Good stuff. Thanks to everyone who responded. I wanted to get some outside
opinions quickly before things got carved in stone here. The FTP jobs they are
creating now will be the models for more to come - whether they be good models
or not! With a little more experimenting I think we will be
We started out years ago with CA's TCP/IP and FTP and it has remained the
standard FTP in Production since then. A new project came up involving lots of
new batch FTP jobs to a Windows machine and I suggested they use IBM FTP. It
has gone well for the most part and the couple of problems
Thanks to everyone who responded, both on and off list. I have the COD ordered
and will order my 1.12 Serverpac today. I may try using our 1.9 system to
install the 1.12 SP but am going to wait until I see the COD doc before
deciding. At least our 1.9 system should have all available
Short version... We are running z/OS 1.9 and do not have a 1.10 or 1.11 system
to install. I'd like to install a 1.12 Serverpac on the road back to being
supported. I know about the n+2 rule but how do I get out of this pickle? I'm
not talking about toleration and coexistence, just a driving
For the files... the install exe will take care of removing the old version.
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Subject: Updating CHPID
I have v05.20 (J) of the CHPID mapping tool installed, from around Feb 2008. I
need to install the newest version now but I haven't found anywhere how to
handle my situation. The old doc talks about getting an upgrade file but there
is not one on Resourcelink, just the new version of the CMT
I'd like to thank everyone for their input. We are going to explore all the
options with our BP. Of course money will be an issue but hopefully we can
improve on our DR/BRP capabilities with the move to the new center. It is
supposed to be ready for occupancy sometime early October this year.
We are a monoplex z/OS system and will be moving to a new data center late this
year. When we move, we will get a new CPU (z9 now) and replace our Shark
(2105-800) with something else. Ideally, the desire is to keep our existing
system running while testing the new system and do a quick cutover
A service/maintenance copy of my root file was mounted at /Service. That is
where I created the directory for ISPF and where the apply wrote to. The maint
root is later copied to create my new real root. So yes, it goes to your root
or service root if you are using that. Hope that makes it
Hi Rez,
I recently applied 0908 to 1.9 and had to make the directory and add the DDDEF.
It was applied to my service root, which is probably what your /SR009A/usr...
is. This is how it looks now after recreating Root from my service root.
EUID=0 /usr/lpp/ispf/bin/IBM/
Type Filename
Thanks Mark, Scott, Radoslaw, and Kurt for responding. Much appreciated.
I don't plan on opening a PMR on this. This was ESO 0908 I was applying and we
were quite behind, something like 2000 ptfs applied. It was an oversight on my
part that more volumes weren't mounted STORAGE. Everything has
I am applying a lot of maintenance to a z/OS 1.9 system with SMP/E 34.21 and
this has happened to me twice now. I used several apply jobs by FMID or FMIDSET
with GROUPEXTEND to make the HOLD info easier for me to handle. When I applied
to HRM7740 and HDZ1190, I received on both jobs:
IEF244I
Correct that there was no DDDEF or DD for SMP00015. I believe you're correct on
a space issue too. When I ran these 2 jobs I only had 2 3390-3 volumes mounted
STORAGE (no PUBLIC). One volume is mcat volume and has 1180 cyls free. The
other is a work pack that had maybe 1500 cyls on it. Do think
Thanks Larry and Dave (off list). I appreciate the info. I will be installing
to mdisk only. I hope VM will have a happy home here for many years to come.
Might even be running 'doze in a vm before long!
Robert
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I am mostly MVS (VS/1 to z/OS) and know there is a VM list, but I am confident
someone here can advise me. I supported VM for a few years in the mid 1980's
before LPARs (VM/HPO 5 last I believe). I don't remember file pools and it
looks... interesting. The purpose of installing VM here is to
Not what you asked, but you can make the CA stack do the same as IBM by using
the TAB command. (Apologies if you already know this)
SITE TABS(0)
TABS (integer) Specifies the tab stop interval to be used in receiving the next
file.
Default: Eight.
Limit: 25.
TABS(0) translates tab characters
Wow! Thanks John very much for that excellent tidbit. Sure never occurred to
me...
Robert
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Subject: Re:
I'm not sure I understand, but if you want to change the HLQ's can't you do
something like:
SETBOUNDARY (Z17T200) .
ZONEEDIT DDDEF .
CHANGE DATASET(SMPE.MVST100.*,SMPE.MVST200.*) .
ENDZONEEDIT .
I haven't used ShopZ to order a lot of things. Most of the time our business
partner orders our stuff. I placed an order for IBM Ported Tools this morning
and just a few minutes ago I receive:
Your ShopzSeries order has been received by the IBM Order Center for
processing. You will be
Thank you all for the comments on this. I think it explains my problem/delay.
IBM Ported Tools does not show up in My Licensed Products - we have never had
this before. So, I am hopeful that the magic wand will be waved and my wish
granted.
Thanks again and let the weekend begin!
Robert
I need to get secure FTP working ASAP, and have just started looking (and
digesting) what it takes. I have a lot to learn but have a couple of questions
already. The Archives were/are a big help.
When I go to ShopZ to order the IBM Ported Tools, it seems I have the choice of
CBPDO or
Thanks all for the replies.
I can't get ShopZ to order a Serverpac without including a new z/OS, so I guess
I'll go the CBPDO route - it is saved waiting for me to submit.
I know so little about sFTP, FTPS, TLS, etc, that I didn't want to talk to the
Application group and vendor until I
Kevin,
Wow... I added TIMEOUT 720 and finally got:
226 Transfer complete.
04:21:07(29CD.1) SC3430 getLastReply: entered
EZA1617I 427295232 bytes transferred in 805.780 seconds.
Thanks Kevin and Dennis for the info and link. Yesterday I FTPed the file from
CA to my PC. It was just going to go from my PC to the MF and use that. Our
main objective now is to upgrade our vendor software before going from z/OS 1.7
to 1.9 (maybe 1.10 - I saw recent discussion, but that's
Hello Scott and Hal... thanks for your help.
I cut/pasted my ftp job below. It is going to an HFS. I talked to our network
people and they said it could be a firewall issue, like Hal said. I have other
things to work on this week so I'll be on and off this, but I'll let everyone
know if/when I
I am trying to FTP about 407MB from an external server (CA ESD) to z/OS 1.7,
without luck so far. While I continue to mess with this, I'd like to get some
feedback about what I've done so far.
Initial FTP DATA was:
CHKPTINT 0
DATATIMEOUT 300
DCONNTIME 120
Hi Daniel,
I see Joseph Butz has already chimed in - they're all good people at IDP. We
just had our annual DR test yesterday and we use FDRABR and FDRAPPL to restore
and recover at DR. We're a pretty simple shop (no plex) but I'll be glad to
help if I can. We use FDRDSF to backup the
Had to go to 1.9 manual to find 90-54. Does this make any sense to you?
| 54 Explanation: DELETE failed because the data set is
being renamed but it has not completed.
| Programmer Response: Rename the data set with the
|
Thanks all for the info. We're a simple 2 LPAR Monoplex (3rd Linux soon) and
I didn't explain myself well on one point - a problem I suffer from :)...
I too believe in keeping it simple. It was a mistake/poor choice in creating
my initial IODF with a SYS1 HLQ. The SYS0 HLQ we previously used was
We converted from a z800 to a z9BC in February (z/OS 1.7). We had been using
a shared SYS0 IODF for years, but when I created the IODF for the z9 I used
SYS1 from the PROD z800 LPAR (thinking keep it separate). This SYS1 IODF was
used to create the z9 IOCDS, which was used to POR the z9 and IPL
We converted to CA VTAPE in October 2005 on a z800-0C1 (143 MIPS?). We have
been very impressed with it but it does eat some CPU. It did wonders for our
batch schedule at night. We were very busy during the day but had cycles to
spare at night.
From 10/03-9/05 00:00-08:00 we averaged 34.5% busy
I send to the list/group via [EMAIL PROTECTED] The listserver is
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Attached is a mail that went to junkmail last night.
Thanks...
Robert
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Excuse me... having trouble with junkmail filter eating all my IBM-MAIN mail.
I knew the second that I hit send Doh!
Apologies for the clutter...
Robert
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Thanks to everyone who replied on and off list. We've been looking at all the
suggestions. Now it looks like we may have a resolution.
One of our server guys has been working with McKesson on the problem.
Yesterday they found a 4 gig log file on the server that bothered them. They
renamed the log
Hello everyone...
We have been running for a week now after upgrading from z/OS 1.4 w/ CA TCPIP
to z/OS 1.7 running both IBM and CA stacks. Everything is going thru IBM
except for FTP and some telnet. About the only problem we have left is this
one:
Throughout the day and night when batch jobs
, Robert E wrote:
In times of busy printing (like today) messages come from EPS
say no local ports available.
... a long time ago we told VPS to use a wider range of ports for its
LPR clients (the TCPLPORT parameter in the printer definition). Perhaps
your EPS product has an equivalent tweak
Hi all... we converted over the weekend from z/OS 1.4 and CA TCPIP to z/OS
1.7 with both IBM and CA stacks. The IBM stack is running all sockets, etc.
The CA stack only does telnet and ftp. My problem...
We use the old EPS product to send prints from the mainframe to network
printers and it is
Chris,
Thanks for the information and document. I already had some of your
recommendations in place and I am still reviewing everything. There is one
thing that I would like to ask you about.
You quoted the IP Guide and said:
quote
Common INET physical file system (CINET PFS)
If you wish
Hi Dana,
Well, I got the Printer Administration panels working that use IUCV (yeah!)
but I don't know what I changed to fix it (boo!). Things work with just the
IBM stack running or both stacks.
I can't find where I read that IBM TCP/IP versions later than 3.2 do not
support IUCV or exactly what
Sheila,
Thanks again for your advice. You are correct about the print product - no
longer supported and no source. We're just going to have to bite the bullet
and replace it pretty soon before it breaks. It already exhibits some strange
behavior occasionally...
Robert
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Hello Sheila,
Thank you very much for taking the time to write. I really appreciate all the
info!
I will ask another question while I've got the floor...
In Dana Mitchell's post:
At the time there were some functions that were supported on one stack but
not the other, that caused us problems
First off let me thank the previously un-thanked Bob and Shelia for their
responses...
I have both the CA and IBM stacks running concurrently now. They use
different OSA's, different IP addresses, and different host names. I am
pausing to apply maint to the CA stack before continuing down my
Thanks Ted, Dana, and Jeff for the info. Seems like FTP may be more of a
problem than I thought. All of our socket apps are vendor supplied and some
of the vendors are a bit slow to respond. I'm not even sure what socket API
some things are using.
I'm going to spend a few days experimenting with
Hi all...
We are early in the process of moving from CA to IBM TCP/IP (still reading IP
config guide - good manual, BTW). We've used CA since it was Interlink in the
early 90's. I have the IBM stack running with a couple of ports and that's
about all that has been done with it. I like it so far
Hello Patrick,
I'm not sure about NIP consoles but if that NIP console address is defined in
a CONSOLxx member, as someone else said you won't be able to activate. You
will get the message that Hal listed below. If it is just a NIP cons and not
in any CONSOLxx member, I don't know - but I'd like
Hi Bret,
I'm not sure what you mean, but if you're talking about starting to print
output 2 images per page, front back (2-up duplex), or 4 images per page,
front and back (4-up duplex), I don't think you will see any difference in
spool utilization. It looks the same in the spool, the
Working here too. I noticed this message when I was there...
TODAY'S ALERT
Important Announcements:
Certain levels of ALP Licensing software may malfunction beginning January
1st, 2007.
SupportConnect users in North America may experience intermittent issues when
performing functions such
Thanks Shane and Roland for the advice. I think I understand about
/etc/profile and $PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin. We are a pretty simple monoplex but I
want to set things up the best way that I can. As I mentioned in a previous
post for help, this is my first full base serverpac (with IBM's tcpip). And
we
Once again I crawl to the list for help, a broken and weary soul...
I am working on a 1.4 to 1.7 conversion and trying to finish up the serverpac
jobs. Job HIMW530M is to set up the HTTP Server. It says, If your order
includes JAVA it is recommended that you update the JAVA_HOME directory
before
Thanks Roy and Kevin for the info. I'll put this on the back burner until I
foresee some downtime coming up. Those old definitions don't bother me so
much after all! :)
Much appreciated,
Robert
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Hello again...
I have an old 3274 controller defined in IODF that is no longer installed.
The 1st 24 addresses are defined as 3279s or 3278s and I added DYNAMIC=YES to
those definitions so that I can delete them in a future IODF.
The last 8 addresses are defined as 3286-2 and I can't figure out
Thanks Barry, Shane, and Radoslaw for your thoughts on this.
I don't know how important the ZFS stuff is to us anyway. I am sticking with
HFS for now and may convert to ZFS later. So far we haven't made much use of
HFS. I know it is used more and more, plus this is my first Full Base install
I am installing z/OS 1.7 (coming from 1.4) and I have some confusion about
the correct groups that the ZFS userid is connected to and what the default
group should be.
RACFDRV does...
1) ADDGROUP ZFSGRP
2) ADDUSER ZFS DFLTGRP(ZFSGRP)
3) RDEFINE STARTED ZFS STDATA(USER(ZFS))
4)
Oh, I don't know. It just bothered me a little. RACFDRV did its thing on 1.4
and now I am ready for RACFTGT using 1.7's copy of that DB (we don't share
RACF databases - small shop, no plex). I was concerned why the differences. I
just wanted to make sure I have 1.7 set up as it should be.
Robert
Hi John,
The AIX box is Ethernet connected thru a Visara 1174. It was connected
thru a 3174 - we are testing the Visara unit. So, no NCP.
I think I read something the past few days that said the trace must be
active on the owning system. Whatever it said, I wasn't sure if it
applied to me. Sounds
Hello everyone,
I am trying to get a buffer trace of a downstream LU (AIX box) that is
in session with a cross-domain VTAM application. Nothing is showing up
in the trace dataset. Should I be able to trace this from my system or
must this trace be run on the cross-domain system? I'm not very
Janek,
Thanks for pointing this out. It looks like the problem that we had.
Also, I am now signed up to receive future notices - I should have done
that a long time ago...
Robert
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Hello Glenn,
I am pretty sure that we had this exact problem. I recently installed
CA-VTAPE R11 SP1 and as part of that project, upgraded to CA-1 R11 (plus
APAR tape dated 8/16/05). We IPLed Sept 4 to bring in the new CA1.
Everything was fine until late in the month, around the 28th or 29th,
when
Floor space may be a bigger issue than money here. I know part of the space
that will be freed up has already been promised to the server side. It will
allow them to spread racks right on up the wall from where they are now.
You're right we already own the 3480s. If it were up to me, I'd drop
Hello,
We recently converted to virtual tape and 3592. Now mgt is itching to
get the 3480s off the floor. My question is, do vendors (IBM and CA
mostly) offer products on 3592 format or are we going to have problems
if we get rid of the 3480 drives and try to order new software? I know
there are
Hello everyone... We will be installing a stand-alone 3592 tape system
on our z/OS 1.4 system. It includes a 3592-J70 controller and 2 3592-J1A
drives in an RS/6000 type frame (ESCON attached). I have downloaded the
PSP and manuals but so far I have not been able to find much about the
MTL option
Thanks everyone for the input. I went ahead and opened an issue with CA
to get an EKG (never heard of it before). One of our products is CA's
TCP/IP.
I think everyone would be mad at me if we went to Boulder from Little
Rock and tcpip wouldn't work. ;)
Regards,
Robert
Greetings... We are getting ready for our 1st DR exercise (using IBM
BCRS) and I have a question about vendor software keys when running
z/OS under VM on another CPU. Although the CPUID xx in the VM
directory is supposed to take care of the CPU serial number matching our
real CPU serial
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