Re: Changes to IEBCOPY??

2023-10-30 Thread Benik, John E
on links if you do not recognize the sender. PDSMAN does allow member name masking. So since you've gotten rid of PDSMAN, that is the issue. IEBCOPY is working as designed. Richard -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Benik, John E Sent: Monday, October 30

Re: Changes to IEBCOPY??

2023-10-30 Thread Benik, John E
: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Benik, John E <01ace072c099-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2023 9:57 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Changes to IEBCOPY?? We recently uploaded the latest version of Tapetools. That was a success, but when

Changes to IEBCOPY??

2023-10-30 Thread Benik, John E
We recently uploaded the latest version of Tapetools. That was a success, but when we ran our version of $$CPYLIB which is shown below we had issues. //COPYEXEC PGM=IEBCOPY //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* //PDSIBM DD DSN=,DISP=SHR //PDSOUT DD DSN=,DISP=SHR //SYSINDD

Re: LDAP with TS7700 and/or DS8K's

2023-01-24 Thread Benik, John E
- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Benik, John E Sent: Monday, January 23, 2023 8:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: LDAP with TS7700 and/or DS8K's I imagine HMC and LDAP would be for AOS access on the DS8K's, but it also sounds like setting up the TS7700 would

Re: LDAP with TS7700 and/or DS8K's

2023-01-23 Thread Benik, John E
-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: LDAP with TS7700 and/or DS8K's On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 22:35:36 +, Benik, John E wrote: >I saw several comments about HMC and LDAP, and I am curious is anybody using >LDAP with their TS7700's or just using the management interface for >authentication?

LDAP with TS7700 and/or DS8K's

2023-01-18 Thread Benik, John E
I saw several comments about HMC and LDAP, and I am curious is anybody using LDAP with their TS7700's or just using the management interface for authentication? I would also be curious if anybody has explored this option, or is using it on the disk side but not the tape? It seems overly

Re: Has anybody tried downloading a new version of tapetools recently using FTPTOOLS or FTPTOOLX job.

2022-10-20 Thread Benik, John E
If anybody has other ideas I would appreciate hearing about them, but I believe we are at a point now that we can only download tape tools one way through https. Regards, John Benik -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Benik, John E Sent: Wednesday

Re: Has anybody tried downloading a new version of tapetools recently using FTPTOOLS or FTPTOOLX job.

2022-10-19 Thread Benik, John E
redirection be useful? > > Except that the obstruction seems to be the client's firewall. Perhaps > a proxy at the client end? > > And is there a friendly GUI on z/OS for fetching https resources? Such > a thing might likewise be useful for cbttape.org resources also. > > Charlo

Re: Has anybody tried downloading a new version of tapetools recently using FTPTOOLS or FTPTOOLX job.

2022-10-14 Thread Benik, John E
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2022 1:38 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Has anybody tried downloading a new version of tapetools recently using FTPTOOLS or FTPTOOLX job. On Fri, 14 Oct 2022 18:10:26 +, Benik, John E >If you have an example or if you go into option 6 what do you

Re: Has anybody tried downloading a new version of tapetools recently using FTPTOOLS or FTPTOOLX job.

2022-10-14 Thread Benik, John E
rewall? I know there were some FTP address changes announced by IBm a few months ago - I went to our network/firewall person and asked to open this up. On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 10:34 AM Benik, John E < 01ace072c099-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > It appears the FTP funct

Re: Has anybody tried downloading a new version of tapetools recently using FTPTOOLS or FTPTOOLX job.

2022-10-14 Thread Benik, John E
; directly to the mainframe, and it worked fine. You do not perhaps have this blocked on your firewall? I know there were some FTP address changes announced by IBm a few months ago - I went to our network/firewall person and asked to open this up. On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 10:34 AM Benik, John E < 01ace

Has anybody tried downloading a new version of tapetools recently using FTPTOOLS or FTPTOOLX job.

2022-10-14 Thread Benik, John E
It appears the FTP function for downloading a new version of tapetools has been shutdown. public.dhe.ibm.com EZA1554I Connecting to: public.southdata.ibm.com 170.225.126.18 port: 21. EZA2590E connect error from initIPv4Connection - EDC8127I Connection timed out. I have asked about this but have

Automated 30, 90 day reporting from the tapetools txt files.

2022-03-04 Thread Benik, John E
I was wondering if anyone has ever automated the data retrieval of the dayhsmry.txt file into the graphics and reporting spreadsheet? I have to manually import the data each month, and sometimes forget to do it on the 1st. Regards, John Benik This e-mail, including attachments, may include

Tape Tools reporting and Splunk

2021-09-27 Thread Benik, John E
I was wondering if anybody is routing any of their Tape tools reporting to Splunk? Especially interested if you are doing this without using some other third party software product. Regards, John Benik This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or proprietary

Tape Assist

2021-03-05 Thread Benik, John E
I'm wondering if there are others out there who have used tape assist to migrate their tape data? Soon we will be using it to migrate to an IBM TS7700, we are running into some minor issues but don't want to put any detailed information here. If anybody else has experience using this product

DB2 Image Copies

2020-06-17 Thread Benik, John E
Are there any good recommendations/suggestions on retaining DB2 Image Copies? Specifically in an environment where all data is replicated. It is my belief that we are retaining the data for Image Copies much longer than it needs to be in many cases, but I'm not sure if there is a best

RMM Retention Method(EXPDT)

2019-05-31 Thread Benik, John E
I'm wondering if any of you are currently using the RMM retention method(expdt)? We are using it on one system and looking at implementing it on all of our systems running RMM now that we are z/OS 2.3. If you are using it can you share your experiences or issues you ran into migrating to

Re: Tape Mount Management

2019-01-31 Thread Benik, John E
Thank you for all the feedback. Even though we are all virtual tape, I am under the impression that not all the data residing on tape should be. Yes it's virtual and therefore disk, but many of the JCL used today is old and since there is no chargeback for tape, users continue to write their

Re: Data placement through analytics.

2018-07-30 Thread Benik, John E
We are not speaking of HSM data, but rather Physical Sequential files that are being directed to tape. We will more than likely use SMS to control allocations, but need to determine if some of the tape files are better candidates for disk. Requesting the users to change their JCL is not an

Re: OAM and Object Tape Support with an MTL

2018-04-25 Thread Benik, John E
out every virtual tape vendor that exists (and those that don't any more) so I know where most of the pitfalls are. Brian Westerman On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 18:47:14 +, Benik, John E <john_e_be...@optum.com> wrote: >Thank you for the replies. Yes we have implemented SMS tape wi

Re: OAM and Object Tape Support with an MTL

2018-04-23 Thread Benik, John E
Thank you for the replies. Yes we have implemented SMS tape with our MTL and since the libraries have to be defined to SMS it is our understanding that OAM would have to be used for allocation purposes. I attended an OAM session at Share this year and was trying to investigate if there is

OAM and Object Tape Support with an MTL

2018-04-20 Thread Benik, John E
We are using a DLM for our virtual tape library and have them defined as MTLs. OAM starts without object tape support, I would like to know if this is something we should look at adding, or does it not have any impact one way or another? Here is what OAM shows at startup. 22.16.22 S0169252

Re: RMM question

2018-02-14 Thread Benik, John E
question On 2/14/2018 12:23 PM, Benik, John E wrote: > Yes I know that but our company is also moving away from VRS's in my opinion > doing something like this... > > MCATTR(ALL)/* USE SMS MANAGEMENT. */ - > RM(EXPDT(GDG(WHILECATALOG(UNTILEXPIRED),RETPD(0)) - >

Re: RMM question

2018-02-14 Thread Benik, John E
List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Conley Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 10:44 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: RMM question On 2/14/2018 11:18 AM, Benik, John E wrote: > From: Benik, John E > Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 11:22 AM > To: 'IBM

Re: RMM question

2018-02-14 Thread Benik, John E
From: Benik, John E Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 11:22 AM To: 'IBM Mainframe Discussion List' Subject: RE: RMM question We have been looking at changing from VRSEL to Retention Method processing. However our understanding is that in Z/OS 2.3 a lot of the functionality performed