AW: mainframe e-mail with attachments

2009-10-07 Thread Biao Sun
We're using Infoprint Server (IBM) and sendmail installed in omvs to send mails from host in text or with pdf- or pcl-attachment (for our fax server to generate faxing). -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] Im Auftrag von Pommier,

Re: Ron Ferguson's VSAM Book

2009-10-07 Thread Vince Getgood
I found 1 used on Amazon for $100. Look for :- Author Ronald K Ferguson ASIN: B0006YOHFO Sounds like a bargain to me! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with

Re: mainframe e-mail with attachments

2009-10-07 Thread Mark T. Regan, K8MTR
At my shop we've been using XMITIP for many years and are very satisfied with it.  Mark T. Regan, K8MTR CTO1 USNR-Retired (1969-1991) From: Pommier, Rex R. rex.pomm...@cnasurety.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 5:34:53 PM Subject:

Re: mainframe e-mail with attachments

2009-10-07 Thread Jim Marshall
What I'm looking for is an e-mail package running on z/OS that will allow me to attach files to e-mails for sending out. I found many hits on XMITIP but really nothing else. What all is out there that will allow me to do this? At this point it is a research project to present to mgmt. Give

Re: Issues with FDRTCOPY and TMS

2009-10-07 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Thanks Barry, specifying Expdt did the trick. Dave O'Brien NIH Contractor From: Schwarz, Barry A [barry.a.schw...@boeing.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 7:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Issues with FDRTCOPY and TMS Any chance FDRTCOPY is

How is SNA Sense 087D0001 caused by RUSIZES in logmode?

2009-10-07 Thread Martin Kline
We've had a long-standing issue with a particular VTAM logmode not working across systems. The logmode is ALTMOD45 used by 3270-type LUs with a primary screen size of 43x80 and alternate of 27x132. This logmode works fine for TSO and for CA-TPX on each system. However, when the user connects

Re: mainframe e-mail with attachments

2009-10-07 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 10/7/2009 6:39:56 A.M. Central Daylight Time, jim.marsh...@opm.gov writes: You might find interesting solutions to problems you already have. Reasonably priced and good support. Also are very open to new uses and ideas. We converted to ePrint(_www.leadtools.com_

Re: mainframe e-mail with attachments

2009-10-07 Thread Hal Merritt
We have been using XMITIP for years and have been very satisfied. We send a lot out every day. Something to consider, however, is that we found that email delivery of critical reports to customers to be unacceptable. Our side worked perfectly, but we found full mailboxes, people out of the

Re: How is SNA Sense 087D0001 caused by RUSIZES in logmode?

2009-10-07 Thread Martin Kline
I may have been mistaken. Unfortunately, I inherited the network responsibilities from someone else. That's my excuse, and I'm sticking with it. It appears that my predecessor left several versions of similar, but significantly different logmode tables and source members laying around. The

Re: mainframe e-mail with attachments

2009-10-07 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Hi Hal, Funny you should bring the pitfalls up. I mentioned several of them yesterday when the subject was brought up to me, asking how they would handle them. The response I got back was the deer in the headlights look and a I dunno response. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: mainframe e-mail with attachments

2009-10-07 Thread Don Leahy
Because of the potential pitfalls, we only send notifications (Your report is ready for pick up. or The interface file from xxx was processed last night ) to the users rather than the actual report. On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Pommier, Rex R. rex.pomm...@cnasurety.com wrote: Hi Hal, Funny

Re: Multiple jobs/same name

2009-10-07 Thread Rick Fochtman
snip--- ??? Testers didn't have SURROGAT (I assume they weren't Production Support, and didn't have access to automation), and they didn't know the production password? How were they bypassing?

VSAM Last Reference Date Documentation

2009-10-07 Thread Mark Zelden
Hello everyone. Does anyone know where the rules are documented for VSAM last reference date processing? I had a storage admin person ask me about this when he didn't see index components with current dates, and being an old timer I was able to tell him what I knew (even as it existed going

Re: mainframe e-mail with attachments

2009-10-07 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 10/7/2009 10:10:10 A.M. Central Daylight Time, rex.pomm...@cnasurety.com writes: asking how they would handle them. The response I got back was the deer in the headlights Back when we were doing this with XMITIP we used REPLYTO for departmental reporting so they would

Re: mainframe e-mail with attachments

2009-10-07 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. hmerr...@jackhenry.com (Hal Merritt) writes: Something to consider, however, is that we found that email delivery of critical reports to customers to be

DFHSM QUESTION - LISTING ML2 ENTRIES (MCDS) FOR A SPECIFIC HLQ

2009-10-07 Thread willie bunter
Good Day To All,   Could anybody tell me how  I can obtain  a list of MCDS ML2 dsns for a specific user.  I tried the following command but I got all of the MCDS.   HSENDCMD LIST LEVEL(CICS003) MCDS SELECT(ML2)   Thanks. __

Re: How is SNA Sense 087D0001 caused by RUSIZES in logmode?

2009-10-07 Thread Clark, Kevin
Martin, I had a draft reply that I didn't send, that requested that you verify the BIND on the targeted system B with a trace. Since these threads are archived on IBMMAIN, your problem and solution will benefit others. Kevin -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: How is SNA Sense 087D0001 caused by RUSIZES in logmode?

2009-10-07 Thread Chris Mason
Martin I did find notes indicating MTU size can affect performance when messages have to be fragmented. If it's SNA, MTU has nothing to do with it - and neither does fragmenting. The approximately equivalent mechanisms to IP fragmenting is SNA segmenting. I guess you found this in

Re: How is SNA Sense 087D0001 caused by RUSIZES in logmode?

2009-10-07 Thread Chris Mason
Martin Fortunately I was still working on clearing away the misconceptions evident in the original post - and uncovering the scenario - quite a familiar one, in fact - before tackling the paradox of the influence of the RUSIZES specification. when I spotted this post. For the sake of

Re: Multiple jobs/same name

2009-10-07 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 10:31:08 -0500, Rick Fochtman wrote: Isn't there a JES or INTRDR exit (discussed here long ago) that should be preferred to the SUBMIT exit because it traps all jobs, not just those SUBmitted by TSO. (Nowadays FTP QUOTE SITE FILE=JES provides another bypass.)

Re: mainframe e-mail with attachments

2009-10-07 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Tony, I have base SAS but nothing else. I haven't looked at SAS as an e-mail provider. Would I need more than base? Also, given what SAS does to my machine (a small uni) when I run MXG, what is the overhead of using SAS to e-mail out a bunch of 1-3 page reports? Thanks. Rex -Original

Re: Multiple jobs/same name

2009-10-07 Thread Donald Johnson
Somewhere I missed the earlier post...how can I get hold of he Edit Macro to learn more about this kind of programming (not sure I will roll it out, but would be nice to understand)? Don On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 10:31:08

Re: mainframe e-mail with attachments

2009-10-07 Thread Tony B.
Sorry I don't know about the various flavors of SAS, nor its resource requirements or consumption to comment. Try it out and see if it might work. I have some sample control statements if you wish. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu]

Re: VSAM Last Reference Date Documentation

2009-10-07 Thread Greg Shirey
Here's another factor: http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0409L=ibm-main-archivesF=S=P=988 09 It's not documentation, but it's Mark Thomen!! Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Co. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Wednesday, October 07,

What is largest record that can be sent using LU2?

2009-10-07 Thread Ward, Mike S
Hello all, I have LANDP talking to windows Communications Server via LUA. Then Windows/CS talks to mainframe(CICS) via DLUR terminals using (LU2) protocol. What is the largest record that can be sent from Windows/CS using LU2 to CICS? Is there some mechanism for chaining very large records(6K)

Re: VSAM Last Reference Date Documentation

2009-10-07 Thread Mark Zelden
Apples and oranges. Mark's reference was to component timestamps. That's not the same thing as the last reference date in the VTOC (DS1REFD). Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO

TSO HELP TEXT FOR LIST OF COMMANDS

2009-10-07 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
Hello: When I issue the default HELP command (no operand), I get a list of TSO commands, not of any product which has HELP members in SYS1.HELP, such as RACF or HSM. In SYS1.HELP(IKJEFH90), I found the list HELP shows by default, but if I modify it, HELP doesn't show the updated list to me.

Re: Where to find statistics for fetched programs?

2009-10-07 Thread Jan Vanbrabant
Hi Greg, Re. you saying ... you could check out the recently GA-ed ‘’Tivoli Asset Discovery for z/OS’’ which happens to employ some of the Dorana technology I helped write way back last millenium. This product is also the logical successor to TLCMz, if I'm not mistaken. Yes , you're

Re: mainframe e-mail with attachments

2009-10-07 Thread Ulrich Krueger
Rex, SAS Email is slick. All you need is SAS Base on z/OS. Go to the SAS website and look for the email documentation with examples. Print it, read it and take a look at all the examples. That'll explain what the example below does, how it does it and what you can do, using different parameters,

Re: What is largest record that can be sent using LU2?

2009-10-07 Thread Chris Mason
Mike From a theoretical point of view, SNA can be said to impose a limit of 491 520 bytes in a request unit (RU) since that is the limit of the RU sizes byte in the BIND request, corresponding to X'FF'. However, even this field is only advisory and so a larger value could be used. If you

Re: What is largest record that can be sent using LU2?

2009-10-07 Thread Ward, Mike S
Thank you Chris. I actually understood what you said this time :) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Chris Mason Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 2:33 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: What is largest record that can

Re: TSO HELP TEXT FOR LIST OF COMMANDS

2009-10-07 Thread Bill Godfrey
Try sys1.help(commands). On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 20:55:56 +0200, Gilbert Saint-Flour wrote: Hello: When I issue the default HELP command (no operand), I get a list of TSO commands, not of any product which has HELP members in SYS1.HELP, such as RACF or HSM. In SYS1.HELP(IKJEFH90), I found the list

Re: TSO HELP TEXT FOR LIST OF COMMANDS

2009-10-07 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 20:55:56 +0200, Gilbert Saint-Flour usenet5...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello: When I issue the default HELP command (no operand), I get a list of TSO commands, not of any product which has HELP members in SYS1.HELP, such as RACF or HSM. In SYS1.HELP(IKJEFH90), I found the list HELP

Re: mainframe e-mail with attachments

2009-10-07 Thread Barkow, Eileen
Before I go to the SAS web site, is something missing here? How does it know which node to connect to. I get connection refused. With XMIT, I have to issue a TRANSMID NODE and helo NODE commands. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On

Re: mainframe e-mail with attachments

2009-10-07 Thread Clark, Kevin
Eileen, We use Emailhost to forward to your mail server. //SND EXEC SAS, //COND=(0,LT), //WORK='1,200', //

Re: mainframe e-mail with attachments

2009-10-07 Thread Ulrich Krueger
Eileen, Using SAS Email requires that the userid under which this job runs have a valid RACF OMVS segment (or a set of systemwide RACF OMVS defaults must exist that allow any userid access to basic OMVS and TCPIP functions). You also need the SMTP server task running on your zOS system or you need

Re: mainframe e-mail with attachments

2009-10-07 Thread Ulrich Krueger
Eileen, to answer your question How does it know which node to connect to ... SAS Email, by default, connects via TCPIP to the SMTP port of LOCALHOST. That would normally be your SMTP task on zOS. If that's not available, see SAS Option EMAILHOST=... (that SMTP server must accept unencrypted

Re: What is largest record that can be sent using LU2?

2009-10-07 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 14:33:18 -0500, Chris Mason chrisma...@belgacom.net wrote: A minor gloss on Chris's response ... If you want to indicate that the request units you are sending constitute a larger unit of data at the level of the application, There are two bits in the request header

Re: mainframe e-mail with attachments

2009-10-07 Thread Barkow, Eileen
I tried EMAILHOST=ipaddr of where SMTPSRV runs but got ECONREFUSED error. When I specified the port (ipaddr:port) it abended. I will look at the documentation tomorrow. I run an email application using XMIT, but it would be nice to be able to send an attachment if the situation called for it.

Re: What is largest record that can be sent using LU2?

2009-10-07 Thread Ward, Mike S
I tried getting LU0 to work, but couldn't. So I used LU2 and it worked. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Patrick O'Keefe Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 4:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: What is largest record

Re: mainframe e-mail with attachments

2009-10-07 Thread Scott Barry
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 12:25:57 -0500, Pommier, Rex R. rex.pomm...@cnasurety.com wrote: Tony, I have base SAS but nothing else. I haven't looked at SAS as an e-mail provider. Would I need more than base? Also, given what SAS does to my machine (a small uni) when I run MXG, what is the overhead of

IEFC614I

2009-10-07 Thread Peter Vander Woude
We had a job failure, during submission, recently, that got the following message: IEFC614I PROCLIB DEVICE I/O ERROR SEARCHING FOR PROCEDURE/INCLUDE I know that just a few seconds before this job was submitted, a daily defrag ran, and had completed, on the volume, that one of the proclibs is on.

Re: IEFC614I

2009-10-07 Thread Lizette Koehler
I use to get this at least once a month. We had some programmers running COMPRESS (IEBCOPY) on their PROCLIB that was in The JES2 JCL. The solution is to use the PROCLIB statements in JES2 rather than the JCL concatenations. Then you should not see this issue. Lizette We had a job

SUBMIT Macros (was: Multiple jobs/same name)

2009-10-07 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:27:38 -0400, Donald Johnson wrote: Somewhere I missed the earlier post...how can I get hold of he Edit Macro to learn more about this kind of programming (not sure I will roll it out, but would be nice to understand)? On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:

Re: TSO HELP TEXT FOR LIST OF COMMANDS

2009-10-07 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 14:51:14 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 20:55:56 +0200, Gilbert Saint-Flour wrote: When I issue the default HELP command (no operand), I get a list of TSO commands, not of any product which has HELP members in SYS1.HELP, such as RACF or HSM. In

Re: TSO HELP TEXT FOR LIST OF COMMANDS

2009-10-07 Thread Richard Pace
On Wednesday 07 October 2009, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 14:51:14 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 20:55:56 +0200, Gilbert Saint-Flour wrote: When I issue the default HELP command (no operand), I get a list of TSO commands, not of any product which has HELP members in

Re: IEFC614I

2009-10-07 Thread Terri E Shaffer
There are potentially 2 ways out of this depending on how you coded your proclibs. Perferred method says you are using jes2 dynamic procs, in which case a $TPROCLIB will open/close reallocate them or by chance if you have them in the JCL and have an alter PROCxx coded... you can force JES2

Re: TSO HELP TEXT FOR LIST OF COMMANDS

2009-10-07 Thread Richard Pace
On Wednesday 07 October 2009, Richard Pace wrote: Modifying the COMMANDS member works fine on my system. BTW, if IKJEFH90 is supposed to be an ALIAS for COMMANDS, then the ALIAS is broken; IKJEFH90 is a separate member on my system. And to add, modifying the COMMANDS member is the recommended

Re: TSO HELP TEXT FOR LIST OF COMMANDS

2009-10-07 Thread Lizette Koehler
Here are some tasks that could keep things in storage. PDSMAN PMO QFETCH If you have none of these, then I am not sure how it is cached. Silly question - did you try logging off and then back on? Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Issues with FDRTCOPY and TMS

2009-10-07 Thread Russell Witt
I am guessing that FDRTCOPY is attempting to copy the expiration from the input to the output file. If BES260 is not defined to CA-1; simply remove EXPDT=98000 from the TAPEIN DD statement. Russell Witt CA 1 L2 Support Manager -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Is there an owner of IBM-MAIN nowdays?

2009-10-07 Thread Ed Gould
Did you ever find an answer as to why my submissions are not echoed back to me?Thanks, Ed --- On Fri, 7/31/09, Darren Evans-Young dar...@bama.ua.edu wrote: From: Darren Evans-Young dar...@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Is there an owner of IBM-MAIN nowdays? To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: Friday, July

Justice Department probing allegations of abuse by IBM in mainframe computer market

2009-10-07 Thread Edward Jaffe
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Justice-Dept-probing-IBMs-apf-3247734019.html?x=0sec=topStoriespos=4asset=ccode= -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318 edja...@phoenixsoftware.com http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/