Re: JES2 check point in CF and DR

2007-09-22 Thread Edward Jaffe
Andy White wrote: We currently have our primary check point in the CF and second one on DASD. We know they aren't in SYNC maybe a few writes behind on DASD. We mirror using IBM XRC to another site for DR purposes. We are thinking of taking both check pints and moving it to DASD so both

JES2 check point in CF and DR

2007-09-22 Thread Andy White
Anyone out there mirroring their DASD either SRDF or XRC, i'd like to know how you handle the JES2 check point. We currently have our primary check point in the CF and second one on DASD. We know they aren't in SYNC maybe a few writes behind on DASD. We mirror using IBM XRC to another

SHOWzOS and z/OS R9

2007-09-22 Thread Roland Schiradin
Hi, I will release SHOWzOS 7.16 for z/OS R9 after APAR OA22594 will be closed. Hopefully I'll fix the problems I have with my own CEEOCB because z/OS R9 deliver a CEEOCB in the SCEEMAC. Regards Roland -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Open 3270 connection on the net??

2007-09-22 Thread Timothy Sipples
Jim, Do you happen to remember whether there was a locked padlock symbol at the lower right of the Host On-Demand window? If so, that would indicate that the connection is encrypted. A few years ago I did an awful lot of work with a particular state government to help them get Host On-Demand ins

Re: Open 3270 connection on the net??

2007-09-22 Thread Rugen, Len
As a University the campus still on the mainframe (all all in the past) used HOD for student registration. Since students could be anywhere, it was open to the world. It's not a VTAM login, it's SuperSession, so you can only get to certain things. We have had a few DOS attacks at certain user

Re: zH/OS (z/OS on Hercules for personal use only)

2007-09-22 Thread Andreas F. Geissbuehler
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:54:28 +, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I don't know what you're smoking; maybe you could pass it around? Ted, if I would have written more clearly you would have understood. We must make a case to IBM senior managers who "know Microsoft's software at least 1

Backing out of COMPRESS(TAILORED)?

2007-09-22 Thread Hare, Tim
I just learned about, and turned on, COMPRESS(TAILORED) in SMS. Things were working OK, then we had a user job abend because the region size was too small (213-ED abend, with 378 abend also showing); trying to browse the dataset after that got 213-E0. We were able to recover this job and change

Re: zH/OS (z/OS on Hercules for personal use only)

2007-09-22 Thread Lindy Mayfield
PWD members still can download tons of IBM software. I'm not claiming to have been misquoted, but my comment about Hercules or "whatever" was meant for PWD members (or anyone deemed by IBM to be worthy in some way to get the ADCD for z/OS or z/VM), and not meant to say that z/OS/z/VM should be r

Re: zH/OS (z/OS on Hercules for personal use only)

2007-09-22 Thread Rich Smrcina
Take a look at WAS CE. It is by no means a full blown WebSphere, but will provide a similar experience for the right price. John S. Giltner, Jr. wrote: Andreas F. Geissbuehler wrote: 5) About 3 years ago I downloaded a Linux distro, installed Apache, MySQL, Perl packages. By now I have writte

Re: Open 3270 connection on the net??

2007-09-22 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Ed Finnell wrote: In a message dated 9/21/2007 7:46:48 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This could be a huge exposure, or it could be the safest thing in the world, as these things go. I once worked for a company that had open access. They also had an egg-shaped dev

Re: zH/OS (z/OS on Hercules for personal use only)

2007-09-22 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Andreas F. Geissbuehler wrote: 5) About 3 years ago I downloaded a Linux distro, installed Apache, MySQL, Perl packages. By now I have written a few websites, CGI applications. IBM has something called WebSphere. I'll never get a WebSphere contract because I have no *WebSphere exprience*. T

Re: zH/OS (z/OS on Hercules for personal use only)

2007-09-22 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
Andreas F. Geissbuehler wrote: It's been done many times before, FREEWARE for STRICTLY PERSONAL USE. It is proven to sell more licences for commercial use. There is precedence, DB2, Lotus... personal computing ... freeware or not ... has always shown to contribute significantly to useage inc

Re: zH/OS (z/OS on Hercules for personal use only)

2007-09-22 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>Microsoft's at least 1'000 times better than IBM's own software I don't know what you're smoking; maybe you could pass it around? - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruct

zH/OS (z/OS on Hercules for personal use only)

2007-09-22 Thread Andreas F. Geissbuehler
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 17:29:45 +0200, Lindy Mayfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... it would be used for learning/training purposes or for >developing software to make the mainframe even better than it already >is. I'm hoping that IBM is considering this seriously. They could take >Hercules and

Re: really long z/OS operator command lines.

2007-09-22 Thread Scott Fagen
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:40:07 -0400, Craddock, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- >There does not seem to be anything magical about that length. The >content of the text macro parameter ends up being tacked onto the end of >the CIB and the CIBX follows behind that. It is -possible- that the >li