Re: Capturing response from SCS

2011-07-20 Thread A. Harry Williams
/* * * ROUTINE: RSCS REXX (pipeline driver for RSCS 3.1) * * PURPOSE: Pipeline driver to issue RSCS 3.1 command and trap *output. No inputs; output sent to primary output. * * PACKAGE: USERTOOL *

Re: Watson

2011-02-18 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:42:06 -0600 David Boyes said: I, too, wished IBM would do more to highlight the z series capabilities in public forums, but Watson is a massively parallel system (2K+ cores, I believe), and I have my doubts as to whether or not a collection of z10s could be integrated

Re: ***SPAM*** Re: Watson

2011-02-15 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:12:36 -0600 Dave Jones said: Thanks, Alanthat's what I thought...Watson does not need to spend any cycles doing voice recognition http://ibmresearchnews.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-watson-sees-hears-and-speaks-to.html Unfortunately, here in the Houston

Re: Stopping DIAL From Stripping Extended Data Stream

2010-12-29 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:40:01 -0500 Alan Altmark said: On Tuesday, 12/28/2010 at 04:08 EST, George Henke/NYLIC george_he...@newyorklife.com wrote: Our Supersession boys swear it is not Superseesion. Could it be the Coupling Facility Service Machine doing it? George, the Coupling Facility is not

Re: Curiousity question - Changing the status area

2010-12-17 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:12:02 -0600 Ron Schmiedge said: Hi Mike, We use CA-VTERM multi-session manager, it changes the nodeid on the bottom right to the CMS userid, but that's probably not a viable solution for you, since that is probably more dollars than your client wants to spend. Don't know

Re: Spool File Backup (SFB) BCHTIMER Files

2010-10-22 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:30:05 -0500 Mike Walter said: You can determine the number of 4K pages that each spool file command is currently using from a Privclass D userid with the commands: CP QUERY RDR EXP CP QUERY PRT EXP CP QUERY PUN EXP The 'SIZE' column has the answers. This should get you

Re: New standard for networking help

2010-07-16 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:18:02 -0500 David Boyes said: My friend, Chuckie, whispered to me that all World-Class Systems Programmers would undoubtedly like to know about and adhere to this new Standard of Excellence, so I immediately thought of you all. :-) I admit to being anxious to

Re: can you make the CP ignore the # symbol?

2010-07-01 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:27:13 -0500 Daniel Tate said: Thanks everyone, that problem's solved. Head's up on a new problem. The #CP command is either now not available or has been changed, to what ever your linend character is, so TERM LINEND % makes it %CP XXX On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:10

Re: what is a 'full pack' minidisk?

2010-06-19 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:45:54 -0600 Scott Rohling said: I like that - it does imply 'almost'.. but now I'm going for '12end'. We'll see if it lasts through the weekend ;-) Tot ziens! How about 1 short of a full pack(deck)? Scott Rohling On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Rob van der Heij

Re: Converting Text to XLS

2010-04-20 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:27:09 -0700 Schuh, Richard said: Does anyone know of a program to create an XLS file from a text file on CMS? The file can be sent as a CSV file attached to an e-mail; however, opening the CSV file with Excel or other spreadsheet programs exposes a few formatting

Re: enhanced DAT facility

2009-11-01 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:33:09 -0400 Alan Altmark said: On Friday, 10/30/2009 at 05:14 EDT, DUBOIS Laurent (EXT DUBOIS) laurent.dub...@sncf.fr wrote: I have a zTPF guy who tells me that z/TPF will support the enhanced DAT facility soon to improve performance. When I checked our CPU facility

Re: Network timeout on TCPIP RSCS links

2009-10-16 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:22:37 -0400 Mrohs, Ray said: The link comes right back up after its disconnected. But from a security standpoint it seems that a link that is idle and stays connected to its peer is more secure than one that is waiting for a connection to happen. Maybe these firewall rules

Re: ISPF/PDF CMS MACLIB - Maintenance

2009-08-18 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:24:59 -0700 Llewellyn, Mark said: Dale, The MACLIB is maintained by a service machine which copies it to a large TEMP disk, compresses it, then copies it back to the prod disk. The copy FROM the prod disk always seems to be ok. The copy of the compressed MACLIB back to

Re: REXX DATE - Julian and Centry

2009-07-30 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:39:14 -0500 Frank M. Ramaekers said: I don't think that any of the Rexx functions commands are reserved, but you have to be careful if you use any of them. For instance: When=Date('B')-1 Will cause problems for the following Select When g=1 then nop Otherwise

Re: Any idea? Dirmaint error by detach 123 disk(540RES)

2009-05-30 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Fri, 29 May 2009 21:41:52 -0500, Mike Walter mike.wal...@hewitt.com wrote: Atheletic Training Department Atheletic? It is unfortunate that you're not located next door to the English Department. ;-) They keep them(English) as far away from me as possible, the complete oth er end of

Re: Any idea? Dirmaint error by detach 123 disk(540RES)

2009-05-29 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Fri, 29 May 2009 19:31:11 -0400 Alan Altmark said: I really must get cracking on the z/VM Auditor's Field and Survival Guide [Free cudgel included at no extra charge! Now contains the most common phrases heard from z/VM security weasels in the wild, including such hits as I'm gonna whap you

Re: 45th anniversary of the mainframe today!

2009-04-07 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 10:48:00 -0500 Dave Jones said: Slightly off topic.three things happened in April 1964 to make it a rather remarkable month, imho: 1) IBM introduced the System/360, as Jim has reminded us. 2) Ford introduced the Ford Mustang (April 17) and 3) Stanley Kubrick had lunch with

Re: VM FTP Question

2009-03-07 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 10:30:50 -0500 Tracy, David said: All, We had a server interruption while an FTP transfer was in progress. Source files from VM; target AIX. It appears a non 0 return code was not set when this occurred. Has anyone experienced this? Here is a portion of the console log.

Re: Clean up the spool

2008-12-15 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:36:50 -0600 Mike Walter said: From a CLASS D userid (not usually a good thing for MAINT, but you can from MAINT usually enter: SET PRIV MAINT +D, and then when done CP STE PRIV MAINT -D), enter: PIPE CP Q RDR ALL ISO | ALLSPOOL FILES A PIPE CP Q PRT ALL ISO | ALLSPOOL

Re: Compare VM files

2008-12-10 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:15:43 -0600 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bob_Heerdink?= said: I still use WCOMP from Herb Weiner dated 1988. Well, since I believe XCOMPARE was written by Herb when he was at Cornell, it's quite probably the same thing. -Bob /ahw

Re: XML on VM

2008-11-19 Thread A. Harry Williams
at using a LPR PUNCH queue instead of a PRINTER queue. See http://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0205L=VMESA-LP=R18532 /ahw A pipe stage for a XML document. What a country! Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting A. Harry Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/18/2008 11:21 PM On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:49:14

Re: XML on VM

2008-11-18 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:49:14 -0600 Tom Duerbusch said: Came back from a meeting and my brain hurts We are forcing the integration of VSE into a new Identity Manager (IDM) system. Currently we manage security for VSE via a bunch of REXX execs up in CMS. With a bunch of VSE systems, this was a

Re: FW: Risk of Adding a Paging Volume

2008-11-14 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:12:45 -0500 Alan Altmark said: On Friday, 11/14/2008 at 01:07 EST, Schuh, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, it is record 3 that contains the volume label. It and records 1, and 2 are 80 byte records. Technically, the VOL1 label standard permits the label to

Re: Bear History

2008-11-09 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 20:08:25 -0600 Nick Laflamme said: On Nov 8, 2008, at 6:56 PM, Chip Davis wrote: On 11/8/08 13:30 A. Harry Williams said: (The Jobusches subsequently got a 50-KB roll of stickers, to keep SHARE well supplied.) As in 50 KiloBears ? ;-) Technically, a bear sticker only

Bear History

2008-11-08 Thread A. Harry Williams
From page 2 of Melinda's paper (http://www.princeton.edu/~melinda/25paper.pdf) With VM's amazing growth, the VM Group in SHARE had always had a problem making newcomers feel at home, simply because they always outnumbered the oldtimers. In 1983, the Group was going through yet another attempt to

Re: Virtual machine 'escape'

2008-11-04 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 13:23:40 -0500 Dennis Boone said: What effect would this same hack have on the intended target if the x86 system being targeted was running as a guest under z/VM? Wouldn't the ill effects be reduced by the wall between virtual guests inherent with z/VM? The x86

Re: Value added by z/VM versus VMWARE

2008-11-04 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Sat, 1 Nov 2008 01:26:06 -0500, Alan Ackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another question from the same architecture person. What is the value ad ded by z/VM over VMWARE for a Linux workload? (That's my wording, not his.) As usual, I don't know anything about what VMWARE can or cannot do. I'm

Re: I/O Overhead - z/VM versus VMWARE

2008-11-04 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:25:17 -0500, Alan Ackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got asked: “Does z/VM impose non-insignificant overhead? Is it similar to VMware , in which virtual I/O imposes significant overhead, but most processor and memory access runs at close to native physical speed?” I

Re: Virtual machine 'escape'

2008-11-04 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 16:15:52 -0500 Alan Altmark said: Don't be deceived by the EAL number. It is a measure of the amount of evidence (assurance) that the vendor has provided to the evaluator to support the claims in the Security Target. It also measures the amount of effort expended by the

Re: What's on a tape?

2008-11-01 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:42:54 -0400 Wayne T Smith said: I've been asked to figure out what we have in our inventory of VM and VSE tapes, in preparation for moving to new drives/media. I'm expecting to write a PIPE that will do the required summary, more or less iterating to a final solution by

Re: z/VM JAVA VM

2008-10-22 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:04:40 -0400 David Boyes said: times earlier, if you want JAVA support on VM, you should install a Linux guest and use the up-to-date levels on there. Java itself is a virtual machine. Maybe a z/Java guest someday? Would be a clever way to actually make the zAAP

Re: Tracking Hot Spots

2008-10-01 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 15:33:00 -0700 Schuh, Richard said: We have a situation where we need to discover what hot spots exist in specific virtual machines, where they are spending the most execution time, from outside the machines in question. Are there any tools that can do this type of monitoring?

Re: What people are doing

2008-09-19 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:59:38 -0400 Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) said: Hi Are you seeing a fair number of shops running Oracle on Linux on Z and if so have the results been favorable? The question comes about because My management is hearing that when people move servers over to the Z

Re: Partially Successful: OpenVMS on System z

2008-09-09 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:24:01 -0400 David Boyes said: I didn't know that OpenVMS could run on Intel Itaniums, but it sounds way cool. Yes. It's a relatively recent development (and about 20 years too late -- we could have been spared Windows entirely if DEC had bought a clue way back

Re: CMS Files to XMIT compatible datastream

2008-08-07 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 14:22:38 -0400 David Boyes said: TAPPDS and TAPEMAC can reassemble unloaded PDSes on CMS. In looking around, also look for INMR123 REXX on your S disk. That seems to do something like what you might want. OSPDS is a rexx stage for Pipelines that breaks apart a IEBCOPY file.

Re: Some REXX exec help needed.

2008-07-17 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:55:44 -0400 Hughes, Jim said: Pretty harsh comment there Richard. It seems he'd like to eat up the response to the Close command and perhaps process the result. The CP command as you wrote it displays it on the console. The DIAG command as you wrote it also displays the

Re: SFS REVOKE AUTH question

2008-06-19 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:32:59 -0700 Schuh, Richard said: One minor correction, PUBLIC grants access to everyone who has been enrolled in the filepool. If the id in question is not enrolled, it gains no access. They'll receive a DMSACCR1240E if they try to ACCESS the directory, FPLSFS733E

Re: [LINUX-390] VM Accounting data in linux

2008-05-22 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Thu, 22 May 2008 08:39:04 +0200 Rob van der Heij said: On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:51 AM, Thomas Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to thank Rob for pointing out the new STRUCTURE capabilities in the latest runtime version of Pipelines. His presentation shows enough to get me started on

Mime attachments

2008-03-27 Thread A. Harry Williams
I'm looking for a utility that would take an email file and create the files that are mime attachments on disk. There are several examples of the reverse on the VM downloads page (MAILIT, etc) or there is the SENDFILE, but there is nothing I can find that deals handling a file that has

Re: MONWRITE files

2008-03-18 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:41:24 -0500 =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thomas_Kern?= said: Maybe this is where we need a NEW utility program, since MONWRITE is doing exactly the job it was written for (copying ALL monitor data to disk/tape?). Perhaps a utility that when pointed at a selection criteria file and a

[ias-opportunities] CFP: security and virtualization special issue (fwd)

2008-01-17 Thread A. Harry Williams
Original message To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Sean W. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-ASG-Orig-Subj: [ias-opportunities] CFP: security and virtualization special issue Subject: [ias-opportunities] CFP: security and virtualization special issue

Re: DB2/VSEVM V7.50 manuals

2008-01-09 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 00:48:04 -0600, Alan Ackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 09:06:43 -0500, Roland P. Chung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Listers, DB2/VSEVM V7.50 manuals are online at: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/vse-vm/directory.html Regards, ...Roland I

Re: dirm needpass no

2007-11-11 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 10:52:20 -0500 Phil Smith III said: Les Geer (607-429-3580) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe there is a dirm globalv setting which removes the need, perhaps this is the command I am thinking of. It is a onetime event. I believe Les means: GLOBALV SELECT DVH15 SET PRESET

Charlotte access to unaccessed SFS directory

2007-11-03 Thread A. Harry Williams
I think the answer is it isn't possible, but I can access a file using charlotte by charlotte file:///fn.ft.fm but it doesn't seem to support charlotte file:///fn.ft.dirid especially if dirid isn't access. The help doesn't address it, so I susp ect it isn't supported. Other than reading

Re: Q DASD shows a different disk size than Q DISK

2007-09-14 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:32:27 -0400 Stracka, James (GTI) said: The 190 is different from most minidisks. The 7 cylinder difference is for the CMS IPL RECOMP area. Do HELP FORMAT Besides the 190, you can also see it on other disks and it may or may not be a problem. The most common of those is a

Re: Ops privs

2007-08-25 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:20:38 +0200 Rob van der Heij said: On 8/24/07, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are some who believe that the authority to LOGON BY to a user should implicitly allow: - XAUTOLOG - SET SECUSER or OBSERVER - SEND (a la class C) - FORCE - SIGNAL SHUTDOWN Put

Re: Possible Causes of HCPMFS057I

2007-07-31 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:32:40 -0400 Michael Coffin said: I know a lot of people are using the PIPE STARMSG stage to process IUCV messages these days, but does that stay resident to collect SMSGs after the PIPE terminates and passes control to the host program? Of course not. The Pipe has

Re: Possible Causes of HCPMFS057I

2007-07-31 Thread A. Harry Williams
/MSG/ | one process... ? a: | second proc... /ahw Of course, at the end of the day use whichever method works best for you. :) -Mike -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of A. Harry Williams Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 1:59

Re: SFS Performance

2007-06-07 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 08:48:14 -0700 Schuh, Richard said: Now the next question: Is there any way to speed up the actual control data backup? Other than by creating a second file pool and moving half of the users to it, that is? It takes anywhere from 2-5 minutes to take the backup. This length of

Re: Multiple VM SMTP servers

2007-03-09 Thread A. Harry Williams
: On Thursday, 03/08/2007 at 10:39 EST, A. Harry Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 17:05:28 -0500 Aria Bamdad said: I was planning on adding one more SMTP server listening at the same port. Is there a way to dedicate one server to incoming mail and another for outgoing? We have

Re: Multiple VM SMTP servers

2007-03-08 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 17:05:28 -0500 Aria Bamdad said: Hi, Is anyone running multiple VM SMTP servers to address problems with mail agents getting timeouts because VM SMTP is busy? I was planning on adding one more SMTP server listening at the same port. Is there a way to dedicate one server to

Re: z/vm 4.4

2006-12-06 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 11:39:32 -0500 Steve Gentry said: IIRC, this subject came up earlier this year. I think the conclusion was that the OS talks to VM and not to the hardware directly. VM is taking care of the I/O and other things (tech talk) VM 4.4 was 32/64 bit and when an OS was a guest,

Re: IBM Announces Five-Year March to Mainframe Simplification

2006-10-05 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 17:02:06 EDT, A. Harry Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 13:36:34 -0500 Tom Duerbusch said: The caption on the picture shows a new health checker for z/OS. I thought VSE had that for a year or two now G. z/OS has had it for many years, I'm going to say 4

Re: TAPEMAP source?

2006-09-27 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:50:12 -0500 Mike Walter said: I tried the CBT site, but did not find the downloaded tapemap.xmi useful. But then... I did not spend much time trying. I don't think the one at cbttape is one from UK. There are three programs called TAPEMAP that I am aware of. The link

Re: EXECLOAD

2006-09-13 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:56:12 -0400 Michael Donovan said: EXECLOAD first determines what type of EXEC or XEDITmacro is being loaded. If the object being loaded is REXX or alternate (read: compiled REXX), then storage to load the object is obtained as LOC=ANY. If your virtual machine is larger than

Re: Signal support

2006-08-09 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 14:10:05 -0400 Alan Altmark said: On Wednesday, 08/09/2006 at 11:02 MST, Schuh, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe on VM it has, but I have found that a clean shutdown of RSCS goes a long way toward preventing operational headaches when trying to reconnect to z/OS or MVS

Re: SYSPROF in INSTSEG

2006-08-07 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 11:43:13 -0400 Michael Coffin said: Doesn't SYSPROF execute BEFORE the user's A disk is accessed? If that's the case, no problem with them having a copy on their A disk - it will never execute ahead of the system version on MAINT 190 (or 19E). Actually, SYSPROF accesses the A

Re: Menuexec - Where search for?

2006-07-24 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:24:39 -0500 Mike Walter said: At web site: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/getdoc/rexx90-010.pdf?bcsi_scan_8D2F38F5DDB7DE68=0bcsi_scan_filename=rexx90-010.pdf the document states: What is XMENU? - A set of tools making it easy to wrap full screen menus around REXX

Re: z/VM v5.2 - Common Criteria - Order Questions

2006-07-14 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:08:36 -0400 David Boyes said: On Jul 13, 2006, at 9:43 PM, Alan Altmark wrote: Alan Altmark Lead Security Weasel David? Can that be *my* job title? Not the Alan Altmark part. Only if you agree to permanently move to Poughkeepsie and give up all You make it sound

Re: vm alternat userid support

2006-05-18 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Thu, 18 May 2006 09:48:10 -0400 Alan Altmark said: On Thursday, 05/18/2006 at 09:41 ZE2, Westlund, Mats (Mainframe servers) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any command or instruction that a worker machine can use to obtain the userid that it has been assigned by the set alternate user (