Re: IBMLINK help phone number

2007-07-24 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Greg Lang Would someone be willing to provide the IBMLINK problem phone number ?? 1-800-543-3912. -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Tools for Validating COBOL Source

2007-07-25 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples The oft-mentioned IBM WebSphere Developer for System z (WDz) performs excellent COBOL syntax validation on your PC. http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/devzseries/ You can see some recorded

Re: Z/Journal issue June/July 2007

2007-07-25 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John Eells [ snip ] So while you can complain to us about nearly anything (smile), . . . My boomerang won't come back. :-D -jc- -- For

Re: Unable to display Extended characters (aka Spanish) in SDSF

2007-07-25 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Chauhan, Jasbir Running z/OS 1.7 -- Ran a job that creates Letters in Spanish. These Letters do print in Spanish, when sent to a printer -- but when displayed in SDSF, the extended attributes are missing. Any

Re: Unable to display Extended characters (aka Spanish) in SDSF

2007-07-25 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Chauhan, Jasbir John, Are you suggesting there is a separate code page for SDSF and ISPF. I'm using ISPF as an example here because the raw data (pds)does show extended attributes when browsed. Though I am by no

Re: Mainframe shops held hostage, Itanium alliance says

2007-07-25 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gary Green -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED]','','','')[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Green Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 2:17 PM To:

Re: z/OS job market (I could just scream!)

2007-07-27 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of R.S. Kelman, Tom wrote: [...] .From Me. Well, I was watching a Rick Steve's Europe show about Krakow and Warsaw last night. They both look like nice cities to live in and I understand that

Re: z/OS job market (I could just scream!)

2007-07-27 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jon Brock Maybe I'm a bit unusual, but I have always wanted to visit Poland. Russia, too. I've been close. When I was an Army Brat during the Cold War we were stationed in Germany and France. Poland, et al were

Re: z/OS job market (I could just scream!)

2007-07-27 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Phil Kingston My wife earns more than that pulling pints of beer in my local pub Sysprog contract rates are actually increasing over in Europe. Average rates seem to be between £350-£450 per day,

Re: How much do you value Share ( Was Spam from SHARE)

2007-07-27 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Finnell I'm so old, I can remember when the 49ers and Raiders were contenders, LA had a team and my slobberkill file was 2 names! I can remember watching a baseball game at the Polo Grounds between the (New

Re: Who is the supplier of Favor?

2007-07-28 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Chris Mason Herman Alternatively the product may now be offered by a British company in which case it could have been rebranded Favo*u*r. But given the currently correct spelling of the product's name, shouldn't

Re: Upgrading the processor

2007-07-30 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Sabo, Frank I currently have an IBM7060 H75 processor running OS 390 2.10. We are currently going into our sixth year of a two year phase out of the mainframe. Sounds like a possible future story for Reboot

Re: web IBMLINK down again - so what ?

2007-07-31 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Thompson, Steve -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of R.S. Robert Justice wrote: and I won't say the other comment, I promise. Out of curiosity: IBMlink is down again.

Re: web IBMLINK down again -SEV1 32656350

2007-07-31 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Robert Justice and I won't say the other comment, I promise. This habitual non-availability of the intended sole customer interface to IBMLink has gone so far past ridiculous that an adequate adjective to describe it

IBMLink via the web is back -- for now

2007-07-31 Thread Chase, John
But you should probably get in now. No telling how long the current window of opportunity will stay open. It's hard to tell whether it's just the sign-in interface that fails so regularly, or all of the web interfaces to the IBMLink applications also suffer. Even after successful sign-in,

Re: web IBMLINK down again - so what ?

2007-08-01 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Joel C. Ewing [ snip many good examples ] Occasionally I may go a week or two without using IBMLink, but when I need it, I need it ASAP. One might say IBMLink is like insurance: When you need it, you need it

IBMLink Web interface - SEV1 # 32669880, 1 August 2007

2007-08-01 Thread Chase, John
So, what else is new? -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Re: COBOL Group moves

2007-08-01 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Kelman, Tom Actually if you have gotten blanks into N2 which is defined as a packed field and then try to move that to N4 which is a display field won't you end up with and abend when it tries to unpack a field

Re: How old are you?

2007-08-02 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman Maarten Slegtenhorst wrote: Hmpf, Two and a half weeks ago, I would have been in a younger age-group :( My sympathies. Turned 57 today HBTY, HBTY,

Re: Unicode Code Dynamic Table Loading

2007-08-02 Thread Chase, John
Better late than never? From: Michael Babcock Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:06:12 -0500 If I remember correctly, you must have SYS1.SCUNIMG in the linklist for the dynamic to work. We don't, and it works (z/OS 1.7). We'll learn more tomorrow, when we try the CICS sample web

FW: Re: IBMLink down

2007-08-03 Thread Chase, John
FYI From: CICS List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mary Rees Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 7:11 AM I also contacted Mark about the IBMLink outages, and he said I could post this information to the CICS List:

Re: Why is not AIX ported to z/Series?

2007-08-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of William Richter Why is not AIX ported to z/Series? It should provide the customer the same benefits as Linux on z/Series At this point in history, it would probably be considered redundant to do so. In

Re: Why is not AIX ported to z/Series?

2007-08-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Van Dalsen, Herbie William, Except of course that the perceptions is still that Linux is Open Source / unsupported / bug-prone / security risk / not for a Production workload... If CA or IBM released an

Re: How old are you?

2007-08-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shaffer, Keith C WDC31 26 Welcome to Big Iron! The naysayers notwithstanding, I predict the opportunities that await you in this segment of IT will be nothing short of spectacular! -jc-

Re: Unicode Code Dynamic Table Loading

2007-08-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs SYS1.SCUNIMG is only needed [in the linklist] if you expect DB2 to load its default unicode image without having to build and load it at ipl time Thanks. Another question I'll have to try to remember

Re: Enable TCP/IP function in mainframe

2007-08-03 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 Matthew Stitt I would worry most about the security people at your company. g For some reason managers seem to

Re: Unicode Code Dynamic Table Loading

2007-08-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 15:02:12 -0500, Chase, John wrote: Better late than never? From: Michael Babcock Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:06:12 -0500 If I remember correctly, you must have

Re: Unicode Code Dynamic Table Loading

2007-08-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 17:33:34 -0400, Mark Jacobs wrote: SYS1.SCUNIMG is only needed if you expect DB2 to load its default unicode image without having to build and load it at ipl time It's been a

Re: Unicode Code Dynamic Table Loading

2007-08-06 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 16:03:49 -0500, Chase, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 17:33:34 -0400, Mark Jacobs

Re: Distance between primary and DR site

2007-08-06 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gillis [ snip ] Get serious fella. Birdsville sounds good - see you at the pub. Shane ... If global warming causes sea levels to rise 160 feet Birdsville will be underwater, which would be unique

z/OS 1.9 Announcement Letter ENUS 207-175

2007-08-07 Thread Chase, John
Here's the URI for the Announcement Letter: http://www-306.ibm.com/common/ssi/fcgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=ansubtype= caappname=Demonstrationhtmlfid=897/ENUS207-175 Or http://preview.tinyurl.com/2mmgua Note also that z/OS 1.10 and 1.11 are explicitly mentioned therein as intended future

Re: Theft of mainframe DASD

2007-08-07 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gary Green Seems it started out as a bit of a joke looking for amateur photos recorded on a pornograph... Speaking of which... My son works in tech support for a computer type company and they get computers

Re: COND= running a step that it should not. WHY? BFOM!

2007-08-08 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Compton, John When I first started down the MVS road, I was taught a memory-jogger that has stood the test of time for me: If it's true, don't do... Another way: //STEP EXEC PGM=IEFBR14,COND=(9,LT) says Run

IBM PKI Services Website?

2007-08-08 Thread Chase, John
Cross-posted to IBM-MAIN and RACF-L Does anybody have an alternate means to obtain renewals of digital certificates for IBM Information Exchange aka G International aka GXS aka whatever they call themselves nowadays? The link given in the GXS FAQ page, https://pki.services.ibm.com and the link

Re: Distance between primary and DR site ( to the moon )

2007-08-08 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 Patrick Lyon I have an acre of land on the moon that I am willing to outsource as a datacenter hotsite. Please

Re: IBM System Z Technical Conference in San Antonio

2007-08-08 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Eric Chevalier On 8 Aug 2007 08:46:13 -0700, Patrick Lyon wrote: On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 10:40:04 -0500, Anton Britz wrote: The Conference fees ? a) $2100 for the week b) Hotel fees ... $175 per day... Meals not

Re: [subject added] Override a proc step

2007-08-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of john gilmore From p. 17-1 of z/OS V1R6.0 MVS JCL Reference, Use the IF/THEN/ELSE/ENDIF statement construct to conditionally execute job steps within a job. The original question was this: Subject: Override a

Re: IBMLINK and missing ETR records.

2007-08-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Richbourg, Claude Well, They have a new twist today within IBMLINK. As I logged in to list and update my ETR, low and behold it shows; 'No records were found'. But hey, at least I could log in... Sev 1

Re: IBMLINK and missing ETR records (13 minutes to report an issue)

2007-08-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Finnell In a message dated 8/9/2007 10:24:40 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We have also reported it failing for all users here 20020,487 ETR application List ETR records returns

Re: SHARE San Diego Snubbery

2007-08-13 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Schmidt I forgot - are we snubbing at this SHARE or is it a snub-free zone in San Diego? I kind of snubbed Ed Jaffe and Bob Rogers tonight, although they were maybe snubbing me even better. (If we're

Re: Outsourcing loosing steam?

2007-08-14 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Thompson, Steve [ snip ] However, let me just inject here, I am a pilot. I know that all the drivel coming from the airlines (and the ATA, their association) is bunk. The rules of physics will not be denied

Re: Age Poll Results: 49.47

2007-08-16 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Patrick O'Keefe On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:13:36 -0600, Howard Brazee wrote: ... But what percentage of system programmers have employers who believe this resource is worth the employer's money or the employee's

Re: LPA Module Size 80MB impact on system?

2007-08-21 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark S. House Looking for recommendations on adding an 80 megabyte load module to the LPA. What are the negatives. The reason we would like to do this is that one of our application programs that use this

Re: LPA Module Size 80MB impact on system?

2007-08-21 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark S. House Looking for recommendations on adding an 80 megabyte load module to the LPA. What are the negatives. The reason we would like to do this is that one of our application programs that use

Re: LPA Module Size 80MB impact on system?

2007-08-21 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Veilleux, Jon L Two questions/comments: 1. Is the module AMODE 31 RMODE 31? If not, you are taking a sugnificant chunk of below the line storage. Yeah, like 500% of what exists down there. :-) If it is

Re: LPA Module Size 80MB impact on system?

2007-08-21 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Veilleux, Jon L John Chase said: Yeah, like 500% of what exists down there. :-) Right...DUH. I slept through that one Well, in retrospect, I suppose it could use overlays. -jc-

Re: LPA Module Size 80MB impact on system?

2007-08-22 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) Oh, one more thing is that programs in the LPA are treated as APF-authorized, with all the caveats that entails. Isn't it treated as being loaded from APF authorized library? If

IBMLink (3270) and non-standard screen size

2007-08-22 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, Does the 3270 interface to IBMLink support non-standard (i.e., other than 24x80) screen sizes? Seems it used to, but today while trying to browse a PSP bucket, all the PF keys cause X-clock and the session gets stuck. My terminal emulator is configured with 62x160 screen size, and most

Re: IBMLink (3270) and non-standard screen size

2007-08-22 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:52:07 -0500, Chase, John wrote: Hi, All, Does the 3270 interface to IBMLink support non-standard (i.e., other than 24x80) screen sizes? Seems it used to, but today while

Re: IBMLink (3270) and non-standard screen size

2007-08-22 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: Chase, John [ snip ] Thanks. I changed my emulation (Bluezone) to mod4, and now everything works. I'll try the 3290 size again later. Just tried the 3290 screensize, and everything's working correctly now. Must have been a transient thing

Re: Calling a AMODE 31 program from AMODE 64

2007-08-24 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Anton Britz Hi Ludmila, Can you explain why you are working above the 'bar' in the first place ? Because it is there. or why do you need more that 2 Gig of Virtual Storage.. More stuff than closet. :-)

Re: Calling a AMODE 31 program from AMODE 64

2007-08-24 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Anton Britz Hi, Sounds like good logic to me : Because it's there Why is your Storage areas above the BAR ? Because IBM put (some of) them there. I am looking for an Application reason ex. a) We loaded

Re: Vary devices online and offline

2007-08-28 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe McKown, John wrote: COMMAND JCL is the JES-neutral way to do this. -- Edward E Jaffe Why even bother with COMMAND? // VARY cuu,OFFLINE works for me. Hmph! I didn't know you could do

Re: IBM Blamed for Server packaging issue

2007-08-28 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jim Marshall http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/27/forklift_ibm_server/ It looked to me like it was a mainframe that fell but its somewhat vague. Could the US Patent Trade Office be coming back into the

Re: will anyone confirm ibmlink is slow

2007-08-28 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Schramm, Rob Is anyone else experiencing 30 seconds a page response time for IBMLINK? WOW!! How do you get such fast response time on the web interface? -jc-

Re: Monster.COM email received after hack

2007-08-30 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Marchant On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:42:22 -0500, Ed Gould wrote: * You must have your own Bank of America account for processing transfers between clients During the trial period you will be paid $1,500 per

Re: Check out ABC News: FBI Investigates String of Store Threats

2007-08-30 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Finnell _ABC News: FBI Investigates String of Store Threats_ (http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3538869) Saw this whilst brushing my tooth. ... Which one? -jc-

Re: Virtual Storage implementation

2007-08-30 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ron Hawkins Thanks Anton, you just reminded me of why I have your other email addresses added to my block senders list... Maybe we just misunderstand his/her motivations. Perhaps s/he might join us for pizza and

Re: Virtual Storage implementation

2007-08-30 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Schmidt [ snip ] Before this calculus of economics outsourcers gets too much steam built up, lets look at something more basic first. Not every poster on this list is a systems programmer -- many are

Redbooks site having problems?

2007-08-31 Thread Chase, John
I'm unable to proceed beyond the Redbooks homepage; everything returns 404 not found. Direct links to specific Redbooks also fail with 404 not found. Anybody else? -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Redbooks site having problems?

2007-08-31 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Fletcher, Kevin snip I'm unable to proceed beyond the Redbooks homepage; everything returns 404 not found. Direct links to specific Redbooks also fail with 404 not found. Anybody else? /snip jc, I

Re: IBM-Link Down 31AUG07?

2007-08-31 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Thompson, Steve SNIP Seems the problem is sporadic. Not everyone has it happening. Good thing the VM 3270 system is functional. Allowed me to respond to support when they emailed me... BTW - What screen

Re: z/OS and Hercules

2007-09-05 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Crispin Hugo I know this subject has been banded about a lot but can someone please tell what the highest level of z/OS one is allowed to run under Hercules ? Zero point zero. Unless something has changed very

Re: DFDSS

2007-09-06 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Steely We are z/OS V1R7. I would like to copy some datasets and append TARGSYS to the beginning of the dataset name. (not replace the high level qualifier). These are the control statements I am using:

Re: Free ECSA Area

2007-09-07 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Joao Paulo PR Hi, that's my first post. I need to Know, how can i free ECSA area used by Address Space, that was canceled by CANCEL command ? Probably the safest way to do that is to IPL. -jc-

Re: The future of IBM Mainframes [just thinking]

2007-09-10 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John P Baker [ snip ] I believe that a good systems programmer must have the ability to maintain a well-ordered and logical mindset. Some 20 years ago an article in Computerworld noted that high-level

Re: Running with SQA/ESQA 100% CHECK(IBMVSM,VSM_SQA_THRESHOLD) doesn't allow that as normal

2007-09-10 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Barbara Nitz [ snip ] But: I am curious how many other folk delete health checker checks because they're just plain stupid. I get the impression that almost all components were pressed to write 'health checks'

Re: 1401 simulator for OS/360

2007-09-10 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Warner Mach Anyone who finds it amazing that someone would bring up a 1401 simulator under Hercules just for the heck of it should check out this site where the gentleman built an entire computer using relays:

Re: The future of IBM Mainframes [just thinking]

2007-09-10 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Binyamin Dissen wrote: snip While I was at Western Electric, I eventually worked myself down to a few hours a week - I automated as much as possible. snip And then some management type person

Re: The future of IBM Mainframes [just thinking]

2007-09-10 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Eric Chevalier On 9 Sep 2007 15:15:45 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tech support should answer ANY question asked of it. But IBM-Main is not some sort of commercial, for-pay technical support organization.

Re: (no subject)

2007-09-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Finnell course, supposed to be private. And I have embarrassed myself, and probably have screwed myself big-time. Looks like I have a lot of explaining to do It's OK, hire a lawyer, a publicist, take

Re: Check it out - AMATERSE, supported TERSE

2007-09-17 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Skip Robinson Unless I missed something in the APAR text, I don't understand if this is merely a pumped up version of TRSMAIN. That is--assuming the kind of flat files we're accustomed to--are tersed files

Re: 1401 simulator for OS/360

2007-09-17 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Roger Bowler On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:08:29 -0600, Mark Post (NOVELL.COM) wrote: Hmm. While I like Hercules quite a bit, I've never heard of anyone saving millions of dollars running anything on it. I do know a lot

Running ICSF with NO Crypto Features?

2007-09-17 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, Seeking comments on the (non-)advisability and implications of running Integrated Cryptographic Services Facility (ICSF) on a z9 that has NONE of the crypto assist features enabled or installed (don't ask; not even the free one(s)). TIA, -jc-

Re: Running ICSF with NO Crypto Features?

2007-09-17 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Will it even start? If so does it do anything? Well, as I read the manual, apparently it will start. If it finds no crypto-assist features, it will apparently do whatever it does in software (and

Re: Running ICSF with NO Crypto Features?

2007-09-17 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Schramm, Rob I guess for starters.. I would ask why you want to run ICSF.. is there something you want to take advantage of?? The CICS Internet Guide implies that it is required for CICS to support https (secure

Re: WLC, WLM and all the rest: how optimize them ?

2007-09-24 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Richards.Bob ..., I try to draw the line on soft-capping a production environment for purely cost reasons. YMMV. I prefer to go after other areas that are wasting more money than the mainframe (distributed

Re: TASID 5.14 available for download from ISPF website

2007-09-24 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Richards.Bob Saw this posted on ISPF-L by John Kalinich and thought I would cross-post it here just in case some of you are not subscribed to ISPF-L. http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/ispf/support/ Any

Re: TASID 5.14 available for download from ISPF website

2007-09-24 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Richards.Bob Which type did you download? Panels imbedded or separate? Separate. I have them separate and am at z/OS 1.7 and it displays just fine. Fascinating (said Spock). The previous level we had (5.11)

Re: TASID 5.14 available for download from ISPF website

2007-09-24 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rob Scott I am not sure how TASID caters for the $PIT control block - but one method would be to process the IPCS modules in SHASMIG. If SHASMIG is not in the linklist or STEPLIB, then TASID would not be able

Re: TASID 5.14 available for download from ISPF website

2007-09-24 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden snip I reported the INIT display getting an abend on z/OS 1.8 with TASID 5.13. IBM sent me a fix (5.14) via email and it tested out okay. Some weeks later 5.14 was posted on the ISPF web site.

Re: TASID 5.14 available for download from ISPF website

2007-09-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Robert Justice FYI, TASID initiator display problem fixed with latest TASID load module received from ISPF support. Problem still exists here (z/OS 1.7). -jc-

Re: TASID 5.14 available for download from ISPF website

2007-09-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rob Scott John, The pointer to the PIT table is at offset x'0658' in the CCT for z/OS 1.7. What is at the address CCT+x'0658' - does it look like a PIT entry? Not even remotely. Here's what TMON/MVS shows in

Re: TASID 5.14 available for download from ISPF website

2007-09-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rob Scott John, You are slightly off : CVT + x'0128' == JESCT JESCT + x'18' == First SSCT in chain (might be JES2 but check anyway) SSCT + x'1C' == SSCTSUS2 Hmmm. Perhaps I

Re: India is outsourcing jobs as well

2007-09-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of (IBM Mainframe Discussion List) As Ralph Nader said, it's a race to the bottom. Entropy in action. -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: TASID 5.14 available for download from ISPF website

2007-09-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rob Scott John That looks like the PIT table to me. Looks like TASID is not chasing the control blocks properly. Maybe the ISPF folks should have a word in the ear of the JES2 folks and ask them nicely to

Re: A security question

2007-09-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of LAMARE Didier Good afternoon, We research the rules that permit the execute of programs beginning by DFH* only from a list of PDS. How can we do this with RACF, TSS and ACF2? With RACF, I *think* you can

Re: A security question

2007-09-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of LAMARE Didier The purpose of this is to prohibit the use of an old version of CICS. This because the rules of double versionning imposed by IBM. Huh?? When did IBM start refusing extra money for licensing

Re: A security question

2007-09-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman Chase, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of LAMARE Didier Good afternoon, We research the rules that permit the execute of programs beginning

Re: Writing 23FDs

2007-09-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John Eells See below. William Donzelli wrote: snip This 4331-2 ran its last job only about a month ago (it never had a CE call, either!), and the owner, a small midwest service bureau, apparently

Re: A security question

2007-09-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Walt Farrell On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:40:58 -0500, LAMARE Didier wrote: IT is a good idea, but if a person has copied a CICS PDS under an another name, we have a problem. Perhaps, but your problem in that case was

Re: India is outsourcing jobs as well

2007-09-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Kirk Talman [ snip ] pup in Kennesaw GA Hmmm. Got a Big Iron on yer hip? :-) -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

SMP/E: LIST FEATURE vs GIMXSID

2007-09-28 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, We have MQ Series installed into its own target and dlib zones within the z/OS global zone. When we run a GIMSMP LIST FEATURE, with or without ALLZONES, the MQ feature is NOT listed. However, GIMXSID *does* list it. Why does GIMXSID find it, but GIMSMP LIST FEATURE does not? TIA,

IBMLink Internet down again

2007-10-01 Thread Chase, John
In case nobody's noticed yet Can't even get the sign-in page to appear. Worse, after getting in via 3270, my VM session went into the twilight zone while I was browsing an APAR. Must be Monday... -jc- -- For

Re: Industry Standard Time To Analyze A Line Of Code

2007-10-02 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bob Fake - InfoSec, Inc. Hi All, [ snip ] I'm sure the amount of time varies depending on the type of code (ALC, COBOL, EZtrieve, et al) but any direction would be greatly appreciated. Likely that analysis

Re: GETMAIN/FREEMAIN and virtual storage backing up

2007-10-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman --snip-- It's a very complex relationship and not always easily understood. When is a SLOT assigned? A FRAME? When is a page STOLEN? SWAPPING versus PAGING?

Re: B-A-D

2007-10-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Patrick O'Keefe On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 12:35:59 -0400, Peter Relson wrote: ... However dumb a behavior might be, there is usually a pretty good chance that changing that behavior will break someone. We thus tend to

Re: racf

2007-10-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Carroll, William We are almost ready to go live with zos 1.7. Is there a way to keep racf password upper/lower all Upper like it is under 1.4. Sure: Do nothing. -jc-

Re: Time Zones (Was: IBMLink is UP - just kidding)

2007-10-05 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe [ snip ] Of course, Shane was referring to the fact that he lives in Australia. Eastern Time for them is not the same as Eastern Time in the United States. When I was a kid, we had one analog

Re: Some help with disabel wait

2007-10-08 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Carlos A. Bodra I´m trying to IPL z/OS in a z890 and receives following message after a POR: AN ERROR WAS DETECTED IN PARTITION LPARPRD1. CENTRAL PROCESSOR (CP) 00 IS IN DISABLE WAIT STATE. THE DISABLED WAIT

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