Re: What is a programming language? (WAS Re: Unix systems and Serialization mechanism)

2010-07-13 Thread Zahir Hemini
Is GAL a programming language? What about the old SimPC script language? Do such things really qualify to be called Programming languages? I think this comes down to what you consider is programming. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:26 PM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote: FWIW, it never occurred to

Re: I am looking for a “poor man automation

2009-10-05 Thread Zahir Hemini
You have got quite a few options for this. what is available depends on whether you just want message automation or also scheduling. You should look at the following: TSSO (Free from CBT tape, but requires some knowledge to build) Write MPF exits (I bet a dozen people on here would show you how)

Re: Question about MPFLSTXX

2009-09-18 Thread Zahir Hemini
An MPF exit can be used to recognize and respond to any message, whether it has spaces or not in the area normally considered to be a message ID. I know this because we use an automation product called AutoMan from Exspans that allows us to define message IDs and by placing the text in quotes,

Re: SYSLOG message suppression

2009-09-18 Thread Zahir Hemini
Turn on the no hardcopy bit in the message flagbytes 2 OICTXTRFB2,CTXTRNHC FORCE NO HARDCOPY This will display it on the console but not on syslog or OICTXTRFB2,CTXTRDTMDELETE THE MESSAGE This will not display on the console or on syslog On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:06

Re: How often IPL a production LPAR (any good practice)

2009-09-06 Thread Zahir Hemini
I thought everyone used automated IPL procedures these days. Was PH sometime ago? On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Eric Bielefeld eric-ibmm...@wi.rr.comwrote: When I worked at PH Mining, we IPL'd every Saturday. That worked very well, as at 6:00 PM they shut down all of the onlines and did

Re: ist663i suppression

2009-09-05 Thread Zahir Hemini
Yes I agree. We had to give up Netview and we installed AutoMan in its place, and had to do the same kind of thing. We wrote a counter script that counted the number of times the message was displayed for a resource and suppressed it until the counter was triggered for that resource. It is not a

Re: TSSO in a sysplex

2009-08-12 Thread Zahir Hemini
Hi Dana, we had a similar problem and looked at both freeware and alternative low cost solutions for this. In our case we have two CEC each with four LPARs. After experimenting with TSSO our management rejected it, because we could not afford to make a system programmer resource available to

Re: Any gotchas going from 1.4 to 1.9?

2009-07-26 Thread Zahir Hemini
Watch out for problems due to VSM ALLOWUSERKEYCSA. The default changes to NO. When you first change over set this to YES, test your system , then let it default and see what no longer works. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: Message Flood Automation in z/os 1.9

2009-07-19 Thread Zahir Hemini
Is it easier to implement message flood the way IBM have implemented it or to use one of the message automation products that offer the MPF exit as one of its options? On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Klein, Kenneth kenneth.kl...@kyfb.comwrote:

Re: job started with SUB=MSTR without the owner information

2009-07-19 Thread Zahir Hemini
There is no jobid unless the task attaches to JES and requests one. The task itself must request the connection and cannot be assigned from the outside. On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Tommy Tsui tommyt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I try to started a system task APPC with SUB=MSTR but can't

Re: Messages as Programming Interfaces

2009-07-19 Thread Zahir Hemini
Our automation system relies heavily on the content of messages and has not failed us in 10 versions of z/OS. We have an automation product that reads the text of messages and enables the execution of tasks, depending on the text and passing extract of text to subroutines. I have never seen a

Re: Memory allocation

2009-06-23 Thread Zahir Hemini
Use Matrix from Exspans. On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Ward, Mike S mw...@ssfcu.org wrote: Hello all, I have written an mq security exit for z/os in assembler that works pretty well. What I would like to add is the capability to use persistent memory. I tried to allocate memory from

Re: Automating message CBR3750I

2008-09-01 Thread Zahir Hemini
Don't know about doing it in OPS/MVS. We use AutoMan V2.9 and use the PARSE MSG command to parse the message and determine the format. On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: We had an issue with a back end tape in our VTS getting an error. CBR3750I Message

Re: Beta TEST announcement of Version 3 of SyzAUTO

2008-03-08 Thread Zahir Hemini
Ted, this is basically what Brian uses this discussion group for, to advertise his products and services. On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 3:16 AM, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: apologize if you have already received the email on this, but Syzygy is announcing our BETA testing of the next

Re: How do you collect your Discribuetd systems jobs?

2007-12-17 Thread Zahir Hemini
That is not completely true. Some intelligent schedulers also allow you to specify the disposition of work when it is complete. On Dec 16, 2007 10:15 AM, Kenneth E Tomiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Job schedulers merely kick off the work, so collecting the 'process' output is up to the process

Re: How do you collect your Discribuetd systems jobs?

2007-12-15 Thread Zahir Hemini
We have just started to use the SPOOL command of our automation tool (AutoMan) to send sysout by email. On Dec 13, 2007 4:53 PM, Jon Brock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Similarly to Bruno, we schedule everything from z/OS, except that we use CA-Scheduler instead of TWS. As for the sysout, we just

Re: PL/1 Storage Control Issue

2007-12-11 Thread Zahir Hemini
Hi Rick, I cant point you at a reference, but I can tell you how we looked at a problem like that some years ago. You can UNSPEC the pointers into a variable, and display them to see where they are pointing. On Dec 10, 2007 11:37 AM, Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone point me to

Re: Shooting of Commands

2007-11-26 Thread Zahir Hemini
This is not really an appropriate forum for people threatening each other. If you want to fight with each other you should do it in private. If my boss here at the Ministry sees this kind of exchange, he will order us to stop experimenting with code from CBT. He will also black list all the three

Re: VARY too many devices offline

2007-10-23 Thread Zahir Hemini
and ambulances, as well as payrolls for public services. On 10/23/07, Howard Brazee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22 Oct 2007 14:12:07 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zahir Hemini) wrote: This is exactly why there are products like CA OPS/MVS and Automan and probably a few others. People sometimes

Re: VARY too many devices offline

2007-10-22 Thread Zahir Hemini
This is exactly why there are products like CA OPS/MVS and Automan and probably a few others. People sometimes are new to a procedure, they do accidentally make mistakes, and read and write instructions incorrectly. It is up to the systems management to make sure that proper process is in place to

Re: Netview DM PK07855

2007-07-16 Thread Zahir Hemini
Yes. You cant do it. The one byte console ID is dropped. On 7/16/07, Sharon Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are scheduled to migrate all our production systems to z/OS 1.8 and we still have an open apar with NETVIEW DM with the one-byte console id. Has this stopped anyone from migrating

Re: Software installs which deserve an A+

2007-05-24 Thread Zahir Hemini
There are a few. AutoMan is like that too. On 5/24/07, John Mattson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know it is against policy to praise rather than disparage, but occasionally a software vendor comes up with an install that really works quite nicely. DTS www.dtssoftware.com SRS product is