Re: Unix System Services File Space Used

2008-07-15 Thread Aaron Walker
Yes, route your logs into a separate file system, and roll your logs. Look at the "Logging and Reports" section of Appendix B. "Configuration directives" for the HTTP server. Lots of good stuff. The only problem I ever had with the logging is that you have to have "reporting" turned on for the n

ZPDFSEND - An application that converts a z/OS FCFC print file to a PDF file and emails the PDF file

2008-02-25 Thread Aaron Walker
I coulda swore that I saw a thread about printing or handling PDFs on one of these lists, but I can't find it now. But someone may find this use of Kirk's baby interesting and useful. ZPDFSEND - An application that converts a z/OS FCFC print file to a PDF file and emails the PDF file http://www-

Re: HTTPD Roots (was: Linux zSeries questions)

2008-02-25 Thread Aaron Walker
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:22:51 +0100, Ulrich Boche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >And, of course, WAS is not only J2EE, that's only the business logic >part of WAS. For the presentation logic portion of WAS you'll need a web >server (if you want to run it on z/OS, for that matter). You seem to be s

z10 - beans spilled?

2008-02-22 Thread Aaron Walker
http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/02/22/204222.shtml http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid80_gci1301967,00.html "Big Blue inadvertently revealed details about its new z10 Enterprise Class mainframe set to launch on Feb. 26, as well as details on z/OS v1.10, a new version of

Re: HTTPD Roots (was: Linux zSeries questions) + jinsight

2008-02-20 Thread Aaron Walker
According to the WebSphere InfoCenter (http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v6r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.ihs.doc/info/ihs/ihs/welc6miginstallihsz.html ): Note: IBM HTTP Server for z/OS, which is provided with WebSphere Application Server, is different from the Version 5.3 H

Re: Copying Unix tar file to tape

2008-01-21 Thread Aaron Walker
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:41:53 -0500, Jon Brock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am trying to write out a Unix System Services file -- a tar archive -- >to tape. For simplicity's sake, I was planning on using IEBGENER, but >I'm a bit confused as to what file characteristics to use for this. >Anybody

Re: Encrypted transfers to/from vendors

2008-01-14 Thread Aaron Walker
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:29:35 -0600, Patrick O'Keefe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>... >>If you are sending data to ECuRep, it supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, >FTPS, >>SFTP, and email. >>... > >Is there an HTTP or HTTPS download equivalent to >http://www.ecurep.ibm.com/app/upload ? An equivalent to >

Re: Encrypted transfers to/from vendors

2008-01-14 Thread Aaron Walker
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:58:05 -0600, Patrick O'Keefe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>... >>If you are sending data to ECuRep, it supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, >FTPS, >>SFTP, and email. >>... > >Hoo boy! I sure missed that (and so did everyone else at my >shop). I'll spread the word. ECuRep and eme

Re: Encrypted transfers to/from vendors

2008-01-14 Thread Aaron Walker
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:25:27 -0600, Patrick O'Keefe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I know IBMs Boulder site (testcase ?) supports HTTPS transfers. Do >they also support FTPS or SFTP? And what about IBM's emea site >(which some parts of IBM greatly prefer over Boulder)? Does it >support any kind

IBM-Main future options - was "Topic denotation suggestion (a Virtual Darren)"

2008-01-14 Thread Aaron Walker
I've always thought that a slashdot-type interface (http://slashdot.org/) would be much more useful, especially in sifting out the chaff. Somebody with some time, hardware and bandwidth could adopt/adapt the slash code (open source), call it "Ready Prompt **", and the future would be your oy

OT: Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?

2008-01-08 Thread Aaron Walker
Here is a posting and accompanying article on Slashdot which you may enjoy. http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/08/01/08/0348239.shtml http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/CrossTalk/2008/01/0801DewarSchonberg.html Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow? It is our

Re: accessing the MVS dataset from perl for z/OS ?

2007-12-18 Thread Aaron Walker
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:33:37 +, Tsai Laurence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi listers, >as the subject, is it doable ? how ? >Thanks for your advisement . > > >Sincerely,Laurence I found this: http://search.cpan.org/~pvhp/OS390-Stdio-0.008/Stdio.pm Watch for wrap. I haven't tried installin

Re: WLM question.

2007-12-17 Thread Aaron Walker
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:53:28 -0600, McKown, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This vaguely relates to my previous sysplex questions. One of the >reasons given to split our single image was to guarantee that the >non-production work would receive some CPU cycles during high use >periods (basically

Re: Java Problem Analysis

2007-12-17 Thread Aaron Walker
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:11:34 -0600, Aaron Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >And speaking of wacky software, I may be one of the few people who >don't get these babies as emails - I use the web interface. I'm using >IE6, and when it displays full-width postings, o

Re: Java Problem Analysis

2007-12-17 Thread Aaron Walker
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:27:45 +0100, Barbara Nitz wrote: >Quote from the diagnosis book: > >"It is easier for IBM Service to solve a problem when a test case is available. Include a test case with your problem report wherever possible." > >This really rubs me the wrong way, not because it isn't

Re: What can be possible deployment schema for Websphere and DB2 on a mainframe?

2007-12-10 Thread Aaron Walker
Everything that applies to creating a reasonable, maintainable WebSphere Application Server environment on distributed platforms (AIX, Linux, Windows, whatever) also applies to the mainframe. You should have a cluster, preferably with the cluster members on different LPARs on different boxes.

Re: Are any of us this desperate?

2007-11-20 Thread Aaron Walker
Estimated median household income in 2005: $134,600 (it was $123,022 in 2000) Woodcliff Lake $134,600 New Jersey: $61,672 Estimated median house/condo value in 2005: $839,300 (it was $450,700 in 2000) Woodcliff Lake $839,300 New Jersey: $333,900 On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:44:25 -06

APF-me

2007-11-16 Thread Aaron Walker
Ok, I'm thick. I'm trying to create an alias to a user catalog, and I'm getting bit. /* IDCAMS COMMAND */ DEFINE ALIAS (NAME(MYALIAS) - RELATE(ABC123.CATALOG) -

APF-Authorized

2007-11-16 Thread Aaron Walker
I'm posting this again. I apologize if this is a double-post. Ok, I'm thick. I'm trying to create an alias to a user catalog, and I'm getting bit. /* IDCAMS COMMAND */ DEFINE ALIAS (NAME(MYALIAS) -

Performance Improvement Possible For Remote TCP Access to z/OS

2007-11-14 Thread Aaron Walker
http://www.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/FLASH1 0621 Abstract: Identified problem in TCP/IP on z/OS 1.8 which could lead to degraded performance for remote access to DB2 or other application on z/OS using the TCP network protocol. Problem is that additional acknowledgements (AC

Re: z9BC as Web Server

2007-11-14 Thread Aaron Walker
I'm biased as well, but it works great for me. Now, if only the HTTPServer work went on a specialty processor... and all the TCP/IP work :) Aaron On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:43:34 +1000, Shane wrote: >On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 18:13 +0900, Timothy Sipples wrote: > >> Jim's idea seems very smart

Re: Java Interface to Issue MVS Commands

2007-11-07 Thread Aaron Walker
I believe this is the tool in question: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/commandgenerator4zos Aaron On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 05:11:11 -0500, Bob Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Pardon the question, but I've lost the ability to logon to the archives. I see to recall discussion a few weeks bac

Re: FTP-Client(PC)/Server(M/F)

2007-10-30 Thread Aaron Walker
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:37:11 -0500, McKown, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Wells >> >> ok---have following in ftps.rc >> >> cd /u/agttxfr/catalog/n020 >> >> >> did not work ... >> >

Re: problems(probably) in SSL after migration from WAS3.5 to WAS5.1

2007-10-28 Thread Aaron Walker
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:46:31 -0500, Pawel Leszczynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Are there any other applications on this WAS instance? How are they >performing? How is your JVM garbage collection? > >How do your RMF >reports look? > >there are any RMF reports on WAS5.1? >can you give me any

Re: FTP-Client(PC)/Server(M/F)

2007-10-26 Thread Aaron Walker
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:29:43 -0500, Ron Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Michael > >not dos I gather is the problem...it is somewhere in setup for m/f >user...home directory and path when they log in .. > The z/OS Unix home directory is set in the RACF OMVS segment HOME entry for that user.

Re: Out of space uploading to a UNIX directory

2007-10-25 Thread Aaron Walker
I think someone covered this, but it would be best for you to have separate mount points for different directories/users under /u/ (i.e. /u/steve/ would have it's own dataset, /u/mike/ would have it's own dataset). That being said, another way that you can expand the size of your dataset, ass

Re: Where can I find the /JRE/ directory?

2007-10-21 Thread Aaron Walker
On a z/OS system, the default location will generally be: /usr/lpp/java You can always refer to the Program Directory for the version of Java you are running (watch the wrap): http://www- 03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/software/java/javaintr.html Here's the one for 31-bit Java 5: http://pu

Re: problems(probably) in SSL after migration from WAS3.5 to WAS5.1

2007-10-19 Thread Aaron Walker
I also found this: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21215703 Are you running through the z/OS HTTP Server? If so, is the communication between that and WAS using SSL (if you don't know, then it probably is). That can be changed to HTTP if you want - save you some cycles. Do yo

Re: JAVA un z/OS

2007-09-19 Thread Aaron Walker
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:36:48 -0500, Tom Grieve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Gary, > >For the JVM to be using that much CPU just for a simple HelloWorld, I'd >guess you have an unsuitable LE STACK option. The JVM is an XPLinked system, >and so uses a downward-growing stack. LE detects when the sta

Re: JAVA un z/OS

2007-09-19 Thread Aaron Walker
>>Does anyone have any tuning/performance references/links for Java under >z/OS? >> >>Some tentative footsteps were taken to develop Java apps to run under USS >and the "Hello World" app sucked down 30% of the CPU during the time the >app was running. :( So, I gotta prepare for the onslaught when

Re: JAVA un z/OS

2007-09-18 Thread Aaron Walker
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:00:59 -0400, Gary Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED] SYSTEMS.COM> wrote: >Does anyone have any tuning/performance references/links for Java under z/OS? > >Some tentative footsteps were taken to develop Java apps to run under USS and the "Hello World" app sucked down 30% of the CPU d

Re: Tech Notes - Any body know about them or where they are hidden?

2007-09-17 Thread Aaron Walker
o go to for erratum. > >Regards, >Steve Thompson > >Opinions expressed are my own. Would a search on the following site have provided you with the info you needed? http://www.ibm.com/support/us/en/ Regards, Aaron Walker -

Re: Tech Notes - Any body know about them or where they are hidden?

2007-08-14 Thread Aaron Walker
Yes, it is not terribly well organized. For WebSphere, you essentially go to the WebSphere support page: http://www.ibm.com/software/websphere/support/ Then under "Support for all WebSphere products", select the "Search Knowledge Base" link: http://www-111.ibm.com/search/SupportSearchWeb/Suppo

Re: pre-validating RACF userids and passwords in application.

2007-07-11 Thread Aaron Walker
I think I would agree with those who are saying "Don't mess with it", not only because it might help the cracker, but also you may be eliding your own security policy. You (hopefully) put a lot of thought into your RACF policy, so let RACF do it's job. If people get bit/revoked because they f

The Mainframe Still Lives... on Slashdot

2007-07-05 Thread Aaron Walker
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/05/2118203 Knocked frequently in recent years, the site notes that IBM's workhorse continues to do important work in a number of enterprise environments. "While there are some out there who'd like to see its demise, a true threat to the Big Iron has n

dynamic zAAP

2007-04-05 Thread Aaron Walker
Is one able to switch dynamically between IFACROSSOVER=NO and =YES? Or does that require an IPL? Can you just pull in the new IEAOPTxx member? Thanks, Aaron -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, se

US Airways badmouths legacy system

2007-03-31 Thread Aaron Walker
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do? command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=mainframes_and_supercomputers& articleId=9015078&taxonomyId=67&intsrc=kc_top Watch for lots of wrap. US Airways partly blames legacy systems for March glitch Self-service kiosks crashed as airline integrated its res

Re: HFS Directory

2007-02-26 Thread Aaron Walker
Hmmm. I tried using escape characters, but it didn't work, strangely. One choice is ISHELL. The other is: create another directory there (mkdir fred) - then delete both (rm -r fred -m), in that order, so it doesn't try to take it as an arg. >So I entered >mkdir hcheck14 -m 755 > >thinking t

Re: Inquiry Web Services using "simple" cobol programs

2007-02-23 Thread Aaron Walker
A quick google search gives me: IBM WebSphere Developer for zSeries V6.0.1 Developing XML interfaces for COBOL applications White Paper (GI10-3360-01) http://194.196.237.41/publications/servlet/pbi.wss?CTY=US&FNC=SRX&PBL=GI10- 3360-01 ** IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal: Developing a

Re: Just another example of mainframe costs.

2007-01-05 Thread Aaron Walker
Retorts from the peanut gallery: http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/01/05/0538224.shtml Year of the Mainframe? Not Quite, Say Linux Grids -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PR

Re: zIIP and zAAP Reporting - projection and otherwise

2006-12-07 Thread Aaron Walker
"If you have them you might also view metrics in AAPCP and IIPCP for crossover work not dispatched on zAAP's or zIIP's." Could you elaborate on that, or point me to a resource? Thanks, Aaron On Thu, 7 Dec 2006 12:52:45 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >This would seem to imply JBB772S for z/OS

Re: zIIP and zAAP Reporting - projection and otherwise

2006-12-07 Thread Aaron Walker
Well, the output looks like 1.8 output, so either the customer is mistaken, or do the fixes/FMIDs for zAAP/zIIP projection significantly alter the RMF reporting (to zOS 1.8 presentation)? Aaron On Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:23:48 -0600, Aaron Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm l

zIIP and zAAP Reporting - projection and otherwise

2006-12-07 Thread Aaron Walker
I'm looking at some RMF (Workload Activity) reporting from a zOS 1.7 system, and when I look at the CPU usage, I'm seeing entries under APPL% for CP, AAPCP, IIPCP, AAP, and IIP. I can't easily find any doc which pulls this together, so educate me - CP is regular processor, AAPCP and IIPCP are

Re: News : IBM and outsourcing in Texas

2006-11-26 Thread Aaron Walker
Speaking as an ex-Texas Workforce Commission Systems Programmer (as of a month ago): -regarding lowest bid - there were only two bidders. And I'm glad IBM won. -16 mainframes - that's boxes. The number used to be 17, but we moved from 3 z900s to a z9bc and z9ec in mid-October, so I guess that's

Re: Zip problems

2006-11-03 Thread Aaron Walker
I'm not quite sure about the direction of this thread, but if you have java installed on the mainframe, you can use jar to zip up your files. jar files are the same type along the lines of desktop winzip stuff. Yes, the terminology is confusing. A lot of the flags are the same as for tar. So,

Re: Java/LE Tuning Advice sought

2006-10-23 Thread Aaron Walker
Yes, you could probably take that gibberish and convert it from ascii to ebcdic and read it (iconf -f ISO8849-1 -t IBM-1047 > ). I didn't see the end of that message. It's running JBOSS. I'll see what's required for that. I wonder if Mr. Wolf has any experience with JBoss (with or without j

Re: Java/LE Tuning Advice sought

2006-10-23 Thread Aaron Walker
In addition to what Mr. Wolf said, I would recommend getting up to a more current version of the JVM (you're over a year out of date). I also saw a thread on MVS-OE where you were discussing turning off JIT. You can try it both ways. It is often rather unusual circumstances where you would tu

Re: Java/LE Tuning Advice sought

2006-10-23 Thread Aaron Walker
I'm not familiar with the product. I would suggest that LE tuning is not necessarily your problem. Just for background, which JVM are you running, are you running with shared HFS, and how is your garbage collection? How large is your region? Are you running this from JCL or from OMVS? This

Re: LE Defaults for z/OS UNIX

2006-10-18 Thread Aaron Walker
I don't believe one can take defaulte zOS Java settings as representative of those for your zOS Unix environment. Here's a snip from the zOS Java site (and I'm sure this varies by JVM): Aaron Java™ 2 and LE runtime options These are described in the LE Programming Reference manual. The java exe

Re: harrisburg mvs shops?

2006-09-28 Thread Aaron Walker
It was Camp Hill, and they are still there, but they moved their data center elsewhere, early 90s, I believe (definitely moved, just not sure when). I was a tape ape there for a summer, and both my parents worked (and retired) from there. Now I'm in the business. Sad. Aaron On Wed, 27 Sep 2

Re: harrisburg mvs shops?

2006-09-27 Thread Aaron Walker
I saw a Rite Aid job posted in the past few days on Monster or HotJobs or America's Job Bank or something. I think they list the jobs as Shiremanstown. There could be jobs on the Naval Base in Mechanicsburg (Ship's Parts Control Center - SPCC - but they seem to change the acronym/alphabetism ever

Re: JDBC Driver- Problem in DB2 V7.1 PUTLVL0604

2006-09-20 Thread Aaron Walker
In addition to what Mr. Gray said (I don't know if he's right, though!), but how are you searching for these dlls (that you know they aren't there)? Your SMPE apply really should have failed if they didn't get somewhere (I think that would be an even worse problem). And, they are more than like

Re: jdbc connection to Sybase server from z/OS

2006-09-15 Thread Aaron Walker
We don't have any problems here, either (zOS 1.6). If you are able to connect, but not log on, I would expect the Sybase admin should be able to tell you what they are or are not receiving, if they are receiving garbage, whatever. Aaron On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:02:01 -0700, Biff Red <[EMAIL PROTE

Mainframe YouTube flicks

2006-08-27 Thread Aaron Walker
Apparently there are some mainframe-related YouTube shorts out there: http://mainframe.typepad.com/blog/2006/08/mainframe_meets.html I watched part of the first one. I think you'll enjoy it! Here is the Slashdot tip-off: http://slashdot.org/articles/06/08/26/2247204.shtml Aaron

Re: Interesting problem for y'all

2006-08-23 Thread Aaron Walker
In place of step (3) below, perhaps you could do a handful of "confighfs -x C ". Reference the confighfs command in the zOS Unix Commands reference of your release. Aaron On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 13:37:47 -0500, McKown, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: IBM Mainf

Re: Interesting problem for y'all

2006-08-22 Thread Aaron Walker
Set them up in their own Storage Class, and monitor that? Aaron On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:13:45 -0400, Petersen, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Let's say I have a end-user-group which wants 40 gig of HFS space and >wants it monitored for "fullness". > >How am I going to accomplish this given

Re: z9 & SoftwareAG

2006-08-09 Thread Aaron Walker
Yep yep yep. We're looking to move from z900s to z9s, with a small MSU increase, big increase in real, and, IBM-wise, we'll save $600k. Bloody brilliant. I'm in love. Add in SoftwareAG, and the savings is gone, and then some. It is extremely discouraging. We've had several people voluntee

Websphere, zIIPs and zAAPs

2006-08-04 Thread Aaron Walker
I posed this question to one of my favorite WebSphere on zOS people, and got a shaky answer, so I'll float it here. I'm thinking of posting on the WebSphere list, but I think I'll get better traction here! I was wondering if anyone has done any CPU comparisons between running one's JDBC connec

Re: Why is zSeries so CPU poor?

2006-07-20 Thread Aaron Walker
Here is an interesting Redbook which contrasts the zSeries processor design with the pSeries processor when choosing a WebSphere solution: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp3968.html Aaron -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sig

Re: WAS Persistent Time-Out Value

2006-06-30 Thread Aaron Walker
Here's a link to the WebSphere listserv and forums. Mostly not zOS specific, some of it is frustratingly low-traffic, but what the hey. http://www.websphere.org/websphere/jsp/community.jsp We are running some WASv4 in 3.5 mode as well, so what I said about my connections stands. All of the "p

Re: WAS Persistent Time-Out Value

2006-06-30 Thread Aaron Walker
Same here regarding access. I have PersistTimeout in the HTTP server at 5 seconds, with MaxPersistRequest at 10. I'll have to dig and see if I can see the documentation that I used to come up with those numbers. I use persistent connections mostly to reduce the work used for SSL handshakes.

Re: Curiosity

2006-06-28 Thread Aaron Walker
I'm 37, and I'd love to be an assembler wizard. Call me crazy, but I think that would be really cool (reference my previous posts regarding TCBs, etc.) But, at this point it has to be essentially self-directed, because we have a gentleman here who is very good, ex-IBMer (started right after 3

Re: WLM classification of UNIX (OMVS) work.

2006-06-08 Thread Aaron Walker
You can capture the "user" work like so: //FTPD2 PROC MODULE='FTPD',PARMS='' //* // SET PRM1='ENVAR("TZ=CST6CDT5")' // SET PRM2='ENVAR("_BPX_ACCT_DATA=FTPDUSER")' //*

Re: Google Architecture

2006-06-07 Thread Aaron Walker
Perhaps a lot of the enmity (especially in this community) toward Google is their success and public perception (and possible IT perception) that they provide the ideal IT environment - they "prove" that the cheap, distributed server setup is viable, even though all they really provide is rather

Re: WLM classification of UNIX (OMVS) work.

2006-06-06 Thread Aaron Walker
You can also do _BPX_ACCT_DATA as an ENVVAR in the PARM of the FTP proc, and a number of other things. In zOS 1.6, there is a lot of info in Chapter 22. Managing accounting work of the UNIX System Services Planning manual. Aaron >On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 14:11:47 -0500, McKown, John ><[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Scrolling NETSTAT displayed using TSO COMMAND panel

2006-05-25 Thread Aaron Walker
You could go into OMVS and issue the (appropriate) onetstat command there. Aaron On Thu, 25 May 2006 08:37:53 -0500, Mark House <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there command or a freeware utility that will allow me to scroll >forward and backward through the output of a NETSTAT command entered v

wlm classification rules

2006-05-19 Thread Aaron Walker
I'm looking to knock down the priority of some DB2 DDF work on our system. One thing we may like to do is weed out by length of the userid (ID > 3 characters gets a different service class). I'd set up a UI work qualifier, but then would a mask of * do the trick, or would that possibly co

Re: DB2 MSTR address space memory usage

2006-05-11 Thread Aaron Walker
Some info on what's going on in DB2 can be found here. Watch the wrap. http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=64&context=SSEPEK&q1=% 2bpresentation&uid=swg27006985&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&cc=us&lang=all Aaron On Thu, 11 May 2006 12:13:51 +0200, R.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How to find

control block overview

2006-05-09 Thread Aaron Walker
IBM offers a (hopefully pretty slick) class called z/OS System Services Structure. At this point, I don't have much hope in attending. One of the goals of the class is: Explain the z/OS BCP functions and control blocks necessary to support a task in a multi-tasking and multi-processing enviro

z9 Business Class

2006-04-27 Thread Aaron Walker
C'mon. I can't be the first one to have seen this: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/ z9 Business Class Highlights IBM System z9™ technology, for entry level to midsize capacity needs, with a wide choice of capacity settings and highly granular growth options, an increase of 2.6 times more

Re: SSL on OMVS

2006-04-20 Thread Aaron Walker
Yes, a vague request. Do you really mean how to set up hardware encryption/ICSF? Do you want to set up a webserver? Are we talking OpenSSH/SSL? I personally don't remember what was done. For setting up a webserver using software encryption, one of the first things that the HTTP Server manu

Re: IBM Announces WebSphere Application Server V6.1 for z/OS

2006-04-12 Thread Aaron Walker
Page six of the referenced link, left side, bulleted item: IBM currently intends to deliver the following items for WebSphere Application Server for z/OS, V6.1 in a post GA timeframe: - 64-bit enablement for WebSphere Application Server for z/OS - A Web server for z/OS, powered by Apache for use w

Re: WebSphere SMF records

2006-03-02 Thread Aaron Walker
I don't have any of the 120s turned on (I'm keeping them off for performance reasons), but, perhaps (just guessing), if you are not running an EJB container, you won't have this type of record activated? Aaron On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 02:26:02 -0600, Christian Blesa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello,

zIIPs

2006-01-24 Thread Aaron Walker
I don't think anyone's posted anything about this yet, but I surfed the IBM mainframe site, and they're advertising this: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/faq/pdf/ziip_faq.pdf z9 Integrated Information Processor - for DB2! Yikes! Here's the mainframe home page: http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/ese

Re: Noob question regarding zFS

2006-01-06 Thread Aaron Walker
The main thing holding me back from going zFS everywhere (actually, anywhere) is (was?) the dump restriction - to dump them, you have to do it from the system where they are mounted/owned. That's not really feasible for me, but I knew they were working on it. Any news? Thanks, Aaron ---

Re: zAAP estimation - resolved

2005-12-30 Thread Aaron Walker
Well, I talked to the maintainer, and he confirmed that it breaks for Excel 97, and provided me a fixed version. He is either going to post this new version as the main version or as an alternative on the zAAP site, I believe. Aaron On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 09:08:59 -0600, Aaron Walker <[EM

zAAP estimation

2005-12-21 Thread Aaron Walker
I'm trying to get my employers to upgrade our boxes so I can get some zAAPs, but I'm not having much luck with the Excel Production Tool Workbook provided. I'm only testing it out with a little bit of data, but when I try to pull in the data, Visual Basic barfs, saying the procedure is too large (

Re: sftp interactive under uss shell?

2005-11-30 Thread Aaron Walker
You can't do it from OMVS. If you want to do it interactively, then you have to telnet into OMVS, with a telnet client or ssh client. Thanks, Aaron On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:47:17 -0600, Joel Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Sorry, I should have been more thorough in my first message. > >From my

Re: Performance tools and JAVA

2005-11-18 Thread Aaron Walker
Ha ha ha. I'm laughing because I think I know EXACTLY what product of which you are speaking! We have the same problem. The applet wants somewhere around Java 1.4.2, and we have an inhouse HR application which is seriously back level and requires it's own 1.3.0-or-so JRE. You choose to break on

Re: Mainframe Java (Was: Platform Advocacy)

2005-11-16 Thread Aaron Walker
I was thinking that maybe they should twist around Sun's slogan (I believe it was Sun) - The computer is the network - for zSeries it could be "The Network IS the Computer". Push the zOS/zLinux/zVM/HiperSockets thing. It's all there. I love it - I wish more people got it (or perhaps I wish people

Re: Sysplex Distributor experiences

2005-11-14 Thread Aaron Walker
The TCP-L is at: http://vm.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?IBMTCP-L I believe you can subscribe at the bottom of the page. I have had good experience with Sysplex Distributor so far, although extensive use has eluded me. I've just migrated from 1.4 to 1.6, and now I can try the TIMEDAFFINITY paramete

Re: WebSphere AS -- DB2 required?

2005-11-10 Thread Aaron Walker
With WebSphere 5 and 6 (the only supported versions), DB2 is not required at all. Only if you want to use it for your applications, or if you want to use it for session storage. Thanks, Aaron -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Draft of ABCs Vol. 11 available

2005-09-23 Thread Aaron Walker
Volume 11 (Capacity planning) of the ABCs of zOS is available. Forgive any wrap. http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg246327.html Aaron -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Keeping the lights on: Legacy systems and the maturing workforce

2005-09-21 Thread Aaron Walker
Here's an article recently posted on IBM's developerWorks. Please forgive any wrap. Keeping the lights on: Legacy systems and the maturing workforce http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/sep05/lieberman/ Aaron ---

Slashdot article

2005-08-26 Thread Aaron Walker
Anyone who is familiar with Slashdot may want to weigh in on the mainframe in this just-posted article: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl? sid=05/08/26/1420218&tid=146&tid=218&tid=137 I apologize for any wrap. Aaron -- For IBM-

Re: /tmp/ subdirectories (Cross-posted with OE-MVS)

2005-07-11 Thread Aaron Walker
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005 08:47:53 -0500, Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >No products that *I* know of, but VI recovery files and dumps can go there >so I never allocate /tmp as a TFS. I know of many shops that do though. >Also, if /tmp a TFS and is large I think it could impact OMVS since it >t

Re: HFS dismount

2005-06-28 Thread Aaron Walker
If your mounts are marked NOAUTOMOVE, then they will be unmounted when their owning system goes away. You basically want your system-specific datasets (/etc/, /var/, /dev/, stuff like that) to be NOAUTOMOVE, as it's (generally) ok for them to be unmounted. Items like your version root, sysplex ro