Re: IBM(r) z/OS(r) Management Facility (z/OSMF)

2012-05-24 Thread Knutson, Sam
z/OS role of Explorer Eclipse GUI was updated to use that in V1.1.1 but it does require z/OS 1.13. That combination will let you look at running jobs with Explorer. The price on Explorer is right... Free. http://www-01.ibm.com/software/htp/cics/explorer/     Best Regards,  

Re: IBM(r) z/OS(r) Management Facility (z/OSMF)

2012-05-24 Thread Knutson, Sam
, Knutson, Sam wrote: z/OS role of Explorer Eclipse GUI was updated to use that in V1.1.1 but it does require z/OS 1.13. That combination will let you look at running jobs with Explorer. The price on Explorer is right... Free. I don't think CICS Explorer depends on any interfaces provided by z/OSMF

Re: IBMLink outages in 2012

2012-05-21 Thread Knutson, Sam
My consideration is many applications in IBMLink don't seem to merit the cost of true continuous operations. I think it is unreasonable to ask for 24/7/365(6), for all of IBMLink. We need high availability for applications that enable us to effectively support our own high availability

AIX support

2012-05-02 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi, I would be interested in having an off-line discussion with customers who have responsibility for AIX support. I am especially interested in your experiences using phone support versus electronic support and if you have paid to have an IBM account advocate. Not in my portfolio but I now

Re: MFNetDisk news

2012-04-22 Thread Knutson, Sam
Company will buy my product. This is the preferred option. To be able to implement it, I add the activation key. No company will consider to buy any product when it is distribute as free product. This is not entirely a valid assumption. Most recent example looking only in the mainframe space

Re: End of Support for Encryption Key Manager (EKM)

2012-04-19 Thread Knutson, Sam
Same experience here Dave. We licensed SKLM 5698-B35 SKLM for z/OS 5698-B42 SKLM for Storage to replace EKM and the migration is trivial. I have not seen any communication from IBM on EOS for EKM. The lack of clear communication providing an EOS date or a statement of direction has been

Re: SNA future

2012-03-30 Thread Knutson, Sam
I take as more an obvious observation than a statement of direction and have not seen anything in kind from Communications Server. TCP/IP has been made the strategic direction by customers for some time. Like most we have been steadily moving away from SNA especially SNA hardware 3746 FEPs are

Re: Migrating to Z196

2012-03-07 Thread Knutson, Sam
You might want to review at IBM TechDocs z/OS Positioning Software for the zEnterprise (z196 and z114) Servers http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/TD105581 also similar from SHARE in Orlando 10099: Everything a z/OS System Programmer Needs to Know to Exploit a

Re: What is the justification for not using Trusted Key Entry (TKE) workstation?

2012-02-25 Thread Knutson, Sam
We don't use the TKE workstation. I think Radoslaw is correct that more shops using crypto enter masters keys in TSO than purchase and use TKE. Keys are stored securely and procedures for key handling especially at DR are carefully documented but like many commercial accounts we have never

Re: Hiper Dispatching

2012-02-24 Thread Knutson, Sam
Current thoughts from IBM ATS which can probably be considered canon on this http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP101229 My thoughts for what they are worth. You may not see a large amount of benefit now with your configuration on a z10 but it is probably the right

Re: Acceptable paging

2012-02-13 Thread Knutson, Sam
At least with z196 I think the cost of real memory in the processor is low enough that you should be able to make a case to purchase more to reduce or eliminate paging if it is a performance issue. We manage to 0% residency on local page data sets instead manage real storage available budget by

Re: Dedicated vs. Shared CPs

2012-02-08 Thread Knutson, Sam
Using HiperDispatch on a z10 or z196 provides many of the benefits of dedicated processors with the flexibility of shared processors. Thanks, Sam -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of gsg Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 2:26

Re: Is there a no cost replacement for EKM?

2012-01-30 Thread Knutson, Sam
You just need to install multiple instances of the JDK retaining your older JDK prior to 6.0.1. GEICO has so far refused to upgrade from EKM to ISKLM till we either acquire hardware or need function like full disk encryption not supported by EKM. Attaching E07 drives native is not supported by

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

2012-01-25 Thread Knutson, Sam
I would of course prefer that the MLC rates did not increase. IBM does provide significant new feature and function every year in z/OS and certainly does not raise the price every year. Many of my ISV products increase maintenance with every renewal and some have not added value in as many

Fileviewer Version 13

2012-01-17 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi, Charles Prineas has updated his dirt cheap ($20 USD) and highly useful utility V File Viewer. This is one of the tools I use almost every day. The latest release includes several very nice enhancements for mainframer's. http://www.fileviewer.com/index.html Best Regards, Sam Knutson V

Re: PL1 Material

2012-01-09 Thread Knutson, Sam
If you are looking for introductory material not just references I would suggest you might try to locate a copy of PL/I Structured Programming by Joan Hughes in a used book store, from a co-worker or on Amazon. It was the PL/I book I used as a commercial programmer and it served me very well.

Re: IBM SR availability problems

2011-12-14 Thread Knutson, Sam
We did get an email reply from the SR help desk yesterday. It would be really useful if there was a very simple static site that was updated with current and past availability where customers could check for known issues with ShopzSeries, SR, Resourcelink, IBMLink. It would be better of course

IBM SR availability problems

2011-12-13 Thread Knutson, Sam
We have seen recurring problems with SR yesterday and today hangs and HTTP 500 Internal Server Error. A ticked was put into the SR Helpdesk which is a completely unsatisfying fill out the form and pray experience. This is occurring for multiple users at multiple sites and no other web

Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA)

2011-12-02 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi,   How many of you are now running Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA)?   At what level of z/OS?   Do you automate and respond to PFA alerts requiring review by your z/OS team of what has been reported?   IBM WSC Whitepaper on PFA for those who need a short introduction

Re: IBM Hardware support website

2011-12-01 Thread Knutson, Sam
Customer's cannot view the contents of hardware PMR's which is a particular pet peeve of mine.     Best Regards,    Sam Knutson, GEICO      System z Team Leader      mailto:sknut...@geico.com     (office)  301.986.3574    

Re: ABEND S0C4 REASON CODE=0011

2011-11-25 Thread Knutson, Sam
You should consider to open a PMR with IBM http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/Overview You might try to just list a small known group instead of * and see if this works for you so when you contact IBM you knew if this ABEND only occurs when you try to list all groups. Taking a

ECUREP Data Site http://www.ibm.com/de/support/ecurep

2011-11-22 Thread Knutson, Sam
*FYI* here is something useful our local IBM team pointed out today. If you are using z/OSMF or PUTDOC and SR you probably won't find anything new here but pulls together some documentation and the site links to where you can upload documentation through a browser for a PMR outside SR. A new

Re: SDSF versus (E)JES

2011-11-21 Thread Knutson, Sam
Many folks use another SPOOL browser and drop SDSF to reduce software costs. I use IOF and SYSVIEW for historical reasons but E(JES) would work as well or better. We dropped SDSF a couple years ago since it duplicated functionality of the other products and had a limited user base compared to

Re: ACCOUNT Authority

2011-11-18 Thread Knutson, Sam
Class TSOAUTH entity name ACCT Look in the TSO/E manuals using TSOAUTH as a search term and you should find that documented. Best Regards, Sam Knutson -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Friday, November 18,

testcase.software.ibm.com anonymous FTP failing with Login incorrect.

2011-10-24 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi, I opened a Service Request Help Desk query and an IBMLink Help Desk feedback but no sign that either is going to get this resolved. Just to reality check is anyone else having difficulty sending documentation to testcase.software.ibm.com ? This is using PUTDOC or manual FTP and it

z/OS 1.12 Smooth Sailing

2011-10-20 Thread Knutson, Sam
My team finished deploying z/OS 1.12 last Sunday and it has been one of the best quality z/OS releases we have seen. One of the little gems in my desk is a preprinted card that was enclosed with my MVS/ESA 4.3 order. Addressed on the outside MVS... IBM's most powerful and reliable

Re: PDSE configuration concerns

2011-10-18 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi Ralph, PDSESHARING (EXTENDED) since April 2004 and nothing but good has come of it. PDSE has been very good for us solving performance problems and reducing data management of PDS(s) in our source change management system. Thanks, Sam -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: A little bit more about Gilbert Saint-flour

2011-10-12 Thread Knutson, Sam
Rest assured Lionel Dyck the author of XMITIP is alive and well and XMITIP continues to be updated http://www.lbdsoftware.com/xmitip.html Gilbert was well known for his tools like ShowMVS and others on file 183 of the CBT tape and here http://gsf-soft.com/Freeware/ ShowMVS nee ShowzOS continues

Re: A little bit more about Gilbert Saint-flour

2011-10-11 Thread Knutson, Sam
Gilbert was a fine fellow. It was a pleasure to work with him as a peer who shared his time and energies freely in some of his tools. He took pride in his work shared as free tools. He seemed to enjoy coding and debugging issued reported to him something I think only our particular fellowship

Re: DS8000 migration stories?

2011-10-03 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi Jan, If you want unbiased expert advice that goes beyond a few paragraphs shared in public on IBM-MAIN it might be time to spend a small amount on an expert. If you don't buy a lot of disk you don't know if you are getting a good deal. A mistake could be very costly. Larger shops tend to do

Re: Security Certificate error message at IBMLINK

2011-09-27 Thread Knutson, Sam
I also opened a Feedback PMR# 40016,499,000 in IBMLink. I would encourage everyone who is seeing this to put in a Feedback using IBMLink Feedback or SR till this is resolved. This is basic certificate management off the rails. An SSL certificate expired for 3 days is still being served to

Re: Security Certificate error message at IBMLINK

2011-09-27 Thread Knutson, Sam
Advice from the IBMLink feedback apparently they did correct something. Cleared cache and cookies as instructed and exited the browser (IE) completely and a valid non-expired certificate is now being served. https://www.ibm.com/ibmlink Best Regards, Sam Knutson -NARAYANAN, SREENATH

Re: TIOT size

2011-09-26 Thread Knutson, Sam
SYS1.PARMLIB(ALLOC00) - 01.03 Columns 000 === Scroll = * Top of Data * SDSN_WAIT WAITALLOC(YES)/* YES WAIT FOR SPECIAL DSNS..EX: GDG'S */ TIOT

Re: How to dumps all the SMF datasets automagically evertime

2011-09-22 Thread Knutson, Sam
You could record SMF to logstream and then this whole issue goes away. You dump the data when you need to read it not when some intermediate container needs to be emptied.     Best Regards,    Sam Knutson, GEICO      System z Team Leader     

Re: TN3270 Session Hangs

2011-09-15 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi Bill, The IBM Communications Server TCP/IP and TN3270 support is very robust and we have run a good size z TCP network for years on both OS/390 and now z/OS without ever having significant issues with dropped sessions. I would second Mark's suggestion that the problem you were aware of was

Re: ASM Paging and Hyperpav

2011-08-31 Thread Knutson, Sam
OA32453 has closed with PTFs available. https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA32453 APAR Identifier .. OA32453 Last Changed 11/08/31 HYPERPAV PAGING PERFORMANCE ISSUES WHEN WLMPAV=NO IN HCD Symptom .. IN INCORROUT Status ... CLOSED

Re: ASMIDF debugging authorized code

2011-08-21 Thread Knutson, Sam
I know you have probably heard this already but z/XDC http://www.xdc.com/ does this very nicely. It is well worth the modest price if you need to debug authorized code.     Best Regards,    Sam Knutson, GEICO      System z Team Leader     

Re: Meet IBM's new $75,000 mainframe

2011-07-12 Thread Knutson, Sam
Better The IBM event zEnterprise: Experience Freedom from Design is now open! Come join us today at 11:00 am EDT for the virtual event zEnterprise: Experience Freedom from Design, where you can listen to a panel of industry experts participate in a live QA session and visit virtual trade show

SHARE Future Conferences 2012

2011-07-05 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi, For anyone not keeping close tabs on the SHARE web site the conference venues for 2012 were announced. http://www.share.org/Events/FutureConferences/tabid/127/Default.aspx SHARE in Atlanta March 11-16, 2012 Atlanta, Georgia Omni CNN Center SHARE in Anaheim Anaheim Marriott

Re: OA32318 NEW FUNCTION SUPPORT FOR IMS R12 in RSU1103 causes u479 ABENDs in IMS jobs PM38517, PM38518, or PM38458

2011-06-26 Thread Knutson, Sam
We are running IMS V10 at RSU1010. The PTFs on the IMS APARs closed 11/05/25 and were available 11/06/02. The paint is not dry on the IMS fixes to avoid an ABEND when what appears to be a properly aged, safe, recommended DFSMS PTF (not PE, tagged RSU1103, SMCCOR, PUT1012). I would have

OA32318 NEW FUNCTION SUPPORT FOR IMS R12 in RSU1103 causes u479 ABENDs in IMS jobs PM38517, PM38518, or PM38458

2011-06-24 Thread Knutson, Sam
Cross posted to IMS-L and IBM-MAIN Consider to not install z/OS DFSMS VSAM PTFs UA57797 or UA57798 if you have IMS without also installing the PTFS for the IMS APAR applicable to your release (PM38517, PM38518, or PM38458). We recently installed z/OS RSU1103 which included PTF UA57797 on

Re: 1.12 upgrade, required PTFs I missed.

2011-06-17 Thread Knutson, Sam
We did this in 4Q2009 dynamically migrated 3 Sysplexes which have all been operating in distributed mode without any problems. We tested fallback in the test Sysplex but never had to go back other than for that test. It just works.     Best Regards,    Sam Knutson, GEICO 

Re: retraction ...

2011-06-10 Thread Knutson, Sam
I think you mean MIM Ed. CA-MSM is relatively new, innovative easy to use technology that facilities installation, deployment and configuration of mainframe software. I won't agree on the observations as we were MIM Allocation users (nee GTAF nee STAM) for years and always got excellent

Re: SYSLOG saving

2011-06-08 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi Mark, My guess would be opposite that almost everyone has some output management tool they leverage for SYSLOG archiving but I could be completely wrong. We happen to use $AVRS as well which is very mature and just works for managing job outputs and SYSLOG. The only significant lack is

Vintage Computer Alert! - VCF East 7.0 on May 14-15

2011-05-09 Thread Knutson, Sam
FYI Some folks here on the East Coast USA may be interested in the IBM 1130 live restoration. Thanks, Sam WHO: You! WHAT: VCF East 7.0 WHERE: InfoAge Science Center, Wall Township, New Jersey WHEN: May 14-15 WHY: Vintage computers! The Vintage Computer Festival East returns on May 14-15 at

Re: ISKLM as a replacement for EKM

2011-05-02 Thread Knutson, Sam
It has a cost which I understand is comprised of value units for the processors on which it operates and the amount of tape and DASD which are encrypted. Pricing encryption enablement by storage footprint is even worse than processor capacity given the explosive data growth we see. The one good

April 7, 1964 IBM Announces System 360 Computer Family

2011-04-07 Thread Knutson, Sam
From http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/ April 7, 1964 IBM Announces System 360 Computer Family IBM announces the release of its System 360 mainframe computer architecture--embodied in five new models--launching its most successful computer system of all time. Called the 360 because it was

Re: Mainframe Fresher

2011-04-04 Thread Knutson, Sam
It is usually where some significant corporate data lives. The cost to rip and replace everything is usually prohibitive and would be very disruptive so layer after layer of application code is built on distributed platforms. Eventually something on those distributed platforms does a business

Re: Any z196 running with HDS USP/USPV and/or STK VSM4/VSM5?

2011-04-03 Thread Knutson, Sam
We don't have either but you should check with HDS and all your hardware vendors as part of your systems assurance. We had to upgrade microcode levels on Brocade DCX and McData FICON directors to support the 2817. You need to check everything with the vendors.     Best Regards,  

job opening at GEICO - Hardware Specialist

2011-03-25 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi, GEICO is looking for a Data Center Hardware Specialist on my team. This includes responsibilities for System z and System p hardware, Enterprise Storage, SAN fabrics, and more. The Job Description taken from www.geico.jobs follows. This job is located in Fredericksburg, VA and there

Re: Logstream Offload

2011-03-22 Thread Knutson, Sam
Take a look at IBM program IEAMDBLG assembler source and the documentation for IXGOFFLD.You can alter IEAMDBLG pretty quickly to invoke IXGOFFLD against the logstream you want without doing anything else. You only need to connect, offload, disconnect. CA-SYSIVEW includes command LGOFFLOD to

Re: zIIPs and zAAPs

2011-03-18 Thread Knutson, Sam
100% correct. Not only must you not have any zAAPs you must not even have any RESERVED zAAPS on the image profile in order for zAAP on zIIP to work.It was not obvious when we initially set ZZ=YES why it was not working. I would agree for many sites all zIIPs makes sense today and use

WebCast: Beyond Jeopardy!: The Business Implications of IBM Watson

2011-03-17 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi, If like me you enjoyed watching Watson on Jeopardy you might be interested in this WebCast. https://www.techwebonlineevents.com/ars/eventregistration.do?mode=eventr egF=1002938K=6IK An InformationWeek Webcast: Beyond Jeopardy!: The Business Implications of IBM Watson Date: Tuesday,

Re: RACF Resource Classes

2011-02-18 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi Dennis, We have been running with TEMPDSN since the mid 1990's.I do recommend just like the IBM health check that you run with this enabled. A couple caveat's TEMPDSN is a logical switch so when you activate that class new access control is automatically enforced for temporary data

Re: IBM Service Request Issue

2011-02-16 Thread Knutson, Sam
The retirement for ETR isn't till March 26, 2011 so for now you can use either. O None of our users have been able to complete the registration process for SR without assistance from IBM support despite being credentialed and working in IBMLink O Output functions to email copy of PMR's, APARs,

Re: CA-MSM advice

2011-01-20 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi Dave, Your canonical answer should come from CA support but I have been using MSM since 2.0 and currently have 3.1 installed. I would suggest to just reinstall 3.1 from scratch as the quickest, cleanest and most beneficial path. They could upgrade you preserve logs, etc. but make the big

Red Alert: Possible corrupted backup copy for z/OS 1.10, 1.11, 1.12 users of zHPF PDSE (2011.01.11)

2011-01-11 Thread Knutson, Sam
*FYI* You should of course be getting this directly if subscribed to IBM Notifications for Red Alerts but in case you did not see this. http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/redAlerts/home.html • Possible corrupted backup copy for z/OS 1.10, 1.11, 1.12 users of zHPF PDSE Possible

Re: REFRPROT and BMC database tools

2010-12-23 Thread Knutson, Sam
)  301.986.3574     (cell) 301.996.1318  Think big, act bold, start simple, grow fast... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Knutson, Sam Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 12:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject

Re: Cannatello .... yet again

2010-12-23 Thread Knutson, Sam
Sample source code from this and another excellent book is available with the author's permission. Many other examples too in other contributions. http://www.cbttape.org File # 554 MVS Power Programming ESA Coding Examples http://www.cbttape.org/ftp/cbt/CBT554.zip File # 069 Coding

REFRPROT and BMC database tools

2010-12-10 Thread Knutson, Sam
IBM provided the REFRPROT option with z/OS 1.9 to allow customer sites to invoke additional protection from damage to read only refreshable modules. http://www.share.org/Portals/0/BitBuckets/36.pdf The BMC Backup and Recovery products are still not compatible with that option and BMC has not

EMC Acquires Bus-Tech

2010-11-15 Thread Knutson, Sam
http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2010/20101110-02.htm This email/fax message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution of this email/fax is

Re: Tivoli Storage Manager for z/OS (Functionally Stablized Impending Demise)

2010-11-06 Thread Knutson, Sam
If IBM cannot or will not support z/OS in this roll there are good third party software vendors who do like Innovation. This will preserve your investment in z/OS and maintain the z/OS qualities of service and economies of scale you have today. http://www.fdr.com/products/upstream/index.cfm

Re: z/os 1.11 and low private

2010-10-26 Thread Knutson, Sam
Even though it is not the default with appropriate testing no one should be afraid of setting USEZOSV1R9RULES(NO). This is going to have a positive impact on performance in select tasks. We went to production this way VSM USEZOSV1R9RULES(NO) and have kept this setting. I do hope IBM eventually

IBMLink, ResourceLink could not be access IBM Network problems

2010-10-25 Thread Knutson, Sam
It seems IBM had some network problems today. We have had problems with access to both IBMLink ResourceLink in addition to the ShopzSeries problems already mentioned today. IBMLink help desk acknowledged network problems but expected they were all resolved. It appears they have resolved now.

Re: Mainframe hacking? (IEBCOPY)

2010-10-15 Thread Knutson, Sam
Customers who are need to pay for CA-PDSMAN or SEA PDSFAST just to get acceptable performance when supporting large environments may disagree about IEBCOPY not being broken.     Best Regards,    Sam Knutson, GEICO      System z Team Leader     

Re: *IEE305I VARY COMMAND INVALID

2010-10-06 Thread Knutson, Sam
This exit is no longer required at z/OS 1.11 It sounds like you are working with an old copy of Gilbert's free exit or did you write one yourself? Gilbert now markets his for a very nominal fee. We used it and were very happy till we migrated to z/OS 1.11

Re: HMC Web Interface

2010-10-01 Thread Knutson, Sam
java -version java version 1.6.0_18 Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_18-b07) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 16.0-b13, mixed mode, sharing) IE8 on XP SP3 with all critical patches     Best Regards,    Sam Knutson, GEICO      System z Team Leader 

Re: HMC Web Interface

2010-09-30 Thread Knutson, Sam
Ditto. IE8 fully patched on XP works fine with the z10 HMC web interface for me.     Best Regards,    Sam Knutson, GEICO      System z Team Leader      mailto:sknut...@geico.com     (office)  301.986.3574     (cell)

Re: Anyone using the DIAG Parm VSM CHECKREGONLOSS yet?

2010-09-29 Thread Knutson, Sam
JCL frequently is constructed in ignorance, endowed with inertia, or both. REGION=600K worked and perhaps had a purpose in 1978 but no longer, REGION=200M won't make your job run faster. We use IEFUSI, Thruput Manager, SMS, and DTS ACC/SRS to dynamically update or override as needed incorrect

Re: Anyone using the DIAG Parm VSM CHECKREGONLOSS yet?

2010-09-28 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi Lizette, I have been running with the same settings as Mark for years. He suggested them and they were a good starting point that just worked never had to change them as they had the desired result. These are my current DIAGxx settings on z/OS 1.10 for the morbidly curious. VSM TRACK

Re: Heads Up: JES2 APAR OA32551 Undiscovered Toleration

2010-09-27 Thread Knutson, Sam
OA32551 recently closed with PTFs available. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?crawler=1uid=isg1OA32551 We have been debating internally if we will change our deployment of 1.11 into the remaining Sysplex here that is 1.10 only based on this problem. The prospect of getting outages

Re: HealthChecker vs SMTP - 1 : 0

2010-09-24 Thread Knutson, Sam
The RFC for SMTP limits it 1024 actually says 1000 not including header/control information. I have run into this when want to using XMITIP with some SPOOL data. I have not had any problems emailing Health Checker reports which are not very wide or output with much longer lines. At one time

Re: SMF data for FTP

2010-09-02 Thread Knutson, Sam
Take a look at DAF Data Set Audit Facility 1.49 here http://sites.google.com/site/michaeljosephcleary/home/freeware This is an excellent free tool from Mike Cleary which reports on many types of SMF records including FTP 118/119. Best Regards, Sam Knutson, GEICO

Re: share mainframe disk experience

2010-08-02 Thread Knutson, Sam
If you want unbiased expert advice that goes beyond a few paragraphs shared in public on IBM-MAIN it might be time to spend a small amount on an expert. If you don't buy a lot of disk you don't know if you are getting a good deal. A mistake could be very costly. Larger shops tend to do a lot

IBMLink REMINDER: SRD Order Delivery Servers firewalls may need to be updated

2010-07-27 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi, One of our teams recently had difficulty downloading PTFs and again we traced it back to servers that were in use by IBMLink that were not in our firewall. We complained that we had not been notified of changes. This was acknowledged and an IBMLink news item was posted (PMR# 50090,487)

Re: IFL Pricing

2010-07-23 Thread Knutson, Sam
List price was reduced to $75K for z10 EC in August 2009. List price on z10 BC was about $47,500 That is my recollection and what is recounted on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_on_zSeries -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf

IBM Reorg HW (STG) now under Steve Mills (SWG) more

2010-07-20 Thread Knutson, Sam
http://localtechwire.com/business/local_tech_wire/opinion/blogpost/79940 16/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/20/ibm_reorganization/ IBM making some organizational changes. Sam This email/fax message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may

Re: PC Screening (Was: ENQ trap for dynamic allocation)

2010-07-05 Thread Knutson, Sam
You have to add at least one more likely choice to that list O Lack of resources IBM has a finite amount of developer and testing folks time which can be used to ship new feature and function in a release. IBM hw/sw planners and others drive requirements inside IBM. We customers through

Re: ENQ question

2010-07-02 Thread Knutson, Sam
If you are using PDSE with extended sharing you can have multiple different PDS members open for output but with a PDS someone is going to get an ABEND trying to OPEN. Can you avoid initiating work when there is no CPU resource to process it? If you can and let it run much faster when there is

Re: Prevent ICF catalog out-of-space problems

2010-07-01 Thread Knutson, Sam
Without further details it seems the CA Reclaim feature in z/OS V1.12 might give some relief Avoiding data fragmentation and planned outages for data reorganizations - With the new CA (Control Area) Reclaim capability, applications that use VSAM key-sequenced data sets (KSDSs) can benefit from

Re: Leap frog from z/OS 1.7 to z/OS 1.11

2010-06-10 Thread Knutson, Sam
You might consider mitigating the risk by getting assistance from one of the folks who specialize in unsupported upgrades. We have never needed to do this upgrading every year but Brian Westerman and Syzygy are well recognized around here as subject matter experts in this space.

Re: Question about IGGDASU3 - DASDM scratch exit

2010-06-09 Thread Knutson, Sam
The technique Alan suggested is described at greater length here http://tinyurl.com/gg244405 http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/resources/servers_eserver_zseries_zos_racf _pdf_racf_v2r1_installation_implementation_gg244405.pdf Mike Onghena (IBM) was kind enough to point me to it for a similar

Re: Health Check Abending - ZOSMIGREC_ROOT_FS_SIZE

2010-06-03 Thread Knutson, Sam
You really should open a PMR with IBM. Share afterwards if it is interesting but I would encourage you to go straight to IBM for defect support. There was a recent APAR OA31298 that might be a match turned up with a search on BPXHFSCK. APAR Identifier .. OA31298 Last Changed

Re: OA29000 and DOM

2010-06-01 Thread Knutson, Sam
Quick check on 1.10 shows the same. The pubs reflect a Descriptor Code which is not actually used to issue the messages. IEF233A Extended Route Codes: 3 Descriptor Codes: none IEC501A Extended Route Codes: 3,5 Descriptor Codes: none IEC501A {M dev,ser Ý,labtyp¨ Ý,den¨,jjj,sss Ý,dsname¨

Re: OA29000 and DOM

2010-06-01 Thread Knutson, Sam
I would if I had to Barbara but we have CA-OPSMVS and OPSLOG (OPERLOG or SYSLOG alternative on Steroids) is one of my favorite tools. Message filtering on a wide variety of criteria, enterprise access to any system and cursor a message to pull up details, cursor select the hex route/desc to

Re: Calculating the pipe size for DASD mirroring

2010-05-25 Thread Knutson, Sam
Alan if your current storage vendor even potentially has a stake in the proposal I would expect they might be willing to help and have access to tools that would help at little or no cost to you. Before we licensed on our own tools we used to lean on the various storage vendors for this kind of

Red Alert: z/OS with PTFs for OA30513 can experience data loss (2010.05.03)

2010-05-03 Thread Knutson, Sam
*FYI* You should of course be getting this directly if subscribed to IBM Notifications for Red Alerts but in case you did not see this. https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/redAlerts/home.html Abstract: z/OS with PTFs for OA30513 can experience data loss due to deletion of

Re: ETR is down

2010-04-29 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi Tom, I have encountered this before and it was hours before I gave up and called the IBMLink help desk. The message Internal Error is useless. There are a number of issues all related to contents of your update. A more useful error message would be good. A functional enhancement to

Re: SMP/E RECEIVE ORDER outage

2010-04-26 Thread Knutson, Sam
We cannot download corrective service ordered today. One of our team members had an order he placed at 0800 EST this morning and it is not yet available. There is no ETA from the IBMLink help desk which I just contacted again on his behalf. Best Regards, Sam

Re: CA-Spool Message ESF735

2010-04-08 Thread Knutson, Sam
We have the CA Health Checker support setup and it is useful for the products that leverage it well like CA-1. The install was easy just some new load modules dropped into CAILIB. https://support.ca.com/ yields the article below. Document ID:TEC500517 Tech Document Title: What causes, at

Re: Encryption software?

2010-03-23 Thread Knutson, Sam
We heard via the rumor mill a last summer that EKM support is going away and that we will have to migrate to TKLM or a competitive product in the future. The spectre of this occurring quickly was raised and then dismissed by our IBM team. We are among customers who use EKM for backend tape

Red Alert: All TCPIP users on z/OS 1.11 (2010.02.26)

2010-02-26 Thread Knutson, Sam
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/redAlerts/20100226.html Abstract: A logic error in the base TCPIP code of z/OS 1.11 can cause applications using ASYNCIO Writes to be driven twice. This can affect various applications and subsystems using z/OS TCPIP ASYNCIO on the sending side,

Re: CA SPOOL REPLACEMENT

2010-02-16 Thread Knutson, Sam
You might also join and post your question in the IBM ISVCOSTS forum. It is a forum provided by IBM for candid discussion of vendor products and excludes ISV representatives. Comments there are generally a little more open about comparing features, warts, and costs of product A vs. B.

Re: CA Easytrieve replacement

2010-02-16 Thread Knutson, Sam
You might also join and post your question in the IBM ISVCOSTS forum. It is a forum provided by IBM for candid discussion of vendor products and excludes ISV representatives. Comments there are generally a little more open about comparing features, warts, and costs of product A vs. B.

Re: CA SPOOL REPLACEMENT

2010-02-16 Thread Knutson, Sam
IBM.COM folks seem to have fiddled with the URL a bit. Current one is http://www-03.ibm.com/software/solutions/isvcosts/ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Knutson, Sam Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 1:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN

ASA character viewer

2009-12-14 Thread Knutson, Sam
Two good EBCDIC file viewers on Windows if you find either lacking a polite note to the author in both case is likely to generate a good response. Free but may not quite have the support you want for viewing http://www.ngthomas.co.uk/wnbrowse.html Not Free but a great deal at $20 USD free

Re: XMITMGR for 64 Bit Windows?

2009-11-21 Thread Knutson, Sam
http://www.planetmvs.com/unxmit/index.html http://www.planetmvs.com Dave Alcock's excellent site includes a useful page of various information about XMIT compiled in one place. Thanks, Sam This email/fax message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and

Re: omvs subsystem not operational

2009-10-23 Thread Knutson, Sam
You get that for the SET SMF= but it works and the message is expected. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA08093 Problem: Message IEE968I is issued after the SET SMF= command if OMVS is referenced in the SMF parmlib member on the SYBSYS statement. The

z/OSMF 1.11 Service Update 1 UK50610 and revised doc http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/zosmf/

2009-10-11 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi, APAR PK93289 closed with PTF UK50610 available. The z/OSMF User's Guide has been revised. For a downloadable PDF, see the z/OSMF product Web site: http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/zosmf/ Bette Brody (IBM WSC) highly recommended in her session on z/OSMF at zExpo that anyone interested

IBMLink Scheduled Outages

2009-10-06 Thread Knutson, Sam
*FYI* From IBMLink News. IBMLink Scheduled Outages Many of our customers have requested IBMLink to post a schedule of upcoming outages. This News Item will be updated as necessary to give you advanced notice. Here is the current schedule (updated on 10/06/09): * October 23-25, Release 7.0

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