VTAM - CICS definitions

2009-12-03 Thread Munif Sadek
Dear listers I have got CP - CP sessions going between two different mainframe networks, lets say NETA.A and NETB.B using Enterprise extender, and now would like to establish connectivity between two CICS - CICSA (running on NETA.A) and CICSB(running on NETB.B). What do i need to define: A)

Blast From The Past - UCB VSCR

2009-12-03 Thread Andrew Metcalfe
Hello Listers I realise that this subject is old, old, old but we have never had a requirement to move UCBs above 16M as we have been happily running with a private region of 8M and have not seen any CSA (below) issues. We are now looking at a strategy of consolidating workloads on fewer z/OS

Re: Blast From The Past - UCB VSCR

2009-12-03 Thread Mark Jacobs
Andrew Metcalfe wrote: Hello Listers I realise that this subject is old, old, old but we have never had a requirement to move UCBs above 16M as we have been happily running with a private region of 8M and have not seen any CSA (below) issues. We are now looking at a strategy of

Re: question on STORAGE function - TCB may become non-dispatchable?

2009-12-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [On Behalf Of Neil Duffee On 2009-12-02 at 12:14 concerning Re: question on STORAGE function - TCB may become non-dispatchable?, John Chase jch...@uss...com wrote to IBM-Main : From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf

Re: Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture

2009-12-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Anne Lynn Wheeler kgold...@gmail.com (Kim Goldenberg) writes: According to the Accenture item in Wikipedia, It was once part of Arthur Andersen. See the article for more information as to how the name became

Re: Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly

2009-12-03 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 18:32:25 -0800, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: I've been using WS_FTP Pro between Windows XP and conventional z/OS datasets for some time now with no problems. I just tried to access some OMVS files and they are displaying very strangely in WS_FTP. If I leave the

Re: Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture

2009-12-03 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
jch...@ussco.com (Chase, John) writes: Hmmm . . . $50,000 in annual salary, and $176,000 in attendance fees . . .. What's an attendance fee? Is that anything like the appearance fees paid to certain famous folks for simply showing up? re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#77 note

Re: Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly

2009-12-03 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 07:38:12 -0600, Mark Zelden mark.zel...@zurichna.com wrote: On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 18:32:25 -0800, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: I've been using WS_FTP Pro between Windows XP and conventional z/OS datasets for some time now with no problems. I just tried to access some

Re: SMS ACS and symbols

2009-12-03 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 14:54:44 -0500, Jousma, David david.jou...@53.com wrote: All, Are system or installation defined system symbols other than SYSPLEX or SYSNAME available for use in ACS routines? Looking at the manuals, it is not clear. Dave - it appears you are correct. Up to release 1.11,

Re: Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly

2009-12-03 Thread Ward, Mike S
How do you get to the hfs file system files from a windows ftp? All I see are regular mvs datasets. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 8:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject:

Re: VTAM - CICS definitions

2009-12-03 Thread Barkow, Eileen
All CICS cares about is the NETNAME (APPLID of the remote CICS region) and a correct MODENAME pointing to a valid lu 6.2 logmode. On the CONNECTION entry, just specify ACCESSMETHOD VTAM, protocol APPC. The network has to be able to find the remote CICS APPLIDs on each lpar so probably cdrsc

Re: Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly

2009-12-03 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 08:08:45 -0600, Ward, Mike S mw...@ssfcu.org wrote: How do you get to the hfs file system files from a windows ftp? All I see are regular mvs datasets. If you were using a dos command line interface, you would just cd / (or cd /some/directory). But this is also an FTP

Re: SMS ACS and symbols

2009-12-03 Thread John Kington
Dave, Are system or installation defined system symbols other than SYSPLEX or SYSNAME available for use in ACS routines? Looking at the manuals, it is not clear. I think godzilla only gives you what is documented in the Storage Administration Reference. You can easily test this out by trying to

Re: Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly

2009-12-03 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Mark Zelden mark.zel...@zurichna.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 9:02 AM Subject: Re: Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 07:38:12 -0600, Mark Zelden

Re: editting testing COBOL code (was:Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture)

2009-12-03 Thread Valerie M. Valcourt
At a regional user group recently IBM demo'd their RDz / Endevor plug-in (see attached Powerpoint). IBM indicated to get to Endevor from RDz install RDz V7.6 on the host. Config CARMA. Install the Endevor RAM (to configure Endevor's load module location install Actions). It was also noted that

Re: Timestamp Difference

2009-12-03 Thread Ron Thomas
Thanks a lot..I was so stupid to ask here for a such simple thing!! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Re: question on STORAGE function - TCB may become non-dispatchable?

2009-12-03 Thread Bill Fairchild
The syntax is found in the IBM book Authorized Assembler Services under the system service IARV64, which was mentioned in an earlier post in this thread. Bill Fairchild Software Developer Rocket Software 275 Grove Street * Newton, MA 02466-2272 * USA Tel: +1.617.614.4503 * Mobile:

Re: DS8700 Feature FlashCopy SE

2009-12-03 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Tom Longfellow tlongfel...@verizon.net Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 10:30 PM Subject: Re: DS8700 Feature FlashCopy SE I have no statistics for how widely it is used. But I would be surprised to find out that SE was

Re: Beating a dead horse but

2009-12-03 Thread Tim Hare
Thanks to all who replied, and apologies for not tracking this in a timely manner (life intervenes, etcetera) to the thread on IEFBR14 DELETEs and HSM recalls. I had not heard of the enhancement to z/OS 1.11 that should do just what I want it to, but I'll check it out.

Re: VTAM - CICS definitions

2009-12-03 Thread Chris Mason
Munif Let us restate - one hopes accurately - your configuration: You have a VTAM node with NETID=NETA and SSCPNAME=A and another VTAM node with NETID=NETB and SSCPNAME=B. Having created Enterprise Extender (EE) definitions successfully in both VTAMs, you have established a connection between

Re: Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly

2009-12-03 Thread Charles Mills
have they fixed the problem for PDS stats when the member name is less than 6 characters? What was the specific problem? I see, for example, Name VV.MM Created Changed Size Init Mod Id CC01.00 2009/12/02 2009/12/02 15:00 8 8 0 XX I can't swear

Is there a good mailing list or forum for mainframe C/C++ specifically?

2009-12-03 Thread Charles Mills
I found http://ibmmainframeforum.com/ but the last C question was in June and it hasn’t been answered yet. :-( I found http://www.ibmmainframes.com/ but they group C questions into “Other mainframe topics” which is not very promising. Does anyone have any experience with the IBM “C++ Café”

Re: VTAM - CICS definitions

2009-12-03 Thread Chris Mason
Eileen The network has to be able to find the remote CICS APPLIDs on each lpar so probably cdrsc definitions are needed on both sides. This is LEN-talk[1]! You been spending too much time around the Microsoft SNA products maybe! APPN has those handy CP LU to CP LU sessions which are there -

Re: Is there a good mailing list or forum for mainframe C/C++ specifically?

2009-12-03 Thread Sam Siegel
What is your c/c++ question. On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: I found http://ibmmainframeforum.com/ but the last C question was in June and it hasn’t been answered yet. :-( I found http://www.ibmmainframes.com/ but they group C questions into “Other

IEFU83 SDSSMF83 module

2009-12-03 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
Hello group. I just installed 1.11 and I have some hincky SMF problems, which I'm leaning toward blaming on an SMF IEFU83 exit. Here are some of the random errors we are getting: DFHST0103 CIAPZZAB An SMF error has occurred with return code X'14' IST435I UNABLE TO RECORD ON TUNSTATS FILE,

Re: Is there a good mailing list or forum for mainframe C/C++ specifically?

2009-12-03 Thread Charles Mills
I'm new to C++ so there are going to be a LOT of them. g The question of the moment is is there no 'safe' string copy library routine such as strcpy_s? I don't see it in the doc. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of

Re: editting testing COBOL code (was:Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture)

2009-12-03 Thread Nuttall, Peter (P.)
I was also recently at a demo of RDz There was a question as to whether it supports z/OS mainframes running JES3 ? ... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Valerie M. Valcourt Sent: 03 December 2009 14:18 To:

Re: Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly

2009-12-03 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 06:48:17 -0800, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: have they fixed the problem for PDS stats when the member name is less than 6 characters? What was the specific problem? I see, for example, Name VV.MM Created Changed Size Init Mod Id CC

VSMA RLS

2009-12-03 Thread Darth Keller
We are currently at zOS1.9 and are looking at implementing VSAM RLS. Our maintenance is current. We're wondering if anyone has had any issues with RLS or cautions to share. On or Off list is OK by me. ddk This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with it may contain legally

Re: IEFU83 SDSSMF83 module

2009-12-03 Thread Rob Scott
Mary Anne, You did try to browse address 16EDA300 and not 96EDA300 in IPCS , right? Rob Scott Developer Rocket Software 275 Grove Street * Newton, MA 02466-2272 * USA Tel: +1.617.614.2305 Email: rsc...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: SMS ACS and symbols

2009-12-03 Thread Jousma, David
I did find the list in the Ref Guide. Only SYSPLEX and SYSNAME are available, besides the SMS provided symbols. Thanks, Dave _ Dave Jousma Assistant Vice President, Mainframe Services david.jou...@53.com 1830 East Paris, Grand

Re: IEFU83 SDSSMF83 module

2009-12-03 Thread John Laubenheimer
On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 09:04:17 -0600, Mary Anne Matyaz maryanne4...@gmail.com wrote: Hello group. I just installed 1.11 and I have some hincky SMF problems, which I'm leaning toward blaming on an SMF IEFU83 exit. Here are some of the random errors we are getting: DFHST0103 CIAPZZAB An SMF error

Re: VSMA RLS

2009-12-03 Thread Jousma, David
Been running it for 4 years now, no problems. Just be aware that RLS is the stripped down version of TVS. RLS provides no transaction logging, so if you are using RLS outside of say CICS, then you have to do roll-your-own logging. TVS provides logging, amongst other features. You are parallel

Re: IEFU83 SDSSMF83 module

2009-12-03 Thread Walter Marguccio
Subject: IEFU83 SD From: Mary Anne Matyaz maryanne4...@gmail.com Subject: IEFU83 SDSSMF83 module D PROG,EXIT,EN=SYSSTC.IEFU83,DIAG CSV464I 07.18.34 PROG,EXIT DISPLAY 011 EXIT SYSSTC.IEFU83

Re: IEFU83 SDSSMF83 module

2009-12-03 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
Duh. No, I was checking 9*. I wasn't even looking at the address, just cut and pasting it. Anyway, no eyecatchers worthwhile at 16EDA300. I'm looking in to whether we have any SDS software. Thanks all! MA -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: How to subscribe to the Assembler List

2009-12-03 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Paul D'Angelo wrote: Can some one post the instruction for subscribing to the assembler discussion list. Look at http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/asm370.html There on that page is a hyperlink 'Join or leave the list (or change settings)' HTH! Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht

Small Server Mob Advantage

2009-12-03 Thread Warner Mach
I believe that I have identified an interesting phenomenon in the ongoing mainframe vs distributed servers debate. I call this the 'small server mob advantage.' . We all know that the ratio of technical people to end users is much higher with the smaller servers. I consider the small servers

Re: VTAM - CICS definitions

2009-12-03 Thread Barkow, Eileen
Thanks Chris for the explanation. I know that cdrscs can either be dynamically created or explicitly defined but do not know anything about APPN. We have an ISC Link between 2 cics regions on 2 different lpars which pass thru a security product running on a 3rd lpar and I am still trying to

Re: VSMA RLS

2009-12-03 Thread Darth Keller
Been running it for 4 years now, no problems. Just be aware that RLS is the stripped down version of TVS. RLS provides no transaction logging, so if you are using RLS outside of say CICS, then you have to do roll-your-own logging. TVS provides logging, amongst other features. You are parallel

Re: Small Server Mob Advantage

2009-12-03 Thread Steve Comstock
Warner Mach wrote: I believe that I have identified an interesting phenomenon in the ongoing mainframe vs distributed servers debate. I call this the 'small server mob advantage.' . We all know that the ratio of technical people to end users is much higher with the smaller servers. I consider

Re: IEFU83 SDSSMF83 module

2009-12-03 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
Walter, that's what the display looks like on my 1.10 systems...I have the following in a d smf,o: SUBSYS(OMVS,EXITS(IEFU83)) -- PARMLIB SUBSYS(STC,EXITS(IEFU83)) -- PARMLIB SYS(EXITS(IEFU83)) MA -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Is there a good mailing list or forum for mainframe C/C++ specifically?

2009-12-03 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 9:08 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Is there a good mailing list or forum for mainframe C/C++ specifically? I'm new to C++

Re: Jes2 Converter abend d37

2009-12-03 Thread Mark Yuhas
Have you considered using batch job executing IEBGENER with SYSUT2 assigned to an internal reader and make SYSUT1 a concatenation of 2 files - the first would contain only the JOB statement and the second the file from the vendor? I have done this with some other very large files.

Re: Date / Time simulation?

2009-12-03 Thread Ken Porowski
CA has published fixes for the issue TSS 12.0 fix RO12732 TSS 9.0 test fix BHD8665 -Original Message- Porowski, Ken If I read the alert from CA properly they do not recognize a 2010 TEMPDSN properly otherwise all would be fine. The workaround is to add specific rules for the 2010

Re: Small Server Mob Advantage

2009-12-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Warner Mach I believe that I have identified an interesting phenomenon in the ongoing mainframe vs distributed servers debate. I call this the 'small server mob advantage.' . We all know that the ratio of

Re: DS8700 Feature FlashCopy SE

2009-12-03 Thread David A. Diatto
I have no statistics for how widely it is used. But I would be surprised to find out that SE was created on a whim. It is obviously an attempt to return a feature lost when IBM retired their RVA line (Snapshot). I'm also eager to see this feature in action. When IBM dumped STK back in

Re: Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly

2009-12-03 Thread Charles Mills
There are at least two PDS member cases: with ISPF statistics and without. Is there any product that routinely gives sizes for pure (non-ISPF-saved) PDS members? So I assume you're talking about ISPF-saved member statistics. Correct me if I am wrong. WS_FTP Pro 12 displays PDS members two ways.

Re: Is there a good mailing list or forum for mainframe C/C++ specifically?

2009-12-03 Thread Charles Mills
Thanks. Right. I was thinking of several such possibilities. There are also safe versions of many of the char[] functions including sprintf, so several of these would have to be written. sprintf would be a little trickier than the below. I was just surprised that IBM did not provide safe

Re: IEFU83 SDSSMF83 module

2009-12-03 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
Ok, so it WAS SDS, VSV agent. According to their website, a zap is required for z/OS 1.11. What threw me was there were two entry points, VSVSMF83 and SDSSMF83. I knew what VSV was, and had removed his exit from IEFU83, but it didn't solve my problem, so I thought SDS was the culprit, but

Re: Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly

2009-12-03 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 08:31:44 -0800, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: So I assume you're talking about ISPF-saved member statistics. Correct me if I am wrong. Yes WS_FTP Pro 12 displays PDS members two ways. (I'm working from memory because I don't have FTP up at the moment and my DFW z/OS

Re: Is there a good mailing list or forum for mainframe C/C++ specifically?

2009-12-03 Thread Sam Siegel
strcpy_s is part of proposed standardization: ISO/IEC TR 24731. It is already implemented by Microsoft. IBM has not yet included it in its libraries. Sam On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: I'm new to C++ so there are going to be a LOT of them. g The

Re: Small Server Mob Advantage

2009-12-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Warner Mach wrote: I believe that I have identified an interesting phenomenon in the ongoing mainframe vs distributed servers debate. I call this the 'small server mob advantage.' . We all

Re: Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly

2009-12-03 Thread Scott
I always use FileZilla which I'm not the fondest of. But it works! To browse HFS, just put '/' where the 'DATASET' path is. You may need to put single quotes around it if you're stuck in it's MVS-mode. Scott On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: There are at

Re: Small Server Mob Advantage

2009-12-03 Thread Steve Comstock
Chase, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Warner Mach wrote: I believe that I have identified an interesting phenomenon in the ongoing mainframe vs distributed servers debate. I call this the 'small server mob advantage.' .

criteria during PRIMARY SPACE MANAGEMENT (PSM)

2009-12-03 Thread John Kelly
This is a curiosity question. I noticed that I have one or two datasets daily that get migrated during PSM that have one track and the minimum age (via MgmtClas criteria). There are numerous other datasets that have much larger allocation and longer age that aren't migrated. PSM has no trouble

Re: Is there a good mailing list or forum for mainframe C/C++ specifically?

2009-12-03 Thread McKown, John
OPINION TIME! The safe versions are not safer than using some of the others which include the length of the destination buffer. Such as strncpy, strncmp, and so on. The strn... functions are multiplatform and standard. The str..._s functions, from what I have read on the Web, are a Microsoft

Re: Small Server Mob Advantage

2009-12-03 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 11:01 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Small Server Mob Advantage Chase, John wrote: SNIPPAGE Frequently the problem is not that the

Re: IEFU83 SDSSMF83 module

2009-12-03 Thread Bob Shannon
So add that to the list of IEFU83 issues...I think there was one mentioned at Share, mainstar maybe? The Mainstar code was fixed before GA. Frankly, since SDS provided also provided a fix, I would consider this a user error. Bob Shannon Rocket Software

Re: Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly

2009-12-03 Thread Chuck Arney
Mark, WS_FTP 12 Pro displays the stats (and sorts the modified column) just fine for PDS member names of any length. I just tested it with names less than 5 characters and it worked fine for 1, 2, 3 character member names. Chuck Arney illustro Systems International, LLC http://www.illustro.com

Re: IEFU83 SDSSMF83 module

2009-12-03 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
Wow, not sure what I did to draw that ire. I was simply trying to help other people avoid my mistake. Yes, I did say my. I was unaware that only vendor problems can be posted to the list. I'll crawl back under my rock now, suitably chastised.

Re: Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly

2009-12-03 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:23:40 -0600, Chuck Arney car...@illustro.com wrote: Mark, WS_FTP 12 Pro displays the stats (and sorts the modified column) just fine for PDS member names of any length. I just tested it with names less than 5 characters and it worked fine for 1, 2, 3 character member names.

Re: criteria during PRIMARY SPACE MANAGEMENT (PSM)

2009-12-03 Thread Staller, Allan
Lack of ML1 space? What do the HSM migration logs say? Hint MSGARC0734I If SMS managed, what is the MGMTCLAS and the attributes assigned? snip This is a curiosity question. I noticed that I have one or two datasets daily that get migrated during PSM that have one track and the minimum age (via

Re: Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture

2009-12-03 Thread Joel Wolpert
Accenture was originally the IT consulting division of Arthur Anderson. That is why they took the name Anderson Consulting. They then were spun off from Arthur Anderson as a separate company and took the name Accenture. Joel Wolpert Performance and Capacity Planning consultant WEBSITE:

Re: Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture

2009-12-03 Thread Barkow, Eileen
Then Accenture must have inherited the fortune Anderson made off of Install-1. We still have the product although I personally do not have to maintain it - I think that Accenture or some Vendor has to be called in each time an upgrade is needed. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Small Server Mob Advantage

2009-12-03 Thread Joel Wolpert
In my opinion management doesn't care. Most management have a better understanding of small servers than MF so they naturally gravitate to this. As much as the MF people try to make a case the natural bias of management always comes out, which affects the decision. Also, the people cost is

Re: Small Server Mob Advantage

2009-12-03 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. ma...@resa.net (Warner Mach) writes: I believe that I have identified an interesting phenomenon in the ongoing mainframe vs distributed servers debate. I call

Filezilla, was Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly

2009-12-03 Thread Gibney, Dave
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 8:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly I always use FileZilla which

Re: Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture

2009-12-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea005bde01...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom, on 12/02/2009 at 07:49 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com said: What! You don't fondly remember the joys of running a Stage 1 / Stage 2 sysgen? Not in 1960. Or doing an EDT gen by throwing away jobs and steps

Re: Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture

2009-12-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In lsbdh5pvk7n0d4t0s4s4js5dgktejre...@4ax.com, on 12/02/2009 at 11:22 AM, Howard Brazee howard.bra...@cusys.edu said: But we do complain about how complex things have gotten, how we have far more people working on infrastructure instead of applications, and how vulnerabilities have increased.

Re: question on STORAGE function - TCB may become non-dispatchable?

2009-12-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea005bde01...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom, on 12/02/2009 at 10:08 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com said: There is an ongoing discussion on the CICS-L list about doing a STORAGE macro or GETMAIN/FREEMAIN. Some are saying that these functions can result in

Re: Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture

2009-12-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4b15bc63.9070...@ync.net, on 12/01/2009 at 07:01 PM, Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net said: I wouldn't mind looking back at the good old days, but only for hysterical purposes. SIO/TIO/HIO are NOT areas I would care to revisit for any productive purpose. :-) That was the progressive new

Re: Jes2 Converter abend d37

2009-12-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 94c476c03bff5e42ac3518fdac9643c4e2dea1f...@hqmail.rocketsoftware.com, on 12/02/2009 at 11:31 AM, Bill Fairchild bi...@mainstar.com said: It can always be worse. I once saw a vendor's SE give a 10- or 20-page printout to a colleague of mine, who then sat at a keypunch for several hours

Re: IEC143I 213-30

2009-12-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4b1662c2.6f0f.008...@efirstbank.com, on 12/02/2009 at 12:51 PM, Frank Swarbrick frank.swarbr...@efirstbank.com said: So perhaps a combination of the two is in order. Write to a temporary PDS during the translate and then use DISP=OLD on the copy from the temp PDS in to the actual PDS. The

Re: Filezilla, was Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly

2009-12-03 Thread Scott
It's supported FTPS for some time now. It just lacks a lot of customization. Honestly, FileZilla is a pretty terrible FTP client. But there's really not too many clients that I'd say are good, for Windows. On Mac I've got some very well-done choices. It will do what you want it to, which is

Re: Filezilla, was Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly

2009-12-03 Thread John P Kalinich
Dave Gibney of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 12/03/2009 12:48:37 PM: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 8:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject:

Re: criteria during PRIMARY SPACE MANAGEMENT (PSM)

2009-12-03 Thread John Kelly
snip Lack of ML1 space? What do the HSM migration logs say? Hint MSGARC0734I If SMS managed, what is the MGMTCLAS and the attributes assigned? /snip These DSN go directly to ML2 (which I should have stated) so ML1 isn't an issue. Since there isn't any errors, there's no msgARC0734I SMS

Re: IEFU83 SDSSMF83 module

2009-12-03 Thread John Kelly
snip The Mainstar code was fixed before GA. Frankly, since SDS provided also provided a fix, I would consider this a user error. /snip Paranoia seems to have raised its head. I didn't see anything accusatory in this thread and how many times have 'users issues/errors' been involved in

Re: Filezilla, was Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly

2009-12-03 Thread Gibney, Dave
I must have something wrong. I just installed the latest. 3.3.0.1 and I still get: Trace: CTransferSocket::OnReceive(), m_transferMode=0 Trace: GnuTLS error -9: A TLS packet with unexpected length was received. Status: Server did not properly shut down TLS connection Error: Could not read

Re: Is there a good mailing list or forum for mainframe C/C++ specifically?

2009-12-03 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
I would like to second that. With some of the new MS compilers, you have to define a symbol _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE; if not, you get warning messages on every call of strcpy, sprintf and so on. While I agree that the NULL terminated strings and the C string library are a bad idea from the

Re: Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture

2009-12-03 Thread Howard Brazee
On 3 Dec 2009 10:55:03 -0800, shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) wrote: This is kind of wishing we could work on our cars the same way as we worked on the 1958 Chevy. That's one kind of complaint. Another kind is to wish that they designed cars to last as long as they used

Re: Filezilla, was Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly

2009-12-03 Thread Scott
Where's the trace coming from? What are you connecting to? There's a lot of questions about your setup that I'd wonder about, before being able to begin diagnosing the issue. You're welcome to snowball me with info about how you're doing things, if you'd like some help. No guarantees, but I've

Re: Is there a good mailing list or forum for mainframe C/C++ specifically?

2009-12-03 Thread Kirk Wolf
Not to mention that most would not consider M$ as the leading authorities on how to write safe C/C++ code :-) On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:07 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: OPINION TIME! The safe versions are not safer than using some of the others which include the

Re: criteria during PRIMARY SPACE MANAGEMENT (PSM)

2009-12-03 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Jack, Is it possible that HSM is reaching its migration threshold for these volumes before migrating the datasets in question? Thank You, Dave O'Brien NIH Contractor From: John Kelly [john_j_ke...@ao.uscourts.gov] Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 2:05

Re: Filezilla, was Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly

2009-12-03 Thread Gibney, Dave
In the Filezilla GUI, pulldown tab View, checkmarked Message log. Connecting to z/OS 1.9 FTPD1 Filezilla's response is here http://trac.filezilla-project.org/ticket/3910 Full log follows. Status: Resolving address of xxx.xxx.wsu.edu Status: Connecting to 134.121.nnn.nnn:21... Status: Connection

Re: Tool for identifying mount points?

2009-12-03 Thread John Mattson
Thought I would give that REXX a try, and it looks like I am not getting values in the Vars. I am running zOS 1.8. Any ideas why this is not working on my machine? trace i shows this... 7 *-* j=s.stfs_avail * s.stfs_blocksize LS.STFS_AVAIL LS.STFS_BLOCKSIZE 7

Re: criteria during PRIMARY SPACE MANAGEMENT (PSM)

2009-12-03 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Does the Management class for these datasets require a Backup and does that backup exist? Thank You, Dave O'Brien NIH Contractor From: John Kelly [john_j_ke...@ao.uscourts.gov] Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 2:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject:

Re: Filezilla, was Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly

2009-12-03 Thread Richard Peurifoy
Gibney, Dave wrote: I must have something wrong. I just installed the latest. 3.3.0.1 and I still get: Trace: CTransferSocket::OnReceive(), m_transferMode=0 Trace: GnuTLS error -9: A TLS packet with unexpected length was received. Status: Server did not properly shut down TLS connection

Re: Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly

2009-12-03 Thread David Long
On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:55:25 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:23:40 -0600, Chuck Arney wrote: Mark, WS_FTP 12 Pro displays the stats (and sorts the modified column) just fine for PDS member names of any length. I just tested it with names less than 5 characters and it worked fine

Re: criteria during PRIMARY SPACE MANAGEMENT (PSM)

2009-12-03 Thread John Kelly
snip Does the Management class for these datasets require a Backup and does that backup exist? /snip Yes, backup is required and was done, and current (exists), two weeks before the DSN gets migrated. Jack Kelly 202-502-2390 (Office)

Re: criteria during PRIMARY SPACE MANAGEMENT (PSM)

2009-12-03 Thread John Laubenheimer
This is from z/OS V1R9.0 DFSMShsm Storage Administration Guide (SC35- 0421-06) page 65. (Other releases may have changed the manual name/number and/or page.) This discussion is for tape mount management datasets ... the description of such is not that clear; but, it really means direct to

Re: Filezilla, was Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly

2009-12-03 Thread Gibney, Dave
Thanks, UK43295 (APAR PK77240) is on my 1.9 system. I'll give TLSRFCLEVEL RFC4217 a try and report back. This is my third trip to this well on this issue. May be the charm :) Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University -Original Message- From:

Re: Tool for identifying mount points?

2009-12-03 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:58:21 -0800, John Mattson john_matt...@ea.epson.com wrote: Thought I would give that REXX a try, and it looks like I am not getting values in the Vars. I am running zOS 1.8. Any ideas why this is not working on my machine? trace i shows this... 7 *-* j=s.stfs_avail *

Re: Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly

2009-12-03 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 14:07:14 -0600, David Long dwl...@riteaid.com wrote: On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:55:25 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:23:40 -0600, Chuck Arney wrote: Mark, WS_FTP 12 Pro displays the stats (and sorts the modified column) just fine for PDS member names of any

Re: criteria during PRIMARY SPACE MANAGEMENT (PSM)

2009-12-03 Thread John Kelly
This is from z/OS V1R9.0 DFSMShsm Storage Administration Guide (SC35-0421-06) page 65. /snip John thanks for the thought but I think that's talking about Interval Migration Processing and not so much about PRIMARY SPACE MANAGEMENT. Jack Kelly 202-502-2390 (Office)

Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly

2009-12-03 Thread Neil Duffee
On 2009-12-02 21:35 concerning Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly, Charles Mills char...@m...org wrote to IBM-Main: [snip] using WS_FTP Pro [snip] I just tried to access some OMVS files and they are displaying very strangely in WS_FTP. [snip] If I set the

Filezilla, SSL, z/OS 1.9

2009-12-03 Thread Gibney, Dave
The following fix and parm update solved my problem with Filezilla. Thanks to all for the help, I'll probably stick with Bluezone myself, but it's good to have another option for my users. Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University -Original Message-

Re: Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture

2009-12-03 Thread R.S.
Joel Wolpert pisze: Accenture was originally the IT consulting division of Arthur Anderson. That is why they took the name Anderson Consulting. They then were spun off from Arthur Anderson as a separate company and took the name Accenture. Well... I really don't understand why do you insist

AUTO: Jon Nolting is out of the office. I will be checking emails occasionally. (returning 12/07/2009)

2009-12-03 Thread Jonathan R Nolting
I am out of the office until 12/07/2009. I will be on vacation starting Wednesday, March 4 returning on Monday, March 9. During that time, I will have limited access to both email and VM. Note: This is an automated response to your message Re: Beating a dead horse but sent on 12/3/09 7:44:30.

Re: Blast From The Past - UCB VSCR

2009-12-03 Thread Anthony Fletcher
Andrew Metcalfe wrote: I realise that this subject is old, old, old but we have never had a requirement to move UCBs above 16M as we have been happily running with a private region of 8M and have not seen any CSA (below) issues. We are now looking at a strategy of consolidating workloads on

Re: Blast From The Past - UCB VSCR

2009-12-03 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Anthony Fletcher flet...@nz1.ibm.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 4:18 PM Subject: Re: Blast From The Past - UCB VSCR Andrew Metcalfe wrote: I realise that this subject is old, old, old but we have never had a

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