Copy Jes2 Joblog

Is there a way (like sdsf XDC) to copy JES2 job output either to a dataset or ZFS with segregation of JESMSGLG JESJCL JESYSMSG SMPOUT SMPRPT SMPLOG SYSPRINT etc rather as a PS. regards Munif. -- For IBM-MAIN

HOLD Action of a superseded PTF

My SMP APPLY CHECK has multi pages of ++ HOLDSYS ACTION items but APPLY only a couple. Do I have to take HOLDSYS Action of the Superseded PTFs as reported in the APPLY CHECK SMP Report but not listed in the APPLY JOB SMP report? regards Munif.

RACF RFC822 compliance and @ in SAN email

Dear listers we are trying to automate our RACF generated CSR automatically send to external CA for signing but RACF compliance of RFC822 converts @ symbol in SAN email to ' ', causing them rejected. Currently either we use OpenSSL or GSKKYMAN to massage email address. Is there RACF

STC logs to archieve

In our system STCs JESJCLIN JESMSGLG JESJCL JESYSMSG SYSPRINT SYSABEND etc all are written in MSGCLASS , SYSOUT Class X but only SYS* Messages are read by the JOB OUTPUT manager for archiving. JES* messages remains on spool and eventually purged. How can make JES* messages also directed to Job

Installing RHEL 8.3 in Native LPAR

I have been struggling to install RHEL 8.3 on a native HMC LPAR (Z14). My CPC is with multiple IFLs and I have configured couple of LPARs with Linux, 16 GB memory and with both Dedicated and non Dedicated IFLs but my Load from REMOTE MEDIA server to upload RHEL ISO (DVD image) hangs and times

Mainframe behind Firewall / F5 - Data Power

We have been asked to move our mainframe from green zone ( multiple OSA 10GBs connecting to routed Layer 3 Switch) where zOS Stack / OSPF doing load balancing, error recovery to behind Firewall and may be with F5 (or IBM Data power). we are on Z14 / zOS 2.3 and parallel Sysplex with same box.

hiw to create sysplex $SYSNAME

I can not find my syspex OMVS symbols $SYSNAME and $VERSION. Did IPL one of the system in the PLEX still not $SYSNAME $VERSION links. Does anyone know how to create it. regards Munif -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: CTC (FCTC) usage

Thanks a lot for so many replies. My basic question still remains the same..where all CTC(FCTC) can be used under zOS and all required configurations. Do agree HCD/IOCP is very well documented but not the applications, VTAM, IP configurations. regards Munif

CTC (FCTC) usage

we are getting new z14 and time to revisit our CTC configuration. Is there a complete documentation on FICON CTC implementation and its potential usage / configuration for various subsystems e.g. VTAM, TCP/IP, GRS, NJE, XCF etc . we are single CPC SYSPLEX environment and just exploring where

Re: z?OSMF

I have had many issues with zOSMF RACF settings. Manuals - Redbook - SAMPLIB members did not match each other. Personally I could not have made it work without RACTRACE utility - as in: ftp://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/GG243984/ractrace.zip regards Munif

Re: Wells Fargo? Well f*&%#d at the moment: Data center up in smoke, bank website, app down . The Register

Thanks you for Interesting discussion.. Just wanted to know if any organization running Parallel sysplex between two or More CPCs located 12 KM (>7 miles) apart. I find running DEV+TEST and PRODUCTION at different locations and cater for Service Continuity by swapping over to other site

ARC1139I RC39 RSB08

Dear listers we are SNSPLex and common recall queue between our Production and test LPAR ARC1500I PLEXNAME=ARCPLEX0,PROMOTE PRIMARYHOST=NO,PROMOTE SSM=NO,COMMON RECALL ARC1500I (CONT.) QUEUE BASE NAME=HSMPLEX,COMMON RECALL QUEUE Problem is a valid user with valid access recalling a dataset

EDC5132I Not enough memory

One of the Unix spawned task is flooding logs with EDC5132I Not enough memory. (errno2=0x7665) (132) I have checked spawned task owner (User ID) and it has maximum RACF OMVS segment allocations and also Spawned task is running with region=0M. D OMVS,O also does not point to any resource

end-to-end visibility of mainframe performance

Dear listers I am looking for MVP (minimum Viable Product) to provide End-to-End visibility of Business Applications where back-end is Mainframe - CICS (Inbound services via CICS Listener, Liberty, Outbound via CICS Web Services) MQ (CICS - MQ, DB2 - MQ, FTE etc) DB2 (CICS-DB2, JDBC, ODBC

Re: Auto backup of zfs

Thank you so much, Glenn. Despite migrating to zOS 2.3 couple of months back, totally missed zFS enhancement. Is there any tentative schedule of this zOS 2.3 enhancement? regards Munif. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Auto backup of zfs

Thanks Lizette / Tim I still have to disable Migrate before Backup would work but have another question. My zFS is big and I am happy to take a backup with TOL(ENQF) as it contains extremely STATIC Objects which are FTPed from GIT (window$) during the deployment cycle. My zFS is mounted R/W

Auto backup of zfs

I am trying to start auto backing up a zfs dataset. Management class CMD/AUTOM MIGRATE set to YES, BACKUP FREQUENCY set to 1, # BACKUP (DS Exists / Deleted) set to 6 and 2 and AUTO BACKUP set to ye. Storage Group has AUTO BACK set to YES. Still there is no Auto backups but I can do Command

SSL/TLS MSU usage

Hello All We have zBC12 and z13s but no crypto cards. As we are moving all our IP communications to SSL/TLS, Is there a way to estimate additional MSU used in this encryption/decryption and key negotiations. IP traffic is CICS socket, HTTPS , FTPS, TN3270S, DB2 DDF , SSH etc..Its all over the

SLIP trap on High CPU usage

Dear listers Is there a way to slip trap on a module/STC if it starts consuming higher MSU in zOS 2.3. My problem is a vendor product where a user exit is being repetitively called, issuing unnecessary GETMAIN/FREEMAIN. Vendor has asked us to dummy out user exit and fix will come in the next

Re: FW: Linux (zLinux) on zSeries

Thank you. we have got couple of IFLs from IBM for our POC so all good. I have activated my LPAR on IFL and can see LINUX on System Management -> Partitions -> and LPAR icon. Now when I am trying to use -RECOVERY -> Load from Removable Media or Server, I am getting "An error occurred while

Linux (zLinux) on zSeries

Finally we are getting an IFL from IBM on trial to install Linux on our z13. No KVM or zVM on the Mainframe. I am looking for any redbooks or IBM installation document for Linux on zSeries. I am inclined towards Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 7 as I expect it to be better integrated with APACHE

Re: NFS on Mainframe

Hi Allan BPXMTEXT does not support reason code qualifier 6E05 From Network File System Guide and Reference Version 2 Release 3 SC23-6883-30 6E Indicates NFS Client modules (that is, GFSC). 05 NFS reason codes See Table 74 on page 457. 0002 NFSERR_NOENT No such file or directory A

Re: NFS on Mainframe

Apologies Listers Falls alarm..Message is documented in SC23-6883-30 as Parm invalid. Now I am in much better place with IP packets trace and following error messages BPXF162E ASYNCHRONOUS MOUNT FAILED FOR FILE SYSTEM NFS. BPXF135E RETURN CODE 0081,

Re: NFS on Mainframe

Thank you Mr Sipples Got my NFS client started successfully (ignored following warning as no security initially and target Unix server is PINGable) GFSC284I NETWORK FILE SYSTEM CLIENT COULD NOT GET GSS CREDENTIALS FOR THE NFS CLIENT : GSS API krb5_get_default_realm() FAILED WITH GSS MAJOR

Re: NFS on Mainframe

Hi Andrew Thanks for the hint. Last time I read about HTTPS, when I was attempting to implement SSL on our ezasocket CICS Listener. I just hope that I do not need another licensed product. I do not think HTTPS is the solution in our case but may be a replacement for FTP. NFS is such a *out

Re: NFS on Mainframe

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

NFS on Mainframe

Dear Listers I need your help in mounting pSeries (and may be NetApp) NFS folder on my zOS 2.3. I have tried it before NFS(and also SMB) but had give up on one pretext or other. Yes I am corporate slave and have no authority over Network Storage, Open system Certificate Management etc and had

Re: SAS - DB2 conversion to Java

Martin/Andrew SMF/CMF are least of our concern at the moment. We are initially inclined for any automated tool that can A.read SAS PDBs and convert them to DB2 tables and/or flat file. Tool must cater take for packed, COMP data elements. B. Can read SAS code and give us some basic converted

Re: SAS - DB2 conversion to Java

WPS will again have licensing cost and run on GCP which is MSU bound and hence $, whereas Java should be 100% zIIP eligible unless its Java-jdbc which is is partially offloadable to zIIP.. Regards Munif -- For IBM-MAIN

SAS - DB2 conversion to Java

Hi listers We are planning to take-up an POC for converting SAS (including SAS - DB2 ) programs to Java in order to save on SAS licencing cost and mainframe GCP MSU$. Can someone Please provide any pointers in the right direction or share his or her experience, Please. regards Munif

changing batch job to use SSL

Dear Listers I have a pure COBOL batch job that uses socket programming (EZASOCKET) to fetch some sensitive data from an external server. I would like to change this IP connection between Mainframe (Client) and External server (Specialized Application Server that does support SSL/TLS) to be

issue WTOR if surrogat ID submits a job

Hi We are JES2, z/OS 2.1 and would like batch to issues a WTOR (Confirm Y/N ?) if a job is submitted by surrogate Batch Id in a specific JOB class of a specific LPAR. We are plex and this job class is JES2 initiator (not shared, non WLM) and WTOR is required only if JOB is scheduled to

Any Git compliant Client for OMVS

Dear Listers I am trying to find any Git client to run under OMVS (z/OS 2.1) to automate couple of Java objects deployment. I have tried https://eclipse.org/jgit/download/ but not able to make it work. regards Munif -- For

Firewall under z/OS 2.1

I have to block my Host z/OS 2.1 one port for all access except than coming from one single server. We do have SERVAUTH, Port SAF protection, NETACCESS but I think to achieve this I got to activate IP Filtering. RTFM tells me that as soon as I activate IPSECURITY and IPSEC static statement

4 hour rolling average MSU calculation

Dear Listers How does the 4 Hours rolling average MSU is calculated ..what is the interval ..is it based on RMF type 70 recording interval, 10 seconds interval or WLM interval.. dose it matter if LPARs are defined at SOFT / HARD / GROUP Cappings. Reason I am asking this question is that I can

HSM Duplexing

Dear Listers We are installling new tape libraries and thinking of migrating from HSM duplexing between Production and DR site to controller level hardware mirroring.. We are z/os, hsm, rmm, oam multiplex site.. can it be done with minumum risk..Final goal is to save some CPU cycles,

Re: HSM Duplexing

Hi Lizette z/OS 1.13.. and libararies are 8 KMs apart.. regards munif -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: HSM Duplexing

Thanks Mr Skorupka Duh..Question is how to migrate from HSM duplexing to Hardware mirroring.. Can not find any easy way except than migrating HSM duplexing as it is now to new libraries and then convert overnight to Hardware mirroring.. For us better would be to make old library read only ( or

Re: WLM managed workload

Thanks Kees Ituriel, Still i am struggling to tell WLM how PI of a workload may have different acceptance level on different LPARs. For Me I just would like WLM to schedule workload on one LPAR unless that LPAR can't run it or is not available. I know i can do that by establishing/

WLM managed workload

Dear Listers Can some one please point me in the right direction to implement WLM managed job class that can schedule jobs on different LPARS selected on basis of service class Performance Index and/or soft CAPPING status of individual LPAR. Creating Scheduling Resources / Environment and

Re: ZFS MountCall / Osi Wait

Thanks Lizette I have checked and all the fixes that you have mentioned have been applied or have been superseded by higher level fixex. our Maintenance level is RSU1303. Yes System does IPL successfully, it is just the first time IPL takes almost an hour or more to get there.. couple of

ZFS MountCall / Osi Wait

Dear Listers I am trying to IPL one of the PLEX system in MONOPLEX (also tried XCFLOCAL) after creating IMAGECOPY of the disk subsystem. This single system image is taking hours to come up due to OMVS delay - ZFS MountCall / Osi Wait and multiple IOEZ00807I, IOEZ00397I. Our Plex is 6

Re: Coupling facility - Non Volatile performance

Thanks Roger We have very good UPS.. and have decided to make CF mode Non volatile.. Just read somewhere that non volatile CF has better performance than Volatile ..but there is no ROTs or any indicative relative perfomance figure or how to measure / monitor it.. Best Regards Munif.

reomving COMPACTION from SMS DATALCLASS

I am thinking of removing COMPACTION for all our SMS DATACLASS specification.. Is there any Gotcha? It has been in use for historical purposes but does not give us anything except occasional job failures when STOP X37 can not manage Extended format Compacted datasets.. Do I need to DSCOPY

IGD17279I DADSM FAILURE (044E0097)

Dear Listers Does anyone know what DASDM Failure reason / error code 044E0097 mean. Iam stuggling between system messages vol 1, DFSMS Advanced copy services and DFP Advanced services manuals and can not find the answer.. I have QUIESCED ( and also tried with QUINEW) one SMS storage group

Re: IGD17279I DADSM FAILURE (044E0097)

found it..its in our old trusty manual DFP Daignosis.. Requested space exceeds 65535 tracks for a data set type that is limited to 65535 tracks per volume. Striped (extended format), PDSE, VSAM, and HFS data sets can exceed 65535 tracks.

Using different PROCLIB concatenation in JES2 MAS

Hello Listers Jobs are submitted using WLM initiators form Production and Development systems in our shared JES2 MAS. Our development system becomes Part production during night batch. Is there an easy way we can have different PROCLIB concatenation for our Production and Development