MFNetDisk and many new testers and users

2011-05-04 Thread Shai Hess
HI, Many new users ( and testers ) to MFNetDisk, much better new code for all MFNetDisk features. Better replication, tape and disk emulation, and much better MFNetDisk recovery process. All messages about new fixes and features are sent directly to MFNetDisk users list. To register and be

Re: Add'l Volume Amount

2011-05-04 Thread Gonzalo Cengotita
You are right, I didn't notice before, it only applies for VSAM. Then the limit is 255 extents per component, and you can remove this limit using the Extent constraint removal (put a value of YES in it) On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 4:15 AM, ibmnew ibm...@163.com wrote: Dear Add'l Volume

Re: Editing Unicode Files in z/OS

2011-05-04 Thread Timothy Sipples
Tony asks: Are you asking what people are currently using, or what they might like to see? The former, for the most part. But the latter is also interesting. Speaking of which, has anyone tried to compile the mined editor for z/OS UNIX System Services? That particular editor claims to be a

Re: Under z/OS Unix

2011-05-04 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4)
Some thoughts and comments from my side. More may follow. 2) Lower level APIs (assembler or other HLLs) These are used to implement (1). Just about any program / job can call these or (1), and the first time it does it gets dubbed (8) with a z/OS Unix PID and can use the

Re: Hercules, friend or foe?

2011-05-04 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2011-04-29 17:14, Mike Schwab pisze: [...] As long as you work at a shop with a licensed z/OS, you do have the right to test on a box of your choice, or for DR testing. Playing with z/OS or learning it is not DR testing. I wish there would be free z/OS for hobbyist use, but currently

Do we need to implement HSM

2011-05-04 Thread ibmnew
Dear all In our shop we don't have any tapelib. Do you need to implement HSM ? Any suggestions is greatly appreciated! Thanks a lot! Jason Cai -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

PHP modules..

2011-05-04 Thread Rafal Hanzel
Hi all ... Are there any extensions modules for PHP for z/OS ? We would like to use socket_create()function, so we need php_sockets.so Is it possible to get this module ? ... or maybe some other possibilities ? TIA -- Pozdrawiam/Best regards, Rafał Hanzel Programista systemowy, Dział Badań i

Re: SMPPTS run out of Space (another approach)

2011-05-04 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2011-04-29 16:45, Mark Zelden pisze: [...] I should tell you to RTFM, but I like you. :-) It means to consider all the specified zones when doing the REJECT - so it is an AND condition. If only one zone was specified, it would only look at that one zone and could delete a PTF from the

AD: Best of IMS Java Workshops in Germany Cologne May 17th and Munich May 19th

2011-05-04 Thread D Gaebler
Hi, we still have a little bit of room for both workshops. It will basically be a rerun of the Best of IMS Java workshop run as part of the AD Days in Ehningen. That differs from the agenda posted on the IBM web page: See the description for Track 6:

Re: Do we need to implement HSM

2011-05-04 Thread Lizette Koehler
In our shop we don't have any tapelib. Do you need to implement HSM ? Any suggestions is greatly appreciated! Jason, I think the answer will be it depends'. First DFSMShsm does not have to have tape. I have seen shops run DFSMShsm with only dasd. But, what is your shop's

Re: SMPPTS run out of Space (another approach)

2011-05-04 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2011-04-30 06:47, Linda Mooney pisze: As can be seen from the replies, there are different approaches for handling the PTS. In my shop, when a z/OS release is installed, the PTS is placed on a volume where it will have plenty of room. For the life of the install, PTFs are not purged

Re: Problem with LPA=xx on IEASYSxx

2011-05-04 Thread Peter Relson
All of the responses have been right on target. A few additional notes As of z/OS 1.12, you can issue DISPLAY IPLINFO,sysparm and it will show you the value that was used for that system parameter. For example, DISPLAY IPLINFO,LPA might show IEE255I SYSTEM PARAMETER 'LPA': 00 The LPALST data

Re: TSO Profile NUM and PACK

2011-05-04 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 11:34 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: TSO Profile NUM and PACK Snipped Sequence numbers provide convenient tags for

New website for jobs and Educational materials

2011-05-04 Thread Hylton Tom P
An IBM instructor recently passed on this link on another list, and it seemed appropriate to pass on here for those with interest. http://systemzjobs.com According to him, it's sponsored by IBM but run by someone else. It looks like it's primary purpose is a job board specifically for

Re: Editing Unicode Files in z/OS

2011-05-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 4 May 2011 15:46:53 +0800, Timothy Sipples wrote: The former, for the most part. But the latter is also interesting. Speaking of which, has anyone tried to compile the mined editor for z/OS UNIX System Services? That particular editor claims to be a stand-out for Unicode support on

Re: Do we need to implement HSM

2011-05-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 4 May 2011 17:45:01 +0800, ibmnew wrote: In our shop we don't have any tapelib. Do you need to implement HSM ? In fact, IBM early proposed HSM as an alternative to tape libraries, asserting that careful configuration of HSM should reduce mount traffic to a point that manual mounts

Re: Problem with LPA=xx on IEASYSxx

2011-05-04 Thread Casey Rhodes
The D IPLINFO,LPA and others is great but it would be even better if that was something you could use to display all settings at once with an ALL option or *. This will keep me from chasing the chain from LOADXX to parmlib to IEASYSXX all the time. Thanks for the information.

Re: Problem with LPA=xx on IEASYSxx

2011-05-04 Thread Rob Schramm
If you specify the ,L at the end most of the parms have a list option. At least it will give you a record in syslog of what you chose. Rob Schramm On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Casey Rhodes crho...@tsys.com wrote: The D IPLINFO,LPA and others is great but it would be even better if that

How Does DFhsm and Flashcopy Work?

2011-05-04 Thread George Rodriguez
When a Flashcopy of volumes are done and commands are sent to DFhsm to DUMP the all the flashed volumes, how do I recover a lost dataset. I honestly thought that DFhsm would know that this procedure was done and it would use the flashed copy to recover the dataset, but when I use ISMF to either

Re: TSO Profile NUM and PACK

2011-05-04 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 4 May 2011 09:07:15 -0400, Farley, Peter wrote: The first thing I do these days when editing a program for maintenance is UNNUM. I edit on TN3270E 50x132 almost all the time, and I find that the visual clutter of sequence numbers is far too visually confusing. I use a wide display

SYSEVENT QVS question

2011-05-04 Thread Steve Austin
Hello, Does anyone have an explanation of why this service returns different capacity figures for the partition if z/OS is running under VM from when running natively. Thanks Steve The following is taken from the z/OS V1R9.0 MVS Authorized Assembler Services Reference QvsCecCapacity,

Re: Editing Unicode Files in z/OS?

2011-05-04 Thread Jim Heifetz
I would like to edit such files with ISPF, if it had a the ability to do so. The only tools that I have to edit Unicode files are Windows tools - NOTEPAD and WORDPAD. I can access almost any z/OS Unix file from Windows because DFS is sharing them.

Re: Under z/OS Unix

2011-05-04 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4)
FWIW, IBM publications now use the current terminology: z/OS UNIX System Services (z/OS UNIX). This is not a discussion of the commonly used yet disputed TLA. Please. Go to the z/OS V1.12 doc site and do a search on USS over all books (some 370+), be surprised and be amused.

Re: Editing Unicode Files in z/OS

2011-05-04 Thread Mike Schwab
You could give http://gccmvs.sourceforge.net/ a shot. On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Wed, 4 May 2011 15:46:53 +0800, Timothy Sipples wrote: The former, for the most part. But the latter is also interesting. Speaking of which, has anyone tried to

Re: Do we need to implement HSM

2011-05-04 Thread Mike Schwab
You could implement the Small Dataset packing (small migrated datasets stored in a vsam file) and compress to disk the larger migrated datasets. This would reduce your utilization but would require some dedicated volumes. On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote:

Re: Under z/OS Unix

2011-05-04 Thread Kirk Wolf
Peter, Thanks for your earlier info and corrections. But everyone, PLEASE resist more discussions of the TLA on this thread. Re: BPXOINIT - do you find it surprising that in z/OS Unix that all processes don't inherit from pid=1 ? This is a PITA, since the environment variables established by

Re: Problem with LPA=xx on IEASYSxx

2011-05-04 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 5/4/2011 8:52 AM, Rob Schramm wrote: If you specify the ,L at the end most of the parms have a list option. At least it will give you a record in syslog of what you chose. You might not want to do this on the MSTRJCL parm, IIRC it will cause the JCL and messages for all started tasks to be

Re: TSO Profile NUM and PACK

2011-05-04 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com wrote: On Wed, 4 May 2011 09:07:15 -0400, Farley, Peter wrote: The first thing I do these days when editing a program for maintenance is UNNUM.  I edit on TN3270E 50x132 almost all the time, and I find that the visual clutter

Re: SYSEVENT QVS question

2011-05-04 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Steve Austin steve.aus...@macro4.com wrote: Hello, Does anyone have an explanation of why this service returns different capacity figures for the partition if z/OS is running under VM from when running natively. Thanks Steve The overhead of running z/VM

Re: Problem with LPA=xx on IEASYSxx

2011-05-04 Thread Rob Schramm
It can be a bit much to go thru.. but it also is a powerful record of what has been setup and what JCL is run... which is helpful when dealing with goofy problems that seem to be doing their best to hide. Rob Schramm On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Richard L Peurifoy r-peuri...@neo.tamu.edu

Re: How Does DFhsm and Flashcopy Work?

2011-05-04 Thread Scott Rowe
When you do the FlashCopy yourself like this, then HSM doesn't know that it is a backup of PTST00, so he doesn't look to this backup to restore a dataset on PTST00. It looks to me like you should be using FRBACKUP for this, so that it is HSM that is doing the FlashCopy, and he knows what the

Re: Using EMC Clariion SCSI disk with Linux

2011-05-04 Thread Mark Post
On 5/2/2011 at 08:46 AM, Crabtree, Anne D anne.d.crabt...@wv.gov wrote: In z/VM, the chips appear fine, defined as FCP with devices attached and FREE. I'm not sure what else I can do from the mainframe side to help the situation? HELP! Have you tried attaching a device number to one of

SV: USS vs USS

2011-05-04 Thread Thomas Berg
FWIW, I have always considered a use of USS as a name for a UNIX system as ugly. Especially for z/OS. Would in such a case prefer something like ZUNIX, UNIZ or ZUX ;).   Regards, Thomas Berg _ Thomas Berg   Specialist   A M   SWEDBANK

Re: Under z/OS Unix

2011-05-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201105031010589557.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 05/03/2011 at 10:10 AM, Mark Zelden m...@mzelden.com said: But I think your last part I quoted is probably closer. People don't say under USS when they use FTP or Telnet for example, Which people? I certainly consider FTP and telnet in

Re: Under z/OS Unix

2011-05-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In dc74548a025aff4a85f46926802a9b23063d2...@chsa1035.share.beluni.net, on 05/04/2011 at 10:08 AM, Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4) peter.hunke...@credit-suisse.com said: The OMVS TSO command processor had its rights in the nineties; it is obsolete today. Its a PITA. People having a need to work with

Re: SMPPTS run out of Space (another approach)

2011-05-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4dc13f61.4090...@bremultibank.com.pl, on 05/04/2011 at 01:58 PM, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl said: 3. Last, but not least: sometimes ACCEPT is simply required. Sometimes a product reads from DLIB libraries. Normally that's from a macro library and including MTS in SYSLIB takes care

Re: TSO Profile NUM and PACK

2011-05-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201105031805358294.1...@bama.ua.edu, on 05/03/2011 at 06:05 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: CDC did this, sort of. Il va sans dire ;-) At least in the systems that I saw on th 6400; I'm not sure what they used on the 3600. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz,

Re: TSO Profile NUM and PACK

2011-05-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201105040857073272.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 05/04/2011 at 08:57 AM, Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com said: I use a wide display too. With NUMBER ON, the sequence numbers are not displayed. ? Are you perhaps thinking of BROWSE? EDIT and VIEW displayed sequence numbers when the

Re: TSO Profile NUM and PACK

2011-05-04 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
AHHH, speak French to me Tish. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 1:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: TSO Profile NUM and PACK In

Re: TSO Profile NUM and PACK

2011-05-04 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 9:57 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: TSO Profile NUM and PACK On Wed, 4 May 2011 09:07:15 -0400, Farley, Peter wrote: The first

Re: TSO Profile NUM and PACK

2011-05-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 985915eee6984740ae93f8495c624c6c21d230c...@jscpcwexmaa1.bsg.ad.adp.com, on 05/04/2011 at 09:07 AM, Farley, Peter x23353 peter.far...@broadridge.com said: I disagree. The existence and intelligent use of labeled blocks of code (paragraphs and sections in COBOL, Procedures in PL/1, labels

Re: How Does DFhsm and Flashcopy Work?

2011-05-04 Thread George Rodriguez
Scott, So to paraphrase what you're saying, if I use FRBACKUP to perform the Flashcopy then I use the DFhsm commands to backup the FRBACKUP volumes, DFhsm will know that the backup is on flash copied backup. It that correct? * * *George Rodriguez* *Specialist II - IT Solutions* *Application

Re: TSO Profile NUM and PACK

2011-05-04 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 1:28 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: TSO Profile NUM and PACK Snipped By intelligent use do you mean plcing labels that

Re: SV: USS vs USS

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Mason
Thomas According to Steve Comstock, you are here on the side of the angels. But let us speak of it quietly! There's one contributor responding to another posts of Steve's where he saw something funny in the contraction from z/OS UNIX to zUNIX - oddly unexplained - who lost a part of his

Re: An unnecessary controversy (Was: Ported tools for z/OS on ADCD)

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Mason
Rex It would be best for everybody involved to simply make sure that their usage of the acronym isn't ambiguous. In principle, I could agree. However, how do you make sure that there is no ambiguity when so often contributors seeking guidance have seen only the incorrect use and maybe never

Re: An unnecessary controversy (Was: Ported tools for z/OS on ADCD)

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Mason
Bob I call it USS when referring to VTAM, and Z/unix when referring to OE. Just about quite right with two qualifications: 1. The VTAM reference needs to include the TN3270 server use where VTAM is involved only in supplying the macros from which the table used by the TN3270 server is built.

Re: USS vs USS

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Mason
Scott I would like to know which use is the most offensive to the largest number of people. That's the one I will start using most. That has to be the most sensible post Of course this is utter nonsense - and I hope Ed's contribution was a twisted joke! Chris Mason On Mon, 2 May 2011

Re: USS vs USS

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Mason
Don We are not dealing with a language - that would be another campaign such as getting rid of the stupid misuse of issue or issues for problem. We are dealing with explaining technical matters where there is an opportunity for ambiguity if we don't stick to universally understood, accepted

Re: USS vs USS

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Mason
Ed I would have thought you would have understood the position from my earlier post. IBM should IMO do a 360 and say USS means unformatted system services. IBM should stay exactly where it is, veer not one degree off course, and stick to the following - which I obviously have to post in full

Re: USS vs USS

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Mason
Scott ... the SNA 3270 days to be exact. Well, not quite as exact as it might be. SNA devices supporting human end users - as opposed to SNA devices supporting programs - needed some technique for composing the three data elements needed for the SSCP (VTAM) to initiate a session. This

Re: USS vs USS

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Mason
Ted I don't believe it's an OOPS. In principle, you are correct. As John Eells told us in that post I quoted and I'm sure you will have seen, your misuse is *not* sanctioned by IBM. If IBMers are guilty of your misuse, they are just that, guilty of misuse - but I don't expect they will be

Re: USS vs USS

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Mason
Frank Just to unnecessarily add fuel to the fire, ... Unfortunately, this thread got established without a proper indication to the thread which inspired it and so your unnecessary[1] may or may not be paying homage to what I had already indicated in the title of that thread An unnecessary

Re: USS vs USS

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Mason
David Just sitting back, eating my popcorn on this one ... I'd hate to disappoint you - and thanks for what I eventually discovered was concern for my health. ... Hopefully Chris doesn’t have a Chest grabber Chest grabber is not an universal synonym for a heart attack but, when

Re: USS vs USS

2011-05-04 Thread Rob Schramm
Chris, I would successfully argue that the universally understood, accepted and mandated expressions is a bit wide and not at all in synch with reality. If it were universal, we would never be having these discussions. Wednesday and still Cheery, Rob Schramm On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:16 PM,

Re: USS vs USS

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Mason
John Actually Hursley - eventual home of CICS - has my prize for the case of a non- native product having the most useful description of something which the product did not own. There may be better instances - and if so they would be rare - but this one is mine. Just to try to keep up my

Re: SV: USS vs USS

2011-05-04 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 4 May 2011 18:33:27 +0200, Thomas Berg thomas.b...@swedbank.se wrote: FWIW, I have always considered a use of USS as a name for a UNIX system as ugly. Especially for z/OS. Would in such a case prefer something like ZUNIX, UNIZ or ZUX ;). How soon we forget. Openedition existed for

Re: USS vs USS

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Mason
See post to John Chase - or perhaps not if you want to continue to have a good day. Chris Mason On Wed, 4 May 2011 10:29:48 +0200, Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4) peter.hunke...@credit-suisse.com wrote: Just to unnecessarily add fuel to the fire, the following is a CICS SIT parameter: USSHOME The

Re: Under z/OS Unix

2011-05-04 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 4 May 2011 12:48:14 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In listserv%201105031010589557.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 05/03/2011 at 10:10 AM, Mark Zelden m...@mzelden.com said: But I think your last part I quoted is probably closer. People don't say under USS

Re: Using EMC Clariion SCSI disk with Linux

2011-05-04 Thread Crabtree, Anne D
I can say, definitely yes, that a device was attached to the linux guest, but since I don't do the Linux stuff, can't answer the HBA question. Unfortunately, linux person out till May 15! From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On

Re: Under z/OS Unix

2011-05-04 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Mark Zelden m...@mzelden.com wrote: On Wed, 4 May 2011 12:48:14 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In listserv%201105031010589557.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 05/03/2011   at 10:10 AM, Mark Zelden m...@mzelden.com said: But I think your

Re: Ported tools for z/OS on ADCD

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Mason
Rob Are we ready to let this thread die? Since the OP has already said thank you and moved on, there is no real need still to continue with this thread. If you mean Are we ready to let the topic which emerged from this thread and which has spawned other threads die?, very probably not while

Re: USS vs USS

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Mason
Don It seems to me that the big argument here is that once an acronym is used for one thing it may never, ever be used for any other purpose else mass confusion will result, ... Not will result but rather has resulted. If there was a time where one use was appropriate which has disappeared

Some good news to send to upper management

2011-05-04 Thread Ed Gould
I have been reading a new(?) book called Real World IBM z Stories. It talks specifically about companies (with names) of system z success stories. It also talks about 3 univesities that teach OS's that run on System z. I got my copy on AMAZON, it is approx 168 pages of really good stories about

Re: USS vs USS

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Mason
Dave I've repeated an example of why it matters to Don Grinsell. I thought it might be interesting to dig out another case. In fact, I see now it's the same person still bemused by hearing the misuse so often and getting confused in a way other than that other example: quote I have the

Re: USS vs USS

2011-05-04 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Chris Mason chrisma...@belgacom.net wrote: Ed deleted http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/terminology/u.html#x2042481 deleted] On this page it has 2 definitions of note: 1. UNIX System Services An element of z/OS that creates a UNIX environment that

Re: USS vs USS

2011-05-04 Thread Mike Schwab
I know we were using these http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/museum/varian/teletype-E.html teletypes well into the 1990s. By 1984 they were being used as printers only attached to a modem, 16*64 green screen, and keyboard unit. On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Chris Mason chrisma...@belgacom.net wrote:

Re: SV: USS vs USS

2011-05-04 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 4 May 2011 13:29:03 -0500, Mark Zelden m...@mzelden.com wrote: On Wed, 4 May 2011 18:33:27 +0200, Thomas Berg thomas.b...@swedbank.se wrote: FWIW, I have always considered a use of USS as a name for a UNIX system as ugly. Especially for z/OS. Would in such a case prefer something like

Re: SV: USS vs USS

2011-05-04 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Mark Zelden m...@mzelden.com wrote: On Wed, 4 May 2011 18:33:27 +0200, Thomas Berg thomas.b...@swedbank.se wrote: FWIW, I have always considered a use of USS as a name for a UNIX system as ugly. Especially for z/OS.  Would in such a case prefer something like

Re: USS vs USS

2011-05-04 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 4 May 2011 13:28:30 -0500, Chris Mason chrisma...@belgacom.net wrote: Mark - who clearly hasn't cleaned the egg off yet[1] Please try and keep this professional. I have no idea what you are referring to, but it doesn't add to the discussion. IBM didn't misuse it. Wrong! The

Re: Under z/OS Unix

2011-05-04 Thread Kirk Wolf
Good discussion. As OP, I was hoping for some consensus that Under z/OS Unix or Under USS are not very useful terms since most people don't recognize them as meaning any dubbed z/OS Unix process. Under a z/OS Unix shell or program in a zFS filesystem are closer to what most people see to think

Re: TSO Profile NUM and PACK

2011-05-04 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 4 May 2011 13:23:24 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In listserv%201105040857073272.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 05/04/2011 at 08:57 AM, Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com said: I use a wide display too. With NUMBER ON, the sequence numbers are not displayed. Are you perhaps

Re: USS vs USS

2011-05-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201105031428549899.1...@bama.ua.edu, on 05/03/2011 at 02:28 PM, Mark Zelden m...@mzelden.com said: IBM didn't misuse it. The description of the parm used official (ahem) IBM terminology. John Eels said otherwise, and he's in a position to know. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.)

Re: How Does DFhsm and Flashcopy Work?

2011-05-04 Thread Scott Rowe
Yes, though I don't know about using command backup, I usually use HSM autodump. However, use of FRBACKUP will require a certain amount of setup, so it is not appropriate for ad-hoc uses. On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 1:33 PM, George Rodriguez george.rodrig...@palmbeachschools.org wrote: Scott, So

Re: USS vs USS

2011-05-04 Thread Bob Rutledge
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: John Eels said otherwise, and he's in a position to know. Eells. Bob -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET

Re: SV: USS vs USS

2011-05-04 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
mike.a.sch...@gmail.com (Mike Schwab) writes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_AIX IBM wrote TSS/370 in 1980 then VM/IX then AIX/370 in 1988 then AIX/ESA until 1999 when it merged into MVS/ESA Open Edition. tss/360 was done in the 60s (official system for 360/67) ... was decommited and lived

Re: How Does DFhsm and Flashcopy Work?

2011-05-04 Thread George Rodriguez
I've already started the investigation on how to get the job done and you're right, it's not a small task. I appreciate the information. Thanks, George Rodriguez Specialist II - IT Solutions Application Support / Quality Assurance PX - 47652 (561) 357-7652 (office) (561) 707-3496 (mobile) School

Re: Do we need to implement HSM

2011-05-04 Thread Cris Hernandez #9
proper use of mgmtclas/storclas can save a whole lot of dasd and prevents the need to clean up garbage on a regular basis. --- On Wed, 5/4/11, ibmnew ibm...@163.com wrote: From: ibmnew ibm...@163.com Subject: Do we need to implement HSM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: Wednesday, May 4,

POHD: vs UTE (was: USS vs USS)

2011-05-04 Thread Kirk Wolf
Maybe its time to have two lists - one for Pedantic or Historical Discussions (POHD) , and one for Useful Technical Exchange (UTE) (sorry if these acronyms are taken, I fully expect this thread to blossom to discuss improper usage :-) A rough count of recent traffic on the USS TLA yields well

Re: POHD: vs UTE (was: USS vs USS)

2011-05-04 Thread Shane Ginnane
A least the change in subject got me to read it Kirk ;-) It's a pity the list doesn't support (per subscriber) blacklisting threads/contributors *at the server*. Would save an awful lot of bandwidth. ISTR an OT group was set up a while back. Doesn't seem to have helped. Shane ...

Re: POHD: vs UTE (was: USS vs USS)

2011-05-04 Thread Graham Hobbs
Right .. can't our moderator stop this crep? - Original Message - From: Shane Ginnane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 7:43 PM Subject: Re: POHD: vs UTE (was: USS vs USS) A least the change in subject got me

Incidental Matters relating to Under z/OS UNIX

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Mason
Kirk The change of subject is to try to respect your perceived intentions with this thread. Your - at first glance - rather ridiculous and inaccurate new thread I will deal with if I am saved. Meantime I'll get off what I have noted already. - I'm finally paying attention to this thread,

Re: POHD: vs UTE (was: USS vs USS)

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Mason
Potentially a question also for the list moderator ... .. can't our moderator stop this crep? In what respect is avoiding ambiguity in posts and products crep - whatever that is - and of no relevance to IBM-MAIN? Chris Mason On Wed, 4 May 2011 20:24:40 -0400, Graham Hobbs gho...@cdpwise.net

Re: POHD: vs UTE (was: USS vs USS)

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Mason
Kirk Before I address this ridiculous post directly, let me remind you how we got here. Ted MacNeil decided to make the claim that something that was wrong was right. Unchallenged your to be nurtured newbies might get the impression that he was indeed right and so they might continue in all

A matter snuck into Under z/OS UNIX which shouldn't have been!

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Mason
The Swiss gentleman will not be reading this so this is for any interested in the topic - The supposed great one is the description of a message, EZD1353I, in which the second S of a use of the dread 3 characters is missing. Swiss humour rises to heights not found in other places! - It was

Re: Do we need to implement HSM

2011-05-04 Thread ibmnew
Dear all proper use of mgmtclas/storclas can save a whole lot of dasd and prevents the need to clean up garbage on a regular basis. Our Situation :Our shop don't have DASD enough(no tapelib) and the application programer always allocate very bigger datasets. PS and VSAM are almost

Re: Do we need to implement HSM

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Taylor
Releasing space at close can be handled in the management class by specifying Partial release with Yes Immediate (YI) or Conditional Immediate (CI) if you want to ensure that data sets have secondary allocation before the space is released. This does not require the space management function

Re: Do we need to implement HSM

2011-05-04 Thread Ed Gould
---SNIP Our Situation :Our shop don't have DASD enough(no tapelib) and the application programer always allocate very bigger datasets. PS and VSAM are almost extended format data sets. We want to 1.Release unused and

Re: Do we need to implement HSM

2011-05-04 Thread Ron Hawkins
Ed, (with DFHSM) all the old datasets. The data was there for recall. Although I did find a VSAM data set that was empty and it spanned 5 volumes and haddn't been referenced in many many months. I archived it and clipped the volumes and out [Ron Hawkins] I'm a little surprised to hear that an