Re: Submitting a requirement for z/OS to at least acknowledge SIGNAL SHUTDOWN by printing a message

2012-07-23 Thread John Eells
applications. snip - Support is provided to allow jobs for which journaling is used to be stopped after a currently running step has finished and held for restart in the following step. This is intended to allow less-disruptive system shutdowns. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM

Re: Submitting a requirement for z/OS to at least acknowledge SIGNAL SHUTDOWN by printing a message

2012-07-24 Thread John Eells
for restart in the following step. This is intended to allow less-disruptive system shutdowns. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Drowning in service units on z/os 1.13 after migrating from v1.11

2012-07-26 Thread John Eells
thought it may be a problem unique to SORT (SyncSort) but even the Control-R step (as well as non-sort steps in other jobs) is 30x higher. snip A shot in the dark: Do you have the same data sets in the parmlib concatenation for both R11 and R13? -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM

Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!

2012-08-03 Thread John Eells
? snip I believe the current recommendations are here: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/support/servicetest/ -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!

2012-08-03 Thread John Eells
are intended to help you decide how long to wait before installing them. (As usual, no detail about the exposures themselves is provided.) z/OS customers can get more details, and register, here: http://www.vm.ibm.com/security/aparinfo.html -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM

Re: How to refresh a Dynamic Exit.

2012-08-17 Thread John Eells
or lower, you'll have to keep new jobs from starting while you delete and add the exit if you can't have them start without an active IEFUSI. See topic 4.46.3, Updating Dynamic Exits, in z/OS R12 or R13 MVS System Commands. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee

Re: C Compiler on z/OS 1.11

2012-08-29 Thread John Eells
, and SCEERUN2, and then set a *bunch* of _C89_* variables (if you are using the c89 command), or _CXX* variables (if you are running the cxx command), etc. snip -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Proof That Dinosaurs Can Learn New Tricks

2012-09-07 Thread John Eells
to the June, 2013 release date? snip -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO

Re: Official current definition of MVS

2012-09-24 Thread John Eells
recall correctly, TSO and later TSO/E have been either: a) Different products with separate product (order) numbers b) For TSO/E, an element of OS/390 or z/OS. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Mainframe Power - Was RE: Another Light goes out

2012-10-02 Thread John Eells
the third reason will be overcome by the simplification aspects of managing a small number of large volumes rather than the other way 'round, but time will tell. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Mainframe Power - Was RE: Another Light goes out

2012-10-02 Thread John Eells
Roberts, John J wrote: John Eells wrote: Actually, z/OS has supported 1TB drives (EAVs) on DS8Ks since z/OS R10, which went out of service last year. In R10 we supported VSAM, in R11 we added Extended Format sequential, and in R12 (the oldest release now in service) we added support

Re: Problems with GIM SMP installation

2012-10-08 Thread John Eells
/BOOKS/GIMMCD42/CCONTENTS?SHELF=ez2zo111DN=GA22-7770-15DT=20100603122849 -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: SMP/E question

2012-10-09 Thread John Eells
are the pessimists, for they have made backups.) -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: SDK for z/OS

2013-10-02 Thread John Eells
some of the work will be zIIP or zAAP eligible. I haven't got that information handy at the moment.) -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: STP Dialout Failure

2013-10-03 Thread John Eells
dial-up time service (CTD). -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO

Re: Distance considerations fo a Parallel Sysplex with DB2 Data Sharing

2013-10-08 Thread John Eells
in part on what CF response times you find acceptable. The inherent propagation delays of ~1ns/foot have to be considered when you are looking at this. GDPS plays in this space as well but I don't have the details handy. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Catalog Rebuild JCL

2013-10-08 Thread John Eells
not be redefined when the catalog is reallocated, and prevent new catalog entries using those aliases from being defined until the new catalog is available. This is intended to simplify the reallocation of user catalogs. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: z/OS 2.1 Font Publication

2013-10-22 Thread John Eells
://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/v2r1pdf/ -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: Linux on System z (IFL) and Spares

2013-11-01 Thread John Eells
more pronounced than the one above, and it's the one I had always heard people talk about (up until today, that is). You learn something new every day... -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Linux on System z (IFL) and Spares

2013-11-01 Thread John Eells
John Eells wrote: There is indeed a machine-level curve that reduces the capacity of the overall machine when an engine is added (or activated) to a CEC. Oops; I should have written: There is indeed a machine-level curve that reduces the capacity of *other processors within* the overall

Re: Size limits on hsm cds files?

2013-11-06 Thread John Eells
do that, it seems quite possible you will never have to run a reorg again...and should run out of space less often, I'd think. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: D T command gives no result.

2013-11-12 Thread John Eells
John Norgauer wrote: After a long weekend with NO system changes(that I know of) when I issue D T, nothing else appears on the console. Any thoughts please. snip Does it show up in SYSLOG/OPERLOG? -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: SET IBM-Main NOMAIL

2013-11-15 Thread John Eells
with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ...which is different. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: hexadecimal?

2013-12-10 Thread John Eells
actually use CCWs... -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

SMP/E RECEIVE ORDER and Internet Delivery Questions

2013-12-10 Thread John Eells
are *especially* interested in people who would answer yes to #2. (If people are interested in the answers I'll roll them up and post them mid-week next week.) Thanks! -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: VARY OFFLINE fat finger

2013-12-12 Thread John Eells
DASDBILL2 wrote: Is this real or is it a Friday post a day early? Someone whose surname is Fatzinger posting on the topic of a Fat finger? I can assure you that it's really Peter's last name. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Deinstall software, for example BDT

2013-12-17 Thread John Eells
) of the parts of another product during installation. Deleting such a product will remove those parts, and can leave stuff behind that no longer works. (Sorry, I have no idea whether BDT has any VERSION statements.) -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Deinstall software, for example BDT

2013-12-17 Thread John Eells
) VERSION(*) RELEASE(*) MOD(*) STATE(DISABLED) == TO THIS!! Good catch, Ed. I'd forgotten BDT was part of z/OS (blush). -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: IPL Issue

2014-01-07 Thread John Eells
DFSMRCL0 in RESLIB. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM

Re: Add FORMS= info to JES Banner Page

2014-01-20 Thread John Eells
all of the old things disregarded, LCDS is a very nice language. This all depends on how the data is blocked coming down the wire. XEROX Manual can be viewed here. http://download.support.xerox.com/pub/docs/DocuPrint_100_100MX/userdocs/any-os/en/00PDLGd_701P47156.pdf -- John Eells z/OS

Re: System Symbols Question

2014-01-22 Thread John Eells
view, but choosing not to change the format of catalog entries to expand the volume serial field to 8 characters and allow it to exceed 6 only when the characters matched the syntax of a system symbol. But, right or wrong, that's how it happened... -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM

Re: CPU time

2014-02-04 Thread John Eells
memory latency is more like 950 cycles on current processors. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: Default OMVS segment

2014-02-11 Thread John Eells
. (Both have been around a Long Time.) There's a not-so-new health check for AIM stage 3, that was added for z/OS R12 with UA64936 and for z/OS R13 with UA64937 in April 2012, and a related check to see whether UIDs will be automatically assigned. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM

Re: ANTMAIN takes a lot of CPU

2013-05-09 Thread John Eells
a lot of CPU Both these stc's have a higher priority than our CICS. Has anyone else experienced this problem? we use Z/OS version 1.13 -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: IBM commitment to academia

2013-06-17 Thread John Eells
to any of them. So IBM's commitment is the same in Canada as it is in the USA or elsewhere. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Ported Tools - Unix

2013-06-17 Thread John Eells
. Jeff Magdall z/OS Product Manager PDT Lead magd...@us.ibm.com -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: COBOL Parser

2013-07-19 Thread John Eells
eServer(TM) zSeries 990 (z990) IBM eServer zSeries 890 (z890) IBM eServer zSeries 900 (z900) IBM eServer zSeries 800 (z800) -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: zBC12 article on one of my PC sites!

2013-07-23 Thread John Eells
and conversions that are delivered solely through a modification to the LIC will be withdrawn. Hint for searching announcement letters: Use the product number rather than the product name. (The product number for z10BC is 2098.) -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee

Re: BLKSIZE=3120

2013-07-24 Thread John Eells
written in short blocks. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO

Re: z/OS 2.1 Program Product number

2013-07-25 Thread John Eells
. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: z/OS 2.1 Program Product number

2013-07-26 Thread John Eells
, usually, most products say they run on a minimum level of z/OS or higher. I'd expect things like VS COBOL to run on z/OS V2.1 if they ran on z/OS V1.13, but like anyone else I can't prove that without looking them all up. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: z/OS 2.1 Program Product number

2013-07-26 Thread John Eells
Also, you might find this list helpful (we will fix the typo for the release number, never fear): http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/software/isv210.html -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: List all dataset in system by HLQ

2013-08-12 Thread John Eells
with SYS1 and some information about them. For just the list, omit ALL. Victor Hugo Ochoa Avila wrote: Hello Group. I want to know if it is possible to list all datasets on the system but I'm just interested to obtain the list by the HLQ. snip -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM

Re: zHPF

2013-08-27 Thread John Eells
Demystified, Session 8759. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: SCRT question

2013-08-27 Thread John Eells
channel commands. ECKD identifies extensions only to the CKD command set; the CKD track format itself is the same. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: DFSORT and FREE=CLOSE

2014-02-27 Thread John Eells
as valid, and a quick test on a 2.1 system shows that it's still accepted. So...what led your users think this is a new restriction? (It seems as though we might have to fix something, somewhere, but what?) -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Disabled wait

2014-02-27 Thread John Eells
before and can give me some indication of where to look? Did you use CLPA for the IPL? -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: IDCAMS if-else

2014-03-06 Thread John Eells
that way. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Enterprise Cobol 5.1

2014-03-24 Thread John Eells
the necessary levels of utilities (such as SMP/E, IEBCOPY, and the Binder) needed to install COBOL 5.1. It's not terribly unusual for the driving system, or installation product level, requirements to be lower than the levels required to actually *run* a product. -- John Eells z/OS Technical

Re: Enterprise Cobol 5.1

2014-03-24 Thread John Eells
Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:58:28 -0400, John Eells wrote: All this means is that z/OS V1.12 includes the necessary levels of utilities (such as SMP/E, IEBCOPY, and the Binder) needed to install COBOL 5.1. It's not terribly unusual for the driving system, or installation

Re: Installing z/os in new mainframe from scratch

2014-03-28 Thread John Eells
drives? In fact, more customers are now ordering the COD on DVD than on tape, which I found a bit surprising when I heard that earlier this month. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM

Re: Installing z/os in new mainframe from scratch

2014-03-28 Thread John Eells
and existing restrictions here and there might well preclude actually doing so. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: Installing z/os in new mainframe from scratch

2014-03-31 Thread John Eells
was made concurrently with making the COD available on DVD. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: Installing z/os in new mainframe from scratch

2014-03-31 Thread John Eells
-- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Installing z/OS in new mainframe from scratch

2014-03-31 Thread John Eells
Timothy Sipples wrote: Yes, installation services are available from IBM and service partners. As John Eells points out, if you prefer to install z/OS from scratch in house then you'd use the z/OS Customized Offerings Driver, available at no additional charge with your z/OS license (assuming

Re: EAV Volumes

2014-04-03 Thread John Eells
-managed PS basic and large format, PDS and PDSE, and GDG data sets - PL/I Support with the PTF for APAR PM43745 (available on z/OS R11 and up) -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM

Re: Installing IBM HTTP Server Powered by Apache

2014-04-14 Thread John Eells
?Open Please let us know if it's still not helpful. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) can help ?

2014-04-16 Thread John Eells
://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/e0z2k100.pdf). Miklos Szigetvari wrote: Maybe the PFA can help us, but I don't know how : We have a long running USS process, so called stress test.After some hours, stops to use CPU or any resource,how we can detect this ? snip -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM

Re: New install library size

2014-04-28 Thread John Eells
area. Vote early and often...as usual, no promises, except that I'll at least listen. R.S. wrote: W dniu 2014-04-28 20:47, Mark Pace pisze: I don't understand why library sizes on a fresh install of z/OS never seem to account for doing maintenance. snip 100% agreed. snip -- John Eells z/OS

Re: New install library size

2014-04-30 Thread John Eells
, right now. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: PFA, OA40065 and Servpac

2014-05-06 Thread John Eells
) fails because it still has the steps to copy, update and replace this check :( -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: PFA (Now, an HZR subject)

2014-05-06 Thread John Eells
question 10 years from now would the answer change? What function would you have given up in return? Just some food for thought. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Lack of IBM development resources [was:RE: PFA (Now, an HZR subject)]

2014-05-06 Thread John Eells
the point, like many of those above, it's not a new one. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: Mainframe (in general) running at 100% not always a bad thing

2014-05-07 Thread John Eells
that the mainframe platform (we're on a z/10) can actually run at 100% and not die as opposed to other platforms. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: EZZ9308E UNRESPONSIVE NAME SERVER

2014-05-12 Thread John Eells
. Can I find out what the query was? We are using z/OS 1.13 snip -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: Issues while trying to install COD

2014-05-14 Thread John Eells
the DFSMSdss program to restore COD tape contents. Please let me know if you need any other details. I'm using HMC, Operating system messages panel to perform these steps. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsieb ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: supervisor state vs. problem state

2014-05-14 Thread John Eells
housekeeping. (How much of it is productive? It depends on your workloads.) -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Issues while trying to install COD

2014-05-15 Thread John Eells
in the highlighted manner. But they didnt specify the link between the Version and IPL process particularly. I mean whether its related to count(no of ipl) or something else(thru some command etc) -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Is z/OS MVS Programming: Product Registration obsolete?

2014-05-19 Thread John Eells
. Precisely; in fact, we just implemented the use of Product Registration Services in PSF V4.5, its new release. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Costs of core

2014-06-02 Thread John Eells
improved markedly. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Is there a significant performance penalty for non-aligned operands?

2014-06-02 Thread John Eells
Charles Mills wrote: Pardon my ignorance: what exactly is a cache line? The caches are divided into 256-byte increments called cache lines in current processors. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Issues while trying to install COD

2014-06-03 Thread John Eells
to have neglected to get this into the announcement. My apologies to everyone, including the DFSMSdss team (who actually implemented that function at my request, making this omission particularly embarassing). John Eells wrote: Please open a PMR. (Repost to list server...sorry for the double post

Re: Moving a product from one CSI to another

2014-06-04 Thread John Eells
. -- -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Moving a product from one CSI to another

2014-06-04 Thread John Eells
and not accepted. You probably want to use a copy for this if you are concerned about missing fixes or accepting PEs. Also, you should take off the usermods and re-apply them in the new zones. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Dataset in Two master catalog

2014-06-16 Thread John Eells
in the first place are essential. What scared *me* the most was not having those at hand, as they were supposed to be. This was probably why I kept a list and a set of labeled dump tapes in my desk...just in case. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: IKJ56228I trying to delete a data set

2014-06-18 Thread John Eells
+++ RC(8) +++ snip -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM

June 26 Webcast about z/OS V2.1 (a Management View)

2014-06-19 Thread John Eells
simplifies management and usability with new superior performance QA afterward. To listen in or participate, go here (registration is required): https://engage.vevent.com/rt/ibm~thinkzos -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: SMPE problem

2014-06-23 Thread John Eells
HOLDDATA was introduced, the ~2250K size of the Full file was a lot of data to download. Today it's peanuts. Just get the Full file. We should probably think about taking down the Month/Quarter/Year options at some point. (Yell if you think you need them! But tell us why.) -- John Eells z

Re: SMPE problem

2014-06-23 Thread John Eells
This should, of course, say: I'm afraid it is not the case *that* no ill effect can arise from processing older HOLDDATA than you have already processed. John Eells wrote: I'm afraid it is not the case there no ill effect can arise from processing older HOLDDATA than you have already

Re: Catalog considerations for a new(ish) systems programmer (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-06-24 Thread John Eells
) starting in z/OS V1.12, and access usercats and volcats in RLS mode starting in z/OS V2.1. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: IEFUJI problem, preventing TSO logon

2014-06-26 Thread John Eells
with an updated copy. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Authorizing 8 char technical userid to use TSO CONSOLE command

2014-07-08 Thread John Eells
a deeper understanding of how TSO works. Additional Q: Does anyone know where the default attributes mentioned in msgIKJ56644I are documented? -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Authorizing 8 char technical userid to use TSO CONSOLE command

2014-07-08 Thread John Eells
the design's age is probably at least a year or two older than that. I suspect those designers have long retired, and doubt that anyone still at IBM recalls why they chose the design they did choose. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Secret Machine Instruction?

2014-07-17 Thread John Eells
be flagged to note the actual mapping. There are now a number of these instructions and they should be identified. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: OPEN not filling in DCBBLKSI for RECFM=U data set

2014-07-18 Thread John Eells
. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Beginners question about SHARE

2014-07-23 Thread John Eells
follow this list. snip -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO

Re: Beginners question about SHARE

2014-07-23 Thread John Eells
Lizette Koehler wrote: Or you could write or call Share directly for friendly answers snip There you go, Lizette, making sense again. Probably the best answer of all! -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Monitoring Solution for mainframe

2014-07-28 Thread John Eells
Charles Mills wrote: Is zAware free? That was not my impression but I could easily be wrong. zAware is a priced feature of zEC12 and zBC12 servers. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: LE APAR PM99349

2014-08-01 Thread John Eells
/ integrity APAR and just apply the PTF? snip -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: LE APAR PM99349

2014-08-03 Thread John Eells
scorings and APAR/PTF information in the portal, not direct information about the vulnerabilities themselves or ETR text. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: LE APAR PM99349

2014-08-03 Thread John Eells
they think it's an important one. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message

Re: no GIM41802I in ACCEPT step?

2014-08-04 Thread John Eells
to a relative file. But that's sophistry even more extreme than my pedantry.) -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: mainframe selling points

2013-01-25 Thread John Eells
and collecting diagnostic data. And so on... (Hey! How'd that soapbox get down there, anyway?) -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Utility issuing STOW Initialize?

2013-01-28 Thread John Eells
command. For example, you can now remove all members of a PDS or PDSE data set in a single command. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Mislocated doc (was: ... STOW Initialize?)

2013-01-28 Thread John Eells
anything, but it seems an effective coping strategy that is reasonably independent of how we might choose to organize the information. YMMV, of course. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Dynamic Allocation error in CA-Endevor

2013-02-05 Thread John Eells
, which should vastly reduce the probability of that sort of problem occurring for temporary data sets. The keyword is SYSTEM TEMPDSFORMAT(UNIQUE|INCLUDELABEL), and INCLUDELABEL (the way the system used to act) is the default. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee

Re: z/OS v2.1 preview

2013-02-05 Thread John Eells
on all supported servers. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO

Re: z/OS v2.1 preview

2013-02-08 Thread John Eells
(or should) we let people know? -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM

Re: z/OS v2.1 preview

2013-02-11 Thread John Eells
Edward Jaffe wrote: On 2/8/2013 7:41 AM, John Eells wrote: Edward Jaffe wrote: On 2/6/2013 6:16 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: FTPS, but not SFTP? Is this retroactive to products older than 2.1? As I understand things, this really has nothing to do with z/OS V2R1. Not sure why it's

Re: SAVE macro

2013-02-28 Thread John Eells
would wish is far safer. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO

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