Jeffrey Deaver wrote:
I've been told that IBM publishes some numbers that show CPACF overhead
metrics somewhere? Anyone know where? I'm basically interested in
confirming something a vendor told me about an encryption product - so
many
MBs encrypted for so many CPU seconds.
I downloaded the
Timothy Sipples wrote:
John Chase writes:
Indeed. Windows is about as open as the former Soviet Union.
Amen.
Re: Anyone can build a hardware box to run Windows, well, yes, but you
must go to Intel or AMD for the chip. So you have a duopoly -- AMD
argues
a monopoly -- on the component that
LadiesGentlemen,
I'm sure this is an easy question for anyone who
understands HSM RMM, unfortunatly I'm not one of them.
We've been running HSM/RMM without problems for several years. Recently,
not sure exactly when, HSM started spitting out the following msgs when it
freed
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 15:26 +0900, Timothy Sipples wrote:
Most X86-based Linux distributions include closed source device drivers.
Do they just ???.
That makes them tainted, and hence unable to report kernel oops'es to
the kernel developers.
Does this mythical Most X86-based Linux
I agree that the term open system has been flagrantly misused, primarily
to promote Unix systems at the expense of proprietary systems like z/os
and Windows. I think the idea that Windows is open was put forward by
Microsoft precisely to counter this pro-Unix marketing ploy. And IBM's
response of
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:45:43 -0500, Jim Mulder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Basic sysplex came in MVS/ESA SP4.1. PDSE came in MVS/ESA SP4.3.
Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY
Thanks Jim. Brain cramp ... I don't know why I thought PDSE was
around since ESA V3.
On Jan 18, 2007, at 12:26 AM, Timothy Sipples wrote:
SNIP---
FWIW, I think IBM still includes lots of TPF source code with that
operating system. And mainframe Linux is 100% open source. Most
X86-based
Linux distributions include closed source
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:26:31 +0900, Timothy Sipples
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... Most X86-based
Linux distributions include closed source device drivers.
Really? Sounds like FUD to me. My experience with Linux is
limited, but I've beeen running Fedora Core for about a year and
I know that
Jim Horne, Tom. Thanks so very much for your help.
I got the results when I added the PROC PRINT DATA=RMMDTL; after the
PROC Printo statement. I have to do some tweaking. It's been a while since
I've used SAS. Gotta brush the cobwebs off.
Again, Thanks so very much.
~~Carol
Thomas H
I realize that this is not constructive, but the url below is an ad for
Windows 386. It does make the point that Micrsoft spoke to the customer's
need for IT empowerment. z/OS zLinux still do not have a compelling
empowerment message. You can't sell someone a product if they don't
percieve
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:11:44 -0500, Jack Kelly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
if you have mim, why would you put grs on top of that?
Because MIM doesn't protect PDSE.
Search the archives. Don't forget IBM-MAIN-ARCHIVES.
This for example:
http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0309L=ibm-mainP=R25353
Issuing any sort of SVC from a CICS task was always something that was
discouraged (nothing like putting the region into a wait to make you
popular with your users), but I suspect most (if not all) shops violate
that rule. Given that you don't know how long the CA code will take, it
might be
snip
We have a CICS program that builds the parameter list and then issues
the CA-7 SVC to Demand jobs.
unsnip
We're not at R11 of CA7 yet (but close) and we have a CICS program that
does something similar. Is this how your programs coded?
IF (COMMAREA-COMMAND-TYPE = 'DEM')
MOVE +48 TO
In a recent note, Tom Marchant said:
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 07:46:17 -0600
Really? Sounds like FUD to me. My experience with Linux is
limited, but I've beeen running Fedora Core for about a year and
I know that it's distribution is entirely open source. I'm pretty
sure Red Hat
I'm not so sure the distinction between software and microcode is that
artificial, but in any event I'd call Hercules a z/Architecture emulator
rather than processor. Of course, with a closed architecture, having the
hardware alone is not enough, since IBM wouldn't license the software.
Nigel
In a recent note, Nigel Hadfield said:
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:05:44 +
I'm not so sure the distinction between software and microcode is that
artificial, but in any event I'd call Hercules a z/Architecture emulator
rather than processor. Of course, with a closed architecture,
I am not sure why this is occurring or what DFHSM is attempting to do. I
scanned the syslog as well as the DFHSM log to no avail. I cannot find what
is associated with the SYS16002.
Below is the message in its entirety:
EF244I DFHSMG DFHSMG - UNABLE TO ALLOCATE 1 UNIT(S) 230
AT
Now, now.
But I really can't think of a non-IBM hardware platform on which I could run
z/Linux. (Oh, go on then.)
Nigel
On 18/1/07 15:12, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a recent note, Nigel Hadfield said:
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:05:44 +
I'm not so sure the
What about z/Linux?
George Shedlock Jr
PDC - 212-855-8675
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On 17 Jan 2007 22:26:52 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy
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Re: Anyone can build a hardware box to run Windows, well, yes, but you
must go to Intel or AMD for the chip. So you have a duopoly -- AMD argues
a monopoly -- on the component that matters. But software is far more
Thanks Roy and Kevin for the info. I'll put this on the back burner until I
foresee some downtime coming up. Those old definitions don't bother me so
much after all! :)
Much appreciated,
Robert
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Unit Check means that you need to issue a SENSE command to determine
the type of event.
A more accurate way to say this is that Unit Check means that the sense data
needs to be examined. For maybe
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 07:56:11 -0700, Paul Gilmartin
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In a recent note, Tom Marchant said:
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 07:46:17 -0600
Really? Sounds like FUD to me. My experience with Linux is
limited, but I've beeen running Fedora Core for about a year and
I
I searched through the archives and could not find a good answer to this
question.
We have a need for z/OS programs (batch jobs) to access flat files that are
on some distributed Unix boxes.
1. Can we use NFS for this (i.e., setup the files on Unix as NFS mount
points)?
2. If yes, can
The failure happens on any TSO allocation. Haven't tried batch as yet.
The driving system is a really uncustomized 1.7.
This is not my first time with Mr. Zeldan's awesome work. I have two
other two pack systems that are working just fine. They were built from
fully customized z/os 1.4 systems.
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
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.
I understand that IBM support is being discontinued as
of 2/2007.
Would anyone know if that would be the beginning of
the month or end of the month?
Thanks.
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I understand that IBM support is being discontinued as of 2/2007.
Would anyone know if that would be the beginning of the month
or end of the month?
Last EOS date I saw published was March 31,
Tom Longfellow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/17/2007 07:40:52 PM:
Thanks for the answer. While I still do not understand SPLICE and IFTHEN
well enough to build one from scratch, I was able to modify your example
to
handle my VB records (RECT1 and RECT2 are not the same length). I have
There I was, looking into the teeth of a serious ice storm, any my
company laptop dies. I have a generator and satellite telecom so that
part was covered. But the laptop was a single point of failure between
me working from home or risking life and limb having to go out in the
storm. The prospect
In a recent note, Alan Brown said:
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:39:53 -0500
I searched through the archives and could not find a good answer to this
question.
MVS-OE might be a better list.
We have a need for z/OS programs (batch jobs) to access flat files that are
on some
Thanks Paul.
Alan Brown
Princeton Softech
(609) 627-5598
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In a recent note, Alan Brown said:
Date: Thu, 18 Jan
Dave Kopischke wrote:
[...]
I think you'll still want a POR though. I don't know of any other way to
remove those definitions from HSA without a POR. The room those
definitions
take up in HSA might not be an issue, but if you're deleting a bunch of
devices, it might help you later if you find
I could get past whatever it is that makes it so hard for me to
understand the syntax of these newer features.
There's an interesting project for someone: a lanuage preprocessor for
SORT which accepts a different syntax, and produces SORT control
statements; or a wrapper which does the same
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.
We started down the SYSPLEX road, but never could get hardware
resources, then dropped from 6 to 3 LPAR's after Y2K.
Setting up a ESCON CTC isn't all that difficult and won't cost you
anything except a pair of ESCON channels. With that, you can set up a
3-LPAR SYSPLEX with GRS
I cannot say that mainframe encryption software is NEVER wrong, but I can
say that I have been using various mainframe encryption processes for 30
years (and a few days) and I have 'lost' data 5 times. I could not remember
the encryption key those 5 times. I still have those files and once in a
This is about the 4th time I've installed the LAST OS upgrade we will
ever need on the mainframe. Each one has been the max allowed upgrade
just weeks prior to EOS of the current one. Many of us live under
political rules, not technical ones.
The alternative is to go over to the dark
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:48:28 -0600, Rugen, Len wrote:
This is about the 4th time I've installed the LAST OS upgrade we will
ever need on the mainframe. Each one has been the max allowed upgrade
just weeks prior to EOS of the current one. Many of us live under
political rules, not technical ones.
All of the driver systems have SMS active. SMS is inactive on the two
pack systems.
The failing two pack system was created using a copy of a RACF database
from the driver system.
The UNIT seems to be valid. But I may not have looked everywhere I need
to look. The two volumes do not show up on
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Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 10:49 AM
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There I was, looking into the teeth of a serious ice storm, any my
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:45:20 -0600, Patrick O'Keefe
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Chris,
An offline response becuase I doubt many IBM-Mainers care about NetView,
but ...
...
Well, so much for my attempt at an offline response. :-(
Pat O'Keefe
1. Yes.
2. Z/OS as the client was kinda thin on documentation. There is some in
Network File System Customization and Operation
Redbook Data Sharing: Using the OS/390 Network File System
Network File System User Guide
Network File System Customization and Operation
-Rob Schramm
snippage
The 365I message tells you that the amount of valid data on the tape is
below the threshold you specified (because data has expired and/or
manually marked for deletion). HSM is recommending you issue the
RECYCLE command for that tape which will copy the (small amount of)
remaining data onto a new
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 11:49 -0600, Hal Merritt wrote:
The failure was in the encryption software.
Perhaps the failure was bit rot in that cheap notebook hard drive?
Most desktop systems don't do much in the way of file integrity, so when
decryption fails on a corrupt file it fails
I am thinking about finally blocking my CA-1 TMC. We're not a huge shop,
tape-wise, compared to many and so the block size of our TMC isn't really
killing us but it would be nicer if certain queries or reports ran faster.
I'm thinking that someone on IBM-MAIN must have done this already -
I did it on 5.2 and never had a problem. As usual, make copies before
and after just in case.
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From: Tim Hare [mailto:snip]
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 12:46 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: CA-1 reblocking gotchas?
I am thinking about finally blocking my
To execute the same command against all or selected members of a pds, use a
command like this in the command field:
s mask command
To run command xyz against all members starting with abc:
s abc* xyz
To delete all members of a pds:
s * d
Dave Long
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:34:54 -0500, Larry R.
Hold onto what you've got! I've been out of work for 31 months
now.. :-( Finally decided to retire.
--snip---
Jeffrey D. Smith wrote:
Greetings,
What you all recommend for the better jobs lists for mainframe developers?
(Yes, I am looking
The blocksize must be a multiple of the LRECL which is 340.
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Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 1:59 PM
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I took our current TMC which as allocated at 900 Cyls
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:55:46 -0500, in
bit.listserv.ibm-main
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Neal Eckhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It must be something stupid, but what is the error here?
(I'll kick
myself after). The $ appears after the second ')'
Neal
ICE143I 0 BLOCKSET COPY
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:53:01 -0600, Hal Merritt wrote:
The encryption software starts before Windows. The software failed with a
blue screen of death.
My sense is that one or more critical files on the hard drive used by the
software became corrupt as PC files are known to do. But I don't
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:53:01 -0600, Hal Merritt wrote:
The complete loss of mission critical data even for a few days could be
catastrophic to the company. One solution is to have backups that aren't
encrypted. But, then, what would be the point of encryption in the first
place? As I said, a
Frank Silven wrote:
I have a need to determine the actual maximum record length used
by a VB file..so when i have a LRECL=522,RECFM=VB then the
physical max record length=518 bytes...
But I need a solution which determines the actual maximum record length
used in a VB file, so the question is
Unless the chip is:
1) on a voyage outside our atmosphere
or
2) on a ceramic substrate foolishly made from clay not tested for the
presence of radioactive impurities, it is highly unlikely an alpha
particle, regardless of its diet and lack of exercise, will make it to a
chip.
Those of
Ron, Further to Barrys' reply, The messages you list are not caused by
something that RMM does. The ARC0261I is issued because the recycled tape
is expiration date protected. Dont worry about it, RMMs processing
automatically handles this when the tape is reused.
Sounds like the problem may
On 18 Jan 2007 10:20:13 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
I could get past whatever it is that makes it so hard for me to
understand the syntax of these newer features.
There's an interesting project for someone: a lanuage preprocessor for
SORT which accepts a different syntax, and
The encryption of data on a backup tape does not need to be done ALL the time.
If one level of backup are in your automated tape library, in a data center
with card-key access in a building with armed guards on all entrances who
inspect packages coming in AND going out, then I don't think you need
On 18 Jan 2007, you wrote in bit.listserv.ibm-main:
I could get past whatever it is that makes it so hard for me to
understand the syntax of these newer features.
I don't personally have a problem with the syntax, but I know a lot of
people seem to. I think, also, that we're seeing more
Hal Merritt wrote:
The encryption software starts before Windows. The software failed with a blue screen of death.
My sense is that one or more critical files on the hard drive used by the software became corrupt as PC files are known to do. But I don't know.
But my point was the laptop
I wouldn't encrypt data within a datacenter. The only data that gets
encrypted around here is data that goes out the door. Internal tapes are
not encrypted.
If one level of backup are in your automated tape library, in a data
center
with card-key access in a building with armed guards on all
If one of your tapes walks out the door with a disgruntled employee, then you
have the wrong guards on the door. They are not just supposed to be there for
decoration. No one person or organization can be responsible for the security
of EVERYTHING. So make sure your guards do their job and you
ravi wrote:
Hello
I have a strange requirement. In my shop we have cancel a job manually
every Friday at 9pm. Is there way to schedule jes2 commands like
$C'jobname'
and schedule it only every Friday 9pm.
Or is there any way to write rexx thru batch job and submit
jes2commands. Please
If one of your tapes walks out the door with a disgruntled employee, then
you
have the wrong guards on the door. They are not just supposed to be there
for
decoration. No one person or organization can be responsible for the
security
of EVERYTHING. So make sure your guards do their job and you
Hello David,
Right answer to the wrong question.
For an ISPF 3.4 dataset list, when I have to process the same command
against a list I prefer to do it in batch.
1. Use the P primary command to print the required dataset list to an
ISPF LIST dataset.
2. Use the LIST primary command to
Timothy Sipples writes:
... Most X86-based
Linux distributions include closed source device drivers.
Then Tom Marchant writes:
Really? Sounds like FUD to me. My experience with Linux is
limited, but I've beeen running Fedora Core for about a year and
I know that it's distribution is entirely
One thought,
Is the volume which you have mounted PUBLIC full?
Regards
Bruce Hewson
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At 22:47 -0500 on 01/18/2007, John S. Giltner, Jr. wrote about Re:
How to schedule Jes2 Cancel a job command:
ravi wrote:
Hello
I have a strange requirement. In my shop we have cancel a job
manually every Friday at 9pm. Is there way to schedule jes2
commands like $C'jobname'
and
We use Dave Cole's SCHEDRUN freeware. It works well for simple
scheduling tasks. It's available for download at www.colesoft.com.
Bob Shannon
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Kirk Talman wrote:
2) on a ceramic substrate foolishly made from clay not tested for the
presence of radioactive impurities, it is highly unlikely an alpha
particle, regardless of its diet and lack of exercise, will make it to a
chip.
I seem to remember an article by IBM staffers in
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