Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address

2014-04-16 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hello, I need help sorting some 5000 lines based on the first entry in a CSV - IP address. When sorting, I need the whole record to be involved in the sort, not just the IP's. Sample data: IP,MAC,Make-Model,SEPINFO,Type,Ping,Status,Printer,GRPNAME Warehouse #,Warehouse Name,Warehouse

Re: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address

2014-04-16 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
2014 12:30 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:01:28 +, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: I need help sorting some 5000 lines based on the first entry in a CSV - IP address. When sorting, I need the whole record

Re: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address

2014-04-16 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh vignesh.v.sankaranaraya...@marks-and-spencer.com To: IBM-MAIN

Re: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address

2014-04-16 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Yup. I used this but the file gets all messed up. I'm sure it's not the right SYSIN for what I need to do. INREC IFTHEN=(WHEN=INIT, PARSE=(%01=(ENDBEFR=C'.',FIXLEN=3), %02=(ENDBEFR=C'.',FIXLEN=3), %03=(ENDBEFR=C'.',FIXLEN=3), %04=(FIXLEN=3)),

Re: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address

2014-04-16 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
, a better understanding of where the data actually resides will be helpful. Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 2:01 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address

2014-04-16 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
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Recall: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address

2014-04-16 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
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Re: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address

2014-04-16 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Bernd, The REXX processing after sort is not as much a transformation as it is a search for the next available value from an IP block. - Vignesh Mainframe admin On Apr 16, 2014 6:24:08 PM, Bernd Oppolzer bernd.oppol...@t-online.de wrote: If the data is processed by a REXX routine after the

Re: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address

2014-04-17 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
I bet APL's solution to this would be like 2 weird symbols. I was just introduced to it by my senior colleague today, and it's ... dense. - Vignesh Mainframe Admin -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Shane Ginnane Sent:

Re: Forget: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address

2014-04-17 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
. It would cut 20 minutes runtime to just a couple. - Vignesh Mainframe admin On Apr 17, 2014 7:52:11 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za wrote: Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 16:47:47 +, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh would like

Re: Forget: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address

2014-04-17 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
] On Behalf Of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 2:58 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Forget: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address Another question. I'm looping some 5000 times in REXX and doing functions (NetView ping, SNMP walk, etc) sequentially

Re: Forget: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address

2014-04-17 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
time. - Vignesh Mainframe admin On Apr 17, 2014 8:32:12 PM, Sri h Kolusu skol...@us.ibm.com wrote: Sankaranarayanan Vignesh You keep asking questions but never let us know the outcome of the proposed solutions. You started the topic for DFSORT about Sorting the csv file and a couple

Re: Rexx Concurrency (was: Sorting CSV data ...)

2014-04-17 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
(was: Sorting CSV data ...) On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 18:58:10 +, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: I'm looping some 5000 times in REXX and doing functions (NetView ping, SNMP walk, etc) sequentially. They don't necessarily need to be sequential. I'm just going through a list of printers and I want

Re: Forget: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address

2014-04-17 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Friemel Sent: 17 April 2014 23:41 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Forget: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 19:26:17 +, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: Ok.. Is it possible to fire off other REXXes repetitively (let's say 2 or 3, each doing one

Re: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address

2014-04-17 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Gilmartin Sent: 18 April 2014 00:02 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 17:41:12 -0500, Norbert Friemel wrote: On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 19:26:17 +, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: Ok.. Is it possible to fire off other REXXes

Rexx Concurrency (was: Sorting CSV data ...)

2014-04-17 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: 18 April 2014 00:02 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 17:41:12 -0500, Norbert Friemel wrote: On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 19:26:17 +, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: Ok.. Is it possible

Re: Forget: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address

2014-04-17 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
useful. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 12:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Forget: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address Sorry

Re: Forget: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address

2014-04-17 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
2014 00:24 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Forget: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address On 17 April 2014 14:58, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh vignesh.v.sankaranaraya...@marks-and-spencer.com wrote: I'm looping some 5000 times in REXX and doing functions (NetView ping, SNMP walk

Re: Forget: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address

2014-04-17 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Thanks Ed. The purpose is to get a live view of the statuses of a couple of thousand VPS printers, their MAC addresses, and additional information as to where they're used. The last bit is stored in NetView global variables. - Vignesh Mainframe Admin -Original Message- From: IBM

FW: Forget: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address

2014-04-18 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh vignesh.v.sankaranaraya...@marks-and-spencer.commailto:vignesh.v.sankaranaraya...@marks-and-spencer.com To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edumailto:IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Date: 18/04/2014

Re: Forget: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address

2014-04-18 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
need a daemon that runs doing the queries, etc. Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD On Apr 18, 2014, at 12:14 PM, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh vignesh.v.sankaranaraya...@marks-and-spencer.com wrote: First off.. apologies for prolonging this topic further. Hello Scott

Re: Forget: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address

2014-04-18 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
running printers at the same time and come up with a delta list from the base giving you all new printers. Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD On Apr 18, 2014, at 12:33 PM, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh vignesh.v.sankaranaraya...@marks-and-spencer.com wrote: Okay .. what

Re: Sorry state of IT education?

2014-04-22 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
I imagine this is the norm for today because a well-educated, intelligent, worker costs a lot more than a pre-programmed drone. As a result, the industry is now flooded with hundreds of thousands of IT professionals fully capable of performing procedures they've been taught, but incapable

Re: Slow vary commands processing

2014-04-22 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
In the book Implementing REXX support in SDSF, there's a sample called @SYSCMD. It'll wait and pick up the output. A more gung ho way would be to build a vary command processor in assembler, where the PGM makes use of Channel End or Device End interrupts. - Vignesh Mainframe Admin

Re: Sorry state of IT education?

2014-04-23 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
[mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tony Harminc Sent: 22 April 2014 23:39 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Sorry state of IT education? On 22 April 2014 15:45, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh vignesh.v.sankaranaraya...@marks-and-spencer.com wrote: I personally take offense to the drone

Re: Sorry state of IT education?

2014-04-23 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
response is ... silence. On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 6:55 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In 985166dbd01445be809d22441b29b...@db3pr02mb219.eurprd02.prod.outlook.c om, on 04/23/2014 at 08:47 AM, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh vignesh.v.sankaranaraya...@marks

Re: Sorry state of IT education?

2014-04-23 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
] On Behalf Of Govind Chettiar Sent: 23 April 2014 13:33 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Sorry state of IT education? On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 19:45:44 +, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh vignesh.v.sankaranaraya...@marks-and-spencer.com wrote: I imagine this is the norm for today because a well

Re: Sorry state of IT education?

2014-04-23 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
14:57 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Sorry state of IT education? On 4/23/2014 8:56 AM, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: Are we supposed to magically grow skills when it's known that there's a massive competency gap? I think I digress ... In the sixties I was a competent ForTran

Re: Sorry state of IT education?

2014-04-23 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh vignesh.v.sankaranaraya...@marks-and-spencer.com said: and most of the experts just say - R.T.F.M If it's not important enough to you to justify consulting the manuals, then it's not important to anybody else. You might get a different response if you wrote what you

Re: Rexx Concurrency (was: Sorting CSV data ...)

2014-04-28 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
the commands. Jon Perryman. - Original Message - From: Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh vignesh.v.sankaranaraya...@marks-and-spencer.com Continuing dream mode, is it possible to SNMP GET and PING from inside OMVS, whilst maintaining the NetView REXX as parent? That would allow me to spin up

ISMF data in batch using REXX

2014-04-29 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hi, We're using the totals REXX to provide a summary for a storage group opened up in ISMF. Example output is as follows: Totals for 1 volumes: (15 volumes had missing info.) Capacity: 8.31 GB Allocated: 5.69 GB (68%) Free: 2.63 GB (32%) *** I'm also trying to get the same information

Re: ISMF data in batch using REXX

2014-04-29 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: We're using the totals REXX to provide a summary for a storage group opened up in ISMF. Example output is as follows: Like Robert, I also want to know what is 'totals' REXX program? The difference in results increase as the number of volumes increase. I'm

Re: ISMF data in batch using REXX

2014-04-29 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
admins than ISMF. Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 12:23 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: ISMF data in batch using REXX Hi, We're using

Re: ISMF data in batch using REXX

2014-04-29 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Subject: Re: ISMF data in batch using REXX On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:48:26 +, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh vignesh.v.sankaranaraya...@marks-and-spencer.com wrote: Hello Lizette, Thanks for the suggestion. We have CA GMI in place. I prefer a REXX-based solution here because it'll be plugged

Re: ISMF data in batch using REXX

2014-04-30 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
pipelines one way or another. /Tom Kern On 04/29/2014 09:48, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: Hello Lizette, Thanks for the suggestion. We have CA GMI in place. I prefer a REXX-based solution here because it'll be plugged in to solve a bigger puzzle. Totals, Used, and Free data are obtained from

SMF 42 subtype 24

2014-06-10 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
We have this problem where JCL's are promoted into production job libraries (CA7's) using REPRO or some other devious methods. As a result, we lose ISPF statistics for the promoted members. It gets annoying when we want to find out who made changes to a JCL, when there's a problem with the job.

Re: SMF 42 subtype 24

2014-06-10 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
: SMF 42 subtype 24 Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: We have this problem where JCL's are promoted into production job libraries (CA7's) using REPRO or some other devious methods. As a result, we lose ISPF statistics for the promoted members. It gets annoying when we want to find out who made

Re: z/OS Upgrade 1.13 to 2.2

2015-09-09 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Get your SHARE fix here: https://share.confex.com/share/125/webprogram/uploadlistall.html -Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jerry Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2015 8:26 PM To:

Re: Key Update for Syncsort

2016-05-27 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hello Jake, If I remember correctly, I think your steps are fine and dandy. I remember reading that Syncsort will check the dataset once in a while to verify the keys. What do you mean by new license key "after"... after expiration? In that case, I'm not sure if the above will continue to work.

Re: Datasets usage question

2016-06-23 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hola Duc, Look up DAF (Dataset Audit Facility) - File #94 in CBT. – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Duc Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2016 8:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject:

Re: Dynamic enqueue creation

2016-06-24 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
ng to wrap the REXX around the entire transfer so that the dataset enqueues are held till the end of the transfer. – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh Sent: Frida

Re: Dynamic enqueue creation

2016-06-24 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Jun 2016 15:17:50 +, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh > <vignesh.v.sankaranaraya...@marks-and-spencer.com> wrote: > > >This is to cope with MQ FTE's "feature" of not locking datasets for > >the > duration of a transfer. > > > >Using ANT scripts to initiate a

Re: Dynamic enqueue creation

2016-06-24 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
e: Dynamic enqueue creation On Fri, 24 Jun 2016 08:55:20 -0500, Walt Farrell wrote: >On Fri, 24 Jun 2016 07:09:19 +, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: >> >>I'm looking to retrieve a list of datasets falling under a wildcard and then >>creating an OLD enqueue on those datas

Dynamic enqueue creation

2016-06-24 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hi Folks, I'm looking to retrieve a list of datasets falling under a wildcard and then creating an OLD enqueue on those datasets. While digging through past ibm-main threads, I found that I can use SYS1.SAMPLIB(IGGCSIRX) to retrieve the dataset list. I will now use "alloc fi(Fn)

Re: HMC automation

2016-06-27 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Else there's BCPii REXX. Be sure to secure the s#it out of it though, for safety. Not sure if it's on v2r1 but it's there in v2r2. – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs -

Re: Dynamic enqueue creation

2016-06-24 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
25, 2016 1:19 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Dynamic enqueue creation On Fri, 24 Jun 2016 10:27:16 -0500, Walt Farrell wrote: >On Fri, 24 Jun 2016 15:17:50 +0000, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: > >>This is to cope with MQ FTE's "feature" of not locking datase

Re: PDS member information

2016-02-10 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
@Liz, thank you, I did come across that article a couple of weeks ago. Had it bookmarked for later, I will have to give it a read after all! @Ed, thanks, I'll go through the source and hopefully that should help identify the fields I'm looking for. @Martin, I believe they are in fixed positions,

Re: Connect/Direct 5.2

2016-02-10 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
If you're referring to the migration that's necessary when moving to 5.2 (STS to TLS, or maybe something else), here is an article that explains just that. Pretty awesome explanation. https://www-304.ibm.com/connections/blogs/SterlingMFT/entry/migrating_sts_nodes_to_ssl_tls?lang=en_us -

Re: Obtaining current ASID in REXX

2016-02-04 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Obtaining current ASID in REXX PSAAOLD->ASCB (ASCBASID) On Thu, 4 Feb 2016 12:03:18 +0000 "Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh" <vignesh.v.sankaranaraya...@marks-and-spencer.com> wrote: :>Hi folks, :> :>I'm looking for a piece of code i

Obtaining current ASID in REXX

2016-02-04 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hi folks, I'm looking for a piece of code in REXX to access the current ASID. I remember seeing this in one of the installation REXX'es that came with the BMC ICE for Control-M. I'm hoping that one of you has had to do this in the past and can help me out here. Ex: If I'm running a REXX via a

Re: Obtaining current ASID in REXX

2016-02-05 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
can get from here. This is working code. On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht < elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za> wrote: > Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: > > > >I'm looking to add a REXX logic to the beginning of an ad-hoc STC. > >Runs twice in an hour.

Re: Obtaining current ASID in REXX

2016-02-05 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
ASID in REXX Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: >Yup, I have a copy of Mark's program available. Was hoping to find a >simpler/shorter block of code that would work :) ;-D >2+3 won't work... why? Simply, because you initially said in your first post, if your program is running in batch,

Re: Obtaining current ASID in REXX

2016-02-04 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
: Thursday, February 04, 2016 12:56 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Obtaining current ASID in REXX Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: >Sorry, I don't understand. >I'm looking this up now, hoping it's not an assembler way! You use the REXX functions like C2D and STORAGE, etc. to chase

Re: Obtaining current ASID in REXX

2016-02-04 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: >I'm looking to add a REXX logic to the beginning of an ad-hoc STC. >Runs twice in an hour. Problem is, sometimes some instances just hang around >due to an XCOM issue. >Yes, the *real* answer is to fix the XCOM issue but I'm just handing one thing >at a ti

Re: Obtaining current ASID in REXX

2016-02-04 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
I'm looking to add a REXX logic to the beginning of an ad-hoc STC. Runs twice in an hour. Problem is, sometimes some instances just hang around due to an XCOM issue. Yes, the *real* answer is to fix the XCOM issue but I'm just handing one thing at a time. So my idea of handling this is to add a

Re: Obtaining current ASID in REXX

2016-02-05 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
16-02-04 14:55 GMT+01:00 Elardus Engelbrecht < elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za>: > Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: > > >Yup, I have a copy of Mark's program available. Was hoping to find a > simpler/shorter block of code that would work :) > > ;-D > > >2+3 won't wo

Re: Obtaining current ASID in REXX

2016-02-05 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
nal Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh > Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2016 6:00 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Obtaining current ASID in REXX > > Yup, I can unde

PDS member information

2016-02-10 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hi folks, I'm looking to produce a clean report of actions against a PDS. Additionally, it would help to find if the PDS was scratched and re-allocated etc. I have the DAF utility but its output is unintuitive (to me). The information is available in SMF - 42(21) for member delete 42(24) for

Re: Obtaining current ASID in REXX

2016-02-05 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
– Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh Sent: Friday, February 05, 2016 8:46 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Obtaining current ASID in REXX Thanks Lizette, I b

Re: Outsourcing Stories Good or Bad!

2016-02-25 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Some thoughts from someone on the other side. What's the point of saying "Oh, I'm an outsourced nobody." in a post where one is asking for help. So you may choose to not answer or sit on your high horse and ridicule their incompetence when they're struggling? If you guys (actual mainframe folk

Re: Outsourcing Stories Good or Bad!

2016-02-25 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
o:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Friday, Feb 26, 2016 1:57 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Outsourcing Stories Good or Bad! On Feb 25, 2016, at 12:54 PM, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: > Some thoughts from someone on the other side. > > What's the

Re: Outsourcing Stories Good or Bad!

2016-02-27 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
To the person hiding behind a misnomer, " And there would be hundreds of people like me in this list who would agree to what I am saying ." If you read what I said instead of sending out the first thing that came to your mind, you would understand that I basically agree to everything you've

Re: Outsourcing Stories Good or Bad!

2016-02-26 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
butting in. - Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Friday, Feb 26, 2016 4:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Outsourcing Stories Good or Bad! On Feb 25, 2016

DFSORT and SMF

2016-02-19 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hi folks, I was just wondering how easy it would be to run SMF type 42 (and perhaps 14, 15, 17, 18) through DFSORT to find out what happened to a particular dataset. I think DFSORT pro's would be able to do this in just a couple of minutes..? - Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure

Re: DFSORT and SMF

2016-02-19 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DFSORT and SMF Have you checked to see if DAF from the CBT tape do what you need? > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh > Sent: Friday, February

Re: DFSORT and SMF

2016-02-19 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
. > > Cheers, Martin > > Martin Packer, > zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems > Performance, IBM > > +44-7802-245-584 > > email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com > > Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker > Blog: > https://www.ibm.

Machine Learning for WLM

2016-06-28 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
I came across this paper titled "SELF-LEARNING PREDICTION SYSTEM FOR OPTIMISATION OF WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT IN A MAINFRAME OPERATING SYSTEM" As I was learning the basics of ML, this is the exact application that came to mind, being a zOS guy. I guess you can say I'm curious to find out where this

Re: IBM Knowledge Centre

2016-07-02 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
It made sense when there was a tree structure to the left; it was easy to navigate. Now the entire page is just a tiny section of a paragraph or something. Not helpful! By default, nowadays, I Google "os-version elements and features" which leads me to the PDF's. – Vignesh Mainframe

CICS - TS MAIN, AUX question

2016-06-20 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hi Folks, I've been seeing a lot of TS buffer and string waits in some of my CICS regions, and also noticed that I can benefit by increasing the CISIZE of TS AUX. Is there any way for me to calculate the CPU and I/O consumed/wasted on string & buffer waits BEFORE implementing this change. This

Re: VEHSTATS job

2016-08-24 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
to:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh > Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 7:18 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: VEHSTATS job > > Hello, > > I'm running the VEHSTPO job (part of the IBMTOOLS tape reporting jobs, > aka > "tape

VEHSTATS job

2016-08-24 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hello, I'm running the VEHSTPO job (part of the IBMTOOLS tape reporting jobs, aka "tapetool") with the required BVIRHSTU extract. I'm getting a 614-08 in the main report step, on the SORTIN DD. IEC214I 614-08,IFG0200Y,JOBNAME1,RPTSTEP,SORTIN,UNIT,VOLSER,

OA51508: IN Z/OS2.2 WHEN STACKING FILES ON TAPE ABEND637-54 OCCURS WHEN ATTEMPTING SWITCH TO ANOTHER VOLUME.

2016-10-26 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hello All, With regards to the following, I'm not sure I follow what this is about. Does this mean that the volume stacking that happens due to back-to-back VOL=REF=* usage will just fail in v2r2? I hope the "we issue a VERIFY" is how the function is internally handled, and not something that's

Re: TMS REPORT

2017-06-19 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
TMEVSNM is the answer. – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of esmie moo Sent: 19 June 2017 16:34 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: TMS REPORT Lizette, I apologise for the bad

Re: SMF record for FTP

2017-06-05 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Subtypes 70-75 for rectype 118 and thereabouts subtypes for SMF 119. – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ward, Mike S Sent: 01 June 2017 20:41 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: Extended format system ZFS files

2017-09-20 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
I remember a time when I was stuck in a rut with a zFS and I REPRO'd into a VSAM LDS that was formatted with zfsadm. Turns out you have to allocate a VSAM LDS and REPRO into it directly from the source zFS. That automatically formats the target as a zFS. Although this is possible and you'd have

Re: Extended format system ZFS files

2017-09-20 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
> Why? What are you afraid of? That's deep... I can never be too careful.. but you all have a lot more experience than me and can surely make the right call on which option to choose. The other day, when someone was asking about issuing thousands of RACF commands, I remembered my scar from a

Potential stupid question - MSUs

2017-10-16 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hi All, Just wondering about this scenario... Wikipedia says MSUs is an hourly measure ("A million service units (MSU) is a measurement of the amount of processing work a computer can perform in one hour."). Assuming a vendor's license is based on

Re: Potential stupid question - MSUs

2017-10-17 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Thanks Tim and Kees for your clarifications. The 'hour' doesn't mean anything then.. ? from the MSU definition (MSUs is an hourly measure (A million service units (MSU) is a measurement of the amount of processing work a computer can perform in one hour) For the vendor bit... Assuming my

Re: Potential stupid question - MSUs

2017-10-17 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh > Sent: 16 October, 2017 17:16 > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Potential stupid question - MSUs > > Hi All, > > Just

Re: Problem Mounting File system

2017-09-05 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
The user ID ZFS doesn't have access to the CICS zFS file, which is protected by CICS.* – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of ??? ?? ??? Sent: 06 September 2017 10:27 To:

Re: whois.ibm.com - gone

2017-10-12 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
About a few weeks ago, I tweeted saying I found a page within ibm.com that allowed looking up an IBM-er's contact info by just inputting their last name. I'd like to believe this was because of me (!!!), but only IBM knows what really happened :) - Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure

Re: whois.ibm.com - gone

2017-10-12 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
inframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: 12 October 2017 23:04 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: whois.ibm.com - gone On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 17:06:48 +0000, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh

Re: Potential stupid question - MSUs

2017-10-18 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Thanks Bob, yes I'm fairly comfortable with the sub-capacity reporting for IBM. >From time to time, I get these questions in my head such as, what would happen >if IBM were to try and implement a per-second billing sort of thing that cloud >providers do. Real-time enforcement/monitoring will

Re: Potential stupid question - MSUs

2017-10-17 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Thanks again for taking the time Tim. It does make sense, of course.. the concept of a max. available flow rate. You guys have already clarified in your previous replies but for some reason, I just can't fathom a vendor leaving the enforcement of a rule up to a customer, and letting the

Re: Potential stupid question - MSUs

2017-10-17 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
I guess not... maybe this is because I'm now more paranoid thanks to all them hacks going around. - Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: 18 October 2017 10:10 To:

Re: Consolidate Consoles

2017-11-27 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
I realize this is a bit 'out there' but CA's Solve: Operations has something called OCS. – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: 28 November 2017 10:53 To:

Re: LRS VPS Printer Replacment

2017-12-14 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hi, Think this vendor has a product too - http://www.syzygyinc.com/SyzSPOOLz.htm – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Edward Finnell Sent: 14 December 2017 12:21 To:

Re: MSU Actual

2017-11-14 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
the 'MSU Actual' data for that period, right? - Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh Sent: 25 October 2017 09:24 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: MSU Actual

Note on COBOL 5.x

2017-12-05 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hello List, Here's something fun I noticed. Apparently, from COBOL 5.x, compilations are tracked through SMF 89. I don't remember the exact wording but it said something like a newer version of the SCRTTool being needed for this, and that it will not accept the 'facts' that we give it through

Re: MSU Actual

2017-10-25 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
. The VSAM files can be reported from using IBM Reports, or "ADVERTISEMENT" MXG Software. Barry -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 10:54 PM To

Re: MSU Actual

2017-10-26 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
ries (With Marna Walle): https://developer.ibm.com/tv/mpt/or https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/mainframe-performance-topics/id1127943573?mt=2 From: "Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh" <vignesh.v.sankaranaraya...@marks-and-spencer.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 25/1

MSU Actual

2017-10-24 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hi All, Is it possible to get the LPAR, MSU Def. and MSU Act from the RMF CPC Capacity Report, in bulk? Looking for samples every 1 minute. Is this captured in any SMF record type? Is this a sample report, by any chance, in the RMF Spreadsheet Reporter? Thanks in advance. - Vignesh Mainframe

Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 18 Dec 2017 to 19 Dec 2017 (#2017-353)

2017-12-21 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
SMF record type 92, subtype 5. https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/watsonwalker/ww/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/09233352/SMF-Reference-20150926.pdf – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of

HOD

2018-05-14 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
How'D y'all Is there a Host OnDemand person on this mailing list, by any chance? Want to clarify something; not too complicated a question; no follow-ups, just 1 question. Thanks in advance for your help. - Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure MARKSANDSPENCER.COM

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: HOD

2018-05-14 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
, but ask away. Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh Sent: Monday, May 14, 2018 4:14 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: HOD How'D y'all Is there a Host OnDemand person on this mailing

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: HOD

2018-05-14 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
[mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh Sent: Monday, May 14, 2018 6:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: HOD Thanks Bob. Say there are 'n' servers that have HOD installed, and all of them are under a load balancer, so there's a single target

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: HOD

2018-05-14 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
[mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh Sent: Monday, May 14, 2018 4:14 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: HOD How'D y'all Is there a Host OnDemand person on this mailing list, by any chance? Want to clarify something; not too complicated a question; no follow

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: HOD

2018-05-14 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
least two ways; JAVAWS at a CMD prompt and invoking a web url string. And that is almost the end of my knowledge about HOD and my HOD guy is unavailable (at a DR test). Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of San

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: HOD

2018-05-14 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
EDU> On Behalf Of Richards, Robert B. Sent: Monday, May 14, 2018 04:05 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: HOD Certainly not an expert, but ask away. Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Sankaranar

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: z/OSMF, was How far out of date are my skills

2018-04-27 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh Sent: 26 April 2018 15:22 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: z/OSMF, was How far out of date are my skills Amen. – Vignesh Mainframe

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