Re: Multiple jobs/same name

2009-10-05 Thread R.S.
Paul Gilmartin pisze: [...] Until someone shows me documentation or an example to the contrary, I'll believe that OWNER is a synonym for userid. Different components should always use different names for the same entities -- it keeps programmers alert. Or perhaps it's just Conway's law again.

USER/OWNER/SYSUID (was Multiple jobs/same name

2009-10-05 Thread Terry Sambrooks
Hi, Paul Gilmartin wrote in Re: Multiple jobs/same name EXEC PGM=IEFBR14,PARM='SYSUID' substitutes the USER= value from the JOB CARD for SYSUID. Until someone shows me documentation or an example to the contrary, I'll believe that OWNER is a synonym for userid. The column headed OWNER in SDSF

Re: Multiple jobs/same name

2009-10-05 Thread Peter Relson
I don't use SDSF H generally because of it defaulting to your userID as prefix (must use H ALL to override). I consider that the default default. OWNER yourid PREFIX ** works very nicely for me. So, yes, you had to do something to get this in place, but once it's there it stays so from then on

Move files between remote hosts via FTP

2009-10-05 Thread Tsai Laurence
hi listers, Plan to move files between remote hosts via FTP . 1) I have 3 LPARs , Host1 , Host2 , and Host3 . 2) Plan to develop a REXX program or ISPF panel,to issue FTP request from Host 1,and put / get Files from Host2 through Host3. Is it doable on z/OS V1.6 ? or z/OS V1.10+ ? TKS !

Re: Move files between remote hosts via FTP

2009-10-05 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Tsai Laurence Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 7:10 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Move files between remote hosts via FTP hi listers, Plan to move files between remote hosts

IBM 1401 Announcement, 50th Anniversary today, Oct 5th

2009-10-05 Thread Andreas F. Geissbuehler
Autocoder was/is the name of the 1401 Assembler: APRICE,TOTALSUM INVOICE TOTAL The language syntax, the 80-col card layout and the obvious opcodes survived. The more logical left-to-right Add PRICE to TOTAL didn't. Here, Robert B. Garner's email to: 1401 Founders,

Re: USER/OWNER/SYSUID (was Multiple jobs/same name

2009-10-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 08:41:26 +0100, Terry Sambrooks terry.sambro...@btclick.com wrote: The column headed OWNER in SDSF will contain a Userid as per the attached listing (note that in this case the Userid exceeds 7 characters, because SPACEMAN has nothing to do with TSO). This field illustrates a

500 Pound Gorilla Downsizing

2009-10-05 Thread Warner Mach
It occurs to me that there is one aspect of the downsize mentality that has not been discussed, and that is the 500 pound gorilla aspect ... When there is an economic crunch and management looks around for where to cut they can not help but notice the 500 pound gorilla in the room. So,

Re: USER/OWNER/SYSUID (was Multiple jobs/same name

2009-10-05 Thread R.S.
Paul Gilmartin pisze: On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 08:41:26 +0100, Terry Sambrooks terry.sambro...@btclick.com wrote: The column headed OWNER in SDSF will contain a Userid as per the attached listing (note that in this case the Userid exceeds 7 characters, because SPACEMAN has nothing to do with TSO).

Re: Multiple jobs/same name

2009-10-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 09:11:21 +0200, R.S. wrote: BTW: jobnames can be easily protected using standard RACF class JESJOBS. The profile is SUBMIT.nodename.jobname.userid One can define who (not a part of the profile) on what system (NJE node), what jobname, *with what OWNER* (the last qualifier). So

Re: Multiple jobs/same name

2009-10-05 Thread R.S.
Paul Gilmartin pisze: On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 09:11:21 +0200, R.S. wrote: BTW: jobnames can be easily protected using standard RACF class JESJOBS. The profile is SUBMIT.nodename.jobname.userid One can define who (not a part of the profile) on what system (NJE node), what jobname, *with what OWNER*

Re: 500 Pound Gorilla Downsizing

2009-10-05 Thread Howard Brazee
On 5 Oct 2009 06:45:17 -0700, ma...@resa.net (Warner Mach) wrote: It occurs to me that there is one aspect of the downsize mentality that has not been discussed, and that is the 500 pound gorilla aspect ... When there is an economic crunch and management looks around for where to cut they can

Re: 500 Pound Gorilla Downsizing

2009-10-05 Thread Scott Ford
Have seen this too..Best one ever...was working with a collegu Guys, Have seen this too..Best one ever...was working with a collegue..with a large client doing a SNA/VTAM type conversion. He quoted her a rate for a RFP and she said thats a lot of money to convert 11 lpars.He told her this

Re: USER/OWNER/SYSUID (was Multiple jobs/same name

2009-10-05 Thread Edward Jaffe
Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 08:41:26 +0100, Terry Sambrooks terry.sambro...@btclick.com wrote: It is a useful way of identifying that a job is owned by a User, even if they did not submit it. Display Filter View Print Options Help

Re: 500 Pound Gorilla Downsizing

2009-10-05 Thread Neil Duffee
On 2009.10.05 09:45, concerning 500 Pound Gorilla Downsizing, Warner Mach ma...@res...net wrote to IBM-Main : [snip] the Maximus Leader would bring tours through the computer room. [snip] maintain and support the big number cruncher [snip] something that big and that important. These

Re: 500 Pound Gorilla Downsizing

2009-10-05 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I don't think so - as much as management would like to get rid of the mainframe, they know that change is expensive.The budget to replace everything is huge in the short term, and the short term is very important to them. I think you need to re-think that. Ask Eric Bielefield (if I

Re: 500 Pound Gorilla Downsizing

2009-10-05 Thread Howard Brazee
On 5 Oct 2009 09:22:03 -0700, nduf...@uottawa.ca (Neil Duffee) wrote: These days, with our burgeoning squatty box farm, I like to challenge tour folx (being shown the 'squatty boxen') to determine which machine is the mainframe since we take the least amount of space in the room. (ok, the

Re: 500 Pound Gorilla Downsizing

2009-10-05 Thread Eric Bielefeld
The name wasn't too far off - see below. I actually think PH Mining save money after a couple of years when they got off the mainframe. The biggest factor involved in that was the existense of a running platform that was already running their sister company in another state. The project was

Re: 500 Pound Gorilla Downsizing

2009-10-05 Thread Howard Brazee
On 5 Oct 2009 09:49:08 -0700, eamacn...@yahoo.ca (Ted MacNEIL) wrote: I don't think so - as much as management would like to get rid of the mainframe, they know that change is expensive.The budget to replace everything is huge in the short term, and the short term is very important to

Re: 500 Pound Gorilla Downsizing

2009-10-05 Thread Ted MacNEIL
The name wasn't too far off - see below. Would you believe ... Missed it by that much! - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: 500 Pound Gorilla Downsizing

2009-10-05 Thread Ted MacNEIL
But I disagree that the poor economy is to blame for this down-sizing, and I expect that when the economy gets better, the process will accelerate. The economy is a red herring! I've been involved in down-sizing exercises since the early 1990's. - Too busy driving to stop for gas!

Re: 500 Pound Gorilla Downsizing

2009-10-05 Thread Scott Ford
I saw this whole downsizing thing with a large big 8 accting f Guys, I saw this whole downsizing thing with a large big 8 accting firm who consults ( i will not mention the name), tried to move z/OS applications over to Unix and when it failed after millions of dollar expendedthey just

Re: Multiple jobs/same name

2009-10-05 Thread William H. Blair
Edward Jaffe notes: As I stated, I've seen it done far more than I ever expected. The problem, Ed, is that you expect (or at least hope for) mostly rational behavior, and you view such mechanisms as irrational and odd (because there are better, more appropriate, ways to do this). While I

Re: 500 Pound Gorilla Downsizing

2009-10-05 Thread Edward Jaffe
Howard Brazee wrote: But I disagree that the poor economy is to blame for this down-sizing, and I expect that when the economy gets better, the process will accelerate. The poor economy has breathed new life into legacy core systems. Systems that were scheduled for replacement are now

Re: USER/OWNER/SYSUID (was Multiple jobs/same name

2009-10-05 Thread George Fogg
On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 08:41:26 +0100, Terry Sambrooks terry.sambro...@btclick.com wrote: Hi, Paul Gilmartin wrote in Re: Multiple jobs/same name EXEC PGM=IEFBR14,PARM='SYSUID' substitutes the USER= value from the JOB CARD for SYSUID. Until someone shows me documentation or an example to the

Re: Multiple jobs/same name

2009-10-05 Thread Frank Swarbrick
On 10/4/2009 at 9:14 AM, in message 4ac8bbf3.1040...@ync.net, Rick Fochtman wrote: - You are NOT allowed to submit production jobs / reruns from your TSO (must go through the job scheduler) Absolutely agree. - You are NOT allowed to submit test jobs using a production jobname. Period.

Re: I am looking for a “poor man automation

2009-10-05 Thread Zahir Hemini
You have got quite a few options for this. what is available depends on whether you just want message automation or also scheduling. You should look at the following: TSSO (Free from CBT tape, but requires some knowledge to build) Write MPF exits (I bet a dozen people on here would show you how)

JES2 SUBTDEF Statement

2009-10-05 Thread Lizette Koehler
I am in the process of revising our JES2 statements (z/OS V1.9) and was wondering if there is any need to alter the SUBTDEF parm from its default of 10. I have not found anything in the manuals to tell me how to tune this particular parm or how to gauge if it needs changing. Lizette

Re: Multiple jobs/same name

2009-10-05 Thread Frank Swarbrick
On 10/5/2009 at 5:43 AM, in message of10f77fcc.d152952f-on85257646.00402abf-85257646.00405...@us.ibm.com, Peter Relson rel...@us.ibm.com wrote: I don't use SDSF H generally because of it defaulting to your userID as prefix (must use H ALL to override). I consider that the default default.

AMATERSE Even Less Device Independent Than Before

2009-10-05 Thread Edward Jaffe
I know Paul Gilmartin will just love this... With recent service applied, all of our jobs that UNPACK customer problem documentation to SYSOUT are failing with: AMA584E OUTPUT DEVICE TYPE IS UNSUPPORTED The problem is easily demonstrated with this simple JCL: //PACK EXEC

Re: 500 Pound Gorilla Downsizing

2009-10-05 Thread Rick Fochtman
snip-- I don't think so - as much as management would like to get rid of the mainframe, they know that change is expensive.The budget to replace everything is huge in the short term, and the short term is very important to them.

Re: Multiple jobs/same name

2009-10-05 Thread Rick Fochtman
---snip- On 10/4/2009 at 9:14 AM, in message 4ac8bbf3.1040...@ync.net, Rick Fochtman wrote: - You are NOT allowed to submit production jobs / reruns from your TSO (must go through the job scheduler)

Re: Multiple jobs/same name

2009-10-05 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 2:33 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Multiple jobs/same name snip But you still need to prevent testers from submitting jobs with

Planned IBMLink Outage - October 23-24

2009-10-05 Thread Ken Porowski
This is to inform you in advance that the IBMLink system will have a planned outage starting on Friday, October 23, 2009 at 8:00 PM Eastern Time through Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 5:00 AM Eastern Time. This planned outage will occur due to the installation of IBMLink Release 7.0 which will

Re: Multiple jobs/same name

2009-10-05 Thread Tony B.
If I knew the password I'd simply log on myself and submit.. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 2:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Multiple jobs/same name

Re: 500 Pound Gorilla Downsizing

2009-10-05 Thread Gibney, Dave
Lack of funding is certainly slowing the ERP project here. Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 11:16

Re: Multiple jobs/same name

2009-10-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 14:32:53 -0500, Rick Fochtman wrote: But you still need to prevent testers from submitting jobs with a production USERID. We used a TSO exit to remove USER/PASSWORD parms from the JOB statement. Got a better idea? Change the password? -- gil

Re: AMATERSE Even Less Device Independent Than Before

2009-10-05 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 3:14 PM Subject: AMATERSE Even Less Device Independent Than Before I know Paul Gilmartin will just love this... With recent service applied, all of our

Re: Multiple jobs/same name

2009-10-05 Thread Frank Swarbrick
On 10/5/2009 at 1:32 PM, in message 4aca49e5.2070...@ync.net, Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net wrote: But you still need to prevent testers from submitting jobs with a production USERID. We used a TSO exit to remove USER/PASSWORD parms from the JOB statement. Got a better idea? RACF seems

Re: Multiple jobs/same name

2009-10-05 Thread Edward Jaffe
Rick Fochtman wrote: But you still need to prevent testers from submitting jobs with a production USERID. We used a TSO exit to remove USER/PASSWORD parms from the JOB statement. Got a better idea? Really? 1. You use a TSO/E user exit to block this? What if they submit a job with USER= and

Re: AMATERSE Even Less Device Independent Than Before

2009-10-05 Thread Edward Jaffe
Pinnacle wrote: Did they give you the WAD here? No WAD yet... -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318 edja...@phoenixsoftware.com http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/

Re: Multiple jobs/same name

2009-10-05 Thread Tony B.
The whole idea of production user profiles is that they have no passwords, thus limiting the access to them to surrogat profiles. The RACF surrogat class, in the form userid.submit, as others have cited, can provide the ability for USERA to submit a job with USER=USERB, with no password operand

Re: Job name standards (Was: multiple jobs / same name)

2009-10-05 Thread Arthur Gutowski
On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 16:53:47 -0700, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: I have personally not put my userid into a job name in nearly 25 years. If I submit a job to compress a PDS, it's called COMPRESS. That's what makes sense to me. Except when there are hundreds or thousands of

Re: Job name standards (Was: multiple jobs / same name)

2009-10-05 Thread Edward Jaffe
Arthur Gutowski wrote: ... AFAIK, JES3 still does not allow for duplicate jobnames to exeute in tandem without modification (other than the bypass for UNIX tasks). I agree it's crazy. I suspect nearly every JES3 shop in the world has this (very old) one line modification in place:

HFS question

2009-10-05 Thread Scott Ford
I need a quick HFS question answered. I need to add a candidate volume for HFS. When I try to do a IDCAMS 'ALTER 'HFS.USERS' ADDVOLUMES(*)  ' I receive a  IDCAMS CATALOG ERROR . My problem is that I ned more space for HFS.USERS hfs file for a install. I searched through the archives and

Starting fresh, was Multiple jobs/same name

2009-10-05 Thread Gibney, Dave
I agree with Frank here. He's starting with a new z/OS system, albeit converting from VSE. He should not be encumbered by any of the baggage from pre RACF or any other this is the way we had to do it last century. Aside from logical job ownership controls and flexible job names, what other

Re: HFS question

2009-10-05 Thread Doug Fuerst
SMS or non-SMS? Scott Ford wrote: I need a quick HFS question answered. I need to add a candidate volume for HFS. When I try to do a IDCAMS 'ALTER 'HFS.USERS' ADDVOLUMES(*) ' I receive a IDCAMS CATALOG ERROR . My problem is that I ned more space for HFS.USERS hfs file for a install. I

Re: HFS question

2009-10-05 Thread Gibney, Dave
There must be more to the message than that? Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Doug Fuerst Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 4:11 PM To:

Re: Multiple jobs/same name

2009-10-05 Thread Rick Fochtman
snip On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 14:32:53 -0500, Rick Fochtman wrote: But you still need to prevent testers from submitting jobs with a production USERID. We used a TSO exit to remove USER/PASSWORD parms from the JOB statement. Got a better

Re: HFS question

2009-10-05 Thread Scott Ford
Yes, sorry i hit the keys too fast here is the messages fom my OMVS session and its non-sms also this z/OS 1.10 SFORD:/Z110S/usr/lpp/dfsms/bin: ./confighfs -xn 100c /u/ca Error issuing PFSCTL: RC=0 ERRNO=133(85) REASON=5B27C005 No space available SFORD:/Z110S/usr/lpp/dfsms/bin:   Scott J

Re: AMATERSE Even Less Device Independent Than Before

2009-10-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 12:13:36 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: I know Paul Gilmartin will just love this... With recent service applied, all of our jobs that UNPACK customer problem documentation to SYSOUT are failing with: AMA584E OUTPUT DEVICE TYPE IS UNSUPPORTED You might be surprised how little

Re: Multiple jobs/same name

2009-10-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 18:28:35 -0500, Rick Fochtman wrote: But you still need to prevent testers from submitting jobs with a production USERID. We used a TSO exit to remove USER/PASSWORD parms from the JOB statement. Got a better idea? Change the password? We did. Our Production Support staff and

Re: Starting fresh, was Multiple jobs/same name

2009-10-05 Thread Frank Swarbrick
On 10/5/2009 at 5:00 PM, in message edfbe8a9b39ed541ba3c8177c32ff0c8cde...@exchangevs-02.ad.wsu.edu, Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu wrote: I agree with Frank here. He's starting with a new z/OS system, albeit converting from VSE. He should not be encumbered by any of the baggage from pre RACF or

Re: Planned IBMLink Outage - October 23-24

2009-10-05 Thread Clark Morris
Is this worth a shareholder inquiry? As a shareholder, I am embarrassed by this announcement. I doubt that Microsoft has similar outages. IBM people, please feel free to forward this to the appropriate people. On 5 Oct 2009 12:50:11 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: This is to inform

Re: HFS question

2009-10-05 Thread Doug Fuerst
You are going to have to dump and restore it to a larger HFS on another volume. You really want to look at page 135 in the Redbook HFS Usage Guide SG24-5482. That page pretty much give you a step by step method.Confighfs only works if there are candidate volumes for the extent. Page 132 starts

Re: AMATERSE Even Less Device Independent Than Before

2009-10-05 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
Paul Gilmartin wrote: and better portability. Attempting to UNPACK to spool is as far outside its design parameters as it would be for IEBCOPY to load a member to a SYSOUT data set. The SYSOUT case is one I can make an admittedly weak case for - listing source (or punching cards!) from a

Re: HFS question

2009-10-05 Thread Scott Ford
What can I sat pre-canned IBM ADCD system. Means a bit Thanks Doug. What can I sat pre-canned IBM ADCD system. Means a bit more extra work, I figure it might be something like this.. I was hoping somehow add another candidate volume and let it use multiple volumes...welll.. Thanks, Mucnh

Java problem

2009-10-05 Thread Steve Comstock
We've recently been migrating our z/OS system from our Thinkpad under FLEX-ES to the IBM Dallas center. It's actually going pretty well, but now I'm having a problem doing a simple Java compile. Here's what happens: === javac cgijava1.java java/io/PrintStream.java(java/io:PrintStream.java):1:

AUTO: Werner Pause is out of the office. (returning 10.10.2009)

2009-10-05 Thread Werner Pause
I am out of the office until 10.10.2009. I will respond to your message when I return. Note: This is an automated response to your message Java problem sent on 6/10/09 4:01:34. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.

FEX (Find EXpression)

2009-10-05 Thread Dave Salt
A new command called FEX (Find EXpression) is being introduced in the next version of SimpList. It uses the same syntax as the regular ISPF find command, but enhances it with a couple of the concepts used in regular expressions. A beta test version has just been released and a few positions

Re: [MVS-OE] Java problem

2009-10-05 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: MVS OpenEdition On Behalf Of Steve Comstock We've recently been migrating our z/OS system from our Thinkpad under FLEX-ES to the IBM Dallas center. It's actually going pretty well, but now I'm having a problem doing a simple Java compile. Here's what

Re: [MVS-OE] Java problem

2009-10-05 Thread Scott Ford
What does the Java source look like ?   Scott J Ford John, What does the Java source look like ?   Scott J Ford   From: Chase, John jch...@ussco.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 1:10:52 AM Subject: Re: [MVS-OE] Java problem

Re: [MVS-OE] Java problem

2009-10-05 Thread Sam Siegel
Looks like it might be ascii. On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: What does the Java source look like ? Scott J Ford John, What does the Java source look like ? Scott J Ford From: Chase, John jch...@ussco.com