IBM Documentation for Connect:Direct?

Does anyone have a link to the IBM documentation for the Connect:Direct (NDM) product? I tried using the regular z/OS library search mechanism but I am not getting any results. I also tried the Sterling site but that doesn't seem to have any publically available documentation. We are having

Re: IBM Documentation for Connect:Direct?

Try this: https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27023598 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 Sent: Friday, June 23, 2017 12:39 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: IBM Documentation

Re: IBM Documentation for Connect:Direct?

Hi Peter, Try this? https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSFGBN Thanks! BobL -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 Sent: Friday, June 23, 2017 10:39 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: EBCDIC, ASCII, ugh

On 2017-06-23, at 06:48, Pew, Curtis G wrote: > On Jun 22, 2017, at 6:15 PM, Frank Swarbrick wrote: >> >> The MD5 is used to verify that the file sent from the mainframe has the same >> data when received on the interim distributed system. So creating the MD5 >> after its already there does

Re: IBM Documentation for Connect:Direct?

Thank you! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lester, Bob Sent: Friday, June 23, 2017 12:49 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM Documentation for Connect:Direct? Hi Peter, Try this?

Re: IBM Documentation for Connect:Direct?

Thank you! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Richards, Robert B. Sent: Friday, June 23, 2017 12:48 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM Documentation for Connect:Direct? Try this:

DCB does not point to DEB

Hi, I was looking at the dump of a couple S0C4 we had a few days ago, seems to be happening on a load instruction to get dataset information. The formatted summary on IPCS shows this for the dataset in question: *** DCB FORMAT ERROR. DCB DOES NOT POINT TO DEB *** That is true, DCBDEBA in the

Re: Eliminating the systems programmer was Re: IBM cuts contractor billing by 15 percent (our else)

On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 09:15:21 -0400, Mark Pace wrote: >I am afraid this new "Continuous Update" may lead to the same thing. > >On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 6:41 AM, Bill Wilkie wrote: > >> As I am reading this, all I can think of is Windows 10 and Automatic >> updates. Since accidentally going to

Re: Windows 10 auto update was Re: Eliminating the systems programmer was Re: IBM cuts contractor billing by 15 percent (our else)

After our So Cal z User Group meeting last week, I feel that 'continuous update' has been misunderstood. We had a presentation on DB2 latest-greatest-and-beyond. I'm not a DB2 guy, but having lived in the copter-wash of DB2 version upgrades several times in the last few years, I see hope in

SoCal z?

(Meant to post to entire List.) - So Cal z User Group has been meeting once a quarter for the last few years. Meetings so far have been hosted by Pacific Life Insurance at their customer conference center in Newport Beach, a great venue.

Re: EBCDIC, ASCII, ugh

On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 15:57:41 -0500, Alan Altmark wrote: > >Don't overthink the solution. Just remember that ASCII text files are streams >with CRLFs in them, which means the CRLFs are part of the encrypted data. You >don't encrypt the LINES of a file and then append CRLFs. (Tempting in EBCDIC

Re: Eliminating the systems programmer was Re: IBM cuts contractor billing by 15 percent (our else)

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 2:58 PM, Bobbie Justice < 0013e2d84072-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > "As I am reading this, all I can think of is Windows 10 and Automatic > updates. Since accidentally going to Windows 10, I have crashed my laptop > at least 10 times and spent many days and

Re: EBCDIC, ASCII, ugh

On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 22:25:21 +, Frank Swarbrick wrote: > We have a requirement to store some information in an encrypted ASCII file > (that is, it was ASCII prior to being encrypted) > on a distributed platform over which we have no control. We also have a >

Re: Windows 10 auto update was Re: Eliminating the systems programmer was Re: IBM cuts contractor billing by 15 percent (our else)

Sounds like a variant of the SPE (Small Program Enhancement) of a few decades ago :),m and Selectable Units. Alan Field Systems Engineer Principal Blue Cross Blue Shield of MN 651.662.3546 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On

Re: EBCDIC, ASCII, ugh

You could do it all on z/OS, assuming that you have the encryption program there that you want. Many are available. For example, using our Co:Z Toolkit it would be something like: //SHELL EXEC PGM=COZBATCH, # a better BPXBATCH // PARM='/ IDSN=HLQ.MY.DSN' //ENCRYPT DD

Re: Windows 10 auto update was Re: Eliminating the systems programmer was Re: IBM cuts contractor billing by 15 percent (our else)

SPE is very much alive and well, especially since the change to two-year cycle for z/OS release. The big difference is that SPEs are effectively part of the normal maintenance stream. You can avoid installing one for a while, but eventually it gets preREQed by some other fix(es) that you may

Re: Eliminating the systems programmer was Re: IBM cuts contractor bil ling by 15 percent (our else)

On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 15:36:32 -0400, Mark Pace wrote: >Oh the great failed examples of VM/IS 4 & 5, took IBM 2 releases to figure >this was a disaster. Also SSX/VSE. All thought they could have an >administrator install and maintain the system. I can't recall the number >of times I was on the

Re: Eliminating the systems programmer was Re: IBM cuts contractor billing by 15 percent (our else)

Gee, I think that has been floating around for as long as, "Mainframes Are Dead!" Al Nims Systems Admin/Programmer 3 UFIT University of Florida (352) 273-1298 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent:

Re: Eliminating the systems programmer was Re: IBM cuts contractor billing by 15 percent (our else)

Some time ago an idea floated through my field of vision that IBM would eliminate even software distribution by supplying the entire OS on a chip. I must have missed the GA announcement... . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program

Re: Eliminating the systems programmer was Re: IBM cuts contractor bil ling by 15 percent (our else)

john.archie.mck...@gmail.com (John McKown) writes: > ​I remember from my first jobs, about 1979, DP (the name back then) was > looking at some mini-computer for the police department (City of > Ft. Worth, TX). The sales person showed us the equipment. And said > that all software maintenance was

Re: Eliminating the systems programmer was Re: IBM cuts contractor bil ling by 15 percent (our else)

On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 18:11:31 GMT, essteam wrote: >Jesse Robinson wrote >"supplying the entire OS on a chip" > >I heard a similar statement delivered by the Late Great Bob Yelevich in the >early 1990s. >He suggested that CICS would be delivered on a Board, or possibly a >component/domain would

Re: Eliminating the systems programmer was Re: IBM cuts contractor bil ling by 15 percent (our else)

Oh the great failed examples of VM/IS 4 & 5, took IBM 2 releases to figure this was a disaster. Also SSX/VSE. All thought they could have an administrator install and maintain the system. I can't recall the number of times I was on the CritSit Desk for VM/IS 4. On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 3:13 PM,

Re: EBCDIC, ASCII, ugh

1. Yes, exactly. This is why we generate the hash on the EBCDIC version on z/OS and send it in FTP binary to the distributed FTP server. They then do the MD5 on this same (EBCDIC) data to verify the entire file was received. 2. Good point. I don't know if the hash requirement is simply to

Re: Eliminating the systems programmer was Re: IBM cuts contractor bil ling by 15 percent (our else)

I don't agree about SSX/VSE. I worked on that system at a small ISV in the 80's and It was a pretty nifty system for its time. Ran on low-power 4331' s with 3310 FBA DASD, all system maintenance was via ICCF (the VSE equivalent of ISPF) menus and canned jobs, and it worked like a charm for

Re: Eliminating the systems programmer was Re: IBM cuts contractor bil ling by 15 percent (our else)

Jesse Robinson wrote "supplying the entire OS on a chip" I heard a similar statement delivered by the Late Great Bob Yelevich in the early 1990s. He suggested that CICS would be delivered on a Board, or possibly a component/domain would be delivered on a board. . . As a contractor I have

Re: Eliminating the systems programmer was Re: IBM cuts contractor bil ling by 15 percent (our else)

esst...@juno.com (esst...@juno.com) writes: > "supplying the entire OS on a chip" > > I heard a similar statement delivered by the Late Great Bob Yelevich > in the early 1990s. He suggested that CICS would be delivered on a > Board, or possibly a component/domain would be delivered on a board. >

Re: Eliminating the systems programmer was Re: IBM cuts contractor bil ling by 15 percent (our else)

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 1:11 PM, esst...@juno.com wrote: > Jesse Robinson wrote > "supplying the entire OS on a chip" > > I heard a similar statement delivered by the Late Great Bob Yelevich in > the early 1990s. > He suggested that CICS would be delivered on a Board, or

Windows 10 auto update was Re: Eliminating the systems programmer was Re: IBM cuts contractor billing by 15 percent (our else)

[Default] On 23 Jun 2017 06:14:21 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main pacemainl...@gmail.com (Mark Pace) wrote: >I am afraid this new "Continuous Update" may lead to the same thing. As I understand it the continuous update is to be done by applying updates at times determined by the installation.

Re: Eliminating the systems programmer was Re: IBM cuts contractor billing by 15 percent (our else)

"As I am reading this, all I can think of is Windows 10 and Automatic updates. Since accidentally going to Windows 10, I have crashed my laptop at least 10 times and spent many days and a lot of money trying to recover. Be careful what you wish for." Ditto on windows anything. I've had quite

Re: IBM customer anchor

If they register a three letter message prefix with IBM then they are left with 5 characters for individual products/requests. On Thursday, June 22, 2017, Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 01:00:46 -0500, Brian Westerman wrote: > > >I

Re: EBCDIC, ASCII, ugh

I am definitely going to propose this. I don't know what encryption is being used, but if available this seems to make the most sense. I sense wariness about doing anything "new" on the mainframe, but it just seems to make the most sense. We'll see how it goes! Frank

Re: EBCDIC, ASCII, ugh

It must be encrypted such that when decrypted on an ASCII platform (or any platform, really) it will be in ASCII. Not sure on the line separator requirement, but I will find out. Your comment about TLS ensuring the data is not altered in transmission is interesting. As far as I know the only

Re: SoCal z?

Last time we offered to provide a free 1 year use any one of our Automation products to the attendees, and we sent in the offer brochure but never heard back from anyone on if they wanted to provide the information to the group until about a month later when the returned email as invalid

Re: IBM customer anchor

I think it was just a matter of who sent the letter. When it came from a competitor, they were aggressive, but when it came from a lawyer, especially as it was from a big firm, they gave up fairly quickly. When you think about it though, we really could not force them to do anything, we could

Re: VSAM file as GDS

W dniu 2017-06-22 o 22:19, Wayne Bickerdike pisze: Archaic but still documented https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.idad400/d4111b.htm z/OS DFSMS Using Data Sets SC23-6855-00 I made no assumptions about the original postIs there evidence of

Re: Eliminating the systems programmer was Re: IBM cuts contractor billing by 15 percent (our else)

As I am reading this, all I can think of is Windows 10 and Automatic updates. Since accidentally going to Windows 10, I have crashed my laptop at least 10 times and spent many days and a lot of money trying to recover. Be careful what you wish for. Bill

Re: Eliminating the systems programmer was Re: IBM cuts contractor billing by 15 percent (our else)

I am afraid this new "Continuous Update" may lead to the same thing. On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 6:41 AM, Bill Wilkie wrote: > As I am reading this, all I can think of is Windows 10 and Automatic > updates. Since accidentally going to Windows 10, I have crashed my laptop >