Re: Trapping SMSG messages

Since you showed yours, here's mine. Admittedly not as pretty, but then I don't have a user community. It also handles being used on a service machine that has a secuser. It reduces Frank's original exec to: /* */ Address Command 'PIPE Rexx SMSGRPY VMUTIL RUALIVE|Locate /IMOKAY/|Count

Re: Capturing response from SCS

Okay, as long as we're posting code... My version is a bit more generic, but also takes into account that it might be issued from a SECUSER-ed disconnected id. /* ** SMSG's an arbitrary target SVM, captures responses and inserts ** into the pipeline. */ Parse Upper arg tgtmach what '(' opts ')'

Re: Capturing response from SCS

Good answer, and it's there because in one application there was another stage which wouldn't go to ready (commit 0) until everyone else did. In most cases it's a harmless artifact. -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support mhard...@us.ibm.com mike.b.hard...@kp.org mikehard...@mindless.com (925)

Re: Two simple TCPIP / FTPSERVE questions.

You've been wearing your Linux appliance hat too long. Much lighter-weight would be a few lines of Rexx with or without Romney's FTP package, running periodically as a task in your automation solution or a standalone (CMS) VSM. -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support mhard...@us.ibm.com

Re: Where console message is stored using Operation Manager

Beg to differ. While all messages for all monitored userids are logged to Operations Manager's log on disk, recent (for various values of recent) console activity is kept in data spaces, the size of which is specifiable. That's why, for a particularly active (console-wise) userid, one can only

Re: Where console message is stored using Operation Manager

/05/2011 10:15:29 AM: From: Alan Altmark/Endicott/IBM@IBMUS To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date: 07/05/2011 10:17 AM Subject: Re: Where console message is stored using Operation Manager Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU On Tuesday, 07/05/2011 at 12:42 EDT, Michael

Re: VM Workshop - Session Grid Now Available

Well my first was at Asilomar in 86 (I think) or 87. I remember Rich's being there, but not you; though I do recall you from others. -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support mhard...@us.ibm.com mike.b.hard...@kp.org mikehard...@mindless.com (925) 926-3179 (w) (925) 323-2070 (c) IM: VMBearDad (AIM),

Re: RMSMASTR and shutdowns

It might be nice if you could tell CP to stagger its shutdown signals, but I don't think that's going to happen. That's what automation's for... What about a combination of your approaches? 1. Put the NOSHUTDOWNSIGNAL in the SFS servers' parms files as you said. 2. Have VM:Operator (or your other

Re: Moving on

Richard, I too appreciate your years of contributing to the community through this and other fora. I hope you'll remain connected. -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support mhard...@us.ibm.com mike.b.hard...@kp.org mikehard...@mindless.com (925) 926-3179 (w) (925) 323-2070 (c) IM: VMBearDad (AIM),

Re: Sending messages to z/OS from z/VM using RSCS

Don't know if it still works or what authorizations might be required, but at one time you could use the operator send command: se 'your message',njenode.userid or something to that effect. -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support mhard...@us.ibm.com mike.b.hard...@kp.org mikehard...@mindless.com

Re: Sort IP addresses

Exactly: /*/ IP_addr.1 = '10.23.178.200' IP_addr.2 = '192.168.128.12' IP_addr.3 = '172.12.210.34' IP_addr.0 = 3 'PIPE (End ? Name IP_Sort) stem IP_addr.', '|Spec fs blank ws . pad 0 ', 'substr w1 of f1 n.3 right', 'substr w2 of f1 n.3 right', 'substr w3 of f1 n.3 right', 'substr

Re: Short circuit SMTP

Sure, just leave the SMTP userid down. If you don't want to update your profile tcpip, issue a hold smtp logon from operator at system ipl time. Outgoing mail will pile up in its reader without going anywhere. -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support mhard...@us.ibm.com mike.b.hard...@kp.org

Re: Short circuit SMTP

Oh (chagrined), I didn't understand what you were saying in your original post. In that case I like Alan's solution. -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support mhard...@us.ibm.com mike.b.hard...@kp.org mikehard...@mindless.com (925) 926-3179 (w) (925) 323-2070 (c) IM: VMBearDad (AIM), mbhcpcvt (Y!)

Re: DASD HA R0 ?

If you're going back that far, ISTR that R0, if writeable at all, was used on an otherwise bad track to point to its alternate. -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support mhard...@us.ibm.com mike.b.hard...@kp.org mikehard...@mindless.com (925) 926-3179 (w) (925) 323-2070 (c) IM: VMBearDad (AIM),

Re: Nothing today?

That would be Tivoli. -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support mhard...@us.ibm.com mike.b.hard...@kp.org mikehard...@mindless.com (925) 926-3179 (w) (925) 323-2070 (c) IM: VMBearDad (AIM), mbhcpcvt (Y!) The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU wrote on 05/17/2011 02:37:19 PM: From:

Re: RSCS CTCA between a first and second level system...

IOW what does the LOCAL statement in your RSCS CONFIGs specify? -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support mhard...@us.ibm.com mike.b.hard...@kp.org mikehard...@mindless.com (925) 926-3179 (w) (925) 323-2070 (c) IM: VMBearDad (AIM), mbhcpcvt (Y!) The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU

Re: CMS disk weirdness between processors

And thanks for owning up instead of leaving the rest of us wondering. Those pesky 0s... -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support mhard...@us.ibm.com mike.b.hard...@kp.org mikehard...@mindless.com (925) 926-3179 (w) (925) 323-2070 (c) IM: VMBearDad (AIM), mbhcpcvt (Y!) The IBM z/VM Operating System

Re: Toolsrun function without RSCS

Faced with similar circumstances, I used the UFT support in the free RSCS and the UFTD server that comes with TCPIP. Then it was a simple exercise to note and propagate changes. -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support mhard...@us.ibm.com mike.b.hard...@kp.org mikehard...@mindless.com (925) 926-3179

Re: Configuration Puzzler

The fact that you had to logon to B, and detach/relink the disk tells me that either (1) B never really logged off, or more likely (2) B wasn't linking the disk you thought it was, but when you did it manually you got the disk you thought it should have (the one A updated). -- Mike Harding z/VM

Re: Shopz Function

At least it isn't binary: 01100110011100010 -- Mike Harding The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU wrote on 11/17/2010 09:49:35 AM: From: Schuh, Richard rsc...@visa.com To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date: 11/17/2010 09:49 AM Subject: Shopz Function Sent by: The IBM z/VM

Re: No IPL VSWITCH Connectivity

George, it's easy enough to configure Notes to use an external browser rather than its embedded one. I use Firefox, but IE and Chrome (even Safari) work equally well. -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU wrote on 11/04/2010 07:18:15 AM:

Re: Spool file locations

You'd need more visibility to the spooling blocks than any published API gives you. A spool file's SFB points to a SPM (spool management block) on disk, which then points to its data blocks (and potentially more SPM blocks). I suspect, though I don't know, that something like VM:Spool reads the

Re: Spool file locations

Cool! I'd forgotten about that. Always better when someone else has already done the legwork. -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU wrote on 11/02/2010 10:57:53 AM: From: Mike Walter mike.wal...@hewitt.com To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU

Re: High Level Assembler

Of course there's nothing preventing you from doing your zvm assemblies on zos unless local policy prevents submitting zos jobs from zvm. -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support mhard...@us.ibm.com mike.b.hard...@kp.org mikehard...@mindless.com (925) 926-3179 (w) (925) 323-2070 (c) IM: VMBearDad

Re: High Level Assembler

Actually, I ripple the source, extract the needed macro definitions from their maclibs and the first step of my z/OS job constructs a temp maclib for the assemble step. Just a little fun plumbing. -- Mike Harding The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU wrote on 10/26/2010 11:59:42

Re: trsource question

Have you issued a trsave? -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support mhard...@us.ibm.com mike.b.hard...@kp.org mikehard...@mindless.com (925) 926-3179 (w) (925) 323-2070 (c) IM: VMBearDad (AIM), mbhcpcvt (Y!) The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU wrote on 10/22/2010 04:45:06 PM:

Re: RSU or PSU?

In that case Mike, the cplevel reported at ipl time wouldn't show the new build date. The lack of any maintenance in the RSU for HCPCPE would indicate the RSU wasn't complete in that regard and it's time to open a PMR. -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support mhard...@us.ibm.com mike.b.hard...@kp.org

Re: z/VSE dispatch of multi-CPU under VM

Also... you haven't mentioned whether you adjusted the share value when you added virtual cpus to your VSE guest. Remember that each v-cpu will get only 1/n of the userid's share, which may place them at a disadvantage if competing with the virtual cpus of your other guests. So if I'm running

Re: Applying Maintenance - Best Practice

Being the paranoid sort, I take it further. My second-level maintenance image has everything but page/spool on a single mod9. Before applying maintenance I make a backup of that volume. Once I'm satisfied with the outcome of a maintenance run I do a minidisk-by-minidisk compare of the changed

Re: Listfile

It does not. Any apparent order is an artifact of how it accesses in-storage directories. For RO minidisks they'll be ordered since their directories are, but for R/W minidisks files written since the disks were accessed may appear out of sequence. -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support

Re: PIPEline how to question..

Trivial, but since I felt like playing The treatment of filemode may not be what you have in mind, but try this for starters: /* ** */ Address Command Arg infn inft infm outhow . Select When Abbrev('DISK',outhow,1) then Do outs = '| SUCCESS FILE A' outf = '| FAILURE FILE A'

Re: RSCS Messages

It depends too on how your procedures define operator. Do they refer to the OPERATOR userid or the supposedly human console operator? -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support mhard...@us.ibm.com mike.b.hard...@kp.org mikehard...@mindless.com (925) 926-3179 (w) (925) 323-2070 (c) IM: VMBearDad (AIM),

Re: RSCS Messages

The CP for command may be your friend here; after all, SMSG IS a CP command... -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU wrote on 08/12/2010 01:18:40 PM: From: Schuh, Richard rsc...@visa.com To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date: 08/12/2010 01:19

Re: DISKACNT records

Well... Not recommended as a general practice, or for the faint of heart, and installation rules may prevent, but: d hl998 HL0998 E00036 R0998 Ready; T=0.01/0.01 09:13:05 d hle8c8.20 HLE8C8 D6D7C5D9 C1E3D6D9 D6D7C5D9 C1E3D6D9 06 RE8C8 HLE8D8

Re: DISKACNT records

Effectively there were optical card punches, also known as #2 pencils. -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support mhard...@us.ibm.com mike.b.hard...@kp.org mikehard...@mindless.com (925) 926-3179 (w) (925) 323-2070 (c) IM: VMBearDad (AIM), mbhcpcvt (Y!) The IBM z/VM Operating System

Re: Pipe question

It can be quiet for days or even weeks, but if you'd made your original post there you'd have seen a flood of activity. -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support mhard...@us.ibm.com mike.b.hard...@kp.org mikehard...@mindless.com (925) 926-3179 (w) (925) 323-2070 (c) IM: VMBearDad (AIM), mbhcpcvt (Y!)

Re: DIRMAINT /RACF adduser error

So does the directory point to the new or original sysres for racfvm's 200/300? Q mdisk user racfvm 200 loc -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support mhard...@us.ibm.com mike.b.hard...@kp.org mikehard...@mindless.com (925) 926-3179 (w) (925) 323-2070 (c) IM: VMBearDad (AIM), mbhcpcvt (Y!) The IBM

Re: Question About Read console output under REXX

Not the way I'd do it, but building on your original exec, try this; /* */ Address Command Arg vcmd If vcmd='' then vcmd='D NET,APPLS' onq = Queued() 'Q SECUSER VTAM (LIFO' /* cms will route to cp, stack response */ Parse pull . oldsecu . Do while Queued()onq; Parse pull; End If oldsecu='not'

Re: RSCS purge files HELP

If you've redefined your printer dynamically, stopping/starting the link (PRTCR2) should take care of it. I don't believe the ip address is resolved until a file is selected by the line driver. If you haven't done it dynamically, shutting rscs down and restarting it should also do the trick

Re: Question About Read console output under REXX

If you're already doing any sort of automated system monitoring, I'd just include this routine, How depends on what you're using. For Operations Manager, you'd define a scheduled action to execute it; for one of the WAKEUP-based utilities available on the VM download page you'd include it in

Re: ACM award

You caught the hedge too. z/VM - or any mainframe OS - is probably considered classic as opposed to modern. But truly modern today would be hand-helds, phones or all-pervasive (built into the surroundings), desktops are becoming mini-dinosaurs. -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support

Re: z/OS and UFT(D)

Agreed, 'twould be nice to have. Faced with a similar situation, though, I simply ftp to my vm rdr as the last step in a job which was submitted from vm by ftp to jes. Works for anything but the jcl listing. -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support mhard...@us.ibm.com mike.b.hard...@kp.org

Re: Automate z/VM RACF SMF process to z/OS

I've done the same for other svm's, but the special CMS running on RACFVM doesn't understand disk load (at least on systems I can play with). -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support mhard...@us.ibm.com mike.b.hard...@kp.org mikehard...@mindless.com (925) 926-3179 (w) (925) 457-9183 (c) IM: VMBearDad

Re: Automate z/VM RACF SMF process to z/OS

Like Paul's and unlike yours, our SMF CONTROL file has 2 blanks following the SEVER NO. If the following is positionally parsed rather than white-space, that would account for the attempt to xautolog ACFSMF. -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support mhard...@us.ibm.com mike.b.hard...@kp.org

Re: PIPE question about RC

This question would be better asked on the CMS-Pipelines forum, but... First, I don't think you want to use pipmod stop. It would end asynchronous stages, but you aren't running any. As Doug says, you need to utilize the secondary output of CP. Try something like: Pipe (end ?) a:fanin | b:gate

Re: CP Message HCP401I

On the other hand, if you have Velocity Software's ESAMON friends, or CA's VM:Spool you could set up for alerts at a lower trip value - or higher, for that matter - and ignore the HCP401I message. If you had the V/Spool option of VM:Spool you could even have it freeze users writing to spool

Re: Date/Time functions for REXX program?

!) Michael Harding/Oakland/IBM wrote on 09/24/2009 08:35:46 AM: From: Michael Harding/Oakland/IBM To: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date: 09/24/2009 08:35 AM Subject: Re: Date/Time functions for REXX program? Pipe literal LOC OPERATOR|CP|Spec /D H/ n substr 1;-4 of w3 n

Re: Date/Time functions for REXX program?

Pipe literal LOC OPERATOR|CP|Spec /D H/ n substr 1;-4 of w3 n /230.8/ n|CP| Spec w2 n w3 n|Spec w1 c2t n|Cons -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support mhard...@us.ibm.com mike.b.hard...@kp.org mikehard...@mindless.com (925) 926-3179 (w) (925) 457-9183 (c) IM: VMBearDad (AIM), mbhcpcvt (Y!) The IBM

Re: Trace I/O for a 3490 tape drive

To see all that, you'll probably need the CP TRSOURCE ... TYPE IO... command, et seq. -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support mhard...@us.ibm.com mike.b.hard...@kp.org mikehard...@mindless.com (925) 926-3179 (w) (925) 457-9183 (c) IM: VMBearDad (AIM), mbhcpcvt (Y!) The IBM z/VM Operating System

Re: Last release for 3420s?

The early Hollywood depictions tended to feature card sorters or collators, only occasionally tape drives. Had to have some sort of visible action. I remember one though (Goliath, I think) about a computer that was taking over the world, which had a room whose walls were covered with panels of