Re: CAS9

2020-03-10 Thread Brian Westerman
While our SyzCMD/z product it isn't free, it is very inexpensive, and it has all of the capabilities of the products mentions as well as MANY more features. http://www.syzygyinc.com/SyzCMDz.htm Brian Westerman -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Attitude of companies toward mainframers working from home?

2020-03-10 Thread Seymour J Metz
Whoops! Yes, I meant Marib. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of zMan [zedgarhoo...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 7:13 PM To:

Re: Attitude of companies toward mainframers working from home?

2020-03-10 Thread Clark Morris
[Default] On 10 Mar 2020 13:47:16 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main st...@stevebeaver.com (Steve Beaver) wrote: >About the only thing I can't do from home is plug in ficon cables but I can >sure direct people to plug cables. > >I have had several contact companies what me to go the customer site

Re: CAS9

2020-03-10 Thread scott Ford
Dave, let me look on the samplib in the AM On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 8:34 PM scott Ford wrote: > Good question I ran into on ADCD ... > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 6:51 PM Gibney, Dave wrote: > >> Where is VTAMAPPL in z/OS? And where is it documented? >> >> > -Original Message- >> > From:

Re: CAS9

2020-03-10 Thread scott Ford
Good question I ran into on ADCD ... On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 6:51 PM Gibney, Dave wrote: > Where is VTAMAPPL in z/OS? And where is it documented? > > > -Original Message- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > > Behalf Of scott Ford > > Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 3:46 PM > >

Re: Attitude of companies toward mainframers working from home?

2020-03-10 Thread zMan
Oh. I actually thought you maybe meant Madrid. MariB <> MariD, eh? On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 6:19 PM Seymour J Metz wrote: > Yes, I know that root, but see https colon //www.maribrestaurant.com/; > better yet, try the lunch buffet. FWIW, wiki transliterates it as Ma'arib. > > > -- > Shmuel

Re: CAS9

2020-03-10 Thread Gibney, Dave
Where is VTAMAPPL in z/OS? And where is it documented? > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of scott Ford > Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 3:46 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: CAS9 > > Tony, > > Real nice code, I have been using

Re: CAS9

2020-03-10 Thread scott Ford
Tony, Real nice code, I have been using VTAMAPPL that ships with z/OS.. Scott On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 11:21 AM Tony Thigpen wrote: > I will post. Let me put some doc in it. > > Tony Thigpen > > Nai, Dean wrote on 3/10/20 9:23 AM: > > The assembler code would be great: > > dean@doit.nh.gov

Re: Attitude of companies toward mainframers working from home?

2020-03-10 Thread Seymour J Metz
Yes, I know that root, but see https colon //www.maribrestaurant.com/; better yet, try the lunch buffet. FWIW, wiki transliterates it as Ma'arib. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Attitude of companies toward mainframers working from home?

2020-03-10 Thread scott Ford
Very funny zMan ... On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 5:49 PM zMan wrote: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marid ? > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 11:11 PM Seymour J Metz wrote: > > > Typo for WFH. Work From Marid might be acceptable, but McD is a place > that > > I only enter under threat of lethal force. >

Re: CAS9 - JOBZDOIT source

2020-03-10 Thread Tony Thigpen
Normally, when I post code, the first response is "you did this wrong". This is the first time I got a copyright issue question. Did my code past the "picky programmers test" this time? :-) Tony Thigpen John McKown wrote on 3/10/20 5:39 PM: Me being an idiot, is using this source a

Re: CAS9 - JOBZDOIT source

2020-03-10 Thread Tony Thigpen
I plagiarized the UC Berkeley copyright. John, you are being picky. The not for profit relates to the transference of the code and has nothing to do with the company using the code. It means that you can not put this code in a commercial software product that is purchased or licensed by one

Re: Attitude of companies toward mainframers working from home?

2020-03-10 Thread zMan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marid ? On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 11:11 PM Seymour J Metz wrote: > Typo for WFH. Work From Marid might be acceptable, but McD is a place that > I only enter under threat of lethal force. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > >

Re: CAS9 - JOBZDOIT source

2020-03-10 Thread scott Ford
Naw, not you John On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 5:40 PM John McKown wrote: > Me being an idiot, is using this source a commercial business in compliance > with this license? It might be covered by "NOT-FOR-PROFIT PURPOSES", but in > a sense, it is FOR PROFIT if a commercial company uses it instead of

Re: CAS9 - JOBZDOIT source

2020-03-10 Thread John McKown
Me being an idiot, is using this source a commercial business in compliance with this license? It might be covered by "NOT-FOR-PROFIT PURPOSES", but in a sense, it is FOR PROFIT if a commercial company uses it instead of a "for pay" product such as CA-OPS/MVS. I think this way because it decreases

Re: JES2 - stopping users from sending output to specific outputclass

2020-03-10 Thread Keith Costley
Thanks everyone for your help and feedback! I am going to try going down the path of the JES2 Exit 6 for now to see if that will handle the majority of our issues. Keith Costley Mastercard International Mainframe Platform Services

Re: OT - Mainframe Development

2020-03-10 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Depends on what you mean by "new development". Do you mean cloud-native DEVOPS stuff or ongoing new-business-function development using the classic z/OS technologies, or both? Yes to both by my employer. Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of

OT - Mainframe Development

2020-03-10 Thread scott Ford
All: I have a question about the Mainframe Software industry, i am in the technical end of it and ready dont have the access I would like to know whether there is new software development going on on z/OS ...Could someone point me to a source ( even a url would help ), to see what the industry

Re: Attitude of companies toward mainframers working from home?

2020-03-10 Thread scott Ford
Steve, exactly how I feel On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 4:47 PM Steve Beaver wrote: > About the only thing I can't do from home is plug in ficon cables but I > can sure direct people to plug cables. > > I have had several contact companies what me to go the customer site and I > give them a price

Re: Attitude of companies toward mainframers working from home?

2020-03-10 Thread Steve Beaver
About the only thing I can't do from home is plug in ficon cables but I can sure direct people to plug cables. I have had several contact companies what me to go the customer site and I give them a price that is really HIGH/STUPID. Sooner or later, probably sooner the will wake up and smell

Re: Attitude of companies toward mainframers working from home?

2020-03-10 Thread scott Ford
Amen On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 3:58 PM Bill Johnson < 0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > There is nothing that can’t be done remotely nowadays and companies that > frown on or deny WAH are just living in the past or are poorly managed, or > both. I’m actually way more

Re: Attitude of companies toward mainframers working from home?

2020-03-10 Thread Bill Johnson
There is nothing that can’t be done remotely nowadays and companies that frown on or deny WAH are just living in the past or are poorly managed, or both. I’m actually way more productive at home than in the office. Plus, it’s a huge upgrade to your quality of life and money saver. Sent from

Re: March 18: Exploring z/OS Container Extensions Live Webcast

2020-03-10 Thread Laurence Chiu
Let me add my personal recommendation to this session. I was lucky enough to attend one of Timothy's session in person last year and found the session of great interest and had potential in the organization where I'm currently working. Plus it was good to meet Timothy in person having only seen

Re: System Sysmbolic

2020-03-10 Thread Steve Smith
DD SYMBOLS=JCLONLY is irrelevant for system symbols. DD SYMBOLS=EXECSYS/CONVSYS for system symbols can be used regardless of the JES2 setting. With a not-that-clever trick of using one job to submit another, you can have system symbols substituted in the submitted job's JCL. Whether any of this

Re: System Sysmbolic

2020-03-10 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 00:53:16 +0800, David Crayford wrote: >On 2020-03-10 8:40 PM, Allan Staller wrote: >> SYSSYM=ALLOW In JES2 $JOBCLASS parameter. > Does using CNVTSYS or EXECSYS in the absence of ALLOW cause a JCL error? >Nice! Didn't know about that. Can't rely on it for shipping code though

Re: System Sysmbolic

2020-03-10 Thread David Crayford
On 2020-03-10 8:40 PM, Allan Staller wrote: SYSSYM=ALLOW In JES2 $JOBCLASS parameter. Nice! Didn't know about that. Can't rely on it for shipping code though so SYMBOLS=JCLONLY is still the go for vendors. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of

Re: [External] Re: SMP/E receive order problem

2020-03-10 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 14:19:08 +, Pommier, Rex wrote: > >... the root filesystem pax.Z file is actually being sent in 11 pieces, each >at 512 MB. The root is over 5 GB so the file is transferred in 11 chunks then >assembled on site in the Unix filesystem. The assembly part is what appears

Re: CAS9 - JOBZDOIT source

2020-03-10 Thread Tony Thigpen
See attached source. I purposefully kept it as simple as I could. I don't like complicated stuff during IPL or shutdown. I also know that someone following me that has to maintain the program would prefer that I did things simply. Tony Thigpen Nai, Dean wrote on 3/10/20 9:23 AM: The

Re: CAS9

2020-03-10 Thread Tony Thigpen
I will post. Let me put some doc in it. Tony Thigpen Nai, Dean wrote on 3/10/20 9:23 AM: The assembler code would be great: dean@doit.nh.gov On 3/10/20, 9:17 AM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Tony Thigpen" wrote: EXTERNAL: Do not open attachments or

Re: Attitude of companies toward mainframers working from home?

2020-03-10 Thread R.S.
W dniu 09.03.2020 o 02:15, Bobbie Justice pisze: I've worked from home through multiple z/OS upgrades, various cpu upgrades, dasd upgrades, and tape migrations from physical to virtual. For people with the proper discipline, I have yet to see a justifiable reason for being in the office.

Re: [External] Re: SMP/E receive order problem

2020-03-10 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hi David, Yep, I know that it is a space issue. I was going to follow up with your timely advice about how I needed to delete and recreate the filesystem dataset with multiple volumes up front. Trying to add a volume to an existing OMVS dataset didn't work as the filesystem didn't extend

Re: [External] Re: SMP/E receive order problem

2020-03-10 Thread Dave Jousma
Rex, Its good you are opening a ticket. My money is still on a space issue. You said you added additional -27 volume to the pool that you are using for your SMPNTS. My suggestion would be to just unmount/delete the ZFS you created SMPNTS, reallocate it to the size of both of the mod-27's,

Re: [External] Re: SMP/E receive order problem

2020-03-10 Thread Jousma, David
Rex, Its good you are opening a ticket. My money is still on a space issue. You said you added additional -27 volume to the pool that you are using for your SMPNTS. My suggestion would be to just unmount/delete the ZFS you created, reallocate it to the size of both of the mod-27's,

Re: [External] Re: SMP/E receive order problem

2020-03-10 Thread Pommier, Rex
All, In case anybody's interested in this, I have more information. The z/OS root filesystem is the file being transferred that is failing. I was able to recreate the problem in our sandbox. What appears to be happening is that the root filesystem pax.Z file is actually being sent in 11

Re: CAS9

2020-03-10 Thread ITschak Mugzach
IBM has VTAMAPPL to do the job. seen this at some of my clients and have it on ADCD a well here. ITschak ITschak Mugzach *|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring for z/OS, x/Linux & IBM I **| z/VM comming son * On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 3:17 PM Tony Thigpen

Re: CAS9

2020-03-10 Thread Nai, Dean
The assembler code would be great: dean@doit.nh.gov On 3/10/20, 9:17 AM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Tony Thigpen" wrote: > EXTERNAL: Do not open attachments or click on links unless you recognize and > trust the sender. > >I wrote a very small command

Re: CAS9

2020-03-10 Thread Tony Thigpen
I wrote a very small command processor that simple reads a script and follows it for shutdown or IPL. I does have the ability to make sure a product is fully down before continuing. The script is very simple. Here is the script for shutdown: ASK YES REPLY 'YES' IF YOU WANT TO CONTINUE

Re: CAS9

2020-03-10 Thread Nai, Dean
Thanks Mike Dean Nai On 3/10/20, 8:40 AM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Mike Schwab" wrote: > EXTERNAL: Do not open attachments or click on links unless you recognize and > trust the sender. >

Re: System Sysmbolic

2020-03-10 Thread Allan Staller
SYSSYM=ALLOW In JES2 $JOBCLASS parameter. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent: Monday, March 9, 2020 3:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: System Sysmbolic [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Do not click

Re: CAS9

2020-03-10 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.bsp-gmbh.com/turnkey/cookbook/bsppilot.html CBTTAPE 249 file 33 is BSPPILOT. On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 7:21 AM Nai, Dean wrote: > > Currently we use CAS9 to start and stop everything during an IPL. CA will be > going away so I was wondering if anyone had thoughts on other cheap or free

Re: CAS9

2020-03-10 Thread Edgington, Jerry
Check out CBTTAPE file 623. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Nai, Dean Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 8:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: CAS9 This message was sent from an external source outside of Western & Southern's network. Do not

CAS9

2020-03-10 Thread Nai, Dean
Currently we use CAS9 to start and stop everything during an IPL. CA will be going away so I was wondering if anyone had thoughts on other cheap or free products that will do that until we are off Z/OS. Maybe something on the CBT tape? Dean Nai On 3/10/20, 7:56 AM, "IBM

Re: Two related alias entry address questions

2020-03-10 Thread Peter Relson
Ah, the "return code 4" smoking gun. I'm with you now... Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO

Re: Attitude of companies toward mainframers working from home?

2020-03-10 Thread Nai, Dean
We are keeping our Z14 but Z/OS is going away. It will only be used for Linuz in the near future. On 3/9/20, 11:11 PM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Seymour J Metz" wrote: > EXTERNAL: Do not open attachments or click on links unless you recognize and > trust the sender.