Re: Define and start JES2

2006-01-04 Thread Johnny Luo
Baloney. Here is the start of the IEFSSNxx member from my Test system called MVS4 so JES2 runs as JES4; SUBSYS SUBNAME(JES4) /* JES4 IS THE PRIMARY SUBSYSTEM NAME */ PRIMARY(YES) START(YES) Two questions: 1,here you use 'JES4' and maybe I could use another name such as 'ABCD'.Then, how

Re: Define and start JES2

2006-01-04 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KRDO 4)
Also remember that the command to shut it down is $PJES2, not $PJES4. In fact, the command is xPJES2, where x is what is specified as CONCHAR= on the CONDEF init statement. The default is $ but you may want to select something else for a secondary JES. Peter Hunkeler Credit Suisse -

Re: Define and start JES2

2006-01-04 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KRDO 4)
2,START(YES),means that system will automatically issue a START command to invoke JES2 procedure. However,which procedure name system'll use in STARTcommand? S JES4? First an answer to your second Q (it's a short one): The SUBNAME. 1,here you use 'JES4' and maybe I could use another name such

Re: Define and start JES2

2006-01-04 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 16:32:27 +0800, Johnny Luo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two questions: 1,here you use 'JES4' and maybe I could use another name such as 'ABCD'.Then, how could the system know that the subsystem you want to initialize is JES2? Put it in another word,how to establish the

SMP/E Internet Service Retrieval

2006-01-04 Thread Dennis McCarthy
Greetings Everyone. I'm running z/OS 1.4, with SMP/E 34.04 and Java SDK 1.4 at the Service Refresh level of SR3 (PTF UQ07860). I am attempting to use the Internet Service Retrieval with absolutely no success. The error messages I receive from SMP/E are: GIM69207S ** THE CONNECTION WITH THE

Re: XML TOOLKIT Installation question.

2006-01-04 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I am attempting to install the XML toolkit for z/os 1.8. Back to the future? 1.8 doesn't come out until September! -teD Me? A skeptic? I trust you have proof! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: XML TOOLKIT Installation question.

2006-01-04 Thread Richard Pinion
I think he means the XML toolkit is 1.8. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/4/2006 8:54 AM I am attempting to install the XML toolkit for z/os 1.8. Back to the future? 1.8 doesn't come out until September! -teD Me? A skeptic? I trust you have proof!

Re: XML TOOLKIT Installation question.

2006-01-04 Thread John Eells
Ted MacNEIL wrote: I am attempting to install the XML toolkit for z/os 1.8. Back to the future? 1.8 doesn't come out until September! -teD Me? A skeptic? I trust you have proof! OK, so the name's confusing. But it's V1.8 of the toolkit for z/OS, not the z/OS R8 toolkit. More

Warning: PTF's require HDS microcode, which is not available until the second week of January ----- UPDATE!!!!

2006-01-04 Thread Eatherly, John D [IT]
IBM has backed off. They created this APAR for the issue. APAR Identifier .. OA14708 http://www-306.ibm.com/ibmlink/link2/sis/sisPage.jsp?applJsp=documentBr owse.jspnavItem=sis.jsplc=encc=USdocNumber=OA14708 Last Changed 05/12/21 IEA307I I/O ERROR READING VOLUME LABEL

Re: New Tape units

2006-01-04 Thread Porowski, Ken
See imbedded comments ... -Original Message- Hal Merritt We are being told that the library system is 100% SMS controlled. We have had robots in the past, but had never heard this as a requirement. It this your experience? The ATL and 'tapes' are SMS managed the datasets on the

Programmer name in dynamically allocated SYSOUT

2006-01-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a current thread on TSO_REXX: Linkname: [EMAIL PROTECTED] post from [EMAIL PROTECTED] : URL: http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvtype?TSO-REXX.16850 ... the OP is struggling to FAQsubmit a batch job synchronously from a Rexx EXEC/FAQ. His requirement is simple: The reason I am

Re: New Tape units

2006-01-04 Thread R.S.
Porowski, Ken wrote: See imbedded comments ... -Original Message- Hal Merritt [...] You will probably want to look at OAM exits CBRUXENT and CBRUXVNL at a minimum. RMM may supply samples. RMM probably has a process for autoeject of tapes going offsite (probably an optional piece

Re: Programmer name in dynamically allocated SYSOUT

2006-01-04 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KRDO 4)
I doubt there is since the programmer's name is a job level not a dd level attribute. Peter Hunkeler Credit Suisse - Information Technology -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: New Tape units

2006-01-04 Thread Porowski, Ken
We use ZARA so had to supply our own. Depending on what the 'supplied' exits do you may or may not want to modify them. YMMV but it would make sense to understand what they are coded to do or not do. I forgot about the 30 CIOS option, It wasn't appropriate for our environment when we

Re: Programmer name in dynamically allocated SYSOUT

2006-01-04 Thread Terry Sambrooks
Hi Gil, With regard to Is there a way to control the programmer name field in a dynamically allocated data set and bypass submitting a batch job? I can't readily find it in HELP ALLOCATE. When using a batch job, the default name field used by the output separator process is that from the

Re: SMP/E Internet Service Retrieval

2006-01-04 Thread Hal Merritt
Look for a 'black hole' router/firewall in your corporate network. Some of these appliances silently drop packets. And I do mean silently. Other than that, have your network person explain why the proxy server is not responding. HTH. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Define and start JES2

2006-01-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In ![EMAIL PROTECTED], on 01/03/2006 at 08:14 AM, Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The main reason is that every piece of documentation is for JES2. You might get someone confused at operations or Level2 if you say my JESA system is down. Trust me, you do not want to confuse Level2 at

Re: EREP , sense ... manual

2006-01-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 01/03/2006 at 07:45 PM, Bruce Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: With the exception of the IBM 3590 (Magstar) and 3592 tapes. To my knowledge, there is no generally available manual which has CCWs and sense for zSeries (only for SCSI, which is not much help). What are

Re: Invalid DSN in Catalog

2006-01-04 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:16:39 -0500 Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 01/03/2006 : at 11:26 AM, Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: :Something builds it. :Are you sure about that? Have you seen an SIOT for a dynamically :allocated data set? I have

Re: Invalid DSN in Catalog

2006-01-04 Thread Wayne Driscoll
According to the Data Areas for z/OS 1.6, the SIOT, is owned by the Interpreter, but is created by Interpeter and Dynamic Allocation, which implies that there is an SIOT for dynamically allocated datasets. In addition, the DSAB points to the SIOT, and there is no indicator that this field will be

VSAM RLS, TVS, CICS/VR puzzle

2006-01-04 Thread R.S.
Does anybody know any material (presentation, booklet) about VSAM RLS and other products implementation ? The deeper I dig the more components I find. Now RLS, TVS, RRS and CICS/VR are in play. BTW: I suspect (*) there are ISV replacements for TVS and CICS/VR, aren't they ? (*) My impression

Not to fan any flames

2006-01-04 Thread Ed Gould
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Re: EREP , sense ... manual

2006-01-04 Thread Bruce Black
What are sense for zSeries? Each device has its own[1] CCW opcodes and sense bytes. What CCW opcodes and sense bytes would you expect or want documented in a zSeries manual as opposed to a manual for the specific device? I knew that phrasing would bite me gr I meant CCWs used with mainframe

Performance study

2006-01-04 Thread Karl Tucker
I will be doing a performance study using SMF data to discover trends. Does anyone know of a free utility that can be used to do this. I do have SAS but as yet have not decided to use it. If you have a SAS procedure I could use that would be great. Any other ideas are welcome. TIA

Re: Define and start JES2

2006-01-04 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: Why would you say my JESA system is down? The name of the component is JES2, regardless of the name of the cataloged procedure used to start it. Would you describe a VTAM problem as my NET is down? |Cmd JobName StepName ProcStep |--- /

Re: Define and start JES2

2006-01-04 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 1/4/2006 1:32:47 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Cmd JobName StepName ProcStep |--- / | VTAM VTAM VTAM Kinda of a special case. ===c vtam or ===z net,quick

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

2006-01-04 Thread Brian Peterson
Not sure what you mean by IBM has backed off. The APAR quoted does not mention HDS, nor does it flag as PE any PTF (which means that HDS customers are still doomed to discover their new MVS maintenance fails to IPL). There must be more to the story Brian On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 09:05:13 -0600,

Re: EREP , sense ... manual

2006-01-04 Thread R.S.
Bruce Black wrote: What are sense for zSeries? Each device has its own[1] CCW opcodes and sense bytes. What CCW opcodes and sense bytes would you expect or want documented in a zSeries manual as opposed to a manual for the specific device? I knew that phrasing would bite me gr I meant CCWs

Re: Performance study

2006-01-04 Thread Hal Merritt
Not free, but the next best thing and well worth the price. Consider how much of your time you are going to spend trying to decode SMF records. That, plus a large user group with the answers to many questions. All lead by the man who literally 'wrote the book', Dr. Barry Merrill.

Re: Move HASPINDX dataset?

2006-01-04 Thread Lizette Koehler
The HAPSINDX needs to be deallocated to all TSO sessions. What I do is use the SDSF Server to move it. Alter ISFPARMS to point to new HASPINDX F SDSF,REFRESH Ensure all TSO allocation to old file are gone. TSOENQ function is used to do this. Delete old file. If you do not use the SDSF SERVER,

Copy Extended-format VSAM Sphere

2006-01-04 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, We have need to copy an extended-format VSAM sphere consisting of the base cluster, one alternate index and one path from one image to another, changing the HLQ and target catalog in the process. So far we've successfully DUMPed the sphere (logical dump) to tape using DFSMSdss, but all

SMS Newbie

2006-01-04 Thread Howard Rifkind
How can I find the ACDS which is currently being used by the system. z/OS 1.4 and then to the ISMF panel for adding volumes to a storage group. Thanks. - Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less

Re: Copy Extended-format VSAM Sphere

2006-01-04 Thread Matthew Stitt
I found that if I code the SMS ACS routines to intercept the file and do the redirection, that will overcome your hurdle. Also have you tried the OUTDD or OUTDYNAM parameters? On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 15:26:10 -0600, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, All, We have need to copy an

Re: SMS Newbie

2006-01-04 Thread Matthew Stitt
Try the D SMS console command. On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 13:28:45 -0800, Howard Rifkind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I find the ACDS which is currently being used by the system. z/OS 1.4 and then to the ISMF panel for adding volumes to a storage group. Thanks.

Re: SMS Newbie

2006-01-04 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Rifkind Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 3:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: SMS Newbie How can I find the ACDS which is currently being used by the system.

NETRC and security -- am I missing something?

2006-01-04 Thread Charles Mills
I have never used a NETRC dataset. It looks to me that if one is to have one's users do so, one must have remote userids and passwords stored in a dataset that is protected only by whatever security happens to exist for the dataset that the user sets up. Am I missing something? Is there some

Re: NETRC and security -- am I missing something?

2006-01-04 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 3:39 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: NETRC and security -- am I missing something? I have never used a NETRC dataset. It looks to

Re: NETRC and security -- am I missing something?

2006-01-04 Thread Lester, Bob
| -Original Message- | From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Behalf Of Charles Mills | Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 2:39 PM | To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU | Subject: NETRC and security -- am I missing something? | | | I have never used a NETRC

Re: Performance study

2006-01-04 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 1/4/2006 2:41:15 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not free, but the next best thing and well worth the price. Consider how much of your time you are going to spend trying to decode SMF records. That, plus a large user group with the answers to many

Re: NETRC and security -- am I missing something?

2006-01-04 Thread Hal Merritt
Yes and no. For the interactive user, this is a way to store (and secure) such data in some way other than sticky notes. (You don't honestly think that every body will rely solely on memory for so many ID's/passwords, do you?) For the batch user, you must enter a password. You may do it instream

XML questions

2006-01-04 Thread Don Ault
I sent the questions on XML Toolkit to the XML team and have posted the answers below. They said normal support for XML would have answered these questions. Q1. where do I get sizing information, or is that AIXMHFS file allocated earlier somehow related (does not look like an HFS) ? A: On page

Re: NETRC and security -- am I missing something?

2006-01-04 Thread Charles Mills
a site-wide one that is pointed to by the proc(s). RACF program control / conditional access is used for this. Our mainframe .netrc files are only accessable to programs like FTP I'm not the biggest RACF expert. It's possible to do this? To have a file that FTP running for user XYZ can read,

Re: Copy Extended-format VSAM Sphere

2006-01-04 Thread Andrew N Wilt
John, Off the top of my head, I think the reason that the offline volumes are being requested for mount is due to RACF (Security) processing. Because the source data set catalog is available to the target system, DFSMSdss is seeing that the original data set is cataloged. Since it is

FTP userid propagation

2006-01-04 Thread Charles Mills
I just posted the NETRC question but perhaps I should instead ask the fundamental underlying question. Here is what I want to do. I want to have a program ABC running in a normal batch job that might be submitted by any of a large number of TSO users invoke FTP and have it log on to a remote

Re: NETRC and security -- am I missing something?

2006-01-04 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 1/4/2006 4:34:10 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not the biggest RACF expert. It's possible to do this? To have a file that FTP running for user XYZ can read, but user XYZ cannot read him/herself (say with ISPF browse)? Is FTP AFP-authorized? Is

Re: FTP userid propagation

2006-01-04 Thread Hal Merritt
IMHO, a flaw in your thinking is your wanting to use someone else's ID for some security related activity. Have the users stow their data in staging files. Upon some event (timer, file creation, etc) a production job (the FTP) kicks off and does the transfer under its own ID. There is a

Re: FTP userid propagation

2006-01-04 Thread Charles Mills
That's sort-of how it works now. But the customer (prospect, actually) wants individual userids. I agree with you, but arguing with a prospect is not sales-enhancing. BTW, it's not really someone else's ID - it's the ID of the submitting user. I have known all along what you are saying about

Re: FTP userid propagation

2006-01-04 Thread tony babonas
Instead of using the originating user, use a special ID for the batch process. Then permit a surrogat profile(RACF) or permit the ACID(Top Secret) to the large number of TSO users who need to run this job. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: z/Linux to p/Linux

2006-01-04 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
John R. Grout wrote: If IBM de-emphasizes z/Linux, it would almost certainly be in favor of p/Architecture (and p/Linux) rather than in favor of z/OS (or z/VM). As pure speculation... I would not be surprised to see mixed p/Arch-z/Arch sysplexes sharing high-powered hierarchal file systems (or

Re: z/OS NFS Server. Can it be used in Windows or Novell

2006-01-04 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Neal Eckhardt wrote: We currently access MVS datasets from AIX. Has anybody been able to use NFS from Windows or Novell? There do not appear to be MVSLOGIN,etc programs supplied. Thanks, Neal I'm not the one that did it, but a couple of years ago we did have this working. We gave it up and

Re: VSAM RLS, TVS, CICS/VR puzzle

2006-01-04 Thread Skip Robinson
Any reference to other possible products in this context may be more rhetoric than reality. Like saying 'any product like JES or VTAM'. Theoretically possible, I suppose, but on what planet? The major omission from this list is HSM, one of the earliest exploiters of RLS. Using RLS for the HSM CDS

Re: z/OS NFS Server. Can it be used in Windows or Novell

2006-01-04 Thread Skip Robinson
We have used SMB/Samba for quite some time to access MVS files from Windows. Yes, I'm the one who set it up. I may actually be the only regular user, and since RECEIVEFROMNETWORK replaced our older ShopzSeries procedure, even I don't use it a lot. However, I happened to discover during 'early use'

VSAM Recovery Help

2006-01-04 Thread Jeffrey Deaver
Long story short... I screwed up and lost some data... I have a volume recovered from an FDR dump that contains the data and index components of a vsam dataset. The catalog/cluster entry is gone. I need to recreate the vsam cluster from the components I have. Also - the recovered volume serial

Re: Define and start JES2

2006-01-04 Thread David Alcock
Short answer is that the primary subsystem (for JES2) must be named JES2 Someone may have already mentioned this but when JES2 and JES3 initialize, they mark their SSCT entry that the subsystem is either JES2 or JES3 in the SSCTSSID byte. So if you are looking for the JES2 subsystem, you

Re: Define and start JES2

2006-01-04 Thread Johnny Luo
On 1/5/06, David Alcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Short answer is that the primary subsystem (for JES2) must be named JES2 Someone may have already mentioned this but when JES2 and JES3 initialize, they mark their SSCT entry that the subsystem is either JES2 or JES3 in the SSCTSSID byte.