Re: Coupling facility users

2015-10-19 Thread John Eells
Roger Lowe wrote: Have a look at the CF Sizer tool - http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/z/cfsizer/ Now, why didn't I think of that? (Too simple and direct, I suppose.) Of course, that might well be a resource only for IBM exploiters of the CF, and there are others. -- John Eells z

Re: RRSF Vtam vs TCPIP

2015-10-15 Thread John Eells
planning for that tomorrow. But in my opinion, we won't.) -- 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: File Placement Utility

2015-10-12 Thread John Eells
w, because it does neither one. SMS might be the OP's friend here, as others have suggested. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruct

Re: File Placement Utility

2015-10-12 Thread John Eells
Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: John Eells wrote: (With today's disk sizes, it's more sensible in my view to just put all the target libraries on one volume, but what do I know?) Similar to Mark Zelden's One Pack solution? ;-D SMS might be the OP's friend here, as others have suggested

Re: Subscribing to IBM-MAIN

2015-10-09 Thread John Eells
: https://www.lsoft.com/manuals/16.0/htmlhelp/list%20subscribers/LSCommands.html -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Product Remove from z/OS

2015-07-07 Thread John Eells
elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za (Elardus Engelbrecht) wrote: John Eells wrote: Before doing anything at all, though, consider renaming the target libraries using an HLQ with UACC(NONE) to which nobody else has access, and waiting for an IPL. John is talking about usage of RACF to remove

Re: Product Remove from z/OS

2015-07-07 Thread John Eells
raises a good point. I'd assumed separate zones for the different levels of CICS. If in fact they are in the same zone, he's entirely correct. Installing the new one will remove the old one. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Product Remove from z/OS

2015-07-07 Thread John Eells
Kurt will be along any minute to remind me of steps I forgot...but I did remember two: making sure the zones themselves are used only for that level of CICS and not anything else, and removing deleted zones from the ZONEINDEX. ee...@us.ibm.com (John Eells) wrote: If the CICS CSIs are unique

Re: Product Remove from z/OS

2015-07-07 Thread John Eells
that and try again. HTH, -- 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: Stand-alone restore

2015-08-26 Thread John Eells
the narrowly specific scope of the COD, no IBM product I know of supports z/OS backups to or restores from DVD. Anyone who wants this function is welcome to open an RFE, of course. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Catalog entry not visible

2015-08-27 Thread John Eells
SYSCATLG, but what about IGGCATxx? If these members specify different values for ALIASLEVEL, who wins the thumb wrestle? -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Catalog entry not visible

2015-08-27 Thread John Eells
. snip One may also choose to specify this in IGGCATxx these days using ALIASLEVEL(n), where n is a number from 1-4. No matter where (un)specified, the default is the same. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Smaller Private Area in DR

2015-08-27 Thread John Eells
CSA to make sure overt action (such as reducing what's in the LPA list) is not needed to pull the starting address back far enough to preserve CSA free space. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Smaller Private Area in DR

2015-08-28 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: Stand-alone restore

2015-08-26 Thread John Eells
pertinent for you, but perhaps someone from Innovation will comment. -- 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: Stand-alone restore

2015-08-26 Thread John Eells
ee...@us.ibm.com (John Eells) wrote: sharon.lo...@nc.gov (Lopez, Sharon) wrote: How does one do a stand-alone restore with no tape drives attached? snip You need to have a tape drive or something that looks like a tape drive (e.g., a VTS) to use DFSMSdss Standalone Restore. I don't know

Re: how to know the length and blocksize of each member in dataset

2015-09-01 Thread John Eells
? Something else? Perhaps the best question is, "What are you trying to do?" -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send emai

Re: IBM z/OS Internet Library trimmed to z/OS 1.13 and above

2015-09-03 Thread John Eells
I don't remember what was there originally...but books back to z/OS V1.9, and library centers back to V1.4 are now available on this page again: http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/library/bkserv/index.html -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: IBM z/OS Internet Library trimmed to z/OS 1.13 and above

2015-09-02 Thread John Eells
and research what release introduced a new facility or enhancement. I'm told they'll be back "soon," probably at the bottom of the page under a new heading that says, in effect, "Ye Olde Books Below." -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeep

Re: how to know the length and blocksize of each member in dataset

2015-09-02 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: how to know the length and blocksize of each member in dataset

2015-09-02 Thread John Eells
elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za (Elardus Engelbrecht) wrote: Mind you, max blocksize is 32768, but that info is useless. AMBLIST can *probably* help you, but ... The maximum block size for z/OS is actually 32760. (We have to reserve space for those pesky RDWs and BDWs.) -- John Eells z/OS

Re: IBM Electronic Service Agent V1.2

2015-09-30 Thread John Eells
mation. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 6:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM Electronic Service Agent V1.2 Richards, Robert B. wrote: I received a notice that the

Re: Unicode Red Alert - Fix REQUIRED Before 15 December!

2015-10-01 Thread John Eells
, an alternative approach may be to install the fix on a SYSRES, and IPL with that SYSRES in the event of an unplanned IPL on or after December 15, 2015. A scheduled IPL should be planned for the fix as soon as possible afterwards, if not yet installed. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing

Re: z/OS 2.2 delayed?

2015-10-01 Thread John Eells
Why would you think it was delayed? Richards, Robert B. wrote: Did I miss an announcement that z/OS 2.2 was being delayed? It was planned for September 30, 2015 according to preview announcements. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: IBM Electronic Service Agent V1.2

2015-09-28 Thread John Eells
. Is there some other product that I should have to provide its functionality in lieu of a replacement? At least they are giving plenty of lead time to resolve this. What are you using it for? -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: HP being sued, not by IBM.....yet!

2015-09-22 Thread John Eells
stuff. Go figure.) -- 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: CBPDO vs ServerPac

2015-09-21 Thread John Eells
in the USA). -- John Eells (catching up from vacation) 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: CBPDO vs ServerPac

2015-09-21 Thread John Eells
with ServerPac. As others have said, the week saved by ordering the CBPDO would be overcome (and more) by the additional time spent for the vast majority of people. Moreover, the opportunities for error when installing via CBPDO are far more numerous than those for installing with ServerPac. -- John Eells

Re: RSU or maintenance level on a system

2015-09-21 Thread John Eells
m other than system programmer procedures and discipline. Based on the above it's hard to understand why we would write a display command to show something as fuzzy as an "RSU level"...but you could always ask formally if you wish. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Mar

Re: Restore time question

2015-09-25 Thread John Eells
of the physical mount contention. -- 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: IRRD125I - The key size that was specified or defaulted is not acceptable.

2015-10-06 Thread John Eells
. BTW, there are actually *three* limits. Just because we can send technology /out of/ the United States does not mean it's OK to import it /into/ a particular country. (I am thankful that I'm not involved in that end of the business!) -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee

Re: Xerox Printers

2015-10-05 Thread John Eells
int Server is a priced optional feature of z/OS. -- 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 t

Re: RLS implementation for CDS's in DFHSM

2015-12-08 Thread John Eells
an index-wide lock in z/OS V2.2. -- John Eells 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: DFdss does not release space

2015-12-15 Thread John Eells
ggest that DFSMSdss could optionally use DS1CREDT to determine whether a data set with DS1LSTAR set to zero should have its space released. Or, that an "unknown" flag be added to the F9DSCB. Or... -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -

Re: Memory for z/OS 2.1

2015-12-11 Thread John Eells
t for z/OS 2.1 to run on a z10 box ? -- John Eells 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: D M=STOR causes disaster

2016-01-04 Thread John Eells
is no longer minor and it would be equally appropriate that its status should be re-visited and changed to a Defect APAR worthy of some resolution. I won't disagree. But, as someone already suggested, R.S. should open a PMR if he would like us to consider it. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee

Re: D M=STOR causes disaster

2016-01-04 Thread John Eells
not check on the rules, a spot check seems to bear this out. -- John Eells 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: Migration from z196 to z13 encryption aspect

2016-01-06 Thread John Eells
. -- John Eells 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: IBM Automatic (COBOL) Binary Optimizer Now Availabile

2015-11-30 Thread John Eells
), but as I understand it, it will not yield the same performance gains a V5 recompile can gain. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: IBM Automatic (COBOL) Binary Optimizer Now Availabile

2015-11-30 Thread John Eells
John Eells wrote: Charles Mills wrote: If you are running *programs compiled with V3 or V4* (and are not in the mood to recompile them on V5). It is essentially an alternative to V5 (although I suspect IBM would not be happy with that statement). It is of course an alternative to V5

Re: Straightforward way to determine hardware architecture level?

2015-12-01 Thread John Eells
, The SU Bit String had been frozen for quite a while when I came along and caused IHASUBIT and its associated macros to be removed from the (then) MVS/ESA SP Version 4 product after System Generation was finally withdrawn in all its flavors. -- John Eells IBM

Re: Deleting all members of a pds

2015-11-20 Thread John Eells
V1.12, so everybody running on a supported release can use it. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: SMP/E error in my z/OS 2.1 Serverpac OS212016.

2016-01-13 Thread John Eells
. As a workaround, you can RESTART the job from step UCLIN, removing all updates which were already done the previous run and also removing all occurences of statement DEL SYSMOD(HQX7790) CIFREQ( (UK96644,UK96643)). -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: RESTORE JOB on z/OS 2.1 Serverpac failing

2016-01-12 Thread John Eells
Would some kind soul please open a PMR? An FMID is one type of SYSMOD. SYSMODs include APARS, PTFS, FUNCTIONS (FMIDs), and USERMODs. Lizette Koehler wrote: Sharon, Is HQX7790 a SYSMOD? I might have thought it is an FMID. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: IEAIPS parmlib member

2016-06-02 Thread John Eells
John Eells wrote: Lopez, Sharon wrote: Does anyone remember when IEAIPSxx member went away? In 2001, whatever release that was... Sorry, it was 2002, in z/OS V1.3. (We created the IWMINSTL sample for installing a starter policy a year before V1.3 to ease the migration slightly and I

Re: Re cataloging IODF jcl

2016-06-09 Thread John Eells
Nathan Astle wrote: Hello, Can someone please share me a sample JCL on recataloging the IODF dataset ? Did you try DEFINE RECATALOG? http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/dgt3i210.pdf -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Enhancement RFE for TSO DELETE xxx MASK Function

2016-06-10 Thread John Eells
book to find that out (if you didn't happen to know already). A number of other commands (perhaps all of them) are also "passed along" to IDCAMS by TSO/E, such as DEFINE, ALTER, IMPORT, EXPORT, and LISTCAT. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

Re: Proper way to resolve existing GDG GnnnVnnn by relative reference

2016-05-27 Thread John Eells
were going for an even thousand until we weighed the value of "one more generation" against the cost of updating a bazillion messages to add space for another digit and decided 999 was close enough! -- John Eells IBM Poughkeep

Re: IEAIPS parmlib member

2016-06-02 Thread John Eells
Lopez, Sharon wrote: Does anyone remember when IEAIPSxx member went away? In 2001, whatever release that was... -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: pdse v2 generations arg!

2016-05-31 Thread John Eells
oes not wrap. Has anyone stumbled across a better way to find the member generations? Using the loop process I've found you have to do an almost infinite limit, or set it fairly high or you risk missing a generation or 100. And the overhead of the edit isn't trivial. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie

Re: z13 PSP for z/OS 2.1

2016-01-08 Thread John Eells
, which contains all of the Fixcat information that REPORT MISSINGFIX uses.> -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: SMP/E error in my z/OS 2.1 Serverpac OS212016.

2016-01-13 Thread John Eells
I checked with someone in ServerPac design, and this is indeed what's up. They will look at the alternatives for solving this, including the one below. John Eells wrote: So...I infer, perhaps incorrectly, that the RESTORE job is also doing a ZONEMERGE for the SDSF zone. If that's the case

Re: Cloning a Sysres and ZFS

2016-01-18 Thread John Eells
on why you would need your zFS in Master for your 1.13 systems. -- John Eells 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: Cloning a Sysres and ZFS

2016-01-18 Thread John Eells
Tom Marchant wrote: On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 09:04:53 -0500, John Eells wrote: - You can use SYMBOLICRELATE on DEFINE ALIAS to point to the catalog thusly named in the master catalog on the production system. There used to be a requirement that the alias and the data set name be in the same

Re: BookManagerBUILD and DGW HTTP Server under z/OS V2.2

2016-02-09 Thread John Eells
the service you want to have installed on those FMIDs before running BUILDMCS. Unless they have to be installed in the same zones as z/OS, consider installing them in their own libraries and zones so that you don't have to do this again. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Stand-Alone DSS RESTORE with 3584 Library - How??

2016-02-05 Thread John Eells
Bob beat me to it! But I'll add this: ...when you specify NOVERIFY (or NVFY) on the RESTORE command. Robert Haimowitz wrote: You no longer need an ICKDSF IPL tape with the current DFDSS. Bob -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: SMPE: Un-ACCEPTing USERMOD

2016-02-12 Thread John Eells
ast Effort solution. This could provide the safety net the OP (or a later poster) was looking for. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: SMPE: Un-ACCEPTing USERMOD

2016-02-12 Thread John Eells
on SYSMOD. Or am I misunderstanding what is written? I read it as saying that you can't use it for ++USERMODs. No, I'm sure it's right. I hadn't looked it up. So it has to be a ++FUNCTION, then. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeep

Re: SMPE: Un-ACCEPTing USERMOD

2016-02-12 Thread John Eells
Paul Gilmartin wrote: So, PRE a FUNCTION which is APPLYed only in the Target zone which NPREs another function which is ACCEPTed in the DLIB zone. Not what I suggested. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: COBOL v5

2016-01-26 Thread John Eells
lue than the originally intended purpose. It happens. -- John Eells 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

UADS (was Re: [Bulk] Re: COBOL v5)

2016-02-01 Thread John Eells
operation. This difference alone has inhibited conversion in some shops. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@lists

Re: z/OS 2.2 compatibility check for IBM Products

2016-02-01 Thread John Eells
://service.software.ibm.com/holdata/390holddata.html That page says what I'd remembered, which is that: "The new FIXCAT statements are available only in the full.txt and full.bin files." Those are the 730-day files. Also, I don't find FIXCATs in the "Year" file. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeep

Re: COBOL v5

2016-02-01 Thread John Eells
., Using ISAM Programs with VSAM Data Sets, in the Using Data Sets book. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Archive (was Re: Apply PTF on DB2 10 (z/os 1.12))

2016-02-25 Thread John Eells
Tom Marchant wrote: On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 10:25:56 -0500, John Eells wrote: Anyone know why I get this trying to follow the link? "Sorry, you are not authorized to search the archives of the IBM-MAIN-ARCHIVES list from the email address (ee...@us.ibm.com) you entered on the login s

Re: Apply PTF on DB2 10 (z/os 1.12)

2016-02-25 Thread John Eells
or SUP tightened? http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0110=ibm-main-archives=R58709 -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...

Re: ShopZ

2016-01-25 Thread John Eells
it quite straightforward. The hardest part was finding out what the right IBM internal customer number was and getting authorized to use it. YMMV, and you know who I work for...but I think the Shopz team has done a fairly nice job of it. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

LinuxONE Press Release

2016-01-26 Thread John Eells
For those running Linux on z Systems: http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/48827.wss -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] UADS (was Re: [Bulk] Re: COBOL v5)

2016-02-15 Thread John Eells
' to each of those prompts (except for the first few IIRC). -- John Eells 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: Freeing up space in a VSAM file

2016-03-15 Thread John Eells
heard of only one pathological application so far. Of course, it was one of ours here at IBM. (You can't make this stuff up.) -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: IBM secure z/OS software delivery: Don't get locked out!

2016-03-09 Thread John Eells
com/software/support/BlueDiamondRegistration.html -- John Eells 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: Problem applying UA71619 anyone ?

2016-03-09 Thread John Eells
So, just to close the loop...do we correctly document the required options? ESHEL Jonathan wrote: Thank you John. The problem was found thanks to Tony H. as a wrong HLASM compile option used by us - COMPAT(SYSLIST). Regards, Jonathan On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 12:29:48 -0500, John Eells <

Re: IMS V14 Installation

2016-03-28 Thread John Eells
.Z S0047.CPPSMS.OS220119.SMPE.IMST200.SMPSCDS.pax.Z S0048.CPPSMS.OS220119.IMS.DLIB.CSI.pax.Z S0049.CPPSMS.OS220119.IMS.TARGET.CSI.pax.Z S0050.ROOTIMS.200.pax.Z S0051.CPPSMS.OS220119.GLOBAL.CSI.pax.Z 3) Do I have to setup unzip JCL for each of these pack files on Order and content directory separately. 4

Re: Fixcat vs Hardware PSP Buckets

2016-04-07 Thread John Eells
to structure them to make it easy to find what you need and to provide the FIXCATs needed to streamline checking for the PTFs you need. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: z890 in my basement

2016-03-24 Thread John Eells
Neale Ferguson wrote: > For those who saw Connor at SHARE or Hillgang. He spoke at POK today: > > https://twitter.com/rossmauri/status/712740819376193536 > And, it was a lot of fun to hear the story again! -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee..

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: IBM z/OS Product Documentation 2016

2016-03-25 Thread John Eells
survey...there's a write-in box you can use for the page forward and back function you want. Here's the link again: https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/2626267/IBM-z-OS-Product-Documentation-Survey-2016 -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: z/OS Security Level 3 woes

2016-03-08 Thread John Eells
k, or are too polite to tell me I'm crazy and aiming at my foot. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with t

Re: Problem applying UA71619 anyone ?

2016-03-08 Thread John Eells
, so obviously the resulting LA instruction gets an error. If we are the only ones having this problem, we must be doing something very weird ... Regards, Jonathan -Message d'origine----- De : John Eells [mailto:ee...@us.ibm.com] Envoyé : mercredi 2 mars 2016 17:14 Objet : Re: Problem applying

Re: Problem applying UA71619 anyone ?

2016-03-02 Thread John Eells
and use GROUPEXTEND to pull in the fixes. -- John Eells 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 Security Level 3 woes

2016-03-08 Thread John Eells
after what IBM sent you), and add a DDDEF entry for it. As John Eells mentioned you could still have some issues with modules at differing levels of maintenance. But lets get your buildmcs done, received, and an applycheck run and see where to go next... SMP/E APPLY processing wi

Re: What is SMC-D?

2016-03-30 Thread John Eells
://www-01.ibm.com/software/network/commserver/SMCR/ -- John Eells 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

Fwd: Re: IMS V14 Installation

2016-03-31 Thread John Eells
/Redbooks.nsf/RedpieceAbstracts/sg248329.html?Open Forwarded Message Subject: Re: IMS V14 Installation Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 15:42:17 -0400 From: John Eells <ee...@us.ibm.com> To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu> As you are the one who would sel

Re: ISPF library Full

2016-04-01 Thread John Eells
new, larger library. This library will need to have another name. - Change your logon procedure to use the new library. If we try the above method, there might be impact to the users who are logged in. yes, its in sysplex and it is allocated in non-sms volume -- John Eells IBM Poughkeep

Re: Fixcat vs Hardware PSP Buckets

2016-04-13 Thread John Eells
). Following the directions in the PSP should pull those in as needed. On the other hand, if you followed the directions in the PSP to specify all the FIXCATs we say you should use, and you were still missing PTFs needed for your z13s, we need to fix that! -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee

Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge

2016-04-25 Thread John Eells
HFS data sets - Parmlib concatenation data sets - XRC Control, Master, or Cluster non-VSAM data sets This should *not* be read to mean or imply that everything that is not listed here is supported above the line. It's just the list of things I know about that don't work. -- John Eells

Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge

2016-04-21 Thread John Eells
et). Can you elaborate a bit? -- John Eells 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: FW: Respack Volume Size Challenge

2016-04-22 Thread John Eells
data sets. -- John Eells 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: PDS I/O Performance Improvement

2016-04-28 Thread John Eells
a "parmlib" in the generic sense, and not "a data set in the systems parmlib concatenation," then convert away... -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acces

Re: How to copy one pack IPL'able z/OS to DVD.

2016-04-29 Thread John Eells
. Not quite what you were imagining but at a macro level this is the same as "get a basic z/OS going," and "use SMP/E to download your" ServerPac or CBPDO, install it, and customized it for IPL. This has all been there since z/OS V1.1

Re: How to copy one pack IPL'able z/OS to DVD.

2016-04-27 Thread John Eells
on DVD, and you can get z/OS using either one (ServerPac is, of course, recommended as it's far less work). A fairly high percentage of ServerPac orders are on DVD. As Jim posted, z/OS IPL from the HMC is not supported. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: How to copy one pack IPL'able z/OS to DVD.

2016-04-27 Thread John Eells
n't see anything in the BUILDSA sections.​ -- John Eells 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: How to copy one pack IPL'able z/OS to DVD.

2016-04-27 Thread John Eells
o put dump files of your own on DVD and restore from them using the HMC's DVD drive, I suggest you put in a requirement using RFE. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acc

Re: Question about space allocation from Listcat display

2016-04-26 Thread John Eells
which corresponds to phyrec-size*phyrecks/trk * 85344. I would expect that at least the HI-A-RBA should be 85344 * 56K = 4893966336 ??? => there is about 0.8 GB wasted in this allocation In the listcat data displayed, there is nothing saying that there is a waste ? Can you comment about this ?

Re: Dataset space information

2016-05-10 Thread John Eells
Specifically the volser followed the DSN followed by a '1' I assume for format 1 DSCB for by the volser again Sent from my iPhone On May 10, 2016, at 2:52 PM, John Eells <ee...@us.ibm.com> wrote: What information are you trying to get, exactly? michelbutz wrote: Hi I need to obtain dataset

Re: Dataset space information

2016-05-10 Thread John Eells
What information are you trying to get, exactly? michelbutz wrote: Hi I need to obtain dataset space information -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: smp/e sha-2 support?

2016-05-17 Thread John Eells
ou can get a hash to verify but can't verify a signature? - Anything else to think about? Lots, I'm sure! It's probably worth also looking at the implementation of signed SMF data to see how they do it. Andrew Rowley -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: smp/e sha-2 support?

2016-05-16 Thread John Eells
e the last. -- John Eells 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: smp/e sha-2 support?

2016-05-16 Thread John Eells
that any use of SHA-1 for anything at all is not acceptable whether or not it's security related? Something else? -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: IBM secure z/OS software delivery: Don't get locked out!

2016-05-10 Thread John Eells
install the feature from a CBPDO. -- John Eells (reloading brain after vacation) IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: CSA Shrank in DR

2016-05-10 Thread John Eells
elbow room for day-to-day changes. You should be able to find my old post in the archives somewhere... -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send emai

Re: IBM secure z/OS software delivery: Don't get locked out!

2016-05-10 Thread John Eells
John Eells wrote: Gibney, David Allen wrote: If you look back a bit in IBM-MAIN this year, you will find the thread where I also had missed ordering these FMIDs with z/OS 2.1 IBM was able to send me (via DVD) an z/OS 2.1 order which did contain them. And I was able to use BUILDMCS to extract

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