Useful Tool for 'high' level comparison of the between the z15/z14/z13

2019-09-11 Thread Parwez Hamid
https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/resources/tools/z-mainframe-product-comparison/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Full List of Redbooks for the IBM z15

2019-09-11 Thread Parwez Hamid
IBM z15 11 Sep 2019 ... Trusted platforms for today's digital transformation. Explore and make use of the advanced capabilities of the IBM z15 IBM z15 Technical Introduction 11 Sep 2019, Draft Redbooks ... This IBM® Redbooks® publication introduces the latest member of the IBM Z® platform,

z15 Type 8561 Introduction released.

2019-09-11 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg248850.html?Open -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Erase On Scratch

2019-09-11 Thread Ron Hawkins
Jesse, Nowadays you would still be long gone, but depending on media, pool occupancy, and page migration, there will likely be large areas of in the clear content, unless accessed by CKD. Next time, ask your vendor about disk scrubbing. RON HAWKINS Director, Ipsicsopt Pty Ltd (ACN: 627 705

Re: Erase On Scratch

2019-09-11 Thread Ron Hawkins
Kees, I believed the design of EOS is your latter case, but I feel there is some questionable belief out there that it can address the first case. Nerfing HAR0 addresses your latter case. Have you ever swapped out an old DASD controller for a new one? What did you do with the old drives?

Re: Disturbing news in the z/OS 2.4 announcement letter

2019-09-11 Thread Don Leahy
A later version of the Announcement (July) makes no mention of WSA. I am not sure what to make of that. On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 2:23 PM Seymour J Metz wrote: > ObGungaDin It was clunky; it badly needed multi-line and block copy. But > it was better than nothing. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.)

Re: APAR OA56180 / RUCSA

2019-09-11 Thread Rob Schramm
1 Meg reminds me of some assembler function that would move 1 mb of below.. above .. magically. Rob On Wed, Sep 11, 2019, 17:48 Mark Zelden wrote: > On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 12:06:59 -0400, Steve Smith wrote: > > > > So, I'm not sure why > >IBM is going to all this trouble to ban it, then unban it

Netcat

2019-09-11 Thread Rob Schramm
Does anyone know if the netcat Intel vulnerability has been looked at for z chips or power? Rob Schramm -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message:

Re: APAR OA56180 / RUCSA

2019-09-11 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 12:06:59 -0400, Steve Smith wrote: > So, I'm not sure why >IBM is going to all this trouble to ban it, then unban it a little bit. > I think I alluded to it in my OP and IBM also responded that it was for "a particular set of customers". It wasn't because IBM thought

Re: Submitting batch if you don't have TSO

2019-09-11 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 9/11/19 12:15 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 10:58:58 -0400, Bob Bridges wrote: > >> LOL. What gave me that idea is sheer, unadulterated ignorance. I came into >> the mainframe world through applications development. I was given a solid >> grounding in JCL back in the

Re: Submitting batch if you don't have TSO

2019-09-11 Thread Don Poitras
In article <9767139758844518.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu> you wrote: > On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 13:40:42 -0500, Len DiCristofano wrote: > >IBM Explorer for z/OS using the z/OS perspective is also an alternative to > >TSO in submitting batch jobs. > > > Could do likewise with UNIX System

Re: Submitting batch if you don't have TSO

2019-09-11 Thread Seymour J Metz
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of PINION, RICHARD W. Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 2:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Submitting batch if you don't have TSO

Re: Submitting batch if you don't have TSO

2019-09-11 Thread Seymour J Metz
> We can dismiss TSO as a simple tool with no special comic book powers. But > try to get anything useful done without it BTDT,GTTS. You'd be amazed at what you can do without TSO. Some easy options come to mind: 1. Wylbur 2. A virtual card reader under z/VM 3. ZZSA Of course, once you

Re: Submitting batch if you don't have TSO

2019-09-11 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 13:40:42 -0500, Len DiCristofano wrote: >IBM Explorer for z/OS using the z/OS perspective is also an alternative to TSO >in submitting batch jobs. > Could do likewise with UNIX System Services:

Re: Submitting batch if you don't have TSO

2019-09-11 Thread Len DiCristofano
IBM Explorer for z/OS using the z/OS perspective is also an alternative to TSO in submitting batch jobs. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message:

Re: Erase On Scratch

2019-09-11 Thread Lisa Gundy
Larre, This has proven useful, as the number of votes for this RFE have gone up overnight. This will help us in identifying priorities. One thing we noticed was that this will require changes in microcode and software, but there is no open RFE on the DS8k side for this function. Would you be

Re: Submitting batch if you don't have TSO

2019-09-11 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Been there, done that. Fortunately, the company still had a card reader and a card punch, lat 1980's. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 1:59 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Submitting

Re: Submitting batch if you don't have TSO

2019-09-11 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
This reminds me of the tale I related recently about having to revive a data center 400 miles away after VTAM got broken in a sysres switch. It seems so simple to 'run a job to rename a data set'. But if you cannot logon to a system, how will that job get submitted? If you are clever enough to

Re: Submitting batch if you don't have TSO

2019-09-11 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 10:58:58 -0400, Bob Bridges wrote: >LOL. What gave me that idea is sheer, unadulterated ignorance. I came into >the mainframe world through applications development. I was given a solid >grounding in JCL back in the beginning of my training, decades ago; to me >"INTRDR" is

Re: Erase On Scratch

2019-09-11 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
My only experience with EOS was as the *last* step of a DR test conducted (across country) at IBM Business Recovery Center in Tampa. Per IBM recommendation, we reinitialized all customer DASD volumes with full-volume data sets marked as EOS. Then we started a mass delete procedure and left for

Re: Submitting batch if you don't have TSO

2019-09-11 Thread Seymour J Metz
> And maybe I'll end up limiting the answers I collect to the obvious ones, > those likely to be accessible to the average CICS user or developer. Keep in mind that there are a lot of CICS users and developers out there; what is not obvious to you may be obvious to a lot of them. -- Shmuel

Re: DFSMSrmm and DFHSM - Tape Expirations

2019-09-11 Thread Shaffer, Terri
Thanks for the answers so far, but I don’t think I am explaining it correctly. DFHSM scratches the tape, RMM shows as scratch also, but within I guess my VTS volume definitions it does not scratch. So in ISMF, Then option 2 for Volume, then Option 3 for Mountable Tapes, it is not scratch. This

Re: COBOL runtime routine abend S0C4 or IEC036I 002-08 message and abend 002 closing VB file never written to

2019-09-11 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Update for the archives: The problem seems to have been some very crude (and in hindsight incorrect) coding in the FILE SECTION. The original coding used a single fixed-length record definition for the variable-length input file and for each of the variable-length output files. Changing that

Re: Submitting batch if you don't have TSO

2019-09-11 Thread Bob Bridges
LOL. What gave me that idea is sheer, unadulterated ignorance. I came into the mainframe world through applications development. I was given a solid grounding in JCL back in the beginning of my training, decades ago; to me "INTRDR" is an argument that I can include in my JCL with the TSO SUBMIT

Re: HFS Copy with same name

2019-09-11 Thread Elaine Beal
Thanks Carmen. For some reason I do not find these posts when I search. only got it this time because I caught it in most few recent posts. I will try the mount, seems that would alleviate concerns. I do have plans to take it off the sysres and convert to zsf.

Re: HFS Copy with same name

2019-09-11 Thread Matthew Stitt
Elaine; I'm apparently not understanding what the issue is. There were some questions asked with your previous posting on this same subject matter. What release of z/OS is your installation running? Do they have a SYSPLEX (Basic or Parallel)? I'm thinking that the space blocks in the HFS

Re: HFS Copy with same name

2019-09-11 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Changing the subject? same post? it's been a long time since I've had any HFS files on any systems, IIRC until the HFS is mounted, somewhere, its will not show dataset usage statistics, to test that behavior mount the copied HFS file to your user directory and check the dataset stats. can't

HFS Copy with same name

2019-09-11 Thread Elaine Beal
We have a 3 sets of sysre(s) we rotate through with maintenance and root is on one of them (don't shoot the messenger) I am trying to copy root to the next set using the same root name. When I do a full volume copy with FDR and DSS, root utilization in 3.4 is blank. this is true for all 3 of

DLL enabled module

2019-09-11 Thread Joseph Reichman
Hi If I have dynam(DLL) module and the load module has a number of CSECT Can I still BASR to other CSECT By browsing dynam(DLL) module Seems to be another type format than regular load module -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Part number for RDZ

2019-09-11 Thread Joseph Reichman
Had a abend when trying to run it using eqanmdbg the program stopped at CEELQSTRT No source was display when I stepped thru got a abend message there was no main or I forgot the module CELQMAIN Actually an IBM support person told me That I have to use standard mode which seems to be remote

Re: HSM question

2019-09-11 Thread Brian Fraser
For NON-SMS volumes, autobackup is not controlled by MGMTCLAS (as there is no MGMTCLAS) For autobackup to occur: The NON-SMS volume must be defined with: ADDVOL volser UNIT(unittype) PRIMARY(AUTOBACKUP) To control how many backup versions to keep: SETSYS VERSIONS(limit) On Wed, 11 Sep 2019

Re: HSM question

2019-09-11 Thread Brian Fraser
If the dsn is non-sms, then it doesn't have a MGMTCLAS. Default MGMTCLAS rules do not apply. Regards Brian On Wed, Sep 11, 2019, 6:39 PM Gadi Ben-Avi, wrote: > Thanks > In the Management Class there are to more options I would like to set: > > How many backup versions of a deleted dataset are

Re: Part number for RDZ

2019-09-11 Thread David Crayford
On 2019-09-10 5:06 AM, Joseph Reichman wrote: To debug amode amode 64 xl c\c++ you need rdz or idz Who told you that an IBM IDz salesman? I use the debug tool 3270 UI for debugging 64-bit C++ programs all the time. It seems to come with passport advantage meaning I’m guessing a working

Re: HSM question

2019-09-11 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Gadi, Here is a random snapshot from ISMF's Management Class display for the applicable columns: # BACKUPS# BACKUPS RETAIN DAYS RETAIN DAYS (DS EXISTS) (DS DELETED) ONLY BACKUP EXTRA BACKUPS ---(13) (14) ---(15) (16)- 1 0

Re: HSM question

2019-09-11 Thread Gadi Ben-Avi
Thanks In the Management Class there are to more options I would like to set: How many backup versions of a deleted dataset are kept. How long the backup is kept. Do these settings have equivalent setting for Non-SMS datasets? Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: HSM question

2019-09-11 Thread retired mainframer
Look at the VERSIONS operand of the SETSYS command and the ALTERDS command > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Gadi Ben-Avi > Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 12:15 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: HSM question > > OK, > So how do

Re: HSM question

2019-09-11 Thread Gadi Ben-Avi
OK, So how do I tell HSM to keep more than one backup version? Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 10:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: HSM question MGMTCLAS won't matter for Non-SMS

Re: HSM question

2019-09-11 Thread Gibney, Dave
MGMTCLAS won't matter for Non-SMS datasets > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Gadi Ben-Avi > Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 11:39 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: HSM question > > Hi, > I wanted to restore a PDS backed up by HSM. >

HSM question

2019-09-11 Thread Gadi Ben-Avi
Hi, I wanted to restore a PDS backed up by HSM. When I looked, I only found one backup version of the PDS. When I looked through the HSM logs, I found that it was backed up many times. The PDS is on a NON-SMS volume. The addvol statement for the volume is: ADDVOL vv UNIT(3390)

Re: Erase On Scratch

2019-09-11 Thread Vernooij, Kees (ITOP NM) - KLM
Ron, Was EOS intended for disks that are removed to make sure they contain no valuable data or was it intended to prevent deleted data from being read again by another application? I thought the latter. Disks are usually removed because they break down, with valuable, undeleted data on them.