Re: Servicelink, ETR and SR

2012-05-17 Thread Richard Sandford
Same for us in Tampa... --- Rich Sandford DB2 Systems Database Administrator System Engineering, Infrastructure Services HealthPlanServices Inc. Tampa, FL 33607-1704 (813) 289-1000 ext. 2931 (800) 237-7767 ext. 2931 -- For

Re: Comparison of compiler generated code AD 1980(ish) v 2010(ish)

2012-05-17 Thread David Crayford
On 17/05/2012 2:06 AM, Tom Marchant wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2012 20:07:52 +, Robert Prins wrote: maybe a 16-byte three-instruction sequence like 003FC0 E310 DF10 0158 003120 | LY r1,a1:d7952:l4(,r13,7952) 003FC6 E300 1047 0015 003120 | LGH r0,_shadow20(,r1,71) 003FCC 4000 E064

Re: z/os v1r13 RACF problem

2012-05-17 Thread Crabtree, Anne D
Well, I knew it was user error, I just couldn't see it! With the help of IBM, found that even though I had all my datasets defined in ICHRDSNT, I forgot to change the number of entries from 01 to 15! Such a simple problem. System IPLs fine now that I fixed that. Thanks for all the help and

Re: Comparison of compiler generated code AD 1980(ish) v 2010(ish)

2012-05-17 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
I would like to add: with the previous compiler, CALL PLIMOVE enabled us to force the generation of MVCL. Using, for example CALL PLIMOVE (ADDR (target), ADDR (source), length); the compiler generated MVCL, but coding target = source; (if applicable), or BY-NAME-assignments,

Re: Any way to programmatically detect diagnostic trap IGVCPOOLFREEQ active

2012-05-17 Thread Peter Relson
Why is this an issue? No one should be running with that DIAG trap (or almost any DIAG trap) on in a production environment, and if not in a production environment, who cares? The whole point of these traps is to be used in environments where you can afford to sacrifice performance. Peter

Re: Comparison of compiler generated code AD 1980(ish) v 2010(ish)

2012-05-17 Thread Robert AH Prins
On 2012-05-17 11:14, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: I would like to add: with the previous compiler, CALL PLIMOVE enabled us to force the generation of MVCL. Using, for example CALL PLIMOVE (ADDR (target), ADDR (source), length); the compiler generated MVCL, but coding target = source; (if

Re: EPSPT vs. FIXCAT

2012-05-17 Thread Kurt Quackenbush
thanks, that is the information I wasn't aware of, the fact that for CICS there isn't a special category like for IMS or DB2 and that these PTFs are all together in this generic category.So all PTFs from the former PSP extract files are now in any category either in a specific or in such a

Re: Any way to programmatically detect diagnostic trap IGVCPOOLFREEQ active

2012-05-17 Thread Dave Day
It is an issue due to the customer base. During a previous trial at a large software shop, my code would occasionally log messages to its log indicating it could not keep up with the volume of activity being generated on the machine. Yet, at other shops, it could handle the volumes just

Re: EPSPT vs. FIXCAT

2012-05-17 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-05-17 14:29, Kurt Quackenbush pisze: thanks, that is the information I wasn't aware of, the fact that for CICS there isn't a special category like for IMS or DB2 and that these PTFs are all together in this generic category.So all PTFs from the former PSP extract files are now in any

Syslog/Operlog Read Access

2012-05-17 Thread Mark Jacobs
Is it a consensus best practice to restrict read access of syslog/operlog data to those people with a need-to-know, or is it a UACC of READ appropriate? -- Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service Tampa, FL Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not

Re: Syslog/Operlog Read Access

2012-05-17 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 17 May 2012 09:07:26 -0400, Mark Jacobs mark.jac...@custserv.com wrote: Is it a consensus best practice to restrict read access of syslog/operlog data to those people with a need-to-know, or is it a UACC of READ appropriate? I think this varies on a shop by shop basis. In all shops

Re: Syslog/Operlog Read Access

2012-05-17 Thread Hal Merritt
I believe the general case is always need-to-know. That is, there needs to be some business/technical justification for access. The rational is to deny information to a potential intruder. I read that most intruders are those that already have some level of access to the system.

[Almost OT] my raspberry pi thinks it's a mainframe

2012-05-17 Thread Shane Ginnane
Maybe something for John ;-) http://www.designspark.com/content/my-raspberry-pi-thinks-its-mainframe Been thinking of getting one for a while (no, not a 4381 ...) Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: [Almost OT] my raspberry pi thinks it's a mainframe

2012-05-17 Thread McKown, John
I actually run Hercules-390 on my Core i7 laptop, on rare occassion. I have OS/VS1, OS/MVS 3.8j, and VM/370 images. I should possibly get MVS/380 too. That is MVS 3.8j, extended to 31 bit addressing by hobbists using the OS/MVS 3.8j source. I also have the MVS Turnkey CD-ROM. -- John McKown

Re: Servicelink, ETR and SR

2012-05-17 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
There might be another ramification. It seems that all of the docview's that come on a google now, the links are broken. For example, if you google IBM DOCVIEW, the hits that show up, similar to this: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21433581 get 404's. Another example, google

Re: Servicelink, ETR and SR

2012-05-17 Thread Tom Ambros
Did I miss this in the discussion? I got this from srdonotreply this morning: 'We would like to inform you of an important change in opening and managing service requests with IBM for Passport Advantage and Passport Advantage Express products. Details of the change can be found at ... HTTP

Re: Servicelink, ETR and SR

2012-05-17 Thread Skip Robinson
Same result here. It's nice to know that when IBM finally rolls out the big guns, they can still hit their own foot. . . JO.Skip Robinson SCE Infrastructure Technology Services Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile

Re: Servicelink, ETR and SR

2012-05-17 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
I got that too Tom, and the link in the email fails for me as well. MA Did I miss this in the discussion? I got this from srdonotreply this morning: 'We would like to inform you of an important change in opening and managing service requests with IBM for Passport Advantage and Passport

Re: Servicelink, ETR and SR

2012-05-17 Thread Stone, Sandy
We got that too. Notified their webmaster via the link on the 'not found' page. s http://www.medmutual.com/ Visit http://www.medmutual.com/ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This message is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that

Preventive z/OS maintenance, was: EPSPT vs. FIXCAT

2012-05-17 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hi Radoslaw, in your note you mentioned the idea to apply all (installable) PTFs. This idea leads me to the reason for opening this topic. I'm involved in an IBM project for preventive maintenance packages named CPMz. One major idea behind this project is to apply as few PTFs as possible, but

IBM support Portal

2012-05-17 Thread Staller, Allan
Anybody having trouble getting to actual APAR data? Searches seem to be OK, but technical difficulties when actually attempting to access information. Seems to have been down since 04:00 CST The new support tools fail again in terms of availability, reliability, and performance.

Re: Retiring after 43+ years with IBM

2012-05-17 Thread Chris Hoelscher
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Is the Microsoft service operation more reliable? was Re: Servicelink, ETR and SR

2012-05-17 Thread Clark Morris
On 17 May 2012 08:23:58 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: I got that too Tom, and the link in the email fails for me as well. MA Did I miss this in the discussion? I got this from srdonotreply this morning: 'We would like to inform you of an important change in opening and managing

Re: Servicelink, ETR and SR

2012-05-17 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 5/17/2012 8:17 AM, Skip Robinson wrote: Same result here. It's nice to know that when IBM finally rolls out the big guns, they can still hit their own foot. And, after a 54-hour outage for the 'upgrade' ... smh -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North

CH13 SupportPac - CICS for MVS - File transfer program fix#8203; (Crossposted to CICS-L)

2012-05-17 Thread Salva Carrasco
Hi guys, Anyone know where I can get CH13 suppac? Thanks in advance -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Servicelink, ETR and SR

2012-05-17 Thread Tony Harminc
On 17 May 2012 11:19, Stone, Sandy sandy.st...@medmutual.com wrote: We got that too. Notified their webmaster via the link on the 'not found' page. The notfound link I got to is just the general contact us page for IBM US. They used to have a broken link page, prefilled with the relevant info,

Re: Acquiring the Additional Material from z/OS V1.13 DFSMS Technical Update Manual

2012-05-17 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
They must have listened to you. It seems to be working today. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Chip Grantham Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 1:37 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Acquiring the Additional Material from

Re: Acquiring the Additional Material from z/OS V1.13 DFSMS Technical Update Manual

2012-05-17 Thread Mark Post
On 5/17/2012 at 02:29 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 peter.far...@broadridge.com wrote: They must have listened to you. It seems to be working today. They did, and contacted Chip and I directly after the permissions had been fixed. Pretty cool. Mark Post

Re: Preventive z/OS maintenance, was: EPSPT vs. FIXCAT

2012-05-17 Thread R.S.
Jürgen In my humble opinion every piece of software installed should serviced, so I sustain the idea of aplying all PTFs. Disclaimers (exceptions): - One can have some software installed, but not used. - I'm not talking about PTFs in error, etc. - Up to date does not necessarily mean from

Re: Preventive z/OS maintenance, was: EPSPT vs. FIXCAT

2012-05-17 Thread Jousma, David
I agree with Radoslaw. Quite often, I am forced to plan for the unexpected, especially with IBM.DEVICE.* and IBM.COEXISTENCE.* FIXCAT categories, because there have been times when I have been the last to find out about new DASD or other equipment hitting the floor that may have pre-requisite

Re: Preventive z/OS maintenance, was: EPSPT vs. FIXCAT

2012-05-17 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
Agreed - We run a batch job **nightly** to pull back all PTF's that we hadn't yet received as well as hold data for each IBM Global zone we have. That way we have all maintenance for all products already in the system, can report on what is out there un fixed, as well as what is waiting to

Re: Preventive z/OS maintenance, was: EPSPT vs. FIXCAT

2012-05-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 17 May 2012 19:33:17 +, Jousma, David wrote: Picking and choosing what maintenance to apply will typically get you into trouble at some point especially if you have limited opportunities to implement said maintenance. If you have a weekly window, then you may operate on a

Re: Co-existance of z/OS and z/VM on same DASD farm

2012-05-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1696751327392196.wa.ronmacraehotmail.co...@bama.ua.edu, on 05/16/2012 at 03:03 PM, Ron MacRae ronmac...@hotmail.co.uk said: The reason I'm worried is that in a previous life, over 30 years ago, my previous company attempted to do the same between an VM system and a DOS/VSE system. This

Re: Syslog/Operlog Read Access

2012-05-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4fb4f80e.30...@custserv.com, on 05/17/2012 at 09:07 AM, Mark Jacobs mark.jac...@custserv.com said: Is it a consensus best practice to restrict read access of syslog/operlog data to those people with a need-to-know, Pretty much anybody running jobs has a need to know what their jobs put in

Re: Syslog/Operlog Read Access

2012-05-17 Thread John Gilmore
| Is it a consensus best practice to restrict read access of | syslog/operlog data to those people with a need-to-know? It is not, not least because the question itself is not well-formed. Need-to-know is a useful notion for highly sensitive information that lends itself to misuse in the wrong

Re: Servicelink, ETR and SR

2012-05-17 Thread Christian Gilmore
Hello, One of IBM's data centers experienced a cascade failure today, which caused our document service, IBMLink, and other systems to drop offline. While some systems such as IBMLink experienced a shorter duration offline, the document service was offline for a more substantial period of

Re: Servicelink, ETR and SR

2012-05-17 Thread Ed Finnell
Appreciate the update and the explanation. I'm old enough to remember the Security 'green/yellow book' after MVS got B1 and maybe on the last page was a big 'oh and if you're connected to a network this doesn't apply'. In a message dated 5/17/2012 11:02:32 P.M. Central Daylight Time,

Re: Servicelink, ETR and SR

2012-05-17 Thread Barbara Nitz
It is worth noting, however, that IBM Service Request (SR) itself, was online throughout this entire event. It will also be online this weekend while IBMLink may be down for scheduled maintenance (SR does not require downtime to perform maintenance). Please consider bookmarking SR for use when

Re: Servicelink, ETR and SR

2012-05-17 Thread Christian Gilmore
Hello, I was attempting to offer an opportunity to be able to continue working with IBM on your service requests while IBMLink is unavailable. RETAIN does not go offline when IBMLink is unavailable. Clients are able to manage and create new service request via SR regardless of IBMLink's

Re: Co-existance of z/OS and z/VM on same DASD farm

2012-05-17 Thread Scott Ford
Interesting worked vm since sp1 and VSE (1970s) never ever saw that problem... Scott ford www.identityforge.com On May 17, 2012, at 7:24 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In 1696751327392196.wa.ronmacraehotmail.co...@bama.ua.edu, on 05/16/2012 at 03:03 PM,

Re: Servicelink, ETR and SR

2012-05-17 Thread Barbara Nitz
Christian, you have negelected to tell us WHEN the double signon will be fixed. I have heard that that will only be at the end of the year. Knowing how slow 'fixes' to SR are (after all, it took more than a year to fix the backlinks from SR to servicelink, and we were promised they get fixed

Re: Early IPL problems

2012-05-17 Thread Jim Mulder
My colleagues were unable to determine *what* caused the wait state, for the simple reason that the accompanying message wasn't visible anymore. In this, I also blame IBM who apparently do all their testing under VM (where the NIP messages stay on the console) and have no clue about the real