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Effective January 10, 2005, z/OS is available for Internet
delivery in ServerPac for orders placed using ShopzSeries. The integration of
ShopzSeries with the ServerPac dialogs provides a seamless experience for
ordering and installing your ServerPac (z/OS, DB2, CICS, IMS, WAS, and NCP)
orders, while leveraging the automation capabilities of Internet delivery with
new SMP/E functions.
Internet delivery of z/OS via ServerPac and
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Be aware that writing new data over old only protects the
old data from recovery by "normal" methods. It does not insure the "none of the
sensitive data could ever be recovered." (Think of the famous 18 minute tape
gap and how they determined it had been erased 9 times.) If you overwrite the
old data multiple times, it becomes harder (more expensive) to recover the
data. It is a value judgement, based in part on how sensitive the data is, to
determine when it sufficiently difficult. Truly SENSITIVE data probably
requires some form of degaussing.
From the IBM-Main Discussion Group
Barry Schwarz
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Use the XDC command in SDSF Output / Hold queue, next to the
job desired, to print output to a data set |
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What's the best way to shutdown the SYSLOG daemon with an
automation product?
D OMVS,USER=SYSLOGD
parse for the pid
F BPXOINIT,TERM=pid
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We have noticed a rather peculiar phenomenon since we went
to WLM Managed Inits. At times JES2 is no longer selecting the 1st job in the
QUEUE (i.e., CLASS K). It seems to be selecting the lowest numbered job in the
queue. We especially notice this after the JOB NUMBER rolls from 20,000 back to
1. Can anyone shed any light on this????
WLM has a different priority that JES2. If you use SDSF, you
have 2 columns, POS, which reflect JES2 and WPOS, which reflects WLM. That
might give you something to look at.
Jim Sumrall
IBM Mainframe Discussion Group |
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Quick LE Compatability Question
If a program is compiled and linked on a system running LE
1.9, will it have problems running on a system with LE 1.7? This is a batch
COBOL/DB2 program, and it received an FCC system abend.
Yes, an FCC abend is exactly a symptom of this
incompatibility. See apars II11316 and II11370
Larry Alan Gray
IBM-Main discussion group |
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CPPUPDTE program for ServerPac CPPUPDTE is a program that
enables you to search for a string across all the members of a PDS and replace
that string with another string. CPPUPDTE is loaded into the LOADLIB data set
(hlq.order_number.LOADLIB) during ServerPac installation. It also has an alias
name of IPOUPDTE because the job is actually the same job that was shipped with
CBIPO. |
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How to delete VSAM datasets left on the dasd but not in the
catalog
//STEPNAME EXEC PGM=IDCAMS
//SYSPRINT DD
SYSOUT=*
//VOLUME DD DISP=OLD,UNIT=SYSALLDA,VOL=SER=volser
//SYSIN DD
*
DELETE orphaned.dataset.name -
VVR - FILE(VOLUME)
/*
Replace "volser" with the actual volume serial. Replace
"orphaned.dataset.name" with the real dataset name. For a KSDS, this would
probably really require TWO DELETE commands. One for the .DATA and one for the
.INDEX. The other way is to print the VVDS and find the original catalog name.
You would then create a new ICF catalog with that name. You could then do a
DEFINE RECATALOG followed by a DELETE. I find using the DELETE VVR to be
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You can place the LOADxx member in one of the following
system data sets:
- SYSn.IPLPARM
- SYS1.PARMLIB Consider placing LOADxx in the SYSn.IPLPARM
data set.
During IPL, the system looks for LOADxx in the following
order:
- SYS0.IPLPARM through SYS9.IPLPARM on the IODF volume
- SYS1.PARMLIB on the IODF volume
- SYS1.PARMLIB on the sysres volume.
Do not create a SYSn.IPLPARM data set unless it contains the
LOADxx member that is used to configure your system. When the system finds
either SYSn.IPLPARM or SYS1.PARMLIB, it expects to find a LOADxx member in the
data set. If the LOADxx member specified on the LOAD parameter is not in the
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If your ISPPROF dataset is missing
ALLOCATE DDNAME(ISPPROF) DATASET(userid.ISPF.ISPPROF)
NEW,KEEP SPACE(10,5) TRACKS USING(LIST1)
ispstart panel(ISRUTIL) |
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