Re: TCPIP Help

your TSO via native VTAM? On 1 June 2016 at 17:52, Rugen, Len <rug...@missouri.edu> wrote: > I've seen similar problems where some point along the path fumbles > max-MTU sized packets. > > You can test this by setting the MTU on the PC initiating the TSO > session to someth

Re: TCPIP Help

I've seen similar problems where some point along the path fumbles max-MTU sized packets. You can test this by setting the MTU on the PC initiating the TSO session to something smaller, try 1200, it's usually just a small amount smaller size MTU that works. 3270 screen sessions will work

Re: CICS - TS MAIN, AUX question

Look at the TS part of https://share.confex.com/share/116/webprogram/Handout/Session8269/SHARE%20Anaheim%20CICS%20Performance%20Tutorial%20-%20Other%20Tuning%20Areas%2002102011.pdf It's been several years, but I had an installation where TS was heavily used. It had used MAIN storage, but as

Re: OT, funny. A good comic about "Code Quality"

I worked where IBM's Information Center was installed, it was a CMS product written in APL. I had to "fix" something, creating an array "yourboat" just so I could it :-) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Andy

Re: Reading the CA-1 Tape Catalog

Here's the obligatory vendor plug, see mxg.com, at least if you have the SAS software available. I used it to consolidate SMF, RACF, CA-1 and many other information for research and reporting. At least before we killed the mainframe and went back to reproducing the problems from the 1980's

Re: Compile error

I ran OS/VS1 on a 4341 and later I think on a 4381. We also ran VM, OS/VS1 had a VM "Assist" mode where it didn't page, but let VM page for it. I think OS/VS1 ran JES, just JES, no 2 or 3 after it, but it looked a lot like JES2.

Re: Compile error

Quote vs. apost option? Len Rugen Metrics and Automation – umdoitmetr...@missouri.edu -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2016 9:32 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: Real Storage Allocation

I'd say it depends on your workload :-) If you are doing I/O that could be avoided with more buffers, it would be used. Sort might be able to use it, if you sort much. I once did amazing things increasing CICS temp storage buffers :-) Len Rugen University of Missouri Division of

Re: Raised Floor

I know my feet about froze when I had a desk on raised floor :-) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Longnecker, Dennis Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 1:49 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Raised Floor While not an

Re: VIRTUAL TAPE PECULIARITY

I seem to remember adding a process to re-init tapes at scratch so they would free VTL space. Len Rugen University of Missouri Division of Information Technology Systems & Operations - Metrics & Automation Team From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: What was a 3314? (was: Whither VIO)

The real odd balls, 3340, 3344, 3370 & 3375's :-) 3340's had the coolest looking removable disk assembly. I suspected that the 3344 was a code-hacked 3350, it just carved 4 70Mb disks out of the larger physical disk. Len Rugen University of Missouri Division of Information Technology

Re: zSECURE 32 x 80 Hang

Check MTU sizes. It's been so long ago, I don't remember why. Len Rugen University of Missouri Division of Information Technology Systems & Operations - Metrics & Automation Team From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on

Re: zSECURE 32 x 80 Hang

I've remembered a little more about session hang and MTU size. 1500 is supposed to work everywhere, however there are some things in the past that just didn't work with 1500, and the symptom was that things just quietly hung. Some times it would even paint part of the screen and hang.

Re: List user's

I spent too much time in MXG, I always look at the SMF record types first :-) I also spent enough time looking for "the bad guy" that I sometimes think like one. When TSO accounts were available to nearly anyone in a University environment, even with idle time enforcement, some users would

Re: List user's

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_1.13.0/com.ibm.zos.r13.icha300/type80fmt.htm%23type80fmt Probably code 0 watch for long running sessions that started before the date in question -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU]

Re: Adding Module to an empty APFed Library

I think auditors must have an annual convention and decide what to add to their checklist at some SCIDS equivalent. Len Rugen Metrics and Automation – umdoitmetr...@missouri.edu Myth: If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It, but if you have data, it’s not cheating to use it.

Re: Paper Tape

My first experience was with an IBM 2560 on a 370/125. The IBM 2560 Multi-Function Card Machine (MFCM) provides the System/360 Model 20 with a unique and versatile input/output capability. It combines the facilities of a card reader, card punch, collator, interpreter, and card document

Re: IBM's Marissa Mayer moment: Staff ordered to work in one of 6 main offices – or face the axe (2)

I've had the opposite complaint, after pushing each task to where I was waiting on something, I was leaving the office about 3 PM one day and ran into the VP. He questioned why I was leaving when others had to stay to all hours of the night to get their work done. I said something like "I'm

Re: IMS log files question

I've been off IMS for too long, but it may be something in Recovery Control. Len Rugen Metrics and Automation - umdoitmetr...@missouri.edu -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Wednesday, January

Re: How do you say "z/OS"?

Legacy, how did you pronounce MVS, MVS/SP, MVS/ESA and OS/390? I never heard "emmvees eisa" :-) Just commeting for kicks (A CICS joke) Len Rugen Metrics and Automation – umdoitmetr...@missouri.edu Myth: If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It, but if you have data, it’s not

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: remote system support (i.e. the data center is 2 states away from you).

I've contemplated retiring from my current post-mainframe job sometime if I could find a fitting at least mostly remote job. Another option would be short term contracts and living the RV life :-) I wonder how long my mainframe knowledge will be marketable, how may year away is too long?

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: remote system support (i.e. the data center is 2 states away from you).

nt to know what my options are. Thanks! BobL -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Rugen, Len Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2016 3:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: remote system support (i.e. th

Re: Can Someone Check Redbooks?

Looks like it. Len Rugen University of Missouri Division of Information Technology Systems & Operations - Metrics & Automation Team From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of George Rodriguez

Re: how to: convince programmer something else is better.

Is it a database on the SAN? Doesn't M$SQL support compression? Len Rugen Metrics and Automation – umdoitmetr...@missouri.edu -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of retired mainframer Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2016

Re: COBOL in demand?

I haven't touched COBOL since I supported CICS. I did use it for some fairly trivial CICS applications instead of Assembler, but after using less COBOL and more Assembler, I rarely started anything new in Cobol. I remember generating shear horror in a manager one time, a long time ago. We

Re: Hidden Figures

I had to explain the "HAL" name in 2001 A Space Odyssey, legend says it was a one-letter shift from IBM, but that was denied by the writers :-) We're so old the young generation can't even appreciate our fiction :-) Len Rugen University of Missouri Division of Information Technology Systems

Re: Seasons Greeting

What? There is more to security than chmod 777? Len Rugen University of Missouri Division of Information Technology Systems & Operations - Metrics & Automation Team From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Clem Clarke

Re: Diasabled wait 088 when trying ipl z/os 2.1 under zVM 63 on zPDT

So last of PSW is x'0088"? For reason code X'00', check the value specified in the LOAD parameter. If it is incorrect, use the correct value and reIPL. If it is correct, notify the system programmer that the LOADxx member is missing from SYSn.IPLPARM on the IODF volume or SYS1.PARMLIB on

Re: Mainframe operating systems?

I remember running OS/VS1 under VM/SP. I seem to remember that we had to install an earlier VM, then add the "SP" feature on top of that. OS/VS1 did run pretty good under VM. I remember coding diagnose instructions in JES exits to spool and tag output for RSCS. I also remember the "pseudo

Re: Software vendor trying to force MSU based contract

We had a vendor of a product to lookup error message codes try to jump our price years ago. Internet search engines were just becoming useful and IBM was putting manuals online, so we told the vendor we would renew for a reasonable increase, or cancel if they wouldn't accept that. They

Re: Using RACROUT and Facility Class

It's been several years for me also, but this looks like a typical "user space" call, the doc here https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.ichc600/auth.htm calls this a "first-party" type. Len Rugen University of Missouri Division of Information

Re: HSM Backup to Disk

Would the cloud tape connector work? https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca=an=897=ENUS216-052 Len Rugen Metrics and Automation – umdoitmetr...@missouri.edu -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of

Re: Question about C++

I think I still suffer OOD (Object Oriented Disorder) :-) However, a few weeks ago I managed to write a Python program to report on a data structure accessed by an OO api that was a fit to using recursion. Then I had to try to explain the magic of the html indention... Len Rugen Metrics

Re: Migration of Mainframe to other plat form

The modernsystems one looks like it might not be an objective opinion, they seem to sell that as a service :-) Len Rugen Metrics and Automation – umdoitmetr...@missouri.edu -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ward,

Re: SoftwareXcel Discontinued

If I have to ask how-to, isn't it a DOC apar? :-O -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe Sent: Friday, September 8, 2017 10:17 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SoftwareXcel Discontinued On 9/8/2017

Re: CLIP?

You could trim the tape leader without needing to relabel a tape (or lose data) as long as you didn't get too close to the shiny spot :-) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: IP printing from JES2?

I think I tried this once: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.halp001/ispfint.htm I don't know if it's still an option. Len Rugen University of Missouri Division of Information Technology Systems & Operations - Metrics & Automation Team

Re: Replaceing IEBGENER

My similar war story, DOS/VS job would fail with system error that blocks read from tape didn't match label block count; OK, that is a hardware error, dropped block. After much cleaning and attempts at repair we would still get it. Programmer came in one day and said they had fixed it

Re: Help with PSF printer.

I think GF15 if "folded", so if the 15 point font is upper cast, try changing that to GT15. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ward, Mike S Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 8:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Help with PSF printer. "-//IPPRTR70

Re: Help with PSF printer.

Some of us old guys can make a printer sing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jufHGUp3xQw -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ward, Mike S Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 9:27 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Help with PSF printer. That worked

Re: System z & Meltdown/Spectre

I wonder if the microcode has a little "detuning" so that if they ever have to make patches that would slow down the system, they can remove a little of the detuning to get back to base performance. Len Rugen University of Missouri Division of Information Technology Systems & Operations -

Re: Question on Autologon for JES2 REMOTES HASP207

There is a chance that no one remembers :-) Is the LU active? Is the luname correct? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 1:43 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject:

Re: z/OS MF environment - effort estimation.

We kept a 120 MIP system on "hospice" for several years starting with 4 FTE and dwindling down to 1.5 FTE. Even a doomed system required 2 hardware upgrades, several OS versions, encryption for TN3270, distributed printing, internet data transfer and general hand holding. Len Rugen

Re: z/OS MF environment - effort estimation.

When things break and the application support team doesn't find a fix, the systems team will eventually get involved. The vendors typically won't help and management will demand a solution;l "you must have changed something in the system". It just takes longer when they bring problems in

Re: Question on SMF Records and ALTER GDG Base

This, I think: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.ieag200/iea3g2_Record_Type_66__42__Integrated_Catalog_Facility_Alter_Activity.htm Len Rugen University of Missouri Division of Information Technology Systems & Operations - Metrics & Automation Team

Re: [OT] KeePass

Nearly OT anyway, we replaced a lot of the "sealed envelope" things with keepass. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Gord Tomlin Sent: Thursday, March 8, 2018 10:33 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [OT]

Re: KeePass

I've found keepass better for keeping things that need to be shared between a group of administrators. Lastpass if better for browser integration. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: How far out of date are my skills

lation you may need to skill up > on USS zFS file systems. Installation is from internet or ftp to a zFS pax > file etc. > > CICS changes have been incremental nothing very different. > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 5:27 AM, Rugen, Len <rug...@missouri.edu> wrote: > >>

How far out of date are my skills

I left the Z/OS world at the version 1.6 after nearly many years of mainframe OS and CICS work . I see adds for telecommute Z/OS support, how far out of date are my skills? What should I read up on to stay current? I know that as we moved along in Z/OS and previous version, 95% of what we

Re: which 3270 terminal

You may have sessions from VPN's, NAT'ed networks or cell phones that won't be completely accurate. We were using network load balancers and one backend kept having excess use. We found that all sessions (Host on Demand) from a popular frat house shared the same IP so went to the same backend

Re: COBOL Cowboys

Wow, a 360/91 https://images.techhive.com/images/idge/imported/article/itw/2014/04/04/ibm-360-600x450-100520215-orig.jpg -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: COBOL Cowboys

Yea, it looks like it's way too wide, but I think they made some odd "one off" or small batch 360's. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message:

Re: Tape Migration

It's been awhile, but if it's the17th SL file, since there are headers and trailers, isn't it something like the 49th file processed NL or BLP? NL just counts tapemark's, headers and trailers are just short files. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of

Re: That bus rolls both ways | Shark Tank

Last days of a fairly cordial departure, one leg of a storage controller failed, 3830 I think. I told them they needed to place a service call. A few months go by and they call asking if I can get their system back up. Yep, the other leg had failed I got consulting wages :-)

Re: Another IBM tape not for z/OS

, but tape mount hate weeded out the rest quickly. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Joel C. Ewing Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 9:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Another IBM tape not for z/OS On 12/02/2018 07:55 PM, Rugen, Len wrot

Re: Another IBM tape not for z/OS

Batch tape should be dead, even if batch JCL still looks like tape is used. One of my last SMS projects was to manage tape, redirecting almost all to SMS disk. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Code vulnerability

I guess you could write assembler code entirely with DCX'.' The use ZAP to maintain it :-) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the

Re: $HASP250 JOB Purged

That's what I meant :-) It's been 10 years since I ran JES2, just keeping sharp here on IBM-MAIN :-) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message:

Re: $HASP250 JOB Purged

Is the msgclass / sysout class one setup for purge? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McCabe, Ron Sent: Friday, March 1, 2019 10:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: $HASP250 JOB Purged Hello List, Is there a way to override the system so I

Re: Newbie SMP/E questions

Some of us developed a maintenance cycle of ACCEPT, RECEIVE, APPLY. :-) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Tape Mount Mangement

I probably commented on TMM, because we really benefited using it. We were on mainframe hospice, they weren’t going to improve anything before they killed it, but we had to survive several years of growing usage first. Had we been in your situation, already having a virtual tape appliance, I'm

Re: Mainframe Report meets abrupt end | Computerworld Shark Tank

In the early days of delivering mainframe print to IP addressed printers, I had a user that "never got" their reports, yet my software shows them delivered. I tried to get them to verify their ip address, all they would do is repeat what was on the label printed on the printer. So I sent a

Re: Mainframe systems programmer ID 'vaulting'

At a minimum, I think an IT auditor would require a method of joining who owns one of these id's when, so the mainframe logs (and any other system) can know the real "who" did something. What about long running tasks? Can I start a session that outlives my lease on the ID? I bet my task