Re: JES3 BDT (Bulk Data Transfer) Migration?

2024-12-05 Thread Larre Shiller
For what it's worth, I believe that Phoenix Software International now supports BDT: https://phoenixsoftware.com/phx-bdt.htm Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration “The opinions expressed in this e-mail are mine personally and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the US S

Re: SETROPTS ERASE(ALL)

2023-07-28 Thread Larre Shiller
but at the hardware level. We are using the EMC equivalent and it is working seamlessly--no z/OS side overhead at all and practically nothing at the DASD hardware level. Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration “The opinions expressed in this e-mail are mine personally and do not nec

Re: SDSF & TSS (RACF)

2022-05-24 Thread Larre Shiller
"honor" that. If you can't get it to work, perhaps you could open a Case with Broadcom and trace the security call to figure out what's going on. Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration "The opinions expressed in this e-mail are mine personally and do not necess

Re: Producing throwaway SMF?

2022-05-09 Thread Larre Shiller
Hi Mike - I know it's not a "Product", but we use a simple SMF exit for this very purpose. Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration “The opinions expressed in this e-mail are mine personally and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the US Social Security Administra

Re: Help with SCHEDxx Parmlib vs. IEFSDPPT in Linklib

2020-08-19 Thread Larre Shiller
d get linked into an APF-authorized library. See the discussion in the section entitled "Auditors: Check the PPT" in: https://www.rshconsulting.com/racftips/RSH_Consulting__RACF_Tips__April_2013.pdf ...at least that was *our* thinking on this. Larre Shiller US Social Security

Re: More DISA STIG Audit - stuff

2020-05-22 Thread Larre Shiller
Carmen - You might also find the MVS "D PPT" command of interest, if you are are not already aware of that command. It does display both the PARMLIB and DEFAULT values. We issue that command during each automated IPL as an AUDIT artifact. Larre “The opinions expressed in this post are mine p

Re: load modules

2020-03-05 Thread Larre Shiller
Dean - ...how about using the TSO ISRDDN command followed by LOAD module_name ...? Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration “The opinions expressed in this post are mine personally and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the US Social Security Administration and/or the US

Re: SMF exit IEFU086 work area size

2019-10-08 Thread Larre Shiller
David - Based on some ESP notes that I have from our z/OS 2.3 install, it looks like the work area size is 1024 bytes. The parameter list is mapped by MACLIB(IFAEXITP). I see no evidence to indicate that the length can be set/modified by the installation. Larre US Social Security Administrat

Erase On Scratch

2019-09-10 Thread Larre Shiller
ality to market: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=134047 Thanks! Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: z/OS V2R5 Will be the Last Release to Include JES3

2019-02-28 Thread Larre Shiller
better position... at least for a while, until those remaining shops also start drifting away from the platform for one reason or another until eventually there's nobody left to turn out the lights. Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration Office: 410.965.2209 “The opinions ex

Re: [EXTERNAL] DISA STIG and permission/audit bits

2018-09-26 Thread Larre Shiller
tents cannot be changed. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Larre Shiller Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 12:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] DISA STIG and permission/audit bits As part of a recent

DISA STIG and permission/audit bits

2018-09-26 Thread Larre Shiller
ut have not had much success. So... we started to wonder if anybody else is doing this and if so, how do they manage to keep track of directory changes and keep them updated per the STIG. Any advice would be gratefully appreciated... Thanks. Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration

Re: MSG IEFA111I SWA=BELOW,TIOT SIZE=32K,DSENQSHR=DISALLOW,GDGBIAS=JOB

2018-08-10 Thread Larre Shiller
Ding! I asked IBM about this message earlier this year and here was the response: "After examining this issue, we do agree the documentation in the V2R3 z/OS MVS System Messages, Vol 8 (IEF-IGD) for Message IEFA111I is incomplete. We spoke with development and they already created a RCF, R

Re: The IRS Really Needs Some New Computers

2018-04-18 Thread Larre Shiller
quot;out of date"...? Well... they may have some "technical debt" associated with them and sometimes maintaining them can be challenging, but does it really matter if I'm running a COBOL or a JAVA program to add up a column of numbers? Larre Shiller US Social Security Adm

Re: IBMLINK SIS Failing? Spurious Error 500's

2017-12-14 Thread Larre Shiller
k" request), I get the error and I have to re-authenticate to "fix" it... but even after that, it has gotten to the point where I can't even navigate away from the main menu. Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration “The opinions expressed in this post are mine per

Re: Question on some z/OS Tuning Parms USEZOSV1R9RULES and MEMDSENQMGT

2017-10-27 Thread Larre Shiller
would have already been implemented. Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration “The opinions expressed in this e-mail are mine personally and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the US Social Security Administration and/or the US

Re: IBM to stabilize JES3 (was: IBM to finally drop JES3)

2017-08-30 Thread Larre Shiller
ion that SSA (as a JES3 customer) will certainly be pushing back on. Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration "The opinions expressed in this e-mail are mine personally and do not necessarily reflect the opinion o

Re: SMFLIMxx sample?

2017-06-14 Thread Larre Shiller
and here: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/zoslib/pdf/OA47062.pdf You'll also want to take note of APAR OA49546 for a DOC correction as well as defect related APARs OA52045 and OA52624. Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration "The opinions expressed in this post are mine p

Re: Survey: How many APF-authorized libraries?

2017-05-30 Thread Larre Shiller
...depends on the SYSPLEX, but our largest production PLEX has 352 at the moment. Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration “The opinions expressed in this e-mail are mine personally and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the US Social Security Administration and/or the US

Re: Erase on Scratch

2017-04-24 Thread Larre Shiller
Ed - Yes. Larre -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Erase on Scratch

2017-04-24 Thread Larre Shiller
licly if/when/where we do or do not use it, but I will simply recommend that you perform a benchmark evaluation of the overhead involved on your hardware before activating EOS. Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration "The opinions expressed in this message are mine personally

Re: Automatic Binary Optimizer (ABO)

2016-04-12 Thread Larre Shiller
...are you confusing complementary with complimentary...? Larre -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: dynamic allocation for tape using TSO in batch

2015-04-03 Thread Larre Shiller
and the MOUNT authority, as long as the batch User ID is 7 bytes or less (otherwise the job gets the TSO default of NOMOUNT). I do not know why this did not work the first time we tried it, but it works now. Thanks to everyone for all of the suggestions! Larre Shiller US Social Security

Re: dynamic allocation for tape using TSO in batch

2015-04-01 Thread Larre Shiller
Hi Alan - These are JES3-managed tapes, so SMS isn't involved there. And as far as requiring TSO... I'm not 100% sure, but I know that they execute DB2 PLANS that way. But if we do need to re-engineer the job, we could certainly consider calling the COBOL program from a REXX, if that would hel

Re: dynamic allocation for tape using TSO in batch

2015-04-01 Thread Larre Shiller
Hi Lizette - Thanks for the suggestions. I do have a SLIP dump that IBM is working from... but I guess I need to get them focused on the failure a bit more. Otherwise, I checked all of the usual suspects and there is no "environmental" issue that is preventing the tape mount. This appears to

Re: dynamic allocation for tape using TSO in batch

2015-04-01 Thread Larre Shiller
Hi Chuck - This was an excellent suggestion. I had not considered using a TSO-submitted job to prove/disprove the TSO MOUNT authority issue. I do not have TSO MOUNT authority and yet, as you would expect, I was in act able to get a tape mounted using TSO in batch and your sample REXX program.

dynamic allocation for tape using TSO in batch

2015-04-01 Thread Larre Shiller
a default behavior/restriction... after all, even with the TSO restriction, you can still override it with UADS or TSOAUTH...! I guess I'm just looking for definitive confirmation one way or the other and was hoping that somebody would have specific knowledge or

Re: multiple TSO Sessions

2014-01-29 Thread Larre Shiller
Mark - We have this working in our JES3 environment at z/OS 2.1. No USERMOD required. Larre US Social Security Administration "The opinions expressed in this e-mail are mine persoanlly and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the US Social Security Administration and/or the US Government