z/800 to z9 upgrade questions

2007-11-22 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi We plan to upgrade our z/800 C01 to a z9 machine. We have currently about 130 Mips and we would need a double capacity. Some questions: - one processor or two ? - we heard that the ICF now a unique processor or can be shared with a general processor , but not with IFL. If it is in non

Re: MFNetDisk fastsync is ready.

2007-11-22 Thread Shai Hess
MFNetDisk FastSync mode is ready. New documentation. OK, I suppose that now is the time to distribute my new feature FastSync. I also add more pages to my documentation and more data about the FastSync and the risks and the operations. The next step will be to add support to some of the Shark

ISMF Question

2007-11-22 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
Hello list, I have an (awfully) basic question about ISMF: when defining SMS constructs (e.g. mgntclas) I can enter numbers of a blank. I cannot find anywhere what the meaning of the blank value is. Where can I find what the system does, when I leave blank fields like: Primary Days

Re: VTS Scratch Count Issue

2007-11-22 Thread Mike Wood
Jacky, There are two main ways to tackle this situation, and likely you will need to do both. 1. The VTS is low on scratch volumes. The way DFSMSrmm handles this CBR3660A wto is to trigger a procedure for running expiration processing. Usually this is enough to return some volumes to scratch

Transparent TCP tunnel

2007-11-22 Thread Robert Winder
Hi, Years ago, at another shop, I used a little app to redirect TCP traffic to one TCP port to another in USS. I think it was from IBM and was called tcpmap and parameters given were something like localhost port remotehost port. Problems is that I can't find any reference to this util/src

Re: Question regarding RACF migration.

2007-11-22 Thread Sridhar K Veena
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Exactly where is the source code for Zlinux?

2007-11-22 Thread Binyamin Dissen
I have been looking around but have not found anything current. I am particularly interested in looking how LSM is integrated. -- Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a

Re: Exactly where is the source code for Zlinux?

2007-11-22 Thread Shane
On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 13:38 +0200, Binyamin Dissen wrote: I have been looking around but have not found anything current. I am particularly interested in looking how LSM is integrated. Mmmm - next you'll be wanting performance metrics ... and decent abend and dump handling ...

Re: Exactly where is the source code for Zlinux?

2007-11-22 Thread Roy Hewitt
A good starting point is here... http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/whatsnew.html Binyamin Dissen wrote: I have been looking around but have not found anything current. I am particularly interested in looking how LSM is integrated. -- Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Exactly where is the source code for Zlinux?

2007-11-22 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:24:18 + Roy Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :A good starting point is here... :http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/whatsnew.html I see the diff file, but I cannot seem to find the base (or I am missing something obvious). :Binyamin Dissen wrote: : I have

Re: What is 'MVS-recognized' disablement?

2007-11-22 Thread Johnny Luo
Thank you all for the input. Now I have some general idea about it. Johnny -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the

Re: VTS Scratch Count Issue

2007-11-22 Thread Lizette Koehler
The only other area I might also consider is your backend tapes for the VTS should you decide to add more virtual tapes. Make sure you have enough of them to support any additions you might make to the VTS. Lizette There are two main ways to tackle this situation, and likely you will need

FW: Inbound Message Notification - Malicious Code detected

2007-11-22 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Thanks Anton ! Was expecting you on Dublin airport, not inside malicious code... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 November 2007 14:01 To: Van Dalsen, Herbie Subject: Inbound Message Notification - Malicious Code detected.

Re: Question regarding RACF migration.

2007-11-22 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 11/22/2007 5:26:26 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks a lot for all your responses. It was really really useful. I had a PHB presentation, but can't find it. Long story short the big conversion was RACF 1.8 to 1.9. After that there are

Re: ISMF Question

2007-11-22 Thread Lizette Koehler
Kees, If you play around with this you could discover that a blank entry can only be used in a very specific configuration. And I always do recommend anyone with a question first start by playing with a construct (not the production ones of course) and see what it does. For example if you

Re: What is 'MVS-recognized' disablement?

2007-11-22 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 11/21/2007 5:44:16 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Acquiring a lock does not turn on a super bit. It turns on a bit in the locks held string. Right. I mis-remembered what I found by instruction stepping through GETMAIN many years ago, which was

ADR412E

2007-11-22 Thread John Dawes
Hallo All I am investigating a strange problem. A user performed a logical restore of mutiple disks (client volumes) using EXHPDM. I have noticed that message ADR412E is being posted to indicated that the dsn has failed serialization. I have noticed that this occurs when DFDSS is

Re: Exactly where is the source code for Zlinux?

2007-11-22 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:38:42 +0200, Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been looking around but have not found anything current. I am particularly interested in looking how LSM is integrated. -- Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen

Re: Question regarding RACF migration.

2007-11-22 Thread Rick Fochtman
snip--- I had a PHB presentation, but can't find it. Long story short the big conversion was RACF 1.8 to 1.9. After that there are incremental levels of the DB added by using the extended fields in data base records. These fields are examined by

Re: ISMF Question

2007-11-22 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Kees, This is probably not what you need, but I just created a mgmtclass, and went back in to list it, and saw all the values that it selected on my behalf. Herbie LINE MGMTCLAS AUTOLAST MOD LAST DATE LAST TIME CREATION OPERATOR NAME BACKUP USERIDMODIFIED

IXGLOGR dataset migration

2007-11-22 Thread R.S.
Recently I had to clone working system. One of the tasks was copying IXGLOGR.** datasets. The only client of System Logger were CICS regions. Any adv. copy function (i.e. FlashCopy) wasn't available, nor DASD full volume copy. Q: What is proper method to clone those datasets ? Do I have to

Re: Question regarding RACF migration.

2007-11-22 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 11/22/2007 10:27:00 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just ran the template update and shared the databases between old and new level. Fritzy ol' auditors mandated 'electronic separation' between test and production LPARs so many habits were

Re: Exactly where is the source code for Zlinux?

2007-11-22 Thread Mark Post
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 6:38 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been looking around but have not found anything current. I am particularly interested in looking how LSM is integrated. Look in ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ With

Re: Question regarding RACF migration.

2007-11-22 Thread Skip Robinson
Rick makes a good point. Once the great 1.9 divide has been crossed, we've never found any reason not to share the RACF data base in each plex. Even when templates had to be applied to the data base itself, lower releases always tolerated them. I know everyone does migration differently, but we

Re: Exactly where is the source code for Zlinux?

2007-11-22 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:37:15 -0700 Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 6:38 AM, in message :[EMAIL PROTECTED], Binyamin Dissen :[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I have been looking around but have not found anything current. : I am particularly interested in looking how LSM

Re: Exactly where is the source code for Zlinux?

2007-11-22 Thread Shane
On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 22:19 +0200, Binyamin Dissen wrote: I am downloading linux-2.6.23.tar.gz I hope that after 60M that will be the right file. That is the full source tree for the *base* kernel. Added functionality and distros-specific patches aren't included. SE-Linux for example. I

Re: Exactly where is the source code for Zlinux?

2007-11-22 Thread Mark Post
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 3:19 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- I am downloading linux-2.6.23.tar.gz I hope that after 60M that will be the right file. 2.6.23.8 is the latest, ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.23.8.tar.gz

iPhone

2007-11-22 Thread Phil Payne
Well, it looks like the dratted, overhyped, overpriced, underspecified and downright pedestrian contraption might have its uses after all. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21919098/ I though I was familiar with the Kartellgesetz, but it seems not familiar enough. What surprised me was the apparent

ISPF 3.4 ENQBYPASS

2007-11-22 Thread Anthony Fletcher
I am working on an account which gives me the ability to rename a data set from ISPF 3.4 if it is ENQd in another LPAR in the same GRSPLEX. Does anyone know whether this is as a result of an IBM feature (eg SAF call) or whether it is provided by some add-on code? If it is an IBM resource anyone

Re: Are any of us this desperate?

2007-11-22 Thread Cobe Xu
Now, I understand why they move work to China or India... Gary Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU 2007-11-21 01:36 Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU cc Subject Re: Are any of us this

Re: IXGLOGR dataset migration

2007-11-22 Thread Shane
On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 18:07 +0100, R.S. wrote: Q: What is proper method to clone those datasets ? Do I have to stop (cancel) IXGLOGR or it is sufficient to close CICS regions (all the Logger clients) and keep IXGLOGR alive ? Bringing the CICSs down should be sufficient. When you start them

Re: Question regarding RACF migration.

2007-11-22 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 11/22/2007 9:33:56 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Fritzy ol' auditors do NOT mandate anything! Don't know what an SME is. There are internal and external auditors as well as Federal Inspection teams. They were between us and the CFO and they

Re: Question regarding RACF migration.

2007-11-22 Thread Rick Fochtman
---snip- Fritzy ol' auditors mandated 'electronic separation' between test and production LPARs so many habits were carryovers from that environment. -unsnip- We all have our opinions about auditors.

Re: iPhone

2007-11-22 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 11/22/2007 5:33:52 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And I notice my offer of z6 Performance and Pricing Predictions at UK GSE hasn't been taken up. I wonder why? -- They had it stored on their iphone and the Reich's squirrels invaded?

Re: ISPF 3.4 ENQBYPASS

2007-11-22 Thread Edward Jaffe
Anthony Fletcher wrote: I am working on an account which gives me the ability to rename a data set from ISPF 3.4 if it is ENQd in another LPAR in the same GRSPLEX. Does anyone know whether this is as a result of an IBM feature (eg SAF call) or whether it is provided by some add-on code? If it is

Re: Question regarding RACF migration.

2007-11-22 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Fritzy ol' auditors mandated Fritzy ol' auditors do NOT mandate anything! All they can do is report on compliance based on SME recommendations. Are you following it or not? Anything else is a conflict of duty. SME's recommend. Auditors report. Compliance teams enforce. - Too busy driving to

Re: IXGLOGR dataset migration

2007-11-22 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Recently I had to clone working system. One of the tasks was copying IXGLOGR.** datasets. The only client of System Logger were CICS regions. Any adv. copy function (i.e. FlashCopy) wasn't available, nor DASD full volume copy.

Re: ISPF 3.4 ENQBYPASS

2007-11-22 Thread Anthony Fletcher
Excellent - a perfect answer - thanks. regards, Anthony Fletcher - MNZCS Team Lead NZ SMM (AirNZ, Westpac NZ , TelstraClear NZ and NWM AU) IBM Global Technology Services Server Systems Operations Server Management Mainframe Global Services Delivery Australia and New Zealand NZ z/OS Software

Re: What is 'MVS-recognized' disablement?

2007-11-22 Thread Peter Relson
MVS-recognized (AKA legal) disablement means that you have a CPU lock, a spin lock, or a super bit (bits in PSASUPER). Since no spin locks are programming interfaces, nor is PSASUPER, that basically leaves the CPU lock for you. As Jim Mulder correctly posted, if the system releases a spin lock or