1+ year contract where I work
Contract position in Los Angeles area for someone with very strong mainframe capacity planning experience and chargeback billing (lead). Possibly permanant later for the right candidate...? Great bunch of people to work with/for. Contact me gpinkow...@isd.lacounty.gov or m...@staff-tech.net I get nothing from this, just hoping to help out. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
2 good contracts in LA
Please excuse the bandwidth... 2 renewable 1-year mainframe contracting positions available in LA area (local government). These are positions with a great group of people downstairs from me, and the contracts I would prefer except I can't abandon my current security admin contract to bid on another with the same government body. Great foot in the door, ongoing need for these duties. - storage admin-consultant. Mainframe z/OS, HSM, SMS, ACS rules, CA-1, ABARS aggregating software, IBM virtual tape TS7740/20. Disaster recovery via EMC Symetrix business continuity volumes. Software support for CA-1 and EMC SRDF, Host Component, and Timefinder. SEND YOUR RESUME TODAY as the bids close early tomorrow (Wed) afternoon. Renewable 1-year contract with possibility to convert to regular-hire. - z/OS capacity planning consultant. Capacity reporting, trending, and projection for z/OS, z/Linux WEB portal, CICS, IMS, DB2. Customer utilization charge-back billing. Familiar with z/OS Workload Manager, IBM z/OS Capacity Planner software, SMF, RMF, and logs from CICS, IMS, ACF2, and PACE, SAS, Metron, MXG software. Experienced with Omegamon, TMON, Velocity software. Contact Mae West of Staff-Tech Inc. 916-932-1229 -- 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
IMS sysprog contract opportunity in SoCal
I've been a long-time subscriber and mainframe contractor/consultant; there's nothing in this for me but I hope this referral might help someone. I am currently waiting to bid on a particular position.meanwhile there is another opportunity to be placed on-site at the same local-government customer, as an IMS SYSPROG contractor. This is initially a 12 month contract position, mostly doing IMS software upgrade installation and production support. I finally got them off SMU to ACF2/IMS last year so I assume one major objective is to manage and execute a subsequent IMS update. As necessary, also upgrade and/or support BMC: DELTA/IMS, UltraOpt/IMS, Mainview, MAXM reorg/EP, Neon PDF, CA: ACF2/IMS, IBM: AD Tools, ADF, BTS, DBT, IMS Connect extensions, INFOTEL: Telepak. Must be comfy with SMP/E, TSO, fundamentals of VTAM, MS: Office, Outlook, Project. I'd apply myself but most of my IMS experience was pretty long ago; they're asking for 5 years' experience with IMS within the last 7 but if you have relevant experience please do apply. There is another IMS contractor on-site; ACF2/IMS administration is handled by another department; application support is handled by another department. This is mostly systems programming, change management, testing, and migration, SMP; not DBA work. Except for a few small exits the software is vendor-supported; be able to take dumps and perform basic diagnostics. Staff-tech is favored in these government bids as a registered local female-owned small business: contact Mae West m...@staff-tech.net 916-932-1229. This is a good foot in the door with a supportive and cooperative database group that also supports CICS and DB2, surrounded by a very professional in-house systems group. Pay range considers experience and is appropriate to cost of living in a suburb just south of LA, but a price-competitive bid is awarded the contract. Hint: IMS was developed and first ran across the street, where the DB/DC division made one man there the world's first DBA. Is there an IMS listserver I should post to? -- 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
TSO session manager buffer size
As I left work today I was looking at the TSO manuals for the session manager
over TSO line mode, and started using it. I'm enjoying using it to scroll
around in ACF2 X(RGP) LIST LIKE(-) TPUT output that won't go directly to a
dataset (the other ACF2 LIST commands allow you to use INTO('dsn'), as a
convenient alternative to running the LIST commands in batch. I need a
bigger buffer of output in session manager, as some commands produce so
much output it wraps and ovelays the beginning of the output. The manuals
present a pretty convoluted discussion of sizing individual streams, total byte
count, etc. etc. I'm just being lazy and asking someone who already knows:
What's the short answer and bottom line...do I need to modify and assemble
some customized configuration module? What's the minimum I have to do to
double the quantity of TPUT output it will capture for me? Not VTAM buffer
size...not talking about tuning, just managing more total line-mode session
data.
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Re: Display true hex as EBCDIC characters?
I first ran into that technique in school, and have used variations of it many many times since, referring to pages 228-229 in Assembler Language with Assist first edition by Overbeek and Singletary (NIU) published by SRA. -- 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: Display true hex as EBCDIC characters?
WITHOUT THE COMMENTS (SORRY, TOO LAZY TO TYPE) THIS IS FROM THE BOOK; SUBRTN CONVERTS CONTENTS OF R1, RESULT PLACED AT ADDRESS WHERE R2 POINTS, NO REGISTERS ARE ALTERED, RETURN IS VIA R10. * HEXDUMP STR1,FWORD UNPK DUMMY(9),FWORD(5) TRDUMMY(8),TRANTAB MVC 0(8,R2),DUMMY BRR10 * * FWORDDSF,CL1 1 WORD + 1 BYTE GARBAGE DUMMYDSCL9 TRANTAB DSCL(X'F0') NEVER USED DCC'0123456789ABCDEF' Note that he first 240 bytes of TRANTAB in the example may contain any values whatever due to the fact that every character to be translated will have F as a zone digit. Because of this fact, the following TR instruction and definition of TRANTAB are equivalent to those in the example: TRDUMMY(8),TRANTAB-C'0' TRANTAB DCC'0123456789ABCDEF' ...note that the address TRANTAB-C'0' must occur within the same CSECT as TRANTAB, or an error will not be detected by the asembler. -- 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: CA ESD files Options
You speak the truth, with the possible exception of VM. The nature of MVS is to share devices, files, and much of memory by default (to accomodate the integration of the most complex of applications) but take extreme protection and control measures. VM on the other had uses DAT, CCW translation etc. to make isolation the default at a low level of the architecture and requiring you to jump thru hoops to share memory and devices. The Common Criteria tested configuration of MVS is far more capable than the CC tested configuration of Windows. Windows is deemed secure only as long as you don't connect it to anything and don't run any applications, etc...seems to me the stock Windows logon ID and password can be made reasonably secure but that's about all. - Original Message - From: Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...MVS, and its successors, by their very nature and architecture are FAR AND AWAY more secure against viruses, Trojan horses and worms than any other operating system -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Talk about short lived - IBM Suspension from Federal Contracts Lifted [WSJ article]
Talk about 5 guys getting into some trouble at work LOL. - Original Message - From: Roach, Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120731162748989649.html?mod=googlenews_wsj -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Another RNL question
Repeat after me, the 3-zeros chant: Kilo Mega Giga Tera Peta Exa (and in the other direction): Milli Micro Nano Pico Femto Atto - Original Message - From: Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Once I get past three zeroes, I cannot relate. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: system stalled message
Security Center does have sysplex support using the coupling facility but that's been pretty reliable, it might be the victim. The product has mulitple address spaces. Did you give Vanguard a call? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Virtual tape questions
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Virtual tape questions
This site uses an STK virtual tape system cluster, which accumulates many virtual tape volumes onto a disk array cache and then to multi-volume-cartridges loaded robotically. It also replicates those virtual tape volumes to a disaster recovery site where they are cached and a second robotic system loads them to a different library of multi-volume cartridges. I'm just becoming familiar with STK virtual tape and making some observations and have many questions. First of all, real tape's update mode is primarily append. But using disk, once the virtual volume is written to a multi-volume cartridge, assuming it's not the last volume on the multi-volume cartridge, no physical straight-forward append seems possible. I don't think it chains virtual volume extents in different locations on the mulit-volume cartridge or across them to simulate a virtual append ??? I assume for a non-scratch ring-in virtual mount of a pre-existing volser it loads the original virtual volume data from the multi volume cartridge to its disk cache and then after the job finishes appending data it just marks the original data area free in its CDS directory and rewrites the original data with appended data in a new location on a multi-volume cartridge. So virtual tape probably handles applications which append data to old tapes rather poorly, fragmenting the data on the cartridges until background reclaim processing reorganizes them. Doesn't HSM L2 do a lot of append processing, adding to the end of tapes? This site doesn't currently replicate HSM L2 tape volumes nor sysout archive migrate or backup tape volumes to the disaster recovery site. I am considering changing that. Today I will quantify the increase in data traffic. But quantifying the increase in fragmentation and need for reclaim/reorg is more difficult. Should I even worry about it? With virtual tape meeting the same objective of using more of the entire physical tape, can HSM be run in a mode which does not append to its old tapes? That would use many more tpae volumes, but heck they're virtual. How can I quantify the greatly increased number of volsers that would require in my CA-1 tape library? Is this even possible? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Can forked/spawned address spaces be identified as such?
I don't want to instigate or contest in any public online flaming war, nor to be picking apart the appreciated response you took thoughtful time to compose; but I'm still a bit touchy on subjects with even tangents brushing upon Object Code Only (OCO) policy. This is a tangent off the original subject, so please take this in the congenial respectful spirit in which it's intended, and do not mis-interpret my long-winded but heartfelt reply as mere rant. I'm sitting here with the day off for Good Friday and having a drink relaxing...beating a dead horse to pass the time in digital conversation with colleagues rather than formulating a professional reaction and stance. I hitched my career (and thus the prosperity of my family) to IBM's OS architecture, and IMHO OCO is one reason for its decline in the marketplace. I don't understand how IBM can simultaneously embrace open source LINUX and OCO z/OS without some cataclysmic schism tearing the very fabric of time/space but I'm not sure I want it explained to me either LOL! I prefer to be collegial and inoffensive, but this IBM internal doublethink seems to me to have become so ingrained that even now after years of what I see as evidence from the marketplace OCO remains in IBM's corporate culture nearly unchallenged, with a common and practiced reply. OCO is a policy which takes something away from their customers and the world, and especially from the z/OS enthusiast, which includes most of us on-list though I speak only for myself. OCO is non-supportive of academic and theoretical computer science, and ultimately it restricts our ability to investigate. I can only conjecture how OCO policy was originally influenced by legal implications and lawsuits at the time, proprietary copyright insecurity, or controlling and supporting customer sysmods across migrations; but regardless IMHO OCO policy was and remains a serious mistake. When IBM talks down to me implying source??...you can't handle source, as an operating systems internals specialist I find that a little limiting, occasionally problematic, maybe the word is demeaning, and in the marketspace ultimately self-fulfilling (practically speaking, would I need a PL/S compiler or would a C compiler now often suffice LOL?). Back in the 1970's I learned much of what I knew about VM from source code, and perhaps I never quite got over my deep concern and disappointment when IBM announced its OCO policy back then. Today's young nerds DO have a reaction when exposed to LINUX source in school, even if they never use it...it just is cool to peruse the real thing, just in appreciation if nothing else. You have no way of knowing what intricate ramifications there might be for bits that are not programming interfaces that you happen to think do what you want. Though I obviously can't predict with certainty what IBM may do with a field in the future, within a defined environment that statement is unfortunately true primarily because IBM does not share source. IBM's developers are able to function with the source and doc they have internally but I'm not holding my breath to see full release of the same, even to an IBM Partner much less a customer. I greatly appreciate IBM's diligent demarcation of the lines of their commitments and responsibilities, and agree it's important to recognize those distinctions between what is and is not an external programming interface. IBM's reputation for upward compatibility is undeniably unsurpassed, and their distinction and definition of supported interfaces is a big reason for that success and resultant longevity. I'm occasionally willing to evaluate my use of a particular field to the extent possible. Even commercial system management software is still full of dependencies on internal and unsupported fields and interfaces, not that anyone prefers that. I don't happen to know the answer to any of these questions. And I don't propose to find out. I would not want to ask you to. But maybe I'd like to someday...or not. Whether a field should be used for my particular purpose...I'd occasionally like to be able to investigate that, and would appreciate any help toward those ends. I've had marketing types come to me and say thinks like we don't know whether this is possible, but we want... and ultimately with source nearly anything is possible. Would I really want to thoroughly investigate source for this particular question? Probably not. I do understand your point too. Like I said, I'm just a bit touchy on the subject... Best regards and please enjoy the weekend. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Can I know programmatically if a load module has been zapped?
You can browse the load module and see IDRDATA if you know what to look for (easier in the object), but you don't have to make IDRDATA when you zap, AFAIK (and AMASPZAP is not the only thing that can edit a load module). So IMHO the only real way to know for sure is to take a digital signature of a virgin that's known not to have been zapped, then take another and compare them at promotion time. Or just keep a virgin and compare. Or freeze the libs against update... Good luck. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Easy way to convert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE
1) Does IDCAMS keyword NOSCRATCH make HSM bring in a dataset before deleting it just like NONVSAM does? I may have observed that behavour...job had NONVSAM NOSCRATCH and HSM brought it in first, after I removed the NONVSAM and I think it still came in (didn't confirm conclusively) until I removed the NOSCRATCH. BTW this was on a user-specific brodcast dataset. 2) z/OS 1.7...I don't think we're even using these userid-specific brodcast datasets, I think they're allocated and then one common one is actually used. What's the easiest way to tell? Seems half-configured to me. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
spam: Re: Video of mainframe being shaken
Skip this if off-subject stuff irritates you...just some Friday war stories. Speaking of vibration testing...I remember back sometime in the 1970's we had an intermittent storage director. After a few SEV1 failures IBM would auto-escalate the support issue to page somebody and another guy in a suit would show up to handle the people aspects and show their policy-dictated concern. So after a long enough time the room is full of people trying different things...spraying freon on it, heat guns, cleaning conectors, flicking their fingernails on discrete components,...but it always works until it suddenly doesn't LOL. So after a while I hear snippets of gibberish in a language-like IBM-part-number-ese: ... in a BN-974645 logic scope won't .. ...66grg channel monitor can't... ...should we call in the big gun... ...couldn't shoot this one with a 12-guage... ...can't fit...in the elevator... ...got a PN-9074539 right in the truck... ...mind the noise... ...get it past security... Next thing I know, there's two guys in suits bringing in a long wooden 4 X 4 with a metal band on one end with an IBM part number stamped onto it, and everyone grabs on, starts running wth it and swinging it and really banging it hard against the frame of this storage director until it dies for good, like a swat team knocking down a crackhouse door...then they replaced the permanently-failed card and went home. I was dumbstruck that a four-by-four would be employed often enough to have an IBM part number on it. Long ago I went to High School with a guy named Tom Danley who once noticed the sounds a computer tape drive made, and modified one such surplus capstan motor with aramid belts wrapped around the capstan shaft to pull on fiberglass cones, inventing the first rotary-motor-driven audio subwoofers. The technology went full-circle when those Intersonics subwoofers were used for earthquake drills and for vibration testing entire rooms full of computer equipment. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
clock, daylight savings time
I'm new...to this list and at my new job... Question about setting the clock: Haven't IPL'd in 4 months, so tonight I'm going to IPL the production z/OS 1.7 LPAR and similar test LPAR (each a monoplex) to pick up a new SYS1.PARMLIB(CLOCK00) with a different offset to Greenwich Mean Time (7 instead of 8 for Pacific). Shutdown will quiesce everything nicely. Systems are simple, mostly CICS and MQ. And I come from more of an internals/development background, and haven't been around operations nor hardware lately. Question is: do I have to reset any secondary time of day clock that the HDC (this is some kind of Z9 with a HDC that I think runs some kind of UNIX as its embedded system??) uses for things like hardware time stamps or knowing when to call home or something? My point is, GMT did not change, so I don't need to change any hardware CPU TOD clock for z/OS (not like the old days when we'd set to local). But do I need to make other clock changes for the HCD part of the hardware itself or does it operate on GMT or something? If I need to do more, what's involved? Do I need to do some kind of power-on reset? For the LPAR or for the whole box or whole HCD? Or does IBM take care of that? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: clock, daylight savings time
Gil, - Thanks a ton. No coupling facility from what I'm told, GRS via couple dataset (I'm used to MIM via CTC, so this is new to me too). I just want to prove periodically an IPL works, I know it's not necessary. I just haven't seen one at this site since I started here, and I want to compare the start-up to some timing issues I've see starting the disaster recovery machine. USS exists only to support TCPIP, NPF and MQ as necessary. - Greg BTW when I shut down the test LPAR yesterday, z/OS didn't seem to recognize the hardware console as a z/OS console until I cause an interrupt after it's lost the other consoles. Is this normal? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
