W dniu 2012-09-06 23:16, Mike Schwab pisze:
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 3:55 PM, R.S. mike.a.sch...@gmail.com CAN'T YOU SNIP.MY
ADDRESS?.com.pl wrote:
I meant it's hard to justfiy the choice: to buy IFL (plus rest of mainframe)
or x64 servers. I meant Linux on IFL is *much* more expensive than on
Hi,
I wrote a small Rexx application that - among other things - used the
as-is-tool WLMTUC (which is a compiled REXX) to inform about upcoming image- or
group-capping.
Now I rewrote my application in java to move the workload from CP too zIIP, but
I'm missing an equivalent to this WLMTUC
Skip Robinson wrote:
5. Expect RC 8. (Anything less is miraculous. A miracle won't get you a raise
or a hot date.)
It should be for the OP easier if he do his SMP/E zones per group of products.
And work zone by zone. But RC=8 is expected, yes. This is why there is this
thing called 'fallback'
On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 16:16:03 -0500, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com wrote:
You can buy and power 300 servers cheaper than one IFL? IBM says that
many servers would cost 10 times as much to power and cool.
As Mandy Rice-Davies[1] famously said: they would, wouldn't they?
Roger Bowler
Hercules
This will work. Thank you.
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Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 12:39 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: another DCOLLECT question
This is EXACTLY what I do.
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From: IBM
Rex,
I tried to full volume restore to anothe VOLSER which is not SMS however DFDSS
won't allow this :ADR710E (001)-TDFP (01), COPYVOLID IS REQUIRED TO RESTORE
INPUT VOLUME.
I am forced to use the COPYVOLID parm which at the moment I cannot because the
volume is in use. I will have to wait
On 9/6/2012 11:31 PM, Skip Robinson wrote exactly my thoughts, but much
more entertaining:
I have never understood the fixation with rock bottom return codes. SMP/E
maintenance is so much simpler without agonizing over every uneven
cobblestone along the path.
snip a bunch of good stuff
I
SMF Record 118 written by the Communication Server has a section with
FTP CLient Statistics which includes the information you are looking
for. As far as I know TCP/IP SMF recording must be explicitly enabled
(see the IP Configuration Reference manual).
And you'll need a formatting program to
It depends. That data is written to SMF, record type 118 or 119 or both or
neither, depending on your FTP options. Unfortunately, it is possible for the
job which did the ftp to access its own options data set, so you cannot be
sure. You just need to scan the SMF data from that time frame.
Rajaram Kalahasti wrote:
I our shop, some job on the mainframe is sending a file ( thru ft) to a
windows box.
We lost track of which job it is.
Tsk, tsk, tsk. What does RACF (SERVAUTH for example) and SMF tell you about the
FTP program and ip and port usage usage?
I really hope you have
Yes, me too. I know, it was delivered as an ASIS-tool in former releases (not
anymore since z/OS 1.11), but I don't know anymore in which library it was
(maybe SAXREXEC or SAMPLIB). And before posting here, I tried to figure out
where you could find it, but there has been absolutely NO evidence
McKown, John wrote:
It depends. That data is written to SMF, record type 118 or 119 or both or
neither, depending on your FTP options.
Thanks for mentioning this. I was researching what SMF recort type it was.
ref: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/f1a1d3a0/E.9
Some
I had forgotten about the UNIX syslog daemon (syslogd). I wonder how many shops
have it set up and running. We do. I have it set up to log into
/var/log/daemon.-mm-dd where -mm-dd is the Gregorian date. I also
have it set up to switch to a new file every midnight (local). I only keep
If you believe a job is sending the file, you should be able to do a
scan on your production jcllib to look for the filename on the windows
box.
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Sent: Friday, September
W dniu 2012-09-07 14:50, Meehan, Cheryl pisze:
If you believe a job is sending the file, you should be able to do a
scan on your production jcllib to look for the filename on the windows
box.
I will work or it won't.
Reasons:
1. Ambigous filename, like REPORT.TXT
2. Filename as variable, like
Radoslaw Skorupka pisze:
Reasons:
4. Maybe others
Perhaps the whole FTP thing is originating from that Windoze box with a get
statement. This is why we removed all those anonymous settings [1] and enabled
SSL connection.
Remark: any of the situations above should not take place, but the
Is it possible that you have them time/date the file was created on the
Windows Box? If so, you might be able to go back to SYSLOG / or SMF 14/15
records to find the JOB/DSN
In syslog I would have a D A,L issued around the time frame of the dataset
creation on the Windows box. Then see what was
I won't argue APAR nor SPOOL, which is one acronym that is more meaningful than
its deriving phrase, Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On-Line, but I will have
to question Cadaver. According to the OED, Cadaver in English is derived from
the Latin word for a dead body, related to to cadere, to
Lizette Koehler wrote:
Is it possible that you have them time/date the file was created on the
Windows Box?
I would rather look, (for Windows XP! Yes! Yes! Yes!), in
Windows\System32\LogFiles\MSFTPSVC1 folder and look for the youngest file. That
file should contains all the details
Jon Butler wrote:
Now, let's move on to gringo. ;-))
Oh no, I'm dying, are you deadly serious? ;-D
Thanks for your entertaining info about cadavers before I fall down and drop
dead. ;-)
Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht
hi all,
is there someone having experiences with JES2? I have a strange problem. A
user created a spool file and SDSF and $DJ are showing a record count of 12
lines. When I look at the file I see 29 lines and when I write it to a dataset
(XDC-command in SDSF) I will also have 29 lines. The
(The OP would be you, right?)
Yup. That's what makes me the expert on what his question meant.
However, you cannot sequentially read a UNIX directory.
Bummer indeed. I need a module that can sort out four cases, given a z/OS file
name.
- It is a sequential conventional dataset or PDS
Probably not the answer you want, but: block access to that Windows box
(firewall) and see what fails...
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Rajaram Kalahasti
rajaram.kalaha...@gmail.com wrote:
hi,
I our shop, some job on the mainframe is sending a file ( thru ft) to a
windows box.
We lost
Would this phenomenon count as installing unapproved software according to a
certain auditor in a different thread?
Bill Fairchild
Programmer
Rocket Software
408 Chamberlain Park Lane * Franklin, TN 37069-2526 * USA
t: +1.617.614.4503 * e: bfairch...@rocketsoftware.com * w:
Jon Butler writes:
begin extract
I won't argue APAR nor SPOOL, which is one acronym that is more
meaningful than its deriving phrase, Simultaneous Peripheral Operation
On-Line, but I will have to question Cadaver.
/end extract
adumbrates without really making the useful distinction between
Bravo, Skip!
This is what I always did as well. I had a former coworker who would go
through and manually exclude every PTF that failed with a HOLDERROR, until he
was able to get to a RC4 on his apply check. He wasted untold hours doing
this, just so he could get a RC4 on his APPLY. I think
In 07df01cd8c4d$b1408b20$13c1a160$@mcn.org, on 09/06/2012
at 09:35 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said:
Did you read my preceding post? g
The one that denied the key field for PDS directory blocks? ;-)
BTW, I saw a quote from an earlier message, but not the message
itself, talking about
jwgli...@gmail.com (John Gilmore) writes:
Did the phrase come first, followed by its acronym? Or did the
acronym come first, followed by the construction of a more or, often,
very much less felicitous phrase to serve as its imputed its origin?
aka some claims that spool comes from spool/reel
On 9/7/2012 at 04:40 AM, Roger Bowler ibm-m...@snacons.com wrote:
On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 16:16:03 -0500, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com
wrote:
You can buy and power 300 servers cheaper than one IFL? IBM says that
many servers would cost 10 times as much to power and cool.
As Mandy
Mainframes? The 8100 was a series of small machines that grew out of
the 3790. They were no more mainframes than their competitor, the S/1.
Perhaps you are thinking of DPPX/370, which ran on the 9370.
It is debatable (although maybe we shouldn't here!) - 8100 was a DPD
product, not GSD like
Its Friday:
In the 1960s show The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - UNCLE didn't stand for anything -
but there was so much clamor for an explanation - the writers came up with:
United Network Command for Law Enforcement
So sometimes the cart does come before the horse .
Chris hoelscher
Technology
On Fri, 7 Sep 2012 07:03:10 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
How many times has this wheel been re-invented?
Yeah, I could use DESERV for the PDS instead of reading the directory,
Does DESERV understand UNIX directories? ISTR not.
And I suspect that ISPF still relies on reading PDS(E) directories
Proof that dinosaurs can learn new tricks, I wrote my first 'blog' entry -- EVER
-- and it is on SHARE's web site. http://www.share.org/p/bl/ar/blogaid=167source=6
--
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Phoenix Software International, Inc
831 Parkview Drive North
El Segundo, CA 90245
310-338-0400 x318
And I suspect that ISPF still relies on reading PDS(E) directories as PS data
sets rather than using DESERV
I would be astounded if ISPF doesn't use standard services.
Since the format of PDSEs has never been published, and since directory space
can be created when needed in non-contiguous
snip from Ed's blog
This time, there was no new z/OS release to talk about; the next one is
not scheduled until September, 2013.
/snip
What happened to the June, 2013 release date?
Regards,
John K
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu wrote on
09/07/2012 10:46:21 AM:
IIRC, this is more of an SDSF 'issue', not 'problem'. SDSF always presents
print data with ANSI control characters, as in VB*A* regardless of what
the application program actually produced. Furthermore, I think that SDSF
presents only single advances regardless of the generating program. JES2
Welcome to the land of the blogosaurs.
.
.
JO.Skip Robinson
SCE Infrastructure Technology Services
Electric Dragon Team Paddler
SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager
626-302-7535 Office
323-715-0595 Mobile
jo.skip.robin...@sce.com
From: Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com
To:
In
0455733492565759.wa.juergen.kellerdeutscheboerse@listserv.ua.edu,
on 09/07/2012
at 08:52 AM, Juergen Keller juergen.kel...@deutsche-boerse.com
said:
is there someone having experiences with JES2? I have a strange
problem. A user created a spool file and SDSF and $DJ are showing a
record
r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl (R.S.) writes:
1. 300? Only 300? Why not 3?
I can buy good memory for 6,6 $ per GB, IBM wanted recently 8k$ per
GB. 1000+ times more. Now it's cheaper - only 1500 $/GB. I can also
buy CPU for 150$, while IFL costs approx 150 k$.
re:
AFAIK there was never a June 2013 release date for the next z/OS release.
--
Regards, Gord Tomlin
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(a division of Mazda Computer Corporation)
Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507
On 2012-09-07 12:03, John P Kalinich wrote:
snip from Ed's blog
This time, there
I seriously doubt ISPF can read the directory as a PS data set
But that's the thing -- anyone can. It's fairly trivial. Follow the PDS
directory read documentation, and it works like magic on a PDSE. (I have no
knowledge or opinion on what ISPF actually does.)
Charles
-Original
Our automated service delivery certificate expired this week and I'm
having a duce of a time attempting to find the link on new ShopzSeries
website to get a new one.
Any clue would be appreciated!
Chip Grantham | Ameritas | Sr. IT Consultant | cgrant...@ameritas.com
5900 O Street,
Create a new software order, select z/OS Service, and in the pull down, select
SERVICE CERTIFICATE.
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Dave Jousma
Assistant Vice President, Mainframe Services
david.jou...@53.com
1830 East Paris, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 MD RSCB2H
p
Also when you upload it to zOS for installation into your security
package, don't believe the FM where it says the certificate can be
stored in a data set with a minimum lrecl of 256 or larger. RACF won't
import it. I've had success with a lrecl of 4096, recfm=vb.
Mark Jacobs
On 09/07/12
On Fri, 7 Sep 2012 08:46:21 -0700, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com
wrote:
Proof that dinosaurs can learn new tricks, I wrote my first 'blog' entry --
EVER
-- and it is on SHARE's web site.
http://www.share.org/p/bl/ar/blogaid=167source=6
--
Nice... another hidden talent for Mr.
Top Secret seems perfectly happy with 256. Just imported one this morning with
the following attributes:
Organization . . . : PS
Record format . . . : VB
Record length . . . : 256
Block size . . . . : 27998
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
OK, you woke me up. *What* June 2013 release date? (If someone from
IBM said that, please send me a note.)
John P Kalinich wrote:
snip from Ed's blog
This time, there was no new z/OS release to talk about; the next one is
not scheduled until September, 2013.
/snip
What happened to the
On Fri, 7 Sep 2012 11:03:27 -0500, John P Kalinich wrote:
What happened to the June, 2013 release date?
Announcement 212-086 (April 11, 2012) says second half of 2013.
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Excellent! But it seems to be behind SHARE's paywall. I don't really
object to that - but it WILL limit your audience. :-(
Cheers, Martin
Martin Packer,
zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator,
Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM
+44-7802-245-584
email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com
On Fri, 7 Sep 2012 15:30:25 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
Got paraphrase of WAD.
Broken as designed?
Something to the effect that DDLIST was designed to use ISPF
services to support ISPF functions, and ISPF has no service to
scan a UNIX directory. They also mentioned that DDLIST is
I complained about the process a few months ago when my cert expired.
Trouble is, I do this only once and year and forget the steps.
First off, consult SMP/E User's Guide SA22-7773-xx . There's a discussion
about the steps to take. Problem is, I found out (once again) that the
directions for
The apar is still plain old SMPE. All you need is the Global zone names to get
the listing.
Lizette
-Original Message-
From: Hardee, Chuck chuck.har...@thermofisher.com
Sent: Sep 7, 2012 1:57 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Reading the CA MSM database
Thanks Mary Anne,
Thanks Mary Anne,
(I knew Mary Anne would reply with that sample from our SHARE session)
What I'm looking for is a simple report that shows the APAR number and short
description or title.
Charles (Chuck) Hardee
If you look at hlq.CEGPJCL(B4KLOAD) you might be able to guess
which
Yes Lizette, I am well aware of the SMP/E connection, but it is more than that.
MSM loads APARs into itself from SupportConnect when you update a product's
maintenance status.
That does not mean they are in SMP/E.
In fact, they aren't automatically applied to your installed products until you
Hi Mark,
Yes, CA would be the gospel, so to speak, and I have already opened an issue
with them on this very subject.
But, as par for the course, they can't get past the CSI has the information
you want.
I already have the SMP/E side, I want the MSM side. I've stressed that to them
but they
I found I could 'join' Share as a 'non-member' and got to the post - cost
nothing.
Graham Hobbs
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From: Martin Packer martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: Proof
Hi,
in a REXX application I used LISTDSI to determine the size of some
datasets, in order to generate a JCL stream and FTP locsite statements.
Now the datasets growed, so I meeded to define some datasets as multi
volume files. But here I recognized that LISTDSI doesn't support multi
volume
Yes, you can use the Catalog Search Interface (CSI) to do this.
There is documentation in z/OS V1R12.0 DFSMS Managing Catalogs
And a sample in SYS1.SAMPLIB(IGGCSIRX)
Lizette
Hi,
in a REXX application I used LISTDSI to determine the size of some
datasets, in order to generate a JCL stream
On 8/21/2012 12:36 PM, Bob Shannon wrote:
Having been forced to order zOSMF, does one install it in the z/OS zones or in
its own zones?
Dunno which way is best, but IBM installs z/OSMF into its own zones on the ADCD.
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Phoenix Software International, Inc
831 Parkview Drive
On 8/20/2012 11:34 AM, Skip Robinson wrote:
How about Netview questions?
There is netv...@yahoogroups.com where Tom Howe is an active participant; the
best Netview list in cyber-space!
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Edward E Jaffe
Phoenix Software International, Inc
831 Parkview Drive North
El Segundo, CA 90245
On Fri, 7 Sep 2012 18:19:07 -0700, Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.com
wrote:
We have followed a simple rule for a decade or so. Everything included in
ServerPac goes into one CSI. Period. Everything else goes into some other
CSI. Hence if we order a product separately in between ServerPacs
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#81 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off
Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#87 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off
Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
BladeCenter blade servers
On 8/09/2012 1:49 AM, Bob Shannon wrote:
Since the format of PDSEs has never been published, and since directory space
can be created when
needed in non-contiguous areas, I seriously doubt ISPF can read the directory
as a PS data set.
Well, if reading the directory with QSAM or BSAM counts,
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