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From: URJLEW@UNC.BITNET (Rostyslaw J. Lewyckyj)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Subject: Re: Addr: RACF/VM
Date: 16 Oct 92 17:34:00 GMT
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU

Suppose someone sits and monitors the valid userid file.
As soon as that changes, indicating a new userid has been added,
this person quick logs on with that userid and the default password,
and changes it to a password of their choice.
Now the proper owner of the userid is locked out.
How does one prevent this unless one presets the password for the
new userids to something which only the requester and the admini-
strator know about?
From: JDKINNE@MIAMIU.BITNET (John Kinne)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Subject: Re: CFORMAC
Date: 16 Oct 92 21:36:53 GMT
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              4 Oct 1992 13:47:55 +0200 from <VSLARRY@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL>

If you find out that someone is supporting CFORMAC, I'd like you
to tell the rest of us about it!  We used FORMAC alot back in the
360/370 days.  It was a ball.

John Kinne
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Organization: Academic User Services, The University of Akron
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Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 09:47:38 EDT
From:         Gary Sponseller <SPONSELL@AKRONVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: PLSORT versus SYNCSORT

On Wed, 7 Oct 1992 08:42:34 EST Donn Wolf, Systems Programmer said:
>Brad,
>
>We recently talked to both Syncsort and Plisort. Plisort was
>significantly cheaper. After telling Syncsort they were out of the
>ballpark pricewise, they came back and matched Plisort's price. By that
>time, we decided to go with Plisort and be done with it. Plisort's offer
>also included a perpetual license. Not so with Syncsort. By the way,
>this was the VM flavor of the products. When things settle down around
>here I may look at the MVS product also.
>
>The rumor that Phase Linear is experiencing financial trouble may be
>true. When talking with Syncsort, that was about the only reason they
>could come up with to purchase their product and not Plisort. The
>support we have received from Phase Linear has not been a problem. In
>fact, it's been pretty good. Not that we've had technical problems, just
>questions.

Please be careful about what competing vendors say of their competitors!
Put it into the proper perspective... they want your business!
Also, remember that others may read your mail and believe the "rumor"
that may not be substantiated. :-(

We chose PLSORT over Syncsort to replacing our CA-SORT a year or so ago.
PLSORT has worked out quite well for us.

Here's an article to IBM-MAIN earlier this year that was in response
to Synsort's claim that PLSORT was failing:

*Date:         Fri, 31 Jan 1992 16:12:25 LCL
*Reply-To:     IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@AKRONVM.BITNET>
*Sender:       IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@AKRONVM.BITNET>
*From:         "Peter L. Jepson" <PLJEPSON@SUVM.BITNET>
*Subject:      Phase Linear Systems - Update
*
*Here's the official response from Phase Linear Systems on the PLSORT
*bad press...
*----------------------------Original message----------------------------
*   After talking to the PLSORT people about the recent negative press release
*in the Wall Street Journal I received the follow response in letter form from
*Lawrence Glassman, Executive V. P. at PLS.
*
*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
*
*You may have seen or heard of a recent press release mentioning Phase Linear
*Systems as a discontinued business. This does not refer to PLSORT, but rather
*two unrelated products that may be sold in the future.
*
*On the PLSORT front, we are improving and enhancing our products as we strive
*to continue offering you the best sort/merge products available in the
*industry. Our goal in 1992 include providing our customers with the level of
*marketing and technical support that made us number 1 in the IBEX customer
*survey two
*years in a row.
*
*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
*
*   This reassurance was good news to me....I had visions of ending up with
*CA-SORT2
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From: MCMASTER@LSTC2VM.stortek.com (Jim McMaster)
Subject: Re: moving all texts in xedit file one space to the right
Organization: StorageTek SW Engineering
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 18:13:50 GMT

In article <IBM-MAIN%92101215414708@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
Don Tang <V1426G@TEMPLEVM.BITNET> writes:
 
>I am trying to find if there is any command that enable to move all texts
>of each line one space to the right in an xedit file? It takes too much
>time if I do it line by line in a long file.
>
>Thanks!
 
It actually takes two subcommands "SHIFT RIGHT 1" followed by
"REPEAT *".  "REPEAT" only works as long as the subcommand being
repeated has a zero return code, though.  If the right shift causes a
character to be truncated, the return code is nonzero and REPEAT stops.
This might be exactly what you want to happen...you can't lose data
without knowing it.
 
Another way is with the prefix macro ">>".  Put ">>1" on the first line
of the file and ">>" on the last, and all lines are shifted one
character to the right.  You will get a message telling how many lines
were truncated, but no indication which ones.
 
Jim McMaster
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Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 08:45:24 CDT
From:         Ed Knowles <DPEK@SIUEMUS.BITNET>
Subject:      Candle products and alternatives.

Someone was looking for alternatives to Candle products:

>
>      CL/SuperSession (MVS)            - VTAM multisession manager

     Macro 4's TUBES VTAM MVS (Also a VM & VSE version)

        We run the VM version.  It provides most of the features of
        SuperSession and is quite easy to setup and maintain.  Not sure
        of the cost for the MVS version.  We are quite statisfied with
        it and also with Macro 4's support.

        Macro 4 Inc. ( West Coast phone: (800) 933-MAC4 )
                     ( East Coast phone: (800) 766-MAC4 )

>      Omegamon/MVS                     - MVS realtime monitor
>      Epilog/MVS                       - MVS performance trends
>
>      Omegamon/VM                      - VM realtime monitor
>      Epilog/VM                        - VM performance trends
>
From: lbdyck@OSREQ48.ROCKWELL.COM (Lionel B. Dyck)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Subject: IKJEFT01
Date: 15 Oct 92 17:38:13 GMT
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Return-Path: <lbdyck@osreq48.rockwell.com>
Comments: To: IBM-MAIN@ricevm1.rice.edu

Recently it was asked:

> I am looking for the description of TSO in Batch, that is
> // EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01, and what I may or must supply as parameters
> and DD statements --
> but I cannot find the manual! Please help me.
> We use TSO/E 2.1.0 (MVS/XA).
> Peter


The jcl to use is:

//step EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01,PARM='command'
//SYSTSPRT  DD  SYSOUT=*    Output from commands that don't use TPUT
//SYSTSIN   DD  *
 tso command(s)
 ..
 ..
/*

The PARM may contain any valid TSO command that you want executed before any
command entered in the input stream.

You may also include DD statements for any valid TSO DD (e.g. SYSHELP, SYSPROC,
STEPLIB, etc.)

>>>  One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting   <<<
>>>       what one is trying to achieve......Paul Nitze             <<<
*---------------------------------------------------------------------*
* Lionel B. Dyck              | Rockwell TSO:      WCC1.$A1238        *
* M/C:       110-SE28         | Rockwell VM:       ISCEMS(LBDYCK)     *
* Comnet:    797-1125         | IBMLink:           ROK2027            *
* Phone:     (310) 797-1125   | IBM Mail:          USROKNTN           *
* Fax:       (310) 797-3511   | Internet: LBDyck@osreq48.Rockwell.Com *
*---------------------------------------------------------------------*
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Date:         Mon, 12 Oct 1992 13:06:31 EST
From:         Trevor C Poole <A000@FERRIS.BITNET>
Subject:      voice mail interface to IBM CMS

> Howdy mainframers,
>
> Do any of you have or know anyone who has an interface between a voice
> mail machine and e-mail on CMS.  For example, to notify someone by voice-
> mail when there is e-mail waiting.  I am told this feature is available
> for PROFS, but wanted to make sure and also to see if someone was doing
> this kind of thing with smaller (less $$$) packages.  Thanks.
>
> Ronald L. Kitchens
> Bitnet:  CCRONK@UMSVM
> internet:  ccronk@vm.cc.olemiss.edu

We experimented with something called VTMS. Voice Text Messaging Sys.
I think its an IBM product. We tried running it with our ROLM voice
mail system and our Profs 2.2.3 on VM/XA and it was a lot more trouble
than it was worth. Couldn't get it to work consistently and the service
it provided was nothing we couldn't live without. What we really wanted
was a more flexible system that would let a person be read their voice
mail from Profs and vice versa. Lots of vapourware in that dept but
I've not noticed anything on the horizon that justifies further
investigation.
Trev
From: SEB1525@MVS.draper.com (Steve Bacher)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Subject: NFS and VSAM
Date: 9 Oct 92 19:41:00 GMT
Organization: Draper Laboratory

I've been experimenting with NFS under MVS and it seems to work
better than I used to think.  However, one thing puzzles me.
The documentation talks at length about how to define and access
VSAM data sets under NFS.  Question:  *What* can you do with a
VSAM data set (specifically a KSDS) via NFS?  I tried listing
the contents of one from my *ix box via cat or more, and I got
nothing but a blank line.  IBM, what do Unix users do with MVS
VSAM data sets anyhow?

--
Steve Bacher (Batchman)                 Draper Laboratory
Internet: seb@draper.com                Cambridge, MA, USA
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From: rz79@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Klaus Dilper)
Subject: Re: MVS/XA Deleting an Indexed VTOC ???
Organization: Rechenzentrum, Universitaet Karlsruhe (Germany)
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 08:44:26 GMT

In article <IBM-MAIN%92101412252072@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU> Steve Greenfield <FEATS@VTVM1.BITNET> writes:

>I am building an alternate Residence pack.  I used FDR COPY to copy my
>production res onto a test res volume.  I did not exclude the indexed
>vtoc dataset from the copy and I now have an indexed vtoc on my alternate
>res with a name 'SYS1.VTOCIX.MVSRS1'.  My alternate res is MVSRS2.  How can
>I delete this indexed vtoc so that I can define a new one called
>'SYS1.VTOCIX.MVSRS2'?



>- feats@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu

Hallo, try using ICKDSF as follows

//OSVTOC   EXEC PGM=ICKDSF
//DD1      DD DISP=SHR,UNIT=3380,VOL=SER=MVSRS2
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSIN    DD *
  BUILTIX DDNAME(DD1) OSVTOC PURGE

if this doesn't work, because the INDEX name doesn't correspond with
the VOLUME label, then you have to delete the VTOC INDEX on your
current SYSRES MVSRS1 (as shown above) and then copy MVSRS1 to MVSRS2
again. Now you have to allocate the new VTOC INDEX for both volumes as
follows:

//IXVTOC   EXEC PGM=ICKDSF
//DD1      DD UNIT=3380,VOL=SER=MVSRS1,DISP=(NEW,KEEP),
//         DSN=SYS1.VTOCIX.MVSRS1,SPACE=(ABSTR,(where it should take place)
//DD2      DD UNIT=3380,VOL=SER=MVSRS2,DISP=(NEW,KEEP),
//         DSN(SYS1.VTOCIX.MVSRS2,SPACE=(ABSTR,(where it should take place) 
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSIN    DD *
  BUILTIX DDNAME(DD1) IXVTOC
  BUILTIX DDNAME(DD2) IXVTOC

hope this fits!

Klaus
From: ##09@UTMARTN.BITNET (Larry Holder)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Subject: Viewing Transient Data Queues
Date: 16 Oct 92 23:10:11 GMT
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU

> In debugging a CICS 1.7 application, we would like to view info in a
> transient data queue. We have been trying to access it from CECI with
> the READQ TD command but we get a response of NOTAUTH each time. We
> are not using a security package. Can anyone help ??  Thanks for your
> time.

CECI will be unable to access any resource that is protected by CICS's
own resource security level checking.
You are probably letting the resource (in this case, an entry in the
DCT) default to RSL=0, which means "any transaction defined with
RSLC(YES) will not be allowed to reference this destination."  And I
am fairly sure that CECI is defined as RSLC(YES).
If you choose not to bother with implementing RSL checking,
changing the DCT entry to RSL=PUBLIC will permit any transaction,
including CECI, to access it.  I think modifying CECI to RSCL(NO)
would also accomplish the task, but this will require you to make a
copy of the CEDA entry for the CECI transaction, since users are not
able to directly modify entries in the IBM-supplied RDO groups.

For more information, refer to:
   - the XDCT parameter of the DFHSIT macro (system definition manual)
   - the DFHDCT macro (resource definition macro manual)
   - RSL checking (same manual as above)
This security checking, by the way, is the same mechanism used for
other resources, such as FCT entries.

Larry Holder,  Sr. Programmer/Analyst            Bitnet: ##09@UTMARTN
The University of Tennessee at Martin            Phone:  901-587-7890
Martin, TN  38238                                Fax:    901-587-7841

Software: VM/ESA 1.0, VSE/ESA 1.1, CICS/VSE 2.1, COBOL-II, DL/I, SQL/DS
Hardware: IBM 9221-150 with 9336 FBA dasd
PSW:      (Personal Status Words): Saved by grace (Romans 1:16 & 8:38)
From: SBSHC@HUNTER.BITNET (Stanley Sokol)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Subject: Re: VM on RS/6000
Date: 13 Oct 92 18:42:40 GMT
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How do we get one?
From: FEATS@VTVM1.BITNET (Steve Greenfield)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Subject: MVS/XA Deleting an Indexed VTOC ???
Date: 14 Oct 92 17:18:34 GMT
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU

I am building an alternate Residence pack.  I used FDR COPY to copy my
production res onto a test res volume.  I did not exclude the indexed
vtoc dataset from the copy and I now have an indexed vtoc on my alternate
res with a name 'SYS1.VTOCIX.MVSRS1'.  My alternate res is MVSRS2.  How can
I delete this indexed vtoc so that I can define a new one called
'SYS1.VTOCIX.MVSRS2'?



- feats@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu
From: BIGCU@CUNYVM.BITNET (Bill Gruber)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Subject: Re: moving all texts in xedit file one space to the right
Date: 13 Oct 92 21:25:00 GMT
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              13 Oct 1992 18:13:50 GMT from <MCMASTER@LSTC2VM.STORTEK.COM>

Don Tang <V1426G@TEMPLEVM.BITNET> writes:
>
>I am trying to find if there is any command that enable to move all texts
>of each line one space to the right in an xedit file? It takes too much
>time if I do it line by line in a long file.

This was followed by a few replies showing various ways to do it.  There are
probably a whole bunch more too... if any one is collecting XEDIT trivia, here
are a couple more ways:

C// /* 1        (change the first occurance of "nothing" to a blank)

or...

CINSERT <blank>
REPEAT *
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Date:         Fri, 16 Oct 1992 09:53:18 EST
From:         Randy Schirmer <MAINT@WCU.BITNET>
Subject:      CMS 5.5

 Does CMS 5.5 require VM/XA to run? We're running VM/HPO Rel 5 which going off
 support. We need to install IBM's C compiler Version 2 which requires 5.5 or
 higher. It has been suggested that we consider XA. Personally I would rather
 not change to another soon to be dropped OS. We're running a 4381 and we are
 using a 3990 controller which, via HPO gives us caching capabilities which we
 would lose if we went to ESA/370 feature. On the same note, does XA support
 caching?

 Randy Schirmer
 West Chester University
 215-436-3242
From: SROKA@SJSUVM1.SJSU.EDU (John Sroka)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Subject: Re: moving all texts in xedit file one space to the right
Date: 13 Oct 92 21:50:26 GMT
Organization: San Jose State University
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              13 Oct 1992 18:13:50 GMT from <MCMASTER@LSTC2VM.STORTEK.COM>

On Tue, 13 Oct 1992 18:13:50 GMT (Jim McMaster) said:
>In article <IBM-MAIN%92101215414708@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
>Don Tang <V1426G@TEMPLEVM.BITNET> writes:
>
>>I am trying to find if there is any command that enable to move all texts
>>of each line one space to the right in an xedit file? It takes too much
>>time if I do it line by line in a long file.
>>
>>Thanks!
>
I believe the following product will also do what you want:

5799-EGZ  XEDIT Column Editing/VM PRPQ

I seen it in action and it seems pretty simple to use.  I've ordered it
(from HESC) but have not installed it yet.
From: SEA@UNB.CA
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Subject: Re: MVS/XA Deleting an Indexed VTOC ???
Date: 14 Oct 92 18:43:58 GMT
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On  Wed, 14 Oct 92 15:24:41 ADT  Steve Greenfield <FEATS@VTVM1>
writes:

> I am building an alternate Residence pack.  I used FDR COPY to copy my
> production res onto a test res volume.  I did not exclude the indexed
> vtoc dataset from the copy and I now have an indexed vtoc on my
> alternate res with a name 'SYS1.VTOCIX.MVSRS1'.  My alternate res is
> MVSRS2.  How can I delete this indexed vtoc so that I can define a new
> one called 'SYS1.VTOCIX.MVSRS2'?

You could leave it as-is if there is no conflict with local site
conventions.  As long as the first two qualifiers of the data set
name are "SYS1.VTOCIX" everything will be all right; subsequent
qualifier(s) are ignored.

If you want to rename it, IEHPROGM can be used (but it's been
a while since I've done this).

If you want to delete it, you must use ICKDSF with the following
command:

 BUILDIX  DDNAME(<vol-dd>)  OSVTOC   PURGE                              00190019

for example.  Then you can rebuild the IXVTOC using suitable            00200000
ICKDSF commands

Stephen Allain
MVS Systems Support
UNB Computing Services
From: RGTILLER@SAMFORD.BITNET (Galen Tillery)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Subject: SPTAPE PRT File Layout
Date: 13 Oct 92 21:21:49 GMT
Organization: Samford University Computer Services
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Greetings..
Can anyone point me to the layout for SPTAPE printer files?

I have found the SPTBLOK layout but need to know what the print
files look like on the tape (i.e. if I was reading the tape from a
system other than VM).

I run HPO6.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks, Galen.
From: BHUNTER@UA1VM.UA.EDU (Bill Hunter)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Subject: Re: Addr: RACF/VM
Date: 16 Oct 92 15:36:33 GMT
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              16 Oct 1992 09:12:00 CST from <CCFXKPD@UCHIMVS1.UCHICAGO.EDU>

On Fri, 16 Oct 1992 09:12:00 CST Kriss Davis said:
>I agree that theoritically having the users change their passwords
>at initial log on and at intervals is a good idea.  However,
>there are way too many users of systems that changing their
>passwords just adds another thing they have to know how to
>do that they are not called upon to do frequently enough to
>remember how to do.
>
>Also, the rules about password construction (if there are
>any like no duplicate letters, must be at least X chars. long, etc.)
>are usually poorly or not documented.  So when a user goes to
>change passwords, they try several, none are the right configuration,
>and then the USERID gets locked and must be unlocked and reset.
>Seecurity packages rarely put out informative messages telling the
>user why a certain password is not acceptable.
>

Doesn't your site test software that affects all users before it goes
into "production"???

If the rules for passwords are poorly documented why don't you or your
staff figure out what the rules are and educate your users before you
thrust upon them a new security system that requires password changing?????
From: SYSPPA@LLUVM.BITNET (Patricia Parker)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Subject: VSAM AIX Build with SMS
Date: 15 Oct 92 16:19:02 GMT
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When building a VSAM alternate index using an external sort,
how do I code the IDCUT1 and IDCUT2 DD statements in an SMS
environment?

In the previously working, non-SMS JCL, the statements were
coded:

  //IDCUT1 DD DISP=OLD,DSN=MGLTV.SORT1.AMP='AMORG',
  //          UNIT=3380,VOL=SER=RIDDLE
  //IDCUT1 DD DISP=OLD,DSN=MGLTV.SORT2,AMP='AMORG',
  //          UNIT=3380,VOL=SER=RIDDLE

And even tho the sort datasets did not exist, the job ran.
Now volume RIDDLE is an SMS managed volume and SMS gives a
dataset not found condition for both datasets.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Patricia Parker
Loma Linda University
From: B19141@ANLVM.CTD.ANL.GOV (Barry Finkel)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Subject: Problem with MVS Guests under VM
Date: 16 Oct 92 21:29:28 GMT
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I experienced a problem with MVS/370 running under VM.  The VM is
VM/XA 2.1, I believe.   We used to have only
one MVS guest under VM - S33B running MVS/370 1.3.5.  We since have added
two additional guests - MVSXA and S33C running MVS/XA 2.2.3.  When we had
only S33B, its SYSRES and catalog volumes were DEDICATEd, and all of the
various MVS disks were full volume minidisks owned by S33B.  When we added
the two XA virtual machines we decided to have all of the MVS volumes
(SYSRESes, catalogs, system volumes, and user volumes) full volume minidisks
owned by MVSXA.  S33B and S33C would LINK to MVSXA's minidisks.  When I tried
to IPL S33B (MVS/370), the IPL got as far as "IEE360I SMF NOW RECORDING ON
SYS1.MAN1 on CTG33B TIME=15:08:53".  Then there were no MVS messages for a
few minutes, followed by  "IGF990I  I/O REQUEST PENDING FOR DEVICE 122" and
"IGF996E  PROBABLE DEVICE FAILURE, CANNOT INITIATE I/O TO 122".  I got a
CP I/O trace on 122, but I have not had time to review it.   We decided to
go back and have each guest's SYSRES and catalog DEDICATEd; the problem went
away.

The drawback of this approach is that some volumes are unaccessible to some
guests.  For example, the MVSXA SYSRES volume, SMPXA1, is unaccessible to
S33C; I cannot do any SMP/E work on S33C, as SMPXA1 has my global and target
zones.

Has anyone else experienced this?  Is this something I can report to the
IBM Support Center?  Thanks.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Barry S. Finkel
Computing and Telecommunications Division
Argonne National Laboratory               BITNET:   B19141@ANLVM
9700 South Cass Avenue                    Internet: B19141@ANLVM.CTD.ANL.GOV
Building 221, Room B223                   Phone:    (708) 252-7277
Argonne, IL   60439-4844                  Facsimile:(708) 252-5983
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From: j-grout@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (grout john robert)
Subject: Re: LINK PACK AREA MEMBERS
Reply-To: j-grout@uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 16:09:46 GMT

"Glenn A. Malling" <SYSGAM@SUVM.BITNET> writes:

>In addition to moving some things from the LPA, on SP 1 systems you
>probably have some that can be re-moved.  I.e. TCAM.

A full SYSGEN can be helpful as part of an LPA clean-up process.  Coding your
Stage 1 deck for your system helps you get rid of unwanted access methods
(such as TCAM) and device support routines (either those for devices which you
once had and got rid of or those your system came pre-SYSGENed with support
for).  You might also check your PTS for PTFs with SYSGEN holds... some of
those might help you remove unwanted code also (e.g., MSS support).

Since doing a full SYSGEN requires ACCEPTing all applied functions and
maintenance in the MVS zone (if you do it the naive way... if you can do it
the sophisticated way, you don't need help :-), I would suggest bringing your
system to a comfortable maintenance level (say generally three or four tapes
back but _with_ current hold data and fixes or bypasses for PE chains which
keep important things off) before doing the SYSGEN.  After the SYSGEN, do
additional maintenance with APPLY (for ease of back-off: more recent PTFs are
more likely to require it).
-- 
John R. Grout			| INTERNET: j-grout@uiuc.edu
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