Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-12 Thread Knutson, Sam
PUTDOC http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/server/nav/zSeries/putdoc/putdoc.html -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Black Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 11:27 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DUMP Datasets

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-08 Thread Mitko Iakimov
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 10:10:58 EDT, Ben Alford wrote: I've discovered that IBM's FTP doesn't require NUM OFF if each line is terminated with a semicolon. Example: //INPUTDD * testcase.boulder.ibm.com (timeout 720 ; anonymous

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 09/07/2005 at 12:33 AM, Robert A. Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Since the Attachment is defined as External, it does not get uploaded to the SMTP Server and thus does not travel with the message. Then it's not an attachment and you still have to deal with the

DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-07 Thread Ben Alford
I've discovered that IBM's FTP doesn't require NUM OFF if each line is terminated with a semicolon. Example: //GO EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01,DYNAMNBR=20,PARM='FTP (EXIT TIMEOUT 360', // REGION=3M //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSTSIN DD DUMMY //INPUTDD *

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-07 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Ben Alford said: Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 10:10:58 EDT I've discovered that IBM's FTP doesn't require NUM OFF if each line is terminated with a semicolon. Example: //INPUTDD * testcase.boulder.ibm.com (timeout 720 ; anonymous

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-07 Thread David Andrews
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 08:40 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: NUM OFF certainly seems to me the more comfortable solution: Heretofore we have wrapped control statements in an IEBGENER step, stripping out columns 73-80. Then if somebody (re)sequences the member, we don't care much. The semicolon

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-07 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 9/7/2005 9:41:28 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: set it once in profile, never wory about it again; and avoid one (or several) keystrokes in each line. Sort of like spell-checkers, sometimes they get turned off! Some of the CUT/PASTE macros

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-07 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I've discovered that IBM's FTP doesn't require NUM OFF if each line is terminated with a semicolon. ... I haven't used anything but NUM OFF for years. My EDIT profile turns it off, on anything that has it on, automatically. -teD In God we Trust! All others bring data! -- W. Edwards Deming

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-07 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 09/06/2005 at 06:56 AM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I don't understand the architecture here. Is SNA a layer under NJE? Not exactly; NJE is a protocol that could run over BSC, CTCA or SNA[1] connections. IBM has added native TCP/IP as a fourth transport

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-07 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 09/06/2005 at 10:12 AM, Ed Finnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Almost as bad as it's partner in crime SP 1.2! SP 1.2 was much later than DF/EF. DF/EF came out at about the same time as DF/DS, and before MVS/SP. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 09/04/2005 at 12:00 AM, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: ICF came out with either XA or SP1.3.x. Much earlier; it came with DF/EF. Fortunately I missed out on *that* horror show. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 09/04/2005 at 04:42 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It seems to me that sending the dump as an Email Attachment as opposed to an FTP would solve this issue of having to monitor the FTP. No; it would almost certainly exceed size limits every step of

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-06 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) said: Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 07:47:24 -0300 In [log in to unmask], on 09/03/2005 at 10:47 PM, Ed Gould [log in to unmask] said: IBM should provide, IMO, a error free (or almost) way of transmitting dumps. They had one: Info/Access.

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-06 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 9/6/2005 7:02:24 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Much earlier; it came with DF/EF. Fortunately I missed out on *that* horror show. Almost as bad as it's partner in crime SP 1.2! Think it lasted almost a week before the damage assessments

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-06 Thread Jon Brock
One tip for those trying batch FTP for the first time: make sure your ISPF EDIT parms are set correctly (NUM OFF, I think) so that your line numbers do not make gobbledygook of your commands. With that done, I have never had a problem with batch FTP: it works fine and usually runs at a very

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-06 Thread Ron and Jenny Hawkins
Like toss another shrimp on the bar-b... What's the @#$% a shrimp? Sound likes Hoges was comin' the raw prawn in more ways than one. From: Eric Bielefeld I love your Australian sayings. Is this one common? I've never heard it before. Bills response is close enough to be usable -

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-06 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
Paul Gilmartin wrote: I don't understand the architecture here. Is SNA a layer under NJE? How about VTAM? SNA is indeed a lower layer than NJE. VTAM is a subsystem that implements SNA (e.g., LU2, LU6.2) and non-SNA (e.g., LU0) under z/OS, z/VM, and z/VSE -- not a protocol. Why has

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-06 Thread Jay Maynard
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 10:47:36AM -0700, Edward E. Jaffe wrote: Why has TCP/IP so surpassed SNA? SNA is/was proprietary while TCP/IP is/was open. This is half of it. The other half is that SNA is designed for a world where computing power is concentrated in a few central hosts, while TCP/IP is

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-06 Thread Ted MacNEIL
ICF came out with either XA or SP1.3.x. Much earlier; it came with DF/EF. Fortunately I missed out on *that* horror show. ... I remember it was between NOV81 AUG84. Because that was my first job as a perf/cap analyst, and we had to 'evaluate' the effect of changing. Our departmental high level

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-06 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
Jay Maynard wrote: On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 10:47:36AM -0700, Edward E. Jaffe wrote: Why has TCP/IP so surpassed SNA? SNA is/was proprietary while TCP/IP is/was open. This is half of it. The other half is that SNA is designed for a world where computing power is concentrated

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-06 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 07:42 -0300 on 09/06/2005, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 09/04/2005 at 04:42 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It seems to me that sending the dump as an Email Attachment as opposed to an FTP would solve

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-05 Thread Ed Gould
On Sep 4, 2005, at 3:42 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: At 22:47 -0500 on 09/03/2005, Ed Gould wrote about Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS: IBM should provide, IMO, a error free (or almost) way of transmitting dumps. It seems to me that sending the dump as an Email Attachment as opposed

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-04 Thread Ted MacNEIL
VSAM hasn't had volume ownership since the advent of ICF. I was still an applications (Cobol) programmer then, MVS 5.1 or earlier. Sometime in the 80's ... ICF came out with either XA or SP1.3.x. Either way, much earlier than 5.1. -teD In God we Trust! All others bring data! -- W. Edwards

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-04 Thread Ed Gould
On Sep 4, 2005, at 12:57 AM, Gibney, David Allen,Jr wrote: FTP to/from IBM is almost completely painless these days. If you do it with a batch job direct from z/OS, well, I've not had it fail, except for typos. Whenever I have tried it it took me 2-3 hours of fiddling. I guess some

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-04 Thread Robert Wright
Ed Gould wrote I always disliked the IPCS handling of dumps. It was just never (to me) a straight forward invocation like AMDPRDMP. I fought it until the bitter end. Maybe because I was missing SHARE a lot and never got to any of the sessions. That and I have a gut instinct not to like VSAM.

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-04 Thread Bruce Black
IBM should provide, IMO, a error free (or almost) way of transmitting dumps. IBM provides a CLIST PUTIBM for sending doc. It prompts you for the dataset name, and the PMR number, and submits a batch FTP job to terse and transfer the file. I have used it for several years, I have never had

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-04 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
Eric Bielefeld wrote: I'm still working in the field, but I didn't know you could FTP dumps to IBM via batch, as someone in this thread mentioned. It's trivial. Here is JCL I used a couple of weeks ago to send a dump to IBM: //FTP2MVS JOB 1,JAFFE,CLASS=A,MSGCLASS=T,NOTIFY=SYSUID // EXEC

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-04 Thread ibm-main
From: Eric Bielefeld I love your Australian sayings. Is this one common? I've never heard it before. Bills response is close enough to be usable - espicially the cat's meow bit. I wouldn't countenance any variant spelling of Aus. Due to the insidious spread of American (as in USA) TV, the

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-03 Thread Ed Gould
On Sep 2, 2005, at 5:24 AM, Robert Wright wrote: Somewhere in the mists of time I got the idea that multi-volume (or stripped) dumps were not supported. I think I ran into this 10 years ago (before stripping). Was that ever the case? I vaguely recall having a dump that needed several volumes

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-03 Thread ibm-main
From: Ed Gould That sounds about right. I always disliked the IPCS handling of dumps. It was just never (to me) a straight forward invocation like AMDPRDMP. I fought it until the bitter end. Say what Ignore him Bob - IPCS is the ducks nuts. I couldn't exist (professionally) without

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-03 Thread Ed Gould
On Sep 3, 2005, at 10:09 PM, ibm-main wrote: -SNIP Say what Ignore him Bob - IPCS is the ducks nuts. Don't get me wrong its OK but give me AMDRDMP anyday. I know there are things you can do in IPCS that its difficult the old way

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-02 Thread Schramm, Rob
Giovanni, I am curious. In the past I have had some very bad experiences with dynamic dumps. How do you take care of a system that is creating an extreme number of dumps? In order to protect the systems, I am still running with 3 dump dsns per system. If they fill up, automation will reply

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-02 Thread Mark Jacobs
On Friday 02 September 2005 09:20 am, Schramm, Rob wrote: Giovanni, I am curious. In the past I have had some very bad experiences with dynamic dumps. How do you take care of a system that is creating an extreme number of dumps? How about issuing a CD SET,NODUMP command. From the doc it

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-02 Thread Mark Zelden
Thanks for the detailed explanations Bob! On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 20:17:37 -0400, Robert Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've heard 2nd-hand that DFHSM restrictions may influence your decision regarding use of striping and multi-volume data sets for your inventory, but that's not my area of

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-02 Thread Giovanni Cerquone
I've heard 2nd-hand that DFHSM restrictions may influence your decision regarding use of striping and multi-volume data sets for your inventory, but that's not my area of expertise. Hopefully, some others who follow IBM-MAIN can supply some information on that front. Bob Wright - z/OS MVS

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-02 Thread Habres, Richard (GTI)
Discussion List [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Giovanni Cerquone Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 2:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS I've heard 2nd-hand that DFHSM restrictions may influence your decision regarding use of striping and multi

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-02 Thread Giovanni Cerquone
Rob; DFHSM allows you to migrate the dumps datasets very agrresively if you code MC and SG properly. Also, don't try to save dasd space for dumps bacause there are cases when an error is not easily recreable. I have 10 3390-9 for production dumps, even the SG was defined with 20. Wasting space?,

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-01 Thread Robert Wright
Giovanni wrote: I've been using SMS for Dump datasets very succesfully but without using some of the SMS features. I read about stripping, compress and extended format but I've never read about multivol capability. Is there any sense to think in multivol if we use stripping?. What would

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-01 Thread Ed Gould
On Sep 1, 2005, at 7:17 PM, Robert Wright wrote: Giovanni wrote: I've been using SMS for Dump datasets very succesfully but without using some of the SMS features. I read about stripping, compress and extended format but I've never read about multivol capability. Is there any sense