Re: Java; a POX

2008-05-14 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Michael Poil I am surprised that nobody has yet figured out a way to do it with valve technology or something even more primitive. There must be someone out there who can best the last post. Well, the old-timey

Re: crazy thoughts - keeping product installation infomation

2008-05-15 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Andrew Armstrong [ snip ] I think this would be an excellent use for a Wiki server - of pretty much any flavor,

Re: SMP/E Question

2008-05-16 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Vinson Lee When checking the PSP bucket for recommended maintenance, is one supposed to skip a Hiper fix if there is an Error Hold on it? It depends. If you are unaffected by (or can live with) the problem it was

Re: Backing up volumes containing UNIX filesystem datasets

2008-05-16 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John [ snip ] OT: I'm having a very bad week, capped off with one of my favorite characters on CSI being murdered in yesterday's episode. Stupid, but it has me really down today. From what I see on

Re: Another IBMLink problem?

2008-05-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Patrick O'Keefe Nobody has mentioned IBMLink problems for I while so I suspect this is just my shop, but I want to check. We still have/had access to IBMLink via an APPN connection to ATTGNS (aka Advantis, aka

Re: Converting from SYSPLEX(NO) to SYSPLEX(YES) for a UNIX root filesystem?

2008-05-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden [ snip ] == See the chapter on Shared HFS in a sysplex from the planning manual. Also see this on the web for animated view:

Re: Converting from SYSPLEX(NO) to SYSPLEX(YES) for a UNIX root filesystem?

2008-05-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/bkserv/animat ions/ussan im s.html Above link returns 404 Not Found Wrap problem! No; I watch for that as a matter of course. The full URI

Re: USSTAB color question

2008-05-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Yan Ying Hi all, I want to change the logon panel 's color.I cannot find how to control the color of the TEXT in USSTAB.Anybody know where IBM explain how to control that?Thanks a lot. The manual _3270 Data

Re: Old CICS

2008-05-20 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lopez, Rich [ITSUS] We have been running CICS 4.2 on z/OS 1.7 for SAP R2 for quite some time now. ??? When did CICS 4.2 exist? -jc- -- For

Re: Electronic order of PTF

2008-05-21 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Staller, Allan This is common if you are far backleveled on your maint. The online order process only seems to go back one level when you request pre-reqs. When I queried their helpdesk about that, the tech said

Re: Practical jokes for mainframe systems programmers

2008-05-21 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Richards, Robert B. As someone already commented on Tech Target website, these practical jokes are neither practical nor a joke. Indeed. Remapping somebody's keyboard might be harmless enough, but from there the

Re: Practical jokes for mainframe systems programmers

2008-05-21 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- On Wed May 21 11:00 , Edward Jaffe sent: Rob Scott wrote: I worked at a site once (many) years ago where some bright spark once wrote a program called IJKEFT01 whose sole purpose in life was to just ATTACH IKJEFT01 *unless* it was the target userid in which

Re: Practical jokes for mainframe systems programmers

2008-05-22 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Howard Brazee On 21 May 2008 12:43:34 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Leahy) wrote: The PL had PFK10 set up as CANCEL. This screwed me up because my own userid had PFK10 set up as SAVE. After losing several

Re: PF Key Customization (Was: Practical jokes for mainframe systems programmers)

2008-05-22 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John P Kalinich -jc- of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 05/22/2008 07:34:44 AM: That's the limit of my customization: F9 is mapped to SWAP NEXT, Shift+F9 is SWAP PREV,

Re: USSTAB color question

2008-05-23 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Patrick O'Keefe On Thu, 22 May 2008 06:31:49 -0500, Chris Mason wrote: ... You may be sure that VTAM - let alone the TN3270E server - will not be interested in managing Read Partition Query exchanges on the

Re: Paging

2008-05-27 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ward, Mike S I noticed a discussion on paging earlier in the month. Is the below still work doing or is there a better way now? (1 CYL PLPA and Common on the same volume) overflows to common With current

Re: SUB=MSTR STC with DSNs in User Catalog

2008-05-27 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jim Mulder IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 05/14/2008 09:53:49 PM: Inquiring minds (still) want to know where Mark Thomen is when we really need him. Mark Thomen is on medical

Turning off APPC? (was RE: SDSF slow after migration to z/OS 1.9)

2008-05-28 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Skip Robinson We saw this problem during our 1.9 ESP when we went to our first production system. Turning off APPC resolved the slowdown. Seems no one has sorely missed APPC output, so we've left it off for the

Re: Can ISRDDN show the complete minor name of an ENQ'd resource?

2008-05-29 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of David Eisenberg Anyone, I'm an application programmer. We are on z/OS 1.7. If I wish to see the system ENQ status of all ENQs for a given major name, I do this within ISRDDN, option ENQ. I filter on the major

z/OS 1.9 - STC userIDs - RACF OMVS segments

2008-05-29 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, We just IPLed z/OS 1.9 in the sandbox, and among the new stuff we noticed was an ICH408I message for the TMON userID not having READ access to BPX.SUPERUSER. After fixing that, I issued a LISTUSER tmonID OMVS and discovered that it doesn't have an OMVS segment (its default GROUP _does_

Re: z/OS SSL

2008-05-29 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Pace I've been working on setting up SSL support for TCP/IP. My server name is TN3270. I've set up RACF allowing control access for TN3270 to IRR.DIGTCERT.LIST IRR.DIGTCERT.LISTRING I've set up a ring and

Re: z/OS SSL

2008-05-29 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Pace Okay I added a CA to the ring. Still get the same error. I don't recall seeing anything in the IP guide about IRR.DIGTRING.LIST. I'll look that one up. Sorry; that's described in the RACF SecAdmin

Re: z/OS SSL

2008-05-29 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Pace I _thought_ I was creating a self-signed cert. That's what I did on our z/VM systems for testing. z/OS is proving to be much more difficult to get working that z/VM was. Hmmm I thought it was

Re: Migrated Dataset List

2008-05-30 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jacky Bright Anyone have an idea how to list ALL mainframe datasets which are migrated to ML1 or ML2 using some utility .. Have a look at SYS1.SAMPLIB(IGGCSIRX). -jc-

Re: Migrated Dataset List

2008-05-30 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Schwarz, Barry A I don't have HSM or I would have. Does it work? -Original Message- From: Edward Jaffe Schwarz, Barry A wrote: Will ISPF 3.4 with a blank level and a volume of MIGRAT work?

Re: For users of the LOOK command on z/OS 1.9

2008-06-02 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 14:10:08 -0400, Sam Golob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, If you are a user of the LOOK TSO command to browse active storage, from CBT Tape File 264 (www.cbttape.org -

Re: JCL Symbol Not Substituted

2008-06-02 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- //* on a z/OS v1r7 JES2 system, the JCL job step: //* // SET SYMBOL1=A // SET SYMBOL2=B // SET SYMBOL3=C

Re: JCL Symbol Not Substituted

2008-06-02 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: //*.+|+|+|+|+|+|.. ..+|.. //STEP1EXEC PGM=IEFBR14, //

Re: JCL Symbol Not Substituted

2008-06-02 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe John P. Baker wrote: Yes, it does. Please refer to SA22-7597-11 z/OS V1R9.0 MVS JCL Reference, page 16-22. Examples 3 and 4 demonstrate clearly that a comma (,) will be inserted between the

Re: Release 6.1 of IBMLink

2008-06-02 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Thompson, Steve SNIP Anyone else updated an ETR and have no acknowledgement timestamp after 30 minutes or so? No; it worked as before for me at 11:21 CDT. Submitted my update, selected List ETR Records- Mine -

Re: USSTAB color question

2008-06-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/20/2008 at 02:30 PM, Patrick O'Keefe [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I could be wrong. I haven't looked into it for a LONG time, but USS messages are sent on the

Re: re; American Airlines

2008-06-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of (IBM Mainframe Discussion List) In a message dated 6/3/2008 11:31:03 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: there were some early -13 ( -23) literature showing 90percent cache hit rate. i

Re: Another pathetic job offer

2008-06-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gary Green [ snip ] Job Description The MVS Systems Programmer will install; customize; test; implement; document and support IBM mainframe operating system software (z/OS 1.7 or 1.8) and multiple 3rd party

Re: Another pathetic job offer

2008-06-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gary Green Well, the subject says it all. :-( That's not an offer. In that market, it's only marginally good enough to be an insult. -jc- --

Re: FTP SSL

2008-06-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Michael Saraco I have my TN3270 SSL working fine. I setup the FTP SSL and I get. FC0367 ftpauth: TLS init failed with rc = 202(Error detected while opening the key database) I found some hits at IBM but none

Re: Help with DFDSS Restore of PDS-E Datasets

2008-06-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler The files are not to be cataloged, only copied from my target SMP/E Libraries to my new sysres as UNCATALOGED data sets. I really do not want to trash my live system. Or do I need to find

Re: FTP SSL

2008-06-04 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Michael Saraco FTPD has control access to IRR.DIGTRING.LISTRING. Do I need the cert for the site I am FTPing to? You should need only the CA cert (with USAGE(CERTAUTH)) that signed the server site's cert, and it

Re: How to schedule transactions in CICS ?

2008-06-04 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Parin Gangar Hello all, I am working on Webmethods implementation in our CICS environment, and need to schedule a Health-check transaction to be triggered every 10 mins or so. Does CICS have any type of

Re: Rational Developer for System z

2008-06-04 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Graham Hobbs Hello, Acronyms first: WDz = Websphere Developer for System z V7.0 RDz = Rational Developer for System z V7.1 According to an IBM website 'With this new release WDz has been renamed to RDz'.

Re: Rational Developer for System z

2008-06-04 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Just to lay out some more options I previously posted here some information on a test drive that's now available for Rational Developer for System z. If you'd like to use it a couple times

Re: Rational Developer for System z

2008-06-04 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of James Robinson Graham: We have installed and are currently testing r/DZ. There are a couple of things that you should know: 1) The mainframe COBOL piece of r/DZ *requires* SCLM to function. If

Re: FTP SSL

2008-06-04 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Hal Merritt Sounds like a keyring issue. Check to see that the correct name (case sensitive, I think) is specified in TCPPARMS(FTPSDATA) for the server and TCPPARMS(FTPCDATA) or the client. If you are

Re: Release 6.1 of IBMLink - AST

2008-06-04 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden I've noticed that after I view a new AST item the asterisks next to the item does not go away like it used to. Is everyone having this problem? How are you redisplaying the list? If via the

Re: Release 6.1 of IBMLink - AST

2008-06-04 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 10:53:17 -0500, Chase, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden I've noticed that after I view a new AST item

Re: FTP SSL

2008-06-04 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Hal Merritt Are we talking SSL or SSH? SSL (/TLS). For TLS (SSL), I think the client first contacts the server. Yes, and requests a SSL/TLS connection if the server does not make it mandatory. The server then

TCPIP Segmentation Offload

2008-06-04 Thread Chase, John
Forwarded on behalf of a colleague... IBM recommended a while back that TCP/IP Segmentation Offload to the OSA card be disabled. Microcode was made available in April to fix the offload code. We are now at this new microcode level and are

Re: Another pathetic job offer

2008-06-04 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ken Porowski From the 'Company Overview' in the posting Committing to hire the best and brightest, pay them more than fairly, give them the environment they need to excel, provide the management systems that

Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)

2008-06-05 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 13:25:53 -0500, McKown, John wrote: ... I would prefer that JCL be VB. There would be no sequence numbering at all. Bravo! Bye, bye IEBUPDTE?

Re: Rational Developer for System z

2008-06-05 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples John Chase writes: That's how I _had_ RDz running, but after 60 days it refused to start unless I provided a product key for it. Our shop purchased only enough keys for our applications folks

z/OS 1.9 Installation -- SIGYROOT filesystem?

2008-06-05 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, We're doing post-install aceivities for z/OS 1.9, and I noticed there is a SIGYROOT filesystem included in our ServerPac. I don't find any mention of its release or service level in the Program Directory or Installing Your Order document, but from its name it appears to be

FIXCAT HOLDDATA

2008-10-10 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, Has anybody encountered the new FIXCAT HOLDDATA yet? As of today's download from http://service.software.ibm.com/holdata/390holddata.html I don't see any; just mention of it in the comment block. Is there a different download site to obtain it? TIA, -jc-

Re: FIXCAT HOLDDATA

2008-10-10 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Andy White Its funny you should bring this up. We are working on our z/os 1.10 order and I thought id check for fixcat items from what I saw was given out at SHARE. We upgraded to smp/E 3.5 on our z/OS 1.9 system/

Re: FIXCAT HOLDDATA

2008-10-10 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jürgen Kehr Hi, AFAIK your problem is not a missing UPGRADE of your SMP/E CSIs or something else in your environment. You have to pick up the FIXCAT HOLDs from somewhere and to receive it. One place to pick

Re: Emulators

2008-10-13 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman And when you've decided to buy it, it's dirt cheap. Note that I say WHEN, not IF. :-) Blaicher, Chris wrote: Tom Brennan's VISTA 3270 is very good. It isn't free, but you can test it for free

Re: COBOL abbreviated IF message IGYPS2048-S

2008-10-13 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Greg Shirey Hello all, I'd appreciate some help interpreting COBOL. A programmer was updating a program which contained the following: IF WC-FUNC (SUB) = (X OR Z) AND (WC-AMTUSE (SUB) + WC-AMT-PENDING

Re: [OT] Heart Surgery

2008-10-14 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Richards, Robert B. Howard, My chest cavity looks like our upper atmosphere. There is so much useless hardware floating around there that when it shows up on film, I laugh out loud! Sounds like you might have

Re: VBM to VBA?

2008-10-14 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Chris Mason To all subscribers Mea maxima culpa! Some things the spell-checker will not spot. Of course your - you're - and to think in the past I have criticised some for the odd there for their or vice

Re: FMID List

2008-10-15 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Eric Bielefeld Anne, Thanks for that list. It has a lot of what I am looking for, but not what I need right now. I am installing the DB2 Performance Monitor 8.01.0. It has FMIDs of H0G981X and H27C210. I'm

Re: D/T2098 PROCESSOR ?

2008-10-15 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden APAR Identifier .. IO09096 Last Changed 08/10/13 EREP SUPPORT NEW FUNCTION Symptom .. NF NEWFUNCTION Status ... CLOSED UR1 Severity ... 3

Re: Finding the correct IEASYSxx member

2008-10-16 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Robert A. Rosenberg At 15:57 -0500 on 10/15/2008, Mark Zelden wrote about Re: Finding the correct IEASYSxx member: If you looked at the chapter on IEASYSxx (a logical place to start):

Re: question about Oracle on the mainframe

2008-10-16 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of R.S. David Crayford wrote: [...] 15 years ago I worked on one of the first mainframe DB2 data warehouse systems in the UK. We used SP2 AIX boxes for the mining, and they were very quick back then. I suppose it

Shared PARMLIB placement

2008-10-16 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, Are there any compelling reasons to place a shared PARMLIB on a volume that holds a sysplex couple dataset? Are there any compelling reasons NOT to place it there? Please expound a little for answers other than No. TIA, -jc-

Re: D/T2098 PROCESSOR ?

2008-10-16 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Marchant On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:57:58 -0500, John McKown wrote: [ snip ] Perhaps something to go into the niche which was supported by the Flex-ES system? In that case, some sort of internal DASD would be

Re: Virtual (was: IBM PR: System z Announcement ...)

2008-10-16 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:26:44 -0500, John McKown wrote: Also, z/VM still makes VMWare look sick and immature. Understood. But is this because z/VM does a superior job of providing virtual images

Re: Message ICE099A ... Need Help

2008-10-16 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:39:34 -0400, Howard Rifkind wrote: I don't have the messages manual, I'll have to download these manuals tonight. You don't have to do that. It looks like you have

Re: Virtual

2008-10-17 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rich Smrcina Chase, John wrote: Does VMWare run on bare metal yet? Well, I guess that depends upon your definition of 'bare metal'. (What is 'is'?) For a very long time VMWare would install a modified

Re: Default class for JES2 SYSOUT

2008-10-17 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Subject: Re: Default class for JES2 SYSOUT On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:19:20 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: Is this always the case, or only if the DD statement specifies SYSOUT=*. I believe in our lab

Re: Default class for JES2 SYSOUT

2008-10-17 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Marchant On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:07:50 -0500, Chase, John wrote: 2 //BR14 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 3 //DD01 DD SYSOUT= == nothing there Result: IGD101I SMS ALLOCATED TO DDNAME (DD01

Re: C03 abend when omitting CEE.SCEERUN from JCL

2008-10-17 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John McKown On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:20:44 -0500, Roach, Dennis wrote: The cause could be ANY duplicate module in SCEERUN that is in LPA or ahead of SCEERUN in linklist that gets invoked, directly or indirectly, by

OUTPUT JESDS= statement

2008-10-20 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, Running z/OS 1.9, JES2. Like presumably most shops, we've configured JOBCLASS STC to send the joblog, et al to the bit bucket. Now wanting to retain the joblog for CICS regions, I've added an //OUT1 OUTPUT JESDS=ALL statement to the started job library member for my sandbox CICS

Re: OUTPUT JESDS= statement

2008-10-20 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Big Iron I think that you are missing a couple of things. You would at least need to specify the new SYSOUT class on the OUTPUT statement. But from my reading of the JCL Reference, that should not be necessary; it's

Re: OUTPUT JESDS= statement

2008-10-20 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Walt Farrell On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:17:19 -0500, Chase, John wrote: Like presumably most shops, we've configured JOBCLASS STC to send the joblog, et al to the bit bucket. Now wanting to retain the joblog

Re: IBM PR: System z Announcement Webcast on October 21, 2008

2008-10-20 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman ---snip-- A phenomenon known as the $300,000,000 PC. Frank DiGilio's Mainframe Mythbusting presentation cites the Wall Street Journal as

Re: OUTPUT JESDS= statement

2008-10-20 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman On your Started JOB library member, put a valid job statement with MSGCLASS and MSGLEVEL operands. Already had this: //CICSTECH JOB ,'TECHIE SANDBOX',MSGCLASS=8,TIME=1440 //OUT1 OUTPUT

Re: EXEC PGM=??? to issue operator commands from the JCL stream?

2008-10-21 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Todd Burch What utility program (or proc) is available that will allow me to enter operator commands via a batch job? We use IEFBR14. -jc- --

Re: EXEC PGM=??? to issue operator commands from the JCL stream?

2008-10-21 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Todd Burch Thanks to everyone. I implemented Raymond's suggestion for // COMMAND 'blah' last night, and it works great. The unsynchronized behavior is fine for the immediate need at hand. I needed to refresh

Re: How big is your z/OS 1.9 root and where does it live

2008-10-22 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John Norgauer I just ran out of space on my ROOT while installing JAVA 31. I'd like a ball-park number of your size I have 60K tracks and it's on my SYSRES. I could re-locate to another volume but I thought maybe I

Re: How big is your z/OS 1.9 root and where does it live

2008-10-22 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler [ snip ] I will be eventually redoing my OMVS environment to have a top Root which is just links and using Symbolics and /SYSNAME type setups in my BPXPRMxx member. This is very well documented

Re: How big is your z/OS 1.9 root and where does it live

2008-10-22 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/Shelves Goes back to OS/390 V1.1 Thanks. Got the bookshelf, but don't see a OS/390 V2.7 Unix Setup manual or

Re: help unabel to logon to cics ceda or cemt

2008-10-22 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rugen, Len Let's all stop guessing and debug the problem it's been awhile, but I think I still remember how to do this Option 1 - start CEDF on another session directed to this problem, it should track

Re: How big is your z/OS 1.9 root and where does it live

2008-10-22 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) The real title is OS/390 V2R7.0 UNIX System Services Planning. However, much had changed with respect to the root file system when support for sharing HFSs in a

Re: How big is your z/OS 1.9 root and where does it live

2008-10-22 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Peter, I totally agree with your statement, however, the descriptions and diagrams are very nice in this manual. I am still going through the zOS v1.9 manuals to see what has been enhanced. But

Re: Favorite Way(s) for COBOL as HTTP Client?

2008-10-23 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples I got a question asking for recommendations on how to write a COBOL application (on z/OS) to act as an HTTP client. ... Further assumptions: there's only Enterprise COBOL (compiler) and base z/OS

Re: ShopzSeries SMP/e 3.5 order

2008-10-24 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Scott Rowe Hello all, Has anyone else had an issue ordering SMP/e 3.5 on Shopz? When I tried placing an order, I found that Shopz does not consider us licensed for SMP/e 3.5, and says I must order a new license.

Re: ICH409I 283-054 ABEND DURING FRACINIT PROCESSING

2008-10-27 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruno Sugliani On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:35:57 -0500, Mike Feeley wrote: WOW!! That doc APAR is 10 years old. I would have thought that this would no longer be an issue by now. Especially

Re: ShopzSeries SMP/e 3.5 order

2008-10-27 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jousma, David Don't know if its related or not, but when I ordered z/os 1.10 serverpac, shopz would not let me select SMPE as one of the products to include. After talking with the ordering people, it seems as

Re: DFSORT PARSE question

2008-10-29 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht John McKown wrote: I have a field in a record which is a person's name. It is rather free format and may contain one or more names, separated by one or more blanks. By our definition, the

DFSORT/ICETOOL SPLICE question (was RE: DFSORT PARSE question)

2008-10-29 Thread Chase, John
Piggybacking on John M.'s question: From an IRRDBU00 unload, I have need to list each individual user ID with access granted to each individual CICS transaction in the GCICSTRN class. We use the grouping profile to define the CICS transactions to RACF, wherein each grouping profile contains one

Re: enlarging SMPNTS

2008-10-29 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of ??? ?? ??? Hi, I tried to install SMP/E 3.5 from ShopZSeries. The receive job abended because the HFS file that contains the SMPNTS directory reached 123 extents. How can I enlarge the HFS file without

Re: DFSORT/ICETOOL SPLICE question (was RE: DFSORT PARSE question)

2008-10-29 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:51 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DFSORT/ICETOOL SPLICE question (was RE: DFSORT PARSE question) John, I am also really splicing three record types

Re: JAVA and WebServices

2008-10-29 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Miklos Szigetvari Hi A funy thing: Try to test CICS TS WebServices (WS2LS utility), and got a crash The IBM told me that it would not work with JAVA 1.6 , only with JAVA 1.5 That's a documented limitation for

Re: DFSORT/ICETOOL SPLICE question (was RE: DFSORT PARSE question)

2008-10-29 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John McKown On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:38:13 -0500, Chase, John wrote: [ snip ] I'll probably have to write an ad-hoc program to do the final splicing. If so, that would give me a self-teaching exercise in Java

Re: Comparing Mainframe and Windows Server CICS Transactions per kWh

2008-10-30 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman -snip A key assumption is that the Windows Server environment is managed with the same care as the mainframe environment to ensure

Re: Comparing Mainframe and Windows Server CICS Transactions per kWh

2008-10-30 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Thompson, Steve SNIP Was it the one that went something like: The F4 Phantom proves that with enough thrust a rock can be made to fly. ? Might have been the F-100 -- aka lead sled. -jc-

Re: Efficient conversion of GMT to/from local time from COBOL?

2008-10-31 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of J R But, it can/does cause some problems with things like young children going to (or coming from) school in the dark. [ snip ] Standard time gives the kids their best chance of going to school and coming

Re: Efficient conversion of GMT to/from local time from COBOL?

2008-10-31 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of J R When I was a child in Fairbanks, we went to school in the dark and came home in the dark. Heck, we even ate lunch in the dark! Uphill both ways? Of course! It was COLD, too! -jc-

Re: new z/OS IMS shop

2008-10-31 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick My mention of being a new z/OS with IMS shop got a few surprised replies, so I thought I'd give a bit more information... We have been a VSE (DOS) shop since at least 1979. (Not sure what we did

Re: procs and concatenations

2008-11-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:22:40 +0100, Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) wrote: Try this: //SYSLIBDD DDNAME=OWNSYSLB // DD DISP=SHR,DSN=APPL.PROD.COPYLIB //* //OWNSYSLB DD

Access STIMER(M) from COBOL program?

2008-11-12 Thread Chase, John
Wonderful tool, Strobe. We've discovered among our ancient production code a COBOL program that constructs VSAM KSDS record keys of date/time with one-second granularity. As we've installed newer, faster machines over the years, the COBOL program tended to generate more and more duplicate keys,

Re: New Blog MainframeZone

2008-11-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman I wish! :-) I still have a lot to learn, and keeping up is becoming more and more difficult. Indeed. Much of the difficulty lies in deciding what to forget (and sometimes, when to forget it), to

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