Re: IEF289E - WAITING FOR VOLUME(S) OR UNIT(S)

2005-08-16 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
ITURIEL DO NASCIMENTO NETO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hi all, We have implemented ALLOCxx with : VOLUME_ENQ POLICY(WTOR) VOLUME_MNT POLICY(WTOR) SPEC_WAIT POLICY(WAITNOH) MAXNWAIT(255) POLICYNW(WTOR)

Re: AW: Mainframe in the DMZ -- organization of operations

2005-08-16 Thread Jan MOEYERSONS
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:39:45 +0200, Thomas Ramseier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jantje We're running a zOS DMZ with a WAS for about 3 years now. It is in a Now c'me on, people... There must be more installations that have a mainframe exposed to the Internet and are not top secret... Please do

Cell pool traversal and IGVxxx macros

2005-08-16 Thread Capomaestro
CPOOLing is great to get 'stuff' into fixed length buffers. How about the retrieval operation? 'Data Areas' maps the PXT and PPD with VSM (IGV-prefixed) macros. But even the cell pool callable services (CSRx) do not have a mechanism AFAICS. 1. Where do the macros reside? Surely not

Is this CICS (or are we having fun yet?)

2005-08-16 Thread Capomaestro
Had the recent opportunity to code some dual-mode (CICS batch) assembler. After searching the LISTSERVs the DFHAFCD macro (hlq.SDFHMACS) revealed itself. The code did not contained CICS EXEC statements and therefore did not require preprocessing. Upon entry under CICS the registers point into

How to know whether the z/OS supports 64 bit mode or not?

2005-08-16 Thread Bo Xie
Hi, I D IPLINFO and the following is log: -- RESPONSE=TESTMVS IEE254I 19.27.13 IPLINFO DISPLAY 650 SYSTEM IPLED AT 11.48.05 ON 08/02/2005 RELEASE z/OS 01.06.00LICENSE = z/OS USED LOAD00 IN SYS1.IPLPARM ON

Re: RACF under z/OS 1.7

2005-08-16 Thread John Eells
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question: We plan on going from z/OS 1.6 to z/OS 1.7 when its released in Sept. etc.. I'm being told by out security people that we first have to get to MLS as a pre-req. We currently dont use MLS (Multi Level Security) under z/OS 1.6. Im looking at the migration

Re: Is this CICS (or are we having fun yet?)

2005-08-16 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Capomaestro Had the recent opportunity to code some dual-mode (CICS batch) assembler. After searching the LISTSERVs the DFHAFCD macro (hlq.SDFHMACS) revealed itself. The code did not contained CICS EXEC

Re: Changing DISPosition on the fly

2005-08-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Knutson, Sam said: Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:35:41 -0400 SVC 99 (DYNALLOC) or BPXWDYN service. What language is your program written in? BPXWDYN sounds promising. It's complicated by the fact that at the point at which Roger wishes to delete, the data set is not

Re: Cell pool traversal and IGVxxx macros

2005-08-16 Thread Schneiderwent, Craig
I have used CPOOL. Each of my cells was an element of a linked list. I made no attempt to map/traverse the cell pools themselves. See file 498 on the CBT site http://www.cbttape.org/ftp/cbt/CBT498.zip. Using CPOOL instead of GETMAIN/STORAGE created significant performance improvements in my

Re: Changing DISPosition on the fly

2005-08-16 Thread Bruce Black
BPXWDYN sounds promising. It's complicated by the fact that at the point at which Roger wishes to delete, the data set is not yet catalogued. If he allocates specifying unit and volume, what happens when deallocation attempts to catalog a data set not in the VTOC. If he uses DYNALLOC (SVC

Re: How tell name of originating load library?

2005-08-16 Thread Craddock, Chris
Not true. Our product Dorana can tell you which library a load module was executed from. You just have to know where to look and I can't tell that information suffice to say that IBM do provide a number of facilities to do this but they are not, as we found out, documented very well. But alas

Re: Changing DISPosition on the fly

2005-08-16 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 16, 2005, at 8:19 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: In a recent note, Knutson, Sam said: Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:35:41 -0400 SVC 99 (DYNALLOC) or BPXWDYN service. What language is your program written in? Sam, Becareful doing this. We had an OEM vendor do this and it and it

Re: Cell pool traversal and IGVxxx macros

2005-08-16 Thread Capomaestro
Arrgh! There is a system-maintained map in the SPD so any other tree structure is redundant. And with a bit of RR math one gets the pointer array details. Just looking for a leg-up here. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: Is this CICS (or are we having fun yet?)

2005-08-16 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Capomaestro Au contraire, the DFHEAI stub is *required* to be the first CSECT in the module. CICS 'interrogates' modules for it's I-catcher to determine if it is command level or not. Sorry; I thought you said

Message EPW0401I?

2005-08-16 Thread Craig Kittendorf
Hi, Newbie question: What do the following messages mean and how should they be handled? EPW0401I EPWFFST: EVENT DETECTED BY FFSTV1R2 FOR PROBEID EPWHWS71 EPW0401I EPWFFST: EVENT DETECTED BY FFSTV1R2 FOR PROBEID EPWHWSA2 I haven't found any other related messages or dumps. The FFST OP Guide

How tell name of originating load library?

2005-08-16 Thread Thomas Ramseier
Pardon? Play computer for a second. I dynamically allocate a load library. Then I build a DCB and OPEN it. Then I issue LOAD EP=blah,DCB=mydcb. Then I CLOSE and free the dataset. Now I have a module in memory and no way of knowing where it came from. If you can solve that one grasshopper, you

Re: How tell name of originating load library?

2005-08-16 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
Jim Kyriakakis wrote: Not true. Our product Dorana can tell you which library a load module was executed from. You just have to know where to look and I can't tell that information suffice to say that IBM do provide a number of facilities to do this but they are not, as we found out,

Re: How tell name of originating load library?

2005-08-16 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:11:31 -0500 Craddock, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Not true. Our product Dorana can tell you which library a load module :was : executed from. You just have to know where to look and I can't tell :that : information suffice to say that IBM do provide a number of

Re: Message EPW0401I?

2005-08-16 Thread Gabriel Tully
On 8/16/05, Craig Kittendorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Newbie question: What do the following messages mean and how should they be handled? EPW0401I EPWFFST: EVENT DETECTED BY FFSTV1R2 FOR PROBEID EPWHWS71 EPW0401I EPWFFST: EVENT DETECTED BY FFSTV1R2 FOR PROBEID EPWHWSA2 I haven't

Re: 3590 Strategies without virtual tape?

2005-08-16 Thread Hal Merritt
We restrict tape processing to backups only. It is technically easy to do, and saves tons of money. If you do the math, you will find that the TCO of tapes is surprising expensive. A one time JCL conversion to a DASD management plan based on bottom line dollars rather than politics and

Re: How to know whether the z/OS supports 64 bit mode or not?

2005-08-16 Thread Walt Farrell
On 8/16/2005 7:26 AM, Bo Xie wrote: I D IPLINFO and the following is log: -- RESPONSE=TESTMVS IEE254I 19.27.13 IPLINFO DISPLAY 650 SYSTEM IPLED AT 11.48.05 ON 08/02/2005 RELEASE z/OS 01.06.00LICENSE = z/OS

Re: How tell name of originating load library?

2005-08-16 Thread Walt Farrell
On 8/16/2005 11:46 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wouldn't it be possible to front-end the LOAD-, LINK-, ATTACH-, XCTL-SVCs etc. to get the necessary associaton from the DCB to the DSN? Yes, but after then, from the module itself (for some general module not part of your product that does the

Companies take divergent path with mainframe

2005-08-16 Thread Jon Brock
http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/story/0,10801,103916,00.html?source=NLT_AMnid=103916 Two somewhat similar shops (as much as you can call shops similar), one consolidating everything onto a z990, the other moving off of S/390 and iSeries Key quote: Jacob Matusevich, Welch's

Re: Message EPW0401I?

2005-08-16 Thread Craig Kittendorf
I already read the explanation for EPW0401, but as I said, there are no other messages in syslog, FFSTLOGn, NetView. And no dump. Craig -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gabriel Tully Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 12:05 PM To:

Re: Companies take divergent path with mainframe

2005-08-16 Thread Mike Liberatore
The Dark Side! Weidt, James wrote: Quiz - Without reading the article, can you guess on which side of the fence Jacob Matusevich is standing? Thanks, Jim Weidt Senior Systems Engineer Jostens Inc. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: Managing /service for SMP/E

2005-08-16 Thread Eric Bielefeld
Tom, There was a flash or something quite a while ago that explained just what to do for creating the /service directory and how to apply maintenance. I spent too long looking for it, but I can't find it now. I'm not sure if it's what you want, but I know someone sent the link to IBM-Main a

Re: Managing /service for SMP/E

2005-08-16 Thread Tom Marchant
Thanks, Eric. Everything I've seen from IBM simply says to clone your HFS and mount it at /service, but that is hardly adequate when you have 17 MVS images and can only get a few IPLs per year. We have several target zones to keep track of, and we may need to apply service to any of them.

Re: Managing /service for SMP/E

2005-08-16 Thread Schiradin,Roland HG-Dir itb-db/dc
Tom, I can speak only for DB2/CICS/WMQ but I believe our MVS folks choose the same way. We use zFS for new products. During product installation we run the following SMPE job. SET BOUNDARY(CIC310T) . ZONEEDIT DDDEF .

IBMMAIN Strategy KnowledgeBase

2005-08-16 Thread Peter Pfaffner
Hi again, just needed some time to sort posts to the original thread (news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]): My first impression is, that Wiki's are well known by some listers and are highly accepted by them. Special thanks to (in alphabetical order, I love movies :-): Ian Metcalfe, Jantje and Rob

IBMMAIN Strategy Develoment

2005-08-16 Thread Peter Pfaffner
Well, gentle listers, I've learned some of the lessons. YES, our BUILD process is quite different and cruical to sucess. But this is a chicken-and egg discussion. If we do need BUILD-Support we HAVE to participate and create it. No matter what it is based on (SCLM, SMP/E etc) WSED is too

Re: Managing /service for SMP/E

2005-08-16 Thread Glenn Miller
Tom, The requirements we have for applying maintenance to the z/OS operating system here has dictated how we name the HFS 'service' mountpoint. The 'key' requirement I must adhere to is: Must be able to apply any maintenance to any of the z/OS operating system levels we have installed using any

Re: 3590 Strategies without virtual tape?

2005-08-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/15/2005 at 12:08 PM, Bobby Brake [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: We've just installed a STK L700e using 3590 tapes. These tapes hold up to 300GB and this system works great for our weekly backups where we backup our entire DASD farm. What I would like to ask the group is

Re: Anyone know whether VM/370 EDGAR is still available anywhere?

2005-08-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/12/2005 at 06:52 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: IIRC, IUP's were not copyrighted or licensed, though they were sometimes chargable. They were copyrighted as soon as copyrights were accepted for software. ISTR the software hierarchy used to be

Re: Does anyone have an archive of DBC???? (XDC's predecessor)

2005-08-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/13/2005 at 10:23 AM, David Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I guess that means you don't have an archive. Alas, even had I had permission to retain a copy it wouldn't have been at the correct release level. I last had access to DBC at the State Department, and at EIA I

Re: How tell name of originating load library?

2005-08-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/14/2005 at 09:54 AM, Charles Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Is it possible for a program to determine the dataset name of the library it was loaded from? There didn't use to be. Consider a program that does an OPEN, a LOAD and a CLOSE. But I vaguel recall a message

Re: IBMMAIN Strategy Base

2005-08-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/16/2005 at 03:22 AM, Peter Pfaffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: As proposed I will try to answer or comment on some posts: There are some fundamental inconsistencies in your entire approach. First, the driving ethos of the open source movement is not based on somebody

Re: Proposal (was: Wouldn't it be WIKI and SourceForge time?)

2005-08-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/15/2005 at 11:26 PM, Peter Pfaffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It would be a bad (not to say sick) idea to split our community by flamewars (it survided a lot of them :-)) or moving into different .base directions. This community is already split, and there is

Re: RACF under z/OS 1.7

2005-08-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/15/2005 at 03:10 PM, Andy White [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Question: We plan on going from z/OS 1.6 to z/OS 1.7 when its released in Sept. etc.. I'm being told by out security people that we first have to get to MLS as a pre-req. We currently dont use MLS (Multi

Re: RACF under z/OS 1.7

2005-08-16 Thread Andy White
What you bring up is the bottom line what becomes a department wish list item now they try to push as an agenda. We see no reason to have MLS prior to rolling out z/OS 1.7 which was all I wanted to check. It appears we will be ok coming from 1.6 to 1.7 without MLS then implement it after we

Re: Anyone know whether VM/370 EDGAR is still available anywhere?

2005-08-16 Thread Jim Phoenix
Peter, The Quick Reference Guide states (any mis-spellings are my own): The component of the IUP which provides the basic editing system functions is named EDGAR. Considering how old this card must be, I am amazed how new it looks. All 18 panels of it. Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: Pardon

File encryption for transfer to WinXP ?

2005-08-16 Thread Thomas Kern
One of our users has become interested in encrypting a job's sysout before sending it to a email address. We currently use XMITPIP to package the data for emailing the data. This is only an interest at this point, there is no money to spend on fancy products with components on both z/OS and WinXP.

Re: Anyone know whether VM/370 EDGAR is still available anywhere?

2005-08-16 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 16, 2005, at 8:42 PM, Jim Phoenix wrote: Peter, The Quick Reference Guide states (any mis-spellings are my own): The component of the IUP which provides the basic editing system functions is named EDGAR. Considering how old this card must be, I am amazed how new it looks. All 18

Re: Managing /service for SMP/E

2005-08-16 Thread Tom Marchant
Thanks, Glenn. This is the same thing that I did, except that I established an Automount policy to mount the HFS when it is referenced. For the simple case of managing the MVS root (Version) HFS, it looks like this. /etc/auto.master contains this: /service/etc/service.map