Re: Crypto Facility performance.

2013-05-13 Thread Massimo Biancucci
Hi again, is there anybody who can answer my last (and maybe not least) question ? Thank you in advance. Massimo 2013/5/6 Massimo Biancucci mad4...@gmail.com Hi everybody, I want to thank you for your valuable support anyway I hope you'll have a little more patience and give me the final

TCPIP Problem

2013-05-13 Thread Grillo Paul
Staff of the forum, Recently we had problems after cancel the TCPIP Trace, which was necessary to IPL the partition of the z / OS 1.11 and consulting a specialist product, it informed us that the TCPIP does not clean up memory when it is canceled and ... when it makes a start of another then this

z/VM and ICF

2013-05-13 Thread R.S.
Starting from z10 an LPAR in zVM mode supports mix of IFLs ad CPs and, of course, IFL cannot be used for z/OS guests. What about Coupling Facility? Does such LPAR mode support ICF processors? What processors can be used for CF guest? CPs and ICFs? Just curious. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz,

Re: ANTMAIN takes a lot of CPU

2013-05-13 Thread Peter Relson
open can of worms When someone writes about excessive amount of CPU time, I'm always left wondering. A lot of CPU time, I understand. More than it used to, I understand. But excessive -- compared to what? If you ask for something to be done, whether explicitly or implicitly, it will take

Re: z/VM and ICF

2013-05-13 Thread Geoff Rousell
Radoslaw, The PR/SM planning guide is your friend here (SB10-7153 for z10 et al): Chapter 3 Processor considerations for z/VM mode LPs: In a z/VM mode partition, z/VM will: snip Operate coupling facility virtual machines in support of a Parallel Sysplex test environment on ICFs and optionally

Re: z/VM and ICF

2013-05-13 Thread Bob Shannon
What about Coupling Facility? Does such LPAR mode support ICF processors? What processors can be used for CF guest? CPs and ICFs? We use an ICF for MVS guests under VM. A CP can be used instead of an ICF, but when we stated to run out of capacity we saw severe Virtual Coupling Facility

Re: TCPIP Problem

2013-05-13 Thread Lizette Koehler
When you say consulting a specialist product: what is that? Did you contact IBM for assistance? Why are you cancelling TCPIP? Is there a reason you cannot stop it normally? Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf

Re: Business politics and software development

2013-05-13 Thread DASDBILL2
I have a friend who used to work for Microsoft in the area of performance monitoring of the operating system itself.  He was laid off three years ago.  Microsoft is  more interested in new whiz-bang features and components than in performance improvement.  I guess their thinking is that the

Re: Co:z SFTP and Public/Private Key Authentication

2013-05-13 Thread Steve Goetze
Roger, The FOTS1373 message is being emitted from Ported Tools OpenSSH. Are you able to connect a basic SSH session to the target system with that z/OS user? Because the Ported Tools SSH client can't be run under OMVS, The best way to test this is to use a generic ssh client to connect to z/OS

Re: TCPIP Problem

2013-05-13 Thread Grillo Paul
The cancellation was inadvertent action of an analyst, the question is why this happens and if anyone has had this problem ... but if this is not the list for which I may have answers to requests, I will go to another group, then I apologize. The expert consulted an analyst is representative of

Re: Business politics and software development

2013-05-13 Thread John McKown
Sounds like many of our users. Gotta have the fancy bling. If it needs rebooting , that's just part of the cost. Same in the food industry. Tasty is better than healthy. On May 13, 2013 7:57 AM, DASDBILL2 dasdbi...@comcast.net wrote: I have a friend who used to work for Microsoft in the area of

Re: ML1 to ML2

2013-05-13 Thread Staller, Allan
For the current ML1 data, you can issue the commands directly (hsend migrate dsn(x) ML2). There is a variation of the HSM LIST command that will show only the datasets on ML1. You will still need (at least) 1 ML1 volume if you are using the AUTODUMP feature. This is where HSM stores the VTOC

Re: Co:z SFTP and Public/Private Key Authentication

2013-05-13 Thread Kirk Wolf
BTW: Co:Z SFTP uses IBM Ported Tools OpenSSH for the underlying ssh layer - that is where authentication occurs. You might want to take a look at the slides/recordings of the following webinars on our site: IBM Ported Tools for z/OS: OpenSSH - Key Authentication (Part 1) IBM Ported Tools for

Re: TCPIP Problem

2013-05-13 Thread John McKown
This is a good group for this type of questions. Quite often we ask the why? sort of questions, and want to make sure that you've remembered to get official support from the vendor. We have occasionally had people come here thinking this was an official IBM support site. And get upset when nobody

Re: ICETOOL question

2013-05-13 Thread k Zaf
Dear All I could never thought that DFSORT should help to produce percentages of the records... Thank you for your (more or less tricky) help Kind regards Kostas On 10 May 2013 20:10, Norbert Friemel nf.ibmm...@web.de wrote: On Fri, 10 May 2013 08:53:40 -0500, K wrote: Two steps: //*

Re: ML1 to ML2

2013-05-13 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Allan, I think you mean set ML1 days equal to Primary days as there is no ML2 days parameter. Once that is done, data currently on ML1 should become eligible for migration to ML2 thus eliminating the need to issue the HLIST and subsequent HMIG / ML2 commands. Mark, What is the threshold

Re: ML1 to ML2

2013-05-13 Thread Staller, Allan
Agreed. You are correct. I was just about to post an update. To my reponse.. Al Staller | Z Systems Programmer | KBM Group | (Tel) 972 664-3565 | allan.stal...@kbmg.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of O'Brien, David

Re: Co:z SFTP and Public/Private Key Authentication

2013-05-13 Thread Donald J.
Activate debug on both ends of connection. Here is my jcl to do that on the client side: //STEPNAME EXEC PGM=COZBATCH,REGION=0M, // PARM='ru=userid8 rh=host1.xyz.com' //STEPLIB DD DISP=SHR,DSN=UTIL.TCP.COZ.LOADLIB //STDOUT DD SYSOUT=* //STDERR

Re: Examing Setting Return Codes in a CLIST/MACRO

2013-05-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 20130511.154412.1327...@webmail03.dca.untd.com, on 05/11/2013 at 07:44 PM, esst...@juno.com esst...@juno.com said: My question is How Do I properly Test and SET the Return Code in the EDIT MACRO LASTCC and MAXCC to test. EXIT CODE(foo) to set. Any examples would be appreciated.

Re: ANTMAIN takes a lot of CPU

2013-05-13 Thread Sheldon Davis
My apologies if I was not clear or if I offended you. Exessive for me was when ANTMAIN with a service class of SYSTEM took ninety percent CPU for about two minutes while the flash copies were running. Anyway the problem is solved thanks to Graham Harris. Best Regards Sheldon Davis

Re: TCPIP Problem

2013-05-13 Thread Steven St.Jean
The Comm Server stack used to manage its CTRACE storage in a data space. In V1R13, this was moved to 64-bit common (HVCOMMON) storage. The data space would have been deleted when the stack address space ended, but common storage has to be explicitly freed. I have not seen this happen, but if

Re: Business politics and software development

2013-05-13 Thread John Gilmore
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. This is a pervasive mainframe problem too. I have not heard the term used recently, but for obvious reasons IBM marketing people used to prize what they called 'hardware hawks' very highly. A hardware hawk was a customer executive whose unvarying

Re: ANTMAIN takes a lot of CPU

2013-05-13 Thread John Gilmore
The word excessive is sometimes, I think, legitimate shorthand for unexpectedly large in comparison with what has been the case. It is important is to remember that excess is symptomatic. It identifies something unfortunate that has happened. The question who is be blamed for that thing, when

Re: Business politics and software development

2013-05-13 Thread Charles Mills
They reflect the assumption that most of their users will be benign, with only a few being preternaturally stupid I think most systems have been written with the assumption that most users were folks like us. (Trusted, professional, benign, reasonably knowledgeable.) Now nearly every system

Re: Business politics and software development

2013-05-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 13 May 2013 10:46:45 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: The work of Rufus Isaacs on aircraft-collision avoidance, which I have mentioned here before, is highly instructive. He found that the only safe collision-avoidance strategies for aircraft A in an air space also occupied by aircrafts B, C,

Re: Business politics and software development

2013-05-13 Thread John Gilmore
Paul Gilmartin wrote: begin extract Plus those that would occur only to someone who was proficient in it. (Or is that what you meant to say?) /end extract I said what I meant to say. At least some of the developers of a compiler for language L are usually proficient in it. In my experienced

Re: ANTMAIN takes a lot of CPU

2013-05-13 Thread Graham Harris
I understand the root cause of this issue (which is essentially repetitive parallel execution of large numbers of SRBs within ANTMAIN when flashcopy eligibility/pairing checking is applied against very large numbers of volumes) is recognised, and is intended to be addressed in a future version of

Re: ANTMAIN takes a lot of CPU

2013-05-13 Thread Gibney, Dave
Since no one has asked yet, I will. Is SYSTEM the appropriate level of priority for this task? I don't have any flashcopy here, so I have no experience or even knowledge of all that ANTMAIN does. Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University -Original

Re: TCPIP Problem

2013-05-13 Thread Andre Massena
A large cognac please. En réponse à Grillo Paul arue...@gmail.com : -- Début du message d'origine Thank Steven for his explanations. I'am not TCPIP team, I get better information about the problem that led us to having to IPL the LPAR, which was

Re: ANTMAIN takes a lot of CPU

2013-05-13 Thread Ted MacNEIL
ANTMAIN is one of the tasks IBM automatically assigns to SYSTEM, iirc. So, if this is (still) true, the answer is YES. - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Twitter: @TedMacNEIL -Original Message- From: Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Co:z SFTP and Public/Private Key Authentication

2013-05-13 Thread Kirk Wolf
Agreed - it would be nice if TSO OMVS had a solution for masking passwords, but it doesn't. In the mean time, it is silly to completely disable the ssh client under TSO OMVS - it would suffice to simply disable password-interactive mode under the Ported Tools ssh client if a tty that doesn't

ICSF master keys at DR site

2013-05-13 Thread Frank Swarbrick
I'm pretty sure I know the answer (no), but I just want to make sure.  Is there any method other than loading the original key parts that one can load the current production keys into a cryptocard at another (DR) site? No TKE available, if that makes a difference.

Re: ICSF master keys at DR site

2013-05-13 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2013-05-13 23:18, Frank Swarbrick pisze: I'm pretty sure I know the answer (no), but I just want to make sure. Is there any method other than loading the original key parts that one can load the current production keys into a cryptocard at another (DR) site? For master key, NO. No TKE

Catalog interface question IGGCSI00 question

2013-05-13 Thread Micheal Butz
Hi Using the catalog interface program IGGCSI00 And say I am looking for all SYS1.*. Datasets then CSIRESNM. = CL44'SYS1.*' ? Thanks Sent from my iPhone -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: Catalog interface question IGGCSI00 question

2013-05-13 Thread Sri h Kolusu
I believe you should use CSIFILTK instead of CSIRESNM. Look at the complete documentation of Catalog Search Interface User's Guide. Check section 11.3 which explains Selection Criteria Fields along with examples. http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DGT2C191/11.0

Re: Co:z SFTP and Public/Private Key Authentication

2013-05-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 13 May 2013 15:15:06 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: Agreed - it would be nice if TSO OMVS had a solution for masking passwords, but it doesn't. Long ago, before SSL was available, I went to PMR with this. I even used the magic word, security. I reported it as a problem with stty -echo, and

Re: ANTMAIN takes a lot of CPU

2013-05-13 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Since no one has asked yet, I will. Is SYSTEM the appropriate level of priority for this task? I don't have any flashcopy here, so I have no experience or even knowledge of all that ANTMAIN does. Regardless if you use flashcopy or not, you'll have an ANTMAIN address space automatically

Re: Co:z SFTP and Public/Private Key Authentication

2013-05-13 Thread Roger Lowe
Steve, Thank you for the info - the problem was related to permission settings on the users directory... Thanks, Roger -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to