Re: Esoterics names for DB2 V8

What is "unit Hydra?" > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of > Grillo Paul > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 7:44 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: [IBM-MAIN] Esoterics names for DB2 V8 > > *Does anybody can help me abo

Re: New job for mainframes: Cloud platform

@!@%*! <=== that's Klingon for Argggh! Thanks Rex, we don't want to leave mangled claptrap 'round to further confuse the not-yet-knowing! Yup, I was thinking hex and binary at the same time, and failed to keep them surgically separate! I'd originally represented the eax register content in

Re: Ported tools for z/OS on ADCD

There is no shame in not knowing how to complete the setup, especially on an ADCD system. The first thing that you have to remember is that not all ADCD releases had the complete set of ported tools, there are many parts and they are not all necessarily there for you to use yet, but the good news

Re: TSSO help please

Hi, What version of TSSO are you using and what version of z/OS are you using it under? Did you assemble TSSO on the level of the system that you are using now? You can contact me offline if you want to discuss how to set things up correctly. Brian Westerman -

Re: AC (authorization code) change

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Gibney, Dave wrote: > As to cynical, I only need look at some of the recent neophyte questions on these lists to realize just how far some outfits are out on the limb > asking with completely unprepared people to safeguard systems presumably > important enough

Re: Ported tools for z/OS on ADCD

You can't answer the question without local site knowledge; no amount of USS training will help you. The dsname of the filesystem that is mounted at any mountpoint is completely up to whoever installed the software in that directory, hopefully using local dataset naming standards. The only plac

Re: Ported tools for z/OS on ADCD

Quite possibly. I'm a USS-newbie so don't know where to start looking to answer that question. Neale -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM

Esoterics names for DB2 V8

*Does anybody can help me about esoterics names in DB2 V8 ??? We want to make a migrate, to unit Hydra, and we are not sure, if exist this nomination for it, tests were made in previous version(V7), and failed.* ** *Answers will be welcome * ** *Best regards* ** *Jorge Arueira * *Support tea

Update a service request - SR for the System z

Update a service request To utilize all of the features of SR for the System z software to which you are licensed, it is now necessary to have a System z software services contract for SoftwareXcel Enterprise Edition, SoftwareXcel Basic Edition or Resolve. Our information indicates that your

Re: DB2 SMF Records

In my second job as a capacity/performance, MICS wasn't ready for DB2. So, I took the manual and coded a SAS programme to parse the SMF records produced. The documentation didn't have offsets -- just type & length. There were a lot of typo and offset errors before I got clean code. Also, the meani

Re: Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

scott_j_f...@yahoo.com (Scott Ford) writes: > Well 1987 wow before the real firewalls. Security was on the inbound/outbound > dial devices. Also worked VM, cut my teeth on VM/SP1 > , loved VM, still do, I can how a exec would cause major pain in a VM system, > no > doubt. z/OS would be a bit tou

Re: DB2 SMF Records

Oh boy, do you have some fun cut out for you! //SYSLIB DD DISP=SHR,DSN=DB2.DSN710.ADSNMACS //SYSINDD * * See DB2 Performance and Tuning Section 5.4.1.1 * *** DSNDQWST DSECT=YES,SUBTYPE=ALLType 100

Re: Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

>they had some program hogging the 3270 terminals saying it was the Cookie >Monster and when someone typed in Cookie it shut down. >Guessing some sort of prank program. I was told, in University by masters grad who co-op'd as a MULTICS developer, that it was a security penetration process that w

Re: Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

Well 1987 wow before the real firewalls. Security was on the inbound/outbound dial devices. Also worked VM, cut my teeth on VM/SP1 , loved VM, still do, I can how a exec would cause major pain in a VM system, no doubt. z/OS would be a bit tougher I would think, plus a pre-req would be enough k

Re: Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

scott_j_f...@yahoo.com (Scott Ford) writes: > > ??? whats it XMASCARD recent post http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#9 mentions: there was xmas exec on bitnet in nov87 ... vmshare archive http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/browse?fn=CHRISTMA&ft=PROB and was almost exactly a year bef

Re: Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

Technically, a worm. It was an exec that if you executed it, it sent itself to everyone in your address list. Back in the days of bitnet. Tended to fill VM spool Cookie and its ilk required the prankster to physically access your logged on session. Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Wash

Re: null out MGMTCLAS

Eric, I believe that the behavior you are seeing is consistent with the designs of IDCAMS and ISMF. As far as I know, the IDCAMS ALTER command has no notation to indicate a "null" management class. The ISMF ALTER command is handled by PGM(DGTFAL01), which normally invokes a CLIST called DGTQA

Re: Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Scott Ford wrote: > > ??? whats it XMASCARD > > Scott J Ford > http://forums.vindy.com/read.php?1,489019,page=3 While a Student at Illinois State University in Normal, I was told they had some program hogging the 3270 terminals saying it was the Cooki

Re: Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

I meant wsa.exe On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Dick Bond wrote: > We can connect to IBM and other known Internet websites just fine from our > mainframes but some of our Intranet(s) are prohibited, like the one my PC is > on. We also are not allowed remote access to our HMC(s). I can't vouc

Re: Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

We can connect to IBM and other known Internet websites just fine from our mainframes but some of our Intranet(s) are prohibited, like the one my PC is on. We also are not allowed remote access to our HMC(s). I can't vouch for our network people, I was just stating what they apparently consider

Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 11 Apr 2011 to 12 Apr 2011 (#2011-102)

>Don't ignore IE (Internet Express). More holes than a screen door! > > INTERNET Explorer. > Internet EXPLODER! CONFIDENTIALITY/EMAIL NOTICE: The material in this transmission contains confidential and privileged information intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient,

Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 11 Apr 2011 to 12 Apr 2011 (#2011-102)

>Don't ignore IE (Internet Express). More holes than a screen door! INTERNET Explorer. Sent wirelessly from my BlackBerry device on the Bell network. Envoyé sans fil par mon terminal mobile BlackBerry sur le réseau de Bell. -- Fo

Re: Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

That was an interesting bit of history, but the link you provided is missing a trailing letter "L" (shtml, not shtm) for anyone else who wants to try the link. HTH Peter > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Anne & Lynn W

Re: The plural of 'virus'

>At least one American public high school has conversational Latin classes There was a recent contest in Toronto. The T-Shirts, worn by the team of the winning high school, was inscribed with the motto: "Quis est patris vobis?" Sent wirelessly from my BlackBerry device on the Bell network. Envo

Re: The plural of 'virus'

Especially since I have read that Washington, Jefferson and their crew wanted to originally model the republic after the old Greek form of government. On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Bill Fairchild wrote: > Latin is not dead. Many people converse in Latin around the world, > especially within

Re: Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

??? whats it XMASCARD   Scott J Ford   From: Ian S. Worthington To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Wed, April 13, 2011 5:16:07 PM Subject: Re: Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS XMASCARD EXEC i -- Original Message -- Recei

Re: Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

XMASCARD EXEC i -- Original Message -- Received: 04:12 PM COT, 04/13/2011 From: Scott Ford To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS > Ok guys, let me ask one question, btw I also working in Security now,ACF2,RACF > and TSS. How many MF

Re: Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

Ok guys, let me ask one question, btw I also working in Security now,ACF2,RACF and TSS. How many MF hackers or viruses have you seen, I have been  at it 40yrs, never one .. I am not saying it wont occur, but the odds are against it based on the complexity of the environments. I have customers

Re: Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

mike.a.sch...@gmail.com (Mike Schwab) writes: > Writing the SE Linux was done with a National Security Agency (No Such > Agency) (NSA) research grant. > http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/ also from long ago and far away: http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/list-archive/0409/8362.shtm -- virtu

Re: Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 3:25 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS > > > Writing the SE Linux was do

Re: Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:18 PM, McKown, John wrote: > > Try running Linux with the SELinux enhancements fully implemented. That makes > Linux very difficult (to me) to break. SELinux implements MAC controls > instead of DAC controls. And it can even make it impossible for "root" to > modify so

Re: Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 2:58 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS > Hal, you're right in that no se

Re: LISTCAT command

My LISTCAT output shows the symbolic (&SYSR1) for the volume name the datasets reside on. So you should be able to parse the IDCAMS LISTCAT output looking for the dataset and symbolic volume name. On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:45:36 -0500, Rick Fochtman wrote: >

Re: Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

- Perhaps network/PC people simply can't conceive of a server being that secure/robust. Indeed, I know of a network guy who firmly believes that the MF would fail if presented with enough network traffic. To be fai

Re: LISTCAT command

- Saurabh, I use a two step process for this. 1) I execute an IEHLIST against the volume that I wish to validate all data sets are indirectly cataloged (normally a SYSRES and/or DLIB volume) 2) I then execute a Rexx

Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 11 Apr 2011 to 12 Apr 2011 (#2011-102)

-- I would submit that the plural of "virus" is probably "Windows". More precisely Microsoft Outlook -- Don't ignore IE (Internet Expres

Mark your calendar for VM & Linux Summer Workshop (July 2011)

Hi, just wanted to get this on your calendarswork is underway to relaunch the VM Workshop as the VM and Linux Workshop. July 28-30, 2011 at Ohio State University in Columbus Ohio. When they tell me that the new workshop web site is ready I will add the link to it on the VM events calendar. ht

Re: null out MGMTCLAS

Are you getting an error message on the attempt? Can you post it? Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Eric Gustavison Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 12:42 PM I need to run an ALTER on a number of datasets that nullifi

Re: TSO Profile NUM and PACK

For global settings, check the ISPF Configuration Table section of the ISPF Planning and Customization manual (my copy is GC34-4814-08, chapter 2, figure 8). -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Donnelly, John P Sent: Tuesday,

Re: AC (authorization code) change

Over the years many modules with unnnecessary AC=1 attributes have been changed to be AC=0. I thought the original post asserted that there was a problem when this module was not AC=1. Did anyone explain what that problem was? Obviously if it needs to do authorized things *and* if it can be a jo

Re: LISTCAT command

That should be NX, not NV. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Schwarz, Barry A Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 11:44 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: LISTCAT command My approach is brute force. 1 - Run a LISTCAT V

Re: Jobname colums was lost in the sdsf joblog on ZOS1.11.

Copy the IEFACTRT source you were using on the old system and reassemble it. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of ibmnew Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 11:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Jobname colums was lost in the

Re: LISTCAT command

My approach is brute force. 1 - Run a LISTCAT VOL against the catalog(s) of interest. 2 - Edit the resulting listing (usually using SDSF SE command) 3 - Issue multiple "X ALL VOLSERvv" commands where vv is each indirect (including **) or actual volume I'm not in

Re: Ported tools for z/OS on ADCD

Is it possible there are filesystems that have not been properly mounted? On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Neale Ferguson wrote: > According to< > http://dtsc.dfw.ibm.com/MVSDS/%27HTTPD2.ADCD.GLOBAL.HTML%28READM112%29%27#Header_04 > > > http://dtsc.dfw.ibm.com/MVSDS/%27HTTPD2.ADCD.GLOBAL.HTML%28R

Ported tools for z/OS on ADCD

According tohttp://dtsc.dfw.ibm.com/MVSDS/%27HTTPD2.ADCD.GLOBAL.HTML%28READM112%29%27#Header_04 the Ported tools for z/OS (HOS1120) is part of the ADCD. A scan through SMP/E indicates it's installed. However, I c

Re: The plural of 'virus'

Latin is not dead. Many people converse in Latin around the world, especially within Vatican City. There is also a radio news broadcast in Latin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuntii_Latini At least one American public high school has conversational Latin classes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

Re: The plural of 'virus'

wow - good thing I didn't say I thought it was 4th declension. but then I don't trust most 50yr old memories even those from Latin School. I toured my high school 2 yrs ago during 50th reunion and the thing looks a lot smaller inside than I remember. It was nice to see places in the building

null out MGMTCLAS

I need to run an ALTER on a number of datasets that nullifies the MANAGEMENTCLASS. I've tried IDCAMS ALTER with MGMTCLAS(), MGMTCLAS(''), MGMTCLAS(-), and a number of other combinations. Nothing seems to be allowed in batch, whereas I can specifiy a '-' in MANAGEMENTCLASS in the ISMF panels and i

Re: No supported release of z/OS(r) honors the IMBED, REPLICATE, and KEYRANGE attributes for new VSAM data sets

You are correct, it was from an ABR RESTORE. Sorry to bother the list. Regards, John K From: Patrick Lyon

Re: No supported release of z/OS(r) honors the IMBED, REPLICATE, and KEYRANGE attributes for new VSAM data sets

Mea culpa. Yes, it was the result of a FDR/ABR restore. Regards, John K From: "R.S."

Re: The plural of 'virus'

Latin is a dead language It's dead as it can be First it killed the Romans And now it's killing me. Tom Puddicombe Mainframe Performance & Capacity Planning CSC 71 Deerfield Rd, Meriden, CT 06450 ITIS | (860) 428-3252 | tpudd...@csc.com | www.csc.com This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not th

Re: No supported release of z/OS(r) honors the IMBED, REPLICATE, and KEYRANGE attributes for new VSAM data sets

On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:14:45 -0500, John P Kalinich wrote: >Norbert, > >We use ABR instead of HSM, but the create date was from an IDCAMS DEFINE. > >Regards, >John K > John, you may want to verify that is a fact. I just attempted to do a DEFINE with IMBED and REPLICATE and the LISTCAT shows

Re: No supported release of z/OS(r) honors the IMBED, REPLICATE, and KEYRANGE attributes for new VSAM data sets

W dniu 2011-04-13 17:06, John P Kalinich pisze: The creation date was 2011.097 according to LISTCAT. Can it be result of RESTORE? -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- Tre tej wiadomoci moe zawiera informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wycznie do uytku subowego adresata.

Re: No supported release of z/OS(r) honors the IMBED, REPLICATE, and KEYRANGE attributes for new VSAM data sets

Norbert, We use ABR instead of HSM, but the create date was from an IDCAMS DEFINE. Regards, John K From: Norbert Friemel

Re: No supported release of z/OS(r) honors the IMBED, REPLICATE, and KEYRANGE attributes for new VSAM data sets

On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:06:36 -0500, John P Kalinich wrote: >The creation date was 2011.097 according to LISTCAT. > I think that's the restore date not the "true" creation date. The IMBED attribute is not removed by DFSMSdss/hsm during restore. Norbert Friemel ---

Re: Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

Perhaps network/PC people simply can't conceive of a server being that secure/robust. Indeed, I know of a network guy who firmly believes that the MF would fail if presented with enough network traffic. To be fair, the burden of dealing with Windows security has fallen to the network folk

Re: The plural of 'virus'

> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Shane > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 5:44 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: The plural of 'virus' > > After that last effort I decided I'd better see who had trodden on > J

Re: No supported release of z/OS(r) honors the IMBED, REPLICATE, and KEYRANGE attributes for new VSAM data sets

The creation date was 2011.097 according to LISTCAT. Regards, John K From: Ken Porowski

Re: Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

JC that was a good question, I was a network guy in a past life, I think some of the fear is not justified if the companies have the right firewalls in place. I worked a place that had 3 firewalls to separate companies, etc. This was a maintenance nightmare. But this issue was of poor design.

Re: No supported release of z/OS(r) honors the IMBED, REPLICATE, and KEYRANGE attributes for new VSAM data sets

IIRC no new dataset can be created with those attributes (keywords ignored) but if an existing dataset has them it is still processed accordingly. If the dataset is recreated (delete/define) or restored the attributes will be removed. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion Lis

TSSO help please

I am trying to get TSSO running, and I have run into a problem the worst of which is being a newbie to TSSO. The OSCMD command works fine in a CLIST, but I prefer to use REXX. I originally tried setting CMDRESP= 'CLIST' but found out with a Instruction trace that while the code finds the variabl

Re: Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

Some might argue that a LAN cannot be considered 'secure' if there is a Windows box anywhere in the path :-) As near as I can tell, PCI does not currently require encryption on internal LANs. However, I've read about internal networks being penetrated and compromised, so I wonder if that the en

Re: No supported release of z/OS(r) honors the IMBED, REPLICATE, and KEYRANGE attributes for new VSAM data sets

I would think that 'allowing' and 'honoring' are two different things. That is, the cluster may have the attribute in the catalog entry but the code no longer does anything with it. You see this in other contexts for depreciated keywords: '...checked for syntax and ignored...' HTH and good

No supported release of z/OS® honors the IMBED, REPLICATE, and KEYRANGE attributes for new VSAM data sets

z/OS V1R11.0 Migration - All supported migration paths z/OS V1R11.0 GA22-7499-16 Description: No supported release of z/OS® honors the IMBED, REPLICATE, and KEYRANGE attributes for new VSAM data sets. Our z/OS 1.11 system is allowing the IMBED attribute for new VSAM data sets. Is this WAD? DAT

Re: Copy OMVS file system after service to production system

On 4/13/2011 6:36 AM, Anthony Thompson wrote: > We had a similar issue here: occasionally a mountpoint directory and/or associated symbolics went missing after an OS upgrade and a new root file system was moved into production / development systems. This is not a good answer for upgrades, but fo

SMPWKDIR puzzle

Hi, All, In a RECEIVE FROMNETWORK job stream that has worked flawlessly for "centuries", the following DD statement today spewed a JCL error: SMPWKDIR DD PATH='/tmp/gimsmp/', PATHOPTS=(ORDWR,OCREAT,OEXCL), PATHMODE=(SIRWXU,SIRGRP) The /tmp filesystem is

Re: LISTCAT command

Saurabh, I use a two step process for this. 1) I execute an IEHLIST against the volume that I wish to validate all data sets are indirectly cataloged (normally a SYSRES and/or DLIB volume) 2) I then execute a Rexx execute that I wrote which will perform a LISTC against the data set name (ex

Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 11 Apr 2011 to 12 Apr 2011 (#2011-102)

From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Frisbie, Jim Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 7:38 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 11 Apr 2011 to 12 Apr 2011 (#2011-102) I would submit that the plural of "virus" is probably "Windows". Mor

Re: TSO Profile NUM and PACK

> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Donnelly, John P > Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 3:35 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: TSO Profile NUM and PACK > > We had some difficulties with a critical FTP transmission >

LISTCAT command

Hello, How do I check that all the dataset in the Target volumes are indirectly cataloged. For the single datset, I can go to ISPF 3.4 and against the datset listcat ent(/) all command will give me volser information , catalog information and device type detai.

Re: The plural of 'virus'

After that last effort I decided I'd better see who had trodden on Johns corns and caused him to fire up again. Dave, Dave, Dave ... Next time we bump into each other in a bar this should keep us suitably entertained. Shane ... ---

Re: Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

>From personal experience here: Our z/OS network person campaigned for "no >outbound connections" (other than whitelisted) because he knows that the >majority of the corporate information resides on the z/OS system. So he felt >this was a good security thing. But then we allow anybody to do an f

Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 11 Apr 2011 to 12 Apr 2011 (#2011-102)

I would submit that the plural of "virus" is probably "Windows". From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of IBM-MAIN automatic digest system Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 12:00 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: IBM-MAIN Digest - 11 Apr 2011 to 12 Apr 201

Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Dick Bond > Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 5:19 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS > > That's a couple of big "ifs" - that's why we can't use it.

Re: Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave > > > > That's a couple of big "ifs" - that's why we can't use it. Our > workstation IP > > addresses, even if fixed (like mine - most are not), cannot be > accessed from > > z/OS. I would think most real

Re: RMF rec 74 subtype 7 FCD

Did a simple Google trick .. http://www.pacsys.com/smf/smf74_subtype7.htm and it explain SMF747CO 4 binary Offset to connector data section. Purpose: Record type 74 has several subtypes. Subtype 7 — FICON Director Statistics FCD connector data section : Contains configuration data for add

Re: AMATERSE and BatchPipes/MVS and SMF

Martin Packer wrote on 04/13/2011 04:04:36 AM: > Short version of the question: Does anyone know which access method > AMATERSE uses to write untersed data out? Short answer to the short version of the question: QSAM Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY

Re: moving extends for allocated VSAM linear data set

Mark, I'm suitably impressed. You can do this with some of the database reorg software, but they aren't part of the base OS. I can understand some of the OP's frustration now. Ron > > If it was a file on a Linux system using LVM, I could move the physical > extents that hold that file anywher

Re: DB2 SMF Records

They're not the easiest records to parse, BTW. But then again they're not the hardest. :-) Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog:

Re: RMF rec 74 subtype 7 FCD

Thanks Ravi. I was going to post the same answer. But it begs the question: What's a connector in this context? (Yes, I've mapped this record before and am still attempting to understand what it's telling me.) Thanks, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide

AMATERSE and BatchPipes/MVS and SMF

Short version of the question: Does anyone know which access method AMATERSE uses to write untersed data out? Longer version: Does anyone have any practical experience of using it with BatchPipes/MVS aka "Pipes"? Particularly with SMF. Here's why I ask: The first thing I do when I get a custome

Re: Problem with NODSI program

Thanks, I guess you have better eye sight than I do. Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of J R Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 10:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Problem with NODSI program Have you tried "SCRA

Re: Problem with NODSI program

Have you tried "SCRATCH DSNAME=SYS1.VTAMLST,VOL=3390=Z1BD05" ? > Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:07:16 +0300 > From: gad...@malam.com > Subject: Problem with NODSI program > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > > Hi, > > In the past, I’ve used Jan Jaeger’s NODSI program to delete datasets that had > an en

Re: IBM Announcements Today

W dniu 2011-04-13 08:26, Marian Gasparovic pisze: [...] It is the controlling logic that makes it integrated, in this case zManager. It's still "managemnet for management". While centralized management is fine, it's still not crucial for the applications to run. (see also end of my post)