Re: Minor disaster

2022-09-28 Thread Allan Staller
cussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Allan Staller [0387911dea17-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 10:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Minor disaster Classification: Confidential The PDS command from the CBTTAPE should be able to recov

Re: HYCD or IOCP

2022-10-13 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential NO CF structure required. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2022 7:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: HYCD or IOCP [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organizatio

Re: HYCD or IOCP

2022-10-13 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Shared + AUTOSWITCH -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2022 8:07 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: HYCD or IOCP [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unl

Re: TSO XMIT BLKSIZE

2022-10-25 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential There is a common usermod for this. Check the CBTTAPE HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Steve Thompson Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 7:49 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: TSO XMIT BLKSIZE [CAUTION: This Ema

Re: Limiting quantity of tape drives used by user

2022-11-07 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Option A - Thruput Manager (not recommended. $) Option B - Mangle the fingers -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Dave Jousma Sent: Monday, November 7, 2022 12:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Limiting quant

Re: IEBGENER and JES System Symbol

2022-11-11 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Syssym=allow in jesparms? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Sasso, Len Sent: Friday, November 11, 2022 12:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: IEBGENER and JES System Symbol [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the O

Re: IEBGENER and JES System Symbol

2022-11-14 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential SYSSYM=ALLOW in JES JOBCLASS DEF? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Wendell Lovewell Sent: Monday, November 14, 2022 10:08 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IEBGENER and JES System Symbol [CAUTION: This Email is

Re: To share or not to share DASD

2022-11-28 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential I would share devices at the physical level (all devices can be brought online to any LPAR) I would not share those devices at the logical level (all devices are offline where not normally used). HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Split JES2 MAS

2022-12-08 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Rather than split the spool, (no cold start required IIRC, it might be more prudent to limit the amount of output a job can create. Look up $ESTLNCT(?) in the JES2 manual; Set an appropriate Count and specify option 2. When the job exceeds the defined limit (more

Re: VolCat - Reallocate ?

2024-01-16 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential You might need to add RMM to the tasks to be started/stopped. Not sure if CA-1 uses the volcat as well. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shaffer, Terri Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2024 11:31 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: ADRDSSU COMPRESS and enq

2024-01-19 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Rename the "copy" prior to attempting compress. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Radoslaw Skorupka Sent: Friday, January 19, 2024 6:27 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: ADRDSSU COMPRESS and enq [CAUTION: This Email

Re: ADRDSSU COMPRESS and enq

2024-01-19 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential 1 copy w/ADRDSSU) TOLENQFAILURE and RENUNC Or Allocate new; copy from original w/IEBCOPY 3) test -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Radoslaw Skorupka Sent: Friday, January 19, 2024 8:18 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject

Re: How can I keep JES2 from being SYSPLEXed?

2024-01-22 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Provide separate JES CKPT and Spool datasets for each "JESPLEX". You will also need separate NODES for NJE, lines, . You might also look at JES Checkpoint auto-tuning. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Wendell Lo

Re: Masking SMF data internally

2024-01-22 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Use Fiale-Aid or File Manager if you have them available. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jake Anderson Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2024 12:43 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Masking SMF data internally [CAUTIO

Re: New SSH vulnerability

2024-01-25 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential It does take some time for the fixes to be developed, tested and distributed. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2024 8:04 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: New SSH vulnerabili

Re: RACF Automation (Cross Posted)

2024-01-26 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Try Vanguard software. http://www.go2vanguard.com/ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bob Bridges Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2024 4:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: RACF Automation (Cross Posted) [CAUTION: T

Re: GTF trace for a JCL error?

2024-01-30 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Nope! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Peter Ten Eyck Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2024 8:31 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: GTF trace for a JCL error? [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless y

Re: GTF trace for a JCL error?

2024-01-30 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential You need to look at the JES output to determine the error. Use the following command S taskname,,,MSGCLASS=x where x is a held sysout class. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ituriel do Neto Sent: Tuesday, January 30,

Re: JES2 JOBDEF DUPL_JOB=NODELAY - Any gotchas?

2024-02-02 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Not sure it will help. GRS may deadlock on resources between the jobs. Even if GRS does not deadlock, it will still delay the 2nd and subsequent jobs. All you will likely do ius mod the delay from the JES jobqueue to the JES execque. My USD $0.02 worth. HTH,

Re: Where are Unix reason codes over 7371 documented

2024-02-05 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Try "TSO BPXMTEXT 7663730C" -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw Sent: Saturday, February 3, 2024 11:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Where are Unix reason codes over 7371 documented [CAUTIO

Re: Banks migrate from mainframes to AI-driven cloud

2024-02-12 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Just ask LzLabs how its going -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Arthur Fichtl Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2024 9:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Banks migrate from mainframes to AI-driven cloud [CAUTION: This E

test message please ignore no reply needed

2024-02-13 Thread Allan Staller
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Re: Banks migrate from mainframes to AI-driven cloud

2024-02-14 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Thae last LzLabs project I was involved in was finally completed 1 1/2 years late and the overrun ate up all of the potential saving to the client. LzLabs now has a total AFAIK 2 "production" implementations. My USD $0.02 worth -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: Tn3270 back door

2024-02-16 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Don't you have some local 3270 devices defined? As previously suggested, change a console to a VTAM terminal and log on w/VTAM instead of TN3270 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tony Harminc Sent: Friday, February 16, 202

Re: Principles of Op

2024-02-20 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Resource link -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Steve Thompson Sent: Monday, February 19, 2024 2:46 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Principles of Op [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you

Re: Something keeps releasing space on a large (annual) DS

2024-02-21 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential The most likely reason is the DATACLAS(? Possibly MGMTCLAS) ACS Routine. This is where partial space release is specified. It is possible, but un likely that dfHSM is doing the partial space release. HSM would be honoring the "dictates" of the DATACLAS. HTH, ---

Re: Nanosecond resolution timestamps for HLL's?

2024-02-22 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential I believe XL/C is included with the z/OS license. I am not sure about XL/C++ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Farley, Peter Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2024 6:43 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Nanosecond res

Re: Nanosecond resolution timestamps for HLL's?

2024-02-22 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential I believe the XL/C compiler is included in the z/OS license. XL/C++ I am not sure about. Your shop may never have used it, but I believe it is there. Check with your z/OS sysprog. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Frank

Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal.

2024-02-22 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential The last mainframe will be turned off in 1994 - Gartner Group -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2024 11:11 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI

Re: Delete HSM backups question

2024-02-26 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential I believe HLIST LEVEL() Backup will provide the information you need. Certainly the HLIST DA() backup will provide the same info if HLIST LEVEL(xxx) is unsupported. (I did no look up the syntax). From there you can generate HBDEL commands (remember to specify

Re: Delete HSM backups question

2024-02-26 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential The ODS command is *VERY* particular as to the DCB attributes of the ODS dataset. It is documented somewhere in the manual, but I can’t find it with a quick search. The symptoms you show match my experience with the above. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainf

Question on BUILDMCS

2024-02-26 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential I am in the process of performing a BUILDMCS for the 1st time. This is to preserve some products no longer orderable from IBM. I have RTFM'ed the manuals (SMP/E User's Guide and SMP/E Commands), and the actual requirements are unclear. When I look at the SMPPUNCH I

Re: Question on BUILDMCS

2024-02-26 Thread Allan Staller
sure all maintenance has been applied. Many folks run the buildmcs for the fmid in the DLIB environment. Dave Jousma Vice President | Director, Technology Engineering From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Allan Staller <0387911dea17-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu>

Re: TELNET PROFILE, strictly PDS?

2024-03-04 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential 1) Re-allocate as PDS/E. This will require a PDS/E 2) Compress in batch w/IEBCOPY and make you changes. No restart required. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of roscoe5 Sent: Friday, March 1, 2024 2:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV

Re: TELNET PROFILE, strictly PDS?

2024-03-04 Thread Allan Staller
ated by default? Thanks again! R Sent from [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/mail/home) for iOS On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 8:14 AM, Allan Staller <[allan.stal...@hcl.com](mailto:On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 8:14 AM, Allan Staller < wrote: > Classification: Confidential > > 1) Re-allocate as PDS/E.

Re: TELNET PROFILE, strictly PDS?

2024-03-04 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential TCPIP/TELNET come up *LONG* after PDSE initialization. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pew, Curtis G Sent: Monday, March 4, 2024 1:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: TELNET PROFILE, strictly PDS? [CAUTION: Th

Re: How to reduce the overhead of WLM?

2024-03-05 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential 1) reduce the number of service class periods and service classes 2) reduce the numberf of workloads 3) set CICS MAXTASKS to a reasonable number 4) Since this is a development system, set your major subsystems to velocity goals, not transaction goals (IMS, CICS, DB2,

Re: How to reduce the overhead of WLM?

2024-03-05 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Agreed! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Anthony Hirst Sent: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 7:18 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How to reduce the overhead of WLM? [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organizatio

Re: How to reduce the overhead of WLM?

2024-03-05 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential The most important resource in most shops is CPU and is usually the critical factor in WLM adjustments. Judicious user of SC period and IMPortance is far more effective in controlling the distribution of CPU. . I would not overload SYSSTC with work, this will prevent

Re: IBM Announces the z/OS Container Platform

2024-03-06 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential How does this compare to z/CX. IS this a supplement? Replacement? Other? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 7:45 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: IBM Announces the z/OS Con

Re: What happens in HSM when I change a Management Class

2024-03-14 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Gadi, Mike has a good point. Doing HSM tape recycles could help free up any tapes with a low number of datasets on them. This is true for migration tapes and backup tapes. Be warned that if you don't do tape recycles on a scheduled basis the process could possib

Re: Program to split a jobs output

2024-04-09 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Several commercial products do this . CA-DELIVER, INFOPAC (probably a couple of more I am not familiar with. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of ??? ?? ??? Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2024 3:43 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sub

Re: EXPDT added to newly allocated dataset

2024-04-09 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential There are several SMS exits that could be causing this issue -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2024 12:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: EXPDT added to newly allocated dataset [

Console Address Space

2024-04-10 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential This past weekend I had an issue where a system became totally unresponsive and incommunicado. HMC access also failed, and the only conclusion I can come up with, is that the console address space abended. I am working through that debug process, but is there anyway

Re: Console Address Space

2024-04-11 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential 1) Consoles would not respond 2) Routed commands from other systems in the sysplex were ignored 3) Operating system messages on the HMC would not respond (V CN(*),ACTIVATE) 4) Integrated 3270 console was not configured in CONSOLXX Al -Original Message- From:

Re: Console Address Space

2024-04-11 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Thast what I thought, but I was hoping. Thanks, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Peter Fatzinger Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2024 7:31 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Console Address Space [CAUTION: This Email i

Re: zOS and z16

2024-04-16 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Nope. z/OS 2.5 is no longer orderable -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2024 6:41 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: zOS and z16 [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organi

test. pleaseignore

2024-04-30 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential ::DISCLAIMER:: The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. E-mail transmission is not guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, cor

Re: RMF III - Data recording duration

2024-05-03 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential ERBRMF04 controls most of the functions of RMF Monitor 3 (F RMF,START III) ERBRMF04 also points to the VSAM dataset(s) user for online viewing. The time span for the data is limited by the space available in the defined VSAM datasets. The datasets are used round-rob

Re: Mainframe performance tool replacement

2024-05-07 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential SAS - WPS, others, MICS - MXG, Several others HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of raji ece Sent: Tuesday, May 7, 2024 8:20 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Mainframe performance tool replacement [CAUTION: This E

Re: Mainframe performance tool replacement

2024-05-07 Thread Allan Staller
compromise your Computer.] Problem is "sas" being common to MICS and MXG. And the op's issue is a problem that appears to be rooted in SAS. But I have a question about the problems with SAS, beyond licensing and costs. What tech problem is being seen? Steve Thompson On 5/7/2024

Re: Consultation on the Potential Risks of Deleting Specific Datasets

2024-05-08 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Watch out for "seldom used" datasets e.g. year-end clients. Watch out for model DSCBs used by GDG's Make sure you have a backup before deleting. A safer approach would be to alter the mgmt. class to (e.g. delete after 1 year of non use). HTH, -Original Message

Re: Consultation on the Potential Risks of Deleting Specific Datasets

2024-05-08 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Yes you can force migration HMIG 'DSN' -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Feller Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2024 8:16 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Consultation on the Potential Risks of Deleting Specific Dat

Re: JOB card format

2024-05-09 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential JES2 ESTTIME parameter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2024 7:59 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: JOB card format [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. U

Re: VTS question

2024-05-10 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Luminex VTS is worth a look -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2024 3:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: VTS question [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless

Archeology researce

2024-05-15 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Does anyone have links or documents to the z/OS 2.4 and 2.5 announcement letters? Either links or copies of the documents are acceptable. TIA, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of rpinion865 Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2024 7

Re: Archeology researce - Resolved

2024-05-15 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Replying to my own post. Finally found the required information. Thanks in advance to all that spent any time on this. -Original Message- From: Allan Staller Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2024 9:09 AM To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Archeology researce

Re: Refresh RMFGAT collection settings

2024-05-16 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Depends on the size of the vsam file. Multiple files can be used. File will be used round-robin and when the last file fills it will wrap to the 1st file. Data retention is determined by the total amount of space available in all of the vsam files combined. -Or

Re: LOL - AWS brags about 99.9% uptime!

2024-06-11 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential I agree LOL, 99.9% is so 20th century! Measured from where? Internal Servers? Does this include the user perception? Outages are perceived from the end-user viewpoint, not the source. Components beyond AWS control can affect user perception. BTW, z/OS has been ad

Re: LOL - AWS brags about 99.9% uptime!

2024-06-11 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Replying to my own post. 99.% availability equates to about 3 sec/year. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Allan Staller Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2024 7:08 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: LOL - AWS brags

Re: PDS compress and PROCLIB

2024-06-12 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Re delete/reallocate is true. Jes closes the proclibs between uses -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of rpinion865 Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2024 7:43 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PDS compress and PROCLIB [CAUT

Re: PDS compress and PROCLIB

2024-06-12 Thread Allan Staller
. On Wednesday, June 12th, 2024 at 9:10 AM, Allan Staller wrote: > Classification: Confidential > > Re delete/reallocate is true. Jes closes the proclibs between uses > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU On Behalf > O

Re: PL/I Options question

2024-06-13 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential // PARM='/*PROCESS TEST(BLOCK,SYM,SEPARATE)' -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2024 4:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: PL/I Options question [CAUTION: This Email is fro

Re: PL/I Options question

2024-06-13 Thread Allan Staller
is not recognized as a valid option keyword and is ignored. Also tried without the leading slash; same error. CM On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 12:48:21 +, Allan Staller wrote: >Classification: Confidential > >// PARM='/*PROCESS TEST(BLOC

Re: WS JES2 SPOOL OFFLOAD

2024-06-14 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Check the selection criteria in the $TOFFLOAD command, It should do what you want, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Samuel Alejandro Díaz Chávez Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2024 9:46 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject:

Re: TSO PARMLIB command - Abend S047

2024-06-18 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Lnklst option lnkauth=apftab? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of ??? ?? ??? Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2024 1:53 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: TSO PARMLIB command - Abend S047 [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the

Re: ACS Routines Missing Source

2024-06-18 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential I have seen this before, but I am unsure of the resolution. Check the MGMTCLAS for the dataset (if you can find some records). I believe you will find one or more for expired backup versions, dataset last reference,. What has happened is that the dataset/b

Re: EZZ6034I ERR 1030

2024-06-19 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential 1) Re: PCKS11 support. You need to set up a TKDS for use by ICSF. Check the fine manuals for details. 2) TLS 1.3 requires specific ciphers (IIRC 3 specific ciphers) and is controlled by the TCPIP Policy Agent. Again, check the fine manuals for details HTH

Re: GRS in MONOPLEX without physical CTCs ?

2024-06-20 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential In a monoplex, by definition, CTC and/or CF structure are not used and unnecessary. What does the response to message indicate? Sound like either GRS=TRYJOIN and/or PLEXCFG is not MONOPLEX GSYS1.PARMLIB(IEASYS00) GRS= PLEXCFG= SYS1.PARMLIB(RSRNL*) SYS1.PARMLIB(GRSCN

Re: GRS in MONOPLEX without physical CTCs ?

2024-06-20 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential In that case, for safety, each LPAR should have a cop of the software (unless yu can guarantee read-only. Otherwise a homegrown serialization mechanism, or CA-MIM would be required -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of MANCINI

Re: GRS in MONOPLEX without physical CTCs ?

2024-06-21 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Beware of GRS performance issues in ring mode. I ran some tests and as the number of images increases, ring mode response escalates rapidly. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Brian Westerman Sent: Friday, June 21, 2024 1:42

Re: GRS in MONOPLEX without physical CTCs ?

2024-06-24 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential IMO, no. The various images will not attempt to communicate with each other in Monoplex mode. The CTC's should be defined and then run GRS in RING mode. As I previously posted, the more systems to be communicated with in the longer GRS will take to respond. This es

Re: LOL - AWS brags about 99.9% uptime!

2024-06-26 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential 3 nines of availability is so 80's. Even back then IBM was claiming 6 nines for a properly configured parallel sysplex. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2024 4:39 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.U

Console Message Flooding

2024-06-28 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential I am new to the game with console message flooding. I have a good handle on the technical aspects but there is an operational issue I feel needs to be addressed. The question I have is "how do you detect/terminate a runaway task with console message flooding in place

Re: REAL unused available storage

2024-07-02 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential The allocations will show up on the HMC under the partition profiles, The is an RMF report that will show available frames (pages). Storage report (?) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bill Giannelli Sent: Tuesday, July 2,

z/OS Sysprog Positions

2024-07-05 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Professional services firm needs 2 senior z/OS sysprogs for a long term contract or contract to hire. Requirements: 10 yrs+ z/OS Sysprog Experience; Proficiency in the following: z/OS,ISV products,Unix System Services,JES, SYSPLEX services,

FW: z/OS Sysprog Positions

2024-07-05 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Forgot to add 100% remote work From: Allan Staller Sent: Friday, July 5, 2024 10:43 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: z/OS Sysprog Positions Classification: Confidential Professional services firm needs 2 senior z/OS sysprogs for a long term contract or

Re: z/OS Sysprog Positions

2024-07-08 Thread Allan Staller
requested additional information. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Allan Staller Sent: Friday, July 5, 2024 10:44 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: FW: z/OS Sysprog Positions [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust the

Re: another z/OSMF rant. -- Catch-22 is killing me

2024-07-09 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential agreed -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Doug Fuerst Sent: Monday, July 8, 2024 11:14 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: another z/OSMF rant. -- Catch-22 is killing me [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Orga

Re: ATTLS Using Crypto Card

2024-07-09 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential There are some system monitor displays on the HMC. Also, IIRC, the RMF I CPU report will also show crypto usage. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jake Anderson Sent: Monday, July 8, 2024 11:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.E

Re: message IEA793A

2024-07-09 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Sounds like you may be using dynamic dumps . D D,T to display the current dumps. You will see either a list of sys1.dumpxx datasets or a list of dump datasets(not sys1.dumpxx). Delete/rename/migrate the z/OS datasetsto free space, for non SYS1.DUMPxx For sys1.dumpx

Re: Alter z/OSMF Workflow Input?

2024-07-09 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential z/OS MF still sucks! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Dave Beagle Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2024 8:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Alter z/OSMF Workflow Input? [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organiza

Re: z/OSMF learning

2024-07-10 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Still doesn't address usability issues. There are 100's of steps in each workflow. If I have to skip a step, I must scrool to the bottom of the page to click on the appropriate button. Do this 100 times or more. Screen real estate is expansive vertically. Most monit

Re: another z/OSMF rant. -- Catch-22 is killing me

2024-07-11 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Are you referring to the PFCSK's? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Brian Westerman Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2024 11:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: another z/OSMF rant. -- Catch-22 is killing me [CAUTION:

Re: z/OSMF and ServerPac - dataset names

2024-07-15 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential The datasets will be renamed later in the workflow... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Radoslaw Skorupka Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2024 7:45 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: z/OSMF and ServerPac - dataset names [CAU

Re: World’s largest computer outing!

2024-07-22 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Refrain: The "new tools" bing supplied by IBM are neither as available, reliable, or functional as those they replace. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Peter Sylvester Sent: Friday, July 19, 2024 1:58 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTS

Re: World’s largest computer outage!

2024-07-22 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential I don't feel this is the fault of Windows; This is the fault of power-hungry net-nannies who want to control everything (all in the name of protecting the enterprise). One size fits all, and everyone is too stupid to recognize a phishing email when they see it. A

Re: Sharing RACF DB in monoplex

2024-07-23 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Possible, but highly risky. I would not do it. It's not my dog. However, I would suggest MIMGR or excluding all RACF database calls from GRS. Beware the performance impacts and possible resource deadlocks. My USD $0.02 worth. -Original Message- From: IBM M

Re: CTN's and auto DST changes

2024-07-24 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential z/hardware can do this automatically, and has done so for decades. None of the major IBM subsystems depend on local time for logging and recovery (since at least the late 80's Almost universal, however is "application paranoia". The fear that there is something somew

Re: Very old IBM Manuals

2024-07-26 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Bitsavers.org? Computer History Museum? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Robert Prins Sent: Friday, July 26, 2024 5:19 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Very old IBM Manuals [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the

Re: Does MVCDK move 'per byte' like MVC?

2024-07-26 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential I always thought the MVI, MVC method was very inefficient. If I had storage available I would always define a constant of the required length and move it. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tony Harminc Sent: Friday, July

Re: ZOWE and AT-TLS (PAGENT)

2024-07-29 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Yes, by definition. AT-TLS stands for Application Transparent - Transport Layer Security -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of jgmauta...@yahoo.com.ar Sent: Monday, July 29, 2024 8:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Z

Re: How to "touch" mainframe files

2024-08-05 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Try the CBTTAPE in LAVMSUG umods. I believe there are another few places where it could be. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lennie Bradshaw Sent: Saturday, August 3, 2024 4:07 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: Filezilla & ZOS "native" datasets?

2024-08-05 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Change the directory after the connection is made. Don’t remember the syntax. The behavior is as expected. Open-SSH does not support z/OS datasets. If you need that support, get the CoZ Toolkit. https://coztoolkit.com/ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Fw: Multiple VIPAs

2024-08-13 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential V tcpip,obey,dsn= (points to new info) or combined. TCPIP will sort it out -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of roscoe5 Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2024 3:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Fw: Multiple VIPAs [CAUTIO

Re: Multiple VIPAs

2024-08-13 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Firewall isue? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of roscoe5 Sent: Monday, August 12, 2024 8:51 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Multiple VIPAs [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust

Re: message: "You are not authorized to view the archives with the email address you used to log in."

2024-08-16 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Separate registrqation required -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Glenn Knickerbocker Sent: Friday, August 16, 2024 10:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: message: "You are not authorized to view the archives wit

Re: Improving OMVS performance using WLM ?

2024-08-21 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Don't have any references for you, but in my experience, most installations have under-spec'ed the service class for OMVS (either importance or goals). Increasing either for this service class would most likely help. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainfra

Re: SMPE: SMPLTS gone?

2024-08-30 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Had the same experience. SMPLTS appears to be gone. Didn't see any announcement, although I am sure it is out there somewhere. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Radoslaw Skorupka Sent: Friday, August 30, 2024 5:56 AM To: IBM

Re: SHELLSCR installation - Liberty sos

2024-09-03 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Sometimes you need to pre-apply one of the pre-req PTF's to get the "error" ptf to apply successfully. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ann Kelley Sent: Tuesday, September 3, 2024 6:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

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