-- snip --
snip
I was hoping there was an exit in HSM where one could code dataset
patterns like IMSVS.SLDSS.*. Each time HSM goes looking for work in its
input queue, the exit would be invoked to scan for a pattern match and
select our IMSVS.SLDSS.* dataset activity for processing, in
-- snip --
Maybe if IBM renamed it people would mind less. Perhaps
CFFHASRADHCSA Customer Focused Functionality High Availability Super
Reliability Allows Dynamic Hardware Changes Storage Area?
-- snip --
If they hid it under the covers (internal, customer non-visible memory) we
would all be
Tommy,
I know of two customers in Asia that are using HFT with HDS Arrays to
transfer between MF and UNIX, rather than TCP/IP. Contact me off list if you
are interested in more information.
Ron
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Clark,
All I can say is serendipity rules. After sitting in a Hong Kong bar
listening to how people are developing an industry of scanning junk PCs
for useful info, I'm all for shredding disks.
Seems it started out as a bit of a joke looking for amateur photos recorded
on a pornograph...
Thank's for your reply,
I do these tests under z/OS 1.8
The report attachement are too big to be joint to the message
Yes, I have include the header file in my JCL on the LSEARCH sub-parameter
My compilation (CBCC standard procedure)
//COMPIL EXEC PROC=CBCC,
With FCV2 - why not?
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Kelman, Tom wrote:
[...]
Nothing as of right now and the authorities recovered the VA's laptop
and arrested the thief.
So, why did you expect any action from VA ?
Laptop was recovered, possibly no-one was interested in reading the
data. BTW: Assuming someone was interested, it is possible to
The ability to share datasets between MF and other platforms is part of
the Enterprise storage device. Hitachi data systems supply that by Rapid
Exchange. EMC has their own technology, I think that IBM doesn't have
support. HRX is unit address depended and is configured by the hardware
tech. In
If I issue RESET jobname,QUIESCE,A=asidx the job becomes quiesced but
after a short time it starts running againg without any intervention. What
is it that is causing the job to be resumed.
Jim McAlpine
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If I issue RESET jobname,QUIESCE,A=asidx the job becomes quiesced but
after a short time it starts running againg without any intervention.
What is it that is causing the job to be resumed.
Jim McAlpine
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Jim,
Are you running TMONCICS? if so you need to tell it not to scan for
batch
On 8/7/07, Fletcher, Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Are you running TMONCICS? if so you need to tell it not to scan for
batch jobs (option 10.1.2) and set scan batch to N.
HTH
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Good Day All,
I have to extend the expiration period of some tape dsn created by EXHPDM.
They have been set to Permanent on TMS. I checked the manual but I am not sure
if it is the right command to use because of the SAVEGENS WUNCAT parms:
To make the latest generation only of
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 23:52:47 +1000, John Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good Day All,
I have to extend the expiration period of some tape dsn created by
EXHPDM. They have been set to Permanent on TMS. I checked the manual but I
am not sure if it is the right command to use because of the
I am posting this for a co-worker.
Any hints are greatly appreciated.
-Victor-
I was wondering if you could help me out with a VSAM question.
I have a base cluster defined with an alternate index and a path. It’s modeled
on an existing
I am not certain if this answers your question, but I have used SAMBA to
share data between z/OS and Open Systems. Other than a few quirks, it works
fine. That being said, SAMBA has not done any further development since
release 1.9.18, or something like that. WHy should they...? After all,
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I am posting this for a co-worker.
Any hints are greatly appreciated.
-Victor-
I was wondering if you could help me out with a VSAM question.
I have a base cluster defined with an
Here's the URI for the Announcement Letter:
http://www-306.ibm.com/common/ssi/fcgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=ansubtype=
caappname=Demonstrationhtmlfid=897/ENUS207-175
Or
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2mmgua
Note also that z/OS 1.10 and 1.11 are explicitly mentioned therein as
intended future
Seems it started out as a bit of a joke looking for amateur photos recorded on
a pornograph...
Speaking of which...
My son works in tech support for a computer type company and they get
computers back all the time for support (repairs, new drivers, stupid user
tricks, etc...) and they always
Why not delete the AIX(s) and path(s), reload the base cluster with
reuse, then definethe AIX(s) and Path(s) then and build the AIXs?
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To:
Victor Gil wrote:
I am posting this for a co-worker.
Any hints are greatly appreciated.
-Victor-
I was wondering if you could help me out with a VSAM question.
I have a base cluster defined with an alternate index and a path. It’s
From the AMS manual under the REUSE keyword:
When you create a reusable cluster, you cannot build an alternate index to
support it. Also, you cannot create a reusable cluster with key ranges (see
the KEYRANGE parameter). Reusable data sets may be multivolume and may have
up to 123 physical
While you can define the AIX as reusable, you can't define the base cluster
as reusable if it has an AIX From the define cluster: When you create a
reusable cluster, you cannot build an alternate index to support it.
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Seems it started out as a bit of a joke looking for amateur
photos recorded on a pornograph...
Speaking of which...
My son works in tech support for a computer type company
and they get computers
On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 15:27:00 -0400, Lizette Koehler
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CA1 came back with an interesting statement.
Because this is a long running job (IPL to IPL) the data set is not
cataloged (EXPDT=99000) until the job ends. Due to the TMS Scratch
and Clean running, it sees the tapes
From: Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
About 15 or so years ago, the shop where I worked (VM/VSE only) bought a
string of used 3380-Ks. After the CE finished physically installing
them and we were about to ICKDSF-install them, we discovered they still
had an apparently IPL-able MVS image on
Rick Fochtman wrote:
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Just curious: what loss did you suffer because of that ?
Wha problems did you experience ?
IMHO the most likely scanrio is someone stolen a *piece of hardware*
and quickly erased all data which could identify previous owner.
Also, you cannot create a reusable cluster with key ranges (see the KEYRANGE
parameter).
Isn't KEYRANGE one of the parameters no longer supported?
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And it is *still possible*. I don't mean cashing money, but copying your
card number. A lot of people know your card number (it is on the card!),
a lot of people know your SSN, address, etc. It cannot be treated as
secret data. If several entities know the
Apparently AIX is the official abbreviation
ALTERNATEINDEX
Defines an alternate index or re-catalogs an alternate index entry.
The ALTERNATEINDEX keyword is
Why does it bother you? First, there are thousands (tens of thousands?)
of shops that routinely swap sensitive data 7x24 in all forms of media
and transports. And that has been going on for decades. There have been
losses, but never any known exploitation. After all, mf data is very
difficult to
According to CA1 L1, the 90008 says
They can change the EXPDT value in the JCL to be 90008 to keep the tape for 8
days, and then if the data set is cataloged we will convert to catalog control.
The 99DDD has a different meaning. But to place the dataset under CATALOG
CONTROL once it is
I know this is an on going issue, but I am confused.
IBM says to not bookmark the IBMLINK link. And yet to find IBMLINK on the
website is very confusing. You have to go to SUPPORT DOWNLOADS then go to
the bottom and figure out which entry is IBMLINK.
Do you think IBM could put a link in
Gary Green wrote:
I am not certain if this answers your question, but I have used SAMBA to
share data between z/OS and Open Systems. Other than a few quirks, it works
fine. That being said, SAMBA has not done any further development since release 1.9.18,
or something like that. WHy should
Can I change the expiration date of a ML1/ML2 dsns using HMIGRATE?
The user doesn't want to use IDCAMS.
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Answers.
We found that when we provided the sort work area DD's we would S0C4.
When we took out all DD's the utility would run fine.
We have asked IBM to look at the problem further.
We have deleted all sortworks from our utility jobs.
George
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There is no legal precedent preventing someone from Bookmaking a website
in their web browser. IBM can ask that all they want but it is
completely unenforceable.
They were probably meaning that they didn't want other websites directly
linking to that page. Either that or they are planning to
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Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 12:16 PM
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Subject: How to fine IBMLINK
SNIP
Wow, I thought we had a real legal thing going here, How we could Fine
IBMLINK.
Lizettte
Once I started reading your post I also got confused. I thought you'd come
up with a technique to punish IBM for the poor IBMLINK availability!
Incidentally, you can bookmark whatever you like. What you and your PC do in
private is of no concern to anyone else - including IBM.
Lizette maybe on to something here, you get paid for not using what you
can not use anyway..g
Thanks,
Fletch
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On Aug 7, 2007, at 12:29 PM, GAVIN Darren * OPS EAS wrote:
There is no legal precedent preventing someone from Bookmaking a
website
in their web browser. IBM can ask that all they want but it is
completely unenforceable.
They were probably meaning that they didn't want other websites
On 7 Aug 2007 10:16:24 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
I expect this is because they don't want to always want it to be the
same URL.
I use BlueZone as my terminal emulator. Depending on what browser I
use, when I go to our URL for BlueZone, it moves to immediately either
a Java
On 7 Aug 2007 09:40:56 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
And it is *still possible*. I don't mean cashing money, but copying your
card number. A lot of people know your card number (it is on the card!),
a lot of people know your SSN, address, etc. It cannot be treated as
secret data.
In a message dated 8/7/2007 12:16:37 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Do you think IBM could put a link in that section called IBMLINK for those
of us who are more use to that nomenclature? Or is that also a hopeless
cause?
Which URL do you use? Think
When I worked at Sungard in Philly back in the early 80's, before everyone
became security conscious, customers would come in for a DR drill and when the
drill was over, they would pack up and leave. And leave everything on DASD.
Of course it was policy to re-init the drives after they were
AFAIK, IBM has only requested that you not bookmark the Sign In page. This
was in an item in IBMLink news from August 28, 2006.
quote
Do NOT bookmark the Sign In page
This article provides recommendations on how to access IBMLink pages,
whether invoking a bookmark you previously created,
For our first DR exercise, I recommended to my client that we overwrite all
of our DASD before leaving. My client listened to the DR vendor say that
they cleaned all DASD between customer use. What they really did was a
simple MVS relabel/rewrite-VTOC. When we arrived and began our VM restores,
I agree with you that IBM should have a link on there website for IBMLink.
You can't even find it through their search engine easily. IBM's website
search engine is not very useful to me. I have much better luck using
Google to find info on the IBM webpages. If you type IBMLink in Google the
I just use http://www.ibm.com/ibmlink It actually gets to the same
place.
Thanks
John
I agree with you that IBM should have a link on there website for
IBMLink.
You can't even find it through their search engine easily. IBM's
website search engine is not very useful to me. I have much better
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 10:29 -0700, GAVIN Darren * OPS EAS wrote:
Personally, bookmark what ever site you want, it is your business not
theirs. If a company or website doesn't like it, they probably need to
relax some.
Inner URLs might be dynamically generated, and contain encoded (and
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 10:28:30 -0500, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's the URI for the Announcement Letter:
http://www-306.ibm.com/common/ssi/fcgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=ansubtype=
caappname=Demonstrationhtmlfid=897/ENUS207-175
Or
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2mmgua
Note also that z/OS
The step should be executed unless any prior step has RC9.
Neal Eckhardt said:
OK, I'm usually pretty good at spotting these things, but this one has me
baffled.
z/OS 1.4 system and here is the JCL setup
Job card with COND=(9,LT).
An IF/THEN/ELSE/ENDIF construct with another
Mark Zeldon wrote:
ast but not least SYSREXX!
Where is the documentation for SYSREXX?
Jon L. Veilleux
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Actually, any RC=9 will skip the step. I always have to rethink the
COND= to mean SKIP=. That is, if the condition holds true, then SKIP
the step. My brain implicitly tries to think the opposite, that the
step should execute only if the condition is true. It's really a
conditional SKIP expression.
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From: Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 1:16 PM
Subject: How to fine IBMLINK
I know this is an on going issue, but I am confused.
IBM says to not bookmark the IBMLINK link. And yet to find IBMLINK
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From: esmie moo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 1:22 PM
Subject: CHANGE EXPIRATION DATE WITH HMIG
Can I change the expiration date of a ML1/ML2 dsns using HMIGRATE?
The user doesn't want to use IDCAMS.
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 15:25:04 -0400, Veilleux, Jon L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Zeldon wrote:
ast but not least SYSREXX!
Where is the documentation for SYSREXX?
Here is a start:
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/bkserv/
z/OS V1R9.0 MVS Authorized Assembler Services
What does this mean?
quote
With z/OS V1.9, multiple functions are provided which are intended to
better align with SUSv3:
/quote
What is SUSv3?
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On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 10:28:30 -0500, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's the URI for the Announcement Letter:
http://www-306.ibm.com/common/ssi/fcgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=ansubtype=
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 15:25:04 -0400, Veilleux, Jon L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Zeldon wrote:
ast but not least SYSREXX!
No, Mark Zelden wrote...
~
Don't feel bad though... It's amazing how many people spell my name that
way, even when the correct spelling is written
Agreed! Over the course of forty years, I've never known anybody
who thinks that COND= is intuitive. I always mentally rearrange it to
state BYPASS THIS STEP IF but your SKIP= works well too.
From: Jeffrey D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Where is the documentation for SYSREXX?
Here is a start:
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/bkserv/
z/OS V1R9.0 MVS Authorized Assembler Services Guide
http://tinyurl.com/yoonn7
(or the real URL)
On 7 Aug 2007 13:04:40 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J R) wrote:
Agreed! Over the course of forty years, I've never known anybody
who thinks that COND= is intuitive. I always mentally rearrange it to
state BYPASS THIS STEP IF but your SKIP= works well too.
Most everybody either has their JCL
I am not sure if this is what you mean by cleanse but there is a macro
called ALPHAGEN that can conditionally generate alphanumeric data into a
receiving field.
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McKown, John wrote:
...
What is SUSv3?
http://www.unix.org/version3/online.html
Bob
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McKown, John wrote:
...
What is
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 14:22:23 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote:
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 10:28:30 -0500, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's the URI for the Announcement Letter:
http://www-306.ibm.com/common/ssi/fcgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=ansubtype=caappname=Demonstrationhtmlfid=897/ENUS207-175
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/08/
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Hi John,
Short answer is it depends on what you are trying to achieve. Can you
please provide me with some additional details?
According to the command example below, this will update the clients on
the stream, but not the actual stream dataset associated with the tape
and the clients.
I
Lizette is correct here. The EXPDT=90ddd is catalog-days control, meaning the
tape is kept a minimum of ddd days and then is placed under catalog-control. It
is recommended to be used in place of the older 99000 catalog-control for
long-running jobs (jobs that run more then 24-hours) because
This is a big announcement with a long name to go with it: IBM Integrated
Removable Media Manager for the Enterprise on System z V1.1. Call it IRMM
for short, and it's yet another expansion of the mainframe software
portfolio.
IRMM helps you manage both mainframe and non-mainframe tape media
Ted MacNEIL wrote:
Because of the record lenght, I'm not able to use the tso edit function.
Why not?
ISPF EDIT supports up to 250.
...
It would require his TSO session to allocate virtual memory in excess of
75 MB for Edit to load his file into memory. Although Dave indicated
the problem
Dell to stuff hypervisors in flash memory
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/07/dell_hypervisor_flash/
Sounds to be that this might be doable in IBM's version of Linux...
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