Re: Reentrant Programs and Protected Storage

2009-11-19 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4)
Well, well. I amused about the discussion in this thread (no offence intended). So many posts, but still neither the actual abend including the reason, nor the PSW, nor the failing instruction including the analysis what its operands are have been posted. Neither has proof been provided that the

Re: Tapeless???

2009-11-19 Thread R.S.
Howard Brazee pisze: On 18 Nov 2009 07:26:26 -0800, r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl (R.S.) wrote: I heard about (poor in fact) tapeless mainframe shop. Everytime they had to install something from tape it was a nightmare: someone had to visit best colleague shop with tapes and download tape

Re: Image Copies

2009-11-19 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
rr14 rr14r...@gmail.com wrote in message news:9cc3bbe7-a4df-4b1d-a584-e6db2c599...@w19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com ... Hello All, Seeking some advice/input. We are in the process of moving from 3490 to 3592 tapes. For most items we have completed and are implementing a transition to HSM

Re: MQ set trigger and CICS

2009-11-19 Thread Jan MOEYERSONS
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:17:15 +0900, Timothy Sipples timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com wrote: Bill, out of curiosity, why is(are) your CICS region(s) periodically (and apparently for some duration, as your queue fills) not ready? It sounds It does not take much duration to have the issue occur. Just the

SV: Increase allowable length of JCL EXEC PARM value

2009-11-19 Thread Thomas Berg
FWIW, I liked the idea of (also) a new operand for the parm, like: // PARM parmdata Where 'parmdata' have the syntax of: [len in dec,]parmvalue[,parmnumber] 'len in dec' defaults to the length of 'parmvalue'. (If longer than the parmvalue it's padded with blanks.) 'parmnumber' for the

Re: URGENT : DFHSM QUESTION : IEC030I B37-04

2009-11-19 Thread willie bunter
I checked the 2 dsns in question they had reached the 16 extents.  The volume they reside on is practically empty.  I will (double) increase the size of the dsns.   Thanks to all who helped me out.  --- On Wed, 11/18/09, Michael W. Moss mikey.m...@virgin.net wrote: From: Michael W. Moss

Re: Hardware withdrawal: IBM System z9

2009-11-19 Thread Jim Elliott, IBM
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:31:01 -0600, Michael W. Moss mikey.m...@virgin.net wrote: With sub-capacity and the promise of lower software costs via VWLC pricing, would anybody like to comment as to why VWLC pricing isn’t being adopted? Is it ELA/ESSO (IBM Contract) related, or the uncertainty of the

Re: High CPU / channel ovhd w/3592 and DFDSS

2009-11-19 Thread Scott Chapman
Small blocksize maybe? Just a guess. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Re: Are you an extinct dinosaur? Or a proud T-Rexxer?

2009-11-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 005d01ca649c$1836f0d0$48a4d2...@hollander@desertwiz.biz, on 11/13/2009 at 12:01 PM, Norman Hollander on DesertWiz norman.hollan...@desertwiz.biz said: Here is the link http://www.ibmsystemsmagmainframedigital.com/nxtbooks/ibmsystemsmag/mainfram e_20091112/#/44 It appears to require flash,

WPS vs SAS WPS on zLinux

2009-11-19 Thread William Richter
It appears that SAS is getting some competition from WPS http://teamwpc.co.uk/press/press_statement_le_claim WPS licensing their product on zlinux hopefully will give SAS and incentive to do the same. http://www.teamwpc.co.uk/products/wps/platforms/zlinux

Re: High CPU / channel ovhd w/3592 and DFDSS

2009-11-19 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Michael, Check your HSM Activity log for msg. ADR035I, then check the Optimize value. OPTIMIZE(4) will provide you with the least amount of physical I/O. Change the DUMPIO(n) in HSM parmlib if necessary. HTH, Dave O'Brien NIH Contractor From: Michael

Re: compiling Java question - z/OS jar(s) on non-z/OS?

2009-11-19 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 8:46 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: compiling Java question - z/OS jar(s) on non-z/OS? That's why I was asking. I don't

Re: compiling Java question - z/OS jar(s) on non-z/OS?

2009-11-19 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 11:13 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: compiling Java question - z/OS jar(s) on non-z/OS? Raising warning of piracy or some nonsense

Re: Image Copies

2009-11-19 Thread Schumacher, Otto
Yes, image copies are resistered in the DB2 bootstrap datasets. DB2 calls for these datasets when a database recovery is requested. Regards HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account CICS Capacity Technical Support P.O. Box 6462 2000 Wade Hampton Blvd. LC1-302

Re: compiling Java question - z/OS jar(s) on non-z/OS?

2009-11-19 Thread McKown, John
I'm the person (aka fool) who opened this can of worms. And, given what has been said, combined with my desire to not take chances and paranoia, I am not even going to consider trying. This was only for a learning experience for me. Once again, deliberately or not, IBM has made it impossible to

Re: URGENT : DFHSM QUESTION : IEC030I B37-04

2009-11-19 Thread Darth Keller
I checked the 2 dsns in question they had reached the 16 extents. The volume they reside on is practically empty. I will (double) increase the size of the dsns. You do realize that you will still see these dataset's swapping, right? This is normal behavior for HSM and is working as designed

Re: WPS vs SAS WPS on zLinux

2009-11-19 Thread Scott Barry
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:38:22 -0600, William Richter richter...@cox.net wrote: It appears that SAS is getting some competition from WPS http://teamwpc.co.uk/press/press_statement_le_claim WPS licensing their product on zlinux hopefully will give SAS and incentive to do the same.

Re: compiling Java question - z/OS jar(s) on non-z/OS?

2009-11-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a3a2b85f0911182021q3d302e13n6f0bd73022a34...@mail.gmail.com, on 11/18/2009 at 11:21 PM, Tony Harminc tz...@attglobal.net said: and since it is well established that even such transient action is copying under the copyright statues, That falls under the fair use doctrine. IANAL, but I don't

Re: GAM on z/OS R10

2009-11-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4b04d5f5.3000...@henness.org, on 11/19/2009 at 12:21 AM, Tim Henness ibmm...@henness.org said: Problem is, GAM is no longer supported by IBM. Any suggestions would be helpful. The first thing that I would check is the attention index that is present in your 2250[1] UCB's. If that is

Re: Hardware withdrawal: IBM System z9

2009-11-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4b02cbff.6000...@phoenixsoftware.com, on 11/17/2009 at 08:14 AM, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com said: Is there something z9 does that z10 can't? Who will buy z9s with z10s available at the same price? Is there a direct upgrade from, e.g., z890 to z10? -- Shmuel (Seymour

Re: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?

2009-11-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In of0bbe381c.bdfe6aff-on49257672.0026c938-49257672.00293...@us.ibm.com, on 11/18/2009 at 04:30 PM, Timothy Sipples timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com said: JRIO and JZOS are IBM-supplied no additional charge collections of Java methods specifically for (and provided with) the Java SDK for z/OS. They

Re: High CPU / channel ovhd w/3592 and DFDSS

2009-11-19 Thread Michael R. Mayne
This has always been a question - the DFHSM blocksize for BACKUP is (apparently) fixed at 16K, and I know of no way to override it. Any DFHSM experts out there? Thanks. -Mike -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

How to access FIELDS in a RECORD using Java? (was:RE: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?)

2009-11-19 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 8:08 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java? snip I believe that the OP

Re: High CPU / channel ovhd w/3592 and DFDSS

2009-11-19 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
The answer used to be 'No' but that may have changed. Thank You, Dave O'Brien NIH Contractor From: Michael R. Mayne [michael.ma...@hhsys.org] Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 9:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: High CPU / channel ovhd w/3592 and

Re: XMITMGR for 64 Bit Windows?

2009-11-19 Thread Wendell Lovewell
Hi Dennis. I think the 64-bit problem with XMITMGR is a problem with the installation .exe and not with XMITMGR itself. I think I remember having to copy it from a 32-bit Windows PC to my 64-bit PC. There might be a DLL to copy with it--I'm sorry I don't remember. If there was one, you might

Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - MarketWatch

2009-11-19 Thread Ed Finnell
_Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - MarketWatch_ (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/computer-glitch-to-cause-flight-delays-across-us-2 009-11-19) Probably some 4th grader in lower Slobovia playing a slightly modified version of 'Blaster'

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

2009-11-19 Thread esst...@juno.com
They probably moverd off of ACP/TPF to a smaller platform. Typical for a non mainframe Platform -- Original Message -- From: Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - MarketWatch Date: Thu, 19

Antwort: How to access FIELDS in a RECORD using Java? (was:RE: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?)

2009-11-19 Thread Michael Klaeschen
John, may be you'll get happy with pattern matching. Have you checked the java.util.regex package already? Try URL http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/; for example. The classes for pattern matching, also known as regular expressions, are ready to use. Well, from my experiences regular

Re: High CPU / channel ovhd w/3592 and DFDSS

2009-11-19 Thread Hal Merritt
Can't speak to the CPU, but the tape channel utilization may be an indication of the much higher performance tape units. Historically, many tape unit models can consume most of a channel path. The low DASD channel utilization may point to compression for that resource. Perhaps the DASD

Re: Antwort: How to access FIELDS in a RECORD using Java? (was:RE: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?)

2009-11-19 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Klaeschen Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 9:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Antwort: How to access FIELDS in a RECORD using Java? (was:RE: How do __you__ read non-DB

Re: Antwort: How to access FIELDS in a RECORD using Java? (was:RE: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?)

2009-11-19 Thread Kirk Wolf
John, You can definitely download the alphaWorks JZOS version and use it on your PC - check the alphaWorks license included in the package. I don't see how regular expressions apply to this problem. The issue at hand is that Java keeps data in objects; objects have instance variables (slots)

Re: Antwort: How to access FIELDS in a RECORD using Java? (was:RE: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?)

2009-11-19 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Kirk Wolf Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:25 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Antwort: How to access FIELDS in a RECORD using Java? (was:RE: How do __you__ read non-DB

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

2009-11-19 Thread Hal Merritt
The news item mentioned a 'NADIN' failure. A chain of Googles lead to a document dated March, 2005: FAA modernizing National Airspace Data Interchange Network with Stratus ftServer systems; Stratus to provide 10-year logistical and service support The FAA is implementing the Stratus servers,

Re: High CPU / channel ovhd w/3592 and DFDSS

2009-11-19 Thread John Laubenheimer
Two thoughts here. 1) Your new tape drives accept data at a faster rate than your old tape drives. Therfore, you might expect that DFHSM is reading the DASD at a faster rate; hence, DFHSM gets dispatched more frequently. This would increase the apparent CPU utilization of DFHSM. However,

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

2009-11-19 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:48:49 -0600, Hal Merritt hmerr...@jackhenry.com wrote: snip After thorough technology and product evaluations, Stratus was chosen as best able to provide an open platform with 99.999 percent uptime reliability /snip Guess they got their .001.

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

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

Re: Antwort: How to access FIELDS in a RECORD using Java? (was:RE: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?)

2009-11-19 Thread Jon Brock
The next time you start a compile, toss some coins on the floor. The shiny money usually distracts them. Jon snip Unfortunately, I'm now back at my previous problem of can I download this jar to my PC in order to do my compiles (not tests!) using it so that management stays off my back? I

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

2009-11-19 Thread Nemo
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:48:49 -0600, Hal Merritt wrote: The news item mentioned a 'NADIN' failure. A chain of Googles lead to a document dated March, 2005: FAA modernizing National Airspace Data Interchange Network with Stratus ftServer systems; Stratus to provide 10- year logistical and service

Re: GAM on z/OS R10

2009-11-19 Thread Jim Phoenix
Tim, Are you running with UseZosV1R9Rules(Yes) coded? The change in GETMAIN behavior may have uncovered an old bug. With any luck, the bug is in application code you can fix. Tim Henness wrote: Is anyone successfully running GAM/SP (FMID HGA1310) on z/OS R10? For that matter, is anyone

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

2009-11-19 Thread Alex UMX
Well, 99.999% reliability means that 1/1 of the time the thing is not reliable = about 8 hours per year. Not to confuse with z/VM reliability that was 99.99 if I recall it correctly back in 1991 or so for VM/ESA 1.0. cheers, Alex

Re: XMITMGR for 64 Bit Windows?

2009-11-19 Thread Kirk Wolf
It would be very nice, IMO, if there were an open source, portable program to pack and unpack XMITs. Java would be nice, so that a single binary build would serve all comers. Anyone interested in donating/writing something or collaborating? Pointers to existing open code or docs on the format

Re: WPS vs SAS WPS on zLinux

2009-11-19 Thread Kirk Wolf
SAS is a great product with great history; its only natural (and good) for there to be competition. Here's another: http://www.dullesopen.com/products/features On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Scott Barry sba...@sbbworks.com wrote: On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:38:22 -0600, William Richter

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

2009-11-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:33:31 -0600, Alex UMX wrote: Well, 99.999% reliability means that 1/1 of the time the thing is not reliable = about 8 hours per year. Well, 99.999% reliability means that 1/10 of the time the thing is not reliable = about 0.1 hours per year. Not to confuse with

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

2009-11-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Hal Merritt The news item mentioned a 'NADIN' failure. A chain of Googles lead to a document dated March, 2005: FAA modernizing National Airspace Data Interchange Network with Stratus ftServer systems; Stratus to

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

2009-11-19 Thread Mark Pace
When they use the term 5 nines, I always question where the decimal point is? On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Alex UMX lba...@bellatlantic.net wrote: Well, 99.999% reliability means that 1/1 of the time the thing is not reliable = about 8 hours per year. Not to confuse with z/VM

Re: XMITMGR for 64 Bit Windows?

2009-11-19 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Kirk Wolf Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 11:45 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: XMITMGR for 64 Bit Windows? It would be very nice, IMO, if there were an open source,

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

2009-11-19 Thread Hal Merritt
LOL - good catch. Even better, the quoted 'article' sure looked like a press release from Stratus. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Nemo Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 9:08 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re:

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

2009-11-19 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Alex UMX Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 11:34 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch Well, 99.999% reliability

Change system date

2009-11-19 Thread Raquel Calvo Olmos
Hi there, We are doing some tests with date change in our systems. Has anyone tried, through JCL, etc., to change the system date? We would cheat the system to indicate it that we are in other year, for exemple, 2010. Thanks in advanced. Regards, Raquel Calvo.

Re: Change system date

2009-11-19 Thread John Laubenheimer
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:52:50 -0600, Raquel Calvo Olmos raquel_ca...@everis-outsourcing.com wrote: Hi there, We are doing some tests with date change in our systems. Has anyone tried, through JCL, etc., to change the system date? We would cheat the system to indicate it that we are in other

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

2009-11-19 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. lba...@bellatlantic.net (Alex UMX) writes: Well, 99.999% reliability means that 1/1 of the time the thing is not reliable = about 8 hours per year. Not to

Re: OA30702

2009-11-19 Thread Ken Porowski
Fix available PE PTF List:UA49994 UA49993 UA49995 PTF List: Release 740 : UA50896 available 09/11/11 (1000 ) Release 750 : UA50897 available 09/11/11 (1000 ) Release 760 : UA50898 available 09/11/11 (1000 ) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Change system date

2009-11-19 Thread Brian Peterson
For what it's worthHourglass is now an IBM product. http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/hourglass/ Brian On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:06:28 -0600, John Laubenheimer wrote: (snip) There were many date and time testing packages available for Y2K testing ... HOURGLASS 2000, from a company canned

FTP TLS fails.

2009-11-19 Thread Hal Merritt
Cross posted to RACF I am attempting a TLS FTP connection from a PC to the z/os server and getting the following trace entry: BPXF024I (SYSLOGD) Nov 19 17:56:37 TST2 ftps 50331664 : FR0578 270 authClient: init failed with rc = 428 (Key entry does not contain a private key) I believe I am

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

2009-11-19 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
Did I miss the part of the article that said it was an operating system failure? Could it have been a CPU failure? An application failure? A network switch failure? A power failure? How many simultaneous failures does it take to bring down a site? Why was the recovery time so long? And

Re: A big contributor to S/360

2009-11-19 Thread Howard Brazee
On 18 Nov 2009 18:32:07 -0800, shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) wrote: Describing the 1410 as superior to current machines is bizarre, and citing powers of 2 as an example With his SPACE machine, Underwood remembers, you could calculate the powers of 2 with a

Re: WPS vs SAS WPS on zLinux

2009-11-19 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:49:05 -0600, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: SAS is a great product with great history; its only natural (and good) for there to be competition. Here's another: http://www.dullesopen.com/products/features Great. Convert it from one CPU hog to another. :-) I wonder

Re: Change system date

2009-11-19 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:06:28 -0600, John Laubenheimer jlaubenhei...@doitt.nyc.gov wrote: On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:52:50 -0600, Raquel Calvo Olmos raquel_ca...@everis-outsourcing.com wrote: Hi there, We are doing some tests with date change in our systems. Has anyone tried, through JCL, etc., to

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

2009-11-19 Thread Howard Brazee
On 19 Nov 2009 12:05:22 -0800, paulgboul...@aim.com (Paul Gilmartin) wrote: Well, 99.999% reliability means that 1/1 of the time the thing is not reliable = about 8 hours per year. Well, 99.999% reliability means that 1/10 of the time the thing is not reliable = about 0.1 hours per year.

Re: Change system date

2009-11-19 Thread John Laubenheimer
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:08:09 -0600, Mark Zelden mark.zel...@zurichna.com wrote: On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:06:28 -0600, John Laubenheimer jlaubenhei...@doitt.nyc.gov wrote: On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:52:50 -0600, Raquel Calvo Olmos raquel_ca...@everis-outsourcing.com wrote: Hi there, We are doing

Re: Change system date

2009-11-19 Thread Ken Porowski
Would this be for the CA-Top Secret temporary dataset name issue? Ken Porowski VP Mainframe Administration CIT Group E: ken.porow...@cit.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Raquel Calvo Olmos Sent: Thursday, November

Re: Change system date

2009-11-19 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Raquel Calvo Olmos Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 12:53 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Change system date Hi there, We are doing some tests with date change in our

Re: WPS vs SAS WPS on zLinux

2009-11-19 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
So is this Carolina product actually an interpretation of an interpreted language? Do the lights in the data center dim when you merely mention the name? :-) Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent:

Re: Prevent ISMF Access Via RACF

2009-11-19 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
Why are you using a DSS manual to find the details of ISMF? Try the DFSMSdfp Storage Administration manual (SC26-7402-13 for z/OS 1.11). In chapter 14, it says you can limit access to all of ISMF by placing module DGTFMD01 under program control. You should read all the sections dealing with

Re: A big contributor to S/360

2009-11-19 Thread Bill Fairchild
Maybe he should also add in the number of instructions that it takes to IPL the operating system, start JESx, one initiator, etc. In other words, let's compare paper clips to aircraft carriers. Bill Fairchild Software Developer Rocket Software 275 Grove Street * Newton, MA 02466-2272 * USA

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

2009-11-19 Thread Ken Porowski
Tongue in cheek reply. Because we take a perverse pleasure in seeing squatty box failures when the reliability (FSVO reliability) of a Mainframe is called for? Or to keep it on topic. We wish to learn from others mistakes. Unfortunately that would require fairly accurate info so the various

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

2009-11-19 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. Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com writes: for random other drift ... recent posts about old Jim Gray paper that by early 80s, majority of outages had shifted

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

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

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

2009-11-19 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:56:25 -0700, Roach, Dennis (N-GHG) dennis.ro...@lmco.com wrote: Looks like a router failure http://gcn.com/articles/2009/11/19/faa-software-hackers-delays.aspx? s=FAAnewsalert 4 hours to fix a router? Good Grief.

Re: XMITMGR for 64 Bit Windows?

2009-11-19 Thread Roy Hewitt
McKown, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Kirk Wolf Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 11:45 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: XMITMGR for 64 Bit Windows? It would be very nice, IMO, if there were an

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

2009-11-19 Thread Rick Fochtman
Nemo wrote: On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:48:49 -0600, Hal Merritt wrote: The news item mentioned a 'NADIN' failure. A chain of Googles lead to a document dated March, 2005: FAA modernizing National Airspace Data Interchange Network with Stratus ftServer systems; Stratus to provide 10-

Re: Change system date

2009-11-19 Thread Schumacher, Otto
There are products like CA-date and others that set the date for certain jobs/users. These were used for Y2K but are applicable for application year-end testing. Regards HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account CICS Capacity Technical Support P.O. Box 6462 2000 Wade

Re: Change system date

2009-11-19 Thread John Hamman
Compuware has a product called Xpediter/Xchange that allows you to run jobs with a date either in the future or in the past. HTH John Hamman Senior Systems Programmer Information Technologies 601.664.4410 jham...@bcbsms.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: XMITMGR for 64 Bit Windows?

2009-11-19 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Roy Hewitt Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 3:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: XMITMGR for 64 Bit Windows? snip John I know you always like a challange, but wouldnt it

Re: WPS vs SAS WPS on zLinux

2009-11-19 Thread Kirk Wolf
Please, not again. haven't we many times hashed over why Java is not in practice interpreted. For most things, its performance is not that far from C. When Java is slow, its almost always due to poor design (and programmers). Have you looked at the machine code generated by the Java JVM?

Re: Change system date

2009-11-19 Thread Linda Mooney
Hi Raquel, We bought TicToc from ISOGON for Y2K testing and kept it.  It was bought by IBM several years ago and renamed to IBM Application Time Facility for z/OS.  We use it often.  It sets a future or past virtual date for the application to test with and can be used with batch or online

Re: Reentrant Programs and Protected Storage

2009-11-19 Thread Cartier, Arthur J
WWwsswWW - Original Message - From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Wed Nov 18 15:14:23 2009 Subject: Re: Reentrant Programs and Protected Storage I grew up believing that if a program is link edited as reentrant AND

Re: is my job in input queue?

2009-11-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In of818677b6.177ae6fb-on85257562.00459d25-85257562.0045c...@uscmail.uscourts.gov, on 02/19/2009 at 07:42 AM, John Kelly john_j_ke...@ao.uscourts.gov said: You could always use the JES2 SSI (subsystem interface), if allowed. The interface is not specific to JES2. There are several interfaces

Re: Reentrant Programs and Protected Storage -- Resolution/Post Mortem

2009-11-19 Thread David Shein
This problem has been solved. In fulfillment of a promise, here is as much of the explanation as I am permitted to share. As many suspected, this was indeed a SUE (Stupid User Error). The program being directly executed, i.e., via JCL, was not itself failing. The S0C4 was occurring in IBM

Re: XMITMGR for 64 Bit Windows?

2009-11-19 Thread Roy Hewitt
McKown, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Roy Hewitt Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 3:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: XMITMGR for 64 Bit Windows? snip John I know you always like a challange,

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

2009-11-19 Thread Rick Fochtman
-snip- Looks like a router failure http://gcn.com/articles/2009/11/19/faa-software-hackers-delays.aspx?s=FAAnewsalert 4 hours to fix a router? Good Grief.

ICSF

2009-11-19 Thread Meganen Naidoo
Hi all, We want to generate a hash key for a dataset but not encrypt the data using ICSF on z/OS 1.7. Can someone clarify that an entire file (and not just a field, or record within a file) can be processed by the routines CSNBOWH and CSNBOWH1. The Cryptographic Services ICSF Application

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

2009-11-19 Thread Clark Morris
On 19 Nov 2009 14:26:55 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: -snip- Looks like a router failure http://gcn.com/articles/2009/11/19/faa-software-hackers-delays.aspx?s=FAAnewsalert 4 hours to fix a router? Good Grief.

Need info on LE CEECAA (Common Anchor Area)

2009-11-19 Thread Hardee, Charles H
Hello Everyone, I am looking into the fields found in LE's Common Anchor Area (CEECAA). When I assemble the DSECT I get fields mapped from x'000' to x'38F'. This matches the Language Environment Debugging Guide. However, when I run the IPCS LEDATA ALL processor, it maps data out to a

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

2009-11-19 Thread scott
Patrick Lyon wrote: On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:56:25 -0700, Roach, Dennis (N-GHG) dennis.ro...@lmco.com wrote: Looks like a router failure http://gcn.com/articles/2009/11/19/faa-software-hackers-delays.aspx? s=FAAnewsalert 4 hours to fix a router? Good Grief. And no backup?

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

2009-11-19 Thread scott
Hal Merritt wrote: The news item mentioned a 'NADIN' failure. A chain of Googles lead to a document dated March, 2005: FAA modernizing National Airspace Data Interchange Network with Stratus ftServer systems; Stratus to provide 10-year logistical and service support The FAA is

Re: XMITMGR for 64 Bit Windows?

2009-11-19 Thread Brian Westerman
As long as you copy it to the Program Files (X86) directory, it works fine. You don't need to run it any special way. When you first click on a .XMI file, you will have to navigate to that directory (make sure you check always to use that program for that type file) and from then on it will be

Re: Newsgroup now frozen. Closing by 12/31/2009

2009-11-19 Thread Don Poitras
Alexei, I don't see any topics comparable to ibm.software.assemblr or any of the many other mainframe groups. Are they hidden, or is there a plan to add more fora? Alexei Gabler wrote: This Newsgroup is closing. IBM invites participants of this Newsgroup to join one or more of the IBM

Re: compiling Java question - z/OS jar(s) on non-z/OS?

2009-11-19 Thread Timothy Sipples
I don't speak for IBM, but IBM is making it *very* easy to create Java to run on z/OS -- including Java which uses z/OS-only methods. The jar files are available, as Kirk noted, at no additional charge. You can compile on or off your mainframe -- and, at least on your mainframe, almost certainly

SMF Record Exits

2009-11-19 Thread John P. Baker
I am writing an SMF Record Exit to intercept SMF Record Type 80 (Security) records for additional processing. Is IEFU83 sufficient, or do I also need IEFU84 and/or IEFU85? John P. Baker -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

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2009-11-19 Thread Briendan Friel
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Re: MQ set trigger and CICS

2009-11-19 Thread Timothy Sipples
Jantje writes: It does not take much duration to have the issue occur. Just the time to bounce a CICS (even if it takes only a minute) can be enough. Been there... Yes, agreed. It depends on the incoming message rate, the size of the incoming messages, and how far the queue can back up. Those

Re: Hardware withdrawal: IBM System z9

2009-11-19 Thread Timothy Sipples
Shmuel Metz asks: Is there a direct upgrade from, e.g., z890 to z10? Yes. And that particular upgrade is *not* being withdrawn effective June 30, 2010. There is currently no withdrawal date for that upgrade. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Based in Tokyo,

Re: ICSF

2009-11-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
It's certainly possible; GIMZIP and SMP/E use this to generate and verify checksums of their pax.Z files. the interface is described in: Linkname: 2.3.6.2 z/OS V1R10.0 ICSF Application Programmer's Guide URL: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/csfb4z90/2.3.6.2

Re: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?

2009-11-19 Thread Timothy Sipples
Come on, guys. You can keep complaining if you want, but let's complain about the real stuff, OK? Let me summarize: 1. IBM charges zero for sub-peak monthly 4HRA CPU usage. z/OS JAVAC tirekicking has *got* to be exactly the sort of work that's sub-peak. (And if it isn't, you're really doing

Re: Reentrant Programs and Protected Storage

2009-11-19 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4)
WWwsswWW And this means what? -- Peter Hunkeler Credit Suisse -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at