Re: DS6800 and OS/390 2.9

2011-09-14 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2011-09-13 23:37, Carlos Bodra - Pessoal pisze: Hello List Gurus. We are in process of migrate from an ancient IBM 2105-F20 with 1TB of legacy mainframe data to a IBM 1750-522 (DS6800). Both subsystems has volumes defined as 3390-3 and no software features (flashcopy, pprc etc..) used in

Re: GIMUNZIP GIM54701S error

2011-09-14 Thread amit
hi Lim, my advise would be to add some TEMP datasets within the JCL... you can hardcode the Volser with a disp of Delete, Delete. this util allocates space from TEMP as defined in SMS and remove after the success.. thanks, Amit On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Lim Ming Liang limm...@unifi.my

Re: SMS compressed VSAM datasets

2011-09-14 Thread Gibney, Dave
Something is wrong with Ed's email that causes single quote (or apostrophes) to show as #39, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mingee, David Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 7:51 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re:

Re: GIMUNZIP GIM54701S error

2011-09-14 Thread Lim Ming Liang
I tried that with SYSUT1 ddname, but GIMUNZIP still dynamically allocate it. Regards Lim ML On 14/09/11 3:43 PM, amit wrote: hi Lim, my advise would be to add some TEMP datasets within the JCL... you can hardcode the Volser with a disp of Delete, Delete. this util allocates space from TEMP as

Re: GIMUNZIP GIM54701S error

2011-09-14 Thread amit
can you try directing it to tape instead of DASD, specifically mention ur TAPE psuedos...it wd take a lot of IO, but end of the day it would help you achieve success. On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Lim Ming Liang limm...@unifi.my wrote: I tried that with SYSUT1 ddname, but GIMUNZIP still

Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 12 Sep 2011 to 13 Sep 2011 (#2011-256)

2011-09-14 Thread David Boyes
BTW, what is #39,t mean? I see it frequently, is it encrypted cursing? Hahaha No, it's an attempt by smart mail user agents to insert a fancy apostrophe character instead of using the single quote. The 39 is the hex character code for the apostrophe.

Re: SMS compressed VSAM datasets

2011-09-14 Thread Scott Chapman
I guess my first thought / question would be to identify where the bottleneck for the backups is; disk I/O, tape I/O, or CPU? Presumably disk I/O didn't change a whole lot for reading the data or you would have seen impacts elsewhere too. My guess would be similar for the CPU. However, if

Re: IOCP RESOURCE coding help needed

2011-09-14 Thread Meral Temel (Garanti Teknoloji)
Hi Mike You might have already checked but I thought it maybe usefull to mention: I have used IOCP books when I had to do troubleshooting in standalone IOCP,it was on 9672 machines, but I have found it usefull on that time.These are latest version on ibm resourcelink website. * For

Re: DS6800 and OS/390 2.9

2011-09-14 Thread Pinnacle
On 9/13/2011 5:38 PM, Carlos Bodra - Pessoal wrote: Hello List Gurus. We are in process of migrate from an ancient IBM 2105-F20 with 1TB of legacy mainframe data to a IBM 1750-522 (DS6800). Both subsystems has volumes defined as 3390-3 and no software features (flashcopy, pprc etc..) used in

Re: GIMUNZIP GIM54701S error

2011-09-14 Thread Lim Ming Liang
added volume parameter in the ARCHDEF, resolved the issue. I think I can close this thread. Thank you all. Regards Lim ML On 14/09/11 5:47 PM, amit wrote: add volume parameter in the ARCHDEF. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Question for SMP/E gurus with DB2 knowledge

2011-09-14 Thread David Booher
Thanks for your opinion. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 2:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Question for SMP/E gurus with DB2 knowledge In

Re: GIMUNZIP GIM54701S error

2011-09-14 Thread Ted MacNEIL
advise would be to add some TEMP datasets within the JCL... you can hardcode the Volser with a disp of Delete, Delete. this util allocates space from TEMP as defined in SMS and remove after the success.. If you're in an SMS world, why hard code a volser? - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca

Re: SMS compressed VSAM datasets

2011-09-14 Thread Staller, Allan
1) I would increase bufnum before bufsize 2) Compress the output... HTH, snip This is a weird question, but I've been directed to ask it. We are converting some VSAM datasets which currently use BMC's Data Accelerator compression to use SMS compression instead. This is a financial decision.

Re: IOCP RESOURCE coding help needed

2011-09-14 Thread Mike Myers
Meral: Thanks. Yes, I have been reading the manuals. I have not found an example that shows what I want to do and no explanation in them that what I am trying to do is not legit. Mike On 09/14/2011 07:43 AM, Meral Temel (Garanti Teknoloji) wrote: Hi Mike You might have already checked

Re: SMS compressed VSAM datasets

2011-09-14 Thread McKown, John
Thanks. Yes, I see those entries. Messing around with the CISIZE is a bit iffy because I am not the primary responsibly person for these files. I cannot change them without permission. But I'm tasking with converting the in sitsu because programming just doesn't have the time necessary to be

Re: SMS compressed VSAM datasets

2011-09-14 Thread McKown, John
Given that the most obvious difference is that what used to take 3 output tapes is now going to 12 output tapes, the slow down is due to the number of bytes being written to tape. The bytes read from disk seem be about the same because the number of cylinders taken by the VSAM dataset is the

Re: SMS compressed VSAM datasets

2011-09-14 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
From 3 output tapes to 12? What kind of tape drives are you using? Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 8:18 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: SMS compressed VSAM

Re: Question for SMP/E gurus with DB2 knowledge

2011-09-14 Thread Clark, Stan [GCG-PFS]
You could point SDSNEXIT to a library you don't use for anything. SMP would still assemble and link DSNZPARM, but you wouldn't use the output module. In our case, I always delete the SMP step from DSNTIJUZ. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: SMS compressed VSAM datasets

2011-09-14 Thread McKown, John
They are virtual 3490s in a 3494 VTS from IBM. To anticipate some likely questions. They are SMS managed. The DATACLAS assigned to all virtual 3490s has COMPACTION=YES specified in it. The messages indicate that they are compressed. Eg: IEC705I TAPE ON

Re: Question for SMP/E gurus with DB2 knowledge

2011-09-14 Thread David Booher
Yes, on my new DB2 installs, I simply omit the step from DSNTIJUZ, but once it's run, the damage is done. You pin-pointed my problem on older systems, the APPLY CHECK works fine, but when you actually run the APPLY, it can fail because of a reference to an obsolete SDSNEXIT library. Your

Re: Suppress command output from SYSLOG

2011-09-14 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 11:24:04 +0300, A.Watthey a.watt...@gmail.com wrote: Sebastian, You should subscribe to the proper netview list where there is far more expertise than here (netv...@yahoogroups.com). However, what you need to do is check out the DEFAULTS SLOGCMDR value. You need either NO or

Re: Question for SMP/E gurus with DB2 knowledge

2011-09-14 Thread Hylton Tom P
Caveat: Moved on to other products, so it's been a few years since I was a db2 sysprog so I may just being dense. It isn't clear what damage you're trying to reverse, or perhaps I don't understand what obsolete means in this context. Why would the SMP/E defined SDNSEXIT dsn be classified

Re: SYS1.IMAGELIB

2011-09-14 Thread Walt Farrell
In case you do want more information, searching the complete z/OS V1.12 library for sys1.imagelib finds hits in 27 documents.

Re: SYS1.IMAGELIB

2011-09-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1315958086.61838.yahoomailmob...@web161421.mail.bf1.yahoo.com, on 09/13/2011 at 04:54 PM, Ed Gould ps2...@yahoo.com said: The 3800 printers essentially obsoleted all printers. No. 1. It was too expensive. 2. Some sites required impact printers for multi-part forms. -- Shmuel

Re: SMS compressed VSAM datasets

2011-09-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0de6a9840123e547b061ac5b6765c02610f...@exmb-05.ad.wsu.edu, on 09/14/2011 at 08:06 AM, Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu said: Something is wrong with Ed's email that causes single quote (or apostrophes) to show as #39, Code points 96, 131, 145 and 146 are also single quotes. -- Shmuel

Re: SMS compressed VSAM datasets

2011-09-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 20b9d8db9552d44981f6ebb3d26f579524a...@lm-hsexmsg-p06p.lm.lmig.com, on 09/14/2011 at 02:51 AM, Mingee, David david.min...@libertymutual.com said: Ed, Not that I know of. BTW, what is #39,t mean? It's a character entity, and should only be used in HTML, SGML and XML. The decimal number

Re: Invalid PDS member names

2011-09-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4e6fc2e1.9080...@neo.tamu.edu, on 09/13/2011 at 03:53 PM, Richard L Peurifoy r-peuri...@neo.tamu.edu said: This was supposed to go to the ISPF-L list. Why? The issue is far from limited to ISPF. In fact, your reply listed some of the other areas. IMHO this list is the proper venue. --

Re: SYS1.IMAGELIB

2011-09-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 20110913223925.DXFKW.7837.root@hrndva-web03-z01, on 09/13/2011 at 10:39 PM, Eric Bielefeld eric-ibmm...@wi.rr.com said: I suspect there aren't a lot of the printers such as 1403 and 3203 printers left anymore either. I'd be surprised to see many of those running, but there are probably

Re: SMS compressed VSAM datasets

2011-09-14 Thread Gilbert C Cardenas
We also use Faver and it is a handy tool to have especially for reorgs and point in time backups. Most of our backups go to a TMM disk pool so we bypass tape initially but eventually, some of the backups end up on tape during migration. I have occasionally wondered if using HSM functionality

Re: SMS compressed VSAM datasets

2011-09-14 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 6:41 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: SMS compressed VSAM datasets In

Re: Suppress command output from SYSLOG

2011-09-14 Thread Ed Gould
Sebastian, One item that you may want to consider. Display commands might be fine for something like this, but consider commands that do something like z rod or confit etc. These commands IMO should be logged so you can have accountability. Auditors should be asking about items like this. Ed

Re: SMS compressed VSAM datasets

2011-09-14 Thread Norbert Friemel
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:18:12 -0500, McKown, John wrote: Given that the most obvious difference is that what used to take 3 output tapes is now going to 12 output tapes, the slow down is due to the number of bytes being written to tape. The bytes read from disk seem be about the same because

Re: Invalid PDS member names

2011-09-14 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 9/14/2011 11:41 AM, Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. wrote: In4e6fc2e1.9080...@neo.tamu.edu, on 09/13/2011 at 03:53 PM, Richard L Peurifoyr-peuri...@neo.tamu.edu said: This was supposed to go to the ISPF-L list. Why? The issue is far from limited to ISPF. In fact, your reply listed some of

Re: SMS compressed VSAM datasets

2011-09-14 Thread McKown, John
Thanks. My boss is working with CA support right now with this new release. We just got it in this morning. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone *

Re: SMS compressed VSAM datasets

2011-09-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea00afc0ed...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom, on 09/14/2011 at 08:08 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com said: And chaning from Faver to ADRDSSU is no go because that is a change which would require going through change control for each and every file. I take

Re: SYS1.IMAGELIB

2011-09-14 Thread Ed Gould
Yes there were follow on printers. I suspect there are very few real need for carbon copies anymore. I suppose, but I suspect that the number has decreased because with electronic copies the need is mute except for cash register and the odd type are needed. Ed

Re: SMS compressed VSAM datasets

2011-09-14 Thread Ed Gould
I have no idea what the issue is. The email you sent back to me does not contain the characters you indicated. A friend suggested it#39;s a ISP issue. I will try using m other client and see if the issue follows. Ed -- For

Re: SMS compressed VSAM datasets

2011-09-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea00afc0ed...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom, on 09/14/2011 at 11:45 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com said: Well, according to our LAN people, Windows is the only true standard. Which windoze? M$ introduces incompatabilities with every release. --

Re: SMS compressed VSAM datasets

2011-09-14 Thread McKown, John
We aren't dropping Faver. We are dropping Data Accelerator. It did go through change control. But nobody knew the effect it would have. I made sure that the converted datasets were still fully and compatibly accessible. They are. But apparently nobody monitored the effect on test or Model

Re: SMS compressed VSAM datasets

2011-09-14 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
You will let us know if it works, right? :-) Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 11:59 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: SMS compressed VSAM datasets Thanks. My

Re: SMS compressed VSAM datasets

2011-09-14 Thread McKown, John
Yes, I'll update the list one way or another. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This

Mainframe article

2011-09-14 Thread Matthew Stitt
The Register has another mainframe related article which points out the rising importance of the mainframe and its growth in recent years. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/13/bmc_mainframe_survey/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Mainframe article

2011-09-14 Thread Bobbie Justice
re: The Register has another mainframe related article which points out the rising importance of the mainframe and its growth in recent years. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/13/bmc_mainframe_survey/; No, this can't be right, obviously whoever wrote this article is not reading enough

Re: Mainframe article

2011-09-14 Thread Ken Porowski
I notice they claim only 4,000 Mainframe shops in the world. I thought the number was closer to 10,000. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Bobbie Justice Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 2:43 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu

it#39;s

2011-09-14 Thread Gibney, Dave
Hi Ed, you are saying you see no 39 in either this subject line and in the quoted note below. Then your client is doubly broken :) Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Mainframe article

2011-09-14 Thread Tony Harminc
On 14 September 2011 14:49, Ken Porowski ken.porow...@cit.com wrote: I notice they claim only 4,000 Mainframe shops in the world.  I thought the number was closer to 10,000. I have no idea, but I still have my VM Soars with 20,000 licenses poster from IBM. That was from the 1990s, IIRC. Tony

Re: Mainframe article

2011-09-14 Thread Aled Hughes
Mr Timothy Prickett Morgan is not and never has been a great fan of mainframes. If you have ever read his comments, he always comes across as being anti-M/F and to some extent anti-IBM. As to the number of M/F sites in the world today? Where did he get this number from? As Bobbie Justice said,

Re: it's

2011-09-14 Thread Bill Godfrey
It is not just Ed's mail client that doesn't show the HTML numeric character reference (NCR) that others see. If I look at your message using the web interface (whose address is at the end of all messages), the NCR appears in the subject in the list of messages for September, but when I look at

Re: it's

2011-09-14 Thread Bill Godfrey
I sent my previous message using the Listserv web interface, and I see it replaced the NCR in the subject with an apostrophe. I didn't tell it to do that - it did it automatically. On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:40:10 -0500, Bill Godfrey yak36...@yahoo.com wrote: It is not just Ed's mail client that

O/T Testing client

2011-09-14 Thread Ed Gould
I am working on apparently my issue with either my client or ISP issue with sending text. Could you let me know (via private email) how your client sees the following characters. 1. Double quotes () 2. Single quotes  (') 3. ampersand () 4. at symbol (@) 5. Percent (%) I think I have an ISP

Re: Mainframe article

2011-09-14 Thread Scott Ford
I heard about 7200 that was 10 yrs ago ... Scott J Ford Software Engineer http://www.identityforge.com   From: Aled Hughes aledlhug...@aol.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 3:38 PM Subject: Re: Mainframe article Mr Timothy Prickett Morgan is not and never has

Re: it's

2011-09-14 Thread Ed Gould
It's is coming through on my end. The : (colon) is coming through fine. I am confused. Ed - Original Message - From: Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Cc: Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 1:59 PM Subject: it's Hi Ed, you are saying you see no 39 in either this

Re: SYS1.IMAGELIB

2011-09-14 Thread Rick Fochtman
I know of at least one 1403-N1 still in regular service, maintained by cannabalized parts from two other units as needed. Rick - Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In

Re: SYS1.IMAGELIB

2011-09-14 Thread Rick Fochtman
You haven't dealt with the government regulatory agencies lately, have you, Ed? Some will not accept electronic copies but instead DEMAND carbon copies. At Clearing, we went round and round with Commerce Dept. types who INSISTED that we had to produce carbons, so we had to rent time on a

Re: Mainframe article

2011-09-14 Thread Rick Fochtman
Maybe he found something more ineresting. Like Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse or Bugs Bunny, mayge? Rick - Bobbie Justice wrote: re: The Register has another mainframe related article which points out the rising importance of the mainframe and its growth in

Re: Mainframe article

2011-09-14 Thread Rick Fochtman
Another alligator pundit? All mouth and no brains? :-) Rick --- Aled Hughes wrote: Mr Timothy Prickett Morgan is not and never has been a great fan of mainframes. If you have ever read his comments, he always comes across as being

Re: Mainframe article

2011-09-14 Thread Schneck.Glenn
Rick, As a former Disney employee and resident of Central Florida, you should not associate Mickey or Donald with this 'author'!! :) Glenn - Original Message - From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Wed Sep 14

Text issue

2011-09-14 Thread Ed Gould
While I was composing the test email I noticed that there is a switch to rich text option that shows up on my one client and not the other. Sigh.. I am guessing that somehow if I use the IPAD that somehow the ISP is not telling my client to present that option and assumes that I always want

Re: SYS1.IMAGELIB

2011-09-14 Thread Ed Gould
Rick, Well when I worked at Options there wasn't such a need as we got rid of out impact printers and that was in 1990's Ed - Original Message - From: Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Cc: Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 3:21 PM Subject: Re: SYS1.IMAGELIB

Re: Mainframe article

2011-09-14 Thread Ed Finnell
SHARE button from Anaheim JES2 may be Mickey Mouse, but JES3 is goofy! In a message dated 9/14/2011 3:23:50 P.M. Central Daylight Time, rfocht...@ync.net writes: Like Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse or Bugs Bunny, maybe?

CCW Trace

2011-09-14 Thread Staller, Allan
I have a DASD volume with very high activity and will be running a CCW trace to gather diagnostic info. I have all the info I need to run the trace. Does anyone have (or can you point me to) the CCW trace reduction program. This was a program (basically PROC FREQ) that reduced the target address

Re: SMS compressed VSAM datasets

2011-09-14 Thread McKown, John
The newest release of Faver from CA was just tested. It reduced our backup time from 58 minutes to 10 minutes and from 11 tapes to 6 tapes. Unfortunately, it is not totally transparent in that it requires a new DD statement, DSSMSGDD. It is invoking ADRDSSU to do the actual dump of the data.

Re: Mainframe article

2011-09-14 Thread Phil Smith
Tony Harminc wrote, re the number of mainframes in the world: I have no idea, but I still have my VM Soars with 20,000 licenses poster from IBM. That was from the 1990s, IIRC. Yeah, alas, that 20,000 apparently included every VM license ever sold at that point, including ones never installed, or

Re: SMS compressed VSAM datasets

2011-09-14 Thread Ed Gould
John, I remember doing something like this with a utility which name escapes me (PDS UTILITY)but it was a company from Farmington Michigan and I had to call their help desk to figure it out. This was 20 years ago. But I remember it was not exactly straight forward how to do. Ed

Re: Mainframe article

2011-09-14 Thread Scott Ford
All,   Isnt it odd no one seems to know number of z/OS,VSE,VM shops in the World or in the USA. I worked for a well known vendor on the z/OS,VE and VM team we had 2500 customers. We pretty much could tell you what they had or what we had in their customer account record.   Scott J Ford

Re: Mainframe article

2011-09-14 Thread Ed Gould
Scott, There might be an issues between legal and let#39;s say less than legal. A former company that I used to work for had 4 systems and paid IBM for two. The IBM rep knew they were supposedly only for DR hmmm, not really but I digress. IBM rep had full knowledge of the deal. One time I was

Re: it's

2011-09-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1316031374.5682.yahoomail...@web161424.mail.bf1.yahoo.com, on 09/14/2011 at 01:16 PM, Ed Gould ps2...@yahoo.com said: It's is coming through on my end. Does your e-mail client have an option to view the raw message text? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO

Re: Mainframe article

2011-09-14 Thread Rick Fochtman
I realize it's a grave insult to Mickey and Donald to make a direct comparison. Forgive me for a moment of weakness mixed with disgust at the temerity of this so-called author. Rick - Schneck.Glenn wrote: Rick, As a former Disney

Re: Mainframe article

2011-09-14 Thread Rick Fochtman
I'd kill for those buttons; economics keep me at home. :-( Rick -- Ed Finnell wrote: SHARE button from Anaheim JES2 may be Mickey Mouse, but JES3 is goofy! In a message dated 9/14/2011 3:23:50 P.M. Central Daylight Time,