Hello:
We have a problem with a RMF vsam dataset. We want to change one of
them and when we add it shows the message:
ERB820I III: MONITOR III DATA SET 'STS.RMF.LNA4.MONI3.VSAM01' IS
ERB820I III: UNUSABLE
*ERB853E III: MONITOR III DATA
While waiting for the STP, we have decided/proceeded to implement and setup
GDPS on a single site (BRS config) using two LPARs acting as primary and
secondary site and a controlling system for our testing and for
familiarization purpose. GDPS, SA and netview have been setup and working
properly.
Clark Morris writes:
Why does COBOL need XML handling?
Because many customers wanted it and filed excellent requirements details
with IBM, through SHARE and other avenues. (Which now means we've come full
circle, again, in this discussion thread. :-))
Question back to you: why does COBOL need
I'll throw in the thought that the experiences with similar things from
the past - like Data Windowing Services - may be relevant...
What did customers like or dislike about them? My suspicion is they were
too difficult to use for most people and didn't necessarily provide that
much benefit.
Mark,
you are correct - no commit. Thanks for the input.
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ACF2[1] authorization is done by pattern matching of rules against an
installation-defined construct called the UID string. The fields in the
UID string come from the ACF2 logon id (LID) record.
I'm dealing with an old IEFUJV that does a lot of cross checking of
different substrings of the job
How did you create this file? Did you use the RMF Process for creating it?
Lizette
We have a problem with a RMF vsam dataset. We want to change one of
them and when we add it shows the message:
ERB820I III: MONITOR III DATA SET 'STS.RMF.LNA4.MONI3.VSAM01' IS
ERB820I III: UNUSABLE
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:10:57 +0200, Itschak Mugzach wrote:
I assume this SVC 255 (poor numbering) does what svc255 usually does.
Why do you say it is poor numbering? IBM uses SVC numbers 0 to about 150.
Numbers from 255 down are reserved for user SVCs. These are the SVC numbers
used by vendor
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:10:10 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote:
ACF2[1] authorization is done by pattern matching of rules against an
installation-defined construct called the UID string. The fields in the
UID string come from the ACF2 logon id (LID) record.
I'm
Kelman, Tom wrote:
Last year we looked at SAS sub-capacity pricing. What we found out then
is that to get sub-capacity pricing for SAS you need to cut out an LPAR
that runs SAS and hard-cap it. Then they'll charge you for the MSUs
(MIPS) that is assigned to that LPAR. You can't run SAS on any
I was unaware that RMF III was required to get the 74(4)'s. I have recently
assumed this duty and will probably just go after the LPAR's that are part of
the plex and that alone will be enough to keep me busy for quite a while.
--- On Wed, 1/21/09, Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.com wrote:
I have a question about OMVS HFS files. I have the compatibility maintenenance
installed on my z/OS 1.7 system, in preparation for installing z/OS 1.9. When I
created my 3 ALTRES packs on 3390-3s, I copied the OMVS files with FDRDSF. As
an example, I copied OMVS.ROOT to OMVS.SERVICE.ROOT, and
That should work just fine. I do the same thing with DFDSS copy/rename.
BTW, in my sandbox, I have a permanent set of OMVS files that I apply
maint to (SMPE is updated to point to OMVS.SERVICE.*) the files are then
copied with rename back to the sysres volumes.
snip
I have a question about OMVS
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:25:49 +, Eric Bielefeld eric-ibmm...@wi.rr.com
wrote:
I have a question about OMVS HFS files. I have the compatibility
maintenenance installed on my z/OS 1.7 system, in preparation for installing
z/OS 1.9. When I created my 3 ALTRES packs on 3390-3s, I copied the OMVS
Allan,
That's not quite the same thing. I'm talking about just doing an IEHPROGM
rename, where you actually are copying the file and renaming it with the copy.
Eric
Staller wrote:
That should work just fine. I do the same thing with DFDSS copy/rename.
BTW, in my sandbox, I have a
Tom Marchant wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:10:57 +0200, Itschak Mugzach wrote:
I assume this SVC 255 (poor numbering) does what svc255 usually does.
Why do you say it is poor numbering? IBM uses SVC numbers 0 to about 150.
Numbers from 255 down are reserved for user SVCs. These
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Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 7:12 AM
Subject: ACF2: populating UID string from job name?
ACF2[1] authorization is done by pattern matching of rules against an
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:56:40 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:25:49 +, Eric Bielefeld wrote:
I copied OMVS.ROOT to OMVS.SERVICE.ROOT,
and applied all of the maintenance.
My question is, can I use IEHPROGM to rename the Service file back to
OMVS.ROOT?
I've never done cloning
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:25:49 +, Eric Bielefeld wrote:
My question is, can I use IEHPROGM to rename the Service file back
to OMVS.ROOT?
It is easy enough to test. Rename OMVS.SERVICE.ROOT to OMVS.TEST.ROOT and
mount it at your service mount point. Then look at what you have in your
service
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From: Ulrich Boche ulrich.bo...@web.de
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 4:10 PM
Subject: zSecure Audit Concern with EJES SVC
Recently, I ran a zSecure Audit MVS Tables status scan and one of its
findings was the following:
Ulrich Boche wrote:
Instruction scan hit, Updated using SVCUPDTE, Installation-defined
SVCno, Caller may be unauthorized
From the information you posted, it appears that zSecure is flagging
the entry because it believes it is not installation-defined. Without
access to the documentation, I'm
Tom,
Thanks for the suggestion. I renamed the file to OMVS.TEST.ROOT, catalogued
it, and was able to mount it and look at it. I just wasn't sure about renaming
the HFS file, but it works so I'll do that.
Mark - thanks for the email on cloning. I'll look at your web site eventually.
I have
OMG. Why on earth have how an application is
coded have to do with a system wide outage ???
No matter how an application programmer codes,
the system should never be so vulnerable that
this happens !
Regards,
Thomas Berg
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Hi listers,
Our core mainframe business application was sunset on 12/31/2008, with our
data migrating from the z platform to an SAP solution. Now we are faced with
what to do with data on tape (3490/3490E). Our mix of data on tape consist of
backups utilizing CA Faver, CA Disk, CA's DB2
Steve --
Not to answer your question but have you a plan what you're going to do with
that data once you get it on readable media? Can you run applications that
can process it on your new platform?
i
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John;
Here is my question for IBMMAIN.
Thanks
[X]
We wish to establish the capability of loading an ICKDSF and a DF/DSS NL tape
from VTL for Business Continuance Exercise...
Do you know of a way to create a non-label tape in a SMS managed Tape
Library. Do I have to update my ACS
All,
I'm running SAS with Win XP 64 on an 4x3Ghz CPU IBM Blade Server with 8GB of
memory and all my data on a BlueArc Filer on 1Gb connections. All this for a
fraction of the MF cost. I'm a mainframe bigot, but I would never want to go
back to running SAS on a MF. Some things do run better on
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:53:44 +0100, Thomas Berg thomas.b...@swedbank.se wrote:
OMG. Why on earth have how an application is
coded have to do with a system wide outage ???
No matter how an application programmer codes,
the system should never be so vulnerable that
this happens !
It wasn't an
I went through this same thing about 3 years ago, so obviously my info is out
of date. I basically searched for TAPE CONVERSION 3490, or some such thing on
Google, and found a number of vendors. They were all very expensive. Each
tape format had to be built separately, and I think was
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:58:11 -0600, Steve Horein steve.hor...@harcourt.com
wrote:
Hi listers,
Our core mainframe business application was sunset on 12/31/2008, with our
data migrating from the z platform to an SAP solution. Now we are faced with
what to do with data on tape (3490/3490E). Our mix
I forgot to mention that you can also attach SCSI tape drives to the FlexCUB
and use them for data storage instead of DASD. So, attach your LTO to the
FlexCUB and just copy the data.
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Mark Zelden wrote:
It wasn't an outage. It was a hang.
Not quite the same scenario... but try this:
Say you run on a single engine and have a very high priority home grown
application that runs as an STC. It is so important that the installation
decided
to run it in the SYSSTC service
Why bother? A contingency contract with a provider (IBM Global Services, or
some DR provider like COMDISCO) and suitable climate controlled storage may be
all you need. Set a final sunset date in concert with your legal and audit
folks and rest easy.
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Can anyone point me to documention on interpreting the contents of Reg 3 on
entry to an ERRET routine from the POST macro?
Thanks
Jim Whitehurst
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would never want to go back to running SAS on a MF. Some things do run better
on other platforms.
It depends.
I worked in two shops where 'everybody' used SAS.
In that case, one mainframe licence was cheaper than mega-multiple PC licences,
and the data was all shared.
If just your
IMHO, the best answer for z/OS is to
always run with at least two logical CPs.
I've actually found three better.
One for MVS and his friends.
One for user work.
One for those times of loops and bad application code taking over the second
engine.
BTDT! GTTS!
I've only seen one scenario where
According to the ICSF documentation ICSF API (with crypto HW) do support
financial functions like PIN verification.
Is any customer reference list available ?
Maybe somewhere on IBM website?
Other suppliers provide such lists.
Regards
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ul.
(When the system is not working for several
minutes it's critical. Regardless of the
cause. With working I include responding to
user(operator) commands.)
But is not home grown application.
It's DB2. A standard product delivered by
IBM that is supposed to be playing on the
safe side in an
According to the ICSF documentation ICSF API (with crypto HW) do support
financial functions like PIN verification.
Is any customer reference list available ?
Maybe somewhere on IBM website?
Other suppliers provide such lists.
All the Canadian banks have been using it for years.
Before that,
If you have Cheryl Watson's current Tuning Newletter - I am in it.
It looks like she picked up my discussion on the new feature in z/OS V1.9 ISPF
3.17.
Does anyone have her email address? I would like to send her a thank you.
Lizette
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My main requirement is that the userid and password is sent AFTER the TLS
encryption has been
established, I don't want clients signing in with login credentials sent in
clear, before establishing
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If you have Cheryl Watson's
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don’t understand or I
just work here.
A common alternate spelling is dunno. And for fans of the Family Circle
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Pretty cool!
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Thanks Rogers,
You indicate you may explore excluding these files from Migration and Space
release, why?
I am not a Changeman admin, and I do not have access to the install or
implementation manual, but we are getter some rather ridiculous demands from
our team that supports Changeman. Like
Ted,
It's not just the cost. The overall usability of the SAS workplace in a
GUI is IMO streets ahead of the 3270 CUA equivalent.
If SAS is running with very little user interaction then the platform is
probably irrelevant in many cases. The platform that gives the best TCO
would be the right
Does anyone know of a command that can be executed on z/OS that will display
data base latch errors? ...or something in RMF that will show me if we are
getting them? (this is for an Oracle data base but I'm looking for a z/OS
command)
Thanks,
Mary
If you are trying to impress me, well, it worked!! :-D
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IBM does not, to my knowledge, disclose any details about their customers.
Institutions that may use the facility often frown upon any public discussions.
Even if they were willing, they have their customers' wishes to consider.
What would you like to know?
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Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com 1/22/2009 12:43 PM
If you have Cheryl Watson's current Tuning Newletter - I am in it.
It looks like she picked up my discussion on the new feature in z/OS V1.9 ISPF
3.17.
Does anyone have her email address? I would like to
Andy,
That is the way it was installed here many years ago (10+). So I guess
that is what the vendor recommends.
Our new DASD ADM is just starting to address the SB37 abends when the
package files start growing.
We do not handle migration of these files using HSM.
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stars...@mindspring.com writes:
Does anyone have her email address? I would like to send her a thank you.
_http://www.watsonwalker.com/contact.html_
(http://www.watsonwalker.com/contact.html)
**A Good
It's not just the cost. The overall usability of the SAS workplace in a GUI
is IMO streets ahead of the 3270 CUA equivalent.
Possibly, but with the CUA it only matters for online.
I admit that most of the work was batch, which beat windows/*NIX
implementations.
But, at one company, we got free
Hal Merritt wrote:
IBM does not, to my knowledge, disclose any details about their customers.
Institutions that may use the facility often frown upon any public discussions. Even if they were willing, they have their customers' wishes to consider.
What would you like to know?
I'd like
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:36:18 -0500, Art Celestini spamb...@celestini.com
wrote:
Sounds like a form of System Integrity Exposure (in DB2) to me.
Technically, no.
First, our System Integrity commitment is very specific about what it
covers, and system slowdowns are not within that definition of
Rather than a list of user's of the HW crypto feature, would not the
security/certification level of the IBM processor's be even more impressive?
HITACHI
DATA SYSTEMS
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Senior Technical Engineer
Office: (408) 970 - 7978
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Roger Bowler wrote:
It's good to see that T3 Technologies has not yet given up the struggle to
bring back competition into the IBM mainframe market.
http://openmainframe.org/featured-articles/the-t3-technologies-story.html
I assume this means T3 wants IBM to buy them.
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After what happened to PSI they must be feeling so left out ! In any case it
could be more profitable than quietly fading away.
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:31:10 -0800, Edward Jaffe
edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote:
Roger Bowler wrote:
It's good to see that T3 Technologies has not yet given up
As Ted mentioned, Canadian banks use it. It is also used extensively
by European banks and those in the Antipodes.
What do these banks have in common? They use all the traditional
EFT cryptography *plus* the additional functionality for EMV (SmartCards).
Also, being inboard, IBM crypto
Greg Shirey wrote:
FWIW, our company has been running on two logical CPs for around 10
years. Maybe we are just dumb and happy, but we consider ourselves
safe and have not suffered through any experience to indicate
otherwise.
Some years ago, we upgraded from a 9672-R11 to a 9672-RX2. Our
(New but follow-on thread),
There are now and have been ever since the question was first raised at
least three different issues (IMHO).
1) The one that Clark and others have TRIED to communicate to IBM, but which
seems hard to convey - or at least difficult to hear that IBM understands is
the
Additionally, under PCI you have to separate test and production.. which
for the external boxes... means buying more. Not so for the CEX2C's since
they can be shared across LPARs.
I agree about the speed. I am not sure that the actual processors run
that much faster.. but the ability to use
Hello all,
I would like to back out and redo every thing done by the smpe run below.
How could I go about this? Retry/Redo did nothing.
//SMPCNTL DD *
SETBOUNDARY(LM2PWMT) OPTIONS(OPTLMK) .
APPLY
APARS
Howard,
Seriously, you work for a bank in NYC, why do you not apply for Bail Out'
money and then you go to an Island in the West Indies ?
Otherwise, I would have to ask you, which IBM lecturers taught you because
we need to retrench 16,000 IBM employees and you can help us, with this
task.
Hi,
Wonder if anyone can help with a small issue I'm having, trying to understand
how an ALIAS gets resolved.
We are installing a product on a zOS system that utilises MQ to pass
messages to/from a DB2 Subsystem.
When we asked the client for certain MQ dataset names, they came back with
Authorized Assembler Services References, volume 3, SA22-7611
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Subject: ERRET completion code for asynch cross mem POST
Can anyone point me to documention on
Howard,
The way I would approach this is to identify each and every PTF that was
applied. Then create a RESTORE of each and every ptf. This will take time
as anything that had not been accepted is also a potential PTF that needs to
be restore. You could wind up with 1000's of PTFs that need to
This can be complicated... but I am going to describe a simple one.
Personally, I like aliases just fine. I find that I am usually in the
minority of sysprogs when it comes to using aliases... since
As long as you are fairly uncomplicated in the system setup, it is just a
matter of defining
I'm not sure that you want to be messing with the UID.
Can't you just issue a SAF AUTH call with an ENTITY containing whatever it is
you want to check?
That would be similar in concept to the JESJOBS SUBMIT ENTITY
SUBMIT.NODENAME.JOBNAME.USERID.
Colleagues, follow up this problem
Yes, the user for both purpose is the same (so as to execute the DEF through
IDCAMS and run in the command line the DEF command)
Separate, review the IKJTSOnn members on every Host and LPAR where the trouble
exists (actually on the installation where
Lizette
Thanks for the suggestions...I'll check out the redo.
Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com 1/22/2009 5:59 PM
Howard,
The way I would approach this is to identify each and every PTF that was
applied. Then create a RESTORE of each and every ptf. This will take time
as anything
I use aliases all the time with the spin-off SMF files, especially the
monthlies.
I/we create at least ten different daily and monthly SMF data files (we feed
SMF data to other areas), I noticed that some of the other areas that use
the monthly files, sometimes run the same file through their
---snip-
Colleagues, follow up this problem
Yes, the user for both purpose is the same (so as to execute the DEF
through IDCAMS and run in the command line the DEF command)
Separate, review the IKJTSOnn members on every Host and LPAR
Meanwhile, COBOL customers are beating us up about XML validation,
XMLSS, Unicode, useability features and many other things besides
AMODE 64 COBOL. We have to do it all right?
Why does COBOL need XML handling? Is it generating in line code as
opposed to setting up calls as is the case for CICS
Hi Carlos,
Rick is correct, you need to have ALTER for the dataset to run the define. If
you are trying to define the high level qualifier, you must have RACF access to
the master catalogue. Additionally, in most shops these days, RACF is setup
not to allow 'unprotected resources' to be
Boy, do I feel stupid. For some reason I thought the OP asked a different
question.
Really sorry for the topic drift. :(
Gary Green
Never use a 2x4 when a 2x6 will do just as well!
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Hey Gary,
Don't feel bad. Turns out you replied with something useful for ME! We have
exactly the same issue you described. So how did you implement your dataset
alias solution? Is it automated? Can you share some code?
TIA,
Linda Mooney
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Walt:
I agree it is not a z/OS exposure per se, but no application-level code
should be able to bring the system to it knees. It certainly seems that
the fault lies in DB2, but DB2, like any other good, authorized citizen,
has a responsibility to ensure that it doesn't create a set of
Another questions, does the CF on both primary and secondary sites should
have the same CFCC level code in order to talk to each other?
Regards,
Jason
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Would you have a look at symbolicrelate parm in define alias
I guess that is what you need
I wrote about it in a previous life
chapter 2.4 in SG24-5336
www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg245336.pdf
Bruno Sugliani
zxnetconsult(at)free(dot)fr
http://zxnetconsult.free.fr
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009
I've used this JCL:
//PASO20 EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01,REGION=6M
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSUDUMP DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=*
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