Re: Getting started with Policy Agent and AT-TLS

2021-03-31 Thread Mike Hochee
Hi Charles, Almost 10 years old now, but I've always thought this was an xlnt presentation... https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/system/files/support/swg/swgdocs.nsf/0/2b7dd92c65e0defe85257a2b0057759b/$FILE/Leveraging_ATTLS.pdf I posted the following about 6mos ago for a similar question.

Re: Help with Dead Letter Queue Maintenance

2021-03-31 Thread Steve Horein
These actions seem helpful: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.halw001/ezd1826i.htm On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 5:57 PM Lizette Koehler wrote: > I am not a network/tcpip person > > > > I have seen messages indicating my Dead Letter queue is almost full > > >

Re: Location of Sysplex name

2021-03-31 Thread Jim Mulder
ECVTSPLX has been in the PI (Programming Interface) list at the beginning of the IHAECVT macro since HBB7703 (OS/390 2.10). The comment about debugging purposes is residual from before that time. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe

Help with Dead Letter Queue Maintenance

2021-03-31 Thread Lizette Koehler
I am not a network/tcpip person I have seen messages indicating my Dead Letter queue is almost full How do I manage it? I found the USS path to the directory I have 3 mails in there that are huge. Can I use OMVS or ISPF 3.17 and just delete the entries? Or is there another

Re: Location of Sysplex name

2021-03-31 Thread Tony Harminc
On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 at 10:35, Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw <032fff1be9b4-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > I am looking to find the location of the name of the current sysplex. I have > found ECVTSPLX in the ECVT which seems appropriate, but this documented as > for debugging purposes. Is

Getting started with Policy Agent and AT-TLS

2021-03-31 Thread Charles Mills
Can anyone point me to a SHARE or other presentation or similar tutorial on how to get started with Policy Agent and AT-TLS? I'm already aware, of course, of the material in the IP Configuration Guide. Thanks, Charles -- For

Re: jes2 spool

2021-03-31 Thread Carmen Vitullo
That's good to know Jesse, I support a product like VPS that has about 50 I/P office printers defined currently with COVID the only activity I see now is the Data Center's one shared office printer.   Carmen Vitullo -Original Message- From: Jesse To: IBM-MAIN Date:

Re: jes2 spool

2021-03-31 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
One more option to consider. We have run VPS for years. When COVID hit, no one could go into their normal office--where VPS printers are located. Users asked us (infrastructure) if there was any way to get a windows viewable copy of certain reports. Turns out VPS has such a feature. Not too

Re: Syncsort merge question - How to report exact keys out of sequence?

2021-03-31 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Thanks Massimo, that was a helpful technique and it did help me discover that my input files are NOT in the key order I thought they were. I've had to resort to an actual SORT rather than a MERGE to get the necessary order imposed. Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Wait Code on IPL

2021-03-31 Thread Jim Mulder
As you can tell by doing IPLDATA STATUS under IPCS against any dump (or ACTIVE), IEAVNP26 is SMS initialization. No one should be issuing an ABEND with a code of 000, so a standalone dump would be needed to see what is going on. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM

Re: Wait Code on IPL

2021-03-31 Thread Mike Schwab
Uninitialized? I am guessing you haven't been able to IPL since adding them to the IO? UCBs are stored in the ESQA area, so you need to up that amount. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_Control_Block On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 9:07 AM Schneck, Glenn

Re: jes2 spool

2021-03-31 Thread Frank Swarbrick
That's a rather vague requirement, but I highly recommend MacKinney Software's JES Report Broker. https://www.mackinney.com/products/mainframe-printing/jes-report-broker.html From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Shelia Chalk Sent: Wednesday, March

Re: Low softcapping on high capacity CEC

2021-03-31 Thread Gibney, Dave
My LPAR group, with my 4 LPARs is set with a cap of 12 MSU for z/OS charging purposes. We pay for 12 MSU. ABSNSUCapping would, as I read it, make permanent the condition I am trying to avoid, that is always being capped at 12. Even if I could reliably identify the jobs, and online activity that

Re: Low softcapping on high capacity CEC

2021-03-31 Thread Al Sherkow
I agree with Scott. That is what I was going to recommend to you also. Al -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Wait Code on IPL

2021-03-31 Thread Carmen Vitullo
IIRC the wait state was more telling when INITSQA was required, but it's been so long since I've set/defined it in the LOADxx member of IPLPARM- I recall getting the wait state and found I needed to add this to my load member my INITSQA 0020K 0001M has been set since 2015 IIRC.     Carmen

Re: Wait Code on IPL

2021-03-31 Thread Lopez, Sharon
We also just recently started getting a Wait state at IPL on one of test lpar sandboxes and nothing had changed on our system. It wasn't consistently failing either. I opened up a case with IBM and was told to put in ESQA in INITSQA. Of course, that resolved our issue. I just wanted it to

Re: Assembler Language Programming for IBM System z Servers

2021-03-31 Thread René Jansen
I have written to the dept. where John last worked. I am hoping for a favorable response. I have worked on several open sourcing projects with IBM and I would say there is always a good chance, but keep breathing in and out while we wait. Best regards, René. > On 31 Mar 2021, at 15:42,

Re: jes2 spool

2021-03-31 Thread Jackson, Rob
We do compress it actually. 7-Zip command-line from a "DOS" batch file, run by a Windoze scheduled task. (Does anyone know of a better way?) It would be pretty trivial to compress them on the mainframe, but I couldn't think of a way to do it without burning a bunch of CPU or not allowing

Re: jes2 spool

2021-03-31 Thread Carmen Vitullo
We use PSF and define Solimar printers, the I/P destination is a Solimar print server, not free but if you have PSF very easy to define, I don't think there's any compression, but the Solimar server has some great print services.     Carmen Vitullo -Original Message- From:

Re: jes2 spool

2021-03-31 Thread Seymour J Metz
There are PC products that support NJE and remote batch over TCPIP. There are also z/OS print managers that can transform SYSOUT data sets to different formats and support several different external interfaces. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: jes2 spool

2021-03-31 Thread Tony Thigpen
If you want cheap, as in free, but still fully supported, you should take a look at IBM's IP Network Print Facility as you already have it. It's part of Communications Server. (Manual is SC27-3658-30.) Tony Thigpen Shelia Chalk wrote on 3/31/21 8:22 AM: I am trying to find software that will

Location of Sysplex name

2021-03-31 Thread Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw
I am looking to find the location of the name of the current sysplex. I have found ECVTSPLX in the ECVT which seems appropriate, but this documented as for debugging purposes. Is this the best field to use? Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw

Re: Wait Code on IPL

2021-03-31 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Glen do you have any vendor UIM's installed? seems NIP may have been looking to load a module and it could not find one   Carmen Vitullo -Original Message- From: Glenn <038354c41b84-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> To: IBM-MAIN Date: Wednesday, 31 March 2021 9:07 AM CDT

Re: Wait Code on IPL

2021-03-31 Thread Dave Jousma
Glenn, that seems odd to have RC and RSN 00.are you able to cut/paste current wait state string in its entirety? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Wait Code on IPL

2021-03-31 Thread Mark Jacobs
WAG. Do you have an INITSQA statement in the LOADxx member that was used for that system? If not, you just might be at the edge of needing more SQA during IPL processing that resulted in the initial IPL wait state. Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key

Wait Code on IPL

2021-03-31 Thread Schneck, Glenn
We are getting a wait code 040 with abend code and Reason Code . We did see IEA303W message with Abend code and Reason Code but only with the first IPL attempt. We have not seen it with subsequent IPLs. We as a group have spent a few days researching the wait,

Re: jes2 spool

2021-03-31 Thread Mike Schwab
https://github.com/michaelknigge/srs This will spin off a file. On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 7:22 AM Shelia Chalk wrote: > > I am trying to find software that will take print from the jes2 spool, > compress it and send it to a sever. Do anyone know of a product that will do > this? > >

Re: [External] jes2 spool

2021-03-31 Thread Pommier, Rex
Not sure what you want to do with the output once it gets to the server but if it is just for online viewing, at a previous job, we used something called report2web (I don't know who the vendor was) that spooled reports out and allowed browser viewing of them. Are you looking for strictly

Re: Assembler Language Programming for IBM System z Servers

2021-03-31 Thread Wendell Lovewell
The book shows the copyright is held by IBM, but it doesn't appear to have a normal IBM manual number. Is there anyone from IBM who could do something about this? Maybe get the source released to a Creative Commons license if they don't plan to update it? Please? Wendell

Re: jes2 spool

2021-03-31 Thread Shelia Chalk
Ok thanks I will look into it. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of PINION, RICHARD W. Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 7:33 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: jes2 spool Have a look at JRB from McKinney Systems. We are using it to suck up

Re: jes2 spool

2021-03-31 Thread Shelia Chalk
Ok thanks I will look into it. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Michael Brennan Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 8:23 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: jes2 spool JHS by Systemware:

Re: Low softcapping on high capacity CEC

2021-03-31 Thread Steve Emge
I agree with Scott regarding assigning a resource group to the service class(es) that need to be capped. In reference to SU/s per second specified in MAX SUs in the resource group, the unweighted SUs/sec for IBM Z systems can be found here:

Re: jes2 spool

2021-03-31 Thread Michael Brennan
JHS by Systemware: https://www.systemware.com/?s=jhs From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Shelia Chalk Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 7:22 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: jes2 spool [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the

Re: IBM PCOMM - copy/paste doesnt work

2021-03-31 Thread Steve Beaver
What version of PCOMM are you running? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bob Bridges Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 3:23 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM PCOMM - copy/paste doesnt work Looks like this is

Re: jes2 spool

2021-03-31 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Have a look at JRB from McKinney Systems. We are using it to suck up reports from the spool, FTP to a server (not sure about the compression part), and then it respools the report for another application to process the report. JRBE085 ** DELIVERY STARTED:#2 "A " FTP for xxx yyy

jes2 spool

2021-03-31 Thread Shelia Chalk
I am trying to find software that will take print from the jes2 spool, compress it and send it to a sever. Do anyone know of a product that will do this? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Dataset contention

2021-03-31 Thread Joseph Reichman
My jobs is to write and develop test cases execute them to see that the code runs as expected lots of tines it is hard to find Thank you everybody for your help > On Mar 31, 2021, at 7:49 AM, Jeremy Nicoll > wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Mar 2021, at 17:47, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: >> Jeremy,

Re: Dataset contention

2021-03-31 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Fri, 26 Mar 2021, at 17:47, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > Jeremy, > > I have to disagree with you here about access to read (not modify) > production data by application developers. Full read access to > production data (especially when the quantities are very large and > cannot easily be

Re: Low softcapping on high capacity CEC

2021-03-31 Thread Scott Chapman
As was mentioned, ABSMSUCapping may be useful in that you can limit the entire group to a specific number of MSUs. I.E. if you defined the group of 4 LPARs in a capacity group at 24 MSUs (or whatever) and enabled ABSMSUCapping on all of them, all 4 LPARs would be capped (in total) at that 24