Merging systems into a sysplex. RACF problem

2008-11-24 Thread Jorge Garcia
Hello: We want to merge two systems (they are in a syplex) in another sysplex with five lpars and two CF. The first two system have their own RACF database and we don't want to merge it with the another RACF database. Yesterday, when we did ipl to merge the first system into a sysplex,

Re: HSM DASD Backup volumes

2008-11-24 Thread Bri P
No, that's fine - really! I appreciate you taking the time to consider it and responding. I'm still trying to figure it out. I have a DS6800 with a some FC drives and a lot more FATA drives. The FC ones are faster. So I was wondering whether it might speed up HSM's backup window if I put his

Re: Merging systems into a sysplex. RACF problem

2008-11-24 Thread Walt Farrell
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:18:30 -0600, Jorge Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We want to merge two systems (they are in a syplex) in another sysplex with five lpars and two CF. The first two system have their own RACF database and we don't want to merge it with the another RACF database. Yesterday,

Re: z/OS upgrade

2008-11-24 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
Jim Mulder wrote: DF/HSM, Program Loader, and a local test tool were casualties - fewer than I was anticipating. Less amusing will be possible fallout with customer applications, but we do have an undocumented parmlib switch to revert to the old behavior which IBM Level 2 support can direct

Re: Merging systems into a sysplex. RACF problem

2008-11-24 Thread Jorge Garcia
Walt: I should put 1001 in the bit for disable the sysplex comunication. Is it right?. Thanks -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

Re: Cancel tso id - IKJEFLN2

2008-11-24 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Chase, John said: Not sure I understand your question, If you enter the OMVS command from TSO, disconnect, go to a 3270 with a different screen size and reconnect, will OMVS

Re: Interesting CS Course Syllabus

2008-11-24 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) May i know what are these paddles you are talking about ? The symbol of the OS/360 project. Google for without a paddle and you will see the (vulgar) derivation.

Re: Merging systems into a sysplex. RACF problem

2008-11-24 Thread J Ellis
We are getting ready to merge two plex's into one and were wondering if we could, by using separate DSNT's still have both different racf data bases in the CF by leaving one as is, pointing to structures IRRXCF00_P001 and IRRXCF00_B001, then for the second set of lpars have a dsnt that the first

TSO Logon Screen problem - Nomail Nonotices

2008-11-24 Thread Stocker, Herman
G'day List, I am having a problem with the logon screen's Nomail and Nonotice. Since we moved to 1.9 when ever some users logon the Nomail Nonotice is selected. If the S is deleted every thing works correctly until the next logon then the S is back. I can not find out where it is being

Re: Little OT but its worth the 20+ minutes to watch it

2008-11-24 Thread Jeffrey Deaver
I was astounded to see that Google now claims to sort 6 petabytes in a few hours. It is not clear exactly what they are sorting unfortunately but if it is even half true the sort on the mainframe may be passed its prime and showing its age. What they are sorting is described here

Re: Catalog and VSAM Knowledge Base

2008-11-24 Thread Tom Marchant
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:32:12 -0600, Reza Heydarpour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What happened to this? Try the Catalog and VSAM Knowledge Base at: http://SSDDOM01.storage.ibm.com/TechSup/swtechsup.nsf/support/dfsmsmain (click Technical Database) or http://knowledge.storage.ibm.com/ from

Re: Interesting CS Course Syllabus

2008-11-24 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 11/23/2008 4:52:17 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: knew the expression but did not know it was the symbol of the OS/360 project It's a battle staff. Flies numerous flags of products gone unsupported. As events occurred it became obvious that

Re: TSO Logon Screen problem - Nomail Nonotices

2008-11-24 Thread Mark Zelden
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:47:39 -0500, Stocker, Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day List, I am having a problem with the logon screen's Nomail and Nonotice. Since we moved to 1.9 when ever some users logon the Nomail Nonotice is selected. If the S is deleted every thing works correctly until

Re: TSO Logon Screen problem - Nomail Nonotices

2008-11-24 Thread Stocker, Herman
Hi Mark, They do use Blue Zone, No scripts that I can find. Logoff is normal TSO logoff command. Every time they log off the next time the S is back. Security package is RACF, Nothing in the TSO segment for mail/Nomail or notices/nonotices. I do not believe that UADS is being used but I will

Re: TSO Logon Screen problem - Nomail Nonotices

2008-11-24 Thread Lizette Koehler
Do you have a LOGON EXIT in place? Something like IKJEFLP1 Lizette They do use Blue Zone, No scripts that I can find. Logoff is normal TSO logoff command. Every time they log off the next time the S is back. Security package is RACF, Nothing in the TSO segment for mail/Nomail or

Help with Usermod that will assemble and link

2008-11-24 Thread Lizette Koehler
I have source code that is not currently managed by SMPE. I would like to place it in SMPE control by developing a usermod to do the assemble and link. I have not done this type of usermod before and after reading the manuals I think I am close but just am not getting what I want. The source

RES: Interesting CS Course Syllabus

2008-11-24 Thread ITURIEL DO NASCIMENTO NETO
Hi Santosh, Congratulations, it seems you had a pretty solid formation... Atenciosamente / Regards / Saludos Ituriel do Nascimento Neto Banco Bradesco S/A 4254 - DPCD Engenharia de Software Sistemas Operacionais Mainframes Tel: 55 11 4197-2021 R: 22021 Fax: 55 11 4197-2814

Re: Little OT but its worth the 20+ minutes to watch it

2008-11-24 Thread Howard Brazee
On 23 Nov 2008 21:27:02 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Gould) wrote: I was astounded to see that Google now claims to sort 6 petabytes in a few hours. This is astounding. I bet Frank Yeager would be interested in this, I know we could never come close to this in the mainframe world. I am in

Re: Little OT but its worth the 20+ minutes to watch it

2008-11-24 Thread Jack . Hamilton
I have heard that Google keeps several generations of search results available, and rolls them out across servers in a circular fashion. So getting different search results may be caused by hitting different servers with different as of dates, rather than by Google dropping records during

Re: Merging systems into a sysplex. RACF problem

2008-11-24 Thread Walt Farrell
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:26:16 -0600, J Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are getting ready to merge two plex's into one and were wondering if we could, by using separate DSNT's still have both different racf data bases in the CF by leaving one as is, pointing to structures IRRXCF00_P001 and

Re: TSO Logon Screen problem - Nomail Nonotices

2008-11-24 Thread Walt Farrell
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:36:13 -0500, Stocker, Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They do use Blue Zone, No scripts that I can find. Logoff is normal TSO logoff command. Every time they log off the next time the S is back. Security package is RACF, Nothing in the TSO segment for mail/Nomail or

Re: Merging systems into a sysplex. RACF problem

2008-11-24 Thread Walt Farrell
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:56:34 -0600, Jorge Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should put 1001 in the bit for disable the sysplex comunication. Is it right?. Either X'80' or X'81' would work, as documented. -- Walt Farrell, CISSP IBM STSM, z/OS Security Design

Re: Help with Usermod that will assemble and link

2008-11-24 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:58:16 -0500 Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :I have source code that is not currently managed by SMPE. I would like to place it in SMPE control by developing a usermod to do the assemble and link. :I have not done this type of usermod before and after reading

Re: Help with Usermod that will assemble and link

2008-11-24 Thread Mark Zelden
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:58:16 -0500, Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have source code that is not currently managed by SMPE. I would like to place it in SMPE control by developing a usermod to do the assemble and link. I have not done this type of usermod before and after reading the

SMPE Applycheck Allocation Error

2008-11-24 Thread Dean Montevago
Hi, I just ran an applycheck and received this error. I've never experienced this error. Anybody have any ideas ? No other error messages were generated. GIM54701S ** ALLOCATION FAILED FOR SMPLTS - IKJ56864I UTILITY DATA SET NOT ALLOCATED, USER NOT AUTHORIZED FOR FUNCTION

TSSO issuing command to CICS

2008-11-24 Thread Kittendorf, Craig X.
Hi, We are using TSSO with z/OS 1.9 and have the patches applied for v1.9. Everything is working fine except trying to send a command to CICS/TS 3.1 from a batch job, for example: // EXEC BATCHTMP //SYSINDD * OSCMD F CICS,tran /* The CICS log shows: DFHAC2015 11/24/2008 11:28:24

Re: SMPE Applycheck Allocation Error

2008-11-24 Thread Mark Zelden
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:54:59 -0500, Dean Montevago [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just ran an applycheck and received this error. I've never experienced this error. Anybody have any ideas ? No other error messages were generated. GIM54701S ** ALLOCATION FAILED FOR SMPLTS - IKJ56864I UTILITY

Re: Help with Usermod that will assemble and link

2008-11-24 Thread Clark, Kevin
L. Use the ++USERMOD convention with a ACTION DOC -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 10:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Help with Usermod that will assemble and link I

Re: SMPE Applycheck Allocation Error

2008-11-24 Thread Dean Montevago
YES ! Thanks Mark. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 12:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: SMPE Applycheck Allocation Error On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:54:59 -0500, Dean Montevago

Re: Cancel tso id - IKJEFLN2

2008-11-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:18:50 -0600, Chase, John wrote: No observed screen corruption either direction (62x160 - 24x80 - 62x160) on z/OS 1.9. And I see corruption in both directions, also 1.9. LOGMODE problem? Other environment? tn3270 X? Not worth diagnosing. Of course, if I exit to TSO

Re: TSO Logon Screen problem - Nomail Nonotices

2008-11-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:47:39 -0500, Stocker, Herman wrote: Since we moved to 1.9 when ever some users logon the Nomail Nonotice is selected. If the S is deleted every thing works correctly until the next logon then the S is back. Last time something similar was happening to us, many years ago

BINDER instructions in source code?

2008-11-24 Thread Frank Swarbrick
Is there, by chance, anything that you can place in a Cobol source module that will pass instructions to the binder? I imagine something like this: CBL BIND INCLUDE SYSLIB(EZACICAL) ID DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. SOMETHING. ... END PROGRAM SOMETHING. The resulting object module would then have the

Re: SMPE Applycheck Allocation Error

2008-11-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:09:20 -0500, Dean Montevago wrote: YES ! Thanks Mark. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden GIM54701S ** ALLOCATION FAILED FOR SMPLTS - IKJ56864I UTILITY DATA SET NOT ALLOCATED,

Re: BINDER instructions in source code?

2008-11-24 Thread Steve Comstock
Frank Swarbrick wrote: Is there, by chance, anything that you can place in a Cobol source module that will pass instructions to the binder? I imagine something like this: CBL BIND INCLUDE SYSLIB(EZACICAL) ID DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. SOMETHING. ... END PROGRAM SOMETHING. The resulting object

Mainframe Hosted BLOGs and WIKIs

2008-11-24 Thread Jim Marshall
Seems there is an interest in running mainframe hosted BLOGs and WIKIs which could either run on z/OS (Websphere Applicaton Server maybe) or zLinux. Does anyone know of any software available to to host these. thanks jim --

Re: Mainframe Hosted BLOGs and WIKIs

2008-11-24 Thread Jousma, David
Jspwiki.org _ Dave Jousma Assistant Vice President, Mainframe Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1830 East Paris, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 MD RSCB1G p 616.653.8429 f 616.653.8497 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: Mainframe Hosted BLOGs and WIKIs

2008-11-24 Thread Mark Jacobs
Jim Marshall wrote: Seems there is an interest in running mainframe hosted BLOGs and WIKIs which could either run on z/OS (Websphere Applicaton Server maybe) or zLinux. Does anyone know of any software available to to host these. thanks jim

Re: Mainframe Hosted BLOGs and WIKIs

2008-11-24 Thread Edward Jaffe
Jousma, David wrote: Jspwiki.org We use this one, with TOMCAT running under JZOS on z/OS. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/

Re: Help with Usermod that will assemble and link

2008-11-24 Thread Lizette Koehler
Thanks Binyamin and Mark Z. I was missing the UCLIN part. Now that I have that coded, it is working great. Big hugs for the help. Or is that PC incorrect? Lizette On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:58:16 -0500, Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have source code that is not currently managed

Re: Help with Usermod that will assemble and link

2008-11-24 Thread Mark Zelden
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:54:23 -0500, Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Binyamin and Mark Z. I was missing the UCLIN part. Now that I have that coded, it is working great. Big hugs for the help. Or is that PC incorrect? Lizette Something needs to explain to SMP/E what the lmod

Re: Mainframe Hosted BLOGs and WIKIs

2008-11-24 Thread Mark Post
On 11/24/2008 at 1:09 PM, Jim Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems there is an interest in running mainframe hosted BLOGs and WIKIs which could either run on z/OS (Websphere Applicaton Server maybe) or zLinux. Does anyone know of any software available to to host these. MediaWiki,

Re: Mainframe Hosted BLOGs and WIKIs

2008-11-24 Thread Mark Post
On 11/24/2008 at 1:16 PM, Mark Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- I believe that we are running Drupal under zLinux. That's a content management system, but it does a very good job at that. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Mainframe Hosted BLOGs and WIKIs

2008-11-24 Thread Lionel B Dyck
I believe that you can do this with the latest version of Domino (Lotus Notes) Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering 925-926-5332 (8-473-5332) | E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: lbdyck | Yahoo IM: lbdyck Kaiser

z/VM and Mirrored DASD owned by z/OS

2008-11-24 Thread Martin Kline
We're bringing up z/VM for the first time. Initial volumes are in the shared pool with other z/OS volumes on a HTC something-or-other. Some of the z/OS volumes are mirrored, but not the VM volumes - yet anyway. We have a daily process that suspends and reestablishes the mirrors for DR

Re: z/VM and Mirrored DASD owned by z/OS

2008-11-24 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Same problem here. VM Sysprogs needed to detach mirror targets from VM. VM apparently attaches all DASD unless told otherwise. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 24,

Re: How to Stop NOTIFYs?

2008-11-24 Thread Larry Burch
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:13:25 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/21/2008 at 12:06 AM, Larry Burch [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: That, however, was not the original point. Just how, easiest, to prevent NOTIFYs from being accumulated. A JES2 exit

Re: z/VM and Mirrored DASD owned by z/OS

2008-11-24 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
The following is the command you are looking for. Offline_at_ipl 11BA-1263 Hopefully your mirrored device targets are contiguous addresses. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

Re: BINDER instructions in source code?

2008-11-24 Thread Frank Swarbrick
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:05:03 -0700, Steve Comstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank Swarbrick wrote: Is there, by chance, anything that you can place in a Cobol source module that will pass instructions to the binder? No. But wouldn't autocall pick it up from your syslib in the bind step? Hi

Re: z/VM and Mirrored DASD owned by z/OS

2008-11-24 Thread Raymond Noal
Using Offline_at_IPL will only correct the problem when z/VM is being IPL'ed. If the target volumes present a state change interrupt after z/VM is IPL'ed, z/VM will bring the volumes online. The safest way to go is to mark the target device numbers as 'not_accepted' to z/VM. HITACHI  DATA

Re: z/VM and Mirrored DASD owned by z/OS

2008-11-24 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Thank you, I'll pass this along to my VM support. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Raymond Noal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 3:15 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: z/VM and Mirrored DASD owned

Delete with RC 0

2008-11-24 Thread Howard Brazee
I need to write a proc that accepts a file name - then the proc deletes the file, but if the file is not found, errors out. The advantage if IEFBR14 is that it does not error out in this case. I could write a program to create a SYSIN to do the following: //DELETE EXEC PGM=IDCAMS

Re: Delete with RC 0

2008-11-24 Thread Lizette Koehler
In your IDCAMS step you can reset the MAXCC for the step which could be checked out by next steps. //IDCPROC PROC DSN1= //IDCAMS EXEC PGM=IDCAMS //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //DSN1 DD DSN=DSN1,DISP=OLD //SYSINDD * DELETE FILE(DSN1) If LASTCC 0 Then Set MAXCC=22 /* Set Step return

Re: Little OT but its worth the 20+ minutes to watch it

2008-11-24 Thread John McKown
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008, Ed Gould wrote: I was astounded to see that Google now claims to sort 6 petabytes in a few hours. This is astounding. I bet Frank Yeager would be interested in this, I know we could never come close to this in the mainframe world. I am in complete awe of this. It is not

Re: Delete with RC 0

2008-11-24 Thread John McKown
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Howard Brazee wrote: I need to write a proc that accepts a file name - then the proc deletes the file, but if the file is not found, errors out. The advantage if IEFBR14 is that it does not error out in this case. I could write a program to create a SYSIN to do the

Re: Delete with RC 0

2008-11-24 Thread Howard Brazee
On 24 Nov 2008 12:27:56 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lizette Koehler) wrote: You could then use the IF THEN ELSE JCL statements to either continue or flush the job. Or use COND= on all next steps. Unless they call the proc multiple times in the JCL, there would be no more steps. It's a

Re: sending snmp traps from z/OS

2008-11-24 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:09:47 -0600, Henrique Seganfredo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folks, ... Surprisingly, the command line tool (/bin/snmp) that interfaces with the snmp agent task only gives me the opportunity to RECEIVE TRAPS and not to SEND THEM. ... It looks like a reply I gave

Re: Delete with RC 0

2008-11-24 Thread Howard Brazee
On 24 Nov 2008 12:38:55 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKown) wrote: //** THIS METHOD WON'T RECALL IT, BUT IT WILL RETURN 8 IF NOT FOUND //DELETE1EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01,PARM='DELETE ''DSN''' //SYSTSINDD DUMMY //SYSTSPRT DD

Re: How to stop NOTIFYs?

2008-11-24 Thread Rick Fochtman
---snip- That, however, was not the original point. Just how, easiest, to prevent NOTIFYs from being accumulated. A JES2 exit to fail jobs that have NOTIFY for dead user ids? Shmuel Goleb's broadcast manager? Convert off of

Re: How to stop NOTIFYs?

2008-11-24 Thread Edward Jaffe
Rick Fochtman wrote: I can HIGHLY recommend Shmuel Golob's (AKA Sam Golob's) Broadcast Management tools. There are two Shmuels on IBM-MAIN? -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to stop NOTIFYs?

2008-11-24 Thread Larry Burch
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:03:47 -0800, Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Fochtman wrote: I can HIGHLY recommend Shmuel Golob's (AKA Sam Golob's) Broadcast Management tools. There are two Shmuels on IBM-MAIN? -- Shmuel (the *original* Shmuel) made that original allegation earlier this

Re: Delete with RC 0

2008-11-24 Thread Big Iron
IKJEFT01 returns the return code of the last TSO command executed (or, in your case, the only TSO command executed). The behaviour of IKJEFT1B will differ if there is more than one TSO command being processed. See

Re: Delete with RC 0

2008-11-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:07:41 -0600, Big Iron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IKJEFT01 returns the return code of the last TSO command executed (or, in your case, the only TSO command executed). The behaviour of IKJEFT1B will differ if there is more than one TSO command being processed. See

Re: BINDER instructions in source code?

2008-11-24 Thread Schneiderwent, Craig - DOT
I'm afraid to look, but does DB2 behave in a similar manner? Meaning, you can write a subroutine that does SQL, but you have to create both a batch load module and a CICS load module because of different binder requirements? I believe your fears are become manifest and that you must have

Re: Delete with RC 0

2008-11-24 Thread John McKown
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Big Iron wrote: IKJEFT01 returns the return code of the last TSO command executed (or, in your case, the only TSO command executed). The behaviour of IKJEFT1B will differ if there is more than one TSO command being processed. See

Re: new z/OS IMS shop

2008-11-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 10/30/2008 at 06:37 PM, Frank Swarbrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: z/OS certainly does have many nice things about it. But I am also running it to several gotcha type things. Some of your issues have been discussed here before. You might want to check the archives.

Re: New Blog MainframeZone

2008-11-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/12/2008 at 01:29 PM, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Indeed. Much of the difficulty lies in deciding what to forget (and sometimes, when to forget it), to facilitate new learning. Sometimes the difficulty is in being able to forget. Take some of the early

Re: Mainframe Jobs Considered Recession Proof

2008-11-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/14/2008 at 04:34 PM, Scott Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I understand ppl being entrenched in their OPsys they are 'experts' on, Not necessarily voluntarily. You may not be able to get your foot in the door for a new platform. From what I've seen, the

Re: How to stop NOTIFYs?

2008-11-24 Thread Rick Fochtman
---snip-- Rick Fochtman wrote: I can HIGHLY recommend Shmuel Golob's (AKA Sam Golob's) Broadcast Management tools. There are two Shmuels on IBM-MAIN? unsnip--- I've known him

Re: Help with Usermod that will assemble and link

2008-11-24 Thread Skip Robinson
This kitty cat, like most proverbial felines, is skinnable in several ways. Let me offer another slice and dice technique. To begin with, SAMPLIB member IEAMDBLG is in fact already defined to SMP/E like this: Entry Type: SAMP Zone Name: MVST100 Entry Name:

Re: Merging systems into a sysplex. RACF problem

2008-11-24 Thread Skip Robinson
In the interest of complete and brutal honesty, I can testify that it's possible to merge 'full function' parallel sysplexes while keeping the original RACF databases separate. It's not ideal, to be sure, but if you're under the PSLC gun, it's can be done. -- Old Sysplex 1 containing three

Re: Mainframe Hosted BLOGs and WIKIs

2008-11-24 Thread Timothy Sipples
For some mass internal IBM education almost 3 years ago IBM had a homegrown multi-user CICS-hosted blog running. It was quite easy to create and run. Something well over 1,000 people were in a giant ballroom and could see each other's posts to the blog, real time, on big screens in front. Actually

Re: Merging systems into a sysplex.

2008-11-24 Thread Barbara Nitz
We're alo under the PLSC gun, and I can top Skips words: sharing very little besides the couple data sets All we are sharing are the three volumes with the couple data sets. Depending on what 'surprised even us' means :-), we were rudely surprised a few times when we got bitten by the very

Re: Merging systems into a sysplex. RACF problem

2008-11-24 Thread Jorge Garcia
Either X'80' or X'81' would work, as documented. Ok Walt. We'll do it next week. Thanks for all yours answers Regards -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with