Re: z/OS Feeding SolarWinds

2012-02-17 Thread Timothy Sipples
Sounds interesting, Jim. So you just need to emit some SNMP for SolarWinds (Orion, specifically), correct? You could take the roll your own approach. There's a fairly good introduction to SNMP here, to get acquainted: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27007146 There's also some

Re: sadump (and autoipl)

2012-02-17 Thread Jim Mulder
Talking of AUTOIPL and sadump, when I tested this, the only way to see that sadump had finished was when the NIP messages came up on the real console, indicating sadump was done. That's fine and dandy when I am expecting an sadump, but what about when the sadump is taken due to a real

Re: z/OS Feeding SolarWinds

2012-02-17 Thread Chris Mason
Jim Your title could be restated as The SNMP Agent supported by z/OS 'feeding' the SNMP Manager which happens to be supported by SolarWinds. The point about the title change is that the P in SNMP means protocol and thus SNMP is designed to support any old IP platform as an SNMP agent and any

Re: z/OS Feeding SolarWinds

2012-02-17 Thread Jan MOEYERSONS
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:05:45 -0600, Jim Marshall jim.marsh...@opm.gov wrote: One of our Cyber Security folks is putting up a NOC (Network Operations Center) and they purchased something called SolarWinds. Now they are on my doorstep saying they want to scan my system along with DB2 and Oracle

Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-17 Thread John Gilmore
Edward Jaffe has now made the crucial point. Circumventions of any great need to know much about TRK and CYL issues are available (and in one form or another have long been available). That said, the geometry of real DASD was never an intellectually challenging topic; and I grow ever more weary

Re: zSeries Manpower Sizing

2012-02-17 Thread van der Grijn, Bart (B)
The difficulty with the question is that there likely aren't a lot of large zSeries mainframe-only shops in existence. There are large shops that run large mainframes, but they likely run other platforms as well and a large part of the manpower will be shared across platforms. We have a z/OS

Re: zSeries Manpower Sizing

2012-02-17 Thread George Henke
tyvm, Timothy, for your expert analysis. Please pardon my ignorance, but what is a PCI? On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:27 AM, Timothy Sipples timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com wrote: George Henke observes: The feedback I have gotten so far, based on a few private replies, is about 8 - 12 people per

Re: Authorized functions

2012-02-17 Thread McKown, John
From what little I understand, the TMP invoked via ADDRESS TSO is like the batch version of TSO. The batch version of TSO cannot do terminal I/O. And does not appear, to me, to implement things like terminal interrupts (aka ATTN'ing out of a command). To do ISPF interactive work via an emulated

Re: zSeries Manpower Sizing

2012-02-17 Thread Staller, Allan
The largest MF shop I have worked for supported 10 sysplex, 44 lpars, at least 20 processors, across 3 continents. The support staff was (as best I can recall) z/OS and program products including most vendor software (9), CICS/VTAM/TCPIP (6), IMS/DB2/MQ (sysprog only) (5) DBA's and other were

Re: zSeries Manpower Sizing

2012-02-17 Thread George Henke
Excluding applications On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:18 PM, George Henke gahe...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to find out how much staff, numbers and titles, eg z/OS, z/VM, VTAM/TCPIP, CICS, etc, are needed to run a large zSeries mainframe shop. Would some of you be so kind as to share that

Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-17 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 1:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query) On 2/13/2012 9:38 AM, Joel C.

Re: z/OS Feeding SolarWinds

2012-02-17 Thread McKown, John
I've heard of Orion. We have it. We send SNMP traps to it from z/OS using CA-OPS/MVS. It opens tickets in CA-Unicenter for CA-7 tracked events. We use CA-GTS (ECHO processor) to write some of the CA-7 messages to the z/OS system log. CA-OPS/MVS has rules based on these messages which use the

Re: z/OS Feeding SolarWinds

2012-02-17 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Chris Mason Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 4:18 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: z/OS Feeding SolarWinds Jim Your title could be restated as The SNMP Agent supported by

Does HBDELETE forces tape mount??

2012-02-17 Thread af dc
Hello, can you pls tell me if doing hbdelete against a tape volume does it forces a tape mount ??? I need to delete several hsm dsn backups that are in tape volumes, is there a way to do that avoiding tape mounting ?? Many thx, A.Cecilio.

Re: Does HBDELETE forces tape mount??

2012-02-17 Thread Staller, Allan
HBDELETE does not require a tape mount. BTW, ,HBDELETE deletes a dataset backup, not the tape. This is handled by other processes. HTH, snip can you pls tell me if doing hbdelete against a tape volume does it forces a tape mount ??? /snip

Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-17 Thread Steve Comstock
On 2/17/2012 12:57 AM, Edward Jaffe wrote: On 2/13/2012 9:38 AM, Joel C. Ewing wrote: Requiring application programmers to think in terms of tracks and cylinders and to understand interaction between physical block size and track capacity is indeed archaic, as are artificial restrictions on

Re: Does HBDELETE forces tape mount??

2012-02-17 Thread Mark Jacobs
On 02/17/12 09:27, af dc wrote: Hello, can you pls tell me if doing hbdelete against a tape volume does it forces a tape mount ??? I need to delete several hsm dsn backups that are in tape volumes, is there a way to do that avoiding tape mounting ?? Many thx, A.Cecilio.

Re: Does HBDELETE forces tape mount??

2012-02-17 Thread af dc
sorry I meant dataset backup On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Staller, Allan allan.stal...@kbmg.comwrote: HBDELETE does not require a tape mount. BTW, ,HBDELETE deletes a dataset backup, not the tape. This is handled by other processes. HTH, snip can you pls tell me if doing hbdelete

Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-17 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 2/17/2012 6:32 AM, Steve Comstock wrote: On 2/17/2012 12:57 AM, Edward Jaffe wrote: TRKs and CYLs? Most of our allocations are in MEGs. Doesn't everyone do that these days? SPACE=(1,(5,1),RLSE),AVGREC=M Allocate in MEGs I would have thought allocations in records or thousands of

Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-17 Thread Scott Ford
Guys, Me too, never even thought of megabytes until the pc slam dunk artists came along, everyone I knew calculated their file size in tracks or cyls. As someone tod me new world orderlol Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Feb 17, 2012, at 9:32

Re: Does HBDELETE forces tape mount??

2012-02-17 Thread af dc
and how about ML2 dsns??? If i do HRECALL against MIGRAT2 volume ??? is there a way of just invalid the entry in MCDS avoiding tape mounting ?? A.Cecilio. On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:57 PM, af dc acbi...@gmail.com wrote: sorry I meant dataset backup On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Staller,

Re: Does HBDELETE forces tape mount??

2012-02-17 Thread Mark Jacobs
On 02/17/12 10:05, af dc wrote: and how about ML2 dsns??? If i do HRECALL against MIGRAT2 volume ??? is there a way of just invalid the entry in MCDS avoiding tape mounting ?? A.Cecilio. On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:57 PM, af dcacbi...@gmail.com wrote: The HDEL command does that trick

Re: Does HBDELETE forces tape mount??

2012-02-17 Thread Staller, Allan
HDELETE snip and how about ML2 dsns??? If i do HRECALL against MIGRAT2 volume ??? is there a way of just invalid the entry in MCDS avoiding tape mounting ?? /snip -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

If somebody knows this:SysBinLog ?

2012-02-17 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi One of our customer is speaking about SysBinLog in z/OS Maybe somebody knows what is this. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO

Re: zSeries Manpower Sizing

2012-02-17 Thread Lizette Koehler
tyvm, Timothy, for your expert analysis. Please pardon my ignorance, but what is a PCI? PCI has to do with Payments for Credit Cards and their security. The PCI Security Standards Council offers robust and comprehensive standards and supporting materials to enhance payment card data

Re: zSeries Manpower Sizing

2012-02-17 Thread Sevetson, Phil
PCI: _P_ersonal _C_ard _I_ndustry -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 10:32 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: zSeries Manpower Sizing tyvm, Timothy, for your expert

Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:59:13 -0500, Scott Ford wrote: Me too, never even thought of megabytes until the pc slam dunk artists came along, everyone I knew calculated their file size in tracks or cyls. As someone tod me new world orderlol I would have expected that during technology

Re: zSeries Manpower Sizing

2012-02-17 Thread Scott Ford
Yep that's the way I have always experienced the work environment. Worked on a 10 way they had 60 ppl supporting it but the environment was huge to support .. Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Feb 17, 2012, at 8:23 AM, van der Grijn, Bart (B)

Re: zSeries Manpower Sizing

2012-02-17 Thread R.S.
Watch the context https://www-304.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/lib03060.nsf/pages/lsprzOS19MIOct2008?OpenDocumentpathID=#Toc7 PCI stands for Processor capacity Index 2064-116 has 2882 PCI and 441 MSU. PCI stands for many other meanings, including IT ones (Peripheral Commponent Interconnect).

Re: zSeries Manpower Sizing

2012-02-17 Thread Scott Ford
Tyvm Lizette didn't know what it was either. I have a ton of banking customers, you just made me a tad smarter...Ty Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Feb 17, 2012, at 10:32 AM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: tyvm, Timothy, for

Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-17 Thread Scott Ford
Gil, Worked with a math phd for a bunch of yrs and he preached records for allocations, not cyls or tracks. I guess everyone has an opinion... Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Feb 17, 2012, at 10:41 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote:

Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-17 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote in message news:2410839884184451.wa.paulgboulderaim@bama.ua.edu... On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:59:13 -0500, Scott Ford wrote: Me too, never even thought of megabytes until the pc slam dunk artists came along, everyone I knew calculated their file size

Re: zSeries Manpower Sizing

2012-02-17 Thread Jihad Kawkabani
PCI - Processor Capacity Index - First calculated/Introduced with the z/OS V1R9 LSPR(Large Systems Performance Reference). -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of George Henke Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 08:29 AM To:

Re: zSeries Manpower Sizing

2012-02-17 Thread Field, Alan C.
I think you really mean _P_ Payment Card Industry -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Sevetson, Phil Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 09:41 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: zSeries Manpower Sizing PCI: _P_ersonal _C_ard

Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-17 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:57:44 -0800, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: On 2/13/2012 9:38 AM, Joel C. Ewing wrote: Requiring application programmers to think in terms of tracks and cylinders and to understand interaction between physical block size and track capacity is indeed

Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:39:03 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: Although it is a crude and inaccurate conversion, one could use M instead of CYL basically 1:1 and would be sure to get enough space since 1M is about 1.42 CYLs. If I did that at least I could picture it in my head the same way I have

Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-17 Thread John Gilmore
Paul Gilmartin's: begin snippet It would seem to me that when the time came to convert from 3330 to 3350 (e.g.), the simple path would have been to replace TRK with 13030 (CYL slightly more complicated) and leave the other numbers unchanged. JCL so modified would work on either model during the

Re: zSeries Manpower Sizing

2012-02-17 Thread Sevetson, Phil
I think you're right. It was introduced to me the other way by someone who got it wrong, and I've had a mental block about it ever since. Thank you for the correction. --Phil Sevetson -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of

Re: 5 Byte Device Addresses?

2012-02-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAPD5F5oS=2wrluhxwtpjbcjbx8v0m9-nymvcfyjpbzket9u...@mail.gmail.com, on 02/16/2012 at 11:45 AM, John Gilmore johnwgilmore0...@gmail.com said: The original System/360 scheme was simple and in its way elegant. 01F---decodable unambiguously into (multiplexor) channel 0, control unit 1, and that

Re: zSeries Manpower Sizing

2012-02-17 Thread George Henke
tyvm, both Radoslaw again and Jihad. I had Wikied it but all I got back was Payment Card Industry, not even Peripheral Component Interconnect. And that did not fit the context, as Radoslaw noted. Maybe you would like to update Wiki. Now all I need to know is how PCI translates into MIPS and

Re: zSeries Manpower Sizing

2012-02-17 Thread John Gilmore
'PCI' does not have a single, definitive interpretation. It is yet another overloaded acronym, one that, for sysprogs, often means 'Program-Controlled Interrupt'. On 2/17/12, George Henke gahe...@gmail.com wrote: tyvm, both Radoslaw again and Jihad. I had Wikied it but all I got back was

Re: zSeries Manpower Sizing

2012-02-17 Thread George Henke
Wiki did not have that one either, just Payment Card Industry. Maybe someone will care to update Wiki for posterity. On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:04 PM, John Gilmore johnwgilmore0...@gmail.comwrote: 'PCI' does not have a single, definitive interpretation. It is yet another overloaded acronym,

Re: zSeries Manpower Sizing

2012-02-17 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-02-17 19:46, George Henke pisze: tyvm, both Radoslaw again and Jihad. I had Wikied it but all I got back was Payment Card Industry, not even Peripheral Component Interconnect. And that did not fit the context, as Radoslaw noted. Maybe you would like to update Wiki. Now all I need

Re: zSeries Manpower Sizing

2012-02-17 Thread Jihad Kawkabani
George, If you follow this Link: https://www-304.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/lib03060.nsf/pages/lsprzOS11MIJuly2010?OpenDocumentpathID= It will give you a table in which you will see PCI values and their MSU equivalent for all Supported zSeries processors. At the top of the Web page there is a

Re: zSeries Manpower Sizing

2012-02-17 Thread Tony's Comcast account
Wow, imagine running a PCI application on USS. ;-) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 1:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: zSeries Manpower Sizing W dniu 2012-02-17 19:46,

Re: Authorized functions

2012-02-17 Thread Tony Harminc
On 16 February 2012 19:32, Walt Farrell wfarr...@us.ibm.com wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:42:01 -0700, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com wrote: OK, just being a little crazy, what about EXEC PGM=MYASMPGM which does some stuff and then does XCTL to the TMP? Would that work? The last

Looking for (retired) IBM CE with System/360 experience

2012-02-17 Thread Rich Alderson
The Living Computer Museum project of Vulcan, Inc., is looking to hire an expert on IBM System/360 hardware maintenance to guide the restoration of a 360/40 which we have acquired. The official job posting can be found at https://jobs.vulcan.com/ as Sr. Systems Engineer (Vintage), job ID

Re: What is CA-SRAM and what is it used for.

2012-02-17 Thread Thomas Lawrence
Thanks for the information. :D -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-17 Thread Mike Schwab
What i usually do, is once I get the file created, is to set the allocation to 10% more than the file size and secondary extents to 10% of the file size. First time around, CYL,(100,100),RLSE or some SWAG. -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all?

Re: Does HBDELETE forces tape mount??

2012-02-17 Thread Mike Schwab
If you issue the HDEL command againsts a migrated dataset, the older backups are deleted and the last backup is usually deleted after 60 days. If that is fast enough, you don't need to issue the HBDELETE command. On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Staller, Allan allan.stal...@kbmg.com wrote:

Re: zSeries Manpower Sizing

2012-02-17 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
stars...@mindspring.com (Lizette Koehler) writes: PCI has to do with Payments for Credit Cards and their security. PCI was somewhat in response to the cal. state data breach discloser (and later other states) legislation. we were tangentially involved being, brought in to help wordsmith the

Re: zSeries Manpower Sizing

2012-02-17 Thread Scott Ford
MIPs has been around for at least 20 yrs ..PCI not sure... Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Feb 17, 2012, at 2:30 PM, Tony's Comcast account tbabo...@comcast.net wrote: Wow, imagine running a PCI application on USS. ;-) -Original

FW: Assembler Control of SYSLOG Messages

2012-02-17 Thread Fred Hoffman
From: Robert Payne Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 2:46 PM To: Fred Hoffman Subject: RE: Assembler Control of SYSLOG Messages Looks like DESC code 11 on the WTO macro would work; DESC=(descriptor code...) Specifies one or more descriptor codes as decimal numbers in the range 1-16.

Program entry point on Attached program

2012-02-17 Thread Micheal Butz
Hi, I know that if a program is re-entrant a subsequent ATTACH will use that address as the entry point. How about a non-reentrant program If I do a ATTACH DISP=NO is the attached program LOADED and if so is there a way to find the entry point

Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-17 Thread Frank Swarbrick
How many transactions am I going to post today?  How many on Monday.  What about Tuesday after a three day weekend?  What about Tuesday on a 3 day weekend 4 years from now? Each transactions is 100 bytes.  We save the transactions for a year.  We are a brand new bank that has not yet processed

Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-17 Thread Frank Swarbrick
Variable length records? From: Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 8:59 AM Subject: Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query) Gil, Worked with a math phd for a bunch of yrs and he

Entry point on attach

2012-02-17 Thread Micheal Butz
Hi Again if I do a attach with disp=no And r1 has the tcb address I can look at the TCBRBP or relating CDE for the loadpoint of the module Sent from my iPhone -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:46:12 -0800, Frank Swarbrick wrote: How many transactions am I going to post today?  How many on Monday.  What about Tuesday after a three day weekend?  What about Tuesday on a 3 day weekend 4 years from now? Each transactions is 100 bytes.  We save the transactions for

Re: Entry point on attach

2012-02-17 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 2/17/2012 5:21 PM, Micheal Butz wrote: Again if I do a attach with disp=no And r1 has the tcb address I can look at the TCBRBP or relating CDE for the loadpoint of the module I'm not really sure what you're looking for. The CDE (or LPDE for an LPA module) points to another CDE (if it's an

Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-17 Thread Frank Swarbrick
If that is not sarcasm than you've hopelessly lost me. Frank From: Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 3:57 PM Subject: Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query) On Fri, 17 Feb

Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-17 Thread John Gilmore
Frank Swabrick wrote: begin snippet | No, I'm not expecting a real answer to that question. | Just trying to point out why it's hard, to say the least, | to know how to size files of this type. /end snippet The question itself has not been very well formulated. No one, I hope and suppose, sizes

Re: Entry point on attach

2012-02-17 Thread John Gilmore
Gerhard has outlined what is available very well, but you seem to be confusing load addresses with entry points and to be assuming that there is/will be only one entry. One, but only one, of the important uses of aliases is to associate different aliases with different entries in the same load

Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-17 Thread Frank Swarbrick
But who has the responsibility?  This seems something that a system programmer, with some good analysis tools, should do.  Or the system itself should be such that it can do it's own analysis.  After all, is that not what computers are for? Frank From:

Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-17 Thread John Gilmore
Frank, Your point is well taken. Often no one has the responsibility. Still, while the system cannot analyze itself, it can include data-collection machinery that greatly facilitates such analyses; and this machinery is/should be the responsibility of those who design and maintain a system

Re: 5 Byte Device Addresses?

2012-02-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 77142d37c0c3c34da0d7b1da7d7ca346c...@nwt-s-mbx1.rocketsoftware.com, on 02/16/2012 at 08:55 PM, Bill Fairchild bfairch...@rocketsoftware.com said: Seymour is right that we have had subchannel numbers since 1983 instead of device addresses, but we have also had device numbers since 1983.

Re: 5 Byte Device Addresses?

2012-02-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In p06240802cb635acf006e@[192.168.1.11], on 02/16/2012 at 08:23 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg hal9...@panix.com said: No Bill is right. No. OS/VS2 Release 2 WAS MVS But MVS wasn't OS/VS2 Release 2. like OS/VS2 Release 1 was SVS. The difference is that SVS was *only* release 1; MVS was *not*

Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0987218410888335.wa.paulgboulderaim@bama.ua.edu, on 02/17/2012 at 11:02 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: It would seem to me that when the time came to convert from 3330 to 3350 (e.g.), the simple path would have been to replace TRK with 13030 That would have left a lot

Re: Authorized functions

2012-02-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea00e924b3...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom, on 02/16/2012 at 04:14 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com said: CMS and XEDIT can easily bury TSO/ISPF. While I would love to see an XEDIT port to TSO, ISPF/PDF EDIT does have a few nice features that XEDIT is

Re: REXX IEBCOPY Continuation?

2012-02-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 84ea18831601b6429e578236ae239b01a4c7eaa...@eagnmnsxmb07.usa.dce.usps.gov, on 02/15/2012 at 03:03 PM, Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN dave.l.han...@usps.gov said: Batch works fine because of the sysin DD: No, it works fine because you have a leading blank, unlike what your Rexx code wrote.

Re: IEBCOPY with I/O error on SYSIN

2012-02-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In ec49fd6778df264ba80cde73700a2de0030adbb...@mukpbcc1xmb701c.collab.barclayscorp.com, on 02/16/2012 at 04:27 PM, Mike Wawiorko mike.wawio...@barclays.com said: This behaviour What behavior? The bevior Paul described, or the behavior in your example? They're not the same. When the SYSIN DD

Re: IEBCOPY with I/O error on SYSIN

2012-02-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 9289112425599854.wa.maryanne4psugmail@bama.ua.edu, on 02/16/2012 at 06:12 AM, Mary Anne Matyaz maryanne4...@gmail.com said: Not sure what category a 'bad' file fits into, but I would guess it's essentially 'omitted'. That would be broken behavior. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz,

Re: Debug TSO through ISPF panels installation

2012-02-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAGzfoX9OU5QW03nbFr=jpqhgby68bstf0tselydvqaqxf96...@mail.gmail.com, on 02/16/2012 at 09:00 AM, Alvaro Guirao Lopez alvarogui...@gmail.com said: Subject: Debug TSO through ISPF panels installation Don't confuse TSO with ISPF. There are debugging tools for TSO applications that do not deal

Re: Authorized functions

2012-02-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 3403779024688147.wa.paulgboulderaim@bama.ua.edu, on 02/16/2012 at 06:54 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Ah, for something like the DIAL command in VM! Be carefull what you ask for; you might get it, along with operators who don't grasp the distinctions among RESET,

Re: Authorized functions

2012-02-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In cakxahquoz0tu-yf5i6x4bih7fyavz3_gvkjjtbiguug_pbi...@mail.gmail.com, on 02/16/2012 at 03:40 PM, Chris Craddock crashlu...@gmail.com said: Yes, exactly right on both counts. Don't forget that TSO is older than dirt It's not as old as CMS, which some of you like. For that matter, EUnix is

Re: Authorized functions

2012-02-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1329428012.66311.yahoomail...@web164507.mail.gq1.yahoo.com, on 02/16/2012 at 01:33 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said: but no normal program, even if APF authorized can invoke the TMP. It wants to run as the job step task, and that's difficult. In what way is it difficult? What do

Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAPD5F5rThXaYbF32YgQMXK0bWTtXELh3X+XMOaUnKwPv=tt...@mail.gmail.com, on 02/17/2012 at 12:50 PM, John Gilmore johnwgilmore0...@gmail.com said: is not really wrongheaded. It is an unfortunate oversimplification for real DASD. Not if you were only discussing conversion of the SPACE parameter.

Re: Authorized functions

2012-02-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1329430553.61141.yahoomail...@web164510.mail.gq1.yahoo.com, on 02/16/2012 at 02:15 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said: I loved VM/CMS and like Linux really well, close my eyes they are kissing cousins ? I don't see any point of similarity. Not the API, not the file system, not

Re: REXX IEBCOPY Continuation?

2012-02-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In of4541e093.bd5341ba-on882579a5.00838017-882579a5.0083a...@sce.com, on 02/15/2012 at 03:58 PM, Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.com said: I believe that IEBCOPY (and some/all? of the old DFP utilities) consider anything in column 1 to be a label. Some, including IEBCOPY, but not all. But

Re: zSeries Manpower Sizing

2012-02-17 Thread Gibney, Dave
Isn't CICS via VTAM behind many ATMs :) Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Tony's Comcast account Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 11:31 AM To:

Re: IEBCOPY with I/O error on SYSIN

2012-02-17 Thread J R
I would have thought that the effect of a dummy, empty or omitted SYSIN is perfectly well known. Moreover, its shortcut functionality is not limited to compress operations. More to the point, a malfunctioning SYSIN dataset is none of the above and it makes no sense to interpret it as such.

Re: Authorized functions

2012-02-17 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Based on my notes about this from previous posts, an entry in Ikjtsoxx would allow a Rexx program to call an authorized TSO program, then if necessary it can use ikjct44 to access any variables. For example CALL *(MYAUTH) myparms Lindy -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Authorized functions

2012-02-17 Thread Scott Ford
Really ? The command line vs a GUILinux terminal session and cms virtually look alike except for the commands.. Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Feb 17, 2012, at 2:16 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In

'SYS1.PARMLIB(ALLOCxx)'

2012-02-17 Thread Paul Schuster
Hi: Is it possible to dynamically (from a program) determine some of the settings (or defaults) in SYS1.PARMLIB(ALLOCxx)'? I am interested in determining the SVC 99 defaults. Thank you. Paul -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-17 Thread Ed Gould
The analyst has to have the numbers for it is he(she) that is designing the system. He is supposed to be the giver of the grail. The real issue is which analyst. There are several different types business, system and a few others. The delineation is supposed to be the job description. The

Re: zSeries Manpower Sizing

2012-02-17 Thread Timothy Sipples
Bart Grijn writes: There are large shops that run large mainframes, but they likely run other platforms as well and a large part of the manpower will be shared across platforms. That's an excellent point. There's a common accounting measurement (FTEs = Full-Time Equivalents) used to tally up

Re: Simple iinventory control products?

2012-02-17 Thread Raja Mohan
out of all the software mentioned, I did not see anyone noting ISC software. They do have excellent inventory software, If you were to evaluate I highly recommend looking in to e-Gen suite. I have no affiliation with them, except as a user of the software.