Re: Comparing datasets

2012-05-24 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
It's not ISPF, but ICETOOL should be able to give you what you want. Look up the OCCUR operator. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Zaromil Tisler Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 2:51 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject:

Re: humor: look at the logo these people made for IBM. It is cute

2012-05-24 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
It's been around for a long time, but not with the microphone and not slash across the eye. That was the part I thought John was talking about. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of zMan Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 10:03

Kerneels ( was RE: It's feeding time in Jurassic Park . . .)

2012-05-07 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
David, I think you hit the nail squarely on the head here. Kerneels De Wet sure looks like, sounds like, smells like, and walks like the duck that used to go by the name Anton Britz. And they both hated Fox channel with a passion, and both bring their hatred into completely unrelated topics

another mainframe shut down - available

2012-04-27 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
I got this approved by Darren. We are in the process of shutting our entire datacenter down because of a buyout. Our mainframe has been shut down and we are looking at disposing of it. Does anybody know of a computer room (or basement, or garage or anyplace else) that could become a new home

Re: ADR938E - PROBLEM WITH FASTREPLICATION

2012-04-17 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
WITH RETURN CODE 0008 From: Pommier, Rex R. rex.pomm...@cnasurety.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Monday, 16 April 2012 2:10 PM Subject: Re: ADR938E - PROBLEM WITH FASTREPLICATION Is that all you got? The messages manual says that there should have been a reason

Re: Origins of numeric assignation of z196 z114

2012-04-17 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Kid-die noun, 1. In mainframe parlance, anybody of age less than 50. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 2:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Origins of numeric assignation

Re: ADR938E - PROBLEM WITH FASTREPLICATION

2012-04-16 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Is that all you got? The messages manual says that there should have been a reason code with the ADR918I message. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John Dawes Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 6:18 PM To:

Re: RAPID

2012-04-06 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
What are the library names? I seem to recall some old serverpac installation verification tests that allocated RAPID1 and RAPID3 dataset or something like that. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Keith Reynolds Sent:

Re: Accessing USS on Mainframe thru Telnet

2012-04-06 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
John, For the most part I agree with you, except in the first line of his actual post, the original poster made it quite obvious to anybody which of the two USS's he was referring to, which makes this current argument all the more stupid. I think this whole thing is painfully silly, as Mr.

manual tape library question

2012-04-05 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
All, We just moved our mainframe to an LPAR on a different mainframe with completely different hardware. As part of the migration, I had to build a second manual tape library with different characteristics than the one I was using locally. My old library did not make the trip and now I need

Re: manual tape library question

2012-04-05 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex R. Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 8:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: manual tape library question All, We just moved our mainframe to an LPAR on a different mainframe with completely different hardware

Re: manual tape library question

2012-04-05 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Hi Darth, Small setup, so a single VOLCAT. Completely different ranges for the tapes, so I will be pursuing the IDCAMS delete that Frank mentioned in his reply. When I say small, that's really what I mean. The library I'm removing only had 100 tapes in it. Thanks. Rex -Original

Re: manual tape library question

2012-04-05 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
SMStape control, you may need to modify logic in your SMS ACS routines as well. Frank. == -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex R

Re: manual tape library question

2012-04-05 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Of Pommier, Rex R. Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 12:51 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: manual tape library question Frank, This is exactly what I'm looking for. The library that doesn't exist anymore only had 100 tapes in it. I need to remove the tapes and library from OAM and from

Re: How to Unpair Volumes

2012-03-28 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
George, There are a couple TSO commands that may help with this. The fcquery - with the showrels(all) parm - will tell you what FR relationships are in place, and the fcwithdr (fhashcopy withdraw) command will allow you to break the relationships. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM

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

2012-03-14 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Hi list, I have a couple questions about commands that can be run from the console. First of all, is there a console command that can be used to display the MAC address of an OSA port? Second, is there a console command to ping an IP address out an OSA port? I scanned the manuals and didn't

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

2012-03-14 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
saw OSA but , router ? A lot of routers have ping turned off. Secondly, Ping can be used via TSO, no problem , also Traceroute .. Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Mar 14, 2012, at 12:20 PM, Pommier, Rex R. rex.pomm...@cnasurety.com wrote: Hi

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

2012-03-14 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
] On Behalf Of Richard L Peurifoy Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 12:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: A couple questions about z/OS consoles and TCPIP commands (and a potential HMC issue) On 3/14/2012 12:38 PM, Richard L Peurifoy wrote: On 3/14/2012 11:22 AM, Pommier, Rex R. wrote: Hi list

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

2012-03-14 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
' See the Comm Server manual IP Sys Admin Commands for details about using these two commands. Note: From reading the manual, it looks like you will need to do some configuration work before you can use EXACMD. Thanks, Mark Regan - Original Message - From: Pommier, Rex R. rex.pomm

Re: IEFBR14

2012-03-12 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Bill, You are absolutely correct in that this change doesn't really provide much security. I'm looking at it from a different aspect, that of removing one additional way of shooting oneself in the foot. If not you (you being collective, not just Bill), how many of your colleagues (either in

Re: Changing sysplex hardware

2012-02-15 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
not say what he is using to mirror. But you only need that after a backout after running at the new site. On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Pommier, Rex R. rex.pomm...@cnasurety.com wrote: Mike, Wouldn't number 10 be a massive amount of unnecessary work and replication? I was under the impression

Re: What is CA-SRAM and what is it used for.

2012-02-15 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
I'm not from CA, but I believe that (at least a portion of) SRAM is shipped with the CA common services product. Rex On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Thomas Lawrence thomas.lawre...@gmail.com wrote: We've had SRAM from CA going back to the DOS days. In those day's we actually had CA-Sort.

Re: Changing sysplex hardware

2012-02-14 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Mike, Wouldn't number 10 be a massive amount of unnecessary work and replication? I was under the impression that if you had replication going between the two arrays and you suspended the replication, that you could bring up the replication targets in a read/write mode on the new servers. If

Re: Why can't the track format be changed?

2012-02-08 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
A couple questions. When did IBM actually stop manufacturing the 3390 device, and was the 9345 an actual CKD device? The digging I did in IBM says it was. If so, when did that device (with a different geometry than either the 3380 or the 3390) stop manufacturing? Rex -Original

Re: What’s going on in the redbooks site?

2012-02-02 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Problem determination tools is still the old one. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jan Vanbrabant Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 7:44 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: What’s going on in the redbooks site? Hi,

Re: What’s going on in the redbooks site?

2012-02-02 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Jan, Did they just fix it? I'm currently downloading the -1 version of the ABC book. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jan Vanbrabant Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 7:44 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject:

Re: 3390s on SAN?

2012-01-27 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
There is an internal proposal to carve several TB of dasd from one of our non-mainframe depts. And use it to replace our aging HDS DASD. Question: How easy/difficult is this to accomplish? We re-configured an array from 3390 mod-3s to mod 27/50s but the entire array needed to be cleared of

Re: 3390s on SAN?

2012-01-27 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
10K RPM SAS disks in it. Thank You, Dave O'Brien NIH Contractor From: Pommier, Rex R. [rex.pomm...@cnasurety.com] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 10:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: 3390s on SAN? I have a really basic question to ask back to you

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

2012-01-24 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
I'm pretty sure it affects the US. I have the letter in front of me. It doesn't have an announcement letter number on it, and it is labeled notice to IBM customers and it has the normal verbiage about state and local governments. At least I THINK South Dakota is still part of the US. :-)

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

2012-01-24 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Just found it. Announcement letter 312-001. http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=ANsubtype=CAhtmlfid=897/ENUS312-001appname=USN Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ken Porowski Sent: Tuesday,

Re: DFSORT manual humour

2012-01-23 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Richard, Actually the 9393 was the RAMAC virtual array (RVA) made by StorageTek. We just shut ours down about 5 years ago, used 4 GB drives in it. The other RAMAC devices were a 9391 and 9392 (among other numbers) These were called the RAMAC2 devices and were either disk drawers sitting

Re: Peculiar issue related to TSO logons

2012-01-10 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
You got a logon proc issue where people aren't getting logged on - or an enqueue on a critical dataset preventing logon completions? To get rid of them use c u=*logon*,a=?? where ?? is their asid HTH Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: cpu / machine identification

2011-12-29 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Brian, I see your point, but have a request for you. Don't get quite so aggressive with the electronic scissors on snipping away the context. The beginning of your comment below says it all - That works What's that? Since there have been several comments/points of view made, it would

Re: IBM Manuals

2011-12-27 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
The really small font is so they can save space on the DASD. g, d, r Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Ford Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 11:51 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: IBM Manuals To all my

Re: IBM Manuals

2011-12-27 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
I just pulled up a couple doc's in both BKMGR and PDF format under IE9 and it looked just fine. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 12:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject:

Re: IBM Manuals

2011-12-27 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Cliff, Got'cha, you're right. The first page is tiny on mine as well. That's what I get for navigating in Firefox then grabbing the URL and putting it into IE. I'll crawl back into my corner now. :-) Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Eaytrieve

2011-12-09 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
What level of EZTrieve are you running? Older levels (I believe up to about 6.2 or something like that) had the compile date embedded in it, but the current level doesn't. A year or two ago I asked CA to put the compile date back in, and they took it under advisement, but I haven't looked

Re: Eaytrieve

2011-12-09 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
If you're just looking for an IEA-EYEBALL type of check, simply browse the load module. On the first line of the actual program code (about 7 lines from the top) you will see something like this: å00..C A - E Z T PLUS 6.1D- 3/27/97-14.51- That's your compile date. -Original Message-

Re: JCL sheesh! for today

2011-12-08 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Charles, I had to go back to the fine manual to see what you are talking about. In the post I got from you, the message said ...contain a . PATH... (note the dot before the word PATH). The way I read the post, you couldn't use the . in a PATH parameter which kinda makes sense, as in how do

Re: SMPE Help Needed

2011-11-23 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Larry, It appears as though somehow PTF UA60411 was removed from your PTS outside SMP/E's control. It could have been removed by a REJECT SELECT, but that would then show it wasn't in the GLOBAL zone. Would it work to try the RECEIVE again, but do a BYPASS(APPLYCHECK)? I don't know if this

Re: SMPE Help Needed

2011-11-23 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Larry, Do you mean a REJECT then a RECEIVE? Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Martin, Larry D Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 10:35 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: SMPE Help Needed Tom, You may have

Re: SMPE Help Needed

2011-11-23 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Paul, I think the reason it didn't re-receive is that it is in applied status. Larry would have needed to do the bypassapplycheck to get it to receive. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent:

equipment available

2011-11-21 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
All, Don't know if this is legit on the list, but here goes. We've done some data migration and have a DS6800 available for the right home. 3 drawers, 40-146 GB 10K drives, 4-2Gb FICON channels. It's been on IBM maintenance since the day we installed it. Been solid as a rock, and I hate to

Re: DSN NOT RELEASING OVER ALLOCATED SPACE

2011-11-07 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Willie, Based on your JCL, this isn't your problem. What Bob is alluding to is multi-volume datasets. According to the JCL reference manual, when a dataset is opened for output on a multi-volume allocation basis, quote For a multi-volume sequential data set, only unused space on the current

Re: DSN NOT RELEASING OVER ALLOCATED SPACE

2011-11-04 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Willie, When job A executes, does it open/close all the datasets? My guess is that it isn't even using the datasets that are empty. The JCL manual states that the release happens upon CLOSE of the dataset. Thus if the dataset isn't opened/closed, no release will happen. Rex -Original

Re: ABEND0F8-20

2011-10-25 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Shane, Actually Dave asked 2 questions, the more pressing of them (to me anyway) being the first, Does anyone know what an abend s0f8-20 means... His second question ...can anyone confirm or deny... was the one answered by Tom, but I will admit that I didn't know what he meant by his response

Re: A little bit more about Gilbert Saint-flour

2011-10-12 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Actually DITTO is still alive and well. We're running it. Don't use it much anymore since we got rid of most of our tape processing. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Re: Scheduling Tasks via JES2 automatic commands

2011-10-04 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Howard, The way we do this is we just set the items to run at the appointed time once, ie take the I=86400 off the command. Each night at midnight we cancel all the auto commands and then re-establish them. Here is the JCL called J that is used to submit the AUTOCMDS member of a private

Re: Printing Question

2011-09-16 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Check around the same timeframe to see if anybody was messing with the printer. If he had sysout sitting in the JES queue and an operator changed the printer spec's to match his output, he wouldn't have had to do anything for the sysout to print. That's more what it looks like happened. Rex

Re: SMS compressed VSAM datasets

2011-09-14 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
From 3 output tapes to 12? What kind of tape drives are you using? Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 8:18 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: SMS compressed VSAM

Re: SMS compressed VSAM datasets

2011-09-14 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
You will let us know if it works, right? :-) Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 11:59 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: SMS compressed VSAM datasets Thanks. My

Re: Last card reader?

2011-08-16 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
At a previous site, I think we pushed the card punches out the door in about 1986. By the time we got rid of them (both an 029 and an 026) the only thing they were used for was replication of boot cards. We were running an NCR Century 200 that did a boot from cards to give it enough

Re: SHARE Attendance

2011-08-12 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
I didn't read it as skepticism, more of curiosity. I, too, hope SHARE attendance is up too, and am curious, as Mark is, to know what the numbers are. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Rob Schramm Sent: Friday, August

Re: DFDSS QUESTION - BYPASS SMS - CORRECTION

2011-08-11 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Esmee, Are you positively, absolutely sure that volume VE6C01 is non-SMS managed? How much space is on the volume? Can you post an updated JCL stream with the SYS1. output dataset along with the messages, being that there were a couple errors that you have fixed. Rex -Original

Re: Growing an extent (was: Creating a multi-volume ...)

2011-08-08 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Gil, It does indeed allow the job to have more space than originally intended. I just copied a PS dataset into a sequential VSAM dataset defined as primary and secondary extents of 3 tracks long. The final VSAM dataset ended up at 11172 tracks, and 42 extents. The extents were anywhere from

Re: IEC614I EXTEND FAILED - RC 000, DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION IS (04034379)

2011-08-03 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Willie, Not quite. I thought the same thing when I first looked at it, but then noticed 1 character difference in the two DSNs. Last character of the high level qualifier. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of willie

Re: Time On Mainframe Emails

2011-08-02 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Hi George, Ignorant question on a tangent. Why do you have your TIMEZONE set as W.06.52.00? It just seems like a strange offset. I thought Florida was 4 hours west of UTC right now. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf

Re: IBM announces up to 5% increase in monthly Entry WLC

2011-08-02 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
I got mine via a letter, dated July 5, and I didn't see an announcement number on it. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ben Alford Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 1:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: IBM

Re: IBM announces up to 5% increase in monthly Entry WLC

2011-08-02 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Found it - cached. Letter number is 311-082. http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=ANsubtype=CAhtmlfid=897/ENUS311-082appname=USN Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex R. Sent: Tuesday

Re: Esoteric SDSF CMD

2011-07-26 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Hal, I tried the ST! and got a bunch of output as well. In fact, it is everything in the PRINT queue. However, you need to not just go start whacking them because I get the same list of held items, simply doing a ST gives the same list (as well as the INPUT and EXECUTION queues. I also got

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

2011-07-12 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Yes it does. According to the announcement letter, anywhere from z/OS 1.10 thru 1.13 with PTFs. The article wasn't a little weak, it was atrocious. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Larry Macioce Sent: Tuesday, July

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

2011-07-12 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
I think the z10EC is 4.4 GHz, and the z10BC is 3.5 GHz. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ward, Mike S Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 10:06 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Meet IBM's new $75,000 mainframe If the z114

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

2011-07-12 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
I'm guessing the question was/is curiosity more than anything. That being said, you are absolutely correct. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Rowe Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 10:35 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu

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

2011-07-12 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Paul, As I mentioned before, atrocious reporting. I believe the correct wording should have been something about list pricing. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 10:43 AM

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

2011-07-12 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
This is probably a dumb question but I'll ask it anyway. I noticed in the announcement letter that there is a feature code 3400, 0-way processor A00. Is this simply a placeholder for customers wanting to buy the box strictly to run Linux (IFLs) on it? Otherwise, what would be the purpose of

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

2011-07-12 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
I find it interesting that the announcement letter talks about there being 2 base models, the M05 (with 5 available processors) and the M10 (with 10 available processors). They are both supposed to be available in September. Yet the feature codes, as well as the LSPR tables Walt pointed us to

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

2011-07-12 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
== Cheryl Watson Watson Walker, Inc. www.watsonwalker.com 941-266-6609 == On Jul 12, 2011, at 1:15 PM, Pommier, Rex R. wrote: I find it interesting that the announcement letter talks about there being 2 base models, the M05 (with 5 available processors) and the M10 (with 10

Re: DS8100 HDD failures

2011-07-12 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
I don't know how/if IBM handles this, but I've seen where other disk vendors, for an extra maintenance charge, allow you to keep and destroy the failed HDDs instead of sending them back. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of

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

2011-07-12 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Pommier, Rex R. wrote: This is probably a dumb question but I'll ask it anyway. I noticed in the announcement letter that there is a feature code 3400, 0-way processor A00. Is this simply a placeholder for customers wanting to buy the box strictly to run Linux (IFLs) on it? Otherwise, what

Re: DS8100 HDD failures

2011-07-12 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
On a disk-by-disk basis, this would be true, but on a block-by-block basis, not true. Say a raid-5 7+1 raid set, 7/8 of the blocks making up that set will have valid data on it. Even without knowing the makeup of the data, it would probably be a fairly trivial exercise to pick out, say social

Re: manual tape library and external tape

2011-07-07 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 5:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: manual tape library and external tape W dniu 2011-07-06 21:12, Pommier, Rex R. pisze: Hi list, I have a question on reading

Re: Ads on IBM-MAIN

2011-07-06 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
I'm with you, Mace. I don't mind Shai's posts. In fact, when the brown material started coming into contact with the oscillating air movement device, I had to go dig through my deleted messages to figure out what was happening. I didn't notice the post from the software company, but one of

Re: Ads on IBM-MAIN

2011-07-06 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
, Pommier, Rex R. wrote: I'm with you, Mace. I don't mind Shai's posts. In fact, when the brown material started coming into contact with the oscillating air movement device, I had to go dig through my deleted messages to figure out what was happening. I didn't notice the post from the software

manual tape library and external tape

2011-07-06 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Hi list, I have a question on reading a non SMS-managed tape in a manual tape library defined as SMS managed. Our environment is we have a TS3400 manual tape library with 2 TS1120 drives in it. This library is SMS defined because normally all we do with it is push our backups to it. I have

Re: manual tape library and external tape

2011-07-06 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Hi Linda, I have a dummy STORCLAS called SCNOSMS, but I still get the IEF343I RRPGENER S01COPY SYSUT1 - REQUEST FAILED - NOT ENOUGH NON-SYSTEM MANAGED VOLUMES ELIGIBLE Error. I think the problem is that the tape library itself is SMS managed and it won't let me past that. Kind of trying to

z196-BC announcement pending?

2011-06-30 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Just got an invite to a live virtual event on July 12 regarding the evolution of the z hybrid. Here is the first paragraph of the announcement. Join us on July 12, 2011 for the next step in the evolution of zEnterprise(tm) hybrid computing - with a new entry point for clients of all sizes -

Re: Personal: bad news

2011-06-08 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
John, Prayers increasing from South Dakota. Jesus, the Great Physician has you in the palm of His hand. Take care and heal soon. We need your humor and expertise (and the occasional off-the-wall ideas you come up with) around here. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: DCBs and DCBEs - Could IBM have done it any worse?

2011-06-08 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Dave, But doesn't everything WAC? (I presume you mean Works As Coded). :-) Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of David Cole Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 3:59 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: DCBs and DCBEs -

Re: What is that link? (was RE: Personal update)

2011-06-06 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Lindy, The way I see it, this requirement isn't so much for e-mails that are going to a group as those that are going to an individual. I believe somebody said the OP was from an insurance company. A possible reason for this is dealing with correspondence to a client. Company: We sent you

Re: ESCON Director Operations

2011-05-25 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
I managed to sell a 3490-C22 a couple years ago. It was sold alongside a 3590 with 2 drives and a controller at the same time to the same reseller. They actually gave me more for the 3490s than for the 3590. I got enough out of both of them to buy a couple latte's. At least I didn't have to

Re: PF9 Swap question

2011-05-23 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Lindy, What Don told you is exactly how it works. Way back when all you had was 2 screens to swap between, you had the primary and secondary screen (I think that is the correct terminology). Hitting PF9 bounced between primary and secondary. The screen you are currently looking at is

Re: z/OS 1.11 question on DFDSS/ADRDSSU

2011-05-18 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Chris, Are they full volume or dataset-level backups that you're restoring from? SMS or non-SMS volumes? Could you eliminate the problem completely by directing the restore to a different volume instead of the default? Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Trademarks (was: Under z/OS Unix)

2011-05-12 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
John, Nah, Apple will just announce next year that they're buying IBM out, then we'll start seeing iBM and so on. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 11:37 AM To:

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - AGE DAYS

2011-05-10 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Take the word days out. HSEND LIST DSN MCDS SEL(AGE(3300)) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of esmie moo Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 9:08 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: DFHSM QUESTION - AGE DAYS Good Morning Gentle

Re: very good read on global capitalism

2011-05-09 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
And this has what to do with IBM-main? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Sam Siegel Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2011 7:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: very good read on global capitalism Words might would never expect to

Re: Not able to Ftp

2011-05-05 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Hal, Actually that isn't it (I don't think anyway). I have been following the thread and tried the same FTP command. Mine works fine, and I get the same security message. The thing I find interesting is that there doesn't appear to be any logon message. Here are the final few lines of an

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

2011-05-02 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Steve, Not quite. The second word, System versus SystemS. It took me a while to catch that one. :-) And, yes, I'm tired of the bickering back and forth. Neither side will convince the other that they're right/wrong. It would be best for everybody involved to simply make sure that their

Re: Vlan

2011-05-02 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
We run multiple VLANs. The mainframe along with the rest of the servers is on a VLAN. We run multiple VLANs for the end users, basically splitting them by floor into separate VLANs. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On

Re: Anyone Still Using OLTEP?

2011-04-25 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Actually I don't think this is nostalgia (at least the OP from Mr. Eels), but a first look at possibly removing some unused baggage from z/OS. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Monday, April 25,

question on ICKDSF

2011-04-21 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Hi List, I have a very specific application where I want to offline initialize a bunch of volumes without having to have an operator sitting at the console replying U to initialize each volume. According to the fine manual, I can do a PARM='NOREPLYU' to make this happen, but that only works

Re: question on ICKDSF

2011-04-21 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 11:44 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: question on ICKDSF W dniu 2011-04-21 18:15, Pommier, Rex R. pisze: Hi List, I have a very specific application where I want to offline initialize a bunch of volumes without having to have

Re: Z196 BC ?

2011-04-19 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
We're hoping for one too, but why Q4? If IBM were to run true to form, they should be announcing it any day now. Here's why I say this: Z9-EC announced July 2005, shipped Sept. Z9-BC available April 06, 9 months after EC announcement. Z10-EC available Feb 2008, BC available Oct 08, 8 months

Re: New job for mainframes: Cloud platform

2011-04-12 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Graeme, Sorry, but I just have to do this. X86 registers work in trinary mode rather than binary? Your map of the eax register shows. eax: 0001 0020 == What's the 0020 mean? :-) Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Summer Time, state of art

2011-03-29 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
The idea is that having more light earlier in the morning, the children waiting for school buses don't have to wait in the dark, where they are more at risk of either being snatched by some bad guy or hit by a car that doesn't see them in the dark. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: Check TAPE Contents

2011-03-24 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Sergio, you inadvertently answered Roberto's question. A TMS is simply a Tape Management System. You mentioned you have RMM as your TMS. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Sergio Lima Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011

Re: Check TAPE Contents

2011-03-24 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Sergio, EDGINERS is actually a utility that is part of RMM. Any RMM module or error message, etc, will start with the characters EDG. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Sergio Lima Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 10:15 AM

Re: Check TAPE Contents

2011-03-24 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
I know, but I decided that in the context of the original post I wouldn't obfuscate the issue. Being the poster asked something along the line of which TMS do you have? Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Finnell

Re: One Pack RACF Anomaly

2011-03-21 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Daniel, Forest, meet trees. :-) If there's anybody on this list who won't admit to having done something similar, they either haven't been doing system work, or they're lying! I don't want to read a bunch of horror stories about others who have oopsed, just wanted to say glad you got it

Re: One Pack RACF Anomaly

2011-03-17 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Check the DES encryption scheme you have set up. Do you have the ICHDEX01 installed? Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Daniel McLaughlin Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 7:00 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: One

Re: TRX Replacement

2011-02-28 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Dyna-step from Tone Software? www.tonesoft.com. I haven't used the product, but in a former life I worked with some of their other software and had no problems with them. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Dennis

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