Jeffrey D. Smith wrote:
[...]
I dare to disagree. ICSF's CKDS is ready to use key container. The keys
are encrypted using master key.
Wrong. The CPACF services offered by ICSF require CLEAR KEYS. They are
not encrypted by the master key. There are new key form keywords for
clear keys, CLRDES
McKown, John wrote:
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Subject: Re: Another BIG Mainframe Bites the Dust
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I just wonder if
I find it strange that IBM has been trumpeting z/Linux, and something like
this happens - on HP/UX.
The homepage trumpets that they were showing Openframe (on Fujitsu kit) at
LinuxWorld.
Somebody juggling the balls at IBM seems to have dropped one.
Shane ...
This bit stood out the most for me:
According to Sangho Yoon, director of the information strategy team at
Samsung, the decision to move off Big Iron was strictly financial.
Moving their data warehousing and reporting systems to a superdome would make
some sense, but I would think reliability
Here are some more of our friends:
http://www.mainframemigration.org/
JC
This bit stood out the most for me:
According to Sangho Yoon, director of the information strategy team at
Samsung, the decision to move off Big Iron was strictly financial.
Moving their data warehousing and
Lindy Mayfield wrote:
This bit stood out the most for me:
According to Sangho Yoon, director of the information strategy team at Samsung, the
decision to move off Big Iron was strictly financial.
Moving their data warehousing and reporting systems to a superdome would make
some sense, but I
At 03:56 PM 9/6/2006, you wrote:
We are a relatively small shop. We have need for PGP encryption to send
payroll files to various banks, but can not afford an expensive
solution.
We installed PGP from 'Tools and Toys' and one of the banks accepts the
resulting files. The TT solution is
Here's a weird one. The Storage folks where I work run batches of ALTERs
to change Storage and Management classes for SMS managed data sets. Their
current procedure calls for saving a list of data sets in ISPF 3.4, then
editing the resultant list into ALTER control cards.
One of them asked me to
We are investigating activating the CBU option on our z890's.
Our IBM rep said that there is no problem with IBM software, which makes
sense since IBM software does not use passwords.
How do ISV products that have passwords the depened on the CPU capacity
setting handle this situation.
We
Hello Paolo,
thank you very much for the hint.
Excuse me when i keep quiet a long time.
After changing the Parm it works fine.
Best regards
Paolo Pirillo
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:17:02 +0200, Paolo Cacciari
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Paolo Pirillo wrote:
The problem is that no UID ist passed!
Good morning all,
I am pondering the difference, (Performance-Disaster Recovery-More/Less
volumes), for JES2 spool datasets.
We are at z/OS 1.7 in one dev LPAR and I am starting the
cloning/building process for our production LPAR.
We are a mid-size shop with (4) mod-3s used for JES2
On 6 Sep 2006 14:02:35 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Kopischke, David G. wrote:
Greetings,
Another interesting story today on SearchDataCenter. This is the
biggest
one I've read about so far.
Now comes the wait for the first hacker to break in and steal countless
millions
In a recent note, Jim Marshall said:
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 07:04:52 -0500
Suggestion #1 - you can find on the CBT tape a number of TSOCP's which do
a WAIT for a number of seconds, see file 300, PGM=DELAY. The programmer
???
Why not simply:
call *(BPXBATCH) 'PGM /bin/sleep 30'
In a recent note, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) said:
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 11:27:08 -0300
Or two checkboxes?
3?
APAR
QA
PTF
Etc. Surely that's better than the 7 which would result from
expanding the Cartesian product and eliding the null.
-- gil
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On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 10:20:21 -0300, Clark F Morris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Reliability is based on the
least reliable component. COBOL is required to generate code that
correctly (if slowly) handles decimal
what???
Are you saying that COBOL code is unreliable?
that only cobol can
In a recent note, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) said:
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 11:58:31 -0300
[2] On some devices you need to add the stray NUL to avoid timing
problems.
Which ought to be the responsibility of the device driver and not
of the application program. Likewise the NUL
Hello all -
I have received permission to post this from the list owner.
We have an immediate opening for a Senior Systems programmer at Duke
University Health Systems in Durham, NC. We are running z/OS 1.6, DB2 z/OS
V7 and IMS V9 and are looking for an individual with 7+ years experience
In a recent note, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) said:
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 11:46:24 -0300
There is no '85'x in ASCII, although there is in ISO 8859.
I stand corrected.
BTW, VM/CMS facilities converting ISO8859-1 to IBM-1047 generally
map ASCII LF to 0x25 and ASCII NEL to 0x15,
Hi all,
one of my customers wants to replace his 9672 G5 by a z800. He is running
zOS 1.5. I will install the PSP ptfs for the z800 before. Are there any
other pitfalls regarding 31Bit to 64Bit or should everything work 1:1 with
the current configuration. Additionally to the zOS he runs a DB2 V7
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Are mainframe Linux applications
Todd,
This does sound interesting.
To give you a quick background, I just accepted a position (May 2006) in
Columbia SC with SCANA Corporation (electric and gas). They do not appear to
have sufficient work for me to do within the group.
How soon are you looking to fill this position?
Shane wrote on 07/09/2006 12:32:46 +1000
As a general statement, if the structure owner chooses to use async rather
than sync, why would you care ???.
If none are actually being converted, pat yourself on the back for a job
well done, and go find a real problem to worry about.
Don't be so quick
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Subject: Re: ICSF with CPACF (was RE: Encrypting tape drives... anyone
considering field encryption?)
Jeffrey D.
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Now, having said that, it might be possible to
On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 08:59 -0400, Richbourg, Claude wrote:
Since I can take advantage of the 'Large Dataset Support' for JES2 now,
what are the pros/cons of having one mod-27 versus 2 mod'9s?
How busy are your spool volumes today, and do you have PAVs? I don't
have PAV, so I spread our I/O
Sorry, I forgot to mention that. The spool volumes have only the one
dataset each and we do have PAV support with our 800.
Regards,
Claude Richbourg
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Your comments are exactly what I am searching for. Shane asked 'why
wwould I be concerned' and the answer is that the Async requests to the
DB2 lock structure seem to happen around the times of application timeouts.
I do hope that others, including IBM'ers, will join in with their comments
I don't hope they have problems, but I do expect that things will
require a long time to settle down. I would also be willing to bet that the
xpected cost savings will not materialize, at least to the degree envisioned.
It may have been the right business decision, or it may
Hear, hear buy that man a beer!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/7/2006 11:03 AM
I don't hope they have problems, but I do expect that things will
require a long time to settle down. I would also be willing to bet that the
xpected cost savings will not materialize, at least to the degree
Neil,
And, for additional information concerning DB2-related lock structures,
you might consider cross-posting to the DB2-L ListServ.
Lock Lyon
Compuware Corp
Neil Ervin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Please respond to
IBM
In
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on 09/06/2006
at 12:13 AM, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
VM allows the sysprog to set the line editing defaults. The most
reasonable are: CHARDEL OFF LINEND # ESCAPE LINEDEL OFF.
Is there any reaon not to use Field Mark for LINEND?
--
Shmuel (Seymour
You are showing your MF bias. Many believe that occasional outages and
reduced security levels are not only acceptable, but are to be expected.
Most of us know that the cost of availability rises exponentially as you
approach 100% on any platform. The selection of a availability
percentage (and
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 09/06/2006
at 01:22 AM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Why? How?
Command stacking. I assume that was what Alan had in mind as well.
People today are quite accustomed to graphic workstations where no
displayable character is usurped for editing functions.
On Thursday, 09/07/2006 at 08:12 CST, Jeffrey D. Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think there is a language barrier here. My point is that there is
no point in preventing/restricting acccess to the ICSF ciphering
functions. The vast majority of encryption needs involve ciphering
data. With
Sure, I'd do things differently with their ACS routines, but I'm just a
consultant and nobody here asked me to stick my nose into their Storage
Management!
You can address it as part of the resource/system contention issue that they
asked you to look into.
The only time they should be doing
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE
The number $20 MIL over for and then $10 Mil per year ..
I wonder what percentage is Software cost.That is what is prohibiting
the MF from dominating as it should med to large companies.
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one of my customers wants to replace his 9672 G5 by a z800.
I imagine he is getting a used z800 which might be pretty cheap. But
they might want to check out the prices on a small z9BC. This will give
them the latest hardware features plus assurance that it will run the
latest op systems.
this we have done. The customer is in a difficult economical situation and
the z9BC would have been three times as expensive as the used z800 which is
already ordered. You can believe me that we have discussed all variations
with the customer and there was no way to sell a z9, which also IBM had
I suppose that next you will be telling us that outages are not only
expected, but are desirable!
Jon L. Veilleux
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Sent: Thursday, September 07,
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Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 11:44 AM
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Subject: FW: Another BIG Mainframe Bites the Dust
I suppose that next you will be telling us
I think a lot of it boils back down to what is needed. I'm not a huge fan
of server technology (20,000 chickens pulling a plow) but since we don't
run PROFS any longer, Locust notes is how I do e-mail.
It might be that vendor pricing is in the mix big time (I haven't read the
article) or that
No, but he is making the very valid point that achiving 100% uptime may
not be fiscally sound. If it costs me $10 million to go from 99.9% to 99.999%
availability but it only buys me $1 million dollars worth of business, why
would I pay that money?
There is a problem when it
Well, of course outages are desirable! Imagine having to put in a full
day of work with no breaks for an outage. Why, the amount of RSI claims
will sky rocket! The BSOD is just Microsoft's way of making sure that
your health is protected from excessive, consecutive hours of work.
Besides, the
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snip
So CICS takes a few minutes bog
In a message dated 9/7/2006 12:02:12 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you drive a Mercedes, then, it shouldn't stop unexpectedly while your
Chevy Aveo can stop once a day and have to be restarted?
Cow muffins as Col. Potter would say.
So much for homilies:
In a recent note, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) said:
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 11:18:35 -0300
Is there any reaon not to use Field Mark for LINEND?
I'd love to. Depending on terminal emulator, keyboard, and map.
I tried to do the same for ISPF, but it wouldn't let me. Apparently
ISPF has
I hope that in their evaluation they considered the cost of feeding
20,000 chickens vs the cost of a few good mainframe sysprogs... La
sombra sabe!
Jon L. Veilleux
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(860) 636-2683
I think a lot of it boils back down to what is needed. I'm not a huge
fan of server technology
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Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 10:07 AM
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On Thursday, 09/07/2006 at 08:12 CST, Jeffrey D. Smith
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The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think a lot of it boils back down to what is needed. I'm not a
huge fan of server technology (20,000 chickens pulling a plow) but
On 7 Sep 2006 10:13:38 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
I hope that in their evaluation they considered the cost of feeding
20,000 chickens vs the cost of a few good mainframe sysprogs... La
sombra sabe!
The release said the replacement was only 2 HP Superdomes or whatever
their high
Is there a way to find out when and how a JOBCLASS definition was
changed in JES2? We specify TIME=(0060,00) on the JOBCLASS statement for a
particular class in our JES2 startup parms, but when I issue a $TJOBCLASS(A)
from the console, the resulting display shows TIME=(72,00). I
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Is there a way to find out when and how a JOBCLASS
Syslog(?). I just altered our JOBCLASS(A) on our tech LPAR through SDSF
and it shows up like any other JES message on the log. Gives the TSU
number and the ID with the time stamp.
Jon Brock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 14:55:23 -0400, Jon Brock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a way to find out when and how a JOBCLASS definition was
changed in JES2? We specify TIME=(0060,00) on the JOBCLASS statement for a
particular class in our JES2 startup parms, but when I issue a $TJOBCLASS
Hi. Sorry to bother the group. My boss ask me to put another file out.
This is what I got:
DATACLAS CPAC.ACS.ROUTINES.CNTL VSAMCLAS TRLP1 2006/09/07
15:19
MGMTCLAS CPAC.ACS.ROUTINES.CNTL MCCLASS TRLP1 2001/01/19
12:19
STORCLAS CPAC.ACS.ROUTINES.CNTL
Robert,
I already deleted the previous email but does the dataset name
SERVP.JM064RAM.SLFVNTE match your filtlist?
Message IEC614I CREATE FAILED - RC 192, DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION IS
(040343C9)
indicates that you tried to allocate the dataset on a SMS managed
volume but your dataset is not SMS
That was it John. Thanks so much. Spelling. The moral of the story -
don't turn your manager lose in SMS :)
Thanks all.
Have a Nice Day !
Bob Pelletier
Connecticut Student Loan Foundation
Robert,
I already deleted the previous email but does the dataset name
SERVP.JM064RAM.SLFVNTE match
Has anyone used this LE exit and if so how did it workout.?
Would like to know if it helped tuning storage in LE modules or was
just a good reporter.
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I strongly recommend adding WRITE statements to your SMS routines. Some
of the people on the list only use them when debugging a problem. I put
them in and leave them in. Basically my code stubs look like:
When (condition)
Set
Write
Exit
End
Yes, applications batch jobs see
Just curious if these posts are automated. They all have started to look quite
the same.
Could be a Turing test, too. (-:
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Or Black background and white lettering. Also they only had 12 lines by
80 columns.
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All I can think is that sometime in the past someone issued a $TJOBCLASS
command to change the time limit and it has been carried through the
subsequent warm starts.
SYSLOG is your friend.
There are CBT tools that do searches.
The issue is how much SYSLOG you keep.
When in doubt.
PANIC!!
If Lynn Wheeler has written a program to read the IBMMAIN and IBMVM listserv
postings and respond with references to relevant past postings and
occasional new material that has not been circulated through the MVS and VM
sysprog communities, I WANT THAT PROGRAM. It must be good code.
/Tom Kern
On
SMF record cut by JES maybe? Don't know if JES does this or not, just
throwing it out there.
Try checking before throwing.
SMF doesn't audit JES2 commands except through auditing OPERCMDS under RACF.
When in doubt.
PANIC!!
Just curious if these posts are automated. They all have started to look
quite the same.
Could be a Turing test, too. (-:
Frankly, I'm sick of them.
Everytime somebody says something, they have a post or 70 regarding everything.
Just once, I would like to see some real content from them.
Lindy Mayfield wrote:
Just curious if these posts are automated. They all have started to look quite
the same.
Could be a Turing test, too. (-:
I just checked a few postings by filtering on the sender address (you
have it slightly wrong) and I think I understand your concern. Kind of
PITA.
I got an answer from IBM's z/OS Support, who found an old PMR with a
similar problem described. VM does not support CPMF (this is currently
not documented anywhere). Thus, RMF cannot provide accurate FICON channel
utilization data for any z/OS guest machine. To get valid FICON
utilization
On 7 Sep 2006 06:43:00 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 10:20:21 -0300, Clark F Morris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Reliability is based on the
least reliable component. COBOL is required to generate code that
correctly (if slowly) handles decimal
what???
On 5 Sep 2006 18:30:31 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
let's see LE/COBOL has been available for what 15 years now, it's time to
bite the bullet and get off of
cobol II and vs cobol
period. end of comment.
So! You're ready to come out to my shop.
Ready to re-compile everything.
Test
Date:Wed, 6 Sep 2006 15:56:17 -0400
From:Warner Mach [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PGP Assistance Needed
Original question:
We are a relatively small shop. We have need for PGP encryption to send
payroll files to various banks, but can not afford an expensive
solution.
We installed PGP from
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 14:03:12 -0500, McKown, John
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Hi,
Anyone will attend this IBM EXPRO in OCT 7
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Anyone will attend this IBM EXPRO in OCT 7
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They used something called Tmaxsoft Openframe. However the news release
from this vendor:
http://www.tmaxsoft.com/news/news/2006_08_02.shtml
Mentions nothing about what type of box it replaced. All it says is that:
The legacy system had the equivalent of 7000 MIPS of capacity ...
If it
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 16:47:59 -0500, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a way to find out when and how a JOBCLASS
definition was changed in JES2?...
The only ways that I know of are: (1) the MVS SYSLOG or (2) RACF, if you
are auditing the OPERCMDS and who issues them. You'd need
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 20:16:09 -0300, Clark F Morris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2. I am saying that COBOL is required to deliver the same results on
decimal arithmetic regardless of platform and presence or absence of
decimal arithmetic on that platform. Thus the HP Superdomes in this
case should
On Thursday, 09/07/2006 at 11:18 ZW3, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
VM allows the sysprog to set the line editing defaults. The most
reasonable are: CHARDEL OFF LINEND # ESCAPE LINEDEL OFF.
Is there any reaon not to use Field Mark for LINEND?
Because my fingers refuse
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