Re: Reloading a member of ELPA

True, it won't reuse the space in ELPA, but will use some space in ECSA for the new module. Unless you're very short on ECSA, it's not a concern to do so. Mark Jacobs Hilary Hurwitz September 26, 2016 at 6:44 AM Our shared Natural nucleus (SAG products site here)

Re: Translating a DEVTYPE from LISTC into something usable?

I haven't looked, but maybe the UCB mapping macro. Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA) September 22, 2016 at 1:08 PM Does anyone have any suggestions (or code) that will convert the DEVTYPE returned from a LISTC into something meaningful to a human? For example a LISTC for a

Re: SMP/E Receive FROMNETWORK

Have you setup ftps or https for SMP/E downloads? Lopez, Sharon September 14, 2016 at 4:08 PM We are trying to SMP/E RECEIVE FROMNETWORK and we are getting the message that SSL is mandatory. Does anyone have any sample JCL they would like to share? Did the entire

Re: SAD testing in sysplex

If you vary the system out of the sysplex first it'll be put in a non-recoverable wait state. Your SAD test will certainly work, but you're testing it in a non-realistic scenario. A really good test of your total system environment would be to simulate a hard system crash and see how the

Re: ACEE user name

It might be cached in VLF. Mark Jacobs Jesse 1 Robinson August 13, 2016 at 1:05 PM We have a program that pulls the job owner's user name from the ACEE. In order to test a problem, I altered the user name in my own RACF profile. However, the ACEE in the batch

Re: HMC automation

BCPii services should be able to accomplish what you want. If you have Netview, and it's configured to do so, it can be your BCPii logic. Mark Jacobs Robert McElhaney June 27, 2016 at 11:45 AM I want to investigate CBU turn up for 2964-502 to 2964-407. I may

Re: Testing SFM policy

Since Quiesce will put the system in a restartable wait state, I'd think that the XCF heartbeat would stop too. Mark Jacobs Jesse 1 Robinson June 6, 2016 at 7:32 PM I'd like to test my Sysplex Failure Management policy. The question is how to make a system

Re: PDS I/O Performance Improvement

Is it defined to VLF? Kreiter IBM-Main April 28, 2016 at 8:32 AM Hello, I'm looking for some suggestions on how to possibly improve I/O performance to a PDS. A user is running a job that is reading a large parmlib (through PROJCL I believe). I think

Re: ISPF library Full

Maybe instead of a customer option, use a RACF profile which would allow finer granularity on who and/or what datasets can be compressed with DISP=SHR Mark Jacobs Peter Relson April 1, 2016 at 8:24 AM In general, I'd change "probably" to "definitely". Of course

Re: Concatenation order in LPALST

It's not required but a good practice to have SYS1.LPALIB first in the LPALST unless you know what you're doing. Mark Jacobs Nathan Astle February 16, 2016 at 7:51 AM Hi, Apology for asking dummy question. Is there a reason on why we need to place Security

Re: STP Question

[mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs - Listserv Sent: 20 January, 2016 13:15 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: STP Question It's being configured that way by our outsourcer, we no longer have control over the configuration. I agree with you, but wanted to see if there's

Re: STP Question

Yea, that was my thought too. Just wanted to ask around. Thanks. Mark Jacobs R.S. wrote: W dniu 2016-01-20 o 15:52, Mark Jacobs - Listserv pisze: Our LPARs are being hosted on a single CEC which also might include other client LPARs. All I'm seeing in operlog is that the STP timing network

Re: STP Question

is to coordinate time between the CECs. When you have only one, there is nothing to coordinate anymore. Kees. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs - Listserv Sent: 19 January, 2016 21:06 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject

STP Question

We're moving from a three CEC configuration, with all STP rolls, Primary/Backup/Arbiter defined, to a singe CEC that's defined as the Primary, with no backup or arbiter defined to the STP network. I'm not seeing any additional risks, since we're already running in "all our eggs in one basket

Re: What does the 8th character of Load parm mean

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Re: Straightforward way to determine hardware architecture level?

We had an operator named Sheldon, who had the habit of resting his elbow on the POR? button on the console keyboard (3033 maybe). After this happened a couple of times we installed a pill box cover over the button and named it the "Sheldon Shield". Mark Jacobs J O Skip Robinson

Re: What does the 8th character of Load parm mean

It's less useful than it once was, and I don't see any need to use anything other than the default (1) any longer. IEANUC01, IEANUC11 and IEANUC21 are logically the same nucleus; IEANUC01, V=V Nucleus Modules IEANUC11, V=R Nucleus Modules, 31 Bit, not used any longer (Look at the length of

Moving a Sysplex

Would a GDPS like solution work for moving a sysplex from here to there, where the there is over 1200 miles from here, without taking a sysplex outage? -- Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service Technology and Product Engineering The standard you walk past, is the standard you accept. Lieutenant

Re: Moving a Sysplex

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Re: I just bought an IBM z890

I still have an entire box (2500) of unpunched punch cards at home. :) Mark Jacobs Connor Krukosky November 7, 2015 at 12:59 PM Hah awesome! I only have a few hundred punched cards at the moment, need to grab more once I get the 026 running so I can allow

Re: How to change SMS

Can't you just do an ALTER ADDVOLUMES(* * *) on that dataset? Mark Jacobs Bill Ashton October 30, 2015 at 1:34 PM Hi friends! One of our users is working with a file that is currently defined to a special Dataclass with 3 volumes (it is pretty full already). They

Re: Driving System for z/OS 2.1 ServerPac Install

The only concern I'd have is that certain jobs in the ServerPac use the target systems MIGLIB as a joblib/steplib. If those executed programs use instructions not available on the z990... It's probably not an issue however. Mark Jacobs Porowski, Ken October 30,

Re: SSH Client

I think it's the function of the shell. My OMVS segment specifies /bin/tcsh which I find has more functionally that /bin/sh (which is the default shell). Mark Jacobs Mark Pace October 9, 2015 at 1:10 PM When I logon to a linux system I can start typing a

Re: How the determine dataset is PDSE

Looks like the ISITMGD macro/system service can ascertain if a dataset is a PDSE. Mark Jacobs Savor, Thomas (Norcross) October 5, 2015 at 2:44 PM Ok, I think I see DSNTYPE field can be returned from DYNALLOCif I can figure TEXT UNITS fields

Re: OSMF server startup error

You're at base Java 7.0. Mine is at SR3 FP1. It says so in many places in the -version display. Mark Jacobs Mark Pace October 2, 2015 at 9:55 AM # /usr/lpp/java/J7.0_64/bin/java -version java version "1.7.0" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

This is the last week that Time Inc employees will be responsible for our zOS and zVM Tampa Data Center. Support and services is being outsourced to IBM and AT, and sometime in 2016 our mainframe LPARs will be moved to IBM's zCloud environment. I'm one of the few Data Center employees being

Re: JES2 - get system name without JCT addressability.

If your system naming conventions are consistent, JES2 Member Name == SMF ID == SYSNAME, you can easily get the SMF ID by looking in the SMCA. Mark Jacobs Leonardo Vaz September 1, 2015 at 3:22 PM Hello list! I am trying to get the name of the system where a JOB

Re: Smaller Private Area in DR

Might be related to the number of devices defined to the environment. Are you talking about above or below private? Mark Jacobs Phil mailto:philyo...@gmail.com August 27, 2015 at 2:32 PM Hello All, What could cause private area to shrink 1M when the system is IPL'd on a different machine as

Re: z/OS 2.2 announcement

I'd plan on putting in the order for zOS 2.1 not much later than mid-August. Mark Jacobs Gibney, David Allen,Jr mailto:gib...@wsu.edu July 28, 2015 at 5:10 PM Looks nice, won't run on my z9. I just spent awhile trying to find the definitive statement as to what date z/OS 2.1 will be withdrawn

Re: Integrity APAR GIYF (not!?)

Google, or any public search engine (yourself included) isn't going to be able to find out information on integrity apars, since IBM keeps them very tightly wrapped internally. Once it closes and a PTF is available you'll be able to get some information from their security website. Mark

IBM Orderservers

I've been receiving timeouts this morning when contacting the two IBM orderservers, https://eccgw02.rochester.ibm.com/ https://eccgw01.boulder.ibm.com Is anyone else having a problem? I contacted our network people and they're seeing traffic to those IP addresses from the mainframe when I

Re: IBM Orderservers

@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs - Listserv Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 10:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: IBM Orderservers I've been receiving timeouts this morning when contacting the two IBM orderservers, https://eccgw02.rochester.ibm.com/ https://eccgw01.boulder.ibm.com Is anyone

Re: IBM Orderservers

Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs - Listserv Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 11:03 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM Orderservers I tried that server and received an java ssl handshake exception error. Mark Jacobs

Re: GRS Control Unit ( Was IBM mainframe operations in the 80s)

I don't remember the device number but it was used for CTC communications using bus and tag cables. Mark Jacobs Elardus Engelbrecht mailto:elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za June 12, 2015 at 9:53 AM I have watched that nice video, bringing back memories of those 3800, 3380, 3090, 3420 and such

Re: GRS Control Unit ( Was IBM mainframe operations in the 80s)

Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs - Listserv Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 10:02 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: GRS Control Unit ( Was IBM mainframe operations in the 80s) I don't remember the device number

Re: Corrupt PDSE - IGW699I PDSE Directory Validation Unsuccessful

Could it have been shared(R/W) outside of a sysplex boundary? Mark Jacobs Thomas Berg mailto:thomas.b...@swedbank.se May 25, 2015 at 8:43 PM Got a corrupt PDSE. Will throw the problem at some of the responsible sysprogs. But in the meantime I wonder if any of the esteem members of this list

Re: Corrupt PDSE - IGW699I PDSE Directory Validation Unsuccessful

-MAIN Mark Jacobs - Listserv mailto:mark.jac...@custserv.com May 25, 2015 at 9:09 PM Could it have been shared(R/W) outside of a sysplex boundary? Mark Jacobs Thomas Berg mailto:thomas.b...@swedbank.se May 25, 2015 at 8:43 PM Got a corrupt PDSE. Will throw the problem at some of the responsible

Re: Corrupt PDSE - IGW699I PDSE Directory Validation Unsuccessful

with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Mark Jacobs - Listserv mailto:mark.jac...@custserv.com May 25, 2015 at 9:50 PM Three more questions. 1. Do you have all the required toleration maintenance applied on your 1.13 system? 2. Does the hang occur on all systems in the sysplex or just one? 1. If only

Re: Corrupt PDSE - IGW699I PDSE Directory Validation Unsuccessful

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Re: Question on 3270 Devices

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Assembler data types to JSON.

Can anyone point me to a document for best practices (or recommendations) for mapping Assembler data types to JSON. One of our developers has a requirement to do so. -- Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service Technology and Product Engineering The standard you walk past, is the standard you accept.

Re: Security vulnerability for RSU updates

As a general rule, the higher the RSU level the more security and integrity fixes will be included. The only way you'll know for sure is to access IBM's portal and download the special holddata. https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/redAlerts/20130227.html Nathan Astle

Re: DFHSM and RLS

It's been several years since I've setup RLS, but I believe that there's two structures, one cache and one lock. I can look in the morning for confirmation. Mark Jacobs Lizette Koehler mailto:stars...@mindspring.com May 12, 2015 at 6:03 PM Just a quick question. When setting up the HSM xCDS

Re: Maintenance to RSU1503 Problem

I just installed RSU1503 in a test system (zOS 1.13), and I'm not having any problems with ZFS. Mark Jacobs Pesce, Andy mailto:andy.pe...@autozone.com May 4, 2015 at 10:01 AM I didn't see an update from anyone on this. I updated a test machine to RSU1503. Now I am having issues with ZFS

Re: DFDSS QUESTION :

PARM='TYPRUN=NORUN is your friend. It'll syntax check your control cards and tell you what datasets will be processed, bit not actually process them. Mark Jacobs willie bunter mailto:001409bd2345-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu April 29, 2015 at 10:30 AM Good Day, I am attempting to back

Re: IBMLINK SR Down?

is a phish or aren't sure whether this message is trustworthy, please send the original message as an attachment to 'phish...@timeinc.com'. Mark Jacobs - Listserv mailto:mark.jac...@custserv.com April 22, 2015 at 11:18 AM I'm getting an *Http/1.1 Service Unavailable* message when I try to enter

IBMLINK SR Down?

I'm getting an *Http/1.1 Service Unavailable* message when I try to enter the application. Is it just me? -- Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service Technology and Product Engineering The standard you walk past, is the standard you accept. Lieutenant General David Morrison

Re: Change ROOT without IPL

ALTROOT support is designed for the SYSPLEX root, not the VERSION root. If it actually does change the VERSION root, results are very predicable, i.e. nothing good. Mark Jacobs van der Grijn, Bart (B) mailto:bvandergr...@dow.com April 16, 2015 at 7:23 AM Jake, look for ALTROOT in the Unix

Re: Cross-post from mvsoe - FOTS1842 problem renaming PRNG seedfile

You might want to consider upgrading ICSF to HCR77A1 or higher. If you do you'll be able to use the hardware based random number generator even if your processor doesn't have CryptoExpress cards installed. Mark Jacobs Dazzo, Matt mailto:00a854d4f854-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu April

Re: Cross-post from mvsoe - FOTS1842 problem renaming PRNG seedfile

at this time. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs - Listserv Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 7:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Cross-post from mvsoe - FOTS1842 problem renaming PRNG seedfile

Re: IDEAL SIZE OF VTOC VVDS FOR PAGE VOLUME

With one dataset (I'm assuming) on the volume, a one track VTOC is sufficient, and you really don't need an index on it either. Mark Jacobs John Dawes mailto:jhn_da...@yahoo.com.au March 31, 2015 at 9:48 AM G'Day, I have to initialise a 3390-9 volume as a PAGE volume. What would be the

Re: SDSF ISF121I message

Examine your IEFUSI exit. That'll have the final vote for virtual storage sizes for your non-authorized address spaces. BTW, 1MB for MEMLIMIT is very small. A reasonable size is more on the order of 4GB. Mark Jacobs Neal Eckhardt mailto:neckha...@cnyric.org March 30, 2015 at 2:34 PM We

Re: SDSF ISF121I message

Ok then. I still think that 1MB is way too small for MEMLIMIT. Is there a reason why you selected that value? Mark Jacobs Neal Eckhardt mailto:neckha...@cnyric.org March 30, 2015 at 3:08 PM We do not provide an IEFUSI exit. The standard IBM supplied dummy exit is all that there is in

Re: APF-authorized calling non-authorized

V1R13 I believe. Mark Jacobs Charles Mills mailto:charl...@mcn.org March 16, 2015 at 11:34 AM ... any more, as of V2R1 (or was it V1R13)? Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, March

Re: Symbol in OMVS HOME directory?

Sorry, I misread your post. I'll see if I can find some information here. Mark Jacobs Dana Mitchell mailto:mitchd...@gmail.com March 3, 2015 at 1:52 PM Mark, I'm not sure what you mean I have: /etc/auto.master contains: /u /etc/u.map /etc/u.map contains: name * type ZFS filesystem

Re: Symbol in OMVS HOME directory?

Why aren't you using auto.master in /etc for automounting? It works like a charm, and is well documented. Mark Jacobs Dana Mitchell mailto:mitchd...@gmail.com March 3, 2015 at 1:35 PM I'm implementing automount for users' home directories where none existed before. I'd like to do something

Re: Symbol in OMVS HOME directory?

I found something in the Security Server RACF Security Administrators Guide, Enabling default OMVS segments processing that looks promising. Mark Jacobs Dana Mitchell mailto:mitchd...@gmail.com March 3, 2015 at 1:52 PM Mark, I'm not sure what you mean I have: /etc/auto.master contains:

Re: Strange LE / link list behaviour

My best guess is that the LE module when loaded into storage from an APF authorized library is loaded into a store protected subpool, and the program is attempting to alter the LE load module in error. What flavor of 0C4 are you getting? Mark Jacobs Ken MacKenzie

Re: CA/Reclaim Question

to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Mark Jacobs - Listserv mailto:mark.jac...@custserv.com February 11, 2015 at 11:27 PM We have a VSAM KSDS that was allocated and populated with data prior to the CA/Reclaim function being available. This evening we had to reorg the dataset

CA/Reclaim Question

We have a VSAM KSDS that was allocated and populated with data prior to the CA/Reclaim function being available. This evening we had to reorg the dataset, and the REPRO back used the same physical dataset with the REPLACE and REUSE options. Does this enable CA/RECLAIM for the dataset, or do

z10 BC LPAR Capping question

This isn't my area of expertise, but I've been asked if we can define a capacity defined group and also have one of the members of the group have a hard cap enabled. This is on a z10 BC processor. -- Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service Technology and Product Engineering The standard you walk

Re: SFTP in a batch job

You should really, really use public key authentication instead of user/passwords. Mark Jacobs Dana Mitchell mailto:mitchd...@gmail.com February 4, 2015 at 4:42 PM Hello All, We have a need to implement sftp transfers in place of some ftp batch jobs. I have installed IBM Ported Tools

Re: AW: CICS 3.2 under z/OS 2.1?

CICS/TS 3.2 is supported until September 30, 2015. Mark Jacobs Christian Birr mailto:christian.b...@birrconsulting.de January 22, 2015 at 2:59 PM Works, but unsupported. ;-) Christian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im

Re: AW: CICS 3.2 under z/OS 2.1?

/os 2.1? Just curious: why to install old unsupported CICS under new shining z/OS? On Thu, 22 Jan 2015 17:18:58 -0500, Mark Jacobs - Listserv wrote: CICS/TS 3.2 is supported until September 30, 2015. CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V3.2 (5655-M15) is supported until 2015-12-31 http://www-01

Re: IKJ56220I max # of datasets reached

My first guess is that it's related to system resources needed to support dynamic allocation in a 24-bit address space of the time. Mark Jacobs Paul Gilmartin wrote: My first guess is that it's related to system resources needed to support dynamic allocation in a 24-bit address space of the

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