Re: TS7740 and VTS B20

2012-11-30 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-11-28 10:08, David Devine pisze: Hello again. Forgot to mention that it's not just HSM with it's own internal tape catalog you need to watch out for, there are some report archiving products that have it too. Migration of HSM data is a piece of cake. RECYCLE is your friend. --

Re: Makes me love most of my z/OS software vendors.

2012-11-30 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
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Anything to read on MetaCOBOL

2012-11-30 Thread adarsh khanna
Hi,   I have come across a system which uses MetaCOBOL (CA product) and needs to be migrated to COBOL. Before suggesting any solution wanted to read on MetaCOBOL, but coludn't find anything on the internet.    If someone has any pdfs/articles that could help, please share. Adarsh

Re: Anything to read on MetaCOBOL

2012-11-30 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
adarsh khanna wrote: I have come across a system which uses MetaCOBOL (CA product) and needs to be migrated to COBOL. Where to what vendor of COBOL? On what system is that COBOL whereto you want to migrate? Oh yes, migration of programs is one thing. Data migration is another thing. What

Re: Anything to read on MetaCOBOL

2012-11-30 Thread Matthew Stitt
GIYF. www.move2open.com/metacobol-to-cobol.html http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=14509093tstart=0 ftp://scftpd.ca.com/comp/R105M+11QAP.pdf ftp://scftpd.ca.com/comp/R205M+11UGP.pdf www.linkedin.com/groups/MetaCOBOL-Users-3267927/about HTH.. adarsh khanna

Extended Format ZFS's and Indirect volser support

2012-11-30 Thread Mark Jacobs
This might be a silly question, but does the indirect volser support for zFS's work with SMS managed extended format zFS files? -- Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service Tampa, FL The quiet ones are the ones that change the universe... The loud ones only take the credit. Londo Mollari -

Re: Anything to read on MetaCOBOL

2012-11-30 Thread adarsh khanna
MetaCOBOL to IBM Z/OS Enterprise COBOL. Requirement is to keep the as-is functionality. Any tools that could be helpful?   Regs Adarsh   From: Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Friday, 30 November 2012 6:14 PM

Changing PMR Severity (Was: Makes me love most of my z/OS software vendors)

2012-11-30 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 11/29/2012 10:55 PM, Timothy Sipples wrote: Nevertheless, you are allowed to mark the problem incident as Severity 1 whenever you have somebody on shift.(*) Therefore it's possible to have your first qualified support person come in at, say, 8:00 a.m. and raise the PMR to Severity 1. Then, as

Re: Changing PMR Severity (Was: Makes me love most of my z/OS software vendors)

2012-11-30 Thread Thomas Conley
On 11/30/2012 10:53 AM, Edward Jaffe wrote: On 11/29/2012 10:55 PM, Timothy Sipples wrote: Nevertheless, you are allowed to mark the problem incident as Severity 1 whenever you have somebody on shift.(*) Therefore it's possible to have your first qualified support person come in at, say, 8:00

Re: Changing PMR Severity (Was: Makes me love most of my z/OS software vendors)

2012-11-30 Thread Cardillo, Gregory
I've at times been asked by IBM to raise the severity to get attention - and later lowered it - but I have generally used the willingness of the support teams and client to be available 24x7 (in addition to technical knowledge of the problem, symptoms, impact) as a 'test' of a true Severity

Re: Changing PMR Severity (Was: Makes me love most of my z/OS software vendors)

2012-11-30 Thread Jousma, David
I won't do that. It's a double edged sword. I've had my management tell me to make something a SEV1, I *think* mostly because it's important to them, or maybe impatience. My stock answer is always, if it's a SEV1, I have to do anything to resolve it, up to and including disrupting the

Re: Changing PMR Severity (Was: Makes me love most of my z/OS software vendors)

2012-11-30 Thread McKown, John
To me, and to every shop I've ever worked at, SEV 1 means we're dead and we are all staying here until we are working again. One time, this meant a 36 hour shift for all 3 sysprogs. I was much younger then. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r)

Re: Changing PMR Severity (Was: Makes me love most of my z/OS software vendors)

2012-11-30 Thread Chuck Kreiter
I always reserve SEV 1 to issues that have made my primary systems unusable. I have had IBM'ers tell us to raise to SEV 1 in the morning and then drop to SEV 2 at quitting time. This never set well with me. I had a supervisor (who was and remains an idiot) who wanted me to open a SEV 1

Fwd: IBM developerWorks news: So long and thanks for all the clicks![sunset]

2012-11-30 Thread Ed Finnell
Hate see it go, just for the links and updates it provided. From: vrmm...@vrm.ca.ibm.com Reply-to: dwn...@us.ibm.com To: efinnel...@aol.com Sent: 11/30/2012 12:14:56 P.M. Central Standard Time Subj: IBM developerWorks news: So long and thanks for all

Re: New way to do UCB lookups

2012-11-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAE1XxDGsByDwmBjCQn1g==98ymcyxx1vi94sayu4jgjmulq...@mail.gmail.com, on 11/29/2012 at 09:32 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: Shmuel's comments, which suggested that I did not understand some things that I have understood for many years, were ad hominem Nonszense: what you *wrote*

Re: Changing PMR Severity (Was: Makes me love most of my z/OS software vendors)

2012-11-30 Thread Greg Shirey
I, too, use SEV 1 only when the system is unusable. I feel fortunate that I've only had a handful of SEV 1's over the past 17 years. I've never had IBM make a request to raise the level as described, but I suspect if they did, I could agree to it. That is, if I believed the issue was SEV

Re: Changing PMR Severity (Was: Makes me love most of my z/OS software vendors)

2012-11-30 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 11/30/2012 10:20 AM, McKown, John wrote: To me, and to every shop I've ever worked at, SEV 1 means we're dead and we are all staying here until we are working again. One time, this meant a 36 hour shift for all 3 sysprogs. I was much younger then. The inability to run daily system backups

Re: Changing PMR Severity (Was: Makes me love most of my z/OS software vendors)

2012-11-30 Thread Gibney, Dave
Hi Ed, I have become curious. I know you run multiple Lpars at different levels of z/OS. It seem s unlikely to me that HSM is failing in all of them. And that you should be able to get your back-ups, at least temporarily form a working copy :) Dave Gibney Information Technology Services

Re: Changing PMR Severity (Was: Makes me love most of my z/OS software vendors)

2012-11-30 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:07:57 -0800, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: On 11/30/2012 10:20 AM, McKown, John wrote: To me, and to every shop I've ever worked at, SEV 1 means we're dead and we are all staying here until we are working again. One time, this meant a 36 hour shift

Re: Changing PMR Severity (Was: Makes me love most of my z/OS software vendors)

2012-11-30 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 11/30/2012 12:12 PM, Gibney, Dave wrote: I have become curious. I know you run multiple Lpars at different levels of z/OS. It seem s unlikely to me that HSM is failing in all of them. And that you should be able to get your back-ups, at least temporarily form a working copy :) In this

Re: Changing PMR Severity (Was: Makes me love most of my z/OS software vendors)

2012-11-30 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:31:18 -0800, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: Follow-up: Based on the PDA logs, IBM thought that one large (5000 cylinder) ZFS seemed to be a trigger for whatever the problem was. We backed that up manually via BACKDS command and then the normal dailies

Re: Changing PMR Severity (Was: Makes me love most of my z/OS software vendors)

2012-11-30 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 11/30/2012 12:44 PM, Mark Zelden wrote: With all the EAV fun you've already had, was that on an EAV volume in cyl managed space? Lol! You call that fun?? :D This most recent issue was on, what some people on this list would call, a 'MOD-81' volume. It is an EAV, but the 5000-cylinder ZFS

Re: Makes me love most of my z/OS software vendors.

2012-11-30 Thread Scott Ford
Timothy, I agree as a vendor, second software shop, worked a lot of Sev 1s. The question always is, is it really a technical , code sev 1 or a ' political sev1', those btw I hate. A code issue if we can reproduce it you can usually resolved IMHO. Scott ford www.identityforge.com Tell me and

Re: Changing PMR Severity (Was: Makes me love most of my z/OS software vendors)

2012-11-30 Thread Ed Gould
Greg (and others), I had a case which I could only IPL on a Sunday and raised it to a 1 (from a 2) so that support could come in and walk me through the issue. Level 3 came in and we walked through the issue and they came up with a issue with APL (it was a sub issue of PSF) . They were

Re: Changing PMR Severity (Was: Makes me love most of my z/OS software vendors)

2012-11-30 Thread Eric Bielefeld
I had a somewhat similar situation, but it only lasted a couple of hours. A customer had a problem with using SDSF, in that many of its functions wouldn't work. This happened to several users. I finally put in a call to IBM support. I put it in at a severity 2, and the level 1 person said

Re: Changing PMR Severity (Was: Makes me love most of my z/OS software vendors)

2012-11-30 Thread Gabe Goldberg
Sev 1 can also cover security/integrity issues. Long ago I reported that under Profs (or maybe OfficeVision) a user could send a document (script file) to another user with embedded codes (.sy I think) which executed CMS or CP commands when the document was formatted, because the system's DCF