z/OS Processor Requirements (was Re: SMP/E Tutorial)

2017-03-29 Thread John Eells
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Re: SMP/E Tutorial

2017-03-28 Thread John Eells
Feel free to send me a note if you have any interest. It is a lot easier but might not be suitable for your particular product. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arch

Re: 64 bit execution above the bar

2017-03-28 Thread John Eells
Tony Harminc wrote: On 27 March 2017 at 20:15, Mike Schwab <mike.a.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: ...it's the ability to IPL and run in ESA/390 architecture that's going. Exactly right. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.i

Re: SMP/E Tutorial

2017-03-27 Thread John Eells
to the newsgroup. The footer of every post sent to the list appears at the bottom, and can get you started. If you BUILDMCS your current HBB FMID, you will doubtless find examples like this one: ++PROGRAM(IWMAM431) SYSLIB(SIEALNKE) ALIAS(LARM431) DISTLIB(AIEALNKE) RELFILE(9) . -- John

Re: SMP/E Tutorial

2017-03-27 Thread John Eells
something that ought to be on that list, but is missing, please let me know. * Of course, make sure your Legal Department concurs! -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arch

Re: SMP/E Tutorial

2017-03-27 Thread John Eells
, I know that fixes were packaged and shipped as MODs so SMP/E would re-link the load modules on site as part of the maintenance apply process. Can you still use PROGRAM elements for LE based modules ? Whether you know exactly what will be pulled in largely depends on your packaging. -- John

Re: Can SMPPTS datasets be consolidated?

2017-03-20 Thread John Eells
the sysmod from IBM, I would be very interested in knowing when it was and what product it was for (if you have that information handy) so I can "educate" the perpetr--um, that is, packager. Other limits, internal ones aside, are imposed by tape, DVD, and commonly-deployed DASD volume sizes.

Re: GSE UK - Large Systems - Free To Attend

2017-03-15 Thread John Eells
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Re: Question about PARMDD

2017-02-27 Thread John Eells
erv.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html If you are sufficiently interested, you can find the discussion. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send emai

Re: Question about PARMDD

2017-02-27 Thread John Eells
appearance, led by the designer. I am reasonably confident that you can find in that discussion why it was done as it was, if you care to look. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: System Symbol For Master Catalog

2017-02-10 Thread John Eells
gets the mastercat name from the IPA and set the symbol. It needs to be defined early as HZSPROC starts as a system a/s as of z/OS version 2. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sig

Re: DIALOG PROCESSING ERROR

2017-02-01 Thread John Eells
dialog starts fine but when I choose the order I want to install I get the following error: The dialog call shown in the ISPEXEC buffer issued a RETURN CODE of: 16 The contents of the ISPEXEC buffer was: /*0003*/LISTDSI SCPPEENU -- John Eells IBM

Re: DIALOG PROCESSING ERROR

2017-02-01 Thread John Eells
to. Can someone (perhaps the OP) repost 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

Re: Freeware SMP/E installable product

2017-01-10 Thread John Eells
Nathan Astle wrote: Hi Are there any freeware product which uses SMP/E to install. Please point me Nathan Java for z/OS fits this description. You can order it from Shopz and get it over the net, on DVD, or on tape. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Prevent allocation of unknown-HLQ data sets?

2016-12-14 Thread John Eells
it worked. BTW we used ALTER (IDCAMS) to put the password on. This is a quick and dirty way of doing it. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruction

Re: Catalogs in a SYSPLEX

2016-11-29 Thread John Eells
no problem. Old catalog entries that really ought to be deleted don't cause problems either except for OCD types. Of course, it introduces other steps, such as IMPORTing the usercats for each plex, and either freezing or keeping current and master-catalogs-to-be in sync. -- John Eells IBM

Re: Catalogs in a SYSPLEX

2016-11-29 Thread John Eells
; indirect cataloging works even for multiple volumes using such derived system symbols. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: Where are PDSE limitations documented?

2016-11-14 Thread John Eells
f/dgt3d410.pdf -- 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: JES2 Mods

2016-11-10 Thread John Eells
ly gave up. There are a lot of old mods on our system and we had to keep backing them off and could never get JES working. We actually got the maintenance (RSU1501) applied and the only thing that doesn't work is SYSAFF Any thoughts? -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

Re: Weird problem hoping to be saved by SMP/E

2016-11-02 Thread John Eells
) RETRY(YES) fails because HDZ1D10 was ACCEPTed. A RESTORE fails for GIM24501E RESTORE PROCESSING FAILED FOR SYSMOD sysmod BECAUSE OTHER SYSMODS WERE DELETED WHEN sysmod WAS APPLIED I am looking for ideas on how to get back to the correct versions of the modules. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee

Re: AW: How large are your system trace & master trace on z13?

2016-10-27 Thread John Eells
it appears to be. Speaking only for myself, 15X the default size seems like more than enough. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: JCL changes in z/OS 2.1

2016-10-19 Thread John Eells
ught important that would fit into an hour are here: https://share.confex.com/share/121/webprogram/Session13581.html -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructio

Re: Implementing ICSF - FOTS1949 PRNG is not seeded

2016-10-19 Thread John Eells
ck thereof matters in this context, I have no clue.) -- 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: AW: Re: Question on z/EDC - reading it compressed

2016-10-05 Thread John Eells
Mauri Kanter wrote: Hi, I wish I could FTP it compressed ... It could shorten a large FTP we execute daily :-( Why don't you think you can FTP it compressed? -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Weird idea? IPL LPAR from DVD ISO image on HMC?

2016-10-04 Thread John Eells
45 AM, R.S. <r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl> wrote: W dniu 2016-10-04 o 14:35, John Eells pisze: R.S. wrote: The notable exception is z/OS COD - Customized Offering Driver. While it can be IPL-ed from both DVD and ftp, the next activity is to restore DVD content to CKD disk and the source has to be

Installation Improvements (was Re: Links to IBM announcements for today appear to be broken)

2016-10-04 Thread John Eells
m/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=AN=CA=897/ENUS216-392=USN -- 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: Weird idea? IPL LPAR from DVD ISO image on HMC?

2016-10-04 Thread John Eells
of things to make easier. -- 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: Service Orders and Redbooks

2016-09-29 Thread John Eells
Timing is everything. Instantly after hitting Send, I switched to my e-mail client, only to find a note saying the problem with service (PTFs, HOLDDATA) is fixed. Redbooks appear to be up again, too. John Eells wrote: John Abell wrote: Still not working here. I am told

Service Orders and Redbooks

2016-09-29 Thread John Eells
of the Redbooks site outage, but I *do* know that service orders are affected. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: IEC361I Threshold value set up

2016-09-27 Thread John Eells
short of extents. -- 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: Translating a DEVTYPE from LISTC into something usable?

2016-09-22 Thread John Eells
onths back!) -- 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: PDSE supported for product dataset z/OS version

2016-09-22 Thread John Eells
Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 12:59:53 -0400, John Eells wrote: ..., but the reason why you can't use PDSEs early in IPL processing (think "parmlib concatenation or LPA list") is more prosaic. Much of the code needed to process PDSEs lives in LPA. Until CLPA is done, t

Re: PDSE supported for product dataset z/OS version

2016-09-22 Thread John Eells
use PDSEs early in IPL processing (think "parmlib concatenation or LPA list") is more prosaic. Much of the code needed to process PDSEs lives in LPA. Until CLPA is done, they cannot be opened. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

Re: ShopzSeries orders change?

2016-09-16 Thread John Eells
orders go to DOWNLOAD! Thanks to whomever! -- 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: TSO User ID Rules (Was: z/OS and code pages)

2016-09-15 Thread John Eells
meone with a lot of attributes might have UADS members USERID0-USERID9. This causes the last character to be "reserved," and as PDS members may have 1-8 character names, TSO/E user IDs can be 1-7 characters in length. -- John

Re: Bypassing s322

2016-09-13 Thread John Eells
Actually, I misremembered how IEFUTL works, and just remembered (sorry)! IEFUTL gets control when the time limit set expires, and can extend the time allowed. It does not set lower values. John Eells wrote: For historical reasons lost in the Mists of Time, the explanations for z/OS BCP

Re: Bypassing s322

2016-09-13 Thread John Eells
initiators but still abends. I am not sure if IEFUTL exit is restricting it. The error message doesn't produce much information to diagnose. Is there a way to bypass any EXIT which might be timing out the Jobs ? -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: SDSF security with TSS ?

2016-09-12 Thread John Eells
tips, recommendation, pitfalls, etc. that can be shared would be appreciated. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: Elementary dataset alias question

2016-08-31 Thread John Eells
Paul Gilmartin wrote: BTW, is there a form of LISTCAT that lists both ALIAS and RELATED names? Yes. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Elementary dataset alias question

2016-08-30 Thread John Eells
of the additional catalog entries that are perhaps maintained in different catalogs than the primary entries, and change them in concert in the correct catalog(s) when and if data sets move between volumes. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Elementary dataset alias question

2016-08-30 Thread John Eells
can't talk about yet...we'll see what happens, but perhaps I'll see you in San Jose. Charles Mills wrote: @John, most excellent. I should have asked the guru of catalogs to begin with. Thanks, -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

Re: Elementary dataset alias question

2016-08-30 Thread John Eells
0072 And, finally, I used IEFBR14 to allocate it: //EELLS2 JOB 'C8402P,B9222070,S=I','JOHN EELLS', // CLASS=J,MSGCLASS=H,NOTIFY=, // MSGLEVEL=(1,1),REGION=0M //* //S0EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 //DD1 DD DSN=EELLS.DELETEME.TEST, // DISP=SHR ...and all this works as expected,

Re: Catch 22 with UA82156 / OA50517

2016-08-19 Thread John Eells
BM/') . ENDUCL. If this DDDEF was missing in your ServerPac, please open a PMR. Oh, and yes, you should define it if it's missing. It can't hurt to check on the other SHZ* DDDEF in the same sample job, either, just in case... -- John Eells IBM Poughkeep

Re: PTF order fulfillment issues and getting HOLDDATA

2016-08-15 Thread John Eells
or HTTPS. (I was waiting for Kurt to chime in but he's not on our internal IM system so he might be out.) -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Wait state 80009064 during IEAVNP26 Initialization

2016-07-29 Thread John Eells
My first reflex is always to ask...did you specify CLPA? Errol wrote: I tried to IPL a new zOS 2.1 system today and got this. I didn't see any migration actions for DFSMS (IEAVNP26) thsat looked likely to have caused it. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Boulder and Rochester Servers

2016-07-26 Thread John Eells
DDATA. Same job I've used for years. GIM69195S ** RECEIVE PROCESSING HAS FAILED. THE SERVER AT https://eccgw01.boulder.ibm.com/service/projects/ecc/ws/ DETECTED AN ERROR: 404 - Not Found. Does IBM have a problem or did something change and I missed the notification?

Re: DEVTYPE INFO=DASD

2016-07-22 Thread John Eells
17,892 Free Extents . : 36 Disclaimer: No idea what he's working on Jay Campbell IBM OS Support Section -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 2:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@li

Re: DEVTYPE INFO=DASD

2016-07-21 Thread John Eells
OS:CTO:AD:CP:I:IB Flex M,T,Th,F Home office (240) 863 - 3965 Office (240) 613-4350 Cell (917) 748-9693 TOD M - F 7:30 am - 4:00 pm -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 2:35 PM

Re: DEVTYPE INFO=DASD

2016-07-21 Thread John Eells
' would be 65520 cylinders. x'000F' would be 15 tracks per cylinder. Reasonable for a 3390-54. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send ema

Re: RDW corruption

2016-07-18 Thread John Eells
assigned me this problem As an aside if I register my IRS e-mail on IBM-Main is there a way not get every e-mail I don't mind it in my personel e-mail But I have a lot of other stuff on my irs.gov e-mail -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: subscribing options

2016-07-12 Thread John Eells
The browser I use prepends partial URLs with http://www when what you type does not get resolved, and my newsreader does not render that partial URL as a link. I guess that's not true of everyone's toolset! John McKown wrote: On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 8:05 AM, John Eells <ee...@us.ibm.

Re: subscribing options

2016-07-12 Thread John Eells
I just use a gmail account which I access via http://mail.google.com instead of "local delivery". -- 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: Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

2016-07-07 Thread John Eells
DS. m9 will be used for some system volumes (page, spool) on our small systems. We use m27 for SYSRES and DLIB today and will continue to do so until z/OS outgrows them. We use 2 m54 for SMP/E and other installation data, which we may eventually consolidate onto EAV. -- John Eells IBM

Re: ISPF Profile basic question

2016-07-07 Thread John Eells
ps the "characteristics" of REXX or CNTL, especially the highlighting? If one wanted to define "PROFILE FOO" with highlighting suitable for FOO files, where is the process documented? Which FM under what topic? -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com --

Re: Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

2016-07-05 Thread John Eells
be the default but it's easily changed there.) -- 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 V2.1 MVS Data Area manuals missing in the Knowledge Center

2016-07-01 Thread John Eells
/v2r1pdf/#IEA John Eells wrote: I forwarded this to someone I think can get it taken care of. As Monday is a holiday here, though, and many are off today as well (it was very easy to get a nearby parking space!), I would not expect instant action. Peter Hunkeler wrote: Would anyone

Re: z/OS V2.1 MVS Data Area manuals missing in the Knowledge Center

2016-07-01 Thread John Eells
whom to contact to tell them that the zOS/ V2.1 MVS Data Area manuals are missing in the new Knowledge Center? The feedback link on the page seems to be just general feedback about IBM. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: ZOS 2.2 Install - Alias to Catalog

2016-06-28 Thread John Eells
olumes, the SU path will create a job that basically only adds new entries to your master catalog, which ought to be harmless. You can also fool Mother Nature by creating a temporary catalog, but that will still leave you the task of reconciling catalog entries with actual data set placement later. H

Re: ZOS 2.2 Install - Alias to Catalog

2016-06-28 Thread John Eells
CATALOG.Z22MCAT MCAT -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

2016-06-28 Thread John Eells
What is the *smallest* volume size everyone sees in general use? For example, will we create any problems if we assume that "everyone" has or can define at least a 3390-9 size volume these days? What if we chose 3390-27? -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

Re: Copy pdse v2 generations

2016-06-27 Thread John Eells
Lionel B. Dyck wrote: Does anyone know if PDSFAST supports copying generations? IEBCOPY currently does not. However, DFSMSdss does. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Enhancement RFE for TSO DELETE xxx MASK Function

2016-06-10 Thread John Eells
book to find that out (if you didn't happen to know already). A number of other commands (perhaps all of them) are also "passed along" to IDCAMS by TSO/E, such as DEFINE, ALTER, IMPORT, EXPORT, and LISTCAT. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

Re: Re cataloging IODF jcl

2016-06-09 Thread John Eells
Nathan Astle wrote: Hello, Can someone please share me a sample JCL on recataloging the IODF dataset ? Did you try DEFINE RECATALOG? http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/dgt3i210.pdf -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: IEAIPS parmlib member

2016-06-02 Thread John Eells
John Eells wrote: Lopez, Sharon wrote: Does anyone remember when IEAIPSxx member went away? In 2001, whatever release that was... Sorry, it was 2002, in z/OS V1.3. (We created the IWMINSTL sample for installing a starter policy a year before V1.3 to ease the migration slightly and I

Re: IEAIPS parmlib member

2016-06-02 Thread John Eells
Lopez, Sharon wrote: Does anyone remember when IEAIPSxx member went away? In 2001, whatever release that was... -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: pdse v2 generations arg!

2016-05-31 Thread John Eells
oes not wrap. Has anyone stumbled across a better way to find the member generations? Using the loop process I've found you have to do an almost infinite limit, or set it fairly high or you risk missing a generation or 100. And the overhead of the edit isn't trivial. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie

Re: Proper way to resolve existing GDG GnnnVnnn by relative reference

2016-05-27 Thread John Eells
were going for an even thousand until we weighed the value of "one more generation" against the cost of updating a bazillion messages to add space for another digit and decided 999 was close enough! -- John Eells IBM Poughkeep

Re: z/OS Master/User catalog dataset re-organization

2016-05-24 Thread John Eells
, one last time and then enabled for CA Reclaim like (nearly) any other KSDS. After that, let them manage themselves... -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruct

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: smp/e sha-2 support?

2016-05-17 Thread John Eells
ou can get a hash to verify but can't verify a signature? - Anything else to think about? Lots, I'm sure! It's probably worth also looking at the implementation of signed SMF data to see how they do it. Andrew Rowley -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: smp/e sha-2 support?

2016-05-16 Thread John Eells
e the last. -- 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: smp/e sha-2 support?

2016-05-16 Thread John Eells
that any use of SHA-1 for anything at all is not acceptable whether or not it's security related? Something else? -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: Dataset space information

2016-05-10 Thread John Eells
Specifically the volser followed the DSN followed by a '1' I assume for format 1 DSCB for by the volser again Sent from my iPhone On May 10, 2016, at 2:52 PM, John Eells <ee...@us.ibm.com> wrote: What information are you trying to get, exactly? michelbutz wrote: Hi I need to obtain dataset

Re: Dataset space information

2016-05-10 Thread John Eells
What information are you trying to get, exactly? michelbutz wrote: Hi I need to obtain dataset space information -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: IBM secure z/OS software delivery: Don't get locked out!

2016-05-10 Thread John Eells
John Eells wrote: Gibney, David Allen wrote: If you look back a bit in IBM-MAIN this year, you will find the thread where I also had missed ordering these FMIDs with z/OS 2.1 IBM was able to send me (via DVD) an z/OS 2.1 order which did contain them. And I was able to use BUILDMCS to extract

Re: CSA Shrank in DR

2016-05-10 Thread John Eells
elbow room for day-to-day changes. You should be able to find my old post in the archives somewhere... -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send emai

Re: IBM secure z/OS software delivery: Don't get locked out!

2016-05-10 Thread John Eells
install the feature from a CBPDO. -- John Eells (reloading brain after vacation) IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: How to copy one pack IPL'able z/OS to DVD.

2016-04-29 Thread John Eells
. Not quite what you were imagining but at a macro level this is the same as "get a basic z/OS going," and "use SMP/E to download your" ServerPac or CBPDO, install it, and customized it for IPL. This has all been there since z/OS V1.1

Re: PDS I/O Performance Improvement

2016-04-28 Thread John Eells
a "parmlib" in the generic sense, and not "a data set in the systems parmlib concatenation," then convert away... -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acces

Re: How to copy one pack IPL'able z/OS to DVD.

2016-04-27 Thread John Eells
n't see anything in the BUILDSA sections.​ -- 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: How to copy one pack IPL'able z/OS to DVD.

2016-04-27 Thread John Eells
on DVD, and you can get z/OS using either one (ServerPac is, of course, recommended as it's far less work). A fairly high percentage of ServerPac orders are on DVD. As Jim posted, z/OS IPL from the HMC is not supported. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: How to copy one pack IPL'able z/OS to DVD.

2016-04-27 Thread John Eells
o put dump files of your own on DVD and restore from them using the HMC's DVD drive, I suggest you put in a requirement using RFE. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acc

Re: Question about space allocation from Listcat display

2016-04-26 Thread John Eells
which corresponds to phyrec-size*phyrecks/trk * 85344. I would expect that at least the HI-A-RBA should be 85344 * 56K = 4893966336 ??? => there is about 0.8 GB wasted in this allocation In the listcat data displayed, there is nothing saying that there is a waste ? Can you comment about this ?

Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge

2016-04-25 Thread John Eells
HFS data sets - Parmlib concatenation data sets - XRC Control, Master, or Cluster non-VSAM data sets This should *not* be read to mean or imply that everything that is not listed here is supported above the line. It's just the list of things I know about that don't work. -- John Eells

Re: FW: Respack Volume Size Challenge

2016-04-22 Thread John Eells
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 the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge

2016-04-21 Thread John Eells
et). Can you elaborate a bit? -- 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: Respack Volume Size Challenge

2016-04-21 Thread John Eells
u can see the effects by displaying what's on each volume if you have more than one. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@lists

Re: Fixcat vs Hardware PSP Buckets

2016-04-14 Thread John Eells
but for simplicity's sake I'd recommend using IBM.Device.Server.* and whatever functional FIXCATs you need as described in the PSP. Please let us know if the PSP's instructions should be clarified somehow. -- John Eells IBM

Re: Fixcat vs Hardware PSP Buckets

2016-04-13 Thread John Eells
). Following the directions in the PSP should pull those in as needed. On the other hand, if you followed the directions in the PSP to specify all the FIXCATs we say you should use, and you were still missing PTFs needed for your z13s, we need to fix that! -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee

Re: Fixcat vs Hardware PSP Buckets

2016-04-07 Thread John Eells
to structure them to make it easy to find what you need and to provide the FIXCATs needed to streamline checking for the PTFs you need. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: ISPF library Full

2016-04-01 Thread John Eells
new, larger library. This library will need to have another name. - Change your logon procedure to use the new library. If we try the above method, there might be impact to the users who are logged in. yes, its in sysplex and it is allocated in non-sms volume -- John Eells IBM Poughkeep

Fwd: Re: IMS V14 Installation

2016-03-31 Thread John Eells
/Redbooks.nsf/RedpieceAbstracts/sg248329.html?Open Forwarded Message Subject: Re: IMS V14 Installation Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 15:42:17 -0400 From: John Eells <ee...@us.ibm.com> To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu> As you are the one who would sel

Re: What is SMC-D?

2016-03-30 Thread John Eells
://www-01.ibm.com/software/network/commserver/SMCR/ -- 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

Re: IMS V14 Installation

2016-03-28 Thread John Eells
.Z S0047.CPPSMS.OS220119.SMPE.IMST200.SMPSCDS.pax.Z S0048.CPPSMS.OS220119.IMS.DLIB.CSI.pax.Z S0049.CPPSMS.OS220119.IMS.TARGET.CSI.pax.Z S0050.ROOTIMS.200.pax.Z S0051.CPPSMS.OS220119.GLOBAL.CSI.pax.Z 3) Do I have to setup unzip JCL for each of these pack files on Order and content directory separately. 4

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: IBM z/OS Product Documentation 2016

2016-03-25 Thread John Eells
survey...there's a write-in box you can use for the page forward and back function you want. Here's the link again: https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/2626267/IBM-z-OS-Product-Documentation-Survey-2016 -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: z890 in my basement

2016-03-24 Thread John Eells
Neale Ferguson wrote: > For those who saw Connor at SHARE or Hillgang. He spoke at POK today: > > https://twitter.com/rossmauri/status/712740819376193536 > And, it was a lot of fun to hear the story again! -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee..

Re: Freeing up space in a VSAM file

2016-03-15 Thread John Eells
heard of only one pathological application so far. Of course, it was one of ours here at IBM. (You can't make this stuff up.) -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: IBM secure z/OS software delivery: Don't get locked out!

2016-03-09 Thread John Eells
com/software/support/BlueDiamondRegistration.html -- 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: Problem applying UA71619 anyone ?

2016-03-09 Thread John Eells
So, just to close the loop...do we correctly document the required options? ESHEL Jonathan wrote: Thank you John. The problem was found thanks to Tony H. as a wrong HLASM compile option used by us - COMPAT(SYSLIST). Regards, Jonathan On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 12:29:48 -0500, John Eells <

Re: z/OS Security Level 3 woes

2016-03-08 Thread John Eells
after what IBM sent you), and add a DDDEF entry for it. As John Eells mentioned you could still have some issues with modules at differing levels of maintenance. But lets get your buildmcs done, received, and an applycheck run and see where to go next... SMP/E APPLY processing wi

Re: Problem applying UA71619 anyone ?

2016-03-08 Thread John Eells
, so obviously the resulting LA instruction gets an error. If we are the only ones having this problem, we must be doing something very weird ... Regards, Jonathan -Message d'origine----- De : John Eells [mailto:ee...@us.ibm.com] Envoyé : mercredi 2 mars 2016 17:14 Objet : Re: Problem applying

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