Re: Goodbye and thanks for all the fish

2023-02-10 Thread Carmen Vitullo
As a co-worker and friend of Bob's I reiterate every word, when he left Boeing he left a hole there in more ways than one, I had no idea talking to him that he was sick, struggling in any way, he never let it on. his friendship and contribution will surly be missed. thanks Jim for filling in

Re: zOSMF

2023-02-09 Thread Carmen Vitullo
The other is in the IZUPRMxx member. It seems the directory member takes precedent, as I had a subsystem running without specifying JAVA_HOME in the IZUPRMxx and the subsystem worked without issue. Matthew On Thu, 9 Feb 2023 09:04:54 -0600, Carmen Vitullo wrote: got ya! I can't recall specific

Re: zOSMF

2023-02-09 Thread Carmen Vitullo
distributed in a SYSPLEX. I do have to run z/OS MF on another LPAR occasionally. Having it point to "/var/zosmf" on each LPAR makes for good isolation when testing or training. Matthew On Wed, 8 Feb 2023 12:43:47 -0600, Carmen Vitullo wrote: a couple of things I see in your conf

Re: Goodbye and thanks for all the fish

2023-02-09 Thread Carmen Vitullo
OMG - I"m so sorry Rebecca, I worked with Bob at Boeing, and reconnected to him here on this list, we talked some off list some about our past tenure at Boeing but mostly about family, he will truly be missed, again so sorry for your loss :( Carmen On 2/9/2023 2:40 AM, Rob Scott wrote:

Re: The Local death of DB2 z/OS --- what is the best way to preserve the data once the mainframe is gone

2023-02-08 Thread Carmen Vitullo
:) - you'll always have the data Carmen On 2/8/2023 1:52 PM, Gibney, Dave wrote: Print it and be done :) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Longfellow Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2023 11:45 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: The Local

Re: TEAMS usage

2023-02-08 Thread Carmen Vitullo
+1  :) uselessness of the meeting. Carmen On 2/8/2023 1:21 PM, John McKown wrote: I use Teams at work on Windows 10 a couple of times a week. No problems beyond the uselessness of the meeting. On Wed, Feb 8, 2023, 11:53 Tony Harminc wrote: On Wed, 8 Feb 2023 at 10:07, Steve Thompson

Re: The Local death of DB2 z/OS --- what is the best way to preserve the data once the mainframe is gone

2023-02-08 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I can't remember, when I worked for the State and they were moving some DB2 data to a SQL server somewhere, I worked with the DBA's and setup a Unix process (on Z) and a migration directory for them to unload the data using a DB2 utility - IIRC they use a secure FTP process on a server to pick

Re: zOSMF

2023-02-08 Thread Carmen Vitullo
a couple of things I see in your configuration, but without seeing your parms for the task and the IZUPRM member I cannot really diagnose. 1) at zos2.3 the userdir was moved to /global/zosmf/    from /var/ I think that's what the IZUG084W: message may be stating - make sure you are using the

Re: The Local death of DB2 z/OS --- what is the best way to preserve the data once the mainframe is gone

2023-02-08 Thread Carmen Vitullo
a couple of processes come to mind, 2 companies I worked for use Change Data Capture, once a 3rd party product now part of IBM's WebSphere suite, this product can replicate DB2 data to DB2 or SQL sever, the other process I saw was a product from Oracle, I don't recall the product name but it

Re: GIM56401S

2023-02-08 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I agree GIM56401W IMHO wold be more appropriate Carmen On 2/8/2023 10:27 AM, Mark Jacobs wrote: One of my SMP/e pet peeves. Why does this rate a severe level error message? Just issue a warning and get on with your job. GIM56401S ** XXX HAS ALREADY BEEN SPECIFIED ON EITHER THE SELECT OR

Re: Shopz

2023-02-08 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I agree and I've used the ftp route before, my issue is my company will not allow ftp period, and using HTTPS from Z needs to be authenticated to the firewall so 2 things for me, I have to get authority to tunnel thru the firewall to get to IBM, then in the section I need to specify my

Re: Shopz

2023-02-08 Thread Carmen Vitullo
that's correct, I schedule weekly a job that receives hold data directly to my test LPAR, (z/OS global zone), you need to download a cert from shopz first, IIRC there's doc on the site on how to add the cert to your security system and some sample JCL. need a sample? I have a sample if

Re: TEAMS usage

2023-02-08 Thread Carmen Vitullo
character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are.” - - - John Wooden -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2023 9:11 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject:

Re: TEAMS usage

2023-02-08 Thread Carmen Vitullo
that stinks, but even with a company manged laptop W10, teams crashes, does not start, will not shutdown... name it teams is not so stable, IMHO not has stable as Skype or Sametime was Carmen On 2/8/2023 9:06 AM, Steve Thompson wrote: Not everyone runs Windows or a Mac. I installed Teams on

Re: Goodbye and thanks for all the fish

2023-02-08 Thread Carmen Vitullo
we use teams also, but I think it's part of the office 360 suite ? for personal meetings I use, sometimes  'meet now' I think it's called Carmen On 2/8/2023 8:21 AM, Joseph Reichman wrote: That’s how we communicate quick messages used to be Skype should be on your laptop On Wed, Feb 8, 2023

Re: Goodbye and thanks for all the fish

2023-02-08 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I will be joining you this Friday, been an on and off the list myself, I'm sorry that your company decided to retire you before you were ready, been there :( -  best of luck to you and enjoy the time you'll get back to do whatever you want Carmen On 2/8/2023 6:46 AM, carl swanson wrote:

Re: IFASMFDP

2023-02-07 Thread Carmen Vitullo
yes, I replied to the OP that I responded too quickly and misspoke  - my bad Carmen On 2/7/2023 7:02 AM, Allan Staller wrote: Classification: Confidential NO. IFASMFDL is used to process logstreams -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo

Re: I want to cry

2023-02-06 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Absolutely! I fall into the last category now :( - went to tech school for data processing, RPG and RPG II some COBOL in the 70's went for my fist job with Chilton Research for a programmers position, I ended up being one of those folks you don't want to get a call from. I left there and was

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IFASMFDP

2023-02-06 Thread Carmen Vitullo
ah crap - i should have verified sorry steve On 2/6/2023 10:46 AM, Horne, Jim wrote: No, program IFASMFDL is needed for logstream processing. Jim Horne -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo Sent: Monday, February 6, 2023 11:43 AM To: IBM

Re: IFASMFDP

2023-02-06 Thread Carmen Vitullo
yes, SMF logstreams Carmen On 2/6/2023 10:33 AM, Steve Beaver wrote: Good Morning folks, My question is an IFASMPDP process Logger files? Regards, Steve Beaver -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: I want to cry

2023-02-06 Thread Carmen Vitullo
checking my trash folder, the best place to find your responses, my question to " I didn’t start the off topic discussion but I’m not going to let bullsh*t go unchallenged." *is WHY? * why do you feel you HAVE TO? bully? who cares go back to your political forum where you can bully people

Re: Survey - do you have access to GitHub from your z/OS System?

2023-02-03 Thread Carmen Vitullo
- - John Wooden -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo Sent: Friday, February 3, 2023 8:22 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Survey - do you have access to GitHub from your z/OS System? I do not the first time I tried was when the

Re: Survey - do you have access to GitHub from your z/OS System?

2023-02-03 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I do not  the first time I tried was when the z/os 2.3 or 2.4  migration guide was moved to a workflow ongithub, I was floored I had to use github for migration / workflow processing from IBM, why not just provide a workflow with my order or provide a link to an IBM site ?? Sorry

Re: OMVS

2023-02-02 Thread Carmen Vitullo
to the system root). HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2023 1:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: OMVS [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust the sender, Don’t click

Re: OMVS

2023-01-31 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I assume you're not zfs file sharing? I usually don't mount etc or dev unless I'm doing an upgrade, but if you're not sharing the /SERVICE/ filesystems then yes you need to create the mount points first - then remount them on the moved-to LPAR Carmen On 1/31/2023 12:56 PM, Steve Beaver

Re: Tcpip ports

2023-01-27 Thread Carmen Vitullo
+1 for the freeware, even if you don't know all the TCP/IP commands it makes it easy to get the info you need Carmen On 1/27/2023 4:54 AM, Jantje. wrote: On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 16:51:38 +, Shelia Chalk wrote: Hello, I am looking for a report or something that will tell me what ports are

Re: zOSMF

2023-01-26 Thread Carmen Vitullo
starting with z/OS 2.2 IIRC the all the data files for z/OSMF were moved from /var/ to /global/zosmf/... when upgrading, performing maint, the root filesystem needs to be mounted rdwr - I found this out 2 times so far and I don't think that's documented but the address space needs to write

Re: FICON & WWPN assignment

2023-01-20 Thread Carmen Vitullo
can you send me a email to my personal email IBM-MAIL does not like the filesize petevi...@gmail.com Carmen On 1/20/2023 1:36 PM, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: Carmen, Please, do provide some examples if it is not cumbersome. I'm going to check my machine, however it's better to have other data

Re: FICON & WWPN assignment

2023-01-20 Thread Carmen Vitullo
absolutely Carmen On 1/20/2023 1:36 PM, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: Carmen, Please, do provide some examples if it is not cumbersome. I'm going to check my machine, however it's better to have other data for comparison. Regards -- Carmen

Re: FICON & WWPN assignment

2023-01-20 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I should have thought about this more before responding :( IIRC  CPC model, serial # and CHPID makes up all or part of the WWN, I can provide some examples if needed On 1/20/2023 11:57 AM, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: Is there any rule to compute FICON port WWPN in the CPC? For example the

Re: FICON & WWPN assignment

2023-01-20 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I've never had a need, but I don't manage our switches any longer, once the connection is complete my switch guys, SAN guys register the WWN Carmen On 1/20/2023 11:57 AM, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: Is there any rule to compute FICON port WWPN in the CPC? For example the DS8k machines have

Re: Racf user detail

2023-01-19 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Vanguard Racf was a tool I used long ago when Racf was not able to provide easy reporting. Carmen On 1/19/2023 5:26 AM, saurabh khandelwal wrote: Hello Group, Hope you doing well. We have requirement to find any activity detail related to racf user from last 6 month. For example, any

Re: REXX Question

2023-01-18 Thread Carmen Vitullo
indeed, ever since Quick-ref provided TSO help also, I rarely use TSO HELP - I have created some user based help for site commands. Carmen On 1/18/2023 9:58 AM, Tom Brennan wrote: This brings back old memories.  I clicked on the "text" link on your page and it comes up with what looks like a

Re: HMC Help

2023-01-18 Thread Carmen Vitullo
ush8_wQQKdEvcNaLKsXlbC-XAqMULtX1wCg$ --- Original Message --- On Tuesday, January 17th, 2023 at 1:54 PM, Carmen Vitullo petevi...@gmail.com wrote: I looked around - at the older HMC version, tree style I was able to view my other HMC, maybe it was not defined when we installed o

Re: HMC Help

2023-01-17 Thread Carmen Vitullo
...@protonmail.com --- Original Message --- On Tuesday, January 17th, 2023 at 1:38 PM, Carmen Vitullo wrote: do you have another HMC? can you access the HMC and remove the MFA definitions from this alternate HMC? just thinking out-loud Carmen On 1/17/2023 12:31 PM, Mark Jacobs wrote: I

Re: HMC Help

2023-01-17 Thread Carmen Vitullo
. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get=markjac...@protonmail.com --- Original Message --- On Tuesday, January 17th, 2023 at 1:38 PM, Carmen Vitullo wrote: do you have another HMC? can you access the HMC and remove the MFA definitions from this alternate HMC

Re: HMC Help

2023-01-17 Thread Carmen Vitullo
do you have another HMC? can you access the HMC and remove the MFA definitions from this alternate HMC? just thinking out-loud Carmen On 1/17/2023 12:31 PM, Mark Jacobs wrote: I really mucked up our HMC. I enabled MFA on the HMC using the HMC as the MFA server. Associated one userid with

Re: HMC and LDAP

2023-01-17 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I'll get this and send the format to you to your email Carmen On 1/15/2023 10:26 AM, Mark Jacobs wrote: Perfect, Thank you very much. Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get=markjac...@protonmail.com

Re: HMC and LDAP

2023-01-17 Thread Carmen Vitullo
all the local accounts are still available, line sysprog, and acsadmin, sysprog is probobly the only account you can use remotely Carmen On 1/14/2023 8:18 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: On 1/14/23 1:18 PM, Roger Lowe wrote: I have setup our System z HMCs to authenticate users to a zOS LDAP Server

Re: Is anyone there?

2023-01-10 Thread Carmen Vitullo
ditto! something is afoot, I am suddenly not getting any emails, replies - none since Paul (gil)'s email response Saturday on Piping for z/OS Carmen On 1/10/2023 10:36 AM, David Cole wrote: Hmmm. When I go to "listserv.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind2301=IBM-MAIN&", I see my post as well  as

Re: Is anyone there?

2023-01-10 Thread Carmen Vitullo
me too :(  not due to rain - for some reason beyond my control I'm not getting any of my responses or any responses to my work email account :( Carmen On 1/10/2023 11:43 AM, Tom Brennan wrote: I'm still here, despite my first fiber internet outage (early this morning according to my server

Re: Is anyone there?

2023-01-10 Thread Carmen Vitullo
LOL!! in the cloud no doubt Carmen On 1/10/2023 10:24 AM, rpinion865 wrote: Didn't you get the email? Everybody in the world converted their mainframes to Wintel platforms. Sent with Proton Mail secure email. --- Original Message --- On Tuesday, January 10th, 2023 at 11:20 AM,

Re: Is anyone there?

2023-01-10 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Just got back, after one year one outage - reboot of my fiber router :) not bad. I'm getting posts to my personal email - but for some reason not my work email :( On 1/10/2023 10:20 AM, David Cole wrote: It's been four days since I've received any posts from IBM-MAIN. The last one I

Re: [EXTERNAL] ICKDSF

2023-01-03 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I'm not Steve, but yes, I spoke incorrectly also Carmen On 1/3/2023 2:16 PM, Pommier, Rex wrote: Steve, Don't you simply mean converting the IXVTOC to an OSVTOC - ie an unindexed VTOC? If my old memory cells are recalling correctly, a CVOL was an ancient version of a VSAM catalog from

Re: [EXTERNAL] ICKDSF

2023-01-03 Thread Carmen Vitullo
IIRC you can  covert to a CVOL to a IXVTOC without taking the address offline, I cannot test this unfortunately It's been a long time since I've been a DASD guy, but one of my older examples I have will rebuild the vtoc - I've used this to resize the IXVTOC also //IXVTOC EXEC

Re: PDS compression needs a new name - defoam? unfoam? degas? I hope someone has a better idea!

2022-12-21 Thread Carmen Vitullo
:) DEGAS - Carmen On 12/21/2022 5:16 AM, David Cole wrote: The notion of "PDS compression" has a long and time honored history... But then along came... well, actual compression! As we all know, PDS compression has nothing to do with data compression. All it does is rearrange the physical

Re: BPXI043E

2022-12-19 Thread Carmen Vitullo
sorry I meant to add, from the IBM Doc Define a larger mount table limit in an alternate couple data set and issue the SETXCF COUPLE, TYPE=BPXMCDS,ACOUPLE=(xxx,nnn) command. Dynamically make the alternate couple data set the primary by issuing the SETXCF COUPLE,TYPE=BPXMCDS,PSWITCH command.

Re: BPXI043E

2022-12-19 Thread Carmen Vitullo
you should be able to change the limit by defining a new bpx couple datasets, switch to that new couple DS ITEM NAME(MOUNTS) NUMBER(x) Carmen On 12/19/2022 12:59 PM, Steve Beaver wrote: I just got this message and have no idea how to fix the problem BPXI043E MOUNT TABLE LIMIT HAS

Re: Rexx function STORAGE with weird behavior on Netview

2022-12-19 Thread Carmen Vitullo
who grew up on dual-case terminals are more used to, e.g., camel case, lower case. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Carmen Vitullo [petevi...@gmail.com

Re: Rexx function STORAGE with weird behavior on Netview

2022-12-19 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I'm not really great with rexx but everything I have, and seen shows all lower case ? c2d(storage(d2x( etc Carmen On 12/19/2022 7:20 AM, Jack Zukt wrote: Hi, My colleagues come to me with a weird situation for which I cannot find an explanation. You are probably familiar with the

Re: Can I get the true jobname in JCL

2022-12-16 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I'm not sure this was a question or a statement but yes, I use SYS1.STCJOBS and place jobcards for STC's I want to add, accounting info or change the msgclass or any other valid jobcard parms. I learn something almost daily, I didn't know about , good to know Carmen On 12/16/2022 10:32 AM,

Re: IBM Solutions for leveraging cloud object storage on z/OS

2022-12-15 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Thank you Greg, Happy Holidays to you Carmen On 12/15/2022 1:26 PM, Glenn Wilcock wrote: I often get asked what solutions are available to leverage cloud object storage solutions on z/OS. I'm working on a slideshow introduction to the solutions that IBM offers. I plan to add a voice-over

Re: Steve Myers whereabouts

2022-12-15 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Steve WAS a regular on ibmmainframes.com for a long time, I worked with Steve back in the 90's @ Boeing, great guy, IMHO a great assembler coder I was about to ask about Bob Richards, Last I heard he took a spill and out out of commission for a while Carmen On 12/14/2022 3:21 PM, Sam Golob

Re: dump command not fitting in console

2022-12-13 Thread Carmen Vitullo
that a great option, I've never used that before, learn something new each day On 12/13/2022 9:17 AM, Jim Mulder wrote: Put the parms in an IEADMCxx parmlib member, and then issue DUMP PARMLIB=xx Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bill

Re: dump command not fitting in console

2022-12-13 Thread Carmen Vitullo
you for more parameters via WTORs until you end your reply with END. Andy Styles z/Series Systems Programmer -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo Sent: 13 December 2022 14:14 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: dump command not fit

Re: dump command not fitting in console

2022-12-13 Thread Carmen Vitullo
from SDSF? / with no parameters will get you a ton of space to fit the command IIRC if you have access to a system console that would be best Carmen On 12/13/2022 8:10 AM, Bill Giannelli wrote: we have a dump request from IBM but the command with all the parameters is not fitting in the

Re: Interpreting SEND/RECV CIPHERs

2022-12-12 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Sorry Phil, the trace I used, gsktrace was suggested by IBM support to resolve and issue we had with db2 connections from internal and external  sources . Carmen On 12/12/2022 12:36 PM, Phil Smith III wrote: Carmen Vitullo wrote: gsktrace - Darn. Was hoping for something else to use

Re: Interpreting SEND/RECV CIPHERs

2022-12-12 Thread Carmen Vitullo
gsktrace - Carmen On 12/12/2022 12:20 PM, Phil Smith III wrote: Carmen Vitullo wrote: I have had great results, clear to understand even for me, using an SSL TRACE I have documented the process I used if needed Is that gsktrace or the component trace

Re: Interpreting SEND/RECV CIPHERs

2022-12-12 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I have had great results, clear to understand even for me, using an SSL TRACE I have documented the process I used if needed Carmen On 12/12/2022 12:10 PM, Phil Smith III wrote: A gsktrace is pretty easy to get and format. If it's an LE application, then in your LE options you can put:

Re: XCF Policies, Best Practices

2022-12-09 Thread Carmen Vitullo
that was the policy when I started at my current gig, I now manage the policies so I usually cycle from CFMRPOL1 - 2 .etc... activate the new policy (2), if there' issues I just reactivate policy (1) Carmen On 12/9/2022 9:16 AM, Mark Jacobs wrote: At $currentjob whenever an XCF policy is

Re: Split JES2 MAS

2022-12-08 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I've been there before with management on issues similar, but like any child - they'll quickly move on, oh look a squirrel' and this will give you time to get automation setup correctly and you can test with a lower threshold and provide the results to them if they ask, IF THEY ASK :) JMHO

Re: Split JES2 MAS

2022-12-08 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I think maybe all of us have seen something like this over the years, we control this via OPS (automation) two fold 1) pause - quiesce the workload and notify operations / systems when the threshold reaches 80% 2) (we don't have a need) but just in case, automation will add a spool volume

Re: z/OS equivalent to z/VM's Link Aggregation

2022-12-08 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I don't recall the specifics but in Z/os you can define the OSA's and ports, and depending on the OSA-Express card you have, some have 4 ports per card, some have only 2, and if IIRC, on a z15 one for one, but you can share across LPARS defined in your IOGEN, and use  a device / interface 

Re: Using CATLIST on z/OS?

2022-12-06 Thread Carmen Vitullo
there's some doc in the DF/SMS ISMF guide - I've used CATLIST to get a quick hard-copy list of a datasets from the line operator, the output is placed in your 'userid.ISMF.CATLIST.Dx.Txxx' dataset Carmen On 12/6/2022 1:32 PM, Michael Watkins wrote: 'DFSMS Managing Catalogs', V2R5, p.59:

Re: z/OSMF

2022-12-02 Thread Carmen Vitullo
and each has its own autostart group. On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 7:46 AM Carmen Vitullo wrote: I've only tried this once on my test LPAR when I'm installing a new OS release or maint, not much success, I've followed the guide but I must be missing something. in the started task there's 2 start up options

Re: z/OSMF

2022-12-02 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I've only tried this once on my test LPAR when I'm installing a new OS release or maint, not much success, I've followed the guide but I must be missing something. in the started task there's 2 start up options SERVER=STANDALONE <- I use to test and SERVER=AUTOSTART <- i use from prod

Re: Storage protection keys

2022-11-23 Thread Carmen Vitullo
On 11/23/2022 9:29 AM, Paul Gorlinsky wrote: Engineers always think they can improve upon the works of others. so true, working for an airspace company many years ago I recall an off the wall company called SCS, IIRC, Scientific computer Systems, that sold us an engineering solution to

Re: EXTERNAL: SAS ODS in the Mainframe environment

2022-11-23 Thread Carmen Vitullo
me too, I provided Ken one example I had, I suppose he could add an OCOPY step to copy from USS to a PDS/E one example //SYSIN    DD *   DATA TEMPA;   SET PDB.JOBS;   DATE=DATEPART(INITTIME);   IF DATE = '05DEC2006'D   OR DATE = '12DEC2006'D;   IF SYSTEM = 'CPU3';   IF INITTIME = '.'

Re: SAS ODS in the Mainframe environment

2022-11-22 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I may still have some samples, if you want let me know Carmen On 11/22/2022 12:24 PM, Kenneth J. Kripke wrote: Hello; I realize this is not the correct forum to be asking questions regarding SAS, but, it appears that SAS-L is no longer available? The question is as follows: I would

Re: IBM sues Micro Focus, claims it copied mainframe software • The Register

2022-11-22 Thread Carmen Vitullo
interesting, my last gig was working for a large freight company that spent many years and tons of $$$'s to replace their mainframes with MFES no POC was done before spending all this money on a solution that could not provide this company a stable environment. thanks Mark Carmen On

Re: Songs of the IBM

2022-11-15 Thread Carmen Vitullo
very cool, thanks for sharing Dave Carmen On 11/15/2022 11:29 AM, Dave Jousma wrote: On Tue, 15 Nov 2022 11:03:46 -0600, Carmen Vitullo wrote: Had me thinking of the IBM 1403 and possible the 3211 printers - there was a card deck IIRC and IEBGENER that was used to direct print, that deck

Re: Songs of the IBM

2022-11-15 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Had me thinking of the IBM 1403 and possible the 3211 printers - there was a card deck IIRC and IEBGENER that was used to direct print, that deck when printed would play a song, I forget now whatr song - it was possibly something local at my site. Carmen On 11/15/2022 10:11 AM, zMan wrote:

Re: Limiting quantity of tape drives used by user

2022-11-07 Thread Carmen Vitullo
there's the easy way to control resource usage, IIRC this can still be done with WLM and workload resource definitions, been some time since I worked in a shop that had defined all the mainframe resources and used scheduled environments and BMC's CONTROL products to manage workloads based on

Re: End of several eras

2022-11-01 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Love the stories, I graduated from Vo-tech as an RPG / COBOL programmer thinking I'd get a job easy as a programmer, not so, but a good learning experience as an operator they to production control, to now a sysprog.  I started in 1977 working for a large retailer, no IMS but CICS , SII

Re: z/OSMF PSWI

2022-10-21 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Babcock wrote: There is a PTF for that. I can’t remember off the top of my head what it is though. I had opened a problem on that very thing and IBM did create the fix for it. On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 8:18 AM Carmen Vitullo wrote: Friday rant I've been having problems with JES2EDS on 2 other

Re: z/OSMF PSWI

2022-10-21 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Friday rant I've been having problems with JES2EDS on 2 other systems in my PLEX, once I install maint, or IPL JES2EDS gets the 'JES2EDS cannot locate the zosmf server, what ? it was working fine before, so why can't I IPL a system and JES2EDS locate the server again?  I'm so tired of

Re: A Million Years

2022-10-17 Thread Carmen Vitullo
On 10/17/2022 1:27 PM, Jay Maynard wrote: Wasn't an official utility, but IPOUPDTE was provided with the CBIPO software delivery to do that job. On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 1:25 PM Steve Beaver wrote: A million years ago the was an IBM Batch Utility to change strings In a PDS. Does anyone

Re: Can I supress BPXF024I ?

2022-10-13 Thread Carmen Vitullo
looks pretty much what I have with the exception I have added, # Everything not directed to # a destination above, is directed # to a garbagecan.log (so nothing important # is lost) # *.*;local1.none;daemon.none;auth.none /tmp/syslogd/garbagecan.log Carmen On 10/13/2022 11:36 AM, Colin

Re: HYCD or IOCP

2022-10-13 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Autoswitch is the term I was thinking, thanks Paul not autoswap ( Carmen On 10/13/2022 9:24 AM, Paul Gorlinsky wrote: You should be able to use the AUTOSWITCH option for the drive(s) then ... if z/OS z/VM and z/VSE do things different, for z/VM is mostly a VARY off on one LPAR and VARY ON

Re: HYCD or IOCP

2022-10-13 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Great info Paul thank you, we're using a MTL solution from a vendor other than IBM, the configuration options you provided was not provided to us, thus the configuration we choose Carmen On 10/13/2022 8:17 AM, Paul Gorlinsky wrote: First of all, I am a manufacturer of a Virtual Tape

Re: HYCD or IOCP

2022-10-13 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Discussion List on behalf of Carmen Vitullo Date: Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 8:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: HYCD or IOCP **CAUTION EXTERNAL EMAIL** **DO NOT open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails** it's been a while since I've used

Re: HYCD or IOCP

2022-10-13 Thread Carmen Vitullo
it's been a while since I've used configured tape devices like this but if I recall correctly you need to define the devices as shared and define a CF structure to use AUTOSWAP , or a product like MIM to manage the devices across multiple systems. at my site using a virtual tape system we

Re: Unix System Services migration

2022-09-29 Thread Carmen Vitullo
that's a better reference - I have a PDF saved on my work PC somewhere, but this looks about the same Carmen On 9/29/2022 8:05 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: See "Chapter 7. Sharing file systems in a sysplex" in z/OS 2.5 UNIX System Services Planning, GA32-0884-50. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz

Re: Unix System Services migration

2022-09-29 Thread Carmen Vitullo
For my site, I eventually setup a shared Unix filesystem, we wanted the ability to move workloads from system to system, or allow access to shared fileystems from any task, batch or ftp process. my Serverpac filesystems that came with my order are copied to a shared sysplex filesystem. it

Re: Minor disaster

2022-09-28 Thread Carmen Vitullo
ouch that sucks, I know if it was a PDS there are tools to get the member back, it's not actually gone until you compress, or write over it IIRC? I wonder if the same tools can help, I'd be interested also how to restore a member from a PDSE that's GDG like Carmen On 9/28/2022 7:00 AM,

Re: z/OSMF PSWI

2022-09-23 Thread Carmen Vitullo
  and maintaining a site  IMHO I've seen it done wrong, and things gone bad, and seen it done a way that's safe and makes sense, that methodology I adopt. Carmen On 9/22/2022 4:02 PM, Mark Zelden wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2022 15:24:58 -0500, Carmen Vitullo wrote: why is the Health checker issuing

Re: z/OSMF PSWI

2022-09-23 Thread Carmen Vitullo
: On Thu, 22 Sep 2022 13:49:50 -0500, Carmen Vitullo wrote: I've been doing this on my ServerPac for a while, I've even called out the ServerPac folks about the issue of, why deliver linklist lpalist datasets with secondary allocation if the linkist does not support it, Secondary extents are certainly

Re: z/OSMF PSWI

2022-09-22 Thread Carmen Vitullo
to abend. that's why I alter the allocation at ServerPac customization and not wait till an issue arises Carmen On 9/22/2022 3:13 PM, Mark Zelden wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2022 13:49:50 -0500, Carmen Vitullo wrote: I've been doing this on my ServerPac for a while, I've even called out

Re: z/OSMF PSWI

2022-09-22 Thread Carmen Vitullo
'A'  secondary extends is supported as long as it is part of the initial primary allocation, or an extent is taken or required to satisfy the primary space allocation - I'm talking space allocation that provides for secondary space allocation in the allocate in the dialog, not what SMS or dfp

Re: z/OSMF PSWI

2022-09-22 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I've been doing this on my ServerPac for a while, I've even called out the ServerPac folks about the issue of, why deliver linklist lpalist datasets with secondary allocation if the linkist does not support it, why are they so under allocated, it wasn't until I started to work for IBM GS that

Re: DB2 data sharing between two z boxes

2022-09-22 Thread Carmen Vitullo
On 9/22/2022 8:55 AM, Peter wrote: Hello Is it possible to have DB2 data sharing between two different boxes i.e. between z13 and z15 ? Do you currently have a CF, running a Parallel SYSPLEX ? or multiple CF's ?  what box are the CF's ? one on the z13 one on the z15? Will this support if

Re: bpxpqrmxx and $SYSNAME vs

2022-09-12 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I know the $SYSNAME. resolves to the system name but in my BPXPRMxx member I use //etc and //var I use /$VERSION for my mount-point for the SYSRES specific mount point for the version ROOT Carmen On 9/11/2022 11:43 PM, Lizette Koehler wrote: I have a coworker saying we should change our

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Speaking of SCRT

2022-09-09 Thread Carmen Vitullo
--Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo Sent: Friday, September 9, 2022 8:41 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Speaking of SCRT I've not done this for about 8 years, but I've always had to submit the report via the LMS system on

Re: Speaking of SCRT

2022-09-09 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I've not done this for about 8 years, but I've always had to submit the report via the LMS system on IBM's site you upload the report , via license managed software, if there's an exception , missing SMF data over and hour I think, it will flag that missing data and you have to comment on why

Re: SMF type 76 records - RMF trace activity

2022-09-08 Thread Carmen Vitullo
looks like TRACE need to be before VSTOR(S) ? TRACE being a major parm, with VSTOR(S) and other options being minor parms under TRACE?  I'm a CMF shop so I cannot test, but looking at my old RMF parms NOTRACE     VSTOR(S)     WKLS Carmen On 9/8/2022 12:53 PM, Pierre Fichaud wrote: Where

Re: Certificate problem

2022-09-08 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Phil, Yes, it's TLSv1.3: sorry I missed this. You mean the label in the gskkyman entry? I was thinking the entry, Cert that was added to RACF, that's where I had similar issues. sorry I could not be more help Carmen On 9/8/2022 10:31 AM, Phil Smith III wrote: Yes, it's TLSv1.3:

Re: SMF type 76 records - RMF trace activity

2022-09-08 Thread Carmen Vitullo
unless I'm missing it, I don't see where you're telling SMF to write these records snip from my SMFPRM STATUS(SMF,SYNC) /* WRITE SMF STATS AT INTERVAL */ SYS(TYPE(0:3,6:19,21:33,36:39,41:98,99(1,6,12),100:255),

Re: Certificate problem

2022-09-08 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Phil, was this output from an SSL trace? IIRC there's usually more data related to a cert error,  it's been 7, or 8 years since I ran the trace but usually the trace data shows the TLS version also, it's a stretch but are you running TSL 1.1 or higher? I'd agree with Attila also, I've had

Re: test

2022-09-06 Thread Carmen Vitullo
/6/2022 8:45 AM, Sean Gleann wrote: Thank you, Carmen. I used to be able to see my posts and replies, but that seems to have stopped. I wonder what has changed. Sean On Tue, 6 Sept 2022 at 14:42, Carmen Vitullo wrote: I saw both your posts, I too do not get emails for my posts, replies, even

Re: test

2022-09-06 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I saw both your posts, I too do not get emails for my posts, replies, even though I have set my preferences to get emails. Carmen On 9/6/2022 8:37 AM, Sean Gleann wrote: test Sean -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

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