UNIT=VIO is INCORRECT DEVICE NAME

2010-02-26 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
I am having this problem. //TEST EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 //TEMP DD UNIT=VIO,SPACE=(TRK,1) IEF210I JOBNAME# TEST TEMP - UNIT FIELD SPECIFIES INCORRECT DEVICE NAME If I change it to UNIT=SYSDA, the file is allocated to VIO: //TEST EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 //TEMP DD UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(TRK,1) IGD100I

Re: UNIT=VIO is INCORRECT DEVICE NAME

2010-02-26 Thread Rob Scott
I believe that UNIT=VIO requires that VIO is defined as an ESOTERIC unit (rather than a GENERIC) - therefore it must be defined by the sysprog in HCD in the OS-config otherwise it will not be valid. (I have worked at sites in the past where even SYSDA was not defined as an esoteric). Rob

Re: Extended Alias support for PDS/E members

2010-02-26 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi We also considered this, but you can extended alias only with the BINDER Mark Jacobs wrote: One of our developers wants to use extended alias for non-program object members in a PDS/E. The developer can't find any documentation that says it doesn't work even though it I thought it was

Re: UNIT=VIO is INCORRECT DEVICE NAME

2010-02-26 Thread George Rodriguez
I too had this same problem and how I fixed it was through the ACS routines. If UNIT=VIO SET STORCLAS = TEMP. The advantage is that you can do this now. If you need specific info contact me off-list. Hope this helps, --Original Message-- From: Rob Scott To: MVS ListServ ReplyTo: MVS

Re: What is a Server? (Was FTP Datahub Question)

2010-02-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave I have client and server address spaces running in the same LPAR :) Among others, we run CICS MRO :)) In our shop CICS concurrently is a terminal server, a web service provider and requester, and a

Re: Need tool to zap core

2010-02-26 Thread Shane Ginnane
Mmmm - I have a plane of core (in a plastic case) sitting in my home office - 8k from memory. I can see the cores and wires, but it don't look like there are any nonotubes there ;-) What got me about that reference, is that there is such a thing as a Centre for Spintronics and Quantum

Re: Item on TPF

2010-02-26 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 1:07 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Item on TPF Snipped What else is interesting and quite comical (at least to me) is an article about

Re: Item on TPF

2010-02-26 Thread Bob Shannon
I still amazed that dos has continued to hang on to this day 15-20 years ago there were over 35,000 VSE licenses. That's a large business segment to kill off. That's a lot of hardware sales to abandon. Bob Shannon Rocket Software

Re: Senior Java Developer vs. MVS Systems Programmer (warning: Conley rant)

2010-02-26 Thread Austin, Andrew
They admitted that UNIX was a play on the 'word' MULTICS. Eunuchs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunuch -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message:

Re: Senior Java Developer vs. MVS Systems Programmer (warning: Conley rant)

2010-02-26 Thread Jon Brock
I quite liked Lisp. I haven't messed with it in years, but I just downloaded a version of Common Lisp that I plan to install on my laptop PC . . . where, no doubt, it will sit unused like so many other evidences of good intentions. Jon snip

Re: Senior Java Developer vs. MVS Systems Programmer (warning: Conley rant)

2010-02-26 Thread Williamson, James R
Unix is MULTICS with some bits cut off. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Austin, Andrew Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 8:03 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Senior Java Developer vs. MVS Systems Programmer

Re: Item on TPF

2010-02-26 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Ed Gould wrote: In the most recent issue (arrived in todays mail) of Z Journal there is a decent article on TPF. I just looked and its not posted online yet at mainframezone.com . What else is interesting and quite comical (at least to me) is an article about issues with z/dos (or whatever

Re: Crazed idea: SDSF for z/Linux

2010-02-26 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi You have interesting ideas, here I don't agree as with the REXX SPOOL interface and the HTTP server , small REXX exec's can serve any kind of browser with SPOOL data. With SAPI or the batch SDSF, it was not simple, but with REXX and SDSF it is easy , and it would be better to let the MVS

Re: Item on TPF

2010-02-26 Thread Scott Rowe
Wow, you AND a junior sysprog? I wish I could get some help - this isn't that small a shop ;-) Farley, Peter x23353 peter.far...@broadridge.com 2/26/2010 8:53 AM Ed, It's called z/VSE today, and I imagine the benefits of running it are the same as they were when I ran a shop that used VM and

Re: UNIT=VIO is INCORRECT DEVICE NAME

2010-02-26 Thread John Kelly
snip //TEST EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 //TEMP DD UNIT=VIO,SPACE=(TRK,1) IEF210I JOBNAME# TEST TEMP - UNIT FIELD SPECIFIES INCORRECT DEVICE NAME /snip Sounds like someone changed the device that the esoteric VIO was pointing to in the gen. Since SMS SG seems to allocate to VIO OK, there must be

Re: Senior Java Developer vs. MVS Systems Programmer (warning: Conley rant)

2010-02-26 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. Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com writes: idea was to do a micro-kernel base ... in higher level language ... like some flavor of pascal ... small focused

What's with IBMLINK now??

2010-02-26 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, Apparently somebody at IBM is monkeying with the IBMLINK URI. When I try to go there via www.ibm.com/ibmlink my request gets redirected to www-304bluecoat.ibm.com/. . . instead of www-304.ibm.com/. . . . Firefox dutifully warns me: www-304bluecoat.ibm.com uses an invalid security

Job Posting?

2010-02-26 Thread Scott T. Harder
Hi All, Does IBM-MAIN still have a job posting section? If so, can someone refresh my memory as to how to get there? Thanks! All the best, Scott T. Harder Mainframe Services, Inc. Naples, FL -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Job Posting?

2010-02-26 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 2/26/2010 10:22:30 A.M. Central Standard Time, scott.har...@embarqmail.com writes: Does IBM-MAIN still have a job posting section? If so, can someone refresh my memory as to how to get there? Thanks! Not really, just a new thread. Customarily, vet thru Darren

Re: Crazed idea: SDSF for z/Linux

2010-02-26 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 12:33 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Crazed idea: SDSF for z/Linux On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:59:41 -0500, Thompson, Steve

Re: What's with IBMLINK now??

2010-02-26 Thread John Kelly
snip www-304bluecoat.ibm.com uses an invalid security certificate. /snip Here's my response form IBM FeedBack about it. I find that it goes away after a while but happens mostly with Firefox. When I get it, I go to IE and get in OK. I had an offline line email from someone else who's had the

Re: What's with IBMLINK now??

2010-02-26 Thread Brian Peterson
I'm getting the classic: 500 Internal Server Error Brian -- 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: UNIT=VIO is INCORRECT DEVICE NAME

2010-02-26 Thread George Rodriguez
I did find this in SYS1.PARMLIB(IEASYS00): VIODSN=IGNORE. And in SYS1.PARMLIB(IKJTSO00) this: TRANSREC /* ALLOCATE COMMAND DEFAULT */ + NODESMF((PAL6,PBSB))/*ALLOCATE COMMAND DEFAULT*/ + . . . VIO(SYSALLDA)/* */ + In my IOCDS

Re: What's with IBMLINK now??

2010-02-26 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
John, I just tried www.ibm.com/ibmlink and I got the www-304.ibm.com/... like I always get. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 10:18 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: What's

Re: What's with IBMLINK now??

2010-02-26 Thread Scott T. Harder
Wow! Many times, I've heard of people not being able to get a site to load properly with IE, but when they used Firefox all was well. I've never heard the story told this way around; where Firefox had problems, but IE was all good. Chalk one up for MS, I guess. All the best, Scott T. Harder

Re: What's with IBMLINK now??

2010-02-26 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
BTW, this is using firefox... Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex R. Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 10:45 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: What's with IBMLINK now?? John, I just tried

Re: What's with IBMLINK now??

2010-02-26 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
john_j_ke...@ao.uscourts.gov (John Kelly) writes: Here's my response form IBM FeedBack about it. I find that it goes away after a while but happens mostly with Firefox. When I get it, I go to IE and get in OK. I had an offline line email from someone else who's had the problem and they

Re: Using ICETOOL to populate a field with a derived value

2010-02-26 Thread Frank Yaeger
Jeff Jones wrote: I've built an ICETOOL job to overlay an offset in a VB file with a literal. This works great. I also have another requirement to place a derived value at another offset in the output file. Can ICETOOL do this? Here are the requirements... SORT FIELDS=(5,28,BI,A) RECORD

Re: What's with IBMLINK now??

2010-02-26 Thread Mark Pace
Same here. Working as expected with FF. On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Pommier, Rex R. rex.pomm...@cnasurety.com wrote: John, I just tried www.ibm.com/ibmlink and I got the www-304.ibm.com/... like I always get. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: What's with IBMLINK now??

2010-02-26 Thread Chase, John
I just deleted the bluecoat string from the address in the address window and got in, so the original URI apparently is still working. Makes me wonder where the bluecoat is coming from, and why. pause OK, just exited IBMLINK and re-entered via www.ibm.com/ibmlink, and got the normal

PAGE/E-MAIL - Thanks!

2010-02-26 Thread Lucy Arnold
Hello All! I got lots of good advice and ideas and I just wanted to send a note to thank all that came to my rescue! I REALLY appreciate it, and we can now move forward with our project! Thank you all so much! Lucy Arnold Storage Manager U.C. Davis Medical Center 916-734-5498

Re: What's with IBMLINK now??

2010-02-26 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
mpac...@gmail.com (Mark Pace) writes: Same here. Working as expected with FF. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#19 What's with IBMLINK now?? one issue is that people may be actually going to different machines/gateways I've seen it with ibm greater connection ... there are various

Re: PAGE/E-MAIL - Thanks!

2010-02-26 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 2/26/2010 11:20:09 A.M. Central Standard Time, lucy.arn...@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu writes: thank all that came to my rescue! I REALLY appreciate it, and we can now move forward with our project! Don't forget that as stuff is offloaded, it needs to be provided for in DR.

z/OS 1.11 ServerPac dialog new installation variable: PFA

2010-02-26 Thread Jakubek, Jan
Kind listeners: I see new installation variables in z/OS 1.11 ServerPac: == PFA PFA OWNER USERID D PFAUSER PFA STG LOCATION D /pfapath PFA USER PASSWORD D

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-26 Thread Tony Harminc
On 26 February 2010 00:59, Ed Gould ps2...@yahoo.com wrote:  I am kind of surprised that I have not seen MUSIC (sp?). I do not remember the history other than I think the University of Toronto (i think they picked up from University Mcgill. Not sure at all

Re: z/OS 1.11 ServerPac dialog new installation variable: PFA

2010-02-26 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:42:57 -0500, Jakubek, Jan jan.jaku...@cgi.com wrote: Kind listeners: I see new installation variables in z/OS 1.11 ServerPac: == PFA PFA OWNER USERID D PFAUSER PFA STG LOCATION

Re: What's with IBMLINK now??

2010-02-26 Thread McKown, John
I go to http://www.ibm.com/ibmlink/link2 for my attempts. Just tried with Firefox and I.E. Both OK. Both end up at: https://www-304.ibm.com/usrsrvc/account/userservices/jsp/login.jsp?persistPage=truepage=/ibmlinkPD-REFERER=noneerror= -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative

Re: What's with IBMLINK now??

2010-02-26 Thread George Henke
Sounds like classic internet redirection spoofing. On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Chase, John jch...@ussco.com wrote: Hi, All, Apparently somebody at IBM is monkeying with the IBMLINK URI. When I try to go there via www.ibm.com/ibmlink my request gets redirected to

Re: What's with IBMLINK now??

2010-02-26 Thread Bruno Sugliani
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:30:38 -0500, George Henke gahe...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like classic internet redirection spoofing. [rant] Yeah but honestly I am a bit fedup with Ibmlink I cannot believe it is in the hands of professionals We do not have half of the problems on other professional sites

Re: What's with IBMLINK now??

2010-02-26 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 11:19 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: What's with IBMLINK now?? I just deleted the bluecoat string from the address in the address window

Entry Point of Attached program

2010-02-26 Thread Joe Reichman
Hi Sorry that I am back at this again But I remeber debugging under TSO TEST. I set a breakpoint right after ATTACH SVC 42 And entered ??R1+C. The in other words TCBRB + C Location 0C of a RB the documentation says system dependent field but I beleive that when doing an ATTACH it's

Re: What's with IBMLINK now??

2010-02-26 Thread Kirk Wolf
Classic? Its antiquated. With the proper edge servers, it is completely unnecessary to redirect to different host names for load balancing. IBM's practice of doing this is lame, and demonstrates that they don't know how to run a large scale web site. On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:30 PM, George

Re: Item on TPF

2010-02-26 Thread Frank Swarbrick
When you refer to z/dos, do you mean z/VSE? We are migrating this year from z/VSE to z/OS. I never thought VSE was that great until this project. z/OS has a lot of good stuff, but it also has a lot of annoying limitations (odd restrictions). -- Frank Swarbrick Applications Architect -

Red Alert: All TCPIP users on z/OS 1.11 (2010.02.26)

2010-02-26 Thread Knutson, Sam
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/redAlerts/20100226.html Abstract: A logic error in the base TCPIP code of z/OS 1.11 can cause applications using ASYNCIO Writes to be driven twice. This can affect various applications and subsystems using z/OS TCPIP ASYNCIO on the sending side

Re: Red Alert: All TCPIP users on z/OS 1.11 (2010.02.26)

2010-02-26 Thread Mark Jacobs
Subject: Red Alert: All TCPIP users on z/OS 1.11 (2010.02.26) http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/redAlerts/20100226.html Abstract: A logic error in the base TCPIP code of z/OS 1.11 can cause applications using ASYNCIO Writes to be driven twice. This can affect various

Re: Item on TPF

2010-02-26 Thread George Henke
IBM was about to sunset VSE a few years ago until it found out that in mainland China, VSE was the operating system of choice. Given their population, I don't think it will be disappearing anytime soon. And to think it all was just a mistake from the beginning. Back in the days when 3rd

ipcs print output

2010-02-26 Thread Paul Schuster
Hello: Is there a way to -not- have a 'TITLE' page separator appear in the IPCSPRNT output? For example, I do a SYSTRACE and there is no page separator, but when I do OPEN PRINT(TITLE('')); SYSTRACE PRINT NOTERMINAL; CLOSE PRINT; I get a line break. I am looking for something like the