Re: Mainframe environment on AWS

2019-10-09 Thread ITschak Mugzach
I think zPDT if for IBM partner in development and zPD is for clients for development only. ADCD is the installed operating systems and products running on zPDT or zPD ITschak On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 8:37 AM Matt Hogstrom wrote: > ZPDT is the emulator that runs on x86 emulating z instructions,

Re: Mainframe environment on AWS

2019-10-09 Thread Matt Hogstrom
ZPDT is the emulator that runs on x86 emulating z instructions, I/O, etc. ZD is the collection of z/Software and tools to create those x86 based z/OS instances. Matt Hogstrom m...@hogstrom.org +1-919-656-0564 PGP Key: 0x90ECB270 Facebook LinkedIn

Re: Mainframe environment on AWS

2019-10-09 Thread Laurence Chiu
I'm new to z/OS in X86. What's the difference between zPDT and ZD? The documentation I could find is not clear. Looks like something that might be useful in the shop where I'm currently working. On Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 9:01 AM Sebastian Welton wrote: > I've run both zPDT and ZD succcessfully in

Re: Mainframe environment on AWS

2019-10-09 Thread Sebastian Welton
I've run both zPDT and ZD succcessfully in both AWS and Azure. In fact ZD, if not PE (Personal Edition) only works with a remote license server although all versions of zPDT and ZD will also work with a remote license server. ZD EE (Enterprise Edition) does not allow for the use of a hardware

Re: DR Sysplex Procedure

2019-10-09 Thread Elaine Beal
Kees, thank you. I see that would not work and it would be better to have both systems down and IPL one at a time. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with

DFSMS Continuous Delivery

2019-10-09 Thread Glenn Wilcock
Two recent z/OS DFSMS Continuous Delivery projects: - OA57454 Added DELETE (Archive) capability to HSM File Level Backup Support (base support in OA52703) - OA57173 Added initial support for FlashCopy to Global Mirror Primaries

Re: DR Sysplex Procedure

2019-10-09 Thread Vernooij, Kees (ITOP NM) - KLM
"Do both LPARs need to be down (not desirable) before IPLing either of them with the new CF and XCF?" I would try to test the real situation as much as possible. Besides, I think it will not work. LPAR's don't join each other, they join a Sysplex. After ipling one system with the new

DR Sysplex Procedure

2019-10-09 Thread Elaine Beal
We are planning to test a remote copy sysplex environment and I would like to test it in our home DEV environment PROD data will not be accessible during the DR test so PROD sysplex should not be affected To test in DEV I have defined a new XCF and CFRM since I will need to do that for DR to

Re: PDS Member updating via COBOL Program

2019-10-09 Thread S B
Andy  Be aware of thePDSE solution – if your shop is like mine – Shared DASD between two LPARs andnot SYSPlex – PDSE will be your nightmare as it is mine currently and it willbe even more when  Enterprise COBOL V4.2goes out of support on 09/30/2021. Going SYSPlex in our setup is doable but