Re: Beta TEST announcement of ?????

2008-03-08 Thread Shane
On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 21:58 -0600, Brian Westerman wrote: I sent it because when we started the previous beta, I received more than 20 emails from people on the list that complained that they didn't know about the beta in enough advance time and thus were not allowed to participate because of

Re: Any RMM Training available?

2008-03-08 Thread R.S.
Arturo A Arca wrote: I did a search on Course ES210 and came up empty/not found. I too would be very interested in attending and/or doing an online course.. OK, my fault. The course was renamed to SS21. You can search for SS21, SS210, SS212 (version 2 of SS21). The version of the course is

Re: Beta TEST announcement of Version 3 of SyzAUTO

2008-03-08 Thread Zahir Hemini
Ted, this is basically what Brian uses this discussion group for, to advertise his products and services. On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 3:16 AM, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: apologize if you have already received the email on this, but Syzygy is announcing our BETA testing of the next

Re: Peformance question

2008-03-08 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
gsg wrote: We have a job that has a posting step that runs 6-7 minutes last year. We noticed that the job more than doubled starting with the first processing day of 2008. The application owners swear that no changes were made on there side and the systems guys swear that no changes were

Re: Secure FTP

2008-03-08 Thread Walt Farrell
On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 16:21:25 -0600, Miller, Pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to exchange files with an agency that uses sftp and SSH-2. From looking at the archives and the TCP/IP Implementation red book (vol 2, std apps), I am unclear whether I can use ftps and AT-TLS or am stuck with sftp.

Re: Beta TEST announcement of Version 3 of SyzAUTO

2008-03-08 Thread Thomas Kern
I took the original posting as a call for help. He needs assistance with beta testing. I think that is an excellent use of this group and an excellent attitude from a vendor. /Tom Kern -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

RMF Spreadsheet Reporter Excel Error

2008-03-08 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Has anyone run into this Excel error when trying to use IBM's RMF Spreadsheet Reporter? I get a popup that reads: | Error Message | - | File access error occurred. | Additional information: You are attempting to open a file type that is | blocked by your registry policy setting.

Re: RMF Spreadsheet Reporter Excel Error

2008-03-08 Thread Kreiter, Chuck
I didn't save the email, but the fine folks who support and maintain the RMF Spreadsheet Reporter pointed me to the Microsoft document on how to fix it. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lindy Mayfield Sent: Saturday, March

Re: IEE342I MODIFY REJECTED-TASK BUSY

2008-03-08 Thread Rick Fochtman
---snip--- An application group is doing a stress test against a CICS region, using batched instream commands via an IEFBR14 job to invoke a user transaction. Some of the MODIFY commands are being rejected with message IEE342I MODIFY REJECTED-TASK BUSY.

Re: SPAM: Re: Tapeless backup

2008-03-08 Thread Rick Fochtman
-snip--- We have a similar issue in our shop. The midrange area wants tapeless. the Mainframe side TAPE. We have a VTS and ATL. We use the product DRVI to stack the VTS Tape backups to an real tape and ship it offsite for DR purposes. Tape is cheap.

Re: SPAM: Re: Transfer reports from lpar to lpar

2008-03-08 Thread Rick Fochtman
-snip I haven't been following this but has anyone suggested setting up a CTC between the LPAR's. The connection is setup over Escon channels. ---unsnip That will make a very reasonable physical connection; the next step is

Re: SPAM: Re: Transfer reports from lpar to lpar

2008-03-08 Thread Edward Jaffe
Rick Fochtman wrote: That will make a very reasonable physical connection; the next step is to configure software to actually use it. :-) I vote for a NJE connection, with routing JECL where appropriate. It's a LOT less prone to error than trying to do spool OFFLOAD and LOAD. The OP

Re: SPAM: Re: Transfer reports from lpar to lpar

2008-03-08 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 3/8/2008 11:03:41 A.M. Central Standard Time, r [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: vote for a NJE connection, with routing JECL where appropriate. It's a LOT less prone to error than trying to do spool OFFLOAD and LOAD. Shared spool may be out for valid reasons. Guess if all

Re: Tapeless backup

2008-03-08 Thread R.S.
Leitner, Timothy wrote: All, How many places have implemented tapeless backup environments? I don't mean virtual tape that has tape on the back-end but no tape at all. We are exploring different options and the wintel side of the house is heading down the totally tapeless path. That makes me

Beta Test Announcement

2008-03-08 Thread Eric Bielefeld
Brian and Shane, I guess it doesn't bother me a whole lot about Brian's posting. I know opinions vary from don't care at all to foaming at the mouth for the audacity to do such a horrible thing. But Shane, you're right - the list owner Darren should get involved. All such postings should

Re: SPAM: Re: Transfer reports from lpar to lpar

2008-03-08 Thread Gilbert Cardenas
On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 09:21:53 -0800, Edward Jaffe The OP indicates that he already has TCP/IP connectivity between all LPARs and FTP servers running on each. Therefore, the JES FTP interface should be available without any additional configuration. (Though I would highly recommend specifying

Re: Transfer reports from lpar to lpar

2008-03-08 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Gilbert Cardenas wrote: Hello all, I am looking for ideas on ways to transfer reports/sysouts from one JES2 spool on one lpar to another lpar. The current method I am using is to use a JES offload dataset to offload the report(s) and then reload them on the other lpar. This works okay but

Re: Tapeless backup

2008-03-08 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Leitner, Timothy wrote: All, How many places have implemented tapeless backup environments? I don't mean virtual tape that has tape on the back-end but no tape at all. We are exploring different options and the wintel side of the house is heading down the totally tapeless path. That makes me

Bob Richards

2008-03-08 Thread Rick Fochtman
For those of you that are friends, you should know that Bob Richards had a MAJOR heart attack on Mondy. Yesterday, he underwent quadruple bypass surgery. The prognosis, as of this afternoon, is very good. Things are a little bit slower in recovery, due to the fact that Bob was a heavy smoker,

ePSP Bucket for z/OS 1.9 missing?

2008-03-08 Thread Roger Lowe
Hi Listers, Does anyone know if there is supposed to be a bucket available for z/OS 1.9 that is used by the ePSP Tool? Have been to the url (http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/psp/srchBroker) and then as part of the pull-down list for the z/OS operating system buckets it

clock, daylight savings time

2008-03-08 Thread Gregory Pinkowski
I'm new...to this list and at my new job... Question about setting the clock: Haven't IPL'd in 4 months, so tonight I'm going to IPL the production z/OS 1.7 LPAR and similar test LPAR (each a monoplex) to pick up a new SYS1.PARMLIB(CLOCK00) with a different offset to Greenwich Mean Time (7

Re: ePSP Bucket for z/OS 1.9 missing?

2008-03-08 Thread Mark Zelden
On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 17:37:58 -0600, Roger Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Listers, Does anyone know if there is supposed to be a bucket available for z/OS 1.9 that is used by the ePSP Tool? Have been to the url (http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/psp/srchBroker) and then as

Re: SPAM: Re: Transfer reports from lpar to lpar

2008-03-08 Thread Gilbert Cardenas
On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 12:45:28 EST, Ed Finnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guess if all you got is PFCSKs DEST='IP:ipaddr' might suffice w/o NJE quote JCL Reference DEST=destination The destination subparameter for JES2 is one of the following: LOCAL|ANYLOCAL 'IP:ipaddr' name | Nn |

Re: clock, daylight savings time

2008-03-08 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 14:31:26 -0800, Gregory Pinkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm new...to this list and at my new job... Question about setting the clock: Haven't IPL'd in 4 months, so tonight I'm going to IPL the production z/OS 1.7 LPAR and similar test LPAR (each a monoplex) to pick up a new

Re: clock, daylight savings time

2008-03-08 Thread Gregory Pinkowski
Gil, - Thanks a ton. No coupling facility from what I'm told, GRS via couple dataset (I'm used to MIM via CTC, so this is new to me too). I just want to prove periodically an IPL works, I know it's not necessary. I just haven't seen one at this site since I started here, and I want to

Re: SPAM: Re: Transfer reports from lpar to lpar

2008-03-08 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Gilbert Cardenas wrote: On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 12:45:28 EST, Ed Finnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guess if all you got is PFCSKs DEST='IP:ipaddr' might suffice w/o NJE quote JCL Reference DEST=destination The destination subparameter for JES2 is one of the following: LOCAL|ANYLOCAL 'IP:ipaddr'

RMF Monitor III - job UNKNOWN delay.

2008-03-08 Thread Bruce Hewson
Hi folks, Want to confirm that, at z/OS 1.7, RMF Monitor III is not able to identify delays due to PDSE latch contention. We had a lot of batch jobs, all hung, with RMF showing them all 100% Unknown delay. Before I go chasing IBM I just wanted to check that this is still the same at later

Re: Beta TEST announcement of Version 3 of SyzAUTO

2008-03-08 Thread Brian Westerman
Zahir, Maybe you should go back and look at the problems that I have helped people with, or maybe look at the programs that I have on the CBT Tape, or talk to one of the people at one of the sites that I have performed contracts at before you decide that I am only using the site for marketing. I

Re: SPAM: Re: Transfer reports from lpar to lpar

2008-03-08 Thread Brian Westerman
Setting up NJE really isn't that difficult. I can send you a short set of directions for how to set it up if you want. If your systems are both on the same physical processor (2 LPARs), and if it's a z-series box with an OSA/e or similar, it's even easier. I would bet that your systems people

Re: Beta TEST announcement of Version 3 of SyzAUTO

2008-03-08 Thread Stephen Mednick
Brian, you've got my vote, keep up the good work and just ignore these morons who are fortunately in the minority. Stephen Mednick Computer Supervisory Services Sydney, Australia -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian

Re: Beta TEST announcement of Version 3 of SyzAUTO

2008-03-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/06/2008 at 10:27 PM, Brian Westerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'll past the email below It would be better to make a tombstone announcement with *NO* promotional material and a link to your web site for details. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT

Re: Bob Richards

2008-03-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/08/2008 at 04:23 PM, Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: For those of you that are friends, you should know that Bob Richards had a MAJOR heart attack on Mondy. I'm sure that there are many like me who know him only from the list but would still like to know the

Re: Beta TEST announcement of Version 3 of SyzAUTO

2008-03-08 Thread Ted MacNEIL
unlike the people who don't sign their email or use a non-company address to post to the list. Some companies have a policy against making public statements using corporate e-mail accounts. Some people are also unemployed, so how can they use a corporate account? - Too busy driving to stop for

Re: Beta TEST announcement of Version 3 of SyzAUTO

2008-03-08 Thread Ted MacNEIL
you've got my vote, keep up the good work and just ignore these morons who are fortunately in the minority. Because people have a different opinion than you does not make them morons. Also, calling somebody a moron does not invalidate their opinion. - Too busy driving to stop for gas!