Thanks For All the Fish

number, because they arrive as e-mail attachments. Hanging out here has been quite instructive and usually fun (smile), so: Thanks, folks. All the best, everyone. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com (for a couple more days

Re: Breaking text file at position 72?

ists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: IND$FILE -- where did the name come from?

AM Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: John Eells wrote: IND$FILE, as part of z/OS, remains supported. As far as I know, support for it has never lapsed (certainly not since its inclusion into OS/390). Indeed and thanks for the clarification. I am somewhat perplexed by this discussion. This module

Re: IND$FILE -- where did the name come from?

Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: John Eells wrote: IND$FILE, as part of z/OS, remains supported. As far as I know, support for it has never lapsed (certainly not since its inclusion into OS/390). Indeed and thanks for the clarification. I am somewhat perplexed by this discussion. This module

Re: IND$FILE -- where did the name come from?

for it has never lapsed (certainly not since its inclusion into OS/390). -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: Checksum or hashing

) after transferring some sizable datasets. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Storage question

icate volumes that might have been specified. This will make it easier to recatalog multivolume and striped VSAM data sets." Vernooij, Kees - KLM , ITOPT1 wrote: And consider multi-volume datasets, you should reconstruct their order. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

Re: Checksum or hashing

is to compare these hashes at source (z/OS) and destination (linux) after transferring some sizable datasets. Thanks in advance! -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: ShopzSeries redirects to 404?

/ShopzSeries_public.wss This isn't right... looks like it injects ';www-03.ibm.com/'. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: Speaking of time change...

applications that read SMF and cannot handle the overlap ... If DB2 is so broken, shouldn't IBM accept an APAR on it? SMF ought to use GMT. What century is this? What makes you think that either (a) Db2 is broken or (b) SMF does not use UTC? -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Is there a utility or command that will show load module characteristics?

uot;program object." I'm most interested in alternative entry point names and their addresses. I'd prefer an IBM utility to a CBT program just because it would be quicker to do. Few vendor products available in my datacenter. Charles -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie

Re: Serverpac products maintenance clarification

chains were installable on that day, it should have been installed during ServerPac production. If it was not, please open a PMR. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: SMP/E

and installation within a few years. (If you have not been following along, you can find my SHARE presentations and others from IBM and other vendors online.) -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: downloading an older version of a component

products that have been replaced with new releases on Shopz. (I sent you a note about a possible alternative offline.) -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Bad Design but nobody cares

sbgo...@cbttape.org wrote: Hi John, I don’t think user logs deal with global notifications. This is strictly a Broadcast Dataset issue, I think. All the best. Sam ...as "someone" (thanks, JimM) just pointed out to me. Sorry for the misdirection! -- John Eells IBM Pough

Re: Bad Design but nobody cares

why IBM's method of changing it is so cumbersome, since (I think) IKJEFXSR, which starts up TSO, has to put that number into the CVT. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arch

Re: S106 abends after copying into LINKLIST

e it with the parameters and environment of the old module. What would that cause? Program checks? Mangled data? -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: ISPF issue - new system

with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: S106 abends after copying into LINKLIST

ad to walk to school. It was always uphill both ways and it was always cold and snowing. At least, that's what people used to tell their kids who rode those cushy heated (FSVO "heated," at least in Maine) buses, right? -- John Eells IBM

Re: S106 abends after copying into LINKLIST

will be in x37 City before you know it. ServerPac production is smart enough to adjust space on the fly, BTW, so the free space allocated by default stays at a fixed percentage even as PTFs consume more space in the data sets for the products included. For CBPDO, you get to guess yourself. -- John Eells

Re: S106 abends after copying into LINKLIST

John Eells wrote: exceeding the link list extent limit the topic of this thread That should read, "...exceeding the link list extent limit *and* the topic of this thread" -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

Re: S106 abends after copying into LINKLIST

st let the disk controller manage the actual real estate" is my (new) recommendation for system software volumes. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: Installing zOS from scratch experience

on DVD with standalone DSF and DSS. ("There is no magic.") As Parwez said, get the Redbook. There are a number of other steps involved, such as creating or editing an IOCDS, configuring the disk arrays, and so on, and all of them should be covered in the book. -- John Eells IBM Po

Re: Report volumes with IPLText

rs. It's not that there's *no* IPL text, in other words, but that there's no IPL text that will actually do anything useful. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruct

Re: "Library Server" Access Now "Forbidden"?

John Eells wrote: I cannot speak for anyone else, but I have been on vacation the past two weeks and do not know the current state of affairs.  I can try to find out what's happening with this later today if time allows and the people I'd need to ask about it are available. I'd missed Sue's

Re: "Library Server" Access Now "Forbidden"?

cation the past two weeks and do not know the current state of affairs. I can try to find out what's happening with this later today if time allows and the people I'd need to ask about it are available. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com ---

Re: zOSMF setup

t of basic mode, e.g. on the test system only? You can certainly set z/OSMF up so that it starts (or autostarts) on one system only and does not start on the rest. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- Fo

Re: SHARE handouts

John Eells wrote: Perhaps incorrectly, I thought everything uploaded by any presenter was available for the most recent conference, but prior ones were available to SHARE members only. That said, if anyone wants any of mine, just send me a note. Offline, I heard from a credible source

Re: SHARE handouts

rules? BTW: From copyright point of view, as far as I understand the presentation is owned by the author and usually author is willing to *share* it... -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Problem with RECEIVE ORDER Servers - Fixed

I'm told both servers are back up now. (The cause was an inter-server communications failure on our side.) -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Problem with RECEIVE ORDER Servers

A problem has been identified with the RECEIVE ORDER servers (both of them, unfortunately), and people are working on a fix. When I have more information, I will let you all know. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: "Library Server" Access Now "Forbidden"?

going away? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

Re: Another url change for SHOPZ

-- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Processor model not listed in IODF

, but the manual process involved in checking the requirements that way is error-prone), or PUT levels, or RSU levels to provide hardware or functional support. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Processor model not listed in IODF

you are running on the copy of z/OS you updated with the ZR1 PTFs and handled all the necessary HOLDDATA correctly.) I should also mention that at some future point, I intend to stop putting PTF lists in the PSP. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Adding a patch area

DD DSNAME=PROJECT.PROGLIB,DISP=OLD //SYSLIN DD DSNAME=&,DISP=(OLD,PASS) // DD * EXPAND CSECT1(250) EXPAND COM1(400) NAME MOD1(R) /* (Note the caution in the book about addressability.) -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm

Re: RACF DATASET protection WHEN(SYSID) - Compilers

Barbara Nitz wrote: 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

Re: OA55889 for TSO/E in z/OS 2.3

to seven characters. After 22 years, that restriction was finally lifted in 2017 with z/OS 2.3 TSO/E. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send ema

Re: RACF DATASET protection WHEN(SYSID)

system is beyond me - RACF certainly doesn't have the appropriate instrumentation for it that I can see. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: (OT) Good bye everyone

So sorry to hear this, Ed. Best of luck to you; I hope you find something else that keeps you going! Edward Gould wrote: Approximately 2 months I had a life altering incident. I can no longer function as a sysprog. I resigned my no pay job at the place I used to donate my time. -- John

Re: Ported tool for zOS download

-145/index.html=en_locale=en Version to be withdrawn April 10, 2017: Product nameVersion Product number IBM Ported Tools for z/OS 1.3.0 5655-M23 (I know this is probably not the answer you'd hoped for.) -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Using JCL Symbld and TYPRUN=SCAN

here! Even 1BFF07FE is harder to read and code than its 2-instruction assembler counterpart. (OK, so I could not resist. Back into my hole now.) -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sign

Re: Z114 to z14 experience any ?

l of z/OS does have the needed support for the z14 models. I believe z/VM's list is similar: - z/VM - z/VM Standalone Dump - Standalone DDR - ICKDSF (yup, the same one) -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- Fo

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Deleting all members of a PDS

leted !! Still like the enhanced functionality permitting various DSN-mask specifications, similar to TSO/ISPF DSLIST (option 3.4). -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archiv

Re: z/OS 2.2 - how to order ?

periods of overlap, we have *always* withdrawn the prior operating system release when we make the new release available, going back as far as I can recall. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Would SHARE kindly kick IBM in the ass for what the've done with their web content?

. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Would SHARE kindly kick IBM in the ass for what the've done with their web content?

-- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: AW: Re: CFSIZER no longer available?

eggs. In some cases, I know who to engage (notes and IMs are cheap), and in some I have no idea who to ask (finding the right person can take days). -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: CFSIZER no longer available?

I am told the redirects have been fixed to make CFSIZER available again. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: CFSIZER no longer available?

in behavior. Has this tool been withdrawn? Not intentionally! People are looking into this now. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: FTP performance problem.

. Where should I look to find the problem? We are running z/OS v2.2 -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: File transfer Red Alert

and Linux Worldwide Client Care Manager -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: File transfer Red Alert

this page up to date with the latest process. -Rick Schoonmaker IBM Z and Linux Worldwide Client Care Manager -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: [SUSPECTED SPAM] smp/e question - PTF relinks, but missing CSECTs.

oad module to include MODs from several different DLIB data sets. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with t

Re: [SUSPECTED SPAM] smp/e question - PTF relinks, but missing CSECTs.

d and exist in AOSBN. And the "missing" CSECTs are indeed in the target zone with AOSBN as the library in which they reside.​ -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive a

Re: Replaceing IEBGENER

Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2018 10:17:48 -0400, John Eells wrote: Vernooij, Kees - KLM , ITOPT1 wrote: Because IT creates the alias IBMGENER to the old IEBGENER and so it knows how to invoke it. Quite some time ago, DFSMSdfp started to ship an IEBGENR alias of IEBGENER so

Re: Replaceing IEBGENER

is found before the copy of IEBGENER in LINKLIB. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM

Re: Old School Maintenance Philosophy -- Never ACCEPT?

yone still use this philosophy? If so, why? Thanks, -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

z/OSMF Data Directory Location

you get around to it. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: z/OS 1.13 maintenance concern.

. I'm firmly in the camp of "APPLY SOURCEID(RSU*,PRP,HIPER,SECINT) GEXT and let SMP/E sort 'em all out." -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruct

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IEFA107I when pointing to dataset alias

a ZONEEDIT to point the DDDEFs in to Outer Space before playing with things further is not a terrible idea, in fact. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: IEFA107I when pointing to dataset alias

John Eells wrote: Previously, I wrote: (* Let's leave SYMBOLICRELATE out of it for now, until we all understand the basics. Likewise, we can work our way up to what happens before Catalog processes aliases and PATHENTRY entries for VSAM data seats, if necessary.) So now, let's look at what

Re: IEFA107I when pointing to dataset alias

s leave SYMBOLICRELATE out of it for now, until we all understand the basics. Likewise, we can work our way up to what happens before Catalog processes aliases and PATHENTRY entries for VSAM data seats, if necessary.) I hope this helps, a bit. -- John

Re: z/OSMF, was How far out of date are my skills

Gibney, Dave wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 12:49 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OSMF, was How far out of date are my skills Jousma, David wrote

Re: z/OSMF, was How far out of date are my skills

without it is z/OSMF Software Management which, strategically speaking, we want to be our software product installer in a couple of years. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: OAM and Object Tape Support with an MTL

John McKown wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 9:18 AM, John Eells <ee...@us.ibm.com> wrote: John McKown wrote: I would argue about his, except that most electronic manuals are in PDF format and PDF does _not_ allow updating the PDF file itself to contain highlighting & notes. Or, if

Re: OAM and Object Tape Support with an MTL

ment and highlight, using the two icons that are rightmost (for me, anyway) on the task bar. I use these often when reviewing drafts of things, and I find them handy. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-

Re: OAM and Object Tape Support with an MTL

demand than from order data and client requirements. The order data is pretty compelling, and I can't recall having seen new client requirements in this area in a long time--over a decade. All that said, if someone has a pertinent data source we've missed, I'm happy to listen and learn. -

Re: One last question on TAPELESS delivery

have to fight a lot as management does not want it ... Do *not* let him read this article: https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf How can you be sure the tape control unit microcode contains no infectious malware? -- John Eells IBM Poughkeep

Re: One last question on TAPELESS delivery

eople know how to contact me at need. If Ed needs someone at IBM to talk to his data center management about IBM software delivery alternatives without tape, he can send me a note and we can set that up. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

Re: Enhanced HOLDDATA site down?

Pinnacle wrote: Trying to download FULL.BIN, and I keep getting Network Error. Anybody else having problems with http://service.software.ibm.com/holdata/390holddata.html? It's working for me internally, but of course I'm on the other side of the IBM firewall. -- John Eells IBM

Re: One last question on TAPELESS delivery

e files from the DVD. That could be directly (SMP/E RECEIVE FROMNETWORK) or via an initial copy operation, onto z/OS attached storage. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acces

Re: One last question on TAPELESS delivery

0890/$file/e0zb100_v2r3.pdf For DVD, a network connection to the outside world is not required. Only a network connection between the workstation and z/OS is needed. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

2018. This fulfills the statement of direction in Software Announcement A17-0134, dated February 21, 2017. IBM recommends downloading products and service over the internet. However, if you have a requirement for physical media, products and service remain available on DVD." -- John Eells IBM Pough

Re: Friday Conundrum (aka Soap Box)

or three of them can be in play on the same z/OS release, and we've no way to know which one you have. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: UA94606

switch, and get the necessary offenders fixed before the flip. The risk avoidance aspect of this approach has to be balanced against the risk of allowing user key CSA until you finish. The APAR text is here: https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=63=isg1OA53355 Happy hunting... -- John

Re: Zconnect

with the z/OSMF data set and file REST API: https://www-304.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zOSV2R3sc278420/$file/izua700_v2r3.pdf -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Zconnect

S2 systems in z/OS V2.3. (I always threatened to put the z/OSMF architect's e-mail address in the examples.) -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

Andrew Rowley wrote: On 3/04/2018 9:21 PM, John Eells wrote: If you have a requirement for packages signed with strong algorithms, please open an RFE. Is the SMP/E package signed, or just checksummed? A stronger hash is no real value if the hash itself can be substituted because

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

-1 still seems perfectly adequate. If you have a requirement for packages signed with strong algorithms, please open an RFE. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

on process will allocate all the data sets needed for the products in the order just as it has since its availability in 1996. - ServerPac and RECEIVE FROMNET both expect GIMZIP format packages. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

Re: z/OSMF hints needed

the IZUSEC sample in SAMPLIB. I also double-checked to be sure both actions above are in the z/OS Migration book for z/OS V2.3. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access in

Re: z/OSMF hints needed

and play better with z/OSMF autostart and avoid some possible entanglements later on. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

the need for corrective service. Good luck doing in that. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

David Boyes wrote: On 3/27/18, 9:48 AM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of John Eells" <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU on behalf of ee...@us.ibm.com> wrote: Ah, so that's what you meant. I hadn't inferred that from your earlier post. Sorry, replies cros

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

e near-universiality that optical drives once enjoyed, has a far-off obsolescence horizon, and allows us to continue to use something we can put in an envelope or a box and send clients. -- John Eells z/OS Platform Installation Strategy

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

they could be written to the z/OS UNIX file system, I would find that interesting. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

ucts, PTFs, HOLDDATA, etc. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: VIO SDWA logrec records

& Tuning: "Note: If you want the auxiliary storage manager (ASM) to purge and reinitialize both the VIO data set pages and the PLPA pages, specify CLPA. CLPA always implies CVIO." So there should be no need to do another IPL to try to "clear things up." What do the formatted

Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

ry 21, 2017. IBM recommends downloading products and service over the internet. However, if you have a requirement for physical media, products and service remain available on DVD." John Eells wrote: The problem everyone has with physical media is being able to ship something compatible

Re: Didn't we have this some time ago on some SLED disks? Multi-actuator

nteresting. I have to wonder whether load-leveling within and among arrays is more or less effective than this or whether the two will be someday combined. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subsc

Re: FW: SMPE receive order stuck

email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: Having problem using LISTSERV.UA.EDU with thunderbird

NNTP and newsreaders to keep their places and keep their inboxes under control. Some simply subscribe and deal with the volume of IBM-MAIN e-mail. Some use the Digest version. Some follow on Google. And so on. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeep

Re: Having problem using LISTSERV.UA.EDU with thunderbird

(what I use). -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

CA Root CA Certificates Redux

started on it sooner. Sorry for the churn. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Install z/OS from DVD

, depending on where the bottleneck is in the effective data transfer rate. Speaking for myself, though, restores from DVD would certainly have been done for quite a while while I was still fiddling with the FTP configuration and physical connections for this IPL path, but YMMV. -- John Eells

Re: DASD problem

n San switch or DASD, I suspect the system settings -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Apply error WAS product

for ACTION for WebSphere PTFs for this very reason. The reason to open a PMR is for the OP to determine whether (a) we screwed up the PTF packaging or (b) a HOLD was missed. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM

Re: Apply error WAS product

Did you open a PMR? Please do, if not; and, please post the PMR number. Peter wrote: This time again it failed BPXF140E RETURN CODE 0090, REASON CODE 0549010C. A LINK FAILED FOR LINK NAME /usr/lpp/InstallationManagerRepository/HBBO850/IBM /../bbodrmak. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie

Re: zOSMF - remove plug-in

just don’t know where or if there are any development efforts under way to provide it. Remove it from the list of enabled plug-ins in IZUPRMxx. See PDF p. 48 in the Configuration Guide, here: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/izu23215.pdf -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

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