IOF End of Support Direction.....

2023-04-21 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
Please excuse me if this is been asked already, haven't seen it. https://www.triangle-systems.com/End%20of%20IOF%20Support.shtml We have used IOF for quite a awhile, and frankly it has some wonderful functionality that I haven't seen in SDSF (like the ability to send the output to email address

Java And Specialty Engines

2022-08-11 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
We run a lot of JAVA workloads under WebSphere Liberty on our z15. We are seeing hardly any utilization on our 2 specialty engines (ziip/zaap). It is my understanding that ALL java workload is eligible to run under those engines, so it has left me confused. We are seeing some offloaded DB2 wo

Report on total tape usage?

2021-07-09 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
I am trying to figure out how much data we actually have backed up on tape. I have run a few RMM reports, but haven't seen anything much that will just give me a total number of space used (i.e. 12.4 Terabytes used). Report 11 seems the closest, but that will take much work to add up all the

Re: Anyone have SFTP JCL to share?

2021-04-20 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
Stuff is becoming such a pain. I found in this situation it was much easier to FTP the file from the mainframe to my PC, and then to use FileZilla to sftp it up to Broadcom. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ward, Mike S Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Re: z/OS LDAP Server

2021-03-25 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
We've been doing it this way for years. Very simple configuration and works pretty well. If you have any questions, feel free to send me an email. Dennis -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jack Zukt Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 10:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN

Re: SKLM Servers

2021-03-24 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
Have it on two Virtual Windows Servers. I agree it is crazy we have to pay for such software to utilize encryption on our IBM Disk. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 9:35 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: S

Re: EMC DLM over IBM VTL

2021-03-04 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
We did the same about 5 years ago. Originally started using the DLM and Data Domain just for the mainframe data. We also replicate to our cold site with a matching pair. We started adding more Windows related data using SQL DD Boost and server Veeam backups to it. We absolutely zero perfor

Re: TS7720 to EMC DLM migration

2020-12-24 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
We did this migration not too long ago. It was actually pretty easy once everything was setup and the devices were available on all LPARs. The main tool we used was FDRCOPY. With a few simple jobs, we were able to use it and migrate almost 80% of the items on the TS7720 to the DLM. It did the

Re: CA Broadcom Replacement Software

2020-12-10 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
See you are getting lots of responses on this. CA-1 we migrated to RMM Migrated our automation to SeaSoft ODDS Haven't found a viable replacement for TPX. We use dynamic screens based off of attached RACF Profiles and rely a lot on SMF records, which no other product does. I feel your pain tho

Re: SuperWylbur Users

2020-07-07 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
DDNAME not found ? show ddns 26142 JOB 26142 TECHDELD PRT LOCAL PUN LOCAL PN DD-IDENT TYPE LRECL COUNT CPY FORM DEST DISP Job record count=

Re: SuperWylbur Users

2020-07-06 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
The z/os 1.13 to z/os 2.2 required some changes to all the JES interfacing modules. One of the problems I found is with the my different LPARS, sometimes the JES BASETRAK would be different, so depending on which LPAR it was, I had to change that. I created some automation that determined what

Re: SuperWylbur Users

2020-07-02 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SuperWylbur Users Did you reassemble (assuming Wylbur code is available) with new JES2 macros? > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Longnecker, Dennis > Sent: Monday, June 29, 2020 4:16 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@

SuperWylbur Users

2020-06-29 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
Hello - Anyone here still using SuperWylbur and have it up and running on a z/OS 2.4 system? Bringing up 2.4 now and the JES parts aren't working correctly. Before I start digging into the code, I wanted to see if anyone else has solved it. Thanks, Dennis ---

Re: ISPW Question

2020-06-17 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
This triggered me to look to see what version of ISPW we are on4.04.so I guess we are in the same boat as you! Dennis -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Steely.Mark Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 1:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: ISP

Question on MQ on the Z/os

2020-03-03 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
Wondering if anyone here is using MQ Series on the z/os box and knows about the licensing? If one had MQ on the Z and it was doing all the QMgrs/Queue work, do the clients (that aren't QMgrs/Queue) on the other boxes need cost/purchase licenses? What I am finding is: - The MQ clients are ava

Re: Question on LDAPSRV running on z/OS

2019-09-18 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
We are doing the same. There was no LDAP server changes we needed to do to make this happen. My first guess would be your web front-end is uppercasing it before sending it to LDAP. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Tuesday, Septemb

Page/Alert notifications from z/os

2019-06-18 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
Curious what people are using, if they are anymore, to send pages/text's/notifications/etc. from z/os to people on call. The software we have been using runs on a Windows 7 box, which I need to get rid of and/or replace. Rather than continue what we have been doing for 25 years, curious as

Re: Accented Names in EBCDIC -> ASCII

2019-03-26 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
.EDU Subject: Re: Accented Names in EBCDIC -> ASCII On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 15:48:50 +, Longnecker, Dennis wrote: >I see there is an extended ASCII table which has accented characters; like the >hex A2 which is an accented lower case O. > >Is there such a character in the ebcdic wor

Re: Accented Names in EBCDIC -> ASCII

2019-03-25 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
M-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Longnecker, Dennis Sent: Monday, March 25, 2019 11:49 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Accented Names in EBCDIC -> ASCII I see there is an extended ASCII table which has accented characters; like the hex A2 which is an accented lower case O. Is

Accented Names in EBCDIC -> ASCII

2019-03-25 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
I see there is an extended ASCII table which has accented characters; like the hex A2 which is an accented lower case O. Is there such a character in the ebcdic world? All my google searches for EBCDIC to ASCII conversions aren't showing accented characters in EBCDIC. Thanks, Dennis ---

z/os Access Windows SMB ?

2019-03-13 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
I've seen the information on how to get z/os data available via SMB to a Windows machine, but haven't seen anything on how to get the z/os side to send a file to a windows SMB. Trying to get a bunch of mainframe files over to a Windows share, without setting up FTP servers on the windows side a

node.js pricing ?

2018-09-21 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
I am going to trial a product that utilizes node.js. It appears to be free on the windows side. I see node.js is available for the z/os and was curious if anyone is actually running it, and how much it is. Dennis -- For IBM-

Re: [External Sender] Re: LRS VPS Printer Replacment

2017-12-19 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
I did the VPS -> JQP/VVP swap out around 2003. Have about 1500 printers defined in JQP/VVP. I find the support really good with the JQP and VVP products. I tried NPF first, but the administration would have been really hard for my help desk people. The only reason I did the swap out in t

Re: NFS on Mainframe

2017-12-05 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
I'm jumping in on thisis there any quickstarts out there to get NFS (Client or server?) installed on z/os? Dennis -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 3:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN

Re: CA1 to RMM conversion

2017-10-26 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
I miss CA-1. I found it much easier to use than RMM. I am constantly trying to remember how to find things in RMM that were so simple to find in CA-1. What I especially miss is the reporting in CA-1. They were so simple to create. I find that I have to utilize FDR/ABR reporting to give me t

Re: IBM Session Manager replacement

2017-08-18 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
Good luck on this. Every few years I look at what is out there to replace TPX. TPX is a great multi-session product and does what we need it to do, but when I get the about $60,000 bill every year I wonder what else is out there. TPX ties in with RACF pretty well and it dynamically builds the

Re: Sort

2017-08-01 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
Many years ago. (about 25). Since then we converted to Syncsort (it was almost PL/Sort, but Syncsort ended up in the mix.) Then we converted to IBM Sort All of the conversions were fairly effortless and didn’t' run into any issues. I think it depends on how many sort related reports you have.

Re: Displacement of ASG View Direct and PRO/JCL

2017-06-01 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
The list is still maintained, but not by John. Very little traffic on it. Dennis -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Edward Finnell Sent: Thursday, June 1, 2017 1:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Displaceme

Third Party Maintenance on IBM DS8870

2017-04-14 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
Morning - When I purchase my DS8870 several years ago, I purchased it with 3 years of warranty/maintenance. I am coming up to the time to renew. IBM's one year maintenance is about the same price as my original purchase price and three years of warranty. Crazy. Anyone using a third party

Re: Software vendor trying to force MSU based contract

2017-03-02 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
I would think that if you had a contract in place and were not requesting any changes to the contract, the T&C's would stay the same. If the contract was based on machine serial number, address, OS, etc. and you were requesting a change, then they could do this to you. Sometimes they try to

Re: IBM Netview Session Manager replacement

2017-02-15 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
I would agree with the below. The remote screen via capability is excellent for help desk. No other software required, they just enter the persons RACF ID and they instantly see what is on the persons screen and as it changes. Again, we don't have to have any software on the persons scree

SHOWMVS ASMA972U Error

2017-01-04 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
Trying to assemble SHOWZOS. It is getting: ** ASMA972U Virtual storage exhausted; increase the SIZE option STATEMENT NUMBER 83127 WAS BEING PROCESSED BY PASS 1 OF THE ASSEMBLER I'm on z/os 2.2 The EXEC statement has: //ASMH EXEC PGM=ASMA90,REGION=0M, I've tried various SIZE options: // PARM=

Raised Floor

2016-03-15 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
While not an operating system type question, I know someone here will be able to answer . In the USA, are there requirements/rules regarding how a raised for can be utilized? I seem to recall reading some code that specified only people who need to work on a raised for should be located o

DB2 DBA Job Opening - Washington State

2016-02-09 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
We posted this also in the DB2 IDUG list...but just in case any of you know anyone who would like to move to the Pacific Northwest. (Weather report for today. LOW LEVEL OFFSHORE FLOW WILL MAKE TUESDAY ONE MORE SUNNY AND MILD DAY WILL STILL MAINLY BE IN THE 55-60 RANGE...WITH HIGHS AROUN

XMITIP B37

2014-11-12 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
Using XMITIP and getting a B37 error.SYSTSPRT has: 3981 *-* "OGet" file_omvs odsn Oget_fmt +++ RC(-2871) +++ Looks like the code is not preallocating of the ODSN so the system is dynamically allocating it, but not big enough. Anyone know of a way to get it to allocate it larger

z10 Memory

2013-08-09 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
Since IBM dropped the z10 from marketing, it seems impossible to get anything done to the box from them. Does anyone know if it is possible to acquire memory, from a third party, and have it put in the z10 and be actually operational? I'm told everything is done via microcode now and IBM won'

REXX Socket Calls

2013-06-21 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
Is it still true you can't encrypt (i.e. SSL) Socket Calls in REXX? I have some code which does a HTML GET on a webpage on port 80 and the webmasters want me to run it on port 443 encrypted now.I've been doing google searches and I found an older reference to it doesn't support it, but s

zIIP Enabler for Natural

2013-06-06 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
Just ran across this that enables Natural to utilize the zIIP processor. https://www.softwareag.com/us/images/SAG_zIIP_Enabler_FS_May12_web_tcm89-98519.pdf Wondering if anyone is using it or has more details they can share. Thanks, Dennis ---