Re: TCP/IP translation tables

2007-08-17 Thread Jan MOEYERSONS
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:53:23 -0400, Dean Montevago [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. You can use this to create a table: //S1 EXEC PGM=CONVXLAT, //PARM='''TCPIP.SEZATCPX(ESPANISH)'' ESPANISH.TCPXLBIN' //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=X //SYSIN DD DUMMY,BLKSIZE=80 This

Re: Operating System #6 for the IBM Mainframe: Solaris

2007-08-17 Thread David Andrews
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 13:11 +0900, Timothy Sipples wrote: If you haven't read the news yet, IBM and Sun announced a new collaboration. From press accounts it would appear the two companies' next action is to bring Solaris to the IBM mainframe. The port itself is an undertaking of Sine Nomine

Re: SHARE Sn*bbery Report

2007-08-17 Thread John P Kalinich
Dave Kopischke of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 08/16/2007 06:26:19 PM: On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:43:17 -0500, Weidt, James wrote: Well I just setup a rule to auto delete snubbery reports... So take that!!! Snubbing the Snubbery reports I sense a

Re: Listing HIPERS

2007-08-17 Thread Tergerson, John
That one took about 30 seconds to figure out. HOLD SYSMOD APAR ---RESOLVING SYSMOD HOLDHOLD FMID NAME NUMBERNAMESTATUS RECEIVED CLASS SYMPTOMS UA31645 AA21256 UA35069 GOOD YESPE See that there entry, UA31645? It is

Re: Distance between primary and DR site

2007-08-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/04/2007 at 07:40 PM, David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Well, you have to admit that it does have no common points of failure. 8-) Sun. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Mark Jacobs
Dean Montevago wrote: Hi, I have a CICS VSAM file that is reaching it's 4gb limit. I want to create an SMS pool for it. Can I define all the constructs and activate the new rules while the region is up and using this file ? Will they take affect the next time the file is deleted/defined ?

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread John Kington
Dean, IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 08/17/2007 08:09:57 AM: Hi, I have a CICS VSAM file that is reaching it's 4gb limit. I want to create an SMS pool for it. Can I define all the constructs and activate the new rules while the region is up and using this file ?

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Yes, the new SMS rules are only invoked at allocation. They will have no effect on an existing file. They will be invoked at delete/define. Are you going to use SMS compression on this file? In the past (last job) I reduced VSAM and sequential files by an average of 50%. This works fine as

SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Dean Montevago
Hi, I have a CICS VSAM file that is reaching it's 4gb limit. I want to create an SMS pool for it. Can I define all the constructs and activate the new rules while the region is up and using this file ? Will they take affect the next time the file is deleted/defined ? Please advise. Thanks

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:09:57 -0400, Dean Montevago wrote: I have a CICS VSAM file that is reaching it's 4gb limit. I want to create an SMS pool for it. Can I define all the constructs and activate the new rules while the region is up and using this file ? Will they take affect the next time the

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread John Kington
Dean, Thanks for the input. The file is non-SMS right now. It is reaching the 4gb limit. I am creating a new pool for this and other VSAM datasets. We're small so there aren't that many and they all all non-SMS right now. I plan on moving them over to this pool. The compression sounds

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Dean Montevago
Thanks for the input. The file is non-SMS right now. It is reaching the 4gb limit. I am creating a new pool for this and other VSAM datasets. We're small so there aren't that many and they all all non-SMS right now. I plan on moving them over to this pool. The compression sounds good. The apps

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Dean Montevago
Thanks John. Good point. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Kington Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 8:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Question - Urgent Dean, Thanks for the input. The file is non-SMS right

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:48:00 -0400, Dean Montevago wrote: The file is non-SMS right now. It is reaching the 4gb limit. I am creating a new pool for this and other VSAM datasets. We're small so there aren't that many and they all all non-SMS right now. I plan on moving them over to this pool.

Re: linklisted load library failing

2007-08-17 Thread Debbie Mitchell
I found and fixed the problem. There was a bad user exit for the product in one of the linklist datasets concatenated ahead of the vendor library. This was put in place to try to resolve another issue but no one realized that the library was actually in the linklist. Thanks for all the

Sendmail w/attachment

2007-08-17 Thread Daniel McLaughlin
I've been scouring the archives on this, so it's probably the same question answered before. Please excuse my lack of knowledge... User wants to send a ZOS file via SENDMAIL to a mailbox on Lotus Notes. The attachment would be input for a spreadsheet. I've heard of the XMITIP process, but the

Re: Sendmail w/attachment

2007-08-17 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel McLaughlin Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 8:29 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Sendmail w/attachment I've been scouring the archives on this, so it's probably the same

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Ambat Ravi Nair
a genuine concern - but have you checked to see if the growth was not due to bad Index CISZ ? at one site, the Indices are hardcoded to 512 in the IDCAMS statements, which caused the DATA component to grow rapidly. dataclass will take effect at dataset creation time. EF/EA datasets need to be

Re: Sendmail w/attachment

2007-08-17 Thread Horne, Jim - James S
NOTICE: All information in and attached to the e-mail(s) below may be proprietary, confidential, privileged and otherwise protected from improper or erroneous disclosure. If you are not the sender's intended recipient, you are not authorized to intercept, read, print, retain, copy, forward, or

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Dean Montevago
No flames please, is this is archaic. It's been like this for years. DEFINE CLUSTER (NAME(REFPROD.REFMSTR) RECORDSIZE(6000 6000) FREESPACE(33 33) BUFFERSPACE(55296) KEYS(9 0)

Re: SHARE Snubbery Report

2007-08-17 Thread Eric Bielefeld
I was one of the first to reply to this thread, and no one quoted me. I feel snubbed, and I'm not even at Share! Eric Bielefeld Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer Milwaukee, Wisconsin 414-475-7434 - Original Message - From: Dave Kopischke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well I just setup a rule to auto

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Dean, Ravi makes an excellent point. What are the Data and Index CI sizes for this file? This is only a concern for KSDS files. I don't believe you mentioned VSAM file type. If it is other than KSDS, what is the Data CI size? You seem to have an old installation. It is not inconceivable that

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread CICS Guy
Doesn't a too small index ci size get auto-magically over-ridden by a larger size now? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ambat Ravi Nair Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 9:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Question

Re: Domain Name Server (DNS) on z/OS?

2007-08-17 Thread Chris Mason
Kevin 6 years ago I created a little report based on getting a trivial test name server running on OS/390. This was to prepare for possible use in support of one of the techniques for the distribution of TCP connections over multiple servers. The report consists of some notes covering the

Re: Sendmail w/attachment

2007-08-17 Thread Dana Mitchell
Daniel, As far as XMITIP is concerned, it still uses IBM supported SMTP to actually do the sending of the mail. All xmitip really does is puts a nice ISPF or batch front end on it and does all the nasty mime encoding for attachements etc. I've been using it a number of years with no problems.

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Only if it is grossly underestimated. It is possible to lose DATA CI space due to a too small Indec CI size. Mainstar's Catalog Recovery Plus has a Map command that reports on this. Doesn't a too small index ci size get auto-magically over-ridden by a larger

Re: Domain Name Server (DNS) on z/OS?

2007-08-17 Thread Steve Comstock
Chris Mason wrote: Kevin 6 years ago I created a little report based on getting a trivial test name server running on OS/390. This was to prepare for possible use in support of one of the techniques for the distribution of TCP connections over multiple servers. The report consists of some

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
From a space usage perspective the CI sizes looks fine. The formula for Index size (IIRC) is (5 + Index) / 2 * #of CIs per CA. (5 + 9) / 2 * 45 =3D 315 2K should guarantee that you are not losing DATA CIs due to insuuficient Index CI size. What is the # of Index levels for this file? If it

Highlights of SHARE

2007-08-17 Thread John P Kalinich
For those of you that attended SHARE, let's hear about some of the highlights (besides the snubbing stuff). Regards, John K -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Sendmail w/attachment

2007-08-17 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:19:55 -0400, Larry Wright wrote: Why not send a URL which points to the dataset or file instead of using an attachment? If are running IBM HTTP Server even without W.A.S., you can browse MVS datasets from your browser using a URL like

Re: Sendmail w/attachment

2007-08-17 Thread Larry Wright
Why not send a URL which points to the dataset or file instead of using an attachment? If are running IBM HTTP Server even without W.A.S., you can browse MVS datasets from your browser using a URL like http://yourhostname/MVSDS/'DATASET.NAME' I have used a variation of this technique to send

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Dean Montevago
OK. I'm still having problems. I created a new DC, SC, and SG on my sandbox. Defined volumes with the SG parm from DSF. Updated the ACS routines to point to a test file. Translated validated them. They activated successfully. I tried to IDCAMS the test VSAM file (KSDS) with no VOL parameter.

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread John Kington
Dean, OK. I'm still having problems. I created a new DC, SC, and SG on my sandbox. Defined volumes with the SG parm from DSF. Updated the ACS routines to point to a test file. Translated validated them. They activated successfully. I tried to IDCAMS the test VSAM file (KSDS) with no VOL

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Ron Hawkins
Brian, SNIP You might want to increase the BUFFERSPACE(55296) to BUFFERSPACE(849920) This will definitely improve sequential preformance as well as loading vitually all of your Index set into memory during direct processing. SNIP Usually defining the ACCESS BIAS as SYSTEM would

Re: SHARE Sn*bbery Report

2007-08-17 Thread Arthur T.
On 17 Aug 2007 05:07:06 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main (Message-ID:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John P Kalinich) wrote: Dave Kopischke of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 08/16/2007 06:26:19 PM: On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:43:17 -0500, Weidt, James

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Jack Kelly
and that the volume has been init'd as an SMS volume Jack Kelly LA Systems @ US Courts x 202-502-2390 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Dean, Could you post your job output? That should tell us whether your ACS routines are being applied. Vol count of 1 without specifying Compaction = Yes, I would expect the load to fail. From: Dean Montevago [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 8/17/2007

Re: Sendmail w/attachment (XMITIP IS SUPPORTED)

2007-08-17 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Daniel McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 9:29 AM Subject: Sendmail w/attachment I've been scouring the archives on this, so it's probably the same question answered before. Please excuse my lack of

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Thomas H Puddicombe
IIRC, coding VOL(* * *) - one splat for every candidate volume - works for multivolume VSAM datasets. This is a PRIVATE

Re: Highlights of SHARE

2007-08-17 Thread Lizette Koehler
Did anyone take the z/OS Mastery Test and how was it? Lizette For those of you that attended SHARE, let's hear about some of the highlights (besides the snubbing stuff). -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Lizette Koehler
I have sometimes seen the VOL parm setup in an IDCAMS as VOL(*). Lizette OK. I'm still having problems. I created a new DC, SC, and SG on my sandbox. Defined volumes with the SG parm from DSF. Updated the ACS routines to point to a test file. Translated validated them. They activated

Re: Sendmail w/attachment

2007-08-17 Thread Larry Wright
HTTP server is set up to request userid login. RACF then verifies the dataset security against the logged in user for permission. We have used a dataset naming convention that makes use of userid as part of the dataset name and that allowed us to use a generic permission that would work for

IBM recommends disabling AUTOTUNING - OA20748

2007-08-17 Thread Pinnacle
I remembered seeing the earlier posts on broken catalogs with AUTOTUNING enabled (yes, I know the AUTOTUNING only revealed the problem and did not cause it), so I searched IBMLink and ran across OA20748, where IBM recommends that AUTOTUNING be disabled until further notice. Looks like it's

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Dean Montevago
I just did a 3.2 allocate Data Set Name . . . . : REFPROD.REF.DNO General Data Current Allocation Management class . . :

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Rick Fochtman
---snip--- No flames please, is this is archaic. It's been like this for years. DEFINE CLUSTER (NAME(REFPROD.REFMSTR) RECORDSIZE(6000 6000) FREESPACE(33 33)

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Did you get anything in the sysout besides the IEC614I CREATE FAILED? -Original Message- From: Dean Montevago Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 12:15 PM To: 'IBM Mainframe Discussion List' Subject: RE: SMS Question - Urgent FILTLIST

Re: CA to IBM TCP conversion

2007-08-17 Thread Sheila Weissborn
It's been a long time, but in my previous place of employment the company acquired another company running Interlink. I recall a nightmare when it came to converting ftp because of differences in option settings for things like the handling of trailing blanks and the truncation or wrapping of

Re: IBM recommends disabling AUTOTUNING - OA20748

2007-08-17 Thread Traylor, Terry
For now, we are using automation to disable it during IPL. I would make the same recommendation for others until the exposure is corrected. Terry Traylor charlesSCHWAB TIS Mainframe Storage Management Remedy Queue: tis-hs-mstg (602) 977-5154 WARNING: All email sent to or from this address

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Dean Montevago
IDC3020I UNABLE TO ALLOCATE SPACE ON USER VOLUME IDC3009I ** VSAM CATALOG RETURN CODE IS 68 - REASON CODE IS IGG0CLEW-192 IDC3003I FUNCTION TERMINATED. CONDITION CODE IS 12 -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Dean Montevago
-Original Message- From: Dean Montevago Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 12:15 PM To: 'IBM Mainframe Discussion List' Subject: RE: SMS Question - Urgent FILTLIST PRODVSAM INCLUDE(REFPROD.REF.DNO.**) also tried ('REFPROD.REF.DNO')

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Ulrich Krueger
Dean, What other FILTLIST or WHEN...DO constructs do you have? Might there be one prior to the WHEN ((DSN EQ PRODVSAM) ... that gets triggered? Perhaps one that checks for DSORG = VSAM and then forces a non-SMS class? Regards, Ulrich -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Dean Montevago
My stuff is pretty basic: PROC DATACLAS /*/ /**DEFINE DASD UNIT NAMES

Re: SMS Question

2007-08-17 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of esmie moo Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 8:44 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: SMS Question Hallo Gentle Readers, I just altered a STORAGE GROUP - I changed the AUTO BACKUP

Re: OSA-Express2 and SNA Pcomm - loss of connectivity

2007-08-17 Thread Sheila Weissborn
Chris, Thank you for your input on the use of DYNPU=YES in the XCA major node. The SNA Resource Definition Reference has a statement that DYNPU defaults to YES for Enterprise Extender. I find it unclear on whether this is the default for other uses of the XCA. I will definitely schedule a

Re: Sendmail w/attachment

2007-08-17 Thread Randy Benderman
It is not clear to me whether you are looking ONLY for an IBM solution or whether you will consider a fully supported 3rd party solution but our JES2Mail product can certainly do this for you. Additionally it can create a comma-delimited file appropriate for input to a spreadsheet product from a

Re: Listing HIPERS

2007-08-17 Thread John Eells
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ed Gould wrote on 08/16/2007 09:51:55 AM: True but its only as current as the easy enhanced holddata. I agree completely. Enhanced holddata could be up to a week out-of-date. snip Just to make absolutely sure nothing had changed, I checked with the person who

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread John Kington
Dean, FILTLIST DASD_UNITS INCLUDE('3390','SYSDA','SYSALLDA') Add '' to your DASD_UNITS filter list. This will cover the case when no unit= value or null is being passed into your ACS routines. Regards, John -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread John Kington
Dean, FILTLIST PRODVSAM INCLUDE(REFPROD.REF.DNO.**) also tried ('REFPROD.REF.DNO') WHEN ((DSN EQ PRODVSAM) AND (UNIT EQ DASD_UNITS)) DO SET STORCLAS EQ 'PRODVSAM' WRITE 'STORCLAS SPECIFIED (' STORCLAS ')' EXIT END Can you post the FILTLIST for

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Montevago Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 11:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Question - Urgent IDC3020I UNABLE TO ALLOCATE SPACE ON USER VOLUME

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Ulrich Krueger
CREATE FAILED with code/message SMS-managed volumes specified for non-SMS request. Dean, I think John's put the finger on the sore spot ... what DATACLAS and/or MGMTCLAS are you assigning to this VSAM dataset so that it will become a valid SMS-managed VSAM dataset? HTH Ulrich -Original

Dataset Recovery issue.

2007-08-17 Thread Howard Rifkind
I have a volume I'm trying to rebuild. The volume id is zosx99 on my prod system. I copy various dataset over from prod volume zosct3 to volume volume zosxx9. I then vary off zosx99 (91B) and ICKDSF(reformat) volume zosx99 to zosct3. Now I try to IPL my test lpar but can't access the

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Ulrich Krueger
CREATE FAILED with code/message SMS-managed volumes specified for non-SMS request. Dean, I think John's put the finger on the sore spot ... what DATACLAS and/or MGMTCLAS are you assigning to this VSAM dataset so that it will become a valid SMS-managed VSAM dataset? HTH Ulrich Correction ...

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread John Kington
Bob, Question: I'm not an SMS expert but is this necessary: WRITE 'DATACLAS SPECIFIED (' DATACLAS ')' Dean is trying to leave bread crumbs so that he can see where the path he is taking. Regards, John -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Robert Pelletier
Question: I'm not an SMS expert but is this necessary: WRITE 'DATACLAS SPECIFIED (' DATACLAS ')' Bob Pelletier Connecticut Student Loan Foundation Rocky Hill, Ct. My stuff is pretty basic: PROC DATACLAS /*/ /**

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Ulrich Krueger
Bob, That's Dean's way (and, AFAIK, the only way) to see if the WHEN ... DO rule is executed. Since the FILTLIST only applies to one specific dataset, there won't be any impact to the system. Of course, one might be able to save a few cycles if one were to code a first WHEN ... DO rule to test

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:57:17 -0700, Ulrich Krueger wrote: ... what DATACLAS and/or MGMTCLAS are you assigning to this VSAM dataset so that it will become a valid SMS-managed VSAM dataset? Correction ... I meant to ask about STORCLAS and MGMGCLAS definitions. MGMTCLAS ACS routine is

Re: Dataset Recovery issue.

2007-08-17 Thread Howard Rifkind
Well, I'm in a pickle. I have no test lpar with this volume (zosct3 and the datasets on it)... --- Silvio Camplani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does your test lpar use its own master/user catalogs? If it has its own catalogs, you will have to recatalog them. Silvio On Fri, 17 Aug 2007

Re: Dataset Recovery issue.

2007-08-17 Thread Howard Rifkind
Well, I'm in a pickle. I have no test lpar with this volume (zosct3 and the datasets on it)... --- Silvio Camplani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does your test lpar use its own master/user catalogs? If it has its own catalogs, you will have to recatalog them. Silvio On Fri, 17 Aug 2007

Re: Dataset Recovery issue.

2007-08-17 Thread Silvio Camplani
Does your test lpar use its own master/user catalogs? If it has its own catalogs, you will have to recatalog them. Silvio On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:51:43 -0700, Howard Rifkind [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have a volume I'm trying to rebuild. The volume id is zosx99 on my prod system. I copy

Re: Sendmail w/attachment

2007-08-17 Thread Daniel McLaughlin
We are one of those shops which has a lot of stuff on the mainframe until it comes time to toss $$ at it. A solution has to be free or already there but dormant in some IBM code. Yes, there are probably many good things out there, but we are constrained. I've pulled XMITIP down to my PC to

Re: Domain Name Server (DNS) on z/OS?

2007-08-17 Thread Steve Comstock
Chris Mason wrote: Steve Sent. Regarding setting up networking parameters, I assume, by networking, you are referring to the Communications Server IP component. In my heyday, You're not saying you're past your peak are you? g networking meant SNA and I have extensive notes already on the

Re: Dataset Recovery issue.

2007-08-17 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Rifkind Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 1:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Dataset Recovery issue. Well, I'm in a pickle. I have no test lpar with this volume (zosct3 and the

Re: Domain Name Server (DNS) on z/OS?

2007-08-17 Thread Chris Mason
Steve Sent. Regarding setting up networking parameters, I assume, by networking, you are referring to the Communications Server IP component. In my heyday, networking meant SNA and I have extensive notes already on the Communications Server SNA component (VTAM) and related matters. I did

Re: Sendmail w/attachment

2007-08-17 Thread Robert Pelletier
We have used XMITIP for at least 3 years and it has worked great for us and Lionel has always been there for me for support. Have a Nice Day ! Bob Pelletier Connecticut Student Loan Foundation Rocky Hill, Ct. -Original Message- From: Daniel McLaughlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:01:11 -0400, Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried the TEST facility in ISMF? Or do you have SMSDEBUG from DTS? Both could help identify your problem. Starting in z/OS 1.7 there is a SETSMS VOLSELMSG command that can be used to help diagnose

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 8/17/2007 2:02:58 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: They both go down the same path, right ? Well they should, but are not. Can't think of any reason unless VVDS is hosed. Guess I'd start with DEVSER ===DS QD,ucb,1,validate then EXAMINE

Compuware FileAid vs File Manager, more...

2007-08-17 Thread Katie Thorpe
Hello! We are considering the viability of switching our Compuware products (Fileaid, Abendaid/XLS, Abendaid/CICS) to IBM replacements. We are a very straightforward mainframe installation with no database involved. Has anyone done that, and have any comments, either pro or con? I know

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Lizette Koehler
Have you tried the TEST facility in ISMF? Or do you have SMSDEBUG from DTS? Both could help identify your problem. Lizette MGMTCLAS ACS routine is irrelevant. It doesn't get invoked until after a STORCLAS is assigned by the STORCLAS ACS routine. The test for DASD_UNITS could be stopping

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Dean Montevago
don't know how, and don't know -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 3:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Question - Urgent Have you tried the TEST facility in ISMF? Or

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Dean Montevago
VVDS's are defined. Did the sprinkle. In 3.2 I can allocate, batch is where I have the issue. They both go down the same path, right ? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ed Finnell Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 3:00 PM To:

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread John Kington
Dean, VVDS's are defined. Did the sprinkle. In 3.2 I can allocate, batch is where I have the issue. They both go down the same path, right ? You could add a WRITE statement to show what the UNIT variable contains. Regards, John

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 8/17/2007 1:24:38 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You might want to sprinkle some WRITE statements in the ACS routine to show you where you've been. I's just thinking does this thing have VVDS at all? Guess if we list the VTOC it should show

Re: SMS Question

2007-08-17 Thread Richards.Bob
Not true, John. For just a construct change of that nature, only ACTIVATE is needed. Bob Richards -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 1:13 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Lizette Koehler
To use ISMF TEST you go to Option 7.4. Select one of the following Options: 1. DEFINE - Define an ACS Test Case 2. ALTER

Re: Compuware FileAid vs File Manager, more...

2007-08-17 Thread Rick Fochtman
--snip- Hello! We are considering the viability of switching our Compuware products (Fileaid, Abendaid/XLS, Abendaid/CICS) to IBM replacements. We are a very straightforward mainframe installation with no database involved. Has anyone done that, and

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Richards.Bob
Dean, Can you post your storage class routine? Bob Richards -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Montevago Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 3:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Question - Urgent VVDS's are

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:02:40 -0400, Dean Montevago wrote: VVDS's are defined. Did the sprinkle. In 3.2 I can allocate, batch is where I have the issue. They both go down the same path, right ? In 3.2 you create a non-VSAM data set, and a unit is specified by TSO ALLOCATE by default. The batch

Re: Sendmail w/attachment

2007-08-17 Thread Dave Kopischke
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:41:18 -0500, McKown, John wrote: As best as I can tell, IBM does not supply such a solution. Email attachments are not magic, they are simply specially encoded email. Here's what I do GENERing data to SMTP: //SYSUT1 DD * HELO MyServer.MyDomain.COM MAIL FROM: [EMAIL

Re: Distance between primary and DR site

2007-08-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/05/2007 at 08:42 AM, Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I take it that you have not considered the possibility of a supernova. The Sun is a yellow dwarf; going supernova is not an option. However, much less significant misbehavior could still put paid to us.

Re: Compuware FileAid vs File Manager, more...

2007-08-17 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 17, 2007, at 2:13 PM, Katie Thorpe wrote: Hello! We are considering the viability of switching our Compuware products (Fileaid, Abendaid/XLS, Abendaid/CICS) to IBM replacements. We are a very straightforward mainframe installation with no database involved. Has anyone done that,

Re: Distance between primary and DR site

2007-08-17 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 17, 2007, at 2:26 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/05/2007 at 08:42 AM, Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I take it that you have not considered the possibility of a supernova. The Sun is a yellow dwarf; going supernova is not an option.

Re: Sendmail w/attachment

2007-08-17 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:17:57 -0500, Dave Kopischke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Here's what I do GENERing data to SMTP: ... ...I don't know if this is SENDMAIL though. ... You said it right at the start. SMTP, not sendmail. The original poster has been saying sendmail, but also said no cost.

4331 weight

2007-08-17 Thread William Donzelli
Any oldtimers out these have the Physical Planning guide that covers the 4300 processors? I need to know the weight of a 4331-2, and my guide skips that model. Thanks! -- Will -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Domain Name Server (DNS) on z/OS?

2007-08-17 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Klein, Kevin wrote: Our most recent disaster test proved to be a (drum roll) disaster. Fortunately for me if not for my company, since I'm on z/OS, 95% of our problems were with the Wintel platforms. We had z/OS (1.7) up in two hours but spent the remainder of the test ironing out server

Re: OSA-Express2 and SNA Pcomm - loss of connectivity

2007-08-17 Thread Chris Mason
Sheila And now for the comments on your VTAM definitions. First, why bother about some of these seemingly relatively trivial matters? If you do not have a full understanding of what you are working with then you are in a bad position to try to work out what is really happening when there is

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Ron Hawkins
Dean, Bob has a good point. You can't be SMS managed unless a STORCLAS is assigned. The way I read the IDC3009I massage is that SMS managed volumes are specified for a dataset that is not SMS eligible (i.e. Does not have a STORCLAS). I'd give up trying to diagnose you DATACLAS routines for now