Re: REXX HI vs HE

2009-06-16 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
I don't know if compiled REXX works differently from interpretive. There is a possibility that you are executing an ISPF service or something that isn't interruptible. I know that I might have to hit ATTN a few times and enter the HI command to break a looping or long running REXX. Can you

Rational Team Concert for System z: No Charge Downloads

2009-06-16 Thread Timothy Sipples
I'm really liking IBM's open beta programs for System z software, and there's yet another program to report. IBM has just released new beta builds of Rational Team Concert for System z, for both z/OS and Linux. They are publicly available at no charge, ready to download now. At this writing

Re: Replacing channel attached IBM 6262 printer

2009-06-16 Thread R.S.
Ted MacNEIL pisze: See Levi, Ray, and Schoup - lotsa options. Unless things have changed, LRS products are very pricey! What about ...nothing? I mean regular PC with PCOMM installed, printer session on it. Any, I repeat: ANY printer can be attached to such PC. Price and model depends on

Re: HYPERPAV Support on Hitachi Disk

2009-06-16 Thread R.S.
Peter Bishop pisze: [...] FUNCTIONS ENABLED = MIDAW, ZHPF, HS What is HS, listed above? -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- BRE Bank SA ul. Senatorska 18 00-950 Warszawa www.brebank.pl Sd Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydzia Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru

Re: Changing VTAM TRLE for OSA adapter

2009-06-16 Thread Chris Mason
Neal There's something wrong with your manner of posting. I detected your last - maybe - post only in the Google Groups digest. The post did not and does not appear in the archives: http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0906L=ibm-mainO=Damp;H=0D=1T=0 which is where I keep a look out during the

Re: HYPERPAV Support on Hitachi Disk

2009-06-16 Thread Norbert Friemel
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:32:10 +0200, R.S. wrote: What is HS, listed above? HyperSwap(TM) http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IEA2M791/4.112?SHELF=EZ2ZBK0GDT=20090115001044CASE= Norbert Friemel -- For

Sun Cancels Its Next SPARC CPU (Rock)

2009-06-16 Thread Timothy Sipples
The New York Times is reporting that Sun has canceled its next generation CPU, codenamed Rock: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/sun-is-said-to-cancel-big-chip-project/ - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific

Re: How to synch MVS catalog to RMM CDS

2009-06-16 Thread Mike Wood
John, CATSYNCH is intended to make rmm status match what is in the catalog, not vice versa. However, running with VERIFY option does cause the messages for the unmatched status to be generated. So you could use those messages to manually update the catalog based on the rmm status information.

Re: How to delete multiple volumes from DFSMSrmm

2009-06-16 Thread Mike Wood
Rex, Just a short addendum on this topic after the good suggestions others have made. Rather than building the DV volser FORCE and deleting all the volumes, you could consider some kind of retirement process. Set the release action of the volumes to RETURN to owner, then release them. This

Re: How to delete multiple volumes from DFSMSrmm

2009-06-16 Thread Mike Wood
Once you have the search results list, remember you can (since z/OS VR8) use the SELECT primary command to mark the line command against all or a subset of entries and then press enter to process all line commands - but batch might be better for longer lists. Mike Wood RMM Development On

Batch or Shell

2009-06-16 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi Till now we have used the PPID = 1 (parent process id) to decide if a program has started from shell or batch via JCL Found if the process running with NOHUP(no hung up) , the PPID also 1. Any better method to decide if it is started from a shell or via batch ? -- Miklos Szigetvari

Re: ALTER NEWNAME non-VSAM non-SMS

2009-06-16 Thread אבנר מיכאלי
Hi Dave, Try to use the following IEHMOVE job: //COPY EXEC PGM=IEHMOVE //SYSUT1 DD UNIT=3390,VOL=SER=WRK167,DISP=SHR //INDD DD UNIT=3380,VOL=SER=KOL617,DISP=SHR //OUTDD DD UNIT=3390,VOL=SER=DBS003,DISP=SHR //SYSPRINT

IBM Software Secure Support via USA Citizens

2009-06-16 Thread Ken Porowski
Who ever thought that software support by US Citizens would be a selling point? IBM Software Secure Support via USA Citizens http://www.ibm.com/vrm/newsletter_10207_5013_119015_email_DYN_1IN/KPoro wski122130192 IBM(r) Software Secure Support via USA Citizens (Software Secure Support) provides a

Re: How to delete multiple volumes from DFSMSrmm

2009-06-16 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Unfortunately I'm still on 1.7. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Wood Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 6:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: How to delete multiple volumes from DFSMSrmm Once you have the search

Re: Language Environment runtime options and system dumps

2009-06-16 Thread Jim McAlpine
This is from the LE Debugging Guide, which seems pretty clear to me - *TRAP(ON,NOSPIE)* *TERMTHDACT(UAIMM)* TRAP(ON,NOSPIE) TERMTHDACT(UAIMM) generates a system dump of the user address space of the original abend or program interrupt prior to the Language Environment condition manager

Free software to stack tape datasets?

2009-06-16 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
We are looking to copy data off of 9840A tapes to 9840D tapes. There are a limited number of free slots in our SL8500, so just letting them wither and die is not an option. Neither is boxing them and mounting on demand. Since there are a limited number of datasets to be stacked we need a cost

Re: Language Environment runtime options and system dumps

2009-06-16 Thread Jim McAlpine
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Bill Klein wmkl...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Jim, Has anyone asked (yet) WHY you want this? I know that in IBM-MAIN, historically people (often systems programmers) don't like debugging tools that get in the way of original dump information. However, depending

Re: TCPIP Default keep alive question

2009-06-16 Thread Vic Petrone
Hello everyone, Sorry for the delayed response. First, thank you all very much for your responses! I'll try to reply to your comments here: 1) Gaur: I'm looking for an assembler interface to access this value. My application runs in a started task and does not have access to TSO. I used the

Re: Language Environment runtime options and system dumps

2009-06-16 Thread Lizette Koehler
I apologize for not keeping up with this thread. If the intent is to use IPCS to debug an LE SVC Dump, then you need to use VERBX LEDATA and get hold of the DSA and one other control block. The LE DSA will point you to the regs at time of abend. I think you always get the U40xx abend out of LE.

Re: Language Environment runtime options and system dumps

2009-06-16 Thread Steve Comstock
Jim McAlpine wrote: This is from the LE Debugging Guide, which seems pretty clear to me - *TRAP(ON,NOSPIE)* *TERMTHDACT(UAIMM)* TRAP(ON,NOSPIE) TERMTHDACT(UAIMM) generates a system dump of the user address space of the original abend or program interrupt prior to the Language Environment

Re: Language Environment runtime options and system dumps

2009-06-16 Thread Jim McAlpine
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.comwrote: Jim McAlpine wrote: This is from the LE Debugging Guide, which seems pretty clear to me - *TRAP(ON,NOSPIE)* *TERMTHDACT(UAIMM)* TRAP(ON,NOSPIE) TERMTHDACT(UAIMM) generates a system dump of the user address

Re: Changing VTAM TRLE for OSA adapter

2009-06-16 Thread Neal Eckhardt
Thanks, I was using AGENT newsreader to reply Emailing a copy to IBM- m...@bama.ua.edu. I guess replying through the archive will probably be more effective. Neal -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: HYPERPAV Support on Hitachi Disk

2009-06-16 Thread John Baxter
We have an older HDS Tagmastore USP which needed to have a code upgrade as well as getting the z/OS portion (via the channel adapters) reconfigured as an IBM 2107 image. The latter required a complete outage on the box, but we had to upgrade our SAN director as well, and the same change window

PSF

2009-06-16 Thread Ron Wells
Anyone aware know if the PSF proc(APSWP) can use a DNS name or just a hard coded IPaddr? -- Email Disclaimer This E-mail contains confidential information belonging to the sender, which may be legally privileged

Re: REXX HI vs HE

2009-06-16 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:19:01 +1000, Wayne Bickerdike wayn...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know if compiled REXX works differently from interpretive. I don't think the behavior is any different. I just mentioned that to indicate that I couldn't see what the exec was doing and that my diagnostic

Re: Free software to stack tape datasets?

2009-06-16 Thread R.S.
O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] pisze: We are looking to copy data off of 9840A tapes to 9840D tapes. There are a limited number of free slots in our SL8500, so just letting them wither and die is not an option. Neither is boxing them and mounting on demand. Since there are a limited number

Re: Free software to stack tape datasets?

2009-06-16 Thread Darth Keller
We are looking to copy data off of 9840A tapes to 9840D tapes. There are a limited number of free slots in our SL8500, so just letting them wither and die is not an option. Neither is boxing them and mounting on demand. Since there are a limited number of datasets to be stacked we need a cost

Re: Free software to stack tape datasets?

2009-06-16 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Yes, Darth that is what Radoslav is saying. As a HSM bigot myself, it would be my first option IF all datasets were cataloged. I expect they are not. I was hoping there might be something on CBT that someone could recommend. Dave O'Brien NIH Contractor

What to use to find tape utilization?

2009-06-16 Thread Brad Wissink
We need to determine the utilization of a 3592 tape. What program or utility do people use to determine tape utilization? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: IBM Software Secure Support via USA Citizens

2009-06-16 Thread Howard Brazee
On 16 Jun 2009 07:06:29 -0700, ken.porow...@cit.com (Ken Porowski) wrote: Who ever thought that software support by US Citizens would be a selling point? George Orwell? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: What to use to find tape utilization?

2009-06-16 Thread Hal Merritt
DFRMM. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Brad Wissink Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 11:34 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: What to use to find tape utilization? We need to determine the utilization of a 3592 tape. What

Re: IBM Software Secure Support via USA Citizens

2009-06-16 Thread Jim Chappell
What I thought was interesting was it isn't available till OCTOBER. James (Jim) Chappell 503 745-7841 503 349-5603(cell) james.chapp...@daimler.com Daimler Trucks North America LLC If you are not the intended addressee, please inform us immediately that you have received this e-mail in

Re: IBM Software Secure Support via USA Citizens

2009-06-16 Thread Gibney, Dave
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 9:46 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: IBM Software Secure Support via USA Citizens On 16 Jun 2009 07:06:29 -0700,

Re: Free software to stack tape datasets?

2009-06-16 Thread R.S.
Darth Keller pisze: We are looking to copy data off of 9840A tapes to 9840D tapes. There are a limited number of free slots in our SL8500, so just letting them wither and die is not an option. Neither is boxing them and mounting on demand. Since there are a limited number of datasets to be

Re: PSF

2009-06-16 Thread Natarajan Mohan
Ron, You can use dns name. I do use DNS/host name Natarajan Ron Wells rwe...@agfinance.com 6/16/2009 8:33 AM Anyone aware know if the PSF proc(APSWP) can use a DNS name or just a hard coded IPaddr? NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY The information contained in this communication, including

Re: IBM Software Secure Support via USA Citizens

2009-06-16 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 6/16/2009 11:57:38 A.M. Central Daylight Time, gib...@wsu.edu writes: But, he's from that island on the other side of the pond? What was the one TJ Watson got in so much trouble about tattooing serial numbers for identification on all citizens? I've been trying

Re: PSF

2009-06-16 Thread Ron Wells
so in your APSWPxxx proc you replace the IPADDR= with a DNS name? From: Natarajan Mohan nmo...@edfund.org To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 06/16/2009 12:18 PM Subject: Re: PSF Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Ron, You can use dns name. I do use DNS/host name

Re: What to use to find tape utilization?

2009-06-16 Thread Lizette Koehler
There are a nice set of STORAGE TOOLS on IBM website. They are free and do a good job at identifying tape stuff, like BLKSIZE under utilization, Tape Length, etc... ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tapetool/ Lizette Subject: What to use to find tape utilization? We need to determine the

Re: What to use to find tape utilization?

2009-06-16 Thread Klein, Kenneth
tapemap from the cbt dumps all the data about a tape include an estimate of the length of tape used for data. Ken Klein Sr. Systems Programmer Kentucky Farm Bureau Insurance - Louisville kenneth.kl...@kyfb.com 502-495-5000 x7011 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: IBM Software Secure Support via USA Citizens

2009-06-16 Thread Mohammad Khan
Not only was he from that island but was actually born in INDIA ! Plus ca change ... On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:55:48 -0700, Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee Sent:

DNS

2009-06-16 Thread Ron Wells
Given some new DNS names for devices...I can ping then from PC but not from Mainframe (in my TSO session-ping)?? any ideas where I can start looking for the problem upper case -- lower case ?? -- Email Disclaimer This E-mail

Re: DNS

2009-06-16 Thread Mark Pace
Do the PC and the Z use the same DNS resolvers? Is the PC the resolver? On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Ron Wells rwe...@agfinance.com wrote: Given some new DNS names for devices...I can ping then from PC but not from Mainframe (in my TSO session-ping)?? any ideas where I can start looking

Tivoli System automation(SA390)

2009-06-16 Thread Jousma, David
All, I've taken a quick look through the books, but nothing leaps out at me. We are a SA390 shop for automation. The problem we have is STC's under SA control that get manually shutdown outside of SA390 control can sometime cause problems with automation. I'm aware that I could logon to

Re: What to use to find tape utilization?

2009-06-16 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 6/16/2009 12:36:05 P.M. Central Daylight Time, kenneth.kl...@kyfb.com writes: estimate of the length of tape used for data. Used it for decades-file 299. But does it work on 3592's? **An Excellent Credit Score is 750. See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps!

Re: What to use to find tape utilization?

2009-06-16 Thread Wissink, Brad [ITSYS]
Thanks, this is what we are looking for. Brad Wissink Information Technology Services Iowa State University 515-294-3088 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Klein, Kenneth Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 12:35 PM To:

Re: DNS

2009-06-16 Thread Schlueter, Edward
Check the NSINTERADDR parm in your SYS?.TCPPARMS(TCPDATAx) member. That should point you to your name server(s). If the names are new enough, they might not have propagated everywhere yet. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of

Re: Tivoli System automation(SA390)

2009-06-16 Thread Mark T. Regan, K8MTR
In case you are not on it, there is a SAUsers group on Yahoo! Dave, In case you are not on it, there is a SAUsers group on Yahoo! groups: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SAUsers/ Group Email Addresses: Post message: saus...@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: sausers-subscr...@yahoogroups.com

Re: Tivoli System automation(SA390)

2009-06-16 Thread Barkow, Eileen
I wrote a clist that can be run from any console which issues all the SA commands needed for shutdown or startup, including resetting the automation status and flags and triggers. This clist is used by those who need a quick way of invoking SA without going to the panels and manually setting the

Re: DNS

2009-06-16 Thread Ron Wells
thanks looks like your right lan people has not updated the server with all the names yet.. From: Schlueter, Edward edward.schlue...@anheuser-busch.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 06/16/2009 01:11 PM Subject: Re: DNS Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu

Re: Free software to stack tape datasets?

2009-06-16 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:25:22 -0400, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] obrie...@mail.nih.gov wrote: We are looking to copy data off of 9840A tapes to 9840D tapes. There are a limited number of free slots in our SL8500, so just letting them wither and die is not an option. Neither is boxing them and

Re: What to use to find tape utilization?

2009-06-16 Thread Ken Porowski
But what is the estimate based on? The 'standard' 3 to 1 compression ratio? I have fit over 1TB of SMF data on a 'standard' 3592 in EFMT1. Thers is still room on the tape but I don't know how much. -Original Message- Klein, Kenneth tapemap from the cbt dumps all the data about a

Re: Free software to stack tape datasets?

2009-06-16 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:26:44 -0500, Mark Zelden mark.zel...@zurichna.com wrote: On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:25:22 -0400, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] obrie...@mail.nih.gov wrote: We are looking to copy data off of 9840A tapes to 9840D tapes. There are a limited number of free slots in our SL8500,

Re: IBM Software Secure Support via USA Citizens

2009-06-16 Thread Jerry Fuchs
They have to hire USA citizens first Jim Chappell james.chapp...@daimler.com Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu 06/16/2009 12:55 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject Re: IBM Software Secure

Re: IBM Software Secure Support via USA Citizens

2009-06-16 Thread Hal Merritt
And we all know that there aren't enough qualified people, which is why the jobs went overseas in the first place, right? ;-) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jerry Fuchs Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 2:25 PM To:

Re: Tivoli System automation(SA390)

2009-06-16 Thread Jousma, David
Thanks Eileen, I see you sent them. I will take a look. Just guessing, but since you had to write something, there must not be a builtin function from IBM to do this. Dave _ Dave Jousma Assistant Vice President, Mainframe Services

Re: IBM Software Secure Support via USA Citizens

2009-06-16 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Ya know! Not everybody on this is a USA Citizen. Nor, do we live in the USA. I'm still trying to see where this helps me. (Flame me if you wish). But, I'd prefer to see this topic dropped. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -Original Message- From: Hal Merritt hmerr...@jackhenry.com

Re: Tivoli System automation(SA390)

2009-06-16 Thread Barkow, Eileen
most things in SA are customizable via clists, which are needed to invoke builtin functions if any. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 3:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re:

Re: INFOZIP 2Gb

2009-06-16 Thread Kirk Wolf
Try it - it seems to give you an archive with no files in it. After all, what would the file name in the zip directory be? On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Bob Woodsideibm...@woodsway.com wrote: On Monday 15 June 2009, Kirk Wolf wrote: I could be wrong, but I don't believe that zip allows

Re: What to use to find tape utilization?

2009-06-16 Thread Scott Rowe
But that will take a long time to scan the tapes. The data should already be available in you tape management system, I know it is in TMS and RMM. Wissink, Brad [ITSYS] bjwi...@iastate.edu 6/16/2009 2:02 PM Thanks, this is what we are looking for. Brad Wissink Information Technology

Re: IBM Software Secure Support via USA Citizens

2009-06-16 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 2:42 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: IBM Software Secure Support via USA Citizens Ya know! Not everybody on this is a USA Citizen.

Re: IBM Software Secure Support via USA Citizens

2009-06-16 Thread Howard Brazee
On 16 Jun 2009 12:39:44 -0700, hmerr...@jackhenry.com (Hal Merritt) wrote: And we all know that there aren't enough qualified people, which is why the jobs went overseas in the first place, right? ;-) By qualified, we mean cheap. Being able to do the job is way down on the list of attributes

Re: IBM Software Secure Support via USA Citizens

2009-06-16 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/6/16 Ken Porowski ken.porow...@cit.com Who ever thought that software support by US Citizens would be a selling point? IBM Software Secure Support via USA Citizens http://www.ibm.com/vrm/newsletter_10207_5013_119015_email_DYN_1IN/KPoro

Re: Free software to stack tape datasets?

2009-06-16 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Thank you Mark, I'll look into this. Dave O'Brien NIH Contractor From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden [mark.zel...@zurichna.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 3:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Free

Re: What to use to find tape utilization?

2009-06-16 Thread Wissink, Brad [ITSYS]
But we don't TMS or RMM. We have a homegrown tape management system. So I am looking for a tool to scan a tape and give me as much information about what is on that tape on the few occasions that we need to know. Brad Wissink Information Technology Services Iowa State University 515-294-3088

Re: IBM Software Secure Support via USA Citizens

2009-06-16 Thread STEVEN DAHARI
AMEN We do all know. Steven Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:22:03 -0600 From: howard.bra...@cusys.edu Subject: Re: IBM Software Secure Support via USA Citizens To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu On 16 Jun 2009 12:39:44 -0700, hmerr...@jackhenry.com (Hal Merritt) wrote: And we all know that

Where should processing be done was Re: IBM Software Secure Support via USA Citizens

2009-06-16 Thread Clark Morris
On 16 Jun 2009 12:48:37 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 2:42 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: IBM Software Secure Support

Re: IBM Software Secure Support via USA Citizens

2009-06-16 Thread Harry Wahl
I think this is being misconstrued. There are caveats in the Stimulus Package (3.4 trillion dollars of spending) requiring that the money not be granted to projects not using resources in the United States. This is fair considering that the money is being spent to stimulate the American

Re: What to use to find tape utilization?

2009-06-16 Thread Scott Rowe
You do realize, though, that while TAPEMAP can tell you how much data is on a tape, but it won't (AFAIK) be able to tell you how much of the tape is utilized, right? The only way to tell how much space is left on the tape, is to ask the tape drive, and I believe (though I could be wrong) that

Re: IBM Software Secure Support via USA Citizens

2009-06-16 Thread Ted MacNEIL
There are caveats in the Stimulus Package (3.4 trillion dollars of spending) requiring that the money not be granted to projects not using resources in the United States. This is fair considering that the money is being spent to stimulate the American economy. Unfortunately, the economy is a

Re: REXX HI vs HE

2009-06-16 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/6/16 Patrick O'Keefe patrick.oke...@wamu.net I'm not sure how the equivalent process works in NetView.  EXECs run as interruptable long running commands in sort of a pseudo- subtask.   NetView has a read up while the exec is running and  (I guess) issues an HI if the user enters a CANCEL

TCP SMTP

2009-06-16 Thread Carlson, Steve
Trying to use the new parameter IPMAILERNAME vs using IPMAILERADDRESS on Z/OS 1.9. If I use IPMAILERADDRESS everything works ok, but if I use IPMAILERNAME the mail does not process correctly. Any suggestions. -- For IBM-MAIN

Problem of contention in DSNDIST DB2 V8

2009-06-16 Thread Jorge Arueira Campos
Hi all I have problem in address space DSNDIST DB2 V8, wich run in Z9-BC operating system z/OS 1.8 that puts CPU up to 100%, all day long. I open a ticket in IBM that was sent me back, a list of PTFs, but many of those were applied, and one of them address to this problem. Could you help me

Re: Where should processing be done was Re: IBM Software Secure Support via USA Citizens

2009-06-16 Thread Ted MacNEIL
As a US citizen living in Canada, I would strongly urge Canadian companies not doing business in the US to also not keep any personal data on US computers because of Patriot Act implications. Even if they're doing business in the US, I would strongly recommend keeping Canadian data in Canada.

Re: Where should processing be done was Re: IBM Software Secure Support via USA Citizens

2009-06-16 Thread Clark Morris
On 16 Jun 2009 16:31:00 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: As a US citizen living in Canada, I would strongly urge Canadian companies not doing business in the US to also not keep any personal data on US computers because of Patriot Act implications. Even if they're doing business in

Re: IBM Software Secure Support via USA Citizens

2009-06-16 Thread Dave Kopischke
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:49:56 -0400, Harry Wahl wrote: I think this is being misconstrued. And misconstrued in making this a border bash. The original move was to eliminate jobs in one country in favor of labor prices in another (according to the stories I read). Now that the direction is

Re: Where should processing be done was Re: IBM Software Secure Support via USA Citizens

2009-06-16 Thread Rick Fochtman
snip - Go to bottom Clark Morris wrote: On 16 Jun 2009 16:31:00 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: As a US citizen living in Canada, I would strongly urge Canadian companies not

Re: Web Troublemekr (Update)

2009-06-16 Thread Rick Fochtman
There's Some jerk out there calling himself Majic Software, Inc: that's trying to sell a virus-catcher. Avoid him like the PLAGUE: his so-called DEMO pops up every 100 seconds and is a major PAIN in the POSTERIOR. I've filed complaints with Illinois Attorney General, SecState, ICC and

Re: Where should processing be done was Re: IBM Software Secure Support via USA Citizens

2009-06-16 Thread John Baxter
There are numerous, not-so-obvious ways that the nebulous net can unexpectedly cross borders and become subject to the whims of foreign agencies. One example was Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, who in a cost-savings measures, decided to take advantage of GoogleApps. This caused a

Tape management system discussion

2009-06-16 Thread Tommy Tsui
Hi all, Is there any one use the IBM RMM and BMC tape management system? Which one is better ? Any comment on this two products? Any comment will be appreciated -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,