Re: Is DSNTYPE=EXT parameter only used for VSAM

2011-04-18 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2011-04-18 07:06, ibmnew pisze: Dear all Using an EF data set enables you to use VSAM functions such as multivolume allocation, compression, or striping. Q1. Is DSNTYPE=EXT parameter only used for VSAM ? Could it be used for PS,PDS and etc? Q2. PS and PDS could be

Re: Is DSNTYPE=EXT parameter only used for VSAM

2011-04-18 Thread Bernard Coeytaux
It is very usefull for PS, every PS should now benefits from EF. You can then haeve 59 volumes of 123 extents for 1 PS dataset giving a maximum of 7256 extents. (no track limitation) And they can be compressed ! I don't now about PDS

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

2011-04-18 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4)
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. Unless some kind of loop to read the state of the volume is setup, there

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

2011-04-18 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4)
In fact, there's no guarantee they'll run in the order submitted. Depends on the JES setup. Many shops probably still have a serialization job class in place, a job class which only ever has a single initiator started to serve that class. So, jobs will be executed in the order they are queued to

Re: Is DSNTYPE=EXT parameter only used for VSAM

2011-04-18 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4)
So, EXT* can be used not only for VSAM. EXTREQ is even a requirement for multivolume PS data sets should you still have (asm) programs using NOTE and POINT to process the data. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Is DSNTYPE=EXT parameter only used for VSAM

2011-04-18 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2011-04-18 09:28, Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4) pisze: So, EXT* can be used not only for VSAM. EXTREQ is even a requirement for multivolume PS data sets should you still have (asm) programs using NOTE and POINT to process the data. It's not. non-EF PS can be multi-volume. -- Radoslaw

Transmission files

2011-04-18 Thread GUIRAO LOPEZ, ALVARO
Hi list, I want to transmit PDS PS files from z/OS to my local PC, and then from my PC to another z/OS, please, tell me If know a quick and easy way for do this with many files and both types ( PS PDS ). Thank all and have a nice day ;-) Álvaro Guirao.

Re: Transmission files

2011-04-18 Thread Bernard Coeytaux
I use IPSWITCH WS-FTP 12 professional -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Re: Transmission files

2011-04-18 Thread Ravi Gaur
I use below method.. Method adopted 1. Terse the dataset //STEP1 EXEC PGM=TRSMAIN,PARM='PACK' //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //INFILEDD DISP=SHR,DSN=.INFILE //OUTFILE DD DSN=.TERSE, //

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

2011-04-18 Thread Ted MacNEIL
jobs will be executed in the order they are queued to that job class for execution. There's no guarantee that submission order is execution order. Conversion time and the number of inits and systems can change all that. - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Twitter: @TedMacNEIL

Re: Is DSNTYPE=EXT parameter only used for VSAM

2011-04-18 Thread ibmnew
It's not. non-EF PS can be multi-volume. Yes. What's differences between non-EF PS with EF PS? Below is the differences? 1.EF PS can be compressed 2. no track limitation for EF PS ( Is EXTENDED ADDRESSABILITY parameter only used for VSAM ?) Thanks a lot! Best Regards, Jason Cai

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

2011-04-18 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4)
jobs will be executed in the order they are queued to that job class for execution. There's no guarantee that submission order is execution order. Conversion time and the number of inits and systems can change all that. You may have missed the other two paragraphs in my post, which exactly

Re: Is DSNTYPE=EXT parameter only used for VSAM

2011-04-18 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4)
EXTREQ is even a requirement for multivolume PS data sets should you still have (asm) programs using NOTE and POINT to process the data. It's not. non-EF PS can be multi-volume. That is not what I was saying. The emphasis lies on using NOTE and POINT which makes EXTENDED format a requirement

JNUM and JQES are full

2011-04-18 Thread ibmnew
Dear all JNUM and JQES are full in our shop *$HASP050 JES2 RESOURCE SHORTAGE OF JNUM - 100% UTILIZATION REACHED *$HASP050 JES2 RESOURCE SHORTAGE OF JQES - 100% UTILIZATION REACHED My questions: 1 What made JNUM and JQES full? 2.JOENUM=161314,JOBNUM=65534 AND CKPTSPACE BERTNUM=9000 in the

Re: JNUM and JQES are full

2011-04-18 Thread Lizette Koehler
*$HASP050 JES2 RESOURCE SHORTAGE OF JNUM - 100% UTILIZATION REACHED *$HASP050 JES2 RESOURCE SHORTAGE OF JQES - 100% UTILIZATION REACHED You need to see how many job numbers you have defined. $DJOBDEF $DSPOOLDEF $DSPOOL,LONG These commands should help you see what it going on. I

Re: Transmission files

2011-04-18 Thread Lizette Koehler
I want to transmit PDS PS files from z/OS to my local PC, and then from my PC to another z/OS, please, tell me If know a quick and easy way for do this with many files and both types ( PS PDS ). A few of options 1) Use TSO TRANSMIT to create a compressed file Then FTP to PC using

Re: Is DSNTYPE=EXT parameter only used for VSAM

2011-04-18 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2011-04-18 11:44, ibmnew pisze: It's not. non-EF PS can be multi-volume. Yes. What's differences between non-EF PS with EF PS? Below is the differences? 1.EF PS can be compressed 2. no track limitation for EF PS ( Is EXTENDED ADDRESSABILITY parameter only used for VSAM ?)

Re: Transmission files

2011-04-18 Thread GUIRAO LOPEZ, ALVARO
Hi, I like XMIT to compress files with IEBCOPY for PDS files, for PS I use TRSMAIN, also if they are backed with DFDSS because sometimes when I do this without TRSMAIN the files cannot be restored directly because of the conversion of the format when I ftp to my PC. Thanks a lot,

Re: Transmission files

2011-04-18 Thread Lizette Koehler
I like XMIT to compress files with IEBCOPY for PDS files, for PS I use TRSMAIN, also if they are backed with DFDSS because sometimes when I do this without TRSMAIN the files cannot be restored directly because of the conversion of the format when I ftp to my PC. If you are using BIN in your

Re: RESMGR for terminating Address Space

2011-04-18 Thread Peter Relson
Why Cann't you do Storage Obtain with ALET of Master that do MVCS to move the Address of the Module Sorry forgot you have to issue RESMGR in Asid 1 okay Can you execute the resmgr macro in the subsystem initlization routine for *MASTER* You have not yet grasped the concept of a memterm

Re: Transmission files

2011-04-18 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 07:03:33 -0400, Lizette Koehler wrote: 2) Use FREE product TRSMAIN from IBM to compress your dataset Or, for the daring and avant-garde, AMATERSE. 3) Create a DFDSS backup file Then FTP to PC using BIN format Use FTP to Upload to your target z/OS host Use

Re: Transmission files

2011-04-18 Thread shai hess
HI, There is a product which can share your disk between z/os at any distance. It can emulated 3390 disk. The data is stored in PC. You can access all the files in the disk from any system using the standard OS utilities. I heard that the product is free. Shai On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 5:27 AM,

Re: TSSO help please

2011-04-18 Thread Brian Westerman
I looked into the problem, and I think if you specify PROFILE VARSTORAGE(LOW) at the beginning of your REXX exec, you will be able to run without changing the convert program to flip in and out of 31 bit and not have to worry about it during the life of that particular exec. (make sure you change

Re: CPU utilization/forecasting

2011-04-18 Thread David Andrews
On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 16:57 -0400, Ward, Mike S wrote: Hello all, can someone tell me if it's better to use CPU peak or CPU average to project growth. Once upon a time I found it useful to condense a month's worth of RMF data into a single graph showing the average CPU utilization over the

Re: CPU utilization/forecasting

2011-04-18 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
d...@lists.duda.com (David Andrews) writes: Once upon a time I found it useful to condense a month's worth of RMF data into a single graph showing the average CPU utilization over the course of a day, plus-or-minus one standard deviation. That drop-bar chart made it easy to visualize

Re: SMSVSAM Sharing control data set - delete and activate

2011-04-18 Thread Buckton, T. (Theo)
Thank you Skip Robinson, Over the past weekend we added a LPAR to our development system, thereby having a SYSPLEX consisting of three LPARS = DEV0, DEV1 ETE0 We introduced secondary lock structures in order to test VSAM RLS on our DFHSM spheres (control data sets - MCDS, BCDS OCDS). Our

When is an OSA card too busy?

2011-04-18 Thread Horne, Jim - James S
This is a stupid question but we need to analyze the use on one of our OSA CHPIDs. Anyone who actually know anything about it is out of the office so it has fallen to me to look into it. I can tell it's not as simple as just Bus busy or Channel busy, or Read bytes and write bytes but I'm

Re: When is an OSA card too busy?

2011-04-18 Thread Hal Merritt
I'd open a PMR and get instructions for a trace. Do the trace and send to IBM for analysis. Poor performance could be any number of things. The 'overload' might be a DOS, excessive retries, or a configuration issue. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: When is an OSA card too busy?

2011-04-18 Thread Horne, Jim - James S
Thanks, Hal. We have opened a ticket with IBM. I'm using IBM-Main to see if I can get more/better information faster this way. Jim Horne Hal Merritt wrote: I'd open a PMR and get instructions for a trace. Do the trace and send to IBM for analysis. Poor performance could be any number of

Re: Transmission files

2011-04-18 Thread Tony Harminc
On 18 April 2011 08:27, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 07:03:33 -0400, Lizette Koehler wrote: 2)  Use FREE product TRSMAIN from IBM to compress your dataset Or, for the daring and avant-garde, AMATERSE. On the other hand AMATERSE is neither free as in free beer

Re: When is an OSA card too busy?

2011-04-18 Thread Chris Mason
Jim The OSA specialists can more reliably be found on the IBMTCP-L list: For IBMTCP-L subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO IBMTCP-L I presume you've looked through the manual - just the one - covering the OSA (I assume

Re: When is an OSA card too busy?

2011-04-18 Thread Scott Rowe
What is RMF telling you, and what type of OSA is it? On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Horne, Jim - James S jim.s.ho...@lowes.com wrote: Thanks, Hal. We have opened a ticket with IBM. I'm using IBM-Main to see if I can get more/better information faster this way. Jim Horne Hal Merritt

Re: When is an OSA card too busy?

2011-04-18 Thread Scott Rowe
Also, have you checked that the OSA is connected at the proper speed and duplex? This can be done through the HMC. On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Horne, Jim - James S jim.s.ho...@lowes.com wrote: Thanks, Hal. We have opened a ticket with IBM. I'm using IBM-Main to see if I can get

Re: Transmission files

2011-04-18 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Tony Harminc Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 10:16 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Transmission files On 18 April 2011 08:27, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On

Re: When is an OSA card too busy?

2011-04-18 Thread Horne, Jim - James S
It's defined as an OSD and in the period we care about, we see Bus busy and channel busy better than 5%, read bytes/sec better than 100 Megabytes/sec and write bytes at a little over 2 Megabytes/sec. Normally the read rate is about 100X less and the write rate is about 10X less. We know we're

Re: When is an OSA card too busy?

2011-04-18 Thread Horne, Jim - James S
Yes, we've checked that and it's okay. Jim Horne -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Rowe Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 11:22 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: When is an OSA card too busy? Also, have you checked

Re: When is an OSA card too busy?

2011-04-18 Thread Scott Rowe
So, this is a Gigabit OSA? If so, 100MB is close enough to theoretical maximum data rate that it's pretty safe to say it's maxed out. On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Horne, Jim - James S jim.s.ho...@lowes.com wrote: Yes, we've checked that and it's okay. Jim Horne -Original

IMS Restart Issue

2011-04-18 Thread Ron Thomas
Hi, We are now in need of help from the IMS experts ��. Here goes the scenario. The data were stored in IMS. There happened a database migration on 04/15/2011 where the IMS data were migrated to DB2. This is accomplished with a third party tool called DL2. The advantage of this tool is that

Re: When is an OSA card too busy?

2011-04-18 Thread Hal Merritt
Yes, but why? For example, we just recently had an issue where some piece of gear was configured as auto negotiate. After a lot of work, it was determined that the Cisco routers we were using don't do auto negotiate well and had somehow gotten into the wrong duplex state. We turned off

Re: IMS Restart Issue

2011-04-18 Thread Chris Mason
Ron We are now in need of help from the IMS experts You'll find the IMS experts inhabiting IMS-L: http://imslistserv.bmc.com/ Chris Mason On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:46:59 -0500, Ron Thomas ron5...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, We are now in need of help from the IMS experts ļ. Here goes the scenario.

Re: When is an OSA card too busy?

2011-04-18 Thread Blaicher, Chris
I have never done ANY work with an OSA card, so my comment may be way off-track. Changing the size of the packet (if that is even possible in an OSA card), may buy you some reduction in the ratio of overhead bytes to data bytes. A friend was working on a problem with a saturated gigabit LAN

Re: When is an OSA card too busy?

2011-04-18 Thread Scott Rowe
While switching to Jumbo Frames may be beneficial (assuming the current MTU is set to 1500), it is not likely to solve the issue. Using Jumbo Frames usually increases throughput by increasing link utilization. I kinda think they are already using Jumbo Frames if they are getting 100MB+/s. One

Re: JNUM and JQES are full

2011-04-18 Thread Ed Finnell
Yeah, $D SPOOL,JOBS3 or something should tell who the heavy hitters are. Might be old DUMPS or aborted transmissions just sitting there. If they're using JES as report writer, $O Q,ALL,AGE=5,CANCEL should break bad habits. In a message dated 4/18/2011 5:44:55 A.M. Central Daylight Time,

Deleting post

2011-04-18 Thread Ron Thomas
Hello. I want to delete my posts from here, if so how to do the same? Thanks, Ron -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Re: Transmission files

2011-04-18 Thread Gibney, Dave
One picky point. TRANSMIT (XMIT) does not compress. It copies into a transportable format, but there is little or no compression as understood today. Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Transmission files

2011-04-18 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2011-04-18 21:37, Gibney, Dave pisze: One picky point. TRANSMIT (XMIT) does not compress. It copies into a transportable format, but there is little or no compression as understood today. Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University Indeed, XMIT does not

Re: Transmission files

2011-04-18 Thread Dave Salt
From: r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl How can I download my PDSE from mainframe to my PC and edit the later?You could use the ISPF Workstation Agent (WSA.EXE). Dave Salt SimpList(tm) - try it; you'll get it! http://www.mackinney.com/products/program-development/simplist.html Date:

Re: Deleting post

2011-04-18 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:22:43 -0500, Ron Thomas wrote: I want to delete my posts from here, if so how to do the same? Doesn't matter. Google will archive them, and they'll be accessible forever. see OLLIE NORTH PROFS. -- gil

Re: Deleting post

2011-04-18 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
You are too late. It may be possible to delete your messages from the official archive at U of Ala. But the messages have already been echoed to Usenet and are now ensconced of several Usenet archives, including google. Most Usenet servers Ignore delete requests. -Original Message-

Re: Transmission files

2011-04-18 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:00:26 -0400, Dave Salt wrote: From: r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl How can I download my PDSE from mainframe to my PC and edit the later?You could use the ISPF Workstation Agent (WSA.EXE). But that's Windows-centric. If I haven't Windows on my desktop, I'm SOL.

Re: JNUM and JQES are full

2011-04-18 Thread Linda Mooney
$DJQ,SPOOL=(PERCENT3) will show all jobs holding 3% or more of spool space. Linda - Original Message - From: Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 12:17:16 PM Subject: Re: JNUM and JQES are full Yeah, $D SPOOL,JOBS3 or something

z/VM Red Alert (April 18, 2011)

2011-04-18 Thread Pamela Christina on a Monday in Endicott NY
We updated the z/VM Red Alert page a moment ago http://www.vm.ibm.com/service/redalert/ with the new Red Alert that pertains to those who run Linux on z/VM V6.1 and/or z/VM V5.4. APAR VM64862 is in error APAR VM64862 has been found to be in error. Installing this APAR may result in

Re: Copy OMVS file system after service to production system

2011-04-18 Thread SAURABH KHANDELWAL
Thanks. Regards Saurabh On 4/19/2011 3:07 AM, Neubert, Kevin wrote: You shouldn’t have to do a manual compare. There are commands available such as diff and find. Examples: Show differences: diff -s /prod/root /test/root Find symbolic links: find /prod/root -type l Regards, Kevin

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

2011-04-18 Thread Ed Gould
From: Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4) peter.hunke...@credit-suisse.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Mon, April 18, 2011 2:23:26 AM Subject: Re: Submit a series of jobs in order after the previous has completed In fact, there's no guarantee they'll run in the order