There are several good references. watsonwalker.com, SHARE, CMG and
Performance Associates.
I've always enjoyed Dr. H Pat's observations.
http://researchr.org/alias/h.-pat-artis
The IBM LSPR numbers are a good starting point if you have an idea of where
you're going. You need to be
On Thu, 1 Dec 2016 12:19:53 +0530, venkat kulkarni wrote:
>
>So, we have requirement of sending and receiving files of mainframe and
>windows as well as Unix systems.
>So, we need to setup JCL in z/os system in such a way the one JCL will be
>used for sending data can be sequential or PDs datasets
On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 23:37:24 -0700, Jack J. Woehr wrote:
>Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>> But must it be JCL? Why not a UNIX shell script or Rexx, putting you a
>> couple interface layers closer to what you need to do.
>
>CMS/TSO Pipelines?
>
How prevalent is CMS/TSO Pipelines in z/OS?
Does it have
Thanks for reply.
So, we have requirement of sending and receiving files of mainframe and
windows as well as Unix systems.
So, we need to setup JCL in z/os system in such a way the one JCL will be
used for sending data can be sequential or PDs datasets to Windows
mainframe or receiving file from
Paul Gilmartin wrote:
But must it be JCL? Why not a UNIX shell script or Rexx, putting you a
couple interface layers closer to what you need to do.
CMS/TSO Pipelines?
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On Thu, 1 Dec 2016 10:44:42 +0530, venkat kulkarni wrote:
>Do anybody have sample batch job to transfer data using sftp.
>
>Currently we using FTP in batch job PGM but not sure what program we should
>use for sftp and format of JCL to transfer sequential and PDs datasets.
>
SFTP won't deal with
Hello David, yes I am aware that sftp process only Unix files but I heard
that we have other of transferring traditional mvs dataset like we can
first transfer mvs dataset to omvs and then do sftp.
But I never did this before, so I am requesting to help on sample JCL.
On Dec 1, 2016 09:13,
On 1/12/2016 1:14 PM, venkat kulkarni wrote:
Do anybody have sample batch job to transfer data using sftp.
Currently we using FTP in batch job PGM but not sure what program we should
use for sftp and format of JCL to transfer sequential and PDs datasets.
sftp only supports UNIX files so
Carlos Cordero wrote:
>Is there some formula to calculate a MIPS usage from the next kind of
>data-source and volumes estimation:
What are you trying to solve? Rather consider Service Units.
You got good replies about calculation methods and cautions about what MIPS is
really.
Just one fact
Do anybody have sample batch job to transfer data using sftp.
Currently we using FTP in batch job PGM but not sure what program we should
use for sftp and format of JCL to transfer sequential and PDs datasets.
Thnaks
On Nov 29, 2016 09:51, "Jack J. Woehr" wrote:
David Crayford
Assuming the latter, but is this Apache HTTP Server 2.2 or 2.4? If it is the
prior, don't believe your require directives would be honored. See Order
allow,deny and Allow from all.
Regards,
Kevin
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OK, thanks for that info.
Mike
On 11/30/2016 05:25 PM, Edward Finnell wrote:
Attachments are permitted for .txt.
In a message dated 11/30/2016 12:30:40 P.M. Central Standard Time,
m...@mentor-services.com writes:
I don't believe that we can attach files on this listserv, so here it is
On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:25:54 -0500, Edward Finnell wrote:
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What Content-Transfer-Encodings? 8bit? Quoted-Printable? Base64?
What does ".txt" mean? May I attach a video as long as I rename it to "*.txt"?
There must be a size limit. Not much video.
And,
I use the attached CLIST to change the concatenations of any of the DDNAMEs,
except for STEPLIB. I use an main CLIST that is invoked at login time to add
to several of the pre-Allocated DDNAMEs and create a few. The $Realloc.txt is
some simple documentation I found for the CLIST.
Al Nims
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in source form:
My €0.02:
This is Rube Goldberg. There are ways to achieve the same goal but with
slightly changed *not important* requirements.
IMHO the simplest way to keep and share files on mainframe is to use
DFS/SMB - just map Windows network drive. Actually you can use WIndows,
Mac, LInux. You can
On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson
wrote:
> The insatiable hunger for MIPS comes mainly from the non-mainframe world.
> IBM uses MSU ratings for mainframes of all sizes, but folks who want to
> compare other hardware can only speak MIPS. So there are
Most MIPS charts are expensive spreadsheets that simply duplicate what is
already available from the IBM LSPR.
Unless the provider of such a chart is running their own benchmarks, they
are largely nonsense.
Adam
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The insatiable hunger for MIPS comes mainly from the non-mainframe world. IBM
uses MSU ratings for mainframes of all sizes, but folks who want to compare
other hardware can only speak MIPS. So there are various charts available from
various sources to make sense of apples and oranges. You get
On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 11:52:31 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 11:24:52 -0600, Kirk Wolf wrote:
>
>>None of these has a user web interface, although a web front end to any
>>could be developed.
>>
>This becomes more complicated if there is a requirement to support cients
>on both
Thanks David,
I wasn't really thinking of Tomcat + JspWiki as a solution for this, but
perhaps I still don't understand Lionel's requirement.
FWIW: We just released an updated port of our free "T:Z QuickStart for
Tomcat" package (a z/OS-friendly packaging and installer for Apache
Tomcat).
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Along those lines, here are a couple of links I found using an internet for
IBM Calculating MIPs and Service Units
It would also help to understand what you are trying to do with MIPS.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bit.listserv.ibm-main/5ZIiozkVWZs
Thanks to everyone that replied: I think the best solution for my needs was
CONCAT from CBT File 831.
I had fun trying out all the options suggested.
Thanks again
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As I discussed previously on IBM-Main, I've played a bit with ABO. Some
observations:
-- The more CPU-intensive the program, the more it will benefit from ABO. Heavy
I/O hitters not so much.
-- There is virtually no overhead in an ABO-optimized program. I've some folks
use the term 'dynamic'
Or you can create a standalone ALLOC you do once in ISPF. Use LIBDEFs and
ALTLIB in it. Then so long as you remain in that session, you have what you
need.
When you logoff the ALTLIB and LIBDEFs go away.
Note: Some products do not use the ALTLIB. You need to validate what you are
doing
Is there some formula to calculate a MIPS usage from the next kind of
data-source and volumes estimation:
Keep in mind that MIPS stands for "Meaningless Indicator of Processor
Speed"... long used, usually misunderstood, and often abused. On a
current processor I can write one program that
ALTLIB can be used within an application to change the search list for
Rexx/CLIST but only for the duration of that application. In order to change
the library concatenation for the life of a session, a (re)concatenation of
(SYSPROC/SYSEXEC) must be performed at TSO Ready before entering PDF.
Sorry, my mind wandered when responding.
A quick search on the internet gives a lot of info
This thread maybe helpful
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bit.listserv.ibm-main/fh1g4n7f5_Q
>From within this thread
ABO is going to make a V3/V4 program faster, in general, because it has
What problem are you trying to solve? Or what type of report are you trying to
produce?
Do you have SAS/MXG or SAS/MICS or SAS?
Have you tried searching www.ibm.com for this information? Or any performance
manuals/books?
Lizette
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Hi all,
Is there some formula to calculate a MIPS usage from the next kind of
data-source and volumes estimation:
Data Type: SMF
Records procesed: X million
Data Volume: Y GB
Total CP CPU utilization: Z seconds
Approx zIIP utilization: 1344 seconds
Avg CPU per record: .0xy seconds
Is this the product you are referring to? If not, could you provide more
details?
IBM Automatic Binary Optimizer (ABO) for z/OS
If it is, you should search the IBMMAIN Archives for all of the discussions of
ABO.
It allows PRE Cobol V5 MODULES a way to run with some of the optimizations
>Thinking a bit more, even though there may be parts, bits and pieces of C/C++
>code to do with the COBOL program (and supporting routines) anything in the
>COBOL program is of course "COBOL" and any "COBOL routines" I'd imagine would
>also be treated as "COBOL" by LE.
This matches my
I have my zPDT runniing on Centos box with DROPBOX installed. so a
recompiled version agent might run under USS and a simple OCOPY to shared
library might do the job. I would use it if possible.
Best,
ITschak
ITschak Mugzach
Z/OS, ISV Products and Application Security & Risk Assessments
>Thanks a lot, that's useful to know. A genuine moment for me to say "thank you
>for sharing".
I'll second that statement!
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>There is an assumption in the OP that the program itself "did it". Maybe
it did. But maybe it did not do it directly.
I'm relatively new to the company and am collecting information bit by bit
about this Cobol and "decimal overflow mask" problem. It seems this is know to
the company since
you can use ALTLIB tso command. It changes the rexx / clist search order by
placing a user library(ies) in front of sSYSPROC / SYSEXEC.
ITschak
ITschak Mugzach
Z/OS, ISV Products and Application Security & Risk Assessments Professional
On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 6:32 PM, Sri h Kolusu
A few months ago, I recall seeing something during a web search about
integrating ABO with an application software management product like
CA-Endevor. For some reason, I think it was from Marist college.
I thought I had downloaded it, but either I did not or I deleted it. There may
be a new
Dazzo, Matt wrote:
DocumentRoot/etc/websrv1/PCHshare/
Nobody on Unix would put the document root under a system dir like /etc ...
more like /var/www
Also, can you chroot on USS? Locking your web server into a chroot jail is a nice security feature on Unixes and is
emulated on IBM i PASE
I believe my problem now stems from the default statements provided with the
webserver. See below, these statements come before my virtual server
statements.
Options FollowSymLinks - this is the original ibm setup.
Just to clarify - the TSO CLIST manual has the SPROC code in it as a sample for
CLIST coding
http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.ikjb800/sproc.htm
in the past I did copy this and it did run correctly. But I think it may need
to run in TSO READY mode.
Are
Mark:
I have a REXX procedure I wrote many years ago that does the job. I can
say that it works on z/OS 2.1, but don't have access to a 2.2 system,
although I can see no reason why it won't run there.
I don't believe that we can attach files on this listserv, so here it is
in source form:
If it were me, I’d start by Googling open source web file sharing or open
source private cloud. I think the issue is starting with “Z” based xyz. Most
/ many technologies can / will run on z if they’re java / c / plain ol’ web
type stuff - you might very well be able to port or even just
Thank you - will check it out
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> ftp is restricted - was my first thought as well
What is the limiting part? FTP can write to and read from the z/OS UNIX file
system.
Do you need to work with the files on z/OS? Or is it only to be the parking
space?
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Well, its overkill, but you could download/install Dovetails ported copy of
TOMCAT/Wiki. Create pages, secure them to your self, attach files, all done
via browser. I'm surprised Kirk didn’t suggest that.
_
Dave Jousma
Manager
On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 11:24:52 -0600, Kirk Wolf wrote:
>Some possibilities for remote and secure file/dataset transfer:
>
>- z/OS FTPS
>
>z/OS OpenSSH SFTP. Co:Z SFTP enhancements allow support for z/OS data
>sets, spool files, etc.
>
>- z/OSMF REST File services (HTTPS/REST APIS for files and
If you are connecting to z/os HTTP server, why not use curl client with https
option.
# Curl Configuration File c:\u\curl\curl.https.conf
--tlsv1
--user user142
--url "https://mvs11.xyz.us/html/Index.html;
--output sy11.index.html
--cacert /u/data/cacerts.pem
-X POST
-H "content-type: text/html"
Thinking a bit more, even though there may be parts, bits and pieces of C/C++
code to do with the COBOL program (and supporting routines) anything in the
COBOL program is of course "COBOL" and any "COBOL routines" I'd imagine would
also be treated as "COBOL" by LE.
So I think it reasonable to
Some possibilities for remote and secure file/dataset transfer:
- z/OS FTPS
z/OS OpenSSH SFTP. Co:Z SFTP enhancements allow support for z/OS data
sets, spool files, etc.
- z/OSMF REST File services (HTTPS/REST APIS for files and data sets)
Lionel,
Many years ago, back when wiki's were all new and sexy, I got twiki
(twiki.org) working fairly well. It also contained a file upload/download
facility.
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/TWikiOnMainframe
It looks like there was a little more work done on it up to about 2005.
Denis,
Thanks a lot, that's useful to know. A genuine moment for me to say "thank you
for sharing".
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>I'm kind of alerted by the statement "Cobol V5 always uses C". That means the
>decimal overflow mask will always be set after the first (internal) call to C
>code?'
>
>Can you be more specific on it means that "Cobol V5 always uses C"?
Interesting questions. I don't have access to V5+, so
Your Welcome, it would be FTP or SFTP behind the scenes, if the protocol is not
allowed because of a site restriction I think Http can still provide the
ability via POST / GET ?
Good luck
Carmen Vitullo
Lead Systems Programmer
Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield
IT Infrastructure Services
Have you tried the CONCAT from CBT File 831?
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On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 16:06:33 +, Vitullo, Carmen P wrote:
>Well, we use a ZFS filesystem mounted at //usr/local/ftp for a landing
>zone for secure file transfer using sftp, a cron job does the cleanup daily
>and weekly As others have mentioned FTP would be an easy protocol to use..
>even
Redirected! (It's a good idea to still update your bookmarks, though.)
On 11/30/16 11:32 AM, Susan Shumway wrote:
I believe that there was previously a redirect for the URLs without
"/library". If there was, it apparently broke. If there wasn't, we
obviously need one now! Please update all your
On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 10:19 AM, Steely.Mark
wrote:
> Would anyone be able to provide a way to concatenate a library to the
> SYSPROC allocation.
>
> I have tried the concat program from the CBT tape file 134 that abend with
> a S0c4.
> I have tried a rexx exec called
Mark,
Issue the command TSO ISRDDN;SAVE and it will give you the current
allocation list which can be edited, you can add your desired libraries to
that clist. It is saved as Userid.ISRDDN.CLIST
Thanks,
Kolusu
IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on
11/30/2016
I believe that there was previously a redirect for the URLs without
"/library". If there was, it apparently broke. If there wasn't, we
obviously need one now! Please update all your bookmarks to the current
"www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/library/bkserv/" format, and I'll
investigate the
Thank you - I'll pass that along as an option - was told ftp/sftp was not an
option but we'll see
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Would anyone be able to provide a way to concatenate a library to the SYSPROC
allocation.
I have tried the concat program from the CBT tape file 134 that abend with a
S0c4.
I have tried a rexx exec called ALLOCREX. This sort of works ( it adds my ds to
SYSPROC) but does not keep the same
Well, we use a ZFS filesystem mounted at //usr/local/ftp for a landing
zone for secure file transfer using sftp, a cron job does the cleanup daily and
weekly As others have mentioned FTP would be an easy protocol to use.. even SFTP
Carmen Vitullo
Lead Systems Programmer
Arkansas Blue Cross and
I believe you can configure the Apache HTTP server on Z to allow a secure FTP
protocol
https://httpd.apache.org/mod_ftp/ftp/ftp_tls.html
Carmen Vitullo
Lead Systems Programmer
Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield
IT Infrastructure Services
515 West Pershing Blvd.
North Little Rock, Arkansas
Well, we use a ZFS filesystem mounted at /usr/local/ftp for a landing
zone for secure ftp, a cron job does the cleanup daily and weekly
As others have mentioned FTP would be an easy protocol to use.. even SFTP
Carmen Vitullo
Lead Systems Programmer
Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield
IT
Needs to be web based
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So FileZilla is perhaps an option?
Lizette
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> Behalf Of Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA)
> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2016 8:48 AM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: z/OS Web
I don't want to emulate DROPBOX - I want a place to upload and download files -
bad choice of terms apparently.
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We have installed Micro Focus Reflections that comes with FTP and can also do
IND$FILE.
Not sure what 3270 emulator you are using but it may have a process you can
use.
Attachmate, Vista TN3270 etc
Another option might be to look at the ISPF Workstation process. It might
usable
One way would be to use ADRDSSU to dump the files, The TERSE the output then
FTP in BINARY to your PC then put it into DROPBOX
Steve Beaver
st...@stevebeaver.com
This electronic mail (including any
Looking for a simple way a user can upload a file to z/OS in a secure way and
also download a file securely. A web interface would be fine where the user
has to logon. Would expect it to use https for security.
thx
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Do you mean a cloud storage style API *client* or *server* for z/OS?
Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies
http://dovetail.com
On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA)
wrote:
> Does anyone know of a z/OS web based dropbox application that will allow a
> user to
Hi,
I once had a PMR open, where COBOL called a COBOL DLL and the program mask
changed. Which was annoying for the assembler that later was called and
depended on the exception bits in the PSW.
The outcome was:
1. Language Environment neithersaves nor restores the program mask setting
>Can PER trap on a mask setting?
No. I suppose you could trap on (or trace) "all branches" or "all
instructions" and then have the SLIP trap examine the
time-of-PER-interrupt PSW to look at the program mask, but that would
degrade things so much that you might never get there.
There is an
And Dropbox - like Evernote, OneNote, iCloud - has user-friendly user
interfaces and ecosystem built around them.
Yes, we could build our own based on FTP. It wouldn't be pretty and might
not have many of the attributes of these ecosystems. For instance
"scanning to FTP on z/OS with OCR" as a
Bill,Thanks a zillion for this information and the pointers in there.
While it does not represent a solution to my question, it does give me most
valuable to the problem at hand. I'll have to discuss this with the people
responsible for the Cobol V5 migtation here.
I'm kind of alerted by the
>Try in IPCS VERBX LEDATA 'TCB(00xx) CEEDUMP' where the TCB is the one
that abended and you should get the LE trace-back, similar to what you would
get in SYSOUT CEEDUMP.
Yes, I know that. The problem is that the module I'm looking for is not in the
current call chain. So this is of no
ftp is restricted - was my first thought as well
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ftp server?
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W dniu 2016-11-29 o 19:12, Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA) pisze:
Does anyone know of a z/OS web based dropbox application that will allow a user
to upload a file securely and to download a file securely?
Thanks
Btw. open source is fine
Peter-
Try in IPCS VERBX LEDATA 'TCB(00xx) CEEDUMP' where the TCB is the one
that abended and you should get the LE trace-back, similar to what you would
get in SYSOUT CEEDUMP.
HTH
Robin
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