Re: COBOL Compiler options

2008-02-22 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of GAVIN Darren * OPS EAS Well I do have DLL programs using the Linkage parm I mentioned before working with the Preprocessor and EXEC DLI database calls. Have had no Issues doing this. So as long as the CICS

Re: Batch job to perform sftp transfer

2008-02-22 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jon Brock [ snip ] Ideally, I would like to be able to set up a batch job that can be run under scheduler control to transmit this file when it is generated. If I am reading the correct information, though,

Re: Batch job to perform sftp transfer

2008-02-22 Thread Chase, John
Sorry; hit Send too soon -Original Message- From: Chase, John -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jon Brock [ snip ] Ideally, I would like to be able to set up a batch job that can be run under scheduler control

Re: Batch job to perform sftp transfer

2008-02-22 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rugen, Len Remember sftp is not equal to ftpssl. Sorry; I ass.u.med the objective was only to accomplish an encrypted file transfer via scheduled batch job, and didn't perceive sftp specifically as a hard

Re: Newbie RACROUTE question: how to *test* authorization?

2008-02-25 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/23/2008 at 10:07 AM, Walt Farrell said: One could argue that letting you determine your access to resources without actually trying to use them (and thus

Re: Newbie RACROUTE question: how to *test* authorization?

2008-02-25 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Randy Evans One could argue that letting you determine your access to resources without actually trying to use them (and thus without causing audit records) is a form of hacking. Perhaps, but some IBM code

Re: Newbie RACROUTE question: how to *test* authorization?

2008-02-25 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Wayne Driscoll One major difference. In CICS, the query security is for a subset of RACF information, and is already running in the proper environment, ie CICS, and is using the logged on userid's ACEE. You

Re: z/OS 1.10 announcement -DASD size

2008-02-28 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Scott Ford All, Where dod I find the announcement letter for z/os v1.10 ?? http://preview.tinyurl.com/2su7lf Note that it's a preview, not the announcement letter. -jc-

Re: z10 LSPR

2008-02-28 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Arthur T. On 27 Feb 2008 13:34:35 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main Tom.Schmidt wrote: The z10 LSPR data is now available too. http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/lspr/ Yes, and it looks like they

Re: z/OS 1.10 announcement -DASD size

2008-02-28 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Walt Farrell Snipped What the announcement actually says: Snipped So, as it says, the support planned in z/OS

Re: zIIP API for ISV's

2008-03-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Peter Relson So as a curiosity question - if you can answer - is access to a zIIP really being controlled or is lack of knowledge preventing the masses from rewriting code so everyone buys as few GP engines as they

Re: zIIP API for ISV's

2008-03-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 07:38:53 -0600, Chase, John wrote: I believe that the information is being given out under a license agreement at no or nominal charge (not positive about this). It seems

Re: Serverpac order and Java

2008-03-04 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Peggy Andrews Hi, all. Previously, in our 1.7 ServerPac order, we got Program #5655D35, Java 2 Technology Edition - No charge Now, in ShopzSeries for our 1.9 ServerPac order, it is showing an available upgrade

Re: SMF program IFASMFDP cannot read DSNTYPE=LARGE dataset with size CYL 10152

2008-03-06 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tommy Tsui sorry, I can't find the APAR II4094 on IBM web site It's missing a digit -- try II14094. -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

IEE342I MODIFY REJECTED-TASK BUSY

2008-03-07 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, An application group is doing a stress test against a CICS region, using batched instream commands via an IEFBR14 job to invoke a user transaction. Some of the MODIFY commands are being rejected with message IEE342I MODIFY REJECTED-TASK BUSY. The part of the explanation in MC that

Re: IEE342I MODIFY REJECTED-TASK BUSY

2008-03-07 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Walt Farrell On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 12:02:25 -0600, McKown, John wrote: Well, in the case of CICS, I was wrong. The manual states: quote If the task is to be attached, DFHZCNA obtains a TIOA and moves the data

Re: IEE342I MODIFY REJECTED-TASK BUSY

2008-03-07 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul D'Angelo The console handling In CICS is behaving as previously explained. See the QEDIT Macro. For CICS, Console Commands are handled by a component called Terminal Control under the CSTP System Servives

Re: Transfer reports from lpar to lpar

2008-03-07 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sorry, forgot to mention that I have been trying to get the system progs to setup NJE but for some reason, they are reluctant to do so Why? and shared spool is definitely out of the question. And,

Re: IEE342I MODIFY REJECTED-TASK BUSY

2008-03-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) on 03/07/2008 at 11:25 AM, Chase, John said: Question: Which is the task associated with the command in this context: The message is misleading; the task is the CSCB associated

Re: IEE342I MODIFY REJECTED-TASK BUSY

2008-03-10 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Craddock, Chris JC writes The QEDIT doc (z/OS 1.7 edition of the AAS manual) is rather sparse, and doesn't seem to address the rejected-task busy situation. You're being a bit generous there aren't you

Re: clock, daylight savings time

2008-03-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Schwarz, Barry A said: Is CDT really 7 hours off from GMT? CST is -0600. Fall back one hour and you get -0700. Why would you fall back from CST? Wouldn't that give Daylight Spending

Paging Subsystem -- Comfortable Size and Configuration?

2008-03-12 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, In preparation for z/OS 1.9 we're re-evaluating our paging subsystem configurations. Currently we're using the same size and configuration carried forward from time immemorial, mainly because it still works: Three (3) page datasets of 2,000 cylinders each, with one in reserve (available

Re: Paging Subsystem -- Comfortable Size and Configuration?

2008-03-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden [ snip ] John, Have you reviewed chapter 2 of the system initialization and tuning guide? http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IEA 2E151/2.0?SHELF=IEA2BK80DT=20080119071214

Re: Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) John Mattson said: Programmers have been deleting for years using BR14 (MOD,DELETE), and IDCAMS DELETE. IEFBR14 doesn't delete the data set. By the time IEFBR14 gets control the

Re: z/OS 1.4 Running on 9672 CPU

2008-03-13 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples [ snip ] 3. Migrate to z/OS 1.7 (and the latest middleware product releases), which you can do with coexistence and fallback on the same machine in new LPARs. Is z/OS 1.7 even orderable at this

Re: Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-13 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe [ snip ] Hmmm. When a data set is migrated, the VTOC entry is removed. But, the catalog entry is still there (though the volume ID is changed to MIGRAT). Can't IDCAMS tell from the catalog

Re: FY08 Assessment Spreadsheet

2008-03-13 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Alford, Ben Folks, the spreadsheet I gave you is now stored on the shared vol2 disk, IBM_SYS in a folder called Assessment FY08. You should be able to update it, as needed. I'll wager this wasn't intended for

z/OS 1.7 to z/OS 1.9 Migration - Increase in CPU/MSU Consumption

2008-03-14 Thread Chase, John
We are just about to start the migration from z/OS 1.7 to z/OS 1.9. Would someone provide a ballpark percentage increase in the amount of CPU resources between the two releases so we can estimate the monthly increase in our z/OS base monthly billing? TIA, -jc-

Re: clock, daylight savings time

2008-03-16 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman ---snip And modern day politicians found a cheap solution to energy use that didn't work and cost a lot, but made it look as though they were useful (not to mention

Re: z/OS 1.7 to z/OS 1.9 Migration - Increase in CPU/MSU Consumption

2008-03-17 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Cheryl Walker John, Marianne Hammer of IBM gave an excellent SHARE presentation that showed the changes between releases. Go to www.share.org, click on Orlando Proceedings to the left, then search for

Re: z/OS 1.7 to z/OS 1.9 Migration - Increase in CPU/MSU Consumption

2008-03-18 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Cheryl Walker John, Where are you getting the message. It certainly should be available to the public, and many of my readers have recently downloaded it. Here is a direct link -

Re: Can I know programmatically if a load module has been zapped?

2008-03-18 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of David Eisenberg Our programmers occasionally ZAP a load module in a test load library, which is fine. When the time comes to promote the load module into a production load library, however, I would like our

Re: Can I know programmatically if a load module has been zapped?

2008-03-18 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John [ snip ] You promote load modules?!? shudder. We insist on a good recompile from source. We promote synchronized source / load packages. That way, we guarantee that the code that goes into

Not Authorized to SMPLTS??

2008-03-18 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, Can anybody explain this? PAGE 0001 - NOW SET TO TARGET ZONE MVST100 DATE 03/18/08 TIME 14:21:00 SMP/E 34.06 SET BDY(MVST100). GIM20501ISET PROCESSING IS COMPLETE. THE HIGHEST RETURN CODE WAS 00. APPLY S(CEEWCO1) ASSEM REDO CHECK . GIM54701S ** ALLOCATION

Re: Not Authorized to SMPLTS??

2008-03-18 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your MIGLIB APF authorized? APAR IR92833: MSGGIM54701S Yes. But you prompted me to look more closely at the JCL, which had MIGLIB steplib'd to the other volume. Works fine now. Thanks,

Define Pagespace -- SWAP vs NOSWAP?

2008-03-20 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, We're renovating our page dataset allocations (z/OS 1.7 - 1.9) and found that our previously-used DEFINE specs from many moons ago need tweaking beyond space and volser; specifically, SWAP vs NOSWAP. From reading the following: SWAP|NOSWAP

Re: Is IT becoming extinct?

2008-03-24 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Staller, Allan Since this is a family list G I cannot use the true language needed to Express my opinion. I will have to paraphrase! Horse Manure! The phonetic alphabet is your friend here: Bravo Sierra, or

Re: Is IT becoming extinct?

2008-03-24 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Richard Bond Predicators of the mainframe demise are probably of the same genre as those experts (who have probably never opened a science book) who are expounding the dangers of this global warming nonsense.

Re: ABCs of z/OS System Programming Volume 6

2008-03-25 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Unless I previously missed it, I think this is the first time volume 6 has been available. Volume 6: Introduction to security, RACF(r) , Digital certificates and PKI, Kerberos, cryptography and z990

Re: Is IT becoming extinct?

2008-03-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL [ snip ] One outsourced their development to India because they couldn't find any new COBOL programmers. At a price they were willing to pay, perhaps -jc-

Re: Enhanced PSP Compare Program

2008-03-28 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Cyrus Goodriver wrote: A question for IBMers who posted on this subject: Why the nice feature of informing PARM=* to PSP tool to screen all target zones defined to the Global CSI has been

Re: Is IT becoming extinct?

2008-03-28 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of O'Brien, David W. You missed the point. The previous post to mine mentioned that's it's easier to say 'Sorry' than get permission. My post was meant to warn of the possible ramifications of taking that

Re: Is IT becoming extinct?

2008-03-28 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Howard Brazee On 28 Mar 2008 08:17:13 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Fochtman) wrote: Sounds like commentary I've heard about the U.S. legal system: Truth and justice are irrelevant, so long as procedure is

Re: LISTCAT QUESTION

2008-03-31 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of willie bunter Good Morning To All, I am stuck trying to decipher the DEVTYPE X'' from the following LISTCAT (posted below). The dsn is cataloged, and the VOLSERS are controlled by a product

Re: CICS Installation

2008-04-01 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Pace Doing my first every install of CICS under z/OS. I'm confused by some parameters in the dialog. WUI - create a WUI CICSplex? WUI? Web User Interface. This is a single z/OS system, there will not be

Re: U.S. suspends IBM from seeking new federal contracts

2008-04-01 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Eric Bielefeld Ed, Thanks for sending that link. That article raises a number of questions. If you're the head of an agency and your z machine is swamped, can you upgrade? I'm sure the process takes at

Re: CA ESD files Options

2008-04-04 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman -snip- I can promise you that if MVS will support email and surfing the Internet you will have the same problem as open system have.

Re: Another RNL question

2008-04-04 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman -snip--- Damn! Here I thought I'd discovered a new super-secret, undocumented, instruction! Like the one that doesn't allow z/OS to run on an IFL (yes, I

Re: Another RNL question

2008-04-04 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Chase, John wrote: More likely the IFL has one or more instructions disabled, without which z/OS simply won't IPL. Rick is implying that the disabled instruction on specialty engines

Re: Duplicate temporary dataset names

2008-04-07 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of R.S. Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) wrote: //SYSEXEC DD DISP=(OLD,PASS),DSN=amp;SYSEXEC Trying the amp;, I get: IEFC620I UNIDENTIFIABLE CHARACTER a ON THE DD STATEMENT IEFC620I UNIDENTIFIABLE CHARACTER m

Re: My last post in this forum.

2008-04-07 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman FUD ??? Shortened form of FUDSI: Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt, Superstition, Ignorance. Like what we see in politics. :-( -jc- --

Re: Specialty Engine Prices (Was: Another RNL question)

2008-04-08 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John [ snip ] Thanks for the information. I might ask my manager. But I might not because the mainframe is going away. We don't know when ... Second Tuesday of next week is usually as good a prediction as

Dynamic PER Traps

2008-04-09 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, How quickly does the first of a pair of SLIP IF traps arm the second one? I have a situation wherein I may need to trap an IF in a common routine only when it's called from a specific location within a specific program. The route from the caller to the common routine goes thru some IBM

Re: z/OS 1.4-1.7 gotchas

2008-04-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Scott Rowe ??? AFIAK there is no fix, microcode or otherwise, for the segmentation offload problem. I think the default has since been changed been changed to off. Also, it did not affect old OSA cards, it

Re: IBMLINK/VM/Classic appears down

2008-04-10 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bobbie Justice I've been logged on for several days, and it's been okay. Worked for me, too. I'd been signed-in via the web interface all day, and had received an automatic notification of an update to an open

Re: IBM sites on Google Maps

2008-04-10 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:34:42 -0600, Howard Brazee wrote: I pass by streets tape drive and disk drive next to Storage Tech near Boulder, CO. That would be circa:

Re: IBM sites on Google Maps

2008-04-10 Thread Chase, John
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 04/10/2008 10:31:43 AM: -- Information from the mail header --- Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Poster: Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

Re: Installers (Was: IBM announcements)

2008-04-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Shane wrote: Excellent !!! - did he say excellent ???. Perhaps one day I'll bump into Mr. Jaffe in a bar somewhere and coax out of him who this mystical (mythical ???) vendor might be ... ;-)

Re: Workable Mainframe Debuggers

2008-04-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of David Logan I was wondering if there are any function debuggers on z/OS these days. Our shop is currently using z/OS 1.5, and the IBM provided LE debugger (via the LE TEST options) is completely unusable for

Re: COBOL / VSAM question.

2008-04-14 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 11:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: Specialty Engine Prices

2008-04-15 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of William H. Blair Edward E Jaffe wrote: I presume the reason is that an ICF engine has more moving parts and precision components forged from precious metals -- requiring higher manufacturing costs. These

Re: C++ Workable Mainframe Debuggers (and a Public z/OS HTTP Server)

2008-04-15 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples [ snip ] I forgot to mention that there is an IBM Debug Tool test drive available, at least for the classic user interface. [I posted details previously on the test drive for the graphical

Re: COBOL / VSAM question.

2008-04-15 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Or just assume '97' is a valid open (which it is) and continue. Better choice! Most shops have enough

IBM websites slow today?

2008-04-15 Thread Chase, John
Not just IBMLink, but also the z/OS Internet Library websites are painfully slow responding today. Anybody else notice that, or might it be local to the Chicago area? -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: COBOL / VSAM question.

2008-04-16 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Savor, Tom And I dislike application folks who won't test in my sandbox then complain when things blow up the first few days after a roll-up. An impasse? That was the point. I understand that you guys

Re: IRREVX01 strangeness

2008-04-17 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Whelan [ snip ] The (in)famous CLC 0(R9,R8),FILTER'filter('found? was actually based on one of the IRREVX01 samples included in SYS1.SAMPLIB(RACEXITS): LAR7,L'USERKEY CLC

Re: Torn Between Two Catalogs

2008-04-17 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] roups.com ... I moved some users high level nodes from a mastercat to a usercat. All worked with one exception This user can

Re: Torn Between Two Catalogs

2008-04-17 Thread Chase, John
Oops... Sorry for the blank reply... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] roups.com ... I moved some users high level nodes from a mastercat to a usercat.

Re: action in UK33496

2008-04-20 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Skip Robinson Dang, Patrick, how did I miss the connection? Once upon a time, JES2 undertook to manage a newfangled print gismo the same way they always had: start, stop, ship data, handle glitches, the whole

Re: Upgrade error.

2008-04-21 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Howard Brazee We just upgraded our OS to ZOS 1.9 and old CoBOL programs fail with the following error: 000121 008200 COPY ABEND01. 000121== IGYDS0010-S A COPY statement was found

Re: SHARE Future Conferences

2008-04-22 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Michael Cleary Greetings, I am posting this to try and find the long list of future SHARE conferences for the next few years. In looking at SHARE's web site, under future conferences, only San Jose and

Re: Websphere MQ Monitoring Tool

2008-04-23 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bill Johnson Can anyone recommend a mainframe product to monitor MQ series. We use ASG's TMON's for CICS, DB2, and zOS. I assume they also have an MQ monitor? We run TMON/MQ, but since I'm not the MQ Guy I can't

WLM classification for separate tn3270 server?

2008-04-24 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, In preparation for z/OS 1.9 (currently on 1.7), we're fledging the tn3270 server from the TCPIP nest to its own address space. TCPIP currently runs in SYSSTC. Would that also be appropriate for the new TN3270 address space? Any difference in importance or specific goals for it? We're

Re: Identify matching records

2008-04-25 Thread Chase, John
Um, there's no H in DFSORT.. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George, William (DHCS-ITSD) Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 2:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Identify matching records Thanks, I did go

Re: Identify matching records

2008-04-25 Thread Chase, John
Append the part that wrapped to the second line. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George, William (DHCS-ITSD) Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 2:23 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Identify matching records I get

Re: MULC availability

2008-04-28 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shane On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 21:56 -0500, Al Sherkow wrote: Contact your independent consultant for an independent analysis of which of the alternatives is best for your site. And if you don't happen to have

FW: ServerPac 3592 cartridge without bar code.

2008-04-28 Thread Chase, John
Forwarded on behalf of a colleague __ We ordered a z/OS 1.9 ServerPac on 3592 media. IBM shipped the cartridge without a bar code. We are using a 3584 Automatic Tape Library which requires an external bar code label. We tried the

Re: Just checking

2008-04-29 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL It seems RIM is screwing up BlackBerry usage, again. So, I am sending this (off-topic) message just to see what the replyto is. Sorry, if I bother you. I received it with reply-to set to IBM-MAIN.

SCRT LMS site problems?

2008-05-02 Thread Chase, John
Hi All, Is anybody else having problems submitting SCRT reports via the LMS website this morning? We _think_ we submitted ours, but have not received any response yet (it's been 3 hours so far). Earlier we had received notification of a scheduled outage for Sunday, May 4, but . TIA,

Re: Shop zSeries Ordering Issues

2008-05-04 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Schwarz, Barry A Yes it's great if you are allowed to connect your system to the internet. For the rest (few?) of us who cannot, we still need maintenance. And while we are on the subject, why does an internet

Re: Shop zSeries Ordering Issues

2008-05-05 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of R.S. My adventure with ShopzSeries: I ordered JAVA SDK for z/OS. It is free product/ I can dowlnload it from IBM webpage without any paperwork. However web-downloadable form is non-SMP/E. SMP/E package is only

Re: Shop zSeries Ordering Issues

2008-05-05 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jousma, David All of you are starting to show your age Something you setup once, and forget. Indeed. If you don't occasionally learn some new tricks, your audience will get bored and wander off...

Re: Shop zSeries Ordering Issues

2008-05-06 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Schwarz, Barry A Strange, I could have sworn you were one of the vocal dissenters when IBM did away with JOBCAT and STEPCAT. Not all progress is in the forward direction. I think that was Ed Gould

Re: VSAM / COBOL question - redux (fwd)

2008-05-06 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John Well, if ya'll remember, we've had a spate of COBOL File Status codes of 97 since we split our z/OS image in two. This occurs when the file is open for OUTPUT on one image and a COBOL program

Re: Shop zSeries Ordering Issues

2008-05-06 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 4:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: VSAM / COBOL question - redux (fwd)

2008-05-06 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Steve Comstock McKown, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion ListOn Behalf Of Gibney, Dave Aside from the fact that you might be improving their code :) I thought you

Re: 3420 old tapes

2008-05-07 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex R. I'm pretty sure Ditto is only shipped with z/OS if you pay for it. I believe it's called File Manager nowadays, and it is a priced product. We demo'd Version 1.0 way back when, and at the time it

Re: 3420 old tapes

2008-05-08 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ken Porowski IBM* DITTO/ESA for OS/390 or MVS Version 1 Release 3 Is what I have. I've been ordering it with my ServerPac's for every z/OS release I've had. Not really changed since the ESA days (as you can

Re: RACF Database Sizes

2008-05-08 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman I'm working on reporting tools for RACF and could use a little help in determining sizes. I need to work with in-storage tables, or possibly linked lists, to associate various items of data. Could

Re: RACF Database Sizes

2008-05-08 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Chase, John wrote: For those interested in responding, here's a quick'n'dirty way to get those counts: [ ... snipped ... ] The counts will show in the ICE227I messages in //SYSOUT

Re: ServerPac and zFS

2008-05-08 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jerry Fuchs By doing a GOOGLE search on IOEPRM00 came up with a red book on zFS implementation. Since he didn't, I will: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246580.pdf -jc-

Publibz slow?

2008-05-08 Thread Chase, John
Is it just me, or is IBM's public doc server dragging its ahem today? -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the

Re: Red Alert: OA24741 Sysplex-wide impact due to loop in GRS on z/OS 1.9 and higher

2008-05-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mariuca Iftime It is no PTF available for ZOS 1.9, only ZOS 1.4 PTF List: Release 740 : UA40682 available 08/05/07 (1000 ) == 1.9 Release 750 : PTF not available yet == 1.10 Release 750 :

Re: Mainframe programming vs the Web

2008-05-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Howard Brazee On 11 May 2008 14:26:06 -0700, David Alcock wrote: Ever since the Web came along I've been annoyed by

Re: Mainframe programming vs the Web

2008-05-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Wayne Driscoll [ snip ] Also, it annoys me that (I have done this on occasion) the sites don't validate the combination of state and zip code. Especially since the drop-downs aren't always in the same order,

Re: Mainframe programming vs the Web

2008-05-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Howard Brazee [ snip ] I did work for a company that had to clean up addresses - it had a dirty word file that it used - but I've read of some foreign dirty words that are valid places and names. . . .

Re: Mainframe programming vs the Web

2008-05-13 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Robert A. Rosenberg At 11:27 -0500 on 05/12/2008, Chase, John wrote about Re: Mainframe programming vs the Web: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Howard Brazee

Re: CICS/BMS greenies to GUI's

2008-05-13 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bill Klein This note was posted directly to the USENET newsgroup and hasn't had many replies. I am forwarding it to the list-server, to see if more people have input on it. (It is also in the comp.lang.cobol

Re: Java; a POX

2008-05-13 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Howard Brazee On 13 May 2008 08:57:14 -0700, Michael Poil wrote: Give me Assembler and a hand-held uninterpreted

Re: CICS/TS 2.3 and z/OS 1.7

2008-05-13 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jousma, David BTW, in either 1.7 or 1.8 LE parms got moved to PARMLIB, CEEPRMxx At 1.7 it became an option. Don't know yet if 1.9 does away with the USERMOD; we'll find out in about a week or so. -jc-

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