Re: Any one using JDBC type 4 to access IMS DB??

2009-06-24 Thread Timothy Sipples
Fermat, It sounds like you're going to need to do some customer education, perhaps gently. Ask the appropriate people for help if you need it. Fix their underlying problems. Help solve your customer's true business pains. Just to give you yet another data point, I recall hearing about a company

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-24 Thread Barbara Nitz
Here is what I did this morning: The chain of pids under pid=1 looked like this 1-- 400 (userid3) -- 200 (userid5) -- 500 (userid1) -- 300 (userid5) and so on. c userid*.* (there was no address space without a number at the end) got me: IEE535I CANCEL INVALID PARAMETER c userid.* (not that I

Re: Enterprise COBOL for z/OS V4

2009-06-24 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I'm a little concerned about this transition phase in which application folks implicitly use the new compiler but 'move' load modules to the old LE environment. I think this migration path is pretty common for most shops. In the shops I've worked in, the migration path has always been a QA-like

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-24 Thread Timothy Sipples
David Crayford writes: Ahhhaaa, you named and shamed and I didn't have to *search the archives*! A lot of the Websphere portfolio doesn't port well to z/OS. I have anecdotal evidence (I was told by an IBMer) that Websphere messaage broker runs like a stallion on AIX but sucks big time on z/OS.

Re: Enterprise COBOL for z/OS V4

2009-06-24 Thread Shane
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 17:17 -0700, Skip Robinson wrote: I'm a little concerned about this transition phase in which application folks implicitly use the new compiler but 'move' load modules to the old LE environment. I'm a bit with Ted on this - you need to fix the process Skip. After a

Re: Any one using JDBC type 4 to access IMS DB??

2009-06-24 Thread David Crayford
Fermat Ma wrote: Thanks for replying. Actually, the goal is to migrate an application off to open platform. And the data updated on open platform also needs to be synch back to IMS. Therefore, we were thinking about using JDBC Type 4 driver. With that, there should be no need to develop

Re: SPF Command Shell panel

2009-06-24 Thread Jan MOEYERSONS
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:03:36 +0200, Rafal Hanzel hanz...@zetokatowice.pl wrote: I have a question about ISPF Command Shell panel. That is option 6, right? I used for example: telnet mvs01 and I received: Just tried it over here and it works fine. From the command line in the panel, from the

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-24 Thread David Crayford
Timothy Sipples wrote: David Crayford writes: Ahhhaaa, you named and shamed and I didn't have to *search the archives*! A lot of the Websphere portfolio doesn't port well to z/OS. I have anecdotal evidence (I was told by an IBMer) that Websphere messaage broker runs like a stallion on AIX but

Veteran sysprog asks dumb question

2009-06-24 Thread Klein, Kenneth
OK, after 25 years as a sysprog this should not confuse me, but... A previous systems programmer left these canned jobs to clone a res pack to a new one for maintenance purposes. Simple right? I run the first job, vary off, init, varyon, ipltext, setcache, etc and then the copy step fails. PAGE

Re: Veteran sysprog asks dumb question

2009-06-24 Thread Itschak Mugzach
R U using a none-empty stepcat/jobcat to catalog the datasets? ITschak On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Klein, Kenneth kenneth.kl...@kyfb.comwrote: OK, after 25 years as a sysprog this should not confuse me, but... A previous systems programmer left these canned jobs to clone a res pack to a

Re: SHARE Requirements and IBM

2009-06-24 Thread Clark Kidd
John Eells wrote: Yes, we absolutely do still consider requirements valuable, and we DO use them when prioritizing work for upcoming releases. Buy me a beer at SCIDS in Denver and I'll tell you what happened with this one. Thanks John. It's good to know that the SHARE requirement has not

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-24 Thread Steve Comstock
David Crayford wrote: Timothy Sipples wrote: David Crayford writes: Ahhhaaa, you named and shamed and I didn't have to *search the archives*! A lot of the Websphere portfolio doesn't port well to z/OS. I have anecdotal evidence (I was told by an IBMer) that Websphere messaage broker runs like

Re: Veteran sysprog asks dumb question

2009-06-24 Thread John Kelly
Sounds like your bypass storage class (STORCLAS(SCNONSMS)) isn't taking effect (SC=SCDFLT MC=STANDARD DC=), ie it seems like your omvs dsn are going sms and that has to be catalogued. SC=SCDFLT MC=STANDARD DC= Jack Kelly 202-502-2390 (Office)

Re: Veteran sysprog asks dumb question

2009-06-24 Thread Jousma, David
Ken, The question is: For these OMVS datasets, are they HFS or ZFS? I'm guessing that that these OMVS datasets are ZFS(Linear VSAM). Because of that, you cannot indirectly catalog them like you could with HFS datasets. The most common ROT is to include a qualifier in the OMVS DSN that includes

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-24 Thread Arthur Gutowski
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:17:57 -0500, Barbara Nitz nitz-...@gmx.net wrote: F OMVS,SHUTDOWN well, at the point I detected those pids, issuing this command would have been just as bad as what I did (shutting down the fork service), as OMVS (or the fork service) was still needed for WBI shutdown. And

Re: SHARE Requirements and IBM

2009-06-24 Thread John Eells
See below... Clark Kidd wrote: John Eells wrote: Yes, we absolutely do still consider requirements valuable, and we DO use them when prioritizing work for upcoming releases. Buy me a beer at SCIDS in Denver and I'll tell you what happened with this one. Thanks John. It's good to know

Re: Veteran sysprog asks dumb question

2009-06-24 Thread Klein, Kenneth
I think Jack is on to something here. I've been here 6 weeks and I am NOT an sms guru. Could very well be the acs rules. My new peers are telling me that these cloner jobs have recently (weeks ago) run fine but only the sys1.* datasets are getting copied. All the ones like these fail:

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-24 Thread Shane
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 19:27 +0800, David Crayford wrote: ... one of the big 4 retail banks in Australia were disappointed with the performance of WMB. Now that *is* a surprise. ... only one ??? ... Shane ... -- For

Re: Veteran sysprog asks dumb question

2009-06-24 Thread William Bishop
Check your ACS rules to make sure that there is not something that restricts certain functions, such as bypassing rules, that are limited to an identified set of user ids? If you are new, you may need to add your TSO Id to such a list. Thanks Bill Bishop Specialist Mainframe Support Group

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-24 Thread Shane
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 06:09 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: Avoid the use of Java when not needed. s/ when not needed// Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-24 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:25:21 -0500, Arthur Gutowski aguto...@ford.com wrote: I don't know about *your* automation product, but ours doesn't like F OMVS,SHUTDOWN very much. AF/Oper has it's hooks into OMVS, and if you kill OMVS before AF/Oper recedes on its own, things tend to get hung out to

Re: Veteran sysprog asks dumb question

2009-06-24 Thread Klein, Kenneth
Good call, Bill. I got the job working with bypassacs. When I notified a peer sysprog he realized my id was not in the hard coded list of users that are allowed to tweak the storage class. Upon hearing how easily I bypassed this restriction, he decided that loophole needed to be closed. COPY

Re: RMM and STGADMIN.EDG Resources

2009-06-24 Thread Mike Wood
Bob, for 1) - 5) You are correct for 6), the Based on STGADMIN.EDG.MASTER access. for access NONE is meant to mean exactly the same as for the entity not defined - i.e. You cannot update volume information for volumes you do not own unless you have CONTROL access to STGADMIN.EDG.MASTER. Mike

Re: INFOZIP 2Gb

2009-06-24 Thread Kirk Wolf
Bob, We could really use you as a contributor in http://oss4zos.org Let me know if you would like an id so you can post (We don't have an open registration process since wiki-spammers nailed us). Here's a page that should be updated with your very nice Info-Zip work:

JCT Not Available

2009-06-24 Thread George Rodriguez
When I'm in SDSF and I'm viewing only stated tasks (DA OSTC) I sometimes enter a S next to the STC and I get the message JCT NOT AVAILABLE. What I do know about this error, is that the JOBCARD is missing and one can be created in a different PDS (in my old job it was called SYS2.NodeID.STCJOBS).

Re: INFOZIP 2Gb

2009-06-24 Thread Vikesh Bhoola
Kirk, thanks for info on Co:Z. Its not that I hate OMVS, it was just additional space was required as USS Info-zip couldn't read from MVS datasets. This solution works for me - can be used to read MVS datasets - can be used to write to MVS datasets as well - retains trailing spaces - uses

Re: CICS T/S 3.2 - SACIREL = 0650

2009-06-24 Thread Richard Peurifoy
d21mike21 wrote: On Jun 22, 11:16 am, Mike Carver m...@data21.com wrote: Can anyone tell me where I can get a list ofSACIRELValues for the various CICS T/S Releases. I have the following at this point: CICS T/S 2.2 -SACIREL= 0620 CICS T/S 3.1 -SACIREL= CICS T/S 3.2 -SACIREL= 0650 What

anynet SNA over TCPIP

2009-06-24 Thread Jim McAlpine
When configuring z/OS 1.9 I find that the VBUILD TYPE=TCP vtam definition no longer exists. Is there any replacement function for Anynet SNA over TCPIP. Jim McAlpine -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: JCT Not Available

2009-06-24 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of George Rodriguez Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 10:43 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: JCT Not Available When I'm in SDSF and I'm viewing only stated tasks (DA OSTC) I

Security -- STGADMIN

2009-06-24 Thread Jim Chappell
Is there any ONE place where ALL of the possible facility class profiles for STGADMIN might be listed/found? Daimler Trucks North America LLC James (Jim) Chappell 503 745-7841(desk) 503 349-5603(cell) work e-mail: james.chapp...@daimler.com home e-mail: jameslchapp...@aol.com If you are not

Re: JCT Not Available

2009-06-24 Thread George Rodriguez
John, That's exactly what I am looking for...Thanks for the quick response... George Rodriguez :-) Specialist, Systems Programmer Network Technical Services (561) 357-7652 (office) (561) 707-3496 (mobil) School District of Palm Beach County 3348 Forest Hill Blvd. Room B-332 West Palm Beach, FL.

Re: Security -- STGADMIN

2009-06-24 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jim Chappell Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 10:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Security -- STGADMIN Is there any ONE place where ALL of the possible facility class profiles

Re: Enterprise COBOL for z/OS V4

2009-06-24 Thread Skip Robinson
Ah, yes, well, I've already applied for citizenship in an alternate universe. Several times. Antimatter keeps obliterating the paperwork. Still hopeful... . . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office

Re: anynet SNA over TCPIP

2009-06-24 Thread Jim Wangler
Enterprise Extender? Jim Wangler 214-502-6445 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jim McAlpine Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 10:51 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: anynet SNA over TCPIP When configuring z/OS 1.9 I

Re: INFOZIP 2Gb

2009-06-24 Thread Kirk Wolf
Vikesh, I don't see a way to avoid the - file created by zip: this is what it uses as a file name when it uses stdin as input. Better to use gzip or bzip2 for single files anyway. I didn't mean to imply that you hated OMVS - this was a little joke referring to recent threads on IBM-MAIN :-)

Re: Enterprise COBOL for z/OS V4

2009-06-24 Thread Gibney, Dave
On the other hand, don't do it like I've sorta been forced to do. Due to lack of resources to test new COBOL releases, I've been carrying forward the release I installed somewhere around a/OS 1.4 :( And, with one of those replace the systems with an ERP sometime in the next decade coming on,

Re: JCT Not Available

2009-06-24 Thread Walt Farrell
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:01:13 -0400, George Rodriguez rodrigu...@palmbeach.k12.fl.us wrote: John, That's exactly what I am looking for...Thanks for the quick response... But note that most STCs do not have JOB statements, and yet most of them do have JCTs and are viewable under SDSF. That

Re: Security -- STGADMIN

2009-06-24 Thread Walt Farrell
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:55:40 -0700, Jim Chappell james.chapp...@daimler.com wrote: Is there any ONE place where ALL of the possible facility class profiles for STGADMIN might be listed/found? All of the possible ones? No, but you can come close to finding all of them that are actually used by

Re: ICHRIN03 not loading in the LPA correctly.

2009-06-24 Thread Arthur Gutowski
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:23:03 -0500, Mark Zelden mark.zel...@zurichna.com wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:09:17 +0100, Jim McAlpine jim.mcalp...@gmail.com wrote: The one in SYS1.LPALIB is 8 bytes long and is 8 bytes of low values. But the lpalstxx member has the USER.LPALIB first like so -

Re: SHARE Requirements and IBM

2009-06-24 Thread Clark Morris
On 23 Jun 2009 08:22:01 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: much snipped Also, based on this latest group of responses (4 out of 7 rejected), I'm wondering if IBM still considers requirements to be anything valuable, or whether they are just another annoyance that needs to be buried in

Re: JCT Not Available

2009-06-24 Thread George Rodriguez
Hi Walt, How can I distinguish the STC running under MSTR from the one running under JES? Thanks, George Rodriguez Specialist, Systems Programmer Network Technical Services (561) 357-7652 (office) (561) 707-3496 (mobil) School District of Palm Beach County 3348 Forest Hill Blvd. Room B-332 West

Re: JCT Not Available

2009-06-24 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of George Rodriguez When I'm in SDSF and I'm viewing only stated tasks (DA OSTC) I sometimes enter a S next to the STC and I get the message JCT NOT AVAILABLE. What I do know about this error, is that the JOBCARD is

Re: JCT Not Available

2009-06-24 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of George Rodriguez Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 12:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: JCT Not Available Hi Walt, How can I distinguish the STC running under MSTR from the

Re: Security -- STGADMIN

2009-06-24 Thread Lizette Koehler
DTS Software has a pocket reference guide on their website that is available to anyone. It contains a lot of the Security stuff. http://www.dtssoftware.com/Ref%20Guide9.01.pdf I have tried downloading it and the website seems to have a problem. I have contacted DTS to see what is wrong. But

Re: anynet SNA over TCPIP

2009-06-24 Thread Staller, Allan
AFAIK, Anynet is no longer supported. As of z/OS 1.8 See http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/e0z2m151.pdf pp 133-134 snip Subject: anynet SNA over TCPIP When configuring z/OS 1.9 I find that the VBUILD TYPE=TCP vtam definition no longer exists. Is there any replacement function for

Re: JCT Not Available

2009-06-24 Thread Ted MacNEIL
How can I distinguish the STC running under MSTR from the one running under JES? (Tongue in Cheek) For one, the JCT is not available. (8-{]} - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: JCT Not Available

2009-06-24 Thread George Rodriguez
John, Now that you've explained it to me, it makes a lot of sense...From what I've identified every STC that has a JobID (except for *MASTER*) I can view the output. I must have been mistaken about why to have a JOBCARD in a spate PDS library... Is the purpose for adding the DD card to the member

Re: JCT Not Available

2009-06-24 Thread George Rodriguez
Cute... I just figured that out... is (8-{]} Burt Simpson or just a monkey? Thanks, George Rodriguez Specialist, Systems Programmer Network Technical Services (561) 357-7652 (office) (561) 707-3496 (mobil) School District of Palm Beach County 3348 Forest Hill Blvd. Room B-332 West Palm Beach,

Re: JCT Not Available

2009-06-24 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of George Rodriguez Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 12:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: JCT Not Available John, Now that you've explained it to me, it makes a lot of

Re: JCT Not Available

2009-06-24 Thread Ted MacNEIL
is (8-{]} Burt Simpson or just a monkey? It's Bart, not Burt, and no. It's a custom 'smiley'. Bald head Glasses Nose Mustache Smile Beard (Me) There are two versions: 1. Happy: (8-{]} 2. Sad:(8-{[} - Too busy driving to stop for gas!

IBMLink news

2009-06-24 Thread Jim Chappell
From the IBM LINK NEWS PAGER iamcreatingnewsfortestingmisalignmentofnewspagesiflenghthywordisgiven 24 June 2009 DULLES, VA—In the largest merger of imaginary assets in corporate history, Internet giant America Online last week acquired media megacorp Time-Warner for an

Re: JCT Not Available

2009-06-24 Thread George Rodriguez
Thanks for the education and I did mean to say Bart... I enjoyed our little talk... Thanks, George Rodriguez Specialist, Systems Programmer Network Technical Services (561) 357-7652 (office) (561) 707-3496 (mobil) School District of Palm Beach County 3348 Forest Hill Blvd. Room B-332 West Palm

Re: IBMLink news

2009-06-24 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I'm still looking for the relevence to mainframes. Must have missed it. --Original Message-- From: Jim Chappell Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List ReplyTo: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Sent: Jun 24, 2009 13:50 Subject: IBMLink news From the IBM LINK

Avoiding Java (Was: And you ask why I hate OMVS?)

2009-06-24 Thread Edward Jaffe
Shane wrote: On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 06:09 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: Avoid the use of Java when not needed. s/ when not needed// Shane ... But, then you would not know the joys of using the write once; debug everywhere language! ;-) -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software

Re: Avoiding Java (Was: And you ask why I hate OMVS?)

2009-06-24 Thread McKown, John
Strange. Granted I have not done much in Java. But I have written one GUI based application which uses Derby as its database. That app was compiled on Linux and successfully ran on Win2K, MacOSX, and z/OS using the same jar file. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services

Re: ICHRIN03 not loading in the LPA correctly.

2009-06-24 Thread Walt Farrell
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:59:22 -0500, Arthur Gutowski aguto...@ford.com wrote: Just a thought - write an SMP/E USERMOD to REPLACE the IBM-supplied ICHRIN03 in SYS1.LPALIB. Pro: it eliminates the duplication and LPA load sequencing issue. Cons: You have to write and maintain MCS, and re-install

Re: SHARE Requirements and IBM

2009-06-24 Thread Edward Jaffe
Clark Morris wrote: that even rejected requirements are sometimes implemented. And, sometimes they're rejected even *after* they're implemented! :-D http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0407L=ibm-main-archivesP=R2529I=1X=- -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W

Re: Avoiding Java (Was: And you ask why I hate OMVS?)

2009-06-24 Thread Barkow, Eileen
I have been trying to learn 'C' and Java is a 'joy' compared to it. Maybe a few things do not work properly between releases of Java, but at least the syntax is pretty consistent, not like C, C++, C#, et al, where nothing is the same. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: Avoiding Java (Was: And you ask why I hate OMVS?)

2009-06-24 Thread Howard Brazee
On 24 Jun 2009 11:01:29 -0700, edja...@phoenixsoftware.com (Edward Jaffe) wrote: But, then you would not know the joys of using the write once; debug everywhere language! ;-) Modern languages are like TVs. We don't maintain their code, we replace it.

Re: Veteran sysprog asks dumb question

2009-06-24 Thread Guy Gardoit
Personnaly, I clone with FDR full-volume copy, not by data set. Works much better. Of course, I don't keep any OMVS or VSAM files on my source (or staging) sysres volumes so these type of problems are avoided. I have just one job that clones to a new sysres, makes new copies of the system

Re: INFOZIP 2Gb

2009-06-24 Thread Bob Woodside
On Wednesday 24 June 2009, Kirk Wolf wrote: Bob, We could really use you as a contributor in http://oss4zos.org Let me know if you would like an id so you can post (We don't have an open registration process since wiki-spammers nailed us). Yes, please send me whatever info I need,

Re: SMS Dataset Allocation Problem

2009-06-24 Thread Spencer, Mike
The Dynamic Volume Count (DVC) parameter in the Data Class constructs is used to specify to the total number of volumes a data set can span, without actually placing an entry in the catalog used by other methods until needed by EOV to extend the data set. This is where the TIOT, TCTTIOT and

Re: ICHRIN03 not loading in the LPA correctly.

2009-06-24 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:59:22 -0500, Arthur Gutowski aguto...@ford.com wrote: Just a thought - write an SMP/E USERMOD to REPLACE the IBM-supplied ICHRIN03 in SYS1.LPALIB. Pro: it eliminates the duplication and LPA load sequencing issue. Cons: You have to write and maintain MCS, and re-install

Re: Avoiding Java (Was: And you ask why I hate OMVS?)

2009-06-24 Thread Kirk Wolf
What a great quote! I'm a big Java fan, but your statement is sadly true about most Java applications developed today. It is not that Java isn't a terrific language, but all modern OO languages suffer the same problem: they provide more ways for poor programmers to make a mess. Most companies

Re: ICHRIN03 not loading in the LPA correctly.

2009-06-24 Thread Rick Fochtman
Mark Zelden wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:59:22 -0500, Arthur Gutowski aguto...@ford.com wrote: Just a thought - write an SMP/E USERMOD to REPLACE the IBM-supplied ICHRIN03 in SYS1.LPALIB. Pro: it eliminates the duplication and LPA load sequencing issue. Cons: You have to write and

Re: ICHRIN03 not loading in the LPA correctly.

2009-06-24 Thread Rick Fochtman
Mark Zelden wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:59:22 -0500, Arthur Gutowski aguto...@ford.com wrote: Just a thought - write an SMP/E USERMOD to REPLACE the IBM-supplied ICHRIN03 in SYS1.LPALIB. Pro: it eliminates the duplication and LPA load sequencing issue. Cons: You have to write and

Re: INFOZIP 2Gb

2009-06-24 Thread Kirk Wolf
I'm not an nedit user, but why don't you port the nedit server part to z/OS, which should be much simpler and sounds pretty cool to me: http://www.nedit.org/help/server.php#Client/Server_Mode Then you could run the client on your workstation, which makes more sense to me than running an X-based

Re: Memory allocation

2009-06-24 Thread carlos roberto visconde
Try modset key=0. 2009/6/23 Zahir Hemini zhem...@gmail.com Use Matrix from Exspans. On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Ward, Mike S mw...@ssfcu.org wrote: Hello all, I have written an mq security exit for z/os in assembler that works pretty well. What I would like to add is the capability

Re: anynet SNA over TCPIP

2009-06-24 Thread Ernie Takeuchi
It sort of depends on what you are trying to connect. If you are doing mainframe to mainframe, its better to do EE. If you have client software at the workstation you can reconfigure some of the old TCP62 connections to TCPIP and connect IP to IP if your mainframe application like CICS has

Re: SHARE Requirements and IBM

2009-06-24 Thread David Andrews
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 13:03 -0400, Clark Morris wrote: Back in the 1980's I submitted a group of requirements for SLAC assembler features (duplicate and overlapping USING flagging, listing the usings in header or title line, etc.). They were all rejected and unfortunately I had a conflict for

Re: ICHRIN03 not loading in the LPA correctly.

2009-06-24 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:15:25 -0500, Walt Farrell wfarr...@us.ibm.com wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:59:22 -0500, Arthur Gutowski aguto...@ford.com wrote: Just a thought - write an SMP/E USERMOD to REPLACE the IBM-supplied ICHRIN03 in SYS1.LPALIB. Pro: it eliminates the duplication and LPA load

Re: ICHRIN03 not loading in the LPA correctly.

2009-06-24 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:52:26 -0500, Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net wrote: Mark Zelden wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:59:22 -0500, Arthur Gutowski aguto...@ford.com wrote: Just a thought - write an SMP/E USERMOD to REPLACE the IBM-supplied ICHRIN03 in SYS1.LPALIB. Pro: it eliminates the

curiousity: msgs IEF233A vs. IEC501A

2009-06-24 Thread McKown, John
I know that the IEF233A message is issued at step start for mounting a tape referenced in the JCL. And I know that the IEC501A message, if necessary, is issued when the tape is actually OPEN'ed. My question relates to the WTO which writes the message. It appears that the IEC501A message is

Re: Veteran sysprog asks dumb question

2009-06-24 Thread Natarajan Mohan
If you are using DFDSS to clone, You would have to code BYPASSACS(**) NSC NMC to by pass SMS to assign null storage class and management class. . Natarajan Klein, Kenneth kenneth.kl...@kyfb.com 6/24/2009 6:44 AM I think Jack is on to something here. I've been here 6 weeks and I am NOT an sms

Another one bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread Rugen, Len
After a many year (10, 11?) project to get off the mainframe, we will be turning it off July 1. Where once stood motor generators, a 3090-400 (IIRC), now nearly 700 servers are starting their pigeon toed march to VM's. I've migrated over the years to supporting various unix/linux

Re: Another one bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Rugen, Len Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 3:27 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Another one bites the dust After a many year (10, 11?) project to get off the mainframe, we will

Re: SHARE Requirements and IBM

2009-06-24 Thread P S
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.comwrote: And, sometimes they're rejected even *after* they're implemented! :-D http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0407L=ibm-main-archivesP=R2529I=1X=- And I remember a VM session at SHARE where a requirement went from

Access to IBM-Main archives (was: SHARE Requirements and IBM)

2009-06-24 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:15:22 -0700, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: ... And, sometimes they're rejected even *after* they're implemented! :-D http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0407L=ibm-main- archivesP=R2529I=1X=- Odd. In following Ed's link (that was not wrapped in the

Re: Another one bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread Cebell, David
I don't get into our machine room much as operations handles IPLs. But I needed to do some HCD activities today What a surprise to find rows of servers spewing out so much heat That they had to bring in several of the portable AC unit to keep it cooler than 90% Seems to me that these server

Re: Access to IBM-Main archives (was: SHARE Requirements and IBM)

2009-06-24 Thread Skip Robinson
I must be in the same out-crowd. The worst part is that the application gave me opportunity to create a 'new' password. I went through the entire process twice and still cannot log in. . . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program

Re: INFOZIP 2Gb

2009-06-24 Thread Bob Woodside
On Wednesday 24 June 2009, Vikesh Bhoola wrote: Kirk, thanks for info on Co:Z. Its not that I hate OMVS...     I should hope not! Apart from the single - file name within zip this is great. I assume there is no way getting around this one ?     This is a limitation of zip - no external

Re: Another one bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread Bob Shannon
I don't get into our machine room much as operations handles IPLs. But I needed to do some HCD activities today What a surprise to find rows of servers spewing out so much heat That they had to bring in several of the portable AC unit to keep it cooler than 90% Seems to me that these server

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-24 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/6/24 Barbara Nitz nitz-...@gmx.net What frustrates me most is the absence of a command that will terminate a pid chain (like described above) *without* having to issue a force to each and every process. The numbers aren't really conducive to being analyzed by a human[...] Certainly not

Re: Another one bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread R.S.
Bob Shannon pisze: I don't get into our machine room much as operations handles IPLs. But I needed to do some HCD activities today What a surprise to find rows of servers spewing out so much heat That they had to bring in several of the portable AC unit to keep it cooler than 90% Seems

Re: Security -- STGADMIN

2009-06-24 Thread R.S.
Jim Chappell pisze: Is there any ONE place where ALL of the possible facility class profiles for STGADMIN might be listed/found? No. Unfortunately. However it's much better when you analyze second qualifier. For example STGADMIN.EDG are described in RMM manuals, STGADMIN.ADR are for DSS, etc.

Re: Another one bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread Hal Merritt
HVAC typically comes out of a different cost center / budget. Which is one reason I like competitors embracing this technology. Keeps our sales people happy, too. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Cebell, David Sent:

Re: Any one using JDBC type 4 to access IMS DB??

2009-06-24 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main as well. Tom Longfellow tlongfel...@verizon.net writes: This sounds like an entirely different situation. The thing being replaced in your picture is the communications, not the database

Re: Access to IBM-Main archives (was: SHARE Requirements and IBM)

2009-06-24 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:00:41 -0500, Patrick O'Keefe wrote: Odd. In following Ed's link (that was not wrapped in the original) I get a login popup saying Sorry, you are not authorized to browse the archives of the IBM-MAIN-ARCHIVES list from the email address (patrick.oke...@wamu.net) you

Re: Access to IBM-Main archives (was: SHARE Requirements and IBM)

2009-06-24 Thread Imbriale, Donald
There's IBM-MAIN-ARCHIVES, and then there's the archives of IBM-MAIN. Two separate lists. You need to subscribe to IBM-MAIN-ARCHIVES to access those. Don Imbriale -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Patrick O'Keefe Sent:

Re: Access to IBM-Main archives (was: SHARE Requirements and IBM)

2009-06-24 Thread Greg Shirey
Below is a copy of Darren's post explaining the ARCHIVES archive. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Co. Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Archive access From: Darren Evans-Young dar...@bama.ua.edu Reply-To: dar...@bama.ua.edu Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 10:24:32 -0500 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN I have just made a

Re: Another one bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. bshan...@rocketsoftware.com (Bob Shannon) writes: IBM used to give huge discounts to universities. About 15-20 or so years ago they did away with the discounts

Re: INFOZIP 2Gb

2009-06-24 Thread Shane
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 15:11 -0400, Bob Woodside wrote: (When I can edit my source files directly on z/OS with Nedit, I'll be a happy camper!) I thought Nedit had quietly died a few years back. Nice editor. Shane ... -- For

Re: Another one bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Bob Shannon Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 4:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Another one bites the dust snippage IBM used to give huge discounts to universities. About 15-20 or

Re: Another one bites the dust

2009-06-24 Thread Bob Shannon
IBM has 11 years to convince their management the mainframe is good idea. They didn't succeeded or even didn't try. IBM used to give huge discounts to universities. About 15-20 or so years ago they did away with the discounts and universities started migrating off the mainframe. The few

Re: INFOZIP 2Gb

2009-06-24 Thread Bob Woodside
On Wednesday 24 June 2009, Kirk Wolf wrote: I'm not an nedit user, but why don't you port the nedit server part to z/OS, which should be much simpler and sounds pretty cool to me: Actually, I always use it in client-server mode, with the client (nc) and server (nedit -server) running on

Re: INFOZIP 2Gb

2009-06-24 Thread Bob Woodside
On Wednesday 24 June 2009, Shane wrote: On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 15:11 -0400, Bob Woodside wrote: (When I can edit my source files directly on z/OS with Nedit, I'll be a happy camper!) I thought Nedit had quietly died a few years back. Nice editor. It's still alive on my machines, but

Re: SHARE Requirements and IBM

2009-06-24 Thread Clark Morris
On 24 Jun 2009 13:03:02 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 13:03 -0400, Clark Morris wrote: Back in the 1980's I submitted a group of requirements for SLAC assembler features (duplicate and overlapping USING flagging, listing the usings in header or title line,

Fw: Enterprise COBOL for z/OS V4

2009-06-24 Thread Bill Klein
Not just for Enterprise COBOL, but for all languages that use an LE run-time, it is now and has been for as long as I can remember CRITICAL that the run-time on all systems be at the highest level *before* you start rolling out object code created by higher-level compilers. This goes all the

Fw: Language Environment runtime options and system dumps

2009-06-24 Thread Bill Klein
I would check with any vendor as to whether this is still true (that they can't handle LE dumps). Current software should work with LE and should not need non-normal dumps. If your vendor requires something else, then ask THEM what LE options they expect to be in effect when the dump in THEIR

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-24 Thread Barbara Nitz
What frustrates me most is the absence of a command that will terminate a pid chain (like described above) *without* having to issue a force to each and every process. While pids converted to hex look a lot more readable, as far as I could see, they're shown in decimal, too, when the ps

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