Using IDCAMS to delete PDS member (was:TSO TRANSMIT of PDS member)

2007-02-20 Thread Bruce Hewson
Hello Ted, except if you use this IDCAMS jcl ( I doubled it to ensure fun) :-) //DELETE EXEC PGM=IDCAMS //SYSUDUMP DD SYSOUT=* //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //DSN1 DD DSN=PDS.DATASET.NAME(MEMBER),DISP=OLD //SYSINDD * DELETE PDS.DATASET.NAME(MEMBER) /* //UNDELET EXEC PGM=IDCAMS //SYS

Re: z/OS System Cmd Characters

2007-02-20 Thread Chris Mason
Mark This would seem to indicate a requirement. I would expect that there is a point within z/OS associated with analysing command input which "knows" all the characters so that a command can be routed appropriately. Thus it should be possible to have a command which displays all the characters i

Re: IBM S/360 series operating systems history

2007-02-20 Thread Ken Brick
Thompson, Steve wrote: > /snip > And to someone else's post about this, an assembly took all 4 of our > tape drives, and the minimal assembly (NO macros) took 30 minutes (give > or take about 15 seconds). Most of that was just initializing things on > the work tapes!!! I say that because I used: >

Re: IBM System/360 Operating Systems history

2007-02-20 Thread Charles Mills
> Overlays were much more important before the availability of virtual storage than after. Right-o. Overlays are in effect programmer-managed virtual storage. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of john gilmore Sent: Tuesday,

Re: TSO TRANSMIT of PDS member

2007-02-20 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clark Morris Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 8:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: TSO TRANSMIT of PDS member I also believe COBOL is in a maintenance mode with no vision for the future

Re: 3949 ATL management

2007-02-20 Thread Russell Witt
Carey, As others have stated, if this is a one-time situation you could run TMSGRW or EARL and create a list of volumes (based on a combination of high expiration date and long-time since last used) and use the output list as input to CTSSYNC (that way, having the volser start in column 1 would be

Re: TSO TRANSMIT of PDS member

2007-02-20 Thread Clark Morris
On 20 Feb 2007 14:33:56 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >Charles wrote on 21/02/2007 08:25:02 AM: > >> Yes, yes, I know, it's always been this way and the documentation says >so. > >Careful fella, you're starting to sound like gil or Radoslaw... ;-) Or me, Clark Morris who has held t

Re: License keys for ISV products

2007-02-20 Thread Knutson, Sam
Many vendors will negotiate to provide master keys without specification of a CPUID in the key. Put your legal and contracts people on it. They both may reasonably require that you have appropriate controls on the keys. This sort of thing is best raised as a requirement before you sign a contrac

Re: IBM System/360 Operating Systems history

2007-02-20 Thread john gilmore
I don't recall if TOS supported overlay structures. That is not an idea whose time has come: loading overlay segments from tape. Not when DASD or crypto-DASD is available; but both IBSYS and TOS supported overlay segments loaded from tape. (Overlays were much more important before the ava

Re: New Level of Dataset Audit Facility (DAF) is Coming Soon

2007-02-20 Thread Eric N. Bielefeld
Michael, I have a question about DAF. Have you ever made DAF so it uses less CPU time? I really like DAF, and found it a great help under certain circumstances. It just seemed that whenever I ran a DAF job, it buried the CPU while the job ran. This was at my last job, where we had an MP300

Re: IBM S/360 series operating systems history

2007-02-20 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 5:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM S/360 series operating systems history TOS was a piece of work! Every time you linkedited a progr

Re: TSO TRANSMIT of PDS member

2007-02-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Charles Mills said: > Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:25:02 -0800 > > This is part of the whole MVS schizophrenia on members IMHO. > > - Does not SVC 99 info retrieval return DSORG=PO for DSN=pds.name(member)? > - Can you not open DSN=pds.name(member) with a BPAM DCB and do F

Re: TSO TRANSMIT of PDS member

2007-02-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Ray Mullins said: > Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:10:35 -0800 > > Just for confirmation, it's always worked that way. > I'll stand corrected. I guess my wishful thinking blurred into my memory. But I'm honored to be grouped with Charles and Radoslaw on such matters. > So

Re: TSO TRANSMIT of PDS member

2007-02-20 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>- Why does DSN=pds.name(member),DISP=(OLD,DELETE) not delete just the member? OTOH, I can issue: DELETE PDS.DATASET.NAME(MEMBER) With IDCAMS, and it does delete just the member! - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IB

Re: IBM S/360 series operating systems history

2007-02-20 Thread Charles Mills
Ah! Mea culpa. You said what I quoted twice, the first time with the qualifier about the loader. In my haste I saw only the second. I think there may have been some other subsetting also. For example, I suspect there was no problem program disk support either. (No "QSAM.") We're on the same page -

Re: IBM S/360 series operating systems history

2007-02-20 Thread Patrick Mulvany
Thanks for all the feedback. Reviewing the information I currently have I realised that I have been approaching the very early OSes in slightly the wrong way and have added a new page covering early OSes on IBM hardware. I will work on merging the new information into the magor timeline shortly.

Re: TSO TRANSMIT of PDS member

2007-02-20 Thread Shane Ginnane
Charles wrote on 21/02/2007 08:25:02 AM: > Yes, yes, I know, it's always been this way and the documentation says so. Careful fella, you're starting to sound like gil or Radoslaw... ;-) Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / s

Re: TSO TRANSMIT of PDS member

2007-02-20 Thread Charles Mills
This is part of the whole MVS schizophrenia on members IMHO. - Does not SVC 99 info retrieval return DSORG=PO for DSN=pds.name(member)? - Can you not open DSN=pds.name(member) with a BPAM DCB and do FIND and BLDL against it? - Why does DSN=pds.name(member),DISP=(OLD,DELETE) not delete just the mem

Re: License keys for ISV products(What alternatives are there?)

2007-02-20 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/19/2007 at 09:35 AM, Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >License keys are a fact of life just like spam. Get over it. You could say the same thing about arson, battery, counterfeiting, DOS attacks, etc. I don't consider it to be a healthy attitude. Improvement

Re: License keys for ISV products(What alternatives are there?)

2007-02-20 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/19/2007 at 08:52 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >But the distribution list for such warnings might ideally include >Accounts Payable personnel who can't even spell "TSO". The messages from others suggest that what is needed is a message to someone to

Re: IBM S/360 series operating systems history

2007-02-20 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/19/2007 at 01:08 PM, Kirk Talman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >IBSYS was the operating system of the IBM 7094 and probably the 7090 >7070 7074. (36 bit word machine) Nope; the 709, 7040, 7044, 9090 and 7094 weree 36 bit machines and ran IBSYS; the 7070, 7072 and 707

Re: License keys for ISV products

2007-02-20 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/19/2007 at 08:39 AM, "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Our biggest problem at our last DR with CA (not their fault) How is an inflexible policy not their responsibility? >was (1) no authorized email account available at the DR site and >(2) the idiot FAX

Re: IBM S/360 series operating systems history

2007-02-20 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/20/2007 at 10:05 AM, "Steele, Phil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >As I recall BPS stood for Basic Programming Support, ( not System) That's certainly true for BPS/360, but the 360/20 was not a S/360 and needed its own software. Are you sure that the 360/20 BPS had th

Re: License keys for ISV products(What alternatives are there?

2007-02-20 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/19/2007 at 12:40 PM, Tony Harminc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >My experience some years ago with a vendor well known to this list >was that our A-P department took the view that a "net 30" contract >meant they should pay 30 days after receipt of the invoice, and not

Re: IBM S/360 series operating systems history

2007-02-20 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/19/2007 at 12:11 PM, Charles Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Only if a tape is essentially the same as a disk! The loader, library routines et al are only a tiny fraction of the code base. >but the SYSRES was on tape! Isn't that what I wrote? "with a tape load

Re: The end of z/OS at this site.

2007-02-20 Thread Howard Brazee
On 20 Feb 2007 13:44:04 -0800, "Bo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Today we shut down and boxed up the z/OS system. It's rolling out the >door. > >Most of the operation got switched to either an AS/400 or VM/VSE >platform. > >It was nice being here. I will lurk a while and then end my >subscription.

Re: z/OS System Cmd Characters

2007-02-20 Thread Kittendorf, Craig
I think the command recognition characters are defined by each product. And some like IMS DB Control, do not show up in D OPDATA. Craig -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: License keys for ISV products(What alternatives are there?

2007-02-20 Thread Jeffrey D. Smith
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Bruce Black > Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 12:14 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: License keys for ISV products(What alternatives are there? > > > > > Possibly the only way t

Re: Defining System SSL

2007-02-20 Thread Jack Kelly
In addition to the SSL support (which I found SC24-5901 did a good job of educating me), you're probably looking at creating a mainframe browser (unless the "CICS facility" performs that feat). IBM HTTP (SC34-4826) is a lot less problematic than our first encounter but it can be interesting. Ja

Re: TSO TRANSMIT of PDS member

2007-02-20 Thread Alan C. Field
gil: It does the whole PDS on 1.6 and 1.8. I just tried. How about: transmit host.user DA('sys1.macllib(splevel)') For a test of something else, I ran the job step: //TOJESEXEC PGM=IKJEFT01 //SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=(,) //SYSTSIN DD * transmit host.user ddname(INDD) outddname(OUTDD)

Re: TSO TRANSMIT of PDS member

2007-02-20 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>MEMBERS(member1 member2 etc) IIRC, memberN only goes up to 8. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MA

Re: CA and zIIPs

2007-02-20 Thread Jim Liebert
There is a nice fairly-introductory article about zIIP and zAAP in the upcoming IBM Journal of Research and Development: http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/511/wyman.html It alludes to an internal secure "switch" to make work eligible on a zAAP - and that this is used by the IBM JVM rather

Re: TSO TRANSMIT of PDS member

2007-02-20 Thread Ray Mullins
Just for confirmation, it's always worked that way. Something else to note: if you want to transmit an individual member to VM/CMS, you also must code SEQ so it doesn't generate an IEBCOPY module. CMS's RECEIVE will say some very not-nice things if you don't code SEQ. Later, Ray -Original

Re: z/OS System Cmd Characters

2007-02-20 Thread Don Imbriale
For details about the API John mentions, see Command Prefix Facility (CPF) in "MVS Authorized Assembler Services Guide" and the associated Reference manual for the CPF macro. Don Imbriale On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:00:11 -0600, McKown, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >There is not a central rep

Re: z/OS developer jobs (was: Literacy)

2007-02-20 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeffrey D. Smith Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 11:06 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: z/OS developer jobs (was: Literacy) You might try SPCI (WWW.SPCI.NET). I know that they do handle dev

Re: z/OS System Cmd Characters

2007-02-20 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark H. Young > Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 2:54 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: z/OS System Cmd Characters > > > OK.I seem to be having another brain-cramp, or else just

Re: TSO TRANSMIT of PDS member

2007-02-20 Thread Tony Harminc
Paul Gilmartin wrote: > transmit host.user ddname(INDD) outddname(OUTDD) > //INDD DD DISP=SHR,DSN=SYS1.MACLIB(SPLEVEL) > The logs and SYSOUT show that TRANSMIT seems to have unloaded > and transmitted all of SYS1.MACLIB, not just SPLEVEL. Has it > always worked (FSVO "work") that way

Re: z/OS System Cmd Characters

2007-02-20 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>You can find all of 'em via the CMD 'D OPDATA' IEFSSNxx? - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN IN

Re: TSO TRANSMIT of PDS member

2007-02-20 Thread Charles Mills
I dunno. I've always done it this way: //SYSTSIN DD * XMIT A.B DSN(pds.name) OUTDS(flat.file) - MEMBERS(member1 member2 etc) Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 12:34 PM

z/OS System Cmd Characters

2007-02-20 Thread Mark H. Young
OK.I seem to be having another brain-cramp, or else just an Alzheimers moment. So tell me, is there a repository on the system somewhere, like parmlib (not there) where all the different command characters are defined.what for to communicate with tasks (subsystems)? Or is that just

Re: 3949 ATL management

2007-02-20 Thread Morris, Carey
Thanks to all for the suggestions (and for not pointing out the mangled model number in the subject header). Carey -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Sponseller Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 12:55 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.E

TSO TRANSMIT of PDS member

2007-02-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin
For a test of something else, I ran the job step: //TOJESEXEC PGM=IKJEFT01 //SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=(,) //SYSTSIN DD * transmit host.user ddname(INDD) outddname(OUTDD) //INDD DD DISP=SHR,DSN=SYS1.MACLIB(SPLEVEL) //OUTDD DD SYSOUT=(,) The logs and SYSOUT show that TRANSMIT

Re: Java 1.4

2007-02-20 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:26:01 -0600, Chase, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mullen, Patrick >> >> Add CBC.SCLBDLL to your linklist. > >Might not hurt to add these three to the linklist: > >CBC.SCCNCMP >CBC.SCLBDLL >CB

Re: Java 1.4

2007-02-20 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mullen, Patrick > > Add CBC.SCLBDLL to your linklist. Might not hurt to add these three to the linklist: CBC.SCCNCMP CBC.SCLBDLL CBC.SCLBDLL2 We also have them APF-authorized. Java runs fine (FSVO "fine"); even t

Re: z/OS developer jobs

2007-02-20 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee > Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 1:23 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: z/OS developer jobs > > > On 20 Feb 2007 11:03:30 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Comstoc

Re: Java 1.4

2007-02-20 Thread Mark Steely
Thanks for your help. That did the job. Thank You -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mullen, Patrick Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 1:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Java 1.4 Add CBC.SCLBDLL to your linklist. ---

Re: z/OS developer jobs

2007-02-20 Thread Howard Brazee
On 20 Feb 2007 11:03:30 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Comstock) wrote: >> Change is good. >> > >Well sure. And big change is better than small change. >And big currency is even better. With some databases, currency is essential.

Re: New Level of Dataset Audit Facility (DAF) is Coming Soon

2007-02-20 Thread Imbriale, Donald (Exchange)
DumpMaster //DMBENAN DD DUMMY Don Imbriale -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 10:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: New Level of Dataset Audit Facility (DAF) is Coming Soon

Re: License keys for ISV products(What alternatives are there?

2007-02-20 Thread Charles Mills
"Net 30" is sometimes specified in the license. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Black Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 11:14 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: License keys for ISV products(What alternatives

Re: z/OS developer jobs

2007-02-20 Thread Steve Comstock
Jeffrey D. Smith wrote: [snip] I, for one, have just about thrown in the towl with respect to finding employment (either regular or contract) as MVS/OS390/zOS product developer. Forget about the so-called "open systems" jobs, like Java or Windows, software development. My last job interview i

Re: Java 1.4

2007-02-20 Thread Mullen, Patrick
Add CBC.SCLBDLL to your linklist. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Steely Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 1:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Java 1.4 We are installing Java 1.4 on z/OS v1r7. When we try to execut

Re: License keys for ISV products(What alternatives are there?

2007-02-20 Thread Bruce Black
Possibly the only way to bring these A-P departments into line is to have a notice in the invoice that says failure to pay promptly means that the product will stop working. Then the invoice should specify immediate payment, not "net 30" or whatever. -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software Develop

Java 1.4

2007-02-20 Thread Mark Steely
We are installing Java 1.4 on z/OS v1r7. When we try to execute the java -version command we are getting the following messages: # java -version CEE3501S The module IOSTREAM was not found. From compile unit /u/sovbld/142/builds/cm142

Re: License keys for ISV products(What alternatives are there?

2007-02-20 Thread Bruce Black
My experience some years ago with a vendor well known to this list was that our A-P department took the view that a "net 30" contract meant they should pay 30 days after receipt of the invoice, and not a day earlier. I think that is an accurate interpretation. The last time I worked for a user

Re: z/OS developer jobs

2007-02-20 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>At my last job, long term planning consisted of having some idea where you'd >eat lunch when you got there in the morning. For over 15 years, I have been snarking: "Planning's 'til lunch"! >NOT a good way to run a IT shop! Unfortunately, many do run that way! - Too busy driving to stop for

Re: z/OS developer jobs

2007-02-20 Thread Rick Fochtman
- I have no idea what I will be doing a year from now. Change is good. -- At my last job, long term planning consisted of having some idea where you'd eat lunch when you got there in the morning.

Re: z/OS developer jobs

2007-02-20 Thread Steve Comstock
Binyamin Dissen wrote: [snip] Change is good. Well sure. And big change is better than small change. And big currency is even better. -Steve Comstock -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send e

Re: 3949 ATL management

2007-02-20 Thread Gary Sponseller
Carey, You could write a GRW program to identify the tape volumes you wish to eject. Then feed those volumes into a CTSSYNC utility run to actually eject each volume from the ATL. Regards, Gary On 20 Feb 2007, at 12:48 PM, Morris, Carey wrote: We have a fairly new 3494 ATL that is about to r

Re: Literacy (was: IBM Sued)

2007-02-20 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
In southern Germany too: three quarters [of] eight = 7.45 (in German: dreiviertel acht). Even people from northern Germany have problems with that, but to me it sounds quite logically, because I grew up with it. Regards Bernd Am Dienstag, 20. Februar 2007 14:25 schrieben Sie: > Not R.S. but

Re: z/OS developer jobs (was: Literacy)

2007-02-20 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:17:43 -0700 Howard Brazee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :>On 20 Feb 2007 09:06:59 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeffrey D. :>Smith) wrote: :>>Now that FLEX-ES is all but history, a small-time z/OS developer like me has :>>no choice but to change careers with no safety-net. If any

Re: 3949 ATL management

2007-02-20 Thread Rugen, Len
CA-1 vault management can select and eject tapes from a 3494. If you could make vault rules to select your "old" tapes, it would work. I've always looked at it from a vault side, IE send G(0) offsite, return G(-1) to live the rest of it's natural life in the 3494. You might be able to select

Re: 3949 ATL management

2007-02-20 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Morris, Carey > Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 11:49 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: 3949 ATL management > > We have a fairly new 3494 ATL that is about to run out of empty tape

Re: Really, really weird problem with IBMLink - PTF ordering

2007-02-20 Thread Tim Henness
That looks like the problem I once had. The problem ended up being our web proxy. (Which I guess is somewhat distinct from the firewall, at least as far as our network security people are concerned.) Tim On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:58:38 -0600, Brian Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm havi

Re: 3949 ATL management

2007-02-20 Thread Mark Pace
RMM has a command to eject tapes. I don't know about CA-1. In ISMF there is also the ability to eject tapes. ISMF - Volume - Mountable Tape On 2/20/07, Morris, Carey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We have a fairly new 3494 ATL that is about to run out of empty tape slots. To make room for more

Re: z/OS developer jobs

2007-02-20 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman > > > I, for one, have just about thrown in the towl with respect > to finding employment (either regular or contract) as > MVS/OS390/zOS product dev

3949 ATL management

2007-02-20 Thread Morris, Carey
We have a fairly new 3494 ATL that is about to run out of empty tape slots. To make room for more scratch tapes, I'd like to eject some of the older lesser used tapes. Is there a utility or command to simplify or automate this process? Does anyone have any other suggestions for insuring plenty o

Re: z/OS developer jobs

2007-02-20 Thread Rick Fochtman
I, for one, have just about thrown in the towl with respect to finding employment (either regular or contract) as MVS/OS390/zOS product developer. Forget about the so-called "open systems" jobs, like Java or Windows, software development. My

Re: IBM S/360 series operating systems history

2007-02-20 Thread Rick Fochtman
-- You have also missed some small relatively insignificant OS's. TPS (Tape Programming System) DPS (Disk Programming System) BPS (Basic Programming System although it might have been CPS for Card) These all run on the System360/20 machines. --

Re: z/OS developer jobs (was: Literacy)

2007-02-20 Thread Howard Brazee
On 20 Feb 2007 09:06:59 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeffrey D. Smith) wrote: >Now that FLEX-ES is all but history, a small-time z/OS developer like me has >no choice but to change careers with no safety-net. If any of you are in >the same boat, I sincerely wish you the best of luck. I would not rec

z/OS developer jobs (was: Literacy)

2007-02-20 Thread Jeffrey D. Smith
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Sam Golob > Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 8:25 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Literacy > > Hi Folks, > >Throughout my career, I was always outside of IBM, except for one >

Re: Access to the internet at DR site was Re: License keys for ISV products(What alternatives are there?)

2007-02-20 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jon Brock > > We added Internet access just last year to our BRS contract > with IBM; software key access was one of the reasons. > > Another reason was that it allowed me to access our home > system in case I was n

Re: Access to the internet at DR site was Re: License keys for ISV products(What alternatives are there?)

2007-02-20 Thread Jon Brock
We added Internet access just last year to our BRS contract with IBM; software key access was one of the reasons. Another reason was that it allowed me to access our home system in case I was needed while I was at the BR test. It also gave access to software manuals if needed. 'Net access is

Re: New Level of Dataset Audit Facility (DAF) is Coming Soon

2007-02-20 Thread Knutson, Sam
Here is my list //ABNLIGNR DD DUMMY ABEND-AID OFF //ESPYIBM DD DUMMY EYE-SPY OFF //CAOESTOP DD DUMMY CA-OPT II & CA-SYMDUMP OFF //IDIOFF DD DUMMY IBM FAULT ANALYZER OFF Thanks, Sam -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EM

Literacy

2007-02-20 Thread Sam Golob
Hi Folks, Throughout my career, I was always outside of IBM, except for one short period, when I worked as a consultant at IBM to relieve the Level 2 queues. At that time, IBM was training its Level 2 people out of college on ONE or (maybe) TWO components of MVS, for 18 months, to get them

Re: literacy

2007-02-20 Thread Howard Brazee
On 20 Feb 2007 06:27:40 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Hawkins) wrote: >Some of them probably cannot even read this e-mail and will never need to, >let alone find it necessary to learn a dead number system that for some >unfathomable reason gets tacked on to the end of movie credits. Not to menti

Re: New Level of Dataset Audit Facility (DAF) is Coming Soon

2007-02-20 Thread Steve Comstock
Michael Cleary wrote: Greetings, This specific error has not been reported by anyone. Can you describe the circumstances when the abend occurs? Can you send me a zip attachment of all of the execution output and we can go from there. Also, adding the following to the execution JCL would be

Re: literacy

2007-02-20 Thread Howard Brazee
On 19 Feb 2007 18:08:58 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (john gilmore) wrote: >> Likewise, I consider teaching Roman numerals a waste of time. >> > >I instead judge anyone who cannot read (and write) Roman numerals >subliterate. Why?If someone doesn't know past, say 100 - is that any less useful

Re: Literacy (was: IBM Sued)

2007-02-20 Thread Howard Brazee
On 20 Feb 2007 04:34:59 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM) wrote: >Correct, Dutch and German do it that way. >I never regarded as keen to see time pass by, but more as "halfway >towards 8 o'clock". This could both be interpreted, comparable to the >glass either being half full or hal

Re: New Level of Dataset Audit Facility (DAF) is Coming Soon

2007-02-20 Thread Michael Cleary
Greetings, I will correct the: DAF613I 080 2007031 13.03.14.43 Unknown Datatype=x"24 If anyone else gets DAF613I messages, let me know so that I can correct them. Cheers... Michael -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: Running OS/390 on z9 BC

2007-02-20 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/09/2007 at 10:12 AM, "Schwarz, Barry A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I don't need to restart the thread on the virtues of keeping current >and using supported hardware and software. I have a very >conservative/non-adventurous/reluctant customer. They may be more ad

Re: RACF Surrogate Authority

2007-02-20 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/12/2007 at 07:19 PM, Jacky Bright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >In case I define XYZ user as surrogate user for ABC then is that >going to work. As long as you specify USERID=ABC. >what implications it will have at system side ? You'll muddy the audit trail. I'd co

Re: RACF Surrogate Authority

2007-02-20 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/12/2007 at 04:23 PM, Itschak Mugzach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >If XYZ need the authority, why shouldn't he get them directly? Because most of the time he doesn't need them. >This way you will know who is using the resource, You'll still know. >It is exactly l

Re: New Level of Dataset Audit Facility (DAF) is Coming Soon

2007-02-20 Thread Michael Cleary
Greetings, This specific error has not been reported by anyone. Can you describe the circumstances when the abend occurs? Can you send me a zip attachment of all of the execution output and we can go from there. Also, adding the following to the execution JCL would be helpful (and anything e

Re: literacy

2007-02-20 Thread Darren Evans-Young
Can well kill this thread please?! Hint, hint... Darren -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua

Re: literacy

2007-02-20 Thread Ron Hawkins
John, Would you be including some of the world's largest education systems, where roman numerals have never been part of the curriculum? There's a lot of smart people on this side of the world that probably wouldn't know a roman numeral if it had a big neon sign on it saying "ROMAN NUMERAL." It

Re: New Level of Dataset Audit Facility (DAF) is Coming Soon

2007-02-20 Thread Michael Cleary
Greetings, These are virtual SMF records created by DAF when it runs to look at things on the system that do not currently have their own SMF records, but from an auditing perspective should. It seems to provide the visibility missing for system datasets that are not opened and closed by jobs

Re: New Level of Dataset Audit Facility (DAF) is Coming Soon

2007-02-20 Thread Don Isenstadt
could you fix the abend SC03 .. we get it fairly consistently at the end... close before subtask termination? -- z/os 1.7 is the os Dataset Audit Facility (DAF) - Level 1.4.7 292 SYSTEM COMPLETION CODE=C03 292 TIME=09.08.22

Re: z/OS 1.7 with JES2 and CA-View

2007-02-20 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Harold Zbiegien > > we have no problems, view 11.0 z/os 1.7 as of Jan 14 and we > migrated first to view 11.0 under z/os 1.4 then a month later to z/os > 1.7 Just learned there may be another ISV product contributin

Re: Literacy (was: IBM Sued)

2007-02-20 Thread Robert Bardos
Not R.S. but R.B. and not Slavic but some Hungarian and (based on what I know from TV) Austrian info: they use "a quarter [of] eight" as well when meaning 7:15, and "three quarters [of] eight)" means 7:45. (Note: the [of] part is my addition for readability) While here in the more or less German s

Re: License keys for ISV products(What alternatives are there?

2007-02-20 Thread David Cole
Receiving Timely Payments My experience some years ago with a vendor well known to this list was that our A-P department took the view that a "net 30" contract meant they should pay 30 days after receipt of the invoice, and not a day earlier. The vendor took the view that they would send out

Re: Literacy (was: IBM Sued)

2007-02-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Chris Mason said: > Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:05:15 +0100 > > Regarding your difficulty with the lady. There are European languages - of a > generally Teutonic persuasion I believe - where the speakers are so keen to > see time pass that they anticipate the approaching h

Re: EMC & GDPS

2007-02-20 Thread Jim Marshall
>Anyone out there using EMC disks and managing the mirroring with GDPS? > >We are about to migrate away from IBM ESS Disks managed by GDPS to EMC >DMX3000 disks managed by GDPS. We are told it works as the DMX emulates >PPRC but we are interested in anyone who is actually doing it. > You might wan

Re: Literacy (was: IBM Sued)

2007-02-20 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
Correct, Dutch and German do it that way. I never regarded as keen to see time pass by, but more as "halfway towards 8 o'clock". This could both be interpreted, comparable to the glass either being half full or half empty, as "only just halfway" or "already halfway". I feel it as the last. Kees.

Re: Literacy (was: IBM Sued)

2007-02-20 Thread Chris Mason
Paul, Regarding your difficulty with the lady. There are European languages - of a generally Teutonic persuasion I believe - where the speakers are so keen to see time pass that they anticipate the approaching hour by starting at the half-way point. Thus, when literally translated, "half eight" me

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2007-02-20 Thread Anthony Bongiorno
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