGE

2010-11-12 Thread Leland Lucius
Nevermind...he found his notes from the last audit and he had documented the differences at that time. Leland On 11/12/10 5:06 PM, Leland Lucius wrote: While checking the SETROPTS one of our auditors happened to notice that RACF on z/VM no longer (or never has) supported the password

Re: RACF SETROPTS MINCHANGE

2010-11-12 Thread George Henke/NYLIC
It is because VM is a virtual system. You need to ask the auditor if he knows the difference between real and virtual If you see it and it's there, it's real. If you don't see it and it's there it's transparent. If you see it and it's not there, it is virtual. Leland Lucius

Re: APARs and PTFs for the z196

2010-11-12 Thread George Henke/NYLIC
ty, Mike. I believe HLASM is also used for IOCP/IODF processing. Though such processing rarely happens now in the z/VM world, that may change in the future. And from some recent posts on the matter, it appears to already be happening. There seems to be a trend away from dependence on z/OS

Re: APARs and PTFs for the z196

2010-11-12 Thread Mark Post
On 11/12/2010 at 08:20 PM, Mike Walter mike.wal...@hewitt.com wrote: And there's always the Dignus Systems/ASM product. See-- http://www.dignus.com/dasm/ That product is definitely Ready for Prime Time. Big-time companies use it. Including, up until a year or two ago, IBM's z/VM