Re: CICS TN3270 Printer Question

2009-05-15 Thread Chris Mason
ailable, ISTINCLM. If you do decide to use LU type 1 with a mode table entry such as "SCS" and the system running CICS is not the same one running the TN3270E server, you may want to improve flow by taking care of the "pacing" values. This is where your "private" mode

Re: CICS TN3270 Printer Question

2009-05-15 Thread Chris Mason
t the "TELNET device code" can be specified with or without the leading "IBM-". RFC 2355 is unambiguous: the leading "IBM-" is required. Clearly the TN3270 server logic inserts the leading "IBM-" if may have been "carelessly" omitted! Chris Ma

Re: CICS TN3270 Printer Question

2009-05-14 Thread Chris Mason
nvolving the Communications Server IP component are very often asked on the IBMTCP-L list for preference. I'm afraid I can't recall whether or not you participate there - getting old ... Chris Mason On Thu, 14 May 2009 15:05:45 -0500, Laine, Rogers wrote: >From an Attachmate E

Re: APPN Connection z/os - ANNC / LLC2 - Final questions !

2009-05-05 Thread Chris Mason
ou should take a VTAM buffer trace at the same time so that we can see whether or not a request is sent from TSO but does not appear "on the wire". Chris Mason [1] For practice with questions in English, you should visit Northern Ireland, so you should. In Northern Ireland the

Re: replacement for proc pds rename function...

2009-04-30 Thread Chris Mason
- by many blue moons. Is there some subtlety I missed here caused by my long neglect of the use of MVS Utilities - or have so many alternatives cropped up in the "good times" packaged with "must-have" products that folk have forgotten about the original "at no extra co

Re: APPN Connection z/os - AHHC / LLC2.

2009-04-28 Thread Chris Mason
liberately not using HPR because of the eventual VSE system. I see that VTAM on VSE 4.2 is also - still - 4.2 and has no HPR support, which explains why you were testing your configurations without HPR. I needed to check because that's an enhancement that is long overdue! Chris Mason

Re: APPN Connection z/os - AHHC / LLC2.

2009-04-27 Thread Chris Mason
ize of 1498. Have you had any success with looking for the "MAXDATA" value with other types of "cross-domain" connections? Chris Mason On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:59:51 +0200, Norbert Alfred Müller wrote: >Hi Chris! > >tests are ongoing , but here some results: > &

Re: APPN Connection z/os - AHHC / LLC2.

2009-04-26 Thread Chris Mason
and - although I didn't quite follow the reasoning. DWACT=YES is a very handy way not to have to enter a VARY NET,DIAL command in the case of connections between APPN nodes which use switched procedures. Chris Mason [1] This isn't strictly logical since, to the reque

Re: APPN Connection z/os - AHHC / LLC2.

2009-04-25 Thread Chris Mason
estimate of the delays. In case this is problem with VTAM buffers, you can post the D NET,BFRUSE output before and after your TSO logon attempt on both systems. Note that only type 2.1 connections using switched procedures - which uniquely distinguishes your problem case(s) from the others - use th

Re: Hypersockets between LPARs of different sysplexes

2009-04-22 Thread Chris Mason
hile I'm here again, I may as well add that you might be able to survive with the default values for the related VTAM definitions but you should be *aware* that you are relying on those related VTAM definitions even if the default values work with your configuration. Chris Mason On Tue, 21

Re: Hypersockets between LPARs of different sysplexes

2009-04-21 Thread Chris Mason
pendix. In Appendix D, "Using HCD", of the Communications Server IP Configuration Guide you will see a discussion of how to define your HiperSockets to the "hardware" - and only that as far as I can see with a quick glance! I have never had actually to do this so I might have

Re: Netspy

2009-04-07 Thread Chris Mason
pport can offer you something you can be persuaded you really need to use in this environment, then maybe you can be persuaded to continue with NetSpy - or use some more up-to-date products, possibly in its stead Chris Mason [1] "The 'B.M.T.' sandwich at Subway was originally

Re: IBM Withdraws Patent Application on offshoring jobs

2009-04-04 Thread Chris Mason
Bill I was skipping this topic as one having been raised suspiciously close to April 1st. However I spotted the text of your post in my daily digest and so I'm yielding to the temptation to mention that expression of absolute justice "Hoist with your own petard!". Chris Mason

Re: VTAM - Network Node to Border Node

2009-04-01 Thread Chris Mason
Subarea to APPN Migration: VTAM and APPN Implementation, SG24-4656-01: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg244656.html Chris Mason On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 11:47:28 -0500, Rabbe, Luke wrote: >We currently have a VTAM network that includes 1 network node and 7 end >nodes that use the same

Re: FTP timeout problem

2009-03-26 Thread Chris Mason
c=DA400&uid=swg27011275&loc=en_US&cs=UTF- 8&lang=en&rss=ct852other Chris Mason -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GE

Re: FTP timeout problem

2009-03-26 Thread Chris Mason
et INACTTIME 0 for the benefit of the *client* connection? Reviewing the replies yet again, CWCID I see that Dennis Roach was tring to tell us all precisely that the problem was the *client* connection - perhaps with insufficient emphasis - and with the "firewall" red herring th

Re: SVC 50 (0A32)

2009-03-25 Thread Chris Mason
MVS matters, undertook a day or two later to investigate why the COBOL program had been so slow. His technique was to interrupt the program at regular intervals in order to see what it was doing - I forget precisely how this was done. It was only now discovered what the Assembler subroutines in

Re: Future of DLC (Data Link Control)

2009-03-24 Thread Chris Mason
lavour of CHPID seem to be being added from time to time to that "Technote" I referenced. You will, of course, attract some anti-SNA bigots with an appeal such as this. Be sure that any advice given has documentation from IBM behind rather than simply being a warped opinion. Chris Mas

Re: OSA/SF stc (IOASRV) being canceled by TCPIP

2009-03-16 Thread Chris Mason
to have posted this problem - the significance of the PORT statement list is very poorly understood -largely down to very poor documentation from its very beginning! Chris Mason On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:35:05 +0200, גדי בן אבי wrote: >Thanks > >That worked ok, I trouble bec

Re: OSA/SF stc (IOASRV) being canceled by TCPIP

2009-03-16 Thread Chris Mason
with the single statement: DELETE PORT 2000 UDP IOASRV QED Chris Mason On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:58:43 +0200, גדי בן אבי wrote: >Thanks > > >Now that I know what the problem is, is there a way to remove the extra port reservation using an obey file? > >TIA > &g

Re: OSA/SF stc (IOASRV) being canceled by TCPIP

2009-03-16 Thread Chris Mason
lt - not registered with IANA by the way - port number was 2000. Chris Mason On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:45:54 +0200, גדי בן אבי wrote: >HI, > > > >If Issue the D TCPIP,NETSTAT,PORTL command I get: > >EZZ2500I NETSTAT CS V1R9 TCPIP 252

Re: OSA/SF stc (IOASRV) being canceled by TCPIP

2009-03-15 Thread Chris Mason
address space starts initially. It is because the relevant port is not found to be in the correct state that the address space is cancelled and restarted subsequently. Chris Mason On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:19:33 +0200, גדי בן אבי wrote: >HI, > >We just cut over to z/OS 1.9. >

Re: System Loop or System Hung Not Sure Which

2009-03-13 Thread Chris Mason
ight which related to the LPAR of concern. Well, that's a "Friday" observation! Chris Mason On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:14:46 -0400, George Rodriguez wrote: >Yesterday, the system started displaying the following messages on SYSLOG for z/os v1.4: $HASP9212 MVS NOT DISPATCHING

Re: Greetings all,

2009-03-13 Thread Chris Mason
ll which can involve a name server. Then DB2 checks that everything ties up as some sort of assurance that the proper instance of DB2 has been identified - or something like that. In any case just changing the "primary interface" because you imagine a revised design makes another add

Re: OSAENTA device problem

2009-03-04 Thread Chris Mason
man - or woman - the redbook projects. They are not written by development shop authors. Incidentally, it would appear that, when a "hardware" address is understood to be a port used for the OSAENTA function, it changes its type from "DATA" to "TRACE" as well as changing

Re: OSAENTA device problem

2009-03-04 Thread Chris Mason
laining how you resolved the problem described in the earlier thread. List archives are so much richer when there are solutions as well as problems posted in the list! Chris Mason -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acce

Re: OSAENTA device problem

2009-03-04 Thread Chris Mason
uld change from RESET to ACTIVE? Perhaps someone who has already used the OSAENTA function can clarify this point. Incidentally 3: "BOOK"! There's a bit of a VSE flavour about that isn't there? Chris Mason On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 07:35:16 -0600, Stuart Willis wrote: >I

Re: IP error

2009-03-02 Thread Chris Mason
the other application" did not "direct you to this section." Chris Mason On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 13:33:16 -0500, August Carideo wrote: >I meant any help >sorry > > > > August Carideo > VON.COM>

Re: Large 3270 screen size and TSO/ISPF 6.0 on z/OS v1.10

2009-02-25 Thread Chris Mason
John The reason for the difference in the secondary receive maximum Request Unit size is that the channel-attached, "A", controller had a maximum, 1536, imposed by the hardware (microcode) whereas the "line"-attached, "C", controller did not. Chris Mason On W

Re: Large 3270 screen size and TSO/ISPF 6.0 on z/OS v1.10

2009-02-25 Thread Chris Mason
services field: the X'80' bit in the second byte *and* the X'03' in the penultimate byte. Thus a private mode table entry - in a private mode table I would expect and hope - is not actually necessary. Nevertheless, if you would be so kind as to post the source of your mod

Re: Screen size (was 3270 emulator cost)

2009-02-25 Thread Chris Mason
bitually used, hence LOGMODE=D4C32XX3. Had you used the default format, PL1, you would have had to enter LOGMODE(D4C32XX3). Chris Mason On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:57:37 -0500, Mark Pace wrote: >*>TerminalTypeString=IBM-DYNAMIC* > >Thank you for that! > >On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9

Re: OSA's Error codes

2009-02-25 Thread Chris Mason
lects an attempt to activate presumably - if I dare to assume anything after this episode! - any interface as an excuse to complain about the IUTSAMEH interface definition lacking an address defined in the HOME list. I'm sorry for all the fuss. Chris Mason On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:13:42 -0

Re: OSA's Error codes

2009-02-25 Thread Chris Mason
ature port QDIO definitions. If you are still confused or it still doesn't work, please post again with relevant definitions. Also I'm sure we'd all appreciate full stops and capital letters where appropriate. I had to annotate you last post before - thinking - I had understood it! Ch

Re: Screen size (was 3270 emulator cost)

2009-02-25 Thread Chris Mason
rtition-Query and, as I said, any emulator you were tempted to use these days should contain this support. Getting back to the topic in hand, I've bee assisting a customer recently using "Extra" and we couldn't get away from the rows and columns implied by the standard 3278

Re: Screen size (was 3270 emulator cost)

2009-02-25 Thread Chris Mason
twork guys". Chris Mason On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:02:33 +0100, Barbara Nitz wrote: >>Just out of curiosity, what do you normally see in columns 143 through >>160? Is it mostly just a lot of black (background)? Or do some >>products/displays you use actually put something u

Re: IP addresses

2009-02-23 Thread Chris Mason
the IP applications rather than a node in the network performing routing - as are OSA features. Chris Mason On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:25:36 -0600, Ward, Mike S wrote: >Hello all, in a CISCO router the interfaces can have multiple IP addresses by telling the IOS that it is a second

read and write devices for fctc connections

2009-02-21 Thread Chris Mason
ng IP addresses was very successful so it's worth the effort to be clear. Chris Mason -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

Re: OSA's Error codes

2009-02-21 Thread Chris Mason
on to which Ed was referring! Chris Mason On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:22:29 -, Stuart Willis wrote: >Hi > >I have proved (I think) that the OSA dose have a Home address. > >Output from the TCPIP proc with a Home address all I

Re: OSA's Error codes

2009-02-21 Thread Chris Mason
name of the DEVICE statement and the name of the LINK statement do not "occupy the same name space". Thus the same name can be used for both the DEVICE and LINK statements in a pair. Thanks again for your help. Chris Mason On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:55:24 -0600, Martin Kline wrote: >>

Re: OSA's Error codes

2009-02-20 Thread Chris Mason
you have not defined such a pair of statements and you have no entry in the HOME list with the link name EZASAMEMVS, then you do qualify for this test. I'm sorry to be so specific but I'm trying to cover all the bases. Thanks very much. Chris Mason On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:13:00 -0

Re: OSA's Error codes

2009-02-20 Thread Chris Mason
4: DEVICE IUTSAMEH MPCPTP AUTORESTART LINK linkname MPCPTP IUTSAMEH where linkname is EZASAMEMVS if defined because DYNAMICXCF was specified. Go and have a look in your CS IP PROFILE data set for DYNAMICXCF. Chris Mason On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:11:04 -0600, Martin Kline wrote: >>If there

How to connect jes2 and jes3 on different lpars

2009-02-20 Thread Chris Mason
SNA NJE and perhaps use an Enterprise extender logical link over the IP network, post again and perhaps someone will be able to assist. It's handy that your VTAMs are enabled for APPN. Chris Mason [1] I checked on what the Google digest had to say about Arju and followed up on two recent

Re: OSA's Error codes

2009-02-20 Thread Chris Mason
fault values to be used in case the values are not specified on the GROUP statement. "Along with NODETYPE=NN" is just wrong. What is correct is that the NODETYPE start option must be specified - definitely along with HPR=RTP although this is the default - but the value can be EN as we

Re: OSA's Error codes

2009-02-19 Thread Chris Mason
you - or your SMP colleague - should have this APAR documentation to hand. Chris Mason On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:16:18 -0600, Stuart Willis wrote: >Hi All > >We have a new Z9 Processor I have 2 ZOS systems working under VM using >OSA's no problem. I'm now setting up a

Re: How "Official" are Supplied Sample Exits? (was Assembler Question)

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Mason
l system programmers needing a bit of help to get them started with their own efforts. Chris Mason P.S. "Assembler Question" is a rather weak thread title[1] and, as may have been predicted, it has allowed enormous "drift". The main "branch" appears to have bec

Re: VTAMlst

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Mason
nning of the adjacent SSCP list initially - the distinction is a bit subtle! Chris Mason On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:10:37 -0600, Ron Wells wrote: >well---so far so good...no drop outs as yet...but day/week not over...lol > > >thanks again Chris

Re: VTAMlst

2009-02-15 Thread Chris Mason
ral directory servers using the CDSERVR=YES start option. If CDSERVR=YES, the CDSREFER start option should not be specified. [10] If you have a small network, you may want to operate without the APPN data bases in which case you would specify INITDB=NONE. - Chris Mason On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:19

Re: VTAMlst

2009-02-14 Thread Chris Mason
RVR. Thus the following is suggested: - remove obsolete application major node members from VTAMLST - insert GROUP REGISTER=NO following VBUILD=APPL in those that remain - possibly look for the opportunity to replace massive lists of APPL statements with identical operands with a model statemen

Re: FW: ADCD Load

2009-02-14 Thread Chris Mason
rected you yourself as the 3rd "hit" . Indeed, if you had "Googled" with the full string "IGGN504A SPECIFY UNIT FOR CATALOG.Z19.MASTER ON Z9SYS1", it would have been the *only* "hit"! Chris Mason On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:31:48 -0600, Fred Hoffman wrote: &

Re: VTAM USSTAB QUESTION

2009-02-10 Thread Chris Mason
should have been defined much, much more closely in terms of how VTAM behaving as an SSCP supported the LOGOFF command. The manual which actually offers help in "knowing what's going on" with respect to USS flows is the z/OS CS SNA Diagnosis Vol 1, specifically Figure 119. Chris

The Perils of Misusing Initials (is VTAM USSTAB QUESTION)

2009-02-10 Thread Chris Mason
Need I say more? On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 14:48:11 -0500, Howard Rifkind wrote: >I have the following entry in my USSTAB: P39TMMVS USSCMD CMD=P39TMMVS,REP=LOGON,FORMAT=BAL USSPARM PARM=APPLID,DEFAULT=TMONMVS When I key in P39TMMVS we are really getting TMONMVS as the executable. W

Re: VTAM USSTAB QUESTION

2009-02-09 Thread Chris Mason
Lizette If REP is not coded, it takes the value of PARM. (That is, the user-entered parameter is used as entered.) Chris Mason On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 15:22:45 -0500, Lizette Koehler wrote: >Howard, > >I do not know if this will help, but in our USS tab we code TMON this way &

Re: VTAM USSTAB QUESTION

2009-02-09 Thread Chris Mason
r. Incidentally, there is logically a similar SSCP- LU session running between VTAM and LU "TMONMVS" supported by program x. It's important to have this picture clearly in mind when working out what influence a mode table entry specified in the USS table set of entries might have in

Re: Display true hex as EBCDIC characters?

2009-02-03 Thread Chris Mason
r subroutine a separately assembled CSECT for linkage editing where needed, you'd be in trouble! Chris Mason P.S. It was the need to explain the sign half-bytes fully that took my attention in Don's post, caused me to subscribe to ASSEMBLER-LIST and provide my observation on the topic

Re: SNA Formats manual?

2009-01-30 Thread Chris Mason
raging in another part of the country, the part where my co-workers had been before the war. Chris Mason On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:30:18 -0600, Patrick O'Keefe wrote: >On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:46:15 -0600, Chris Mason > wrote: > >>... >>To which "product doc"

FTP transfer port

2009-01-30 Thread Chris Mason
c world off its feet - documentation and presenters giving examples of how to associate SNA APPN COS names with server ports which/who said #INTER should be associated with port 23, TELNET, and, of course, #BATCH should be associated with port 21, FTP. "Rubbish"!!! Port 21 also

Re: SNA Formats manual?

2009-01-29 Thread Chris Mason
check the basics in the SNA Programming manual and the VTAM APPC API in the SNA Programmer's LU 6.2 Guide and SNA Programmer's LU 6.2 Reference manuals. I couldn't find how VTAM builds the presumably RACROUTE call but you may have better luck! I'd be inclined to take it on trust

Re: SNA Formats manual?

2009-01-29 Thread Chris Mason
"level 20" as recently as 2004. Are all RFCs older than 5 years "obsolete"? > ... no longer part of the product doc package) To which "product doc" package would you be referring? Chris Mason [1] Which, when it was called "Systems Network Architecture Reference Sum

Re: SNA Formats manual?

2009-01-29 Thread Chris Mason
arch on the manual number on any IBM web site page which leads you to a very common style of page for accessing manuals such as redbooks. Chris Mason [1] Beware the rather off-putting effect that the first page is blank except for the number 1 in the bottom right! On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:50:09 -060

Re: does anybody know a basic type of "VTAM LU telnet" tool

2009-01-28 Thread Chris Mason
ommand, I note that it is possible to specify the TP-name on the command. Isn't this the equivalent of specifying a bogus port number with the TELNET command? I believe I may have got closer to your requirement than I expected when I started this post! Chris Mason [1] Using the terminol

Re: MODIFY VTAMOPTS,TCPNAME=

2009-01-21 Thread Chris Mason
were composed back in 2001 and which - I am obliged to believe! - was true at the time, probably at the OS/390 V2R10 level of Communications Server. Chris Mason On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:07:37 -0600, Rabbe, Luke wrote: >I guess I don't know the complete effect of setting this value.

Re: UNABLE TO FIND ERROR MESSAGE - ADR849E

2009-01-20 Thread Chris Mason
0 manual - you would have been successful in finding the message explanation Jim McAlpine presented for you without having to take all the trouble to compose a couple of posts for us all to puzzle over! Chris Mason On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:43:31 -

Re: VTAM security issue

2009-01-19 Thread Chris Mason
". How short some memories are! Or is this yet another manifestation of folk memory having been lost because those who would have remembered have been "let go" and those who supposedly took their place just haven't had the education in depth which harks back to the "

Re: VTAM security issue

2009-01-14 Thread Chris Mason
minimum of CDRSC statements, you don't need to worry about USS commands. Chris Mason On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:12:35 +0200, Itschak Mugzach wrote: >Hi Chris, > >You answers are just exectly what I was looking for. I RTFMed a little as >well and have my ideas. For example, I loo

Re: VTAM security issue

2009-01-14 Thread Chris Mason
any vtam application. Assume that LOG APPL will accept netname.applid as P1... Translation: I believe that the two organizations want to connect their CICS systems for limited functions. I believe that they do not want to allow any end-user LU to logon to any application LU where the USS command

Re: VTAM security issue

2009-01-14 Thread Chris Mason
n't considered before! Note that, by coding alternative USS LOGON (and LOGOFF) commands, you do not prevent use of the default commands. It's a bit like ISTINCLM and the MODETAB operand. Chris Mason On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:53:37 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote: >2009/1/13 Itschak Mugz

Re: VTAM security issue

2009-01-14 Thread Chris Mason
d as a CDRSC within VTAMB and thus is allowed to have a session with CICSB given that CICSB has a CDRSC definition within VTAMA. Chris Mason [1] Not a lot of people remember that! [2] Specifies whether the host CDRM is authorized to dynamically define CDRSC representations of cross-domain or

Re: VTAM security issue

2009-01-13 Thread Chris Mason
OGON APPLID could be prevented by some particular coding of the USS table. It can't! Chris Mason [1] There are others historically but very, very unlikely today. [2] Post again if you need help with this. Essentially, it's in the definition of the CDRM statements. On Tue, 13 Jan 2009

Re: MAXUSER=250

2009-01-13 Thread Chris Mason
opers weren't clever enough to make it the default when a model APPL statement is used and AUTH=TSO is specified. Chris Mason On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:37:18 +, Ted MacNEIL wrote: >>F TSO,USERMAX=500 (for example) > >>It will change the amount. But you need to change the VT

Re: How to interrupt an LPAR ?

2009-01-10 Thread Chris Mason
upt request is generated for the processor. So I hope that answers the question "... exactly how would you go about doing this ?" Chris Mason On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:35:08 -0600, Joe D'Alessandro wrote: >The Support Element manual for the z9 System describes the External &

Re: How to interrupt an LPAR ?

2009-01-10 Thread Chris Mason
he APAR text actually means. Alternatively, if you have some difficulty with IBM support, simply try sending in a Reader's Comment Form saying that the manual - whichever version of the HMC Guide is appropriate for your system - doesn't describe what the APAR suggests it should. C

Re: Submitting jobs to a z/os guest from vm

2009-01-10 Thread Chris Mason
ou prefer SNA or CTC, we can perhaps help you further - and perhaps worry a bit more about userids! Chris Mason [1] In days gone by, there was also binary synchronous communication (BSC) as an NJE transport. Unless you happen to have typically a 2701 control unit - of blessed memory - connected

Re: Need TN3270e software

2009-01-10 Thread Chris Mason
and let us all know - you can't break anything! If the redbook authors had had an ounce of a spirit of adventure about them - all 8 of them! - they would have covered this entirely practical issue. Chris Mason On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:16:33 -0500, Jerry Fuchs wrote: >We are FINALLY

Re: Computer History Museum

2008-12-24 Thread Chris Mason
use of a 4K machine. In order to support a 1287 on an 8K Model 30 without disks, it was either work with these I/O routines or adapt a 4K card-based operating system (the 1231 Support Package - or some such name) to handle the special requirements of the 1287 optical character (hand-written num

Re: sending snmp traps from z/OS

2008-11-27 Thread Chris Mason
now where the trap is going. That's where the merit is. Incidentally, I'm encouraged to note that, while this discussion has dragged on as so many threads do, we are still precisely addressing the OP's original concern! Chris Mason On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:40:55 -0600, Patrick O'

Re: sending snmp traps from z/OS

2008-11-27 Thread Chris Mason
need a reading of the relevant RFC to sort out. That way we can work out what all this "sending" to an SNMP agent is about! Chris Mason On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:29:56 -0500, Don Poitras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >> On T

Re: sending snmp traps from z/OS

2008-11-27 Thread Chris Mason
manner. However sending notifications to the SNMP agent just doesn't fit!!! So, like you, I'm going to have to read up on these "super-traps" in order to see what they're all about. Chris Mason [1] Also in the days when I taught SNMP on TCP/IP for MVS, I assisted with

Re: sending snmp traps from z/OS

2008-11-27 Thread Chris Mason
ontrarily, I cannot recall any exchanges where we did not see eye-to-eye! Regarding "improved": it seems I made the usual mistake of assuming that whatever was newer was also better! Regarding "quick-and-dirty" in reference to CNMSMSGT: the compounded adjective referred

Re: sending snmp traps from z/OS

2008-11-25 Thread Chris Mason
Were CNMSMSGT to use the API to the SNMP agent, then it would be in line with SNMP architecture. However CNMSMSGT may precisely perform the job you want done. Chris Mason On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:09:47 -0600, Henrique Seganfredo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello folks, > >I have

Re: IOGEN of 2074

2008-11-19 Thread Chris Mason
to attach to a 3271 or 3172 - all devices from the early 1970s - while you need something like a 3278 to attach to a 3174 - devices from the later 1970s. Chris Mason On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:55:48 -0500, Jerry Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am trying to gen two 2074 control

Re: Former Marines

2008-11-14 Thread Chris Mason
> ... Germany and Japan had navies. What do you think they would have done with them had the US navy not taken them on, once they had conquered England? They'd be fully occupied trying to deal with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland of course! Chr

Re: Deleting a segment in IMS-DB

2008-11-12 Thread Chris Mason
Ram This looks like the sort of question that should be posed in the IMS-L list. You can join the list by using the "Join or Leave IMS-L" prompt on the following page: http://imslistserv.bmc.com/scripts/wa-BMC.exe?A0=IMS-L Chris Mason On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:49:23 -0500, Ram Bala

Re: OSA-ICC Console over long distance

2008-11-11 Thread Chris Mason
way - or having to use low bandwidth networking - than an operator in the "glass-house". Did I miss something? Chris Mason On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:19:05 -0500, Ken Porowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Anyone have experience using an OSA-ICC attached Console over a long >distan

Re: Strange ISPF initialization problem

2008-11-10 Thread Chris Mason
ges and Codes manual but there were none of these in the MVS System Codes. It turns out that code 999 as reported in the MVS System Codes manual refers to the IPCS component - nothing whatsoever to do with any old product like ISPF. Ho-hum! Chris Mason [1] The late actor Ian Richardson played th

Re: Strange ISPF initialization problem

2008-11-10 Thread Chris Mason
s all about not just guessing! In fact, it looks like the guess in this post it may have been a good guess - or alternatively, this Holmes just hadn't bothered to explain to the attendant Watsons that he actually had scrutinised the evidence and found the third bullet! "RACF", &q

Re: Where is PERM?

2008-10-30 Thread Chris Mason
it's all about liberty! - to add a question mark to the subject. - [1] Wikipedia URLs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shosse_Entuziastov Actually, I should update this entry pointing out how the associated street name relates to the station murals. Ch

Re: IBM PR: System z Announcement Webcast on October 21, 2008

2008-10-20 Thread Chris Mason
able to boasting how many hectares of grain had been harvested, proclaimed proudly how many kilometres of copper wire were present in the machine. I believe he mentioned that the people responsible were from the Urals. This was back in 1975. Chris Mason [1] The Ministry of Instrumentation Tec

Re: Simple VTAM-Question?

2008-10-15 Thread Chris Mason
eter. I hope someone who knows for sure can confirm or correct this guess. Well, welcome to a path to becoming a VTAM specialist. There are fewer and fewer these days. Chris Mason On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:01:16 +0200, Michael Knigge <[EMAIL PROTECTED] SOFTWARE.DE> wrote: >All, > >

Re: Acessing LDAP data on other servers from z/OS

2008-10-15 Thread Chris Mason
enty of other "hits" - an amazing 150! >From time to time I work with a customer who accesses an LDAP server from some WebSphere applications so what you want to do is certainly done. Chris Mason On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:16:29 +0100, Andy Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: &g

Re: Changing NSINTERADDR dynamically - URGENT

2008-10-15 Thread Chris Mason
set can be specified in a number of ways, including as SYS1.TCPPARMS(TCPDATA). The way to refer to the data set generically is to use the original name used by TCP/IP for VM, the product from which CP/IP for MVS was derived which, in turn became the Communications Server IP component. Chris Maso

Re: Changing NSINTERADDR dynamically - URGENT

2008-10-14 Thread Chris Mason
ation Guide under "Managing the resolver address space". Chris Mason On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:09:55 +0100, Jacky Bright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is it possible to change NSINTERADDR dynamically without IPL ? How can we >achieve that ? > >I have to chang

Re: VBM to VBA?

2008-10-13 Thread Chris Mason
quot; for "it's" and vice versa. I'd better do some beam casting! Chris Mason On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:44:27 -0500, Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I think your in trouble ... -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: VBM to VBA?

2008-10-13 Thread Chris Mason
PPENDIX1.3.1 Machine Code we find "Print--Then Act " and in the table of codes in APPENDIX1.3.2 ISO/ANSI we find "Action before Printing a Line" So now I'm happy - but I suspect you will not be! Chris Mason On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:43:58 -0500, John McKown <[EMAI

Re: VTAM Error Messages

2008-10-08 Thread Chris Mason
o the job swiftly - or is this yet another case of a vital member of the team having been "let go"? Chris Mason On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 11:24:06 -0500, Cebell, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Years ago we had VTAM Systems Programmer who attended to this >discipline. > &

Re: jes2

2008-09-25 Thread Chris Mason
Enterprise Extender, well, actually just "ee". Chris Mason On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:21:32 -0500, Hal Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This is not really a jes2 subject. Rather, one of telecommunications. >Half duplex is less expensive and will work ok if the vast majority o

Re: jes2

2008-09-25 Thread Chris Mason
lot of the "protocol overhead" of running Enterprise Extender. If it's efficiency you are after, this is surely the way to go! Chris Mason On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:04:19 -0400, Carroll, William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am not very versed in jes2. I can not seem

Re: VTAM question: Where does TGN=21 come from?

2008-09-09 Thread Chris Mason
sing from one VTAM Interchange Node (ICN) to another ICN (over all the virtual routes defined between the two subarea nodes) and that TG number 254 will be used as a description within APPN mechanisms for a TG passing irrevocably into the subarea network masquerading as a virtual APPN End Node. Chr

Re: VTAM question: Where does TGN=21 come from?

2008-09-09 Thread Chris Mason
ated on the web there is Chapter 10. Logmode and COS Resolution in a Mixed Network in Jerzy Buczak's SG24-4656-01. Chris Mason [1] I was going to include RU sizes on the basis that these are values in the "TS Usage" fields alongside the pacing values. However, this would imply r

Re: VTAM question: Where does TGN=21 come from?

2008-09-09 Thread Chris Mason
your thinking at the time you were composing your first post in this thread and that you now know from where that previously troublesome 21 comes, namely section 4.2.3 Transmission Groups in SG24-3669. Chris Mason On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 16:54:17 -0500, Martin Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: VTAM question: Where does TGN=21 come from?

2008-09-09 Thread Chris Mason
hat be?" was usually "Why can a session be established A to B when it doesn't work B to A?". Chris Mason On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 16:03:47 -0500, Patrick O'Keefe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 11:27:40 -0500, Chris Mason ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

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