Re: Printing DASD type

2012-06-13 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-06-13 07:14, mf db pisze: Hello All, We know pretty well that Mod - 3 , Mod - 9 . Mod - 27 has a Cylinder of 3K , 9K and 27k, but in a environment where we have mixture of all these type it becomes hard to know by each Volume serial. Are there any ways to scan only the Volumes

Re: How many cost a cpu second?

2012-06-12 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-06-12 23:13, Salva Carrasco pisze: Apart from the syntax error How many vs. How much, My question is not having much success. In other terms: If I have a STC consuming 25,000 cpus / secs per month, and I spend two days optimizing it to reduce to 15,000. Am I gaining money or

Re: FYI LinkedIn passwords hacked

2012-06-11 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-06-10 22:37, Andy Wood pisze: On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 22:48:50 +0200, R.S.r.skoru...@snip.com.pl wrote: [snipped] I am quite prepared to accept that mainframe workers would know that it is not a good idea to reuse passwords in that way. However, that was not my point when I said that

Re: Weird thought on misuse of a GDG.

2012-06-11 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-06-11 21:58, Roberts, John J pisze: But in today's world, without SCRATCH in the definition, the oldest GDG does not get scratched. It gets rolled off the GDG base and becomes a normal cataloged dataset entry. So it stays in the catalog, and can be referenced by absolute name. I

Re: Failed Disk Data Exposure

2012-06-09 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-06-08 23:15, Grinsell, Don pisze: Here's a Friday topic: With modern disk arrays, e.g. DS8000, what is the real exposure of meaningful residual data being recovered from a single drive out of the array. I can't seem to find anything definitive other than a lot of data may be

Re: How many cost a cpu second?

2012-06-08 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-06-08 13:32, Salva Carrasco pisze: Well, I know the simple way is: TCO/nCPU/365/24/3600 But, i do not have the TCO. So, i would like to get an average. I know that there is a lot of factor in the play: - LPAR vs single image - MSU, MIPs, etc.. - Software licences - ELAs -

Re: FYI LinkedIn passwords hacked

2012-06-08 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-06-08 22:02, Clark Morris pisze: On 7 Jun 2012 14:28:43 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: [...] Yet some smug mainframe workers could learn something from this. Such as, storing hashed but unsalted passwords is not such a good idea (and, yes, I have seen that done on a

Re: Need a PC tape drive to read 3490, 3490E

2012-06-08 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-06-08 21:06, Mike Baldwin pisze: [...] There are also Fujitsu, IBM 3490F (which I think is really Overland), If you mean 3490E-Fxx, then yes, it;s Overland drive, attached (using SCSI) to a PC. The PC is small Siemens server running Sinix (Siemens flavor of Unix). The PC has ESCON

Re: FYI LinKEdln passwords hacked

2012-06-07 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-06-06 23:31, Ed Gould pisze: LinkedIn Users: Change Password Now Attackers appear to have obtained--and may have already decrypted--at least 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords. How is it related to IBM mainframes? Hint: Maybe some mainframers do use this portal, but mainframers also

Re: FYI LinkedIn passwords hacked

2012-06-07 Thread R.S.
Of R.S. Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 6:35 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: FYI LinKEdln passwords hacked W dniu 2012-06-06 23:31, Ed Gould pisze: LinkedIn Users: Change Password Now Attackers appear to have obtained--and may have already decrypted--at least 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords

Re: What is a PC Call?

2012-06-01 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-06-01 00:43, Mike Schwab pisze: Just because they added something to the hardware, does not mean they are ready to add it to the operating system. When z/VM 6 came out, it required a z10 to run on, because they changed the software to use hardware introduced with that processort.

SMP/E and UNIX (JAVA?)

2012-05-30 Thread R.S.
The following scenario: single PTF APPLY. APPLY CHECK ends with RC=0 APPLY end with RC=8 reason: jar command not found. (see details below) I edited /etc/profile, so PATH variable do containg entry for jar. I tested it using shell (jar -? command) and BPXBATCH PARM='SH jar-?' However SMPE APPLY

Re: SMP/E and UNIX (JAVA?) (solved)

2012-05-30 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-05-29 22:39, R.S. pisze: The following scenario: single PTF APPLY. APPLY CHECK ends with RC=0 APPLY end with RC=8 reason: jar command not found. (see details below) I edited /etc/profile, so PATH variable do containg entry for jar. I tested it using shell (jar -? command

Re: JES2 default OUTCLASS

2012-05-30 Thread R.S.
(re-send) W dniu 2012-05-29 17:47, Mark Zelden pisze: On Tue, 29 May 2012 16:27:00 +0200, R.S.r.skoru...@snip.com.pl wrote: For STC and TSU there is explicit parameter for OUTCLASS. For JOBs there's no such parameter. Q: what output class is chosen as default for jobs? Where is it coded?

Re: JES2 default OUTCLASS

2012-05-30 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-05-29 17:47, Mark Zelden pisze: On Tue, 29 May 2012 16:27:00 +0200, R.S.r.skoru...@snip.com.pl wrote: For STC and TSU there is explicit parameter for OUTCLASS. For JOBs there's no such parameter. Q: what output class is chosen as default for jobs? Where is it coded? There is

Re: IBM software module names

2012-05-30 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-05-30 13:44, Jim McAlpine pisze: Is there a list of the 3 letter software prefixes anywhere eg ICE for DFSORT. Yes. The list is (partially) listed in MVS System Messages, SA22-7634, chapter 1.3 Message Directory: CBR │ Object access method (OAM)│ z/OS MVS System

Re: SMP/E and UNIX (JAVA?) (solved)

2012-05-30 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-05-30 16:06, Paul Gilmartin pisze: On Tue, 29 May 2012 22:50:05 +0200, R.S. wrote: Solution: add SMPJHOME DD to SMPE job. I'm curious why IBM did not add a DDDEF for that... http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/gimrfr42/4.20 4.20 SMPJHOME

Re: JES2 default OUTCLASS

2012-05-30 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-05-30 16:21, Mark Zelden pisze: [...] Note what I wrote about the source earlier. I had to re-read it. I'm sorry for my abstractedness. For record purposes: (simple version) Default MSGCLASS for jobs is taken from JOBCLASS(TSU) definition (MSGCLASS parameter). (longer version)

Re: Spool offload

2012-05-29 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-05-28 18:03, Skip Robinson pisze: OK, I'll bite. Which parameters cannot be changed dynamically? I think you mentioned in another thread about having to resolve name conflicts. There ways to juggle things around via multiple incremental changes to achieve the desired result. I have

JES2 default OUTCLASS

2012-05-29 Thread R.S.
For STC and TSU there is explicit parameter for OUTCLASS. For JOBs there's no such parameter. Q: what output class is chosen as default for jobs? Where is it coded? -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- Treść tej wiadomości może zawierać informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone

Spool offload

2012-05-28 Thread R.S.
I'm going to cold start JES2. I would like to preserve my spool content by using spool offload. I changed parameters of OFF* devices to the following values: OFFLOAD1 DSN=SYS1.OFFLOAD,STATUS=DRAINED,ARCHIVE=ONE, CRTIME=RESET,LABEL=SL,PROTECT=NO,RETPD=0,

Re: Spool offload

2012-05-28 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-05-28 17:10, Mark Zelden pisze: [...] I assume you are asking if they are correct prior to starting the offload. If so, it looks okay. If not, then of course you need to start offload1. Good assumption! My explanations weren't good enough. :-) Are you sure you disk output

How to leave ISPF

2012-05-25 Thread R.S.
When one leaves ISPF usually there is a panel Specify Disposition of Log Data Set. Usually the answer is 2 - delete. Q: how is it possible to exit ISPF by choosing some option (X - Exit) and NOT see the panel? I saw it many moons ago. BTW: I don't ask how to logoff TSO immediately after

Re: 24/7/365 appropriateness was Re: IBMLink outages in 2012

2012-05-23 Thread R.S.
IMHO everyone here perfectly understand common (and intended) meaning of 24/7/365. While is formally inaccurate, it's still clear. The rest is as worth to discuss as USS=Unix System Services. Maybe there is official IBM meaning* of 24/7/365 or the only proper description of continuous

Re: OWNER() in DEF CLUSTER

2012-05-22 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-05-21 22:41, Mark Zelden pisze: On Mon, 21 May 2012 22:29:47 +0200, R.S.r.skoru...@com.pl wrote: I just found a job with DEFINE CLUSTER ...OWNER(...) parameter. Just curious: What is the meaning of the owner field in VSAM ? To identify the owner. :-)Didn't you RTFM?

Re: IBM's first tape drive turns 60 (makes you feel old!)

2012-05-22 Thread R.S.
BTW: I heard about 1-inch tapes. Is it true? Did such wide tapes exist? Current cartridges are 1/2 inch wide. The article says that 729 was also 1/2 inch. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 2012-05-22 12:55, Don Higgins pisze: All It reminds me of when I saw my first tape sort

Re: PSP Bucket for 2107DEVICE (DS8300)

2012-05-21 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-05-21 11:21, Moussadak Mostafa pisze: hello to all, We plan to migrate from ESS800 disk-bay to a new DS8300. we are currently in a zOS1.7 on z10BC. I took a test in HCD, the Device Type 2107 is here ! Your HCD is aware of this device type. In fact 2107 is quite old, older than

OWNER() in DEF CLUSTER

2012-05-21 Thread R.S.
I just found a job with DEFINE CLUSTER ...OWNER(...) parameter. Just curious: What is the meaning of the owner field in VSAM ? -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- Treść tej wiadomości może zawierać informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wyłącznie do użytku służbowego adresata.

Re: Early IPL problems

2012-05-19 Thread R.S.
I prefer to have system solution, which would allow me to view/manage TEXT FILE. It's far more convenient than using video camera. And in fact I miss the facility. BTW: I haven't investigated it: I have some 3270 emulator which allow to view few previous screens - sometimes usable for ISPF

Change SYSPLEX name

2012-05-18 Thread R.S.
I forgot to customize sysplex name during ServerPac installation. Now I want to fix it. I found it's coded in couple datasets only (and LOADxx). Q1. Is there any other place where I should change the sysplex name? Q2. How to do it? The only idea I know is to delete and re-create all the CDS

Re: EPSPT vs. FIXCAT

2012-05-17 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-05-17 14:29, Kurt Quackenbush pisze: thanks, that is the information I wasn't aware of, the fact that for CICS there isn't a special category like for IMS or DB2 and that these PTFs are all together in this generic category.So all PTFs from the former PSP extract files are now in any

Re: Preventive z/OS maintenance, was: EPSPT vs. FIXCAT

2012-05-17 Thread R.S.
: For this offering CPMz we although have a customer in Poland, if you like to hear more about this topic, you may give me a personal note. Am 17.05.2012 14:59, schrieb R.S.: W dniu 2012-05-17 14:29, Kurt Quackenbush pisze: [...] Stupid question: Applying service usually require IPL, which is some

Re: Syslog missing

2012-05-16 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-05-15 20:33, Mark Zelden pisze: What's wrong??? User error? :-)Did you change the SYSID or anything like that? When you use the LOG command do you see an ISPF short message error? Try SYSID ? and see what it says. Then SYSID with no operands. 1. SYSID SYSID *was

Re: z114/z196 LPAR Activation List

2012-05-16 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-05-16 02:19, Kent Ramsay pisze: Hi, A customer recently installed a z114. When a Power-on Reset is done, the LPAR's specified in the Partition Activation List are not activated. This facility was working on the replaced z9. Has anyone seen a similar occurrence? Thanks. I had

Re: Syslog missing (solution???)

2012-05-16 Thread R.S.
code. Catch 22? vbg -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 2012-05-16 11:14, R.S. pisze: W dniu 2012-05-15 20:33, Mark Zelden pisze: What's wrong??? User error? :-) Did you change the SYSID or anything like that? When you use the LOG command do you see an ISPF short message error

Re: Syslog missing (now: SCRT)

2012-05-16 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-05-16 12:42, Elardus Engelbrecht pisze: [...] I changed sysid to meet SCRT requirements, otherwise SCRT cannot prepare correct report for the LPAR running this system. Yuck! Could you be kind to elaborate on this required change? I'm also using this SCRT toy every month. SCRT

Re: Syslog missing (now: SCRT)

2012-05-16 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-05-16 13:42, Elardus Engelbrecht pisze: [1] - You just can't go on a C ALL '= ' '=*NONE' spree without breaking something ... But you can split the job stream. I moved DD * content to separate members and DO NOT change them. Also the JCL itself is (almost) not changed. The only

Re: Is having an OMVS segment on a userid with RACF SPECIAL an issue?

2012-05-15 Thread R.S.
IMHO the are two secure choices: 1. NOOMVS for SPECIAL 2. UID(0) for SPECIAL. Yes, 0. The trick is UID(0) is shared, so there is one to many relationship. So, hijacking UID(0) does NOT mean hijacking SPECIAL user. There is a parameter in BPXPRMxx called SUPERUSER(username). This is the user

Re: z/os v1r13 RACF problem

2012-05-15 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-05-15 18:14, Crabtree, Anne D pisze: Trying to bring up z/os v1r13 for first time on my onepac system and I keep getting error message ICH571A Error building program control tables followed by ICH501I saying RACF is not active. I performed a system upgrade when installing and my

Syslog missing

2012-05-15 Thread R.S.
The following scenario: z/OS 1.13 during ServerPac installation process. The system is IPLed for second or third time, almost nothing is customized. I just noticed that syslog is dead. Example: I enter SDSF, LOG and issue /D A,L - the results are not recorded in the log (last entry in the log is

Re: Syslog missing

2012-05-15 Thread R.S.
or there were no error messeges during the member processing. I culd check in in ...the syslog. However my MCS console comes definitely from correct member. BTW: from the member: HARDCOPY DEVNUM(SYSLOG) ROUTCODE(ALL) CMDLEVEL(CMDS) HCFORMAT(CENTURY) R.S. -- Tre tej wiadomo

Re: z/os v1r13 RACF problem

2012-05-15 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-05-15 19:03, Crabtree, Anne D pisze: Security Server is enabled in IFAPRD00. What is DSNT? I don't recognize that. The onepac system is stand alone not a sysplex. The datasets are cataloged fine and both 1.11 and 1.13 reference that catalog. They are not in MSTJCLxx member in

Re: Syslog missing

2012-05-15 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-05-15 19:25, Mark Zelden pisze: On Tue, 15 May 2012 19:02:57 +0200, R.S.r.skoru...@.com.pl wrote: Don't know why it broke, but have you tried this? V SYSLOG,HARDCPY Yes, no effect Try W START (WRITELOG START) I tried, no effect. I just re-ipled system, with no

Re: Reducing Common Area below 16M line

2012-05-14 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-05-14 17:13, Paul Gilmartin pisze: Oops! I was unfamiliar with the terminology. I'll restate: How much storage do LPA and ELPA respectively occupy in a typical-to-large shop? Do you think it depends on shop size? I would bet it depends on installed product portfolio and product

Re: Codepages and locales

2012-05-14 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-05-14 17:35, Phil Smith pisze: The C manual on etoa() says, The conversion is performed using the codeset page associated with the current locale. So what does that mean in the real world, if 037 is the real codepage (and what's a codeset page, if not a codepage?!) used by z/OS

Re: Codepages and locales

2012-05-12 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-05-10 23:52, Phil Smith pisze: How many z/OS shops actually run with a different locale (codepage)? I mean both globally for the entire system as well as within one or more databases. I'm assuming the second set is much larger than the first; it's the first I'm really interested

Re: ### of GDG Entries

2012-05-10 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-05-10 22:12, Donnelly, John pisze: We have a business application that creates literally 100s of GDGs a day; please don't ask. Is there any way to create or pretend to create a GDG base greater than 255... g NO. THE LIMIT IS 255. However... a) you can live with rolled off

Re: It's feeding time in Jurassic Park . . .

2012-05-08 Thread R.S.
Microsoft Windows sounds very generic. zBX can run only ONE version of Windows: 64-bit edition of 2008 Enterprise (or so). g If your application require 32-bit edition, or other version - then you ...can still use blade, for example IBM HX5 outside of zBX. You'd loose legendary Enssemble

Re: It's feeding time in Jurassic Park . . .

2012-05-07 Thread R.S.
Several dozens aswered, so it's my turn ;-) 1. Yes. 2. No. From application point of view think about zBX as regular blade cabinet connected to the mainframe. You simply connect to mainframe a bunch of Intel-based (and other) servers using Ethernet/IP. My not so humbly opinion: zBX is regular

Re: Confused on DFSORT SORTWK

2012-05-07 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-05-07 18:59, Skip Robinson pisze: Bingo. We've had VIO=YES forever. We're revisiting our entire ICEMAC usermod ASAP. Thanks! I'd suggest to get rid of the usermod at all. Nowadays DFSORT can be customized using PARMLIB members. It's also an opportunity to rethink all the

Re: It's feeding time in Jurassic Park . . .

2012-05-07 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-05-07 23:19, George Henke pisze: Radoslaw, ty for your interesting and helpful comments. But, I was hoping that the whole was more than just the sum of the parts, what with the zBx hipervisor and the speed and security of hipersockets. Our 100 or more mid-range servers are layered

ServerPac rant continued (this time not RACF)

2012-04-30 Thread R.S.
Another fining: CSFSETMK job using CSFEUTIL program. The purpose of the job is to initialize ICSF CKDS using specified pass phrase. The problem is it DOESN'T work on z/990 and newer machines. No, there is no clue in the job about it. Just assumption you are working on z/900 or z/800. ;-) I'm

Re: ServerPac RACF* jobs (rant)

2012-04-30 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-04-30 23:35, John Eells pisze: [...] If the jobs will not run against a new, empty RACF database (that is, essentially used to create a brand new test system, on which security definitions will be extended soon afterward), then in my opinion you should open a PMR. If you just don't

Re: ServerPac RACF* jobs (rant)

2012-04-29 Thread R.S.
What I didn't say before is LACK OF KNOWLEDGE of persons who write those member. It's bad day, or senior moment (junior moment?), it's lack of knowledge. I think this is main reason why it's so bad. BTW: There is no chance to submit all the commands in the job without any error. Even on

Re: Early IPL problems

2012-04-29 Thread R.S.
It's not strictly related to the OP question, but it is very important issue when talking about IPL problems. We pay much attention to avoid duplicateonline volsers. BTW: in our case duplicates come from clones performed using PiT copy, it's not matter of naming convention. -- Radoslaw

Re: Early IPL problems

2012-04-28 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-04-27 23:03, John McDowell pisze: I'm trying to get a feel for problems that occur in the early stages of z/OS system start up (e.g. IPL/NIP). Generally problems in these stages result in a non-restartable wait state, for example wait state x'0B1' (e.g. LOADxx or IODF problem).

Re: Mainframe Skills Scarce? (z/OS Mainframe CA Product training ...)

2012-04-27 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-04-27 07:38, Edward Jaffe pisze: On 4/26/2012 9:09 PM, Scott McFall wrote: MAINFRAME SKILLS ARE BECOMING SCARCE!particularly Systems Programmers. I hear this paradoxical conjecture all the time. If true, why are so many skilled mainframe professionals -- particularly sysprogs

Re: SV: Mainframe Skills Scarce? (z/OS Mainframe CA Product training ...)

2012-04-27 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-04-27 10:35, Thomas Berg pisze: [...] If true, why are so many skilled mainframe professionals -- particularly sysprogs -- looking for work? IJS... It is reasonable. Let's take job situation in Poland: unemployment is over 10%, many (hundreds thousands) migrated to UK and other

Re: Have you ever done this using FTP?

2012-04-27 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-04-27 14:16, McKown, John pisze: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 5:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Have you ever done this using FTP? snip/ I

Re: Have you ever done this using FTP?

2012-04-27 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-04-27 14:36, Bob Shannon pisze: TRSMAIN is still available AFAIK. TRSMAIN is an alias of AMATERSE. Yes, but... Definitely NOT for older system which do not have AMATERSE. And for those systems you can still download older version. BTW:

Re: Confused on DFSORT SORTWK

2012-04-27 Thread R.S.
Did you try to get rid of SORTWKxx DDs and use OPTION DYNALLOC ? -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 2012-04-27 14:43, Mark Pace pisze: Trying to sort a fairly large RMF data file. 20,000 + cylinders. I keep running out of SORTWK space. I have 9 3390-9 volumes in my SMS temporary

Re: Confused on DFSORT SORTWK

2012-04-27 Thread R.S.
OPTION DYNALLOC=(3390,25) The above means 25 work datasets. BTW: IMHO you should omit FILSZ. DFSORT is able to obtain file size for most cases. To David Betten: your emails looks like encrypted. We cannot read it. Regards -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 2012-04-27 16:27, Mark

ServerPac RACF* jobs (rant)

2012-04-27 Thread R.S.
RACFDRV and RACFTGT jobs are part of ServerPac installation process. I have the following observation: the jobs are longer and longer and MUCH MORE STUPID. Example: RACDCERT + ID(WSCRU1) + CONNECT ( + RING(WASKeyring.BBNBASE.Signers) + LABEL('WebSphereCA') + CERTAUTH) SETROPTS +

Re: Test

2012-04-27 Thread R.S.
David, Observation: Your encoding is ISO-8859-1, Mark's email is coded in Windows-1252. Maybe this is related to the problem Regards -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 2012-04-27 17:13, David Betten pisze: Sorry about this post. Trying to determine why my posts are coming out

Re: ServerPac RACF* jobs (rant)

2012-04-27 Thread R.S.
refresh). -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 2012-04-27 17:57, R.S. pisze: RACFDRV and RACFTGT jobs are part of ServerPac installation process. I have the following observation: the jobs are longer and longer and MUCH MORE STUPID. Example: RACDCERT + ID(WSCRU1) + CONNECT ( + RING

Re: DES, ICSF, and AES

2012-04-24 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-04-24 20:24, Ward, Mike S pisze: Hello all is it possible to simultaneously have a DES master and an AES master key at the same time or are they mutually exclusive? What does it mean to have keys ? In ICSF you can set master key for DES and AES algorithms independently. Of course

Re: Striped file information

2012-04-24 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-04-24 22:07, Bill Ashton pisze: Hi folks! I have a 2.3GB file that is allocated to a STRIPED Dataclass. Is there any way to see the particulars on each stripe - where it is, how big it is, etc.? There is no problem, it is more of a curiosity for me. I would like to know how

Re: A z/OS Redbook Corrected - just about!

2012-04-24 Thread R.S.
It's boring. Another example for USS meaning Unix system services, not Unformatted system services. Yes, IBMer do use USS for Unix SS, regardless it is official or not official. And yes we can discuss what the acronym is and what is IBM authority to authorize the acronyms since it part of the

Re: XRC (z/OS Global Mirroring)

2012-04-24 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-04-24 20:30, Patti McLeskey pisze: I'm looking for anyone who has successfully used z/OS Global Mirroring to replicate on non-IBM storage. Does it work? Yes, it does. You have to have proper license for that. XRC is licensed feature of DASD array. What vendor DASD do you use?

Re: Origins of numeric assignation of z196 z114

2012-04-17 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-04-17 16:30, Mike Schwab pisze: On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:50 AM, Jan MOEYERSONS jan.moeyers...@adelior.be wrote: On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:41:51 +0200, R.S.r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: BTW: I really can't understand marketing names like z196, TS1140, or DS8000. Why don't

Re: SMS QUESTION

2012-04-17 Thread R.S.
My guess: you tried to define dataset 4GB limit (*). RC 140 RSN 110 say about it. To Allan: I would suggest to use regular IBM documentation and regular BookManager search utility ;-) I'm serious: 3 clicks and you have the answer. I don't know what is the reason of the problem, but it can be

Re: Origins of numeric assignation of z196 z114

2012-04-17 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-04-17 18:53, Elardus Engelbrecht pisze: [...] Sh, kiddies are reading this and we greybeards must behave. ;-D Kiddies here? Are you KIDDING? This is mainframe list! Avg member still remember Ford T premiere vbg -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- Tre

Re: Origins of numeric assignation of z196 z114

2012-04-16 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-04-16 16:33, Alvaro Guirao Lopez pisze: I have seeked but found nothing about this, why the new servers have been named z196 z114 and not Z11 EC Z11 BC? Why not z11? I don't know. Why 196 and 114? I heard about it: 1xx means FIRST generation (of what? naming convention?) 96

Re: SV: Origins of numeric assignation of z196 z114

2012-04-16 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-04-16 16:54, Thomas Berg pisze: -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] För R.S. Skickat: den 16 april 2012 16:42 Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Ämne: Re: Origins of numeric assignation of z196 z114 W dniu 2012-04-16 16:33

Re: Modernizing the BCP code ?

2012-04-14 Thread R.S.
Good idea, wrong address. Walt is retired. However the idea is really good. There many cases where IBM should prepare some sample exits (*). Even (as usually) in as is mode of responsibility. (*) I didn't say there are no sample exits from IBM. I said we lack some other exits. -- Radoslaw

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-12 Thread R.S.
I will fight for BOO format. Where to demonstrate? Any riot? Really outraged -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 2012-04-12 16:05, Sevetson, Phil pisze: Bookreader? Really?? Guys, there's this thing they call the Internet, where you can get good documentation from what IBM calls

Re: SSL FTPing via crypto processor

2012-04-12 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-04-12 12:23, Tsai Laurence pisze: Dear listers, as the subject , a couple of questions to be clarified . from z10+ , with z/OS V1.11+ 1) I know z/OS FTP client support SSL/TLS , But no idea whether the transferred data encrypted via HW crypto (CPACF) ? 2) If yes , what kind of key

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-12 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-04-12 17:20, McKown, John pisze: We pdf files on a Windows share. The only problem with this is in a D.R. situation, because that share is deemed non critical and not restored during a test. Which is why I need BookManager. At our DR provider, the PC's used to connect to z/OS are not

Re: Modernizing the BCP code ?

2012-04-12 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-04-12 18:52, McKown, John pisze: Apparently pre-z9 processors will not be able to IPL z/OS version 2 at all. I would guess a hard wait at IPL/NIP time. I'm curious: how much politics influenced on that decision? As far as I know, z9 wasn't so revolutionary generation. A big

Re: Modernizing the BCP code ?

2012-04-12 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-04-12 19:31, Bob Shannon pisze: So, I suspect it was political decision whether to support z/990 and z9. I think supporting the older processors this long was a marketing decision. Sooner or later they had to drop off and now they have. zVM V6 requires a z10 processor or higher, so

Re: Modernizing the BCP code ?

2012-04-12 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-04-12 20:25, Bob Shannon pisze: Yes, but z/VM 5.4 is still supported and marketed. zVM 5.4 was withdrawn from marketing December 12, 2011. It goes out of service September 20, 2013. I knew I should check it again before sending ;-) My fault. BTW: Sept 2013 is not tomorrow. --

Re: Modernizing the BCP code ?

2012-04-12 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-04-12 20:47, Tom Marchant pisze: On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:25:34 +0200, R.S. wrote: As far as I know, z9 wasn't so revolutionary generation. z9 introduced these facilities: • DAT-enhancement facility 2 • ETF2-enhancement facility • ETF3-enhancement facility • Extended-immediate

Re: Modernizing the BCP code ?

2012-04-12 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-04-12 22:44, Tom Marchant pisze: [...] Just to remain: z/990 introduced CSS concept, 60 LPARs, 1024 channels, 30 LPARs and 512 channels on the z990. CSS and greater than 256 channels was quite a significant architectural change, IMO 60 LPARs and 1024 channels. And SPANNED

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-11 Thread R.S.
Documentation in Bookreader format will no longer be available! That's horrible! -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- Tre tej wiadomoci moe zawiera informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wycznie do uytku subowego adresata. Odbiorc moe by jedynie jej adresat z

Re: Questions regarding SMS compacted dataset

2012-04-10 Thread R.S.
In each case when you copy dataset from DASD to TAPE ar vice versa, the data in transit are uncompressed. Compression/lack of compression on source/target doesn't matter. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 2012-04-10 17:00, Victor Zhang pisze: Chris, Thanks for the reply. Using dss

LU0, SNA, TCPIP issue

2012-04-06 Thread R.S.
Scenario: CICS application-LU0 SNA (OSA Eth)HIS-Windows APP Server-WinClients In other words there is a CICS based application, which is cuurently accessed via LU0 terminals. The application server (windows based) is connected to the host via HIS, formerly known as MS SNA Server. So,

Re: LU0, SNA, TCPIP issue

2012-04-06 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-04-06 21:54, Staller, Allan pisze: Lots of ways to go here. Upgrade CICS to use LU2. CICS also (IIRC) speaks TCP directly. TN3270/TN3270E Some emulator client on PC (Rumba, VISTA, PCOMM) The goal is to get rid of HIS and not to make any revolution. It also means to stay with

Re: ICSF - will deactivateop Lpar 'A' affect other lpars? and does it remain deactivatedacross IPLs?

2012-04-03 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-04-03 08:54, Francis van Zutphen pisze: You can easily control which services are used and which are not. ICSF calls RACF, see CSF* classes. BTW: Why do you afraid? What's the risk you want to avoid? Just curious. -- Hello Radoslaw, I had already set on the RACF audit bit for the

Re: Malicious Software Protection

2012-04-03 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-04-03 13:22, Elardus Engelbrecht pisze: [...] [1] - Bypass APF, bypass RACF, ignoring change managament processes, use bribery, do copies from your sandbox into your production, use FTP, capture data with keystroke logger + screen scrapers, etc. Don't put into one basket so

Re: Malicious Software Protection

2012-04-02 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-04-02 03:37, Steve Comstock pisze: On 4/1/2012 8:35 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: Inpc9fn7thogvhoe33n5845q2uucmg5uk...@4ax.com, on 03/31/2012 at 09:57 PM, Clark Morriscfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca said: Java on the server side is effectively executable code. Yes, Java,

Re: Malicious Software Protection

2012-04-02 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-04-02 18:35, Chris Craddock pisze: On Apr 2, 2012, at 10:46 AM, R.S.R.Skorupka@can-you-snip-it?.PL wrote: The same with unauthorized code - maybe the system is not bulletproof, but we have no documented case of such flaw. Sorry, but you are totally wrong there. You

Re: Initialize Tape Options

2012-04-01 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-04-01 08:35, Jake anderson pisze: Hello List, Good Morning ! Apart from IEHINIT, are there any freeware or any available utility to initialize the 3590 tape ? This is just a general question out of curiosity :). My environment : Z/os : 1.8 CA1 has its own utility, RMM has

Re: Two why about the hardware

2012-04-01 Thread R.S.
??? Why do you multiply the connection? And why the number of logical paths should affect connectivity? Number of logical paths is almost always related to CU electronics and it is independent of switch used - it is the same with and without switch or switches. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz,

Re: Two why about the hardware

2012-04-01 Thread R.S.
OK, but any channel number does not change when using switch. BTW: CU-host connection is limited to 8 channels. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 2012-04-02 02:50, Mike Schwab pisze: Because that is how the paths are counted. A particular I/O command could come in on any Ficon

Two why about the hardware

2012-03-31 Thread R.S.
1. A coupling link ISC-3 is available from z/900 to z196, however IBM claims it's impossible to connect two machines (*). WHY? Is it technical or political (marketing) reson? AFAIK it more restrictive: z10 will not connect to z/900 and z196 will not connect to z/990. 2. FICON cascaded

Re: TSO userid character sets

2012-03-31 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-03-31 21:52, Phil Smith pisze: Resending as plaintext with the Cyrillic characters removed since a friend tells me the encoding got hosed when reading on GMail. Does z/OS support userids with non-Roman characters? E.g., Cyrillic? I’m talking about the userid itself, e.g.,Cyrillic

Re: TSO userid character sets

2012-03-31 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-03-31 21:52, Phil Smith pisze: Resending as plaintext with the Cyrillic characters removed since a friend tells me the encoding got hosed when reading on GMail. Does z/OS support userids with non-Roman characters? E.g., Cyrillic? I’m talking about the userid itself, e.g.,Cyrillic

Re: New z/OS 1.13 Health Checks - Friday Rant

2012-03-31 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-03-30 16:24, Mark Brooks pisze: Hi, The XCF signalling services are available in all sysplex environments, including monoplex. The rationale that motivates the defining of transport classes applies to them all. What for? The classes are for traffic on sysplex links, are

Re: ICSF - will deactivateop Lpar 'A' affect other lpars? and does it remain deactivatedacross IPLs?

2012-03-30 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-03-30 16:17, Mark Jacobs pisze: Yes, If you stop ICSF you won't be able to execute the ICSF API's that interface with the cryptographic cards. To complement: ICSF is the only *supported* way to access Crypto cards *from z/OS*. Remarks: - you can access Crypto cards from Linux on

Re: ICSF - will deactivateop Lpar 'A' affect other lpars? and does it remain deactivatedacross IPLs?

2012-03-30 Thread R.S.
You can easily control which services are used and which are not. ICSF calls RACF, see CSF* classes. BTW: Why do you afraid? What's the risk you want to avoid? Just curious. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 2012-03-30 18:04, Francis van Zutphen pisze: Hi Mark, On second

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