I will be out of the office starting 12/12/2008 and will not return until
12/17/2008.
I will be out of the office on Monday and Tuesday (December 15th and 16th).
I will return on Wednesday, December 17th. Thanks.
**
The information contained in this communication is confidential, pri
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:03:54 +1000, Shane wrote:
>Timothy Sipples wrote (and wrote ...):
>
>> but, to elaborate
>
>That's not an elaboration, it's an epistle.
>
>Shane ...
>
And you're just seeing what he writes HERE.
(just kidding, Tim... :-) )
Bill Seubert
System z I/T Architect (and o
2008/12/12 Patrick O'Keefe :
> " ... the penchant of good programmers to pick meaningful names
> when possible ..." unless cleverness happens to strike, of course.
>
> I have to go back 25 years or so, but the program Host Command
> Facility (HCF) had the module prefix CHF. Its main module was,
>
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
scott.r...@joann.com (Scott Rowe) writes:
> Well, I've never heard of a large PowerPC server, I think you are referring
> to POWER.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn
What you want to do can be done using the HMC. You can activate/IPL an LPAR on
a scheduled basis. I don't recall all of the steps involved, but you start by
using Single Object selection with your CPC already selected. From there you
can select an option that will give you automatic operations a
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:28:32 -0600, Patrick O'Keefe
wrote:
>On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:53:12 +, d...@bkassociates.net wrote:
>
>>...
>>We recently used software from a company called IO Concepts to
>>virtualize our consoles. I can't give all the specifics, but it seems
>>to be working very well
> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:53:12 +, d...@bkassociates.net wrote:
>
>>...
>>We recently used software from a company called IO Concepts to
>>virtualize our consoles. I can't give all the specifics, but it seems
>>to be working very well for Operations and the vendor was extremely
>>helpful.
>>...
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:38:00 -0800, George Fogg
> wrote:
>
>>>
>>>
>>> "scott" wrote in message
>>> news:<2gt%k.9190$x%.9...@nlpi070.nbdc.sbc.com>...
Where in storage are the symbols specified in IEASYMxx stored?
Looking to see if some system key is used, as well as storage protec
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:53:12 +, d...@bkassociates.net wrote:
>...
>We recently used software from a company called IO Concepts to
>virtualize our consoles. I can't give all the specifics, but it seems
>to be working very well for Operations and the vendor was extremely
>helpful.
>...
We, too
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:06:41 -0500, John Eells
wrote:
>... From the very name of HZSAIEOF, and the penchant of good
>programmers to pick meaningful names when possible, ...
>(Oh, no! Now I've done it. Next time they name a program like this,
>they'll probably use a random character generator
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:09:35 -0500, Mark Pace wrote:
>John -
>Where did you find this information?
>I've searched the entire IP configuration guide and have not seen this.
>
Configuration REFERENCE
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/F1A1B471/2.12.7
watch for any wrap!
---
We are wondering if we can ipl (activate) a lpar on the hmc
automatically without any operator intervention. Anyone have a product
or written an API?
We would like to activate our test lpar (monoplex) at 7am so when we get
in at
John -
Where did you find this information?
I've searched the entire IP configuration guide and have not seen this.
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:57 PM, John McKown wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:49:41 -0600, John McKown wrote:
>
>
> >First question: is there a RACF userid of ANONYMOUS defined? D
--
Thanks for the info. The reason that I ask is a bit weird. I'm on a list
similar to this one, but for the iSeries machine. I was just talking
about relative processing. One person pointed me to the i 595 system.
That is mucho bigger tha
Why not just run multiple console sessions on the same physical PC? I have 3
Pcomm master consoles on one PC with a big monitor. Could put more but have no
need.
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Well, I've never heard of a large PowerPC server, I think you are referring to
POWER.
>>> Ed Finnell 12/12/2008 11:20 AM >>>
Few years ago AS/400's converted to PowerPC chips and then there's this:
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Thanks to all who helped me out. I saved the file as .txt file and it worked.
Cheers !
--- On Sat, 13/12/08, Pete Borton wrote:
From: Pete Borton
Subject: Re: FTP DOWNLOAD QUESTION
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Received: Saturday, 13 December, 2008, 2:38 AM
I believe Wordpad will automatica
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:49:41 -0600, John McKown wrote:
>First question: is there a RACF userid of ANONYMOUS defined? Does it have an
>OMVS segment (or should it use the default UID & GID)?
Well, mess on it. The actual RACF id should be ANONYMOU. Didn't read far
enough down.
>
>From my reading,
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:38:23 -0500, Mark Pace wrote:
>I'm trying to setup anonymous FTP connections. Looking at the manual I
>think I have it correct.
>FTP data file
> ANONYMOUS
> - *ANONYMOUS is specified without any parameters.*
>But when I try to connect I don't get prompted for a passw
I'm trying to setup anonymous FTP connections. Looking at the manual I
think I have it correct.
FTP data file
ANONYMOUS
ANONYMOUSLEVEL3
EMAILADDRCHECKWARNING
ANONYMOUSFILEACCESS MVS
ANONYMOUSFILETYPESEQ TRUE
ANONYMOUSFILETYPEJES FALSE
ANONYMOUSFILETYPESQL FALSE
Also the manual states
F
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joa...@swbell.net (John McKown) writes:
> Thanks for the info. The reason that I ask is a bit weird. I'm on a list
> similar to this one, but for the iSeries machin
Marna WALLE wrote:
I believe you are referring to PSF APAR OA08748? You'll be happy to know
that OA08748 (which was FIN), was incorporated into PSF V4R1 (and is also in
the latest PSF - V4R2). Your "complaint" did pay off, just took a while :).
Time to move to V4??
The "back" story I didn
We recently used software from a company called IO Concepts to
virtualize our consoles. I can't give all the specifics, but it seems
to be working very well for Operations and the vendor was extremely
helpful.
Tammi Marsan
MF Performance & Tuning / Hardware
-Original Message-
From: IB
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:35:56 -0600, Rich Smrcina wrote:
>John McKown wrote:>>
>> Let me go double check. The people on the iSeries forum may not be up on
the z10EC specs.
The i595 is a 64way Power5+ machine with up to 4TB of main memory and 381TB
of internal disk and 168 iSCSI "channels".
>> The
Ed,
You wrote:"I have an IBM program product (PSF V3) that won't work with
IgvInitGetmain active. I reported the "bug" years ago and they didn't
take my complaint seriously. So, I resolved that we would no longer
spend money on PSF upgrades until some incompatibility forced us to. (So
far,
On balance, I think that Java does a pretty good job with
version-to-version compatibility. Most programs in my experience work
fine on version upgrades. There are some problems, but they are
usually because the programmer was sloppy and paid no attention to
deprecated apis, etc.If your code
We are pleased to announce today the availability of a new product in
the Co:Z Toolkit.
Co:Z FTP-SSH Proxy can be used to secure your FTP sessions using an
SSH proxy, a technique known as "FTP over SSH (without SFTP)"
Features:
* Works transparently with the z/OS FTP client or other FTP clients
Eric Bielefeld wrote:
Wait a minute. The i series is the AS400, right? (I hope I didn't get that
wrong again). There is a bigger AS400 box than the largest z10EC? I find that
hard to believe, but then what do I know.
I believe the claim was merely that the largest i could be configured
We are wondering if we can ipl (activate) a lpar on the hmc automatically
without any operator intervention. Anyone have a product or written an API?
We would like to activate our test lpar (monoplex) at 7am so when we get in
at 8am, the system is up. We can't leave it up overnight because we
John McKown wrote:
Let me go double check. The people on the iSeries forum may not be up on the
z10EC specs.
The i595 is a 64way Power5+ machine with up to 4TB of main memory and 381TB
of internal disk and 168 iSCSI "channels".
The largest z10EC is 64way zArch machine with up to 1.52 TB of m
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:09:58 +, Eric Bielefeld
wrote:
>Wait a minute. The i series is the AS400, right? (I hope I didn't get
that wrong again). There is a bigger AS400 box than the largest z10EC? I
find that hard to believe, but then what do I know.
>
>Eric
>
Let me go double check. The
In a message dated 12/12/2008 10:10:13 A.M. Central Standard Time,
eric-ibmm...@wi.rr.com writes:
The i series is the AS400, right? (I hope I didn't get that wrong again).
There is a bigger AS400 box than the largest z10EC? I find that hard to
believe, but then what do I know.
>>
Few
Thanks everyone for your assistance.
The command that Larry Crilley provided works. When I issued the command:
LISTCAT ENTRY(ucat.name) ALL CATALOG(ucat.name)
It shows me the usercatalog attributes (no catalog error). Where I'm getting
confused is when I go to 3.4 to list the usercatalog, it doe
Wait a minute. The i series is the AS400, right? (I hope I didn't get that
wrong again). There is a bigger AS400 box than the largest z10EC? I find that
hard to believe, but then what do I know.
Eric
John McKown wrote:
>
> Thanks for the info. The reason that I ask is a bit weird. I
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples
>
> Java 1.5 (Java 5) is supported with CICS TS V3.2. (So is Java 1.4.)
See
> here for example:
>
>
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/cicsts/v3r2/topic/com.ibm.cics
> .ts.whatsnew.doc/RegularTop
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Behalf Of Barkow, Eileen
>
> it is very encouraging that the next release of CICS will include
> support for java 6. because we ordered cics ts 3.1 right before 3.2
was
> available, we are stuck on it now for a long, long time and
Java 1.5 (Java 5) is supported with CICS TS V3.2. (So is Java 1.4.) See
here for example:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/cicsts/v3r2/topic/com.ibm.cics.ts.whatsnew.doc/RegularTopics/dfhe4_HLLsupport.html
And here:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/cicsts/v3r2/topic/com.ibm.cics.
it is very encouraging that the next release of CICS will include
support for java 6. because we ordered cics ts 3.1 right before 3.2 was
available, we are stuck on it now for a long, long time and cannot even
run java 5.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-
I believe Wordpad will automatically add 's to the end of each
record, which Notepad requires as a record delimiter.
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From: Scott Barry [mailto:sba...@sbbworks.com]
Sent: 12 December 2008 13:30
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: FTP DOWNLOAD QUESTION
I have encounter
speaking of bragging rights, anyone have any estimate how many z/OS
installations there are in the world? i was just wondering how exclusive the
club is that i belong to.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
John McKown
Sent
> > -Original Message-
> > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Barkow, Eileen
> >
> > CICS V 3.1 (and 3.2 as far as i can tell) only supports java 1.4 -
> > cannot even run 1.5. Lousy, since IBM released j 1.6 at least a
year
> > ago.
>
> CTS 3.2 support for Java 5.0 was deli
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Barkow, Eileen
>
> CICS V 3.1 (and 3.2 as far as i can tell) only supports java 1.4 -
> cannot even run 1.5. Lousy, since IBM released j 1.6 at least a year
> ago.
CTS 3.2 support for Java 5.0 was delivered via PTFs
I heard that when Alcon (another fine Fort Worth company) moved their
order entry system from z/OS CICS to an AS400-hosted application their
response time went from sub-second to something like an average of
around 15 seconds. They subsequently started taking orders on paper
and keying in the dat
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:12:31 -0500, Barkow, Eileen
wrote:
>CICS V 3.1 (and 3.2 as far as i can tell) only supports java 1.4 -
>cannot even run 1.5. Lousy, since IBM released j 1.6 at least a year
>ago.
We thought we needed Java 1.6.0 for a CICS TS 3.2 application we're trying
to support - tur
Rob Schramm wrote:
Let me clarify, it is possible to order 2 cards each containing either 1
or 2 PCI-X cards inside.
Yes, it is possible to have cheaper cards "1P". However those cards are
available only in "cheaper" mainframes, that means BC models (z9, z10).
Two cards minimum is for redunda
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:38:00 -0800, George Fogg
wrote:
>>
>>
>> "scott" wrote in message
>> news:<2gt%k.9190$x%.9...@nlpi070.nbdc.sbc.com>...
>>> Where in storage are the symbols specified in IEASYMxx stored?
>>> Looking to see if some system key is used, as well as storage protect
>>> key,
Ed Jaffe wrote
>If this behavior isn't documented, then what difference does it make? A
>program that depends on this behavior is no different than one that
>depended on undocumented alignment properties from pre-z/OS 1.10 GETMAIN
>behavior.
What you wrote is certainly true. But it was exactly thi
ITYM LOADxx, which may, or may not, be in SYS1.PARMLIB
>>> Dave Roeser 12/12/2008 9:02 AM >>>
The thing that makes a catalog a "master catalog" is being named in
SYS1.NUCLEUS or SYS1.PARMLIB as the master catalog.
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Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) wrote:
I was just curious if JAVA on the mainframe should be kept as
current as possible or if we should lag abit.
The beautiful thing about all the Java stuff is that you're
damned to keep various versions in parallel. Jave beats
Micro$oft when it comes to incompatibi
I was not annoyed by the questions, but I expected a responsible answer to
my question of "why". Anyone is free to "wonder why" and even "ask why" but
should not expect that valuable time will be spent providing answers to
questions for which there is no reason you should care. Almost everyone who
I'm wondering if anyone is (or has considered) virtualizing their MVS consoles.
We are running an z9BC. All our TN3270E consoles (Hummingbird HostExplorer)
are attached via two OSA-ICC (Integrated Console Controllers). We have 10
physical Windows XP Workstations running 20 console sessions
Try the COBANAL software at the CBT site, file CBT321. It reports quite
well on LE-enabled load modules (though PLI support per-se is still a
little weak). Since your PLI program is from an LE-enabled compiler you
might get exactly what you need.
Please feel free to contact me off-list if you ha
Let me clarify, it is possible to order 2 cards each containing either 1
or 2 PCI-X cards inside.
On the upside CPACF just needs an activation disk that you IBM SE can
activate on your box (should be no additional $) and Encryption Facility
(to my knowledge) is priced to encourage use.
The CE
John McKown wrote:
[...]
So, this was just for "bragging rights" over on the iSeries forum. Not
really important.
Why don't you mention limit for parallel sysplex?
The limit is 32 MVS images. Each z/OS image can run on 64 CPs.
Is anyone using it? I believe NO - and this is good news for mainfra
CICS V 3.1 (and 3.2 as far as i can tell) only supports java 1.4 -
cannot even run 1.5. Lousy, since IBM released j 1.6 at least a year
ago.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Schumacher, Otto
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008
Creating a master catalog is no different from creating a user catalog.
While the example has "DEFINE MASTERCATALOG", IDCAMS treats this the same as
if "DEFINE USERCATALOG" was coded.
The thing that makes a catalog a "master catalog" is being named in
SYS1.NUCLEUS or SYS1.PARMLIB as the master ca
> Where in storage are the symbols specified in IEASYMxx stored?
> Looking to see if some system key is used, as well as storage protect
> key, and subpool number.
In the current implementation, which could change at any point including
via APAR, since the IEASYMBM service runs in user state and k
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:45:57 -0600, W. Kevin Kelley
wrote:
>On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:55:09 -0600, John McKown
>wrote:
>
>>I just got curious about this. Does anybody know what the size of the
>>largest parallel sysplex is or about how big it is? I mean in the following
>>metrics:
>>
>>1) how many
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:55:09 -0600, John McKown
wrote:
>I just got curious about this. Does anybody know what the size of the
>largest parallel sysplex is or about how big it is? I mean in the following
>metrics:
>
>1) how many "cores"? That is CPUs?
>
>2) How z/OS images in the system?
>
>3) Ho
I have encountered this condition and was unable to get it resolved (didn't
invest much time - had a circumvention). So, I end up suggesting WORDPAD to
open the file, then save it, and after than NotePad works fine. Sorry I
don't have a solution for you, and clearly my circumvention has a somewha
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:06:31 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote:
>
>This is also known as the catalog's self-defining entry. See
Oops I should have said self-describing entry. And the link should
have been
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DGT2C160/4.1.1.1?SHELF=DGT2BK80&DT
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:52:12 -0500, John Sullivan wrote:
>>That said, should the CATINDEX be cataloged? I have some usercat where
>>the
>>CATINDEX is catalog and some aren't.
>
>--
>The CATINDEX is *ALWAYS* cataloged since it's th
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John Eells
>
>
> ... From the very name of HZSAIEOF, and the penchant of good
> programmers to pick meaningful names when possible, I will speculate
> that it might perhaps, just maybe, stand for Allocate (data set)
>I don't understand the context in which you would want
>something like this, [snip]
I never said I wanted something like this and I was completely
confused myself about the fact that there ought to be that
"something". In the meantime it became clear that there was a
misunderstanding that made
>I was just curious if JAVA on the mainframe should be kept as
>current as possible or if we should lag abit.
The beautiful thing about all the Java stuff is that you're
damned to keep various versions in parallel. Jave beats
Micro$oft when it comes to incompatibilities between releases.
At the
Crispin Hugo wrote:
Can I use ICSF with DFSMS on z9 without any special processors or features ?
No.
You should buy software program called IBM Encryption Facility with
additional feature for DSS.
Additionally you should have enabled HW feature called CPACF DES/TDES
enablement.
If you want to
Roland here you go: ZEBB PTF E320ATBA
Jon L. Veilleux
veilleu...@aetna.com
(860) 636-2683
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To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re
Can I use ICSF with DFSMS on z9 without any special processors or features ?
Crispin Hugo
Systems Programmer
Macro 4
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Umm.. BCDIC ? Though it would be an encoding scheme, rather than an
encryption scheme.
At 09:30 PM 11/12/2008, Peter Hunkeler wrote:
Has anyone heard of an encryption routine from IBM which
only accepts a limited set of characters in the input field
to be encrypted? I was told the routine will
Timothy Sipples wrote (and wrote ...):
> but, to elaborate
That's not an elaboration, it's an epistle.
Shane ...
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>The reason why I am doing this is to send the job output to a software
>provider.
>Can I prevent the "wrap around" or it is one of those things I have to live
>with?
Is it truly 'wrapped'?
What do you open it with?
If NOTEPAD, there is an option called WORD WRAP, which you can turn off.
-
Too
Although you apparently need z/OS 1.7 Lifecycle Extension to get access
to any PTFs required to run 1.7 on the System z10 BC. And any future PTFs,
including any specific to the z10 BC.
Interestingly (and I think very wisely), IBM has broken down the Lifecycle
Extension pricing into fine grains
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:11:13 -0800, John Dawes wrote:
>The reason why I am doing this is to send the job output to a software
provider. Can I prevent the "wrap around" or it is one of those things I
have to live with?
That software provider has a mainframe too? Then consider XMIT before FTP.
S
You have a really interesting question, John. However, the answers are
probably more interesting if the question revolves around particular
services: DB2 data sharing or MQ shared queues, for example.
Is a particular Parallel Sysplex really "biggest" if all it has in common
is SYSLOG? Maybe, but y
John McKown pretty much said it all, but, to elaborate
Java 6 for z/OS has been around for quite some time. (It was introduced in
December, 2007. WebSphere Application Server V7 for z/OS requires SDK 6
level, so it's already getting used in commercial products.) I see no
reason to wait on inst
"Linda Mooney" wrote in message
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ast.net>...
> Hi John,
>
> (fun old story response to (Semi-humorous post warning.) post.
>
> And sometimes an 'exposure' is also a 'feature'. True story. a 'few'
years ago we had a progra
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