Re: EXTERNAL: Re: TSO Receive command

2011-09-27 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG CORP.)
Missing comma? Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract Strategic Technical Engineering NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail: P.O. Box 58487 Mail Code H4C Houston, Texas

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: Goodbye from this email address

2011-09-01 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG CORP.)
Sorry to hear that. Lot of it going around. With the demise of the Shuttle program, September 30 will be my last day at NASA. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract Strategic Technical Engineering NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

2011-07-26 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG CORP.)
Do you know what the LRECL is/should be? Can you read any members? Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract Strategic Technical Engineering NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail: P.O.

Meet IBM's new $75,000 mainframe

2011-07-12 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG CORP.)
New zEnterprise 114 is primarily competing against a Linux server running on an x86 platform, analyst says http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218326/Meet_IBM_s_new_75_000_mainframe?source=CTWNLE_nlt_dailyam_2011-07-12 Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: RIP issue with HMC - security violation?

2011-05-06 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG CORP.)
I had an auditor have a similar finding on a device console (can't remember if it was HMC, Shark, or what). I sent it to the IBM support center. There response was that the box, OS, and applications comprised a proprietary piece of equipment that had little customer configuration capability.

Re: EXTERNAL: Post on behalf of someone saying I need to teach myself REXX.....

2011-04-27 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG CORP.)
Take a look at the TSO-REXX list server (see http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?SS1=VM.MARIST.EDU to subscribe) Archive index http://vm.marist.edu/htbin/wa?LIST=index Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract Strategic Technical

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: Mixing Auth and Non-Auth Modules

2011-04-22 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG CORP.)
I hope your auditors never visit a shop I am at. They are not worth the money. My auditores use tools that identify each active user SVC, non user SVCs that IBM does has not supplied, and all SVCs that have been updated. Vendors must certify that the SVC does not override the problem state

Re: EXTERNAL: Removing DFSMShsm ML1

2011-03-01 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Beside what has already been said, command migration and backup defaults to ML1 unless optional parameters are used. Make sure you normal migration cycle moves everything from ML1 to ML2 nightly. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations

FW: EXTERNAL: VIRTEL delivers 3270 apps to Smartphones, PDAs, and tablets

2011-02-17 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
[mailto:no-re...@salesforce.com] On Behalf Of Patrick Fournier Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 10:26 AM To: Roach, Dennis (N-GHG) Subject: EXTERNAL: VIRTEL delivers 3270 apps to Smartphones, PDAs, and tablets [https://c.na6.content.force.com/servlet/servlet.ImageServer?id=01580010AE0oid

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: Problem with an edit command in tso

2010-12-20 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Let's get the timeline right 1966 MFT 1967 CP/CMS (IBM internal) 1969 Unix 1972 VM/379 (public release of CP/CMS) 1972 OS/VS1 1972 OS/VS2R1 - SVS 1974 OS/VS2R2 - MVS Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract Strategic Technical

Re: EXTERNAL: OT: In regard to password cracking Who is Abbie Sciuto was Re: A New Threat for password hacking

2010-12-01 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Clark is obviously not an NCIS fan. Google Abby Sciuto (spelling corrected) Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract Strategic Technical Engineering NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
I used 2741 with TSO on SVS. Line mode only. ISPF did not exist. Its predecessor (SPF/PDF) required 3270. All working from TSO READY. Try the TSO EDIT command from ready some time. Make you like vi. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations

Re: ABCs of z/OS System Programming links

2010-11-04 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
ABCs of z/OS System Programming Go to http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/ and search ABCs System Programming. You will get both z/OS and the old OS/390 books. For z/OS, the following links worked the last time I tried them: Volume 1 - http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246981.pdf

Re: EXTERNAL: Access z/OS 3270 TSO from smartphone?

2010-07-29 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Take a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ24A5kE6XM VMware View on iPhone Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract Strategic Technical Engineering NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058

Re: O/Topic Selling poisoned software

2010-06-28 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
MF vendors have played this game for years. License codes are issued annually, when the product maintenance is paid, and have to be updated in a parmlib or lmod. It is a well defined and accepted practice, so long as it is stated upfront. -Original Message- Subject: Re: O/Topic

Re: Geographic separation of primary and backup/DR sites

2010-06-24 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Also remember if DR is fairly close to base make sure they are on separate power grids or at least have generators. That is such a nebulous term, power grid. Anyone have more definite references for what that should mean? While I'm sure this is not comprehensive, this Blackout

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-19 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Here is a site that has several versions, including the original PDP-10 FORTRAN source. http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/ Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract Strategic Technical Engineering NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space

Re: Old assembler modules.

2010-02-15 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
The last time I looked linklib, and linklist, were part of MVS. Most of the auditors I know would consider an obsolete 3705 assembler to be a finding and put it in an audit report. Removing obsolete modules is part of systems management. Sometimes the removal can have odd or funny results.

Re: Preview: z/OS V1.12 - September 2010

2010-02-09 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
How will you mount the cloned zFS on the service node without volser when it has the same name as the one mounted? Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract Strategic Technical Engineering NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive

Re: DO NOT CLICK ON LINK FROM JOSEPH POON

2010-01-28 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
I agree. Delete mail without subject. Don't follow blind links. I also delete mail with meaningless subjects. Give people enough info in the subject to know what it is about. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract

Re: The Naked Mainframe (Forbes Security Article)

2010-01-21 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
I could see the VM numbers going up due to Linux. Since kVM is an integral part of RHEL 5.4, has anyone tried to get it working on a z box? While it may not perform as well as zVM, the price could make it competitive. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities

Re: The Economist: The Return of the Mainframe, Back in Fashion

2010-01-15 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
The article is correct. It says the Neon software allows computing tasks that usually run on a mainframe's regular processors to be shifted to the discounted ones meant to run things like Linux. It does not say that they are running on Linux, just that the discounted processors are meant to run

Re: The Economist: The Return of the Mainframe, Back in Fashion

2010-01-15 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
, asteroid, or other spatial object, natural or manufactured, since the beginning of time. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Roach, Dennis (N-GHG) wrote: The article is correct. It says the Neon software allows computing tasks

Re: How to Identify when an alias was deleted

2010-01-12 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Look at SMF type 64. This is delete activity for an ICF catalog. The 6x records are all for catalogs (ICF and VSAM - are VSAM catalogs even supported). IIRC DAF does use them. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract Strategic

Re: Korean bank Moves back to Mainframes (...no, not back)

2010-01-07 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
The number is not that surprising when you stop and think about the no cash on hand philosophy. Think of using your debit/bank/credit/atm card for everything you buy. Morning coffee, newspaper, breakfast. Transportation - gas, parking, bus, cab, train, subway. Lunch Snack (even from a

Union Pacific Railroad ditches its mainframe for SOA

2009-12-21 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Cross posted due to the UP system being in assembler. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/344916/Railroad_Crossing_When_Mainframe_Meets_SOA?source=CTWNLE_nlt_thisweek_2009-12-21 Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract Strategic

Re: curiousity q? for the historians.

2009-12-09 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
If you look at it as bits instead of a number it makes sense. Read_next (Read a record) La rx,read_buffer Tm byte,3 jz not_spanned Tm byte,2 jnz not_first_segment La ry,work_buffer Lr rx,ry Not_first_segment (move input to work buffer based on ry)

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

2009-11-19 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Real oxymoron - Windows, open platform, and 99.999 percent uptime. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract Strategic Technical Engineering NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail:

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

2009-11-19 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Looks like a router failure http://gcn.com/articles/2009/11/19/faa-software-hackers-delays.aspx?s=FAAnewsalert Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract Strategic Technical Engineering NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive

Re: Mainframe running 1,500 Linux servers?

2009-11-17 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
What he said is true for z/OS systems. RHEL and SLES are pretty much the same on a z10 as an x86. I have found a few things I could not do: Support custom hardware (no slots on the z box) Share memory between two or more Linux images (LPAR or z/VM) Promote binaries from

Secret Service plans IT reboot

2009-10-26 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
The Secret Service wants information from industry as it prepares to overhaul its information technology infrastructure. Forty-two mission-oriented applications run on a 1980s IBM mainframe with a 68 percent performance reliability rating. I wonder how reliable a 1980s wintel box would be.

Re: OFF TOPIC - DELL CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2009-10-21 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Try http://www.yellowpages.com/name/Round-Rock-TX/dell. The first 2 hits were Round Rock. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract Strategic Technical Engineering NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston,

Re: Broken Brancher (was Re: Best IEFACTRT)

2009-10-02 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Many years ago the company I worked for had a 3031. We added the AP to it. Soon after, we started experiencing random 0Cx abends that made no sense when the dump was examined. The abends were in user and IBM code. CEs could find no problem so it had to be software. The PSR agreed that the data

Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-15 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
-Original Message- So how do you use it? What do you do differently when you get a 97 than when you get a 00? Depending on the application, I might put out a message saying to reconstruct from logs. Reconstruct what?I thought 97 meant the open statement was successful

Re: It's Official: z/OS Now 110% Modern

2009-08-21 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
I would rather see a new disp parameter (DELONLY) that says I am not going to open this data set, I just want it deleted. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston,

Re: Virtual Tapes and Esoterics

2009-08-17 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Check with your vendor. SUN/STK has a very nice trace facility that allows you to see what went on during device selection. Why drives were eliminated and why drives were included as selectable. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations

Re: Problem with I/O

2009-08-06 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Message IEC334I has instructions on diagnostics http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/iea2m781.pdf Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail:

Re: 2 Identical STC Running at the Same Time

2009-08-05 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
MVS allows 2 identical named tasks to run. The best way to have only 1 is to use a lock data set. //LOCKDD DSN=appl.task.LOCK,DISP=(MOD,DETETE,DELETE),SPACE=(1,TRK),UNIT=SYSDA This will allow the first to run and others to queue up waiting on data set. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed

Re: help with smf

2009-08-04 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
For what you are doing you need 15 (output), 17 (delete), and 18 (rename). For completeness you need to add 14 (input), 6x (catalog) and 80 (RACF - or the equivalent for your security product) Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract

Re: Special RACF users and message ICH301I

2009-07-30 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Once upon a time long ago, prior to ICH303/304 (the same type of messages but for lack of usage revoking), we had a classified system that was not being used but was kept around in case we needed historical information from it. One operator IPLd weekly to perform the disaster backups.

Re: Print disk map?

2009-07-30 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
If the drives were configured for striping (RAID 5, etc) you would need to determine the drives used in the stripe set, the tracks on those drives, and the order. Doable? Yes, but at what time and cost. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and

Re: Special RACF users and message ICH301I

2009-07-30 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
One issue is educating the security people on how may failures they get before they need to quit trying. In my environment, I know that if I enter it wrong the 1st time I need to be carful the 2nd time. If I enter it wrong the 2nd time, I'm done. It does not matter what I enter the 3rd time.

Command to give RACF authority (was Special RACF users and message ICH301I)

2009-07-30 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
What would this do to audit records? Would RACF cut the audited because of special SMF records only while the bit is on? If so, this could drastically reduce our SMF data, and related reporting volume, for people with special or operations. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission

Re: Print disk map?

2009-07-30 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Vernooij, CP - SPLXM Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 9:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Print disk map? Roach, Dennis , N-GHG dennis.ro...@lmco.com wrote in message news:70fe6c8ea0510f4cbc4c867954170c3e0c460...@emss02m21

Re: Special RACF users and message ICH301I

2009-07-30 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
I doubt that a vendor unwilling to fix a problem of this magnitude (including IBM on CICS and IMS) would not be willing to add the parameter. Instead of giving a vendor to do this, simply add a RACF option DOSENABLE(off|ON) to allow me to decide if I want to allow a DoS attack to disable all

Re: FTP to Unix directory with spaces

2009-07-29 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
What do we know? CA's FTP2 fails with blanks in the directory name to this system. CA's FTP2 works with blanks in the directory name to other systems. Another FTP client works with blanks in the directory name to this system. This says that the directory and

Re: FTP to Unix directory with spaces

2009-07-29 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Subject: Re: FTP to Unix directory with spaces On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:31:18 -0600, Roach, Dennis (N-GHG) wrote: What do we know? CA's FTP2 fails with blanks in the directory name to this system. CA's FTP2 works with blanks in the directory name to other systems. I have

Re: Print disk map?

2009-07-29 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
IEHSLEDGEHAMMER also works well. Several years ago we had an application that allocated a file, with all of the DCB info, but did not open it. It was on real 3390 type DASD. It just so happened that the tracks allocated contained data compatible with the LRECL/BLKSIZE. Those tracks were readable

Re: Operator Validation before Executing Command

2009-07-28 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
When we used PCs to perform shutdown, we had a conformation. The operator selected the image, clicked shutdown, and hit enter to confirm, never reading the message. We added a 2nd confirmation message and they hit enter twice. When we eliminated the PCs and move the command to the mainframe, we

Re: Problems with STK Tape allocation

2009-07-28 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Contact Sun. They have a trace that can be turned on and will show how the selection is made. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail: P.O. Box

Re: FTP to Unix directory with spaces

2009-07-28 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Do you have anyone that can do an IP trace on the z box? In particular, the failing transfer vs. the start of the good one. You said that they use spaces in the names for other systems. Can you determine what the receiving systems are? This could be one of those things where both ends do

Re: Enforcing CPU Time

2009-07-28 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Depends on what you want to do. IEFUSI sets the single step limit. IEFUJI sets the total job limit. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail:

Re: Tape mount statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
I do not know about VSE but in the pre library/virtual tape days we had a task that was shipped as part of MICS or MXG that cut SMF records containing the time from the mount message to the DOM. Worked fine for single drive MVS mounts. Was not good for JES3 setup mounts (this may have been fixed)

Re: Neon's zPrime - IBM response from July 10

2009-07-24 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
PSI had a potential copyright violation. NEON in not violating copyright, but may be causing customers to violate license agreements. Big difference. IBM goes after company (PSI) or IBMs own customer base that is using zPrime. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services

Re: ALLOCATION OF USERCAT MYSTERY - URGENT

2009-07-20 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
What is the extent information? What does the index component look like? There is no guarantee that the primary allocation (25 cylinders) will be I a single extent. The primary field is usually the size of the first extent. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services

Re: Offload work to zIIP with zPRIME

2009-07-17 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
I have often wondered about the legality of turning other engines on on an owned machine. They were delivered as part of what was bought, should they be ours to do with as we please? We use 3rd party maintenance on or processor (government competitive bid). When IBM offered an IFL to use for a

Re: #UVT# Dataspace in *MASTER*

2009-07-16 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Ah yes, IPL. The ultimate supplier of all of the missing freemains. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail: P.O. Box 58487 Mail Code H4C

Re: complexity

2009-07-15 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
One very big reason for runtime binding is licensing. If an application includes subroutines from another vendor and they are hard linked, users of the software may be required to purchase the subroutine package. It gets even more complicated when open source software is used. The GNU GPL makes

Re: Find the computer error

2009-07-15 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
One too many digits for VISA. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail: P.O. Box 58487 Mail Code H4C Houston, Texas 77258 Phone: Voice:

Re: Find the computer error

2009-07-15 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Bob Woodside Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 3:39 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Find the computer error On Wednesday 15 July 2009, Roach, Dennis (N-GHG) wrote: One too many digits for VISA

Re: MSU question z800 vs. z9BC

2009-07-14 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
I have a real problem thinking that any current z/OS software will not run on the z800. z/OS 1.11 supports the z800 http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/9/897/ENUS209-029/ENUS209-029.PD F and the vendor products that support z/OS 1.11 should support the z800 without having to back level. The

Re: Delete Tape Datasets

2009-07-13 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Dual logging is a belt and suspenders operation. If the suspenders are not needed more than the first day, it would be a question for IBM DB2 on how to make it happen without outside intervention. Are there so many tapes tied up that 4 days is a problem? Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed

Re: Dialog Management Scrolling WAS Left Right Scrolling in ISPF

2009-07-08 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
If you are displaying tables, individual columns can be made left/right scrollable. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail: P.O. Box 58487

Re: Dialog Management Scrolling WAS Left Right Scrolling in ISPF

2009-07-08 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Look at the Dialog Developer's Guide and Reference, Chapter 7, FIELD Section http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/ispzdg60.pdf Book page 215, pdf page 236 for documentation and example. This allows for left and right scrolling and expanding the field (see example). I tried to locate an

Re: Planned IBMLink Outage July 10-11

2009-07-08 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
We actually brought this up to them at SHARE during a restricted session. The concerns were that they were taking an outage during our main upgrade window, when we need them the most. Since they have a failover site, why couldn't they do a rolling upgrade? The response was a blank stare. Dennis

Re: Delete all members of a PDS with JCL

2009-07-07 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
PDS86 is a free version (subset) of StarTool that supports both PDS and PDS/E. You can get it from the CBT tape (http://www.cbttape.org) file 182. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive

Re: Alert and Resolve price changes

2009-07-06 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
You pay for the efficiency and convenience, not for IBM's cost of doing business. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail: P.O. Box 58487

Re: S222 abends and Reason Codes

2009-07-02 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
This is not an S222, it is a U222. Major difference. If this is a vendor application the check the vender documentation and then call the vendor. If it is an in-house application, turn it over to the application programming team. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services

Re: OA29560

2009-06-30 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
See https://www-304.ibm.com/ibmlink/sis/viewAparDoc.wss?context=aparAndUsage documentIds=OA29560searchWords=OA29560libraryType=Dlc=encc=US Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive

Re: smf layout question

2009-06-23 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
SMF collects everything it is told to collect. SYSLOG is not one of those items. If you have RACF OPERCMDS class active and being fully audited, you may find the command in the type 80 records. If the scheduling system has a user interface to say ISPF, items there may not be logged. I would look

Re: IBM Software Secure Support via USA Citizens

2009-06-17 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
We don't make the rules. We don't have to like the rules. We don't have to understand the why behind the rules. We do have to live with the rules. Several years ago we contracted for an in-house class with a company other than IBM. The instructor was from Canada and did not have a work permit.

Re: Tape retention question

2009-06-15 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Or have your tape copy utility copy to virtual tape. As the background tape media changes, the files automatically move to the new media. This will keep it from deteriorating beyond readability and keep it on a media that you have drives for. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission

Re: Any products to protect MVS software from cracking and reverse engineering?

2009-06-11 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
The only vendor I have ever had that took real exception to reverse engineering their code was one that had a security exposure (unrestricted SPFCOPY SVC). They made all kinds of threats. In the end, they fixed there code. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Flight

Re: FTP and SMS (and DYNALLOC)

2009-05-22 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Does a catalog entry for PFDT.TSREL.OPPLZDCK.PULLOUT.SUN already exist for SYST01? Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Flight Design and Operations Contract NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail: P.O. Box 58487 Mail

Re: FTP and SMS (and DYNALLOC)

2009-05-22 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Roach, Dennis (N-GHG) Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 1:43 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: FTP and SMS (and DYNALLOC) Does a catalog entry for PFDT.TSREL.OPPLZDCK.PULLOUT.SUN already exist

Re: USERCAT Error (Out of Space)

2009-05-15 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
I would look at: a) clean up unneeded entries b) reorg c) expand the space d) split the catalog e) all of the above Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Flight Design and Operations Contract NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058

Re: PSF printer question

2009-05-14 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Printer commands like backspace, restart, etc. are JES commands and are not dependent on the printer or its attachment. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Flight Design and Operations Contract NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas

Re: ADRDSSU protection [was:RE: Using FTP to send loadlib]

2009-05-12 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
As a sysprog, I agree. For the applprog, verify what happens when a data set is on ML1 or ML2 and a masked include is used. DSS used to skip these and still have a zero return code. This caused the application source to be left off of their DR tapes. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin

Re: ADRDSSU protection [was:RE: Using FTP to send loadlib]

2009-05-12 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 10:38 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: ADRDSSU protection [was:RE: Using FTP to send loadlib] R.S. wrote: Roach, Dennis (N-GHG) pisze: As a sysprog

Re: ADRDSSU protection [was:RE: Using FTP to send loadlib]

2009-05-12 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Of Paul Gilmartin [paulgboul...@aim.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 11:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: ADRDSSU protection [was:RE: Using FTP to send loadlib] On Tue, 12 May 2009 17:31:43 +0200, R.S. wrote: Roach, Dennis (N-GHG) pisze: As a sysprog, I agree. For the applprog

Re: E-Mail legalese (was Re: Test)

2009-05-07 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Which is why I do not put a delete if not for you message. Makes about as much sense as telling a jury to ignore testimony. Mine is simply to release others from liability should I say something that I should not say. I was taught a long time ago not to put anything in an email that I did not mind

Re: ADRDSSU protection [was:RE: Using FTP to send loadlib]

2009-05-06 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
If they have read to the data set, they can get the data without DSS. The only reason I have ever found to protect DSS is due to a deficiency. Our application group decided it was great for backups using a generic select. DSS did not copy data sets that were migrated, and had a zero return code.

Re: Utility to search multiple files on multiple volumes

2009-05-05 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
3.4 with dsn of ** and vol of TSO* to produce the list. Then srchfor in the command line. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Flight Design and Operations Contract NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail: P.O. Box 58487

Re: Utility to search multiple files on multiple volumes

2009-05-05 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
I said use ** for the dsn. It is better to leave the dsn blank. I our shop, this is maybe 5 seconds per volume. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Flight Design and Operations Contract NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058

Re: relationship between directory blocks and the number of members in a PDS ?

2009-05-01 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
When someone does something that causes the rule of thumb to become broken, should we break their thumbs. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Flight Design and Operations Contract NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail:

Re: Possible new SYSTEM symbols in JCL.

2009-04-29 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Discussions on this, and other forums, and SHARE requirements finally drove IBM to change the APF authorization of link list and to prevent user key CSA. If change is really desired, submit a SHARE requirement. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Flight Design and

Re: Who to report TESTCASE.BOULDER.IBM.COM Issues

2009-04-28 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Make sure you are using the correct address. There have been several postings about it changing. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Flight Design and Operations Contract NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail: P.O. Box

Re: Fw: INFOPAC

2009-04-16 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
He did lower it from 8M to 7M. In IEFUSI, I set skip availability flag so a fragmented initiator will not cause a problem. As always, protect LSQA and runaway variable getmains using limit and size. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Flight Design and Operations

Re: Documentation Delivered as ISO files

2009-04-01 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Look at Virtual Clone Drive at http://www.slysoft.com/en/download.html. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Flight Design and Operations Contract NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail: P.O. Box 58487 Mail Code H4C

Re: StandAlone DSS restore, is FILE(xxx) tape mark ?

2009-04-01 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
The first physical file on a standard labeled tape is the label. It is lrecl=blksize=80. The first record is the VOL1 header. The second record is the HDR1, which describes file 2 on the tape. The second physical file on the tape is the first user file. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed

Re: ListServ Help

2009-04-01 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Once they delete your old email account at work, the emails will bounce back to the list server. After a few days, it will remove you as a bad email address. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Flight Design and Operations Contract NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park

Re: Optimal Tape Blocksize

2009-03-26 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Does it really make a difference? IIRC, starting with 3490, the control unit compressed and buffered the data and then wrote to the physical tape in a fixed, very large block size. This being the case, block size only impacts the channel utilization and with fiber channels, I have not seen this

Re: z/OS 1.7 upgrade to 1.10

2009-03-25 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
It has been my experience that catalogs have been one on the major areas of compatibility issues. These have all been new fields or structures that are not a problem if you do not use them during the conversion period. IIRC these have been reporting issues but not a show stopper unless you try to

Re: In trouble!

2009-03-25 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Anyone that has RACF special can give you the authority needed. If the sysprog that is no longer there was the only person, that makes it harder. If you have a product (Omegamon, etc.) that can modify memory, you can turn on the special bit in the ACEE for a user that is logged on, alter your ID

Re: FTP timeout problem

2009-03-24 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Here is a link to a good description of how ftp works http://slacksite.com/other/ftp.html. Where we see most of our timeouts is on the command ports during a long transfer. The command ports do nothing during the transfer on the data ports and can timeout, usually at a firewall. Note that the

Re: z/OS 1.7 upgrade to 1.10

2009-03-24 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
1.7 went EOS 30 September, 2008. A 2 year, fee based, IBM Lifecycle Extension for z/OS V1.7 (5637-A01) (SHARE, Austin, JES3 project, session 2700) does exist. The only supported releases are 1.8 - 1.10. Compatibility, coexistence, toleration (CCT) is guaranteed for n+2. Support is GA+3 years.

Re: RACF password id checking

2009-03-10 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
, of course. As we all do. Love your disclaimer tag. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Roach, Dennis (N-GHG) Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 3:26 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: RACF password id checking I have had

Re: Isn't today Mantissa day?

2009-03-06 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Look at http://www.mantissa.com/SHARE-conference Windows under VM on a z Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Flight Design and Operations Contract Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail: P.O. Box 58487 Mail Code H4C

Re: Isn't today Mantissa day?

2009-03-06 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
The abstract Over the last decade IBM has quietly opened a world of virtualization possibilities through changes in the System z instruction set and advances in their chip technology. These changes have made possible x86 virtualization alternatives never imagined. Find out how you can leverage

Re: RACF password id checking

2009-03-06 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
I have had to do exactly what is being discussed in z/OS and Linux. When you are a government contractor and the Inspector General's office says do it or the certification for the facility is canceled (along with your contract), you need no more business justification. As or security

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