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Friday mix. Guess this is fundamental programming with no HLL at all.
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jesse1.robin...@sce.com (Jesse 1 Robinson) wrote:
>SHARE has been discussing online availability with IBM face-to-face for years,
>long before 'KC' debuted. IBM has repeatedly said that they get it, yet
>problems persist.
>
>One n
This kind of extortion is not limited to the mainframe world. I have a
purchased "perpetual" license for a popular graphical FTP client. I now have
a new PC. The "perpetual" license is not good for the current version of the
program (12.4), only the exact version for which it was purchased (12.3) a
Well there you go.
Thank you Dr. M.
Charles
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>From MXG Newletter FIF
>From MXG Newletter FIFTEEN Nov 1989 - First Part - 1000 line limit IBM-MAIN
CME 20/20: The History of SMF
Session M710
August 21, 1989
H. W. Barry Merrill, PhD
Me
>From MXG Newletter FIFTEEN Nov 1989 - First Part - 1000 line limit IBM-MAIN
CME 20/20: The History of SMF
Session M710
August 21, 1989
H. W. Barry Merrill, PhD
Mer
Remainder of article from MXG Newsletter FIFTEEN, November 1989.
The History of SMF
A. It uses volume and data set information from the SMF data set to
create and update records in the inventory data sets. There is one
inventory for direct access resources and one for tape.
B. F
The one thing that might be interesting is which AWS site went down, and it
they the CIA down
Steve
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There's a great (though probably apocryphal) story of the Xerox STAR product
being installed in directory /bin/star. Tech support is on phone with customer,
they decide to whack it and start over:
"Type rm dash rf slash bin slash star" "What's happening?"
"It's taking a really long time..."
Li
Check the output of the CA7 task itself. The Batch Terminal output files can
fill up and somewhat silently fail.
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What I use:
//
//* SENDS LISTING OF ALL JOBS TO VM FOR PROCESSING
//
//IDCDEL EXEC PGM=IDCAMS
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSINDD *
DEL SDP.S.CA7MAST.PRINT
SET MAXCC = 0
/*
//*
//STEP1
We have encountered an issue with the SRD function of ServiceLink. I submitted
a request for a PTF on Sunday moring, February 26, 2017 and as of a few minutes
ago, the SRD order is still in Submitted status. We have opened a PMR ( that's
a whole different issue ) and we are being told the "probl
Oldie Goldie dude
On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 3:04 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
> I just picked an MFT 21.7 "Guide" from 1973 and it's in there as an
> optional
> feature. Right after the part about supporting up to fifteen concurrent
> jobs!
>
> OTOH I am looking at an OS/360 System Programmer's Guide f
On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 2:16 PM, Robert S. Hansel (RSH) <
r.han...@rshconsulting.com> wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I am trying to generate listings of job information from CA-7 with the LJOB
> command using the Batch Terminal Interface (BTI) program SASSBSTR (PROC
> CA7BTI). The job runs successfull
On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 1:09 PM, Paul Gilmartin <
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2017 11:19:52 -0600, John McKown wrote:
> >
> >> The outage was caused by a typo.
> >
> >Ah, yes. The UNIX community has the legend of the system administrator
> >(aka "root") w
Hi,
Become root, navigate to /, enter rm -rf *.
Boom.
Every unix/linux admin. Has done a variation of this - usually only once!
As a MF guy that has dabbled in the dark side - Not as much as John McK! -
I always thought it would be fun to watch to do exactly that from z/OS
You could try DFDSS Dump and restore. In two separate jobs, you can
increase the file allocation on the DFDSS dump and them rename the files on the
DFDSS restore!!
Hth
Tony
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> On Mar 2, 2017, at 3:00 AM, Dave Wade wrote:
>
> I am going to say something you gentlemen may not like...
>
> 1) Do you need the product?
In general there are plug compatible products out there that are *CHEAP*
> 2) Do you need continued support, e.g. for legal and compliance reasons?
Excel
> On Mar 2, 2017, at 5:00 PM, Ward, Mike S wrote:
>
> Ok, problem solved. Second level came back and said to add the mount
> attribute to the sys1.uads user profile. We did, and problem solved.
>
> Thanks to all who replied.
SNIP
Hope you understand what you did by doing
Greetings all,
I am trying to generate listings of job information from CA-7 with the LJOB
command using the Batch Terminal Interface (BTI) program SASSBSTR (PROC
CA7BTI). The job runs successfully, but the output in SYSPRINT simply shows
the LJOB command I executed and not, as I'd hoped, the outp
I just picked an MFT 21.7 "Guide" from 1973 and it's in there as an optional
feature. Right after the part about supporting up to fifteen concurrent
jobs!
OTOH I am looking at an OS/360 System Programmer's Guide from 1971 and see
no mention of it. It lists half a dozen system programming macros an
Well, I should have been more specific. I don’t see a way to make it bigger
either, but in this case Lizette said it was already 200 cylinders. DFDSS
copy could create a new one 200 cylinders large, with very few extents, and my
next move would have been to do a ZFSADM grow immediately to ge
IIRC 1963 It was pretty close to a day 1 feature of os/360
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Of Charles Mills
Sent: 03 March 2017 13:31
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Subject: When did SMF come along?
Roughly when - release n
Don't know. It had to be early on as I remember it in OS/MFT R13 in the early
70's.
Chris Blaicher
Technical Architect
Mainframe Development
Syncsort Incorporated
2 Blue Hill Plaza #1563, Pearl River, NY 10965
P: 201-930-8234 | M: 512-627-3803
E: cblaic...@syncsort.com
www.syncsort.com
CONN
Roughly when - release number or year - did System Management Facilities get
added to MVS or its predecessor?
Inquiring minds want to know, and it is Friday after all.
Charles Mills
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On 3 March 2017 at 13:51, John McKown wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 12:31 PM, J R wrote:
>
>> Maybe a side effect of Agile / DevOps.
>>
>> Ah, well, time for a Scrum!
>>
>
> Software, rugby or drink?
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11469358/what-is-the-difference-between-scrum-and-agile-de
On Fri, 3 Mar 2017 11:19:52 -0600, John McKown wrote:
>
>> The outage was caused by a typo.
>
>Ah, yes. The UNIX community has the legend of the system administrator
>(aka "root") who meant to remove all single character files via "rm -f ?"
>who typed in "rm -f /" OOPS!
>
Can even superuser unlin
I've never had any luck resizing ZFS using the DSS copy, I'd be curious if that
works for Lizzette
zfsadm grow will work if the zfs was allocated with a large enough primary, my
personal preference, rather than having many extents to get my final results,
plus John makes a good point
The only
On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 12:31 PM, J R wrote:
> Maybe a side effect of Agile / DevOps.
>
> Ah, well, time for a Scrum!
>
Software, rugby or drink?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11469358/what-is-the-difference-between-scrum-and-agile-development
https://untappd.com/b/facer-s-scrum-dragon/1
On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Jousma, David wrote:
> Seems like going around the block to get next doorwhy not just zfsadm
> grow?
>
The only reason that I can think of is if the zFS filesystem LDS was
originally created with a DataClass which did not have "extended
addressing" and so is
Maybe a side effect of Agile / DevOps.
Ah, well, time for a Scrum!
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Ok, well in that case, I'd just DFDSS copy it. In fact, if you can unmount it
first you can copy it, and have DSS rename it back to the original name all in
one operation, then just remount it.
//STEP1 EXEC PGM=ADRDSSU,REGION=8M
//SYSPRINT DDSYSOUT=*
/
The curse of the folded link
https://nyti.ms/2mb92Nw
Charles
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So the file was allocated at 1,1 CYL. It is now at 200Cyls. And 200 extents.
I like to resize the space allocation so it does not have to do
EXTEND - FORMAT
EXTEND - FORMAT
EXTEND - FORMAT
Dozens of times and possibly impacting the performance for the user.
Lizette
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Seems like going around the block to get next doorwhy not just zfsadm grow?
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Good Info David, I can't recall, been too long since I've done this, I have to
assume I did not format the ZFS FS or I would have been the one reporting this
issue.
Carmen
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Please be aware of OA50872 when using IDCAMS REPRO and ZFS file systems.
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?crawler=1&uid=isg1OA50872
snip from the APAR
The ONLY supported and proper use of REPRO pertaining to zFS
filesystems is to REPRO an existing zFS into a
newly defined VSAM LDS THAT
On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 2:40 AM, Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM <
kees.verno...@klm.com> wrote:
> The outage was caused by a typo.
>
Ah, yes. The UNIX community has the legend of the system administrator
(aka "root") who meant to remove all single character files via "rm -f ?"
who typed in "rm -f
Thanks
I have the JCL. I was just unsure that this was a good way to treat zFS files.
Of course the process is
BACKUP
IDCAMS
Validate
Lizette
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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo
> Sent: Frida
I've done this a couple years back with a product someone installed and the ZFS
filename was incorrect.
unmount, rerpo and re mount
I may have some old JCL to do this if you need
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To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Friday, March 3, 2017
When I see things like this I am always amazed how IT has changed.
Acting like that in the previous century was not the way professionals
worked.
Of course, there was a test, development and production environment.
But what really puzzled me was that billing did not work in the way they
had ex
List -
When I expand a zFS file I will create a new one, mount it on a temp directory,
then copy from the original to the new. Dismount Old, alter/newname new and
then mount on original path.
I have someone telling me that I can use a simple IDCAMS Repro
Which means my process would be
Unmoun
Bill Woodger wrote:
>>...giving a link to this [honest] post mortem by the AWS:
>>https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/
>I'm not sure "honest" is the exact word I'd use to describe what Amazon writes
>:-).
This is why I put that word in those brackets because I also barely read that
airplane
On Fri, 3 Mar 2017 09:30:11 -0600, Elardus Engelbrecht
wrote:
>Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM wrote:
>
...
>
>...giving a link to this [honest] post mortem by the AWS:
>
>https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/
>
>Just a simple lame typo... ;-)
>
>Groete / Greetings
>Elardus Engelbrecht
>
The lin
Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM wrote:
>Never too old to be surprised by software playing tricks with you:
Oh, tell me. If I could make money for each surprises I would be richer than
those richest persons on the planet...
... hey, I could ask that space-x guy to build me a [safe] five star hotel
Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM wrote:
Thanks for giving the sources.
You can look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Amazon_Web_Services
were it says:
"On March 2, AWS reveals that the outage was caused by an incorrect parameter
passed in by an authorized employee while debugging tha
Just noticed this PTF among the maintenance I'm installing for Syncsort :
++PTF(TY01144) REWORK(2016006).
++VER(Z038) FMID(BSSIZ21) PRE(TY00Z21) SUP(TY00934,TY01114)
/*
Circumstances: This PTF contains code that adds support for Y2K
conversion with WEEKNUM and AGE output.
At
Y2K??? Because two K's are better than one :)
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Subject: Friday Funny
Just noticed this PTF among
We had a vendor of a product to lookup error message codes try to jump our
price years ago. Internet search engines were just becoming useful and IBM was
putting manuals online, so we told the vendor we would renew for a reasonable
increase, or cancel if they wouldn't accept that. They didn't,
http://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-explains-massive-aws-outage-says-employee-error-took-servers-offline-promises-changes/
Kees.
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> From: Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM
> Sent: 03 March, 2017 15:41
> To: 'IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu'
> Subject: RE: Check out Massive Amazo
http://www.pcmag.com/news/352160/a-typo-took-amazon-s3-offline
Dan
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Subject: Re: Check ou
Since I can't find any other references, the full translation of the Dutch
article is:
Seattle-
a simple typing error was the cause of the global failure Tuesday on the
internet. That was announced by Amazon Web Services (AWS) Thursday. An employee
tried to fix a problem with the cloud servers
It was on Dutch newssites, with the text: "Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced
this on Thursday".
Kees.
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> Behalf Of zMan
> Sent: 03 March, 2017 15:31
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> Subject:
Cite? (Not challenging you, interested!)
On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 3:40 AM, Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM <
kees.verno...@klm.com> wrote:
> The outage was caused by a typo.
> I remember there were times we made scripts and tested them on our test
> environments, to avoid silly errors in the producti
Hello group,
Never too old to be surprised by software playing tricks with you:
Try to trap message IEC386S with an automation tool. This will give you a lot
of headaches, until you discover the messageid is preceded by a blank. So you
should trap ' IEC386S', not 'IEC386S'.
IBM has opened APAR
George, William wrote:
>I'm having a heck of a time attempting to create a sort header to display the
>previous month in MM format.
There is probably a good solution for your SyncSort problem, but you can have a
look at thread 'DFSORT - ICETOOL - Search for text and replace with date' which
The outage was caused by a typo.
I remember there were times we made scripts and tested them on our test
environments, to avoid silly errors in the production environment...
Kees.
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> Behalf Of
>SoftCopy Librarian knows of new versions of publications:
>http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24040422
This is Windows only, and for sure you need admin rights on windows to instal
it. Just not something you usually have on your office machine.
And what about non-Windows envi
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