Re: Another IBM tape not for z/OS

2018-12-05 Thread Timothy Sipples
Roger Lowe wrote: >The "SafeGuarded Copy" feature of the IBM DS8000 disk subsystem >creates backups that are not accessible by the host and protects >them from corruption that can occur in the production environment. >Safeguarded Copy can create multiple backups on a regular basis, >such as

Re: LXRES best practices

2018-12-05 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 11/29/2018 5:17 AM, Joseph Reichman wrote: I am using s system LX but with our re-usable I would have to save the LX to a file Right ? If I restart the task right ? I would not use a file. you might try to use an old LX across an IPL. I suggest common storage. Are you familiar with

Re: Jean Sammet — Designer of COBOL – A Computer of One’s Own – Medium

2018-12-05 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
john.archie.mck...@gmail.com (John McKown) writes: > https://medium.com/a-computer-of-ones-own/jean-sammet-designer-of-cobol-77c6d794365c Sammet wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_E._Sammet more https://history.computer.org/pioneers/sammet.html and

Need Instructor for VM Class

2018-12-05 Thread David Mingee
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Sad News Ray Wicks

2018-12-05 Thread Knutson, Samuel
Shared by CMG just this evening. It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our friend and board member Ray Wicks on November 27, 2018. Ray was a frequent contributor, volunteer, and speaker for CMG. In 2000, he won the prestigious A. A. Michelson Award for the Advancement of

Re: Knowledge Centre - (was Re: Rant)

2018-12-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 21:50:27 +, Edward Finnell wrote: >Don't know what AOL does sometimes. > That's what I use, but IMAP, not webmail. >The IBM url >is:https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/lookatkc > Thanks. >The tinyurl is: > https://tinyurl.com/ycxffjr3 > ...

Re: Jean Sammet — Designer of COBOL – A Computer of One’s Own – Medium

2018-12-05 Thread Edward Finnell
There's several of her talks on youtube. This one is at MIT Lincoln Labs. Just mesmerizing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR0ujwlvbkQ In a message dated 12/5/2018 3:43:00 PM Central Standard Time, john.archie.mck...@gmail.com writes: No mention of Grace Hopper. Heresy?

Re: Knowledge Centre - (was Re: Rant)

2018-12-05 Thread Edward Finnell
Don't know what AOL does sometimes. The IBM url is:https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/lookatkc The tinyurl is:  https://tinyurl.com/ycxffjr3 In a message dated 12/5/2018 3:14:47 PM Central Standard Time, 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu writes:

Jean Sammet — Designer of COBOL – A Computer of One’s Own – Medium

2018-12-05 Thread John McKown
https://medium.com/a-computer-of-ones-own/jean-sammet-designer-of-cobol-77c6d794365c No mention of Grace Hopper. Heresy? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: Knowledge Centre - (was Re: Rant)

2018-12-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 20:42:14 +, Edward Finnell wrote: > >https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/lookatkc?OpenDocumentIn > a message dated 12/5/2018 2:39:05 PM Central Standard Time, >000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu writes: >(Is there any confirmation of

Re: Another IBM tape not for z/OS

2018-12-05 Thread Roger Lowe
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 07:39:22 -0600, Russell Witt wrote: >So very true. And the concept of an "air-gap" backup has become a real issue >and shows one of the problems with replication. And nothing is better for an >"air-gap" backup than tape, including Virtual Tape. > >The other point is that

Re: Knowledge Centre - (was Re: Rant)

2018-12-05 Thread Edward Finnell
Have you tried Google? https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/lookatkc?OpenDocumentIn a message dated 12/5/2018 2:39:05 PM Central Standard Time, 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu writes: (Is there any confirmation of the rumored Second Coming of LOOKAT?)

Re: Knowledge Centre - (was Re: Rant)

2018-12-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 13:43:03 -0600, Dana Mitchell wrote: >I have another challenge with Knowledge Centre, I'm using KC4Z and loaded the >z/OS 2.2 content. When I do a search for a keyword, all the search results >just say 'Found in: z/OS 2.2.0'. Instead it would be much more helpful if it

Re: Setting MAXMMAPAREA

2018-12-05 Thread Jousma, David
Lizette, I cannot answer *what* to monitor, other than doing a D OMVS,L to see your current use, highwater use, and limit for it. We now run with MAXMMAPAREA(128000) due to a OEM DB2 change data capture product that reads its config files into memory, and when I had this value set to low the

Re: Knowledge Centre - (was Re: Rant)

2018-12-05 Thread Carmen Vitullo
LOL! so you want KC's search engine to work like Bookmanager ! yeah, I really do not 'like' the online or the local KC search results myself, even if I get a like to the search results I select the book (doc) I expect to find what I want and it just brings me to the book, not the section I

Re: Knowledge Centre - (was Re: Rant)

2018-12-05 Thread Dana Mitchell
I have another challenge with Knowledge Centre, I'm using KC4Z and loaded the z/OS 2.2 content. When I do a search for a keyword, all the search results just say 'Found in: z/OS 2.2.0'. Instead it would be much more helpful if it could say what product, manual, even chapter that each

Setting MAXMMAPAREA

2018-12-05 Thread Lizette Koehler
Just a quick question. What might be the impact of increasing this OMVS limit from 40,000 to 120,000 What areas of OMVS or z/OS do I need to monitor to make sure "bad things" do not happen Thanks Lizette Koehler "Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." - Winston

Re: how to get the address and size(cylinders) for each volume [EXTERNAL]

2018-12-05 Thread Burrell, Todd
You should be able to use DCOLLECT and parse out the output in a simple REXX exec. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Nims,Alva John (Al) Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2018 1:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: how to get the address and size(cylinders) for each volume [EXTERNAL]

2018-12-05 Thread Nims,Alva John (Al)
My $0.02: CBTTAPE file 296, DVOL Al Nims Systems Admin/Programmer III UF Information Technology 720 Bld. 3rd Floor, #9 P.O. Box 112050 Gainesville, FL. 32611 (e) ajn...@ufl.edu (p) (352) 273-1298 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On

Re: Examples of roll your own "LIKE()" for data sets?

2018-12-05 Thread Seymour J Metz
> Used to be the custom. "No, No, No, it ain't me Babe. I'm not the one you're thinking of." -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Paul Gilmartin

Re: Examples of roll your own "LIKE()" for data sets?

2018-12-05 Thread Mike Schwab
Because it was written very early in the 360 era. On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 10:35 AM Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 10:15:21 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote: > > > >>the programmer must > >>indicate to IEBGENER how much storage it needs. > > >

Re: how to get the address and size(cylinders) for each volume [EXTERNAL]

2018-12-05 Thread Feller, Paul
The answer depends on what software you have installed and how you plan on using the information. To name just a few: IBM File Manager IBM DCOLLECT - you would have to create some code to read the DCOLLECT output Chicago-Soft MVS/QuickRef Compuware File-Aid Depending on how much DASD you have

Re: Examples of roll your own "LIKE()" for data sets?

2018-12-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 10:15:21 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote: > >>the programmer must >>indicate to IEBGENER how much storage it needs. > >I think you mean that sufficient REGION must be provided. That is no different >than any program. > >That same manual specifies > > >The minimum region sizes are:

Re: Examples of roll your own "LIKE()" for data sets?

2018-12-05 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 09:50:18 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >the programmer must >indicate to IEBGENER how much storage it needs. I think you mean that sufficient REGION must be provided. That is no different than any program. That same manual specifies The minimum region sizes are: o IEBCOPY

Re: Examples of roll your own "LIKE()" for data sets?

2018-12-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 08:52:26 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote: >On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 19:47:40 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >>And ISTR that the number of control >>statements in SYSIN once needed to be declared in PARM. > >I don't remember that, so I looked on bitsavers. There I found

Re: Examples of roll your own "LIKE()" for data sets?

2018-12-05 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 19:47:40 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >And ISTR that the number of control >statements in SYSIN once needed to be declared in PARM. I don't remember that, so I looked on bitsavers. There I found

Re: Another IBM tape not for z/OS

2018-12-05 Thread Russell Witt
So very true. And the concept of an "air-gap" backup has become a real issue and shows one of the problems with replication. And nothing is better for an "air-gap" backup than tape, including Virtual Tape. The other point is that while dasd-management products (HSM, FDR/ABR, CA-Disk) are one

Re: SYSLOGD Automation

2018-12-05 Thread Jousma, David
Sure. I'm not sure which part you are confused about. daemon.err;*.SYSLOGD*.*.none;*.INETD*.*.none /var/log/daemon -N DAEMON(+1) The part that I added was -N DAEMON(+1) which means to create a new archive dataset using DSNPrefix and DAEMON(+1) to create external archive dataset. The -N

Re: how to get the address and size(cylinders) for each volume

2018-12-05 Thread Vince Getgood
Not sure exactly what you are asking for here. ISMF option 2 will give you loads of information about the DASD online to each LPAR, including unit address and what type of device (3390 model 3, 9 etc) FDRREPORT can also give you this sort of info DCOLLECT might be useful. I'm sure there are

Re: Each alias belongs which storage group

2018-12-05 Thread Vernooij, Kees (ITOP NM) - KLM
You can of course read the source of the ACS routine in a batch job if that is what you need. Kees. > -Original Message- > From: Vernooij, Kees (ITOP NM) - KLM > Sent: 05 December, 2018 10:52 > To: 'IBM Mainframe Discussion List' > Subject: RE: Each alias belongs which storage group >

Re: Each alias belongs which storage group

2018-12-05 Thread Vernooij, Kees (ITOP NM) - KLM
No, the only connection between alias and SG is the (table in the) ACS routine. Kees. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Jason Cai > Sent: 05 December, 2018 10:28 > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Each

Re: Each alias belongs which storage group

2018-12-05 Thread Jason Cai
Yes we assign Storage Groups based on aliases in your ACS routines. Because there are so many alias in our system,is there a way to get the relationship by batch? Thanks a lot! Best Regards, Jason Cai There is no relationship between aliases and Storage Groups, unless you assign Storage

how to get the address and size(cylinders) for each volume

2018-12-05 Thread Jason Cai
Hi all Is there a utility to get the address and size(cylinders) for each volume? Thanks a lot! Best Regards, Jason Cai -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Each alias belongs which storage group

2018-12-05 Thread Vernooij, Kees (ITOP NM) - KLM
There is no relationship between aliases and Storage Groups, unless you assign Storage Groups based on aliases in your ACS routines. Check your ACS SG routine. Kees. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Jason Cai >

Each alias belongs which storage group

2018-12-05 Thread Jason Cai
Hi all There are many catalog in our shop. There are also many alias in each catalog. Could you tell how to know each alias belongs to which storage group ? Thanks a lot! Jason Cai -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /