Re: RACF Help

2012-04-02 Thread Greg Shirey
I found this reference on the mainframezone.com website: The program source for the CNV2UGRP and CNV2SGRP utilities is available at http://zjournal.tcipubs. com/issues/DouglasUtilities.html HTH, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: A couple questions about z/OS consoles and TCPIP commands (and a potential HMC issue)

2012-03-16 Thread Greg Shirey
This note from the message manual is worth noting: DISPLAY TCPIP,,OSAINFO is limited to OSA-Express3 ethernet features in QDIO mode (CHPID type OSD, OSM, or OSX). Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN

Re: Customer Service, the good and the bad...

2012-03-07 Thread Greg Shirey
I get your drift, but have to disagree, respectfully. This is a discussion group, not a technical support service. IMO, there are no customers here. Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bill Fairchild Sent

Re: Customer Service, the good and the bad...

2012-03-07 Thread Greg Shirey
similarities to some customer service interactions, then I misunderstood, and I would have to agree. Disingenuousness was certainly not my intent. Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John Gilmore Sent: Wednesday

Re: ISMF/REXX interface.

2012-03-05 Thread Greg Shirey
Jags, Have a look at SYS1.SACBCNTL(ACBJBAOU). The first step is similar to ACBJBAI2, but there are extra steps to show how to copy the output from the ISPF table to a PS data set and then to SYSOUT. It's a strange process - we don't run these sorts of jobs here very often so I have

Re: ISMF/REXX interface.

2012-03-01 Thread Greg Shirey
Jags, There doesn't appear to be any kind of REXX interface to create reports from ISMF. However, you might want to review member ACBJBAI2 in library SYS1.SACBCNTL: //* SAMPLE JCL TO CREATE ISMF DATA SET LIST IN BATCH AND SAVE IT HTH, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original

Re: JES2 OFFLOAD - requesting help, ideas, etc.

2012-02-27 Thread Greg Shirey
that ran on the 14th, we go to the 14th file on the tape. There is some exposure to losing data, but our shop has not considered the offloaded job data to be critical data. HTH, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf

Re: RES: Question about XDC BATCH and automation

2012-02-15 Thread Greg Shirey
and Customization manual? It contains a chapter called Using SDSF in batch. It's short, but it should get you started. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ron Hawkins Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 7:37 AM Sergio, Select

Re: Simple iinventory control products?

2012-02-14 Thread Greg Shirey
Ed, That's who I was talking about, too - people who support and work with their products. Regards, Greg -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 12:23 AM Greg: I should have been more specific but I was taking

Re: Simple iinventory control products?

2012-02-13 Thread Greg Shirey
a fund for paid lackies please contact me off-list!)) Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 10:55 PM Greg: I am surprised a little bit by your attitude and am disappointed

Re: Simple iinventory control products?

2012-02-09 Thread Greg Shirey
to believe they have debugged their code thoroughly) but I've had many occasions to call for support and have never been advised to debug it yourself. I think we have 5 MacKinney products in house, including LISTCAT PLUS - which has never abended 0C4 here... FWIW. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company

Re: DATACLASS NOT BEING RESPECTED

2012-02-07 Thread Greg Shirey
DATACLAS can be assigned to non-SMS managed data sets, but dynamic volume count is only applicable to SMS-managed data sets (according to the HELP panel). Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of George Rodriguez Sent

Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS)

2012-02-06 Thread Greg Shirey
their system when problems arise; most z/OS customers can't. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM

Re: change job classes for ones submitted via intrdr

2012-01-24 Thread Greg Shirey
Really? We use SMS at my shop to override some JCL, but I'm not sure I'd know how to use WLM in the manner you describe. Could you elaborate? Thanks, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Co. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf

Re: Underscore character

2012-01-17 Thread Greg Shirey
And I can't figure out what started it... Completely confused, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Co. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 12:11 PM This entire conversation is rather

Re: ENCODE64 - Where is it?

2012-01-13 Thread Greg Shirey
Bob, It's part of XMITIP. There should be a LOAD member of the INSTALL library. From the $DOC member: LOAD Load library containing various load modules * in IDTF format HTH, Greg -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology

2012-01-11 Thread Greg Shirey
Really? A Userid of MainframeJunkie for an email address of themeddler1 and then this question without a signature line?? I have to wonder what's really behind this question, but perhaps others see it less cynically than I. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message

Re: ACCOUNT REPORT

2012-01-03 Thread Greg Shirey
Sergio, you might check out FILE019 on the CBT. Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Sérgio Lima Costa Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 4:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: ACCOUNT REPORT Hello List. We need

Re: Mobius RDS

2011-12-02 Thread Greg Shirey
, I don't know, but I don't think so. HTH, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of gsg Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 6:53 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Mobius RDS Is anyone familiar

Re: Last use date of a PDS member

2011-12-01 Thread Greg Shirey
in place it's hit or miss. Thanks again, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John Gilmore Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 10:07 AM Sheryl's document: http://www.watsonwalker.com

Re: Last use date of a PDS member

2011-12-01 Thread Greg Shirey
I did mention SMF records. I'm not sure what you mean - are you disagreeing that it's hit or miss? I'm suggesting that you can search through SMF history and maybe you'll find when the proc was last invoked, but maybe you won't. It just depends on how much history you keep. Doesn't it?

Re: Last use date of a PDS member

2011-12-01 Thread Greg Shirey
was 3 years ago, I'll never know. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 3:14 PM For PROCs it's NOT hit or miss. If a PROC is invoked it's

Re: Last use date of a PDS member

2011-12-01 Thread Greg Shirey
home. Thanks Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 4:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Last use date of a PDS member If you want to do

Last use date of a PDS member

2011-11-30 Thread Greg Shirey
, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm

Re: Last use date of a PDS member

2011-11-30 Thread Greg Shirey
Ken, How does SMF report the last time a member was read? If you mean search through all my SMF tapes I only keep two years - I may not get an answer. Thanks, Greg -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ken Porowski Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Re: Last use date of a PDS member

2011-11-30 Thread Greg Shirey
. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm

Re: SMF 119 report

2011-11-10 Thread Greg Shirey
reports; the output is slightly different for the server report and includes failed logon attempts. I can share the REXX if you're interested. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Andy White Sent: Thursday, November 10

Re: Management Class - expiration of dataset

2011-10-25 Thread Greg Shirey
a bit confusing to me (and perhaps others, based on the lack of response) - could you clarify a little what you are asking about? Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jake anderson Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011

Re: Management Class - expiration of dataset

2011-10-25 Thread Greg Shirey
the manual. However, you keep referring to management class, so I get the impression that you are maybe wondering about whether HSM can manage a data set without a MGMTCLAS attribute. If so, I can't help, since I do not have HSM at my shop. Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Co

Re: Thanks for all the PMR's

2011-10-18 Thread Greg Shirey
John, I'm confused, you sent the following -- what? Thanks, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John Mattson Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 6:15 PM I sent the following to my IBM PMR handler (DFSMSrmm

Re: A little bit more about Gilbert Saint-flour

2011-10-12 Thread Greg Shirey
, but also emailed Gilbert. He actually responded and, after a little back and forth, fixed it. I was not expecting that, but was very grateful. I always thought IBM should have paid him for it and made it a part of z/OS. But there's probably a good reason why they didn't... Greg Shirey

Re: USS - file can't be deleted.

2011-10-12 Thread Greg Shirey
Arrogant? Mark Zelden?? I don't think so... Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Chris Mason Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 10:42 AM Mr Zelden Since you take it upon your arrogant self to accuse others of not being

Re: FORCE ARM

2011-09-23 Thread Greg Shirey
is that both the ARM and ARMRESTART keywords can be specified together i.e., FORCE myspace,ARM,ARMRESTART Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shane Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 2:36 AM To: IBM

Re: SDSF REXX Help

2011-09-21 Thread Greg Shirey
Rogers, Your ISFEXEC command is H ALL, but your ISFACT command is H. I believe they need to match. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Laine, Rogers Sent: Wednesday, September 21

Re: WLM Problems

2011-09-20 Thread Greg Shirey
Mike, If you'd like to share the response/advice you got from IBM, there are probably many who would be interested. Thanks, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ward, Mike S Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 8:12 AM

Re: ISMF QUESTION

2011-09-01 Thread Greg Shirey
Sorry, the only thing I was trying to suggest is that you report this issue to IBM. It appears to me to be an ISMF bug. Greg -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of esmie moo Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 12:39 PM

Re: ISMF QUESTION

2011-08-31 Thread Greg Shirey
for the MC as a match. Sounds like a bug to me HTH, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of esmie moo Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 9:03 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: ISMF

Re: ISMF QUESTION

2011-08-30 Thread Greg Shirey
Are you limiting your list in ISMF by specifying anything on page 5 for Entry Type? Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of esmie moo Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 10:59 AM Good Morning

Re: DFhsm HRECOVER Dataset from FLASHCOPY Volumes

2011-08-18 Thread Greg Shirey
have HSM in my shop. (I worked with it years ago at my former employer, and I remember that there were a lot of environmental variables to consider...) HTH, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf

Re: Anyone know how to HSM report of recalled datasets

2011-08-17 Thread Greg Shirey
SYS1.SEDGEXE1. This is an RMM product library, but I suppose it is still available even on systems where RMM is not licensed.. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent

Re: SHARE Attendance

2011-08-15 Thread Greg Shirey
for the old timers) was really poorly attended - that's something of a mystery to me. But I enjoyed the discussion I heard between two 20-something programmers about the relative merits of coding in assembler versus coding in Java. I would have joined in, but I code in neither... Greg Shirey

Re: DFDSS QUESTION - BYPASS SMS - CORRECTION

2011-08-11 Thread Greg Shirey
It looks like IEF343I is your answer - some of which was truncated on your email. NOT ENOUGH NON-SYSTEM MANAGED VOLUMES ELIGIBLE. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of esmie moo [esmie_

Re: Iris Rivera is out of the office today.

2011-08-08 Thread Greg Shirey
Iris isn't going to be at SHARE encouraging everyone to do a survey?? That will make it all just a little less fun... Greg From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Iris Rivera [iriv...@us.ibm.com] Sent: Monday, August

Re: IGD06023I STORAGE GROUP ZFSCLASS IS NOT REFERENCED BY THE STORAGE GROUP ACS ROUTINE

2011-08-04 Thread Greg Shirey
Right, and translation won't be successful. Therefore, it won't activate. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 12:00 PM To: IBM-MAIN

Re: IGD06023I STORAGE GROUP ZFSCLASS IS NOT REFERENCED BY THE STORAGE GROUP ACS ROUTINE

2011-08-04 Thread Greg Shirey
My personal preference, for what it's worth, is to follow IBM's examples. They appear to prevent re-assignments later by coding only one SELECT statement and use EXIT only for errors. They also use indenting and commenting for readability and understandability. Greg Shirey Ben E

Re: How to control in an JCL that a file is empty or not exist ?

2011-07-14 Thread Greg Shirey
//*** STEP2 WILL NOT RUN IF 'IN' IS EMPTY //STEP2 EXEC ... ... // ENDIF HTH, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Hilario G. Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 7:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject

Re: JES2 OFFLOAD Question

2011-06-28 Thread Greg Shirey
Sergio, Issue the following command and post the results, please. $DOFF1.ST Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Sérgio Lima Costa Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 11:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: JES2 OFFLOAD

CA reclaim benefits

2011-06-15 Thread Greg Shirey
to schedule reorg jobs? Has anyone worked on measuring this? Can you share your strategy? TIA, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Co. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: CA reclaim benefits

2011-06-15 Thread Greg Shirey
interested, here's the URL: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/hot_topics.html Regards, Greg -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Greg Shirey Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 10:38 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: CA reclaim benefits Hello all, We

Re: can limit JES2 RJE work?

2011-06-09 Thread Greg Shirey
. This incorrect processing results in excessive CPU usage. This problem affects the following output devices when they select work with user routing: printers, punches, SYSOUT transmitters, and SYSOUT API (SAPI). Greg Shirey

Re: SYSLOG saving

2011-06-08 Thread Greg Shirey
We issue command W I at midnight and sweep the SYSLOG into Infopac (ViewDirect). We keep them for 90 days. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 2:36 PM Survey time

Re: MGMTCLAS Partial Release problem.

2011-06-03 Thread Greg Shirey
are not eligible for partial release. The data component of an alternate index when opened as cluster could be eligible for partial release. Partial release processing is not supported for temporary close. Partial release processing is not supported for data sets defined with guaranteed space. HTH, Greg

Re: RMM ?

2011-06-03 Thread Greg Shirey
, but I'm simple-minded. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bob Shannon Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 9:16 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: RMM ? IIRC, EXPDT=98000 on the LABEL parameter is the keyword for foreign tapes

Re: Running a SYSPLEX - SCRT -what's needed

2011-05-19 Thread Greg Shirey
DUMMY. When submitting the SCRT, there is a place to explain underreporting. So, we write a note stating that the Test LPAR was only up for x number of hours for testing the new release of whatever we're testing - or whatever is appropriate for that month's reporting. Greg Shirey Ben E

Re: using SMS compression - how to manage

2011-04-27 Thread Greg Shirey
) You're right about CICS not supporting extended format ESDS, at least at one time - a newer release may have lifted that restriction. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Co. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 2:06 PM

Re: Submit a series of jobs in order after the previous has completed

2011-04-20 Thread Greg Shirey
he has - for instance, is there already or can he modify an initiator to run a class that no other initiator runs and submit his jobs in that class? Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Co. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Tuesday, April

Re: Submit a series of jobs in order after the previous has completed

2011-04-19 Thread Greg Shirey
from time to time that single-threading is not the same as executing in the same sequence in which they were submitted. Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Co. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Tuesday, April 19

Re: null out MGMTCLAS

2011-04-13 Thread Greg Shirey
Are you getting an error message on the attempt? Can you post it? Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Eric Gustavison Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 12:42 PM I need to run an ALTER on a number of datasets

Re: Check TAPE Contents

2011-03-24 Thread Greg Shirey
EDGINERS is in SYS1.LINKLIB. You can read more about it here: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dgt2r390/8.5?SHELF=EZ2ZBK0KDT=20100623164750 HTH, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN

Re: RMM processing under z/OS 1.12

2011-03-21 Thread Greg Shirey
I'm not understanding what is happening that you are questioning. Are you saying that volume 050011 is *not* a scratch tape, and you are wondering why RMM thinks it is? And that something similar is happening to every master tape you try to mod onto? Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company

Re: What is Toronto

2011-02-22 Thread Greg Shirey
Right - D/FW Airport is neither in Dallas nor Fort Worth. Greg -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of zMan Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 4:29 PM Right...how many city airports are actually in that city? Is LAX in LA? is

Re: z/OS 1.11 upgrade - WLM couple datasets

2011-01-20 Thread Greg Shirey
Ah, thanks for the clarification. I was thinking of complication as referring to something difficult, which of course is not necessarily so. Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent

Re: If Else JCL question

2011-01-20 Thread Greg Shirey
Either I'm confused too, or COND says do NOT execute if 4 is less than the return code; that is - COND=(4,LT). Unless you meant something else... Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Thursday

Re: z/OS 1.11 upgrade - WLM couple datasets

2011-01-18 Thread Greg Shirey
I don't understand what the extra complication is, especially given your conclusion that either method is equally simple. Could you elaborate a bit? Thanks, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J

Re: z/OS 1.11 upgrade - WLM couple datasets

2011-01-18 Thread Greg Shirey
Given the environment described in Joel Ewing's post, (to which Shmuel responded), I wouldn't think there would be much to synchronize after doing an import connect of the user catalogs. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Health Check IBMVSM,VSM_SQA_THRESHOLD

2011-01-04 Thread Greg Shirey
Matt, Have you been getting these exceptions for some time now, and have you been running with the parmlib settings as indicated below, or has something changed recently? I'm curious because we have not modified our SQA allocations in years, but we had RMFGAT take more than one SVCDUMP

Re: IBMLink f*ed up again??

2010-11-22 Thread Greg Shirey
to submit. So, I tried something different... Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 2:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: IBMLink f*ed

Re: SI and MI MIPS

2010-11-19 Thread Greg Shirey
So if management asks for a recommendation about migrating to a new mainframe to handle current workload, what numbers do mean something? Thanks, Greg -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 5:48 PM To:

Re: SI and MI MIPS

2010-11-19 Thread Greg Shirey
That's not what I meant. Once the analysis, the understanding, and the gut instinct have all been factored in, what numbers from IBM are meaningful to use to specify to management which CPU will work and which one won't? Given that MIPS ratings are meaningless, how does one talk to management

Re: SMS Overflow Allocation

2010-11-08 Thread Greg Shirey
over the other. If you want allocations in the SGTEMP group to extend into the SGTEMPL group, you'll need to define it as an extend group. You can also define it as an overflow group, if there is not enough space available in the SGTEMP group at initial allocation. HTH, Greg Shirey Ben E

Re: Necessity of UID zero.

2010-10-27 Thread Greg Shirey
I've never worked anywhere that had a separate development LPAR. Production, QA, etc. are all done in one LPAR; the other LPAR is the systems programmer's sandbox. So, I've always done Serverpac on Production, too, and it's seemed quite safe to me. But it is interesting to gain some insight

Re: Mainframe hacking?

2010-10-13 Thread Greg Shirey
I liked this article, and it's fairly recent. (Jan 2010) http://www.mainframezone.com/it-management/mainframe-hacking-fact-or-fiction/P1 Greg Joe Mc wrote: I'm getting into a rather heated argument with a non mainframe colleague about whether the mainframe has been hacked or not.

Re: LE message CEE3611I

2010-10-07 Thread Greg Shirey
Remove the equal sign. (If you search IBM-Main, you can find a post of yours from Feb 2008 with a good example of ENVAR...) :-) Greg -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 4:01

Re: Strange Allocation Behaviour

2010-10-05 Thread Greg Shirey
to the Infopac volumes pool by doing a DSS copy operation. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Dave Kopischke Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 4:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Strange Allocation Behaviour I can't

Re: FTP option help

2010-10-04 Thread Greg Shirey
and store as foreignname I don't see any option for replace or append. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Larry Macioce Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 1:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: FTP option help We ftp

Re: Does anyone have doc on IEC988I message?

2010-09-29 Thread Greg Shirey
(unallocate when the data set is closed) but is then bypassed for expected reasons which are not externalized * Provide a new message IEC988I to externalize the reason for not honoring the FREE=CLOSE request * Simplifies diagnosis of FREE=CLOSE failures Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Co. -Original

Re: COBOL/CICS Integrated Translator and Area A

2010-09-27 Thread Greg Shirey
Bill, The COBOL folks, before they handed the ETR off to the CICS folks, showed me where it is documented that Area A of a continuation line must be blank. (Chapter 1.6, Reference Format) So, it appears the separate translator had not been enforcing COBOL standards in this regard.

Re: COBOL/CICS Integrated Translator and Area A

2010-09-24 Thread Greg Shirey
. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of William M Klein Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 1:26 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: COBOL/CICS Integrated Translator and Area A snip Bottom-Line: If I were the customer

Re: CA-DISK QUESTION

2010-09-21 Thread Greg Shirey
Our CA-DISK proclib contains a proc called LISTD - I believe it is a supplied proc. We execute the proc with a SYSIN of LISTD and it produces the DATA SET NAME INDEX listing. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m

Re: Replace Compuware products with CA

2010-09-20 Thread Greg Shirey
of support means a lot to my CIO. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 4:13 PM ---snip--- Has anyone replaced

Re: DFSMS and System Managed Buffering

2010-09-14 Thread Greg Shirey
Determined Blocksize : YES We do not specify a value in the SMB field. We could see performance improved, but I don't recall (and didn't document, apparently) what the measured improvement was. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Co. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

COBOL/CICS Integrated Translator

2010-08-27 Thread Greg Shirey
and the END-EXEC statements should be disallowed in Area A, or the END-EXEC should be treated like a comment so the compile is successful as before. Does that sound unreasonable? Thanks Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company

Re: EDG3001E RMM command from batch REXX

2010-08-12 Thread Greg Shirey
commands and getting results, it sounds like your batch job is running on a different system than your TSO session, and that other system does not have an RMM subsystem active. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of MONTERO

Re: auditor request question

2010-08-11 Thread Greg Shirey
as I say, not as I do... Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Co. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Hal Merritt Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 9:29 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: auditor request question Let's not give

Re: auditor request question

2010-08-11 Thread Greg Shirey
the one most recent is useful. o To test that the rule is being enforced? o To avoid inadvertent collisions when he changes a password? Yes. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Specifics on the new Z196

2010-07-30 Thread Greg Shirey
Who was it in this thread that said: This is my last mail in this slash thread. I promise. Greg -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 10:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Specifics on the new Z196 Do you want

Re: Access z/OS 3270 TSO from smartphone?

2010-07-29 Thread Greg Shirey
There is a TN3270 Lite app for the iPhone. Coincidentally, someone was just showing it to me earlier today. Greg -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 1:28 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Access z/OS 3270

Re: EMC Timefinder Snap and Dealloc

2010-07-26 Thread Greg Shirey
, and the operators will respond to this type of highlighted message by opening an incident ticket, and then will try to figure out who to call to let them know their JOB X had a JCL error. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m

Re: CICS - KICKS (Re: PROP instead of POPS, PoO, et al.)

2010-07-23 Thread Greg Shirey
Last kicks conference I went to, the Brits all said zed-oh-ess. Greg -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Tony Harminc Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 3:23 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu I sometimes say zoss, but only when talking

Re: AXR04 on z/OS 1.11

2010-07-20 Thread Greg Shirey
it. HTH, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 10:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: AXR04 on z/OS 1.11 Scenario: just installed z/OS 1.11. AXR00 content: CPF('REXXSYSCLONE.',SYSPLEX

Re: CICS Question

2010-07-16 Thread Greg Shirey
Mark, I believe you are referring to job DFHCMACU which is stored in the DFHINST library after install. The reference there to @dsindex@ is not the INDEX component of the VSAM data set, but the qualifiers that precede it; i.e. CICS.TS31.DFHCMACD or something similar. HTH, Greg Shirey Ben E

Re: ENQ trap for dynamic allocation

2010-07-06 Thread Greg Shirey
be downgraded from EXCL to SHR, if one step needs the ENQ EXCL and a following step only needs it SHR, the ENQ is still issued as EXCL and held until the end of the last step which references that data set, at which point the ENQ is released entirely. HTH, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company

Re: WLM question that I'm afraid I know the answer to

2010-06-25 Thread Greg Shirey
If you attempt to create a Resource Group with a maximum of zero service units, message IWMAM515 is generated: Maximum capacity must be an integer in the range 1 - 999,999. (IWMAM515) Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Co. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m

Re: Do we need to apply this USERMOD (EDGUX100) for RMM when we migrate z/OS from 1.9 to 1.11

2010-06-24 Thread Greg Shirey
of multiple installation exit | routines for each DFSMSrmm exits and enables you to control these exits | and their exit routines with the EXIT statement of the PROGxx parmlib | member, the SET PROG=xx operator command, the SETPROG EXIT operator | command, or the CSVDYNEX macro. HTH, Greg

Re: SCRT Copy List

2010-06-10 Thread Greg Shirey
to submit your subcapacity reports to IBM. You may choose either of the following methods to send your subcapacity report to LMS: * LMS Web to upload and submit your subcapacity report using the LMS Web interface. * LMS eMail to send your subcapacity report to LMS as an e-mail attachment. Greg Shirey

Re: ftping a gdg from the z box

2010-05-28 Thread Greg Shirey
ROLLED IN STEP B - FTP with command PUT 'SYP.TEST.FILE(+1)' test.txt Result - EZA2553W Unable to send SYP.TEST.FILE.G0015V00 The G00V00 numbers show the problem. Either specify (0) for the PUT or use the DD reference form of the command, as others have mentioned. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith

Re: Of interest to the Independent Contractors on the list

2010-05-20 Thread Greg Shirey
a field day with it, as I suppose they would, I can't find a story on it on the Internet. Perhaps as news, it's just too old to retain. Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Of interest to the Independent Contractors on the list

2010-05-20 Thread Greg Shirey
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Howard Brazee Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 11:16 AM This type of error has been reported various times over the years - it was around before the term Y2K was invented. I suspect you're right, but I was trying to find the reporting of the

Re: Heads Up: APAR IO11698 - New SAF FACILITY class definition required for any SMP/E use

2010-05-14 Thread Greg Shirey
Okay, my RACF is a little rusty, but isn't there a difference between a profile define as 'GIM.*' and one defined as 'GIM.**'? The IBM APAR advises to rdefine GIM.* (and echoed by Mark Z), but JC and Ed Jaffe are advising GIM.**. Thanks in advance, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Co. -Original

EDGUX100 apply for z/OS 1.11

2010-05-04 Thread Greg Shirey
or the SAMP libs, we just removed the statements from the job and got it applied. But has anyone else encountered this and resolved it in a different way? Thanks in advance, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

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