Re: Destination z -- Back to the Future -- Don't Reinvent Mainframe Wheels

2013-05-16 Thread Binyamin Dissen
While questionably STCKE will be better than STCK (depending on the use), the correct solution is to use some kind of unbiased value with an optional displacement. True, STCK(E) is easier, but it not a good value to be hardened for long term use. One MUST plan for the future. On Wed, 15 May

Re: ICSF master keys at DR site

2013-05-16 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2013-05-15 17:55, Frank Swarbrick pisze: MK Ceremony. I like that. :-) Definitely what we'll have to do, as I'm pretty sure we're not going to remove one of our cryptocards and transport it to DR just for this. Interesting idea, though! Is there a way to copy the master keys from one

A product that supports issuing DB2 calls against IMS databases?

2013-05-16 Thread Binyamin Dissen
Is there such a product, where the application does EXEC SQL and it is converted into an IMS call? -- Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response

Re: Predict WLC invoice amount ...

2013-05-16 Thread Scott Chapman
That is *not* how I remember it. Otherwise, what is the point of the ELA? I don't know that there is a point for MLC. But as part of an ELA, you may be able to get discounts on PPA and zOTC and your total spend (including MLC) supposedly goes into the calculation for what kind of discount

Re: A product that supports issuing DB2 calls against IMS databases?

2013-05-16 Thread Boris Lenz
EXEC SQL or SQL? For Java applications, IMS supports querying IMS databases with SQL calls through its JDBC implementation. Regards, Boris On Thu, May 16, 2013 12:27, Binyamin Dissen wrote: Is there such a product, where the application does EXEC SQL and it is converted into an

Re: HOST feature or understand a sentence

2013-05-16 Thread zMan
First sentence: What? Second: It might. That's certainly the hobbyist's argument. IBM doesn't see it that way, clearly. On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 1:11 AM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: You run just about any system in vbox or VMware we do, including various variants of Linux .. I

Re: Destination z -- Back to the Future -- Don't Reinvent Mainframe Wheels

2013-05-16 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 16 May 2013 09:36:55 +0300, Binyamin Dissen wrote: While questionably STCKE will be better than STCK (depending on the use), the correct solution is to use some kind of unbiased value with an optional displacement. True, STCK(E) is easier, but it not a good value to be hardened for long

Re: Destination z -- Back to the Future -- Don't Reinvent Mainframe Wheels

2013-05-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 16 May 2013 09:36:55 +0300, Binyamin Dissen wrote: While questionably STCKE will be better than STCK (depending on the use), the correct solution is to use some kind of unbiased value with an optional displacement. True, STCK(E) is easier, but it not a good value to be hardened for long

Will VALIDATE save transfer time?

2013-05-16 Thread Ken Leidner
I asked this earlier using the INSTALL command to perform the writing of the home address and was correctly pointed out that the command is not valid on the device. But the person missed the true point of my question. So now using VALIDATE to write the home address and clear off the tracks,

Re: HOST feature or understand a sentence

2013-05-16 Thread Scott Ford
ZMan, For example .we run zpdt ...which is OpenSUSE ...with drivers for IBMs 1090 software..then in turn we run z/os 1.11 thru 1.13 . Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On May 16, 2013, at 8:08 AM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: HOST feature or understand a sentence

2013-05-16 Thread Scott Ford
You can run linux as a vbox or VMware host ... Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On May 16, 2013, at 8:08 AM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote: First sentence: What? Second: It might. That's certainly the hobbyist's argument. IBM

Re: Destination z -- Back to the Future -- Don't Reinvent Mainframe Wheels

2013-05-16 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 16 May 2013 07:27:11 -0500 Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com wrote: :On Thu, 16 May 2013 09:36:55 +0300, Binyamin Dissen wrote: :While questionably STCKE will be better than STCK (depending on the use), the :correct solution is to use some kind of unbiased value with an optional

Re: A product that supports issuing DB2 calls against IMS databases?

2013-05-16 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 16 May 2013 13:57:24 +0200 Boris Lenz boris.l...@ims.sells.ch wrote: :EXEC SQL or SQL? :For Java applications, IMS supports querying IMS databases with SQL calls :through its JDBC implementation. I means real DB2 - I am seeing a dump where there is an SSOB X'29' call which is pointing

Re: HOST feature or understand a sentence

2013-05-16 Thread Scott Ford
John, I am trying understand IBMs reluctance with z/os and hercules,Linux..it's seems to me, It would benefit them, then who am I ...you know Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On May 16, 2013, at 10:10 AM, John McKown

Re: OE Re: Destination z -- Back to the Future -- Don't Reinvent Mainframe Wheels

2013-05-16 Thread J. Leslie Turriff
On 2013-05-15 12:49:14 Tom Marchant wrote: On Wed, 15 May 2013 11:27:47 -0500, John McKown wrote: Rather than being signed, IBM _could_ move the epoch back. Remember when some shops would post here every time the clocks changed back in the fall? They were running with local=GMT and would

Re: z/OS VSAM FTP Advice?

2013-05-16 Thread Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN
Steve, Thank you for your suggestion. I have worked with EDI, but it didn't come to mind. This listserv really helps many of us out. Thanks again, Dave -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Thompson

Re: HOST feature or understand a sentence

2013-05-16 Thread Joel C. Ewing
As one of those potential z/OS hobbyists, I would think it so cool to be able to run z/OS inexpensively (which for me means at most a few $100's per year) in my home environment, and it would be great for educational purposes; but I can also understand IBM's position. One of the big selling

Re: DFSORT/ICETOOL: merge records from 2files

2013-05-16 Thread af dc
Hi, the problem is that I was not trusting the results (there was no match). Many thx anyway, A.cEcilio. On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Sri h Kolusu skol...@us.ibm.com wrote: It is quite easy to get the desired results using Joinkeys. The sample data you have shown does not have any

DB2 for z/OS version 10

2013-05-16 Thread Paulo Roberto Leonardo Pereira
DB2 for z/OS version 10 changed the string format of decimals. we are using Enterprise PL/I. Does a built-in function exist which can help us with the new format decimal number strings? Is there a recommendation for a technique which handles such numbers? Thanks

Re: A product that supports issuing DB2 calls against IMS databases?

2013-05-16 Thread Boris Lenz
On Thu, May 16, 2013 16:14, Binyamin Dissen wrote: I means real DB2 - I am seeing a dump where there is an SSOB X'29' call which is pointing at an FRB for a standard SQL. In that case I can't help you. I thought you wanted to access an IMS DB with SQL. But for everyone else, it might help if

How to list all tape volumes the shows UNKNOWN on the D SMS,VOL cmd ??

2013-05-16 Thread af dc
Hello, I have the following D SMS,VOL output cmd: CBR1180I OAM tape volume status: 387 VOLUME MEDIA STORAGE LIBRARY USE W C SOFTWARE LIBRARY TYPE GROUP NAME ATR P P ERR STAT CATEGORY HH9891 MEDIA2SGSEG21 BA06V PN N NOERROR UNKNOWN

Re: How to list all tape volumes the shows UNKNOWN on the D SMS,VOL cmd ??

2013-05-16 Thread Lizette Koehler
If you have access to ISMF, the Option for Volumes maybe helpful. Most shops use ISMF from the ISPF Primary panel or you might be able to do an =ISMF command. Or your shop may have not set it up that way. Then you need to find out where ISMF is. Or your tape management software may have

Re: Destination z -- Back to the Future -- Don't Reinvent Mainframe Wheels

2013-05-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 16 May 2013 11:23:08 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: ... of STCK[E] values: It is usable 'against the past' only after midnight 1899 December 31. The question whether it is GMT, UTC, or LOCAL misses the point. It is none of these. It is best thought of as a coarse-grained TIA-like value.

Re: ANTMAIN takes a lot of CPU

2013-05-16 Thread John Sullivan
I am glad that the problem was alleviated by reducing the number of volumes in the Storage Group. I would like to add that XBM and the associated BMC Utilities do have options available to turn off the use of Flashcopy. BMC Support would be happy to work with you if you would like assistance to

HCD Activate help

2013-05-16 Thread Alan Field
It's been years since I got my hardware and software tokens out of sync and now I've gone and done it again. *IOS505A DYNAMIC I/O CONFIGURATION CHANGES ARE NOT ALLOWED, THE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION DEFINITIONS DO NOT MATCH The matching IODF has been destroyed so I can't do a

Re: DB2 for z/OS version 10

2013-05-16 Thread Lizette Koehler
Could you provide an example of what you used before, the PL/I code, and what the data looks like now? Also, have you asked this question on the DB2 Newsgroup? They may already have an answer over there. If you would like to join the DB2 Newsgroup, go to www.idug.org Lizette -Original

Re: DFSORT/ICETOOL: merge records from 2files

2013-05-16 Thread retired mainframer
Show the complete jobstep you are using, including all the sort control cards, and some samples from the actual input files that you think should produce a match. Your original message stated that both files contained volser data in positions 1-6 but your sample input showed that to be false. ::

Re: A product that supports issuing DB2 calls against IMS databases?

2013-05-16 Thread Denis Gäbler
IMS V13. -Original Message- From: Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com To: IBM-MAIN IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Thu, May 16, 2013 12:27 pm Subject: A product that supports issuing DB2 calls against IMS databases? Is there such a product, where the application does

Re: DB2 for z/OS version 10

2013-05-16 Thread Paulo Roberto Leonardo Pereira
The new V10 version of DB2 treats CHAR(decimal column) in a different way than V9 treated. Now in DB2 V10 we have this below for CHAR(decimal column). In Version 10, when the input data is in decimal format, the CHAR, VARCHAR, CAST(decimal-expression AS CHAR), and CAST(decimal-expression AS

Re: Destination z -- Back to the Future -- Don't Reinvent Mainframe Wheels

2013-05-16 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 16 May 2013 11:30:06 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Thu, 16 May 2013 11:23:08 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: It is also possible, indeed easy, to devise an STCKE-based signed timestamp. To do so, one needs to sacrifice the high-order bit, which will in any cased be unset for about 18,000

Re: ICETOOL question

2013-05-16 Thread retired mainframer
This is really clever but there is a minor error in the rounding logic of the last IFTHEN. When the fraction portion of the percentage is between 95 and 99 inclusive, the tenths digit is incremented to 0 but the units digit (two positions to the left because of the intervening comma) is not

Mainframe Event Acquisition System -- anyone heard of it?

2013-05-16 Thread Tom Sims
This product is from InfoSec, Inc., designed to collect real-time security, dbase, tp, etc., events for formatting and subsequent display on a Wintel platform. If you've heard of it being implemented, why was it used? Just curious. Thanks. Tom Sims, Speaking only for myself.

Re: HCD Activate help

2013-05-16 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2013-05-16 18:41, Alan Field pisze: It's been years since I got my hardware and software tokens out of sync and now I've gone and done it again. *IOS505A DYNAMIC I/O CONFIGURATION CHANGES ARE NOT ALLOWED, THE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION DEFINITIONS DO NOT MATCH The matching

Re: ICSF master keys at DR site

2013-05-16 Thread Rob Schramm
Todd... ooops. That's what I get for relying on memory!! Rob Schramm Senior Systems Consultant Imperium Group On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Todd Arnold arno...@us.ibm.com wrote: There is/was a way to set a CEX card to allow it to keep the MK loaded while being transferred between

Re: Mainframe Event Acquisition System -- anyone heard of it?

2013-05-16 Thread John Gilmore
This is another instance of further overloading an already overloaded acronym. IBM has an Events Alert System (EAS), an Event/Automation Service (EAS), Enterprise Application Systems EAS), and Entity Analytic Solutions (EAS). Hold that acronym! John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA

Re: ICSF master keys at DR site

2013-05-16 Thread Rob Schramm
Unless they own the DR machine... in which case it should become part of the MK ceremony. If you have 1 TKE and you own the DR machine, the TKE could manage the remote site as well. You would just have to setup the procedure to enroll another TKE in the case of DR... and store a copy of the

Re: Mainframe Event Acquisition System -- anyone heard of it?

2013-05-16 Thread Charles Mills
I can't speak directly to why customers acquire MEAS, but as one of the developers of a competing product https://correlog.com/solutions-and-services/sas-correlog-mainframe.html I can tell you that the number one driver for this sort of acquisition is regulatory compliance: auditors uttering the

Re: HCD Activate help

2013-05-16 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 16 May 2013 11:41:11 -0500, Alan Field wrote: It's been years since I got my hardware and software tokens out of sync and now I've gone and done it again. Is there another LPAR that was IPLed with the matching IODF? If so, you can do an activate from that LPAR. -- Tom Marchant

Re: ICETOOL question

2013-05-16 Thread Sri h Kolusu
Great Catch mainframer. I apologize for the oversight.. Here are updated control cards which would account for rounding the decimals when they are between 95 and 99. I also added a message to denote the type of rounding performed. //SYSINDD* JOINKEYS

Re: How to list all tape volumes the shows UNKNOWN on the D SMS,VOL cmd ??

2013-05-16 Thread Jonathan Goossen
ISMF 2.3 (volume List) doesn't appear to have that field. The field looks to be a combination of two other fields: Use Attribute and Media Type. Scratch tapes look like SCRMED? where the ? is the media type. (We have 5 and 7.) Non-scratch show as PRIVATE. In ISMF 2.3 sort on columns 3 and 8 to

Re: ICSF master keys at DR site

2013-05-16 Thread Frank Swarbrick
We own the DR hardware, so hopefully that will not be necessary!  :-) Thanks, Frank From: Richard Peurifoy r-peuri...@neo.tamu.edu To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 9:49 AM Subject: Re: ICSF master keys at DR site On 5/15/2013

SFTP to send a file to OMVS

2013-05-16 Thread Cifani, Domenic
User is using SFTP to send a file to OMVS, then sends a trigger file to MVS using FTP, since SFTP is not supported on MVS datasets. User is trying to eliminate the FTP to MVS but still trigger ESP scheduler to run a job against the original file. ESP cannot detect the file arriving in OMVS.

Re: SFTP to send a file to OMVS

2013-05-16 Thread Wissink, Brad [ITSYS]
We are using Co:Z from Dovetail to do sftp directly to MVS data sets. Brad Wissink Information Technology Services Iowa State University 515-294-3088 If it ain't broke, you ain't trying - Red Green -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: SFTP to send a file to OMVS

2013-05-16 Thread John McKown
ref: http://dovetail.com/products/sftp.html free to download and use! Support contract available if desired. Get the entire Co:Z package. It's fantastic. On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Wissink, Brad [ITSYS] bjwi...@iastate.edu wrote: We are using Co:Z from Dovetail to do sftp directly to MVS

Re: SFTP to send a file to OMVS

2013-05-16 Thread Kirk Wolf
Hi Domenic, Co:Z SFTP supports direct access to z/OS data sets. So, most scheduling packages will support triggering. If not, we also support FTP-compatible exits and SMF records, so it is possible to use an exit to trigger a job. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com Co:Z

Re: Will VALIDATE save transfer time?

2013-05-16 Thread Mike Schwab
If they are empty, Don't move them at all. Vary them offline. Rename them to something you don't move (ZZ). Init new dasd as spares and the one you don't use at targets become your new spares. On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Ken Leidner kleid...@earthlink.net wrote: I asked this earlier

Re: DB2 + REUSASID(YES)

2013-05-16 Thread Ed Finnell
It's been too long, I remember when we first hit it after DB/2 upgrade to V5 or something. Think the answer was it's 'an integrity issue'. For long time until we could get more 'power' in place we just QUIESCED the most active DB's without restarting DB/2. In a message dated 5/16/2013

Re: How to list all tape volumes the shows UNKNOWN on the D SMS,VOL cmd ??

2013-05-16 Thread Mike Wood
Hi, I suspect your DEVSUPxx MEDIAx values dont contain the values being used for LM categories. You can see that OAM is getting back 000F as the LM catgeory. It then uses the DEVSUPxx (or default) values to translate that to something meaningful. i.e The volume belongs to another partition.

Re: SFTP to send a file to OMVS

2013-05-16 Thread Lizette Koehler
So, are you talking about a scheduled job from a Server to the Mainframe using CA-ESP (Workload Manager)? Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Cifani, Domenic Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 12:40 PM To:

Obtaining Download Director

2013-05-16 Thread Graham Hobbs
Hello, Is there a story on IBM's Download Director (DD), I need it for Windows 7. I've had it on my dying XP laptop for many years .. works a treat, greatly faster than HTTP. For the new machine i googled Download Director and kept coming up with Systems Director 6.1.2 so concluded it's

Re: Obtaining Download Director

2013-05-16 Thread Jim Phoenix
Graham, According to the FAQ at http://www6.software.ibm.com/dldirector/doc/DDfaq_en.html there is nothing to install, you just JAVA installed. So all you need do is click on a link to download some file with Download Director. On 5/16/2013 6:57 PM, Graham Hobbs wrote: Hello, Is there a

Re: Business politics and software development

2013-05-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In cae1xxderhizumekfvc2ga1_axtwgpgn_ixbgu765kaawekq...@mail.gmail.com, on 05/13/2013 at 02:20 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: Anachronistic criticism of past design decisions is not, of course, what I had in mind. The inventor of the nul-delimited string cannot reasonably be blamed

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

2013-05-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 6663125346384738.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 05/13/2013 at 06:26 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: What!? Have you no respect for the many decades of rich tradition behind the 3270? I don't read his message as a complaint about the 3270, but rather about the

XMIT Manager

2013-05-16 Thread mf db
Hello, I am currently not able to install XMIT manager on my system. The error says that the software is not compatible with my PC(64 BIT). Does anyone find a XMIT manager which is compatible with 64 bit PC. Peter -- For