Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS)

2015-07-15 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 7006637956401197.wa.elardus.engelbrechtsita.co...@listserv.ua.edu, on 07/13/2015 at 10:19 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za said: Perhaps, but, Shmuel, what will YOU do if you are in the same position which John is talking? What position? Or didn't you catch that

Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS)

2015-07-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 559bf24e.5050...@us.ibm.com, on 07/07/2015 at 11:37 AM, John Eells ee...@us.ibm.com said: Even if you are sure you will never need it. You're paranoid, but are you paranoid enough? Finagle has not failed me yet. Always look for more failure modes and find them before they find you. --

Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS)

2015-07-13 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: John Eells ee...@us.ibm.com said: Even if you are sure you will never need it. You're paranoid, but are you paranoid enough? Perhaps, but, Shmuel, what will YOU do if you are in the same position which John is talking? Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht

Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS)

2015-07-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In p06240800d1c5bdfc20a1@[192.168.1.11], on 07/10/2015 at 02:26 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg hal9...@panix.com said: I was thinking of. As for needed support, my question was about how you connect to it Unless TSSO has changed drastically, you don't need no stinking VTAM. Of couste if all of your

Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS)

2015-07-13 Thread Richard Pinion
Watch what you say or someone may knock the SNA out of you :) --- shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS) Date: Mon, 13 Jul

Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS)

2015-07-13 Thread Ed Finnell
Or QUERY your PSERVIC... In a message dated 7/13/2015 4:10:36 P.M. Central Daylight Time, rpin...@netscape.com writes: say or someone may knock the SNA out of you :) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS)

2015-07-13 Thread Dana Mitchell
On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 16:24:37 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: Unless TSSO has changed drastically, ... Unless TSSO has changed drastically it won't work very well since the last phases of console restructuring circa z/os 1.11-1.12, which introduced changes

Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS)

2015-07-10 Thread Schmeelk, Gregory P.
@listserv.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Gerhard Adam Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2015 3:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS) I'm assuming that this was an early MVS system, then and not something earlier? Adam -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS)

2015-07-10 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 18:08 -0400 on 07/09/2015, Ed Finnell wrote about Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS): TSSO. It doesn't need anything else. Yes that was the Subsystem TSO I was thinking of. As for needed support, my question was about how you connect to it since VTAM may

Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS)

2015-07-10 Thread Ed Finnell
Needs a consol-just like MVS! In a message dated 7/10/2015 1:50:05 P.M. Central Daylight Time, hal9...@panix.com writes: Yes that was the Subsystem TSO I was thinking of. As for needed support, my question was about how you connect to it since VTAM may not be available to serve as the

Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS)

2015-07-09 Thread Schmeelk, Gregory P.
Of Gerhard Adam Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2015 2:48 PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS) I'm not clear on why you would have had to restore every DASD device on the system. The only thing that needed to be restored was the deleted

Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS)

2015-07-09 Thread Schmeelk, Gregory P.
McKown Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 11:46 AM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS) On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Richard Pinion rpin...@netscape.com wrote: Naw, card punch and card reader are your best friends in such an emergency

Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS)

2015-07-09 Thread Gerhard Adam
] On Behalf Of Schmeelk, Gregory P. Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2015 11:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS) Thank you for bringing back the very painful memory of working for the Navy when someone deleted a library that was in the JES2 proc

Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS)

2015-07-09 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
, John Eells wrote about TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS): That works for updating the procs themselves, and it's an outstanding precaution everyone should use as a matter of routine. But it does not work so well for a volume failure, when a data set named in the proc is moved

Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS)

2015-07-09 Thread Gerhard Adam
: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS) It was unknown where the dataset was at and I had no VTOC listings (or any other listings for that matter) for anything and no online access to anything. It was a very unusual case. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS)

2015-07-09 Thread Ed Finnell
TSSO. It doesn't need anything else. It does need care and feeding and testing as new releases and CPUs are brought online. There's also _www.newera.com_ (http://www.newera.com) for vendor supported. They used to have PC IODF creator but sold it to IBM. Never hurts to have 'one pack'

TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS)

2015-07-07 Thread John Eells
That works for updating the procs themselves, and it's an outstanding precaution everyone should use as a matter of routine. But it does not work so well for a volume failure, when a data set named in the proc is moved (and referenced by volser) or renamed, or when the concatenation limit is

Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS)

2015-07-07 Thread Bob Shannon
We keep a TSO rescue proc with '911' in the name. It lives in SYS1.PROCLIB away from the standard location for TSO procs We do something similar, but often it's easier to FTP the broken logon proc to a PC, edit it, and FTP it back to the host. Bob Shannon Rocket Software

Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS)

2015-07-07 Thread John McKown
...@us.ibm.com wrote: From: John Eells ee...@us.ibm.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS) Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 11:37:50 -0400 That works for updating the procs themselves, and it's an outstanding precaution everyone should

Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS)

2015-07-07 Thread Richard Pinion
Yeah, but what about breaking the VTAM and worse yet the JES2 procs? --- bshan...@rocketsoftware.com wrote: From: Bob Shannon bshan...@rocketsoftware.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS) Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015

Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS)

2015-07-07 Thread J O Skip Robinson
Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 8:38 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS) That works for updating

Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS)

2015-07-07 Thread Richard Pinion
Naw, card punch and card reader are your best friends in such an emergency :) --- ee...@us.ibm.com wrote: From: John Eells ee...@us.ibm.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS) Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 11:37:50 -0400

Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS)

2015-07-07 Thread Tony's Outlook via Mozilla
Of Richard Pinion Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 9:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS) Yeah, but what about breaking the VTAM and worse yet the JES2 procs? --- bshan...@rocketsoftware.com wrote: From: Bob Shannon bshan

Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS)

2015-07-07 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 7, 2015, at 10:37 AM, John Eells wrote: That works for updating the procs themselves, and it's an outstanding precaution everyone should use as a matter of routine. But it does not work so well for a volume failure, when a data set named in the proc is moved (and referenced by

Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS)

2015-07-07 Thread retired mainframer
AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS) Yeah, but what about breaking the VTAM and worse yet the JES2 procs? --- bshan...@rocketsoftware.com wrote: From: Bob Shannon bshan...@rocketsoftware.com To: IBM-MAIN