Re: Managing system logger data

2008-01-31 Thread Ed Gould
On Jan 31, 2008, at 6:58 PM, Skip Robinson wrote: ---SNIP--- Here's the problem. IFASMFDL does most of what IFASMFDP does (and more), but what it *doesn't* do is clear out the dumped SMF data. In other words, after archiving the contents of a log stream to a flat file,

Re: Job ad for z/OS systems programmer trainee

2008-01-31 Thread Ed Gould
On Jan 31, 2008, at 2:13 PM, Gary Green wrote: Well, all us write in our resumes that we "look for a challenge". From that position profile, I can't think of anything more challenging. :) Would you really take that type of a job... out in the middle of a desert and LA is a good 90 miles

Re: identify sas usage by component

2008-01-31 Thread Ed Gould
On Jan 31, 2008, at 11:02 AM, Gary Green wrote: I have not followed this thread so forgive if this was covered earlier... Speaking off the top of my head (yeah, I know, I know...) I need to leave aside the fact that any change to an OEM's SMF record requires tweaking of any vendor record spe

Re: OT 1TB Drive and 37 hours

2008-01-31 Thread Brian Westerman
I have two of them and neither took over 3 hours to format. I noticed that they had accepted the auto update of Vista, which was pretty dumb of them in the first place, and that appears to be what caused their problem. I replaced 2 WD 500GB drives with these, and while I thought they were very qu

Re: Data Erasure Products

2008-01-31 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen Mednick) writes: > it's not a case of how valuable the data is, more importantly it's to > do with what the security classification is that has been assigned to > the data. Depending on the data's security classification dictates the > media overwriting/sanitisation metho

Re: Data Erasure Products

2008-01-31 Thread Stephen Mednick
> Stephan: > > It comes down purely (IMO) how valuable the data is. If its > nuclear bomb data (or the like) then I would suggest that > cost is not an issue. Ed, it's not a case of how valuable the data is, more importantly it's to do with what the security classification is that has been ass

Re: Managing system logger data

2008-01-31 Thread R.J. Crook
Skip, We're still at 1.7, so I can't speak to SMF data yet. Operlog we just set up with a 5 day RETPD in the logstream def'n. After that, Logger manages the datasets and makes them disappear. Copying to DASD for archiving is still done from the Syslog, and happens the way it always has. Syslog an

Re: Data Erasure Products

2008-01-31 Thread Ed Gould
On Jan 31, 2008, at 5:15 PM, SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN Niall wrote: ---SNIP--- Unless there is some weird legislative standard which says that encryption is fine for transmission of data over open IP networks, but is not fine for resundant data held on permanent storage.

Re: Data Erasure Products

2008-01-31 Thread Ed Gould
On Jan 31, 2008, at 3:31 PM, Stephen Mednick wrote: --SNIP The downside of physically destroying the media as against using a certified erase solution to remove the contents is that the obsolete storage media can never be acquired on a lease-basis given that the box i

Managing system logger data

2008-01-31 Thread Skip Robinson
After a decade of parallel sysplexing, I feel like a rookie with log streams. Up to now we've used system logger only for CICS and RRS. No operlog, no logrec. So we've never had to deal with the question of how to handle real data that needs to be kept (archived), massaged, and cleaned up. I'm now

Re: Data Erasure Products

2008-01-31 Thread Ed Gould
On Jan 31, 2008, at 2:29 PM, George Fogg wrote: I have worked at several top secret installations in the past and I was told that they take the old DASD and drop them in a acid bath then cut them up. Never saw it happened so not totally sure it was done or not. George Fogg George, Well

Re: Migration from Mainframe to othre platforms - the othe bell?

2008-01-31 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Opps, posted to the news group by accident. I will try and find the link, or you may find it when you do the Google, but there has been an update. The original migration to the mainframe was using IFL's on their existing IBM mainframes. After 1 year they had something like 700 virtual images, 2

Re: Metal C

2008-01-31 Thread Edward Jaffe
Tony Harminc wrote: Then it seems that METAL inhibits use of the ARCH option, so METAL C must generate code at the ARCH(CURRENT) level, which means it can (and does) use LARL and the like from the long displacement facility. Well, no, actually it accepts ARCH(5), which says is the default and gen

Young mainframers' group gains momentum

2008-01-31 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. Young mainframers' group gains momentum http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/013108-young-mainframers-group-gains.html Young mainframers' group gains momentum http://www.computerworld.co

Re: Data Erasure Products

2008-01-31 Thread SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN Niall
There are several data protection standards applying over here in Europe, but I would guess that I could at least defend myself to SOX auditors if I chose to use encryption in the scenarios I described. Alas, your mileage may vary in all of these things. My interest in the subject is at the

Re: Data Erasure Products

2008-01-31 Thread Stephen Mednick
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN Niall > Sent: Friday, 1 February 2008 10:16 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Data Erasure Products > < SNIP > > But none of these anecdotes answer my quest

Metal C

2008-01-31 Thread Tony Harminc
I was looking forward to this, but now that I've found a little time to play with it, I am a little puzzled. There are options METAL and GENASM, and the doc says that METAL forces GENASM, but when I try GENASM without METAL, I get CCN0458(S) Option GENASM is invalid because option METAL is not sp

Re: Data Erasure Products

2008-01-31 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>Unless there is some weird legislative standard which says that encryption is >fine for transmission of data over open IP networks, but is not fine for resundant data held on permanent storage. I'm interpreting this from a Canadian perspective, but after working for a company headquartered in

Re: DFHSM ARC0184I error

2008-01-31 Thread Art
Rick & Dave, I can not locate the tape to know what the dataset or for that matter if its really a alternate tape a migrated tape.. etc. In my search I have two other tapes that are prefixed with H** and took care of those but can not find the others.. If you know of anything else that I can t

Re: Migration from Mainframe to othre platforms - the othe bell?

2008-01-31 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>It was true back in the 90's that the mainframe was more expensive for most >customers. I actually disagree with that. Back then, PCs and *NIX platforms were a lot more expensive. If you looked at cost per seat, and cost for support personell, the M/F was still cheaper. The whole TCO argument

Re: Data Erasure Products

2008-01-31 Thread SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN Niall
I've heard from my Amdahl days that the decommissioned machines had to be destroyed rather than returned for their parts value - and that the destruction was pretty definitive. But none of these anecdotes answer my question: would you feel happy after, for instance, a DR test, to know that the

Re: Migration from Mainframe to othre platforms - the othe bell?

2008-01-31 Thread Dan Gillis
I'd suggest that you do a seach on "mainframe TCO" on Google to get some more information on this topic. I spend a lot of time at IBM educating customers on what the true cost of ownership is for various technology platforms they choose. It was true back in the 90's that the mainframe was more expe

Re: VLF - What's in your VLF

2008-01-31 Thread George Fogg
> What are the entries in your VLF that give your system a big performance > boost? > Class names CSVLLA, IKJEXEC, IGGCAS, and for RACF, IRRGTS, IRRACEE, IRRGMAP, IRRUMAP and IRRSMAP. George Fogg -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signof

VLF - What's in your VLF

2008-01-31 Thread John Norgauer
What are the entries in your VLF that give your system a big performance boost? John Norgauer University of California Davis Medical Center 2315 Stockton Blvd ASB 1300 Sacramento, Ca 95817 916-734-0536 SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING.. Guilty, until proven innocent !! "JN 2004 "Hardware e

Re: BPXAS RC=255

2008-01-31 Thread Skip Robinson
What a coincidence. We IPLed a sandbox system this morning and saw a similar problem with SSHD. It appeared to us that OMVS had not yet fully initialized. Automation complained about SSHD, and several minutes later it was (re)started manually with no problem. The original return code 255 may just b

Re: Migration from Mainframe to othre platforms - the othe bell?

2008-01-31 Thread tony babonas
Hey, that's great news! I used to run a forklift... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Bielefeld Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 3:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Migration from Mainframe to othre platfor

Re: Migration from Mainframe to othre platforms - the othe bell?

2008-01-31 Thread Eric Bielefeld
I think I've mentioned this here before, but I used to work at P&H Mining Equipment in Milwaukee. They had a mainframe running SAP/R2, and several other applications. It was an MP3000-H50. In the mid 90's, they bought Joy Mining in Pennsylvania. Joy converted their old 3081 to an Lpar on our

Re: Data Erasure Products

2008-01-31 Thread Stephen Mednick
> -Original Message- > > Ed > I have worked at several top secret installations in the past > and I was told that they take the old DASD and drop them in a > acid bath then cut them up. > Never saw it happened so not totally sure it was done or not. > George Fogg > Physical destructi

Re: COBOL OUTDD(SYSOUT)

2008-01-31 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
I stand corrected. OUTDD and MSGFILE are not related at all, and indeed there seems to be no prohibition nor error in specifying different OUTDD ddnames for different COBOL programs in the same enclave. I just tested a simple main program and subprogram with different OUTDD values at compile time

Re: New Opcodes

2008-01-31 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:12:22 -0800, Keith E. Moe wrote: >Second, there was one mnemonic that caught my eye. I do not know what it does, but it's probably one that none of us will forget: PTF. Are you certain that it wasn't PTFF (which was already described in the current Principles of Opera

Fw: COBOL OUTDD(SYSOUT)

2008-01-31 Thread Bill Klein
I see nothing at: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IGY3PG32/2.4.39 that says that you can't have different OUTDD values for different programs within a single load module (or dynamic call sequence). If you want the specific DD to be "in" the program, add a Process

Re: Data Erasure Products

2008-01-31 Thread Stephen Mednick
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pat Mihalec > Sent: Friday, 1 February 2008 7:04 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Data Erasure Products > > I have used FDR Erase. It is easy to install and use. We last > used

Re: Data Erasure Products

2008-01-31 Thread Gary Green
My uncle did design work on satellites and all his top secret work took place in a vault. When it came time to replace/erase his personal disk drives, all of them were physically crushed into a cube as I recall. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Data Erasure Products

2008-01-31 Thread George Fogg
> On Jan 31, 2008, at 3:48 AM, SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN Niall wrote: > >> How about encrypting the volume in its entirety before deletion? >> >> I've been through the DR/deletion exercise a few times, and used an >> in-house >> utility to overwrite the disk. If available, however, would >> encryption not

Re: Job ad for z/OS systems programmer trainee

2008-01-31 Thread Gary Green
Well, all us write in our resumes that we "look for a challenge". From that position profile, I can't think of anything more challenging. :) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 3:07 PM To:

Re: Job ad for z/OS systems programmer trainee

2008-01-31 Thread Ed Gould
On Jan 31, 2008, at 7:45 AM, Mark H. Young wrote: ---SNIP- NO, I meant "level 2 support" like IBM and OTHER vendors (OEM) have THEIR level 2 support (which is usually the developers, or AT LEAST some coders). Vendors' help desk is level one support, wh

Re: Data Erasure Products

2008-01-31 Thread Pat Mihalec
I have used FDR Erase. It is easy to install and use. We last used it after a DR test. Not too expensive. Pat Mihalec Rush University Medical Center Senior System Programmer (312) 942-8386 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subsc

Re: Data Erasure Products

2008-01-31 Thread Ed Gould
On Jan 31, 2008, at 3:48 AM, SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN Niall wrote: How about encrypting the volume in its entirety before deletion? I've been through the DR/deletion exercise a few times, and used an in-house utility to overwrite the disk. If available, however, would encryption not be a possible

Re: Shark to EMC

2008-01-31 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>Now you can download the new MFNetDisk with the support of MIDAW. Maybe, I'm too picky. But, all I've seen from this poster is stuff about the product. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / a

Common Criteria security (was: DB2 queries without using MF.)

2008-01-31 Thread Wayne Driscoll
Ron, I also am an MF bigot, but also realize that we live in a wide world, and that far too many people who should know better sometimes have a tendency to view the IT world as z/OS vs Windows, when in reality there are a lot of UNIX servers that are approaching in many ways, and surpassing in oth

Re: Migration from Mainframe to othre platforms - the othe bell?

2008-01-31 Thread Howard Brazee
Training employees works when the expectation by both employers and employees is for career employees. Both sides need to favor the long term over the short term. Training a workplace works when expectation by both tax-payers and tax-beneficiaries is long term. When politicians and voters are

Re: Shark to EMC

2008-01-31 Thread shai hess
HI, Now you can download the new MFNetDisk with the support of MIDAW. Some of the people assume that this product is a toy, OK but it can do all the important tasks of EMC, HDS and IBM disk and also some tasks of backup (in the PC), DR in no time, mirroring to any real disk (EMC, HDS and IBM), 33

Re: Timeout to server printer software after IP change

2008-01-31 Thread Johnston, Robert E
Thanks to everyone who replied on and off list. We've been looking at all the suggestions. Now it looks like we may have a resolution. One of our server guys has been working with McKesson on the problem. Yesterday they found a 4 gig log file on the server that bothered them. They renamed the log

Re: Migration from Mainframe to othre platforms - the othe bell?

2008-01-31 Thread Michael Saraco
I have seen several shops get or try to get off the mainframe. The biggest reason the upper management gives for trying to get off the mainframe is no one coming out of college knows anything about the mainframe. When I was hired as a SYSPROG I had never seen a mainframe the company gave some t

Re: DB2 queries without using MF.

2008-01-31 Thread Ron Hawkins
Wayne, Thanks for correcting me. I am a MF bigot, but I am also a realist. Do you know if z/OS with RACF is the only server/software combination that has these certification? One quick Google gave me this at the top of the page: http://www-03.ibm.com/industries/government/doc/content/news/pressre

Re: TSO/REXX Does Not FREE Storage?

2008-01-31 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:30:12 +0100, Barbara Nitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Not having seen the original post (did it only go to the newsfeed?), > ... I see it in the archives. >this sounds suspiciously like a problem that was reported in the >early nineties and that took more than 2 or 3 years.

Re: Shark to EMC

2008-01-31 Thread Ron Hawkins
Radoslaw, I'm interpreting the original reference to mirroring to mean continuous replication, and not a migration exercise. In this context PAS and TDMF are solutions up to the Virtual Storage restrictions they have. For 100 volumes they will probably be OK, but for 2000 volumes you will have som

Re: Migration from Mainframe to othre platforms - the othe bell?

2008-01-31 Thread Kelman, Tom
Are you interested in just z/OS stories or in stories about mainframe Linux also? One big story back in 2006 was the one about Nationwide Insurance moving the processing from 400 servers to 2 IBM z900 Linux systems. At the time they estimate the savings to by $15 million over 3 years. Here is on

Re: DFHSM ARC0184I error

2008-01-31 Thread Adams, Rick
Art, If these are alternate tapes this is a normal message. ThanksRick -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Art Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:08 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: DFHSM ARC0184I error All, I issue

NPDA (was: How to suppress some informational VTAM messages ?)

2008-01-31 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:31:33 -0500, Scott Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... I think if my memory serves me correctly that >NPDA was designed for usage with IBM modemsright ? >... One very small part of NPDA dealt with running tests on IBM modems. The basic function of NPDA is/was to dis

TWS HOST not reflecting FTA down

2008-01-31 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
Hi all, Tivoli is great, but then again, sometime... I have searched the web, but came up with nothing for this one... We have z/890 Host and several Sun Solaris 10 FTA's Last night we had a problem where the jobs were failing with OSUF, which is understandable because the symphony file is not

Re: AMATERSE available (was: TSO TRANSMIT ...)

2008-01-31 Thread Robert Wright
Mark Pace wrote: It was a surprise to me when I went looking for it on my freshly installed z/OS 1.9 system and it was not there. Check SYS1.MIGLIB. You should find AMATERSE there with its TRSMAIN alias. MIGLIB is forced into the linklist, so you have access to it without a need for a STEP

DFHSM ARC0184I error

2008-01-31 Thread Art
All, I issue this command: LIST TTOC SELECT(hsm.volume) I received several of these messages: ARC0184I ERROR WHEN READING THE DFSMSHSM CONTROL DATA SET X RECORD FOR H1, RC=0004 and not figured out on how to resolve. Has anyone gotten these messages and can recommend on how to resolve.

Re: AMATERSE available (was: TSO TRANSMIT ...)

2008-01-31 Thread Bob Shannon
>It was a surprise to me when I went looking for it on my freshly installed >>z/OS 1.9 system and it was not there. Look in SYS1.MIGLIB. It's on our 1.9 system and it was on the ESP beta's long before GA. Bob Shannon Rocket Software -

Re: identify sas usage by component

2008-01-31 Thread Gary Green
I have not followed this thread so forgive if this was covered earlier... Speaking off the top of my head (yeah, I know, I know...) I need to leave aside the fact that any change to an OEM's SMF record requires tweaking of any vendor record specific downstream processing. If all this processing

Re: AMATERSE available (was: TSO TRANSMIT ...)

2008-01-31 Thread Mark Pace
On Jan 31, 2008 10:57 AM, John Eells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Gilmartin wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:47:24 -0500, John Eells wrote: > >> See APAR OA19194, which makes AMATERSE, alias TRSMAIN, available on > z/OS > >> R7 and up. That's all supported releases since R6 is out of servic

Re: Shark to EMC

2008-01-31 Thread R.S.
Ron, First I wanted to say I like HDS solutions, including storage virtualization. I just wanted to complement your message, not to criticize you or HDS solutions. However you said the good news and I added the bad ones. Regarding PPRC, etc. - yes it is paid feature, usually with capacity-b

Re: COBOL OUTDD(SYSOUT)

2008-01-31 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Radoslaw, In your JCL PARM specify the LE runtime option MSGFILE(yourdd), for COBOL like this: //STEP01 EXEC PGM=yourcobolprogram,PARM='yourpgmparms/MSGFILE(NEWOUTDD)' //NEWOUTDD DD SYSOUT=* I don't believe there is a way for different COBOL programs in the same LE enclave to use different OUT

COBOL OUTDD(SYSOUT)

2008-01-31 Thread R.S.
The compiler option default is OUTDD(SYSOUT). Q1: Is there corresponding runtime option? Q2: Can I specify other ddname for the above in COBOL program ? -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- BRE Bank SA ul. Senatorska 18 00-950 Warszawa www.brebank.pl Sąd Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydz

Re: Data Erasure Products

2008-01-31 Thread Ron Hawkins
Why not have the applications encrypt sensitive data before they write it. Seems to me that this is the logical place to protect data. DASD shredding would become an academic argument... > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of SUB

Re: Shark to EMC

2008-01-31 Thread Ron Hawkins
Radoslaw, I think it's been two years and one generation of storage since you looked at the pricing. I don't do sales so I don't know if it is still as ugly as you make out. There are plenty of customers using it. Are you telling me that XRC is free? Or PPRC, SRDF, Flashcopy and Timefinder are f

Re: AMATERSE available (was: TSO TRANSMIT ...)

2008-01-31 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:00:18 -0600, Chase, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Robert Wright >> >> Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:47:24 -0500, John Eells wrote: >> >> See APAR OA19194, which makes AMAT

Re: AMATERSE available

2008-01-31 Thread John Eells
Chase, John wrote: Any plans to assign an RSU sourceid to them? I'm reasonably sure we're not the only shop that "routinely" applies only RSUs, HIPERs and PEFIXes. http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/PubAllNum/Flash10106 -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeeps

Re: Dumb idea - pandering to the "other systems" people?

2008-01-31 Thread Van Dalsen, Herbie
This takes me back a few years... I worked for a building society, that was eaten alive by RBS, and when I joined I was told by the person who I was going to report to for the next few years... that there are 2 Systems Prod, and 'the LPAR'(referring to the development LPAR, of course for some time

Re: DB2 queries without using MF.

2008-01-31 Thread Wayne Driscoll
Walt, In regards to the EAL4+, that was what I remembered, but I was going by the contents of http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/racf/whatsnew.html because I wanted a reference page from IBM. You may want to try and get this page updated. Wayne Driscoll Product Developer JME Softwa

Re: DB2 queries without using MF.

2008-01-31 Thread Walt Farrell
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:30:11 -0500, Wayne Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Since z/OS 1.6 >RACF has had CAPP EAL 3+ certification, and LSP EAL 3+ certification. > Thanks for mentioning that, Wayne. Just a couple of points: (1) It's z/OS (when using RACF) that has the Common Criteria certifi

Re: AMATERSE available (was: TSO TRANSMIT ...)

2008-01-31 Thread Chris Hoelscher
I dont want AMATERSE ... I want PROFESSIONALS Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:47:24 -0500, John Eells wrote: >> See APAR OA19194, which makes AMATERSE, alias TRSMAIN, The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain CO

Re: AMATERSE available (was: TSO TRANSMIT ...)

2008-01-31 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Robert Wright > > Paul Gilmartin wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:47:24 -0500, John Eells wrote: > >> See APAR OA19194, which makes AMATERSE, alias TRSMAIN, available on > >> z/OS > >> R7 and up. That's all supporte

Re: How to suppress some informational VTAM messages ?

2008-01-31 Thread Barrett, Dennis
ISTMSFLD ?? > > >>I'm looking for the best way to suppress some informational VTAM >>messages in syslog. Is there anybody want to share this to me ? >> >-- Dennis Barrett Systems Programmer Laclede Gas Co. 720 Olive Street, r

Re: AMATERSE available (was: TSO TRANSMIT ...)

2008-01-31 Thread John Eells
Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:47:24 -0500, John Eells wrote: See APAR OA19194, which makes AMATERSE, alias TRSMAIN, available on z/OS R7 and up. That's all supported releases since R6 is out of service and AMATERSE is included in z/OS R9. The PTFs closed 4 November 2007. They a

Re: Job ad for z/OS systems programmer trainee

2008-01-31 Thread Don Leahy
On Jan 31, 2008 8:45 AM, Mark H. Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:06:23 -0500, Don Leahy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >On Jan 30, 2008 11:51 AM, Mark H. Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> I've read ALL the responses on this topic. In reading the job posting, the >

Re: AMATERSE available (was: TSO TRANSMIT ...)

2008-01-31 Thread Robert Wright
Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:47:24 -0500, John Eells wrote: See APAR OA19194, which makes AMATERSE, alias TRSMAIN, available on z/OS R7 and up. That's all supported releases since R6 is out of service and AMATERSE is included in z/OS R9. The PTFs closed 4 November 2007. They a

Re: z890 2086-160 w/ 2 IFLs on eBay - Update

2008-01-31 Thread Heloisa
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More VTS Questions

2008-01-31 Thread Daniel McLaughlin
I've come across a TLMS report which gives me the information needed to build my export list. I'm looking at the manuals but haven't come across what happens if the same volser shows up twice in the list...I know that the EXPORT process will sort things according to the out code..but not what it

Re: DB2 queries without using MF.

2008-01-31 Thread Wayne Driscoll
Ron, With regard to "AFAIK it's been a long time since RACF had any sort of special security rating, and even then you had to disconnect the network", Since z/OS 1.6 RACF has had CAPP EAL 3+ certification, and LSP EAL 3+ certification. Your above comment relates to the old DOD B1 rating that RACF,

AMATERSE available (was: TSO TRANSMIT ...)

2008-01-31 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:47:24 -0500, John Eells wrote: > >See APAR OA19194, which makes AMATERSE, alias TRSMAIN, available on z/OS >R7 and up. That's all supported releases since R6 is out of service and >AMATERSE is included in z/OS R9. The PTFs closed 4 November 2007. They >are: > >UA36927 - z/

Re: SPAM: How to suppress some informational VTAM messages ?

2008-01-31 Thread Scott Ford
Ed and Pat, I was a VTAM old timer for a long time with 3745's , etc. I used Netview's NLDM more than NPDA. I think if my memory serves me correctly that NPDA was designed for usage with IBM modemsright ? Regards, Scott IDF -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mai

BPXAS RC=255

2008-01-31 Thread John Hooper
We had an occurrence where BPXAS on behalf of FTPD ended with a return code of 255. There were no error messages in SYSLOG or the log for BPXAS. There were no software records in Logrec. It appears that it stopped as it normally does but had this return code. Nothing appears to have failed.

Re: TSO/REXX Does Not FREE Storage?

2008-01-31 Thread Robert Wright
Joe Denison wrote: I'm having an issue with REXX EXECs (interpreted, not compiled) that seem to *not* free storage after they terminate. Is this a known issue? Has anyone else experienced this? It would be helpful if you could go at least one step beyond what you reported here to determin

Re: Problems with SNA Consoles in Z/OS V1R8

2008-01-31 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/28/2008 at 06:24 PM, Timothy Sipples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Lots of products have already implemented that RFC, What RFC? As of last month it was still just an Internet draft, as far as I could tell. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT I

Re: Migration from Mainframe to othre platforms - the othe bell?

2008-01-31 Thread Staller, Allan
Try the following links: IBM saves $250 million consolidating Linux servers on to mainframes http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/17998 An article to counterbalance all of those "we're moving off of the mainframe" stories we see posted here. http://blog.coleo.com/wp-content/uploads/200

Migration from Mainframe to othre platforms - the othe bell?

2008-01-31 Thread Mautalen Juan Guillermo
Hi, I am full of reports, sent to Management, about completely succesfull conversions from the "old and expensive" "IBM Mainframe to other platforms. And, as you may know, the most important argument is that the Mainframe is very expensive and the same level of processing, with the same degree of

Re: Job ad for z/OS systems programmer trainee

2008-01-31 Thread Mark H. Young
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:06:23 -0500, Don Leahy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Jan 30, 2008 11:51 AM, Mark H. Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've read ALL the responses on this topic. In reading the job posting, the >> first thing that struck me was the VERY FIRST line: >> >> The purpose of

Re: TSO/REXX Does Not FREE Storage?

2008-01-31 Thread Barbara Nitz
Not having seen the original post (did it only go to the newsfeed?), this sounds suspiciously like a problem that was reported in the early nineties and that took more than 2 or 3 years. Unfortunately for the life of me, I don't remember if it was fixed back then or if both the customer and I ga

Re: TSO/REXX Does Not FREE Storage?

2008-01-31 Thread Walt Farrell
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:50:08 -0600, Joe Denison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm having an issue with REXX EXECs (interpreted, not compiled) that seem to >*not* free storage after they terminate. Is this a known issue? Has anyone >else experienced this? > >(my apologies for the long post -- but w

Re: Dumb idea - pandering to the "other systems" people?

2008-01-31 Thread SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN Niall
My one concern would be to the future. If you were to leave, would a replacement sysprog have to relearn a new vocabulary because there is a different vocabulary in place? And since the people there don't know the Z/OS equivalents, is there a risk that the gap between what they say and what the new

Re: Data Erasure Products

2008-01-31 Thread SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN Niall
How about encrypting the volume in its entirety before deletion? I've been through the DR/deletion exercise a few times, and used an in-house utility to overwrite the disk. If available, however, would encryption not be a possible solution in that even if a shadow of the data were left, it should

Re: Shark to EMC

2008-01-31 Thread shai hess
HI, Yes, there are many ways to move data from one disk to another. Easer and a free way are to use MFNetDisk ability to copy disks to other disks without any cost and without any hardware and without any downtime for the source disks. The status of MFNetDisk is that the IBM MIDAW is under testi