Re: KEY8 CSA: Pro/JCL and Info/XE

2007-07-25 Thread Craddock, Chris
Ed Jaffe asks... > Out of curiosity, which software products allocate CSA in keys A- > F? I know of one major vendor's storage management product that right up until the last time I looked (more than a year ago) ran in key 10 (X'A0') and used a bunch of CSA in key 10. The developers thought it was

Re: Mainframe shops held hostage, Itanium alliance says

2007-07-25 Thread Rick Fochtman
Howard Brazee wrote: On 25 Jul 2007 13:27:47 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown, John) wrote: While I appreciate everyone's appreciation, I like John's analogy best. :) Yeah I'd like to see a step van carrying an Abrams tank. It is simple. Disassemble it at the source

ibm-main@bama.ua.edu

2007-07-25 Thread Barbara Nitz
>Don't know if that's it what your are looking for, these are the messages >showing the console names at ipl. IEA630I OPERATOR *SYSLG0S NOW ACTIVE, SYSTEM=CP25 , LU=*SYSLG0S IEA630I OPERATOR *DICNS0S NOW ACTIVE, SYSTEM=CP25 , LU=*DICNS0S IEA630I OPERATOR *ROUTE0S NOW ACTIVE, SYSTEM=CP25 , LU=ROU

It used to be bits were either on or off now....

2007-07-25 Thread Ed Gould
<http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070725/tc_nm/ quantum_computing_dc_1;_ylt=Ap_vjcqDm0wY6_fhbxqMXcEE1vAI< -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: G

Plex migration

2007-07-25 Thread Magen
Hi All, We are a 30 years MF organization in the finance area. We are thinking of migrating into CICS Plex environment (as part of Parallel Sysplex Data Sharing) in order to improve availability and performance. The problem is that a big part of our application projects were written with CICS

Re: PDS to SEQ and back to PDS

2007-07-25 Thread WalterR
Earnie Allen wrote: We have PDSMAN in-shop, but I do not believe I can use it for this particular change because not only is the ACCT info different in most cases, but also because there does not now exist any "standard" ACCT field info to key on and do the replace. Thus the need for the projec

Re: sysprog demand

2007-07-25 Thread Steve Comstock
Stephen Mednick wrote: I don't know where you are situated at the moment but there always seems to be a demand in some of the Asia/Pacific areas, Singapore, Hong Kong etc. Maybe you should learn Chinese. H. Any application programmer training leads? I've taught in Singapore, sold course ma

Re: PDS to SEQ and back to PDS

2007-07-25 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 25, 2007, at 5:37 PM, Kenneth E Tomiak wrote: --SNIP--- Consider what the requirement is. Someone trying to mass edit a bunch of members has a hard time convincing me an outage from using a free method to make multiple changes requires a ven

Re: PSI MIPS

2007-07-25 Thread Clark Morris
On 24 Jul 2007 21:40:20 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main Timothy Sipples wrote: > >William Richter writes: >>Internal customers do not ask your question, "How do you measure the total > >>performance of the whole IT organization?" >>They are really only interested in the total cost of acquistion or

Re: Secure clist

2007-07-25 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 25, 2007, at 2:01 PM, Mark H. Young wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:40:09 -0400, Carroll, William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there any way to secure certain clist from unauthorized use? For example if I don't want applications to get into the wlm, Application, how would I do it? If it

Re: sysprog demand

2007-07-25 Thread Stephen Mednick
I don't know where you are situated at the moment but there always seems to be a demand in some of the Asia/Pacific areas, Singapore, Hong Kong etc. Maybe you should learn Chinese. Stephen Mednick Computer Supervisory Services Sydney, Australia > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe

Re: sysprog demand

2007-07-25 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>Is there a city/country in the world with a real shortage of M/F sysprogs? We always think so. But, I have been dumped twice in the last three years! - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arc

Re: sysprog demand [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2007-07-25 Thread Fenner, Jim
Hi Rez, In principle, you only need one job, and a vacancy is where and when you find it. Some sysprog could overdose on the weekend and shuffle off his/her mortal coil, creating a vacancy that you can fill Monday. It's life on the ocean wave. You could approach an multi-national outsourc

sysprog demand

2007-07-25 Thread r hey
Is there a city/country in the world with a real shortage of M/F sysprogs? TIA, Rez Ready for the edge of your seat? Check out tonight's top picks on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/

Re: Spam from SHARE

2007-07-25 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:38:47 -0700, Schwarz, Barry A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is anyone else receiving spam from SHARE on behalf of various vendors. >One or two more and I'll be angry enough to look up how to block the >entire domain. > >Instead of wasting my time with this garbage, maybe the

Spam from SHARE

2007-07-25 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
Is anyone else receiving spam from SHARE on behalf of various vendors. One or two more and I'll be angry enough to look up how to block the entire domain. Instead of wasting my time with this garbage, maybe they could fix the web scheduling tools which consistently refuse to show more than a fract

Re: PDS to SEQ and back to PDS

2007-07-25 Thread Kenneth E Tomiak
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:40:32 -0500, Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Jul 24, 2007, at 10:04 PM, Kenneth E Tomiak wrote: > > >Yea but are they supported 24x7 ? Or do you get a response well maybe >in the next few weeks I will get a chance to look at it etc. > >Cost is not important when yo

Re: SDSF z/OS 1.7 Quirk

2007-07-25 Thread Kenneth E Tomiak
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:28:19 -0500, Mark H. Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >We just IPL'd our sand box with z/OS 1.7 and are muddling thru. One thing >I've noticed though, is in SDSF from the: > >HQX7720 - SDSF PRIMARY OPTION MENU - - > >At the bottom of the s

Re: Compare two disk files

2007-07-25 Thread Kenneth E Tomiak
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:21:44 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:27:27 +0100, Terry Sambrooks wrote: >> >>Historically IEBCOMPR gave up if there were 10 consecutive errors, and I >>believe it still does. >> >What's an "error"? SYNAD entered? I'd give up on o

Mainframe shops held hostage, Itanium alliance says

2007-07-25 Thread Phil Smith III
http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid80_gci1265623,00.html?track=NL-576&ad=598271&asrc=EM_NLT_1860635&uid=5437138 I'm just the messenger, put down the gun... ...phsiii -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arch

Re: Mainframe shops held hostage, Itanium alliance says

2007-07-25 Thread Matthew Stitt
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:27:31 -0500, McKown, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chase, John >> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 3:23 PM >> To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU >> Subject: Re: Mainframe sho

Re: Mainframe shops held hostage, Itanium alliance says

2007-07-25 Thread Jeffrey D. Smith
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of McKown, John > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 3:00 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Mainframe shops held hostage, Itanium alliance says > > > -Original Message- > > From:

Re: Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?

2007-07-25 Thread David Andrews
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 16:39 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > > No, they're releasing a threading library (which I doubt will be of much > > value to us here). > > Why not? GCC under z/Linux + TBB should work I yield! (I generally wear my z/OS hat when I'm perusing ibm-main and my Linux hat

Re: Mainframe shops held hostage, Itanium alliance says

2007-07-25 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 3:55 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Mainframe shops held hostage, Itanium alliance says > > > On 25 Jul 2007 13:27:47 -0700, [E

SearchDataCenter Article

2007-07-25 Thread Kopischke, David G.
MAINFRAME SHOPS HELD HOSTAGE, ITANIUM ALLIANCE SAYS Mark Fontecchio, News Writer After joining the Mainframe Migration Alliance this week, an Itanium Solutions Alliance spokesperson discusses why migrating off the mainframe to Itanium is a sound choice. http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/qna/

Re: SYSVIEW 11.5

2007-07-25 Thread Scott Barry
Hello, I am curious if you are using the SYSVIEW-generated SMF 110 (CMF-like subtype 1, transaction and dictionary information) records, or are you using the native SYSVIEW CICS data for reporting? And are you generating these transaction reports directly from SYSVIEW or from another reporting

Re: Mainframe shops held hostage, Itanium alliance says

2007-07-25 Thread Howard Brazee
On 25 Jul 2007 13:27:47 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown, John) wrote: >> > While I appreciate everyone's appreciation, I like John's >> > analogy best. :) >> >> Yeah I'd like to see a step van carrying an Abrams tank. >> > >It is simple. Disassemble it at the source, ship it quickly and

Re: Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?

2007-07-25 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Warner Mach wrote: Intel is going to open-source a C++ compiler for parallel Processing: http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/5894 I believe that's not quite it... they are not throwing out a compiler, but a C++ library. They are open-sourcing the C++ template library used for implementin

Re: SYSVIEW 11.5

2007-07-25 Thread Gerhard Adam
Mark: Contact me off-line for more specifics and I'll see what I can do to help. Adam - Original Message - From: "Mark Steely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 8:46 AM Subject: SYSVIEW 11.5 I know this is a long shot, but I ne

Re: Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?

2007-07-25 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
> -Original Message- > From: David Andrews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 4:30 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard? > > On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 16:15 -0400, Warner Mach wrote: > > Intel is going to open-source a C++ c

Re: Mainframe shops held hostage, Itanium alliance says

2007-07-25 Thread Campbell Jay
Cessna will be welding 26,000 Cessna 180's together in an effort to compete with the military's C-5 cargo jets... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message:

Re: Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?

2007-07-25 Thread David Andrews
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 16:15 -0400, Warner Mach wrote: > Intel is going to open-source a C++ compiler for parallel Processing No, they're releasing a threading library (which I doubt will be of much value to us here). -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mainframe shops held hostage, Itanium alliance says

2007-07-25 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chase, John > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 3:23 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Mainframe shops held hostage, Itanium alliance says > > > > -Original Message- > > Fr

Re: Mainframe shops held hostage, Itanium alliance says

2007-07-25 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gary Green > >> -Original Message- > >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]','','','')">[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of > >> Gary Green > >> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 2:17 PM > >>

Re: Compare two disk files

2007-07-25 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
> -Original Message- > From: Chris Steffens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 11:18 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Compare two disk files > > Does anyone know of a slick (accurate) way to compare two files which > reside on two seperate tapes? Chris, the

Re: Mainframe shops held hostage, Itanium alliance says

2007-07-25 Thread Gary Green
While I appreciate everyone's appreciation, I like John's analogy best. :) >> -Original Message- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]','','','')">[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Green >> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 2:17 PM >> To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU >> Subj

Re: Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?

2007-07-25 Thread Warner Mach
Intel is going to open-source a C++ compiler for parallel Processing: http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/5894 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message

Re: Mainframe shops held hostage, Itanium alliance says

2007-07-25 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Green > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 2:17 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Mainframe shops held hostage, Itanium alliance says > > > Interview about why everyone should migr

Re: Mainframe shops held hostage, Itanium alliance says

2007-07-25 Thread Richards.Bob
Gary, Thanks! I needed a good laugh this afternoon. There is so much factually wrong in that article, it was amusing. And at the bottom, there is a link to a CA article by Vincent Re that counters some of it, especially when you look at the Top 10 reasons link he has for staying with the mainframe

Re: Mainframe shops held hostage, Itanium alliance says

2007-07-25 Thread Bob Shannon
>Interview about why everyone should migrate away from the mainframe. Sure. And who is the Mainframe Migration Alliance? It's every vendor who wants to steal IBM's mainframe customers. Click the "Membership Directory". IMO this article is FUD and the Mainframe Migration Alliance is bogus. Bob S

Re: PDS to SEQ and back to PDS.... Check the CBT Tape for LISTPDS

2007-07-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:28:35 -0500, John P Kalinich wrote: > >The OFFLOAD subcommand offloads members of a PDS to a member of >a PDS or a sequential data set. An IEBUPDTE "./ ADD NAME=" >control statement is added before each output member and ISPF >statistics are included for use by the PDSLOAD p

Re: Compare two disk files

2007-07-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:27:27 +0100, Terry Sambrooks wrote: > >Historically IEBCOMPR gave up if there were 10 consecutive errors, and I >believe it still does. > What's an "error"? SYNAD entered? I'd give up on one of those. -- gil

Re: Secure clist

2007-07-25 Thread Anthony Saul Babonas
ummm, so what if someone copies it into their own clist lib, modifies the id check code, then runs it? Been there..had to be there actually. we had an oldie where the original developer went off to other pursuits. my id was not authorized..45 seconds later it was. locks are meant to kee

Mainframe shops held hostage, Itanium alliance says

2007-07-25 Thread Gary Green
Interview about why everyone should migrate away from the mainframe. http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid80_gci1265623,00.html?track=NL-576&ad=598271&asrc=EM_NLT_1860635&uid=1900046 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Compare two disk files

2007-07-25 Thread Galambos, Robert
Chris If you have File-AID MVS you can do a simple compare, compare two different types of files, compare without most if not all false positives, compare with record layouts, compare with different output files, only those fields that are different, comparisons with tolerances, read ahead

Re: Unable to display Extended characters (aka Spanish) in SDSF

2007-07-25 Thread Tony Harminc
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:23:41 -0500, Chase, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Chauhan, Jasbir >> >> John, Are you suggesting there is a separate code page for >> SDSF and ISPF. I'm using ISPF as an example here because

Re: Secure clist

2007-07-25 Thread Mark H. Young
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:40:09 -0400, Carroll, William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there any way to secure certain clist from unauthorized use? >For example if I don't want applications to get into the wlm, >Application, how would I do it? If it can be done. >Thanks In Advance. > > > > >Bill Ca

Re: SDSF z/OS 1.7 Quirk

2007-07-25 Thread Dave Kopischke
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:55:18 -0500, Mark H. Young wrote: > >What I've got to figure out is why it sometimes slips into that mode on my >z/OS 1.4 system, clear out of the blue. It's nice to now know how to fix it >quick, but WHY does it happen to begin with? Oh, another mystery. So it's >off on

Re: PDS to SEQ and back to PDS.... Check the CBT Tape for LISTPDS

2007-07-25 Thread John P Kalinich
William Smith of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 07/25/2007 12:55:12 PM: > Also, and I'm not sure if it's in the free version of PDSTOOLS - but I know > it's in StarTool from Serena, there is a subcommand "SEPARATE" that will > (and quoting the manual) ". . . splits a member or data se

Re: Compare two disk files

2007-07-25 Thread Terry Sambrooks
Hi, In response to a recent post on how to compare two files on tape, several people recommended IEBCOMPR. Last time I read the Utilities Manual the section on IEBCOMPR recommended SUPER-C instead of IEBCOMPR. Historically IEBCOMPR gave up if there were 10 consecutive errors, and I believe it st

Re: Unable to display Extended characters (aka Spanish) in SDSF

2007-07-25 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Chauhan, Jasbir > > John, Are you suggesting there is a separate code page for > SDSF and ISPF. I'm using ISPF as an example here because the > raw data (pds)does show extended attributes when browsed. Though I am b

Re: Is a page protected?--how to determine

2007-07-25 Thread Wayne Driscoll
How do you define a "brief" update? Especially in computer time with the current processors? Better technique would be to reload the module into dynamic LPA than turn off protection, modify, turn on protection, I would think. Wayne Driscoll Product Developer JME Software LLC NOTE: All opinions

Re: Unable to display Extended characters (aka Spanish) in SDSF

2007-07-25 Thread Chauhan, Jasbir
John, Are you suggesting there is a separate code page for SDSF and ISPF. I'm using ISPF as an example here because the raw data (pds)does show extended attributes when browsed. Regards, Jasbir -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: Is a page protected?--how to determine

2007-07-25 Thread Knutson, Sam
The MVS monitors I know about that support storage viewing and alteration allow for this. Some like TMONMVS automatically fix an LPA pages which is being modified. SYSVIEW is aware of the status and will prompt you to page fix it yourself " DUMP025W ALTER not valid, address 0933B002 is page protec

Re: Is a page protected?--how to determine

2007-07-25 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
That's why some (older) vendor code was required to be loaded into FLPA with no page protect. Jon L. Veilleux [EMAIL PROTECTED] (860) 636-2683 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 1:55

Re: Secure clist

2007-07-25 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 25, 2007, at 12:42 PM, Anthony Saul Babonas wrote: DASDVOL profiles can help here.. This was before that option. Ed -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 12:21 PM To

Re: Secure clist

2007-07-25 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 25, 2007, at 12:42 PM, Phil Kingston wrote: Then should you not protect ICKDSF itself? How... at the time there was no security bult into ICKDSF. If your authorised to run it in batch, then why not through TSO. They weren't authorized to run it in batch. Protect ICKDSF from unauth

PDS to SEQ and back to PDS.... Check the CBT Tape for LISTPDS

2007-07-25 Thread William Smith
A real oldie but goodie is the famous "LISTPDS" assembler program written by Gene Czarcinski of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in the early 70s for the 360/95 when he was its system programmer. Bill Godfrey, my former office mate at PRC at Goddard back in the 70s, added some nice enhancements.

Re: Is a page protected?--how to determine

2007-07-25 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 12:28 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Is a page protected?--how to determine > > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:08:42 -0500 Paul Sch

Re: Secure clist

2007-07-25 Thread Phil Kingston
Then should you not protect ICKDSF itself? If your authorised to run it in batch, then why not through TSO. Protect ICKDSF from unauthorised users rather than execs? Phil. z/OS Systems Programming Consultant Website www.zostek.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion L

Re: Secure clist

2007-07-25 Thread Anthony Saul Babonas
DASDVOL profiles can help here.. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 12:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Secure clist On Jul 25, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Wayne Driscoll wrote:

Re: Compare two disk files

2007-07-25 Thread Frank Yaeger
Binyamin Dissen wrote on 07/25/2007 08:41:30 AM: > DFSORT can do a line compare, detecting inserts, reformats and deletes? You can use the SPLICE function of DFSORT's ICETOOL to do various types of "matching". For some examples, see the "Create files with matching and non-matching records" Smart

Re: Is a page protected?--how to determine

2007-07-25 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:08:42 -0500 Paul Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :>On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:27:15 -0400, Peter Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :> :>>OK, I'll bite. Why do you "need to determine"? :>> :>>If you have any reason to think that the page is protected (presumably :>>because yo

Re: DSPSERV

2007-07-25 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:51:32 -0500, Tom Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:30:44 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: > >>There's just a tad bit of virtual storage up there to use. By default it >>is 510T. ;-) But for a vendor to use it, they must ensure a minimum >>OS level of z/

Re: Secure clist

2007-07-25 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 25, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Wayne Driscoll wrote: But what was purpose of this? Was there a security exposure identified? If so, what was it? Or was it a case of "well, it's always been done this way." Wayne Driscoll Product Developer JME Software LLC NOTE: All opinions are strictly my ow

Re: Unable to display Extended characters (aka Spanish) in SDSF

2007-07-25 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Chauhan, Jasbir > > Running z/OS 1.7 -- Ran a job that creates Letters in > Spanish. These Letters do print in Spanish, when sent to a > printer -- but when displayed in SDSF, the extended > attributes are missing.

Re: Is a page protected?--how to determine

2007-07-25 Thread Paul Schuster
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:27:15 -0400, Peter Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >OK, I'll bite. Why do you "need to determine"? > >If you have any reason to think that the page is protected (presumably >because you did it or might have done it), then you can just unprotect it. >A page does not need to

Unable to display Extended characters (aka Spanish) in SDSF

2007-07-25 Thread Chauhan, Jasbir
Running z/OS 1.7 -- Ran a job that creates Letters in Spanish. These Letters do print in Spanish, when sent to a printer -- but when displayed in SDSF, the extended attributes are missing. Any ideas. Regards, Jasbir -- For IBM-MA

Re: SDSF z/OS 1.7 Quirk

2007-07-25 Thread Mark H. Young
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:36:04 -0400, Earnie Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Yeah.. noticed that ... later. > >We didn't experience that when we went to 1.7 .. or when going to 1.8 a >couple of weeks or so ago. > > > >Earnie Allen >Senior Systems Programmer >MVS Systems Software What I've got to

Re: Compare two disk files

2007-07-25 Thread Reda, John
If you are a SyncSort 1.2 customer. There is a simple 2 step application that will create 3 files: additions, deletions and inserted records. If you would like further information on how to do this please contact me offline and I will send you a manual which demonstrates how to do this using the

Re: DSPSERV

2007-07-25 Thread Edward Jaffe
Mark Zelden wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:56:00 -0500, McKown, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm likely insane, but I'd like to see some "common storage" like [E]CSA in the above the bar area. Simple SAM64 to switch to AMODE(64), store the data, then SAMxx to go back to 31 or 24 bit amode.

Re: DSPSERV

2007-07-25 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:30:44 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: >There's just a tad bit of virtual storage up there to use. By default it >is 510T. ;-) But for a vendor to use it, they must ensure a minimum >OS level of z/OS 1.5. Since 1.6 EOS is September, developing something >new that uses shared s

Re: Mailing lists / online forums for IBM mainframers

2007-07-25 Thread Mark Vitale
Eric, DB-L is at [EMAIL PROTECTED] VMESA-L has morphed into IBMVM at LISTSERV.UARK.EDU -mark > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Loriaux > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 10:27 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject:

Re: SDSF z/OS 1.7 Quirk

2007-07-25 Thread Earnie Allen
Yeah.. noticed that ... later. We didn't experience that when we went to 1.7 .. or when going to 1.8 a couple of weeks or so ago. Earnie Allen Senior Systems Programmer MVS Systems Software WORLDSPAN, LP Phone: 404-322-2799 FAX: 404-322-4653 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember: It takes teamw

Re: SDSF z/OS 1.7 Quirk

2007-07-25 Thread Mark H. Young
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:38:33 -0400, Earnie Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >For just such times as that (rare cases where for some reason the command >line shows up other than where I expect) .. I have a couple of clists that >I store in a system SYSPROC library. > >If my command line is at the

Re: SDSF z/OS 1.7 Quirk

2007-07-25 Thread Mark H. Young
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:33:49 -0500, Mark Steely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From the SDSF command line type in SETTINGS. Then remove the / from the >command line at bottom. > >Thank You > YES, that worked just fine. I am a hater of bottom of the page command lines. So the *menu* from the tool

Re: DSPSERV

2007-07-25 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:56:00 -0500, McKown, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm likely insane, but I'd like to see some "common storage" like [E]CSA >in the above the bar area. Simple SAM64 to switch to AMODE(64), store >the data, then SAMxx to go back to 31 or 24 bit amode. > There's just a t

Re: SDSF z/OS 1.7 Quirk

2007-07-25 Thread Mark H. Young
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:33:53 -0400, Earnie Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Mark ... that ISPF "quirk" ... > >If you have a ISPF Primary Option of '0', you should be able to correct that. > >0 Settings Terminal and user parameters > > > > >Earnie Allen >Senior Systems Programmer >MVS System

One Good Thing about IBMLink

2007-07-25 Thread Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I notice that lately (I believe this behavior is new), the E-mail updates that I receive of PMR updates have the Abstract appended to the Subject header. This is useful. I'll let others worry about whether they can access IBMLink to view the update. BTW, I notice that AST notifies me that PQ9624

Re: Secure clist

2007-07-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:51:11 -0500, Walt Farrell wrote: >On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:39:03 -0400, Lizette Koehler >>Under RACF I have placed a CLIST in a secured data set and had RACF set to >>EXEC rather than READ on the data set. >>Seemed to work and it did not impact the usage of the CLIST. > >I can

Re: DSPSERV

2007-07-25 Thread Rick Fochtman
-- I'm likely insane, but I'd like to see some "common storage" like [E]CSA in the above the bar area. Simple SAM64 to switch to AMODE(64), store the data, then SAMxx to go back to 31 or 24 bit amode. John, I do

Re: Secure clist

2007-07-25 Thread Rick Fochtman
I can believe that would work for a data set in SYSPROC, but I believe it would not work for SYSEXEC. It still has the problem that Binyamin noted, though. You really need to protect access to the data or functions the CLIST performs, as otherwise the u

Re: Z/Journal issue June/July 2007

2007-07-25 Thread Rick Fochtman
-- My boomerang won't come back. :-D - How's that wad of gum on the bedpost, John? :-D -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access i

Re: DSPSERV

2007-07-25 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Scott > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 10:49 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: DSPSERV > > > Ed > > I thought that a CADS approach to intercepting SMF records > was approp

Re: Secure clist

2007-07-25 Thread Walt Farrell
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:39:03 -0400, Lizette Koehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Under RACF I have placed a CLIST in a secured data set and had RACF set to >EXEC rather than READ on the data set. > >Seemed to work and it did not impact the usage of the CLIST. I can believe that would work for a da

Re: DSPSERV

2007-07-25 Thread Rob Scott
Ed I thought that a CADS approach to intercepting SMF records was appropriate - like you I would not recommend a blanket replacement of ECSA with CADS. Using CADS as a intercept record buffer from IEFU8x has a fairly short path-length and is a safe method of performing this specific task - ther

Re: Z/Journal issue June/July 2007

2007-07-25 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John Eells > > [ snip ] > > So while you can complain to us about nearly anything (smile), . . . My boomerang won't come back. :-D -jc- -- Fo

SYSVIEW 11.5

2007-07-25 Thread Mark Steely
I know this is a long shot, but I need some help and not a lot of time. We use SYSVIEW to cut CICS records. Sysview 11,5 was installed and we noticed 3 month later that the reports that we generate to record transaction count, response time, and number of transactions stopped working. This is when

Re: Compare two disk files

2007-07-25 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:32:41 -0600 Howard Brazee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :>On 25 Jul 2007 08:22:06 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Binyamin Dissen) :>wrote: :>>:>Does anyone know of a slick (accurate) way to compare two files which reside :>>:>on two seperate tapes? :>>Simple equal/not equal? IEB

Re: DSPSERV

2007-07-25 Thread Edward Jaffe
Rob Scott wrote: By the way, I applaud your decision to convert ECSA usage to a CADS - that is a sensible solution. Personally, I don't like SCOPE=COMMON data spaces (CADS). Exceeding MAXCAD requires an IPL. (The default is 50.) And, don't forget the maximum number of entries in a PASN-AL

Re: SDSF z/OS 1.7 Quirk

2007-07-25 Thread Earnie Allen
For just such times as that (rare cases where for some reason the command line shows up other than where I expect) .. I have a couple of clists that I store in a system SYSPROC library. If my command line is at the BOTTOM and I want it on TOP ... (CMDLNTOP) PROC 0 SET &ZPLACE = ASIS ISPEXEC VPUT

Re: SDSF z/OS 1.7 Quirk

2007-07-25 Thread Mark Steely
Trust me ...that's how I took care of that problem here. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Earnie Allen Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 10:34 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SDSF z/OS 1.7 Quirk Mark ... that ISPF "quirk

Re: SDSF z/OS 1.7 Quirk

2007-07-25 Thread Mark Steely
>From the SDSF command line type in SETTINGS. Then remove the / from the command line at bottom. Thank You -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark H. Young Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 10:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject:

Re: SDSF z/OS 1.7 Quirk

2007-07-25 Thread Earnie Allen
Mark ... that ISPF "quirk" ... If you have a ISPF Primary Option of '0', you should be able to correct that. 0 Settings Terminal and user parameters Earnie Allen Senior Systems Programmer MVS Systems Software WORLDSPAN, LP Phone: 404-322-2799 FAX: 404-322-4653 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Compare two disk files

2007-07-25 Thread Howard Brazee
On 25 Jul 2007 08:22:06 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Binyamin Dissen) wrote: >:>Does anyone know of a slick (accurate) way to compare two files which reside >:>on two seperate tapes? > >Simple equal/not equal? IEBCOMPR. > >More complex? ISPF source compare can run batch. More complex comparisons ca

SDSF z/OS 1.7 Quirk

2007-07-25 Thread Mark H. Young
We just IPL'd our sand box with z/OS 1.7 and are muddling thru. One thing I've noticed though, is in SDSF from the: HQX7720 - SDSF PRIMARY OPTION MENU -- At the bottom of the screen, we have: COMMAND INPUT ===> S

Re: Compare two disk files

2007-07-25 Thread Mark Jacobs
Wouldn't IEBCOMPR work? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Steffens Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 11:18 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Compare two disk files Does anyone know of a slick (accurate) way to compare two

Re: Compare two disk files

2007-07-25 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:18:03 -0500 Chris Steffens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :>Does anyone know of a slick (accurate) way to compare two files which reside :>on two seperate tapes? Simple equal/not equal? IEBCOMPR. More complex? ISPF source compare can run batch. -- Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PRO

Compare two disk files

2007-07-25 Thread Chris Steffens
Does anyone know of a slick (accurate) way to compare two files which reside on two seperate tapes? Thank you -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: G

Re: Secure clist

2007-07-25 Thread Wayne Driscoll
But what was purpose of this? Was there a security exposure identified? If so, what was it? Or was it a case of "well, it's always been done this way." Wayne Driscoll Product Developer JME Software LLC NOTE: All opinions are strictly my own. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Disc

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