Re: Reentrant Programs and Protected Storage
Well, well. I amused about the discussion in this thread (no offence intended). So many posts, but still neither the actual abend including the reason, nor the PSW, nor the failing instruction including the analysis what its operands are have been posted. Neither has proof been provided that the program in question has really been loaded into SP 252 / Key 0. If that was not the case, the whole discussion about RENT or not is useless. David, do you or don't you have a dump to look at? -- Peter Hunkeler CREDIT SUISSE AG -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Tapeless???
Howard Brazee pisze: On 18 Nov 2009 07:26:26 -0800, r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl (R.S.) wrote: I heard about (poor in fact) tapeless mainframe shop. Everytime they had to install something from tape it was a nightmare: someone had to visit best colleague shop with tapes and download tape content. Last but not least: SMP/E RECEIVE is not easy in this scenario. I worked at a place that kept some old Singer tape drives.But mostly I've worked at places that have had to send some tapes out to a service bureau to convert tapes from formats that they couldn't use. Most sites don't have every kind of tape drive, so they limit what people could send them or use the service bureau. Well, 1. There are no such service bureaus in Poland. No such service officially available. 2. You don't need to have every kind of tape, just the most popular one. IMHO the most common denominator is 3490E. It can read CST and ECCST carts 18 trk and 36 trk, compressed or not. Even StorageTek used that format. Of course times are a changing, so I'm happy observing that most companies deliver software on CD/DVD media or Internet download. Except huge packages it is easier. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- BRE Bank SA ul. Senatorska 18 00-950 Warszawa www.brebank.pl Sd Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydzia Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru Sdowego, nr rejestru przedsibiorców KRS 025237 NIP: 526-021-50-88 Wedug stanu na dzie 01.01.2009 r. kapita zakadowy BRE Banku SA (w caoci wpacony) wynosi 118.763.528 zotych. W zwizku z realizacj warunkowego podwyszenia kapitau zakadowego, na podstawie uchway XXI WZ z dnia 16 marca 2008r., oraz uchway XVI NWZ z dnia 27 padziernika 2008r., moe ulec podwyszeniu do kwoty 123.763.528 z. Akcje w podwyszonym kapitale zakadowym BRE Banku SA bd w caoci opacone. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Image Copies
rr14 rr14r...@gmail.com wrote in message news:9cc3bbe7-a4df-4b1d-a584-e6db2c599...@w19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com ... Hello All, Seeking some advice/input. We are in the process of moving from 3490 to 3592 tapes. For most items we have completed and are implementing a transition to HSM volumes and then using HSM to archive to ML2 tapes. For our image copies though, the number and size would require us to do many HSM tape recycles. Due to the length of time of the recycles, and that they would use all of our tape drives we would like to come up with a different scenario for the image copies. Our first thought was to put image copies on DASD, but that would require over 250 volumes. Our second thought was to write to DASD and then archive the contents to tape and reuse the volumes, and reuse the tapes every 10 days, thus only requiring 25 volumes, but our DBA says the data sets need to remain cataloged. Do the image copy data sets have to remain cataloged for DB2 to be able to use them? We are a small shop and do not have the CPU to compress anything, and have a small pool of 3592 tapes, thus cannot allow jobs to write directly to the tapes. Virtual Tape products seem to have the same inherent issues as using HSM L2 processing. Does any one have a better idea? Thanks...Rob Rob, First: this newsgroup is a mirror of a listserver and that is where the majority of the IBM-MAIN population resides and reads the posts. See the information attached automagically at the bottom how to subscribe. Second, I don't do DB2 here, but I know a little how what they do. If I understand you correctly, your main problem is the HSM tape recycles. We have DMS (as HSM replacement) and also migrate image copies to ML2 tape, but don't ever recycle them. Our DB2 group has set up a mechanisme/scheme for imagecopies, that runs periodically and at regularl intervals also runs whether the data has changed or not. The main reason is to limit the number of logtapes that must be processed when recovering from very old imagecopies. For most tablespaces image copies are taken at least every 2 or 3 weeks and those imagecopies are given a retention period of 3 or 4 weeks. This means that they all expire and free up the ML2 tapes automatically within 2 or 3 weeks, without any need for consolidation/recycle. Is this mechanisme usable for you? Kees. ** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ** -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: MQ set trigger and CICS
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:17:15 +0900, Timothy Sipples timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com wrote: Bill, out of curiosity, why is(are) your CICS region(s) periodically (and apparently for some duration, as your queue fills) not ready? It sounds It does not take much duration to have the issue occur. Just the time to bounce a CICS (even if it takes only a minute) can be enough. Been there... Jantje. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
SV: Increase allowable length of JCL EXEC PARM value
FWIW, I liked the idea of (also) a new operand for the parm, like: // PARM parmdata Where 'parmdata' have the syntax of: [len in dec,]parmvalue[,parmnumber] 'len in dec' defaults to the length of 'parmvalue'. (If longer than the parmvalue it's padded with blanks.) 'parmnumber' for the *possibility* of multiple parms (parmlist format). 'parmvalue' could either be in char format like: 'A parm value' or in hex like: 4040403F(no quotes when in hex) or both like: ' '3F For concatenation You do like: // PARM 'parmvalue first part' // PARM 'continuation of the parmvalue ' which should be equvalent with: // PARM 40,'parmvalue first part' // PARM 40,'continuation of the parmvalue' (that is: the total parmlen is 80.) My experience from batch applications is that this would simplify much of the batch management. (And operations of it.) Regards, Thomas Berg __ Thomas Berg Specialist IT-U SWEDBANK -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] För Don Williams Skickat: den 18 november 2009 20:13 Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Ämne: Re: Increase allowable length of JCL EXEC PARM value Based on suggestion from Shmuel, I requested that my DCR be amended... Hi Mike, In a discussion about my PARMX suggestion with a IBM-MAIN subscriber, he suggested that a customer site should be able to control the max length allowed. Therefore, if possible, I would like to amend by previous suggestion to the following: 1. Implementation of a JCL EXEC PARMX= keyword should not change the implementation of the PARM= keyword. 2. Keywords PARM and PARMX should be mutually exclusive. 3. PARMX=value should create a standard parameter list. a. GPR1 - standard 1 word plist (with end of list bit turned on). b. plist - unsigned half word length followed by the value of that length. 4. Storage beyond the end of PARMX value should not be predictable. 5. No part of the PARMX keyword or value needs to be stored in any internal blocks/fields related to current PARM keyword or value. PARMX could have new text units, etc. 6. Max length of PARMX value should be significantly longer than 100 characters. In order of preference, reasonable max lengths could be: a. 64 KiB-1 (max value of unsigned half word) b. 32 KiB-1 (max value of signed half word) c. ~1000 bytes (may ease implementation in C/I, JES2, JES3, etc.) 7. Sites should be able enable or disable the usage of PARMX by one or more of the following methods: a. System level parmlib parameter to: 1) Enable/disable PARMX for non-authorized programs. 2) Enable/disable PARMX for authorized programs. 3) Set max allowed length of PARMX for non-authorized programs. 4) Set max allowed length of PARMX for authorized programs. b. JES level parameter to enable/disable PARMX by job class, etc. c. User/Group level SAF profile to control PARMX usage, perhaps: FACILITY class profile JCL.EXEC.PARMX.program NONE - not allowed READ - allowed for non-authorized program UPDATE or higher - allowed for non-authorized and authorized program Thanks, Don Williams =HARRIS, JO-ANNE -5752SC1B9 - 09/11/18-12:49- =HARRIS, JO-ANNE -5752SC1B9 - 09/11/18-12:49- Hi Don, Since Mike created the DCR, only he is allowed to update it from the submitter side. He's not available at the moment, so I'll requeue this for him to update as soon as he can. Regards, Jo-Anne .
Re: URGENT : DFHSM QUESTION : IEC030I B37-04
I checked the 2 dsns in question they had reached the 16 extents. The volume they reside on is practically empty. I will (double) increase the size of the dsns. Thanks to all who helped me out. --- On Wed, 11/18/09, Michael W. Moss mikey.m...@virgin.net wrote: From: Michael W. Moss mikey.m...@virgin.net Subject: Re: URGENT : DFHSM QUESTION : IEC030I B37-04 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Received: Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 9:33 AM I guess you should review the various HSM messages to determine why the PDO (Problem Determination) files are filling so quickly, if that is the case, but you can live without PDO output in your critical situation. It could also be that the DASD volumes containing the PDO files are full, so the PDO files can’t extend, hence your problem. I would let your FREEVOL processes run to release your required disk space. One unlikely thought that occurs. If you were using SVA or iterations thereof, RVA/Iceberg, then this has Free Space release considerations when it becomes full or near full, which is a case or running their clean-up routines. On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:24:23 -0800, willie bunter williebun...@yahoo.com wrote: Hallo All, Because of critical space problems I migrated (issued command HSEND FREEVOL MVOL(SL1101) AGE(0) TARGETLEVEL(Ml2)) a Ml1 vol to ML2. The process terminated after an hour. Next I issued command HSEND FREEVOL MVOL(SL1101) TARGETLEVEL(ML1). Presently it is executing. However, I noticed in the STC there were various abend messages (when I issued the FREEVOL for TARGETLEVEL ML2 TARGETLEVEL ML1. Would this cause a problem? IEC030I B37- 04,IFG0554A,DFHSMY,DFHSMY,ARCPDOX,9BEB,SMP103,HSM.HSMPDOXY S DFHSMPDO ARC0037I DFSMSHSM PROBLEM DETERMINATION OUTPUT DATA 327 ARC0037I (CONT.) SETS SWITCHED, ARCPDOX=HSM.HSMPDOXY, ARC0037I (CONT.) ARCPDOY=HSM.HSMPDOYY I noticed that the dump switches from X to Y. Can I stop the MIGRATE to stop this? Or should I let it run its course. Thanks. __ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html __ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Hardware withdrawal: IBM System z9
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:31:01 -0600, Michael W. Moss mikey.m...@virgin.net wrote: With sub-capacity and the promise of lower software costs via VWLC pricing, would anybody like to comment as to why VWLC pricing isnt being adopted? Is it ELA/ESSO (IBM Contract) related, or the uncertainty of the software bill? AFAIK, for DR situations and looping transactions, naming but 2, there are caveats that mean IBM will not be punitive for extraordinary situations where the VWLC bill is higher via an SCRT submission, as documneted in their Planning for Sub-Capacity Pricing manual. Coupled with the ability of soft capping via a 3rd party software product (E.g. zCOST AutoSoftCapping) and thus guaranteed VWLC high-watermark costs, it seems somewhat of a paradox that customers arent adopting VWLC? Mikey Moss. Mickey: Every customer should do a proper analysis of their total software bill to determine which pricing model is best for them. While VWLC may be best for most, I do have customers where due to usage characteristics, a combination of PSLC and ULC works out better. We see this often where a customer has a product which has ULC (Usage License Charge for DB2, CICS, IMS and MQ) which has low utilization. When you go to VWLC all z/OS IBM products go to VWLC. It is very important to read all the info at http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/resources/swprice/. Jim -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: High CPU / channel ovhd w/3592 and DFDSS
Small blocksize maybe? Just a guess. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Are you an extinct dinosaur? Or a proud T-Rexxer?
In 005d01ca649c$1836f0d0$48a4d2...@hollander@desertwiz.biz, on 11/13/2009 at 12:01 PM, Norman Hollander on DesertWiz norman.hollan...@desertwiz.biz said: Here is the link http://www.ibmsystemsmagmainframedigital.com/nxtbooks/ibmsystemsmag/mainfram e_20091112/#/44 It appears to require flash, which is a security problem. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
WPS vs SAS WPS on zLinux
It appears that SAS is getting some competition from WPS http://teamwpc.co.uk/press/press_statement_le_claim WPS licensing their product on zlinux hopefully will give SAS and incentive to do the same. http://www.teamwpc.co.uk/products/wps/platforms/zlinux -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: High CPU / channel ovhd w/3592 and DFDSS
Michael, Check your HSM Activity log for msg. ADR035I, then check the Optimize value. OPTIMIZE(4) will provide you with the least amount of physical I/O. Change the DUMPIO(n) in HSM parmlib if necessary. HTH, Dave O'Brien NIH Contractor From: Michael R. Mayne [michael.ma...@hhsys.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 7:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: High CPU / channel ovhd w/3592 and DFDSS OK, I'll 'fess - the old tape subsystem is a 3490-A20 controller with 2 3490-B40 drive units. The old tape subsystem has hardware compression, as does the new. I'll check for software compression (never thought of it, actually), but I doubt that it's turned on. If it was, I'd expect CPU (on this box, which is a Uni) to be closer to 100% than 50%. Compression would also not explain why the CHPID utilization for the tapes is so high (and I think the CHPID utilization is directly related to the CPU overhead). Could I have them defined inefficiently somehow in my IOCDS? Am I doing bad things to tape performance with DFSMS DATACLAS or STORCLAS settings? I guess I won't know exactly what's wrong until it's fixed... Thanks. -Mike -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: compiling Java question - z/OS jar(s) on non-z/OS?
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 8:46 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: compiling Java question - z/OS jar(s) on non-z/OS? That's why I was asking. I don't want to take a chance of violating our license. But, what is the difference between actually copying the file from z/OS to my Linux desktop, for the purpose of compilation, versus making the jar files available via NFS exports on the z/OS system to the Linux system? We can leave z/OS out of this discussion, because it isn't germane. Insert (machine-licensed) Oracle Database, for example, and it'll be the same answer. Software which is licensed to a particular machine is for that machine. If you want to run it on another machine, you need a license for that machine. (With narrow exceptions if they're permitted in the license agreement, such as disaster recovery. There is certain permitted use of the ISPF Workstation Agent, to pick another example.) The technical means of copying the file(s) don't matter. Floppy disk, NFS, BitTorrent... doesn't matter. Whole product or one file... doesn't matter. The license agreement doesn't permit you to do any of those things without a license for the target machine. Looks like I didn't explain at all well. The software will not be RUNNING on another system. It resides on another system simply so that I can do the equivalent of a composite link of it into software that I am writing on the PC. The software which is being written and compiled on the PC will eventually run on z/OS and nowhere else. But, in order to do this compile and create a JAR file, the java compiler on the PC needs __READ__ access to the support jars. Again, the software will run only on the licensed machine and nowhere else. But, at this point, I'm going to say nevermind. It is getting to complicated. I'm just going to drop the idea of learning about using Java on CICS entirely. I simply cannot do it on the mainframe. Management simply WILL NOT be understanding of my wasting of CPU resources, even if they are not being used for anything else and even if it does not in any way affect our costs. 'Nuff said about that. If you obtain the particular file in question from the vendor through a vendor-authorized avenue, with a valid license agreement for the target machine, then you're fine. Kirk described a vendor download path which looks OK. Your point is well taken. Which is why I have not done anything before determining what is allowed by the license. Thank goodness. At least one of my customers was not so prudent. :-( If you're in doubt about permitted use, just ask the vendor first. I don't speak for IBM, but in my experience at least IBM is quite reasonable when handling such questions and situations. I don't have the authority. And since this is strictly for my learning purposes and not a requirement, management would not be open to asking frivolous questions of IBM. I'm sorry to hear about the corporate politics, with one IT group apparently determined to manage critical assets inefficiently, knowingly, to the apparent detriment of the company's own business interests. I have occasionally seen such behaviors. There are some ways to handle them. firearms are not allowed in the building. grin snip Thanks for your cautions. I'm just giving up. It was a stupid idea anyway. (Stupid being defined as unimportant to management and so not relevant or worthy of any consideration) - - - - - Timothy Sipples -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: compiling Java question - z/OS jar(s) on non-z/OS?
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 11:13 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: compiling Java question - z/OS jar(s) on non-z/OS? Raising warning of piracy or some nonsense over this is pretty stupid. It's a jar that's used to write software for z/OS. It's not being executed on your system, it's simply used to write software for z/OS. Furthermore, http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/zosjavabatchtk/download You can download it right there. Even if it weren't so widely available, common sense is a good thing. Common sense is antithetical to legality. If you're copying something that is--specifically--a very expensive/useful thing, you're probably liable to get slammed. If you're copying a .jar file so you can write Hello World onto a Mainframe console, IBM would be laughed out of court for suing you. Assuming that I was not immediately fired by my company for causing them a legal problem. You have to make it to court, at a fair expense, before something can be laughed out of it. In the 80s, this would be no problem. Thanks to Bush and Obama, it is a major problem today. Sorry about the political jab - I hate all of them any more. Scott -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Image Copies
Yes, image copies are resistered in the DB2 bootstrap datasets. DB2 calls for these datasets when a database recovery is requested. Regards HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account CICS Capacity Technical Support P.O. Box 6462 2000 Wade Hampton Blvd. LC1-302 Greenville, South Carolina, 29606 Cell: 864 449 1755 Tel: 864 987-1417 Fax: 864 987-4500 E-mail: otto.schumac...@hp.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Vernooij, CP - SPLXM Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 04:48 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Image Copies rr14 rr14r...@gmail.com wrote in message news:9cc3bbe7-a4df-4b1d-a584-e6db2c599...@w19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com ... Hello All, Seeking some advice/input. We are in the process of moving from 3490 to 3592 tapes. For most items we have completed and are implementing a transition to HSM volumes and then using HSM to archive to ML2 tapes. For our image copies though, the number and size would require us to do many HSM tape recycles. Due to the length of time of the recycles, and that they would use all of our tape drives we would like to come up with a different scenario for the image copies. Our first thought was to put image copies on DASD, but that would require over 250 volumes. Our second thought was to write to DASD and then archive the contents to tape and reuse the volumes, and reuse the tapes every 10 days, thus only requiring 25 volumes, but our DBA says the data sets need to remain cataloged. Do the image copy data sets have to remain cataloged for DB2 to be able to use them? We are a small shop and do not have the CPU to compress anything, and have a small pool of 3592 tapes, thus cannot allow jobs to write directly to the tapes. Virtual Tape products seem to have the same inherent issues as using HSM L2 processing. Does any one have a better idea? Thanks...Rob Rob, First: this newsgroup is a mirror of a listserver and that is where the majority of the IBM-MAIN population resides and reads the posts. See the information attached automagically at the bottom how to subscribe. Second, I don't do DB2 here, but I know a little how what they do. If I understand you correctly, your main problem is the HSM tape recycles. We have DMS (as HSM replacement) and also migrate image copies to ML2 tape, but don't ever recycle them. Our DB2 group has set up a mechanisme/scheme for imagecopies, that runs periodically and at regularl intervals also runs whether the data has changed or not. The main reason is to limit the number of logtapes that must be processed when recovering from very old imagecopies. For most tablespaces image copies are taken at least every 2 or 3 weeks and those imagecopies are given a retention period of 3 or 4 weeks. This means that they all expire and free up the ML2 tapes automatically within 2 or 3 weeks, without any need for consolidation/recycle. Is this mechanisme usable for you? Kees. ** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ** -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: compiling Java question - z/OS jar(s) on non-z/OS?
I'm the person (aka fool) who opened this can of worms. And, given what has been said, combined with my desire to not take chances and paranoia, I am not even going to consider trying. This was only for a learning experience for me. Once again, deliberately or not, IBM has made it impossible to learn z/OS technologies without paying them, or somebody, for the privilige. One, very real, reason that IBM might oppose compiling Java off-platform is simply because it could cost them money in terms of lost revenue. If you can do your compiles on Linux, then you don't need to do them on z/OS. Which means you don't need the CPU resource to do the compile. Which may mean that you could survive on a smaller processor. Which means less revenue to IBM. I don't really think this is IBM's logic, but hopefully everybody can see where I'm coming from. If I could, I would totally abandon z/OS for Linux. Be it on a z or other processor, such as Intel. But I'm too old for anybody to think that I might understand new technologies. And, anyway, a younger, healther person is more cost effective. Hard to argue with that. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: URGENT : DFHSM QUESTION : IEC030I B37-04
I checked the 2 dsns in question they had reached the 16 extents. The volume they reside on is practically empty. I will (double) increase the size of the dsns. You do realize that you will still see these dataset's swapping, right? This is normal behavior for HSM and is working as designed (and I'm not making any comments about the design). Your activity caused the datasets to fill up and swap more frequently. ddk This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reading, dissemination, distribution, copying, forwarding or other use of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message and all copies and backups thereof. Thank you. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: WPS vs SAS WPS on zLinux
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:38:22 -0600, William Richter richter...@cox.net wrote: It appears that SAS is getting some competition from WPS http://teamwpc.co.uk/press/press_statement_le_claim WPS licensing their product on zlinux hopefully will give SAS and incentive to do the same. http://www.teamwpc.co.uk/products/wps/platforms/zlinux Furthermore, MXG, likely many other SAS-based applications, today runs under WPS on its supported OS platforms (z/OS MVS, *nix, Windows, zLinux, as mentioned, and even a Mac). While CA is working diligently with WPS RD to develop their own CA MICS supported environment for WPS on z/OS. SAS Institute has decided to wake up and meet/greet the neighbors...finally! Scott Barry SBBWorks, Inc. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: compiling Java question - z/OS jar(s) on non-z/OS?
In a3a2b85f0911182021q3d302e13n6f0bd73022a34...@mail.gmail.com, on 11/18/2009 at 11:21 PM, Tony Harminc tz...@attglobal.net said: and since it is well established that even such transient action is copying under the copyright statues, That falls under the fair use doctrine. IANAL, but I don't see how copying macros and include files could be considered fair use, although there might be antitrust issues in restricting their use. Note that this is different from the issue of copying a copyrighted jar for compilation on an unlicensed machine. It might be legal if you used the byte code only on the machine it was licensed for, but it would definitely be a violation if you ran the bytecode on an unlicensed machine. Has anybody checked, e.g., groklaw, on this? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: GAM on z/OS R10
In 4b04d5f5.3000...@henness.org, on 11/19/2009 at 12:21 AM, Tim Henness ibmm...@henness.org said: Problem is, GAM is no longer supported by IBM. Any suggestions would be helpful. The first thing that I would check is the attention index that is present in your 2250[1] UCB's. If that is correct, verify that you have the proper attention routine for that attention index. How much work would it be to recode your application to use GDDM and a 3270 simulator? [1] I don't know whether there are separate device types for the newer devices, so I'm using 2250 as a generic term. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Hardware withdrawal: IBM System z9
In 4b02cbff.6000...@phoenixsoftware.com, on 11/17/2009 at 08:14 AM, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com said: Is there something z9 does that z10 can't? Who will buy z9s with z10s available at the same price? Is there a direct upgrade from, e.g., z890 to z10? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?
In of0bbe381c.bdfe6aff-on49257672.0026c938-49257672.00293...@us.ibm.com, on 11/18/2009 at 04:30 PM, Timothy Sipples timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com said: JRIO and JZOS are IBM-supplied no additional charge collections of Java methods specifically for (and provided with) the Java SDK for z/OS. They help you perform z/OS-specific activities, such as reading/writing VSAM files. I believe that the OP gave a misleading subject; what he needs to know is not how to read the file but rather how to access the data once he has read them. That is, he wants to access individual fields in a record defined by, e.g., an HLA mapping macro, a PL/I structure. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: High CPU / channel ovhd w/3592 and DFDSS
This has always been a question - the DFHSM blocksize for BACKUP is (apparently) fixed at 16K, and I know of no way to override it. Any DFHSM experts out there? Thanks. -Mike -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
How to access FIELDS in a RECORD using Java? (was:RE: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?)
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 8:08 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java? snip I believe that the OP gave a misleading subject; what he needs to know is not how to read the file but rather how to access the data once he has read them. That is, he wants to access individual fields in a record defined by, e.g., an HLA mapping macro, a PL/I structure. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT I'm the OP. And you are absolutely correct. So the question really is: Once I've read a record in Java, how do I access individual fields? So far, the best that I've seen is the Alphaworks code which can read COBOL ADATA and create Java code to access the fields. I was hoping for something simpler, more akin to how C (struct) or COBOL (data description entries) or HLASM (DSECT) would do it. Java just doesn't seem to have anything like this. Another person mentioned marshalling or serialization which might be another approach. I need to read up on them. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: High CPU / channel ovhd w/3592 and DFDSS
The answer used to be 'No' but that may have changed. Thank You, Dave O'Brien NIH Contractor From: Michael R. Mayne [michael.ma...@hhsys.org] Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 9:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: High CPU / channel ovhd w/3592 and DFDSS This has always been a question - the DFHSM blocksize for BACKUP is (apparently) fixed at 16K, and I know of no way to override it. Any DFHSM experts out there? Thanks. -Mike -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: XMITMGR for 64 Bit Windows?
Hi Dennis. I think the 64-bit problem with XMITMGR is a problem with the installation .exe and not with XMITMGR itself. I think I remember having to copy it from a 32-bit Windows PC to my 64-bit PC. There might be a DLL to copy with it--I'm sorry I don't remember. If there was one, you might need REGSVR32 to register the dll after you copy it to your pc. You might also need to go to the Properties tab and change the compatibility mode as Lizette suggested--I have had to do that for several programs under 64-bit Vista. hth Wendell -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - MarketWatch
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Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch
They probably moverd off of ACP/TPF to a smaller platform. Typical for a non mainframe Platform -- Original Message -- From: Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - MarketWatch Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:53:16 EST _Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - MarketWatch_ (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/computer-glitch-to-cause-flight-delays-across-us-2 009-11-19) Probably some 4th grader in lower Slobovia playing a slightly modified version of 'Blaster' -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html Hotel Hotel pics, info and virtual tours. Click here to book a hotel online. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=_IgLn09dr_BJVyAT1G2KEQAAJ1DMCvI8C_EKS4yGKHO7DleMAAYAAADNAAATRAA= -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Antwort: How to access FIELDS in a RECORD using Java? (was:RE: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?)
John, may be you'll get happy with pattern matching. Have you checked the java.util.regex package already? Try URL http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/; for example. The classes for pattern matching, also known as regular expressions, are ready to use. Well, from my experiences regular expressions are not quite common amongst MVS folks, especially REXX or CoBOL programmers. These have other well working techniques and therefor no need for regular expressions. However, also z/OS Unix has regular expressions available -- a good start for reading might be Appendix C in the z/OS Unix Command Reference. Cheers Michael McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com Gesendet von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU 19.11.2009 15:35 Bitte antworten an IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU An IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Kopie Thema How to access FIELDS in a RECORD using Java? (was:RE: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 8:08 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java? snip I believe that the OP gave a misleading subject; what he needs to know is not how to read the file but rather how to access the data once he has read them. That is, he wants to access individual fields in a record defined by, e.g., an HLA mapping macro, a PL/I structure. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT I'm the OP. And you are absolutely correct. So the question really is: Once I've read a record in Java, how do I access individual fields? So far, the best that I've seen is the Alphaworks code which can read COBOL ADATA and create Java code to access the fields. I was hoping for something simpler, more akin to how C (struct) or COBOL (data description entries) or HLASM (DSECT) would do it. Java just doesn't seem to have anything like this. Another person mentioned marshalling or serialization which might be another approach. I need to read up on them. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: High CPU / channel ovhd w/3592 and DFDSS
Can't speak to the CPU, but the tape channel utilization may be an indication of the much higher performance tape units. Historically, many tape unit models can consume most of a channel path. The low DASD channel utilization may point to compression for that resource. Perhaps the DASD really is compressed and the tape not. That would be a simple explanation that fits your observations. HTH and good luck -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Michael R. Mayne Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 2:55 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: High CPU / channel ovhd w/3592 and DFDSS Our environment is a single z9-BC mainframe (2096-R07(I01)), z/OS V1R9 @ RSU0906, a 3592-C06 tape controller w/2 FX4 channels, and 3592-E05 (TS1120) tape drives. We're performing initial testing towards migrating to current tape hardware from (please don't ask, too embarrassed to tell). Using DFHSM (with DFDSS as the data mover) to back up a single 18GB sequential file (non compressed) to dual TS1120 tape drives is consuming over 50% of the total CPU. Looking at the FICON performance numbers while this is happening, I see huge (25% to 40%) utilization numbers for the 2 FX4 CHPIDS driving the tape controller, while the 2 FX4 CHPIDS connected to the DASD array are running only about 5% utilization apiece. 50% of our CPU seems (to me, anyway) to be a high price to pay to back up a single sequential file. I'm looking for (any or all of these): similar experiences, is this normal or whacked out, any tuning or performance tips that might help, how to determine exactly where the overhead is coming from, and (last but not least) how to approach IBM to address this issue. All constructive comments, questions and suggestions appreciated. Thanks. -Mike -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any files transmitted with it are intended exclusively for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. The message, together with any attachment, may contain confidential and/or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, printing, saving, copying, disclosure or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply email and delete all copies. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Antwort: How to access FIELDS in a RECORD using Java? (was:RE: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?)
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Klaeschen Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 9:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Antwort: How to access FIELDS in a RECORD using Java? (was:RE: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?) John, may be you'll get happy with pattern matching. Have you checked the java.util.regex package already? Try URL http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/; for example. The classes for pattern matching, also known as regular expressions, are ready to use. Well, from my experiences regular expressions are not quite common amongst MVS folks, especially REXX or CoBOL programmers. These have other well working techniques and therefor no need for regular expressions. However, also z/OS Unix has regular expressions available -- a good start for reading might be Appendix C in the z/OS Unix Command Reference. Cheers Michael I'm a heavy Perl coder in Linux. I love regular expressions. I hadn't thought of using them in this context. Something to consider. Also, the current ibmjzos has a LOT more in it that when I first looked at it. It may have everything that I need to get going. Unfortunately, I'm now back at my previous problem of can I download this jar to my PC in order to do my compiles (not tests!) using it so that management stays off my back? I can get away with small test runs in the sandbox. I cannot get away with doing compiles. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Antwort: How to access FIELDS in a RECORD using Java? (was:RE: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?)
John, You can definitely download the alphaWorks JZOS version and use it on your PC - check the alphaWorks license included in the package. I don't see how regular expressions apply to this problem. The issue at hand is that Java keeps data in objects; objects have instance variables (slots) that can be either primitives (int, char, byte, boolean, long, float, double, etc) or references to other objects. Strings are objects (an immutable sequence of chars), decimal numbers are objects (BigDecimal), and so are Arrays. A record read into Java from a dataset is a byte array (byte[]). If that record is defined by a Cobol copy book or Assembler DSECT, then you have to somewhere have Java code that converts fields in the byte array into Java objects (primitives, Strings, BigDecimal objects, etc) and back again. JZOS has two things to help with this: 1) Field converter classes. These are classes in the com.ibm.jzos.fields package, and they can be used to convert fields in byte arrays into Java primitives and objects. There are converters for all of the Cobol and Assembler data types. The field converter classes are included in both the SDK and alphaWorks versions of JZOS. 2) Record Generator tools. These read Cobol or Assember ADATA files and generate the source code for a Java Class (Bean) that can be used as a wrapper for a record (byte array). The generated class will layout the record in terms of configured field converters, and provide getter and setter methods for each field defined in the record. Although these tools are only included in the alphaWorks version of JZOS, the generated code can run with the SDK version (only the fields package is used at runtime). The JZOS Cookbook (available on alphaWorks) has example code and documentation on using the JZOS Record Generator. And BTW, this code runs on any platform although the SDK version is only available and supported by IBM on z/OS. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:32 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Klaeschen Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 9:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Antwort: How to access FIELDS in a RECORD using Java? (was:RE: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?) John, may be you'll get happy with pattern matching. Have you checked the java.util.regex package already? Try URL http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/; for example. The classes for pattern matching, also known as regular expressions, are ready to use. Well, from my experiences regular expressions are not quite common amongst MVS folks, especially REXX or CoBOL programmers. These have other well working techniques and therefor no need for regular expressions. However, also z/OS Unix has regular expressions available -- a good start for reading might be Appendix C in the z/OS Unix Command Reference. Cheers Michael I'm a heavy Perl coder in Linux. I love regular expressions. I hadn't thought of using them in this context. Something to consider. Also, the current ibmjzos has a LOT more in it that when I first looked at it. It may have everything that I need to get going. Unfortunately, I'm now back at my previous problem of can I download this jar to my PC in order to do my compiles (not tests!) using it so that management stays off my back? I can get away with small test runs in the sandbox. I cannot get away with doing compiles. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Antwort: How to access FIELDS in a RECORD using Java? (was:RE: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?)
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Kirk Wolf Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:25 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Antwort: How to access FIELDS in a RECORD using Java? (was:RE: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?) John, You can definitely download the alphaWorks JZOS version and use it on your PC - check the alphaWorks license included in the package. I don't see how regular expressions apply to this problem. snip The JZOS Cookbook (available on alphaWorks) has example code and documentation on using the JZOS Record Generator. And BTW, this code runs on any platform although the SDK version is only available and supported by IBM on z/OS. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com Thanks. That will help. Sorry if I came across as bitchy about IBM. But I am more than a bit put off by what seems to be an attitude of rake in the money today and to the nether regions about the future attitude which seems to pervade some of the z/OS arena (not the techies - the management / bean counters). -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch
The news item mentioned a 'NADIN' failure. A chain of Googles lead to a document dated March, 2005: FAA modernizing National Airspace Data Interchange Network with Stratus ftServer systems; Stratus to provide 10-year logistical and service support The FAA is implementing the Stratus servers, which use Intel Xeon 2.8 MHz large cache MP processors and support the Microsoft Windows operating system, at control centers in Atlanta and Salt Lake City. Uninterrupted availability of the NADIN 1 is important to all aspects of the aviation industry, as well as the nation's economy and, increasingly, as a tool to help protect national security. After thorough technology and product evaluations, Stratus was chosen as best able to provide an open platform with 99.999 percent uptime reliability - which is mandatory for running an application as important as NADIN 1 - together with the required caliber of maintenance, logistical support, and long service life. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2005_March_14/ai_n12936121/ Silly me: I had thought that Windows and 99.999 uptime was an oxymoron. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of esst...@juno.com Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 7:02 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch They probably moverd off of ACP/TPF to a smaller platform. Typical for a non mainframe Platform -- Original Message -- From: Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - MarketWatch Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:53:16 EST _Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - MarketWatch_ (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/computer-glitch-to-cause-flight-delays-across-us-2 009-11-19) Probably some 4th grader in lower Slobovia playing a slightly modified version of 'Blaster' NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any files transmitted with it are intended exclusively for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. The message, together with any attachment, may contain confidential and/or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, printing, saving, copying, disclosure or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply email and delete all copies. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: High CPU / channel ovhd w/3592 and DFDSS
Two thoughts here. 1) Your new tape drives accept data at a faster rate than your old tape drives. Therfore, you might expect that DFHSM is reading the DASD at a faster rate; hence, DFHSM gets dispatched more frequently. This would increase the apparent CPU utilization of DFHSM. However, since your backup completes in a shorter amount of time, the average CPU utilization of DFHSM should remain the same (or similar). 2) Check you HSM parameters. Use SETSYS TAPEHARDWARECOMPACT to notify DFHSM that your tape drives have this feature. And, check your SETSYS COMPACT parameter: SETSYS COMPACT(DASDMIGRATE NOTAPEMIGRATE DASDBACKUP NOTAPEBACKUP) /* USE COMPACTION FOR:*/ /*MIGRATION TO DASD */ /*BACKUPTO DASD */ /* DO NOT USE COMPACTION FOR: */ /*MIGRATION TO TAPE */ /*BACKUPTO TAPE */ You really don't need DFHSM to compact your data; the tape hardware does this for you. (Of course, if you do compact your tape backup in software, you're doing much more of this operation per second, since you are processing more data.) Of course, this may/may not be your problem; and, as always, YMMV. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:48:49 -0600, Hal Merritt hmerr...@jackhenry.com wrote: snip After thorough technology and product evaluations, Stratus was chosen as best able to provide an open platform with 99.999 percent uptime reliability /snip Guess they got their .001. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch
Real oxymoron - Windows, open platform, and 99.999 percent uptime. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract Strategic Technical Engineering NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail: P.O. Box 58487 Mail Code H4C Houston, Texas 77258 Phone: Voice: (281)336-5027 Cell: (713)591-1059 Fax:(281)336-5410 E-Mail: dennis.ro...@lmco.com All opinions expressed by me are mine and may not agree with my employer or any person, company, or thing, living or dead, on or near this or any other planet, moon, asteroid, or other spatial object, natural or manufactured, since the beginning of time. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Hal Merritt Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:49 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch The news item mentioned a 'NADIN' failure. A chain of Googles lead to a document dated March, 2005: FAA modernizing National Airspace Data Interchange Network with Stratus ftServer systems; Stratus to provide 10-year logistical and service support The FAA is implementing the Stratus servers, which use Intel Xeon 2.8 MHz large cache MP processors and support the Microsoft Windows operating system, at control centers in Atlanta and Salt Lake City. Uninterrupted availability of the NADIN 1 is important to all aspects of the aviation industry, as well as the nation's economy and, increasingly, as a tool to help protect national security. After thorough technology and product evaluations, Stratus was chosen as best able to provide an open platform with 99.999 percent uptime reliability - which is mandatory for running an application as important as NADIN 1 - together with the required caliber of maintenance, logistical support, and long service life. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2005_March_14/ai_n12936 12 1/ Silly me: I had thought that Windows and 99.999 uptime was an oxymoron. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of esst...@juno.com Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 7:02 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch They probably moverd off of ACP/TPF to a smaller platform. Typical for a non mainframe Platform -- Original Message -- From: Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - MarketWatch Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:53:16 EST _Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - MarketWatch_ (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/computer-glitch-to-cause-flight- delays-across-us-2 009-11-19) Probably some 4th grader in lower Slobovia playing a slightly modified version of 'Blaster' NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any files transmitted with it are intended exclusively for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. The message, together with any attachment, may contain confidential and/or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, printing, saving, copying, disclosure or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply email and delete all copies. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Antwort: How to access FIELDS in a RECORD using Java? (was:RE: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?)
The next time you start a compile, toss some coins on the floor. The shiny money usually distracts them. Jon snip Unfortunately, I'm now back at my previous problem of can I download this jar to my PC in order to do my compiles (not tests!) using it so that management stays off my back? I can get away with small test runs in the sandbox. I cannot get away with doing compiles. /snip -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:48:49 -0600, Hal Merritt wrote: The news item mentioned a 'NADIN' failure. A chain of Googles lead to a document dated March, 2005: FAA modernizing National Airspace Data Interchange Network with Stratus ftServer systems; Stratus to provide 10- year logistical and service support The FAA is implementing the Stratus servers, which use Intel Xeon 2.8 MHz large cache MP processors and support the Microsoft Windows operating system, at control centers in Atlanta and Salt Lake City. The problem seems to me to be that they are using Xeon processors operating in the 2.8 MHz (megahertz) speed range instead of their normal 2.8 GHz (gigahertz) speed. (Or else the article got it wrong -- but that can't be since those are professional journalists.) Seriously UNDERclocked processors? -- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: GAM on z/OS R10
Tim, Are you running with UseZosV1R9Rules(Yes) coded? The change in GETMAIN behavior may have uncovered an old bug. With any luck, the bug is in application code you can fix. Tim Henness wrote: Is anyone successfully running GAM/SP (FMID HGA1310) on z/OS R10? For that matter, is anyone else here still running GAM at all? We have been run applications that use a 5080 emulator through 6098 controllers successfully on z/OS R9. When we try running it on z/OS R10 they are failing. The GAM IVP application will display an image properly, but inputs are not getting through to the application. Problem is, GAM is no longer supported by IBM. Any suggestions would be helpful. Tim Henness Northrop Grumman -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- | Jim Phoenix | Voice: (310) 338-0400 x316 | | Senior Software Developer| Fax: (310) 338-0801| | Phoenix Software International | Alt fax: (310) 337-2685| | 5200 W. Century Blvd., Suite 800 | jimphoe...@phoenixsoftware.com | | Los Angeles, CA 90045| http://www.phoenixsoftware.com | Opinions expressed by this individual are not necessarily those of the Company. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch
Well, 99.999% reliability means that 1/1 of the time the thing is not reliable = about 8 hours per year. Not to confuse with z/VM reliability that was 99.99 if I recall it correctly back in 1991 or so for VM/ESA 1.0. cheers, Alex -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: XMITMGR for 64 Bit Windows?
It would be very nice, IMO, if there were an open source, portable program to pack and unpack XMITs. Java would be nice, so that a single binary build would serve all comers. Anyone interested in donating/writing something or collaborating? Pointers to existing open code or docs on the format would be helpful. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Wendell Lovewell wlovew...@mackinney.com wrote: Hi Dennis. I think the 64-bit problem with XMITMGR is a problem with the installation .exe and not with XMITMGR itself. I think I remember having to copy it from a 32-bit Windows PC to my 64-bit PC. There might be a DLL to copy with it--I'm sorry I don't remember. If there was one, you might need REGSVR32 to register the dll after you copy it to your pc. You might also need to go to the Properties tab and change the compatibility mode as Lizette suggested--I have had to do that for several programs under 64-bit Vista. hth Wendell -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: WPS vs SAS WPS on zLinux
SAS is a great product with great history; its only natural (and good) for there to be competition. Here's another: http://www.dullesopen.com/products/features On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Scott Barry sba...@sbbworks.com wrote: On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:38:22 -0600, William Richter richter...@cox.net wrote: It appears that SAS is getting some competition from WPS http://teamwpc.co.uk/press/press_statement_le_claim WPS licensing their product on zlinux hopefully will give SAS and incentive to do the same. http://www.teamwpc.co.uk/products/wps/platforms/zlinux Furthermore, MXG, likely many other SAS-based applications, today runs under WPS on its supported OS platforms (z/OS MVS, *nix, Windows, zLinux, as mentioned, and even a Mac). While CA is working diligently with WPS RD to develop their own CA MICS supported environment for WPS on z/OS. SAS Institute has decided to wake up and meet/greet the neighbors...finally! Scott Barry SBBWorks, Inc. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:33:31 -0600, Alex UMX wrote: Well, 99.999% reliability means that 1/1 of the time the thing is not reliable = about 8 hours per year. Well, 99.999% reliability means that 1/10 of the time the thing is not reliable = about 0.1 hours per year. Not to confuse with z/VM reliability that was 99.99 if I recall it correctly back in 1991 or so for VM/ESA 1.0. -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Hal Merritt The news item mentioned a 'NADIN' failure. A chain of Googles lead to a document dated March, 2005: FAA modernizing National Airspace Data Interchange Network with Stratus ftServer systems; Stratus to provide 10-year logistical and service support The FAA is implementing the Stratus servers, which use Intel Xeon 2.8 MHz large cache MP processors and support the Microsoft Windows operating system, at control centers in Atlanta and Salt Lake City. Uninterrupted availability of the NADIN 1 is important to all aspects of the aviation industry, as well as the nation's economy and, increasingly, as a tool to help protect national security. After thorough technology and product evaluations, Stratus was chosen as best able to provide an open platform with 99.999 percent uptime reliability - which is mandatory for running an application as important as NADIN 1 - together with the required caliber of maintenance, logistical support, and long service life. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2005_March_14/ai_n1293612 1/ Silly me: I had thought that Windows and 99.999 uptime was an oxymoron. And Windows is about as open as was the former Soviet Union. -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch
When they use the term 5 nines, I always question where the decimal point is? On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Alex UMX lba...@bellatlantic.net wrote: Well, 99.999% reliability means that 1/1 of the time the thing is not reliable = about 8 hours per year. Not to confuse with z/VM reliability that was 99.99 if I recall it correctly back in 1991 or so for VM/ESA 1.0. cheers, Alex -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: XMITMGR for 64 Bit Windows?
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Kirk Wolf Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 11:45 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: XMITMGR for 64 Bit Windows? It would be very nice, IMO, if there were an open source, portable program to pack and unpack XMITs. Java would be nice, so that a single binary build would serve all comers. Anyone interested in donating/writing something or collaborating? Pointers to existing open code or docs on the format would be helpful. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com Looks like there is some HLASM source for this on http://cbttape.org/cbtdowns.htm in file 571. From that, one could make a document of what an XMIT file looks like. From that, code could be written. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch
LOL - good catch. Even better, the quoted 'article' sure looked like a press release from Stratus. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Nemo Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 9:08 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:48:49 -0600, Hal Merritt wrote: The news item mentioned a 'NADIN' failure. A chain of Googles lead to a document dated March, 2005: FAA modernizing National Airspace Data Interchange Network with Stratus ftServer systems; Stratus to provide 10- year logistical and service support The FAA is implementing the Stratus servers, which use Intel Xeon 2.8 MHz large cache MP processors and support the Microsoft Windows operating system, at control centers in Atlanta and Salt Lake City. The problem seems to me to be that they are using Xeon processors operating in the 2.8 MHz (megahertz) speed range instead of their normal 2.8 GHz (gigahertz) speed. (Or else the article got it wrong -- but that can't be since those are professional journalists.) Seriously UNDERclocked processors? -- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any files transmitted with it are intended exclusively for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. The message, together with any attachment, may contain confidential and/or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, printing, saving, copying, disclosure or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply email and delete all copies. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Alex UMX Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 11:34 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch Well, 99.999% reliability means that 1/1 of the time the thing is not reliable = about 8 hours per year. Not to confuse with z/VM reliability that was 99.99 if I recall it correctly back in 1991 or so for VM/ESA 1.0. SNIP Let me try to put this into some perspective. This is the flight plan system. Its failure means that flight plans must be entered by FAA personnel manually. Let us look at ATC reliability. If ATC were to have a 99.9% reliability at Chicago O'Hare -- 1 fatal accident per hour. 99.999 was 1 per month. I attended an FAA presentation where they were putting the percentages of reliability into terms that had meaning for the average person (in that presentation, the average person was a licensed pilot). Regards, Steve Thompson -- Opinions expressed are those of the poster and may not reflect those of poster's employer -- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Change system date
Hi there, We are doing some tests with date change in our systems. Has anyone tried, through JCL, etc., to change the system date? We would cheat the system to indicate it that we are in other year, for exemple, 2010. Thanks in advanced. Regards, Raquel Calvo. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Change system date
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:52:50 -0600, Raquel Calvo Olmos raquel_ca...@everis-outsourcing.com wrote: Hi there, We are doing some tests with date change in our systems. Has anyone tried, through JCL, etc., to change the system date? We would cheat the system to indicate it that we are in other year, for exemple, 2010. Thanks in advanced. Regards, Raquel Calvo. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html This was done on a regular basis about 10 years (or so) ago, when everybody was testing for Y2K. What you are proposing is not a good idea. Various system components may not react well when the clock is turned back. There were many date and time testing packages available for Y2K testing ... HOURGLASS 2000, from a company canned MAINWARE, was just one of these. I'm sure that a few might still be available. You can check the internet (google) for their web site. Else, search on Y2K TESTING MAINFRAME for other related software packages. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - MarketWatch
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. lba...@bellatlantic.net (Alex UMX) writes: Well, 99.999% reliability means that 1/1 of the time the thing is not reliable = about 8 hours per year. Not to confuse with z/VM reliability that was 99.99 if I recall it correctly back in 1991 or so for VM/ESA 1.0. about that period, we marketed ha/cmp for 1-800 against stratus. at the time stratus took down system for software maintenance (would have outage that precluded even five-nines). ha/cmp could have fall-over between multiple servers as part of maint. strategy ... limiting outage to few seconds. the response was that then stratus could install multiple servers in (software fall-over) HA configuration ... to eliminate maint. outage window. the response was then why spend for the hardware redundancy as an aside their box was also being relogo'ed and marketed as the S/88. this recent post http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#85 Anyone going to Supercomputers '09 in Portland has some old marketplace news abstracts (29jun92) mentioning remarketing branded stratus box ... the article might have a misstatement ... the amount was what was paid for the program ... not that much was actually sold. as an aside ... i believe FAA has had some number of Flex-ES installations (running mainframe software on intel platforms) ... old post mentioning Flex-ES also available on stratus boxes http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#10 Low-end processors (again) for random other drift ... recent posts about old Jim Gray paper that by early 80s, majority of outages had shifted from hardware faults to other things http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#5 Is SUN going to become x86'ed ?? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#39 repeat after me: RAID != backup http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#47 repeat after me: RAID != backu including scan of old copy of a version of presentation that I had laying around ... and put up on the web: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/grayft84.pdf I've mentioned before Jim and I had something of dust-up at acm sigops in '91 about whether commodity components could be used for HA operation ... he was still at DEC and their party-line was vax/cluster. later when he moved to m'soft ... he was up on stage for the announcement of m'soft HA fallover product. -- 40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: OA30702
Fix available PE PTF List:UA49994 UA49993 UA49995 PTF List: Release 740 : UA50896 available 09/11/11 (1000 ) Release 750 : UA50897 available 09/11/11 (1000 ) Release 760 : UA50898 available 09/11/11 (1000 ) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Petersen, Jim Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 11:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: [IBM-MAIN] OA30702 Watch out for this one folks. UA49994 (1.10), UA49993 (1.9) , (I don't know the 1.11 PTF) are in error. They cause a storage overlay. OA30702 will fix. We are currently running the ++APAR. It caused us a production outage the other night. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot Technology Center 1300 Park Center Drive, Austin, TX 78753 www.homedepot.com email:jim_peter...@homedepot.com 512-977-2615 direct 512-977-2930 fax 210-859-9887 cell phone - The information contained in this e-mail and any attached documents may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, or if this message has been sent to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this message, including any attachments. Any dissemination, distribution or other use of the contents of this message by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Change system date
For what it's worthHourglass is now an IBM product. http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/hourglass/ Brian On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:06:28 -0600, John Laubenheimer wrote: (snip) There were many date and time testing packages available for Y2K testing ... HOURGLASS 2000, from a company canned MAINWARE, was just one of these. I'm sure that a few might still be available. You can check the internet (google) for their web site. Else, search on Y2K TESTING MAINFRAME for other related software packages. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
FTP TLS fails.
Cross posted to RACF I am attempting a TLS FTP connection from a PC to the z/os server and getting the following trace entry: BPXF024I (SYSLOGD) Nov 19 17:56:37 TST2 ftps 50331664 : FR0578 270 authClient: init failed with rc = 428 (Key entry does not contain a private key) I believe I am specifying server only authentication, so why is the client being authenticated? Or is this some issue with the server's certificate? Thanks!! NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any files transmitted with it are intended exclusively for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. The message, together with any attachment, may contain confidential and/or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, printing, saving, copying, disclosure or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply email and delete all copies. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch
Did I miss the part of the article that said it was an operating system failure? Could it have been a CPU failure? An application failure? A network switch failure? A power failure? How many simultaneous failures does it take to bring down a site? Why was the recovery time so long? And finally, why are we spending so much time on obviously incomplete and inaccurate articles? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Hal Merritt Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 8:49 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch The news item mentioned a 'NADIN' failure. A chain of Googles lead to a document dated March, 2005: FAA modernizing National Airspace Data Interchange Network with Stratus ftServer systems; Stratus to provide 10-year logistical and service support The FAA is implementing the Stratus servers, which use Intel Xeon 2.8 MHz large cache MP processors and support the Microsoft Windows operating system, at control centers in Atlanta and Salt Lake City. Uninterrupted availability of the NADIN 1 is important to all aspects of the aviation industry, as well as the nation's economy and, increasingly, as a tool to help protect national security. After thorough technology and product evaluations, Stratus was chosen as best able to provide an open platform with 99.999 percent uptime reliability - which is mandatory for running an application as important as NADIN 1 - together with the required caliber of maintenance, logistical support, and long service life. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2005_March_14/ai_n12936121/ Silly me: I had thought that Windows and 99.999 uptime was an oxymoron. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of esst...@juno.com Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 7:02 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch They probably moverd off of ACP/TPF to a smaller platform. Typical for a non mainframe Platform -- Original Message -- From: Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - MarketWatch Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:53:16 EST _Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - MarketWatch_ (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/computer-glitch-to-cause-flight-delays-across-us-2 009-11-19) Probably some 4th grader in lower Slobovia playing a slightly modified version of 'Blaster' NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any files transmitted with it are intended exclusively for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. The message, together with any attachment, may contain confidential and/or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, printing, saving, copying, disclosure or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply email and delete all copies. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: A big contributor to S/360
On 18 Nov 2009 18:32:07 -0800, shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) wrote: Describing the 1410 as superior to current machines is bizarre, and citing powers of 2 as an example With his SPACE machine, Underwood remembers, you could calculate the powers of 2 with a mere nine instructions. Today, you'd need tens of thousands, he says. That's terrible. is just ludicrous. It's hard to imagine taking tens of instructions, much less tens of thousands, even for a really bad programmer. A power of two calculation could vary from a bit shift at the smallest, to copying whatever macro is set up for multiplying. Maybe he's counting the instructions involved in a compile and run... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: WPS vs SAS WPS on zLinux
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:49:05 -0600, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: SAS is a great product with great history; its only natural (and good) for there to be competition. Here's another: http://www.dullesopen.com/products/features Great. Convert it from one CPU hog to another. :-) I wonder which uses more CPU resources (not taking zAAP savings into account)? Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Change system date
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:06:28 -0600, John Laubenheimer jlaubenhei...@doitt.nyc.gov wrote: On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:52:50 -0600, Raquel Calvo Olmos raquel_ca...@everis-outsourcing.com wrote: Hi there, We are doing some tests with date change in our systems. Has anyone tried, through JCL, etc., to change the system date? We would cheat the system to indicate it that we are in other year, for exemple, 2010. Thanks in advanced. Regards, Raquel Calvo. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html This was done on a regular basis about 10 years (or so) ago, when everybody was testing for Y2K. What you are proposing is not a good idea. Various system components may not react well when the clock is turned back. There were many date and time testing packages available for Y2K testing ... HOURGLASS 2000, from a company canned MAINWARE, was just one of these. I'm sure that a few might still be available. You can check the internet (google) for their web site. Else, search on Y2K TESTING MAINFRAME for other related software packages. I though HourGlass was from Princeton Softech. Anyway, IBM owns it now. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch
On 19 Nov 2009 12:05:22 -0800, paulgboul...@aim.com (Paul Gilmartin) wrote: Well, 99.999% reliability means that 1/1 of the time the thing is not reliable = about 8 hours per year. Well, 99.999% reliability means that 1/10 of the time the thing is not reliable = about 0.1 hours per year. Of course, we also have to agree on what reliable means. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Change system date
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:08:09 -0600, Mark Zelden mark.zel...@zurichna.com wrote: On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:06:28 -0600, John Laubenheimer jlaubenhei...@doitt.nyc.gov wrote: On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:52:50 -0600, Raquel Calvo Olmos raquel_ca...@everis-outsourcing.com wrote: Hi there, We are doing some tests with date change in our systems. Has anyone tried, through JCL, etc., to change the system date? We would cheat the system to indicate it that we are in other year, for exemple, 2010. Thanks in advanced. Regards, Raquel Calvo. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html This was done on a regular basis about 10 years (or so) ago, when everybody was testing for Y2K. What you are proposing is not a good idea. Various system components may not react well when the clock is turned back. There were many date and time testing packages available for Y2K testing ... HOURGLASS 2000, from a company canned MAINWARE, was just one of these. I'm sure that a few might still be available. You can check the internet (google) for their web site. Else, search on Y2K TESTING MAINFRAME for other related software packages. I though HourGlass was from Princeton Softech. Anyway, IBM owns it now. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html I just went into the SAMPLIB dataset ... it said MAINWARE there. Oh well. chained acquisitions! I guess you can't tell who owns something anymore without a scorecard. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Change system date
Would this be for the CA-Top Secret temporary dataset name issue? Ken Porowski VP Mainframe Administration CIT Group E: ken.porow...@cit.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Raquel Calvo Olmos Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 1:53 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: [IBM-MAIN] Change system date Hi there, We are doing some tests with date change in our systems. Has anyone tried, through JCL, etc., to change the system date? We would cheat the system to indicate it that we are in other year, for exemple, 2010. Thanks in advanced. Regards, Raquel Calvo. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Change system date
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Raquel Calvo Olmos Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 12:53 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Change system date Hi there, We are doing some tests with date change in our systems. Has anyone tried, through JCL, etc., to change the system date? We would cheat the system to indicate it that we are in other year, for exemple, 2010. Thanks in advanced. Regards, Raquel Calvo. You can do this in z/VSE. But there isn't such a thing in z/OS. During Y2K, there were products which could do this. I don't know if they are still available. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: WPS vs SAS WPS on zLinux
So is this Carolina product actually an interpretation of an interpreted language? Do the lights in the data center dim when you merely mention the name? :-) Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 1:59 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: WPS vs SAS WPS on zLinux On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:49:05 -0600, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: SAS is a great product with great history; its only natural (and good) for there to be competition. Here's another: http://www.dullesopen.com/products/features Great. Convert it from one CPU hog to another. :-) I wonder which uses more CPU resources (not taking zAAP savings into account)? Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Prevent ISMF Access Via RACF
Why are you using a DSS manual to find the details of ISMF? Try the DFSMSdfp Storage Administration manual (SC26-7402-13 for z/OS 1.11). In chapter 14, it says you can limit access to all of ISMF by placing module DGTFMD01 under program control. You should read all the sections dealing with protecting ISMF functions. All of which raises the question - why? Certain functions obviously should be restricted but total denial seems to be overkill. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Pat Monk Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 1:58 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Prevent ISMF Access Via RACF z/OS V1R9.0 DFSMSdss Storage Administration Guide SC35-0423-08 The above manual states ...You can set authorization levels for the following ISMF elements by using the program control feature of the z/OS Security Server RACF component: ISMF itself It then discusses using RACF program control to protect parts and pieces of ISMF. I have not found how to prevent any/all access to ISMF. Anyone know where to find the RACF profile(s) needed to prevent access to ISMF? Thanks, Pat -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: A big contributor to S/360
Maybe he should also add in the number of instructions that it takes to IPL the operating system, start JESx, one initiator, etc. In other words, let's compare paper clips to aircraft carriers. Bill Fairchild Software Developer Rocket Software 275 Grove Street * Newton, MA 02466-2272 * USA Tel: +1.617.614.4503 * Mobile: +1.508.341.1715 Email: bi...@mainstar.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 1:55 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: A big contributor to S/360 On 18 Nov 2009 18:32:07 -0800, shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) wrote: Describing the 1410 as superior to current machines is bizarre, and citing powers of 2 as an example With his SPACE machine, Underwood remembers, you could calculate the powers of 2 with a mere nine instructions. Today, you'd need tens of thousands, he says. That's terrible. is just ludicrous. It's hard to imagine taking tens of instructions, much less tens of thousands, even for a really bad programmer. A power of two calculation could vary from a bit shift at the smallest, to copying whatever macro is set up for multiplying. Maybe he's counting the instructions involved in a compile and run... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch
Tongue in cheek reply. Because we take a perverse pleasure in seeing squatty box failures when the reliability (FSVO reliability) of a Mainframe is called for? Or to keep it on topic. We wish to learn from others mistakes. Unfortunately that would require fairly accurate info so the various theories abound.. -Original Message- Schwarz, Barry A And finally, why are we spending so much time on obviously incomplete and inaccurate articles? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - MarketWatch
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com writes: for random other drift ... recent posts about old Jim Gray paper that by early 80s, majority of outages had shifted from hardware faults to other things http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#5 Is SUN going to become x86'ed ?? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#39 repeat after me: RAID != backup http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#47 repeat after me: RAID != backu including scan of old copy of a version of presentation that I had laying around ... and put up on the web: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/grayft84.pdf re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#26 Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - MarketWatch when I was out marketing ha/cmp, http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp I coined the terms disaster survivability and geographic surviability http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#available and I got asked to write a section in the corporate continuous availability strategy document ... but it got pulled because both rochester pok objected (because at the time, they couldn't meet the requirements). after we left, we spent some time with large national financial network. they claimed 100% availability for extended number of years was because of 1) ims hot-standby 2) automated operator ... the ims hot-standby involved machines separated by geographic distances (failures had shifted primarily to human mistakes and local environmental conditions). some of this was back to when my wife had been con'ed into doing a stint in POK responsible for loosely-coupled architecture ... where she created peer-coupled shared data architecture http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#shareddata ... which, except for ims hot-standby ... saw very little uptake until sysplex. that and the battles with the communication group oper whether SNA had to be used for loosely-coupled coordination, resulted in her not staying long in the position. -- 40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch
Looks like a router failure http://gcn.com/articles/2009/11/19/faa-software-hackers-delays.aspx?s=FAAnewsalert Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract Strategic Technical Engineering NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail: P.O. Box 58487 Mail Code H4C Houston, Texas 77258 Phone: Voice: (281)336-5027 Cell: (713)591-1059 Fax:(281)336-5410 E-Mail: dennis.ro...@lmco.com All opinions expressed by me are mine and may not agree with my employer or any person, company, or thing, living or dead, on or near this or any other planet, moon, asteroid, or other spatial object, natural or manufactured, since the beginning of time. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 2:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch On 19 Nov 2009 12:05:22 -0800, paulgboul...@aim.com (Paul Gilmartin) wrote: Well, 99.999% reliability means that 1/1 of the time the thing is not reliable = about 8 hours per year. Well, 99.999% reliability means that 1/10 of the time the thing is not reliable = about 0.1 hours per year. Of course, we also have to agree on what reliable means. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:56:25 -0700, Roach, Dennis (N-GHG) dennis.ro...@lmco.com wrote: Looks like a router failure http://gcn.com/articles/2009/11/19/faa-software-hackers-delays.aspx? s=FAAnewsalert 4 hours to fix a router? Good Grief. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: XMITMGR for 64 Bit Windows?
McKown, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Kirk Wolf Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 11:45 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: XMITMGR for 64 Bit Windows? It would be very nice, IMO, if there were an open source, portable program to pack and unpack XMITs. Java would be nice, so that a single binary build would serve all comers. Anyone interested in donating/writing something or collaborating? Pointers to existing open code or docs on the format would be helpful. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com Looks like there is some HLASM source for this on http://cbttape.org/cbtdowns.htm in file 571. From that, one could make a document of what an XMIT file looks like. From that, code could be written. -- John McKown John I know you always like a challange, but wouldnt it be a lot easier just to use the record layouts as described in the TSO/E Customisation manual ;-) Cheers Roy -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch
Nemo wrote: On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:48:49 -0600, Hal Merritt wrote: The news item mentioned a 'NADIN' failure. A chain of Googles lead to a document dated March, 2005: FAA modernizing National Airspace Data Interchange Network with Stratus ftServer systems; Stratus to provide 10- year logistical and service support The FAA is implementing the Stratus servers, which use Intel Xeon 2.8 MHz large cache MP processors and support the Microsoft Windows operating system, at control centers in Atlanta and Salt Lake City. The problem seems to me to be that they are using Xeon processors operating in the 2.8 MHz (megahertz) speed range instead of their normal 2.8 GHz (gigahertz) speed. (Or else the article got it wrong -- but that can't be since those are professional journalists.) Seriously UNDERclocked processors? -- How about seriously under-brained journalists??? Would be far more typical. Rick -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Change system date
There are products like CA-date and others that set the date for certain jobs/users. These were used for Y2K but are applicable for application year-end testing. Regards HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account CICS Capacity Technical Support P.O. Box 6462 2000 Wade Hampton Blvd. LC1-302 Greenville, South Carolina, 29606 Cell: 864 449 1755 Tel: 864 987-1417 Fax: 864 987-4500 E-mail: otto.schumac...@hp.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 15:39 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Change system date -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Raquel Calvo Olmos Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 12:53 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Change system date Hi there, We are doing some tests with date change in our systems. Has anyone tried, through JCL, etc., to change the system date? We would cheat the system to indicate it that we are in other year, for exemple, 2010. Thanks in advanced. Regards, Raquel Calvo. You can do this in z/VSE. But there isn't such a thing in z/OS. During Y2K, there were products which could do this. I don't know if they are still available. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Change system date
Compuware has a product called Xpediter/Xchange that allows you to run jobs with a date either in the future or in the past. HTH John Hamman Senior Systems Programmer Information Technologies 601.664.4410 jham...@bcbsms.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Raquel Calvo Olmos Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 12:53 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Change system date Hi there, We are doing some tests with date change in our systems. Has anyone tried, through JCL, etc., to change the system date? We would cheat the system to indicate it that we are in other year, for exemple, 2010. Thanks in advanced. Regards, Raquel Calvo. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html * The information contained in this message, and attachments hereto, may be privileged/confidential, and may contain protected health information that is subject to use and disclosure restrictions under federal law. It is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the original message and any copy of it from your computer system. All recipients are expected to maintain appropriate protections on the information contained herein. * -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: XMITMGR for 64 Bit Windows?
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Roy Hewitt Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 3:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: XMITMGR for 64 Bit Windows? snip John I know you always like a challange, but wouldnt it be a lot easier just to use the record layouts as described in the TSO/E Customisation manual ;-) Cheers Roy Ah! Spoil sport! grin I've never looked in that manual. The difficult part would be that a PO dataset is IEBCOPY unloaded. Is that documented there too? -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: WPS vs SAS WPS on zLinux
Please, not again. haven't we many times hashed over why Java is not in practice interpreted. For most things, its performance is not that far from C. When Java is slow, its almost always due to poor design (and programmers). Have you looked at the machine code generated by the Java JVM? Its great stuff, and automatically recompiles hot method stacks with fancy inlining, loop unwinding, etc as your program runs. Assembler programs are faster because assembler programmers are generally better, and they don't haphazardly pull in huge frameworks into their code without understanding the performance implications. Not so for your average Java programmer :-) I can't speak for Carolina, but IMO the general design of compiling SAS code into Java byte codes (which are dynamically compiled into machine code) is not inherently flawed. This has been proven to be successful (and performant) over and over again for many languages that compile to Java byte codes. One would have to benchmark specific workloads with this technology to see how well it performs. It could suck, but it could also perform well. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Pommier, Rex R. rex.pomm...@cnasurety.com wrote: So is this Carolina product actually an interpretation of an interpreted language? Do the lights in the data center dim when you merely mention the name? :-) Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 1:59 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: WPS vs SAS WPS on zLinux On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:49:05 -0600, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: SAS is a great product with great history; its only natural (and good) for there to be competition. Here's another: http://www.dullesopen.com/products/features Great. Convert it from one CPU hog to another. :-) I wonder which uses more CPU resources (not taking zAAP savings into account)? Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Change system date
Hi Raquel, We bought TicToc from ISOGON for Y2K testing and kept it. It was bought by IBM several years ago and renamed to IBM Application Time Facility for z/OS. We use it often. It sets a future or past virtual date for the application to test with and can be used with batch or online applications. The applications folks really like it. I just checked the product catalog on ShopzSeries. It is still available. HTH, Linda Mooney - Original Message - From: Raquel Calvo Olmos raquel_ca...@everis-outsourcing.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:52:50 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Change system date Hi there, We are doing some tests with date change in our systems. Has anyone tried, through JCL, etc., to change the system date? We would cheat the system to indicate it that we are in other year, for exemple, 2010. Thanks in advanced. Regards, Raquel Calvo. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Reentrant Programs and Protected Storage
WWwsswWW - Original Message - From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Wed Nov 18 15:14:23 2009 Subject: Re: Reentrant Programs and Protected Storage I grew up believing that if a program is link edited as reentrant AND it is loaded from an authorized library, it gets loaded into protected storage. That is what the manual says, too. However, that is not what appears to be happening. We are on z/OS 1.10. There is a non-reentrant program which, when executed via JCL from an authorized library, fails with a S0C4. When the failing program is physically copied to another library and executed from there, it runs correctly. This is entirely repeatable. Did you browse the load library directory and verify the program is not linked as RENT? Based on what you've written, it sound like the system is treating the program as if it had the RENT attribute. BTW, One reference to how laoder handles RENT is in MVS Program Management: User's Guide and Reference: quote RENT The module is reenterable. It can be executed by more than one task at a time. A task can begin executing it before a previous task has completed execution. A reenterable module is ordinarily expected not to modify its own code. In some cases, MVS protects the reentrant module's virtual storage so that it cannot be modified except by a program running in key 0. These cases include programs which the system treats as having been loaded from an authorized library, and also programs running under UNIX unless a debugging environment has been specified. /quote -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: is my job in input queue?
In of818677b6.177ae6fb-on85257562.00459d25-85257562.0045c...@uscmail.uscourts.gov, on 02/19/2009 at 07:42 AM, John Kelly john_j_ke...@ao.uscourts.gov said: You could always use the JES2 SSI (subsystem interface), if allowed. The interface is not specific to JES2. There are several interfaces that you can use; I don't recommend the old TSO interface for STATUS, but it might be the easiest if you are authorized. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Reentrant Programs and Protected Storage -- Resolution/Post Mortem
This problem has been solved. In fulfillment of a promise, here is as much of the explanation as I am permitted to share. As many suspected, this was indeed a SUE (Stupid User Error). The program being directly executed, i.e., via JCL, was not itself failing. The S0C4 was occurring in IBM code, and was happening because of a dynamically loaded subroutine. It was the subroutine that was faulty. The error occurred because the bad subroutine was where it shouldn't have been. That, in turn, occurred because a developer (a) put it into a library where it did not belong in the first place, and (b) failed to clean up his garbage when his project ended several months ago. When the bogus module was deleted, the problem went away with it. In summary, this was an instance of Murphy taking full advantage when someone did not follow correct procedure, and then did not clean up after himself. We have drawn several instructive lessons from the experience, none of which I intend to dwell on here. Thanks to everyone who took an interest and offered constructive suggestions. David -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: XMITMGR for 64 Bit Windows?
McKown, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Roy Hewitt Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 3:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: XMITMGR for 64 Bit Windows? snip John I know you always like a challange, but wouldnt it be a lot easier just to use the record layouts as described in the TSO/E Customisation manual ;-) Cheers Roy Ah! Spoil sport! grin I've never looked in that manual. The difficult part would be that a PO dataset is IEBCOPY unloaded. Is that documented there too? Yes, I realised I should have mentioned the unloaded IEBCOPY format in the ohnosecond before I hit send! But yes it is documented in the Utilities manual. It's an involved process as the unloaded format is device dependant, (presumably based on the temporary dataset that was used to unload it) and for PDSE it uses a virtual device format with something like 256 tracks/cyl.. (which is why PDSE don't work with XmitManager..) There are some bits of rexx around that do the XMIT decoding and I've used them to help extract from a corrupt xmit file and then manually unpacked the unloaded IEBCOPY... messy! Cheers Roy -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch
-snip- Looks like a router failure http://gcn.com/articles/2009/11/19/faa-software-hackers-delays.aspx?s=FAAnewsalert 4 hours to fix a router? Good Grief. -unsnip--- That's why the squatty boxen have Administrators, rather than Programmers or Systems Programmers. Can we speak of IQ levels here? Or maybe training and experience ?? Rick -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
ICSF
Hi all, We want to generate a hash key for a dataset but not encrypt the data using ICSF on z/OS 1.7. Can someone clarify that an entire file (and not just a field, or record within a file) can be processed by the routines CSNBOWH and CSNBOWH1. The Cryptographic Services ICSF Application Programmer's Guide is very vague regarding this. Kind Regards, Meganen Naidoo Solutions Architect CSC 628 Bourke Street Melbourne VIC 3000 GOS I p: +61 3 8695 1075 I m: +61 432 747 345 I e: mnaid...@csc.com I www.csc.com Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. CSC - This is a private message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. Note: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose • CSC Australia Pty Limited; Registered Office: 26 Talavera Road, Macquarie Park NSW 2113 Australia; Incorporated in Australia ACN: 008 476 944
Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch
On 19 Nov 2009 14:26:55 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: -snip- Looks like a router failure http://gcn.com/articles/2009/11/19/faa-software-hackers-delays.aspx?s=FAAnewsalert 4 hours to fix a router? Good Grief. -unsnip--- That's why the squatty boxen have Administrators, rather than Programmers or Systems Programmers. Can we speak of IQ levels here? Or maybe training and experience ?? Rick Would a router used with system z be under the control of the system z staff or a general communications staff? If the latter, why the communications staff in a z environment be any more or less responsive than the staff in other environments? If I understood the story, the router that fouled things was in Salt Lake City, not either of the facilities with servers. An aside, is Stratus still either owned or marketed by IBM? Does it use a special version of Windows designed for fall over and take over? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Need info on LE CEECAA (Common Anchor Area)
Hello Everyone, I am looking into the fields found in LE's Common Anchor Area (CEECAA). When I assemble the DSECT I get fields mapped from x'000' to x'38F'. This matches the Language Environment Debugging Guide. However, when I run the IPCS LEDATA ALL processor, it maps data out to a little past offset x'700'. Anyone have any idea where I might find the definitions of these extra fields? Thanks, Chuck Charles (Chuck) Hardee CA, Inc Software Engineer, CA-IDMS Tel: +1 952 838-1039 Fax: +1 952 835-3301 charles.har...@ca.com mailto:charles.har...@ca.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch
Patrick Lyon wrote: On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:56:25 -0700, Roach, Dennis (N-GHG) dennis.ro...@lmco.com wrote: Looks like a router failure http://gcn.com/articles/2009/11/19/faa-software-hackers-delays.aspx? s=FAAnewsalert 4 hours to fix a router? Good Grief. And no backup? Sounds like a single point of failure to me. Makes one wonder what other single points of failure there are. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch
Hal Merritt wrote: The news item mentioned a 'NADIN' failure. A chain of Googles lead to a document dated March, 2005: FAA modernizing National Airspace Data Interchange Network with Stratus ftServer systems; Stratus to provide 10-year logistical and service support The FAA is implementing the Stratus servers, which use Intel Xeon 2.8 MHz large cache MP processors and support the Microsoft Windows operating system, at control centers in Atlanta and Salt Lake City. Uninterrupted availability of the NADIN 1 is important to all aspects of the aviation industry, as well as the nation's economy and, increasingly, as a tool to help protect national security. After thorough technology and product evaluations, Stratus was chosen as best able to provide an open platform with 99.999 percent uptime reliability - which is mandatory for running an application as important as NADIN 1 - together with the required caliber of maintenance, logistical support, and long service life. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2005_March_14/ai_n12936121/ Silly me: I had thought that Windows and 99.999 uptime was an oxymoron. Windows running on an open platform? Now there is an oxymoron. Or morons depending on Windows and an uptime of 99.999. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: XMITMGR for 64 Bit Windows?
As long as you copy it to the Program Files (X86) directory, it works fine. You don't need to run it any special way. When you first click on a .XMI file, you will have to navigate to that directory (make sure you check always to use that program for that type file) and from then on it will be fine. You can also just use any filetype editor to set the connection between .xmi and .xmit to that program, but in any case, it will function fine. Your only problem might be that you have to install it on a XP or lower machine first to get the files to copy. I'm not sure if the source is still available to re-write it or not. It might be cool to give it a shot. Brian -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Newsgroup now frozen. Closing by 12/31/2009
Alexei, I don't see any topics comparable to ibm.software.assemblr or any of the many other mainframe groups. Are they hidden, or is there a plan to add more fora? Alexei Gabler wrote: This Newsgroup is closing. IBM invites participants of this Newsgroup to join one or more of the IBM developerWorks Web forums and community spaces at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/index.html. You will find comparable topics there. This Newsgroup will no longer accept new postings and will remain available as Read Only through by 12/31/2009. Questions can be directed to swgwe...@us.ibm.com. Thank you for participating in this Newsgroup. -- Don Poitras - zSeries R D - SAS Institute Inc. - SAS Campus Drive mailto:sas...@sas.com (919)531-5637 Fax:677- Cary, NC 27513 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: compiling Java question - z/OS jar(s) on non-z/OS?
I don't speak for IBM, but IBM is making it *very* easy to create Java to run on z/OS -- including Java which uses z/OS-only methods. The jar files are available, as Kirk noted, at no additional charge. You can compile on or off your mainframe -- and, at least on your mainframe, almost certainly at zero real cost. If someone wants to pretend it's hard, I suppose that's their right. :-) Whether it's z/OS, or Microsoft Office, or Oracle Database, or Software AG's Adabas, or any other piece of licensed software, just follow the rules, that's all. If you don't know what the rules are, ask. Just don't assume. That is all. Simple. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific E-Mail: timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
SMF Record Exits
I am writing an SMF Record Exit to intercept SMF Record Type 80 (Security) records for additional processing. Is IEFU83 sufficient, or do I also need IEFU84 and/or IEFU85? John P. Baker -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Let's connect on LinkedIn
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Re: MQ set trigger and CICS
Jantje writes: It does not take much duration to have the issue occur. Just the time to bounce a CICS (even if it takes only a minute) can be enough. Been there... Yes, agreed. It depends on the incoming message rate, the size of the incoming messages, and how far the queue can back up. Those factors are situational. But what I'm wondering is whether there's been any consideration of eliminating (or at least reducing) CICS service outages when bouncing any particular CICS region(s). There are certainly ways (plural, probably) to run CICS in higher availability fashion. I suppose one alternative is to stop incoming MQ messages first, let CICS drain the remaining messages in the queue, bounce CICS, then tell MQ to resume accepting incoming messages. But then you've just converted your CICS outage into an MQ outage, and thus converted a (somewhat delayed) processing interruption into an immediate service interruption. In other words, that sounds to me like going backwards. :-) It's also apparently unacceptable, because the original question is premised on the problems with having the queue fill up and stop accepting messages. So I think the real solution here is beefing up CICS's robustness in at least one way, unless I'm missing something in the original question. It sounds like MQ is doing exactly what it's supposed to do (and to its configured limit), but the thing that's draining the queue is currently suffering from an interruption that's too long. Hence, how about we focus on shortening (or eliminating) the interruption in the draining? I don't really see any other way -- again, unless I'm just totally missing the true nature of the original question. Or, I guess you could (if possible) get a bigger bucket, i.e. figure out a way to enlarge the queue, to hold enough messages to survive the drainer's outage. Bigger queue, more timely/reliable draining, or some combination: isn't that the full solution choice set here? - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific E-Mail: timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Hardware withdrawal: IBM System z9
Shmuel Metz asks: Is there a direct upgrade from, e.g., z890 to z10? Yes. And that particular upgrade is *not* being withdrawn effective June 30, 2010. There is currently no withdrawal date for that upgrade. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific E-Mail: timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: ICSF
It's certainly possible; GIMZIP and SMP/E use this to generate and verify checksums of their pax.Z files. the interface is described in: Linkname: 2.3.6.2 z/OS V1R10.0 ICSF Application Programmer's Guide URL: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/csfb4z90/2.3.6.2 2.3.6.2 Parameters I believe it requires multiple calls to CSNBOWH. Since CSHBOWH is stateless, it uses the caller-supplied chaining_vector field to pass data from call to call. -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?
Come on, guys. You can keep complaining if you want, but let's complain about the real stuff, OK? Let me summarize: 1. IBM charges zero for sub-peak monthly 4HRA CPU usage. z/OS JAVAC tirekicking has *got* to be exactly the sort of work that's sub-peak. (And if it isn't, you're really doing something wrong.) Enjoy. 2. IBM charges zero to download and use (yes, on your PC) the JZOS Toolkit, and you can compile as much as you want there. Enjoy. 3. IBM donated all of the original Eclipse developer toolset to the open source community and continues to slave away (at great payroll expense) on improving it. At the JZOS Web site, Kirk has carefully documented how to connect free Eclipse to your z/OS machine via Ant and FTP, again at zero cost. (Thank you, Kirk.) Enjoy. 4. Every CICS TS V3 or higher and IMS TM V9 or higher customer has access to one no charge Rational Developer for System z license, so you can use the full-blown professional-grade workbench, too, at no charge -- as long as you personally are the first one to grab the brass ring. (Though if you want full support beyond specific use cases with CICS TS or IMS TM, IBM will require a support charge.) This RDz package also includes the entire Rational Application Developer or Rational Business Developer tool, which we charge everyone else in the world for *except* our CICS and IMS customers (for their first license). Enjoy. 5. If you don't have a z/OS machine handy, the *most* you'll pay for your own (virtual) z/OS machine for application development purposes is $350 per month, as many or as few months as you want. (Assuming you're at least somewhat reasonable with CPU and disk resource consumption, and assuming you fit the rather expansive qualification criteria.) If you happen to be affiliated with a university or even high school, it's probably no charge rather than $350. Enjoy. 6. There's still the PartnerWorld program (zPDT or System z hardware) if for some reason you want your own z/OS machine in your own building for for-market software development, and at low price. 7. If you work for a top secret government agency (or whatever), and the above options still aren't good enough and/or you don't qualify, ring your friendly IBM representative and use the magic words System z Solution Edition for Application Development, please. If you qualify (which probably isn't too hard), IBM will happily sell you a full z/OS application development kit, with all kinds of goodies, for a total 3, 4, or 5 year price (not cost -- price!) that is distributed UNIX-competitive. Hardware, hardware maintenance, software, and standard software support -- the full kit, bottom line competitively priced. Now, let me just share with you one data point here that might put this all into perspective. If you want to create a video game for the Sony PlayStation, you will need to contact Sony Computer Entertainment, execute a rather restrictive contract, and pay $10,250 (in North America), upfront, for your developer kit just to get your foot in the door. You'll then have to pay steep royalties on all the games you sell, and there is no guarantee that Sony will electronically authorize your game to run on their (!) PlayStation. (They have full veto authority.) For a video game! Or let's consider Apple. If you want to develop an application for the iPhone/iPod touch, you'll need to get a Macintosh and (preferably) an iPhone or iPod touch. That's not too terribly expensive, but it's an expense. Then you must submit your application to Apple for approval, because there's only one way to distribute your application: through the iTunes Store. Apple can (and does) refuse applications for any reason, often at a very leisurly pace, and their decision is final. If Apple refuses your application, you can still distribute it -- but only the tiny minority of iPhone/iPod touch owners who have hacked their devices can run it. And you're going to be hard pressed to collect any revenues from that application. If Apple does accept your application into the iTunes Store, Apple collects a 30% royalty right off the top -- and again, you have no choice in that. Now, I don't mean to pick on Sony and Apple specifically, but let's look at this rationally. IBM has been working mighty hard to lower the development hurdles (and costs) for z/OS, and -- as you can see -- there's been much progress on that front. Could more be done? Perhaps, but how about we concentrate on the real remaining issues and not try to invent unreal problems, OK? Thanks for putting up with my venting. :-) - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific E-Mail: timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at
Re: Reentrant Programs and Protected Storage
WWwsswWW And this means what? -- Peter Hunkeler Credit Suisse -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
