Re: Missing JOBLOG information

2007-06-27 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)
Any chance SYSLOG is setup to *not* recieve Route Code 11 WTOs on the new system? Check with D C,HC. Peter Hunkeler CREDIT SUISSE -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: Unable to compile Java - iconv_init problem

2007-06-27 Thread Nagesh
Hi all, I have been told that there is some issue with Unicode implementation that would be resolved soon. A TON of thanks to everyone who participated in this discussion !! Regards, Nagesh. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Testing System Programmer Capabilities

2007-06-27 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:44:52 -0500 Kenneth E Tomiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:15:15 -0500, Patrick O'Keefe :[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :I not only agree, I get a very uncomfortable feeling just hearing :about the excercise. I know I'm more paranoid than most, but if :I

Re: What do you call something like QMF?

2007-06-27 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:03:57 +0200 Lindy Mayfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :Is there a word or term for how a product like QMF works that is started from ISPF but seems to take over the whole terminal? Could someone say briefly what technically is going on there? A TSO full screen program.

Re: Testing System Programmer Capabilities

2007-06-27 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 6/27/07, Kenneth E Tomiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this company being asked to test the SysProgs is legit, they could always corrupt their own system, then back up the dump to tape and ask the SysProg to shoot the bug they caused by doing unnatural acts. Those things get much less

Re: How to get a list of datasets recalled by HSM?

2007-06-27 Thread FRASER, Brian
snip HSM Function Statistics Records (FSR) which are written to SMF as type 241. unsnip This is only correct if you have SETSYS SMF(240) If you issue QUERY SETSYS and look for SMFID= it will tell you the SMF record type for the statistics records at your shop. Add 1 to find the

Re: Utility to print tracks

2007-06-27 Thread Bill Wilkie
Alan: Here's the JCL for adrdssu: //S0 EXEC PGM=ADRDSSU,REGION=0M //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //DASD DD UNIT=3390,VOL=(PRIVATE,SER=volser),DISP=OLD //SYSIN DD * PRINT TRACKS(,00,0020,14) INDDNAME(DASD) /* The format for the tracks parameter is from hh to hh. The sample above

MVC tape damaged - what to do

2007-06-27 Thread R.S.
STK tape environmnet, HSC and VTCS at level 6.1 Due to drive error an MVC tape was damaged. It was manually removed by HW enigeneer. Fortunately all the VTVs are written in two copies - another MVC exist (in another ACS in another location). Q: how to 'fix' it ? I mean: 1. To tell VTCS and

Re: MVC tape damaged - what to do

2007-06-27 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... STK tape environmnet, HSC and VTCS at level 6.1 Due to drive error an MVC tape was damaged. It was manually removed by HW enigeneer. Fortunately all the VTVs are written in two copies - another MVC exist (in another ACS in

Re: RMM Housekeeping( EDGHSKP) get EDG2303E and S913

2007-06-27 Thread Mike Wood
Jason, The EDG2303E is issued by the DFRMM subsystem address space. Places to look for more information; SYSLOG SMF RACF records MESSAGE file specified in the EDGHSKP job which failed as a result; EDGHSKP related process can add extra information about the error, such as - as a result of the

Re: Utility to print tracks

2007-06-27 Thread Stan Swain
-snip I'm scratching at some dead brain cells. I'm thinking there was some utility, IBM or ISV, I had at some point that I could supply a TTR address for some volume and print what was at that address. Does this ring a bell with anyone?

Re: What do you call something like QMF?

2007-06-27 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:19:28 +0300, Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:03:57 +0200 Lindy Mayfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :Is there a word or term for how a product like QMF works that is started from ISPF but seems to take over the whole terminal? Could someone

Re: Utility to print tracks

2007-06-27 Thread Darth Keller
Here's the JCL for adrdssu: //S0 EXEC PGM=ADRDSSU,REGION=0M //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //DASD DD UNIT=3390,VOL=(PRIVATE,SER=volser),DISP=OLD //SYSIN DD * PRINT TRACKS(,00,0020,14) INDDNAME(DASD) /* The format for the tracks parameter is from hh to hh. The sample above will

Re: Missing JOBLOG information

2007-06-27 Thread Rugen, Len
I had a D C in the syslog (below) from the time when the bad system was running, and it says ALL. Thanks for the idea. So far all I found was a bad VOLSER in a PARMLIB pointer in the IPLPARM member, but it doesn't seem to have mattered. It was for SYS1.IBM.PARMLIB and pointed to a volume that

Re: What do you call something like QMF?

2007-06-27 Thread Lindy Mayfield
I also ran across something called a CP... So I would have to write all the 3270 stuff myself, or I would use PUTLINE? As a follow-up, if (hypothetically) I write my own TSO full screen program, do I get the WLM transaction boundaries automatically just because I'm running in TSO, or do I

Re: Utility to print tracks

2007-06-27 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Alan Schwartz I'm scratching at some dead brain cells. I'm thinking there was some utility, IBM or ISV, I had at some point that I could supply a TTR address for some volume and print what was at that address.

Re: Finally get to go from os390 2.10 to zOS 1.8

2007-06-27 Thread Kelman, Tom
Boy, those going from OS/390 V2R10 to z/OS V1R8 are making a pretty big leap. We went from z/OS 1.4 to 1.7 and we're told we couldn't go directly to 1.8. How are you able to skip so many releases? Tom Kelman Commerce Bank of Kansas City (816) 760-7632 -Original Message- From: IBM

Damaged Catalog Alert

2007-06-27 Thread Alan Schwartz
We had a catalog break a little yesterday. First symptoms were an svc dump and a cluster of messages like: DUMP TITLE=CAS DYNAMIC DUMP-IGG0CLEG RC26 RSN8 IEC331I 026-008(21080018),CA0877 ,$ISDREXX,IGG0CLEG IEC331I CATALOG.MISC.UCAT IEC332I GETO,GFL ,ICDV,ACD1 IEC333I

Re: Damaged Catalog Alert

2007-06-27 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Alan, On what release of Z/os did this happen? From: Alan Schwartz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 6/27/2007 8:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Damaged Catalog Alert We had a catalog break a little yesterday. First symptoms were an svc dump and a

Re: What do you call something like QMF?

2007-06-27 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:03:57 +0200, Lindy Mayfield wrote: Is there a word or term for how a product like QMF works that is started from ISPF but seems to take over the whole terminal? I would call it a poorly designed ISPF application. -- Tom Marchant

Re: Damaged Catalog Alert

2007-06-27 Thread David Andrews
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 07:50 -0500, Alan Schwartz wrote: Our Storage group worked with Dino Software and we were able to get the catalog fixed. Y'know, that's not the first time I've read that. You have to like those Dino guys. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Damaged Catalog Alert

2007-06-27 Thread Alan Schwartz
UA33288 is available for z/OS 1.7 and UA33289 is for z/OS 1.8 IBM updated the APAR last night to include the HIPER flag. The only keyword flag is DATALOSS. I've also suggested that they add ECSHARING as I thought that was a standard for all ECS issues. Alan O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT)

Re: Missing JOBLOG information

2007-06-27 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:24:00 -0500, Rugen, Len wrote: Missing are: ICH70001I $HASP373 IEF403I All IEFACTRT messages IEF404I $HASP395 Sounds like you don't have your IEFACTRT exit active. Did you check? Also sounds like you don't have MONITOR JOBNAMES active. -- Tom Marchant

Re: What do you call something like QMF?

2007-06-27 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:08:34 -0500 Tom Marchant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:03:57 +0200, Lindy Mayfield wrote: :Is there a word or term for how a product like QMF works that is :started from ISPF but seems to take over the whole terminal? :I would call it a poorly designed

Re: MVC tape damaged - what to do

2007-06-27 Thread Roach, Dennis
We have had this happen on occasion Flag the MVC as lost and read only. Drain the MVC with the eject option.. MVCMAINT MVC(xx) READONLY(ON) MVCMAINT MVC(xx) LOST(ON) MVCDRAIN CONMVC(2) MVC(xx) EJECT Dennis Roach United Space Alliance 600 Gemini Avenue Mail Code

Re: Utility to print tracks

2007-06-27 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:51:39 -0400, Robert Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Schwartz wrote on 2007-06-26 17:59:53: I'm scratching at some dead brain cells. I'm thinking there was some utility, IBM or ISV, I had at some point that I could supply a TTR address for some volume and print

Re: MVC tape damaged - what to do

2007-06-27 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:36:37 +0200, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: STK tape environmnet, HSC and VTCS at level 6.1 Due to drive error an MVC tape was damaged. It was manually removed by HW enigeneer. Fortunately all the VTVs are written in two copies - another MVC exist (in another ACS in another

Re: What do you call something like QMF?

2007-06-27 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:44:59 -0500, Sebastian Welton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't forget that you don't need to run it from the TSO ISPF interface (which also requires GDDM) AFAIK, QMF hasn't required GDDM in a long time. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team

Re: What do you call something like QMF?

2007-06-27 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 6/27/2007 8:43:25 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AFAIK, QMF hasn't required GDDM in a long time. QMF is a DB/2 application that gives the user a hybrid interface to their data. Under TSO/ISPF it mostly just uses ISPF services to return the

JCTJSUID

2007-06-27 Thread Steve Emson
Given the JES2 installation exits manual, exit 53, point of processing section, says The JCT has been initialized with the JES2 and installation defaults; in addition, those fields of the JCT that correspond to JOB statement parameters other than accounting field parameters have been set. I

Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread Alan Schwartz
Has anyone compiled a list of all the DD DUMMY ddnames used to dynamically disable various products? I want to generate a comprehensive jcl set that I can include if I want to make sure I'm running 100% IBM code when troubleshooting some problems. For instance I know that ABNLIGNR disables

Re: What do you call something like QMF?

2007-06-27 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:29:44 +0300, Binyamin Dissen wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:08:34 -0500 Tom Marchant wrote: :On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:03:57 +0200, Lindy Mayfield wrote: :Is there a word or term for how a product like QMF works that is :started from ISPF but seems to take over the whole

Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread Fletcher, Kevin
Alan, For Softworks (Performance Essential) is //PSPOFF DD DUMMY Thanks, Fletch SNIP Has anyone compiled a list of all the DD DUMMY ddnames used to dynamically disable various products? I want to generate a comprehensive jcl set that I can include if I want to make sure I'm running

Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread Eric Spencer
This went around the list a couple of months ago. Here is what I have //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 //DMBENAN DD

Re: Utility to print tracks

2007-06-27 Thread Robert Wright
Mark Zelden wrote on 2007-06-27 09:36:19: Can you provide an example or more detail please of how to do this with IPCS? OK, here's output from a session that I cranked up a few moments ago: setd dsn('rlw.saveddir') local IPCS open dsn IKJ56650I TIME-10:33:16 AM. CPU-00:00:01 SERVICE-36182864

Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread Alan Schwartz
I had searched the archives going back to 2004 and didn't find anything. It occurs to me that I used DD DUMMY. Perhaps I should also have tried DD DUMMY (two spaces instead of one). Alan Eric Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU 06/27/2007

Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread Steve Comstock
Alan Schwartz wrote: I had searched the archives going back to 2004 and didn't find anything. It occurs to me that I used DD DUMMY. Perhaps I should also have tried DD DUMMY (two spaces instead of one). Alan You're kidding, right? Are you sure your group couldn't use some training? How

Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread Alan Schwartz
I was serious Steve. I wasn't saying that in the real jcl the number of spaces is important, but when searching archives it could be. If Eric Spencer was right and it was covered previously then I somehow missed it and I was trying to figure out how. That was the first thing that came to

Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 9:57 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products Alan Schwartz wrote: I had searched the archives going

Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread Bill Wilkie
Kevin: I suppose most functionality will stop so you may be OK but I wonder though it may disable the functionality of the product, ISV exits may still be in use so I don't know if you could say with 100% certainty that NO vendor code is being executed. I mention this because at one time I

Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread Steve Comstock
Kelman, Tom wrote: Uh, Steve, Alan isn't talking about how to set up JCL. He's talking about searching the archives for information on DD DUMMY statements to turn off products, and that's not quite as free form. I think Alan knows how to set up the JCL. Oh dopey me. That makes more sense,

Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:47:11 -0500, Alan Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had searched the archives going back to 2004 and didn't find anything. It occurs to me that I used DD DUMMY. Perhaps I should also have tried DD DUMMY (two spaces instead of one). Alan Alan - on the search page it

Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread Gary Green
No, I do not, nor heard of any others doing it. However, it is one of those DUH!, forehead-slapping moments. Great idea! On Wed Jun 27 9:13 , Alan Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: Has anyone compiled a list of all the DD DUMMY ddnames used to dynamically disable various products? I want

Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread Bill Wilkie
Alan: John is correct. Also, Since you never know how many spaces will exist between the DD and the word Dummy, but I imagine DUMMY in this context will mostly be followed by a space, why not DUMMYb where the b is a blank? Unless there could be a comma followed by a dcb? Just a thought

Re: Finally get to go from os390 2.10 to zOS 1.8

2007-06-27 Thread Mark H. Young
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 07:35:00 -0500, Kelman, Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Boy, those going from OS/390 V2R10 to z/OS V1R8 are making a pretty big leap. We went from z/OS 1.4 to 1.7 and we're told we couldn't go directly to 1.8. How are you able to skip so many releases? Tom Kelman Commerce

Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread Fletcher, Kevin
Bill, You make a very accurate statement. When I was working with the vendor on a problem they had me put some special DD's to trace the operation of Softworks (Performance Essential). Even though I had the product disabled it still had to execute the vendor code to see it did not need to do the

Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:11:52 +, Bill Wilkie wrote: Kevin: I suppose most functionality will stop so you may be OK but I wonder though it may disable the functionality of the product, ISV exits may still be in use so I don't know if you could say with 100% certainty that NO vendor code is

Re: What do you call something like QMF?

2007-06-27 Thread Mark H. Young
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:18:40 +0200, Lindy Mayfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also ran across something called a CP... So I would have to write all the 3270 stuff myself, or I would use PUTLINE? Lindy A *CP* would be a TSO Command Processor (program), right?! And YES, it might do full-screen

An apology

2007-06-27 Thread Steve Comstock
I would like to go beyond my off hand little apology a few minutes ago and apologize to the list for my post responding to Alan Schwartz. The post was in bad taste and inappropriate for the list and for Alan. And, it clearly reflected that it was I who did not understand the point of discussion.

Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread Ed Gould
On Jun 27, 2007, at 9:57 AM, Steve Comstock wrote: Alan Schwartz wrote: I had searched the archives going back to 2004 and didn't find anything. It occurs to me that I used DD DUMMY. Perhaps I should also have tried DD DUMMY (two spaces instead of one). Alan You're kidding, right?

IMS Question on disassembling screens formats

2007-06-27 Thread Stocker, Herman
G'day List, I've been told that IMS has a utility that can create the source from the modules in the format and/or referal libraries. Would anyone know it's name, or have some JCL they could share with me? Thank you. Regards, Herman Stocker Technical Specialist Data Center Operations avis

Re: The Development of the Vital IBM PC in Spite of the Corporate Culture of IB

2007-06-27 Thread Howard Brazee
On 27 Jun 07 10:15:50 -0800, Charlie Gibbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Few monitors of the time did display all colours correctly. A friend's criterion was to check whether it would display a proper brown. Most of them came out red. TV companies have found that most customers would rather buy TVs

Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread Rick Fochtman
snip I had searched the archives going back to 2004 and didn't find anything. It occurs to me that I used DD DUMMY. Perhaps I should also have tried DD DUMMY (two spaces instead of one). Alan You're kidding, right? Steve, No he wasn't

Re: What do you call something like QMF?

2007-06-27 Thread Rick Fochtman
--snip-- I also ran across something called a CP... So I would have to write all the 3270 stuff myself, or I would use PUTLINE? A *CP* would be a TSO Command Processor (program), right?! And YES, it might do full-screen stuff, utilizing the PUTLINE

Re: An apology

2007-06-27 Thread Darth Keller
I would like to go beyond my off hand little apology a few minutes ago and apologize to the list for my post responding to Alan Schwartz. The post was in bad taste and inappropriate for the list and for Alan. And, it clearly reflected that it was I who did not understand the point of discussion.

Re: An apology

2007-06-27 Thread Alan Schwartz
Group, I email to Steve personally but I just want to re-iterate that it was just a misunderstanding. NBD. Let's get back to good stuff and make sure my list of DD DUMMY (one space) is as complete as we can make it. Alan Steve Comstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread Greg Shirey
He's apologized twice for misunderstanding the post, and appearing to be flip. Was this ad hominem really necessary? Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 11:45 AM No he wasn't

Putting data in the SMF 110 record user area

2007-06-27 Thread Kelman, Tom
I know that this isn't a CICS listserv, but maybe someone out there is a CICS guru. My CICS sysprog is trying to get some data into the user area of the SMF 110 record so I can use it in capacity planning. He has coded the appropriate exit based on his understanding of what the manuals say he

RES: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread ITURIEL DO NASCIMENTO NETO
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Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread Neubert, Kevin (DIS)
I don't believe SEA's PDSFAST has been mentioned. It's NPDSFAST. Regards, Kevin -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Schwartz Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 7:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Dynamically Disabling ISV

Re: MSYS

2007-06-27 Thread Edward Jaffe
Joe Peresich wrote: I've seen some discussions of MSYS on the list, but is anyone aware if MSYS can be used to replace the network logging function of NetView? We're running z/os1.4 at present. We'd like to discontinue NetView but would like to have the CS/VTAM/NCP PPO logging function that it

Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
The Computer Associates' product ASM2 recognizes several DD DUMMY statements to disable various features. The general form of the DDNAME is X$abbbN. The a specifies the scope: J for job, S for step, and I for immediate (TSO). The bbb specifies the option affected: X37, 26J, IXR, UJI, USI, S99,

Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread Rajesh Dharia
Hi Listers, Don't know if anyone has already mentioned for CA- Hyperbuf. It is : //CAHBEXCL DD DUMMY bypass CA- Hyperbuf Thanks, Raj

CA-OPS/MVS use of OPSCAWTO - any takers?

2007-06-27 Thread McKown, John
Has anybody out there sent an SNMP trap to CA-Unicenter for display using the OPSCAWTO function? We are being tasked to monitor our z/OS system and jobs using BMC's Mainview/Alert then use CA-OPS/MVS to trap the messages sent by BMC to forward them to CA-Unicenter. Yes, I know there is a CA

Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread Mark H. Young
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:30:39 -0500, Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Might I make so bold as to suggest this: that the list of disabling DD statements be forwarded to Sam and Sam, for inclusion on the CBTTAPE web site? That seems to me to be a good place for general reference, as well as a

Re: JCTJSUID

2007-06-27 Thread Dave Danner
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:50:44 -0500, Steve Emson [EMAIL PROTECTED] TCS.COM wrote: Given the JES2 installation exits manual, exit 53, point of processing section, says The JCT has been initialized with the JES2 and installation defaults; in addition, those fields of the JCT that correspond to JOB

Re: What do you call something like QMF?

2007-06-27 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
Rick Fochtman wrote: Making your application a ISPF application would probably be a LOT easier Panel design is much easier. Perhaps. I worked for an ISV, and for one application we had this bright idea to generate screens dynamically, based on device geometry and usage. In practice

Re: Finally get to go from os390 2.10 to zOS 1.8

2007-06-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/26/2007 at 11:41 AM, John Mattson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Opened a log with IBM, and they say that the problem is that this is dependant upon zOS' version of pax which is dependant upon a bunch of other stuff in USS. Chances are that Unix System

Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules

2007-06-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/20/2007 at 08:33 PM, Phil Smith III [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: USS is the (I believe) accepted acronym (or at least abbreviation, if you say you ess ess rather than us) for MVS, OS/390, and z/OS UNIX System Services. IBM posted a message here claiming

Re: PARMLIB(s) (Was: how to list LE options)

2007-06-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/21/2007 at 02:58 PM, Tom Savor [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Funny how it's ok for SYSPROGs to cruise Applications and tell us what needs to be changed or how to tune our application (when we didn't ask for their opinion), but it's not ok for us to cruise your PARMLIB

Re: Off Topic But Concept should be Known To All

2007-06-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/21/2007 at 01:13 PM, Barkow, Eileen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Was not the basis of VM/CMS to allow each user their own self-contained operating system? Even in the CP/67 days there were facilities for cooperation among virtual machines. There was a time when I

Re: SVC vs APF and other 'privileged' code

2007-06-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/21/2007 at 11:02 PM, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: From time to time I read on the list about companies which demand ISVs to provide source code for SVC routines to analyze it from security point of view. While I don't know to much about z/OS 'guts', I'm wondering

Re: SVC vs APF and other 'privileged' code

2007-06-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/21/2007 at 06:30 PM, Craddock, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Yes again. What amazes me about this is that the developers of these abominations often spend more effort doing it wrong than it takes to do it right. It's the way we've always done it. -- Shmuel

Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules

2007-06-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/22/2007 at 05:54 PM, Phil Smith III [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: That raises an interesting thought -- Linux for z/OS could mean a z/Linux [yeah, yeah, I'm not an IBMer, I can use that term] that exists to communicate with a z/OS machine. Exists to or just is able to?

Re: Relationship of TBDISPL to row displayed

2007-06-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/22/2007 at 07:11 PM, David Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Subject: Relationship of TBDISPL to row displayed 1. Please excerpt the relevant code. 2. You might consider taking a course in ISPF dialog development. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT

Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:20:56 +, Bill Wilkie wrote: Also, Since you never know how many spaces will exist between the DD and the word Dummy, but I imagine DUMMY in this context will mostly be followed by a space, why not DUMMYb where the b is a blank? Unless there could be a comma followed by

Re: SVC vs APF and other 'privileged' code

2007-06-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/22/2007 at 08:41 AM, Wayne Driscoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Note that in 1 it is the jobstep program (and only the jobstep program) that should and must be linked with AC(1). The only VALID way that the JSCBAUTH bit will be set for a job step TCB is if the above

Re: Why do we need BPXBATCH, JZOS et. al.?

2007-06-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/20/2007 at 06:30 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I suppose you're right, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. One of the greater distinctions between the *ix world and ours is that our world has always had this big set of differences between

Re: SVC vs APF and other 'privileged' code

2007-06-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/25/2007 at 09:44 AM, Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: and surprise audits by Federal agencies are an unfortunate fact of life. Why is it unfortunate? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: The USS Heresy (was Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules)

2007-06-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/22/2007 at 03:43 PM, Phil Smith III [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm all for correct terminology and precise communication, but in this case it sounds like this is more of a TLA collision than an incorrect term per se. IBM maintains a list of official acronyms. That

Re: Testing System Programmer Capabilities

2007-06-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/25/2007 at 03:29 AM, Eric Sun [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Our company recently had been given a task by our client to test the responsiveness and capabilities of their systems programmer in their test environment. Our tasks assigned include to hack their system to

Re: Utility to print tracks

2007-06-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/26/2007 at 04:59 PM, Alan Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm scratching at some dead brain cells. I'm thinking there was some utility, IBM or ISV, I had at some point that I could supply a TTR address for some volume and print what was at that address. TTR is

Re: The Development of the Vital IBM PC in Spite of the Corporate Culture of IBM

2007-06-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/25/2007 at 09:42 AM, Anne Lynn Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 801 was originally targeted (very) low-end ... ROMP chip was targeted to be used in a displaywriter follow-in ... when that project was killed, the group looked around for something to save the effort

Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread Alan Schwartz
Will do. So far I have eleven products plus 54 DD's for the ASM2 variations. Alan Mark H. Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU 06/27/2007 01:57 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU

Re: PARMLIB(s) (Was: how to list LE options)

2007-06-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:13:09 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: If your system security is setup properly, I can see no harm in browsing anything on the system. One problem, which has been discussed here before, is users who allocate systems data sets and don't free them when they're done

Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread Fletcher, Kevin
I do not know if this counts, but THRUPUT Manager has a DD to disable it, but it is site defined, eg. can be whatever you want. Thanks, Fletch SNIP Has anyone compiled a list of all the DD DUMMY ddnames used to dynamically disable various products? I want to generate a comprehensive jcl

Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:13:20 -0500, Alan Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I can include if I want to make sure I'm running 100% IBM code when troubleshooting some problems. For instance I know that ABNLIGNR disables ABEND-AID, FCOPYOFF disables PDSMAN's fast copy. Please contribute

Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick O'Keefe Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 2:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:13:20 -0500, Alan Schwartz

Re: RES: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread Bob Rutledge
ITURIEL DO NASCIMENTO NETO wrote: Another one to the list... //VDSBYPAS DD DUMMY CA-SAMS This is actually site-specified in the parmlib read by VDS, normally PLSBYPAS (VDSBYPAS) * DDNAME USED TO BYPASS VAM IN A STEP. Bob

Re: Why do we need BPXBATCH, JZOS et. al.?

2007-06-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:58:13 -0400, Tim Hare wrote: That's like asking why we need IKJEFT01 to run TSO commands in batch. The commands need an environment which supplies the services needed to execute. But yet, why must the environments be so different? Why doesn't foreground TSO do QSAM I/O

Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:21:01 -0400, Fletcher, Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not know if this counts, but THRUPUT Manager has a DD to disable it, but it is site defined, eg. can be whatever you want. I didn't know that... I'll have to look at that. Does it have a default? There are other

Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread Bill Wilkie
Gil: You may be right. Someone elses post(after mine) said a search with 1 space yielded the same results as 2 spaces, so it appears the blanks may be getting eliminated. Like I said, it was just a thought. Bill From: Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:25:12 -0500, Patrick O'Keefe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'Tain't just non-IBM. IBM's Fault Anaylzer: //IDIREPRT DD DUMMY Sure it's not //IDIOFF DD DUMMY Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance

DFSMShsm Common Recall Queue

2007-06-27 Thread James Chappell
Hi I am trying to find and example of how to setup the SYSPLEX requirements to implement CRQ. I have looked in z/OS V1R7.0 MVS Setting Up a Sysplex and other related manuals without success. Jim Chappell 503 745-7841 503 349-5603(Cell) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not everything that can be

Re: Why do we need BPXBATCH, JZOS et. al.?

2007-06-27 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 2:40 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Why do we need BPXBATCH, JZOS et. al.? On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:58:13 -0400, Tim Hare wrote:

Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread Fletcher, Kevin
Mark, Sorry I should not of included the quotes for the your dd. Thanks, Fletch SNIP Mark, AFAIK there is no default, you have to code it in your JAL control member... something like this $ddref techddn ddname(your dd) evaluate spcddn (tech_users techddn) . . . . . /* special rule to

Re: An apology

2007-06-27 Thread Thomas, Jim
Steve, Personally, I'd say that your apology show's character and professionalism. As such, I salute you for the same. Alan / List / Et al, I've worked (a moon or two ago) with Alan ... IMHO .. Outstanding personality, very astute, smart, but most importantly, extremely jovial and ALWAYS

Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:57:20 -0400, Fletcher, Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark, AFAIK there is no default, you have to code it in your JAL control member... something like this $ddref techddn ddname('your dd') evaluate spcddn (tech_users techddn) . . . /* special rule to bypass all logic

Re: Why do we need BPXBATCH, JZOS et. al.?

2007-06-27 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 2:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Why do we need BPXBATCH, JZOS et. al.? In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/20/2007 at

Re: DFSMShsm Common Recall Queue

2007-06-27 Thread Traylor, Terry
Jim, A good place to start is in the z/OS DFSMShsm Implementation and Customization Guide under Defining the Common Recall Queue Environment. Terry Traylor charlesSCHWAB TIS Mainframe Storage Management Remedy Queue: tis-hs-mstg (602) 977-5154 WARNING: All email sent to or from this

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