Re: ISPF issue - new system

2018-10-07 Thread Anthony Thompson
As Paul said, you will need volumes mounted as PUBLIC in your VALTLST to be able to satisfy non-specific volume allocation requests in a non-SMS environment (which is likely what your ISPF initial EXEC is doing to pre-allocate new ISPF datasets). Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainf

Re: PMAR (was: Where in SMDE ...)

2018-10-07 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
AFAICT, FAMS appears to be covered by NDA. ISV products like PDSFAST seem to be empowered to use it for PDS(E) copying and advertise it in their SYPRINT messages, so I assume the vendors can get necessary API information from IBM for some price, just not we ordinary users. Peter -Original

Destination z article: Ensuring Data Storage Longevity

2018-10-07 Thread Gabe Goldberg
Ensuring Data Storage Longevity Backup and Archival Data Data comes in many varieties, related to why it exists and how it's stored: active, warehouse, transactional, backup, archival and more. I'll skip over the first three forms and focus on backup data (briefly) and archival data (primaril

Re: PMAR (was: Where in SMDE ...)

2018-10-07 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 21:14:57 +, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: >By inspection, knowing the link date and time of the PDSE-resident program >object represented by an SMDE/PMAR/PMARL, The format of the PMARL_DATE and >PMARL_TIME fields appear to be as follows: > >PMARL_DATE:X'DDDF' Pac

Re: PMAR (was: Where in SMDE ...)

2018-10-07 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
By inspection, knowing the link date and time of the PDSE-resident program object represented by an SMDE/PMAR/PMARL, The format of the PMARL_DATE and PMARL_TIME fields appear to be as follows: PMARL_DATE: X'DDDF' Packed decimal, four digit year, 3 digit day-of-year and X'F sign nibb

Re: Crypto Utilization Question

2018-10-07 Thread Greg Boyd
Richard, I tried responding to your note from three different email addresses. I keep getting a response back, apparently from your server, that delivery is delayed. Not sure what's going on. I absolutely agree with Todd's comments: It's hard to evaluate performance metrics or do capacity pl

Re: ZZSA question

2018-10-07 Thread Brian Westerman
It IPLs on z13, z13s and z14-ZR1. (also zBC12, zEC12, z114, z10BC, z9 and z890). I have not tried anything older lately, but one of our clients still has a z/800, I expect it will probably work there. I could give it a shot if there is some need to know, but I can't think of any reason it wou