PSP website down?

2012-05-30 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi Folks, Is anyone else out there having problems pulling down PSP buckets today? I'm hitting: http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/psearch/search?domain=psp I'm getting 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable. Thanks! BobL mailgate3.oppenheimerfunds.com made the following

Re: A z/OS Redbook Corrected - just about!

2012-03-26 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi Kirk, Ah, the voice of reason. Off with his Head!!! :-) BobL -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Kirk Wolf Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 3:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: A z/OS Redbook

Re: DASD Mod9/Mod54

2012-03-20 Thread Lester, Bob
Of Bob Rutledge Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 5:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: DASD Mod9/Mod54 Lester, Bob wrote: Hi Folks, With todays' modern disk arrays, is there any reason (z/OS based or other) that response time for my Mod54s is consistently higher than for my Mod9s

Re: DASD Mod9/Mod54

2012-03-20 Thread Lester, Bob
Of Lester, Bob Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 3:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: [IBM-MAIN] DASD Mod9/Mod54 Hi Folks, With todays' modern disk arrays, is there any reason (z/OS based or other) that response time for my Mod54s is consistently higher than for my Mod9s

Re: DASD Mod9/Mod54

2012-03-20 Thread Lester, Bob
@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: DASD Mod9/Mod54 Lester, Bob bles...@oppenheimerfunds.com wrote in message news:8f672be771329649a9eb59c7d9d6a2d9521e8...@den-xmail01.den.ofi.com. .. Hi Folks, With todays' modern disk arrays, is there any reason (z/OS based or other) that response time for my Mod54s

DASD Mod9/Mod54

2012-03-19 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi Folks, With todays' modern disk arrays, is there any reason (z/OS based or other) that response time for my Mod54s is consistently higher than for my Mod9s? Assume identical workload against each, single array with multiple LCUs. RMF says the LCUs are pretty well balanced.

Re: Cancel STC

2012-01-09 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi Helio, This sounds like STROBE. Have you checked the manual on how to stop it? Thanks! BobL -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Helio Jose Da Silva Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 11:05 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu

Friday Discussion? FTP versus NFS

2011-09-16 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi Folks, Forgive me if this has been discussed before. Given a large file - say 2TB or so on the mainframe. Let's say it's a PS file without any packed fields. A process on a remote unix machine needs to read this data. Does anyone know if an NFS mount of the file -

Re: DMS Backup

2011-08-31 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi Ken, Here's the eyecatcher from a DMS (CA-DISK) 12.5 disk archive. It's around column 4744 on my release. .DMSRELNOC ..12.5 Hope this helps. BobL -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ken Porowski Sent:

Re: DMS Backup

2011-08-31 Thread Lester, Bob
Is that at the beginning of the backup file? -Original Message- Lester, Bob Hi Ken, Here's the eyecatcher from a DMS (CA-DISK) 12.5 disk archive. It's around column 4744 on my release. .DMSRELNOC ..12.5 Hope this helps. BobL -Original Message- Ken Porowski I have

Re: FTP from IBM's book server

2011-08-01 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi Folks, I'll second (or third, or...) that. I've been using it for at least 5 years, and other than some Java version-related issues (what a surprise!), it works well. I use it to deploy doc to multiple LPARS (no shared DASD). Thanks! BobL -Original Message- From: IBM

Trainers Friend - was: RE: CA-1 TMS QUESTION - IEFTMS9 TMC BACKUP REQUIRED

2011-07-20 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 4:56 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: CA-1 TMS QUESTION - IEFTMS9 TMC BACKUP REQUIRED Frank, Good info, thanks. One of the issues with the

EZANS - No output for CICSsock?

2011-07-13 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi Folks, I'm running z/OS 1.11 and EZANS that says it was packaged on February, 4 2011. Wonderful tool. However, I can't seem to get it to give me any output for option 91 (CICSsock). I've got multiple regions using CICS sockets and can see them via EZANS using the ALLCON

Re: EZANS - No output for CICSsock?

2011-07-13 Thread Lester, Bob
, Lester, Bob bles...@oppenheimerfunds.com wrote: Hi Folks, I'm running z/OS 1.11 and EZANS that says it was packaged on February, 4 2011. Wonderful tool. However, I can't seem to get it to give me any output for option 91 (CICSsock). I've got multiple regions using CICS sockets

Re: An upbeat story

2011-06-15 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Burrell, C. Todd (CDC/OCOO/ITSO) (CTR) Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 3:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: An upbeat story The main thing I have found that makes a good sysprog is

Re: Dislike/Distrust of USS (Was: Opinion: modified SDSF functionality?)

2011-05-06 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi John, I believe that you're correct on this one. Many z/OS'ers despise z/Unix for that (among other) reasons. As someone who's been doing Mainframe sysadmin work for 30+ years, I certainly understand that attitude - especially in this era of out-sourcing and down-sizing.

Re: RIP issue with HMC - security violation?

2011-05-05 Thread Lester, Bob
Or Qualys BobL -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Rob Schramm Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 3:30 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: RIP issue with HMC - security violation? Port Scanner is my bet. Rob Schramm On

Re: An unnecessary controversy (Was: Ported tools for z/OS on ADCD)

2011-05-02 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi All, This seems like a Friday topic, but... I call it USS when referring to VTAM, and Z/unix when referring to OE. Thanks! BobL -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Don Leahy Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 3:36 PM

Re: DSSCOPY and AIX?

2011-04-15 Thread Lester, Bob
operand. I've never done it but it might be easier to use DUMP and RESTORE. DUMP has the NEWNAMEU operand which *appears* to be more inclusive. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lester, Bob Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 3:46

DSSCOPY and AIX?

2011-04-14 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi Folks, This may be an easy one, but I can't find the answer. Copying a dataset with an AIX and path like this works fine: COPY DATASET( - INCLUDE(VOFD.CSLGROUP.MFDM0C0G, -(This is the base cluster name and has an AIX and PATH) ...LOTS MORE

Re: DSSCOPY and AIX?

2011-04-14 Thread Lester, Bob
] On Behalf Of Lester, Bob Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 12:28 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: DSSCOPY and AIX? Hi Folks, This may be an easy one, but I can't find the answer. Copying a dataset with an AIX and path like this works fine: COPY DATASET( - INCLUDE(VOFD.CSLGROUP.MFDM0C0G

Re: What is Toronto

2011-02-23 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi, OK, *trying* to get this back on topic, which of the airports mentioned - if any - run IBM Mainfames? :-) BobL Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 4:26 PM To:

Re: Dynamic Allocation 1.9 - 1.11? - RESOLVED

2010-12-27 Thread Lester, Bob
: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 1:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Dynamic Allocation 1.9 - 1.11? On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:19:31 -0700, Lester, Bob bles...@oppenheimerfunds.com wrote: We've uncovered a difference in Dynamic Allocation behavior between z/OS 1.9 and z/OS 1.11 in our location

Re: Dynamic Allocation 1.9 - 1.11? - RESOLVED

2010-12-27 Thread Lester, Bob
? - RESOLVED On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 07:27:00 -0700, Lester, Bob bles...@oppenheimerfunds.com wrote: Hi, Thanks for all the replies on this one. It turned out to be a missed USERMOD for LE, and the CBLQDA setting in particular. DOH! Thanks! Bob Lester Hi Bob, I personally hate that option

Dynamic Allocation 1.9 - 1.11?

2010-12-21 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi Folks, We've uncovered a difference in Dynamic Allocation behavior between z/OS 1.9 and z/OS 1.11 in our location. A vendor software package does dynamic allocation from a program - for an //ERRORS DD in this case. This batch job works fine under under 1.9, but abends under

Re: Dynamic Allocation 1.9 - 1.11?

2010-12-21 Thread Lester, Bob
@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Dynamic Allocation 1.9 - 1.11? On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:19:31 -0700 Lester, Bob bles...@oppenheimerfunds.com wrote: :We've uncovered a difference in Dynamic Allocation behavior between :z/OS 1.9 and z/OS 1.11 in our location. :A vendor software package does dynamic

Undocumented VDSS1,VDSS2?

2010-11-09 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi Folks, I'm on z/OS 1.9, and am receiving the following message when a 3rd Party Product tries to delete a dataset. IEC614I SCRATCH FAILED - RC 008, DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION IS (0409012C), DMS,WRK30A,TODT.EXTRACT.MFDE0S0G I'm not

Re: Undocumented VDSS1,VDSS2?

2010-11-09 Thread Lester, Bob
as if the vendor product may be DMS, in which case the answer is yes. The vendor should be able to find the culprit by tracing the save area chain backwards. Cheers, Alan -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lester, Bob Sent

errno2 values

2010-09-30 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi Folks, I'm trying to troubleshoot an FTP issue. This is a snippet from the batch job. This is on z/OS 1.9. This job fails every morning, and when restarted with no changes, it works! This is not a dial type circuit . EZA1460I Command: EZA1736I ls EZA1701I PORT

Re: errno2 values

2010-09-30 Thread Lester, Bob
at this time? Perhaps there are only so many ports open in the firewall(s)and you ran out. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lester, Bob Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 11:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: errno2 values Hi

Re: Network Data Mover

2010-07-06 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ram Study Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 10:35 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Network Data Mover Is there any document for NDM. I have used CF and SS alone. Any Idea

Re: What is FDBMSPLU

2010-02-24 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of George Rodriguez Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 8:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: What is FDBMSPLU Does anyone on the list know what this is: +FDBRC1211I SYMPTOM

Re: SMS error message IGD17051I. Why?

2010-02-08 Thread Lester, Bob
. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lester, Bob Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 10:32 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: SMS error message IGD17051I. Why? Hi, I'm sure I'm missing something, but I can't

Re: SMS error message IGD17051I. Why?

2010-02-08 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi John, Yes, I'm seeing that now. Thanks to you (and RS, Binyamin, Rex, David too!) Thanks, Bob Lester Systems Storage Oppenheimerfunds 303.768.3504 bles...@oppenheimerfunds.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On

SMS error message IGD17051I. Why?

2010-02-08 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi, I'm sure I'm missing something, but I can't see it. Given this DD: XXFILEOUT DD DSN=PDSN..PGSTRIP.UA.MFDE0S0G, XX DISP=(,CATLG,DELETE), XX UNIT=SYSDA,DATACLAS=SMS, XX DCB=(RECFM=UA,BLKSIZE=182) IEFC653I SUBSTITUTION JCL -

Re: Replace VTS with a tape less appliance

2010-01-13 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Russell Witt Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 7:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Replace VTS with a tape less appliance Bob, What you might want to think about instead

Re: Replace VTS with a tape less appliance

2010-01-12 Thread Lester, Bob
. The VTS we're working with just takes a VOLSER list from CA-1. On your second point, we're actively working with our vendor to provide a 7-day (configurable?) no-scratch period AFTER the VTS gets these VOLSERS from CA-1. More to come on that. Regards, Bob Lester Bob, Can't you use

Re: Replace VTS with a tape less appliance

2010-01-11 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Pinnacle Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 7:51 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Replace VTS with a tape less appliance Buy lots of excess capacity. As these tapeless systems fill up,

Re: INCREASING SIZE OF VIR - VTOC INDEX RECORD

2009-12-24 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi Mark, Indeed it does. We have a report distribution system on our mainframe. It creates thousands of very small ESDS files. We were constantly filling up VTOC, VTOCIX, and extending like crazy on the VVDS. We ended up using very large values for these volumes. INIT UNIT(465E)

Re: Portable data centers (was RE: Small Server Mob Advantage)

2009-12-21 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Chris Mason Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 9:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Portable data centers (was RE: Small Server Mob Advantage) Indeed I remember hearing about a 360/30

Re: Date / Time simulation?

2009-12-01 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ken Porowski Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 3:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Date / Time simulation? 2010 may be bad enough Temporary dataset names will begin with SYS10ddd

Re: RES: JES3 SDSF

2009-09-24 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 7:24 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: RES: JES3 SDSF I sometimes still refer to z/OS as MVS. Tom Marchant Me too!

Re: REPORT OF NOSCRATCH GDG DSNS

2009-08-07 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of esmie moo Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 9:15 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: REPORT OF NOSCRATCH GDG DSNS Gentle Readers, Is there a way to produce a list of GDG disk dsns

Re: REPORT OF NOSCRATCH GDG DSNS

2009-08-07 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of esmie moo Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 10:18 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: REPORT OF NOSCRATCH GDG DSNS Bob, We have CA-DISK.  What command should I use?  I get the

Luminex / Data Domain

2009-08-07 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi Folks, Has anyone out there put up this solution to replace real (3590-1) tape drives? If so, I'm wondering how it is configured to work with SMS. Would anyone be willing to share SMS setup for this beasty? I'm being told that it doesn't require OAM and that I should define it

Re: REPORT OF NOSCRATCH GDG DSNS

2009-08-07 Thread Lester, Bob
 CA-DISK is not in this particular partition, however, the disks are visible in another partition where CA-DISK is installed.  Can I run your examples from that partition? --- On Sat, 8/8/09, Lester, Bob bles...@oppenheimerfunds.com wrote: Hi Esmie, I don't think you'd want to run

Re: REPORT OF NOSCRATCH GDG DSNS

2009-08-07 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of esmie moo Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 10:46 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: REPORT OF NOSCRATCH GDG DSNS I ran the job but received errors which would explain why.  Just to

Re: Luminex / Data Domain

2009-08-07 Thread Lester, Bob
[mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lester, Bob Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 11:31 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Luminex / Data Domain Hi Folks, Has anyone out there put up this solution to replace real (3590-1) tape drives? No, but I'll try to answer the following

Re: Offload work to zIIP with zPRIME

2009-07-17 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 4:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Offload work to zIIP with zPRIME Eric Chevalier wrote: On 17 Jul 2009 06:30:15 -0700,

CA-FAVER and SMS

2009-06-02 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi All, I'm wondering if anyone has run into this. We back up VSAM files (to DISK) using CA-FAVER 4.3 SP1. The output disk files get assigned a data class that is extended format (non-compressed). The block size being set for the output file is 27998, which appears to be bad for

Re: FTP and SMS (and DYNALLOC)

2009-05-26 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 9:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: FTP and SMS (and DYNALLOC) I just read that in detail again. The automount lead me to

Re: FTP and SMS (and DYNALLOC)

2009-05-23 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi Greg, No joy, I'm afraid. Set it up as documented, but get the same error. I think I'm getting bit by this statement in the doc. ---snip--- Volumes in dummy storage groups cannot be used when performing volume allocations. For example, the following DD statement, where DUMMY1 is a

Re: FTP and SMS (and DYNALLOC)

2009-05-23 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 7:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: FTP and SMS (and DYNALLOC) No joy, I'm afraid. Set it up as documented, but get the same

FTP and SMS (and DYNALLOC)

2009-05-22 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi Folks, I'm in the middle of an SMS conversion at z/OS 1.9. We have an ftp batch job that reaches down to a squatty box and pulls some data. The LOCSITE parms are: LOCSITE LRECL=8996 BLKSIZE=9000 RECFM=VBA + unit=sysda volume=SYST01 cyl pri=20 sec=30

Re: FTP and SMS (and DYNALLOC)

2009-05-22 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi Dennis, Nope, I checked that. It appears that the volume specified on the LOCSITE VOL= parameter must exist? It can't be redirected? Can you confirm? (Or am I doing something stupid?). Thanks for the reply. Thanks! BobL -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: FTP and SMS (and DYNALLOC)

2009-05-22 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi Dennis, Ah, there's the rub you see. :-) I'm trying to do this without changing existing control cards. Thanks! BobL -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Roach, Dennis (N-GHG) Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 1:55 PM

Re: FTP and SMS (and DYNALLOC)

2009-05-22 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi Dave, Data is pulled via ftp in batch to new DSN: PFDT.TSREL.OPPLZDCK.PULLOUT.SUN, which matches this DC FILTLIST pattern: SYST_NEWINCLUDE ( PFDT.** ) The DC ACS does this: WHEN (ALLVOL NE '' DSN = SYST_NEW ) DO SET DATACLAS= 'DCSTAND' EXIT

Re: FTP and SMS (and DYNALLOC)

2009-05-22 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi Dave, Well, that makes me feel somewhat better. I'll keep looking, and thanks for the suggestions. BobL -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 3:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu

Re: FTP and SMS (and DYNALLOC)

2009-05-22 Thread Lester, Bob
of volumes no longer connected to a system. Dummy storage groups allow existing JCL to function without having to be changed. HTH, Greg -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lester, Bob Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 4

GDG tool?

2009-05-18 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi Folks, Does anyone out there have anything that will 'mass-change' GDGs from NOSCRATCH to SCRATCH? Thanks! Bob Lester Systems Storage Oppenheimerfunds 303.768.3504 bles...@oppenheimerfunds.com --

Re: GDG tool?

2009-05-18 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ulrich Krueger Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 11:07 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: GDG tool? Lester, I have some old SAS-code that will do the trick. It reads catalog records

Re: Anyone Know of a Good Pocket Calculator Like HP with Hex capabilities

2009-05-01 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Fatemi, Reza Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 1:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Anyone Know of a Good Pocket Calculator Like HP with Hex capabilities Also it should do Scientific

Re: UMID of AAJESTA on z/OS 1.8 JES2????

2009-04-06 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi John, That's AbendAid/MVS. BobL -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 9:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: UMID of AAJESTA on z/OS 1.8 JES2 I am applying some

Re: UMID of AAJESTA on z/OS 1.8 JES2????

2009-04-06 Thread Lester, Bob
Many thanks! That is it. Now to research what I need to do with AbendAid. This is becoming a real PITA. Especially since everything just works on my sandbox. Unfortunately the real world is a 2 system sysplex and I must first upgrade one, then the other. -- John Hi John, Lesse,

Re: CEECRINI+X'2BC' abend S0C4-10 in CICS/TS 3.2

2009-02-27 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Barkow, Eileen Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 9:27 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: CEECRINI+X'2BC' abend S0C4-10 in CICS/TS 3.2 see if CICS ptf UK40899 is on the system.

Re: Extra! emulator - highlight configuration

2009-02-26 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of George.William Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 3:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Extra! emulator - highlight configuration We use Attachmate's Extra! 3270 emulator client

Re: EKM on Z/os Drive on iSeries

2009-01-29 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Marilyn Allmond Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 5:27 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: EKM on Z/os Drive on iSeries Is aes0001 an alias associated with the tape

EKM on Z/os Drive on iSeries

2009-01-28 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi All, I've got a bit of a problem with EKM. We're z/OS 1.9, using EKM with Java 1.4.2 (sr10). We're using a JCEKS keystore Library (TS3100 w/ LTO4 drives) is attached to an iSeries 520 with V5R3. iSeries SysAdmin can write tapes, but can't read them. Upon viewing the

SMS and System Temporary Datasets

2009-01-20 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi Folks, I've got a product (CA-Allocate) that allows dynamic increasing of the allocation of System Temporary datasets. This current state. As I move to SMS, I see that only a STORCLAS is assigned for these. If I understand correctly, this means that the space coded in the JCL is

Re: SMS and System Temporary Datasets

2009-01-20 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi Ted, I do have other SMS-managed data. I'm just doing the conversion a bit backwards. ;-) I can see that the issue, in my current environment, is that I tell VAM (CA-Allocate) to bail out of it's ASR (EXIT CODE(0)) if it sees a non-null Storage Class. We are hoping to be able to

Re: SMS and System Temporary Datasets

2009-01-20 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 2:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: SMS and System Temporary Datasets Are you assuming SMS will manage the 'extent

Re: Survey says...

2009-01-06 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi RS, 1. BobL -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying,

Re: Problem Allocating DSN - 5000 CYl

2008-11-05 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darth Keller Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 9:57 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Problem Allocating DSN - 5000 CYl Since your are attempting to allocate a multi-volume

Re: Omegamon II MVS V520 on z/OS 1.9

2008-09-29 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joseph H Winterton Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 6:16 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Omegamon II MVS V520 on z/OS 1.9 Hi Marc, We did not build our z/OS 1.9

MOD54

2008-09-03 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi All, Is anyone out there using CA-DISK (DMS) and MOD54 DASD as disk archive volumes? Any problems? Thanks! Bob Lester Technical Services Systems and Storage OppenheimerFunds -- This

Re: Old hardware (Was: Mainframe programming vs the Web)

2008-09-03 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: Shmuel Metz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 1:16 PM To: Lester, Bob Subject: Re: Old hardware (Was: Mainframe programming vs the Web) Offline. In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/15/2008 at 04:54 PM, Lester, Bob

Re: ACS Write Statement Limitations

2008-09-02 Thread Lester, Bob
EXIT CODE(22) END Which is 299 characters (spaces counted). Is there a way around this so I can produce more lines? Or do I have to reduce my content until it is at or below 110 characters? If it hurts, don't do it. :-) What's wrong with something like this:

Compression %

2008-08-21 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi Folks, Can someone point me to information on what the compression percentage is for datasets allocated with a data class that specifies compaction=Y? Thanks! Bob Lester Technical Services Systems and Storage OppenheimerFunds

Re: SMS and DFDSS

2008-08-08 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 4:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS and DFDSS SAS supports DSNTYPE=LARGE for both libnames and filenames starting

Re: SMS and DFDSS

2008-08-08 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Barry Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 10:01 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS and DFDSS The DSNTYPE attribute of LARGE is not equivalent. Scott Barry

SMS and DFDSS

2008-08-07 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi Folks, I'm trying to assign a DATACLAS to some existing SMS datasets that don't have one, so they can extend to multiple volumes. I've done a logical DFDSS dump of the datasets (all PS). I've deleted the datasets that were dumped. I've Updated my DATACLAS ACS routines to

Re: SMS and DFDSS

2008-08-07 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Kington Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 9:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS and DFDSS DSS comes in the recover environment and bypasses the data class acs

Re: SMS and DFDSS

2008-08-07 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Traylor, Terry Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 2:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS and DFDSS Bob, I believe you cannot add or change a dataclass to an existing

Re: CA Security Certificate

2008-05-29 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John P Donnelly Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 9:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: CA Security Certificate good morning, we are being greeted with the following trying to

Re: Free z/OS webserver

2008-05-27 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Schramm Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 8:37 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Free z/OS webserver The response was For now, you cannot order IHS Apache without having a

Re: Free z/OS webserver

2008-05-23 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shane Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 6:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Free z/OS webserver On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 07:40 -0400, Rob Schramm wrote: IBM HTTP Server

Re: Free z/OS webserver

2008-05-23 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sorensen Henrik (KSFI 442) Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 8:26 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Free z/OS webserver I read the attached .pdf and it *seems* to indicate that

Re: Free z/OS webserver

2008-05-23 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Schramm Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 4:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Free z/OS webserver The Abstract is written in such a way to make it plausible to assume that

Re: Free z/OS webserver

2008-05-20 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Schramm Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:59 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Free z/OS webserver And if you get Jzos (which comes with the JAVA 1.5 and above) then you

Re: Old hardware (Was: Mainframe programming vs the Web)

2008-05-16 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William H. Blair Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 7:28 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Old hardware (Was: Mainframe programming vs the Web) The System/360 Model 75 was not

Old hardware (Was: Mainframe programming vs the Web)

2008-05-15 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 2:13 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU It was DOS/360, on a 360/75, at the University of Waterloo. Hi Shmuel, Do you know

Re: Moving DASD Volumes from Mod3 to Mod9

2008-04-14 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi All, Not sure if it's been mentioned but if the original poster has CA-DISK (or something similar?), it's a breeze with the MOVE function. Since it's dataset oriented, it's slow, but it works! Hope this helps. Bob Lester Technical Services Systems and Storage OppenheimerFunds

Re: CA to IBM TCP conversion

2007-08-16 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johnston, Robert E Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 3:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CA to IBM TCP conversion I don't get much direction here from mgmt. My orders

Re: How old are you?

2007-08-02 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 4:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How old are you? Jeez! I turned 63 in March. I _can't_ be the oldest guy on the

Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules

2007-06-14 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Black Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 8:38 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules Vary true ... There used to be a product (it may still

Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules

2007-06-14 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 12:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules now Sterling Commerce) that markets NDM (now

Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules

2007-06-14 Thread Lester, Bob
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gregory, Gary G Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 3:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules Steve, I started at Sterling Commerce a few weeks after

Re: CA-Allocate / SMS

2007-06-11 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi Bruce, Thanks for the info, I'll give it a try! Bob Lester Technical Services OppenheimerFunds Centennial, CO USA -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Black Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 11:10 AM To:

CA-Allocate / SMS

2007-06-07 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi All, We're in the process of converting off CA-Allocate (VAM to you Silverbacks) to SMS. With VAM (Since I AM a Silverback), you can use a DDNAME of VDSDIAGS to trace the allocation thru the selection routines. This helps to see why a dataset didn't go where (I thought) it should

CA-DISK to DFSMSHSM

2007-04-24 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi All, I'm converting from CA-Allocate CA-Disk to DFSMS and DFSMSHSM. We're at z/OS 1.7. In my CA-Disk environment, I have multiple L1 migration volume pools. For example, Production data is migrated to L1 DASD that is mirrored to our DR site, while test/devl data is migrated to

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