Re: ZOA Open Automation Utilities (& Ansible News)

Paul Gilmartin wrote: >The Installation and Configuration at: >https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSKFYE_1.0.1/install.html >... mentions "a USS directory". What does it use Unformatted System >Services for? Does someone need to submit an RCF? That'd be nice. I think it should read: "a z

Re: ZOA Open Automation Utilities

haha! I had a feeling you would not be impressed! From looking at the Java code it seems to be the same infrastructure used in the IBM Dependency Based Build product. On 2020-02-20 3:07 AM, Kirk Wolf wrote: Hey David, Where can I see the interesting stuff? "Shell commands reference" doesn't

Re: Rolling Z/OS migration

Excellent suggestions. I would add that many organizations seem to have one or more "hardware" people who are supposed to look after the driver (firmware) updates, Coupling Facility configurations and levels (including memory requirements), and Server Time Protocol configurations, as examples.

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Re: ZOA Open Automation Utilities

That's not it; it took me a couple of minutes to find the actual man pages. Looks useful to me for doing a wide variety of basic things, although not very deep. On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 4:16 AM David Crayford wrote: > haha! I had a feeling you would not be impressed! > > From looking at the Jav

Re: Help with CA Software renewal - Resolution

Thanks to everyone that gave me information. We are now in contact with our sales rep. Tony Thigpen Tony Thigpen wrote on 2/18/20 5:10 PM: We are having all kinds of problems trying to get a price to renew our CA software. A couple of times now, we have been given a person to contact, but the

Re: ZOA Open Automation Utilities

Seems quite simple to implement?  BPXWDYN wrapper for dynamic data set allocation and a fetch()->call to the utility program.? On 2020-02-20 10:44 PM, Kirk Wolf wrote: That's not it; it took me a couple of minutes to find the actual man pages. Looks useful to me for doing a wide variety of bas

Re: How to test SUBSYS=

Has anyone been able to actually view file 364 ?I was able to down load and extract the file, but I cant read it ? -- Original Message -- From: Steve Smith To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How to test SUBSYS= Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 23:31:08 -0500 There's also the "Contr

Re: How to test SUBSYS=

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 11:03 AM esst...@juno.com wrote: > Has anyone been able to actually view file 364 ?I was able to down load > and extract the file, but I cant read it ? > > It is a binary XMIT file. You need to upload it to z/OS in BINary mode into a RECFM=FB,LRECL=80 data set, then do a T

Re: DFHSM APIs in a multi-vendor world

On 2/19/2020 2:25 PM, Kirk Wolf wrote: I'm asking this from the point of view of an architect who wants to add DFHSM-ish integration to a ISV product. If I were only worried about DFHSM, my requirements for basic integration are pretty simple, and would be these: - VOL=SER=MIGRAT means migrate

Re: How to test SUBSYS=

I was able to DL it and extract the XMI and view it with XMIT Manager V3 (also available on the CBTTAPPE website) without any problem. Did you transmit the XMI file to your z/OS system in binary and then RECEIVE it to a PDS? Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: ZOA Open Automation Utilities

Exactly. More work is required to handle codepages, different line terminator models, truncation/wrapping/padding, etc, etc. https://dovetail.com/docs/dspipes/dsp-ref_todsn.html On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 10:10 AM David Crayford wrote: > Seems quite simple to implement? BPXWDYN wrapper for dyna

Re: How to test SUBSYS=

Thanks all (including someone in POK -- you know who you are -- thank you for the background on SUBSYS). I am regrouping. I have gotten the customer to agree to a de-prioritizing of the problem, so it may be a little while before I tackle this. I think I understand what is happening. Between my

Glossary (was: ZOA ... Ansible)

On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 16:24:33 +0800, Timothy Sipples wrote: >Paul Gilmartin wrote: >>The Installation and Configuration at: >>https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSKFYE_1.0.1/install.html >>... mentions "a USS directory". What does it use Unformatted System >>Services for? Does someone nee

Re: DFHSM APIs in a multi-vendor world

That's what I feared. I could deal with some configuration of the pseudo-volser, but our product doesn't run under TSO, so a "command" interface isn't convenient.I was hoping that somehow these products worked with application code written to the DFHSM macros. ARCHDEL is the most important.

Re: How to test SUBSYS=

On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 11:10:19 -0600, John McKown wrote: >On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 11:03 AM essteam wrote: > >> Has anyone been able to actually view file 364 ?I was able to down load >> and extract the file, but I cant read it ? >> >It is a binary XMIT file. You need to upload it to z/OS in BINary m

Re: z15 System Recover Boost

I'm not sure exactly what a "tech LPAR" is, but if you have an LPAR for which you don't want the boost at all, you can use the BOOST system parameter to indicate not to boost. And if you want to end the IPL boost early, as Marna mentioned, for whatever reason, the IEABE ("BE" stands for "Boost

Re: How to test SUBSYS=

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 12:34 PM Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 11:10:19 -0600, John McKown wrote: > > >On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 11:03 AM essteam wrote: > > > >> Has anyone been able to actually view file 364 ?I was able to down load >

Re: How to test SUBSYS=

On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 13:43:29 -0600, John McKown wrote: >... >> RECEIVE can deal with an allocated UNIX file. >> No need to "upload" if you fetch with "curl". > >Good point. I was going with the "old fashioned" way of bring up the >CBTTAPE.ORG web site, finding the file I want, clicking on it to

Cell Pool Services CSRC4EXP

The documentation for cell pool services the anchor and extent can reside in one address space while the actual storage in other address space and I guess than the ALET parm would specify what address space/data space the anchor/extent reside If however the Cell pool storage as well reside

Re: DFHSM APIs in a multi-vendor world

On 2020-02-20 13:34, Kirk Wolf wrote: I was hoping that somehow these products worked with application code written to the DFHSM macros. Unfortunately, there's nothing in this space analogous to RACROUTE for security products. If there was, it would probably be paywalled in the DFSMS ACG. Y

Larry Tesler Cut, Copy, Paste RIP from Computer World

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Re: Larry Tesler Cut, Copy, Paste RIP from Computer World

I read a bit about him today, and I don't fully understand the software "modes" that he was apparently against. My guess is they are talking about the confusion I went through in my first BASIC college class, where the terminal started with a dot as a prompt. You type BASIC and the dot goes a

Re: Glossary (was: ZOA ... Ansible)

Paul Gilmartin wrote: >Yes, but zFS is too specific, and at risk of change. Change cuts both/all ways. There's now at least one base z/OS component that uses zFS nontrivially (and requires it) that isn't z/OS UNIX System Services. How about something like this: "...a zFS or other z/OS UNIX comp