Re: History - Early Green Card

2007-03-23 Thread Steve O'Connell
I believe so - I have one too somewhere Remind me of this webpage http://www.planetmvs.com/greencard/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

Re: IEFC603I PROCLIB DEVICE I/O ERROR READING FOR JOB

2007-03-22 Thread Steve O'Connell
Something similar was reported to me a few years back, when the folks involved couldn't find an explanation (It may have been the same message but I can't be sure). I found that the volume containing the Proclib had recently been made eligible for DFHSM migration and the Proclib was being

Re: Using RMM in a large STK environment?

2007-03-14 Thread Steve O'Connell
Hi John, not sure what you are asking for, or your definition of large for that matter, but Between 1998-2003 where I worked we shared STK silos between LPARs, most of which ran TLMS but one of which ran RMM. We also had another site that had STK silos and ran CA-1. AFAIK,

Re: MVS NFS Holding Exclusive Enqueue

2007-03-13 Thread Steve O'Connell
Hi Ed. You're not giving much away about your configuration, but this issue caught my eye as I am trying to gen up on NFS at the moment as part of the 1.4-1.7 migration - and we have AIX clients connecting to the NFS server on z/os. However, AFAIK, AIX only access HFS files and not standard

Re: Cart Disk Allocation

2007-02-01 Thread Steve O'Connell
I have worked with MIM, MII, MIA etc in the past and recall this now that you mention it. This sounds like exactly what we want to see happen in our environment running GRS star. What are the chances of IBM providing this facility?

Re: Cart Disk Allocation

2007-02-01 Thread Steve O'Connell
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 11:47:26 +, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are the chances of IBM providing this facility? Two things: 1. Try posting a snippet, so we know what you're talking about. Ted. I was reponding to the last reply in the thread which contained a response from Sam

Re: BLKSIZE=0

2007-01-22 Thread Steve O'Connell
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:12:34 -0800, glen herrmannsfeldt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, is it still possible to open a new data set and read the existing data on the tracks? -- glen It was certainly the case under XA (2.2.3 IIRC), when I encountered the same issue. Steve O.

Sa/zos (Sa/390) Automation Training

2007-01-21 Thread Steve O'Connell
Hello. I have been following the 'debate' about training, and it prompted me to ask a question. Does anybody know how I can get some training in IBM System Automation? We are running V3R1 - and I think it is now officially known as Sa/zos rather than Sa/390. I am based in the UK and contacted

Re: Cart Disk Allocation

2007-01-20 Thread Steve O'Connell
Jim, since, as you say, this issue goes back an awfully long way, it seems very odd that IBM never implemented any facility to achieve the same result as in your solution in the OS code - i.e. an additional subparameter to the VARY command to set the bit you mention, or even a new command

Re: Cart Disk Allocation

2007-01-20 Thread Steve O'Connell
Gerhard, I may be missing something, but I don't follow the logic in your example about a single job wanting 8 drives being worse off if a drive is flagged as unavailable. If a job wants 8 drives, and 1 is broken, then surely that job isn't going to run either way without a JCL

Re: Offline Tape Drives - Candidates for allocation

2007-01-18 Thread Steve O'Connell
Matthew, I tried to keep the initial post small, believe it or not, and left out a lot of detail, so the answer is YES - I think. My recollection is that when we explicitly vary the drives offline for maintenance they are always varied offline to ALL LPARs in the SYSPLEX. In Production

Re: Offline Tape Drives - Candidates for allocation

2007-01-18 Thread Steve O'Connell
Tim, can you issue CONFIG at the device level - and does this affect how ALLOCATION works as opposed to VARY? I know that you can CONFIG at the CHP level but that would take out all drives on that CHP, not just the affected one.

Re: Allocation puzzlement.

2007-01-18 Thread Steve O'Connell
When you say fully customized when referring to the 1.4 systems, do you perhaps imply that there is a difference in SMS implementation between the 1.4 and 1.7 systems? We have one volume mounted as storage in VATLSTxx but TSO allocations do not go there as they are redirected elsewhere by SMS.

Re: Is anyone still running..........................

2007-01-11 Thread Steve O'Connell
Maybe closer to home, and this is hearsay only I'm afraid, but I had a discussion at the end of last year, on another (non-IT) bulletin board, with a chap who works in Spain. He said he worked on OS/390 and when I queried this and pointed out the EOS fo 2.10 he was adamant that 1 or more

Re: Warning on IBM APAR OA17011

2007-01-10 Thread Steve O'Connell
Russel, can you clarify something for me please? Your sig states that you support CA-1, and in your post you say that folks running a tape management system (including CA-1) are safe, but you go on to say that you have 2 clients (by deduction CA-1 customers?) who have lost data as a

Re: IBM 3494-L10 Tape Library

2007-01-04 Thread Steve O'Connell
Hi Lucy. I don't understand what you perceive your problem to be, nor the reference to Tivoli, but we have a couple of partitioned 3494-L10s. Are you saying that you are running the 3494 partitioned and do not believe that the tape range should be in the TCDB for the Plex in question? If so,

Re: IBM 3494-L10 Tape Library

2007-01-04 Thread Steve O'Connell
Lucy, sounds like you may already have this in hand, but for info... CBRUXENT works in conjunction with the REJECT statements in the DFRMM parameters (EDGRMMxx), but I don't know how TMS achieves the same functionality. We have had issues in the past where tapes appeared in the TCDB for

Re: Remote Tape drives

2006-12-31 Thread Steve O'Connell
I am sure that there are many options. I have used Network Systems and CNT, and now McData Channel Extenders, in the past and I am sure they would work, but at a price. However, I have also used a Barr Dos based solution for both 3480 and Printer extension (via a remote 37xx) from these folks

Re: SMF Type 19 and IPL Hang

2006-12-24 Thread Steve O'Connell
Curiously enough I had to stop the collection of Type19 records in the past couple of weeks due to this problem with VTOC enqueues. As has been stated, up to z/os 1.6 it is also necessary to turn off the Type69 records (no brainer for us as we don't create any), but this requirement is removed