Re: z/OS "interactive computing" - AKA TSO/ISPF or UNIX shell

2018-03-23 Thread Seymour J Metz
z/OS TSO/E Programming Services Version 2 Release 3 , specifically chapters 7 and 10, describes the TIOC/VTIOC macros. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: Loading IOCP input file using FTP

2018-03-23 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 06:48:37 +, Gadi Ben-Avi wrote: >I am trying to load an IOCP input file using FTP. >The operation failed. > >As far as I can see, the only way to do this is using Single Object >Operations. Is this correct? > >I did not see any attempt to access the FTP

Re: Cobol-Unix

2018-03-23 Thread John McKown
On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 10:42 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: > Not even close. XCTL affects only a single RB; other RBs, loaded programs > and allocated storage are not affected,, except as they are control blocks > for the deleted module. > ​Correct. But one could, and I will, argue

Re: Sharing across two sysplex

2018-03-23 Thread Martin Packer
On TWS one nit: You can't have the hot standby be in another plex as it communicates with the active controller using XCF. Probably not a show stopper. Martin Packer zChampion, Systems Investigator & Performance Troubleshooter, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter /

Re: need guide iehmove or adrdssu

2018-03-23 Thread Seymour J Metz
IEHMOVE may work, but th last time I used it, it was painfully slow. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of johnnydeep san Sent:

Re: invalid ENTRY address for IDENTIFY macro

2018-03-23 Thread Seymour J Metz
There's an alternative form of Identify, used by the LOADER, that can specify an entry point within allocated storage not associated with any CDE. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Sharing across two sysplex

2018-03-23 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
We have several sysplexes around the enterprise. Some resources are 'sharable', some not. A. Can we use a unique TWS controller to Schedule jobs on two? I don't know whether you can, but you don't need to. We have one 'TWS controller' for the whole enterprise; it controls everything. From the

Re: Didn't we have this some time ago on some SLED disks? Multi-actuator

2018-03-23 Thread Seymour J Metz
IBM had one like that on the 650; three arms, which moved vertically and horizontally and could each access any track. I don't know which of the related drives, e.g., 355, 1405, had three arms. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: Cobol-Unix

2018-03-23 Thread Seymour J Metz
Not even close. XCTL affects only a single RB; other RBs, loaded programs and allocated storage are not affected,, except as they are control blocks for the deleted module. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe

Re: SMF 90 question

2018-03-23 Thread William Richardson
Martin; To follow up on the previous response to your query I would point out a couple of general things... - The SMF 90, "Subtype" 9 is really the initialization (during system IPL) of SMF (as opposed to the Restart of SMF - "Subtype" 15) and contains information about the SMF parms in

Re: SDSF JJE779S ISFJ* in z/OS 2.3

2018-03-23 Thread Jousma, David
Ah yes. The one item I didn’t check. My 2.2 zone is the same. _ Dave Jousma Manager Mainframe Engineering, Assistant Vice President david.jou...@53.com 1830 East Paris, Grand Rapids, MI  49546 MD RSCB2H p 616.653.8429 f

Re: SDSF JJE779S ISFJ* in z/OS 2.3

2018-03-23 Thread Carmen Vitullo
my 2.2 zone show that Function deleted Type: FUNCTION Status: DELBY HJE77A0 FMID: Date/Time: those modules not in my 2.2 system . Carmen Vitullo - Original Message - From: "Jesse 1 Robinson" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Friday, March 23,

Re: SDSF JJE779S ISFJ* in z/OS 2.3

2018-03-23 Thread Jousma, David
All I have is this for SDSF in V2.3. I checked my V2.2 environment, no such FMID there either. SMPE knows nothing of these mods(lmods) on my system. IZOSF230 DESCRIPTION = z/OS V2 SDSF REWORK = 2017255 DATE/TIME REC = 17.293

SDSF JJE779S ISFJ* in z/OS 2.3

2018-03-23 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
We're installing z/OS 2.3. We find that SDSF FMID JJE779S 'SDSF JES2 Support' (in z/OS 2.1) is missing and 'not orderable' in ServerPac. In 2.1, this includes three load modules: ISFJFOR, ISFJINIT, and ISFJVER. Are these now obsolete? . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company

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2018-03-23 Thread Mark Regan
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Re: need guide iehmove or adrdssu

2018-03-23 Thread Betsy Jeffery
Using ADRDSSU - if you are trying to MOVE the dataset, your message of 'not serialized' means some other task/job/user has the file allocated. You must have exclusive control to move the file. If you are trying to copy, you will get the same message but it will be a warning of 4 and the file

Re: Health Check JES_NJE_SECURITY

2018-03-23 Thread Stone, Marshall
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Re: Graph database on z/OS?

2018-03-23 Thread Scott Chapman
The default encoding on z/OS occasionally causes problems. Particularly when doing network I/O. Adding option "-Dfile.encoding=ISO8859-1" in my experience takes care of those issues. Of course you have to deal with ASCII files then, but that's a minor issue. Scott Chapman On Thu, 22 Mar 2018

Re: Graph database on z/OS?

2018-03-23 Thread John McKown
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 5:27 PM, Graham Harris wrote: > John, are you specifically after a 'graph database', or a 'pure java' > database? > ​My area of curiosity right now is "graph database", not "java". > > H2 is an example of a pure java database, which is >99% zIIP

Re: IATUTIS - Syntaxchecker for JES3

2018-03-23 Thread Norbert Friemel
On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 23:57:23 +0530, Peter wrote: >Hi, > >I am exploring the options to run JES3 inish deck checker on a live system >to verify the syntax. >

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Health Check JES_NJE_SECURITY

2018-03-23 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hi Skip, Believe this is what you mean - https://github.com/zedsec390/NJElib The script that dose this is iNJEctor.py – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Styles, Andy (ITS zPlatform

Re: Health Check JES_NJE_SECURITY

2018-03-23 Thread Styles, Andy (ITS zPlatform Services)
This is a real possibility - I've seen it in action; a connection via NJE was established and an unauthenticated user was able to submit a batch job under the id of someone in the Security area with RACF SPECIAL access. At that time, our NJE network was using unsecured IP connections over port