Re: RCODE: 801C-00 Multiple TELNETPARMS blocks.

2012-06-28 Thread Roger Lowe
Tom, Try coding your TELNETPARMS as follows - TELNETPARMS PORT 23 ENDTELNETPARMS ; TELNETPARMS SECUREPORT 992

Who changed the mount attrib of a zFS?

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Lowe
Hi, is there an easy way to identify who might have changed the MOUNT attribute of a zFS from RW to R? Thanks, Roger -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: Who changed the mount attrib of a zFS?

2012-11-06 Thread Roger Lowe
definitions for that library, I.e.; DATASET Scott ford www.identityforge.com Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb On Nov 5, 2012, at 8:50 PM, Roger Lowe roger_l...@bigpond.com wrote: Hi, is there an easy way to identify

Re: Automating weight and/or CP changes

2013-10-03 Thread Roger Lowe
We use a combination of z/OS Capacity Provisioning Manager (CPM) and the Schedule Operations task on the HMC on a fortnightly basis to do this. We use our automation product (CONTROL-O) to issue a command to CPM to increase one of our CPCs to its high capacity marker and then have the scheduled

Re: CHPID dynamic Activation error

2013-11-23 Thread Roger Lowe
Jake, Have you tried running 'Channel Problem Determination' function from the SE on the affected chpid? Depending on the System z server you have and the microcode level, you will get some useful diagnostics from this. Hope this helps. Roger

Co:z SFTP and Public/Private Key Authentication

2013-05-12 Thread Roger Lowe
Hi Listers, We are trying to use Co: z SFTP in batch with Public/Private key authentication and not having much success. JCL that we are using: //SFTPCAT EXEC PROC=SFTPPROC //SFTPIN DD * user=xyz

Re: Co:z SFTP and Public/Private Key Authentication

2013-05-13 Thread Roger Lowe
Steve, Thank you for the info - the problem was related to permission settings on the users directory... Thanks, Roger -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Group capacity lpar capped ?

2013-05-21 Thread Roger Lowe
Bernard, We make use of the Monitor III Batch Address Space Reporter and produce wto's to show us our Group Capacity usage. An example: +RMF300I 3B: Processing CPC Report... +MVS1 - RMF301I: 4H Average: 2 +MVS1 - RMF302I: 4H Max: 3

Re: CPACF

2013-08-29 Thread Roger Lowe
Have a look at the CSFCCVT control block - described in SYS1.MODGEN. Hope that helps... Roger -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO

Re: CPACF

2013-08-29 Thread Roger Lowe
..forgot to addlook at File 771 on the CBT Tape (www.cbttape.org) and the ICSF Monitor. Roger -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO

Re: Access to IBM link

2014-03-05 Thread Roger Lowe
Peter, I assume you are referring to IBM Service Request (SR) .. 1. Once you are logged into SR, on the left hand side, you should see a menu item called 'Manage Support Registrations' - select sub option 'User Administration'. 2. You should then see 'User Adminisistration'

Which fonts are being actually used?

2014-03-23 Thread Roger Lowe
Hi, Running z/OS 2.1 and have the consolidated font lib available. We have also accumulated a large number of fonts over the years. Is there any easy way of identifying which fonts are actually being used? What I would like to do is remove the other font libs out of our VPS Started Tasks and

Re: Which fonts are being actually used?

2014-03-24 Thread Roger Lowe
Yes - SAS and MXG On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 05:20:53 -0700, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: Do you have any tools like SAS SAS/MXG SAS/MICS EASYSMF? Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Roger Lowe

Re: IBM Explorer for z/OS - installation problems?

2014-04-02 Thread Roger Lowe
Tony, I also tried to follow what was documented in that url and had no luck. In the end, I just installed IBM Installation Manager and then invoked launchpad.exe and managed to successfully spin up z/OS Explorer. Hope that helps. Roger On Wed, 2 Apr 2014 14:00:30 -0400, Tony Harminc

Re: RMF / SMF CPU Time

2014-04-30 Thread Roger Lowe
Have a look at 'EasySMF for z/OS' (http://www.blackhillsoftware.com/) On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 20:23:32 +, Mark Steely mark.ste...@wnco.com wrote: Does anyone have a report that will provide CPU TIME. We are z/OS v1r13. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks *** CONFIDENTIALITY

Re: EZZ9308E UNRESPONSIVE NAME SERVER

2014-05-08 Thread Roger Lowe
Gadi, Have a look at the Comms Server IP Diagnosis Guide http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r12/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.zos.r12.hald001%2Fstepmesre.htm Roger -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: RMF APIs

2014-05-09 Thread Roger Lowe
On Fri, 9 May 2014 18:13:05 +, ITURIEL DO NASCIMENTO NETO 4254.itur...@bradesco.com.br wrote: I'm doing an assembler program that needs to know actual CPU consumption of every Lpar in the Sysplex. To address it my program is calling a Rexx that invokes SDSF environment to get this

Re: IODF soft activate to clean up UCBs after a tape library problem?

2014-07-24 Thread Roger Lowe
On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 06:46:07 -0500, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: We had a problem with our tape library. We are sure exactly what, yet, but one CE indicated that he _thinks_ it might be a flaky fibre switch. The remote support engineer said that one thing he suggests to do is

Re: Dynalloc with FREE=CLOSE,SPIN=UNALLOC

2014-09-05 Thread Roger Lowe
On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 18:54:59 -0700, Janet Graff janet.gr...@yahoo.com wrote: I have a Started Task with a log file. I'd like to SPIN off the log files from my C program and allow the users to delete them when there is too much spool output or the log file is no longer needed. The C program is

Re: LDAP Browser/Admin Utility

2014-09-18 Thread Roger Lowe
On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 21:02:03 +, Klein, Kevin k.kl...@gwccnet.com wrote: z/OS 1.13 using Tivoli Directory Server LDAP. This is more of a What are other companies doing? question. We started using LDAP about a decade ago when it was still under Security Server. I found a freeware version

Clustering Tomcat on zOS servers for HA

2014-10-25 Thread Roger Lowe
Hi, Has anyone tried to cluster Tomcat servers on zOS to provide a HA configuration that would he willing to share their experiences? Feel free to email me offline Thanks, Roger -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: Coupling facility users

2015-10-18 Thread Roger Lowe
On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 13:25:04 +0300, גדי בן אבי wrote: >Hi, > >I was asked to provide a list of functions that can benefit from having a >coupling facility available. > >I looked for a list, but couldn�t find a current one. >The current environment is: >z/OS v2.1 >Basic sysplex

Re: Parmlib syntax check macro

2015-09-27 Thread Roger Lowe
On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 13:58:45 +0530, Nathan Astle wrote: >Hi > >Is there anyone on the list who are using parmlib syntax checker ? >Especially a isredit macro freeware ? > This is not a parmlib syntax checker as such, but you may want to check out 'SYS1.SAMPLIB(SPPINST)'

Re: RSU or maintenance level on a system

2015-09-21 Thread Roger Lowe
On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 16:02:42 -0400, John Eells wrote: >Lopez, Sharon wrote: >> I already posted this question to IBM but wanted to find out if others are >> getting this request from their auditors. >> >> Our auditors want to be able to display the RSU or maintenance level of

Re: HMC automation

2016-06-27 Thread Roger Lowe
Are you sure you are wanting CBU and not OOCoD? CBU is usually valid for 10 day test periods at a time for D/R tests before it becomes 'real'. For OOCoD, we make use of Capacity Provisioning Manager (which is part of zOS base) and then use our automation product to issue Capacity Provisioning

Anyone else having sign in isues with IBM Service Request?

2016-02-19 Thread Roger Lowe
Hi, Anyone else having issues signing in to IBM Service Request? I get prompted for the IBM ID and password, which I enter, and it just sits there and doesn't take me through to IBM SR .. Roger -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: What is SMC-D?

2016-03-29 Thread Roger Lowe
You may also want to checkout a tool called SMC Applicability Tool (SMCAT) which may help you in determining the value of SMC-D (or SMC-R) http://www-01.ibm.com/software/network/commserver/SMCR/ Roger -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: System symbols in batch JCL

2016-07-21 Thread Roger Lowe
Skip, The following jcl should do the trick - //ZZZSKIP JOB (ZZZ,1234),'TEST', // MSGCLASS=2,CLASS=M,NOTIFY=, // MSGLEVEL=(1,1),TIME=1440, // REGION=0M

Re: SMF type 89 records reporting RMF usage

2016-07-11 Thread Roger Lowe
Have you checked your IFAPRDxx Parmlib member to see whether RMF is ENABLED? Or issue the 'D PROD,STATE,ALL' command and that should also show you the state of the various product entries. It may have been ENABLED and someone started/stopped RMF? Just my 0.02 worth Roger

Re: SHARE Atlanta proceedings

2016-08-08 Thread Roger Lowe
If you use Firefox, you could try and (still) use the FF extension (DownThemAll aka dTa) - http://www.downthemall.net/ Roger On Mon, 8 Aug 2016 10:02:09 -0400, Richards, Robert B. wrote: >Thanks Lizette. One at a time, it is. > > >-Original Message- >From:

DSS RESTORE with SMS Managed 3584 Library - How??

2016-10-19 Thread Roger Lowe
Hi, We have an SMS Managed 3584 Tape Library and would now like to use DFDSS RESTORE on our One Pack system to restore some dasd volumes from our weekly backup tapes as a recovery exercise. I have managed to vary online one of the drives to our one pack system and then used the web gui on

Re: zIIP Processor availability Display

2016-11-24 Thread Roger Lowe
On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 03:42:18 +, Carlos Cordero wrote: >Hi all.. > > >On a z12 Mainframe with two physical box, with 8 LPARS on a Sysplex >configuration and Coupling Facility option, there are 6 Lpars for production >and 2 Lpars for previous environment (development

zAware Usage

2016-10-16 Thread Roger Lowe
Hi All, Just a curiosity question - how many of you have zAware configured and actively in use in your environment? You can either reply to the List or offline to me.. Thanks, Roger -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Fwd: Apache Spark on z listserver or forum?

2017-01-06 Thread Roger Lowe
On Fri, 6 Jan 2017 16:50:01 -0500, Erin Farr wrote: >> >> Hi, >> Our site is currently in the very early stages of dabbling with >> Apache Spark on z and was wondering if there is a Listserver or Forum >> specifically for Apache Spark on z. >> >> Thanks, Roger > >Are you

Re: Fwd: Apache Spark on z listserver or forum?

2017-01-06 Thread Roger Lowe
On Fri, 6 Jan 2017 19:08:53 -0500, Erin Farr wrote: >>> Are you asking about Spark on z/OS, or on Linux on z? >>> Regardless, I don't know of any forum specific to Spark on z (z/OS nor >Linux on z.) >>> I'm development team lead for Spark on z/OS. I'm willing to investigate

Apache Spark on z listserver or forum?

2017-01-06 Thread Roger Lowe
Hi, Our site is currently in the very early stages of dabbling with Apache Spark on z and was wondering if there is a Listserver or Forum specifically for Apache Spark on z. Thanks, Roger -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: IBM Session Manager replacement

2017-08-18 Thread Roger Lowe
Roberto, Have a read of the Announcement Letter (https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=an=ca=gpateam=897=ENUS215-356) for CL/Supersession and in particular the section titled "ESW trade-up - Ordering information" . You may find that it may be a NO cost option

Re: job output into dataset

2017-05-02 Thread Roger Lowe
As of zOS 1.13 and later, JES2 provides the ability to 'spin' any SPIN spool datasets based on command, size or time (interval or absolute). SPIN=(UNALLOC,value) where value is one of: • ‘hh:mm’ – Spin data set at specified time • ‘+hh:mm’ – Spin data set at interval specified • nnn [K|M] –

Re: LPAR to LPAR access

2017-09-19 Thread Roger Lowe
Judith/Jerry, BMC's product (Subsystem Optimizer for zEnterprise "Subzero") requires a BASIC or PARALLEL Sysplex environment. Roger On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 23:30:13 +, Edgington, Jerry wrote: >Yes, Judith. That is correct. I missed that in your

Re: ICH13005I

2017-08-23 Thread Roger Lowe
Have you checked out the LISTCDT utility - https://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/features/racf/downloads/listcdt.html Haven't run it for sometime but I am sure the report it produces lists off the POSIT values Roger -- For

Re: RACF Parmlib Support - OA52650

2017-08-24 Thread Roger Lowe
On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 18:25:09 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote: >Yay! I have wanted this since Old Man Noah cornered the market on gopher >wood! > >ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/eserver/zseries/zos/racf/pdf/oa52650.pdf Second that ! - gets rid of two usermods for us Roger

Re: Source of SYSLOAVG value in RMF3

2017-11-26 Thread Roger Lowe
On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 01:33:40 +, Graham Harris wrote: >Would anyone happen to know where the "SYSLOAVG" (stands for 'system load >average') value in RMF3 comes from? >I think it is also known as the WEB queue. > >I have ploughed through the data areas manuals, and cant

Re: Track address space which is non reusable

2017-12-17 Thread Roger Lowe
On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 21:24:07 +0530, Jake Anderson wrote: >Hi > >Is there any rexx exec or a program which can tell me the number of Address >space which are nonreusable ASID ? > >zOS 2.2 > >Jake > If I remember correctly, there should be a Health Check called

Re: JES2 Sizer in z/OS V2.3

2017-11-05 Thread Roger Lowe
You can also run the JES2 Init Deck checker as a batch job. //JES2 EXEC JES2 //IEFPROC.HASPLIST DD SYSOUT=Z (override of the DD in the JES2 proc as I wanted the report from the checker to go to a different sysout) Since the site I work at uses System Symbolics in the JES2

Re: JES2 Sizer in z/OS V2.3

2017-11-05 Thread Roger Lowe
On Sun, 5 Nov 2017 13:40:38 +, גדי בן אבי wrote: >I tried that, and got: >IEF188I PROBLEM PROGRAM ATTRIBUTES ASSIGNED >$HASP433 INVALID SUBSYSTEM EXECUTION MODE >And the step ended with RC=20. > >Gadi Are you running it under a zOS 2.3 environment? Roger

Re: CPU Utilization

2018-07-03 Thread Roger Lowe
On Tue, 3 Jul 2018 14:42:21 +0300, saurabh khandelwal wrote: >Hello Group, > >We have requirement to trigger alert to operator console, once CPU >utilization for any address space or any Job or any running STC reach to >certain pre defined number. Like any job or address space or STC consuming

Re: Syntax check for JES2 INIT deck

2018-01-31 Thread Roger Lowe
>> >>Regards and thanks >>Paul >> >>-Origanal Message- >>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On >>Behalf Of Roger Lowe >>Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 12:17 AM >>To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >>Su

Re: Syntax check for JES2 INIT deck

2018-01-30 Thread Roger Lowe
On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 23:51:17 +, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: >(It must be JES2zday). There used to a trick to get a JES2 INIT deck syntax >check. You would 'S JES2' with the system running. JES2 would eventually say >'SUBSYSTEM NOT DORMANT' and quit, but along the way

Re: HMC log question

2018-02-19 Thread Roger Lowe
On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 15:21:32 +, Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM wrote: >Hello Group, > >It seems a simple question, but we can't find it: >Does the z13s HMC log when a disabled waitstate is loaded and how can I access >the log? > >Or is the only way to find out about

Re: FICON "Invalid attachment failure"

2018-08-22 Thread Roger Lowe
Have you tried to clean the fibre? >W dniu 2018-08-22 o 13:45, Roger Lowe pisze: >> On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 12:16:53 +0200, R.S. >> wrote: >> >>> Two FICON channels were connected to a switch. >>> Both signal an error "Invalid attachment failure" (t

Re: FICON "Invalid attachment failure"

2018-08-22 Thread Roger Lowe
Also noted that you have FICON Express16s with 8Gbps SFP - have you checked that the port you are using on the switch is at 8Gbps? >On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 12:16:53 +0200, R.S. >wrote: > >>Two FICON channels were connected to a switch. >>Both signal an error "Invalid attachment failure" (this is

Re: FICON "Invalid attachment failure"

2018-08-22 Thread Roger Lowe
On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 12:16:53 +0200, R.S. wrote: >Two FICON channels were connected to a switch. >Both signal an error "Invalid attachment failure" (this is visible on SE) >I checked port#, zoning, HCD/IODF and have no idea what to check futher. >z13 FICON Express16S, DCX8510-4 with 8Gbps SFP. >

Re: FICON "Invalid attachment failure"

2018-08-23 Thread Roger Lowe
On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 13:03:34 +0200, R.S. wrote: >It is Brocade DCX8510-4 connected to IBM z13 FICON Express16S. The >message is exactly as I wrote: "Invalid attachment failure". This is on >Channel icon on SE. There is no message on swtich side. > >@Roger >It is unlikely the problem come from

Re: Ts7700 replication

2018-09-02 Thread Roger Lowe
On Sun, 2 Sep 2018 14:09:43 +0400, Peter wrote: >Hi > >I confess that I have no knowledge about ts7700. Wanted to know how ts7700 >tape gets copied to the disaster site ? > >Can someone please explain me ? > >Peter > Peter, As I posted to another query, I would suggest you get a hold

Re: TS7760

2018-09-02 Thread Roger Lowe
On Sun, 2 Sep 2018 06:28:24 +, Gadi Ben-Avi wrote: >Hi, > >I've just been informed that we're getting a brand new TS7760 > >We've never had any type of tape library. Before. > >I've been trying to find the FIXCATS I need to explore in order to install the >required fixes. > >I've found

Re: CPU Utilization

2018-07-04 Thread Roger Lowe
On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 03:24:00 -0500, Vince Getgood wrote: >Saurabh, >How much is your management willing to spend on achieving this requirement? > >From the few posts that I've seen, I'd suggest no-one here does this now, or >has ever done it. If a company wants to monitor it's mainframe

Re: How to manage SDSF StoreLimit

2018-10-11 Thread Roger Lowe
On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 00:57:54 +, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: >I found the same instruction in the same way. Problem is that Options >pull-down does not show me a StoreLimit button. Hence my post. > Did you do a '/' in SDSF to invoke the System Command Extension and then you should see

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Command to list aged, migrated items

2018-10-16 Thread Roger Lowe
> >I'm looking for a command to list all ML1/ML2 datasets that have an age of >60 (2 months ago, they were migrated). >A working command would be ideal, as I'm looking to stick it into a batch job.. Have you looked at using DCOLLECT?

Re: Profiles specific to user

2018-11-02 Thread Roger Lowe
On Fri, 2 Nov 2018 10:25:27 +, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: >Hello lists, > >I've look around a bit and also realise there's a screen within the RACF >panels itself to do the following: >Show all dataset profiles that a user has some access to. > >Is it possible to produce this as a

Re: TS7760

2018-09-03 Thread Roger Lowe
On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 04:28:37 +, Gadi Ben-Avi wrote: >Thanks Roger. >I have the book. I guess I have to start reading :-) > >-Original Message- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of >Roger Lowe >Sent: Sunday, September 2, 2018 4:33 PM >To:

Re: TS7760

2018-09-03 Thread Roger Lowe
>> >>I've just been informed that we're getting a brand new TS7760 >> >>We've never had any type of tape library. Before. >> >>I've been trying to find the FIXCATS I need to explore in order to install >>the required fixes. >> >>I've found IBM.Device.Tape.TS7700-3957. >>Are there any FIXCATS I

Re: SMP/E Fixcat Categories in batch?

2018-09-19 Thread Roger Lowe
On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 13:12:58 +, Chris Hoelscher wrote: >Do you mean something like: > >//SMPCNTL DD * >SET BDY(GLOBAL). >REPORT MISSINGFIX >FIXCAT(*) >ZONES(target) . > Again, not quite.all I am after is just

Re: SMP/E Fixcat Categories in batch?

2018-09-19 Thread Roger Lowe
On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 22:20:41 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 08:44:28 -0500, Roger Lowe wrote: >>> >>>//SMPCNTL DD * >>>SET BDY(GLOBAL). >>>REPORT MISSINGFIX >>>

Re: Implementign Web Services Security in CICS v5.4

2019-01-03 Thread Roger Lowe
On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 12:14:09 +, Gadi Ben-Avi wrote: >I ran the command against the z/OS CSI. >No PTFs are missing. > >Gadi CICS should have an SREL of C150 whilst zOS is Z038 - are you sure you are running the command against the correct zone? Roger

Re: Programs in the PPT on z/OS 2.2

2018-12-26 Thread Roger Lowe
On Wed, 26 Dec 2018 14:39:32 -0600, Peter Ten Eyck wrote: >How does a program get added to the PPT? > >For example in SYS1.PARMLIB(SCHED**) has numerous programs are added to the >PPT at say IPL time, but the console command D PPT display many more? Is there >a default table of PPT programs?

Re: Another IBM tape not for z/OS

2018-12-05 Thread Roger Lowe
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 07:39:22 -0600, Russell Witt wrote: >So very true. And the concept of an "air-gap" backup has become a real issue >and shows one of the problems with replication. And nothing is better for an >"air-gap" backup than tape, including Virtual Tape. > >The other point is that

Re: OS/390 (not z/OS) question

2018-11-21 Thread Roger Lowe
On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 07:59:03 -0500, Tony Thigpen wrote: >In an OS/390 2.10 system. where is the esoteric 3590-1 defined? Can it >be overridden? > >We are trying to migrate an old OS/390 system and the first stage is to >migrate the tape usage to a VTL. The VTL looks like 3590-128trk while >the

SMP/E Fixcat Categories in batch?

2018-09-18 Thread Roger Lowe
Hi, Is there anyway of listing out all of the SMP/E FIXCATs via batch.? Thanks, Roger -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: SMP/E Fixcat Categories in batch?

2018-09-19 Thread Roger Lowe
On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 06:54:52 +, Anthony Thompson wrote: >Probably not what you want, but LIST HOLDDATA HOLDFIXCAT? > >Ant. Ant, Not quite what I was afterI am basically after what can be done via the SMP/E Dialogs but in batch. In the SMP/E Dialogs, I can go to the FIXCATS and

Re: SMP/E Fixcat Categories in batch?

2018-09-19 Thread Roger Lowe
Bob, This is the list I have - you will also note that the very first line shows 'No Fix Categories are new since 2018/09/19' which was when I last did an internet service retrieval of HOLDDATA for our zOS 2.3 environment. I would guess that the FIXCATs are not static over zOS nor SMP/E

Re: Disk space allocation question

2019-03-04 Thread Roger Lowe
On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 11:19:19 +, Sean Gleann wrote: >Does z/OS / SMS have a set of default space allocation sizes and if so, >where are they held and can I alter or control them? >I have a situation where insufficient contiguous disk space results in >the SPACE request parameters supplied for

Re: APAR Search Broken Worldwide?

2019-02-25 Thread Roger Lowe
On Sun, 24 Feb 2019 19:02:53 -0800, Ed Jaffe wrote: >Is everyone experiencing this? Or is local to my region? > >https://www14.software.ibm.com/support/customercare/psearch/search?domain=gapar > >It either fails with "SearchRequest. Incorrect XML format of dBlue >response." or just returns zero

Re: JVM errors running daily SCRT at currently available V26.1

2019-02-08 Thread Roger Lowe
On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 11:20:36 +, Richards, Robert B. wrote: >Has anyone else seen this recently? It worked yesterday, failed today and to >the best of my knowledge, nothing has been changed (production lpar at z/OS >2.2). > >JVMJZBL1001N JZOS batch Launcher Version: 2.4.8 2017-09-13

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: CTC

2019-02-18 Thread Roger Lowe
Do you have access to Hardware Configuration Manager (HCM)? If so, you could use that to display your CTC config ... Roger On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 14:25:15 +, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: >Just me, to understand and map out the connections.. > >– Vignesh >Mainframe Infrastructure >

Re: SMF PUZZLE

2019-08-24 Thread Roger Lowe
On Sat, 24 Aug 2019 17:29:30 +, willie bunter wrote: >Good Day, >I am trying to find the user/job which created a dsn.  I run my trustworthy >SMF job which looks for recids 05 14 15 17 18 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 136 139 >163.  The job showed the job which read the dsn & deleted it but it

Re: IBMLink, searching SRs

2019-09-04 Thread Roger Lowe
On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 23:32:03 +, Ambros, Thomas wrote: >Anybody know how, in the "upgraded" IBMLink, how one searches for PMRs opened >by their account and not just their own? I unchecked the "Search my service >requests submitted online only" selection and selected "Search all service

Re: "merging" 2 RSU levels

2019-07-28 Thread Roger Lowe
On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 06:25:32 -0500, Bill Giannelli wrote: >If I have RSU1905 received and Apply checked and prepared the holddata actions >ready to go, but now want to receive and apply rsu1906; should I first >implement rsu1905 then apply rsu1906? how do I only get the additional >holddata?

Re: How to find Life cycle dates for ibm products

2019-07-28 Thread Roger Lowe
On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 09:27:44 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote: >I am trying to find lifecycles for products like Omegamon, IBM Debug Tool, >Cobol Compilers, PL/I compilers and so forth > >I was able to find it in the past. Now I cannot seem to find it > >I have tried in http://www.ibm.com

Re: refresh run time libraries after APPLY

2019-07-20 Thread Roger Lowe
On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 05:53:04 -0500, Bill Giannelli wrote: >After running a SMPE APPLY, how do you determine which libraries were updated >and need to be moved into run time libraries? >thanks >Bill > Bill, Have a look at the 'File Allocation report' in your SMP/E APPLY output Roger

Re: Set change bit after DFdss restore

2019-10-30 Thread Roger Lowe
On Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:51:28 +, Vernooij, Kees (ITOP NM) - KLM wrote: >Hello group, > >We use DFSMSdss to move datasets from one sysplex to another. >The method is: >Dump the datasets with DFdss to a dumpdataset. >FTP the dumpdataset to the other sysplex. >Restore the datasets in the other

Re: Mainframe DEVOPS

2019-11-21 Thread Roger Lowe
On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 17:58:28 +, Jousma, David wrote: >That might be a great option LionelI'll have to try that once I get V2.4 >up and operational. > Not only will you need zOS 2.4 but also a z14 and hardware F/C 0104 (which is chargeable). Roger

Re: Mainframe DEVOPS

2019-11-21 Thread Roger Lowe
On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:55:31 +, Jousma, David wrote: >What is that feature code? > >>That might be a great option LionelI'll have to try that once I get V2.4 >>up and operational. >> >Not only will you need zOS 2.4 but also a z14 and hardware F/C 0104 (which is >chargeable). > F/C 0104

Re: SE/HMC driver update duration

2019-12-18 Thread Roger Lowe
> >We are updating our HMC/SE driver level. Our CE says the update takes 2 >days to complete. > Have you checked on IBM Resourcelink for your machine(s), the number of missing EC/MCLs? You can then use this info and list off the missing MCL details and/or HMC MCL Details and then ask your IBM

Re: RMM report for only expired tapes

2020-01-02 Thread Roger Lowe
On Wed, 1 Jan 2020 12:09:07 +0400, Peter wrote: >Hello > >Is there a report to pull only expired tape list ? > Peter, Have you looked at the DFSMSrmm Report Generator in ISMF? Roger -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: How tell what verion of COBOL compiler produced load module?

2020-04-15 Thread Roger Lowe
On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 07:15:16 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >Given a COBOL-based load module, is there a way to tell what COBOL compiler >(including version) the main module was built with? Is there a "tag" in the >object code that says "this was compiled by (for example) Enterprise COBOL >V6R3M0?"

Re: BCPII services

2020-10-09 Thread Roger Lowe
On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 10:56:49 -0500, Bonnie Barthel wrote: >I just noticed that we have not been running the HWIBCPII task. It looks like >it was never configured. I went back a year ago so this is nothing new. It >does appear that System Automation is able to use the services without the

Re: emptying a PDS: was RE: [IBM-MAIN] getting XCFAS down

2020-10-18 Thread Roger Lowe
On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 05:18:20 +, Jousma, David wrote: >Never heard of the utility. Why would that be needed? > IEBPDSE is the PDS/E Validation Utility and it validates a PDS/E to see if it is valid or corrupted. See the DFSMSdfp Utilities manual. Roger

Re: Group Capacity

2020-10-11 Thread Roger Lowe
On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 14:29:19 +, Richards, Robert B. wrote: >I am trying to define Group Capacity on a z14_ZR1 and am having trouble. The >only group there is . > >I had no trouble when using a previous HMC to define groups for a zEC12. > >IIRC, I define the group and the capacity limit,

Re: IEASYS problem

2020-10-05 Thread Roger Lowe
On Sun, 4 Oct 2020 23:53:18 -0500, Brian Westerman wrote: >I don't have a sysparm member in sys1.samplib, is it from an older release >than 2.3? > >Brian > Have a look in SAMPLIB for the "SPP*" members . Roger -- For

Re: DAE Dataset - Compression

2020-10-06 Thread Roger Lowe
On Tue, 6 Oct 2020 09:31:26 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote: >If you fix the issue, and the DAE entry is still in place, you might not see >if there is an issue. > >So as always, it depends. > >By removing the entry in DAE it might show if you actually fixed it > >Lizette > > >-Original

Re: z15 T02 HMC

2020-08-25 Thread Roger Lowe
On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 20:58:01 -0500, Michael Babcock wrote: >Anyone else having issues with their z15 HMC? We have the rack mount >version and quite often when I go to configure a CHPID it just sits waiting >to retrieved the data. Sometimes I get “not enough resources to perform >this task”.

Re: MVS modify command capture

2020-08-26 Thread Roger Lowe
On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 12:55:53 +0400, Peter wrote: >Hello > >I am trying to capture Modify command of a product which is running as >started task. > >I tried issuing the command using IEFBR14 but it did not capture to a >Dataset. > >Is there a way to capture a MODIFY command ? > You could try this

zOSMF-print from Software Management

2020-10-28 Thread Roger Lowe
As PMA is no longer supported under zOS 2.4, I am using the View -> Products, Features, and FMIDs action for a software instance defined to z/OSMF Software Management and would like to be able to print the resulting information. However, there doesn't appear to be a print or export function

Re: TS7760 Cache utilization

2020-07-22 Thread Roger Lowe
On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 11:49:20 +, Gadi Ben-Avi wrote: >Hi, >How can I find out, using a batch job, the TS7760 cache utilization? > Gadi, Have a look at BVIR and VEHSTATS. These are part of the IBM TAPETOOLS package and you should be able to download it from

Re: TS7760 Cache utilization

2020-07-22 Thread Roger Lowe
On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 07:12:05 -0500, Roger Lowe wrote: >On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 11:49:20 +, Gadi Ben-Avi wrote: > >>Hi, >>How can I find out, using a batch job, the TS7760 cache utilization? >> >Gadi, > Have a look at BVIR and VEHSTATS. These are part of the IB

Re: RMM Scratch Processing

2020-08-04 Thread Roger Lowe
On Tue, 4 Aug 2020 16:10:43 +, Mark Jacobs wrote: >I know next to nothing about RMM, and need to mark some tapes in its database >as scratch, I have one tape (might be others too) that are in USER status and >its expdt has passed. I know that "something" needs to be done to make it a

Re: dfdss equivalent to fdr map

2020-06-18 Thread Roger Lowe
On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 08:53:37 -0400, Brian France wrote: >  I can't find a dfdss equivalent to fdr's map. I see the print command >but can't seem to get a whole volume list of data sets as we do with >fdr's map. If it exists would someone please point me to it... THANX!!! > Have you tried using

Re: Transport of choice for sending data to IBM's ECuRep

2020-07-17 Thread Roger Lowe
On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 11:05:49 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote: >With IBM threatening to discontinue plain FTP next Monday, I'm wondering >what is the transport of choice for sending data to ECuRep? > Ed, We use PDUU with HTTPS and it works very well - it was introduced with zOS 2.4 but I think

Re: VUE - how to find it?

2020-11-03 Thread Roger Lowe
On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 19:44:52 +0100, R.S. wrote: >Yes, I know this tool, I have it on my PC desktop, this is good for >MSU->VUE calculations, but it say nothing about which VUE is assigned to >given product. > >Note: I'm focusing about MSU-VUE, but there are also other metrics based >on Terabytes

Re: VUE - how to find it?

2020-11-03 Thread Roger Lowe
On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 01:13:05 +0100, R.S. wrote: >W dniu 03.11.2020 o 20:36, Roger Lowe pisze: >> On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 19:44:52 +0100, R.S. >> wrote: >> >>> Yes, I know this tool, I have it on my PC desktop, this is good for >>> MSU->VUE calculations, but

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