Hi all,
I please need a bit of advice.
I looked at one of the previous messages on the lis concerning my error I am
getting, and my cenario seems just a little different in that I am using a RACF
KeyRing.
I did a Refresh of the DIGTRING and DIGTCERT classes in RACF.
TCPIP has read access
z/XDC is one of those software tools that makes you shudder to think of
being without it - rather like someone taking away your keyboard and
screen and making you use punched cards.
Rob Scott
Rocket Software
http://www.rs.com/portfolio/mxi/
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:Walt Farrell and I agree that this sounds like a bad idea.
: There is a need, as the AX (via AXSET) is a global address space
: value. There is no way (that I can find) to legally change the
: AX for a single unit
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: : There is no way (that I can find) to legally change the AX for
: a single unit
: : of work.
: The AX is intended by architecture to
Undoubtedly to the choir. But they can buy small/medium servers and
software from petty cash. After some dozen(s), it's noticed that the
support admins are overworked and stressed, and they pull a position
from mainframe and hire another PC jockey.
By the time the TCO arguments really make a
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
z/XDC from Cole Software is my tool of choice. I'd say that would
also be true for most of the other Assembler programmers I've worked
with over the years.
There is also the IDF that comes with the HLASM Toolkit, but the last
time I tinkered with
Greg Price wrote:
Years ago I found directing compiler (PL/I and Assembler) work files to
VIO could reduce the elapsed time of a compilation to a fraction of what
it otherwise would be. May not be true now... or systems are so fast it
doesn't matter much anymore.
Months ago I found that
Edward E. Jaffe wrote:
Seems like IBM has had trouble lately getting z-related announcements
out the door on time. (This one was supposed to be January 24.)
Remember the debacle with the z9 announcement? People were scratching
their heads for days. Some went ahead and printed their articles.
Is it possible to partition a Z890 into an LPAR that functions as a
coupling facility?
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Tim,
I see this from the Press Room:
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/19157.wss
zIIPs will be $125,000 in the USA. There is a small blurb at the bottom on DB2
futures.
Working on the questions...
Bob
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Andy,
If you set up news.software.ibm.com as a server in your news reader you will
get access to a number of websphere newsgroups which IBM is trying to
encourage people to use - presumably. I know them only because they've been
recently set up and I got notified when it happened.
Chris Mason
Van Dalsen, Herbie wrote:
Hi all,
I please need a bit of advice.
I looked at one of the previous messages on the lis concerning my error I am getting, and my cenario seems just a little different in that I am using a RACF KeyRing.
I did a Refresh of the DIGTRING and DIGTCERT classes in
z/XDC http://www.colesoft.com/
It is not free but it is a good value if you have to debug assembler
code routinely.
I notice you can now browse all the documentation without needing a
customer sign in which is a good way to get an idea of the scope and
power of the product.
Hi Rich,
We use a z890 as standalone CF with 1 ICF. From the z890 FAQ on it's
home page
Question:
Can I buy a server that has only IFL or ICF engines without including a
standard engine?
Answer:
Yes. The zSeries Offering for Linux provides a z800 model 0LF which
includes up to four IFL
engines
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Is it possible to partition a Z890 into an LPAR that functions as a
coupling facility?
Binyamin Dissen wrote:
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:IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 01/26/2006
:09:47:40 AM:
: : There is no way (that I can find) to legally change the AX for
: a single unit
: : of work.
: The AX is
Rob Scott wrote:
z/XDC is one of those software tools that makes you shudder to think of
being without it - rather like someone taking away your keyboard and
screen and making you use punched cards.
What timing! Just this week, Tom Harper (Neon Software) and I agreed
that z/XDC was worth
Rob Scott said;
z/XDC is one of those software tools that makes you shudder to think
of
being without it - rather like someone taking away your keyboard and
screen and making you use punched cards.
And I say - what he said z/XDC is the best debugger on the planet.
CC
We've got a problem with clist. The character [ and ] (left and right
square brackets) are stored ok in the dataset (x'AD' and x'BD') but when
clist displays them at terminal they appear as : (colon). This is true even
if the clist displays any dataset with [ or ].
TIA.
E.Koehler
Ulrich,
I have created the Certificates / Keyring using the jobs from the
Communications Server for z/OS 1.6 TCP/IP Implementation Guide Volume 7:
Security pages 212 -- so I am sure that they are self-signed.
Regards
Herbie
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z/XDC is one of those software tools that makes you shudder to think
of being without it - rather like someone taking away your keyboard
and
screen and making you use punched cards.
And I say - what he said z/XDC is the best debugger on the
planet.
TEST does not recognize the new
zIIPs will be $125,000 in the USA. There is a small blurb at the bottom on DB2
futures.
That's sort of what IBM promised at their z9 109 RoadShow, last September.
It's the same cost for an IFL and a z/AAP.
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snip
We've got a problem with clist. The character [ and ] (left and right
square brackets) are stored ok in the dataset (x'AD' and x'BD') but when
clist displays them at terminal they appear as : (colon). This is true even
if the clist displays any dataset with [ or ].
/snip
Non-displayable
clist displays them at terminal they appear as : (colon).
It's not a colon. It's 3270-speak for unprintable character.
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zIIPs will be $125,000 in the USA.
Same list price as the other specialty engines, then. $45k to $60k on the
streets.
This has all the hallmarks of a skeleton announcement brought forward for some
reason from a
much later planned date. One thing I would have expected to accompany the
I think that the default translate tables will treat these characters as
unprintable and so they will appear as the : character.
Bill
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On 1/27/2006 9:59 AM, Edward E. Jaffe wrote:
You can use upgraded address-space level resources and still maintain
integrity by managing the dispatchability of the other TCBs in the
address space. If they're all stopped, they can't access the upgraded
resource. (This is the methodology
Gerhard,
Why don't you just fix the VIO Maxsize in SMS - sooo much easier!
Ron
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IBM.
I've put up a couple of links to the zSeries pages and the overview PDF and
the Googlebot came
last night (as it does every night) so IBM's pages should be showing up on
Google soon.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20060127/tc_cmp/177104217
http://www.internetnews.com/storage/article.php/3580926
Dear all
i try to trap the Cancel command in my C program , but i doesn't seem to
work . Looking for help !!!
Thank you
int main()
{
SIGNAL(SIGTERM, display);
SIGNAL(SIGABRT, display);
SIGNAL(SIGINT , display);
SIGNAL(SIGABND, display);
for (;;);
printf(End prog\n);
return(0);
}
I'm installing zOS 1.7, yes, still.
Part of the TCPIP IVP asks if I have a BPX.DAEMON environment. I don't
know, and I don't know how to figure it out. Where would I look to
determine if I have a BPX.DAEMON?
Thanks.
Mark D Pace
Senior Systems Engineer
Mainline Information Systems
1700 Summit
It's a RACF FACILITY class profile. See the z/OS UNIX System
Services Planning manual for details.
Peter Hunkeler
CREDIT SUISSE
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We've got a problem with clist. The character [ and ] (left and right
square brackets) are stored ok in the dataset (x'AD' and x'BD') but when
clist displays them at terminal they appear as : (colon). This is true
even
if the clist displays any dataset with [ or ].
TSO can't display them but
Thank you for the answers. We will try the BACKFIX solution.
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Mark Pace wrote:
I'm installing zOS 1.7, yes, still.
Part of the TCPIP IVP asks if I have a BPX.DAEMON environment. I don't
know, and I don't know how to figure it out. Where would I look to
determine if I have a BPX.DAEMON?
I believe, you should check RACF CL(FACILITY) profile BPX.DAEMON
One of my users deleted part of the path/directories for my Ported Tools
installation.
I would like to retrun the apply to redo the installaton in order to get
all
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I'm installing zOS 1.7, yes, still.
Part of the TCPIP IVP asks if I have a
Check out the REDO parameter.
Don Imbriale
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One of my users deleted part
Phil Payne wrote:
I didn''t take part in the teleconference (NDAs were required) but I have
downloaded the
materials. Here's the nub - IBM Confidential until Announcement. Has it
actually been
announced - I've seen no Announcement Letter?
I agree it's confusing and I'm the same boat --
Check the SMP dialog. I used GENERATE to recreate the files from an INFOMAN
install once, here was my JCL:
//* NOTE: THIS JCL CREATED BY THE COMMAND GENERATION DIALOGS.
//SMPCNTL DD *
SETBOUNDARY (MVST100)
.
Me too!
Although I will say that HLASM IDF has the plus of being able to run on
z/VSE and z/VM. (z/TPF?)
Aside - I'd like to give public congratulations to my ex-colleagues:
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/19153.wss
Later,
Ray
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I have been in two NDA briefings before 24January announcement and
corresponded since Tuesday with IBM. This was meant to be a preview so
you could plan for the zIIPs.
The key points are:
DB2 enclave SRBs will be able to run on the zIIPs (depending on various
parameters), and this will
Don't forget
1 Yadillion = 10 ^ Yada, yada, yada
per George Costanza
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Same in
Another area to watch out for is TSOE TRANSMIT. In PARMLIB, you specify a
unit name for 'VIO'. If 'VIO' points to true VIO--directly via the IODF EDT
or via SMS--then you can saturate your paging system pretty quickly if
someone XMITs a huge file. On the other hand, you can point 'VIO' to
ordinary
I know that a number of years ago I saw (somewhere) an Edit macro that
would take jcl and create SMP DDDEF adds or replaces. I've looked through
the archives and the CBT site and haven't come across anything like this.
I've started coding a REXX to do this but I'm suffering from that Friday
I've had several questions about ordering HLASM for zLinux; I hope
this information will help.
Contact your IBM marketing rep to order product 5799-TCQ (and for
annual support and Service, 5799-TCR). It requires some form of
Linux for zSeries or Linux/390, running on an IFL processor.
John
So this is only avilable to users running with IFL's? If I have a vm system
that has z/OS and z/Linux guests, I can't use the product? The seems odd.
Wayne Driscoll
Product Developer
JME Software LLC
NOTE: All opinions are strictly my own.
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:There are mechanisms for doing that which do not violate integrity.
Define what you mean by integrity.
Integrity in this case means making sure you are looking at the address
space you think you are looking at. Your definition (below) is only a
part of the overall requirement.
I see
SMP/E's UNLOAD command may be a good place to start. The rest is a SMOP.
Bob Richards
VP, Enterprise Technologist
Enterprise Technology Infrastructure
SunTrust Banks, Inc.
(404) 575-2798
Seeing beyond money (sm)
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We rope all true temporary data sets under MAXSIZE into VIO and it works
very well. I just ran into one bizarre case we had to provide an
exception for by DATACLAS.
BMC has a utility that uses temporary data sets between MVS address
spaces. Just a consideration when you set things up
I think he is looking for something that will process JCL and build UCLIN.
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If you have a z/OS system, you already have HLASM, which is a
nonexclusive base element of z/OS. (Translation: Comes with z/OS
at no additional charge, but is also a separately-orderable
product.)
Sorry, but I don't know about z/VM.
Wayne Driscoll wrote:
So this is only avilable to users
As long as you have not ACCEPTed the FMID, REDO should work fine.
If you have done the ACCEPT, you will have to reRECEIVE the FMID.
.
.
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So this is only avilable to users running with IFL's? If I have a vm system
that has z/OS and z/Linux guests, I can't use the product? The seems odd.
No. Just your interpretation was odd.
John said OR, not AND (or only).
He meant (my interpretation), that you had to have an implementation of
Sorry, a clarification. Since John Ehrman specifically mentioned running
on an IFL processor my question was if HLASM for z/Linux required IFL
processors, or could run in a z/Linux running on a regular processor. I
think the answer would be YES, but just wondering.
Wayne Driscoll
Product
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at 09:46 AM, Desi de la Garza [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
How can I find out what PUT LVL our system is at?
Why? In general, two systems at the same PUT level will have different
service installed.
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In
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at 04:25 PM, Skip Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The OMVS HFS files do not live on this sysres. What does live there
is a DFDSS unload backup copy of the HFS files.
How do you ensure that they are in synch?
2. We have strenuously avoided a multi-volume
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 01/26/2006
at 11:03 PM, William McKinley [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
What do assembler programmers use with the new instruction set?
Whatever they are most comfortable with. I prefer XDC when it is
available, but I've been known to use TEST in oddball cases. AFAIK
there
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 01/27/2006
at 11:18 AM, Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I see integrity as preventing a problem state routine from doing
something malicious or outside it's box, and preventing a supervisor
state routine from accidentally doing something unexpected.
Indeed,
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 01/26/2006
08:26:10 PM:
When Expanded Storage was introduced on the 390-200 the way VIO worked
was
changed. VIO was written to ES and not the page datasets, which meant
that
unless you had really saturated your ES and pushed the
Gone are the days of cowboy sysprogs.
Did they ever exist? I certainly never changed things without
understanding the ramifications
I remember when OCO first came out, and I was working for the Ontario Ministry
of Government Services.
We had an 'old-style' curmudgeon of a SYSPROG who lived and
I understood that. The unload provides the framework for the UCLIN reload, with
the wrapper code doing the JCL parsing, etc.
But to answer your question directly, Alan, I personally do not recall ever
seeing that edit macro.
Bob
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At 2006-01-26 12:30, you wrote:
True. However, like me, it
Yes Virginia there were cowboy sysprogs.
Middle 70's, large financial institution in large city, twin 370/155's
running MVT.
1) Two channel switches had just been added to the disk controllers
(dual pathing). Management met with technical in a meeting questioning
whether the things were
... lowering the 4-hour rolling average ...
You and I (with and without IBMers in attendance) have discussed this concept
several times.
I codified most of my comments in http://www.isham-research.co.uk/wlc.html
almost four years
ago - stunts like the zIIP are just a form of whack-a-mole
Whatever happened to: The results are unpredictable?
(Or: Both bits are yours.)
Gone are the days of cowboy sysprogs.
Did they ever exist?
You never worked for a vendor? By the nature of the beast, cowboy sysprogs get
into more
trouble than the other sort and vendor people get to spend a
IBM's software charging schemes are inherently business-unfriendly.
I could/did have told you that in 1985.
As a capacity analyst, I told them that when they introduced tiered pricing.
This has screwed up the mainframe pricing model for 20 years!
The cost/butt is still better than the *NIX world,
I just installed it. I would call it definitely better.
Screen fonts aren't nearly so goofy, and it remembers the screen position
from exit to next startup.
Still can't follow links that are on another shelf, and the back button
still takes you back to the top of the page, not where you were.
Sprint Scraps Major IT Outsourcing Deal With IBM
TechWeb via Yahoo! News Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:00 PM PST
Sprint is bringing back work and employees it gave to IBM under a
$400 million outsourcing pact and redoing its multibillion-dollar
call-center deal with the IT services firm.
Undoubtedly to the choir. But they can buy small/medium servers and
software from petty cash. After some dozen(s), it's noticed that the
support admins are overworked and stressed, and they pull a position
from mainframe and hire another PC jockey.
By the time the TCO arguments really make a
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