Getting Enhanced HOLDDATA from IBM

2020-12-04 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Is anyone else getting connection resets when they attempt to do a FTP "get" of the full.txt file? cd /s390/holddata locsite lrecl=80 blksize=0 recfm=fb cyl primary=15 get full.txt 'your dataset name here' (repl results in: 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for full.txt (16877484 bytes)

Re: Getting Enhanced HOLDDATA from IBM

2020-12-04 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Friday, December 4, 2020 12:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Getting Enhanced HOLDDATA from IBM On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 17:03:37 +, Richards, Robert B. (CTR) wrote: >Is anyone else getting connection resets when they

Re: Getting Enhanced HOLDDATA from IBM

2020-12-04 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
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Re: Getting Enhanced HOLDDATA from IBM

2020-12-04 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Richards, Robert B. (CTR) Sent: Friday, December 4, 2020 1:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Getting Enhanced HOLDDATA from IBM **CAUTION EXTERNAL EMAIL** **DO NOT open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected

Re: Getting Enhanced HOLDDATA from IBM

2020-12-04 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
attachments.] On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 17:25:09 +, Richards, Robert B. (CTR) wrote: >EZA1736I FTP (EXIT >EZY2640I Using 'SYS1.TCPPARMS(FTPDATA)' for local site configuration >parameters. >EZA1450I IBM FTP CS V2R3 >EZA1772I FTP: EXIT has been set. >EZA1456I Connect to ? >

Re: CA Broadcom Replacement Software

2020-12-09 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
For pure IBM:DFRMM, System Automation for z/OS V4.2 and SuperSession (was Candle's CL/Supersession) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 2:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CA Broadcom

Re: CA Broadcom Replacement Software

2020-12-09 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
IBM Workload Scheduler (was Tivoli Workload Scheduler) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 2:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CA Broadcom Replacement Software I think SuperSession for

Re: CA Broadcom Replacement Software

2020-12-09 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
I forgot to mention that they are all orderable on a ServerPAC and, at a minimum, sub-capacity eligible. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 2:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CA Broadcom

Re: does anyone recall any details about MVS/XA?

2020-12-09 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
I am not sure I "recall" correctly, but I seem to remember running MVS/SP and doing both a STAGE 1 and STAGE 2 SYSGEN. Also seem to remember printing both on Green bar for three 5 foot stacks of paper. Never did that again. Wasn't it MXS/XA that came with SMP/E V1 while prior ones were SMP4?

Group Capacity setting dropped

2020-12-04 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Has anyone here experienced having a Group Capacity "group" and member partitions defined, a MSU value set and a "save and change running system" button pushed only to have it show up a week later as gone on one lpar and a week after that gone on the rest of the lpars? By gone, I mean the

GIM69207S error on SMP/E RECEIVE ORDERSERVER

2020-12-16 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Just got this today: GIM69207S ** RECEIVE PROCESSING HAS FAILED BECAUSE THE CONNECTION WITH THE SERVER FAILED. javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: com.ibm.jsse2.util.h: PKIX path building failed: com.ibm.security.cert.IBMCertPathBuilderException: unable to

Re: GIM69207S error on SMP/E RECEIVE ORDERSERVER

2020-12-16 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
___ >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on >behalf of Richards, Robert B. (CTR) ><01c91f408b9e-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> >Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 21:25 >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Subject: GIM69207S error on SMP/E RECEIVE ORDERSERVER > >Just

Re: GIM69207S error on SMP/E RECEIVE ORDERSERVER

2020-12-16 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
curity products. >I'm not sure if it was the FireWall or something else. >I would ask the network security team. > >Gadi > >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on >behalf of Richards, Robert B. (CTR) ><01c91f408b9e-dmarc

Re: clarification please - is z/OSMF required for migrating z/OS from v2.3 to v2.4 ?

2021-01-15 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Yes, if they want the upgrade workflow. No, at this time the ServerPac is still doable outside of z/OSMF. z/OSMF is definitely the future. They've procrastinated long enough!  -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bruce Lightsey Sent: Friday, January

Re: ISPF startup processing

2021-06-09 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Use 3.14 and search for the string in all your SYSEXEC and SYSPROC datasets. That may help in the troubleshooting. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Billy Ashton Sent: Wednesday, June 9, 2021 11:31 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ISPF

Re: ISPF startup processing

2021-06-09 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Look for a logon clist/rexx being executed just prior to getting to the IPSF primary menu. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Billy Ashton Sent: Wednesday, June 9, 2021 10:59 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: ISPF startup processing Hello

Re: CICS TS 5.6 ServerPac missing an IYO document

2021-06-10 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Hi Marna, I definitely ordered a CustomPac Dialog format and it did not have the IYO link. Rather than open a case, I submitted another order and this one *did* have the link that gets you to the IYO document. CICS coworker is happy now and I just ordered DB2 V12 in z/OSMF ServerPac

SDSF SYS command oddity

2021-06-24 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
We are in the middle of a first time site switch test where we used CBU to increase the MSU capacity of the box to match our production environment. It was discovered that Group Capacity had not been set on the box at the alternate site, so I rectified that using SAVE and CHANGE running system.

Re: SDSF SYS command oddity

2021-06-25 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
installed, please report to IBM via your normal support process. Rob Scott Rocket Software -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Richards, Robert B. (CTR) Sent: 24 June 2021 12:46 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: SDSF SYS command oddity EXTERNAL EMAIL

Re: JES2 environment outside of a sysplex?

2021-06-15 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
? On 6/15/2021 7:21 AM, Richards, Robert B. (CTR) wrote: > Temporary condition: Is it okay to fire up a different JES2 spool and > checkpoints on the sandbox system, removing the MAS definitions,etc. while > still being part of the sysplex *and* those systems still believing that the

JES2 environment outside of a sysplex?

2021-06-15 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
I am installing z/OS 2.4 on my sandbox system and discovered I have inadvertently missed some PTFs on both 2.4 and 2.3 to resolve a JES2 downlevel condition. JES2 (in a MAS) produced errors and will not start until this issue is resolved. I've applied the fixes for both z/OS environments but

Re: JES2 environment outside of a sysplex?

2021-06-15 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get=markjac...@protonmail.com ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, June 15th, 2021 at 10:21 AM, Richards, Robert B. (CTR) <01c91f408b9e-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > I am installing z/OS 2.4 on my sandbox system and discover

Re: Datacentre Rack power clarification

2021-05-06 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
> 4. This is the topic for electrician, not for IT guy. (Ok, I'm licensed > electrician with little mainframe knowledge). Little mainframe knowledge? Are you trying to give me an inferiority complex?  That's like saying Peter Relson knows a little about operating systems!@ Bob -Original

Re: Automation of CBU activation

2021-06-02 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
folks at https://groups.io/g/SAUsers that can also provide pointers. The price to join is right, too! On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 10:55 AM Richards, Robert B. (CTR) < 01c91f408b9e-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Yes. I know how to do everything manually, but am looking at what it

CICS TS 5.6 ServerPac missing an IYO document

2021-06-04 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
I ordered a ServerPac for my CICS guy and he keeps asking me for an "Installing Your Order" document. I cannot find it in the download material. Is it still supposed to be there for CICS TS 5.6? Bob -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Automation of CBU activation

2021-06-01 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Skorupka Sent: Tuesday, June 1, 2021 11:03 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Automation of CBU activation W dniu 01.06.2021 o 16:40, Richards, Robert B. (CTR) pisze: > Hi all! > > Does anyone have a high level list of to-dos to perform CBU activation in > preparation for a

Automation of CBU activation

2021-06-01 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Hi all! Does anyone have a high level list of to-dos to perform CBU activation in preparation for a site switch or DR test to a backup datacenter? Bob -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Automation of CBU activation

2021-06-01 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
 16:40, Richards, Robert B. (CTR) pisze: >> Hi all! >> >> Does anyone have a high level list of to-dos to perform CBU >> activation in preparation for a site switch or DR test to a backup >> datacenter? > > > Do you mean automated CBU activation? GDPS is the wa

Re: Is there an SDSF display column for maximum return code of a job?

2021-07-08 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Type a ? on the command line for the alternate screen. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 Sent: Thursday, July 8, 2021 2:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Is there an SDSF display column for maximum return code of a job? I

Re: Limiting REXX syscall to SLEEP only

2021-04-27 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
A rexx exec called PAUSE: Trace OFF Arg parms exitrc = 0 seconds = WORD(parms,1)

Re: SMPe receive e37-04 on SMPPTS1

2021-04-23 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Good use of all those Mod -1s and -3s laying around! Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo Sent: Friday, April 23, 2021 2:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMPe receive e37-04 on SMPPTS1 I will be long retired before I

Re: Shopz Order Server

2021-04-28 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Carmen, It's been happening a lot over the last year. I generally retry or use the alternate: url="https://eccgw02.rochester.ibm.com/services/projects/ecc/ws/; Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2021 8:54

Re: IBMLINK URL

2021-04-22 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Mark, They changed something in the last several hours. It worked for me earlier but now redirects to "About IBM". Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2021 12:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: IBMLINK

Re: Software Inventory

2021-05-04 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Mark Captain Obvious says "Change CA to Broadcom"  In the last 20-25 years, I have used all the methods that you suggested, most times simultaneously. Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Steely.Mark Sent: Tuesday, May 4, 2021 11:14 AM To:

Re: Shopz Order Server

2021-04-28 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Keep getting following on both Forbidden You don't have permission to access /services/projects/ecc/ws/ on this server. IBM_HTTP_Server at eccgw02.rochester.ibm.com Port 443 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Richards, Robert B. (CTR) Sent: Wednesday

Stand Alone Dump questions

2021-04-01 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
It has been a long time since I messed around with modifying this stuff and, yes, I should RTFM, but I'm asking here so others can benefit from the questions (that's my story and I'm sticking with it!@ ) Is there any reason *not* to use Mod-27 or -54s volumes? Is there any reason against

Re: Stand Alone Dump questions

2021-04-01 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>> wrote on 04/01/2021 10:12:52 AM: > From: "Richards, Robert B. (CTR)" <01c91f408b9e-dmarc- > requ...@listserv.ua

Re: RED Alert Today Regarding z/OS Service Orders

2021-04-14 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Anyone else having trouble downloading this zip file? ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/eserver/zseries/zos/alert/PTFList.zip -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Dave Jousma Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 7:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: RED

Re: RED Alert Today Regarding z/OS Service Orders

2021-04-14 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Hi Mark! In this notification and the one below, IBM makes no distinction between RECEIVE methods. Under normal circumstances, I use RECEIVE ORDER on a daily basis. I did get the following notification from IBM's My Notifications on January 9th: Troubleshooting: PTF encounters IEW2690E

Re: RED Alert Today Regarding z/OS Service Orders

2021-04-14 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Marna/Kurt, Can I make a suggestion that the zip file contents also be made into just the JCL example(s) needed? Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Marna WALLE Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 9:34 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: RED

Re: RED Alert Today Regarding z/OS Service Orders

2021-04-14 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Hi Barbara, I had to disconnect from the VPN due to the firewall issues and then used IE successfully to download the zip file. Thanks to all for your replies. Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Barbara Nitz Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 8:56

Re: RED Alert Today Regarding z/OS Service Orders

2021-04-14 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Dave, On behalf of others, thank you! By the time you replied, I, like Barbara, had found a workaround. Lucky for me, none of the 284 PTFs on the list were received between 20339 and 20345. I used a Julian Date Calendar (for leap years only) only to notice the example's comments had those

Re: RED Alert Today Regarding z/OS Service Orders

2021-04-14 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Thank you, Max! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Max Smith Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 11:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: RED Alert Today Regarding z/OS Service Orders The zip file has been made available on testcase.

ServerPac Question

2021-04-16 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
It has been 8-9 years since my last ServerPac install. (sounds like the opening line the person speaks when sharing at an AA meeting, doesn't it. At least that's how TV portrays it). I'm working on the Modify System Layout section and I have been requested to make all PDSs into PDSEs. Now I

Re: Anyway to save ISRDDN output?

2021-02-17 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
SDSF's APF with the SNAP command? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 9:45 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Anyway to save ISRDDN output? We have a HI TRUST requirement to use ISRDDN (only) to

Re: FTP problem

2021-08-19 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
List On Behalf Of Richards, Robert B. (CTR) Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2021 6:51 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: FTP problem > Once the user enters the USER NAME and presses enter... Where is the password coming from? LDAP? - Check that and you may find your delay. -Origi

Re: FTP problem

2021-08-19 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Richards, Robert B. (CTR) Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2021 2:00 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: FTP problem It might be fruitful to ask the network folks if they can spot the delay and or what's the difference between the network's

Re: FTP problem

2021-08-19 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
> Once the user enters the USER NAME and presses enter... Where is the password coming from? LDAP? - Check that and you may find your delay. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gadi Ben-Avi Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2021 6:22 AM To:

Re: FTP problem

2021-08-19 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Gadi, You mentioned Windows delay. Have you tried a z/OS FTP and noticed a longer runtime? Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gadi Ben-Avi Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2021 8:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: FTP problem Hi James,

Re: FTP problem

2021-08-19 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
problem I tried ftp from z/OS. It looked like there was a delay there too. Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Richards, Robert B. (CTR) Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2021 3:48 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: FTP problem Gadi, You mention

COBOL and LE version question

2021-08-19 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
One of my fellow sysprogs has asked me to get an answer to the follow question: Will a load module compiled with COBOL v6.3 and linked with LE v2.4 on z/OS 2.4 operate on z/OS v2.3 with LE v2.3 runtime libraries? Don’t shoot the messenger!  I will, however, also ask the slightly inverse

Re: SMPe deleting SMPPTS after receive

2021-09-03 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Bill, Do you mean "already ACCEPTED"? My simple answer could be yes in that case. Regardless, I let SMP/E purge upon ACCEPT. Don't you have a backup copy made prior to migration? Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bill Giannelli Sent: Friday,

Re: [External] SMPe deleting SMPPTS after receive

2021-09-03 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
How are you attempting to recall the dataset? Using ISMF to list the dataset, type HRECALL next to the dataset and on the RECALL panel specify a different volume that has enough contiguous space. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bill Giannelli

Re: SMP/E RECEIVER ORDER failing

2021-09-02 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
.rochester.ibm.com_ and it's just sitting there getting no i/o. Can someone try to run their SMP/E RECEIVE and see if they are getting failures? I've opened up a case with IBM. Thanks. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Richards, Robert B. (CTR) Sent: Thursday

Re: SMP/E RECEIVER ORDER failing

2021-09-02 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMP/E RECEIVER ORDER failing Thanks for testing. Is there a specific group at IBM that we can contact to find out what's going on? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Richards, Robert B. (CTR) Sent: Thursday, September 2, 2021 9:20

Re: ispf edit macro "HX" line command

2021-09-02 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Can you tell us what you are trying to accomplish? That may help us determine if HX is the best way or the use of HEX ON and proceeding to use ISREDIT commands from there. Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Weizman arbel Sent: Thursday, September

Re: SMP/E RECEIVER ORDER failing

2021-09-02 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Whenever I perceive a problem with boulder, I change to using the following that day and the next day revert back to boulder. url="https://eccgw02.rochester.ibm.com/services/projects/ecc/ws/; -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lopez, Sharon Sent:

Re: Easytrieve Question (silly)

2021-08-11 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
After a google search, I am inclined to say the sample meant Personnel, as in personnel file. Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Richards, Robert B. (CTR) Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2021 7:18 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re

Re: Easytrieve Question (silly)

2021-08-11 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
If you can buy a few vowels, it might be PERSONAL.  -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gadi Ben-Avi Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2021 7:15 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Easytrieve Question (silly) Hi, I was asked to install Easytrieve and

Re: System Programmer Titles

2021-10-12 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
The biggest mistake "HAL" made was dissolving PSRs and SEs. They often provided the marketing folks with potential sales leads way before the manglers knew they needed stuff because the worker bees would ask for information about future HW and SW in advance of speaking to the higher ups!

Re: System Programmer Titles

2021-10-12 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
I once worked for a bank and had four titles at once and a fifth for pay purposes: Infrastructure Architect Enterprise Technologist Subject Matter Expert Vice President Pay slot: Sr. Systems Programmer (but way out of that salary band) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: Is there a CL/SuperSession (CLSS) user's group?

2021-10-21 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Mark, I am unaware of any user group. Regardless, ask away. If we can answer, we will.  Bob (CLSS user) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Regan Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2021 9:08 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Is there a

Re: Is there a CL/SuperSession (CLSS) user's group?

2021-10-21 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
XMITIP program, and it has been getting some use. Regards, Mark Regan, K8MTR *CTO1 USNR-Retired, 1969-1991* *Nationwide Insurance, Retired, 1986-2017* On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 10:03 AM Richards, Robert B. (CTR) < 01c91f408b9e-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Mark, > &g

z/OS 2.5 Announcement out yet?

2021-09-30 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
I haven't been able to find anything on z/OS 2.5. It is supposed to be out today. Has anyone seen it and if so, can you provide me with the link(s). Bob -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: z/OS 2.5 Announcement out yet?

2021-10-01 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Thanks, Gil! Very useful. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2021 2:55 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS 2.5 Announcement out yet? On Thu, 30 Sep 2021 12:06:46 -0500, David Elliot wrote:

Re: Return Code = 26530, Error Code = 00011 on RFN from IBM

2021-10-04 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
..@mxg.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Richards, Robert B. (CTR) Sent: Monday, October 4, 2021 6:01 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Return Code = 26530, Error Code = 00011 on RFN from IBM Subject says it all. I am trying to order

Return Code = 26530, Error Code = 00011 on RFN from IBM

2021-10-04 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Subject says it all. I am trying to order some PTFs. Is anyone else receiving the error below this fine Monday morning? Connecting to: dispby-117.boulder.ibm.com 170.225.15.117 port: 21. 220 ProFTPD Server (proftpd) [170.225.15.117] >>> AUTH TLS 234 AUTH TLS successful Authentication negotiation

Re: Error running RCNVTCAT

2021-10-05 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Thanks for the info, Robin! I never thought about it because it runs so quick (< 30 secs) that I always run it from ISPF Option 6, watch its progress and let the code place me in EDIT on the PDS immediately. Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of

Re: CBU HMC activation - switching back

2021-12-04 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Check with IBM in any case. You'll need their involvement. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jake Anderson Sent: Saturday, December 4, 2021 7:41 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: CBU HMC activation - switching back Hello Is it possible to

Re: Learning IWS

2021-12-17 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
The name keeps changing. It is now know as ZWS (Z Workload Scheduler), I found this for starters: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/957689 Click on links there and see if you get to where you want to go.  Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Sample JCL VVDS - replace catalog

2021-12-27 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
I would delete the VVDS entry in the catalog(s) and then delete the VVDS itself. Let dynamic allocation of the VVDS take care of the rest. At least that is what my memory thinks. PMFJI if my memory is faulty!  Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of

Re: SCRT Question -- Group in =P5==

2021-11-15 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Steve, What does Column C have in each of these P5 sections? I suspect it may have "1500". Even if it doesn't, use the value that is there for each z/OS P5 segment and add them up. For z/OS in that other spreadsheet, they probably want Column C's value for z/OS in each P5 segment placed in

Re: SMF dump program parameter question

2021-11-17 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
If it was, it is not in the 2.3 manual updated 7/1/2019 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Horne, Jim Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 8:36 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: SMF dump program parameter question Does anyone know if the REPORTOPTS

Re: z/OS 2.5 install with z/OSMF

2021-11-17 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Marna, Any idea when UJ06880 (latest migration workflow) will be fixed? Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Marna WALLE Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 8:51 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS 2.5 install with z/OSMF Mark, Please

Re: z/OS 2.5 install with z/OSMF

2021-11-17 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Hi Marc, I was aware of that an hour ago.  I should have asked when UJ07093 would be available instead of the PE'd UJ06880. I also meant to ask if Brian's build issue was a one-off for him or any other recent builds. I have a November 4th build that I have not unloaded yet as I was waiting

Re: z/OS 2.5 install with z/OSMF

2021-11-18 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Marna, Next week is soon enough!  I have enough other reading material in the meantime (Planning for Installation, z/OSMF manuals, etc.). Not to mention I'm on vacation next week!!! Bob (I only use Robert for official documentation, like a government email userid. ☹ ) -Original

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: SMF dump program parameter question

2021-11-17 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
No, thank you Jim! Now I'll actually checkout the keyword in 2.4 and later in 2.5!  Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Horne, Jim Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 9:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: SMF dump program

Re: SCRT Question -- Group in =P5==

2021-11-16 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
normal capping working in the first hour after the IPL. Regards, Steve Thompson --- 01c91f408b9e-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu wrote: From: "Richards, Robert B. (CTR)" <01c91f408b9e-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU S

Re: FMID to Program Number

2021-10-27 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Mark, The "Order Details" that came with your order has a lot of them. NO89 records contain a lot of program names. Your Global zone lists the FMIDs. But to answer your question, I am unaware of a list that has all the information in one place. ☹ Maybe someone on this list will have a better

Re: Serverpac installs January 2022 and beyond - Issues Updated

2021-10-27 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Shields up! This old dog wants to learn a new trick. I'm tired of the ISPF-based dialog install after doing ServerPac installs for several decades. Marna's NewEra two-part presentations were outstanding. She spoke of taking a coworker with no experience with either and getting a running

FW: Redbooks

2021-10-29 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
FYI -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Bill Bitner Sent: Friday, October 29, 2021 11:44 AM To: linux-...@vm.marist.edu Subject: Redbooks I do my best to stay out of the rumor business. Chris Konarski just tweeted that is is a misunderstanding.

Re: IBM Z WORKLOAD SCHEDULER - Upgrade issues

2021-10-25 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Terri, Did you turn on job submission under Service Functions? And if not, be prepared for everything to run. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shaffer, Terri Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 7:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: IBM Z WORKLOAD

Re: Redbooks Rumor

2021-11-05 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
This was posted by Bill Bitner (bitn...@us.ibm.com on LINUX-390 a week ago: "I do my best to stay out of the rumor business. Chris Konarski just tweeted that it is a misunderstanding" https://twitter.com/ChrisKonarski/status/1454110707096637442 Chris is the IBM VP WW Technical Sales and Lab

Re: automated SMS Storage pool management

2021-11-04 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Dave, Do you have DFSMShsm? If so, turn on Interval Migration and it manage the % threshold of freespace for you. If you do not have DFSMShsm, what do you have? Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Dave Jousma Sent: Thursday, November 4, 2021 7:00

Re: automated SMS Storage pool management

2021-11-04 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
I'm sure there are tools, but I never had the luxury of acquiring any of them. I simply managed the SMS environment. You need to understand your DFSMS and DFSMShsm environments *and* the current rules/values your predecessors set up. Big questions: Do you have enough ENABLED capacity in your

Re: automated SMS Storage pool management

2021-11-04 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Dave, Feel free to contact me directly: robert.richa...@opm.gov Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Dave Jousma Sent: Thursday, November 4, 2021 10:33 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: automated SMS Storage pool management On Thu, 4 Nov

Re: Programmatically List Management Class Attributes?

2021-11-04 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Carmen, Ed wants a programmatic way of doing it, not logging on to a system and issuing ISMF commands from within the dialog. Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo Sent: Thursday, November 4, 2021 10:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

ServiceLink down?

2021-12-10 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Is anyone else having trouble logging into ServiceLink? www.ibmlink.ibm.com Bob -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the

Re: ServiceLink down?

2021-12-10 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
in ! Carmen On 12/10/2021 8:33 AM, Richards, Robert B. (CTR) wrote: > Is anyone else having trouble logging into ServiceLink? > > www.ibmlink.ibm.com<http://www.ibmlink.ibm.com> > > Bob > > -- > Fo

Re: ServiceLink down?

2021-12-10 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
not work I used www-03.ibm.com/ibmlink/servicelink Carmen On 12/10/2021 8:33 AM, Richards, Robert B. (CTR) wrote: > Is anyone else having trouble logging into ServiceLink? > > www.ibmlink.ibm.com<http://www.ibmlink.ibm.

Re: Serverpac installs January 2022 and beyond - Requests

2021-07-20 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Marna, Can you expand on what you mean below? "If I may suggest to all that will install z/OS V2.5 with z/OSMF, it really behooves you to define your prior z/OS release right now as a Software Instance." I do not want to assume that I completely understand your suggestion. Bob

Re: Serverpac installs January 2022 and beyond - Requests

2021-07-20 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Sounds like great SHARE session material (if it isn't already there for the next one). -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2021 10:10 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Serverpac installs January 2022 and beyond

Re: Serverpac installs January 2022 and beyond - Requests

2021-07-20 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
. - KB ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, July 20th, 2021 at 5:11 PM, Richards, Robert B. (CTR) <01c91f408b9e-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Marna, > > Can you expand on what you mean below? > > "If I may suggest to all that will install z/OS V

Re: Serverpac installs January 2022 and beyond - Requests

2021-07-20 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
July 20th, 2021 at 6:58 PM, Richards, Robert B. (CTR) <01c91f408b9e-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > I thought that maybe a new order of 2.4 through Shopz except change the > delivery mechanism. > > Bob > > -Original Message- > > From

Re: Serverpac installs January 2022 and beyond - Requests

2021-07-20 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Marna, I thought it might have been done.  Thank you for the references to those proceedings. Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Marna WALLE Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2021 12:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Serverpac installs

Re: Invalid names in Catalog

2021-07-19 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
ADRDSSU's DEFRAG would do that, but the dataset was recognizable. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo Sent: Monday, July 19, 2021 11:53 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Invalid names in Catalog I'm not sure if it was FDR

Re: Serverpac installs January 2022 and beyond

2021-07-16 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Mark, I was told the same thing in 1980. I've had a great 40 years waiting for that turnkey to become a reality. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Sent: Friday, July 16, 2021 12:26 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Serverpac

Re: Serverpac installs January 2022 and beyond

2021-07-16 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
This level of vitriol is best left to twitter, fb or Instagram. It is totally uncalled for on this list. Every new process has its bumps and bruises and after twenty years, ServerPac was overdue for a makeover. Just my two cents. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Serverpac installs January 2022 and beyond - Requests

2021-07-23 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
For SMPWRKx datasets, see SYS1.SAMPLIB(GIMDDALC). Turn it into a usermod: ++USERMOD(SMP1K1) REWORK(2021204). ++VER(Z038) FMID(HMP1K00) . ++SAMP(GIMDDALC) DISTLIB(ASAMPLIB) . Contents of GIMDDALC pasted here with your changes. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: zEDC Justification documents or links

2022-01-13 Thread Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
documents or links On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 16:57:40 +, Richards, Robert B. (CTR) wrote: >Anyone have some good links to share that will state why zEDC is worth >licensing and getting?  > >For the record, we already have the HW feature installed. Don’t ask. > Consider w

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