Re: IBM announces 6% price increase for z/OS

2012-01-29 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Scott Chapman [ snip ] My theory about the z/OS price increase is that they did this so the September release can be z/OS v2r1, at the same price as the new (raised) z/OS v1r13 price. Otherwise if they just

Re: ISPF Workstation Agent for Windows 7?

2012-01-27 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Steve Comstock On 1/27/2012 8:48 AM, Pinnacle wrote: [ snip ] Peter, The Workstation Agent is functionallly stabilized. z/OSMF is the way to go if you really want multiple windows in the same ISPF session.

Re: COBOL execs Dummy Question

2012-01-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Ross [ snip ] Personally, any time I see IGYCRCTL I think to myself, Iggy Cricktill. Not sure why I feel compelled to pronounce the name rather than just spelling it out! Reminds me of a time when I was

Re: IBM announces 6% price increase for z/OS

2012-01-25 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of J. Cassidy Next we will hear that today is Wednesday. Actually, it's already Thursday in some places. -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: The Trainer's Friend announces - no price increase

2012-01-25 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of R.S. W dniu 2012-01-25 00:58, Steve Comstock pisze: We are using the same pricing we used in 2002. :-) I have to admit I increased my prices significantly. ;-) Especially when measured in USD, because dollar

Re: Catching a Phantom

2012-01-20 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jan MOEYERSONS On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:21:01 -0600, Chase, John wrote: Occasionally, that MQ-draining transaction will be spawned nearly 1,000 times per second, and apparently do nothing: No I'm starting message

Catching a Phantom

2012-01-19 Thread Chase, John
NOTE: X-posted to CICS-L and IBM-MAIN Environment: z/OS 1.11, MQ 7.0, CICS TS 4.2. We have a batch program that is run once or twice a day, that writes between 200 - 600 (on average) messages to an MQ queue. That MQ queue in turn is drained by a CICS region, with each message spawning a new

Re: Shop zseries

2012-01-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Dazzo, Matt Anyone having problems down loading their orders? I can get to the order but can't view it or download it. Good thing our MF up time is better than IBM's or the MF would be rolled out the door. We

Re: OT Wiki Out of service Weds.

2012-01-17 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Finnell To protest 'Piracy Laws' Wiki is shutting itself off Wed 17 Jan. Evidently Google is participating but only by changing it's banner page. Wow! Six years' advance notice! (The next Wednesday, Jan. 17

Re: ACF2/RACF User Appliation Logical Access

2012-01-13 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Henke, George tyvm, Seymour 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 to each user and the NETMENU session

Re: Mainframe advertisement

2012-01-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of R.S. (Disclaimer: this message is non-technical, but still about mainframes) [ snip } P.S. Not related to the topic above, but IMHO hot news: I just heard on TV that former directors from IBM Poland and HP

Re: Enterprise COBOL Load Module Dissection

2012-01-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Patrick Roehl Given a load library and a list of member names, I want to be able to perform these steps in a batch assembler program: [ snip ] The programs only need to be identified as Enterprise COBOL or not.

Re: Error apply ZAP

2012-01-10 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Charles Mills The resource spent on adding emphasis to the description of a deficiency would better have been used to repair it. LOL. Ain't it the truth! Every software team should have that on a plaque on the

Re: Cics Global User Exit

2012-01-10 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Micheal Butz Do CICS Global User exits have to be loaded In CSA No. You *MAY* code them to be LPA-eligible (which IMO implies threadsafe too), but it is not *required*. -jc-

Re: Error apply ZAP

2012-01-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin [ snip ] It's a major design shortcoming that one can't REDO a ZAP. It would be so easy -- if PARM=REDO and the content of the module matches the REP, assume it's OK. And SMP/E should supply the

Re: CICS Global exit XEIIN

2012-01-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Micheal Butz Hi, I have assembled and enabled CICS exit XEIIN It is my understanding that it should get invoked whenever a CICS api is encountered However this doesn't seem to be the case if anyone could shed

Re: PL1 Material

2012-01-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [On Behalf Of Mohd Rizwan HI , Kindly provide me the PL1 material , as I am new to this IBM provides the PL1 (sic) material when you order the PL/I compiler. -jc-

Re: Error apply ZAP

2012-01-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin [ snip ] I wonder why ++DELETE precludes RESTORE? It should be straightforward to rebuild program objects from parts in the DLIBs. I think ++DELETE also purges any meta-data associated with the

Re: Error apply ZAP

2012-01-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) In f255efe0ecf08c4a9c1db6aff4235417181f2...@ch2wpmail1.na.ds.ussco.com, on 01/09/2012 at 10:01 AM, Chase, John jch...@ussco.com said: How does RESTORE not accomplish an UNDO

Re: ACF2/RACF User Appliation Logical Access

2012-01-06 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Henke, George Does anyone know how ACF2 validates a users access to specific applications? Recently we tried to migrate from ACF2 to RACF and were forced to fallback because ACF2 was somehow *wildcarding* a user's

Re: IBM Manuals

2012-01-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) In f255efe0ecf08c4a9c1db6aff423541717f9c...@ch2wpmail1.na.ds.ussco.com, on 12/30/2011 at 05:12 PM, Chase, John jch...@ussco.com said: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: IBM Manuals

2011-12-30 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) In CAJTOO5-L0UPfMMOeryEQ2Hg_z8BNRLwVu7hfcZZDMCqb=pi...@mail.gmail.com, on 12/27/2011 at 12:37 PM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com said: Maybe they think everyone should be using

Re: XML Generate String Length

2011-12-30 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Kopischke, David G. Greetings, One of our developers is performing an XML GENERATE with a string that's variable. When it gets above about 100K, it ASRA's. No error codes or anything. Is there a maximum

Re: cpu / machine identification

2011-12-30 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Brian Westerman We have DR support in our software, but I was under the impression that most of the DR sites were running the OS under VM and they simulated the serial anyway. I suppose their are sites that do

Re: Imagine having to deal with THIS in production

2011-12-22 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mike Schwab [ snip ] Water barrels, cinder block walls, and an earthen hill won't stop a cannon ball being test fired at the Alameda County Sheriff's Department firing range.. It will still bounce up the hill,

Re: Enable security in ftp client

2011-12-21 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jorge Garcia Hello: We want to enable a security for ftp client in our production system. We don't grant access to any user for execute ftp client again our production system. We've searched a RACF resource for

Re: Imagine having to deal with THIS in production

2011-12-21 Thread Chase, John
Already been tried: IBM-MAIN-OT in Yahoo Groups. Can you say lead balloon? -jc- -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of zMan Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 12:43 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Imagine

Re: Imagine dealing with THIS in production

2011-12-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of J R pour people? - what, you mean like bartenders? Must be the same kind of folks who pour over a manual in detail. (What do they pour over the manual, and how does that help discern details?) And loose used as a

Re: One Less Mainframe Shop

2011-12-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of 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

Re: Imagine dealing with THIS in production

2011-12-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of David Mierowsky At least they didn't have to deal with this! Thankfully this was sorted out long before computers were around! The Changes of 1752 In accordance with a 1750 act of Parliament, England and its

Re: Imagine dealing with THIS in production

2011-12-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mike Schwab How about the Julian Day as used by astronomers? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day Julian day is used in the Julian date (JD) system of time measurement for scientific use by the astronomy

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

2011-12-15 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ken Brick On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:21:11 -0800, Cris Hernandez #9 wrote: yeah, TRANSLATE works to change it after the user hits enter, but I want characters to show in caps as soon as the character is typed, for

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

2011-12-15 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Thomas Berg -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List För McKown, John I had a similar problem (argument in my case) with a programmer. He put the 3278 upper case toggle ON. And

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

2011-12-15 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Steve Comstock [ snip ] I got to wondering: why do you (the OP) want everything in caps? The right way to do it, I believe, is to accept input as the user gives it. If you want to capitalize (for consistency in

Re: Security Group

2011-12-15 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ron Thomas Hi. How to find the security group my id resides from TSO? LU your ID and look for DEFAULT-GROUP. (LU is the abbreviation for LISTUSER.) -jc-

Re: zFS parm sysplex=filesys

2011-12-13 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Walter Marguccio From: Marna WALLE mwa...@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: zFS parm sysplex=filesys look at the output from check ZOSMIGV1R13_ZFS_FILESYS (available on R11 and R12), . . . I did run the check and

zFS parm sysplex=filesys

2011-12-12 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, Currently studying the migration guide for z/OS 1.13 (we're running 1.11 now), and note that 1.13 delivers zFS with a default of sysplex=filesys. Earlier releases default sysplex=off. We do NOT run any shared file systems, and do not anticipate doing so in the foreseeable future.

Finlandia (was RE: JCL sheesh! for today

2011-12-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lindy Mayfield [ snip ] Today, for 45 more minutes is Sibelius' birthday. Happy birthday. This is a nice Finlandia, if I didn't mistakenly post it already. I've been having fun on both IBM-MAIN and

Re: TSO on z/OS 1.12 with LOGONHERE and multisystem logon

2011-12-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Veilleux, Jon L Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 2:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu

Re: JCL sheesh! for today

2011-12-08 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 16:21:49 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: If the DDNAME parameter appears . the referenced DD statement must not contain a . PATH parameter. In other words, you can NOT do //DD1

Re: CSFEUTIL RC

2011-12-07 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Pace Trying to run one of the jobs in the Install Dialog for z/OS 1.13. DOC: This job uses a pass phrase value to load DES and PKA master keys. //SETMKEXEC PGM=CSFEUTIL, // PARM='CSF.CSFCKDS,My

Re: TIBCO ES start up error - Duplicate ID

2011-12-01 Thread Chase, John
In English, the term Duplicate ID usually means that you have specified the same ID in at least two places, where a different ID is expected or required in each place. -jc- -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of jagadishan

Re: Alternative to REPRO for VSAM RLS KSDS Merge

2011-11-29 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Robert A. Rosenberg At 11:31 -0600 on 11/29/2011, Phil Sidler wrote about Alternative to REPRO for VSAM RLS KSDS Merge: Since IDCAMS REPRO does not support VSAM datasets in RLS mode (and neither does SORT), is

Re: Simple record extraction from a sequential file

2011-11-22 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John Gilmore You have a response that apparently meets your needs. Your question interests me for another reason. I asked two admittedly very bright 15 year olds to write a parameterized--a value V, a field of

Re: Religious controversy on IBM-MAIN

2011-11-20 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John Gilmore Historically, many fora having another focus have found it advisable to avoid the discussion of religion, which is divisive and likely to escalate into invective and worse. We are a mixture of the

Re: USS

2011-11-18 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Graham Hobbs What's a TLA? In the context below, TLA is Three Letter Acronym. -jc- - Original Message - [ snip ] Brackets? Oh, you mean parentheses: ( ) Brackets are: [ ] (not square brackets, just

Re: Terminology

2011-11-18 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John Since it is now Friday, how about / is a solidus, aka a slash \ is a reverse solidus, aka a backslash # is an octhothrope, aka a hash mark or pound sign. Not to be confused with pound sterling

Re: Terminology RE: USS

2011-11-18 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bernd Oppolzer I never knew how to call this sign correctly: in Germany, it's simply called: und (that's: and) or Kaufmanns und, that is, merchant's and. Almost nobody here knows what an ampersand is. But

Re: SSTADET protocol

2011-11-16 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Vernooij, CP - SPLXM Hello, I have upgraded our Sysplex Couple Data set to support the System Status Detection Partitioning Protocol: ITEM NAME(SSTATDET) NUMBER(1). However, XCFAS is complaining about

Re: Data encrypt

2011-11-15 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rob Schramm If you want something similar to clear key performance, use the protected key security option.

Re: DST option ?

2011-11-10 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Vernooij, CP - SPLXM This sounds like the holiday problem we have here. The country is divided in 3 regions, to spread holidays a little more over time. People living near the border of a region regularly have

Re: RMODE and AMODE at 24 - Query

2011-11-09 Thread Chase, John
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IEA2B190/6.2 Why you would want BMS maps living below the 16MB line is beyond me -jc- -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of jagadishan perumal Sent:

Re: OT measures was Re: Out damn'd GMT ...

2011-11-08 Thread Chase, John
Aka lots of elbow room. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Staller, Allan Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 3:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: OT measures was Re: Out damn'd GMT ... But mostly empty!

DSCB DSECTs?

2011-10-28 Thread Chase, John
OK, now I know I've gone blind: I can't seem to find a DSECT for the various formats of DSCBs. It also seems the Data Areas manuals aren't published any more (I don't find them in the z/OS 1.11 MVS or DFSMS bookshelves). I've run SuperC searches on MACLIB and MODGEN, but nothing there jumps

Re: DSCB DSECTs?

2011-10-28 Thread Chase, John
of the others displayed. Or look in SYS1.MODGEN(IECSDSL1). Bill Fairchild -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 10:14 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: DSCB DSECTs? OK, now I

Re: GDG

2011-10-25 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ron Thomas Hi, I have a requirement where we need to compare the current version and previous version of a GDG file. The job is newly created and when it runs 1'st time this will be a issue as the there is no

Re: BLDL error Cause

2011-10-24 Thread Chase, John
How can you have a PDS with ZERO directory blocks? -jc- -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of jagadishan perumal Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 1:07 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: BLDL error Cause Hi All, One

Re: ATTLS configuration

2011-10-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Neale Ferguson I¹m attempting to enable ATTLS on my z/OS 1.12 and 1.9 systems for the purpose of running secured NJE. I have installed the z/OS Configuration Assistant to create the appropriate policies, created

Re: Looking for clues on a bug in assembler

2011-10-16 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Charles Mills PSW. 078D1400 995E254A Can you branch to 195E25xx if you're in AMODE 24? Not in this lifetime (unless, perhaps, you're in the Twilight Zone). -jc-

Re: Chaos feared after Unix time-zone database is nuked

2011-10-16 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ken Brick On 16/10/2011 18:06 PM, Shane wrote: Whoa - hold on there gil !!!. Drawing a *very* long bow there. Shane ... Now, now, Shane, Coming from a part of this great land that refuses to recognise some of

Re: Looking for clues on a bug in assembler

2011-10-15 Thread Chase, John
From your initial description, it sounds like your SYNAD code is corrupting your EODAD address. It might also be possible that you go thru File 'B' in the wrong AMODE. -jc- -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Charles

Re: MQ CICS 3270 Bridge - Does it work?

2011-10-14 Thread Chase, John
cic...@listserv.uga.edu Subscription process same as for IBM-MAIN. -jc- -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Henke, George Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 8:11 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: FW: MQ CICS 3270

Re: MQ alternatives

2011-10-14 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Henke, George Windows MQ cannot connect to MQ on z/OS. Since when??? We've been running exactly that kind of connection in Production for over a decade, without significant problems. -jc-

Re: DFSMS and HFS/ZFS Datasets.

2011-10-14 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Curtis Jackson Good day, We are planning to expand the use of SMS in our DASD environment. One of the questions we have been wrestling with is whether or not to maintain a seperate Storage Group for our HFS/ZFS

Re: Certificate JCL error

2011-10-13 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jake anderson [ snip ] My concern is that we are unable to find the right Label name for Root and Server. Is it something LABEL name must be given by the webservice provider or else we can choose the LABLE name

Re: Licensing of Tivoli Products.

2011-10-13 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Al Sherkow The original post referred to Tivoli Omegamon which is an IPLA product. These products have a one time charge for each unit of capacity (i.e. for additional capacity you pay for additional OTC).

Re: RSU Order using Shop zSeries Website

2011-10-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of saurabh khandelwal Hello Experts, Sorry for Typo maistake. It is actually z/OS 1.12 system . I am trying to downlaod RSU for z/OS 1.12 system only. In that case, SMP/E RECEIVE ORDER is

Re: RSU Order using Shop zSeries Website

2011-10-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave It's all there in the SMP/E manual. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of saurabh khandelwal Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 8:59

Re: ADRDSSU logical dump of VSAM restore

2011-10-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John I've been asked a question that I can't find the answer to. We are dumping VSAM KSDSes using ADRDSSU in logical dump mode. We then do a RESTORE. Does this reorganized the file, removing CA and CI splits

Re: A little bit more about Gilbert Saint-flour

2011-10-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Greg Shirey wrote: My favorite and most used tool from Gilbert was BR which allows for browsing VSAM files in ISPF. That is a free and USEFUL! tool. Better than IDCAMS functions. I always

Re: RSU Order using Shop zSeries Website

2011-10-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of saurabh khandelwal Receiving RSU directly to Global zone might be risky. Because while receiving from IBM site, if connection drops, then it might create problem. Please correct me, if my perception is wrong

Re: RSU Order using Shop zSeries Website

2011-10-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave Check out RECEIVE ORDER: RECEIVE SYSMODS HOLDDATA ORDER(ORDERSERVER(ORDSRVR) CONTENT(ALL)) DELETEPKG. I was going to suggest that, too, but best I can recall RECEIVE ORDER

Re: Chaos feared after Unix time-zone database is nuked

2011-10-10 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mike Schwab For the US. Each country sets it own time zones. In Australia, each state. Maybe we could get the UN or the Astronomical Union to keep track of time zones? lobby Convert all local schedules, etc. to

Re: Chaos feared after Unix time-zone database is nuked

2011-10-10 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John Though I agree with you, at my first job - when I implemented OS/VS1 using GMT, I was nearly lynched by the Production Control people and Programmers. The print outs (remember them?) all said like: 20

Re: Chaos feared after Unix time-zone database is nuked

2011-10-10 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:38:16 -0500, McKown, John wrote: ... Which confused me since this was city government and the court records were timestamped. And we could not stop processing during the fall

Re: 1TB EAV Support

2011-10-05 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shane LOL. I remember going to a Share/Guide presentation years ago by a bod from one of Australias larger sites. The talk was how they managed their humongous DASD farm that had recently passed the Terabyte

Re: OT to my collegues

2011-10-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) In a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea00afc0ed...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom, on 09/29/2011 at 03:41 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com said: But, this is the Windows generation.

Re: OT to my collegues

2011-09-30 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Scott Ford Yep Ed absolutely ...Read the manuals of the product and go through and critical think, did i say a bad word, critical think[.] More and more nowadays, it seems people are not being taught *how* to think.

Re: Security Certificate error message at IBMLINK

2011-09-27 Thread Chase, John
Yes. It's back to normal today. -jc- -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Linda Mooney Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 3:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Security Certificate error message at IBMLINK

Re: Analytics in prime time!

2011-09-27 Thread Chase, John
Off-list... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 10:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Analytics in prime time! On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:33:41 -0400, Ed Finnell

Re: Analytics in prime time!

2011-09-27 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) In f255efe0ecf08c4a9c1db6aff423541716b2c...@ch2wpmail1.na.ds.ussco.com, on 09/27/2011 at 06:34 AM, Chase, John said: To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Off-list... No. Gaaahh

Re: Analytics in prime time!

2011-09-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of zMan On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Warren Brown war...@att.net wrote: The problem I have is that the real terrorist probably don't have SSN's.  So how are they identified? That's the point of analytics:

Re: [BULK] Re: Roll your own USS

2011-08-28 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shane Ginnane Now we're getting somewhere. Shane ... On Mon, Aug 29th, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Greg Dorner wrote: Ugly Semantics Silliness OK, ONE time only: Unbelievably Sophomoric Stupidity -jc-

Re: Copying file to OMVS

2011-08-27 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) In 4e57892f.4060...@bremultibank.com.pl, on 08/26/2011 at 01:53 PM, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl said: I disagree, that means: what's wrong with UID(0) for such scripts?

Re: JCL Changes and SMS and Not Cataloged Datasets

2011-08-27 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman --snip This poor practice was something instilled in the Tata contractors we have employed. Simple answer to that: don't hire

Re: Help with an LE problem

2011-08-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen Yeah, I know I can try that. What I really do not understand is why I do not have registers that match the alleged user abend. Also, I cannot find this abend in LE or COBOL. Remember that LE shows

Re: degaussed tapes

2011-08-23 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jan MOEYERSONS On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:50:06 -0400, Crabtree, Anne D anne.d.crabt...@wv.gov wrote: We have a degausser (really old) and I don't know the name, model, etc. The objective is to destroy data so that

Re: CLOCK change problem

2011-08-21 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jim Thomas Hai Shidoshi ... Watashi o keihatsu shite itadaki arigatogozaimasu. You misspelled Watak[u]shi -jc- Watashi wa sore o shitte ita koto ga nai. Watashi wa nipponjin de wa nai asa ga nai

Re: Security is fun in the PC world....

2011-08-21 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jim Thomas Sir, I must have been was 'really disliked' ... been let go a lot more than that but have, on two occasions, actually lost network / MVS access even before I was 'told' in fact .. on one occasion,

Re: Security is fun in the PC world....

2011-08-21 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mike Schwab On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Chase, John wrote: I've only been canned once  But it made headline news around the U.S. (and possibly the world) for a few days, at least.  :-) Hints

Re: Security is fun in the PC world....

2011-08-21 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of R.S. [ snip ] Not every business is big enough to justify ht costs of mainframe. Even a shop needs some computer today. There is no reason to blame small business or medium one. Vast majority of small business

Re: CLOCK change problem

2011-08-21 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jim Thomas Sir, My sincere apologies ... right you are and yes, it was from the old Kung Fu series ... I've just come to a point where I don't (automatically) think that people are old enough to know what I

Re: Security is fun in the PC world....

2011-08-21 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John are going to a paperless' office. As soon as we have a paperless bathroom! - Ted MacNEIL I think the Japanese have invented that. First a good squirt of water in the appropriate place, then a

Re: Last card reader?

2011-08-20 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bill Fairchild What you showed will do a STH of some register somewhere, but not necessarily R4. For it to be R4, you need another blank character after the IEFUJV, or else delete the AL1(7) byte, or change the CL8

Re: Get a user password from RACF.

2011-08-18 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Chicklon, Thomas I am not aware of this being documented anywhere. Maybe someone else can jump in with that info if they have it. Tom Chicklon -Original Message- thanks , Is the literature

Re: Copy z/OS USS pax format file to another z/OS system without FTP

2011-08-18 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Staller, Allan snip All this work just to receive maintenance;-) /snip Try this (I do this with some regularity): 1) Receive maintenance files to desktop (or other PC/*NIX dasd). 2) FTP in Binary

Re: Get a user password from RACF.

2011-08-18 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman --snip In my previous shop , it was nessecery for some user to get other users password (and they didn't have the privilige to

Re: z/OS Library site down?

2011-08-15 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 For some reason today I get an IBM Our apologies... The page you requested cannot be displayed message no matter how I try to get to the z/OS Library pages (the Bookmanager + PDF's website).

Re: SHARE Attendance

2011-08-15 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Clark Morris On 15 Aug 2011 14:12:50 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: On 8/15/2011 9:00 AM, Greg Shirey wrote: The farewell reception (aka SCIDS for the old timers) was really poorly attended - that's

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