This discussion reminds me of a true IBM story. I was part of a small group
that wanted to recruit a couple interns through a partnership we have with
a particular university. I was responsible for writing the internship
listing, and I asked the other group members for their input. One of them
insi
Sorry, I forgot to mention that their programming was done in Fortran,
and used the Commercial Subroutine Package, which was a set of Fortran-
callable subroutines which could do such things as decimal arithmetic,
etc.
Dale Miller
Many years ago, FAA Air Traffic Control Centers were using card-system
1130's to print out flight-strips, which contained info about known
flights and were handed off between controllers as the flights moved
from one screen/controller to the next. The Anchorage ATC and Honolulu
(if I rememb
Do you have cascading ficon switches?
This might result in more than 256 possible paths to the devices.
Once you hit the 256 paths the remaining paths can't be activated.
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:46 PM, jagadishan perumal
wrote:
> /ds p,D701,1 shows :
>
> IEE459I 09.09.33 DEVSERV PATHS 740
>
John:
Thanks for the good information. I steered my client away from BDT when it was
first announced as being to expensive and did not meet all our needs as not all
the shops we talked to were IBM /or/ they were not likely to buy it as it was
expensive to small shops.
We ended up with the che
/ds p,D701,1 shows :
IEE459I 09.09.33 DEVSERV PATHS 740
UNIT DTYPE M CNT VOLSER CHPID=PATH STATUS
RTYPE SSID CFW TC DFW PIN DC-STATE CCA DDC ALT CU-TYPE
D701,33903 ,A,030,Z18RS2,81=+ 91=<
21050008 Y YY. YY.N SIMPLEX 01 012105
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Go to any Linux system and issue "zdump -v " - text
file output can be manhandled over to z/OS in need.
Here (Australia/Brisbane) lists from Dec 31 1894 to Feb 29 1992. The latter
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The IOS555I suggests either the fiber cable on chipid 91 is bad, or
the chipid in the mainframe is bad. Have your cabling person change
swap the fiber cable on chipid 91. If that doesn't work, have the IBM
CE test the chipid card or swap it for another card.
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 8:31 PM, jaga
I like the DS QD stuff. If you can't remember. DS QD,? will show commands
and syntax.
The difference between Display and DevServ is that Display is what it was
when it failed whereas DevServ does the sense on the device. I'd still be on
the horn with the vendor and have an EREP covering tim
>
>after /cf chp(91),online
>/vary path(D701,91),online - , i get the below messages.
>
>IEE386I PATH(D701,91) NOT BROUGHT ONLINE
>IEE763I NAME= IECVIOPM CODE= 0004
>IOS555I UNABLE TO ESTABLISH DYNAMIC PATHING FOR THIS DEVICE
>IEE764I END OF IEE386IRELATED MESSAGES
What does the D
George:
We had an operator who left to start a software company that made billions.
Skip sold it to CA.
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after /cf chp(91),online
/vary path(D701,91),online - , i get the below messages.
IEE386I PATH(D701,91) NOT BROUGHT ONLINE
IEE763I NAME= IECVIOPM CODE= 0004
IOS555I UNABLE TO ESTABLISH DYNAMIC PATHING FOR THIS DEVICE
IEE764I END OF IEE386IRELATED MESSAGES
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:38:16 -0500, John McKown wrote:
>Thanks for the good wishes! I'm doing so well that I was logged into
>work yesterday for about 3 hours to help upgrade our first system to
>1.12. It failed due to a missing PTF. I have ordered the current RSU and
>just finished downloading i
On 14 Jun 2011 12:18:55 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
>On 6/14/2011 1:06 PM, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
>> The "non-IT" thing is interesting.
>>
>> At my company we have many application developers that started elsewhere at
>> the company. Me, for one. I personally had previous IT skil
Check the TCP/IP 119 subtype TCP connection termination record and the fields
SMF119AP_LSCS and SMF119AP_LSST
Steve Finch
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Lizette Koehler
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 5:50 PM
To: I
Basically, we have FTP Process. We implemented SFTP on a different stack,
earlier this year. No one went back to see if any of the FTP processes in
place need to be secured. So I am just researching if it is possible to report
on FTP and whether or not that FTP is secured.
In some of the bat
On 6/14/2011 4:08 PM, Steve Comstock wrote:
Well, maybe. Or, "they start out with minimal prejudices"
or "they don't have to unlearn habits that don't work"
My first encounter was with Mike Guzik at ADR, who wrote the
sort program for the 709x and Stretch machines. He migrated to
application
Rob
I like you work for a vendor
Just want to understand home address space inst and data fetched from
home
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On Jun 14, 2011, at 7:59 AM, Rob Scott
wrote:
Micheal,
Home ASC mode means that data and instruction fetch use the home
address space.
Home ASC mode is
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Jim Thomas wrote:
> That said, is it any wonder that the world insists on adapting what
> we know to be unstable software, onto the mainframe ??.
>
> We've all become very familiar with the 'blue screen of death' ...
> well .. if things go the way they are at this
Gil / Steve,
Forgive me for interrupting
University IT programs ??.
If one needed brain surgery ... would that person settle for
a surgeon (??) that learnt everything using JAVA simulations ??.
No ?? why not ?? ... and, is that not what is being done in the
so called 'IT' field today ?
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Nadine Goldberg: 06/10/2011 09:53:38.970752the tod was 'gwbush'
Jim Mulder: Oh, you mean when interpreted as ebcdic
Nadine Goldberg: Yes
Nadine Goldberg: In a dump you see gwbush all over
Nadine Goldber
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13726776
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On 6/14/2011 2:04 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:17:57 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote:
On 6/14/2011 1:06 PM, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
Do non-IT people make better COBOL programmers? Why might that be?
Well, the rationale is, I think, that students in university IT
programs tod
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:17:57 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote:
>On 6/14/2011 1:06 PM, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
>>
>> Do non-IT people make better COBOL programmers? Why might that be?
>
>Well, the rationale is, I think, that students in university IT
>programs today will only have seen Windows / Unix /
one of the guys I work here with - started as a fork-lift driver out of HS
worked way into IT and is still here
Frank Swarbrick
On 6/14/2011 1:06 PM, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
The "non-IT" thing is interesting.
At my company we have many application developers that started elsewhere at the
company. Me, for one. I personally had previous IT skills, and some schooling
in programming, but most of the others I believe did n
The "non-IT" thing is interesting.
At my company we have many application developers that started elsewhere at the
company. Me, for one. I personally had previous IT skills, and some schooling
in programming, but most of the others I believe did not.
Do non-IT people make better COBOL program
On 6/14/2011 9:16 AM, Jan MOEYERSONS wrote:
Dear Listers,
Any suggestion of how to calculate what the offset between local time and
UTC is for a given day in the past?
My data contains UTC timestamp and I have to print the corresponding local
time on a report. That is the local time as it was a
It would seem you need more than just the date. The rules vary considerably by
location. In Japan, local is always UTC+9. Europe and the US do not switch to
or from "summer" time on the same date. In the US, some states don't switch at
all. A few years ago the US changed the dates on which
CF CHP(91),offline then back on can fix intermittent problems, but you
probably need vendor support at this time.
In a message dated 6/14/2011 7:47:35 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
jagadish...@gmail.com writes:
Device address I see that the Path is again is not Online.
-
I know Illinois State University, Normal, IL was doing 3 month full
time class to create programmers from existing non-IT staff at State
Farm / Country Companies Insurance companies in the metro area. They
had completed several sessions last update I got. They had to sign an
agreeement to work fo
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 08:44:03 -0400, Peter Relson wrote:
>IBM very rarely will change an existing RC=0 to some non-0 value. This is
>for compatibility reasons.
>Even rarer (if ever) would be to do this in the service stream.
>
>We would not want to break some potentially critical application that h
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:16:42 -0500, Jan MOEYERSONS wrote:
>
>My data contains UTC timestamp and I have to print the corresponding local
>time on a report. That is the local time as it was at the date the data was
>logged.
>
>My attemps so far with mktime(), localtime() and gmtime() all apply the
>o
Jan,
This is a problem I have dealt with; and in its full generality it is difficult
or, perhaps better, messy.
Is your requirement for any arbitrary combination of dates and places? For
only a few? Or for just one place and a small range of dates?
In some parts of the world offsets are
There is a company in GA that does that as well.
The difference is that they hire tech school students after 1 year in
tech school. The "kids" work part time and go to school full time. Once
they graduate with an agreed upon GPA, they become "real" employees.
It's AMAZING how at the longevity
Steve,
A positive story.
Thanks.
Steven
> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:06:57 -0600
> From: st...@trainersfriend.com
> Subject: An upbeat story
> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
>
> Last week I taught a COBOL class for five days at a
> small company up in Boulder. They have a refreshing
> approach that I
Last week I taught a COBOL class for five days at a
small company up in Boulder. They have a refreshing
approach that I thought was pretty cool, and I wanted
to pass it on.
This company (I'll call it 'A') is a subsidiary of a
large transportation company ('B'). Although they are
small, they run z
never heard of either. where is that specified?
On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 11:18 -0400, Ken Klein wrote:
> Interesting John, as we are migrating v.10 to v.12 as well. But we are
> still running con=shared and not con=(distributed,...
> Did you go to "distributed" with your consoles?
>
> Kenneth Klei
Look at the DEBUG directive and the invocation options controlling traces. For
example:
EXEC PGM=FTP,PARM='-v -d (EXIT'
That should produce a trace detailed enough to see what (if any) level of
security resulted from the handshake. If not, then explore the DEBUG directive.
It might be
Cheryl,
We use it heavily. Very good product.
Atenciosamente / Regards / Saludos
Ituriel do Nascimento Neto
BANCO BRADESCO S.A.
4254 / DPCD Engenharia de Software
Sistemas Operacionais Mainframes
Tel: +55 11 4197-2021 R: 22021
Fax: +55 11 4197-2814
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De: IBM Mainframe
AT-TLS on SMF 119
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r9/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.zos.r9.e0zh300/smfrt.htm
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Hi John,
Thanks for the wonderful news update. Don't over do it... :-) Glad you are
doing well.
Linda
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Subject: personal status
Thanks for the good wishes! I'm doing
Interesting John, as we are migrating v.10 to v.12 as well. But we are
still running con=shared and not con=(distributed,...
Did you go to "distributed" with your consoles?
Kenneth Klein
kenneth klein tema toyota com
John McKown
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Dear Listers,
Any suggestion of how to calculate what the offset between local time and
UTC is for a given day in the past?
My data contains UTC timestamp and I have to print the corresponding local
time on a report. That is the local time as it was at the date the data was
logged.
My attemps
SMF records 118 and 119 include FTP. I'm not sure if they tell you the transfer
was secure.
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Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 9:28 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: How to ve
You have to verify if SFTP(ssh ftp) or FTPS(ftp over tls) is used but on
z/OS, for what I know we use only the second.
Regarding port question, I'm almost sure that port may be also 21 for
ftps that doesn't matter...(and may also be high and not secured)
SMF if implemented can use default TYPE 119
Lizette
For a clarification of what you might be talking about, see the following:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol#Secure_FTP
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_file_transfer_protocol
Then come back to us as necessary or pose your question on IBMTCP-L:
For IBMTCP-L subsc
Once you have the CHPID online, you may have to vary the paths online. I'll
leave it to you to find the command. If the problem is with the device or the
cable, varying the path won't do anything, but if everything is hooked up
properly, you may get the path online by doing that.
Depending
PGM=FTP is not sftp in any way. sftp is a different protocol which runs
over an SSH channel. An extension to FTP is FTPS, which is normal FTP
protocol over an encrypted TLS connection. I don't know how to validate
if TLS is used.
On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 10:28 -0400, Lizette Koehler wrote:
> I am try
When you pit your ip address in make sure you put specify the secure port
xx.xx.xx.xx
I hope this helps
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I am trying to verify if an FTP process is actually using secured FTP (SFTP).
Or when FTP is used (i.e. PGM=FTP) that the secured FTP process is being used.
Is there an easy way to do this? What SMF Records would help me with this
analysis?
Thanks
Lizette
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With respect, I get spam all the time that is not addressed to me. It
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nothing in the headers that is definitive proof of anything.
Furt
Fair points.
However, there are two things I want to mention:
First, let me note that BDT, in its new incarnation as z/OS elements, is
still very much in service even though it has not not been under active
development. (The last update was in OS/390 R2.) Only the former
standalone product
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:50:27 +, Bill Fairchild
wrote:
>So what is the "exact" location, velocity, and/or mass of one particular
electron?
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> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 9:06 AM
> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
> Subject: Re: When is performance really an issue? Was: Running an ISPF
> applicction from one pds
> Sorry
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:44:19 -0400, John Eells wrote:
>I'd suspect that most people use FTP these days for PDS and PDSE
>transfers, both of which it supports (including load modules and program
>objects, I'm told by the developers). There are other ways to skin the
>cat but (as someone who is NO
On learning of this update I went to the relevant Redbooks web page and
was disappointed not to see a "What's Changed" summary. Just to let y'all
know I've raised this with the Redbooks people (on Twitter, as it
happens). Assuming I get over to Pok this Summer I intend to discuss it in
more det
IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 14/06/2011
13:49:16:
> From: "Farley, Peter x23353"
> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
> Date: 14/06/2011 13:50
> Subject: Re: When is performance really an issue? Was: Running an
> ISPF applicction from one pds
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>
> Than
>
> I can see the below error messages which were flooding up our console.
>
> *IOS001E D784,INOPERATIVE PATH 91
> *IOS001E D704,INOPERATIVE PATH 91
Jags,
You need to work with the following commands
DS P
D M=CHP
D M=DEV
Look for the first IOS message, it might not be an IOS001E. It might
Thanks for the links, but the first one (to the IEEE site) requires a logon
which requires a subscription fee.
I know that's where the IBM Journal is published now, but it sure makes it hard
to keep up with the information when you are forced to pay for it.
I'll have to check my library system
Did the CF comman not say, that it could not bring all paths to the
devices online? There is a problem with the connection to the device
through CHPID 91.
Kees.
"jagadishan perumal" wrote in message
news:...
> I made the path 91 online by : /cf chp(91),online, But when i display
the
> Device ad
John,
I'm glad to see you on the list and feeling better.
Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies
http://dovetail.com
PS> Thanks for mentioning Co:Z. We will be doing a free webinar next week
on the distributed Co:Z Launcher.
For details and enrollment information, see:
http://dovetail.com/webinars.h
I made the path 91 online by : /cf chp(91),online, But when i display the
Device address I see that the Path is again is not Online.
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Larry Macioce wrote:
> You have more than 1 path to your dasd, so that is why it is still online.
> You are having a problem with
"Larry Macioce" wrote in message
news:...
> You have more than 1 path to your dasd, so that is why it is still
online.
> You are having a problem with path 91 which you need to resolse.
> you could try to bring the pact back onliine then look at smf data to
see what
> caused it.
> thanks
> mace
>
You have more than 1 path to your dasd, so that is why it is still online.
You are having a problem with path 91 which you need to resolse.
you could try to bring the pact back onliine then look at smf data to see what
caused it.
thanks
mace
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I can see the below error messages which were flooding up our console.
*IOS001E D784,INOPERATIVE PATH 91
*IOS001E D704,INOPERATIVE PATH 91
*IOS001E D778,INOPERATIVE PATH 91
*IOS001E D70B,INOPERATIVE PATH 91
*IOS001E D735,INOPERATIVE PATH 91
*IOS001E D736,INOPERATIVE PATH 91
*IOS001E D70
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:19:21 +0530, jagadishan perumal wrote:
>How to identify the fix pack level and installed version of a product.
There is no simple answer to the question of the PTF level of a product. It
is easy to determine the PTF level of an element by querying SMP/E. In the
old days,
Micheal,
Home ASC mode means that data and instruction fetch use the home address space.
Home ASC mode is normally only used by low-level z/OS components - why do you
need to be in HOME mode ?
Rob Scott
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Tel: +1.61
Hi
Would anyone know the charcteristocs of being in HOME ASC mode
E.G. If I issue a number of space swiching PC and do a SAC 768 would
Intruction and data fetch refer to the orignal Address Space
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Hi,
Thanks Lizette.
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Lizette Koehler wrote:
> > Hi ,
> >
> > How to identify the fix pack level and installed version of a product. I
> tried with TSO
> > ISPVCALL status but just got the product version but could'nt get the Fix
> pack level. Is
> > there way whe
> Hi ,
>
> How to identify the fix pack level and installed version of a product. I
tried with TSO
> ISPVCALL status but just got the product version but could'nt get the Fix
pack level. Is
> there way where we can fetch out the details.
>
> Regards,
> Jags
>
The best way is to
1) identify the
And I was a big customer of both Duquesne Systems and Morino Associates
products at the time of their merger. I missed Mario's wine and cheese parties,
but accepted the merger and subsequent renaming of the merged entity.
I think I speak for a lot of folks when I say I was NOT thrilled with the
Hi ,
I was able to get the fix level for the product I have installed but I am
curious to know about the other Products which were installed long back. In
this machine we have not applied any PTFs for long, so I am unable to fetch
out for the other product.
Regards,
Jags
2011/6/14 גדי בן אבי
HI,
Control cpu utlization in MFNetDisk.
if you run with the default MPCOPT configuration, then your TASKS number
equal to 8.
If you happy with your CPU utilization then you can continue to run with
this parameter.
If you run with high CPU utilization you can control it by changing the
T
IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 13/06/2011
14:51:39:
> You can think about it this way. Suppose you are designing a processor.
> In order to process instructions, there are several things that have to
be
> done. Something like this:
> That is a pipeline. You probably realized wh
Steve Horein wrote:
>You can't keep a good man down! I'm glad you are doing well.
Agreed 100%! I'm also glad. Actually PTF is 'Pretty Tough Friend'!
John McKown wrote:
>> Thanks for the good wishes! I'm doing so well that I was logged into work
yesterday for about 3 hours to help upgrade our
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 3:38 PM, John McKown wrote:
> Thanks for the good wishes! I'm doing so well that I was logged into
> work yesterday for about 3 hours to help upgrade our first system to
> 1.12. It failed due to a missing PTF. I have ordered the current RSU and
> just finished downloading
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