In the early days of delivering mainframe print to IP addressed printers, I had
a user that "never got" their reports, yet my software shows them delivered. I
tried to get them to verify their ip address, all they would do is repeat what
was on the label printed on the printer. So I sent a lar
That's what I meant :-) It's been 10 years since I ran JES2, just keeping
sharp here on IBM-MAIN :-)
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Is the msgclass / sysout class one setup for purge?
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Hello List,
Is there a way to override the system so I do
I probably commented on TMM, because we really benefited using it. We were on
mainframe hospice, they weren’t going to improve anything before they killed
it, but we had to survive several years of growing usage first. Had we been in
your situation, already having a virtual tape appliance, I'm
Some of us developed a maintenance cycle of ACCEPT, RECEIVE, APPLY. :-)
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I guess you could write assembler code entirely with
DCX'.'
The use ZAP to maintain it :-)
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27;t get all of them, but tape mount hate
weeded out the rest quickly.
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On 12/02/2018 07:55
Batch tape should be dead, even if batch JCL still looks like tape is used.
One of my last SMS projects was to manage tape, redirecting almost all to SMS
disk.
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Last days of a fairly cordial departure, one leg of a storage controller
failed, 3830 I think. I told them they needed to place a service call. A few
months go by and they call asking if I can get their system back up. Yep, the
other leg had failed I got consulting wages :-)
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Wow, a 360/91
https://images.techhive.com/images/idge/imported/article/itw/2014/04/04/ibm-360-600x450-100520215-orig.jpg
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Yea, it looks like it's way too wide, but I think they made some odd "one off"
or small batch 360's.
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It's been awhile, but if it's the17th SL file, since there are headers and
trailers, isn't it something like the 49th file processed NL or BLP? NL just
counts tapemark's, headers and trailers are just short files.
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ven
This, I think:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.ieag200/iea3g2_Record_Type_66__42__Integrated_Catalog_Facility_Alter_Activity.htm
Len Rugen
University of Missouri
Division of Information Technology
Systems & Operations - Metrics & Automation Team
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If both those libraries have contents, I'd try with just SYS1.SORTLIB. It
fails quickly doesn't it?
Based on my interpretation of
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.icei100/lp.htm
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Some of us old guys can make a printer sing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jufHGUp3xQw
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That worked th
I think GF15 if "folded", so if the 15 point font is upper cast, try changing
that to GT15.
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"-//IPPRTR70 EXE
My similar war story, DOS/VS job would fail with system error that blocks read
from tape didn't match label block count; OK, that is a hardware error, dropped
block. After much cleaning and attempts at repair we would still get it.
Programmer came in one day and said they had fixed it themselv
I think I tried this once:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.halp001/ispfint.htm
I don't know if it's still an option.
Len Rugen
University of Missouri
Division of Information Technology
Systems & Operations - Metrics & Automation Team
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You could trim the tape leader without needing to relabel a tape (or lose data)
as long as you didn't get too close to the shiny spot :-)
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from internet or ftp to a zFS pax
> file etc.
>
> CICS changes have been incremental nothing very different.
>
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 5:27 AM, Rugen, Len wrote:
>
>> I left the Z/OS world at the version 1.6 after nearly many years of
>> mainframe OS and CICS work .
I left the Z/OS world at the version 1.6 after nearly many years of mainframe
OS and CICS work . I see adds for telecommute Z/OS support, how far out of
date are my skills? What should I read up on to stay current?
I know that as we moved along in Z/OS and previous version, 95% of what we
co
You may have sessions from VPN's, NAT'ed networks or cell phones that won't be
completely accurate. We were using network load balancers and one backend kept
having excess use. We found that all sessions (Host on Demand) from a popular
frat house shared the same IP so went to the same backend
Nearly OT anyway, we replaced a lot of the "sealed envelope" things with
keepass.
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I've found keepass better for keeping things that need to be shared between a
group of administrators. Lastpass if better for browser integration.
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I've never
When things break and the application support team doesn't find a fix, the
systems team will eventually get involved. The vendors typically won't help
and management will demand a solution;l "you must have changed something in the
system".
It just takes longer when they bring problems in dea
We kept a 120 MIP system on "hospice" for several years starting with 4 FTE and
dwindling down to 1.5 FTE. Even a doomed system required 2 hardware upgrades,
several OS versions, encryption for TN3270, distributed printing, internet data
transfer and general hand holding.
Len Rugen
Universit
There is a chance that no one remembers :-)
Is the LU active? Is the luname correct?
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I wonder if the microcode has a little "detuning" so that if they ever have to
make patches that would slow down the system, they can remove a little of the
detuning to get back to base performance.
Len Rugen
University of Missouri
Division of Information Technology
Systems & Operations - Metr
If I have to ask how-to, isn't it a DOC apar? :-O
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On 9/8/2017 12:1
It's been several years for me also, but this looks like a typical "user space"
call, the doc here
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.ichc600/auth.htm
calls this a "first-party" type.
Len Rugen
University of Missouri
Division of Information Technology
Would the cloud tape connector work?
https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS216-052
Len Rugen
Metrics and Automation – umdoitmetr...@missouri.edu
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I think I still suffer OOD (Object Oriented Disorder) :-) However, a few
weeks ago I managed to write a Python program to report on a data structure
accessed by an OO api that was a fit to using recursion.
Then I had to try to explain the magic of the html indention...
Len Rugen
Metrics
The modernsystems one looks like it might not be an objective opinion, they
seem to sell that as a service :-)
Len Rugen
Metrics and Automation – umdoitmetr...@missouri.edu
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I remember running OS/VS1 under VM/SP. I seem to remember that we had to
install an earlier VM, then add the "SP" feature on top of that.
OS/VS1 did run pretty good under VM. I remember coding diagnose instructions
in JES exits to spool and tag output for RSCS. I also remember the "pseudo
We had a vendor of a product to lookup error message codes try to jump our
price years ago. Internet search engines were just becoming useful and IBM was
putting manuals online, so we told the vendor we would renew for a reasonable
increase, or cancel if they wouldn't accept that. They didn't,
I've had the opposite complaint, after pushing each task to where I was waiting
on something, I was leaving the office about 3 PM one day and ran into the VP.
He questioned why I was leaving when others had to stay to all hours of the
night to get their work done. I said something like "I'm so
My first experience was with an IBM 2560 on a 370/125.
The IBM 2560 Multi-Function Card Machine (MFCM) provides the System/360 Model
20 with a unique and versatile input/output capability. It combines the
facilities of a card reader, card punch, collator, interpreter, and card
document printe
I've been off IMS for too long, but it may be something in Recovery Control.
Len Rugen
Metrics and Automation - umdoitmetr...@missouri.edu
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I had to explain the "HAL" name in 2001 A Space Odyssey, legend says it was a
one-letter shift from IBM, but that was denied by the writers :-)
We're so old the young generation can't even appreciate our fiction :-)
Len Rugen
University of Missouri
Division of Information Technology
Systems &
So last of PSW is x'0088"?
For reason code X'00', check the value specified in the LOAD parameter. If it
is incorrect, use the correct value and reIPL. If it is correct, notify the
system programmer that the LOADxx member is missing from SYSn.IPLPARM on the
IODF volume or SYS1.PARMLIB on t
What? There is more to security than chmod 777?
Len Rugen
University of Missouri
Division of Information Technology
Systems & Operations - Metrics & Automation Team
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Clem Clarke
Sent: Saturday, December 24, 20
Is it a database on the SAN? Doesn't M$SQL support compression?
Len Rugen
Metrics and Automation – umdoitmetr...@missouri.edu
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I haven't touched COBOL since I supported CICS. I did use it for some fairly
trivial CICS applications instead of Assembler, but after using less COBOL and
more Assembler, I rarely started anything new in Cobol.
I remember generating shear horror in a manager one time, a long time ago. We
ha
At a minimum, I think an IT auditor would require a method of joining who owns
one of these id's when, so the mainframe logs (and any other system) can know
the real "who" did something. What about long running tasks? Can I start a
session that outlives my lease on the ID? I bet my task lives
Looks like it.
Len Rugen
University of Missouri
Division of Information Technology
Systems & Operations - Metrics & Automation Team
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George Rodriguez [george.rodrig...@palmbeachsc
'm approaching 60
and want to know what my options are.
Thanks!
BobL
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I've contemplated retiring from my current post-mainframe job sometime if I
could find a fitting at least mostly remote job. Another option would be short
term contracts and living the RV life :-)
I wonder how long my mainframe knowledge will be marketable, how may year away
is too long?
Legacy, how did you pronounce MVS, MVS/SP, MVS/ESA and OS/390? I never heard
"emmvees eisa" :-)
Just commeting for kicks (A CICS joke)
Len Rugen
Metrics and Automation – umdoitmetr...@missouri.edu
Myth: If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It, but if you have data, it’s
not che
I think auditors must have an annual convention and decide what to add to their
checklist at some SCIDS equivalent.
Len Rugen
Metrics and Automation – umdoitmetr...@missouri.edu
Myth: If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It, but if you have data, it’s
not cheating to use it.
-Orig
I worked where IBM's Information Center was installed, it was a CMS product
written in APL.
I had to "fix" something, creating an array "yourboat" just so I could it :-)
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Look at the TS part of
https://share.confex.com/share/116/webprogram/Handout/Session8269/SHARE%20Anaheim%20CICS%20Performance%20Tutorial%20-%20Other%20Tuning%20Areas%2002102011.pdf
It's been several years, but I had an installation where TS was heavily used.
It had used MAIN storage, but as the
accessing your
TSO via native VTAM?
On 1 June 2016 at 17:52, Rugen, Len wrote:
> I've seen similar problems where some point along the path fumbles
> max-MTU sized packets.
>
> You can test this by setting the MTU on the PC initiating the TSO
> session to something smaller,
I've seen similar problems where some point along the path fumbles max-MTU
sized packets.
You can test this by setting the MTU on the PC initiating the TSO session to
something smaller, try 1200, it's usually just a small amount smaller size MTU
that works.
3270 screen sessions will work as
The real odd balls, 3340, 3344, 3370 & 3375's :-)
3340's had the coolest looking removable disk assembly.
I suspected that the 3344 was a code-hacked 3350, it just carved 4 70Mb disks
out of the larger physical disk.
Len Rugen
University of Missouri
Division of Information Technology
Systems
I've remembered a little more about session hang and MTU size. 1500 is
supposed to work everywhere, however there are some things in the past that
just didn't work with 1500, and the symptom was that things just quietly hung.
Some times it would even paint part of the screen and hang. Changin
Check MTU sizes. It's been so long ago, I don't remember why.
Len Rugen
University of Missouri
Division of Information Technology
Systems & Operations - Metrics & Automation Team
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I seem to remember adding a process to re-init tapes at scratch so they would
free VTL space.
Len Rugen
University of Missouri
Division of Information Technology
Systems & Operations - Metrics & Automation Team
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I spent too much time in MXG, I always look at the SMF record types first :-)
I also spent enough time looking for "the bad guy" that I sometimes think like
one. When TSO accounts were available to nearly anyone in a University
environment, even with idle time enforcement, some users would ta
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_1.13.0/com.ibm.zos.r13.icha300/type80fmt.htm%23type80fmt
Probably code 0
watch for long running sessions that started before the date in question
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I know my feet about froze when I had a desk on raised floor :-)
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While not an
I'd say it depends on your workload :-)
If you are doing I/O that could be avoided with more buffers, it would be used.
Sort might be able to use it, if you sort much.
I once did amazing things increasing CICS temp storage buffers :-)
Len Rugen
University of Missouri
Division of Informati
Here's the obligatory vendor plug, see mxg.com, at least if you have the SAS
software available. I used it to consolidate SMF, RACF, CA-1 and many other
information for research and reporting.
At least before we killed the mainframe and went back to reproducing the
problems from the 1980's i
I ran OS/VS1 on a 4341 and later I think on a 4381. We also ran VM, OS/VS1 had
a VM "Assist" mode where it didn't page, but let VM page for it. I think
OS/VS1 ran JES, just JES, no 2 or 3 after it, but it looked a lot like JES2.
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