Re: installing serverpac for 1.13 using 1.11 system

2012-06-13 Thread Linda Mooney
Hi Tim, It is pretty easy in the ServerPac dialogs to change the name of the mount point to a unique name , such as /service13 .  That prevents any confusion as to what gets mounted to what for what.  /snip MOUNT FILESYSTEM('ZOS13.OMVS.VAR.ROOT') + /esnip This is your VAR root.  There

Re: Printing DASD type

2012-06-13 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-06-13 07:14, mf db pisze: Hello All, We know pretty well that Mod - 3 , Mod - 9 . Mod - 27 has a Cylinder of 3K , 9K and 27k, but in a environment where we have mixture of all these type it becomes hard to know by each Volume serial. Are there any ways to scan only the Volumes

Re: Printing DASD type

2012-06-13 Thread Linda Mooney
Hi Peter, There are a number of ways - a lot depends on what info you want.  Assuming that you just want to filter a quick list, QuickRef has a very handy DASD screen for immediate - or almost immediate, depending on how big your farm is :)  display that you can filter by many different

Re: Printing DASD type

2012-06-13 Thread Scott Barry
The IBM DFSORT website has a set of sample DCOLLECT data scripts (identified as ICESTGEX#8203; - Storage Administrator Examples#8203;) that can likely be useful for volume-capacity identification and post-processing. Scott Barry SBBWorks, Inc. http://sbbworks.com/ On Wed, 13 Jun 2012

GSE (UK) Enterprise Security Working Group

2012-06-13 Thread Mark Wilson
Sent on behalf of Jamie Pease, Chairman GSE (UK) Enterprise Security Working Group Chairman. Ladies and Gentlemen, Just to remind you that the next meeting of the GSE Enterprise Security Working Group will take place on Wednesday 27th June in Central London. Full details including the agenda

Re: SMF volume

2012-06-13 Thread Scott Barry
Yes -- I support a very large client where CA SMF DIRECTOR is implemented quite effectively, with the SMF data being collected throughout the day and maintained as DFHSM-directed data (HISTORY) files. Managed in smaller pieces by individual LPAR, the archived data is accessed, as needed, and

Re: How many cost a cpu second?

2012-06-13 Thread Linda Mooney
Hi Salva,   The answer is, It depends!  As has been said in other replies, the answer is, at the very least political.  I used to work with a retired IBM capacity planner.  There are two main purposes to a billing system.  1) recover your costs and 2) encourage sustainable computing

Re: Anyone a Unicode Services expert? -- roundtrip conversion

2012-06-13 Thread Peter Sylvester
On 06/12/2012 10:56 PM, John Gilmore wrote: The term 'bijective' is a fairly old one, the earliest reference I found in a Mathematical Reviews index was for 1939.. Anyone who has had a college course in mathematical logic or, yes, set theory is likely to know or have forgotten its meaning. It

z/OS Printsrv

2012-06-13 Thread Andre Massena
Hello all, have the following problem(s): Printsrv and all of it's bells and whistles works on z/OS 1.10 and 1.12. I have TARed (PAXed) the /var/Printsrv directory, copied it to my target (z/OS1.13) and started Printsrv as per instructions. All necessary RACF, Linklist and USS definitions

Re: MICS Capacity Planner

2012-06-13 Thread Don Melton
Which SAS/STAT functions are required? I thought that much of SAS/STAT functionality was rolled into SAS/BASE in the most recent SAS releases (r9?). be seeing you ... Don Don Melton, Sr. Consultant, Vatic Technologies Ltd Dale Houg dale.h...@sbcglobal.net wrote in message

Re: Printing DASD type

2012-06-13 Thread John P Kalinich
Option 2 of the Interactive Storage Management Facility (ISMF) dialog will get you there. So will the LISTV dialog function of the PDS command (CBT file 182). Regards, John K From: mf db dbajava...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 06/13/2012 12:15 AM Subject:Printing

Re: Anyone a Unicode Services expert? -- roundtrip conversion

2012-06-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 00f101cd48c5$195bdba0$4c1392e0$@mcn.org, on 06/12/2012 at 10:59 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: Fair enough. Unicode services reports however that it supports roundtrip conversion in many of these cases, including for example, 37 to 850 (pretty basic ASCII). 850 is not ASCII; it

Complimentary E-book Thriller from author, Marshall Chamberlain

2012-06-13 Thread Marshall Chamberlain
To introduce my raging-river, writing style to readers, I've set up a free PDF download of The Mountain Place of Knowledge. The Mountain is the first book in the Ancestor Series of adventure-thrillers. The story is about: A scepter instrument that heals and destroys. A place of knowledge inside a

Re: Complimentary E-book Thriller from author, Marshall Chamberlain

2012-06-13 Thread Darth Keller
How is this appropriate? To introduce my raging-river, writing style to readers, I've set up a free PDF download of The Mountain Place of Knowledge. The Mountain is the first book in the Ancestor Series of adventure-thrillers. The story is about: A scepter instrument that heals and destroys. A

Re: Complimentary E-book Thriller from author, Marshall Chamberlain

2012-06-13 Thread McKown, John
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Darth Keller Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 7:22 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Complimentary E-book Thriller from author, Marshall Chamberlain How is this appropriate? It's not. It is simply spam

Re: Anyone a Unicode Services expert? -- roundtrip conversion

2012-06-13 Thread Bill Godfrey
The same glossary says this about code point: A unique bit pattern defined in a code. Depending on the code, a code point can be 7-bit, 8-bit, 16-bit, or other. Code points are assigned to a graphic character in a code page. Note the last sentence of that. Also, you earlier quoted a section of

Restriction on length of CLASSPATH?

2012-06-13 Thread Jan MOEYERSONS
Esteemed listers, It looks very much so that the length of the CLASSPATH environment variable as used for running a Java program from a shell script (invoked through BPXBATCH) is restricted to about 4K bytes. However, I can't seem to find any documentation that officially states this

Parallel Sysplex Training

2012-06-13 Thread saurabh khandelwal
Hello, I am looking for classroom/Virtual/Online Parallel Sysplex training. Please help me if you have any idea on this. -- Thanks Regards Saurabh -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: Parallel Sysplex Training

2012-06-13 Thread Jake anderson
Try veroef training On Jun 13, 2012 7:10 PM, saurabh khandelwal sourabhkhandelwal...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am looking for classroom/Virtual/Online Parallel Sysplex training. Please help me if you have any idea on this. -- Thanks Regards Saurabh

Re: Restriction on length of CLASSPATH?

2012-06-13 Thread Kirk Wolf
I do not believe this to be true. Please post a test case. It may be helpful to have your java program print the classpath, like: http://dev-answers.blogspot.com/2006/06/how-do-you-print-java-classpath.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 8:00 AM,

Re: Parallel Sysplex Training

2012-06-13 Thread John Eells
saurabh khandelwal wrote: Hello, I am looking for classroom/Virtual/Online Parallel Sysplex training. Please help me if you have any idea on this. There might be some Parallel Sysplex information in the Education Assistant materials (which are free), but they are not

Re: Parallel Sysplex Training

2012-06-13 Thread Mike Myers
On 06/13/2012 09:39 AM, saurabh khandelwal wrote: Hello, I am looking for classroom/Virtual/Online Parallel Sysplex training. Please help me if you have any idea on this. Check out www.mentor-services.com Mike Myers

Re: z/OS Printsrv

2012-06-13 Thread Roger Bolan
Suggestions: 1. Open a problem record with IBM for Infoprint Server for help with diagnosis 2. See the latest bookshelf: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/Shelves/aopbk381 3. Look at anything that uses iconv for codepage translations with Unicode Conversion

Re: Parallel Sysplex Training

2012-06-13 Thread John Weber
I believe Paul Newton with IBM in Dallas has a class addressing this subject. Paul Newton: pauln...@us.ibm.com John -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of saurabh khandelwal Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 6:39 AM To:

Re: Parallel Sysplex Training

2012-06-13 Thread saurabh khandelwal
Hello, IBM doesn't have any virtual or online classes and they don't run any public classes in Inidia. So, looking for any online or virtual classes. Thanks for helping me . Regards Saurabh On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 7:50 PM, John Weber j...@fiteq.com wrote: I believe Paul Newton with

Re: Complimentary E-book Thriller from author, Marshall Chamberlain

2012-06-13 Thread Hal Merritt
How do you know it's a simple spam and not a hook for malware? That is, click on the link out of curiosity and get infected. Some say that if you are not paranoid then you just don't understand.But others say how can you be paranoid if they really are out to get you? -Original

Re: Printing DASD type

2012-06-13 Thread Bill Fairchild
If you are up to writing a small piece of software, you can find the number of cylinders on a given volume in the DCE (Device Class Extension control block), which can be found by doing using the UCBSCAN macro along with a little extra logic. Bill Fairchild Programmer Rocket Software 408

Re: Complimentary E-book Thriller from author, Marshall Chamberlain

2012-06-13 Thread McKown, John
Good point. Since I __never__ click on a URL or attachment from anyone that I don't when I'm in a Windows environment, that never came to mind. When I need to, I normally will copy the URL or save the attachment and copy to my Linux box. Can't do much damange there since I disable Javascript

Re: Complimentary E-book Thriller from author, Marshall Chamberlain

2012-06-13 Thread Eric Bielefeld
If the original post was spam, and about clueless people, how clueless are the people who keep commenting on it? Eric Bielefeld Sr. Systems Programmer IBM Global Services Division Dubuque, Iowa 414-477-7259 - Original Message - From: McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com

DB2 users list

2012-06-13 Thread william janulin
To list;     Is there a DB2 and a COBOL users list? I am running into an issue where the DB2 preprocessor in a CICS/COBOL/DB2 program is not picking up copybooks from a COPYLIB.   Thank you and regards,  Bill J. -- For IBM-MAIN

Access on ALESERV

2012-06-13 Thread Micheal Butz
Hi, Can anyone explain to me the significance of the ACCESS parameter on the ALESERV MACRO THANKS -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message:

PDSE and DFDSS

2012-06-13 Thread Mark Steely
I would like to move a PDSE dataset using DFDSS - I have never been able to do this. I am using the following format: COPY DATASET( - INCLUDE( - OS130508.SMPE.SMPPTS- ))- OUTDYNAM((MVASM2)) -

Re: PDSE and DFDSS

2012-06-13 Thread Neil Haley
It appears that you might be in contention with SDALMFSM, is that your job or perhaps another job/user? Regards, Neil Haley nha...@ca.ibm.com Storage Software Mainframe Support http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/ | http://www.about.me/NeilHaley From: Mark Steely mark.ste...@wnco.com To:

Re: Access on ALESERV

2012-06-13 Thread Rob Scott
Have you read Using Access Registers in MVS Extended Addressability? Rob Scott Lead Developer Rocket Software 77 Fourth Avenue . Suite 100 . Waltham . MA 02451-1468 . USA Tel: +1.781.684.2305 Email: rsc...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: PDSE and DFDSS

2012-06-13 Thread Mark Steely
That is the job that is trying to move the dataset. The dataset is not allocated by any other resource. Thanks -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Neil Haley Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 10:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu

Re: DB2 users list

2012-06-13 Thread Lizette Koehler
There is a db2 newsgroup IDUG.ORG As for cobol, this newsgroup should be able to help. Can you post the message around the copybook statement? And Cobol Options? Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of william

Re: PDSE and DFDSS

2012-06-13 Thread Lizette Koehler
I would like to move a PDSE dataset using DFDSS - I have never been able to do this. I am using the following format: COPY DATASET( - INCLUDE( - OS130508.SMPE.SMPPTS- ))-

Re: DB2 users list

2012-06-13 Thread Sambataro, Anthony (NIH/NBS) [E]
Don't know if this helps, but it works for us: //DB2PRE EXEC DB2CBLPC,DBRMLIB=hlq.DB2.DBRMLIB, // MEMBER=@,SYSTEM=DB2SYS,SOURCE=NO //PC.SYSINDD DSN=hlq.PGMSRC(@),DISP=SHR //PC.SYSLIB DD DSN=hlq.COPYBOOK,DISP=SHR EXEC SQL

Re: DB2 users list

2012-06-13 Thread Mike Bell
you have several choices - the two normal starting points are 1. change all COPY to EXEC SQL INCLUDE - note this doesn't work if the copy statement is changeing prefix or something in the copy process. 2. use the DB2 co-processor which ties copy process and precompile all together. -- Mike

Re: DB2 users list

2012-06-13 Thread McKown, John
Try this URL for the archive of the DB2-L site. http://www.idug.org/p/fo/et/catid=17 Or, if you decide not to trust a URL in an email (per a previous message from me), then use your search engine of choice for db2-l. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group

Re: PDSE and DFDSS

2012-06-13 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Either: 1) Open a SR. I had a latch issue and LVL2 provided me with a SLIP. Contention was with DFHSM. It was diagnosed to be a timing issue and they are working on a fix. 2) Try IEBCOPY to a pre-allocated dataset. Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: z/OS Printsrv

2012-06-13 Thread Mike Schwab
If you are sending EBCDIC and it is not translated to ASCII, you will get @ printed where blanks are expected (a whole lot of places). Fix by translating EBCDIC to ASCII. On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Andre Massena andre_mass...@lavache.com wrote: Hello all, have the following problem(s):

REXEC error

2012-06-13 Thread Ron Thomas
Hi, We are using rexec to trigger a shell script in unix box, but getting the below error message. can some let me know what could be issue. Using NETRC file //'KEVIN07.NETRC.DATA'. MACHINE : tpj4012 LOGIN : krn PASSWORD: ** MVS TCP/IP REXEC CS V1R13 Calling function rexec_af with the

Re: REXEC error

2012-06-13 Thread Lizette Koehler
Hi, We are using rexec to trigger a shell script in unix box, but getting the below error message. can some let me know what could be issue. Using NETRC file //'KEVIN07.NETRC.DATA'. MACHINE : tpj4012 LOGIN : krn PASSWORD: ** MVS TCP/IP REXEC CS V1R13 Calling function rexec_af with the

Re: Anyone a Unicode Services expert? -- roundtrip conversion

2012-06-13 Thread Charles Mills
I got a response to the PMR. Taking the liberty of paraphrasing a long reply, the essence of it seemed to be that -- per the CCSID pair lists in the manual -- they support round trip conversion from 1027 to 1208 but not from 1208 to 1027. Here is what I wrote back: It sounds like you are saying

Re: Anyone a Unicode Services expert? -- roundtrip conversion

2012-06-13 Thread McKown, John
I __think__ I understand what IBM is saying. You must differentiate between a hex value (0x00..0xFF) and a code point (a subset of hex values). Not every hex value is a code point in every CCSID. I.e. a single byte CCSID may have less than 256 code points, or a double byte CCSID may have less

Re: Anyone a Unicode Services expert? -- roundtrip conversion

2012-06-13 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: I got a response to the PMR. Taking the liberty of paraphrasing a long reply, the essence of it seemed to be that -- per the CCSID pair lists in the manual -- they support round trip conversion from 1027 to 1208 but not

Re: installing serverpac for 1.13 using 1.11 system

2012-06-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 36dfbe034dc16742b5c491a9caaca...@mail.cenhud.com, on 06/12/2012 at 05:08 PM, Tim Brown tbr...@cenhud.com said: During the serverpac for zos 1.13 I believe there is a step where you mount the new systems root system on the driving system at the /service point. Installing z/OS service in

Re: Anyone a Unicode Services expert? -- roundtrip conversion

2012-06-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 93891f43642f3c419a7d75acc2b1db6f3c68cc9...@exchangemb2.dhs.state.ia.us, on 06/12/2012 at 03:38 PM, Roberts, John J jrobe...@dhs.state.ia.us said: Because bijective is not so well understood by anyone born before 1952 or so. I was born before 1952 and understand bijective just fine. OTOH,

Re: Printing DASD type

2012-06-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAPikFhFBqJNMj+i9VpKGJcXjNz2RQ=bia95teeznwpmmcb4...@mail.gmail.com, on 06/13/2012 at 10:44 AM, mf db dbajava...@gmail.com said: Any suggestions or advises are much appreciated. Keep in mind that with modern[1] DASD subsystems you can define volumes with nonstandard sizes, e.g., 3390-54. So

Re: installing serverpac for 1.13 using 1.11 system

2012-06-13 Thread Mark Steely
The format looks correct - this is what I had: /Service/etc OS130508.OMVS.ETC /Service/usr/lpp/java/J6.0.1 OS130508.OMVS.JAVA31M1 /Service/usr/lpp/java/J6.0.1_64 OS130508.OMVS.JAVA64M1 /Service OS130508.OMVS.ROOT

Re: Anyone a Unicode Services expert? -- roundtrip conversion

2012-06-13 Thread Charles Mills
I did not miss the word defined. It's not in IBM's definition. I hear everyone who is saying the term 'code point' *really* means a bit value with a glyph assigned to it, but that's not what the definitions out there say. Wikipedia: In character encoding terminology, a code point or code

Re: Anyone a Unicode Services expert? -- roundtrip conversion

2012-06-13 Thread Tony Harminc
On 13 June 2012 15:02, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com wrote: Roundtrip example:  Every defined character in 1027, excluding values that do not have a character defined, exist in 1208, is successfully translated from 1027 to 1208 and back to 1027.  All codepoints that do not have a

Problem with SMP/E RECEIVE ORDER

2012-06-13 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hi, today I get a problem with SMPE RECEIVE ORDER. With several tries I always get the following message: GIM69212S ** RECEIVE PROCESSING HAS FAILED FOR ORDER ORD2. A PACKAGE FOR ORDER ORD2 WITH ORDERID H73315968 CANNOT BE CREATED BECAUSE THE PACKAGE SIZE

Re: Problem with SMP/E RECEIVE ORDER

2012-06-13 Thread Lizette Koehler
Hi, today I get a problem with SMPE RECEIVE ORDER. With several tries I always get the following message: GIM69212S ** RECEIVE PROCESSING HAS FAILED FOR ORDER ORD2. A PACKAGE FOR ORDER ORD2 WITH ORDERID H73315968 CANNOT BE CREATED BECAUSE THE PACKAGE SIZE

Re: Problem with SMP/E RECEIVE ORDER

2012-06-13 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
When we first started doing Internet Orders we had to gradually prime the systems by doing as Lizette suggested. Initially order just small subsets (Critical, HIPER, RSUXXX) until you have the system current. Then you can go to CONTENT(ALL). (I'm making an assumption that you are just starting

Re: Problem with SMP/E RECEIVE ORDER

2012-06-13 Thread Linda Mooney
Hi Jürgen, I had a similar issue with a service package that was larger that 8GB, about a year ago.  IBM opened an APAR - it was JAVA that couldn't handle the package size .  I didn't have time to wait so I ordered my service on tape.  I don't have the APAR info handy at the moment, but

Re: Anyone a Unicode Services expert? -- roundtrip conversion

2012-06-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:50:17 -0500, McKown, John wrote: I __think__ I understand what IBM is saying. You must differentiate between a hex value (0x00..0xFF) and a code point (a subset of hex values). Not every hex value is a code point in every CCSID. I.e. a single byte CCSID may have less

Re: REXEC error

2012-06-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:37:58 -0500, Ron Thomas wrote: Hi, We are using rexec to trigger a shell script in unix box, but getting the below error message. can some let me know what could be issue. Using NETRC file //'KEVIN07.NETRC.DATA'. MACHINE : tpj4012 LOGIN : krn PASSWORD: ** MVS

Re: Anyone a Unicode Services expert? -- roundtrip conversion

2012-06-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 08:31:12 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In ... a Unicode code page ... Oxymoron? Unicode is unicode. There's only one code point for any given character. Unicode was designed to avoid the babel of code pages. -- gil

Re: Anyone a Unicode Services expert? -- roundtrip conversion

2012-06-13 Thread Charles Mills
FWIW, z/OS Unicode Services does indicate that at least one SUB character was output. It's not an error (RC still = 0) but it is a documented output status bit flag. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin

Re: Anyone a Unicode Services expert? -- roundtrip conversion

2012-06-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:30:41 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: FWIW, z/OS Unicode Services does indicate that at least one SUB character was output. It's not an error (RC still = 0) but it is a documented output status bit flag. What avail is this if SUB is a valid character in the input code page?

How to Carbon Copy (Cc:) in Email from MVS?

2012-06-13 Thread Larry Burch
Is there any way to specify a carbon-copy option when sending an email from MVS? Using IEBGENER with SYSOUT=(B,SMTP); have never needed to do a Cc: before today! And today I can't find -- or figure out -- how to say it. Incidentally, this is with OS390/v2r10. Thanks for any info! LM Burch

Re: How to Carbon Copy (Cc:) in Email from MVS?

2012-06-13 Thread Lizette Koehler
Could you use multiple RCPTTO control cards ? This link may help http://www.linkedin.com/answers/technology/information-technology/computer-n etworking/TCH_ITS_CNW/563444-55625464 Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf

Re: How to Carbon Copy (Cc:) in Email from MVS?

2012-06-13 Thread Mark Douglas (CITEC)
We use http://www.lbdsoftware.com/xmitip.html, which implements a batch or ISPF panel interface for sending SMTP email. Awesome z/OS freeware. Cheers, MARK DOUGLAS -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Larry Burch Sent:

Re: How to Carbon Copy (Cc:) in Email from MVS?

2012-06-13 Thread Larry Burch
Ah, Lizette, thanks. Just looking at the link that you provided immediately helped to straighten out my expectations. Obviously the Cc: stuff that we see in our email client is part of the DATA portion. And I wasted at least a couple hours searching the Archives! burch

Re: How many cost a cpu second?

2012-06-13 Thread Timothy Sipples
A couple other thoughts: 1. Mainframe-only chargeback regimes are deadly. If you actually look at the total IT budget, all things mainframe-related typically consume a rather small fraction of the total IT budget. If you have chargebacks, and if they don't reflect that reality, then you're