Re: Early IPL problems

2012-05-18 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Fri, 18 May 2012 14:11:14 -0500, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: If you do have a 3270 type console, why not record the console on your cell phone camera? It is a bit small. So, get a tablet. Might take two people. One to do the IPL, the other to keep the console in focus.

Re: Customization MPFLSTxx

2011-10-26 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:24:58 -0500, Jorge Garcia jgarc...@mapfre.com wrote: .DEFAULT,AUTO(YES),SUP(NO),RETAIN(YES) IEF402I /*JJJ FAILED IN ADDRESS SPACE X SYSTEM ABEND SXXX REASON - RC NOTIFY OPER OF FAILURE /* IEF403I

Re: Z/OS Maintenance

2011-07-05 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 12:36:17 -0700, Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.com wrote: At the end of the day, if a big problem befalls you, and you have to tell the story to your boss, would you rather have to explain why you... 1. installed a HIPER PTF that went south, or 2. refrained from

Re: PF9 Swap question

2011-05-24 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Tue, 24 May 2011 06:50:29 -0500, Tom Marchant m42tom- ibmm...@yahoo.com wrote: If your emulator supports hotspots you can set it up so that you point to the screen you want on the swapbar and double click with the mouse. Hotspots also work with the action bar and some menus. Also the PF keys

Re: Surfing the mainframe (was: PF9 Swap question)

2011-05-24 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Tue, 24 May 2011 10:56:54 -0400, Dave Salt ds...@hotmail.com wrote: I remember it was a PITA trying to figure out how to enable mouse support in Attachmate, but eventually I got it working (sort of). You have to single left click the mouse to position the cursor, and single right click to

Re: Surfing the mainframe (was: PF9 Swap question)

2011-05-24 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Tue, 24 May 2011 10:29:22 -0500, Patrick Lyon ptl...@midamerican.com wrote: Dave, Thanks to someone who shall go nameless who sent me some instructions for V 9 offlist, I was able to find out how to do it. Under SettingsDisplayMiscellaneous where I can select to have it send ENTER

Re: PF9 Swap question

2011-05-23 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Mon, 23 May 2011 18:22:13 +0200, Lindy Mayfield lindy.mayfi...@ssf.sas.com wrote: I have been using multiple ISPF screens for many years now, 12 or so. I have memorized what each one is. Like 1 is edit, 2 is SDSF, 3 is ISHELL, 4 is 3.4 and so on. Problem is that I still cannot figure out

Re: PF9 Swap question

2011-05-23 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Mon, 23 May 2011 14:46:20 -0400, Scott Rowe scott.r...@joann.com wrote: Pat, I think the maximum can be increased by changing MAXIMUM_NUMBER_OF_SPLIT_SCREENS in your installation options. Scott Oh, don't tell me that. :) Thanks for the tip!

Re: Question about Dynamic allocate

2011-05-20 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Fri, 20 May 2011 09:32:27 -0500, Dana Mitchell mitchd...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks everyone for the ideas so far. It happened again yesterday and now I'm leaning more towards this being caused by the dataset being in use by another job. Dana - You could use DAF to check your SMF data to see

Re: No supported release of z/OS(r) honors the IMBED, REPLICATE, and KEYRANGE attributes for new VSAM data sets

2011-04-13 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:14:45 -0500, John P Kalinich jkali...@csc.com wrote: Norbert, We use ABR instead of HSM, but the create date was from an IDCAMS DEFINE. Regards, John K John, you may want to verify that is a fact. I just attempted to do a DEFINE with IMBED and REPLICATE and the

Re: DB2 SMF Records

2011-04-12 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:28:57 -0500, Matthew Stitt mathwst...@bellsouth.net wrote: Try looking in SDSNMACS, members starting with DSNDQW.. I remember looking at these records several years ago and almost throwing up my hands due to the layouts. On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:09:43 -0500, Hal

Re: Summer Time, state of art

2011-03-29 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:07:23 -0500, Chase, John jch...@ussco.com wrote: Windoze, Linux, et al (even z/VM) do that automatically. Why is it (still) necessary to do it manually on z/OS? -jc- I would suspect that if done automatically it could pose a problem to applications that do have a

Re: Check TAPE Contents

2011-03-29 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:04:18 +0300, Sergio Lima sergio...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello, We also tried use IDCAMS here from see tape contents and don't work. Can you please say what can I get a sample JOB ? Thanks, Sergio Not sure if this works or not, the date on the member is prior Y2K...

Re: SDSF SYSLOG output problem

2011-03-08 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 09:20:12 -0600, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za wrote: Jim McAlpine wrote: If I do ST SYSLOG inSDSF, I get the following - Now if I try to select any of those SYSLOG jobs in the OUTPUT queue I get NO DISPLAYABLE DATA like so - any ideas why. Why are the

Re: Difference Between R-INACT and REVOKED

2011-02-17 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:26:51 -0600, Eric Bielefeld eric- ibmm...@wi.rr.com wrote: I have two questions about security. What is the difference between R-INACT and REVOKED? I know what revoked is, but I'm not sure what R-INACT is exactly. I have searched the Security Server bookshelf, and

Re: Sloppy alignment in D M=CPU legend

2011-02-04 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 10:03:26 -0800, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: Anyone ever notice the sloppy column alignment in the legend following a D M=CPU command. Is there a technical reason they couldn't line things up? They didn't notice it was wrong during testing? I know this is a

Re: Timeout Problem after Switching a DAC unit with OSA in the z10

2011-01-27 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:57:38 -0600, Chris Mason chrisma...@belgacom.net wrote: George You need to insert the T between TN3270E and CONN just as indicated by Patrick Lyon. It is only from Communications Server V1R10 that it becomes unnecessary. - Interesting Chris - I cut and pasted

Re: Timeout Problem after Switching a DAC unit with OSA in the z10

2011-01-27 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:35:19 -0600, Chris Mason chrisma...@belgacom.net wrote: George I scanned the IP System Administrator’s Commands manual in order to check on this matter of the CONN operand. There's no actual explanation but it's suspicious that, when entered as a command operand, the

Re: Timeout Problem after Switching a DAC unit with OSA in the z10

2011-01-27 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:55:05 -0600, Chris Mason chrisma...@belgacom.net wrote: Patrick Thanks for the clarification. I started doing the hex to decimal conversion and received the message: EZZ6057I NO QUALIFYING MATCHES I think this is saying that you tried the command I suggested without the

Re: Timeout Problem after Switching a DAC unit with OSA in the z10

2011-01-26 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:56:20 -0500, George Rodriguez george.rodrig...@palmbeachschools.org wrote: Hi Chris, snip D TCPIP,TN3270E,CONN,CONN=38B37 EZZ6048I TELNET DISPLAY COMMAND FAILED WITH RCODE 803E EZZ6035I TELNET DEBUG PROFILE WARNING,LINE: *N/A* MOD: EZBTMCMD RCODE: 803E-00 Parameter on

List administrator?

2011-01-24 Thread Patrick Lyon
Anyone, I have an associate that is trying to subscribe to IBM-MAIN. He gets to the Join screen and it says it will send him an email, which never arrives. Can somebody please point me to the List Admin/Owner so he can contact them? Thanks in advance, Pat L.

Re: List administrator?

2011-01-24 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:14:30 -0800, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Have him check his junk mail filters, both at the client (email program) level and at the server (ISP or corporate IT) level. I'm sure about 50 listers will tell you that the admin is Darren Evans-Young

Re: What level z/OS Unicode supported CUNLINFO?

2011-01-14 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:03:50 -0800, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Does anyone know off hand at what level of z/OS did z/OS Unicode services start supporting the CUNLINFO (information retrieval service) call? I know V1R10 does and V1R7 did not. (Yes, I could track down all the manuals in

Re: IBM Boulder site having problems?

2011-01-07 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 06:46:40 -0500, Richards, Robert B. robert.richa...@opm.gov wrote: Anyone else having trouble with service.boulder.ibm.com? I have an automated process of getting enhanced holddata that has failed the last two days in a row with: EZA2589E Connection to server interrupted or

Re: IBM Boulder site having problems?

2011-01-07 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 11:02:29 -0500, Richards, Robert B. robert.richa...@opm.gov wrote: Patrick, I *was* trying to get the full.txt file, but I am seeing the same problem with the full.bin file. sigh Bob Interesting. I just tried and downloaded full.bin just fine and then realized I

Re: S5C6 Abend when run MQ Panels in ISPF

2011-01-06 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 13:01:32 -, Terry Sambrooks terry.sambro...@btclick.com wrote: Hi, snip Not being that familiar with MQ I am unsure where to start with this. I have not found z/OS Messages and Codes or the WAS equivalent to be that helpful. Kind Regards - Terry snip Terry - Let's

Re: User SMF Record Types

2011-01-04 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 19:18:53 +, Eric Bielefeld eric- ibmm...@wi.rr.com wrote: Cheryl, I clicked on the link below, and it says The Webpage Cannot Be Found:. You might want to either fix it, or say it won't be available until you get it updated. -- Eric Bielefeld Systems Programmer Take

Re: Batch DAE?

2010-12-22 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:48:41 -0500, Veilleux, Jon L veilleu...@aetna.com wrote: Actually, once I take a closer look at the run. The exec gets RC=20 executing the SELECT. *-* ISPEXEC SELECT CMD(%ADYDSP 'SYS1.DAE') ISPEXEC SELECT CMD(%ADYDSP 'SYS1.DAE') +++ RC(20) +++ Jon - Please ensure

Re: DFSMS/DASD: Control SG occupancy

2010-12-15 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:45:10 -0500, C. Ardillo cardill...@comcast.net wrote: I'm just an application programmer but from my tool set I'd run an idcams dcollect job against the storage groups in question then use something like easytrieve to compute my thresholds and send an email if needed from

Re: EPO's (Emergency Power Off)

2010-12-03 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 11:45:12 -0600, Darth Keller darth.kel...@assurant.com wrote: snip You're now on battery power and have 23 minutes to power everything off as gracefully as possible. /snip I, unfortunately, have lived it. Minus the 23 minutes. We had a normal power bump to our building.

Re: Anyone else see publibz.boulder.ibm.com not responding?

2010-12-02 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Thu, 2 Dec 2010 10:22:40 -0500, Farley, Peter x23353 peter.far...@broadridge.com wrote: Thanks to all who replied. I'm happy to know it is not just my problem. Not that it helps to get the job done any faster. BTW, what email address do I use to complain about this? Is there a link on

Re: SDSF module ISFVTBL2 missing

2010-09-29 Thread Patrick Lyon
Well, I guess my Serverpac download did not lay that dataset down because when I do 3.4 on ISF, it's not there. Thanks. John Norgauer John, see if you can find that module in the list of the ISF libraries on 3.4 by typing MEMBER ISFVTBL2 on the command line. Perhaps the library is named

Re: Higher Paging under z/OS V1.11 OA33307

2010-09-16 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:17:14 -0400, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: We are seeing small spurts in paging. We will be going along fine for hours and then suddenly see a 1-2 min spike in paging for DB2. And when I say spike, it goes from 0 page-in up to 35% pagein rate under RMF.

Re: EMC DLM box

2010-09-15 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:00:23 -0400, Sabo, Frank frank.s...@gianteagle.com wrote: Good afternoon everyone, Question does any one out there have an EMC DLM box? I have been trying to get one up and functional for a while now. I have genned the box to both HCD and SMS the problem that I am having

EMC DLm Memory Leak Heads Up

2010-09-09 Thread Patrick Lyon
). The tape drives assigned to this VTE being rebooted must be varied offline before the reboot. /quote Regards to all, Patrick Lyon -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: NO RESPONSE RECEIVED

2010-09-08 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 09:53:37 -0700, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: When you issue an operator command from SDSF (/S proc or /D IPLINFO, for example) what determines whether SDSF displays NO RESPONSE RECEIVED in the upper right or displays the messages that result from the command's being

Re: DASD Moderate Alert from EMC DMX4

2010-08-30 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:53:38 -0500, Brad Wissink bjwi...@iastate.edu wrote: We started getting the following message from our EMC DMX4 Symmetrix over the weekend. We are talking with EMC but not getting very far. So, does anyone know what the message is telling us? *IEA480E

Re: HSM list of backups of a dataset command

2010-08-10 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:01:08 +0200, MONTERO ROMERO, ENRIQUE ELOI enriqueeloi.mont...@servifactory.com wrote: Hi forum team, Hope you are well, I am looking for an HSM command to get a list of backups of a dataset. I mean, a command that lists all backups that a dataset has. (of course

Re: help needed with CICS/TS 3.2 abending U1800

2010-08-09 Thread Patrick Lyon
John - do you have both STGRCVY and STGPROT set to Yes? Looks like GSSP042 is being a bad boy and trying to overwrite storage. You might try to disable that program or transaction that is associated with that program. -- For

Re: help needed with CICS/TS 3.2 abending U1800

2010-08-09 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 07:33:51 -0500, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: Well, the damn thing has abended twice. We got everybody involved and I posted my help message. I just brought up the region and it is running fine now. We can't get it to fail again. Why does it always wait

Re: Migration to z/os 1.11 causes Paging in DB2 DBM1 address space

2010-08-09 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 22:43:50 +0300, Mike Shorkend mike.shork...@gmail.com wrote: It seems that our problem was on Jerry Ng's hot topic list at SHARE last week. IBM have supplied a temporary fix which seems to have solved the problem. Mike - Was it in PTF or local fix form? The APAR has not

Re: how to identify members that DO NOT contain a string

2010-07-21 Thread Patrick Lyon
You can use ISRSUPC to do this. It is the LNFMTO option. Here is an example. JCL: //JOBCARD JOB etc... //SRCHJ PROC DSN='PROD1.PROC.LIBRARY' //SRCH000 EXEC PGM=ISRSUPC,PARM='SRCHCMP,LNFMTO' //NEWDDDD DISP=SHR,DSN=DSN //OUTDDDD SYSOUT=*

Re: Any ROT for DASD Response time

2010-07-21 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:36:38 -0500, Staller, Allan allan.stal...@kbm1.com wrote: I don't know if EMC has the ability to fence the cache for workload separation (open systems vs. z/OS). That would be a no. We now live happily together here again on a VMAX. Once upon a time in Symmetrix land

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - STOPPING LEVEL 1 TO LEVEL 2 MIGRATION - URGENT

2010-07-20 Thread Patrick Lyon
Try the HOLD MIGRATION(AUTO) command and see what happens. From the manual: To interrupt or prevent only automatic volume space management and automatic secondary space management, issue the following command. Automatic volume space management and automatic secondary space management stops at

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - STOPPING LEVEL 1 TO LEVEL 2 MIGRATION - URGENT

2010-07-20 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:57:02 -0400, John Kelly john_j_ke...@ao.uscourts.gov wrote: snip Try the HOLD MIGRATION(AUTO) command and see what happens. /snip Shouldn't Hold Migration trump (AUTO), in that it should stop ALL migrations? One would think so, but it appears that it did not, or at least

Taglines

2010-06-29 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:01:35 +, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca wrote: - I'm a SuperHero with neither powers, nor motivation! SHAZAM! OMG - I have to hand it to you Ted. I didn't think it was possible to come up with a tagline more annoying than your last, but by George, you've done it.

Re: Taglines

2010-06-29 Thread Patrick Lyon
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Re: Disk replacing Tape?

2010-06-22 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:41:19 +0200, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: We observed very similar thing: vast majority of our backups are never read! We work on eliminating those never-read backups. That could save us a lot of resources. vbg And pray to the almighty that some of them

Re: GIM45201S ** 530 Download not currently allowed for your location.

2010-06-21 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:41:50 -0700, Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu wrote: I ge the same error And this morning I get this one: GIM44336S ** AN UNUSUAL CONDITION OCCURRED. GIMJVREQ - javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Unrecognized SSL message, plaintext connect

Re: GIM45201S ** 530 Download not currently allowed for your location.

2010-06-21 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:23:21 -0500, Patrick Lyon ptl...@midamerican.com wrote: On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:41:50 -0700, Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu wrote: I ge the same error And this morning I get this one: GIM44336S ** AN UNUSUAL CONDITION OCCURRED. GIMJVREQ - javax.net.ssl.SSLException

Re: Emulator Sessions Hung

2010-06-18 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:45:20 -0600, Kopischke, David G. dgkopisc...@oppenheimerfunds.com wrote: Any ideas on what to check next David, a couple of questions if I may. 1) Does the Extra session stay connected? 2) Is this a telnet session to port 23? 3) What is supposed to appear on

Re: SMF QUESTION - TRACKING VSAM CLUSTER

2010-06-14 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:52:57 -0700, John Dawes jhn_da...@yahoo.com.au wrote: G'Day All Readers,   I am trying to find the job name which created a VSAM dsn.  I read type 61, 62 64 and came up empty.  The DSN was created on May 20, 2010.  I have read the SMF tapes for the whole week and I

Re: IBM Electronic Service Request having problems?

2010-06-10 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:40:48 -0500, Pommier, Rex R. rex.pomm...@cnasurety.com wrote: Hi List, Is anybody else having problems with IBM ESC+? I get a page not found when trying. Just wondering if it is them or if I have a bad URL. Thanks. Rex I'm getting the same thing too Rex

Re: Recommendations for a good old fashion HEX calcuator

2010-06-03 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 11:48:55 -0500, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: I like my TI-36X Solar. Hum, I wonder if some smart phone (Droid?) has this as an application? -- Add another Ti to the list - the Ti-34 Solar. Been by my side since I bought it in 1988 when going to tech

Re: HDS MDL

2010-06-03 Thread Patrick Lyon
Darth - If you have access to ISMF, go into 10. Library Management, 3. Tape Library, and do a 2. Display on the library. Page down 1 page and see the Initial Online Status for that system. Not sure that is it, just a wild guess. From the help panel: The INITIAL ONLINE STATUS fields show the

Re: can't get a valid JAVAENV file specified for DB2 WLM address space

2010-05-26 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Wed, 26 May 2010 17:27:18 +0100, Jim McAlpine jim.mcalp...@gmail.com wrote: --snip-- XPLINK(ON), ENVAR(JCC_HOME=/usr/lpp/db2/db2810, JAVA_HOME=/u/Java6_31/J6.0, JVMPROPS=/java/jvmprops) ---/snip In section 5.1.2 Run-time environment for Java

Re: z/Vendor Watch: zNext or z11? Either Way, It's Coming Soon!

2010-05-25 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Tue, 25 May 2010 15:17:08 -0500, Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net wrote: Interesting thought: if they continue with numbers, how long before the z28 ??? :-) One a year would make it 17 years, which is when I will (hopefully) retire.

Re: Getting BIND/LINK date out of load module members

2010-05-24 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Mon, 24 May 2010 22:26:53 +1000, Shane Ginnane ibm- m...@tpg.com.au wrote: Probably qualifies as descriptive though. And more socially acceptable than a few others I've heard. Shane ... On Mon, May 24th, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Peter Relson wrote: ... choked to death is not a very technical

Re: FTP Get Blocked by ISPF EDIT

2010-05-21 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Fri, 21 May 2010 09:56:27 -0700, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: Unless I'm missing something, it seems like any Joe Blow goofing around and/or with malicious intent can exploit this behavior to break any process involving remote FTP GET. -- Edward - Then any Joe Blow should

Re: FTP Get Blocked by ISPF EDIT

2010-05-21 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Fri, 21 May 2010 12:25:00 -0500, Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org wrote: If it is more important that the GET have minimal possibility of failure than to get the absolutely latest update, the best option may be to make a mirror copy of the data at an agreed on point in time into a dataset with

Re: FTP Get Blocked by ISPF EDIT

2010-05-21 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Fri, 21 May 2010 10:47:38 -0700, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Old data is not a problem. Had he FTPed two minutes earlier he would have gotten old data. All data is old in that it may change at some point in the future. The problem is only if the user does a preliminary save -- being

Re: Configuring HOSTNAME for OMVS segment

2010-05-20 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Thu, 20 May 2010 15:24:34 +0100, Chokalingam Thangavelu thangavelu.chokalin...@wipro.com wrote: Hi, Please let me know 1. From where 'hostname' command in OMVS picks the hostname information 2. Do we need to change anything in OMVS side as part of this IP address changed

Re: Finding a member

2010-05-14 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Fri, 14 May 2010 10:30:32 -0600, Howard Brazee howard.bra...@cusys.edu wrote: I need to find a PDS member, and I know it starts with QA05. Trouble is, I don't know the name of the PDS. (The person who created it retired). I suspect the PDS is archived off. What do you recommend?

Re: Heads Up: APAR IO11698 - New SAF FACILITY class definition required for any SMP/E use

2010-05-13 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:46:01 -0500, Walt Farrell wfarr...@us.ibm.com wrote: What is important is that you understand that you are at risk if you do not carefully control who can run those SMP/E functions, and that your users who can run those functions must be very trusted users. And that's

Re: Heads Up: APAR IO11698 - New SAF FACILITY class definition required for any SMP/E use

2010-05-13 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Thu, 13 May 2010 10:31:39 -0500, Mark Zelden mzel...@flash.net wrote: Not if you define only 1 profile as GIM.*. I suspect that will suffice for at least 95% of the shops out there. We've already discussed the unlikelihood of shops desiring to do something more granular like giving a

Re: Heads Up: APAR IO11698 - New SAF FACILITY class definition required for any SMP/E use

2010-05-13 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Thu, 13 May 2010 11:15:31 -0500, Walt Farrell wfarr...@us.ibm.com wrote: Walt said: Sorry, but you've only quoted part of the APAR text. Start a bit earlier, please: Ok, here is the entire quote: quote HOWEVER, OF ALL THE FUNCTIONS DESCRIBED ABOVE, SEVERAL NEED TO BE CONTROLLED VERY

Re: Heads Up: APAR IO11698 - New SAF FACILITY class definition required for any SMP/E use

2010-05-13 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Thu, 13 May 2010 11:33:36 -0500, Mark Zelden mzel...@flash.net wrote: Do you define every possible profile under STGADMIN for example just because many exist? Well of course not, that would be too much work. :) Should it be reviewed and addressed? Absolutely.

Re: Help! Help! I got following GRS message, how to solve it

2010-05-12 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Wed, 12 May 2010 20:48:13 +0800, Tommy Tsui tommyt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I got the following messages in our production LPAR, D GRS,C, I can't find who enqueue the *MASTER*, how can I find it??? Please help!! Try a D GRS,AN,BLOCKER command Tommy

Re: URGENT **** z/OS 1.11 GDG Deferred Rollin Data Loss ****

2010-05-07 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Fri, 7 May 2010 12:18:57 -0400, Mark Jacobs mark.jac...@custserv.com wrote: The apar doesn't say that there's an fix available but I just opened up an ETR with IBM to see if something is available. -- Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service Tampa, FL Local fix is to Set the GDS_RECLAIM SMS

Re: Isolate lpar to resolver process

2010-05-06 Thread Patrick Lyon
snipWhen we load the lpar and we enter the nslookup command, it's works and respond with a dns (¡¡not right!!). /snip Jorge - what are you NSLOOKUPing? an internal name or an external name? If it is an internal name it may be specified in the TCPIP.HOSTS.* files. Also when you do an

Re: Amazing article.

2010-05-06 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Thu, 6 May 2010 21:30:40 +0100, Sam Siegel s...@pscsi.net wrote: And when talking to Unix/Windows folks, explaining (over and over) that dataset nodes are not directory paths and that PDS(E) can only be 1 level deep. As well as they way GDGs work (unless they have a VAX background).

Re: ServerPac Download Size for z/OS V1.11 on MOD9

2010-05-04 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Tue, 4 May 2010 07:56:09 -0400, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: Listers - We only use 3390-9 at our shop. I have heard rumors that I will need a Mod27 to download this file. Lizette - We only have mod-3's here and I sucessfully downloaded it here. You just want to make

Re: HFS Copy Problem

2010-04-28 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:26:21 -0500, Schwartz, Alan alan.schwa...@acs- INC.COM wrote: DELETE SYS1.OMVS.AAOPROOT.M2OMA1 CAT (SYS1.MCATZS19.MVS2) IKJ56228I DATA SET SYS1.OMVS.AAOPROOT.M2OMA1 NOT IN CATALOG OR CATALOG IKJ56228I CAN NOT BE ACCESSED

Re: HFS Copy Problem

2010-04-28 Thread Patrick Lyon
List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Patrick Lyon Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 1:42 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: HFS Copy Problem On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:26:21 -0500, Schwartz, Alan alan.schwa...@acs- INC.COM wrote: DELETE SYS1.OMVS.AAOPROOT.M2OMA1 CAT (SYS1.MCATZS19

Re: 25 reasons why hardware is still hot at IBM

2010-04-26 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:12:03 +, Eric Bielefeld eric- ibmm...@wi.rr.com wrote: Allis Chalmers was a HUGE manufacturing presence in Milwaukee for many years. My Dad worked there for 30 years. I also knew some of the people that worked in their datacenter. All gone now. ~

Re: TCPIP question

2010-04-20 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:05:14 -0500, Pommier, Rex R. rex.pomm...@cnasurety.com wrote: Hi List, I know this is IBM-main and not the TCPIP list but I get better responses here anyway. :-) That said, is there some way of getting the IP address that is bound to an OSA card from the z/OS console?

Re: REXX functions VERLIST and VERDEl (rewrite title only)

2010-03-23 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:22:54 -0400, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: I am not sure I have seen that before. Sometimes IBM recommends tools that are internal to them. But they think it is common. Lizette This is for Z/os REXX. I had a suggestion from an SCLM IBM'er to do

Re: REXX functions VERLIST and VERDEl (rewrite title only)

2010-03-23 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:43:23 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353 peter.far...@broadridge.com wrote: That was my assumption as well, from the context. But a search of the z/OS 1.10 and 1.11 ISPF bookshelves reveals no hits for either VERLIST or VERDEL. Maybe these really are internal IBM goodies? Or

Re: COBOL and DFSORT change?

2010-02-18 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:48:04 -0500, Richards, Robert B. robert.richa...@opm.gov wrote: snipAccording to the programmer, the job issued IGZ0026W after an ICE46A message and the program DID NOT abend and finished with a return code of ZERO./snip And according to the fortune from my fortune

Re: LPARs: More or Less?

2010-02-17 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:26:56 -0500, George Henke gahe...@gmail.com wrote: Here is what I thought was a dumb question until someone posed it to me yesterday. Why have a separate QA LPAR and not just leave QA in the DEV LPAR? The more I tried to come up with a good reason, the more I could not

Re: name server on TCPIP

2010-02-09 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:31:25 +0200, מתן כהן matancohen...@gmail.com wrote: hi, i added a NSINTERADDR in the tcpdata. after i started the tcpip i noticed that the tcpip AS try to start a procedure NAMESRV. i this procedure don't exist in my procedure libraries . i try to find information

Re: name server on TCPIP

2010-02-09 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:37:34 +0200, מתן כהן matancohen...@gmail.com wrote: patrick, thanks for your response. but where can i find this procedure in case i want it to run. what is the benfit in running this procedure ? Things apparently have changed greatly in this area, and I am not

Re: OA25988 - IDCAMS DEFINE OF LINEAR DS WITH CISIZE GREATER THAN 4K

2009-12-15 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:58:28 -0600, Patrick Lyon ptl...@midamerican.com wrote: BTW for those who might care, BMC's fix is PUT0939. My apologies, the PTFs are BPU0939, BPU0940, BPU0941, and BPU0966. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: OA25988 - IDCAMS DEFINE OF LINEAR DS WITH CISIZE GREATER THAN 4K

2009-12-14 Thread Patrick Lyon
, this happened to bite us Saturday night. I have enclosed the updated APAR. It says it will be fixed in a future release. Might it be fixed in 1.11? I cannot find any more on the subject via SIS. BTW for those who might care, BMC's fix is PUT0939. TIA, Patrick Lyon APAR Identifier

Re: Write JES data to an external data set?

2009-12-08 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 15:34:27 -0500, Joe Aulph syspro...@gmail.com wrote: Duty bound that I am, I've dug thru the JCL Reference discussions on OUTPUT, WRITERs, attempted a few tests with variations on the WRITER theme, sith no success. Joe - you indicated you could not get this to work. This

Re: SMS ACS and symbols

2009-12-03 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 14:54:44 -0500, Jousma, David david.jou...@53.com wrote: All, Are system or installation defined system symbols other than SYSPLEX or SYSNAME available for use in ACS routines? Looking at the manuals, it is not clear. Dave - it appears you are correct. Up to release 1.11,

Re: What's up with WTO? - solved

2009-11-24 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:36:57 -0600, Mark Zelden mark.zel...@zurichna.com wrote: And people wonder why some sysprogs are skeptical when application programmers and system users come to them with a problem and say nothing changed. (I try go by trust, but verify) Can I hear an Amen?

Re: JES2 Dynamic Proclibs - Advantages?

2009-11-23 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:36:45 -0600, Rabbe, Luke luke.ra...@countryfinancial.com wrote: Thanks to all for the replies. Luke I have a question if I may... What happens if say there is a dynamic library in the concatenation missing at JES startup? Does JES continue on notifying you of the

Re: JES2 Dynamic Proclibs - Advantages?

2009-11-23 Thread Patrick Lyon
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Re: SMP/E Internet Service Retrieval Down

2009-11-20 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:40:54 -0500, Jousma, David david.jou...@53.com wrote: Figures. Was trying to place order all day today. Job just sat there Thanks for the update. Same here - tried both URLs too. Was going to post something but didn't. As long as we are on the subject though...

Re: IDCAMS REPRO/ENQ question

2009-11-20 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:45:24 -0600, Field, Alan C. alan.c.fi...@supervalu.com wrote: snip We have a number of jobs that have many steps. One of those steps is an IDCAMS reproing a number of datasets. /snip Do you have an MVS monitor like TMON or Omegamon? You could look in there, but most

Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch

2009-11-19 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:48:49 -0600, Hal Merritt hmerr...@jackhenry.com wrote: snip After thorough technology and product evaluations, Stratus was chosen as best able to provide an open platform with 99.999 percent uptime reliability /snip Guess they got their .001.

Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch

2009-11-19 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:56:25 -0700, Roach, Dennis (N-GHG) dennis.ro...@lmco.com wrote: Looks like a router failure http://gcn.com/articles/2009/11/19/faa-software-hackers-delays.aspx? s=FAAnewsalert 4 hours to fix a router? Good Grief.

Re: Opinion time: SMF data in XML format?

2009-11-13 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:56:13 -0600, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: True. But some of our vendors still change us at the 66 MSU level because they change according to the maximum possible MSU for the box. Then the issue would not be of you wasting CPU, more of they don't

Re: Opinion time: SMF data in XML format?

2009-11-13 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:30:49 -0600, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: Correct. Most of the time, we only hit 48 during month end processing (or when something goes wrong and some program loops grin). But we need 48 at month end to meet our SLAs. Then just set your conversion

Re: Opinion time: SMF data in XML format?

2009-11-13 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:10:58 -0600, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: No. When I waste CPU, that increases our sub-capacity bill, which is the majority of our software. And so it is anathema. There are only a few vendors who change at the 66 MSU level, regardless of actual

Re: Opinion time: SMF data in XML format?

2009-11-13 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:41:59 -0600, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: Tom, Thank you very much for that information. I wonder why management around here has always been pushing the don't use the mainframe unless you absolutely must button. I.e. do more desk checking rather

Re: IBM driving mainframe systems programmers into the ground

2009-11-13 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:08:11 -0800, Ed Gould ps2...@yahoo.com wrote: I agree with you and other posters but I think I have some evidence that indicates IBM is essentially attempting to get rid of a lot of sysprogs. Ed, while I see your point in your post I guess I have to ask, why are there 2

Re: IBM driving mainframe systems programmers into the ground

2009-11-13 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:58:37 -0600, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: But how many of them are as relatively knowledgable in their platform as we older sysprogs on ours? Believe it or not, I once had an AIX admin (sysprog) ask me how to do some things in BASH scripting! He

Re: IBM driving mainframe systems programmers into the ground

2009-11-12 Thread Patrick Lyon
You gotta love how it starts: Economy got you down? And then how it ends: Steady state mainframe support position requiring on-call and weekend coverage. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

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