KEEPALIVE and firewalls

2006-03-08 Thread glen herrmannsfeldt
Jan Vanbrabant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: which softwares honour TCP's KEEPALIVE packets? The differents segments of our n/w are separated by firewalls. These fw's are setup in such a way that they disrupt open connections, which have not been in use for a certain interval. We want

FACILITY CLASS profile ALTER access required for BMC RECOVER UTILITY for VSAM?

2006-03-08 Thread Bruce Hewson
Hi Folks, Can anyone explain why the BMC RECOVER UTILITY for VSAM, Version 2.1 requires users to have ALTER access to BMCRUV.SUBSYS.ssid, BMCRUV.COMMAND and BMCRUV.REPOSITORY profiles. The Customization Guide insists that ALTER access is mandatory. I need an explanation to satisfy the auditors.

Re: FACILITY CLASS profile ALTER access required for BMC RECOVER UTILITY for VSAM?]

2006-03-08 Thread Shane
Forwarded to the list - mutter, mutter ... Shane ... Can anyone explain why the BMC RECOVER UTILITY for VSAM, Version 2.1 requires users to have ALTER access to BMCRUV.SUBSYS.ssid, BMCRUV.COMMAND and BMCRUV.REPOSITORY profiles. The Customization Guide insists that ALTER access is

Re: Annoying ICSF-RACF message

2006-03-08 Thread Víctor de la Fuente
For sure RACF message is pointing JOB and STEP. My problem is not grant access, it is/was knowing why VTAM is trying to use ICSF. I already said I'm not the VTAM guy, so I don't know about APPL definitions. But I was looking at some definitions and I realized the nodes with ENCRYPTION=OPTIONAL

OAM: DB2 required?

2006-03-08 Thread Jousma, David
All, I'm trying to figure something out here. We have OAM running to support our 3494 and VTS tape libraries. However, I cannot see where we have done anything to enable OAM's use of DB2. Is it possible that OAM can be used without DB2? We don't any 3995's installed, and as far as I can see we

Re: DB2 required?

2006-03-08 Thread Mark Jacobs
If you are just using OAM for tape library support it doesn't use DB2 and you can ignore the holddata. Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service Inc. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 6:42

Re: KEEPALIVE and firewalls

2006-03-08 Thread Clark, Kevin D, HRC-Alexandria/EDS
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of glen herrmannsfeldt Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 4:18 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: KEEPALIVE and firewalls Jan Vanbrabant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: which softwares honour

Re: Need help with msg IEE114I

2006-03-08 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward E. Jaffe Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 6:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Need help with msg IEE114I snip (E)JES will show the ATX on the Activity display. If you

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2006-03-08 Thread Phil Payne
A fortnight's notice is a little tight. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message:

Re: FACILITY CLASS profile ALTER access required for BMC RECOVER UTILITY for VSAM?

2006-03-08 Thread Walt Farrell
On 3/8/2006 4:55 AM, Bruce Hewson wrote: Can anyone explain why the BMC RECOVER UTILITY for VSAM, Version 2.1 requires users to have ALTER access to BMCRUV.SUBSYS.ssid, BMCRUV.COMMAND and BMCRUV.REPOSITORY profiles. The Customization Guide insists that ALTER access is mandatory. I need an

Re: IXFP No Longer Supported

2006-03-08 Thread Ron and Jenny Hawkins
Rex, Glad the thread was useful. Now the sales guys have to step up to the plate and make sure you save some money... Ron -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex R. Sent: Wednesday, 8 March 2006 7:38 AM To:

Re: IBM DB2 and IMS Tools Announcement (7 March 2006)

2006-03-08 Thread Ron and Jenny Hawkins
Tim, Now if it would just inter-operate with the other subsystems with which DB2 does a 2-phase commit, the mainframe would have a significant capability that the distributed, open, midrange, small systems do not have on their radar. Track allocation versus Relative Block Address - JCL was

Re: Need help with msg IEE114I

2006-03-08 Thread Richard Tsujimoto
Hello Ed, it's been a long time since talking to the guys at Phoenix. In any event, I tried the SRESET and YALL command, and there is no Display ATXs === YES on the Entry Panel or Primary Selection Criteria window. Maybe it's due to our version (V2R5M0).

Re: DB2 required?

2006-03-08 Thread Jousma, David
Mark, Thanks for the response. I also go that from IBM through an etr I opened. It wasn't clear in any of the OAM doc I looked that that was the case. Dave Dave Jousma Principal Systems Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 616.653.8429

Re: Need help with msg IEE114I - solved

2006-03-08 Thread Richard Tsujimoto
It turns out that the users/programmers have this desktop product that uses some variation of FTP. It has the ability to spawn an ATX address space. These are not APPC address spaces. Looks like an expansion of the ATX attribute may be needed.

Re: CF usage at DR location

2006-03-08 Thread Paolo Cacciari
Pat, believe me or not... there's no way to restart a Parallel Sysplex on a D/R site and with a one shot IPL operation, unless you have an empty XCF Couple Dataset and a COUPLExx parameter for D/R purposes. XCF couple datasets have an administrative section, generally not accessible by customer

Re: OAM: DB2 required?

2006-03-08 Thread Jack Kelly
my experience with oam and 3494/5 is that db2 is not require. db2 seems to snake in if you're using objects Jack Kelly LA Systems @ US Courts x 202-502-2390 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: Search for text in load modules

2006-03-08 Thread Bruce Black
I've found that the PDS command (CBT file 182) does an excellent job of dumping a bit of data around the found text. Even tells you the CSECT. Yes, I just used PDS to do exactly that, 5 minutes ago. I needed to find some of our load modules with a particular internal assembly timestamp. The

Re: IXFP No Longer Supported

2006-03-08 Thread Bruce Black
I understand the idea that the copy is immediately available before the physical tracks are copied and was just wondering what kind of impact the background copy would have on the foreground tasks running against the same physical disks. Rex, that is an interesting question on which I have seen

Re: Need help with msg IEE114I - solved

2006-03-08 Thread Chris Mason
Richard, The variation of FTP could be AFTP and the desktop, by which I assume you mean a PC, product could be the AFTP client for whichever operating system the PC runs. However, AFTP would be spawning an AFTP server transaction program on the mainframe which would be an APPC/MVS address space

Re: Need help with msg IEE114I - solved

2006-03-08 Thread Richard Tsujimoto
There is no entry for the product in the APPCTP data set. -- 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: FACILITY CLASS profile ALTER access required for BMC RECOVER UTILITY for VSAM?

2006-03-08 Thread Craddock, Chris
On 3/8/2006 4:55 AM, Bruce Hewson wrote: Can anyone explain why the BMC RECOVER UTILITY for VSAM, Version 2.1 requires users to have ALTER access to BMCRUV.SUBSYS.ssid, BMCRUV.COMMAND and BMCRUV.REPOSITORY profiles. The Customization Guide insists that ALTER access is mandatory. I

Re: Need help with msg IEE114I - solved

2006-03-08 Thread Richard Tsujimoto
We discovered something interesting. We did an FTP operation using our terminal emulator product (PASSPORT) instead of the PC-based FTP product, and we can see an address space of type ATX started. We stopped the test and then brought down APPC. We repeated the FTP test and it worked, which

Re: Need help with msg IEE114I

2006-03-08 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
Richard Tsujimoto wrote: Hello Ed, it's been a long time since talking to the guys at Phoenix. In any event, I tried the SRESET and YALL command, and there is no Display ATXs === YES on the Entry Panel or Primary Selection Criteria window. Maybe it's due to our version (V2R5M0). Rick,

Re: Need help with msg IEE114I

2006-03-08 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
McKown, John wrote: (E)JES will show the ATX on the Activity display. If you can't see it, try issuing the SRESET and YALL commands. Does (E)JES have an ALL YALL command as well as the YALL command? Southerners want to know this sorta stuff! GRIN. No. But, we're fixing to add one

Re: Need help with msg IEE114I - solved

2006-03-08 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
Richard Tsujimoto wrote: It turns out that the users/programmers have this desktop product that uses some variation of FTP. It has the ability to spawn an ATX address space. These are not APPC address spaces. Looks like an expansion of the ATX attribute may be needed. What release of

Re: Annoying ICSF-RACF message

2006-03-08 Thread Chris Mason
Victor, I was going to say that ENCRYPTION was not a start option (ENCRYPTN) nor an operand of the APPL statement (ENCR) nor, indeed, the MODEENT macro of the MODE table (ENCR) , another VTAM entity you just mentioned. However, I realised that you were reporting some text from a DISPLAY ID=x,

Re: Need help with msg IEE114I

2006-03-08 Thread Richard Tsujimoto
Thanks Ed, I'll follow-up on this. -- 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 help with msg IEE114I - solved

2006-03-08 Thread Richard Tsujimoto
Ed, you embarrass me grin, we're clinging onto OS/390 2.6 -- 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 help with msg IEE114I - solved

2006-03-08 Thread Chris Mason
Richard, In answer to your earlier post saying you definitely had no transaction program profile for AFTP defined, I was going to mention that not all APPC/MVS server tasks needed to be started by the APPC/MVS scheduler using transaction program profiles. However, since we are taking here about

Re: Need help with msg IEE114I - solved

2006-03-08 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 09:26:38 -0800, Edward E. Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What release of the operating system are you running??? OMVS used to use APPC/MVS for its forked procedures. There was no need to expand the meaning of ATX for those address spaces. They were indeed APPC transactions,

Re: Need help with msg IEE114I - solved

2006-03-08 Thread Richard Tsujimoto
The use of netstat was not for checking any APPC connection. It was done to see if an IP connection was present, which it was. Sorry for any confusion I might have caused. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

GRS Ring Between Two 7060's using ESCON.

2006-03-08 Thread Ed Long
Hi all. I am trying to build a two system GRS ring between my two 7060's. Why? Because I have a large V960 disk array between them, and I need to protect myself from myself. So far, I have a single ESCON connection defined between them, call them System A and System B. System B thinks

Converting LRECL 32K to less than or equal to 32K

2006-03-08 Thread John Mattson
In a bit of a crunch here. Anybody have a REXX that will read a DCB=(RECFM=VBS,LRECL=X,BLKSIZE=32760) file which has records with LRECL 32760, and create a new file with LRECL of something less than 32760? Or some other utility to do the same thing, I'm easy.

Re: Converting LRECL 32K to less than or equal to 32K

2006-03-08 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Mattson Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 2:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Converting LRECL 32K to less than or equal to 32K In a bit of a crunch here. Anybody have a REXX

Re: Converting LRECL 32K to less than or equal to 32K

2006-03-08 Thread Ulrich Krueger
John, if you can afford to truncate records that are 32760 (and loose that information), you might want to look at DFSORT and option TRUNC=... Regards, Ulrich Krueger -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Converting LRECL 32K to less than or equal to 32K

2006-03-08 Thread John Mattson
Just found out that REXX can't handle spanned records, at least at OS/390 2.10. I am getting the data from Windows (of course), and need to put it into a program (Cobol) which wants LRECL=32,000, BUT it can handle multiple physical records being needed for a single logical

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2006-03-08 Thread Ed Finnell
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Re: Converting LRECL 32K to less than or equal to 32K

2006-03-08 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Mattson Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 3:10 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Converting LRECL 32K to less than or equal to 32K Just found out that REXX can't

Re: Converting LRECL 32K to less than or equal to 32K

2006-03-08 Thread John R bodoh
If it's coming from Windows, why not convert it on Window using REXX on the PC and then send the converted file to the mainframe. John Just found out that REXX can't handle spanned records, at least at OS/390 2.10. I am getting the data from Windows (of course), and need to

Re: HDS backup process

2006-03-08 Thread Dennis Leong
Since we are not able to purchase something like FDR Instant, I'm looking for other ways to avoid having to clip volume labels. Has anyone had any experience copying volumes with DFDSS COPY with the dumpconditional and fastreplication keywords on a HDS 9900? Is Showdow Image invoked? Also what

Re: Converting LRECL 32K to less than or equal to 32K

2006-03-08 Thread Frank Yaeger
John Mattson wrote: Just found out that REXX can't handle spanned records, at least at OS/390 2.10. I am getting the data from Windows (of course), and need to put it into a program (Cobol) which wants LRECL=32,000, BUT it can handle multiple physical records being needed for

Re: Converting LRECL 32K to less than or equal to 32K

2006-03-08 Thread Charles Mills
Can you FTP it to Windows and then FTP it back again, specifying a different LRECL? Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Mattson Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 1:10 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

How to cycle SMTP?

2006-03-08 Thread Larry Burch
Can the SMTP task be cycled manually, with P SMTP and S SMTP commands from the console (i.e., without cycling the TCPIP task)? I want to be sure to get the TIMEZONE updated next month when Daylight Saving Time starts in the USA. I presume cycling SMTP is necessary and appropriate, but can't

Re: How to cycle SMTP?

2006-03-08 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 3/8/2006 4:44:44 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can the SMTP task be cycled manually, with P SMTP and S SMTP commands from the console (i.e., without cycling the TCPIP task)? Yes. If it's in the AUTOLOG it will restart by it's own self. Umm,

Re: How to cycle SMTP?

2006-03-08 Thread Kittendorf, Craig
Yes to both. You need to change the config member then manually p smtp. If tcp parms have autolog, it will restart, else you manually s smtp. craig -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Burch Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Re: HDS backup process

2006-03-08 Thread Ron and Jenny Hawkins
Dennis, You don't have o clip the labels of a conditioned volume - that's the reason for dumpconditioning. However conditioning is a function provided by DFDSS, so you will be doing a normal copy of every volume prior to dumping it. DFDSS can interact with Flashcopy so that the hardware will

Valid IEASYS00 Members?

2006-03-08 Thread Kathleen McLaughlin
I’m currently reviewing our SYS1.PARMLIB(IEASYS00) member and have found the following three parameters specified: APG=07 ILMLIB=SYS1.ILMLIB ILMMODE=NONE I have searched both the z/OS V1R4 and z/OS V1R6 “MVS Initialization and Tuning Reference” books and am unsuccessful in finding information

Re: Valid IEASYS00 Members?

2006-03-08 Thread Charles Mills
ILM is IBM License Manager, if that helps. http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1II13089 http://www.aime.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0309L=ibm-mainD=0O=DP=75357 http://shareweb.share.org/proceedings/sh96/data/S2829.PDF Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: Valid IEASYS00 Members?

2006-03-08 Thread Kittendorf, Craig
I can't be of much help, except to say I'm fairly certain APG is obsolete and ILM refers to IBM License Manager which is obsolete also. Craig -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kathleen McLaughlin Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Re: Manual References in Posts (was Update a module in LPA ?)

2006-03-08 Thread Chris Mason
Paul, Happily I kept this post for review - actually just before an intended purge. I see that the URL for a Contents page requires only the text up to, but not including, /CCONTENTS. The text from and including /CCONTENTS may be ditched. That's useful to know - and if I was awake I should have

Re: Valid IEASYS00 Members?

2006-03-08 Thread Ted MacNEIL
APG=07 Automatic Priority Group means nothing in Goal Mode. Delete it just because you're specifying something that is syntacticlly correct, but meaningless. - -teD I’m an enthusiastic proselytiser of the universal panacea I believe in!

Beginner VSM question

2006-03-08 Thread Matt Collins
We have a Storage Tek VSM at work, that works in conjuction with high volume MV drives in the silo. Since that is the majority of the activity on the console, I'd like to know what it's for and how it works. Can someone give me a basic rundown of it? It must be be real efficient, because many tape

Re: How to cycle SMTP?

2006-03-08 Thread Steve Comstock
Larry Burch wrote: Can the SMTP task be cycled manually, with P SMTP and S SMTP commands from the console (i.e., without cycling the TCPIP task)? I want to be sure to get the TIMEZONE updated next month when Daylight Saving Time starts in the USA. I presume cycling SMTP is necessary and

looking for tools(products) to do transaction end to end analysis

2006-03-08 Thread TRAVIS SHEN
Dear lister, I had a need to do transaction end to end performance analysis(Z/OS), Does anyone would like to share some experience or introduce some products(tools),It may be good to post it in network server list, So Pls also advice where is the network lister? Best

Re: looking for tools(products) to do transaction end to end analysis

2006-03-08 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 3/8/2006 8:30:55 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: or introduce some products(tools),It may be good to post it in network server list, So Pls also advice where is the network lister? For public lists go to _www.lsoft.com_

Re: FACILITY CLASS profile ALTER access required for BMC RECOVER UTILITY for VSAM?

2006-03-08 Thread Bruce Hewson
To Shane, Walt and Chris, Because it is the combination of AUDITOR + RACF + ACCESS(ALTER) = many questions We are asking BMC for more explanation. My reading of the manual supplied to me did not give any indication that ACCESS levels other than ALTER were being used. We are required to

Re: GRS Ring Between Two 7060's using ESCON.

2006-03-08 Thread Bruce Hewson
Hello Ed, questions first: 1. any escon director? 2. lpar mode? What response do you get when you display the CHPID and DEVICES for these CTC connections. I am most familiar defining CTCs via ESCON directors, where the services of HCD make it very simply to confirm that your definition are