Re: How Many OMEGAMON ICATs Can Run At The Same Time?.
Here, I (from the z/OS department) have the honour to do all installs. It is quite technical, z/OS related and complicated, so having one person get ICAT under control was decided enough effort and the various product specialists provide the required information and assistance when needed. Kees. George Henke gahe...@gmail.com wrote in message news:aanlktinhts1nybo1z+43hsoekrpqbswse0yuuv8qd...@mail.gmail.com... So how do you allow DBAs and CICS SAs work on ICAT at the same time or is this something they should not be doing anyway? Something that should be centrally managed? On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Stephen Hall stephen.h...@iag.com.auwrote: ___ Note: This e-mail is subject to the disclaimer contained at the bottom of this message. ___ Date:Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:59:39 +0100 From:Vernooij, CP - SPLXM kees.verno...@klm.com Subject: Re: How Many OMEGAMON ICATs Can Run At The Same Time?. George Henke gahe...@gmail.com wrote in message news:aanlktikrrgfbis0=+nw70fwe3x_vabvydemifyfjf...@mail.gmail.com... Is anyone able to run more than one ICAT (formerly CICAT) at the same time, eg ICAT for CICS, ICAT for DB2, etc. -- George Henke You mean: several users configuring Omegamon components simultaneously? I think they will collide regularly, because they are configuring the same RTE. The only way should be to separate them right from the beginning to their own RTEs and datasets. Kees. Yes, that would be the only way to do it, but not what I would recommend, as it would lead to a lot of duplication, as well as increased overhead in applying maintenance etc. My suggestion would be to nominate an ICAT / Omegamon Installation owner who manages the installation and configuration on behalf of all teams. Depending on the number of LPARS / RTES you have I would also recommend looking at the batch ICAT Process, or even the new PARMLIB installation process. I have 9 LPARS configured with most Omegamon components and use the batch process, I can regenerate a new RTE in about 30 minutes depending on the number of DB2 and IMS regions in the RTE. Thanks Regards, - Stephen Hall Mainframe Platform Manager INSURANCE AUSTRALIA GROUP (IAG) ___ The information transmitted in this message and its attachments (if any) is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed. The message may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information, by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this in error, please contact the sender and delete this e-mail and associated material from any computer. The intended recipient of this e-mail may only use, reproduce, disclose or distribute the information contained in this e-mail and any attached files, with the permission of the sender. This message has been scanned for viruses. ___ -- 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 -- George Henke (C) 845 401 5614 -- 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 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
Re: How Many OMEGAMON ICATs Can Run At The Same Time?.
Hi George, Multiple RTE's with multiple products in a single ICAT would be normal. Only one user may use ICAT at any time. With the link up of TEMS across products, having separate ICATs per product may not work. Centralised control!!! Regards Bruce Hewson ps: I have separate ICATs per Sysres Set...part of of versioning technique. and have to only run an ICAT on the matching Sysres! 9 Products 20 RTEs -- 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
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Re: ISPF 3.4: Migrate to Level 2?
Larry, you know the command string to enter in ISPF 3.4 dataset list to command migrate to ML2see previous posts.. but for that to work...the dataset must first be backed up so quite often you need to do 2 commands... HBACKDS then wait till completed (allwo to be async process lets you go off and do othewr work) HMIG / ML2 Regards Bruce Hewson -- 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: Filename in lowercase
I'm afraid so, too. The only alternatat I think you are out of luck. I'm afraid so, too. The only alternatative I found is what Don suggested in his later post. Instead of doing with Rexx, I simply passed the output of a LISTC to DFSORT, and let him generate a 'put a.b.c.fred' for every single dataset found under A.B.C. Thanks for your and Don's answer. Walter Marguccio z/OS Systems Programmer BELENUS LOB Informatic GmbH Munich - Germany -- 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
Relayng all WTORs to my cell phone via SMS
I know how to send an SMS cell phone message using an email to sms gateway. What I'm trying to figure out is a relatively simple and CPU efficient way to do it. We have CA-OPS/MVS 11.5 installed. I could use it, but since I don't know every possible WTOR message id which might occur, it appears that I need to trap every z/OS message and look at each one individually. Yuck! This is not CPU efficient. I could write an IEAVMXIT in assembler to trap all messages and process the WTORs. This is probably more CPU efficient, but not simple. Especially since I would likely need to queue the WTORs to another address space to actually process. I could write a program to set up an EMCS console. But this seems neither simple nor CPU efficient, although perhaps more so than CA-OPS. What have I overlooked? What do I want to accomplish? We run with no people other than on call people on the weekends and holidays. This means that a batch job or some other process could hang on a WTOR because we don't currently have a way to notify anybody that they need to take a look. The on-call person is basically forced to work overtime to periodically logon to the system and use TSO and use SDSF to check out the system, or use an SMCS VTAM console to look and issue commands. TSO and SDSF is usually easier. How does a total lights out operation do this? John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * 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: Relayng all WTORs to my cell phone via SMS
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 04:09:07 -0600 McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: :I know how to send an SMS cell phone message using an email to sms gateway. What I'm trying to figure out is a relatively simple and CPU efficient way to do it. We have CA-OPS/MVS 11.5 installed. I could use it, but since I don't know every possible WTOR message id which might occur, it appears that I need to trap every z/OS message and look at each one individually. Yuck! This is not CPU efficient. I could write an IEAVMXIT in assembler to trap all messages and process the WTORs. This is probably more CPU efficient, but not simple. Especially since I would likely need to queue the WTORs to another address space to actually process. I could write a program to set up an EMCS console. But this seems neither simple nor CPU efficient, although perhaps more so than CA-OPS. I would not think that it would cost that much to have OPS check every message - it already traps them anyway. Other options - OPSMVS )TOD rule to check for outstanding WTORs, screen scraper on a PC console, . -- Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. -- 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: Relayng all WTORs to my cell phone via SMS
Hi D R;R ? On 11/24/2010 11:09 AM, McKown, John wrote: I know how to send an SMS cell phone message using an email to sms gateway. What I'm trying to figure out is a relatively simple and CPU efficient way to do it. We have CA-OPS/MVS 11.5 installed. I could use it, but since I don't know every possible WTOR message id which might occur, it appears that I need to trap every z/OS message and look at each one individually. Yuck! This is not CPU efficient. I could write an IEAVMXIT in assembler to trap all messages and process the WTORs. This is probably more CPU efficient, but not simple. Especially since I would likely need to queue the WTORs to another address space to actually process. I could write a program to set up an EMCS console. But this seems neither simple nor CPU efficient, although perhaps more so than CA-OPS. What have I overlooked? What do I want to accomplish? We run with no people other than on call people on the weekends and holidays. This means that a batch job or some other process could hang on a WTOR because we don't currently have a way to notify anybody that they need to take a look. The on-call person is basically forced to work overtime to periodically logon to the system and use TSO and use SDSF to check out the system, or use an SMCS VTAM console to look and issue commands. TSO and SDSF is usually easier. How does a total lights out operation do this? John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * 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: How Many OMEGAMON ICATs Can Run At The Same Time?.
___ Note: This e-mail is subject to the disclaimer contained at the bottom of this message. ___ Date:Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:46:39 -0500 From:George Henke gahe...@gmail.com Subject: Re: How Many OMEGAMON ICATs Can Run At The Same Time?. So how do you allow DBAs and CICS SAs work on ICAT at the same time or is this something they should not be doing anyway? Something that should be centrally managed? Hi George, That's my view, I don't let anybody else touch ICAT, it's mine to manage alone. If CICS or DBAs want something changed they come to me, that way I know it's done centrally, correctly and implemented across all LPARS as necessary. I document my environment up to a point, so that someone can take over if necessary, but nobody wants it, so it's all down to me. Thanks Regards, – Stephen Hall Mainframe Platform Manager INSURANCE AUSTRALIA GROUP (IAG) – ___ The information transmitted in this message and its attachments (if any) is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed. The message may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information, by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this in error, please contact the sender and delete this e-mail and associated material from any computer. The intended recipient of this e-mail may only use, reproduce, disclose or distribute the information contained in this e-mail and any attached files, with the permission of the sender. This message has been scanned for viruses. ___ -- 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: Relayng all WTORs to my cell phone via SMS
John: Maybe you could have a Rexx that wakes up every x minutes and does a D R,R to process outstanding messages. This script will then email/sms you the WTOR. On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 6:09 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: I know how to send an SMS cell phone message using an email to sms gateway. What I'm trying to figure out is a relatively simple and CPU efficient way to do it. We have CA-OPS/MVS 11.5 installed. I could use it, but since I don't know every possible WTOR message id which might occur, it appears that I need to trap every z/OS message and look at each one individually. Yuck! This is not CPU efficient. I could write an IEAVMXIT in assembler to trap all messages and process the WTORs. This is probably more CPU efficient, but not simple. Especially since I would likely need to queue the WTORs to another address space to actually process. I could write a program to set up an EMCS console. But this seems neither simple nor CPU efficient, although perhaps more so than CA-OPS. What have I overlooked? What do I want to accomplish? We run with no people other than on call people on the weekends and holidays. This means that a batch job or some other process could hang on a WTOR because we don't currently have a way to notify anybody that they need to take a look. The on-call person is basically forced to work overtime to periodically logon to the system and use TSO and use SDSF to check out the system, or use an SMCS VTAM console to look and issue commands. TSO and SDSF is usually easier. How does a total lights out operation do this? John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * 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 -- When God wishes to punish us, he answers our prayers. The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. ~ Denis Diderot I am as you, in you, for you. One as you in all, as all, forever. My call is your call. -- 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: Relayng all WTORs to my cell phone via SMS
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 04:09:07 -0600, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: I know how to send an SMS cell phone message using an email to sms gateway. What I'm trying to figure out is a relatively simple and CPU efficient way to do it. We have CA-OPS/MVS 11.5 installed. I could use it, but since I don't know every possible WTOR message id which might occur, it appears that I need to trap every z/OS message and look at each one individually. Yuck! This is not CPU efficient. I could write an IEAVMXIT in assembler to trap all messages and process the WTORs. This is probably more CPU efficient, but not simple. Especially since I would likely need to queue the WTORs to another address space to actually process. I could write a program to set up an EMCS console. But this seems neither simple nor CPU efficient, although perhaps more so than CA-OPS. What have I overlooked? What do I want to accomplish? We run with no people other than on call people on the weekends and holidays. This means that a batch job or some other process could hang on a WTOR because we don't currently have a way to notify anybody that they need to take a look. The on-call person is basically forced to work overtime to periodically logon to the system and use TSO and use SDSF to check out the system, or use an SMCS VTAM console to look and issue commands. TSO and SDSF is usually easier. How does a total lights out operation do this? John, have you looked at the AUTOR function that is available with z/OS 1.12? . This might go some way to achieving what you are after . Roger -- 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: Relayng all WTORs to my cell phone via SMS
We're stuck on z/OS 1.10 until 3Q2011 at the earliest. But I'll look at it to see how it compares to CA-OPS. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * 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 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Roger Lowe Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 6:25 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Relayng all WTORs to my cell phone via SMS On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 04:09:07 -0600, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: I know how to send an SMS cell phone message using an email to sms gateway. What I'm trying to figure out is a relatively simple and CPU efficient way to do it. We have CA-OPS/MVS 11.5 installed. I could use it, but since I don't know every possible WTOR message id which might occur, it appears that I need to trap every z/OS message and look at each one individually. Yuck! This is not CPU efficient. I could write an IEAVMXIT in assembler to trap all messages and process the WTORs. This is probably more CPU efficient, but not simple. Especially since I would likely need to queue the WTORs to another address space to actually process. I could write a program to set up an EMCS console. But this seems neither simple nor CPU efficient, although perhaps more so than CA-OPS. What have I overlooked? What do I want to accomplish? We run with no people other than on call people on the weekends and holidays. This means that a batch job or some other process could hang on a WTOR because we don't currently have a way to notify anybody that they need to take a look. The on-call person is basically forced to work overtime to periodically logon to the system and use TSO and use SDSF to check out the system, or use an SMCS VTAM console to look and issue commands. TSO and SDSF is usually easier. How does a total lights out operation do this? John, have you looked at the AUTOR function that is available with z/OS 1.12? . This might go some way to achieving what you are after . Roger -- 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: Relayng all WTORs to my cell phone via SMS
Sounds doable. And I could just use a CA-OPS/MVS TOD rule to do it. Someone has pointed out that CA-OPS/MVS is already trapping all console messages and doing a match against the MSG rules, followed by a dispatch of any REXX MSG rule(s) which match the message id. So putting in a well coded REXX CA-OPS MSG rule may not add that much overhead. The plus of a MSG rule is that I don't need to keep track of whether I have already dispatched the WTOR out via an SMS message. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * 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 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Roberto Halais Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 6:01 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Relayng all WTORs to my cell phone via SMS John: Maybe you could have a Rexx that wakes up every x minutes and does a D R,R to process outstanding messages. This script will then email/sms you the WTOR. On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 6:09 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: I know how to send an SMS cell phone message using an email to sms gateway. What I'm trying to figure out is a relatively simple and CPU efficient way to do it. We have CA-OPS/MVS 11.5 installed. I could use it, but since I don't know every possible WTOR message id which might occur, it appears that I need to trap every z/OS message and look at each one individually. Yuck! This is not CPU efficient. I could write an IEAVMXIT in assembler to trap all messages and process the WTORs. This is probably more CPU efficient, but not simple. Especially since I would likely need to queue the WTORs to another address space to actually process. I could write a program to set up an EMCS console. But this seems neither simple nor CPU efficient, although perhaps more so than CA-OPS. What have I overlooked? What do I want to accomplish? We run with no people other than on call people on the weekends and holidays. This means that a batch job or some other process could hang on a WTOR because we don't currently have a way to notify anybody that they need to take a look. The on-call person is basically forced to work overtime to periodically logon to the system and use TSO and use SDSF to check out the system, or use an SMCS VTAM console to look and issue commands. TSO and SDSF is usually easier. How does a total lights out operation do this? John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * 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 -- When God wishes to punish us, he answers our prayers. The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. ~ Denis Diderot I am as you, in you, for you. One as you in all, as all, forever. My call is your call. -- 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
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Listers: Can I have VLAN tagging with an OSA console device (OSAC)? I have RTFM'ed but cannot find any reference to tagging OSAC. 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: ISPF 3.4: Migrate to Level 2?
Prior backup is only required for datasets with a management class enabled for auto-backup; otherwise, there is no check for a backup copy on migrate to ML2. We find HSM auto-backup for many application-level datasets to be almost useless because they are unsynchronized with any known recovery point for the application, and thus we have few management classes that are set for auto-backup. JC Ewing On 11/24/2010 03:32 AM, Bruce Hewson wrote: Larry, you know the command string to enter in ISPF 3.4 dataset list to command migrate to ML2see previous posts.. but for that to work...the dataset must first be backed up so quite often you need to do 2 commands... HBACKDS then wait till completed (allwo to be async process lets you go off and do othewr work) HMIG / ML2 Regards Bruce Hewson ... -- Joel C. Ewing, Fort Smith, ARjcew...@acm.org -- 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: Relayng all WTORs to my cell phone via SMS
On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 05:09 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
it appears that I need to trap every z/OS message and look at each one
individually. Yuck! This is not CPU efficient.
I have a console monitor written in REXX that runs 'round the clock, and
which has used 600 CPU seconds in the last 17 days (my last IPL). I
know you're CPU-constrained, but five minutes of CPU spread over two
weeks doesn't break the bank here.
In REXX it's easy to screen all console traffic and watch for e.g.
messages with MDBGHOLD set - nondeletable messages.
GETMSG_RC = GETMSG('CONSMSG.'WAIT_TIME)
IF GETMSG_RC 4 THEN DO /* GETMSG ERROR, SNO */
SAY 'GETMSG return code =' GETMSG_RC
EXIT GETMSG_RC
END
IF GETMSG_RC = 4 THEN DO /* PROBABLE TIMEOUT */
ITERATE
END
IF CONSMSG.0 0 THEN DO
... parse CONSMSG.nn for message content, or
IF (CONSMSG.MDBGHOLD = 'YES') THEN DO
...
END
END
ELSE DO
... no message text means this might be a DOM
IF CONSMSG.MDBGDOM = YES THEN DO
... handle deleted messages
What do I want to accomplish? We run with no people other than on
call people on the weekends and holidays.
We too. I watch mostly for nondeletable console messages and parse
message lines for exceptions (IDMS has an open WTOR all day long for
example) so we don't get bugged about routine stuff. I got fancy and
implemented an escalation schedule - a list of people are paged one at a
time, at intervals - until the trigger message is DOM-ed or one of the
paged individuals hit 'reply' on their blackberries.
Lionel's XMITIP is the cat's meow, BTW.
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Re: Extended addressability for zFS ROOT
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:16:04, Guy Gardoit ggard...@gmail.com wrote: No, the rename is done after the copy. We never IPL the staging volumes either and the clone process are full-volumes dumps, using FDR of course, from the staging to the alternate resvols. Hence, I need to rename any zFS files that are copied by replacing the STAGING qualifier to a alternate resvol name. [...] OK, I misread or missed something your earlier post. Same approach here, though I won't say we never IPL the staging volumes (first IPL of a new z/OS release in our sandbox). I just like to leave any system related zFS on one of our non-SMS staging volumes, and ultimately, on a second resvol, so the Storage Group doesn't have to get involved. [...] I don't see any reason for treating data sets related to OMVS any differently from the rest of the z/OS libraries. FWIW, agreed, wholeheartedly. Sorry to have hijacked the thread into a cloning discussion. Regards, Art Gutowski Ford Motor 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: Indirect Catalogging OS zFS Files (was Re: Extended addressability for zFS ROOT)
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:48:09, Mark Zelden mzel...@flash.net wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:01:58, Arthur Gutowski aguto...@ford.com wrote: Guess I'm old school, and I just don't see the need for these R/O FS. Times change... adapt or become extinct. :-) I get that. We (Ford) almost did go the way of the dodo. That's still fresh. We just had a discussion over the zFS default for ServerPac (we're installing 1.12), and the real reason came out. This introduces a big change to our cloning process, and we're not confident we can absorb it during the upgrade. Is anyone using the new support in z/OS 1.12 for VSAM indirect cataloging yet for cloning? I haven't ordered 1.12 yet, missed SHARE, and haven't looked at the implementation details yet. It looks like a non-starter. I don't see any support for VOLUME specification in the BPXPRMxx MOUNT statement, the TSO/E nor Unix command, nor in automount. Without that, I can't see how it makes my cloning process any easier. I still have to maintain unique DSNames for my maintenance FS'. Hence, a rename is still required during a clone, even if all our systems take advantage of it for IPL volumes. All it seems to buy me is I can take amp;SYSR1. out of the FILESYSTEM parm of the MOUNT statements. BFD. If I missed something, I'll be receptive to some illumination. Regards, Art Gutowski Ford Motor 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
IBM Link has been corrected for COMMENT INVALID issue
Cross Posted to IBMMAIN, IMS, CICS Here is the answer from IBM A fix for the problem has now been deployed to the production servers. During this past weekend's fix pack deployment, enhanced security requirements were put in place across all of our applications (including ETR) which caused the problems you had reported. After receiving user feedback on this issue, our application owners agreed to revise the security requirements to restore satisfactory service to our customers and so a fix was deployed. Again, we deeply apologize for the inconvenience caused by this issue. Please let me know if you have any further questions or concerns. Thanks! Lizette -- 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
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Re: IBM Link has been corrected for COMMENT INVALID issue
Security? I didn't know special characters were inherently insecure. ;-) On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.comwrote: Cross Posted to IBMMAIN, IMS, CICS Here is the answer from IBM A fix for the problem has now been deployed to the production servers. During this past weekend's fix pack deployment, enhanced security requirements were put in place across all of our applications (including ETR) which caused the problems you had reported. After receiving user feedback on this issue, our application owners agreed to revise the security requirements to restore satisfactory service to our customers and so a fix was deployed. Again, we deeply apologize for the inconvenience caused by this issue. Please let me know if you have any further questions or concerns. Thanks! Lizette -- 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 CONFIDENTIALITY/EMAIL NOTICE: The material in this transmission contains confidential and privileged information intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, please be advised that you have received this material in error and that any forwarding, copying, printing, distribution, use or disclosure of the material is strictly prohibited. If you have received this material in error, please (i) do not read it, (ii) reply to the sender that you received the message in error, and (iii) erase or destroy the material. Emails are not secure and can be intercepted, amended, lost or destroyed, or contain viruses. You are deemed to have accepted these risks if you communicate with us by email. 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: Indirect Catalogging OS zFS Files (was Re: Extended addressability for zFS ROOT)
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:27:55 -0600, Arthur Gutowski aguto...@ford.com wrote: It looks like a non-starter. I don't see any support for VOLUME specification in the BPXPRMxx MOUNT statement, the TSO/E nor Unix command, nor in automount. Without that, I can't see how it makes my cloning process any easier. I still have to maintain unique DSNames for my maintenance FS'. Hence, a rename is still required during a clone, even if all our systems take advantage of it for IPL volumes. All it seems to buy me is I can take amp;SYSR1. out of the FILESYSTEM parm of the MOUNT statements. BFD. If I missed something, I'll be receptive to some illumination. Right. Even when I was using HFS and had the root on my 1 only IPL volume, the maintenance version didn't live on the maintenance sysres because it had to have a different name to mount it at the service mount point in order to apply maintenance. It then was logically copied to the IPL volume in the cloning process after the full volume copy. Going way back to pre OS/390 2.6 support for non-SMS HFS, being on a separate volume and cataloged was an HFS requirement anyway. So until you can mount an uncataloged HFS or zFS, the maintenance version will always need to have a different name, regardless of indirect cataloging of the run-time version. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:mzel...@flash.net Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.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 reporting
What are all the options these days for reporting via smf records. Isnt there an RMF pc base reporting tool ? Thanks Tim Brown Systems Specialist - Project Leader Central Hudson Gas Electric 284 South Ave Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Email: tbr...@cenhud.com mailto:tbr...@cenhud.com Phone: 845-486-5643 Fax: 845-486-5921 Cell: 845-235-4255 -- 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: smf reporting
The RMF Spreadsheet Reporter from IBM. http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/features/rmf/tools/ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 10:25 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: smf reporting What are all the options these days for reporting via smf records. Isnt there an RMF pc base reporting tool ? Thanks Tim Brown Systems Specialist - Project Leader Central Hudson Gas Electric 284 South Ave Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Email: tbr...@cenhud.com mailto:tbr...@cenhud.com Phone: 845-486-5643 Fax: 845-486-5921 Cell: 845-235-4255 -- 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: IBM Link has been corrected for COMMENT INVALID issue
Lessons from TSA? -jc- -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Rowe Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 10:20 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: IBM Link has been corrected for COMMENT INVALID issue Security? I didn't know special characters were inherently insecure. ;-) On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.comwrote: Cross Posted to IBMMAIN, IMS, CICS Here is the answer from IBM A fix for the problem has now been deployed to the production servers. During this past weekend's fix pack deployment, enhanced security requirements were put in place across all of our applications (including ETR) which caused the problems you had reported. After receiving user feedback on this issue, our application owners agreed to revise the security requirements to restore satisfactory service to our customers and so a fix was deployed. Again, we deeply apologize for the inconvenience caused by this issue. Please let me know if you have any further questions or concerns. Thanks! Lizette -- 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 CONFIDENTIALITY/EMAIL NOTICE: The material in this transmission contains confidential and privileged information intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, please be advised that you have received this material in error and that any forwarding, copying, printing, distribution, use or disclosure of the material is strictly prohibited. If you have received this material in error, please (i) do not read it, (ii) reply to the sender that you received the message in error, and (iii) erase or destroy the material. Emails are not secure and can be intercepted, amended, lost or destroyed, or contain viruses. You are deemed to have accepted these risks if you communicate with us by email. 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 -- 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: DFHSM MIGRATE MYSTERY
Joel, I did a manual BACKDS command of the dsn. Next I did a LISTCAT of the dsn and it shows LBACKUP ---2010.328.0643. I did a HMIG dsn ML2 . I did a LISTCAT again and it shows LBACKUP ---.XXX. However when I do HLIST of the dsn it shows the backup 10/11/24 06:43:55 I am not sure why this is happening. I also noted that if I issue the HMIG dsn ML2 the MANAGEMENT CLASS Migration Attributes is being ignored even though I have specified the following: Primary Days Non-usage . : 3 Level 1 Days Date/Days . : 2 Command or Auto Migrate . : BOTH As an earlier poster had mentioned that if a manual Migrate ML2 command is issued to migrate the dsn, it overrides the Migration attributes. This storage group is exempt from Auto Migrate but it does have Auto Backup turned on. I noticed that the Auto Backup is working. The dataset in question was not backed up because it was created after the Auto Backup had run. --- On Tue, 11/23/10, Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org wrote: From: Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org Subject: Re: DFHSM MIGRATE MYSTERY To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Received: Tuesday, November 23, 2010, 4:04 PM Did you display the LBACKUP date while the file was migrated? On z/OS 1.10 I only see the actual last Backup date displayed if the dataset is on a primary volume. If on ML1 or ML2 neither ISMF no LISTC will display the backup date. Did you do a HMIG dsnamefilter (which is a request to migrate to ML1) or HMIG dsnamefilter ML2? If I try to migrate a dsn with an autobackup management class to ML2 and there is no backup yet, it fails with ARC1280I MIGRATION FAILED - DATA SET IS IN NEED OF BACKUP. If I try to migrate the same dataset to ML1 (ML2 parm omitted), migration succeeds. I think this is because DFHSM can still do an autobackup from ML1. Or If I then attempt to force a migrate from ML1 to ML2 with HMIG dsname ML2 before there is a backup, I also get the ARC1280I failure. On 11/22/2010 07:51 AM, willie bunter wrote: Mike, I took your advice and set the MANAGEMENT CLASS AUTO BACKUP=Y. As a test I created a new dsn using the same HLQ's and Management Class. I tried the MIGRATE command via batch (using wild cards) it went to ML1 instead of ML2 which was NOT happening before I changed the AUTO BACKUP from N to Y. I did a LISTCAT of the dsn but it shows that no backup was done. Inspite of this the dsn was sent to ML1. Not sure why LBACKUP ---.000. If I understand Joel's post correctly in which he says that Migration Attributes for primary and level 1 only apply to auto migration then the dsn should not have been sent to ML1 but directly to ML2. Any suggestions? --- On Fri, 11/19/10, Mike Schwabmike.a.sch...@gmail.com wrote: From: Mike Schwabmike.a.sch...@gmail.com Subject: Re: DFHSM MIGRATE MYSTERY To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Received: Friday, November 19, 2010, 10:39 AM You can requre that a successful SMS backup before it allows the dataset to be migrated. On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 8:00 AM, willie bunterwilliebun...@yahoo.com wrote: deleted When the batch job is executed all the dsns (these are all VSAM dsns) are migrated ML2 - including those that were created this morning before the migrate was done. According to the Migration Attributes shouldn't those dsns which were created today yesterday not be migrated? Could someone help me understand where else I should look. Thanks in advance for your help. -- Joel C. Ewing, Fort Smith, AR jcew...@acm.org -- 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: smf reporting
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:25:12 -0500, Tim Brown tbr...@cenhud.com wrote: What are all the options these days for reporting via smf records. Isnt there an RMF pc base reporting tool ? Thanks Tim Brown Systems Specialist - Project Leader Central Hudson Gas Electric 284 South Ave Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Email: tbr...@cenhud.com mailto:tbr...@cenhud.com Phone: 845-486-5643 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 845-486-5643 end_of_the_skype_highlighting Fax: 845-486-5921 Cell: 845-235-4255 Also, you may get some benefit with using DFSORT to do some SMF audit reporting, as well. There are some SMF reporting utilities available on the CBT Tape at http://cbttape.org. If your site has either SAS or WPS (SAS competitor at http://www.teamwpc.co.uk/products/wps also runs on zLinux, which SAS does not support), you likely also have a companion software product MXG available which has some distributed reporting opportunities as well as adhoc user-written SAS programming capabilities. Scott Barry SBBWorks, Inc. http://sbbworks.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
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Re: REXX address environments
In aanlkti=2kwjmhcbttxmwkx4-tbsuhvhg0gtabu-8e...@mail.gmail.com, on 11/19/2010 at 03:39 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net said: An HCE such as the proposed FTP one might well want to add its own routines to handle I/O or message processing, but those services are unavailable if the REXX environment is integrated into TSO/E. There is always the choice of initializing an environment that is not integrated (even when running unser TSO/E), but then the TSO/E services are not available. What gives you that idea? It is normal to invoke a REXX script with multiple environments available, e.g., for ISPF/PDF EDIT macros. -- 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: REXX address environments
In listserv%201011191553181273.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 11/19/2010 at 03:53 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Is that much different from address ISREDIT END or address ISREDIT CANCEL, which I've seen (mis-)used in edit macros. Those only make sense if you don't try to use any other EDIT facilities in the macro. Since the normal reason for writing an EDIT macro is to manipulate the EDIT session, ... Or address TSO LOGOFF in an EXEC started under a Unix shell. It's not immediate regardless of who called the REXX code; it takes effect the next time the TMP is looking for a command to run, which might be hours. Yes. The CMS version implements the stream I/O instructions. (I know those are MFC; are they actually ANSI?) Yes, STREAM is ANSI, as are the extensions to address. -- 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: IEFBR14
In a2ba2a74a6859e45a47cfcb42d78769c3f5c38c...@gvw1340exa.americas.hpqcorp.net, on 11/19/2010 at 10:25 PM, Schumacher, Otto otto.schumac...@hp.com said: I was not saying that IEFBR14 changed but that when run file allocation would do an HDELETE. That may be what you meant to write, but what you actually wrote was the IEFBR14 program using allocation actually does an hdelete. -- 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: REXX address environments
In 1290208612.27170.70.ca...@mckown5.johnmckown.net, on 11/19/2010 at 05:16 PM, John McKown joa...@swbell.net said: Don't I need XEDIT first? Il va sans dire; that was my way of saying that I want XEDIT under TSO, preferably under ISPF. XEDIT beats the stuffing out of PDF edit as far as I'm concerned. XEDIT only has one kind of shift. Although I would be mollified if PDF edit would enhance the FIND, RFIND, CHANGE, and RCHANGE to include POSIX regular expressions. I want prefix macros, including all of the machinery for SET PENDING. Why POSIX? I want full Perl regexen. -- 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: REXX address environments
In 23326c108987498c818a941ac4a05...@ericnbpc, on 11/19/2010 at 09:00 PM, Eric Bielefeld eric-ibmm...@wi.rr.com said: I've always liked ISPF edit much more than XEDIT. You said PDF edit - I'm not sure if you mean something different than ISPF edit. There was a time when IBM split SPF into two products; ISPF and ISPF/PDF. This was when they renamed it from Interactive Structured Programing Facility to Interactive System Productivity Facility. EDIT was in the PDF component of Interactive Structured Programing Facility but it was all one product. My theory is that what you learn to use first is usually what you like best. 026? You can have it. ATS? Ditto. I first learned SPF edit back around 1979. I was the VM systems programmer for 5 or 6 years, but I never liked XEDIT as well. I generally preferred XEDIT but I missed having two kinds of shift. But I'm a tool-building guy and XEDIT had better facilities for building edit macros than ISPF/PDF EDIT has. -- 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: Indirect Catalogging OS zFS Files (was Re: Extended addressability for zFS ROOT)
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:09:19 -0600, Mark Zelden mzel...@flash.net wrote: So until you can mount an uncataloged HFS or zFS, the maintenance version will always need to have a different name, regardless of indirect cataloging of the run-time version. And we still have occasion to mount the alternate volume's FS' for maintenance, too (clone and apply rather than an orderly migration), so we really can't use zFS indirect cataloging at all without VOLSER support. Regards, Art Gutowski Ford Motor 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: REXX address environments
On 23 November 2010 15:48, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In aanlkti=2kwjmhcbttxmwkx4-tbsuhvhg0gtabu-8e...@mail.gmail.com, on 11/19/2010 at 03:39 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net said: An HCE such as the proposed FTP one might well want to add its own routines to handle I/O or message processing, but those services are unavailable if the REXX environment is integrated into TSO/E. There is always the choice of initializing an environment that is not integrated (even when running unser TSO/E), but then the TSO/E services are not available. What gives you that idea? It is normal to invoke a REXX script with multiple environments available, e.g., for ISPF/PDF EDIT macros. I think you are confusing REXX environments with REXX Host Command Environments. Tony H. -- 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: does an UCB include any info on how many systems the given device is online?
I study all the fields in the distributed UCB DSECT(s) fairly often, and have not seen such an element. What would be much more useful, IMHO, is a callable system service that would return useful information, such as system IDs and device numbers on each system, about all the systems on which a given device is currently online. But that's not very likely to be generally available from IBM any time soon. And such information would always be suspect due to its possibly having changed on another system before the query ends. And at what overhead cost with all the required inter-system communication? Bill Fairchild Rocket Software -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 4:10 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: does an UCB include any info on how many systems the given device is online? I don't think so. I run a DCOLLECT on all my systems then assign a column / value from the system id and print out various stats about the volume. It does assume the same UCB on all systems. On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Dr. Stephen Fedtke max_mainframe_...@fedtke.com wrote: hi all, if a particular DASD device is online on several LPARs of a sysplex. does the UCB or any other control block include a counter on the number of LPARs the particular is currently online? many thanks for any tipp! best stephen -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? -- 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
can particular PR/SM controls be determined by corresponding status bits of in-memory control blocks?
hi all, pr/sm includes the following controls: * Global performance data control authority * I/O configuration control authority * Logical partition isolation does anybody know whether there are bits in memory to detect the status of these controls? -- further question: do I understand the following correctly that there is a maschine instruction to perform these kinds of resets on another lpar? Cross-partition authority: This control can limit the capability of the LP to issue certain control program instructions that affect other LPs. LPs with cross-partition authority can issue instructions to perform a system reset of another LP, deactivate any other LP, and provide support for the automatic reconfiguration facility. thanks for any info. best stephen --- Dr. Stephen Fedtke Enterprise-IT-Security.com Seestrasse 3a CH-6300 Zug Switzerland Tel. ++41-(0)41-710-4005 www.enterprise-it-security.com ++NEWS++ SF-SecuClean allows trouble-free RACF database cleanup for z/OS ++NEWS++ -- 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: REXX address environments
And before the first ISPF, there was SPF - I think it stood for Structured Programming Facility. 026? I remember an 029 and an 024(I think). But we were talking about editors when I made the comment about you like what you first learned. Of course that would depend on the editor. Some people even call VI an editor! -- Eric Bielefeld Systems Programmer Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: There was a time when IBM split SPF into two products; ISPF and ISPF/PDF. This was when they renamed it from Interactive Structured Programing Facility to Interactive System Productivity Facility. EDIT was in the PDF component of Interactive Structured Programing Facility but it was all one product. My theory is that what you learn to use first is usually what you like best. 026? You can have it. ATS? Ditto. -- 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: DFHSM MIGRATE MYSTERY
A few things. Last I knew, HMIGRATE didn't have access to ML2, only MIGRATE. When the dataset is on primary DASD, the back=up date is kept in the catalog data (probably the VVDS) and therefore reportable by catalog functions (IDCAMS LISTCAT). Once migrated, the backup date reported by HLIST is from the DFHSM BCDS record. And I think you are correct, a DS on ML1 can still be backed up, so manual migration to ML1 is ok. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of willie bunter Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 8:45 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: DFHSM MIGRATE MYSTERY Joel, I did a manual BACKDS command of the dsn. Next I did a LISTCAT of the dsn and it shows LBACKUP ---2010.328.0643. I did a HMIG dsn ML2 . I did a LISTCAT again and it shows LBACKUP ---.XXX. However when I do HLIST of the dsn it shows the backup 10/11/24 06:43:55 I am not sure why this is happening. I also noted that if I issue the HMIG dsn ML2 the MANAGEMENT CLASS Migration Attributes is being ignored even though I have specified the following: Primary Days Non-usage . : 3 Level 1 Days Date/Days . : 2 Command or Auto Migrate . : BOTH As an earlier poster had mentioned that if a manual Migrate ML2 command is issued to migrate the dsn, it overrides the Migration attributes. This storage group is exempt from Auto Migrate but it does have Auto Backup turned on. I noticed that the Auto Backup is working. The dataset in question was not backed up because it was created after the Auto Backup had run. --- On Tue, 11/23/10, Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org wrote: From: Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org Subject: Re: DFHSM MIGRATE MYSTERY To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Received: Tuesday, November 23, 2010, 4:04 PM Did you display the LBACKUP date while the file was migrated? On z/OS 1.10 I only see the actual last Backup date displayed if the dataset is on a primary volume. If on ML1 or ML2 neither ISMF no LISTC will display the backup date. Did you do a HMIG dsnamefilter (which is a request to migrate to ML1) or HMIG dsnamefilter ML2? If I try to migrate a dsn with an autobackup management class to ML2 and there is no backup yet, it fails with ARC1280I MIGRATION FAILED - DATA SET IS IN NEED OF BACKUP. If I try to migrate the same dataset to ML1 (ML2 parm omitted), migration succeeds. I think this is because DFHSM can still do an autobackup from ML1. Or If I then attempt to force a migrate from ML1 to ML2 with HMIG dsname ML2 before there is a backup, I also get the ARC1280I failure. On 11/22/2010 07:51 AM, willie bunter wrote: Mike, I took your advice and set the MANAGEMENT CLASS AUTO BACKUP=Y. As a test I created a new dsn using the same HLQ's and Management Class. I tried the MIGRATE command via batch (using wild cards) it went to ML1 instead of ML2 which was NOT happening before I changed the AUTO BACKUP from N to Y. I did a LISTCAT of the dsn but it shows that no backup was done. Inspite of this the dsn was sent to ML1. Not sure why LBACKUP ---.000. If I understand Joel's post correctly in which he says that Migration Attributes for primary and level 1 only apply to auto migration then the dsn should not have been sent to ML1 but directly to ML2. Any suggestions? --- On Fri, 11/19/10, Mike Schwabmike.a.sch...@gmail.com wrote: From: Mike Schwabmike.a.sch...@gmail.com Subject: Re: DFHSM MIGRATE MYSTERY To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Received: Friday, November 19, 2010, 10:39 AM You can requre that a successful SMS backup before it allows the dataset to be migrated. On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 8:00 AM, willie bunterwilliebun...@yahoo.com wrote: deleted When the batch job is executed all the dsns (these are all VSAM dsns) are migrated ML2 - including those that were created this morning before the migrate was done. According to the Migration Attributes shouldn't those dsns which were created today yesterday not be migrated? Could someone help me understand where else I should look. Thanks in advance for your help. -- Joel C. Ewing, Fort Smith, AR jcew...@acm.org -- 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:
Re: loop detection by program
And be careful to prevent the loop detector from detecting itself (assuming you have debugged it perfectly), as it may have to run a long time in trying to detect a loop in 1000 other address spaces with 1 tasks each without doing any I/O operations until the very end, when it reports that no loops were detected. Bill Fairchild Rocket Software -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 7:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: loop detection by program In 124554529.1289564475547.javamail.ngm...@webmail16.arcor-online.net, on 11/12/2010 at 01:21 PM, Monika Amiss monika.am...@arcor.de said: I want to examine all Asids every 3 minutes and - if one Address Space appears to be looping - I want to issued a Message to the operator. Be careful what you ask for - you might get it. Expect operators to cancel long running jobs because they were looping. It's easy to detect that a job is looping, but it's impossible to automatically distinguish an erroneous loop from a valid loop, and every job more complicated than IEFBR14 does loop. -- 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 -- 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: Assembler comments
And the year (plus some change) after that there will be a 12-12-12 12:12:12. And then about 8 days after that there will be no more Mayan calendar. So all mainframes operating with an epoch set to moment 0 of the Mayan calendar will have to have their time changed by any operators who survive the universe-wide catastrophe. Bill Fairchild Rocket Software -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of J R Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 10:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Assembler comments No, but next year there will be an 11-11-11 11:11:11 ;-) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:32:24 -0700 From: st...@trainersfriend.com Subject: Re: Assembler comments To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu On 11/12/2010 9:24 AM, Peter Sylvester wrote: On 11/12/2010 05:14 PM, McKown, John wrote: snippage Yes, It's friday, and yesterday it was 11/11/11:11:11 :-) Arent' you a year ahead of yourself there? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, 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: REXX address environments
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: XEDIT only has one kind of shift. Just curious -- what does that mean? I don't know ISPF/PDF well enough to understand. -- zMan -- I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it -- 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: REXX address environments
On 11/24/2010 1:57 PM, zMan wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: XEDIT only has one kind of shift. Just curious -- what does that mean? I don't know ISPF/PDF well enough to understand. ISPF Edit has data shift and column shift. Data shift will not let you shift non-blank data off the line; it also has a little awareness of language specific comments etc. Column shift does what you ask, allowing non-blank data to be lost. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our new tool for calculating your Return On Investment for training dollars at http://www.trainersfriend.com/ROI/roi.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: DITTO Alternative
AMASPZAP will show exactly what is on a track, within certain limitations. E.g., any block with a data length greater than 32760 will only have the first 32760 bytes displayed; if there is more than one EOF record in a row, only the first EOF record will be displayed; the full 28-byte Home Address will not be displayed; only tracks in allocated data sets and/or the VTOC can be displayed; and all other limitations which I have forgotten. Bill Fairchild Rocket Software -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 10:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: DITTO Alternative How about amaspzap? That is free**Ed ** free as in alrerady installed on base Z/os --- On Mon, 11/15/10, Ken Porowski ken.porow...@cit.com wrote: From: Ken Porowski ken.porow...@cit.com Subject: DITTO Alternative To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: Monday, November 15, 2010, 4:12 PM Anyone know of a free DITTO alternative. I'm primarily interested in the DB (Disk Browse) function that will show me exactly what is on a track. Tape utilities would be nice but I rarely have need for them. Thanks all. Ken Porowski VP Mainframe Administration CIT Group -- 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: REXX address environments
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com wrote: ISPF Edit has data shift and column shift. Data shift will not let you shift non-blank data off the line; it also has a little awareness of language specific comments etc. Column shift does what you ask, allowing non-blank data to be lost. Ah, thanks. Easy enough to implement in XEDIT, of course... -- zMan -- I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it -- 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
Regular Expressions (was: REXX address environments)
Although I would be mollified if PDF edit would enhance the FIND, RFIND, CHANGE, and RCHANGE to include POSIX regular expressions.It's not exactly what you want but SimpList has a command called FEX (Find EXpression) that's totally free for anyone to use. It enhances ISPF picture strings by using some of the constructs of regular expressions. For example: FEX move*var1 Finds (for example) 'MOVE TOTAL TO VAR1-INDEX' FEX quick*fox*cat Finds (for example) 'A quick brown fox jumped over a lazy cat' FEX gr[ae]yFinds 'gray' or 'grey' FEX [a-h] Finds any lowercase character between 'a' and 'h' FEX [P-V] Finds any uppercase character between 'P' and 'V' FEX [j-nJ-N] Finds any lowercase or uppercase character between 'j' and 'N' FEX [a-Z] Finds any lowercase or uppercase alphabetic character FEX [0-47-9] Same as FEX [01234789] i.e. finds any number except 5 and 6 FEX Finds 3 lowercase characters; e.g. 'abc' FEX JUDG*MENT Finds 'JUDGMENT' as well as 'JUDGEMENT' FEX CENT[ER][ER] Finds 'CENTER' as well as 'CENTRE' FEX ' [5-9]## 'Finds any number between 500 and 999; e.g. ' 671 ' FEX [$]###[.]00Finds a 3 digit dollar amount with no cents; e.g. '$283.00' FEX TOTAL*[V-Z]Finds TOTAL followed by V to Z; e.g. 'Total for Vancouver' FEX [aeiou] ALLCounts the total number of lowercase vowels in the file FEX is one of several commands that can be used when editing or viewing mainframe files (members, sequential data sets, UNIX files, etc). Other examples include FN (Finds the Next occurrence of whichever string the cursor is pointed at); COMPRESS (frees unused space in the PDS); INFO (displays information about the data set being edited such as the amount of remaining space, etc). You do not have to be in a SimpList session to use any of the extended edit and view commands. For example, you could be in a regular ISPF edit session or viewing something in ISPF option 3.4 (etc). The commands are part of the SimpList libraries, but they can be used completely free of charge and forever more, with or without a SimpList license. Installing SimpList is as easy as adding 5 libraries to a logon CLIST. No special authorities are required so even the most junior person can install SimpList in their own private libraries (if they wish). There is nothing to compile/link/authorize (etc) so it usually only takes about 20 minutes to complete the installation. If anyone has any questions please let me know. More information and a free trial download is available at the following link. Dave Salt SimpList(tm) - try it; you'll get it! http://www.mackinney.com/products/program-development/simplist.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: IBM Link has been corrected for COMMENT INVALID issue
In a UNIX based system, a badly coded system could be subject to an injection attack if a $ is not properly escaped. You could possibly reference an environment variable. -- John McKown Maranatha! Sent from my Vibrant Android phone. On Nov 24, 2010 10:44 AM, Chase, John jch...@ussco.com wrote: Lessons from TSA? -jc- -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On... -- 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: free press; was Open Position in Austria
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Gerhard Postpischil Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 9:45 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Open Position in Austria ... New York Times... editorial justifying why rockets won't work in space nothing to push against) or an earlier one why bumblebees can't fly. And the news media in general published reports discrediting the Wright Brothers' successful heavier-than-air flight for over two years after the fact: http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm Bill Fairchild Rocket Software -- 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: Who at IBM thought HATS was at all worthwhile?
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:49:47, Timothy Sipples timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com wrote: [much of Timothy's Book of Mainframes, Chapter 4 deleted] It's *not* IBM's or HOD's fault if your administrator(s) choose to disable functions you need! Apparently, I touched a nerve. Point well taken. You are right, this is out of the vendor's hands as well as it is out of ours (though we're stuck with it). For their part, our Admins think they are trying to provide what we ask (as you suggest we do). However, I'm not sure they can/will. Keep in mind, many of these folks don't know what a mainframe is or why anyone would want to communicate with one. [more of Timothy's Book of Mainframes, Chapter 4, Verses 10-12, removed] In that case, my best advice is to go get Personal Communications or Host On-Demand, install it locally (or on your own private Web server, preferably and hopefully also z/OS-based), and allow yourself and your similarly situated colleagues to do anything in terms of setting preferences. Oh that we could. We tried - hard. I apologize that part of my rant was misdirected at the product instead of the admins, as from my perspective, I can't readily distinguish product inadeqacy from internal knee-breaking. That said, if you think most users (internal and external) are like you, well, look around. :-) The Web is not exactly new. If *your* mainframe is not Web-savvy, that's a problem. (*The* mainframe has been Web-savvy longer than anything else in Silicon Valley. Check the Web's history on that.) HOD and HATS are extremely well suited to not only keeping pace with the exceptional power users but also quickly and easily making your mainframe Web-savvy. (There are many other ways also.) That's why they exist, that's why they've been so successful, and that's why HOD (for example) is now on its 11th major version -- just like IMS! :-) Although maybe IMS isn't quite ready for prime time yet :-) :-) Tim, I worked for your fine employer for 5+ years, too. I know. I advocate new uses for z/OS. I've tried to get more web serving on the mainframe, but the Standards League in the infinite wisdom even forced our internal (departmental) site onto a SharePoint server. Extermely is a bit overstated, at least in my experience. Perhaps more successful than Domino/390... G (I worked on a few ESPs.) I saw HoD in its realtive infancy, too. F'ugly. It has improved, perhaps, but IMHO, PComm still beats it hands-down. And I'm told, there are even better emulators out there :-) This whole thread reminds me of the debate 25+ years ago when certain people complained that the newfangled PCs didn't make great 3270 terminals. Actually they did (if you wanted/bothered, such as ordering the right keyboard with the real PF keys), but I think that debate has been well settled by now. :-) Yeah, well I'm not 100% convinced of that, either! Actually, I'm reasonably content with PComm 5.9 and my ability to customize it how I see fit. It's our OSA/ICC consoles that are giving me fits at the moment. But, that's another story. FWIW, I was one of those guys that refused to let go of his coax- attached 3270 dumb terminal because Windows kept crashing prompting me to call down to the command center to have my ID canceled so I could logon again once my PC rebooted! (LOGON RECONNECT didn't always work, depending on how the connection terminated.) Oh, and I did I miss a retort for my assertion that Java is a pig? Though I understand, that too, is out of HoD's control (except that it's written in Java). I can't wait for my 8GB laptop so I can run all the sessions I need to concurrently (with Outlook and IE no less). Ah, great... knocked over my Kool- Aid... Regards, Art Gutowski Ford Motor 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: IBM Link has been corrected for COMMENT INVALID issue
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:50:26 -0500, John McKown wrote: In a UNIX based system, a badly coded system could be subject to an injection attack if a $ is not properly escaped. You could possibly reference an environment variable. Which is the reason that HTML, etc. define character entities: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references (which happen to include euro and yen (yuan), but not dollar). And the customary encoding employs '' and ';'. So if the authors need to embed commands in a HTML document, they should employ lead-out sequences with characters which can be encoded when they otherwise appear, avoiding '' and ';' and (e.g.) '$'. Since code points 128 to 255 are used in the increasingly pervasive UTF-8, it's a good idea to avoid these in embedded commands. After referring earlier to xkcd/327, I searched the archives but failed to find it. It was likely in TSO-REXX, in the perennial INTERPRET thread. Same need for prudence. -- 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: REXX address environments
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes: I generally preferred XEDIT but I missed having two kinds of shift. But I'm a tool-building guy and XEDIT had better facilities for building edit macros than ISPF/PDF EDIT has. there were several internally developed 3270/fullscreen editors prior to more mature than xedit (internal developed heavily ran on virtual machine based offerring regardless of the platform that the development was for). when xedit was selected for the product release ... there was some clamor about there were much better alternatives. In one truth is greater than fiction there was a response that effectively said that one of the other editors being better more mature than xedit ... was the fault of the author of the other editor ... and therefor it was his responsibility to improve xedit to fix the deficiencies (almost totally orthogonal to selecting one of the alternatives for product release, in place of xedit). -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, 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: IBM z/196 and AS/400
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Tom Duerbusch duerbus...@stlouiscity.com wrote: Ok, I've reread the announcement letter. I see my confusion... The z/196 supports Power Blades. And Power Blades support i5 (the operating system formerly known as i5.OS or OS/400). It doesn't mean that z/196 has the support for the i5 OS. Which is kind of strange. Is this a licensing issue where IBM couldn't get a license for i5 to run on the z/196? Different divisions have their own chiefs Or is it that there is some emulation involved with running i5 on POWER that isn't available on the z/196? Or is it that there are some device drivers, performance metrics that can't be obtained, or something, that means i5 isn't available for production, at this time? Oh well I guess that is why there hasn't been any chatter on the forums about this. I doubt very much that it's any of these, and I don't actually find it strange. The big wins are Linux and Windows, not i. This is the first release, and nobody really knows whether zBX will take off or what. The worst possible result would be that zBX were to wind up with one i customer (or only a few): the support costs etc. would be a disaster (ObAnecdote: a vendor I worked for had a product with ONE customer. Every call was a fire-drill; they probably lost money on that one in the end.) So doing the dev etc. for i on zBX makes no sense until zBX is self-supporting. And certainly not until after Windows is supported. P.S. z196. It's hardware, no slash. -- ...phsiii Phil Smith III p...@voltage.com Voltage Security, Inc. www.voltage.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
IPCS Control Block Failed Acroynm check
Hi, I have a control block formatted by BLSQMDEF and BLSQMDEF which is being formatted correctly in all areas Of a dump with the exception of one area The Acroynm looks right but I get message that it failed the acronym test -- 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: ISPF 3.4: Migrate to Level 2?
Thanks for the assistance. And fortunately the / ml2 parms are perpetuated to = line commands on subsequent lines. (E. g., in Steve's illustration, entering an equal sign on the line for SCOMSTO.TR.UTF16 would auto-add the / ml2 for it, too.) And all of these will be processed in sequence, and can be served by the same tape mount. And the datasets are HBacked-up, so I'm okay there. -- 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
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