On Tue, 16 May 2006 09:21:45 -0500, Dave Cartwright
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Anybody know how to do it?
Thanks for all the responses. Driving home last night I realised I should
have said we use SyncSort, although I think there is a version of RACFICE
for that. We cancelled our DB2 license
On Tue, 16 May 2006 15:17:00 -0500, Patrick O'Keefe
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I guess it's too late to provide reasons, but sinece I use the archive
exclusively I want go on record. In the past I've logged on only when
posting or responding, and then without setting a cookie. To do otherwise
is
Auditors neither make rules, nor enforce them.
All they can do is report.
Oh, really?
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Giggle.
There was another one.
At the time, I was working for Amdahl UK and IBM was working up to the 3090
announcements. It
was 5 or 6 September, 1990. We ran the thing inside Amdahl as Project 480.
Amdahl had a special local group in the UK called the NSEs - National Systems
Engineers.
Auditors neither make rules, nor enforce them.
All they can do is report.
Oh, really?
Yes. Really!
They can only force you to answer questions.
They can overload you, but they cannot force you to follow the rules.
They can report you to your compliance officers for being uncooperative.
They
On Wed, 17 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT, Ted MacNEIL
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Auditors neither make rules, nor enforce them.
All they can do is report.
Oh, really?
Yes. Really!
An interesting hypothesis, but inconsistant with my experience.
They can only force you to answer questions.
They can
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should occur to someone that auditors spelling out
such 'requirements'
Auditors neither make rules, nor enforce them.
Correct.
All they can do is report.
They can also offer advice, for which you
So you really meant re-hosing instead of re-hosting which I assumed. It
sort of begs the question of when the first hosing occurred.
In any event, thank you for a phrase which will come in quite handy for
several reports I will have to prepare this year.
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Ted MacNEIL wrote:
should occur to someone that auditors spelling out
such 'requirements'
Auditors neither make rules, nor enforce them.
All they can do is report.
A lot of people ascribe too
On Wed, 17 May 2006 07:12:04 -0500, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A lot of people ascribe too much power to an auditor.
Same with police, whose primary job is to collect and preserve
evidence after the crime has occurred.
Please don't go there.
Idealized generalizations have little to
In a recent note, Phil Payne said:
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 13:44:33 +0200
Uh huh. So IBM is about to allow the emulation vendors to ship 64-bit
zArchitecture emulation
for commercial use?
I think, Linux on Hercules. I suppose it's not exactly a refutation
since the word vendor
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So you really meant re-hosing instead of re-hosting which I
assumed. It sort of begs the question of when the first
hosing occurred.
In any event, thank you for a phrase which will come in
On Wed, 17 May 2006 01:13:05 +, Dave Salt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You could try adding the REXX Alternate Library ('hlvlq.SEAGALT') to the
Linklist. I don't know if that will fix the problem, but it certainly
couldn't hurt.
I missed the start of this thread, but we have hlq.SEAGALT in the
Mark Zelden wrote:
On Wed, 17 May 2006 01:13:05 +, Dave Salt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You could try adding the REXX Alternate Library ('hlvlq.SEAGALT') to the
Linklist. I don't know if that will fix the problem, but it certainly
couldn't hurt.
I missed the start of this thread, but we
FWIW, I have the issue on my z/os 1.4 two pack rescue system.
HTH.
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I missed the start of
You probably hurt his felines by laughing at him.
Jon
snip
I saw a similar non-typo in another newsgroup, in a thread about
shade-tree auto mechanics. One responder prefaced his remarks by
saying that it had been a long time since he had tinkered with cats.
It's easy enough to fat-finger cars
From: Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I missed the start of this thread, but we have hlq.SEAGALT in the LPA list
so that EAGKCPT/IRXCMPTM is ahead of the IRXCMPTM that is in SYS1.LINKLIB.
This avoids coding a usermod. We've been doing this since OS/390 2.10.
Is that the issue here, or did
Phil, was this intentional?
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Sent: Wednesday May 17 2006 03:44
Combining this sentence...
We were working hand-off.
With this phrase
consolidated onto stiffies,
Is a
My bad; I meant to say that compiled REXX which runs on a system where the
SEAGLPA library isn't licensed will run (at interpreted speed) via the
SEAGALT library which is (usually) in the LINKLIST.
Dave Salt
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AFAIK I have never had hlq.SEAGALT library. Is it because I don't have REXX
Compiler ?
What is alternate library ?
I cannot compare it to 1.6, since I have 1.4 and 1.7.
I checked (sort the SYS1.LINKLIB by TTR), IRXCMPTM is the module modified
by the ServerPac.
In
That begs the question as to *who* should say what a 'best practice'
might be.
To answer your question, there is no 'enforcement' in this context. It
is up to each individual organization to set policy, recourse, and
consequences. An organization will do this to keep their customers,
On Tue, 16 May 2006, Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM wrote:
Darren,
isn't it useless to protect your archives? The newsgroup version of the
list is fully available in Google archives, so what is your purpose of
protecting the list archives?
Kees.
The protection is not for email addresses necessarily,
Would you guys stop PUNishing us like this?
snip
You probably hurt his felines by laughing at him.
I saw a similar non-typo in another newsgroup, in a thread about
shade-tree auto mechanics. One responder prefaced his remarks by
saying that it had been a long time since he had tinkered with
On Wed, 17 May 2006 13:53:06 +, Dave Salt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark,
It's my understanding that hlq.SEAGLPA should be attached to the LPA (hence
the name), while hlq.SEAGALT (i.e. the 'Alternate' REXX runtime library)
should be attached to the LINKLIST. As the LPA is searched ahead of
After investigating this very issue in order to try to figure out why
some DBMS run stats I am trying to track were squirrely, I found and fixed the
whole TCB time overflow issue in our IEFACTRT exit. Unfortunately, it also
appears that the one we are using also can not handle the
At the price quited in the article, I *DO NOT* forsee a stampeded to
purchase the product.
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On Wed, 17 May 2006 09:18:17 -0500, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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So as a previous poster already said, I guess you have to order it.
Or... many vendors license the alternate library from IBM and ship
it with their products. Prior to having this library with our
OS/390 2.10 system, we
On Wed, 17 May 2006 09:22:41 -0500, Staller, Allan wrote:
At the price quited in the article, I *DO NOT* forsee a stampeded to
purchase the product.
I disagree. The price ($60K USD) doesn't seem unreasonable since it snips
itself in automatically -- no JCL changes needed. That is very much
They can only cite rules; not make them.
How can you be so certain?
If they are creating rules, they are corporate compliance auditors.
If they are creating, enforcing, and reporting on rules, they have a conflict
of duty.
These three functions should be under what is known as separation of
It sort of begs the question of when the first hosing occurred.
When IBM introduced Tiered Pricing in 1984(?).
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From: Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 00:00:00
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They can only cite rules; not make
Bingo. And now we are back to the question: 'Who audits the auditors?'
Folks from the EU please opine on the effectiveness of ISO 9000. I heard
that the EU embraced ISO 9000 to the point of being the law in many
countries.
It seems ISO 9000 fell out of favor here in the US a few years ago.
Or
Hal Merritt wrote:
Bingo. And now we are back to the question: 'Who audits the auditors?'
Folks from the EU please opine on the effectiveness of ISO 9000. I heard
that the EU embraced ISO 9000 to the point of being the law in many
countries.
It seems ISO 9000 fell out of favor here in the US
TCBJLB = 0 just means you have no joblib. Steplib ptr not available.
Linklist another issue entirely.
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 05/16/2006
09:28:49 PM:
Hello,
In the below givn article reagrding Static/Dynamic calls in Cobol at
Search the archives for CDE extension and you will find some good
information including this post by Gilbert that may help.
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Sorry if I come to late for this to be useful, but did you check how
ShowMVS and SYSDEBUG do it using the CDX (CDE eXtension) and/or the
DATA option of CSVQUERY? This
From: Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Or... many vendors license the alternate library from IBM and ship
it with their products. Prior to having this library with our
OS/390 2.10 system, we customized IRXCMPTM to use the ISV's
alternate library.
Or... the REXX Alternate Library can be
In a message dated 5/17/2006 9:57:35 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When IBM introduced Tiered Pricing in 1984(?).
What about the 1956 consent decree?
_http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/appdev/story/0,10801,582
36,00.html_
I'm was looking at sysmod UA23371 and in the enviroment section it had the
following:
PTF Status CLOSED PER
I was wondering what they mean by PER.
Thanks.
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From ServiceLink User's Guide (SH52-0300-10):
B.2 PTF Closing Codes
The PTF closing codes are:
ACL Cancelled while in test
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[ snip ]
BTW: One of the biggest polish computer (PC) assemblers had
ISO. The quality of their PCs was horrible, but the (poor)
quality was predictable and repeatable. g
And the process was precisely
Thanks Brian.
Brian Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From ServiceLink User's Guide
(SH52-0300-10):
B.2 PTF Closing Codes
The PTF closing codes are:
ACL Cancelled while in test
CAN Cancelled by submittor
COR Available from distribution
DUP Duplicate of another PTF
PER Available on a
Chase, John wrote:
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[ snip ]
BTW: One of the biggest polish computer (PC) assemblers had
ISO. The quality of their PCs was horrible, but the (poor)
quality was predictable and repeatable. g
And the process
If you force a user to select overly complex passwords and change them
frequently you insure that a significant number of users will store
those passwords in an insecure fashion i.e. Post-It.
I think that some simple rules (min length, require numbers and letters)
and recurring, consistent
You can see similar information in IBMLink, ServiceLink, AST, the select
Help.
Speaking of the ServiceLink User's Guide, does anyone know where to find
this?
Don Imbriale
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On Wed, 17 May 2006 11:26:27 -0400 Kirk Talman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:TCBJLB = 0 just means you have no joblib. Steplib ptr not available.
:Linklist another issue entirely.
But a non-zero value does not necessarily mean the presence of a
joblib/steplib - all it means is that the ATTACHer
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I'm was looking at sysmod UA23371 and in the enviroment
section it had the following:
PTF Status CLOSED PER
I was wondering what they mean by PER.
Programming Error.
Hi,
Real time you could use MXI, TMONMVS (DISPLAY VMAP: tab on PRIVATE AREA
SUBPOOL DISPLAY), OMEGAMON, etc.
I have not found the DB2 MSTR address space to be a big consumer of
storage. The DBM1 address space is another critter and I have some of
them listed for detail records from RMF Monitor
Not what I meant to say. Data suitable for the subcapacity billing
programs (SMF 89's) *must* be collected and included for *every* active
LPAR. The requirement is that the sum of all SMF 89 data must exceed 95%
of the total box (RMF) usage.
We had a hardware management LPAR completely isolated
I sent the post below to the FLEX-ES list but I have copied it here just in
case anyone has any bright ideas.
When we run large ftp or jdbc app we get the following sequence on errors on
our z/OS 1.4 system and the adapter invariable shuts down after recovering a
few times -
EZZ4310I ERROR:
Don't know how close, but we had such an issue when we installed a new
zbox and the gigabit cables did not match the NIC's. Something about the
diameter of the fiber and types of light bulbs used.
Some types (sizes?) of packets would flow just fine, some took many
retries, some failed.
Another
Check out the following PSP: Upgrade - ZOSV1R7, Subset - SERVERPAC.
1. 06/02/03 Users Affected:
When using TSO, you may get the error message:
IRX0157E Routine EAGRTXTR of the run time processor
EAGRTPRC was not found.
.
Problem
Heads up for z/OS V1.7 Serverpacs generated between Feb. 15 and May 26,
2006. APAR OA16334 says the SMP/E SYSLIB concat order is built wrong,
with DLIBS before TARGET datasets.
Bummer...this apar came out after I'd installed the system and applied
maint to the test system...
Ben Alford
Ben Alford wrote:
Check out the following PSP: Upgrade - ZOSV1R7, Subset - SERVERPAC.
1. 06/02/03 Users Affected:
When using TSO, you may get the error message:
IRX0157E Routine EAGRTXTR of the run time processor
EAGRTPRC was not found.
.
In a message dated 5/17/2006 12:25:20 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Heads up for z/OS V1.7 Serverpacs generated between Feb. 15 and May 26,
2006. APAR OA16334 says the SMP/E SYSLIB concat order is built wrong,
with DLIBS before TARGET datasets.
Pretty sloppy,
I used the version in VM IBMLink, which is displayed when you select option
SVCGUIDE from the ServiceLink menu.
Brian
On Wed, 17 May 2006 12:11:34 -0400, Imbriale, Donald (Exchange)
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Speaking of the ServiceLink User's Guide, does anyone know where to find
this?
Don
Hello List,
Any reason to upgrade our 2074-1 to a 2074-2 or 2074-3, other than
capacity ?
It appears the mod-1 is still supported, and our current console
configuration is adequate.
TIA,
Gabe
State of Nevada
Dept of Information Technology - Computing Div.
This communication,
Are you sure you can upgrade?
I thought that IBM had withdrawn the 2074's from the market.
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Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 11:00 AM
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Yes, Marketing Withdrawn,.. But no Service Discontinued Dates yet for
all three flavors. Still available from other Vendors.
gt
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Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 11:05 AM
To:
Gabe Torres wrote:
Hello List,
Any reason to upgrade our 2074-1 to a 2074-2 or 2074-3, other than
capacity ?
It depends. What CPCs do you have ? How much ?
Last but not least: do you feel any technical need, I mean capacity,
connectivity, performance, tc.
All new machines (z/890, z/990,
Howard,
Thanks for posting the PTF Apar closing codes. Even though I'm not
working now, I decided that I should collect the really good stuff like this
and put it in a folder I can transport to my next job.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434
Quote:
Excellent considerations...
We are locked into our z900 2064 for at least two more years, so maybe
keeping the current config/hardware is the choice. Capacity on our
2074-1 is adequate.
Thanks,
gabe
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It depends. What CPCs do you have ? How much ?
Last but not
I have noticed dataset contention
Job A is running
//INPUT DD DISP=SHR,DSN=GDG.BASE.NAME(-4)
Job B was submitted later and it is waiting for datasets:
//OUTPUT DD DISP=(MOD,CATLG),DSN=GDG.BASE.NAME(+0)
Q: is it normal ?
Why GRS minor name is GDG.BASE.NAME, not the GDS member name ?
Can I
When you specify a relative (-x) GRS serializes on the base.
If you get JAL/DCS Thruput Manager from MVS Solutions then you can
convert the relative to the absolute prior to job initiation, and get by
this problem. I don't know what other products exist that can do this.
Otherwise, you have to
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Subject: Dataset contention on GDG
I have noticed dataset contention
Job A is running
//INPUT DD
It looks like SMP/E only used the SYSLIB DD when doing an assembly. Of
the 400+ fixes I've installed on my 1.7 system, I've only found one
assembly. I'm restoring those fixes and will reapply with the corrected
SYSLIB. YMMV
Ben Alford Enterprise Systems Programming
Q: is it normal ?
Yes!
Why GRS minor name is GDG.BASE.NAME, not the GDS member name ?
Architecture issues within ENQ processing.
Can I change it ?
No!
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Completely legal.
One caveat: there is one more step before a COBOL program may be
executed under Z/os.e. Look for CEEPIPI in the LE manuals. Note: using
the CEEPIPI interface works under both z/os as well as z/os.e so you
don't have to have two different sets of programs.
See also PIPICALL
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 14:07 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
I think it is so that when a job starts, that the
relative generation number always maps to the same absolute generation
The initiator maintains the GDG name table (I think that's it) which
is a series of SWA control blocks queued off the
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On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 14:07 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
I think it
Getting nostalgic for a moment, but was there ever a usermod to change the
behavior of the relative GDG numbers? When I worked at a large tax
processing concern back in the mid-1980's, you had to code in their
environment
//STEP1 EXEC
//DD1 DD DSN=BLAH(+1),DISP=NEW
//STEP2 EXEC
//DD1 DD
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Getting nostalgic for a moment, but was there ever a usermod
to
In a recent note, Ray Mullins said:
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 14:17:33 -0700
//STEP1 EXEC
//DD1 DD DSN=BLAH(+1),DISP=NEW
//STEP2 EXEC
//DD1 DD DSN=BLAH(+0),DISP=OLD
Drove me nuts, because this was totally against what I'd been taught.
Just curious, but how does a referback
Tom,
It only works for SL output tapes (no NL or AL support at this time, and I
doubt we will ever support NL). We haven't hit a SL file we didn't work with
yet, and we had a large number of alpha/beta sites with a fairly large
number of in-house and OEM products creating tapes. Of course we have
Hi,
The follow-up is that APAR OA16533 has been opened for the issue I
reported with using WSCON with system symbols in use in TCPDATA.
APAR Identifier .. OA16533 Last Changed 06/05/17
WSCON FAILS IF SYSTEM SYMBOLS USED IN TCPDATA
SNIP
ERROR DESCRIPTION:
Invoking the
How do you route Console or Syslog messages to an off-mainframe server
(Unix or Windows)? Some of our techies here want to consolidate various
logs from different platforms, and they don't want to do a dataset
transfer in batch mode but a message-to-message (live) data transfer. (I
know that
WSA is alive? Excellent, you just made my day!
Thanks Sam, and thanks IBM!
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Miklos Szigetvari wrote:
Hi
If someone knows about any plan to exploit the zIIP for external 's
External what?
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The CODE 102 on the IST1578I message indicates that it is a possible
hardware problem and that the hardware vendor should be contacted.
This is what is causing the EZZ4310I message.
Jim McAlpine wrote:
I sent the post below to the FLEX-ES list but I have copied it here
just in
case anyone
On Wed, 17 May 2006 19:51:40 -0500, Doc Farmer wrote:
How do you route Console or Syslog messages to an off-mainframe server
(Unix or Windows)? Some of our techies here want to consolidate various
logs from different platforms, and they don't want to do a dataset
transfer in batch mode but a
Well, since I'm the guy doing security, I'm going to dodge the FUD factor here.
Console/Syslog routing to an internal server doesn't concern me all that much
from a security standpoint, especially considering that access to the
segregated server will be strictly limited/controlled, and the
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today is special - the CEO has admitted that the grand distributed PC
approach hasn't
Diehl, Gary (MVSSupport) wrote:
Otherwise, you have to manually do the =3.4 or listcat yourself, get the
full name, and allocate it yourself using the full name, which usually
requires a JCL edit prior to submission.
That used to be true, but these days the SVC 99 control block has a flag
Hi
For cusomers, busniess partners.
How can I schedule my SRB code in zIIP?
(if I understand correctly)
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