Re: pc

2005-09-08 Thread mary george
I basically have to write an pc routine that would intercept svc 10.The front end program must change the length of the getmain. I understand that these are the following steps to be followed (pl correct if I am wrong): 1)wrtie pc routine 2)code lxres,atset,etdef,etcre,etcont etc... 3)invoke th

SAS Procedurenames and --components

2005-09-08 Thread Thomas Ramseier
G'day Thank you all for your help. Finally, I took the "MXG-approach": Source Member ADOCSASU contains a complete list of all procnames and their corresponding SAS-component. Cheers Tom Thomas Ramseier Bundesamt für Informatik und Telekommunikation BIT Betriebszentrum / Bereitstellung / Host I

Re: SMP/E Receive Space Problems

2005-09-08 Thread Ed Gould
On Sep 8, 2005, at 4:03 PM, Chip Grantham wrote: Gentlemen and Ladies, I am trying to receive a CBPDO and I keep getting E37-04s on SMPPTS. I've moved to a mod-9 and have tried to allocate the dataset as large as possible and I still get the e37. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks so

Re: About CPU assumption of HSM migration

2005-09-08 Thread Joel C. Ewing
If I ever get some spare time I need to analyze our current migration rules and do some tuning. I'm sure we are moving some things to ML1 and back that would best be left alone. But that said, when you add DR to the mix, movement to ML2 tape of the "really" idle datasets with low recall rates

Re: Save a Graphic Print Image

2005-09-08 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 9/8/2005 6:18:09 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is the 'changed to graphics' that has lost me. I don't know if TXT2PDF will help you. Sorry if I sent you on a wild-goose chase. >> AFP can be a very complicated structure. Unless TXT2PDF can d

Re: Performance : COBOL trounces C / C++?

2005-09-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/07/2005 at 04:06 PM, "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >This works OK on an Intel PC. IIRC, it was the ONLY way to do it on >the PDP boxes. Huh? C has functions for string copies. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/07/2005 at 12:33 AM, "Robert A. Rosenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Since the Attachment is defined as External, it does not get uploaded > to the SMTP Server and thus does not travel with the message. Then it's not an attachment and you still have to deal with

Re: APL

2005-09-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/08/2005 at 08:36 AM, Paul Hanrahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Employers should put less emphasis on language expertise and focus on >other I.T. skills. But why would you hire someone to work on a 370/168 when all of his experience was on a 3168, or vice versa? G

Re: PPRC Implementation for z/OS and resources.

2005-09-08 Thread Ron and Jenny Hawkins
Richard, In just about all Remote Copy designs there are three things that you must consider: 1. Point in Time Consistency 2. Point in Time Consistency 3. Point in Time Consistency I should also mention Point in Time Consistency, as this can be important also. From the Sy

Re: About CPU assumption of HSM migration

2005-09-08 Thread Ron and Jenny Hawkins
Chris, A good argument when you are migrating between "like" disk technology and compression of the data is the only saving. However, now that us mainframers have access to cheaper rack & stack storage and SATA disk the economics of migration change, and the savings may be more substantial than be

Re: Save a Graphic Print Image

2005-09-08 Thread Thomas Kern
It is the 'changed to graphics' that has lost me. I don't know if TXT2PDF will help you. Sorry if I sent you on a wild-goose chase. /Tom Kern --- "George, William (DHS-ITSD)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The dataset has text that is CHANGED TO GRAPHICs for the printout via > JCL parameters. If o

Re: SMP/E Receive Space Problems

2005-09-08 Thread Robert Justice
I've been using PDSE's for SMPPTS for quite awhile now. use a mod 9 if your smppts needs to be bigger than a mod 9, well, you need to apply,accept, and reject maintenance once in awhile. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: SMP/E Receive Space Problems

2005-09-08 Thread Bob Rutledge
In this case, yes, since he's got 5,000 free cylinders on the volume. Bob Paul Gilmartin wrote: In a recent note, Robert Justice said: Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 17:57:44 -0400 make the thing a monster PDSE dataset. problem solved. Will that solve anything? See circa: Linkname:

Re: About CPU assumption of HSM migration

2005-09-08 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>Has anyone checked to see whether there's any practical reason (i.e. >$$$) to migrate at all? Disk is pretty cheap these days and HSM is a >notable pig in most shops, ours included. ... I brought this up almost a year ago, and I was told I didn't know what I was talking about. Earlier in my ca

Re: SMP/E Receive Space Problems

2005-09-08 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Robert Justice said: > Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 17:57:44 -0400 > > make the thing a monster PDSE dataset. > > problem solved. > Will that solve anything? See circa: Linkname: Re: Spanned PDS/PDSE (was: Re: SMPE PTS ... ) URL: http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2

Re: RMM and EDGUX100

2005-09-08 Thread Mike Wood
Alex, yes you could just use the sample EDGUX100 and EXPDT=98000. You also cold use EDGUX100 sample customized and set the option to ignore file 2 onwards when the first file is being written by CAESDR. Mike Wood RMM Development On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 00:31:59 -0500, Alex B Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: SAS Procedurenames and --components

2005-09-08 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>a manual where I can find out which SAS-procedurename belongs to which >SAS-component? ... I did a similar analysis over a year ago. I built a PROC FORMAT that maps the PROC to the Product. Give me a day or so to dig it up, and if you want I can send it to you offline. -teD In God we Trust! Al

Re: Creating IOCDS via HMC

2005-09-08 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 9/8/2005 5:13:55 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you try to run the MVS IOCP program under a VM guest, you get a message saying that's not allowed. BTDT (last week), and of course Mike already found that out. >> VM has IOCP command too. But it

Re: SMP/E Receive Space Problems

2005-09-08 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
You can set up the SMPPTS spill datasets. Basically it is (in each of the zones you will be using) set up DDDEFs and corresponding libraries called SMPPTS1, SMPPTS2, etc. SMP/E will spill over to them when the SMPPTS is full. Just make sure you don't skip any because if you do, SMP/E won't see a

Re: IPCS and user CBF defns

2005-09-08 Thread Robert Wright
Binyamin Dissen wrote on 09/08/2005 05:03:14 PM: > > Simple IPCS REXX program to display the SSCT chain: > > /* REXX */ > ADDRESS IPCS > SSNAME = "" > POINTER = "" > SSCTADDR = "" > "EVAL 10.?+128?+18 CLIST(STORAGE(SSCTADDR))" > DO WHILE SSCTADDR ^= "" & RC = 0 > "EVAL" SS

Re: SMP/E Receive Space Problems

2005-09-08 Thread Robert Justice
make the thing a monster PDSE dataset. problem solved. - Original Message - From: "Chip Grantham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 5:03 PM Subject: SMP/E Receive Space Problems Gentlemen and Ladies, I am trying to rece

Re: Creating IOCDS via HMC

2005-09-08 Thread Matthew Stitt
If you try to run the MVS IOCP program under a VM guest, you get a message saying that's not allowed. BTDT (last week), and of course Mike already found that out. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: SMP/E Receive Space Problems

2005-09-08 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 9/8/2005 4:43:01 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: moved to a mod-9 and have tried to allocate the dataset as large as possible and I still get the e37. Does anyone have any suggestions? >> Up the directory blocks? Lay in some spill datasets SMPPTS

Re: SMPPTS question

2005-09-08 Thread Bob Rutledge
Read about SMPPTS spill datasets in the SMP/E doc. Bob Chip Grantham wrote: Listers, I've got a problem that has me twixed. I'm trying to receive a pdo and continue to receive SMPPTS E37-04 abends. I've moved to a MOD-9 device and allocated a new dataset as large as I can (4,000 cyls) an

SMP/E Receive Space Problems

2005-09-08 Thread Chip Grantham
Gentlemen and Ladies, I am trying to receive a CBPDO and I keep getting E37-04s on SMPPTS. I've moved to a mod-9 and have tried to allocate the dataset as large as possible and I still get the e37. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks so much. Chip Grantham -

SMPPTS question

2005-09-08 Thread Chip Grantham
Listers, I've got a problem that has me twixed. I'm trying to receive a pdo and continue to receive SMPPTS E37-04 abends. I've moved to a MOD-9 device and allocated a new dataset as large as I can (4,000 cyls) and I still get the abend. I'm not sure what to do to get the receive to be s

Re: Creating IOCDS via HMC

2005-09-08 Thread Clark, Kevin D, HRC-Alexandria/EDS
Mike, Click on your CPC ICON and edit the profile and click on the NON-disruptive" option upper left. then save. A little red lock will appear in the upper corner of the ICON. Now proceed..if your test will crash your system. You will get a prompt loosely translated to " Do you really want to l

Re: Standalone Utilities via the HMC (was :RE: Creating IOCDS via HMC)

2005-09-08 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
We place Icons on the HMC for each IPL pack (and system) , SA Dump and so on. Operators just have to select the Icon and Activate it rather than looking up L1 and L2 parms for each occurance. We then have ZZSA CD's by each HMC in the complex for those extreme moments. That should meet your reques

Re: IPCS and user CBF defns

2005-09-08 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 13:20:22 -0500 Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :>Binyamin, :> :>Would you care to share any short examples of how you would write :>something like that, and how to get it installed and working in IPCS? This is old, but should give you the basic idea. Simple IPCS REXX program

Re: Save a Graphic Print Image

2005-09-08 Thread George, William (DHS-ITSD)
The dataset has text that is CHANGED TO GRAPHICs for the printout via JCL parameters. If one just looked at the dataset it would be all text but garbage until it is processed by the OUTPUT graphics font setup via the JCL. Is there a means for TXT2PDF to deal with this?? I'll see if I can find some

Re: Bad link on IBM web site with z/OS 1.7 manuals

2005-09-08 Thread Andy White
Thanks John ill pass it on... Andy Internet: Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy White wrote: > Does anyone know how to handle the following problem. > > On the website > http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/bkserv/r7pdf/jes2.html > > When you click on the JES2 Migration book it

Re: About CPU assumption of HSM migration

2005-09-08 Thread Ed Gould
On Sep 8, 2005, at 2:43 PM, Craddock, Chris wrote: ---SNIP--- I question the value of spending CPU cycles shoveling bits from one cold place to another - typically in the same array. If it were mine, I'd leave it spinning on disk until it was so old it had cobwebs on it

Re: Save a Graphic Print Image

2005-09-08 Thread Thomas Kern
Have you looked at the TXT2PDF program from Lucious Leland. It used to be packaged with XMITIP? XMITIP should be able to transform your print-format dataset into a PDF and email it to your user. /Tom Kern --- "George, William (DHS-ITSD)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have a process that create

Re: Creating IOCDS via HMC

2005-09-08 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin, Mike > Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 3:45 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Creating IOCDS via HMC > > > OK, now I am really getting confused. We are currently >

Re: Creating IOCDS via HMC

2005-09-08 Thread Martin, Mike
OK, now I am really getting confused. We are currently running in BASIC mode. If I drag and drop the CPC ICON onto the Input/Output (I/O) Configuration Task to access IOCP on the HMC, will it crash my running system(z/OS running under VM)? Mike Martin ^ This email may contain confi

Save a Graphic Print Image

2005-09-08 Thread George, William (DHS-ITSD)
We have a process that creates a FBA dataset formatted to print graphics and text. The JCL to print it has the appropriate OUTPUT card with a CHARS=(GT15,FM15) to deal with the graphic and text lines. This all works and prints fine. A user is asking if there is a way to save or capture the print

Re: Standalone Utilities via the HMC (was :RE: Creating IOCDS via HMC)

2005-09-08 Thread Thomas Kern
Don't forget the standalone DDR for z/VM shops. /Tom Kern --- "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a thought for you SHARE people to consider trying to get on the > requirements list. > > Wouldn't it be helpful if there were an architected, __simple__, way to > place a "stand alone"

Standalone Utilities via the HMC (was :RE: Creating IOCDS via HMC)

2005-09-08 Thread McKown, John
Just a thought for you SHARE people to consider trying to get on the requirements list. Wouldn't it be helpful if there were an architected, __simple__, way to place a "stand alone" utility onto the SE and have it IPLable via the HMC? I can imagine having DFDSS, FDR, ICKDSF, and maybe SAE (or ZZSA

Re: Creating IOCDS via HMC

2005-09-08 Thread Imbriale, Donald (Exchange)
"Stand-alone" is perhaps an unfortunate choice of words to describe it, but that's what it's called. You DO need a logical partition activated. >From the manual: 1. The support element resets the targeted logical partition (System Reset Clear). The logical partition must be activated with I/O Con

Re: Creating IOCDS via HMC

2005-09-08 Thread Bielskie, Stephen
I am saying I'm not quite sure why you would have to do a standalone IOCP. You can use HCD or a batch job under z/OS. What were you told was the problem of updating the IOCDS from z/OS under VM? What does IBM say about that? I'm not sure, but for future use, if you define an extra LPAR that i

Re: Creating IOCDS via HMC

2005-09-08 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 9/8/2005 3:02:58 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you saying that "Stand Alone IOCP" isn't really stand alone? i.e. It runs concurrently with everything else running (z/OS, LPARs active, etc.)? >> It runs fine concurrently. It's the big magi

Re: VTOC orphan

2005-09-08 Thread Jeffrey Deaver
>I hope you don't mean "zap" literally, no need. I did mean literally, "zap", which was the only solution that had been handed down to me from my predecessor. >For SMS try IDCAMS DELETE NVR Worked great. Thanks! Jeffrey Deaver, Senior Analyst, Systems Engineering 651-665-4231

Re: Bad link on IBM web site with z/OS 1.7 manuals

2005-09-08 Thread John Eells
Andy White wrote: Does anyone know how to handle the following problem. On the website http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/bkserv/r7pdf/jes2.html When you click on the JES2 Migration book it brings you to the z/OS 1.5 manual not the 1.7 one. A team member wanted to pull it up in

Re: About CPU assumption of HSM migration

2005-09-08 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 14:43:05 -0500, Craddock, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Has anyone checked to see whether there's any practical reason (i.e. >$$$) to migrate at all? Disk is pretty cheap these days and HSM is a >notable pig in most shops, ours included. > >I question the value of spending

Re: Creating IOCDS via HMC

2005-09-08 Thread Martin, Mike
Don and Stephen, Are you saying that "Stand Alone IOCP" isn't really stand alone? i.e. It runs concurrently with everything else running (z/OS, LPARs active, etc.)? Mike ^ This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient. If

Re: List of FMIDs

2005-09-08 Thread Imbriale, Don
The SMP/E Commands manual and the User's Guide provide pretty good explanations of the LIST command. Don Imbriale On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 15:44:14 -0400, Rodolphe Audette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >How can I make a list of all the FMIDs present in an SMP zone, whether >using batch or the dial

Re: List of FMIDs

2005-09-08 Thread Dean Montevago
Go into option 6 Migration Assistant. You can generate a few different reports from there. Check out Products Applied & FMID Descriptions. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rodolphe Audette Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 3:44 PM

Re: Creating IOCDS via HMC

2005-09-08 Thread Imbriale, Don
If you are registered in ResourceLink, you can get your hands on the Stand- Alone IOCP User's Guide. Don Imbriale On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 15:30:10 -0400, Martin, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >All, > >Can we (non-disruptively) create an IOCDS using the HMC without bringing >our running systems down

List of FMIDs

2005-09-08 Thread Rodolphe Audette
Hi, How can I make a list of all the FMIDs present in an SMP zone, whether using batch or the dialogs? TIA Rodolphe Audette -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: About CPU assumption of HSM migration

2005-09-08 Thread Craddock, Chris
> Your welcome. Well, I really don't know all that much about HSM and I hate > to sound simplistic but what I would do if tasked with this exercise is > use our sandbox to turn compaction off and then force ML1 action and > measure CPU. I would then turn compaction on and then force ML1 action and

Re: Creating IOCDS via HMC

2005-09-08 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin, Mike > Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 2:30 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Creating IOCDS via HMC > > > All, > > Can we (non-disruptively) create an IOCDS using the H

Re: Creating IOCDS via HMC

2005-09-08 Thread Bielskie, Stephen
Mike, You should be able to do it through HCD. Selection option 2 from the main menu, the option 2 again to build the IOCDS. It should be able to access the local CEC's service element to create the IOCDS. Also, you can add the SNA address of the service element to the Processor definition (

Creating IOCDS via HMC

2005-09-08 Thread Martin, Mike
All, Can we (non-disruptively) create an IOCDS using the HMC without bringing our running systems down? (we have z/OS running under VM and I am told we have problems creating a IOCDS thru z/OS batch IOCP - we usually drop z/OS and VM, then IPL z/OS natively and run batch IOCP). I would like to

Re: Bad link on IBM web site with z/OS 1.7 manuals

2005-09-08 Thread Andy White
Thanks but this doesnt include JES2 which is what we are looking for.. Andy S White Internet: Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Rob W Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" 09/08/2005 03:07 PM Please respond to "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" To: IBM

Re: About CPU assumption of HSM migration

2005-09-08 Thread Patrick . Falcone
Your welcome. Well, I really don't know all that much about HSM and I hate to sound simplistic but what I would do if tasked with this exercise is use our sandbox to turn compaction off and then force ML1 action and measure CPU. I would then turn compaction on and then force ML1 action and meas

Re: Bad link on IBM web site with z/OS 1.7 manuals

2005-09-08 Thread Rob W Jackson
Try this link. http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/bkserv/zos_migration_m anuals.html Rob Jackson Rite Aid Corporation Work: (717)214-8837 Cell: (717)903-5752 Fax: (717)972-3981 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: Image ICONS on HMC

2005-09-08 Thread Bielskie, Stephen
Yes. Adding an LPAR and then P-O-R will add the new LPAR to the Defined Images screen. Steve -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Martin, Mike Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 1:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Image ICONS

Re: SAS Procedurenames and --components

2005-09-08 Thread Dave Thorn
Do you use MXG? If so, the variables SASPROC and SASPROD in the TYPESASU file should contain what you're looking for. __ Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel

Re: IPCS and user CBF defns

2005-09-08 Thread Mark
Binyamin, Would you care to share any short examples of how you would write something like that, and how to get it installed and working in IPCS? Thanks, Mark Vollmer Binyamin Dissen wrote: On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 11:02:35 -0500 Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :>I am interested in creating my o

Re: IPCS and user CBF defns

2005-09-08 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 11:02:35 -0500 Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :>I am interested in creating my own user defined control block formatting :>for use under IPCS. :>I've read the manuals, and I find the information very daunting. I :>think I feel that way because the information is spread out

Re: SAS Procedurenames and --components

2005-09-08 Thread F. J. Kelley
the SAS online documentation (for 8.x and 9.x) will have that, but in reverse order: http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/index.html that is, you can find the procedures in SAS/Base and the procedures in SAS/Stat etc. but not a link from the procedure to the product. Original m

Re: IPCS and user CBF defns

2005-09-08 Thread Robert Wright
Mark Vollmer wrote on 09/08/2005 12:02:35 PM: > I am interested in creating my own user defined control block formatting > for use under IPCS. > > I've read the manuals, and I find the information very daunting. I > think I feel that way because the information is spread out so much over > the ma

Image ICONS on HMC

2005-09-08 Thread Martin, Mike
All, We are switching from BASIC mode to LPAR mode. I created a new reset profile and an image profile. When we "activate" the new reset profile and image, will an ICON for the new image appear under the group "IMAGES"? Mike Martin ^ This email may contain confidential and privile

Re: SAS Procedurenames and --components

2005-09-08 Thread Jerry Durbin
Tom - try searching through this website: http://support.sas.com/onlinedoc/913/docMainpage.jsp Regards! JD -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Ramseier Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 10:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU

SAS Procedurenames and --components

2005-09-08 Thread Thomas Ramseier
Gentle Listers We are trying to get rid of some SAS-components like SAS-Graph and SAS-IML. To get an idea about who uses these components, we activated the SAS-SMF-Record. So far so good. We can now see when which SAS-procedure gets called; but could anybody point me to an url or a manual where I

Bad link on IBM web site with z/OS 1.7 manuals

2005-09-08 Thread Andy White
Does anyone know how to handle the following problem. On the website http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/bkserv/r7pdf/jes2.html When you click on the JES2 Migration book it brings you to the z/OS 1.5 manual not the 1.7 one. A team member wanted to pull it up in preparation of z/O

Re: Replacing an entire PDS using DIRECT:Connect (NDM)

2005-09-08 Thread Thomas Conley
- Original Message - From: "MikeInFla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 12:36 PM Subject: Replacing an entire PDS using DIRECT:Connect (NDM) So any suggestions? Has anyone found a way using NDM to delete members of a targe

IPCS and user CBF defns

2005-09-08 Thread Mark
I am interested in creating my own user defined control block formatting for use under IPCS. I've read the manuals, and I find the information very daunting. I think I feel that way because the information is spread out so much over the manuals, I never found a short simple example to start m

Re: exlist - member descriptions

2005-09-08 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Bell > Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 10:26 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: exlist - member descriptions > > > We have the program 'exlist' installed on 2 lpars. On lpa

Re: PPRC Implementation for z/OS and resources.

2005-09-08 Thread Glenn Miller
Richard, I had been involved with XRC ( another asynchronous DASD solution ) from June 1998 to October 2004. This was using HDS770E, HDS9960 & HDS9980 DASD controllers. We were replicating around 300 3390 Model 3 DASD volumes to a site at 700 air-miles ( about 900 cable-miles ) from our primary s

exlist - member descriptions

2005-09-08 Thread Robert Bell
We have the program 'exlist' installed on 2 lpars. On lpar1 jobclass(tsu) specifies swa=below. The program works fine, and displays pds member descriptions. However, on lpar2 jobclass(tso) specifies swa=above and the program gives an 0C4 abend. I have tried modifying the lked parm to rmode(any)with

Re: ISPG071 RC 20 RSN 40: RESOLVED

2005-09-08 Thread Chase, John
Seems that the APF-authorized load module also has to live in a linklisted library (we don't use //STEPLIB in the logon proc). Thanks again for all the attempts to help. -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acc

Re: SYSMDUMP PROBLEM

2005-09-08 Thread Bruce Black
Do an IPCS browse on the dump dataset, each record should start with the EBCDIC characters DR. If not, then the dump was corrupted somewhere in the transfer process. Since you said you uploaded from Unix to MVS in binary, then I would guess that the original transfer from MVS to UNIX was not d

Re: SYSMDUMP PROBLEM

2005-09-08 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
Jerry Ragland wrote: I have a SYSMDUMP which is transferred from a mainframe system in to a unix system. I need to read that SYSMDUMP through IPCS in my mainframe machine. From the unix system I have transferred the dump to my mainframe (Z/OS v 1.4) machine. To transfer the dump from the unix ma

Re: VTOC orphan

2005-09-08 Thread Bruce Black
I seem to have vtoc orphans. These are vtoc entries for greater than 1st extents of a multi volume files which has since moved on.So two questions... 1) Safe to simply zap the entry out of the old vtoc knowing the file is safe and sound on other volumes now? I hope you don't mean "zap"

Re: APL

2005-09-08 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 9/8/2005 7:36:42 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kind of makes me wonder why employers get so concerned about a person having experience in a particular language. There only a few basic types of languages with variations on the themes. >> Gross

Re: APL

2005-09-08 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>Kind of makes me wonder why employers get so concerned about a person having experience in a particular language. There only a few basic types of languages with variations on the themes. ... This has been an issue with me, as well. As a matter of fact, when I was let go from IGS Canada, the bigg

Re: SYSMDUMP PROBLEM

2005-09-08 Thread Robert Wright
Shane wrote on 09/08/2005 08:10:42 AM: > Where's Bob Wright when you need him ???. In this case he's received no more information than the others who follow IBM-MAIN and who made as good suggestions for the next stage of diagnosis as I could make. There's too little information so far to diagno

Re: ISPG071 RC 20 RSN 40

2005-09-08 Thread Thomas Conley
Got a frustrating puzzle here: An ISV product with an ISPF interface was installed into libraries shared between two LPARs on different physical CPUs (both G5 machines). One LPAR was at z/OS 1.4, the other at z/OS 1.5. The product installed and functioned correctly on both LPARs. Now the (f

Re: ISPG071 RC 20 RSN 40

2005-09-08 Thread Chase, John
Oops, a premature send > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden > > On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:23:46 -0500, Chase, John > > > >Can anybody suggest any ideas how to decipher what it can't find, > >before I go thru the installation again? > > Yo

Re: DUMP Datasets and SMS

2005-09-08 Thread Mitko Iakimov
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 10:10:58 EDT, Ben Alford wrote: >I've discovered that IBM's FTP doesn't require NUM OFF if each line is >terminated with a semicolon. Example: > >//INPUTDD * >testcase.boulder.ibm.com (timeout 720 ; >anonymous

Re: APL

2005-09-08 Thread Jay Maynard
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 08:36:13AM -0400, Paul Hanrahan wrote: > Kind of makes me wonder why employers get so concerned about a person having > experience in a particular language. There only a few basic types of > languages with variations on the themes. > > Employers should put less emphasis o

Re: APL

2005-09-08 Thread Paul Hanrahan
Kind of makes me wonder why employers get so concerned about a person having experience in a particular language. There only a few basic types of languages with variations on the themes. Employers should put less emphasis on language expertise and focus on other I.T. skills. -Original Mess

Re: pc

2005-09-08 Thread mary george
thanx I have still not written the pc routine.So as per ur question I assume that this is the error. - Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. -- For IBM-

Re: pc

2005-09-08 Thread mary george
I have still not written the pc routine.So as per ur question I assume that this is the error. - Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. -- For IBM-MAIN sub

Re: pc

2005-09-08 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 04:25:30 -0700 mary george <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :>All, :> :>I am trying to write a pc routine accessible to selected address spaces. :>As an initial step I had coded the following as per the ext addressability guide: :>MODESET KEY=ZERO,MODE=SUP :>LA 2,1 :>STH 2,AXC

Re: ISPG071 RC 20 RSN 40

2005-09-08 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden > > On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:23:46 -0500, Chase, John > > > >Can anybody suggest any ideas how to decipher what it can't find, > >before I go thru the installation again? > > You might want to start with

Re: SYSMDUMP PROBLEM

2005-09-08 Thread ibm-main
Where's Bob Wright when you need him ???. I'd be inclined to take some notice of that "allocated" vs. "used" ratio. Been a *LONG* time I reckon since a usable (even binary) dump would fit in 2 cylinders... The dump looks useless - send it around the loop again as per Toms' suggestion ... Shane

Re: SYSMDUMP PROBLEM

2005-09-08 Thread Thomas Conley
- Original Message - From: "Jerry Ragland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 3:23 AM Subject: SYSMDUMP PROBLEM I have a SYSMDUMP which is transferred from a mainframe system in to a unix system. When I tried to open the SYSMDUM

Re: Performance : COBOL trounces C / C++?

2005-09-08 Thread Jim Keohane (MPI)
Tom, John, When contracting to various ISV's I've had occasion to speed up C/C++ ported to z/OS or newly written under z/OS. Sometimes the improvement was radical! The various C/C++ compilers have different (and changing) code generation efficiencies. Often, perfectly written C/C++ code for an In

Re: ISPG071 RC 20 RSN 40

2005-09-08 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Finnell > > >> > How do the ISV libraries get allocated? LOGON PROC, ISVALLOC > CLIST, REXX Exec. LOGON proc. > Have those customizations been moved forward to the new LPAR? Yes. > Was there any security work

pc

2005-09-08 Thread mary george
All, I am trying to write a pc routine accessible to selected address spaces. As an initial step I had coded the following as per the ext addressability guide: MODESET KEY=ZERO,MODE=SUP LA 2,1 STH 2,AXCOUNT GETAX AXRES AXLIST=AXL,RELATED=FREEAX LTR 15,15 BNZ AXERR S

Re: Performance : COBOL trounces C / C++?

2005-09-08 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
We do all our insurance math with C programs, and we have very good performance in general, but: we don't use the decimal extension; all our numbers are ints (long or short) and double (floating point). The results are converted to decimal, when we pass them to the surrounding insurance softwa

Re: SYSMDUMP PROBLEM

2005-09-08 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 02:23:52 -0500 Jerry Ragland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :>I have a SYSMDUMP which is transferred from a mainframe system in to a unix :>system. :>I need to read that SYSMDUMP through IPCS in my mainframe machine. :>>From the unix system I have transferred the dump to my mainfram

SYSMDUMP PROBLEM

2005-09-08 Thread Jerry Ragland
I have a SYSMDUMP which is transferred from a mainframe system in to a unix system. I need to read that SYSMDUMP through IPCS in my mainframe machine. >From the unix system I have transferred the dump to my mainframe (Z/OS v 1.4) machine. To transfer the dump from the unix machine, I did a binary