Overriding IEFSDPPT (Was: PPT NOPASS setting)

2012-12-09 Thread Chris Mason
mal dump data set - with a large secondary extent. [2] See the paranoia on the subject in the z/OS Communications Server IP Configuration Guide, section 2.2.1.1, "Steps for starting the TN3270E Telnet server": http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/f1a1b3b1/2.

z/OS 1.13 Coexistence Maint. and PDISC (Was: ... and DLSW)

2012-12-09 Thread Chris Mason
and goes downhill from there - I smell Cisco mischief! Perhaps you should just ask whomever in your installation actually understands DLSw and the DLSw configuration for an explanation of why it is incidental to this scenario. [2] They could be implemented as SNA type 2.0 nodes but they would be

Re: Etymology 101; was Parsing

2012-12-07 Thread Chris Mason
in z/OS UNIX - z/OS UNIX Systems Services in full - would not be remarkable. Chris Mason On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:00:19 +, Lindy Mayfield wrote: >Tweedledee and Tweedledum _Agreed_ to have a fight. > >Someday soon some language will be the Lingua Chinoise and COBOL will start >

Watch the wrap! (Was: CPU Utilization)

2012-12-07 Thread Chris Mason
0 works just as well as http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ERBZPM90/CCONTENTS?SHELF=erbzbkb0&DN=SC33-7992-10&DT=20100712181154 Chris Mason On Wed, 7 Nov 2012 14:41:56 +, Staller, Allan wrote: > >Also trying to figure out any batch loads that are of not

Re: CICS screen scraping using BizTalk (Was: ... scrapping ... biztalk)

2012-12-07 Thread Chris Mason
preferred since the alternative OSE is essentially for migration from the popular pre-OSA device, the 3172 while OSD offers considerable performance and usability enhancements and promises more in the future. - Chris Mason On Thu, 6 Dec 2012 09:49:00 +0530, Jake anderson wrote: >Hello Group, >

Re: CICS screen scrapping using biztalk

2012-12-06 Thread Chris Mason
ion Server. You should use the Internet Protocol-Data Link Control (IP-DLC) Link Service that is based on the industry-standard High Performance Routing over Internet Protocol (HPR/IP). http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg167635.aspx - [1] Paraphrasing Henry Ford. - Chris Mason On T

Re: Historical question regarding the stop command

2012-12-05 Thread Chris Mason
Gilmartin Stop bullying your erstwhile colleagues! You can put everybody out of their misery, yourself especially, by doing on what Charles Mills is famous for pouring scorn - RT fine M: 2.3 Communicating with a program (EXTRACT, QEDIT) http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/iea2

Re: CHPID TYPE OSE Port 1 of OSA Express3

2012-12-05 Thread Chris Mason
the IBMTCP-L list for any topic related to z/OS Communications Server and neighbouring topics such as OSA features: For IBMTCP-L subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO IBMTCP-L Chris Mason On Mon, 3 Dec 2012 09:54:39 -060

Understanding SNA-oriented TELNET logon options (Was: Passing Logmod in default TN3270 USSTAB)

2012-12-04 Thread Chris Mason
all client implementations and 3270 applications supported the dynamic selection of presentation space dimensions. Perhaps you could explain why you perceive the need for the client workstation user to specify the mode table entry name - something of a chore if it turns out not to be necessary. Ch

Re: Correlating workstation userid to TN3270 logon using client certificates

2012-12-04 Thread Chris Mason
Tom Have a look at z/OS Communications Server IP Configuration Guide APPENDIX1.3 Appendix C. Express Logon Feature. It may be what you want. http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/F1A1B3B1/APPENDIX1.3 Chris Mason On Tue, 4 Dec 2012 14:25:26 -0500, Tom Ambros wrote: &g

Re: Static Vs Dynamic Routing 101 Question

2012-11-25 Thread Chris Mason
7 - [1] Note that, since I was obliged to correct a couple of typos, I took a liberty in correcting another! - Chris Mason On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 11:42:27 -0600, Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN wrote: >Group, > > We are embattled over the question of static routes. We are running z/OS >

Re: syslogd: FSUM1229 syslogd is already active

2012-10-08 Thread Chris Mason
ists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO IBMTCP-L Chris Mason On Mon, 8 Oct 2012 11:31:17 +0200, IT Pro wrote: >Hello, > >We upgraded from z/OS 1.9 to z/OS 1.12 a few months ago. > >We have configured SYSLOGD daemon to be started as a started task from >a PROC, but when

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-10-06 Thread Chris Mason
97 [2] This all clearly stated in the manual in which you might expect to find it: 23.6.2.3 Guidelines for dynamic expansion http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/f1a1b5b0/23.6.2.3 - Chris Mason On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 05:02:01 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: >Chris Mason wrote

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-10-06 Thread Chris Mason
g a "Read Partition/Query" and expect a "Query" reply from the secondary LU. > Otherwise, screen-mode transfer is used, ... Presumably "screen-mode" is the term the Gates's author has invented in order to describe the operation of IND$FILE when it is *not* entit

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-10-06 Thread Chris Mason
transfers" as "transfers where the use of WSF has been authorised" - or something like that!, there would appear to be no reason why the presentation space dimensions need limit anything! Note that, while there are *two* modes of operation for an IND$FILE server, there are *thr

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-10-06 Thread Chris Mason
oks. ... For DFTs, such as the 3290, the 3174 merely passes the data stream because the DFT can interpret the data stream independently. But for CUTs, such as the 3278, that are communicating with the 3270 host, the 3174 interprets every keystroke that is entered at the display stations. ...

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-22 Thread Chris Mason
out of the range supported by the application. Paying attention to these parameters definitely applies to the request unit (RU) sizes. IND$FILE may or may not follow the relevant RU size however large it is. Perhaps someone who really knows IND$FILE can check whether or not there is an upper limi

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-22 Thread Chris Mason
that the "transport" was TCP - rather than UDP - because there is discussion of the "keepalive" function. The latter implies SNA supporting LU type 6.2. QED! Chris Mason On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:02:58 -0400, Dave Salt wrote: >Out of curiosity, does anyone know what pro

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-22 Thread Chris Mason
Mike Well, I did the research for you! - According to Gilbert Saint-Flour's web page, IND$FILE dates from 1983. - According to RFC 765, FTP dates from 1980. > Much older program. Neither "much" nor "older" as 1980 comes before 1983! Chris Mason On Wed, 19 S

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-19 Thread Chris Mason
r_OS390/BOOKS/f1a1b6c0/2.7.3.3 Strangely enough, the authors are reticent about the default value! An educated guess is that it is 1, that is, providing for one I/O buffer. Chris Mason On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:53:17 +0200, Paolo Cacciari wrote: >Tsai, > >to speed up IND$FILE, have you

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-19 Thread Chris Mason
Mike > Much older program. You might like to research that point. I'm not at all sure that it is. Also I wouldn't necessarily conclude that age necessarily answered Laurence's question. Chris Mason On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 07:16:25 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: >Try larger bloc

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-19 Thread Chris Mason
a refrigerator to his back while FTP would correspond to the two East Africans who made a contest of the last few yards - meters in some geographies - of the course for the honour of being the winner. Chris Mason On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 19:34:40 +0800, Tsai Laurence wrote: >Dear listers

Re: How many subscribers?

2012-09-12 Thread Chris Mason
Graham FWIW http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?lnk=nhpsfg&hl=en-GB&q=IBM-MAIN 18162 subscribers, Messages per month: 1665, Usenet http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?lnk=nhpsfg&hl=en-GB&q=CICS-L 3924 subscribers, Usenet Chris Mason On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:13:29 -0400, Gra

Re: Anybody using HIS 2000 SNA server connecting through z/OS V1.13 on z114 ?

2012-09-05 Thread Chris Mason
Lawrence You should ask also on the HIS Forum: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/biztalkhis/threads Since you are using HIS 2000, you are probably using the LAN DLC, There should be no problems; the protocols don't change. Chris Mason On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 22:07:49 +0800,

Re: reasons for using started task or batch job

2012-08-11 Thread Chris Mason
time ago. There were a few replies but no evidence of hidden dangers was forthcoming. Archive reference (Search on Subject Contains: SYST, Author's Address: Mason): Subject: SYST From: Chris Mason Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:58:39 +0100 Hm! Having made sure that I could refer folk to my "

Re: ESCON

2012-08-11 Thread Chris Mason
ments onto which I happened to have hung labelled "FICON CTCs". - [1] http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/F1A1B6C0/2.4 - Chris Mason --- John > ... CTC; to implement VTAM cross domain ... I *think* I understand what you are saying here but in case it is n

Re: ESCON

2012-08-11 Thread Chris Mason
k - which worked as an egg fresh from the coop. The design required the definition of a number of CTC connections for use by the APPN network. Disturbing a lot of dust I found some customer documents onto which I happened to have hung labelled "FICON CTCs". - [1] http://publibz.boulder.i

Re: Top posting

2012-07-29 Thread Chris Mason
ks just as well on a Sunday as any other day - or perhaps the reason is more related to Eric Liddell, of whom lately we have been reminded. - Chris Mason On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 11:32:19 -0400, Gord Tomlin wrote: >While there is an RFC (I'm not going to hunt for the number on a Sunday) &g

Re: FFST question

2012-07-26 Thread Chris Mason
sets, you may need to know about/be reminded of the DISP=MOD "trick" - and (I just checked) you don't need to worry about having multiple steps in your FFST (EPWINIT) procedure. Chris Mason On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:04:32 -0400, Rob Schramm wrote: >Chris, > >I read that

Re: LU Lookup failed - sense 00003003

2012-07-26 Thread Chris Mason
since the LU represented by these APPL statements will always be an "origin" LU and never a "destination" LU. Chris Mason On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:33:15 -0400, Scott Ford wrote: >Chris, > >My VTAM is old but I seem to Remember that CICS, aka kicks, was the Plu > &g

USS message 7 (Was: LU Lookup failed - sense 00003003)

2012-07-26 Thread Chris Mason
ult but AUTH=NVPACE is utter nonsense. An actually technically correct and useful sample would be as follows: VBUILD TYPE=APPL TN* APPL EAS=1,SESSLIM=YES,REGISTER=NO Note that I am proposing a model APPL statement - where, of course, the name would need to match the model for the &

Re: FFST question

2012-07-25 Thread Chris Mason
ned was under discussion. Mr Zelden even simply considers FFST worthless - as one can assume does the "Wizard of Lodz". - Chris Mason On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:55:39 -0400, Rob Schramm wrote: >Does anyone know if the FFSTCKPT, FFSTLOGx & AND FFSTDUMP data sets must be >unique? I

Re: LU Lookup failed - sense 00003003

2012-07-23 Thread Chris Mason
t the SNA-oriented TELNET server (TN3270) LU name is, as a starting position, internal to TN3270. This is just a quick response, I'll look more at it tomorrow. It's after midnight and I got up early - yesterday! You might like to post on IBMTCP-L if you haven't doe so yet. Chris M

Re: Help with elementary CPU speed question

2012-07-18 Thread Chris Mason
f equipment across the main hall between the seats and the stage where Mstislav Rostropovich was rehearsing - actually and necessarily taking a short break. He didn't give me the friendliest of looks as I tried to give an apologetic look in return! - Chris Mason On Wed, 18 Jul 2012

Re: COBOL packed decimal

2012-07-14 Thread Chris Mason
day", I realised that there was one more possible improvement. This would have involved overlaying initialisation logic storage with working space! There wasn't time now and it wasn't needed since the 360/30 was duly replaced by a 360/25. - Chris Mason On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 08:

Re: TCP/IP concurrent socket question

2012-07-13 Thread Chris Mason
le to provide an URL whenever making a reference to a manual. - Chris Mason On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:11:12 +0100, Mike Kerford-Byrnes wrote: >GG24-2561 Appendix H has precisely what you are looking for On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:26:16 -0400, Micheal Butz wrote: >I am looking for a Concurrent S

USS (Was: SV: SV: SV: PCOMM ...)

2012-07-12 Thread Chris Mason
d by the VTAMLIB DD-statement. [3] And, if the system programmer has managed to remove the EZBTPUST module so that the SNA-oriented server cannot gain access to it and an USS message needs to be presented, there is a "hard-coded" USS message 14 - which sort-of brings us back to

Re: SV: SV: PCOMM alternate screen size

2012-06-30 Thread Chris Mason
f a delimiter. This time I did *not* make a mistake! - [1] I encouraged my students always to use SYS1.VTAMLST so they and any who followed them as system programmers would know where to look. Unfortunately the last customer I supported hadn't been to my classes and it took quite a while

Re: SV: PCOMM alternate screen size

2012-06-29 Thread Chris Mason
ed TELNET server address space and "nnn" is the identification of the TELNET connection. You will find a line in the output similar to the following: PROTOCOL: TN3270E LOGMODE: SNX32702 DEVICETYPE: IBM-3278-2-E In order to determine what to specify for "nnn", you can use the c

Re: PCOMM alternate screen size

2012-06-29 Thread Chris Mason
d of the logon mode table entry is X'00' (LU type 0), the entry is "non-SNA". The session follows SNA protocols only when it has passed though the VTAM protocol converter logic - see Chapter "Programming for the IBM 3270 Information Display System" of the z/OS Communi

Re: PCOMM alternate screen size

2012-06-29 Thread Chris Mason
on following the architecture. Tant pis! Note that the same reference was given by Sri Kolusu. Chris Mason On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:17:13 -0400, Thomas Conley wrote: >On 6/28/2012 7:55 PM, Bob Rutledge wrote: >> >> Hie thee to the archives and search for TD102151 in the subject lin

Re: PCOMM alternate screen size

2012-06-29 Thread Chris Mason
Paul Which, as I replied to Bob Rutledge who provided the identical recommendation earlier, would be a good idea if it were accurate. Chris Mason On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:14:22 -0500, paul wrote: >Try this >http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/TD

Re: PCOMM alternate screen size

2012-06-29 Thread Chris Mason
://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/bit.listserv.ibm-main/2010-10/msg01185.html Chris Mason On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:55:46 -0400, Bob Rutledge wrote: > ... > >Hie thee to the archives and search for TD102151 in the subject line. > >Bob ---

Re: VTAM & Cross Domain Resources - Help!

2012-06-21 Thread Chris Mason
le in certain VTAM-managed circumstances but your "ambiguity" is *not* one of them. [2] Say a manager who used to look after VTAM a decade or so ago as there was - from userid evidence! - in the last customer I assisted. - Chris Mason On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:36:26 -0400, Matt Gourle

Re: VTAM & Cross Domain Resources - Help!

2012-06-20 Thread Chris Mason
l case of "via VTAM from applications running". - [1] I said "business" but then I noticed you support university students! - Chris Mason On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:04:40 -0400, Matt Gourley wrote: >Greetings, > >I'm trying to get a Cross Domain Resource to work

Re: Vm & ZLinux VSWITCH question

2012-06-20 Thread Chris Mason
ture to a *real* LAN, "external LAN connectivity". I do hope I've remembered the principles of a VSWITCH from the time I last read up on the topic a few years ago! Chris Mason On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:19:53 -0500, Ron MacRae wrote: >Lutz, >Thanks for your help. As I s

Re: Vm & ZLinux VSWITCH question

2012-06-20 Thread Chris Mason
ered "off-line". Maybe not! Chris Mason On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:42:18 -0500, Lutz Hamann wrote: >Ron, > >of course you can' specify 888 as RDEV for your VSWITCH1 because you've >attached this OSD-device >to TCPIP ! > >You should have further real device (i

Re: Vm & ZLinux VSWITCH question

2012-06-20 Thread Chris Mason
nectivity" should be used for everything to do with VSWITCH. The latest I can easily locate is the following: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/HCSC9C00/ - Chris Mason On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 04:53:19 -0500, Ron MacRae wrote: >Hi all, > I have a VM &

Re: TCP/IP Affinity

2012-06-19 Thread Chris Mason
t where there is a mismatch between WAD and WAC. - [1] For an explanation, please see a recent discussion - not necessarily complete - in IBMTCP-L: 12/03/06 13:51:35 75 werner.kueh...@mannheimer.de Reroute FTP to an alternate route http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvgl?L=IBMTCP-L&LO