Re: does anyone recall any details about MVS/XA?

2020-12-08 Thread Brian France
I kinda remember MVS/XA and later ESA being CBIPO and CBPDO for maint. SYSGEN I think was still needed for XA and maybe ESA. I'm not sure what you meant by Optional Source Materials. If by that you meant optional source code to install, I think they went the microsloth bloat ware option

Re: TSO logon terminated

2020-08-24 Thread Brian France
A google search of the string below got me to an ibm manual that shows this for a 216 - 216 The Pre-prompt EXIT returned a DEST userid that was not defined to the subsystem. Hope this helps... On 8/24/2020 1:58 PM, Edgington, Jerry wrote: I am having some troubles with logging on to TSO on

Re: Question

2020-06-30 Thread Brian France
Our initial login is two factor to NCPASS, then to TPX. All of our TN3270 connections use PAGENT. On 6/30/2020 5:09 PM, Steve Beaver wrote: Is anyone using CA-TPX, CL/SuperSession, Etc and enabled PAGENT? -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: dfdss equivalent to fdr map

2020-06-22 Thread Brian France
used space Please also note that you can search a volume (or range of volumes) for partial DSNAMEs, even when the partial DSNAME does not contain an HLQ. (This may take a while and should be used with caution.) VTOC runs in TSO interactively or batch. Regards, David On 2020-06-18 09:46, Br

Re: [External] Re: dfdss equivalent to fdr map

2020-06-18 Thread Brian France
ohn, I am well aware of this capability, and I really do not want to appear to be overly chauvinistic, BUT, VTOC (File 112 on the CBT Tape) beats the pants off of your solution. Regards, David On 2020-06-18 09:36, John McKown wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 7:53 AM Brian France wrote:

Re: dfdss equivalent to fdr map

2020-06-18 Thread Brian France
2020-06-18 08:53, Brian France wrote:  I can't find a dfdss equivalent to fdr's map. I see the print command but can't seem to get a whole volume list of data sets as we do with fdr's map. If it exists would someone please point me to i

Re: dfdss equivalent to fdr map

2020-06-18 Thread Brian France
Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: 18 June 2020 15:36 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: dfdss equivalent to fdr map On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 7:53 AM Brian France wrote: I can't find a dfdss equivalent to fdr's map. I see the print command but can't seem to get

dfdss equivalent to fdr map

2020-06-18 Thread Brian France
 I can't find a dfdss equivalent to fdr's map. I see the print command but can't seem to get a whole volume list of data sets as we do with fdr's map. If it exists would someone please point me to it... THANX!!! -- Brian W. France Systems Administrator (Mainframe) Pennsylvania State University

Re: JES2 - stopping users from sending output to specific outputclass

2020-03-03 Thread Brian France
Sorry can't help ya. I have no ide'er... Maybe check broadcom's ( soon to be bmc ) website's knowledge center. On 3/3/2020 9:40 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 08:48:43 -0500, Brian France wrote: We too are an ACF2 shop and I don't know of a way to do this using ACF2 tho I have

Re: JES2 - stopping users from sending output to specific outputclass

2020-03-03 Thread Brian France
We too are an ACF2 shop and I don't know of a way to do this using ACF2 tho I have not really researched that since we've used IEFUV exit to perform jcl validation while the job is being interpreted in my time here and before. On 3/2/2020 5:03 PM, Keith Costley wrote: We are having an issue

Re: SSL FTP....

2019-06-27 Thread Brian France
NEVER MIND They did something on their end to set ports and fix the firewall to allow for them. On 6/27/2019 2:08 PM, Brian France wrote: Trying to establish a SSL FTP over port 990 with a winders servers. Have done this in the past with no issues but now it seems with a newer version

SSL FTP....

2019-06-27 Thread Brian France
Trying to establish a SSL FTP over port 990 with a winders servers. Have done this in the past with no issues but now it seems with a newer version of winders maybe combined with FW rules I can't obtain a data channel. Connection over port 990, cert navigation, passing of userid and password

Re: Service Announcement

2019-06-07 Thread Brian France
A little over a year later I started here as an entry level sys prog. Can't remember when I joined IBM-Main, thinking it was like 92 or so... Thank you Darren... On 6/6/19 8:01 PM, Edward Finnell wrote: > Happy Birthday Ibm-main established 6 June 1986.  Thanks Darren... > >

Numerous notifications from Broadcom...

2019-05-24 Thread Brian France
Anyone else out there getting numerous notifications, around 300 now, from Broadcom regarding the release of CAIRIM 2.2? I've contacted them but I really don't think the person on the other end understands that something happened yesterday around 11am and hasn't stopped. Got bug somewhere they do.

Re: JES2 shutdown failure

2019-05-14 Thread Brian France
init's drained?   lines drained? omvs shutdown? On 5/14/19 5:32 PM, Tony Thigpen wrote: > I am testing on a DR box, and I am seeing a shutdown problem with JES2. > > Here is the console log: > $da > $HASP612 NO ACTIVE JOBS > $P JES2 > IEA964I HARDCOPY SUSPENDED, REASON=HCSW > $da > IEE707I $DA

Re: Extract certificate data from z/OS

2019-03-12 Thread Brian France
We're an ACF2 shop and have not placed our certs there. They are only in an omvs file that we use gskkyman to manage them. On 3/12/2019 10:32 AM, Peter wrote: Hi Apology if it is a silly or it doesn't makes any sense. Is it possible to extract certificate data from z/OS without going through

Re: ISF452E on SDSF using MACRO ISFPARMS only on z/OS V2.3.

2018-10-11 Thread Brian France
indeed it's not. Thanx all On 10/10/2018 9:07 AM, Brian France wrote: On 10/10/2018 8:52 AM, Tom Marchant wrote: On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 08:36:52 -0400, Brian France  wrote: Yes we did. That was my thread as we both posted thinking the other wasn't. According to ACF2 doc and from what I

Re: ISF452E on SDSF using MACRO ISFPARMS only on z/OS V2.3.

2018-10-10 Thread Brian France
On 10/10/2018 8:52 AM, Tom Marchant wrote: On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 08:36:52 -0400, Brian France wrote: Yes we did. That was my thread as we both posted thinking the other wasn't. According to ACF2 doc and from what I see by dumping my ACF2 logs calls are NOT being made to SERVER.NOPARM as ACF2

Re: ISF452E on SDSF using MACRO ISFPARMS only on z/OS V2.3.

2018-10-10 Thread Brian France
Howdy Tom, Yes we did. That was my thread as we both posted thinking the other wasn't. According to ACF2 doc and from what I see by dumping my ACF2 logs calls are NOT being made to SERVER.NOPARM as ACF2 ignores them by default. I even coded a SERVER.NOPARM rule to allow us access in case

Re: z/OS 2.3, SDSFAUX missing message...

2018-10-09 Thread Brian France
o continue. Panels that require the use of SDSFAUX are not available. Hope that helps Rob Scott Rocket Software -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Brian France Sent: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 4:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: z/OS 2.3, SDSFAUX missi

z/OS 2.3, SDSFAUX missing message...

2018-10-09 Thread Brian France
We're in process of upgrading from z/OS 2.1 to 2.3 On our test lpar when we enter sdsf we see the following message - ISF452E SDSFAUX communications failed, return code 0x0008,, reason code 0x00370801, function "connect". SDSFAUX not available, or function not supported, Indeed we have

Re: Where did IBM hide TASID?

2018-08-02 Thread Brian France
On 08/02/2018 06:22 PM, Tom Conley wrote: > On 8/2/2018 11:44 AM, Srivastava, Rajesh K wrote: >>

Re: ADABAS tuning

2018-08-02 Thread Brian France
How about from a WLM perspective or use RMF to view the times they run as it might show the problems. RMF III you can watch it live. I believe ADABAS has info in it's address space that shows file usage. Now that might only show when the address space is shutdown. On 8/2/2018 11:13 AM, Tony

Re: Syncsort to DFSort Migration

2018-05-17 Thread Brian France
On 05/17/2018 01:25 PM, Edward Gould wrote: >> On May 17, 2018, at 11:21 AM, Sri h Kolusu wrote: >> in IBM sort you have to specify equals this seemed to be the hardest >> Edward, >> >> You can set EQUALS as default at the installation level for DFSORT. There >> is a

Re: AW: CA7 with service now

2017-06-29 Thread Brian France
Here we use CA-OPS to do this. There's rexx code that looks for certain items, can exclude jobs if need be and creates an email that goes to our circus now system. On 6/29/2017 7:11 AM, Werner Kuehnel wrote: Nathan, I don't know ServiceNow, but we create automatically tickets for abending

Re: RMDS for reporting on Mainframe

2017-04-10 Thread Brian France
We moved from RMDS more years ago than I can remember. We use JSF from Mackinney. On 4/10/2017 5:27 AM, SrinivasG wrote: Hi, Is anyone using RMDS on Mainframe? Since its being discontinued , I am interested in knowing what other shops are doing. Please share your solutions as far as RMDS is

Re: Wlm and adabas\complete

2017-02-20 Thread Brian France
Howdy Tim, We run all that here. Not sure what you're looking for but I can tell you how we use WLM here in conjunction with them. As you can imagine there's all sorts of schools of thoughts that work. Take this as it works here but not maybe not somewhere else. Importance of 1,

Re: Layout CPC serial number z13S

2017-02-15 Thread Brian France
We just installed this past Monday. No key issues sans working with SAG to get rid of a message of one product that thinks it's on our D/R machine but is running fine. See below the D M=CPU. I believe it to be the same as it was. D M=CPU IEE174I 08.20.55 DISPLAY M 090 PROCESSOR STATUS ID CPU

Re: Capping information

2016-10-31 Thread Brian France
Uh, when you say sysplex are asking about many lpars over many different physical frames or if not then take a look at RMF III, Overview, CPC. This will show both capping's for all LPAR's on a given frame. On 10/31/2016 12:36 PM, Peter wrote: Hi I am just looking some way to take a snapshot

Re: IBM Education Assistance for z/OS - Useful??

2016-10-13 Thread Brian France
On 10/12/2016 4:35 PM, Marna WALLE wrote: Hello IBM-MAINers, I wanted to ask about the usefulness of the IBM Education Assistance (IEA) for z/OS. A little background: IEA is found here: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks.nsf/pages/IBMIEAV22avail?Open and provides concise and technical

Re: ACF2 SMF Record Question

2016-05-12 Thread Brian France
ACFRPTPW - A report that can be run against the SMF data. This will show many different reasons as to why a logon wasn't any good. ie - password not matched, invalid syntax, password expired. There is a pre-processor utility as generally ACF2 logs to a SMF record ( we're 230 ) and the

Re: PLEASE HELP TLS 1.2

2016-03-24 Thread Brian France
Check your list of ciphers. There are ciphers specific to tls 1.2. On 3/24/2016 11:37 AM, Lopez, Sharon wrote: A federal agency changed to TLS v1.2 over the weekend and now we are not able to connect to them via CICS 5.2. We have on the TLS V1.2 ptf for z/OS 1.13 and we are starting with the

Re: Sharing of consoles

2016-01-06 Thread Brian France
Visara On 1/6/2016 11:18 AM, Lopez, Sharon wrote: What console controllers does everyone use to share consoles across multiple data centers? Are most people using OSA, Visara controllers, etc? Thank you. Sharon Lopez Email correspondence to and from this

Re: Big Blue’s big storage iron gets bigger: DS8880 array uncloaked

2015-10-15 Thread Brian France
Here's a link with some info. It's not an announcement letter but http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/disk/ds8000/ On 10/15/2015 10:46 AM, Staller, Allan wrote: Newest I can find in the IBM Offerings is DS8870. HTH, Any one has url for IBM announcement letter of DS8880? I can´t find

Re: Unicode Red Alert

2015-10-01 Thread Brian France
Yes and the same results On 10/1/2015 8:48 AM, Chris Hoelscher wrote: I experienced the same symptoms as did you! Chris hoelscher Technology Architect Database Infrastructure Services Technology Solution Services 123 East Main Street Louisville, KY 40202 choelsc...@humana.com Humana.com

AT/TLS, TN3270E....

2015-06-08 Thread Brian France
CROSS POSTED - IBM-MAIN, IBMTCP... We're at z/OS 2.1 trying to move to TLSV1.1 and or TLSV1.2 for our TN3270E connections. Currently we are SSLV3 and TLSV1. On our TEST systems I have TLSV1 in my PAGENT rules as well as TLSV1.1 and TLSV1.2 with sslv2/sslv3 off. Our client does not have a TLS

LPR error code = 60...

2015-03-05 Thread Brian France
I have cross posted this to both IBM-MAIN and IBMTCP-L. Since we upgraded to z/OS 2.1 we've been receiving ( sporadically and by that I mean out of 55 batch jobs a day we'll have 3-4 failures where that would be a weeks total for failures prior to the upgrade) the following error - EZB1051E

Re: Does z/OS V1R13 CSF support TLS v1.2?

2014-11-21 Thread Brian France
For z/OS 1.13 there's a PTF. Sorry off hand I do not know it. On 11/21/2014 3:43 PM, Charles Mills wrote: I call gsk_attribute_set_enum(env_handle, GSK_PROTOCOL_TLSV1_2, GSK_PROTOCOL_TLSV1_2_ON) and get RC 701 Attribute identifier is not valid. The same code works on V2R1 so either the answer

Re: RMDS

2014-07-29 Thread Brian France
Way back machine started. Once upon a time we ran RMDS with ACF2. ACF2 versions woulda been like 6 and 8. I have no idea anymore what RMDS version we had. There were exits in RMDS that we utilized with ACF2. They would take the report name ( the one you see when you're in RMDS, not the data

Re: z/OS FTPS Client Linux FTP server

2014-05-07 Thread Brian France
I saw this same message before. We had a guy here that ran a tcp trace during the connection process, moved it to a linux workstation and used TCPDUMP? on it. What he determined was the windows server we were trying to connect to had a checkpoint firewall and it actually was re-writting the

Re: z/OS FTPS Client Linux FTP server

2014-05-07 Thread Brian France
I see you have pasv_enable=yes I think there's a setting in z/OS parms maybe related. EPSV4 True On 5/7/2014 3:36 PM, Mark Pace wrote: I had looked at that also. The vsftpd config - comments removed for brevity. listen=YES max_clients=20 use_localtime=YES log_ftp_protocol=YES # enable FTPS

Re: MIH Question

2014-02-20 Thread Brian France
We did this so long ago I disremember a lot of it. BUT I can state that there are no MIH values coded in our IOS member. Just Hyperpav... Oh and we are a basic sysplex shop On 2/20/2014 10:08 AM, Lizette Koehler wrote: There should be something documented in the manuals for your DS8870 to

Re: The z/OS V2.1 Migration PDF available

2013-08-08 Thread Brian France
Howdy Marna, I like it so far. I thru the chapter 1 and 2, starting 3. Did not even print out chapter 4. Saved some trees that way. And yes, sorry, I still need to print, highlite and note take with pen and highlighter. On 8/8/2013 5:51 PM, Marna WALLE wrote: Hi All, Since you

Re: zIIP Enabler for Natural

2013-06-07 Thread Brian France
We are looking at it. We pulled together a month of SMF data for them to analyze to assess is we're a good candidate or not. Now awaiting those results. In our initial meetings SAG believed we may indeed be a good candidate due to our heavy batch environment. On 6/6/2013 7:30 PM, Longnecker,

Re: zIIP Enabler for Natural

2013-06-07 Thread Brian France
I believe there is an additional charge. On 6/7/2013 8:23 AM, Bob Shannon wrote: Is this an additional charge feature or just a startup option? Bob Shannon Rocket Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: SYNCSORT vs. DFSORT configuration for LE?

2013-02-25 Thread Brian France
gil, SS13CEEM I believe is a Syncsort module, not a DFSORT module which is why DFSORT works. Syncsort uses that naming convention for their modules. In your case it would be Syncsort 1.3 or 3.1 as I think they have some reverse thing going. On 2/25/2013 6:46 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:

Re: increased CPU usage z/os v1r13

2013-01-07 Thread Brian France
Migrated back in October, z/OS 1.11 to 1.13. Saw nothing of the like. For some reason I kinda remember another email on this subject sometime in the last 6 months or so. Please don't hold me this to this but an exit may have needed reassembled and I wanna say it was iefactrt that was not

Re: Security vulnerability in IBM HTTP Server for z/OS Version 5.3 (PM79239)

2013-01-03 Thread Brian France
My manager got the same call the day before xmas from our rep ( at IBM's insistance ). I too was not ( still am not ) registered for this site. BUT I am registered for red alerts. IF this was that serious should that not be the vehicle to get this info out. I do not want to register somewhere

Re: IBM, id's to open pmr's, lot$a $$$$ now involved?...

2012-10-16 Thread Brian France
Howdy Barb, See imbedded below... On 10/16/2012 12:59 PM, ibmmain wrote: Brian, Well we had such a pleasant phone call on Friday with IBM reps on this subject. Much to our DISMAY, they maintain that this access was never free and that promoting web sites costs money. I think what

Re: IBM, id's to open pmr's, lot$a $$$$ now involved?...

2012-10-16 Thread Brian France
On Oct 16, 2012, at 1:26 PM, Brian France b...@psu.edu wrote: Howdy Barb, See imbedded below... On 10/16/2012 12:59 PM, ibmmain wrote: Brian, Well we had such a pleasant phone call on Friday with IBM reps on this subject. Much to our DISMAY, they maintain that this access was never free

IBM, id's to open pmr's, lot$a $$$$ now involved?...

2012-10-11 Thread Brian France
All, I'm surmising that y'all, like us, have multiple user id's for support at www.ibm.com/support. We have several people here that have opened PMR's over the past many many years. A couple of weeks back I went in to open an issue and found that I was no longer entitled to z/OS. What I

Re: IBM, id's to open pmr's, lot$a $$$$ now involved?...

2012-10-11 Thread Brian France
Well I continue to push. I'm asking for documentation as to when this change went into effect. Clarification on the dollar$ cause, WOW!! Still am being told we never should've been able to do what we've been doing. I state back there's a hell of a lot of others in the world doing this and you