Re: posting commands across systems in a plex

2011-04-15 Thread Munif Sadek
tried RO CONNECT and got IEE305I CONNECT COMMAND INVALID cheers.. Munif -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

Re: TSSO help please

2011-04-15 Thread Brian Westerman
I looked through my old notes and found that JCECVTDB is/was not authorized, it isn't meant to be, but it also isn't 31bit. Since you are getting an 0C4, is it possible that you have inadvertently assembled/linked things and made them 31bit? There are a lot of issues that will pop up over the

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Re: ACS routine coding philosophy

2011-04-15 Thread Richards, Robert B.
What he said! I would also add the following: 1) Document your logic decisions so that at a later date you know why you coded it that way (combats old-timers disease). 2) Group your filter lists in a sequence that is easy for you to use. I chose: Storage Class, Job, User, DDName, DASD Units,

Re: posting commands across systems in a plex

2011-04-15 Thread Lizette Koehler
tried RO CONNECT and got IEE305I CONNECT COMMAND INVALID cheers.. Munif The command syntax you show does not look correct. What is a command called CONNECT? I am not aware of this MVS command Please provide the complete command you are trying to route. Read the MVS

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2011-04-15 Thread Jan MOEYERSONS
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Re: Regarding IEASYS member

2011-04-15 Thread Peter Relson
What was never posted was the actual message that prompted. Was it IEA100A (specify system parameters) or was it one of the messages that ask to re-specify due to error? Given that things cleared up when IEASYS00 was created, I suspect it was the latter. The system happily took your input from

Re: Submit a series of jobs in order after the previous has completed

2011-04-15 Thread Art Gutowski
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:45:57, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 09:50:02, Patrick Welsh wrote: I have a situation where I want to submit 12 batch jobs in order, with an MVS command to bring a volume online between jobs 2 and 3. I could ask Ops Support to use the

Re: ACS routine coding philosophy

2011-04-15 Thread McKown, John
Many thanks to all. In my normal programming, I do use the structured forms (SELECT/WHEN/OTHERWISE). For some reason, I just thought that ACS routines might be easier for some of the other sysprogs to understand with what I thought would be simpler logic. I really need to totally re-engineer

Re: ACS routine coding philosophy

2011-04-15 Thread Art Gutowski
Food for thought... If your FILTLISTS are numerous and onerous, you might consider defining some RACF (or your favorite alternative, if the constructs are available) profiles and segments to assign appropriate defaults and allow for specification based on user or group. Of course, that puts

Re: Submit a series of jobs in order after the previous has completed

2011-04-15 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:44:33 -0500, Art Gutowski wrote: You can accomplish this in System Rexx as well, trapping RC before submitting the next job. However, when I saw an example of this at my last shop, the programmer chose, or was forced, to use ftp to submit the jobs to the internal reader.

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Re: Submit a series of jobs in order after the previous has completed

2011-04-15 Thread Scott Ford
I am a bit surprised no one has mentioned the usage if IF and RC checking in JCL like the below snippet.. //IFGOD1 IF (STEP0.RC = 0) THEN //*---* //*  IEBCOPY COPY IDSN TO

Re: DSSCOPY and AIX?

2011-04-15 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
The DSS manual clearly states you cannot change the number of qualifiers in a DSN with wild cards; you must use a fully qualified (complete) DSN. If you do a LISTC ALL for the cluster you will get the DSNs of the AIX and any paths. Just add additional pairs of parameters to the RENAMEU

Re: TCP/IP Available on MVS When?

2011-04-15 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
l...@garlic.com (Anne Lynn Wheeler) writes: part of the issue was that the base support shipped with a box that was basically a channel-attached bridge (similar but different to 3174 boxes that supported LANs) ... so the host stuff had to do all the ARP/MAC/LAN layer gorp ... rfc1044 support

Re: DSSCOPY and AIX?

2011-04-15 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:35:55 -0700, Schwarz, Barry A wrote: The DSS manual clearly states you cannot change the number of qualifiers in a DSN with wild cards; you must use a fully qualified (complete) DSN. Is there a credible rationale for this irritating restriction? BTW, an Innovation

Re: TSSO help please

2011-04-15 Thread Neal Eckhardt
I have found that there are several places in the TSSO OSCMD command where routines are called in 24 bit mode. The documentation for IKJCT441 says you must be in 31 bit mode to process REXX variables. Since the value for these REXX variables are contained in 31 bit storage, JCECVTDB and

Re: DSSCOPY and AIX?

2011-04-15 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi Barry, From my reading, I would have thought SPHERE would eliminate the need to specify the AIX/PATH entries. The source cluster, and all of its' components are in the same usercat. The target cluster is going to a different usercat. I thought I was getting pretty good a

DFHRM0131 CICSINGP Resynchronization required with LU62 resources

2011-04-15 Thread Whitehair, John
I have just completed the upgrade from CICS/TS 3.1 to 4.1 in our production regions. Now we are getting this message. I didn't see any references to this in the CICS/TS Upgrade Guide. Can someone explain what is causing this and the resolution. John R. Whitehair MVS Systems Programmer

Re: DFHRM0131 CICSINGP Resynchronization required with LU62 resources

2011-04-15 Thread Barkow, Eileen
This error occasionally happened in cics ts 3.2 with the isc links. We have regions coming up at different times, so we try to reset the connections when one comes up And the other does not: To resychronize, issue the command: CEMT SET CONN( sysname ) RESYNC -Original Message- From:

Re: ACS routine coding philosophy

2011-04-15 Thread Gibney, Dave
In this case I'd also advise serious use of Naviquest. The drawback for you, given what I understand about the scarcity of MSU at your site, is that Naviquest is a long of running ISPF in batch. My experience with it concluded it was very CPU intensive. It also took a while to come up to speed and

Re: Submit a series of jobs in order after the previous has completed

2011-04-15 Thread Rick Fochtman
One additional thing: go to the CBTTAPE.ORG site and find a program named COMMAND. This will allow you to submit a separate job, whereever you wish in the stream, to issue the VARY command to bring that odd volume online. Rick --snip--- John

Re: DSSCOPY and AIX?

2011-04-15 Thread Don Imbriale
To give you something else to complain about? :) On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote: Is there a credible rationale for this irritating restriction? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

RESMGR for terminating Address Space

2011-04-15 Thread michealbutz
Hi, Would anyone know if installing a Address Space Terminating routine via RESMGR works Under all circumstances Meaning normal Termination Thanks -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: DFHRM0131 CICSINGP Resynchronization required with LU62 resources

2011-04-15 Thread Chris Mason
John Can someone explain what is causing this and the resolution? Question mark added. Indeed someone can and that someone is the author of the CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Version 4 Release 1 CICS Messages and Codes manual in which manual I would have thought anyone who had been tasked

CPU utilization/forecasting

2011-04-15 Thread Ward, Mike S
Hello all, can someone tell me if it's better to use CPU peak or CPU average to project growth. My way of thinking is if you use peak then you're sure to show where you need extra horse power. In other words if you can't process during your peaks what good are the averages.

Re: CPU utilization/forecasting

2011-04-15 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2011-04-15 22:57, Ward, Mike S pisze: Hello all, can someone tell me if it's better to use CPU peak or CPU average to project growth. My way of thinking is if you use peak then you're sure to show where you need extra horse power. In other words if you can't process during your peaks what

Re: CPU utilization/forecasting

2011-04-15 Thread Burrell, C. Todd (CDC/OCOO/ITSO) (CTR)
I almost hate to give this answer, but the correct response to this is simply IT DEPENDS. I have worked in a number of different shops, and your answer for this depends greatly on the type of workload you have on the machine along with expected/required level of performance and SLA's. At my

Re: CPU utilization/forecasting

2011-04-15 Thread Gerhard Adam
- what do you mean by average. I disclose very big secret: CPU is always 100% busy or 0% busy (*). Always - mean in every tact (tick?). So the shorter period you take for CPU measurement the higher peaks you will get. If your periods are as short as CPU cycle then your CPU usage is binary: 100%

Re: CPU utilization/forecasting

2011-04-15 Thread Linda Mooney
Hi Mike, Sorry, but I gotta say, It depends.  We generally use both peak and average, since they each are good measurements of where you are.  Our online peaks are tied to our customers' business, batch is constrained by when staff is available to support it.  One thing I would recommend

Re: RESMGR for terminating Address Space

2011-04-15 Thread Chris Craddock
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 4:17 PM, michealbutz michealb...@optonline.netwrote: Hi, Would anyone know if installing a Address Space Terminating routine via RESMGR works Under all circumstances Meaning normal Termination Yes, Memory Termination resource managers always get control (in

Re: RESMGR for terminating Address Space

2011-04-15 Thread Tony Harminc
On 15 April 2011 16:17, michealbutz michealb...@optonline.net wrote: Would anyone know if installing a Address Space Terminating routine via RESMGR works Under all circumstances That rather depends on what your code does... Meaning normal Termination If you mean does it get control on a

Re: CPU utilization/forecasting

2011-04-15 Thread Ward, Mike S
Thanks all of you for responding. I will take all answers under consideration. Most of them were it depends. :) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Linda Mooney Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 5:00 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu

Re: RESMGR for terminating Address Space

2011-04-15 Thread michealbutz
If it gets control in the Master Address Space Where does the Routine Have to get Loaded?? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Tony Harminc Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 6:24 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: RESMGR for