Re: Retiring after 43+ years with IBM

2012-05-25 Thread Tim Hare
Aw darn! I was hoping you'd be there until I retired next summer! Congratulations, and enjoy it. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO

REPRO MERGECAT performance

2012-05-25 Thread Tim Hare
We've just done a couple of REPRO MERGECATs that were fairly large, and took some time, so I was wondering: Can MERGECAT performance be improved by altering the buffer space values for either the input or output catalog, or both?

Re: IBM manual formats

2012-01-11 Thread Tim Hare
Well, if IBM still started with markup (DCF / GML etc.) for their documents, then they could use a different set of markup handlers and output something that would be a good start. If they're using something else for document creation, I think doing a 'save as' to certain document formats

Re: IBM manual formats

2012-01-10 Thread Tim Hare
Bear in mind that Kindle, and many other ereaders, are designed to automatically reflow text to fit user options like text size. Which works great for text, not so well for images like diagrams. The best think I've found for diagrams so far is to put the diagram on a page by itself and make

Re: IBM TS7740 Copy/Export process

2012-01-09 Thread Tim Hare
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 reserving judgement on that. I can see

DFSORT question

2010-05-24 Thread Tim Hare
I would like to assign a sequence number to the input of ICETOOL, with a limit on the maximum number - so for example, the number would increment from 1 to 6, then start at 1 again. Can I combine the seqnum and MOD operations to do it in one pass, or do I need to add sequence numbers, create

Re: DFSORT question

2010-05-24 Thread Tim Hare
Example input, RECFM=FB,LRECL=14: DSK001 100 DSK002 3962002 DSK003 0001001 DSK005 200 DSK006 200 DSK008 010 DSK007 0001002 DSK004 0527192 Two fields: VOLSER in 1-6 and SIZE in 8-14. I want to assign a 'sequence' number to the input from 1 to 4, so that I can sort these into 4

Re: Question on SMFDUMP on z/OS v1.7

2010-01-14 Thread Tim Hare
SMFDUMP is used on some of the LPARs at the consolidated site where I work. The program is run via automated job scheduler; frequency varies by how busy that LPAR is. SMFDUMP has a problem sometimes where it hangs. I haven't seen an enqueue cause. I haven't taken a dump of it yet but I

Re: Replace VTS with a tape less appliance

2010-01-13 Thread Tim Hare
As with all things, YMMV, but I have had success moving from VTS/VSM to DASD. It was hard to quantify cost savings, because the vendor didn't separate out cost of the virtual box (including its DASD) from the cost of the robotic library. Some important factors, in my opinion: 1. Do you have

Re: Replace VTS with a tape less appliance

2010-01-13 Thread Tim Hare
No, and I didn't mean to imply that it was. We use native high-capacity cartridges for ML2. It has its own management challenges of course, but is working well for us right now. One question often comes up when discussing using tapeless systems for ML2: If I'm going to have it on disk

Re: Beating a dead horse but

2009-12-03 Thread Tim Hare
Thanks to all who replied, and apologies for not tracking this in a timely manner (life intervenes, etcetera) to the thread on IEFBR14 DELETEs and HSM recalls. I had not heard of the enhancement to z/OS 1.11 that should do just what I want it to, but I'll check it out.

Beating a dead horse but

2009-11-20 Thread Tim Hare
In a 2008 thread on people using IEFBR14 to do deletes there as this: Indeed, how should Allocation know whether the program about to execute wants to do something with the dataset(s) before deleting it/them? Perhaps Allocation could be educated to issue HDELETE iff the dataset is migrated *AND*

Concatenating TERSEd data?

2008-10-17 Thread Tim Hare
We need to TERSE a fairly large (for us) amount of data. This data is in multiple separate datasets now, but needs to be sent as one large sequential dataset. We can TERSE the concatenated sequential input of course; but out of curiosity I'm wondering: can you TERSE the individual components,

SMFPRMxx questions

2008-09-26 Thread Tim Hare
Somewhere in our migration to z/OS 1.9 (pretty sure it wasn't this way on 1.7), our IEFUJV exit started getting invoked for OMVS address spaces. Since this exit tries to enforce TIME= and account numbers on job cards, it fails our OMVS address spaces. We coded, in SMFPRM, SUBSYS(OMVS,NOEXITS)

DFSORT/ICETOOL question

2008-06-04 Thread Tim Hare
Really two questions I guess. 1. We have variable length records with the data similar to COBOL 'OCCURS DEPENDING ON' clauses - a count of the number of segments to follow, followed by those segments. Is there a way to handle these in INREC/OUTREC/OUTFILE ? I already thought of using IFTHEN

Re: DFSORT/ICETOOL question

2008-06-04 Thread Tim Hare
I know the offset and format of the count, and I certainly can compare it to a literal. The problem is not knowing the maximum value the count could have in any group of records (and each record can have a different value for the count). I could for example, code the IFTHEN statement to handle

Dumb CA-1 question

2007-07-20 Thread Tim Hare
-dataset volumes... but others don't. The only thing I could think of would be to rewrite the dataset with DISP=OLD and a new EXPDT= but I can't see that you could do it without recreating the dataset - for example, by reading it and coding EXPDT= in the JCL. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer

Re: Management type Conferences

2007-07-13 Thread Tim Hare
Support Management Systems Management Several of those might be of interest to manager types. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU 07/13/2007 07:48

Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article

2007-07-13 Thread Tim Hare
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070711-legacy-matters-why-the-ibm-mainframe-continues-to-thrive.html referenced article http://www.itjungle.com/big/big071007-story01.html Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209

Re: Career Advice Sought

2007-07-05 Thread Tim Hare
: with the large number of servers, automating how things go daily is a challenge I'm sure... I am, as are many of us, spoiled by the 'set it and forget it' way of the mainframe where you can set up a process and it's still working 3 decades later (recently had to review one of these!). Tim Hare Senior

FORTRAN

2007-07-05 Thread Tim Hare
the calculations correctly. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message

Re: HSM tapes

2007-07-05 Thread Tim Hare
, in other words. If I'm overlooking something, please enlighten me. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: ICC question

2007-07-02 Thread Tim Hare
address in the ICC's address range to connect and match up; but as far as I know you can't do it from any IP address you want. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 Andy White [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN

Re: S0C4 in IEBCOPY on z/OS 1.8

2007-06-29 Thread Tim Hare
Do you have PDSFAST, FDRREORG, or other product which replaces IEBCOPY ? You may need to re-install, or at least look into, the usermod or other hook that does provides the IEBCOPY entry point. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 IBM

Re: File to PDF Product

2007-06-29 Thread Tim Hare
, and I'm sure it's improved since then. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Products to send alerts from the mainframe to mobile devices

2007-06-28 Thread Tim Hare
to route through an MTA in that infrastructure it's possible I could get an exception granted. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: OPERLOG stops after IPL

2007-06-28 Thread Tim Hare
And, Carmen, even if you _are_ perturbed because we didn't solve your problem for you, there are more polite ways to express it. Most of us have our own fires to fight, for employers who put money in the bank, so forgive us if our volunteer work comes second. Tim Hare Senior Systems

Re: Testing System Programmer Capabilities

2007-06-25 Thread Tim Hare
Question: how do we know that your organization is not just asking us to provide a way to disrupt mainframe systems? No offense intended, at all; it's just a basic security question. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209

Storage Group for non-SMS volumes?

2007-06-21 Thread Tim Hare
(for example, ABR's MOUNT STORGRP=). Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

[no subject]

2007-06-21 Thread Tim Hare
are at the moment non-SMS. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message

Re: Why do we need BPXBATCH, JZOS et. al.?

2007-06-20 Thread Tim Hare
That's like asking why we need IKJEFT01 to run TSO commands in batch. The commands need an environment which supplies the services needed to execute. BPXBATCH et al provide that environment for Unix commands. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414

Re: how to list LE options

2007-06-20 Thread Tim Hare
they see, and then they complain to me about it. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: CMS/DOD idle connection requirements

2007-06-19 Thread Tim Hare
off, preventing the productivity loss. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Idenitfy ibm-main posts on Lotus Notes

2007-06-19 Thread Tim Hare
I have a rule for when Sender, To, or CC contain IBM-MAIN, which moves mail to a different Notes folder. since the folder is highlighted when it contains unread mail, this sort of provides color coding. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209

Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules

2007-06-11 Thread Tim Hare
needed to run our apps, including CICS, WebSphere, and DB2, and they priced it for what z/OS goes for now? Would our bean counters be happy? Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209

Virtual tape cost question

2007-06-08 Thread Tim Hare
lease... Thanks Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM

Re: Virtual tape cost question

2007-06-08 Thread Tim Hare
-speed networks). But that's not part of my original question either, I'm just trying to find out whether the virtual tape component being 20% of the total cost is legit or not. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209

Re: Questions to the list

2007-06-01 Thread Tim Hare
guys left for IBM and elsewhere. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Help settle a job title/role debate

2007-05-10 Thread Tim Hare
Wayne Driscoll wrote: Makes me wish there was a certification test required to run for public office! Why? We all know that those guys are certifiable! Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209

Re: Help with IKT011I Message RC=100

2007-05-01 Thread Tim Hare
Make changes to the current member of VTAMLST, issue V NET,ACT,ID=,UPDATE=ALL and it should implement your changes on the fly. VTAM has quite a bit of update-while-running functionality, rarely mentioned, but it is documented. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department

Re: Ulterior Motive for IBM's Lawsuits

2007-04-30 Thread Tim Hare
microcoded to emulate zSeries instruction set, perhaps with some parallel-processing instructions and/or networking added. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: RES: Counting occurrences of a string in loadlib

2007-04-27 Thread Tim Hare
than assembling the module in Rexx, I think. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: z/OS 1.8 reliability question

2007-04-25 Thread Tim Hare
that this contributes to a faster problem resolution cycle and therefore improved reliability. Thanks, IBM support crew - wherever you are now. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209

Re: Many or few instructions?

2007-04-25 Thread Tim Hare
You need only one instruction: DOIT The rest is just operands and microding g,d, r Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: The Death of the Mainframe (?)

2007-04-23 Thread Tim Hare
Well, there go my aspirations for attending NIU after I retire. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Fw: IS IBM COBOL dead or just not being upgraded for z9? Re: z9 Hardware update

2007-04-18 Thread Tim Hare
aware of a real CPU hog that could benefit; if response time is within the SLAs, and all work is getting done, then no one much bothers with further code optimization. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209

Re: z9 Hardware update

2007-04-18 Thread Tim Hare
That's a shame. I would love to propose we start using XML to store all our data. If it offloaded to the special CPU's we can really save $$$. Consider: you're going to create it once, but parse it many times thereafter. The more you read the data, the better the economics will be. Tim Hare

Re: Flex, Hercules, mainframe future and IBM annual meeting

2007-04-17 Thread Tim Hare
In the protest/Abby Hoffman spirit we could write a green card titled Steal This Green Card and run a turkey for president. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: DB2 for z/OS version 7 - accessing an Oracle database from CICS and batch

2007-04-16 Thread Tim Hare
the latter, it works pretty well. Requires a small DB2 database which contains some mapping info (I think it's one row). There's an Oracle subsystem (usually named ORAC); you use ORAC commands to start and stop gateway pieces which let us fit it into our AF/Operator automation. Tim Hare Senior Systems

Re: DB2 for z/OS version 7 - accessing an Oracle database from CICS and batch

2007-04-16 Thread Tim Hare
In my previous post I mentioned the DB2 gateway - I'm not sure it works bi-directionally; Oracle's DRDA gateway is probably what you want. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209

Re: Effects of Linux on z...ISV support and z/OS (Was: IBM to the PCM market)

2007-04-09 Thread Tim Hare
that Windows OS security is as good as z/OS Security Server, but I think we just want to compare apples to apples. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: dynamic zAAP

2007-04-06 Thread Tim Hare
. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

z9BC HMC - Remote access?

2007-04-04 Thread Tim Hare
for you? Is it vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack if someone keeps hammering at it? And for those of you using AF/Remote or a similar product with an HMC interface - do you allow people to dial into that product from outside your LAN to do HMC functions? Tim Hare Senior Systems

Re: RACF and Member Level Protection

2007-04-04 Thread Tim Hare
ways around it. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM

Re: How to transfer PDSE libraries?

2007-04-03 Thread Tim Hare
file and FTP in that case. If the two share spool, you don't even need an NJE connection. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: VSM(VT), Disaster Recovery, No Tapes

2007-04-02 Thread Tim Hare
, you're going to need 365 cartridges. It can quickly become expensive if it's done wrong! We faced this even when we moved to 9840s.. for some of our longer retention migrations, we've reduced the frequency of the runs to reduce the number of tapes needed. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer

SMS Management Class usage

2007-03-28 Thread Tim Hare
Will DCOLLECT gather data on all management classes in use from the catalog (i.e. including migrated datasets)? I suspect I have several management classes which aren't in use, inherited from someone's previous work, and I'm looking for a good safe way to clean up. Thanks Tim Hare Senior

Re: ISPF SRCHFOR and member lists

2007-03-26 Thread Tim Hare
. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Re: Accessing CLIST variables in a batch job

2007-03-09 Thread Tim Hare
I have a bit of a weird situation in which I'm running a clist in a step of a batch job. In this clist I'm reading an input file containing variables that I would like to use in the following steps of the same job. For example as datasetnames, PARM options etc. I hope I'm making sense.

GDG question

2007-02-01 Thread Tim Hare
(state holiday or whatever). Then I want to be able to read prefix.whatever.JAN as the complete set, as you can do with GDGs. Are there any holes in this theory that I'm overlooking? Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209

Re: TRSMAIN question

2007-01-31 Thread Tim Hare
be able to issue a command like that for your tapes, sit back, and wait. Once you're in gzip you can decompress it on a PC I'm sure. Oh - you might have to pipe it through iconv to get it into ASCII / Unicode before zipping it. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department

Re: HTTP server and JAVA Serverpac question

2007-01-26 Thread Tim Hare
have), then run SETUP.SH Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message

Re: A Sort/ICETOOL Challenge

2007-01-18 Thread Tim Hare
) is going to get a lot of new customers, so I don't know if an economic case can be made for building a new language for it. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN

CA-1 reblocking gotchas?

2007-01-18 Thread Tim Hare
- anything major to look out for? Our CA-1 is at R11.5 . Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: JOB07040 IEC130I SLFVDDIL DD STATEMENT MISSING

2007-01-09 Thread Tim Hare
I would look into FILE-STATUS-CODE in FILE-CONTROL; I believe LE sets a value for this case (but don't have my COBOL manuals with me so I can't check it out). Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209

Re: Remote Tape drives

2006-12-29 Thread Tim Hare
There are 3490-compatible drives that attach to PCs (one example: http://tapedrives-3480to3590.com/134-04-11025) . Get one, use it to read the tape file at the PC end, then FTP the resulting file to your mainframe. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850

Re: Remote Tape drives

2006-12-29 Thread Tim Hare
You'll need people at both ends for a tape drive, too - tape drives end up with all sorts of issues requiring operator intervention. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 That would work but does require that we have people at both end

Re: ICC for StorageTek 9740

2006-12-26 Thread Tim Hare
have to engineer the opposite on the silo end. Why we could get an IP connection on a Wolf Creek (9360) but not on a 9740 escapes me. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 Jack Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM

Re: SHARE in Tampa Florida, February 11-16, 2007

2006-12-18 Thread Tim Hare
out bugs over the past couple of SHAREs. It's definitely a great improvement over the download the entire agenda to my PDA days. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM

Re: Don Marquardt

2006-12-14 Thread Tim Hare
was just an all around good guy as near as I could tell. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Tape mount / CA-1 / STK question

2006-12-13 Thread Tim Hare
afraid there's not a debugging tool for the software running on the old grey matter box, so I'm looking for solutions that run on z/OS . Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209

Re: Tape mount / CA-1 / STK question

2006-12-13 Thread Tim Hare
worked at a shop that used TMONSMxx in a long time. I just let TAPEREQ control what type of media (virtual, physical 3490, physical 9840 etc.). So, you don't define any scratch pools in CA-1, or you just don't assign them in CA-1? Thanks, Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department

Re: record reformatting ... flowing records into each other

2006-12-13 Thread Tim Hare
that or not. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Re: Tape mount / CA-1 / STK question

2006-12-13 Thread Tim Hare
make sense to do the not scratch change at OPEN time if the DCB is opened for any kind of output function- however as Mr. Zelden says, that would involve hooks in the same place as tape management software like CA-1. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation

Re: Bisync

2006-12-08 Thread Tim Hare
. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 I still have some 3745's and the maintenance contract is horrendous. I have no control over the far end, only my end. -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Master Start Pendings

2006-12-08 Thread Tim Hare
If you are using any sort of storage array where the disk volumes are virtualized (such as a Shark), define some 3390-3 volumes with just enough storage to hold your STK CDS - one little volume for each CDS. This will ensure that any reserve only affects your STK work and nothing else. Tim

StorageTek libraries with IP interface for z/OS?

2006-12-07 Thread Tim Hare
anyone verify they are running SL8500s with z/OS? Thanks Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Dynamic IPL

2006-12-05 Thread Tim Hare
, while giving us some more flexibility. Anyone done this? What were your pros and cons? Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Internal Reader Resources

2006-11-29 Thread Tim Hare
INTRDR command.As with any other SYSOUT file, the resources are in use from ALLOCATE until FREE, although I think you can use FREE=CLOSE to make sure it's freed when closed. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 I remember seeing cautions

Re: MB to Cyl Conversion

2006-11-29 Thread Tim Hare
this technique successfully, for example, when allocating an HFS for a product ported to USS where the vendor says you need xMB to install. If you like, you can do an allocation like this and use some other tool to determine the tracks or cylinders that it occupies. Tim Hare Senior Systems

Re: News : IBM and outsourcing in Texas

2006-11-29 Thread Tim Hare
to draw comparisons. It also helps to point out to such bean-counters that often you are serving the _same_ number of customers with _one_ piece of hardware. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209

Re: IEBPTPCH oddity

2006-11-28 Thread Tim Hare
If they're like our users, they no longer use the report but just don't bother to tell us. Someone dutifully files it on a shelf, because they don't know what that report is for, but the IT guys send it every week Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850

Re: COBOL Question

2006-11-28 Thread Tim Hare
: for example if you want to later invoke it from a CICS HTTP application, or from a calling program invoked in a servlet or something. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: support elements failure

2006-11-28 Thread Tim Hare
For educational purposes, would you please tell us what piece of hardware failed that took out both SEs? Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 11/28/2006 02:17:07 PM: Due

Re: RACF and product tape data set names

2006-11-27 Thread Tim Hare
We're a CA-1 and RACF shop. You can, in CA-1, specify the FORNDSN option as NONE FORNDSN NONE Foreign DSN check Which prevents CA-1 from calling RACF for datasets specified as foreign (ACCODE=XCANORES is how we do it, some use EXPDT=98000). Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer

Friday question: in search of Rexx elegance?

2006-11-17 Thread Tim Hare
. The variables within the STRIP function are created in other parts of the Rexx code. Is there an easier- to-maintain, more elegant way to do this? The above code works, but I don't think it's easy to understand or maintain. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department

Re: strange request: EBNF desc of JCL?

2006-11-17 Thread Tim Hare
data format, so I could export from one scheduler and import into another if management decides that some other scheduler is superior (read: the salesman offered us a cheaper price or showed us a pretty GUI) Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209

Re: FAQ

2006-11-15 Thread Tim Hare
I thought the FAQ for us old mainframers was called RTFM? Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: TSO user activity logger

2006-11-14 Thread Tim Hare
Just turn on the AUDIT attribute for those users, I believe RACF will then record everything they do (that is everything which invokes RACF such as OPEN, CICS checking for access to transactions, etc.) Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209

Re: Syncsort / DFSORT LPA

2006-11-09 Thread Tim Hare
I just have to ask: why do would an installation need both sort products unless you're at an ISV where you have to test your product with both? Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209

Re: IKJCT43A Return Code 99 - What does this mean.

2006-11-08 Thread Tim Hare
. Tom Conley (hope I got that right) has done presentations on this many times at SHARE. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Zip problems

2006-11-03 Thread Tim Hare
Why not just install gzip on z/OS? There's a USS version available. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Virtual Tape vs. TMM

2006-11-01 Thread Tim Hare
is built, and so on. This means my TMM buffer doesn't have to be all that large. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: afoper

2006-11-01 Thread Tim Hare
Sounds like they were assembled with a version of JES2 macros prior to 1.7; there were changes in this area for 1.7 I'm told (we are doing our prep for 1.7 now). This may be an AF/Operator bug, or it may be a problem with assembling a JES2 interface table . Tim Hare Senior Systems

Virtual Tape vs. TMM

2006-10-31 Thread Tim Hare
is a plus for this scenario. So - that's _our_ thinking on the topic, but I'd be interested to hear the opinions - and we _know_ this list has them - on the topic of migrating away from virtual tape... Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209

Re: Virtual Tape vs. TMM

2006-10-31 Thread Tim Hare
out which is cheaper for us. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 10/31/2006 - Why do you send your migrations to 9804? We run CA-DISK and I don't know ABR, but you can: 1. Migrate

Re: Java/LE Tuning Advice sought

2006-10-30 Thread Tim Hare
. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU 10/27/2006 02:35 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU

Re: Why does MAXPROCUSER not limit the number of FTP sessions?

2006-10-19 Thread Tim Hare
the ID of the person logging in. IF (and it's a big if I guess) that is the case, then the maximum that applies is the one set to the user ID of the FTP server and you probably don't want to limit that one. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209

Re: StorageTek 9840 / VTSS question

2006-10-18 Thread Tim Hare
Thanks to all who replied. I found it in the VTCS Admin Manual as suggested; not much there but it does say you need an ESCON director to provide connectivity from VSM and z/OS. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209

StorageTek 9840 / VTSS question

2006-10-17 Thread Tim Hare
with z/OS? Does it require additional ESCON cables/ channels from z/OS? If not, how is the physical connection made? Is it over the same ESCON channels used to the VSM box?? Thanks Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209

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