Re: Finding a member in a DD concatenation

On 4/6/18, 2:18 PM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Edward Finnell" wrote: >> What century is this? > 5081 on the Hollerith calendar. 13.0.5.6.12 12 Eb' 5 Pop G6 on the Maya calendar (following the rollover to 13.0.0.0.0 in 2012). (It's Friday, right?) --

Re: Security (was: Software Delivery on Tape ...)

> Near as I can tell from the information I getting (from Symantec and others), > it's not going to get better anytime soon. > From what I've heard, some folks are advocating a 90-day certificate renewal. > While I don't have an issue with that, it > may make automation more important for larger

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

On 4/3/18, 4:24 PM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Alan Altmark" wrote: > The entire industry is about making time and energy the limiting factor as > opposed to the strength of the algorithms themselves. Agreed. > (GREAT. There's the next nightmare: low-cost ISP who is really s

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

On 4/3/18, 3:00 PM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Phil Smith" wrote: I believe we're talking about different things. What you're describing isn't civilian use of TLS. It's probably stream-cipher stuff (which is weaker anyway) and in any case is within the telco system. Nobody is g

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

On 4/3/18, 11:59 AM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Phil Smith" wrote: > They suggest that you're referring to intranet proxies, which can certainly > terminate TLS, but that's not at all the same thing. No, I'm referring to devices installed in a CO (with or without the acquiesce

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

On 4/2/18, 9:15 AM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Alan Altmark" wrote: > The most secure delivery of service to z/OS is directly via SMP/E. Corrupted > data or MITM interference is automatically detected by the TLS connection. > You know the data is coming from IBM and you know

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

On 3/29/18, 4:04 PM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Edward Finnell" wrote: > What about the 'PUT tapes' delivered on uFiche? We had Datagrafix? fiche > readers with ammonia based printers. After a weekend of updates my head would > hurt for real! No joke. I had to keep a fiche re

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

On 3/29/18, 2:15 PM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Paul Gilmartin" wrote: > Are you suggesting that there may be extant contracts requiring IBM to provide > continuing updates/corrective service on 3480 cartridges? I doubt that IBM would ever tell us that, but I read Phil's comment

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

On 3/29/18, 4:38 PM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Seymour J Metz" wrote: > I believe that the 65 and 67 also used CROS; I'm not sure of the 85. The 3 65s at NASA JSC had microcode loadable from tape, or at least those 3 machines did. I have one of the ucode update tapes (it fixe

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

On 3/29/18, 10:39 AM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Phil Smith" wrote: > Ah, remember the good old days: 9370 microcode updates-as several boxes of > floppies! Or those *[unprintable]* 4mm tape cartridges in the ES/9000s. Or the 8" floppies in the 43XX machines. Or the 5.25 flopp

Re: JCL "diagramming"?

On 3/29/18, 11:23 AM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of John McKown" wrote: This is a weird idea that is floating around in my head. I am wondering if there is any software which can create a "picture", "diagram", or "flowchart" of JCL? I'm not too sure if this is even a useful thought

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

On 3/29/18, 6:00 AM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of R.S." wrote: > The formats like AWSTAPE add unnecessary level of complexity. Any media > used should be treated a s bunch of files - just like electronic > delivery or DVD delivery; and in fact tape delivery. FWIW, doing a quick

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

On 3/27/18, 1:30 PM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Tom Mathias" wrote: > [snip] >Unfortunately, no other operating system implemented support to use the HMC's >media. Ugh. I can see why. That is seriously weird and obscure, and having to have a modified FTP client makes my skin

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

On 3/27/18, 1:31 PM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Christian Borntraeger" wrote: > For Linux there is at least some support. There is the hmcdrv module and the > hmcdrvfs fuse tool in the s390-tools. I do not know how well this works and > if I remember correctly you have to have

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

On 3/27/18, 1:23 PM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of John Eells" wrote: > I'd quite forgotten about P370, in part because I don't know that it was > ever available external to IBM. It might well have been what the AWS* > things were ogiginally written for, and if so, I stand (well,

Re: Schedule automation solution

On 3/27/18, 1:00 PM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Peter" wrote: Is there a product in Mainframe which can detect a batch failure and also sends email with the possible diagnostic steps to resolve ? Tivoli Workload Scheduler can do this (at least the batch failure and instructions

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

On 3/27/18, 12:02 PM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Paul Gilmartin" wrote: >On Tue, 27 Mar 2018 13:57:45 +, David Boyes wrote: >>... I think the bigger issue is that IBM no longer makes a device that can >>directly read the DVD media from the mainfr

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

On 3/27/18, 9:48 AM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of John Eells" wrote: > Ah, so that's what you meant. I hadn't inferred that from your earlier post. Sorry, replies crossed in the ether. > As the original builder of the ADCD systems (originally created to > support P390s) Didn

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

CICS and DB/2 emulators. Cheaper hardware, too, and the promise of being able to use even cheaper commodity hardware that's the same as the stuff you need for your Intel systems in the near future. > Then, if you are willing to buy hardware as David Boyes outlined, you > can perhaps

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

> > Then, if you are willing to buy hardware as David Boyes outlined, you can > perhaps do it that way. I have no knowledge about these products, and we > have not tested that approach, so I do not know whether or not it works. If > someone has tried it, I'd be (acad

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

On 3/26/18, 2:44 PM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Paul Gilmartin" wrote: On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 13:33:23 -0500, Edward Gould wrote: >> "IBM plans to discontinue delivery of z/OS platform products and service on >> magnetic tape on July 1, 2018. ..." >Congratulations to IBM. This sou

Re: Health Check JES_NJE_SECURITY

> On Mar 22, 2018, at 7:14 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > > Tom raised the possibility of someone using a mechanism (like Python) to > spoof an NJE node from within the closed network. We’ve creating an entire NJE node emulator written in REXX and CMS Pipelines (to replace the NJE functions in

Re: Mechanics of MFA

On 3/21/18, 2:26 PM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Rob Schramm" wrote: >Thus, MFA should have a wide variety of solutions. Should is good. There are lots of variations on how the multiple factors are presented, but the implementation of the back ends have fairly limited forms of

Re: Mechanics of MFA

On 3/21/18, 12:49 PM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Jesse 1 Robinson" wrote: >So how does MFA work in practice? I ask because the idea of having to go >through MFA every few minutes would be a very hard sell at the ranch. It's not really a big issue for most modern setups. Some MF

Re: z/OS "interactive computing" - AKA TSO/ISPF or UNIX shell

> If you want a break with 3270, why a Rube Goldberg with line mode. Make the > application an X11 client instead. Except each application running in the environment would need to be modified. The approach I suggested doesn't require any application code to be modified if you don't want/have to

Re: z/OS "interactive computing" - AKA TSO/ISPF or UNIX shell

> To be honest, it was this thread that prompted me to see if anyone had > coerced emacs into talking to z/OS, and this was pretty much the only > thing I found. I thought the whole emacs->z/OS thing seemed feasible > (eg. via tramp or something) albeit potentially a fair amount of work... Both GN

Re: z/OS "interactive computing" - AKA TSO/ISPF or UNIX shell

On 3/19/18, 2:16 PM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Paul Gilmartin" wrote: > I suspect there is no longer economic justification for a specialized thin > client. X11 > servers are available very cheaply on almost any desktop system nowadays. > (Raspberry Pi?) Relatively new develo

Re: z/OS "interactive computing" - AKA TSO/ISPF or UNIX shell

On 3/17/18, 1:55 PM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Paul Gilmartin" wrote: >On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 16:29:29 +, David Boyes wrote: >There's c3270 (which I never got to work) and older flavors of tn3270 (which >i've used) >The trick is to swit

Re: z/OS "interactive computing" - AKA TSO/ISPF or UNIX shell

On 3/16/18, 8:21 AM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Jerry Callen" wrote: > I'm going to be an EXTREME outlier here. To my mind, the 3270 is probably the biggest remaining problem. I've spent a fair amount of time on a real teletype and using the linemode telnet sessions that a st

Re: Session Manager

On 3/12/18, 2:19 PM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Seymour J Metz" wrote: > Not all session managers restrict you to 24x80; in fact, I have never had the > misfortune to use one that did. Are you sure that it was a product limitation > and not a restriction decreed by your managem

Re: Product license key program

> Back to the keys question, I've tried to figure out how to even have keys in > the application system. > Places that I've worked at, there have been times when getting paid for our > software or services has been difficult to collect, so what about keys ?? > Well, that becomes a challenge whe

Re: Product license key program

>On 3/5/18, 12:53 PM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Seymour J >Metz" wrote: >[.snip.] OK, this discussion has reached the level of diminishing returns. There seems to be a general agreement that the concept of keys is not the problem, but the execution of the keying process is.

Re: macbook air and keyboard emulation

That’s completely up to the emulator software to decide. There is no reference standard since Apple has used so many different physical keyboard layouts over the years. Just imagine what it would look like on a keyboard configured for Mandarin, and you start to get the picture. Or for a user wit

FW: Linux (zLinux) on zSeries

On 2/11/18, 7:24 AM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Munif Sadek" wrote: >Finally we are getting an IFL from IBM on trial to install Linux on our > z13. No KVM or zVM on the Mainframe. Seriously reconsider this - not having zVM or KVM - you will want/need a virtualiz

Re: z/OSMF V2R2 outgoing email configuration

>I got values from from our CSSMTP server like: > SMTP outgoing mail server: x.y.z.w.t. >SMTP port: 25 >SMTP User ID: CSSMTP >SMTP password: Clear the userid field as well, or (better yet) create a unique id on the remote system and give it a password and supply it here.

FW: R.I.P - Moore's Law.

On 1/25/18, 9:40 AM, "David Boyes" wrote: On 1/25/18, 2:06 AM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Timothy Sipples" wrote: John McKown wrote: >​{drool} I'm gonna go see if I can afford a small one of those >

Re: Shocking Bug in Latest PCOMM Release

> Same problem >finding a decent 3270 emulator for macOS. If I had a choice of work >machine I would choose a Mac but I need a decent 3270 emulator. Brown University’s tn3270 for Mac is a gem. IND$FILE support, multiple screen sizes, 3270 graphics, PSS support, the works – even a custom font wit

Interesting article in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

How things used to be done. Interesting perspective on process and benefits to the organization. IBM Branch Offices: What They Were, How They Worked, 1920s–1980s James W. Cortada Abstract: IBM branch offices were the company’s local face around the world in the 20th century. Its sales and cus

Re: Researching Destination z article on non-US mainframes

> I once had a customer say "PLEASE DON'T translate your manuals. We are used > to technical materials in English and know > what they mean. If you translate it into [French? German? I don't recall] we > will have no idea what you are trying to say." Which only shows how prevalent really rotten

Re: Researching Destination z article on non-US mainframes

> Actually, even with the foreign sites, I believe that most of them elect to > not run the translated messages options. I don't normally > go to the sites (actually I never go there), but it seems to me in the > meetings that (at least the people I deal with) seem to speak > English as well (

Re: Researching Destination z article on non-US mainframes

That Brazilian mainframe shop was the poster child for the zBX and the Cell blade. I don’t think it’s very active at this point – at least IBM hasn’t talked about it for years. FWIW, the one comment I’d contribute is the decline of NLS language messages and documentation. In most cases, English

Re: Windows 10 Pro automatic update

>>I finally figured out how to turn the updates off in the systems settings and >>have not had any problems since then. >How did you do that? You must be running the Enterprise version or some kind of site licensed version of Win 10. The mass-market version doesn’t allow turning off updates ent

Cool virtual tour of Bletchley Park

Thanks to our UK friends for making this tour available. It’s really well done (if your kids have VR goggles, this is a cool demo), and most of the machines are active and running something. The ICL machine in this exhibit is running the MDL version of Adventure. A new 3D, 360-degre

COBOL co-author dies at 89

Another legend passes. Begin forwarded message: Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/technology/obituary-jean-sammet-software-designer-cobol.html Jean E. Sammet, an early software engineer and a designer of COBOL, a p

'Hidden Figures' Physicist Katherine Johnson Will Deliver Hampton University Commencement Address

If anyone's going to be in Hampton in May, here's a chance to hear one of the real figures behind the 'Hidden Figures' movie speak. https://amp-timeinc-net.cdn.ampproject.org/c/amp.timeinc.net/essence/news/hidden-figures-katherine-johnson-hampton-commencement?source=dam ---

Re: Mainframe operating systems?

> From:Timothy Sipples > 9. Did the UCSD p-System ever end up on System/370 or System/390 > machines? > It ended up on almost every other processor. I worked on a port of the UCSD p-machine to System/370 (a 4341) in the early 1980s at U. Oregon as an undergraduate taking an OS design course,

FW: What are mainframes

On 4/7/17, 3:47 PM, "David Boyes" wrote: Anne & Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com commented: > IBM also funded $50M Andrew project at CMU, Andrew File System Which is still alive and well and in production use at dozens of sites. It’s now supported on Sys

Re: Copy / Save screen text function in all TN3270 emulators?

Peter diCamillos Mac tn3270 (aka Brown tn3270): Can highlight and copy: Yes Save Screen to Text from a dropdown: Yes Hummingbird Host Explorer: Can highlight and copy: Yes Save Screen to Text from a dropdown: Yes -- For IBM-M

Re: RV: [IBMTCP-L] Starting OMPROUTE with a specific PID number

> The process number on the Cisco area statement (or even the PID of that = > process) is irrelevant to z/OS (as far as I am aware). Completely correct. The OSPF area #s are the only part that matters. The PID/area # connection is just how Cisco chose to implement their OSPF daemon. Has no beari

Re: Hidden Figures

Clark Morris asked: >>It's interesting to note that this mailing list indirectly contributed to the >>movie. The directors contacted several people on this list whose experience >>goes >>back to the days when 7090s walked the earth, and we were able to correct a >>number of issues about what

"Fraud detection failure"

> IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu (reading BANNER): 554-mailapp-1.ua.edu > 554 "Your access to this mail system has been rejected due to the sending > MTA's poor reputation. > Please reference the following URL for more information: [snip] The IP address listed (smtp.hughes.net) is the outgoing mail se

IBM-MAIN subscription

> I cannot imagine any technical or policy reason for leaving that field blank. > It has Omission written all over it. > This problem affects multiple shops. If should be fixed at the source. The latest revision of the SMTP RFCs (RFC 5821) do address this issue somewhat, to wit: 4.5.5 Messages

IBM-MAIN subscription

> No closer to a resolution. I have verified with our email staff that the > IBM-MAIN confirmation email arrives here with no sender specified. >This makes the note indistinguishable from scatter spam and causes immediate >quarantine, so I never see it. > By contrast, I just (re)subscribed to t

Last comment (was HMC mail domain)

> It's an unnecessary change which was forced on us because of an error due to > a request from a single user. > It's not like the HMC is in and of itself an SMTP server. THe HMC doesn't > have the capability to be an SMTP server. And it's not acting as one. It does however have to act like

IBM-MAIN subscription

>My analysis: There is something missing in the confirmation email that causes >my company email system (Outlook) to reject the note as spam >without notification. My home email does not have the same filter. I cannot >look at headers for the failing notes because--I never get them. My >earlier

HMC mail domain

This is exactly the same change your network people will have to make to support mail from every other system they have. Exchange, Unix boxes, etc all have to do this. Using DNS is a part of the use of electronic mail in today's world - similar checks are in the standard configuration for send

HMC Mail domain

>Can't spammers bypass this check >by just faking a real domain name > in the FROM: field, something like > s...@gmail.com? That's the name that has to resolve. Remember that only the stuff in the envelope part of the SMTP transaction matters. This cuts off one trivial abus

HMC Mail domain

>I don't understand, do you mean >add another MX and A record at >the company site domain server, In yours. The root problem is actually a good thing - modern mail systems require that the sending domain name actually resolve to something to prevent spammers. Otherwise, the SMTP protocol allo

4361

I already offered a HPO 5 with IBMs blessing. If they still need it, they know what to do. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

HMC mail domain - why not just make the name resolve to

Maybe I'm not seeing something here, but is there any reason why you don't add an A and MX record for your HMC to DNS? Do that, and the problem goes away. The name just has to resolve at the receiving end; doesn't imply any connectivity or access to the HMC. Assuming you are using the reserved

Hidden Figures

It's interesting to note that this mailing list indirectly contributed to the movie. The directors contacted several people on this list whose experience goes back to the days when 7090s walked the earth, and we were able to correct a number of issues about what would have been possible or permi

Re: New to Perl

If you have a Linux system available ( intel or z), take a look at the robotest package. Provides a whole framework for test automation and with some thought, it's not too hard to script a tn3370 session to run your tests. You can also write the tests in REXX using Regina (actually, any language

Why not an IBM personal use z/OS license?

> IMO, FWIW (other acronyms omitted) I would love something like z/PDT for > a home user. The "problem" that I perceive that IBM has with such a thing > can be summed up as "somebody could use that to make money developing > software and I won't get a fair cut." IOW, IBM doesn't think that a >"pers

Unit test

Since you have Linux available, look at 'robotest'. Was written by Nokia and can do all sorts of automated test processes. Price is right, and it's VERY well documented. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instr

Re: included text from every other reply in a email chain..

>>... Personally, I hate bottom-posting, but the >>majority here seem to be in favor of it, so I comply. I don't > >bottom-post except on listservs. >I go a somewhat different way: I trim all the material to which I'm not >directly replying, especially .sigs, disclaimers, and legal notices

Master console

Check to see that your client has tn3270e disabled (unless you really need a SNA printer). Many IBM and other implementations don't handle the negotiations for a printer LU correctly. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archiv

Interesting article on why sustained maintenance is better than the latest thing...

The article argues that sustained maintenance is necessary to a successful solution. Sound familiar? > https://aeon.co/essays/innovation-is-overvalued-maintenance-often-matters-more > > -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / ar

kIM-1....

> > > > MOS Technology produced the KIM-1 (Keyboard Input Monitor) evaluation board > for the 6502. > It included a 6 digit,7-segment LED display, and a hex keypad, as well as a > teletype interface > and an audio cassette interface for storing and retrieving data. It had 2K of > ROM with c

Oracle to kill off Java browser plugins with JDK 9 • The Register

Another round of fun with the HMC code coming: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/28/java_plugins_deprecated_in_jdk9/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu wit

Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 9 Apr 2015 to 10 Apr 2015 (#2015-100)

> Anybody have pdf of murach's os/390 and z/os jcl ?, if so please share to > me. > I been searching free copy this book for long time but so far no luck. If > you have a > PDF please share . Buy the book. Murach has to pay their bills, too. If that's too expensive, there are *dozens* of good

Mass downloads of IBM docs

If you use Firefox, there is a wonderful plugin called DownThemAll that you can use to automate the whole process. Once you get to the page Barbara described in your browser, you go to tools in Firefox, select downthemall. It shows you a list of all the page elements in that page. Unclick the st

Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 20 Apr 2014 to 21 Apr 2014 (#2014-111)

> On Apr 22, 2014, at 12:00 AM, "IBM-MAIN automatic digest system" > wrote: > > IBM first introduced VSAM (in a more basic form of course) back in the > 1970s for DOS/VS, OS/VS1, and OS/VS2 ("Access Method Services"). I don't > think VSAM was ever separately licensed, but someone can correct me

The Register discovers IBM Hursley

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/10/geeks_guide_visits_ibm_hursley/ Located just off the A3090. How cool is that? 8-) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu w

DCF on OS/2

IBM did produce a OS/2 version of Bookmanager/BUILD. I won a copy of it at a SHARE trade show. It was really, really slow, but it would take my Bookie input and produce useful output. It never got much love from IBM, though -- I think they did it because the IRS wanted a desktop version. It neve

REXX tutorial

The CMS REXX Users Guide was designed to be read 3 times -- first time for newbies, 2nd for more advanced topics, 3rd time as a reference. I used it to teach my mom REXX. 8-) PDF download from www.vm.ibm.com/library 8-) -- For

NFS mount of z/OS filesystem from Linux

Ø I searched the web and tried the command examples from the IBM manual but every variation failed. Two things: 1) You need to download and compile mountpw for your Linux system. The source code is supplied with z/OS. Mountpw associates a numeric uid with your z/OS userid, so that th

English article on the setun machine, with pictures.

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Technical details on the setun-70 trinary processor

http://ternary.3neko.ru/publications/setun70.pdf In Russian, but google translate does a fair job. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO

Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 21 Nov 2013 to 22 Nov 2013 (#2013-326)

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=5255174 AFAICT, that's still #3 (and earlier). -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO

IEEE journal

> The latest volume does not yet appear to be available electronically on the > IEEE sites - latest available seems to be volume 35 #3. Do you have a link > to #4? I haven't seen #4 in electronic form yet either. Issues of Annals have an irregular update schedule in electronic form; I still ge

OT: Computer Industry Strategies: IEEE Annals of the History of Computing articles on IBM and others.

Given the recent discussion on early Fortran implementations and other historical stuff on IBMVM, you folks may want to hunt down the current issue of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing (volume 35, #4). This issue contains a really good article on industry approaches in the early days

Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 6 Nov 2013 to 7 Nov 2013 (#2013-311)

> On Nov 8, 2013, at 12:01 AM, "IBM-MAIN automatic digest system" > wrote: > > In <20131106211556.79f3c24...@panix5.panix.com>, on 11/06/2013 > at 04:15 PM, Rich Greenberg said: > >> On the "mass" storage of the time (i.e. paper tape), > > The mass storage of the time was magnetic strips,

High Availability Option for RHEL on System z available

enterprise grade support. More details are available at http://www.sinenomine.net/products/linux/systemz/hao4relz. The product is installed in more than 15 Fortune 50 companies with good success. Please contact me off list if you're interested in more information. David Boyes Sine Nomine Assoc

OT: Any of you old-timers have...

the SLT schematic for the clock module, part number 5803944, from a 360 model 20? I've checked the usual suspects (IBM archives in GHQ and POK, the IBM museum in Germany) -- any of our European friends have any suggestions of other places to try? Where were IBM EMEAs archives sent? Germany? Fr

OT: Searching for a 8232, 3172, or BTI model 1/2

I'm trying to get a 43xx series system up and running for a museum (yes, I found one!), and I'm trying to find a parallel channel-attached network interface for the box. If anyone has any of the above boxes languishing in a corner or knows where I might find one, would you please contact me offl

Odd request: anyone know of where I might find a 4361 or a 4381?

Totally off the wall request, but I've been contacted by a museum to try to locate a 4361 or 4381 CPU and console terminal. Slight preference for the 4361 because of the integrated 3270 and ICA adapters, but either will do. I have enough other I/O devices to form a working system, but lack the

Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 21 Jul 2012 to 22 Jul 2012 (#2012-204)

> From:Phil Smith > Couldn't CP PVMSG send something that automation could pick up? I realize > it's a bit of a > kludge, but it could do it: your z/VM automation would listen for SIGNAL > SHUTDOWN and > then signal the z/OS guest(s) using PVMSG. I can see how that could work, but shouldn't

Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 21 Jul 2012 to 22 Jul 2012 (#2012-204)

>From:Mary Anne Matyaz >[snip] >David, the best way to submit a requirement is through Share. Anyone can >submit a requirement. > Share has a new website that you'll need to sign up for, but you don't have > to be a Share member. > http://reqs4.share.org/Reqs4Who.jsp is the link to the re

Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 21 Jul 2012 to 22 Jul 2012 (#2012-204)

> In Linux, which process handles the shutdown signal? Init? Or is it sent to > all > processes with a default of ignore, with at least one superuser process > handling it by issuing "shutdown"? They hooked it into init (believe it or not, into the cntl-alt-del handler...). The kernel register

Submitting a requirement for z/OS to at least acknowledge SIGNAL SHUTDOWN by printing a message

How can I go about submitting a requirement for z/OS to acknowledge and handle the same external interrupt as VM, VSE and Linux use to trigger a controlled shutdown (or at least acknowledge it by printing a message we can capture via console automation and trigger the shutdown ourselves)? For