Re: How to suppress Message in REXX App (SAMPLE)
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012 11:47:23 -0500, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote:
Should I infer from this that conversely it runs concurrently
in background and does not tie up the terminal if output is
directed to SYSOUT or ODS? If so the above EXEC needs a
WAIT to guarantee that the output is complete. (Or does
ENQ SHR handle this?)
-- gil
ENQ does not handle this. I wrote a rexx a long time ago that would issue any
HSM command and trap the output as suggested earlier in this thread. Long
running commands would cause the ALLOCATE command to fail due to dataset in
use. I had to add a loop issuing:
Address ispexec 'LMINIT DATAID(TRAP) Dataset('dsname') ENQ(SHR)'
until it returned RC =0. Crude, but effective.
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Re: PDF vs. Bookie (was: ADATA Exit)
And another disparaging remark against IBMs 'Information Center': I'm trying to use two different levels for IBM i this morning, both of them are stuck on 'indexing' they then eventually fail. Information center indeed! Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 05:50:01 -0500, Jan MOEYERSONS jan.moeyers...@adelior.be wrote: On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:05:37 -0400, Sevetson, Phil psevet...@fisa.nyc.gov wrote: Bookreader? Really?? YES. Guys, there's this thing they call the Internet, where you can get good documentation from what IBM calls their website. ... PDF and Info Center (I much prefer the former, frankly)... fully searchable... But neither are easily navigable. There is a difference. Jantje. Exactly! In my other avocation supporting IBM i systems, the entire library consists of a few PDFs and the 'Info Center'. While the info center is OK for a quick search (especially if you know what you are looking for), but to read at length to research an entire topic area is very frustrating due to the number and depths of links you have to traverse. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: z/os every two years
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:27:44 -0500, Mark Zelden m...@mzelden.com wrote: I tend to agree. Too many shops I know of only upgrade because they don't want to go beyond the EOS date. But as long as we are supposing here. Will they not extend the service discontinued date for 1.11 also? As it stands now, 1.11 goes EOS as of 2012/09/30, but the next release will not be available until approx 2013/09/30. So from 9/2012 to 9/2013, only 1.12 and 1.13 supported? Or will N-2 cease to be the supported coexistance policy? Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: rexx cpu intensive
Dave, I don't completely understand what you changed here. Do you mean the 'after' code was something like this: vol = '012345' dsn.vol = 'file.name.here' What were you using 'before'? Dana On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:53:34 +, Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu wrote: I once greatly improved a Rexx routine exploiting the associative Rexx array. It was some extract from a TMS report. It was originally written like any other array with a subscript variable. And a lot of for loops. I changed it to use the main key (in this case the tape volser) as the index. Elapsed and CPU times where reduced 80 to 90 percent. Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
z/OS releases every 2 years
http://mainframe-watch-belgium.blogspot.com/2012/03/new-zos-release-every-2-years.html Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: A stupid idea? Using twitter like service for z/SO, et al., event notification.
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 11:19:30 -0600, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: Anyway, I was thinking that a twitter like service to which they could connect their home PC or smartphone would make it easier for them to track the activity on the system without the need to bring up a VPN connection and logon to TSO. John, I wrote a few tools like this at a previous job where we basically had no operations support. One would select output files from nightly backups using IGGCSIFX and produce an RSS feed of all the backup jobs including their completion status and links to the output from each one (does anybody really use RSS anymore?). I had another one that would use SDSF REXX to check output status of selected jobs and send an HTTP email with info and links to the output datasets. HTH Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: More REXX SDSF CGI fun (was: Anybody used SDSF / REXX in HTTPD CGI pgm)
I have solved this problem. I had to ADDRESS MVS on the EXECIO statement. The RC1 was just a little misleading to me, if EXECIO were not available in the environment I was in I would have expected a different error. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: More REXX SDSF CGI fun (was: Anybody used SDSF / REXX in HTTPD CGI pgm)
Miklos, I don't really need to see your code, I would like to just verify that it is indeed possible to read SDSF output using EXECIO in a REXX CGI program. My code basically issues SDSF SA command to allocate output datasets, then I try to use EXECIO to read the SDSF output. My REXx program works ok under IRXJCL. thanks Dana Hi Send you offlist maybe . -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: More REXX SDSF CGI fun (was: Anybody used SDSF / REXX in HTTPD CGI pgm)
Thanks Miklos, Perhaps since we are different releases: MVS=z/OS 01.11.00 JES=z/OS1.11 SDSF=HQX7760 explains the different behaivor. But I have worked around this issue. My remaining issue is that I cannot get the REXX to successfully read a sysout dataset allocated via the SDSF 'SA' command. EXECIO gets RC1. Do you have such a REXX that is able to EXECIO and read an output dataset via SDSF 'SA' command? Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: More REXX SDSF CGI fun (was: Anybody used SDSF / REXX in HTTPD CGI pgm)
Scott,
Sorry I didn't see this post until after some of the others. As I said, I have
the userid problem pretty much explained. As it turns out SDSF REXX forces
only TSO JCL authority for putposes of assigning groups in ISFPRMxx. It also
pluggs REXX as the logon proc, so I can key off of that to assign to the proper
group.
Now my problem is RC 1 from EXECIO trying to process the last sysout dataset
from a selected job. I do an ISFEXEC DA, select the job, do a 'SA' to
allocate all the datasets, step through each one and free it until the last
one. Then I try EXECIO to read the last one. Each of the FREE commands gets
RC1 as well as the EXECIO command. It works just fine under IRXJCL in batch.
Here's my code, it's just a POC at this point:
/* REXX */
Say Content-Type: text/x-ssi-html
Say
LB = br
rc=isfcalls(ON)
isfsysname=TE02
isfprefix=**
isfowner=*
ADDRESS SDSF ISFEXEC DA
if rc 0 Then say RC from DA is rc LB
say Number of jnames jname.0 LB
do ix=1 to jname.0
if jname.ix = ALCSPARL Then Do
Address SDSF ISFACT DA TOKEN('TOKEN.ix') PARM(NP SA)
if rc 0 then Say 'RC from ISFACT DA is' rc LB
do id = 1 to value(isfddname.0)
if id = isfddname.0 Then Do
say selecting file id DDname isfddname.id DSname isfdsname.id LB
EXECIO * DISKR isfddname.id (STEM line. FINIS
if rc 0 Then Say RC from EXECIO rc LB
say lines line.0 LB
Do il = line.0-10 to line.0
say left(line.il,70) LB
End
End
Else Do
FREE FI(isfddname.id)
If rc 0 Then Say RC from FREE rc LB
End
End
End
End
rc=isfcalls(OFF)
Return
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Re: More REXX SDSF CGI fun (was: Anybody used SDSF / REXX in HTTPD CGI pgm)
Hi Miklos, according to rxenv.sh: _BPX_USERID=dmitche REMOTE_USER=dmitche Whereas ISFEXEC WHO shows: RC from WHO is 0 USERID=WEBSRV PROC=REXX TERMINAL= GRPINDEX=3 GRPNAME=ISFREXX MVS=z/OS 01.11.00 JES=z/OS1.11 SDSF=HQX7760 ISPF=N/A RMF/DA=NOTACC SERVER=YES SERVERNAME=SDSF JESNAME=JES2 MEMBER=TE01 JESTYPE=JES2 SYSNAME=TE01 SYSPLEX=ITSPLEX COMM=NOTAVAIL -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: More REXX SDSF CGI fun (was: Anybody used SDSF / REXX in HTTPD CGI pgm)
Scott, Not sure how to tell. It's under the z/OS HTTP server, plain vanilla installation, stored in the /usr/lpp/internet/server_root/cgi-bin/ directory. Dana On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 13:28:00 -0500, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: Dana: Are you running under tso or rexx cgi ? Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
More REXX SDSF CGI fun (was: Anybody used SDSF / REXX in HTTPD CGI pgm)
I'm working on a simple REXX/SDSF/CGI exec to display output from selected STC's via browser and HTTP server on z/OS 1.11. I can get it to partially work, but there seems to be some inconsistencies in the way userid's are handled. If I run a REXX CGI with the ISFEXEC WHO command it shows as running with the ID that the web server is running under, not my ID that I used to sign on when the browser asked for credentials. Further, the output of ISFEXEC WHO shows the web server's ID, but it shows GRPNAME=ISFUSER which is the catch-all least powerful group in ISFPRMxx, *not* the group that the web server's ID should be placed into. If I log onto TSO using the web server's ID and issue WHO, it shows the proper GRPNAME group assigned. Has anyone done much work in this area and solved these sorts of probems? Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: More REXX SDSF CGI fun (was: Anybody used SDSF / REXX in HTTPD CGI pgm)
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:16:41 +0100, Miklos Szigetvari miklos.szigetv...@isis-papyrus.com wrote: You are probably running under the HTTP server's userid. Protect /cgi-bin/* CGI_Admin Miklos, I have this protection setup but my REXX exec still says it is running under the HTTP Server's userid. But I found an answer to the 2nd part of my question. In our ISFPARMS, we assign groups based on TSO JCL, OPER authorities, but in the FM I find this: When you use SDSF's REXX support, special values are assigned as follows: Logon proc name Set to REXX. TSO authority Set to JCL authority. So this explains why the user isn't set to the group that I think it should. I will have to add an assignment in my ISFPARMS member to assign properly. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: IBM Doing Some Restructuring?
Reminds me of the 'pregnancy theory': Assigning multiple women to the task of having a baby, rarely speeds up the project. Dana Am 13.02.2012 08:24, schrieb Edward Jaffe: On 2/12/2012 11:41 AM, Chris Craddock wrote: The (evidently popular) idea that you can pick a random group of (cheap) gunslingers and solve big system or application development problems is as bankrupt today as it ever was. It only ever works on a spreadsheet. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Physical record size query
That leads to a question that I've been thinking about for some time. Since the 3390 geometry is emulated by modern storage control units, why then are the inefficiencies of small blocks emulated also? There are not SLEDs actually storing the data, why are IBG's, sectors, and all the other CKD nastiness emulated that makes 80 byte blocks such a bad idea? IOW, why can't the control unit simply store 708 * 80 byte blocks on a 56,664 byte 3390 track? Does zos's calculations take these inefficiencies into account and only write 78 of these blocks per track? Inquiring minds want to know Dana On Tue, 7 Feb 2012 16:28:33 +0100, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: RAID has very little to do with half-track blocks. Nowadays 3390's are emulated, usually on RAID protected disk arrays (*), but the 3390 geometry remains unchanged from z/OS point of view. So half-track blocks (**) are still the most effective in terms of storage utilisation and performance. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: DS8000 migration stories?
Jan, We migrated from two Hitachi subsystems to two DS8100's. Performance was a very noticable improvement mostly due to going from Escon to Ficon. Migration was easy since the deal included a tempory license for IBM's TDMF. Moved 5 images in a sysplex and removed all the old DASD without any outage. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: alter dataset blocksize
snip Is there some way to modify the (PO) dataset BLOCKSIZE keeping the original creation date? /snip Also the great PDS command from cbttape.org file 182. FIXPDS file.name BLKSIZE(1234) Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Trouble with testcase.boulder.ibm.com
Has anyone had trouble today trying to send data to testcase.boulder.ibm.com? It won't let anonymous sign on for me. Sitting here on hold enjoying music, waiting to ask IBM about it. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Time On Mainframe Emails
George, Perhaps the timezone setting for z/OS Unix System Services is set incorrectly. Login to either TSO OMVS or telnet directly, and issue the 'date' command: # date Wed Aug 3 08:00:25 CDT 2011 # Does it show the correct time and date? If not, issue 'echo $TZ' command to display the current setting of the TZ environment variable: # echo $TZ CST6CDT # If this is incorrect, you need to find where it is being set. Commonly set in /etc/profile (this is where it is set in the IBM supplied sample), or /etc/rc or $HOME/.profile Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Time On Mainframe Emails
On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 12:12:54 -0400, George Rodriguez george.rodrig...@palmbeachschools.org wrote: Did you see my last post to MVS-L? I had posted that I did solve my problem. Thanks. Yes, I did. Your post came out as I was typing mine. Glad you got your problem fixed. XMITIP is one of my favorite tools Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Anyone running using Perl on Z/OS
Many moons ago, I did get a package called TWiki working, entirely written in Perl (it was under OS/390 at the time). If you go to TWiki.org and search for mainframe, there may still be references to it, perhaps some others have worked on it since. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Esoteric SDSF CMD
That reminds me of another easily forgotten 'Stupid SDSF Trick'. Since all the JES datasets are still around until every last trace of a job is purged and you receive $HASP250 jobname PURGED, you can retrieve output datasets that have been printed or manually deleted. in SDSF issue: INPUT ON then issue: I! Find the job you are concerned with, and place '?' on the line to see all datasets that have ever been produced by this job. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: 2074 console - messages not displayed
The command V CN(*),ACTIVATE is normally needed when starting to use the Operating System Message function from the HMC. This causes the system to activate problem determination mode for the specified system console. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: A JCL SMTP with attached files and with the USERID that submit the bath process
I second the recommendation for XMITIP Dana On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 05:42:48 -0700, Mark Regan netsfw- ibmm...@yahoo.com wrote: If you are allowed to use Open Source code (REXX in this case), I recommend that you use XMITIP. It will do what you want and more. XMITIP can be found at: http://www.lbdsoftware.com/ We've been using it for almost ten years at my site. Thanks, Mark Regan -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: RACF and TSS in the Parallel Sysplex
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:33:48 -0400, Perry Mayes PERRY.MAYES@RCMP- GRC.GC.CA wrote: Has anyone done this with success? Thanks I worked with a previous installation that had a mixture of RACF and TSS systems in a sysplex with no problems. Granted, this was a 'Bronzeplex' by IBM's definition, so there was a minimum of datasharing going on (Logger and GRS star). As far as I know this is still operating this way today. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: ABCs of z/OS systems programming, draft revision of volume 1
I wish there were redbooks such as these for the beginner 'sysprog' for learning IBM i. I would find that quite useful at this stage. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: PF9 Swap question
Of if you want a real waker-upper, go to work on IBM i using 5250 emulation. *NO* split screen or swap capability, almost zero use of any screen real estate outside of 24x80, and worst of all, NO VISTA! ack! Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Question about Dynamic allocate RESOLVED
This problem has been resolved, it turned out to be a bug in the program caused by the dataset being in use by another job. Thanks for all the suggestions Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
ESCON Director Operations
We are getting ready to disconnect some ESCON attached 3490 drives that are connected via 9032 directors. Normally when we disconnect hardware, we vary the devices offline, Config the CHP offline and disconnect without incident. These particular drives also share Escon channels with other devices (don't ask) so we can't do that. Would it be sufficient to block these ports for the 3490's before disconnecting them? Will that prevent optical errors and calls to IBM? I'm having trouble finding documentation on the ESCON Director Console operations. thanks Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: ESCON Director Operations
On Tue, 24 May 2011 22:31:00 +0200, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: 2, Instead of CF CHP(xx),OFFLINE you should issue VARY PATH (ccuu,chp),OFFLINE. Radoslaw, Thanks I was hoping that might be enough. 3. Say good bye to the drives from me ;-) Want to buy them? Anybody? Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Question about Dynamic allocate
On Thu, 19 May 2011 10:00:36 -0500, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Thu, 19 May 2011 08:56:49 -0500, Tim Deller wrote: I would try coding a wait (for a few seconds at least) after the dataset close. This would allow time for the deallocate and catalog update to complete. Grrr. I detest designs that require the programmer to use delays to (hopefully) resolve race conditions. Thanks everyone for the ideas so far. It happened again yesterday and now I'm leaning more towards this being caused by the dataset being in use by another job. The long story: This in-house written program had been working just fine for over 10 years. Late last year we upgraded from z/OS 1.4 to 1.11. The first thing we noticed was 314-40 (I think) abends when these volumes were getting defragged. It seemed to be caused by this program was issuing the SVC99 with 'DATA.SET.NAME(0)' as the dataset name. We could see that it was not enqueueing on the Goovoo, just the name of the base. According to the FM, if you want to allocate via relative generation you need to specify the generation in the DALMEMBR text unit, so I changed the program to do that. So far so good, but now it appeared that if a new generation was created, this STC would continue to allocate the previous one. Had to turn on S99GDGNT to force a LOCATE each time. That corrected that problem now it's experiencing the problem in the original post in this thread. What I'm thinking now is that daily when a new generation of this GDG is created via a batch job, this STC cannot allocate it successfully. The logic in the program is to wait 30 seconds and try again if it gets returned dataset in use, but from the timings of the job and messages, it doesn't appear that it's ever going through that 30 second loop.What we see is that it is setting on enqueues for all of the generations of the GDG. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Question about Dynamic allocate
Hello all, We have an inhouse written STC that processes messages from MQ and writes them to a dataset. This processing goes like this: 1. DYNALLOC on DATA.SET.NAME a. Request the current generation ( done by putting 0 in DALMEMBR) b. Specify DALCLOSE (equivalent to FREE=CLOSE) 2. Open the DCB name 3. Write to to it one or more times 4. Close 5. Wait for MQ to send the next request goto #1. Does anyone know if the FREE=CLOSE process that happens in response to step 4 is synchronous in nature? This has been working well for years. Yesterday it began to fail with x'0410' dec 1040 - Specified ddname unavailable.My current theory is that there were records piled up in MQ causing #5 to happen immediately. If the free processing called from step 4 is performed synchronously and not completely finished when the next DYNALLOC happened, causing the DD name to be still in use. The other strange thing we noticed was that we displayed the enqueues and this process had enqueued on the GDG base and *all* of the generations. During normal processing this is only enqueued on the GDG base and the current generation. Seems to me that proper design would be to acutally code the DYNALLOC to free the allocation instead of relying on FREE=CLOSE to do it, but before embarking on that, I'm trying to understand what actually happened. Thanks in advance for any opinions issued (sorry) Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Question about Dynamic allocate
On Wed, 18 May 2011 11:18:08 -0400, Jim Blalock ca...@clemson.edu wrote: Also, are you coding DYNAMNBR= on the STC's EXEC card? Might try that first, it's easier than debugging DYNALLOCs :-) -- Jim Blalock, Clemson U. Jim, I'm not sure what DYNAMNBR would help me with in this situation? Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Anyone here also do IBM I Series work too?
It's funny how things come around again. My first task at my first job out of school was converting RPG programs from S/3 to run under DOS on a 4331. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Anyone here also do IBM I Series work too?
Our company recently acquired one that is IBM i Series based. So we (z/OS guys) are going to become primary support for several IBM i Systems. Just curious if others wear these multiple hats, and I'm curious of good sources of info for i that are comparable to IBM-MAIN that we all enjoy. thanks Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: System REXX Documentation?
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:48:38 -0600, Chase, John jch...@ussco.com wrote: Where is the documentation for System REXX? I don't see a manual for it just yet. . . . John, You can find System Rexx info in: z/OS MVS Programming: Authorized Assembler Services Guide Document Number SA22-7608-14 There's also info on using the AXREXX macro to call a system rexx in: z/OS MVS Programming: Authorized Assembler Services Reference, Volume 1 (ALE-DYN) Document Number SA22-7609-10 Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Authorized Rexx Assembler Function
On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 21:40:27 -0500, Robert A. Rosenberg hal9...@panix.com wrote: As to the need for a Magic SVC, I may be wrong but I have a vague memory of an IBM supplied program (possibly in the MVS days) that had (or needed) a Magic SVC to do one of its functions. Could you possbly be thinking of an early version of SDSF? Back when it was an IUP? Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Dynamic Allocation 1.9 - 1.11?
Bob, Does your problem have anything to do with dynamic allocation of GDG's? We also discovered a change in behaivor in dynamic allocation as we migrated to z/OS 1.11. Our situation was related to using SVC99 to allocate GDG datasets, the code was placing the entire dataset name including relative generation number (i.e. 'DATA.SET.NAME(0)' ) in the dataset name text unit. Under 1.11 it became evident that although the allocation worked and the dataset was able to be opened and written to, there was no ENQUE issued for DATA.SET.NAME.G000V00. According to the FM's this shouldn't work, when using relative generation number, it needs to be placed in the member name text unit. IBM was unwilling to investigate the change in behavior since we came from an unsupported release... Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Anyone using TPC-R and Basic Hyperswap
We are considering using Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication and Basic Hyperswap combined with Metromirror to have the ability to swap from one DS8000 to a mirrored one.Since we do not already have DB2 or WAS, we would be using the free replacement products for this. Is anyone else currently doing this or evaluating it? Any experiences to share? Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Fw: ASG/Mobius
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:38:52 -0600, Arthur Gutowski aguto...@ford.com wrote: ##OPTIONS 01 NYYY = this is the switch Art, What column is that last 'Y' in? I tried cutting and pasting it and it looks to me like it's cc49. If thats the case, that is a newer option than our release supports. Sorry to the OP I should have posted the disclaimier that the release we are running is quite old. (hint: the cover letter inside my manual front cover references Y2K!) Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Edit Macro for PDSHELP and MVS/Quickref
On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:26:50 +0300, Sergio Lima sergio...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello Dana, Times ago, We downloaded a program, that show the MVS HELP like HELP from VM/CMS. Is the same? Sergio Lima Costa Sao Paulo - Brazil Sergio, This is concerning the MVS Help file that comes with the freeware PDS86 command from the CBT tape. It is a large help file that works with the TSO help command. My edit macro inserts indexing records to allow the file to be read into QWREF2 utility program. This then makes all the operands and message descriptions for the PDS86 command available within MVS/Quickref. So if you don't have either MVS/Quickref or the free PDS command this won't be of any use. thanks Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Fw: ASG/Mobius
On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 07:46:32 -0600, Ron Wells rwe...@agfinance.com wrote: Dana 1. As I understand it ..I can sweep a job by it's Job name/class/Owner/Destid.. other than just the WTR field..Correct? then place it into a Report ID classification.. Yes thats correct 2. I also gather a Started tasks can be setup to do the sweeps instead of Batch process.(or together) and the Started Task is governed by parm's/Control cards as when to wake up and check/scan Spool..Correct? It looks like the input phase can be run as a started task, but you would have to have a scheduler or something start the task periodically, it doesn't have a facility to sit and watch the spool Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Edit Macro for PDSHELP and MVS/Quickref
John and Jerry, You both should have mail! Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Edit Macro for PDSHELP and MVS/Quickref
Do you use the PDS command and have MVS/Quickref?I created a small edit macro that will update the PDSHELP member from the PDS command and insert Key Indicator records for loading into an MVS/Quickref user database. This will make all PDS command operands and messages available from MVS/Quickref. Let me know if anyone is interested in testing this out to see if it's useful and works as advertised before I send it to Sam for the CBTTAPE. thanks Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: ASG/Mobius
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:19:19 -0600, Ron Wells rwe...@agfinance.com wrote: Question for anyone out here working with or on ASG/Mobius ...Jes2 selection / view question.. Ron, I've used Mobius for a long time, whats the question? Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Fw: ASG/Mobius
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:12:09 -0600, Ron Wells rwe...@agfinance.com wrote: Was told...the WTR field(sysout) is a must to be filed in...and can not place the output into the reportID it belongs to.. Ron, Not sure if I completely understand what you are asking. Do you mean is the WTR on the SYSOUT parm on an output DD required? No. Ours are all set up so that the batch job just picks up everything in class I, and finds the report ID based on row and column in the output. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: spool to spool output transfer
would take JES2 - JESA - JESB - JES2 Interesting puzzle. Seems to me that still wouldn't work, since JESA would need to know about JES2 (left) because it's connected to it, and JES2 (right) in order to know it needs to route traffic destined for JES2 (right) via JESB. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Logging software alternatives
We are using this current setup: Application (ALCS) writes log data to a non- sna printer LU in a real 3174. This port is plugged into an IrmaPrint box (yes really!) that converts the stream to serial RS232. That in turn is plugged into a PC running 'Advanced Serial Data Logger' software from AGGsoft.com. This software captures the serial data and writes to a PC file and spins a new one at midinght etc. We are looking to get rid of the 3174's and we currently use OSAs for consoles. What I am looking for is a way using the OSAs as the printer LUs and route the data ultimately to the PC log file. Does anyone have any ideas about how to do this? thanks Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Logging software alternatives
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:56:23 -0500, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net wrote: Wow! How 1980s. Unfortunately yes... Is it a requirement that the data end up on this PC? Yes, a network directory. we could send the files there via other means but some users need to look at the current file real-time. Now, um, this ALCS... Is this the TPF under MVS thing? Yes exactly Does it not have its own printer exits and such where you could capture print data and redirect it? We are looking into that also thanks Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Can anyone recommend a replacement for SAR or CA-View Spool?
I second the recommendation for $AVRS. Don't currently work with it now, but several sites in the past and it's always a pleasure to use. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Help in troubleshooting CoD load
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:45:36 +, Eric Bielefeld eric- ibmm...@wi.rr.com wrote: What does CoD stand for? I've been following this thread for a while, and I haven't seen the initials spelled out. Eric Bielefeld Systems Programmer Eric, The OP is referring to Customized Offerings Driver. A self contained z/OS system (currently 1.9) for those of us migrating to current z/OS from unsupported levels. Quote OP: I am trying to put up a CoD(z/OS1.9) as I am sitting on a 1.6 system. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Easytrieve to COBOL - IBM Migration Utility of z/OS - program 5697-N44
John, This was briefly discussed here earlier in March 2010 also. Look for the thread entitled 'CA Easytrieve replacement' Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: REXX : how to determine the member name of a DD card
On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 10:58:14 +0200, CUNY Yann yc...@externe.generali.fr wrote: //IN DD DSN=P3CUN.YANN.JCL(TEST14),DISP=SHR I need, in my rexx, to retrieve the member name of the DD CARD IN. With the LISTDSI, I just have the pds name. Any idea ? You can use OUTTRAP function to trap the output from the 'LISTA STATUS' TSO command. Then parse through and find the DD you are interested in. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: jes2 parm syntax checking
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 08:55:18 -0500, Arthur Gutowski aguto...@ford.com wrote: On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 16:52:04 -0400, Tim Brown tbr...@cenhud.com wrote: Is there a way to syntax JES2 statements We are trying a new config, the old one starts ok The new one gets the cancel or end option and we cant determine the error. Other than the helpful ideas posted thus far, IBM's textbook answer is to define a secondary JES2 subsystem and start it under the current primary. I've never been able to get this to work 100% - always had to edit certain parms to resolve conflicts with the primary, which means edited back before going production, which provided the opportunity to introduce typos or missing/extra comment markers. Kind of defeats the purpose. Tim, Art: No need to create a secondary JES2, just simply start JES2 with the new parms, under your current JES2. If there's syntax errors, you'll be able to see the messages, if no syntax errors, it will immediately come down: $HASP425 SUBSYSTEM INTERFACE NOT DORMANT, JES2 ALREADY ACTIVE $HASP085 JES2 TERMINATION COMPLETE Although if you do this on a closely watched system, those messages tend to disturb operators a little bit, it helps to warn them before doing it Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: jes2 parm syntax checking
Rex, It has been a while since I've used this 'feature', so I tried it again on a 1.11 system. I'm also seeing what you are, for it now seems to not notice any syntax errors before coming down with those messages. Perhaps they've rearranged the order that it does things. It 'used' to work well Sorry for the confusion. Dana On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 09:07:30 -0500, Pommier, Rex R. rex.pomm...@cnasurety.com wrote: Dana, I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, but this isn't working on my 1.10 sandbox. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Fwd: prob
Mace, When I used the COD for our recent install, I just used our existing IODF, I didn't copy anything. Just IPL from the address of the new COD sysres volume, but point LOADPARM at your normal IODF volume. (I did have to create a new LOADxx member to reference the new COD mastercat). Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Stupid User Quesion on Panvalet
Lizette, I seem to recall having trouble with reserves issued by PAN#2 (and other Panvalet utilities as well) especially when we moved a standalone system into a Sysplex with others. Like you say, it has been a long time ago. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Version control for PDS(E) members
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 09:46:10 -0500, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: snip A friend said that SCLM stinks, but it does support PDS(E) and change control. And it is bundled with ISPF. After having survived a sizable conversion from several ISV's to SCLM, I would agree with John's friend on all counts. (with special emphasis on 'stinks') Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: FW: Tape Barcode labels
Late last century when we were installing several STK silos, our friendly STK rep gave me a small DOS program that would produce tape lables. It may still exist somewhere, I think it was cleverly named BARCODE.exe. I used it quite a bit when tapes would get damaged etc. It was also handy when a CBPDO would arrive, I could label them all and throw them in a silo. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Setting up timezone in Unix on Mainframe
Lizette, From my notes when the daylight saving time changed in 2007, the places I had to update included: TCSH uses /etc/csh.login CRON uses /etc/init.options /etc/profile, /etc/init.options, and /etc/rc HTH Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Benchmarking the IPL
On Mon, 17 May 2010 07:41:33 -0500, Kelman, Tom thomas.kel...@commercebank.com wrote: I saw your post talking about having an A01 warm standby with Z03 CBU. Tom, Thats the setup we are using: z9BC A01 at an alternate site. FWIW, our most recent IPLs of z/OS 1.11 on that machine took approxmiately 7 minutes from start to 'TCAS ACCEPTING LOGONS', keeping in mind that time includes a few manual replies such as '1,noreq' etc. Regards Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Anyone using TCPAccess?
My experience with TCPAccess dates way back before Websphere (and probably SSL!) before it was a CA product... it was Interlink. At the time it seemed to work well, and support most things that IBM' TCP/IP did, although every product or application that was to use it took some manual changes from the IBM implementation. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: VSAM FILE CATALOGING
On Fri, 7 May 2010 15:40:44 -0400, John Eells ee...@us.ibm.com wrote: Today, though, it would be far more sensible to use the Catalog Search interface in place of parsing LISTCAT output and write it in REXX or C. John just precisely described Alastair Gray's excellent tool: RCNVTCAT. It is a substitute for IBM's MCNVTCAT utility, written in REXX using CSI for input. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Non-SMS-managed LOGR offload data sets
I went through all this in a previous employer. Due to acquisitions, we merged 4 plexes into one site, into one shamplex. Only one small system was able to be combined with another, wound up with 3 MAS'es, 3 RACFDB's, 3 SMSplexes, etc. Chose to send LOGREC data to LOGR for the contractual obligation. Only a small amount of DASD was shared, we used the IEFDB401 exit to send all logger offloads to one common esoteric and one shared catalog. It was sort of a pain, but it worked for the most part. There were challenges at DR testing, keeping the proper logstream definitions done from the proper systems. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: ISPF command line (was: Mainframe emulator ...)
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:37:20 -0500, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: And it pops up a window, obscuring most of the output display from which I might want to copy/paste or merely retype text. gil, Are you familiar with popup windows that can be moved around easily (assuming you have your emulator set with a big enough screen to have room to move)? When one appears in the way, just put the cursor anywhere on the border of the popup, and hit enter. The short message will be 'Window move pending. Then move the cursor to where you want the upper left corrner of the window to be placed, and hit enter again. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: AMATERSE: AMA574I. Wrong message?
On 24 March 2010 13:32, Yifat Oren yi...@tmachine.com wrote: Hi, I have recieved some TERSED SMF records and am unable to UNPACK them. SNIP AMA574I RECORD FOUND IS LONGER THAN THE LRECL AMA555I THE VALUES ARE: BLKSIZE= 8760 LRECL=8756 PACKTYPE=PACK Yifat, When you say you 'received' some tersed SMF records, was this file perhaps FTP'ed to you? I have seen this message in the past when a file was tersed, then FTP'ed to another site. Make sure when the file is FTP'ed, to include STRUCTURE R ,this corrected the problem for us. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Any FOCUS performance guru's here?
Dave, Yes I have a case open with them, but they're approaching it like it's an application problem, and arent offering much assistance. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Any FOCUS performance guru's here?
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:05:14 -0500, David Briars dbri...@comcast.net wrote: Is the batch job running on the same LPAR, as the sink machine? Same LPAR Thanks Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: CA Easytrieve replacement
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:11:11 -0600, Paul Peplinski paul.peplin...@wpsic.com wrote: There is one product (IBM Migration Utility) that claims to support EZT, meaning it can convert EZT to COBOL on the fly and you can continue to code using EZT syntax if you wish. IBM was reselling Foundation's PENGIEZT product as Migration Utility. I participated in the conversion from EZT to IBM Migration Utility a number of years ago at a former employer. I wasn't privy to specifics about how well it handled the language differences, etc. although I don't recall any glaring large problems with the conversion.We had a shop built from several acquisitions, and we ended up with at least 4 very non-compatible EZT environments. At that time, the design of IBM MU was such that made supporting the different run time options sets very cumbersome. Pehaps it's better now. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Any FOCUS performance guru's here?
I'm looking at a FOCUS job (FOCUS from Information Builders) that is starting to run a really long time. There doesn't seem to be any contention, and if it runs without FOCSU (simultaneous Users) turned on, it runs in just a few minutes. But running with FOCSU, it can take hours. Has anyone here dabbled in this area? thanks Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: TSO reconnect (ikjefln2) reject by RACF
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:26:34 -0600, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za wrote: AFAIK there is no way around this pre z/OS 1.11 Please, could you be very kind to provide any useful documentation(s) or links about this interesting tidbit? Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht Elardus, In z/OS V1R11.0 Introduction and Release Guide Document Number: GA22-7502-17 And probably TSO book also: 1.28.2 TSO/E LOGONHERE support for VTAM unconditional reconnect | Description: TSO/E LOGONHERE support for VTAM unconditional reconnect now | allows you to reconnect to your session even if no disconnection has been | detected. By default in z/OS V1R11, LOGONHERE support is turned on. By | specifying the reconnect option, you can easily switch from one computer | to another or reestablish a session after a loss of connectivity (even | with a new IP address). | When change was introduced: z/OS V1R11. It works well. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: restoring a cod tape to dasd non-SA?
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:00:36 -0500, larry macioce mace1...@gmail.com wrote: The sticking part is the dsn for the input , the tape doesn't show one so I am a bit lost. thanks mace Mace, I recently did just what you are wanting to do. I used an old utility (UDACS) to dump the first files from the tape to show what was really on the HDR1 label. And since tape lables only contain the last 17 characters of the file name, as long as you get those right, you can put your own hlq in the JCL when you reference it. Mine were: OS120079.VD9ECAT on vol M079AB OS120079.VD9ESY1 on vol M079AC OS120079.VD9ESY2 on vol M079AD Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: restoring a cod tape to dasd non-SA?
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:15:16 -0600, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: You got me: What is a COD tape? I know what a COD fish is. And a COD piece, too. But not a COD tape grin. John, According to the FM: The Customized Offerings Driver V3 (5751-COD) is an entitled driving system you can use if (1) you do not have an existing system to use as a driving system or (2) your existing system does not meet driving system requirements and you do not want to upgrade it to meet those requirements. This driver is a subset of a z/OS V1R9 system. The Customized Offerings Driver is in DFSMSdss dump/restore format and supports 3390 triple-density or higher DASD devices. The Customized Offerings Driver requires a locally attached non-SNA terminal and a system console from the IBM (or equivalent) family of supported terminal types: 317x, 327x, 319x, or 348x. An IBM (or equivalent) supported tape drive is also required to restore the driver. /FM We needed it so we could install z/OS 1.11 from an unsupported release. I did what mace is wanting to do, run the restores under a test system instead of SA. It worked great. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
MLWTO processing with TSSO
I've been working with TSSO to try and automate some processing of a MLWTO. It doesn't seem to be documented in the users guide, but in the source it appears that one can specify 'L' for a TEST= in the AOF table to gain access to the contents of 2-n lines of a MLWTO. I haven't been able to get the TEST statement coded to make this work properly. When the message ID gets issued, in the log TSSO also issues: TSS9208E ERROR PROCESSING L DIRECTIVE- ENTRY IGNORED. My tabentry is as follows: TABENTRY MSG=IST530I,ACTION=OSCMDT,ECHO=YES, TEST=((L,2),(S,10,5,'EVENT')), TEXT='@IST530 MATCH1' Has anyone figured out how to process MLWTOs with TSSO? Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Anybody use a Wiki for internal information?
John, I had the same dream as you. I wanted a wiki for our internal documentation, that was mainframe based so we had total control of it and it would be immediately available during DR tests etc. I got Twiki working resonably well at the time, but it didn't really catch on, then other things happened to the shop that made it impossible to continue with. http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev.TWikiOnMainframe Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Hiper-dispatch
Tom, Hiperdispatch isn't available until z/OS 1.10.And as far as I remember, it's main benefit is reducing cross-book L2 cache searches, so if you have a z10BC, you only have one book, little or no benefit. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Hiper-dispatch
Correction: Looks like hiperdispatch was rolled back to 1.9 also... Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Hummingbird screen snapshots
Gil, I don't have Hummingbird, but I do use Rumba and it has a similar 'feature' perhaps Hummingbird has something like this too. Under Options-Edit-Clipboard format, there are several checkboxes for selecting the format of the data that gets cut/pasted such as text, BIFF, Bitmap, Picture etc. I have all of them unchecked except text. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: How to IPL from a Customized Offerings Driver Options
We are planning to install z/OS 1.10 at the first time via ServerPac.Could you tell me how to IPL from a Customized Offerings Driver (5751-COD) and how to install a driving system. Which IBM manual could help me? Thanks a lot! Best Regards, Janson Janson, You will receive 'Customized Offerings Driver Installation Guide' with the COD tapes. It does a very good job of explaining the installation and IPL process for the COD. It also contains a list of other z/OS publications that should be available for reference and URLs where you can find them. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: IBM driving mainframe systems programmers into the ground
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:25:19 -0600, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: -Original Message- From this, what IBM wants is for the z to be administered like an i. There really aren't any sysprogs on an i. There is very little to configure. No exits in system code. The OS is really in the equivalent of the millicode, much like LPAR. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Have a look at the announcement for z/OS Management Facility. That's IBM's plan for the future. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: TSSO in a sysplex
I think I have answered my own question: I am only seeing messages in TSSO from other members of the JES2 plex, and no messages from members of the other JES plex. Shouldn't I see messages equally from all members of the sysplex? The hint came in the description of the WQE in the 'Using the Subsystem Interface' FM. The field WMJMFLG1, bit WMJMRISS indicates the message is an SVC reissue of a message that has already been processed by SVC WTO... Examples of using this indicator include messages that originate on one system (MVS sysplex), but are transported for display to another system. Since the systems from one of our JESplexen only route console messages to consoles on systems within the same JESplex, and the others likewise, no message traffic ever has to be passed to members of the other JESplex -- TSSO never sees them. Also, if the message is suppressed via MPF, it won't get passed to SSI function 9 on any other system other than the one it's issued on. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: OS2 icons (semi OT)
Radoslaw, Windows I can create shortcut. AFAIK in OS/2 it is called shadow (am I right?). Q1: How can I created shortcut to the .WS profile ? You are correct, those are called shadows. I think you need to right-click when you are in the folder/desktop where you want to create a new shadow, and click on create-shadow and create a shadow of your *.ws file. Second question: when I click on .WS file it is opened by editor - not by PCOMM. Q2: How can I convince OS/2 to use PCOMM for .WS files? You need to right click on PCOMM.exe and click on settings. Then there should be a tab called 'associations' that is where you enter the *.ws type to be associated with this program. Hope this helps, done mostly from memory. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Alternatives to QuickRef?
Ok, perhaps 'viable alternative' was too strong of a phrase to use. 'Lookat' is a free tool that can replace some of the function lost, when one is at a site that does not have QwikRef. At least point and shoot lookup of IBM messages... It doesn't come close to a replacment. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Alternatives to QuickRef?
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 12:13:03 +0200, Itschak Mugzach imugz...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone knows an alternative to the mainframe product known as QuickRef? ITschak Itschak, Have you seen IBM's 'LOOKAT' facility? http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/lookat/ There's a downloadable package for running it under TSO/E. I've used it in the past when working at sites that do not have QW and it's a viable substitute. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Alternatives to QuickRef?
Yes, other vendor's messages for one.I should have added a disclaimer to my statement about that.Another is that QW can dispense lots of other goodies such as utility control statement formats, commands, REXX and clist etc. And it handles multiple releases of info much better than Lookat. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: OA30702
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:49:56 -0400, Petersen, Jim jim_peter...@homedepot.com wrote: Watch out for this one folks. UA49994 (1.10), UA49993 (1.9) , (I don't know the 1.11 PTF) are in error. They cause a storage overlay. FYI, the 1.11 PTF is UA49995. It came received but not applied on our recent 1.11 order. Regards Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Looking for a job
Don't forget Tommy Bolin and John Wayne Well, there is James Tiberius Kirk. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Experience with NPF
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 18:06:20 EDT, Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com wrote: NPF menus are built in but you have to do some initial customization to get it fired up. We got it working fine and it will probably be more than adequate for our needs. I certainly wouldn't want to maintain it if we had to drive 1000's of printers with it, as it does sort of show it's age. But the price is right. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Experience with NPF
Has anyone gotten NPF to produce banner pages? The JES2 printer has SEP=YES set but it's unclear if that really takes affect with FSS printers. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Experience with NPF
I am researching IP print solutions, to replace some quite old impact line printers, and I recently stumbled upon the manual for NPF while working on our z/OS 1.11 install. I don't recall ever reading or hearing about this before. At first glance it appears to be a way to drive LPD printers without many bells whistles, to do standard JES to IP printing. Am I missing some obvious warts here? There doesn't seem to be much discussion on IBM-Main about it, although it seems to have been around for quite some time. If anyone could share info on NPF with me I would greatly appreciate it. thanks Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Experience with NPF
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:10:17 EDT, Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com wrote: suffice or from JCL 'DEST:IP=xxx.yyy.xx.'. Ed, What else needs to be setup to get this to work? I ran a job with that and the output is sitting in the output queue with DEST IP.The only reference I can find to this in any manuals is in the JCL reference under DEST=. Not a word about this in JES2 books... Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Experience with NPF
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 15:03:30 EDT, Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com wrote: Sorry it's in the IP Printway guide. I'll get a reference in a minute. Thanks, I forgot to mention it, but that is what I was trying to avoid with this project, buying anything... ;-) Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
RMF Spreadsheet Reporter
Hello, I'm trying to get the RMF Spreadsheet reporter working and I am quite stumped. This is on Windows XP, Excel 2003. I have downloaded and installed the latest version of the reporter. It starts up OK, I define my SMF dump datasets. I Select Create-Workingset. The job runs successfully. The workingset shows up in the working sets folder on the local side. Then I select an excel spreadsheet to open. In the spreadsheet, click the button to 'Select Working Set and process Data...'.Then I get an error message box stating: 'No Working Set selected or no Working Set available'. Does anybody have any ideas what might be going on here? I can see the working sets in the correct directory, but I can't convince Excel that they are there... Thanks Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: TSSO in a sysplex
So far I have made an update to TSSO to allow you to insert the system name that issued a message, into the OSCMD operand in the AOF table. That seems to be working quite well. But I've come up with another question. We have two JES2plexes running in one SYSPLEX. It appears that I am only seeing messages in TSSO from other members of the JES2 plex, and no messages from members of the other JES plex. Shouldn't I see messages equally from all members of the sysplex? In reading the FM, it talks about the order of subsystems, and cautions that one subsystem might receive a message after it has been altered by another watcher of SSI 9, could JES2 possibly be snuffing out messages from other JESplexes before poor TSSO gets to see them.The FM goes on to say that SSI 9 isn't the recommended way to process WTO's now. It offers MCSOPER and MCSOPMSG services as a more up to date way to do it. Do you think that could possibly work better in this area? Thanks Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
TSSO in a sysplex
Hello, We are considering replacing Netview for simple message automation with TSSO from the CBT tape. I have it up and running successfully but I have one question. Currently we have two Netview subsystems running on two members of a sysplex, each processing messages from a subset of sysplex members. Is there a way to duplicate this setup, having TSSO process only messages from a subset of sysplex members? or alternately, be able to identify what system a message was issued from in TSSO processing? thanks Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: IBM Health Checker
Hal, The book is here: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/e0z2l121.pdf If your lpars are sharing JES2 spool, SDSF should be able to display checks from other systems, you can use SYSNAME command to select what you see. HTH Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Security Breach on System z HMC?
I'll try this again, properly... On Console actions - User Settings, Do you have a tab for Confirmation settings, choices are Enabled with object list, Enabled without object list, and Do not show confirmations? This is on HMC's at EC F85910 Dana Mitchell -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
HSM backup retention
Is there a way with HSM to retain a daily backup of a dataset for 45 days and retain a monthly backup of the same dataset for 24 months? This dataset is updated every day. I don't see a way to do this with the management class rules. Dana Rupp State of Florida -- 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
