Re: IBM in the news

2006-08-08 Thread Crispin Hugo
Make sure you have id=13657 at the end. The URL has been truncated. Crispin Hugo Systems Programmer, Macro 4 http://www.macro4.com/ Macro 4 plc, The Orangery, Turners Hill Road, Worth, Crawley, RH10 4SS Direct Line: +44 (0)1293 872121 Switchboard: +44 (0) 1293 872000 Fax: +44 (0) 1293

Re: IBM in the news

2006-08-08 Thread Edward Jaffe
Hunkeler Peter (KIUB 34) wrote: http://technology.inq7.net/infotech/infotech/view_article.php?article_i d=13657 That link only brings me to a sitemap page. No hint about you wanted to show us. What should I be looking for? You should fix the wrap.

Re: IBM in the news

2006-08-08 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUB 34)
Stupid me. After clicking the link I manually appended everything after the first / (including the wrapped 57) at the end of the address shown in IE's address line. Didn't recognize the start of the URL was changed to *services*.inq7.net from *technology*... Sorry to have bothered you Peter

Re: IBM in the news

2006-08-08 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUB 34)
Is this an old article? The date suggests no but what is said is what IBM said at least 2 years ago. I thought they have set sails in the meantime... Peter Hunkeler CREDIT SUISSE -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: z900 and 3174

2006-08-08 Thread R.S.
victorzhang_mvscn wrote: Hello list, Does z900 support 3174 connectivity? I have a customer who currently running z800 and has 3174 connection with a tape library. He will upgrade to z900 soon, I wonder if 3174 is still supported by z900 or I will notify customer to upgrade tape library

Re: SMF Records recording

2006-08-08 Thread R.S.
Giovanni Cerquone wrote: Dear folks; As a possibly a neverending debate, I wanto to know, besides storage and CPU usage implications, what are the benefits of not having all the smf records ON with the exception of 4,5 and 99. I don't have neither the VSAM SMF records ON nor the CICS

Re: JCL Enhancement suggesion

2006-08-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/07/2006 at 07:26 AM, Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Or something like 'CAPS ON LOCK' and 'CAPS OFF LOCK' How about CAPS OFF WARN and CAPS ON WARN? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: Vendor JCL (was: WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC ... )

2006-08-08 Thread Bob Shannon
And what's the best way to put a private library dynamically in one's SYSEXEC concatenation? Would that be LIBDEF? ALTLIB. Bob Shannon Rocket Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: 0c1's jes2 offload....

2006-08-08 Thread Brian France
At 06:18 PM 8/7/2006, Ed Finnell wrote: In a message dated 8/7/2006 4:18:58 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the nite and another guy is moving some things off to JSF. Just thought I'd ask the question here before opening an issue with IBM. We did a search at the IBM

Re: Java calls old COBOL

2006-08-08 Thread Jan MOEYERSONS
with Java. We need to know how to call our old existing COBOL routines from Java. Done that. It is easy. Warning, I have never done this and I don't speak COBOL, but... You need to make a JNI call from the IBM Java environment into a compiled program running in an LE-conforming environment.

z9 SoftwareAG

2006-08-08 Thread Jim Marshall
Just a heads up for those running SoftwareAG products like ADABAS to have your IT Financial folks contact the local rep. I am planning an upgrade to z9BC's where I go from 688MIPS/119MSUs to 745MIPS/104MSUs and the May inquiry said no upgrade fees (they charge for MSUs). Got a panic call

Re: z9 SoftwareAG

2006-08-08 Thread Shane
On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 06:41 -0500, Jim Marshall wrote: There is Pre-z9 rates and then z9 RATES. The long and short is a $138K upgrade charge to go from 119 MSUs to 104 MSUs. Cute ... Wonder if IBMs mickey-mouse marketing MIPS sleight of hand is starting to bite, and the ISVs are starting to

Re: How to Submit and monitor a Job?

2006-08-08 Thread Michael Knigge
Steve, What is it you need to do once it ends? Do *you* just need to know that it has run? Do you need to do something once it runs? Do you need to know how it completed? Well, currenty I only need to submit the job and need the information that it ended. But I guess in the near future I need

Re: ISPF CAPS Status (Was: WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC ...)

2006-08-08 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Robert A. Rosenberg My favorite on spelling was a sign I once so that read Gone Ghoti'ing. This signified that the person was not that since he was currently Fishing (GHOTI being an alternate/odd way of spelling

Re: Vendor JCL (was: WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC ... )

2006-08-08 Thread Tom Marchant
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 23:28:32 -0600, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could this be automated? In, e.g., Mark's putative CHGIT macro, to 'X' all lines containing '//*' before doing the CHANGE ALL X? I know; I need to RTFM. But I'd be grateful for a pointer to a command name. x all //* 1

Re: z9 SoftwareAG

2006-08-08 Thread Steve Comstock
Shane wrote: On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 06:41 -0500, Jim Marshall wrote: There is Pre-z9 rates and then z9 RATES. The long and short is a $138K upgrade charge to go from 119 MSUs to 104 MSUs. Cute ... Wonder if IBMs mickey-mouse marketing MIPS sleight of hand is starting to bite, and the ISVs

Re: Vendor JCL (was: WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC ... )

2006-08-08 Thread Mark Zelden
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 16:28:40 -0600, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It may take a little longer, but I don't mind going into each member and doing an ISPF CHANGE ALL command for tape_unt and vend_hlq to whatever I need. If I know I will do a lot of this At least two contributors to

Re: How to Submit and monitor a Job?

2006-08-08 Thread Steve Comstock
Michael Knigge wrote: Steve, What is it you need to do once it ends? Do *you* just need to know that it has run? Do you need to do something once it runs? Do you need to know how it completed? Well, currenty I only need to submit the job and need the information that it ended. But I guess

Re: Vendor JCL (was: WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC ... )

2006-08-08 Thread Mark Zelden
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 18:37:26 -0500, Tom Marchant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still, it would be nice if the vendors would use set symbols and include a member in all the jobs so that the symbols could be set in one place. What would you do for SYSIN? Typically install jobs contain (at a minimum)

Re: Java calls old COBOL

2006-08-08 Thread Benjamin White
I found a Power Point Enterprise COBOL and Java Interoperation. Nick Tindall and Stephen Miller It's advice is to use a OO COBOL Class as a wrapper to call procedural COBOL. In CICS I have sucsessfully called procedureal COBOL from Java, but using the JCICS classes. What is the JCICS doing

Re: SMF Records recording

2006-08-08 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 11:09:27 +0200, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW: Cost of offload jobs is rather irrelevant, beacuse usually they don't burn CPU cycles during rush hours. No, they burn cycles whenever a dump is triggered by a MAN dataset filling up. Yes, in some small shops / environments

Re: Vendor JCL (was: WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC ... )

2006-08-08 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 8:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Vendor JCL (was: WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC ... ) On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 18:37:26 -0500, Tom Marchant

WebSphere Developer For zSeries?

2006-08-08 Thread Kuredjian, Michael
I was listening to an IBM podcast on the mainframe, discussing how new developers can easily get into host development through tools like WebSphere Developer For zSeries. Does anyone on this list use that product? If so, do you like it? How did/does it fit into your existing development

Display Name/Token Entries?

2006-08-08 Thread Smith, Sean M
Is there any utility that will display all of the name/token entries on a system? I am concerned about my new JES2 user exit code that is using the service and would like to see the entries. I searched the archives and the CBT tape and of course the IBM Manuals but did not see anything that

Re: How to Submit and monitor a Job?

2006-08-08 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
On Tuesday 08 August 2006 08:08, Michael Knigge wrote: Well, currenty I only need to submit the job and need the information that it ended. ... You can use the TSO STATUS command or roll your own; the JOBRLSE member in file 183 at http://gsf-soft.com/Freeware/ show you how to use the

Re: SVC Dumps and DB2

2006-08-08 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi Lizette, You didn't say COMPRESSED so if you are not you might try it. It takes a little CPU but is well worth it give the size reduction for a typical SVC dump. As an aside I think IBM plans some day to make some of the enhancements to SVC dump that have already been incorporated in Stand

Re: Java calls old COBOL

2006-08-08 Thread Denis Gaebler
I think there must be a distiction between calling a module and another transaction. E.g. with IMS you can do a program to program switch from a IMS Java tran to an IMS COBOL tran, but these are separate transactions (Units of work). I don't know enough about CICS but I guess a COMMAREA call

Re: How to Submit and monitor a Job?

2006-08-08 Thread Thompson, Steve (SCI TW)
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Knigge Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 7:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How to Submit and monitor a Job? snip But I guess in the near future I need more: is it running, which

Re: Vendor JCL (was: WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC ... )

2006-08-08 Thread Thompson, Steve (SCI TW)
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 8:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Vendor JCL (was: WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC ... ) snip Of course, I am not a developer, so I may well be

Re: Display Name/Token Entries?

2006-08-08 Thread Rob Scott
The freeware MXI does this (NTOK command) - download from www.rs.com and also cbt files 409 and 410 ShowZOS (aka SHOWMVS) does it as well (cbt files 492?) Rob Scott Rocket Software, Inc 275 Grove Street Newton, MA 02466 617-614-2305 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rs.com/portfolio/mxi/

Re: Java calls old COBOL

2006-08-08 Thread Benjamin White
A CICS COMMAREA is just a parameter between two programs. It is in the same unit of work and transaction. The Technology office persion is using the OO COBOL wrapper to make a class that Java can call. He is having trouble finding the procedural COBOL module in the PDS. I am suggesting

Re: Vendor JCL (was: WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC ... )

2006-08-08 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Tom Marchant said: Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 07:11:09 -0500 x all //* 1 3 Thanks. And now a little mystery. The test macro: /* Rexx */ signal on novalue; /* */ trace R address 'ISREDIT' 'MACRO (EARGS)' /* Make no changes in comments. */ 'EXCLUDE //* ALL 1 3' exit(

Re: 0c1's jes2 offload....

2006-08-08 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 8/8/2006 6:18:50 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: show any symptoms. For a test on another system we removed MIM temporarily and tired it again. This time the ASID pointed to JES2MON. Hence our confusion. We'll open an issue with IBM and follow

Re: IBM in the news

2006-08-08 Thread David Andrews
On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 23:46 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: You should fix the wrap. I wish the OP had also added a word or two about the article. There are a couple of people here who post URLs to ibm-main with the unhelpful comment interesting article. I'm grateful for the pointers, of course.

Re: SMF Records recording

2006-08-08 Thread Giovanni Cerquone
Mark; Another debate is what's small and what's large. I'm a 303304 complex and I do not condider myself large. I have one (1) man dataset per 3390-9 volume and each is dumped four times a day and I don't have VSAM nor CICS activity logged. I prefer to have all the possible records rather

Re: SMF Records recording

2006-08-08 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 09:29:32 -0500, Giovanni Cerquone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another debate is what's small and what's large. I'm a 303304 complex and I do not condider myself large. Too hard to debate that... it's always relative. Someone on a small z800 might think you are a large shop.

Re: 0c1's jes2 offload....

2006-08-08 Thread Tim Hare
Check to make sure you re-assembled all JES2 interface tables and/or interface modules for the various products. We had a problem like this once when we changed z/OS levels, JES2 control blocks and data areas had changed; the vendors were able to handle it, but it took place when you ran

HSM recycle processing is extremely slow

2006-08-08 Thread Ginnie Nuckles
We are running recycle processing which is using 3 drives. 1 for the recycle tape .. and 1 each for the spill and alternate spill. for a tape that is barely used say 1.3million 16K blocks it takes approx 2 hours ?? our Tape channel speed isnt even being used to 1/2 of its capacity ?? can

Batch FTP

2006-08-08 Thread Chase, John
z/OS 1.5; need to FTP PUT a directory structure to a remote system. How? PUT /a/b/c/* gives FILE /a/b/c/* NOT FOUND; MPUT /a/b/c/* sends all the files without maintaining the directory structure. TIA, -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Batch FTP

2006-08-08 Thread Ramiro Camposagrado
How about using pax to create an archive file. You can then FTP this archive file to a remote system. This way you preserve the entire directory structure, including any sub-directories that may be present. -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Batch FTP

2006-08-08 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Benjamin White Try to use the mkdir and cd commands to create directories on the target system before the put or file. I was hoping to avoid having to do that, but it looks like I'll have to wait until we get z/OS

Send your colleagues to Denver for z/OS training - enrollment deadlines

2006-08-08 Thread Steve Comstock
Well, the people on this list certainly don't need training on what we have scheduled, surely. But you may know some people in your applications groups that could use a little updating. Enrollment deadline is fast approaching, so please spread the word to the appropriate corners of your

setting up GRS in a monoplex between 2 LPARS.

2006-08-08 Thread John Norgauer
We are planning to set up GRS in our 2 LPAR mainframe to get familiar with its operations. Anyone out there done this? Care to share your experiences? Any pointers to manuals/SHARE talks on this topic. Thanks John Norgauer University of California Davis Medical Center 2315 Stockton Blvd ASB

Re: HSM recycle processing is extremely slow

2006-08-08 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
What is your overall CPU utilization? What is HSM's dispatching priority relative to your other workloads? Do you have the CDSs defined with the recommended half meg of buffer space? -Original Message- From: Ginnie Nuckles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 11:33

Re: SMF Records recording

2006-08-08 Thread Giovanni Cerquone
Thanks so much to all responders and Mark, as always, very proficiency. Giovanni -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the

Re: Batch FTP

2006-08-08 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ramiro Camposagrado How about using pax to create an archive file. You can then FTP this archive file to a remote system. This way you preserve the entire directory structure, including any sub-directories that

Re: Batch FTP

2006-08-08 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 8/8/2006 11:18:47 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, we don't have any flavor of 'zip' on z/OS (except GIMUNZIP, which probably isn't compatible with anything non-SMP/E). _http://www.info-zip.org/_ (http://www.info-zip.org/)

Re: Vendor JCL (was: WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC ... )

2006-08-08 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 10:03:24 -0400, Thompson, Steve (SCI TW) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And then the idea that ISVs don't know SMP/E is a bit out there -- well I'd hope that ISVs know SMP/E. I'd hope so too, but some vendors consistently do it wrong. Some examples: Providing PTFs without proper

LEASM modules limited to 4K DSA why?

2006-08-08 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
I'm hoping some of the IBM LE folk who lurk here can answer a question I had over on the CICS-L list. CICS TS 3.1 introduced the XOPTS(LEASM) parameter to permit LE-compliant Assembler programs to be the frst program in a CICS transaction. The CICS Assembler translator and macros produce an LE

Re: Vendor JCL (was: WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC ... )

2006-08-08 Thread Thompson, Steve (SCI TW)
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 11:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Vendor JCL (was: WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC ... ) On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 10:03:24 -0400, Thompson, Steve (SCI TW)

Re: Vendor JCL (was: WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC ... )

2006-08-08 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 13:36:25 -0400, Thompson, Steve (SCI TW) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So there are lots of things that vendors have to take into consideration, and the biggest one today are the Sr. Systems Programmers who don't know what a USERMOD is or a JES exit. Now there's a statement that I

Re: Vendor JCL (was: WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC ... )

2006-08-08 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 11:41:44 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 10:03:24 -0400, Thompson, Steve (SCI TW) wrote: And then the idea that ISVs don't know SMP/E is a bit out there -- well I'd hope that ISVs know SMP/E. I'd hope so too, but some vendors consistently do it wrong. Some

Re: Vendor JCL (was: WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC ... )

2006-08-08 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 12:47:16 -0500, Tom Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Providing PTFs without proper PREs Providing PTFs that don't SUP when they should Routinely asking a customer to use BYPASS ID PTF A has a PRE on FMID B, but FMID B has a SUP on PTF A Failure to provide UCLIN to create

Re: LEASM modules limited to 4K DSA why?

2006-08-08 Thread Roland Schiradin
Peter, you can use X.C. Getmain or the LE callable service to obtain more storage. Don't know why such a limit during initialization exist. Roland On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 13:24:04 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Batch FTP

2006-08-08 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Benjamin White Z/OS USS has TAR which can create a backup of a directory tree. Microsoft does not give you TAR, but there are free versions of TAR for MS Windows, With TAR you can also use COMPRESS to make it

Re: LEASM modules limited to 4K DSA why?

2006-08-08 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Thanks Roland, yes, that I know. The discussion on CICS-L covered that as well. The real question is what happens during LE initialization of your LEASM main program when your DSA/DFHEISTG size is 4K bytes. Does CICS LE initialization crap out, or does some other nasty surprise await your

Re: LEASM modules limited to 4K DSA why?

2006-08-08 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
In my opinion, you can always compute the value R13 + 4K, put it into another register and do a USING on this. I recall that I've done this when I wrote CICS ASSEMBLER programs some ten years ago. The parameter restrictions of macro DFHEIENT don't matter (much). Kind regards Bernd Am

z/OS SMTP and Reply-To

2006-08-08 Thread Ken Porowski
Cross posted to IBMTCP_L and IBM-MAIN I'm lost ... Is there any way to force a specific Reply-To address through the z/OS SMTP Server? I have a job scheduler and automated ops package that can send to SMTP (Control/M and /O). Their setup does not contain a 'Reply-To' address. I would like to

Problem with file ksds

2006-08-08 Thread Manuel Tabares Solórzano
Hello List: I have a problem to print o with DITTO a file ksds. This file is in one lpar, and the problema occurs when we pass the file to another lpar. The ength is 133 y the key legth is 41 bytes, we have O/390 2.10 on Z890 2086, disk is shark. We done this test, pass the same file to

Re: z/OS SMTP and Reply-To

2006-08-08 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 8/8/2006 2:33:46 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: try to go back to the mainframe. Ideally I could do this based upon a specific sender (i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes [EMAIL PROTECTED]). I tried the header rewrite rules but it doesn't appear to

Re: SVC Dumps and DB2

2006-08-08 Thread Lizette Koehler
Thanks Sam, and everyone else. We have no issue with the DASD part of the dump. I have that setup as stripped. It is just the virtual dump I am having difficutly with. We have limited storage and so our MAXSPACE can only go to about 4.5G. The 6G or 8G is out of the question right now. I

Re: SVC Dumps and DB2

2006-08-08 Thread Robert Wright
Lizett Koehler wrote on 08/08/2006 04:02:23 PM: Will look at Compressed to see if it could provide any releif. We have a large inventory of compressed dumps in Poughkeepsie, and our experience suggests that you'll save around 40% of the space that you'd use without compression. Bob Wright -

Re: z/OS SMTP and Reply-To

2006-08-08 Thread Gary DiPillo
Ken, You need to send the header string Reply-To: in your message header. I.e.: Reply-To: Technical Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] I believe it is up to the mail client to use or offer to use this address in place of the From: address. I have not found a reference to Reply-To in the SMTP RFC. On

Re: SMF Records recording

2006-08-08 Thread Ted MacNEIL
40s (dynamic DD) are also in the 30s, so they are excluded as well But, IIRC, the 40's have dataset names. I know the 30's have only DDNames. When in doubt. PANIC!! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Batch FTP

2006-08-08 Thread Ted MacNEIL
http://www.info-zip.org/ Info zip hasn't been maintained for a long time. IIRC, there is no 'true' z/OS version; the last being for OS/390 V2R10. You get what you pay for. It was one I investigated last November. I started a project to convert from PKZIP for z/OS to ZIP/390. Not due to the

Re: SMF Records recording

2006-08-08 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 20:58:44 +, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 40s (dynamic DD) are also in the 30s, so they are excluded as well But, IIRC, the 40's have dataset names. I know the 30's have only DDNames. When in doubt. PANIC!! How 'bout when in doubt, RTFM. :-) I don't see any

Re: SMF Records recording

2006-08-08 Thread Ted MacNEIL
How 'bout when in doubt, RTFM. :-) Unlike others, I am willing to admit I was wrong. The local Montanna's doesn't seem to have a Funny Manual available. I was going by (obviously shaky) memory. They say the mind is the second thing to go. I'll be diddly dadburned if I can recall what the

Re: HSM recycle processing is extremely slow

2006-08-08 Thread Ginnie Nuckles
our cpu is fine ,, hsm has high priority and the BCDS (this is on the backup recycle ,,) is at 1/2M of buffer space. this is supposed to be 9Mper second channel but it looks like we are only getting 2 ?? its tape to tape on A60 controller 3590's 2 paths the drives are B11's 128 track ???

Re: z/OS SMTP and Reply-To

2006-08-08 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Gary DiPillo said: Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 16:51:13 -0400 I have not found a reference to Reply-To in the SMTP RFC. (replying without looking) Is it not in RFC 822? -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL

Re: setting up GRS in a monoplex between 2 LPARS.

2006-08-08 Thread Shane
On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 09:03 -0700, John Norgauer wrote: We are planning to set up GRS in our 2 LPAR mainframe to get familiar with its operations. Anyone out there done this? Care to share your experiences? Any pointers to manuals/SHARE talks on this topic. Define a CTC, then GRS planning -

Re: SMF Records recording

2006-08-08 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 21:18:21 +, Ted MacNEIL wrote: I was going by (obviously shaky) memory. Ted, Were you thinking of the SMF Type 42 records, maybe? One of its subtypes (subtype 6) has dataset names and oodles of tuning/performance information. (I've always been a fan of T42-6.) --

Re: z/OS SMTP and Reply-To

2006-08-08 Thread Kirk Talman
Look here for RFC 2822 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822 IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 08/08/2006 05:29:39 PM: In a recent note, Gary DiPillo said: Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 16:51:13 -0400 I have not found a reference to Reply-To in the SMTP RFC.

On a JCL roll; back slashes in PARM=

2006-08-08 Thread John Mattson
Another interesting JCL thing. If you invoke a program such as REXX with JCL and pass a parm with back slashes in it, the back slashes work fine. Ex : //JS001 EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01,PARM='%SAYPRM \X\XX' However, when I do essentially the same JCL with a program which

Re: SMF Records recording

2006-08-08 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Were you thinking of the SMF Type 42 records, maybe? One of its subtypes (subtype 6) has dataset names and oodles of tuning/performance information. (I've always been a fan of T42-6.) Got it in one! Now that our shop has MXG again, I am going to be paying with all the DSN records. When in

ROOM parm

2006-08-08 Thread Harold Zbiegien
we use the ROOM parm to contain a deliverly location for print out. And we have been using for years the ROOM program from the CBT tape, file 325 that updates the ROOM value for a TSO user. Well it's time for us to upgrade to z/OS 1.7 and I'd rather not go through the check out and

Re: On a JCL roll; back slashes in PARM=

2006-08-08 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, John Mattson said: Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 14:44:33 -0700 Another interesting JCL thing. If you invoke a program such as REXX with JCL and pass a parm with back slashes in it, the back slashes work fine. Ex : //JS001 EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01,PARM='%SAYPRM

Re: Vendor JCL (was: WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC ... )

2006-08-08 Thread Craddock, Chris
To be honest, I dislike all those autocust things. I never found that it made the install any easier. Same with the rest of them. Mostly front ends to SMP/E, to cover up for the fact that the vendor doesn't have a clue how to create proper SYSMODs. Let alone HOLDDATA. I can't speak for

Re: Vendor JCL (was: WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC ... )

2006-08-08 Thread Clark F Morris
On 8 Aug 2006 15:41:36 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: To be honest, I dislike all those autocust things. I never found that it made the install any easier. Same with the rest of them. Mostly front ends to SMP/E, to cover up for the fact that the vendor doesn't have a clue how

Re: Mixed case userids in z/OS RACF

2006-08-08 Thread Walt Farrell
On 8/8/2006 5:19 PM, Steve Myers wrote: Do z/OS and RACF support mixed case userids. RACF command processors do not support the creation of mixed-case user IDs. Technically you could create them using the lower level interface ICHEINTY. However, it's unlikely that you'd get all the data

Old product tapes

2006-08-08 Thread Rick Fochtman
I'm trying to locate original distribution tapes for a number of OLD software products that I used and/or installed in my salad days. If anyone has tapes for the following products and is willing to part with them, I'll cheerfully pay reasonable shipping costs. If you can help, please contact me

Re: Old product tapes

2006-08-08 Thread Thomas Kern
I would love to get my hands on CSMP, PL/C, GPSS, SNOBOL and SPITBOL to get them working in a z/VM environment. If you can find them, please let me know. /Tom Kern --- Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to locate original distribution tapes for a number of OLD software products

Re: vendor JCL

2006-08-08 Thread john gilmore
Chris Craddock writes: . . .The autocurse installers exist because a significant number of customers ask (demand!) them. The ibm-main audience is not necessarily typical because there are a lot of customers who can't spell SMP/E let alone configure high end software products. CC and he

Re: Batch FTP

2006-08-08 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
What support issues did you have with PKZip? Ted MacNEIL wrote: http://www.info-zip.org/ Info zip hasn't been maintained for a long time. IIRC, there is no 'true' z/OS version; the last being for OS/390 V2R10. You get what you pay for. It was one I investigated last November. I started a

Re: JES2 Exit

2006-08-08 Thread Brian Westerman
I know that it's possible becaue I have done it and do it occasionally when I absolutely have to, but there are a lot of factors that have to be addressed, you have to update the exit and load parms and then dynamically invoke them and you have to be careful that you load the module into the

Re: How to Submit and monitor a Job?

2006-08-08 Thread Brian Westerman
I have a assembler program that can be added as the last step of the JOB which will send you an email (via SMTP) with the step return codes (and abend codes if applicable) and the start, end and soem other additional information. I also have a facility that I wrote, that will do this same

Re: How to Submit and monitor a Job?

2006-08-08 Thread Thomas Kern
I used to have such a program but I misplaced it over the years. Can you share your 'last-step' program? /Tom Kern /301-903-2211 --- Brian Westerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a assembler program that can be added as the last step of the JOB which will send you an email (via SMTP) with

Re: Batch FTP

2006-08-08 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 8, 2006, at 9:23 PM, John S. Giltner, Jr. wrote: What support issues did you have with PKZip? Back about 6 years ago. We were installing a new processor. We got the codes before hand and at least one of them would not work. When we called them a 02 am there was no answer and their

Re: z900 and 3174

2006-08-08 Thread Bruce Hewson
Hello Victor and if you use IBM ESCON converters, or the Optica replacements, you can connect them via an ESCON Director so long as you dedicate the connection inside the director. We have been using converter attached 3174s for some years nowz900 and z990 boxes. Regards Bruce Hewson

Re: WebSphere Developer For zSeries?

2006-08-08 Thread Bruce Hewson
Hello Michael, we are looking at this product. I know it will work with IBM's SCLM. I have been told it does not work with Serena's ChangeMan at this time. I believe the same was true of CA-Endevor. As I understand it, the WD4z product grew from Eclypse and the Rational Developer IDEs.

Re: Batch FTP

2006-08-08 Thread Ted MacNEIL
What support issues did you have with PKZip? 1. No 7/24 support. 2. Surly support staff. 3. No flexibility on key extension. When in doubt. PANIC!! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Batch FTP

2006-08-08 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUB 34)
I was hoping to avoid having to do that, but it looks like I'll have to wait until we get z/OS 1.7 up and running to MPUT a tree structure. :-( I didn't know mput would create directories as needed. Haven't found it in the V1.7 IP manuals nor was I able to get it to work. What parameter am I