Re: Downsizing? - OPS?

2020-02-07 Thread Timothy Sipples
Clark Morris wrote: >Unless the z system is totally isolated from the >Internet, staying current on maintenance is a >necessity. There are security and other risks with or without "isolation" from the Internet. - - - - - - - - - - Timothy Sipples I.T. Architect Executive Digital Asset & Other

Re: Downsizing? - OPS?

2020-02-07 Thread Brian Westerman
Hi, Syzygy, Inc. has a complete automation suite which was primarily designed to allow sites to reduce head count in Operations and Technical Support (systems programming) which is installed at over 300 z/OS sites and the license is less than 10% of IBM or CA's product costs. That automation

Re: Downsizing? - OPS?

2020-02-07 Thread Clark Morris
[Default] On 7 Feb 2020 00:10:34 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main gib...@wsu.edu (Gibney, Dave) wrote: >Netview is not among the CA products we have. But, I guess I wasn't clear. The >direction is toward nothing that isn't z/OS. CA-OPS/MVS is something we do use >and it would be inconvenient to

Re: z15 System Recover Boost [EXTERNAL]

2020-02-07 Thread Feller, Paul
Marna, thanks for point that out. I'll look into running that on our tech lpars. Thanks.. Paul Feller AGT Mainframe Technical Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Marna WALLE Sent: Friday, February 07, 2020

Re: SMPE APPLY SOURCEID vs FIXCAT

2020-02-07 Thread Neubert, Kevin
Your experience matches mine, though MISSINGFIX may indicate PTFs to order/receive. FIXCAT appeared in SMP/E V3R5.0 for z/OS V1R10.0 Commands (SA22-7771-12), Thirteenth Edition, September 2008. APPLY SOURCEID syntax only seems to hint about FIXCAT with two examples and mention of mixed case

Re: Determine if running under Secondary Subsystem

2020-02-07 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 2/7/2020 12:37 PM, John Szura wrote: Is there a way to tell if you application is running under a Secondary JES?  We have common code that is used in several products that needs to check the JES it is running under.  If I look at the chain of SSCTs it will only tell me there are more than

Re: z15 System Recover Boost [EXTERNAL]

2020-02-07 Thread Marna WALLE
Paul, Might this help? From: https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/1NWEJKOX How to I control the startup boost? If you haven’t disabled System Recovery Boost in parmlib, Startup Boost will automatically be enabled during IPL, and lasts for 1 hour on z/OS. If for some reason you want to stop the

Re: Determine if running under Secondary Subsystem

2020-02-07 Thread Steve Smith
As a SWAG, maybe "JSABSSNM DSCL4 Creating Subsystem name " is what you're looking for. For completeness, the JSAB can be found via the ASSB or STCB, which can be respectively found via the ASCB or TCB, which can respectively be found by PSAAOLD or PSATOLD. sas On Fri, Feb

Determine if running under Secondary Subsystem

2020-02-07 Thread John Szura
Is there a way to tell if you application is running under a Secondary JES?  We have common code that is used in several products that needs to check the JES it is running under.  If I look at the chain of SSCTs it will only tell me there are more than one JES running but I can't find a way to

Re: UTF16 to EBCDIC

2020-02-07 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 19:17:30 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Have you read https colon >//www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zOSV2R4sa380680/$file/cunu100_v2r4.pdf? > What are your source and target CCIDs? > I had difficulty repairing your desperate attempt to circumvent a

Re: UTF16 to EBCDIC

2020-02-07 Thread Seymour J Metz
Have you read https colon //www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zOSV2R4sa380680/$file/cunu100_v2r4.pdf? What are your source and target CCIDs? Note that EBCDIC is a family of code points and UTF16 is a Unicode transform; neither identifies a single character set. In

SMPE APPLY SOURCEID vs FIXCAT

2020-02-07 Thread MARTIN, MIKE
Hi all, I am trying to figure out the difference between using SOURCEID vs. FIXCAT for an APPLY? Example below... APPLY CHECK SOURCEID (IBM.Function.GlobalMirror) APPLY CHECK FIXCAT (IBM.Function.GlobalMirror) And one more curiosity... If I run a the APPLY statements that

Good reference for V=R

2020-02-07 Thread Seymour J Metz
The wiki article on virtual storage has a reference to z/OS Concepts as a citation for, e.g., V=R. The Knowledge Center page seems to have been renamed and I can't find that material there any more. I'm hesitant to give the initialization and tuna guide as a reference for a general article.

Re: Downsizing? - OPS?

2020-02-07 Thread Al Ferguson
There are chapters in various RedBooks that give you more information, but once you have ARX Running with the System REXX Libraries defined you are running in an AUTHORIZED REXX environment that is secured by SAF (your RACF, TopSecret, or whatever). Programming REXX for System REXX adds a few

Re: Downsizing? - OPS?

2020-02-07 Thread Gibney, Dave
Is there more documentation on System Rexx besides that short chapter in Auth Assembler Services? > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Al Ferguson > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2020 9:48 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Downsizing? -

Re: Downsizing? - OPS?

2020-02-07 Thread Cieri, Anthony
There are also a few MPF exits on the CBT site that may be worth a look; MPFEXITS, MPF$NTFY, MPFXTALL etc... These can certainly be used to replicate some of the OPS functions!! Hth Tony -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf

Re: Downsizing? - OPS?

2020-02-07 Thread Al Ferguson
Another solution might be to use System REXX in combination with MPF (the Message Processing Facility). IBM provides a sample MPF Exit that will call System REXX Passing it the MPF Message Number and Message Text. A few more generic MPF entries using that Exit to call various decision REXXes

Re: Downsizing? - OPS?

2020-02-07 Thread Lionel B Dyck
For an automation tool at no cost, other than your time/resources, take a look on the cbttape at TSSO - it works with z/OS, is free, and does some of what OPS does - perhaps most since you can write your own rexx for it. Balance the cost of your time/resources with the cost of a vendor product and

Re: Desjardins POC More Details

2020-02-07 Thread Mike Shorkend
Apologies all. No idea how that happened. Thanks Jerry and Elardys for pointing This out. On Fri, 7 Feb 2020, 11:57 Elardus Engelbrecht, < elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za> wrote: > Mike Shorkend wrote: > > >That's Israel time > >On Thu, 6 Feb 2020, 19:01 Mike Shorkend wrote: > >> I need to be

Re: Downsizing? - OPS?

2020-02-07 Thread David Spiegel
Hi Dave, NetView is an IBM product. Regards, David On 2020-02-07 03:10, Gibney, Dave wrote: Netview is not among the CA products we have. But, I guess I wasn't clear. The direction is toward nothing that isn't z/OS. CA-OPS/MVS is something we do use and it would be inconvenient to do without

Re: Desjardins POC More Details

2020-02-07 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Mike Shorkend wrote: >That's Israel time >On Thu, 6 Feb 2020, 19:01 Mike Shorkend wrote: >> I need to be off the call by 1830 ... snip ... Sorry Mike, but should IBM-MAIN see all your private chatting? ;-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht

Re: z15 System Recover Boost

2020-02-07 Thread Martin Packer
It might well interest y'all to know that I will be putting a slide on SRB into my revamped "zIIP Capacity and Performance" presentation. (I intend to give this presentation several times this year around the world. So votes for this for eg SHARE Boston would be appreciated.) I had an

Re: Downsizing? - OPS?

2020-02-07 Thread Gibney, Dave
Netview is not among the CA products we have. But, I guess I wasn't clear. The direction is toward nothing that isn't z/OS. CA-OPS/MVS is something we do use and it would be inconvenient to do without some automation. We have CA-1, but I can convert to RMM. I have alternatives or can do without