Re: SMS allocation in Cylinders using AMS

2008-04-17 Thread Craddock, Chris
When Bill says... You are correct. I was assuming that nobody had (and the original poster had NOT) done anything really inappropriate. For any CISIZE past 16KB you get into diminishing returns on a 3390, capacity-wise. There is almost never any good reason to specify a CISIZE for a LINEAR

Re: SVCDUMP capture phase statistics.....

2008-04-17 Thread Jim Mulder
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 04/17/2008 01:05:29 AM: thanks for fixing the time stamp! The thanks for that one should go to Ralph Sharpe. I looked at RMF M3, at the storage statistics, in particular the working set size: 18:36:30 234 18:37:00 19097

Re: SMS allocation in Cylinders using AMS

2008-04-17 Thread R.S.
O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] wrote: And when was the last time you used non-3390 geometry? The device independence was important back in the early days of VSAM, circa 1975 when you had 3330s, 3350, 3340s on the floor, which were then followed by 3380s and 3390s. Assuming that 3390

Re: SMS allocation in Cylinders using AMS

2008-04-17 Thread R.S.
William H. Blair wrote: Arthur T. wrote You don't mention the CI size. He does not need to. Gilbert Cardenas wrote: LINEAR - which means that it will have a CISIZE of 4 KB (4096). There are exactly 180 4K blocks (CIs) in each 3390 CYL. All LINEAR cluster space

how to audit the usage of IND$FILE

2008-04-17 Thread Tommy Tsui
Hi all, Is there any way that can keep track the usage of IND$FILE, if the user rename the IND$FILE to ther own location and call it with TN3270, how can we check this case. regards -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: SVCDUMP capture phase statistics.....

2008-04-17 Thread Barbara Nitz
The thanks for that one should go to Ralph Sharpe. Thanks Ralph! :-) There isn't much you can do other than spend real money to buy more real storage to avoid paging, and spend real money to buy to fastest DASD boxes and attach them to the fastest channels (if you aren't already doing that). I

Re: IRREVX01 strangeness

2008-04-17 Thread Paul Whelan
To respond to your various questions/points: Walt, I am searching backwards, that is, I begin at the end of the command buffer minus the length of my search argument and work backwards. I know this works through using various WTOs and forcing the thing to abend to take a look at the content of

IBM 1Q2008 Earnings Highlights

2008-04-17 Thread Timothy Sipples
System z figured prominently in IBM's 1Q2008 earnings presentation. You can find that presentation here: http://www.ibm.com/investor/1q08/index.phtml Specifically, System z hardware revenues in Q1 increased 10% globally year-over-year and was the star hardware performer. The United States

Re: how to audit the usage of IND$FILE

2008-04-17 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:00:29 +0800 Tommy Tsui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :Is there any way that can keep track the usage of IND$FILE, if the user :rename the IND$FILE to ther own location and call it with TN3270, how can we :check this case. WHy do you want to do this? What is your business case?

Re: IRREVX01 strangeness

2008-04-17 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:32:05 -0500 Paul Whelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :To respond to your various questions/points: :Walt, I am searching backwards, that is, I begin at the end of the command :buffer minus the length of my search argument and work backwards. I know :this works through using

Re: IRREVX01 strangeness

2008-04-17 Thread Paul Whelan
Ok, for what it's worth it makes me feel a little better. Like I said before, better to understand first instead of just copying. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

producing multiple JES2 sysout reports to different classes

2008-04-17 Thread Jim McAlpine
We have a program which writes a report to a DD name which produces a single sysout dataset. We need to produce 2 copies of this report going to 2 different sysout classes. Can this be achieved without rewriting the program. Jim McAlpine

Re: producing multiple JES2 sysout reports to different classes

2008-04-17 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)
Sure. Code 2 OUTPUT statements, each specifying CLASS, DEST, and what else you need, then refer to the two statements from the SYSOUT DD. Note that you need to specify SYSOUT=(,) so that the CLASS from the OUTPUT statements will be used. //STEP EXEC //C1 OUTPUT CLASS=A,DEST=destA,

Spammed

2008-04-17 Thread Shane
(Fortunately) doesn't appear to happen very often from this list. My ISP tagged it as a possible and would have blocked it if I had the highest protection selected. Might have to if this harvesting becomes more common ... Not blaming Darren or BAMA - just quietly venting. Shane ...

Re: Spammed

2008-04-17 Thread Steve Comstock
Shane wrote: (Fortunately) doesn't appear to happen very often from this list. My ISP tagged it as a possible and would have blocked it if I had the highest protection selected. Might have to if this harvesting becomes more common ... Not blaming Darren or BAMA - just quietly venting. Shane

Re: IRREVX01 strangeness

2008-04-17 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:32:05 -0500, Paul Whelan wrote: The (in)famous CLC 0(R9,R8),FILTER 'filter('found? was actually based on one of the IRREVX01 samples included in SYS1.SAMPLIB(RACEXITS): LAR7,L'USERKEY CLC 0(R7,R5),USERKEY with USERKEY defined as: USERKEY DCC'USER('

Re: SVCDUMP capture phase statistics.....

2008-04-17 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:05:29 +0200, Barbara Nitz wrote: That lpar has 8704M real with the local page ds's normally at 10%. You didn't mention how many local page data sets you have. Perhaps more locals, spread across more devices and channels would help. -- Tom Marchant

Re: IRREVX01 strangeness

2008-04-17 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Whelan [ snip ] The (in)famous CLC 0(R9,R8),FILTER'filter('found? was actually based on one of the IRREVX01 samples included in SYS1.SAMPLIB(RACEXITS): LAR7,L'USERKEY CLC

Re: Spammed (snub the blog!)

2008-04-17 Thread Pinnacle
Sorry Steve - I figured every had copped it (or will). Someone touting a mainframe blog - using a gmail account mailed directly, not via BAMA according to the headers. Like I said, just venting ... ;-) Shane ... I also received the canned pre-processed ham-like product. Pretty clear it

Re: Spammed

2008-04-17 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shane Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 7:01 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Spammed On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 05:51 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: What are you referring to? Your

Re: Spammed

2008-04-17 Thread Daniel McLaughlin
I filter them into the spam bucket and empty the bucket on occasion. Daniel McLaughlin Z-Series Systems Programmer Information Communications Technology Crawford Company 4680 N. Royal Atlanta Tucker GA 30084 phone: 770-621-3256 fax: 770-621-3237 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web:

Re: IRREVX01 strangeness

2008-04-17 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 7:35 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IRREVX01 strangeness -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On

Re: IRREVX01 strangeness

2008-04-17 Thread Bill Wilkie
John: I agree, but if r7 equates to 7 so as long as the first 7 bytes of the user key are equal it will work. Bill Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:05:26 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IRREVX01 strangeness To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Spammed (snub the blog!)

2008-04-17 Thread Shane
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 08:39 -0400, Pinnacle wrote: I also received the canned pre-processed ham-like product. Pretty clear it came from culling IBM-Main. Our best response would be to snub said blog. Also pinching threads from here without attribution by the looks of it. Wordpress ... 'nuff

Re: IBM - MLC question

2008-04-17 Thread William Richter
Tim, I think you also left out ULC pricing. ULC is a lot simplier to administer than VWLC and depending on your environment, can deliver far greater savings and high LPAR utilizations. http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/swprice/other.html Bill

Re: Has z/Journal gone to the dark side

2008-04-17 Thread Rick Fochtman
---snip dinosaurs and chickens can coexist and each has a role to play. We differ as to what those roles are. I don't word process in Script That's unfortunate, because I find it to be more user friendly than, e.g., m$ word.

Re: z/Journal - Dark Side or Bright Side

2008-04-17 Thread Rick Fochtman
--snip- (If it were only that easy to deprive that specific city of its largest employer! That would be worth losing a few winks pondering.) ---unsnip--- Tactrical nuke? Or just the world's largest degausser?

Re: IRREVX01 strangeness

2008-04-17 Thread Rick Fochtman
-snip The (in)famous CLC 0(R9,R8),FILTER 'filter('found? was actually based on one of the IRREVX01 samples included in SYS1.SAMPLIB(RACEXITS): LAR7,L'USERKEY CLC 0(R7,R5),USERKEY with USERKEY defined as: USERKEY DCC'USER('

Re: IRREVX01 strangeness

2008-04-17 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:05:26 -0500, McKown, John wrote: ... Of course, since R7 is a self-defining term, the code assembles just fine self-defining term? No, there is an EQU in the code. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: DCF: Can it live again?

2008-04-17 Thread Thomas Kern
Doesn't Ghostscript have a txt2pdf program? /Tom Kern On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:12:39 -0400, Tony Harminc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/4/16 David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It'd still be nice to have something on Linux that understands 1403 listings, though. lpd...? Tony H.

Re: IRREVX01 strangeness

2008-04-17 Thread J R
I agree, but if r7 equates to 7 so as long as the first 7 bytes of the user key are equal it will work. No, it's comparing for the keyword text USER( which is only 5 bytes long. Depending on what follows that text in the program, it could work FSVO work. Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008

Re: Torn Between Two Catalogs

2008-04-17 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... I moved some users high level nodes from a mastercat to a usercat. All worked with one exception This user can sign on, but when she lists her datasets under 3.4, all that displays is the alias. No datasets appear aside from the

Re: Torn Between Two Catalogs

2008-04-17 Thread Larry Crilley
Did you define an ALIAS for the HLQ's you moved? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 9:44 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Torn Between Two Catalogs [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hillgang mtg April 24 open to all

2008-04-17 Thread David Boyes
The next meeting of Hillgang (the Washington DC area VM users group) will be held on April 24 at CA in Herndon VA. The meeting will feature Mike Cowlishaw, IBM Fellow and creator of REXX, as well as technical updates on some new research, and the usual QA free-for-all with VM and Linux

Re: how to audit the usage of IND$FILE

2008-04-17 Thread Tommy Tsui
because our audit want to check the unauthorized user (outsource programmer) download the source program from our shop. On 4/17/08, Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:00:29 +0800 Tommy Tsui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :Is there any way that can keep track the usage

[Fwd: Re: Mainframe Tech blog]

2008-04-17 Thread Edward Jaffe
Original Message Subject:Re: Mainframe Tech blog Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:04:33 -0700 From: Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Phoenix Software International, Inc. To: Vivin bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bob, Thank you

SMP/E version and OS release?

2008-04-17 Thread victor zhang
Hi all, I have a software that states it requires SMP/E V3R1 if the installation media is CDROM,my question is what's the assoicated OS level? Is it OS/390 V2R10? Is fllowing guess true? SMPLIST OUTPUTSMP/E version OS level 27.xx-? OS/390 V2R7

Re: how to audit the usage of IND$FILE

2008-04-17 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:07:11 +0800 Tommy Tsui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :because our audit want to check the unauthorized user (outsource :programmer) download the source program from our shop. How will this prevent screen scraping? There are other ways to download upload. :On 4/17/08,

Re: how to audit the usage of IND$FILE

2008-04-17 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tommy Tsui Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 9:07 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: how to audit the usage of IND$FILE because our audit want to check the unauthorized user

Re: how to audit the usage of IND$FILE

2008-04-17 Thread Lizette Koehler
Tommy, Why don't you put AUDIT on the source file and see who touches it for READ? IIRC, IND$FILE might be possible to track if you had a product like MXG or SOFTAUDT or MICS and the access was to the mainframe. Is there a specific way they are invoking IND$FILE? From a PC or from the

IBMLINK

2008-04-17 Thread Eatherly, John D [EQ]
Is IBMLINK down again? We are having trouble getting on. Thanks. John Eatherly -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Re: Torn Between Two Catalogs

2008-04-17 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] roups.com ... I moved some users high level nodes from a mastercat to a usercat. All worked with one exception This user can

Re: SMP/E version and OS release?

2008-04-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:12:09 +0800, victor zhang wrote: Hi all, I have a software that states it requires SMP/E V3R1 if the installation media is CDROM,my question is what's the assoicated OS level? Is it OS/390 V2R10? Is it possible the vendor intended SMP/E V3R1 _or_greater_? Is fllowing

Re: DS8000 FICON EXPRESS4

2008-04-17 Thread John Eells
Skip wrote: I have heard that the FICON Express4 4-port adapters which operate at 4Gbps speeds become slower/degraded with each channel added to the card. That if I fill the 4 ports I may be as slow as 1/4 the rated speed. Has anyone else heard or read about this? Is it true? I asked our

Re: how to audit the usage of IND$FILE

2008-04-17 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)
As someone else already pointed out, although cumbersome, you can always cutpaste what you see on your 3270 screen. Don't grant people access to data they don't need. Don't grant people access to the system if you don't trust them. Of what value is an audit record that says the data has been

Encryption performance issues?

2008-04-17 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
I'm trying to find docs comparing the performance on a z9 of none vs software vs hardware support for encryption of Tn3270 connections. I've seen quite a bit of performance doc about functions that get offloaded to crypto coprocessors, but that is a trivial amount of work for long lasting

Re: Torn Between Two Catalogs

2008-04-17 Thread Traylor, Terry
Is it possible that the alias is defined to a catalog other than your target catalog? Terry Traylor charlesSCHWAB TIS Mainframe Storage Management Remedy Queue: tis-hs-mstg (602) 977-5154 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: Torn Between Two Catalogs

2008-04-17 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
How did you move the datasets from the master to the user catalog? Did you use REPRO MERGECAT? Did you do the REPRO prior to defining the alias? Can you provide us the LISTCAT commands and corresponding output for both the alias and one of the datasets it covers? Does the same problem occur if

Re: IBM Bookmanager Software bookshelves - Internal server error?

2008-04-17 Thread Chris Mason
Peter I'm getting exactly the same response trying to use Lookat! Excepting myself for reasons of modesty you are very probably in excellent company and IBM is very likely the subject of unhappy soto voce expressions today! Chris Mason

Re: how to audit the usage of IND$FILE

2008-04-17 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Is there any way that can keep track the usage of IND$FILE, if the user rename the IND$FILE to ther own location and call it with TN3270, how can we check this case. Why do you want to audit it? There are many ways to transfer files around besides that method. - Too busy driving to stop for

Compatibility with CICS TS 3.1

2008-04-17 Thread Hoesly, Bret
Hello all, Does anyone out there still run Arthur Anderson Programmer Workbench and/or Oracle SQLforms? And if so, will they run under CICS TS 3.1? Any information would be greatly appreciated...and would appease management! Thanks for your time... Bret Hoesly Telephone Data Systems, Inc.

Re: how to audit the usage of IND$FILE

2008-04-17 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 1:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: how to audit the usage of IND$FILE Is there any way that can keep track the usage of IND$FILE,

Re: SMP/E version and OS release?

2008-04-17 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:12:09 +0800, victor zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have a software that states it requires SMP/E V3R1 if the installation media is CDROM,my question is what's the assoicated OS level? Is it OS/390 V2R10? Is fllowing guess true? SMPLIST OUTPUTSMP/E version

Re: Parmlib Paranoia (was Re: Workable Mainframe Debuggers)

2008-04-17 Thread Edward Jaffe
Mark Zelden wrote: On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:12:56 -0700, Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sheesh! I've never understood what some sysprog's think is so secret about the contents of parmlib. IMHO, UACC(NONE) for parmlib is more draconian paranoia than anything else. But, that's a

Re: Why did OPEN get RC=8?

2008-04-17 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:48:55 -0500 McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :This is a real puzzler to me. I did an OPEN on a dynamically allocated :SYSOUT. The DYNALLOC must have worked because I didn't get any error :messages from my program and I see the allocation to SYS1. The OPEN :has

Re: how to audit the usage of IND$FILE

2008-04-17 Thread Don Leahy
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:07:11 +0800 Tommy Tsui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :because our audit want to check the unauthorized user (outsource :programmer) download the source program from our shop. How will this prevent

Re: Torn Between Two Catalogs

2008-04-17 Thread Chase, John
Oops... Sorry for the blank reply... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] roups.com ... I moved some users high level nodes from a mastercat to a usercat.

Re: Compatibility with CICS TS 3.1

2008-04-17 Thread Ed Philbrook
Bret, We use AACo's ISPF/CICS Programmer's Workbench, but we are still on CTS 2.3. If your CICS loadlibs contain OS/VS modules they need to be upgraded. EdP Hoesly, Bret [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Hello all, Does

Re: System Rexx questions

2008-04-17 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Rob's is a Rexx function. Normally it works quite nicely. But what happens after TSO is shutdown? I was using the sleep function to put pauses in an exec to shutdown the system, and after TSO was stopped it didn't work so well anymore. (-: We think that is the case, anyway. It isn't that

Re: IBMLINK

2008-04-17 Thread Bobbie Justice
they had a sev1 ticket # 35327088 open at 11:40 a.m. ET however, seems to be working now. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

ioajava.jar

2008-04-17 Thread George Mansell
I am getting java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/help/HelpsSet I did install javahelp 2.0 The javax/help does not have a HelpSet sub directory. CLASSPATH : C:\Program Files\IBM\Java142\IOAJAVA.jar; C:\jh2.0\javahelp\bin\jhindexer.jar; C:\jh2.0\javahelp\bin\jhsearch.jar;

Re: IRREVX01 strangeness

2008-04-17 Thread Paul Whelan
I will be speaking to them tomorrow. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Re: how to audit the usage of IND$FILE

2008-04-17 Thread Walt Farrell
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:07:11 +0800, Tommy Tsui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: because our audit want to check the unauthorized user (outsource programmer) download the source program from our shop. On 4/17/08, Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:00:29 +0800 Tommy Tsui

Why did OPEN get RC=8?

2008-04-17 Thread McKown, John
This is a real puzzler to me. I did an OPEN on a dynamically allocated SYSOUT. The DYNALLOC must have worked because I didn't get any error messages from my program and I see the allocation to SYS1. The OPEN has R15==8. There are absolutely no other error messages. Nor did I get any sort of

SALC pricing for MQ

2008-04-17 Thread Rob Wunderlich
We license MQ V5 on MLC for about 2k/month. We have very little MQ activity, so we are looking at changing this to SALC (usage based) to save money. The quote from IBM for 1 MSU, the lowest band, is 10k/month! This doesn't make sense based on our experience with other usage based products.

Re: Random number for UID/GID

2008-04-17 Thread Mark Zelden
Lindy Mayfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] on the TSO REXX Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/17/2008: For some reason a solution to this is eluding me and I wonder if someone may help me. I would like to generate a random number for use in a UID/GID for an OMVS segment. Off topic for

Re: SMP/E version and OS release?

2008-04-17 Thread R.S.
Victor, 34.18 is service level of SMP/E. The version is SMP/E Version 3 Release 4. 3.1 is quite old - came with z/OS 1.2 BTW: It is possible to have newer SMP/E than originally released with the given system level. In simpler words it is possible to upgrade SMP/E without system upgrade. BTW2:

Re: System Rexx questions

2008-04-17 Thread Edward Jaffe
Lindy Mayfield wrote: Rob's is a Rexx function. Normally it works quite nicely. But what happens after TSO is shutdown? IKJTSOEV can be used regardless of the state of TCAS. TCAS has nothing to do with the availability of TSO/E services. I was using the sleep function to put pauses in

Re: IRREVX01 strangeness

2008-04-17 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 4/17/2008 8:17:55 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I agree, but if r7 equates to 7 so as long as the first 7 bytes of the user key are equal it will work. Long ago and far away I had a friend teaching an IE(Industrial engineering course) and the

Re: Parmlib Paranoia (was Re: Workable Mainframe Debuggers)

2008-04-17 Thread Wayne Driscoll
Ed, It's been a while since I have installed a base z/OS but as I recall, the default JES2 proc that IBM shipped with CBIPO (like a said, been a while) and the ADCD choose to elevate JES to the level of a BCP Component by using: //HASPPARM DD DISP=SHR,DSN=SYS1.PARMLIB(JES2PARM) I will agree that

Re: how to audit the usage of IND$FILE

2008-04-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:07:11 +0800, Tommy Tsui wrote: because our audit want to check the unauthorized user (outsource programmer) download the source program from our shop. First, have you protected it with RACF? -- gil --

Re: how to audit the usage of IND$FILE

2008-04-17 Thread Ted MacNEIL
because our audit want to check the unauthorized user (outsource programmer) download the source program from our shop. What about ftp? Copy Paste? - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: Parmlib Paranoia (was Re: Workable Mainframe Debuggers)

2008-04-17 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:04:00 -0700, Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Zelden wrote: On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:12:56 -0700, Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sheesh! I've never understood what some sysprog's think is so secret about the contents of parmlib. IMHO, UACC(NONE) for

Re: System Rexx questions

2008-04-17 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:48:06 -0700, Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used my TSOCMD REXX (apparently some smart people have decided to rename it to TSOX -- I should have thought of that) to issue a TSO/E command from a console via SystemRexx. I shut down TCAS and issued the same command

Re: DCF: Can it live again?

2008-04-17 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 4/17/2008 8:48:58 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Doesn't Ghostscript have a txt2pdf program? Been so long don't remember. Used to use DEVICE(PSA) to pass to ghostscript for .pdf output. Then along can _www.irfanview.com_

IBM Bookmanager Software bookshelves - Internal server error?

2008-04-17 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Am I the only one getting this response today from the Bookmanager Software shelves? Trying to get to either Tivoli Information Management or Enterprise COBOL 3.3 bookshelves gives this error: Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to

Re: how to audit the usage of IND$FILE

2008-04-17 Thread Ted MacNEIL
But the exposure exists because you gave the user READ access to the data. This has been discussed before on the RACF-L forum. It is better to protect the data, rather than the method of copying. - Too busy driving to stop for gas!

Re: Compatibility with CICS TS 3.1

2008-04-17 Thread AlpTim1
Hi! One of my client's is still using WorkBench with CICS TS 3.1 DB2/VSAM and it's working. I don't recall that they've had any problems since the product is their responsibility. Cheers! Timur -- From: Hoesly, Bret [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: how to audit the usage of IND$FILE

2008-04-17 Thread J R
It is better to protect the data, rather than the method of copying. That doesn't help if you want the programmer to work on a program but you don't want him to take it with him. Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:41:35 + From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how to audit the usage of

Re: how to audit the usage of IND$FILE

2008-04-17 Thread Ted MacNEIL
That doesn't help if you want the programmer to work on a program but you don't want him to take it with him. If he can read it, he can copy it. And, how protecting IND$FILE will not be enough. There are many methods, but the crudest one cannot be protected except by giving the programmer an

Re: how to audit the usage of IND$FILE

2008-04-17 Thread Doug Fuerst
Is JK Rowling the auditor? Tommy Tsui wrote: because our audit want to check the unauthorized user (outsource programmer) download the source program from our shop. snip -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: how to audit the usage of IND$FILE

2008-04-17 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:30:43 +, Ted MacNEIL wrote: That doesn't help if you want the programmer to work on a program but you don't want him to take it with him. If he can read it, he can copy it. And, how protecting IND$FILE will not be enough. There are many methods, but the crudest one

Re: how to audit the usage of IND$FILE

2008-04-17 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Either you trust your programmer's ethics or you shouldn't provide access to the treasured source. There is no in between. Exactly! Everytime you work with an 'outsider' (contractor, outsourcer, consultant, etc.), you have a risk evaluation to do. You either trust them, or you don't. If you

Re: how to audit the usage of IND$FILE

2008-04-17 Thread Len Rugen
Or modularize the design so that no one part is known by everyone. I think that's why Windows works so well. Ted MacNEIL wrote: Either you trust your programmer's ethics or you shouldn't provide access to the treasured source. There is no in between. Exactly! Everytime you work

Re: how to audit the usage of IND$FILE

2008-04-17 Thread George Fogg
Or modularize the design so that no one part is known by everyone. I think that's why Windows works so well. LOL! :-) George Fogg -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: OAM copying a platter

2008-04-17 Thread Chuck Arney
One problem you will have even if one of those techniques work is with duplicate object names. You can not have duplicate names within the same Collection Name. I think you will need to write a program to copy the objects to a different Collection or store duplicate objects with a different

Re: System Rexx questions

2008-04-17 Thread Edward Jaffe
Mark Zelden wrote: I just looked at yours and tried it and I can't see why I would need to trap the output. Running some simple tests, both seemed to do the same thing. Try it from a console. A *real* console. TSO command processors often write messages with trailing whitespace --

Re: System Rexx questions

2008-04-17 Thread Edward Jaffe
Edward Jaffe wrote: I issued a LISTD command using your REXX and got: SYS1.PARMLIB --RECFM-LRECL-BLKSIZE-DSORG FB806160PO + --VOLUMES-- Z9RES1 Mine got: SYS1.PARMLIB --RECFM-LRECL-BLKSIZE-DSORG FB806160PO

Re: SALC pricing for MQ

2008-04-17 Thread John Giltner
Rob Wunderlich wrote: We license MQ V5 on MLC for about 2k/month. We have very little MQ activity, so we are looking at changing this to SALC (usage based) to save money. The quote from IBM for 1 MSU, the lowest band, is 10k/month! This doesn't make sense based on our experience with other

Question on ARCNMIGR

2008-04-17 Thread Andy White
Anyone out there seeing this? I'm going open an ETR shortly with IBM but see this in our syslogs. DUMPID=147 REQUESTED BY JOB (ARCNMIGR) DUMP TITLE=COMPON=SSI,COMPID=5752SC1B6,ISSUER=IEFJSARR,MODULE=I EFJSRE1,ABEND=S878,REASON=0010,SNAME=SMS I checked IBMLINK I cant seem

Re: SALC pricing for MQ

2008-04-17 Thread Al Sherkow
You are both right, but you're missing point of IBM's SALC metric. There are still quite a few sites that cannot save money with IBM's Sub-Capacity pricing. You are currently paying ULC (Usage License Charge) or MULC (Measured Usage License Charges) probably along with PSLC (Parallel Sysplex

Performance of DB2 V9 under z/OS V1.7 vs. V1.9

2008-04-17 Thread Lizette Koehler
Not sure if this should be posted over on the DB2 newsgroup, but I thought I would start here. I am looking for information on whether DB2 V9 runs better under z/OS V1.7 or V1.9. And what might those improvements might be. I believe I have read that under z/OS V1.9 the DB2 Buffers are

Re: Question on ARCNMIGR

2008-04-17 Thread Glenn Miller
Hi Andy, Take a look at APARs: OA23236 OA23235. It looks like they are related to APARs: OA20831 OA16192 . We don't have HSM at our shop so I don't have any real world experience to offer you. Had you been using these 'new' HSM address spaces via the 'patches' APAR: OA23236 talks about or

Re: Question on ARCNMIGR

2008-04-17 Thread Lizette Koehler
Andy, My guess would be insufficient storage on your ARCxMIGR STC that is kicked off for DFHSM migration process. Do you know what your region size is set at in the PROC? This is new with z/OS V1.9. Lizette Anyone out there seeing this? I'm going open an ETR shortly with IBM but see this

Re: Question on ARCNMIGR

2008-04-17 Thread Edward Jaffe
Lizette Koehler wrote: My guess would be insufficient storage on your ARCxMIGR STC that is kicked off for DFHSM migration process. Do you know what your region size is set at in the PROC? These address spaces are started via ASCRE ... not a START command. Technically, the proc is

Re: Question on ARCNMIGR

2008-04-17 Thread Andy White
Thanks Lizette - our region size on this system is The private area size 16M is 10240K. The proc we don't code region in out shop its the same as ZeroM or REGION=0M, it starts on the behalf of HSM. We will open an ETR I think in the AM I have one Dump. This is the proc

Re: how to audit the usage of IND$FILE

2008-04-17 Thread Don Leahy
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That doesn't help if you want the programmer to work on a program but you don't want him to take it with him. If he can read it, he can copy it. And, how protecting IND$FILE will not be enough. There are many methods,

Re: how to audit the usage of IND$FILE

2008-04-17 Thread Lizette Koehler
If you have a cell phone camera, it is not that big of an issue - no one really thinks there is a camera in the building when it is in a cell phone. Lizette That doesn't help if you want the programmer to work on a program but you don't want him to take it with him. If he can read it, he can

Re: how to audit the usage of IND$FILE

2008-04-17 Thread Ted MacNEIL
If you have a cell phone camera, it is not that big of an issue - no one really thinks there is a camera in the building when it is in a cell phone. It depends where you work. Th company I recently got downsized from actually had a policy against cell cameras. - Too busy driving to stop for

Re: how to audit the usage of IND$FILE

2008-04-17 Thread Edward Jaffe
Don Leahy wrote: Even a green screen is no guarantee if the programmer smuggles a camera into the office and takes pictures as he scrolls. Tedious perhaps, but it would work. Camera? I have a VBS macro for IBM's PCOMM that scrolls forward and appends each screen's worth of data to a text

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