Re: REPLY DEVICE NAME OR 'CANCEL' for FTP to mainframe and SMS ACS routines

2010-04-29 Thread Denis Gäbler
Hi, have you tried to activate SMS for FTP: ;MGMTCLASS SMSMGMT ; sms mgmtclass name ;DATACLASS SMSDATA ; sms data class name in the TCPIP.FTP.DATA (or whatever name it has in your installation)? Denis. -Original Message- From: Fred Schmidt

Re: ZFS

2010-04-29 Thread R.S.
Martinez, Frank J pisze: MVT was not broken. Are you still running it? I wouldn't like to compare ancient MVT vs z/OS with *supported and working* HFS vs ZFS. HFS is mature, ZFS is changing (i.e. dropped support for multi filystems within single dataset). HFS works without any setup, ZFS

Re: REPLY DEVICE NAME OR 'CANCEL' for FTP to mainframe and SMS ACS routines

2010-04-29 Thread Fred Schmidt
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:07:40 -0400, Denis Gäbler denisgaeb...@netscape.net wrote: Hi, have you tried to activate SMS for FTP: ;MGMTCLASS SMSMGMT ; sms mgmtclass name ;DATACLASS SMSDATA ; sms data class name in the TCPIP.FTP.DATA (or whatever name it has in your

Re: ZFS

2010-04-29 Thread Martinez, Frank J
That doesn't mean it was broken, just that technology was not as advanced as it is today. The same can be applied to HFS vs zFS. So to say that it wasn't broken, no, it was not broken. Frank J. Martinez Technical Support Supervisor IT System z Tel.: 305-284-3919 Cell: 305-987-8281 Fax :

Re: REPLY DEVICE NAME OR 'CANCEL' for FTP to mainframe and SMS ACS routines

2010-04-29 Thread Terry Sambrooks
Hi Fred, It might be a sledge hammer approach, but is the ALLOCnn member of PARMLIB any use. It can contain a statement ALLC_OFFLN POLICY(CANCEL) but be aware that this will affect all device allocation attempts. Kind Regards - Terry Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore

Re: REPLY DEVICE NAME OR 'CANCEL' for FTP to mainframe and SMS ACS routines

2010-04-29 Thread Bri P
Hmm.. I've never noticed problems like you describe, and we do exactly the same thing with some subsets of our users. If one of these users tries to accidentally or otherwise allocate a file beginning with their userid, it just fails to do it. I don't have anything particularly fancy in

Re: REPLY DEVICE NAME OR 'CANCEL' for FTP to mainframe and SMS ACS routines

2010-04-29 Thread Lizette Koehler
Another thought might be an automation solution. If the IEF message has FTP in the statement for this specific mount or there is a way to determine that this flavor is for FTP, then you could have automation (like OPS/MVS) trap the messages and automatically reply CANCEL. Lizette Fred

Re: ZFS

2010-04-29 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:08:16 +0200, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: Last but not least: ZFS does not provide me any additional functionality. YMMV. Me (you) perhaps being the key word in that statement. The are plenty of benefits of zFS over HFS and more coming all the time.

shopz??

2010-04-29 Thread Crabtree, Anne D
Anyone else having issues with shopz this morning?? Anne D. Crabtree System Programmer WV Office of Technology Data Center 1900 Kanawha Blvd East Charleston, WV 25305 (304)558-5914 ext 58292 (304)558-1441 fax -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: shopz??

2010-04-29 Thread Bob Shannon
Yep. Bob Shannon Rocket Software -- 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

Re: shopz??

2010-04-29 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Definitely! Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Crabtree, Anne D Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 8:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: shopz?? Anyone else having issues with shopz this morning?? Anne D. Crabtree

Re: shopz??

2010-04-29 Thread Crabtree, Anne D
Ok.. just making sure it was on their end... Anne D. Crabtree System Programmer WV Office of Technology Data Center 1900 Kanawha Blvd East Charleston, WV 25305 (304)558-5914 ext 58292 (304)558-1441 fax -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu]

Re: REPLY DEVICE NAME OR 'CANCEL' for FTP to mainframe and SMS ACS routines

2010-04-29 Thread Denis Gäbler
I had a similar idea with an exit replying cancel to all WTORs for unavailable volumes. But that might not be suitable. Another thing could be to make the HFS directory the default when logging in with a FTP client. But that does not reject ZZZ. datasets to be created. Its just that you have

Re: ZFS

2010-04-29 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:28:31 -0400 Martinez, Frank J fjm...@miami.edu wrote: : One day, one of those undergrads who :we would today call a script kiddy, ran an IEHPROGM SCRATCH VTOC on :all the packs whose names he could figure out. He was caught, but not :by the

Re: REPLY DEVICE NAME OR 'CANCEL' for FTP to mainframe and SMS ACS routines

2010-04-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:20:20 -0400, Denis Gäbler wrote: Another thing could be to make the HFS directory the default when logging in with a FTP client. ... But for all jobs that just logon and start with put, you could set the HFS home directory rights such as that any ftp client which just

ETR is down

2010-04-29 Thread Pinnacle
FYI, Getting internal error occurred trying to submit an ETR. Regards, Tom Conley -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Re: REPLY DEVICE NAME OR 'CANCEL' for FTP to mainframe and SMS ACS routines

2010-04-29 Thread Denis Gäbler
You are right, but quoting his initial post, I assumed that those FTP userids do not use USS. We want the allocation to fail, as we don't want these FTP userids to create datasets under their own HLQ, only transfer other files. But we don't want the WTOR. -Original

Re: shopz??

2010-04-29 Thread David Magee
It must be contagious ... I'm having problems with Internet service retrieval. Anyone getting through? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET

Re: shopz??

2010-04-29 Thread Mark Jacobs
On 04/29/10 09:53, David Magee wrote: It must be contagious ... I'm having problems with Internet service retrieval. Anyone getting through? I failed earlier this morning. I'm trying again right now but it looks like its still down. -- Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service Tampa, FL

Re: 25 rea sons why h ardware is still hot at IBM?

2010-04-29 Thread Howard Brazee
On 28 Apr 2010 12:18:47 -0700, john_w_gilm...@msn.com (john gilmore) wrote: My own experience of these applications has been different. Most do work, in the sense that they get some useful processing done; but this is the only favorable thing that it occurs to me to say about them: o In most

Re: ZFS

2010-04-29 Thread R.S.
Mark Zelden pisze: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:08:16 +0200, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: Last but not least: ZFS does not provide me any additional functionality. YMMV. Me (you) perhaps being the key word in that statement. The are plenty of benefits of zFS over HFS and more coming

Re: REPLY DEVICE NAME OR 'CANCEL' for FTP to mainframe and SMS ACS routines

2010-04-29 Thread Hal Merritt
For such file transfers, we do not allow access to anything but the HLQ that matches the ID. Later, a production process picks up the file and copies/renames/whatever. Works great. You might try removing the alias from the master catalog or blocking access to specific user catalogs. Don't

Re: ETR is down (hilarious resolution)

2010-04-29 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Pinnacle pinnc...@rochester.rr.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 9:50 AM Subject: ETR is down FYI, Getting internal error occurred trying to submit an ETR. Regards, Tom Conley Called IBMLink support in Bangalore, and

Re: ZFS

2010-04-29 Thread David Magee
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:02:43 +0200, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: Begin snip But I see no other benefits *for me*. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland End snip What about the RAS issues you get with zFS file systems such as the internal changelog, etc.

Re: ETR is down (hilarious resolution)

2010-04-29 Thread Bob goolsby
Tom -- Let me get this right -- They want you to sanitize your text so Their system will let you send then a Trouble Ticket? Their system can't handle 'special characters'? So, what do they do with someone whose Locale isn't ISO 8859-1? Let us say 850 (LATIN-1 with Euro-symbol) or 863 (French

Re: R: RMM VRSDROP

2010-04-29 Thread Mike Wood
Marco, Although the VRS and VRSS reports are at the data set level, you can still use the information to figure out what caused all that data to dropped from VRS. Start with the VRSS report. It has a summary, by data set drop reason. Just consider those where the status change is 'DROPPED'. Look

Re: ZFS

2010-04-29 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:02:43 +0200, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: Mark Zelden pisze: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:08:16 +0200, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: Last but not least: ZFS does not provide me any additional functionality. YMMV. Me (you) perhaps being the key

Re: ZFS

2010-04-29 Thread Brian Peterson
I agree 100 % with Mark. I've been using zFS for my root file system (and slowly converting all other file systems) ever since z/OS 1.7, when IBM announced zFS as strategic and made it possible to use zFS for any file system purpose. (Prior to z/OS 1.7, zFS wasn't appropriate for the root

Re: Turning on ACF2 SECURITY Privilege through an exit . . .

2010-04-29 Thread Alan Scott
We used to do something like this a long time ago when we had an active ACF2 DDB. You would have to setup your ACF2 system as if it were part of an ACF2 DDB with your system being the only node in the system. Then you can use the LIDMOD exit to alter anyhting in the LID at record retrieval

OSA Express3 performance problem

2010-04-29 Thread Alan Scott
First let me say that Ihave not opened an issue on this yet and that should probably be my first action, but I was already on here and do not log in ver often so I will ask. I have a new z10 BC with 4 dual port OSA's. Two of the OSA are copper and two are fiber. I have the two copper OSA

Re: ETR is down (hilarious resolution)

2010-04-29 Thread Kirk Wolf
Instead of ¢ (cents) you probably need to use रू (rupees). On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Bob goolsby bob.gool...@gmail.com wrote: Tom -- Let me get this right -- They want you to sanitize your text so Their system will let you send then a Trouble Ticket?  Their system can't handle

Re: ETR is down

2010-04-29 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi Tom, I have encountered this before and it was hours before I gave up and called the IBMLink help desk. The message Internal Error is useless. There are a number of issues all related to contents of your update. A more useful error message would be good. A functional enhancement to

Re: ZFS

2010-04-29 Thread Shane Ginnane
Took IBM a while to get there didn't it ?. How can they expect people to rush into these things when they (IBM) apparently didn't trust zFS enough to allow the root (until 1.7 as stated). Then they take away functionality, and advise customers to run in (HFS) compatibility mode. From the same

Re: ETR is down

2010-04-29 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Knutson, Sam sknut...@geico.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 4:30 PM Subject: Re: ETR is down Hi Tom, I have encountered this before and it was hours before I gave up and called the IBMLink help desk. The message

Re: ZFS

2010-04-29 Thread Brian Peterson
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:58:46 +1000, Shane Ginnane wrote: Took IBM a while to get there didn't it ?. How can they expect people to rush into these things when they (IBM) apparently didn't trust zFS enough to allow the root (until 1.7 as stated). Then they take away functionality, and advise

Re: OSA Express3 performance problem

2010-04-29 Thread Warren Brown
Hey Allen. Everytime I notice your name it bring back memories; Hi . . . I am thinking about giving it up in 18 months. For real this time. Tell Cathy I said Hi. During your daily work you may speak to Bob Hines occassionly. We've been friends for over thirty years. Remeber ole Kevin?

JES2 msg $HASP473 for CELL Pool and B32K

2010-04-29 Thread Lizette Koehler
I had an interesting message come out of JES2 to night when CA Dispatch was starting up. The HASP473 with TYPE=B32K I am not finding much in the JES2 Books on this issue. I am guessing that since there was only one occurrence we are okay. However, where would I find more information

Re: REPLY DEVICE NAME OR 'CANCEL' for FTP to mainframe and SMS ACS routines

2010-04-29 Thread Fred Schmidt
Thanks for all the responses. Unfortunately, I don't think they solve the issue... Terry Sambrooks terry.sambro...@btclick.com It might be a sledge hammer approach, but is the ALLOCnn member of PARMLIB any use. ... see my original post... ALLOCxx would fail *all* such requests, not just FTP, and

Re: ETR is down (hilarious resolution)

2010-04-29 Thread Clark Morris
On 29 Apr 2010 07:14:25 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: - Original Message - From: Pinnacle pinnc...@rochester.rr.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 9:50 AM Subject: ETR is down FYI, Getting internal error occurred trying to submit an

Re: JES2 msg $HASP473 for CELL Pool and B32K

2010-04-29 Thread Anthony Thompson
I'm guessing that since you mentioned JES2 region size the reason code on the $HASP473 message was 8? From looking in SHASSRC, B32K cell pool appears to be a general purpose pool of 32K buffers, used for a variety of purposes: JES2 internally, Spool API, NJE... I imagine you'd need to talk to

Re: JES2 msg $HASP473 for CELL Pool and B32K

2010-04-29 Thread Lizette Koehler
Well the strange part was the RC=0 was returned. If it had been an 8 I probably would have been much happier with the message. But 0 and an error? Very strange. Lizette I'm guessing that since you mentioned JES2 region size the reason code on the $HASP473 message was 8? From looking

Re: JES2 msg $HASP473 for CELL Pool and B32K

2010-04-29 Thread Chris Hoelscher
her is something i found:(in http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r9/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.zos.r9.hasa100/has2a17023.htm ) rsnc The reason code. Possible values of rsnc and their meanings are: rsnc Meaning 00 During is initialization, JES2 attempted to obtain a cell pool of

Re: REPLY DEVICE NAME OR 'CANCEL' for FTP to mainframe and SMS ACS routines

2010-04-29 Thread Fred Schmidt
Solution found (by accident) If I define a DFP segment for the FTP userid with STORCLAS=FAILFTP and this storage class does not exist, the FTP dataset allocation fails nicely with a message to the FTP user and no WTOR is issued. Once again, thanks for all the ideas. Regards, Fred Schmidt

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Re: REPLY DEVICE NAME OR 'CANCEL' for FTP to mainframe and SMS ACS routines

2010-04-29 Thread Ron Hawkins
Fred, Have you looked at using a special default esoteric for FTP allocation, like FTPDA and test for this against UNIT in the ACS routines? Where true there can be some following logic to establish if HLQ=USER and deny the allocation within the ACS routines. That way you would never get to the

Re: ETR is down (hilarious resolution - if it weren't so sad)

2010-04-29 Thread Barbara Nitz
Let me get this right -- They want you to sanitize your text so Their system will let you send then a Trouble Ticket? Their system can't handle 'special characters'? So, what do they do with someone whose Locale isn't ISO 8859-1? Let us say 850 (LATIN-1 with Euro-symbol) or 863 (French

Re: ZFS

2010-04-29 Thread Barbara Nitz
1) As I recall, zFS was introduced in the 1.5-1.6 timeframe, but wasn't allowed for the z/OS root until some additional recovery capabilities were added in 1.7. This was just a couple of releases until zFS was really all there. It's been about five years now since zFS was declared strategic. I