Re: Screen size (was 3270 emulator cost)

2009-02-24 Thread Barbara Nitz
oh well, Ed, if you want to get picky :-) >Which IPCS display uses 143 columns? I thought IPCS used only 141. I was guessing that it goes to column 143. What are 2 columns among friends? Guess it only uses 141. (I am using an inverse colour layout - white background - so the column/line number

Re: 3270 emulator cost

2009-02-24 Thread Don Russell
I'll add a "second that" to recommend jollygiant's QWS3270. or QWS3270 Secure. (The secure version supports SSL/TLS, and may be turned on/off on a per-host basis) My experience with them has been nothing less than GREAT! I've made many suggestions to improve the product over the years and (almost)

Re: Screen size (was 3270 emulator cost)

2009-02-24 Thread Edward Jaffe
Barbara Nitz wrote: Out of curiosity, Ed: Given that you're EJES, do you use SDSF? Funny. As one would expect, we use (E)JES exclusively. It's been using the whole "display" in all of the environments it supports (TSO/TPUT, TSO/PUTLINE, ISPF, CICS, batch, our own multi-user VTAM system, ca

Re: Screen size (was 3270 emulator cost)

2009-02-24 Thread Barbara Nitz
>Just out of curiosity, what do you normally see in columns 143 through >160? Is it mostly just a lot of black (background)? Or do some >products/displays you use actually put something useful there? I also use 62x162 (after 'my network guys' - that's how I call them) defined that logmode for m

Re: What do you call...

2009-02-24 Thread Rahim, A. (Ahmed)
The use of these titles sound more appropriate System z Technical Specialist Network Technical Specialist Security Technical Specialist Regards, Ahmed Rahim System Z Technical support Group Technology -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu]

Re: Deleting UnExpired dataset using JCL

2009-02-24 Thread גדי בן אבי
Hi, While that might work, it is not what the user wants. The user would like to use DISP=(SHR,DELETE) or in other words, have access to the file, and if the step completes ok, delete the file. If there is no solution that can emulate this behavior, then they will have to add an extra step tha

Re: UnixSS and C

2009-02-24 Thread Field, Alan C.
Perl is available as part of Ported Tools. IBM Ported Tools for z/OS, 5655-M23 01.01.03 IBM Ported Tools: Perl z/OS MVST100HPRL110IBM Ported Tools for z/OS - Perl This from my SMP installed products report. -Original Message

Re: What do you call...

2009-02-24 Thread George Fogg
MY title before Boeing (when I worked for a bank) was " Assistant Vice President" and before that I was a "Senior Operating System Software Officer". They gave me the AVP title so I wouln't be part of a union. No extra pay, just the good-feeling title. BFD. George Fogg -Original Message-

Re: What do you call...

2009-02-24 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>"Technical Architect II" I was a Senior Technical Architect at my last job. Level 12 out of 14. The only positions higher (before VP) were director & senior director. So, what do you call... - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---

Re: Screen size (was 3270 emulator cost)

2009-02-24 Thread Edward Jaffe
Brian Peterson wrote: Thanks to Ed's encouragement, I've switched my sessions to 62x160 and am very happy with the result. My screen size choices are limited to those supported by TPX, and 62x160 was the largest that TPX could handle (with one fix which was published about a year ago) - TPX basi

Re: What do you call...

2009-02-24 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Hal Merritt > >>Use of the title 'engineer' may or may not involve legal or regulatory issues. > I believe this may vary from state to state in the US. Correct. I believe it was Nevada that first prohibited titling an

Re: File Transfer Issue

2009-02-24 Thread Matt Dazzo
Thanks Hal, worked like a charm. >>> Hal Merritt 2/24/2009 4:16 PM >>> I've never had much luck FTP'ing certificates. I open them in Notepad and copy/paste into a TN3270 TSO session. Even then, I recall having to rename them to TXT to make Windows display them properly. By the way, the REST

Re: 3270 emulator cost

2009-02-24 Thread Natarajan Mohan
I am not sure whether I have found any emulation software cheaper than mochasoft (not including x3270 on Linux or other flavors of Unix). Its $250 enterprise licence and maintenance is free of cost and includes upgrades. Support turnaround time is very quick as well when bugs found. http://www

Re: Screen size (was 3270 emulator cost)

2009-02-24 Thread Brian Peterson
Thanks to Ed's encouragement, I've switched my sessions to 62x160 and am very happy with the result. My screen size choices are limited to those supported by TPX, and 62x160 was the largest that TPX could handle (with one fix which was published about a year ago) - TPX basically only handles the s

Re: new ftp userid

2009-02-24 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
Unless you also set the interval to NOINTERVAL this is only a temporary fix. The people using the FTP clients will still need to change the password periodically as Hal noted. -Original Message- From: David Hanson Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 11:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject

Re: What do you call...

2009-02-24 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 2/24/2009 at 2:51 PM, Mark Zelden wrote: -snip- > It must not in the U.S. Almost everyone in "tech" or "operations" IT here > has that title. There's nothing in Federal law about this, but there is in some states. Texas, for example. Which, ironically, being the home of EDS meant tha

Re: 3270 emulator cost

2009-02-24 Thread Shane
Let's make that "SSL" > Tom's had SLL v3 for ages ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua

Re: 3270 emulator cost

2009-02-24 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: "Mark Pace" Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 4:56 PM Subject: Re: 3270 emulator cost I like the way Vista looks, but see nothing about SSL/TLS support. Tom added SSL support in V1.26. Works great! Regards, Tom Conley -

Re: 3270 emulator cost

2009-02-24 Thread Shane
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 16:53 -0500, Mark Pace wrote: > I like the way Vista looks, but see nothing about SSL/TLS support. Tom's had SLL v3 for ages - on the latest/current version. Go download it, and use your current license key. What a deal. Not obvious where it is - well, at least I missed it.

Moving datasets with DFDSS COPY

2009-02-24 Thread Tom Eden
I need to move some datasets from one storage group to another. These were initially assigned to the current group incorrectly based on a particular DATACLAS. I have changed the ACS routines so that future datasets will go to the correct storage group. I was thinking that I could then just us

Re: UnixSS and C

2009-02-24 Thread John McKown
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:55:35 -0800, O'Mara, Kevin, ITD wrote: >I contend that in Windoze & Linux world, maybe most other operating systems, there is at least one free "C" compiler readily available. When I found that we did not have any "C" compiler, because of cost, I was very sadly surprised. A

Re: UnixSS and C

2009-02-24 Thread O'Mara, Kevin, ITD
I contend that in Windoze & Linux world, maybe most other operating systems, there is at least one free "C" compiler readily available. When I found that we did not have any "C" compiler, because of cost, I was very sadly surprised. All coding is HLASM, as we do, of course, have an assembler.

Re: 3270 emulator cost

2009-02-24 Thread Mark Pace
I like the way Vista looks, but see nothing about SSL/TLS support. On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Pinnacle wrote: > - Original Message - From: "Edward Jaffe" < > edja...@phoenixsoftware.com> > Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main > Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 2:02 PM > Subject: Re: 3

Re: What do you call...

2009-02-24 Thread Howard Brazee
On 24 Feb 2009 12:05:16 -0800, eamacn...@yahoo.ca (Ted MacNEIL) wrote: >I stand, or sit, corrected. >I was going by what a few P. Eng's told me, including my brother who is a >Computer Engineer. > >Also, just because it is a regulatory issue, doesn't mean the title is applied >appropriately. >20

Re: What do you call...

2009-02-24 Thread Howard Brazee
On 24 Feb 2009 11:53:43 -0800, mark.zel...@zurichna.com (Mark Zelden) wrote: >On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:27:12 +, Ted MacNEIL wrote: > >>>Use of the title 'engineer' may or may not involve legal or regulatory >>>issues. >> >>I know it does in Canada. >>I believe it does in the US. When I was em

Re: What do you call...

2009-02-24 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:40:40 -0600, Patrick O'Keefe wrote: > >I have to agree, except that instead of "Sysprogs" I call them >MVS folks... I like the way Skip Robinson's. "Electric Dragon Team Paddler". At least that's the way he signs his emails here. -- Tom Marchant

Screen size (was 3270 emulator cost)

2009-02-24 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:42:29 -0800, Edward Jaffe wrote: > >Hmmm. I'm "playing" with it now and it looks pretty good (other than I >can't figure out how to get a 90x142 display like I'm accustomed to.) Wow! Thanks, Ed. I've been using 62x142 for a while. Thought that 62 lines was all ISPF would

Re: File Transfer Issue

2009-02-24 Thread Hal Merritt
I've never had much luck FTP'ing certificates. I open them in Notepad and copy/paste into a TN3270 TSO session. Even then, I recall having to rename them to TXT to make Windows display them properly. By the way, the REST is the RESTART command, and that just means that checkpoint/restart is

Re: Deleting UnExpired dataset using JCL

2009-02-24 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>Have you tried : >//DEL EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01 >//SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=* >//SYSTSIN DD * > DEL 'V110.TGBA.TESTDEL' PURGE There was an even simpler one with IKJEFT1A, and a PARM="DEL dsn PURGE". It has come down to: "What is 'pure' JCL"? To me, anything th

Re: Deleting UnExpired dataset using JCL

2009-02-24 Thread Frank Skellen
Have you tried : //DEL EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01 //SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSTSIN DD * DEL 'V110.TGBA.TESTDEL' PURGE Frank The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this me

Re: Deleting UnExpired dataset using JCL

2009-02-24 Thread Howard Brazee
On 24 Feb 2009 10:51:47 -0800, eamacn...@yahoo.ca (Ted MacNEIL) wrote: > >>//S005EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 >>//DD1 DD DSN=name.xxx,DISP=(MOD,DELETE), >>//UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(TRK,(0)) > >Yes. It failed because the dataset had a future expiry date. >That was

Re: What do you call...

2009-02-24 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:23:19 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: >On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:48:51 -0600, P S wrote: > >>...your: >> >>network folks >>security folks >>sysprogs >>applications programmers >>? >> > >1) Network folks >2) Security folks >3) Sysprogs >4) Application programmers > >:-) > >Ok... o

File Transfer Issue

2009-02-24 Thread Matt Dazzo
I am transferring a certificate that is in ascii armored format from my desktop to the mainframe using wsftp pro. For some reason only part of the cert is transferred. Below is the ftp log, in the log is an 504 error which is means 'Command not implemented for that parameter.' Can some one expl

Re: new ftp userid

2009-02-24 Thread Hal Merritt
Keep in mind that users will have to know how to do that using RFC FTP syntax or whatever client software they choose. For some clients: PASS oldpassword/newpassword/newpassword HTH and good luck. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On

Re: What do you call...

2009-02-24 Thread Hal Merritt
I believe this may vary from state to state in the US. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: What do you call... On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:

Re: What do you call...

2009-02-24 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>>>Use of the title 'engineer' may or may not involve legal or regulatory >>>issues. >> >>I know it does in Canada. >>I believe it does in the US. >> >It must not in the U.S. Almost everyone in "tech" or "operations" IT here has >that title. I stand, or sit, corrected. I was going by what a fe

Re: Pedantic Tape Analyzer?

2009-02-24 Thread Richard Peurifoy
Paul Gilmartin wrote: Lately, examining a dump of a tape output from SAS TAPECOPY, I noticed that the volser in the HDR1 records did not match the volser in the VOL1 record. OK. IBM doc says this field is defined but not verified by OPEN/CLOSE processing, etc. But I'm working on a utility of m

Re: FDR Backups for Linux?

2009-02-24 Thread Jim Marshall
Do not quite have a requirement for 24/7 but what is done is the Linux Systems are terminated for a very short time, all the z/VM volume containing the minidisk of Linux file systems are SNAPPED over to separate disks and the Virtual Linux machines are then brought back up. The outage is very sm

Re: What do you call...

2009-02-24 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:27:12 +, Ted MacNEIL wrote: >>Use of the title 'engineer' may or may not involve legal or regulatory issues. > >I know it does in Canada. >I believe it does in the US. > It must not in the U.S. Almost everyone in "tech" or "operations" IT here has that title. Mark --

Re: Deleting Unexpired dataset using JCL

2009-02-24 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>You can override the expiration date or retention period, when deleting >SMS-managed data sets, by coding OVRD_EXPDT(YES) in your IGDSMSxx member. Yes. Check the archives. It WAS a non-SMS dataset. You're going over already covered ground! - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---

Re: new ftp userid

2009-02-24 Thread David Hanson
Thanks Hal. I reset the password and specified no to expired. Thanks, Dave Hanson 464-8889 >>> Hal Merritt 2/24/2009 2:25 PM >>> I'd say the password is wrong or expired. Initial passwords are set to expired by default. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mail

Re: What do you call...

2009-02-24 Thread Field, Alan C.
Here's our System Programming group titles: Principal Systems Engineer Senior Systems Engineer System Engineer III, II, I HR decided that as a corporation we had too many titles and so streamlined them a couple of years ago, I think down to about 750 from over 1500. -Original Message-

Re: 3270 emulator cost

2009-02-24 Thread Edward Jaffe
Pinnacle wrote: I must take issue with my good friend Edward Jaffe over his recommendation of HOD. The HOD installs I've used are just abysmal. No keyboard mapping, bad highlighting and 3270 extended stream support, screwy fonts, no IND$FILE support, just to name a few. Hmmm. I'm "playing"

Re: Deleting Unexpired dataset using JCL

2009-02-24 Thread Cebell, David
You can override the expiration date or retention period, when deleting SMS-managed data sets, by coding OVRD_EXPDT(YES) in your IGDSMSxx member. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1

Re: 3270 emulator cost

2009-02-24 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: "Edward Jaffe" Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 2:02 PM Subject: Re: 3270 emulator cost Schwarz, Barry A wrote: Does anyone have any experience with this Host Access Client Package? Are the fees comparable in other countrie

Re: What do you call...

2009-02-24 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>Use of the title 'engineer' may or may not involve legal or regulatory issues. > I know it does in Canada. I believe it does in the US. IBM, aeons ago, had to change the title of Customer Engineer to Customer Engineering Representative, for example. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -

Re: new ftp userid

2009-02-24 Thread Hal Merritt
I'd say the password is wrong or expired. Initial passwords are set to expired by default. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of David Hanson Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:16 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: new ft

Re: What do you call...

2009-02-24 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>> I've >Thanks! Just curious -- was the "I've" spellcheck/autocorrect to the >(un)rescue? Yes. I missed it. It was supposed to be IV (Roman Numeral FOUR). >There are words I can't type reliably because they're too close to other words; I've been unable to type the word RATIO, reliably, for ov

Re: What do you call...

2009-02-24 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:48:51 -0600, P S wrote: >...your: > >network folks >security folks >sysprogs >applications programmers >? > 1) Network folks 2) Security folks 3) Sysprogs 4) Application programmers :-) Ok... only half kidding. Are you talking about the mainframe people only?Most ha

new ftp userid

2009-02-24 Thread David Hanson
I have created a new userid in RACF to use with FTP clients on other systems. The other systems will FTP to my z/OS and use this id to log on. When I try to use the new userid I get an error that says "Pass Fail". Is there something I have to refresh in order for this userid to be used with FTP

Re: What do you call...

2009-02-24 Thread Hal Merritt
Network technicians. Security Administrators, Security Officers, or Application Administrators. (Each have defined roles). System Administrators. Application Programmers. Use of the title 'engineer' may or may not involve legal or regulatory issues. -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: 3270 emulator cost

2009-02-24 Thread Don Bolton
Barry, I'd check out www.sdisw.com for Tn3270 Plus which is around $40. We are also using their FTP client, LPD. Tn3270 also works as a console on our z9 mainframe. It also supports Vista. Don Don Bolton Director Technical Services www.OpentechSystems.com -Original Message- From: IBM M

Re: What do you call...

2009-02-24 Thread P S
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Ted MacNEIL wrote: > Or, followed by: > I > II > III > I've Thanks! Just curious -- was the "I've" spellcheck/autocorrect to the (un)rescue? Or automatic fingers? (There are words I can't type reliably because they're too close to other words; some are userids o

Re: 3270 emulator cost

2009-02-24 Thread Edward Jaffe
Schwarz, Barry A wrote: Does anyone have any experience with this Host Access Client Package? Are the fees comparable in other countries? Do other packages (Extra, Rumba, etc) charge annual fees? EVERYONE with a reasonably current copy of PCOMM has experience with this package. It's just P

Re: What do you call...

2009-02-24 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>network folks Network Analyst Network Programmer >security folks Security Analyst Security Administrater Security Co-ordinator >sysprogs Systems Programmer Technical Analyst >applications programmers Programmer Analyst Programmer Analyst All of these can/have come with qualifiers of: Junio

Re: 3270 emulator cost

2009-02-24 Thread Hal Merritt
I would put TLS/SSL capability at number one on my requirements list. Lack of console support is a deal breaker for me. For many types of workstations, a secure FTP feature is also on my 'must have' list. Depending on the business mission, I'd consider some special purpose 3270 'thin client'

Re: 3270 emulator cost

2009-02-24 Thread Blaicher, Chris
VISTA3270 at $30 per copy is the best I have used. There is no yearly maintenance fee, but you can always get the latest version. Also Tom is quick to respond to any problems discovered. My evaluation of 'best' is based on what it does, not the price. I have used three other emulators, none

Re: Deleting UnExpired dataset using JCL

2009-02-24 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>I may be late and missed some of the dialog on this but >Has this been mentioned. >//S005EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 >//DD1 DD DSN=name.xxx,DISP=(MOD,DELETE), >//UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(TRK,(0)) Yes. It failed because the dataset had a future expiry date. That

What do you call...

2009-02-24 Thread P S
...your: network folks security folks sysprogs applications programmers ? No, I don't mean "those buttheads from downstairs", I mean what titles do they typically have? We're discussing this internally and realized we don't really know -- "Engineer" gets used a lot these days, except in countries

Re: 3270 emulator cost

2009-02-24 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Try www.ericom.com I worked with most products in the market, they are second best only to IBMs PCOM and only because they don't support console streams. Itschak On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Schwarz, Barry A < barry.a.schw...@boeing.com> wrote: > As part of a replacement for a 12 year old sy

Re: 3270 emulator cost

2009-02-24 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Schwarz, Barry A Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: 3270 emulator cost As part of a replacement for a 12 year old system at a customer site in Japan, w

Re: Long overdue upgrade

2009-02-24 Thread Lionel B Dyck
There is an annual maintenance fee with Extra. My recommendation if you can convince them is to go with Tom Brennan's Vista package - http://www.tombrennansoftware.com/ The price is significantly less at $30 per seat and zero maintenance. He also offer quantity discounts. So $40K one time plu

Re: Long overdue upgrade

2009-02-24 Thread Mark Jacobs
Schwarz, Barry A wrote: > As part of a replacement for a 12 year old system at a customer site in > Japan, we will be replacing PCs running Windows 95 and IBM's PCOMM 3270 > emulator with new PCs running Vista (don't bother) and a PCOMM > replacement from IBM called Host Access Client Package. Thi

3270 emulator cost

2009-02-24 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
As part of a replacement for a 12 year old system at a customer site in Japan, we will be replacing PCs running Windows 95 and IBM's PCOMM 3270 emulator with new PCs running Vista (don't bother) and a PCOMM replacement from IBM called Host Access Client Package. This new package comes with two pre

Re: Long overdue upgrade

2009-02-24 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
As part of a replacement for a 12 year old system at a customer site in Japan, we will be replacing PCs running Windows 95 and IBM's PCOMM 3270 emulator with new PCs running Vista (don't bother) and a PCOMM replacement from IBM called Host Access Client Package. This new package comes with two pre

Re: Deleting UnExpired dataset using JCL

2009-02-24 Thread Cebell, David
I may be late and missed some of the dialog on this but Has this been mentioned. //S005EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 //DD1 DD DSN=name.xxx,DISP=(MOD,DELETE), //UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(TRK,(0)) // -Original Messag

Re: Deleting UnExpired dataset using JCL

2009-02-24 Thread Rick Fochtman
There isn't one. גדי בן אבי wrote: I know about IDCAMS, but the user wants a pure JCL solution. Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Shorkend Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 2:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subje

Performance

2009-02-24 Thread Donnelly, John P
IBM did not have much to say about following 'cept 'don't do that'; any comments, experience? "Upgraded from CICS T/S 1.3 to CICS T/S 3.2 without redefining the CICS IXGLOGR files... System performance degraded... Redefined the CICS IXGLOGR files and system returned to normal... May we assume t

Re: Deleting UnExpired dataset using JCL

2009-02-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:23:16 +0200, ××× ×× ××× wrote: >I know about IDCAMS, but the user wants a pure JCL solution. > >Gadi > What's "pure" JCL? In my experience, JCL for any valid job must contain at least one "//label EXEC PGM=whatever" statement. That "whatever" might as well be IDCAMS. --

Re: Deleting UnExpired dataset using JCL

2009-02-24 Thread John McKown
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:57:05 +, Ted MacNEIL wrote: >>I know about IDCAMS, but the user wants a pure JCL solution. > >Then the user is out of luck. >The best that can happen is there's a WTOR, to ask if it's okay. >And, I believe that's only if there is write activity to the dataset. >I don't

New public course: Assembler intro

2009-02-24 Thread Steve Comstock
We have a client who has agreed to host a public offering of one of our most popular courses: "OS/390 Assembler Language: Classic". This is our five-day Intro to Assembler class. The client only has one or two students, so we are hoping to find enough students from other companies to hold the clas

Re: Bursts of high paging

2009-02-24 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>Is there a way to avoid this without making everything Nonswappable? >The adrspaces that is paging is typically MQCFG and USS ardspaces. There are two ways: 1. Upgrade your memory. 2. Move the tasks out of SYSSTC to a user-defined Service Class. You may have to make them Memory Critical. There

Re: Deleting UnExpired dataset using JCL

2009-02-24 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>I know about IDCAMS, but the user wants a pure JCL solution. Then the user is out of luck. The best that can happen is there's a WTOR, to ask if it's okay. And, I believe that's only if there is write activity to the dataset. I don't recall what happens with a delete. - Too busy driving to stop

Re: Pedantic Tape Analyzer?

2009-02-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:08:20 -0500, Thompson, Steve wrote: > >I think you can do all you are trying to do with REXX as long as you are >specifying RECFM=U. You will have some fun handling all of this. > Alas, EXECIO won't do RECFM=U. So I try LMGET. LMGET won't do tape. (Or will it? Am I missing

Re: Pedantic Tape Analyzer?

2009-02-24 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 7:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Pedantic Tape Analyzer? On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:31:09 -0500, Thompson, Steve wrote: >I don't know i

Re: JES2 exits and ACF2

2009-02-24 Thread Steve R Wolf
Mark, It turns out you had the solution. We did not add all the ACF2 JES2 exit recommended by CA. All exits work fine after adding the exits and a re-IPL on 2/16. The fallback issue is a mute point in that it was to z/OS 1.4 so no help would have been available from IBM. Our management was

Re: Bursts of high paging

2009-02-24 Thread Hal Merritt
First, are these page in or page out operations? Page out operations are asynchronous and therefore of no concern. I'd dig a little deeper, and, if the average page in rate is zero, I'd rest easy. My $0.02 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.

Re: OSA's Error codes

2009-02-24 Thread Stuart Willis
Hi All Sorry for the delay in getting back but I'm now back on the task of setting up my sysplex. I seem to have opened a can of worms here! I'm a one man band as it were and do all the sysproging here, VM Z/OS VTAM TCPIP etc so I get it to work and leave it as not having the time to full un

Re: ACF2 ENQ problem after Upgrade

2009-02-24 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:03:16 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: > >ENQ problem with what? Was it with the ACF2 VSAM files? ISTR a HIPER >coming across my email very recently that talked about that. > >Did you open issues with ACF2 support for those outages and provide them >documentation, dumps etc.?

Re: SMF log stream dump utility enhancements in z/OS 1.11

2009-02-24 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Kees, I could not agree with you more, hence my request for additional information. For a change, I didn't want to blast IBM until all the facts were known. :-) Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM Se

Re: USS and C

2009-02-24 Thread Schneiderwent, Craig - DOT
We do no C development. We are beginning to use the CICS Web Services Assistant, which interacts with the HFS, so we must become functionally literate with the Unix command line. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu]on Behalf Of P S Sent: Mo

Re: ACF2 ENQ problem after Upgrade

2009-02-24 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:24:09 +0530, Yogeetha balasubramanian wrote: >Hello everybody, > >There is ACF2 ENQ problem in our system and we have a system outage. > >The ACF2 ENQ has been occurring intermittently since the z/OS 1.7 upgrade; >the first occurring approx 2 weeks after the upgrade, the ne

Re: SMPE/HFS issue:

2009-02-24 Thread Kurt Quackenbush
#<<<14.4.3 "SMP/E V3R5.0 for z/OS V1R10.0 Commands" ___ 14.4.3 Restarting RECEIVE FROMNETWORK ... You can simply rerun the RECEIVE FROMNETWORK command, and SMP/E will determine which files have

Re: Deleting UnExpired dataset using JCL

2009-02-24 Thread Staller, Allan
Yes Subject: Re: Deleting UnExpired dataset using JCL Dave, Are you saying that there is no way to do this using pure JCL? >I know about IDCAMS, but the user wants a pure JCL solution. > In that case I think you will have to use one of the many PARM to control card programs to parameterise

Re: Pedantic Tape Analyzer?

2009-02-24 Thread Mark Zelden
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:04:42 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >Lately, examining a dump of a tape output from SAS TAPECOPY, >I noticed that the volser in the HDR1 records did not match >the volser in the VOL1 record. OK. IBM doc says this field >is defined but not verified by OPEN/CLOSE processing,

Re: SMF log stream dump utility enhancements in z/OS 1.11

2009-02-24 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
"Richards, Robert B." wrote in message news:<538523e4ec70a1409a113c09a9179a970b80c...@wdcvexvs2.opm.gov>... > Buried on page 23 of the announcement PDF: > > > > "In z/OS V1.11, the SMF log stream dump utility, IFASMFDL, is planned to > allow you to specify a range of dates relative to the da

Re: SMPE/HFS issue:

2009-02-24 Thread Mark Zelden
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:53:35 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >>if you do the receive with "DELETEPKG", it gets deleted anyway after the >>process is complete. Here, I've set up a 4 3990-9 volume SMPNTS zFS >>that everyone shares. I have a cron script that deletes everything older >>than 90 days

SMF log stream dump utility enhancements in z/OS 1.11

2009-02-24 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Buried on page 23 of the announcement PDF: "In z/OS V1.11, the SMF log stream dump utility, IFASMFDL, is planned to allow you to specify a range of dates relative to the date on which the program is started. For example, you will be able to specify that the SMF records created yesterday, or tho

Re: ACF2 ENQ problem after Upgrade

2009-02-24 Thread John P Kalinich
Tom Marchant of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 02/24/2009 07:14:22 AM: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:52:11 +0530, Yogeetha balasubramanian wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >here's the screen print of the D GRS,C info > > > >S=SYSTEM ACFVSAM LOGONIDS > > > >SYSNAME JOBNAME ASID TCBADDR EXC/SHR STATU

Bursts of high paging

2009-02-24 Thread Peter Kvernes
Hi, We have a z/os 1.8 system experiencing bursts of "high paging". This is most noteably seen by using SDSF Display Active and using "sort paging d (escending)". It is only swappable adresspaces that pages. Does SRM still do "working set trimming" before doing a logical swap? This last only a f

Re: ACF2 ENQ problem after Upgrade

2009-02-24 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:52:11 +0530, Yogeetha balasubramanian wrote: >Hi, > >here's the screen print of the D GRS,C info > >S=SYSTEM ACFVSAM LOGONIDS > >SYSNAME JOBNAME ASID TCBADDR EXC/SHR STATUS > >SY5 DPB1DIST 0051 008DFE00 EXCLUSIVE OWN > >SY5 SYSMSTR 0020 008A81C8 SHARE WAIT > >SY5 DPB1DIST 00

z/OS 1.11 and CICS TS 4.1 preview announcements

2009-02-24 Thread Richards, Robert B.
FYI - these preview announcements are available at: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=AN&subtype=CA &htmlfid=897/ENUSC09-008&appname=USN There is even a new GDPS version (3.6) Bob -- For IB

Re: Deleting UnExpired dataset using JCL

2009-02-24 Thread גדי בן אבי
Dave, Are you saying that there is no way to do this using pure JCL? Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Dave Cartwright Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 2:45 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Deleting UnExpired

Re: Deleting UnExpired dataset using JCL

2009-02-24 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:23:16 +0200, גדי בן אבי wrote: >I know about IDCAMS, but the user wants a pure JCL solution. > In that case I think you will have to use one of the many PARM to control card programs to parameterise the dataset name (optionally volume) and pass it to a deletin

Re: Deleting UnExpired dataset using JCL

2009-02-24 Thread גדי בן אבי
I know about IDCAMS, but the user wants a pure JCL solution. Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Shorkend Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 2:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Deleting UnExpired dataset usin

Re: ACF2 ENQ problem after Upgrade

2009-02-24 Thread Yogeetha balasubramanian
Hi, here's the screen print of the D GRS,C info S=SYSTEM ACFVSAM LOGONIDS SYSNAME JOBNAME ASID TCBADDR EXC/SHR STATUS SY5 DPB1DIST 0051 008DFE00 EXCLUSIVE OWN SY5 SYSMSTR 0020 008A81C8 SHARE WAIT SY5 DPB1DIST 0051 008DFBE0 EXCLUSIVE WAIT SY5 DPB1DIST 0051 008DF9C0 EXCLUSIVE WAIT SY5 JES3 00

Re: Deleting UnExpired dataset using JCL

2009-02-24 Thread Mike Shorkend
Gadi Try using IDCAMS DELETE with the PURGE option e.g. // EXEC PGM=IDCAMS //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSIN DD * DEL V110.TGBA.TESTDEL PURGE Mike On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:59 PM, גדי בן אבי wrote: > Hi, > > > > How do I delete a non sms dataset with an expiration date using JCL. > > > > If

Deleting UnExpired dataset using JCL

2009-02-24 Thread גדי בן אבי
Hi, How do I delete a non sms dataset with an expiration date using JCL. If the dataset does not have an expiration date, I can use DISP=(SHR,DELETE). If the dataset is sms managed, the OVRD_EXPDT allows the override of the expiration date. Is there a way to accomplish this for non sm

Re: ACF2 ENQ problem after Upgrade

2009-02-24 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:24:09 +0530, Yogeetha balasubramanian wrote: > >There is ACF2 ENQ problem in our system and we have a system outage. > Perhaps it would help if you could describe the nature of the problem. Presumably you are describing ENQ contention. What is the ENQ resource? Who holds

Re: USS and C

2009-02-24 Thread Jan MOEYERSONS
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:10:02 -0600, P S wrote: >Do folks "care" about USS? We all do. Definitely. Without it, no zOS would run... >That is, do most z/OS shops actually use >USS for anything beyond the things they're forced to (TCP/IP stuff, >for example)? Yes, for building and testing shell s

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