Rick Fochtman wrote:
[...]
ALL private SVC's and modules
that front-ended or replaced IBM modules had to be provided to us in
source form, with all macros, etc. required for assembly. NDA's were
properly executed and code was provided, or we didn't buy the product.
Period. The entire Systems
Kenneth E Tomiak wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:18:23 -0500, Kelman, Tom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We were informed by CA that the problem has to do with some algorithm
they use to compress the last date accessed. It is date specific.
They next time it would occur if not fixed is January 6,
Can anyone point me to the actual government documents (CMS and DOD)
pertaining to the security requirement for unattended (15 minutes)
connections.
US Government seemly imposed rules are confusing. What I know it comes
from the NIST 800-53 document under the category of AC-12; www.nist.gov
Is there any way to list the TTOC of an HSM ML2 volume that HSM no longer
knows about (but is not scratch)?
While recycling tapes, this particular tape received a IEC148I S713-04 error
and the recycle ended with no datasets moved. HSM then removed the tape
from its inventory. I know why we
Debbie,
Besides posing an ETR to IBM, you might try contacting the folks at
Mainstar.com. You may not be a customer but in the past they would be helpful
anyway. Either way you get a definitive answer.
From: Debbie Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tue
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 10:28 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: IBMLINK Planned outage?
Posters on a Google group called the problems absurd, but a
spokeswoman for
Likewise. ESP site for both. Even got to meet KQ...early eighties 'bout
the best I can do.
Hmmm... must have been someone else Ed, because I joined IBM and SMP/E
in 1987, four years after SMP/E went GA in 1983. At the time in 1987 we
were developing SMP/E Release 5 (you remember, the
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When? I never considered IBM world and its batch environment
timesharing. Timesharing does not do large data processing tasks
well;
(I sent this to the Assembler list, but meant to ask IBM-MAIN - Sorry if
some see it twice)
A question came up in the COBOL newsgroup about records (not blocks, i.e.
LBI) 32K. I know that QSAM doesn't support this. The current Enterprise
COBOL LRM at:
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Anne Lynn Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
with the advent of PCs ... a lot of the cms personal computing migrated
to PCs ... although the (mainframe) virtual
Hi Bill,
In respect of:
Now, although it isn't common, COBOL can use ESDS (rather than QSAM) for
sequential files. I checked the DFSMS manuals and got a BIT confused. It
talked about SPANNED records with records CI/CA, but I couldn't tell if
this meant that you could or could not have an ESDS
Check here under DEFINE CLUSTER and the RECORDSIZE keyword:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DGT1I201/3.13.1.2
?SHELF=DGT1BK24DT=19940412074013CASE=
It says: When you specify a record size that is larger than one control
interval, you must also specify spanned
Don't know about non USA locations but as I recall the first product to ship
with SMP/E support was IMS/VS 1.1.5 at service refresh 7909.
Disclaimer ... The memory is the second thing to go and I forget what
number one is.
Regards
Avram Friedman
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In [EMAIL PROTECTED],
on 06/13/2007
at 08:48 AM, GAVIN Darren * OPS EAS [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
The user defined symbols in JCL are handled by the JES (or
equivalent) facilities
No. They're handled by the Converter.
I suspect there is some callable JES service for it,
No. You might be able
On 19 Jun 2007 06:11:21 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
(Message-ID:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Klein) wrote:
(I sent this to the Assembler list, but meant to ask
IBM-MAIN - Sorry if
some see it twice)
A question came up in the COBOL newsgroup about records
(not blocks, i.e.
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/14/2007
at 04:39 PM, Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Most default/desirable options for the Assembler and the compilers,
etc. could be set at System Generation time,
Yes.
avoiding those long parm strings.
No.
And as I recall, SYS1.JOBQUEUE had a record
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/14/2007
at 06:42 AM, Ed Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
IIRCC they did offer up a way to shorten the verbs so that the 100
character limitation was semi mute.
ITYM moot, and even with abbreviations I ran into the 100 character
limit setting up procs for IBM
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/13/2007
at 06:05 PM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Very few years earlier, nobody could envision a need for an address
space larger than 16 MiB.
Well, I was shocked by the small address size on the S/360, and the
Ferranti Atlas certainly suggested that
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/13/2007
at 05:26 PM, Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Probably because 40+ years ago, when this was designed, nobody in
their wildest dreams could envision a need for a PARM longer than
100 bytes. :-)
Perhaps not, but 39 years ago I ran into issues because of
Don't know about DOD but our security folks were satisfied that the
multi-session product (Supersession in our case) timed out and locked its
session with the physical terminal while allowing the virtual terminal
sessions to remain live. This allows a timed out user to resume where
they left
snip
Can anyone point me to the actual government documents (CMS and DOD)
pertaining to the security requirement for unattended (15 minutes)
connections.
There are two interpretations here:
1) kick the user completely out (CICS TSO)
2) require the user to enter a (Secure Serve Validated)
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 7:46 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Read JCL Symbols from a program?
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/14/2007
at 06:42 AM,
The first two bytes specify the segment length. The next two bytes specify
the segment number of the spanned record. The next 4 bytes are the standard
RDW bytes for the record itself, especially if it is a variable length record.
Take a look at the COBOL file descriptor clause RECORD TYPE IS S
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:24:38 -0600 Jeffrey D. Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:The compilers at http://www.dignus.com/ allow indirection for options.
:Just specify a file name (DD name or data set name) in the PARM=
:string. The compiler reads the file to get the options. Indirection
:completely
You can scan the tape for *CDD** records. Lots of entries for an ML2 tape
but it is a list of all the dsn on the tape. I use FATS, eg
//CDDEXEC FATSCAN,VOLI=205569,UNITI=(3490,,DEFER),TIME=8 0004
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*,OUTLIM=8 0005
//TAPEIN DD
In a message dated 6/19/2007 7:49:54 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hmmm... must have been someone else Ed, because I joined IBM and SMP/E
in 1987, four years after SMP/E went GA in 1983. At the time in 1987 we
Sorry, still foggy from 1455 Mkt. St. Guess it
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 00:25:01 -0500 Anthony Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Has anyone experienced a problem with PDS86 leaving out a chunk of text
from
a LOAD module?
I was looking in .SCEERUN(CEECCICS) to see what was in the CEEEXTAN CSECT.
I
used the LIST subcommand, and because it is quite
An additional view of DBMS memory usage history.
IMS OSAM data base buffer pools were a common pool shared by many data sets
since its introduction. Originally only one block size was supported and
most people chose a value like 6114 to obtain the best disk space
utilization. The reason why IMS
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 9:30 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Read JCL Symbols from a program?
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:24:38 -0600 Jeffrey D. Smith
[EMAIL
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re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html##47 Capacity and Relational Database
for some additional past history
the university i was at was selected to be
I have a rule for when Sender, To, or CC contain IBM-MAIN, which moves
mail to a different Notes folder. since the folder is highlighted when it
contains unread mail, this sort of provides color coding.
Tim Hare
Senior Systems Programmer
Florida Department of Transportation
(850) 414-4209
Sorry about the formatting in this text only newsgroup. However, you
can see it formatted correctly in the Jol Reference Guide at
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~oscarptyltd/Jol_Reference_Guide.pdf.
That said, there is a special command in Jol for storing or saving
symbolic variables for
Thanks,
Curiously, what is the Converter part of, base z/OS services?
An alternative solution might be to push the symbols and values of them
to environment variables (would probably need a special program or exit
for this), then access them in a program with the CEEENV callable LE
service.
I got it to work. Looking at the document properties, The second tab gives
you all the fields defined in the document.
By trial and error I found a field called principal which in my case
contained: IBM-MAIN automatic digest system [EMAIL PROTECTED]. When
I pasted this into the
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:26:23 -0400, Tom Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I use the digest form, but I am pretty sure the principal field contents
the correct value. I pasted in the quotes too. Notes removed them when I
clicked OK.
PRINCIPAL is the sender and is correct field. But it works
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Peter Flass [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, unix is unix (or Linux). The problems come from the basic
design; if you changed the design, it wouldn't be unix.
Mark,
Even when not using digest, the SENDER is still the listserv. The FROM
is the original sender of the message.
Wayne Driscoll
Product Developer
JME Software LLC
NOTE: All opinions are strictly my own.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:02:11 -0400, Wayne Driscoll
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark,
Even when not using digest, the SENDER is still the listserv. The FROM
is the original sender of the message.
Wayne Driscoll
Sorry, I should have been more clear. I am referring to SENDER that
notes uses for
You mean you haven't tried my new time machine? :-)
Sorry, that should have been January 6, 2008.
Tom Kelman
Commerce Bank of Kansas City
(816) 760-7632
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
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Sent: Monday, June 18,
David
I'm paying attention here mainly because VTAM is mentioned.
I wonder exactly what the concern of your VTAM guy is. I don't believe
there are any timing specifications under VTAM control which can affect
established sessions[1]. There is only one which can affect idle
connections, the
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IBMsysProg wrote:
From a software architecture standpoint, Multi Regions, Independent
locking (IRLM), Automated Recovery (DBRC), and DASD Logging became the
We are doing this next weekend :)
I would like to ask the groups about dividing the CP to LP.
We run 4 LPARS in monoplex mode. Our usual weighting is 850 for
Production, 150 for development and 50 each for two sandboxes.
SRM says I have 115 Mips and/or 5612.0659SU/sec Cheryl says more like
104
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:18:32 -0500, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:02:11 -0400, Wayne Driscoll
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark,
Even when not using digest, the SENDER is still the listserv. The FROM
is the original sender of the message.
Wayne Driscoll
But for some
Well,
Technically, the IBMLINK Website contains a news item, dated: June 6, 2007
that says:
This is a reminder about the weekly maintenance hours for IBMLink. Changes
for IBMLink and/or changes to the infrastructure upon which IBMLink is
dependent occur as required between Saturday 9:00 PM
I tried using color a few minutes ago. Wouldn't work. Took Lotus client
down and back up. It now works. PC software - when in doubt, reboot.
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 06/19/2007
03:16:22 PM:
Well... it is working now. I'm not sure why it wasn't before.
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:49:41 -0400, Robert Justice
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
he didn't come right back and say, oh, hey, didn't
you know, that was a planned outage?
seems like he would have known, considering I've been keeping after
him on these web ibmlink issues and I know for a fact that he
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:58:36 -0400, Kirk Talman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried using color a few minutes ago. Wouldn't work. Took Lotus client
down and back up. It now works. PC software - when in doubt, reboot.
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 06/19/2007
If I f***-up, my ass is grass :) I'm hoping for some moral courage :)
Hell, it's only 1.8 bigger and each CP is about 65% of my Uni now. zPCR
says I'm likely to avoid short CPU, but I claim to get paid to worry...
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL
Some techie yelled it over the cubical walls: IBM´Link is coming down for
maintenance!
Some techie yelled it over the cubicle walls: IBM´Link has come down for
maintenance!
--
Phil Payne
http://www.isham-research.co.uk
+44 7833 654 800
It came with a shiny new hard-hat and a footstool also. No rope :(
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Gibney, Dave
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 2:43 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Migration from z/800-0B1 to z9BC-703
There is an enabling PTF for IP NJE support for 1.7. I'm not a work so I
don't know the APAR or PTF number, but I think it became available late last
year. You need to have that on.
J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
I am having problems getting JES2 IP NJE to work
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:42:47 -0700, Gibney, Dave wrote:
If I f***-up, my ass is grass :) I'm hoping for some moral courage :)
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Shane
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 2:29 PM
To:
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:32:21 +0100, Phil Payne wrote:
Some techie yelled it over the cubical walls: IBM´Link is coming down for
maintenance!
Some techie yelled it over the cubicle walls: IBM´Link has come down for
maintenance!
Are you sure this isn't a typo ??? Shouldn't this be IBMLINK
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 14:42 -0700, Gibney, Dave wrote:
If I f***-up, my ass is grass :) I'm hoping for some moral courage :)
Hell, it's only 1.8 bigger and each CP is about 65% of my Uni now. zPCR
says I'm likely to avoid short CPU, but I claim to get paid to worry...
O.K.,I'm going with
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 08:10 +1000, Shane wrote:
That 703 reference makes no sense at all to me.
Aahhh - o.k., now I get it.
Amazing the clarity that first dose of caffeine of the morning
engenders.
Shane ...
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For IBM-MAIN
R.S. wrote:
Rick Fochtman wrote:
[...]
ALL private SVC's and modules that front-ended or replaced IBM
modules had to be provided to us in source form, with all macros,
etc. required for assembly. NDA's were properly executed and code was
provided, or we didn't buy the product. Period. The
snip-
The first two bytes specify the segment length. The next two bytes
specify the segment number of the spanned record. The next 4 bytes are
the standard RDW bytes for the record itself, especially if it is a
variable length record.
Kirk Wolf wrote:
Kenneth E Tomiak wrote:
What are you defining a current JCL symbol to be? Show us an example.
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:17:57 -0500, Kirk Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know how to read the current JCL symbols from a program?
Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies
Thank you Lizette Mark for your response.
Here I added the INDXVOL parameter under the ISFPRM member restarted the
SDSF, now everything is perfect.
Thanks a lot for your help.
Sorry for the delayed response as i was sick.
Thanks
Mohan Vel C.A
-- snip --
When we upgraded to the z9 from a z800, the biggest shock was HSA. 1.4 Gig
for HSA and no warning it would be that bad ??? I read about its impact,
but
never imagined it would be so much. Wiped out a whole LPAR I had planned.
I concentrated on reviewing a paper called Moving to fewer
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 06/20/2007
12:28:12 AM:
-- snip --
When we upgraded to the z9 from a z800, the biggest shock was HSA. 1.4
Gig
for HSA and no warning it would be that bad ??? I read about its impact,
but
never imagined it would be so much. Wiped
I might have to look at capping if we go further down the SCRT and
perhaps zNALC route, but for now, no hard capping.
Rehosing fees are likely to cost one ISV with only one JCL related
product at our site a customer.
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Actually it seems to be my dyslexia :) or at least trying to read upside
down.
It's a z9BC (2096) S07 - L03 ...sorry about the confusion
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