Re: DMV systems?

2005-12-28 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John S. Giltner, Jr.) writes: I'm not sure, but I beleive that HP-UX and Solaris (it was originally called SunOS) came out in early 80's (82'ish) and that AIX did not come out until a few years later (86'ish). DMV systems were already in place by then. a minor sunos

Re: DMV systems?

2005-12-28 Thread Ted MacNEIL
A RS/6000 is not a mainframe. Are we sure about that anymore? -teD Me? A skeptic? I trust you have proof! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

Re: Rule of thumb about paging / page fault rate

2005-12-28 Thread DMR-Qualitas Outsourcing
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:33:47 -0600, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ROTs are fine (old and current), but there is really only one thing that matters and you may be paging, or you may not be Are you meeting your SLAs? Mark Hello Mark, of course, to meet SLAs is the first and last

Re: GDPS Redbook

2005-12-28 Thread Christian Blesa
Yes Ed, It's a good redbook to begin at GDPS world! ;-) Chr. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Re: Need some RVA T82 GEN ADVICE - RECALL those brain cells ;o)

2005-12-28 Thread R.S.
Dave Myers wrote: - Forwarded by Dave Myers/sesg/Star on 12/26/2005 01:42 PM - Dave Myers/sesg/Star 12/21/2005 02:57 PM To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Need some RVA T82 GEN ADVICE - RECALL those brain cells ;o) I am looking for confirmation that I am making the correct IOGEN

Re: ABN Tape - Found

2005-12-28 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jeffrey Deaver [ snip ] I know its a legal issue we won't solve here, but I think this raises an interesting question regarding how long is long enough to keep looking and how quick is quick enough to satisfy

Re: Reconfigure Shark 3390-3's to -9's question

2005-12-28 Thread R.S.
Ron and Jenny Hawkins wrote: Bruno, The software to do CVS (Custom Volume Size) is included with the Resource Manager package of software - always included with every purchase. It's kind of free because the Resource Manager suite is mandatory software with every Lightning or USP you buy. I

Assembler error

2005-12-28 Thread Kinney, Kevin
Good morning all, I'm having some problems assembling David Coles Scheduler (CBT tape #388) on an OS/390 1.2 system. Here's the error - #REGS GEN=ON,(BASE1REG,R12),(BASE2REG,R11),(BASE3REG,R7) ASMA089E *** ERROR *** Arithmetic expression contains illegal delimiter or ends

Re: A valuable lesson learned.

2005-12-28 Thread David Andrews
On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 10:50 -0600, John Benik wrote: The 9740's failed with several hardware errors from bad cards to cap door problems, and pass thru port problems. We're not anywhere *near* your size, and have a single 9740 with no passthru. The box replaced a 9310 when we upgraded to 9840C.

Re: Basic IODF question

2005-12-28 Thread Mueller, David
I'm not sure on what you say about comparing the names. But, when you use HCD to build and download an IOCDS (IOCP) to the machine, you have to select which CPC definition to build / download. The different CPC definitions in the IODF would have different I/O devices defined to

Strange message from a CICS region.

2005-12-28 Thread McKown, John
I have gotten the following message a number of times from one of our CICS/TS 1.3 regions (on z/OS 1.4) +IEW2166S 02C6 OFFSET WAS SPECIFIED AS A NEGATIVE NUMBER OTHER THAN -1. It appears that this is the GETE function of the IEWBIND. Does this indicate a bad load module? If so, is there a simple

ICSF and z9 (CEX2C)

2005-12-28 Thread R.S.
I browsed many documents, but still doubt: What ICSF version should I use on z/OS V1R4 and z9 machine with CryptoExpress2 cards ? It seems to be HCR770B, can anybody confirm this ? -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- For

DFHSM connected set

2005-12-28 Thread Tom Brannon
Anyone remember seing a PATCH that was for removing a tape from a connected set? I know I have it someplace but just can't find it. I've got a tape that RECYCLE thinks is a member of a connected set but when I do a LIST TTOC on it there is no previous or subsequent tape indicated. Tom

Re: DMV systems?

2005-12-28 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
as400 wrote: Well, thanks for this information..I really appreciate it... And lastly, can Solaris (UNIX) be ran on a Mainframe or not? Because you said: would say that most of the systems were mainframe based (IBM and Unisys) and non-Unix based OS's: Please advise. what you mean by

Re: Need some RVA T82 GEN ADVICE - RECALL those brain cells ;o)

2005-12-28 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Hi Dave. Hopefully somebody else will be able to give more/better information but my old grey matter tells me that you can't do that. Years ago we upgraded from a T82 to an X82 because the T82 still only supported 256 logical devices and we were running out of addresses. We upgraded to the X82

Re: Merry Christmas!

2005-12-28 Thread Andy Robertson
Ain't no need to be politcally correct. Today is Christmas. In the US, it's a Federally recognized Holiday, since 1870, by the name Christmas. You can wish me Happy Holidays, Season's Greetings, whatever. But, I say to you, Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas to you and every one on the list

Can not shutdown CICS region

2005-12-28 Thread Peter Ten Eyck
I have an LPAR running z/OS 1.4 with CICS TS 2.2. I am unable to shutdown any CICS region in this LPAR using the console command F CICSREGION,CEMT P SHUT (or SHUT I). It is as if the command is not being received by the CICS region. No modify commands for CICS work (ie F CICSREGION,CEMT I TASK).

Re: ABN Tape - Found

2005-12-28 Thread Hal Merritt
I seem to recall thought processes of just how hard it would be to actually recover information from such a tape without intimate knowledge of exactly how the tape was created and the record layout(s) of the tape. Add in the propriety nature of tools such as DFDSS (and equivalent), many of us

Help with doing Contract Work as a Sys Prog

2005-12-28 Thread Lizette Koehler
Hi all, If someone could write me offline to help me understand how to do contract work, I would appreciate it. I have been trying to find a job for over 18 months and cannot seem to find anything. I now have a possibility of obtaining contract work. I just have not done this and need to

Re: DMV systems?

2005-12-28 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
John S. Giltner, Jr. wrote: as400 wrote: Hello- Dispatchers who enter license plate numbers or license numbers to query about our personal records get authorized to access the DMV databases in order to do those tasks. My question is, do those records on the DMV database stored on a DB2 or

CICS-VSAM

2005-12-28 Thread Jón Viðar Gunnarsson
Hello all I have a VSAM file defined in a cics 3.1.0 region . The file is owend by CICSA and is accessed with remote definition from CICSB and CICSC. I have ZOS1.4 on Z890. This has been working fine fore three weeks now.. BUT,, After I recycled CICSA , my customer began to complain that

Help with identifying the Mysterious IBM plastic thing?

2005-12-28 Thread Phil Payne
It's possible I saw a photograph of this thing in an IBM catalogue around 1971. IBM used to produce a hand-held card punch. This was a frame that held a single punch card. The cards were special stock with each chad partly pre-punched - behind each row was a slot running the width of the

Testing

2005-12-28 Thread Mueller, David
No messages received for several days. Checking that I am still subscribed and everything is working. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

Re: Help with identifying the Mysterious IBM plastic thing?

2005-12-28 Thread Arthur T.
On 27 Dec 2005 18:38:07 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main (Message-ID:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Henry Law wrote: I found a strange plastic device in a colleague's cupboard at IBM some years ago; I've had one attempt at identifying it within the company and

Re: Need some RVA T82 GEN ADVICE

2005-12-28 Thread Michael W. Moss
Hi Dave, Seasons greetings to you. Wow an RVA, now there’s a blast from the past, but don’t worry I remember this box from 1992 when it was an Iceberg… The complete set of manuals for an RVA of this time period is: * IBM RAMAC Virtual Array Storage Planning, Implementation and Usage Guide,

Re: Token Ring and z9 Processor

2005-12-28 Thread R.S.
Skip Robinson wrote: We have not had ANY token ring applications for years except as required for mainframe interconnection. Our network folks would be happy to see its demise altogether. It have been possible for years (since G5 AFAIK) to get rid of TR, even for SE-HMC connections. AFAIR

Re: controlling user who can mount tape.

2005-12-28 Thread Chris Mason
I haven't really been paying very much attention to this topic since it's not at all my forte - if anything is. However, I'm struck by the seeming fact that there is no current general solution to the tape set-up problem. If there were and some users were allowed to use the required procedure and

Re: Can not shutdown CICS region

2005-12-28 Thread Desi de la Garza
Is the console defined to the CICS you are trying to shut down? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Ten Eyck Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 8:16 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Can not shutdown CICS region I have

Re: Strange message from a CICS region.

2005-12-28 Thread Paul Hanrahan
How about a relocate ? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 10:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Strange message from a CICS region. I have gotten the following message a

Re: Can not shutdown CICS region

2005-12-28 Thread Thomas H Puddicombe
ISTR CICS needed a terminal definition to represent the console. Been too long now, my memory leaks. This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and

Re: Screenshots of Mainframe OSs?

2005-12-28 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
as400 wrote: Can anyone please be able to post screenshots of Mainframe OSs like z/OS, z/VM running Linux and so on? Do those really look like the typical green screen or they look like a GUI? Thanks.. Traditional IBM mainframe OS's look like a green screen, just like the screens you

OSL

2005-12-28 Thread Imbriale, Donald (Exchange)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable IBM has withdrawn from marketing and service a product called Optimization Subroutine Library, a set of mathematical routines for use in FORTRAN and C/C++ programs. IBM doesn't seem to have a

Re: Assembler error

2005-12-28 Thread Paul Hanrahan
Try putting a MEND after the macro just to see if someone messed up the macro construction. - Paul Hanrahan -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kinney, Kevin Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 9:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU

Re: Screenshots of Mainframe OSs?

2005-12-28 Thread Dave Salt
as400 wrote: Can anyone please be able to post screenshots of Mainframe OSs like z/OS, z/VM running Linux and so on? Do those really look like the typical green screen or they look like a GUI? A typical mainframe screen isn't GUI, but at the same time is far from being the 'green screen' of

Re: Another incident

2005-12-28 Thread Howard Brazee
On 28 Dec 2005 09:24:47 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Andrews) wrote: Candidates for U.S. President must have been citizens at birth. Postal workers must be U.S. citizens, or have permanent resident status. Or more precisely: No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the

Re: Assembler error

2005-12-28 Thread David Cole
Hi Kevin, A couple of thoughts. 1) I don't know how new or old the CBT tape's copy of SCHEDRUN and my maclib are, but you can find the most recent copies of both at my website: www.comesoft.com. Click on Downloads, then on Free Utilities. 2) If the files from my website still don't work,

Re: DMV systems?

2005-12-28 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
as400 wrote: Well, thanks for this information..I really appreciate it... And lastly, can Solaris (UNIX) be ran on a Mainframe or not? Because you said: would say that most of the systems were mainframe based (IBM and Unisys) and non-Unix based OS's: Please advise. It depends on your

Re: Merry Christmas!

2005-12-28 Thread Howard Brazee
On 28 Dec 2005 09:30:35 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Robertson) wrote: So, did anyone get anything good??? A new nephew!!! Great! Over the years I got a nephew and a granddaughter (age 3) on Dec 26 (age 13), a grandson on December 21 (age 6), and a granddaughter who will be 5 tomorrow.

basic z8 and z9 configurations

2005-12-28 Thread Phil Payne
As far as the z8 is concerned, you're going to have to wait until IBM announces it. Have you tried Hesh Wiener ( http://www.tech-news.com ) for pricing? -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 --

Re: Testing

2005-12-28 Thread Greg Shirey
Oddly, the CICS list stopped sending mail too at about the same time... Both have started again...at about the same time. What's that all about? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mueller, David Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Re: DFHSM connected set

2005-12-28 Thread Michael W. Moss
Hi, Maybe the FIXCDS function would work: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DGT2R440/1.8.2 For example: FIXCDS Y VOLSER DISPLAY - Displays the type Y dump volume record FIXCDS X VOLSER DELETE - Deletes a type X backup volume record from the BCDS On Tue, 27 Dec 2005

Delete non-existent dataset with volume MIGRAT

2005-12-28 Thread Jill Grine
Greetings all, I need to delete a catalog entry for a dataset that has MIGRAT as the volume, but no longer exists. I've searched the Access Methods and HSM manuals, but haven't found anything other than NOSCRATCH affects the DFSMShsm delete function interaction for VSAM base clusters

Invalid DSN in Catalog

2005-12-28 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, Doing some year-end cleanup and encountered a catalog entry for a non-existent dataset: HLQ.MLQ.LLQ(0) (yes, the parentheses were part of the DSN). While I was able to delete the entry by specifying HLQ.MLQ.* for the entryname in the IDCAMS DELETE NOSCRATCH command, I'm curious how

Re: Testing

2005-12-28 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 12/28/2005 12:38:56 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oddly, the CICS list stopped sending mail too at about the same time... Both have started again...at about the same time. What's that all about? Haven't gotten the final results. Lots of

Abend S414

2005-12-28 Thread Jon Renton
Hello, I am getting the follwoing abend: IEC212I 414-08,IGG0201B,DBM05310,DFDSS,XRSDLOG,687C,SYSS45,SSUXRSP.XRS999.XRSLOG01 The IBM documentation is not very descriptive. Can anyone help me to understand/solve the problem? TIA Regards Jon -- No virus found in this outgoing message.

Abend S414

2005-12-28 Thread Jon Renton
Hello, I am getting the follwoing abend: IEC212I 414-08,IGG0201B,DBM05310,DFDSS,XRSDLOG,687C,SYSS45,SSUXRSP.XRS999.XRSLOG01 The IBM documentation is not very descriptive. Can anyone help me to understand/solve the problem? TIA Regards Jon

Re: Merry Christmas!

2005-12-28 Thread Ted MacNEIL
A co-worker and golf-partner of mine got a kidney early Monday morning. I got to see my (estranged) 16-year old boy, for the first time since October 2004. He finally doesn't believe all the ex says about him. -teD Me? A skeptic? I trust you have proof!

Re: Reconfigure Shark 3390-3's to -9's question

2005-12-28 Thread Ron and Jenny Hawkins
Radoslaw, As I said - It's kind of free. Kind of like ICKDSF and DFSMSdfp are free with MVS. The boxes will work problem free without Resource Manager Software, but there is no Remote Console or Web Access without the Resource Manager Software. That means you would need to call an Engineer to

Re: Assembler error

2005-12-28 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
David Cole wrote: 1) I don't know how new or old the CBT tape's copy of SCHEDRUN and my maclib are, but you can find the most recent copies of both at my website: www.comesoft.com. That should be: www.colesoft.com! --

Re: Can not shutdown CICS region

2005-12-28 Thread Peter Ten Eyck
Yes a console is defined. Right now we are thinking it may be related to our security manager setup...more to come. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

Re: Can not shutdown CICS region

2005-12-28 Thread Rugen, Len
Look for errors in SYSLOG and SYSOUT (CEMT ? Message destination, I forget the proper name). It sounds like it's SOS or on the way down already. I'd bet the C CICSREGION command would work, but get a dump first if you care. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Assembler error

2005-12-28 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 12/28/2005 1:16:24 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That should be: www.colesoft.com! Netnanny probably cut him off at the passvbg...then adware and spyzapper kick in and 15 minutes later find out it's a

Re: ABN Tape - Found

2005-12-28 Thread Jeffrey Deaver
The tapes were, for most reasonable purposes and definitions, 'encrypted'. Without the 'keys' (creation trail and layouts), the data is useless. Of course, the data could always be recovered just like any encryption scheme can be broken given enough resources. The strength of any encryption

Re: Can not shutdown CICS region

2005-12-28 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 13:06:46 -0600, Peter Ten Eyck wrote: Yes a console is defined. Right now we are thinking it may be related to our security manager setup...more to come. Are you issuing the CICS modify commands from a z/OS Master console or are you issuing the modify commands from an SDSF

Re: Merry Christmas!

2005-12-28 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Make that ME, not HIM. Original message From: Ted MacNEIL A co-worker and golf-partner of mine got a kidney early Monday morning. I got to see my (estranged) 16-year old boy, for the first time since October 2004. He finally doesn't believe all the ex says about him. -teD Me? A

Re: ABN Tape - Found

2005-12-28 Thread Howard Brazee
On 28 Dec 2005 11:51:34 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The strength of any encryption system is often measured in the amount of time it would take to crack the key and decrypt the data. For example, current estimates as to the length of time is would take to crack a 256 bit AES key are in the

Re: 3270 screen size limit

2005-12-28 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 08:52:47 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... No, that letter goes all the way back to the 3271, 3272 and 3275, long before the 3274. I vaguely recall that A was LU0, including BSC, B was SNA and C was local non-SNA, but ICBW. ... I don't

Re: Warning: PTF's require HDS microcode, which is not available until the second week of January.

2005-12-28 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 12:46 -0600 on 12/28/2005, Eatherly, John D [IT] wrote about Warning: PTF's require HDS microcode, which is not availab: Just wanted to pass on a heads up on some APARs that require HDS microcode on DASD. And that microcode will not be available until the 2nd week in January. Was there

Re: Merry Christmas!

2005-12-28 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 11:34 -0500 on 12/26/2005, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about Re: Merry Christmas!: Christmas is not a holy day for me. There are multiple unrelated holidays around this time of year. Wishing happy holiday acknowledges the fact that there is more than one religion. Including one holiday

Re: Delete non-existent dataset with volume MIGRAT

2005-12-28 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 13:14 -0500 on 12/28/2005, Jill Grine wrote about Delete non-existent dataset with volume MIGRAT: Greetings all, I need to delete a catalog entry for a dataset that has MIGRAT as the volume, but no longer exists.  I've searched the Access Methods and HSM manuals, but haven't found anything

Re: Warning: PTF's require HDS microcode, which is not available until the second week of January.

2005-12-28 Thread Glen Gasior
* Just as a word to the cautious - I would not IPL any system that accesses the HDS storage subsystem while an HDS microcode update is taking place. * On 12/28/05, Eatherly, John D [IT] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wanted to pass on a heads up on some APARs that require HDS microcode on

Re: Another incident

2005-12-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/27/2005 at 10:17 AM, David Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Candidates for U.S. President must have been citizens at birth. No. But the governator isn't old enough to be grandfathered in. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: DMV systems?

2005-12-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/27/2005 at 05:22 PM, John S. Giltner, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: or I have a Unisys xxx running MCP (I think that is the OS name). That depends on *which* Unisys processor. The lines inherited from Burroughs run a system called MCP. The lines inherited from UNIVAC

Re: Screenshots of Mainframe OSs?

2005-12-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/27/2005 at 06:08 PM, John S. Giltner, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Traditional IBM mainframe OS's look like a green screen, Traditional? MVS has supported color displays for decades. Even for monochrome, it's more likely to be amber than green. -- Shmuel

Re: ABN Tape - Found

2005-12-28 Thread Hal Merritt
Couple of key items. One, cracking a cryptogram is a well know process. But I am not aware of any such algorithm that can identify the *meaning* of a character string. Is that an area code, a PIN, or a record type descriptor? There *is* a difference between data and information. Another, I

LPAR Capping

2005-12-28 Thread Martin, Mike
Hi, We just went to LPAR mode from basic mode. We have a 2066-002 (z800) that is about 350 MIPS. We currently only have a single LPAR, but we wish to CAP the LPAR at 200 MIPS. (for ISV charging purposes) Is this easy to do? How? Can it be done without a POR or IPL? Thanks for any help!

Re: Screenshots of Mainframe OSs?

2005-12-28 Thread Marian Gasparovic
If you send picture from msys for operator, it is fully graphical. What is screenshot of OS ? :) On 12/28/05, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/27/2005 at 06:08 PM, John S. Giltner, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Traditional IBM mainframe OS's look

Re: Merry Christmas!

2005-12-28 Thread Roberto Halais Kareh
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral celebration of the WINTER SOLSTICE holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your

Re: ABN Tape - Found

2005-12-28 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also remember that we now, unfortunately, have to protect data from possible internal threats as well. I read of one recent event where an ex-employee was attempting to extort money from his old employer by holding backup tapes with data on them and threatening to let

Re: LPAR Capping

2005-12-28 Thread Hal Merritt
Yes. Assuming your micro code is anywhere near up to date, this is an entry in the activation profile on the HMC, but is easily changed on the fly (CHANGE LPAR CONTROLS). You actually have two caps to choose from. One is a 'soft' cap ('Defined Capacity') that uses a rolling four hour average.

Re: ABN Tape - Found

2005-12-28 Thread Hal Merritt
Here is compelling evidence why auditors should *never* be permitted to make security 'requirements'. Never. Only see that due diligence is done. What we have is a serious case of auditors going wild using only garbled media reports as justification. Wholesale encryption just does not make

Re: ABN Tape - Found

2005-12-28 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hal Merritt Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 4:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ABN Tape - Found Here is compelling evidence why auditors should *never* be permitted to

Re: Reconfigure Shark 3390-3's to -9's question

2005-12-28 Thread R.S.
Ron, To be honest fair and 100% accurate you should said it is delivered with Resource Manager, which is usually ordered with the box. Analogy to ICKDSF is not good: I cannot get rid of ICKDSF when buying MVS. I can omit Resource Manager when I buy HDS box. We did it *everytime* we bought HDS

Re: LPAR Capping

2005-12-28 Thread R.S.
Martin, Mike wrote: Hi, We just went to LPAR mode from basic mode. We have a 2066-002 (z800) that is about 350 MIPS. We currently only have a single LPAR, but we wish to CAP the LPAR at 200 MIPS. (for ISV charging purposes) Is this easy to do? How? Can it be done without a POR or IPL?

Re: Basic IODF question

2005-12-28 Thread R.S.
Mueller, David wrote: I'm not sure on what you say about comparing the names. But, when you use HCD to build and download an IOCDS (IOCP) to the machine, you have to select which CPC definition to build / download. The different CPC definitions in the IODF would have different I/O devices

Standards would lockup data on disk, tape

2005-12-28 Thread Ed Gould
Storage encryption standards coming soon? 12/19/05 Proposed standards for protecting data on disk or tape are gathering steam within the IEEE and could be supported in products as soon as next year, according to proponents.

Re: Invalid DSN in Catalog

2005-12-28 Thread R.S.
Chase, John wrote: Hi, All, Doing some year-end cleanup and encountered a catalog entry for a non-existent dataset: HLQ.MLQ.LLQ(0) (yes, the parentheses were part of the DSN). While I was able to delete the entry by specifying HLQ.MLQ.* for the entryname in the IDCAMS DELETE NOSCRATCH

Re: Invalid DSN in Catalog

2005-12-28 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
R.S. wrote: Someone provided DSN in apostrophes. Been there, seen that, even 9+ character qualifiers. |Command - Enter / to select action Message Volume | Tracks % XT Device Dsorg Recfm Lrecl Blksz CreatedExpires Referred

Re: Delete non-existent dataset with volume MIGRAT

2005-12-28 Thread Joel C. Ewing
Discussed multiple times in past. See archives: http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0102L=ibm-mainD=0P=118438 Requires connect and logon using special RACF group ARCCATGP. Tom Longfellow wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert A. Rosenberg) wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: At 13:14 -0500 on

Re: Reconfigure Shark 3390-3's to -9's question

2005-12-28 Thread Ron and Jenny Hawkins
Radoslaw, Fair enough comments. As for customer's opening the storage and using the SVP, I guess you have some agreement with your local reseller that allows you to do this. As for the Speed of RM - you're right, but HDS stopped shipping Remote Console with the 9900V. Ron -Original

Re: Warning: PTF's require HDS microcode, which is not available until the second week of January.

2005-12-28 Thread Ron and Jenny Hawkins
I wouldn't IPL or Boot any system that is accessing ANY vendor's storage when microcode is being updated. :( -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glen Gasior Sent: Thursday, 29 December 2005 4:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU

Re: DMV systems?

2005-12-28 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Ted MacNEIL wrote: A RS/6000 is not a mainframe. Are we sure about that anymore? -teD Me? A skeptic? I trust you have proof! Well, that depends on how you define mainframe. When I go to IBM's Web site and click on mainframes, I don't see any RS/6000's. However, some of the higher end

Re: DMV systems?

2005-12-28 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/27/2005 at 05:22 PM, John S. Giltner, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: or I have a Unisys xxx running MCP (I think that is the OS name). That depends on *which* Unisys processor. The lines inherited from Burroughs run a system

ALLOCATE, LISTDSI, and dangling catalog entry

2005-12-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
I did this to myself earlier today. It took hours to understand and generate a small test case. I managed do delete a data set but leave the catalog entry. When I subsequently tried to allocate the data set, ALLOCATE apparently succeeded with RC=0, but LISTDSI( ... FILE ) fails with RC=16

Re: Need zOS to Windows FTP program

2005-12-28 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Texas Yankee wrote: I have no experience in the zOS environment - any suggestions on an FTP program to transfer large volumes of zOS report data files, on a regular basis (daily) from the zOS environment to a Windows file system? Thanks! z/OS comes with a ftp client that can ftp to a

Re: controlling user who can mount tape.

2005-12-28 Thread Ed Gould
On Dec 27, 2005, at 7:32 AM, Chris Mason wrote: I haven't really been paying very much attention to this topic since it's not at all my forte - if anything is. However, I'm struck by the seeming fact that there is no current general solution to the tape set-up problem. If there were and

Re: ABN Tape - Found

2005-12-28 Thread Ed Gould
On Dec 28, 2005, at 4:14 PM, Hal Merritt wrote: Here is compelling evidence why auditors should *never* be permitted to make security 'requirements'. Never. Only see that due diligence is done. What we have is a serious case of auditors going wild using only garbled media reports as

Identify users of a LINKLIST library

2005-12-28 Thread Shmuel Koller
I will like to safely remove a library from LINKLIST and stick library in its users JCL (as STEPLIB). Is there a way to collect statistics - who used modules from given LINKLIST library ? Is therea command to identify current users of modules from given LINKLIST library ? Shmuel Koller

Re: ABN Tape - Found

2005-12-28 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Hal Merritt wrote: Here is compelling evidence why auditors should *never* be permitted to make security 'requirements'. Never. Only see that due diligence is done. in addition to working on x9.59 financial industry retail payment standard ... http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/index.html#x959

Need Type 19 Direct Access Volume SMF Records To Test DAF

2005-12-28 Thread Michael Cleary
Greetings, I am in need of Type 19 Direct Access Volume SMF Records To Test DAF. Cheers, Michael http://www.geocities.com/michaeljosephcleary/ === Instructions: 1) Creat the SMF file with IFASMFDP and XMIT the SMF file (JCL below) 2) do a binary transfer of the

Re: ABN Tape - Found

2005-12-28 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Hal Merritt wrote: Here is compelling evidence why auditors should *never* be permitted to make security 'requirements'. Never. Only see that due diligence is done. recent backbround on part of the issue Merchants unsecure, poll http://www.crime-research.org/news/28.12.2005/1723/ from above:

Re: Abend S414

2005-12-28 Thread Michael W. Moss
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 19:38:39 +0100, Jon Renton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am getting the follwoing abend: IEC212I 414-08,IGG0201B,DBM05310,DFDSS,XRSDLOG,687C,SYSS45,SSUXRSP.XRS999.XRSLOG01 The IBM documentation is not very descriptive. Can anyone help me to understand/solve the problem?