Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2012-01-12 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Barbara Nitz nitz-...@gmx.net wrote in message news:9193446080894951.wa.nitzibmgmx@bama.ua.edu... Barbara - I've asked our account team to add us as concurring with the requirement and to be added to the Interested Parties list. The requirement has been rejected with this: User Group

Re: Compiling C++ by LE V1.8 and running on LE V1.13+ ?

2012-01-12 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
Normally, there is no problem in running even very old C modules on newer versions of the OS. We did this for years. Another thing is, if you have changes in MQ, for example - that is, if you try to run your C programs on a new release of MQ - that may or may not work. In this case, we

Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology

2012-01-12 Thread Richards, Robert B.
I, too, got certified (or, according to some, certifiable) at the foundation level. The mainframe could be a configuration item (CI) and should probably just be classified as a server. CI specification varies from company to company. Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: ACF2/RACF User Appliation Logical Access

2012-01-12 Thread Binyamin Dissen
Are you sure that it is a side batch file? IIRC, ACF2 allows a multiple resource call where one acf2 call can validate access against multiple resources. On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:02:21 + Henke, George george.he...@hp.com wrote: :tyvm, Seymour : :What we have since discovered is that the

Re: Compiling C++ by LE V1.8 and running on LE V1.13+ ?

2012-01-12 Thread Jan MOEYERSONS
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:56:49 -0600, Patrick Vogt patrick.v...@axa-tech.com wrote: If we want to be actual, we need to Compile everything of the Product NEW with the new Compiler to got it run. But that's too much Work to do. Recompiling everything may be a bit of work for the machine, but it

Re: Enterprise COBOL Load Module Dissection

2012-01-12 Thread John P Kalinich
I would recommend using the IBM Debug Tool or COBANAL. But you could also use AMBLIST or the PDS HISTORY subcommand. Product Product Compiler Module CodeName Signature Prefix COBOL 5655-G53Enterprise COBOL for z/OS V3

Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2012-01-12 Thread Barbara Nitz
Yes, sounds contradictory: IBM recommending a sysplex wide IPL, what was a sysplex intended for in the first place? I didn't read that *IBM* recommends a sysplex-wide IPL. *I* do to get rid of the junk that IBM accumulates in the sysplex CDS. I believe IBM frowns upon sysplex-wide IPLs. On the

Re: Compiling C++ by LE V1.8 and running on LE V1.13+ ?

2012-01-12 Thread Patrick Vogt
The Work to do is not by CPU, but by Human. It need's not much CPU on running or Compile. We just do mostly nothing with it, because it work verry good. We want to stay in this, but how long can we go this way ? The Human work on it costs much more than using CPU. If we want to be actual, we

Re: Peculiar issue related to TSO logons

2012-01-12 Thread Mackenzie, Bruce
Another way to create these is as follows. If I am using a multi application interface (we use MAI), and the TSO session is not selected at the time, and I cancel my TSO session, the address space name becomes STARTING until it is able to send the SYSTEM 222 message to the screen. If there

z/OS Java JVM question

2012-01-12 Thread Steve Austin
Having successfully created the JVM I can then find my class and run the main method. However, if I add code the call a JNI routine the class can no longer be found; the source of my class is shown below with the JNI call code commented out. Any idea why the class can't be found? Thanks

Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology

2012-01-12 Thread Scott Ford
Plan the work Work the pan Regards, Scott Sent from my iPad On Jan 11, 2012, at 4:06 PM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com wrote: The requirements: 1. Write a business plan. 2. Follow it. On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Bill Fairchild bfairch...@rocketsoftware.com wrote: This

Re: z/OS Java JVM question

2012-01-12 Thread Staller, Allan
CLASSPATH? snip Having successfully created the JVM I can then find my class and run the main method. However, if I add code the call a JNI routine the class can no longer be found; the source of my class is shown below with the JNI call code commented out. Any idea why the class can't be

Audting PDS Datasets and comparing to find most current member

2012-01-12 Thread Lizette Koehler
I have the need to audit many PDS datasets. I am trying to find the most current version of the member. The information I need is DSN MEMBER Lines of Member Member Date CreatedMember Last Updated USERID who Updated it (if available) DSN1 ABC500

Re: z/OS Java JVM question

2012-01-12 Thread Steve Austin
I've not changed the classpath, the only difference is in the java source as shown. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Staller, Allan Sent: 12 January 2012 14:18 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: z/OS Java JVM question

Re: Enterprise COBOL Load Module Dissection

2012-01-12 Thread Patrick Roehl
Thanks everyone - we have a winner: Roland Schiradin's COBANAL (CBT file 321). It does exactly what I need. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message:

Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology

2012-01-12 Thread Joel C. Ewing
I Googled ITIL and found http://www.itil-officialsite.com, looked at several of the introductory documents, and found them very heavy on MBA-like generalizations and abstractions. If you didn't know anything about corporate Information Technology to start with, you could read one 58-page

Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology

2012-01-12 Thread Chris Mason
Scott Does this mean that planning work leads to indigestion?[1] - A frivolous post for once - I promise to keep them to a minimum! - Chris Mason On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:02:40 -0500, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: Plan the work Work the pan Regards, Scott Sent from my iPad On

Re: Audting PDS Datasets and comparing to find most current member

2012-01-12 Thread Donald Johnson
Lizette, off the top of my head, I was thinking that it might be easier to use a database or some file where you can load the filename, member and other information, and then retrieve it in whichever order you want - member then date (descending) then filename, for example. *don* On Thu, Jan 12,

Re: Audting PDS Datasets and comparing to find most current member

2012-01-12 Thread Staller, Allan
You have run across Al's fundamental law of Information Technology: Two of anything that do not agree is worse than not having anything in the first place! snip Subject: Audting PDS Datasets and comparing to find most current member I have the need to audit many PDS datasets. I am trying to

Re: Audting PDS Datasets and comparing to find most current member

2012-01-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:55:17 -0500, Lizette Koehler wrote: So if I have DSN1 DSN2 and DSN3 I will need to 1) Get the above info from all 3 datasets 2) Compare results of DSN1 vs. DSN2, DSN2 vs DSN3 and DSN1 vs DSN3 Not so bad with 2 or 3 but I have around 50. SORT is your friend. -- gil

Re: Audting PDS Datasets and comparing to find most current member

2012-01-12 Thread Roberts, John J
I am a cross-platform kind of guy. So if I had this task, I would do it as follows: (1) Use ISPF 3.1 to generate the member lists for all the libraries. (2) FTP the member list files to my Windows PC. (3) Write a little VB.Net program to scan the member list reports and build

GRSRNL00 question

2012-01-12 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Silly question where I know I can get a fast answer here: If I code: RNLDEF RNL(CON) TYPE(PATTERN) QNAME(*) Does that mean that I should delete all other RNL(CON) statements from the member? The Ministry of Silly Questions thanks you in advance for your replies!

Re: Audting PDS Datasets and comparing to find most current member

2012-01-12 Thread Mike Giaquinto
Lizette, I had a similar requirement once, and I used SUPERC to generate a hash, then I compared the hash of each member against each other. It's more accurate than using ISPF stats because as we all know, the ISPF stats can be bypassed. Mike Giaquinto AVP/CICS Technical Lead Wells Fargo

Re: GRSRNL00 question

2012-01-12 Thread Matthew Stitt
That's what I did. No ill effects, and it got rid of the Health Check nag. Silly question where I know I can get a fast answer here: If I code: RNLDEF RNL(CON) TYPE(PATTERN) QNAME(*) Does that mean that I should delete

Re: GRSRNL00 question

2012-01-12 Thread Bobbie Justice
yes. Bobbie Justice z/OS Systems Programmer 262-703-1497 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: GRSRNL00 question

2012-01-12 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Thank you Matthew and Bobbie! Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Matthew Stitt Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 11:34 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: GRSRNL00 question That's what I did. No ill effects, and

Re: Audting PDS Datasets and comparing to find most current member

2012-01-12 Thread McKown, John
Looks like you're using ISPF statistics, correct? I'll do my patent pending using z/OS UNIX in weird ways method along with my normal pimping of Dovetailed Technologies free Co:Z product. Install Co:Z Dataset Pipes. http://dovetail.com/downloads/coz/index.html. Run the following UNIX script,

Re: z/OS Java JVM question

2012-01-12 Thread Scott Ford
Steve, Make sure that the java volumes are mounted also, they are usually hfs Regards, Scott Sent from my iPad On Jan 12, 2012, at 10:05 AM, Steve Austin steve.aus...@macro4.com wrote: I've not changed the classpath, the only difference is in the java source as shown. -Original

Re: Audting PDS Datasets and comparing to find most current member

2012-01-12 Thread McKown, John
Well, a minor nit in my last awk program. It works OK, but the line: NR1 member==$1 {line=$0; member=$1;} works as well by being: NR1 member==$1 {line=$0;} There was no need to set member when it was already equal. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group

Re: Audting PDS Datasets and comparing to find most current member

2012-01-12 Thread Roberts, John J
John, I'm glad that you have been able to master shell script coding, and Unix tools like awk, sed, grep, etc. You must have bought a lot of those O'Reilly books with all the strange critters on the covers ;-). I tried too, but I could never get the hang of it. I guess if you don't use it

cics/db2 paging

2012-01-12 Thread Ron Thomas
Hi, I have a screen where the user has the facility to enter either custno,or plan or typcd.The fields are there in a table custinfo. Customer number is mandatory where as the other 2 fields are not. We need the screen to be scrllable.Can someone pls let know how the cursor need to be

Re: Audting PDS Datasets and comparing to find most current member

2012-01-12 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Roberts, John J Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 11:10 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Audting PDS Datasets and comparing to find most current member John, I'm glad that

Re: cics/db2 paging

2012-01-12 Thread McKown, John
I can't help. You might be a more targeted audience at the DB2 list. You can subscribe here: http://www.idugdb2-l.org/cgi-bin/wa?A0=DB2-L -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225

Re: Audting PDS Datasets and comparing to find most current member

2012-01-12 Thread Lizette Koehler
Well, a minor nit in my last awk program. It works OK, but the line: NR1 member==$1 {line=$0; member=$1;} works as well by being: NR1 member==$1 {line=$0;} There was no need to set member when it was already equal. -- John McKown John, as always your Unix skills are

Re: Audting PDS Datasets and comparing to find most current member

2012-01-12 Thread McKown, John
Ah! SAS! We no longer have it. But I still have the PDF manuals. Have you looked at PROC SOURCE with the DIRDD= option? It unloads the directory to a file which can then be processed by a futher SAS DATA step. There is an example of this in the SAS manual that I have. source lang=SAS filename

Re: ACF2/RACF User Appliation Logical Access

2012-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 04b3da7b71b3ab408ca62ba6046bcf8f23d722c...@gvw0676exc.americas.hpqcorp.net, on 01/12/2012 at 03:02 AM, Henke, George george.he...@hp.com said: What we have since discovered is that the ACF2/NETMENU Session process has a side batch file non-SAF process that contains the applications specific

for the PCI junkies...

2012-01-12 Thread Rob Schramm
For those that are involved in PCI... I thought this was interesting.. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/pci-lawsuit/ Rob Schramm Senior Systems Consultant Imperium Group -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Audting PDS Datasets and comparing to find most current member

2012-01-12 Thread Ed Finnell
Yazbut, SOURCE don't run! One of the worst entanglements is mixed load mods at mixed levels of maint. Whether it be system or application level have to dig thru what's running vs what's supposed to be running and how it's been linked(bound). In a message dated 1/12/2012 1:17:17 P.M.

Re: Audting PDS Datasets and comparing to find most current member

2012-01-12 Thread McKown, John
True. But the original post was for source libraries comparing ISPF stats. Not executables. With executables, I'd guess that I'd do an AMBLIST on each of the members to get the link date (or get it some other way), and assume that the last linked is the most recent version. Gotta make some sort

Re: Audting PDS Datasets and comparing to find most current member

2012-01-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:13:25 -0500, Lizette Koehler wrote: So it must be written in a supportable format. So I am going down the REXX route and hopefully it will do what I want with LISTDSI. And this will be a slower process. Why? Because this will be a SAS process that calls REXX that then

Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology

2012-01-12 Thread Jonathan Goossen
I just checked our CMDB. We defined a category of Hardware / Computer / mainframe for the mainframes. Each mainframe is an item in the CMDB with this category. All hardware attached to a mainframe is related to it as are the LPARS that run on it. The LPARS have a category of Hardware /

Re: ACF2/RACF User Appliation Logical Access

2012-01-12 Thread Henke, George
It looks at it in addition, either before or after (still getting the facts) going through the normal ACF2 validation process. Evidently to avoid the huge SAF call overhead of 1000's of SAF calls when 1000's of users all try to sign on at the same time and each one needs to be verified access

Re: ACF2/RACF User Appliation Logical Access

2012-01-12 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:32:52 +, Henke, George george.he...@hp.com wrote: It looks at it in addition, either before or after (still getting the facts) going through the normal ACF2 validation process. Evidently to avoid the huge SAF call overhead of 1000's of SAF calls when 1000's of users

Re: Audting PDS Datasets and comparing to find most current member

2012-01-12 Thread Chip Grantham
I have a set of modules that might be of interest. The first calls the link editor and gathers a complete set of analytics. The second takes two different sets of the first reports and creates report of matches / mismatches by module / csect and compares attributes of matches. The two

Re: Audting PDS Datasets and comparing to find most current member

2012-01-12 Thread Jonathan Goossen
Lizette, My first thought was EasyTrieve's synchronous file processing. But after reading other responses to your post, that might not be the best approach, although it might still do some of the work. To find the same member content with different member names in different DSNs, You could do

Fwd: MFNetDisk in youtube part 2. Update to snapshot backup and simulated DR condition.

2012-01-12 Thread shai hess
-- Forwarded message -- From: Shai Hess mfnetd...@mfnetdisk.com Date: Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:15 AM Subject: MFNetDisk in youtube part 2. Update to snapshot backup and simulated DR condition. To: shai.h...@gmail.com ** HI, Update to MFNetDisk Snapshot backup. Up to 8 mirrors per

Re: Audting PDS Datasets and comparing to find most current member

2012-01-12 Thread Skip Robinson
Suggested methods to determine same-or-different between like-named members are all well and good, but the original requirement was to find 'the most current version'. Say what you will about ISPF stats, they are the *only* way to evaluate versions. Given that two like-named members are

Re: COBOL Compiler option

2012-01-12 Thread Rick Fochtman
You might also try DMAP and/or PMAP, says one of my friends. Rick On 1/11/2012 8:05 PM, Stewart, David James wrote: Try using option OFFSET and make sure NOOFFSET is not specified or amend NOOFSET to OFFSET :) LIST and MAP will give you the generated ASSEMBLER (OBJECT) code David Stewart

Re: COBOL Compiler option

2012-01-12 Thread Norbert Friemel
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:36:47 -0600, Rick Fochtman wrote: You might also try DMAP and/or PMAP, says one of my friends. DMAP/PMAP were available in OS/VS COBOL, not in Enterprise COBOL. http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IGY3MG50/APPENDIX1.6 Norbert Friemel

Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology

2012-01-12 Thread Thomas Kern
I recommend that you create any new categories/definitions that you want to subdivide/clarify your IT complex. As you create each entity, create your own glossary and hand it out to the PC and Management types who don't yet understand Mainframe or Enterprise Class IT architecture. /Tom On

Re: COBOL Compiler option

2012-01-12 Thread Graham Hobbs
Hi Rick and folks who have been helping, Am trying for 2(0222) length and displacement info from the z/OS compiler .. thanks for suggestions. I tried OFFSET, DMAP, PMAP, LIST, ADATA (which it wouldn't accept) - only MAP gave me results. Except the z/OS is in hex... e.g. x'0DE' = 222. ..

Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology

2012-01-12 Thread Scott Ford
Chris, Just a typo from tiredness Regards, Scott Sent from my iPad On Jan 12, 2012, at 9:47 AM, Chris Mason chrisma...@belgacom.net wrote: Scott Does this mean that planning work leads to indigestion?[1] - A frivolous post for once - I promise to keep them to a minimum! - Chris

Backup tips?

2012-01-12 Thread Gabe Goldberg
I'm seeking suggestions for an article giving mainframe backup-related New Years resolutions (where's it written that such articles must appear in January?). I'm mostly interested in general tips but will also include some OS-specific items; tips can be do's or don'ts. Remembered gotchas

Re: Compiling C++ by LE V1.8 and running on LE V1.13+ ?

2012-01-12 Thread Mike Schwab
A good method to tackle this problem would be to create a new set of libraries, possibly. HLQ.PRODUCT.V108.SOURCE HLQ.PRODUCT.V108.PROCLIB HLQ.PRODUCT.V108.COMPILE HLQ.PRODUCT.V108.OBJECT HLQ.PRODUCT.V108.LISTING HLQ.PRODUCT.V108.TESTING HLQ.PRODUCT.V108.RESULTS Copy your existing source to the

Re: Backup tips?

2012-01-12 Thread scott
On 01/12/2012 09:53 PM, Gabe Goldberg wrote: I'm seeking suggestions for an article giving mainframe backup-related New Years resolutions (where's it written that such articles must appear in January?). I'm mostly interested in general tips but will also include some OS-specific items; tips

Master Catalog query

2012-01-12 Thread jagadishan perumal
Hi All, As in general we are aware that we can have 1 master catalog and multiple user catalogs in a system. It is also factual that we can have alternate Master catalog with another Updated LOADxx member. My question is to know whether if we can have possible to have multiple master-catalog with

Creating PDF files

2012-01-12 Thread Donald Russell
Today I tried using this rexx code to create a PDF file: http://mmiller.myweb.uga.edu/pdf/ The job then FTP the file (binary) to a web server. Adobe complains that the file is damaged and can't be read. The output from ikjeft01 shows no errors, all indications are the the PDF file was produced

Re: Master Catalog query

2012-01-12 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-01-13 05:54, jagadishan perumal pisze: Hi All, As in general we are aware that we can have 1 master catalog and multiple user catalogs in a system. It is also factual that we can have alternate Master catalog with another Updated LOADxx member. My question is to know whether if we

Re: Creating PDF files

2012-01-12 Thread Scott Ford
Donald : Is this file text or a PDF ? If Is a PDF , upload to z/os uss hfs in binary, convert it there. Of course , it depends on where the final resting place of the PDF will be. Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Jan 13, 2012, at 1:34 AM,