I agree that Flashcopy on Ds6800 cannot compare with ESS. I believe that it
is partly the small cache available (4Gb) and probably a design feature to
make people go for ds8000 if they are serious user of flashcopy.
Why do you Flashcopy twice. Why not do it once once, backup to tape and let
On two of our systems we are/were running with ESQA at 112% and hence ECSA
converted. Last weekend one of those systems was finally migrated to 1.8 and I
was finally able to convince the powers that be that ESQA should be increased
so that we're not converting ECSA anymore (which isn't all
Well, all the modified checks in HZSPRM have the NOCHECK parm on for the date.
According to the book, that *should* prevent HC from spitting out this message:
*HZS0420E 1 CHECKS HAVE BEEN FOUND FOR WHICH AT LEAST ONE MATCHING 539
POLICY STATEMENT HAD A DATE OLDER THAN THE CHECK DATE.
Lizette,
check your PARMLIB member for RMF monitor III (usually ERBRMF04)...
there should be a CFDETAIL statement.
Having that, you can report on CF Activity.
Hope this helps.
_
Paolo Cacciari
Business Continuity and
Whoops. EXEC was pasted with lots of blanks
For Vista I rewrote Tom's 'VSTEXEC' TSO command for VM.
It is available athttp://www.tombrennansoftware.com/other.html
as VMVISTA VMARC
This allows changing the Window Title (and other options) of the current
session from CMS
only if the
Esmie,
what I tink you can do is to check if you have such a FACILITY profile
defined in your RACF configuration:
STGADMIN.DPDSRN.dsname
After having such a profile active, you can RENAME your dataset, using ISPF
functions and using volser
name to point to the DSN. After having renamed it, you
Two ways I have found to accomplish this rather easily.
1) Go to =3.4 and plug in the dasd volser and press enter. Then scroll
down until you find your dsn in question. You will then rename it. There
should be a prompt that comes up telling/asking you, do you really know
what you are doing. As
Thanks Chris/Eileen!
I could make the automation work by coding the below statement in
INGMSG01 table,
IF MSGID= 'IEA631I' THEN EXEC(CMD('MVS D T') ROUTE(ONE *));
SYSLOG observation,
IEA631I OPERATOR ARUN NOW INACTIVE, SYSTEM=MVSX, LU=MVSXTC23
D T
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From: Barbara Nitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Barbara,
We have ours now defined to only receive rc 1-16 except 11. HC probably
checks as
'reasonable' what would be sent to an autoactivated console (I am almost sure
that rc17-128 are not in that range).
I took your
I want to be able to stop programmers from coding STORCLAS DATACLAS and
MGMTCLAS in their JCL unless I tell them to. Even better would be able to
rename it occasionally.
Just code your ACS routines to ignore what is supplied and use your own logic
to determine them.
-
Too busy driving to
We are upgrading from a 2064 to a 2096. Our 2064 SYSPLEX contains one
LPAR running z/OS 1.4. Is anyone running z/OS 1.4 on a 2096? If so, any
problems or suggestions? Thanks.
Mark House
(402) 778-1966
IBM Mainframe Systems
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:10:53 -0500, Mark S. House
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Is anyone running z/OS 1.4 on a 2096? If so, any
problems or suggestions?
Mark, I forgot to mention, that obviously you will need the PSP buckets for the
2096 installed.
This is an excellent Flash that can point you
I tried to install SYSREXX on z/OS 1.8, and I believe there's an SMP/E
packaging error within the base function sysmod HBB77SR regarding an IFREQ
for UA35026 (which is a PTF for the Japanese language feature), which causes
APPLY to fail. I've reported the problem to IBM. We'll have to see how
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:10:53 -0500, Mark S. House
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Is anyone running z/OS 1.4 on a 2096? If so, any
problems or suggestions?
We are - no sweat Mark.
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:15:20 +0200, Barbara Nitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can override the severity of the check, IIRC. But for this
one-time-expected change I should not be required to override a lot of checks.
In a perfect world, perhaps.
You don't *have to* override anything. It's
Radoslaw
but it's nothing new, that poor pays more.
put me in mind of a Victorian music hall song: She was poor but she was
honest or It's the same the whole world over, chorus:
It's the same the whole world over.
It's the poor that gets the blame.
It's the rich that gets the pleasure.
Hi, All,
We have MQ Series installed into its own target and dlib zones within
the z/OS global zone. When we run a GIMSMP LIST FEATURE, with or
without ALLZONES, the MQ feature is NOT listed. However, GIMXSID *does*
list it.
Why does GIMXSID find it, but GIMSMP LIST FEATURE does not?
TIA,
Hi,
IBM delivered right on time the System REXX Support for z/OS V1R8 and z/OS.e
V1R8 Web Deliverable. We are interested in using this primarily for the
ability to write Health Checks in System REXX.
http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/downloads/
System REXX Support for z/OS
- Original Message
From: esmie moo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a problem which has floored me. I am trying to delete a dsn which
resied on VOLA but it is not cataloged.
However, there is the same dsn which is cataloged on VOLB which is allocated
by the IMS region.
Is
Okay,
I want to be able to stop programmers from coding STORCLAS DATACLAS and
MGMTCLAS in their JCL unless I tell them to. Even better would be able to
rename it occasionally.
Is there a simple way that requires little administration to do this?
I know I could write an IKJEFT10 exit to
The attention to big customers (regarding new features and
implementations) and big software vendors (SAP, Peoplesoft, ecc.) is
quite clear in DB2 area IMHO.
It's strange, IBM created a low cost mainframe (z9 BC) but no low cost
software for medium to small customers, only WLC or other
On 28 Sep 2007 06:19:16 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Mason)
wrote:
but it's nothing new, that poor pays more.
put me in mind of a Victorian music hall song: She was poor but she was
honest or It's the same the whole world over, chorus:
It's the same the whole world over.
It's the poor
I am running 1.4 just fine on my 2096. Not running sysplex, just three
stand-alone LPARs on the box. If you want more information on
maintenance levels or whatever, you can contact me offline.
Rex
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Did previously. No longer.
There were no problems in our experience.
snip
We are upgrading from a 2064 to a 2096. Our 2064 SYSPLEX contains one
LPAR running z/OS 1.4. Is anyone running z/OS 1.4 on a 2096? If so,
any
problems or suggestions? Thanks.
/snip
[Cross posted to IBMTCP-L and MVS-OE]
For a couple of years now I've set our zPad up to be
able to send text messages to my cell phone. I know
that a number of companies do this so that if a
production job blows up the job has an extra step
that will notify support via a text message. Way
cool.
Our ACS routines allow certain users and groups (examples STGADMIN, SYSTEMS) to
code classes if they are in a filter list of valid classes, basically:
IF (((GROUP='STGADMIN') OR
(GROUP='SYSTEMS')) AND
(STORCLAS ¬='')) THEN
DO
SET STORCLAS = STORCLAS
EXIT
END
I haven't experienced this, but perhaps it's a case of we won't allow it,
unless you pay more for it.
I've been looking for a way to use IP protocols to connect to an SMSMC (Short
Message Service Management Center I think) so we can send text messages and get
rid of pagers. Thanks to some
Dang Brian, we were hoping to get it installed ASAP. Please keep us informed
about when IBM fixes the APPLY .
George Fogg
PS: Sorry I missed you and Sam at the last SHARE..was out sailing.
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Of Brian
Lizette, I would think the best place to do this is in the ACS routines, for
the following reasons:
1. YOU can determine whether to accept or replace any of these based on your
rules.
2. Many places I have been, the developers are generally driven fairly hard
to work on tasks that provide
Good Morning Gentle Readers,
I have a problem which has floored me. I am trying to delete a dsn which
resied on VOLA but it is not cataloged. When I try to delete the dsn it gives
me the message Data set in use. I checked via ISRDDN E on the dsn and it
shows that is being used by the
Barbara's complaint is noted, but does not apply across every shop, of
course.
When we went to z/OS 1.7 last year, we increased ECSA. No problem on our
test systems, where 1.7 lived for months of testing before migrating. All
was well, until we got to Prod. Suddenly a problem surfaced that
No Text
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Paolo,
Thanks ever so much. I will verify that immediately.
Lizette
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Paolo Cacciari
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 3:25 AM
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Subject: Re: RMF reporting on
Why does GIMXSID find it, but GIMSMP LIST FEATURE does not?
You understand of course that GIMXSID is not designed to produce human
consumable output, but rather produces a specific data source to be used
by ShopzSeries to populate software product and service orders. It also
was developed
On Sep 28, 2007, at 6:14 AM, Lizette Koehler wrote:
Okay,
I want to be able to stop programmers from coding STORCLAS
DATACLAS and
MGMTCLAS in their JCL unless I tell them to. Even better would be
able to
rename it occasionally.
Is there a simple way that requires little administration
jason lowe wrote:
I get this message every time I log out of ISPF
IRX0157E Routine EAGRTXTR of the run time processor EAGRTPRC was not
found.,
Look at those two APARS:
II12393: IRX0157E ROUTINE EAGRTXTR OF THE RUN TIME PROCESSOR
EAGRTPRC WASNOT FOUND. TCPIPINFO
OA21826: EXITING ISPF OR ISPF
Barbara,
When I was a sysprog, this check would have been invaluable on many occasions -
(production ASIDs falling over on Monday at 11am because someone changed the
LPA list at the weekend and squeezed PVT).
I assume that it only runs once per IPL? Surely that is not be too bad an
overhead
I was also going to test it (as I do the same thing) and I did and it
still works just as described.
Ulrich Krueger wrote:
That's news to me.
I just tested it and my connection for email to cell phone still works,
using the old [EMAIL PROTECTED] address.
Haven't heard from my provider that
Well, it works now, despite what the woman at
ATT told me. Go figure. Sorry for the mixup.
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The Trainer's Friend, Inc.
303-393-8716
http://www.trainersfriend.com
z/OS Application development made easier
* Our classes include
+ How things work
Patty,
We do essentially the same thing - although not nearly as often. We
refresh our test LPAR every 6 months or so - always on a by-request
basis because we also have Oracle sitting on unix that is kept in sync
with the databases on the Z so it is a big to-do when we refresh.
When we refresh
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Chris,
Thanks for the info about the msg processing.
From what i can remember about it, the supplied variables were not able
to be passed directly to a clist but had to be assigned to something
otherwise nothing got passed - i never understood this but for some
reason
ATT has the following in its help section:
FIX:
Text Message (SMS):
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Text messages (SMS) can be sent
to this address from any internet e-mail account. Messages are
considered Text Messages (SMS) and are billed accordingly.
Multimedia Message (MMS):
* [EMAIL
Rob,
When I was a sysprog, this check would have been invaluable on many occasions
- (production ASIDs falling over on Monday at 11am because someone changed
the LPA list at the weekend and squeezed PVT).
I am NOT saying that this check is bad. As long as all else is equal! It can
well be a
Claude,
It worked. Genius suggestion. I am going to keep this handy for future use.
Thanks to all who responded with your suggestions.
IRichbourg, Claude [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Two ways I have found to accomplish this rather easily.
1) Go to =3.4 and plug in the dasd
Max Scarpa wrote:
The attention to big customers (regarding new features and
implementations) and big software vendors (SAP, Peoplesoft, ecc.) is
quite clear in DB2 area IMHO.
It's strange, IBM created a low cost mainframe (z9 BC) but no low cost
software for medium to small customers, only
Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Okay,
I want to be able to stop programmers from coding STORCLAS DATACLAS
and
MGMTCLAS in their JCL unless I tell them to. Even better would be
able to
rename it occasionally.
Is there a simple way
Lizette,
I know you want to restrict the use, but I believe you can setup your
ACS routines to ignore their specification. You can choose to override
any of that, or pass them on.
Dave Jousma
Mainframe Services
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Eileen
Well, it seems I am teaching you the significance of the statements with
which you have been working. g
Googling for MSGGDATE and MSGGTIME I found some NetView documentation,
Customization: Using REXX and the NetView Command List Language, which
confirmed that these are the supplied
That's news to me.
I just tested it and my connection for email to cell phone still works,
using the old [EMAIL PROTECTED] address.
Haven't heard from my provider that there'd be any changes.
We've been using SMTP (or XMITIP) to send short messages from the mainframe
to pagers or cell phones for
has anyone noticed a trend in IBMs strategy in shifting the focus of the
mainframe to very large users such as outsourcers etc? I am talking about
features such as IRD, group capacity limits, and sysplex aggregation pricing
benefits. Could they be bolstering though outsourcing wing for the
On 10 Sep 2007 10:12:27 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
David wrote:
In other words, if a poster identifies himself with a .com address of
a legit company say a bank in Hong Kong then I will be happy to help
if I can. It's when the .com is a generic ISP such as Gmail or Yahoo
that I
Yes we are z/OS 1.4 running on a 2096 in z/Arch. mode as of June 10. We
have maintenance on thru 0612.
We came from a 9672 G5 box. (z/OS was supposed to be gone by 9/2008)
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I had the same problem, I deleted the file not cataloged using ISMF option
1. Have to pay a little attention.
HTH
Max Scarpa
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:33:19 -0500, Errol Van staden wrote:
has anyone noticed a trend in IBMs strategy in shifting the focus of the
mainframe to very large users such as outsourcers etc? I am talking about
features such as IRD, group capacity limits, and sysplex aggregation pricing
benefits.
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:20:11 -0400, Barkow, Eileen
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Chris,
Thanks for the info about the msg processing.
From what i can remember about it, the supplied variables were not
able
to be passed directly to a clist but had to be assigned to
Hi Guys,
We are due for a tape upgrade -- we have 3590-B1A drives, and the tape
backup starts after batch. It's slow enough that it doesn't finish in time for
us
to bring test up until noon or so, thus the double flash.
Your input is interesting. I think we have a configuration issue which
Thank you Patrick for your comments on SA.
Actually, i have never used the SA user's group, but after several years
of working with the product, I can only say that it has a mind of it's
own and the trick is to always try to keep outsmarting it - even
thought it always knows what you want to do
It does have its advantages. I try to count to 10, take a walk, count
to 10 again, then have a nap, then count some more before hitting send.
If it was my personal email I might skip the nap part. (-:
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Can we put the z/OS R1.8 System on one 3390-27. Is there any IBM
Documentation giving limitations or recommendations.
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I've got the system on 5 3390-9 volumes. That includes 1 RES, 1 HFS, 2 DLB,
1 SMP. We have a fairly large set of products, that is why 2 DLB volumes.
With 3390-27, obviously you could combine the RES and HFS, and most of the
DLB.
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:58:18 -0500, Mark S. House
[EMAIL
I just inherited two 1.4 LPARs that we are running on a 2096. You must have
the z990 compatibility FMID on (JBB7717 I think) and a bunch of PTFs. The
IBM business partner that sold us the z9 gave us a list of PTFs we should
have on. You can probably find that in the PSP buckets, too.
Bill
I came across this list of email addresses recently for various carriers
while researching this subject. It so happens ATT was one that I did not
have in my list but I see that someone else has already provided it.
Sometimes it is difficult to find these addresses on the websites so in case
Kenneth E Tomiak wrote:
I notice more current posts continue on their merry debate about
magnetic
media, even though '16mm', 'videotape', and 'digitized' are in this
thread.
Michael was kind enough to send me the 3.08 GiB ISO file. I burned a DVD
using this image file and it produced
Two of my clients are running the same configuration with no problems. As
others have said, you have to make sure you have the PSP bucket on for the
processor.
Brian Westerman
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Great, I'm downloading it and it's only 12 kb/s which means my pc will have
a hard work today :)
On 9/29/07, Ed Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kenneth E Tomiak wrote:
I notice more current posts continue on their merry debate about
magnetic
media, even though '16mm', 'videotape', and
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