Re: 8 9s, really?

2023-05-24 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential This value is from the application point of view. For example. If a particular image is to be IPL'ed, other images in the sysplex take over the work. With appropriate configuration of the major subsystems this is seamless to the end-user. i.e. the end-user in tim-bu

Re: [EXTERNAL] 8 9s, really?

2023-05-24 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Many do! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bob Bridges Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2023 7:33 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] 8 9s, really? [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: zOSMF

2023-05-25 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shaffer, Terri Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2023 11:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: zOS

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: zOSMF

2023-05-30 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Agreed! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shaffer, Terri Sent: Friday, May 26, 2023 12:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: zOSMF [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you t

Re: SSHD terminates immediately with permission(?) problem

2023-05-30 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Things to check. TCP Policy Agent Other users of the poirt (as previously suggested). OMVS segment for the affected user. Public/Private keypair definitions and Permissions. SSH is (*VERY PICKY*) about file permissions. I suggest the following reading (thank you Dove

Re: HOLD Action of a superseded PTF

2023-06-01 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Short version. Yes. Many times the same action hoid will be repeated multiple times for each ptf in that particular "chain". -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Munif Sadek Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2023 8:58 PM To: IBM-MAIN@L

Re: HOLD Action of a superseded PTF

2023-06-01 Thread Allan Staller
o 14:13, Allan Staller pisze: > Classification: Confidential > > Short version. Yes. Many times the same action hoid will be repeated multiple > times for each ptf in that particular "chain". > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On

Re: Certificate differences between Z/VM and Z/OS?

2023-06-12 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Did you transfer the certificate as text (DO NOT USE BINARY). -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Itschak Mugzach Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2023 1:29 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Certificate differences between Z/VM a

Re: unix commands in batch and su

2023-06-14 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Sri, ITYM BPXPSATSL -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Sri h Kolusu Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 2:26 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: unix commands in batch and su [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organi

Re: z/OSMF

2023-06-16 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential I had a long offline discussion with Marna on the same subject. The workflows are expanded in the "portrait" dimension. All of my monitors are in landscape mode. Much unnecessary scrolling, etc. just to click the "task complete" button. -Original Message- Fr

Re: After installing z/OS 2.5 , we are not able to connect IP.

2023-06-19 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential IIRC, SSL is now supported by the base OS IIRC z/OS 2.1+ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Brian Westerman Sent: Friday, June 16, 2023 9:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: After installing z/OS 2.5 , we are not

Re: Checkpoint/restart in COBOL applications?

2023-06-19 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential At leas one of my clients are using this. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Ross Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2023 9:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Checkpoint/restart in COBOL applications? [CAUTION: This Email

Re: After installing z/OS 2.5 , we are not able to connect IP.

2023-06-19 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential I retract the above below. I was conflating SSH with SSL. My apologies. SSL can/should be dropped. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Allan Staller Sent: Monday, June 19, 2023 6:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject

Re: GRS setup for MONOPLEX to SYSPLEX

2023-06-20 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Not my dog, but I would not do that, except under extreme duress. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave Sent: Monday, June 19, 2023 4:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: GRS setup for MONOPLEX to SYSPLEX

Re: GRS setup for MONOPLEX to SYSPLEX

2023-06-21 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential I would tak a couple of FICON cables and string them between ports. Not sure about the z/14 hardware design. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gorlinsky Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2023 8:32 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.ED

Re: SAS Replacement

2023-06-29 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Sounds like bean counters run amuck. You might have a look at WPS (claims to be source compatible w/SAS) HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Kenneth Kripke Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2023 2:26 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA

Re: z/OSMF

2023-06-30 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential According to the Preview Announcement, z/OS 3.1 requires a minimum of a z/14. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/preview-zos-31-ai-infused-operating-system-next-generation-computing#highx__title__1 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: SORTWK space usage

2023-07-05 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential It depends. SYNCSORT uses one method. DFSORT uses another. IIRC (but verify), DFSORT uses only a single extent. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Billy Ashton Sent: Monday, July 3, 2023 10:46 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: SORTWK space usage

2023-07-05 Thread Allan Staller
program to figure things out. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Allan Staller Sent: Wednesday, July 5, 2023 6:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SORTWK space usage [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you

Re: Problem running GIMUNZIP job.

2023-07-20 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential TSO BPXMTEXT E329 will ive you some answers and possible corrections -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gadi Ben-Avi Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2023 2:46 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Problem running GIMUNZIP jo

Re: Ignorant z/OS question

2023-07-24 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Going back to the original post, I seemed to have missed the information about the operating system release. z/OS (MVS...) has not supported the 3215 for at least 20 years. (ISTR MVS/ESA R.x, but that could be incorrect.) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainfra

Re: Apply job failed GIM240001E for connect direct 6.2

2023-07-24 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Most likley it is a missing library in the SYSLIB concatenation. 1) Check the assembly listing for "macro not found" messages 2) locate the macro 3) Using the SMPE dialogs, adjust the SYSLIB DDDEF to include the missing macro library(ies) HTH, -Original Message

Re: Ignorant z/OS question

2023-07-25 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential ISTR the some of the older "console" support was removed in the indicated timeframe. E.g. 1052 I cannot say for certain that the 3215 code was removed at that time. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent:

Re: Ignorant z/OS question

2023-07-26 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential As indicated previously, the code to support those devices was *removed* from z/OS (or whatever incarnation at that time). -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Farley, Peter Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2023 11:34 AM To: IBM-MAIN@L

Re: Apply job failed GIM240001E for connect direct 6.2

2023-07-26 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential The undefined op-codes below are the macros Prevviously mentioned. The need to be located in some macro library (try looking in .SGDAMAC). Using the SMP ISPF dialogs add this macro library to the syslib concatenation (DDDEF=SYSLIB). HTH, -Original Message-

Re: Apply job failed GIM240001E for connect direct 6.2

2023-07-26 Thread Allan Staller
EN? > >>>> > >>>> Gerry > >>>> > >>>>>> On 25 Jul 2023, at 11:20, Sathish Kumar > wrote: > >>>>> Hi, > >>>>> > >>>>> Sure, I don't have AMODGEN Marco library.

Re: Ignorant z/OS question

2023-07-26 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential This is z/OS 2.4. What does "not supported" mean per se? It comes up fine, just the output is fugly. And I'm 99.44% sure that wasn't true on our previous system. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jon Perryman Sent: Tuesday

Re: Ignorant z/OS question

2023-07-26 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential This is z/OS 2.4. What does "not supported" mean per se? It comes up fine, just the output is fugly. And I'm 99.44% sure that wasn't true on our previous system. In this case, it means te code to support said devices was *removed* from z/OS. I can't speak for z/VM.

Re: RSU Maintenance: Asking For a Friend

2023-07-26 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Lots of extra (unnecessary work) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rebecca Martin Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2023 2:49 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: RSU Maintenance: Asking For a Friend [CAUTION: This Email is

Re: Preferred FTP Client for Windows

2023-07-27 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential WS/SFTP? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Steve Estle Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2023 4:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Preferred FTP Client for Windows [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unl

Re: Preferred FTP Client for Windows

2023-07-28 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential YES. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Troth Sent: Friday, July 28, 2023 9:26 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Preferred FTP Client for Windows [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless

Re: AT-TLS and CSSMTP setup

2023-07-31 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Have you updated the TCP/IP policy agent accordingly? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Brian Westerman Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2023 9:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: AT-TLS and CSSMTP setup [CAUTION: This

Re: Mainframe Makers.... WAS: Ars Technica: The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives

2023-08-02 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential My vague recollection of the CRAY was that is used (at the time) a 370/158 to buffer up all of the data so the CRAY could run full tilt. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Grant Taylor Sent: Tuesday, August 1, 2023 5:53 PM T

Re: Mainframe Makers.... WAS: Ars Technica: The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives

2023-08-02 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Than sounds suspiciously like a "channel" on the mainframe (pick your favorite protocol). -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Grant Taylor Sent: Tuesday, August 1, 2023 9:42 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainfr

Re: Mainframe Makers.... WAS: Ars Technica: The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives

2023-08-02 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential I must disagree here. This is just a different implementation of the existing z architecture. There may be some minor omissions, but I see nothing new here. FLEX has been around for quite a while, and was always about z-emulation on an x86 chip. It does provide som

Re: Using SAS/MXG to create a .csv file

2023-08-03 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential YES. Don't remember how. It is built in to SAS. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Regan Sent: Wednesday, August 2, 2023 12:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Using SAS/MXG to create a .csv file [CAUTION: This

Re: z/OS performance question

2023-08-03 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential You did not say where the TSO response time issues were being observed. I suspect, from the information provided it is on SC08D3(possible) or SC14D4 (most likely). If you look, I suspect the majority of CPU consumption is from the *MSTR DB2 address space. DB2 will

Re: Minimum LPAR size for z15 processor

2023-08-07 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential For the purpose stated (STP Timiing links only) I doubt an increase will be needed -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Sent: Friday, August 4, 2023 11:17 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Minimum LPAR size

Re: z/OS performance question

2023-08-07 Thread Allan Staller
. --- Original Message --- On Thursday, August 3rd, 2023 at 12:17 PM, Allan Staller <0387911dea17-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Classification: Confidential > > You did not say where the TSO response time issues were being observed. I > suspect, from the information provid

Re: z/OS performance question

2023-08-07 Thread Allan Staller
Proton Mail secure email. --- Original Message --- On Monday, August 7th, 2023 at 8:30 AM, Allan Staller <0387911dea17-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Classification: Confidential > > Ok. You zre using 2 period TSO Service Defs. I suggest you adjust the perio

Re: [EXT] Re: Cloud may be overpriced compared to on-premises systems

2023-08-09 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Bill, Why don't you move there? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bill Johnson Sent: Tuesday, August 8, 2023 9:38 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: Cloud may be overpriced compared to on-premises systems

ibm-main@listserv.ua.edu

2023-08-09 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential SYSOUT= & DSN= are mutually exclusive on a given DD statement. Not possible. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, August 8, 2023 2:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: DD SYSOUT=(,),DSN=&SYS

Re: [EXT] Re: Cloud may be overpriced compared to on-premises systems

2023-08-09 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential To all, Stop feeding the troll and maybe he'll go away ::DISCLAIMER:: The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. E-mail transmission is not guaranteed to be secure

Re: XCFAS and TRUSTED

2023-08-21 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential The TRUSTED attribute usually comes along with an ID that cannot be "logged on to", so, it is not available for manipulation. By this time, auditors should be fully conversant in te trusted attribute. I don't see an issue here. My USD 0.02 worth. -Original Mess

Re: RPMs for installs and Maint: [WAS SMP/E needed for installs?]

2023-08-28 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential "You never see a PTF that is 1MB" JAVA SDK's ? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jon Perryman Sent: Friday, August 25, 2023 8:56 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: RPMs for installs and Maint: [WAS SMP/E needed fo

Re: SMF Extract Using to find the user id who deleted datasets

2023-09-05 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential SMF type 17 records I strongly suggest the DAF program form the CBT tape. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Sathish Kumar Sent: Monday, September 4, 2023 9:59 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: SMF Extract Using

Re: z/OSMF and the Old Timer

2023-09-12 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential FWIW, I do not use *any* cataloged dataset for SMP/E Targets/DLIBDS. During installation, I took the time to update all of the DDDEFS with VOLSER information. M USD $0.02 worth. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Long

Re: AI expert hot new position.

2023-09-13 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential PKB -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bill Johnson Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2023 8:01 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: AI expert hot new position. [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unles

Re: IBM-MAIN Posting Guidelines

2023-09-18 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Thank you, Darren -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Roberto Halais Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2023 5:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM-MAIN Posting Guidelines [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Orga

Re: Retrieve LPAR weight without BCPii HWIQUERY ?

2023-09-28 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Look at the code in SHOWZOS on the CBTTAPE. WWW.CBTTAPE.ORG -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Boesel Guillaume Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2023 8:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Retrieve LPAR weight without BCP

Re: CA-1 Withdrawl from z/OS 2.5

2023-09-29 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential 1) start TMSINIT and reply with the "shutdown" password. 2) dynamically remove the TMS subsystem. (update parmlib,. as needed) 3) namoicall remove TMS load libraries from lnklst, apf, the TMS loadlibs are typically in lnklst. 4) rename TMC and audit files HT

Re: DVIPA question

2023-10-18 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Agreed, however it seems the OP is operating in a "toggle-plex" i.e. either LPAR A is running or LPARB is running. In this case, the DVIPA would be deactivated on one of the LPARS and switched manually via the V TCPIP command to activate/deactivate the DVIPA on LPAR

Re: DVIPA question

2023-10-19 Thread Allan Staller
om outside the Organization. Unless you trust the sender, Don’t click links or open attachments as it may be a Phishing email, which can steal your Information and compromise your Computer.] On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 17:18:33 +0000, Allan Staller wrote: >Agreed, however it seems the OP is o

Re: Programatically setting JCL symbols

2023-10-19 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential I believe you need to clarify the following. Are these JCL symbols or SYSTEM symbols. System symbols can be change dynamically (as of z/OS 2.1; prior to 2.1 via unsupported utilkity). I am unaware of any method to change JCL symbols directly. -Original Message

Re: Extracting SMP/e details

2023-10-20 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential There is a REXX? API available. Check the fine manuals. An alternative would be SMPLIST and parse the output with the tool of you choice. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2023

Re: DVIPA question

2023-10-20 Thread Allan Staller
, which can steal your Information and compromise your Computer.] On Thu, 19 Oct 2023 12:08:04 +, Allan Staller wrote: >That is not correct. The DVIPA and be started/stopped in a specific TCPIP >instance. >IIRC, the commad is something like V >TCPIP,,SYSPLEX,ACTIVATE,DVIPA=xx.xx.

Re: DVIPA question

2023-10-23 Thread Allan Staller
omise your Computer.] On Fri, 20 Oct 2023 11:55:17 +0000, Allan Staller wrote: > The difference iis n starting/stopping the application is a service > interruption to the end user. > The DVIPA activate/deactivate would be seamless to the end user DVIPA activate/deactivate isn't seamless.

Re: DVIPA question

2023-10-24 Thread Allan Staller
u may want to read up on how TCPIP's Sysplex distributor works. Although it is designed so to have multiple server tasks up at the same time, you can use it and just have one task up and running.normally move it from one LPAR to another as needed. On Mon, 23 Oct 2023 11:51:04 +, Allan S

Re: Does IBM file manager let you access panvalet

2023-10-24 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential That is not an option I would undertake. Last I heard both Panvalet and Endeavour are both CA (Compuware) which is what prompted the bill, And the question in this thread. My opinion is that BMC is behaving like the CA of the late 80's, early 90's. How many installa

Re: IBM APAR Names

2023-11-06 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential In my experience, the 1st letter of the APAR name is a "version" designator. e.g. JES2 has historically had many variants of a "single product". So the APAR "documentation" designation would be OAx. An actual "APAR FIX" (with test code) for the "1st version" would

Re: Kinda fun

2023-11-08 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Keypunches persisted at University of Waterloo until the early 80s, not because the U was backward, but because ONE prof (not my dad!) insisted on using them. IIRC the I/O operators (remember them?) tried various stunts, like "accidentally" dropping his box of card

Re: Messaeg IXC531I SETXCF START ALTER REQUEST FOR STRUCTURE REJECTED. REASON: STRUCTURE NOT ALLOCATED

2023-11-27 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential A connection from the application -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2023 7:17 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Messaeg IXC531I SETXCF START ALTER REQUEST FOR STRUCTURE REJ

Re: UNIX REXX LINKMVS TASKLIB?

2023-11-27 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential SMS CAN most certainly control temp DS's. I can't say with certainty that this will apply to OMVS files. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jon Perryman Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2023 11:58 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: SQA overflow condition

2023-11-27 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Yup!. I could spend about a 1/2 hour typing up the pros/cons of that tuning. Almost a short story in length. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Peter Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2023 11:40 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Su

Re: SQA overflow condition

2023-11-27 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential 100% concur w/Martin -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Martin Packer Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2023 2:39 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SQA overflow condition [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organiza

Re: TCPIP ECSALIMIT

2023-12-01 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential I haven't actually experienced this, but I would expect TCPIP to cease functioning., while the rest of the system continues to function. This is almost (but not quite) as bad as a system crash, If you have a DVIPA, you could recycle the TCPIP task and the DVIPA back

Re: JES3plus & TDMF

2023-12-01 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential From the APAR numbers, they are ancient and most likely do not apply to ans z/OS system (OS 390 or earlier perhaps). That coed is undoubtedly in the JES3 and Jes3/Plus base. I would not worry about them. One other thing. TDMF can move inactive page datasets. It will

Re: zOSMF install

2023-12-04 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Short answer. Yes. Do it now. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Monday, December 4, 2023 10:07 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: zOSMF install [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization.

Re: Starting up a LPAR for the first time joining a parallel sysplex

2023-12-06 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Nothing major on the 1st 2 points. LPAR1 cannot join the sysplex until GRS= in IEASYS00 is updated to (at least) TRYJOIN. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Laurence Chiu Sent: Tuesday, December 5, 2023 2:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@

Re: SQA overflow condition

2023-12-11 Thread Allan Staller
omise your Computer.] The ESQA usage has gone to 108%. Is there any tool available in CBTTAPEA which can tell me or trace SQA users and who are not releasing the storage? On Mon, Nov 27, 2023, 5:37 PM Allan Staller < 0387911dea17-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Classification: C

test. please ignore

2024-01-03 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential test ::DISCLAIMER:: The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. E-mail transmission is not guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted

Re: OpenSSH CVE-2023-48795 vulnerability

2024-01-05 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential IBM has a subscription only list for SECINT PTFs. This information is not openly published. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of rpinion865 Sent: Friday, January 5, 2024 9:39 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: OpenSS

Re: IBM Security Portal

2024-01-10 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential This is a severely manual process. The PTFS/APARS can be determined from the HOLDDATA. The PTFs are individually orderable via ShopZ (just like any other PTF). The only difference is that the PTF/APAR information is only available in the HOLDDATA. HTH, -Origin

Re: IBM Security Portal

2024-01-10 Thread Allan Staller
10th, 2024 at 3:14 PM, Allan Staller <0387911dea17-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Classification: Confidential > > This is a severely manual process. > The PTFS/APARS can be determined from the HOLDDATA. > > The PTFs are individually orderable via ShopZ (

Re: Racf Userid

2024-01-11 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Suspend it and see who complains. Alternatively, t he type 8x SMF records carry the RACF UID (actually most of the job/dataset oriented records type 30, 14, 15), so you can check there as well. Select by userid and filter out what you know. That which remains is the

Re: Sysplex

2019-11-27 Thread Allan Staller
Each LPAR has their own. SYSPLEX does not share (virtual or real) storage. Selected information is shared by XCF using CTC or Coupling Facility. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of scott Ford Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 10:33 AM To: IBM-MAIN@

Re: AUTHPGM in IKJTSOxx

2019-12-04 Thread Allan Staller
Having run into the same problem (it seems like this is what you actually did): From another shared image: DEF ALIAS (NAME(PAGE) RELATE(target mcat)) DEF PGSPC NAME(PAGE. (TARG VOLSER)) ALTER (PAGE...) NEWNAME(..)) cat(target mcat) On the "dead image" PA PAGE=newname NO IPL. No muss. No

Re: Dummy IBM EE query

2019-12-04 Thread Allan Staller
Look here http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247359.html?Open -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Peter Sent: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 1:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Dummy IBM EE query Hi I am trying to figure out which piece of

Re: GOODBYE

2019-12-05 Thread Allan Staller
Best of luck in all of your future endeavors! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John Dawes Sent: Thursday, December 5, 2019 8:02 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: GOODBYE G'Day, I am about to retire and become a lazy sod for the rest of my l

Re: A minimum of 8 GB of real memory is required to IPL

2019-12-05 Thread Allan Staller
I believe this is not currently a *requirement*. My recollection is that a warning message will be issued @IPL, but the IPL will continue. I have not heard of this being enforced at this time. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Richards, Robert B. Sent

Re: Water-cooled 360s?

2019-12-09 Thread Allan Staller
IIRC, Water cooling did not appear until (at the earliest) the 308x processors. I am 99.9% positive there were no water cooled S360 or S370 processors. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Monday, December 9, 2019 11:37 AM To: IB

Re: what is DSSUMON?

2019-12-09 Thread Allan Staller
Mainview Auto-Operator? See: https://communities.bmc.com/thread/30747?start=0 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: Monday, December 9, 2019 2:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: what is DSSUMON? I have an auto-started initiato

Re: Finding z/OS 2.1 fixes

2019-12-16 Thread Allan Staller
IBM support portal should have all of the info needed. https://www.ibm.com/support/home/ "Unsupported" means IBM does not want to help you with the diagnosis. You should be able to download the fixes as needed. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of

Re: ZOS 1.13 2.2 2.3 in the same sysplex

2019-12-18 Thread Allan Staller
TSO BPXMTEXT EF096A32 will tell you exactly why the file system was not mounted. I haven't looked, but IIRC error code 79 indicates some sort of "file not found" (???) error. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of R Hey Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 20

Re: SE/HMC driver update duration

2019-12-18 Thread Allan Staller
I can believe Driver MCLs can take a long time on the support element. I do not agree with the HMC updated. I have never seen a HMC upgrade take more than a couple of hours. My $0.02 USD worth. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jake Anderson Sent: We

Re: SE/HMC driver update duration

2019-12-18 Thread Allan Staller
ignorance) On Wed, 18 Dec, 2019, 5:42 PM Allan Staller, wrote: > I can believe Driver MCLs can take a long time on the support element. > I do not agree with the HMC updated. I have never seen a HMC upgrade > take more than a couple of hours. > > My $0.02 USD worth. >

Re: Strange Migration behavior DFHSM

2019-12-30 Thread Allan Staller
F DFHSM,Q ACTIVE, look for migration held Of you could just try F DFHSM,RELEASE ALL (or migration). -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jake Anderson Sent: Monday, December 30, 2019 12:11 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Strange Migration beha

Re: Chaning time zone for Unix based tasks

2019-12-30 Thread Allan Staller
One time setup. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gadi Ben-Avi Sent: Monday, December 30, 2019 1:33 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Chaning time zone for Unix based tasks Thanks Is this a onetime setup, or would I have to do this twice a ye

Re: RCA MCF and jukebox

2019-12-30 Thread Allan Staller
The IBM 2321 was also (affectionately?) known as the "noodle snatcher". A redesign in the S/370 generation produced the 3850 "drum storage" device. Same basic concept w/drums instead of mag strips. The 3850 (as well as the 2321) were both know for mangling the "back end" storage media. Cheer's

Re: Test

2020-01-08 Thread Allan Staller
received -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 12:48 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Test Test _ Da

Re: How many ways can one sentence be wrong dept.

2020-01-13 Thread Allan Staller
As of (IIRC) z/OS 1.12 there is a user enabled dfsms function CA_RECLAIM that allows the use of orphaned CA's w/o need for a "offline" reorg. Applies to VSAM KSDS. Not to Linear VSAM HTH >-Original Message- >From: Jeremy Nicoll >Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2020 1:28 AM > >I dunno about th

Re: Rexx or similar to clone a RACF user?

2020-01-20 Thread Allan Staller
Isn't this the reason for group definitions. If done properly, just connect the "new" user to the same groups as the "old" user and all should be ok. If not done properly, this is still a big leg up over "starting from scratch". -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On

Re: PDSE V2 data set info

2020-01-28 Thread Allan Staller
DCOLLECT? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Robin Atwood Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 4:49 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: PDSE V2 data set info [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Do not click links or open attachments u

Re: IDCAMS Sysin LRECL GT 80 bytes

2020-02-06 Thread Allan Staller
This is documented in the AMS manual. " Commands can begin at, or to the right of, the left margin. For batch processing jobs, the default margins are 2 and 72. Commands are separated from their parameters by one or more separators (blanks, commas, or comments). For some parameters, parentheses

Re: z/OS monitoring

2020-02-13 Thread Allan Staller
MPF exit to skim off the relevant messages. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2020 12:16 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS monitoring [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Do not

Re: z/OS monitoring

2020-02-13 Thread Allan Staller
Why re-invent the wheel? Many IBM and ISV products will already do this. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Arye Shemer Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2020 12:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: z/OS monitoring [CAUTION: This Email is from outside

Re: Help with CA Software renewal

2020-02-19 Thread Allan Staller
So, what else is new? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 4:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Help with CA Software renewal [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Do not click links o

Re: DFHSM APIs in a multi-vendor world

2020-02-19 Thread Allan Staller
All of the hsm-ish products I am aware of, use a pseudo volser similar to dfHSM. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Kirk Wolf Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 1:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: DFHSM APIs in a multi-vendor world [CAUTION: Th

Re: Rolling Z/OS migration

2020-02-19 Thread Allan Staller
Use the z/OS workflow for migration. See the z/OS 2.4 documentation for ZOS/MF. It will point you to a GITHUB repository that the workflow can be downloaded from. IBM has in the past published "Migration" manuals. As of z/OS 2.4, the "Migration" manuals will no longer be published. Historically,

Re: SERVAUTH (RACF CLASS) profile causing a looping CPU

2020-02-27 Thread Allan Staller
Unlock the userid and reset the password. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of William Boyer Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2020 1:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: SERVAUTH (RACF CLASS) profile causing a looping CPU [CAUTION: This Email is from ou

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