Re: 'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's blunder led to banking meltdown

2012-07-02 Thread Mark Zelden
On Sun, 1 Jul 2012 09:33:05 -0500, Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net wrote: Shmuel: Well if it was outsourced I wouldn't be surprised to much. I suspect that these people sell themselves as experts in everything CA-7 or MVS you name it. I have interviewed two foreign speaking individuals and it

Re: ShopZ

2012-07-02 Thread Bob Shannon
Error: SZLG03c: : An error occurred while processing your request. Please try again later Yep. That's the one :-( Bob -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: ShopZ

2012-07-02 Thread Mark Pace
Same here. On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Bob Shannon bshan...@rocketsoftware.comwrote: Error: SZLG03c: : An error occurred while processing your request. Please try again later Yep. That's the one :-( Bob -- For

Re: Sad News About Rick Fochtman

2012-07-02 Thread Shane Ginnane
Sorry folks, that wasn't supposed to hit the list. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

RES: Sad News About Rick Fochtman

2012-07-02 Thread ITURIEL DO NASCIMENTO NETO
Please, send our condolences to his family. He was a contributor of great value to this list. Atenciosamente / Regards / Saludos Ituriel do Nascimento Neto BANCO BRADESCO S.A. 4254 / DPCD Engenharia de Software Sistemas Operacionais Mainframes Tel: +55 11 3684-2177 R: 42177 3-1402 Fax: +55 11

Re: Sad News About Rick Fochtman

2012-07-02 Thread McKown, John
Oh, my. I am so saddened. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may

Re: VSAM tracking

2012-07-02 Thread mf db
Thanks all for your various way of tracking the changes made to VSAM. Infact DAF is an awesome Option !!! Peter On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 6:39 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.comwrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU]

Re: Sad News About Rick Fochtman

2012-07-02 Thread Steve Comstock
On 7/2/2012 7:07 AM, Mohammad Khan wrote: For all who have know Rick, Rick Fochtman has been having some health issues lately. I called Rick yesterday to check on him. My call was answered by his brother who informed me that Rick passed away on Friday of natural causes. He was a nice person

Re: Sad News About Rick Fochtman

2012-07-02 Thread David Andrews
Sad news, indeed. Rick was talented, contributed a great deal to our community, and was a heckuva nice guy. He served during the Vietnam war, and told me personal stories that raised the hair on the back of my neck and gave me a whole new appreciation of the things those guys (and gals) were

Re: Sad News About Rick Fochtman

2012-07-02 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Mohammad Khan wrote: For all who have know Rick, Yes, I have known him via IBM-MAIN over the years... He was a very nice persons who really wanted to help out. Rick Fochtman has been having some health issues lately. I called Rick yesterday to check on him. My call was answered by his

Re: Sad News About Rick Fochtman

2012-07-02 Thread John Gilmore
Sit tibi terra levis. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Quantas hit by leap second issue?

2012-07-02 Thread Bill Fairchild
As a non-Australian but ecumenical Anglophile, I feel obliged to point out that all the blokes and mates making telly adverts in which the word Qantas is spoken aloud should then stop doing so as if it did indeed contain a U. Bill Fairchild Programmer Rocket Software 408 Chamberlain Park Lane *

Re: Quantas hit by leap second issue?

2012-07-02 Thread John Gilmore
My gut reactions to things linguistic are usually much like Bill's, but I have two problems with his position here. How does one pronounce QANTAS without suggesting to a naif anglophone that it contains a 'qu'? Kantas? More important, the ubiquity of homonyms makes the whole net-driven practice

Re: Sad News About Rick Fochtman

2012-07-02 Thread Thomas H Puddicombe
No apologies necessary, Shane. All of us who had any interactions with Rick understand completely. We've lost a friend. Tom Tom Puddicombe Mainframe Performance Capacity Planning CSC 31 Brookdale Rd, Meriden, CT 06450 ITIS | (860) 428-3252 | tpudd...@csc.com | www.csc.com This is a

Re: Resolve S722 Abend

2012-07-02 Thread Mitch
Hello: If you use the product called iSolve from Softlib Software, it will take you directly to any level of detailed information about the cause of the error and also the corrective action(s). Regards, Mitch McCluhan, Legacy Modernization Consultant -Original Message- From: Ravi

Re: DB2 accounting data source question

2012-07-02 Thread Lizette Koehler
I would probably post on the DB2 Newsgroup for this rather than IBMMAIN If you have not joined, go to IDUG.ORG and join the DB2 Newsgroup Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Monday, July

Re: RES: Sad News About Rick Fochtman

2012-07-02 Thread Ron Hawkins
Sad news indeed. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of ITURIEL DO NASCIMENTO NETO Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 6:17 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [IBM-MAIN] RES: Sad News About Rick Fochtman Please, send

Re: Sad News About Rick Fochtman

2012-07-02 Thread Richards, Robert B.
I've lost a good friend and former coworker. Rick was a funny character. He had a gruff exterior but a shirt off his back interior. Working with him was a lot of fun. For those who did not know him, one of his talents was hitting targets at 1000 yards. One day, I ticked him off and he told

Re: Sad News About Rick Fochtman

2012-07-02 Thread Scott Ford
I didnt know Rick either, sorry to hear he passed away. My prayers to his family and friends. Scott J Ford Software Engineer http://www.identityforge.com/   From: Mohammad Khan mkkha...@hotmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Monday, July 2, 2012 9:07

Re: Sad News About Rick Fochtman

2012-07-02 Thread zMan
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: I didnt know Rick either, sorry to hear he passed away. My prayers to his family and friends. What everyone said -- I didn't know him either, but his posts were some of those that I always read, to glean the nuggets

Re: Sad News About Rick Fochtman

2012-07-02 Thread William Donzelli
Sad news. Over the past couple of years, he sent me a few of his older manuals and such. They have OS/360 manuals that they were going to throw out. I am looking for someone in the Chicago area could possibly stop by his house in Woodridge and take possession, at least temporarily, of them.

List Creation information for tape dsn

2012-07-02 Thread af dc
Hello, can anyone give me an help about gathering creation date from catalogued tape dsns, like this: NONVSAM --- EXPAA.DY0.G.OUT IN-CAT --- CATALOG.XX.EXP HISTORY DATASET-OWNER-(NULL) CREATION19950617 RELEASE2

Re: List Creation information for tape dsn

2012-07-02 Thread Lizette Koehler
Do you use CA1 or some other Tape Management System. The information you are looking for should be contained in that system. Lizette -Original Message- From: af dc acbi...@gmail.com Sent: Jul 2, 2012 10:05 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: List Creation information for tape dsn

Re: Sad News About Rick Fochtman

2012-07-02 Thread Aled Hughes
Yes, indeed, very sad news. I spoke to Rick last year, and he was very helpful. A great loss. Aled -Original Message- From: Thomas H Puddicombe tpudd...@csc.com To: IBM-MAIN IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 17:45 Subject: Re: Sad News About Rick Fochtman No apologies

SLIP capture change for z/OS 1.13

2012-07-02 Thread Jeff Gross
Has anyone seen a change in SLIP processing at z/OS 1.13? The problem occurs when trying to use SLIP to trap an event in a “service provider” address space that executes space switch PC routines. In z/OS 1.13, we need to use the calling ASID in addition to the ASID of the service provider.

Re: SMS Retain Days Extra Backup Versions - question.

2012-07-02 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Allan, Thanks for your effort so far. Since I am not familiar with HSM, DFSMShsm Storage Administration says that the next processing of the EXPIREBV command deletes the excessive backups. Is this secondary space management? Kees. Staller, Allan allan.stal...@kbmg.com wrote in message

Re: 'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's blunder led to banking meltdown

2012-07-02 Thread John Blythe Reid
From what I've read, and it sounds quite as you would expect, the systems programmers who applied the maintenance to CA-7 were based in the main Edinburgh data centre whereas the team responsible for job scheduling using CA-7 were based in Hyderabad. As we all know, when a critical job abends

Re: SMS Retain Days Extra Backup Versions - question.

2012-07-02 Thread Staller, Allan
EXPIREBV is used for NON-SMS managed datasets. Secondary space management replicates the functions of EXPIREBV for SMS managed datasets. Secondary space management also performs some functions that are common to both SMS and non-SMS managed datasets. There are good explanations of the

gdg levels

2012-07-02 Thread Tim Brown
How does on increase the levels of a gdg in an sms environment I Thanks, Tim Brown Supervisor Computer Operations Central Hudson Gas Electric 284 South Ave Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Email: mailto:tbr...@cenhud.com tbr...@cenhud.com mailto:tbr...@cenhud.com mailto:tbr...@cenhud.com Phone:

Re: gdg levels

2012-07-02 Thread McKown, John
Same as in non SMS. ALTER gdg-base LIMIT(n) Where n is a number from 1 to 255 and is independant of the current value. If it is less than the current, all entries which are below the fall off point are rolled off. What happens to the actual data depends on SCRATCH / NOSCRATCH and whether it

Re: 'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's blunder led to banking meltdown

2012-07-02 Thread John Gilmore
John Reid has reminded us all of a generic weakness in the way we do things. Sysprogs install new systems and maintain them, but they do not usually test them. They may indeed have only the vaguest notions of what some of them do. Comprehensive IVPs have all but disappeared; but it it time, I

Re: Sad News About Rick Fochtman

2012-07-02 Thread Ed Finnell
I looked for obit at obituaries.com but didn't find anything. Maybe they're just passe-likewise for Mark Thomen. Wonder who gets the Automag? In a message dated 7/2/2012 3:07:27 P.M. Central Daylight Time, kevin.cl...@bcbsde.com writes: My blessings to Rick and his family

Re: SLIP capture change for z/OS 1.13

2012-07-02 Thread Schwartz, Alan
From one of my old SHARE buttons A feature is a bug with seniority Alan Schwartz ITO Global Service Operations and Engineering Xerox Business Services, LLC www.xerox.com/businessservices -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf

Re: SMS Retain Days Extra Backup Versions - question.

2012-07-02 Thread retired mainframer
Expire BV supplements the actions of Secondary Space Management for both SMS and non-SMS datasets :: -Original Message- :: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On :: Behalf Of Staller, Allan :: Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 1:35 PM :: To:

Re: 'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's blunder led to banking meltdown

2012-07-02 Thread John Gilmore
'Sysprog' is unfortunately an ambiguous term. There are those who build software for ISVs or, of course, IBM; and there are those who keep a z/OS shop running. As a part of an attempt to help in the selection of a new manager for a systems programming group in a European insurance company I

Re: old tapes and nostalgia

2012-07-02 Thread William Donzelli
I find myself in possession of some old IBM tapes. Of no use to me, but maybe someone has reel tape drives (ie, not cart). All have labels of 9T, 1600bpi density. 1) Scientific Subroutine Package, V3M0, dated 9-19-74. 2) OS360, Rel 21.8, dated 10-08-74. 3) OS360, Rel 21.8, dated

Re: SMS Retain Days Extra Backup Versions - question.

2012-07-02 Thread Gibney, Dave
Yes, what he said. Specifically, you need to run EXPIREBV periodically to get rid of the extra backups being discussed. Your test is incomplete if you haven't run EXPIREBV twice. I really mean twice. Read the documents. Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University

Re: 'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's blunder led to banking meltdown

2012-07-02 Thread Scott Ford
John, I also worked with Europeans, while living in Europe, also Mexico, including the Swiss. In my old age, 62 in August, I have concluded that the new IT world order, that's what my boss alls it, the solution to testing , is call the vendor. We get ton of calls, usually because ppl don't

Re: 'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's blunder led to banking meltdown

2012-07-02 Thread Ed Gould
Mark: I spoke to the individuals that I have interviewed. Ed On Jul 2, 2012, at 7:54 AM, Mark Zelden wrote: On Sun, 1 Jul 2012 09:33:05 -0500, Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net wrote: Shmuel: Well if it was outsourced I wouldn't be surprised to much. I suspect that these people sell

Re: List Creation information for tape dsn

2012-07-02 Thread Ed Gould
John: Indeed... There is one of those el cheapo (cards in a sales deck distributed en masse) products that does this exactly . I ran into this once and got zippo support from the vendor. I inquired as to why we were running it in the first place as no one looked at the output. I got them

Re: Quantas hit by leap second issue?

2012-07-02 Thread Tony Harminc
On 2 July 2012 11:03, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: My gut reactions to things linguistic are usually much like Bill's, but I have two problems with his position here. How does one pronounce QANTAS without suggesting to a naif anglophone that it contains a 'qu'? Kantas? Since