Re: Cloning DB2 using Flashcopy

2007-05-25 Thread Timothy Sipples
Tony Wiggett writes: I don't want to appear rude but did you read my last post? I am NOT 'CLONING' the environment !!! Got it! But since when has that stopped anyone from answering questions not asked? :-) Just bear in mind some of us are in radically different timezones and/or have varying

Re: IBM PR: Double Digit Growth (Again) for System z in 1Q2007

2007-05-25 Thread Timothy Sipples
Elardus Engelbrecht asks: One little question if I may: Would you post on IBM-MAIN if IBM is making a loss? I think so, but perhaps my e-mail address wouldn't end with ibm.com. :-) - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures

Re: z/OS 1.8 upgrade

2007-05-25 Thread Traylor, Terry
We've encountered the same issue after upgrading our test environment from 1.6 to 1.8. While we were on z/OS 1.3, we made the ACS coding change to assign PDS/PDSEs to a dataclas that does not allow multi-volume capability. Unfortunately, the use of LIKE has allowed the proliferation of

SV: [META] Is WaveMind spamming entire IBM-MAIN readership?

2007-05-25 Thread thomas . berg
Hear, hear ! ;) -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] För Edward Jaffe Skickat: den 25 maj 2007 02:07 Till: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Ämne: Re: [META] Is WaveMind spamming entire IBM-MAIN readership? Kenneth E Tomiak wrote: [snip]

Re: IBM PR: Double Digit Growth (Again) for System z in 1Q2007

2007-05-25 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Timothy Sipples wrote: I think so, but perhaps my e-mail address wouldn't end with ibm.com. :-) Thanks for your kind answer. Please keep up with your regular posting on IBM- MAIN. This 'professional lurker' will catch them as they come... ;-D Keep it up! Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht

Re: z/OS V1R8 LINKLIST setup

2007-05-25 Thread Peter Relson
Unless you are using SYSLIB statements in PROGxx, it does not matter a bit where (or even if) SYS1.LINKLIB/MIGLIB/CSSLIB (and SIEALNKE / SIEAMIGE as of z/OS 1.8) appear in your LNKLST set definition. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design

Re: [META] Is WaveMind spamming entire IBM-MAIN readership?

2007-05-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/24/2007 at 09:23 PM, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Which, according to an American lawyer I know, is bogus. The law was never passed (as of a year ago). Which law did he cite? S1648? The Murkowski bill was not passed, but you CAN-SPAM (S877) was passed. Of

Re: [META] Is !#$%^* spamming entire IBM-MAIN readership?

2007-05-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/24/2007 at 02:18 PM, Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Wish I could do something like that with E-Mail SPAM. :-( You can complain to the provider, with a cc to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which might cost the spammer his account. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz,

Re: [META] Is WaveMind spamming entire IBM-MAIN readership?

2007-05-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/24/2007 at 04:42 PM, Neil Duffee [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: An', yes, he did mention, As an FYI, by law this email is not spam. along with the Congress citation. So he's not only spamming, he's also lying to you. S877 says no such thing. -- Shmuel (Seymour

Re: [META] Is WaveMind spamming entire IBM-MAIN readership?

2007-05-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/24/2007 at 05:42 PM, Thompson, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: While you and I agree it is SPAM, the U CAN SPAM act was passed into law -- perhaps it is not the bill our friend has quoted, but never-the-less it was passed into law. Alas, yes, but S977 does *not*

Re: z/OS 1.8 upgrade

2007-05-25 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
snip Bottom line: If you are just getting ready to roll out, make sure you download current holddata and run SMP/E REPORT ERRORSYSMODS. If you have a PE applied that you can back off - do so. If you have a PE that has a fixing PTF, APPLY it. If you have a PE that you can't back off and there

Re: z/OS V1R8 LINKLIST setup

2007-05-25 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Peter Relson Unless you are using SYSLIB statements in PROGxx, it does not matter a bit where (or even if) SYS1.LINKLIB/MIGLIB/CSSLIB (and SIEALNKE / SIEAMIGE as of z/OS 1.8) appear in your LNKLST set

Re: How to Specify the FTP source IP address ?

2007-05-25 Thread Len Rugen
I'm not sure I understand If your FTP client is on the system in question, then standard IP routing will controll the path to the remote server. I guess you have multiple paths and one is preferred, or this wouldn't be an issue. A route could be added to direct the traffic to a chosen

Re: z/OS 1.8 upgrade

2007-05-25 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 25 May 2007 15:39:06 +1000, Stephen Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our only problem so far is with SMS the LIKE parameter for PO or POE datasets (both within JCL TSO). With z/OS 1.6 these files can be created with our DEFAULT Dataclas that has Dynamic Volume Count set to 2. If we try

Re: ikjefln2

2007-05-25 Thread Mark H. Young
On Thu, 24 May 2007 14:59:52 -0500, Nelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The IKJEFLN2 user exit provided in CBT tape 183 is free shareware; but does anyone know if IBM provides ongoing support of this user exit? I thought IBM doesn't support user exit code. The reason for asking is that we (the

Re: DASD Compression Question

2007-05-25 Thread Clark Morris
On 24 May 2007 18:20:54 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: I believe both sequential and at least some VSAM datasets can utilize compression in their representation on DASD. This requires that the datasets be SMS-managed and be assigned a DATACLAS that defines the dataset as extended

Re: z/OS 1.8 upgrade

2007-05-25 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 25 May 2007 07:34:29 -0400, Veilleux, Jon L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Bottom line: If you are just getting ready to roll out, make sure you download current holddata and run SMP/E REPORT ERRORSYSMODS. If you have a PE applied that you can back off - do so. If you have a PE that has

Re: Fix for orphan ISPF edit recovery files yet?

2007-05-25 Thread Morris, Carey
I'm not sure if this is the same problem, but we've been seeing these orphaned recovery files for some time - at least back to z/OS 1.5 (we're 1.7 now). Some of the files seem to be completely orphaned while others appear to be hanging around in ML2 status until the owner opens the wrong PDS

Re: How to Specify the FTP source IP address ?

2007-05-25 Thread wtrovijo
hi , as the subject, can I specify the OSA interface or source IP address during FTPing from z/OS to the other FTP server ? The FTP client is z/OS. Thanks ! Laurence The simple answer is ftp does send its ip address to server already; this is how connection is made, ip+port pairs make

GSF - is well known

2007-05-25 Thread Shane
So there seems to be a software company named GSF Software ... seems to be . Gilbert is well known (and appreciated) in these parts. If you've ever used showmvs/zos you owe Gilbert (in addition to Roland) a large vote of thanks. Not to mention his other contributions - see the cbt index.

Re: z/OS 1.8 upgrade

2007-05-25 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
Mark, I didn't mean that you were impugning us, I just wanted to let you know that even with due diligence this release has been one of our worst in quite a while. We did do the 1.8 ESP, but we didn't hit most of our issues until we went into production. Of course there is no way to simulate the

Re: z/OS 1.8 upgrade

2007-05-25 Thread Brian Peterson
When I notice problems like this (bad or misleading text in APARs), I open a PMR with IBM against the component who authored the APAR to request that correct RETAIN search keywords be added to the APAR text, or that the APAR be clarified. This takes approximately as long as it takes to type

Re: DASD Compression Question

2007-05-25 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 5/25/2007 8:23:00 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Depending on your actual spinning DASD, compression may be counter productive for actual disk utilization. It can save logical space and cache space but if the controller is compressing the data in

Re: z/OS 1.8 upgrade

2007-05-25 Thread John Eells
Brian Peterson wrote: When I notice problems like this (bad or misleading text in APARs), I open a PMR with IBM against the component who authored the APAR to request that correct RETAIN search keywords be added to the APAR text, or that the APAR be clarified. This takes approximately as

Re: Synchronize Time Between Mainframe and Servers?

2007-05-25 Thread Brian Peterson
Today, STP uses the same modem that the HMC uses to download patches from IBM. When STP uses the modem, it simply dials NIST in Boulder, or whatever dial up time server a Sysplex Timer would use in your geography. As often mentioned, apparently IBM plans to enhance STP to be able to

Re: IEBCOPY Unloaded dataset to PC and back again...not successful

2007-05-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 25 May 2007 00:58:32 +, Dave Salt wrote: From: Kenneth E Tomiak I have used both IEBCOPY and TRANSMIT format. I switched to TRANSMIT because there are pc applications that can read it. How do you round-trip and reconstitute an IEBCOPY-unloaded PDS on z/OS? I know it's possible; I've

Re: CICS Transactions

2007-05-25 Thread Matthew Stitt
Look in CBT file 529 for the programs you are wanting. You will also need file 527 for some subprograms. Versions of CICS from 4.1 on up have support. On Thu, 24 May 2007 19:57:30 -0400, Scott Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The SMF 110 record subtype 1 (CMF monitoring data) is complex, and can

Re: DASD Compression Question

2007-05-25 Thread Arthur T.
On 25 May 2007 07:15:18 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main (Message-ID:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 5/25/2007 8:23:00 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Depending on your actual spinning DASD, compression may be counter productive for actual

Re: z/OS V1R8 LINKLIST setup

2007-05-25 Thread Matthew Stitt
I'm sure Peter and his buddies could throw up several reasons against, but I think it would be advantageous for the placement in the LNKLST of these libraries to be honored. And the current rule to be followed if they are not listed. It seems to me to be a little dumb to have to code at least a

Re: Synchronize Time Between Mainframe and Servers?

2007-05-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 24 May 2007 17:16:16 -0500, Glenn Miller wrote: According to the Redbook I mentioned, each STP-capable CEC and CF must have the STP feature code 1021 installed. This feature code is a chargable feature. Your local IBM office would be able to provide you with a price quote. Thanks.

FW: Jim Keohane

2007-05-25 Thread Richards.Bob
For those that knew Jim. Bob Richards -Original Message- From: MQSeries List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Keohane Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 9:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Unsubscribe Help Sir This is Jim's wife and I am sorry to say Jim passed away last

Re: How to Specify the FTP source IP address ?

2007-05-25 Thread Tsai Laurence
Hi Len, you're right , I would like to have the z/OS FTP client cross over the preferred one, OSA card ,which is 1 gb/sec ,much faster thatn the rest ones. Do you know how to specify that ? Laurence From: Len Rugen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Jim Keohane

2007-05-25 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richards.Bob Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 10:08 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: FW: Jim Keohane For those that knew Jim. Bob Richards It's a poorer place, now. -- John McKown

Re: Why is there JOB scope for DSN ENQ's anyway?

2007-05-25 Thread Scott Fagen
On Wed, 23 May 2007 00:46:28 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not regard my query about why this glaring design flaw in ENQ is not being addressed (even if the usage of the enhanced support is restricted to the Initiator initially) as insulting (or do you regard my

Re: DASD Compression Question

2007-05-25 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 5/25/2007 9:55:36 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: space. I think that Clark Morris's statement that compressing may foul up the compression algorithm did not mean that the algorithm wouldn't work, but that it might yield non-optimal results.

Re: How to Specify the FTP source IP address ?

2007-05-25 Thread Rugen, Len
It would involve routing in the TCP/IP stack, which requires knowledge of the complete configuration. I can't imagine why the network would NOT already be configured to favor the best links. FTP isn't always secure, so that might be an issue. If you're VIPA, then it's more complicated. If the

Re: FW: Jim Keohane

2007-05-25 Thread Darren Evans-Young
On Fri, 25 May 2007, Richards.Bob wrote: For those that knew Jim. Bob Richards He would have been subscribed to IBM-MAIN for 10 years this November. Darren -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: Jim Keohane

2007-05-25 Thread Tom Moulder
What a loss! It is sobering to see friends of many years leave this world. We're not getting any younger. Another friend let me know two weeks ago it will be his last year in the business. I thought he was much too young to retire. I plan to make the most of each day. Tom Moulder

Re: Why is there JOB scope for DSN ENQ's anyway?

2007-05-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 25 May 2007 10:10:26 -0500, Scott Fagen wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2007 22:38:13 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: Would repairing a defect be considered (part of) a business case? Of course. snip And what was the outcome of the incident? It was so long ago that I was probably not submitting

Re: Jim Keohane

2007-05-25 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
To quote Kurt Vonnegut It's never a mistake to say goodbye Jon L. Veilleux [EMAIL PROTECTED] (860) 636-2683 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Moulder Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 11:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject:

Re: Jim Keohane

2007-05-25 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi Bob, Thanks for passing this along. I never met Jim in person, like so many of the folks in the larger mainframe community, but did correspond with him a few times. Jim was a very bright and personable fellow who seemed to enjoy sharing his knowledge. He is one of many over the years who

Re: FW: Jim Keohane

2007-05-25 Thread Don Poitras
Although I didn't have a close relationship with Jim, I worked with him on many SAS/C issues over the years and I don't think I've ever seen a customer that was easier to get along with. Besides having great technical skills, he made extra effort to understand issues that we had as an ISV. I

Re: Jim Keohane

2007-05-25 Thread Richards.Bob
You are most welcome. I have only cross-posted from the MQSeries list to IBM-Main, so if others are aware of other lists he posted to, you may want to pass the word along. Bob Richards -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: IEBCOPY Unloaded dataset to PC and back again...not successful

2007-05-25 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 25 May 2007 09:39:16 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: And what do you recommend for a workstation incapable of dealing with .EXE format? Are there other formats of WSA? Open source? Not very interesting ones. AIX, Solaris and HP UX versions. There *was* an OS/2 version. -- Tom

Re: IEBCOPY Unloaded dataset to PC and back again...not successful

2007-05-25 Thread Dave Salt
I agree; TRANSMIT is a great way to pack a PDS into a sequential file. But when it comes to transferring files to or from a PC, whether they are sequential (including transmit format) or individual members of a PDS, I much prefer the ISPF Workstation Agent (WSA.EXE) over FTP or IND$FILE.

Re: IEBCOPY Unloaded dataset to PC and back again...not successful

2007-05-25 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 12:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IEBCOPY Unloaded dataset to PC and back again...not successful On Fri, 25 May 2007 09:39:16

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: IEBCOPY Unloaded dataset to PC and back again...not successful

2007-05-25 Thread Rick Fochtman
This is probably a dumb suggestion, but why don't you just XMIT the file to a sequential dataset on mainframe disk, download it to PC, upload to the target mainframe then do a RECEIVE of that sequential dataset? Burning a CD-ROM or DVD are optional steps, as is ZIP'ing the file.

Re: IEBCOPY Unloaded dataset to PC and back again...not successfu l

2007-05-25 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
-Original Message- From: Dave Salt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 1:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IEBCOPY Unloaded dataset to PC and back again...not successful Snipped From: Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] And what do you recommend for a

Re: Why is there JOB scope for DSN ENQ's anyway?

2007-05-25 Thread Bruce Black
Can you PLEASE explain why there was/is support for a SHR-EXC Upgrade... Pretty simple. The dataset is ENQed SHR because the highest DISP in the job for that dataset is SHR. But some function in a step may want to get EXC control so that it can update the dataset, thus the RET=CHNG

Re: Fix for orphan ISPF edit recovery files yet?

2007-05-25 Thread Kirk Talman
Have problem under 1.8. Had problem under 1.7 1.4. Oldest one of 131 total is now 2 yrs old. The only advice I got was to delete ISPPROF and see if that helps. Kind of answer I would expect from M$weenie not IBMsysprog. If you get a viable solution let me know. fyi our main system is

Power 6 and other new hardware

2007-05-25 Thread John (IBM-MAIN)
Good evening (at least here in Europe). The German 'Computerwoche' has a couple of interesting articles this week. IBM announced the Power 6 processor. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/21580.wss Hitachi announced the successor to the Tagmastor. Universal Storage Platform

Re: Fix for orphan ISPF edit recovery files yet?

2007-05-25 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 25 May 2007 14:17:24 -0400, Kirk Talman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have problem under 1.8. Had problem under 1.7 1.4. Oldest one of 131 total is now 2 yrs old. The only advice I got was to delete ISPPROF and see if that helps. Kind of answer I would expect from M$weenie not IBMsysprog.

Re: Why is there JOB scope for DSN ENQ's anyway?

2007-05-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 25 May 2007 14:14:44 -0400, Bruce Black wrote: As far as a EXC-SHR function, this also seems obvious to me. The initiator ENQs the dataset, and then releases the dataset at the end ofVVe the last step that uses it. If you issue a EXC-SHR request, a fullowing step may need the dataset

Re: Replacing SAS on the mainframe (Was Report on TSO usage.)

2007-05-25 Thread Rob Barbour
Depending on what information you need, i.e. cost accounting, chargeback, capacity planning, et. al., SMF-TRACKER may be an alternative. See http://www.esaigroup.com/products/applications.htm The product is low cost and does not require expensive statistical software package on the

Using TSO Receive in batch

2007-05-25 Thread David Day
I would like to be able to run a batch IKJEKT01 job, and use RECEIVE to update a PDS. However, to put it in the output dataset of choice requires specifying DATASET to a prompt. Running the RECEIVE with the DATASET specified in batch causes the command to fail. I can run this at the ready

Re: Cloning DB2 using Flashcopy

2007-05-25 Thread Rob Barbour
Hi Tony, ESAi and UBS have a product called BCV4 for cloning FULL DB2 subystems very quickly. Ideal user would be SAP, PeopleSoft, large DB2. Some folks also use for DB2 or OS version upgrade testing. Link http://www.esaigroup.com/products/bcv4.htm If you don't want to clone the entire

Re: Using TSO Receive in batch

2007-05-25 Thread Peter X. DeFabritus
The way I have done it: //SYSTSIN DD * RECEIVE INDATASET('input data set') DSN('output data set') UNIT(SYSALLDA) VOL(vv) END The prompts are read inline. On Fri, 25 May 2007 13:54:45 -0500, David Day [EMAIL

Re: Using TSO Receive in batch

2007-05-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 25 May 2007 13:58:56 -0500, Peter X. DeFabritus wrote: The way I have done it: //SYSTSIN DD * RECEIVE INDATASET('input data set') DSN('output data set') UNIT(SYSALLDA) VOL(vv) END The prompts are read inline. Me, too. I've done this regularly. It works as described. Now, harder

Re: Why is there JOB scope for DSN ENQ's anyway?

2007-05-25 Thread J R
Paul Gilmartin said: the initiator was able to allocate it again in STEP2. I hope this was not done without an ENQ. Right, but maybe the intervening de-allocate was done without a DEQ. Besides, the message IKJ56247I FILE SYSUT1 NOT FREED, IS NOT ALLOCATED may not come to pass the way you

Re: IEBCOPY Unloaded dataset to PC and back again...not successful

2007-05-25 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 25 May 2007 17:52:03 +, Dave Salt wrote: According to the documentation, WSA works with Windows, AIX, OS/2, Solaris and HP UX. I didn't look at the documentation. I looked at the download panel for the WSA on a z/OS 1.8 system. There is no longer an OS/2 version. I agree with

Re: Why is there JOB scope for DSN ENQ's anyway?

2007-05-25 Thread Greg Shirey
Hmm, I took your example job and added a step inbetween your two and put the job to sleep for 30 seconds. The SYSTSPRT output looked like this: READY FREE DD(SYSUT1) READY FREE DD(SYSUT1)

Re: IEBCOPY Unloaded dataset to PC and back again...not successful

2007-05-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 25 May 2007 17:52:03 +, Dave Salt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to the documentation, WSA works with Windows, AIX, OS/2, Solaris Is that both Solaris/SPARC and Solaris i86? Open Source rules! and HP UX. For workstations that don't support .EXE, I recommend dropping them from a

Looking for Synthetic Job Stream JCL, etc.

2007-05-25 Thread Mark H. Young
Back when I was working at the Marriott Corp in the 1980s, a colleague had a set of JCL called the Synthetic Job Stream COPYRIGHT @ 1976,1977 TRUST COMPANY OF GEORGIA. It was a collection of assembler code et al (which got assembled, linked, and executed), along with other IBM utilities

Re: Why is there JOB scope for DSN ENQ's anyway?

2007-05-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
on Fri, 25 May 2007 15:19:35 -0400, J R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right, but maybe the intervening de-allocate was done without a DEQ. That's what I believe. Besides, the message IKJ56247I FILE SYSUT1 NOT FREED, IS NOT ALLOCATED may not come to pass the way you think. It says that the *ddname*

Re: Fix for orphan ISPF edit recovery files yet?

2007-05-25 Thread Kirk Talman
Using Marks's page listed below. 1) We share ISPPROF across all lpars of the shared dasd systems. 2) Edit on other plex/lpar is blocked by ENQ/GRS. So it sounds like ISPPROF corruption. Which is consistent w/periodically getting thrown into a false recovery. If I read the information

Re: Using TSO Receive in batch

2007-05-25 Thread David Day
Just learned something about TSO batch. Coding the RECEIVE command all on one line as //SYSTSIN DD * RECEIVE INFILE(SYS2) DSNAME('APF1.V100.ISPPLIB.TEST') OLD will make it fail. Splitting it across 2 lines as //SYSTSIN DD * RECEIVE INFILE(SYS2) DSNAME('APF1.V100.ISPPLIB.TEST')

Re: IEBCOPY Unloaded dataset to PC and back again...not successful

2007-05-25 Thread Dave Salt
On Fri, 25 May 2007 17:52:03 +, Dave Salt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to the documentation, WSA works with Windows, AIX, OS/2, Solaris... From: Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is that both Solaris/SPARC and Solaris i86? I couldn't say; I've personally only used the WSA with

Re: Fix for orphan ISPF edit recovery files yet?

2007-05-25 Thread Joel C. Ewing
Mark Zelden wrote: On Fri, 25 May 2007 14:17:24 -0400, Kirk Talman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have problem under 1.8. Had problem under 1.7 1.4. Oldest one of 131 total is now 2 yrs old. The only advice I got was to delete ISPPROF and see if that helps. Kind of answer I would expect from

Re: Using TSO Receive in batch

2007-05-25 Thread Bob Rutledge
David Day wrote: Just learned something about TSO batch. Coding the RECEIVE command all on one line as //SYSTSIN DD * RECEIVE INFILE(SYS2) DSNAME('APF1.V100.ISPPLIB.TEST') OLD will make it fail. Because DSNAME() and OLD are not valid operands of the RECEIVE command... Splitting it

Re: Why is there JOB scope for DSN ENQ's anyway?

2007-05-25 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 10:48 -0300 on 05/24/2007, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about Re: Why is there JOB scope for DSN ENQ's anyway?: Just make it a private/undocumented interface (as has been done with other internal functions such as SuperLocate and others) and restrict its use to ONLY the Initiator (and

Re: Why is there JOB scope for DSN ENQ's anyway?

2007-05-25 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 14:14 -0400 on 05/25/2007, Bruce Black wrote about Re: Why is there JOB scope for DSN ENQ's anyway?: As far as a EXC-SHR function, this also seems obvious to me. The initiator ENQs the dataset, and then releases the dataset at the end of the last step that uses it. If you issue a EXC-SHR

Re: EZASMI and LE

2007-05-25 Thread Martin Kerner
On Mon, 21 May 2007 05:01:03 -0500, Nick Baguley wrote: Is anyone aware of whether the EZASMI macro level interface uses LE at any stage? To my knowledge, it never did. And if EZASMI should start to activate LE under the covers, one of my applications (and I'm sure, many others) would be in

Re: Why is there JOB scope for DSN ENQ's anyway?

2007-05-25 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 5/25/2007 5:09:08 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That There is no easy way that I know to determine if the current step is the last step that uses the dataset claim conflicts with your then releases the dataset at the end of the last step that

Re: IEBCOPY Unloaded dataset to PC and back again...not successful

2007-05-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/24/2007 at 06:33 PM, David Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The IND$FILE for the GET or PUT operation did not specify CRLF as a parameter. Can someone tell me what I did wrong, You didn't do a binary file transfer. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT

Re: FW: Jim Keohane

2007-05-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/25/2007 at 11:07 AM, Richards.Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: For those that knew Jim. Zichrono lvrakha (may his name be a blessing.) -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't

Re: IEBCOPY Unloaded dataset to PC and back again...not successful

2007-05-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/24/2007 at 07:22 PM, Kenneth E Tomiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Define better. When the z/OS system does not have the FTP server running then IND$FILE is better. No; you only need an FTP server on one end, not on both. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and

Re: IEBCOPY Unloaded dataset to PC and back again...not successful

2007-05-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/25/2007 at 09:39 AM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: And what do you recommend for a workstation incapable of dealing with .EXE format? The format is irrelevant. You need a version of WSA capable of running on you platform, and using, e.g., elf instead of

Re: IEBCOPY Unloaded dataset to PC and back again...not successful

2007-05-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/25/2007 at 02:21 PM, Tom Marchant [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I didn't look at the documentation. I looked at the download panel for the WSA on a z/OS 1.8 system. There is no longer an OS/2 version. Don't confuse the download panel with the library that it refers

Re: ikjefln2

2007-05-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/24/2007 at 02:59 PM, Nelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The IKJEFLN2 user exit provided in CBT tape 183 is free shareware; but does anyone know if IBM provides ongoing support of this user exit? IBM supports software for which you have an active support contract. Your

Re: IEBCOPY Unloaded dataset to PC and back again...not successful

2007-05-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/25/2007 at 05:52 PM, Dave Salt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: According to the documentation, WSA works with Windows, AIX, OS/2, Solaris and HP UX. For workstations that don't support .EXE, I recommend dropping them from a high building. And I suggest dropping all PC's

Re: Indirect Cataloging (Was: Re: Compuware installs get an F)

2007-05-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/24/2007 at 03:19 PM, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: But you can do so if they are read only. We've had this discussion many times and I suspect you have read the posts and the caveats. One of the caveats from IBM was that you could break the library that

Re: [META] Is WaveMind spamming entire IBM-MAIN readership?

2007-05-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/24/2007 at 06:13 PM, Kenneth E Tomiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Wavemind replied: I will honor your request and remove your contact from my list. As an FYI, by law this email is not spam. Rule 1: spammers lie. Under Bills.1618 Title III passed by the 105th U.S.

Limit to the number of Aliases in a User Catalog

2007-05-25 Thread Kay Anderson
We just had a situation where we could not define anymore Aliases in a User Catalog. I understand that the number of Aliases that can be defined in a user catalog is related to the largest record size of the Master Catalog. Is there anyway to tell when we are approaching this limit? We are

Re: Limit to the number of Aliases in a User Catalog

2007-05-25 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
3000 see below from Managing Catalogs Catalog aliases are defined in the master catalog, which contains an entry for the user catalog. The number of aliases a catalog can have is limited by the maximum record size for the master catalog. If the master catalog is defined with the default

Re: Limit to the number of Aliases in a User Catalog

2007-05-25 Thread Kay Anderson
Thank you for your response, but what I really need to know is how can I tell if we are reaching the maximum before we actually get there. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: Limit to the number of Aliases in a User Catalog

2007-05-25 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Sorry Kay, that didn't answer your question. Use Idcams Listcat to list the aliases in a given catalog. From: O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Fri 5/25/2007 7:45 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Limit to the number of Aliases in a User Catalog

Re: Limit to the number of Aliases in a User Catalog

2007-05-25 Thread Kay Anderson
I did a listc and didn't see any information that would be useful. The reason I'm asking is because we had a severity one incident because our client could not define anymore aliases and they berated us for not monitoring the catalog. I've never heard of that type of monitoring being done

Re: IEBCOPY Unloaded dataset to PC and back again...not successful

2007-05-25 Thread Kenneth E Tomiak
On Fri, 25 May 2007 09:39:16 -0500, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you round-trip and reconstitute an IEBCOPY-unloaded PDS on z/OS? I know it's possible; I've done similar as an experiment. But it's tedious and scarcely worth the effort. Far too long ago for me to remember.

Re: Limit to the number of Aliases in a User Catalog

2007-05-25 Thread Kenneth E Tomiak
On Fri, 25 May 2007 19:14:34 -0500, Kay Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] INC.COM wrote: I did a listc and didn't see any information that would be useful. The reason I'm asking is because we had a severity one incident because our client could not define anymore aliases and they berated us for not

Re: Limit to the number of Aliases in a User Catalog

2007-05-25 Thread Kenneth E Tomiak
On Fri, 25 May 2007 19:14:34 -0500, Kay Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] INC.COM wrote: how are they doing it. If I had to monitor this, I would turn to the Catalog Search Interface API (IGGCSI00) and write some rexx code to do the counting.

Re: Limit to the number of Aliases in a User Catalog

2007-05-25 Thread Kay Anderson
On Fri, 25 May 2007 19:26:13 -0500, Kenneth E Tomiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 25 May 2007 19:14:34 -0500, Kay Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] INC.COM wrote: how are they doing it. If I had to monitor this, I would turn to the Catalog Search Interface API (IGGCSI00) and write some rexx

OT IBM Sued

2007-05-25 Thread Ed Gould
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Re: Limit to the number of Aliases in a User Catalog

2007-05-25 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Kay, the following Listc command will give you the input you need. LISTCAT ALL - ENT(SYSICF.USERCAT.UCAT01) USERCATALOG --- SYSICF.USERCAT.UCAT01 IN-CAT --- SYS1.MCATSY00

Re: How to Specify the FTP source IP address ?

2007-05-25 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Tsai Laurence wrote: hi , as the subject, can I specify the OSA interface or source IP address during FTPing from z/OS to the other FTP server ? The FTP client is z/OS. Thanks ! Laurence What version of z/OS are you running? I can't remember what version it was introduced, but we are

Re: Limit to the number of Aliases in a User Catalog

2007-05-25 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 19:31 -0500 on 05/25/2007, Kay Anderson wrote about Re: Limit to the number of Aliases in a User Catalog: Thank you for your responses. I can't comment on the design of the system since we inherited it. But, based on what I've heard, there isn't an easy way to monitor this type of

Re: Why is there JOB scope for DSN ENQ's anyway?

2007-05-25 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 18:34 -0400 on 05/25/2007, (IBM Mainframe Discussion List) wrote about Re: Why is there JOB scope for DSN ENQ's anyway?: In a message dated 5/25/2007 5:09:08 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That There is no easy way that I know to determine if the current  step is

Re: IEBCOPY Unloaded dataset to PC and back again...not successful

2007-05-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 25 May 2007 19:17:12 -0500, Kenneth E Tomiak wrote: On Fri, 25 May 2007 09:39:16 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: How do you round-trip and reconstitute an IEBCOPY-unloaded PDS on z/OS? I know it's possible; I've done similar as an experiment. But it's tedious and scarcely worth the effort.

Re: IEBCOPY Unloaded dataset to PC and back again...not successful

2007-05-25 Thread Ed Gould
On May 25, 2007, at 11:25 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: SNIP Won't that fail spectacularly if the PDS contains members which resemble or are IEBUPDTE command streams? I deem it a design deficiency of IEBUPDTE that it has (AFAIK) no way to