Re: Health check of z/OS backup

2009-02-03 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-DIT)
Dennis Roach GHG Corporation 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15 4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Voice: (281) 336-5027 Cell:(713) 591-1059 E-Mail: dennis.ro...@lmco.com All opinions expressed by me are mine and may not agree with my employer or any person, company, or thing, living or dead, on or near

Re: z/OS receiving of LF only delimited text files

2009-01-29 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-DIT)
Use the SITE or LOCSITE command with WRAPrecord. Variable length records works great. Write a program to read the file, treating it like a string of characters. At each LF, write a record. Again, having the output file as VB works nice. If the file is VB/5000 WRAP will give you a series of 5000

Re: zSecure Audit Concern with EJES SVC

2009-01-26 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-DIT)
I agree. We use CA/Examine and it reports any SVC it cannot identify as a problem. It in no way indicates an issue with the SVC code itself. This is true with the EJES SVC. The EJES vendor stands behind the integrity of the SVC. IIRC they provided a statement that satisfied the auditor. Dennis

Re: SV: MVS 4 minute 'outage' (final update)

2009-01-22 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-DIT)
Just when you think the system is fool proof, along comes a bigger fool. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15 4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Voice: (281) 336-5027 Cell:(713) 511-1059 E-Mail: dennis.ro...@lmco.com All opinions expressed by me are mine and may not agree with

Re: APF authorize libraries

2009-01-19 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-DIT)
Most applications run in problem state key 8. Some functions need to be performed in supervisor state or a storage key other than 8. There are 2 basic ways to do this. 1. Use an assist routine (SVC, PC, ...). This works fine for casual, well defined use. 2. Use something like MODESET to change

Re: 3278 device Hardware support

2009-01-15 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-DIT)
We are running 1.9 on a z900 with channel attached 3174s connected to IRMA equipped PCs running a 3278 emulator and having no problem. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15 4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Voice: (281) 336-5027 Cell:(713) 511-1059 E-Mail: dennis.ro...@lmco.com