hi,
150+ LPARS - Maintenance related IPLs probably once a year (sometimes out to 18
months between IPLs on some LPARs).
IPLs are a scarce event.
PORs only occur when the actual boxes get upgraded to latest zSeries box.
Regards
Bruce
IBM ships a default separator for the External Writer.
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http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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Paul Gilmartin [000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu]
On Wed, 15 Sep 2021 20:46:40 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>It's the responsibility of the separator to start each DS on a front side;
>there is not and should not be anything that device specific on SPOOL.
>
Nonetheless, when the printer was directly attached to MVS each
data set started on a
There are several setup parameters, and there ae command to control how the JES
deals with them. There is also a difference in the handling of physical forms
versus forms overlays. Which JES, which printer and which selection criteria
are you
thinking of? In general, the names of e.g., forms,
It's the responsibility of the separator to start each DS on a front side;
there is not and should not be anything that device specific on SPOOL.
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From my personal experience (dating back to 1977-1980), both the SYSOUT-related
sub-parameters CLASS and FORM (possibly also WRITER-program, and often DEST)
provided a "gate" so that a queued-SYSOUT could be directed to a printer that
was configured / set to the appropriate data-values via JES
On Wed, 15 Sep 2021 18:44:19 +, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
>It's been quite a few years since we had mainframe attached printers, and I'm
>trying to recall what the FORMS SYSOUT parameter is used for. I...
>
IIRC, long ago we had an MVS guest directing SYSOUTs to a
virtual printer. But all
40+ years ago, I worked in the print room for a GM subsidiary. We printed using
mainframe connected printers. Probably 80% green bar paper, 1-5 copies that
went through the decolator. (2-5) But, we also printed checks & special forms
that required setting up the printers for each form. If I
IIRC if the printer is set with the last form no prompt to load the
form, this goes back to old 32xx printers, if the output is for a
different form it allows the print operator to load the new form, then
the operator issues the $SPRTx command
the form name can be anything, client specific,
It's been quite a few years since we had mainframe attached printers, and I'm
trying to recall what the FORMS SYSOUT parameter is used for. If I recall
correctly, if a job going to a printer had a SYSOUT FORMS value that was
different than the last job that was printed on that printer, the
Confirmed. When I treat both as ASCII, I get the same answer:
/* "ABCabcAB12345678" */
Key =,
'41424361626341423132333435363738'X;
/* "Hola Mundo" */
Msg =,
'486f6c61204d756e646f'X;
expected_Mac =,
'7483f0f47d20c89256805b69936ebdc31e62d99a40f6640b334c6b5a8d83df5e'X;
Eric Rossman, CISSP®
ICSF
Actually, as I think more, perhaps the Web site is computing the hash on the
ASCII value of ABCabcAB12345678 which would be
X'41424361626341423132333435363738' while the mainframe tool is perhaps taking
ABCabcAB12345678 as hex? Try taking the mainframe hash of the hex string above
and see if
You are dealing with ASCII and EBCDIC. So you will not get the same answers
unless both use one or the other.
Lloyd
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On Wednesday, September 15, 2021, 1:59 PM, Isabel
wrote:
Hello!!
We are still doing tests with our ICSF.
Our scenario:
We have the
I am not sure I really understand but wouldn't the web site be computing the
hash on the ASCII representation of ABCabcAB12345678 while the mainframe would
be computing the hash on the EBCDIC representation of ABCabcAB12345678? Those
would be different hash values. The hash computation is on
One person on the list even laughed at me when I mentioned IBM’s 9 uptime
goal.
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Newsom won in a landslide. Believe Fauci & the science.
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On Wednesday, September 15, 2021, 2:04 PM, Colin Paice
wrote:
I remember a customer coming to tell IBM
I remember a customer coming to tell IBM that they had had CICS up for 3
years continuously providing a service with no down time. "So what, people
do this all the time" he said.
"But for us, we have upgraded CICS, DB2, and z/OS to new versions. We
have moved machine rooms (twice) and upgraded
Hello!!
We are still doing tests with our ICSF.
Our scenario:
We have the following Link:
https://www.freeformatter.com/hmac-generator.html#ad-output
For example we enter
in "Copy-paste the string here":
Hola Mundo
in "Secret key"
24x7x365 is actually 7 years. .
Lennie
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Mike Schwab
Sent: 15 September 2021 17:59
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: IPL's POR's frequency
Mainframes have been powered up 24*7*365 for their lifetime (a decade
+
There are many ways for a naive programmer to be astonished, and not just in
REXX. My favorite example is the COMMENT statement in the original COBOL.
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http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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PARSE UPPER ARG will uppercase the argument, but if you are passing the names
of variables then those variables could still have lower case values. It's not
the INTERPRET that changes the case.
There are several things in CLIST that REXX doesn't have.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
Mainframes have been powered up 24*7*365 for their lifetime (a decade
+ in some cases) since the 1960s. Just the occasional off / on cycle
if required.
On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 4:07 AM Martin Packer wrote:
>
> It's amazing to think a machine could effectively be powered up
> continuously for
Hi,
I think there is a job that is provided in SYS1.SAMPLIB as member
ATBTPVSM
Tony
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(K.K.Paradox)T.Kobayashi
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 5:11 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Yes. That's what the re-assembly area is for in RMF SMF records. And yes
30 and 42-6 split the data that won't fit into a VBS record up.
Cheers, Martin
Martin Packer
WW z/OS Performance, Capacity and Architecture, IBM Technology Sales
+44-7802-245-584
email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com
Twitter
On Wed, 15 Sep 2021 05:50:13 -0500, Lionel B. Dyck wrote:
>z/OS REXX does have a PIPES but it is only available currently as part of
>SmartBatch (or is it BatchPipes).
>
>There is an RFE asking for PIPES for TSO that is the highest voted RFE at the
>moment with 237 votes.
>
Are you sure they are broken?
It is fully supported by many SMF exploiters (I have no idea about RMF) to
produce multiple records when all the data cannot fit in the limited size
of a single record.
SMF30 certainly does that. I would expect some sort of "record is
continued" indication.
>I used to download Patches from SHOPz using internet download. I have 35 of 35
>files 520 size. How can i merge to single file to become
>S0001.SHOPZ.S7114481.SMPMCS.pax.Z file for me to unzip and I can receive to
>SMP/E Global Zone. My SMP/E version 36.109 and OS Z/OS 2.2.
No need for
Good morning!
Can't help on the first issue, bit for the second, wrap the two dollar signs
with single quotes.
Scott
On Wednesday, September 15, 2021, 06:16:08 AM EDT, Mohd Shahrifuddin
wrote:
Hi All,
I used to download Patches from SHOPz using internet download. I have 35 of 35
files
z/OS REXX does have a PIPES but it is only available currently as part of
SmartBatch (or is it BatchPipes).
There is an RFE asking for PIPES for TSO that is the highest voted RFE at the
moment with 237 votes.
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe_ID=47699
I'm not
Hi All,
I used to download Patches from SHOPz using internet download. I have 35 of 35
files 520 size. How can i merge to single file to become
S0001.SHOPZ.S7114481.SMPMCS.pax.Z file for me to unzip and I can receive to
SMP/E Global Zone. My SMP/E version 36.109 and OS Z/OS 2.2.
One more
Hello,
I will configure z/OS TCP/IP on the z10 BC (OSA-Express3 4 Port 1000BASE-T).
I understand that no OAT configuration is required as it is a Single LPAR,
Single TCP/IP use.
But if TCP/IP doesn't work, I will check the OAT and Configuration with a
OSA/SF (Query).
I'm checking the OSA/SF
It's amazing to think a machine could effectively be powered up
continuously for quite a few years - even if it's not neglected.
Amazing and good.
Cheers, Martin
Martin Packer
WW z/OS Performance, Capacity and Architecture, IBM Technology Sales
+44-7802-245-584
email:
My €0.02
IPL - never scheduled. Only when needed. Typical scenarios:
1. Configuration error, which need IPL (very rare, fortunately)
2. Hardware or software changes require IPL (maybe once a year, but IMHO
less)
3. OPPORTUNITY. Yes - there are several disruptive application software
releases
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