Re: USS zlib issues

Hi Robin, >drwxr-xr-x 2 BPXROOT RSEGROUP8192 Apr 19 2021 IBM >-rwxr-xr-x 2 BPXROOT RSEGROUP 1012800 Apr 19 2021 libzz.a >-rwxr-xr-x 2 BPXROOT RSEGROUP 405520 Apr 19 2021 libzz.so >-rwxr-xr-x 2 BPXROOT RSEGROUP 252 Apr 19 2021 libzz.x >-rwxr-xr-x 2 BPXROOT RSEGROUP

Re: SMP)e

>No the problem is that you can't install these particular PTFs with everything >else, they have to be performed separately via an Apply the PTF by itself with >NO Groupextend and then Apply the > remaining PTF's needed from the original Apply. This is exactly what I did when I encountered

Re: SMP)e

>I am assuming this is for z/OS 2.4. At my current employer, I have the PTF >applied. I think that at my past employer, I ran into the same problem you >did. I never was able to resolve the error at the previous employer. > >The only difference between old employer and new employer, was the

Re: zOSMF

>When I worked at Chase bank, We had 117 LPARS and maintenance/clone was a 30 >minute task. So adding z/OSMF was never even brought up as a consideration. > >So while I understand the direction IBM is headed, its adding LOTS of layers >to something that sound not be hard. Running thru screens

Re: Shopz

>Can you actually log onto ShopZ? I get the "welcome to ShopZ" and am able to >log in, but once logged in is when I get the page not found error. This morning I was able to log in. I did not try yesterday - despite having ticked off 2factor authentication, I still get the stupid emails for

Re: Shopz

>Has anyone been able to access shopz since yesterday? >Has the address changed? I can get to ShopZ at this address https://www.ibm.com/software/shopzseries/ShopzSeries_public.wss. Regards, Barbara -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: abend0D6-27 in IOSAS

Replying to my own post: Address space PCIE gets started automatically during IPL and comes up unless your RACF Administration decides to 'program control' (not via RACF, but the effect is the same) lmod IEFVH1 and then does not check the fallout or correct it. GTZ was also affected. After

abend0D6-27 in IOSAS

idea why PCIE does not get started in z/OS 2.5? Did I miss a ++hold somewhere? We're on a z15, if that is relevant. No, I haven't opened a PMR with IBM yet. Thanks in advance, Barbara Nitz -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: CAS Restart during system startup

Mark, >We don't start it in COMMNDxx/IEACMDxx, z/OS starts it as part of the system >initialization process. I take it that you mean the CATALOG address space. This has been so as long as I can remember: CAS starts in asid x'B' (I think) as a limited function address space to provide *some*

Re: z/OSMF PSWI

apply myself, but it's tried and true, and I have used CBPDO on any product we have had to install except z/OS itself (Java, the compilers, ...) Regards, Barbara Nitz -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: z/OSMF PSWI

>Create SYS1.IEBCOPY(IEBCOPY)? > >> Maybe, somewhere in the middle, IEBCOPY is relocated... Or a ptf hit the ibm command processor, so each and every command issued abends -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: z/OSMF and Health Checker butting heads

Tom, speaking for consoles: For at least the past 25 years the 'reasonable' standard has been just what the health check tells you: - Do NOT send all routing codes or all routing codes except 11 (programmer information) to either the consoles or the hardcopy log. - Do NOT configure the MSCOPE

Re: System Dump DS's

ble JCL statements. Worst, when you checked mstjclxx via ISPF, it looked completely okay. Better keep your old-style dump data sets to be used until SMS is fully active. Regards, Barbara Nitz -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sign

Re: Where is the DFPISMKD utility to run the DFPMKDIR EXEC?

>I encountered this issue while applying maintenance to z/OS 2.4.I opened a >ticket to IBM, and found that there is another PTF, OA60532(UJ05094), which >needs to be applied first, so that the stuff needed for DFPISMKD to run the >proper DFPMKDIR appears in SYS1.SAMPLIB. > >Following this

Re: Where is the DFPISMKD utility to run the DFPMKDIR EXEC?

>Probably something new in the new zOMF fun world? No, I think it's just a totally screwed up ptf. > /usr/lpp/dfsms/hsm/config/ ... > /usr/lpp/dfsms/dss/IBM/ From the path names I am guessing that it is the same ptf that I have a PMR open with IBM. I never installed it into 2.3, assuming it

Re: z/OS holddata per https?

>Does Edge force the HTTPS-Only Mode that Joel mentioned? I have no idea. We are completely kneecapped and *have to* use what someone else configured. >What's a "data store"? Will downloads of HTTPS resources be prohibited? >What about ShopZ and RECEIVE ORDER? ShopZ has offered HTTPS for quite

Re: z/OS holddata per https?

>I notice these are now available from: > Yes, I found that out when I needed the lastest holddata. I had forgotten to use IE (as long as we still have that) and had used Edge (no Firefox, no Chrome here) and it worked. Now I can

AW: Serverpac installs January 2022 and beyond - Issues

be on vaccation until next year, when I'll do the first 2.5 refresh before rollout starts. How are your cats? Are you travelling again? Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Barbara Nitz -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Im Auftrag von Marna WALLE Gesendet: Freitag, 29. Oktober 2021

Re: Serverpac installs January 2022 and beyond - Issues

>Those files are not stored in EBCDIC. I used ISPF 3.17 to View the files using >the UTF-8 option. Then you can see the XML source. Thanks for that pointer. I did use the command "ASCII" (which got command not found), but "ASCII" is an IPCS command. :-( Regards, Barbara

Re: Serverpac installs January 2022 and beyond - Issues

>> What I found really annoying in my serverpac was that I was asked >> for the jobclass for sysout data sets, dutifully specified an >> asterisk (take the one from the jobcard) and then got generated >> statements like this: SYSPRINT DD *. It took me a while to >> understand why I had gotten

Re: Serverpac installs January 2022 and beyond - Issues

Hi Kurt, >Does z/OSMF have a different look and feel than CustomPac ServerPac? Yes. > However, z/OSMF can certainly install as you've described here: you can >specify your three installation volumes for the target and distribution >libraries, you can let SMS manage the CPAC and SMP/E data

Re: Serverpac installs January 2022 and beyond - Issues

Hi Marna, thanks for your reply. >Interesting you just happened upon finding the z/OS upgrade material on the >z/OS website :). I think we need to make it easier to find, as perhaps the >System Level portion of the z/OS release bookshelf isn't the best place? I was expecting it where the

Re: Serverpac installs January 2022 and beyond - Issues

Terri, I had found the migration workflow here (of all places as a link for the upgrade to the z15 that we just completed): https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4.e0zm100/Export_zOS_V2R3_to_V2R5_Upgrade_Workflow.html I wasn't too happy with it because it doesn't work offline,

Re: HELP!! IPL failure

>A D XCF command isn't showing the system active.The ISGLOCK#SYSA connector is >showing active to structure ISGLOCK From the other system, try forcing the connection of ISGLOCK#SYSA to the CF. Take a dump from the other system of the XCF address space that also includes the ISGLOCK structure

Re: Serverpac installs January 2022 and beyond - Requests

>Its interesting, because I don’t have any products that give me extra extents >except what SMS does for me space wise, and I have never increased my dataset >size allocations. Just as a preparation for increasing allocations, here is what failed x37 in the past 8 refreshes (all on the

Re: Serverpac installs January 2022 and beyond - Requests

Hi Marna, >Making everything bigger is not a good option. Not everything "needs" to be >bigger, but there are those that even 40% won't be enough.I think >creating z/OSMF product delivery without the ability to change the size and >location of the datasets (easily) is a bad idea. I am

Re: Serverpac installs January 2022 and beyond - Requests

>You can't change the size of a dataset and you can't change PDS to PDSE. It's >easy in ServerPac to mass change to PDSE. It skips ones that aren't eligible. You can't? As far as I am concerned that is a definite roadblock. IBM never sizes the data sets in such a way that they won't go x37 at

Re: New to DFSMS? New to DFSMShsm? Education! [EXTERNAL]

>There are a few sites that seem to hit firewall issues, and IBM BOX is one of >them. > >These links are set up so that anyone with the link can access the files in >the box folder, but IBM can't do anything about your firewalls. > >The work around is to access these files from a personal,

Re: Print a SYSMDUMP

>And if I remember correctly you can look at ACTIVE control blocks/memory >using IPCS. Yes, you can. No problem for common storage because that is visible to every address space. active can also be used to peek into other address spaces and their data spaces. I hope everybody has protected that

Re: Print a SYSMDUMP

>I consider //SYSMDUMP DD SYSOUT=* to be the best way to manage batch job >dumps. We've done this for years with excellent results. Until you get burned really badly in a commercial installation: We had an address space (STC) where the job output went into the archive product. Someone had put

Re: FTP-Links in IBM Websites and PTFs

>> - Holddata are ftp-Links only. And I want to download holddata without >> ordering anything via ShopZ. >Not true. You want the IBM HOLDDATA without using FTP? Use SMP/E >RECEIVE ORDER and indicate downloadmethod="https". We have never used that here, so I'll check into it when IE goes away.

FTP-Links in IBM Websites and PTFs

>We have ftp blocked at the corporate level. Has anyone found an HTTPS link to >download this file? I used 'Contact IBM' at the bottom to inquire but not >optimistic. You're not the only one. Now that the 'modern browsers' don't support ftp in websites anymore, I wonder if IBM will wake up

Re: RED Alert Today Regarding z/OS Service Orders

>Anyone else having trouble downloading this zip file? > >ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/eserver/zseries/zos/alert/PTFList.zip Hi Bob, another ftp-Link from IBM. My company hat decided that ftp is globally forbidden, but someone else escalated for different reasons. Now ftp is open again at the

Re: BLS18160D Response

On Sun, 28 Feb 2021 08:08:55 -0800, Ed Jaffe wrote: >I don't experience issues displaying keys using DISPLAY(MACHINE) when >responding 'Y' to BLS18160D. Did you compare the keys with what rsmdata knows about the key of the page? I learned to use 'yes' to the BLS message and only to use the

Re: Assembler - Authorized program debug

On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 23:57:08 -0600, Ravi Gaur wrote: >Writing and debugging an assembler code which has MODESET instruction to >change key and while debugging it via IDF or Debug tool both abend with >S047(APF) issue. Anyone know a way to debug facility for code without using >IDF/Debug tool?

Re: z/OS holddata per https?

> RECEIVE >ORDER( >ORDERSERVER(ORDRINFO) >CONTENT(HOLDDATA) > CLIENT(CLNTINFO) > ) Thanks for that, Andy. I looked at the SMPE cmd reference and didn't see the solution. We are a small

Re: z/OS holddata per https?

Kurt, >Not exactly what you asked for, but you can order and download the >HOLDDATA, all with HTTPS, using SMP/E RECEIVE ORDER. Read about it here >(watch the wrap: >https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4.gim3000/dsetup.htm I found SMPHOLD when I had already

z/OS holddata per https?

Happy New Year to all of you! my employer has decided that ftp is not allowed anymore anywhere. Today I tried to download the newest holddata from http://service.software.ibm.com/holdata/390holddata.html. The file I'm interested in (full data, plain text) is a link to

Re: DAE to stop dump suppression

>I have a dump that is being suppressed by DAE. I am not experienced with IPCS >and DAE. How do I find out what dataset is being used by DAE and how do I >"remove" the dump in order to get the dump? The name of the DAE dataset is set in your ADYSET00 parmlib member, parameter DSN. If you never

Re: IEASYS problem

>In either case, is possible to "functionally replace" IEASYS00 with other >members. We have ieasys00 in our regular parmlib, overriding the IBM delivered one. All our ieasys00 contains is CLPA, meaning that we always IPL with CLPA. All the rest of the parms are in sysplex-/system-specific

Re: NJE via SNA/EE

>We ran a mixture of TCP and SNA NJE for a long, long time and then >eventually (by accident in fact) ended up with an OSA hardware >configuration that could no longer support SNA. We couldn't use EE >because both ends of the connection were not MVS. So we capitulated and >changed everything over

Re: NJE via SNA/EE

Thanks, Brian, >This is almost always a problem with the VTAM definition of the NJE applid >that you are using. Possibly you didn't start it or it was started before >VTAM or JES was ready for it to be started. > >The NJE/TCP connection method should work out much better than the SNA method,

NJE via SNA/EE

Between the production and AD sysplex there had historically been an NJE connection. Originally that was NJE/SNA. A few years ago that stopped working (I was told due to misconfiguration of EE), so NJE was switched to NJE/TCP. At the same time NJE/TCP connections were defined to the three other

Re: ILR012W ALL LOCAL PAGING SPACE IS FULL OR BAD, ASM WAIT03C RSN=01

> ASSBNVSC and ASSBVSC tell you the number of slots each address space is >using. You can look at those in the dump. To make that easier, use the IPCS 'hidden' panels, specifically 2.6i (that's the level2 toolkit). Use SLOTCNT, it will do the math for you and you'll see the who gobbled up

Re: Can System REXX run Sub=MSTR ??

>https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4.ieag100/paxr.htm > >FORCE AXR,ARM does the same things, but in a slightly less graceful way... Must have come in via ptf after I downloaded the manuals when z/OS 2.4 came out. My versions don't show it. Just tried F

Re: Can System REXX run Sub=MSTR ??

>The AXR address space (System REXX) is started with SUB=MSTR. REXX execs >that >that are started via AXREXX TSO=NO, run in the AXR address space. On the >other hand, >REXX execs that are started via AXREXX TSO=YES run in a AXRnn address >space >which is started under the primary

Re: Can System REXX run Sub=MSTR ??

>Just add a "FORCE AXR,ARM" command to your shutdown automation. That would require RACF to allow automation to issue a force command (yes, I know I can set it MVS.FORCEARM.STC.AXR*.* specifically). I have been at great pains to install a policy where Automation is not even allowed to cancel,

Re: How to un-duplex a logstream?

Duplexing of a log stream is a different mechanism than duplexing a structure. Your CFRM policy for MACK_GENERAL needs the keyword DUPLEX(DISABLED), which is the default, so you need to delete the keyword DUPLEX in the CFRM policy. You'll need one more structure rebuild to get the new CFRM

Re: Can System REXX run Sub=MSTR ??

>Systemrexx is started automatically during IPL. What are you trying to get? Not sure about the OP, but I would like to start it sub=mstr, too, just so it doesn't screw up JES2 shutdown every time. The dumb things (AXRxx) do NOT show up on a D A,L command (neither does AXR itself), so

Re: What is the SDATA option to include above the bar storage for a particular job?

>What is the SDATA option to include above the bar storage for a particular >job? A while ago, I had asked the same question because my dump was missing above-the-bar storage that I expected. Someone (I think it was Peter Relson) said that the same keywords that govern above-the-line storage

Re: MVS master consoles

>Hi. I'm learning some things about MVS consoles.I have both the PD >console (SYSCON - aka Operating System Messages task on the HMC) and a >local 3270 console (named MVSMAST) active. Both have all routing codes >assigned. This is in a virtual machine, so SYSCON works with the #CP

Re: S0F9 and SOFD ABENDs and SVC dumps - oh my!

On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 09:09:32 -0400, Peter Relson wrote: > >z/OS FORCE did not work > > >Wanna bet? > >FORCE,ARM runs in the address space so would have been affected. >FORCE does not. Doesn't matter. With an IMS region, you cannot use cancel (z/OS: "non-cancelable, use force arm"). You cannot

Re: S0F9 and SOFD ABENDs and SVC dumps - oh my!

>We had a similar issue in IMS regions, stalling after out of memory abend, no >way to get rid of them, IMS STO REG, z/OS CANCEL and z/OS FORCE did not work, >except with some vendor tool cancel that just gets rid of the address space >without proper cleanup that gets you closer to IPL.I

Re: S0F9 and SOFD ABENDs and SVC dumps - oh my!

You say that the problem happens when all the tasks terminate. Your problem is with not enough LQSA for termination. During termination a number of RBs are getmained by RTM to handle termination - like an RB that your ESTAE gets control under (a PRB, IIRC). Or a PURGEDQ SVRB. Depending on what

Re: 64-bit application dump analysis [was: RE: Problems with ESTAEX invoked in AMODE 64 . . . ]

> SYSMDUMPs can be written to SYSOUT, and then, for the ones you want >to look at with IPCS, extracted to a sequential data set. pool. You can >use >a spool file management program (for example, SDSF or EJES) to do the >extraction. While that is true, I do not recommend doing that. Most

Re: SMPE BYPASS(HOLDSYS,HOLDERR)

everything DFSMS. The crypto function is pretty pervasive (as it should be). Barbara Nitz -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Sysplex Maintenance and USS

>So, how does one rollout maintenance in a sysplex one system at a time without >disrupting the ability to access these products? The way I do it for the links that weren't totally screwed up when I started here: at /usr/lpp I mount a 'links'-ZFS, i.e. /usr/lpp/java gets an OMVS. ZFS mounted.

Re: IBM AOAR O44855

>Is anyone using this feature >https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA44855 I implemented TSO PrePrompt when I was RACF Admin. If someone is attempting to hack into the mainframe using userid/password, I didn't want them to know if their userid was wrong or their password. After

Re: SMPE UPGRADE Command

>If you plan to continue to use SMP/E 36.105 or higher when processing >the subject target and dlib zone, then it is perfectly safe to use the >UPGRADE command. Thanks Kurt, for confirming that it should not be a problem. In the meantime I found out that IBM had ordered V24 for us *without*

Re: SMPE UPGRADE Command

>Have done a number of CBPDO installation sunder z/OS 2.2 last year that all >required using the UPGRADE command. If you are using a new SMPE environment >then go with the UPGRADE. Had no issues doing this. But it is confusing as it >implies that the zones you create with the version of SMPE

SMPE UPGRADE Command

I am attempting to install zSecure. I get GIM58901E ** APPLY PROCESSING FAILED FOR SYSMOD HCKR240. SYSMOD HCKR240 WOULD HAVE CAUSED A CHANGE TO THE MVST ZONE THAT CAN NOT BE PROCESSED COMPLETELY BY PRIOR LEVELS OF SMP/E. USE THE UPGRADE COMMAND TO

Re: CPACF for TN3270 encryption

> Do we need ICSF to be running while implementing ATTLS ? I ran AT-TLS on a 2.1 RDT system *without* ICSF without a problem. And it was for more than just TN3270 traffic at TLS 1.2. I haven't tried at a higher z/OS level, but I don't think you need ICSF. Regards, Barbara

Re: Zfs from 1 LPAR to another

>Did you transport the catalog dump dataset with ftp? Yes. I started out just adrdssu dumping the catalog, then ftp'ing. After restore and import the catalog was broken. Putting terse between the dump and ftp fixed the problem. >If yes, this might again point to ftp. >If not, the problem must

Re: Zfs from 1 LPAR to another

>For over a year, I FTP'd a DFDSS dump of my IODF file to every LPAR that >needed it. Worked fine, until it didn't. IBM's response to the PMR that I >opened is that the only 100% reliable way to FTP a DFDSS dump file was to >terse it first. IBM does not support direct FTP of a DFDSS dump

Re: Clarification on DASD mod conversion of SYSRES

>I just checked my master cat and EVERY entry has , 2, or 3 except >SYS1.PARMLIB on the SYSRES It has **. and both are set >to since we use mod 27s. We are at z/OS 2.3. All, thanks for checking. So my conclusion way back when must have been wrong. I had left SYS1.PARMLIB (that came

Re: Clarification on DASD mod conversion of SYSRES

>What if the res volume is spreaded on two volumes ? Can we still use >'**' ? No, not according to how I read the book. Only the data sets on the volume that you specify in the IPLPARM can use **. Any other volume containing non-VSAM system data sets would be considered an *extension*

Re: Clarification on DASD mod conversion of SYSRES

>I have never has a problem using anywhere ** could have been used. >Actually, the resolution of occurs very early in the IPL, long before >CAS is initialized. > >The difference is that is resolved by CAS, which is not yet initialized >at that moment. Until then, ** does the built-in

Re: Clarification on DASD mod conversion of SYSRES

>There shouldn’t be Jake. I'm running MOD-54's for my sysres volumes and have >been for years. Probably the only issue you might have is if you are going >from a multi-sysres config where you had multiple system symbols for catalog >purposes, you'll just have to fix that to all use either

Re: IGD17272I but lots of space in storgrp

One problem we had was unequal usage on the available volumes. The first volumes considered by SMS were almost full, no way to fulfill the primary space allocation. There was enough space in volumes that SMS would have checked later, but before SMS got there, the volcount was reached. We ended

Re: SMPE ACCEPT options

>So, all you chronic backer uppers, how many times have you resorted to >restoring the whole shebang? Just wondering... This year in January. Right after I made a mistake when a target dataset went B37 and I had to copy ist. HLQ not in ACS as non-SMS, so I got confused and ended up copying the

Re: SYS1.MIGLIB and LNKLST

>Not to hijack the thread, but... I thought ServerPac already >automatically adds 20% (25?) free space, but I could be wrong. In any >case, how much free space should be allocated by ServerPac? I saw 50% >mentioned. Is that enough? Should it be the same for every data set, >or just the three

Re: ibmvsm/ZOSMIGV2R3_NEXT_VSM_USERKEYCOMM

Hi Bruce, >I have the same query open with IBM at the moment. Well, it helps that I am not alone with that question. :-) >If you could provide an example of a RESET command I would most appreciate. I didn't use it. All I did was go into sdsf and then scroll to the extreme right of the health

Re: ibmvsm/ZOSMIGV2R3_NEXT_VSM_USERKEYCOMM

Hello David, parm(new) did the trick! This bit of information must have been buried in all the RUCSA stuff that I skipped over because it doesn't apply to us. We don't have oa56180 applied yet, so that explains why the audit bit wasn't on in some cases. I feel much more confident now to

ibmvsm/ZOSMIGV2R3_NEXT_VSM_USERKEYCOMM

I know we've been through a few iterations of this, and I still have questions: We had one offender that was using a key=8 CADS. They have since provided a release where they use a system key for their CADS, and that release has been installed on all sysplexes/systems. I was really astonished

Re: The 64-bit version of LOOK from CBT File 264 is finally out

On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 20:33:36 +0300, Binyamin Dissen wrote: >What does this give over IPCS of ACTIVE? > My question exactly, too. >Joseph Reichmann answered: "Going thru control blocks specially if there is >eyecatcher and it formats it >Makes it real easy to go thru control blocks " Well,

Re: Strange issue with SDSF main panel

>How many lines in your ISFPCU41? 541 :-) with the copyright by Rocket Software. But then, the primary panel is one column only these days (which took some getting-used-to). >Ungodly? :-) I have 153 entries and almost never issue =blah.blah.blah.blah The problem is that many of the entries we

Re: Strange issue with SDSF main panel

>Are you using the default panel ISFPCU41? Has anyone modified it? Vanilla ISPF/SDSF, no usermods, and the panel is always named ISFPCU41. >How are you invoking it? Like this?PGM(ISFISP) NOCHECK NEWAPPL(ISF) >SCRNAME(SDSF) Exactly like this: PGM(ISFISP) NEWAPPL(ISF) SCRNAME(SDSF) NOCHECK

Re: Strange issue with SDSF main panel

Again: The APF command is NOT failing, it 'just' does not show on the main panel! It only shows *after* the APF command was *successfully* executed! And then only for as long as I stay within that session. With the exception of 4 userids, *everybody* is in ISFUSER, which doesn't mean anything

Strange issue with SDSF main panel

I have a strange issue with the ISPF main (first) panel. I have added permission to view the APF list: pe ISFCMD.ODSP.APF.* cl(sdsf) id(grpname) ac(r) and I have refreshed the raclisted sdsf class. I expected the APF command to show up in the ISPF main panel once I call ISPF. It does NOT show

Re: AW: Where are the IBMLINK SIS fuinctions today?

>And where can I look up PTFs? IBMLINK / SIS was my major website doing >this. >The "Granular APAR search" doesn't work for me with PTF numbers. What's wrong with SIS? I can get in and can do searches, just as always. My login link is

Re: Failing to install zOSMF ptfs

>That’s correct Barbara. And it worked like a charm. Which made me wonder why I was able to mount on a non-empty mount point (assuming it was non-empty!). Turns out I only had the parm set to warning, not to fail. And sure enough, there was a message that I mounted on a non-empty mount point.

Re: Failing to install zOSMF ptfs

David, >Are you sure you had all of your Service filesystems mounted correctly? The >error indicates the possibility that maybe not? On my systems IZUUSRD is >mounted off /var/zosmf and is NOT updated by SMPE as it is the ZOSMF >operational data container. My V2.3 SMPE shows DDDEF SIZUFSD

Failing to install zOSMF ptfs

What a good thing we are not using z/OSMF. Last Friday I downloaded a refresh for z/OS 2.3 from ShopZ. Everything went fine *except* ptfs UI55431, UI55737, UI56534, UI57065 and UI57212. They fail to go in. I install maintenance into /SERVICE, so the root is mounted under /SERVICE. SBBLZFS is

Re: RACF DATASET protection WHEN(SYSID) - Compilers

On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 06:05:43 -0400, John Eells wrote: >Over the past few years, COBOL and PL/I have added support for Product >Registration Services, and can be disabled using IFAPRFxx entries. XL >C/C++ is a feature of z/OS and can similarly be enabled or disabled with >IFAPRDxx. > >This does

Re: RACF DATASET protection WHEN(SYSID)

>So how do people protect the same dataset differently on various LPAR's, or is >it just not possible? We had to make sure that the compilers do not run on a system that doesn't have licence=z/OS. We used when(sysid) in class PROGRAM, for the names of the compilers as the program name to be

Re: ISF.CONNECT.*

I am curious: Why is Rocket Software defending missing SDSF actions and bad documentation??? Has IBM 'outsourced' the SDSFAUX server? I am annoyed with the ISFTABL thing (which we addressed in our logon procedure), too, because that message was irritating all of us. The ISF.CONNECT thing is

ISF.CONNECT.*

Something has changed with SDSFAUX between z/OS 2.1 and z/OS 2.3. Under z/OS 2.3, each and every user gets a RACF Message when they access their part of SDSF (that's the primary RACF panel). That missing right is for ISF.CONNECT.system, which is described as access to SDSFAUX. None of those

Re: HWIBCPII

Ed, please reread my first post! >If that's the case, then the fault lies with LE and not BCPii. How is LE to know that it runs under an implicit sub=mstr? That is not how your standard Cobol/PL/I program runs. What started this off was our general setting of HEAPCHK(ON) on request of

Re: HWIBCPII

>> HWIBCPII is one of those magical address spaces that is started by >> Abracadabra: >> >> S IEESYSAS,PROG=HWIAMIN2 > >Or by: > >S HWISTART (which essentially does the same) Not quite. S HWISTART waits for JES2 to come up, it does NOT start HWIBCPII immediately. (Which is why I tried the

HWIBCPII

We had the (admittedly not so) bright idea to accomate the request from application development to activate the HEAPCHK LE Option generally. We did this in conjunction with upgrading from 2.1 to 2.3. As a result, the crappy design of HWIBCPII address space revealed itself. (It had been

Re: ZIIP engine utilization

> Can you point me to the best place to see if Ziip is getting maxed out. Look at the TYPE70 SMF records. They will show you if the ZIIP is 100% busy. Regards, Barbara -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: IBMVSM,ZOSMIGV2R3_NEXT_VSM_USERKEYCOMM

Brian, >I would think your RASP dump would only be a point in time view of User Key >Common at the instant of taking the dump. User Key Common that didn't exist at >the time you took the dump wouldn't appear, right? Completely true. On the other hand: In my experience, user key common (CADS,

Re: Friday Conundrum (aka Soap Box)

>Has anyone else gotten frustrated when opened an IBM Service Request in having >to select the Operating System, which should have been automatic after >selecting the Product and the applicable operating system release level? Me too. One *always* gets asked what had already been answered. Plus,

Re: IBMVSM,ZOSMIGV2R3_NEXT_VSM_USERKEYCOMM

Replying to several posts: When I activated OA53355 on my z/OS 2.3 system, I activated that check. It tripped immediately and gave me the possibilities (other than what the diag trap we've been running with already excluded): - SCOPE=ALL data space - IARVSERV SHARE

Re: JVM fails to intialize

>$ /usr/lpp/java/J8.0_64/bin/java >-version Try java -Xmcrs2048k -version My colleague who had figured that out set the specified parm somewhere in USS, so now it always works for us just using -version. Regards, Barbara --

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:23:42 -0400, John Eells wrote: >In addition to that, you can take a laptop outside your firewall, >download stuff*, bring the laptop back in, connect to your internal >network, and upload it to z/OS to be processed. No, you cannot. Where I work, the

Re: IRRPRMxx

Tom, >The way I read this is that the PARMLIB member does not agree with the >ICHRDSNT already in use by the RACF sharing group. Are you absolutely >sure that the PARMLIB member is correct and agrees with your current >ICHRDSNT in every respect? If so, then I would open a PMR for this issue.

Re: IRRPRMxx

Tom, >Your 2.3 system will use the IRRPRMxx member and your 2.1 systems will >continue to use the information you specified in the ICHRDSNT load module. All >we did was take the information that we specify in the load module and put it >in a parmlib member. We have not had any issues

IRRPRMxx

We are in the process of migrating to z/OS 2.3, and I want to use the new IRRPRMxx parmlib member. The documentation in oa52560 is suspiciously silent on how to activate this in a sysplex data sharing environment, so I went through the RACF books. It seems that IRRPRMxx can only be activated

Re: Health Check JES_NJE_SECURITY

>Ouch. I never saw Walt's proviso mentioned in the doc. Yes, these nodes are >all totally under our control. However each node (sysplex) constitutes a >different business environment supported by a different RACF data base. A >person may have the same userid on sandbox and on production, but

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