I agree with all the endorsements of just letting the mainframe itself
(VIPA, OSA, CS z/OS) handle TN3270(E). I can't think of too many (any?)(*)
reasons for offloading that function these days.
If you absolutely positively have to do it for some well-founded reason --
real curious about what
Is the STDENV DD statement for any batch program, I was under the
impression that this was only for programs running under BPXBATCH.
Jim McAlpine
On 1/29/07, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you truly want to set LE runtime options? Or do you just need to set
some UNIX environment
I just know that the example in TFM of a COBOL program invoking a Java
routine shows the need to set POSIX(ON) like this -
//GO EXEC PGM=TSTHELLO,COND=(4,LT,LKED),
// PARM='/ENVAR(_CEE_ENVFILE=/u/userid/ootest/tsthello/ENV)
// POSIX(ON)'
Jim McAlpine
On 1/29/07, Clark
Denis, could you send me a copy of the presentation please.
Jim McAlpine
On 1/29/07, Denis Gäbler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
If anyone is interested in a presentation covering this topic, drop me an
email and I'll send you a PDF document. Its about the IMS implementation,
but the Java
Good question. So does anyone know that if I set POSIX(ON) to enable me to
invoke Java from COBOL, can I leave it on if I then go on to call non Java
related programs. What would be the implications.
Jim McAlpine
On 1/29/07, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm presuming also that we
We can't run under BPXBATCH. Is there a way to set POSIX(ON) as an
environment variable also.
Jim McAlpine
On 1/30/07, John R. Grout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jim McAlpine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can't specify XPLINK(ON) in this fashion
for a COBOL main program. You have to use
one of
John,
Initially, they will probably continue to offer FDRPAS. Once the Softek
acquisition is complete, they will probably offer both until their deal
with Innovation Data Processing is up for renewal. I am guessing that
they would need a good $$$ reason to renew. That's the bad news. The
good
-- snip --
I am guessing that
they would need a good $$$ reason to renew. That's the bad news. The
good news here is that both products are excellent in this space.
-- snip --
Definitely second that.
John
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Now I have been told it is a BAD idea to put DASD and TAPE into the local
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will cause a fabric storm and shut down all the ports in the local
director.
... snip
Bruce,
we currently use all our Ficon
Hi,
I got this question when I was reading the communication server manual.
Take Netview Access as example. On our system, there is a VTAM minor node
definiton for it:
A06NVAS APPL EAS=160,ACBNAME=TSTNVAS1,AUTH=(ACQ,BLOCK,PASS)
Firstly I add one line in tcpip profile for tn3270 telnet server:
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 1:07 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: M$ Vista Experiences?
The update is way too expensive. Too many versions (Home
Basic, Home
In a message dated 1/30/2007 1:08:03 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Basic, Home blabla, etc, etc). Can't tell about functionality.
From Dell site...
_http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/solutions/en/winvista?c=uscs=
19l=ens=dhs~ck=anavml_
Try logon applid=
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Johnny Luo
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 4:27 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: What is 'VTAM application name'?(Confirmation needed)
Hi,
I got this question when I was
Hi all;
I want to print all DL/I call to haldb,full function db and dedb,
Inculde DB NAME ,SEGMENT NAME ,FUNCTION,DATA.
I can use capture image trace to get COMP information for
haldb and full function db.How about DEDB?
I have tried to use fast path trace to gather the message.
1 Add
Try asking this question on IMS-L where you will get answers from a lot
of IMS experts who don't subscribe to IBM-MAIN.
https://po.missouri.edu/archives/ims-l.html
Best Regards,
Sam Knutson, GEICO
Performance and Availability Management
I'm resending this without quoting the original post in order to try to
bypass an Access denied somewhere. This is, of course, massively
irritating - very many expletives deleted ...
Johnny
In principle you need a Communications Server IP component expert and not a
Communications Server SNA
Hello everyone,
Has anyone out there gone to quadplex printing, and if so was there any
impact on spool utilization (up or down)? Our clients have asked this
question, and we're not having much luck searching for an answer in the
short timeframe we have to try to find out. My initial thought
On 30 Jan 2007 06:45:57 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
(Message-ID:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 1/30/2007 1:08:03 A.M. Central Standard
Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Basic, Home blabla, etc, etc). Can't tell
about functionality.
From Dell site...
Hm, just thinking out loud... If I had a CICS or IMS control region up all
the time I'd try to write a dynalloc command / transaction and allocate
the out-of-order tape drive to that region. My kind of mandate!
Andreas F. Geissbuehler
AFG Consultants Inc.
http://www.afgc-inc.com/
Chris,
What can I say - you help me again.
Here is my understanding about your last mail:
When we connect a tn3270 client to z/os tn3270 server, we usually see a VTAM
message 10 screen [1].
1. We enter something and press enter.
2. TN3270 server will try to understand what we've entered
I trimmed your excellent response and failed to note where. Sorry.
IMHO, security issues are most commonly audit driven. Audit driven
solutions are easily identified by a glaring lack of technical
knowledge.
That said, IMHO, the sacrificial server has some pros. It could be a
useful shield in
---snip---
Ed Finnell wrote:
Just checking. Good, bad, indifferent? Think I'll wait for the next CPU
upgrade.
--unsnip--
Aagreed. Second and subsequent builds seem to be less problem-ridden.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 1:25 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: M$ Vista Experiences?
---snip---
Ed Finnell wrote:
Has anyone else had trouble with CA's SupportConnect web site for the
last several days? I am unable to use the Knowledge Base feature. I thought
for a little while the problem was an Internet access-monitoring package we
have, but now that doesn't seem to be the case.
Is
I've been running it at home for many months. Had to double the memory
to get any performance out of it. My kids really don't like it as most
of the games they have won't work with Vistamajor problem with the
ATI video drivers not supporting various things. Even having problem
with
Johnny
I'm glad Pat jumped in because I now realise I hadn't read your previous
post properly - which is just as well or I think I would have been confused.
I would have needed to know that LOGON APPLID(NVAS) didn't work - as
mentioned in your later post.
First I claimed that the character
I just got into their system to review an incident that I have open. No
results but I got in and out OK
Jack Kelly
LA Systems @ US Courts
x 202-502-2390
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I was able to get onto SupportConnect and run a Knowledge Base query
without any problem.
-Bret
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Behalf Of Jon Brock
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 1:38 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: CA web site
Hi Jon,
I am not having any issues with SupportConnect KB searches.
Bob
Robert B. Fake
InfoSec, Inc. - Mainframe Software and Services Provider
703-825-1202 (o)
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Jon, what's it doing to you?
I was able to log in and do a quick search in the knowledgebase without
any problems (once I remembered my password, but that's another issue).
Our site had a problem with them back in September where we couldn't
open new issues or do other functions within their
Is anyone running MS Vista on a mainframe?
No? Good, then lets drop the subject and
get back to discussing mainframes. Thanks.
Darren
List Owner
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On 30 Jan 2007 11:36:26 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown, John)
wrote:
Well, since I didn't start this very OFFTOPIC discussion, I feel free to
ask why anybody would upgrade to Vista? Or any other version of Windows?
I've been 99.9% Windows free at home (on Linux) for a couple of years
now
Some
In a message dated 1/30/2007 2:08:54 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
don't want to take up any more of you folks' time or bandwidth. It appears
most likely to be some sort of problem with our network here. I just wanted
some confirmation, since I'm waiting on
Beats me. I plan to check with the network folks here, just in case.
Thanks,
Jon
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Behalf Of Ed Finnell
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 3:25 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: CA web site
In a
I hate EBCDIC! Is Unicode a solution?
No need to become emotional...
It is not EBCDIC that is the problem. Code pages are.
Unfortunately, Unicode is NOT the solution: there are lots of different
encoding schemes for Unicode (UTF-8, UTF-16, little/big endian, etc. etc.)
so when it comes
Hi Jon
It appears fine from my home broadband connection (not VPN).
Possibly a local configuration issue?
Meir Z
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Jon Brock
Sent: Tue 1/30/2007 7:37 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: CA web site
In a message dated 1/30/2007 1:53:29 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is anyone running MS Vista on a mainframe?
No? Good, then lets drop the subject and
get back to discussing mainframes. Thanks.
Sorry, was looking thru the wrong end of the binoculars. Thinking
Last week, we produced 35,746,835 output records for the reformatted
RACF (IRRADU00 output). This blew our processing. The previous week was
only 7,555,827 records. Two weeks ago only 4,896,905 records. And three
weeks ago, only 2,470,655 records. Of course, the question is what
happened?!?
I'm
Is there any documentation on the compression algorithm used by TRSMAIN?
Or how effective it is? I.e. if I have 21 MEDIA2 (3490E) tapes worth of
printable data, can I estimate how many compressed tapes that will take?
And is there anyway to ftp that to an ASCII based server and uncompress
it? Yes
Hi Bret,
I'm not sure what you mean, but if you're talking about starting to print
output 2 images per page, front back (2-up duplex), or 4 images per page,
front and back (4-up duplex), I don't think you will see any difference in
spool utilization. It looks the same in the spool, the
Working here too. I noticed this message when I was there...
TODAY'S ALERT
Important Announcements:
Certain levels of ALP Licensing software may malfunction beginning January
1st, 2007.
SupportConnect users in North America may experience intermittent issues when
performing functions such
Re: DADSM allocation for non-SMS files
We have had a few abends lately where DADSM
is not allocating non-SMS space as anticipated.
We are z/OS 1.4 on the way to 1.7.
I have found an excellent paper on DADSM
for SMS files, but have not been able to
find anything on allocation of non-SMS
It's been awhile since I've had to use DFHSORT (PGM=SORT) and am
returning to a project where I'll need it.
There is an immediate situation I'd like to deal with but the saved
SORTs I have do not seem to deal with it and my looking through doco has
not yielded any help.
I'd like to take an input
In a recent note, McKown, John said:
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:35:07 -0600
Is there any documentation on the compression algorithm used by TRSMAIN?
Or how effective it is? I.e. if I have 21 MEDIA2 (3490E) tapes worth of
printable data, can I estimate how many compressed tapes that
1. We create both Windows Zipped and z/OS Tersed distribution files for
MXG Software, which is a single sequential pure text file, currently
2,119,181 lines of text; the lines are FB 80 on z/OS, but are not
numbered, so the file is smaller as a variable-length ASCII file.
Our current
(cross posted to IBM-MAIN and ISPF-L)
This past weekend we rolled out maintenance up to RSU0606 in one of
our environments. We usually do quarterly RSU - 1 quarter plus
hipers which would mean RSU0609, but some local issues and EOY put
us behind in this environment - hence RSU0606.
I can get it to work from outside our firewall here but not inside it. Looks
like a firewall issue to me. I am checking with our network guys.
I might have to move my office to Port City Java for a while. Darn.
Thanks,
Jon
snip
It appears fine from my home broadband connection (not VPN).
Yeah, I saw that, but this has been worse than intermittent. The worst part
is that I don't think I can even complain about CA in this case; it appears to
be our fault.
Jon
snip
Working here too. I noticed this message when I was there...
TODAY'S ALERT
Important Announcements:
Certain
George William wrote on 01/30/2007 01:49:58 PM:
It's been awhile since I've had to use DFHSORT (PGM=SORT) and am
returning to a project where I'll need it.
There is an immediate situation I'd like to deal with but the saved
SORTs I have do not seem to deal with it and my looking through doco
I checked with our I/O maestro. We don't happen to mix tape and DASD on a
chpid, but it's apparently more out of long-standing habit and
housekeeping practices than concern for the vagaries of modern technology.
We also have not heard of 'fabric storm', which sounds more like a
designers' flap
Hi Dennis,
Under Settings-Control Panel-Display-Settings
(yeah)--Advanced--Troubleshoot
you may see a check box labelled Enable Write Combining
If it is checked, clear it, reboot, and see if you still have these
graphics instabilities.
(This advice also can apply in XP if you keep
Thanks Frank, I'll check this out to see if I can fit it to my needs!
Bill
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Wiiliam George wrote on 01/30/2007 03:09:41 PM:
Thanks Frank, I'll check this out to see if I can fit it to my needs!
Bill
You're welcome. If you need help modifying the job, feel free to contact
me offline with more details.
I have a question for you (or anyone else on the list if they can
No particular reason other than some deep seeded subconscious seepage.
Maybe from my old CICS support.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Frank Yaeger
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 3:35 PM
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Our website has been available for me, both internally, through VPN, and
externally.
I would probably suggest you have a challenge with your firewall or other
Network
Component. You can call CA's 800 Helpdesk number and they will try to help
you
resolve the issue.
Why are you afraid to call
Knutson, Sam wrote:
snip
People are expensive.
Reruns are expensive.
Paging can be expensive not having enough paging space can be more
expensive don't short yourself.
I/O is expensive and slow.
Real memory is cheap.
I could not agree with this more! To use CPU for lack of real storage,
is
Hoesly, Bret wrote:
Hello everyone,
Has anyone out there gone to quadplex printing, and if so was there any
impact on spool utilization (up or down)? Our clients have asked this
question, and we're not having much luck searching for an answer in the
short timeframe we have to try to find
How I can know if JES2 running on compatibility (R4) mode or Full Function
(z2) mode !
Best Regards,
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Hal Merritt writes:
That said, IMHO, the sacrificial server has some pros. It could be a
useful shield in a password DoS attack. Its mission is to contain the
damage by going out of service.
It can also add value as an outer shield to a DDoS attack. The MF can
handle the load much more so than the
$d activate
netiquette
Would you mind supplying a subject and signing your posts?
/netiquette
Peter Hunkeler
CREDIT SUISSE
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