List spam

2011-01-14 Thread Shane Ginnane
Any/every-one else getting spammed by recoveryknowledge ?. Must have been done as a harvesting of the list as both addresses I use to post have been hit. No way I would have signed up (twice) for DB2 paraphernalia. Probably seen it before and just trashed it.

Re: List spam

2011-01-14 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Shane Ginnane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au wrote in message news:1294994009.4d300a5943...@postoffice.tpg.com.au... Any/every-one else getting spammed by recoveryknowledge ?. Must have been done as a harvesting of the list as both addresses I use to post have been hit. No way I would have signed up

Re: List spam

2011-01-14 Thread Stephen Mednick
Shane, Spammed me too using my unique IBM-MAIN subscription email address. Stephen Mednick Computer Supervisory Services Sydney, Australia Asia/Pacific representatives for Innovation Data Processing, Inc. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Master Catalogs (was: z/OS 1.11 upgrade - WLM couple datasets)

2011-01-14 Thread Bruce Hewson
Another religious discussion it really does depend on your environment! For starters, in a sysplex, do you have one MCAT per system, or share MCATs across multiple systems? Next, how much does the new sysres set dataset placement configuration match the old sysres set dataset

Re: List spam

2011-01-14 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Shane Ginnane wrote: Any/every-one else getting spammed by recoveryknowledge ?. Yes. And I wasted precious seconds to review that thing in my Junk folder and delete it. Only 5 and half seconds of my life were wasted to get rid of this bored spammer! ;-D It took me a half minute to write

Re: List spam

2011-01-14 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Vernooij, CP wrote: I hope they respect my unsubscribe. Perhaps not. Your address are now probably marked as 'live' and you will be spammed properly... Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

JES dataset close exit?

2011-01-14 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi Any exit to get the control if a JES(2) dataset closed ? -- 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

Antwort: JES dataset close exit?

2011-01-14 Thread Michael Klaeschen
Hi, may be Exit 33 (SSI Data Set Close, Taken for SYSIN, SYSOUT, or internal reader Close processing) will suit your needs. Cheers Michael Miklos Szigetvari miklos.szigetv...@isis-papyrus.com Gesendet von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu 14.01.2011 12:08 Bitte

Re: DLF - DLFCLASS Using DLF for PDS data?

2011-01-14 Thread Peter Relson
For the most part, you can do whatever you want with DLF or VLF data. But the key word is you. You typically have to be the one that does all the operations. You have to own the service that is called by the user and your service would be what interacts with DLF or VLF. If someone else is

Re: List spam

2011-01-14 Thread Steve Comstock
On 1/14/2011 1:33 AM, Shane Ginnane wrote: Any/every-one else getting spammed by recoveryknowledge ?. Must have been done as a harvesting of the list as both addresses I use to post have been hit. No way I would have signed up (twice) for DB2 paraphernalia. Probably seen it before and just

AUTO: Bill Oczak is out of the office. (returning 01/18/2011)

2011-01-14 Thread Bill Oczak
I am out of the office until 01/18/2011. If your request requires immediate attention, please contact the Mainframe Storage Technical Support phone line at 1-866-866-4488 x1 Note: This is an automated response to your message List spam sent on 1/14/11 2:33:29 AM. This is the only

Re: speculation: z/OS enhancments

2011-01-14 Thread Peter Relson
Rather, a programmer's use of constructs which are not intended or supported should result in JCL errors. Other constructs, presumably intended and supported should be documented as such. It's irresponsibie; it appears that even the authors and implementors couldn't agree on or understand the

AUTO: Bill Oczak is out of the office. (returning 01/18/2011)

2011-01-14 Thread Bill Oczak
I am out of the office until 01/18/2011. If your request requires immediate attention, please contact the Mainframe Storage Technical Support phone line at 1-866-866-4488 x1 Note: This is an automated response to your message Re: List spam sent on 1/14/11 6:57:02 AM. This is the only

Re: Master Catalogs (was: z/OS 1.11 upgrade - WLM couple datasets)

2011-01-14 Thread Jousma, David
Bruce, You bring up good points. I am in the camp of No new MCAT at upgrade time. But, in my case it is easy because we went to all mod-27's for SYSRES volume, so all datasets are always on the same volume, period. New cat entries get added ahead of time, old ones deleted well after the last

Assembler Product Developer - Perm fulltime - S. CA

2011-01-14 Thread Dave Jones
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Re: Master Catalogs (was: z/OS 1.11 upgrade - WLM couple datasets)

2011-01-14 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:00:28 -0600, Bruce Hewson wrote: do you have one MCAT per system, or share MCATs across multiple systems? Next, how much does the new sysres set dataset placement configuration match the old sysres set dataset placement? For the share MCAT set...there is no way!

Re: List spam

2011-01-14 Thread Avram Friedman
I would not consider a rare work related email as a spam attack. Most firms that seek new clients engage in some form of targeted advertising. There are a few things that seperate the email from Recovery Knowelage from spam. 1. Appears to to a rare event. 2. It is targeted and directed ...

Re: List spam

2011-01-14 Thread Stan Weyman
I would agree with you if the rare work related email had been put into this list for all to see. The difference is the company trolled for email addresses and now is sending out emails purporting that I registered/subscribed to their website for product information and, should I no

Re: List spam

2011-01-14 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Stan, I agree. There are always some grey areas (or grey persons, who besides plugging their training company also provide useful contributions ;-)). However this is indiscriminate spanning to z/OS customers including suggesting they have subscribed, while it strictly concerns DB2 and there is

Re: help

2011-01-14 Thread Grinsell, Don
42 ... it's Friday -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444-2983 dgrins...@mt.gov Humans are the best value in computers. Where else can you get a non-linear computer weighing only about 160 pounds, having a billion binary decision elements, that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor?

System Pack vs Starter System + ServerPac

2011-01-14 Thread Greg Smith
We are putting up a new z10 at a facility that does not have any mainframes. I do not think the z10 will have any real tape drives (it will have a vtl). How do we install the operating system? I've been told that IBM is proposing a System Pack installation method. Does anyone know where I can

What level z/OS Unicode supported CUNLINFO?

2011-01-14 Thread Charles Mills
Does anyone know off hand at what level of z/OS did z/OS Unicode services start supporting the CUNLINFO (information retrieval service) call? I know V1R10 does and V1R7 did not. (Yes, I could track down all the manuals in between but hoped someone might happen to know.) Thanks, Charles Mills

Re: What level z/OS Unicode supported CUNLINFO?

2011-01-14 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:03:50 -0800, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Does anyone know off hand at what level of z/OS did z/OS Unicode services start supporting the CUNLINFO (information retrieval service) call? I know V1R10 does and V1R7 did not. (Yes, I could track down all the manuals in

Re: What level z/OS Unicode supported CUNLINFO?

2011-01-14 Thread Charles Mills
Much grass. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Patrick Lyon Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 9:20 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: What level z/OS Unicode supported CUNLINFO? Must have been in V10 because it is

Re: What level z/OS Unicode supported CUNLINFO?

2011-01-14 Thread John P. Baker
Charles, The CUNLINFO information retrieval service is first documented in SA22-7649-10 (z/OS V1R10.0 MVS Support for Unicode: Using Unicode Services). John P. Baker Chief Software Architect HFD Technologies -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Agenda Uploaded for UK GSE Large Systems Meeting 15th Feb 2011

2011-01-14 Thread Mark Wilson
Hi, The agenda for the 15th February 2011 Large Systems Working Group Meeting, hosted by Barclays, Radbrooke Hall, Knutsford has been uploaded and can be found at: lsx.gse.org.uk/future.html We are always looking for speakers or presentation ideas, so if you want to submit an idea or volunteer

Re: speculation: z/OS enhancments

2011-01-14 Thread John Eells
Such posts would be more likely to bear fruit if the poster simply copied mhvr...@us.ibm.com snip I wish first that IBM would clean up the documentation of the existing IF/THEN/ELSE statement: Title: z/OS V1R12.0 MVS JCL Reference Document Number: SA22-7597-14 Build

Re: DLF - DLFCLASS Using DLF for PDS data?

2011-01-14 Thread Ricc Harding
Thanks Ron; I know DLF does not support a PDS directly, but I did not know if the application was doing a dynalloc for the pds(mbr) and reading with QSAM (which the DOC says DLF does support?) The client is only running 3 standalone LPARS without any shared data so the RETAIN appeared to be an OK

Re: speculation: z/OS enhancments

2011-01-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201101131129249475.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 01/13/2011 at 11:29 AM, Neal Eckhardt neckha...@cnyric.org said: Despite its tremendous speed and versatility, the system takes no more floor space than the IBM 704 (2,000 sq. ft.). That's Stretch, which was a completely new design and had

Re: List spam

2011-01-14 Thread Rick Fochtman
---snip-- Any/every-one else getting spammed by recoveryknowledge ?. Must have been done as a harvesting of the list as both addresses I use to post have been hit. No way I would have signed up (twice) for DB2 paraphernalia.

Re: List spam

2011-01-14 Thread Stan Weyman
I would go so far as to say I wouldn't rule a company like this out but I still take some exception to the back door method used to send out their message, after getting their email list (I'm sure they also 'checked' the DB2 list for email addresses as well - among others). I am also a

Re: help

2011-01-14 Thread Stan Weyman
what does Friday have to do with the answer ;-) Stan Weyman Senior Software Engineer stan.wey...@emc.com EMC² (508)249-3966 where information lives It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: List spam

2011-01-14 Thread Bob Rutledge
Shane Ginnane wrote: Any/every-one else getting spammed by recoveryknowledge ?. Yes, but I found it mildly amusing... Hello Deer Recovery Knowledge an IBM Business Partner is offering an unbelievable (No License Charge) discount on all our DB2 Automated Tools to IX Netcom. Bob

Re: System Pack vs Starter System + ServerPac

2011-01-14 Thread Hal Merritt
The business partner and IBM are your friends here. This should be included in the purchase price and should be discussed during the System Assurance. HTH and good luck -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Greg Smith Sent:

Re: z/OS 1.11 upgrade - WLM couple datasets

2011-01-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4d2ea3ac.4040...@acm.org, on 01/13/2011 at 01:03 AM, Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org said: The only thing we allow to be cataloged in the master catalog are datasets on system volumes which are associated with a particular release of MVS. You can do that with a shared master catalog. --

Re: System Pack vs Starter System + ServerPac

2011-01-14 Thread McKown, John
What occurs to me, with a VTL, is to gen a z/OS system at some other location which has a compatible VTL. At the other system which has your z/OS on it, dump the volumes to virtual tapes. Now export those virtual tapes onto physical backstore tapes. Take those tapes to your VTL and load them

Re: List spam

2011-01-14 Thread Linda Mooney
Hi List, Well, I would rule them out, not because they obviously harvested this list - but because they  lied by  claiming that I had subscribed.  T he email address I use for this list is ONLY used for that purpose, never anything else.  So the statement at the end - snip

Re: List spam

2011-01-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201101140850499626.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 01/14/2011 at 08:50 AM, Avram Friedman ibmsysp...@geek-sites.com said: Most firms that seek new clients engage in some form of targeted advertising. Spam is a good way to lose potential business. There are a few things that seperate the

Re: List spam

2011-01-14 Thread Tony Harminc
On 14 January 2011 15:15, Linda Mooney linda.lst...@comcast.net wrote: Well, I would rule them out, not because they obviously harvested this list - but because they  lied by  claiming that I had subscribed.  T he email address I use for this list is ONLY used for that purpose, never

Re: Looking for mainframe e-mail software

2011-01-14 Thread Harris, Randy
I'm not familiar with XMITIP, but we use JES2MAIL and we are very satisfied with it. CASISOFT also does a great job of supporting it. Thanks, Randy Harris Sr. Systems Programmer / DBA Lane Furniture Industries, Inc. Tupelo, MS 38802 Phone: 662-566-3447 rhar...@furniturebrands.com

Re: System Pack vs Starter System + ServerPac

2011-01-14 Thread John Eells
When do you plan to install the new z10? We plan to have the Customized Offerings Driver available on DVD next month. If you need to put the z10 in before that, have the IBM account team contact me directly and I will put them in touch with the people who are supporting an interim DVD-based

IBMJCECCA missing features

2011-01-14 Thread Henrique Seganfredo
I have been successfull in using the WrapperKey class provided with the IBMJCECCA to import private keys stored in a JCEKS keystore into PKDS (JCECCAKS keystore). However, I miss two features: 1) Ability to set my own key label for the PKDS entries - I already have systems that rely in this

Re: help

2011-01-14 Thread Rick Fochtman
Go back to The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy series of books. Rick Stan Weyman wrote: what does Friday have to do with the answer ;-) Stan Weyman Senior Software Engineer stan.wey...@emc.com EMC²

Re: speculation: z/OS enhancments

2011-01-14 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 17:15 -0500 on 01/13/2011, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about Re: speculation: z/OS enhancments: In p06240803c953de77191d@[192.168.1.11], on 01/12/2011 at 06:39 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg hal9...@panix.com said: Mine is to fix/enhance the ENQs for datasets so they include the volume

Re: z/OS 1.11 upgrade - WLM couple datasets

2011-01-14 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 01/14/2011 12:06 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In4d2ea3ac.4040...@acm.org, on 01/13/2011 at 01:03 AM, Joel C. Ewingjcew...@acm.org said: The only thing we allow to be cataloged in the master catalog are datasets on system volumes which are associated with a particular release of

Re: JES dataset close exit?

2011-01-14 Thread Brian Westerman
There are SSI's for them, I think open is 16 and close is 17. Brian -- 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: DLF - DLFCLASS Using DLF for PDS data?

2011-01-14 Thread Ron Hawkins
Ricc, It sounds like you may be able to find out a bit more about the IO profile for this dataset by looking at some of the SMF records - type14 and 15 for the access method, and 42 subtype 6 for the breakout of directory and member access. Then there was the old trick of copying these heavily