Re: SDSF able to provide a display/panel for System Recovery Boost (SRB) for Middleware Subsystems on z16?

[Roger Lowe]

Have raised an IBM Ideas - 
https://ibm-z-hardware-and-operating-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZOS-I-3985

If interested, have a read and vote for the IBM Idea.

Roger

On Mon, 5 Feb 2024 05:56:25 -0600, Roger Lowe  wrote:

>I was actually after a display 'somewhere' in SDSF that will show me which 
>address space(s) have had a boost action against it. For example, I have 
>enabled a number of our CICS Regions to be BOOST=YES in WLM and it would be 
>nice to go into an SDSF panel (perhaps a "DA OSTC") and a column in that panel 
>will show the text string of what I see in the SYSLOG/OPERLOG with the IEA687I 
>message of - 
>"IEA687I Recovery process boost requestor: Middleware Region Startup"
>
>The 'text string' of the IEA687I message is potentially one of:
>
>o  Not identified 
>  
>o  Sysplex Partitioning   
>  
>o  CF Structure Recovery  
>  
>o  CF Data-sharing Member Recovery
>  
>o  Hyperswap  
>  
>o  SVC Dump   
>  
>o  Middleware Region Startup  
>  
>o  Hyperswap Config Load  
>  
>Roger
>
>On Mon, 5 Feb 2024 10:10:46 +, Rob Scott  wrote:
>
>>I forgot to point out that the SDSF "SYS" command also shows the current 
>>boost status for z/OS 2.5+ as well.
>>
>>For what it is worth, having a panel that showed historical boost activity 
>>was one of the driving reasons for the ELOG panel in SDSF 3.1 
>>
>>Rob Scott
>>Rocket Software
>>
>>-Original Message-
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>>Roger Lowe
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>>Subject: SDSF able to provide a display/panel for System Recovery Boost (SRB) 
>>for Middleware Subsystems on z16?
>>
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>>Hi,
>>   We have a z16 (3932-AGZ) running zOS 3.1 along with IBM Middleware 
>> subsystems of Db2 V12, CICS/TS 6.1, MQ 9..2.1, IIB V10 as well as CA- 
>> Datacom V15 and ADABAS V712.
>>
>>We have now enabled SRB for these various Middleware Subsystems specifying 
>>BOOST=YES in WLM.
>>
>>Other than invoking WLM (via ISPF or zOSMF) and then reviewing the 
>>Classifcation Rules, we can't find and easy way of what Middleware 
>>Subsystem(s) are firstly enabled for BOOST and secondly as easily identifying 
>>what subsystem(s) might have used BOOST.
>>
>>Wouldn't it be nice if SDSF had a panel to show thii information?
>>
>>Looking at opening up an IBM Ideas,ubut thought I would post here, just in 
>>case someone has a suggestion(s) that we haven't considered.
>>
>>Thanks, Roger
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Re: SDSF able to provide a display/panel for System Recovery Boost (SRB) for Middleware Subsystems on z16?

[Roger Lowe]

I was actually after a display 'somewhere' in SDSF that will show me which 
address space(s) have had a boost action against it. For example, I have 
enabled a number of our CICS Regions to be BOOST=YES in WLM and it would be 
nice to go into an SDSF panel (perhaps a "DA OSTC") and a column in that panel 
will show the text string of what I see in the SYSLOG/OPERLOG with the IEA687I 
message of - 
"IEA687I Recovery process boost requestor: Middleware Region Startup"

The 'text string' of the IEA687I message is potentially one of:

o  Not identified 
  
o  Sysplex Partitioning   
  
o  CF Structure Recovery  
  
o  CF Data-sharing Member Recovery
  
o  Hyperswap  
  
o  SVC Dump   
  
o  Middleware Region Startup  
  
o  Hyperswap Config Load  
  
Roger

On Mon, 5 Feb 2024 10:10:46 +, Rob Scott  wrote:

>I forgot to point out that the SDSF "SYS" command also shows the current boost 
>status for z/OS 2.5+ as well.
>
>For what it is worth, having a panel that showed historical boost activity was 
>one of the driving reasons for the ELOG panel in SDSF 3.1 
>
>Rob Scott
>Rocket Software
>
>-Original Message-
>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  On Behalf Of 
>Roger Lowe
>Sent: Sunday, February 4, 2024 7:26 AM
>To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>Subject: SDSF able to provide a display/panel for System Recovery Boost (SRB) 
>for Middleware Subsystems on z16?
>
>EXTERNAL EMAIL
>
>
>
>
>
>Hi,
>   We have a z16 (3932-AGZ) running zOS 3.1 along with IBM Middleware 
> subsystems of Db2 V12, CICS/TS 6.1, MQ 9..2.1, IIB V10 as well as CA- Datacom 
> V15 and ADABAS V712.
>
>We have now enabled SRB for these various Middleware Subsystems specifying 
>BOOST=YES in WLM.
>
>Other than invoking WLM (via ISPF or zOSMF) and then reviewing the 
>Classifcation Rules, we can't find and easy way of what Middleware 
>Subsystem(s) are firstly enabled for BOOST and secondly as easily identifying 
>what subsystem(s) might have used BOOST.
>
>Wouldn't it be nice if SDSF had a panel to show thii information?
>
>Looking at opening up an IBM Ideas,ubut thought I would post here, just in 
>case someone has a suggestion(s) that we haven't considered.
>
>Thanks, Roger
>
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SDSF able to provide a display/panel for System Recovery Boost (SRB) for Middleware Subsystems on z16?

[Roger Lowe]

Hi,
   We have a z16 (3932-AGZ) running zOS 3.1 along with IBM Middleware 
subsystems of Db2 V12, CICS/TS 6.1, MQ 9..2.1, IIB V10 as well as CA- Datacom 
V15 and ADABAS V712.

We have now enabled SRB for these various Middleware Subsystems specifying 
BOOST=YES in WLM.

Other than invoking WLM (via ISPF or zOSMF) and then reviewing the 
Classifcation Rules, we can't find and easy way of what Middleware Subsystem(s) 
are firstly enabled for BOOST and secondly as easily identifying what 
subsystem(s) might have used BOOST.

Wouldn't it be nice if SDSF had a panel to show this information?

Looking at opening up an IBM Ideas, but thought I would post here, just in case 
someone has a suggestion(s) that we haven't considered.

Thanks, Roger

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Re: z/OS 3.1 documentation

[Roger Lowe]

On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 16:27:51 +0100, Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw 
 wrote:

>Having seen the announcement of z/OS 3.1 today I have tried to obtain the
>usual PDF collection of documentation.
>
>I found it can be downloaded in zip form here, by selecting "IBM z/OS
>Indexed PDF/PDX Collection". This has given me the set of pdf files.
>
>https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0
>
>However, there seems to be no way of selecting individual manuals by title,
>as there was at previous z/OS levels.
>
>Have I downloaded the wrong package? Or is this no longer to be available?
>
>Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw
>

Perhaps, this will help in a little way to get what you are after - 
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/about?topic=how-unpack-pdx-file

Roger

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Re: LDAP with TS7700 and/or DS8K's

[Roger Lowe]

On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 14:48:13 +, Benik, John E  
wrote:

>I imagine HMC and LDAP would be for AOS access on the DS8K's, but it also 
>sounds like setting up the TS7700 would be a little more involved and a little 
>more complicated.  I'd be curious as to the reasons you decided to go the LDAP 
>direction, and any pros or cons you may have found.
>
The setup of the TS7700 MI access authentication using zOS LDAP is poorly 
documented by IBM but I wouldn't say is was any more complicated than 
configuring AD authentication. We decided to go with zOS LDAP authentication 
for System z HMCs and TS7700 MI access was purely because these platforms are 
"mainfframe" use only, so why not keep everything "mainframe centric" and we 
retain overall management of the environment. If we had used AD, for example, 
then management of that environment is out of our hands.

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Re: LDAP with TS7700 and/or DS8K's

[Roger Lowe]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 22:35:36 +, Benik, John E  
wrote:

>I saw several comments about HMC and LDAP, and I am curious is anybody using 
>LDAP with their TS7700's or just using the management interface for 
>authentication?  I would also be curious if anybody has explored this option, 
>or is using it on the disk side but not the tape?  It seems overly complicated 
>on the tape side, and adds another layer that we have to manage given the fact 
>that we have to setup a separate support ID, but I could be wrong.
>
>
Again, we have setup our TS7700's to authenticate to zOS LDAP Servers using 
RACF as the backend and have been running like that for a couple of years 
without any issues. The documentation for the setup of this is poor and it did 
take a few tries to get it going. We did have to setup a 'service' account - 
this id has the RACF ROAUDIT attribute but no TSO/CICS segment, so it cant 
logon to a zOS system. We also then have a "VTS Group" defined to RACF, where 
all users who need access to the MI of the TS7700s gets connected to.

There is DS8K support for a LDAP Sever for authentication  but not for a zOS 
LDAP Server, so we are waiting for the day when IBM will provide that as well 


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Re: HMC and LDAP

[Roger Lowe]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 19:58:32 +, Mark Jacobs  
wrote:

>Has anyone setup their HMC to authenticate users to an ldap server? I'm not 
>having much luck constructing the search filter that selects the user's entry 
>in the directory.
>
I have setup our System z HMCs to authenticate users to a zOS LDAP Server using 
RACF as the backend and has been working successfully for a number of years. 

The DN pattern used in the HMC for RACF is - 
racfid={0},profiletype=user,sysplex= (the '' is the suffix you specify 
in the DSCONF file)

Roger

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Re: TCPIP and ICSF. And RMF

[Roger Lowe]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 14:10:33 +0100, Radoslaw Skorupka  
wrote:

>
>Another question: is there any RMF screen showing current utilization of
>crypto HW?
>
RMF MON III - Option "S" --> 16 (Crypto hardware overview)
  --> 17 (Crypto accelerator activity)
  --> 18 (Crypto PKCS11 coprocessor 
activity)
.
Those options are available under zOS 2.4 and zOS 2.5

Roger

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Re: JES2 mail notification

[Roger Lowe]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2022 15:17:40 +0200, Mike Shorkend  
wrote:

>Hi,
>I am trying to set up email notification for job termination but have run
>into a problem that the JES2EDS started task  can't connect to z/OSMF. This
>is the joblog(I have had to obfuscate the URI  and NODE)
>
Mike,
Here are a few things to check out:
1. Has zOSMF been setup to be "autostart"?
2. Have you seen Chapter 8 of the JES2 Init and Tuning Guide - "JES2 Email 
Delivery Services"?
3. Certificates in your relevant ESM been setup?
4. Has the userid you assigned for JES2EDS address space been added to zOSMF as 
a valid user?
5. Has the userid assigned to JES2EDS address space been given the necessary 
security access to to use z/OSMF email (notification) services? 
6. Have you defined the SMTP Server to the zOSMF configuration?

A lot of this is discussed in details in the Chapter 8 of the JES2 Init and 
Tuning Guide.

Hope the above helps

Roger

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Re: CBU HMC activation - switching back

[Roger Lowe]

On Sun, 5 Dec 2021 00:46:34 +, Seymour J Metz  wrote:

>Isn't a real DR usually temporary?
>
>
>--
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>
CBU Test last only for 10 days whereas a CBU for an actual DR can last for up 
to 90 days...

Roger

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Re: Catch-22 on z/OSMF under z/OS 2.4

[Roger Lowe]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 16:36:08 -0600, Tom Longfellow 
 wrote:

>I needed to vent so here goes.
>
>Health checker says AT-TLS needs updating for GPMSERV/DDS
>Infoprint server now requres https support not configured in our AT-TLS config.
>Plus we want to convert to AT-TLS support for TN3270 port 23.
>
>z/OSMF comes up and 'says' web services are running..
>
>Attempts to browse https://hostname:6443/zosmf time out with no reply to the 
>browser. (Chrome, Firefox, 
>An IP trace on port 6443 shows an HELO command for TLS and a never ending 
>series of inbound and outbound ACK packets.
>NETSTAT commands show the connections in CLosWait status.
>
>All of this goes on without a single indication the /global/zosmf/logs files.
>
>SO --- This leaves me with a potential AT-TLS problem that even if I knew 
>the solution, I have no way to correct or change the AT-TLS configuration 
>without the failing product affected by the problem working.
>In other words no mandatory Configuration Assistant --- no changed to AT-TLS.  
>   CATCH-22
>
Tom,
   By any chance, did you install some maintenance to JAVA? If so, have a 
look at  https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/java-sdk-fixes-version-80.

We had a similar issue with zOSMF after installing UI76675.

Hope that helps.

Roger

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Re: dotnet under zCX

[Roger Lowe]

On Fri, 26 Nov 2021 06:37:02 +, Neale Ferguson  wrote:

>Thanks Roger.
>
>I wonder if you are able to help with my zCX attempt -
>
I am no Network person, but here are a few suggestions to try and ensure your 
network setup is ok ...

1. D TCPIP,,N,VIPADCFG (verify zCX DVIPA has bee defined - VIPARANGE)
2. D TCPIP,,N,VIPADYN (verify  DVIPA has been activated by zCX instance)
3. D TCPIP,,N,DEVL,INTFN=EZAZCX (verify that TCPIP has activated the EZAZCX 
interface)
4. F jobname, DISPLAY,NET (verify zCX network config)
5. D TCPIP,,N.HOME (verify the EZAZCX IP address and zCXDVIPA have been added 
to the Home List)

Hope the above helps

Roger

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Re: dotnet under zCX

[Roger Lowe]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 03:48:03 +, Neale Ferguson  wrote:

>I’d be interested if someone could give this a run in their zCX environment. I 
>am still trying to configure mine…
>
>If you would like to give dotnet on Z a test drive and don’t yet have RHEL 8.5 
>I have created a docker image. Follow these steps to build and run the “Hello 
>World” program:
>
Works fine under our zCX environment ...

Welcome to the IBM z/OS Container Extensions (IBM zCX) shell that provides 
access to Docker commands.
For more information on how to use this shell to execute Docker commands refer 
to IBM
Last login: Thu Nov 25 04:56:04 2021 from 155.205.27.27
jyy@zcxs001:~$ docker run --rm -it clefos/dotnet
Unable to find image 'clefos/dotnet:latest' locally
latest: Pulling from clefos/dotnet
1f0267805cca: Pull complete
f867d5655f35: Pull complete
a1fd90c210ad: Pull complete
e3c2ff57c1de: Pull complete
108b4a2a82d3: Pull complete
a47ddbb1049a: Pull complete
92416c5fcb18: Pull complete
a30f3a66: Pull complete
523ebb626ce7: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:afe628428b4f9eb80c3e54d2b2cc7f51348340387602bb89152b068fff115c72
Status: Downloaded newer image for clefos/dotnet:latest
dotnet@b3672ef4f444:~$ dotnet new console --output consapp
The template "Console App" was created successfully.

Processing post-creation actions...
Running 'dotnet restore' on /home/dotnet/consapp/consapp.csproj...
  Determining projects to restore...
  Restored /home/dotnet/consapp/consapp.csproj (in 146 ms).
Restore succeeded.

dotnet@b3672ef4f444:~$ cd consapp
dotnet@b3672ef4f444:~/consapp$ dotnet build
Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 17.0.0+c9eb9dd64 for .NET
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

  Determining projects to restore...
  All projects are up-to-date for restore.
  consapp -> /home/dotnet/consapp/bin/Debug/net6.0/consapp.dll

Build succeeded.
0 Warning(s)
0 Error(s)

Time Elapsed 00:00:04.32
dotnet@b3672ef4f444:~/consapp$ dotnet run
Hello, World!
dotnet@b3672ef4f444:~/consapp$ ls -l
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 dotnet dotnet 105 Nov 26 03:51 Program.cs
drwxr-xr-x 1 dotnet dotnet  10 Nov 26 03:51 bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 dotnet dotnet 249 Nov 26 03:51 consapp.csproj
drwxr-xr-x 1 dotnet dotnet 266 Nov 26 03:51 obj
dotnet@b3672ef4f444:~/consapp$


Roger

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Re: Is there a field that would reflect LPAR soft-capping?

[Roger Lowe]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 10:46:39 -0800, Charles Mills  wrote:

>I am thinking about coding an STC that would "do something" if LPAR
>soft-capping kicked in. Is there a field somewhere in z/OS that gives the
>MSU capacity of the LPAR *and that would change to reflect the effect of
>soft-capping*?
>
>This is for internal use, so I would be willing to bear the risks of a
>non-GUPI field.
>
Charles,
 If you are running RMF, you could use the RMF Monitor III Batch 
Reporter 
(https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=iii-how-use-rmf-monitor-batch-reporter)

We have set it up as a STC and one of the reports it produces is the R4HA every 
15 minutes and writes this information to the OPERLOG and then automation could 
be involved to take certain actions - 

+RMF300I 3B: Processing CPC Report... 21/11/21  
+MVS? - RMF301I: 4H Average:16  
+MVS? - RMF302I: 4H Max:37  
+MVS? - RMF303I: WLM Capping %:  0.0
+MVS? - RMF304I: Group Name: ABCXYZ   
+MVS? - RMF305I: Group Limit:31 
+MVS? - RMF306I: Time until Capping: 240 minutes

Roger

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Re: SMF dump program parameter question

[Roger Lowe]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 13:36:10 +, Horne, Jim  wrote:

>Does anyone know if the REPORTOPTS parameter in IFASMFDL and IFASMFDP has been 
>rolled back to 2.3, or is it just 2.4 and 2.5?
>
>Thanks,
>Jim Horne
>

Jim,
  If you want to get a report similar to what REPORTOPTS will give, then 
have a look at the FREE utility called SMFSCRUB from Watson and Walker 
(https://watsonwalker.com/software/free-tools/)
.
Roger

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Re: display alias definition

[Roger Lowe]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2021 16:39:24 -0500, Bill Giannelli  
wrote:

>how might I display or report how an alias is defined?
>I am trying to determine is a system symbol was used to create the alias and 
>"resolve" the name i.e.
>
>ALIAS "*.RTE.LINK" points to "*.RTE2104.LINK"
>but I want to make sure it was defined with "*.RTE$SYMBOL..LINK"
>thanks
>Bill
>
Have you tried issuing a LISTCAT against the alias?

Roger

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Re: Report on total tape usage?

[Roger Lowe]

On Fri, 9 Jul 2021 15:20:59 +, Longnecker, Dennis 
 wrote:

>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,
>Dennis
>
Dennis,
  Have you had a look at IBM Tapetools?-  
http://public.dhe.ibm.com/storage/tapetool/

Roger

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Re: LDAP confusion with security settings

[Roger Lowe]

On Fri, 9 Jul 2021 17:10:22 +, Pommier, Rex  wrote:

>Hi list,
>
>I don't know if this belongs in the TCP/IP list, RACF list or here so I'm 
>starting here.  Here's the situation as best I understand it.  First off, LDAP 
>is a black hole as far as I'm concerned.  It was set up here long before my 
>time.  We're using it to communicate and authenticate to RACF for users coming 
>in from a browser into our CICS regions.  The LDAP server runs under a user ID 
>of LDAPSRV.  Users coming in from the browser are given a logon screen where 
>they enter their own ID and password which LDAP validates against RACF.  LDAP 
>provides the appropriate ICH408I message if they fat-finger a password etc.  
>That part is all OK.  The RACF group that LDAPSRV is a member of is LDAPGRP 
>and some of the attributes assigned to LDAPSRV are actually given through the 
>group.
>
>The LDAP server is defined within RACF in the APPL class  and anybody that 
>tries to log on through LDAP need to have READ access to this APPL.  
>
>
>Here's where I'm getting confused.  There is another ID on the system, we'll 
>call LDAPU, that has no special privileges except this ID is RACF SPECIAL.  
>The group this ID belongs to (LDAP) also has no special privileges.  The ID is 
>not UID0 and the only connection LDAPU has is to the LDAP group, the only 
>permission it has is to the LDAPSRV APPL.   The LDAP group actually has no 
>permissions given to it.  The only thing strange is that the ID has SPECIAL.  
>Since the ID isn't anything special (or so I thought) I removed SPECIAL from 
>it.  As soon as I removed SPECIAL, anybody coming in through the browser 
>started getting invalid userid or password errors on their browser logon page. 
> They were getting NO RACF ICH408I messages being logged either in the SYSLOG 
>or in the LDAPSRV address space.  As soon as I gave SPECIAL back to LDAPU 
>everything started working again.  I can find nowhere within the LDAP config 
>file that defines LDAPU as any kind of special ID that has magical powers over 
>people trying to log in thru the LDAP.  If anybody has any idea where I could 
>go look for what LDAP is using this ID for or where it is defined to use this 
>ID for something, I'd appreciate it.  I really don't like the idea of having a 
>RACF SPECIAL user floating around that nobody knows why it has SPECIAL.
>
Rex,
 At a guess, I would say the application that is  presenting the logon 
screen to the user is doing either a LU or LG of the user attempting to sign 
in. Do you have access to the application code to check if that is the case? 

I have had a similar situation when setting up the TS7700 HMC MI authentication 
using zOS LDAP and RACF as the backend

Hope that helps.

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Re: SDSF TMP

[Roger Lowe]

On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 18:13:46 +, Pommier, Rex  
wrote:

>Richard,
>
>Glad to know it still works even though we don't use SDSF.  I can say that it 
>worked years ago as well.  :-)  Back in the timeframe you mentioned the shop I 
>was at had a need for a small number of users to have access to view reports 
>in the spool (no spool archival/viewing software) and it was easiest for us to 
>do exactly what you're asking.  Logon proc saying EXEC PGM=SDSF.
>

Yes, it did work with EXEC PGM=SDSF back in the late 80's/early 90's.  We had 
this exact setup for our OPS personnel in a Data Centre.

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Re: IBM CSS(Copy services) Alerts

[Roger Lowe]

On Sat, 22 May 2021 08:19:42 +0400, Jake Anderson  
wrote:

>Is there a possibility to set an email alert in IBM CSS whenever the status
>of replication changes ? Like from prepared to suspended or Preparing ? Or
>atleast whenever the status is suspended can we set an alert in IBM CSS to
>send email alert to our email boxes ?
>
Jake,
   Have you had a look in the "IBM Copy Services Manager - Users Guide' 
(SC27-8542)?  The Chapter on "Monitoring Health and Status" describes how to 
setup  Email as well as SNMP Alerts
.
Roger

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Identifying "New Function" APARs

[Roger Lowe]

In reviewing the four "IBM z/OS Version 2 Release 4  2020 new functions and 
enhancements" Announcement Letters, is there an easy way of identifying APARs 
that offer "New Function" without having to read through each Announcement 
Letter and "pick the eyes out of it"?
.
Similar to doing a Target Zone bitmap to place an order in Shopz, could a 
Target Zone bitmap be supplied and then all of the applicable "New Function" 
APARs be ordered?
.
Just a thought ..

Roger

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Re: Any way to anticipate failure messages

[Roger Lowe]

On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 13:40:21 -0700, Lizette Koehler  
wrote:
>
>As always something happens and management reacts
>
>We are looking to see if there is any tool that could trap any message or
>event on Mainframe and generate a daily report for the SYSPROGs to review to
>ensure zero failures
>
Perhaps Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) or Advanced Workload Analysis 
Reporter (zAware)?

Roger 

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Re: Using JobClass condition in JES2 Policy

[Roger Lowe]

Thanks Mike - that did the trick .

Roger

>I have that working. Below is a snippet from my json code  Looks like you
>are missing single quotes around the A.
>
>
> { "condition" : " JobClass = 'F'   ",
> "actions"   :
> [
>{ "action" : " SendMessage ",
>  "message" : " 'class F skipped'"
>},
>{ "action" : " Leave "
>}
> ]
>   },
>
>Hope this helps
>
>Mike
>
>
>On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 at 05:45, Roger Lowe  wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>Am trying to get a JES2 Policy using the "JobClass" condition and I try
>> and do the $POLICY IMPORT command it is failing with -
>>
>> $HASP1640 Error in condition expression in definition entry 1.
>> $HASP1605 Syntax error 3 in expression near position 13.
>>   Name was not found.
>>   " JobClass = A"
>>   .*.
>>
>> Have checked the JSON syntax and it all looks fine.
>>
>> Not sure why the dots '...' are appearing as part of the error
>> message.
>>
>> Anyone else get a JES2 Policy using the JobClass condition working under a
>> zOS 2.4 environment?
>>
>> Thanks, Roger
>>
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Using JobClass condition in JES2 Policy

[Roger Lowe]

Hi,
   Am trying to get a JES2 Policy using the "JobClass" condition and I try and 
do the $POLICY IMPORT command it is failing with - 

$HASP1640 Error in condition expression in definition entry 1.
$HASP1605 Syntax error 3 in expression near position 13.  
  Name was not found. 
  " JobClass = A" 
  .*.   

Have checked the JSON syntax and it all looks fine.

Not sure why the dots '...' are appearing as part of the error message.

Anyone else get a JES2 Policy using the JobClass condition working under a zOS 
2.4 environment?

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Re: VUE - how to find it?

[Roger Lowe]

On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 19:03:57 +0100, R.S.  wrote:

>W dniu 03.11.2020 o 23:19, Attila Fogarasi pisze:
>> The product announcement letter gives the VUE value.  I have never seen a
>> consolidated web page for all products/VUEs, you have to look at the
>> specific announcement letter applicable to your product.  For example for
>> CICS TS 5.6 it is VUE007.  Luckily its easy to find IBM
>> announcement letters
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 3:05 AM R.S.  wrote:
>>
>>> This is about IBM software licensing.
>>> For OTC there are VUE - Value Unit Exhibits.
>>> There some non-linear relationship between MSU and VUE number, but there
>>> are several VUE's and the same machine have 300 VUE007, but 350 VUE008,
>>> etc. (Number are examples only).
>>>
>>> Now it time for the question: How to find out which VUEnnn is applicable
>>> to given product? Is there any table or other webpage with such
>>> information?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Radoslaw Skorupka
>>> Lodz, Poland
>>>
>
>It seems you are right, unfortunately there is no such place with VUE to
>product assignment.
>However review of LPS or other documents describing VUE assigned to the
>product is really troublesome.
>BTW: THANK YOU ROGER FOR YOUR HELP!
>
>Some remarks for record purposes:
>
>1. Some Licensed Product Specifications are available as PDF (good),
>some are available online (average) and some are available as hardcopy
>only (bad!). The last one I read on IBM pages and I really could not
>find the document having its publication ID.
>2. VUE calculator is good for calculations, but will not help to know
>which VUE is assigned to given product. This is obsolete tool, it does
>not containt VUE040, which is probably newer than the tool. More, this
>tool has no explanation of term and acronyms used in the VUEs.
>3. There is some document (few pages) describing all VUEs I know. It can
>be used instead of calculator, because the formulas are quite simple.
>4. Reviewing LPSes and Announcement Letters is not something nice,
>especially you have to pay attention to version of the product! For
>example MFA product changed VUE metrics! It can be really misleading - 1
>VUE for previous version meant 1 user, but for current version it is
>"block of users" which means 500 users. Big difference.
>5. VUE itself is loosely related to money. For example popular VUE007 is
>assigned to CICS TS as well as small products like TACM. And of course
>CICS is more expensive. However you can negotiate "price per unit" as
>with gold or potatoes - and then there is a measure for upgrades, etc.
>6. Why VUE, but not MSU or users, or terabytes? Simply to have
>degressive prices per real unit. For example firs user is 1 VUE. Second
>user is another 1 VUE, 10 users is 10 VUE, but 1000 users is 800 VUE.
>Same for MSU.
>
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The following site may make your life a little easier searching for 
Announcement Letters - 
https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/SearchResult.wss?request_locale=en#

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Re: VUE - how to find it?

[Roger Lowe]

On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 01:13:05 +0100, R.S.  wrote:

>W dniu 03.11.2020 o 20:36, Roger Lowe pisze:
>> On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 19:44:52 +0100, R.S.  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, I know this tool, I have it on my PC desktop, this is good for
>>> MSU->VUE calculations, but it say nothing about which VUE is assigned to
>>> given product.
>>>
>>> Note: I'm focusing about MSU-VUE, but there are also other metrics based
>>> on Terabytes (of storage), engines (say processors), users, etc.
>>>
>>> --
>> Would this be of any help? - https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/NV5RDQXB
>
>Well, yes and no.
>Yes - it is helpful description.
>No - it gives absolutely no clue about product to VUE assignment.
>However thank you for your willing to help, I appreciate your effort.
>This is important, because this you tried to help and in many cases it
>really helps. Thank you again. And thanks to Parwez, Chris and other
>gentlemen.
>
>It seems I really need to review LPSes which is hard because these
>documents are really hardly available on the Web.
>Now I'm looking for:
>z/Multi-Factor Auth 5655-MA1 2.1.0
>zDMF  5655-ZZ3 3.4.1
>
>I would really like to install it instead...
>
z/Multi-Factor Auth 5655-MA1 2.1.0 looks like it is VUE040 
(https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/EM-ENUSZP19-0003-CA). This is a EUROPEAN 
Announcement Letter

zDMF  5655-ZZ3 3.4.1 looks like it is VUE007 
(https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/US-ENUS219-473-CA). This is a USA 
Announcement Letter

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Re: VUE - how to find it?

[Roger Lowe]

On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 19:44:52 +0100, R.S.  wrote:

>Yes, I know this tool, I have it on my PC desktop, this is good for
>MSU->VUE calculations, but it say nothing about which VUE is assigned to
>given product.
>
>Note: I'm focusing about MSU-VUE, but there are also other metrics based
>on Terabytes (of storage), engines (say processors), users, etc.
>
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Would this be of any help? - https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/NV5RDQXB

Roger

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zOSMF-print from Software Management

[Roger Lowe]

As PMA is no longer supported under zOS 2.4, I am using the View -> Products, 
Features, and FMIDs action for a software instance defined to z/OSMF Software 
Management and would like to be able to print the resulting information. 
However, there doesn't appear to be a print or export function 
Any ideas?

Roger

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Re: PSF Font Collection

[Roger Lowe]

On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 15:22:02 -0500, Roger Lowe  wrote:

>On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 08:16:46 -0500, Carmen Vitullo  wrote:
>
>>I have a user that is looking for a latin-1 ISO 8859-1 font, as far as I can 
>>tell the font collection is part of the font collection in my order but I'm 
>>not sure what font name to tell him to use. I cannot logon to my system due 
>>to network / logon issues, can someone shed some light on this query?
>
>You can use the FONT LIBRARY INDEX PROGRAM (DSMBOF40) and that will produce a 
>detailed report of the Typeface names available for use in the various 
>FONTLIBs you have.
>
>You can find the DSMBOF40 utility in your hlq.DCFLOAD library
>
Forgot to add that you can find the sample jcl for the FLIP utility in 
hlq.DCFSAMP lib (DSMFLIP)

Roger

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Re: PSF Font Collection

[Roger Lowe]

On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 08:16:46 -0500, Carmen Vitullo  wrote:

>I have a user that is looking for a latin-1 ISO 8859-1 font, as far as I can 
>tell the font collection is part of the font collection in my order but I'm 
>not sure what font name to tell him to use. I cannot logon to my system due to 
>network / logon issues, can someone shed some light on this query?

You can use the FONT LIBRARY INDEX PROGRAM (DSMBOF40) and that will produce a 
detailed report of the Typeface names available for use in the various FONTLIBs 
you have.

You can find the DSMBOF40 utility in your hlq.DCFLOAD library

Roger

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Re: emptying a PDS: was RE: [IBM-MAIN] getting XCFAS down

[Roger Lowe]

On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 05:18:20 +, Jousma, David  wrote:

>Never heard of the utility.  Why would that be needed?
>
IEBPDSE is the PDS/E Validation Utility and it validates a PDS/E to see if it 
is valid or corrupted. See the DFSMSdfp Utilities manual.

Roger

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Re: Group Capacity

[Roger Lowe]

On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 14:29:19 +, Richards, Robert B. 
 wrote:

>I am trying to define Group Capacity on a z14_ZR1 and am having trouble. The 
>only group there is .
>
>I had no trouble when using a previous HMC to define groups for a zEC12.
>
>IIRC, I define the group and the capacity limit, then I assign the group name 
>to the activation profile "processor" tab. Now, I don't see where to the 
>define the new group!
>
>HMC  version is 2.14.1
>
"Operational Customization" --> "Customize/Delete Activation Profiles"
Scroll down and find the name called "Default" and with a Type of "Group" and a 
Profile Description of "This is the DEFAULT Group Profile"
Tick the check box for that one and click on "Customize Profile"
Fill in the various fields, as required, on the next window and then click SAVE
Go back to "Customize/Delete Activation Profiles"
Now select the Image Profile that you want to assign the newly created Group 
Capacity Profile to
In the Processor tab of the Image Profile, type in the Group Capacity Profile 
name

Roger

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Re: BCPII services

[Roger Lowe]

On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 10:56:49 -0500, Bonnie Barthel  
wrote:

>I just noticed that we have not been running the HWIBCPII task. It looks like 
>it was never configured. I went back a year ago so this is nothing new. It 
>does appear that System Automation is able to use the services without the 
>task:
>
>ING815I BCPII CONNECT FROM A09NO/AUTHW002 TO CPC F5/./IBM390PS.F5  RETURNED: 
>SUCCESS 
>
>but XCF is not:
>
>SYSTEM STATUS DETECTION PARTITIONING PROTOCOL ELIGIBILITY:  SYSTEM CANNOT 
>TARGET OTHER SYSTEMS.
>
>I am preparing to configure it to start running and have done some simple 
>testing on our sandbox but I wonder if there are any known risks in starting 
>up the HWIBCPII task.  OK to run on GDPS K-lpars?
>
The HWIBCPII task would usually be started at IPL time but you can also issue 
the "S HWISTART" command to start/restart it. There is a very good presentation 
from Steve Warren "BCPii for Dummies: Start to Finish  - Installation, Setup 
and Usage". Do a Google search for it. 
There are some setup tasks to be done on the HMC, RACF (or whatever ESM you 
use) definitions.

If you want to make use of things such as Capacity Provisioning Manager (CPM), 
AutoIPL etc, then BCPii needs to be in place.

Roger

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Re: DAE Dataset - Compression

[Roger Lowe]

On Tue, 6 Oct 2020 09:31:26 -0700, Lizette Koehler  
wrote:

>If you fix the issue, and the DAE entry is still in place, you might not see 
>if there is an issue.
>
>So as always, it depends.
>
>By removing the entry in DAE it might show if you actually fixed it
>
>Lizette
>
>
>-Original Message-
>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  On Behalf Of 
>Jousma, David
>Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 9:12 AM
>To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>Subject: Re: DAE Dataset - Compression
>
>I guess I don’t agree with that Lizette?  I mean we can agree to disagree, 
>there are many ways to run our environments, but clearing out DAE will just 
>retrigger DUMPs for repetitive issues all over again?  It may be old 
>technology, but it works!   1400+ unique entries in our 20% utilized dae 
>allocated at 45 trks.   Usually it’s the DB2 sysprogs that come to me to 
>re-enable a certain dump that’s being suppressed.
>
>Now, clearing out the sysplex dump directory regularly is something I agree 
>with.
>
>- DAE Display -
>  Row 1 to 14 of 1,437 
>Command ===>  Scroll ===> CSR  
>  Enter an Action Code next to an entry.   
>  Enter / next to an entry to choose from a list of Action Codes.  
>   
>  Dataset: 'SYS2.SYSPLEX.DAE'  
>  Dumps  since last DAE Display: 215 Total Dumps suppressed: 163672
>  Events since last DAE Display: 110606  Suppression rate:   94%   
>
Have a look in "hlq.SBLSCLI0(ADYUPDAT)" and you can possibly use that to manage 
DAE as one of the options is CLEANUP and with that you can specify that entries 
older than so many days are deleted - no need to compress DAE.

Roger

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Re: IEASYS problem

[Roger Lowe]

On Sun, 4 Oct 2020 23:53:18 -0500, Brian Westerman 
 wrote:

>I don't have a sysparm member in sys1.samplib, is it from an older release 
>than 2.3?
>
>Brian
>
Have a look in SAMPLIB for the "SPP*" members .

Roger

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Re: MVS modify command capture

[Roger Lowe]

On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 12:55:53 +0400, Peter  wrote:

>Hello
>
>I am trying to capture Modify command of a product which is running as
>started task.
>
>I tried issuing the command using IEFBR14 but it did not capture to a
>Dataset.
>
>Is there a way to capture a MODIFY command ?
>
You could try this bit of REXX and then invoke it via IKJEFT01 batch jcl - 

 /*REXX*/ 
 blah = ISFCALLS('ON')
 ISFCONS  = "MY@CONS"
 ISFDELAY = "1"   
 PARSE ARG input  
 cmd.0=1  
 cmd.1=input  
 ADDRESS SDSF ISFSLASH "(cmd.)"   
 IF (ISFULOG.0 > 0) THEN  
 DO i=1 TO ISFULOG.0  
   SAY ISFULOG.i  
 END  
 EXIT 0 

and then the jcl to use - 

 //S1   EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01 
//SYSEXEC  DD DISP=SHR,DSN=my.rexx.lib 
//SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=*<= change this to point 
to a dataset
//SYSTSIN  DD *  
   %SDSFCMD D T  

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Re: z15 T02 HMC

[Roger Lowe]

On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 20:58:01 -0500, Michael Babcock  
wrote:

>Anyone else having issues with their z15 HMC?  We have the rack mount
>version and quite often when I go to configure a CHPID it just sits waiting
>to retrieved the data.  Sometimes I get “not enough resources to perform
>this task”.  It’s like there isn’t enough memory or something.
>-- 
We run the virtual HMC and don't  have the issue you are seeing. We are running 
HMC Version 2.15.0 (Driver 41 Bundle H14). Perhaps you may need to do a code 
upgrade?

Roger

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Re: RMM Scratch Processing

[Roger Lowe]

On Tue, 4 Aug 2020 16:10:43 +, Mark Jacobs  
wrote:

>I know next to nothing about RMM, and need to mark some tapes in its database 
>as scratch, I have one tape (might be others too) that are in USER status and 
>its expdt has passed. I know that "something" needs to be done to make it a 
>scratch tape, but everything I've tried has failed. Can someone assist?
>
Mark,
   Have a look in the DFSMSrmm Implementation and Customization Guide - it 
has sample jcl that could be used 

Roger

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Re: TS7760 Cache utilization

[Roger Lowe]

On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 07:12:05 -0500, Roger Lowe  wrote:

>On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 11:49:20 +, Gadi Ben-Avi  wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>How can I find out, using a batch job, the TS7760 cache utilization?
>>
>Gadi,
>  Have a look at BVIR and VEHSTATS. These are part of the IBM TAPETOOLS 
> package and you should be able to download it from 
> ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tapetool/
>
You may also find  
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tapetool/TS7700_Starting_with_VEHSTATS.pdf a 
useful document

Roger

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Re: TS7760 Cache utilization

[Roger Lowe]

On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 11:49:20 +, Gadi Ben-Avi  wrote:

>Hi,
>How can I find out, using a batch job, the TS7760 cache utilization?
>
Gadi,
  Have a look at BVIR and VEHSTATS. These are part of the IBM TAPETOOLS 
package and you should be able to download it from 
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tapetool/

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Re: Transport of choice for sending data to IBM's ECuRep

[Roger Lowe]

On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 11:05:49 -0700, Ed Jaffe  
wrote:

>With IBM threatening to discontinue plain FTP next Monday, I'm wondering
>what is the transport of choice for sending data to ECuRep?
>
 Ed,
 We use PDUU with HTTPS and it works very well - it was introduced with zOS 
2.4 but I think OA55959 provides support back to zOS 2.1.

Roger

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Re: dfdss equivalent to fdr map

[Roger Lowe]

On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 08:53:37 -0400, Brian France  wrote:

>  I can't find a dfdss equivalent to fdr's map. I see the print command
>but can't seem to get a whole volume list of data sets as we do with
>fdr's map. If it exists would someone please point me to it... THANX!!!
>

Have you tried using IEHLIST?

//S001 EXEC PGM=IEHLIST
//FILE DD UNIT=DISK,VOL=SER=??,DISP=SHR
//SYSPRINT DD   SYSOUT=Z   
//SYSINDD   *  
  LISTVTOC VOL=3390=??


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Re: How tell what verion of COBOL compiler produced load module?

[Roger Lowe]

On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 07:15:16 -0700, Charles Mills  wrote:

>Given a COBOL-based load module, is there a way to tell what COBOL compiler
>(including version) the main module was built with? Is there a "tag" in the
>object code that says "this was compiled by (for example) Enterprise COBOL
>V6R3M0?"
>
If you have the IBM Debug Tool product, there is included the "Load Module 
Analyzer" which  analyses program objects to determine the language translator 
(compiler or assembler) that was used to generate the object for each CSECT.

Found it very useful .

Roger

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Re: RMM report for only expired tapes

[Roger Lowe]

On Wed, 1 Jan 2020 12:09:07 +0400, Peter  wrote:

>Hello
>
>Is there a report to pull only expired tape list ?
>
Peter,
   Have you looked at the DFSMSrmm Report Generator in ISMF?

Roger

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Re: SE/HMC driver update duration

[Roger Lowe]

>
>We are updating our HMC/SE driver level. Our CE says the update takes 2
>days to complete.
>
Have you checked on IBM Resourcelink for your machine(s), the number of missing 
EC/MCLs? You can then use this info and list off the missing MCL details and/or 
HMC MCL Details and then ask your IBM SSR to provide more details on each of 
them and this might give you a better insight into the timings.

If you are way behind in your EC/MCL levels then it is a possibility as some of 
the underlying MCLs for the SE could require "mirroring" between the two SEs 
and this has been known to take some time along with SE Reboot(s).

At our site, we try and do a regular (every 3 months or so) MCL run and have 
never seen a requirement of up to 2 days 

Hope the above helps.

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Re: Mainframe DEVOPS

[Roger Lowe]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:55:31 +, Jousma, David  wrote:

>What is that feature code?
>
>>That might be a great option LionelI'll have to try that once I get V2.4 
>>up and operational.
>>
>Not only will you need zOS 2.4 but also a z14 and hardware F/C 0104 (which is 
>chargeable).
>
F/C 0104 is the Container Hosting Foundation - 
https://www.ibm.com/support/z-content-solutions/container-extensions/

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Re: Mainframe DEVOPS

[Roger Lowe]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 17:58:28 +, Jousma, David  wrote:

>That might be a great option LionelI'll have to try that once I get V2.4 
>up and operational.
>
Not only will you need zOS 2.4 but also a z14 and hardware F/C 0104 (which is 
chargeable).

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Re: Set change bit after DFdss restore

[Roger Lowe]

On Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:51:28 +, Vernooij, Kees (ITOP NM) - KLM 
 wrote:

>Hello group,
>
>We use DFSMSdss to move datasets from one sysplex to another.
>The method is:
>Dump the datasets with DFdss to a dumpdataset.
>FTP the dumpdataset to the other sysplex.
>Restore the datasets in the other sysplex.
>
>The problem is that the datasets that have the changebit OFF in the original 
>sysplex, will be restored with the changebit OFF. Therefor no backup will be 
>taken at the target sysplex.
>DFdss has some options to RESET or not RESET the changebit, but not to SET the 
>changebit ON.
>
>I checked FDR, but that doesn't have any options to manipulate the changebit.
>
>We have a CA-DISK utility to SET the changebit on individual datasets, but 
>takes an extra step in each move action and can be easily forgotten.
>I prefer to have this done automatically.
>How can we easily and automatically set the changebit ON? Any ideas?
>
>Kees.
>
Have you checked out ADRPATCH (DFSMSdss patch area)? - it may do what you want

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Re: IBMLink, searching SRs

[Roger Lowe]

On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 23:32:03 +, Ambros, Thomas  
wrote:

>Anybody know how, in the "upgraded" IBMLink, how one searches for PMRs opened 
>by their account and not just their own?  I unchecked the "Search my service 
>requests submitted online only" selection and selected "Search all service 
>requests" for all customer numbers associated with my account and I only get 
>returned the SRs I opened.  Selecting customer numbers specifically and those 
>same selections to theoretically unrestrict it from returning only my SRs, no 
>dice.  
>
>I used to be able to view all SRs for my site.  What a wonderful luxury that 
>was when management wanted you to address one. 
>

You should now have transitioned over to the "IBM Support Cases" site - 
https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/?language=en_US

All existing SRs (Open or Closed) should also have been migrated

Check out - 
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-z-moving-new-ibm-support-site-replace-ibm-service-request-tool

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Re: SMF PUZZLE

[Roger Lowe]

On Sat, 24 Aug 2019 17:29:30 +, willie bunter  
wrote:

>Good Day,
>I am trying to find the user/job which created a dsn.  I run my trustworthy 
>SMF job which looks for recids 05 14 15 17 18 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 136 139 
>163.  The job showed the job which read the dsn & deleted it but it doesn't 
>show who or which job created it.According to the LISTCAT the creation date of 
>the dsn was Thursday Aug. 22.  I read the SMF tape for the previous week and 
>subsequent days including Aug 22 & 23.
>I was thinking if the dsn was created by a FTP or an UNIX upload process which 
>may not be trapped by SMF
>Any thoughts?  Any suggestions
>
If you think it might have been an FTP process, you will need to check out the 
SMF 118 records.

Roger

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Re: How to find Life cycle dates for ibm products

[Roger Lowe]

On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 09:27:44 -0700, Lizette Koehler  
wrote:

>I am trying to find lifecycles for products like Omegamon,  IBM Debug Tool,
>Cobol Compilers, PL/I compilers and so forth
>
>I was able to find it in the past.  Now I cannot seem to find it
>
>I have tried in http://www.ibm.com searching on
>
>Life cycle
>
>Lifecycle
>
>COBOL Life cycle
>
>And so forth.
>
>Nothing yet that I could see would be what I am looking for.
>
>Is there another way to find lifecycle information on IBM products?
>
>
Lizette,
  Try https://www.ibm.com/support/home/pages/lifecycle/

Roger

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Re: "merging" 2 RSU levels

[Roger Lowe]

On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 06:25:32 -0500, Bill Giannelli  
wrote:

>If I have RSU1905 received and Apply checked and prepared the holddata actions 
>ready to go, but now want to receive and apply rsu1906; should I first 
>implement rsu1905 then apply rsu1906? how do I only get the additional 
>holddata? I just want to get the additional actions I need for the extra month 
>and not have to go thru all the holddata again.
>thanks
>Bill
>
APPLY CHECK SOURCEID(RSU1906).

Roger

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Re: refresh run time libraries after APPLY

[Roger Lowe]

On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 05:53:04 -0500, Bill Giannelli  
wrote:

>After running a SMPE APPLY, how do you determine which libraries were updated 
>and need to be moved into run time libraries?
>thanks
>Bill
>
Bill,
 Have a look at the 'File Allocation report' in your SMP/E APPLY output

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Re: Disk space allocation question

[Roger Lowe]

On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 11:19:19 +, Sean Gleann  wrote:

>Does z/OS / SMS have a set of default space allocation sizes and if so,
>where are they held and can I alter or control them?
>I have a situation where insufficient contiguous disk space results in
>the SPACE request parameters supplied for a DISP=(NEW...) file with values
>that are too low to fulfil the final requirements.
>Example: I request SPACE=(TRK,(9000,1000)… and what I get
>is ...TRK,(7200,500), which eventually leads to a B37 abend.
>It's that 'eventually' bit that is most disheartening. I would far rather
>have the space request completely refused along with a job abend rather
>than have the system 'try to help' me.
>
>Regards
>Sean
>
Have a look in the ALLOCxx member of PARMLIB .

Roger

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Re: APAR Search Broken Worldwide?

[Roger Lowe]

On Sun, 24 Feb 2019 19:02:53 -0800, Ed Jaffe  
wrote:

>Is everyone experiencing this? Or is local to my region?
>
>https://www14.software.ibm.com/support/customercare/psearch/search?domain=gapar
>
>It either fails with "SearchRequest. Incorrect XML format of dBlue
>response." or just returns zero matches.

Using your referenced URL works fine in the "land down under" - albeit Monday 
evening .

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Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: CTC

[Roger Lowe]

Do you have access to Hardware Configuration Manager (HCM)? If so, you could 
use that to display your CTC config ...

Roger

On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 14:25:15 +, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh 
 wrote:

>Just me, to understand and map out the connections..
>
>– Vignesh
>Mainframe Infrastructure
>
>-Original Message-
>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  On Behalf Of 
>ITschak Mugzach
>Sent: 18 February 2019 14:02
>To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: CTC
>
>For the active configuration, you can use tso console command and analyse the 
>results in the same exec with the IOCP deck. I would email the results a comma 
>separated file to excel. Who need to read it?
>
>ITschak
>
>On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 3:33 PM Sankananarayanan, Vignesh < 
>vignesh.v.sankaranaraya...@marks-and-spencer.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, that makes sense..
>> Assuming that there are extra entries (not really used/active) in the 
>> IODF, I would have to resort to checking everything through D M=DEV 
>> commands, because they show the entry and dest link addresses, which 
>> are useful when the path goes through a switch/director.
>>
>> And finally, what would be the best way to visualise these connections?
>>
>> – Vignesh
>> Mainframe Infrastructure
>>
>> -Original Message-
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>> Behalf Of ITschak Mugzach
>> Sent: 18 February 2019 13:09
>> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: CTC
>>
>> I don't have a specific rexx for the problem, but I can give some tips 
>> form daily experience. I do parsing every day, many times a day, for 
>> our IronSphere product.  IOCP is using a macro language. so:
>>
>>1. make every macro a single string. continuation is at column 72, the
>>last line in a multi line doesn;t have a comma and a continuation 
>> char at
>>col 762.
>>2. tokenize the string by replacing every equal sign to blank.
>>3. wordpos the keyword you are looking for. of position is not zero, the
>>value is the next word.
>>4. result may be enclosed in parentheses, separated with commas. know
>>what you are looking for for second level parsing.
>>5. I use a stem to store the single line macro calls at step 1.
>>
>>
>> best,
>> ITschak
>>
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>> > Hello All,
>> >
>> > I know this is a long shot but does anyone have any REXX that parses 
>> > IOCP and "makes sense" of the CTC definitions?
>> > I'm losing my mind trying to learn what I'm seeing..
>> >
>> > - Vignesh
>> > Mainframe Infrastructure
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Re: JVM errors running daily SCRT at currently available V26.1

[Roger Lowe]

On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 11:20:36 +, Richards, Robert B. 
 wrote:

>Has anyone else seen this recently? It worked yesterday, failed today and to 
>the best of my knowledge, nothing has been changed (production lpar at z/OS 
>2.2).
>
>JVMJZBL1001N JZOS batch Launcher Version: 2.4.8 2017-09-13
>JVMJZBL1002N (C) Copyright IBM Corp. 2005, 2016
>java version "1.8.0_171"
>Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 8.0.5.15 - 
>pmz6480sr5fp15-20180502_01(SR5 FP15))
>IBM J9 VM (build 2.9, JRE 1.8.0 z/OS s390x-64 Compressed References 
>20180425_385365 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled)
>OpenJ9   - a7ffbfe
>OMR  - a531219
>IBM  - 59ef3dc)
>JVMJZBL1015N MVS commands are DISABLED
>JVMJZBL1023N Invoking com.ibm.scrt.SCRTe.main()...
>JVMJZBL1043N The Java virtual machine completed with System.exit(16)
>

Do you have any SCRT* prefixed messages AFTER the JVMJZBL1043N message? I have 
had a previous System.exit(8) issue which had a bunch of SCRT* prefixed 
messages associated with it

Roger

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Re: Implementign Web Services Security in CICS v5.4

[Roger Lowe]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 12:14:09 +, Gadi Ben-Avi  wrote:

>I ran the command against the z/OS CSI.
>No PTFs are missing.
>
>Gadi

CICS should have an SREL of C150 whilst zOS is Z038 - are you sure you are 
running the command against the correct zone?

Roger

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Re: Programs in the PPT on z/OS 2.2

[Roger Lowe]

On Wed, 26 Dec 2018 14:39:32 -0600, Peter Ten Eyck 
 wrote:

>How does a program get added to the PPT?
>
>For example in SYS1.PARMLIB(SCHED**) has numerous programs are added to the 
>PPT at say IPL time, but the console command D PPT display many more? Is there 
>a default table of PPT programs? Other than looking at a SCHED** member, how 
>would I determine which programs are in the PPT via a SCHED** member and which 
>are in the PPT through some other means?
>
This is for z/OS 2.3 - 
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.ieae200/ieae200541.htm

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Re: Another IBM tape not for z/OS

[Roger Lowe]

On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 07:39:22 -0600, Russell Witt  wrote:

>So very true. And the concept of an "air-gap" backup has become a real issue 
>and shows one of the problems with replication. And nothing is better for an 
>"air-gap" backup than tape, including Virtual Tape.
>
>The other point is that while dasd-management products (HSM, FDR/ABR, CA-Disk) 
>are one of the biggest users, and together with backup-solutions like DFDSS 
>and FDR account for the majority of tape usage there are other uses as well. I 
>have seen some production sites where DB2 backups from the DB2 utility use as 
>much tape (measured in Mb of data) as either one. 
>
The "SafeGuarded Copy"  feature of the IBM DS8000 disk subsystem creates 
backups  that are not accessible by the host and protects them  from corruption 
that can occur in the production environment.  Safeguarded Copy can create 
multiple backups on a regular basis, such as hourly or daily.

Roger

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Re: OS/390 (not z/OS) question

[Roger Lowe]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 07:59:03 -0500, Tony Thigpen  wrote:

>In an OS/390 2.10 system. where is the esoteric 3590-1 defined? Can it
>be overridden?
>
>We are trying to migrate an old OS/390 system and the first stage is to
>migrate the tape usage to a VTL. The VTL looks like 3590-128trk while
>the old 3590s are 3590-256trak.
>
>The problem is that when an input request for old tapes appear, the
>system is asking for the real 3590-256track tape to be mounted on the
>VTL drives (defined as 3590-128track). RMM is the tape manager. We think
>the system defined 3590-1 esoteric is the problem, but it does not
>settable in the HCD on that version of OS/390.
>
Don't have access yo an OS/390 system (HCD), but are you sure you are going 
into the right optionns in HCD?
1. Go to Option 1 "Operating System Configuration"
2. Select the OS Config applicable
3. Select sub option 5 "Work with EDTs"
4.  Select the EDT and it shuld then display one or more estoreics
5. Select appropriate esoteric and follow the bouncing ball ..

I don' think these particular HCD options have changed over the various 
releases of OS/390 or z/OS

Roger

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Re: Profiles specific to user

[Roger Lowe]

On Fri, 2 Nov 2018 10:25:27 +, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh 
 wrote:

>Hello lists,
>
>I've look around a bit and also realise there's a screen within the RACF 
>panels itself to do the following:
>Show all dataset profiles that a user has some access to.
>
>Is it possible to produce this as a report by parsing DBU00?
>Found this - http://www.oocities.org/steveneeland/ICE69.txt
>.. but it lists only profiles that explicitly have that ID in the access list.
>
>Is there a way to report all the profiles (DATASET class or otherwise) an ID 
>has access to through
>
>  1.  direct mentions in the user list
>  2.  one of the user's connected groups
>  3.  lenient UACC
>

You could try using the RACF SEARCH command. You will need to manipulate the 
SEARCH command and specify the various RACF CLASSES but it should do what you 
want.

Roger

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Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Command to list aged, migrated items

[Roger Lowe]

>
>I'm looking for a command to list all ML1/ML2 datasets that have an age of
>60 (2 months ago, they were migrated).
>A working command would be ideal, as I'm looking to stick it into a batch job..

Have you looked at using DCOLLECT?

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Re: How to manage SDSF StoreLimit

[Roger Lowe]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 00:57:54 +, Jesse 1 Robinson  
wrote:

>I found the same instruction in the same way. Problem is that Options 
>pull-down does not show me a StoreLimit button. Hence my post. 
>
Did you do a '/' in SDSF to invoke the System Command Extension and then you 
should see 'Options' and go from there .

Roger

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Re: SMP/E Fixcat Categories in batch?

[Roger Lowe]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 22:20:41 -0500, Paul Gilmartin  wrote:

>On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 08:44:28 -0500, Roger Lowe wrote:
>>>
>>>//SMPCNTL  DD  *  
>>>SET BDY(GLOBAL).  
>>>REPORT MISSINGFIX 
>>>FIXCAT(*) 
>>>ZONES(target) .  
>>>
>> Again, not quite.all I am after is just a listing of the FIXCAT 
>> CATEGORIES - basically, the 'cut & paste' exercise Bob and I did a few posts 
>> ago.
>>I just don't want to have to invoke the SMP/E Dialogs just to get a listing 
>>of the FIXCATs - I can have a scheduled job that does an Internet Service 
>>Retrieval of HOLDDATA and then a second step in the job to produce a listing 
>>of the FIXCAT categories which can then reviewed for applicability
>>
>Sounds like the sort of thing DFSORT or ICETOOL does well.
>
Yes - it looks like ICETOOL is the way to go get what I am after.

Roger

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Re: SMP/E Fixcat Categories in batch?

[Roger Lowe]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 13:12:58 +, Chris Hoelscher  
wrote:

>Do you mean something like:
>
>//SMPCNTL  DD  *  
>SET BDY(GLOBAL).  
>REPORT MISSINGFIX 
>FIXCAT(*) 
>ZONES(target) .  
>
 Again, not quite.all I am after is just a listing of the FIXCAT CATEGORIES 
- basically, the 'cut & paste' exercise Bob and I did a few posts ago.
I just don't want to have to invoke the SMP/E Dialogs just to get a listing of 
the FIXCATs - I can have a scheduled job that does an Internet Service 
Retrieval of HOLDDATA and then a second step in the job to produce a listing of 
the FIXCAT categories which can then reviewed for applicability

Roger

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Re: SMP/E Fixcat Categories in batch?

[Roger Lowe]

Bob,
  This is the list I have - you will also note that the very first line 
shows 'No Fix Categories are new since 2018/09/19' which was when I last did an 
internet service retrieval of HOLDDATA for our zOS 2.3 environment. I would 
guess that the FIXCATs are not static over zOS nor SMP/E releases

No Fix Categories are new since 2018/09/19.

   Fix Categories  New Selected
   --- --- 
  -IBM.*
   -IBM.Coexistence.*
-IBM.Coexistence.ICSF.*
  IBM.Coexistence.ICSF.z/OS_V2R1-V2R3-HCR77C1
-IBM.Coexistence.z/OS.*
  IBM.Coexistence.z/OS.V2R1
  IBM.Coexistence.z/OS.V2R2
  IBM.Coexistence.z/OS.V2R3
   -IBM.Device.*
-IBM.Device.CommunicationController.*
  IBM.Device.CommunicationController.3745
-IBM.Device.Disk.*
  IBM.Device.Disk.DS8000-2107
  IBM.Device.Disk.ESS-Shark-2105
  IBM.Device.Disk.RAMAC-ArraySubsystem-9394
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  IBM.Device.Disk.RAMAC-VirtualArraySubsystem-9393
  IBM.Device.Disk.RAMAC2-ArraySubsystem-9395
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   IBM.Device.Disk.StorageControl-3990.6
  IBM.Device.Disk.3380
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   IBM.Device.Disk.3390.9
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Re: SMP/E Fixcat Categories in batch?

[Roger Lowe]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 06:54:52 +, Anthony Thompson 
 wrote:

>Probably not what you want, but LIST HOLDDATA HOLDFIXCAT?
>
>Ant.

Ant,
 Not quite what I was afterI am basically after what can be done via 
the SMP/E Dialogs but in batch. In the SMP/E Dialogs, I can go to the FIXCATS 
and then select 'YES' to 'Explore Fix Categories'. Then on the command line, I 
would issue 'E' (Expand All) and this would give me all the various Fix 
Categories - this is what I am after but can't seem to find a way of getting 
such a report in batch.

Roger

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SMP/E Fixcat Categories in batch?

[Roger Lowe]

Hi,
   Is there anyway of listing out all of the SMP/E FIXCATs via batch.?

Thanks, Roger

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Re: TS7760

[Roger Lowe]

>>
>>I've just been informed that we're getting a brand new TS7760
>>
>>We've never had any type of tape library. Before.
>>
>>I've been trying to find the FIXCATS I need to explore in order to install 
>>the required fixes.
>>
>>I've found IBM.Device.Tape.TS7700-3957.
>>Are there any FIXCATS I should be looking at, for SMS, or any other software.
>>
Gadi,
   The following link should help you with your query about FIXCATs - 
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1027683

Roger

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Re: TS7760

[Roger Lowe]

On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 04:28:37 +, Gadi Ben-Avi  wrote:

>Thanks Roger.
>I have the book. I guess I have to start reading :-)
>
>-Original Message-
>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  On Behalf Of 
>Roger Lowe
>Sent: Sunday, September 2, 2018 4:33 PM
>To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>Subject: Re: TS7760
>
>OS Sun, 2 Sep 2018 06:28:24 +, Gadi Ben-Avi  wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I've just been informed that we're getting a brand new TS7760
>>
>>We've never had any type of tape library. Before.
>>
>>I've been trying to find the FIXCATS I need to explore in order to install 
>>the required fixes.
>>
>>I've found IBM.Device.Tape.TS7700-3957.
>>Are there any FIXCATS I should be looking at, for SMS, or any other software.
>>
>>We'll be using Control-T as out tape management system.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Gadi
>>
Gadi,
   Another source of info is the IBM Techodcs website 
(http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/Web/TechDocs) an search 
for "TS7760". There are a number of whitepapers which will also give you some 
additional info..

Roger

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Re: Ts7700 replication

[Roger Lowe]

On Sun, 2 Sep 2018 14:09:43 +0400, Peter  wrote:

>Hi
>
>I confess that I have no knowledge about ts7700. Wanted to know how ts7700
>tape gets copied to the disaster site ?
>
>Can someone please explain me ?
>
>Peter
>
Peter,
As  I posted to another query,   I would suggest you get a hold of 
Redbook "IBM TS7700 Release 4,1 and 4.12 Guide" . could be a good starting 
point

Hope that helps.

Roger

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Re: TS7760

[Roger Lowe]

On Sun, 2 Sep 2018 06:28:24 +, Gadi Ben-Avi  wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've just been informed that we're getting a brand new TS7760
>
>We've never had any type of tape library. Before.
>
>I've been trying to find the FIXCATS I need to explore in order to install the 
>required fixes.
>
>I've found IBM.Device.Tape.TS7700-3957.
>Are there any FIXCATS I should be looking at, for SMS, or any other software.
>
>We'll be using Control-T as out tape management system.
>
>Thanks
>
>Gadi
>
Gadi,
   I would suggest you get a hold of Redbook "IBM TS7700 Release 4,1 and 
4.12 Guide" . could be a good starting point

Hope that helps.

Roger

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Re: FICON "Invalid attachment failure"

[Roger Lowe]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 13:03:34 +0200, R.S.  wrote:

>It is Brocade DCX8510-4 connected to IBM z13 FICON Express16S. The
>message is exactly as I wrote: "Invalid attachment failure". This is on
>Channel icon on SE. There is no message on swtich side.
>
>@Roger
>It is unlikely the problem come from dirty fiber. The problem regards
>two channels, we also changed the cable for one of them.

These might be silly questions  but- 
1.  Is the installed FOS Release on DCX a Ficon Supported and Certified 
Release?. 
2. Is the z13 FICON Express16s CHPID attached to one DCX with the TARGET CU on 
a different DCX ? - possible High Integrity Fabric setup issue?

Roger

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Re: FICON "Invalid attachment failure"

[Roger Lowe]

Have you tried to clean the fibre?

>W dniu 2018-08-22 o 13:45, Roger Lowe pisze:
>> On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 12:16:53 +0200, R.S.  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Two FICON channels were connected to a switch.
>>> Both signal an error "Invalid attachment failure" (this is visible on SE)
>>> I checked port#, zoning, HCD/IODF and have no idea what to check futher.
>>> z13 FICON Express16S, DCX8510-4 with 8Gbps SFP.
>>>
>>>
>>> Any clue?
>> Try  invoking the 'Channel Problem Determination' task on the HMC. There are 
>> various options associated with that task and hopefully that might give you 
>> a clue where the issue(s) may lie.
>
>I did.  All the options.
>I see "Not valid" as the other node (that means switch port) with no
>details, except port speed.
>The switch show the port as not connected, although Statistics show some
>frames were exchanged.
>The only thing is connection rate. It is set to real value. Indeed, it
>is FICON Ex16 to 8Gbps SFP,  but I also enforced 4Gbps on switch side
>and "Analyze Channel Information" shows actual speed. So, the speed
>negotiation was done succesfully. Something bad happened after that.
>

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Re: FICON "Invalid attachment failure"

[Roger Lowe]

Also noted that you have FICON Express16s with 8Gbps SFP - have you checked 
that the port you are using on the switch is at 8Gbps?

>On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 12:16:53 +0200, R.S.  
>wrote:
>
>>Two FICON channels were connected to a switch.
>>Both signal an error "Invalid attachment failure" (this is visible on SE)
>>I checked port#, zoning, HCD/IODF and have no idea what to check futher.
>>z13 FICON Express16S, DCX8510-4 with 8Gbps SFP.
>>
>>
>>Any clue?
>Try  invoking the 'Channel Problem Determination' task on the HMC. There are 
>various options associated with that task and hopefully that might give you a 
>clue where the issue(s) may lie.
>

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Re: FICON "Invalid attachment failure"

[Roger Lowe]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 12:16:53 +0200, R.S.  wrote:

>Two FICON channels were connected to a switch.
>Both signal an error "Invalid attachment failure" (this is visible on SE)
>I checked port#, zoning, HCD/IODF and have no idea what to check futher.
>z13 FICON Express16S, DCX8510-4 with 8Gbps SFP.
>
>
>Any clue?
Try  invoking the 'Channel Problem Determination' task on the HMC. There are 
various options associated with that task and hopefully that might give you a 
clue where the issue(s) may lie.

Hope that helps.

Roger

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Re: CPU Utilization

[Roger Lowe]

On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 03:24:00 -0500, Vince Getgood  wrote:

>Saurabh,
>How much is your management willing to spend on achieving this requirement?
>
>From the few posts that I've seen, I'd suggest no-one here does this now, or 
>has ever done it.  If a company wants to monitor it's mainframe resource usage 
>dynamically, it buys and impliments a product. (BMC Mainview, ASG TMON, IBM's 
>Omegamon etc). 
>
>You're basically asking us to help you write something that will replace one 
>of the above - I'd suggest that's not going to happen - at least not for free!
>
>Also, consider how much resource a home-grown resource monitor would use?   
>Who monitors the monitor?
>
Again, if you have RMF at your site, you could something similar to what we 
have done using RMFM3B to write out to syslog/operlog what our Group Capacity 
usage are for our various environments. An example:
 +RMF300I 3B: Processing CPC Report...

 +MVS1 - RMF301I: 4H Average: 2
 +MVS1 - RMF302I: 4H Max: 3
 +MVS1 - RMF303I: WLM Capping %:  0.0  
 +MVS1 - RMF304I: Group Name: GRPDEVT  
 +MVS1 - RMF305I: Group Limit: 9  
 +MVS1 - RMF306I: Time until Capping: 195 minutes  
.
Using the above info, you could certainly then setup whatever automation 
package you have to trap on the relevant fields
.
Have a look in your *.SERBCLS dataset (members ERBM3B and ERBR3CPC) and that 
will give you a good starting point to set something up to fit your 
requirements. As Vince said, you are basically asking/wanting someone else to 
do the leg work for you for free and that ain't going to happen any time soon! 

Just to provide you with another source of RMF related info/goodies - 
https://github.com/IBM/IBM-Z-zOS/tree/master/zOS-RMF

Roger 

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Re: CPU Utilization

[Roger Lowe]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2018 14:42:21 +0300, saurabh khandelwal 
 wrote:

>Hello Group,
>
>We have requirement to trigger alert to operator console, once CPU
>utilization for any address space or any Job or any running STC  reach to
>certain pre defined number. Like any job or address space or STC consuming
>CPU for more then 30 min etc , operator should get alter on his console.
>
>
>Is there any way to implement this process using rexx, netview or any other
>way .
>
If you have RMF installed, you could look at using RMFM3B and zEvent which 
could do what you are after 

Roger

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Re: HMC log question

[Roger Lowe]

On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 15:21:32 +, Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM 
 wrote:

>Hello Group,
>
>It seems a simple question, but we can't find it:
>Does the z13s HMC log when a disabled waitstate is loaded and how can I access 
>the log?
>
>Or is the only way to find out about these event to email them via the Monitor 
>System Events function?
>
>Kees.
>
Kees,
   The hardware messages icon should be blue (indicating a h/w message). 
You should then single click on the CPC (again it should be coloured blue) and 
then hardware messages and whatever h/w message should then displayed in a 
popup window. 
You can also setup, via the Monitor System Events task in the Console Actions 
Work Area and setup an alert(s) to send an email - this is what we do and it 
works quite well
.
Hope this helps
.
Roger

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Re: Syntax check for JES2 INIT deck

[Roger Lowe]

On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 07:18:36 -0600, Doug Henry <doug_he...@usbank.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 09:39:55 +, Beesley, Paul <paul.bees...@atos.net> 
>wrote:
>I agree it is a useful facility and I also thank you.
>However we run Thruput Manager and it also abends during the check  with a 
>S0C2 in their module DTMJ2MV7. We will be checking with  Compuware  to see if 
>it is a know problem.
>
>Doug
>
>>A useful facility, thanks.
>>However it abends S0C4 in HASPIRDA (+73C4) on completion... I'll check for 
>>missing maintenance.
>>
>>Regards and thanks
>>Paul
>>
>>-Origanal Message-
>>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On 
>>Behalf Of Roger Lowe
>>Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 12:17 AM
>>To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>>Subject: Re: Syntax check for JES2 INIT deck
>>
>>On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 23:51:17 +, Jesse 1 Robinson 
>>ejesse1.robin...@sce.com> wrote:
>>
>>>(It must be JES2zday . There used to a trick to get a JES2 INIT deck syntax 
>>>check. You would 'S JES2' with the system running. JES2 would eventually say 
>>>'SUBSYSTEM NOT DORMANT' and quit, but along the way read the INIT deck and 
>>>flag any syntax errors. We tried that today with a deliberate syntax error, 
>>>but no complaints during startup. Did this trick stop working somewhere 
>>>along the way?
>>>
>>If you are running zOS 2.3, you can make use of the JES2 init deck checker 
>>via batch.
>>
>>//JES2CHK JOB (RLL,1206),'Init Deck Check',
>> / MSGLEVEL=(1,1),
>>// CLASS=R, < == ensure this job class allows for System 
>>Symbols
>>// MSGCLASS=X,
>>// REGION=0M,
>>// NOTIFY=
>>//*
>>//JES2 EXEC JES2
>>//IEFPROC.HASPLIST DD SYSOUT=Z
>>
>>Report listing is written to the HASPLIST DD
>>
>>Hope this helps 
>>
>>Roger
>>
We do not experience any abends when running the JES2 Init Deck check in batch. 
We have zOS 2.3  systems running at various PUT/RSU levels, ranging from 
PUT1708/RSU1708 to PUT1712/RSU1712 .

Roger

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Re: Syntax check for JES2 INIT deck

[Roger Lowe]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 23:51:17 +, Jesse 1 Robinson  
wrote:

>(It must be JES2zday). There used to a trick to get a JES2 INIT deck syntax 
>check. You would 'S JES2' with the system running. JES2 would eventually say 
>'SUBSYSTEM NOT DORMANT' and quit, but along the way read the INIT deck and 
>flag any syntax errors. We tried that today with a deliberate syntax error, 
>but no complaints during startup. Did this trick stop working somewhere along 
>the way?
>
If you are running zOS 2.3, you can make use of the JES2 init deck checker via 
batch. 

//JES2CHK JOB (RLL,1206),'Init Deck Check',   
// MSGLEVEL=(1,1), 
// CLASS=R, < == ensure this job class allows for System 
Symbols  
// MSGCLASS=X, 
// REGION=0M,  
// NOTIFY=  
//*
//JES2 EXEC JES2   
//IEFPROC.HASPLIST DD SYSOUT=Z

Report listing is written to the HASPLIST DD

Hope this helps 

Roger 

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Re: Track address space which is non reusable

[Roger Lowe]

On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 21:24:07 +0530, Jake Anderson  
wrote:

>Hi
>
>Is there any rexx exec or a program which can tell me the number of Address
>space which are nonreusable ASID ?
>
>zOS 2.2
>
>Jake
>
If I remember correctly, there should be a Health Check called "IEA_ASIDS" 
which should give you the info that you are after ...

Roger

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Re: Source of SYSLOAVG value in RMF3

[Roger Lowe]

On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 01:33:40 +, Graham Harris  wrote:

>Would anyone happen to know where the "SYSLOAVG" (stands for 'system load
>average') value in RMF3 comes from?
>I think it is also known as the WEB queue.
>
>I have ploughed through the data areas manuals, and cant see any obvious
>candidate control block at an LPAR level, but i may not be searching for
>the right thing, and it may not actually be a control block in its own
>right anyway.
>
>From what i have seen in the data areas, I have a nasty suspicion is that
>each address space may have its own WEB queue, and RMF may perhaps be
>amalgamating them to give a system-wide view (which is what I am
>specifically interested in, but want it at a much finer granularity than
>RMF3 can give).
>
>Any info gratefully received.
>
In IPCS, try issuing IPCS IEAVWEBI and see if that gives you the info that you 
might be after 

Hope that helps.

Roger

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Re: JES2 Sizer in z/OS V2.3

[Roger Lowe]

On Sun, 5 Nov 2017 13:40:38 +, גדי בן אבי  wrote:

>I tried that, and got:
>IEF188I PROBLEM PROGRAM ATTRIBUTES ASSIGNED
>$HASP433 INVALID SUBSYSTEM EXECUTION MODE
>And the step ended with RC=20.
>
>Gadi

Are you running it under a zOS 2.3 environment?

Roger

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Re: JES2 Sizer in z/OS V2.3

[Roger Lowe]

You can also run the JES2 Init Deck checker as a batch job.


//JES2 EXEC JES2
//IEFPROC.HASPLIST DD SYSOUT=Z (override of the DD in the JES2 proc as I 
wanted the report from the checker to go to a different sysout)

Since the site I work at uses System Symbolics in the JES2 proc, you need to 
ensure the job class you run the job in has Systems Symbols enabled.

As part of the report produced by running the above - 



Recommendations:   
   
   Current  Current Percent Usage per Max with 
 LimitUsage   Usage   JQE/JOE  max JQE/JOE 
   ---  ---  --    --- 
 JQEs   14,0005,564   39.74
 Job Numbers10,0005,556   55.56  0.99   13,860 
 JOEs   35,0007,322   20.92  1.34   18,760 
 Active TGs 99,810   60,530   60.64 10.82  151,480 
 BERTs  28,100  5902.09
  JQE BERTs 373  0.06  840 
  JOE BERTs  52  0.000 


Hope the above helps.

Roger

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Re: LPAR to LPAR access

[Roger Lowe]

Judith/Jerry,
 BMC's product (Subsystem Optimizer for zEnterprise "Subzero") 
requires a BASIC or PARALLEL Sysplex environment. 

Roger

On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 23:30:13 +, Edgington, Jerry 
 wrote:

>Yes, Judith. That is correct. I missed that in your email.  However, I believe 
>the BMC tool allows you to connect CICS and maybe batch on one LPAR to DB2 on 
>another LPAR.
>
>-Original Message-
>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On 
>Behalf Of Nelson, Judith
>Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 5:43 PM
>To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>Subject: Re: LPAR to LPAR access
>
>Hi Jerry,
>I have looked into the link to the remote database. As far as I understand 
>this is that requires a db2 instance on both LPAR's. :(
>
>Thank you,
>
>Judith Nelson
>
>
>-Original Message-
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>Behalf Of Nelson, Judith
>Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 12:00 PM
>To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>Subject: Re: LPAR to LPAR access
>
>Thank you Jerry!
>
>Judith Nelson
>
>
>-Original Message-
>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On 
>Behalf Of Edgington, Jerry
>Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 11:25 AM
>To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>Subject: Re: LPAR to LPAR access
>
>Sorry Judith,
>
>Our email system modifies the URL.
>
>I think this link should help with the setup of remote database from DB2 on 
>z/OS.
>www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPEK_11.0.0/dshare/src/tpc/db2z_sysibmlocationsds.html,
>
>Here is the BMC tool
>www.bmc.com/it-solutions/subsystem-optimizer.html
>
>
>-Original Message-
>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On 
>Behalf Of Edgington, Jerry
>Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 12:23 PM
>To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>Subject: Re: LPAR to LPAR access
>
>Judith,
>
>I think this link should help with the setup of remote database from DB2 on 
>z/OS.
>https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.ibm.com_support_knowledgecenter_en_SSEPEK-5F11.0.0_dshare_src_tpc_db2z-5Fsysibmlocationsds.html=DwIFAg=WUZzGzAb7_N4DvMsVhUlFrsw4WYzLoMP5bgx2U7ydPE=gEY-_N3_t4QXFrS5e-OgAibMMWGnLPFFfmDVHG_3lz4=Q2qvjC85EobRWAgHVl-yX2v319f6i9cuTloWg-wjmsE=sJBowoFLA-8ocnbEpqCKvSdFmT2s355DrFGS5qkZq7M=
>
>Here is the BMC tool
>https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bmc.com_it-2Dsolutions_subsystem-2Doptimizer.html=DwIFAg=WUZzGzAb7_N4DvMsVhUlFrsw4WYzLoMP5bgx2U7ydPE=gEY-_N3_t4QXFrS5e-OgAibMMWGnLPFFfmDVHG_3lz4=Q2qvjC85EobRWAgHVl-yX2v319f6i9cuTloWg-wjmsE=8dcWbFRJZ5UFFIwGKMcoOv5gW9_-1ldLc-jEYbQmIgw=
>
>Jerry
>
>-Original Message-
>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On 
>Behalf Of Nelson, Judith
>Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 11:53 AM
>To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>Subject: Re: LPAR to LPAR access
>
>Hi Jerry,
>You are correct with your assumption. :)
>
>If I set up the database as remote, wouldn't I still need some kind of a 
>client to connect to it?
>Could you let me know which product from BMC would do this?
>
>Thank you,
>
>Judith Nelson
>
>
>-Original Message-
>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On 
>Behalf Of Edgington, Jerry
>Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 9:17 AM
>To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>Subject: Re: LPAR to LPAR access
>
>Judith,
>
>I know of a couple of ways to get batch and CICS to access a remote DB2, which 
>is what you are asking, I believe, because you don't want to setup a DB2 data 
>sharing.
>
>1) Within DB2, you can setup a database as a remote. DB2 admin should know how 
>to do this.
>2) BMC has a product that would allow CICS/Batch to connect to a remote DB2, 
>like it is locally attached
>
>
>Jerry
>
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>Behalf Of Nelson, Judith
>Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 10:14 AM
>To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>Subject: LPAR to LPAR access
>
>Hi,
>I am trying to find the best solution for the following problem.
>
>We have two LPARs, one of them has DB2 running, the other one hasn't. We do 
>not have a SYSPLEX.
>We now want to access DB2 data in batch and through CICS, from the LPAR that 
>doesn't have DB2 on it.
>
>For the batch side, I looked at ODBC, but I couldn't find anything how to set 
>this up from another z/OS.
>
>I have set up a simple IPIC connection to connect CICS - CICS across LPAR's. 
>The CICS's are talking. :)
>
>Does anyone have any ideas that could help me?
>
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Re: RACF Parmlib Support - OA52650

[Roger Lowe]

On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 18:25:09 -0700, Ed Jaffe  
wrote:

>Yay! I have wanted this since Old Man Noah cornered the market on gopher
>wood!
>
>ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/eserver/zseries/zos/racf/pdf/oa52650.pdf

Second that ! - gets rid of two usermods for us

Roger

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Re: ICH13005I

[Roger Lowe]

Have you checked out the LISTCDT utility - 
https://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/features/racf/downloads/listcdt.html

Haven't run it for sometime but I am sure the report it produces lists off the 
POSIT values

Roger

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Re: IBM Session Manager replacement

[Roger Lowe]

Roberto,
 Have a read of the Announcement Letter 
(https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=an=ca=gpateam=897=ENUS215-356)
 for CL/Supersession and in particular the section titled "ESW trade-up - 
Ordering information"
.
You may find that it may be a NO cost option for you to go to CL/Supersession - 
possibly worth investigating
.
Hope the above helps
.
Roger

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Re: job output into dataset

[Roger Lowe]

As of zOS 1.13 and later,  JES2 provides the ability to 'spin' any SPIN spool 
datasets based on command, size or time (interval or absolute).

SPIN=(UNALLOC,value) where value is one of:
• ‘hh:mm’ – Spin data set at specified time
• ‘+hh:mm’ – Spin data set at interval specified
• nnn [K|M] – Spin every nnn records
• NOCMD – Cannot spin data set by command 
• CMDONLY – Spin only when a command is issued

Have a look in the JCL Reference for further details.

Roger

On Tue, 2 May 2017 12:13:41 +0300, venkat kulkarni  
wrote:

>Hello Andy,
>
>Thanks . but after spin, where these messages will go and reside to later
>review. I want to remove messages from job in timely manner and put it in
>some dataset to be used further.
>
>Please suggest.
>
>On 02-May-2017 10:42 AM, "Styles, Andy (ITS zPlatform Services)" <
>00d68f765d25-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
>Classification: Public
>If it's just the JESLOG you're interested in, take a look at the JESLOG
>parameter of the JOB card:
>
>Syntax:
>
>JESLOG= {SPIN}
>  {NOSPIN}
>  {SUPPRESS}
>
>Subparameter Definition:
>
>SPIN
>JESLOG is spin-eligible. There is an optional second operand.
>
>JESLOG=(SPIN,hh:mm)
>JESLOG will be spun at time hh:mm each 24 hour period. "hh" is
>hours and has a range of 00 through 23. "mm" is minutes and has
>a range of 00 through 59.
>
>JESLOG will be spun when the next message is written to the
>data set after the specified time.
>
>JESLOG=(SPIN,+hh:mm)
>JESLOG will be spun every hh:mm time interval. "hh" is hours
>and has a range of 00 through 23. "mm" is minutes and has a
>range of 00 through 59. The minimum interval which can be
>specified is 10 minutes. Note that "hh" must be specified even
>if zero. For example, JESLOG=(SPIN,0:20)
>
>JESLOG will be spun when the next message is written to the
>data set after the specified time.
>
>JESLOG=(SPIN,nnn)
>JESLOG=(SPIN,nnnK)
>JESLOG=(SPIN,nnnM)
>JESLOG will be spun when either data set has "n" lines. A
>minimum of 500 lines must be specified. "K" is thousands and
>"M" is millions.
>
>
>Andy Styles
>z/Series Systems Programmer
>
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>Hello,
>
>We have some address spaces running from long time and produce messages
>regularly. Now, my requirement is to cut those messages on regular basis
>and keep appending into seperate dataset.
>
>This way, we will save spool size and no need to recycle the address space
>to remove old message.
>
>Can anybody help me doing this task.
>
>Regards
>Venkat
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Re: Fwd: Apache Spark on z listserver or forum?

[Roger Lowe]

On Fri, 6 Jan 2017 19:08:53 -0500, Erin Farr  wrote:

>>> Are you asking about Spark on z/OS, or on Linux on z?
>>> Regardless, I don't know of any forum specific to Spark on z (z/OS nor
>Linux on z.)
>>> I'm development team lead for Spark on z/OS.  I'm willing to investigate
>setting one up for Spark on z/OS if folks are interested.
>
>> For us, it will be Spark on z/OS..
>
>Glad to hear it!  Sounds like you maybe have some questions.  Feel free to
>mail me directly (ef...@us.ibm.com), or post here until I see what I can
>get set up for a Spark-z/OS-specific mailing list.
>
Thanks Erin - yes, we do have some questions, so we will email you directly for 
the time being.

Roger

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Re: Fwd: Apache Spark on z listserver or forum?

[Roger Lowe]

On Fri, 6 Jan 2017 16:50:01 -0500, Erin Farr  wrote:

>>
>> Hi,
>> Our site is currently in the very early stages of dabbling with
>> Apache Spark on z and was wondering if there is a Listserver or Forum
>> specifically for Apache Spark on z.
>>
>> Thanks, Roger
>
>Are you asking about Spark on z/OS, or on Linux on z?
>Regardless, I don't know of any forum specific to Spark on z (z/OS nor
>Linux on z.)
>I'm development team lead for Spark on z/OS.  I'm willing to investigate
>setting one up for Spark on z/OS if folks are interested.
>
For us, it will be Spark on z/OS..

Roger

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Apache Spark on z listserver or forum?

[Roger Lowe]

Hi,
   Our site is currently in the very early stages of dabbling with Apache Spark 
on z and was wondering if there is a Listserver or Forum specifically for 
Apache Spark on z.

Thanks, Roger

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Re: zIIP Processor availability Display

[Roger Lowe]

On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 03:42:18 +, Carlos Cordero  
wrote:

>Hi all..
>
>
>On a z12 Mainframe with two physical box, with 8 LPARS on a Sysplex 
>configuration and Coupling Facility option, there are 6 Lpars for production 
>and 2 Lpars for previous environment (development or test); how can I display 
>if zIIP processor are assigned or used by Lpars of previous environments?
>
>
>I hope my question is clear.
>

D M=CPU

Roger

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DSS RESTORE with SMS Managed 3584 Library - How??

[Roger Lowe]

Hi,
   We have an SMS Managed 3584 Tape Library and would now like to use DFDSS 
RESTORE on our One Pack system to restore some dasd volumes from our weekly 
backup tapes as a recovery exercise.
I have managed to vary online one of the drives to our one pack system and then 
used the web gui on the TS3500 to move the tape I require into the drive that 
is online to our one pack system - all seems to be good so far. 
However, when I run the batch DFDSS RESTORE job, I get the following message 
"IEF343I VOLRSTJB RESTORE TAPE - REQUEST FAILED - NOT ENOUGH NON-SYSTEM MANAGED 
VOLUMES ELIGIBLE"
.
As this is a one pack system, there isnt a valid SMS environment but somehow 
zOS knows that either the drive and/or the tape volume is under SMS management
.
Does anyone have any idea as to how to resolve this?
.
I did find  the following thread - 
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bit.listserv.ibm-main/mnyNGm6GzEg but 
it is referring more to the standalone DSS services
.
Thanks, Roger

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zAware Usage

[Roger Lowe]

Hi All,
Just a curiosity question - how many of you have zAware configured and 
actively in use in your environment?

You can either reply to the List or offline to me..

Thanks, Roger

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Re: SHARE Atlanta proceedings

[Roger Lowe]

If you use Firefox, you could try and (still) use the FF extension (DownThemAll 
aka dTa) - http://www.downthemall.net/

Roger
 
On Mon, 8 Aug 2016 10:02:09 -0400, Richards, Robert B. 
 wrote:

>Thanks Lizette.  One at a time, it is. 
>
>
>-Original Message-
>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On 
>Behalf Of Lizette Koehler
>Sent: Monday, August 08, 2016 9:47 AM
>To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>Subject: Re: SHARE Atlanta proceedings
>
>I think when you attend Share you might get a DVD with all of the proceedings.
>Otherwise the website I think is just one at a time for download.
>
>Lizette
>
>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] 
>> On Behalf Of Richards, Robert B.
>> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2016 5:40 AM
>> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>> Subject: SHARE Atlanta proceedings
>> 
>> Does anyone know when the Atlanta SHARE Conference proceedings from 
>> last week will be available?
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
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Re: System symbols in batch JCL

[Roger Lowe]

Skip,
  The following jcl should do the trick - 

//ZZZSKIP  JOB (ZZZ,1234),'TEST',  
// MSGCLASS=2,CLASS=M,NOTIFY=,  
// MSGLEVEL=(1,1),TIME=1440,   
// REGION=0M   
//*
//SYMBOLS  EXPORT SYMLIST=*
//*
//D1   SET D= 
//T1   SET T= 
//*
//TIMETEST EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01   
//SYSTSPRT DD DISP=(,CATLG),SPACE=(TRK,1),RECFM=FB,LRECL=80,   
//UNIT=SYSALLDA,   
//DSN=ZZZ.SKIP.REPORT.D 
//SYSTSIN  DD DUMMY

Hope it helps. Roger


On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 19:53:44 +, Jesse 1 Robinson  
wrote:

>I'm trying to use system symbols in batch JCL under z/OS 2.1. Specifically, 
>I'd like to create a DSN like this:
>
>   TSOSKIP.REPORT.D-local-date.T-local-time
>
>I've perused KC but still cannot get to work. Now maybe DSN simply does not 
>allow embedded symbolics, but I did not see that prohibition. Here's what I 
>get.
>
>3 // SET D=
>4 // SET T=
>  //*
>5 //TIMETEST EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01
>6 //SYSTSIN  DD *
>7 //SYSTSPRT DD DISP=(,CATLG),SPACE=(TRK,1),RECFM=FB,LRECL=80,
>  //UNIT=SYSALLDA,
>  //DSN= TSOSKIP.REPORT.D
>  IEFC653I SUBSTITUTION JCL - 
> DISP=(,CATLG),SPACE=(TRK,1),RECFM=FB,LRECL=80,UNIT=SYSALLDA,
>  DSN= TSOSKIP.REPORT.D
>. MESSAGE
>7 IEFC627I INCORRECT USE OF AMPERSAND IN THE DSN FIELD
>
>I read that system symbols must be enabled by class, which I did for class A: 
>$HASP837 JOBCLASS(A) SYSSYM=ALLOW
>
>But it looks like my job is failing at conversion and never getting to 
>execution. Shouldn't this be easy? ;-)
>
>.
>.
>.
>J.O.Skip Robinson
>Southern California Edison Company
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>SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager
>323-715-0595 Mobile
>626-302-7535 Office
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>
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Re: SMF type 89 records reporting RMF usage

[Roger Lowe]

Have you checked your IFAPRDxx Parmlib member to see whether RMF is ENABLED? Or 
issue the 'D PROD,STATE,ALL' command and that should also show you the state of 
the various product entries.

It may have been ENABLED and someone started/stopped RMF?

Just my 0.02 worth

Roger

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