Re: z/OS 2.2 documentation

2020-07-17 Thread Allan Staller
Not the KC, the PDFs of the manuals. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2020 6:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS 2.2 documentation [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you

Re: z/OS 2.2 documentation

2020-07-17 Thread Allan Staller
Exactly! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2020 7:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS 2.2 documentation [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust the sender, Don’t clic

Re: kc4z. I built it, will they come?

2020-07-17 Thread Dana Mitchell
+-On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 12:50:48 -0500, Susan Shumway wrote: > >While I have you, note that we're soon changing how we deliver z/OS KC4z >plug-ins. You'll obtain them nice and easy through FTP instead of >Softcopy Librarian. Watch for at least a Flash about it. > >Yours truly, >Sue Shumway > This p

Re: kc4z. I built it, will they come?

2020-07-17 Thread Dana Mitchell
On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 07:59:09 -0500, Dana Mitchell wrote: > >This post is over 2 years old, did anything ever happen with this? I'd like >to download the z/OS 2.4 kc content to deploy on 2.2 kc while I start on 2.4 >but I can't find it to download. >Dana > Please disregard, I found it at htt

Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-17 Thread Barkow, Eileen
For those not aware of this IBM has been offering free web COBOL classes and have been getting hundreds of people in attendance, many of whom are new mainframe programmers. They are also offering a free class on the IDZ/Data Studio products (ECLIPSE based products for Cobol, SQL and other lan

Re: Using NTP

2020-07-17 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Gadi, In order for your z/OS lpars to stay in line with the NTP servers time, you will need to change your CLOCKxx member to look like this: OPERATOR NOPROMPT STPZONE YES STPMODE YES TIMEDELTA 10 An IPL will be required to put this into effect. Peter -

Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-17 Thread Clark Morris
[Default] On 16 Jul 2020 20:01:25 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main wayn...@gmail.com (Wayne Bickerdike) wrote: >COBOL fails at MOVE. It's a COPY. Maybe they should have said REPLICATE, >since COPY was already taken. So, not good English. I agree. COPY should have been INCLUDE and MOVE should have

COBOL at Virtual Share

2020-07-17 Thread Clark Morris
If I join the virtual SHARE I would like to set up a BOF to discuss the new Binary usages (they would obviate truncation problems and picture usage discrepancy), Boolean capabilities (bit manipulation and testing), IEEE floating point usages and new decimal rounding operations such as round half to

SMF records

2020-07-17 Thread TenEyck, Peter
A general question; from a security and auditing perspective, is there a best practices or recommendation of what SMF records and sub types should be created? //* Peter Ten Eyck //* Senior Systems Programmer //* American National // American National is the bran

Re: SMF records

2020-07-17 Thread kekronbekron
Hi Peter, a) enabling as many subtypes in 119 b) check out near real-time monitoring for z/OS CS - https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4.halx001/inttcp.htm c) doing whatever's required (sorry I don't know the specifics off the top of my head) to make RACF w

Java memory limit

2020-07-17 Thread Peter
Hello We are running IBM RDZ on zOS 2.3 with java 6. What's the maximum memory limit for java ? Is it based on Java version or zOS version ? Peter -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Java memory limit

2020-07-17 Thread Lizette Koehler
I think the answer is it depends. How much memory is available - as I recall JAVA can take it all In OMVS - Ua -limit core file 8192b cpu time 85835 data size unlimited file size unlimited stack size unlimited file descriptors 64000 address space 1657832k memory above bar 2048m from MV

Re: Java memory limit

2020-07-17 Thread Lizette Koehler
Fixed formatting D OMVS,LIMIT OMVS 0011 ACTIVE OMVS=(00) SYSTEM WIDE LIMITS: LIMMSG=NONE CURRENT HIGHWATER SYSTEM USAGE USAGE LIMIT MAXPROCSYS 200 259 2100 MAXUIDS 26 31 500 MAXPTYS 0 1 800 MAXMMAPAREA 8428 8428 40960 MAXSHAREPAGES 47918 254576 32768000 IPCMSGNIDS 17 20 50

Re: EXTERNAL EMAIL: Re: Java memory limit

2020-07-17 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
You may want to look at your Java memory settings and defaults. For example in my .profile for OMVS I have the following statements export IBM_JAVA_OPTIONS=-Xms8m export IBM_JAVA_OPTIONS="-Xmx96m "$IBM_JAVA_OPTIONS export IJO=-Xms8m export IJO="-Xmx96m "$IJO Jerry Whitteridge jerry.whitteri...

Re: EXTERNAL EMAIL: Re: Java memory limit

2020-07-17 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
The formatting didn’t come out right Each export starts a new line export IBM_JAVA_OPTIONS=-Xms8m export IBM_JAVA_OPTIONS="-Xmx96m "$IBM_JAVA_OPTIONS export IJO=-Xms8m export IJO="-Xmx96m "$IJO" Jerry Whitteridge jerry.whitteri...@albertsons.com Manager Mainframe Systems & HP Non-Stop Albertso

Re: Web enabled ISPF Application

2020-07-17 Thread Salva Carrasco
Lionel, we have some ISPF rexx Web enabled using ISPF Gateway. Apache + cgi rexx + ispf gtw + ispf rexx 1. Logon usr/pwd/tls done by Apache IHS 2. No screen conversion: if native then ispexec display else return html data. 3. cgi rexx parse & call gtw 4. one shoot run. If you need persistent dat

Transport of choice for sending data to IBM's ECuRep

2020-07-17 Thread Ed Jaffe
With IBM threatening to discontinue plain FTP next Monday, I'm wondering what is the transport of choice for sending data to ECuRep? -- Phoenix Software International Edward E. Jaffe 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 https://www.phoenixsoftware.com/

Re: Transport of choice for sending data to IBM's ECuRep

2020-07-17 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Hi Ed, for my site, we are required to use IBM Blue Diamond (SFTP) site, I think most government sites are required to use this transport, it may be available to the GP, I'm not sure, but it works very well for us. Carmen Vitullo - Original Message - From: "Ed Jaffe" To: IBM-MAIN

Re: Transport of choice for sending data to IBM's ECuRep

2020-07-17 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 7/17/2020 11:12 AM, Carmen Vitullo wrote: Hi Ed, for my site, we are required to use IBM Blue Diamond (SFTP) site, I think most government sites are required to use this transport, it may be available to the GP, I'm not sure, but it works very well for us. Carmen, SFTP is great for manual

Re: EXTERNAL EMAIL: Re: Transport of choice for sending data to IBM's ECuRep

2020-07-17 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
Ed Given your options that you mentioned I'd first look at using Curl in a batch job probably first trying HTTPS (seems that that is what most Corporate firewalls allow through with the least restrictions). Corporate Firewalls seem to abhor any protocol that has the letters F T and P anywhere i

Re: Transport of choice for sending data to IBM's ECuRep

2020-07-17 Thread Carmen Vitullo
unfortunately Ed, Blue Diamond is a GUI only, a browser interface, I still have to TERSE and move the data to my PC before I use this interface. when I get a dump or have to send IBM logs or such, it's a process, and one I've had to deal with since we are no longer allowed any ftp or sftp access

Re: EXTERNAL EMAIL: Re: Transport of choice for sending data to IBM's ECuRep

2020-07-17 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 7/17/2020 11:30 AM, Jerry Whitteridge wrote: Ed Given your options that you mentioned I'd first look at using Curl in a batch job probably first trying HTTPS (seems that that is what most Corporate firewalls allow through with the least restrictions). Corporate Firewalls seem to abhor any

Re: EXTERNAL EMAIL: Re: Transport of choice for sending data to IBM's ECuRep

2020-07-17 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
Actually - I'm back at Albertsons/Safeway having been hit in the May IBM RA so only one site. Before we went to IBM we were using curl internally between the mainframe and a number of Linux servers as it was a common protocol on both platforms (sftp didn’t work for us as it was omvs only). I've

Re: Transport of choice for sending data to IBM's ECuRep

2020-07-17 Thread Roger Lowe
On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 11:05:49 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote: >With IBM threatening to discontinue plain FTP next Monday, I'm wondering >what is the transport of choice for sending data to ECuRep? > Ed, We use PDUU with HTTPS and it works very well - it was introduced with zOS 2.4 but I think OA559

Re: Two Processors and One IODF

2020-07-17 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 12:16:37 +0200, R.S. wrote: >I hate new names of PPRC and XRC (and PPRC-XD), but... But one should >know there are new features. New features with new names, but no old >name exist for them. > >There are still PPRC, XRC, PPRC-XD, but there is also some kind of "XRC >without z/

Re: Transport of choice for sending data to IBM's ECuRep

2020-07-17 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
IBM has been threatening to disallow plain FTP for several years. We cannot use FTPS here because of an appliance (Bluecoat) that we rely on to punch through the internet firewall. Bluecoat does not understand FTPS syntax. Eventually IBM offered HTTPS as an FTP alternative, which we're fine with

Re: Transport of choice for sending data to IBM's ECuRep

2020-07-17 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 7/17/2020 1:53 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: IBM has been threatening to disallow plain FTP for several years. We cannot use FTPS here because of an appliance (Bluecoat) that we rely on to punch through the internet firewall. Bluecoat does not understand FTPS syntax. Eventually IBM offered HT

Re: Transport of choice for sending data to IBM's ECuRep

2020-07-17 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 7/17/2020 11:39 AM, Carmen Vitullo wrote: unfortunately Ed, Blue Diamond is a GUI only, a browser interface, I still have to TERSE and move the data to my PC before I use this interface. when I get a dump or have to send IBM logs or such, it's a process, and one I've had to deal with since w

Re: Transport of choice for sending data to IBM's ECuRep

2020-07-17 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
Can I ask why you guys are (apparently) so averse to the PDUU/HTTPS solution? . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: Java memory limit

2020-07-17 Thread Ken Smith
IIRC, Z/OS address space constraints may come into play: MEMLIMIT, in JCL, or system via SMFPRMXX “is the limit on the use of virtual storage above 2 gigabytes for a single address space“ Your site’s SMF exits, IEFUSI and the like, can (silently) muck things up. Ken On Fri, Jul 17, 2020at 12:59

Re: Transport of choice for sending data to IBM's ECuRep

2020-07-17 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 7/17/2020 2:27 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: Can I ask why you guys are (apparently) so averse to the PDUU/HTTPS solution? If you look at IBM's Blue Diamond site information, it states that it is for customers requiring "special handling" of data. -- Phoenix Software International Edward E.

Where does FTP server F DEBUG= write its data?

2020-07-17 Thread Charles Mills
If I issue the command F ftpserver,DEBUG=JES where does the trace output go? Thanks, Charles -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MA

Re: Where does FTP server F DEBUG= write its data?

2020-07-17 Thread Charles Mills
Anyone? The 'JES' is not significant to the question. Could be DEBUG=CMD or ACC. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Friday, July 17, 2020 3:26 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Where doe

Re: Where does FTP server F DEBUG= write its data?

2020-07-17 Thread Gibney, Dave
Mine goes to syslogd. When syslogd wasn't configured, it landed in he console log > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Charles Mills > Sent: Friday, July 17, 2020 8:21 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Where does FTP server F DEBUG= wri

Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-17 Thread Bob Bridges
I thought most of the article was excellent. She did miss the one point we discussed, though, that the parts of the systems that were being overloaded were ~not~ the parts driven by COBOL and running on the mainframe, but the newer and more fashionable segments of the systems. Good article ove

Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-17 Thread Bob Bridges
Am I missing something obvious, here? In what computer language(s) is a move not actually a copy? And how? --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before...