Re: Destination z -- Back to the Future -- Don't Reinvent Mainframe Wheels
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 2013 06:54:01 -0400 John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: :Earlier this week, on another list, I encountered someone who was :proposing to use STCK TOD values in a new system. :He should of course have chosen STCKE values instead. At 23:58:43 on :17 September 2042 the IBM mainframe TOD clock, 64-bit STCK value will :overflow. STCKE values do not have this defect; the portions of them :that are incremented are unsigned 14-byte, 8 x 14 = 112-bit values; :and 2^112 - 1 is an adequately large number. :The slogan Do not reinvent the wheel sounds virtuous, at worst :innocuous. In fact its use is an all but infallible indicator of :sanctimony mixed with sloth. -- 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 from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: ICSF master keys at DR site
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 co-processor to another? IMHO You cannot copy master key, because you cannot read it. Of course you can enter MK to many cards at the time. BTW: MK Ceremony is more ceremony or black magice than real security need. Imagine following scenario: simple PC with fresh-installed system + 3270 emulator connected even without SSL to the OSA card, using 5 ft cable - all visible to the personnel involved. Now you can have several persons responsible for key parts and one standing behind the display to audit/manage the process. Don't forget about video surveillance - cameras cannot see the display. As last part of the ceremony is to wipe out the PC HDD (or destroy it if you want). Q: isn't it less secure than using TKE? In what aspect? Disclaimers: 1. I'm NOT talking about official certifications, regulations, but about real things. 2. TKE can be used for other activities, not only MK Ceremony. 3. Preparation of the above scenario could be considered cumbersome, but pay me half of the TKE price, I will do it for you! ;-) Last, but not least: MK Ceremony is not everyday processs. Regards -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- Tre tej wiadomoci moe zawiera informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wycznie do uytku subowego adresata. Odbiorc moe by jedynie jej adresat z wyczeniem dostpu osób trzecich. Jeeli nie jeste adresatem niniejszej wiadomoci lub pracownikiem upowanionym do jej przekazania adresatowi, informujemy, e jej rozpowszechnianie, kopiowanie, rozprowadzanie lub inne dziaanie o podobnym charakterze jest prawnie zabronione i moe by karalne. Jeeli otrzymae t wiadomo omykowo, prosimy niezwocznie zawiadomi nadawc wysyajc odpowied oraz trwale usun t wiadomo wczajc w to wszelkie jej kopie wydrukowane lub zapisane na dysku. This e-mail may contain legally privileged information of the Bank and is intended solely for business use of the addressee. This e-mail may only be received by the addressee and may not be disclosed to any third parties. If you are not the intended addressee of this e-mail or the employee authorised to forward it to the addressee, be advised that any dissemination, copying, distribution or any other similar activity is legally prohibited and may be punishable. If you received this e-mail by mistake please advise the sender immediately by using the reply facility in your e-mail software and delete permanently this e-mail including any copies of it either printed or saved to hard drive. BRE Bank SA, 00-950 Warszawa, ul. Senatorska 18, tel. +48 (22) 829 00 00, fax +48 (22) 829 00 33, www.brebank.pl, e-mail: i...@brebank.pl Sd Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydzia Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru Sdowego, nr rejestru przedsibiorców KRS 025237, NIP: 526-021-50-88. Wedug stanu na dzie 01.01.2013 r. kapita zakadowy BRE Banku SA (w caoci wpacony) wynosi 168.555.904 zotych. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
A product that supports issuing DB2 calls against IMS databases?
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 from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Predict WLC invoice amount ...
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 you get. Scott Chapman -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: A product that supports issuing DB2 calls against IMS databases?
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 IMS call? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: HOST feature or understand a sentence
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 understand IBM fighting hercules but ...wouldn't it also bring in more business like zpdt does ? Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On May 15, 2013, at 4:51 PM, Phil Smith p...@voltage.com wrote: John McKown wrote: According to IBM, you cannot get a z/OS license for a Hercules based machine. It has been asked for by many, for a hobbyist environment. Right. And Platform Solutions not only proved that IBM wasn't interested, but that IBM would aggressively fight attempts to exploit loopholes. Another emulator is Boch. It is an x86 emulator. As I recall, one person used this to run Windows, slowly, on an old pre-z machine. It would be interesting, to me, to have somebody do this on a zEC12 running full speed. I don't know if Windows can be licensed on this configuration, or not. That's Bochs. Adam Thornton, then of Sine Nomine Associates, did this on an MP3000 in about 2001: Exchange under Windows under Bochs under Linux for System z under z/VM. Slow doesn't begin to describe it, but Exchange did (eventually!) come up. I believe - but IANAL - that you can run Windows legally in a virtual machine as long as it's a unique use of that license copy etc. So sure, why not? (Is it on an Intel or AMD CPU? Um, IBM zEC12, actually... - now THAT would be a fun conversation!) ...phsiii -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- zMan -- I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Destination z -- Back to the Future -- Don't Reinvent Mainframe Wheels
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 term use. Binyamin, I'm having a hard time understanding what you mean. Perhaps you'd care to explain. Why is it questionable that STCKE is better than STCK? What do you mean by an unbiased value with an optional displacement? Why doesn't STCKE provide a good value for long term use? One MUST plan for the future. Yes. Is your concern that the ETOD is only good for 36,000 years? -- Thanks, Tom Marchant On Wed, 15 May 2013 06:54:01 -0400 John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: :Earlier this week, on another list, I encountered someone who was :proposing to use STCK TOD values in a new system. :He should of course have chosen STCKE values instead. At 23:58:43 on :17 September 2042 the IBM mainframe TOD clock, 64-bit STCK value will :overflow. STCKE values do not have this defect; the portions of them :that are incremented are unsigned 14-byte, 8 x 14 = 112-bit values; :and 2^112 - 1 is an adequately large number. :The slogan Do not reinvent the wheel sounds virtuous, at worst :innocuous. In fact its use is an all but infallible indicator of :sanctimony mixed with sloth. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Destination z -- Back to the Future -- Don't Reinvent Mainframe Wheels
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 term use. One MUST plan for the future. Any fixed-length representation can theoretically encounter limits of range or precison or both. Among fixed-length representations, STCKE is 49% good: it bears an affine relationship to TAI and has sufficient precision for practical uses, and sufficient range for practical uses in the present and future, but not in the past. If I were to consider a representation of unlimited range and precision, I'd first think of an XML representation of TAI in decimal display, but beware of buffer overflows. What would you consider unbiased? On Wed, 15 May 2013 11:06:02 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: TOD clocks, incremented counters in general, are by definition unsigned. Moreover, with the exception of some few astronomical ones, we do not know the times of past events, even quite recent ones with precision. Few indeed. In Classical times the offset can be hours, with considerable uncertainty. the elephant in the room: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%94T On Wed, 15 May 2013 11:27:47 -0500, John McKown wrote: Rather than being signed, IBM _could_ move the epoch back. ... What is the etiology of this irrational dread of negative numbers? Must clock values be deemed cardinal numbers? I had thought that considering the STCKE value as signed would introduce no incompatibilities; it still seems the most likely to be compatible. But an IBM employee (and others?) have said here that this would be incompatible with existing use. What? I can only imagine setting the Clock Comparator Register to all ones for an interval that is unlikely to expire between IPLs. (Are there nowadays both 64-bit and 112-bit Clock Comparator registers? Are there any GUPI interfaces to the 64-bit Comparator that must be preserved?) --gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Will VALIDATE save transfer time?
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, does anybody know the answer to my question? I am running Global mirror on an IBM 8300 DASD box. I soon will be TDMFing the volumes to a new 8870 box and starting a new Global Mirror session from the new 8700 box. I have some volumes that use to be active (had datasets on them), but since have been returned to a free status. My question is would running ICKDSF with the VALIDATE option of the INIT command on the free volumes save me transfer time? Either with TDMF moving the volume or Global Mirror syncing the volume. The thought is that maybe since INSTALL writes the home address on the volume all of the user data is removed and the volume would compress very well and therefore transfer very fast. True? Ken Leidner kleid...@earthlink.net -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: HOST feature or understand a sentence
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: 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 understand IBM fighting hercules but ...wouldn't it also bring in more business like zpdt does ? Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On May 15, 2013, at 4:51 PM, Phil Smith p...@voltage.com wrote: John McKown wrote: According to IBM, you cannot get a z/OS license for a Hercules based machine. It has been asked for by many, for a hobbyist environment. Right. And Platform Solutions not only proved that IBM wasn't interested, but that IBM would aggressively fight attempts to exploit loopholes. Another emulator is Boch. It is an x86 emulator. As I recall, one person used this to run Windows, slowly, on an old pre-z machine. It would be interesting, to me, to have somebody do this on a zEC12 running full speed. I don't know if Windows can be licensed on this configuration, or not. That's Bochs. Adam Thornton, then of Sine Nomine Associates, did this on an MP3000 in about 2001: Exchange under Windows under Bochs under Linux for System z under z/VM. Slow doesn't begin to describe it, but Exchange did (eventually!) come up. I believe - but IANAL - that you can run Windows legally in a virtual machine as long as it's a unique use of that license copy etc. So sure, why not? (Is it on an Intel or AMD CPU? Um, IBM zEC12, actually... - now THAT would be a fun conversation!) ...phsiii -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- zMan -- I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: HOST feature or understand a sentence
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 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 understand IBM fighting hercules but ...wouldn't it also bring in more business like zpdt does ? Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On May 15, 2013, at 4:51 PM, Phil Smith p...@voltage.com wrote: John McKown wrote: According to IBM, you cannot get a z/OS license for a Hercules based machine. It has been asked for by many, for a hobbyist environment. Right. And Platform Solutions not only proved that IBM wasn't interested, but that IBM would aggressively fight attempts to exploit loopholes. Another emulator is Boch. It is an x86 emulator. As I recall, one person used this to run Windows, slowly, on an old pre-z machine. It would be interesting, to me, to have somebody do this on a zEC12 running full speed. I don't know if Windows can be licensed on this configuration, or not. That's Bochs. Adam Thornton, then of Sine Nomine Associates, did this on an MP3000 in about 2001: Exchange under Windows under Bochs under Linux for System z under z/VM. Slow doesn't begin to describe it, but Exchange did (eventually!) come up. I believe - but IANAL - that you can run Windows legally in a virtual machine as long as it's a unique use of that license copy etc. So sure, why not? (Is it on an Intel or AMD CPU? Um, IBM zEC12, actually... - now THAT would be a fun conversation!) ...phsiii -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- zMan -- I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Destination z -- Back to the Future -- Don't Reinvent Mainframe Wheels
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 :displacement. True, STCK(E) is easier, but it not a good value to be hardened :for long term use. :Binyamin, :I'm having a hard time understanding what you mean. Perhaps you'd care to explain. :Why is it questionable that STCKE is better than STCK? What are you using it for? If to measure short intervals, does the (E) form provide a serious benefit? :What do you mean by an unbiased value with an optional displacement? A GMT/UTC value plus a displacement to give the current local time. :Why doesn't STCKE provide a good value for long term use? If used against the past, can one be sure of the various leap values applied? Is it GMT, UTC or LOCAL? :One MUST plan for the future. :Yes. Is your concern that the ETOD is only good for 36,000 years? No, that the format as a number of intervals since a epoch is not a definite value unless one knows everything that went on at that time and since. -- 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 from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: A product that supports issuing DB2 calls against IMS databases?
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 at an FRB for a standard SQL. :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 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 from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: HOST feature or understand a sentence
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 john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: And, if Linux, xen and kvm become a possibility. At work, I think we use a combination of VMWare ESX, maybe vSphere (don't know for sure), and MS Hyper-v. On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: 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 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 understand IBM fighting hercules but ...wouldn't it also bring in more business like zpdt does ? Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On May 15, 2013, at 4:51 PM, Phil Smith p...@voltage.com wrote: John McKown wrote: According to IBM, you cannot get a z/OS license for a Hercules based machine. It has been asked for by many, for a hobbyist environment. Right. And Platform Solutions not only proved that IBM wasn't interested, but that IBM would aggressively fight attempts to exploit loopholes. Another emulator is Boch. It is an x86 emulator. As I recall, one person used this to run Windows, slowly, on an old pre-z machine. It would be interesting, to me, to have somebody do this on a zEC12 running full speed. I don't know if Windows can be licensed on this configuration, or not. That's Bochs. Adam Thornton, then of Sine Nomine Associates, did this on an MP3000 in about 2001: Exchange under Windows under Bochs under Linux for System z under z/VM. Slow doesn't begin to describe it, but Exchange did (eventually!) come up. I believe - but IANAL - that you can run Windows legally in a virtual machine as long as it's a unique use of that license copy etc. So sure, why not? (Is it on an Intel or AMD CPU? Um, IBM zEC12, actually... - now THAT would be a fun conversation!) ...phsiii -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- zMan -- I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an actual emergency, do you really think we'd stick around to tell you? Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: OE Re: Destination z -- Back to the Future -- Don't Reinvent Mainframe Wheels
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 have to keep their IMS systems down for an hour so that they wouldn't have duplicate time stamps. If IBM were to change the epoch, customers would have to keep them down for a lot longer In my opinion, invention of Daylight Savings Time was the work of the Devil. :-) Leslie -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: z/OS VSAM FTP Advice?
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 Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 4:48 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS VSAM FTP Advice? From: Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN dave.l.han...@usps.gov Date: 05/15/2013 05:31 PM Dear Group, I have been looking at ways to FTP VSAM files between two z/OS systems. I learned that VSE totally supports FTPing of VSAM files, even when VSE is the server. But I don't have a VSE system to bounce my z/OS VSAM files off of. I found something called DDMFTP from the Microsoft Developers Network that works with the Host Integration Server 2004 using the stream input/output protocol of the IBM Distributed Data Management (DDM) architecture. It interoperates with a specific target DDM server implementation called IBM Distributed FileManager. The DDM server is available as a component of the IBM Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem (DFSMS). Does other software work with IBM's Distributed FileManager? I think I figured out VSAM is not supported under z/OS FTPD. To move a VSAM file it looks like I need to convert it to a flat file. Once you move the flat file you have all the VSAM work to get it back into a cluster. Q). Are there any other options (or software) I may be missing to move VSAM clusters between data centers? --- I think you will find that Connect:Direct for z/OS will do this for you. And if you configure it, you can have the data encrypted across the wire -- assuming that security is a concern. You could do an ADRDSSU to dump the VSAM cluster, then FTP the dumpds to the other z/OS system, where you can take ADRDSSU to restore it. Regards, Steve Thompson formerly of the MFT group at IBM (still w/ IBM, just diff group) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: HOST feature or understand a sentence
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 points of z/OS is its reliability and availability, but one of the things that helps achieve that is a synergy between the Operating System and the hardware that allows hardware errors detection, dynamic recovery from hardware errors, and dynamic hardware repair. With IBM in total control of the hardware environment, they can maintain quality control over that environment and insure that hardware issues don't introduce random acts of strangeness. Contrast that with Intel desktop/server environment with its myriad of processors, support chips, motherboards, memory, graphics cards, BIOS settings, and peripheral combinations from different vendors, some of which don't play well together, some with questionable vendor driver support, and in many cases with minimal or no error detection support if the hardware does fail in some way. And, if an emulator like Hercules is also involved, one has to add the possibility of subtle differences in behavior from IBM z-architecture that might affect reliability. If many were only to experience z/OS running in non-IBM hardware environments, they inevitably will see a less robust and reliable system, and the reputation of z/OS could be unjustly damaged by the reliability of those underlying hardware/emulator platforms. For the differences in those two worlds, I don't have to look any further than my own home systems: For over a month, I have been dealing with a stability issue with my main desktop system, frustrated that there is no way to positively determine whether it is a software problem or some unreported hardware error. The last time I saw an undetected hardware error and undetected (by hardware) data corruption on an IBM mainframe was circa 1979, and that turned out to be in 3rd-party-vendor air-cooled memory which had previously endured some inappropriate water cooling due to an environmental failure. I suspect IBM would be concerned that disassociation of z/OS from hardware that IBM controls would also make detection and enforcement of license violations much more difficult, and that license abuse would affect IBM's bottom line. Inexpensive for a home hobbyist obviously translates into too little revenue for IBM to provide active maintenance support, so any maintenance would have to be by total replacement, and when such systems were found to have significant bugs or security flaws, the exposure would probably have to be tolerated until a future system replacement. Production z/OS installations should also be concerned that wide availability of inexpensive hobbyist z/OS systems in non audited environments could both encourage and facilitate development of malware and human engineering attacks that target z/OS systems. Although the victims might more likely be poorly-configured and/or back-level-maintenance instances of hobbyist z/OS systems, unnecessarily encouraging unsupervised efforts to uncover z/OS points of weakness does not sound like goodness. Joel C. Ewing On 05/16/2013 07:08 AM, zMan wrote: 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 understand IBM fighting hercules but ...wouldn't it also bring in more business like zpdt does ? Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On May 15, 2013, at 4:51 PM, Phil Smith p...@voltage.com wrote: John McKown wrote: According to IBM, you cannot get a z/OS license for a Hercules based machine. It has been asked for by many, for a hobbyist environment. Right. And Platform Solutions not only proved that IBM wasn't interested, but that IBM would aggressively fight attempts to exploit loopholes. Another emulator is Boch. It is an x86 emulator. As I recall, one person used this to run Windows, slowly, on an old pre-z machine. It would be interesting, to me, to have somebody do this on a zEC12 running full speed. I don't know if Windows can be licensed on this configuration, or not. That's Bochs. Adam Thornton, then of Sine Nomine Associates, did this on an MP3000 in about 2001: Exchange under Windows under Bochs under Linux for System z under z/VM. Slow doesn't begin to describe it, but Exchange did (eventually!) come up. I believe - but IANAL - that you can run Windows legally in a virtual machine as long as it's a unique use of that license copy etc. So sure, why not? (Is it on an Intel or AMD CPU? Um, IBM zEC12, actually... - now THAT would be a fun
Re: DFSORT/ICETOOL: merge records from 2files
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 matching records. It would have been nice if you showed the required output also //STEP0100 EXEC PGM=SORT //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* //INA DD * +1+2+3+4+5+6+7-- 1O1578 PAS.CMN.PADCMN02.CMNRPROM.D130423.T0545 23/04/2013 1O4901 PAS.CMN.PADCMN02.CMNRPROM.D130424.T0543 24/04/2013 1B4778 GET.THIS.DATASET.NAME.ASIT.MATCHED 24/04/2013 //INB DD * +1+2+3+4+5+6+7-- 1B2906,DEFERRED,QUEUED,49:18:37,3.90 1B4236,DEFERRED,QUEUED,48:54:04,2.63 1B4778,DEFERRED,QUEUED,48:49:18,3.90 1B4852,DEFERRED,QUEUED,48:46:45,3.90 //SORTOUT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSINDD * OPTION COPY JOINKEYS F1=INA,FIELDS=(1,6,A) JOINKEYS F2=INB,FIELDS=(1,6,A) REFORMAT FIELDS=(F1:1,52) //* The output from this job is 1B4778 GET.THIS.DATASET.NAME.ASIT.MATCHED If you just need the dataset name then change the REFORMAT statement to the following REFORMAT FIELDS=(F1:8,44) which will produce this output GET.THIS.DATASET.NAME.ASIT.MATCHED Hope this helps... Kolusu DFSORT Development IBM Corporation IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu wrote on 05/15/2013 04:05:03 AM: From: af dc acbi...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu, Date: 05/15/2013 04:06 AM Subject: DFSORT/ICETOOL: merge records from 2files Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Hello, I know this is a newbie question and I got User Guide for DFSORT PTFs UK51706 and UK51707 near me, but I can't get this done: F1 file: EDIT PRS.CTT.FWK310 Command === ** * Top of D 01 1B2906,Deferred,Queued,49:18:37,3.90 =COLS +1+2+3+--- 02 1B4236,Deferred,Queued,48:54:04,2.63 03 1B4778,Deferred,Queued,48:49:18,3.90 04 1B4852,Deferred,Queued,48:46:45,3.90 F2 file: EDIT PRS.CTT.FWK120 Columns 1 0 Command === Scroll === ** * Top of Data * 01 1O1578 PAS.CMN.PADCMN02.CMNRPROM.D130423.T0545 23/04/2013 =COLS +1+2+3+4+5+6+-- 02 1O4901 PAS.CMN.PADCMN02.CMNRPROM.D130424.T0543 24/04/2013 Both files are FB/80. I want to get all dsns from F2 file from F1 volser list., so key is 1,6 in both files. Any hints are welcome. Many thx, A.Cecilio -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
DB2 for z/OS version 10
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 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: A product that supports issuing DB2 calls against IMS databases?
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 you give a little bit more information about that DB2 call against IMS DB. What is this? A z/OS batch job? What environment, language etc.? Regards, Boris -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
How to list all tape volumes the shows UNKNOWN on the D SMS,VOL cmd ??
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 --- RECORDING TECH: 36 TRACK COMPACTION: YES SPECIAL ATTRIBUTE: NONE ENTER/EJECT DATE: 2011-02-24 CREATION DATE: 2011-02-24 EXPIRATION DATE: LAST MOUNTED DATE: 2011-06-22 LAST WRITTEN DATE: 2011-06-19 SHELF LOCATION: OWNER: LM SG: SGLIB21 LM SC: SCIARTLM MC: MCGRID LM DC: DC40 LM CATEGORY: 000F --- Logical volume. Valid copy in each distributed library. I want to list all tape volumes that have Library category=Unknown. On TCDB it shows USE-ATTRIBUTEPRIVATE. Doisn LI REQ cmd it shows: CATEGORY: 000F Where the unknown value cames from ?? and I wanted to list all tapve volumes with that status, can anyone give me an help ?? May thxs, A.CEcilio -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: How to list all tape volumes the shows UNKNOWN on the D SMS,VOL cmd ??
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 information (CA1, RMM, TLMS, etc...) Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of af dc Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 9:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: How to list all tape volumes the shows UNKNOWN on the D SMS,VOL cmd ?? 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 --- RECORDING TECH: 36 TRACK COMPACTION: YES SPECIAL ATTRIBUTE: NONE ENTER/EJECT DATE: 2011-02-24 CREATION DATE: 2011-02-24 EXPIRATION DATE: LAST MOUNTED DATE: 2011-06-22 LAST WRITTEN DATE: 2011-06-19 SHELF LOCATION: OWNER: LM SG: SGLIB21 LM SC: SCIARTLM MC: MCGRID LM DC: DC40 LM CATEGORY: 000F --- Logical volume. Valid copy in each distributed library. I want to list all tape volumes that have Library category=Unknown. On TCDB it shows USE-ATTRIBUTEPRIVATE. Doisn LI REQ cmd it shows: CATEGORY: 000F Where the unknown value cames from ?? and I wanted to list all tapve volumes with that status, can anyone give me an help ?? May thxs, A.CEcilio -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Destination z -- Back to the Future -- Don't Reinvent Mainframe Wheels
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. No 'leap values' have been or should properly be applied to it. Its conversion into TUC, GD, or JD values does involve applying [different] leap values, but this is straightforward both for leap years and leap seconds. If it's straightforward, why doesn't STCKCONV do it, or at least state in documentation that it doesn't. The table of offsets is readily availabli in P[0r]Op, so IBM knows the information. 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 years. Times before midnight 1899 December 31 can then be represented in the usual way as twos-complement values. That's two votes,. But IBM has stated that would introduce incompatibilities, but hasn't been more specific. -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: ANTMAIN takes a lot of CPU
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 do so. John Sullivan, Sr. Product Developer on XBM with BMC Software, Inc. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
HCD Activate help
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 software activate to get back in sync. Is a POR still the only way to straighten out this mess? Alan Field Technical Engineer Principal BCBS Minnesota Phone: 651.662.3546 Mobile: 651.428.8826 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: DB2 for z/OS version 10
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 Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paulo Roberto Leonardo Pereira Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 9:16 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: DB2 for z/OS version 10 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 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: DFSORT/ICETOOL: merge records from 2files
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. :: -Original Message- :: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On :: Behalf Of af dc :: Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 9:13 AM :: To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU :: Subject: Re: DFSORT/ICETOOL: merge records from 2files :: :: Hi, :: the problem is that I was not trusting the results (there was no match). -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: A product that supports issuing DB2 calls against IMS databases?
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 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 from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: DB2 for z/OS version 10
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 VARCHAR) functions no longer return: - Leading zeros. - The trailing decimal point character. - Leading blanks for positive decimal values. This change applies to the CHAR built-in function only. So I was thinking if could have some BUILTIN FUNCTION in PL/I to receive those data and treats as expected, i.e., as in V9 2013/5/16 Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com 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 Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paulo Roberto Leonardo Pereira Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 9:16 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: DB2 for z/OS version 10 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 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Obrigado, Paulo Pereira (21) 2526-3586 (21) 9806-0825 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Destination z -- Back to the Future -- Don't Reinvent Mainframe Wheels
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 years. Times before midnight 1899 December 31 can then be represented in the usual way as twos-complement values. That's two votes,. But IBM has stated that would introduce incompatibilities, but hasn't been more specific. Perhaps because the (E)TOD clock value is documented as an unsigned integer. Any code that performs arithmetic or comparisons as unsigned data would get surprising results if there were negative values. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: ICETOOL question
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 incremented. It looks like the rounding needs to be done before the value is edited to include the comma. This will insure that any carry is propagated properly to the left. :: -Original Message- :: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On :: Behalf Of Sri h Kolusu :: Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 9:00 AM :: To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU :: Subject: Re: ICETOOL question :: :: K, :: :: The following DFSORT JCL will give you the desired results. The trick :: here :: is to use the same input file twice with Joinkeys. Looking at the your :: expected results, I also rounded the decimal. :: :: //STEP0100 EXEC PGM=SORT :: //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* :: //IN1 DD * :: AAA :: BBB :: AAA :: CCC :: AAA :: BBB :: //IN2 DD * :: AAA :: BBB :: AAA :: CCC :: AAA :: BBB :: //SORTOUT DD SYSOUT=* :: //SYSINDD* :: JOINKEYS F1=IN1,FIELDS=(4,1,A),SORTED,NOSEQCK :: JOINKEYS F2=IN2,FIELDS=(1,1,A) :: REFORMAT FIELDS=(F1:1,4,F2:2,8) :: :: SORT FIELDS=(1,3,CH,A) :: :: OUTREC IFTHEN=(WHEN=GROUP,KEYBEGIN=(1,3),PUSH=(14:SEQ=8)), :: IFTHEN=(WHEN=INIT, :: OVERLAY=(25:(14,8,ZD,MUL,+1),DIV,5,8,ZD,EDIT=(IIT,TT))), :: IFTHEN=(WHEN=(30,1,ZD,GT,5),OVERLAY=(29:29,1,ZD,ADD,+1,EDIT=(T))) :: :: OUTFIL REMOVECC,NODETAIL,BUILD=(80X), :: SECTIONS=(1,3,TRAILER3=(1,4,25,5)) :: //* :: //JNF1CNTL DD * :: INREC FIELDS=(1,3,X) :: //* :: //JNF2CNTL DD * :: INREC FIELDS=(X,7C'0',C'1') :: SUM FIELDS=(2,8,ZD) :: //* :: :: The output from this job is :: :: AAA 50,0 :: BBB 33,3 :: CCC 16,7 :: :: Hope this helps... :: Kolusu :: DFSORT Development :: IBM Corporation :: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu wrote on :: 05/10/2013 06:53:40 AM: :: :: From: K kzafi...@gmail.com :: To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu, :: Date: 05/10/2013 07:01 AM :: Subject: ICETOOL question :: Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu :: :: Hi dear all, :: :: I would like to produce a statistic report using ICETOOL. This :: report should shown the percentage of records in the file according :: to their values e.g. :: :: Input: :: :: AAA :: BBB :: AAA :: CCC :: AAA :: BBB :: :: Output Percentages: :: :: AAA 50,0 :: BBB 33,0 :: CCC 16,7 :: :: Is there any ICETOOL operator (like OCCUR) to find out the above :: percentage? Do I have to use various INCLUDE COND and then read the :: DFSMSG to extract percentages (from ICE054I 0 RECORDS - IN: xxx, OUT: :: yyy) ? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Mainframe Event Acquisition System -- anyone heard of it?
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. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: HCD Activate help
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 IODF has been destroyed so I can't do a software activate to get back in sync. Is a POR still the only way to straighten out this mess? Use your backup. You have backup of your IODF. ;-) Seriously: I'm afraid you have to perform POR. Even matching IODF to other IOCDS slot will not help. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- Tre tej wiadomoci moe zawiera informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wycznie do uytku subowego adresata. Odbiorc moe by jedynie jej adresat z wyczeniem dostpu osób trzecich. Jeeli nie jeste adresatem niniejszej wiadomoci lub pracownikiem upowanionym do jej przekazania adresatowi, informujemy, e jej rozpowszechnianie, kopiowanie, rozprowadzanie lub inne dziaanie o podobnym charakterze jest prawnie zabronione i moe by karalne. Jeeli otrzymae t wiadomo omykowo, prosimy niezwocznie zawiadomi nadawc wysyajc odpowied oraz trwale usun t wiadomo wczajc w to wszelkie jej kopie wydrukowane lub zapisane na dysku. This e-mail may contain legally privileged information of the Bank and is intended solely for business use of the addressee. This e-mail may only be received by the addressee and may not be disclosed to any third parties. If you are not the intended addressee of this e-mail or the employee authorised to forward it to the addressee, be advised that any dissemination, copying, distribution or any other similar activity is legally prohibited and may be punishable. If you received this e-mail by mistake please advise the sender immediately by using the reply facility in your e-mail software and delete permanently this e-mail including any copies of it either printed or saved to hard drive. BRE Bank SA, 00-950 Warszawa, ul. Senatorska 18, tel. +48 (22) 829 00 00, fax +48 (22) 829 00 33, www.brebank.pl, e-mail: i...@brebank.pl Sd Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydzia Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru Sdowego, nr rejestru przedsibiorców KRS 025237, NIP: 526-021-50-88. Wedug stanu na dzie 01.01.2013 r. kapita zakadowy BRE Banku SA (w caoci wpacony) wynosi 168.555.904 zotych. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: ICSF master keys at DR site
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 machines. Yes, but you also need a TKE to do this. You can enable or disable the crypto card. When the card is disabled, you cannot perform any application-oriented crypto functions with it - for example, encrypting data, managing keys, etc. The only things you can do are the functions related to re-enabling the card, which is done via TKE. While the card is in disabled state, you can remove it from your machine and it will not lose any of the stored data such as the master keys - but you also cannot USE those master keys for anything until the card is re-enabled, and that is not possible except through TKE by two authorized administrators. Here is part of the description that is in the TKE user's manual: -- A crypto module is either enabled or disabled. When a crypto module is enabled, it is available for processing. You can change the status of the module by pressing the Enable Crypto Module / Disable Crypto Module push button. Enable Crypto Module is a dual-signature command and another authority may need to co-sign. Disable Crypto Module is a single signature command. Disabling a crypto module disables all the cryptographic functions for a single crypto module, a group of crypto modules, or a domain group. This disables the crypto module for the entire system, not just the LPAR that issued the disable. -- Todd Arnold -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Mainframe Event Acquisition System -- anyone heard of it?
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 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: ICSF master keys at DR site
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 smart cards at the 2nd site. The other way for MKs would be using tamper evident envelopes, dual-controlled / logged access to the 3 key parts and some security measure guarding the keys. You should need at least 3 people to make a MK ceremony... in reality.. it would probably be more. Also, CLEARLY documented procedures that are easy to follow and have sign off's for each of the steps. Security logging/alerts, review of logging/alerts that is verifiable.. escalation procedures for possible breach, key change procedures... etc. TKE should be setup in such a way as to prevent others from tampering.. dual locked cabinet? Rob Rob Schramm Senior Systems Consultant Imperium Group On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Rob Schramm rob.schr...@gmail.com wrote: 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 machines. Yes, but you also need a TKE to do this. You can enable or disable the crypto card. When the card is disabled, you cannot perform any application-oriented crypto functions with it - for example, encrypting data, managing keys, etc. The only things you can do are the functions related to re-enabling the card, which is done via TKE. While the card is in disabled state, you can remove it from your machine and it will not lose any of the stored data such as the master keys - but you also cannot USE those master keys for anything until the card is re-enabled, and that is not possible except through TKE by two authorized administrators. Here is part of the description that is in the TKE user's manual: -- A crypto module is either enabled or disabled. When a crypto module is enabled, it is available for processing. You can change the status of the module by pressing the Enable Crypto Module / Disable Crypto Module push button. Enable Crypto Module is a dual-signature command and another authority may need to co-sign. Disable Crypto Module is a single signature command. Disabling a crypto module disables all the cryptographic functions for a single crypto module, a group of crypto modules, or a domain group. This disables the crypto module for the entire system, not just the LPAR that issued the disable. -- Todd Arnold -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Mainframe Event Acquisition System -- anyone heard of it?
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 words PCI DSS, HIPAA, Dodd Frank, Sarbanes-Oxley, etc. The number two driver is an actual breach. Hey John, not to worry. g It's MEAS, not EAS. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Sims Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 2:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Mainframe Event Acquisition System -- anyone heard of it? 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? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: HCD Activate help
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 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: ICETOOL question
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 F1=IN1,FIELDS=(4,1,A),SORTED,NOSEQCK JOINKEYS F2=IN2,FIELDS=(1,1,A) REFORMAT FIELDS=(F1:1,4,F2:2,8) SORT FIELDS=(1,3,CH,A) OUTREC IFTHEN=(WHEN=GROUP,KEYBEGIN=(1,3),PUSH=(14:SEQ=8)), IFTHEN=(WHEN=INIT, OVERLAY=(25:(14,8,ZD,MUL,+1),DIV,5,8,ZD,EDIT=(IIT,TT))), IFTHEN=(WHEN=(30,1,SS,EQ,C'6,7,8,9',AND,29,2,ZD,LE,95), OVERLAY=(29:29,1,ZD,ADD,+1,EDIT=(T),35:C'DECIMAL ROUNDED')), IFTHEN=(WHEN=(29,2,ZD,GT,95), OVERLAY=(25:25,3,UFF,ADD,+1,EDIT=(IIT),C',00',35:C'INTEGER ROUNDED')) OUTFIL REMOVECC,NODETAIL,BUILD=(80X), SECTIONS=(1,3,TRAILER3=(1,4,25,5,X,35,15)) //* Kolusu DFSORT Development IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu wrote on 05/16/2013 11:01:00 AM: From: retired mainframer retired-mainfra...@q.com To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu, Date: 05/16/2013 11:05 AM Subject: Re: ICETOOL question Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu 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 incremented. It looks like the rounding needs to be done before the value is edited to include the comma. This will insure that any carry is propagated properly to the left. :: -Original Message- :: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU ] On :: Behalf Of Sri h Kolusu :: Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 9:00 AM :: To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU :: Subject: Re: ICETOOL question :: :: K, :: :: The following DFSORT JCL will give you the desired results. The trick :: here :: is to use the same input file twice with Joinkeys. Looking at the your :: expected results, I also rounded the decimal. :: :: //STEP0100 EXEC PGM=SORT :: //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* :: //IN1 DD * :: AAA :: BBB :: AAA :: CCC :: AAA :: BBB :: //IN2 DD * :: AAA :: BBB :: AAA :: CCC :: AAA :: BBB :: //SORTOUT DD SYSOUT=* :: //SYSINDD* :: JOINKEYS F1=IN1,FIELDS=(4,1,A),SORTED,NOSEQCK :: JOINKEYS F2=IN2,FIELDS=(1,1,A) :: REFORMAT FIELDS=(F1:1,4,F2:2,8) :: :: SORT FIELDS=(1,3,CH,A) :: :: OUTREC IFTHEN=(WHEN=GROUP,KEYBEGIN=(1,3),PUSH=(14:SEQ=8)), :: IFTHEN=(WHEN=INIT, :: OVERLAY=(25:(14,8,ZD,MUL,+1),DIV,5,8,ZD,EDIT=(IIT,TT))), :: IFTHEN=(WHEN=(30,1,ZD,GT,5),OVERLAY=(29:29,1,ZD,ADD,+1,EDIT=(T))) :: :: OUTFIL REMOVECC,NODETAIL,BUILD=(80X), :: SECTIONS=(1,3,TRAILER3=(1,4,25,5)) :: //* :: //JNF1CNTL DD * :: INREC FIELDS=(1,3,X) :: //* :: //JNF2CNTL DD * :: INREC FIELDS=(X,7C'0',C'1') :: SUM FIELDS=(2,8,ZD) :: //* :: :: The output from this job is :: :: AAA 50,0 :: BBB 33,3 :: CCC 16,7 :: :: Hope this helps... :: Kolusu :: DFSORT Development :: IBM Corporation :: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu wrote on :: 05/10/2013 06:53:40 AM: :: :: From: K kzafi...@gmail.com :: To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu, :: Date: 05/10/2013 07:01 AM :: Subject: ICETOOL question :: Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu :: :: Hi dear all, :: :: I would like to produce a statistic report using ICETOOL. This :: report should shown the percentage of records in the file according :: to their values e.g. :: :: Input: :: :: AAA :: BBB :: AAA :: CCC :: AAA :: BBB :: :: Output Percentages: :: :: AAA 50,0 :: BBB 33,0 :: CCC 16,7 :: :: Is there any ICETOOL operator (like OCCUR) to find out the above :: percentage? Do I have to use various INCLUDE COND and then read the :: DFSMSG to extract percentages (from ICE054I 0 RECORDS - IN: xxx, OUT: :: yyy) ? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: How to list all tape volumes the shows UNKNOWN on the D SMS,VOL cmd ??
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 locate bad or missing values. If you don't have direct access to the panels, Naviquest in batch can get a full list of volumes that can then be filtered/processed with another tool. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help with verbal communication and leadership skills checkout Woodwinds Toastmasters. IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU wrote on 05/16/2013 11:26:58 AM: From: Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 05/16/2013 11:27 AM Subject: Re: How to list all tape volumes the shows UNKNOWN on the D SMS,VOL cmd ?? Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU 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 information (CA1, RMM, TLMS, etc...) Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of af dc Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 9:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: How to list all tape volumes the shows UNKNOWN on the D SMS,VOL cmd ?? 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 --- RECORDING TECH: 36 TRACK COMPACTION: YES SPECIAL ATTRIBUTE: NONE ENTER/EJECT DATE: 2011-02-24 CREATION DATE: 2011-02-24 EXPIRATION DATE: LAST MOUNTED DATE: 2011-06-22 LAST WRITTEN DATE: 2011-06-19 SHELF LOCATION: OWNER: LM SG: SGLIB21 LM SC: SCIARTLM MC: MCGRID LM DC: DC40 LM CATEGORY: 000F --- Logical volume. Valid copy in each distributed library. I want to list all tape volumes that have Library category=Unknown. On TCDB it shows USE-ATTRIBUTEPRIVATE. Doisn LI REQ cmd it shows: CATEGORY: 000F Where the unknown value cames from ?? and I wanted to list all tapve volumes with that status, can anyone give me an help ?? May thxs, A.CEcilio -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reading, dissemination, distribution, copying, forwarding or other use of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message and all copies and backups thereof. Thank you. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: ICSF master keys at DR site
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 10:55 AM, Frank Swarbrick wrote: 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 co-processor to another? Don't forget to clear your Master Key from the DR crypto card when you leave. -- Richard -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
SFTP to send a file to OMVS
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. Is there any software available that would make it possible to do SFTP to MVS side on z/OS system that would be practical to install, or is this simply the way it is? I have seen a couple of vendors that provide solutions, such as Dovetail and Tectia but I'm not sure how to answer this question which is how to trigger the Job in ESP when the file arrives in OMVS? Right now it is not possible. Does anyone know of a solution. Regards, Domenic Cifani Technology Consultant III Network Software Canada HP Enterprise Services Telephone (905) 383-7864 HP Cell (905) 869-3279 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: SFTP to send a file to OMVS
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 [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Cifani, Domenic Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 2:40 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: SFTP to send a file to OMVS 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. Is there any software available that would make it possible to do SFTP to MVS side on z/OS system that would be practical to install, or is this simply the way it is? I have seen a couple of vendors that provide solutions, such as Dovetail and Tectia but I'm not sure how to answer this question which is how to trigger the Job in ESP when the file arrives in OMVS? Right now it is not possible. Does anyone know of a solution. Regards, Domenic Cifani Technology Consultant III Network Software Canada HP Enterprise Services Telephone (905) 383-7864 HP Cell (905) 869-3279 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: SFTP to send a file to OMVS
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 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 [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Cifani, Domenic Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 2:40 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: SFTP to send a file to OMVS 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. Is there any software available that would make it possible to do SFTP to MVS side on z/OS system that would be practical to install, or is this simply the way it is? I have seen a couple of vendors that provide solutions, such as Dovetail and Tectia but I'm not sure how to answer this question which is how to trigger the Job in ESP when the file arrives in OMVS? Right now it is not possible. Does anyone know of a solution. Regards, Domenic Cifani Technology Consultant III Network Software Canada HP Enterprise Services Telephone (905) 383-7864 HP Cell (905) 869-3279 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an actual emergency, do you really think we'd stick around to tell you? Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: SFTP to send a file to OMVS
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 SFTP is available free to use under our Community License, or with world-class support under our Enterprise License. For more information, see: http://dovetail.com/support.html Please feel free to ask questions on our free community forum. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Will VALIDATE save transfer time?
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 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, does anybody know the answer to my question? I am running Global mirror on an IBM 8300 DASD box. I soon will be TDMFing the volumes to a new 8870 box and starting a new Global Mirror session from the new 8700 box. I have some volumes that use to be active (had datasets on them), but since have been returned to a free status. My question is would running ICKDSF with the VALIDATE option of the INIT command on the free volumes save me transfer time? Either with TDMF moving the volume or Global Mirror syncing the volume. The thought is that maybe since INSTALL writes the home address on the volume all of the user data is removed and the volume would compress very well and therefore transfer very fast. True? Ken Leidner kleid...@earthlink.net -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: DB2 + REUSASID(YES)
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 6:34:32 A.M. Central Daylight Time, rel...@us.ibm.com writes: I do not know DB2's position or plan in this area. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: How to list all tape volumes the shows UNKNOWN on the D SMS,VOL cmd ??
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. Mike Wood -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: SFTP to send a file to OMVS
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: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: SFTP to send a file to OMVS 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. Is there any software available that would make it possible to do SFTP to MVS side on z/OS system that would be practical to install, or is this simply the way it is? I have seen a couple of vendors that provide solutions, such as Dovetail and Tectia but I'm not sure how to answer this question which is how to trigger the Job in ESP when the file arrives in OMVS? Right now it is not possible. Does anyone know of a solution. Regards, Domenic Cifani Technology Consultant III Network Software Canada HP Enterprise Services Telephone (905) 383-7864 HP Cell (905) 869-3279 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Obtaining Download Director
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 therein. OK so I go to SAC and find Systems Director is 4580mb, i.e enormous but I only need DD:-(. SAC offers DD and HTTP and since I shortly need to download RDz and TXSeries am keen to get DD up and running again. So might DD be out there somewhere in teeny tiny form? cheers Graham Hobbs -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Obtaining Download Director
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 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 therein. OK so I go to SAC and find Systems Director is 4580mb, i.e enormous but I only need DD:-(. SAC offers DD and HTTP and since I shortly need to download RDz and TXSeries am keen to get DD up and running again. So might DD be out there somewhere in teeny tiny form? cheers Graham Hobbs -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- | Jim Phoenix | Voice: (310) 338-0400 x316 | | Senior Software Developer| Fax: (310) 338-0801| | Phoenix Software International || | 831 Parkview Drive North | jimphoe...@phoenixsoftware.com | | El Segundo, CA 90245 | http://www.phoenixsoftware.com | Opinions expressed by this individual are not necessarily those of the Company. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Business politics and software development
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 for the misuses of it that hackers now make. You didn't need hindsight to recognize it as a bad decision. I at least was appalled when C first came out. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2http://patriot.net/~shmuel We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Co:z SFTP and Public/Private Key Authentication
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 behavior of the OMVS shell under TSO, which does not exploit capabilities that have been in the VTIOC for decades. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2http://patriot.net/~shmuel We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
XMIT Manager
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 IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
