Re: How to limit SAS in a PLEX

2008-03-13 Thread Walter Medenbach
To direct SAS usage to a licensed machine in a sysplex we created a AS WLM scheduling environment. To reduce JCL changes, JES exit 6 added this scheduling environment if a step explicitly used SAS. Walter Medenbach On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 4:59 AM, Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Re: Rexx bug?

2008-03-13 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:25:09 -0500 Kenneth E Tomiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :Reminds me of a problem I thought I had once, how about EXPONENTIAL form :affecting e0 versus e8? It certainly would, if the mantissa was non-zero. 10E0 != 10E1 0E0 = 0E5 10E0 = 1E1 -- Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL

Re: Disclaimers

2008-03-13 Thread R.S.
Ted MacNEIL wrote: Does anybody realise that you cannot issue prior restraint? You cannot legally enforce the fact that you cannot disseminate an e-mail that was sent to you, stating you can't send it from here! If an email was sent to you, unsolicited, you can do whatever you want with it.

Re: CATALOG Quesiton

2008-03-13 Thread R.S.
John Dawes wrote: Hallo To All, Is there a way of telling if a USER CAT is near full or full? Simplest method: see the extents in ISPF. CAT can have up to 123 extents (cannot be multi-volume), of course the volume cannot be full, otherwise the next extent won't have a place. BTW: I

Re: Delete noscratch

2008-03-13 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
Right, this is in SA22-7636-14 and I looked in our -13. Time to update them again. Kees. Burrell, C. Todd , CDC/OCOO/ITSO, CTR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... From the 1.9 manuals: 54 Explanation: DELETE failed because the data set is being renamed but it

Re: Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-13 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:31:38 -0700, Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm. When a data set is migrated, the VTOC entry is removed. But, the catalog entry is still there (though the volume ID is changed to MIGRAT). Can't IDCAMS tell from the catalog whether the migrated data set is VSAM or

Re: Execution job class restriction

2008-03-13 Thread Robert S. Hansel (RSH)
If you can find a copy of the IBM publication GG66-3218-01 RACF Security Administrator's Quick Reference, March 1992, there is a sample JES Exit 6 in Appendix G for controlling the use of JES input class. It uses profiles in the FACILITY class of the format JOBCLASS.x, where 'x' is the class

Re: Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-13 Thread Walter Marguccio
- Original Message From: William Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] The problem is that if you perfrom an IDCAMS DELETE and specify nonvsam, HSM does a recall. Without the nonvsam, he does an HDELETE if the dataset is migrated. Correct. We have CA-Disk in place and it behaves the same.

Re: z/OS 1.4 Running on 9672 CPU

2008-03-13 Thread Timothy Sipples
Jason, For reference, your 9672-Z87 has a full capacity software rating of 217 MSUs. That's a relatively large machine, and I would strongly recommend running the financial numbers immediately on getting to a 64-bit machine. Every month your employer is paying full capacity (217 MSUs) for z/OS

Re: DB2 for z/OS V7.1 on z/OS V1.9

2008-03-13 Thread Timothy Sipples
Yes, you can run DB2 V7 on z/OS 1.9. However, support will end on June 30, 2008, for DB2 V7 for z/OS. End of service for z/OS 1.7 is September 30, 2008. I don't know your exact situation, but just going by those dates you might want to tackle migration to DB2 V8 first, then jump from z/OS 1.7 to

Re: Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-13 Thread Walt Farrell
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:21:34 -0500, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Indeed, how should Allocation know whether the program about to execute wants to do something with the dataset(s) before deleting it/them? Perhaps Allocation could be educated to issue HDELETE iff the dataset is migrated

GRSRNL lists - many thanks!

2008-03-13 Thread McKown, John
I've gotten a lot of help from everybody. I really appreciate it! Hopefully this Sunday will go better than last, despite having a shorter time to work with. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information

CATALOG QUESTION - IGNORE MY EARLIER QUESTION.

2008-03-13 Thread John Dawes
Please ignore my question about the alias count permitted in a USER CAT. Rick Adams had posted that in his comments. Sorry, I missed reading it. My apologies and thanks again to all - Get the name you always wanted with the new y7mail email

Re: CATALOG Quesiton

2008-03-13 Thread John Dawes
Thanks for the suggestions. Donald, I used your command and it showed that the CATALOG has 6 extents. Is there a maximum number of alias that is permitted? Presently there are 2,737 alias. Thanks Imbriale, Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Command F CATALOG,ALLOCATED will show message

Re: z/OS 1.4 Running on 9672 CPU

2008-03-13 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples [ snip ] 3. Migrate to z/OS 1.7 (and the latest middleware product releases), which you can do with coexistence and fallback on the same machine in new LPARs. Is z/OS 1.7 even orderable at this

Re: Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-13 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe [ snip ] Hmmm. When a data set is migrated, the VTOC entry is removed. But, the catalog entry is still there (though the volume ID is changed to MIGRAT). Can't IDCAMS tell from the catalog

Re: Disclaimers

2008-03-13 Thread Doc Farmer
Except that's the wrong liability. The sender would ultimately be liable. If, for example, I send a private (person-to-person, or point-to-point) e-Mail with confidential data to IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu instead of to you specifically, and that mail contains contract rates or specific internal

Re: Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-13 Thread Edward Jaffe
Dave Cartwright wrote: No, a VSAM cluster is turned into a flat file on migration and is cataloged as a NONVSAM dataset on volume MIGRAT. If its device type is tape it shows as MIGRAT2, else it's MIGRAT1. Too bad. That seems like a poor design choice in hindsight given the current topic.

Re: Execution job class restriction

2008-03-13 Thread Edward Jaffe
Robert S. Hansel (RSH) wrote: If you can find a copy of the IBM publication GG66-3218-01 RACF Security Administrator's Quick Reference, March 1992, there is a sample JES Exit 6 in Appendix G for controlling the use of JES input class. It uses profiles in the FACILITY class of the format

Re: Disclaimers

2008-03-13 Thread Doc Farmer
The quote you gave was the tip-off. And I thoroughly enjoyed that novel as well. As I recall, it was first said to Vrenn (later Krenn) by Thought-Admiral Kethas epetai Khemara. This is what happens when you're a 96th percentile Nerd. Look, if you want a disclaimer, either make it

Re: getting gmake on z/OS Unix

2008-03-13 Thread Tom Quarendon
We use gmake on z/OS -- there's no installation necessary per-se -- it's just a single binary executable. You can get the source and/or compiled executable from http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/unix/redbook/index.html#gmake along with a whole bunch of other useful gnu stuff.

Re: Disclaimers

2008-03-13 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doc Farmer Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 6:04 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Disclaimers The quote you gave was the tip-off. And I thoroughly enjoyed that novel as well.

Re: Execution job class restriction

2008-03-13 Thread Walt Farrell
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:08:55 -0700, Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert S. Hansel (RSH) wrote: If you can find a copy of the IBM publication GG66-3218-01 RACF Security Administrator's Quick Reference, March 1992, there is a sample JES Exit 6 in Appendix G for controlling the use of

Re: z/OS 1.4 Running on 9672 CPU

2008-03-13 Thread Patrick Lyon
Is z/OS 1.7 even orderable at this point in time? -jc- No, that ended when 1.9 was announced. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN

Re: Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-13 Thread Scott Rowe
I think you are a bit confused, HDELETE does not have a NONVSAM option, IDCAMS does. At the time of a delete, IDCAMS cannot assume that HSM is the migrator, it could just as easily be FDRABR or some other product. Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/13/2008 10:18 AM ( mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:17:40 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: Dave Cartwright wrote: No, a VSAM cluster is turned into a flat file on migration and is cataloged as a NONVSAM dataset on volume MIGRAT. If its device type is tape it shows as MIGRAT2, else it's MIGRAT1. Too bad. That seems like a

ChangeMan ZMF Software

2008-03-13 Thread Eric Bielefeld
I'm installing Changeman ZMF 5.6.2 at Aviva. I'm just curious how other people go about upgrading this software. I've been working on this for about a month now. It seems like there are no automated tools to recustomize everything. We are coming from release 5.3.6. These are some of my

Re: Execution job class restriction

2008-03-13 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:08:55 -0700, Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert S. Hansel (RSH) wrote: If you can find a copy of the IBM publication GG66-3218-01 RACF Security Administrator's Quick Reference, March 1992, there is a sample JES Exit 6 in Appendix G for controlling the use of

Re: Execution job class restriction

2008-03-13 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:08:55 -0700, Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert S. Hansel (RSH) wrote: If you can find a copy of the IBM publication GG66-3218-01 RACF Security Administrator's Quick Reference, March

Re: SPAM: Re: clock, daylight savings time

2008-03-13 Thread Rick Fochtman
snip--- But Rick, do your users all reside in different time zones like mine do??? Isn't amazing how much railroad schedules and saving daylight make our lives so difficult at times. Decisions, decisions!

Re: Disclaimers

2008-03-13 Thread Rick Fochtman
snip- The quote you gave was the tip-off. And I thoroughly enjoyed that novel as well. As I recall, it was first said to Vrenn (later Krenn) by Thought-Admiral Kethas epetai Khemara. This is what happens when you're a 96th percentile Nerd. Look, if

Re: Execution job class restriction

2008-03-13 Thread William H. Blair
Mark Zelden wrote: Seems like a good idea. Has a requirement ever been submitted? If not, someone should. Yes. Many times. The issue was dealt with (that is, dispensed with) in the GUIDE JES Job Scheduling and Control Task Force report. Unfortunately, that was a long time ago, and memories

SMPE size for SMPNTS

2008-03-13 Thread Mark S. House
Does the SMPNTS directory have to be a ZFS file, and how much space should be allocated to it for use in RECEIVE FROMNETWORK process of an entire z/os Release. Thanks. Mark House (402) 778-1966 IBM Mainframe Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] This e-mail message and any attachments may contain

FY08 Assessment Spreadsheet

2008-03-13 Thread Alford, Ben
Folks, the spreadsheet I gave you is now stored on the shared vol2 disk, IBM_SYS in a folder called Assessment FY08. You should be able to update it, as needed. Ben Alford -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: SMPE size for SMPNTS

2008-03-13 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark S. House Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 11:01 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: SMPE size for SMPNTS Does the SMPNTS directory have to be a ZFS file, and how much space

Re: SMPE size for SMPNTS

2008-03-13 Thread Field, Alan C.
Mark, It can be an HFS or a ZFS. Marna Walle from IBM suggested a MOD 27 is sufficiently large. I ended up with three mod 9s for my z/OS 1.8 order and it was fine. Alan -Original Message- Subject: SMPE size for SMPNTS Does the SMPNTS directory have to be a ZFS file, and how much

Re: FY08 Assessment Spreadsheet

2008-03-13 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alford, Ben Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 10:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: FY08 Assessment Spreadsheet Folks, the spreadsheet I gave you is now stored on the shared vol2

Re: Execution job class restriction

2008-03-13 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:40:30 +0100, Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: here is a sample JES Exit 6 in Appendix G for controlling the use of JES input class. It uses profiles in the FACILITY class of the format JOBCLASS.x, where 'x' is the class designator. Doesn't it seem

Re: FY08 Assessment Spreadsheet

2008-03-13 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Alford, Ben Folks, the spreadsheet I gave you is now stored on the shared vol2 disk, IBM_SYS in a folder called Assessment FY08. You should be able to update it, as needed. I'll wager this wasn't intended for

Re: Disclaimers

2008-03-13 Thread Doc Farmer
Shakespeare was RIGHT: * The First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All The Lawyers! On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:55:06 -0500, Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip- My disclaimer is dictated by the company lawyers. Lawyers understand neither KISS nor fun.

Re: Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-13 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Apparently there is a bit of both going on here. HSM knows that the VSAM components are in fact components of a cluster, but if you do a LISTCAT of a migrated VSAM dataset, whether you LISTCAT the CLUSTER name or one of the components, it shows the entry is of a nonvsam dataset type. LISTCATting

Re: SMPE size for SMPNTS

2008-03-13 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:00:49 -0500, Mark S. House [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the SMPNTS directory have to be a ZFS file, and how much space should be allocated to it for use in RECEIVE FROMNETWORK process of an entire z/os Release. Thanks. There are no z/OS Unix file systems that are

Re: clock, daylight savings time

2008-03-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:15:25 -0500, Bruce Hewson wrote: do your users all reside in different time zones like mine do??? There's an argument here for a facility whereby users could variously override the PARMLIB setting with a JOBPARM, TSO PROFILE, RACF setting, or the like. -- gil

Re: SMPE error in FROMNET

2008-03-13 Thread Mark S. House
I used the example on the IBM website to get the maintenance for z/OS V1R8. I am getting the following message: Connecting to: dispsd-76.boulder.ibm.com 207.25.253.76 port: 21. Connection to server interrupted or timed out. Initial connection Std Return Code = 1, Error Code = 8 Is

Re: Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:59:37 -0400, Scott Rowe wrote: I think you are a bit confused, HDELETE does not have a NONVSAM option, IDCAMS does. At the time of a delete, IDCAMS cannot assume that HSM is the migrator, it could just as easily be FDRABR or some other product. Thank you for improving

Re: Disclaimers

2008-03-13 Thread Eric Bielefeld
Actually, lawyers know a LOT about the real world. They know that if they sue someone, they can make gobs of money - especially if that someone has deep pockets, and their client has deep pockets. Unfortunately, we (in the US) live in the country with the most lawyers per capita of any other

Re: SMPE error in FROMNET

2008-03-13 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:42:37 -0500, Mark S. House [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used the example on the IBM website to get the maintenance for z/OS V1R8. I am getting the following message: Connecting to: dispsd-76.boulder.ibm.com 207.25.253.76 port: 21. Connection to server interrupted or timed

Re: FY08 Assessment Spreadsheet

2008-03-13 Thread Ben Alford
My Bad! Sorry about that. Wrong list! Ben Alford -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Re: CATALOG Quesiton

2008-03-13 Thread R.S.
John Dawes wrote: Thanks for the suggestions. Donald, I used your command and it showed that the CATALOG has 6 extents. Is there a maximum number of alias that is permitted? Presently there are 2,737 alias. (I'm not Donald, but I dare to respond) Yes, it is. The limit depends on alias

RES: ChangeMan ZMF Software

2008-03-13 Thread ITURIEL DO NASCIMENTO NETO
We do have Changeman too and upgrading process is always a concern. Every time we need to upgrade, we hire the software house to do all the steps, and i think that, even they are afraid to migrate. Atenciosamente / Regards / Saludos Ituriel do Nascimento Neto Banco Bradesco S/A 4254/DPCD

Re: Execution job class restriction

2008-03-13 Thread R.S.
Edward Jaffe wrote: [...] Doesn't it seem that JES should natively perform this checking -- without the use of a user exit? IMHO almost every popular usermod is due to lack of built-in customization. I could add output class protection, TIME=1440, REGION=0M, and (RACF-related) dictionary

Re: Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-13 Thread Scott Rowe
In the case of the generic DELETE (without NONVSAM), FDRABR intercepts the HDELETE issued by IDCAMS, and it works fine (IIRC). The interfaces are not compatible, I agree that it would be beneficial, but someone (IBM) would have to define such an API - and share it with the ISVs - in order to

Re: CATALOG Quesiton

2008-03-13 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:52:37 +0100, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, it is. The limit depends on alias names length. The longer alias names the smaller limit. AFAIK it is absolutely unrelated to user catalog allocation. This is master catalog entry capacity. However you can have more aliases

Re: CATALOG Quesiton

2008-03-13 Thread Traylor, Terry
Good reasons to reorg a catalog might include: Remove IMBED/REPLICATE. Out of or near out of extents. Dead CIs. In sufficient index and/or data CISIZE. Catalog is allocated in tracks rather than cylinders. Terry Traylor charlesSCHWAB TIS Mainframe Storage Management Remedy Queue:

Re: CATALOG Quesiton

2008-03-13 Thread Ted MacNEIL
OTOH, I was at a shop where almost every data set started PROD.*. I bet they were happy when MLA (Multi Level Aliases) became available. We weren't because of the issues of duplication of datasets on lists. Our space cadets weren't skilled enough to figure out how to handle them. I worked for

Re: FY08 Assessment Spreadsheet

2008-03-13 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 3/13/2008 1:56:21 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IBM_SYS in a folder called Assessment FY08. You should be able to update it, as needed. I forgot my password? **It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms, and advice on AOL Money Finance.

Re: RES: ChangeMan ZMF Software

2008-03-13 Thread Eric Bielefeld
Thanks Ituriel, In this case, I'm the software house - well at least a contractor. I've never worked with Changeman before, so I'm learning lots about it. When I'm done with this contract in 3 months or so, maybe someone else will hire me as a contractor to update their Changeman software.

Re: Disclaimers

2008-03-13 Thread Ted MacNEIL
My disclaimer is dictated by the company lawyers. Lawyers understand neither KISS nor fun. True. My point was, due to prior restraint, their unenforcable (at least, in Canada). They are a waste of bandwidth, disk-space, and time (especially when they are at the top). They add no value. You

Re: CATALOG Quesiton

2008-03-13 Thread Anthony Saul Babonas
I once worked at a small shop that was a parent company with a number of subsidiary companies. The HLQ of the datasets of each respective company was an 8 character acronym of the child company name. For each HLQ a user catalog was built. The DSN of the user catalog was 8 bytes, an exact match

Re: clock, daylight savings time

2008-03-13 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:16:08 -0600, Howard Brazee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I wish my clock radios have a button on it that synchronized the clock to whichever station it was tuned to. ... I've got one. I'm not sure what it synchonizes with but it is perpetually about 4 minutes ahead of

Re: IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM for short) (was: Is IBM/Tivoli turning into CA?)

2008-03-13 Thread Paul Peplinski
Sorry to resurrect an old post. I have read the thread with some interest. It focuses on Omegamon but my question is on IBM System Automation, another Tivoli product. Are there a lot of SA users on this list? If so what are your thoughts on implementation, maintenance, ease of use, documentation

Re: CATALOG Quesiton

2008-03-13 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:03:09 +, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OTOH, I was at a shop where almost every data set started PROD.*. I bet they were happy when MLA (Multi Level Aliases) became available. We weren't because of the issues of duplication of datasets on lists. Our space

Re: CATALOG Quesiton

2008-03-13 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Explain... what duplication? Sometimes, under ISPF 3.4, the same dataset name would come up twice. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: Disclaimers

2008-03-13 Thread Rick Fochtman
---snip-- R.S. wrote: Ted MacNEIL wrote: Does anybody realise that you cannot issue prior restraint? You cannot legally enforce the fact that you cannot disseminate an e-mail that was sent to you, stating you can't send it from here! If an email

Re: Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/12/2008 at 10:21 PM, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Perhaps Allocation could be educated to issue HDELETE iff the dataset is migrated *AND* DISP=(,DELETE) *AND* PGM=IEFBR14. Bletch! I hope that was intended as a joke. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz,

Re: Paging Subsystem -- Comfortable Size and Configuration?

2008-03-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/12/2008 at 02:55 PM, Knutson, Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It may be overkill but I stick with a 1:1 space allocation in page space to central storage. I'd consider that underallocation, but if you have enough central that you never page, it won't matter. --

Re: Paging Subsystem -- Comfortable Size and Configuration?

2008-03-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/12/2008 at 02:50 PM, Staller, Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 1) Determine actual working set in use. The working set is relevant to sizing central storage and to tuning distribution across devices, control units and channels. To size local page data sets you need

Re: Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-13 Thread Rick Fochtman
---snip-- Thank you for improving my understanding. But still ... It appears that the consensus of this thread is that in the absence of the NONVSAM option, IDCAMS converts a DELETE request for a migrated data set to HDELETE. If IDCAMS doesn't know whether the

Re: Disclaimers

2008-03-13 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I have certain information because of the presence of a NDA... Who said anything about NDA? I'm talking about an e-mail out of the blue from somebody who sent it to me unsolicited and now wants me to protect the content. If you don't want it disseminated, don't send it to me. NDA's are

Re: Disclaimers (Slightly OT)

2008-03-13 Thread Rick Fochtman
---snip- Actually, lawyers know a LOT about the real world. They know that if they sue someone, they can make gobs of money - especially if that someone has deep pockets, and their client has deep pockets. Unfortunately, we (in the US) live in the country

Re: CATALOG Quesiton

2008-03-13 Thread Rick Fochtman
-snip- BTW: 2000+ aliases is a lot. -unsnip Not really; I once worked in a shop, as a consultant, that had 55,000+ aliases in the MCAT. They pointed to about 30 different UCATS and were fairly evenly balanced in numbers

RMF reports for sysplex

2008-03-13 Thread Crispin Hugo
Is it possible to do RMF Postprocessor reports for XCF from the Sysplex Data Server Buffers ? When I try I get ERB106I PPS: NO SMF RECORDS FOUND FOR FOLLOWING OPTION(S) ERB106I PPS: REPORTS(XCF), SMF RECORD 74 - SUBTYPE 2 Crispin Hugo Systems Programmer, Macro 4

Re: Disclaimers

2008-03-13 Thread Rick Fochtman
-unsnip--- Who said anything about NDA? I'm talking about an e-mail out of the blue from somebody who sent it to me unsolicited and now wants me to protect the content. If you don't want it disseminated, don't send it to me. NDA's are completely different

Re: Disclaimers

2008-03-13 Thread R.S.
Rick Fochtman wrote: [...]I disagree with both of these viewpoints.[...] Rick, The only thing, I disagree it is Ted's presumption, the thread is on-topic. NO, IT'S NOT. Disclaimers, although many of IBM-MAIN members carry them - are *not* on-topic. Yes, it could be interesting thing and we

Re: CATALOG Quesiton

2008-03-13 Thread R.S.
Rick Fochtman wrote: -snip- BTW: 2000+ aliases is a lot. -unsnip Not really; I once worked in a shop, as a consultant, that had 55,000+ aliases in the MCAT. They pointed to about 30 different UCATS and were fairly evenly

Re: Disclaimers

2008-03-13 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Ted, I like you, but you're guilty of starting this thread. ;-) Yes, I am. If it offends you, I'm sorry. But, I find it hard to read one-line e-mails, with 30 line disclaimers. This may be the wrong forum, but we are getting to much clutter due to disclaimers. I'm trying for a grass-roots

Re: Disclaimers

2008-03-13 Thread Dave Kopischke
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:28:14 +, Ted MacNEIL wrote: I'm talking about an e-mail out of the blue from somebody who sent it to me unsolicited and now wants me to protect the content. If you don't want it disseminated, don't send it to me. By virtue of the fact that disclaimer is in the

Posting Etiquette [Was Disclaimers]

2008-03-13 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 6:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Disclaimers Ted, I like you, but you're guilty of starting this thread. ;-) Yes, I am. If it offends you,

Re: CATALOG Quesiton

2008-03-13 Thread Rick Fochtman
--snip- -snip- BTW: 2000+ aliases is a lot. -unsnip Not really; I once worked in a shop, as a consultant, that had 55,000+ aliases in the MCAT. They pointed to about 30 different UCATS and

Re: Bob Richards Update

2008-03-13 Thread Rick Fochtman
--snip- D BOB RICHARDS,STATUS BOB777I 18.19.16 BOBINFO DISPLAY HEART REIPLED AT 11.55.20 ON 03/07/2008 LUNGS REIPLED AT 08.30.00 ON 03/08/2008 BRAIN REINITIALIZED 08.00.00 ON 03/10/2008 (GREAT DRUGS) D BOB RICHARDS,PERFORMANCE Workload is capped at

Re: Bob Richards Update

2008-03-13 Thread Steve Comstock
Richards, Robert B. wrote: D BOB RICHARDS,STATUS BOB777I 18.19.16 BOBINFO DISPLAY HEART REIPLED AT 11.55.20 ON 03/07/2008 LUNGS REIPLED AT 08.30.00 ON 03/08/2008 BRAIN REINITIALIZED 08.00.00 ON 03/10/2008 (GREAT DRUGS) D BOB RICHARDS,PERFORMANCE Workload is capped at 25% of

Re: Bob Richards Update

2008-03-13 Thread Dave Kopischke
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:55:32 -0400, Richards, Robert B. wrote: Small prayers are appreciated that I do not cough very much in the next few weeks. Even an ahem seems to exceed my pain threshold these days. An actual cough is brutally painful! :-( I'm sending big prayers for your strength in

Re: Bob Richards Update

2008-03-13 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Steve, 6 days post open heart surgery and I am going through emails. I need to get a life too! :-) Nah, I love IBM-Main too much to give it up! One vice at a time. smile -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent:

Re: Bob Richards Update

2008-03-13 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Thanks, Dave. Greatly appreciated. Those small heart-shaped pillows given to me have been as good as the painkillers. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Kopischke Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 7:24 PM To:

Re: Bob Richards Update

2008-03-13 Thread Robert Justice
excellent, good news, glad to hear you are doing better Robert Justice - Original Message - From: Richards, Robert B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 6:55 PM Subject: Re: Bob Richards Update D BOB

Re: Bob Richards Update

2008-03-13 Thread Dave Salt
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] D BOB RICHARDS,STATUS BOB777I 18.19.16 BOBINFO DISPLAY HEART REIPLED AT 11.55.20 ON 03/07/2008 LUNGS REIPLED AT 08.30.00 ON 03/08/2008 BRAIN REINITIALIZED 08.00.00 ON 03/10/2008 (GREAT DRUGS) D BOB RICHARDS,PERFORMANCE Workload is capped at 25% of capacity of one

ERB307I III: MONITOR III DATA GATHERER ERB3GINI. INTERFACE BPX1SDD FAILED. RETURN CODE: 0000 REASON CODE: 0000

2008-03-13 Thread Knutson, Sam
At the time change here an anomaly occurred in RMF. I opened a PMR on this but we have only the WTO message which occurred on every system in the Sysplex when the ETR changed the time. There are no hits for the ERB307I BPX1SDD with return code Reason found by me or Level-2. ERB3GINI

Re: Bob Richards Update

2008-03-13 Thread Jon Nolting
Best wishes from the mainframe guy in Redmond Jon Nolting EPG Compete - CATM Enterprise Technology Architect (425) 707-9334 (O) (925) 381-2375 (M) (425) 222-7969 (H) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richards, Robert B.

Re: z/OS and Linux on same z/VM Image

2008-03-13 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Dinesh wrote: Hi, Is it possible to have both z/OS and Linux on same z/VM? If so which volume type I have to use (either FB or CKD). In some IBM manuals they mentioned that both IFL and CP cannot be shared for a Lpar. Thanks Regards, Dinesh. A single LPAR can't have a IFL and a CP.

Re: Catch-22 question on SMP/E receive fromnts command

2008-03-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:10:38 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: Update us when you get some feedback from IBM. APAR Identifier .. IO08492 Last Changed 08/03/13 SEVERE ERROR MESSAGE GIM69209S IS NOT DISPLAYED WHEN THE SMP/E COMMAND RECEIVE FROMNTS IS ISSUED. Symptom .. MS

Re: Execution job class restriction

2008-03-13 Thread Bruce Hewson
Hi folks, for our systems we CHOSE to perform some checking in JES2 EXIT6. This is to catch problem jobs at submission, and to allow operations staff to later modify those parameters if required. the current exit performs checks on: oJob Class - FACILITY JOBCLASS.x oTime parm

Re: z/OS 1.4 Running on 9672 CPU

2008-03-13 Thread Timothy Sipples
I assumed the original poster's employer had done the right thing and ordered z/OS 1.7 at some point in time. Perhaps that's a bad assumption. Regardless, I would strongly recommend he ring IBM as soon as possible. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect

Re: z/OS and Linux on same z/VM Image

2008-03-13 Thread Timothy Sipples
John Giltner wrote: A single LPAR can't have a IFL and a CP. On the System z10, this restriction is removed by using something new called a z/VM-mode LPAR (a.k.a. z/VM Image Mode LPAR). Such an LPAR can contain almost any mix of CPs, IFLs, zIIPs, zAAPs, and/or ICFs and must run z/VM as the base