Another way is to issue a RACROUTE REQUEST=EXTRACT and specify the UACC
and/or USERACS fields on the extract FIELDS parameter list.
Refer to the RACROUTE Macro Reference appendix-B.
That's what we did on last year when we developed the SAF Interface for
CA Tape Encryption. (Of course, if I'm
: Newbie RACROUTE question: how to *test* authorization?
Gregory, Gary G wrote:
Another way is to issue a RACROUTE REQUEST=EXTRACT and specify the UACC
and/or USERACS fields on the extract FIELDS parameter list.
Does it mean to check the profile, not the access authorities ?
IMHO bad idea. Access can
Several years ago I was the data center for a very large Texas-based
regional hospital (over 1K in beds) running on a 9672 (at the time).
Our holding company owned another dozen or so small (50-75 bed)
hospitals running on a client-server solution. The software running in
the smaller hospitals
Certain times you can be added to the outsource company's MIPS/site
license.
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Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 4:44 PM
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GTxx is for the Gothic Text font where the XX is the pitch size (GT10
= 10 characters per inch horizontally, GT12 = 12 characters per inch
horizontally), etc.
If I recall correctly, GTxx is a fixed font vs. proportional.
This is going back many years from when I did a lot of PAGEDEF and
Peter, I can only speak for the products I've developed and how we
implemented command security. Also, I might add that years ago I found
a spreadsheet someone had at SHARE that listed each OPERCMDS entities.
That could be used as a foundation to know which commands are verified.
If an OEM
That's assuming the OEM product issues the RACROUTE call to verify the
user has access to the command.
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that all entities be defined in OPERCMDS.
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Gregory, Gary G wrote:
That's assuming
Of Edward Jaffe
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Gregory, Gary G wrote:
That is true but if the application is NOT passing the UTOKEN or using
the macro that requires the commands be defined in OPERCMDS then that
won't work
Hey Ray, you are correct it is z/VSE that will allow you to cancel the
CUU.
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Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 2:31 PM
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My first real job was in 1984 with Texas American (Bank) Services in
Fort Worth. When I started we were in the process of insourcing all
of our applications from EDS and one of the first three we brought back
in house was ATM processing (followed by ACH and Corporate Trust). TASI
built a new
Years ago I was able to save many an IPL when QMF users would run these
huge outer joins of two databases. If I could hit the right TCB, I
would cancel the task and 90% of the time it would save an IPL (which
was my next option).
Regards,
Gary
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One winter Saturday afternoon in 1985 I was working for UCCEL (down at
the datacenter) and RIGHT in the middle of upgrading our VSE platform to
VSE/SP 2.1. A squirrel had crossed our two independent power feeds and
knocked out ALL of the power in the building. We still had some 3330's
and had to
We didn't have any governors in place (at the time) and the system would
end up thrashing.
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Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 4:55 PM
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It was more or less product ignorance; once I implemented the governors
then they didn't need to run these jobs during primetime under TMP. We
had special batch classes that would accommodate their request(s). Our
CICS community was a lot more important.
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Didn't the 4331's have a file/tape adapter? That might have been for
FBA devices only. 20+ years ago I was the data center manager for an
insurance company and we ran all of our DASD off the FTA. When we
upgraded to the 4381 we had to install a 3990.
Gary
Snip
The 4331-2 disk is mostly
You're right, Matt. Once you hit ENTER or a PFK the contents of the
member being edited was written back to the ICCF library.
Don't forget you could run ISPF under ICCF in an interactive partition.
Yeah, that ran fast! NOT!
Snip
Ohthe memories.my head hurts. :-)
The full screen
Don't forget about the Display/Printer Adapter!
Because the FBA's and 8809's were boat anchors. And the 3350's and
3420
gave interchangeability with MVS.
With things connected to normal channels the sky was the limit with what
could be done with the 4331. Using the ICA severely limited
Wondering if he's trying to install the exit using SMP/E (as a USERMOD)
or just needing the JCL to assemble and link the exit.
SAMPLIB contains samples, if you think there is a bug you have the
source
and can modify it to your hearts content.
There are plenty of sample procs provided with your
This afternoon I had an interesting discussion concerning DFSMS DATACLAS
definitions and their maintenance. To date the only method I've seen
published and have used is via the ISMF - ISPF panels. Was wondering if
anyone had ever tried or for that matter even knows if you can modify
DFSMS
Looks like an old homework question or job interview question.
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Steve,
I am
CA SYSVIEW can give you that information as well. Like the other
products mentioned, you can access SYSVIEW via VTAM, TSO or CA Roscoe.
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Eric,
For what it's worth I was in your same situation a couple of years ago.
I had a fantastic opportunity to take two years off go to graduate
school and ended up graduating a semester early. When that happened I
hadn't even started to look for a job. When it did happen I was
commuting 360
Didn't CAPEX also market TLMS?
Gary Garland Gregory, MS
CA
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On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:42 -0400, Gregory, Gary G wrote:
Didn't CAPEX
I'm sure most financial people have heard of the Hogan Integrated
Banking system. Back in the 70's Bernie Hogan did exactly what was
discussed here - he and a couple of programmers would spend their nights
and weekends in downtown Dallas at I believe RepublicBank. In the end
they received a
CA Dynam/D, CA Dynam/T and CA Dynam/FI
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CA
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Sent: Thursday, June
Oh yeah, how could I forget the product I work on - CA Tape Encryption.
Gary Garland Gregory, MS
CA
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CA-DISK AKA BrightStor CA-Disk, et al was SAMS:DISK from the Sterling
Software acquisition.
GGG
snip
Vary true ... There used to be a product (it may still exist for all I
know) that was a competitor to IBM's DFHSM
ASM2 was eventually acquired by CA and become CA-DISK, then Brightstore
I was at UCCEL during that period of time. During all of those acquit
ions they also bought a little Boston company, CORADALE (or something
like that) for their VSE System/Manager (Space/Manager, Tape/Manager)
and System/Scheduler products. So UCCEL had System/Manager and CA had
DYNAM. UCCEL
If you remember -- shortly after UCCEL acquired ASM2 they killed UCC3.
snip
I was employed by Cambridge Systems Group at the time of the takeover by
UCCEL. As it was explained to me by folks there who seemed to know what
was happening, UCCEL wanted to buy only ACF2, but CSG had
Steve, I started at Sterling Commerce a few weeks after it was spun off
from Sterling Software. I was told the motivating factor was divide out
the financial (Vector: xxx banking software) and commerce software
(Connect:Direct, Connect:Enterprise, GENTRAN, etc) from the systems
software
I didn't know that we had all standardized on C - guess I missed that
one.
Gary Garland Gregory, MS
CA
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snip
Okay, that part I get. The part that interests me is since C was not
available, 'mainframe users
I just received two e-mails from WaveMind with the subject Need help on
your IBM Mainframe project?, one addressed to an address that I use
only for IBM-MAIN. Nothing in the message suggests that it is in
response to anything specific that I posted. Has anybody else received
these?
I received on
TRIVIA: back in the 70's and 80's Texas state law prevented someone
using the title of Engineer unless they were licensed by the state.
So, our IBM SE's had the title of Systems Representative on their
business cards.
Gary Garland Gregory, MS
CA
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Allan, was this W2 or 1099?
Gary Garland Gregory, MS
CA
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Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 9:17
Our development z/OS 1.8 mini-system runs as a guest under z/VM (z/VM
Version 5 Release 2.0) and from time to time when we go through SVC dump
create our TSO sessions being dropped (see messages below).
Not sure if there's a parm in TCP (so somewhere else) we can modify to
increase the timeout
Our development z/OS 1.8 mini-system runs as a guest under z/VM (z/VM
Version 5 Release 2.0) and from time to time when the system creates a
SVC dump we end up with our TSO sessions being dropped (see messages
below).
Not sure if there's a parm in TCP (so somewhere else) we can modify to
Ok, now I have a question - why did IBM drop support of Personal
Communications/3270 (PC/3270)? Just wondering since I thought it was
the best at really emulating a 3278/3279 (ducking).
Gary Garland Gregory, MS
CA
Senior Software Engineer
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[EMAIL
Are you wanting to make a one-for-one copy of the tapes? If so, I can
give you an example using DITTO (assuming you want to use DITTO).
Gary Garland Gregory, MS
CA
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: Re: Tapecopy of two (2) z/OS 1.7 install tapes???
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:55:59 -0400, Gregory, Gary G
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Are you wanting to make a one-for-one copy of the tapes? If so, I can
give you an example using DITTO (assuming you want to use DITTO).
Gary Garland Gregory, MS
CA
You could write an EXCI program to find out the status. If you can't
find the status you could do a EXEC CICS READ and look @ the EIBRCODE.
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Steve,
You're right, Online Software International published like a 3-inch
CICS/VS reference summary that contained all of the CICS reference data
and the 3270 IDS data. ONE HELL of a Reference Summary!
Also, at some point I think had an ACF/VTAM OSI reference summary.
IIFC, they had to quit
Does Texas AM still run Wylbur?
SNIP
Yes, I very much know what you mean. I miss those years and
opportunities.
And there was yet another service bureau in the SF area that was a
WYLBUR customer, but I just can't remember the name of the organization
or who the contact person was.
Regards,
Tom, when I read your post I had the exact same thought. It would give
us a heck of a editor to run when playing around on Hercules.
Regards,
Gary
snip
But it raises a question that I have not (yet) been able to find an
answer from Stanford's web site: What level of MVS is needed for
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Subject: Re: Question about SuperWylbur
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on
03/29/2007
at 04:06 PM, Gregory, Gary G [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
When did Wylbur become SuperWylbur?
It didn't. There was a fork, one branch of which became OBS Wylbur,
one branch of which became NIS Wylbur and one branch
When did Wylbur become SuperWylbur? I'm guessing that ACS sold it off.
The last release I messed with was 9.0 ~ 10 years ago.
snip
Yes I know about ROSCOE and the others (Wylbur etc.) and while they
are OK once you learn them I found I kept wishing that I had ISPF.
When I had ISPF and
I guess over time you end up using all of the mainframe editors. When I
started off in this business I was 16 and a part-time operator for a
local hospital and that's about the time VSE/ICCF was introduced.
In college we used MUSIC/SP and when I started at the bank a few years
later ROSCOE and
Oh yeah, I forgot about using LDL in DITTO. I think the DITTO editor is
great since you can actually go into library members and edit, copy,
etc. Better than having to punch them and then recatalog.
When I was at Furr's we had a developer that wrote own editor under CICS
(XA). It was a
Ray, I think punching cards was better than ICCF.
Gary Garland Gregory, MS
CA
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I was thinking it was either BIM-EDIT or CA Vollie.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 3:47 PM
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I've used sequential terminals for the last 20 years to do this type of
function. The DFHTCT macro is fairly straight forward and easy to use
to define this type of terminal.
Gary Garland Gregory, MS
CA
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I have a copy of the J. Rande MVS Power Programming that I bought
about 12 years ago. At these prices maybe I need to dig it out of
storage and sell it on eBay.
Gary Garland Gregory, MS
CA
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The BrightStor CA-Dynam/TLMS Tape Management Copycat Utility is designed
to address exactly what you want. Here's the site that gives you an
overall product description for Copycat r11.5:
http://www3.ca.com/solutions/Overview.aspx?ID=1060
Regards,
Gary Garland Gregory, MS
CA Storage Management
The first versions of the 3090 service processor did use the 3370's for
microcode and 4331's in the service processor. The later versions - I
think starting with the J model had replaced the 4331 with 4361's.
Back in about 1987 IBM had big marketing campaign offering large
discounts to shops
Also, the FTA (File Tape Adapter) on the 4331/4361's would allow you to
attach the 3310/3370's directly to the processor without having to have
a 3880. We eventually had to get the DASD controller when we upgraded
to the 4381.
Gary Garland Gregory, MS
CA
Senior Software Engineer
Tel:
In years past you had to issue the #CP EXT on the console where you
wanted the SAD program to run if in a virtual machine. And like Alan
said, the first terminal that presses ENTER or another key on a keyboard
owns the SAD console.
I had to perform a standalone dump of a VSE problem years ago
Yeah, and I did the same thing as well back in the early 90's. I
defined two JES2 (VPS) remotes that would pass through my Windows 3.11
(and later OS/2 Warp) PC. One remote was set up for landscape and the
other for portrait.
Later we moved to AFP printers and were able to use our mainframe
Pat,
I, like you, automatically think of Unformatted system Services (and the
associated USSTAB) when I hear/read USS.
Happy Holidays to All!
Gary
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Patrick O'Keefe
Sent: Tuesday, December 19,
What about DUMP? Back in the 80's I was attending an XA introduction
class and the IBM'er teaching the class stated it was an acronym that
stood for:
Display
User
Memory
Program
Maybe something else left over from the System/360 days, who knows? :-)
Regards,
Gary Garland Gregory, MS
Eric,
After I finished graduate school in December, 2004 I went almost nine
months looking for a job - so I offer you my heartiest congratulations!
I, like you, started off doing contract with another company and then
this job at CA became available.
Back when I was in my teens (in the early
I believe that IBM owns A - I for their products.
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Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 12:32 PM
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Subject: Re: RACF and product tape data set names (SMP/E wish)
Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 1:02 PM
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In a recent note, Gregory, Gary G said:
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:38:13 -0500
I believe that IBM owns A - I for their products.
Does this mean
I am the youngest in our development group at CA. My first system was a
System 370/115 that our local Jr. College acquired in 1976. My Dad
taught there and when he had night classes I would sneak into the Data
Processing classes and before I knew it I had a part-time job as an
operator (at the
Yes, MUSIC was McGill University System (for) Interactive Computing.
BTW, I believe that MUSIC is now public domain.
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