Mainframe Questions and Answers

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"map drive" IFS

Hello, We have a ?LAN without any server Windows OS in it? , so everybody is a client (with fixed IP). The only ?server? we have, is our iSeries i5 (V5R3) with iSeries Access(CA) installed (also on the clients). We cannot ?map drive? the IFS f.e. root with \QS6555A8Aroot (or anything else on the...

View Answer   |  Sep 28 2005  2:49 AM GMT
Tech support, Hardware, Storage
asked by hahajokes

  5 pts.

tutorials-2

hi all. i have sent before a message about this subject but i didnt really had real replies that helped me. i am searching of tutorials of programming (delphi, linux, perl, python, c#, java ......) i have search in google, altavista, westciv, whatis, w3school,... So if anyone now how to get pdf...

View Answer   |  Sep 5 2005  3:06 AM GMT
Tech support, Windows, Network management software
asked by mmm555

  0 pts.

Convert cpu time into MIPS

How to convert cpu time into MIPS ? I would like to convert cpu time of A address space into MIPS. Thanks

View Answer   |  Aug 26 2005  2:54 AM GMT
Mainframe, 390, DB2
asked by thrhym

  0 pts.

cics internet web interface question

Good day, We are in the process of changing the CICS internet login protocol from basic to form based authentication. This requires placing a token inside the HTML referencing the item '&QUERY_STRING' as defined on page 80 of the CICS Internet Guide. Nothing is mentioned concerning the format of...

View Answer   |  Aug 23 2005  8:50 AM GMT
Mainframe, 390, DB2
asked by Jeffer

  0 pts.

CICS transaction paramter for lower case

Can you please tell me what parameter to set in order to allow a CICS transaction the use of lower-case letters?

View Answer   |  Aug 18 2005  2:12 PM GMT
Mainframe, 390, DB2
asked by MartyP

  0 pts.

Secure File Transfer for Mainframe systems

I would like to transfer files from Unix machine to Mainframe system (using Unix machine as client). The transfer process need to be secure (ie. data sent thro network should be encrypted using 128-bit encryption algorithm). I came to understand that SFTP server is not available for Mainframe...

View Answer   |  Jul 13 2005  7:03 PM GMT
Security management, Security, Security products
asked by tsdnesh

  0 pts.

Help needed with sending a mainframe file to users in CSV format

Hi, My program is creating a delimited flat file on the mainframe. I want to send this file to various users using either IEBGENER or IBMFTP as a CSV file. My problem is that although the file is sent successfully as a .CSV file but when the user opens the CSV file he finds that for some of the...

View Answer   |  Jun 29 2005  1:17 AM GMT
Mainframe, 390, DB2
asked by DonQuixote

  0 pts.

Failed SMP/E APPLY

If I APPLY more than one SYSMOD to SMP/E, and the APPLY fails, due to the fact that there is insufficient space in one of the target libraries, and the compress fails too, causing the entire job to fail, what does SMP/E do to the SYSMODs that were applied before the job failed? For Example: I...

View Answer   |  Jun 19 2005  6:50 AM GMT
IBM/Tivoli, Mainframe
asked by NofarS

  0 pts.

Setup Remote printer in zOS

We have zOS v1R4 in a z900 mainframe server. I am a newly joined MVS system programmer here in this Datacenter. My requirement is as follows: 1) Currently we use TCP/IP to connect to LPARs in the mainframe 2) There is a remote laser printer in the client place(which is already networked) 3) We...

View Answer   |  Jun 17 2005  3:46 PM GMT
Hardware, Logical partitions, Mainframe
asked by MVSAdmin

  0 pts.

PDS Unload to Disk File & Download to PC

I want to create a backup of a mainframe PDS (using IEBCOPY to unload the PDS), and then be able to download the resulting unloaded dataset to PC. The catch is I want to be able to upload the file again to a mainframe and then be able to run IEBCOPY from that uploaded dataset to restore the PDS. ...

View Answer   |  Jun 9 2005  12:00 AM GMT
Tech support, Mainframe
asked by mhough

  0 pts.

S/390 Abends trying to define Ethernet adapter on Multiprise 3000.

I am attempting to configure the LAN adapter on a MP3000 Integrated Server. Using DEVMAP, I define a pair of addresses(even/odd) as E22/E23 and select device type of 3088, and a device driver type 9 (LCS3172). When I attempt to activate, OS/2 dumps, abends, and the whole machine re-boots, runs...

View Answer   |  May 19 2005  7:29 AM GMT
Network protocols, Mainframe, VSE
asked by MCSGuy

  0 pts.

New to AS400 administration and need some help.

I have two questions here if someone can help. I will appreciate anything you can give. First, I am trying to configure a network printer on the AS400. I did wrkcfgsts, work with description, and copied the printer devices description and modified the printer device with the new info. All I...

View Answer   |  May 17 2005  12:04 AM GMT
Security management, Tech support, Help Desk
asked by bkr0963c

  0 pts.

Time Synchronization via 9037

If we use a 9037 as the time source to provide the time for the z/OS (or OS/390) system, what will happen to the clock that the zSeries box already has? Is the clocking going to be entirely external and the internal clock is then sort of paralyzed and no longer used, so that when the 9037 clock...

View Answer   |  May 12 2005  2:46 AM GMT
Hardware, Mainframe
asked by catcat

  0 pts.

Possible to direct converter/interpreter phase?

I have two versions of z/OS running in the same sysplex. Therefore I have different PROCLIB concatenations on the different LPARs. I can direct the batch jobs using the jobclass to be running on the different LPARs. My problem is that I have different PROCs with the same name on the different...

View Answer   |  Apr 27 2005  8:01 AM GMT
Logical partitions, Mainframe, MVS
asked by DieterWinter

  0 pts.

Best Practices for Mainframe Testing

I am looking for some tools and best practices which are best to be used for testing Mainframes especially batch. I have had list of tools namely Xpediter, Smartest,IBM's debugger, QA Hiperstation,CA Inter Test etc... Could anyone guide me as to which tool is best for Testing Mainframe Batch. The...

View Answer   |  Apr 18 2005  3:30 AM GMT
Mainframe, 390, DB2
asked by consultantmainframe

  0 pts.

unix system services z/OS 1.4

When I start an application under OMVS, for example FTP or SYSLOGD, it is killed immediately ???!!! In the syslog, I get message BPXP018I: in USS Shell: # ftp Y1? + Done(137) ftp 33554448 Killed /bin/ftp # in...

View Answer   |  Mar 18 2005  8:35 AM GMT
Mainframe, Unix
asked by sysprogkfw

  0 pts.

VSAM Cluster Definitions

Is there a slick way that I can reverse generate a VSAM CLUSTER defintion for IDCAMS from an existing VSAM dataset? We are missing our actual cards for many VSAM datasets and am too lazy to write them all myself. Please advise.

View Answer   |  Mar 1 2005  3:46 PM GMT
Mainframe
asked by ndenni01

  0 pts.

Mainframe Testing Tools

My shop is currently looking for testing packages for batch (mostly cobol, some assembler) applications as well as our online CICS applications. We are z/OS shop using IMS and a very limited amount of DB2. We are looking at CA-InterTest, Xpediter, and SmartTest. In addition to the usual testing...

View Answer   |  Dec 29 2004  6:00 PM GMT
COBOL, Software testing, Mainframe
asked by girlnerd

  0 pts.

Best rules of thumb?

What are five best rules of thumb when reviewing output from system monitors for preventing future problems. The system monitors could be any SMF/RMF MICS TSO/MON MXG OMEGAMON system monitor type report for reporting on the mainframe. Example might be 1. sustained CPU utilization over 85% 2....

View Answer   |  Nov 1 2004  5:39 PM GMT
Tech support, Third-party services, Hardware
asked by DavidColbourn

  0 pts.

Mainframe sunset

Our user departments have been talking about getting off the mainframe over the last several years. Recently, our CIO informed department heads that we would discontinue the mainframe by the end of 2007. It is possible that these departments could decide, "we really didn?t mean it" and push back,...

View Answer   |  Oct 5 2004  11:36 AM GMT
Mainframe, 390, DB2
asked by BlueKnight

  10 pts.

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