Ours is an ordinary HFS created just for /dev . On our
development system, all the objects (?) in /dev are of
type 'character' except for this one:
File 666 2006-06-20 11:42 27129 null
It appears to be a log of some kind. Note that is shows
today's date.
That sure looks wrong to
We have implemented a wiki; if anything it shows midrange people that
what is the latest trend, can easily be implemented on a mainframe. Rob
Schramm's instruction on JspWiki were very easy to follow should only take
about 1 hour and is a good talking point.
Benjamin Thompson
Systems
If I want to define a dumpclass, that should be run automatically only from
Saturday to Wednesday.
The dumpcycle was defined as following:
DEFINE -
DUMPCYCLE(YYY -
CYCLESTARTDATE(1993/12/04))
_
Express yourself instantly
Skip Robinson wrote:
Ours is an ordinary HFS created just for /dev . On our development system,
all the objects (?) in /dev are of type 'character' except for this one:
File 666 2006-06-20 11:42 27129 null
It appears to be a log of some kind. Note that is shows today's date.
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Still not enough information, Ted. There are many options available.
Just knowing the capacity is a little like only knowing how many
engines you have on your processor. There are other important
variables.
YES! I know.
The issue was that the dataset was at one time protected by a Discrete
profile, which had since been deleted. The RACF indicator bit was on in the
format1 dscb for that dataset, which was creating my issue, as I didn't have
authority to create a discrete profile for the dataset. I discovered
The manual is pretty clear, I think. The date specified
with CYCLESTARTDATE(..) corresponds to the first character
of the cycle string. So, find a date which represents a
Saturday, then specify YNN as the cycle string.
E.g.:
DEFINE DUMPCYCLE(YNN CYCLESTARTDATE(2006/06/17))
Peter
Brian Westerman wrote:
Hi all,
I have been looking into this for a while now and I'm not sure there is a
solution, but I thought I would run it past you to see if anyone might have
come up with an answer.
I have my ADCD (thinkpad) based z/os running and it's set up to work with my
home
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/21/2006
at 12:20 AM, Brian Westerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I have my ADCD (thinkpad) based z/os running and it's set up to work
with my home network, (the network is the standard 192.168.1.xxx
For an intranet, any of 10/8, 172.16/12 or 192.168/16 is standard.
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/20/2006
at 02:16 PM, (IBM Mainframe Discussion List) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
New laboratory curiosities do not make it into commercial products
until they can at least outperform the technology that everyone
fantasizes about being replaced.
Bubble memory *did*
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/20/2006
at 04:15 PM, Walt Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
There are a couple of cases in z/OS UNIX, too, that require AC(1).
Arguably, one of them (exec() or execmvs()) is really an attach of a
jobstep task, which you covered above.
I believe that there are also
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:48:49 -0500, Brian Peterson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Looking for advice
On z/OS 1.7, should the /dev file system be defined as a TFS (temporary
file system)? The manuals seem to indicate that all character special
files in /dev get created at IPL time anyway, so why
If you run TFS in its own address space you can make it as large as you
need and it won't take any storage away from the kernel address space
Mark Jacobs
Time Customer Service Inc.
snip
You've been able to use a TFS for /dev since OS/390 2.8. I have
been doing that at many different shops. No
Dave,
What were you using as your data mover back then? I believe I restored
AUTODUMP'ed volumes as fast as DFSMSdss dumps when using DSS as the data
mover.
Bob Richards
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Bob,
I'm pretty sure I was using DFDSS as the data mover. The problem was
only 1 volume restored at a time when I expected 15 subtasks to be
active.
Dave O'Brien
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To:
That may explain our different experience. I had mine set to the maximum
available at that time, probably 16, but not positive. AND I had no
requirement for applyincremental.
Bob Richards
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Bruno and Timothy:
We have TSM 5.x but when we went to order 5.3 we were told the licencsing
had been changed
from MLC to an one time charge equal to about 7 years of MLC.
Management said NO.
The storage admins would like to have 5.3 but with such an exhorbitant
cost I expect we'll be
That is what I couldn't understand at the time. My volume recovers ran
one at a time. My apply incrementals ran 15 abreast. So my
Maxdsrecovertasks was set to 15 correctly. What parameter did I miss?
Dave O'Brien
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Sent:
In
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on 06/20/2006
at 09:54 AM, Sam Bass [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Vista TN3270 under Windows works fine on the OSA-ICC consoles. Also
X3270 under SuSE works just fine too. I was able to configure the
keyboard to map to the old 3270 keyboard mapping.
Which old mapping? Is
Jon,
It is pretty easy to setup.
The instructions about how to get Tomcat up and running in 1 hour are
really good... and how to get SAF working.
The JSPWiki install is pretty easy, since you can use the Tomcat Manager
to deploy the application.
We are using JSPWiki as a documentation
I would like to move the SYS1.BRODCAST dataset to a less busy volume. Is
there a way to do this with TSO active and users logged on? It is also
allocated to *MASTER* address space. Any help would be appreciated.
University Information Management Systems
Mark (and others!)
Thanks very much - just what I was hoping to hear - real user experiences.
TFS for /dev, here we come!
Brian
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 08:02:13 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote:
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:48:49 -0500, Brian Peterson wrote:
Looking for advice
On z/OS 1.7, should the
There's a section in the TSO/E Customization manual titled 'Changing
the Allocation of the Broadcast Data Set'. It describes what you need
to do.
Don Imbriale
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf
Of George Dranes
Sent: Wednesday,
The company that used to make keyboards for IBM/Lexmark now markets
keyboards with the classic IBM look and feel (but including updates like
a Win key) starting at $49.
http://www.pckeyboard.com/
http://www.pckeyboard.com/emulator.html
Best Regards,
Sam Knutson, GEICO
Remapping the default keyboard as follows:
PC ENTER as NEWLINE
Right CTRL to ENTER
Left CTRL to RESET
PAGEUP to PA1
PAGEDN to PA2
ESC to ATTN
PAUSE to CLEAR
END to ERASEEOF
These approximate the OLD 3270 keyboard mapping.
I sometimes even map the numeric pad to PF14-24, PF13 as NUMLOCK just does
We use Innovations Upstream product to back up our USS, Windows Servers,
and Linux Appliances. Upstream runs on the z/os system, so it takes
advantage of those features. Operations likes it, so when they kick out
tapes from the SILO, for DR purposes, everything is all contained in one
location.
I am not positive, but I think we submitted each recover as its own
uniquely-named batch job. In that case, I do not think you missed
anything. I can only find fragments of the REXX code we used to control
this process at the recovery site, and the piece missing is the one that
would answer part
At the risk of getting flamed, I would like to respectfully disagree with
the apparent majority opinion on this list that all software patents are
bad, that the fact that software can be patented is a bad thing. I would
like to argue that the PROCESS and the details, not the entire concept, are
On 21 Jun 2006 05:16:32 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
(Message-ID:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jasen Kloeppel) wrote:
The issue was that the dataset was at one time protected
by a Discrete profile, which had since been deleted. The
RACF indicator bit was on in the format1 dscb
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/20/2006
at 08:10 AM, Lieven Borgs [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Any idea where i can find the I/O command codes esp. the magnetic
tape channel commands?
In the documentation for the specific device that you're using. While
some of the commands going back before the 3420
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Does anyone have a url
That's great, thanks.
Jim McAlpine
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http://www-306.ibm.com/software/info/supportlifecycle/list/c.html
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Sent: Wednesday, June 21,
In a message dated 6/21/2006 10:53:46 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Don't you mean the RVA, not the RAMAC2? The RVA was IBM's name for the
Iceberg.
It's been so long I forgot the model numbers. It was like ICEBERGE and
ICEBERGE II. We had an RVA for several
Aha, that answers the question. You were restoring in batch and I was
using HSM. Probably my mistake.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 11:14 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: manual incremental backups
I am not
Can someone tell me how to assign an APPL to a particular LU in the
BEGINVTAM section of TCPIP? We currently have DEFAULTAPPL TPX which puts
anyone that accesses our system via TCPIP into TPX. I have a need to be
able to access the system when TPX is down, but since the default appl is
TPX I
On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 08:23 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
Why does IP protection (patent, copyright, TM, and trade secrets) exist? It
is so that people can be rewarded for their creativity.
No, you are describing a side effect, but not the objective. The U.S.
Constitution establishes
On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 12:03 -0400, Ed Finnell wrote:
We had an RVA for several years and worked well 'til it started
filling up, guess it was a ucode problem?
I'd guess you had a filling up problem. There's a ROT that says that
Iceberg starts to behave badly at 75% capacity -- remember that
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:01:22 -0500, Brian Peterson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark (and others!)
Thanks very much - just what I was hoping to hear - real user experiences.
TFS for /dev, here we come!
You're welcome. BTW, I also use TFS for /var. You can also use it
for /tmp (one of our large
In a message dated 6/21/2006 11:21:10 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd guess you had a filling up problem. There's a ROT that says that
Iceberg starts to behave badly at 75% capacity -- remember that the LSF
algorithms need free space in order to write data, and
I was at a disclosure meeting in Poukeepsie for he announcement of the Ramac
and other devices. Sitting at lunch one day, I asked the design engineer how
they got away with reusing the name again. He laughed and said the lawyers
were too young to remember.
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From: IBM
We never had problems with ours getting full. The RVA started
complaining loudly when the freespace fell below 10%. The box kept
running, though and we put in a quick order for additional back-end
disk.
Rex
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Charles Mills wrote:
At the risk of getting flamed, I would like to respectfully
disagree with the apparent majority opinion on this list that
all software patents are bad, that the fact that software can
be patented is a bad thing. I would like to argue that the
PROCESS and the details,
Hi Bobby,
If you have specified the parameter ALLOWAPPL * you should be able to access
any other application from the TCP/IP solicitor panel:
Enter Your Userid:
Password: New password:
Application:
The GRS Planning manual has specific recommendations for SYSIGGV2
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[ snip ]
If a program can be patented, why should discoveries in
mathematics be excluded? But they are.
Bad choice: Discoveries are not inventions. One cannot patent
facts.
Why should a book or
Hi,
I know this isn't a mainframe topic specifically, but there is such a wealth of
knowledge in the pool that I thought it was worth a try.
I have Red Hat Linux 9 on a Thinkpad (ex ADCD System), and have tried to
install Open Linux (nee IBM's Object REXX until it passed to the Open
Wow! Too many things to respond to in detail, and e-mail fora just aren't
the most favorable tool. I probably won't continue the debate beyond this
brief reply.
Yes, as you and David point out, the constitution establishes patent and
copyright to foster progress - the monopoly reward is just a
O'Brien, David W. [C] , NIH/CIT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Mark,
Is the presence of the Imbed parameter an issue? Lizzette didn't
mention what level of Z/os she is running on.
IMBED is no longer supported, however there are data sets that were created
Thanks Mark, but I was referring to the Imbed parameter that was in the
Listcat of her Catalog.
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From: Mark Thomen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 1:20 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Confusion on output of LISTC CAT
O'Brien, David W.
Tom Rusnak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Hi Mark,
My user catalogs in the GRS-plex are all on volumes that are only online
to
one system. Therefore I'd be comfortable with adding the following to
the
RNL Exclusion list:
RNLDEF RNL(EXCL) TYPE(PATTERN)
But if I have DEFAULTAPPL defined as TPX, TCP/IP automatically throws
the TPX menu on my screen instead of the TCP/IP solicitor panel. Is
there some keystroke sequence I can key in to tell TCP/IP to remove the
TPX menu and display the solicitor panel?
Rex
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From: IBM
The Catalog was created before the IMBED was removed. Any catalog created with
IMBED before then would still show it in the listing. If you apply the apar
OA10952 and then do the EXPORT/IMPORT the IMBED will no longer be in the
listing.
You can consider it an artifact from when the catalog
Simply to help the admin who picks this up in 10 years and doesn't have
a 2006 calendar handy, I have all cycles run from Sunday to Saturday:
DEFINE DUMPCYCLE(NNY CYCLESTARTDATE(2006/06/18))
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From: Hunkeler Peter (KIUB 34) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
And I even put in
/* CYCLESTART data is a Sunday */
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Behalf Of Schwarz, Barry A
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 12:50 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: HSM-dumpclass
Simply to help the admin who
In addition to the cool things mentioned by Rob that JspWiki/JZOS/Tomcat
can do on z/OS,
I also like that it uses a regular filesystem rather than a database for
page storage, which
makes it easy to manage/backup, etc.
JspWiki also keeps a complete version history of all pages that you can
use
Typically linunx programs are installed with sequence
./configure
make
make install
Mark D Pace
Senior Systems Engineer
Mainline Information Systems
1700 Summit Lake Drive
Tallahassee, FL. 32317
Office: 850.219.5184
Fax: 888.221.9862
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Len,
I concur with your extra comment. One of my HSM gigs was in Saudi Arabia
and their week started on Saturday! I believe I still left it as a
Monday and had YYYNNYY when it wasn't YYY. And I did indicate on
what day of the week the cyclestartdate began.
Bob Richards
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Use a different port
For example
BEGINVTAM
PORT
DEFAULTLUS
ALT0001..ALT
ENDDEFAULTLUS
ALLOWAPPL *
USSTCP xx
ENDVTAM
Then when you connect
Hi Mark,
The information you supplied:
Typically linunx programs are installed with sequence
./configure
make
make install
has moved things on a piece I just need to get into the error messages that
have been issued as it seems to have been a partial success.
Many thanks for your assistance
Thanks to all that responded to this request. The following statement
added to the BEGINVTAM section worked for me:
USSTCP USSCSER ipaddress
Bobby Brake
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Cross posted to RACF and MVS.
Looking for some formal IBM training in setting up a TLS/SSL certificate
based solution. The ideal course would include the whole banana from
mechanics to management.
A troll through IBM TEACH cam up empty, most likely due to poor search
arguments.
Any
HI,
I have found the SBC blocks port 25 as a deterrent to spam. I have put in
the opt out request to have this not done for my connection. I have been
told that I can instead us port 26 while this is being changed, but I can't
see where SMTP allows the changing of the default outgoing port that
Mark Thomen wrote on 22/06/2006 03:23:47 AM:
...
Something that is going to cause me no end of grief when I go into sites to
help with catalog management.
That last post will be printed off and waved around whenever EXCL for IGGV2
is mentioned.
And it'll take forever for the fires, once lit,
Hello:
I'm trying to assess the availability of the OS/VS RPG II product
(5740-RG1). I know at least two z/OS sites that use it, so it's still
out there, but I was unable to locate the availability info on IBM.COM.
Can someone point me to the relevant documents? Thanks.
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Have any of you noticed poor performance in SDSF when you use the SB or SE
action characters to view a running job's output?
When I do a FIND in a job with only 666 lines, it takes at least 6 seconds
to respond. Compare that with subsecond response for the same FIND command
when using the S
Alan Field wrote:
We have TSM 5.x but when we went to order 5.3 we were told
the licencsing had been changed from MLC to an one time charge
equal to about 7 years of MLC.
Management said NO.
Ah, OK -- MLC to OTC. Making much more sense now -- thanks for helping me
understand the issue. Some
Gilbert Saint-Flour writes:
I'm trying to assess the availability of the OS/VS RPG II product
(5740-RG1). I know at least two z/OS sites that use it, so it's still
out there, but I was unable to locate the availability info on IBM.COM.
Can someone point me to the relevant documents? Thanks.
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