Re: encryption on z/OS

2008-05-16 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Dave Jones wrote: What are folks using for file and database encryption on z/OS? A client of mine has some HIPAA and PCI-DSS requirements they're going to have to handle soon, and I need to start understanding what the options are. Thanks, We have custom code to call the encryption

Re: Connect:Direct (NDM) CPU Usage

2008-05-02 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Kelman, Tom wrote: We run Connect:Direct (used to be called NDM) from Sterling Commerce. Yesterday afternoon the started task, CDNDM, took from 50-60% of an engine on our z9BC for almost 2 hours while it transferred a large file. This caused us to hit our softcap and affected other tasks in the

Re: Slowly biting the dust.... IBM scalable... but only so far

2008-04-29 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
John Mattson wrote: Well, it had to happen eventually. My shop will lay MVS to rest, but it will probably take a few years. Our parent company is all SAP, and the pressure has been on us to conform. So, I thought Hey, all those articles in z/Journal about Linux and IFL's and

Re: IBM propose to migrate all servers to z10 , what's the upgrade path for p595 or p6

2008-04-21 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Kelman, Tom wrote: John, I believe that your statements would hold true if you were comparing an IFL on the z9 against the p6. As I understand it the p6 chip is a 1.8Ghz chip and the z9 IFL has a 1.2Ghz chip. So if you move from an AIX server using the p6 chip to LINUX on a z9 IFL you'd be

Re: IBM propose to migrate all servers to z10 , what's the upgrade path for p595 or p6

2008-04-19 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Tommy Tsui wrote: Hi all, As I heard from IBM, Bank of Tokyo just completed their big project to migrate a thousand of server to a z9 using IFL linux. They show me the migration powerpoint (seems quite successful) Anyone know about this task? Any shop is doing the same thing? What's the upgrade

Re: Send a command to a desktop from MVS

2008-04-10 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
David Day wrote: I have a mainframe application that uses FTP to transfer some data to a PC. Currently use FTP in an ISPF application to an FTP Server, FileZilla, on the desktop. Data gets where its supposed to go, and in the correct format. Does anyone know if there is any way to tell

Re: FTP from z/VM to z/OS JES Spool

2008-04-04 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
I don't know if z/VM has it, but z/OS has a sendsite command that toggles the automatic sending of the quote site lrecl= command. Lionel B Dyck wrote: I am attempting to FTP a file from z/VM which I extracted from the z/VM Spool (PRT) to the z/OS JES Spool. Here are my ftp statements from a

Re: Error access CICS

2008-03-27 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
HELIO wrote: Hi, I am trying to make a cics access via terminal 3270, and I am receiving the following error message. DFHZC6907 I 03/27/2008 15:57:39 CICSDES Autoinstall starting for netname L05DDE83. Network qualified name is RTST.L05DDE83. DFHZC6908 I 03/27/2008 15:57:39

Re: z/OS and Linux on same z/VM Image

2008-03-13 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Dinesh wrote: Hi, Is it possible to have both z/OS and Linux on same z/VM? If so which volume type I have to use (either FB or CKD). In some IBM manuals they mentioned that both IFL and CP cannot be shared for a Lpar. Thanks Regards, Dinesh. A single LPAR can't have a IFL and a CP.

Re: RACF Tool PWDCOPY (ichwpin/ichpwout)

2008-03-09 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Wolfgang Schäfer wrote: Hello group, I tried to run the ´sample´ IBM password copy utility (PWDCOPY on the IBM RACF website) on z/OS 1.7 and z/OS 1.8. The tool runs without errors, but the copied password could not be used. Has anyone recently used this tool? Or has someone used an

Re: Peformance question

2008-03-08 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
gsg wrote: We have a job that has a posting step that runs 6-7 minutes last year. We noticed that the job more than doubled starting with the first processing day of 2008. The application owners swear that no changes were made on there side and the systems guys swear that no changes were

Re: Transfer reports from lpar to lpar

2008-03-08 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Gilbert Cardenas wrote: Hello all, I am looking for ideas on ways to transfer reports/sysouts from one JES2 spool on one lpar to another lpar. The current method I am using is to use a JES offload dataset to offload the report(s) and then reload them on the other lpar. This works okay but

Re: Tapeless backup

2008-03-08 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Leitner, Timothy wrote: All, How many places have implemented tapeless backup environments? I don't mean virtual tape that has tape on the back-end but no tape at all. We are exploring different options and the wintel side of the house is heading down the totally tapeless path. That makes me

Re: SPAM: Re: Transfer reports from lpar to lpar

2008-03-08 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Gilbert Cardenas wrote: On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 12:45:28 EST, Ed Finnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guess if all you got is PFCSKs DEST='IP:ipaddr' might suffice w/o NJE quote JCL Reference DEST=destination The destination subparameter for JES2 is one of the following: LOCAL|ANYLOCAL 'IP:ipaddr'

Re: Netview problem

2008-03-04 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
= 'NLDMC' DSI202I TIMER REQUEST FAILED TO BE SCHEDULED FOR EXECUTION 'ID=NLDMC' ERB100I AA : ACTIVE ERB200I AA : ALREADY ACTIVE ERB200I AA : ALREADY ACTIVE ERB200I AA : ALREADY ACTIVE ERB200I AA : ALREADY ACTIVE John S. Giltner, Jr. napisa?(a): Do you see anything in NetView's log? I am

Re: Netview problem

2008-03-03 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Do you see anything in NetView's log? I am not sure if you are actually seeing the same message duplicated or if something is happening multiple times. Do OPER1 and NETOP1 have an console assigned to them? Rafa? Hanzel ZETO wrote: We running Netview without SUB=MSTR. In SYSLOG we see :

Re: Netview problem

2008-02-29 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Rafał Hanzel ZETO wrote: Hi all I have a little problem with NETVIEW. After automation start CNME2001 (where We put some definitions) at definite hour, in SYSLOG we see duplicated messages. maybe someone knows what can I do? What version of NetView? What version of z/OS? Do you have

Re: FTP'd scripts from Linux won't execute

2008-02-29 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Warren Taylor wrote: Hi folks, I have a process that builds scripts on Linux to be run on z/OS Unix. The FTP'd scripts, however, don't run. If I use a line editor (ed) to recreate the script on z/OS, it runs fine. Also, 'ED' sees these FTP'd scripts as having only a single line number...1,

Re: z10 Decimal Floating Point Support - come to SHARE and SHARE

2008-02-23 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Assuming that the z10 will be using the new z6 CPU you can get some information about the z6 CPU from: www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/IBM-z6-mainframe-microprocessor-Webb.pdf This was released last Oct. Don Higgins wrote: Interesting article on the z10 with the quote, an integrated hardware

Re: Linux zSeries questions

2008-02-17 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Ted MacNEIL wrote: On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:11:53 -0600, Ed Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't believe it runs on a MAC, yet. Just as F.Y.I.: Linux does and has run MAC's. The most recent non-Intel MAC's are Power based. Here is document from IBM about Linux on MAC from 2004.

Re: Question on Out Sourcing

2008-02-12 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Pat Mihalec wrote: I have a question on Out Sourcing. When you sign a contract does that mean you no longer have to pay for your software product maintenance licenses? Pat Mihalec Rush University Medical Center Senior System Programmer (312) 942-8386 [EMAIL PROTECTED] You are still paying

Re: Migration from Mainframe to othre platforms - the othe bell?

2008-01-31 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Opps, posted to the news group by accident. I will try and find the link, or you may find it when you do the Google, but there has been an update. The original migration to the mainframe was using IFL's on their existing IBM mainframes. After 1 year they had something like 700 virtual images,

Re: NDAs (was New Opcodes)

2008-01-28 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
, IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote: In a message dated 1/28/2008 5:59:24 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone who knows about this stuff can't discuss it... I have been privy to many documents under Non-Disclosure Agreement over the years. As far as I can

Re: its urgent plz help

2008-01-26 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi! could u plz tell me how to creat JCL on unix server to execute on the mainframe server everyday...plz reply as soon as possible ...it urgent If you know what the JCL is supposed to look like you can just create a text file with the JCL in it. If it is setup

Re: File Transfer conundrum

2008-01-09 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Any reason why you can't ftp directly between the two z/OS system? If security is an issue you could use either IPSec tunnels between the two systems or setup IBM SecureFTP server (SSL'ed FTP). Bruce Baxter wrote: We've routinely exhanged files with business partners running on z/OS

Re: SEMI off topic

2008-01-08 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 21:12:47 -0600, Steve Thompson wrote: (please read the article) at http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid80_gci1288892,00.html?track=NL-455ad=619599asrc=EM_NLN_2844322uid=6570353 I don't think the person that wrote

Re: Bandwidth for connectivity with mainframe

2007-12-28 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
I have found that if you increase the packet size to 32K IND$FILE will improve greatly. The only issue I have run across with doing this is that some emulators have predefined settings (2, 4, 8, 16 and 32K) and CICS can't suport 32K so you must specify 16K, which improves performance over

Re: Bandwidth for connectivity with mainframe

2007-12-18 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Jacky Bright wrote: Anyone hav idea how much communication bandwidth is required for connectivity of emulator like IBM Personal Communication with mainframe ... JAcky How many concurrent sessions 3270? What is the transaction rate? Are they TN3270 or real SNA? What screen size 24x80,

Re: IFAURP Measured Usage problem

2007-12-18 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Brian Peterson wrote: Since November 2007, our Measured Usage report for DB2 V8 is wildly inaccurate. For those who may not recall, IFAURP is a program built in to z/OS which reports on certain products which were instrumented to measure their CPU consumption and based upon consumption, the

Re: accessing the MVS dataset from perl for z/OS ?

2007-12-17 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Tsai Laurence wrote: Hi listers, as the subject, is it doable ? how ? Thanks for your advisement . Sincerely,Laurence @records = '/usr/local/bin/readmvs //MVS.FILE.NAME' foreach $line (@records) { } The above will read the MVS file name MVS.FILE.NAME and place each record in array

Re: About 1 in 5 IBM employees now in India

2007-12-15 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Anonymous wrote: Ed Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] About 1 in 5 IBM employees now in India AP via Yahoo! News Fri, 14 Dec 2007 1:43 PM PST IBM Corp.'s expansion in developing countries shows no sign of relenting. The technology company revealed Friday that it

Re: FTP truncate

2007-12-11 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Ron Wells wrote: Have a file with that has trailing blanks but deletes/truncates it...how do I tell FTP to not truncate ... -- quote site trailingblanks

Re: NCP Dump DCB

2007-11-19 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Patrick O'Keefe wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:52:37 -0600, Richard Pinion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...Can anyone tell me the DCB attributes for the data set that would accept an NCP Dump. ... Ours, allocated in 1997, is RECFM=FBS,LRECL=2048,BLKSIZE=2048. That is obviously a pretty poor

Re: performance of db2 7 on mainframe

2007-11-19 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, I'm having a performance issue with a Windows CLI/ODBC application that connects to a DB2 rel 7.1 on a mainframe of a bank. I have to say I'm pretty new with this kind of environment. And I don't know the details of the HW of the host. I just know it's an host of

Re: Poster of computer hardware events?

2007-11-09 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Phil Smith III wrote: (Cross-posted to IBM-VM and IBM-MAIN) A buddy asked me: At a previous employer, someone had an article, poster or something (I know - real specific - it was 15+ years ago) that tried to put the time for computer events into perspective. It started with the quickest

Re: How to Open a TN3270 session at HMC Stattion ...

2007-11-09 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Using the HMC as a TN3270 client assumes that the HMC is somehow connected to your internal network. Either directly or through a routed path. HMC's have two LAN connections, one is supposed to be used as the service LAN and users are not supposed to connect anything to this LAN. The

Re: IBM Confidential

2007-10-27 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
No, a z6 is not a p6. As stated in Charles Webb's presentation they are siblings, but not the same exact chip. Cyber wrote: I think chip itself is not a secret? z6 is p6? Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:18:53 +0100, Phil Payne

Re: RES: ADABAS vs IMS vs DB2 Who is faster?

2007-10-10 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
You seem to make a point to question other knowledge and ask them to explain what makes them an expert. And just how do you know how much this Adabas expert knows about IMS and DB2? What makes him right? Anton Britz wrote: Let's focus ? The original question was Who is faster, use

Re: Hipersockets performance

2007-10-06 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Mark, Never thought about just doing a copy to see what we would get. When doing the ftp's invloving z/OS the CPU utlization was under 40% busy, using 1/2 track blocking, and binary transfers (no EBCDIC to ASCII overhead). Doing the transfers between Linux images the only thing running was

Re: Hipersockets performance

2007-10-05 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
George Soley wrote: We've been testing a hipersockets connection between z/OS V1R7 and linux partitions. After following the setup steps in the Hipersockets Red Book transmit speeds using ftp or scp have been disappointing. Either our testing process is incorrect or the configuration is wrong.

Re: zH/OS (z/OS on Hercules for personal use only)

2007-09-22 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Andreas F. Geissbuehler wrote: 5) About 3 years ago I downloaded a Linux distro, installed Apache, MySQL, Perl packages. By now I have written a few websites, CGI applications. IBM has something called WebSphere. I'll never get a WebSphere contract because I have no *WebSphere exprience*.

Re: Open 3270 connection on the net??

2007-09-22 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Ed Finnell wrote: In a message dated 9/21/2007 7:46:48 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This could be a huge exposure, or it could be the safest thing in the world, as these things go. I once worked for a company that had open access. They also had an egg-shaped

Re: Mainframe FTP

2007-09-04 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Bill Godfrey wrote: On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 14:21:18 -0500, McKown, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Philip Miscione Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 2:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Mainframe FTP

Re: Free Up Unowned CSA/ECSA

2007-09-03 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Ted MacNEIL wrote: Maybe I'm missing something here, but isn't it highly dangerous to assume just because CSA/ECSA is unowned that it is also unused and not referenced by some address pointer somewhere? YES (or NO)! DO NOT free it, unless you are the next coming of Christ, and you know! I

Re: IBM Blamed for Server packaging issue

2007-08-29 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
If that did not work, then get a new truck and repeat. :) Hardee, Charles H wrote: If it was M$, they would have been told to put the server back on the truck and try to take it off again and then see if t works :) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: How to switch UID under OMVS

2007-08-28 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Tommy Tsui wrote: Hi all, Anyone know how to switch the UID under OMVs. I try to use SU but failed. #id uid=0(EDPXPER) gid=2(SYS1) when I invoke using the TSO OMVS with userid TEST001, it always show the EDPXPER and cannot be changed to other TEST001. Anything need to be set... thanks for

Re: List of Withdrawn products from IBM

2007-08-20 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Patrick O'Keefe wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:48:53 -0700, Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... This is an entirely different thing. I don't receive hardcopy of IBM Announcement Letters. I do receive hardcopy of the withdrawal notice associated with any product for which my company is

Re: Domain Name Server (DNS) on z/OS?

2007-08-17 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Klein, Kevin wrote: Our most recent disaster test proved to be a (drum roll) disaster. Fortunately for me if not for my company, since I'm on z/OS, 95% of our problems were with the Wintel platforms. We had z/OS (1.7) up in two hours but spent the remainder of the test ironing out server

Mainframe Skill Shortage

2007-08-13 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicarticleId=9030241source=NLT_OSnlid=41 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message:

Re: Mainframe Skill Shortage

2007-08-13 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
John S. Giltner, Jr. wrote: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicarticleId=9030241source=NLT_OSnlid=41 I apologize for re-sending Darren's post to the list. I was forwarding it somebody else and didn't notice what address was auto-filled as I started

Re: some questions about System z PR/SM.

2007-08-11 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
legolas wood wrote: Hi Thank you for reading my email. I have some question about PR/SM and I would be very thankful for any answer. - System z PR/SM is implemented as hardware and it is capability of IBM mainframe hardware. Not really, as RS stated, PR/SM is microcode, special software that

Re: TN3270 Secure SSL

2007-08-08 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Host - zos1.8 TN3270 is running as independent task from TCPIP. We are having connection difficulties from J2EE application hosted on a SUN Solaris Server. My basic question is how can I test the TN3270 SSL configuration. Currently when we telnet to the host port

Re: Usage of KB and KiB

2007-07-29 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Kenneth E Tomiak wrote: On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 06:41:41 -0600, Steve Comstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: R.S. wrote: Bruce Hewson wrote: Well folks, until M$ came along, and before KiB became a standard, I was taught the convention as: Disk: always use decimal value, i.e. KB = 1000 Bytes.

Re: some basic questions about Z system, Zlinux....

2007-07-29 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
legolas wood wrote: Hi every one. I am just confused with all of these terms, please let me know whether i am right about them or not. Zlinux : A linux which is compiled for Z Architecture, whether 31 bit or 64 bit. like Slack, Suse or centOS You are correct, but in my opinion is a bad

Re: PSI MIPS (was: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article)

2007-07-17 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Dean Kent wrote: - Original Message - From: Howard Brazee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 7:29 AM Subject: Re: PSI MIPS (was: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article) IBM is not positioning the

Re: Fw: USS file to MVS

2007-07-16 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wrong subject... - Forwarded by Ron Wells/AGFS/AGFin on 07/16/2007 02:33 PM - Ron Wells/AGFS/AGFin 07/16/2007 02:32 PM To IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU cc Subject Re: catalog problem why? Has anyone used an iebgener(JCL) to transfer

Re: PSI MIPS (was: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article)

2007-07-16 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Ted MacNEIL wrote: I guess you don't think much of SOI or copper either. As has been said on this thread, I think we are off-topic. All transactions consume: CPU Memory I/O Network Print! Spending too much time on one (small) component is a waste of time, breath, electrons. - Too busy

Re: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article

2007-07-16 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Chase, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John S. Giltner, Jr. [ snip ] Heck, for the distributed applications we have our users would LOVE to ONLY wait 4-5 seconds. One application we converted from 3270 to Web went from 2 seconds

Re: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article

2007-07-15 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Steve Thompson wrote: --- SNIP But we keep talking about the power of the mainframe. Isn't it time to put up or shut up? Regards, Steve Thompson I have at my company, to the point where I was unofficially told that because I am not towing the company line of migrating work load off

Re: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article

2007-07-15 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Johnny Luo wrote: Sorry for a newbie to jump in here... But I have a question: why IBM doesn't increase the clock of mainframe CPU? There is no need or there are some technical problems? I'm now working at one customer's site and every day's afternoon is a terrible time for all developers

Re: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article

2007-07-15 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Tom Marchant wrote: On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:19:38 +, Ted MacNEIL wrote: A z9 UP is closer to 600 MIPS. The latest claim is 585. But, that doesn't matter, since IBM has only benchmarketted to 24 CP's. Well, ok, 585 MIPS for a uniprocessor. That's still considerably more than the 350

Re: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article

2007-07-14 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Thompson, Steve wrote: -Original Message- SNIP I keep seeing references to the mainframe processor is slower than those used in other platforms. Seriously, in an effort to compare processor power, IF one were to take a COBOL program that would process 1000 records from a data base

Re: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article

2007-07-14 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Ed Gould wrote: On Jul 14, 2007, at 9:01 AM, John S. Giltner, Jr. wrote: --SNIP--- --- SNIP --- John, Any chance this is online where? Ed This is not the one I remember, but it has some of the same numbers: http://www.bsiopti.com/flex-es.htm

Re: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article

2007-07-14 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Lindy Mayfield wrote: Hasn't there been hardware memory protection since the 80286? Of course, it has to be switched from real mode to protected mode. The common GP fault error messages in Windows are hardware triggered, no? Lindy IIRC only really protected mode protected the OS, it

Re: Share z/OS Mastery Test

2007-07-12 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Thompson, Steve wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rick Fochtman Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 10:19 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Share z/OS Mastery Test snip- I

Re: Share z/OS Mastery Test

2007-07-12 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Dave Kopischke wrote: On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:27:46 -0400, Richards.Bob wrote: And all that time I thought it was a cubicle wall! grin Back in the Green-bar days, I almost completed two walls inside my cubicle. The door was going to be a problem. And it's surprising how sound proof a ten

Re: Share z/OS Mastery Test

2007-07-11 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Ed Gould wrote: On Jul 11, 2007, at 6:22 PM, Ted MacNEIL wrote: I was taught not to memorize the information because it changes. Instead, learn where to look. Wow! I have rarely found people (persons) with that viewpoint. I learned in 1981 that exact attitude. I have found with my

Re: Looking to hear about switch back to mainframe experiences

2007-07-04 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Eval Mainframe wrote: We are in the process of evaluating a switch to mainframe (z9, in this case) from a distributed architecture for a 3-tier java app. I am interested in your experiences in doing something like this. I've read some of the whitepapers and promo from vendors, but I am

Re: DFSORT V1R5 - ICE751I and ICE752I

2007-07-01 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Anton Britz wrote: //SORTWK01 DD SPACE=(CYL,(4000,500)),UNIT=TMPDA, //DCB=(LRECL=2000,BLKSIZE=28000,RECFM=FB) You may want to change your block size to 0 and let the system determine the best size. Your size of 28000 is actually too big for 1/2 track blocking. The largest

Re: NetView Automation of Console Message

2007-06-29 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
O'Mara, Kevin, ITD wrote: I did try to search the archives, but I may have looked in all the wrong corners. Somewhat simple goal. When System Console, or SYSLOG, receives System Message DSNX906I use NetView Automation Table to do something; maybe run a REXX, or change message to WTOR in

Re: File to PDF Product

2007-06-29 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone has asked about a product to convert files to pdf format. I know about the TXT2PDF utility but my management is skittish about freeware that makes it into production so I'm looking for alternatives. Is there anyone charging and, more importantly, supporting a

Re: 3390-27 PERFORMANCE

2007-06-25 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
On some devices the physical drives are not smaller, a -27 is about 25GB. Our DS8100 has 143GB and 300GB drives. The last 2105 we had used 36GB and 72 GB drives. Kenneth E Tomiak wrote: You do realize a 3390-27 is not just a bigger physical 3390 from the days of old where big round platters

Re: FTPing a z/OS file into the z/OS UNIX HFS results in wrong translation

2007-06-17 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
on my OCOPY ?. John S. Giltner, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Josef Berger wrote: how we can FTPing a z/OS file (code Page IBM-1141) into the z/OS UNIX HFS (code Page IBM-1047) with correct translation ?.. if using TYPE E with Mode B and SITE SBD=(IBM

Re: FTPing a z/OS file into the z/OS UNIX HFS results in wrong translation

2007-06-16 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Josef Berger wrote: how we can FTPing a z/OS file (code Page IBM-1141) into the z/OS UNIX HFS (code Page IBM-1047) with correct translation ?.. if using TYPE E with Mode B and SITE SBD=(IBM-1141,IBM-1047) no translation was in effect. if using TYPE A the target data on z/OS UNIX HFS was

Re: flushing the ARP cache....

2007-06-14 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Dave Jones wrote: I have a question from a colleague: What is the best way to flush ARP cache from a TCPIP stack at the OS/390 V2.10 level? (besides the obvious of stopping TCPIP and then restarting) Thanks. DJ I am not sure if it works under OS/390, but you can try: V

Re: Multiple TSO logons (was: Patents, ...)

2007-06-13 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:48:19 -0400, Kirk Talman wrote: More accurately, single ID, single LPAR, single application, multiple session facility. I stand corrected. Thanks. That is an application issue. E.g., we have two TORs using a single AOR/FOR pair. For some

Re: FTP Allocation error

2007-06-12 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
John P Donnelly wrote: We hit this last week…no idea what happened…problem just went away after about an hour…any ideas what might have caused? .EZA1460I Command: .EZA1736I locsite lrecl=80 .EZA1460I

Re: mainframe = superserver

2007-06-06 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I realize that this has probably been asked before, but google didn't give me an answer. Before I asked my question let me state that I know that windows server 2003 and longhorn won't run on an IBM mainframe. There is the endian issue and the ascii vs ebcidic

Re: mainframe = superserver

2007-06-06 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
a couple thousand virtual windows servers doing everything from authentication, file and print, database, web, terminal services, etc? Maybe something from unisys? Thanks, Jack On Jun 6, 6:47 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John S. Giltner, Jr.) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I realize

Re: mainframe = superserver

2007-06-06 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Craddock, Chris wrote: Ed G said A reliable *RUMOR* several years ago said IBM (IIRC or was it AMDAHL) had done it. UTTER GARBAGE! AS IN NOT-FREAKIN-POSSIBLE. CC What is not possible, that it was IBM or Amdahl did it? Or that somebody ran Exchange under Wine under Linux on a zSeries

Re: File Processing Query

2007-05-31 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Paul Knudsen wrote: On 30 May 2007 18:31:12 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John S. Giltner, Jr.) wrote: Paul Knudsen wrote: Looking for ideas for a file processing problem. The client can receive one or more data files on their server each day. The mainframe needs to run an FTP followed

Re: File Processing Query

2007-05-30 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Paul Knudsen wrote: Looking for ideas for a file processing problem. The client can receive one or more data files on their server each day. The mainframe needs to run an FTP followed by a file-edit for each. How might this best be accomplished? Not 100% sure what the process is. What is

Re: List of CICS transaction

2007-05-30 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I'm tring to get a list of our CICS transactions. Is there a way to run a batch job that would give the results of a: CEMT INQ TRAN Thanks!! Dave Schaeffer You can run RDO in batch. This will not tell you what transactions are actually

Re: How to Specify the FTP source IP address ?

2007-05-28 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
demonstrate one - for availability reasons. Chris Mason [1] Technote Source IP address selection for outbound traffic http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21227688 - Original Message - From: John S. Giltner, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN

Re: the differences between IP printway and LPR on z/OS

2007-05-26 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Tsai Laurence wrote: Hi listers, as the subject,to print report from z/OS over the IP LAN printer, would like to know your opinioin . thanks for your advisement. Laurence Biggest difference I can think of off hand is with IP Printway you can define a IP based printer that uses LDP, then

Re: How to Specify the FTP source IP address ?

2007-05-25 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Tsai Laurence wrote: hi , as the subject, can I specify the OSA interface or source IP address during FTPing from z/OS to the other FTP server ? The FTP client is z/OS. Thanks ! Laurence What version of z/OS are you running? I can't remember what version it was introduced, but we are

Re: Enterprise Class? (Was Virtual tape limits)

2007-05-16 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Enterprise Class is like most other made up terms, it means whatever the sales person wants it to mean. I can remember when Dell introduced their 1st 4-way server and calling it a Enterprise Class server. Of course their defintion of enterprise was something like up to 50 or 100 concurrent

Re: remote printing from z/OS Spool over the WAN network

2007-05-15 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Laurence wrote: Hi, To print reports from z/OS spool through remote LAN printer or PSF printer over the TCPIP WAN network. I have 2 alternatives : 1) using the z/OS Infoprint server ,with transform mgr 2)THE PSF/390 connecting through the remote Infoprint mgr. How can the report be

Re: Multiple Clusters

2007-05-13 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Ed Gould wrote: On May 13, 2007, at 11:26 AM, Rick Fochtman wrote: ===SNIP=== --unsnip-- When I go to a new system version, I like to start with a new clean CSI set. Having a bunch of OEM software in my MVS or

Re: TCP state replication

2007-05-08 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Keeps track of the exact current state of a TCP connection so that if there is a failure the TCP connection does not get disconnected. This is normally done for long lived TCP connections such as FTP connections or database connections where a disruption in the connection could cause

Re: PGP

2007-05-02 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
If PGP is a requirment, SecureZIP for z/OS does not support PGP. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what about pkware to zip and encrypt file...? -- Email Disclaimer This E-mail contains confidential information belonging to the

Re: 3480/3490 Cart BPI

2007-04-28 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
I found a few references to some 3490E talking about the recording density of 37,871 BPI http://www.sunstarco.com/Tape%20Drives/Overland%20Data/Overland%20Data%20tapexpress_l490e.htm http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/initiatives/transfer-regulation.html

Re: Article in Networkworld on TJX

2007-04-20 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Steve Comstock wrote: Kirk Talman wrote: Someone is out of touch Adoption of PCI DSS is not widespread, even though merchants can be fined for not complying, Rob Tourt, vice president of network services at Discover Financial Services, said in January. bigotry ... Older

Re: IBM Nways 8238 hub

2007-04-14 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This old hub only does half-duplex right? Correct. All hubs are half-duplex. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

Re: zAAP Eligible Work

2007-04-13 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
It will work on a z/990 for projecting how much work would be offloaded to either zAAPs or zIIPs. Shane Ginnane wrote: Sam, is this z9 only ??? What about projecting from z/990 ??? Shane ... Nope. Works fine on prior releases with the zIIP web deliverable and some APARs for z/OS and DB2

Re: zAAP Eligible Work

2007-04-13 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Umm, I was sure that at the NCACMG meeting in March I heard that it was for 1.8. But I guess I mis-heard or got it confused with something else that was only available in 1.8. Knutson, Sam wrote: Nope. Works fine on prior releases with the zIIP web deliverable and some APARs for z/OS and

Re: zAAP Eligible Work

2007-04-12 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Al Sherkow wrote: I believe it is JAVA applications that are using the IBM JVM (Java Virtual Machine). If your ISV uses a different JVM then I believe it will not use the zAAP engine. To accumulate data at the address space and service class period level on how much zAAP and zIIP resources

Re: Question about SuperWylbur

2007-03-29 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 3/29/2007 3:07:20 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When did Wylbur become SuperWylbur? To add a little more to Steve Thompson's reply: WYLBUR, and its required telecommunications component ORVYL (might not have spelled

Re: which one is better ?

2007-03-29 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
You know I read ESS800 and was thinking DS8000. Ron Hawkins wrote: Guys, Before adding FICON channels to older storage make sure that it can actually take advantage of the additional connections. I've seen more than one customer hook up 16 FICON to an ESS or Virtual tape and then wonder why

Re: Need for small machines was Re: Macro List/Execute Forms (Was: Need help with Assembler ...)

2007-03-28 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Dave Salt wrote: From: John S. Giltner, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I may still be missing the point. Just how is Windows any different? If you buy Windows from a store and install on a PC, download a PDF file, double click it, what will happen? Nothing. Windows has no way to keep track of whats

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