I reported it but got a "huh?" type response, so gave up.
i
I opened up a ticket with IBMLINK support also. No response yet.
Mark Jacobs
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From: Mark Jacobs
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: IBMLINK
O
response, so gave up.
i
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From: Mark Jacobs
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> On 02/25/10 08:36, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote:
> > No problems here (via IE nor Firefox).
> >
> >
> > Frank M.
al Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 6:18 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: IBMLINK
Typed in www.ibm.com/ibmlink this morning and it is now
https://www-304bluecoat.ibm.
: Thursday, February 25, 2010 9:59 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: IBMLINK
I saw it briefly last night too. And then it sotpped.
Someone in IBM must have made a booboo.
Marcy
"This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If
you are not the address
[mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf
Of Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 4:18 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: [IBMVM] IBMLINK
Typed in www.ibm.com/ibmlink this morning and it is now
https://www-304bluecoat.ibm.com with a certificate that Firefox doesn't
No problems here (via IE nor Firefox).
Frank M. Ramaekers Jr.
-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 6:18 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: IBMLINK
Mark Jacobs wrote:
On 02/25/10 07:18, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] wrote:
Typed in www.ibm.com/ibmlink this morning and it is now
https://www-304bluecoat.ibm.com with a certificate that Firefox
doesn't trust. Anybody else seeing this?
Bobby Bauer
Center for Information Technology
Nat
AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: IBMLINK
same-same. I open www.ibm.com/ibmlink, which forwards me to www-304.ibm.com/
... blahblahblah.
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf
Of Mark Jacobs
Sent: Thursday, 25
same-same. I open www.ibm.com/ibmlink, which forwards me to www-304.ibm.com/
... blahblahblah.
-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf
Of Mark Jacobs
Sent: Thursday, 25 February, 2010 07:27 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
On 02/25/10 07:18, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] wrote:
Typed in www.ibm.com/ibmlink this morning and it is now
https://www-304bluecoat.ibm.com with a certificate that Firefox doesn't trust.
Anybody else seeing this?
Bobby Bauer
Center for Information Technology
National Institutes of H
Typed in www.ibm.com/ibmlink this morning and it is now
https://www-304bluecoat.ibm.com with a certificate that Firefox doesn't trust.
Anybody else seeing this?
Bobby Bauer
Center for Information Technology
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD 20892-5628
301-594-7474
> I confirmed with IBMLink Powers That Be that, yes, you will still be
able
>to change your VM password. You just won't be able to change any of the
>VM registrations or their entitlements.
>
>[And while they say "IBMLINK VM", we all know that's just "
On Wednesday, 09/12/2007 at 02:07 EDT, Mike Walter
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Even though the quotes "news" above specifically reports changes to the
"VM
> Registration Tool", I called the 800 number to ask if a user can still
change
> their "IBM
Pasted directly from the "News" screen on the IBMLink 3270 interface (VM,
greenscreen, aka: productive):
01 SEP 07 - Attention all VM users
VM Registration Tool will sunset on October 31, 2007
Implications are:
* All users and entitlements for the IBMLink VM
system will be p
This note is from Darryl Goodnight here at Bank of America. I have posted
it with his permission.
From: Goodnight, Darryl
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 11:25 AM
Also an F.Y.I. I had opened up a feedback with IBM regarding not bein
g
able to add some COMPIDs to the IBMLink 2000 ASAP
while to figure out that if I want to ADD products
to
>ASAP I
>> have to find the Add
>> link hidden in the right-hand menu, not at the bottom near the Delete
>button.
>>
>> Should I open an IBMLink feedback on each of these? (I already did on
>2.) I
>> sure did
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 07:11:05 -0800, Thomas Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w
rote:
>Might the 'already signed in' message be there because you did not 'sign
out'
>from a previous session? Could it be misrepresenting the fact that you h
ave a
>cookie saying you are signed in even though no current sessio
Might the 'already signed in' message be there because you did not 'sign out'
from a previous session? Could it be misrepresenting the fact that you have a
cookie saying you are signed in even though no current session exists?
/Tom Kern
--- Alan Ackerman <> wrote:
> wget definitely works. Thanks!
dn't figure out how to view a single PTF until Marcy told me.
>
> It took me quite a while to figure out that if I want to ADD products to
ASAP I
> have to find the Add
> link hidden in the right-hand menu, not at the bottom near the Delete
button.
>
> Should I open an IBMLink
eaders but it
made my head swim. So
many redirects and so many cookies! Ugh!
Further steps:
#SERVICELINK (Needed!)
wget 'https://www-304.ibm.com/jct03004c/ibmlink/servicelink/servicelinkPa
ge.jsp?
lc=en&cc=US'\
--no-check-certificate --save-cookies mycookies.txt --keep-session-c
den in the right-hand menu, not at the bottom near the Delete
button.
>
> Should I open an IBMLink feedback on each of these? (I already did on
2.) I
> sure didn't like the answers I got for those two.
C'mon, Alan, you know that The Bank has no problem rejecting answers it
ge
Rob van der Heij wrote:
> Come on Sir. You're just repeating hearsay nonsense arguments. Yours
> is almost as good as the one to replace the VM Toolsrun-based employee
> directory by LDAP because the VM solution "required updates to be
> applied to all copies of the data spread over multiple VM sys
>
>Everyone else gets to webify their "legacy" apps, so why not IBM? We ha
ve
>internal app development shops that are looking for ways to cut support
&
>development costs, too. And those new hires out of college are certainl
y
>not very good at 3270 programming, you
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:22:32 -0600, Marcy Cortes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
go.com> wrote:
>Does this answer what you need to know?
>
>http://www.vm.ibm.com/service/rsu/rsu_eso.html#VM_ESO
>
>
>Marcy Cortes
>WFS Enterprise Hosting Services - z/VM & z/Linux
>(415) 243-6343
Yes, that is it! (Today it work
"Maybe it's time for an IBMLINK Vista version!"
Delivered on time, fully featured, and rigorously tested. :-)
Regards,
Richard Schuh
IBMLINK 2000 reminds me of Conan O'Brien's running gag on the Late Show
about looking into the future...all the way to the year 2000! :-)>
Maybe it's time for an IBMLINK Vista version! Whoops I didn't say that,
did I! Happy Friday!
Dale R. Smith
Technology Ser
On Jan 12, 2007, at 1:49 PM, Alan Altmark wrote:
Find your z/OS brethren.
Brethren?
I mean, uh
Everything I've ever heard or read indicates that z/OS people
reproduce by budding. Something asexual, anyway. One of life's
major mercies, that.
Oh, look. Friday already.
Adam
On Friday, 01/12/2007 at 10:33 CST, Mike Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> The point is we are customers. We should not need to know IBM-internal
> buzzwords
AMEN! EVERY ONE of you who doesn't like what IBMLink 2000 is/isn't doing
needs to send in Feedbacks.
Subject: 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 opinion
do not necessarily
represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates.
"Stracka, James (GTI)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating System"
01/12/2007 10:37 AM
Please respond to
"The IBM z/VM Operating System"
To
IBMVM@LISTSERV.UA
ing System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Mike Walter
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 11:33 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: IBMLink 2000 Finding ESO levels
Hear, hear, good Sir!
I gave IBMLink 2000 several tries over those seven, usually because
there
was publication of a shiny n
Hear, hear, good Sir!
I gave IBMLink 2000 several tries over those seven, usually because there
was publication of a shiny new release.
Even after spending the usual time making a sincere effort to get
acquainted with the changes between releases and the differences between
greenscreen, it
After seven years you would think that they might have a hint that so
many of us did not transition because IBMLink 2000 was so bloody awful.
> At least the two versions were side-by-side for seven years so that
you
> could transition to the new one at your own pace. :-)
>
> Alan
I have trying to stay on the sidelines of this conversation.
However, IBM MUST get their act together on IBMLINK.
Every so often I get an email from IBM indicating that a status record
has
been updated. It took 3 months to get an answer on where I should look
and how to look at the updated
On 1/12/07, Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Everyone else gets to webify their "legacy" apps, so why not IBM? We have
internal app development shops that are looking for ways to cut support &
development costs, too. And those new hires out of college are certainly
not very good at 3270
development shops that are looking for ways to cut support &
development costs, too. And those new hires out of college are certainly
not very good at 3270 programming, you know ;-)
That the 3270 interface on IBMLink remained for 7 years (long past the
original sunset schedules) is a te
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:18:40 -0500, Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Thursday, 01/11/2007 at 12:08 CST, Alan Ackerman
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Any other suggestions?
>
>Continue your discussion with IBMLink folks.
>
>At least the two versions
On 1/11/07, Schuh, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Boy, that is a customer oriented answer.
No, they do that internally too ;-)
When Problem and Change Management was replaced by some new great Web
application, it lacked the ability to search the database other than
by record number, assi
On Thursday, 01/11/2007 at 12:08 CST, Alan Ackerman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Any other suggestions?
Continue your discussion with IBMLink folks.
At least the two versions were side-by-side for seven years so that you
could transition to the new one at your own pace. :-)
Alan Alt
-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Alan Ackerman
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 10:09
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: [IBMVM] IBMLink 2000 Finding ESO levels
I opened a feedback with IBMLink support, asking how to deter
Boy, that is a customer oriented answer.
Regards,
Richard Schuh
-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Alan Ackerman
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 10:09 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: IBMLink 2000 Finding ESO
I opened a feedback with IBMLink support, asking how to determoine the
current ESO level for a product. Their answer:
"On IBMLink 2000 there is no selection by product id. You are expected to
know the current level of the product for which you are ordering."
I am required by my man
07
12:15:05 AM:
> IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
>
> That works. It took me 16 minutes to download the 21 current incidents my
> group has in IBMLink, though to my PC. A far cry from "Q" and hit Enter.
>
> If it was HTTP, I might be able to write some Pipe code to go down
That works. It took me 16 minutes to download the 21 current incidents my
group has in IBMLink, though to my PC. A far cry from "Q" and hit Enter.
If it was HTTP, I might be able to write some Pipe code to go download
them. But it is HTTPS (SSL encrypted), and I have no CMS tools
On 1/9/07, Alan Ackerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm sure I had a similar learning curve for IBMLink green screen 20 years
ago. But I resent my learning being thrown away and being forced to learn
an inferior system.
Onward and downward!
Somehow it looks like "pimping"
> See for example VM64042, it is open
Ah - OK, it's marked with a little key icon, and you have to sign in to see
it. I guess they've merged the two UIs when I wasn't looking. There was a
time when you had to sign in first to see any open ones. And it even finds
that one based on keywords.
Tony
See for example VM64042, it is open
2007/1/9, Kris Buelens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I think it does, but when I looked in the past, the text for open apars is
very brief indeed
2007/1/9, Tony Harminc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Kris Buelens wrote:
>
> > I always find my VM fixes using the URL metione
I think it does, but when I looked in the past, the text for open apars is
very brief indeed
2007/1/9, Tony Harminc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Kris Buelens wrote:
> I always find my VM fixes using the URL metioned above. No problems.
But will it show you open APARs?
Tony H.
--
Kris Buelens,
Kris Buelens wrote:
> I always find my VM fixes using the URL metioned above. No problems.
But will it show you open APARs?
Tony H.
I always find my VM fixes using the URL metioned above. No problems.
Kris Buelens,
IBM Belgium, VM customer support
ender immediately by reply e-mail
and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation."
-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Alan Ackerman
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 12:19 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: [IBMVM]
tells you to fill in an APAR or PTF number
-
- don't. Instead look for an item in the left menu.
I opened a feedback on this question. So far it has bounced through 2
queues, but no answer. I gave them your answer and told them what I thoug
h
of IBMLink 2000. (Politely.)
I'm sure I had
of the
> OS/390 folks, but I never speak with them), but it's
> undoubtedly the
> attitude of people who populate the highest levels
> in IBM, who foist
> IBMLink 2000 on us as if it's an improvement, and
> who direct our
> concerns to someone in another country who has
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 09:23:16 +0200, Kris Buelens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I'm using this URL address to search for PTFs/APARs
>
>http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/srchBroker/views/srchBroker.js
p?
rs=112
>--
>Kris Buelens,
>IBM Belgium, VM customer support
I just tried to find PTF UG0
nday, January 08, 2007 7:08 PM
> To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
> Subject: IBMLink 2000 Sending Files to my VM Reader
>
> With IBMLink green screen I can "print" files and they end up in my
> reader. I have EXECs to squirrel these away for further needs. This is
> espec
I've been watching the various postings on the new IBMLink with
interest and I feel that I've not been supportive by not having added
my voice to the chorus of protest, but I've felt that we're fighting
a losing battle. I once had green screen IBMLink. I could do
won
uments"
Click on Apars and PTFs link
Put the number in
Obvious huh ;)
Marcy Cortes
-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Alan Ackerman
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 3:46 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: [IBMVM] IBMLink 200
I was trying to help you with this one, but I keep getting 404 errors
from ibmlink now!I bet you the green screen never got 404 :).
Error 404: SRVE0200E: Servlet [org.apache.jsp._masthead_5F_ja_5F_JP]:
Could not find required servlet class - _masthead_5F_ja_5F_JP.class
Yes, I did click on
With IBMLink green screen I can "print" files and they end up in my
reader. I have EXECs to squirrel these away for further needs. This is
especially useful since IBMLink erases closed incidents rather quickly,
but I also save "interesting" APARs as well.
Any way to do th
-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Alan Ackerman
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 3:46 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: [IBMVM] IBMLink 2000 Replacement for SIS 1
Since we are being forced to move to IBMLink 2000, can someone tell me a
=
way to find a single
How do I find the currently available ESO level for a product? In IBMLink
green screen, I used SRD 5, then changed 2 -> 1 here:
Select PRodIDs from a list? . . . 1 1. YES 2. NO
This gave me a list of products like so:
ProdID COMPIDRel Product Description VRM Level
_ AVMVM
Since we are being forced to move to IBMLink 2000, can someone tell me a
way to find a single PTF or APAR? I tried typing an APAR nubmer into
Service Information Search (SIS) -> APARs and PTFs -> Search argument
I got 51 hits spread across 3 pages.
Is it any wonder I hate IBMLink 2000?
e
lasted Window$ security update.
-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Stracka, James (GTI)
Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 7:51 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: IBMLINK Issues
I had no problems order two CP fix
I had no problems order two CP fixes this morning.
-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Brian Ferguson
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 6:43 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: IBMLINK Issues
Anybody else having a problem ordering
Anybody else having a problem ordering service via IBMLINK?
I'm getting an "order contains no valid PTFs" no matter what I enter.
A problem report to IBMLINK gave me a 'we know it does not work'
But only for VMSES stuff, MVS is fine.
And maybe it will get
Jim Bohnsack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On this posting, I am in total agreement with Mike. I think that I have
>Doherty's paper in an old issue of the IBM Systems Journal somewhere. By
>the way it was Ralph Doherty (and I'm not sure that Doherty is the correct
>spelling).
No, *Walt* Doher
> And, yes, applications
> get redesigned Just Because. If you're writing 3270 apps, you're,
like,
> in Nowhereville, man. OTOH, if you've got mousable OK and CANCEL,
with a
> pulldown and a radio button, you're totally rad.
Sounds like a mission for CUA2001...
ise killing our brain cells).
>
> The IBMLink 2000 implementation was not new technology that improved our
lives
> or made us more productive -- it appears to be new technology
implemented for
> the sake of using new technology.
Ah, but Sir Mike, "cold, dead fingers" were
sonal time watching movies and otherwise killing our brain cells).
The IBMLink 2000 implementation was not new technology that improved our
lives or made us more productive -- it appears to be new technology
implemented for the sake of using new technology. It did not offer
anything we could no
Ah, but Sir Alan, you miss the point.
I enjoy and support new technology which improves our lives and
makes us more productive (so we can waste more personal time watching
movies and otherwise killing our brain cells).
The IBMLink 2000 implementation was
not new technology that improved our
cc:
Subject: Re: Shop Z/Series as replacement to IBMLink?
Hear, hear!
Paul Goodwin
Manager, Recovery Operations
SunGard Availability Services
5600 United Drive
Smyrna, GA 30082
(770) 434-9988 x3791
Fax: (770) 863-3797
[EMAI
cc
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SystemSubject
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ARK.EDU> I
07/27/2006 10:27 AM
Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
cc:
Subject:Re: Shop Z/Series as replacement to IBMLink?
To quote the pengiuns in 'Madagascar': "This sucks. Let's go
back."
To pu
07/27/2006 10:27 AM
Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
cc:
Subject: Re: Shop Z/Series as replacement to IBMLink?
To quote the pengiuns in 'Madagascar': "This sucks. Let's go back.&quo
On Thursday, 07/27/2006 at 10:01 EST, Mike Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I beg to differ, Jim. Many list subscribers and I still regularly use
the
> old green-screen IBMLink and will continue to do so until they pry it
from
> my cold, dead fingers.
Move past it, Mike.
> PS Some time ago I encouraged the IBMLINK developers to model the
> APAR/PTF search and ordering after services like Amazon. We would not
> call them PE's anymore, but would send people mail with
> recommendations like "85% of the people who applied this PTF also went
>
To quote the pengiuns in ‘Madagascar’:
“This sucks. Let’s go back.”
To put it more plainly, I don't like the new, improved way of doing things thru
ServiceLink, ShopZseries, SUF and all of the other clever names someone in IBM
thinks of.
On 7/27/06, Mike Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I beg to differ, Jim. Many list subscribers and I still regularly use the
old green-screen IBMLink and will continue to do so until they pry it from
my cold, dead fingers.
Hey, we *can* do sarcasm on 3270... the only limitation is t
Mike--I thought that my posting was pretty obvious. Take another
look at it. My problem is that somehow or the other, I can't seem
to get what I remember as the "old green-screen" IBMLink
anymore. I just get pointed to ServiceLink with only options for
ETR and SIS. I used to
I beg to differ, Jim. Many list subscribers and I still regularly use the
old green-screen IBMLink and will continue to do so until they pry it from
my cold, dead fingers.
Stuff on 3270 screen can't be hidden behind things that you just have to
try by trial and error (moving the cursor
Isn't the cludge (cludges) that has replaced the old, intuitive and
extremely useful IBMLINK just wonderful!! >:-o
Jim
At 08:09 PM 7/26/2006, you wrote:
Hi,
In trying to figure out how to use OBEYFILE, I've come across several
indications that service may be required for TCP/IP o
on my z/VM 4.2
system. (TCPIP is at the 0101 level according to the NETSTAT LEVEL
command.) Apparently there were numerous OBEYFILE problems in 4.2.
I haven't done this kind of thing since I had access to IBMLink. When I
go to the z/VM Home Page, it tells me to go to "Shop Z/Series
x27;t done this kind of thing since I had access to
IBMLink. When I go to the z/VM Home Page, it tells me to go to "Shop
Z/Series" to find ptfs and apars. I've now registered for "Shop
z/Series", but for the life of me I can't figure out where to search
for pt
Try http://www.ibm.com/ibmlink/link2
Regards,
Roger Bolan
The IBM z/VM Operating System
wrote on 06/27/2006 04:34:55 PM:
> Is ibmlink down : http://www.ibmlink.ibm.com or did they move
and not
> tell me?
>
> Marcy Cortes
Marcy,
Try this link instead:
https://www-306.ibm.com/ibmlink/link2/logon/logonPage.jsp
Dennis
"Marcy Cortes"
<[EM
Is ibmlink down : http://www.ibmlink.ibm.com or did they move and not
tell me?
Marcy Cortes
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