Re: Email Providers

2021-01-25 Thread Timothy Sipples
With Gmail you can use task-specific e-mail addresses that route to your common inbox. Let's suppose for example your Gmail address is ban...@gmail.com. You could subscribe to IBM-MAIN using this e-mail address: banana+ibmm...@gmail.com and that'll route to the same inbox, but you can generall

Re: Email Providers

2021-01-25 Thread Charles Mills
Not very local to you but I have been using these folks for 20 years. http://www.mcn.org/email/email.html $2.50/month Good folks -- they are a unit of the local school district. I can assure you that it works with IBM-MAIN. I use POP3. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Email Providers

2021-01-25 Thread Steve Smith
>From the settings page: "ProtonMail supports IMAP/SMTP via the ProtonMail Bridge application. Thunderbird, Microsoft Outlook, and Apple Mail are officially supported on both Windows and MacOS." I do use Thunderbird, but I haven't tried it with Protonmail. The "bridge" seems to be necessary becau

Re: Email Providers

2021-01-25 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
Unfortunately my ISP have no such service and I don't know any reasonable paid service which provide me features I want. Usually fee is just to have better limits - more disk space, more emails, etc. In fact I don't need it. I think my requirements are quite basic: just regular email client (mea

Re: Email Providers

2021-01-25 Thread Gibney, Dave
My private email has been with my former local ISP for a very long time. They are no longer my ISP and I pay $6/month for the email address. I think I could have a few more than the one I use for that price. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of R.S.

Re: Email Providers

2021-01-25 Thread R.S.
Now I can answer: I hate this disclaimer. I was almost ready to switch to private email when they started with this cr*p, but 1. I'm lazy, 2. other people have similar disclaimers, so I felt not so guilty. Regarding gmail - I already have gmail account and I don't want to use it for other acti

Re: DFSORT and SAS

2021-01-25 Thread Gibney, Dave
That Weekly TREND file has been growing, probably a couple decades. It is quite possible that my former SORT product was due to fail for the same general reasons. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Scott Barry > Sent: Monday, January 25, 2021 2:45

Re: DFSORT and SAS

2021-01-25 Thread Scott Barry
It appears that you are managing the //TREND PDB as a SAS sequential-format (indicated with RECFM=U, and as you mention with prior TMM-deployment - also getting zEDC benefit, hopefully) and I expect that SAS does not detect the observation/row/record count which is why you see the ICE118I messa

Email Providers

2021-01-25 Thread Steve Smith
--> protonmail.com, free, but worth paying for. Thunderbird is possible, although more difficult than normal. I think there are many reasons to avoid gmail, although I do not (obviously). yahoo is garbage; and the tech world still wonders why they still exist. Maybe big G secretly subsidises th

Re: ECSHARE

2021-01-25 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
...and be careful about BCS'es (catalogs) shared between sysplexes. Do not use ECS for them. BTW: Maybe it is good moment to think about RLS sharing for catalogs? It's newer feature. RLS is a prereq. --Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W poniedziaƂek, 25 stycznia 2021, 22:19:24 CET, Doug

Re: How to validate mount points for IPLs

2021-01-25 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
Marna, This is good idea. I think I would be able to create simple tool and share it. Unfortunately since last thursday I have no longer access to the z/OS (my job is finished), so it won't happen quickly. However I hope I will get new job and then come back to the topic. Regards--Radoslaw S

Re: DFSORT and SAS

2021-01-25 Thread Sri h Kolusu
> But, all datasets are on disk. Dave, If the files are on DISK , DFSORT should be able to get the stats. Can you please send me the COMPLETE joblog to my email offline? I want to check allocation messages for the ddname SASSIN. > My Tape management is CA-7 I guess you meant CA-1(Tape managemen

Re: DFSORT and SAS

2021-01-25 Thread Gibney, Dave
I am sure the ICE118I showed up because of the //SORTDIAG My Tape management is CA-7. But, all datasets are on disk. JCL follows: //TRNDDSNS EXEC MXGSAS,WORK='5000,1000' //** //* DO MXG WEEKLY DATASET TRENDING PROCESSING //**

Re: DFSORT and SAS

2021-01-25 Thread Sri h Kolusu
>> OPTION SORTDD=SASS,MSGDDN=SYSOUT,MAINSIZE=MAX,MSGPRT=CRITICAL,NOLIST Dave, What type of dataset is the input dataset(ddname SASSIN)? Is it a tape dataset? If so what kind of tape management system do you have? RMM ? CA-1 ? PS: Your latest joblog shows that you indeed received ICE118I messag

Re: Recruiters are looking for mainframers

2021-01-25 Thread Bob Bridges
I got a few responses like the below. It's true that there are recruiters out there that don't have much to offer, and in my own records I maintain a "standing" field for each agency based on their past behavior; of the scores or hundreds of companies in my contact database, maybe a half dozen

Re: SMP/E and Isolating a CSECT within a load module

2021-01-25 Thread Seymour J Metz
You do so at the risk of breaking things if someone fails to put an entry point on the END statement of the main module. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of

Re: LCCAWTIM on multiple CP System

2021-01-25 Thread Eric Erickson
Duh, I knew it was something simple. Of course I got milliseconds confused with microseconds. Now I feel slightly foolish. :-; Thanks Eric Erickson -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send emai

Re: ECSHARE

2021-01-25 Thread Edgington, Jerry
Thanks Doug. You can ALTER the CATALOG "catalog" entries from NOECSHARE to ECSHARING on the fly and the issue the CATALOG,ECSHR(AUTOADD). Jerry -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Doug Sent: Monday, January 25, 2021 3:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.ED

Re: ECSHARE

2021-01-25 Thread Doug
If you have done the CF work, and you issued the modify to the catalog AS, then yes, you should be able to. The catalog ECSHARE should work it out between EC mode and VVDS mode. Doug Fuerst 718.921.2620 (O) 917.572.7364 (C) d...@bkassociates.net -- Original Message -- From: "Edgington

ECSHARE

2021-01-25 Thread Edgington, Jerry
Thanks Doug, I have everything else completed, excluding the IDCAMS define. Can you simply ALTER CATALOG, using IDCAMS to change the CATALOG definition from NOECSHARE to ECSHARE, without stopping all activity to the catalog. Jerry -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion Lis

Re: Recruiters are looking for mainframers

2021-01-25 Thread Doug
According to the doc, you can turn it on via a modify. MODIFY CATALOG,ECSHSHR(AUTOADD) command and it will flip between VVDS mode and ECSHARE. Even if it is ECSHARE mode it should be able to cope dynamically. But you must also have the ECS cache structure set and the CFRM policy stuff, etc. in

ECSHR mode for CATALOGs

2021-01-25 Thread Edgington, Jerry
Hello, I am looking to convert z/OS catalogs to ECSHR mode. However, the current running in production, catalog have NOECSHARE. Can I use IDCAMS ALTER command to change the NOECSHARE to ECSHARE, without impacting or corrupting the catalog? I have ECSHR running for only two, out of the 30 or

Re: DFSORT and SAS

2021-01-25 Thread Gibney, Dave
I let this week's run fail and have attached the results with //SORTDIAG DD DUMMY and a SAS PROC OPTIONS; I am not sure I'll open an issue with SAS. My site is working towards shutting down later this year or so, and I have a working solution with the DFSORT option on this job. This job is the o

Re: Recruiters are looking for mainframers

2021-01-25 Thread Edgington, Jerry
Hello, I am looking to convert z/OS catalogs to ECSHR mode. However, the current running in production, catalog have NOECSHARE. Can I use IDCAMS ALTER command to change the NOECSHARE to ECSHARE, without impacting or corrupting the catalog? I have ECSHR running for only two, out of the 30 or

Re: How to validate mount points for IPLs

2021-01-25 Thread Marna WALLE
Hi Radoslaw, > 4. One can create the following REXX script: read every filesystem name and > list it i.e. using listdsi. Also read every mount point and check its > existence in z/OS Unix. Sounds like an excellent idea for a personally-written health check, and then maybe shared to the CBTTAPE

Re: LCCAWTIM on multiple CP System

2021-01-25 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2021-01-25 12:24 PM, Eric Erickson wrote: What am I missing here? Reading what you have written, it appears that you are working on the basis that 1 second = 1000 microseconds. However, 1 second = 1000 milliseconds. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazd

Re: SMP/E and Isolating a CSECT within a load module

2021-01-25 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
The point of my post was that *not* specifying entry point on the END statement may limit your ability relink the composite module if full source is not available. An unusual (and maybe archaic) case no doubt, but why limit your options? Maybe in the days of card source, it was an extra change t

Re: Recruiters are looking for mainframers

2021-01-25 Thread Bfishing
I think all my emails might fall under the fishing classification. Sadly bubblers around the lake I'm on mean we can't ice fish while working anymore! On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 11:56 AM Chris Hoelscher wrote: > Was this a "fishing" email? > > Chris Hoelscher > Lead Sys DBA > IBM Global Technical S

Re: LCCAWTIM on multiple CP System

2021-01-25 Thread Steve Smith
I think you misunderstand the difference between microseconds and milliseconds. sas On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 12:35 PM Eric Erickson wrote: > I'm working on some code that tries to detect a loop in a subtask by > examining the LCCAWTIM value for each CPU. My detector task runs in an STC > that wa

Re: Recruiters are looking for mainframers

2021-01-25 Thread Mike Schwab
https://groups.io/g/Mainframe-Jobs is a new mailing list to post Mainframe Job listings. Please use suggested subject line format for readers to select which emails to read. On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 9:50 AM Bob Bridges wrote: > > Not too long ago on the RACF-L listserv someone mentioned a dearth

LCCAWTIM on multiple CP System

2021-01-25 Thread Eric Erickson
I'm working on some code that tries to detect a loop in a subtask by examining the LCCAWTIM value for each CPU. My detector task runs in an STC that wakes up every .5 seconds and trolls through the LCCA Vector calculating deltas of wait time between iterations. The routine that retrieves the L

Re: Recruiters are looking for mainframers

2021-01-25 Thread Chris Hoelscher
Was this a "fishing" email? Chris Hoelscher Lead Sys DBA IBM Global Technical Services on assignmemt to Humana Inc. T 502.476.2538 or 502.407.7266 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bfishing Sent: Monday, January 25, 2021 11:44 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV

Re: Recruiters are looking for mainframers

2021-01-25 Thread Bfishing
I created and reply to them with a resume for services offered by us at here at SNA: https://www.sinenomine.net/ What has surprised me the most? How many firms with outsourced or cloud strategies still seem to want more direct mainframe skills kept in house. The great side of that is a feeling tha

Re: Recruiters are looking for mainframers

2021-01-25 Thread Stan Saraczewski
We are in a new world of recruiters now - most of them are technically clueless and act as gatekeepers. I for one only have a textbook knowledge of db/2 and opportunities are far and few between that do not require it. On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 8:35 AM Seymour J Metz wrote: > The one's I've seen m

Re: Recruiters are looking for mainframers

2021-01-25 Thread Seymour J Metz
The one's I've seen mostly require CICS, DB2, IMS, MQ or WAS experience. I'd certainly be interested in a development position in HLASM, PL/I, REXX or a language to be learned on the job. How many of the reqs are real and how many are just stockpiling resumes? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http

Re: Recruiters are looking for mainframers

2021-01-25 Thread David Elliot
Yes. I get these things by the ton too. Greetinshowareyoutodayhopyoudoingreat don't waste your time with these things there's nothing behind most of them. On Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 9:50 AM Bob Bridges wrote: > Not too long ago on the RACF-L listserv someone mentioned a dearth of > mainframe jobs, an

Recruiters are looking for mainframers

2021-01-25 Thread Bob Bridges
Not too long ago on the RACF-L listserv someone mentioned a dearth of mainframe jobs, and I opened my mouth and put my foot in it: I said I get emails from recruiters pretty frequently and I could pass along some of them if anyone was interested. I immediately became the possessor of a short d

Re: How to validate mount points for IPLs

2021-01-25 Thread Juan Escamilla
I know this is after the fact, but You can automate the following commands so they are issued once OMVS initializes: D OMVS,MF Displays mount failures and the reason why they failed fix the failed mounts before production resumes Once you fix al the mount failures, issue: D omvs,mf=purge <-

Re: How to validate mount points for IPLs

2021-01-25 Thread Seymour J Metz
Nonsense. Just because there are ways in which it can fail doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. Your objections apply to any PRMLIB checker, but that doesn't prevent them from being very useful. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ___