Check out IBM Loads Quantum Computing Onto Its Cloud

However, you do not know whether it is on the cloud or not... until you look. ; ^ ) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: z/OS 2.2 Question

Greetings, Steve. I am going from 1.3 to 2.2 also, and would like to ask you to expand on your reply. I understand the question... but not the answer. What changed in Hyperbatch? >From:Steve Beaver >Subject: Re: z/OS 2.2 Question >Were you aware that Hype-Batch woke

Re: JCL IF Condition - I'm Missing Something

Mr Poncelet is correct here. While the old fashioned COND statements had a funky syntax, there are some cases where they just work simpler. See my example, below, which also presents a reasonable way to make sense of the old syntax. > From:CM Poncelet > If

Re: Loyalty

Jack Woehr makes some good points. Most sysprogs are not very good at public relations. We do not make much noise, blow our own horns and are like proof readers for a publisher... IF we do our jobs perfectly no one notices, which is right, BUT if we make a mistake EVERYONE notices. I

Job opening RACF & SYSPROG

I hope I am not violating any rules here. If I am, just tell me, gently, and I will cease and desist. I just want those on the list looking for jobs to find them, I have no horse in this race. My old eyes first read the company as CorN force well, it is Alabama but should be Iowa. My name

Job Opening Performance & Tuning

I hope I am not violating any rules here. If I am, just tell me, gently, and I will cease and desist. I just want those on the list looking for jobs to find them, I have no horse in this race. from MasterCard ... I'm with MasterCard's Global Talent Acquisition team and we are aggressively

Job Loyalty

Loyalty is dead in the workplace. Companies will dump you in a flash unless they have an immediate need, and employees should be ready to take any better offer which comes along. I coined a phrase many years ago "No company will pay you as much to STAY as another will pay you to GO".

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

Why not admit that management it just not flexible, innovative, smart enough to determine whether their employees are working effectively. I totally view this as an admission of management's failure to keep up with changing technology and workplace reality. Needless to say, I may not be popular

Re: IBM SR process -- brilliant

AcronymFinder.com finds 93 possible for TLA I choose True Love Always ICN Only 54... Not sure if I prefer "Inter-Array Correlation-Neglecting" (WTF) or "I Care Not" better. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: zOS SYSPROG jobs

(sorry, finger check) And often they have no experience with zOS and therefore only a hazy idea of what we are doing. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: zOS SYSPROG jobs

Laid off May 2014 after 18 years at Epson, could not find anything for about four months and then suddenly I had multiple offers... the nature of life... rather like dating, feast or famine. Was lucky to snag a job five miles from my house, and the MF system is due to be replaced about the

BPXP018I THREAD ENDED WITHOUT BEING UNDUBBED WITH COMPLETION CODE 0033E000 , AND REASON CODE 00000000

Going to CICS TS 5.2 and noticed this message when the CICS region comes down. zOS 1.13 DB2 and IMS It looks like OMVS is FULL ACTIVE. So why getting this message when CICS Region comes down? +DFHTM1703 TCICS01 CICS is being terminated by userid CICSMTO in transaction CESD. BPXP018I THREAD

Paper tape

GTE Data Services in Marina del Rey, CA was still getting paper tape out put from telephone local offices in 1982. Basically the system worked fine, and while they were scheduled for replacement, they figured "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Tapes came from the local offices and were read

set

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Re: Bad IOA card replaced, now test lpar Master console and alternate BOXED

Indeed, Radoslaw, I should have put OSA card, and it was OSA C Fortunately I had seen the likes of this before, but LONG LONG ago, and after much flailing about I did the following: #D M DEV and found which CHPID was offline, #CF CHP(31),ONLINE to config the chpid online #V 5C1,ONLINE #V

Bad IOA card replaced, now test lpar Master console and alternate BOXED

So IBM replaced a bad IOA card. Now the test lpar has both consoles BOXED. Messy to say the least. Nothing I have been able to do has brought them back online, not VARY ONLINE or VARY CONSOLE. Says no paths available. LPAR is still up, but we have to get out of this. My first impulse was to

Sysprog jobs in North Carolina

Just saw these two job postings. Wonder if the job description includes WASP. Good luck filling 'em. Systems Programmer Specialist North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts - Raleigh, North Carolina, 27607 Senior Systems Programmer North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts -

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

It may be uncharitable of me, but perhaps you are talking about how to the job well, and the programmer is talking about his/her job security. Create something hard enough to maintain, and your job security is pretty much assured. Reference the "programming standards" article in the recent

How to cut and paste shorter URL's

In general (yes, I know about that) everything which follows the question mark "?" in a URL is additional baggage. For example http://www.computerworld.com/article/3150217/application- development/but-at-least-he-enforced-programming-standards.html?

Re: CICS SYSIN statements.. are comments possible?

Found it! Thanks http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGMCP_5.1.0/com.ibm.cics.ts.doc/dfha2/topics/dfha2_coding_rules_sitparms.html "*" in col1 or blank after parm. On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 2:19 PM, John Mattson <johnmattson...@gmail.com> wrote: > Google and manua

CICS SYSIN statements.. are comments possible?

Google and manuals have let me down. Is it possible to put comments into the //SYSIN input to your CICS STC? If so, how? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Apar PM67033: WTOR MESSAGE DFHPA1909 nothing seems to work

On z/OS 1.13 going to CICS TS5.2 I get the following while installing +DFHDH0300 TECHCICS 682 File /usr/lpp/cicsts/cicsts52/CICS_INSTALL_OK could not be opened (ENOENT). Response X'0081', Reason X'0594003D'. 68 DFHPA1909 TECHCICS DATA INVALID FOR 'USSHOME'. RESPECIFY KEYWORD AND DATA OR

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

Fascinating subject for most of us, just look at all the replies. Makes me sorry that I am close to retirement when things keep getting more interesting. Many years ago that I started doing all of the zOS maintenance because the rest of the group was eliminated or switched to Unix/Win.

Re: SMPE SCPP Custompac trying to change from "Full replace" to "Software Upgrade".

With IBM's excellent help, found the answer in the FM. Says right there that software upgrade is for ZOS only, and I am only upgrading CICS. I am new consultant into this very old shop which has ways of doing things which predate serverpac and such. This is going to be "interesting".

SMPE SCPP Custompac trying to change from "Full replace" to "Software Upgrade".

At the beginning of the SCPP install dialog you get an option for "F" full install or "S" software upgrade. I should have chosen "S", but I mucked up and did "F". So I want to change to "S". The manual says I should be able to do I-Install C-Create CReate-create again DELETE-delete old install

Re: Delta Ourage

Perhaps the rush to eliminate mainframes is to eliminate the embarrassment of having them not fail when most everything else does. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Capturing STC SYSOUT when the STC is shut down

My suggestion would use the KISS principle. Yes, you can write (and maintain) SDSF code or REXX, or use special software, or do it the simple way. Remember an STC is just a JCL job for most practical purposes. 1) Change the STC //SYSPRINT to go to DISP=(NEW,CATLG),DSN=SOME.GDG(+1) ... 2) ADD a

IBM plans for the future - an imaginary tale

IBM made mistakes back in the 1980's and 1990's from which they may never really recover. 1) Doing away with the THINK motto. It seems about the time they did this is when many of them stopped thinking. 2) Stopped giving the systems almost free to colleges which stopped the flow of trained

Re: Special characters in passwords from non-US computers (Italy)

Thanks to everyone, First let me say ECBDIC was not a consideration, since if I ever had to access my home mainframe from overseas it would most likely be with my own laptop with security of my choice, not what a hotel or cyber cafe provides. But using the solution I think I have found a local

Special characters in passwords from non-US computers (Italy)

I try to include the special characters on standard US keyboards in some of my passwords. On a trip it Italy, I attempted to login to some websites (not anything very secure of course) and I found that the passwords always failed. I could only conclude that the local hex encoding for the ! @

Re: Helpful tip for z/OS consultants

Much like any job you take, so much depends on the corporate culture, personalities, as well as the situation. I am working happily in a decommissioning situation where their interests and mine match very well. Were I to give advice to someone entering such a job, I would say insist on knowing

Re: Grace didn't coin the term "bug"?

This story is from my youth, and may be incompletely remembered In Brainerd, MN around 1963 when I was a young teen, I met a fellow who may have been the victim of that "first real BUG". As I remember his story he was in the military, cannot remember which branch, and operating a computer.

Re: [SURVEY] What ISPF terminal model do you use

I use Mod-5 and have been an advocate for it because most emulators support it, Most zOS sites just give everyone Mod-2 because that is the usual emulator default. Everyone I have shown that they can use Mod-5 is usually delighted with it and never go back. Just being to see the fully sysout or

Clipped digests

A while back I was wondering why I could not find one of the subjects listed in "Topics of the Day" in the body of my eMail. Figured it out today. gMail "clips" long eMails but the only indication is at the BOTTOM of the eMail. Not user friendly. Wonder what else I have missed > you are

Digest oddity, item in Topics, but not in Body

Last couple of days I have noticed some occurrences of a subject being listed in the Topics of the day, but not found in the body. Is there a problem? Anyone else getting this? IBM-MAIN Digest - 23 Feb 2016 to 24 Feb 2016 (#2016-55) There are 78 messages totaling 4940 lines in this issue.

Why doesn't "="option work in SMP/E panels?

I have noticed that it also depends upon HOW you got to various ISPF panels. For example IN most cases when you enter 3.4 from the primary panel enter END, you go back to where you were before 3.4 On the other hand if you enter 3;4 from the primary panel (assuming ";" is your command

Anyone using Rocket Software Performance Essential

Rocket software has a "Performance Essential" product which they claim greatly improved VSAM and other I/O processing. Does anyone have experience with it? Basically does it significantly improve I/O and is it trouble free? --

Setting up an HMC for one machine two lpars

Does anyone know of a simple, clear, straight-forward, tutorial on setting up an HMC for one CPU with two lpars? I set up once many years ago, and am now faced with a new one, and getting it set up so that it which group object (basically LPAR) gets which activation/load profile is making my head

HMC Defining a new LOAD "object" under the TEST Lpar group.

Inherited an HMC for my z9 at 2.9.2 level. Trying how to remember how do define a new object to activate/load that lpar with my experimental testing stuff. Been beating thru the HMC and SE manuals and cannot find what should be the simplest of tasks. Under GROUPS I have CPC Images, Defined CPCs,

Re: HMC Defining a new LOAD "object" under the TEST Lpar group.

Thanks, everyone, Especially Dana. It was easy once you pointed the way. Wow, HMC has changed a lot in the last 15 years, but still a bit quirky. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

What does the 8th character of Load parm mean

According to zOS MVS System Commands manual 4. The last character (character 8 of the LOAD parameter) specifies the alternate nucleus identifier (0-9). Use this character at the system programmer's direction. If you do not specify an alternate nucleus identifier, the system loads the standard

Web access to HMC failing to connect

Finally solved this. It was part of the IE configuration. If you get the Login page missing the USERID: PASSWORD: boxes... Check in IE>Internet Options>Advanced that HTTP 1.1 and all of the SSL & TLS are checked Check IE > Compatibility View Settings That the HMC url is not in the list

Re: Web access to HMC failing to connect

..@sita.co.za> wrote: > John Mattson wrote: > > >Finally solved this. It was part of the IE configuration. > > Cool! What was your Internet Exploder (sic) version? Sorry that I ask, bu= > t if you mentioned that, I probably missed that in this thread. > > > >Chec

Re: IBM Mainframe

My personal experience. I'm 67, laid off after 18 years May 2014, consultant with raise Sept 2014, Hired away with raise Aug 2015. Yes, there is work to be had. More so if you are able to travel and/or re-locate, but I am seeing more notices for work-from-home. PS, once you are on Medicare,

HMC and certificate

I confirmed both in IE and Java Console. Java IS enabled. This is most perplexing NameJava(tm) Plug-In SSV Helper Publisher Oracle America, Inc. Status Enabled Architecture32-bit Load time 0.00 s NameJava(tm) Plug-In 2 SSV

HMC and certificate

I just noticed another annoying thing. In my IE session what I see is this Hardware Management Console (Version 2.10.2) Logon Please wait while the login page is loading. For more information, click "Help". CANCEL HELP HOWEVER, when I Select that area from IE and Paste it into MS Word

HMC and certificate

I got by the SSL problem with my browser, now I am finding a problem with the self signed cert from the HMC. As best I understand it, my predecessor created a self signed cert using the HMC. It is not expired. I get to the HMC pre-logon screen in IE, but get a There is a problem with this

Re: HMC and certificate

Correction to my message. The "Userid: Password: " fields do NOT show up. Mistake in my copying. Oh, if only they did. On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 3:01 PM, John Mattson <johnmattson...@gmail.com> wrote: > I got by the SSL problem with my browser, now I am finding a problem wit

Re: HMC and certificate

Thanks, Jerry. I had indeed tried that and I have what looks like a valid .cer file, -BEGIN CERTIFICATE- MIICMDCCAZmgAwIBAgIQNptcVHKLTY6DrL2b+4zS1jANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQUFADAo Q7ML/YE8Hl0G9cnuRzRU2LYIJl3tZ5o+VNOzwdmkETblAbD0 -END CERTIFICATE- And I have tried several times to

Web access to HMC failing to connect

I have an HMC running 2.10.2 version on a Unix box. It works just fine from its attached console, but refuses access from our local LAN. Basically attempts to connect to it just wait and time out. - HMC on a "10" network - I can Ping it fine, and the DNS name, and the DNS name resolves properly -

Re: Web access to HMC failing to connect

Thanks, Jerry. I confirmed valid gateway / default route is good. I also checked in Network Diag and confirmed that I could successfully Ping my PC from the HMC, so I think those parts appear to be working correctly. Customize Console Services>Remote Operation is enabled I could not find

Re: Web access to HMC failing to connect

Greetings, Lizette, Messages are not too helpful, I fear. I did not setup or configure the Unix box, so I cannot add much about how it was setup by my predecessor. This page can’t be displayed - Make sure the web address http://10.16.xx.xx is correct. - Look for the page with your search

Deleting all members of a pds

Someone was asking about deleting all members of a pds. I just noticed that DFSort has a bunch of "samples" one of which includes how to use ICETOOL to delete all members of a PDS. Hope this helps. Lots of other neat things in here too. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T794

AW: Re: Fastest way to read OLDEST GDG entry

Let's think outside this box a minute. GDG's were designed to group similar records by generation. The fact that they work for other things is just a bonus. This case is using GDG's as a "store and forward" type of process of unique files and GDG's are not designed for this. Two real

Fortran, assembly programmers ... NASA needs you – for Voyager • Job For Shane?

This is just too sweet. Decisions decisions, retire and spent lots of time in Italy, or code assembler for NASA. Hmmm let me have a glass of Pinot grigio and some pasts and think about it. zzz -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

How to change SMS

I just want to thank Lizette Kohler for the clear, concise yet detailed, and patient answers. I read thru this thread just to refresh myself on how SMS works, and learned several things along the way. Many thanks for the good answers.

Re: The Mainframe world?

I challenge the question. Just what are we measuring with this "trend"? If we ASSUME that this measures interest in systems, then interest in all three is decreasing, and it appears Windows fastest of all. Is everyone going iOS or Google for business applications? Hmmm? If we assume that this

Re: Limit number of frames of real storage per job

As I remember from Barry Merrill... memory should be treated like electricity or plumbing. You should never run out. To put it another way, if you are doing physical paging, buy more memory. It is cheap by comparison to the I/O and cycles needed for physical paging. (Hopefully this has not

Re: Is there any tools or interface which could analyse or monitor SYS1.MANX directly?

Depends upon what SMF recs you are talking about. RMF Monitor I II and III will do it on the fly for RMF data, Lots of IBM and OEM products such as scheduling products, and monitors look at SMF as it is written. -- For

Fwd: FC0994 authServer: secure_socket_init failed with rc = 428 (Key entry does not contain a private key)

-- Forwarded message -- From: John Mattson johnmattson...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 5:41 PM Subject: FC0994 authServer: secure_socket_init failed with rc = 428 (Key entry does not contain a private key) To: RACF Discussion List rac...@listserv.uga.edu, ibm-m

Re: Pissing contest(s)

So does anyone wonder where the phrase came from anyhow? Were there such contests in the distant past? Was it an ancient Greek olympic event? What? Certainly seems like good material for Monty Python. John Mattson, Epson America desk: 562-290-4163 cell:310-210-9152 From: Scott Ford

gzip zOS data set into zOS omvs file

not have it in two, even for a short time. John Mattson, Epson America desk: 562-290-4163 cell:310-210-9152 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message

Re: Simple question about BEGINROUTES, how to force traffic for a segment thru one OSA address

Cross Posting to IBMMAIN and TCPIP Sorry, failed to put in the above notice. Hope someone has an answer. From: John Mattson/Epson To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu, IBM TCP/IP List ibmtc...@vm.marist.edu Date: 08/15/2012 06:02 PM Subject:Simple question

Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!

It seems to me that most of the auditors I encounter are fresh out of college. Perhaps auditing is a sort of boot-camp for young accountants. My impression is that they are given a book to follow, and as long as they follow the book they are safe. No independent thinking allowed.

Simple question about BEGINROUTES, how to force traffic for a segment thru one OSA address

I have a really simple IP net on zOS 1.11. Two OSA adaptors FA00 FB00 and I want to route everything for the segment 192.xxx.xxx to FA00 and everything ELSE thru FB00. My current IP parms include the following where LINKMQFB00 is for OSA DEVFB00 and FA for FA. BEGINROUTES ;

Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing

In ofddeba129.3add7da9-on88257a40.0050f760-88257a40.00514...@ea.epson.com, on 07/19/2012 at 07:47 AM, John Mattson john_matt...@ea.epson.com said: Shmuel ! I sent my original source, and it was REXX. It's ISPF that interprets the ampersamds, not REXX. Try turning on the ISPF trace and see if anything

Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing

Subject:Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU In ofc169f9df.8de870ec-on88257a3f.006f4f36-88257a3f.00705...@ea.epson.com, on 07/18/2012 at 01:26 PM, John Mattson john_matt...@ea.epson.com said: Thanks to all, I now have

Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing

Shmuel ! I sent my original source, and it was REXX. Having a few spare moments, I quickly converted the REXX to CLIST and all of the FIND's worked as a clist. Oddly, they work with or withOUT SCAN OFF. Whether the problem belongs to ISPF, REXX, or both is not my problem. These commands

Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing

DD DISP=SHR,DSN=PDQ.ALC.UNVLIB(MY) Thomas Ambros Operating Systems and Connectivity Engineering 518-436-6433 From: John Mattson john_matt...@ea.epson.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 07/19/2012 10:49 Subject:Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing Sent by:IBM

Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing

. This problem is certainly worth an SR. . . JO.Skip Robinson SCE Infrastructure Technology Services Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com From: John Mattson john_matt...@ea.epson.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

REXX ISPF edit FIND failing

I have a little dataset which contains //REMOTE DD DISP=SHR,DSN=MSYS.UCMD.REMOTEPDQR.(SYSTEM) //REMOTE DD DISP=SHR,DSN=MSYS.UCMD.REMOTEPDQR.(SYSTEM) //REMOTE DD DISP=SHR,DSN=MSYS.UCMD.REMOTEPDQR(SYSTEM) //SYSINDD DISP=SHR,DSN=PDQ.ALC.UNVLIB(UCMIN) X/MYSCRIPT DD

Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing

ALL P'DISP=SHR,DSN=MSYS$UCMD$REMOTEPDQR$(SYSTEM$' L ISREDIT F ALL P'DISP=SHR,DSN=MSYS$UCMD$REMOTEPDQR$(SYSTEM$' +++ RC(4) +++ From: John Mattson/Epson To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 07/18/2012 01:26 PM Subject:Re: REXX ISPF edit

Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing

That's one of the very frustrating things about this problem. Almost EVERY variation of these ISREDIT FIND's work just fine as the 'commands between the quotes' in TSO/ISPF. So, why don't they work the same way in ISREDIT? Beats me, that's for sure. From: Lizette Koehler

Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek

Back to basics: My pet peeve(s) (serious security concerns) are: 1) sites which do not allow use of the full set of special characters. My banks, Google and Facebook do, so it is not that hard. The more posibilities for each character, the more secure the password. 2) sites which limit

Show the //SYSIN DD * lines when using TYPRUN=SCAN?

In SDSF INPUT ON will show you the //SYSIN DD * lines for a job on the input or executing queues. But NOT the output queue. Is there any way to show what is between the //SYSIN DD * ... and /* lines when using TYPRUN=SCAN? I do not have CA's or other JCL analysis programs, only IBM