Re: DASD migration

2020-06-26 Thread Bill Bishop (TMNA)
riday, June 26, 2020 10:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DASD migration On 6/26/20 9:09 AM, Bill Bishop (TMNA) wrote: > One issue that you may encounter with going to a new storage system on > a z9 processor is the speed of the ficon cards and whether the new > unit can z

Re: [EXTERNAL] DASD migration -- Re: Hitachi RAID box going out of support

2020-06-26 Thread Bill Bishop (TMNA)
One issue that you may encounter with going to a new storage system on a z9 processor is the speed of the ficon cards and whether the new unit can z9 cards. I am not sure the new Hitachi's can work with 4GB ficon. I would make sure that if you replace it, with whichever vendor, that the new un

Re: [EXTERNAL] RMM retention period

2020-01-07 Thread Bill Bishop (TMNA)
VRS - Vital Record Specification You can assign a retention period based upon the file name or masked version of the name. Thanks Bill Bishop Consultant, Mainframe Engineer Mainframe and Scheduling | Infrastructure Technology Services Toyota Motor North America bill.bis...@toyota.com Office:

Re: DFDSS backup retore

2019-11-13 Thread Bill Bishop (TMNA)
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Bishop (TMNA) Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 3:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: DFDSS backup retore Your JCL said vol=ser=TAP001, but your catalog entry says

Re: DFDSS backup retore

2019-11-13 Thread Bill Bishop (TMNA)
Your JCL said vol=ser=TAP001, but your catalog entry says the serial number is T000523. Are you trying to restore this tape on to a system other than where it was created and is this tape not cataloged there or in that systems tape management environment? Thanks Bill Bishop Consultant, Mainf

Re: DFSORT?

2019-08-22 Thread Bill Bishop (TMNA)
If I remember correctly, IBM started providing DFSORT because DB2 uses it, regardless of whether you are licensed for it. If DFSORT is not activated via IFAPRD00, then no one else besides DB2 can use it. I tried to do a Syncsort to DFSORT migration for a former group. We had to back it off be

Re: Writing DB2 Archlog to tape

2019-07-10 Thread Bill Bishop (TMNA)
Does DSNZPARM for the DB2 system need to be changed to reflect the unit type and other information? Thanks Bill Bishop Consultant, Mainframe Engineer Mainframe and Scheduling | Infrastructure Technology Services Toyota Motor North America bill.bis...@toyota.com Office: (469) 292-5149 Cell:

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: TSO Reconnect ABEND=S622

2019-05-17 Thread Bill Bishop (TMNA)
I believe so. Thanks Bill Bishop Consultant, Mainframe Engineer Mainframe and Scheduling | Infrastructure Technology Services Toyota Motor North America bill.bis...@toyota.com Office: (469) 292-5149 Cell: (502) 316-4386 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mail

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: TSO Reconnect ABEND=S622

2019-05-17 Thread Bill Bishop (TMNA)
You mentioned that the one system existed in the DMZ. Is it possible that the DMZ has a different policy that terminates inactive IP sessions? Thanks Bill Bishop Consultant, Mainframe Engineer Mainframe and Scheduling | Infrastructure Technology Services Toyota Motor North America bill.bis.

ServerPac RECATDS job question

2019-04-09 Thread Bill Bishop (TMNA)
I am drawing a blank on this. Running Serverpac, installation job, RECATDS. Phase 1 is failing with the following: MSGFILE: CPP0621015S The usercatalog entry for CATALOG.CP1Z.MASTER could not be read successfully from the driving system master catalog CATALOG.CP1Z.MASTER. SYSTSPR

Re: FTPS breaks on z14-ZR1

2019-03-28 Thread Bill Bishop (TMNA)
Sorry, it was the crypto express software. We went from Crypto 5 to Crypto 6 cards and missed updating the ICSF software Thanks Bill Bishop Consultant, Mainframe Engineer Mainframe and Scheduling | Infrastructure Technology Services Toyota Motor North America bill.bis...@toyota.com Office: (

Re: FTPS breaks on z14-ZR1

2019-03-28 Thread Bill Bishop (TMNA)
Did you go from an OSA 5 to an OSA 6 card? We upgraded a z12 to a z14 6 months ago and found out that we missed upgrading the OSA software as the OSA 6 cards required a different version. Thanks Bill Bishop Consultant, Mainframe Engineer Mainframe and Scheduling | Infrastructure Technology Serv

Effective of SMT with high zIIP usage

2019-03-14 Thread Bill Bishop (TMNA)
Anyone have any real-world experience with SMT? We have very high zIIP usage, 70% to 80% across 3 zIIPs, right now and have been asked to evaluate turning on SMT. One response was that with high zIIP usage, SMT might not be as effective as could be, and the other response is that it will make

Can a JBOSS virus attack infect a mainframe?

2019-03-13 Thread Bill Bishop (TMNA)
Information Security is asking Mainframe Management if JBOSS virus attacks can infect a mainframe. As usual, it falls to me answer. Are there ways for a JBOSS call to infect a mainframe? If so, what would our options be to prevent other than a solid RACF environment? Thanks Bill Bishop Consul

Re: Ca7 auto-ticketing with ServiceNow tool

2019-01-25 Thread Bill Bishop (TMNA)
Your Service Now team should be able to process an email and open incidents. We do that now. We format an email using our automation tools and send it to a identified mailbox, where the Service Now team picks it up and opens the incident. As for CA7 opening incidents directly, I do not know.

Re: DFRMM Setup

2019-01-04 Thread Bill Bishop (TMNA)
I currently have 6 production, 1 test, and 1 sandbox LPARs sharing a RMM environment. I have SYSID as the SMFID of each LPAR. I have CDSID as a generic name. We created the system with all 6 LPARs when we installed RMM. Based upon this, I would say you need to keep CDSID(SYSA). Also, we don'

Re: Dancing around RMM

2018-12-20 Thread Bill Bishop (TMNA)
If this is a physical tape, and you can "hand it" to the operator, you might try label=(2,nl),expdt=98000 and give it a dummy volume serial number. Thanks Bill Bishop Consultant, Mainframe Engineer Mainframe and Scheduling | Infrastructure Technology Services Toyota Motor North America bill.bi

Re: PROBLEM WITH MODEL PARM

2018-06-11 Thread Bill Bishop (TMNA)
It could be because you are modeling after the data component and not the cluster base. Try modeling it after DSNDBC, not DSNDBD. DSNDBC is the cluster component name and DSNDBD is the data component name. Thanks Bill Bishop Consultant, Mainframe Engineer Mainframe and Scheduling | Infrastruc

Re: DNS issue

2017-11-29 Thread Bill Bishop (TMNA)
recycle the resolver ? Carmen - Original Message - From: "Bill Bishop (TMNA)" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 11:04:44 AM Subject: DNS issue All; The windows group has decommissioned and removed a DNS server that I had in my TCPDATA memb

DNS issue

2017-11-29 Thread Bill Bishop (TMNA)
All; The windows group has decommissioned and removed a DNS server that I had in my TCPDATA member. I have updated the member and recycled TCPIP, but I am still having tasks try to resolve to it. My question is "Do I need to bounce RESOLVER also, and if so, is it just a P RESOLVER and S RESOL

Re: Consolidate Consoles

2017-11-29 Thread Bill Bishop (TMNA)
CA also has a product call Automation Point. It does cost, not sure if it is beyond your budget or not. It does take all console traffic and displays it on a single screen. It uses a server to host the base product and display the message traffic. It can provide remote access to the server so

Re: IPMAILERADDRESS issue

2017-10-24 Thread Bill Bishop (TMNA)
. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Bishop (TMNA) Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 11:31 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: IPMAILERADDRESS issue I have changed the IPMAILERADDRESS in my smtpconf member and recycled SMTP

Re: IPMAILERADDRESS issue

2017-10-24 Thread Bill Bishop (TMNA)
older value ? I hope you are updating SMTP config member specified in the SMTP proc DD Statement ? On 24-Oct-2017 10:02 PM, "Bill Bishop (TMNA)" wrote: I have changed the IPMAILERADDRESS in my smtpconf member and recycled SMTP. I have done a f resolver,refresh and recycled SMPT

IPMAILERADDRESS issue

2017-10-24 Thread Bill Bishop (TMNA)
I have changed the IPMAILERADDRESS in my smtpconf member and recycled SMTP. I have done a f resolver,refresh and recycled SMPT again. I cannot get the SMTP address space to recognize the new email address. Any suggestions on what I am missing? Thanks Bill Bishop Consultant, Mainframe Engineer

Re: Looking for mainframe shops Lexington/Cincinnati

2017-08-31 Thread Bill Bishop (TMNA)
Joel; Lexington is going to be very tough. The only zOS shops in the area are the State of Kentucky in Frankfort, Toyota in Georgetown, Ashland Oil and Lexmark, both in Lexington itself. I have also heard that there is an old system at University of Kentucky Medical Center. Toyota is supporte

UTC and Daylight Savings Time

2017-01-05 Thread Bill Bishop (TMNA)
I have been requested to investigate the impact of switching "local" time to "UTC" time. We currently use STP to establish the time and offsets for our LPARs, so basically we are using UTC time correctly. However, the requirement may include not changing local time when daylight savings time o