TN3270 printing - scalable?

2010-06-02 Thread Andrew McLaren
Hi all, I have a situation where we'd like to replace SNA connections to remote printers with pure TCP/IP. The print devices are ordinary LAN printers like HP LaserJet, etc. Currently these are connected by DLSw-attached Microsoft HIS servers. Replacing DLSw with Enterprise Extender is not

Re: FTP Get Blocked by ISPF EDIT

2010-06-02 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201005240750423059.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 05/24/2010 at 07:50 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: The old name goes away immediately, even if someone else is using the file arbitrarily long. To be more precise, a program that opened the old name will continue using the old

Re: TN3270 printing - scalable?

2010-06-02 Thread Matan Cohen
we use IBM PCCOM for CICS print . why do you need to use a PDT? or think you should? IBM pccom is support PDT. you can define in your VTAM several IP LU . and open several pcom on a station where the printer is defined. after trying to get the same result with HIS EE i found this is the most

Re: ICKDSF INIT UNDO

2010-06-02 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Jacques Swanevelder wrote: I am looking for an ICKDS INIT UNDO utility. Can anybody help with such a tool? Ouch. Jacques, you are 100% out of luck. Did you ever received ICK003D or similar WTOR confirmation messages? Restore from a good backup is your only alternative. Consider using

Re: CICS DFHLD0203 issues

2010-06-02 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Yeah. I just have not investigated how to deal with the side file. It's on my list of things to look at. :-) Thanks, Frank If you don't need the contents of the side file you can allocate it to

Re: CICS DFHLD0203 issues

2010-06-02 Thread Peter Nuttall
Hi John, That's correct, but I believe for it to work correctly, if you specify separate, then the sysdebug DD needs to point to a file Kind regards, Peter Chase, John jch...@ussco.com Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu 02/06/2010 01:33 PM Please respond

Re: CICS DFHLD0203 issues

2010-06-02 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Peter Nuttall Hi John, That's correct, but I believe for it to work correctly, if you specify separate, then the sysdebug DD needs to point to a file Enterprise COBOL v4.2 with //SYSDEBUG DD DUMMY produced

OT: 1960's IBM ad information with the Muppets

2010-06-02 Thread McKown, John
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Re: CICS DFHLD0203 issues

2010-06-02 Thread Peter Nuttall
Fair enough, though I was sure I read somewhere that with 'Separate' coded the file created by the sysdebug DD was used during the Debugging process ? ... Chase, John jch...@ussco.com Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu 02/06/2010 02:05 PM Please respond to IBM

Re: TN3270 printing - scalable?

2010-06-02 Thread Barkow, Eileen
We use VPS/TCPIP and I do not see why it would be a larger project to implement than setting up TN3270 for printing, which is a lot less flexible, so I heard. Our VTAM applications use DRS/VPI, another LRS product, along with VPS/IP to do the actual printing. And LRS support has been great

Re: CICS DFHLD0203 issues

2010-06-02 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Peter Nuttall Fair enough, though I was sure I read somewhere that with 'Separate' coded the file created by the sysdebug DD was used during the Debugging process ? ... Indeed; that is its intent, and its contents

Re: CICS DFHLD0203 issues

2010-06-02 Thread Steve Comstock
Peter Nuttall wrote: Fair enough, though I was sure I read somewhere that with 'Separate' coded the file created by the sysdebug DD was used during the Debugging process ? ... Right. But the file created by the sysdebug DD statement at compile time has its name stored in the load module;

Re: BMC reveals 'free money' mainframe and DB2 tools

2010-06-02 Thread Bill Fairchild
Indeed, I can no longer find any pages on the Inet with System Resource Block and BMC other than copies of the IBM-MAIN posts with those character strings. All findable pages now say Service Request Block. I seriously doubt that the folks at the Register follow this mailing list, but we know

Re: OT: 1960's IBM ad information with the Muppets

2010-06-02 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
McKown, John wrote: I apologize to those who think this is a waste of time and bandwidth. No need to apologize... ;-D http://technologizer.com/2010/05/31/ibm-muppets/ Thanks. Very interesting. Hmmm, I remember this very old joke: What do you get if you hold two green balls in your hands?

Re: Staffing Levels for zServer Environments

2010-06-02 Thread Arthur Gutowski
On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 09:58:06 -0500, Glen Gasior glen.manages@gmail.com wrote: *There is theory and there is reality. If you have a shop where the software management process is essentially whatever was a good idea at the time, software and hardware upgrades will be painfully time consuming

Does CSVQUERY search in the primary address space?

2010-06-02 Thread Binyamin Dissen
Or does it search in the home address space? This does not seem to be described anywhere. -- Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should

Re: Does CSVQUERY search in the primary address space?

2010-06-02 Thread Walt Farrell
On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 17:09:46 +0300, Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com wrote: Or does it search in the home address space? This does not seem to be described anywhere. Purely a guess, but for a task mode invocation, since your TCB is in Home, I would expect CSVQUERY to search in Home

SMF99 record

2010-06-02 Thread Johnny Ying
Hi,lister I know SMF99 record contain many useful information including the decisions WLM have made.In our installation SMF99 record is not collected due to the huge data volume.So if I take a console dump with WLM address space,is there any available tools that can extract these SMF99 record

Re: SMF99 record

2010-06-02 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Johnny Ying wrote: I know SMF99 record contain many useful information including the decisions WLM have made.In our installation SMF99 record is not collected due to the huge data volume.So if I take a console dump with WLM address space,is there any available tools that can extract these SMF99

Re: 1960's IBM ad information with the Muppets

2010-06-02 Thread Field, Alan C.
I was intrigued by this. I'd love to see them. I wonder if these are available for viewing anywhere? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 07:33 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: OT:

Re: TN3270 printing - scalable?

2010-06-02 Thread Itschak Mugzach
If you can 'push' the sysout to a windows server (FTP?), you may want to have a look at http://smartprinter.co.il/en/smartprinter.html a cheap and work maker solution. ITschak On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Barkow, Eileen ebar...@doitt.nyc.govwrote: We use VPS/TCPIP and I do not see why it

Re: 1960's IBM ad information with the Muppets

2010-06-02 Thread Bill Fairchild
Try using GOOGLE. Also check YouTube. Then report back with any URLs you find. Bill Fairchild Software Developer Rocket Software 275 Grove Street * Newton, MA 02466-2272 * USA Tel: +1.617.614.4503 * Mobile: +1.508.341.1715 Email: bi...@mainstar.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com -Original

SCRT having trouble

2010-06-02 Thread Ken Porowski
Anyone else having trouble with the SCRT data submission website? Ken Porowski VP Mainframe Administration CIT Group -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with

Re: SMF99 record

2010-06-02 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 10:08:50 -0500, Johnny Ying johnny.y...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,lister I know SMF99 record contain many useful information including the decisions WLM have made.In our installation SMF99 record is not collected due to the huge data volume.So if I take a console dump with WLM

Re: SMF99 record

2010-06-02 Thread Kelman, Tom
We do collect Type 99 records. Do you collect the SMF 100-102 records (DB2) and or the SMF 110 records (CICS) records? They have a lot more volume in number of bytes recorded than the Type 99 records. Here is the record count and sizes we collected yesterday. We are a small shop, but the

Re: 1960's IBM ad information with the Muppets

2010-06-02 Thread Greg Smith
Try using GOOGLE. Also check YouTube. Then report back with any URLs you find. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtCqcKzSVCU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK5CE3T0aoU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RowwNXKEt4k -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: SMF99 record

2010-06-02 Thread Mark Zelden
I guess this could be a religious debate, but since they've existed I've only needed them 1 time for a PMR - and that was a long time ago when a lot of wrinkles surrounding discretionary work were still being worked out. So to me, collecting them and storing them all the time is a waste since

Re: SCRT having trouble

2010-06-02 Thread Field, Alan C.
I just submitte4d our stuff successfully - 13:00 CDT -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ken Porowski Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 11:29 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: SCRT having trouble Anyone else having trouble with

Re: SCRT having trouble - OK now

2010-06-02 Thread Ken Porowski
Seems like it was hung for a little while, all appears OK now. -Original Message- Porowski, Ken Anyone else having trouble with the SCRT data submission website? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: TN3270 printing - scalable?

2010-06-02 Thread Linda Mooney
Hi Andrew, We also use VPS, VPS/TCPIP, DRS, DRS/TCPIP.  We run about 500-600 active printers and we also use VPS/TCPIP and DRS/TCPIP to, among other things, receive data from other platforms, write it to JES2 for printing, or write it to z/OS datasets for for further processing on z.

Re: SCRT having trouble

2010-06-02 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ken Porowski Anyone else having trouble with the SCRT data submission website? The colleague who submitted ours at about 0800 CST this morning said that the website indicated it was processing, but so far we've not

Re: 1960's IBM ad information with the Muppets

2010-06-02 Thread Bill Fairchild
Thanks for the links. I liked the 3rd one best, the Cookie Monster and the automated coffee making machine. If I had had access to that YouTube clip in 1987, I would have included it in my farcical SHARE presentation on the Hosed System Architecture. I first saw the Muppets on TV in the

ftp.exe and Vista

2010-06-02 Thread C. Ardillo
I hope some of the network guru's out there can point me in the right direction. I've been using command line FTP, doing PUT's and GET's to the MF for the past couple of years. I just migrated to a Vista PC. GET's work, PUT's appear to work - transfer is successful, bytes are transmitted, the

Re: SMF99 record

2010-06-02 Thread Ted MacNEIL
The same could be said for many other SMF records that people collect and store, but those could be looked at too. But since IBM has recommended to turn them off (unless requested to collect) it's pretty much a no-brainer to me. You're correct that it is a religious debate. And, since they

OT: list members in Italy

2010-06-02 Thread Steve Comstock
If there are any ibm-main watchers in Italy, please drop me a line off list. Thanks. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an

Re: SMF99 record

2010-06-02 Thread Gerhard Adam
So to me, collecting them and storing them all the time is a waste since they are really only useful (for the most part) to IBM and for diagnostic purposes. Comparing SMF 99 to CICS and DB2 SMF records ... or SMF 30s and 70s is not a good comparison. It's like keeping a trace on all time

Alerts from HMC

2010-06-02 Thread Leitner, Timothy
All, Has anyone set up hardware alerts logged on the HMC that goes to a monitoring system? We had an issue this morning where due to a storm; we lost power for 3 seconds (noted in a hardware message on the HMC) and then threw a couple breakers that took out our cooling. We also had a

Re: Alerts from HMC

2010-06-02 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2010-06-02 22:13, Leitner, Timothy pisze: All, Has anyone set up hardware alerts logged on the HMC that goes to a monitoring system? We had an issue this morning where due to a storm; we lost power for 3 seconds (noted in a hardware message on the HMC) and then threw a couple

Re: Alerts from HMC

2010-06-02 Thread Hal Merritt
Radoslaw brings up an interesting point. No power then no comm. Your HMC should have 'phoned home' and IBM should have attempted to contact someone. Perhaps the HMC lost comm, which would have muted any alarm/alert system in the first place. Perhaps that's also what happened to your facilities

Re: Alerts from HMC

2010-06-02 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 6/2/2010 4:37:28 P.M. Central Daylight Time, hmerr...@jackhenry.com writes: No power then no comm. This can all be covered in your environmental contingency plan. UPS for HMC and modem, etc. Woke the operators up one night when the water sensors left over from the

Re: Alerts from HMC

2010-06-02 Thread Shane Ginnane
I would certainly expect a phone home. Several years ago I got a call from California as I was driving on a weekend. You have a customer with a machine about to shut down because of thermals. M - even on a weekend banks don't usually like to do that in the middle of the day. Gave the ops a

Re: ftp.exe and Vista

2010-06-02 Thread Kirk Wolf
Sounds a little like the Vista firewall might be stepping on the FTP data connections. Try disabling the firewall completely (temporarily!!) and see if the problem goes away. HTH, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 2:05 PM, C. Ardillo

Multiprise 3k for personal Use?

2010-06-02 Thread Kevin Keith
Hi, I know this idea might sound crazy, but I was wondering about the prospects of an IBM mainframe for personal use. I'm aware of the hurdles considering the Service Element (hard drives being detroyed, etc.) HMC, OSes, and other problems. My question is where would one go about looking for one

Re: Multiprise 3k for personal Use?

2010-06-02 Thread Linda Mooney
Hi Kevin, Just a thought, but for government entities (fed, state, local, educational) and some large businesses, equipment is put up for surplus bid.  That generally results in getting someone to take it away for something between a little bit of money going in either direction, or

Re: Multiprise 3k for personal Use?

2010-06-02 Thread Shane Ginnane
We've got one sitting in the corner of the office computer room, holding floor tiles in place. I suspect others (closer to you) will be in similar situations. I tried to get a couple of flavours of Linux running on it, but couldn't get the comms side of it sorted. Gave up in frustration.

Re: SMF99 record

2010-06-02 Thread johnny ying
Hi,guys Thanks for your reply! and Don't argu about collecting SMF99 or not =^_^=. I post the thread because IBM support asked for a WLM dump for diagnostic purposes one time and another ,they also said they can get SMF99 from the DUMP,so I think maybe someone can tell me how to do that. I'll try

invitation to paracalls.com - legit or address scraping

2010-06-02 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
I received what purports to be an invitation to paracalls.com from Md.Abdullah[1], addressed to an address that I use only on IBM-MAIN. Has anybody else gotten this, and is there any indication as to whether it is legit? Normally I assume that such invitations are bogus unless the person

Re: invitation to paracalls.com - legit or address scraping

2010-06-02 Thread Shane Ginnane
I deleted the one I got without reading it. Shane ... On Thu, Jun 3rd, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Shmuel Metz wrote: I received what purports to be an invitation to paracalls.com from Md.Abdullah[1], addressed to an address that I use only on IBM-MAIN. Has anybody else gotten this, and is there any

Re: Multiprise 3k for personal Use?

2010-06-02 Thread Kevin Keith
Well I hate to look like a solicitor, but, if there is anyone out there, particularly in the Houston area, with a multiprise (actually, any mainframe for that matter, I mean it depends, but if you have ANYTHING talk to me) that is just going to waste that'll be trashed anyway, it would be going to

is out of the office.

2010-06-02 Thread Keith Zawila
I will be out of the office starting 06/02/2010 and will not return until 06/04/2010. I will be out of the office on Thursday, June 3rd. I will return on Friday, June 4. Thanks. HCSC Company Disclaimer The information contained in this communication is confidential, private, proprietary,