Re: Reconfigurable Storage - What's going on here?

2012-07-17 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Jim Mulder d10j...@us.ibm.com wrote in message news:ofe81ac695.64070362-on85257a3d.0062891b-85257a3d.0062b...@us.ibm.c om... Dang, you hit it. In parmlib it's set to 5120M, but in the lpar it's at 2048M, which is incorrect. Thanks for your assistance. Mark Jacobs On 07/16/12

Re: IGGCSI to retrieve tape volume serial

2012-07-17 Thread Mike Wood
Victor, yes, you can do that. the rmm CATSYNCH function does just that - retrieves all tape data sets from the catalogs and compares the results with the data sets known in its own CDS. You need to retrieve generation data sets as well as non-vsam, request at least the devtype and volser.

Re: Urgent help needed - Message ISN000E

2012-07-17 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-07-16 21:01, August Carideo pisze: this is exactly why I did not respond another shop getting off MF but in mean time stopped paying for HW SW support etc No, not so easy. It's legal to not pay for HW and support, but you have to pay for MLC software. BTW: It is not a sin to have

SV: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek

2012-07-17 Thread Thomas Berg
Interesting. Regards, Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Specialist AM/SMS SWEDBANK AB (publ) -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] För Anne Lynn Wheeler Skickat: den 15

Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek

2012-07-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:45:51 +0800, Timothy Sipples wrote: 4. It's a big problem when practically everybody in the security community criticizes Yahoo! for their intransigence in fixing the problem. It's an even bigger problem when my own mother suffered from Yahoo's decade plus long failure to

Enabling Broadband RSF

2012-07-17 Thread גדי בן אבי
Hi, I am trying to enable broadband RSF. My HMC is version 2.10.2 and it’s connected to a z10BC. I am trying to follow the instructions in the manual: Integrating the Hardware Management Console’s Broadband Remote Support Facility into your Enterprise SC28-6880-00. When I get to Customizing

Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek

2012-07-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:13:03 +0800, Timothy Sipples wrote: You're referring to TSO/E only, which has a 7 character user ID limitation. Yes, if you're shopping for TSO/E, maybe that's a strike against TSO/E. Also (consequently?) if you're shopping for a Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor military fighter

Re: Enabling Broadband RSF

2012-07-17 Thread גדי בן אבי
I logged on as ACSADMIN -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mary Anne Matyaz Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 3:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Enabling Broadband RSF I don’t have that option on my HMC. What

Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek

2012-07-17 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 12:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches -

Re: Enabling Broadband RSF

2012-07-17 Thread גדי בן אבי
Hi Everyone, I had to change some options in the user profile for acsadmin, and the Customize Outbound Connectivity option was displayed. Thanks for your help Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mary Anne Matyaz

Re: How call from C++ thru function pointer to assembler?

2012-07-17 Thread Charles Mills
David - THANK YOU! I was about one try this away from bailing and writing a linkage stub in assembler. I know typedef is your friend. I started out with a typedef but at some point bailed on that approach because of the extern must be at module level issue. Just in case someone is searching

Re: Archive of this forum

2012-07-17 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Yes: https://listserv.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html Kees. Murawski,Joseph jmura...@travelers.com wrote in message news:b1fde202eed9414c93c35659d7718f826e4e891...@tenk7mvc.prod.travp.net ... Does anyone know if there is an archive of this forum and maybe others like(MVS-OE)? It would be great

Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek

2012-07-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 07:36:49 -0500, McKown, John wrote: -Original Message- [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 12:13 AM snip Fact: Every z/OS licensee receives Tivoli Directory Server for z/OS with LDAP. There's no such

Help with elementary CPU speed question

2012-07-17 Thread Charles Mills
I have gotten dragged into a CPU performance question; a field I know little about. I run a test on a 2094-722. It is rated at 19778 SU/Second. The job consumes .146 CPU seconds total. I run the same job on a 2064-2C3. It is rated at 13378 SU/Second. All other things being roughly equal,

Re: Help with elementary CPU speed question

2012-07-17 Thread Rob Scott
Charles How many It depends.. answers do you want? :-) If all the program does is increment a register in a tight loop then I would imagine that your assumption would be roughly OK. If it does anything more complicated (eg open a dataset, maybe call a system routine, DB2 subsystem, XCF

Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek

2012-07-17 Thread McKown, John
For me (and I think that I'm the only one who does it), it is just for EMPHASIS, instead of capitalizing or doing a emBOLD/em. It is not any kind of real or defacto standard. Just an oddity on my part. Due mainly to my hatred of using HTML formatted email. It's not that I actually dislike HTML

Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek

2012-07-17 Thread Steve Comstock
On 7/17/2012 9:21 AM, McKown, John wrote: For me (and I think that I'm the only one who does it), it is just for EMPHASIS, instead of capitalizing or doing a emBOLD/em. It is not any kind of real or defacto standard. Just an oddity on my part. Due mainly to my hatred of using HTML formatted

Re: Help with elementary CPU speed question

2012-07-17 Thread John Gilmore
Rob Scott has pointed you in the right direction. Worth emphasizing is that CP-SU ratios are most useful for botionally 'scientific' , CP-intensive applications. Many 'business' applications are I/O-bound, some of them--MFUs are the classic example--to the extent that shrinking CP processing to

Re: Help with elementary CPU speed question

2012-07-17 Thread Charles Mills
Lizette, thanks, you're always helpful. Answers in line below. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 7:59 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Help with elementary

Re: Help with elementary CPU speed question

2012-07-17 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
/rant on PMFJI here but this has become one of the most annoying and frustrating aspects of our business in the last decade or so. It SHOULD NOT be necessary to have considerable statistical prowess or have access to DCOLLECT output (which most normal application programmers DO NOT HAVE) or to

Re: Help with elementary CPU speed question

2012-07-17 Thread Charles Mills
useful performance analysis requires years of experience with a platform, its software, the use of appropriate measurement software, and considerable statistical prowess True enough, but it's like if your house was on fire. I could tell you that firefighting takes specialized skills and years

Re: Email formatting (was: Yahoo Password Breach ...)

2012-07-17 Thread Steve Comstock
On 7/17/2012 10:33 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:26:39 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: You're not the only one. I have found that _one_ underscore before and after a word displays as underline on many (most? all?) mail clients. So I use that underline as an emphasis while still

Re: Urgent help needed - Message ISN000E

2012-07-17 Thread Scott Ford
What about erep and logrec Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 17, 2012, at 6:50 AM, Richards, Robert B. robert.richa...@opm.gov wrote: Permanent Failure When the system detects that the service processor is permanently, completely failing, the system receives a service processor

Virtual Tape-on-Disk MTL

2012-07-17 Thread Bonaduce, Frank
Thanks to those who supplied answers to this post. Perhaps I should have been more specific as to the type of information I am looking for. We have a functioning SMStape environment running 3 IBM ATLSs which have been around for some time so the concepts are not new. We are investigating the

Unsetting a JCL symbol.

2012-07-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
Just curious. Once a JCL symbol has been set, is there any way subsequently to restore it to exactly the state and behavior it had before it was set? -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: Archive of this forum

2012-07-17 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:14:06 +0200, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote: Yes: https://listserv.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html And for messages before 2005, https://listserv.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main-archives.html -- Tom Marchant -- For

Re: Unsetting a JCL symbol.

2012-07-17 Thread Steve Comstock
On 7/17/2012 3:08 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: Just curious. Once a JCL symbol has been set, is there any way subsequently to restore it to exactly the state and behavior it had before it was set? -- gil Use nested procs. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc.

Re: DS6000 Console SNAFU

2012-07-17 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Ron, The DS6000 is a slightly different animal from the EMC/HDS/IBM DS8000 boxes. I've used all the above except the DS8000. The EMC and HDS boxes all have the pizza boxes or laptops built within the frame of the DASD and is supported by the vendor. The DS6000 was considered by IBM to be

Re: Virtual Tape-on-Disk MTL

2012-07-17 Thread Ward, Mike S
Ditto here. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of William Bishop Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 1:00 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Virtual Tape-on-Disk MTL We use IBM TS7720s, which is an all disk-based tape

Re: Virtual Tape-on-Disk MTL

2012-07-17 Thread Bonaduce, Frank
Darth - I'm curious as to whether or not there is realtime communication that occurs between OAM and whatever mechanism replaces the ATL Library Manager in this type of scenario. It seems questionable given that the EMC DLm solution requires batch jobs to support the release and

Re: Unsetting a JCL symbol.

2012-07-17 Thread Bass, Walter W
Try this ... //* SAVE CURRENT VALUE OF MYSYM // SET SAVESYM=MYSYM //* SET MYSYM TO A NEW VALUE // SET MYSYM='NEWVAL' ... //* RESTORE MYSYM // SET MYSYM=SAVESYM Probably not the answer you wanted, but it works. Another possibility is to take advantage of the fact that symbols that

Re: Unsetting a JCL symbol.

2012-07-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:43:32 -0500, Bass, Walter W wrote: Try this ... //* SAVE CURRENT VALUE OF MYSYM // SET SAVESYM=MYSYM //* SET MYSYM TO A NEW VALUE // SET MYSYM='NEWVAL' ... //* RESTORE MYSYM // SET MYSYM=SAVESYM Probably not the answer you wanted, but it works. Actually,

Re: Unsetting a JCL symbol.

2012-07-17 Thread John Gilmore
This is one of many such discussions we have had here over the years. Symbols were a good notion, or wouild have been if they had been implemented more generously. They were not, and anyone who, seeing simplistic uses of them, dreams of using them in more interesting, non-trivial ways is almost

6 Member Parallel Sysplex - timezone

2012-07-17 Thread Ruegsegger, Jeff
We are running a 6 member Parallel Sysplex with one additional member sharing GRSPLEX, OMVSPLEX and HSMPLEX resources only. Today all systems run with the same TIMEZONE setting (W.07.00.00). In the 6 member full Parallel Sysplex, what are the ramifications with DFSMSHSM management of SMS

Re: HSM ODDITY - NOT RELEASING EMPTY ML2 TAPES

2012-07-17 Thread willie bunter
No, no HSM functions were running.  From: Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 11:58:22 AM Subject: Re: HSM ODDITY - NOT RELEASING EMPTY ML2 TAPES Was anything else running in DFHSM when you

Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek

2012-07-17 Thread Timothy Sipples
Paul Gilmartin writes: Of course, turn on implies commiting the CPU (micro)cycles to peform the encryption. Yes it does. Google and Microsoft (to pick two examples) made the resource commitment years ago, when computing power cost a lot more, and their customers are far more secure. Training