Re: Rocket Software's MXI

2011-06-15 Thread Petersen, Jim
I may get some reaction to this but I don't think you need to know the reason why. The fact that someone has asked for comparable products is the only question which needs to be answered. Normal reasons for why are cost, non-timely support, more bugs that necessary in the product,and

Re: My first mainframe experience

2011-05-27 Thread Petersen, Jim
How about 2260's was a terminal control unit for terminals which only had 12 lines by 80 Cut my teeth on 360/65 and a 360/50 and a 360/40 and they had a 360/20 down at one of our sites for RJE. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot

Re: Vintage Computer Alert! - VCF East 7.0 on May 14-15

2011-05-09 Thread Petersen, Jim
Wish I could make it. The IBM 1130 was the 2nd computer I ever worked on. I used an IBM 1620 in High School. ___ Jim Petersen MVS – Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot Technology Center 1300 Park Center Drive, Austin, TX 78753 www.homedepot.com

Re: Summer Time, state of art

2011-03-29 Thread Petersen, Jim
It isn't the operating system that has the problem. It is the poorly written application programs which do not use the GMT time for their time stamps in whatever data records they are recording. Instead, way back when, they decided to use LOCAL time and then do computations on that LOCAL

Re: Summer Time, state of art

2011-03-29 Thread Petersen, Jim
-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Summer Time, state of art -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Petersen, Jim It isn't the operating system that has the problem. It is the poorly written application programs which do not use the GMT time for their time stamps

Re: SYSLOGD

2011-03-24 Thread Petersen, Jim
Steve, It is easy peasy. Got it working correctly the 1st time I tried it. We offload our SYSLOGD to GDG's nightly. These go in the syslog.conf file BeginArchiveParms DSNPrefix XXX.SDAILY.SYSLOGD.HD01 StorClas XXGDG MgmtClas XXGDG8

Re: ETR sunsets on 26 Mar 2011?

2011-03-15 Thread Petersen, Jim
Christian, You made this comment in one of your emails: SR processes roughly five times the service request volume of ETR today and is designed to support a common IBM business process and customer work flow. My comment to this is: So what if it handles 5 times the request volume if it is

Re: IBM Service Request (SR)

2011-03-11 Thread Petersen, Jim
It is great that you want to do this but above all, it must look and feel like the old application it is replacing to all 6 of those old applications. Thus it must look and feel like ETR to us that use ETR to report problems. It must look and feel like the other 5 applications to those who

Where can I find

2011-03-01 Thread Petersen, Jim
I am seeing messages in my OPERLOG that tasks are trying to access /usr/sbin/talkdand /usr/sbin/fingerd and they are not in /usr/sbin. I am on z/OS 1.11 and I don't think they were there at 1.10 either. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer

Re: Where can I find

2011-03-01 Thread Petersen, Jim
? On 03/01/11 09:53, Petersen, Jim wrote: I am seeing messages in my OPERLOG that tasks are trying to access /usr/sbin/talkdand /usr/sbin/fingerd and they are not in /usr/sbin. I am on z/OS 1.11 and I don't think they were there at 1.10 either

Re: Looking for mainframe e-mail software

2011-01-10 Thread Petersen, Jim
You can also send email with CA-Spool. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot Technology Center 1300 Park Center Drive, Austin, TX 78753 www.homedepot.com email:jim_peter...@homedepot.com 512-977-2615 direct 512-977-2930 fax 210-859-9887

Anyone have a LOADWAIT WAITTYPE=NONREST

2010-12-29 Thread Petersen, Jim
We are trying to test SFM and all of it wonderful bells and whistles. Does anyone have a TEST Assembler Program with an Authorized Assembler Macro Call to LOADWAIT with WAIT=NONRESP. You may contact me offlist if you wish. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead

Re: TCPIP startup message, just curious

2010-11-08 Thread Petersen, Jim
If you are a purest and don't like messages, then do like I did when I did automation in a previous life. I waited on IST020I AND the OMVS initialization complete message and then started TCPIP. Otherwise, if you don't mind messages, then you can do like others have said and just let TCPIP

Re: Tivoli Storage Manager for z/OS (Functionally Stablized Impending Demise)

2010-11-07 Thread Petersen, Jim
We run TSM for z/OS as well and have been told it will not be upgraded beyond the V5.5.5 that it currently is at. If we want, we can run TSM for z/Linux. We are been trying it out and have gotten around the tape issue by writing the backups from z/Linux TSM to Data Domain using NFS Mounts

Re: SMTP send problem

2010-11-04 Thread Petersen, Jim
Appears that you need to set which PROFILE is being used prior to doing the SMTPNOTE PROFILE PREFIX(ID2BUSED) SMTPNOTE .. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot Technology Center 1300 Park Center Drive, Austin, TX 78753

Re: Any one have a solution for this

2010-11-02 Thread Petersen, Jim
Thanks all for your responses both on and off this list. This is why I like our SHAREing community. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot Technology Center 1300 Park Center Drive, Austin, TX 78753 www.homedepot.com

Any one have a solution for this

2010-11-01 Thread Petersen, Jim
We are using Data Domain for VTL. What we have found is that even though a tape goes scratch in our Tape Library Manager, the space is still in use for that Scratch Tape on the Data Domain. Has anyone else experienced this problem and how did you solve it?

Re: Product Suggestions

2010-10-27 Thread Petersen, Jim
CA Products ACF2RACF CA1 IBM RMM or CONTROL-T from BMC CopyCat unknown TPX IBM Netview Access Services NetMaster IBM Netview Intertest COMPUWARE Products

Re: performance data for networkusage(TCP/IP, ethernet-adapter... on zOS)

2010-10-21 Thread Petersen, Jim
Yes. And it works great even at z/OS 1.11. We have TCPIPM and like I like it as a poor man's tool. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot Technology Center 1300 Park Center Drive, Austin, TX 78753 www.homedepot.com

Re: Potential z/OS MPF behavior change -- comments please

2010-10-19 Thread Petersen, Jim
Gilmartin Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 4:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Potential z/OS MPF behavior change -- comments please On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:40:24 -0500, Petersen, Jim wrote: I also agree with Mr. Rosenberg. There has to be a way for us old timers to say we don't care

Re: zFS files at disaster recovery site

2010-10-18 Thread Petersen, Jim
The 1st time a zFS file system is mounted on a new Sysplex, it has to go through Validation Processing to make sure the file system is useable. This takes about 1 minute per zFS file system. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot

Re: Potential z/OS MPF behavior change -- comments please

2010-10-18 Thread Petersen, Jim
I also agree with Mr. Rosenberg. There has to be a way for us old timers to say we don't care what you want, we want it to be the way it has always been. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot Technology Center 1300 Park Center Drive,

HiperDispatch isn't working on a z10

2010-07-14 Thread Petersen, Jim
Here is a problem we opened with IBM and are wondering if anyone else has observed this as well. We have currently turned off HiperDispatch because IBM wants the CE to gather data and because of other issues, we are very uncomfortable with that. We're running z/OS 1.10 in a parallell

Re: OSA

2010-06-09 Thread Petersen, Jim
It is not supported for z/OS but we make each OSA adapter a /30 network and then the switch guys do some magic so that they are load balanced from the switch side and we use Multipath PERConnection on the outbound z/OS side. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-04-07 Thread Petersen, Jim
We had Milton Wylbur at an Air Force Installation I used to work at. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot Technology Center 1300 Park Center Drive, Austin, TX 78753 www.homedepot.com email:jim_peter...@homedepot.com 512-977-2615 direct

Tapeless???

2009-11-18 Thread Petersen, Jim
We have gone completely Virtual Tape. We are at the point of getting rid of ALL of our tape drives. Have any of you gone completely Virtual and if so, have you kept any tape drives around just in case a software vendor HAS to send you a tape because they have no other way to get you the

Re: Tapeless???

2009-11-18 Thread Petersen, Jim
Thanks all for your input. We are replicating the Virtual Tape and DASD to our DR Site. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot Technology Center 1300 Park Center Drive, Austin, TX 78753 www.homedepot.com

OA30702

2009-10-22 Thread Petersen, Jim
Watch out for this one folks. UA49994 (1.10), UA49993 (1.9) , (I don't know the 1.11 PTF) are in error. They cause a storage overlay. OA30702 will fix. We are currently running the ++APAR. It caused us a production outage the other night. ___

Re: zAAP on zIIP

2009-10-19 Thread Petersen, Jim
Sam, I have it installed as well and have it on 12 LPARs. Working just fine from what I can tell. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot Technology Center 1300 Park Center Drive, Austin, TX 78753 www.homedepot.com

Re: NFS--z/OS--VM/Linux

2009-04-23 Thread Petersen, Jim
We do not have any problems but we specify which servers can access a directory in the EXPORTS file. So we don't use SAF security. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot Technology Center 1300 Park Center Drive, Austin, TX 78753

Re: TMON with OMEGAMON Comparison

2009-04-02 Thread Petersen, Jim
First of all this is the opinion of myself and does not necessarily represent the views of my company. I have been at two shops which converted to Omegamon from something else. At the one, we converted from TMON. Even before we got fully converted, it was found by the CICS Group that the

Re: z/10 HMC/SE LAN

2009-03-27 Thread Petersen, Jim
Communications to the HMC, Communications to NTP Servers if you use NTP for your time source for Server Time Protocol(STP). A couple of uses that you would need connectivity from the SE Laptops for. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home

Re: Tivoli Storage Manager using GMT

2009-03-05 Thread Petersen, Jim
Ran into same problem when we went to 5.5.1. This is the solution and is straight out of the sample JCL sent with 5.5. //SERVER EXEC PGM=DSMSERV, // PARM='POSIX(ON) ENVAR(TZ=PST+8PDT)/', // REGION=1024M,TIME=1440,DYNAMNBR=300 ___ Jim

Re: Kudos, IBMLink

2008-12-29 Thread Petersen, Jim
This change is something which was discussed in a open forum with IBM at the San Diego SHARE in Aug. 2007. Sounds like they listened. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot Technology Center 1300 Park Center Drive, Austin, TX 78753

Re: A STP question

2008-09-29 Thread Petersen, Jim
simply not be able to do a periodic time check. That may cause an error to be logged on the HMC, but there is no reason anything would stop working. Petersen, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/23/2008 3:57 PM Okay. So 1. IF I have CF Links between all of the CEC's 2. IF 3 of the 4 CEC's have Ethernet

Re: A STP question

2008-09-23 Thread Petersen, Jim
residing on the same CEC. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland Petersen, Jim wrote: I thought that Timing Pulses got passed between CEC's on either the CF or Fibre links between the processors. That is why there is Primary Time Server, a Backup Time Server, and an Arbiter. Those 3 CEC's

Re: A STP question

2008-09-21 Thread Petersen, Jim
covered how to mix STP and Sysplex Timers while migrating towards all STP capable CECs. On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:58:33 -0400, Petersen, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 4 CEC's in my shop that are all wired together. The laptops on 3 of the CEC's have a spare Ethernet port. If I don't use

A STP question

2008-09-19 Thread Petersen, Jim
I have 4 CEC's in my shop that are all wired together. The laptops on 3 of the CEC's have a spare Ethernet port. If I don't use the 4th CEC for the Primary, Backup, or Arbiter, do I really need to connect the 4th CEC via Ethernet so it can get to NTP? Won't it get its timing pulses via the

EMC using Key 8 CSA

2008-09-19 Thread Petersen, Jim
It appears from what I have heard from my storage folks that EMC is going to fix its usage of Key 8 CSA. I will keep you posted on a fix number when we get it. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot Technology Center 1300 Park

Re: A STP question

2008-09-19 Thread Petersen, Jim
I understand what you have told me but out of the 4 CEC's I have only 3 have spare port on the Support Element. The 4th CEC has token ring and would have to be converted via an MES. What I am asking is, since I only need a Primary, a Backup, and an Arbiter, do I really have to connect the 4th

Re: KEY 8 CSA Usage

2008-09-09 Thread Petersen, Jim
], on 09/08/2008 at 02:06 PM, Petersen, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: My storage folks: EMC is recommending that we have the value for VSM ALLOWUSERKEYCSA set to YES to allow CSMSLAVE MMPAGENT MMPAGENT STC to run What does your security auditor say? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg

Re: KEY 8 CSA Usage

2008-09-09 Thread Petersen, Jim
My point is that if I accidently mention it to the auditors that it is a security exposure, we might get written up and it might be found that we can't run the shop without the CSMAGENT. Normally, you don't tell the auditors anything but in this case... Are there any of you who use EMC who

KEY 8 CSA Usage

2008-09-08 Thread Petersen, Jim
EMC has a product that requires that we run with ALLOWUSERKEYCSA=YES to be set. Here are excerpts from a running email with EMC, our storage folks, and myself. My storage folks: EMC is recommending that we have the value for VSM ALLOWUSERKEYCSA set to YES to allow CSMSLAVE MMPAGENT

Re: Tivoli Workshop Scheduler Eats Lunch Resolution

2008-09-03 Thread Petersen, Jim
Jim, Does this file system need to be written to? If not you could make it read only and this would alleviate the problem as well. The only time it would need to be R/W is when you were applying maintenance. Talk to me offline about other tricks you can play if the application is writing to

Re: Going unsupported - time to fold?

2008-07-29 Thread Petersen, Jim
And I don't know which machine you are on but you could run z/VM and z/Linux as the new platform to move the workload too and keep the mainframe around. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot Technology Center 1300 Park Center Drive,

Re: CPU time differences for the same job

2008-02-26 Thread Petersen, Jim
This has been a question which dates back to the times of old. Back in the late 60's early 70's when I was running MFT and MVT, it was the question most on people's minds. Back in those days, it was because when an I/O interrupt occurred some of the time of processing that interrupt (no matter

Question about OPSUSS

2007-12-10 Thread Petersen, Jim
We are running OPS/MVS and OPSUSS. We use RACF. Does anyone know what security settings in RACF are necessary so that one can do something like _BPX_JOBNAME='XYZABC' _BPX_USERID='MYUSER' shellscript_of_your_choice And get it to run under MYUSER. We can get the jobname to change to

Re: Bruce Black passed away

2007-11-28 Thread Petersen, Jim
I always knew I would get a straight answer from Bruce, no matter what the subject. Integrity, he had it. I was also educated every time I worked on a problem with him. He didn't just fix it. He let you know how he fixed it. He will be sorely missed both here and at Innovation.

Re: why external CF not internal CF

2007-11-26 Thread Petersen, Jim
It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that you use an External CF if you are using SAP. The traffic is so heavy to the DB2 Lock Structure that Duplexing is NOT RECOMMENDED for SAP. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot Technology Center 1300

Re: LRS PageCenter or CA-View

2007-10-26 Thread Petersen, Jim
Why just those two. How about View Direct from Mobius with DocView? ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot Technology Center 1300 Park Center Drive, Austin, TX 78753 www.homedepot.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512-977-2615

Re: S0C4 in IEBCOPY on z/OS 1.8

2007-07-18 Thread Petersen, Jim
: S0C4 in IEBCOPY on z/OS 1.8 Petersen, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Wonder if anyone else has experienced this. We just rolled out z/OS 1.8 to our 1st two Test/Dev LPARs and we have encountered a problem. Our DB2 folks were copying a PDSE loadlib and got an IGW message in the IEBCOPY followed

S0C4 in IEBCOPY on z/OS 1.8

2007-06-29 Thread Petersen, Jim
Wonder if anyone else has experienced this. We just rolled out z/OS 1.8 to our 1st two Test/Dev LPARs and we have encountered a problem. Our DB2 folks were copying a PDSE loadlib and got an IGW message in the IEBCOPY followed by recursive S0C4 and S0C1 abends. Essentially, until this is

Re: z/os 1.8 upgrade mostly good

2007-06-26 Thread Petersen, Jim
We fired up our 1st set of 1.8 LPARs this last weekend. All in all it was pretty good. IDCAMs steps with no region are getting RC=12. Put a region on them and everything works great. Same job runs okay under 1.7. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems

CF Sizer getting errors

2007-06-13 Thread Petersen, Jim
I am trying to use CF Sizer and it is getting errors. I am trying to size XCF and I have gotten so many errors that now I just try to use 8 LPARs with Classlen 956 and it still gives errors. Anyone else having the problem? ___ Jim Petersen MVS -

Re: $HASP443 message

2007-05-10 Thread Petersen, Jim
Thanks to all who responded. I will voice my opinion when I get access to the JES2 SHARE Requirements Database. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot Technology Center 1300 Park Center Drive, Austin, TX 78753 www.homedepot.com email:

LOGREC Viewer V1.1

2007-05-10 Thread Petersen, Jim
I have sent a note to the author of this wonderful utility about a problem I am having but thought maybe someone on IBM-Main might have experienced it as well. There is a line on the LOGPRIM panel I am not seeing when I run the Viewer. Select LOGREC archive data sets. . . N (N/Y) I can

Re: LOGREC Viewer V1.1

2007-05-10 Thread Petersen, Jim
in the REXX code of LOGRPRT, Dave Dave Jousma Principal Systems Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 616.653.8429 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Petersen, Jim Sent: Thursday, May 10

$HASP443 message

2007-05-09 Thread Petersen, Jim
I am at z/OS 1.7 and I thought that support for more than 65535 tracks of data had been added to JES2. I just tried to create one and format it and I got a $HASP443 HDN1L2 NOT ALLOCATED EXTENT ABOVE 64K TRACK LIMIT, RC=08 What am I missing here?

Re: $HASP443 message

2007-05-09 Thread Petersen, Jim
: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Petersen, Jim Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 1:27 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: $HASP443 message I am at z/OS 1.7 and I thought that support for more than 65535 tracks of data had been added to JES2. I just tried to create

Re: IBM document describing SYSRES cloning?

2007-05-08 Thread Petersen, Jim
I have a zone for each of my resvols all of which are online. I have a maint resvol which is zone MVST100 Then each of my production RESVOLs has a zone named for it and the DDDEFs have the volume changed to the RESVOL volume name. ___ Jim Petersen MVS -

Re: The OEM herd thins a little more

2007-05-08 Thread Petersen, Jim
It is a sad day. I saw what happened to Landmark once ASG took over. A lot of good people left because of the way ASG handled things. A lot of good friends remain but some of those are not really happy working for ASG for various reasons. I will be wearing a black ribbon in recognition of this

SAP using DB2 and Daylight Savings Time

2007-03-08 Thread Petersen, Jim
This has been an ongoing discussion in the company even before the change in dates for DST. From what I am understanding, we are having problems getting the Unix/AIX Servers to change time automatically and be in synch with the z/OS and DB2 hosts. I am looking for SAP users who also use DB2.

Re: V2X2 vs. Shark (SnapShot v. FlashCopy)

2007-03-05 Thread Petersen, Jim
If you are doing Point in Time backups for your DR and you want to get the backups of those copies quickly done, then the V2X2 is your baby. SnapShot is more friendly in this area than Flashcopy. SnapShot saves pointers to the current data whereas FlashCopy copies it from one location to another

Re: IBMLINK and SHOPZSERIES are Both Down

2006-12-04 Thread Petersen, Jim
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 5:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBMLINK and SHOPZSERIES are Both Down On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:08:06 -0500, Petersen, Jim wrote: Here we go again. I love these reliable new tools IBM has given us. IBM please take us back to the reliable green

How many of your sites use GMT Time?

2006-12-04 Thread Petersen, Jim
This is cross posted to DB2-L and IBM-MAIN. How many of you (companies), especially those running SAP, run GMT Time with NO offset so that during Daylight Savings Time, the systems don't need to be brought down. We are hearing from our SAP Server folks that although DB2 Time Stamps its logs

IBMLINK and SHOPZSERIES are Both Down

2006-11-30 Thread Petersen, Jim
Here we go again. I love these reliable new tools IBM has given us. IBM please take us back to the reliable green screen. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot Technology Center 1300 Park Center Drive, Austin, TX 78753

Re: Large Format Sequential Data Sets

2006-10-31 Thread Petersen, Jim
Mike, Have used it for Stand-alone dump datasets and it works great. Haven't used it for anything else .. Yet. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot Technology Center 1300 Park Center Drive, Austin, TX 78753 www.homedepot.com

Enhanced Catalog Sharing (ECS) Questions?

2006-10-27 Thread Petersen, Jim
1. Are any of you running ECS? 2. If so, are all or part of your catalogs in ECS? 3. If part, are they catalogs which would not impact you if problems occurred? 4. If not running ECS, why? Did you try it and have problems? 5. Have any of you heard that SAP has a problem with ECS? You

How often does your shop apply MCL maintenance to the Processors

2006-10-24 Thread Petersen, Jim
I don't want this is devolve into tangential discussions. What I am looking for is: 1. How often does you shop apply MCL Microcode maintenance to your processors? 2. Do you have a policy in place to support this or is it just informal? 3. Do you have any procedure in place to limit how

Re: How long does Flashcopy really take?

2006-10-24 Thread Petersen, Jim
I said long ago, during a presentation I gave at SHARE in August 2003, just after I had done an ESP test on Flashcopy Dataset, that IBM needs to build something into ISMF or something else so you don't have to sit there and do FCQUERY all day or run ICKDSF FLASHCPY jobs until the cows come home.

Re: Migration to z/OS 1.7 - any problem/issue ?

2006-10-23 Thread Petersen, Jim
We had no problems other than the ones caused by me. DB2 V7 and V8 here. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot Technology Center 1300 Park Center Drive, Austin, TX 78753 www.homedepot.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512-977-2615

Re: Any Reason to Upgrade 2074-1

2006-10-04 Thread Petersen, Jim
Yes. But we have had problems where an operator disconnected from the OSA-ICC and console buffers back up til we get 100% full. Have a problem open with IBM and they are investigating. Attaching to the 2074's doesn't present this problem if the operator accidently disconnects.

Can you provide?

2006-09-19 Thread Petersen, Jim
I have a hard copy of W28 Nursery School for the Enterprise-Extender-Impaired -- Please teach me the basicsby Gwen Dente from the zSeries EXPO dated September 19-23, 2005 in San Francisco. I know not from whence it came but I sure could use a PDF copy of it or a link to the PDF copy if

SYSIEFSD.Q4

2006-09-18 Thread Petersen, Jim
We are converting to z/OS 1.7 and it seems as though on the z/OS 1.7 LPARs we are now having problems with users not being able to Log On. We have found the culprit to be the way SYSIEFSD.Q4 is now used under z/OS 1.7. We are having problems with tapes drives and when we have the Log On problem,

Re: 2260 color

2006-09-07 Thread Petersen, Jim
Or Black background and white lettering. Also they only had 12 lines by 80 columns. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot Technology Center 1300 Park Center Drive, Austin, TX 78753 www.homedepot.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Anyone know where?

2006-08-28 Thread Petersen, Jim
Anyone know where I can find a DSECT for the ULUT which is pointed to by the IOVTULUT. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot Technology Center 1300 Park Center Drive, Austin, TX 78753 www.homedepot.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Z/OS 1.4 to 1.7 Migration

2006-08-25 Thread Petersen, Jim
We are on z/OS 1.7 and have a project currently going on to migrate VS COBOL II to Enterprise COBOL. All VS COBOL II programs are currently executing okay under both z/OS 1.6 and z/OS 1.7. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot

Re: Interesting problem for y'all

2006-08-22 Thread Petersen, Jim
: Interesting problem for y'all 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

Interesting problem for y'all

2006-08-21 Thread Petersen, Jim
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 that I can't allocate the full 40 gig on one volume in the initial allocation and therefore, the FSFULL parm in BPXPRMxx becomes useless because it is

Scripts for HFS Files

2006-08-17 Thread Petersen, Jim
I want to create an OMVS Script which will allow me to populate the OMVS.ROOT file shipped from the factory with my symbolic links and directories for mount points. Can anyone help me with a template? ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer

Re: Baby MVS???

2006-08-15 Thread Petersen, Jim
So long as you use a MOD27 these days. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot Technology Center 1300 Park Center Drive, Austin, TX 78753 www.homedepot.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512-977-2615 direct 512-977-2930 fax 210-859-9887 cell

Re: Baby MVS???

2006-08-15 Thread Petersen, Jim
Hey Sam. These are great except we don't have FDR. I know that is blasphemy but.. What can I tell you? ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot Technology Center 1300 Park Center Drive, Austin, TX 78753 www.homedepot.com email:

Re: CA7 Slowdown after 1.7 implementation

2006-08-03 Thread Petersen, Jim
I definitely will be interested in this one since we will be starting our rollout of z/OS 1.7 on August 13. We also run CA-7. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot Technology Center 1300 Park Center Drive, Austin, TX 78753

Finding JOBNAME Exit is running under

2006-06-26 Thread Petersen, Jim
I am in an exit for an application. In assembler, how do I find the name of the Job I am running under and what DSECTS do I need? It has been many years since I did this and I have been unable to locate an old example. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead

Re: Finding JOBNAME Exit is running under

2006-06-26 Thread Petersen, Jim
: Monday, June 26, 2006 11:22 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Finding JOBNAME Exit is running under On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 12:05 -0400, Petersen, Jim wrote: In assembler, how do I find the name of the Job I am running under and what DSECTS do I need? USING PSA,0 L R3

Re: Slightly off topic

2006-05-31 Thread Petersen, Jim
I recently switched jobs. Not because I had to but because I was offered an 11% raise over my previous employer. I was driving 52 miles to my previous employer so thought it wouldn't be that much harder to drive 86 miles to my new one. Boy was I wrong. Currently looking for new digs in the

Re: Slightly off topic

2006-05-31 Thread Petersen, Jim
: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 12:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Slightly off topic -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Petersen, Jim I recently switched jobs. Not because I had to but because I was offered an 11% raise over my previous employer

Re: Sysmod: -PE-AI-

2006-05-31 Thread Petersen, Jim
Here is the AI on UA06182 The new VSAM diagnostic function, known as Footsteps, has increased VSAM's code path and thus caused a slight increase in CPU utilization. Testing has shown increases between 1% and 5%. This will be dependent on the type of processing being done and/or the

Re: DFDSS Question

2006-05-31 Thread Petersen, Jim
Did DFDSS start using FDR Statements? I thought S DSG= and X DSG= were FDRDSF statements. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot Technology Center 1300 Park Center Drive, Austin, TX 78753 www.homedepot.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FDR/ABR in large shops

2006-05-30 Thread Petersen, Jim
Well I had the opposite experience. At a shop I was at, we switched from DFDSS to FDRABR and was up 2 hours faster. So as the gentleman said in a later post, it all depends on what you are used to and the techniques you use to get there. ___ Jim

Re: Alter - APAR OA16334 Serverpac Built SYSLIB concat wrong

2006-05-18 Thread Petersen, Jim
Yes. And I am the one who found the problem. Got an assembly error whilst assembling an SDSF Module during routine maintenance application after the ServerPac was laid down. Opened a problem with IBM and they were quick to respond. Of course, the LOCAL solution was to move the DLIBS datasets

Re: Home Depot Looking for MVS - Lead Systems Engineer in Austin TX

2006-03-28 Thread Petersen, Jim
PROTECTED], on 03/21/2006 at 04:28 PM, Petersen, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Here is a link to the job posting for a MVS - Lead Systems Engineer (translated Programmer). Is telecommuting an option? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net

Re: Home Depot Looking for MVS - Lead Systems Engineer in Austin TX

2006-03-28 Thread Petersen, Jim
Very low since I purchased a very fuel efficient car. When I worked in San Antonio, I drove a F-250 Super Duty 7.3L Diesel which got about 19 mpg. That vehicle now has Farm Plates on it. Bi-weekly gas bill is about $110-130. ___ Jim Petersen MVS -

Re: CBDQDISP Inactive

2006-03-28 Thread Petersen, Jim
Since the only way one can bring down CBDQDISP is to Cancel it, thus a S222 abend, I would look for an abend message for CBDQDISP. You should then be able to figure out why it came down. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot

Home Depot Looking for MVS - Lead Systems Engineer in Austin TX

2006-03-21 Thread Petersen, Jim
Here is a link to the job posting for a MVS - Lead Systems Engineer (translated Programmer). Large environment with a mixture of z9's and z990's. http://corporatecareers.homedepot.com/job_detail.pl?job=165544query=lis tings%3D20%3Bsort_by%3Ddate%3Bkeywords%3Dmvs%20z%2Fos%3Bkeyword_option%3