Re: Language Environment runtime options and system dumps

Bill Klein says: sometimes, using the user friendly debugging tools at hand can make the need for a system dump of the original abend unnecessary. Tell that to vendor support teams. . . Cheers,,,Steve Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network

Re: What is System Completion Code FD6?

In QuickRef, do Categories, then System Abend Codes. Select any of the system abend codes Fxx: Fnn Explanation: The system detected an error while processing a Supervisor Call (SVC) instruction. The last 2 digits of this completion code, nn, are the operand of the SVC instruction in

Re: What is System Completion Code FD6?

Scott says I won - do I get a prize? Maybe some Illegal Transaction Records so I can finally finish Underboss. . . Uh, if you get that reference, you've wasted as much time as I have. . . :-) Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network

Re: Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX?

Barbara Nitz's masterful rant snipped Barbara, you are my hero. You are a goddess. I want to be you when (if) I grow up. Well said, madam, well said. Cheers,,,Steve Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network Operations Phone: (703)

Re: Why are z/OS people so reluctant to use z/OS UNIX?

Try creating GDG(+1) from z/OS Unix. Note that using the 'cp' command generates two SMF 15 records - can't DSN trigger using it. Find something else that works with GDGs. I'll wait. While I'm in the shell, I can't use split screen. 13.11 and 3.17 don't have all the capabilities of the

Re: Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX?

Don't you hate it when Shane is so reluctant to express his true feelings? G,D,R Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network Operations Phone: (703) 450-3156 Fax:(703) 450-3197 A veteran is someone who, at one point in his life wrote

Re: TSM 's future on the z/OS platform

IBM documentation at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6/index.jsp does not support the statement that TSM 6.1 will not be available for z/OS, for the client, at least. The IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager for z/OS® UNIX® System Services Backup-Archive Client 6.1 is available.

Re: TSM 's future on the z/OS platform

Mark and Bruno, thanks for the clarification. I missed it that the server, not the client, was in question here. Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network Operations Phone: (703) 450-3156 Fax:(703) 450-3197 A veteran is someone who,

Re: Using CA-JOBTRAC V11 SP3 in Production

Steve, good luck. I've been at it for months, finally implemented two weeks ago. Still have a lot of problems with return code processing. Be up to date on maintenance. As in, check to see what PTFs came out TODAY. Be sure to load test thoroughly. What works fine on your testplex may

Re: Using CA-JOBTRAC V11 SP3 in Production

Tom, I was in CA Development when the word came down the food chain that ALL system management products were to be architected to have an underlying Datacom DB. I stated that customers would hate it, and it would cause problems. Since I was a transplanted Sysprog, and not considered a real

Re: Using CA-JOBTRAC V11 SP3 in Production

Now, THAT one I have done. Had to, after the first attempt to go Production. The utility worked, just flagged a TON of stuff as bad. We accepted that and kept going. Cleaning up the v3.5 history and checkpoint files first will allow a successful fallback. Having to rerun VINIT to get the

Re: Using CA-JOBTRAC V11 SP3 in Production

Eric asked if CA-11 worked with Datacom. FSVO OK Used to share CA11 between lots of systems Not simple, when the Datacom-running system needs an IPL. Yeah, yeah, Shadow MUF, blah, blah. I'm not a Datacom guy, don't want to be. We are a DB2 shop, and do you think the DB2 guys want

Re: IBM Share Austin March 2 2009 conference feedback

Cold, Wayne. But funny. :-) Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network Operations Phone: (703) 450-3156 Fax:(703) 450-3197 Wayne Driscoll wdri...@us.ibm.com Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu

Re: Where are the system symbols??

Larry, from any ISPF command line, enter this: TSO listc ent('sys1.linklib') all VOLUMES, VOLSER** DEVTYPE--X'' FSEQN--0, Look at the VOLSER field. The six asterisks indicate indirect catloging, meaning whatever volume you IPLed from, that

Re: Where are the system symbols??

I wrote: All your IPL datasets, really all your resvol datasets, should be indirectly cataloged. I meant: All your IPL datasets ON THE RESVOL, really all your resvol datasets, should be indirectly cataloged. Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division

.*WITH /*AFTER Commands?

This is just to satisfy my curiosity. Does anybody recognize these commands? Or a $DR to display resources? One of my user community says he used these commands at ATT up until 2002. I don't recognize them. There is not a Google search I could think of that limited the results to anything

Re: /*WITH /*AFTER Commands? (was .*WITH /*AFTER Commands?)

? Daniel McLaughlin Z-Series Systems Programmer Information Communications Technology Crawford Company 4680 N. Royal Atlanta Tucker GA 30084 phone: 770-621-3256 fax: 770-621-3237 cell: 770-666-7969 email: daniel_mclaugh...@us.crawco.com web: www.crawfordandcompany.com Steven Conway

Re: .*WITH /*AFTER Commands?

...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steven Conway Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 10:12 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: .*WITH /*AFTER Commands? This is just to satisfy my curiosity. Does anybody recognize these commands? Or a $DR to display resources? One of my user community says he used

Re: .*WITH /*AFTER Commands?

Thank, Norris and Bob for the followup info. Cheers,,,Steve Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network Operations Phone: (703) 450-3156 Fax:(703) 450-3197 -- For

Re: .*WITH /*AFTER Commands?

Thanks, Mark. We have ThruPut here, and I hadn't seen that. So many manuals, so little time. :-) Cheers,,,Steve Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network Operations Phone: (703) 450-3156 Fax:(703) 450-3197 Mark Zelden

Re: TAPE to TAPE across Sysplex local or remote

We have three sites, three ATLs, all Sun, set up in a cascade. Tapes created in one site are replicated over IP to the other sites. No human intervention once the configuration was set up. Cheers,,,Steve Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer

Re: TAPE to TAPE across Sysplex local or remote

Of course, once I hit enter I realized I had answered a question you did not ask. Sorry about that. To move data from one sysplex to another, we generally use ftp. Cheers,,,Steve Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network Operations Phone:

Re: The Paddles (was RE: Interesting CS Course Syllabus)

Um, Kristine, you DO realize that as tall as I am (in your particular case) may be misleading, right? :-) Cheers,,,Steve Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network Operations Phone: (703) 450-3156 Fax:(703) 450-3197 Kristine

Re: CBRUXENT Mystery

We have 5 LPARs defined and they appear on that list in alphabetical order: DEV, PROD, TEST, VM, VMTEST. WAG says it's getting its relative number from there, but that hardly makes sense. Issue D M=CPU, check the values for LP ID and MIF ID - maybe they will trigger something for you.

Re: Ed Gould (Was: Simpless way to ...)

And RACF-L on nearly a daily basis. Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network Operations Phone: (703) 450-3156 Fax:(703) 450-3197 Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU

Re: TN3270 Abend S0F8 RC04

John, check your SMP/E zone. I'm sure that's what Walter looked at. Walter, check the module, like John did. I'm betting you have the same module. Entry Type: LMOD Entry Name: ASASYMBM To return to the previous panel, enter,END,. To select an entry from a zone, enter,S,next to the zone.

Re: JCL PROCEDURE QUESTION

Howard, look in the PROC itself - just do a F IMAGE. Because it's on your PROC statement, it must exist within the PROC. Cheers,,,Steve Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network Operations Phone: (703) 450-3156 Fax:(703) 450-3197

Re: Did anyone else receive this marketing stuff?

Yes. It comes with joining certain MVS message boards. Even if you've unsubscribed. :-( Cheers,,,Steve Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network Operations Phone: (703) 450-3156 Fax:(703) 450-3197

Re: z/OS 1.9 Catalog Enqueue Problems

We did not have any catalog problems, even with the sysplex mixed between z/OS 1.7 and z/OS 1.9. We do not use MIM. Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network Operations Phone: (703) 450-3156 Fax:(703) 450-3197 Rabbe, Luke

Re: CA Jobtrac 3.5 Off Support

Dean said: I was told by CA that 3.5 SP7 would run fine with 1.9. We'll see we're getting ready to start testing. Yup. It's running fine here under 1.9. Cheers,,,Steve Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network Operations Phone: (703)

Re: What is AKPCSIEP?

Not listed in the Diagnosis Reference Chap 1, which ties prefixes to components and product IDs. CA-Audit says this: Program:,AKPCSIEP ,PRINT SERVICES FACILITY ,IBM This entry was found in SYS1.LINKLIB(IEFSDPPT) DATASET

Re: Executing multiple console commands in different job steps

I just downloaded and installed W$$MGCR from the CBT Tape. Assemble and link, life is good. Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network Operations Phone: (703) 450-3156 Fax:(703) 450-3197 Timmerman, Kurt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Outsourcing dilemma or debacle, you decide...

Howard Brazee asked: -snip- Have you worked for companies that used terror as a weapon or tool? -snip All those with military service need not respond. Steve Conway MSgt, USMC (Ret.) Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network Operations Phone: (703)

CA Support Connect Outage

CA Technical Support for Businesses Partners The CA Customer Support Online systems are currently unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please check back later. This apparently affects their ability to provide a Logout button or telephone number to call, as well. Steve Conway

Re: Webcast next week: Migrating to z/OS V1.9

John: my vote is that this is NOT an advertisement and is welcome. I'm all for free presentations, from IBM or any other vendor. Cheers,,,Steve Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network Operations Phone: (703) 450-3156 Fax:(703)

Re: Compare files - with different date fields

You could run ISRSUPC in batch for the compare, but you indicate you know that. //SUPERC EXEC PGM=ISRSUPC, //PARM=(DELTAL,LINECMP, //'', //'') //NEWDD DD DSN=SYS4.TSPSFC.CLIST(NOTAVAIL), // DISP=SHR //OLDDD DD DSN=SYS4.TSPSFC.CLIST(NOTFORU), //

Re: PDSE Clarification

1. No. 2. No more or less than with a PDS. 3. Shudder. DON'T do that. PDSEs shared across sysplex boundaries WILL be corrupted. 4. no answer Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network Operations Phone: (703) 450-3156 Fax:(703)

Re: PDSE Clarification

] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU 05/19/2008 10:11 AM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU cc Subject Re: PDSE Clarification On Mon, 19 May 2008 09:10:42 -0400, Steven Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1

ERBPPSRT Gone at z/OS 1.9

Morning, All. Went to z/OS 1.9 yesterday on our main DEV system, which also runs some PROD batch. One of our Capacity Performance RMF processing jobs got an S806 on module ERBPPSRT. It was pointed out years ago (in this forum) that this sort exit in SYS1.SERBLINK had been replaced by

Re: ERBPPSRT Gone at z/OS 1.9

Yup, it was. Definitely a local (my) error, not IBM's. My post was an observation that, while some migration actions may be ignored, this one can't. Skipping multiple releases, going thru those same multiple releases' migration and planning guides, almost a guarantee I'll miss something.

Re: ServerPac and zFS

Mark Zelden wrote: = I do have one additional parm. romount_recovery=on /* see APAR OA22351 */ See the APAR for details why. Great catch, Mark. It is now on all my systems, as well.

Re: ING.SING* DATASETS

'ING' on our system is System Automation Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network Operations Phone: (703) 450-3156 Fax:(703) 450-3197 Pat Monk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU

Re: WLM classification for separate tn3270 server?

What Mark Jacobs and Mark Hamman said? Yeah, us too. TN3270 TN3270 TN3270 NSW SO A=0063 PER=NO SMC=000 PGN=N/A DMN=N/A AFF=NONE CT=077.101S ET=73.56.59 WUID=STC04097

Re: switch from CA-SYSVIEW to SDSF

Perhaps you haven't looked at it for a few (several) years, Gary. SYSVIEW provides a perfectly useable spool interface; it even lets you set a parameter to use SDSF commands. I found the screen tailoring capabilities of SYSVIEW superior to SDSF. Add in all the rest of its capabilities, and

Re: Specialty Engine Prices

STOP, Ed! It's too hard to clean the morning coffee off the keyboard. :-) Cheers,,,Steve Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network Operations Phone: (703) 450-3156 Fax:(703) 450-3197 Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:

Re: z800 to z9 migration

Hal said: I have heard it called Systems Assurance. We go through each detail from crypto flavor to ESCON port. Includes details down to the type of connectors needed for each ESCON cable. That's what it's been forever, but my latest one, on a DS8100, it was called a Solution Assurance.

Re: How to?

If you've already lost the old email address, then contact the list owner for assistance. Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network Operations Phone: (703) 450-3156 Fax:(703) 450-3197 turner, mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:

Re: Custompac

Hi, Jack. I ran into the same thing. Just blank out everything except the volser on the Physical Allocations page, and ServerPac will go take a look at the volume. You'll be fine. Cheers,,,Steve Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network

Re: Custompac

Whoops, should have been sent to Matt. Sorry. Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network Operations Phone: (703) 450-3156 Fax:(703) 450-3197 Steven Conway/HQ/FHLMC 03/14/2008 12:15 PM To IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN

ServiceLink access availability

Morning, All. Trying to get into Resource Link to check HIPER MCL J11212.156 for the 2064. I keep timing out on the connection. Here's the address I've been using: http://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc03100.nsf?OpenDatabase. There's probably a simpler one, but this is what I have

Re: IBM Resourcelink unavailable?

Not just you, Cal. Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network Operations Phone: (703) 450-3156 Fax:(703) 450-3197 Cal McCracken [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU 03/07/2008 08:51

Re: ZOS Upgrade Issue

] -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Conway Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 8:33 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ZOS Upgrade Issue Randy, the error message suggests you have that volume (UPPZFS) incorrectly

Re: ZOS Upgrade Issue

Randy, without ALLOCxx in your PARMLIB concatenation, the default device will be SYSALLDA. If that's not defined in your gen, it would explain the failure. A browse thru HCD would be interesting. Cheers,,,Steve Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division

Re: ZOS Upgrade Issue

forehead slap Adding to the list of stuff I should have, but didn't, think about before opening my mouth. Those who know me can imagine the length of -that- list! :-) Cheers,,,Steve Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network Operations

Re: ZOS Upgrade Issue

- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Conway Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 12:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ZOS Upgrade Issue forehead slap Adding to the list of stuff I should have, but didn't, think about before opening my mouth

Re: ZOS Upgrade Issue

Randy, the error message suggests you have that volume (UPPZFS) incorrectly defined in the ServerPac dialogs. Under Option M - Modify System Layout, primary command SUMP or Option V (Summary of Physical Volumes), verify the Device Type of the volume in question. Good luck. Cheers,,,Steve

Re: Job ad for z/OS systems programmer trainee

A college degree can usually be taken as an indication of Ted's points. Provided other factors are allowed in place of a degree, I have no problem with Ted's statements. I DO have a problem with the a blanket college degree required for a job. My highest year of school completed? 10th

Re: Initapi errno 156

Dude, you're running on an unsupported OS, with obsolete Top Secret software. Ugly! OK, OK, I'm sure that is not your choice, but it needed to be said, dammit! :-) I'm sure you checked this stuff, but: Check the TSS Violation report to see if the failure made it to TSS. From the violation

Re: Restartable PDSE Address space

Matt, I started running this about a month ago. No problems, negligible resource usage. I took no actions other than adding PDSE_RESTARTABLE_AS(YES) to IGDSMSxx. Cheers,,,Steve Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network Operations Phone:

Re: Virtual Storage Controls - Was Re: REGION=0M and LSQA

Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU cc Subject Re: Virtual Storage Controls - Was Re: REGION=0M and LSQA Steven Conway wrote: I agree with CC that having jobs blow due to limited storage is archaic. John's suggestion of a warn mode

Re: Virtual Storage Controls - Was Re: REGION=0M and LSQA

I agree with CC that having jobs blow due to limited storage is archaic. John's suggestion of a warn mode is outstanding. And, it's heartening for Martin to tell us people within IBM are looking at this issue. How about that? A thread where I agree with about everybody. Weird. :-)

Re: XCF Performance

I didn't mean to offend, Martin. As to what it SHOULD say, I'm not comfortable that I know the topic well enough to suggest how to rewrite it. This was unfamiliar territory for me, and it took a couple false starts to get the relationship between CLASSDEF and PATHOUT. Still a bit fuzzy on

Re: XCF Performance

Hi, Chris. I assume this is in response to Health Checker messages? I just finished updating all systems to make the messages go away. Easiest thing would be to review your COUPLEnn PARMLIB member: /* */ /* Transport classes for Large and

Re: Health CHECK(IBMVSM,VSM_PVT_LIMIT)/VSM_SQA_THRESHOLD

Barbara's complaint is noted, but does not apply across every shop, of course. When we went to z/OS 1.7 last year, we increased ECSA. No problem on our test systems, where 1.7 lived for months of testing before migrating. All was well, until we got to Prod. Suddenly a problem surfaced that

Java and classic MVS files

One of our developers is asking me if he can run Java programs with classic MVS files (sequential and VSAM) as input and output. To date, our programmers have written files to the file system, manipulated them, written back to classic MVS file structures. I tried searching the group history

Re: Java and classic MVS files

John, Jay, Rob and Eileen: Thank you very much for the info and -especially- for the references. This is exactly what I'm looking for! Cheers,,,Steve Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network Operations Phone: (703) 450-3156 Fax:

Re: z/OS and Hercules

You're not. IBM does not, at this time, license any of their commercial operating systems for Hercules. Or any other hardware, recently. Hercules enthusiasts generally run an old, free OS like MVT, or a free current OS (Linux for zSeries). Not that we don't beg and whine at SHARE. Or

Re: Virtual Storage implementation

I'm going to hate myself for responding, I just know it. I don't believe the OP's question suggested any illegal activity. In my mind, that is the only basis for questioning a poster on anything non-relevant to his/her question. I don't recall being questioned about my employer, their

Re: Virtual Storage implementation

Anton, I know who CSC is and what they do. (And I can add fairly well, thank you.) My response stands. Cheers,,,Steve Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network Operations Phone: (703) 450-3156 Fax:(703) 450-3197 Anton Britz

Re: z9 DRIVER 67

Bert, we're told it is a concurrent update. Hard to do better than zero as downtime. Cheers,,,Steve Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network Operations Phone: (703) 450-3156 Fax:(703) 450-3197 Bert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: z9 DRIVER 67

Sam Knutson asked: Has anyone else migrated to the z9 microcode level DRIVER 67? We are planning on moving to DRIVER67L this weekend. === Actually, Sam, we have it scheduled for the 26th. Doug F mentioned he was doing one this weekend; wonder if that was you guys. I'll be looking forward

Re: How old are you?

Bob Richards (And I do not even look 56!) grin Nope, you don't. Not any more. . . Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network Operations Phone: (703) 450-3156 Fax:(703) 450-3197

Re: IBMLINK Down again?

Feeling no love here, either. Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network Operations Phone: (703) 450-3156 Fax:(703) 450-3197 Mark Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU

Re: IBM to Break Petaflops Barrier with Blue Gene/P

Shane posted: (yeah, yeah, old thread...was on vacation last week) --- Well in that case (if it has USB support) maybe it could run IBMs new (no so) super secret

Re: Load Library BLKSIZE=32760 (Was: Top 10 software install gripes)

Re: Ed Jaffe's SMS routine and the MVSSCP Newsletter. Good thought, Ken! Ed, if you're willing to share the routine, send it on to me. Cheers,,,Steve Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network Operations Phone: (703) 450-3156 Fax:

Re: Article for z/Journal

Dave Kopischke said: ==Do user groups adequately educate new folks in this technology and culture? Yes, if you can get to the user groups and find one that's relevant. I hear SHARE is a great learning event, but expensive without subsidy. The only local user groups I'm aware of are for

Re: The Death of the Mainframe (?)

04/19/2007 05:30 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU cc Subject Re: The Death of the Mainframe (?) On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 15:35 -0400, Steven Conway wrote: Ah, the exuberance of youth! Before a lifetime in the bureaucracy

Re: The Death of the Mainframe (?)

Ah, the exuberance of youth! Before a lifetime in the bureaucracy crushes their little spirits, turning them into the joyless curmudgeons that hang out in listservs with like-minded bitter cynics. Oh. Did I say that out loud? My bad. Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems

Re: RACF and Member Level Protection

Shmuel, The first question is what they mean by supports member level security in a PDS or PDSE. Are they talking about checking access only on OPEN, or also on FIND and STOW? It would be trivial to circumvent controls on FIND for PDS. I don't know the particulars of what, precisely, Top Secret

Re: RACF and Member Level Protection

Trying again, with a bit of formatting this time: Shmuel, The first question is what they mean by supports member level security in a PDS or PDSE. Are they talking about checking access only on OPEN, or also on FIND and STOW? It would be trivial to circumvent controls on FIND for PDS. I

RACF and Member Level Protection

CA Top Secret supports member level security in a PDS or PDSE, allowing a variance of access authority to users of the dataset versus an individual member. We have that plugged in. A few months ago, there was a problem that led me to open an issue with Top Secret to verify what they do, and

Re: What makes MASTER CONSOLE unique?

Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU 04/02/2007 06:10 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU cc Subject Re: What makes MASTER CONSOLE unique? Steven Conway wrote

Re: What makes MASTER CONSOLE unique?

-Sam Knutson's excellent tutorial snipped- Sam, I had an offline exchange with Brian Peterson about this. Apparently, only the IMS DB/DC regions have the WTOR, and it does not appear to be configurable. We have a couple dozen regions, none with the PARM=(CTL... My ignorance of IMS has been

Re: MVS Experience

Sam Golob said: We don't seem to have too many bright kids here, who are willing to try anything and learn about the nitty gritty innards of the MVS system. Cue the zNextGen crew from SHARE in 3, 2, 1, . . . IBM and SHARE and a very bright, motivated and enthusiastic crew of

Re: Any DST Problems Yesterday?

Hey, Shane! Lighten up! What the news people choose to stress to sell advertising doesn't reflect what most of the rest of us are doing. I'm sure that's just an American thing, though, right? And maybe note the '.co.uk' domain of the original poster. Doggone, this man needs a beer (or 10)

Re: Paging and SLOTS

Bob, In answer to your question about having 256M real storage, and not to take anything away from the very good answers you've already gotten, I offer this as a comparison. I have two z/OS 1.7 systems with 256M real each. They are running no applications except GDPS. There are no monitors,

Re: Rename Active IODF Whilst System Is Up?

I don't believe you can use a V5 IODF (created on the z/OS 1.7 system) on a z/OS 1.4 system. Perhaps one if the hardware gurus on the list can help out with a reference? Cheers,,,Steve Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network Operations

Re: Rename Active IODF Whilst System Is Up?

Of course, I found what I was looking for right after I posted. In the HCD User's Guide, http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/cbdzug40.pdf?bcsi_scan_CD2948435F56D921=0bcsi_scan_filename=cbdzug40.pdf, Pg 68, IODF Release Level Compatibility. z/OS 1.4 requires compatibility PTF from APAR

Re: Rename Active IODF Whilst System Is Up?

snip Roy Hewitt's excellent z/OS 1.7 Migration Guide reference Thanks, Roy. The Migration Guide cuts to the heart of it even better than the HCD User's Guide. Great reference. Cheers,,,Steve Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer Network

Re: Who intercepted SVC 26?

Bruce Black posted: If you go to ISPF 6 and enter FDRDEBUG SYS you will get a display snip Sweet! I have a couple of systems without any kind of monitor product, and this gives a nice display of storage. Thanks, Bruce. Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services

Re: Who intercepted SVC 26?

Bruce Black posted: Ur welcome. FDRDEBUG has a lot of other function as well. snip Great stuff, Bruce. Thanks again. I wonder what other products we have in-house have nifty, not-obvious commands and/or displays. Cheers,,,Steve Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems

Re: JOB07040 IEC130I SLFVDDIL DD STATEMENT MISSING

On Jul 26, 2002, Don Imbriale pointed out, in response to a similar query, LE run-time option CBLQDA(ON) allows dynamic allocation of QSAM files. Check the option to see if you allow it. Cheers,,,Steve Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer

Fw: JOB07040 IEC130I SLFVDDIL DD STATEMENT MISSING

MVS Command D CEE,CEEDOPT shows you your 31-bit runtime options, D CEE,CELQUPT gives your 64-bit options. Either shows your CEE PARMLIB member prefix as the 2nd line of the CEE3745I response. Cheers,,,Steve Steve Conway Lead Systems Programmer Information Systems Services Division Computer

Re: LPAR with GRSRNL=EXCLUDE can be added to a normal GRSplex? Please help!!!

Shane sez: The manuals are written by, and predominantly for, (United State) Americans. Expecting comprehensible and non-ambiguous English is asking for too much. An Aussie ragging on US English for being incomprehensible. I am speechless. (Those that know me realize the magnitude that

Reference to TCPIP task functions?

Happy Friday! I think I remember, years ago, seeing a list of TCPIP tasks and what their functions were. I'm talking about the tasks you see listed in response to D OMVS,A=ALL: SYSTCPIP TCPIP0041 196623 LATCHWAITPID= 0 CMD=EZBTCPIP SYSTCPIP TCPIP0041 196624