Re: OT

2006-04-06 Thread Alan Ackerman
Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Sender: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU From: Jim Bohnsack [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowedl The Content-Type I could live without. Alan Ackerman Alan (dot) Ackerman

Re: New z9 models

2006-04-27 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:22:44 -0400, Richards.Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] om wrote: Neale, What about this one? PAV support and more for z/VM 5.2! http://www.ibm.com/isource/cgi-bin/goto?it=usa_annredon=206-084 That announcement keeps talking about the System z environment. New ter minology? What's

Re: VMFHLASM

2006-05-04 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Wed, 3 May 2006 20:06:40 +0200, Shimon Lebowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wr ote: Is there anything illegal/immoral/fattening involved in sending the asm source to someone else to assemble, and return the created object deck? I can understand an installation not wanting to actually buy the HLASM

Re: 2nd level VM and expanded storage

2006-05-04 Thread Alan Ackerman
notice. Alan Ackerman Alan (dot) Ackerman (at) Bank of America (dot) com On Wed, 3 May 2006 15:23:08 +1000, Brodaric, Ivica [EMAIL PROTECTED] .AU wrote: On the first level do: ATTACH XSTORE 2nd_level_userid nM To attach n megabytes of real expanded storage to the 2nd level userid. It won't

Re: Virtual memory implementation in S/370 (a.f.c x-post)

2006-05-11 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Thu, 11 May 2006 11:08:56 -0700, glen herrmannsfeldt [EMAIL PROTECTED] .edu wrote: Marten Kemp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The recent thread about virtual memory sparked a (kind of) idle question: why did the implementation in the S/370 have a two-level scheme (segment and page)? My original

Position - VM Systems Programmer

2006-05-12 Thread Alan Ackerman
We have an opening for a VM Systems Programmer in Concord, CA. For more information, please see http://velocitysoftware.com/jobs/posavail.html. Alan Ackerman Alan (dot) Ackerman (at) Bank of America (dot) com

Re: Position - VM Systems Programmer

2006-05-12 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Fri, 12 May 2006 10:07:37 -0500, Adam Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 12, 2006, at 10:05 AM, Alan Ackerman wrote: We have an opening for a VM Systems Programmer in Concord, CA. For more information, please see http://velocitysoftware.com/jobs/ posavail.html. Salary/Wage

Re: Msg 1QBEI

2006-05-15 Thread Alan Ackerman
I know next to nothing about VSE. However, I do know how to use LookAt -- on the web at http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/bkserv/lookat/. I sea rched on 1QBEI and found: 1QBEI INTERNAL MACRO CALL CPCOM FAILED IN PHASE=xxx, RC=rrr rr FOR jobname jobnumber

Re: z/VM SVC's documented anywhere ?

2006-05-19 Thread Alan Ackerman
There is a list of SVCs at the HLASM site: http://www.hlasm.com/english/svclist.htm. More about the topic in a thread in the lsit archives -- search for HLASM.com announcement starting 16 Nov 2004. On Fri, 19 May 2006 13:25:39 -0500, C. Lawrence Perkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any

Re: Performance Toolkit AND Monwrite???

2006-05-19 Thread Alan Ackerman
We were recently asked to collect raw monitor data for IBM, because they saw things in one of our z/VM 5.2.0 dumps that surprised them. It took ou r current performance group a week to correctly collect the data. (I'm not in the performance group any more!) I think it is wise to know how to

Re: Performance Toolkit AND Monwrite???

2006-05-20 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Sat, 20 May 2006 09:04:40 PDT, Barton Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ftware.com wrote: Alan, one command to collect raw data: SMSG ESASERVE RECORD DISK CONFIG gives ibm exactly what they want, SMSG ESASERVE RECORD NONE stops recording raw data. zero need for an added user or a lot of work. Do you

Re: Emulated tape/ECKD disk

2006-05-28 Thread Alan Ackerman
How is Emulated Tape different from the VTAPE product from VSSI (Virtua l Software Systems, Inc.)? That already exists -- see http://www.vsoftsys.com/default.htm. Is what you are asking for better than VTAPE -- or are you just asking IB M to provide free what you can already get for a price?

Restoring RETRIEVE buffers

2006-06-07 Thread Alan Ackerman
buffers. I looked in the archive for this list and found the post below, but nothing else. Is there no way to do this? Shoul d I try to APAR the clobbering of the RETRIEVE buffers? Alan Ackerman alan + dot + ackerman + at + bank of america + dot + com Re: Saved retrieve buffer cp/cms command

Re: HCPSEC068E when doing PUT2PROD SAVECMS

2006-06-07 Thread Alan Ackerman
the other systems. Ca n PUT2PROD do that now that it no longer insists on forcing off userids? We have 5 primary VM systems and 11 (?) VM guests. Does anyone install VM separately on each of multiple systems? Does even IBM? Alan Ackerman alan dot ackerman at bank of america dot com On Fri, 2 Jun

Re: OSA Express, ZVM TCPIP, and Security

2006-07-19 Thread Alan Ackerman
or bad -- but it sure makes it hard to answer a question such as how common are buffer overruns in VM? Personally, I've only seen two security exposures in VM. Neither was due to a buffer overflow. That's an awfully small sample, though. Alan Ackerman Alan -dot- Ackerman -at- Bank of America -dot

Who has the tape drive ASSIGNed?

2006-08-08 Thread Alan Ackerman
Is there any command to tell you which LPAR has a tape drive assigned? Problem report: This morning when I was checking the tapes on the different systems, I found that VMBACKUP on VMDEV2 was stuck. I found there was a problem with drive 366. There was a mount pending for VMBACKUP. I put all

Stand Alone Dump to Disk

2006-08-08 Thread Alan Ackerman
We were asked to update our stand-alone dump procedures. We don't use stand-alone dump very often, and the list of tape drives to use had gotte n badly out of date. We discovered that z/OS can take a stand-alone dump to disk. We get more involved in DASD address changes than in tape address

Re: Who has the tape drive ASSIGNed?

2006-08-08 Thread Alan Ackerman
That's a joke, right? MIM thought the drive was free, or it would not hav e assigned it to VMDEV2.

Re: Who has the tape drive ASSIGNed?

2006-08-08 Thread Alan Ackerman
I am informed that this particular case was NOT caused by CA-BAB. (We hav e had other cases.) We don't know what was the cause. z/OS isn't relevent here, though we have had similar error messages involving sharing with z/OS at other times. We have 3 VM systems, and 10 guests, involved. We

Re: Secondary FTP Server Help

2006-08-08 Thread Alan Ackerman
We got Bluezone (trial copy) to work doing SSL FTP. We did NOT get our WS -FTP PRO client to work. We DID open a PMR, but were told the problem is in WS-FTP PRO. That's whe re it sits. Of course, it may have been a totally different problem. On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 10:35:47 -0700, Adam Thornton

Re: Signal support

2006-08-09 Thread Alan Ackerman
SHARE in its infinite wisdom has decoupled requirements from SHARE meetings. We don't have any meetings to look at or submit requirements -- it's all done on a web page. I just haven't figured out the latest iteration of same. I'm afraid the result of that has been to decrease interest in the

Re: Signal support

2006-08-09 Thread Alan Ackerman
I don't really agree with this we've always tolerated pulling the rug ou t from under us so we shouldn't change it now. The fact is, I've spent lot s of time in my professional life fixing things that happened because of a shutdown. And we've written code to deal with this, or fix it

Re: Signal support

2006-08-09 Thread Alan Ackerman
to the requirement is Available. Does anyone have a real example? Otherwise, it puts this requirement in the Nice to Have category -- and I won't write it. On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 17:22:37 -0400, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday, 08/09/2006 at 02:28 EST, Alan Ackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Who has the tape drive ASSIGNed?

2006-08-10 Thread Alan Ackerman
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Ackerman Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 06:29 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Who has the tape drive ASSIGNed? I am informed that this particular case was NOT caused by CA-BAB. (We hav=3D e=20 had other cases.) We don't know what was the cause. z

New z/VM 5.2.0 Manuals May 2006

2006-09-28 Thread Alan Ackerman
I try to do this manually, I tend to make mistakes, and it is very time-consuming.) Did the existence of these new manuals ever get announced anywhere? Alan Ackerman alan (dot) ackerman (at) bank of america (dot) com

Re: New z/VM 5.2.0 Manuals May 2006

2006-09-28 Thread Alan Ackerman
That's how I got there. From http://www.vm.ibm.com/library/ I clicked on z/VM Library Center | V5.2. You can also get to the manuals by clicking on z/VM Bookshelf | V5. 2. But I want the whole set of updated manuals -- or at least the new bookshelf file. Another point against SPEs -- I don't

Re: New z/VM 5.2.0 Manuals May 2006

2006-09-29 Thread Alan Ackerman
Thank you! Could you post the updated .bks file there, too? Or send me a copy? Softcopy Librarian isn't happy with out a bookshelf file. On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:07:40 -0400, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to this, the z/VM publications team has added a link on

Re: New z/VM 5.2.0 Manuals May 2006

2006-09-30 Thread Alan Ackerman
/software/applications/office/bkmgr/indexwin.html.) On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 23:58:18 -0400, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday, 09/29/2006 at 07:41 EST, Alan Ackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you! Could you post the updated .bks file there, too? Or send me a copy? Softcopy Librarian

Re: New z/VM 5.2.0 Manuals May 2006

2006-10-02 Thread Alan Ackerman
Very strange -- I can see this new link from my Mac, but not from the Ban k's PC. On my Mac, the page at http://www.vm.ibm.com/library contains a link z/VM V5.2 publications updated May 2006 to http://www.vm.ibm.com/pubs /index.html. This lists the 18 new manuals. On my PC, the link z/VM

Re: New z/VM 5.2.0 Manuals May 2006

2006-10-02 Thread Alan Ackerman
sure they will say it is up to the manual owners to update the manuals. On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 11:55:25 -0400, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday, 09/30/2006 at 03:13 EST, Alan Ackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The bookshelf may not have changed, but the bookshelf (.bks) FILE

Re: New z/VM 5.2.0 Manuals May 2006

2006-10-03 Thread Alan Ackerman
their PC tools. I have asked them about how to update the x/VM 5.2.0 manuals in Softcopy Librarian. On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 12:42:54 -0500, Alan Ackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ERICA.COM wrote: I have contacted BookManager support to ask about why the Index utility crashes.

Re: JDBC and DB2/VM

2006-10-07 Thread Alan Ackerman
I'm afraid we've only got DB2 Connect on a PC to work with DB2/VM (7.4 an d earlier). Are you using DB2 Connect? I don't know if anyone is using JDBC or not. On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 16:16:26 -0400, Henry Wilusz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wro te: Hello Just a short question to see if anyone has gotten JDBC

Re: Real core

2006-10-09 Thread Alan Ackerman
We had an upgraded 165 at Safeway. It was called a 165-II not 165-2 or 16 8. See, for example, http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_FS370B.ht ml or many other IBM pages. On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 15:44:10 -0500, Fred Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always thought the

Re: SMTP Verify Client Exit

2006-10-21 Thread Alan Ackerman
Usually, high port numbers are assigned to clients. Clients on VM include FTP, TELNET, NFS, and Charlotte (web browser). All the more reason why they MUST get you the contents of (some of) the p ackets. With that you might be able to identify which client. Why did they think it was email, if

Re: WAKEUP RDR problem

2006-10-21 Thread Alan Ackerman
One difference for VSE is that the field(s) NAME and TYPE can contain a V SE DSNAME (all one word) instead of a filename and filetype. Are you sure the WAKEUP is not triggered, or only that your code has a pr oblem with the file? If WAKEUP is not being triggered, first check all your reader

Re: TCP ports and SMTP clients

2006-10-24 Thread Alan Ackerman
Anyone can open a connection to any port of the TCP/IP stack, as long as there is a server listening on that port, unless you have set up TCP/IP to block certain IP addresses or are using a firewall. On the other hand, you have to authorize userids to listen on p orts below 1024 -- at least

Re: SMTP Verify Client Exit

2006-10-25 Thread Alan Ackerman
They are wasting your time. The only information you have given us is a r ange of 19nnn-29nnn port numbers. Those could be literally anything, and the same numbers could be used for something else the next day. It's absurd for them to expect you to go back six months. I f they cannot trap

Re: New z/VM 5.2.0 Manuals May 2006

2006-10-29 Thread Alan Ackerman
! Alan.dot.Ackerman.at.Bank of America.dot.com On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 01:14:03 -0500, Alan Ackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ERICA.COM wrote: the page at http://www.vm.ibm.com/library contains a link z/VM V5.2 publications updated May 2006 to http://www.vm.ibm.com/pub s/index.html. This lists the 18 new manuals

Re: New z/VM 5.2.0 Manuals May 2006

2006-10-30 Thread Alan Ackerman
It would be nice if whoever owns http://www.vm.ibm.com/pubs/index.html would add these three links to that page. Is that you, Alan A? Alan.dot.Ackerman.at.Bank of America.dot.com On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:20:26 -0600, Alan Ackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] MERICA.COM wrote: I received a letter from

Litotes?

2006-12-21 Thread Alan Ackerman
OK, I give up. Why is Warning: writing such code yourself is non-trivial ! a litotes? I looked up litotes in Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litot es. I can see how not non- trivial would be a litotes, but why is non-trivial? On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:51:07 -0500, Phil Smith III [EMAIL

Re: Questions about encrypted telnet

2006-12-21 Thread Alan Ackerman
We are not using it yet, but we have a project to encrypt all TN3270 traf fic (and eventually other traffic) to mainframes. As usual here, we are doing z/OS first, using wha tever is built in to z/OS these days. (Target is 4Q2007.) z/VM would come next, so we have been tes ting the VM SSL server

Re: Huge LASTING GLOBALV file for DB/2 servers

2006-12-22 Thread Alan Ackerman
Just to help me understand DB2 better, could you explain why you have a S QLINIT in the PROFILE EXEC of your server? I thought that was only for clients to issue. On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:01:34 -0600, Ed Zell [EMAIL PROTECTED] w rote: We are running DB/2 for VM 7.4 on z/VM 4.4 at service level

IBMLink 2000 Replacement for SIS 1

2007-01-08 Thread Alan Ackerman
Since we are being forced to move to IBMLink 2000, can someone tell me a way to find a single PTF or APAR? I tried typing an APAR nubmer into Service Information Search (SIS) - APARs and PTFs - Search argument I got 51 hits spread across 3 pages. Is it any wonder I hate IBMLink 2000?

IBMLink 2000 Sending Files to my VM Reader

2007-01-08 Thread Alan Ackerman
With IBMLink green screen I can print files and they end up in my reader. I have EXECs to squirrel these away for further needs. This is especially useful since IBMLink erases closed incidents rather quickly, but I also save interesting APARs as well. Any way to do this from IBMLink 2000?

Re: IBMLink 2000 Replacement for SIS 1

2007-01-09 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 09:23:16 +0200, Kris Buelens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using this URL address to search for PTFs/APARs http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/srchBroker/views/srchBroker.js p? rs=112 -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support I just tried to find PTF UG03934.

Re: IBMLink 2000 Replacement for SIS 1

2007-01-09 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 18:00:17 -0600, Marcy Cortes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Go into SIS Over on the left click on View documents Click on Apars and PTFs link Put the number in Obvious huh ;) Marcy Cortes Thanks! Quite obvious. When it tells you to fill in an APAR or PTF number - - don't.

Re: IBMLink 2000 Sending Files to my VM Reader

2007-01-09 Thread Alan Ackerman
That works. It took me 16 minutes to download the 21 current incidents my group has in IBMLink, though to my PC. A far cry from Q and hit Enter. If it was HTTP, I might be able to write some Pipe code to go download them. But it is HTTPS (SSL encrypted), and I have no CMS tools to do SSL.

Re: IBM ServiceLink greenscreen to be discontinued March 31, 2007

2007-01-09 Thread Alan Ackerman
My experience with IBMLink feedback is that it goes into a black hole. I have left some open for years, with no progress made in fixing the bugs. My recent queries don't give me much hope, either. I will, however, continue to open feedbacks, even though this list is clearly much better at

Re: IBMLink 2000 Finding ESO levels

2007-01-11 Thread Alan Ackerman
-0600, Alan Ackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I find the currently available ESO level for a product? In IBMLin k green screen, I used SRD 5, then changed 2 - 1 here: Select PRodIDs from a list? . . . 1 1. YES 2. NO This gave me a list of products like so: ProdID COMPIDRel

http://www.vm.ibm.com/

2007-01-11 Thread Alan Ackerman
I cannot get to http://www.vm.ibm.com/. Can others? Does anyone remembe r the IP address for www.vm.ibm.com? I am getting: Gateway Timeout The following error occurred: [code=DNS_TIMEOUT] A DNS lookup error occurred because the request time d out during the lookup.

Re: http://www.vm.ibm.com/

2007-01-11 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:47:42 +0100, Rob van der Heij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/12/07, Don Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something like this happened a few months ago (or was it years? It's a ll becoming a big blur) because the site moved to a new address and it to ok a while for the

Re: IBMLink 2000 Finding ESO levels

2007-01-11 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:18:40 -0500, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, 01/11/2007 at 12:08 CST, Alan Ackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any other suggestions? Continue your discussion with IBMLink folks. At least the two versions were side-by-side for seven years so that you

Re: www.vm.ibm.com

2007-01-12 Thread Alan Ackerman
-Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 2:05 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: www.vm.ibm.com The site is not accessible due to problems apparently at ATT. There is a

Re: IBMLink 2000 Finding ESO levels

2007-01-12 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:37:52 -0500, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, 01/11/2007 at 10:21 CST, Alan Ackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was hoping I wouldn't have to convert. Silly of me to expect them to come to their senses. Everyone else gets to webify their legacy apps

VTAM Support

2007-01-12 Thread Alan Ackerman
Spinoff from Re: IBMLink 2000 Finding ESO levels. On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:47:59 -0800, Schuh, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrot e: Apparently VTAM support is not very costly - maybe to us it is, but not to them. :-) Regards, Richard Schuh Careful, someone might be listening and decide to drop

Re: IBMLink 2000 Sending Files to my VM Reader

2007-01-14 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:04:49 -0500, Jim Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com wrote: One option you can do is get the wget utility for Windows (see http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/ ). It will allow you to get content f rom https (ssl) sites. For instance, I have a little ditty that I use to g rab

Re: IBMLink 2000 Finding ESO levels

2007-01-15 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:09:47 -0500, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday, 01/12/2007 at 08:04 CST, Alan Ackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I couldn't figure out how to view a single PTF until Marcy told me. It took me quite a while to figure out that if I want to ADD products

Re: ISPF File Tailoring

2007-01-18 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 07:26:30 -0600, Ed Zell [EMAIL PROTECTED] w rote: OK, here is an example of some file tailoring that we do for our programming staff using ISPF and Dialog Manager. This one creates a compile job stream for a COBOL CICS program. It may or may not contain SQL statements, that

INMLink 2000 - Unable to order a PTF

2007-01-19 Thread Alan Ackerman
This note is from Chris Nichols here at Bank of America. I have posted it with his permission. From: Nichols, Chris Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 3:44 PM Subject: IBMLINK web page FYI. This morning I tried ordering a PTF using IBMLINK on the web. I had the PTF displayed in front of me

Re: INMLink 2000 - Unable to order a PTF

2007-01-19 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:19:08 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps you should order the PTF by phone. A nuisance for you, but a cost for IBM. If support costs go up because things can't be done online, IBM may be persuaded to change the online app. IBM responded by giving complex instructions

IBMLink 2000 - Unable to add Compids to ASAP

2007-01-19 Thread Alan Ackerman
This note is from Darryl Goodnight here at Bank of America. I have posted it with his permission. From: Goodnight, Darryl Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 11:25 AM Also an F.Y.I. I had opened up a feedback with IBM regarding not bein g able to add some COMPIDs to the IBMLink 2000 ASAP

Re: INMLink 2000 - Unable to order a PTF

2007-01-19 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:35:30 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, We found that there are multiple ways to order this PTF. All provided b y IBM web masters/servers. 1. Use IBM's Shop z/Series facility... 2. Use IBM's Service ordering facility...

Does Xen run on zSeries?

2007-02-08 Thread Alan Ackerman
and save money. When needs VM? I like the spelling of Nationwise. Alan Ackerman alan(dot)ackerman(at)bank of america(dot)com

Re: Does Xen run on zSeries?

2007-02-09 Thread Alan Ackerman
Argh! c/When needs VM?/Who needs VM?/ That's sarcastic, by the way! On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 18:55:25 -0500, Jim Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found this on the web (which does not, of course, make it true) at Linux-Watch at

VM Resources Ltd CourseWare

2007-02-26 Thread Alan Ackerman
If anyone has taken VM classes from VM Resources Ltd, could they please c ontact me offline with their experiences? Thanks!

Web Services, SOAP from CMS

2007-02-26 Thread Alan Ackerman
Has anyone had success accessing web services (SOAP, WSDL) from CMS? Stev e Gantry talked about wanting to do this from assembler in the thread below. I have no ne ed for assembler. (I prefer REXX or CMS Pipelines, but we also have a C compiler.) We're not allowed to use LDAP to access our

Active Directory from CMS

2007-02-26 Thread Alan Ackerman
Has anyone been able to access the Microsoft Active Directory from CMS? (This is an alternative to the web services access to the Corporate LDAP Directory that I mentioned in my other append.) The idea would be to have people accessing my web server application have the ir userid

Error during command authentication

2007-02-28 Thread Alan Ackerman
or search it. Attempting this append by email. Alan Ackerman alan(dot)ackerman(at)bank of anerica(dot)com

Re: Active Directory from CMS

2007-02-28 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:54:19 -0800, Dave Wade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder why you need two LDAP directories. AD is basically an LDAP directory. You use LDAP to access it like any other LDAP directory. As usual for MS it chooses to implement things in a different, but perfectly legal way. If

Re: Error during command authentication

2007-03-01 Thread Alan Ackerman
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Ackerman Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 4:48 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Error during command authentication Error during command authentication Error - unable to initiate communication with LISTSERV (errno=10061, phase=CONNECT, target

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-09 Thread Alan Ackerman
design, rather then independent design, because the latter could mean many other things. I'm with Alan, and not just because he spells his name right! Alan Ackerman Alan (dot) Ackerman (at) Bank of America (dot) com On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 09:00:58 +0100, Rob van der Heij [EMAIL PROTECTED] w rote

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-09 Thread Alan Ackerman
No, finite fields cannot be ordered. In any ordered field 1 2 3 4 ..., which implies the field must be infinite. (If it were to loop around, it would violate the axio ms defining an ordering.) On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 16:23:45 -0600, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] s.com wrote: It may be possible

Re: High Level Assembler

2007-03-09 Thread Alan Ackerman
for z/VM optional feature Alan Ackerman Alan (dot) Ackerman (at) Bank of America (dot) com

Re: Issuing HX from Rexx

2007-03-09 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 08:09:32 -0600, RPN01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My assumption was that he just wanted to get out of the currently runnin g program, rather than returning to the calling routine, in which case, exiting, possibly with a non-zero return code might fill the bill. Now, if the

Re: Multiple VM SMTP servers

2007-03-09 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 17:05:28 -0500, Aria Bamdad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is anyone running multiple VM SMTP servers to address problems with mail agents getting timeouts because VM SMTP is busy? I was planning on adding one more SMTP server listening at the same port . Is there a way to

Re: REXX EXEC - Trapping console messages w/SCIF

2007-03-11 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:28:07 -0600, Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello group, I found out SCIF changes things. I logon and I normally don't get an y traffic until I send something to the other virtual machine I am a secondary console for and then I get a response. Without SCIF I

Re: How are you handling z/Linux

2007-03-22 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:43:39 -0400, Sikich, Frank J. [EMAIL PROTECTED] alcity.com wrote: The struggle is that our midrange world claims to apply patches to the UNIX servers only once or twice a year and they are concern that they will have more interruption on zLinux. They never apply security

Re: VSWITCH/network problem

2007-03-22 Thread Alan Ackerman
Several somethings are missing from you post. I see nothing after any of these colons: From SYSTEM CONFIG: From USER DIRECT: The controllers don't specify anything for a particular machine: BTW, what we see on the console when the batch update fails is the IP d isconnect message: On

Re: Try #2, this time, in text mode.

2007-03-24 Thread Alan Ackerman
BTW, what we see on the console when the batch update fails is the IP disconnect message: The error message is still missing from your post. I cannot think of anything network-wise or VM-wise, though. I'm guessing you will need to run some traces. That other Alan (the Johnny-come-lately one)

Re: Programmable operator working: my bad; next opportunity

2007-04-11 Thread Alan Ackerman
/* Read in a NOTE file but do not put it in ALL NOTEBOOK */ /* Untested !!! */ arg spid fn ft fm 'MAKEBUF' buf = rc push 'FILE' fn ft fm 'EXEC PEEK' spid '(FOR *' code = rc 'DROPBUF' buf 'ESTATE' fn ft fm if rc = 0 then 'CP PURGE READER' spid exit code

Re: REXX migration from VM to Windows.

2007-04-13 Thread Alan Ackerman
heard nothing about njPipes in many years. See http://www.cam.org/~tomlins/njpipes.html. Dated 1999. Alan Ackerman alan dot ackerman at bank of america dot com On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:47:39 -0600, Fred Goethals [EMAIL PROTECTED] OM wrote: I am moving some REXX scripts from VM to Windows server

Re: WGET

2007-04-17 Thread Alan Ackerman
Charlotte (the one on Fran Hensler's download page) comes with a WW2GET EXEC which is an WGET-like product written by Jonathan Scott. WW2GET url fn ft fm (proxy CCSID nnn POST HTML WIDTH nn XLATE table

Re: DOOM and Halo on System z?

2007-04-28 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:44:14 -0600, dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This announcement raises more questions than it answers; I wonder if we'll look back at this in ten years time as the beginning of a new future for the mainframe:-) I'd like to learn how will these Cell processors will be

Re: VSCS PSW

2007-05-05 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Sat, 5 May 2007 13:55:49 +0200, Alain Benveniste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan, I see the confusion. We have Multsess installed on MVS. That allows us to connect to all our MVS and VM from 1 terminal. Users who have to work on VM have the same logon as in MVS. Logon this way is made

Re: restore db from a archive

2007-05-19 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Thu, 10 May 2007 15:40:54 +0200, Rich Zhao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wr ote: My test DB is new. On 5/10/07, Rich Zhao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry, DB version is DB2 Server for VM V7.4, VM version is V5.2 On 5/10/07, Rich Zhao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a test DB, I want to

Re: Performance Rules of Thumb ?

2007-05-21 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Mon, 21 May 2007 11:26:20 -0700, Lionel B. Dyck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks - you're points on YMMV is very appropo - I was just looking for starting points. Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering,

Re: z/VM usability

2007-05-28 Thread Alan Ackerman
on CMS, there might be more migration t o z/OS. Alan Ackerman Alan (dot) Ackerman (at) Bank of America (dot) com

Re: Regaring cmm_pages

2007-07-01 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:40:40 -0500, kiran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Hi, I am new to Z/VM.Pls help me in solving the folowing problem. I am trying to set cmm_pages from one m/c to other m/c using smsg comman ds. I followed the following procedure:- I have 2 m/cs MAC1 n MAC2. In Mac1 i loged

z/VM 5.3.0 BookManager Index is broken

2007-07-09 Thread Alan Ackerman
Am I the only one who still uses BookManager/Read on VM? The index file (HCSH2A90 BKINDEX) for the z/VM V5R3.0 Bookshelf has a broken title. Today I used the IBM Softcopy Librarian to download the z/VM 5.3.0 BookManager manuals from the Internet. When I run the Bookmanager/Read fo r VM

[OT] How to determine if running as a multitasking CMS app

2007-07-10 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Monday, 07/09/2007 at 10:30 AST, Rick Troth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott 10:30 AST? Alaska Standard Time? You're in Alaska, Alan? If so, why bothe r to log in?

Re: [OT] How to determine if running as a multitasking CMS app

2007-07-14 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:55:23 -0400, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, 07/10/2007 at 09:06 EST, Alan Ackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday, 07/09/2007 at 10:30 AST, Rick Troth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : ... Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott 10:30 AST? Alaska

Re: z/VM 5.3.0 BookManager Index is broken

2007-07-14 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 23:51:04 -0500, Alan Ackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I the only one who still uses BookManager/Read on VM? The index file (HCSH2A90 BKINDEX) for the z/VM V5R3.0 Bookshelf has a broken title. Today I used the IBM Softcopy Librarian to download the z/VM 5.3.0

Re: RSCS Level

2007-07-26 Thread Alan Ackerman
According to VM Products Serviced via -VM/RSU- or -VM/ESO- 08 July 1999 http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/daileybc/rsu_eso.html: PTF#DESCRIPTION V.R.MUPGRADE SUBSET-Lvl --- --- - -- UV99320 RSCS NETWORK BASE

Re: Way OT: One Room Schools

2007-07-26 Thread Alan Ackerman
I attended a one-room school in first grade, Rooster Rock School near Dan boro, PA. First and second grade all in one room. It sure sounded to me like the second graders got to read more interesting stuff than we did. We had one clock, but I don't know if it was IBM.

Re: Rexx Alternate library

2007-08-10 Thread Alan Ackerman
If you talking about VMS, they had a single common runtime, THEN built th e compilers. IBM had to do it the other way around, combining existing runtimes to form LE, and i t was a MESS!

Re: Guest in 31 or 64 bit?

2007-08-10 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:12:00 -0400, Neale Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No it program checks on an attempt to issue the SIGP to put the machine in 64-bit mode. On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 14:08 -0700, Schuh, Richard wrote: Can an XC machine run 64-bit? Isn't XC a pseudo mode invented so that

Re: NetRexx and Java...

2007-09-09 Thread Alan Ackerman
downloads on the IBM VM site, bu t they may be there somewhere. NetRexx is written in Java, so if you can find Java, you should be able to download NetRexx from Hursley. Alan Ackerman Alan (dot) Ackerman (at) Bank of America (dot) com

Multiple Certificates on One VM System

2007-09-13 Thread Alan Ackerman
, except that it uses a web page instead of commands. (The underlying commands do exist, though.) Alan Ackerman Alan (dot) Ackerman (at) Bank of America (dot) com

Re: Ghost users on z/VM 5.2

2007-09-13 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:56:21 -0400, Hooker, Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And Alan, I guess I'm glad to know we're not alone. I will look up VM64184. It is for z/VM 5.2? Both z/VM 5.2 and 5.3. APAR Identifier .. VM64184 Last Changed 07/08/30 HUNG USER AFTER VARY ON

Re: Multiple Certificates on One VM System

2007-09-13 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:16:25 -0500, Thomas Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have used SSLSERV to transparently protect HTTP, FTP and POP servers. The applications in each of those servers know nothing about the protection that surrounds them. All were using the same certificate as the TN3270

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