Re: VIO in 2024

2024-06-05 Thread Jim Mulder
g I/O. Paging I/O uses a 4K block size, which is inefficient for FICON, unless you are using zHPF. z/OS has not enhanced its paging I/O to use zHPF. With non-paging I/O, you can use a larger block size, and many of the access methods use zHPF. Jim Mulder -Original Message- From

Re: Epoch Index

2024-06-11 Thread Jim Mulder
z/OS 3.1 does not support testing with dates beyond 09/17/2042. Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Schuster Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2024 1:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Epoch Index So, as of z/os 3.1, there does not

Re: Inquiry about Installing Hercules on LinuxONE

2024-06-11 Thread Jim Mulder
IBM does not provide any license for any release of z/OS that permits you to run it on a LinuxONE machine, or under any non-IBM emulator on any machine. Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jason Cai Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2024 1:59 PM To

Re: Inquiry about Installing Hercules on LinuxONE

2024-06-11 Thread Jim Mulder
Yes, I meant for Jason's use case. I was involved in getting z/OS running in the ZVDT/Wazi environment, so I am aware of those things. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY Jim Mulder wrote: >IBM does not provide any license for any rele

Re: Does MVCDK move 'per byte' like MVC?

2024-07-26 Thread Jim Mulder
s. I know engineers to ask if I really needed to know. Jim Mulder -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Breaking Event Address, BEAR

2024-07-29 Thread Jim Mulder
had suggested making it controllable by a CR bit (i.e., semi-privileged), but it looks like we didn't pursue that. Sorry about that. I supposed I should have paid more attention to that part of the discussion, but it probably was not the hottest issue that I was involved with at the time.

Re: Breaking Event Address, BEAR

2024-07-31 Thread Jim Mulder
ng at SDWABEA. Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2024 7:43 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Breaking Event Address, BEAR Sounds like security by obfuscation. The exposure would be that s

Re: Subpool FREEMAIN

2024-08-30 Thread Jim Mulder
FREEMAIN A=(1),LV=(0) 12,*** IHB001 MODE OPERAND REQ'D-NOT SPECIFIED So it would seem that you actually most have done something like FREEMAIN RU,A=(1),LV=(0) Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: Jim Mulder Sent: Friday, August 30, 2024 8:21 PM To: IBM Main

Re: Subpool FREEMAIN

2024-08-30 Thread Jim Mulder
You did not specify a positional parameter. It looks like the macro assumed RU (SVC x'78') in that case, but you set R0 and R1 in the format for R (SVC x'A'). FREEMAIN R,A=(1),LV=(0) should work better. But I would recommend FREEMAIN RU,SP=1 Jim Mulder -

Re: 24-bit private region on z16 processor

2024-09-09 Thread Jim Mulder
I would expect that if Address Space Layout Randomization is active. Is ASLR(YES) specified in DIAGxx? The D DIAG command, or VERBX IGVDGNIP under IPCS, will tell you. Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Sent: Monday

Re: 24-bit private region on z16 processor

2024-09-09 Thread Jim Mulder
The documentation about what it does is here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=overview-address-space-layout-randomization Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Sent: Monday, September 9, 2024 9:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN

Re: 24-bit private region on z16 processor

2024-09-12 Thread Jim Mulder
ASLR was introduced in APAR OA57914 on z/OS 2.4. It affects all storage addresses in the region. A random number of pages of storage are left unused in order to change the addresses of used storage. Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark

Re: z/OS and hiperspaces

2015-11-24 Thread Jim Mulder
> One question I would liked answered by the experts is why now with > 64-bit storage one would choose to use a hiperspace (or dataspace) over > just using storage above the bar? TYPE=CACHE hiperspaces continue to provide a function that z/OS has not provided with 64-bit memory objects. With

Re: AW: Re: z/OS and hiperspaces

2015-11-24 Thread Jim Mulder
ion limit, not a processor architecture limit. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: z/OS and hiperspaces

2015-11-24 Thread Jim Mulder
the original point. But when the price of real memory declined to the point where the ESA/390 31-bit real addressing architecture limit became a practical constraint, expanded storage provided a way to have more than 2GB of processor memory (real + expanded) in a logical partition. Jim Mulder

Re: Machine Types and Architecture Levels

2015-11-28 Thread Jim Mulder
oes? For z/VM, some terminology which may concern you is "Virtual Architecture Level". And if you could be running under a Linux which is a z/VM guest, you may need to be concerned about "Live Guest Relo

Re: Straightforward way to determine hardware architecture level?

2015-11-28 Thread Jim Mulder
tHP instead of FaclLongDisplacement. The long displacement facility was eventually retrofitted (via a millicode implementation) to z800/z900 machines. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subs

Re: Machine Types and Architecture Levels

2015-11-29 Thread Jim Mulder
t 132 FACL_TimerIntSuppressionFacility EQU X'04' Bit 133 FACL_RTI_FCModFacility EQU X'02' Bit 134 FaclByte17DSB Bits 136-143 * Bit definitions: FACL_SharedTLBEQU X'80' Bit 136 FACL_TODClockEpochFacility EQU X'10' Bit 139 FAC

Re: What does the 8th character of Load parm mean

2015-12-01 Thread Jim Mulder
e additional modules loaded when ARCHLVL=1 (ESA/390 mode, which z/OS does not support after z/OS 1.5) IEANUC2y contains the additional modules loaded when ARCHLVL=2 (zArchitecture mode, which has been the only choice since z/OS 1.6). None of these are V=R. There has been no V=

Re: Translation Exception address shown in PGM System Trace entries

2015-12-02 Thread Jim Mulder
s (to the page level), and there are several flag > bits defined and other bits to the right that may be "unpredicatable" under > various circumstances. > > This all assumes that the data at A8-AF is copied exactly to the trace > record, and that the trace record as formatted b

Re: Is first page always backed by real storage upon return from STORAGE OBTAIN?

2015-12-02 Thread Jim Mulder
hine with APAR OA46291 installed, in which case backing storage may not been freed during a subsequent FREEMAIN, so it remains backed for a subsequent GETMAIN. For requests where RSM is not involved (when the request is satisfied from free storage represented by a DFE or FQE), the backing is unchan

Re: at Re: AW: Re: Is first page always backed by real storage upon return from STORAGE OBTAIN?

2015-12-02 Thread Jim Mulder
A subpools 253 and 254) were also imbedded in the storage that they described. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: length of "executable"

2015-12-07 Thread Jim Mulder
(not rounded up to the next 4K or whatever) I a bit > perplexed as to why this (whatever their methods are) appears to be > something not readily available to me. See SYS1.MODGEN(IHAPDS) Jim Mulder z/OS System T

Re: Straightforward way to determine hardware architecture level?

2015-12-12 Thread Jim Mulder
entation is available at http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/zoslib/pdf/OA47689.pdf Note that if you do not specify MAXARCH in IEFOPZxx, then MAXARCH defaults to the architecture level of the machine, so the MAXARCH displayed by DISPLAY IEFOPZ,STATUS will be the arc

Re: Bind Breaks for z13

2015-12-16 Thread Jim Mulder
RSM to reduce the number of Bind Breaks that RSM needs to do when multiple jobs are doing DSPSERV DELETE concurrently. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive a

Re: Critique my Binder RCF?

2015-12-16 Thread Jim Mulder
> I think the first CSECT in the Load Module (and the Load Module > itself) is automatically Page Aligned. That is definitely incorrect, at least for load modules in a PDS. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsi

Re: ENF event when a CPU is placed online or offline?

2015-12-17 Thread Jim Mulder
r Offline. And since these event code are not documented in the manual, they are not intended as Programming Interfaces. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archi

Re: Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level performance info?

2015-12-28 Thread Jim Mulder
lg rY,0(rI,rBase) may avoid some Address Generation Interlock effects (although various machines have various AGI bypasses for various instructions). And it may just transfer some of the AGI effect from the LG down to the AGSI. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY ---

Re: D M=STOR causes disaster

2016-01-04 Thread Jim Mulder
COMPONENT LEVEL/SU: R7A0 PSY UA78514 UP15/08/19 P F508 For lower releases, you may want to avoid issuing that command in a logical partition where you have a large amount of real storage but only one general purpose CPU online. Jim Mulde

Re: D M=STOR causes disaster

2016-01-04 Thread Jim Mulder
INE-RECONFIGURABLE 88064M-103424M PENDING OFFLINE NONE 0M IN OFFLINE STORAGE ELEMENT(S) 0M UNASSIGNED STORAGE STORAGE INCREMENT SIZE IS 512M Jim Mu

Re: PDS Directory Errors in zOS 1.13

2016-01-11 Thread Jim Mulder
e remember this who could point me in the > right direction? IEBCOPY - APAR OA40379 Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to l

Re: SLIP and ESTAE

2016-01-15 Thread Jim Mulder
RTM (and thus before SLIP). And that is one of the reasons why I despise ESPIE and recommend against using it. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: How to Dynamically add SUBSYTEM

2016-01-18 Thread Jim Mulder
t;IEFJ036I SUBSYSTEM SSI IS NOT ENABLED FOR THE SETSSI COMMAND > > > Does anyone know how we can properly activate this subsystem, without an IPL If you are using the most current release (z/OS 2.2), you can use SETSSI DELETE,SUBNAME=SSI,FORCE Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM

Re: System Trace Table SSIR entries

2016-01-25 Thread Jim Mulder
ADDRESS OF ASVTREUS BITS@L3A * DCL ASVTREUS BIT(*) BASED(ASVTREUA) /* ONE BIT FOR EVERY ENTRY @L3A*/ Note that these things are not designated as Programming Interfaces. But you were asking about how to tell from a dump. Jim Mulder z/OS

Re: Deleting a dataset that GRS has enqueued.

2016-01-29 Thread Jim Mulder
he situation of having separate catalogs and SMS-plexes within the same sysplex (and thus allowing more than one SMS-managed data set with the same name in the same sysplex) was not a design consideration for that project. Jim Mulder

Re: Boundaries of the 64-bit LocalSystemArea

2016-02-08 Thread Jim Mulder
dware architecture. LOCALSYSAREA is just a z/OS construct, and its size/boundaries are set by z/OS. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: z14 Drops Support for ESA/390 Mode (Was: Re: zEC12)

2016-02-10 Thread Jim Mulder
of work, especially in stand-alone dump, and I did not want us to have to do that in multiple releases via PTFs, so I did in in z/OS 1.12, long before there was a plan as to when a z/Architecture-only machine would be built. Jim Mu

Re: z14 Drops Support for ESA/390 Mode (Was: Re: zEC12)

2016-02-10 Thread Jim Mulder
any ESA/390 mode Dynamic Address Translation, either at SIE Guest 1 (in an LPAR) or at Guest 2 (under VM). So you certainly will not be able to run any operating system that uses ESA/390 virtual addressing, even under VM. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY ---

Re: Query on IPLing with 64 bit

2016-02-11 Thread Jim Mulder
, with the restrictions that there is no concept of RMODE(64) yet, so you need to get the code loaded above the bar some other way, and very few system services document that they support being invoked from a program which resides above the bar. Some might work anyway. Others might not.

Re: Query on IPLing with 64 bit

2016-02-11 Thread Jim Mulder
PSW, which LPSW expands to a 128-bit z/Architecture-format PSW. The LPSWE operand is a 128-bit z/Achitecture-format PSW. This has been documented in z/Architecture Principles of Operation for 15 years. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp.

Re: Real Storage Allocation

2016-02-12 Thread Jim Mulder
r stand-alone dump output data sets. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Enterprise COBOL 6.1 announced

2016-02-16 Thread Jim Mulder
> The requirement for z/OS 2.1 is disappointing. We haven't been on > 1.13 for all that long, and I don't know that we have an upgrade due > any time soon... :-( Support for z/OS 1.13 ends soon (Sept. 30, 2016). Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp.

Re: DASD device not going offline

2016-02-21 Thread Jim Mulder
lder than z/OS 2.2, you should specify a DELAY=nn value in order to reduce the danger. z/OS 2.2 implements a default/minimum of DELAY=1. On older releases, the default/minimum was DELAY=0. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Po

Re: IPCS

2016-02-25 Thread Jim Mulder
he parmlib members which IBM provides. Typically, these are found on the sysres volume in a data set named SYS1.IBM.PARMLIB (or some similar name chosen by the systems programmer). Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY

Re: Prefix save area - confused

2016-02-25 Thread Jim Mulder
ssors, so MVS/ESA did map addresses 0-4095 in data spaces on those processors. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...

Re: CSVFETCH exit

2016-03-23 Thread Jim Mulder
CSVFETCH exit would no nothing about this. The Rexx compiler also has an option to generate OBJs, which you subsequently bind into load modules or program objects that would be invoked via CSV services. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkee

Re: What happens with no working SE?

2016-03-24 Thread Jim Mulder
It has been quite a few years since I have seen a dump of an MVS hang due to the SE being unavailable. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access i

Microprocessor Optimization Primer

2016-03-30 Thread Jim Mulder
This may be of interest to some of you. https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/topic?id=5cf34211-c8e6-4747-a8c2-f8ff7379150b Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: IPCS SYSTRACE command

2016-04-01 Thread Jim Mulder
dress space, and described in MVS Data Areas Volume 4, and are not a Programming Interface. And of course, I am interested in the reason why you want to work with the raw data. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -

Re: IPCS SYSTRACE command

2016-04-01 Thread Jim Mulder
formatting to determine the current position within the current trace buffer for each CPU. The high order part of the real address in CR12 is used only by the machine in order to determine where to put a trace entry. Jim Mulder -

Re: IPCS SYSTRACE command

2016-04-02 Thread Jim Mulder
at some point to put it into an IO buffer which is prefixed by a DRPX (Dump Record PrefiX). But the I/O buffer ASID and address are not how the data is represented in the dump. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY --

Re: VINPUT VMSG and VINPUT PVMSG

2016-04-07 Thread Jim Mulder
abled console communication, and for disabled console WTORs, it enables only for priority responses. So if z/OS running under VM uses SCLP for a disabled console WTOR, and you try to reply to it with VMSG, it will be ignored. You have to use PVMSG to respond to z/OS disabled console WTO

Re: IEFDDSRV — DD service

2020-09-23 Thread Jim Mulder
@M5A AGO .UCB006 @L7A .UCB005 ANOP @L7A UCBNAME DSCL3 Device number (EBCDIC) .UCB006 ANOP @L7A Jim Mulder z/OS Diagno

Re: IEFDDSRV  DD service

2020-09-23 Thread Jim Mulder
#x27;0C' UNIT TYPE - 3525 - PIKLAKE UR3886 EQU X'17'UNIT TYPE-3886-SHARK X03127 UR3850 EQU X'42'UNIT TYPE-3850-SS/1 Y30LPDG UR3540 EQU X'44'UNIT TYPE-3540-ERIC Y30

Re: DAE Dataset - Compression

2020-10-06 Thread Jim Mulder
DAE uses QSAM - the DCB is DAEDCB DCB MACRF=(GL,PM),DSORG=PS,RECFM=FB,LRECL=255,EROPT=ACC I don't know offhand of anything that would preclude using compressed data set for DAE. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe

Re: does anyone recall any details about MVS/XA?

2020-12-10 Thread Jim Mulder
/GC28-1817-1_MVS_ESA_Configuration_Program_Guide_and_Reference_Dec89.pdf Some SYSGEN info here: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/370/MVS/SR20-4674-1_Guide_to_MVS_SP_System_IPO_SYSGEN_Student_Text_Jul82.pdf Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY >

Re: BLS18160D Response

2021-03-01 Thread Jim Mulder
instruction, those things are in agreement. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote on 03/01/2021 04:26:52 AM: > From: "Barbara Nitz" > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date: 03/01/2021 04:1

Re: BLS18160D Response

2021-03-01 Thread Jim Mulder
. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote on 02/28/2021 11:08:55 AM: > From: "Ed Jaffe" > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date: 03/01/2021 04:09 PM > Subject: Re: BLS18160D Response >

Re: BLS18160D Response

2021-03-01 Thread Jim Mulder
ow dumping works. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote on 02/27/2021 09:03:17 PM: > From: "Ed Jaffe" > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date: 03/01/2021 05:04 PM > Subject: BL

Re: IPL from SCSI DVD or via NVMe

2021-03-17 Thread Jim Mulder
process for creating the .iso files to put on the DVD for standalone ICKDSF and standalone DSS, but they don't document how to do it. I think they ended up just shipping me a COD package so that I would have the DVDs. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughke

Re: Wait Code on IPL

2021-03-31 Thread Jim Mulder
As you can tell by doing IPLDATA STATUS under IPCS against any dump (or ACTIVE), IEAVNP26 is SMS initialization. No one should be issuing an ABEND with a code of 000, so a standalone dump would be needed to see what is going on. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp

Re: Location of Sysplex name

2021-03-31 Thread Jim Mulder
ECVTSPLX has been in the PI (Programming Interface) list at the beginning of the IHAECVT macro since HBB7703 (OS/390 2.10). The comment about debugging purposes is residual from before that time. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Main

Re: Stand Alone Dump questions

2021-04-01 Thread Jim Mulder
. Large format (DSNTYPE=LARGE) data sets can span 16,777,215 tracks per volume. The maximum size for large format data sets is 768 GB per volume. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote on 04/01/2021 1

Re: Userarea and Systemarea crossing.

2018-06-08 Thread Jim Mulder
LDAX_LDAERGTPDSA Current high address of EXTENDED PRIVATE AREA Region LDAX_CurHighBot DSA < 16M Cur bot Auth area LDAX_CurEHighBot DSA > 16M Cur bot EAuth area Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development

Re: Why are highly busy zIIPs worse than highly busy CPs?

2018-06-09 Thread Jim Mulder
zIIP dispatching is the same as GP dispatching. ZIIPAWMT has analogous parameters for GP (CCCAWMT) and zAAP (ZAAPAWMT). Alternate wait management was created long before there were specialty engines. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY &quo

Re: Eternal WAIT on un-waited ECB

2018-06-22 Thread Jim Mulder
g on that ECB. Not much more I can tell you without seeing the dump. Is the TCB set nondispatchable? Has parallel detach gotten its fingers in there? Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote on 06/22/2018

Re: REXX as JCL replacement

2018-07-11 Thread Jim Mulder
There is a GDGBIAS=JOB | STEP parm on the JOB statement in z/OS 2.3. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote on 07/11/2018 03:35:00 PM: > From: "Tony Thigpen" > To: IBM-MAIN@LIS

Re: SVCE system trace table entry

2018-07-13 Thread Jim Mulder
The documentation is here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.ieav100/sts.htm The env-data is PSAMODEW. Both PSAMODEW and the R15 = 0014 are are telling you that you issued an SVC in EUT FRR mode. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test

Re: Friday Strangeness ISRDDN ENQ ?

2018-07-13 Thread Jim Mulder
This message suggests that ISRDDN is using GQSCAN with XSYS=NO or ISGQUERY with GATHERFROM=SYSTEM I don't know if there is any way to tell ISRDDN to use XSYS=YES or GATHERFROM=SYSPLEX. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > When I

Re: Why do IOS messages go to various JOB/TASK Logs

2018-07-13 Thread Jim Mulder
An IEA491E message appears in the job log of whichever job did the I/O operation on which the condition was reported. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > When we see hardware issues, I am asked if the messages seen in various LOGs, > like

Re: Why do IOS messages go to various JOB/TASK Logs

2018-07-13 Thread Jim Mulder
Branch entry WTO has existed only since MVS/ESA SP4.1.0 (around 1990). The IOS processing to schedule an IRB to the Region Control Task to issue DASD ERP messages predates that considerably. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > > IOS r

Re: Friday Strangeness ISRDDN ENQ ?

2018-07-13 Thread Jim Mulder
ISGQUERY behavior was not a factor in choosing the default. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > Curiously, although there are performance warnings for both macros > about searching the cross system scope, XSYS=YES is the defaul for > GQ

Re: Linklist and APF

2018-07-15 Thread Jim Mulder
It depends on your definition of "fairly recent". LNKAUTH=APFTAB was introduced in MVS/XA SP2.1.1, about 35 years ago.. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > I believe that until a fairly recent OS release LNKLST did not > s

Re: Z/OS trace entries - AINT

2018-07-26 Thread Jim Mulder
Yes, CF is Coupling Facility. The possibilities are any combination of IQD,PCIE,CRYPTO,CF The book currently only says desc: Description of the adapter types represented by the adapter interruption source mask (IQP, PCIE, Crypto). CF should be added to that. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis

Re: AW: Re: Z/OS trace entries - AINT

2018-07-26 Thread Jim Mulder
I would expect so. There are also a few other types of trace entries (PCIL, PCIS, PDMX) that have to do with PCIE. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote on 07/26/2018 12:32:02 PM: > From: &q

Re: Z/OS trace entries - AINT

2018-07-27 Thread Jim Mulder
AINT CF entries are normal. They occur, for example, when an asynchronous coupling operation completes, or a list structure transitions from empty to non-empty. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote

Re: ÝEXTERNAL¨ Re: Report volumes with IPLText

2018-09-10 Thread Jim Mulder
A Stand Alone Dump IPL volume will have a data set named SYS1.PAGEDUMP.Vvolser Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > > Just write a VTOC scan program looking for a dataset named SYS1.NUCLEUS. > > Every volume having SYS1.NUCLEUS is m

Re: Report volumes with IPLText

2018-09-11 Thread Jim Mulder
I doubt it. The only use of DALIPLTX that I see in BCP code is in tables for defined text units and mutually exclusive text units. What it can be used for (if anything), I don't know. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe

Re: TOD clock values, leap seconds and BLSUXTOD conversion service

2018-09-13 Thread Jim Mulder
BLSUXTOD does not know the context of the TOD clock value you are passing, and does not attempt to account for time zones or leap seconds. When you use BLSUXTOD, you are expected to any adjustments of interest to you before calling BLSUXTOD. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development

Re: Is there an API to a "storage dump line" formatting routine?

2018-09-21 Thread Jim Mulder
have their own code for formatting a line of dumped storage. There is no common operating system API. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote on 09/21/2018 04:25:10 PM: > From: "David W Noon&

Re: ECB in XMEM Post

2018-09-27 Thread Jim Mulder
It is available for V2R1 when APAR OA49677 is installed. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "Charles Mills" wrote on 09/27/2018 01:15:38 PM: > From: "Charles Mills" > To: ibm-main@listserv.ua.edu > Date: 09/27/2018 0

Re: Cross-memory POST ERRET and return codes

2018-10-08 Thread Jim Mulder
don't know why that was done, but it has been that way since the introduction of LINKAGE=SYSTEM in MVS/ESA SP3.1.0. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "Charles Mills" wrote on 10/08/2018 06:40:40 PM: > From: "Ch

Re: Reasons for address space with no JSAB/other sources of job name

2018-10-12 Thread Jim Mulder
be freed while you remain disabled. The fields pointed to by ASCBJBNI and ASCBJBNS are located in an extension of the CSCB, and disablement does not prevent that storage from being freed. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discu

Re: Reconfigurable storage

2018-10-16 Thread Jim Mulder
If D M=STOR and CF STOR ONLINE say the storage is online, then it is online. For Omegamon issues, you would need to contact Omegamon support. You might first want to ensure that you are running a supported Omegamon release that is up-to-date on maintenance. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis

Re: Alternate Channel Set information and Startio considerations

2018-10-18 Thread Jim Mulder
. The UCB address is not changed by HYPERSWAP. Some of the contents of the UCB (including UCBSID) is changed by HYPERSWAP. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > From: "John Sullivan" > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date: 10/18/2018

Re: Difference in auth req between xmem POST & IEAMSXMP

2018-10-18 Thread Jim Mulder
problem state, you must do a MODESET to supervisor state before invoking IEAMSXMP. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > From: "Mark Henderson" > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date: 10/18/2018 05:54 PM > Subject: Difference in auth

Re: get ECSA key 7 storage under CICS

2018-10-18 Thread Jim Mulder
intention to easily allow safe coexistence of a mix of authorized and unauthorized subtasks below the initiator or STC task. So it can be a rather difficult thing to do without creating exposures that would allow the untrusted CICS application programs to gain authorization. Jim Mulder z/OS

Re: RESMGR exit vs. end of task

2018-11-15 Thread Jim Mulder
This is an intentional change in APAR OA55657. You should see the same results on z/OS 2.1 with PTF UA97322. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote on 11/15/2018 02:52:41 PM: > From: "Gary We

Re: System level coding examples

2018-11-18 Thread Jim Mulder
mode only in code which is in common storage. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote on 11/18/2018 08:03:49 PM: > From: "Ed Jaffe" > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date: 11/18/2018 0

Re: Region size for OMVS tasks

2018-11-19 Thread Jim Mulder
*(IEFUSI set REGION size) @PHC Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote on 11/19/2018 11:12:18 AM: > From: "Sean Gleann" > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU &

Re: FRR Clarification

2017-07-29 Thread Jim Mulder
skipped. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > Old thread, but I am curious based on a recent issue I had; it seems > the ESTAE got control before the FRR, documentation seems to state > that FRR gets control before the estae, is that right? So

Re: PGSER R,FIX question

2017-07-30 Thread Jim Mulder
I cannot answer your question from the incomplete information you have provided. Keep in mind the the ASCB parameter you have specified on the PGSER macro is applicable only to BRANCH=SPECIAL requests, and even then, possibly not in the way you might be expecting. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis

Re: Question about VSMLIST and LSQA

2017-07-31 Thread Jim Mulder
jobstep task owned LSQA, each TCB points to chains of AEs (IHAAE). AEs are not processed by VSMLIST.- Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 07/30/2017 12:52:49 PM: > From: Binyamin Dissen > To: IB

Re: PGSER R,FIX question

2017-07-31 Thread Jim Mulder
performed. I would prefer that PGSER should issue an ABEND when the ASCB parameter does not specify the currently addressable address space, and I intend to exert some influence toward getting that implemented in a future release. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp

Re: PGSER R,FIX question

2017-07-31 Thread Jim Mulder
ng the SRB. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > What does currently addressable address space mean I do a SSAR to the > address space that invoked the SRB, before issuing the IEAMSCHD I do > SYSEVENT DONTSWAP to ensure the address space

Re: PGSER FIX returns CC = 18A Reason=35000301

2017-08-04 Thread Jim Mulder
real storage? Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > I am getting an error for PGSER Fix that the storage has not been getmain'ed > > I have tried different subpool(s) 0 and 10 with same result AND same > address was returned > &

Re: PGSER FIX returns CC = 18A Reason=35000301

2017-08-04 Thread Jim Mulder
That does not require the storage to be fixed, unless you are disabled or you are using a real address for the target of the copy. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > From: Joseph Reichman > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date: 08/04/2

Re: PGSER FIX returns CC = 18A Reason=35000301

2017-08-04 Thread Jim Mulder
That is correct - cross memory page faults are resolved as you would want, so the PGSER FIX is not needed. Unfortunately, the system does not resolve ASTE-validity exception (PIC 2B), which is why nonswappability is required. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp

Re: Various 052 abends with LINKAGE=SYSTEM calls in SRB

2017-08-07 Thread Jim Mulder
other than the VSMLOC service routine is being invoked by the VSMLOC PC. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > From: Joe Reichman > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date: 08/07/2017 09:24 PM > Subject: Various 052 abends with LINKAGE=SYSTEM

Re: Various 052 abends with LINKAGE=SYSTEM calls in SRB

2017-08-08 Thread Jim Mulder
No, 052 abends are issued by service routines for PCAUTH services. VSMLOC is not a PCAUTH service. and its service routine does not issue 052 abends. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > From: Binyamin Dissen > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

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