Re: installing z/VM 5.3 from minidisk

Ray, Now that all the excitement has passed, open a PMR, or submit a Reader Comment Form relating your experience so that others don't get to share the fun -- save it all for yourself (and help the next newbie without access to your co-worker). Mike Walter Hewitt Associates - Original

Re: EUDSRV002E question - disregard earlier email

at http://www.vm.ibm.com/techinfo/lpmigr/ Why no LookAt entry? Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System

Re: VM:Schedule question.

), so the field locations/flags/values are probably documented. OR call the good folks that work on the VM products at CA. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates - Original Message - From: Stephen.Gentry Sent: 07/26/2007 02:01 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: VM:Schedule question. I've

Re: SHARE: Chairbear herding time again!!

Sorry folks... that was obviously supposed to go only to Mark Boltz sigh Note to self: be more careful with the To: list! :-( And now I'll pay for that mistake with my e-mail list plainly displayed ... I'll get SPAMed incessantly for a few months. double sigh Mike Walter Hewitt Associates

Re: SHARE: Chairbear herding time again!!

with the approximate damage done after a week or so (particularly after a weekend when SPAMing must be cheaper). A good learning lesson at my expense. Mike Walter Schuh, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 07/16/2007 04:22 PM Please respond

Re: Trouble with COPYFILE to shorten Record

size that high. And... you won't get an actual 16E of storage even in current z9's. The actual storage will be reduced to the maximum your hardware can support. But cool to try, anyway. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily

Re: [OT] How to determine if running as a multitasking CMS app

Hmmm. Then it's Domino's Almost or About Standard Time? Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM

Re: ACCESS /extension

to filemode Q (in this example). Regards, Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. Ian S. Worthington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM

Re: Ordering z/VM 5.3.0 through ShopzSeries?

I have not yet received confirmation from an IBMLink PMR related to ShopzSeries not displaying z/VM 5.3.0 for ordering, but... ShopzSeries is *now* displaying z/VM 5.3.0 as orderable, and has accepted the first of my two orders (the second is in progress now). Mike Walter Hewitt Associates

Ordering z/VM 5.3.0 through ShopzSeries?

. Maybe someone thinks it should be called ShopzOSseries? sigh I know orders won't start to be processed until June 29, but I don't really want to be forced to spend time trying each day until our two orders can be finally accepted. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein

Re: Ordering z/VM 5.3.0 through ShopzSeries?

I just tried ordering a small CMS PTF and it went from Submitted to Shipped within just a few minutes. I still delight in that - not waiting for a tape! But that was a simple PTF, maybe your order was more complex. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone

Re: Ordering z/VM 5.3.0 through ShopzSeries?

bcck, I say!! Don't make me break out the feathered boa, SCUBA flippers, and automatic weapons again!! Oh, never mind, it was just the periodic Cicadas this time. And it's only MONDAY!!?? ;-)~ Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do

Re: Ordering z/VM 5.3.0 through ShopzSeries?

Thanks, Rich. I don't monitor IBM-MAIN. Now how 'bout that! Can't say we didn't warn 'em!! Ah... progress. I just tried green-screen IBMLink. Works great again, but I won't plan to keep using it. Those voices in my head keep saying it's gone. Again, and then again. :-) Mike Walter

Re: Regarding Event logging in VM

), it's not too expensive, and is very powerful for CMS workloads. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. Colin Allinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System

Re: Service for VM

did when I RSU 5204. But that was before lunch a few weeks ago, and anything before lunch is forgotten after lunch. :-) Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Service for VM

choice, and as Jim Vincent said, keeps your $VMF $MSGLOGs in one place -- a very GOOD THING. Sorry for the misdirection -- but that's what magicians do best! ;-) Mike Walter Sir Mike the Prestidigitator Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily

Y-disk housekeeping using SFS.

? Thanks! Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. Mike Walter Information Technology Services Hewitt Associates [EMAIL PROTECTED] Direct: +(847) 771-9233 Main:+(847) 295-5000

Re: Service for VM

OK, ok. :-) I had a rough morning. At least I think I did ... it's after lunch now. :-) Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. Kris Buelens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: Y-disk housekeeping using SFS.

for sharing the ideas. They may inspire others. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. Mark Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM

Re: Y-disk housekeeping using SFS.

? ;-) Q: What did you do in PIEK to keep from updating the DOLR. After all, we have the source for BROWSE. :-) Thank you all (and future contributors) for excellent ideas and considerations. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily

Re: Y-disk housekeeping using SFS.

changes that might occur (maybe VMFCOPY from a product install or service, or a manual COPYFILE or ERASE) outside of COPY2. That should not be very difficult, either. Once the old garbage is cleaned out we may revert to the 019E disk again. We'll see how it goes. Mike Walter - Original

Re: cp link security

Have you *seen* David lately? Obviously, as with many of us long-time mainframers, dementia is setting up shop... in this case apparently contracted by his exposure to RACF. ;-) Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent

Re: Mini-survey: Linux usability

, and... no need to go though MS Windows to perform the downloads... ugh! Before Mark Post moved to Novell, perhaps there were insufficient z/VM skills to make this or other ease/speed-of-installation techniques available at Novell. Now there may be a light shining at the end of the tunnel? Mike

Re: cp link security

OK... how about More to VM are 'under-appreciated' as an incorrect alternative to depreciated (which is what one does in accounting)? Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates

Re: Scragging a disk

Just how badly should the mdisk be scragged when you're done? Wouldn't the typical, tried-and-true method work? Two CMS users linking the disk MW, with one overlaying the other's files. It's worked (unintentionally) for CMS users for nearly 35 years now! :-) Mike Walter - Original

Re: dasd 3390 -27

Find most of the rest of the z/VM library at: http://www.vm.ibm.com/pubs/ It's probably very useful for those running back-leveled systems but considering whether they can manage to support hardware upgrades while waiting to migrate to something more current. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any

MEMO MOVINGON - Will Roden's retirement. Was: Test to see if listserve is working for IBMVM list

in retirement!? :-) Best regards, Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. Bill Munson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 05/31/2007

Re: Test to see if listserve is working for IBMVM list

In my best B-movie voice, usually said in a wooded or jungle area: It's quiet out there... too quiet. Maybe everyone's spirit is broken after Alan Ackerman's (somewhat warranted) dis of CMS as a development platform on the Memorial Day (interesting timing) holiday. :-( Mike Walter Hewitt

Re: different levels of CP and CMS after put2prod for z/VM 5.2

Maybe you want to examine the logs created by PUT2PROD and SERVICE today to see what went wrong? The command FILELIST * * * ( TODAY can make it easier to find files created/updated today. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates - Original Message - From: Little, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: Testing new CMS / CMS components

gun, your foot. Of course z/VM customers running Linux, and with no (yet) CMS workload will not be faced with this issue. It's only us old productive dinosaur CMS-app shops that care. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent

Re: z/VM usability

It's sad to accept that CMS won't be the application hosting solution in the future -- I think it's a mistake, but like Mike Walter, this is a battle we probably can't win, and pretty much it won't be a win to try. So what do we do? Well, I think I just said that I won't be around

Re: CP TERM ESCAPE not working when setting PER

that the special characters you are setting are not being changed by whatever 3270 emulator product you are using, or a communications translation table? Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates

Re: SPOOL volume disk error

MDISK (use command: DISKMAP and/or DIRMAP)? Are you certain that no Other System (even a 2nd level VM system) has not written to that volume? Mike Walter Hewitt Associates - Original Message - From: Mikhael Ramirez Joaquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05/07/2007 09:43 PM To: IBMVM

Re: Spool Area Full

See suggestions below, prefixed by: sugg-- You left out some specific commands, but it looks as if you are aware of them and just wanted more of an overview. You have the major points covered in good order. Nice memory! (Did I remember to say Nice memory!?). Mike Walter Hewitt Associates

Re: Spool Area Full

files at a later date. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. James M [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 05/04/2007 11:46 AM Please

Re: Spool Area Full

Thanks for the confirmation that you've completed the task. It's not all that often that those offering guidance on the list actually hear back when the task at hand is done. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent

Re: Link Multiple Write safely

, ERASEs of even files filling a full disk were instantaneous; whereas SFS has to change the pointer to every allocated block, sometimes a very lengthy ordeal. But VM/Access files could not span real DASD, so SFS wins there - and in a lot of other areas. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any

Re: Link Multiple Write safely

not included. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 05/02/2007 10:09 AM Please respond

Re: QUERY CAPABILITY question

For VM'ers in the Chicago area, calling anyone a CAVEMAN gets you to the C hicago Area VM ENthusiasts (CAVMEN) meeting. Even though it's now the Chicago Area VM and Linux ENthusiasts - but CAVMLEN is hard to pronounce and has not prior history. :-) Mike Walter Former CAVMEN Ringleader

Re: Spool Area Full

can tread water until one fateful day when you decide to clean things up, making them all nice and neat. We sysprogs are after all rather A.R. At the next IPL you can no longer tread water, Dirty Harry (he *is* your manager, right?) has his day made for him. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any

Re: DOOM and Halo on System z?

, maybe it could be the z Offload Worlds Engine! ;-) IBM is free to use the zOWE and z Offline Worlds Engine terms without any fears of trademark infringement from me. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions

Re: FYI APAR HIPER flag change (cross posted)

pervasive APAR direction just provides non-VM'ers with fresh ammo to shoot it down. I flew VM too long without IBM as my co-pilot to just accept this without comment and suggestions. H2, H3? Are you driving one of those show-boats? ;-) Mike Walter - Original Message - From: Kurt Acker

Re: VM Bear lambasted

I'm not 100% certain, but I **vaguely** remember (maybe) Gary Ehman having obtained the bear image from someone else at IBM, and adding the animation himself. Gary has since left IBM for Fundamental Software, and still subscribes to and contributes to this list. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates

Re: Hipersockets and security???

... Friday. And Friday the 13th at that! Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. Rich Smrcina [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/12/2007

Re: REXX script migration from VM to Windows.

Well, Microsoft doesn't have a comparable function to CMS/TSO Pipelines. But perhaps the following URL will help. Or perhaps it will inspire some other, better search arguments. http://www.cam.org/~tomlins/njpipes.html Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine

Re: WGET

the file to be sent), then calls the FTP2CA VMFTP macro which does the FTP-related logon, CD, PUT, etc. But the VMFTP package is the key enabler. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates

OT: Google announces free in-home wireless broadband service

. http://www.google.com/tisp/press.html Don't miss the many active links on the pages. Someone at Google has waaay too much spare time! ;-) Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates

Re: RSCS Service Level

Jim, How are you searching? Could you be looking at a specific APAR or PTF and confusing the (1000) after the PTF with an SLU? That (1000) indicates a PTF that is available, but not on an RSU. Mike Walter - Original Message - From: Stracka, James (GTI) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03/30

Re: DTCPRS058I Line 431: GATEWAY format deprecated, consult documentation

guess RCF's are one way to get published! :-) Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. Jim Bohnsack [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM

Re: DTCPRS058I Line 431: GATEWAY format deprecated, consult documentation

Nope! He's the architect, right? If a bridge falls down, the architect is blamed right along with the guy who installed all the rivets wrong. Alan is just under-depreciated. ;-) Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent

Re: EXECTRAC not inherited

the environment is their responsibility. In the meantime, you can always try using the CMS immediate command: TS If that does not work, try TE then TS (there's an arcane reason for that order that is not worth going into, meaning: I don't remember the details). Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions

Re: Date Time Changes...

to prevent that next time. With TODALLOW installed properly, it takes a special effort to come up with a wildly incorrect time or date. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. Paul

Re: Historical curiousity question.

someone was not told what ensued - how good are YOUR communications?). My questions are, what is the problem and what are you trying to solve/improve? Most questions are inspired by something that happened. What happened in this case? Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein

Re: Date Time Changes...

Apparently the max is 13 hours, no minutes or seconds. Pity. Would'a been kind'a cool! ;-) Ah well, a diverting test on a 2nd level system. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates

Re: High Level Assembler

looking into. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. Alan Ackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 03/09/2007 09:51 PM Please

Re: TIMEZONE

Nothing's wrong your suggestion. It's better and I'll change my code. Background: IIRC it's just that I had it written to go through the spring of 2042 (the fall of 2042 is after the TOD clock wraps). Then I discovered that CPSYNTAX accepts dates in 2042, but CP balks at IPL for any dates

Re: DFDSS and an IFL

the guest and perform the restore. But I am not familiar enough with DFDSS to know if it can reliably backup a **running** z/OS system (I suspect not) such that the image can be reliably restored. Open databases and other such apps usually make this a career-threatening technique. Mike Walter

Re: TIMEZONE

to go to work in the morning and before I go to home in the afternoon. Time for... Sir Mike Standard Time! We have the technology. ;-) Mike Walter (Sir Mike the Prestidigitator, Order of the Knights of VM) Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and most

Re: TIMEZONE

administrator. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. Jon Brock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 03/08/2007 02:45 PM Please respond

Re: Multiple Guests using the Same Crypto Domain

. This is tough stuff to get working. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. Kurt Acker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 03/01/2007 04

Re: Simple PIPE ?

(or if not running the CMS Pipelines Runtime Library: HELP PIPE VAR) Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. Rob van der Heij [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating

Re: Simple PIPE ?

to (esp. with a 'TAKE 1' stage before it). Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. Rob van der Heij [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU

Re: TERM TIMESTAMP ON

until you disconnect again -- and while you are connected there are no timestamps without CP TERM TIMESTAMP ON. I'm confused by your statement. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt

Re: VM education

/VM education, some instructor-led, some by DVD, etc. see: http://www.vm.ibm.com/education/ Other vendors also offer formal education. Amongst others, check out: www.vmassist.com And... Welcome to the VM Community! Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone

Re: Max size 3270 screen

without problems .. and works perfectly inside and comes out to CMS without a disconnect at QUIT. Something seems wrong with the TN3270E session processing. H. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions

Re: Max size 3270 screen

hard to track down without messages (without even self-defining messages). Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. Fran Hensler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: The IBM z/VM

Re: Max size 3270 screen

, no kewpie doll (and no cigar either - a kewpie doll could stunt it's growth by smoking; ask Chuckie!). Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. William Moy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: Max size 3270 screen

issued to the TCPIP console to permit at least a glimmer of First Failure Data Capture, yes? I'm grateful for the NETSTAT OBEY TRACE TELNET/TRACEOFF example. It will go into my sysprog toolkit if Al Zheimer doesn't lose it first. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein

Re: Max size 3270 screen

Bingo! Even though I though I had checked TCPIP's 191 disk for a file, perhaps it was still open when I checked. The messages appeared near the bottom of the file on TCPIP's 191 disk: TCPIPTRACDATA A. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do

Re: IFL Pricing

There were printed papers way back when you were 12!? ('nuff said) Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. Phil Smith III [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating

Re: ESJ article about

PRM's taken by phone with things like: 'customer reports error message ist1234ee in v.t.a.m.' (not an actual report, but a life-like example). Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates

Re: VM:Secure Abends

re-creating the USER DIRECT file and running DIRECTXA. I wrote a USERDRCT EXEC that we keep on VMSECURE's 191 disk to make this easier in a crisis, when manuals and time may not be easy to find. USERDRCT EXEC (meant only for fellow VM:Secure customers) is appended. Good luck! Mike Walter

Ask and ye shall receive...

, too!) ;-) Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. The information contained in this e-mail and any accompanying documents may contain information that is confidential

Re: Little accident

for the CMS files on your z/VM system, right? This is a golden opportunity not to be missed! :-) (Please note that almost all sysprogs have been in the same situation: being forced to get stuff running to meet business needs before getting the groundwork completed.) Mike Walter Hewitt Associates

Re: Allocation error from dasd

that it is also being used for CP's own purposes. Setting aside one single cylinder per DASD is not really a waste of resources if doing so keeps one from shooting themselves (and their system) in the foot at a later date. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone

Re: Maximum virtual storage

--- this is the Hewitt-developed VM:Secure INQUIRE command STORAGE: Default= 999M Maximum= 16G --- info directly from the source directory entry.M2WALTER HALINVA1; T=0.01/0.01 08:37:23 ---snip--- Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any

Re: Maximum virtual storage

to maximum allowed. Is that worth my opening a PMR? I would not ask for the red coloring in the messages. (Gee, that makes me think of the old command CMS command SET REDTYPE ON!) ;-) Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily

Re: ICKDSF Release 16

cause Your job may vary results. Where's April 1st when you need it!? Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are certainly mine alone and do not even begin to represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. Rob van der Heij [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: The IBM

Re: Maximum virtual storage

wants. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. The syntax for INQUIRE is: Function: Provides users with information about their or other's directory entry without the need

Re: SERVICE and PUT2PROD for Performance tool kit.

, and perhaps even renamed when following the installation procedures for the first time? If so, then next step is obvious (copy/update|rename the file). If it's actually a production file located on a production disk, they you **may** have an APAR-able problem. Mike Walter Hewitt

Re: Process/Form - requesting a z/VM linux guest ?

I sort'a wondered the same thing. Liquid Crystal Display Systems? Latter Children of Daily Saints? But Google came to the rescue with: LCDS +linux = Community Development System for Linux, look for it at: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/linux/lcds/ Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any

Re: How to determine the creation date of open spool file RSCS printer issue

it was written a while ago (pre-Y2K). It's helped me out a bunch of times. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. /* Prolog; See Epilog for additional information

Re: autolog profile exec logic

is August 12-17 in sunny San Diego -- start pestering/educating your manager NOW! Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. The information contained in this e-mail and any

Re: z/VM 5.2 performance monitors

Cheap (relative), good, excellent support, can (if you wish) do lots more than the basics, check: http://www.velocity-software.com/product.html Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt

Re: Mainframes in PC ads

Maybe you could just tape the invoice for each on their front covers? The price at the bottom should make it clear which is which. ;-) Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates

Re: INMLink 2000 - Unable to order a PTF

, before we're exposed to lost productivity. We're paying customers, not IBMLink 2000 QA. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: The IBM z/VM

Re: Can RSCS start a TCPNJE link and keep listening for the remote side to start?

Thanks for the thought. I mentioned a similar idea earlier in this thread (although not via an RSCS events file, that's a new one on me; thanks!). I have been contacted by JES2 support and will work with them. And... post here with the final results. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any

Re: ISPF and ISPF/PDF

We still use it. Not for anything new, mind you. But spending the money to convert unsupported applications from ISPF to something else would likely be more expensive in the long run. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily

Can RSCS start a TCPNJE link and keep listening for the remote side to start?

, but it would be cleaner to just teach RSCS to keep listening for the remote side to connect. Any clues would be appreciated. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates

Re: Can RSCS start a TCPNJE link and keep listening for the remote side to start?

Thanks, Dave - but your being able to do it does not explain why we get the error msgs when attempting to start the TCPNJE link (not SNANJE) and let it wait for the JES2 side to start. Perhaps it is old maintenance? But an IBMLink SIS search did not turn up anything. Mike Walter Hewitt

Re: Can RSCS start a TCPNJE link and keep listening for the remote side to start?

a PMR (on IBMLink 2000 if I have the patience). Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. In reply to: ---snip--- Kris Buelens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System

Re: Can RSCS start a TCPNJE link and keep listening for the remote side to start?

, and PARM name are all the same: UTR We can pursue this in the PMR if you like, and report back here in case someone else experiences the same situation. Again, this *could* be related to our ancient RSCS maintenance level of 9902, but I did not see any apparently-related fixes. Mike Walter Hewitt

Re: Can RSCS start a TCPNJE link and keep listening for the remote side to start?

keep retrying can cause an extended connection outage (denial of service) when JES2 finally does start its side and restarting the RSCS side require manual intervention. Thanks for the description. I doubt that would have turned up in any doc to which customers have access! Mike Walter Hewitt

Re: Can RSCS start a TCPNJE link and keep listening for the remote side to start?

Les, Our posts crossed on the net. I've already updated the PMR, included your reply (idle curiosity: I wonder how long it would have taken level 2 to find this result?), and asked how best to appeal the current JES2 solution. Thanks again for your quick response! Mike Walter Hewitt

Re: Can RSCS start a TCPNJE link and keep listening for the remote side to start?

Good point, Alan. Thanks. I'll work the problem from the JES2 side. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating

Re: IBMLink 2000 Finding ESO levels

. We could continue to use the legacy (i.e productive) tool for what we've always used it for, and get familiar with IBMLink (and report feature failures if it actually helps) for new features. Mike Walter Information Technology Services Hewitt Associates [EMAIL PROTECTED] Direct: +(847) 771-9233

Re: IBMLink 2000 Finding ESO levels

The answer is Yes. That was the answer, sure. But where's the supporting documentation. Yes Virginia, there really is a Santa Claus. But *I* want proof/supporting doc (**and** a pony!). Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily

Re: PIPE, CMS kind of question.

/* Extract just the command */ iplparms=left right /* Replace IPLPARMS var without runcmd stuff */ runcmd /* Execute passed command, or NOP */ ---snip--- Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do

Re: IBM ServiceLink greenscreen to be discontinued March 31, 2007

all for your consideration and comments. Keep them coming! Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM

Re: Logoff force pending

. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. READ: HUNGUSER HELPME (handy when issuing: HELP ME HUNGUSER) When a userid becomes hung in a LOGOFF/FORCE PENDING state, the following

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