Re: SMTP Mail from z/OS

2019-03-21 Thread Timothy Sipples
Allan Staller wrote: >I am not aware of any shops that use SMTP "to the mainframe". >i.e. the mainframe is not usually the target for inbound >communications. This would require a "email server" to be running >on the mainframe (HRC anyone?) Even if "mainframe" means z/OS specifically in this

VSAM ALTER ?

2019-03-21 Thread Paul Schuster
Hello: Is it possible to alter the secondary space value in a catalog entry for a VSAM file? Secondary space doesn’t show up in ALTER as a valid value to change, so I am wondering if it is possible to just issue a hand-written SVC 26 request to update this field. Effectively I want to give

Re: Remote access to Z14 ZR1 Support Element via HMC question

2019-03-21 Thread Laurence Chiu
Thanks We did do a major HMC firmware upgrade across the complex recently and that issue was checked during our diagnostic call but all HMCs are on the same level. Hopefully it's the domain issue else will be at our wits end. For some reason our support organisation does not want to copy the

Re: z/OS Management Facility

2019-03-21 Thread Jousma, David
By farthe biggest headache is getting through all the security setup. Also, zOSMF requires the use of a lot of components we didn’t have configured beforehand(CIM, CEA, etc). There has to be a way to easily streamline the security setup. It would be nice if there was a method to

Re: SMTP Mail from z/OS

2019-03-21 Thread Tony Thigpen
Allan stated: > I am not aware of any shops that use SMTP "to the mainframe". I have seen some implementations of SMTP receive on a mainframe. In one case, the receiver would take the message as jcl and submit it to run as a batch program. This was mainly to allow programmers to send compile

Re: z/OS Management Facility

2019-03-21 Thread Michael Brennan
Follow the instructions in manual: IBM z/OS Management Facility Configuration Guide -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bill Giannelli Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2019 12:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: z/OS Management Facility What does it

Re: CPC doubt

2019-03-21 Thread Carmen Vitullo
that would have been my answer, and how I read it CPC, not a CP so my answer is ONE, thanks R.S. for the sanity check. Carmen Vitullo - Original Message - From: "R.S." To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2019 12:54:14 PM Subject: Re: CPC doubt W dniu

Re: z/OS Management Facility

2019-03-21 Thread Bill Giannelli
thank you! I do now! Bill -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: z/OS Management Facility

2019-03-21 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2019-03-21 o 18:50, Bill Giannelli pisze: What does it take to implement "z/OS Management Facility"? thanks Usually zOSMF installation is part of ServerPac installation process. There are two horrible (I mean it) jobs with (improper) RACF definitions, there are a lot of definitions in

Re: z/OS Management Facility

2019-03-21 Thread J. Pohlmann
There is a very nice course - ESB3G z/OS Management Facility Implementation and Use - a three 3 class that will make it easy for you to implement in your installation. Joerg Pohlmann -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bill Giannelli Sent: Thursday,

Re: CPC doubt

2019-03-21 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2019-03-21 o 15:25, johnnydeep san pisze: Hello all, Just small question , I would like to know how many CPC can add in single mainframe hardware box?. One -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland == Jeśli nie jesteś

Re: z/OS Management Facility

2019-03-21 Thread Mike Schwab
Do you have the Redbook? http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247851.html?Open On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 12:50 PM Bill Giannelli wrote: > > What does it take to implement "z/OS Management Facility"? > thanks > Bill > > -- > For

z/OS Management Facility

2019-03-21 Thread Bill Giannelli
What does it take to implement "z/OS Management Facility"? thanks Bill -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: SMTP Mail from z/OS

2019-03-21 Thread Allan Staller
CSSMTP was designed to mitigate several concerns with the SMTP client. As far as I can recall, there were some configuration options, that if not addressed, allowed the SMTP client to be a mail relay (among several others). CSSMTP was designed to eliminate those exposures. I am not aware of any

Re: SMTP Mail from z/OS

2019-03-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2019-03-21, at 10:03:08, Baxter, Bruce (ITS) wrote: > I'm going to cross post this to mvs-oe as well as here... > > The folks that support Comm Server in-house have approached me about > replacing the SMTPD (which is apparently a USS / OE facility) with CSSMTP, > and I've got some thoughts

SMTP Mail from z/OS

2019-03-21 Thread Baxter, Bruce (ITS)
I'm going to cross post this to mvs-oe as well as here... The folks that support Comm Server in-house have approached me about replacing the SMTPD (which is apparently a USS / OE facility) with CSSMTP, and I've got some thoughts about the particulars of their implementation that don't sit well

Re: z/OS 2.3, ODM and ACF2

2019-03-21 Thread Robert Longabaugh
CA (Broadcom) provides the list of required maintenance on the Compatibility matrix. https://support.ca.com/phpdocs/0/MSPSaccount/COMPAT/zos_compat.HTML The compatibility chart also shows the appropriate FIXCAT that you can use in the apply command if you want to only apply the minimum that is

Re: CPC doubt

2019-03-21 Thread Parwez
Nothing is straight forward with Z systems and the LSPR URL provided is for z/OS data and doesn't give you the full picture and a the answer differs depending on how you use the PUs. It all depends on the 'model' number (further confused when you talk about the 'H/W' model or the capacity model

Re: CPC doubt

2019-03-21 Thread Mike Schwab
Here is the current LSPR page. It rates mainframe models by processors and speed. https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/lib03060.nsf/pages/lsprITRzOSv2r2?OpenDocument On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 9:26 AM johnnydeep san wrote: > > Hello all, > > Just small question , I would like to know how

Re: CPC doubt

2019-03-21 Thread Peter
If Iam correct Based on the model On Thu, 21 Mar, 2019, 6:26 PM johnnydeep san, wrote: > Hello all, > > Just small question , I would like to know how many CPC can add in single > mainframe hardware box?. > - JD > > -- > For

CPC doubt

2019-03-21 Thread johnnydeep san
Hello all, Just small question , I would like to know how many CPC can add in single mainframe hardware box?. - JD -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with

Re: Catalog Sharing

2019-03-21 Thread scott Ford
I am used to one MC per LPAR and shared UC... Scott On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 4:53 PM Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > Our enterprise ROT is to share everything in a plex that can be shared. > With help from symbolics and variables. One MCAT per plex regardless of > number of systems. UCATs shared only

Re: Submitting batch jobs from a web browser

2019-03-21 Thread scott Ford
I know ZOSMF,JZOS and FTP can do what Roger desires. I also know Zowe can also. We handle source code via GIT and use our own written CI that submits the compiles / assemblies and links to z/OS. I know there must be other ways to submit a job .. Scott On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 8:48 AM Gil Cardenas

Re: "Workload" field in SDSF

2019-03-21 Thread Horst Sinram
Hi Andy, there are many different ways to obtain the workload name. The probably simplest is to issue a Sysevent REQ(F)ASD against the space and find the workload name in the IRARASD as RASDWKLD. Horst Sinram - STSM, z/OS Workload and Capacity Management

Re: Fwd: Quantum computing will break your encryption in a few years | Network World

2019-03-21 Thread Jack J. Woehr
And you can be part of it for free! :) https://quantumexperience.ng.bluemix.net/qx/ On 3/21/2019 6:14 AM, Mark Regan wrote: https://www.networkworld.com/article/3373550/quantum-computing-will-break-your-encryption-in-a-few-years.html https://tinyurl.com/y4ddvsm2 -- Jack J. Woehr

Fwd: Quantum computing will break your encryption in a few years | Network World

2019-03-21 Thread Mark Regan
https://www.networkworld.com/article/3373550/quantum-computing-will-break-your-e ncryption-in-a-few-years.html or https://tinyurl.com/y4ddvsm2 Regards, Mark T. Regan, K8MTR CTO1 USNR-Retired, 1969-1991 Nationwide Insurance, Retired, 1986-2017

CTC question

2019-03-21 Thread Gadi Ben-Avi
HI, I have a computer (Our DR computer) with 8 partitions I would like to connect Partition 1 (CDVL) to Partition 3 (CMP1) and partition 2 (CDVLT) to partition 4 (CMP1T) using CTC's. I have 4 Channels for this Channel 20 should connect to channel 21 Channel 22 should connect to channel 23 The

1 week to go until the first GSE UK Large Systems meeting of 2019!

2019-03-21 Thread Leanne Wilson
1 week to go until the first GSE UK Large Systems meeting of 2019! The event will be a virtual event via WebEx on the 28th March 2019 from 15:00 – 17:30 GMT. The event will contain 2 sessions presented by Kelly Vogt from Compuware and Stephen Warren from IBM. * Introducing the Mainframe

"Workload" field in SDSF

2019-03-21 Thread Styles, Andy (ITS zPlatform Services)
Classification: Public Hi all, I have an occasion to extract a user-specified subset of all tasks in the system. I'm doing this in REXX by chaining through the ASCBs in the ASVT, which returns me the name of the task (in ASCBJBNI/ASCBJBNS), along with a couple of other bits. This all works

Re: Remote access to Z14 ZR1 Support Element via HMC question

2019-03-21 Thread Parwez
While I can't answer your specific Q. A general point - a HMC with 'lower' level of HMC code can't control/access System requiring a 'higher' level of HMC code. A HMC with higher level code e.g the z14 ZR1 HMC can access/control Systems all the way back to z10 EC and BC. If your zBC12 HMC is

Re: Burroughs WFM vs. z/OS JCl and VSE JCL wasRe: REXX as JCL replacement

2019-03-21 Thread Laurence Chiu
I used a B6700 at University and I became a fan of WFL, Algol, DCAlgol and Espol (student). In fact I wrote a parser for a Linear Programming language using Algol. I actually designed the language using BNF and parsed the statements that way. The only alternatives I have found to Algol (Burroughs

Re: Remote access to Z14 ZR1 Support Element via HMC question

2019-03-21 Thread Laurence Chiu
OK an update. We haven't solved the remote access issue yet but the guys wanted to do use the zBC12 HMC to discover the Z14 HMC. But despite all networking being fine (all the HMC's and the SE's are in the same LAN segment) the zBC12 HMC could not see the Z14 HMC. Yet if they logged onto the Z14