Re: How can I display whether the sendmail daemon is running ?

2012-02-26 Thread Glen Gasior
are not generally|ever interchangeable when entering UNIX commands. I hope it wasn't his iPad which assumed he must want a capital letter if apparently starting a new paragraph! - Chris Mason On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:40:09 -0600, Glen Gasior glen.manages@gmail.com wrote: * How can I display whether

How can I display whether the sendmail daemon is running ?

2012-01-24 Thread Glen Gasior
* How can I display whether the sendmail daemon is running ? * I have not been able to discover how to do this today. * T.I.A. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: ShopZ Down?

2011-11-07 Thread Glen Gasior
* still cannot order a ServerPac for z/OS 1.13, I have been told again that level 2 is working on it. I think it needs a speed team. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: IBMLINK

2011-11-02 Thread Glen Gasior
* I am getting a 505 for IBMLINK. I have also been getting disconnected multiple times while trying to order a ServerPac, although a test order CBPDO worked fine. Something bad is happening at POKL1, I imagine, and they do not seem to be informing anyone. *

Re: S878 RC 10 Above or Below the Line? Private or LSQA?

2011-11-02 Thread Glen Gasior
* My experience has been when all the above the line storage is exhausted, additional allocations are made below the line. So the below the line error message can be misleading, it might be that ALL the storage is exhausted, not just the below line storage.

Re: ShopZ Down?

2011-11-02 Thread Glen Gasior
* I have had problems with Shopz all week, with no satisfactory replies, except to close my ticket with the resolution - investigating. CBPDO has worked for me, ordering a ServerPac disconnects when trying to go to step 5. I did get to step 5 two weeks ago and experienced a different problem

DEVTYPE------X'000A8000'

2010-11-10 Thread Glen Gasior
Does anyone recognize this DEVTYPE value? So far I am puzzled. This should be a tape dataset. We have DFSMSrmm. NONVSAM TP.DB3ICT.MCIUAT.RE1UPROL.G0010V00 HISTORY DATASET-OWNER-(NULL) CREATION2010.213

Re: DEVTYPE------X'000A8000'

2010-11-10 Thread Glen Gasior
* I suspected it was an ESOTERIC catalogue entry, but could not find which manual documented the meaning of the value. Thank you very much. This is going to be a big help. Tivoli Tape Optimizer is rejecting these entries for processing and I suspect we are missing some parameter.

GLOSSMFR MACRO

2010-06-16 Thread Glen Gasior
Hello, If anyone would be kind enough to email me a .txt copy of your GLOSSMFR macro, it would be great help. * glen.manages@gmail.com * -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Staffing Levels for zServer Environments

2010-06-01 Thread Glen Gasior
*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 unless you are willing to accept outages.* ** *If the system has been designed to be

Re: NULL SMS configuration, versus MINIMAL SMS configuration.

2010-03-04 Thread Glen Gasior
* Thank you that is all that I need and I will also look at the two pack examples while I am working. I will report any interesting results. This will be on a z10 BC, with a DS8100 (2107). I am going to try the null configuration for the first test. *

NULL SMS configuration, versus MINIMAL SMS configuration.

2010-03-03 Thread Glen Gasior
* I am building a first copy of a stand alone sysres, commonly called a mini z/OS and I would like SMS to come up in a null configuration. * I have found RTFM guidelines for setting up a MINIMAL configuration but no specifications for a NULL configuration. Am I missing something or do I have

Re: Improving my SMP/E usermod procedure

2010-03-03 Thread Glen Gasior
* I do not think there is a simple or a right or wrong way to do your typical usermods, as long as the data in the CSI correctly inventories your software. * The crux of the problem is installing the usermod is not the same process as maintaining the usermod. I think blending the two into one

Re: LOAD Problem after POR

2010-03-03 Thread Glen Gasior
Correct IOCDS is important, I do not remember if any state of the IOCDS would prevent a LOAD. * Does an activate of the LPAR work ? * Can you access the support element from the HMC ? * I would also check if the IODF dataset is in extents, it must be contiguous. * I imagine you are sev1 with IBM

Re: Need tool to zap core

2010-02-24 Thread Glen Gasior
I had to call my dad to find out what was meant by core. On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Pinnacle pinnc...@rochester.rr.comwrote: I have a need to zap core, but my client does not have OMEGAMON. I searched the CBT mods tape and came up empty. What we're trying to do is a SETPROG LPA,ADD,

Re: TSO PING LOOPBACK

2010-02-11 Thread Glen Gasior
Thank you for your replies. I was able to find similar discussions on this topic in the archives and used SYSTCPT to trace RESOLVER behaviour. (default RESOLVER in use) * Invoking the PING command in TSO BATCH was very helpful. * The problem was an invalid SYSTCPD DD statement in the TSO LOGON

TSO PING LOOPBACK

2010-02-10 Thread Glen Gasior
* TSO PING LOOPBACK gives me EZZ3111I Unknown host 'LOOPBACK' and RTFM and even REDBOOKS has not helped me. * I can ping 127.0.0.1 successfully, which makes me suspect a hosts entry or dns entry, but I am getting lost in all the parms. * EZZ2500I NETSTAT CS V1R10 TCPIPROC 505 HOME ADDRESS

Re: WASOEM.sh

2010-02-04 Thread Glen Gasior
As it turns out, it was expecting a directory in /tmp/ which of course disappeared when I unmounted /tmp/ to increase its size. * After the directory was defined, it ran fine under BPXBATCH. * //INSTWASM EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH //STDPARM DD *

Help finding error code definition REXX SYSCALL

2010-02-04 Thread Glen Gasior
* Does anyone know which manual would define this error code ? * 6 *-* address syscall getpwnam (ZOSMFAD) pw. getpwnam (ZOSMFAD) pw. 7 *-* address syscall chown /u/zosmfad pw.pw_uid pw.pw_gid chown /u/zosmfad PW.2 PW.3

Re: Help finding error code definition REXX SYSCALL

2010-02-04 Thread Glen Gasior
found this AI: Special Variable RC The REXX special variable RC normally contains the return code from host command most recently executed. The special value -3 indicates that the specified command was not found. If a system abend occurs, the value returned is the negative of the decimal

Re: Help finding error code definition REXX SYSCALL

2010-02-04 Thread Glen Gasior
* You nailed it, ZOSMFAD is not defined in RACF. * -- 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

WASOEM.sh

2010-02-03 Thread Glen Gasior
Has anyone had this shell script looping ? /usr/lpp/zWebSphereOEM/V7R0/bin/WASOEM.sh -n BBN0004W:ZPMT_WORK_ROOT directory (/tmp/zWebSphereOEM/V7R0/zpmt/work) does not exist. Would you like to create it? (Y/N) BBN0229I: * Your response was ÝEnter¨ -n

WASOEM.sh

2010-02-03 Thread Glen Gasior
* Has anyone had WASOEM.sh loop trying to allocate a directory in /tmp/ ? * -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the

SHARING USER CATALOGS WITHOUT GRS

2010-01-22 Thread Glen Gasior
* I have a requirement to share a production USER CATALOG with a test (not development) lpar. Both lpars are MONOPLEX. * There is no GRS and will not be. No aliases on the test lpar will be assigned to this production lpar USER CATALOG. * I want to be certain serialization of the catalog takes

Re: SHARING USER CATALOGS WITHOUT GRS

2010-01-22 Thread Glen Gasior
Thank you for all the replies. The 3390 devices are defined as SHARED, and the SHAREOPTIONS on the user catalogs are (3,4). * My RTFM still leaves me with a question regarding how SHAREOPTION of (3,3) would affect access to a user catalog on a 3390 shared between two lpars, connected to two

Re: IBM driving mainframe systems programmers into the ground

2009-11-12 Thread Glen Gasior
It almost sounds like a strategy to produce evidence for a congressman to introduce a bill to open the H1B floodgates. On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Pinnacle pinnc...@rochester.rr.comwrote: For those of you who think I overstate the case of IBM driving down bill rates and salaries, check

No NIP console with 2074

2009-09-24 Thread Glen Gasior
* Has anyone experienced no NIP console and no MASTER console with an IBM 2074 ? * During a D/R exercise the NIP console failed to appear on the PCOM emulator. It was available at the HMC software console. The IPL proceeded using the HMC console and after the Communication Server was started,

Re: HSM VTOC data sets on ML1 DASD volume

2009-09-24 Thread Glen Gasior
* I was able to get the empty datasets to delete using this command: * AUDIT MEDCTL VOLUME(S33003) FIX * S33003 was the BVOL I was trying to empty. * -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

HSM VTOC data sets on ML1 DASD volume

2009-08-26 Thread Glen Gasior
* I am trying to empty one ML1 volume by moving the datasets to a new ML1 volume or if I must delete these datasets since many of the volume names are obsolete. * DFHSM.VTOC.T015300.VRESA15.D05231 * Can someone please tell me exactly what this dataset represents and how can I move it from the

0ADR713E (001)-ALLOC(01), UNABLE TO ALLOCATE SMS MANAGED DATA SET

2009-08-13 Thread Glen Gasior
* I tried cloning a SYSRES volume for the first time at this site and received this message. 0ADR713E (001)-ALLOC(01), UNABLE TO ALLOCATE SMS MANAGED DATA SET My suspicion is that there are 8 SMS datasets on the non-sms SYSRES. I am hoping someone has encountered this before and can recommend

Re: MVS 4 minute 'outage'

2009-01-07 Thread Glen Gasior
I would be curious whether the HMC had any data during that time. On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:02 AM, JE Thinnes jethin...@aol.com wrote: We just experienced a 4 minute 'outage' on our z/OS system. (single image z/OS 1.9 system). By 'outage', I mean we could not communicate with MVS through

Re: ServerPac Merging Datasets

2008-12-17 Thread Glen Gasior
Art I think the only way to make progress toward simplification and standardization is creating automated tools that function similar to the IBM healthchecker. In a large data center, it can be a full time job because it has two components, removing exceptions found in the system and preventing

Re: z10 power problem notification

2008-12-05 Thread Glen Gasior
The same effect can occur when there is a coolant leak in the refrigeration unit, and I know of at least one occurrance of this event. If an audible alarm is appropriate on a Liebert Unit, I think it may be appropriate for a CEC. On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Skip Robinson [EMAIL

Re: Got burned by the FORCE COMMAND ?

2008-12-04 Thread Glen Gasior
If a cancel appears not to be working one thing I would do is reset the job being canceled into a high resource service class. Sometimes tasks that appear to be hung are instead slow. On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:58 PM, rdeguz1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone got burned by issuing the Force command

Re: Another SMP Question...

2008-09-14 Thread Glen Gasior
Assuming the holddata has all been addressed properly, and you are using APPLY REDO GROUP, I would expect the error condition to be cleared. For CICS I would have a higher level of confidence that the SMP MCS statements for the PTFs and APARs were coded correctly. For OEM vendors I would be very

Re: TDMF Questions

2008-09-13 Thread Glen Gasior
IIRC, do not IPL any MVS image connected to that storage subsystem while TDMF is running. On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 1:42 PM, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My shop is now the proud owner of a HDS 9990V. We are however novices in the use of TDMF which the vendor has

Re: z/OS Documentation - again (was Re: zOS R10)

2008-09-10 Thread Glen Gasior
When I was working with IBM SWG at RTP during system verification test of WebSphere Portal 6.0.1, reviewing InfoCenter for errors was a large part of the process. I got the distinct impression InfoCenter was the future. On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Number of Sysprogs sysadmins per 100 MIPS

2008-09-09 Thread Glen Gasior
You know how it can be when the coffee hits home. On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Alaimo Zani [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: You could simply refer to it as 'management by airline magazine'. ABZ On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 13:44:36 -0500, Glen Gasior [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * I am going to leave off

Re: KEY 8 CSA Usage

2008-09-08 Thread Glen Gasior
In z/OS 1.8, IBM introduced the ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parameter to prevent applications from allocating User Key (E) CSA storage. This was done to eliminate any potential security risks or exposures from unauthorized programs modifying CSA storage. As of z/OS 1.9, the default setting for the

Re: I Finally Got a Job

2008-08-15 Thread Glen Gasior
Congrats, I am still looking. On 8/13/08, Eric Bielefeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally got a new job, starting Monday Aug. 18. As I don't know how my employer will react to posting on IBM-Main, I'll wait to tell you who after I start. I'll be working in St. Louis. Anybody in St.

Re: Another one bites the dust.

2008-05-07 Thread Glen Gasior
And every CEO will notice that, considering the client. On 5/7/08, Gary Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As the subject says... http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid80_gci1312380,00.html?track=NL-576ad=638786asrc=EM_NLN_3601410uid=1900046 Watch the wrap.

Re: 3420 old tapes

2008-05-07 Thread Glen Gasior
Can the tape be read with DITTO ? IIRC, ditto is now shipped with z/OS. On 5/6/08, Todd Burrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I have an oldie but a goodie. One of our user areas sent us 9 3420 tapes today, and some of them appear to be 800 BPI. When I run tape map against the tape I get

Re: 3420 old tapes

2008-05-07 Thread Glen Gasior
Do you have SAS ? What does PROC TAPEMAP show you ? On 5/6/08, Todd Burrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I have an oldie but a goodie. One of our user areas sent us 9 3420 tapes today, and some of them appear to be 800 BPI. When I run tape map against the tape I get the data in the

Re: Xephon, are they still in business?

2008-04-20 Thread Glen Gasior
I knew some VM'ers that belonged to something called CAVEMEN, is that still active ? On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Thomas Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You mean a 'new' technology like this reference? VMSHARE has been the conferencing system of the VM Cluster of SHARE since August 1976.

Re: WLM and DB2

2008-03-12 Thread Glen Gasior
IIRC DB2 SPAS may not be the best practise anymore with the latest versions of DB2. On 1/14/08, Gary Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is probably the wrong forum to post this but I know I'll be told where to go if it is. I am about to setup WLM for DB2 SPAS; I know, I know, it should

Re: z/OS 1.8 or 1.9 ?

2008-01-24 Thread Glen Gasior
We will go from 1.7 to 1.9 U.S. Railroad Retirement Board On 1/24/08, Dean Montevago [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We're running 1.7 now. We're planning an upgrade, does anyone have an opinion on whether to go to 1.8 or 1.9 ? TIA Dean Dean Montevago Sr. Systems Specialist Visiting

Re: Java Problem Analysis

2007-12-19 Thread Glen Gasior
*They told me most of their support effort involves wading through source code to see what might be going wrong. (No wonder they move so slowly!!!) I almost laughed out loud! Their dump reading skill shortage was so acute, the managers were convinced that dumps were useless clumps of bits

Re: Java Problem Analysis

2007-12-17 Thread Glen Gasior
I recall in 1988 having some software step on an idcams control block that was part of chain that dynamically grew and shrunk depending on how the dataset was accessed. It only happened about every three months and by the time the traps were fine-tuned to catch it, the software was all replaced

Re: Java Problem Analysis

2007-12-17 Thread Glen Gasior
Two very large mainframe DB2 shops last year were experiencing failures in virtual coupling facilities under VM, they could not duplicate the problem at all. By sheer coincidence, the problem was reproduced during system verification test of WebSphere 6.0.1 and the VM people copied the entire

Re: Bruce Black passed away

2007-11-06 Thread Glen Gasior
A terrible, terrible loss. A friend to all in the profession. A man who set a high standard for all to emulate. - Glen On 11/6/07, Dave Juraschek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russ: Thanks for letting us know. Our industry has suffered a major loss. I totally agree with the other comments

Re: Interesting(?) observation - IOCP on a z9BC

2007-06-05 Thread Glen Gasior
This is a bit OT, but will you be running as a uniprocessor on the z9BC ? On 6/4/07, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We recently converted our 2086 (z890) to a 2096 (z9BC) via a suicide swap. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: The Death of the Mainframe (?)

2007-04-20 Thread Glen Gasior
I love that old photo of you speaking at Share with a suit jacket over your T-shirt. I bet you never got credit for being a fashion trend-setter. (East side of DeKalb, commuting downtown). On 4/19/07, Michael Stack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many of you know that I have decided to leave NIU and

Re: The Death of the Mainframe (?)

2007-04-20 Thread Glen Gasior
Remember when 20% of the student enrollment wanted to major in COMP SCI ? On 4/19/07, Michael Stack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many of you know that I have decided to leave NIU and that this is my final semester (final month, now) teaching here. Reduced enrollments have taken their toll on

Re: The Death of the Mainframe (?)

2007-04-20 Thread Glen Gasior
Time may be the fire in which we all burn but it seems the flame burns more slowly some places. Job Title Mainframe Developer AutoReqId 43488BR Job Family Information Technology Job Category Full-Time Job Classification Experienced Division Corporate MIS Shift First Job Description Accountable

Re: The end of z/OS at this site.

2007-02-21 Thread Glen Gasior
z/OS sysprog with 20 years - I am out of work also - downsized and outsourced (corporate officers caught in fraud), no reason to wonder why the new generation is avoiding IT. On 2/21/07, Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --snip-- On 20 Feb 2007

Re: IEC614I CREATE FAILED - RC 192, DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION IS (040343C9)

2006-04-25 Thread Glen Gasior
I am trying to move a dataset from what appears to be an SMS volume to what appears to be a non-SMS volume. I get this message: ADR440E (001)-RALLC(02), UNEXPECTED RETURN CODE FROM REALLOC MACRO: 00C0, WHILE PROCESSING DATA SET DB2WK8.DB2WK1.SDSNEXIT I hope to bypass SMS just to allocate

Re: MVS CONSOLE REXX

2006-03-14 Thread Glen Gasior
* Thanks for your reply, I interpret your reply to mean I cannot expect a rexx exec issued through SDSF (to stop and start db2 ldap was and portal) to be processed under MSYS as it was under NETVIEW. It was nice to get that reply since I was trying to get the exec to work under MSYS today.

Re: Warning: PTF's require HDS microcode, which is not available until the second week of January.

2005-12-28 Thread Glen Gasior
* Just as a word to the cautious - I would not IPL any system that accesses the HDS storage subsystem while an HDS microcode update is taking place. * On 12/28/05, Eatherly, John D [IT] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wanted to pass on a heads up on some APARs that require HDS microcode on