Is there any XML parser available on z/OS ?
Hello, I would like to know if there is an XML parser available on z/OS? Thanks a lot in advance for your help, Romain -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Is there any XML parser available on z/OS ?
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 10:58:15 +0200, CAPRON Romain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to know if there is an XML parser available on z/OS? Romain, Have a look at http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/software/xml/ Hope that helps. Roger -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Short term paging spike
We see such spikes caused by the WMQI Broker (or what is called these days). At startup, it allocates a huge amount of storage (0.6 GB) per address space (4 or 5), which is paged out for 90% after some time. Caused us an aux storage shortage. And a subsequent haggle with IBM, as their LE defaults are a mess (HEAP, HEAPPOOLS). Ever noticed the amount of FREF pages? Regards, Barbara Nitz -- 5 GB Mailbox, 50 FreeSMS http://www.gmx.net/de/go/promail +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More +++ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
RMF PM Java Edition
Hi folks Anyone know where I can download the latest version of this, (which I believe has been updated during 2005 - I know it's in the RMF libs, but I want the latest version). I can't get the web link to work, I get page not found. Is it on an FTP server somewhere? Cheers Brian This e-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s)and may contain confidential and privileged information of Transaction NetworkServices. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution isprohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact thesender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Chinese character code table.
In last two days, I got a lot of reply from you. Charles' reply helps me to find the sample of IBM Simplified Chinese Graphic Character Set DBCS-Host and DBCS-PC for 1993 version from below link. Now I need the IBM Simplified Chinese Graphic Character Set of DBCS-Host and DBCS-PC for 1997 version. Does anyone know where can I find it? Thanks in advance for all your helps. Best regards, Chris. Date:Sat, 24 Sep 2005 10:24:33 -0700 From:Charles Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Chinese character code table There are many: http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/software/globalization/codepag es.html Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of chris Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 9:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Chinese character code table Does anyone know where can I find the IBM Z/OS Chinese character code table? -- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: IPCS WHERE and OUTTRAP
Go through a SYSTRACE and parse out the trace entries of interest, then do IP WHERES on the PSW addresses to get the displacements in the modules. Generate side by side listing of trace entry, psw address, r15, r0, r1 and the module name and displacement. That is one thing I had written a verbx for when I was IBM. It helped to analyze loops and performance problems. It would have been nice to have an IPCS command that does the IPCS WHEREs automatically, taking into account if the psw is in private of an address space that is not dumped or for sadumps use the correct settings for the xmem environment (for addresses in private). That still leaves the task of manually doing the offset findings in the huge lmods like iefw21sd or igdzilla or (heaven help) libnotes or dsmc... Some have suggested that we add an option to WHERE, filtering based on data type. The most common filter that has been proposed is a MODULE data type filter. It would be interesting to hear opinions on this suggestion from regular IBM-MAIN contributers I am not sure I understand what is proposed here. What would a module data type filter do to WHERE (or systrace)? As for GFS traces - in IBM Germany we had someone writing a COBOL program to do that analysis for us (I had the dubious honour of fixing a bug in it - my one and only forray into Cobol). I know that IBM P'keepsie has a similar tool to do the analysis. It would be nice to get that (or something similar) incorporated into IPCS - saves the ingenious editing via IPCS print file that I usually do.) Regards, Barbara Nitz -- 5 GB Mailbox, 50 FreeSMS http://www.gmx.net/de/go/promail +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More +++ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: RMF PM Java Edition
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:59:58 +0100, Perryman, Brian wrote: Anyone know where I can download the latest version of this, (which I believe has been updated during 2005 - I know it's in the RMF libs, but I want the latest version). I can't get the web link to work, I get page not found. Is it on an FTP server somewhere? The l is missing. (pmweb.htm - pmweb.html) Try: http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/rmf/rmfhtmls/pmweb/pmweb.html#code Last update: December 21, 2004 (RMF PM Version 2.4.20) Norbert Friemel -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Some questions about cross memory services
John can u pass James Antognini article ? John Krew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:After reading up on cross-memory services (Extended Addressability Guide and the James Antognini article), I have the following questions: 1. Assuming I want to connect only selected address spaces to the service address space (via non-system LX): a. to execute the ATSET and ETCON macros in the user's address space (assuming the user runs in problem state) I will have to create an additional PC routine to check authorization and issue those macros on behalf of the user. b. that additional PC routine will have to be based on a system LX, otherwise I will enter a logical endless loop () c. in other words: I will need to reserve two LX's - one system, one non-system My question is: is this worth it? Is this the customary way of doing things? Or for economy's sake do people end up using a single system LX even for connection to selected address spaces (unless those selected address spaces are in supervisor mode)? 2. When I getmain a global area in common storage to save the cross-memory info (PC numbers, (dormant) system LX, etc.), in what key should I getmain it? What are the safe keys that people are accustomed to using? (I gather from earlier discussions on this list that key 8 is a no-no.) 3. The notion and purpose of an EAX (as opposed to a simple AX) is not clearly elucidated in either of the above papers -- both more or less assume one already pretty much knows what it is and give it short shrift. Can anyone point me to a more precise presentation of the EAX, or, alternatively, briefly explain in this forum when and for what reason one would opt to reserve an EAX and specify it in the ETDEF macro? I am sure I will have some more questions but that's enough for now! Thanks, John Krew p.s. also cross-posted to Assembler Discussion List -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: RMF PM Java Edition
Well spotted Norbert! That worked - many thanks! Brian - -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Norbert Friemel Sent: 26 September 2005 12:35 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: RMF PM Java Edition On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:59:58 +0100, Perryman, Brian wrote: Anyone know where I can download the latest version of this, (which I believe has been updated during 2005 - I know it's in the RMF libs, but I want the latest version). I can't get the web link to work, I get page not found. Is it on an FTP server somewhere? The l is missing. (pmweb.htm - pmweb.html) Try: http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/rmf/rmfhtmls/pmweb/pmweb.html#code Last update: December 21, 2004 (RMF PM Version 2.4.20) This e-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s)and may contain confidential and privileged information of Transaction NetworkServices. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution isprohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact thesender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: IPCS WHERE and OUTTRAP
Barbara Nitz wrote on 09/26/2005 07:13:24 AM: Some have suggested that we add an option to WHERE, filtering based on data type. The most common filter that has been proposed is a MODULE data type filter. It would be interesting to hear opinions on this suggestion from regular IBM-MAIN contributers I am not sure I understand what is proposed here. What would a module data type filter do to WHERE (or systrace)? The key to understanding why a module filter has been proposed is that WHERE produces a report describing multiple things containing a byte, but it only returns a single best fit result via symbol X (or the WHERE service parameter list). A MODULE data type filter would tell WHERE that the invoker of the service or the subcommand was only interested in modules containing the byte of interest. If you had the option in effect and pointed WHERE at offset 0 in the CVT, the single piece of information returned via symbol X (or the WHERE service parameter list) would name the nucleus CSECT containing the byte instead of returning a description of STRUCTURE(CVT) whose origin would yield a better fit. The origin of the CSECT is a few bytes lower than offeset 0 in the CVT to accomodate the CVT prefix. In common parlance symbol X (and the WHERE service parameter list) do the following: 1. Unqualified questioners get the best available answer to What named AREA, MODULE, or STRUCTURE contains that byte? 2. Questioners asking about modules would only get X set if a module contained the byte. As you and others have described what you'd like SYSTRACE to do, SYSTRACE would use module filtering in its calls to the WHERE service routine because it would want answers pertaining to modules and would not be interested in answers pertaining to AREAs or STRUCTUREs. Bob Wright - z/OS MVS Service Aids -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: IPCS WHERE and OUTTRAP
From: Robert Wright ... As you and others have described what you'd like SYSTRACE to do, SYSTRACE would use module filtering in its calls to the WHERE service routine because it would want answers pertaining to modules and would not be interested in answers pertaining to AREAs or STRUCTUREs. This can only be described as a _mightily_ well timed response - I was mid-way through composing a post myself when I got this. Mine has subsequently been binned. Now Bob, about some decent IPCS support for those GFS traces ... Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: another z9 question (retrofitted instructions)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 09/25/2005 at 10:38 PM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Ah! The JFFO instruction which appeared on the decsystem KA-10 in 1968 (according to an unscientific Google search). I suppose it's OK for IBM to use it now, since any patent has presumably expired. I'm sure that IBM could trot out prior art; CDC had such an instruction before DEC. I suspect that IBM did as well, on the 7030, but don't have a manual. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Chinese character code table
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Re: IBMisms (was Re: HASP/ASP JES/JES2/JES3)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 09/25/2005 at 03:07 PM, Leonard Woren [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I was going to ask if someone could post the complete list, to avoid 50 followups with 1 each. The standard way to handle that is to request private replies, then post a summary. I doubt that there is a the complete list. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Suppress carriage-control characters in SYSOUT?
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 09/25/2005 at 07:32 PM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm not sure that convention, widespread as it is rises to the status of standard. Nor did I say that it did; in fact, I've been at shops where B was a print class, although that breaks some of the IBM cataloged procedures. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: HASP/ASP JES/JES2/JES3
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 09/25/2005 at 01:45 PM, Leonard Woren [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: (Of course you can support more users on Wylbur than on TSO ISPF -- it takes 5 times as long to get your work done using something as primitive as Wylbur, so the machine doesn't get loaded up with all those pesky jobs.) (Don't bother flaming me for this, I'm immune. Wylbur was a really advanced concept -- in 1965.) Wylbur is in some respects still superior to TSO EDIT and ISPF/PDF EDIT. That's true even for the old free versions, and it's even more true for the newer versions, e.g., NIH and SuperWylbur. When I had access to SuperWylbur I used it for functionality, not for performance or because of local policy. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: another z9 question (retrofitted instructions)
In a recent note, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) said: Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 08:18:47 -0300 Ah! The JFFO instruction which appeared on the decsystem KA-10 in 1968 (according to an unscientific Google search). I suppose it's OK for IBM to use it now, since any patent has presumably expired. I'm sure that IBM could trot out prior art; CDC had such an instruction before DEC. I suspect that IBM did as well, on the 7030, but don't have a manual. Are you not thinking, rather, of the Cxi instruction, which counted '1'b bits? Of course, this be incorporated in a sequence of decrement; xor; count. How about using floating point instructions? Normalize, then extract the shift count from the exponent. We'll need to see whether John G. discloses his technique. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Another z9 question
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Re: Suppress carriage-control characters in SYSOUT?
In a recent note, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) said: Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 08:44:41 -0300 In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 09/25/2005 at 07:32 PM, Paul Gilmartin [log in to unmask] said: I'm not sure that convention, widespread as it is rises to the status of standard. Nor did I say that it did; in fact, I've been at shops where B was a print class, although that breaks some of the IBM cataloged procedures. I was referring to: Linkname: Re: Suppress carriage-control characters in SYSOUT? URL: http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0509L=ibm-mainD=1O=DP=160297 ... in which you stated, and I quoted, but you snipped: ... The standard way to send binary files is with IDTF encoding, using the XMIT command. [Emphasis added.] -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: IPCS WHERE and OUTTRAP
Shane wrote on 09/26/2005 08:39:00 AM: Now Bob, about some decent IPCS support for those GFS traces ... Other than generic support in service aids components, I think that all GFS trace data collection and formatting support is shipped via the VSM component. Did you have something in mind that the service aids components could do to support such things better? Or do you want Jim Mulder (who know GFS traces a lot better than I do) and myself to relay requests for better support to VSM developers? Bob Wright - z/OS MVS Service Aids -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: IPCS WHERE and OUTTRAP
From: Robert Wright Other than generic support in service aids components, I think that all GFS trace data collection and formatting support is shipped via the VSM component. Did you have something in mind that the service aids components could do to support such things better? Or do you want Jim Mulder (who know GFS traces a lot better than I do) and myself to relay requests for better support to VSM developers? The formatting is excellent - the filtering is non-existent. As I alluded earlier, the prime (extra) functionality I see as required in the field is the ability to identify storage leaks. An option to eliminate all matched get-free pairs would go a *LONG* way to achieving this goal. Any further post-processing I would happily accept as user responsibility. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
zOS 1.7 Available for Ordering on ShopZSeries
I t looks like zOS 1.7 and SMPE 3.4 are available for ordering thru shopzseries a couple of days early. I just ordered SMPE 3.4 without any problems. -- Mark Jacobs Technical Services Time Customer Service, Tampa FL Time Warner -- Secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy ... [sic] censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything —you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Is there any XML parser available on z/OS ?
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 04:28:09 -0500, Roger Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 10:58:15 +0200, CAPRON Romain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to know if there is an XML parser available on z/OS? Romain, Have a look at http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/software/xml/ Also be aware the latest Enterprise COBOL for z/OS (3.3.0) has an XML PARSE statement built in -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: another z9 question (retrofitted instructions)
In a recent note, Edward E. Jaffe said: Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 22:02:44 -0700 In a recent note John Gilmore said: Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 02:18:15 + provide an eponymous macro that does the same thing, albeit much more slowly, on platforms that do not make FLOGR available. STFLE. Hmmm. So: replace all uses of FLOGR with invocations of the macro (using OPSYN?). The macro uses STFLE to test availability and use then native FLOGR, else falls through to the emulation code? Some degradation of the native FLOGR, but good compatibility. I don't know where the z9 PoO is, and I'm curious: does the *LOG* imbedded in FLOGR stand for LOGarithm, since the operation effectively finds the integer part of the base 2 logarithm of the operand? -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Is there any XML parser available on z/OS ?
Andy Robertson wrote: On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 04:28:09 -0500, Roger Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 10:58:15 +0200, CAPRON Romain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to know if there is an XML parser available on z/OS? Romain, Have a look at http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/software/xml/ Also be aware the latest Enterprise COBOL for z/OS (3.3.0) has an XML PARSE statement built in Also be aware that Enterprise COBOL 3.3 has an XML GENERATE statement. Also be aware that the latetst Enterprise COBOL is 3.4, which allows 128MiB elements and tables (previous limit: 16MiB). Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. ad Note our one day course: Enterprise COBOL Update II: Unicode and XML Support Details at: http://www.trainersfriend.com/COBOL_Courses/d705descr.htm /ad -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: another z9 question (retrofitted instructions)
Paul Gilmartin wrote: In a recent note, Edward E. Jaffe said: Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 22:02:44 -0700 In a recent note John Gilmore said: Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 02:18:15 + provide an eponymous macro that does the same thing, albeit much more slowly, on platforms that do not make FLOGR available. STFLE. Hmmm. So: replace all uses of FLOGR with invocations of the macro (using OPSYN?). The macro uses STFLE to test availability and use then native FLOGR, else falls through to the emulation code? Some degradation of the native FLOGR, but good compatibility. I don't know where the z9 PoO is, and I'm curious: does the *LOG* imbedded in FLOGR stand for LOGarithm, since the operation effectively finds the integer part of the base 2 logarithm of the operand? -- gil http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/a2278324.pdf -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: another z9 question (retrofitted instructions)
From: Paul Gilmartin I don't know where the z9 PoO is, Jim Mulder posted a (PDF) link a couple of days back to the latest PoPs. I made an unsuccessful search for a .boo equivalent this afternoon. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Is a Hurricane about to hit IBM ?
Hi guys, Just a few corrections just morning: a) My initially email was not an intent to flame IBM or BMC b) I do not know Chris Craddock, Chris Blaicher or David Allen Gibbey Jnr. What was my intention? I did read the local news as explained in a previous email and I then extracted some of this article and added my experiences or comments in between these articles. My experiences are recent, even if some of the articles are old. Some of the information that I am aware of was with-held because of obvious reasons. Conclusion: So none of it was intent to Flame anybody. The fact that somebody working for BMC could not see that I added my comments in between extracts from the article, does not justify a war on IBM-MAIN. I do know that BMC laid of many people which could be the reason why BMC is a little touchy about my posting stating that the software companies are bleeding. I also know that the educational intuitions in the USA are carrying lots of dead wood that contributes to the exorbitant cost of education in the USA but please do not blame me for this because I did not ask Washington State University to introduce me to any computer email list before. David Jnr.: Search the archives and you will see that I have been active on IBM-MAIN before. I love IBM because that is what I spent most of my life doing and not once, did I speak for you or anybody else on this list. Enjoy your day!! Anton -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
RE : Is there any XML parser available on z/OS ?
Thanks a lot for your answers! I'll study the Enterprise Cobol Way... Romain -Message d'origine- De : IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Steve Comstock Envoyé : lundi 26 septembre 2005 16:09 À : IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Objet : Re: Is there any XML parser available on z/OS ? Andy Robertson wrote: On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 04:28:09 -0500, Roger Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 10:58:15 +0200, CAPRON Romain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to know if there is an XML parser available on z/OS? Romain, Have a look at http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/software/xml/ Also be aware the latest Enterprise COBOL for z/OS (3.3.0) has an XML PARSE statement built in Also be aware that Enterprise COBOL 3.3 has an XML GENERATE statement. Also be aware that the latetst Enterprise COBOL is 3.4, which allows 128MiB elements and tables (previous limit: 16MiB). Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. ad Note our one day course: Enterprise COBOL Update II: Unicode and XML Support Details at: http://www.trainersfriend.com/COBOL_Courses/d705descr.htm /ad -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: HSM Recycle help - F O L L O W U P
Marcin, I caught your post. Can you please tell me how to perform step 3 - recycle empty tape? I am new at this and I am not sure how. Marcin Blaszczyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. list datasets form volume(832303) 2. try to recall all valid datasets 3. recycle empty tape Mohd Shahrifuddin wrote: Dear Listers, I try to recycle 1 tape with connected sets more than 40 tapes. If anybody can help me to solve it. Below is the message: RECYCLE VOLUME(832303) EXECUTE ARC0830I RECYCLE COMMAND PROCESSING STARTING ARC0838I VOLUME 832303 FULL=YES, PERCENT VALID=100, VOLUME TYPE=DAILY(06), FAILED RECYCLE=NO, DISASTER ALTERNATE=NO, FAILED CREATION=NO ARC0838I VOLUME 590353 FULL=YES, PERCENT VALID=100, VOLUME TYPE=DAILY(06), FAILED RECYCLE=NO, DISASTER ALTERNATE=NO, FAILED CREATION=NO ARC0838I VOLUME 590351 FULL=YES, PERCENT VALID=100, VOLUME TYPE=DAILY(06), FAILED RECYCLE=NO, DISASTER ALTERNATE=NO, FAILED CREATION=NO ARC0838I VOLUME 590348 FULL=YES, PERCENT VALID=100, VOLUME TYPE=DAILY(06), FAILED RECYCLE=NO, DISASTER ALTERNATE=NO, FAILED CREATION=NO ; ; ; ARC0445I VOLUME 832303 CANNOT BE RECYCLED, REASON= 0028, EXPLANATION: CONNECTED SET TOO LONG ARC0847I RECYCLE INPUT VOLUMES FREED=, OUTPUT VOLUMES USED= ARC0831I RECYCLE COMMAND PROCESSING ENDING Explanation: During the processing of a recycle request for a specific volume, the information requested is displayed. If a volume belongs to a connected set, there will be an ARC0838I message for each volume in the set. 28 CONNECTED SET TOO LONG: DFSMShsm will not recycle connected sets exceeding 40 volumes. The volume specified belongs to a connected set exceeding this limit. -- MARCIN BLASZCZYK Doradca BRE Bank SA - DIN al. Mickiewicza 10, 90-050 LODZ; POLAND email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. : + 48 42 6381009 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: HASP/ASP JES/JES2/JES3
Just a couple of years ago, our shop went to TSO because it realized that it could drop its CICS license by dropping SYSD. I still like to call ISPF, PDF. It works from the command line to get it. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
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The fundamental quantity for binary-search trees (BSTs) is Knuth's q = floor[(log2(n + 1)], where n is the number of internal nodes in some BST. This value can be obtained perspicuously but vry slowly from a PL/I or C statement of the form q = floor(log2(n + 1)) ; the evaliuation of which requires in and out data-type conversions, much floating-point multiplication and addition to evaluate a Horner's-method Chebychev-Hastings polynomial approximation of ln(n + 1) and a final additional floating-point multiplication for the change of base from e to 2. A much better way is to use greatest-lower-bound (glb) seeking binary search in a fullword or, conceivably, doubleword table of the powers of 2 [-- 1]. Until the FLOGR instruction became available, this was indeed the best way to obtain values of q on a mainframe; but now this single instruction, suitably framed, does it all for n 0. Moreover, all of this is serendipitous. The FLOGR instruction was implemented for very different purposes. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 U.S.A. _ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Another z9 question
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Will the new instructions, and modifications to existing instructions, introduced with the z9 series be retrofitted to the earlier z800, z890, z900 and / or z990 series? I don't know about that, but I do wonder what the next iteration of the mainframe will be called. Hope it's not Omega. :-| -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Another z9 question
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edward E. Jaffe Steve Comstock wrote: Will the new instructions, and modifications to existing instructions, introduced with the z9 series be retrofitted to the earlier z800, z890, z900 and / or z990 series? No. But you can use STFLE to determine which facilities are present. The presence of STFLE is indicated by bit 7 of the output from STFL in the PSA. But STFL is a privileged instruction (STFLE is not). Who issues the original STFL? the operating system during IPL? -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Basic remote copy questions
But seriously: You said existing closed datasets *should* have no problems. I believe so. However I was asked can you *assure* it ?. That's why I asked the question. Things get more complicated, when PPRC-XD (I don't like it) is used. 100% assure? I don't want to take that risk. but I am 99% sure that after a PPRC failure, ony datasets which were open for output at the time of the failure are exposed to errors. Existing closed datasets should not be affected. As I understand PPRC-XD, it can be one or a few I/Os behind the primary volume. A dataset which was JUST closed on the primary (and thus valid) may be exposed to problems on the secondary if the failure occurs before all its I/Os (and the VTOC/VVDS update I/Os from CLOSE) can be mirrored. But datasets closed more than a few seconds before the failure should be OK (same 99%). -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software Developer for FDR Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300 personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sales info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tech support: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.innovationdp.fdr.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Basic remote copy questions
Bruce , Radoslav XD ist just asynchronous PPRC - and there is no guarantee when and what will be copied . It may take more then just a few seconds after the WRITE that the data is copied - depending on the load and the link capacitiy. The good thing is - you can switch easily from PPRC-XD to PPRC and vice versa - f.e. to have the data copied constantly , then goto SYNCH on a time with less activity - and then you may suspend and FLASH or take Backups from another system . The switching process normally takes seconds only . Basically it is used for migration or creation of some test data - not for disaster recovery cause the data is mostly almost fuzzy. Frank Krueger As I understand PPRC-XD, it can be one or a few I/Os behind the primary volume. A dataset which was JUST closed on the primary (and thus valid) may be exposed to problems on the secondary if the failure occurs before all its I/Os (and the VTOC/VVDS update I/Os from CLOSE) can be mirrored. But datasets closed more than a few seconds before the failure should be OK (same 99%). -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Another z9 question
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Craddock, Chris wrote: Will the new instructions, and modifications to existing instructions, introduced with the z9 series be retrofitted to the earlier z800, z890, z900 and / or z990 series? Almost certainly not. So at some point we'll have another ALS value, eh? Say what are you and Jaffe doing working on Sunday? Chris is probably Waltzing Matilda with his laptop in his swag, while Hurricane Rita is whacking Houston and environs with wind rain. :-) -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Can't vary offline
I'm trying to vary a dasd device offline. It originally had ucat on it but I moved (merged) and disconnected it. It has nothing on it any more but SYS1.VVDS SYS1.VTOCIX (as well as USERCAT USERCAT.INDEX space). There were also lnklst libs on it but I rebuilt lnklst, APF and LLA, etc. Now I'm trying to vary offline but get vary offline pending. A d u,,alloc of the device shows *MASTER* still has it allocated. Why would *MASTER* still have it? How can I unalloc it? -- Bob Henry * Mgr., Rochester IT * SunGard * SCT Higher Education * 3000 Ridge Rd. E., Rochester, NY 14622 Tel 585-339-2366 * Mobile 585-330-5240 * Fax 610-578-3014 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * www.sungardsct.com CONFIDENTIALITY: This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email from your system. Thank you -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Another z9 question
My first reaction to the STFLE instruction was Archie Bunker (All in the Family, Stifle yourself, Edith) -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software Developer for FDR Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300 personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sales info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tech support: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.innovationdp.fdr.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Another z9 question
In a recent note, Edward E. Jaffe said: Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 08:52:20 -0700 But STFL is a privileged instruction (STFLE is not). Who issues the original STFL? the operating system during IPL? Yes. All z/OS and some OS/390 releases issue STFL at IPL time. Does the OS then make the result available to unprivileged programs somewhere? (CVT?) -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Can't vary offline
You might want to look at the catalog address space. It might still have it. Bill Mainframe - An obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete companies, serving billions of obsolete customers, and making huge obsolete profits, for their obsolete shareholders. And this year's run twice fast as last year's. -Phil Payne- Bob Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU 09/26/2005 12:04 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU cc Subject Can't vary offline I'm trying to vary a dasd device offline. It originally had ucat on it but I moved (merged) and disconnected it. It has nothing on it any more but SYS1.VVDS SYS1.VTOCIX (as well as USERCAT USERCAT.INDEX space). There were also lnklst libs on it but I rebuilt lnklst, APF and LLA, etc. Now I'm trying to vary offline but get vary offline pending. A d u,,alloc of the device shows *MASTER* still has it allocated. Why would *MASTER* still have it? How can I unalloc it? -- Bob Henry * Mgr., Rochester IT * SunGard * SCT Higher Education * 3000 Ridge Rd. E., Rochester, NY 14622 Tel 585-339-2366 * Mobile 585-330-5240 * Fax 610-578-3014 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * www.sungardsct.com CONFIDENTIALITY: This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email from your system. Thank you -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Another z9 question
But STFL is a privileged instruction (STFLE is not). Who issues the original STFL? the operating system during IPL? Yes. All z/OS and some OS/390 releases issue STFL at IPL time. Does the OS then make the result available to unprivileged programs somewhere? (CVT?) Yes. In PSA. Bob Shannon -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Can't vary offline
Did you close and unallocate the catalog from the CAS ? Even if you rebuild the linklist I think XCFAS will still have an allocation to the datasets. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Henry Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 12:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Can't vary offline I'm trying to vary a dasd device offline. It originally had ucat on it but I moved (merged) and disconnected it. It has nothing on it any more but SYS1.VVDS SYS1.VTOCIX (as well as USERCAT USERCAT.INDEX space). There were also lnklst libs on it but I rebuilt lnklst, APF and LLA, etc. Now I'm trying to vary offline but get vary offline pending. A d u,,alloc of the device shows *MASTER* still has it allocated. Why would *MASTER* still have it? How can I unalloc it? -- Bob Henry * Mgr., Rochester IT * SunGard * SCT Higher Education * 3000 Ridge Rd. E., Rochester, NY 14622 Tel 585-339-2366 * Mobile 585-330-5240 * Fax 610-578-3014 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * www.sungardsct.com CONFIDENTIALITY: This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email from your system. Thank you -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Suppress carriage-control characters in SYSOUT?
John, I used the following to copy a .pdf to the spool. I don't think there are any added CC's. When I pull the output off with an external writer I get the 1000 byte records, no CC. Are you using SDSF to look at the output? Are you seeing SDSF's idea of how the data will be processed and fake CC's. I don't have SDSF and can't check what it would show. //STEP020 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER, // COND=(4,LT) //* //SYSUT1DD PATHOPTS=(ORDONLY), // PATHDISP=(KEEP,KEEP), // PATH='/u/webserv/doc/XMLTools/xmlpd1_6.pdf', // LRECL=1000,RECFM=FB,BLKSIZE=1000,FILEDATA=BINARY //* //SYSUT2DD SYSOUT=* Good luck, Mark Date:Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:20:28 -0500 From:Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Suppress carriage-control characters in SYSOUT? Hi, All, We're trying to copy a .PDF document into the JES2 spool (SYSOUT dataset) for later printing, but so far have been unable to suppress the insertion of ANSI carriage-control characters as the first byte of each record. We've tried coding DD SYSOUT=A,DCB=RECFM=FB but that didn't work as expected. We can't seem to find the correct reference manual to tell us how to accomplish this, either (would it be a JES2 manual? the JCL Reference sort of suggested the DCB=RECFM=FB sub-parm on the DD statement). Looking for ideas -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Can't vary offline
F catalog,unallocate(catalog_name) original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Montevago Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 12:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Can't vary offline Did you close and unallocate the catalog from the CAS ? Even if you rebuild the linklist I think XCFAS will still have an allocation to the datasets. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Henry Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 12:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Can't vary offline I'm trying to vary a dasd device offline. It originally had ucat on it but I moved (merged) and disconnected it. It has nothing on it any more but SYS1.VVDS SYS1.VTOCIX (as well as USERCAT USERCAT.INDEX space). There were also lnklst libs on it but I rebuilt lnklst, APF and LLA, etc. Now I'm trying to vary offline but get vary offline pending. A d u,,alloc of the device shows *MASTER* still has it allocated. Why would *MASTER* still have it? How can I unalloc it? -- Bob Henry * Mgr., Rochester IT * SunGard * SCT Higher Education * 3000 Ridge Rd. E., Rochester, NY 14622 Tel 585-339-2366 * Mobile 585-330-5240 * Fax 610-578-3014 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * www.sungardsct.com CONFIDENTIALITY: This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email from your system. Thank you -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Another z9 question
STFL loads absolute location 200. See PoPs for mapping. Reply to me privately and I will send you code that displays the bits there using the descriptions from PoPs. Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/26/2005 12:21 PM wrote Does the OS then make the result available to unprivileged programs somewhere? (CVT?) - The information contained in this communication (including any attachments hereto) is confidential and is intended solely for the personal and confidential use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. The information may also constitute a legally privileged confidential communication. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, dissemination, copying, or unauthorized use of this information, or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail, and delete the original message. Thank you -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Can't vary offline
Bob, Issue SETPROG LNKLST,UNALLOCATE to have XCFAS remove its allocations from all LINKLIST volumes and see if that clears it up for you. If it does, then issue SETPROG LNKLST,ALLOCATE to put back the linklist allocations that are presently in-use (for protection)... after you get the offending volume offline. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:34:29 -0400, Dean Montevago wrote: Did you close and unallocate the catalog from the CAS ? Even if you rebuild the linklist I think XCFAS will still have an allocation to the datasets. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Henry I'm trying to vary a dasd device offline. It originally had ucat on it but I moved (merged) and disconnected it. It has nothing on it any more but SYS1.VVDS SYS1.VTOCIX (as well as USERCAT USERCAT.INDEX space). There were also lnklst libs on it but I rebuilt lnklst, APF and LLA, etc. Now I'm trying to vary offline but get vary offline pending. A d u,,alloc of the device shows *MASTER* still has it allocated. Why would *MASTER* still have it? How can I unalloc it? Bob Henry * Mgr., Rochester IT * SunGard * SCT Higher Education * 3000 Ridge Rd. E., Rochester, NY 14622 Tel 585-339-2366 * Mobile 585-330-5240 * Fax 610-578-3014 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * www.sungardsct.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Configuring PAVs and Base Volumes in an EMC(DMX) box.
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 10:49:08 -0500, John Benik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a good general rule for configuring PAVs and Base Volumes. It seems as though there are a number of ways that people have configured this. Some have done it one for one, others have chosen 2 or more base volumes per PAV and others have chosen more PAVs then base volumes in some cases we have seen 10 pavs to one base volume?? Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I don't know about any ROT but I can tell you what we did that seemed to work out. 1 base + 1 alias for all 3390-3 and 1 base + 2 aliases for all 3390-9. This is for static PAVs. YMMV. If you can use WLM assigned PAVs instead of static PAVs, do so. We still run with the static PAVs in one environment that shares DASD between two sysplexes (MII) to prevent any PAV alias thrashing. The other environments now run with dynamically assigned aliases (WLM). EMC didn't always support that but I'm pretty sure all the DMX boxes do and probably the older EMC boxes do at the proper microcode levels. Cheers, Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America and Farmers Insurance Group mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Programming expert at http://Search390.com/ateExperts/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Can't vary offline
If this system is active is it advisable to do this ? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Schmidt Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 12:40 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Can't vary offline Bob, Issue SETPROG LNKLST,UNALLOCATE to have XCFAS remove its allocations from all LINKLIST volumes and see if that clears it up for you. If it does, then issue SETPROG LNKLST,ALLOCATE to put back the linklist allocations that are presently in-use (for protection)... after you get the offending volume offline. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:34:29 -0400, Dean Montevago wrote: Did you close and unallocate the catalog from the CAS ? Even if you rebuild the linklist I think XCFAS will still have an allocation to the datasets. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Henry I'm trying to vary a dasd device offline. It originally had ucat on it but I moved (merged) and disconnected it. It has nothing on it any more but SYS1.VVDS SYS1.VTOCIX (as well as USERCAT USERCAT.INDEX space). There were also lnklst libs on it but I rebuilt lnklst, APF and LLA, etc. Now I'm trying to vary offline but get vary offline pending. A d u,,alloc of the device shows *MASTER* still has it allocated. Why would *MASTER* still have it? How can I unalloc it? --- - Bob Henry * Mgr., Rochester IT * SunGard * SCT Higher Education * 3000 Ridge Rd. E., Rochester, NY 14622 Tel 585-339-2366 * Mobile 585-330-5240 * Fax 610-578-3014 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * www.sungardsct.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Can't vary offline
Yes. We had to do that on a production system here on Sunday morning. On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:19:59 -0400, Dean Montevago wrote: If this system is active is it advisable to do this ? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Schmidt Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 12:40 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Can't vary offline Bob, Issue SETPROG LNKLST,UNALLOCATE to have XCFAS remove its allocations from all LINKLIST volumes and see if that clears it up for you. If it does, then issue SETPROG LNKLST,ALLOCATE to put back the linklist allocations that are presently in-use (for protection)... after you get the offending volume offline. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
zLinux Actual Costs
I would like to relay what is real concerning zLinux costs and what is theory or conjecture. I run a z/900-101 with one IFL along with my z/900- 101 and z/900-102 in a Parallel Sysplex. First it makes no sense to bring up just 1-2 zLinux instances on an Enterprise Server. To make it cost effective, I figure it is around 20-30 and cheaper if there is more. So that lets out just using LPARs without z/VM. With z/VM V5,it is cheap. Here is the breakdown: 1. z/VM - $19K one time about $5K Support Subscription (SS). 2. SuSe Linux - $16K one time. 3. SuSe Linux e-Maintenance - $13K yearly. this comes from Novell and entitlesme to patches and upgrades all done from a web site. No phone calls. 4. IBM zLinux Support - $20K yearly. I wanted the same support as I get from IBM for z/OS and with this if I have a problem, IBM will create the patch immediately and then go staff it through the OPEN Source Community. 5. z/VM Assembler - go it free off the Internet. Can buy one from Dignis for about $5K I am told. 6. I wanted a z/VM Linux monitor, bought ESALPS from Velocity Software for $30K. 7. IBM tells you for z/VM's DFSMS/VM you need ISPF/VM for $25K (was ($50K) and it is not true for cheaper DIRMAINT ($1K SS) provides same functions. 8. I needed to buy RACF/VM to satisfy Auditors even though I only have three VM users (SYSPROG). It was around $12K .($2K SS). 9. Firewalls can be done with free IPTABLES or multiple IPLTABLES (defense in depth). 10. WAS for zLINUX is $25K and then about $4K SS. 11. DB2 was about $25K and SS is also about $4K. 12. Tivoli/TAMS can be licensed by user so it depends, not that outrageous. 13. The IFL engine for me was $120K but I am told it is now $80K and I know sites where IBM gave you one for free. 14. zAAP engines are only for z/OS and not available for z/VM or zLinux. 15. I used to train MVS'ers and z/VM troops. Today IBM has a free class for 3 days for z/VM SuSe Linux install. My z/OS bigots attended and in no time they are doing enough z/VM to maintain it. Ok, I run a z/VM LPAR for Production with many Virtual Linux Servers. I am up to about 32 Virtual Servers and to do web serving, DB2 with IFL running about 10%. So it leaves me room to bring up more. I am looking to transfer a Windows $40K Oracle license to the IFL. Oracle charges $40K for an engine. So you can do porting for free on any platform and only need the license when it goes production. So if we port the application to zLinux, the production license comes too. Now once I have the license, the next port means I can terminate a $40K license on Windows. More likely I will just bring up more Oracle's on the zLinux using the one (1) license I will have. What'a deal. The same goes for DB2, I can run many at the same price. Then there is nothing too shabby about running Virtual Routers and Virtual Switches under z/VM (free). The network group casting a dim eye wanting to see something physical.I can talk amongst them using Hypersockets or a memory to memory transfer. I run an LPAR Test Development LPAR with all the zLinux virtual machines. My SYSPROGs wanted a SYSPROG LPAR for new z/VM's although the learned about z/VM 2nd level. WOW. Is it dirt-cheap, no. Is it cheaper, yes. Jim Marshall -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
BUFND large GDGs
Good morning, we are working in catalog performance and we have read some post, zOS DFSMS-Managing Catalogs and Cheryl Watson Tuning Letter 2001 - N1. About following paragraph: BUFND Specifies the number of buffers for transmitting data between virtual and auxiliary storage. The default, STRNO+1, is usually adequate. When a catalog contains large GDGs or other spanned records, the number should be increased accordingly to a minimum of MAXLRECL/CISIZE+STRNO. before to try and error, we would like to know experiences about usercatalogs with large GDGs and which will be, orientative, the amount of GDGs to consider 2nd suggested rule? Thanks -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Finding all NAME/TOKEN pairs defined to an Address Space
I searched the archives, and I can't find this, although I seem to remember it being discussed. Is there a way to find all the name/token pairs defined in a dump? I've looked at the IPCS guide, and I can't find anything definitive. Thanks in advance, Wayne Driscoll Product Developer Western Metal Supply NOTE: All opinions are strictly my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Finding all NAME/TOKEN pairs defined to an Address Space
Never mind, once I sat back and used common sense, I found it in the Showmvs source (Thanks Roland), using ASCB-ASSB-NTTH-NTTE Wayne Driscoll Product Developer Western Metal Supply NOTE: All opinions are strictly my own. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne Driscoll Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 1:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Finding all NAME/TOKEN pairs defined to an Address Space I searched the archives, and I can't find this, although I seem to remember it being discussed. Is there a way to find all the name/token pairs defined in a dump? I've looked at the IPCS guide, and I can't find anything definitive. Thanks in advance, Wayne Driscoll Product Developer Western Metal Supply NOTE: All opinions are strictly my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: SCRT
As you may have seen on CNN, we here in Houston have been a little busy starting with over 200,000 unexpected guests in August. We barely got that under control when we looked up and found Rita on our door step. What can I do to get up to speed on the LMDS process? X = SOAPBOX(ACTIVATE) And how can we convince IBM that a manual process is hugely expensive? Far more expensive than the occasional runaway task. We are fully automated, to include the draft spreadsheet being emailed to several principals. Any of the principals can perform the final checks/changes and submit the reports. (Can you say no single point of failure? I knew you could.) We really have no way to know if the reported numbers are 'accurate'. Only roughly reasonable. Anyone with experience with SMF/RMF data knows what kind of accuracy can be expected. Taking September as an example, there were only *four* working days before the cutoff. And we a little busy. A detailed review was out of the question. In fact, we *did* have a spike we would like to know more about. We had to set priorities, and that did not make the cut. The IBM *demand* that the report be reviewed by a huge team of very expensive people every month is naive at best. We have found that what we consider fair and accurate is not acceptable to IBM anyway. Sorry, it ain't gonna happen. IBM: kindly butt out of how we run our shop. A swing of a couple of percent MSU is beyond meaningless to us. Even so, it would cost us much more money to research the issue that to simply pay the bill. That said: I have nothing but praise for the SCRT team. Responsive, helpful, a pleasure to work with. It is the IBM policies sticking in my craw. If enough of us start squawking, IBM might listen to reason. C'mon folks, all together now. 100% automated with a suitable review/change point. Then a single click to submit the final report. Much like the current email process. If IBM insists on a human transcribing numbers, then that process *must* allow for ordinary human keying errors and provide suitable protest/correction processes for upwards of 180 days. X = SOAPBOX(DEACTIVATE) Hal Merritt -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of B Sysprog Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 5:10 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: SCRT We are new to SubCapacity Reporting. As of November, we were notified that we must submit our monthly reports vaw LMDS (License Manager Data Submission). We currently use the email submission method and have it mostly automated. Does anyone know if we can automate the LMDS submission process, and how to do this? Thank you, BK Kosmach -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Can't vary offline
I tried all the suggestions - uncatalog from CAS, remove from LLA, unallocate from XCFAS, displayed ASM, APF, etc. I even updated all asid's to use current lnklst and undefined all old lists (original list had pds's on volume I'm trying to vary). Nothing seems to remove it from *MASTER*. Any other ideas? -- Bob Henry * Mgr., Rochester IT * SunGard * SCT Higher Education * 3000 Ridge Rd. E., Rochester, NY 14622 Tel 585-339-2366 * Mobile 585-330-5240 * Fax 610-578-3014 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * www.sungardsct.com CONFIDENTIALITY: This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email from your system. Thank you -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Can't vary offline
'uncatalog from CAS'. Have you unallocated from CAS? F CATALOG,UNALLOCATE(catname) Larry Crilley Dino-Software, LLC http://www.dino-software.com/ 412-734-2853. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Some questions about cross memory services
Thanks Jonathan, Chris, and Rob for your very comprehensive anwers! What a great list! John Krew -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Can't vary offline
One other item from Managing Catalogs: Use VUNALLOCATE to unallocate all VVDSs. This might be necessary to allow the VARY command to vary a volume offline. VVDSs remain unallocated until you issue MODIFY CATALOG,NOVUNALLOCATE Larry Crilley Dino-Software, LLC http://www.dino-software.com/ 412-734-2853. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Knutson, Sam Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 3:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Can't vary offline I think you will have to zap the UCB to get it varied offline. If I remember correctly volumes on which a link list data set is present at IPL have an early open done against them but never a close. Mind you I don't advocate you do this just a memory that I did something similar on one of my development systems with TMONMVS. Peter can provide a more detailed explanation I expect. The safe and sane way to free up that volume is to IPL when it is convenient. Ask yourself what is the consequence to you and to the business if you don't get it offline today but three weeks from now? Is it worth taking a risk even a small one (say for arguments sake that what I suggest would work but you make a mistake and zap the wrong piece of common storage and the system falls down). Patience is an virtue when it comes to availability. There are old systems programmers and bold systems programmers but very few old, bold systems programmers:-) Best Regards, Sam Knutson, GEICO Performance and Availability Management mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (office) 301.986.3574 Some people hope to achieve immortality through their works or their children. I would prefer to achieve it by not dying. - Woody Allen -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Henry Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 12:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Can't vary offline I'm trying to vary a dasd device offline. It originally had ucat on it but I moved (merged) and disconnected it. It has nothing on it any more but SYS1.VVDS SYS1.VTOCIX (as well as USERCAT USERCAT.INDEX space). There were also lnklst libs on it but I rebuilt lnklst, APF and LLA, etc. Now I'm trying to vary offline but get vary offline pending. A d u,,alloc of the device shows *MASTER* still has it allocated. Why would *MASTER* still have it? How can I unalloc it? -- Bob Henry * Mgr., Rochester IT * SunGard * SCT Higher Education * 3000 Ridge Rd. E., Rochester, NY 14622 Tel 585-339-2366 * Mobile 585-330-5240 * Fax 610-578-3014 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * www.sungardsct.com This email/fax message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution of this email/fax is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy all paper and electronic copies of the original message. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Can't vary offline
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Henry Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 11:05 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Can't vary offline I'm trying to vary a dasd device offline. It originally had ucat on it but I moved (merged) and disconnected it. It has nothing on it any more but SYS1.VVDS SYS1.VTOCIX (as well as USERCAT USERCAT.INDEX space). There were also lnklst libs on it but I rebuilt lnklst, APF and LLA, etc. Now I'm trying to vary offline but get vary offline pending. A d u,,alloc of the device shows *MASTER* still has it allocated. Why would *MASTER* still have it? How can I unalloc it? STOP! WAIT! HOLD ON! You had datasets on this volume which were on the LNKLST at IPL time?!? As I understand it, you cannot remove the allocated condition without an IPL. Period. When you updated the LNKLST, did you do something like: SETPROG LNKLST,UPDATE,JOB=* Did you notice that the manual said to only do this if you are trying to avoid an IPL because its use could cause an S106 type abend? If you did not do the UPDATE, then all the address spaces which were active before the SETPROG was issued are still using the IPL (or previous SETPROG) LNKLST and could possibly be trying to fetch modules from the clean disk. How did you delete everything? Right now, if this were my shop, I'd be in a mild panic about the possibility of an unplanned outage. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer UICI Insurance Center Information Technology This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Can't vary offline
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:56:41 -0500, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Henry Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 11:05 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Can't vary offline I'm trying to vary a dasd device offline. It originally had ucat on it but I moved (merged) and disconnected it. It has nothing on it any more but SYS1.VVDS SYS1.VTOCIX (as well as USERCAT USERCAT.INDEX space). There were also lnklst libs on it but I rebuilt lnklst, APF and LLA, etc. Now I'm trying to vary offline but get vary offline pending. A d u,,alloc of the device shows *MASTER* still has it allocated. Why would *MASTER* still have it? How can I unalloc it? STOP! WAIT! HOLD ON! You had datasets on this volume which were on the LNKLST at IPL time?!? As I understand it, you cannot remove the allocated condition without an IPL. Period. When you updated the LNKLST, did you do something like: SETPROG LNKLST,UPDATE,JOB=* Did you notice that the manual said to only do this if you are trying to avoid an IPL because its use could cause an S106 type abend? If you did not do the UPDATE, then all the address spaces which were active before the SETPROG was issued are still using the IPL (or previous SETPROG) LNKLST and could possibly be trying to fetch modules from the clean disk. How did you delete everything? Right now, if this were my shop, I'd be in a mild panic about the possibility of an unplanned outage. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer UICI Insurance Center Information Technology This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html Try recycling LLA: P LLA S LLA,SUB=MSTR This should free any linklist data sets you are no loner using. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: RACF Stop/Start?
Perhaps they mean the %STOP command (substitue your own command character for %) isn't protected? Debbie -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Can't vary offline
My point is having done this (SETPROG LNKLST,UPDATE,JOB=* known to have measurable risk but still widely practiced) still won't free up the volume. The IPL link list is special. LLA is not link list. Stopping LLA does not stop or free link list. Link List is older and deeper magic than LLA especially the IPL link list which you cannot get rid of even with industrial strength scrubbing. The allocations in XCFAS were a valiant attempt by IBM to keep people from doing dangerous things later enhancements allows those of us who sometimes need to drive on the shoulder to manipulate those allocations. You need to remember that they are still just safety devices removing them does not remove the risk if the data sets are still in use by a real (live) link list. If I understand correctly the early form of open is used to open data sets in the IPL link list (IPL link list set). There is no early close so volumes that had a link list library on them at IPL are going to have a bit set in the UCB that will prevent them from being varied offline. In ALLOCAS they will be marked as allocated to system. TMONMVS reflects this as *SYSTEM in the VOLUME USE UTILITY which plumbs the depths of ALLOCAS. The display unit command shows this as *MASTER*. I don't know of a way to get these off-line without zapping the UCB. If you don't mind the risk you should be able to use SETPROG LNKLST,UPDATE,JOB=* and a little bit of storage zapping to get sticky volumes off-line. Again you have to ask what is the cost to the business if you wait for the next IPL that can be scheduled compared to working in an entirely unsupported space. Best Regards, Sam Knutson, GEICO Performance and Availability Management mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (office) 301.986.3574 SHADOW (to probie) ...So stop me if I get this wrong... The fire's almost out... You're upstairs on the unburned floor checking for heat. You've been told by your Battalion Chief, your Captain, by me, not to do anything up there until ordered. But now the itch starts, and all of a sudden comes the Glory Boy Flash: Hey, I'm a hero. Heroes don't just stand around. So on your own you decided to punch out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline? -Original Message- SETPROG LNKLST,UPDATE,JOB=* Did you notice that the manual said to only do this if you are trying to avoid an IPL because its use could cause an S106 type abend? If you did not do the UPDATE, then all the address spaces which were active before the SETPROG was issued are still using the IPL (or previous SETPROG) LNKLST and could possibly be trying to fetch modules from the clean disk. How did you delete everything? Right now, if this were my shop, I'd be in a mild panic about the possibility of an unplanned outage. -- John McKown This email/fax message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution of this email/fax is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy all paper and electronic copies of the original message. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Performance of PACK/UNPACK instructions
snip I'm doing an analysis of one of our application programs. As part of this, I'm seeing the COBOL code generate a lot of PACK/UNPACK instruction pairs. Does anyone have an idea on the performance impact of all these (potential millions of executions in a single run)? /snip A long time ago, on a processor far far away, I ran into this exact issue. To be specific, on a S370/138 I was responsible for correcting (not my code) a program that absolutely maxed the 370/138. Upon examining the program I found that all input, linkage section and working storage fields were defined in display format. The processing logic was read, process, call subprogram, process, return to main, clean-up, write. In essence, each numeric field used was packed/unpacked a minimum of 8 times. After modification only the working storage and linkage section variables to an apporpriate internal format (comp or comp-3), this same program was not noticed when processed. As a bonus, it ran about 20% faster that before the mods. NOTE: I did not change one line of logic, only data descriptions. It turns out that there were also some logic changes that also sped up the program some more. ISTR that the total improvement was on the order of 40% elapsed time. The impact of mutiple pack/unpack inctructions is significant. In the case of fixed point decimal operations, there are also CVD/CVB instructions associated with the PACK and UNPACK operations. (2X CVD/CVB for each PACK and UNPACK. As you can see, the amount of useless processing grows geometrically. Before you change a line of code, change the data representations to the appropriate internal format and prepare to be astounded at the improvement. HTH, -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: SCRT
Fair enough. We have manual management and technical review steps in our otherwise fully automated process. If you are really serious about wanting to make the process easier, you can make a good start by not making it more complicated. We are very grateful you have given us a way to manage our software dollars. We plan on putting those savings to very good use, and might even wind up paying as much or even more than we do now. Satisfied customers are very big here, and that tends to grow our customer base. A good thing for you. With all due respect, sell us your software, but let us manage our data centers. Please don't insist we adopt processes that are not cost effective. Do you have any clue how much it costs to maintain one full time employee? We would much rather use that money to buy your software. Hal Merritt. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David J. Chase Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 10:12 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SCRT Because this manual review step is so crucial, IBM will not assist SCRT customers in building automated solutions which do not contain a process for human review of the reports. We are always open to suggestions from our customers about how we can help make processes such as these easier. -- David J. Chase, WW zSeries Software Sales --IBM 18th Fl, 11 Madison Ave, NYC, NY 10010 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: RACF Stop/Start?
I have found that it is generally a waste of time trying to guess what an auditor really wants to know. That is, it is not a reasonable assumption that the auditor has phrased the question correctly. It has been productive to keep asking for more details. Work with the auditor to develop a question that satisfies his/her objectives and helps you to craft a high quality answer. For example, the root question might really be: Can RACF be disabled by operator command?. HTH. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Debbie Mitchell Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 3:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: RACF Stop/Start? Perhaps they mean the %STOP command (substitue your own command character for %) isn't protected? Debbie -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Can't vary offline
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruno Sugliani Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 3:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Can't vary offline Try this Do a UCB display In order to be varied offline the user count has to be zero ( x'+26' ) if my memory is ok I used to zap and put and the device used to go offline with a vary xx,offline As my memory is sometimes failing . with a IPCS active do a listucb the field was called USER Bruno Bruno(dot)sugliani(at)groupemornay(dot)asso(dot)fr You DO play with fire, don't you? grin. The IPL LNKLST cannot be closed. Therefore the DEB will exist until IPL. Therefore, EVEN IF THE VOLUME IS OFFLINE, it is *possible* for this system to try to do I/O to the offline volume. As Shmuel says: It's not my dog. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer UICI Insurance Center Information Technology This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: SCRT
Eh? At no point did Mr. Chase state that IBM would insist on any customer adopting any process, merely that IBM would not assist in building an automated solution that contained no human review. I suspect you may do as you please, it's your dog. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Hal Merritt Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 3:33 PM snip With all due respect, sell us your software, but let us manage our data centers. Please don't insist we adopt processes that are not cost effective. Do you have any clue how much it costs to maintain one full time employee? We would much rather use that money to buy your software. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Finding all NAME/TOKEN pairs defined to an Address Space
Wayne, this is not the complete story but correct for an ASID. EVCTNTTP NTTH for System Name/Token ASSBNTTP NTTH for ASID Name/Token STCBNTTP NTTH for TCB Name/Token Showmvs doesn't deal with TCB token as it would almost report none because there isn't such an animal while ShowMvs run. Roland -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne Driscoll Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 8:20 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Finding all NAME/TOKEN pairs defined to an Address Space Never mind, once I sat back and used common sense, I found it in the Showmvs source (Thanks Roland), using ASCB-ASSB-NTTH-NTTE -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Can't vary offline
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:48:10 -0500, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You DO play with fire, don't you? grin. The IPL LNKLST cannot be closed. Therefore the DEB will exist until IPL. Therefore, EVEN IF THE VOLUME IS OFFLINE, it is *possible* for this system to try to do I/O to the offline volume. As Shmuel says: It's not my dog. Playing with fire ? Yes and no :-) Let's put it that way ... i helped doing this a good number of times and always got lucky . What happens if an I/O is sent to a gone DASD/UCB' ? missing interrupts do not necessarily kill a system . Thanks for that . Bruno Bruno(dot)sugliani(at)groupemornay(dot)asso(dot)fr -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Can't vary offline
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:48:10 -0500, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: You DO play with fire, don't you? grin. The IPL LNKLST cannot be closed. Therefore the DEB will exist until IPL. Therefore, EVEN IF THE VOLUME IS OFFLINE, it is *possible* for this system to try to do I/O to the offline volume. Doing I/O to an offline volume is not the scary event it sounds like. It will work as long as there is at least one channel path still available to reach the device AND as long as the data it is expecting to find is still there, which it likely won't be if, as the original poster said (I think), all the files have been removed from the volume except for the VTOC and the VVDS. If MVS is still looking for a linklist library on the volume after it has been properly deleted, then something else is bad wrong. Even if MVS is only trying to search the missing library's directory but never accessing any of the members, something is still wrong. We are striving for greater and greater flexibility in dynamically rearranging DASD, but there are still limits beyond which it is not prudent to venture. Bill Fairchild -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: SCRT
Point well taken. I should really have a look at the web process. It may, in fact, be very satisfactory. Mr Chase: I apologize. I am in error prejudging the process. Hal Merritt. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Shirey Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 3:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SCRT Eh? At no point did Mr. Chase state that IBM would insist on any customer adopting any process, merely that IBM would not assist in building an automated solution that contained no human review. I suspect you may do as you please, it's your dog. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Hal Merritt Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 3:33 PM snip With all due respect, sell us your software, but let us manage our data centers. Please don't insist we adopt processes that are not cost effective. Do you have any clue how much it costs to maintain one full time employee? We would much rather use that money to buy your software. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: HASP/ASP JES/JES2/JES3
On Sep 26, 2005, at 6:30 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 09/25/2005 at 01:45 PM, Leonard Woren [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: (Of course you can support more users on Wylbur than on TSO ISPF -- it takes 5 times as long to get your work done using something as primitive as Wylbur, so the machine doesn't get loaded up with all those pesky jobs.) (Don't bother flaming me for this, I'm immune. Wylbur was a really advanced concept -- in 1965.) Wylbur is in some respects still superior to TSO EDIT and ISPF/PDF EDIT. That's true even for the old free versions, and it's even more true for the newer versions, e.g., NIH and SuperWylbur. When I had access to SuperWylbur I used it for functionality, not for performance or because of local policy. I don't recall the name of the (I think a Swedish developed program) that was similar to Wylbur, but there is a large user of that still here in Chicago. They are really stuck in the 60's they love the product . They have some trouble try to recruit sysprogs to work on the beast. I ran from the interview room (not literally ) .. now I remember its called MUSIC . They have so much code (of their own) in it they really have a fun time with new DASD. Chuckle. But I believe they have a full screen editor as well. Ed -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: HASP/ASP JES/JES2/JES3
In a message dated 9/26/2005 4:57:10 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: They have some trouble try to recruit sysprogs to work on the beast. I ran from the interview room (not literally ) .. now I remember its called MUSIC . They have so much code (of their own) in it they really have a fun time with new DASD. Chuckle. I remember the name but no details. I used Wylbur and Superwylbur from 1975 to 1978. Superwylbur has many amazing functions. Bad news about a place like the MUSIC shop - it's a nightmare to support. Good news - it's a nightmare to support, so there is job security if you can get past the nightmare learning curve. Bill Fairchild -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Some questions about cross memory services
This technique is especially handy if the existence of one or more of the non-system LX routines can depend on parameter statements/options for the software. Lumping it all together in one large System-LX might not be the best option here. True enough, unless you get creative with ESR-style vectored linkage on the right hand side of the PC call. Once you've got that knocked, you can add, subtract, multiply and divide one or more discrete PC calls into as many functions as you need. Hence, one LX (and one entry table) does perfectly well for all services and all address spaces. It's what we do in our infrastructure and we never even have to take anything down to add new functionality. Sweet. Now if you need space-switching functionality -into- more than one server space, you're going to need an LX and PC entry table for each target server space. Them's the rules and there's no getting around that, but even then you can use the ESR technique with the PC functions in each server space and that gives you infinite flexibility. Nifty huh? CC -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Can't vary offline
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruno Sugliani Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 4:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Can't vary offline On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:48:10 -0500, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Playing with fire ? Yes and no :-) Let's put it that way ... i helped doing this a good number of times and always got lucky . What happens if an I/O is sent to a gone DASD/UCB' ? missing interrupts do not necessarily kill a system . Thanks for that . Bruno Bruno(dot)sugliani(at)groupemornay(dot)asso(dot)fr True. It depends on what was on the volume. In this case, being that there is a non-zero probability of the IPL LNKLST being on this offline volume, I am just too cowardly to try. Our main argument, here, for the z/OS system and against Windows is that z/OS simply does not fail the way that Windows does (local experience, YMMV on Windows reliability). This is just too dangerous for me for an ex-IPL volume. Now, for some test volume, sure. I wouldn't mind. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer UICI Insurance Center Information Technology This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: HASP/ASP JES/JES2/JES3
Ed Gould wrote: I don't recall the name of the (I think a Swedish developed program) that was similar to Wylbur, but there is a large user of that still here in Chicago. They are really stuck in the 60's they love the product . They have some trouble try to recruit sysprogs to work on the beast. I ran from the interview room (not literally ) .. now I remember its called MUSIC . They have so much code (of their own) in it they really have a fun time with new DASD. Chuckle. can you say mcgill university http://www.answers.com/topic/music-sp -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Some questions about cross memory services
Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: OK, I admit my ignorance and beg for enlightenment: What is ESR-style vectored linkage, or where could I learn about it for myself? http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/iea2a860/23.2.2 -- - | Edward E. Jaffe|| | Mgr, Research Development| [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | Phoenix Software International | Tel: (310) 338-0400 x318 | | 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 | Fax: (310) 338-0801| | Los Angeles, CA 90045 | http://www.phoenixsoftware.com | - -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Some questions about cross memory services
What is ESR-style vectored linkage? ESR just stands for Extended Service Router. It originated as a way to map multiple SVC functions into a single SVC number. SVC 109 is an example. There is no deep magic involved. Your PC maintains a table, potentially a table of tables of tables... etc. Your caller indicates which specific function is needed via a parameter. The PC looks up the desired function and calls it - typically while handling entry/exit management, interface-level recovery etc. In other words, your single (hardware defined) PC routine serves as a router to an arbitrarily large number of functions. And if you manage it carefully you can even make the set of functions dynamically manageable without having to mess with the entry table. CC -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Converting MIM to GRS
I'd like to add a few other thoughts onto of Mark's comments. Yes, I do work for CA, and have supported MIM. Just a disclosure, lest some people accuse me of hiding my true identity. I'm sure there are some with some negative impressions of MIM; but I did want to mention what our very large customers have been doing (Mark's site would be considered large). MIM can use Control Files on Shared (FICON) DASD, XCF, XES, or CTCs (SCTCs or FCTCs). All provide excellent performance (when properly tuned). MII (Multi-Image Manager Integrity) has been used in many shops primarily for Volumes spanning Sysplexes, sometimes spanning Data Centers. MII does learn about how data sets are opened so a long list of Inclusions or Exclusions are not really needed. Recovery of MII or restarting it is very easy to do. No system outages required... MIA (MIM Allocation) has been used in many shops for sharing Tape devices (real/reel devices, ATLs, VTS, VTAPE) across Sysplexes. Again, within the same site or remote. Remote Tape device usage has increased in many shops with D/R considerations. MIA can also manage devices with z/VM and Linux Guests (something that is increasing in need). MIC (MIM Console) has been used in many shops for consolidating z/OS consoles. Again, consolidation is across Sysplexes and sites, and can be used to consolidate z/VM and Linux Guests. This is very useful in Server Consolidations on z/VM. Support for all of the MIM functions has been very good over the years, and support for new hardware and Operating Systems on day 1, has always been there. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 SYSN 3:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Converting MIM to GRS On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MIM in the CF performs just as well as GRS*. But, I'd rather use the 'free' GRS. And, I've had too many problems with a certain ISV. Perhaps, but MII has been very solid code and bery good support over the years. Also more dynamic changes than GRS - especially in past years. I've had some issues with MIA (tape) in the past, but no glearing problems with MII (integrity). No one ever mentions MIC in these threads. While sysplex will let you consolodate your consoles within a sysplex, with MIC you can issue commands and view console messages that span the boundries of sysplex. Most people miss the fact that MIM can run with a control file in the CF and perform as well as GRS STAR, but many shops that run MIM do so specifically because it can span sysplexes. Also, some recent threads (and past threads) talk about a DASD shared control file. While you can do that, the best option is CTCONLY which uses 2 sets of CTCs (primary + backup) for communications and has a virtual control file that lives on one of the active LPARs in the MIMplex. Obviously if you have FCTCs your better off than with ESCON CTCs. It's not GRS STAR (or MIM in a CF), but performance is still good. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America and Farmers Insurance Group mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Programming expert at http://Search390.com/ateExperts/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Is there any XML parser available on z/OS ?
On Sep 26, 2005, at 9:08 AM, Steve Comstock wrote: Andy Robertson wrote: On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 04:28:09 -0500, Roger Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 10:58:15 +0200, CAPRON Romain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to know if there is an XML parser available on z/OS? Romain, Have a look at http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/software/xml/ Also be aware the latest Enterprise COBOL for z/OS (3.3.0) has an XML PARSE statement built in Also be aware that Enterprise COBOL 3.3 has an XML GENERATE statement. Also be aware that the latetst Enterprise COBOL is 3.4, which allows 128MiB elements and tables (previous limit: 16MiB). Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. --SNIP--- And be aware that IBMs' cobol still doesn't support 64 bits. Ed -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: HASP/ASP JES/JES2/JES3
On Sep 26, 2005, at 6:19 PM, Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote: Ed Gould wrote: I don't recall the name of the (I think a Swedish developed program) that was similar to Wylbur, but there is a large user of that still here in Chicago. They are really stuck in the 60's they love the product . They have some trouble try to recruit sysprogs to work on the beast. I ran from the interview room (not literally ) .. now I remember its called MUSIC . They have so much code (of their own) in it they really have a fun time with new DASD. Chuckle. can you say mcgill university http://www.answers.com/topic/music-sp -Err thanks.. more than I ever wanted to know:) I wonder what (please don't say wintel) that the universities converted to. Ed -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Is there any XML parser available on z/OS ?
Also consider the PL/I functions: PLISAXA, PLISAXB. Go to... http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/pli/plizos/ then to the Library side-bar, finally to the Language Reference. Walter Rue Roger Lowe wrote: On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 10:58:15 +0200, CAPRON Romain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to know if there is an XML parser available on z/OS? Romain, Have a look at http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/software/xml/ Hope that helps. Roger -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: WEBSPHERE: install on Z/OS USS or Z/OS LINUX ?
It depends but for us Yes. If 3 Linux images was to become 30 images for production z/VM is mandatory since I don't have a z9 sitting around and we run some other work. What has not been mentioned is that if you don't have z/VM automation of many images becomes much more complex. What's the point of centralizing many servers on one footprint if you don't have good virtualization. LPAR will share CPU but not memory. $10K @ GB although if you spring for a z9 I think it's discounted to $8K @ GB. LPAR still falls short when compared to VM in many respects. Best Regards, Sam Knutson, GEICO Performance and Availability Management mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (office) 301.986.3574 Murphy's Computer Law 51: In any human endeavor, once you have exhausted all possibilities and fail, there will be one solution, simple and obvious, highly visible to everyone else. -Original Message- Are You saying that from a management and/or operations view, z/VM is mandatory to get full/enough value out of deploying Linux on zSeries ? Thomas Berg == Knutson, Sam == wrote2005-09-24 19:38: Some ramblings on free zLinux. z/VM is inexpensive relative to z/OS. I see z/VM as becoming more strategic in large zSeries sites between Linux on zSeries and CCL as a 3745 alternative. ... Despite the fact we only used three guests during the proof of concept we ran it under z/VM because we wanted to evaluate how bringing z/VM into our shop would impact operations and support staff training needs and operational procedures. We knew that if we moved forward to production that LPAR would not be enough. This email/fax message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution of this email/fax is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy all paper and electronic copies of the original message. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: IPCS WHERE and OUTTRAP
The formatting is excellent - the filtering is non-existent. As I alluded earlier, the prime (extra) functionality I see as required in the field is the ability to identify storage leaks. An option to eliminate all matched get-free pairs would go a *LONG* way to achieving this goal. I believe IBM researched has dabbled with this, but it is a non-trivial task to do by IBM or by others. Some of the complications that immediately come to mind are being able to free 8 byte multiple of storage at a time independent of the size of the original request, being able to free multiply obtained adjacent areas with a single free request, free by subpool, and region reset processing isn't traced. Greg -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: IPCS WHERE and OUTTRAP
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:59:17 -0700, Greg Dyck wrote: I believe IBM research[ed] has dabbled with this, but it is a non-trivial task to do by IBM or by others. Some of the complications that immediately come to mind are being able to free 8 byte multiple of storage at a time independent of the size of the original request, being able to free multiply obtained adjacent areas with a single free request, free by subpool, and region reset processing isn't traced. Greg, What does the term region reset processing mean in this context? -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: IPCS WHERE and OUTTRAP
Several comments on this: First to Bob - thanks for the explanation. That explains why I get three responses when I ask ip w for the cvtexit address. (Or why IPCS tells me that an ASCB address is an ASCB.) Shane, I don't think that IBM is implementing this yet, it was just a request and Bob alluded to what it would mean. Or am I mistaken? I believe IBM researched has dabbled with this, but it is a non-trivial task to do by IBM or by others. Some of the complications that immediately come to mind are being able to free 8 byte multiple of storage at a time independent of the size of the original request, being able to free multiply obtained adjacent areas with a single free request, free by subpool, and region reset processing isn't traced. Greg, in this case I believe that just about everyone using GFS traces would be greatful for an incomplete solution. If the amount of data could get reduced to the non-trivial cases that you mentioned above, that would be a great help already. Myself, I am perfectly willing to check the entries of a GFS trace that are left when the fully matching pairs have been eliminated. Any chance that this could be made available by IBM (similar to Jims verbx dmpwrite before I nagged you enough to make it a full command :-) ?) Best regards, Barbara -- Lust, ein paar Euro nebenbei zu verdienen? Ohne Kosten, ohne Risiko! Satte Provisionen für GMX Partner: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/partner -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: WEBSPHERE: install on Z/OS USS or Z/OS LINUX ?
Thanks. I presumed this, but haven't had any closer view of Linux used on zSeries so Your opinion give a valuable confirmation. Thomas Berg == Knutson, Sam == wrote2005-09-27 03:58: It depends but for us Yes. If 3 Linux images was to become 30 images for production z/VM is mandatory since I don't have a z9 sitting around and we run some other work. What has not been mentioned is that if you don't have z/VM automation of many images becomes much more complex. What's the point of centralizing many servers on one footprint if you don't have good virtualization. LPAR will share CPU but not memory. $10K @ GB although if you spring for a z9 I think it's discounted to $8K @ GB. LPAR still falls short when compared to VM in many respects. Best Regards, Sam Knutson, GEICO Performance and Availability Management mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (office) 301.986.3574 -- -- Mundus Vult Decipi -- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
msgIEE178I and automation
We had an excessive disabled spin loop due to an RSM bug that we didn't have the fix for yet. So far, so bad. As the person also responsible for system automation, I have been asked to 'automate iee178i' to 1. appear red on the console and 2. send an email when the spin occurs. When I looked at routing and descriptor codes for this message, it shows that it is issued synch=yes, and that rang the bell that this message will not be presented the usual way and in fact will only be presented to automation after the spin loop has been resolved. Right, Scott? (in which case we don't need it red and we don't want an email anymore). Now my problem: About four sysprogs were in the room the consoles are, and all of them swear that they haven't seen the message. All of our consoles are behind 2074s, and I have no idea how this spin loop message would be presented on a 2074 screen or the PCOMM session behind the 2074. (I know that the wait state message after v xcf,offline) is seen for about a second on such a screen before the 'initial screen' is shown again - the one that tells us that we have an IP connection). Yes, we do have a console group for synchdest messages that includes the HMC and all consoles with master authority - in this case just one, it is a monoplex. The sysprogs say that they haven't seen the HMC operating system message icon flash blue (I am not really convinced of that, they were IPLing another system and were expecting the wait state message for the other system.) Does anyone have an idea how iee178i is presented on a 2074 session? Will it just appear at the top of the screen as long as the spin loop lasts and then the console is restored to its former display? We are running SA/390 but are not using any proc/ops functionality. How are other shops dealing with notifications for synchdest messages when there is no operator around? Thanks for reading through this, best regards, Barbara Nitz -- 5 GB Mailbox, 50 FreeSMS http://www.gmx.net/de/go/promail +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More +++ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
