Re: OpenSSH upgrade option

2019-04-11 Thread Allan Staller
Check the IBM support portal. I am sure that IBM supports (or will support) OpenSSH 7.4. It is most likely in the maintenance stream somewhere in the maintenance stream. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Jodlowski Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2019 10:

Re: DASD-only logging

2019-04-09 Thread Allan Staller
YES. It is a hard restriction. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Monday, April 8, 2019 10:37 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: DASD-only logging After 20+ years of heavy duty parallel sysplex, we'd finally like to dip our

Re: AMODE 32

2019-04-04 Thread Allan Staller
I suggest we all stop feeding the Bear! ::DISCLAIMER:: --

Re: AMODE 32

2019-04-04 Thread Allan Staller
Prepare a business case and submit it to IBM. I don’t think this list wants to spend a lot of time on something extremely unlikely to happen. Cheers, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Edwards Sent: Thursday, April 4, 2019 8:23 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LIST

Re: Pervasive encryption and batch temporary datasets

2019-04-03 Thread Allan Staller
2019-04-02 o 14:59, Allan Staller pisze: > Let me try it this way. > > Is df/SMS encryption a pre-requisite to the z/14 "PERVASIVE ENCRYPTION"? DFSMS encryption is technical feature, which apply to selected kinds of datasets. Pervasive Encryption is a buzzword which means not

Re: Pervasive encryption and batch temporary datasets

2019-04-02 Thread Allan Staller
ERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Pervasive encryption and batch temporary datasets Allan Staller wrote: >My understanding is that this was a "hardware" feature and did not >depend on DFSMS (except as possible an on/off switch). >In you post you refer to PERVASIVE ENCRYPTION (z/14?) vs

Re: Pervasive encryption and batch temporary datasets

2019-04-01 Thread Allan Staller
On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2019 9:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Pervasive encryption and batch temporary datasets Allan Staller wrote: >(z13?) or z14 processor. Pervasive encryption handled by hardware Matthew Donald wrote: >No, only in the sen

Re: R+ / Reliability Plus

2019-03-28 Thread Allan Staller
of items within one's own shop to run some compares with. Regards, Steve Thompson On 3/28/19 11:34 AM, Allan Staller wrote: > It was originally R+ and then acquired by CA (CA-9?). > IIRC, CA stopped marketing it fairly soon thereafter. > > At this point, I would guess it has b

Re: R+ / Reliability Plus

2019-03-28 Thread Allan Staller
It was originally R+ and then acquired by CA (CA-9?). IIRC, CA stopped marketing it fairly soon thereafter. At this point, I would guess it has been unavailable for more than 20 years. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Thursday,

Re: REFVTOC with a user catalog on the volume?

2019-03-28 Thread Allan Staller
I would expect the REFVTOC to be a very quick operation. My concern would be getting control of the volume to perform the REFVTOC due to the high activity catalog. This sounds like something to attempt @ 0-dark-thirty, notify everyone of risks and keep fingers crossed. HTH, -Original Messa

Re: Moving a Catalog to a Different Volume

2019-03-28 Thread Allan Staller
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1II13354 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jason Cai Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 10:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Moving a Catalog to a Different Volume Hi all According z/OS DFSMS Man

Re: Pervasive encryption and batch temporary datasets

2019-03-28 Thread Allan Staller
(z13?) or z14 processor. Pervasive encryption handled by hardware. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Matthew Donald Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 9:37 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Pervasive encryption and batch temporary datasets I'm look

Re: SMTP Mail from z/OS

2019-03-21 Thread Allan Staller
CSSMTP was designed to mitigate several concerns with the SMTP client. As far as I can recall, there were some configuration options, that if not addressed, allowed the SMTP client to be a mail relay (among several others). CSSMTP was designed to eliminate those exposures. I am not aware of any

Re: Is it broken? or just useless

2019-03-20 Thread Allan Staller
Useless. Try search support portal for z/OS EOS. That one is also less useful than others I have seen. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 5:23 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Is it broken? or just

Re: IBM SFG - Your Opinion

2019-03-14 Thread Allan Staller
SFG -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Sasso, Len Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2019 1:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: IBM SFG - Your Opinion Importance: High I welcome your comments, suggestions, etc. about the IBM SFG Product. Thank You!

Re: XML File to MQ

2019-03-05 Thread Allan Staller
This would relate to how robust the MQ setup is. We have had issues with unexpected volumes of transactions. You might try (e.g. 10K*400) multiple times. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ron Thomas Sent: Tuesday, March 5, 2019 12:39 PM To: IBM-M

Re: $HASP250 JOB Purged

2019-03-01 Thread Allan Staller
Check your JESPARMS for the MSGCLASS and SYSOUT class(es). The OUTDEF or the related OUTCLASS(x) should contain an OUTDISP=(x,x) parameter. You want WRITE or HOLD in the OUTDISP= instead of PURGE Check the fine manuals for details. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: z/OS V2R5 Will be the Last Release to Include JES3

2019-03-01 Thread Allan Staller
JES2 and JES3 can coexist. I am sure there are some arcane rules (as indicated below). -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2019 5:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS V2R5 Will be the Last Release

Re: New look and linking for V2.3 product documentation PDFs

2019-02-28 Thread Allan Staller
Ref: https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zOSV2R3Library I observed one thing. The introductory "new style" screens are portrait oriented and take up a lot of vertical real estate. The new screens generate a lot of unnecessary scrolling. I have a laptop and a desktop,

FW: z/OS 2.3 Memory Requirements on z14

2019-02-26 Thread Allan Staller
Forgot to add, this is a "soft" requirement implemented in z/OS 2.3. i.e. z/OS will run in < 8GB, but if the LPAR is too small, strange things my happen. -Original Message- From: Allan Staller Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 7:54 AM To: 'IBM Mainframe Discussion List&#

Re: Identifying and eliminating uncataloged datasets

2019-02-26 Thread Allan Staller
IEHIBALL! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: Monday, February 25, 2019 6:28 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Identifying and eliminating uncataloged datasets I have inherited a system where nobody bothered to clean-up after the

Re: z/OS 2.3 Memory Requirements on z14

2019-02-26 Thread Allan Staller
The storage for the HSA is separate from the "orderable" storage. This has been true for several hardware generations. AFAIK, this memory size if fixed and cannot be changed. This has nothing to do with the OP's question. The OP wanted to know if there was any impact beyond replying to the warni

Re: APAR Search Broken Worldwide?

2019-02-25 Thread Allan Staller
Sigh, the same old refrain. The "new tools" are neither as available reliable or functional as those they replace. I get the same problem you do, howver, an APAR search through: https://www.ibm.com/support/home/ works fine, HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: z/OS 2.3 and ENT COBOL 4.2

2019-02-25 Thread Allan Staller
I recently ran into an issue where LE and COBOL needed to be updated concurrently. Due to a timing problem in rollout, this caused a major kerfluffle. I would be very careful mixing and matching between LE and Cobol. Otherwise, the buildmcs route should work. HTH, -Original Message- Fro

Re: z/OS 2.4

2019-02-21 Thread Allan Staller
___ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Allan Staller Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2019 10:27 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS 2.4 Not SREL. Various compenents were installed in their own SMP environments (SMPE/Target/Dlib). -Original Mes

Re: z/OS 2.4

2019-02-21 Thread Allan Staller
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS 2.4 On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 14:01:13 +, Allan Staller wrote: >For historical reasons, I have several SMP/E zones associated w/zOS and other >ServerPac available items. >I am going to consolidate all of the separate zones associated into a single >zone

Re: z/OS 2.4

2019-02-21 Thread Allan Staller
9132&sdata=sfZksnSHBPlVKs7fB%2FNH2AsCLdagXgVM5eldmTeD6vk%3D&reserved=0 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Allan Staller Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2019 9:01 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS 2.4 For historical rea

Re: z/OS 2.4

2019-02-21 Thread Allan Staller
CAN migrate 2.2 -> 2.4 (= skip 1 version). That is what we are planning. Kees > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Allan Staller > Sent: 20 February, 2019 18:38 > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >

Re: z/OS 2.4

2019-02-21 Thread Allan Staller
Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2019 1:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS 2.4 Allan Staller wrote: >If so, I need to get my 2.3 order in before I can no longer do so. Why not order it now? I can't think of any downside as long as you're alre

Re: z/OS 2.4

2019-02-20 Thread Allan Staller
about the z/OS version after 2.3 was named > "the z/OS version after 2.3". > > Kees. > > > -Original Message- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Allan Staller > > Sent: 18 February, 2019 19:

z/OS 2.4

2019-02-18 Thread Allan Staller
Has anybody seen the z/OS V2R4 preview announcement go by? If so, can you provide a link or Announcement number? TIA, ::DISCLAIMER:: ---

Re: SMS QUESTION

2019-02-18 Thread Allan Staller
59 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of esmie moo Sent: Monday, February 18, 2019 8:07 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: SMS QUESTION Gentle Readers, I encountered a problem with a space abend for a IAM VSAM EXTENDED FORMAT.dsn. In the DATACLAS we

Re: HSM question - ML2 copy2 tapes that have no copy1

2019-02-15 Thread Allan Staller
I get the same "not defined" message. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Allan Staller Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2019 12:16 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [External] Re: HSM question - ML2 copy2 tapes that have no copy1 Try HSEND D

Re: PARMDD and Symbols in a Started PROC

2019-02-15 Thread Allan Staller
SYSSYM=ALLOW in JESPARMS? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2019 12:49 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PARMDD and Symbols in a Started PROC OK, I am making some progress. I got past the JCL error b

Re: HSM question - ML2 copy2 tapes that have no copy1

2019-02-14 Thread Allan Staller
how to get rid of them. I'll try the TAPEREPL process in a test environment to see what happens. Thanks. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Allan Staller Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2019 8:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [Extern

Re: HSM question - ML2 copy2 tapes that have no copy1

2019-02-14 Thread Allan Staller
Most likely a continuation of a prior volume. Without going into a lot of detail, if a dataset spans from 1 volume to another the 1st volume in the sequence "owns it". Duplex volumes are never referenced by DFHSM directly. HSEND LIST TTOC will list all primary voulmes. I expect the duplex volum

Re: HSM question - ML2 tapes no longer avaialble

2019-02-13 Thread Allan Staller
13, 2019 9:31 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: HSM question - ML2 tapes no longer avaialble Two recommendations below > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Allan Staller > Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 7:03 AM &g

Re: HSM question - ML2 tapes no longer avaialble

2019-02-13 Thread Allan Staller
For each affected volser: HSEND LIST TTOC(volser) ODS(x) HDEL 'datasetname' for each indicated dataset. HSEND RECYCLE ALL EXECUTE PERCENTVALID(0) HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 9:00 AM To:

Re: DEQ dynamically

2019-02-11 Thread Allan Staller
JCL, FREE=CLOSE on the relevant DD statement. Unfortunately require a recycle. Several system level programs do this routinely. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jake Anderson Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2019 10:55 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.

Re: Wells Fargo? Well f*&%#d at the moment: Data center up in smoke, bank website, app down . The Register

2019-02-11 Thread Allan Staller
I have heard of a company in the Far East the periodically (every 6 mths., IIRC) flips from site A to site B (and back). Aus(?) to Phillipines ?) and back. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Savor, Thomas (Alpharetta) Sent: Friday, February 8, 2019 7:08

Re: Internal Coupling Channel on z13

2019-02-06 Thread Allan Staller
I disagree. The answer is "it depends". -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 2:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Internal Coupling Channel on z13 It is possible to convert ENQ with SYSTEMS to RES

Re: DFHSM FIXCDS before start-up?

2019-02-05 Thread Allan Staller
Why would you want to do this? I presume you have the health-check recommended 4 backups (or more). If the current backup is 'N', the next backup would be taken to N+1. N will not be overwritten for 3 additional cycles. More than long enough to make a backup copy. To answer your question about fi

Re: Newbie SMP/E questions

2019-01-30 Thread Allan Staller
Reject would occur after the restore. However, another semi-forgotten item has be paged into my virtual storage. The "2 PTFs" do not need to be restored. They can be re-implemented with APPLY REDO. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Se

Re: Style (was: Newbie SMP/E questions)

2019-01-29 Thread Allan Staller
They were indented when I sent it. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 11:06 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Style (was: Newbie SMP/E questions) On 2019-01-29, at 09:52:18, Allan Staller wrote

Re: Newbie SMP/E questions

2019-01-29 Thread Allan Staller
Comments interspersed. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bob Bridges Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 10:07 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Newbie SMP/E questions I'm the Top-Secret admin for a client whose system programmer retired a coup

Re: SYSAFF and SCHENV [EXTERNAL]

2019-01-29 Thread Allan Staller
How do you add a SCHENV to a job? Does the user/submittor do this or is it done automatically? 1) JES can assign a default SCHENV on the JOBDEF/JOBCLASS(n) init parms 2) Modern schedulers (CA7, CTL-M) allow this to be added to the job as part of their processing. 3) SCHENV= on Job Card. There a

Re: Internal Coupling Channel on z13

2019-01-29 Thread Allan Staller
GRS RING can/will run over CTC's. Not sure I would want to do that in a 3 member ring. It was bad enough in a 2 member ring. I am currently using an ICF on a z/12 BC w/no issue. Howerr, I am not sure an ICF is the same thing you are describing. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: how many OSes run on IBMz

2019-01-24 Thread Allan Staller
Ancient MFT (and subsequent incarantions) DOS/360 and subsequent incarnations BOS TOS PCP -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bernd Oppolzer Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2019 6:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: how many OSes run on IBMz what

Re: how many OSes run on IBMz

2019-01-24 Thread Allan Staller
kVM? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2019 6:18 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: how many OSes run on IBMz This is mainly a curiosity question. I know of: z/OS, z/VSE, z/TPF, and z/Linux. Are there any o

Re: ICSF and z/OS 2.3

2019-01-18 Thread Allan Staller
z/OS 2.3 > > W dniu 2019-01-18 o 19:21, Allan Staller pisze: >> AFAIK, no. >> However, ICSF is a pre-req for several other tasks (e.g. dfhsm) I >> believe it is in your best interest to install ICSF on all connected >> LPARs > Is ICSF realy required by DFSMShsm? &g

Re: ICSF and z/OS 2.3

2019-01-18 Thread Allan Staller
Yes. For certain fuinctions. Found out the hard way during 1 DR exercise. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Friday, January 18, 2019 3:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ICSF and z/OS 2.3 W dniu 2019-01-18 o 19:21, Allan Staller

Re: ICSF and z/OS 2.3

2019-01-18 Thread Allan Staller
AFAIK, no. However, ICSF is a pre-req for several other tasks (e.g. dfhsm) I believe it is in your best interest to install ICSF on all connected LPARs -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mary Kay Tubello Sent: Friday, January 18, 2019 12:17 PM To: IBM-

Re: Digital certificates, probably inactive

2019-01-16 Thread Allan Staller
You can always ask here. There is a vast level of broad knowledge from JOAT type sysprogs. In this particular case, you probably will have better luck on the RACF LIST. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bob Bridges Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 12:

CF structure reports

2019-01-15 Thread Allan Staller
Does anyone have any pointers to reports should CF structure utilization? CBTTAPE or other? ::DISCLAIMER:: --

Re: zos program to supply web based client

2019-01-11 Thread Allan Staller
CICS Web Services. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Windt, W.K.F. van der (Fred) Sent: Friday, January 11, 2019 1:18 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: zos program to supply web based client Hi, The z/OS Web Enablement Toolkit does not work

Re: Generic query on Region allocation failure

2019-01-10 Thread Allan Staller
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2019 2:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Generic query on Region allocation failure I don't expect below-the-line CSA to be much affected by a hardware change

Re: Generic query on Region allocation failure

2019-01-09 Thread Allan Staller
This looks more like the linklst dataset has taken an extent for some reason. Try compressing the dataset containing CEEBINIT, followed by F LLA,REFRESH IF that does not work an IPL will be necessary. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Wayne Bicker

Re: HSM management

2019-01-08 Thread Allan Staller
NAVIQUEST? DCOLLECT and RYO code. Probably something on the CBTTAPE to uses as a starting point. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gadi Ben-Avi Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2019 7:31 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: HSM management Hi, I am looking

Re: USS10MSG source

2019-01-07 Thread Allan Staller
I would check sys1.samplib. As many other have stated there are most likely several examples on the CBTTAPE and elsewhere. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Monday, January 7, 2019 5:08 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: USS10MSG s

Re: Clarification on using a hardware

2018-12-31 Thread Allan Staller
You are referring to a "architectural level set". I don’t have the details, but some OS'es will not support the hardware. Some hardware will not support the OS;es. E.G. z/OS 2.3 is not supported on z9 (I doubt it would work). z/VM is your friend. You can mimic older hardware. HTH, -Original

Re: IBM Mapping macro for ISPF statistics in PDS Directory entries?

2018-12-31 Thread Allan Staller
Which Macro? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Steve Smith Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2018 9:05 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM Mapping macro for ISPF statistics in PDS Directory entries? I found this macro in the ISPF maclib. It's n

Re: System Symbols

2018-12-31 Thread Allan Staller
z/OS 2.2 and above allow use of system symbols in batch. See the SYSSYM=ALLOW parameter of JOBDEF and JOBCLASS in the JES manuals. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of scott Ford Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2018 12:37 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: Dancing around RMM

2018-12-20 Thread Allan Staller
IIRC, there is some RACF work needed to support BLP. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2018 3:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Dancing around RMM We want to discard some very old tapes after maki

Re: CFCC Performance

2018-12-18 Thread Allan Staller
TestPlex and two for the Production Plex. On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 10:37 AM Allan Staller wrote: > > I am in the process or reconfiguring from a Single CF to multiple CFs (per > partition) to eliminate the single point of failure. > The subject of CFCC Thin Interrupts has been evalua

Re: Multi-volume HSM MCDS [EXTERNAL]

2018-12-18 Thread Allan Staller
Extended addressability and RLS are (AFAIK) both supported for the HSMCDS. There are caveats. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Feller, Paul Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2018 12:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Multi-volume HSM MCDS [

Re: Multi-volume HSM MCDS

2018-12-18 Thread Allan Staller
RLS is not needed (although it is supported for HSM CDS). All that is needed is extended addressability (also support). However, this requires converting the HSM CDSs to SMS Management. I have done this with a "do nothing" MCLAS/DCLAS/SCLAS set of constructs. HTH, -Original Message- From

CFCC Performance

2018-12-18 Thread Allan Staller
I am in the process or reconfiguring from a Single CF to multiple CFs (per partition) to eliminate the single point of failure. The subject of CFCC Thin Interrupts has been evaluated and will most likely be implemented. As part of this process the discussion of DUPLEX CF structure vs. use of SYS

Re: SPFLite goes Open Source

2018-12-17 Thread Allan Staller
I can reach both sites from the US. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jeremy Nicoll Sent: Monday, December 17, 2018 10:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SPFLite goes Open Source On Mon, 17 Dec 2018, at 10:31, Michael Knigge wrote: > Nice t

Re: CA VIew Reports

2018-12-12 Thread Allan Staller
There was, at one time, a product know as SAR(CA VIEW)/PC. There was also an AFP Viewer. Don't know if either is still marketed. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Roger Bolan Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 8:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: Thanks For All the Fish

2018-12-12 Thread Allan Staller
Congratulations on reaching your life milestone! All of your contributions will be greatly missed. Enjoy Life, Hobbies, Grandchildren! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 7:41 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: Region size for OMVS tasks

2018-11-21 Thread Allan Staller
If you have customized IEFUSI, reassemble you customized exit. IF not, copy SYS1.AOSB3 to SYS1.LLPALIB and re-ipl. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Sean Gleann Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2018 10:20 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Region

Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK

2018-11-20 Thread Allan Staller
"But ASCII had a practical path to UNICODE because ASCII, unlike EBCDIC, kept important code points static. EBCDIC made the irreparable mistake of overloading common code points rather than colonizing the 256-character wilderness as ASCII did." Back in the day, ASCII was a 7-bit code, EBCDIC w

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Spool volume

2018-11-19 Thread Allan Staller
on is.. will COMMNDxx be parsed first or JES2's parameters.. - Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Allan Staller Sent: 19 November 2018 14:05 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Spool volume There is

Re: Region size for OMVS tasks

2018-11-19 Thread Allan Staller
Check MAXASSIZE in BPXPRMxx Check Check ASSIZEMAX and MEMLIMT in the OMVS segment for the UID in question HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 8:03 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Region size

Re: Spool volume

2018-11-19 Thread Allan Staller
There is no problem until JES starts to use the volume. Once JES has used the volume, it will complain if the volume is not available at JES start (not sure of the symtpoms, but it *WILL* complain). HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Sankaranarayan

Re: ECSA tuning clarification

2018-11-12 Thread Allan Staller
With the use of a little bit of statistical analysis, I target 35% utilization of CSA, ECSA, SQA, ESQA. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs - Listserv Sent: Monday, November 12, 2018 2:22 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ECSA tuni

Re: Bundling several physical CP's for single-threaded Tasks

2018-11-09 Thread Allan Staller
No -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Kevin Neuhaus/KBS Sent: Friday, November 9, 2018 3:10 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Bundling several physical CP's for single-threaded Tasks Hello everyone, we have a LPAR with 2-3 CPs and currently 330 M

Re: How to tell what allocated a dataset never opened

2018-11-08 Thread Allan Staller
Since you don't like brown water, a RACF profile with AUDIT(ALL) should work. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jim Beck Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 11:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How to tell what allocated a dataset never open

Re: Supported release for z/OS

2018-11-08 Thread Allan Staller
IIRC Coexistence/migration support was N-3 in the OS/390 days (with a new dot release every 6 months). My memory if very foggy about the exact time frames, bit I believe N-2 has been in effect since about os/390 1.6 Certainly for many years. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Speaking of time change...

2018-11-06 Thread Allan Staller
Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 10:27 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Speaking of time change... On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 08:39:38 -0500, Carmen Vitullo wrote: >Thanks Mike and thanks to Allan Staller, I didn't see his response in my email >but I wanted to thank him als

Re: Speaking of time change...

2018-11-06 Thread Allan Staller
ontinue to perpetuate the old behavior. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo Sent: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 7:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Speaking of time change... Thanks Mike and thanks to Allan Staller, I didn

Re: Enlarging SMS SCDS and ACDS

2018-11-06 Thread Allan Staller
, November 4, 2018, 5:43:50 a.m. EST, Gadi Ben-Avi wrote: Thanks -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Allan Staller Sent: Sunday, November 4, 2018 12:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Enlarging SMS SCDS and ACDS There are several flavors of the

Re: tape drive RESERVE/RELEASE

2018-11-06 Thread Allan Staller
Autoswitch. In z/OS the commands a v xxx,as,on or v xxx,as,off I believe there is an IODF option to make the drives switchable. Al -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 3:49 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subje

Re: Speaking of time change...

2018-11-05 Thread Allan Staller
Works great. However, everyone here has colde feet and insists on a 1 hour moratorium. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo Sent: Monday, November 5, 2018 1:10 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Speaking of time change... has anyone u

Re: Enlarging SMS SCDS and ACDS

2018-11-04 Thread Allan Staller
There are several flavors of the SETSMS command to move the current CDS's from current to new. SETSMS SAVESCDS(new SCDS) SETSMS SAVEACDS(new ACDS) SETSMS COMMDS(new COMMDS) Define new (larger) datasets with IDCAMS and use the SETSMS Commads to populate and invoke the new datasets -Original

Re: Is there a utility or command that will show load module characteristics?

2018-11-01 Thread Allan Staller
AMBLIST -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2018 12:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Is there a utility or command that will show load module characteristics? Seems like there should be a way to do thi

Re: eWEEK Article highlights weaknesses in Mainframe Security

2018-10-31 Thread Allan Staller
Agreed! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Arthur Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 6:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: eWEEK Article highlights weaknesses in Mainframe Security On 30 Oct 2018 07:59:23 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main (Message

Re: We're IST-2IDT, and switching back from UTC+3 to UTC+2 at 2AM Oct. 28th

2018-10-29 Thread Allan Staller
You also need to modify /etc/rc -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Giliad Wilf Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2018 4:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: We're IST-2IDT, and switching back from UTC+3 to UTC+2 at 2AM Oct. 28th Yes, I did set TZ to

Re: We're IST-2IDT, and switching back from UTC+3 to UTC+2 at 2AM Oct. 28th

2018-10-24 Thread Allan Staller
Yup! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Giliad Wilf Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 2:39 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: We're IST-2IDT, and switching back from UTC+3 to UTC+2 at 2AM Oct. 28th Hi All, At 2AM on Sunday, Oct. 28th, Israel is sw

Re: get ECSA key 7 storage under CICS

2018-10-23 Thread Allan Staller
torage under CICS Allan Staller wrote: >I have not seen a competent auditor for the mainframe in about 30 >years. You're late. ;-) Some auditor-bashing text in IBM-MAIN over the years: My own pondering about auditors: "In a galaxy far far away on a very lonely planet full of h

Re: get ECSA key 7 storage under CICS

2018-10-23 Thread Allan Staller
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Re: get ECSA key 7 storage under CICS

2018-10-23 Thread Allan Staller
I have not seen a competent auditor for the mainframe in about 30 years. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Monday, October 22, 2018 3:59 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: get ECSA key 7 storage under CICS Aside from that

Re: How can I list the contents of a ADRDSSU DUMP dataset?

2018-10-19 Thread Allan Staller
//S1 EXEC PGM=ADRDSSU,PARM='TYPRUN=NORUN' //SYSINDD * RESTORE DSN(**) . -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jerry Callen Sent: Friday, October 19, 2018 2:48 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: How can I list the contents of a ADRDSSU

Re: CTC conventions

2018-10-17 Thread Allan Staller
io8AI%3D&reserved=0 ;-D an -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Allan Staller Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 1:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: CTC conventions Esteemed Listers, I am in the process of

Re: CTC conventions

2018-10-17 Thread Allan Staller
DU Subject: Re: CTC conventions Goog this, Allan: "redbook paper ficon ctc implementation." Top of the list. First Tennessee Bank Mainframe Technical Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Allan Staller Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2018

CTC conventions

2018-10-17 Thread Allan Staller
Esteemed Listers, I am in the process of adding a new LPAR to my sysplex and need some documentation for CTC naming conventions. Many moons ago, there existed a document with a suggested naming convention such that device addresses could be associated with a particular LPAR and the direction o

Re: Any reason to still use SWA=BELOW?

2018-10-09 Thread Allan Staller
I would doubt there is any reason to use SWA=BELOW unless someone is chasing the TIOT(?) chain using logic that was invalidated w/MVS/ESA. I once has an application program that choked on this. A relatively small source code change to use RDJFCB, instead of chaseing the chain resolved the issue.

Re: IBMLink down since at least yesterday; Granular APAR search also dead

2018-10-09 Thread Allan Staller
Repeated refrain: The "new tools" are neither as reliable, functional, or available as those they are replacing. C'mon IBM, get your act together.! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Conley Sent: Monday, October 8, 2018 4:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSER

Re: S106 abends after copying into LINKLIST

2018-10-02 Thread Allan Staller
I use 60 % free space. In this way, the entire contents can be replaced (if needed) and also allows for some growth. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Blake, Daniel J [CTR] Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 5:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re

Re: S106 abends after copying into LINKLIST

2018-10-01 Thread Allan Staller
Skip nailed it! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Monday, October 1, 2018 3:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: S106 abends after copying into LINKLIST There are two separate problems here. (1) A link list library taki

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