Re: Question on TCP window size for FTP

2012-06-07 Thread Itschak Mugzach
So now U know why. ITschak On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Mauri Kanter itzuv...@013.net.il wrote: MTU is 1492 (no jumbo frames) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Question on TCP window size for FTP

2012-06-06 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Have you looked into MTU on the link definition? ITschak On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Mauri Kanter itzuv...@013.net.il wrote: I'm unaware of the max value they specified on their stack ... But I understood their TCP stack is configured with send/receive buffers also of 256K. On my stack

Re: How to suppress Message in REXX App

2012-06-02 Thread Itschak Mugzach
You trap the output using a parameter of the HLIST command Did you try REXX OUTTRAP function? ITschak On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.comwrote: Cross Posting to IBM Main and TSO-REXX I have a Rexx process that issues the HLIST command. I have been

Re: Check out BBC News - Flame: Massive cyber-attack discovered, researchers say

2012-05-30 Thread Itschak Mugzach
It was not me ;-) Itschak On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com wrote: _BBC News - Flame: Massive cyber-attack discovered, researchers say_ (http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18238326) Seems too big to be unnoticed...anyway, fascinating is ability to load

Re: Tape drives with magazine (autoloader) like 3592 family

2012-05-21 Thread Itschak Mugzach
used HDS devices? On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Arye Shemer aryeshe...@gmail.com wrote: Hello forumers, We already tried Tapecore and we thought trying out luck here. I have been asked to look for tape drives with magazine or autoloader for cartridges (like the old 3590 with ACL), To

Re: LU0, SNA, TCPIP issue

2012-04-07 Thread Itschak Mugzach
have a look at the cics bridhe (also known as 3270 bride). The bridge is jus ta couple of glue exits that mimics the terminal and works in several protocols outside of cics. ITschak On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 11:15 PM, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.plwrote: W dniu 2012-04-06 21:54, Staller,

Re: Audit SQL Collector

2012-04-07 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Yes it does. Have a look also at Imperva. They do much the same with Neon's collector. ITschak On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Donald Likens dlik...@infosecinc.comwrote: I've been looking through the IBM InfoSphere Guardium S-TAP for DB2 on z/OS manual. In this manual they talk about a Audit

Rexx: load a module to storage

2012-04-01 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Is this possible to load (not link) a module into storage using Rexx? We have a compiled table I need to examine using rexx and want to avoid assembler coding in order to make the application simple. Thanks for your ideas. ITschak

Re: Deleting named ISPF edit profiles

2012-03-01 Thread Itschak Mugzach
They are saved at the applEDIT table at the user ISPFROF dataset. It is a table like ny other. TBOPEN, TBDELETE, etc. will do the work. ITschak On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:57 PM, David Cole dbc...@colesoft.com wrote: Does anyone know if there is a way to delete a no longer needed named ISPF

Re: VARY ON/ VARY OFF COMMAND IN BATCH

2012-02-23 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Did you CONSPROFed the console first? ITschak On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Veilleux, Jon L veilleu...@aetna.comwrote: Did you check to see if you had console authority? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John Dawes

Re: IPOUPDTE / CPPUPDTE Download

2012-02-22 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Why Download? If you ever installed Server pack or CBIPO, it is in the installation (CPIPO/CPP) load library . ITschak On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Alvaro Guirao Lopez alvarogui...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, I want to download IPOUPTE or CPPUPDTE. Is urgent. Thanks and regards, --

Re: Batch process VS Started task

2012-02-20 Thread Itschak Mugzach
I would divide the problem into two: 1. how to make the file be transactional. to do this, you can use MQ as the mechanism to write into a file. 2. where to fire the transaction. You can write the message into a queue managed by CICS and LINK to the application program (not START TRAN that will

Re: CICS vs IMS

2012-02-16 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Frank, From IMS/DC point of view, It works almost the same. CICS has DBCTL that perform as a limited DBRC as well as IMS/DC has the DLI DBRC address spaces. Same commands, traces etc. Is this what your question refer to ? ITschak On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Frank Swarbrick

Re: NASA closes it's last mainframe

2012-02-14 Thread Itschak Mugzach
No, They are using Russian platforms for space flights (soon on Virgin)... ;-) No need for software or hardware. all supplied by the Russian space industry. (I am jocking, of course). ITschak On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: All, Very interesting

Re: C program and LE/IMS option

2012-02-07 Thread Itschak Mugzach
. The IMS-L LISTSERV is a good place to learn about this, generally speaking zOS generaliest do not maintain IMS configurations. Best wishes Avram Friedman Avram Friedman On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:04:55 +0200, Itschak Mugzach imugz...@gmail.com wrote: I have a C program that is called intensively

C program and LE/IMS option

2012-02-03 Thread Itschak Mugzach
I have a C program that is called intensively more then 10 times per second. As it runs under LE, it requires LE to re-create the language execution environment which is a huge overhead for a small and short running program. I want to eliminate LE to get involved. I thought that static bind will

Re: C program and LE/IMS option

2012-02-03 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Nascimento Neto BANCO BRADESCO S.A. 4254 / DPCD Engenharia de Software Sistemas Operacionais Mainframes Tel: +55 11 4197-2021 R: 22021 Fax: +55 11 4197-2814 -Mensagem original- De: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] Em nome de Itschak Mugzach Enviada em: sexta

Re: C program and LE/IMS option

2012-02-03 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Itschak Mugzach Enviada em: sexta-feira, 3 de fevereiro de 2012 09:05 Para: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Assunto: C program and LE/IMS option I have a C program that is called intensively more then 10 times per second. As it runs under LE, it requires LE to re-create the language execution

Re: C program and LE/IMS option

2012-02-03 Thread Itschak Mugzach
++. Lloyd - Original Message From: Itschak Mugzach imugz...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Fri, February 3, 2012 8:01:36 AM Subject: Re: C program and LE/IMS option Hello Ituriel, Yes, I looked @ METAL option but I do not know the difference between METAL and GENASM, any

Re: C program and LE/IMS option

2012-02-03 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Thanks to all replied. There is another reason that I want to eliminated LE, and this is that under certen environments it creaes an Encave which is useless for the spec we have. So eminating LE is much more important then just saving te mips of creating the environment. I am aware of CEEPIPI and

Re: The Trainer's Friend announces - no price increase

2012-01-25 Thread Itschak Mugzach
You sure? have a look at a mail titled: IBM announces 6% price increase for z/OS, but as you signature states, facts are your facts, but opinions are always opinions! ITschak On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Timothy Sipples timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com wrote: Steve Comstock writes: We are

Re: mainframe server

2012-01-24 Thread Itschak Mugzach
;-) On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Mohd Rizwan rizwaan.pa...@gmail.comwrote: I am Mohammed , I have emulator software TN3270 in my PC, can antbody provide me the dummy Mainframe Server link , so i can practice from my home, as i am new to this technology -- *Mohd Rizwan 9538451750*

Re: Ikjeft01

2012-01-23 Thread Itschak Mugzach
What's wrong with CALL TSOLNK using TSOEXEC RL ...?. It will invoke TMP and will run your command. ITschak On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: Sorry guys my fault, I should have explained. My LE COBOL program is APF authorized. I want to be able to all

Re: Looking for Decompiler

2012-01-18 Thread Itschak Mugzach
http://www.source-recovery.com/ ITschak On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 5:42 AM, jagadishan perumal jagadish...@gmail.comwrote: Hello All, I am looking for a decompiler, reverse compiler, dissasembler of cobol LOAD modules into cobol SOURCE modules for lost programs. Could any please direct me to

Looking for a WMB (Message broker) Discussion list

2012-01-08 Thread Itschak Mugzach
We are looking for WMB (Websphere message Broker) customers that implemented user authentication against Active Directory to learn from their experience, performance implications, etc. Thanks for one of the two (list address or your experience). ITschak

Re: EZTrieve

2012-01-07 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Easytrieve inteprater uses program name eztpa00, so look for it in you FB 80 libraries. If you compiled your easytrieve programs, run a searchfor (ISPF opt3.14) and find where it uses modules starting with et. ITschak On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 2:52 AM, gsg gsg_...@yahoo.com wrote: Does anyone

Re: PCOMM access to workstation file system

2011-12-29 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In caodpegswvyxyvhg+zjj-0y20o62x-uoex-p4dvymnkbmyni...@mail.gmail.com, on 12/29/2011 at 08:40 AM, Itschak Mugzach imugz...@gmail.com said: I don't want to install WSA. Then you don't know what it is. I am interesting in the technique

PCOMM access to workstation file system

2011-12-28 Thread Itschak Mugzach
In a help panel (ISPWSDH1) explaining how to download the ISPF C/S client (ISPF OPT3.7), it says that you can also choose to have ISPF create the directory on your workstation For other purpose, i wonder how can this be done other then VBSCRIPT? ITschak

Re: PCOMM access to workstation file system

2011-12-28 Thread Itschak Mugzach
/28/2011 at 06:25 AM, Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com said: On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:49:00 +0200, Itschak Mugzach wrote: In a help panel (ISPWSDH1) explaining how to download the ISPF C/S client (ISPF OPT3.7), it says that you can also choose to have ISPF create the directory on your

Re: PDSMAIN manual?

2011-12-27 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Itschak Mugzach of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 12/27/2011 06:23:12 AM: I am looking for a manual or help file for PDSMAN (I have a copy of PDS84 load module). Thanks for a copy

PDSMAIN manual?

2011-12-27 Thread Itschak Mugzach
I am looking for a manual or help file for PDSMAN (I havea copy of PDS84 load module). Thanks for a copy. ITschak -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the

Re: PDSMAIN manual?

2011-12-27 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Not really. It is not my machine, and can't install help files/panels. ITschak On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com wrote: PFK1 is pretty good too In a message dated 12/27/2011 8:17:00 A.M. Central Standard Time, jkali...@csc.com writes: PDSHELP and

Re: PDSMAIN manual?

2011-12-27 Thread Itschak Mugzach
No, I can't. PDSMAN was already (partially) installed in the past as part of a vendor product... ITschak On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com wrote: But you can install powerful load modules? Oh well, use XMIT-Manager off the CBT tape to look at the prose files on

Re: Looking DB2 for z/OS discussion list

2011-12-26 Thread Itschak Mugzach
:-) 2011/12/26 Yifat Oren yi...@tmachine.com DB2-L at http://www.idug.org. Best Regards, Yifat -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Arye Shemer Sent: יום ב 26 דצמבר 2011 11:38 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject:

Re: Looking DB2 for z/OS discussion list

2011-12-26 Thread Itschak Mugzach
This is the posting addr: IDUG DB2-L db...@idugdb2-l.org. As seen, the list server managed by IDUG On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Arye Shemer aryeshe...@gmail.com wrote: Hello forummers, Is there any DB2 discussion list like IBM-MAIN in which I can post question or ask for help ?

Re: Looking DB2 for z/OS discussion list

2011-12-26 Thread Itschak Mugzach
This is the posting address. To register use IDUG. Regards, ITschak On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Arye Shemer aryeshe...@gmail.com wrote: Hello forummers, Is there any DB2 discussion list like IBM-MAIN in which I can post question or ask for help ? Thanks, Arye Shemer.

Re: Looking DB2 for z/OS discussion list

2011-12-26 Thread Itschak Mugzach
/26/2011 at 11:54 AM, Itschak Mugzach imugz...@gmail.com said: This is the posting addr: IDUG DB2-L db...@idugdb2-l.org. As seen, the list server managed by IDUG Does it accept normal listserv requests at lists...@idugdb2-l.org? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT

Re: LISTCAT output breaks out even OUTFILE(xxx) was used

2011-12-23 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Use MSG('ON'), msybe, for soe reason, you free the CATLGWORK dataset.If so, you'll se an IKJ/IDC message in the output. Send your sysprint temporarily to a fileyou can read , there is a reason why IDCAMS write to the wrong file (SYSTSRT nstead of your file) I would list the catalog directly to a

Re: TCPIP question

2011-12-20 Thread Itschak Mugzach
You can run several IP stacks in the same lpar. ITschak On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:45 PM, shai hess shai.h...@gmail.com wrote: HI, I have a customer question: 1. How could I configure MFNetDisk in ZOS in order to use ONLY the IP 192.168.254.200, instead of 192.168.254.254, because the

IBM RDZ vs COBOS

2011-12-14 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Hi, Does anyone here uses the open source Cobos product as a replacement for IBM RDZ? regards, ITschak -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET

Re: IBM RDZ vs COBOS

2011-12-14 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Interesting point, Tom. Still, I wonder if someone here had the time to look at it . ITschak On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.comwrote: On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:53:57 +0200, Itschak Mugzach wrote: Does anyone here uses the open source Cobos product

Re: console command output

2011-11-01 Thread Itschak Mugzach
The best way is to use TSO console command in a REXX and trap output. Have a look at SYS1.SAMPLIB(IEATOPS) for REXX sample. ITschak On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Tim Brown tbr...@cenhud.com wrote: Is there a way in batch to issue a console command and direct the output to a file Like d

Re: ZDNET actually says something nice about IBM LINUX

2011-10-04 Thread Itschak Mugzach
I believe the problem is not with Linux kernel itself, but what you run under... ITschak On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Sheldon Davis sda...@isracard.co.il wrote: Hi Does anyone have a method of comparing x86 Linux vs IFL Linux? (Performance and cost) Thanks Sheldon Davis

Re: Dashboard type software for monitoring z/OS

2011-08-23 Thread Itschak Mugzach
If you have Netview, Control-O or any other automation product, you can capture start and stop messages (IEF695I/$hasp395) and send it via ip to your desktop application. ITschak On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Scott Chapman sachap...@aep.com wrote: That's essentially what we did for the

Re: Get a user password from RACF.

2011-08-18 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Hi Matan, Listing the password is not possible, as you already know. You don't need to know the user's password in order to use his access rights (if you are authorised to do so). RACF let you use other user's authority using the user.submit profile under the surrogat class. This function is

Re: Get a user password from RACF.

2011-08-18 Thread Itschak Mugzach
, Itschak Mugzach imugz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Matan, Listing the password is not possible, as you already know. You don't need to know the user's password in order to use his access rights (if you are authorised to do so). RACF let you use other user's authority using the user.submit

Re: ISPF ZPFSHOW Variable

2011-08-04 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Variable LVLINE holds the last visible line of an area. If you know where the area start on your panel, it is easy to know screen depth. ITschak On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Chuck Arney ch...@arneycomputer.com wrote: In an assembler ISPF application I am trying to adjust the size of a

Re: Rexx code to reach an IP

2011-07-06 Thread Itschak Mugzach
1. ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/s390/zos/vse/download/xmps/vseesoc.pdf 2. ITschak On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 6:01 PM, jagadishan perumal jagadish...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Group, I am trying to reach a URL :http://xxx.41.xxx.x:8080/MF/services from mainframe Are there any sample Rexx that can

Re: Looking for solution Mainframe system management report tool

2011-06-20 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Look for EPV. Don;t know who resell that in your area, but I can send you the local reseller here in Israel is you want (it is not me or my company ;-) ) ITschak On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Tsai Laurence ltsai85...@gmail.com wrote: Dears , as the subject, is there any tool can generate

Re: What is the current feeling for MVC loop vs. MVCL?

2011-05-31 Thread Itschak Mugzach
I believe MVCL is less efficient as it is *interruptible* (has to update 4 GPRs) while MVC does this internally, does not change GPR's values and is not interruptible. ITschak On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: The IBM C compiler would generate an MVC loop.

DMS Archive rename

2011-05-15 Thread Itschak Mugzach
While removing a user from the system, we archive his datasets with a new name using DMS (Also known as CA-Disk). We discovered that the user may already have datasets in the archive under his original HLQ. We don't want to restore the datasets in order to rename them. The alternative is a 2

Re: Adabas Pricing model

2011-05-03 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Akaik yes. I have seen a message in the syslog saying that Adabas/Natural capacity purchased runs over. This mean that the capacity is less then the machine capacity installed. ITschak On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Ported tools for z/OS on ADCD

2011-05-02 Thread Itschak Mugzach
It was a joke. Everybodu uses USS for Unix System Services, including IBM. ITschak On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In BANLkTi=jpi-63eacaownrokwg1rajpl...@mail.gmail.com, on 05/01/2011 at 08:27 PM, Itschak Mugzach imugz

Re: Ported tools for z/OS on ADCD

2011-05-01 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Seymour, It's not USSR (;-) ) but USS. ITschak On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In listserv%201104132207206188.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 04/13/2011 at 10:07 PM, Neale Ferguson ne...@sinenomine.net said: Quite possibly. I'm a

Re: How/Why Is This Looping?

2011-04-01 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Afaik delete is done at unallocation of the dd. So the free command should follow the allocate one. But why not just deleteing the dataset without first allocating it? Itschak On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4) peter.hunke...@credit-suisse.com wrote: //SYSTSIN DD *

Re: FTP question

2011-03-31 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Sure, using FTP exits. ITschak 2011/3/31 גדי בן אבי gad...@malam.com Hi, One of our users wants an ftp transfer to fail if the data set already exists. z/OS is the server. The client is windows. Is this possible? TIA Gadi לשימת לבך, בהתאם לנהלי

Re: cleaning DASD

2011-03-29 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Hi Matan, Have a look at the Vtoc tso command from CBTTAPE file 112. It checks against each dataset listed in the vtoc against the catalog of the system the command runs on. Be sure not to delete files that are catalogued onmore then one system ;-) Dash! ITschak On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:58

Re: zIIPs and zAAPs

2011-03-28 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Let put some order. zAAP runs Java and XML parsing. zIIP can run Java (if no zAAP installed using zAAP on ZIIP started at z/os v11). Enclave SRB is just a requirement IBM put to use its interface into zIIP to run regular code, but you must invoke the interface. This to say this is a requirement,

Re: Processing CICS SMF type 110 records

2011-03-27 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Do u use Omegamon or any other CICS monitor? They usualy use smf110 to save history data and has the utilities to report on. ITschak On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 1:25 PM, John McKown joa...@swbell.net wrote: We can't afford even the cost of the PC version of SAS. That's what we were using. It got

Re: One Pack RACF Anomaly

2011-03-17 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Are you sure that racf is using the databases named in RACF ICHRDSNT or the default one (if racf can't find those in DSNT. It is possible that you are using a default (almost empty) DB but the users are still defined in UADS... Try logon with IBMUSER password SYS1. ITschak On Thu, Mar 17, 2011

Re: IBM MLC discount policies

2010-12-30 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Thanks to those who replied. My question is more about the limitation IBM took or put on IBM on pricing. For example. is this possible that one customer will pay for a product (not a OTC product) and the other will not? is this legal from IBM procedures point view? What I am trying to understand

Re: IBM MLC discount policies

2010-12-30 Thread Itschak Mugzach
let others provide a more authoritative response. Better yet, why not ask your friendly IBM rep to answer this? Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Itschak Mugzach Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 8:51 AM To: IBM-MAIN

IBM MLC discount policies

2010-12-29 Thread Itschak Mugzach
I wonder if it is possible to get a discount on MLC (ZLAC, etc.) software like DB2, CICS etc. I was told that IBM is not allowed (internally and by DOJ) to discount these products. Is this true? Where are these limitations/rules are writen, if any? ITschak

Re: Retricting jobs that use a certain DDNAME, certain DSNAME to a groups of classes

2010-12-28 Thread Itschak Mugzach
What's wrong with Jes2 Exit4? ITschak On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Doron Geva doron.geva...@gmail.com wrote: Gadi, To my knowledge, in OPS you can trap the file's allocation message (if the file is sms managed) or if the job name is known trap message $HASP373 or IEF403I and cancel the

How to control SUPERC range

2010-10-21 Thread Itschak Mugzach
I am using ISRSUPC to compare two datasets in line mode. It can identify changed lines not only if are at the same line numbers, but the records can be in different record numbers in the file. The problem is that this is a limited range. For example line 10 in file a is '1234' and line 12 in file

Control-D replacement?

2010-10-14 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Control-D bundling function uses indexing method to create report bundles which does not really creates new files. The products I looked into, uses a different technology that creates a phisical report file for each user. I wonder if there are other products that uses mainframe created files to

Re: Mainframe hacking?

2010-10-14 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Done that many times during security assessments at customers sites. for example, Look at your SYS1.UADS dataset and compare it to RACF. You probably will find users that are defined in your UADS dataset, but not in RACF. More then that, IBM's ships UADS dataset with few users that probably not

Re: ISPF system commands under program control?

2010-09-14 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Look at control nodisplay enter and display panel() cmd(panelid). Use an ispf panel that foes nothing just to enter the command. ITschak On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Andy Robertson andy_robert...@johnlewis.co.uk wrote: Does anyone know a way to issue ISPF System Commands (eg PANELID,

Re: REXX : how to determine the member name of a DD card

2010-09-09 Thread Itschak Mugzach
I would try LISTDSI('xxx file). It might return the dsnname into SYSDSNAME which you can investigate using member=(word(translate(sysdsname,' ',()'),2) ITschak On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 5:35 PM, CUNY Yann yc...@externe.generali.fr wrote: Works fine ! thank you ... -Message d'origine-

Re: Passing commands to SDSF in REXX

2010-09-07 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Gadi, The easiest way is to move a value to zcmd seperated with semicolons. Another option is to use the command table. The idea is, again, use the zcmd field. Try this: 1.set your ispcmds to include a command called SDSF the invokes SDSF. 2. develop an empty ISPF panel (call it Pseudopan, if

Re: SDSF REXX exec to read the actual job

2010-09-07 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Are you sure this is a job and not an STC? An STC might run under the master address space and does not need Jes2 to start. On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Miklos Szigetvari miklos.szigetv...@isis-papyrus.com wrote: Hi SDSF REXX try to read the actual , running job and got JCT NOT

Re: Passing commands to SDSF in REXX

2010-09-06 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Is this Batch or Online? Anyway, you can start SDSF under ISPF and on the parm/zcmd field move the following: prefix xxx;st;exit. But why bother? there is an interface to SDSF from Rexx. Itschak 2010/9/6 גדי בן אבי gad...@malam.com Hi, One of our users asked me if the following was possible:

Re: 3270 Emulator Software

2010-08-24 Thread Itschak Mugzach
I have z/Scope installed on my laptop. Be aware of the supported certificate types. Not all of the emulators supports all types of certificates, especially ARMs. ITschak On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Michael Saraco michael.sar...@baer-consulting.com wrote: Over the years and doing

Re: Migration to z/os 1.11 causes Paging in DB2 DBM1 address space

2010-08-05 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Larger HSA? What is your D M=STOR shows before after the change? ITschak On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Sheldon Davis sda...@isracard.co.ilwrote: Hi We migrated to z/os 1.11 on one of our production machines. Before the upgrade we had almost no paging. We now see quite a lot of paging

Re: easy access to the current cpu-peak-time status or cpu load

2010-07-29 Thread Itschak Mugzach
This invoice factor is a number that is caluleted reading milions of SMF recods. Why don't you just keep this number in your product DB ad let your customer enter this once a month? ITschak On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Dr. Stephen Fedtke max_mainframe_...@fedtke.com wrote: hi all, we

Re: ***SPAM*** Re: easy access to the current cpu-peak-time status or cpu load

2010-07-29 Thread Itschak Mugzach
. Cheers, Paul Gillis -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Itschak Mugzach Sent: Thursday, 29 July 2010 9:49 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: ***SPAM*** Re: easy access to the current cpu-peak-time status

Re: I.B.M. Is Target of Antitrust Inquiry

2010-07-27 Thread Itschak Mugzach
I don't think IBM allows competitors the duplicate mainframe hardware. The company was built from the fact (and see those companies that didn;t survive) that it left room for software vendors (and hardware manufactures) to compete with and to win software (operating system) and software. at a

Re: Is this possible to S/A IPL from the HMC DVD?

2010-07-22 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Arie, Thanks. We knew it can be done and so tells the HMC help screen. We will try to ipl next week from a DVD after changing to Single Object Operation (so far, we tried without it) and report here. It seems not well documented in the HMC user guide. Paul, The load program is stored in the HMC

Re: Is this possible to S/A IPL from the HMC DVD?

2010-07-21 Thread Itschak Mugzach
to the code to load. It look like you nbeed to be in a Single Operation Mode in order to use this function. ITschak On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.comwrote: On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:21:49 +0300, Itschak Mugzach imugz...@gmail.com wrote: During z/Linux

Is this possible to S/A IPL from the HMC DVD?

2010-07-20 Thread Itschak Mugzach
During z/Linux installation it is possible to use the HMC's DVD drive as a tape drive. I wonder is DSS S/A can be started (Loaded) from same device and not from a IOCP defined device. ITschak -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Is this possible to S/A IPL from the HMC DVD?

2010-07-20 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Radoslaw, I wonder what your advise was. I am looking for an answer to what you defined as another question. ITschak On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:36 PM, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.plwrote: Itschak Mugzach pisze: During z/Linux installation it is possible to use the HMC's DVD drive

Re: Cobol vs Java - who is faster?

2010-07-16 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Just to remind Timothy that IBM is not the only software supplier, 3rd parties and even IBM OTC does not take into account (at least, most of them) usage metrics. So, my point is total capacity does influence TCO. ITschak On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Timothy Sipples

Re: Cobol vs Java - who is faster?

2010-07-16 Thread Itschak Mugzach
OK, boys. let return to Cobol vs Java, with and without zAAP. THe issue is TCO, but performance uber ales! Itschak On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca wrote: And software licensing charges better not be the sole criterion for your business's success or failure,

Cobol vs Java - who is faster?

2010-07-15 Thread Itschak Mugzach
I wonder if this was tested ever: same business logic in batch or CICS. NO\o zAAP installed. Who is faster? and in case of zAAP? Itschak -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Cobol vs Java - who is faster?

2010-07-15 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Funny. This is not a 100 m run between an 40+ Cobol programmer and a young Java prog. ITschak On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: The better programmer. On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Itschak Mugzach imugz...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if this was tested

Re: Cobol vs Java - who is faster?

2010-07-15 Thread Itschak Mugzach
As expected, I believe. But did the second run was faster as the JVM was loaded? What is the ratio? On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Chase, John jch...@ussco.com wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Itschak Mugzach I wonder

Re: Cobol vs Java - who is faster?

2010-07-15 Thread Itschak Mugzach
And Kirk, you are THE java technolgy here. Protect your case... On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Itschak Mugzach imugz...@gmail.comwrote: As expected, I believe. But did the second run was faster as the JVM was loaded? What is the ratio? On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Chase, John jch

Re: Cobol vs Java - who is faster?

2010-07-15 Thread Itschak Mugzach
using zAAP? it will not speed up or consume less cpu then a CP, the only advantage over CP is that it is not counted in CPU usage reports (YET). ITschak On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Itschak Mugzach imugz...@gmail.com wrote

Re: IBM FLASHCOPY interface ( is there a no cost solution)

2010-07-12 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Google on that and find my sample of an ispf batch rexx interface. It might save you some coding. Itschak On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Clark, Kevin kevin.cl...@bcbsde.comwrote: Ok...thanks all...I'll off an coding now -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Unix systems and Serialization mechanism

2010-07-04 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Walt is correct on this. The serialization function should be implemented in system code and currently it is not. I wonder if there is a third party product that intercept the allocation/Open types and serialize on directories and files. ITschak On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Walt Farrell

Re: PDSMAN Equivalent

2010-07-03 Thread Itschak Mugzach
You may also look at EventAction.It does more then just member usage audit, but I believe it will cost less them 6M ;-) ITschak On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:37 PM, George Henke gahe...@gmail.com wrote: There are also ACF2 cleanup packages (CA) which help cleanup old rules. It may have some

Unix systems and Serialization mechanism

2010-07-02 Thread Itschak Mugzach
I am looking for a product that will serialize access to file (like the Enqueue/Dequeue in GRS) in Unix systems. Does this animal exist? ITschak -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Deloying updates to applications using FLASHCOPY

2010-06-20 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Hi Arie, Interesting Issue. I suppose that service is given by a kind of transaction manager like CICS as you mentioned avoiding disruption. Assuming that the updates are stored in PDS(as loadmods), how can you ensure that the datasets are positioned on disk exactly as mapped at time the dataset

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2010-06-16 Thread Itschak Mugzach
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Timothy Sipples timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com wrote: Itschak Mugzach writes: And you have Camouflage (datamasking.com) , 1st on Gartner and forrester. Maybe. Camouflage is very late to the z/OS party (but much better late than never, of course): http

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2010-06-16 Thread Itschak Mugzach
True, and if you use encryption device, like an accelerator, the overhead is minimal as well... ITschak On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 5:01 AM, Phil Smith p...@voltage.com wrote: Itschak Mugzach wrote: They might entered late on z/os, but they are pure Java: No CPU cost if you have zAAP, so

Re: Developers' Use of Prod Data For Testing

2010-06-15 Thread Itschak Mugzach
And you have Camouflage (datamasking.com) , 1st on Gartner and forrester. ITschak On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Phil Smith p...@voltage.com wrote: Alan Brown wrote: IBM Optim can privatize production data for a test environment while maintaining your application referential integrity. It

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: Killing Off Symbolic JCL Parameter

2010-05-11 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Or.. rty //ANYDD DD DUMMY,DSN=HLQPARM..A On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Mike Kovach mrmach...@yahoo.com wrote: Thanks for the answer. I must have been having a I love this forum. Thanks for the answer. I must have been having a brain block. Mike Kovach

Re: MVS to z/OS Experience Looking for Work

2010-05-03 Thread Itschak Mugzach
There is also a job offering section in zJournal. Good luck find your next job. ITschak On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Ron Hawkins ron.hawkins1...@sbcglobal.netwrote: Scott, Did you have a look at the hardware and software vendor sites? Try

Re: COBOL - no longer being taught - is a problem

2010-04-22 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Interesting. If Cobol would be a problem, I would expect most of IBM mainframe shops to develop new applications in (so called) modern languages. I don't see it here in Israel. Most of the new code is still developed in Cobol, Natural and some PL/I. farther more, if you are a mainframe centric

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