OT:Great country

2008-11-06 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
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Re: OT:Great country

2008-11-06 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
Which? Kees. Miklos Szigetvari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... -- Miklos Szigetvari Development Team ISIS Information Systems Gmbh tel: (+43) 2236 27551 570 Fax: (+43) 2236 21081 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hotline:

Re: OT:Great country

2008-11-06 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Here I mean the USA Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM wrote: Which? Kees. Miklos Szigetvari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... -- Miklos Szigetvari Development Team ISIS Information Systems Gmbh tel: (+43) 2236 27551 570 Fax: (+43) 2236 21081 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT:Great country

2008-11-06 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
Aha. In this group unspecific locations and times often default to the USA although the rest of the world is larger than them, but I did not get this from your short subjectline. Kees. Miklos Szigetvari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Here I mean the USA Vernooy,

Re: Using SETXCF START,MSGBASED exploit MSGBASED processing for CFRM?

2008-11-06 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi, For the archives we have now also converted two Sysplex to use MSGBASED processing for CFRM without incident. We just did this on our production Sysplex this morning. D XCF,STR . EVENT MANAGEMENT: MESSAGE-BASED MANAGER SYSTEM NAME: DSYS In IBM tests using MSGBASED instead of

Re: How to stop REXX from interpating statement?

2008-11-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/04/2008 at 11:14 AM, Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Not sure what you want. REXX alway replaces all variables on a statement before executing the resulting statment. i='**' do i=1 to 10 say i end You will see that REXX does *not*

Re: Need someone to fix a free HTTP Server written in Assembler

2008-11-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/03/2008 at 07:52 AM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I doubt that the CBTTape personnel have the resources to moderate all the programs hosted by CBTTape.org; I would expect the original submitter to coordinate changes. I would not ask or expect the admin of

Re: Need someone to fix a free HTTP Server written in Assembler

2008-11-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/02/2008 at 07:40 PM, John McKown [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: If possible, with the original author's concurrance, I would suggest licensing this under the GPL version 3 or later. That's extremely restrictive. I'd suggest either the BSD license or GPL V2. --

Re: Need someone to fix a free HTTP Server written in Assembler

2008-11-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/02/2008 at 03:48 PM, Sam Golob [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Please also write to me about this idea, of putting tools that need some completion out on the Updates Page, and which are marked as being incomplete. I like the idea. I'd suggest that cvs, iebupdtx or

Re: ECSA near full

2008-11-06 Thread Arthur Gutowski
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 16:39:31 +, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tread carefully. Very carefully. Indeed. In a past life, I brought up the newly-available Omegamon CSA Analyzer I identified a large chunk of unowned storage. So, I freed it. Luckily, it was on development, but I

Re: OT:Great country

2008-11-06 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Miklos Szigetvari wrote: Here I mean the USA Why? (Don't give me a political reason, just a mainframe topic reason, ok?) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Phased Maintenance

2008-11-06 Thread Crawford, Robert C.
We've always blasted maintenance across all the LPAR's in a Sysplex during a six hour window on Sunday. We have things fairly well Sysplex'ed so we usually avoid outages. We feel like the next step is to try one LPAR early for a couple of reasons. First, so we can put maintenance on a small

Re: Phased Maintenance

2008-11-06 Thread Arthur Gutowski
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 11:53:55 -0600, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't that what all (sane) shops do? That is one of the main benefits of a parallel sysplex environment (rolling IPLs). I guess I know where *we* stand... Though we have some sysplex here, we are not yet taking advantage

Re: Need someone to fix a free HTTP Server written in Assembler

2008-11-06 Thread Kirk Wolf
If you choose an OSI-approved open-source license, like GPL or BSD, then you can host your project for free on sourceforge and use their source code control (CVS or subversion), their forums, their download file space, their bandwidth, etc. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Wed, Nov 5, 2008

Re: IODF change causes next IPL to hang

2008-11-06 Thread Steve R Wolf
Hello list, I had the following question in July of this year. I just want add to the archive the resolution of this problem. Snip from July 2008 Our system is a 2096 U03 with three LPARs but no sysplex. Two LPARs are production, one at z/OS 1.4 and a small one at z/OS 1.7. The current IODF

Re: OT:Great country

2008-11-06 Thread August Carideo
IBM Poughkeepsie (USA , NY ). the Mainframe and P-Series manufacturing plant. Elardus Engelbrecht

Re: Phased Maintenance

2008-11-06 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 09:07:47 -0600, Arthur Gutowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 11:53:55 -0600, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't that what all (sane) shops do? That is one of the main benefits of a parallel sysplex environment (rolling IPLs). I guess I know where *we*

Re: OT:Great country

2008-11-06 Thread Maarten Slegtenhorst
Origin of the IBM Mainframe! -- Maarten -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Elardus Engelbrecht Verzonden: donderdag 6 november 2008 15:47 Aan: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Onderwerp: Re: OT:Great country Miklos Szigetvari wrote: Here

Re: Phased Maintenance

2008-11-06 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 09:50:42 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: We don't handle all environments / companies / sysplexes the same. One of our production sysplexes has a sysprog sandbox LPAR that usually gets maintenance first (similar to what you do). No production runs there but most system STCs run

Server Pac

2008-11-06 Thread Hal Merritt
In laying done a basic Server Pack system, is it possible to specify a user ID to be used with the various address spaces? IBMUSER is used for everything and that draws auditor heat. Thanks! NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any files transmitted with it are intended

Re: OT:Great country

2008-11-06 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi As it was a OT messsage, sorry I can't give you a mainframe topic reason. August Carideo wrote: IBM Poughkeepsie (USA , NY ). the Mainframe and P-Series manufacturing plant. Elardus

Re: Phased Maintenance

2008-11-06 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:29:02 -0600, Tom Marchant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 09:50:42 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: We don't handle all environments / companies / sysplexes the same. One of our production sysplexes has a sysprog sandbox LPAR that usually gets maintenance first

Re: Server Pac

2008-11-06 Thread R.S.
Hal Merritt pisze: In laying done a basic Server Pack system, is it possible to specify a user ID to be used with the various address spaces? IBMUSER is used for everything and that draws auditor heat. One of ServerPac jobs is for creation of ICHRIN03 - you can (in fact *should*!) customize

Re: ECSA near full

2008-11-06 Thread Bill Wilkie
I agree with everything that has been said so far but would like to elaborate a little more. Since this storage must be specifically acquired and specifically freed, most applications that use it will have an FRR or Estae to free it in the event of an abend. But as Tom Marchant mentioned, it

How to correct tape errors

2008-11-06 Thread Lizette Koehler
List - I have been wrestling with this for a couple of weeks. Thought I had it fixed but it still shows errors. When I display my VTS RESPONSE=SDH8 CBR1110I OAM library status: 410

Re: How to correct tape errors

2008-11-06 Thread Mark Jacobs
Lizette Koehler wrote: List - I have been wrestling with this for a couple of weeks. Thought I had it fixed but it still shows errors. When I display my VTS RESPONSE=SDH8 CBR1110I OAM library status: 410

Re: How to correct tape errors

2008-11-06 Thread Lizette Koehler
I will check that out. I know that the one shipped by IBM is in SYS1.LINKLIB at the top of the linklst and the one for CA1 is in the SYS1.CA1.LINKLIB data set which is further down. Lizette -Original Message- From: Mark Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Nov 6, 2008 2:21 PM To:

Re: How to correct tape errors

2008-11-06 Thread Carlson, Steven
Lizette: I have removed the IBM version of the CBRUXENT, brought down OAM, did a LLA refresh, and the display is still incorrect. What version of CA-1 software are you running, and what version of Z/OS are you running? This shop is running CA-1 Version 11.5 SP4, and Z/OS 1.9. -Original

Re: How to correct tape errors

2008-11-06 Thread Dave Quinton
If you want to reset the error status of the tapes, use ISMF and alter the tapes in question from SCRATCH to SCRATCH. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

Re: Query: Mainframers look forward and back

2008-11-06 Thread Steve Comstock
Gabe Goldberg wrote: (Sorry for cross-posting...) I'm writing an article for CA about baby-boom mainframers (that's me too, my first job out of college in 1968 was with IBM in Poughkeepsie) about what we're all doing and seeing and facing in our careers. Do people plan to work as long as

Re: How to correct tape errors

2008-11-06 Thread Linda Mooney
Hi Lizette, Do you run the CA1 invalid pointers report? Anything show up there? Linda Mooney -- Original message -- From: Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] List - I have been wrestling with this for a couple of weeks. Thought I had it fixed but it still shows

Re: How to correct tape errors

2008-11-06 Thread Carlson, Steven
Dave: How would I know which of the 39000+ tapes to change from SCXRATCH to SCRATCH? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Quinton Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 12:56 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How to

Query: Mainframers look forward and back

2008-11-06 Thread Gabe Goldberg
(Sorry for cross-posting...) I'm writing an article for CA about baby-boom mainframers (that's me too, my first job out of college in 1968 was with IBM in Poughkeepsie) about what we're all doing and seeing and facing in our careers. Do people plan to work as long as they're able? Because of

Re: Server Pac

2008-11-06 Thread Linda Mooney
Hi Hal, In some shops, mine included, the RACF folks handle the security portions of the install. There are some warnings in the ServerPac doc about running the RACF setup, including warnings about what may happen to your driving system. I tell the what I need, need to accomplish, and I give

Re: Query: Mainframers look forward and back

2008-11-06 Thread Anton Britz
Steve, You have been around to block, so lets try and ask more questions before we get into a debate about 1944 or 1945 ex. a) What is Mr. Goldberg trying to achieve ., Sales for CA or sensation/hysteria b) What lists are you cross posting too c) How much money are you getting for the

Re: How to correct tape errors

2008-11-06 Thread Dave Quinton
ISMF 10.3, LISTVOL against the library, SORT 3 (VOLUME ERROR STATUS) then look for REJ BY TAPE MGMT SYS - the sort will put them altogether. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: How to correct tape errors

2008-11-06 Thread Lizette Koehler
I am running z/OS V1.9 at RSU 0808 with CA1 V11.5 SP2. Lizette -Original Message- From: Carlson, Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Nov 6, 2008 3:46 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How to correct tape errors Lizette: I have removed the IBM version of the CBRUXENT, brought down

Re: Query: Mainframers look forward and back

2008-11-06 Thread John McKown
On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 16:00:03 -0500, Gabe Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Sorry for cross-posting...) I'm writing an article for CA about baby-boom mainframers (that's me too, my first job out of college in 1968 was with IBM in Poughkeepsie) about what we're all doing and seeing and facing in

Re: How to correct tape errors

2008-11-06 Thread Lizette Koehler
Doing the ALTER from SCRATCH to SCRATCH seemed to have fixed the problem. I would not have thought to do that. Thanks. Also, I usually go to ISMF 2.3 and list tapes that way. Then sort on 4 (Volume ERROR Status) Lizette I am running z/OS V1.9 at RSU 0808 with CA1 V11.5 SP2. Lizette

Re: Query: Mainframers look forward and back

2008-11-06 Thread Bob Shannon
Gabe Goldberg has been in the industry for a long time, longer than you or me. He has written numerous articles for various publications as well as a book on Rexx Programming. He's a long time contributor to this list and dates back to the VM Share system that was hosted at McGill University.

Re: How to correct tape errors

2008-11-06 Thread Campbell Jay
I run a job that flips off the scratch bit in TMS. The next run of TMSCLEAN hits the exit and clears the error condition. //STEP1EXEC PGM=TMSUPDTE,PARM='NODSN' //TMSRPT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSINDD * VOL Y36091,NOCHAIN REP FLAG1=00 VOL Y36177,NOCHAIN REP FLAG1=00 Jay Campbell IBM OS

Re: How to correct tape errors

2008-11-06 Thread Carlson, Steven
What if I do not have any errors, and I am using A MDL to simulate a VTS? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Campbell Jay Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 2:27 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How to correct tape errors

Re: Query: Mainframers look forward and back

2008-11-06 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 16:00:03 -0500, Gabe Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I probably should respond off-list, but I'm goig to do it here. ... Do people plan to work as long as they're able? Because of enjoyable jobs? From necessity? For other reasons? ... How painfully timely. Working as a

Hello all,

2008-11-06 Thread Howard Rifkind
Hello all, I'm missing a load module from a loadlib. I found it in another loadlib and I'd like to know if there would be any sort of issues just copying to the target loadlib I need? I thought in some where in the past some told me there could be an issue but right not I can't remember

Missing load module (Was: Re: Hello all)

2008-11-06 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 18:43:04 -0500, Howard Rifkind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You definitely need to come up with better subject lines. ... I'm missing a load module from a loadlib. I found it in another loadlib and I'd like to know if there would be any sort of issues just copying to the

Re: Query: Mainframers look forward and back

2008-11-06 Thread Tony Harminc
On 2008-11-06 Anton Britz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a) What is Mr. Goldberg trying to achieve ., Sales for CA or sensation/hysteria b) What lists are you cross posting too c) How much money are you getting for the information we will provide you d) How long have you been in the Mainframe

how to write sysrexx

2008-11-06 Thread Tommy Tsui
hi all Is there any book teach how to write a correct SYSREXX, how comes a bad arithmetic conversion with active = active + 1.any problem here??? RESPONSE=XXTSPD2 AXR0500I AXREXX OUTPUT DISPLAY 530 EXECNAME=INITINFO REQTOKEN=4000C34272CC59FE94C9 ACTIVE 6 +++

Re: how to write sysrexx

2008-11-06 Thread Scott Fagen
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 10:32:56 +0800, Tommy Tsui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all Is there any book teach how to write a correct SYSREXX, how comes a bad arithmetic conversion with active = active + 1.any problem here??? RESPONSE=XXTSPD2 AXR0500I AXREXX OUTPUT DISPLAY 530 EXECNAME=INITINFO

Re: how to write sysrexx

2008-11-06 Thread Tommy Tsui
Thanks, after I delcare active=0, it works fine On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Scott Fagen [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 10:32:56 +0800, Tommy Tsui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all Is there any book teach how to write a correct SYSREXX, how comes a bad arithmetic conversion

Re: Query: Mainframers look forward and back

2008-11-06 Thread Scott Ford
I am responding to this so called OT because I am once who has to work. I am an old timer - born in 1950 and working everything from the DOS/VS, VM/SP and OS/VS2 days upto z/VM, Z/OS and VSE of course. I enjoying developing software, but have to work because of circumstances out of my control (

Re: Hello all,

2008-11-06 Thread Bill Wilkie
Howard: If the library BLOCKSIZES are the same, a copy would be fine. The condition you alluded to was at one time, if you copied to a library whose blksize was different, the output library attributes would get changed. A better technique is to do a linkedit and include it from where it is

Re: how to write sysrexx

2008-11-06 Thread Tommy Tsui
Hi, I try to count the current init status but failed with the AXRCMD.? anything wrong? CMDRESULT=AXRCMD('/DI','OUTPUTVAR.',100); SAY OUTPUTVAR.0 c = 0 do c = 1 to OUTPUTVAR.0 status = substr(word(OUTPUTVAR.c,3),8,6) say status active=0 drained=0 inactive=0 if

Re: how to write sysrexx

2008-11-06 Thread Scott Ford
Tommy, What does the output from the sysrexx look like ? It would help for us to see it ... Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer [p] 678.266.3399 x304[m] 609-346-0399 identityforge.com This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or

Re: Query: Mainframers look forward and back

2008-11-06 Thread Gabe Goldberg
Anton Britz asked some questions -- Do you read the two current independent mainframe magazines z/Journal and Mainframe Executive? I've written dozens of articles for for them and their predecessors (4300 Quarterly, Mainframe Journal, Enterprise Systems Journal, etc.) for 20+ years. I

Re: how to write sysrexx

2008-11-06 Thread Tommy Tsui
the output here: how come the outputvar.0 is 4. AXR0500I AXREXX OUTPUT DISPLAY 562 EXECNAME=INITINFO REQTOKEN=4000C342864620BCAB4E 4 ACTIVE ACTIVE INIT=0 INACTIVE INIT=0 DRAINed INIT=0 On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Scott Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tommy, What does

Re: how to write sysrexx

2008-11-06 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
Tommy Tsui wrote: I try to count the current init status but failed with the AXRCMD.? anything wrong? CMDRESULT=AXRCMD('/DI','OUTPUTVAR.',100); It could be any number of things. First of all, AXRCMD is not a REXX function, so you need to tell it where to find it. You may need to define

is out of the office.

2008-11-06 Thread Keith Zawila
I will be out of the office starting 11/06/2008 and will not return until 11/17/2008. I will be out of the office from Friday, November 7th thru Monday, November 17th. I will return on Tuesday, November 18th. Thanks. ** The information contained in this communication is

Re: how to write sysrexx

2008-11-06 Thread Scott Ford
Tommy, Here is one I wrote and its output /* rexx*/ rc = AXRCMD('D U,,,0A80,10','OUTVAR.',100) if rc = 0 then do; say 'AXRCMD worked' end; say 'Queued lines: 'OUTVAR.0 do i=1 to OUTVAR.0 parse var OUTVAR.i wd1 wd2 wd3 wd4 wd5 wd6 if substr(wd1,1,3) = 'IEE' then iterate if

Re: how to write sysrexx

2008-11-06 Thread Scott Ford
Tommy, OUTPUTVAR.0 is the total lines returned back from the $DI that was issued to JES2 Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer [p] 678.266.3399 x304[m] 609-346-0399 identityforge.com This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise

Re: Hello all,

2008-11-06 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
Howard Rifkind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hello all, I'm missing a load module from a loadlib. I found it in another loadlib and I'd like to know if there would be any sort of issues just copying to the target loadlib I need? I thought in some