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2007-12-10 Thread Roland Schiradin
Is it just me? After the first step I get always (exclude french text). I already email support and they told me retry but results remains the same The page you have requested is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Error Status: An email has been s

Re: Problem trsansaction using FEPI

2007-12-10 Thread Roland Schiradin
Hi, I believe you better post this at CICS-L. Look at http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=cics-l&A=1 to join and http://listserv.uga.edu/archives/cics-l.html for the archive. Roland >We have problem for transaction Using FEPI. > >I have problem for specific branch/Pool-id ( One branch o

Problem trsansaction using FEPI

2007-12-10 Thread Nofri
We have problem for transaction Using FEPI. I have problem for specific branch/Pool-id ( One branch one POOL-id). The problem was all user in one branch can not transaction with message "HOST MESSAGE". The Problem solve after release/disable the last node/terminal-id/LU in one POOL-id. why

Re: What can be possible deployment schema for Websphere and DB2 on a mainframe?

2007-12-10 Thread Bruce Hewson
Hello Legolas :-D Look into "Network Deployment" nodes in a Parallel Sysplex, with DB2 in a Data Sharing Group, also with CICS in CICSPLEX enabled environment, to see how WebSphere Application Server for z/OS exploits the capabilities of sysplex and WLM. It is a bit different from clustering,

Re: how much difference is between deploying a j2ee application in Z/Os and in windows?

2007-12-10 Thread Rob Wunderlich
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 12:22:31 +0330, legolas wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Does DB2 work in the same manner, I mean db2 for windows and linux are >alike? >I know that some features that are available in windows and *nix based >version are not available in zOS. I will not use them. z/OS DB2 tend

Re: MVS Command Authorization

2007-12-10 Thread Edward Jaffe
George Fogg wrote: OK, MGCEFAST has a purpose in certain conditions but I could set this bit on in a simple MGCRE call to issue a command without using CPF and CMDSYS processing and it will bypass the command exits and CMDAUTH (OPERCMDS checking)processing? Yes. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix So

Re: MVS Command Authorization

2007-12-10 Thread George Fogg
> Edward Jaffe wrote: > >>George Fogg wrote: >>> Seems like MGCEFAST is kind of like RACF truested where authority exits are >>> bypassed and 99% of authority checks are passed just for issuing commands > from >>> MGCRE. >>> >>> MGCEFAST = Bypass SSI, command exits, and CMDAUTH. >>> >> >>MGCEFAST s

Re: MVS Command Authorization

2007-12-10 Thread Edward Jaffe
Pinnacle wrote: Referee Scott Fagen halts the contest at 2:30 of the 3rd round, for the winner by TKO and STILL champen, Ki Jaee! Tom, maybe it's time to cut back a bit on the caffeine. ;-) -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Centur

Re: What can be possible deployment schema for Websphere and DB2 on a mainframe?

2007-12-10 Thread Mark Post
>>> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 3:35 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, legolas wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- > If we have an J2EE based application which we need to deploy on > WebSphere application server, and our J2EE application uses DB2 as its > database, what can be possible deploym

Re: Mainframe Funeral

2007-12-10 Thread Harbeck, Reg
I heard it too: there will be a segment about it on the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) Radio One on Wednesday at 11:30am, on a program called "Spark". So I contacted the show's producer (Elizabeth Bowie - contact information below) to express my concern that this might misrepresent the

Re: Possible change to MCSOPER processing

2007-12-10 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/06/2007 at 09:35 PM, "W. Kevin Kelley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >We are contemplating making a change to MCSOPER processing to prevent >user's from specifying a console that has been defined as a system >console. Sounds good to me, assuming that you're just refe

Re: MVS Command Authorization

2007-12-10 Thread R.S.
Maybe I shouldn't say anything after Scott, however I'll dare to. I don't know "guts" of subsytems and commands, but I know more or less how RACF (or ACF) protection works for them: If we're talking about MVS commands, I mean START, STOP, CANCEL, FORCE, MODIFY - all those commands *are* protect

Re: Mainframe Funeral

2007-12-10 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Yeah, well, it's all fun and games until someone installs and replaces it with Vista... > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Mike Baldwin > Sent: 10. joulukuuta 2007 23:39 > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Mainframe Funera

Re: Mainframe Funeral

2007-12-10 Thread Ken Porowski
>From my CPU charts the Amdahl 1015 was around a 9 MSU / 55 MIP box With the exception of the last line the eulogy is nice. Eulogy http://umanitoba.ca/mainframe/eulogy.php For forty-seven years you've served us well, you cast us in your green spell. You processed transactions without complaint

Re: MVS Command Authorization

2007-12-10 Thread Pinnacle
Referee Scott Fagen halts the contest at 2:30 of the 3rd round, for the winner by TKO and STILL champen, Ki Jaee! - Original Message - From: "Scott Fagen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 4:43 PM

Re: SMS Construct last referenced

2007-12-10 Thread Traylor, Terry
Storgroups are easy. No more datasets on volumes. No ACS dataset filter assignments. Not an extend storgroup. Dataclass, Storclass, and Mgmtclass have much further reaching implications. With these you may have to search catalogs for datasets with these assignments and including the tape manag

Re: MVS Command Authorization

2007-12-10 Thread Scott Fagen
Edward Jaffe wrote: >George Fogg wrote: >> Seems like MGCEFAST is kind of like RACF truested where authority exits are >> bypassed and 99% of authority checks are passed just for issuing commands from >> MGCRE. >> >> MGCEFAST = Bypass SSI, command exits, and CMDAUTH. >> > >MGCEFAST should be used

Mainframe Funeral

2007-12-10 Thread Mike Baldwin
Hi listers, This morning on the way to work, to my surprise I heard something on the radio about the death of "the" mainframe. No, I didn't turn around and head home! But I did find this: http://www.cbc.ca/spark/blog/2007/11/manitoba_mainframe_funeral.html Manitoba Mainframe Funeral Posted b

Connections dropped for backlog exceeded

2007-12-10 Thread Cynthia Davis
In our IP stack we currently have SOMAXCONN set to 1500, however, we are still running into problems with certain applications exceeding backlog limit and connections being dropped. When I look at the Maximum in backlog I show many different numbers other than the 1500. Last week a DB2 applic

Re: Strange ISPF Numbers in ML Display

2007-12-10 Thread Imbriale, Donald
If you check the online help it will indicate that 65535 is the max displayed for size. Don Imbriale -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 4:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Stra

Re: Strange ISPF Numbers in ML Display

2007-12-10 Thread Wayne Driscoll
Lizzette, ISPF stores the number of lines in a 2 byte hex field, so 65535 is the largest value it can store. HTH Wayne Driscoll Product Developer JME Software LLC NOTE: All opinions are strictly my own. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Strange ISPF Numbers in ML Display

2007-12-10 Thread Lizette Koehler
Maybe I missed some maintanence, but I just added a 70,000 line member to a TEXT file (Lrecl=133) and the Member listing shows as follows EDIT TSO.LK41591.PDF.TEXT Row 00029 of 00108 Command ===> Scroll ===> CSR

Re: What can be possible deployment schema for Websphere and DB2 on a mainframe?

2007-12-10 Thread Aaron Walker
Everything that applies to creating a reasonable, maintainable WebSphere Application Server environment on distributed platforms (AIX, Linux, Windows, whatever) also applies to the mainframe. You should have a cluster, preferably with the cluster members on different LPARs on different boxes.

Re: Common Dataspace

2007-12-10 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 12/10/2007 2:41:53 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >How could runing a SRB and anchor a CADS cause any problems beside problems for the SRB itself. My coding runs now for several customers without any problem/ticket so far. I didn't modify anythin

Re: Common Dataspace

2007-12-10 Thread Roland Schiradin
How could runing a SRB and anchor a CADS cause any problems beside problems for the SRB itself. My coding runs now for several customers without any problem/ticket so far. I didn't modify anything I just create/delete the CADS while running under *MASTER*. Also no complains about this issue, pe

What can be possible deployment schema for Websphere and DB2 on a mainframe?

2007-12-10 Thread legolas wood
Hi, Again it's me, with my newbie like questions. I have no experience with mainframes so I always think to map mainframe world with intel based servers world. If we have an J2EE based application which we need to deploy on WebSphere application server, and our J2EE application uses DB2 as its

SMS Construct last referenced

2007-12-10 Thread Art
Is there a way to tell when a member of a Construct was referenced? I can see when they were last modified. But, would like to know when they were last referenced. I am hoping that finding that out would help in the cleanup of the Constructs Groups( Dataclas, Mgmtclas, Storclas, and storgrp).

Re: Common Dataspace

2007-12-10 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 12/10/2007 2:12:51 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >We have a number of vendor and IBM SCOPE=COMMON data spaces that are anchored off *MASTER*. None have ever caused a problem so far. Have any of these vendors even been asked to look at a problem

Re: Common Dataspace

2007-12-10 Thread Knutson, Sam
We have a number of vendor and IBM SCOPE=COMMON data spaces that are anchored off *MASTER*. None have ever caused a problem so far. Best Regards, Sam Knutson, GEICO System z Performance and Availability Management mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: MVS Command Authorization

2007-12-10 Thread Edward Jaffe
George Fogg wrote: Seems like MGCEFAST is kind of like RACF truested where authority exits are bypassed and 99% of authority checks are passed just for issuing commands from MGCRE. MGCEFAST = Bypass SSI, command exits, and CMDAUTH. MGCEFAST should be used only when that processing has alrea

Re: MVS Command Authorization

2007-12-10 Thread George Fogg
> Gregory, Gary G wrote: >> That is true but if the application is NOT passing the UTOKEN or using >> the macro that requires the commands be defined in OPERCMDS then that >> won't work. > > I'm not sure I follow you here... > > Most of the time, passing UTOKEN is unnecessary. For example, MGCRE >

Re: IBMLink down?

2007-12-10 Thread Wissink, Brad [ITSYS]
Sorry, but I just tried it and it worked fine. Brad Wissink Information Technology Services Iowa State University 515-294-3088 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pinnacle Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 11:59 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BA

Old Brylane GDG usermod

2007-12-10 Thread Hill, Don
Years ago, I inherited a usermod that changes when relative GDG bias is adjusted from end-of-job to end-of-jobstep. This was accomplished by zapping two instructions to NOP. The zap has fit OS/390 1.3 - z/OS 1.7. But my luck ran out in z/OS 1.9. Apparently, IEFAB461 was completely re-written

Question about OPSUSS

2007-12-10 Thread Petersen, Jim
We are running OPS/MVS and OPSUSS. We use RACF. Does anyone know what security settings in RACF are necessary so that one can do something like _BPX_JOBNAME='XYZABC' _BPX_USERID='MYUSER' shellscript_of_your_choice And get it to run under MYUSER. We can get the jobname to change to XY

Re: MVS Command Authorization

2007-12-10 Thread Gregory, Gary G
Ed, Your paragraph " Obviously, other commands, not defined in "MVS System Commands", would be subject to whatever security checking is appropriate for the command and the product that defines it." Is exactly what I was trying to point out. Not all OEM (once again I state OEM) products use CM

Reminder Linux on System z LVC Dec 11, 11:00 AM ET

2007-12-10 Thread Pamela Christina in rainy/snowy Endictt NY
Greetings- here's your reminder :-) Just a reminder that the final 2007 Linux on System z Live Virtual Class is: Tuesday, Dec 11th at 11:00 AM ET. There is no charge to participate in these technical education sessions. You don't have to pre-register, but if you haven't participated before

Re: IBMLink down?

2007-12-10 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi, It's working fine for me Tom. I just logged in a new session went through Registration just fine. Best Regards, Sam Knutson, GEICO System z Performance and Availability Management mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (office)

Re: IBMLink down?

2007-12-10 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pinnacle > > I can't get to IBMLink. Cleared cache 4 times, rebooted, > still no joy at www.ibm.com/ibmlink. Called the Help Desk > and they say they're working, so they won't open a ticket. > Anybody else having

Re: Forcing a userid and password prompt on session connect

2007-12-10 Thread John Giltner
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:19:23 -0600, Support, DUNNIT SYSTEMS LTD. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >To John, I think I mentioned earlier on that SSL is not what we're looking for >because our goal here is to place a "sentry" on the Flex-Es box's Telnet port >23 and not allow anyone to pass without a vali

IBMLink down?

2007-12-10 Thread Pinnacle
I can't get to IBMLink. Cleared cache 4 times, rebooted, still no joy at www.ibm.com/ibmlink. Called the Help Desk and they say they're working, so they won't open a ticket. Anybody else having problems? Regards, Tom Conley -

Re: MVS Command Authorization

2007-12-10 Thread Edward Jaffe
Gregory, Gary G wrote: That is true but if the application is NOT passing the UTOKEN or using the macro that requires the commands be defined in OPERCMDS then that won't work. I'm not sure I follow you here... Most of the time, passing UTOKEN is unnecessary. For example, MGCRE issued from a T

Re: Problems with checks IXGLOGR_*

2007-12-10 Thread Dave Danner
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:52:01 -0600, Jorge Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >We have offloaded the logrec logstream and now it's 2% full but when >we refresh the check the exception continues though we have refreshed >the structure. Sorry for the late reply... What Jorge describes has been a kno

Re: PL/1 Storage Control Issue

2007-12-10 Thread Ulrich Krueger
Rick, I'm sorry, I can't give you the PL/1 - internal info you asked for, but I can perhaps give you a quick fix for your problem: Years ago, in the early days of LE, I also had a memory-hungry program that liked to abend S878 during CLOSE after hours of run time. The quick and dirty solution was

Re: PL/1 Storage Control Issue

2007-12-10 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: "Rick Fochtman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 11:38 AM Subject: PL/1 Storage Control Issue Can anyone point me to a reference that describes in detail the various storage control blocks used by PL/1 in m

Re: Common Dataspace

2007-12-10 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 12/8/2007 7:32:57 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >you are only a few minutes away from some problem ticket asking you to prove/state that your software was not the cause of the system problem. It's much easier to fix a bug in your own persistent

PL/1 Storage Control Issue

2007-12-10 Thread Rick Fochtman
Can anyone point me to a reference that describes in detail the various storage control blocks used by PL/1 in managing BASED storage entities? I have an application that's running out of storage, supposedly, far too soon, even with REGION=0M. The number of entities that lead to failure leads

Re: MVS Command Authorization

2007-12-10 Thread Gregory, Gary G
That is true but if the application is NOT passing the UTOKEN or using the macro that requires the commands be defined in OPERCMDS then that won't work. I was only suggesting they refer to the documentation to see if commands are defined in other resource classes. The CMDAUTH macro requires that

Re: MVS Command Authorization

2007-12-10 Thread Edward Jaffe
Gregory, Gary G wrote: That's assuming the OEM product issues the RACROUTE call to verify the user has access to the command. No. The system issues the CMDAUTH call when processing the command unless MGCEFAST is set in the MGCRE parameter list. The only responsibility of any product issui

Re: MVS Command Authorization

2007-12-10 Thread Gregory, Gary G
That's assuming the OEM product issues the RACROUTE call to verify the user has access to the command. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 9:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: MV

Re: Common Dataspace

2007-12-10 Thread Craddock, Chris
Keith Moe said > Scheduling an SRB into the Master sure seem to be a touchy subject, I > have two observations/comments. > > First, since the SRB is a unit of work that is independent of any existing > dispatchable unit in the Master, any normal error that occurs within it > has > no impact on a

Re: Common Dataspace

2007-12-10 Thread Craddock, Chris
> > Can someone explain to me - in this day and age - why we're talking CADS > and not Shared Memory Objects (above The Bar). > Arguably that's a good question. The main reason is that a "CADS" is already on every PASN-AL in the system, so you can use the ALET without doing an ALESERV SEARCH/ADD

Re: Common Dataspace

2007-12-10 Thread Craddock, Chris
My old mate Shane said; > Just setup a "long lived" STC that can manage any/all of these sort of > things, and arrange for it to stay up. Document its > requirements/function(s) - then it's out in the open, you get the credit > for the work done. Every vendor in the market should do the same. Ha h

How to get CALL-Stack?

2007-12-10 Thread Michael Knigge
All, is there a way to get the CALL-Stack? I have a mixture of C, COBOL and ASM Programs and I want to display the call stack out of a COBOL-Prog upon SYSOUT. Thank you, Michael -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Announcing update to CAVXTRT (user friend CA-View ISPF Interface)

2007-12-10 Thread Lionel B Dyck
I have just updated the CAVXTRT (CA-View Extract ISPF Dialog) with support for CA-View release 11. The package now dynamically detects the differences in the CA-View report between release 2, release 11 and release 11 with maintenance and should work for future releases (assuming CA doesn't cha

Re: Open Source Security Risks (was T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly)

2007-12-10 Thread Tom Marchant
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:33:40 +0900, Clement Clarke wrote: > >You must agree that you will abide by the GNU terms, and not use it >commercially without some appreciation, or for war. What does that mean? -- Tom Marchant -- For I

Re: Open Source Security Risks (was T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly)

2007-12-10 Thread Clement Clarke
R.S. wrote: David Cole wrote: I think you have the open source security risks backwards, Herbie. One of the features of open source is that the source code is public. This means that ANYONE can read it, study it, find bugs in it, AND find trap doors in it! And "anyone" means anyone in the who

Re: Jeff Foxworthy & IBM

2007-12-10 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Warner Mach > > I see where Jeff Foxworthy, the comedian, worked for IBM for > four years before launching his entertainment career (Check > it out on Google). He was applying maintenance to IBM > mainframes (I assu

Re: zOS Maintenance Best Practices

2007-12-10 Thread Matt Dazzo
Dave, thanks. >>> Dave Danner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/7/2007 4:14 PM >>> On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 10:48:29 -0600, Patrick Lyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If you are a SHARE member, the last conference had an excellent session on >maintenance best practices. > >z/OS Maintenance Best Practices - The Rat

Re: IEFUSI and 64 Bit - was "REGION=0M and LSQA"

2007-12-10 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
Here is a sample of our code USI200 DS0H L R7,SMFMEML ADDRESS OF MEMLIMIT PARMS USING MEMLIMIT,R7ESTABLISH ADDRESSABILITY SPACE 1

Position Posting Cincinnati, OH, USA

2007-12-10 Thread Jousma, David
Title: Principal Systems Programmer Requisition #: 2007-60572 Employment Type: Regular Full/Part Time: Full Time FLSA Status: Exempt Division: IT Location: FIFTH THIRD CENTER-CINCINNATI, CINCINNATI, OH Posted Date: 11/30/2007 Requirements JOB DUTIES: Support for

Re: Forcing a userid and password prompt on session connect

2007-12-10 Thread Johnny Luo
Just did a test: 1. In TN3270 server profile (because TN3270 sever can run as a separate STC), find the BEGINVTAM/ENDVTAM block for the target port and then remove both USSTCP and DEFAULTAPPL statement. After that the first screen user will see at connection time is the telnet solicitor panel: E

Re: Disassembler, new tool available

2007-12-10 Thread Arthur Fichtl
Charles Hardee wrote on 03/20/2007 12:31:45 PM: > I have two questions regarding IPSC. > 1) From within an IPCS oriented CLIST or REXX Exec, is there a way > to determine what IPCS level one is executing under? >No. You can glean a lot of information about the dump being processed by >lookin

Re: Open Source Security Risks (was T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly)

2007-12-10 Thread R.S.
David Cole wrote: I think you have the open source security risks backwards, Herbie. One of the features of open source is that the source code is public. This means that ANYONE can read it, study it, find bugs in it, AND find trap doors in it! And "anyone" means anyone in the whole world! O

Re: Forcing a userid and password prompt on session connect

2007-12-10 Thread Johnny Luo
Hi, Hope my experience can help. In your TCPIP profile: RESTRICTAPPL CICS01 USER IBMUSER USER SYSPRG1 When a logon request for application CICS01 is issued, a telnet solicitor screen will show and you need to supply the RACF pass/id. In this case, only IBMUSER and SYSPRG1 can use CICS01

z9 Management API's for JAVA

2007-12-10 Thread Steve Talbot-Walsh
Does anyone have any practical experience with using (i.e. developing applications utilising) the z9 console object Management JAVA API's? We would like any information relating to their comparative usability, robustness/resiliance in relation to their non-JAVA counterpart. Regards Steve Talbot-W

Re: Forcing a userid and password prompt on session connect

2007-12-10 Thread Support, DUNNIT SYSTEMS LTD.
To Terry, we're a very small shop. The first problem is non-existant by us. I assume the 2nd problem won't occur if we're strict about logging in immediately. Still my main problem is setting up the Telnet Solicitor in the first place. The 1 page of IBM documentation is sparse and I don't know