Re: Can you update WLM via a batch program?

2019-09-17 Thread Sean Gleann
Having been in the same position as Jim, I asked practically the same question here, a couple of years back. Then, the basic answer was 'No', so I was highly pleased to see that some sort of progress had been made on this. I should have known better. IWMINSTL is a great starting point, but it's inp

Ip printway configuration PCOMM screen

2019-09-17 Thread Jake Anderson
Hi , This is about IP printway When I connect to port 524 of printway I get a screen saying connection status, host name , host type , printer , PDT file, CPI/LPI and best-fit scaling. Is this screen part of PCOMM print driver or IP printway printer driver ? Regards Jake -

Re: Can you update WLM via a batch program?

2019-09-17 Thread Sean Gleann
Correction - the input is *probably* not ISPF tables (having cross-checked with other ISPTLIBs that I have available). Nevertheless, they are 'encoded' - not straight text... Sean On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 at 08:06, Sean Gleann wrote: > Having been in the same position as Jim, I asked practically the

Re: Can you update WLM via a batch program?

2019-09-17 Thread Martin Packer
XML perchance? If so there’s a lot one could do with that... :-) ... If the plane I was about to get on didn’t see me with my elbows (and knees) up round my ears I’d rustle up a proof of concept. :-) Cheers, Martin Sent from my iPad > On 17 Sep 2019, at 08:57, Sean Gleann wrote: > > Correcti

Re: Can you update WLM via a batch program?

2019-09-17 Thread Sean Gleann
I don't think so, Martin - but I'm not an XML expert by any means. If I examine any of the members in the PDS that is used for input to IWMINSTL, I don't see any of the & 'tag' pairs that I'd expect to see. The names of the members are the same as for the results of saving an existing WLM policy

Re: Can you update WLM via a batch program?

2019-09-17 Thread Martin Packer
Thanks! But I believe you can load WLM XML into the app - and also into z/OSMF. (Yes, I'll admit I only ever parse the XML (with PHP) - having fixed up some breakage. But the point of unloading is reloading.) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer zChampion, Systems Investigator & Performance Troublesh

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Can you update WLM via a batch program?

2019-09-17 Thread Horne, Jim - James S
Martin, The policy is indeed in XML, FB 80 with a block size of 27920 (not that block size should matter). Looking at the raw data, it looks to continue to the next line at 80 bites so I believe there are no carriage returns or line feeds anywhere - but I don't know XML, and I need to not just

Re: Can you update WLM via a batch program?

2019-09-17 Thread Scott Chapman
On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:53:35 +0100, Martin Packer wrote: >Thanks! > >But I believe you can load WLM XML into the app - and also into z/OSMF. > >(Yes, I'll admit I only ever parse the XML (with PHP) - having fixed up >some breakage. But the point of unloading is reloading.) Yes, the extracted X

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Can you update WLM via a batch program?

2019-09-17 Thread Martin Packer
Right. In Sublime Text I delete the newline chars that appear to get added. Then my PHP thinks this is valid XML. I do note two things: As was said by Scott, one can't count on this format. Getting it back into valid 80-byte might be tough. (The round trip through valid XML is necessary if a g

Re: LPA - IPL or dynamic

2019-09-17 Thread Peter Relson
I have seen few vendors suggesting an IPL as requisite if you are doing the product install for first time and If it's upgrade then it's not required. I am ignorant here. How does this makes a difference ? Why a dynamic update won't work if it's a first install ? I do not think that the respo

Control block values that exempt 522 Timeouts

2019-09-17 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Hi, I understand that address spaces can be made exempt from 522 timeouts if there is a particular value in one of three control blocks. If I have it correct they are: 1) The JSTL is 86400 seconds (Comes from TIME=1440 on Job card?) 2) The ASCBTOFF bit in the ASCBRCTF is set

C headers in z/OS 2.4

2019-09-17 Thread Peter Relson
You might have seen mention in the announce that z/OS 2.4 is shipping more C headers. The eventual goal is to do the mappings in SYS1.MACLIB and many in SYS1.MODGEN, particularly the ones that have programming interfaces. z/OS 2.4 starts small, concentrating on the SMF records that the z/OS core

Re: C headers in z/OS 2.4

2019-09-17 Thread scott Ford
Peter, A big thx, well done IBM. Scott On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 9:21 AM Peter Relson wrote: > You might have seen mention in the announce that z/OS 2.4 is shipping more > C headers. > > The eventual goal is to do the mappings in SYS1.MACLIB and many in > SYS1.MODGEN, particularly the ones that

Re: C headers in z/OS 2.4

2019-09-17 Thread Charles Mills
Thank you @Peter for spearheading this. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Peter Relson Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 2:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: C headers in z/OS 2.4 You might have seen me

Re: C headers in z/OS 2.4

2019-09-17 Thread David Crayford
Agreed! Good job Peter and it's great to see that it made it into the file system :) On 2019-09-17 10:09 PM, Charles Mills wrote: Thank you @Peter for spearheading this. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Pete

Re: C headers in z/OS 2.4

2019-09-17 Thread Gord Tomlin
Thanks Peter! Quality stuff! -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: https://actionsoftware.com/support/ -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Control block values that exempt 522 Timeouts

2019-09-17 Thread Mike Schwab
Well, if that represents 24 hours then 2555 is 1 second. On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 8:09 AM Lindy Mayfield wrote: > > Hi, > > I understand that address spaces can be made exempt from 522 timeouts if > there is a particular value in one of three control blocks. If I have it > correct they are: > >

Re: C headers in z/OS 2.4

2019-09-17 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Peter Relson has given me permission to post a question I asked him privately and his answer to that question. Q: Will IBM make its tool chain for converting DSECT's to C headers available to customers? That would be a very welcome enhancement, especially if it is made part of the base system,

Re: C headers in z/OS 2.4

2019-09-17 Thread Seymour J Metz
I'd rather have PL/I headers. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Peter Relson Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 9:20 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: C headers in z/OS 2.4

Re: C headers in z/OS 2.4

2019-09-17 Thread John McKown
On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 11:16 AM Seymour J Metz wrote: > I'd rather have PL/I headers. > Me too. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruct

Re: C headers in z/OS 2.4

2019-09-17 Thread Charles Mills
The IBM C/C++ compiler ships with an assembler DSECT to C header conversion tool. Someone could readily write a similar tool for PL/I.CharlesSent from a mobile; please excuse the brevity. Original message From: John McKown Date: 9/17/19 5:29 PM (GMT+00:00) To: IBM-MAIN@LISTS

Re: C headers in z/OS 2.4

2019-09-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 16:16:31 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >I'd rather have PL/I headers. > Many macros contain PL/S alternatives. Are these PL/I compatible? From: Peter Relson Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 9:20 AM >The eventual goal is to do the mapp

Re: C headers in z/OS 2.4

2019-09-17 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
WRT your first question, I would say "somewhat compatible". There are enough similarities to make rough translations possible, EXCEPT that many macros only have this kind of PL/S expansion published: (From DCBD macro in SYS1.MACLIB): **/%DCBD: MACRO KEYS(DATASET_ORG,DEVICE_TYPE,BASED_VALUE);

Re: C headers in z/OS 2.4

2019-09-17 Thread Seymour J Metz
PL/S has several extensions, so while most of the declare statements would map over easily, some would be more difficult. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <000

Re: Considering Bypassing ERROR HOLD for OA58037

2019-09-17 Thread Gibney, Dave
Well, I do run VPS/TCPIP Key Product Name --- 012 DRS 001 VPS 004 VPS/PCL 002 VPS/TCPIP z/OS 2.1 at RSU1903 (RSU1908 included in the set that could come on with the error bypass. We don't have many printers, but they are all TCP/IP network attached. So

Re: Considering Bypassing ERROR HOLD for OA58037

2019-09-17 Thread Allan Staller
That is a LONG*** pe chain to restore/re-apply -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 1:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Considering Bypassing ERROR HOLD for OA58037 Well, I do run VPS/TCPIP K

DAE Mystery

2019-09-17 Thread Mark Jacobs
I manually stopped DAE on all systems so someone could remove an entry from the shared DAE dataset. Shortly thereafter it started itself, and I can't figure out how or who/what did it. 14:31:35.18 *ROUTEOD 0290 T DAE=01 0290 IEE252I MEMBER ADYSET01 FOUND IN SYS1.DEVL.PARMLIB

Re: Considering Bypassing ERROR HOLD for OA58037

2019-09-17 Thread Gibney, Dave
Thank you, and also Dave Jousma who sent similar (same?) code privately. I suspect my MXG level (V2929) needs some updating before I can run it. I ordered 37.06 yesterday. Will install (or use the tricks to run mixed levels) today. I may try the techniques to run directly off of SMF and build

Re: Considering Bypassing ERROR HOLD for OA58037

2019-09-17 Thread Jousma, David
I'm getting confused by this thread. I thought I recalled you had said the PTF you were bypassing was for S16E? All of those DEB Check PTF's are in support of the changes needed for OSPROTECT. And yes, we ran into the S16E issue on certain application datasets, only in a blue moon. Eventua

Re: Considering Bypassing ERROR HOLD for OA58037

2019-09-17 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:00:04 +, Jousma, David wrote: >I suspect you won't have much luck backing these PTF's off because they reach >out and touch a lot of different modules. The only real option would be if >you have a known complete backup of the entire SMPE environment *before* the >a

Re: Considering Bypassing ERROR HOLD for OA58037

2019-09-17 Thread Allan Staller
Incidentally, we do have UA95897 applied for over a year now, and have not run into the scenario that OA58037 describes. Seems like a pretty small window of problem, and even then, it was on a task/job that was being cancelled to begin with. I'd probably open ticket with IBM on that APAR, an

Re: Considering Bypassing ERROR HOLD for OA58037

2019-09-17 Thread Gibney, Dave
First, I consider many things. That doesn't mean I will ultimately decide to do them. If I consider further, I will of course start with RESTORE CHECK and evaluate the complexity, etc. Second, I ran ACCEPT for everything that would accept clean before I started this path. Applied all that was R

Re: Considering Bypassing ERROR HOLD for OA58037

2019-09-17 Thread Gibney, Dave
The only reason I considered the bypass was because the PE chain was preventing the APPLY of the PTFs to aid detecting and migrating from USERCSA. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Jousma, David > Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 12:00 PM > To: IB

Re: DAE Mystery

2019-09-17 Thread Mike Schwab
Automatic restart in your WLM? On Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 13:48 Mark Jacobs < 0224d287a4b1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > I manually stopped DAE on all systems so someone could remove an entry > from the shared DAE dataset. Shortly thereafter it started itself, and I > can't figure out ho

Question on LDAPSRV running on z/OS

2019-09-17 Thread Pommier, Rex
Cross-posted from RACF list because I'm getting desperate. Hello list, I hope this is the right place for this. We're using LDAPSRV running on z/OS 2.2 to take login requests from a browser front-end and authenticate them against RACF. We just implemented mixed case passwords last night and i

I see a need for general conversion of mappings was Re: C headers in z/OS 2.4

2019-09-17 Thread Clark Morris
[Default] On 17 Sep 2019 06:20:49 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main rel...@us.ibm.com (Peter Relson) wrote: >You might have seen mention in the announce that z/OS 2.4 is shipping more >C headers. > >The eventual goal is to do the mappings in SYS1.MACLIB and many in >SYS1.MODGEN, particularly the o

Re: C headers in z/OS 2.4

2019-09-17 Thread David Crayford
On 2019-09-18 12:16 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: I'd rather have PL/I headers. I don't think IBM could justify doing any work for PL/I because there isn't a compelling requirement from customers or vendors to use PL/I for systems level code. On the other hand, Metal/C is taking off very quickly

Re: Considering Bypassing ERROR HOLD for OA58037

2019-09-17 Thread Bruce Hewson
Hello Dave, yes you do need a newer level of MXG:- Change 36.188 Support for new Bit 4 of SMF30_RAXFLAGS and creation of BUILD005 these new bit-level variables with explanation in label BUIL3005 SMF30_RAXFLAG0='RAX0*USERKEY*COMMON*AUDIT*ENABLED?' VMAC30 SMF30_R