IOF End of Support Direction.....

[Longnecker, Dennis]

Please excuse me if this is been asked already, haven't seen it.

https://www.triangle-systems.com/End%20of%20IOF%20Support.shtml

We have used IOF for quite a awhile, and frankly it has some wonderful 
functionality that I haven't seen in SDSF (like the ability to send the output 
to email address).

Curious what sites that use that product plans are.

Dennis

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Java And Specialty Engines

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We run a lot of JAVA workloads under WebSphere Liberty on our z15.

We are seeing hardly any utilization on our 2 specialty engines (ziip/zaap).   
It is my understanding that ALL java workload is eligible to run under those 
engines, so it has left me confused.  We are seeing some offloaded DB2 work for 
the distributed connections, so the engines are working.

Curious if anyone has any suggestions/thoughts on what we might be missing?  
All the settings we have chased down look correct.

Dennis

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Report on total tape usage?

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I am trying to figure out how much data we actually have backed up on tape.   I 
have run a few RMM reports, but haven't seen anything much that will just give 
me a total number of space used (i.e. 12.4 Terabytes used).   Report 11 seems 
the closest, but that will take much work to add up all the individual fields.  
 Anyone have a report, or is there another one already existing that you can 
point me to?  I'm going to look around in MXG today, but figured I'll check 
with the group.

Thanks,
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Re: Anyone have SFTP JCL to share?

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Stuff is becoming such a pain.  I found in this situation it was much easier to 
FTP the file from the mainframe to my PC, and then to use FileZilla to sftp it 
up to Broadcom.

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I believe SFTP is part of SSH, so you would have to install that. It's free 
from IBM. Then I believe Rocket Software has a freebee that allows you to use 
SFTP in batch with MVS datasets.

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Hi everyone! I was just moved to support a CA product (I guess that's Broadcom 
now), and have to send in a sensitive file to one of my support cases. The file 
is pretty large, and the support tech said I have to copy it to OMVS to use 
SFTP for uploading it. I am not sure I have that space available on the other 
side, so I was wondering if anyone here has a BPX batch job that will send a 
file to CA or Broadcom from the z/OS file without having to first copy the file 
to my Unix filesystem.

I hope this is clear, and that someone can help me.

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Re: z/OS LDAP Server

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We've been doing it this way for years.   Very simple configuration and works 
pretty well.

If you have any questions, feel free to send me an email.

Dennis

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Hi,

I have been given the task of implementing a z/OS LDAP server on a sandbox.
I have been reading the manuals (the RedBook IBM Tivoli Directory Server for 
z/OS and the IBM Tivoli Directory Server Administration and Use for
z/OS)
The idea is to have this LDAP acting as a bridge between RACF and a program 
running on a Linux or windows platform (an userid administration program of 
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My doubt at this point is if I need to implement anything else besides the SDBM 
configuration. It seems to be that I do not need DB2 for the task at hand.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated
Thank you in advance for any help that you can give me.
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Re: SKLM Servers

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Have it on two Virtual Windows Servers.  I agree it is crazy we have to pay for 
such software to utilize encryption on our IBM Disk.

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Curious what folks are doing to provide SKLM to your IBM Z DASD and tape
devices?

Are people using an IBM Storage Appliance (such as 2421 model AP1),
hosting SKLM on your own dedicated "in room" Linux machines, using
competing KMIP-compliant solutions, or something else entirely?

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Re: EMC DLM over IBM VTL

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We did the same about 5 years ago.  Originally started using the DLM and Data 
Domain just for the mainframe data.  We also replicate to our cold site with a 
matching pair.   We started adding more Windows related data using SQL DD Boost 
and server Veeam backups to it. 

We absolutely zero performance issues on backups.   

We do see performance issues on Windows restores when it needs to reconstitute 
all the dedupped/compressed data such that it has me looking at alternatives.   
We do not see this issue on the mainframe data, just Windows.

Dennis

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Hello

We are analysing if EMC DLM would be a right fit to replace IBM VTL.


I am trying to understand about backup cycles using EMC DLM when we use single 
backup solution and single virtual tape library to backup both mainframe and 
open systems.

Is there a possibility for contention ?
Will there be a impact to mainframe backup when there is a high backup volume 
for open system  ?

These performance do effect the open system as well ?

Trying to understand these from the DLM users ? Any feedback would be 
appreciated

Jake.

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Re: TS7720 to EMC DLM migration

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We did this migration not too long ago.  It was actually pretty easy once 
everything was setup and the devices were available on all LPARs.

The main tool we used was FDRCOPY.  With a few simple jobs, we were able to use 
it and migrate almost 80% of the items on the TS7720 to the DLM.  It did the 
copies and recataloged everything to the new DLM "tapes".For my 7 years of 
FDRARCHIVE tapes, we used the FDRARCHIVE utilizes to copy everything that we 
needed to keep.   FDRCOPY also let us "stack" items onto "tapes", so a lot of 
the 30 years of "logs", we were able to "stack".  It was quite nice that it 
handled all the recataloging so that none of the using jobs needed to be 
modified at all.

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Hello

I am interested to know about your experience on migrating TS7720 to EMC
DLM ?

Basically what are the changes to be done in zOSA Before migrating ? Any
gotchas ?

We use HSM and is there anything to be done ?

Peter

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Re: CA Broadcom Replacement Software

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See you are getting lots of responses on this.

CA-1 we migrated to RMM
Migrated our automation to SeaSoft ODDS
Haven't found a viable replacement for TPX.  We use dynamic screens based off 
of attached RACF Profiles and rely a lot on SMF records, which no other product 
does.

I feel your pain though.

Dennis


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Any recommendations for CA1, CA Workload Automation (JSS/ESP), TPX session 
manager replacements?

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Re: SuperWylbur Users

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DDNAME not found   
? show ddns 26142   
JOB 26142 TECHDELD  PRT  LOCAL PUN  LOCAL   
  PN DD-IDENT TYPE LRECL   COUNT CPY FORM DEST   DISP   
Job record count= 0 
? show ddns 26142 all   
JOB 26142 TECHDELD  PRT  LOCAL PUN  LOCAL   
  PN DD-IDENT TYPE LRECL   COUNT CPY FORM DEST   DISP   
Job record count= 0 
?   

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What happens if you do show sysout/ddnames and show sysout/ddnames all?

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Re: SuperWylbur Users

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The z/os 1.13 to z/os 2.2 required some changes to all the JES interfacing 
modules.  One of the problems I found is with the my different LPARS, sometimes 
the JES BASETRAK would be different, so depending on which LPAR it was, I had 
to change that.  I created some automation that determined what the BASETRAK 
was in the LPAR SuperWylbur was coming up in, and then dynamically zap the 
offsite in the module  One of the SuperWylbur systems mods fixed that problem 
so I don't deal with that anymoreI'll look again to see if that fix is 
still there.

Back in 1980's I was always tweaking the SuperWylbur code and got pretty good 
at it, but through the years I stopped, so it takes a bit to get re-geared up 
to start looking at it again.

Right now, it is just the fetch that is not working.   Show JOBS gives what one 
would expect:

? show jobs  
JOB26146  TECHDELQ  AW FETCH LOCAL T=22236 CODE 12   
JOB26142  TECHDELD  AW FETCH LOCAL T=4159  CODE 0
JOB26141  TECHDELA  AW FETCH LOCAL T=11812 CODE 0
JOB26140  TECHDELD  AW FETCH LOCAL T=24632 CODE 0

But the fetch is not working...
? fet 26142 clear 
 DDNAME not found 
? 

I believe that is all that is not working...but that is a key function our 
helpdesk uses.

Like John, I am hoping to keep it working for a while.   When I last talked to 
SuperWylbur systems they said there were about 4 customers still using it.

I will put my Wylbur hat on later this week and do some tracing and see if I 
can see where it might be failing.

Dennis


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It is still distributed with full source code.  

Typically is new JES2 releases that require modules to be re-assembles.  I 
can't really remember the last time we had to re-assemble or make any changes 
because of z/OS upgrades. 

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Re: SuperWylbur Users

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Yes I did.   Assembles just fine.  Even put the code in to indicate z/OS 2.4.  
Everything works okay except for the fetch...which is what we need.

Dennis

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Did you reassemble (assuming Wylbur code is available) with new JES2 macros?

> -Original Message-
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> 
> Hello -
> Anyone here still using SuperWylbur and have it up and running on a z/OS 2.4
> system?   Bringing up 2.4 now and the JES parts aren't working correctly.
> Before I start digging into the code, I wanted to see if anyone else 
> has solved it.
> 
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SuperWylbur Users

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Hello -
Anyone here still using SuperWylbur and have it up and running on a z/OS 2.4 
system?   Bringing up 2.4 now and the JES parts aren't working correctly.  
Before I start digging into the code, I wanted to see if anyone else has solved 
it.

Thanks,
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Re: ISPW Question

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This triggered me to look to see what version of ISPW we are on4.04.so 
I guess we are in the same boat as you!

Dennis

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Anyone on this list have experience upgrading Compuware ISPW from v17 to v18?

Is there a  listserv for Compuware and / or ISPW ?

Google couldn't find anything.

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Question on MQ on the Z/os

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Wondering if anyone here is using MQ Series on the z/os box and knows about the 
licensing?

If one had MQ on the Z and it was doing all the QMgrs/Queue work, do the 
clients (that aren't QMgrs/Queue) on the other boxes need cost/purchase 
licenses?   What I am finding is:

- The MQ clients are available as support pacs, they are freely downloadable.
- it's covered by an IBM license, they just don't charge for it.
- MQ Client comes with the Websphere MQ Package, it is a component. 
- The standard MQ Client is free

Dennis

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Re: Question on LDAPSRV running on z/OS

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We are doing the same.  There was no LDAP server changes we needed to do to 
make this happen.  My first guess would be your web front-end is uppercasing it 
before sending it to LDAP.

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Cross-posted from RACF list because I'm getting desperate.

Hello list,

I hope this is the right place for this.  We're using LDAPSRV running on z/OS 
2.2 to take login requests from a browser front-end and authenticate them 
against RACF.  We just implemented mixed case passwords last night and it 
appears that LDAP is converting the passwords it gets to upper case before 
sending them on to RACF for validation, so logons are failing for people who 
have changed their passwords with the mixed case support.  Is there a parameter 
in the LDAP config files to pass passwords through LDAP as-is instead of 
upper-casing them or am I looking in the wrong place.  LDAP is a black box to 
me.

AFAIK, logons are still working just fine for those who haven't changed 
passwords, only those who have.

TIA,

Rex

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Page/Alert notifications from z/os

[Longnecker, Dennis]

Curious what people are using, if they are anymore, to send 
pages/text's/notifications/etc. from z/os to people on call.   The software we 
have been using runs on a Windows 7 box, which I need to get rid of and/or 
replace.   Rather than continue what we have been doing for 25 years, curious 
as to what other people might be doing for this.

The easiest thing I can think of is to change my alerting automation to send an 
e-mail/txt message to the cellphone of the person on call.

Thanks for any suggestions/ideas.

Dennis

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Re: Accented Names in EBCDIC -> ASCII

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I believe it is the "ó small o acute"

The original Windows File has this in it.
Dón   (there is an accent on the o).

The file that gets delivered to z/os has this in it:
Dsn

In my FTPDATA for the FTP server, I have this:

;SBDATACONN   (IBM-1047,IBM-850)

Which is commented out, so I'm using the "default" .  I do have a 
"TCPIP.STANDARD.TCPXLBIN " dataset, which would be 7th on the hierarchy list.

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On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 15:48:50 +, Longnecker, Dennis wrote:

>I see there is an extended ASCII table which has accented characters; like the 
>hex A2 which is an accented lower case O.
>
>Is there such a character in the ebcdic world?   All my google searches for 
>EBCDIC to ASCII conversions aren't showing accented characters in EBCDIC.
> 
What does your "accented lower case O" look like.  What accent?  In Unicode.
I find at least the following:
ö small o umlaut
ô small o circumflex
ó small o acute
ò small o grave

What language does it come from?  That might be a clue to the EBCDIC code page.

In ISO8859-1, 'A2'x is "¢", a cent sign.   I might expect other languages to
overload that.

See: https://www.terena.org/activities/multiling/ml-docs/iso-8859.html

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Re: Accented Names in EBCDIC -> ASCII

[Longnecker, Dennis]

Thanks all for your responses.further investigation shows that the 
character is not getting translated correctly when a Windows System FTP's a 
file to a z/os file (not USS).

Our SBDATACONN statement is commented out in the FTPDATA settings.   I believe 
tomorrow I'll test various SBDATACONN settings and see what works best.  Any 
suggestions for a starter set?

Dennis

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Indeed there are.  See code points X'CB' to X'CF' in these tables for accented 
lower case letter oh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC_037

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC_1047

HTH

Peter

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Subject: Accented Names in EBCDIC -> ASCII

I see there is an extended ASCII table which has accented characters; like the 
hex A2 which is an accented lower case O.

Is there such a character in the ebcdic world?   All my google searches for 
EBCDIC to ASCII conversions aren't showing accented characters in EBCDIC.

Thanks,

Dennis
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Accented Names in EBCDIC -> ASCII

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I see there is an extended ASCII table which has accented characters; like the 
hex A2 which is an accented lower case O.

Is there such a character in the ebcdic world?   All my google searches for 
EBCDIC to ASCII conversions aren't showing accented characters in EBCDIC.

Thanks,

Dennis

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z/os Access Windows SMB ?

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I've seen the information on how to get z/os data available via SMB to a 
Windows machine, but haven't seen anything on how to get the z/os side to send 
a file to a windows SMB.

Trying to get a bunch of mainframe files over to a Windows share, without 
setting up FTP servers on the windows side and doing it that way.

Anyone doing this already and have some pointers?

Dennis

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node.js pricing ?

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I am going to trial a product that utilizes node.js.   It appears to be free on 
the windows side.  I see node.js is available for the z/os and was curious if 
anyone is actually running it, and how much it is.

Dennis

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Re: [External Sender] Re: LRS VPS Printer Replacment

[Longnecker, Dennis]

I did the VPS -> JQP/VVP swap out around 2003.  Have about 1500 printers 
defined in JQP/VVP.

I find the support really good with the JQP and VVP products.  I tried NPF 
first, but the administration would have been really hard for my help desk 
people.

The only reason I did the swap out in the first place was cost.   First it was 
the cost for CPU upgrades, but I am also seeing savings in the yearly costs.

Dennis

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Porowski, Kenneth
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2017 6:49 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [External Sender] Re: LRS VPS Printer Replacment

Another vote for MacKinney's JQP.

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Of John McKown
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2017 9:47 AM
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Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] [External Sender] Re: LRS VPS Printer Replacment

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 8:42 AM, Carroll, William < 
carro...@grangeinsurance.com> wrote:

> Another vote for NPF.  I have the same exact situation as Dana.  Works 
> well.  We do CICS , Mainframe, Network, printing all through the same 
> devices.  Not one issue for over 2 years.
>

​I got NPF working and it did well. However, it was (is still?) hard to 
administer. So hard that the VTAM person (we actually still had SNA 3270 nodes 
via Visara controllers) decided that it was unacceptable. We went with 
MacKinney's JQP. It was easier to administer than NPF (but not as easy as VPS); 
reliable (we still use it); and relatively inexpensive.​



>
> Bill
>
>

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Re: NFS on Mainframe

[Longnecker, Dennis]

I'm jumping in on thisis there any quickstarts out there to get NFS (Client 
or server?) installed on z/os?

Dennis

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Sent: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 3:12 PM
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Subject: Re: NFS on Mainframe

On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 23:23:18 -0600, Munif Sadek wrote:

>To start with. I am planning to l configure NFS client on my Sandbox zOS 2.3  
>LPAR  and NFS server  on sandbox AIX 7.1 LPAR (using classic IBM Hypervisor).
>
>Depending on the outcome, I may switch zOS to be the NFS server. Our main 
>objective is stop  FTPing tens of reports but write them to NFS so that 
>end-users (non mainframers)  can pick them up.
>
We tried that once.  Failed because of a certain application that used commas 
in filenames.

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Re: CA1 to RMM conversion

[Longnecker, Dennis]

I miss CA-1.  I found it much easier to use than RMM.  I am constantly trying 
to remember how to find things in RMM that were so simple to find in CA-1.  
What I especially miss is the reporting in CA-1.  They were so simple to 
create.  I find that I have to utilize FDR/ABR reporting to give me the RMM 
reports I want.

Dennis

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Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 10:59 PM
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Subject: Re: CA1 to RMM conversion

On 10/25/2017 10:35 PM, Edward Gould wrote:
>
> The real question should be is how is IBM support for RMM?

I don't know in the general case, but anecdotally I once I had a situation 
where RMM was *DOWN* (SEV 1) abending at startup. The support folks on the 
other end seemed unable to glean much from the SVC dump I'd sent, so they asked 
a bunch of rudimentary questions, made one useless suggestion after another, 
asked for this and that trace, and generally "dinked" around until I was ready 
to pull my hair out. (We were dead in the water for a couple of days.)

In desperation, I wrote to Mike Wood (now retired) and sent him my PMR number. 
He was _astonished_ at the (lack of good) support I was getting! 
He scolded his support team and told them straight away what the problem likely 
was.

Thanks to Mike's help, my systems were up within the hour...

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Re: IBM Session Manager replacement

[Longnecker, Dennis]

Good luck on this.  Every few years I look at what is out there to replace TPX. 
 TPX is a great multi-session product and does what we need it to do, but when 
I  get the about $60,000 bill every year I wonder what else is out there.

TPX ties in with RACF pretty well and it dynamically builds the persons "menu" 
when they signon based on their RACF profiles.  Love this capability because we 
never have to do TPX administration.  Just add the user to RACF and it all 
happens dynamically.  Some of the other products do this also.

TPX also lets you "view" a person's screen.  This is a wonderful feature the 
help desk uses.  When a customer calls in with a problem, the person just 
enters the RACFID of the person and they can see what they are doing real-time 
without the caller having to do anything. 

The main reason we still have TPX is SMF records.  TPX does an excellent job of 
writing out SMF data on all sorts of activity.  In particular we can see how 
many transactions a user did in total and per session they signon to.  We use 
this information a lot and have many reports for managers to view activity.

Good luck on your endeavor.

Dennis




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Of Roberto Halais
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2017 3:20 PM
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Subject: IBM Session Manager replacement

Hi listers:

IBM has notified that IBM Session Manager product will be phased out by the end 
of 2018.

They suggest we migrate to IBM CL/Supersession.

I would like to know of other vendor products that do a similar function.

I will be searching but thought of tapping into your experience.

Thank you all for any hints.

Roberto

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Re: Sort

[Longnecker, Dennis]

Many years ago. (about 25).

Since then we converted to Syncsort (it was almost PL/Sort, but Syncsort ended 
up in the mix.)

Then we converted to IBM Sort

All of the conversions were fairly effortless and didn’t' run into any issues. 

I think it depends on how many sort related reports you have.

IBM's sort costs me about $300 a month, so we aren't talking about a lot of 
money.

Dennis

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Sent: Tuesday, August 1, 2017 2:18 PM
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Subject: Re: Sort

Let me reword this.  Does anyone have any experience with CA-Sort?  How do you 
like working with the product?  Easy to use?

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Re: Displacement of ASG View Direct and PRO/JCL

[Longnecker, Dennis]

The list is still maintained, but not by John.  Very little traffic on it.

Dennis

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Of Edward Finnell
Sent: Thursday, June 1, 2017 1:54 AM
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Subject: Re: Displacement of ASG View Direct and PRO/JCL

Does John Anderson still maintain his ISV list in Canada? I googled a little 
but there's tons of Andersons.
 
 
In a message dated 6/1/2017 3:28:55 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
sipp...@sg.ibm.com writes:

Adding  to the list of candidate alternatives, for ASG-ViewDirect it might
be IBM  Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS or IBM Content Manager OnDemand for
z/OS.  For ASG-PRO/JCL, I agree with the RES suggestion. The full  product


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Third Party Maintenance on IBM DS8870

[Longnecker, Dennis]

Morning -

When I purchase my DS8870 several years ago, I purchased it with 3 years of 
warranty/maintenance.   I am coming up to the time to renew.  IBM's one year 
maintenance is about the same price as my original purchase price and three 
years of warranty.   Crazy.

Anyone using a third party provider for support on the IBM DS8870?   If so, 
mind PM'ing me who it is so I can give them a call.

Thanks,

Dennis Longnecker

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Re: Software vendor trying to force MSU based contract

[Longnecker, Dennis]

I would think that if you had a contract in place and were not requesting any 
changes to the contract, the T's would stay the same.   If the contract was 
based on machine serial number, address, OS, etc. and you were requesting a 
change, then they could do this to you.   Sometimes they try to change the name 
of the product with a new version, but my contracts usually have language to 
include new versions, etc.

It's pretty hard to amend a contract unless both sides sign on the dotted line.

Dennis

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Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 6:49 PM
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Subject: Software vendor trying to force MSU based contract

Has anyone else experienced this?

A vendor for a mainframe data entry product used for the last 30 years (with a 
perpetual unlimited seat license) has sent us a contract addendum where they 
increase the price by 60+% and include language to change to a MSU based 
license.

The use of this product is dwindling while our MSU foot print is growing.

When questioned about the change the representative indicated government 
contracts give him no room to negotiate on price.

This will be turned over to the legal department, but I am interested how 
others have handled similar situations.


JT

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Re: IBM Netview Session Manager replacement

[Longnecker, Dennis]

I would agree with the below.

The remote screen via capability is excellent for help desk.  No other software 
required, they just enter the persons RACF ID and they instantly see what is on 
the persons screen and as it changes.  Again, we don't have to have any 
software on the persons screen or have them do a single thing.

Also, TPX at least, produces wonderful SMF records.   So no matter what VTAM 
application they visit, I can produce reports on the total number of 
transactions they did, along with signon times for both the session manager and 
any VTAM applications.

Oh, and if you implement it, you can have single signon to your VTAM 
applications.

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Of Jesse 1 Robinson
Sent: Tuesday, February 7, 2017 8:33 AM
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Subject: Re: IBM Netview Session Manager replacement

We depend heavily on TPX here. A session manager provides two key benefits:

1) A session manager 'holds' a session from which the user gets disconnected. 
Nowadays TSO/E is pretty good at reconnection, but other VTAM applications do 
not have this capability. There is no substitute for this function for 
productivity. 

2) A session manager can support far more connections than any emulator I've 
ever seen. As a z/OS sysprog, I can limp along fairly well with just an 
emulator, but we have altogether several scores of CICS regions across the 
enterprise. TPX can orchestrate as many concurrent sessions as a user needs. 

A third benefit that I rarely make use of is the ability to 'move' a 
workstation from one location to another. I can walk to another desk even in 
another building and 'take over' my original TPX session. This can be 
especially useful for help desk/debugging activities. Fourth, Tom Brennan makes 
a usermod available to Vista that, together with an available usermod to TPX, 
causes the current session name to appear continuously at the bottom of the 
screen. The more sessions you have open--especially if they look very 
similar--the more important this feature becomes.

.
.
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Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2017 6:17 AM
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Subject: (External):Re: IBM Netview Session Manager replacement

I think Tubes was acquired by IBM and became IBM Session Manager in the early 
2000's.  We converted several systems TPX, Cl/SuperSession etc to it at the 
time as part of the push to convert from ISV products to IBM products.

I haven't needed/worked with a session manager for many years with the easy 
availablity of just opening multiple Vista windows.  What sort of functions 
provided by a session manager do you require?

Dana

On Tue, 7 Feb 2017 08:28:13 -0500, Carmen Vitullo  wrote:

>I've used TPX, Teleview, not sure of Teleview is now TPX, both from CA, 
>Tubes from MACRO4 just to name just a few Carmen
>


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SHOWMVS ASMA972U Error

[Longnecker, Dennis]

Trying to assemble SHOWZOS.  It is getting:

** ASMA972U Virtual storage exhausted; increase the SIZE option
STATEMENT NUMBER 83127 WAS BEING PROCESSED BY PASS 1 OF THE ASSEMBLER

I'm on z/os 2.2

The EXEC statement has:

//ASMH EXEC PGM=ASMA90,REGION=0M,

I've tried various SIZE options:

// PARM=(OBJECT,NODECK,BATCH,NOESD,NORLD,NOXREF,SIZE(MAX-1M,ABOVE))
// PARM=(OBJECT,NODECK,BATCH,NOESD,NORLD,NOXREF,SIZE(MAX,ABOVE))

And get the same results.

Any suggestions?

Dennis






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DB2 DBA Job Opening - Washington State

[Longnecker, Dennis]

We posted this also in the DB2 IDUG list...but just in case any of you know 
anyone who would like to move to the Pacific Northwest.  (Weather report for 
today. LOW LEVEL OFFSHORE FLOW WILL MAKE TUESDAY ONE MORE SUNNY AND MILD 
DAY WILL STILL MAINLY BE IN THE 55-60 RANGE...WITH HIGHS AROUND 60 ON THE 
COAST.)


The Administrative Office of the Courts has DB2 DBA opening in Olympia WA.  The 
position is for DB2 on z/OS, but any DB2 LUW experience on other platforms will 
be considered.

Below is the hyperlink to the Job Announcement:
DB2 DATABASE 
ADMINISTRATOR

If you would like any additional information, you can contact me at (360) 
705-5269

Dennis Longnecker



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XMITIP B37

[Longnecker, Dennis]

Using XMITIP and getting a B37 error.SYSTSPRT has:

  3981 *-*   OGet file_omvs odsn Oget_fmt
   +++ RC(-2871) +++

Looks like the code is not preallocating of the ODSN so the system is 
dynamically allocating it, but not big enough.   Anyone know of a way to get it 
to allocate it larger?  Otherwise I'm going to have to go into the code and 
actually have it pre-allocate the space.

Thanks,
Dennis

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z10 Memory

[Longnecker, Dennis]

Since IBM dropped the z10 from marketing, it seems impossible to get anything 
done to the box from them.  Does anyone know if it is possible to acquire 
memory, from a third party, and have it put in the z10 and be actually 
operational?   I'm told everything is done via microcode now and IBM won't even 
update that on z10's...the memory will be there but the microcode isn't set to 
use it.

Thanks for any comments.

Dennis

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REXX Socket Calls

[Longnecker, Dennis]

Is it still true you can't encrypt (i.e. SSL) Socket Calls in REXX? I have 
some code which does a HTML GET on a webpage on port 80 and the webmasters want 
me to run it on port 443 encrypted now.I've been doing google searches and 
I found an older reference to it doesn't support it, but some of the newer 
manuals reference it.

Thanks,

Dennis

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zIIP Enabler for Natural

[Longnecker, Dennis]

Just ran across this that enables Natural to utilize the zIIP processor.

https://www.softwareag.com/us/images/SAG_zIIP_Enabler_FS_May12_web_tcm89-98519.pdf

Wondering if anyone is using it or has more details they can share.

Thanks,

Dennis

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