If you feel in control
you just aren't going fast enough.
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Subject: Re: XCFAS holding OMVS and XCF CDSes
I
A sysmod can have multiple SOURCEIDs. If you receive a sysmod and specify
your own SOURCEID, yours is added to any that are already supplied in the
PTF being delivered. I do this all the time.
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J.O.Skip Robinson
Southern California Edison Company
Electric Dragon Team Paddler
SHARE MVS
I just now did several PSWITCH and ACOUPLE commands to clean up from a
recent mix-up. No problem as long as *each* command includes TYPE= . For
(I think) historical reasons, omitting TYPE= implies TYPE=SYSPLEX because
in the Garden of Eden, that was all there was. (See what that snake did?)
In
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Date: 02/10/2014 04:14 PM
Subject:Re: SMP/E SYSMOD SOURCEID(s)?
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On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 16:03:40 -0800, Skip Robinson
If no PTFs will APPLY in a particular effort, you're treated to a special
message and return code:
GIM24801S ** NO SYSMODS SATISFIED THE OPERANDS SPECIFIED ON THE APPLY
COMMAND.
GIM20501IAPPLY PROCESSING IS COMPLETE. THE HIGHEST RETURN CODE WAS 12.
Aside from the how of creating your own VVDS, I'm concerned about the why.
OK, if an existing VVDS fills up, that's a why. Otherwise, you might
consider creating your own VVDS at the outset if the default size or
location is likely not appropriate for the volume. For example, a huge
volume
I believe that the STP-to-9037 scenario was envisioned as an emergency
fallback option, not an upgrade (or rather downgrade) procedure. The
kicker is that your z10 does not have the STP feature now, but the z10 is
no longer upgradable. The only possibility I see is to acquire a different
CEC,
At any given time, we seem to have a some PTFs--a cupful, not a bucket
load--that should not be in the GLOBAL zone at all. They are for product
releases that have already been superseded. For example, at the moment we
have in RECEIVE status PTF UA58781 PTF for FMID HENV54B dated 11.157.
This
ICHRDSNT comes with RACF as a MOD/LMOD entity only. There is no source
supplied. You can create a usermod with source to replace the MOD/LMOD.
You must use the same DISTLIB as the RACF-supplied MOD, which is AOSBN.
Otherwise you'll get a mismatch error. Here's what our DSNT usermod looks
like.
I like this answer best of all. If you're hiring a mid- or senior-level
person, then you have to focus on experience. But for entry-level, it's
all about potential.
A corollary to #8 is that the value of business data goes far beyond
retaining one's personal best score in Burning Babies. The
There was a time when I promoted (at least) two userids for system support
folks. SLED DASD was far less reliable than today's virtual arrays, It was
a dreadfully monotonous occurrence for a DASD failure to hang up a system
or an entire shared complex. A TSO user could easily get hung up trying
For logon reconnect, you also have to make sure that TSOKEY00 contains a
nonzero value for RECONLIM= , This is the number of minutes that the
system will 'preserve' a disconnected session. For reasons lost to time,
we had '0' for this parameter for a long time. Zero says not to preserve
such a
Good catch. In my recent SHARE pitch on system symbols, I strongly
recommend that all installation-defined symbols be a full eight characters
long regardless of initially anticipated value. In addition, I recommend
that all such symbols be prefixed with an installation identifier, such
as
If you need to ramp up your ZIIP usage, DB2 V10 may be riding to your
rescue. IBM is currently warning customers that over-using ZIIPs may lead
to serious performance problems because of the way z/OS manages them vs.
the way it manages general purpose CPs. You can't be too rich, too thin,
or
AM
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On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 07:48:42 -0800, Skip Robinson wrote:
Good catch. In my recent SHARE pitch on system symbols, I strongly
recommend that all installation-defined symbols
the product is
installed.
Joel C. Ewing
On 01/22/2014 01:13 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 07:48:42 -0800, Skip Robinson wrote:
Good catch. In my recent SHARE pitch on system symbols, I strongly
recommend that all installation-defined symbols be a full eight
characters
It's days from Friday, but I have to comment. Like a puzzle for my
granddaughter: which question is not (stupid) like the others? As if it
were imponderable and unanswerable outside the realm of fancy: why are
tennis balls fuzzy? The answer is that they were originally smooth and
fast and very
Others have offered good reasons for V XCF,OFF rather than just RESETting
an LPAR. Here's another. With a minimal amount of configuration, you can
enable 'reIPL' to act on this command:
V XCF,sysname,OFF,REIPL
ReIPL is immediate and can only use the current sysres volume. That's not
always
We installed TADz as POC. It was easy to install, easy to run, and easy to
clone among sysplexes. AFAIK it requires DB2 on every system you want to
monitor.
Then Corporate policy turned to BMC DISCOVERY in part because it had
already been established on other platforms. DISCOVERY uses what I
(Quoting my reply to the same question on RACF-L)
We get 'create like' requests quite often, as if there were some Like
button we could push to clone a userid. It's actually pretty complex. A
LISTUSER does not show all salient attributes. For example, to show
allowed logon PROC(s), you have to
If you can get advice from IBM, I'd go for that. Meanwhile you might try
this NON-PER trap:
SL SET,ID=NDMP,A=NOSVCD,LPAMOD=IEFJRASP,ABEND=S0C4
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JO.Skip Robinson
Southern California Edison Company
Electric Dragon Team Paddler
SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager
626-302-7535 Office
323-715-0595
Make that
SL SET,ID=NDMP,A=NOSVCD,LPAMOD=IEFJRASP,C=0C4
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JO.Skip Robinson
Southern California Edison Company
Electric Dragon Team Paddler
SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager
626-302-7535 Office
323-715-0595 Mobile
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From: Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.com
Chase jonboy...@gmail.com
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Date: 01/16/2014 11:42 AM
Subject:Re: Need help setting up SLIP trap
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On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:09:45 -0800, Skip Robinson wrote:
Make that
SL SET,ID=NDMP
We ran for several years with a z/10 and a z9, both ECs. I was concerned
enough about speed difference that I configured an extra ICF engine on the
z9. We ran with system managed duplex, so I didn't want to risk delays
caused by mismatch. We seemed to run fine during that period. We operate
An intriguing question in view of the absence of tabs in the conventional
EBCDIC character set. My emulator (Vista3270) is pretty rich, but even if
I could somehow type a tab character into an MVS file, what would z/OS do
with it?
As to your question, I would prefer
Parm2=FOOtabBAR
words. Reports are formatted with blanks between
fields, and the pagination controlled with characters that do not
correspond
to the nominal EBCDIC control characters.
Charles
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I owe the List a debt of gratitude. Late in 2013 I rolled out an RSU
package that I thought would prepare us for 2.1. While casually perusing
this thread, I discovered with growing horror that my maintenance bundle
had failed to include the bulk of the FIXCAT list, including hardware
support
Since ancient times we have associated our in-house VIO esoteric ('VIODA'
for some reason) with a group of arbitrary devices. For decades SMS has
actually managed VIO requests. The defined devices were physically removed
a while back, but we only just now removed them from IODF. Now HCD warns
As long as new data sets are *at least as big* as the old ones, dynamic
switching works fine. For sake of clarity, I like to run with all data
sets having a suffix of '00' so that no one--including me--gets confused
about which ones are current. It takes an extra step, but once you're
running
it sits arounnd the house. We installed DB2 V10 over the
weekend on one development sysplex member in compatibility mode. The
system would not run with messages about insufficient pageable storage.
This a smallish LPAR used primarily to test/validate DB2 data sharing and
Long before 'RSU' was a twinkle in IBM's eye, we adopted a 'level
tracking' system based on an arbitrary alpha designation from A - Z. For
example, R13S. Each time maintenance is applied to the z/OS target zone,
the level is incremented and zapped into NUCLEUS. This field was chosen
decades
Consulting assistance is certainly a good idea, but the coin has two
sides. My shop converted from ACF2 to RACF before I came here in the mid
90s. Without being familiar with the environment, the consultant employed
a fairly mechanical conversion that attempted to carry forward as much as
It's days from Friday, but I can't resist. The NSA can intercept calls to
US(S) or anywhere else. You don't even have to ask.
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JO.Skip Robinson
Southern California Edison Company
Electric Dragon Team Paddler
SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager
626-302-7535 Office
323-715-0595 Mobile
I didn't make clear in the original posting that this is an IEFACTRT
component. I had thought in the beginning that the code was based 'AN OLD
VERSION OF CODE NOW SUPPLIED IN SYS1.SAMPLIB(IEEACTRT)' (per a comment in
the usermod) but scouring SAMPLIB for the particular lines in question
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Date: 12/14/2013 08:52 PM
Subject:Re: EXCP Counts in SMF Exit
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Doesn't SDSF get the counts from SMF 30? Assuming so, have
I think an ironic subtext in this discussion is the that companies that
employ mainframe typically entrust it with their most precious family
jewels. So even as management disparages mainframe network access, they
still value it as the best place to keep the most valuable data. And when
a
by SMF. I don't
know about VSAM. DB2 and IMS use Media Manager internally, which uses
STARTIO internally, so their I/Os are not automatically counted in SMF.
Bill Fairchild
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I don't see that 'commands' like ID or WHOAMI are true z/OS components. We
have some variations of these as CLIST or Rexx that live in
installation-defined libraries.
Obtaining additional data for such commands may depend on the authority of
the user. For example, anyone can issue LU
,
Date: 12/13/2013 09:51 AM
Subject:Re: OMVS UID display
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On 12/13/2013 10:35 AM, Skip Robinson wrote:
I don't see that 'commands' like ID or WHOAMI are true z/OS components.
We
have some variations of these as CLIST
We use an SMF exit modeled on SAMPLIB(SCEACTMS). For each step, it formats
various stats in the job message log for every device used. It works well
most of the time, but for a particular job in a particular where we really
need to see some values, the crucial lines are totally missing. I've
.)
Bob
Skip Robinson wrote:
We use an SMF exit modeled on SAMPLIB(SCEACTMS). For each step, it
formats
various stats in the job message log for every device used. It works
well
most of the time, but for a particular job in a particular where we
really
need to see some values, the crucial
and greater than one. You may need a loop on SMF30EON.
Let me know if you want more detail.
Charles
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Not sure what's meant by having to chain CCWs. I just finished updating an
old RYO program that writes 80 byte records to any device specified
because I needed to test 32K blocks on tape. I merely added a DCBE with
BLKSIZE=0 and pointed to it in the existing DCB. No other changes. Created
a
Dis gotta be a no-brainer. We have a hoary SMF exit that reports BLKSIZE
by device. However, when BLKSIZE 32K via DCBE/LBI, the print area is
blank. Exit displays SMF30BSZ, which I can see is only a halfword. What
SMF field shows the actual BLKSIZE?
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JO.Skip Robinson
Southern California
Mobile
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Date: 12/07/2013 08:47 PM
Subject:SMF BLKSIZE info
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Dis gotta be a no-brainer. We have a hoary SMF exit
That sounds like a good guess. When I pull hold data, I use the following
FTP statements, which gets everything necessary for further processing:
cd /s390/holddata
get full.txt 'my-mvs-data-set' (repl
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JO.Skip Robinson
Southern California Edison Company
Electric Dragon Team Paddler
SHARE
At some point in your SMPE process, HOLDDATA must reside in an ordinary
MVS/DFP file in EBCDIC. I.e. the file that you input to SMPE RECEIVE must
be readable. Check the contents of that file.
Only full.text contains FIXCAT data. Other (smaller) files contain ++HOLD
but not FIXCAT.
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.
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Subject: Re: Global Mirror for DR
A terminology level set. By 'Global Mirror' I assume that you mean XRC,
where a DFSMS task called SDM continuously
The answer is still yes.
First create a Load profile for each LPAR for each IPL mode, such as
production, SAD, or whatever. Give each Profile a meaningful name and set
the load address and loadparm in each profile for that IPL mode. Do the
same for alternate sysres packs.
Create a group
A terminology level set. By 'Global Mirror' I assume that you mean XRC,
where a DFSMS task called SDM continuously transfers data updates from
production disk controllers, stores the updates in journal data sets, then
writes out to 'DR' DASD volumes in consistency groups. In order to 'pull'
Yes to all. You can create as many configurations as you need and
associate them to unique 'group' icons. We have a SAD icon for each
sysplex. It's set to IPL from the (shared) SAD IPL volume and write to the
(shared) SAD pack set.
Group your icons to make them easy for operators to discern.
I happen to have some personal knowledge about the shortage of farmers.
Two of my uncles owned their own farms in southern Idaho. They didn't grow
rich, but they supported their families in very comfortable style. They
both had kids including one boy each. None of the kids in either family
had
Speaking of time: US Daylight Saving Time ends this Sunday November 3. We
all get to relive one hour. Good for sleeping, but problematic for some
software.
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JO.Skip Robinson
Southern California Edison Company
Electric Dragon Team Paddler
SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager
626-302-7535 Office
I confess that I have not tested this maneuver. Doesn't the OSM screen
close as soon as the operating system stops? Maybe not.
In any case, I do know this from experience: if the customer has
configured any NIP console to an OSA device, NIP messages will go only to
that device and not to the
My favorite hot button is itching...The underlying problem here is one
I've trotted out during several user sessions at SHARE: the various
members of SYS1.PARMLIB are managed by the various development groups that
own them. We as customers tend to view PARMLIB as a single entity. It
actually
could have used.
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My favorite hot button is itching...The underlying problem
Without procuring a software product not already in house, I suggest using
native z/OS SLIP trace. You can follow the execution path, capture
registers and data, and even--though risky--alter exit logic to test
fixes/improvements, all without paper work rigamarole. No intention to
demean any
I don't recall using it for this particular exit, but I've used it for
others. The doc on setting up a SLIP trace is pretty good. You run GTF
trace with TRACE=SLIP. If you have trouble locating the module, try using
SETPROG to load it in LPA:
setprog
We've used DWDM between data centers for years. We do DASD mirroring
(XRC), remote tape, and FCTC. DWDM is pretty reliable. It hiccups now and
then. XRC suspends and later resumes. Tape jobs fail and need to be rerun.
Network connections drop and eventually reconnect. All in all the
occasional
The last couple of posts in this thread have overlooked Andy Higgins's
observation that SYSR1--or any symbolic for that matter--cannot be used
to catalog a data set in the PARMLIB concatenation. The reason is that
symbolics are defined in PARMLIB members that themselves cannot be located
and
As has been pointed out, an alias definition lives in the *master*
catalog(s), not in the user catalog itself. An alias in an external
pointer that tells the (current) system how find the catalog containing
the actual data set entry. When a user catalog is EXPORTed and then
IMPORTed, any
I believe that CFCC code requirements are entirely a matter of CFCC
(hardware) level. Each new model from the beginning in the 90s has
required more 'overhead' storage than its predecessor. Size or number of
structures--i.e. amount of user storage allocated--does not matter. From
HMC Op Sys
The only technical reason I know of to manage the SDSF console name is
avoid conflict with another product. In our case SMCS (native VTAM
function) is set up to employ userid as the console name. So in SDSF I
take my six-character userid and append SYSCLONE on each system. Only need
to do it
ZIP is a poignant case. There exists a version of Info-ZIP for z. However,
our copy circa 2000 identifies the maintainer as one Onno van der Linden.
The Info-ZIP web site lists him as a ghost: once involved with the project
but without current contact data. So what shop would want to become
I recently worked a long and involved SR over RC=4 from GETMSG. It's way
worse than a 'warning'. RC=4 means
1. You got no data back in your stem variable. Nada. Nichts. Zip.
2. We're not going to tell you why. Dare you to guess.
As for SOLDISP and UNSOLDISP, they control whether 'solicited'
I think the reason for the paucity of responses is that you've asked a
dozen different questions. You need a dozen different answers. Although
several of the health checks are sysplex related, there's no single answer
even for that subset.
Look at each health check via SDSF. There's a fairly
Although some may disapprove of our practice, it has been in place for
decades. Our SLAs apply to unscheduled outages. As long as an outage is
scheduled, approved, advertized to affected clients, and completed on
time, we are not dinged for it. Of course we try to minimize scheduled
outages,
for PCI-DSS compliance
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at 07:44 AM, Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.com said:
While the most obvious value of STP may be synchronization
The performance advantages of GRS star over ring are *greater* than IBM's
official recommendations even for a minimal configuration. However, the
decision to go parallel is not cost free, requiring memory allocation in
addition to CPU resources.
We have a set of system images whose sole
While the most obvious value of STP may be synchronization of multiple z
CECs in a glass house, it is invaluable for synchronizing all z CECs with
the rest of the enterprise. Like many shops, we have a boatload of Unix
and x86 servers that all participate in running the business in concert
One change mentioned was an intervening POR since the last successful IPL.
POR reinitializes all LPARs on the box with current Image profiles. This
is a rare event in most shops. It may have been a very long time since the
sandbox LPAR was last reactivated, leading to the possibility that some
I haven't seen this problem except when logger is sick. OTOH we use system
logger for other functions: SMF, Operlog, CICS logs. I'm not sure what
makes these puppies go away on a regular basis, but I also thought the
combination of RETPD and AUTODELETE would make them disappear. If a log
Catalog aliases (as opposed to PDS member aliases) have two different
uses.
1. By far the most common is high-level-qualifier such as TSO userid. In
this case, the alias itself lives in the master catalog and
points--RELATEs--to a user catalog that contains one or more actual DSNs
that all
IDC3226I INCONSISTENT PARAMETERS INVOLVING 'NOSCRATCH'
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Skip Robinson
jo.skip.robin...@sce.comwrote:
Catalog aliases (as opposed to PDS member aliases) have two different
uses.
1. By far the most common is high-level-qualifier such as TSO userid
We're having ongoing 'discussions' with our tape vendor over through-put
performance. Vendor is suggesting that we should be using modern man-size
blocks like 256K. I did some simple testing yesterday to satisfy myself
that--whatever it might take to super-size our tape file blocks--simply
for anyone searching this
topic.
Lizette
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Subject: Large BLKSIZE
We're having ongoing 'discussions' with our
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On 08/21/2013 10:53 AM, Skip Robinson wrote:
We're having ongoing 'discussions' with our tape vendor over through-put
performance. Vendor is suggesting that we should be using modern
man-size
blocks like 256K. I did some simple testing yesterday to satisfy myself
This exposure has been known--and discussed publicly--for several years.
It is NOT true that 'passwords are not stored'. If they weren't 'stored'
at all, then how could RACF validate the password you supply? They are in
fact stored in encrypted form. The encryption method itself is not a state
: RACF Database protection
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This exposure has been known--and discussed publicly--for several years.
It is NOT true that 'passwords are not stored
I think the answer is the same for OSA-ICC as for all other 'outside'
accesses to the mainframe: VPN. Let RSA do the heavy lifting. By the time
you reach the console, you have already been validated. You can also
access HMC in the same way.
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JO.Skip Robinson
Southern California Edison
The XMIT/RECEIVE log (named according to your IKJTSO00 specification)
would not necessarily benefit automatically from big blocks. This data set
is MODed onto by each XMIT or RECEIVE action. Hence it typically consists
of (perhaps very) many small physical blocks regardless of labelled
This issue is a modern reincarnation of an old bugaboo dating to the
lifetime of the original non-E SMP. At one time it was more or less
verboten in many shops for a non-Sysprog to use IPCS. Not because of what
a user might see in storage but because IPCS required access to
SYS1.PARMIB. That
I too have experience that predates the 'E' in SMP/E, but I have more
respect for this tool than I can say. A few quick queries hints at what my
current z/OS CSI manages:
MOD- 79,869
LMOD - 31,153
MAC- 8,545
PNL- 13,494
All of these elements are mapped completely, including
Actually I believe that the 'concerned' group is right. Not only do each
of our sysplexes have its own unique RACF data base, one 'bronze-plex'
full-function parallel sysplex has two different RACF data bases. This is
because a while back we bolted together a development plex and a Tier 2
Last time I explored this issue, the problem went beyond 'help'. In many
cases of 'product allocated' files, existing output blocksize was
overridden by 3120 regardless of how it was set ahead of time. I really
don't think that BLKSIZE=0 will cause a problem. You just may not get what
you
My shop is 24 hours every day of the year, leap or otherwise. We never
close. Mainframe here is key to the customer support system, which is
obligated to take and manage customer calls. Any day. Any time.
A few user catalogs are required as long as systems are active. So taking
catalogs out
AFAIK customer retention of obsolete attributes is mostly IBM's problem,
not the customer's. They stopped honoring those attributes on new
allocations years ago, but as long any customers retain them, DFP code
still has to account for them. That means additional regression testing
for pretty
OTOH you could wait until the master file fills up completely. A cheap--if
not easy--way to find out if your pager still works. I know because this
has happened to us a couple of times recently. How smart are we?
As for synching RMM to ICF catalog(s). some installations like ours
actually
It's a bona fide US holiday, which trumps even Friday. I should not take
on someone with a bona fide Germanic name, but German happens to be the
closest thing I have to a (distant) second language.
(Der) alter Kacker is the masculine singular.
Definite article 'der' changes adjective from
I have occasionally used SLIP+IPCS to debug an application program. The
best advice I can offer is to set a SLIP trap for *any* abend. That is, do
not specify an abend code. Something like
SL SET,J=,END
In a complex the task environment, it's possible that the abend you see
(S0C7) is a
I don't know the workings of HSM, but I can offer some advice on dealing
with 'optional' files. In general, an application checks for the presence
of any file by checking for the DDNAME in the allocation. For a file
that's truly optional, absence of the file is 'noted' at start-up so that
no
Again, I don't know HSM. But don't necessarily take whining and gnashing
of teeth as 'failure'. HSM is letting you know (loudly) that a DD
statement is missing in case you overlooked it. You might actually take
heart in
*ARC0134I BACKUP CONTROL DATA SET NOT OPENED, BACKUP
ARC0134I (CONT.)
During the Test under Mask thread I was moved to consult this bible for
the first time in ages. Dual column format is a major PITA. Took me twice
as long to chase the bouncing ball. Totally unwarranted in the age of
online browsing.
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JO.Skip Robinson
Southern California Edison Company
I think Gil is on to something here. At SHARE conferences following
announcement of the change, I got the impression that rank and file
thought it was major overkill--even killing by friendly fire--to control
product usage in this way. But the shotgun solution was mandated from on
high to
The text of health check XCF_DEFAULT_MAXMSG says this:
CHECK PARM: 2000
IXCH0426I The XCF transport class MAXMSG value is currently equal to or
larger than the owner specified value 2000.
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JO.Skip Robinson
Southern California Edison Company
Electric Dragon Team Paddler
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FTPS is an issue separate from 'getting through a firewall' to exchange
data with IBM. We've performed data exchange with IBM and other vendors
for years *without* FTPS, i.e. not using TLS security, which requires
additional commands in the FTP stream. In our case we use an appliance to
'punch
The opportunity to do any upgrade whatever on z9 or even z10 has long
expired. If you could afford to buy your way out of this problem, you
could afford fresh iron. ;-)
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JO.Skip Robinson
Southern California Edison Company
Electric Dragon Team Paddler
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Enter TSO PROFILE command (at Ready, ISPF 6, or 'TSO xxx'). You should see
MSGID. If not, enter PROF MSGID. The next time you enter COPY, you will
see a message id on the prompt. That will/should tell what component
you're running.
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JO.Skip Robinson
Southern California Edison Company
I'm not sure how 'easy' it is to keep current with z/OS maintenance, but
LE libraries are included with the operating system and need to be kept up
to date. I trust that before potentially disruptive compiler changes
become GA, IBM will have released LE PTFs to accommodate those changes. An
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