Re: special characters in passwords

2007-01-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin [ snip ] I had (mis)understood it to mean to bet in such manner as to provide one's opponent with deliberately misleading information. But: Optimal bluffing also requires that the bluffs

Re: SubSystem Interface - IEFJRASP - help! - Really late reply...

2007-01-10 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Scott Fagen [ snip ] 1) Add your exit routine for the IEFJFRQ exit, specifying POS=FIRST. 2) Add an exit routine for the CSVDYNEX exit point. Watch for instances of programs attempting to install _their_ exit

Re: Special characters in passwords was Re: RACF - Password rules .

2007-01-10 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 Jon Brock I know some people think that C is the best programming language in history, but this is one reason --

Re: z New Application License Charges (zNALC) Announced

2007-01-10 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 Hal Merritt Agreed. But it does. There is a proposed stepwise procedure where you first change the name to '*', then

Standalone Dump on DASD

2007-01-10 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, Getting ready to transition from SADMP from/to tape to doing it from/to DASD. After reading the SADUMP generation doc in z/OS 1.7 MVS Diagnosis: Tools and Service Aids, it's still not clear whether the residence volume for the SADUMP program should be a standalone volume, or can be

Re: z New Application License Charges (zNALC) Announced

2007-01-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jim Marshall But z/VM costs real money. LPAR is free. -jc- Indeed both above are true statements. z/VM will cost about $21K to give you many, many more Virtual Servers than the available number of

Re: Forbidding Special characters in passwords

2007-01-16 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Howard Brazee On 12 Jan 2007 23:08:13 -0800, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: Assuming that everyone on the planet has exactly one middle initial. I remember a case where the program needed to accept NMI (for No

Re: CICS UOWID overlaid with CA's CommBridge in MRO environment

2007-01-16 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Scott Barry Cross-post. -Original Message- From: Scott Barry To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Hello, Regarding this reported symptom condition, CA now acknowledges that the CICS/CMF transaction record's

Re: All Lpar ipl this morning

2007-01-16 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Alan Schwartz Perhaps I can save someone an outage. We ipled a lot of preventative maintenance in our production lpars Sunday. This morning we started getting severe enqueue conflicts for a number of catalogs.

Re: Mainframe vs. Server (Was Just another example of mainframe costs.)

2007-01-17 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bill Seubert On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 10:26:44 -0800, Charles Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pet peeve. Saying mainframes versus servers is like saying Fords versus cars. A mainframe typically IS a server (often

Re: CICS interface to CA-7

2007-01-17 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Alan C. Field We have a CICS program that builds the parameter list and then issues the CA-7 SVC to Demand jobs. This worked on CA-7 Rel 3.3, We have just tried (and had to fall back) to upgrade to CA-7

Re: z/OS 1.4 - End of Support

2007-01-18 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Howard Rifkind I understand that IBM support is being discontinued as of 2/2007. Would anyone know if that would be the beginning of the month or end of the month? Last EOS date I saw published was March 31,

RESTART in JCL

2007-01-21 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, During acceptance testing of z/OS 1.7 one of our testers said the following: We used to be able to say RESTART=PSTEP025 or whatever step. I had to change that to RESTART=STEP001.PSTEP025 This is consistent with the JCL Reference manual. The old release on which the

Re: Unix System Services Maintenance

2007-01-24 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:43:23 +1000, Shane Ginnane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this is in relation to the changes to /var and /etc in z/OS 1.7, you'll have to manually deal with that. There's some

Re: CSI question

2007-01-24 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Richard Tsujimoto I was looking at the info that could be retrieved using the Catalog Search Interface (CSI) and noticed that there wasn't a bit setting that can be tested to see if the VSAM data set is an ESDS

Re: Microsoft In Hotwater Over Wikipedia Edits

2007-01-24 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jon Brock Yeah, Computerworld reported that yesterday: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArt icleBasicarticleId=9008842 One of the ODF developers said, From now on we should take the

TSO Storage Usage, Limits, etc.

2007-01-26 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, Just rolling out z/OS 1.7 and are looking to modernize some things, including TSO storage allocations and limits. Currently using XA-period limitations like REGION=6144K in the logon proc, MAXSIZE=6144 in the TSO segment of the users' RACF profiles, etc. What would be reasonable limits

Re: TSO Storage Usage, Limits, etc.

2007-01-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Schmidt On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:30:55 -0600, Chase, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Schmidt On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:40:55 -0600, Chase, John

Re: Overriding SDATA options for SLIP

2007-01-29 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jim Mulder [ snip ] If you are on z/OS 1.7 or higher, you can tell if the system was quiesced for a particular dump using IPCS: VERBX IEAVTSFS System reset dispatchable 09/17/2042 23:53:47.370496

Re: Overriding SDATA options for SLIP

2007-01-29 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Jim Mulder wrote: [snip] No matter how many times I proofread before posting, I still can't seem to find all the typos. When we teach a class, we tell the students we will pay a nickel

Re: Overriding SDATA options for SLIP

2007-01-29 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 01/29/2007 09:08:47 AM: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jim Mulder [ snip ] If

Re: setting LE runtime options programatically.

2007-01-29 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jim McAlpine Yes thanks, I'm aware of that but I'm also thinking that we may need to switch the runtime options back again after return from the Java program. This is a long running batch job which sits and

Re: debug tool comparison

2007-01-29 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Brigitte Pruett I have been assigned the task to research debug tool for our shop. We are mostly an LE COBOL shop and do batch and CICS processing equaly. I reviewed IBM debug tool, xpediter,

Re: SORT question

2007-01-31 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Frank Yaeger [ snip ] I have a question for you (or anyone else on the list if they can shed some light on it) about something I'm curious about. I noticed you said DFHSORT instead of DFSORT (Data Facility

Re: Need ideas - IRADU00 output very large.

2007-01-31 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Hal Merritt [ snip ] But your unenviable, thankless, daunting task could be to inform management that they made a very expensive mistake. That is *never* a good career move. Keep that in mind as you raise

Re: SORT question

2007-02-01 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Charles Mills So many MVS utilities have vernacular names that consist of a 3-letter prefix followed by a functional name, they just seem to roll off the tongue that way: I-E-B-copy, I-E-H-program, I-E-B-gener,

Re: IBM Head Count In India Tops 50,000

2007-02-01 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bruce Black Perhaps some of us should move to India, to be sure that there are at least a few competent z/OS people there Would Australia be close enough? :-) -jc-

Re: Cascaded FICON and HCD

2007-02-02 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman snip--- The short answer is Yes, you can do it. FICON is so fast that you should not have trouble with 12 drives--assuming that distance is not a

Re: LookAt

2007-02-02 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Staller, Allan snip I use search shelf. Don't need to know which book. /snip All of my site searches turnd up the original (non-working) URL's for lookat and booksrv The following URLs work for me: z/OS

Re: Cascaded FICON and HCD

2007-02-02 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Chris Mason John So we have a fancy new name for antediluvian frequency division multiplexing (FDM) - or am I missing something? From the provided URL for DWDM: DWDM works by combining and transmitting

SHARE Requirements access

2007-02-06 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, Having a problem getting into the SHARE Requirements area with MS IE7 and Firefox from home (DSL connection). Whenever I click on the Enter New Requirements 4.1 button I get an immediate (instantaneous) session timeout along with a page instructing me to log in to SHARE requirements.

Re: Basic SMP/E question

2007-02-06 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Our service provider missed on a critcal PTF (cross memory services), because it was bundled, in an APAR, with 13 others, of which some were PE'd. That is their explanation. Since (and I admit it) I

Re: SHARE Requirements access

2007-02-06 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Skip Robinson No answers, but I forwarded John's note to SHARE HQ. Their IT person will look into it. Thanks. Likely I'll need to configure something in the CA eTrust Internet Security package, since both

Re: Basic SMP/E question

2007-02-06 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Individual PTFs, APARs, USERMODs, etc. can be selectively applied. That's what I thought. But, they claim it's a lot of work to sift through the APAR and pick out the non-PE'd (and their associated

Re: RESTART in JCL

2007-02-07 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) on 01/21/2007 at 11:01 AM, Chase, John said: During acceptance testing of z/OS 1.7 one of our testers said the following: We used to be able to say RESTART=PSTEP025

Re: RACF Surrogate Authority

2007-02-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of R.S. Jacky Bright wrote: Hi, I have 2 TSO Users (ABC and XYZ) ABC has high level access privileges. XYZ do not have any such access. I am trying to submit 1 job from XYZ userid which require

Re: REDALERT-Catalog Address Space hang after application of PTFs for OA18860.

2007-02-13 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jason Gately For those of you not subscribed to the Red Alert service Refer to: https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/redAlerts/home.html Yup Hit us two days after rolling out z/OS 1.7 in the

Re: CA and zIIPs

2007-02-14 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shane Ginnane Had to happen I suppose - zIIP(s) as utility engines, rather than just DB2 engines. http://www3.ca.com/press/PressRelease.aspx?CID=99107 Hmmm Doesn't say one way or the other whether presence

Re: CA and zIIPs

2007-02-14 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Craddock, Chris [ snip ] IBM says offload engines don't count for software MSUs and the vendor community has a gentleman's agreement to follow suit. As far as I know everyone is sticking by that. The bottom

Re: Mixed Case Password on z/OS 1.7 and ACF 2 Version 8

2007-02-14 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 Howard Brazee On 13 Feb 2007 10:49:55 -0800, pauls2272 wrote: Or are you saying that mixed-case increases security

Re: Interesting PDF doing the rounds

2007-02-15 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shane On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 09:06 +, Phil Payne wrote: http://www.isham-research.co.uk/T3Feb13.pdf 404 Phil ???. The beaks got to you already ???. It's visible from Chicago -jc-

Re: Interesting PDF doing the rounds

2007-02-15 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of J R I can see it from Toronto! Must have stopped snowing -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: ADRDSSU

2007-02-15 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jeffrey Deaver The temporary system has data that I cloned from the main system. select only datasets with the changed flag set Depending on the type of clone your temporary system was created with, you may find

Re: Ibmuser time out.

2007-02-15 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Fred Hoffman Greetings, I know that this is not the racf-l list, however, can someone tell me what parameter in racf controls the timeout for ibmuser. I/we have an extremely large file we're working with and

Re: DB2 pre-compile V7 bind and run V8?

2007-02-16 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL [ snip ] The senior DBA is highly skilled. I have no reason to distrust his statements. Maybe I should dig a little? Question everything. Especially if it sounds illogical. -jc-

ISPF Data Set Information strangeness

2007-02-16 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, I created an HFS with an allocation of 10 cylinders, to be mounted on '/u' and contain only private user directory entries / mountpoints. However, when I display the DSI from ISPF 3.4 using line command 'I', it shows this: Data Set Name . . . : OMVS.USER.DIRECT

Re: ISPF Data Set Information strangeness

2007-02-16 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:40:35 -0600, Chase, John wrote: Hi, All, I created an HFS with an allocation of 10 cylinders, to be mounted on '/u' and contain only private user directory entries

Re: License keys for ISV products(What alternatives are there?)

2007-02-18 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Finnell [ snip ] The silver bullet would be a magic decoder ring on the HMC that says this can run and this can't. Doubt we'll see that anytime soon. IFAPRDxx ? -jc-

Re: IBM Sued

2007-02-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Doesn't anybody know what accountability is, anymore? In the US it seems to be politically incorrect. Since we all are products of our environments, it's obviously somebody else's fault whenever we do

z/OS 1.7 with JES2 and CA-View

2007-02-19 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, Yesterday we rolled out z/OS 1.7 to a Production LPAR previously running z/OS 1.5, and have noticed a change in the archiving of batch job output in CA-View. With 1.5, all jcl-type output (JESMSGLG, JESJCL, JESYSMSG together with SYSPRINT, SYSOUT, etc.) was archived in CA-View as a

Re: z/OS 1.7 with JES2 and CA-View

2007-02-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:21:21 -0600, Chase, John wrote: [ snip ] We are at a loss to explain why this segregation of jcl stuff into separate CA-View members is occurring. We understand that z/OS

Re: License keys for ISV products(What alternatives are there?

2007-02-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tony Harminc [ snip ] Now as an ISV employee, I see many Fortune 500 companies that have A-P departments who, as a matter of policy, push the limits much further, and more often. You could probably attribute

Re: z/OS 1.7 with JES2 and CA-View

2007-02-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden [ snip ] Okay... another idea. Did someone change the JESLOG=NOSPIN to SPIN for the execution class the job(s) ran in? No; JESLOG= is not specified at all, and the manual says the default is NOSPIN.

Re: z/OS 1.7 with JES2 and CA-View

2007-02-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:56:39 -0600, Chase, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden [ snip ] Okay... another idea. Did someone

Re: Literacy (was: IBM Sued)

2007-02-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jon Brock Yes, I would say it is. A dozen eggs, a dozen doughnuts, etc. But those entities usually come in a single container, with no explicit connection between the term dozen and the quantity 12. Consider a box

Re: z/OS 1.7 with JES2 and CA-View

2007-02-20 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Harold Zbiegien we have no problems, view 11.0 z/os 1.7 as of Jan 14 and we migrated first to view 11.0 under z/os 1.4 then a month later to z/os 1.7 Just learned there may be another ISV product contributing to

Re: Access to the internet at DR site was Re: License keys for ISV products(What alternatives are there?)

2007-02-20 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jon Brock We added Internet access just last year to our BRS contract with IBM; software key access was one of the reasons. Another reason was that it allowed me to access our home system in case I was needed

Re: z/OS developer jobs

2007-02-20 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman snip I, for one, have just about thrown in the towl with respect to finding employment (either regular or contract) as MVS/OS390/zOS product

Re: Java 1.4

2007-02-20 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mullen, Patrick Add CBC.SCLBDLL to your linklist. Might not hurt to add these three to the linklist: CBC.SCCNCMP CBC.SCLBDLL CBC.SCLBDLL2 We also have them APF-authorized. Java runs fine (FSVO fine); even the

FW: IBMLink SIS Fixed!

2007-02-21 Thread Chase, John
Since many of us were quick to complain From: CICS List Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 1:53 PM Since there was a lot of complaining about the IBMLink changes that forced us to search in two different places, I thought

IBMers Missing In Action (was RE: NF APAR OA15539 for Health Checker)

2007-02-23 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden [ snip ] Haven't heard from Mark Thomen in a while on this list. Likewise Greg Dyck. Perhaps they retired?? -jc- -- For

Re: IBMers Missing In Action (was RE: NF APAR OA15539 for Health Checker)

2007-02-23 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Schmidt On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:06:08 -0600, Chase, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Haven't heard from Mark Thomen in a while

Re: SMPE packaging - load modules or CSECTs

2007-02-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Support, DUNNIT SYSTEMS LTD. I posted this question on the FLEX-ES list and got back 1 reply, which included a suggestion to also ask for responses here on IBM-MAIN. For a bit of background, our applications

Re: info on limits to lines of code, size, memory, etc

2007-02-26 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 Steven Shore I'm looking for information ( manuals, other resources) on size limits on the mainframe Working on an

Re: HSM Missing Member from Recalled Dataset -- Update

2007-02-27 Thread Chase, John
Background: Over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend (U.S.) we relocated our datacenter. We moved the mainframes' DASD volumes via DFSMSdss DUMP FULL at the old site, followed by RESTORE FULL at the new site. On the day the DUMP FULL of every volume was taken, a TSO user had recalled a migrated

Re: Memory Allocation for JAVA under USS

2007-02-27 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Betsy Jeffery I've got a developer just starting to use JAVA 1.4 under USS (z/OS 1.4 soon to be z/OS 1.7). I'm wondering what people are using as a general rule for TSO initial region size for JAVA developers.

VSAM Buffers Default Location

2007-02-27 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, Reading thru the VSAM Demystified Redbook (Sept. 2003), I saw the statement that (for batch, anyway) VSAM resource pools (i.e., control blocks and buffers) _DEFAULT_ location is below the 16MB line. Is that still true at z/OS 1.7? TIA, -jc-

Re: VSAM Buffers Default Location

2007-02-27 Thread Chase, John
_ Hi, All, Reading thru the VSAM Demystified Redbook (Sept. 2003), I saw the statement that (for batch, anyway) VSAM resource pools (i.e., control blocks and buffers) _DEFAULT_ location is below the 16MB line. Is that still true at z/OS

Re: Confusing hardware platform configurations was Re: cpuids

2007-03-01 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman --snip-- A good example of this is when politicians pass laws to do something, whether or not that is a something that helps.

Re: Outsourcing perils was Re: sysprog demand in USA

2007-03-02 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of David Day The thing that has baffled me about outsourcing is how do companies actually save money since now the outsourcer includes in its costs marketing expenses and profits. Salary for a programmer in

LLA and UPDATE access to loadlibs

2007-03-02 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, A couple Sundays ago we deployed z/OS 1.7 to Production, and shortly thereafter learned the hard way that we had omitted one loadlib from the link list. We dynamically added the missing library, and I issued an LLA REFRESH. We also have a couple application loadlibs managed by LLA

Re: Why are they so full ? RE: When Does the New LOCAL Get Used? RE: ILR006E COMMON PAGE DATA SET FULL,...

2007-03-06 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Robert Pelletier Good Morning. This is what my page datasets look like: TYPE FULL STAT DEV DATASET NAME PLPA 77% OK 093B SYS1.PAGE.MVSDLB.PLPA COMMON36% OK 0936

Re: SMP/E packaging for RECEIVE ORDER?

2007-03-07 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ralph_Robison Gil, Just curious... Have you seen customer interest in the use of RECEIVE FROMNETWORK for ISV software products? When it was first introduced, we expected to eventually see customer requests,

Re: General question on licensing obsolete IBM products

2007-03-08 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Charles Mills Does anyone have an answer to the question what does IBM mean by 'withdrawn from marketing'? It generally means you can no longer order the product. That said, everything is negotiable. -jc-

Re: Download z/OS software protocols (was SMP/E packaging for RECEIVE ORDER?)

2007-03-08 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Charles Mills Dumb question: does IBM only distribute various fixes electronically, or can you get an entire newly-ordered product via the Internet? I believe you can get any IBM software delivered

Re: SAP using DB2 and Daylight Savings Time

2007-03-08 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Petersen, Jim This has been an ongoing discussion in the company even before the change in dates for DST. From what I am understanding, we are having problems getting the Unix/AIX Servers to change time

Re: Souce Control for z/OS

2007-03-08 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Steve Thompson If one needed a source control system that could be handled via TSO, where could one find such? I know about Panvalet, Endevor, SCLM, and Librarian. Are there any others? Changeman (Serena

Re: IBMLINK DOWN ALL DAY?

2007-03-08 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Robert Justice On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 12:34:43 -0600, Bob_H wrote: Might be why it is being removed. Unfortunately however, they are getting rid of the version (3270) that actually works and is the easiest to

Re: z/OS 1.8 ISPF 3.4 repeat command

2007-03-08 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden [ snip ] BTW, is anyone else have problems with IBMLINK on the web? I had to go into classic IBMLINK to pull up the APAR. I just closed a PMR, updated another one and created a new one via the

Re: ibmlink

2007-03-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jack Kelly at least now when you call ibmlink, they (does sound like the call went to india) tell you it's down and customers won't be able to use it. hopefully ibm will give us a rebate on our software support

Re: ibmlink

2007-03-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Robert Justice latest reponse from IBM: Please be advised that we are currently undergoing scheduled maintenance on some of our Web sites. Some abnormalities are occurring due to this.

Re: ibmlink seems to be back bt for how long

2007-03-09 Thread Chase, John
OK, let's all try to log on and see how fast we can crash it again. -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the

Re: ibmlink seems to be back bt for how long

2007-03-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- OK, let's all try to log on and see how fast we can crash it again. Well, I got to the Sign in page, but I was there yesterday -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: ibmlink seems to be back bt for how long

2007-03-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex R. Must be sporadic, as I just logged in and updated an ETR. Initial logon screen was slow compared to normal, but it went through. My attempt has been clocking on the logon screen for about 20

Re: Can you ID this mainframe?

2007-03-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gary Green I came across this little ditty and chuckled a bit while racking my brain trying to think of what type of mainframe the article refers to. I can't think of one, can you?

Re: Any DST Problems Yesterday?

2007-03-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Finnell In a message dated 3/12/2007 10:00:41 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm a little disappointed with Garmin. I'm sure all their aircraft rated equipment was fixed.

Re: Any DST Problems Yesterday?

2007-03-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Howard Brazee On 12 Mar 2007 08:28:56 -0700, Ted MacNEIL wrote: Another US-Centric series of posts. Only Canada and the US moved to DST, this weekend past. And, only the US seems to think it mattered to the rest

Re: Any DST Problems Yesterday?

2007-03-15 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Eric N. Bielefeld My Garmin GPS didn't reset the time either, but then it never has. It doesn't take much to tap the clock icon and then tap Daylight savings time. Our hq building has several battery-powered

Re: Any DST Problems Yesterday?

2007-03-15 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Dave Kopischke On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:23:54 +1000, Shane wrote: Any horror stories out there? The rest of the world deals with this on a regular basis. Enough of the Chicken Little syndrome from the yanks

Re: Canada Revenue Agency E-filing down was Re: ibmlink

2007-03-15 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Clark Morris The following is a reposting because of the possible implications for other shops, The tax e-file application is probably on a mainframe. It has been down for over a week starting last Monday and

Re: MVS Experience

2007-03-15 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Gould [ snip ] The second part of your interview is to figure out what type of company you are interviewing with. That should probably be in pre-interview preparation -jc-

Re: DB2 V9 z/OS GA (Was: What to do with extra storage on new z9)

2007-03-15 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ray Mullins Yes, but the DB2 on z/VM and z/VSE is not really DB2. :-) There are 3 different code platforms for DB2 - I'm missing some details, so someone please fill in the blanks... - Non-mainframe

Re: DB2 V9 z/OS GA (Was: What to do with extra storage on new z9)

2007-03-15 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of john gilmore Chris Craddock writes: I don't know that there's any particular rhyme or reason to the numbering scheme. and I should agree in general. There is, however, one ROT that I have found very useful:

Re: Slightly OT Backups not Good on PC

2007-03-21 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Thompson, Steve SNIP Some years ago with what today is called a SOHO, I used a Seagate backup system (before it became Veritas) that wrote to a tape cartridge where the cartridge unit was attached via a

z/VM (was RE: Start of a PDSE rant was Re: OA03767 PDS/E Restriction

2007-03-23 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Knutson, Sam [ snip ] I think IBM is investing in z/VM but new work is mostly in z/VM as a virtualization hypervisor not z/VM as an application platform. I know that doesn't make old school VM folk happy but

Re: Need for small machines was Re: Macro List/Execute Forms (Was: Need help with Assembler ...)

2007-03-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Dave Salt From: Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have written many applications, myself, for ISPF, and, I see no need for SPIFFY (or SIMPLIST -- especially since that one may have keys), a lot of it is too easy to

DFSMSdss DOC APAR OA20117 (was RE: HSM Missing Member from Recalled Dataset -- Update

2007-03-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Richards.Bob Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 4:01 PM No, and I just read it a few hours ago in an attempt to help you. That DEFAULT behavior WAS NOT documented. The subject DOC APAR closed today, 26 March. I

Re: Need for small machines was Re: Macro List/Execute Forms (Was: Need help with Assembler ...)

2007-03-27 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Barkow, Eileen Actually, i am a bored CICS system's programmer ... Delving into the intricacies of RACF can be an interesting and constructive diversion when you're between CICS releases / projects. :-) -jc-

Re: L/E Message

2007-03-27 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Steely I have specified - I am using the SYS1.PARMLIB member and those option are not defined. The parmlib member is correct and does not have any offending options. Other places to look: For CICS, check

Re: z/OS V1R9 Time Line?

2007-03-27 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Steely Does any know when z/OS V1R9 will be available? It should be available around the end of September, 2007. -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN

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