What hides behind 'TSO SDSF'?

2006-03-13 Thread Johnny Luo
Hi, Since my first touch with z/os,I have learned to issue 'tso sdsf' in ISPF to invoke sdsf.Yesterday I'm doing some customization for my tso/ispf session---adding some commands to my own ispf command table. One of customized ISPF commands is 'sd',I want to use it to go directly to sdsf and I

Re: discrete profiles for tape protection.

2006-03-13 Thread Mike Wood
John, The function performed by the RMM TPRACF options depends on how you have RACF set up. If you were to inactivate TAPEVOL class rmm stops creating and deleting TAPEVOL profiles for you. With z/OS 1.8 we provide another option for TPRACF that will stop creation of profiles but enable deletion;

New CLIST on SYSPROC - refresh

2006-03-13 Thread R.S.
I just added new member to SYSPROC library. The command TSO membername does not work, I believe, because of IKJEXEC entry in COFVLF00. I could recycle VLF, but... Q: Does exist a method for refreshing command list without recycling VLF ? Should I use VLFNOTE ? -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz,

Encryption SMS

2006-03-13 Thread Dean Montevago
Hi, I received a note mentioning a vendor is developing an encryptrion product. They mentioned in the note: The OPEN intercept will still need to check the SMS ACS to determine which encryption method to use. My question is what is the diffenece between an encryption routine for SMS -vs-

Re: Encryption SMS

2006-03-13 Thread Clark, Kevin D, HRC-Alexandria/EDS
I waiting toi here back from IBM on the cost of : IBM DFSMSdss Encryption feature -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Montevago Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 8:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Encryption SMS Hi, I

Re: IXFP No Longer Supported

2006-03-13 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bruno Sugliani On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 14:13:23 -0600, Ed Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would not want to be responsible to management if a disaster struck after you initiated the snap short Its just like any

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread John Eells
Ed Gould wrote: Some other sysprogs that I know don't know about it but they don't go SHARE. I would hate to think that this apparently nice facility is limited to SHARE attendees. I am not against this per se.. C'mon, Ed. Of course it's not limited to SHARE attendees. Why would we want

Re: What hides behind 'TSO SDSF'?

2006-03-13 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:27:19 +0800 Johnny Luo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :Since my first touch with z/os,I have learned to issue 'tso sdsf' in ISPF :to invoke sdsf.Yesterday I'm doing some customization for my tso/ispf :session---adding some commands to my own ispf command table. :One of

Re: Valid IEASYS00 Members?

2006-03-13 Thread John Eells
Kathleen McLaughlin wrote: 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

How to stop a started task in starting status

2006-03-13 Thread Francois Paré
Hello, Is there a command to stop a started task that stays in the starting status because of an enqueue conflict on a dataset? I try cancel and force but it didn't work. I don't want to stop the other address space that has got the dataset at first. Thank you! Francois Pare

Re: How to stop a started task in starting status

2006-03-13 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Francois Paré Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 9:11 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: How to stop a started task in starting status Hello, Is there a command to stop a started

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Ed Gould
On Mar 13, 2006, at 8:18 AM, John Eells wrote: Ed Gould wrote: Some other sysprogs that I know don't know about it but they don't go SHARE. I would hate to think that this apparently nice facility is limited to SHARE attendees. I am not against this per se.. C'mon, Ed. Of course

Re: D SMF - programatically

2006-03-13 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
On Sunday 12 March 2006 16:43, R.S. wrote: D SMF shows what is current (ACTIVE) SYS1.MANx dataset. I'd like to get the information in my program. Can I find it in CVT or other control block ? Look at the code in SHOWMVS which displays a lot of SMF parms and info. SHOWMVS is in file 492 of

MGCRE and EMCS Console

2006-03-13 Thread Shahriar Shakeri
Hi list I have written an MPF EXIT to issuing operator commands : i have used an MCSOPER REQUEST=ACTIVATE to define an EMCS console and then MGCRE to issue the command ,after waiting for the response to become available, MCSOPMSG REQUEST=GETMSG to actually retrieve it, and finally MCSOPER

Re: How to stop a started task in starting status

2006-03-13 Thread Philippe Leite
Try C STARTING,A=, where is the ASID in hex format. Regards, Philippe Leite -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

Re: What hides behind 'TSO SDSF'?

2006-03-13 Thread Johnny Luo
On 3/13/06, Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:27:19 +0800 Johnny Luo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :Since my first touch with z/os,I have learned to issue 'tso sdsf' in ISPF :to invoke sdsf.Yesterday I'm doing some customization for my tso/ispf :session---adding

Re: What hides behind 'TSO SDSF'?

2006-03-13 Thread Johnny Luo
Another question.A little off-topic,but it's relevant to tso/ispf, so I raise it here. When I get the tso ready,I always use 'ispf' to invoke ISPF. So I assume it a tso command,but strangely I can not find this command in TSO Command Reference.But when I issue 'tso help ispf' in ISPF,I can get

Secure FTP

2006-03-13 Thread McGee, Cletus
We are exploring our options to meet a requirement to do a secure FTP from the Mainframe. I was wondering what others have done in this area. Any product suggestions or methodologies to accomplish this? Thanks *** Cletus McGee Technical Services (334) 394-3320 Have

RE : What hides behind 'TSO SDSF'?

2006-03-13 Thread CAPRON Romain
It is locate in SISPLPA (ISP. SISPLPA for example) ... (So in LPA) CAPRON Romain Ingénieur Système MATMUT, France -Message d'origine- De : IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Johnny Luo Envoyé : lundi 13 mars 2006 16:45 À : IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Objet :

Re: What hides behind 'TSO SDSF'?

2006-03-13 Thread Bob Shannon
When I get the tso ready,I always use 'ispf' to invoke ISPF. So I assume it a tso command,but strangely I can not find this command in TSO Command Reference.But when I issue 'tso help ispf' in ISPF,I can get tutorial about this command. So,why Command Reference doesn't talk about this command?

Re: What hides behind 'TSO SDSF'?

2006-03-13 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 3/13/2006 9:45:09 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So,why Command Reference doesn't talk about this command? It's a program product and has it's own separate FMID and manuals. It's not shipped as a part of TSO.

Re: Secure FTP

2006-03-13 Thread Clark, Kevin D, HRC-Alexandria/EDS
Cletus, Your Industry may dictate a solution. For Example Financial - Connect:Direct International - HARBOR/FT Commercial - FTP SSH Contact the site where you must transfer to and from and gather a consensus of product standards from them. Kevin -Original Message- From:

Re: What hides behind 'TSO SDSF'?

2006-03-13 Thread Imbriale, Donald (Exchange)
It's a TSO command processor, but not a TSO command. Other products may also introduce TSO CPs into your environment and those added CPs will not be documented in the TSO Command Reference either. Don Imbriale -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: IXFP No Longer Supported

2006-03-13 Thread Bruce Black
I would, however, concur that the copy is not instantaneous. Establishing the FlashCopy relationship for 300 - 400 drives takes us somewhere on the order of a minute, so you must, for example, suspend DB2 updates and some other update activities during the establishment process to be sure that

Re: Secure FTP

2006-03-13 Thread Steve Flynn
On 13/03/06, McGee, Cletus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are exploring our options to meet a requirement to do a secure FTP from the Mainframe. I was wondering what others have done in this area. Any product suggestions or methodologies to accomplish this? We have used a SSH tunnel carrying FTP.

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Imbriale, Donald (Exchange)
Ed, pay attention. John could not have stated it any more clearly : Of course it's not limited to SHARE attendees. But you come right back and say that it is. As to awareness of this process, there are many ways it has been brought to the public awareness. You could read IBM web sites. Cheryl

Re: Secure FTP

2006-03-13 Thread Jack Kelly
we're just in the throes of it now. looks like ibm's free 5655-m23 does the job Jack Kelly LA Systems @ US Courts x 202-502-2390 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IMS -- Old Manual

2006-03-13 Thread Avram Friedman
James, Wow, does your shop run COPICS? I have good and bad news for you, The good news first, LLC is still supported sort off as of IMS V8. By support the macro that generates the low level code checker is still around and has actually been maintained ... the Macro name is DFSNN and the most

Re: How to stop a started task in starting status

2006-03-13 Thread Knutson, Sam
Issue D GRS,C to get the ASID it will show name and STARTING of the waiting STC Issue C STARTING,A= using the ASID you obtained from the D GRS,C. Thanks, Sam Knutson, GEICO Performance and Availability Management mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Powerful z machine

2006-03-13 Thread R.S.
Tom Harper wrote: I knew z machines were awesome, but this is amazing: 80 times the world's electrical power usage (for a fraction of a second): http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060313.html It is good to distinguish power (Watt-measured) and energy (Joul-measure, or kWh, which is 3.6MJ).

Re: Powerful z machine

2006-03-13 Thread Tom Harper
Only the name! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 10:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Powerful z machine Tom Harper wrote: I knew z machines were awesome, but this is amazing: 80

Re: Powerful z machine

2006-03-13 Thread Richard Pinion
From Back to the Future that's Jiga Watts! [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/13/2006 11:57:32 AM Tom Harper wrote: I knew z machines were awesome, but this is amazing: 80 times the world's electrical power usage (for a fraction of a second): http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060313.html It is good

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread John Eells
John Eells wrote: HOLDDATA has indeed been around for quite a while (and a big improvement it was over EXCLUDE lists, too). However, Enhanced HOLDDATA, which includes HOLDs for HIPERs, has not been around for 20 years. In fact, the pre-GA pilot progam wasn't even 20 years ago (more like

Re: 64-bit question

2006-03-13 Thread Neubert, Kevin (DIS)
Regarding an accidental CPC deactivate... If you deactivate a CPC with active systems you should be receiving a warning message identifying active systems by name along with a message stating the action being performed is disruptive before you can proceed. Regarding accidental object

Re: What hides behind 'TSO SDSF'?

2006-03-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/13/2006 at 05:27 PM, Johnny Luo [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Then sunddently I think of the 'tso sdsf' .It seems 'sdsf' should be a TSO command,but after searching TSO command reference, I'm bewilered.There is no tso command named 'sdsf'. The TSO Commands Reference

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Eric Bielefeld
John, What was SmartMVS? I don't recall ever hearing about that. Or maybe I just forgot. Was that something you had to pay for? Maybe it was one of those things only available at Share. (A little humour). Eric Bielefeld Sr. Systems Programmer PH Mining Equipment 414-671-7849 Milwaukee,

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 3/13/2006 1:03:23 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What was SmartMVS? I don't recall ever hearing about that. Or maybe I just forgot. Was that something you had to pay for? Maybe it was one of those things only available at Share. (A little

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Ed Gould
On Mar 13, 2006, at 12:18 PM, John Eells wrote: John Eells wrote: HOLDDATA has indeed been around for quite a while (and a big improvement it was over EXCLUDE lists, too). However, Enhanced HOLDDATA, which includes HOLDs for HIPERs, has not been around for 20 years. In fact, the pre-GA

SHARE 107 Topics

2006-03-13 Thread Conway, Steven F
(Doggone it, submitted to bit.listserv first. Sorry.) Now that SHARE in Seattle is done, we have a whopping six to seven weeks to produce the schedule for SHARE 107 in Baltimore this summer. That means

virtual copies (was: IXFP ...)

2006-03-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Bruce Black said: Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:11:16 -0500 Flashcopy has a consistent flash mode that makes it unnecessary to suspend application updates, as long as the application is a logged system doing dependant writes ... I'm unfamiliar with the terms, but

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Ed Gould
On Mar 13, 2006, at 10:28 AM, Imbriale, Donald (Exchange) wrote: Ed, pay attention. John could not have stated it any more clearly : Of course it's not limited to SHARE attendees. But you come right back and say that it is. Of course the only people who know about it are SHARE people or

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Gould [ snip ] A key point that everyone seems to be missing is that SE's (and they like) have essentially disappeared in the late 80's and early 90's. There is no longer a way that IBM can reach out to

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Imbriale, Donald (Exchange)
I haven't attended SHARE in 12 or more years. But somehow I found out about Red Alerts. Thanks to IBM-MAIN and Cheryl Watson and spending time reading IBM's web sites. Don Imbriale -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Bob Shannon
I haven't attended SHARE in 12 or more years. Gee Don, how's it look for Baltimore this summer? Bob Shannon -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message:

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 3/13/2006 2:38:58 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is no longer a way that IBM can reach out to inform the community of good information. Ever hear of the Internet? Plenty of other businesses have discovered yet another way to reach

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Brian Peterson
SMARTMVS was an IBM offering apparently available in Europe. From the current SMP/E User's Guide: The format of the HOLDDATA provided by the SMARTMVS service in Europe or the Electronic HOLDDATA service in the U.S. is not compatible with z/OS Enhanced HOLDDATA and does not take advantage of the

Re: 64-bit question

2006-03-13 Thread Mark Zelden
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 10:13:40 -0600, Joel C. Ewing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's what had me a bit confused. When I changed the storage distribution to be only central with no expanded, the new config didn't take affect until I did a DEACTIVATE, then an ACTIVATE on

Re: IXFP No Longer Supported

2006-03-13 Thread Bruno Sugliani
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 07:55:52 -0600, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So at 03:00.00 you start a conventional backup process, and at 03:00.01 the same disaster occurs. Are you not in the same boat?? -jc- Yes John ,but somehow no :-)) But as i said it was for the sake of the argument .

Re: 64-bit question

2006-03-13 Thread Ted MacNEIL
If you deactivate a CPC with active systems you should be receiving a warning message identifying active systems by name along with a message stating the action being performed is disruptive before you can proceed. Operations types (actually most types) get into habits. When Amdahl first came

Re: What hides behind 'TSO SDSF'?

2006-03-13 Thread Ed Gould
On Mar 13, 2006, at 9:44 AM, Johnny Luo wrote: Another question.A little off-topic,but it's relevant to tso/ispf, so I raise it here. When I get the tso ready,I always use 'ispf' to invoke ISPF. So I assume it a tso command,but strangely I can not find this command in TSO Command Reference.But

JES2 $QNET suport for z/OS V1R7 (HJE7720)

2006-03-13 Thread John Hamlet
Has anyone hacked Doron's $QNET command to work with the new NJE/TCP type lines in addition to traditional CTC/BSC/SNA lines at HJE7720? Would someone be interested on working on porting this to HJE7720 with me? Is Tom Wasik's JES2 z/OS 1.7 Migration Guide presentation (dated 01Mar2006) found

Re: What hides behind 'TSO SDSF'?

2006-03-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/13/2006 at 11:44 PM, Johnny Luo [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: So,why Command Reference doesn't talk about this command? For the same reason that it doesn't talk about RACF and RMF commands; it only talks about commands that are part of TSO/E. Look in the ISPF

SYSLOG purging . . .

2006-03-13 Thread Jon Bathmaker
Hi All; I have an unusual request from my user. He wants to keep three months of SYSLOG on the spool in one logically contiguous piece and every week, he wants to dump the oldest week to a GDG, leaving the rest there in a single spool dataset. It's rather like a logger scenario. I have never

Re: SYSLOG purging . . .

2006-03-13 Thread Lizette Koehler
Jon, One shop I was at we dumped SYSLOG every night at midnight to a DASD GDG. Then every week we used JOBTRAC (job scheduling product) to pickup the weeks work of GDGs and wrote a weekly GDG to DASD. Then we used Jobtrac to pick up the Weeklies and make a monthly tape. You can do something

Re: SYSLOG purging . . .

2006-03-13 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Bathmaker Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 3:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: SYSLOG purging . . . Hi All; I have an unusual request from my user. He wants to keep three

ShadowImage Flashcopy extension

2006-03-13 Thread Dennis Leong
What is the advantage of having the ShadowImage Flashcopy V2 Extension? Our mainframe has all its data on a HDS 9900V box. If I run DFDSS Copy full with the dumpconditional keyword without the extension is ShadowImage still being invoked on the box? Thank you. - enD sin

Re: SYSLOG purging . . .

2006-03-13 Thread Ulrich Krueger
Jon, you could probably go and invent some wheel, a program to work with the external writer program, to do what your user wants, plus some more to handle the retention, tape migration, expiration, etc. However, this wheel has already been invented many times over. Please look on the Internet for

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
Ed Gould wrote: A key point that everyone seems to be missing is that SE's (and they like) have essentially disappeared in the late 80's and early 90's. There is no longer a way that IBM can reach out to inform the community of good information. IBM did it to themselves when they got rid

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Ed Gould
On Mar 13, 2006, at 2:38 PM, Chase, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Gould [ snip ] A key point that everyone seems to be missing is that SE's (and they like) have essentially disappeared in the late 80's and early 90's. There is no

Re: SYSLOG purging . . .

2006-03-13 Thread Ulrich Krueger
Jon, on second thought ... First of all, you can not keep a contiguous hunk of SYSLOG (one big file for 90 days) and then expect to be able to easily delete a day's or week's worth of records. That's just not how the thing's designed. Depending on your system setup, SYSLOG is automatically broken

Re: SMP/E for non-sysprogs?

2006-03-13 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 21:19:53 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Last, if the group takes responsibility for software maintenance then must do so (politically anyway) independently from any group member. And if the group takes responsibility for software

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:50:39 -0600, Ed Gould wrote: On Mar 13, 2006, at 2:38 PM, Chase, John wrote: Ever hear of the Internet? John, Yea and its a pretty big place isn't it? Ed But not endless: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Eric Bielefeld
Thanks Brian. If it was only available in Europe, that would explain why I never heard of it. On the other topic about Red Alerts, I think I heard about that from one of the IBM newsletters, that are easily subscribed to. I went to sign up, and got the few that were sent out. Eric

Fw: SYSLOG purging . . .

2006-03-13 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Thid poster had a REPLYTO, so it didn't make it to IBM-Main. - -teD I’m an enthusiastic proselytiser of the universal panacea I believe in! -Original Message- From: Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 22:21:16 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SYSLOG purging . . . If

Re: CF usage at DR location

2006-03-13 Thread Skip Robinson
We were early users of XRC circa 1998. In our first few tests, we had lingering problems because, with mirrored CFRM data set, the newly IPLed systems could never get over the loss of the two CFs left back in the smoking hole. They were convinced that some magic would bring the lost CFs back

Re: CF usage at DR location

2006-03-13 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 3/13/2006 4:33:53 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: They can still be in the (composite) CFRM policy, but now they're simply unreachable in DR just as the DR CFs are unreachable in production. No more problem. Paolo is right. Welcome back, you

Re: CF usage at DR location

2006-03-13 Thread Skip Robinson
SHARE in Seattle was very fine. ;-) Thanks for asking about ESCON cards: the question motivated me to inquire and actually make a plan. Cards are coming out this weekend; we need a POR to force SAP reallocation. Stay tuned... . . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company SHARE MVS

Re: SYSLOG purging . . .

2006-03-13 Thread Diehl, Gary (MVSSupport)
Jon, I too have to respond on the droll side of life. The SPOOL is meant as a temporary place to put print objects between creation and offload (to either a printer, an external file, another JES node, or the bit bucket). It is an enormous waste of DASD to keep SPOOL there any longer than

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Wayne Driscoll
I went to www.ibm.com entered red alerts on the search box, and the first search result is a link to subscribing to Red Alerts (ok, 2 links, since the article referenced an older page, but I was redirected). Wayne Driscoll Product Developer JME Software LLC NOTE: All opinions are strictly my own.

Re: New CLIST on SYSPROC - refresh

2006-03-13 Thread Shane Ginnane
R.S. wrote on 13/03/2006 11:12:15 PM: I just added new member to SYSPROC library. The command TSO membername does not work, I believe, because of IKJEXEC entry in COFVLF00. I could recycle VLF, but... Q: Does exist a method for refreshing command list without recycling VLF ? Should I

Re: SMP/E SE37 Retry and ++ZAP

2006-03-13 Thread Arthur T.
On 3 Feb 2006 17:52:43 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main (Message-ID:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Price) wrote: Edward E. Jaffe wrote: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/02/2006 at 08:13 AM, Edward E. Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Not for PDSE.

Re: Encryption SMS

2006-03-13 Thread Russell Witt
Dean, I believe the product you are talking about is CA's new BrightStor Tape Encryption product, which is currently in Beta and will go GA next month (Osvaldo Ridner gave a presentation on it at Share last week as well). This new product will allow any tape file to be encrypted and decrypted as

Re: IXFP No Longer Supported

2006-03-13 Thread Bruce Black
If a plane strikes ( forget the laser beam :-) ) one of my bay,i am OK,i still have my site B with proper data because device end comes back only once secondary is written . If some human/application/whatever accident erases my data , i am dead . For these reasons i need some DR backup , and

Re: virtual copies

2006-03-13 Thread Bruce Black
Does DFSMS have a new facility for dependent writes that somehow chains the writes together? Is it as simple as doing all the writes in a single channel program with a guarantee that the perceived updates of the backing store are congruent with the order of the I/O requests? As I use the term

Re: ShadowImage Flashcopy extension

2006-03-13 Thread Bruce Black
What is the advantage of having the ShadowImage Flashcopy V2 Extension? Our mainframe has all its data on a HDS 9900V box. If I run DFDSS Copy full with the dumpconditional keyword without the extension is ShadowImage still being invoked on the box? Sorry, no. COPY with DUMPCONDITIONAL will

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread James Smith
Ed I actually agree with parts of your argument but as an outsider you lose a lot of credibility with your constant negative ranting about SHARE. Was it not you who told a poster to refrain from constantly reminding us of his ex-wife? Perhaps you should heed your own advice and substitute

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Ed Gould
On Mar 13, 2006, at 3:52 PM, Edward E. Jaffe wrote: Ed Gould wrote: A key point that everyone seems to be missing is that SE's (and they like) have essentially disappeared in the late 80's and early 90's. There is no longer a way that IBM can reach out to inform the community of good

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Ed Gould
On Mar 13, 2006, at 5:42 PM, Wayne Driscoll wrote: I went to www.ibm.com entered red alerts on the search box, and the first search result is a link to subscribing to Red Alerts (ok, 2 links, since the article referenced an older page, but I was redirected). Wayne Driscoll Product Developer

Production Jobs contention with Test Jobs

2006-03-13 Thread Raja Easwaramoorthy
Hi, I know by some way we can automatically/programmatically abend the test jobs when there is a resource contention with any production jobs. Any idea on how to accomplish this? I am a COBOL programmer; I have only limited knowledge about the system programming or RACF or Job scheduler. So

Re: CF usage at DR location

2006-03-13 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 3/13/2006 5:18:44 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: and actually make a plan. Cards are coming out this weekend; we need a POR to force SAP reallocation. Stay tuned... Thanks for update...

Re: Secure FTP

2006-03-13 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
We originally tried SFTP (SSH FTP) but ended up using FTPS (FTP TSL/SSL) instead. SSH FTP can only access files in a HFS/ZFS, no real mvs files, FTP TSL/SSL can access all files no matter where they live. As 99.9% of all the files we process are mvs files we found it made our life

Re: SYSLOG purging . . .

2006-03-13 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 3/13/2006 5:28:05 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As far as how to make the older data drop off, I'd have to refer you to the excellent suggestions that have already been sent to the list by our very sharp and clever posters. Yeah don't know

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Ed Gould
On Mar 13, 2006, at 8:10 PM, James Smith wrote: Ed I actually agree with parts of your argument but as an outsider you lose a lot of credibility with your constant negative ranting about SHARE. Was it not you who told a poster to refrain from constantly reminding us of his ex-wife?

Re: Production Jobs contention with Test Jobs

2006-03-13 Thread Ed Gould
On Mar 13, 2006, at 9:34 PM, Raja Easwaramoorthy wrote: Hi, I know by some way we can automatically/programmatically abend the test jobs when there is a resource contention with any production jobs. Any idea on how to accomplish this? I am a COBOL programmer; I have only limited

Re: Production Jobs contention with Test Jobs

2006-03-13 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Exactly what resources are they? Raja Easwaramoorthy wrote: Hi, I know by some way we can automatically/programmatically abend the test jobs when there is a resource contention with any production jobs. Any idea on how to accomplish this? I am a COBOL programmer; I have only limited

Re: Secure FTP

2006-03-13 Thread Ed Rabara
John S. Giltner, Jr. wrote: We originally tried SFTP (SSH FTP) but ended up using FTPS (FTP TSL/SSL) instead. SSH FTP can only access files in a HFS/ZFS, no real mvs files, FTP TSL/SSL can access all files no matter where they live. As 99.9% of all the files we process are mvs files we

Re: SYSLOG purging . . .

2006-03-13 Thread Tom Schmidt
Jon, JES2 or JES3? How many syslog records does the site produce on an average week? How many syslog records does the site produce in its busiest week? -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Secure FTP

2006-03-13 Thread Gibney, Dave
It's a Comm. Server (TCPIP) redbook. I don't remember the number, but I'd expect you to find it if you searched redbooks for SSL FTP TN3270 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Rabara Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 8:44 PM

Re: 64-bit question

2006-03-13 Thread Joel C. Ewing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Joel. Yeah, I've taken additional precautions to help prevent accidental outages. One thing I'm not sure of -- Does deactivating a CPC actually turn the processor off? Is there any way to recover or do we have to call IBM to do a system restart? Yup,

Re: Production Jobs contention with Test Jobs

2006-03-13 Thread Lizette Koehler
Raja, You may need to check with your system programmer, but the parm member called ALLOC may help. Though I am sure others might have a say in this from the list. In it is the following sub parameter: SDSN_WAIT Specifies the installation policy for batch jobs that must wait to enqueue on

on CA-1 external security

2006-03-13 Thread Ambat Ravi Nair
we're on CA-1 5.2 (SP04, i think); i've been harassed by the security team as they want to implement external security (ACF2) to manage all CA-1 resources/access. i've read all related sections in Systems Programmer Guide - 1.6.3.12 (Options Checklist #37) - 4.23 (TMMSEC) - 6.x but

Re: SYSLOG purging . . .

2006-03-13 Thread Joel C. Ewing
Three months of SYSLOG sounds rather excessive, unless the user is really willing to foot the bill for the extra JES SPOOL space, and the additional cost of backing up all that data for DR. We only keep about 3 weeks of SYSLOG online to JES and just that much is typically 5 - 10% of our total