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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't think I ever used CPS, but I might have used CRBE
before Wylbur, and thought that it might have been some of
the inspiration
We're calling an Assembler program that creates RACF PassTickets out of
a REXX exec in AF/Operator. The assembler module resides in a LNKLST
library. Parameter RXSEARCH(REXX) is specified so the REXX libraries are
searched first. Since the module can't be found there, this message is
You could FTP those files to a PC running an FTP server / services, then
copy them to a USB key to take them to the DR site, I suppose.
I think you're going to have a problem determining the number of T1
cartridges you need. If you mix retention on the cartridge, then as you
say you have
Ulrich,
I am not familiar with AF/Operator, however can you change the CALL of
the assembler module to an external REXX function instead?
For example :
x = passtktf(parms,,,)
The passtktf external function can be a wrapper for the actual call to
your PASSTKT program - all it has to do
--snip
We're calling an Assembler program that creates RACF PassTickets out
of a REXX exec in AF/Operator. The assembler module resides in a
LNKLST library. Parameter RXSEARCH(REXX) is specified so the REXX
libraries are searched first. Since the
-snip-
V1.4 and V1.5 go out of service tonight and I was just wondering how
many shops are going to be SOL because the system they are running have
hit EOS?
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I don't think the situation is quite as
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Clark Morris
I hope that you will be trying to convince your management to
send this to your IBM sales representative or higher.
Incidentally how does Innovation's FDR handle this?
I've heard that FDR does not
snip
As you say, we did away with the concept of a Master Console in z/OS R8.
However, prior to that there were still some differences between the
Master Console and a console with Master authority. For example, the
Master Console was the place
For those of you that may be using my ARCHIVER tool: I have FINALLY been
able to isolate the exact nature of a intermittent S0C4 abend during
UNLOAD processing of a load-module library. The Huffman compression
algorithm that I use will sometimes result in record growth, rather than
On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 07:08 -0500, Rick Fochtman wrote:
I hope this means that the subsystem and exit interfaces will be
simplified and/or better documented.
What do you care, I thought you said you were kicking back enjoying a
life of unbridled leisure ??? ... ;-)
So far the console
On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 18:37:42 +, Dave Salt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
The nice thing about having a single product version for all versions of the
operating system is that as customers upgrade their older systems, new
features become available 'automatically' without the customer having to
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On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 07:08 -0500, Rick Fochtman wrote:
I hope this means that the subsystem and exit interfaces will be
simplified and/or better documented.
What do you care, I thought you said you were kicking back enjoying a
life of
In a recent note, Mark Zelden said:
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 07:47:29 -0500
On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 18:37:42 +, Dave Salt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The nice thing about having a single product version for all versions of th
e
operating system is that as customers upgrade their older
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Walker
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 8:24 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: US Airways badmouths legacy system
snip
Watch for lots of wrap.
US Airways partly blames legacy
Mark Zelden wrote:
Force a load by browsing a FILE in ISPF that is ASCII (well, it doesn't
even have to be ASCII) and from the browse command line type:
DISPLAY UTF8
Then do a D UNI,ALL command again from the console.,
Mark,
I tried to display the ASCII file that I FTP'd in binary but it only
Hi Bob
Thanks for your time :-)
You were wright of course, R7=Changed Jobcard R9= SAVED Jobcard
Sometime one is just blind :-(
You wrote :
I'm afraid JES2 is using JCTJNAME to fill in $HASP100 and you haven't changed
that.
I searched the $JCT(in fact the whole maclib) and the JCTJNAME Field
snip
IOW: We're too stupid to update our legacy systems to use modern
technologies, so the mainframe is junk. typical.
/snip
The following observations come to mind.
1) Clueless Pointy Haired Boss (PHB)
2) Management by Airline Magazine (Ironic, isn't it?)
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John
snip
IOW: We're too stupid to update our legacy systems to use
modern technologies, so the mainframe is junk. typical.
Witness IBMLink
-jc-
In a message dated 4/2/2007 8:44:16 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1) Clueless Pointy Haired Boss (PHB)
2) Management by Airline Magazine (Ironic, isn't it?)
Pretty much human nature. Badmouth what you don't know or care about so as
to rationalize current
On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:28:20 -0400, Harold Zbiegien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We are planning to implement a 100% virtual tape solution (VSM from STK)
with backend T1 drives in a STK silo. We will have NO real tape drives
attached to our z/OS 1.7 system. (I wasn't actively involved in the
Guys and Gals,
You are making it all more complicated than the question. Eric B. came
closest to answering the question and even he didn't because his answer
was about a place he used to work at.
Simple question: Are you still running V1.5 now that it is EOS?
And for Chris Craddock, this is a
On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 09:01 -0500, Blaicher, Chris wrote:
Simple question: Are you still running V1.5 now that it is EOS?
Yep. Up until January we had a 7060 and couldn't install anything past
1.5. Now that we have one of those Baby Computers we're planning the
1.8 upgrade.
--
David Andrews
We are still running z/OS 1.5 on an IBM 7060 H30.
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From: Blaicher, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: How many sites still on V1.5 or earlier?
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 09:01:19 -0500
Guys and Gals,
You are making it
All true, except when the software vendor is keeping track internally of
GDG numbers and names, and is dynamically generating the JCL to create
these datasets. We were told by the vendor that it is 1 dataset per
tape due to their dynamic JCL generation and it won't be changing. Yes,
I'd LOVE to
Mark,
It works only with 1.7 and above.
Atenciosamente / Regards / Saludos
Ituriel do Nascimento Neto
Banco Bradesco S/A
4254/DPCD Alphaville
Engenharia de Software - Sistemas Operacionais Mainframes
Tel: 55 11 4197-2021 Fax: 55 11 4197-2814
-Mensagem original-
De: IBM
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 14:36:45 +0100, Van Dalsen, Herbie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Zelden wrote:
Force a load by browsing a FILE in ISPF that is ASCII (well, it doesn't
even have to be ASCII) and from the browse command line type:
DISPLAY UTF8
Then do a D UNI,ALL command again from the
From: Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I admit I don't like ISV products that
seem to require a version upgrade with every OS upgrade
If a vendor keeps his products up-to-date with the latest OS, and has logic
to ensure he doesn't try to run features that aren't available in an earlier
OS, I
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
Anne Lynn Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
my RFC index
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietff.htm
in the RFCs listed by section, click on TERM
On 1 Apr 2007 17:15:42 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy
Sipples) wrote:
I wish the press and experts would be a little more precise and stop using
the word system. To most people, system means hardware.
I doubt that very much.
Does anyone experience with Omegamon to monitor their system
and send a message to the Z/OS master console if a problem occurs?
we would like to Z/OS to then pickup the message and perform an automation
like contacting an operator or dialing a beeper.
Tony Santo
nationalgrid Company
315
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 14:55:39 +, Dave Salt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I admit I don't like ISV products that
seem to require a version upgrade with every OS upgrade
If a vendor keeps his products up-to-date with the latest OS, and has logic
to ensure he
Thanks, Seymour. I responded to the listserve.
-Original Message-
From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 10:44 AM
To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
Cc: Richard Zierdt
Subject: Re: Question about SuperWylbur
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on
We are v1.4, however the system will be shutdown in the July timeframe.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Blaicher, Chris
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 11:11 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: How many sites still on V1.5 or
From: Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Again, you are over simplifying and probably thinking about how you
handle this for your ISPF product, which could really be considered more of
an
application than system software.
You're probably right. I do tend to 'simplify' everything. It's in my
At Lands End, about 3 weeks ago they converted the 2nd system from 1.4 to
1.7. They definitely didn't want to be unsupported.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
414-475-7434
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From: Blaicher, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups:
Tim Burkart wrote:
I using ICETOOL for an SMF report but am having difficulty getting the
CPU TIME fields to display. The DATE and TIME fields print fine with
the DT1 and TM1 mask respectively but I cannot
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Clark Morris
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 12:59 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: 3490 off maintenance June 30 2007
On 2 Apr 2007 07:19:16 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pommier, Rex
R.)
Giovanni Santuz wrote:
...
I searched the $JCT(in fact the whole maclib) and the JCTJNAME Field is not
available any more
Sure it is, but you won't find it by searching for it by name. The $JCT macro
calls $SPID which generates the label.
I suggest you assemble HASPDOC and keep the
We just moved to z/OS Release 1.7 and a zBox 703 the below field is reporting
incorrectly
CPU utilization 0% (incorrect)
CPU 2094-S08 ( 3 CPUs) correct
Any intelligence on this?
Bob Cosby
USDA NFC
Enterprise Storage Group
Mainframe and Open Systems
SEB (Systems Engineering
Are you running TASID version 5.11? Do not know about zOS 1.7, but works
as advertised on zOS 1.8.
Thanks,
Fletch (317) 817-3545
SNIP
We just moved to z/OS Release 1.7 and a zBox 703 the below field is
reporting incorrectly
CPU utilization 0% (incorrect)
CPU 2094-S08 ( 3 CPUs)
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 22:31:36 +1000, Shane [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
...
So far the console restructure has caused me significant grief getting
all the ducks to line up. Getting up to date with all the vendors so the
tracking violations go away leads to a broken system.
Workarounds I've got -
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick O'Keefe
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 2:16 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: What makes MASTER CONSOLE unique?
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 22:31:36 +1000, Shane [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have IMS running on (almost) all my systems, with no WTORs. Must be a
configurable thing.
Maybe. There had been no choice for aeons.
I'll check with our service provider.
-
Too busy driving to stop for gas!
--
For
Just ran into an interesting one for the first time.
I have a batch job that allocates temp datasets (e.g.
SYS07091.T040006.RA000.IOALDNRS.SORTIN.H01).
The same jobname ran on two of my systems at the same time (different
plex but shared DASD so this is allowed).
I can understand this happening
At 01:20 -0400 on 03/31/2007, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote about Re:
[Fwd: The Complete April Fools' Day RFCs]:
At 14:55 -0600 on 03/30/2007, Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote about Re:
[Fwd: The Complete April Fools' Day RFCs]:
my RFC index
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietff.htm
in the RFCs listed
We are running Version 5.06c, sounds like I need a newer version.
Is 5.11 the most current?
IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU@inter2 4/2/2007 2:09:21 PM
Are you running TASID version 5.11? Do not know about zOS 1.7, but works
as advertised on zOS 1.8.
Thanks,
Fletch (317) 817-3545
SNIP
We just moved
I have V 5.12. There was discussion about it here recently. Apparently
support for it has picked up by the Australian development people.
We are running Version 5.06c, sounds like I need a newer version.
Is 5.11 the most current?
on zos 1.7 1.8 we have
TASID 5.12 - Compiled at 11.42 on 05/24/06
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 04/02/2007
04:59:32 PM:
We are running Version 5.06c, sounds like I need a newer version.
Is 5.11 the most current?
-
The
See pp. 12-97ff of the z/OS MVS JCL reference, SA22-7597-08, for full
information:
--snip--
Data Set Name for Temporary Data Set
A temporary data set is a data set that you create and delete within a job.
(For information about coding data set names with the DD *, DATA, and
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 16:58:40 -0400, Ken Porowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just ran into an interesting one for the first time.
I have a batch job that allocates temp datasets (e.g.
SYS07091.T040006.RA000.IOALDNRS.SORTIN.H01).
The same jobname ran on two of my systems at the same time (different
In a recent note, Ken Porowski said:
Subject: Duplicate temp DSN
The same jobname ran on two of my systems at the same time (different
plex but shared DASD so this is allowed).
I can understand this happening in this case but it got me to wondering
if the same could happen to STC's
Steven Conway wrote:
The only WTORs I see are NetView.
You can eliminate the NetView reply by setting CMDWTOR=NO on MVSPARM in
member DSIDMNK.
http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0301L=ibm-mainP=R11006I=1
--
Edward E Jaffe
Phoenix Software International, Inc
5200 W Century Blvd, Suite
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 16:32:20 -0400, Steven Conway
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hmm. I have IMS running on (almost) all my systems, with no
WTORs. Must
be a configurable thing.
The only WTORs I see are NetView.
...
It's optional in NetView, too. It's been optional for quite a few
releases. But
Sorry if you see this twice, I realized I sent it to the newsgroup
rather than to the listserv.
--
Richard
Steven Conway wrote:
Hmm. I have IMS running on (almost) all my systems, with no WTORs. Must
be a configurable thing.
The only WTORs I see are NetView.
You can eliminate the
If you have Omegamon XE running, you can issue a console command when
specified situations are true.
We issue a fake command, AOWTO, followed by text. This command is
defined in Netview's command management facility, so Netview picks off
the message before it ever gets to Console. In our case,
I ran into this about four years ago. This might help you. Using
DSN=FOO instead of omitting DSN can cause duplicates that would
otherwise not occur.
--
=KADEN, RALPH H ...-5752SC1B4 - 02/12/19-18:25-
Hi, Sam,
Hello folks,
I've installed a new version of TSSO from the CBT474 file 404
(UPDATE) under zOS v1.8. For every reply (made from theTSSO) I get:
ERB305I ZZ : CACHE -- MEMBER
ERB305I ZZ : MEMBER(XX) -- EXEC
(TSSO AOF): 12,GO
R 12,GO
*012 ERB306D ZZ : REPLY WITH OPTIONS OR GO
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