Re: Automatic Job Ended Email (detail information)

2014-01-17 Thread Linda
Sounds good. In addition to CPU and wall time for the job, step times and waits, especially enque and resource waits are useful too. Linda Sent from my iPhone On Jan 15, 2014, at 10:57 PM, Brian Westerman brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com wrote: Hi, We are testing our SyzMail product that

Re: Need help setting up SLIP trap

2014-01-17 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 01:15:20 -0500, Jim Mulder wrote: So it seems likely that the SSVT overlay is due to the ISV product storing beyond the area which it obtained. I will put some more detail about the identity of the ISV product into your PMR. c'mon Jim, stop being a killjoy ;-) Shane

Re: LE run-time options

2014-01-17 Thread Vince Getgood
Juergen, There are two possible usermods for LE. If you have CEEDOPT or CEECOPT, these are installation wide options. The CEEPRMxx parmlib member will only affect that LPAR, and you can also have a CEEROPT usermod for a particular region. So to answer your question, you can use both.

Re: Automatic Job Ended Email (detail information)

2014-01-17 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Maye would be interesting to know how the young people would like to be notified (Email ? Twitter ? Facebook ? ) if something happens. Old timers are sitting by the TSO and pressing the ENTER for the SDSF DA again and again. On 16.01.2014 07:57, Brian Westerman wrote: Hi, We are testing

Re: Automatic Job Ended Email (detail information)

2014-01-17 Thread Brian Westerman
I'm not sure how I would separate out the enqueue and resource waits at job end time, that information is not as readily available so the overhead might be noticeable to get at it. It's kind of out of scope for this type of product. The way the product works, I can generate the MaxCC at job

Re: Automatic Job Ended Email (detail information)

2014-01-17 Thread Nathan J Pfister
I, being younger than most I work with (26), would honestly prefer SMS notificationswhich is what we have began to set up here (although they get kind of messy since it's going through JES2MAIL to our mail server and it appends the disclaimer at the bottom automaticallyyuck).

Re: Automatic Job Ended Email (detail information)

2014-01-17 Thread Vernooij, CP (SPLXM) - KLM
I personally see this as an addition to SDSF screens or emails that you receive the next morning, for the moments that you don't (want to) watch SDSF and still need to be notified of urgent matters (e.g. 03:00 during a good sleep). Kees. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Storage Tracking

2014-01-17 Thread mf db
Hello Group, Is there a tool or Rexx exec which can help me in identifying the Job consuming the High Virtual Shared Storage or Common Storage ? Peter -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

pax, ddnames and _BPX_SHAREAS

2014-01-17 Thread van der Grijn, Bart (B)
I'm trying to use pax to write to a ddname. I'm doing this from a REXX exec that's running in batch under IKJEFT01. I'm not getting it to work. The following code: ... wCMD = pax -w -X -z -x pax -f //DD:PAX aDir ALLOC DD(PAX) DSN('aBackupDsn') OLD release paxRC = bpxwunix(wCMD,,stdout.,stderr.)

Re: Storage Tracking

2014-01-17 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Peter, Is there a tool or Rexx exec which can help me in identifying the Job consuming the High Virtual Shared Storage or Common Storage ? check the archives :-) This is Jim Mulder's answer when I asked the exact same question about two years ago: 6) I bemoan IBMs failure to give us a good

Re: Need help setting up SLIP trap

2014-01-17 Thread Peter Relson
Let's start with: there is very likely neither a loop nor a spin, there is just system processing because of requested SVC Dumps.There is no spin. If there's a loop in SDUMP you won't see more dumps being captured. SL SET,ID=NDMP,A=NOSVCD,LPAMOD=IEFJRASP,C=0C4 Aside from LPAMOD=IEFJRASP which

Re: Storage Tracking

2014-01-17 Thread Rob Scott
Most of the commercial z/OS monitors will show this (eg MXI, Omegamon, SysView, MainView etc etc) . If you want a quick overview of address space usage of 64-bit storage, you could try Mark Zelden's RXSTOR64 REXX exec which is free to download from his website

Re: How to order HTTP Server (Appache)

2014-01-17 Thread Ron van der Zande
FYI, when we looked at the Apache server we found the MVSDS service we havely use is not supported at all. There are indications this support will be available in 8.5 but we did not get any information when this version will be ordable as part of Ported Tools. Regards Ron

Re: ISMF QUESTIONS - VIEWING STORAGE GROUP STATS

2014-01-17 Thread Vernooij, CP (SPLXM) - KLM
Is *that* storage group managed by *that* SMS? Kees. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of willie bunter Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 15:30 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ISMF QUESTIONS - VIEWING STORAGE GROUP

Re: ISMF QUESTIONS - VIEWING STORAGE GROUP STATS

2014-01-17 Thread willie bunter
Kees,   Thanks for your help.  When I switched it to ACTIVE I go the stats I was looking for.  Now, I tried the same thing on another partition after I ensured that I had ACTIVE but the stats have the -.  Is it because of certain customization? From: Vernooij, CP (SPLXM) - KLM

Re: pax, ddnames and _BPX_SHAREAS

2014-01-17 Thread van der Grijn, Bart (B)
Thanks Elardus, z/OS in question is z/OS 1.12 Should have clarified this in my original note, but I'm not trying to write to a 'unix' file, I'm trying to write to a MVS dataset allocated to a DDName. Using a dataset name in the pax command works fine, but I want to use a DDName so that I can

Re: ISMF QUESTIONS - VIEWING STORAGE GROUP STATS

2014-01-17 Thread willie bunter
Sorry, I was looking at the wrong group.    Last question.  Are the stats posted by ISMF reliable?  It is because this particular storage group has TOTAL SPACE 24360  FREE SPACE 18061 AND %FREE SPACE 74.  That doesn't sound right  This pool has 3 mod 9 each has 10017 cylinders for a total of

Re: ISMF QUESTIONS - VIEWING STORAGE GROUP STATS

2014-01-17 Thread Vernooij, CP (SPLXM) - KLM
They are updated periodically, I think each time SMS does something on the SG, so rather accurate. Space in in MB. That fits your cylinder numbers. Kees. (starting his weekend now, because it is going to rain soon and I want to be home before that - by bike). -Original Message- From:

TADz

2014-01-17 Thread Nathan J Pfister
List; Are there any other good alternatives to TADz for z/OS asset discovery? Thanks; Nathan Pfister zOS Systems Programmer AES\PHEAA - Tech Services This message contains privileged and confidential information intended for the above addressees only. If you receive this message in error

Re: pax, ddnames and _BPX_SHAREAS

2014-01-17 Thread John McKown
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 7:12 AM, van der Grijn, Bart (B) bvandergr...@dow.com wrote: I'm trying to use pax to write to a ddname. I'm doing this from a REXX exec that's running in batch under IKJEFT01. I'm not getting it to work. The following code: ... wCMD = pax -w -X -z -x pax -f

Re: pax, ddnames and _BPX_SHAREAS

2014-01-17 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
van der Grijn, Bart (B) wrote: Thanks Elardus, You're welcome! :-) z/OS in question is z/OS 1.12 Ok. Should have clarified this in my original note, but I'm not trying to write to a 'unix' file, I'm trying to write to a MVS dataset allocated to a DDName. Using a dataset name in the pax

Re: pax, ddnames and _BPX_SHAREAS

2014-01-17 Thread van der Grijn, Bart (B)
John, I think you can make a single change to your REXX program paxRC=bpxwunix(wCMD,,DD:PAX,stderr.) I tried that. In my original note: (I also tried it by specifying a ddname in the bpxwunix call instead of the stdout., but got a truncation error. I suspect that's because it exceeded

Re: Any way to copy (clone ) a RACF user profile ?

2014-01-17 Thread Mark Zelden
I grew up on MVS (SP 1.3) with ACF2. It was the very first thing I ever installed and implemented on an MVS system as a new sysprog (only had OS passwords before that). When I was finally exposed to RACF at a different shop 6 years later (around 1991) I was surprised that there was no way

Re: pax, ddnames and _BPX_SHAREAS

2014-01-17 Thread Jon Perryman
Have you tried running PGM=BPXBATCH instead and run the exec as a UNIX script? You would need to place the exec in a UNIX file and change ALLOC to BPXWDYN. As for the truncation error, have you tried changing the dataset's attributes (LRECL, BLKSIZE and RECFM)? Jon Perryman.

Re: pax, ddnames and _BPX_SHAREAS

2014-01-17 Thread Kirk Wolf
Bart, It isn't clear whether you needed to do this with a TMP and REXX or whether you were just trying to work around the normal issues with BPXBATCH. This is very straight forward to do using our COZBATCH utility: //SHELL EXEC PGM=COZBATCH - a better BPXBATCH //STDIN DD * pax -w -X -x pax -v

Re: How to order HTTP Server (Appache)

2014-01-17 Thread Leonardo Vaz
Ow... That is a biggie -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ron van der Zande Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 9:10 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How to order HTTP Server (Appache) FYI, when we looked at

Re: Any way to copy (clone ) a RACF user profile ?

2014-01-17 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2014-01-17 16:29, Mark Zelden pisze: I grew up on MVS (SP 1.3) with ACF2. It was the very first thing I ever installed and implemented on an MVS system as a new sysprog (only had OS passwords before that). When I was finally exposed to RACF at a different shop 6 years later (around

Re: How to order HTTP Server (Appache)

2014-01-17 Thread Nathan J Pfister
Not by any means a perfect solutionbut there is a cgi script out there that was made as an interim solution to this http://people.apache.org/~gregames/mvsds Thanks; Nathan Pfister zOS Systems Programmer AES\PHEAA - Tech Services npfis...@aessuccess.org (717) 720-2663 From: Leonardo

Re: Any way to copy (clone ) a RACF user profile ?

2014-01-17 Thread Tony Babonas
The task of building a RACF user profile (or their equivalents in the CA products) is not that difficult even without the use of add on products. A previous post provided a method to search through the IRRDBU00 output file to build a series of commands. I concocted something quite similar

Re: pax, ddnames and _BPX_SHAREAS

2014-01-17 Thread Leonardo Vaz
I think you need to do a: call bpxwdyn alloc fi(pax) DSN('aBackupDsn') OLD release -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of van der Grijn, Bart (B) Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 8:12 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject:

Re: Any way to copy (clone ) a RACF user profile ?

2014-01-17 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 16:56:29 +0100, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: Well, I grew up with RACF with no add-on product installed. Since time I mastered RACF I had no problem with lack of the option above. Note: in the past I frequently had requests like define 20 users like JSMITH

Re: pax, ddnames and _BPX_SHAREAS

2014-01-17 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Look at your DSName.  It is not a valid MVS dataset name:  too many characters without a period. Lloyd From: Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 9:59 AM Subject: Re: pax, ddnames and

Re: TADz

2014-01-17 Thread Skip Robinson
We installed TADz as POC. It was easy to install, easy to run, and easy to clone among sysplexes. AFAIK it requires DB2 on every system you want to monitor. Then Corporate policy turned to BMC DISCOVERY in part because it had already been established on other platforms. DISCOVERY uses what I

OT: Friday: Humor: The perfect working cubical environment

2014-01-17 Thread John McKown
http://www.gocomics.com/working-daze/2014/01/17 -- Wasn't there something about a PASCAL programmer knowing the value of everything and the Wirth of nothing? Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: LE run-time options

2014-01-17 Thread Don Imbriale
Also, there is no default for CEEPRMxx. Should you build a system that does not include CEEPRMxx (or there is a problem with its definition) or IEASYSxx points to a non-existent CEEPRMxx in PARMLIB, CEEDOPT will be used. On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 3:46 AM, Vince Getgood getgo...@hotmail.com wrote:

Re: TADz

2014-01-17 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:20:31 -0800, Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.com wrote: We installed TADz as POC. It was easy to install, easy to run, and easy to clone among sysplexes. AFAIK it requires DB2 on every system you want to monitor. Serveral clients of mine run TADz. DB2 is only

Re: Friday: Humor: The perfect working cubical environment

2014-01-17 Thread Grinsell, Don
Where's the coffee IV? -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444-2983 dgrins...@mt.gov A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. ~ Albert Einstein -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown

Re: Friday: Humor: The perfect working cubical environment

2014-01-17 Thread Scott Ford
Don, I will second that IV motion Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD On Jan 17, 2014, at 1:13 PM, Grinsell, Don dgrins...@mt.gov wrote: Where's the coffee IV? -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444-2983 dgrins...@mt.gov A clever person solves a problem. A

Re: pax, ddnames and _BPX_SHAREAS

2014-01-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:12:09 +, van der Grijn, Bart (B) wrote: I'm trying to use pax to write to a ddname. The following code: ... wCMD = pax -w -X -z -x pax -f //DD:PAX aDir I don't believe any such construct is supported. Have you seen any documentation that states that it is. Submit a

Re: pax, ddnames and _BPX_SHAREAS

2014-01-17 Thread van der Grijn, Bart (B)
Thanks Jon, I'll play around with BPXBATCH to see if I can get to a working combination. Bart -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jon Perryman Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 10:45 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject:

Re: pax, ddnames and _BPX_SHAREAS

2014-01-17 Thread van der Grijn, Bart (B)
Thanks Kirk. My preference is to make this work with the tools I'm already licensed for, but I'll keep this option in mind. Bart -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Kirk Wolf Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 10:47 AM To:

Re: pax, ddnames and _BPX_SHAREAS

2014-01-17 Thread van der Grijn, Bart (B)
Lloyd, I assume you're referring to aBackupDsn in ALLOC DD(PAX) DSN('aBackupDsn') OLD release If so, note that this is a rexx variable, not the actual dataset name. Thanks, Bart -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lloyd

Re: pax, ddnames and _BPX_SHAREAS

2014-01-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2014-01-17 07:43, van der Grijn, Bart (B) wrote: z/OS in question is z/OS 1.12 Should have clarified this in my original note, but I'm not trying to write to a 'unix' file, I'm trying to write to a MVS dataset allocated to a DDName. Using a dataset name in the pax command works fine,

Re: pax, ddnames and _BPX_SHAREAS

2014-01-17 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Why do you need to use DD:... for pax?  If you are going to use a REXX variable in the DSN parameter, use the REXX variable in the pax command?  The use of a DSN in the pax command is documented and supported.  I have not tried to use it from REXX, but I have used it from the OMVS command line

Re: pax, ddnames and _BPX_SHAREAS

2014-01-17 Thread Kirk Wolf
oh Gil, You know very well that the Command Reference documents only that pax supports MVS data set names and does not mention that DD:XXX names are supported. You have said this many times before, and I agree that IBM should formally support this. Have you opened a requirement? Surely they

Re: Pleas quote the text you reply to (Was: Automatic Job Ended Email (detail information))

2014-01-17 Thread zMan
Ooh, ooh! Now we can fight over top-posting vs. bottom-posting! And indent(at)ion! And HTML vs plaintext. On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:46 AM, Vernooij, CP (SPLXM) - KLM kees.verno...@klm.com wrote: Brian, and all who reply only their reply text: The way I read the messages in this thread is in

Re: Pleas quote the text you reply to (Was: Automatic Job Ended Email (detail information))

2014-01-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2014-01-17 13:04, zMan wrote: Ooh, ooh! Now we can fight over top-posting vs. bottom-posting! And indent(at)ion! And HTML vs plaintext. Hasn't LISTSERV settled by fiat the HTML question? I post responses close to and following the quoted text. On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:46 AM, Vernooij,

Re: pax, ddnames and _BPX_SHAREAS

2014-01-17 Thread Jon Perryman
MVS archive datasets are supported by the PAX command. The first paragraph of the MAN PAX page says the archive can be HFS file or MVS dataset. I only have access to the EFGLOBE.COM system so it may now say something different but along the same lines. Jon Perryman

Re: pax, ddnames and _BPX_SHAREAS

2014-01-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:01:34 -0800, Jon Perryman wrote: MVS archive datasets are supported by the PAX command. The first paragraph of the MAN PAX page says the archive can be HFS file or MVS dataset. I only have access to the EFGLOBE.COM system so it may now say something different but along

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Re: pax, ddnames and _BPX_SHAREAS

2014-01-17 Thread Scott Ford
This has been asked before,here On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 16:34:41 +0100, Miklos Szigetvari Post by Miklos Szigetvari Hi We have a number of user ZFS datasets, in NON EXTENDED format , and already has reached the 4Gbyte limit Till now we have allocated a new extended format ZFS and copied into it

Re: Pleas quote the text you reply to (Was: Automatic Job Ended Email (detail information))

2014-01-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:13:46 -0700, Paul Gilmartin wrote: In the case of this reply, I have no idea what the interesting idea was. Please quote the text you are referring to. Also, trim stale text, LISTSERV footers and legal disclaimers. *But* leave enough header information (Date: and From:)

Re: Pleas quote the text you reply to (Was: Automatic Job Ended Email (detail information))

2014-01-17 Thread Gibney, Dave
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 3:58 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Pleas quote the text you reply to (Was: Automatic Job Ended Email (detail