Re: SFTP Special Charcters

2019-09-23 Thread David Magee
We use the Co:Z software from Dovetail on z/OS (as the client mostly) and perform EBCDIC to ASCII by default most of the time. There are cases where we have to specify the following at the client end to get things to land correctly on the ASCII server. lzopts

Re: IBMLink, searching SRs

2019-09-04 Thread David Magee
Whoever in your organization handles User Administration for the IBM Support Site needs to verify that you have FULL (access to all cases in the the account number) as opposed to BASIC (you only see your own cases). If your company has multiple account numbers, that can complicate things. If

Re: JES2 checkpoint location

2019-03-12 Thread David Magee
Just an FYI - In a GDPS environment, I believe the recommendation is for all CKPTs to be on DASD. When a FREEZE event occurs, HASPACE and CKPTs will be in sync if both are on DASD. Updates to a CKPT in a CF may not be completely in sync with HASPACE.

Re: OpenSSH / Ported Tools / Co:Z

2019-03-12 Thread David Magee
...phrase. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: OpenSSH / Ported Tools / Co:Z

2019-03-12 Thread David Magee
My apologies for the incorrect capitalization of the phase. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

OpenSSH / Ported Tools / Co:Z

2019-03-12 Thread David Magee
In a parallel sysplex with Shared File System implemented, has anyone toyed with the idea of having /etc/ssh on each system symlink to a common location ? I see a few pros but am wondering about any cons (especially bad ones) that this could encounter. Comments ?

Re: Health Check JES_NJE_SECURITY

2018-03-01 Thread David Magee
Is is possible to add the profile (with possibly a dummy MEMBER subentry) as WARNING to the RACFVARS Class? Then monitor for the Temporary Access Allowed condition and use that information to build your ADDMEMs to the profile over time?

There is not a put1801.txt so far ...

2018-02-07 Thread David Magee
Have I missed something? There does not seem to be a put1801.txt file in the /s390/assigns directory on ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com so far. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Include FMID, PTFID and APARID as eye catcher in each LMOD

2017-11-19 Thread David Magee
We clone the SMP/E Target Zone as well. Makes it easy to know what maintenance is on the IPL volume in question. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the

Re: Cobol and PreCompile for CICS and DB2

2017-01-12 Thread David Magee
The last time I looked into doing that we had problems because certain scenarios were not supported using the integrated translator during the compile step. EXCI applications are what come to mind off the top of my head. Have all the restrictions been lifted at this point? If so, at what

Re: Shopz Hung?

2016-12-12 Thread David Magee
What ever it is, I think the same problem is also affecting SMP/E's RECEIVE service retrieval. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO

Re: SMP/E: SMPWRKn and GLOBAL zone

2016-08-19 Thread David Magee
In general, we add a DDDEF for SMPPARM to every SMP/E ZONE we utilize. That DDDEF points to a data set with our customized GIMDDALC member. Then we don't have to worry about SYSUTn, SMPWRKn, SMPTLIB, or any of the DDNAMEs that are used for SYSOUT(*). That way, if one of those DDDEFs is

Re: Unix support of symbols in .profile

2016-02-09 Thread David Magee
Kirk, My .profile is umask 027 Sys_MPT=$(sysvar SYSNAME) echo $Sys_MPT echo $HOME/$Sys_MPT/maxdate

Re: Unix support of symbols in .profile

2016-02-09 Thread David Magee
That was it! I normally run emulator A which is set up correctly as 1047. Pop'ed over to use emulator B (which is set up for 037) to assist a user having with a file transfer problem involved with some of those other special characters. Then I fell asleep at the wheel. Thanks for the reminder!

Re: Unix support of symbols in .profile

2016-02-08 Thread David Magee
Thanks, Kirk! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Unix support of symbols in .profile

2016-02-08 Thread David Magee
I'm stumped trying to use a system symbol in my .profile to perform a test for a file name. I'm coding along these lines: if [ ! -f //file_name ]; then echo "* The file is not there. *" else echo "* The file is there.

RSU1509 PTFs showed up today

2015-10-15 Thread David Magee
I usually have a RECEIVE RECOMMENDED run every couple of days for my z/OS GLOBAL zone. Today it pulled in 204 PTFs of which 202 were marked RSU1509. These PTFs had not previously shown up. The email from IBM with Subject: "New IBM z/OS RSU testing complete" came in back on Oct 7th. None of

Re: JES2 SPOOL question

2015-07-21 Thread David Magee
Long running STCs that have allocated SPOOL on the mod-9 will be your problem. The $MSPL will not move active stuff. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with

SMP/E ++HOLD COMMENT SYMP

2015-07-06 Thread David Magee
To perform some reporting for PCI compliance, I would like to be able to be able to list out SYSMODs with ALL of the ++HOLDDATA that I have processed. We do load the SECINT assigns and holddata pulled from the security portal. However, once loaded, getting to the value that was in the SYMP

Re: OMVS segments created on demand

2015-06-05 Thread David Magee
On Fri, 5 Jun 2015 12:09:42 -0500, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: ​I can, sort of, see a possible security concern here. At present, to access CICS, a RACF id must have a CICS segment. To access TSO, ​it must have a TSO segment. A CICS user cannot log in to TSO if they don't

Re: migrating compiler versions

2015-04-06 Thread David Magee
We're going with VLR(STANDARD) also. Any problems encountered with FILE-STATUS 04 will be treated as something that needs to be investigated. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: RECEIVE ORDER failing in the underlying FTP process

2014-11-14 Thread David Magee
IBM is working to resolve the problem. They have updated the STATUS page at http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/gdbm/home.html to show the service is not available. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

RECEIVE ORDER failing in the underlying FTP process

2014-11-13 Thread David Magee
When attempting to pull current maintenance holddata today, the order was built and then the ftp process started up to actually get the files from IBM to my SMPNTS. But I encountered errors that I have not seen before. Anyone else having problems? The error reported in SMPOUT was RECEIVE

Re: RECEIVE ORDER failing in the underlying FTP process

2014-11-13 Thread David Magee
It must be contagious. I just tried Rochester and encountered the same problem. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Unix System Services file listings under ISPF vs ISHELL

2014-07-18 Thread David Magee
I was leaving the implementation up to IBM. The current ISPF file listing is done using ISPF DM tables which does not provide any collating sequence options that the user can tweak. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Unix System Services file listings under ISPF vs ISHELL

2014-07-16 Thread David Magee
I've gotten use to using ISHELL which displays the contents of a directory ignoring case sensitivity. ISPF can't do it that way ... you have to look through all the lower case names before getting to the upper case names. IBM ISPF recommended submitting an rfe in developerworks. Here is the

CSTRSU for RSU1312

2014-01-13 Thread David Magee
Anyone have any info concerning RSU1312. The ++ASSIGNS finally showed up late last week but RECEIVE ORDER( ORDERSERVER ... jobs are not pulling anything with RSU1312. An email from IBM on the 10th stated: Hello, We are writing to notify our CST subscribers that RSU1312 will be available

Re: Standard TSO/MVS way to delete a PDS(E) member

2013-10-16 Thread David Magee
If the PDS command package from cbttape.org (or Serena's Startool product) is used in batch, I think the ISPFEDIT ENQs are issued. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to