Re: Workstation compliance

2008-05-28 Thread Jan MOEYERSONS
On Tue, 27 May 2008 14:54:43 -0700, Gibney, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Softcopy Librarian and Softcopy Reader don't play well with Vista. I I don't have a solution for the Librarian, but for the Reader, you could try the ancient (but my prefered-one) Library Reader for Windows. No java in

AUTO: Jon Butler is out of the office (returning 02-06-2008)

2008-05-28 Thread Jon Butler
I am out of the office until 02-06-2008. I will be in out of the office until Monday, 2 June. I will not be checking email. Note: This is an automated response to your message IBM-MAIN Digest - 26 May 2008 to 27 May 2008 (#2008-148) sent on 5/28/08. This is the only notification you will

Re: SDSF slow after migration to z/OS 1.9

2008-05-28 Thread Max Scarpa
We tried APPC OFF as well, but didn't work. Slowdown occurs in the same conditions depicted in other posts. We're still workin on this issue. Thank you all for replies. Max Scarpa -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: AMATERSE big

2008-05-28 Thread Barbara Nitz
Miklos, Try to TERSE a 3 Gbyte input file, and got IKJ56245I , dynalloc error, not enough space on volume message, Can I control this ? Try dsntype=large for the output file - if that is set up in SMS. The other thing that comes to mind is if you make the output file multivolume (most

Re: AMATERSE big

2008-05-28 Thread Robert Wright
Miklos Szigetvari wrote: Try to TERSE a 3 Gbyte input file, and got IKJ56245I , dynalloc error, not enough space on volume message, Can I control this ? See OA22765, an APAR closed as FIN because there currently is a circumvention. AMATERSE currently uses ddname TMPSPACE as an

DYNALLOC question (Multi-Volume)

2008-05-28 Thread Michael Knigge
All, currently I'm playing around a little bit with the SVC99 DYNALLOC. When I try to allocate a rather large Dataset, I (sometimes) need to specify DALVLCNT (Dataset volume count). Now... I wonder it it would be safe (or ok) to specify 255 in all cases, even when allocating a small

AMATERSE big

2008-05-28 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi Try to TERSE a 3 Gbyte input file, and got IKJ56245I , dynalloc error, not enough space on volume message, Can I control this ? -- Miklos Szigetvari Development Team ISIS Information Systems Gmbh tel: (+43) 2236 27551 570 Fax: (+43) 2236 21081 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Info: [EMAIL

Re: ATL Mysteries

2008-05-28 Thread Daniel McLaughlin
Russell, Thanks for getting back to us. Gary may have found an issue with the VNL exit and is investigating that. We'll let you know. Daniel McLaughlin Z-Series Systems Programmer Information Communications Technology Crawford Company 4680 N. Royal Atlanta Tucker GA 30084 phone:

Re: AMATERSE big

2008-05-28 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi Thank you., this was I have searched for ( I tried SYSUT3 , WORK etc ) If I can ask you about the possbility to PIPE (via USS or without) the SYSUT1 and /or SYSUT2 ? Robert Wright wrote: Miklos Szigetvari wrote: Try to TERSE a 3 Gbyte input file, and got IKJ56245I , dynalloc error,

Re: DYNALLOC question (Multi-Volume)

2008-05-28 Thread Ted MacNEIL
is it safe/ok to specify 255 and let z/OS decide to allocate multi-volume or not? z/OS supports a maximum of 59 volumes. And, it is safe. Nothing significant is used until the volumes are allocated. - Too busy driving to stop for gas!

Turning off APPC? (was RE: SDSF slow after migration to z/OS 1.9)

2008-05-28 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Skip Robinson We saw this problem during our 1.9 ESP when we went to our first production system. Turning off APPC resolved the slowdown. Seems no one has sorely missed APPC output, so we've left it off for the

Re: DYNALLOC question (Multi-Volume)

2008-05-28 Thread Tom Harper
Actually, z/OS supports a maximum of 255 volumes. 59 volumes is a DASD restriction based on DEB constraints. Tom Harper IMS Utilities Development Team Neon Enterprise Software, Inc. Sugar Land, TX -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: DYNALLOC question (Multi-Volume)

2008-05-28 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Actually, z/OS supports a maximum of 255 volumes. 59 volumes is a DASD restriction based on DEB constraints. Funny! I thought the DEB was a z/OS construct. (8-{]} - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: DYNALLOC question (Multi-Volume)

2008-05-28 Thread Tom Harper
Ted, It's hard to say. I believe it's built by DFSMS code, which could be argued to be part of z/OS. But ownership of the code is a diversion here. 59 volumes is a DASD restriction, not an allocation restriction. You can dynamically allocate a 255 volume tape data set. Tom Harper IMS Utilities

Re: SUB=MSTR STC with DSNs in User Catalog

2008-05-28 Thread David Andrews
On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 19:55 -0700, Philip R Chauvet wrote: Other data sets that you should catalog in the master catalog are shown in Table 3. Table 3. Master Catalog Entries Key operational data sets such as: ° SMF data sets FWIW I've been running with the SMF datasets in a

Re: USS file sharing in z/OS

2008-05-28 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 3:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: USS file sharing in z/OS [snip] Except for read only requests (even when mounted R/W). IIRC,

Re: IEFUJI question

2008-05-28 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George Fogg Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 4:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IEFUJI question It's been a long time since I've done this, so I'm actually reading the book. I

Re: IEFUJI question

2008-05-28 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
John McKown said: I don't want to send a message to a TSO user. I just would like one in the JES messages of the job so that the submitter will know why it got a JCL error. We used to handle this by noting the error(s) in a getmained area that was passed to the IEFACTRT exit which can issue the

Re: Interesting article

2008-05-28 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Green Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 6:24 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Interesting article To kinda make up for my earlier post about Evil Knievel's son (an off topic post

Re: DYNALLOC question (Multi-Volume)

2008-05-28 Thread Michael Knigge
Thank you guys! bye, Michael -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Re: IEFUJI

2008-05-28 Thread Jon Veilleux
John McKown said: I don't want to send a message to a TSO user. I just would like one in the JES messages of the job so that the submitter will know why it got a JCL error. We used to handle this by noting the error(s) in a getmained area that was passed to the IEFACTRT exit which can issue

Re: USS file sharing in z/OS

2008-05-28 Thread Richard Bond
Mike, As I understand it (doc is sketchy on this) from prior experience, if a PFS like HFS or zFS is monted R/W on one or more of the systems in the sysplex, then all requests, read and write, from non-owning systems are function shipped to the owner. I.E., they auto-magically become

Re: APPC no longer support on zos/1.9

2008-05-28 Thread John Eells
Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/23/2008 at 06:34 PM, Tommy Tsui [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: *is my misunderstanding? Yes. Neither the old APPC support in VTAM nor the (not so) recent APPC support have anything to do with the APPC application suite. our shop using

Re: APPC no longer support on zos/1.9

2008-05-28 Thread Dean Montevago
Anynet is no longer supported beyond 1.7, I have to move to EE (Thanks Chris for your assistance) to support Rational Busines Developer. APPC will still be supported for applications like OSASF and DFM, correct ? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: IEFUJI

2008-05-28 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Veilleux Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 8:08 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IEFUJI John McKown said: I don't want to send a message to a TSO user. I just would like one

My Job Status etc

2008-05-28 Thread Eric Bielefeld
My contract job at Aviva USA in Des Moines, Iowa just finished last Friday. I'm currently looking for a job again. If anyone has any leads they wish to share with me, email me off list or call me. My hope is to find a permanent job in the Milwaukee area, but anything within a 100 miles of

Re: DYNALLOC question (Multi-Volume)

2008-05-28 Thread Ted MacNEIL
It's hard to say. I believe it's built by DFSMS code, which could be argued to be part of z/OS. But ownership of the code is a diversion here. 59 volumes is a DASD restriction, not an allocation restriction. You can dynamically allocate a 255 volume tape data set. I thought the OP was

Re: DYNALLOC question (Multi-Volume)

2008-05-28 Thread Tom Harper
Ted, Here is the original email. Nothing about DASD that I can see, although he does mention space which could imply DASD: All, currently I'm playing around a little bit with the SVC99 DYNALLOC. When I try to allocate a rather large Dataset, I (sometimes) need to specify DALVLCNT (Dataset

MPF Exit Conundrum

2008-05-28 Thread Sproull, George CTR DISA GS4B14
Hi, We run a simple MPF exit specified in MPFLST00 that sets a couple of bits in the CTXT DSECT pointed to by R1 at entrance. We also include COM='MN JOBNAMES,T' in COMMND00 to require that the IEF403I message is produced at job startup (required by our job scheduler). Everything worked

Re: IEFUJI question

2008-05-28 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
John McKown wrote: I don't want to send a message to a TSO user. I just would like one in the JES messages of the job so that the submittor will know why it got a JCL error. Check in SYS1.PARMLIB(CONSOLxx) for ROUTCODE and then code your WTO statements in IEFUJI according to it. We have

Re: IEFUJI question

2008-05-28 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 27 May 2008 16:21:26 -0500, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2008 14:40:35 -0500, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been a long time since I've done this, so I'm actually reading the book. I have a very simple IEFUJI exit to implement. But I want to write a

'Bus Utilization' on RMF monitor

2008-05-28 Thread Hal Merritt
I'm running the RMF Java PM, and am taking a look at the OSA adapters on our z/8990. There is a metric called '% Bus utilization' I have two cards, each with two ports. Right now, I'm using two ports from one card. Can anyone point me to a tome on those metrics and what they mean?

SMFDUMP empty datasets

2008-05-28 Thread John P Donnelly
…we have been executing this SMFDUMP program since the last century…most of the time the *OUT datasets are created successfully, but occasionally, we have an *OUT dataset allocated and then left empty which causes a downstream job to abend… …how might we prevent the creation of an empty *OUT

Re: APPC no longer support on zos/1.9

2008-05-28 Thread John Eells
APPC is still supported. Dean Montevago wrote: Anynet is no longer supported beyond 1.7, I have to move to EE (Thanks Chris for your assistance) to support Rational Busines Developer. APPC will still be supported for applications like OSASF and DFM, correct ? -Original Message- From:

Re: Turning off APPC? (was RE: SDSF slow after migration to z/OS 1.9)

2008-05-28 Thread Skip Robinson
Sorry for the fuss I generated. The workaround I referred to is nothing more than an SDSF 'filter' so as to ignore any APPC output. We could not live long or well without APPC functions. The workaround was suggested by SDSF Level 2. It assumes that you're running the SDSF user exit ISFUSER . We

Re: PPRC and page datasets

2008-05-28 Thread Darth Keller
Ron - We're not really doing a remote copy. Logically, we mirror 1 half of the box to the other half of the same box. We are asynchronous for most of the day and only swap to synchronous mode a few minutes before we're ready to do our backups, break the pairs once they are synchronous, and

Re: Interesting article

2008-05-28 Thread Thomas Kern
And our 13 OfficeVision instances on one 4381 worked very well and we did not loose any backups of email, documents, user a-disks, or SQL/DS databases. But this is only the latest of 'thin-client' projects that have been tried for at least a dozen years. /Tom Kern On Tue, 27 May 2008 19:23:50

Re: APPC no longer support on zos/1.9

2008-05-28 Thread Dean Montevago
Thanks John. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:03 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: APPC no longer support on zos/1.9 APPC is still supported. Dean Montevago wrote: Anynet is

Re: Interesting article

2008-05-28 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 5/28/2008 8:03:55 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ep. 3270 on the s/370s. For UNIX it was TTYs (ah, the joys of an ASR33! or glass ttys for CRTs.). For the truly advanced UNIX people, it was an X-terminal (Graphics). Hmmm, I remember it as ASYNC vs

Re: How to use PF7/PF8 in ISPF application

2008-05-28 Thread Dave Salt
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would simply like to display a panel that cycles up and down months using the PF7/PF8 key. I tried this, but what I found was that my code never gets control when PF7/PF8 are hit. What have I forgotten? Make sure the panel has a scrollable (e.g. dynamic) area, even

Re: 'Bus Utilization' on RMF monitor

2008-05-28 Thread Hal Merritt
Sorry about the typo; it is a z/890 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hal Merritt Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 10:00 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: 'Bus Utilization' on RMF monitor I'm running the RMF Java PM, and am

Re: SMFDUMP empty datasets

2008-05-28 Thread Jerry Fuchs
You could use ICETOOL to check for an empty dataset. //PSTEP050 EXEC PGM=ICETOOL //TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=* //DFSMSG DD SYSOUT=* //TOOLIN DD * COPY FROM(DD01) TO(DD01O) COUNT FROM(DD01) EMPTY /* //DD01 DD DSN=input //DD01ODD DSN=output If the input is empty will get a

How to use PF7/PF8 in ISPF application

2008-05-28 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Can someone give me a hint how to do this? I thought it would be easy, and I've done it before but in a dynamic panel. I would simply like to display a panel that cycles up and down months using the PF7/PF8 key. I tried this, but what I found was that my code never gets control when PF7/PF8 are

Re: AMATERSE big

2008-05-28 Thread Knutson, Sam
With the old terse implementation this often worked to specify the temporary work file using JCL //TMPSPACE DD UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(CYL,(4369,1),RLSE) Best Regards, Sam Knutson, GEICO System z Performance and Availability Management

Re: Turning off APPC? (was RE: SDSF slow after migration to z/OS 1.9)

2008-05-28 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 28 May 2008 08:03:46 -0700, Skip Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the fuss I generated. The workaround I referred to is nothing more than an SDSF 'filter' so as to ignore any APPC output. We could not live long or well without APPC functions. The workaround was suggested by

Re: AMATERSE big

2008-05-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 28 May 2008 13:31:26 +0200, Miklos Szigetvari wrote: Thank you., this was I have searched for ( I tried SYSUT3 , WORK etc ) If I can ask you about the possbility to PIPE (via USS or without) the SYSUT1 and /or SYSUT2 ? If it requires a temporary file (might this be because it sometimes

Re: Workstation compliance

2008-05-28 Thread Eric Chevalier
On 27 May 2008 14:54:58 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gibney, Dave) wrote: It looks like I'm about to be blessed with a new workstation. I seem to get Windows Vista, whether I want or not. I can live with it (I have a laptop with it) except, last I noticed, Softcopy Librarian and Softcopy

Re: Workstation compliance

2008-05-28 Thread John Laubenheimer
IBM is well aware of this issue with VISTA. The PDF files are a good alternative. If you plan on using the PDF files, make sure that you install the IBM Advanced Linguistic Search facility plug-in for ACROBAT. This is located on the tools CD, in the PLUGINS directory, with a name of

Re: Workstation compliance

2008-05-28 Thread Gibney, Dave
The PDF's are a good alternative for PDF appropriate uses, but navigation (jumping around) in a document is still superior in Bookmanager format. I use both depending on my need and availability. And even using PDF, the Shelf organizer throws a transient error and Vista whines about color

Re: Turning off APPC? (was RE: SDSF slow after migration to z/OS 1.9)

2008-05-28 Thread Skip Robinson
I don't believe there are any profile effects. ISFUSER is executable code that runs for each user at initialization, at exit, and many times in between. Changing the exit code should change product behavior with no memory of previous logic.

SCRT Error

2008-05-28 Thread Alan Bain
Hello, I have a customer who is running SCRT for the first time and is having some trouble with the NO89 DD. He does not have many of the products in the list, so for the first one, he specifies: 5655-043=*NONE and receives the following error message: SCRTTOOL047: LPAR *NONE

Re: SCRT Error

2008-05-28 Thread Alvaro Quintupray
Hi. I have had a similar error and the problem wasin Report_Period format... * OPTIONALLY UNCOMMENT ONE OF THESE LINES TO SELECT A REPORT PERIOD Report_Period=2008/04 ---that is O.K. * Report_Period=Mayo * Review the before statement... may be

Re: SCRT Error

2008-05-28 Thread Hal Merritt
The syntax of the NO89 statement looks correct. I'd look at the data. SCRT may have not found any applicable type 70 or 89 RMF records. I'd also check to see if the enabling APAR's are applied as well as applicable processor microcode. When I first started under 1.4, I seem to recall having to

Re: Just for consideration: offloading regex processing to zIIP / zAAP?

2008-05-28 Thread David Andrews
On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 14:36 -0500, McKown, John wrote: wonder if they would be open to making a System regex engine ala System XML to offload regular expressions Isn't most regex processing against individual lines of text (rather than, say, entire files)? I imagine an engine dispatch is much

Re: Just for consideration: offloading regex processing to zIIP / zAAP?

2008-05-28 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Andrews Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 3:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Just for consideration: offloading regex processing to zIIP / zAAP? On Wed, 2008-05-28 at

Can ISRDDN show the complete minor name of an ENQ'd resource?

2008-05-28 Thread David Eisenberg
Anyone, I'm an application programmer. We are on z/OS 1.7. If I wish to see the system ENQ status of all ENQs for a given major name, I do this within ISRDDN, option ENQ. I filter on the major name prefix, and I see all the ENQs; voila. However, if the *entire* minor name doesn't fit on the

Re: Just for consideration: offloading regex processing to zIIP / zAAP?

2008-05-28 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Andrews Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 3:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Just for consideration: offloading regex processing to zIIP / zAAP? On Wed, 2008-05-28 at

Re: Just for consideration: offloading regex processing to zIIP / zAAP?

2008-05-28 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Hum, how much overhead is the switching from a CP to a zIIP or zAAP? Curious minds want to know! My understanding is that it is just as expensive as any task switch. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

NetREXX - Was Just for consideration: offloading regex processing to zIIP / zAAP?

2008-05-28 Thread Martin Packer
John McKown wrote: Well, I've gotten the NetRexx on z/OS right now. I haven't gotten it to run. I keep having some problems. John, I have a colleague in IBM Germany who has a particular interest in demonstrating stuff like NetREXX working on z/OS. You might want to articulate your problems

Re: Interesting article

2008-05-28 Thread Andy Wood
On Wed, 28 May 2008 07:25:47 +0200, Barbara Nitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . 'schleppi' That was a new one for me! However, when I looked for confirmation, Urban Dictionary told me that a schleppi is a dodgy partygoer (???) I did encounter schlepptop though, which has even better ring.

Re: Just for consideration: offloading regex processing to zIIP / zAAP?

2008-05-28 Thread Shane Ginnane
John Mc wrote on 29/05/2008 05:36:21 AM: I love using regular expressions in Perl, awk, and grep. However, they can be very CPU intensive. I would find it *really* hard to believe Larry and his monastic bretheren would allow this. I am constantly amazed at what Perl can do - efficiently.

Re: MPF Exit Conundrum

2008-05-28 Thread W. Kevin Kelley
On Wed, 28 May 2008 10:20:23 -0400, Sproull, George CTR DISA GS4B14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We run a simple MPF exit specified in MPFLST00 that sets a couple of bits in the CTXT DSECT pointed to by R1 at entrance. We also include COM='MN JOBNAMES,T' in COMMND00 to require that the

Re: NetREXX - Was Just for consideration: offloading regex processing to zIIP / zAAP?

2008-05-28 Thread John McKown
On Wed, 28 May 2008, Martin Packer wrote: John McKown wrote: Well, I've gotten the NetRexx on z/OS right now. I haven't gotten it to run. I keep having some problems. John, I have a colleague in IBM Germany who has a particular interest in demonstrating stuff like NetREXX working on

Re: Interesting article

2008-05-28 Thread Barbara Nitz
That was a new one for me! However, when I looked for confirmation, Urban Dictionary told me that a schleppi is a dodgy partygoer (???) I did encounter schlepptop though, which has even better ring. I'm seriously off-topic here, but the word 'schleppen' is actually a German verb meaning to