IBMLink outages in 2012

2012-05-19 Thread Pinnacle
I compiled the following list of IBMLink outages in 2012, and the % availability (total hours - outage hours/total hours * 100) for calendar year 2012. February 18-19 (12-hour outage)99.0% availability March 2-3 (12-hour outage)98.4% availability May 4-7 (54-hour outage)

Re: IBMLink Outage May 4-7

2012-05-02 Thread Pinnacle
On 5/2/2012 5:05 PM, Jerry Whitteridge wrote: I've complained to our IBM account team repeatedly that having IBMLink have down time during the weekend when we have our changes scheduled is a big exposure. I'd love to see them move out of the window most customers have their change windows -

Re: IBMLink Outage May 4-7

2012-05-02 Thread Pinnacle
On 5/2/2012 2:25 PM, Mary Anne Matyaz wrote: Wow. That's...a lot of downtime. :( Do you know if that includes SR? Thanks, MA -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: IBMLink Outage May 4-7

2012-05-02 Thread Pinnacle
On 5/2/2012 2:34 PM, Edward Jaffe wrote: On 5/2/2012 11:24 AM, Mary Anne Matyaz wrote: Wow. That's...a lot of downtime. :( Do you know if that includes SR? No idea. The news article is very brief. (See below.)

Re: Malicious Software Protection

2012-03-27 Thread Pinnacle
On 3/27/2012 11:09 AM, Greg Dorner wrote: Dear IBM-MAINers, Our auditors are insisting that we install a product that protects against malicious software (viruses, worms, trojans, etc.). Does anyone know of a product that does this? I heard that McAfee is coming out with a z/OS product later

Re: Malicious Software Protection

2012-03-27 Thread Pinnacle
on the subject. My comments below. Regards, Tom Conley On 3/27/2012 1:06 PM, David Cole wrote: At 3/27/2012 11:19 AM, Pinnacle wrote: There is a mainframe product that protects against malicious software. It's called SAF, and it interfaces with ESM's like RACF, or ACF2, or TopSecret. SAF

Re: Leaving IBM

2012-03-26 Thread Pinnacle
On 3/26/2012 9:58 AM, Walt Farrell wrote: I mentioned this over on RACF-L the other day, so for some of you this will be old news. I've been an IBMer for 28 years and have had a lot of fun with RACF and MVS, and I've had a lot of fun interacting with you folks on RACF-L and IBM-MAIN. But the

Re: ENF listener example

2012-02-22 Thread Pinnacle
On 2/21/2012 10:36 PM, Phil Smith wrote: Jim Mulder wrote: If you have IPCS for z/OS 1.13, and a dump which includes CSA, you can do VERBX IEFENFVX '37' (displays listeners for event code 37) or VERBX IEFENFVX (displays listeners for all event codes) Well, I don't...and not clear how that

Re: Request for comments on the GDG IEFAB461 exit

2012-02-22 Thread Pinnacle
On 2/22/2012 1:43 PM, Jousma, David wrote: Sounds like a slippery slope to me. Almost like allowing System symbol resolution on batch jobs. What possible benefit can there be to this? Dave, If you need to create and reference more than 2 different generations of a GDG in a job, you

Re: ENF listener example

2012-02-21 Thread Pinnacle
On 2/21/2012 9:17 PM, Phil Smith wrote: Anyone have an example of an ENF listener that works? We're having a devil of a time getting one going (ENF Event Code 37, SMF listener). We can get it loaded in CSA but it never gets woken up! Thanks, Phil, Found this from IBM:

Re: HSM tape growth

2012-01-31 Thread Pinnacle
On 1/31/2012 9:07 AM, Hervey Martinez wrote: 3 weeks ago we implemented HSM's CRQ and immediately after doing so, we experienced a jump in our tape usage. After a week of this unexplained tape growth, I added the default PARTIALTAPE(REUSE) parm to HSM and at that point our unexplained tape

Re: ISPF Workstation Agent for Windows 7?

2012-01-27 Thread Pinnacle
On 1/27/2012 7:50 AM, Hunkeler Peter , KIUP 4 wrote: I've been asked if there is a way to see ISPF split sessions in parallel in multiple windows, and remembered the ISPF workstation agent WSA. I haven't looked into this for ages. The ISPF download panel only talks about Windows 2000/NT. Trying

Re: STEPLIB problems - was: PDSE

2012-01-25 Thread Pinnacle
On 1/25/2012 6:31 AM, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote: I see what you mean. What are 'dynamic steplib functions from outside IBM'? Some third party product? Our TSO users select the 'environment' they like to work in, i.e. DEVL/PROD, DB2ID etc. and during logon we allocate to the different ISP*

Re: SV: STEPLIB problems - was: PDSE

2012-01-25 Thread Pinnacle
On 1/25/2012 10:12 AM, Juergen Keller wrote: Thomas, STEPLIB from CBTTAPE works, I've tested it but its not supported/recommended. There was a discussion about DYNAMIC STEPLIB last year and Jim Mulder wrote: The only supported mechanism in MVS for adding to the module library search order

Re: IBM TS7740 Copy/Export process

2012-01-09 Thread Pinnacle
On 1/9/2012 3:30 PM, Tim Hare wrote: I am reading and posting via the web interface, so I don't always see the messages real time. I am trying to find my way with this Copy/Export business. It doesn't seem as though modifying virtual volumes to indicate anything makes sense, but I'm

Re: IBM TS7740 Copy/Export process

2012-01-03 Thread Pinnacle
Russ, You sure you want to do that? Export/Copy leaves the virtual volume in the library, and it can still be accessed. If you drive EJC, that volume will be exported. I agree with you that Export/Copy is a cluster f of the first order, but updating ACTVOL and driving EJC for these

Re: IBM TS7740 Copy/Export process

2012-01-03 Thread Pinnacle
Russ, Unfortunately, you need to save the status files and rely on the BVIR reports to figure out which volumes have been copy exported to which containers. Since they can be copy exported to multiple containers, and neither RMM nor CA-1 is designed to handle that, filling in the fields as

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

2011-12-09 Thread Pinnacle
On 12/9/2011 3:03 PM, Veilleux, Jon L wrote: I'm not sure why it would cause an issue. We have had it on for over a year and I have logged on to multiple systems in a sysplex many times. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of

Re: SMPE Help Needed

2011-11-23 Thread Pinnacle
On 11/23/2011 9:37 AM, Larry Martin wrote: I am applying maintenance zos 1.12 RSU 1108 going to RSU 1110 plus 1.13 toleration. I get a lot of the following messages: GIM65902E ** MODULE GFSA4UAT IS NEEDED TO BUILD THE FOLLOWING LOAD MODULES FOR SYSMOD UA58717 BUT CAN NOT BE

Re: USS

2011-11-17 Thread Pinnacle
Jane, stop this crazy thing! Jne!!! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the

Re: expirebv for abars, and deleting the resulting uncataloged tape datasets

2011-10-18 Thread Pinnacle
On 10/18/2011 11:41 AM, Mike B wrote: Hi, We wish to clean up unwanted abars tape datasets using expirebv and retainversions(n) Listing a test abars group, we know that the oldest version of an agg- group had two datasets and two volsers involved. Running EXPIREBV ABARSVERSIONS

Re: expirebv for abars, and deleting the resulting uncataloged tape datasets

2011-10-18 Thread Pinnacle
On 10/18/2011 2:29 PM, Mike B wrote: On Oct 18, 11:12 am, pinnc...@rochester.rr.com (Pinnacle) wrote: On 10/18/2011 11:41 AM, Mike B wrote: Hi, We wish to clean up unwanted abars tape datasets using expirebv and retainversions(n) Listing a test abars group, we know that the oldest version

Re: DFSMS and HFS/ZFS Datasets.

2011-10-14 Thread Pinnacle
On 10/14/2011 12:37 PM, Curtis Jackson wrote: Good day, We are planning to expand the use of SMS in our DASD environment. One of the questions we have been wrestling with is whether or not to maintain a seperate Storage Group for our HFS/ZFS data sets or let them comingle with other system

Re: Fairwell to a Friend

2011-10-09 Thread Pinnacle
On 10/8/2011 12:19 PM, Rick Fochtman wrote: Received from another list: -- To those who new him: Gilbert Sain-Flour passed away last night in Montauban France. He will be missed. Devastating

Re: DS8000 migration stories?

2011-09-30 Thread Pinnacle
On 9/30/2011 12:54 PM, Jan Vanbrabant wrote: Hi, Mgt is discussing replacement of EMC with DS8000 of a customer who is insourced. Besides the financial aspect (which fortunately is not my problem) there is of course the technical aspect. Any succes stories? Horror stories? - about migration

Re: Analytics in prime time!

2011-09-26 Thread Pinnacle
On 9/25/2011 12:26 AM, Phil Smith III wrote: The new series Person of Interest revolves around a shadowy tech geek who recruits an ex-CIA, ex-Army Ranger to solve crimes. See, the geek built the machine for the US government to perform analytics against all the surveillance data being

Re: DS6800 and OS/390 2.9

2011-09-14 Thread Pinnacle
On 9/13/2011 5:38 PM, Carlos Bodra - Pessoal wrote: Hello List Gurus. We are in process of migrate from an ancient IBM 2105-F20 with 1TB of legacy mainframe data to a IBM 1750-522 (DS6800). Both subsystems has volumes defined as 3390-3 and no software features (flashcopy, pprc etc..) used in

IBM Liquid Challenge - IBM now attacking programming rates

2011-09-08 Thread Pinnacle
The latest salvo by IBM to drive down bill rates is the Liquid Challenge, where modules are pieced out to a large number of developers, and you compete for the privilege of having your module included in the final product. If you win, you get paid. Rates are sketchy, but the best estimates

Re: LE issue: RPTOPTS and RPTSTG - no output

2011-09-06 Thread Pinnacle
On 9/6/2011 4:18 PM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: I am attempting to run an LE program and get the specified output. I put it in CEEOPTS and nothing comes out. TRAP(OFF,NOSPIE),RPTSTG,RPTOPTS,MSGFILE(CEEMSG) STACK(512K,128K) I know that LE is reading the options as if I put in an invalid option I

Re: SDSF REXX question

2011-08-26 Thread Pinnacle
On 8/26/2011 7:46 AM, Steve Austin wrote: Hello, I have a REXX exec that issues D M=CPU using ISFEXEC and I expect the ULOG output to be returned in the isfulog. stem. This works fine under TSO, but if I run the exec under IRXJCL the command is issued, but no output returned in the isfulog.

Re: z/OS Library site down?

2011-08-15 Thread Pinnacle
On 8/15/2011 10:31 AM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: For some reason today I get an IBM Our apologies... The page you requested cannot be displayed message no matter how I try to get to the z/OS Library pages (the Bookmanager + PDF's website). Every google search I can think of gives this

Dynamic ISPF ads in industry magazines

2011-08-13 Thread Pinnacle
in Chicago, August 1999. Since then, Pinnacle Consulting Group, Inc. has been The Home of Dynamic ISPF for over a decade, and is not involved with and does not endorse any vendor products using the term Dynamic ISPF. Pinnacle Consulting Group, Inc. will continue to provide and support free

Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

2011-07-27 Thread Pinnacle
Esmie, Download and install PDS, available as FILE182 at www.cbttape.org. Once installed, bring up your corrupt PDS with PDS, and issue VERIFY :. You will see a message after a while showing you the largest block written. Issue FIXPDS BLKSIZE(x) and use the blocksize from the message.

Re: Tuscaloosa, AL

2011-04-30 Thread Pinnacle
D, Glad to hear you guys are OK. Our thoughts are with you. Roll Tide. Regards, Tom Conley -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN

Re: 3592 carts

2011-03-29 Thread Pinnacle
FRANCIS SOUSA fds1...@gmail.com wrote in message news:aanlktim+krplz7szoajh2y6enmprno3rkvi6_he1f...@mail.gmail.com... HI Everyone, we had an ATL 3594, which was dismantled and the drives alongwith the control unit were used as a standalone device for carts to be used outside the ATL, so that the

Re: HMC System Console usage (one more time)

2011-03-29 Thread Pinnacle
Kevin, 1 and 2 for me, not 3. Regards, Tom Conley W. Kevin Kelley wkkel...@optonline.net wrote in message news:listserv%201103282301362978.0...@bama.ua.edu... I'm being asked one more time by TPTB to determine how the HMC System Console is actually being used by z/OS customers: 1) How many

Re: RMM processing under z/OS 1.12

2011-03-21 Thread Pinnacle
Richard Pinion rpin...@netscape.com wrote in message news:listserv%201103211201484935.1...@bama.ua.edu... I recently upgraded from z/OS 1.10 to 1.12. I am receiving the following messages when running tape jobs. This didn't happen on 1.10. I've looked through the RMM 1.12 manuals and the

Re: TRX Replacement

2011-03-01 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 6:21 PM Subject: Re: TRX Replacement You can also cache the directories for the ISPF libraries in LLA (although IBM is now saying it's only for LINKLIST

Re: TRX Replacement

2011-03-01 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 11:13 AM Subject: Re: TRX Replacement IOW, at least through z/OS 1.12, LLA is not just for the linklist. That's what I always thought. So, we have an expert

Re: Removing BINS from RMM

2011-02-28 Thread Pinnacle
the volumes you moved. I have not done this, but from reading the books, this process should work. There could be easier ways to accomplish it, so I would contact RMM support. Regards, Thomas Conley, President/CEO Pinnacle Consulting Group, Inc. 59 Applewood Drive Rochester, NY 14612-3501 P

Re: TRX Replacement

2011-02-28 Thread Pinnacle
loadlibs). Regards, Thomas Conley, President/CEO Pinnacle Consulting Group, Inc. 59 Applewood Drive Rochester, NY 14612-3501 P: (585)720-0012 F: (585)723-3713 http://home.roadrunner.com/~pinncons/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: BPXWDYN

2011-02-28 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 3:59 PM Subject: BPXWDYN I am trying to to the following in A LE Cobol 4.1 program, a Hi all: 01 DYNSYSOUT-TEMP. 10 FILLER PIC X(18) VALUE ' ALLOC

Re: Writing a Systems Programmer Resume

2011-02-22 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Joe Gallaher j...@spci.net Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 9:55 AM Subject: Writing a Systems Programmer Resume I would like to invite anyone attending next week's SHARE conference in Anaheim to come to my session on How to

Re: RACF Resource Classes

2011-02-21 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Robert S. Hansel , RSH r.han...@rshconsulting.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 6:18 AM Subject: Re: RACF Resource Classes Tom, CA-1's FORRES and NORNORES and the equivalent STGADMIN.EDG profiles for RMM govern the use

Re: What is Toronto?

2011-02-21 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Chase, John jch...@ussco.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 11:33 AM Subject: Re: What is Toronto? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Walt Farrell I wonder if the Watson team will

Re: RACF Resource Classes

2011-02-20 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Givens, Dennis W. dennis.giv...@cnasurety.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 3:25 PM Subject: RACF Resource Classes I am working on the resolution of exceptions produced by the recently activated Health Checker feature on a

Re: STGADMIN.ADR.DUMP.TOLERATE.ENQF

2011-02-03 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 7:13 PM Subject: Re: STGADMIN.ADR.DUMP.TOLERATE.ENQF W dniu 2011-02-04 00:33, Frank Swarbrick pisze: Interesting. I'm not clear where this is documented,

Re: Problem with DFDSS using filtering?

2011-01-26 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: John Norgauer john.norga...@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 6:32 PM Subject: Problem with DFDSS using filtering? I have a group of ZFS datasets that I want to back-up using DFDSS. They are spread across

Re: SDSF Authority Change with z/OS 1.11? (ISFUSER problem)

2011-01-25 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Harry Shao harry_s...@hotmail.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 3:15 PM Subject: Re: SDSF Authority Change with z/OS 1.11? (ISFUSER problem) Sorry, if I got things confused. We have JESSPOOL class ACTIVE, but SDSF class

Re: DOWNLOADING PDS FROM MAINFRAME TO PC

2011-01-18 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: willie bunter williebun...@yahoo.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 8:35 AM Subject: Re: DOWNLOADING PDS FROM MAINFRAME TO PC Tom, I cannot perform the XMIT on this partition because of SECURITY. Thanks for the

Re: DOWNLOADING PDS FROM MAINFRAME TO PC

2011-01-17 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: willie bunter williebun...@yahoo.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 1:39 PM Subject: DOWNLOADING PDS FROM MAINFRAME TO PC Hallo All, It has been a long while since I downloaded a PDS from the MAINFRAME to my PC. I am

Re: Looking for mainframe e-mail software

2011-01-10 Thread Pinnacle
that XMITIP is not a vendor-supported product.** LBDSoftware and Pinnacle Consulting Group, Inc. have a partnership to provide vendor support for XMITIP. Please contact Lionel or myself for information. Regards, Thomas Conley, President/CEO Pinnacle Consulting Group, Inc. 59 Applewood Drive

Re: Question About run REXX Under TSO

2011-01-07 Thread Pinnacle
a look at my Dynamic ISPF SHARE presentation at my web site below. Let me know if you have any questions. Regards, Thomas Conley, President/CEO Pinnacle Consulting Group, Inc. 59 Applewood Drive Rochester, NY 14612-3501 P: (585)720-0012 F: (585)723-3713 http://home.roadrunner.com/~pinncons

Re: Doug Nadel has been busy....

2010-12-28 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Jousma, David david.jou...@53.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 3:49 PM Subject: OT: Doug Nadel has been busy I'm assuming this is the same Doug Nadel that wrote TASID amongst other things. Saw this on the

Re: REXX Interpret and *

2010-12-27 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: John Mattson john_matt...@ea.epson.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 2:58 PM Subject: REXX Interpret and * This little REXX snippet does just fine with most TSO commands including those with data sets in single quotes. /*

Re: Who at IBM thought HATS was at all worthwhile?

2010-11-23 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Timothy Sipples timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 3:19 AM Subject: Re: Who at IBM thought HATS was at all worthwhile? Tom, IBM doesn't advertise or sell HATS to fulfill the missions you describe!

Who at IBM thought HATS was at all worthwhile?

2010-11-22 Thread Pinnacle
HATS is a complete and utter POS. Who at IBM thought this product is even worth anything? Do they still have a job? No file transfer support, you can't cut and paste anything other than a single line, the HOME key doesn't work, the arrow keys don't work, you have to tab or backtab to every

Re: DITTO Alternative

2010-11-15 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Ken Porowski ken.porow...@cit.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 5:14 PM Subject: DITTO Alternative Anyone know of a free DITTO alternative. I'm primarily interested in the DB (Disk Browse) function that will show me

Re: What Datasets have been Migrated to ML2

2010-10-11 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: George Rodriguez george.rodrig...@palmbeachschools.org Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 1:21 PM Subject: What Datasets have been Migrated to ML2 Is there a batch report that I can run to identify all datasets that have been

Re: Duplicate Volser

2010-10-05 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Jim Mulder d10j...@us.ibm.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 9:51 PM Subject: Re: Duplicate Volser Rick, this indeed was before we had consoles. Same general time as if you had PROMPT turned on. I included the last bit

Re: DASD Moderate Alert from EMC DMX4

2010-08-31 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 4:02 AM Subject: Re: DASD Moderate Alert from EMC DMX4 Pinnacle pisze: [...] Brad Wissink bjwi...@iastate.edu 8/30/2010 2:53 PM We started getting

Re: Need help for MODID ERROR BECAUSE OF UMID

2010-08-31 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: imrose suleman imrose.sule...@gmail.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 1:32 PM Subject: Re: Need help for MODID ERROR BECAUSE OF UMID On Aug 31, 3:39 pm, Gaur gaur.ravi2...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 30, 6:11 pm, imrose suleman

Re: Set numbers off permanently.

2010-08-31 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Benik, John E john_e_be...@uhc.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 2:31 PM Subject: Set numbers off permanently. Does anybody know of a way to prevent the following from happening when setting numbers off? Short of going

Re: DASD Moderate Alert from EMC DMX4

2010-08-30 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Scott Rowe scott.r...@joann.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 3:07 PM Subject: Re: DASD Moderate Alert from EMC DMX4 If EMC is having a problem understanding that message, then I would suggest it is time to replace your EMC

Re: Anyone Using z10 Large Pages in anger?

2010-08-15 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Mark Zelden mzel...@flash.net Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 10:27 AM Subject: Re: Anyone Using z10 Large Pages in anger? On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:24:02 +0100, Graham Harris harris...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone actively

Re: NO RESPONSE TO MY EARLIER POST ON HSM - REPOST

2010-08-12 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: John Kelly john_j_ke...@ao.uscourts.gov Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 11:10 AM Subject: Re: NO RESPONSE TO MY EARLIER POST ON HSM - REPOST snip ARC0846I ML2 TAPES ARE BEING RECYCLED BY ANOTHER HOST /snip I do believe

Re: z/OS V1.11 and DFHSM performance

2010-08-06 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 5:14 PM Subject: Re: z/OS V1.11 and DFHSM performance We are probably about the same RSU Level. I will check on Monday to be more accurate. What WLM

Re: Another reason to hate PDSE's

2010-07-26 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Mark Zelden mzel...@flash.net Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Another reason to hate PDSE's On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:41:42 -0400, Pinnacle pinnc...@rochester.rr.com wrote: I'm running a utility that outputs

Re: Another reason to hate PDSE's

2010-07-26 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Mark Zelden mzel...@flash.net Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 10:44 AM Subject: Re: Another reason to hate PDSE's On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:13:54 -0400, Pinnacle pinnc...@rochester.rr.com wrote: Yep, you went slightly over

Another reason to hate PDSE's

2010-07-25 Thread Pinnacle
Some months ago, John Ehrman posted asking why we don't like PDSE's. I just found somehting that blows my mind, a ridiculous limitation in PDSE's that all by itself militates against their usage. I'm running a utility that outputs IEBUPDTE cards to create a PDS. When running the cards, we

Re: Running IKJEFT01 in Batch receive command SYS00006

2010-07-23 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.net Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 12:00 PM Subject: Running IKJEFT01 in Batch receive command SYS6 I got the following message running TSO in batch using the receive command My

Re: Vista large screen size not working

2010-06-30 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: William H. Blair wmhbl...@comcast.net Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 4:13 AM Subject: Re: Vista large screen size not working Miklos Szigetvari asked: For a PC the Vista large screen size is not working ... for all other

Re: very strange ISHELL behaviour

2010-06-17 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Jim McAlpine jim.mcalp...@gmail.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 11:20 AM Subject: Re: very strange ISHELL behaviour On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Mark Zelden mzel...@flash.net wrote: You don't change that with the

Re: taking down the machine - z9 series

2010-06-17 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Matan Cohen matancohen...@gmail.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 8:07 AM Subject: taking down the machine - z9 series Hi, When the situation force you to taking down the machine (due to Electricity power cut) , after

Re: DFSMSdss Physical dumps of 3390 Mod 27

2010-06-09 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Ruegsegger, Jeff jeff.ruegseg...@avnet.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 4:12 PM Subject: DFSMSdss Physical dumps of 3390 Mod 27 We recently completed a DASD refresh and we opted to migrate off 3390-3's to 3390-9's and

Re: File 120 now has 2 new articles

2010-06-08 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: David Cole dbc...@colesoft.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 1:16 PM Subject: Re: File 120 now has 2 new articles WOW! Of all the tools available on PCs for writing and packaging content, why on EARTH would you choose .XMI

Re: Personal use z/OS machines was Re: Multiprise 3k for personal Use?

2010-06-08 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: barryschra...@cs.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 5:28 PM Subject: Re: Personal use z/OS machines was Re: Multiprise 3k for personal Use? On 8-Jun-2010, Howard Brazee howard.bra...@cusys.edu wrote: Holes in 3rd party

Re: Personal use z/OS machines was Re: Multiprise 3k for personal Use?

2010-06-08 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 5:56 PM Subject: Re: Personal use z/OS machines was Re: Multiprise 3k for personal Use? On 8 June 2010 17:36, Pinnacle pinnc...@rochester.rr.com wrote: It would

Re: convert to indirect cataloging?

2010-05-24 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 1:27 PM Subject: convert to indirect cataloging? Is there a simple way to do this? Or is it basically a case of do a DEL ... NOSCRATCH to uncatalog, then

MVS Sysprog rates on the rise?

2010-05-11 Thread Pinnacle
Just got this in my Email this morning. This is much more like it. At 60-75/hr for W-2, that's about 90-110/hr. independent. Definitely a step in the right direction. zOS Support Oklahoma City, OK 1 year Pay rate: $60/hr. - $75/hr. w2 US citizen, GreenCard, EAD Only w2 only, no

Re: Migrating from z/OS V1.4 to z/OS V1.11

2010-05-07 Thread Pinnacle
at SHARE. It's on my web site below. Regards, Thomas Conley, President/CEO Pinnacle Consulting Group, Inc. 59 Applewood Drive Rochester, NY 14612-3501 P: (585)720-0012 F: (585)723-3713 http://home.roadrunner.com/~pinncons

Re: Migrated datasets

2010-05-07 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Mark Pace mpac...@gmail.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 12:36 PM Subject: Migrated datasets In my HSM reports I show some datasets as being migrated, yet there are no catalog entries for these datasets. Is there a way to

IBMLink FUBAR for the next 5 hours

2010-05-07 Thread Pinnacle
IBMLink is down due to maintenance for the next 5 hours. Anybody know about this? Since when did they start taking down IBMLink on Friday night? Thanks, Tom Conley -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

ETR is down

2010-04-29 Thread Pinnacle
FYI, Getting internal error occurred trying to submit an ETR. Regards, Tom Conley -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Re: ETR is down (hilarious resolution)

2010-04-29 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Pinnacle pinnc...@rochester.rr.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 9:50 AM Subject: ETR is down FYI, Getting internal error occurred trying to submit an ETR. Regards, Tom Conley Called IBMLink support in Bangalore

Re: ETR is down

2010-04-29 Thread Pinnacle
: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Pinnacle Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 9:49 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: ETR is down FYI, Getting internal error occurred trying to submit an ETR. Regards, Tom Conley Sam, Thanks for the links. In my case

Re: ACCEPT and RELFILES deleted

2010-04-23 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 9:27 AM Subject: ACCEPT and RELFILES deleted Relfiles are deleted after succesful ACCEPT and then unavailable for other zones. What can I do in SMP/E to avoid

Re: ACF2 equiv of RACF command

2010-04-15 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Natarajan Mohan nmo...@edfund.org Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 1:03 PM Subject: Re: ACF2 equiv of RACF command You do not need A(A) unless its RACF equivalent is ALTER. Natarajan The answer on CONTROL is IT DEPENDS.

Re: RMM and VRSMIN

2010-04-13 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: David G. Schlecht dschle...@doit.nv.gov Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 2:51 PM Subject: Re: RMM and VRSMIN Thanks, everyone, for the replies. We have 13,000 VRSs between two sysplexes. We're in the process of removing the

Re: RMM and VRSMIN

2010-04-12 Thread Pinnacle
David, VRSMIN is a fail-safe switch added to RMM years ago to prevent accidental scratching of tapes if somehow the VRS's were deleted. Set it as low as you like, but if you have 1500or more, then 1000 is a good number. Pick a threshold below which you know that VRSEL should not run.

Re: (slightly OT) CA is laying off 1,000 workers and expects to take a cull

2010-04-11 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Non scrivetemi nonscrivet...@pboxmix.winstonsmith.info Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2010 6:30 PM Subject: Re: (slightly OT) CA is laying off 1,000 workers and expects to take a cull eric-ibmm...@wi.rr.com (Eric Bielefeld)

Re: (slightly OT) CA is laying off 1,000 workers and expects to take a $50m hit in pre-tax charges relating to the jobs cull

2010-04-09 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 9:50 AM Subject: Re: (slightly OT) CA is laying off 1,000 workers and expects to take a $50m hit in pre-tax charges relating to the jobs cull So what's your point?

Top 10 Sysprog issues

2010-04-09 Thread Pinnacle
I'm working on a SHARE session for Boston for the Top 10 issues facing sysprogs today. I sent out a limited request for feedback and got some surprising results. I'd like to hear from the list now to see what you guys think on this subject. Please send me your replies off-list. Regards,

Re: RMM and HSM backup copy problems

2010-04-05 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Michael Saraco michael.sar...@baer-consulting.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 9:58 AM Subject: RMM and HSM backup copy problems I hope that someone has seen this before. We are running z/OS1.10. I noticed in a RMM report a

Re: PPT entries for RMM

2010-03-30 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Todd Last tl...@uchicago.edu Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 3:52 PM Subject: PPT entries for RMM Does anyone still have PPT entries for RMM? I'm taking over the RMM duties from a fellow coworker and going thru SYS1.PARMLIB

Re: PPT entries for RMM

2010-03-30 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Greg Shirey wgshi...@benekeith.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 4:35 PM Subject: Re: PPT entries for RMM We have nothing in SCHEDxx either. I found the following in redbook Converting to RMM: A Practical Guide

Re: SHARE 2214 - How to run the PDS Lab at home (somewhat off topic)

2010-03-30 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Jeff Holst jeff.ho...@fiserv.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 10:01 AM Subject: Re: SHARE 2214 - How to run the PDS Lab at home (somewhat off topic) The presentation refers to PDS as the Swiss Army knife of utilities and

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2010-03-23 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Mark Pace mpac...@gmail.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 9:28 AM Subject: Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements I hate to dredge up such an old post, but, I really need to try to develop some macros that mimic

Mainframe Executive article on the death of tape

2010-03-23 Thread Pinnacle
Anybody read the Mainframe Executive article on the death of tape as a backup media? The guy writing it used to work for STK and Sun, and now works for disk-based backup vendors. He says the following: - 15% of all backups fail (my experience 1%) - 10-50% of all restores from tape fail (my

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2010-03-23 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 7:21 PM Subject: Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:33:57 -0400, Pinnacle wrote: Try Doug Nadel, not Nagle. Also

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