2 STC running on different GMT zones

2011-12-16 Thread CUNY Yann
Hi all, Here's my problem : We set up a scheduling LPAR to schedule all our production (Z/OS 1.11 - TWS 8.5). On this LPAR, we have many TWS instances (3 For France, 3 for the rest of the world). As you know, paris is on GMT+1. But we have to schedule some jobs for our Japan teams

Re: Dataset Backup In HSM

2011-12-16 Thread Hervey Martinez
In an SMS environment, the management class determines whether a backup is taken and in such a case, a file will not migrate or age off the system if no backup is taken. Thanks, Hervey -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of

Re: 2 STC running on different GMT zones

2011-12-16 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
CUNY Yann yann.cuny.anta...@axa-tech.com wrote in message news:D30CEE884D4D714AB2BD50F5737062CA3CD36E15@PRGEMEU1B02MX2.applicatio ns.services.axa-tech.intraxa... Hi all, Here's my problem : We set up a scheduling LPAR to schedule all our production (Z/OS 1.11 - TWS 8.5). On this LPAR, we

Poor Man's Web Service

2011-12-16 Thread Monika Amiss
Dear group, I want to handle a web-service call via an cgi rexx script (on http server v3r5). The soap client pgm sends via POST his SOAP Envelope. How can I read this envelope in my rexx cgi to get user's input (execio stdin?) and later send back the result. Any small hint very

Re: 2 STC running on different GMT zones

2011-12-16 Thread CUNY Yann
And what about Compure XChange ? Cordialement, ___ YANN CUNY AXA TECH IDST OUTILS ( + 33 1 55 67 22 49 ___ -Message d'origine- De : IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] De la part de

Re: 2 STC running on different GMT zones

2011-12-16 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
What is that? Is it similar to Hourglass? This allows a task to 'see' a different time, heavily used for Y2K testing. This could be an option, however I wonder how it will handle signals coming in with 'real' timestamps. Kees. CUNY Yann yann.cuny.anta...@axa-tech.com wrote in message

Re: WAIT ECB WITH 00 First Byte

2011-12-16 Thread Donald Likens
I see this situation in a locked up (waiting forever) environment. I have no idea how it gets set this way. I have decided to do it another way. Thanks for your help. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Is there an SPF setting to turn CAPS ON like keyboard key?

2011-12-16 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Eric Bielefeld Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 4:26 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Is there an SPF setting to turn CAPS ON like keyboard key? Instead of getting mad at

Re: IEBCOPY in z/OS 1.13

2011-12-16 Thread Staller, Allan
Back in the day, IEBCOPY used to do a conditional getmain for 1meg (1.5 meg?). if it got the storage, SYSUT3 and SYSUT4 were not used, thus reducing I/O and elapsed time. Also (at the time) IEBCOPY would run in a region much smaller than 1 meg. ISTR 64K, but am not positive. I do not know if

Re: WAIT ECB WITH 00 First Byte

2011-12-16 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:30:52 +0200, Binyamin Dissen wrote: AFAIK multi-ecb WAIT (for example, 5 ECBs, count of 1) does not reset the additional ECB's when the count is reached. Not sure what you mean by this, Binyamin. My understanding, which might be incorrect or incomplete, is that WAIT

Re: 2 STC running on different GMT zones

2011-12-16 Thread CUNY Yann
I didn't know Hourglass ... Xchange seems to be similar, effectively ... -Message d'origine- De : IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] De la part de Vernooij, CP - SPLXM Envoyé : vendredi 16 décembre 2011 14:09 À : IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Objet : Re: 2 STC running

Re: WAIT ECB WITH 00 First Byte

2011-12-16 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 7:35 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: WAIT ECB WITH 00 First Byte On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:30:52 +0200, Binyamin Dissen wrote:

FW: Calling all crypto gurus

2011-12-16 Thread David Booher
== cross=posted on DB2-L == Hi, I have a z800 with no cryptographic processor installed. I'm attempting to use the SECURE SSL port on DB2 to establish a connection. I've pretty much stepped thru the entire RedPaper on this. It seems the client (running IBM's gskit) doesn't want to

Re: WAIT ECB WITH 00 First Byte

2011-12-16 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:34:35 -0600, Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com wrote: On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:30:52 +0200, Binyamin Dissen wrote: AFAIK multi-ecb WAIT (for example, 5 ECBs, count of 1) does not reset the additional ECB's when the count is reached. Not sure what you mean by this,

Re: WAIT ECB WITH 00 First Byte

2011-12-16 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:14:21 -0600, Donald Likens wrote: I see this situation in a locked up (waiting forever) environment. I have no idea how it gets set this way. I have decided to do it another way. Previously, On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:59:37 -0600, Donald Likens wrote: I know that an ECB's

Re: FW: Calling all crypto gurus

2011-12-16 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2011-12-16 15:08, David Booher pisze: == cross=posted on DB2-L == Hi, I have a z800 with no cryptographic processor installed. I'm attempting to use the SECURE SSL port on DB2 to establish a connection. I've pretty much stepped thru the entire RedPaper on this. It seems the client

Re: Is there an SPF setting to turn CAPS ON like keyboard key?

2011-12-16 Thread Roger Bowler
This would have been the IBM 3277 Data Entry keyboard. Page 25 of GA27-2749-5_3270descr_Nov75.pdf at bitsavers shows two forms of the Data Entry keyboard both having PF1-PF5 keys neatly hidden amongst the other keys in the top right area of the keyboard. The 78-key typewriter keyboard and the

Re: Calling all crypto gurus

2011-12-16 Thread Phil Smith
David Booher wrote: I have a z800 with no cryptographic processor installed. I'm attempting to use the SECURE SSL port on DB2 to establish a connection. I've pretty much stepped thru the entire RedPaper on this. It seems the client (running IBM's gskit) doesn't want to negotiate a cipher to

Re: Determining MSUs

2011-12-16 Thread Phil Smith
Ed Finnell wrote: I've used Theirry Falissard's MIPS thingy for about 15 yrs. Hm. That seems wrong for current machines, based on the fact that it reports 171 MSUs on a 1631-MSU box (the comment about I did not verify whether it is still OK for recent 9672 machines... is also a bit worrisome!).

z/OS 1.13 ASCENV incompatible change in Assembler

2011-12-16 Thread Barry Merrill
Change 29.280 -z/OS 1.13 ASM ERROR when assembling ASMTAPEE/MXGTMNT: ASMTAPEEYOU SPECIFIED ASCENV=AR OR ANY ON THE SYSSTATE MACRO. Dec 15, 2011 THE OPEN MACRO SUPPORTS ONLY ASCENV=P. But there is NO NEED to ASM a new load module under 1.13; your currently

Re: zFS parm sysplex=filesys

2011-12-16 Thread Lizette Koehler
Walter and John, Thanks for the good suggestions for improved messages on a successful migration health check run. I will pass them along. The indication that the check did pass (I hope) would be enough to let you know that the migration action didn't affect you, even if the message

Re: Calling all crypto gurus

2011-12-16 Thread David Booher
From other posts I've seen on the list, the initialization of the CKDS and PKDS all fail with a return code of 12. My question is: Can you still run CSF with empty datasets and no crypto processor and still expect it to offer any SSL ciphers? Regarding the client: by client, I meant DB2

Re: Is there an SPF setting to turn CAPS ON like keyboard key?

2011-12-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 5925490962292924.wa.paulgboulderaim@bama.ua.edu, on 12/15/2011 at 07:16 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: ( o but I haven't an ancient IEBGENER around to verify. o and IIRC you dislike IEBGENER, so perhaps you won't count it.) I've been known to hold my nose and use

Re: Calling all crypto gurus

2011-12-16 Thread Phil Smith
David Booher wrote: From other posts I've seen on the list, the initialization of the CKDS and PKDS all fail with a return code of 12. My question is: Can you still run CSF with empty datasets and no crypto processor and still expect it to offer any SSL ciphers? Yes. SSL has nothing to do

Re: Is there an SPF setting to turn CAPS ON like keyboard key?

2011-12-16 Thread Eric Bielefeld
Thanks Roger. I knew someone would remember the 5 PFK keyboards. Eric Bielefeld Sr. Systems Programmer IBM Global Services Division Dubuque, Iowa - Original Message - From: Roger Bowler ibm-m...@snacons.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Friday,

Re: z/OS 1.13 ASCENV incompatible change in Assembler

2011-12-16 Thread Don Poitras
Barry Merrill wrote: So the bottom line is that nothing has changed except our need to do something for no reason at all. We only had to add 431 SYSSTATE calls to 64-bit SAS. :) -- Don Poitras - zSeries R D - SAS Institute Inc. - SAS Campus Drive

Re: Calling all crypto gurus

2011-12-16 Thread David Booher
This is the error from the mainframe: BPXF024I (TCPIP) Dec 16 15:49:41 TTLS 33620154 : 09:49:41 TCPIP 855 EZD1283I TTLS Event GRPID: 0003 ENVID: CONNID: 0002F628 RC:0 Connection Init EZD1287I TTLS Error RC: 402 Initial Handshake 854 JOBNAME: UKXADIST RULE: UKXASecureSever

Re: z/OS 1.13 ASCENV incompatible change in Assembler

2011-12-16 Thread Rob Scott
Barry Maybe I am strange - but I welcome the new stricter approach to the SYSSTATE by IBM macros. Anything that can flag up a potential problem in my code due to my lack of care of the declared environment seems very useful to me. Rob Scott Lead Developer Rocket Software 275 Grove Street *

Re: Is there an SPF setting to turn CAPS ON like keyboard key?

2011-12-16 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
paulgboul...@aim.com (Paul Gilmartin) writes: Or do utilities not count as applications? Define application. Again, I'm confident that at least one very old application would accept (define accept) lower case, at least in comments. And very old assemblers tolerated lower case in macro

Re: Is there an SPF setting to turn CAPS ON like keyboard key?

2011-12-16 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
ibm-m...@snacons.com (Roger Bowler) writes: This would have been the IBM 3277 Data Entry keyboard. Page 25 of GA27-2749-5_3270descr_Nov75.pdf at bitsavers shows two forms of the Data Entry keyboard both having PF1-PF5 keys neatly hidden amongst the other keys in the top right area of the

Re: IEBCOPY in z/OS 1.13

2011-12-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 45e5f2f45d7878458ee5ca679697335502e25...@usdaexch01.kbm1.loc, on 12/16/2011 at 07:27 AM, Staller, Allan allan.stal...@kbmg.com said: Also (at the time) IEBCOPY would run in a region much smaller than 1 meg. ISTR 64K, but am not positive. That would not have been in the same timeframe as a

Re: zFS parm sysplex=filesys

2011-12-16 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler [ snip ] Sorry, I am still a little confused on this issue. So if I could get a little more clarification I am running with SYSPLEX(NO) in my BPXPRMxx member. Does this mean with z/OS V1.13 I

Re: WAIT ECB WITH 00 First Byte

2011-12-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea00b038bb...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom, on 12/16/2011 at 07:51 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com said: The post code is placed in the lower 3 bytes by POST, where the RB address is placed by the WAIT. Lower 4 bytes ;-) I will bet that the contents

Re: WAIT ECB WITH 00 First Byte

2011-12-16 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 10:02 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: WAIT ECB WITH 00 First Byte In

Re: zFS parm sysplex=filesys

2011-12-16 Thread Lizette Koehler
[ snip ] Sorry, I am still a little confused on this issue. So if I could get a little more clarification I am running with SYSPLEX(NO) in my BPXPRMxx member. Does this mean with z/OS V1.13 I will have to change to SYSPLEX(YES) in order to have zFS files mounted? Or will zFS

Re: z/OS 1.13 ASCENV incompatible change in Assembler

2011-12-16 Thread John Gilmore
MXG's asmguy wrote begin snippet The SYSSTATE macro is an assembler directive - it sets a flag that tells any macros that support AR mode (Access Register, used for cross memory access) to use their AR mode compatible expansion. Macros that don't

Re: Is there an SPF setting to turn CAPS ON like keyboard key?

2011-12-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:14:48 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: Assemblers supported macros well before IBM formally defined a character set with lower case. But the code points that later became lower case could be used in syntactic contexts where case never mattered, including arguments

Re: Calling all crypto gurus

2011-12-16 Thread Scott Ford
David:   This reads as if there is a product missinginteresting Scott J Ford Software Engineer http://www.identityforge.com   From: David Booher david.boo...@quest.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 10:58 AM Subject: Re: Calling

Re: Calling all crypto gurus

2011-12-16 Thread Finch, Steve (ES - Mainframe)
David Booher wrote: I have a z800 with no cryptographic processor installed. I'm attempting to use the SECURE SSL port on DB2 to establish a connection. I've pretty much stepped thru the entire RedPaper on this. It seems the client (running IBM's gskit) doesn't want to negotiate a cipher to

Re: Calling all crypto gurus

2011-12-16 Thread Phil Smith
Steve Finch wrote: Without a CCF (cryptographic processor) on a z800, you are very limited in what ciphers you can use. You can use 'NULL-SHA' and 'NULL-MD5' ciphers. That's it. Your client must be configured to accept and use one of these two ciphers to connect with DB2's Secure SSL on your z800.

Re: Is there an SPF setting to turn CAPS ON like keyboard key?

2011-12-16 Thread Phil Smith
OK, trivia time: What IBM device had *13* PF keys? -- ...phsiii -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Is there an SPF setting to turn CAPS ON like keyboard key?

2011-12-16 Thread zMan
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Roger Bowler ibm-m...@snacons.com wrote: SNIP after which the SPF assignments just look arbitrary. True. But they became part of the CUA standard, which also mapped to Microsoft standards pretty closely! From such strange beginnings... -- zMan -- I've got a

Re: WAIT ECB WITH 00 First Byte

2011-12-16 Thread Bill Fairchild
The completion code (not post code) is placed in at least bits 2-31 of the full word. So it is true that the code is in the lower 3 bytes, and it is also true that the code is in the lower 4 bytes (FSVO 4). Comments from within the IHAECB mapping macro: */*02* An ECB can be posted with a

Re: Calling all crypto gurus

2011-12-16 Thread Tom Simons
ICSF will work on the z800 without crypto hardware. From the document mentioned below: ICSF is a software component of z/OS providing cryptographic support either in its own software routines or through access to the cryptographic hardware available on the platform. We used ICSF's software

Re: Calling all crypto gurus

2011-12-16 Thread Phil Smith
David Booher clipped some incomprehensible errors from SSL: Wow. Opaque and obdurate. However: this usually indicates a cipher suite could not be negotiated between the client and the server during the cipher suite exchange phase in the SSL handshake suggests to me that it isn't that the client

Re: Heads up APAR OA35970 CA-Top Secret

2011-12-16 Thread Joe D'Alessandro
The ACF2 folks sent out a HIPER warning to all subscribers about this issue already. The APAR applies to zOS v1.12 and v1.13 according to them. The informational APAR is RI38633 for ACF2 v14 but the solution applies to v15 as well. There are a few definitions that need to be made to ensure

Re: Imagine dealing with THIS in production

2011-12-16 Thread Jonathan Goossen
And what about the pour people who will loose a birthday? Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACG, CL For help with communication and leadership skills checkout Woodwinds Toastmasters IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 12/15/2011 03:04:48 PM:

Re: Calling all crypto gurus

2011-12-16 Thread David Booher
I'm assuming the DB2 client on the laptop is attempting to negotiate a good cipher for its SSL. I can't seem to find any doc on what ciphers it does support, but NULL-SHA and NULL-MD5 doesn't appear to be ones it does. It's too bad I can't get my ciphers out of my z800, even if its software

Re: Imagine dealing with THIS in production

2011-12-16 Thread Steve Comstock
On 12/16/2011 12:20 PM, Jonathan Goossen wrote: And what about the pour people who will loose a birthday? Whoa! Is it happy hour already? Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACG, CL For help with communication and leadership skills checkout

Re: Calling all crypto gurus

2011-12-16 Thread Phil Smith
Tom Simons wrote, in part: ICSF will work on the z800 without crypto hardware. Right, but that wasn't his question. He's asking about specific SSL/TLS algorithms. -- ...phsiii -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Calling all crypto gurus

2011-12-16 Thread David Booher
Yes, my CSF will run: 13.46.16 STC01522 $HASP373 CSF STARTED 13.46.17 STC01522 CSFM607I A CKDS KEY STORE POLICY IS NOT DEFINED. 13.46.17 STC01522 CSFM607I A PKDS KEY STORE POLICY IS NOT DEFINED. 13.46.17 STC01522 CSFM610I GRANULAR KEYLABEL ACCESS CONTROL IS DISABLED. 13.46.17 STC01522

Re: Calling all crypto gurus

2011-12-16 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 12/16/2011 1:47 PM, David Booher wrote: Yes, my CSF will run: 13.46.16 STC01522 $HASP373 CSF STARTED 13.46.17 STC01522 CSFM607I A CKDS KEY STORE POLICY IS NOT DEFINED. 13.46.17 STC01522 CSFM607I A PKDS KEY STORE POLICY IS NOT DEFINED. 13.46.17 STC01522 CSFM610I GRANULAR KEYLABEL

Re: Imagine dealing with THIS in production

2011-12-16 Thread J R
pour people? - what, you mean like bartenders? Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:20:54 -0600 From: jonathan.goos...@assurant.com Subject: Re: Imagine dealing with THIS in production To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu And what about the pour people who will loose a birthday? Thank you and have a

Re: Calling all crypto gurus

2011-12-16 Thread David Booher
Thanks for that info. I started the server and got: 14.11.07 STC01527 GSK01009I Cryptographic status Algorithm HardwareSoftware DES -- 56 3DES-- -- AES -- -- RC2 -- 40 RC4

Re: Calling all crypto gurus

2011-12-16 Thread Ford Prefect
From LOOKAT: *CSFM125I* *CRYPTOGRAPHY* *-* *LIMITED* *CPU-BASED* *SERVICES* *ARE* *AVAILABLE.* *Explanation:* This is an informational message. ICSF is up and remains started. Only SHA-1 and SHA-2 services are available. The DES CPACF feature code is not enabled. On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at

Re: Is there an SPF setting to turn CAPS ON like keyboard key?

2011-12-16 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 12/16/2011 1:06 PM, Phil Smith wrote: OK, trivia time: What IBM device had *13* PF keys? Not what you wanted, but on my 3277 I wrote a game that treated Test-Request as PFK 0. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For

Re: Determining MSUs

2011-12-16 Thread Ed Finnell
Maybe there's an updated version, that's just the first link I found. In a message dated 12/16/2011 10:14:14 A.M. Central Standard Time, p...@voltage.com writes: appear to get the MIPS right. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: WAIT ECB WITH 00 First Byte

2011-12-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 77142d37c0c3c34da0d7b1da7d7ca3459...@nwt-s-mbx2.rocketsoftware.com, on 12/16/2011 at 06:09 PM, Bill Fairchild bfairch...@rocketsoftware.com said: The completion code (not post code) is placed in at least bits 2-31 of the full word. I never noticed that piece of nomenclature before,

Re: Is there an SPF setting to turn CAPS ON like keyboard key?

2011-12-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1099194836526387.wa.paulgboulderaim@bama.ua.edu, on 12/16/2011 at 11:01 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: But the code points that later became lower case There were none that I know of[1] Those came in with, e.g., ASCII, EBCDIC. Before that, all IBM computers other than

Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-16 Thread Henke, George
Does anyone know of an IBM completely tapeless solution and what it might cost? I have heard of the TS7740, but it holds only 6 TB per draw. We have 750 TB on tape. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

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2011-12-16 Thread Alain Leclerc
Je serai absent(e) du 2011-12-16 au 2012-01-04. Je répondrai à votre message dès mon retour. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Imagine dealing with THIS in production

2011-12-16 Thread Mike Schwab
At least they only loose 1 birthday a lifetime. Just think about all the people born on Feb 29th. On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Jonathan Goossen jonathan.goos...@assurant.com wrote: And what about the pour people who will loose a birthday? Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-16 Thread Ramiro Camposagrado
Yes... It is called the TS7720. We have three of them in a Grid Configutation, I believe that each frame could accomodate up to 162 TB of storage (without compression). You should talk to your IBM rep for the exact specs. --

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-16 Thread Dennis Trojak
Well the TS7720 holds up to 1772TB according to the doco. Check out http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/tape/ts7700/index.html for details. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Henke, George Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011

Re: Imagine dealing with THIS in production

2011-12-16 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:57:14 -0600, Mike Schwab wrote: At least they only loose 1 birthday a lifetime. Just think about all the people born on Feb 29th. The 60th day of the year? What's the big deal with that? -- Tom Marchant

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-16 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Henke, George george.he...@hp.com wrote in message news:04b3da7b71b3ab408ca62ba6046bcf8f23d485b...@gvw0676exc.americas.hpq corp.net... Does anyone know of an IBM completely tapeless solution and what it might cost? I have heard of the TS7740, but it holds only 6 TB per draw. We have 750 TB

Re: Imagine dealing with THIS in production

2011-12-16 Thread Mike Schwab
They would have their 15th birthdate when they are 60 years old. On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com wrote: On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:57:14 -0600, Mike Schwab wrote: At least they only loose 1 birthday a lifetime.  Just think about all the people born on Feb

Re: Calling all crypto gurus

2011-12-16 Thread Finch, Steve (ES - Mainframe)
Phil From info we have gotten, I believe that the z800 does not have it's CCF (Feature code 800) enabled (configured). CCFs were no cost features but you could order a z800 without it. And that is not covered in the presentation you have provided. Look at the column heading it says z800/z900

One Less Mainframe Shop

2011-12-16 Thread DKM
Just over seven years ago, I was hired as the Financial System Administrator at my place of emplacement.  In my first interview, I was told how they were getting ready to pick a new ERP and get off their “archaic” mainframe.  After I was hired, the IT director at the time told me with glee how

Re: Is there an SPF setting to turn CAPS ON like keyboard key?

2011-12-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:18:02 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: But the code points that later became lower case There were none that I know of[1] Those came in with, e.g., ASCII, EBCDIC. Before that, all IBM computers other than the 7030 used either a two digit code or a six bit code, with

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-16 Thread Henke, George
Does the DS8800 do tape management (CA-1)? I don't think so. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Vernooij, CP - SPLXM Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 4:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Tapeless Solutions Henke,

Re: Is there an SPF setting to turn CAPS ON like keyboard key?

2011-12-16 Thread Cris Hernandez #9
was looking for a way to activate the 'caps lock' key without the user actually having to depress the 'caps lock' within spf after initiating a rexx exec. the panel the rexx displays would be a whole lot easier to read if the letters show up in caps when typed. expecting users to turn on caps

Re: Is there an SPF setting to turn CAPS ON like keyboard key?

2011-12-16 Thread Cris Hernandez #9
yeah, that sounds like what I want to do, but to my knowledge there's no way to get an spf panel display to read/replace a character as soon as it's typed. no wonder web developers loath the mainframe... it isn't just a lack of pictures. I'll check the links pubs ref'd in this stream (thanks

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-16 Thread Linda Mooney
Hi George, If you want it to, it can 'do' CA1 - with the aid of CA Vtape.  That will let you run all or part of your disk space as CA1 managed tape image.  You can also back up those tape images to disk, or physical tape, or use replication to another site.    HTH, Linda -

Re: 2 STC running on different GMT zones

2011-12-16 Thread Rob Schramm
Why not just code for the different timezone? I agree that hourglass would do it... But it seems a lot like pounding a nail in with a sledge hammer. Rob Schramm On Dec 16, 2011 8:47 AM, CUNY Yann yann.cuny.anta...@axa-tech.com wrote: I didn't know Hourglass ... Xchange seems to be similar,

Re: Imagine dealing with THIS in production

2011-12-16 Thread Chris Mason
Mike Just think about all the people born on Feb 29th. They would have their 15th birthdate when they are 60 years old. Paradoxically a 29th February birthday can have happy consequences - at least in the fertile imagination of a writer of libretti for comic opera such as William Schwenck

Re: 2 STC running on different GMT zones

2011-12-16 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 11:59 +, CUNY Yann wrote: Hi all, Here's my problem : We set up a scheduling LPAR to schedule all our production (Z/OS 1.11 - TWS 8.5). On this LPAR, we have many TWS instances (3 For France, 3 for the rest of the world). As you know, paris is on GMT+1. But

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-16 Thread Minoru Massaki
IBM also provides VTFM (Virtual Tape For Mainframe) software virtual tape system like as CA VTape. Virtual tape volumes are stored on z/OS supported disks as regular z/OS sequential data sets. The space for virtual tape volumes is unlimited. 2011/12/17 Henke, George george.he...@hp.com: Does

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-16 Thread Minoru Massaki
IBM TS7680 ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway for System z might be a candidate. It holds up to 1PB (1,000TB) data with data deduplication. http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/tape/ts7680/index.html Minoru Massaki (M*M) 2011/12/17 Henke, George george.he...@hp.com: Does anyone know of an IBM

Re: IEBCOPY in z/OS 1.13

2011-12-16 Thread Ed Gould
Seymour: I was remembering MVS. I was using numbers in my original reply from SMF and IEFACTRT accounting in sysout. I don't recall if a conditional getmain would show up as used. I do not think so as I specifically remember seeing sizes less than 320K (I want to say 256K) on the job