On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 15:48:08 +0900, Timothy Sipples e99...@jp.ibm.com wrote:
It depends on what the original poster wants. If he wants time consistency
across systems -- to the degree NTP can provide consistency anyway -- then
System z as master NTP server, even without STP, will accomplish that.
Very sad news. I will miss him and his contributions to solving problems! The
Service Aids components will not be the same without him.
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Schwarz, Barry A wrote:
Aren't beliefs a wonderful thing.
Since one customer is still using 3270 style dumb terminals exclusively, I can
assure you of at least one mainframe shop without a PC. We would be quite
willing to give them one but it wouldn't help since they don't have a TCP/IP
Maybe I am missing something obvious, but what is the big deal in that a
PC
routine supports a 64 bit caller if it can't support 64 bit parameters?
There is a tremendous difference,
A PC routine that allows AMODE 64 caller can still run 100% in AMODE 31
(which is surely the way it was written,
The information Jim Mulder has provided is surely correct. Use it at your
own risk, and do not expect that it will stay that way or that anyone will
tell you if it changes..
While there are likely no plans to change it, the reason this sort of thing
tends not to be documented is because it is not
What (if any) are the benefits of using a VIO Storage Group?
You can use the vio storage group to limit the amount of local page space
that be used for the dataset requesting vio.
Regards,
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Hi all,
Is there any RACF password rule that can validate the password
cannot be a part of USERID? or only write a user exit to implement it?
That functionality requires an exit routine.
-jc-
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 12:17:49 +0800, Tommy Tsui tommyt...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there any RACF password rule that can validate the password
cannot be a part of USERID? or only write a user exit to implement it?
You would probably need an exit to do that. You can find a sample exit on
the RACF
Yikes,
Should I be scared of this? Externalizing the password rules in REXX?
Seems to make it too easy to collect passwords.
_
Dave Jousma
Assistant Vice President, Mainframe Services
david.jou...@53.com
1830 East Paris, Grand
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 10:31:55 -0600, Walt Farrell wfarr...@us.ibm.com wrote:
...
According to the book, only a limited set of MVS assembler programming
services support invocation in 64-bit addressing mode, and only a more
limited set of the services support parameters above the bar.
See
IBM has already implied that the TOD register is intended to be a programming
interface by stating in the POP manual:
“13. Uniqueness of TOD-clock values can be extended to apply to processors
in separate configurations by including a configuration identification in the
TOD
programmable
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 08:05:30 -0500, Jousma, David david.jou...@53.com wrote:
Should I be scared of this? Externalizing the password rules in REXX?
Seems to make it too easy to collect passwords.
System REXX execs run APF-authorized, and the libraries containing them must
be protected the same
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 07:06:08 -0600, Steven Partlow spart...@us.ibm.com wrote:
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 10:31:55 -0600, Walt Farrell wfarr...@us.ibm.com wrote:
...
According to the book, only a limited set of MVS assembler programming
services support invocation in 64-bit addressing mode, and only a more
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 07:43:26 -0600, Don Williams donb...@gmail.com wrote:
IBM has already implied that the TOD register is intended to be a programming
interface by stating in the POP manual:
13. Uniqueness of TOD-clock values can be extended to apply to processors
in separate configurations by
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main as well.
wfarr...@us.ibm.com (Walt Farrell) writes:
There are many hardware architectural features described in the PoP that
z/OS does not consider programming interfaces for programs running
IMHO: exits as a subspecies are evil critters. They become an ongoing
maintenance challenge and tend to attract unwelcome attention from auditors.
Exits are hard to write, hard to stress test, and introduce a level of risk.
You need extraordinary measures in place to protect the code.
On
I am cross posting this to IBM Main incase there are folkes out there that use
CSI more than the TSO REXX group does.
Lizette
I have been working with the sample in SYS1.SAMPLIB as well as Mark Zelden's
version called catsearch. I want to include the information on High RBA on
VSAM data
Just at first glance...
I know the requested filed names must be 8 bytes or padded.
The sample and my exec have:
CSIFLD1= SUBSTR('VOLSER',1,8)
But you can use:
CSIFLD1 = 'VOLSER '|| 'XHARBA '|| 'XHARBADS' || 'XHKRBA '
I don't know if that is your only problem.
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Ooops. Sorry I didn't notice you already padded those fields.
I said it was a quick glance. :-)Off to my meeting now...
Mark
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 09:13:51 -0600, Mark Zelden mark.zel...@zurichna.com wrote:
Just at first glance...
I know the requested filed names must be 8 bytes or
Unless you completely changed the code that loops though the work area,
what you changed will not work.
Have a really good look at CSI user guide in z/OS DFSMS Managing
Catalogs appendix C section 5:
C.5 Return Work Area Format
Mark
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We are trying to insert a server/pak tape 3592 into our TS3500 library, and the
accessor is picking it up without a barcode. We followed the manual (redbook),
and the accessor should not pick it up. Do we need to set something in the
box? Thank you.
Inserting cartridges without a barcode
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 08:48:18 -0600, Hal Merritt hmerr...@jackhenry.com wrote:
IMHO: exits as a subspecies are evil critters. They become an ongoing
maintenance challenge and tend to attract unwelcome attention from auditors.
Exits are hard to write, hard to stress test, and introduce a level of
Yes, it would take a lot of work to document how z/OS (or any other
operating system) utilizes various hardware features. However, IBM customer’s
are on shaky ground, if they build systems based on undocumented features
or functions. In the long run, it is probably in IBM’s best interest to
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 12:02:23 +0100, R.S. wrote:
Schwarz, Barry A wrote:
Aren't beliefs a wonderful thing.
Since one customer is still using 3270 style dumb terminals exclusively, ...
BTW: Even coax network can connect CD to a mainframe. You need PC with
CD and coax card. It can be old HMC -
I saw the REXX code and it's quite simple. Just turn it on...I will try it ..
thanks all of your help
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Walt Farrell wfarr...@us.ibm.com wrote:
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 08:48:18 -0600, Hal Merritt hmerr...@jackhenry.com wrote:
IMHO: exits as a subspecies are evil
On Friday 06 March 2009, Lizette Koehler wrote:
I am cross posting this to IBM Main incase there are folkes out there that
use CSI more than the TSO REXX group does.
Lizette
I have been working with the sample in SYS1.SAMPLIB as well as Mark
Zelden's version called catsearch. I want to
Thanks for the response.
I am working with just VSAM at this time. However, I will enhance the code to
verify if it vsam or non-vsam and then call the appropriate routines (either
IGGCSI00 or LISTDSI).
Lizette
On Friday 06 March 2009, Lizette Koehler wrote:
I am cross posting this to IBM
On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 00:12:16 +0800, Tommy Tsui tommyt...@gmail.com wrote:
I saw the REXX code and it's quite simple. Just turn it on...I will try it ..
thanks all of your help
Do remember that it works only on z/OS R10 and later, though.
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Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 12:02:23 +0100, R.S. wrote:
Schwarz, Barry A wrote:
Aren't beliefs a wonderful thing.
Since one customer is still using 3270 style dumb terminals exclusively, ...
BTW: Even coax network can connect CD to a mainframe. You need PC with
CD and coax
Lizette,
File 183 of the CBT tape contains two REXX execs (called XDELETE and XRENAME)
which use IGGCSI00 to retrieve VSAM and non-VSAM info.
They're both available here : http://gsf-soft.com/Freeware/
XDELETE was published on TSO-REXX in 1998 - you'll find it here :
Or perhaps whatever has/will replace it? The reason that I ask is that it
seems that while DFSMSdfp clings tenaciously to the 3390 DASD architecture,
it is also using this interface (with 4K physical blocks) for all new I/O.
IIRC, it was first just a part of VSAM. I am not sure, but I'd bet that
LDS? What do the Mormons have to do with this? Are they encroaching on
storage now?
Back to Friday musings
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
Thanks to Dr. Michael Ebert from the DB2 world, I have a good example of what I
am trying to do with CSI. His code is located on www.idug.org.
His process combines CSI REXX with SAS to produce a nice report. I will use
that as a base and continue from there.
The modifications I had been
--snip-
Is there any RACF password rule that can validate the password cannot be
a part of USERID? or only write a user exit to implement it?
--unsnip---
I used an exit to
snip
Yikes,
Should I be scared of this? Externalizing the password rules in REXX?
Seems to make it too easy to collect passwords.
---unsnip-
You can always use RACF to
snip---
IMHO: exits as a subspecies are evil critters. They become an ongoing
maintenance challenge and tend to attract unwelcome attention from
auditors. Exits are hard to write, hard to stress test, and introduce a
level
Exits are a good alternative when: 1. The skillful author never retires,
finds a better job, gets laid off, is transferred, gets fired, wins the
lottery, or ages. 2. The company never is merged, acquired, downsizes, asks
for a government bailout, acquires another RACF company. 3. The source is
How do any of these considerations differ between an exit and the key
applications the business depends on and without which they wouldn't
need a computer system at all (or even be in business)?
-Original Message-
From: Tony B.
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 10:55 AM
To:
'cuz the RACF ones I have to deal with... :-)
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf
Of Schwarz, Barry A
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 1:09 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: RACF password id checking
How do
Tony B's strictures, which begin
| Exits are a good alternative when: 1. The skillful author
| never retires, finds a better job, gets laid off, is
| transferred, gets fired, wins the lottery, or ages.
| 2. . . .
are apposite; and it is easy to sympathize with the bad experiences they
The z/OS Java SDK - JZOS toolkit contains a nice wrapper for IGGCSI00 and
also an api for reading DSCBs. There are sample programs available (see
IBM link below).
We also plan on releasing an update to the JZOS Cookbook which contains a
z/OS Java web service to using IGGCSI00, and a sample rich
Bad code is ubiquitous for a variety of familiar reasons, and I doubt that
avoiding exits because they are often written badly and/or documented poorly
would be helpful.
I agree, for many reasons.
Bad code abounds.
If we used Tony's strictures, then we would never write system of application
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Who's still hasn't left Austin who can say what z/VOS is? The Mantissa
website only says Yep, we announced it in Austin.
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Windows under VM on a z
Dennis Roach
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If you do a google search for mantissa and z/vos you will get a number of
hits - nothing concrete as yet that I can see.
Hopefully we'll get more after todays announcement at SHARE
Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist
Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering
KP-IT Enterprise
I was trying remove date expiration for some non-VSAM SMS DSNs.
Cmd: ALTERT DSN TODATE(2009065) I know that the date can not be any
earlier than the current day.
On two of three systems I get RC48 RSN142 which says
An ALTER fails due to unsuccessful DADSM UPDATE function.
I can't figure out
From Mantissas web site
UPDATE: Just want to thank everyone who was in attendance for the SHARE
presentation. So...Now that the concept has officially been laid bare,
we plan on publishing a development blog as a means of keeping you
informed of the progress being made on zVos. That's coming
Strictly speaking it's x86 architecture execution under z/VM. If you decide to use
Windows that you're choice. Saying x86 is Windows is like saying System z is z/OS.
Roach, Dennis (N-GHG) wrote:
Look at http://www.mantissa.com/SHARE-conference
Windows under VM on a z
Dennis Roach
GHG
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Look at http://www.mantissa.com/SHARE-conference
I see nothing new there, beyond We announced it.
Windows under VM on a z
Saw nothing about that, either.
-jc-
I use
ALTER dsn NULL(RETENTION)
Neal Scheffler
John Kelly wrote:
I was trying remove date expiration for some non-VSAM SMS DSNs.
Cmd: ALTERT DSN TODATE(2009065) I know that the date can not be any
earlier than the current day.
On two of three systems I get RC48 RSN142 which says
An ALTER
I see nothing new there, beyond We announced it.
I see nothing there at all! The website seems to have issues.
Many links result in a blank screen. Very frustrating!
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:27:58 -0600
From: jch...@ussco.com
Subject: Re: Isn't today Mantissa day?
To:
Now you need to talk about documentqation. It's like sex. When it's bad,
it's still better than nothing and when it's good, it's really great.
Tony B. wrote:
Exits are a good alternative when: 1. The skillful author never retires,
finds a better job, gets laid off, is transferred, gets
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
In a message dated 3/6/2009 2:33:21 P.M. Central Standard Time,
d...@lists.duda.com writes:
The Mantissa
website only says Yep, we announced it in Austin.
maybe it's a new form of snubbery. If anybody needs any I've got about 300
ibm-main Austin stickers that nobody claimed...so
In my 40+ years, exits tend to be politically motivated. That is, the
business/technical issue is really easily solvable some other way.
For the case in point, someone just wants the system to work differently. There
is no technical justification, no business justification, and arguable
So if IBM is making it possible to run Windows on Z, does this mean they won't
object if people start running Z on Windows?;-)
Dave Salt
SimpList(tm) - try it; you'll get it!
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Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 13:41:39 -0700
From:
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
IBM isn't making it possible, Mantissa is.
-Original Message-
Dave Salt
So if IBM is making it possible to run Windows on Z, does this mean they
won't object if people start running Z on Windows?;-)
Dave Salt
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On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 16:19:46 -0500, Dave Salt wrote:
So if IBM is making it possible to run Windows on Z, does this mean they won't
object if people start running Z on Windows?;-)
No, it means Intel won't object.
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On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:44:11 -0600, John McKown joa...@swbell.net wrote:
I am not sure, but I'd bet that
PDS/E and HFS use it as well.
They do.
Just Friday musings. Brought on by my dislike of zFS being based on LDS data
sets. Because what I recently needed was a really huge (10 x 3390-3)
what I recently needed was a really huge (10 x 3390-3) UNIX
filesystem..
okay, we have one zFS filesystem for downloads that is on a mod 54.
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From: John McKown joa...@swbell.net
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Sent: Friday, March 06,
We would very much appreciate hearing from customers that have used the
z/OS CMDS ABEND command to terminate a command.
-- What commands have you terminated, and what was your experience in
doing so? Was it worth the risk? Were there undesirable side-effects?
We are contemplating some changes
I'm a novice trying to get a simple C program running under MVS.
I'm attempting to get file output to
//OUTF DD SYSOUT=A
with the following program.
#include stdio.h
int main(void)
{
FILE *outf = NULL;
printf(TESTFILE has been entered.\n);
outf = fopen(dd:OUTF,recfm=fba, w+);
if (!outf)
I check the following web site and it shows z/os R9 that already
support this REXX...
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/racf/downloads/rexxpwexit.html
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Walt Farrell wfarr...@us.ibm.com wrote:
On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 00:12:16 +0800, Tommy Tsui
Hi Y'all,
I hate this as I just read about the passing of the person that was the
creator/teacher/guru regarding IPCS.
I just received a dump that I assume is in IPCS format and I don't have a clue,
well a little, how to process this.
Is there anywhere I can find out the job stream etc. for
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 20:48 -0600, Fred Hoffman wrote:
Is there anywhere I can find out the job stream etc. for the analysis
on ths dataset.
Fred, the IPCS manuals are online - here's a search for the 2.10 ones
(sorry about wrap);
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 21:29:17 -0500, Lorne Dudley wrote:
I'm a novice trying to get a simple C program running under MVS.
I'm attempting to get file output to
//OUTF DD SYSOUT=A
with the following program.
#include stdio.h
int main(void)
{
FILE *outf = NULL;
printf(TESTFILE has been
Thanks for the hint Bill.
That gives me
dd:OUTF: EDC5057I The open mode string was invalid. (errno2=0xC00B0022)
I'll chase that mesage and see what I can decipher.
Regards
Lorne
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Hi Bill (or any other C programmer) !
OK, perror(dd:OUTF); gives me
EDC5057I The open mode string was invalid. Explanation: The mode string
passed to the fopen()/freopen() function was found to have invalid
keywords, combinations, or characters. For example, if you are opening a
ddname, be
Hi Bill !
Through trial and error and the use of perror(dd:OUTF); I have
determined that this syntax works as expected.
outf = fopen(dd:OUTF, w);
Thanks for the lead.
Regards
Lorne
Bill Godfrey wrote:
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 21:29:17 -0500, Lorne Dudley wrote:
I'm a novice trying to get a
In the 2nd argument of fopen, the keyword parameters come after the mode.
Try it with just w or w, recfm=fba.
Bill
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 23:21:41 -0500, Lorne Dudley wrote:
Hi Bill (or any other C programmer) !
OK, perror(dd:OUTF); gives me
EDC5057I The open mode string was invalid.
Hi Bill !
Thanks for all your assistance.
outf = fopen(dd:OUTF,w);
works for both the pre-assigned disk file and the SYSOUT=A .
Regards
Lorne
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Thanks Bill,
i changed the region parm (to 0M) and got 878,
But abend code when region=8M is misleading. Later put a hex on and found that
the parm passed to the program has some values in it (seemingly blank from
outside) and fiddling with it resolved the issue.
thanks all,
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