AW: Re: Parallel Sysplex split

2015-02-17 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>That's not true in our case. We share the IODF between two sysplexes, it is >cataloged in a user catalog that is connected to the master catalogs of all >systems in both sysplexes. For the purpose of the IPL, the IODF does not need to be cataloged at all. You designate the IODF volume via its

Re: Fwd: Shipping Culture Is Hurting Us, or what's wrong with I.T. development

2015-02-17 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 20:54:22 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: >The examples you give are all software. Indeed. Let's hope people think about the included software when they're buying hardware. History doesn't inspire confidence. Then again, when bodies supposedly mandated to protect natio

Re: IBM MASS and ATLAS with Vector Facility for z/Architecture Exploitation

2015-02-17 Thread Timothy Sipples
A bit ahead of schedule, the IBM MASS and ATLAS libraries for z/OS are now available for download as part of the XL C/C++ for z/OS update: http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/tools/downloads Look for the "XL C/C++ V2R1M1 web deliverable with z13 support for z/OS 2.1 " link. The latest (as I write

Re: Fwd: Shipping Culture Is Hurting Us, or what's wrong with I.T. development

2015-02-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <0269152064501693.wa.ibmmaintpg.com...@listserv.ua.edu>, on 02/17/2015 at 05:52 PM, Shane Ginnane said: >Ain't just software. The examples you give are all software. >compromised home routers. The bug was in the router software, not in the router hardware. Likewise for all the others you

Re: Binder attributes

2015-02-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <54e3bc96.10...@comcast.net>, on 02/17/2015 at 04:11 PM, "Larry K. Slaten" said: >Trying to figure out what utility IEHLIST, AMBLIST, or EQALMA >etc. shows the REUSE() attribute for each member being included >in executable. None; the attribute is carried globally in the user data of th

Re: Parallel Sysplex split

2015-02-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 02/17/2015 at 02:27 PM, "Staller, Allan" said: >Each sysplex will need its own copy of the IODF for IPL purposes. Since when? That has never been a requirement. Of course, you don't want a long term RESERVE from another system on the IODF volume, but that's a separate issue. --

Re: Fwd: Shipping Culture Is Hurting Us, or what's wrong with I.T. development

2015-02-17 Thread Tom Brennan
You made me look - http://www.amazon.com/Minder-Wink-App-Enabled-Smart-Tray/dp/B00GN92KQ4 I can't believe it :) But I do somewhat agree with the shipping culture. I've created some small applications myself for various people, and if you initially ask them "What do you want?", they can't tell

Re: Fwd: Shipping Culture Is Hurting Us, or what's wrong with I.T. development

2015-02-17 Thread Shane Ginnane
Ain't just software. The "internet of things" is underway, and the same "ship it and be damned" attitude prevails. Especially re (absence of) security. The Christmas Playstation and X-Box attack was launched from compromised home routers. Behind those same routers is now an array of {un,in}-secu

Re: need access to mainframe

2015-02-17 Thread esst...@juno.com
Hi, Where can I contact You off list, I may be able to suggest a site. -- Original Message -- From: Ze'ev Atlas <004b34e7c98a-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: need access to mainframe Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 03:29:39 + Could anybody give

Binder attributes

2015-02-17 Thread Larry K. Slaten
Trying to figure out what utility IEHLIST, AMBLIST, or EQALMA etc. shows the REUSE() attribute for each member being included in executable. I'm ending up with NOREUS,NORENT,NOREFR and I know that the COBOL compiler is passing along RENT, some other included item is causing the whole package

Re: Vary OPEERLOG offline before IPLing the system?

2015-02-17 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 23:04:17 +, J O Skip Robinson wrote: >Ah yes, the addendum must explain it. We have never coded ALLOWCMD(Y). Is that >the whole difference? Yes.And while I mentioned z/OS 1.13, we skipped 1.12 due to a data center move and the function was added to z/OS 1.12 also.

Re: COBOL v5.1 - PTF UI24300

2015-02-17 Thread Chase, John
Seems that UI24300 did not ship an updated SRC member (just the MOD member) for IGYCDOPT, so the resolution was to specify both PTFs in the PRE of the USERMOD. -jc- > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Chase, John > > Hi, All, > > On z/OS 1.13 I t

Re: Shipping Culture Is Hurting Us, or what's wrong with I.T. development

2015-02-17 Thread John McKown
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Chase, John wrote: > Sounds a lot like "Agile". :-) > ​I like how Joe Celko (SQL expert) ​defined "Agile Programming": "Code first, design later!" > > But then Steve Jobs made a fortune building things people didn't know they > wanted. :-) > > -jc- > > -

Re: Shipping Culture Is Hurting Us, or what's wrong with I.T. development

2015-02-17 Thread Chase, John
Sounds a lot like "Agile". :-) But then Steve Jobs made a fortune building things people didn't know they wanted. :-) -jc- > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John McKown > > Too good not to pass to this group. > > Preach it, Brother! > > >

Re: RCF vs. COMMENT (was: IGW01595E message ...)

2015-02-17 Thread Ed Gould
On Feb 17, 2015, at 8:12 AM, Phil Smith III wrote: Paul Gilmartin wrote: They say is has been accepted as a clarification. They've not provided details in response to a followup request.) Hey, at least you got that much—I opened a SEV2 against a math function in C that was returning

Fwd: Shipping Culture Is Hurting Us, or what's wrong with I.T. development

2015-02-17 Thread John McKown
Too good not to pass to this group. Preach it, Brother! ... Quickly getting something in front of the people that will actually use it is a great idea. It means you waste less time building something they don’t actually want. But I look around the industry today and I get worried. Don’t get me w

Re: Parallel Sysplex split

2015-02-17 Thread Rob Schramm
A more pointed question.. do you need to share the usercat between plexes? REPRO/MERGECAT or one of the Catalog vendors can split the USERCAT. Seems like you would need a pretty good reason to attempt to continue to share. Dave's right.. there are items in your share list that are not eligible fo

Re: Parallel Sysplex split

2015-02-17 Thread Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM
Only if this volume is not under GDPS hiperswap. If it is, all reserves must be converted. Kees. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Doug Henry Sent: 17 February, 2015 16:24 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Paral

Re: Parallel Sysplex split

2015-02-17 Thread Doug Henry
On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:26:14 +, Staller, Allan wrote: <- There is some User Catalogs that are being shared between the Development and Production environment

Re: Parallel Sysplex split

2015-02-17 Thread Ambros, Thomas
That's not true in our case. We share the IODF between two sysplexes, it is cataloged in a user catalog that is connected to the master catalogs of all systems in both sysplexes. We have a couple very limited use catalogs for that kind of system resource - SMPE zones for example. Of course, t

Re: Parallel Sysplex split

2015-02-17 Thread Staller, Allan
Each sysplex will need its own copy of the IODF for IPL purposes. We are in the process of cleaning up all the shared User catalogs and volumes so that no data is shared. We plan however to share the IODF among the different SYSPLEX environments. We will create seperate CF Development LPARs a

Re: Parallel Sysplex split

2015-02-17 Thread Staller, Allan
- There is some User Catalogs that are being shared between the Development and Production environment You cannot share catalogs across a sysplex boundary! This will cause bad things to happen. BTDTGTTS!. I presume (not using it) that ECS and RLS have the same limitation. In general, shari

RCF vs. COMMENT (was: IGW01595E message ...)

2015-02-17 Thread Phil Smith III
Paul Gilmartin wrote: >They say is has been accepted as a clarification. They've not >provided details in response to a followup request.) Hey, at least you got that much—I opened a SEV2 against a math function in C that was returning incorrout on true 64-bit values (i.e., values where the t

Re: Parallel Sysplex split

2015-02-17 Thread Jaco Kruger
Hi, We are in the process of cleaning up all the shared User catalogs and volumes so that no data is shared. We plan however to share the IODF among the different SYSPLEX environments. We will create seperate CF Development LPARs and share it using WEIGHTs with the Production CF LPARs. Regar

Re: Parallel Sysplex split

2015-02-17 Thread Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM
>>You are also going to lose the ability to share these as well: In fact, don't try to share anything. Build a large wall between the sysplexes, which can only be crossed by an FTP or similar application. >Lastly, you don’t mention it, but your comments lead me to believe that you >might be exp

Re: Parallel Sysplex split

2015-02-17 Thread Jousma, David
>>You are also going to lose the ability to share these as well: - ECS - GRS - WLM - ZFS - There is a number of volumes that is shared between the Development and Production environment >> The caveat on this is that you can't reliably share these outside of GRS. >> Many do it to allow "sysprog

Re: OMVS ETCINIT issue.

2015-02-17 Thread Mainframe Mainframe
Problem has been resolved . This issue was with SYSLOGD demon . system working fine. Thanks for help. On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Mainframe Mainframe < mainframe1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > While IPL of z/OS 1.11 system , I am getting below issue related > to ETCINIT. > > BPX

OMVS ETCINIT issue.

2015-02-17 Thread Mainframe Mainframe
Hello, While IPL of z/OS 1.11 system , I am getting below issue related to ETCINIT. BPXI027I THE ETCINIT JOB ENDED IN ERROR, EXIT STATUS 1000 BPXI004I OMVS INITIALIZATION COMPLETE 10 Timeout /usr/sbin/init timed out waiting for the shell to finish executing the initialization scrip

Parallel Sysplex split

2015-02-17 Thread Jaco Kruger
Good morning, Currently, the Production Parallel Sysplex environment consist of all the Development and Production LPARs, which is distributed across 2 mainframes. Each mainframe contains a Production Coupling Facility(CF) LPAR. We will remove the Development LPARs from the Production Sysplex