Re: Does z/VM have a product/tool which can send backup to the Cloud ?
Thank you Timothy, we thought about this solution, but customer requirements are: solution must be software in the z/VM environment (no z/OS or other guests), Regards, Arye Shemer On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 9:18 AM Timothy Sipples wrote: > Arye Shemer asked: > > Does z/VM have a product/tool of any vendor which can send backups to the > >Cloud (*no z/OS involvement*)? > > The IBM TS7700 can handle that via its Cloud Storage Tier feature. Details > here: > > https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp5573.html > > For example, you can run your backups using Backup and Restore Manager for > z/VM out to the TS7700, and then the TS7700’s Cloud Storage Tier takes it > from there. Tape Manager for z/VM is helpful. > > — > Timothy Sipples > Senior Architect > Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity > IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific > sipp...@sg.ibm.com > > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Why do all entry points have to be in the same class?
On Fri, 20 Oct 2023 20:25:31 -0500, Jon Perryman wrote: > >The most obvious answer is incompatible entry point types. Language >Environment entry points require LE initialization whereas no pre-processing >is required for an assembler entry point. > Long ago (when "any" meant just one of two), I had a similar question about AMODE. I could have readily envisioned a module with ENTRYs of various AMODEs which contained suitable bridge code. Alas, AMODE applied to an entire CSECT, not to individual ENTRY points. Of course such a module would be RMODE 24. -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Why do all entry points have to be in the same class?
On Fri, 20 Oct 2023 16:38:54 +, Schmitt, Michael wrote: > main module entry point is assembler (CLASS B_TEXT) > and the alternate entry I wanted was to IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS v6 > (CLASS C_CODE). > >This is not permitted. *why* do all entry points have to be in the same class? > I thought a directory alias entry is just an offset into the module. The most obvious answer is incompatible entry point types. Language Environment entry points require LE initialization whereas no pre-processing is required for an assembler entry point. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Can someone provide me with information on the DPSS subsystem
On Fri, 20 Oct 2023 11:20:00 +0300, Binyamin Dissen wrote: >Don't see references to DD SUBSYS . SYSOUT= by it's very nature is directed to a subsystem. Typically, it would be JES2 or JES3 but it could just as easily be DPSS. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: DVIPA question
On Fri, 20 Oct 2023 11:55:17 +, Allan Staller wrote: > The difference iis n starting/stopping the application is a service > interruption to the end user. > The DVIPA activate/deactivate would be seamless to the end user DVIPA activate/deactivate isn't seamless. First, it would require the application be running on the second LPAR running in standby mode. Second, current connections are interrupted unless the application has been designed to circumvent the problem. Third, you still have a time frame where the application is still unreachable albeit very small hopefully. Each situation is different and a decision about which method best solves the problem must be made. The OP said his application can only be active on one LPAR. In that case, using activate/deactivate would not provide an advantage although it would work equally as well.. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Why do all entry points have to be in the same class?
I just spent an hour trying to figure out why an alternate entry point didn't work via an ALIAS binder control statement, before finally realizing it was because the main module entry point is assembler (CLASS B_TEXT) and the alternate entry I wanted was to IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS v6 (CLASS C_CODE). This is not permitted. Now that I know it, I see the restriction is documented in the z/OS MVS Program Management: User's Guide and Reference: "Note: If the module contains multiple text classes, all entry points must be defined in the same class." My question is, *why* do all entry points have to be in the same class? I thought a directory alias entry is just an offset into the module. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: DVIPA question
FYI, this is more than the OP needs to know to solve his problem. On Fri, 20 Oct 2023 06:06:33 -0500, John S. Giltner, Jr. wrote: >Correct, it's not a "full router", it can route traffic to a specific LPAR if >the IP address as been registered. IBM says "not a full router" because they don't want us to contemplate using it as a full router and unnecessarily route all traffic to an LPAR. Why use expensive equipment when cheap equipment can be used. Ask yourself if your home router is "not a full router" because it discards traffic that is not registered. If you were to define where to send unregistered traffic, does your home router become a full router? >Not sure if it was true but I had heard that the I/O cards for the zSystems >were > single board computers using either x86 or PowerPC based CPU's > and running some form of either OS2 (early on) or Linux (later on). Most routers today are Linux based. I wouldn't be surprised if OSA is running Linux but then again maybe it's running AIX. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Capacity on demand license activation
Yes I did mean CBU. So I can activate another CBU license even when the LPAR is active and the effects will take place immediately? On Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 6:55 PM Radoslaw Skorupka < 0471ebeac275-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > W dniu 20.10.2023 o 15:38, Jake Anderson pisze: > > Hello > > > > I have activated the COD in our DR site for one of our production LPAR. I > > understand every temporary COD license is valid for 10 days. > > Wrong. > > > Post the expiration Can I activate the new COD license while the LPAR is > up > > and running? If activated will it take an immediate effect? > > Yes. > > > Explanation: COD is ambiguous. > I think you mean CBU test activation. Both CBU and test are important. > CBU is for disaster recovery, not for other purposes. CBU test is for > testing your readiness for DR. And only for that. > Every other use is simply illegal. The test is up to 10 days. Another > test can be used. Note: the number of tests is limited. > > Other than CBU offerings: > On/Off COD - you may switch it on and you pay for every started day. How > long? Your decision. > CPE - Capacity for Planned Events - You may activate additional > resources because of some planned (means: it is not disaster) event like > CPC relocation, etc. Up to 72h. > > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Capacity on demand license activation
W dniu 20.10.2023 o 15:38, Jake Anderson pisze: Hello I have activated the COD in our DR site for one of our production LPAR. I understand every temporary COD license is valid for 10 days. Wrong. Post the expiration Can I activate the new COD license while the LPAR is up and running? If activated will it take an immediate effect? Yes. Explanation: COD is ambiguous. I think you mean CBU test activation. Both CBU and test are important. CBU is for disaster recovery, not for other purposes. CBU test is for testing your readiness for DR. And only for that. Every other use is simply illegal. The test is up to 10 days. Another test can be used. Note: the number of tests is limited. Other than CBU offerings: On/Off COD - you may switch it on and you pay for every started day. How long? Your decision. CPE - Capacity for Planned Events - You may activate additional resources because of some planned (means: it is not disaster) event like CPC relocation, etc. Up to 72h. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Capacity on demand license activation
Hello I have activated the COD in our DR site for one of our production LPAR. I understand every temporary COD license is valid for 10 days. Post the expiration Can I activate the new COD license while the LPAR is up and running? If activated will it take an immediate effect? Jake -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: DVIPA question
Classification: Confidential Either method would be successful in moving the workload. The difference iis n starting/stopping the application is a service interruption to the end user. The DVIPA activate/deactivate would be seamless to the end user. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jon Perryman Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2023 1:28 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DVIPA question [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust the sender, Don’t click links or open attachments as it may be a Phishing email, which can steal your Information and compromise your Computer.] On Thu, 19 Oct 2023 12:08:04 +, Allan Staller wrote: >That is not correct. The DVIPA and be started/stopped in a specific TCPIP >instance. >IIRC, the commad is something like V >TCPIP,,SYSPLEX,ACTIVATE,DVIPA=xx.xx.xx.xx >There is also a DEACTIVATE parameter as well. John Giltner says he stops his app on one LPAR and starts it on another. He implies that he is not issuing activate/deactivate for the DVIPA address. It would make more sense for IBM to automatically deactivate the address when it has no ports in use and to automatically activate it when the first listener starts. There are times when activate / deactivate command is needed. For instance, you may have applications running in case of failover recovery but you don't want them used until the other system fails. Recovery would only need to activate the address without the need to startup the applications and resources. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ::DISCLAIMER:: The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. E-mail transmission is not guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or may contain viruses in transmission. The e mail and its contents (with or without referred errors) shall therefore not attach any liability on the originator or HCL or its affiliates. Views or opinions, if any, presented in this email are solely those of the author and may not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of HCL or its affiliates. Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and / or publication of this message without the prior written consent of authorized representative of HCL is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify the sender immediately. Before opening any email and/or attachments, please check them for viruses and other defects. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Extracting SMP/e details
Classification: Confidential There is a REXX? API available. Check the fine manuals. An alternative would be SMPLIST and parse the output with the tool of you choice. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2023 9:33 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Extracting SMP/e details [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust the sender, Don’t click links or open attachments as it may be a Phishing email, which can steal your Information and compromise your Computer.] I need a simple process to get the following out of SMP/e PTF. Fmid. Date received. Date applied I am thinking of writing a Rexx or icetool to read a listing to produce the one liners Just wanted to check here to see if there was a better way I have not found much on cbttape From time to time I need to show when fixes went in. So this just needs to be a simple report Thanks Sent from EarthLink Mobile mail -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ::DISCLAIMER:: The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. E-mail transmission is not guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or may contain viruses in transmission. The e mail and its contents (with or without referred errors) shall therefore not attach any liability on the originator or HCL or its affiliates. Views or opinions, if any, presented in this email are solely those of the author and may not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of HCL or its affiliates. Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and / or publication of this message without the prior written consent of authorized representative of HCL is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify the sender immediately. Before opening any email and/or attachments, please check them for viruses and other defects. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: DVIPA question
Correct, it's not a "full router", it can route traffic to a specific LPAR if the IP address as been registered. If it has not been registered any packets received when a non-registered (unknown to any LPAR) address it will be dropped, unless you have defined one of the OSA's as a "PRIMARY ROUTER". If an OSA defined as "PARIMARY" ROUTER in one of the LPARS's then all traffic that is received on the OSA from a unknown IP address is passed to TCPIP on the designated LPAR and the TCPIP stack does the routing. Not sure if it was true but I had heard that the I/O cards for the zSystems were single board computers using either x86 or PowerPC based CPU's and running some form of either OS2 (early on) or Linux (later on). On Thu, 19 Oct 2023 13:36:27 -0500, Jon Perryman wrote: >On Thu, 19 Oct 2023 06:59:43 -0500, John S. Giltner, Jr. >wrote: > >>There is a Share presentation called "Getting the most out of your OSA (Opens >>Systems Adapter)" >> that does a much better job of describing how the OSA works than I can. > >I only did a quick scan of the presentation. It says one of the OSA functions >is router. It talks more about non-dynamic routing. I didn't see a discussion >about dynamic routing with regards to IP addresses and ports. OSA is very >impressive. > >Thanks for pointing out the presentation. > >-- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Can someone provide me with information on the DPSS subsystem
Don't see references to DD SUBSYS . On Thu, 19 Oct 2023 18:51:44 +0100 Patrick Loftus wrote: :>This any use? :>https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=mode-defining-dpss :> :> :>-Original Message- :>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of :>Binyamin Dissen :>Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2023 6:44 PM :>To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU :>Subject: Can someone provide me with information on the DPSS subsystem :> :>I am examining a dump and seeing that SYSOUT is directed to the DPSS :>subsystem with the parm XMEM. :> :>Looking at the DPSS modules in storage I see compile dates from 1997 but no :>useful eyecatchers. -- Binyamin Dissen http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
