RACF EXIT ICHPWX11 doesn't work properly

2009-03-10 Thread Tommy Tsui
Hi all, After I installed exit ICHPWX11 and copy the REXX IRRPHREX into SYS1.SAXREXEC but I didn't works. I try to turn on the debug='ON ..but nothing showsanything I miss? ICH525I INSTALLATION ROUTER TABLE PROCESSED ICH508I ACTIVE RACF EXITS: ICHRCX01 ICHPWX11 ICH524I INSTALLATION CLASS

AW: EMC Centera for HSM?

2009-03-10 Thread Dietmar Ley
In this case the Centera is connected via OSA-Adapter. There is no need for any adapter (emulator) like Bus-Tech MAS.The Centera Mainframe HSM Migrator operates within the existing DFSMShsm address space. It uses three HSM exits (ARCMDEXT, ARCPEXT, ARCINEXT). Dietmar Ley -Ursprüngliche

Cost of CPU Time

2009-03-10 Thread Carson, Brad
Hello IBM-Main'ers, I'm looking for some information on how to calculate the cost for using CPU. Our new performance management team is trying to come up with a calculation that can be used for multiple platforms. Those include zSeries, Unisys, pSeries, HP9000, and intel. Since I'm not

Re: one IKJEFT01 job, 2 outputs in sdsf - why?

2009-03-10 Thread Bonno, Tuco
THANK YOU. this example [infra] of bpxbatch works very well in terms of solving my original problem/issue. but it's at the expense of making it much more complicated (imo) to process long complicated commands that go across 3 or 4 lines of input. w/ IKJEFT01, a continuation character at the

Re: one IKJEFT01 job, 2 outputs in sdsf - why?

2009-03-10 Thread Kirk Wolf
Use AOPBATCH or DTLSPAWN and you can use a spool file with STDIN and normal shell continuation syntax: //STDIN DD * foo arg1 \ arg2 \ ag3 With DTLSPAWN, you can also set shell variables via JCL parms: // EXEC DTLSPAWN,ARG='a=my.dsn b=your.dsn' //STDIN DD * echo variable

Re: one IKJEFT01 job, 2 outputs in sdsf - why?

2009-03-10 Thread John McKown
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:28:08 -0400, Bonno, Tuco t...@cio.sc.gov wrote: THANK YOU. this example [infra] of bpxbatch works very well in terms of solving my original problem/issue. but it's at the expense of making it much more complicated (imo) to process long complicated commands that go across 3

Moving HSM RECYCLE to different LPAR in SYSPLEX

2009-03-10 Thread Michael B Smith
I'm considering moving RECYCLE from my primary host to a secondary to offload some cycles from the primary. I'm running z/OS 1.8 on 3/4 LPARS in the prod sysplex and 1.10 on the 4th. Anyone tried this and fell in a ditch or were results as expected? Tips/Tricks? Any redbook,etc info in this

Moving HSM RECYCLE to different LPAR in SYSPLEX

2009-03-10 Thread Michael B Smith
I'm considering moving RECYCLE from my primary host to a secondary to offload some cycles from the primary. I'm running z/OS 1.8 on 3/4 LPARS in the prod sysplex and 1.10 on the 4th. Anyone tried this and fell in a ditch or were results as expected? Tips/Tricks? Any redbook,etc info in this

HSM and COMPRESS

2009-03-10 Thread Walter Marguccio
Hello there, using the applicable PATCH, I tell DFSMShsm to pass the COMPRESS parameter to DFSMSdss for the Full Volume Dump function. Does this patch apply to the BACKUP function as well (either automatic or command related) ? If no, is it possible to pass COMPRESS for the BACKUP function ?

Re: Cost of CPU Time

2009-03-10 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Carson, Brad Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 6:36 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Cost of CPU Time Hello IBM-Main'ers, I'm looking for some information on how to calculate the cost for

Re: Screen size (was 3270 emulator cost)

2009-03-10 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:32:45 -0600, Mark Zelden mark.zel...@zurichna.com wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:28:13 -0600, Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:42:29 -0800, Edward Jaffe wrote: Hmmm. I'm playing with it now and it looks pretty good (other than I can't

Re: Cost of CPU Time

2009-03-10 Thread Hal Merritt
It costs nothing to use the CPU, other than the electrical power it consumes and the heat load on the building HVAC. It just sits there. But there are costs associated with making the CPU usable. Software licensing costs, support personnel costs, etc. Some of the software costs may be keyed to

Re: Cost of CPU Time

2009-03-10 Thread Scott Barry
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:35:51 -0400, Carson, Brad cars...@labcorp.com wrote: Hello IBM-Main'ers, I'm looking for some information on how to calculate the cost for using CPU. Our new performance management team is trying to come up with a calculation that can be used for multiple platforms.

Re: RACF EXIT ICHPWX11 doesn't work properly

2009-03-10 Thread Walt Farrell
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:19:56 +0800, Tommy Tsui tommyt...@gmail.com wrote: After I installed exit ICHPWX11 and copy the REXX IRRPHREX into SYS1.SAXREXEC but I didn't works. I try to turn on the debug='ON ..but nothing showsanything I miss? ICH525I INSTALLATION ROUTER TABLE PROCESSED ICH508I

Re: RACF password id checking

2009-03-10 Thread Hal Merritt
Ah, the (in)famous industry recognized best practices. Which industry? Where is this Written? Are we talking about the data security 'industry' or the IP audit 'industry'. Who is 'industry'? Do they have a web site? Where can I find these publications? Sorry. You do what the customer

Re: Moving HSM RECYCLE to different LPAR in SYSPLEX

2009-03-10 Thread Spencer, Mike
It's a good idea to shuffle the cycles around. What I've done is use my storage management product to execute different schedules of recycles. At 6 AM the recycle is issued for everything that is zero percent full. This takes about 5 to 10 minutes to complete. At 6:30 recycle is issued for

Re: TCP/IP fail to start

2009-03-10 Thread Rabbe, Luke
Tomas - the explanation for IEW4000I recommends specifying a larger region size. We use 128M for the TCPIP started task. Luke -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Tomas Anderson Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 10:35 PM To:

MLE Option Support

2009-03-10 Thread George Rodriguez
I'm currently running z/OS v1.4 and I've been asked if the MLE option will work beyond 2010. My plans are to first go to v1.7 then to 1.9. I will need to know if the MLE will work on those environments as well. Thanks in advance... George Rodriguez Specialist, Systems Programmer Network

Re: RACF password id checking

2009-03-10 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Try FIPS 112 or ADS 545 for starters. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Flight Design and Operations Contract NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail: P.O. Box 58487 Mail Code H4C Houston, Texas 77258 Phone:

Re: Suggestions on how many Hyper PAVs to use per LCU

2009-03-10 Thread Tom Moulder
All I should have put more thought into this rather than just copying some text with the formula. John made me realize that I should have added my personal thoughts about this. Personally, I know of no one with the patience to calculate an alias value for each and every LCU in their shop.

Re: RACF password id checking

2009-03-10 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:25:08 -0600, Roach, Dennis (N-GHG) wrote: Try FIPS 112 or ADS 545 for starters. Does IBM provide at least a sample exit supporting these industry recognized best practices? (Though I'd prefer default or at least optional over sample.) -- gil

Re: RACF EXIT ICHPWX11 doesn't work properly

2009-03-10 Thread Rick Fochtman
Have you IPL'd the system after installing your exit? IIRC, you need to do so. Tommy Tsui wrote: Hi all, After I installed exit ICHPWX11 and copy the REXX IRRPHREX into SYS1.SAXREXEC but I didn't works. I try to turn on the debug='ON ..but nothing showsanything I miss? ICH525I

Re: MLE Option Support

2009-03-10 Thread Staller, Allan
Might as well add z/OS 1.11 to you plan. z/OS 1.11 (or whatever marketing decides to call it by then) should be avail in September of this year. Stopping at 1.9 will put you behind the curve (again). I didn't see anything that indicates support is being dropped. Check the LE books for information

Re: Screen size (was 3270 emulator cost)

2009-03-10 Thread Rob Scott
Just tried both MXI G2 and MXI 4.3 on a 68x142 display and I was able to re-create the probem with MXI 4.3. It appears to be a boundary error when calculating the dynamic area size for scrolling operations. MXI G2 handles this screen size just fine. Rob Scott Rocket Software, Inc 275 Grove

Re: RACF password id checking

2009-03-10 Thread Tony Harminc
2009-03-06 Hal Merritt hmerr...@jackhenry.com wrote: IMHO: exits as a subspecies are evil critters. They become an ongoing maintenance challenge and tend to attract unwelcome attention from auditors. Exits are hard to write, hard to stress test, and introduce a level of risk. You need

Re: RACF password id checking

2009-03-10 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Exits are hard to write, hard to stress test, and introduce a level of risk. You need extraordinary measures in place to protect the code. You could say exactly the same thing about application code. I've worked in many a shop where the application source code had been missing for years. And,

Re: RACF password id checking

2009-03-10 Thread Hal Merritt
Absolutely agree. Robust software is hard, darned hard. And, to repeat myself, all software has bugs. But I think most would agree that the level of difficulty and risks are generally somewhat greater on the system level as opposed to the application level. Of course, YMMV ;-)

Re: Screen size (was 3270 emulator cost)

2009-03-10 Thread Edward Jaffe
Mark Zelden wrote: From the ISPF User Guide Vol II, this is the official support statement: 2.1.2 Terminal characteristics 1. ISPF supports screen sizes from 24 x 80 characters to 62 x 160 characters. That's not an official support statement. That's just simply doc that never got

SHARE Proceedings

2009-03-10 Thread Edward Jaffe
I can't speak for other projects. But, 100% of the SHARE MVS/SCP Project presentations are now available in the Proceedings area at http://www.share.org. Austin was a great event. Lots of new and interesting information was presented. Hopefully, the proceedings will give those of you unlucky

Re: one IKJEFT01 job, 2 outputs in sdsf - why?

2009-03-10 Thread Jim Holloway
Sean, The IKJEFT01 / OSHELL combination produces two sysouts because ishell allocates STDOUT to a temporary file under /tmp then invokes BPXBATCH SH to run the desired command. DD OSHOUT1 is allocated and STDOUT copied to it. This dynamic allocation results in the separated SYSOUT.

Re: SHARE Proceedings

2009-03-10 Thread Bill Fairchild
I agree fully. Glad we finally god to meet. Hoping to see you again in Denver. As soon as I get the session evaluation forms' comments, I'll tell you what all the various topics were requested for future sessions. Bill -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Screen size (was 3270 emulator cost)

2009-03-10 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:16:03 -0700, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: Mark Zelden wrote: From the ISPF User Guide Vol II, this is the official support statement: 2.1.2 Terminal characteristics 1. ISPF supports screen sizes from 24 x 80 characters to 62 x 160 characters.

Re: SHARE Proceedings

2009-03-10 Thread Mark T. Regan, K8MTR
Not all of VM or Linux ones are out there yet. I was hoping to see this one 9162 - x86 Virtualization Technology for System z http://ew.share.org/proceedingmod/abstract.cfm?abstract_id=19229  Mark T. Regan, K8MTR CTO1 USNR-Retired (1969-1991) From: Edward

Re: How to use CSI Catalog Search Interface

2009-03-10 Thread L D Owen
It may be that your WORK area is too small. I had issues with the CSI code hanging or just plain not working. I used the following values and it helped. WORKLEN = 64000 dwork = 'FA00'X || COPIES('00'X,WORKLEN-4) LDO

Re: DFHSM Issue - Critical

2009-03-10 Thread L D Owen
I agree with don't cancel as many bad things can and do happen. When you hold RECYCLE, it will finish the tape it is currently recycling, and if I'm not wrong, it will finish the entire volume chain (if the volume was part of a chain). Try HOLD RECYCLE EOD instead as it will hold at the end

Fw: MLE Option Support

2009-03-10 Thread Bill Klein
Call me confused, If by MLE you are referring to Millennium Language Extensions, then I don't know why you think this has ANYTHING to do with the level of z/OS (or even LE) in use. This is a language specific feature and is dependent upon the COMPILER (COBOL or PL/I) in use and NOT what

Re: SHARE Proceedings

2009-03-10 Thread Kenneth E Tomiak
Posting a presentation for the SHARE Proceedings is an entirely optional choice of the speaker. Some projects do better at getting their speakers to choose to share than others. Some vendors choose to post on their own website so they can harvest your e-mail address. Some speakers

Re: How to use CSI Catalog Search Interface

2009-03-10 Thread Kenneth E Tomiak
You should get an error code if your workarea is too small and a value of what size you need. Bigger is better. Hanging? Did you cause it to scan all your catalogs which takes a fair amount of time? Not working? It has always worked for me, but I did not always get the results I wanted if I

Re: SHARE Proceedings

2009-03-10 Thread Kenneth E Tomiak
Hope I can read them, some of the writing is atrocious. On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:51:49 -0400, Bill Fairchild bi...@mainstar.com wrote: I agree fully. Glad we finally got to meet. Hoping to see you again in Denver. As soon as I get the session evaluation forms' comments, I'll tell you what

Re: SHARE Proceedings

2009-03-10 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:39:26 -0700, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: ... Austin was a great event. Lots of new and interesting information was presented. Hopefully, the proceedings will give those of you unlucky enough to have missed Austin a taste of what was presented and even

Re: MLE Option Support

2009-03-10 Thread George Rodriguez
I thought I saw something about it on the web. Sorry for the error of relating the COBOL compiler option with the Operating System. In reading there were many people saying that by using this extension they would at least have 10 years to change the code. Even IBM said that this was not a

Re: 3490E cartridges

2009-03-10 Thread Neil Duffee
On 2009-02-28 08:30 Pete Borton pete...bort...@northgatearin...com wrote to IBM-Main about 3490E cartridges: Thanks to all who replied. Our dilemma is that we still supply our software on 3480s! We've got a new z9 and a 3490 drive and thought going to 3490Es was right - most customers could

Re: Sites running CA-SYSVIEW release 12.

2009-03-10 Thread Neil Duffee
On 2009-03-09 15:56, Duane Weaver weave.@os...edu wrote Sites running CA-SYSVIEW release 12. to IBM-Main : We are having a problem when in CA-SYSVIEW, then entering the ISPF jump key character '=' (equal sign) in combination with the TSO/ISPF command separator character ';' (semicolon)

Re: Moving HSM RECYCLE to different LPAR in SYSPLEX

2009-03-10 Thread Douglas Shupe
The other item to check into is how often you do an EXPIREBV. We recycle ML2 on one LPAR, Backup on another, automation isses the recycle commands at 4:30 AM every day and we let it run till 5:00 PM (or it might finish by itself) when automation issues a HOLD RECYCLE, automation issues a