Yep, same here: received the newsletter without ever having even heard of these
guys.
> Out of the blue (no pun intended), I received an e-mail newsletter digest
> from Model9 "because you are subscribed to Marketing Information from
> Model9". (I note that they don't say I *did* subscribe, just
Out of the blue (no pun intended), I received an e-mail
newsletter digest from Model9 "because you are subscribed
to Marketing Information from Model9". (I note that they
don't say I *did* subscribe, just that I *am* subscribed.)
This came to the edress I use *only* for IBM Main, so I
expect
Wow, that's interesting! It runs in 1.861138 cpu seconds on our z13s. We
have 800mips sliced up between 3 cores so 266mips per core.
So your zPDT core which is running emulated is faster at running REXX
than our z13s! Can that be right? No wonder IBM limit the zPDT
to 1 core imagine what
Maybe I missed a post but, what ‘VTL’ are you running?
IBM has a feature code that a CE can order that will do a data erase on the
library, cache and disk. The physical backend tapes would need to be certified
destroyed. Iron Mountain can do that for you.
Just my 2 cents
Doug
.
On Sep 13,
Well, I appreciate the answers thus far, but they're vague and platitudinous.
Sure, an application on Z should often stay on Z, but that's not what anybody
means by "cloud". In fact, given that the vast majority of application
environments are not on Z, saying "stay on " is, if anything, an
On 2018-09-13 20:27, Ed Jaffe wrote:
A TCB-level JSAB is created *only* in those rare cases in which the
application wishes to generate spin-off output -- usually with
jobname/jobid that doesn't match the parent address space. The only IBM
exploiters I can think of right now are APPC/MVS and
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 20:00:25 -0400, George Kozakos wrote:
>
>The TOD clock value CF2D 54B4 FBA8 for July 1st, 2015 assuming
>26 leap seconds are specified is correct:
>
>IP LTOD CF2D54B4FBA8 returns
>07/01/2015 00:00:26.00 STCK X'CF2D54B4 FBA8'
>
>The PoP has been now updated
[Default] On 13 Sep 2018 13:45:20 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
sme...@gmu.edu (Seymour J Metz) wrote:
>The whole cloud thing is just hype. It's just time sharing with the serial
>number filed off.
>
>> but I'm stumped as to what it is about the mainframe that makes it so
>> wonderful for
On 9/13/2018 5:09 PM, Gord Tomlin wrote:
IAZXJSAB is a nice one-stop-shopping interface for several bits of
information, but only if the information can be trusted. Is the system
working as designed if a TCB level ACEE is set up but a TCB level JSAB
is not? Whose responsibility is it to build
I have recently been investigating a situation where a product (not
ours) issues:
RACROUTE USERID=(R2),PASSCHK=NO,ENVIR=CREATE,REQUEST=VERIFY
to establish a different identity for a TCB.
A GTF trace shows that a TCB level ACEE is set up as a result, but a TCB
level JSAB is not set up.
> If I take the value for July 1st, 2015 from the PoP table and
> subtract the equivalent of one second I understand this is the TOD
> value for June 30 23:59:60. Am I mixing up things?
The TOD clock values given in the PoPs correspond to a UTC time of
00:00:00 on the specified date assuming leap
Once all the tapes are deleted by writing to all 50K, you just have to
write as many volumes as needed to fill VTS. The large the dataset,
the fewer the volumes.
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 2:52 PM George Rodriguez
<016eebd7289b-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> That's a big order. There
We had 30K free of 500K tapes. 288TB.
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 2:52 PM George Rodriguez
<016eebd7289b-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> That's a big order. There are 50,000 virtual tapes defined in the system...
> WOW!
>
> *George Rodriguez*
>
> *Specialist II - IT Security*
> *PX -
That's for z/OS; what about s/a dump for other operating systems?
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On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 23:18:11 +0300, Binyamin Dissen wrote:
> ...
>It is not reading the clock, it is reading a value in the clock format. In my
>code where the clock value will be logged, it is adjusted before being stored.
>
JM>and does not attempt to account for time zones or leap seconds.
The whole cloud thing is just hype. It's just time sharing with the serial
number filed off.
> but I'm stumped as to what it is about the mainframe that makes it so
> wonderful for cloud.
Well, a half century of experience with virtualization doesn't hurt.
> * Mainframe MIPS are more
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 13:31:16 -0500 Paul Gilmartin
<000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
:>On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:39:53 +0300, Binyamin Dissen wrote:
:>>As this is part of the IPCS service, one wonders how it could determine the
:>>TOD adjustment values for specified value.
W dniu 2018-09-13 o 20:19, Phil Smith III pisze:
I keep seeing things like a mailing today, "Mainframes and the Cloud: Made for Each
Other". I'm as big a fan of IBM Z as the next guy, but I'm stumped as to what it is
about the mainframe that makes it so wonderful for cloud.
What it see:
Not sure if this is an option for you but if the VTL encrypted the data on
disk, securely wiping the encryption keys would render all data wiped.
Andrew Arentsen
From: "John McKown"
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Date: 09/13/2018 03:11 PM
Subject:[EXTERNAL] Re: Yet Another
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 2:52 PM George Rodriguez <
016eebd7289b-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> That's a big order. There are 50,000 virtual tapes defined in the system...
> WOW!
>
Depending on the connection technology of the disks, you might be able to
remove them from the VTL,
That's a big order. There are 50,000 virtual tapes defined in the system...
WOW!
*George Rodriguez*
*Specialist II - IT Security*
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*(954) 415-7586 (mobile)*
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On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 09:21:39 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
>I do think IBM needs to somehow better accommodate ISVs. My understanding is
>that "you have to own a real mainframe" to get access to the security
>portal. Thus ISVs who own only zPDTs or who rent time at Dallas do not
>qualify.
I
Hi David,
Happy to inform that it work just fine. Thanks. BTW, it took only
1.385268 cpu seconds on our machine, a zPdt, one CPU.
Tx again,
ITschak
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 1:22 PM ITschak Mugzach wrote:
> Tx. Will report findings today.
>
> ITschak
>
> בתאריך יום ה׳, 13 בספט׳ 2018, 13:05,
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:39:53 +0300, Binyamin Dissen wrote:
>As this is part of the IPCS service, one wonders how it could determine the
>TOD adjustment values for specified value.
>
See: https://www.iana.org/time-zones
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:41:30 -0400, Jim Mulder wrote:
> BLSUXTOD does not
Overwrite each tape with a one track dataset of low values.
Then overwrite tapes with a very large dataset of low values until VTS is full.
Repeat one track / large datasets with high values and b'01010101'.
Repeat the 3 cycles until desired number of overwrites are accomplished.
On Thu, Sep 13,
I keep seeing things like a mailing today, "Mainframes and the Cloud: Made for
Each Other". I'm as big a fan of IBM Z as the next guy, but I'm stumped as to
what it is about the mainframe that makes it so wonderful for cloud.
What it see:
* IBM Z storage is more expensive
*
There's a whole lot of datasets to go through to do the ERASE function.
Since the hardware maintenance was contracted out to SMS, yes I've asked
the question and they just notified me that they pushed the question up to
there support team.
Physical destruction was an option we considered, but
does this work better than the pax command? - this has been working for me very
well for getting new updates to my etc filesystem.
6.4) Issue the pax command to copy new members from this location to the new
/etc filesystem :
pax -rwkv -p e . /Service/TST1/etc
Description of syntax:
pax
Thank you for your positive feedback. Both in liking many of the new
improvements in 2.14 and in reporting your success using FTP.
I don't have an official recommendation. But, in my personal opinion, I don't
think you need to disable or delete the IBM-supplied userids on the SE or the
HMC.
I am trying to use the COPYPAX exec to COPY/NOREPLACE a zOS 2.1 /etc into a
zOS 2.3.
It is ending with a RC=1 and there are subdirs and files that are not getting
copied.
Getting this error and don't know why.
10:54:36: Verifying existence of source directory /SYSTEM/etc...
10:54:36:
I have been asked to clarify "grumbling."
Honestly, I meant exactly what I said in an engineer-literal sense. If you are
grumbling you are not alone. I can name two other people who have grumbled
semi-publicly about IBM's approach.
I am personally of two minds. I buy into the "modern, UNIX"
W dniu 2018-09-12 o 19:13, Tom Mathias pisze:
With the HMC 2.14 level, all FTP (and FTPS/SFTP) operations that originate in
the SE really proxy thru an HMC. The HMC must have the SE defined into it and
it. This means that uou need to make sure that at least one HMC can get to the
FTP server
On Sep 13, 2018, at 10:16 AM, George Rodriguez
<016eebd7289b-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> I was wondering if any member the listserve can help me with "wiping out"
> out VTL. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
Physical destruction of the media always works.
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On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 11:16:03 -0400, George Rodriguez wrote:
>The School District of Palm Beach County is finally shutting down the IBM
>z10 and all its components.
I'm sorry to hear that.
>I was wondering if any member the listserve can help me with "wiping out"
>out VTL. Any help will be
Not sure if turning on ERASE on SCRATCH in RACF - and then deleting the
datasets would work? Just a thought?
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W dniu 2018-09-13 o 14:26, Knutson, Samuel pisze:
ZZSA Standalone utilities also support IPL from CD/DVD and reviewing what Jan
did is helpful to understand http://www.cbttape.org/~jjaeger/
Yes, also z/VM installation or zLinux.
What's interesting *in this context* is ability to restore full
The School District of Palm Beach County is finally shutting down the IBM
z10 and all its components.
I was wondering if any member the listserve can help me with "wiping out"
out VTL. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
*George Rodriguez*
*Specialist II - IT Security*
*PX - 47652*
I think you and Elardus nailed it
Carmen Vitullo
- Original Message -
From: "Dana Mitchell"
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2018 9:27:32 AM
Subject: Re: Strange JES2 SPOOL Offload issue
Specifying a minus sign (-) before a criterion causes that
BLSUXTOD does not know the context of the TOD clock value you are
passing,
and does not attempt to account for time zones or leap seconds. When you
use BLSUXTOD, you are expected to any adjustments of interest to you
before calling BLSUXTOD.
Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development,
As this is part of the IPCS service, one wonders how it could determine the
TOD adjustment values for specified value.
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 15:59:40 +0200 Peter Hunkeler wrote:
:>So this is the first time I really care for leap seconds. I need a conversion
from TOD clock value to readable
Well Dana wins the prize - this was something I definitely did not know, but
once I remove the criteria the offloads both started.
This is why I love this forum! Thanks for the help.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
how about the dsn and volume definitions for OFFLOAD2 ?
unit valid? dsn valid?
what do you see in the log when you start the offload? anything?
Carmen Vitullo
- Original Message -
From: "Todd Burrell"
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2018 9:21:09 AM
Specifying a minus sign (-) before a criterion causes that criterion to be
removed from the list.
$TOFF1.ST,WS=(/)
$HASP886 OFF1.ST 969
$HASP886 OFF1.ST STATUS=STARTABLE,CREATOR=,DISP=DELETE,
Todd Burrell wrote:
>OFF2.ST STATUS=INACTIVE,CREATOR=,DISP=KEEP,
> OUTDISP=(WRITE,HOLD,KEEP),HOLD=,
> JOBNAME=,NOTIFY=NO,RANGE=(J1,99),
> ROUTECDE=(),START=YES,VOLUME=(,,,),
> WS=(OUTD,Q/),BURST=,FCB=,FLASH=,
>
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 15:59:40 +0200, Peter Hunkeler wrote:
>So this is the first time I really care for leap seconds. I need a conversion
>from TOD clock value to readable format in REXX. Found the BLSUXTOD service.
>Works nice. so far so good.
>
>The PoP has a table of TOD clock values taking
I did a $SOFFLOAD2,TYPE=TRANSMIT and it started fine. Both OFF2.JT and OFF2.ST
show INACTIVE?
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Of Carmen Vitullo
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2018 10:19 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
offload2 not started?
my display shows
OFFLOAD1 DRAINED
OFF1.JT STARTABLE
OFF1.ST STARTABLE
OFF1.JR STARTABLE
OFF1.SR STARTABLE
OFFLOAD1 DRAINED
OFF1.JT STARTABLE
OFF1.ST STARTABLE
OFF1.JR STARTABLE
OFF1.SR STARTABLE
z/OS 2.2 at RSU10805
Carmen Vitullo
Exit?
Security package?
Those come to mind.
Rob Schramm
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018, 10:06 AM Todd Burrell wrote:
> I'm playing around with JES2 SPOOL OFFLOAD on our test system and I want
> to be able to try and offload everything from the spool to test out
> timing. I have changed both of my
I'm playing around with JES2 SPOOL OFFLOAD on our test system and I want to be
able to try and offload everything from the spool to test out timing. I have
changed both of my transmitters to have DISP=KEEP to make the offload
no-destructive.
However, once I start the offload it does not
So this is the first time I really care for leap seconds. I need a conversion
from TOD clock value to readable format in REXX. Found the BLSUXTOD service.
Works nice. so far so good.
The PoP has a table of TOD clock values taking care of the 26 leap seconds
inserted so far. The last one was
ZZSA Standalone utilities also support IPL from CD/DVD and reviewing what Jan
did is helpful to understand http://www.cbttape.org/~jjaeger/
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Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 12:45 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Tx. Will report findings today.
ITschak
בתאריך יום ה׳, 13 בספט׳ 2018, 13:05, מאת David Crayford <
dcrayf...@gmail.com>:
> I didn't try it with System REXX as I don't have access to that. Let us
> know how you go.
>
>
> On 13/09/2018 4:58 PM, ITschak Mugzach wrote:
> > Thanks David.
> >
> > Did
I didn't try it with System REXX as I don't have access to that. Let us
know how you go.
On 13/09/2018 4:58 PM, ITschak Mugzach wrote:
Thanks David.
Did u try this under SysremRexx? I'll try it tonight.
ITSCHAK
בתאריך יום ה׳, 13 בספט׳ 2018, 11:44, מאת David Crayford <
Thanks David.
Did u try this under SysremRexx? I'll try it tonight.
ITSCHAK
בתאריך יום ה׳, 13 בספט׳ 2018, 11:44, מאת David Crayford <
dcrayf...@gmail.com>:
> In the meantime you can do a quick and dirty using TCBTTIME
>
> /* REXX */
>
> main:
>start = cputime()
>do i = 1 to 100
>
In the meantime you can do a quick and dirty using TCBTTIME
/* REXX */
main:
start = cputime()
do i = 1 to 100
nop
end
say 'CPU time:' cputime() - start
exit
cputime:
cvt = ptr(16)
tcbp = ptr(cvt)
tcb = ptr(tcbp + 4)
tcbttime = stg(tcb + 316, 8)
Classification: Public
Couldn't they just use standard SRCHFOR (=3.15), select all the members with S
*, and then unselect the ones they don't want?
Andy Styles
z/Series System Programmer
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On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 18:52:30 +, McCabe, Ron
wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Question from our developers...is there an easy way to search for a string in
>all COBOL programs except for 1 or 2? So what they would like to do is search
>for a string in all but 1 or 2 of the COBOL programs in a PDS and
Does IEHPROGM still support SCRATCH VOL=devtype=volser,SYS to scratch temporary
data sets?
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Bill Godfrey
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 15:32
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: How to delete strange files on
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