Re: 3490 off maintenance June 30 2007

2007-03-31 Thread R.S.
Eric Bielefeld wrote: We used 3490 E models for all of our production at PH Mining until they closed the datacenter a year ago. They worked well, although I noticed that the failure rate of jobs was up slightly over when the drives where newer. We never got them new, but then the 3480s that

Re: The Complete April Fools' Day RFCs

2007-03-31 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#18 The Complete April Fools' Day RFCs for other drift ... old posting of the 1984 april 1st corporate directive on passwords ... old posting http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001d.html#51 A beautiful morning in AFM. http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001d.html#52 A

Re: 3490 off maintenance June 30 2007

2007-03-31 Thread Barry Merrill
This is second hand hearsay, but from a usually impeccable source: Are you aware that 3480/3490 media is longer being manufactured? IMATION has a bit over 300,000 units available and no more will be manufactured. BTW, IMATION expects the current inventory to be sufficient through

What makes MASTER CONSOLE unique?

2007-03-31 Thread Johnny Luo
Hi, From the IBM book, the first console processed at IPL with the MASTER authority becomes the actual master console. I understand that but the question is, if I have another console also with the MASTER authority, what's the difference between them? If the two consoles are all defined with

Re: msys

2007-03-31 Thread Chris Mason
Abdullah Apparently not. I Googled IBM msys and http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/msys/msysops/ was my first hit. The introductory paragraph states the following: quote z/OS msys for Operations is a base element in z/OS V1R2 that incorporates well-proven automation technology

Re: What makes MASTER CONSOLE unique?

2007-03-31 Thread Gerhard Adam
If the two consoles are all defined with ROUTCODE(ALL) AUTH(MASTER) LEVEL(ALL), I can see all messages and issue any commands on either one. Then, what makes the MASTER CONSOLE unique? History ... This has been corrected in the latest z/OS releases (1.8). There is no longer a concept of a master

Re: What makes MASTER CONSOLE unique?

2007-03-31 Thread Johnny Luo
Thanks, Adam. On 4/1/07, Gerhard Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the two consoles are all defined with ROUTCODE(ALL) AUTH(MASTER) LEVEL(ALL), I can see all messages and issue any commands on either one. Then, what makes the MASTER CONSOLE unique? History ... This has been corrected in the

Re: DFSMSdss DOC APAR OA20117 (was RE: HSM Missing Member from Recalled Dataset -- Update

2007-03-31 Thread Joel C. Ewing
Good Lord! What idiot could have thought this counter-intuitive behavior is a reasonable default: When restoring data in a full volume or tracks operation, DFSMSdss resets the data-set-changed indicator in the VTOC entries of each data set that has had its data restored. This is to

Re: Nested PROCs (again)

2007-03-31 Thread Joel C. Ewing
We have similar issues (maybe not as extreme) not only with vendor supplied PROCs, but also EXECs and CLISTs that need local customization. The best we've been able to come up with is to be sure to keep the original vendor version around, compare that with what is supplied in a subsequent

Re: T.J. Maxx data theft worse than first reported

2007-03-31 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote: re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#10 Record Credit card heist ...TJM http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#15 T.J. Maxx data theft worse than first reported http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#19 T.J. Maxx data theft worse than first reported and a

Re: DFSMSdss DOC APAR OA20117 (was RE: HSM Missing Member from Recalled Dataset -- Update

2007-03-31 Thread Clark Morris
I hope that you will be trying to convince your management to send this to your IBM sales representative or higher. Incidentally how does Innovation's FDR handle this? On 31 Mar 2007 13:24:05 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: Good Lord! What idiot could have thought this

Re: [Fwd: The Complete April Fools' Day RFCs]

2007-03-31 Thread Arthur T.
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Re: 3490 off maintenance June 30 2007

2007-03-31 Thread Joel C. Ewing
First, lets clear up one thing: For most MVS shops this is a non issue. The 3490 drives going off maintenance are not models that were most widely used by MVS shops. The Fxx models are the somewhat peculiar models (previously discussed in this forum) that actually have the hardware

Re: 3490 off maintenance June 30 2007

2007-03-31 Thread Joel C. Ewing
However, you do need to understand that stacking files needed for recovery purposes on a tape already containing recovery data does put the previous data at greater risk. Mechanical drives and physical tapes have the potential at each tape mount for a failure that can result in loss of all

Re: msys

2007-03-31 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:27:51 +0200, Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... is msys a feature of netview or need netview as a prerequisite. ... Apparently not. ... Chris, It's not quite that simple. I know I don't this quite right, but some of NetVlew's base automation are (under the right

Re: DFSMSdss DOC APAR OA20117 (was RE: HSM Missing Member from Recalled Dataset -- Update

2007-03-31 Thread Stephen Mednick
If you're referring to the update indicator in the DS1DSIND field of the F1 DSCB, FDR will by default always turn the update indicator on after restoring or copying a dataset. Stephen Mednick Computer Supervisory Services Sydney, Australia -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: copy migrated dataset?

2007-03-31 Thread Joel C. Ewing
The only supported way I know to make a copy without recall is to use an HSM ABARS backup. We have done this in a (very) few instances, and depending on the reason for the backup it may suffice. The main limitations of this technique are (1)someone with proper authorities will have to define

Re: msys

2007-03-31 Thread Edward Jaffe
Abdullah AlShaalan wrote: is msys a feature of netview or need netview as a prerequisite. http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/7/897/ENUS205-167/ENUS205-167.PDF z/OS V1.7 is planned to be the last release to support the z/OS msys for Operations element. It is IBM's intent to remove the z/OS

US Airways badmouths legacy system

2007-03-31 Thread Aaron Walker
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do? command=viewArticleBasictaxonomyName=mainframes_and_supercomputers articleId=9015078taxonomyId=67intsrc=kc_top Watch for lots of wrap. US Airways partly blames legacy systems for March glitch Self-service kiosks crashed as airline integrated its

VSM(VT), Disaster Recovery, No Tapes

2007-03-31 Thread Harold Zbiegien
We are planning to implement a 100% virtual tape solution (VSM from STK) with backend T1 drives in a STK silo. We will have NO real tape drives attached to our z/OS 1.7 system. (I wasn't actively involved in the choice, but now I have to implement and make the solution work). I have

Re: IBMLink web is down SEV1 ticket opened with IBMLink help desk

2007-03-31 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Robert Justice said: Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:31:53 -0400 now, yes. You're cribbing from a Yogi Berra-ism: Q: What time is it? Yogi: You mean now? Pipedream: coerce IBM to not discontinue 3270 IBMLink until the web version has operated for 6 months

How many sites still on V1.5 or earlier?

2007-03-31 Thread Blaicher, Chris
V1.4 and V1.5 go out of service tonight and I was just wondering how many shops are going to be SOL because the system they are running have hit EOS? Christopher Y. Blaicher BMC Software, Inc. Austin Development Labs (512) 340-6154 The comments made are my personal opinions. BMC Software, Inc.