RESOLVED: Interesting behavior - instream variable sub

2021-07-21 Thread Lund, James E
behavior - instream variable sub On 7/21/2021 7:56 AM, Lund, James E wrote: > That's a big help. I'm not sure why this APAR didn't show up in my searches, > but it seems to explain what we're seeing. I'll get it on immediately and see > if the problem resolves. T

Re: Interesting behavior - instream variable sub

2021-07-21 Thread Lund, James E
Mike, That's a big help. I'm not sure why this APAR didn't show up in my searches, but it seems to explain what we're seeing. I'll get it on immediately and see if the problem resolves. Many thanks James -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mike Hochee S

Re: Interesting behavior - instream variable sub

2021-07-20 Thread Lund, James E
Kolusu, Thanks for the suggestion. I did check that //SYSUT1 card in each step do not have extra blanks. They all looks correct and the same for all steps. Are you running on z/OS 2.3 or higher? JES2, I assume? Just looking for a baseline, if you're not seeing the issue. Thanks, James -Ori

Interesting behavior - instream variable sub

2021-07-20 Thread Lund, James E
Howdy, Seeing an interesting behavior with instream variable substitution. My 10 step test job: ... //E01 EXPORT SYMLIST=(MYFY) //S01 SETMYFY=2021 //* //STEP1 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER,REGION=1024K //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=G //SYSUDUMP DD SYSOUT=G //SYSIN DD DUMMY //SYSUT2 DD SYSOUT=G //SYSUT1 DD *,SYM

Re: EJES

2021-04-01 Thread Lund, James E
Yes -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Allan Staller Sent: Thursday, April 1, 2021 9:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] EJES Classification: Confidential yes -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Beh

Re: IPL from SCSI DVD or via NVMe

2021-03-18 Thread Lund, James E
What?!? Are we in the stone age? 8^) I actually created an IPLable USB stick for an old DR environment. We do things on the "cheap", restoring stand-alone from replicated virtual tape to DS8800. ICKDSF SA CDROM was a starting point, then added FDR SAR, and ZZSA (just in case things go south).

Re: Virtual SHARE

2020-06-26 Thread Lund James E
Don't forget the 5 minutes of live Q/A at the end of your session, Phil... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Friday, June 26, 2020 4:37 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [IBM-MAIN] Virtual SHARE Be aware that virtual SHARE

Re: 3592-E07

2020-01-21 Thread Lund James E
Neal, We use this "grid" type VTL solution here at A&M - one locally in Texas, and the other at our DR co-lo in MD. Work well, as long as your internet connection is sound. Regards, James Lund | Chief Systems Engineer Mainframe and Enterprise Backup Service | Division of Information Technology

TS77xx MI cert help

2018-12-04 Thread Lund James E
(Let me know if there is a better listserv to send this to...) Howdy, I'm trying to activate forced secure connection to the management interface of our TS77xx VTLs for managed services access we're adding. The shipped cert of CN:www.ibm.com loads as "CA root not trusted". I know I can add a ne

Job listing - TAMU

2017-10-06 Thread Lund James E
All - Sorry for the off-technical post, but for those looking... We are hiring a new Senior-level Admin to replace lost expertise: https://jobpath.tamu.edu/postings/114053 And College Station is not so bad (except game weekend...) James -

Re: Data Center Index for SE Texas?

2017-08-30 Thread Lund James E
There was a local news story reported from the CLL (College Station, TX) Airport Operations Director: 20 Waffle House employees flew in, all rented cars, and were heading south (Houston 2 hours, Galveston 3.5 hours) to make sure those Waffle Houses had everything they needed to stay open. As f

Re: OT-retirement

2017-08-21 Thread Lund James E
As they say... If you enjoy what you do, you never work a day in your life... just sayin' James Lund Texas A&M University -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jack J. Woehr Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2017 12:53 PM To: IBM-

Re: Displacement of ASG View Direct and PRO/JCL

2017-05-31 Thread Lund James E
Steven, We are in the same boat with ASG VD product, and are POCing in-house tools to do the sweep/conversion. Glad to share with you offline where we're at. Regards, James james-l...@tamu.edu -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Beh

Re: z/OS 1.13 to z/OS 2.2 Comm Server woes

2017-04-10 Thread Lund James E
Lizette, As I understand, the customer is using a telnet call to a mainframe server, listening on a defined port Symptoms are the task hangs and eventually gives a connection failure message. I don't see any sense information in the trace CTRACE COMP(SYSTCPDA) FULL Connection is Unix to MF, n

z/OS 1.13 to z/OS 2.2 Comm Server woes

2017-04-10 Thread Lund James E
Howdy, It pains me to ask, but can someone point me in the direction of diagnosing a connection problem to the mainframe *after* upgrade to z/OS 2.2? Here's what I know: - Reserved port in TCPIP for the customer's connection - RACF userid UID and group GID defined -

Re: RIP Richard Peurifoy

2016-12-21 Thread Lund James E
is message in error, please notify us immediately by reply email so that we may correct our internal records. Please then delete the original message (including any attachments) in its entirety. Thank you -Original Message- From: "Lund James E" Sent: Wednesday, December

RIP Richard Peurifoy

2016-12-21 Thread Lund James E
The mainframe community lost another one of its kind recently. Richard Peurifoy, a keystone in mainframe support at Texas A&M University, as well as a frequent contributor to IBM-MAIN, lost his battle with cancer last Sunday. He will be sorely missed by all who know him. It has been said of him

Re: JES2 to JES3 Migration

2016-01-15 Thread Lund James E
Never a bad time for a shameless SHARE plug... :) Nationwide Insurance will be giving a session in San Antonio titled "JES3 to JES2 Infrastructure Migration - Customer Experience" on Friday at 11:15am, unfortunately, up against Bit Bucket :( For comparison of JESs, two other sources - 1) Ed Ja

LOAD from ... SERVER option?

2013-01-22 Thread Lund James E
Howdy, So, where to start... We have a co-located machine we are setting up for DR (CBU). In short, it is a warm site until we declare an official (or test) disaster and "make" it a hot site. Virtual tape system there is grid'ed to one locally, so tape backups are no more than 24 hours old. The