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2013-12-09 Thread Bill Soper
I will be out of the office starting 07/12/2013 and will not return until 06/01/2014. I will respond to your message when I return. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listse

Re: Happy Birthday Commander Grace

2013-12-09 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Well, I wouldn't say 'invent'? Rather discover! Kees. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 20:52 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Happy Birthday Commander Grace W dniu 2013-12-

Re: z/OS and Metasploit

2013-12-09 Thread Ed Gould
Wayne: I have never worked on a ACDC system. However there are are other IBM (MVS & VM) where they come with *KNOWN* passwords (for installation) and that is clearly documented. The point they (I am guessing here) that having the passwords is dangerous in insecure and yes it is. The point sh

Re: z/OS and Metasploit

2013-12-09 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
*So what? "Bootleg" system is less secure by definition? z/OS is secure or not, it has nothing to do with licensing.* * Of course usage of well known user/password says nothing about system strength, but a lot about system administrator.* What I mean is that this is probably *his* bootleg system,

Re: Curiosity: TCB mapping macro name - why IKJTCB?

2013-12-09 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.cbttape.org/os360.htm Order the CD-ROM here. But I think it is the last version of OS/360. On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: > What we need is some source code from an > OS/360 version before 20.x, which is when TSO became available. But of > course some core of TSO

Re: "hexadecimal"?

2013-12-09 Thread David L. Craig
On 13Dec09:1528-0500, Gerhard Postpischil wrote: > On 12/9/2013 2:56 PM, Skip Robinson wrote: > > 2) That's a shame. Every programmer can benefit from familiarity > with the hardware - write a test program using EXCP to read a > multi-volume tape, or use XDAP to read a multi-volume DASD data set

Re: "hexadecimal"?

2013-12-09 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
t...@harminc.net (Tony Harminc) writes: > In the real world, PCI would be used to modify the channel program on > the fly. It would presumably be copying the data to another device > (tape or disk), and as long as that output device could keep up, > there's no reason for this to be a theoretical-on

Re: Curiosity: TCB mapping macro name - why IKJTCB?

2013-12-09 Thread Jim Mulder
> - The first word of the TCB proper, ie. +0 is TCBRBP, but this > offset is "fixed by architecture"! > > Back in the early '70s, when I first noticed the IKJTCB macro, I > speculated that TSO was the first component to "macroize" the DSECT, > and hence gave it the IKJ prefix. I never found o

Re: How to use ftp to convert from IBM-936 to UTF-8

2013-12-09 Thread Mitch
What error message(s) is/are you getting, specifically? Mitch McCluhan -Original Message- From: rickywu1...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN Sent: Mon, Dec 9, 2013 12:45 pm Subject: How to use ftp to convert from IBM-936 to UTF-8 Hi All, I tried to use quote site encoding=m quote site mbda

Re: Curiosity: TCB mapping macro name - why IKJTCB?

2013-12-09 Thread Tony Harminc
On 9 December 2013 19:14, J R wrote: > - The first word of the TCB proper, ie. +0 is TCBRBP, but this offset is > "fixed by architecture"! I think a number of these comments on doubtful sounding fields came about only because of the microcoded assists that arrived in the days of MVS/SE. More re

unresolvend references compiling C with LDAP functions

2013-12-09 Thread Henrique Seganfredo
Hello, I have followed some Tivoli LDAP documentation on http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r12/topic/com.ibm.zos.r12.glpa100/compiling.htm#compiling http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r12/topic/com.ibm.zos.r12.glpa100/glpa1aa015.htm#wq15 There is not a complete JCL sample there, but

Re: Curiosity: TCB mapping macro name - why IKJTCB?

2013-12-09 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 12/9/2013 5:43 PM, Charles Mills wrote: I -- and John I am sure -- remember when it came along. A radical concept. A "time sharing option" for OS/360. Ooh. Not sure about this. And it gave new meaning to the word slow. I'm not so sure about the "radical", as time-sharing was available earli

How to use ftp to convert from IBM-936 to UTF-8

2013-12-09 Thread Ricky
Hi All, I tried to use quote site encoding=m quote site mbdataconn=(IBM-936,UTF-8) but got error msg that error occured while DBCS converting. How to solve this problem? Also failed from IBM-936 to IBM-1388. But they all OK if I use iconv in USS. Thanks, Ricky

Re: "hexadecimal"?

2013-12-09 Thread Tony Harminc
On 9 December 2013 18:04, DASDBILL2 wrote: > My phrase "billions of CCWs" was assuming you already knew how to read a full > track with only one CCW. A fully > populated EAV can have 16 to the 7th power cylinders and each cylinder can > have 15 tracks. One Read Track CCW > (and not Read Multipl

Re: z/OS and Metasploit

2013-12-09 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2013-12-09 22:02, Phil Smith pisze: Thanks for the replies; this confirms what I'd guessed: not a serious threat. Well, "guessed" isn't right-I was SURE it wasn't serious, but needed some data to say why. Yes, and no. No - because hacker need to know user/password. Yes, because it is p

Re: Curiosity: TCB mapping macro name - why IKJTCB?

2013-12-09 Thread J R
Some oddities of the TCB: - It has a 32-byte prefix (FP register savearea), so the TCB proper (+0) starts 32 bytes into the structure. - The control block identifier ('TCB ') is at +100. - The first word of the TCB proper, ie. +0 is TCBRBP, but this offset is "fixed by architecture"!

Re: JES2 Proclibs

2013-12-09 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2013-12-09 21:54, Lizette Koehler pisze: Only if you can place the PROCLIB data set completely on the original TTRs. I do not believe this has changed. I would suggest simple test instead of faith. I tested it. AFAIR it haven't changed since OS/390 2.6. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland

Re: Curiosity: TCB mapping macro name - why IKJTCB?

2013-12-09 Thread DASDBILL2
In general, hardware-oriented control blocks' mapping macros begin with IHA,  such as the PSA and ORB, but many basic z/OS operating system structures also begin with IHA.  The TCB is not a hardware structure, but is an OS/360 construct that has been perpetuated through  all successor operating s

Re: "hexadecimal"?

2013-12-09 Thread DASDBILL2
My phrase "billions of CCWs" was assuming you already knew how to read a full track with only one CCW. A fully populated EAV can have 16 to the 7th power cylinders and each cylinder can have 15 tracks.  One Read Track CCW (and not Read Multiple CKD, which is too primitive) per track would requir

Re: Curiosity: TCB mapping macro name - why IKJTCB?

2013-12-09 Thread Charles Mills
I -- and John I am sure -- remember when it came along. A radical concept. A "time sharing option" for OS/360. Ooh. Not sure about this. And it gave new meaning to the word slow. Still does not answer the "IKJ" question. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mai

Re: "hexadecimal"?

2013-12-09 Thread Harry Wahl
"You would need a lot of real storage and billions of CCWs, but it's theoretically possible." You wouldn't need billions of CCWs, you could use the "READ MULTIPLE CKD" command (X'5E') or the "READ TRACK" command (X'DE') and have one read CCW per track along with whatever setup and positioning

Re: Curiosity: TCB mapping macro name - why IKJTCB?

2013-12-09 Thread John Gilmore
TSO was not an original element of [any early flavor of] OS for the System/360. Its IKJ prefix came a lot later. TSO was initially a literal, dispensable option; it was not integrated into the operating system as it now is. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA

Re: Curiosity: TCB mapping macro name - why IKJTCB?

2013-12-09 Thread Charles Mills
The component code of IKJTCB is HBB7770 (z/OS). Strange. IHAASCB (two A's) FWIW. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 1:48 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Curiosi

Re: Curiosity: TCB mapping macro name - why IKJTCB?

2013-12-09 Thread Micheal Butz
Maybe all the early mappings a had IKJ Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 9, 2013, at 4:48 PM, John McKown wrote: > > Normally, I associate the prefix IKJ with TSO. Does anybody out there know > why the TCB mapping macro is named IKJTCB instead of IHATCB. The PSA > mapping macro is IHAPSA. The RB m

Re: JES2 Proclibs

2013-12-09 Thread Mark Zelden
On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 13:54:16 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote: >Only if you can place the PROCLIB data set completely on the original TTRs. >I do not believe this has changed. > >You can use dynamic Proclibs (see $TPROCLIB) which are not bothered by the >same issues as the ones in the JCL of JES2 or

Curiosity: TCB mapping macro name - why IKJTCB?

2013-12-09 Thread John McKown
Normally, I associate the prefix IKJ with TSO. Does anybody out there know why the TCB mapping macro is named IKJTCB instead of IHATCB. The PSA mapping macro is IHAPSA. The RB map name is IHARB. The ASCB map is IHASCB. Just curious. -- This is clearly another case of too many mad scientists, and

Re: "hexadecimal"?

2013-12-09 Thread Blaicher, Christopher Y.
I am guessing that you used a QSAM access method and it does all that for you under the covers. BSAM would also build a data chained CCW string under the covers for you, but I think you would have mentioned some of the other things you have to do if you were using BSAM. Chris Blaicher Principa

Re: "hexadecimal"?

2013-12-09 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
dasdbi...@comcast.net (DASDBILL2) writes: > In the late 1970s, I worked at a service bureau where I had to write a > tape file conversion program to reblock a tape file with 640KB blocks > to a much smaller physical block size that could be handled by QSAM.  > My program read in one block with an E

Re: z/OS and Metasploit

2013-12-09 Thread Phil Smith
Thanks for the replies; this confirms what I'd guessed: not a serious threat. Well, "guessed" isn't right-I was SURE it wasn't serious, but needed some data to say why. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instru

Re: JES2 Proclibs

2013-12-09 Thread Lizette Koehler
Only if you can place the PROCLIB data set completely on the original TTRs. I do not believe this has changed. You can use dynamic Proclibs (see $TPROCLIB) which are not bothered by the same issues as the ones in the JCL of JES2 or Master JCL If the Proclib is in the JES2 startup JCL then JES2 re

Re: "hexadecimal"?

2013-12-09 Thread DASDBILL2
In the late 1970s, I worked at a service bureau where I had to write a tape file conversion program to reblock a tape file with 640KB blocks to a much smaller physical block size that could be handled by QSAM.  My program read in one block with an EXCP and 10 CCWs data chained, each of which rea

Re: "hexadecimal"?

2013-12-09 Thread John McKown
The only EXCP that I every wrote as at my first job. It read cards from an actual card reader and would do a "select output tray" (sorry don't remember actual terminology) based on whether the card in question passed initial validation testing. So that the "bad cards" could be gathered up and sent

Re: z/OS and Metasploit

2013-12-09 Thread John McKown
I agree with Binyamin. If you can submit a job (via ftp in this example), you can run something which can listen on an unprotected TCPIP port. What's the big deal? If you can't upload a compiled program, you can use REXX socket support to write your code in REXX, copy it from "sysin" to a member of

Re: "hexadecimal"?

2013-12-09 Thread DASDBILL2
In a command channel program, you can chain any number of CCWs together, each of which can possibly transfer up to X'' bytes.  It's theoretically possible to have one very long chain that copies an entire EVA DASD to somewhere else in only one I/O request; i.e., only one SSCH.  You would nee

Re: "hexadecimal"?

2013-12-09 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 12/9/2013 2:56 PM, Skip Robinson wrote: Not sure what's meant by having to chain CCWs. I just finished updating an old RYO program that writes 80 byte records to any device specified because I needed to test >32K blocks on tape. I merely added a DCBE with BLKSIZE=0 and pointed to it in the exi

Re: Something to Think About - Optimal PDS Blocking

2013-12-09 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 12:40:17 -0500, Gerhard Postpischil wrote: >On 12/9/2013 10:19 AM, Steve Comstock wrote: >> Actually, no. I've used BSAM a fair amount. Just never >> TRUNC, that I can recall. > I meant that with BSAM (or BPAM) the programmer has explicit control over the size of each block.

Re: JES2 Proclibs

2013-12-09 Thread Ed Finnell
#4 On the hit parade. http://www.cbttape.org/topten.htm In a message dated 12/9/2013 2:01:18 P.M. Central Standard Time, m...@mzelden.com writes: Yes. http://www.cbttape.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archi

Re: z/OS and Metasploit

2013-12-09 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 10:55:29 -0800 Phil Smith wrote: :>One of our folks sent me this YouTube video of a presentation from BayThreat. Metasploit allegedly used to compromise a z/OS machine. Looks like it uses ftp and a legit user credential to maybe escalate privileges, but not clear. No sound o

Re: JES2 Proclibs

2013-12-09 Thread Mark Zelden
On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 14:26:37 -0500, Dazzo, Matt wrote: >Thanks all for your input, I will test the options and make a decision. > Is PDS86 file#182 on the CBT? Yes. http://www.cbttape.org Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified

Re: "hexadecimal"?

2013-12-09 Thread Skip Robinson
Not sure what's meant by having to chain CCWs. I just finished updating an old RYO program that writes 80 byte records to any device specified because I needed to test >32K blocks on tape. I merely added a DCBE with BLKSIZE=0 and pointed to it in the existing DCB. No other changes. Created a ta

Re: Happy Birthday Commander Grace

2013-12-09 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2013-12-09 17:36, Charles Mills pisze: https://www.google.com/ Not in Poland. However I believe it's about grace Hopper - famous BUG inventor ;-) -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- Tre tej wiadomoci moe zawiera informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wycznie do u

Re: JES2 Proclibs

2013-12-09 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2013-12-09 17:14, Lizette Koehler pisze: Once JES2 is up, it has read the TTR information about the members in PROCLIB and will not be bothered by the removal, compress or move of a PROCLIB dataset. However, doing this could produce JES2 I/O ERROR message reading the PROCLIB members. I d

Re: z/OS and Metasploit

2013-12-09 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2013-12-09 20:08, Wayne Bickerdike pisze: Just looked a bit closer. The user ID is ADCDMST. If it's a legit system, the ADCDMST user id has SYS1, RACF special and could be the supplied default password was in use. Strongly suspect it's a bootleg system. So what? "Bootleg" system is less s

Re: JES2 Proclibs

2013-12-09 Thread Dazzo, Matt
Thanks all for your input, I will test the options and make a decision. Is PDS86 file#182 on the CBT? tks Matt -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 12:33 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV

Re: z/OS and Metasploit

2013-12-09 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
Just looked a bit closer. The user ID is ADCDMST. If it's a legit system, the ADCDMST user id has SYS1, RACF special and could be the supplied default password was in use. Strongly suspect it's a bootleg system. On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 6:05 AM, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: > Almost certainly a bootl

Re: Happy Birthday Commander Grace

2013-12-09 Thread George Rodriguez
I'll never forget when I met her! She was doing her thing at a conference, then she started to talk about computers and this measurement of time that IBM was calling a nano second... When she exaplained it to the audience she said that she went to her engineers and told them to come up with a repre

Re: z/OS and Metasploit

2013-12-09 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
Almost certainly a bootleg z/OS 1.10 running on Hercules. ADCD distribution. The ADCD build has a documented IBMUSER/password combination. The IP address used is a clue too. Very amateurish Someone put an ADCD z/OS 1.10 on a torrent a few years ago so it's probably a copy of that. On Tue, De

z/OS and Metasploit

2013-12-09 Thread Phil Smith
One of our folks sent me this YouTube video of a presentation from BayThreat. Metasploit allegedly used to compromise a z/OS machine. Looks like it uses ftp and a legit user credential to maybe escalate privileges, but not clear. No sound on the video (~ 3 mins). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

Re: Happy Birthday Commander Grace

2013-12-09 Thread Ed Finnell
Hit ! She was promoted to Rear Admiral shortly before her retirement. In a message dated 12/9/2013 10:37:33 A.M. Central Standard Time, charl...@mcn.org writes: https://www.google.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sign

Re: Something to Think About - Optimal PDS Blocking

2013-12-09 Thread Jim Mulder
> Then I don't understand why the utility used produced a copy > significantly smaller than the full dump. Once it was initialized on > the full 63000cyls I could see that sadump had successfully > completed, so what chance of an I/O error is there? > Any utility would not care about the content

Re: "hexadecimal"?

2013-12-09 Thread Blaicher, Christopher Y.
Tape devices for BLKSIZE greater than 64K-1. You have to chain a number of CCW's together for a BLKSIZE=256K. Chris Blaicher Principal Software Engineer, Software Development Syncsort Incorporated 50 Tice Boulevard, Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07677 P: 201-930-8260  |  M: 512-627-3803     E: cblaic...@sy

Re: "hexadecimal"?

2013-12-09 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
gerh...@valley.net (Gerhard Postpischil) writes: > I think you misread his message, which started with command > chaining. But I would be interested in which control units and > controllers allow data chaining beyond 65KiB. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#6 hexadecimal note a lot of or

Re: Something to Think About - Optimal PDS Blocking

2013-12-09 Thread Ron Hawkins
Gil, They're not really virtualized. They are encpsulated.  Ron Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Note® 8.0, an AT&T 4G LTE tablet Original message From: Paul Gilmartin Date: 12/07/2013 09:49 (GMT-08:00) To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Something to Thin

Re: "hexadecimal"?

2013-12-09 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 12/9/2013 11:53 AM, Scott Ford wrote: Bill, I thought you could chain ccws I think you misread his message, which started with command chaining. But I would be interested in which control units and controllers allow data chaining beyond 65KiB. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, Vermont -

Re: Something to Think About - Optimal PDS Blocking

2013-12-09 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 12/9/2013 10:19 AM, Steve Comstock wrote: Actually, no. I've used BSAM a fair amount. Just never TRUNC, that I can recall. BSAM has a built-in gotcha. An explicit block size in the WRITE macro may get you a full-size block anyway. The only way around that was to put the desired size into D

Re: Check out Ternary "flip-flap-flop"

2013-12-09 Thread Thomas Berg
Thanks. I will try to access it. Best Regards Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS\RQM\IT Delivery SWEDBANK AB (Publ) > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU]

Re: JES2 Proclibs

2013-12-09 Thread Mark Zelden
On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 11:01:33 -0500, Dazzo, Matt wrote: >We are running zos1.13, jes2. I have a production proclib in the jes2 proclib >search string. This proclib is a pds that is running out of directory blocks. >There are no enque's on the proclib except for when someone is working in it. >F

Re: "hexadecimal"?

2013-12-09 Thread Scott Ford
Bill, I thought you could chain ccws Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' > On Dec 9, 2013, at 10:42 AM, DASDBILL2 wrote: > > Channel programs have always been able to transfer anywhere from zero to > 65,535 bytes per CCW. Most access method

Happy Birthday Commander Grace

2013-12-09 Thread Charles Mills
https://www.google.com/ Charles -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Can ADRDSSU restore AIX and PATH for KSDS files?

2013-12-09 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Thank you, that was what we thought as well, but were not entirely sure of. Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 10:51 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Can ADRD

Re: Can ADRDSSU restore AIX and PATH for KSDS files?

2013-12-09 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Replying to my own message with the answer for the archives -- TOL(ENQF) was not supplied on the RESTORE and is needed in this case. Thanks to all for your help. Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x2

Re: Can ADRDSSU restore AIX and PATH for KSDS files?

2013-12-09 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Thanks for the confirmation, that was what we thought as well. Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paolo Cacciari Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 10:53 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Can ADRDSSU restore

Re: JES2 Proclibs

2013-12-09 Thread John McKown
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Dazzo, Matt wrote: > We are running zos1.13, jes2. I have a production proclib in the jes2 > proclib search string. This proclib is a pds that is running out of > directory blocks. There are no enque's on the proclib except for when > someone is working in it. Fi

Re: Check out Ternary "flip-flap-flop"

2013-12-09 Thread John Gilmore
Look at Warner, Marc, et al. "Potential for spin-based information processing in a thin-film molecular semiconductor", Nature, volume 503, pp. 504-508. There are helpful color figures; there is a decent bibliography; you will find it readable if you know something about the physics of convention

Re: JES2 Proclibs

2013-12-09 Thread Lizette Koehler
Once JES2 is up, it has read the TTR information about the members in PROCLIB and will not be bothered by the removal, compress or move of a PROCLIB dataset. However, doing this could produce JES2 I/O ERROR message reading the PROCLIB members. But JES2 does not have an enqueue on the dataset afte

Re: JES2 Proclibs

2013-12-09 Thread Lizette Koehler
This is doable and no outages should be needed. However, be careful and slow and test, test, test. You need to create the new library (I like putting .NEW at the end) Then once your copy is completed, do the following 1) Rename current to .old .new to current 2) Submit a job to open and

Re: JES2 Proclibs

2013-12-09 Thread Mitch
Matt, I may be wrong, but I think it can be as simple as what you are suggesting, but, you would have to be 100% sure there would be no access of any kind against the library while you are doing this. Regards, Mitch McCluhan -Original Message- From: Dazzo, Matt To: IBM-MAIN Sent:

JES2 Proclibs

2013-12-09 Thread Dazzo, Matt
We are running zos1.13, jes2. I have a production proclib in the jes2 proclib search string. This proclib is a pds that is running out of directory blocks. There are no enque's on the proclib except for when someone is working in it. Finally the question, can I just create a new larger proclib,

Re: Can ADRDSSU restore AIX and PATH for KSDS files?

2013-12-09 Thread Paolo Cacciari
Peter wrote: - A question for the ADRDSSU cognoscenti: Can the AIX and PATH of a VSAM KSDS can be restored by ADRDSSU after being backed up like this: DUMP OUTDD(DASDOUT) - DS (INCL(HLQ1.HLQ2.**)) - COMPRESS - OPT(3) - SPHERE - TOL(ENQF

Re: "hexadecimal"?

2013-12-09 Thread Scott Ford
All, Let's get back on Gil's questioned pls.. Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' > On Dec 9, 2013, at 10:13 AM, DASDBILL2 wrote: > > Everybody please quiesce the road rage. > > Circuits work in voltages. > > Bill Fairchld > > Frankli

Re: Can ADRDSSU restore AIX and PATH for KSDS files?

2013-12-09 Thread Pommier, Rex
Peter, According to both the doc and personal experience, SPHERE should restore the AIX and PATH as part of restoring the base cluster. Rex >From the doc: SPHERE specifies that for any VSAM cluster dumped with the SPHERE keyword, DFSMSdss must also restore all associated AIX clusters and pa

Re: "hexadecimal"?

2013-12-09 Thread Scott Ford
Bill, Absolutely, father was a CE Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' > On Dec 9, 2013, at 10:13 AM, DASDBILL2 wrote: > > Everybody please quiesce the road rage. > > Circuits work in voltages. > > Bill Fairchld > > Franklin, TN > >

Can ADRDSSU restore AIX and PATH for KSDS files?

2013-12-09 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
A question for the ADRDSSU cognoscenti: Can the AIX and PATH of a VSAM KSDS can be restored by ADRDSSU after being backed up like this: DUMP OUTDD(DASDOUT) - DS (INCL(HLQ1.HLQ2.**)) - COMPRESS - OPT(3) - SPHERE -

Re: "hexadecimal"?

2013-12-09 Thread DASDBILL2
Channel programs have always been able to transfer anywhere from zero to 65,535 bytes per CCW.  Most access methods do not support any CCW byte count greater than approximately 32K. To render my first sentence more up-to-date, I should say channel programs running in command mode have always be

Re: Something to Think About - Optimal PDS Blocking

2013-12-09 Thread Steve Comstock
On 12/9/2013 8:10 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 07:58:32 -0700, Steve Comstock wrote: On 12/9/2013 7:54 AM, DASDBILL2 wrote: I believe an application can create a short FB block in the middle of an output data set with the TRUNC macro. Ah, maybe. I forgot about that macro. I

Re: "hexadecimal"?

2013-12-09 Thread DASDBILL2
Everybody please quiesce the  road rage. Circuits work in voltages. Bill Fairchld Franklin, TN - Original Message - From: "Scott Ford" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Sunday, December 8, 2013 1:28:10 PM Subject: Re: "hexadecimal"? What do circuits work in ... Sc

Re: Something to Think About - Optimal PDS Blocking

2013-12-09 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 07:58:32 -0700, Steve Comstock wrote: >On 12/9/2013 7:54 AM, DASDBILL2 wrote: >> I believe an application can create a short FB block in the middle of an >> output data set with the TRUNC macro. > >Ah, maybe. I forgot about that macro. I knew it existed >but I've never had caus

Re: Something to Think About - Optimal PDS Blocking

2013-12-09 Thread Steve Comstock
On 12/9/2013 7:54 AM, DASDBILL2 wrote: I believe an application can create a short FB block in the middle of an output data set with the TRUNC macro. Bill Fairchild Ah, maybe. I forgot about that macro. I knew it existed but I've never had cause to use it. -Steve - Original Message -

Re: Something to Think About - Optimal PDS Blocking

2013-12-09 Thread DASDBILL2
I believe an application can create a short FB block in the middle of an output data set with the TRUNC macro. Bill Fairchild - Original Message - From: "Steve Comstock" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Sunday, December 8, 2013 10:00:49 AM Subject: Re: Something to Think About -

Re: NTP server sync

2013-12-09 Thread R.S.
To be precise, some assumption: z/OS is NTP client. Actually STP feature of CPC is ntp client, z/OS use STP time source. When connectivity to NTP is lost, then nothing happens. Just your clock is not adjusted. How much it drifts? Hw bad is your clock? In case of PC it not so bad, in case of mainf

Re: Check out Ternary "flip-flap-flop"

2013-12-09 Thread Thomas Berg
OT, but does anyone know where I can find a REAL explanation of how Quantum computing works ? Yes, I know that the point of it is that there exists several result status at one time, but I have never seen an explanation of how you in reality can exploit that! Best Regards Thomas Berg

Re: NTP server sync

2013-12-09 Thread John McKown
Is z/OS the server or client? I can't really tell from your question. If server, then the time served should be taken from the z/OS system clock. But since z/OS does not come with a standard NTP server, I don't know what the source actually it. If it were me, I'd use the z/OS C "gettimeofday()" fun

JAVA socket timeout exception

2013-12-09 Thread ESHEL Jonathan
Hello everyone, (cross-posting to IBM-MAIN, IBMTCP-L and MVSOE-L) We are experiencing a problem in the current development of a web service application. A request sometimes ends up with a time out exception on both sides. The server is on z/OS, it is a stand-alone server based on javax.xml.ws.

Re: NTP server sync

2013-12-09 Thread Jake anderson
Hello, To be precise, If the synchronization process is interrupted. Then which time is taken by the Z/OS ? Is it the last time synchronization ? On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Jake anderson wrote: > Hello All, > > How often does the NTP server syncs up with time in Z/OS ? For example if > the

NTP server sync

2013-12-09 Thread Jake anderson
Hello All, How often does the NTP server syncs up with time in Z/OS ? For example if there is no synchronization between NTP and Z/OS, then which time does Z/OS takes up ? If there is no changes in CLOCKxx parameter been made. Any pointers or advise are much appreciated. Jake --

Re: Check out Ternary "flip-flap-flop"

2013-12-09 Thread Ed Finnell
_www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24934786_ (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24934786) (39 minute uptime). IIRC IBM built a couple of super cooled processors for NSA. Took 24 hrs to warm up to maintain and another 24 to cool it back down to operational state. In a me