I use a standard OS PDS with the "install instructions". JCL/JOBS are
stored in the "install: datasets' PDF's for doc are loaded to a standard
"LAN" directory. I (personally) use the web for most doc lookups, but I
also have the doc on the LAN if needed.
What you have proposed will work just fine,
Is Wally or Dilbert in the next cube?
Is the PHB in the next cube? Wally, Dilbert?
I would love that. I suggested that. I was shot down. Them: "Nobody to
maintain it." Me: "I'll do it." Them: "Not your job function!"
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Escon Converter? Plenty around and should be dirt cheap.
Also, if they are still around check out "Black Box". The Radio Shack of
the computer world. Had little boxes (use specific) in mutltiudes of
combinations. Cumulatively, they could connect almost anything to
anything else.
I'm currently su
What I don't have as yet is a useful equivalent to HSM recycle. But
I'm using virtual tape with 99,999 available volumes.
You will use those up faster than you think. I would suggest (as a
minimum) at least another 100K volsers, and preferably another 200K
volsers.
Good luck!
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This is common if you are far backleveled on your maint. The online
order process only seems to go back one level when you request pre-reqs.
Those pre-reqs may have additional pre-reqs so you will need to order
those separately.
If you have the time, you can do the research yourself with the aid o
There is also a message from ASM when, IIRC, the total page slot usage
exceeds 70%. This message will name the top 5(?) users of auxstor.
> Hello all, this started this morning and I don't know why. We had to
add
> 3 additional paging datasets. Is there qnyway to tell who is the
> culprit?
> than
WLM managed Init's?
IIRC, Jobs are placed in queue in FIFO order within Service Class.
The thing is, a JES2 supported solution, it seems to me, would be
both ideal and easy to implement. Here's my idea:
(1) support a //card option or a /*card option by which a user could
provide an arbitrary
> Could any of you recommend reference material (web sites, manuals,
> redbooks/redpieces) so I could learn something about writing scripts
> under ISHELL in a z/Linux environment?
Try "Unix Shell Programming" Kochan/Wood
ISBN 0-672-48448-X
LCCCN 89-63718
Hayden Books
According to my z/OS 1.9 installation it should be in DDDEF SISPMACS
In my case, SYS1.SIPSMACS.
HTH,
George Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been
searching hi and low for any information on FLMALLOC which
controls the JCL that's submitted to move things around in preparation
for a prom
Allow mixed case outside of quoted strings.
e.g. SPace=..
Subject: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)
This is a blue sky idea for discussion. It is not a request to IBM. But
it derives from an earlier thread on the short comings of the current
JCL. So, I was just thinki
This might be a "life saving" event to someone on currently on
unemployment!
(or worse, whose unemployment has run out!)
This interested me. Not because I want the position, but because I
couldn't believe someone was trying to hire an MVS Systems Programmer at
such a low salary.
Remainder sni
Having read all of the posts in this thread, I am unsure if the
objective is:
a) to determine if a particular module is loaded from a particular
dataset
or
b) to determine if a JOBLIB/STEPLIB is being used to access this
dataset.
The responses to this thread I have read so far, all seem to be re
I.R.S.?
Howard Brazee asked:
-snip-
Have you worked for companies that used terror as a weapon or tool?
-snip
All those with military service need not respond.
OK. Want me to name the companies?
I think I'd rather continue working. However, one of the most widely
known has intitials that ma
Management has decided that it is time for the mainframe to go. They've
got
a project manager looking at a mainframe decommissioning project (feel
my
pain?). We are current now on z/os 1.7 and had ordered the 1.9
ServerPac
and are in the beginning stages of that. Suddenly this project manage
Pragmatically, there is a pretty good business case for halting the 1.9
project. The costs become an issue if, and only if, the project fails,
runs over schedule, or turns out to be only partially successful.
Riiiggg! I would place a bet on failure given the time frame
proposed (< 6 mo
I think the bookmaker would be more lucrative, insurance more practical!
Pragmatically, it would perhaps be wise to balance
the risk with a bet at an English bookmaker, or
an insurance at Lloyd's ?
<>
Pragmatically, there is a pretty good business case for halting the 1.9
project. The costs
It depends on
1) experience of sysprogs
2) #number of sysprogs involved
3) major subsystems installed (CICS, IMS, DB2, MQ, WEBSPHERE.)
The more subsystems involved, the more sysprogs involved with all of the
conflicting demands, scheduling and coordination involved. The CICS
guys, IMS guy
Can SYS1.STGINDEX (VIO journaling) have secondary allocations?
AFAIK, No.
BTW Why are you still doing VIO at all?
It made a lot of sense when disk access times were 17-30 ms, but not
with 3-4ms (Escon/Cache) or < 1 ms (FICON/Cache)
When I found that we were doing a CLPA at every IPL(which cle
Kees wrote:
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> AFAIK, No.
>
> BTW Why are you still doing VIO at all?
> It made a lot of sense when disk access times were 17-30 ms, but not
> with 3-4ms (Escon/Cache) or < 1 ms (FICON/Cache)
>
Is this that simple? The fastest I/O is the I/O you don't do. With VIO
you have a good chance to kee
Try /usr/lpp/tcpip/samples/rmoldlogs
Ouch. For everything that creates a "log", I put that in its own private
filesystem. Really helps, given how infrequently I remember to purge the
logs. I'm going to automate that some day.
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ICKDSF INIT CHECK(n) function
I have a need to do a DOD type clearing of some dasd before it is
returned to the vendor.
I found the CBT Tape entry (737) but was wondering if there is another
one out there that will write Binary 0's and 1's for the number of times
I specify? I do not have DITTO.
IIRC, STK has a utility that overwrites the backend disks similar to
ICKDSF (and others).
If your DASD does anything similar to the STK SVA 9500 I have, MVS
software becomes irrelevant. Every time a track is written to, the
hardware places the entire track's data in a new set of "sectors" on
som
Agreed. Another reason to consolidate on the MF.
>From my experience I could say that having mainframe working on DR site
is piece of cake, when compared to the rest of infrastructure.
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Have you re-assemed ISFPARMS, any exits, umods, etc with the correct
macro levels?
Have you removed module ISFLPA from LPALIB/LPALST?
I migrated my first system to z/OS v1.9 this past weekend, and my
Operations staff noticed that the SDSF "I" screen, and its column
labeled POS appea
My next question is: Since I did get 835 PTFs on (all that didn't
involve NUCLEUS), can I go forward, or should I start over one more
time? Or restore from back up to the pre APPLY state and run again. Or
SMP/E restore?
Just rerun the apply, fixing problems until a clean run is achieved.
Eac
All of the issues will be indicated in the SMPOUT DD. Anything that
shows "system utility failure" (or something similar) will need to be
fixed. About the only thing that should remain after the last run (once
all issues have been fixed) are unresolved error holds.
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>
>My next question is:
Ding ding ding! We have a winner.
Of course this bypasses the check that prevents deleting an active page
dataset.
Be vewy vewy careful! heheheheheheheh
//STEP01 EXEC PGM=IDCAMS
//SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
According to my S/370 RefCard 0-8-2 will produce x'E0'
Subject: IBM 029 keypunch -- 0-8-2 overpunch -- what hex code results?
Does anyone recall how to determine the one byte value that results from
a column on an 80-byte card that was "overpunched" with the 0-8-2 holes
punched out? Please tell
The only time I have seen this is afer a "hard crash" of a system in a
sysplex and IPL without the "system is down" reply on the surviving
members of the sysplex.
Perhaps you IPL'ed SY1 before it had withdrawn (completely) from the
sysplex? The "bad" cds's would then be seen by SY2.
This is the
Way back when (last Feb) when the z10 Roadshow was in town, the said
that there *WOULD BE* a z/10 BC machine. Since they missed the 3rd
quarter window, if there is going to be z/10 BC announcement, I would
expect it in 4Q08.
Has there been any word on when the z10 BC will be announced as the
>
Try "making good business decisions" on for size!
How do you think IBM keeps their financial results so "rosy" ?
All the other vendors have annouced "buy backs" ex. Dell/Sun etc but IBM
still
announced fantastic results.
Something smells fishy some where..
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HSEND SETSYS DEFINE SECONDARYSPMGMTCYCLE(NYU CYCLESTARTDATE(1988/02/28))
Trailing parentheses was omitted based on your post.
HTH,
I am trying to overide the SECONDARYSPMGTCYCLE to NYY by issuing the
command:
HSEND SETSYS DEFINE SECONDARYSPMGMTCYCLE(NYU CYCLESTARTDATE(1988/02/
RMF CPU report. IN READY tasks. You might also check out the OUT READ
queue
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ERBZRA50/CCON
TENTS?SHELF=ERBZBK50&DN=SC33-7991-10&DT=20050721091849
Watch the wrap
Filling in for a performance guy - I need to find out over time the
number o
DELETE 'dataset name' nvr FILE(DD1)
DD1 points to the correct UCAT
HTH,
So just to try renaming it to something... Seems like everything I try
really wants the physical file there - which doesn't make sense since
I've
run into rouge catalog entries before and not had trouble cleaning them
up
PTF UK30311 does not apply to the version of CICC installed in
SMPE3.CICSTS32.GLOBAL.CSI.
Browse the PTF in the SMPPTS and compare the ++VER FMID against the FMID
of CICS in the GLOBAL CSI. There is most likely another PTF that will
match you version of CICS.
A quick glance at IBMLINK suggests th
We have many 3rd party tools in our maiframe estate like CA , BMC , IBM
etc.
Is there any sysstem utiltiy by which we can come to know which tool has
not
been used over a long period of time ? As part of cost cutting exercise
during MF upgrade we are looking to remove some unused tools so that
RACF Logging?
SMF type 14s can not be relied on for STEPLIB or JOBLIB concatenations.
I believe that only the open for the first dataset in a concatenation is
recorded when programs are being loaded. Also, I think that useful
information about access to datasets in linklist or lpalist would not b
If I am copying literal text into a char array, which do you think is
better:
strcpy(dest,"LITERAL");
OR
memcpy(dest,"LITERAL",8);
FWIW,
IIRC, strcpy will copy until a x'00 is encountered. This results in a
"variable length" copy. If no x'00' is encountered, strcpy will happily
copy all o
This just came up. I've taken a fast look in the manual, but haven't
seen
anything. Is there a way in DFSMShsm on z/OS 1.8 to segragate the
migrated
datasets onto separate tape volumes, based upon the STORCLAS or STORGRP
assigned to the migrated dataset? What we want to do is to have a
separate
Unlikely to make much of a difference. However, it won't hurt to try it!
Be sure the production classes do not exist on the non-production LPARS.
One of the production batch LPARs runs CA-7 (job scheduler).
When CA-7 submits jobs they tend to run on the same lpar CA-7 runs on
(we know this is
If there is no queuing on the channel/cu/device), then who cares if it
is 100% busy?
You just need to be aware that at 100% busy, you can't (ever) go any
faster. If SLA's are being missed, then you either need more of the same
hardware, or an upgrade to faster hardware ().
Many of the old "R
"Is there a way to scratch expired datasets without DFHSM or some other
storage manager? We create SMS datasets in DB2 that have an expiration
date
automatically set. When the datasets expire, we want to scratch them."
There are several utility programs to do this on the CBT tape. I haven't
lo
HSEND DELVOL XX MIGRAT(MARKFULL).
There will be no probems.
HTH
The operators have an HSM tape that has gone missing. I want to mark
the
tape full so nothing new gets added to it because HSM is still calling
for the
tape to probably add to it.
I found the following notes in the HSM refer
Assign multiple dump classes in the STORGRR.
Probably would be easier to schedule a job to copy the dataset on a
monthly basis.
Is there a way with HSM to retain a daily backup of a dataset for 45
days and retain a monthly backup of the same dataset for 24 months?
This dataset is updated every d
DEL 'cluster name' NSCR
If that fails,
DEL 'component name' VVR FILE(DD1)
Where DD1 points to volume OPSPR2
HTH,
I'm trying to delete the following datasets:
PDB.SYSPROG.TMON.LMCICS.V22.VTCECNTL *VSAM*
PDB.SYSPROG.TMON.LMCICS.V22.VTCECNTL.DATA
We are looking hard at this. Based on the number of servers we have to be
consolidated, there are significant potential savings available.
We are at the POC stage. I.E. The financials have been reviewed and look
promising. IBM is willing to make IFLs and z/VM avail on a "trial basis" at no
char
InfiniBand Host Bus: I am somewhat aware of what this is. What software
supports it? z/VM & Linux only? Or z/OS and z/VSE as well? What about in
the future? From later in the list, is this only for Coupling Facility
links?
z/OS yes (more recent releases only. 1.8>???). Not sure about z/VSE
1) F DFHSM,LIST TTOC SELECT(FULL)
2) examine listing for PREV/NEXT volumes
3) Find the first volume in the chain
4) F DFHSM,RECYCLE EXECUTE VOLUME(1st vol in chain)
HSM goes through a couple of checks for recycling of volume chains. See
topic 4.2.10 in
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Leopard and Vista: Last Gasp of the Big OS?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/133276
from above:
Twenty years from now a new generation of computer users will look back
on the operating systems of today with the same bemused smile we look
back at the cars of the late 1950s and early 60s. They had
Not even close on the region. Try 512M or even better 1024M
Hi,
I am getting a RC of 106 when I am submitting a job using JZOS for Java
5.0. I have specified REGION size as 128M. What am I missing ? (I did
send email to MVS-OE mailing list and posted on the discussion forum for
JZOS. I thought,
As a result, you may find that your "not loved" transactions will go
along for the ride, based upon the other transactions that are processed
by the server regions.
Isn't that the whole point? If the loved ones are not happy, no one is
happy. If the loved ones are happy, everyone is happy! A ri
Check arccmdxx for SETSYS RECYCLEOUTPUT also
RECYCLEINPUTDEALLOCFREQUENCY. The latter has nothing to do with
The output, but it can keep you from getting into trouble on the input
side
HTH,
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He's Baaaccckkk!!!
So "isham-research.co.uk" should still be Phil's domain.
BTW the Web site appears to have undergone a considerable
(for the better) revision.
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AFAIK FBA devices only worked on VSE and VM so it never got to being
supported on MVS (or VS1 for that matter).
Ed
Not true. 3370 and 3375 were supported (for a while). Never caught on in
the "MVS Markeplace" and were dropped
>From support after 2 or 3 years. Resurfaced as hard drives for th
PHB's are notoriously difficult to educate
Great video ed, now if they can get a similar forum for managers and
educate
them, it may make a difference.
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Seems like there is no physical connection, or an interface is disabled.
I am trying to vary on a 3490 tape doing
cf chp(52),on
v path(1501,52),online That gives me PATH (1501,52) ONLINE
v 1501,online That gives me IEE025I UNIT 1501 HAS NO
PHYSICAL PATHS
And I can find in the lo
See SYS1.SAMPLIB(ARCSTRST). Find for "IEBDG"
IEBDG generates a single record that is Loaded into the SDSP in the next
step.
HTH,
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Just roughing it out:
600K tracks * 1 vol/56k tracks * 2.8gb/vol = 30 GB
So, probably not without a CF upgrade
...Our current CF has 8 GIG.
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Just went live with z/OS 1.7 and noticed that CPU consumption by
Omegamon/MVS has gone up dramatically (CMS and HIST tasks) like +50% or
4 to 6 MIPS (FSVO MIPS.
In 30+ years with various flavors of OM, I have found that there are
really only 2 things that seem to matter.
1) Auto refresh interva
You forgot the Borg!
Actually, I did, a the back-of-the-envelope risk analysis indicated that
the likely delay of 6.2 million years before likely exposure was deemed
acceptable, interstellar terrorism by the Romulan Empire and Vogon
constructor fleets notwithstanding.
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Issue the equivalent HSM command to make the change dynamically,
Restart HSM later (at your convenience) to make solidify the change.
/F DFHSM,HSM command goes here
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Alan...what would be he HSM refresh command?
There is no mechanism to refresh ARCCMDxx in entirety. The only way to
do that is to restart HSM.
The method used is to issue individual HSM commands to accomplish the
same
changes made to ARCCMDxx. E.g. ADDVOL, SETSYS, .
There are *very* few th
Not a good way to win more friends (or customers) on this list!
CA sues over mainframe software copyright infringement
[Mark Fontecchio, News Writer]
Software giant CA has filed a $200 million lawsuit against Rocket
Software,
claiming the company stole its source code to build IBM DB2 management
I am saying Rocket Software is (most likely) more highly regarded than
CA
on this list! The individual CA contributors notwithstanding, CA has
IMO a deservedly poor reputation with regards to customer relations.
Witness the number of shops that have attempted to eliminate all CA
software.
CA (
CA for suing. Just another (IMO) episode in CA's history of poor
customer relations.
I'm not sure I understand you. Or you upset with CA for suing or Rocket
for
the possible infringement of copyrights if the charges are proven in
court?
Tom
Also ref. Apple v. Microsoft
Ref: SCO vs. IBM
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Come on folks - CA like any company has an obligation to protect its
assets. I don't know if their suit is valid or not and will not comment
on
the merits of the suit. However CA would be doing a disservice to its
share holders if they did not pursue any/all actions to protect this
intellectua
And they still haven't learned!
.But that was typical of CA of that era.
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Goes to show bean-counters should never be allowed to run corporate
policy...
Amen Brother
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Steve,
Try this link from Phil's site
http://www.isham-research.co.uk/mainframe_2008.html
Phil,
How does one find the material alluded to in the last paragraph?
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The 470C in error status seems to be perm IO error reading or writing a
DSCB.
Is your VTOC full?
DSNJ103I -DB71 DSNJDS01 LOG ALLOCATION ERROR 761
DSNAME=DSN71.ARCHLOG1.B0001449, ERROR STATUS=470C107F, SMS REASON
CODE=
DSNJ115I -DB71 OFFLOAD FAILED, COULD NOT ALLOCATE AN ARCHIVE DA
It appears that I can't use the V8 SVC routines for IMS
V6; are there any other coexistence or migration issues that I should be
aware of?
I am not an IMS person, but the last IMS shop I worked in had no
downward compatability issues. I.e. The V8 SVC could be used for lower
level access
(e.g. v6
See the instructions at the bottom of each post
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I am Deepankar Ramteke
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Add another service class period with very low (or non-performing goals)
to
the affected service class. When the user(s) reach the Service Unit
Limit and drop into the "last" period. Very little or no service will be
consumed.
You will probably have to experiment to find the correct Service Unit
L
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> > We would like to basically quiesce or severely limit a job or tso id
> > once it has used a certain amount of cpu. anyone know how to do
this?
> > Resource groups don't work, since everyone in the resourc
Did previously. No longer.
There were no problems in our experience.
We are upgrading from a 2064 to a 2096. Our 2064 SYSPLEX contains one
LPAR running z/OS 1.4. Is anyone running z/OS 1.4 on a 2096? If so,
any
problems or suggestions? Thanks.
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Required and distributed as a PDSE by IBM.
So is this an optional copy of the JES library, or the new and
recommended one?
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> We have a 9672 r16 with 5 lpars (four are os/390 2.10 and one is >
vse)
> We have experienced low response time in batch (workload).
> My manager need to know: HOW MANY LPARS IS OPTIMUS ON ONE 9672 R16
?
> HANK IN ADVANCE.
>
> Manuel Tabares S.
The rule of thumb has been a max of
Insufficient space is allocated for the backup copies.
HSM dumps to pre-allocated datasets.
Delete and redefine all backup copies with the current size
as the primary allocation. Them force a backup with F DFHSM,BACKVOL CDS
You might also check the blocksize of the backups for 1/2 track
blocki
Willie,
See the SETSYS CDSVERSIONBACKUP parameter/subparameters.
HSM dumps to the "oldest" (if there are more than 1) versions of the
backup dataset. It then renames to the
"current version" and remembers the current version. AFAI recall, none
of these files are in use except during
BACKVOL CDS
I have never considered COBOL to be a language which would normally be
used to write a program which would cause high CPU utilization (as in
percentage). But I've noticed lately that many of our batch COBOL
programs can run our z890 (capacity 250) at over 20% CPU as shown by
SDSF. And I don't mean
Without the souce code I can't make any intelligent suggestions.
However, if you can find a copy of "The Elements of
Programming Style" it will give several examples of "bad" vs "good" code
and how to get from here to there.
IIRC, at one time there were (at least) three versions. One each for
COB
Is there any reason to specify a STACK value less than 99 when defining
a dump class?
Yes there is. There is an APAR out that has to do with the CISIZE of the
HSM CDS.
It seems that under a "new" format 99 the amount of data needed to
record the
99 volumes will generate a logical record that e
We have done this here. IIRC it required another ESCON/Ficon cable and
Another path to the device.
The RTD can be used for MVS or VTS operation, but not both concurrently.
There is no autoswitch capability.
I.E. Vary RTD off to VTSS, Vary On to MVS, (and vice versa)
HTH,
Al
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>
> MVI MOZ,C'Z'
> MVC MOZ+1(255),MOZ
Should't that be:
MVI MOZ,C'Z'
MVC MOZ+1(L'MOZ-1),MOZ
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I would just create 2 new larger checkpoints to accommodate the
$ACTIVATE and worry
about returning to the original checkpoints at a later time.
Don't forget to update $CKPTDEF as you go (just in case)...
So far i have planned to do
a. enter JES2 Checkpoint reconfiguration dialog b. select opti
The higher density cartridges are physically compatable with the two
machines,
But the data are recorded in an incompatable format. i.e. IBM cannot
read STK and
Vice-versa. I believe you will need more than on esoteric for this
process.
Try SETSYS USERUNITTABLE
Currently most of our HSM work is
DFHSM will backup and/or dump unopened datasets. They usually will not
migrate...
I am not familiar with that particular patch...
Al
> Looked thru the archive and this is not discussed much. I want to
> migrate
> un-opened datasets (zero used space and *NONE* dsorg). I thought
> that
> PAT
Hsend release recall?
I issued a hrecall for two migrated datasets (ML1) & (ML2) and nothing
is happening. I did the necessary health checks - hsend q req, hsend q
act, hsend q setsys - and noticed nothing. I checked the started task
and no error messages were displayed. I even ran a backvo
Provide approiate DCB parameters for DD OUTPU1 on copystep
//COPYSTEP EXEC PGM=IDCAMS,REGION=0K
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//INPUT1 DD DSN=RKI.CSI,DISP=OLD
//OUTPU1 DD DSN=RKI.CSI.TAPECOPY,
// DISP=(NEW,PASS),LABEL=(1,,RETPD=5),
// DCB=(RECFM=xx,LRECL=n,BLKSIZE=n),INSE
IIRC on a traditional *NIX system, /etc/passwd contains the password in clear
text.
The act of giving the auditor a copy (hardcopy or other) would be an audit
violation.
Of course the fact that this is a VM system (which does not have /etc/passwd)
is laughable.
Obviously this auditor did (i
//STEP1 EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01,REGION=6M
//SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSTSIN DD *
LU *
/*
//
This has the added benefit of generating so much output the auditor may
give up and go away!!!
HTH,
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1st suggestion - Remove the FORFMID and just APPLY S() GROUPEXTEND.
Any remaining HOLDE* need to be resolved. Actions should be (at least) reviewed
.
HTH,
APPLY
PTFS
BYPASS (
HOLDSYSTEM
)
JCLINREPORT
FORFMID(
HOS1110
)
CHECK
GROUPEXTEND
SELECT (
UK00286
)
RETRY(Y
SMP/E will not receive a USERMOD, APAR or PTF SYSMOD for an FMID that is
not defined to the GLOBAL zone (rejected as NOT APPLICABLE).
I believe the above statement is incorrect.
SMP/E will receive anything in the SMPPTFIN file unless
the SELECT(fmidset) operand is specefied. Ref. SMP/E Comman
z/990 exploit code runs just fine on a z/800. No worries.
BTDT.
The only gotcha is the console enhancement feature REQUIRES named consoles,
the old form ,l=xx on a "K" command is no longer supported. Had to change
parmlib
and a few in-house scripts to match.
The only other thinks to look out f
Don't know, Haven't used it. However, circa OS/390 2.10 IBM provided
a procedure to "extract" BTAM from the SMP CDS so that it could be re-installed.
AFAIK this "reworked" BTAM release has functioned through (at least) z/OS 1.4
so I have little fear it will not function on Z/OS 1.7 (although I hav
See the LKLIB option of the ++MOD command.
While doing some historical research, I stumbled into:
CHANGES.1 "OS/390 V2R7.0 SMP/E Commands"
* | Pre-built Load Module Support. OS/390 V2R7 SMP/E can add, replace, or
| delete pre-built load modules and program objects in PDS and
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