Re: TSO ALLOC concat using VOLSER?

2008-02-28 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:14:24 -0500 J R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :From the description of the ALLOCATE command :operands in TSO/E Command Reference, SA22-7782: :When you invoke ALLOCATE to perform dsname :dynamic allocation, an allocation environment :already exists for your request. It

3270 Emulators

2008-02-28 Thread Shane
I know this has been pounded to death, but ... Had a need for an emulator on my personal laptop, so went and got Vista from Tom Brennan. Couldn't get into a site requiring SSL V3. Emailed Tom, and he told me which drop-down box I'd missed. PEBKAC. $US30 ... damn, that's good value. Get out there

Re: Tool that will help to access the Teradata tables from the mainframe job

2008-02-28 Thread Timothy Sipples
Rajeev, I think we'll need a little more information to answer your question well. What sort of mainframe job is it? Let's start with programming language if you know. (Do you have the source code, or is it code somebody else supplied?) Also, where's it running? Is it a batch job, or a CICS

LE Dump

2008-02-28 Thread Amlan Prasad
Hi, Can anyone please suggest the method to invoke the LE diagnostic and dump facility at run time. My installation has Abend-Aid installed which by default produces its own dump and also can be turned off at run time. But I am looking to turn on CEEDUMP at runtime which I find more easy for

Re: 3270 Emulators

2008-02-28 Thread Graeme Gibson
Shane, We've used Vista for our small band of TSO users for eight years. Prompted by your email I realised that although we'd bought a multi-seat license back in 2000, we've paid nothing since then. So, we've just bought a new multi-seat license to in some small way try and ensure that Tom

Re: TSO ALLOC concat using VOLSER?

2008-02-28 Thread Big Iron
The BPXWDYN function, available in REXX, allows you to concatenate a list of ddnames. e.g. call bpxwdyn concat ddlist(somedd,dd1,dd2) msg(2) would concat dd1 and dd2 to somedd. Bill On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:28:24 -0600, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:34:32

FTP question

2008-02-28 Thread Mike Liberatore
I have several Open systems servers each running windows 2003. having unique IP addresses and each running their own scripts to capture data. This data is then being sent via ftp and stored on mainframe lpar as GDGs. Each file being sent to the mainframe is unique and is being stored in their

Re: z10 LSPR

2008-02-28 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:31:04 -0500, Arthur T. wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Schmidt) wrote: The z10 LSPR data is now available too. http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/lspr/ Yes, and it looks like they are using a new femtofont on the z10 page. (Could they make it smaller still?)

Re: z/OS 1.10 announcement -DASD size

2008-02-28 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Scott Ford All, Where dod I find the announcement letter for z/os v1.10 ?? http://preview.tinyurl.com/2su7lf Note that it's a preview, not the announcement letter. -jc-

Re: 3270 Emulators

2008-02-28 Thread Bill Wilkie
Shane/Graeme: I agree. I purchased Tom Brennan's code a few years back and am very happy with it and Tom has ALWAYS been extremely helpful whenever I had a question whether it was related to his code or not. A real class act. Bill Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:37:43 +1100 From: [EMAIL

Re: z10 LSPR

2008-02-28 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Arthur T. On 27 Feb 2008 13:34:35 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main Tom.Schmidt wrote: The z10 LSPR data is now available too. http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/lspr/ Yes, and it looks like they

Re: z/OS 1.10 announcement -DASD size

2008-02-28 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Walt Farrell Snipped What the announcement actually says: Snipped So, as it says, the support planned in z/OS

Re: z/OS 1.10 announcement -DASD size

2008-02-28 Thread Walt Farrell
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:48:14 -0600, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Walt Farrell Snipped What the

Re: FTP question

2008-02-28 Thread Walt Farrell
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:05:05 -0500, Mike Liberatore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have several Open systems servers each running windows 2003. having unique IP addresses and each running their own scripts to capture data. This data is then being sent via ftp and stored on mainframe lpar as GDGs.

Re: FTP question

2008-02-28 Thread Rugen, Len
Only one idea, user error. Over 15 years of IP access to mvs, I've had several PFCSKS swear that they found a case where my server was making a mistake. They have yet to win one. You can check SMF records to see when the incorrect datasets are created and by who. Then backtrack from there.

Re: z/OS 1.10 announcement -DASD size

2008-02-28 Thread R.S.
I'm curious about future enhancements. As I understood the letter, VSAM datasets are for beginning (as 223GB vol. size). IMHO we can expect in the future ext fmt PS and PDSE in the upper area. Of course only IBMers know (and won't disclose). -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- BRE Bank SA

TCPIP local hosts table not found

2008-02-28 Thread Gerrit Bakker
I have a problem getting a local hosts table being used . I generated a local host table with the MAKESITE command. It generated datasets TCPIP.HOSTS.INFO datasets. Settings in TCPDATA (member): DATASETPREFIX=TCPIP LOOKUP DNS LOCAL When in TSO I try to PING a hostname only known in the

Re: IBM Preview of z/OS V1.10

2008-02-28 Thread Sebastian Welton
Well I've just seen my first one (actually 2) as they were being delivered. Don't look much different to the previous versions. Personally I'm waiting for the plethora of postings asking if OS/390 can run on it... Seb. -- For

Re: TSO ALLOC concat using VOLSER?

2008-02-28 Thread Mark Zelden
Yes. Thanks for pointing that out as it is supported by the OS. The only problem might be if joe programmer doesn't have a OMVS segment and the default segment isn't defined.But I really don't know if BPXWDYN requires it. Maybe Paul G. knows or someone else. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr.

Re: Implementing PAV on EMC DASD

2008-02-28 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:54:00 +, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All of our DASD subsystems are EMCs, I want to know if it's possible to implement PAV on DASD made by EMC? Can it be defined as Control UNIT=2105? Currently, it is defined as CONTROL UNIT=3990 and IODEVICE UNIT=3390 in the

Re: FTP question

2008-02-28 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Liberatore Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 6:05 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: FTP question I have several Open systems servers each running windows 2003. having unique

Re: Implementing PAV on EMC DASD

2008-02-28 Thread Tom Moulder
I would just add for completeness that HYPERPAV support was announced this year as well. Tom Moulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: TSO ALLOC concat using VOLSER?

2008-02-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:05:46 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: Yes. Thanks for pointing that out as it is supported by the OS. The only problem might be if joe programmer doesn't have a OMVS segment and the default segment isn't defined.But I really don't know if BPXWDYN requires it. Maybe Paul

Re: z/OS 1.10 announcement -DASD size

2008-02-28 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Mulder Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 6:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS 1.10 announcement -DASD size IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on

Re: z/OS 1.10 announcement -DASD size

2008-02-28 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Walt Farrell Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 7:58 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS 1.10 announcement -DASD size On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:51:57 -0500, Farley, Peter x23353

Re: Tool that will help to access the Teradata tables from the mainframe job

2008-02-28 Thread Randy Evans
In our project we have a requirement like: We need to refer a table in the Teradata database (running in UNIX environment) from our mainframe job directly. Please let me if you are aware of any tool or utility that will help to access the Teradata tables from the mainframe job? Viaserv's

Re: TSO ALLOC concat using VOLSER?

2008-02-28 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:14:24 -0500, J R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the description of the ALLOCATE command operands in TSO/E Command Reference, SA22-7782: When you invoke ALLOCATE to perform dsname dynamic allocation, an allocation environment already exists for your request. It consists

Re: TSO ALLOC concat using VOLSER?

2008-02-28 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:50:57 -0600, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:05:46 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: But I really don't know if BPXWDYN requires it. Maybe Paul G. knows or someone else. Doesn't require OMVS (AFAIK; I can't test this); snip After thinking

Re: Hijacked (was: Prevent IEW2456E ...)

2008-02-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/27/2008 at 11:53 AM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: My chief objection to MVS, et. al., is its unnecessary complexity. I now have three examples in VIO alone. VIO should emulate real DASD using paging I/O. Unfortunately, that's more or less what it does,

Re: TSO ALLOC concat using VOLSER?

2008-02-28 Thread J R
I have still been unable to test this. In my current environment I'm unable to create non-cataloged datasets. It's probably an SMS thing. The only thing I would have done differently to your test, Mark, would have been to remove the ddname (@NOTCAT) from the first ALLOC command. I'm

Re: TSO ALLOC concat using VOLSER?

2008-02-28 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:55:38 -0500, J R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have still been unable to test this. In my current environment I'm unable to create non-cataloged datasets. It's probably an SMS thing. It is. If you don't know the magic STORCLAS that will keep it from getting SMS

Re: z10 LSPR

2008-02-28 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:33:01 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:31:04 -0500, Arthur T. wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Schmidt) wrote: The z10 LSPR data is now available too. http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/lspr/ Yes, and it looks like they are using a new femtofont

Re: TSO ALLOC concat using VOLSER?

2008-02-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:55:38 -0500, J R wrote: I have still been unable to test this. In my current environment I'm unable to create non-cataloged datasets. It's probably an SMS thing. ??? Are even your temporary data sets catalogued, or are you not allowed to create temporary data sets?

Is there a __simple__ way to change the name of a SYSPLEX?

2008-02-28 Thread McKown, John
I am reading, but have no real experience. I have a single member sysplex right now. I need to split it into two z/OS images, in a basic sysplex. Due to stupidity on my part, I named the sysplex the same as the sysname. I would now like to change the name of the sysplex to something like PROD1. I

Re: Is there a __simple__ way to change the name of a SYSPLEX?

2008-02-28 Thread Staller, Allan
Never had to do this myself, but: Why not create the second image in the new sysplex and populate your CDS's in the new sysplex. Migrate work to the second image in the new sysplex and then put the current image into the new sysplex with an IPL. I would expect this to be a minimal outage ( 30

Re: Is there a __simple__ way to change the name of a SYSPLEX?

2008-02-28 Thread R.S.
Not, nice but IMHO feasible: leave the names unchanged. Create second system with new name. You will have SYSPROD and SYSPRO2 belongind to sysplex SYSPROD. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- BRE Bank SA ul. Senatorska 18 00-950 Warszawa www.brebank.pl Sd Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII

Re: Is there a __simple__ way to change the name of a SYSPLEX?

2008-02-28 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Staller, Allan Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 1:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Is there a __simple__ way to change the name of a SYSPLEX? Never had to do this myself,

Re: System z10 announcement (in English)

2008-02-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/26/2008 at 12:55 PM, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'd hate to do word processing on z/OS Why? And if you want WYSIWYG, you can get it as easily under Linux as under windoze. (remember DW/370? Yes. I also remember DCF, BookMaster and BookManager BUILD.

Re: TSO ALLOC concat using VOLSER?

2008-02-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/27/2008 at 03:29 PM, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I just tried that and it didn't work for me . What happens if the existing allocation is marked not in use? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: z/OS 1.10 announcement -DASD size

2008-02-28 Thread Wayne Driscoll
Radoslaw, The way I read this is that in z/OS 1.10, support will be limited to only the specified dataset types. As for what may happen in the future, nothing is guaranteed, however, at the same time, nothing has been publicly ruled out. Wayne Driscoll Product Developer NOTE: All opinions are

Re: Is there a __simple__ way to change the name of a SYSPLEX?

2008-02-28 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:47:41 -0600, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am reading, but have no real experience. I have a single member sysplex right now. I need to split it into two z/OS images, in a basic sysplex. Due to stupidity on my part, I named the sysplex the same as the sysname. I

Fw: LE Dump

2008-02-28 Thread Bill Klein
I think (but am not certain) that what you want is the information at: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=431context=SSTLTFdc=DB520dc=D B560uid=swg21265671loc=en_UScs=UTF-8lang=enrss=ct431other In particular, specify //ABNLIGNR DD DUMMY you may also want to look at:

Re: FTP question

2008-02-28 Thread Hal Merritt
My first stop would be to better understand the upload (sever to MF) process. From your description, the MF is just a repository. It has no idea what is in the files. In other words, server 'a' is FTP'ing to the MF with instructions to stow data in X.Y.Z(+1). I would ask why server 'a' is

VSAM VERIFY ACTION=REFRESH

2008-02-28 Thread Paul Schuster
When you have a VSAM KSDS opened for output by two address spaces on the same image, and one of the address spaces writes enough records to force the adding of an additional volume, when the VERIFY ACTION=REFRESH is done by the second address space, then the second address space will see the

Live Virtual Class (LVC), z10 is a TEN / z Top 10 List (mon mar 3, 11am et)

2008-02-28 Thread Pamela Christina in chilly Endicott NY
Sorry to post and run, but here's the scoop so that you have it. Just a reminder that the first 2008 Live Virtual Class is on set for Monday, March 3rd at 11:00 AM ET. There is no charge to participate in this technical education session. Date: Monday, March 3, 2008 Time: 11:00 AM ET / 4:00

COBOL Revision (aka faster than a speedy turtle)

2008-02-28 Thread Bill Klein
I have already sent this information to comp.lang.cobol and to the SHARE LNGC project, but I thought there MIGHT be some within IBM-MAIN who would also be interested (and interested enough to actually do something about this). William M. Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL

Re: zIIP API for ISV's

2008-02-28 Thread Brian Westerman
I'm a member, but I wasn't aware of the availability. I still can't find it on the D-Works web site. Can you point me to it? Brian -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: z/OS 1.9 and TSSO

2008-02-28 Thread Brian Westerman
I answered you last time, but maybe you missed it. You have to download the file from the CBT UPDATES page, not the regular CBT tape page because they are different. The UPDATES page contains the fixes that you need. If you have any problems, please contact me offline and I'll help you get the

Re: ATL drive allocation problem.

2008-02-28 Thread Mike Baldwin
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:26:28 -0600, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We did a DR last week (and I immediately go sick the day after --- coincidence? You decide!). Anyway, one problem that we had was that we could only get 8 of the 16 ATL drives to become allocated. Note that all 16 drives

Re: ATL drive allocation problem.

2008-02-28 Thread Mike Baldwin
Hi John, One other thing I assume you've ruled out is the possibility that some drives were stolen by another system via autoswitching. I've seen that happen when only a subset of drives is defined as auto-switchable. Regards, Mike Baldwin Cartagena Software Ltd. www.cartagena.com

Re: zIIP API for ISV's

2008-02-28 Thread Henry Willard
Brian Westerman wrote: I'm a member, but I wasn't aware of the availability. I still can't find it on the D-Works web site. Can you point me to it? You need a CDA first. Being a D-Works member doesn't count. Brian Henry

The System z10s Are Shipping

2008-02-28 Thread Timothy Sipples
In an earlier post I said something like the System z10s are apparently shipping. I've just found out I can strike the word apparently. They're shipping. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in