Re: Access STIMER(M) from COBOL program?

2008-11-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John McKown [ snip ] Try this: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/CEEA3180/2.2. 5.5 That is the entry of CEE3DLY, which can delay execution 0 to 3600 seconds. Super! And the

Re: Access STIMER(M) from COBOL program?

2008-11-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Eric Spencer Why not just consider the generated key (time stamp) a seed If you detect that the generated key is a duplicate (when you do the read for upd, which you have to do anyway) just add a second (or

Re: Recataloging Linklist Datasets

2008-11-14 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Walt Farrell On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:07:48 -0500, Peter Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Obviously I was wrong in asserting that the publications are correct with respect to the sentence

Re: concatenations, again

2008-11-14 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Now how is *this* one for interesting: //COBOL PROC COBOPT= //COB EXEC PGM=IGYCRCTL,REGION=4096K,PARM='COBOPT' //SYSIN DD DISP=SHR,DSN=FJS.PDSE.COBOL(MEMBER) //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*

Re: IFL Extended to OpenSolaris

2008-11-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Is there a licensing restriction on an IFL that specifies what operating systems can run on it? Or is the licensing restriction on MVS to prevent it from being legally run on an IFL? There is

Re: IFL Extended to OpenSolaris

2008-11-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Marchant From the announcement: Prior to this announcement, z/VM was authorized to run on IFL processors only if, on the IFL processors, z/VM was being used exclusively to run Linux workloads and, if

Re: IFL Extended to OpenSolaris

2008-11-20 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tony Harminc In the case of z/VM products such as RSCS, IBM has said repeatedly that they are happy to talk about licensing terms for running on IFLs. If one installs z/VM solely for use as a Linux hypervisor, would

Re: IFL Extended to OpenSolaris

2008-11-20 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Marchant On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:41:05 -0600, Chase, John wrote: If one installs z/VM solely for use as a Linux hypervisor, would there be a need for RSCS? Maybe. There is certainly a need to perform

Re: Interesting CS Course Syllabus

2008-11-21 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lindy Mayfield While searching for CCW command codes (x'08' actually) I ran across this page of a computer science professor at Northern Illinois University. It seems they are learning some serious mainframe.

Re: Cancel tso id - IKJEFLN2

2008-11-21 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/20/2008 at 03:09 PM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It's possible he meant OMVS. It's likely he'll protest my second-guessing his intent.

The Paddles (was RE: Interesting CS Course Syllabus)

2008-11-21 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bruno Sugliani On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:04:43 -0800, Skip Robinson wrote: While Dr Rannie is still a dedicated and enthusiastic bearer of the paddles at SHARE, I find it poignant and touching that actual physical

Re: Cancel tso id - IKJEFLN2

2008-11-24 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Chase, John said: Not sure I understand your question, If you enter the OMVS command from TSO, disconnect, go to a 3270 with a different screen size and reconnect, will OMVS

Re: Interesting CS Course Syllabus

2008-11-24 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) May i know what are these paddles you are talking about ? The symbol of the OS/360 project. Google for without a paddle and you will see the (vulgar) derivation.

Re: How to stop NOTIFYs?

2008-11-25 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Rick Fochtman wrote: I can HIGHLY recommend Shmuel Golob's (AKA Sam Golob's) Broadcast Management tools. There are two Shmuels on IBM-MAIN? There are at least three: Shmuel Koller occasionally

Re: RCFs are no longer accepted by IBM???

2008-11-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe I'm attempting to send an RCF to IBM using the address supplied by John Eells in this post: http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0610L=ibm-mainP=R82229I=1X=- It doesn't work ... :-(

Re: z/OS 1.10 and Data Areas

2008-11-30 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bob Shannon did you register that IBM is no more delivering z/OS MVS Data Areas! Data Areas are still available, but unfortunately only in PDF format, not in Book Manager format. ??? I have the Bookmanager

Re: z/OS 1.10 and Data Areas

2008-11-30 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion On Behalf Of Peter Relson The data areas books are still available, in PDF format; they are not in book format. http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/Shelves/IEA2BK90 BookPDF z/OS V1R10.0 MVS Data Areas, Vol 1

Re: InfoCenters (Was: Re: z/OS 1.10 and Data Areas)

2008-12-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 08:23:19 -0800, Edward Jaffe wrote: Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) wrote: There are other IBM products besides z/OS that are already dropping the .boo format for some of their books. I

Re: InfoCenters (Was: Re: z/OS 1.10 and Data Areas)

2008-12-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Chase, John wrote: I hope so. The Library Centers are Java-based, and it takes a couple of weeks just for the navigation frame to populate. Information Centers are also Java based... Hmmm

Re: SMPE question

2008-12-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Pace Yes, that part I knew. The embarrassing part is that I'm still trying to figure out how to get SMPE to tell me what versions of software I'm running. It was so much easier in VSE. MSHP RETRACE. It's on

FW: HSM weirdness

2008-12-04 Thread Chase, John
Forwarded on behalf of a colleague.. _ Back when we were rolling out Z/OS 1.9 I updated the HSM parmlib to add these comments - /* NEW PARM FOR Z/OS 1.9 VIA UA39499 */

Re: IBM 2066-002 Adding Spare CP as IFL

2008-12-04 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Donald Grinsell [ snip ] As others have pointed out, don't expect much out of this other than being able to bring up a functional system. We didn't have much memory to give that LPAR and our open systems group

Re: z/Linux

2008-12-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of gsg I've been hearing alot about z/Linux and am wondering what are some good references for learning. Basically, I'm looking for a z/Linux for dummies book. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Better than a

Re: IBM Link Down?

2008-12-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jerry Fuchs Can anybody get into IBM link? I think it is down. Unable from Chicago -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Display Active Users panel (DA)

2008-12-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rahim, A. (Ahmed) Hi All, In the REAL field in the DA users panel, you would sometimes see the 17T in the display. I tried to find out what the T meant. The description you get in the SDSF Operations and

Re: Display Active Users panel (DA)

2008-12-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Hal Merritt So a display of 22T would be = 22 * 4096 / 1,000 = 90,112 bytes? Pages. -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Display Active Users panel (DA)

2008-12-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Eric Bielefeld wrote: ... under MEMLIMIT, I see many address spaces with a MEMLIMIT of 16383PB, or 16,383 Petabytes. Somehow, I think if any address space tried using all that storage, it would

Re: Display Active Users panel (DA)

2008-12-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Veilleux, Jon L How much DASD do you own? It has always scared me when the architecture outstrips the ability to back it up. The same thing happened going to XA. A sophisticated user brought down one of our test

Re: Health Checker questions

2008-12-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John Eells snip ... From the very name of HZSAIEOF, and the penchant of good programmers to pick meaningful names when possible, I will speculate that it might perhaps, just maybe, stand for Allocate (data set)

Re: Anyone using JAVA 6.0 on z/OS?

2008-12-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Barkow, Eileen CICS V 3.1 (and 3.2 as far as i can tell) only supports java 1.4 - cannot even run 1.5. Lousy, since IBM released j 1.6 at least a year ago. CTS 3.2 support for Java 5.0 was delivered via PTFs

Re: Anyone using JAVA 6.0 on z/OS?

2008-12-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Barkow, Eileen CICS V 3.1 (and 3.2 as far as i can tell) only supports java 1.4 - cannot even run 1.5. Lousy, since IBM released j 1.6 at least a year ago. CTS 3.2 support for Java 5.0 was delivered via

Re: Anyone using JAVA 6.0 on z/OS?

2008-12-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Behalf Of Barkow, Eileen it is very encouraging that the next release of CICS will include support for java 6. because we ordered cics ts 3.1 right before 3.2 was available, we are stuck on it now for a long, long time and

Re: Anyone using JAVA 6.0 on z/OS?

2008-12-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Java 1.5 (Java 5) is supported with CICS TS V3.2. (So is Java 1.4.) See here for example: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/cicsts/v3r2/topic/com.ibm.cics

Re: Unicode on Demand problem

2008-12-16 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jim McAlpine On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Mark Zelden wrote: Jim, Do you have the SRB support APAR on? The original APAR / PTF was OA14231 / UA27251 but that one went PE and was fixed by OA19072 /

Re: Unicode on Demand problem

2008-12-17 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:42:30 -0600, Chase, John wrote: [ snip ] You may find that, even with those fixes applied, you still need to code a CUNUNIxx member to cope with CP 1252. We had to do

Re: SDSF Security

2008-12-17 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pinnacle - Original Message - From: George Fogg Why all this work with SAFTRACE and SDSF trace? Why not look in the log. If you are using RACF and have the proper profile then you should see:

Re: How to Use GIMUNPCK

2008-12-17 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pinnacle - Original Message - From: Cwi Jeret I applied APAR OA24147 to my z/OS 1.9 system and expected to be able to receive tersed MPTF files download from the IBM FTP server without untersing it

Re: CLIST/REXX Philosophy

2008-12-18 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Schwarz, Barry A If I remember correctly, the RACF DBSYNC tool generates a REXX with lines longer that 80. Also the IRRRID00 utility; it requires RECFM=VB,LRECL=255. -jc-

Re: Dash in Cataloged Data Set Name (Was: ISPF and long lines)

2008-12-18 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin [ snip ] At least a decade. I don't know about decades. But beware. JCL converter allows DSN=USER.FOO-BAR, but syntax errors on DCB=USER.FOO-BAR. Go figure. Documented. Can anyone envision a

Re: State of Nevada Employment Opportunity

2008-12-18 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of R.S. James Link wrote: [...] Please visit http://doit.nv.gov/Admin_DoIT_JOBS.htm to see the full recruitment announcement and to apply on-line. The announcement number is 8148 for an IT Professional III.

Re: State of Nevada Employment Opportunity

2008-12-18 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Barkow, Eileen there is nothing odd about any of this. NYC makes quite a bit of money charging to take civil service exams for which there may not be a job opportunity for as much as 4 years, if any. And potential

Re: z/OS 1.10 Serverpack Problem Heads up

2008-12-18 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jousma, David All, I just received my 1.10 Serverpack this week, and ran into a problem that you may face if not careful. I opened a ticket with IBM Serverpack to report the problem so that they can address it.

A matter of perspective

2008-12-19 Thread Chase, John
A distributed server bogging down caused a brief flurry of emails among the firecall team. After the offending server was identified and re-booted, the following message came through: I would like to add that XX is putting a monitoring rule in place on this server to check for CPU spikes

Re: Dash in Cataloged Data Set Name (Was: ISPF and long lines)

2008-12-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Wayne Driscoll Except that an UNPK would leave the field 0C, not C0, so this sounds like an old programmers tale to me. No, UNPK swaps the nybbles of the rightmost byte. P'0' = X'0C'; UNPK makes it X'C0'. -jc-

Re: State of Nevada Employment Opportunity

2008-12-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bond, Richard extensive installation and maintenance experience for $50G to $80G which means around $60G - wow, sounds like another Wal Mart. Well, installation and maintenance per se aren't that difficult

Re: Ported Tools: HTTP V7 and ShopzSeries

2008-12-22 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Skip Robinson OK, I sharpened the shovel and dug back in. This time I found it under 'Security and System Management', not listed together with other instances of Ported Tools. However, my no-charge order is now

Re: new lpar

2008-12-31 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John McKown [ snip ] Let me be the first to wish everybody a safe and sane 4th of July! Little late, aren't you? -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: SHARE Session 8194: z390 and zcobol Portable Mainframe COBOL Compiler written in structured macro assembler

2009-01-02 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tony Harminc [ snip ] My wild guess is that if zcobol looks like a real threat, IBM will just buy it. And maybe that wouldn't be such a bad thing from its developer's point of view... But zcobol is touted as

Re: IBM Debug Tool in pure batch

2009-01-02 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Michael Bradley I'm trying to use the IBM Debug Tool to list some data names during a Batch run, with the DT commands in INSPIN, and capturing the responses in INSPLOG.  All is well, until I attempt to continue a

Re: JES2 Node Name

2009-01-02 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John McKown [ snip ] Some of them are still looking for the COBAL compiler grin. And what happened to IKJCBL00? ... IKFCBL00? -jc- -- For

Re: IBMLink AskQ

2009-01-05 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Howard Rifkind There is or used to be a product from IBMLink (Software Excel) called AskQ. It was a COST FUNCTION of IBMLink where you could email these people various technical questions and they would respond.

Re: Rational Developer

2009-01-05 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Keith Zawila Has anyone installed IBM's Rational Developer?I have it installed and all of the IVP programs are working except the one that tests the RSED task.It not only

Re: A Smile for the Week

2009-01-05 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of P S [ snip ] I worked for a development company where, at an engineering meeting, the VP of Engineering said that folks shouldn't comment their code, because the comments might not be correct. I waited for him

Re: CEEPRM00 for dummies (me)

2009-01-06 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John Kelly Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 11:19 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: CEEPRM00 for dummies (me) I am attempting to put in CEEPRM00 and I am having syntax/usage problem(s). The initTuning manual

Re: Auditors (was: Survey says...)

2009-01-07 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Hal Merritt In many parts of the world, auditor behavior is spelled out in ISO 9000. And, as I recall, that behavior is much like Ted's posts. Not so in the US, it would seem. I wonder if that would account for the

Re: given the checkered history of stability for PDSE's

2009-01-07 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Finnell In a message dated 1/6/2009 6:32:36 P.M. Central Standard Time, edja...@phoenixsoftware.com writes: You can't run z/OS without PDSE. So, issues or not, PDSE is here to stay. Unless the

Re: SMS Dataclass attribute

2009-01-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of gsg I there any impact in setting all of your DATACLASSes to SPEED? I notice that alot of our datasets the index component is set to RECOVERY, but the data component is set to SPEED. Not sure why you would want to

IBMLink via the web (again)

2009-01-12 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, Anybody able to view ETR records? I just spent about 15 minutes entering a new one (about 3 minutes of typing; the rest of the time waiting for terminal response), and now when I try to view it all I get is a blank screen. Of course the 3270 interface is working fine.. -jc-

Re: MAXUSER=250

2009-01-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Marchant On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:47:54 -0500, Mark Jacobs wrote: Donnelly, John P wrote: We now need to increase this number to 800... Is it possible to change on the fly? No. And because of that,

Re: MAXUSER=250

2009-01-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Martinez, Frank J YES! Console command: F TSO,USERMAX=500 (for example) It will change the amount. But you need to change the VTAM number of entries to correspond with the increase. MAXUSER USERMAX.

Re: VTAM security issue

2009-01-14 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Itschak Mugzach Walt, I might used worng wording, but when I said LOGON to CICS (or any other VTAM application on partner sight, I ment it. The only limit I have when Pentesting is the partner company to agree for

Re: VTAM security issue

2009-01-14 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Itschak Mugzach John, Do you want me to surprise you? You're welcome to try, but be prepared for disappointment. As your new president said: yes, we can. Sec=YES has nothing to do with the signon procedure of

Re: Def alias error in RACF

2009-01-15 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Carlos Cordero Colleagues, Somebody can help me to know what causes the next error at the moment to define an Alias in a RACF environment with z/OS V1.7 release? At the moment to send the request in command

Re: Enable SSL/TLS on FTP server?

2009-01-16 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bri P Hi folks, and a very belated Happy New Year to all of you for whom it’s relevant. I’ve had SSL/TLS running on my telnet server for the best part of a year, and now I’m trying to enable SSL/TLS on my z/OS

Re: Enable SSL/TLS on FTP server?

2009-01-16 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Bri P Hi Len and John I'm using a FTPDATA file in the MVS filesystem rather than in USS, via a //SYSFTPD DD statement in the FTPD started task JCL. It's definitely picking up this

Re: z/OS 1.7 , FTP PROBLEM

2009-01-16 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Sewell, Raymond K. [ snip ] This Lpar does not work. z/os 1.7 operating system. C:\Documents and Settings\rksewellftp 10.73.6.160 Connected to 10.73.6.160. User (10.73.6.160:(none)): osfsp02 Login failed.

Re: Data Encryption Product Limits: 300 Datasets per month

2009-01-16 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler So how do you get the Big Plasma TV? Does your company give you a bonus for saving money??? ;-D They keep me on the payroll. :-) -jc-

Netview Access Services (NVAS) and Mixed-case Passwords

2009-01-19 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, Does NVAS 2.1 support mixed-case passwords? I found no hits in the NVAS bookshelf for mixed case password. TIA, -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Netview Access Services (NVAS) and Mixed-case Passwords

2009-01-20 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:42:47 +0900, Timothy Sipples wrote: But yes, you can get mixed case password support with NVAS. Take a look at APAR PK16580 for more information. Here's a Web link that should

Re: GDG Question

2009-01-20 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman You should have seen how they were managed in a CVOL environment! Chewing gum, bailing wire, spit a and LOT of prayers! . . . So, does that mean the demise of CVOLs predated the availability of duct

Re: Multiple FTP servers?

2009-01-22 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bri P My main requirement is that the userid and password is sent AFTER the TLS encryption has been established, I don't want clients signing in with login credentials sent in clear, before establishing

Re: Multiple FTP servers?

2009-01-22 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Hal Merritt [ snip ] *To my non English speaking friends: 'donno' is slang for don't know or don’t understand or I just work here. A common alternate spelling is dunno. And for fans of the Family Circle

Re: SV: MVS 4 minute 'outage' (final update)

2009-01-23 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Greg Shirey FWIW, our company has been running on two logical CPs for around 10 years. Maybe we are just dumb and happy, but we consider ourselves safe and have not suffered through any experience to indicate

Re: SMPE Retry problem.

2009-01-23 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Howard, The way I would approach this is to identify each and every PTF that was applied. Then create a RESTORE of each and every ptf. This will take time as anything that had not been accepted

Re: Def alias error in RACF

2009-01-23 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman ---snip- Colleagues, follow up this problem Yes, the user for both purpose is the same (so as to execute the DEF through IDCAMS and run in the

Re: SV: MVS 4 minute 'outage' (final update)

2009-01-23 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:47:18 -0600, Chase, John jch...@ussco.com wrote: Our sandbox does well enough on 1/3 of an engine. It gets the one with the dirty spark plug, broken piston rings, leaky

Re: IEAOPTxx

2009-01-23 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Larre Shiller John - FWIW, our ERV is set to 50,000 and it has been working without any trouble for many years. You might want to read IBM WSC FLASH10337 concerning CPENABLE. The latest recommendation for

Re: Netview Access Services (NVAS) and Mixed-case Passwords

2009-01-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:51:33 -0800, Edward Jaffe wrote: [ snip ] RACF didn't fold the password until recently. All the more reason, then, that applications should

FW: APPCLU: SESSKEY on SESSION segment

2009-01-27 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, Posted this to RACF-L earlier, but thought I might get some input from here, too. _ Hi, All, Installing the RACF Adapter for Tivoli Identity Manager (TIM), and have reached

SNA Formats manual?

2009-01-29 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, Anybody know where I can find a BookManager format (preferred) or PDF of the SNA Formats or SNA Network Formats manuals? TIA, -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: IPL after 4Gbyte alloc NOMEMLIMIT

2009-01-29 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Miklos Szigetvari Hi In our systems (till now) we set the MEMLIMIT to NOLIMIT, we have 6G real , and a small 6 G page A test 64 bit unautorised application tried to alloc and set a 4Gbyte storage, it led to an

Re: IPL after 4Gbyte alloc NOMEMLIMIT

2009-01-29 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden [ snip ] I forgot to mention: You should also beef up your aux storage. If you have 6G real, you should have enough aux storage to support *much* more virtual storage usage. See the INIT and tuning

Re: Def alias error in z/OS (SOLVED)

2009-01-29 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Carlos Cordero I said, what I just need to know is a name of resource of kind which protects on distinct way the execution of DEF and DEL commands; and it was this: - STGADMIN.IGG.DEFDEL.UALIAS - Once

Re: SNA Formats manual?

2009-01-29 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Chris Mason [ snip ] Network Job Entry Formats and Protocols ? I must say I can't find any clue in John's post that he had the slightest interest in NJE!!! Not today, anyway. ;-) Since I have been

Re: How to APPLY FMID's again

2009-02-04 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex R. Hi. Apparently I misunderstood and thought you had just installed PSF into the 1.8 LINKLIB by accident and wanted to correct the DDDEF and re-apply it. Am I correct now in guessing that you have

Re: How to APPLY FMID's again

2009-02-05 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 12:21:58 -0600, Chase, John wrote: [snip ] If the product has been ACCEPTed and you haven't applied subsequent maintenance that is not also ACCEPTed, you might consider

Re: Interesting APAR OA27291 an undocumented change to GETMAIN Behavior in z/OS 1.10

2009-02-06 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Guy Gardoit wrote: For the life of me, I can't understand why this is such a surprise or problem. How many bad programmers were-there/are-there anyway? Sorry, but one who breaks the rules, end

Re: Interesting APAR OA27291 an undocumented change to GETMAIN Behavior in z/OS 1.10

2009-02-06 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John McKown On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 07:53:03 -0600, Chase, John wrote: snip This thread should also reinforce the notion, If you want it done right, do it yourself. IOW, if you want GETMAINed storage to be clean

Re: z/Linux, Was SAS, now Oracle

2009-02-07 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave I may be wrong, but I thought Oracle was still a per processor license, even under z/Linux. A dozen Oracles on a zprocessor is cheaper than the same on dedicated Intel boxen. That's our

Re: VTAM USSTAB QUESTION

2009-02-10 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex R. From what I remember from long ago is that the USSCMD replaces your keyed-in P39TMMVF with a LOGON APPLID(TMONMVS) which is what VTAM actually uses to log you on. For further information, check the

Re: SV: JCL job execution order

2009-02-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Thomas Berg wrote: Others have suggested that AAA ends with submitting BBB, etc. But: - If AAA abends before the submit step, should BBB be submitted in that case also ? - Sometimes even

Re: CDC memories

2009-02-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [On Behalf Of Shane On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 17:16 -0500, Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote: there is folklore in the late 60s, about the cdc 6600 at berkeley having a thermal problem a little after 10am tuesday mornings (???) and

Re: SMPE/HFS issue:

2009-02-23 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Joe Aulph Hello listers. I recently successfully completed a RECEIVE FROMNETWORK, followed that with the typical APPLY CHECK. I found that I have some trouble updating the HFS files, which could be remedied by

Re: What do you call...

2009-02-24 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Hal Merritt Use of the title 'engineer' may or may not involve legal or regulatory issues. I believe this may vary from state to state in the US. Correct. I believe it was Nevada that first prohibited titling anyone

Re: EBCDIC to HEX translation in Assembler?

2007-07-23 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of (IBM Mainframe Discussion List) In a message dated 7/23/2007 9:11:16 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wouldn't this just be the PACK command? Not sufficient. Are you needing it in

Re: EBCDIC to HEX translation in Assembler?

2007-07-23 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Dave Reinken [ snip ] As stated above, without the TR to change c'A3' from x'C1F3' to x'0A03', then result of the pack would be x'13yx', not x'A3yx' as desired. DUH.. (forest . trees) I'll crawl back

Re: Think your an expert with MVS Diagnostic tools? Programmed in Assembler? Work with DFSMS products? Looking for a new career opportunity? What are you waiting for, Open this!!!!

2007-07-23 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Danielle Duarte Are an expert with MVS Diagnostic tools? Love to program in Assembler? Work with DFSMS family of products? Then CTG is looking for you! Computer Task Group (CTG) was just named one of the Top

Re: Think your an expert with MVS Diagnostic tools? Programmed in Assembler? ...

2007-07-24 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of (IBM Mainframe Discussion List) In a message dated 7/23/2007 2:31:04 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: H. ISTR that IBM has a DFSMS lab in sunny Tucson, Arizona.. Don't know

IBMLink Challenge

2007-07-24 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, IBMLink on the web is unusually slow this morning (even by IBMLink on the Web standard!), so I'd like to solicit a bit of help from one of you with a 3270 IBMLink connection: I'm looking for the FMID for MQ Series 5.3.1, compid 5655F1000. I am waiting for the Product Cross Reference

Re: IBMLink Challenge: We Have A Winner!

2007-07-24 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Chase, John Hi, All, IBMLink on the web is unusually slow this morning (even by IBMLink on the Web standard!), so I'd like to solicit a bit of help from one of you with a 3270 IBMLink connection: I'm looking

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