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We are preparing to implement an asynchronous PPRC hardware solution
between
our production site and our disaster recovery site using the IBM ESS800
series subsystems for a tier 4 DR solution. I have found plenty of
resources
regarding the configuration of the hardware and
Greetings,
Can some kind soul please send me the SMF Records
listed below so that I can do inhouse alpha testing on
a soon to be released level of DAF.
SMF RT 42 ST 7 - File Timeout Statistics
SMF RT 43 - JES3 Start
SMF RT 45 - JES3 Stop
SMF RT 74 ST 6 - Hierarchical File System Statistics
SMF
I have a SYSMDUMP which is transferred from a mainframe system in to a unix
system.
I need to read that SYSMDUMP through IPCS in my mainframe machine.
From the unix system I have transferred the dump to my mainframe (Z/OS v
1.4) machine. To transfer the dump from the unix machine, I did a binary
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 02:23:52 -0500 Jerry Ragland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
:I have a SYSMDUMP which is transferred from a mainframe system in to a unix
:system.
:I need to read that SYSMDUMP through IPCS in my mainframe machine.
:From the unix system I have transferred the dump to my mainframe
We do all our insurance math with C programs, and we have very good
performance in general, but:
we don't use the decimal extension; all our numbers are ints (long or short)
and double (floating point). The results are converted to decimal, when we
pass them to the surrounding insurance
All,
I am trying to write a pc routine accessible to selected address spaces.
As an initial step I had coded the following as per the ext addressability
guide:
MODESET KEY=ZERO,MODE=SUP
LA 2,1
STH 2,AXCOUNT
GETAX AXRES AXLIST=AXL,RELATED=FREEAX
LTR 15,15
BNZ AXERR
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How do the ISV libraries get allocated? LOGON PROC, ISVALLOC
CLIST, REXX Exec.
LOGON proc.
Have those customizations been moved forward to the new LPAR?
Yes.
Was there any security work to be
Tom, John,
When contracting to various ISV's I've had occasion to speed up C/C++
ported to z/OS or newly written under z/OS. Sometimes the improvement was
radical!
The various C/C++ compilers have different (and changing) code generation
efficiencies.
Often, perfectly written C/C++ code for an
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From: Jerry Ragland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 3:23 AM
Subject: SYSMDUMP PROBLEM
I have a SYSMDUMP which is transferred from a mainframe system in to a unix
system.
snip
When I tried to open the
Where's Bob Wright when you need him ???.
I'd be inclined to take some notice of that allocated vs. used ratio.
Been a *LONG* time I reckon since a usable (even binary) dump would fit in 2
cylinders...
The dump looks useless - send it around the loop again as per Toms'
suggestion ...
Shane ...
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:All,
:
:I am trying to write a pc routine accessible to selected address spaces.
:As an initial step I had coded the following as per the ext addressability
guide:
:MODESET KEY=ZERO,MODE=SUP
:LA 2,1
:STH 2,AXCOUNT
I have still not written the pc routine.So as per ur question I assume
that this is the error.
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Kind of makes me wonder why employers get so concerned about a person having
experience in a particular language. There only a few basic types of
languages with variations on the themes.
Employers should put less emphasis on language expertise and focus on other
I.T. skills.
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On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 08:36:13AM -0400, Paul Hanrahan wrote:
Kind of makes me wonder why employers get so concerned about a person having
experience in a particular language. There only a few basic types of
languages with variations on the themes.
Employers should put less emphasis on
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 10:10:58 EDT, Ben Alford wrote:
I've discovered that IBM's FTP doesn't require NUM OFF if each line is
terminated with a semicolon. Example:
//INPUTDD *
testcase.boulder.ibm.com (timeout 720 ;
anonymous
Shane wrote on 09/08/2005 08:10:42 AM:
Where's Bob Wright when you need him ???.
In this case he's received no more information than the others who follow
IBM-MAIN and who made as good suggestions for the next stage of diagnosis
as I could make. There's too little information so far to
Kind of makes me wonder why employers get so concerned about a person having
experience in a particular language. There only a few basic types of
languages with variations on the themes.
...
This has been an issue with me, as well.
As a matter of fact, when I was let go from IGS Canada, the
I seem to have vtoc orphans. These are vtoc entries for greater than 1st
extents of a multi volume files which has since moved on.So two
questions...
1) Safe to simply zap the entry out of the old vtoc knowing the file is
safe and sound on other volumes now?
I hope you don't mean zap
Jerry Ragland wrote:
I have a SYSMDUMP which is transferred from a mainframe system in to a unix
system. I need to read that SYSMDUMP through IPCS in my mainframe machine.
From the unix system I have transferred the dump to my mainframe (Z/OS v
1.4) machine. To transfer the dump from the unix
Do an IPCS browse on the dump dataset, each record should start with
the EBCDIC characters DR.
If not, then the dump was corrupted somewhere in the transfer process.
Since you said you uploaded from Unix to MVS in binary, then I would
guess that the original transfer from MVS to UNIX was not
Seems that the APF-authorized load module also has to live in a linklisted
library (we don't use //STEPLIB in the logon proc).
Thanks again for all the attempts to help.
-jc-
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We have the program 'exlist' installed on 2 lpars. On lpar1 jobclass(tsu)
specifies swa=below. The program works fine, and displays pds member
descriptions. However, on lpar2 jobclass(tso) specifies swa=above and the
program gives an 0C4 abend. I have tried modifying the lked parm to
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Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 12:36 PM
Subject: Replacing an entire PDS using DIRECT:Connect (NDM)
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So any suggestions? Has anyone found a way using NDM to delete
members of a
Does anyone know how to handle the following problem.
On the website
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/bkserv/r7pdf/jes2.html
When you click on the JES2 Migration book it brings you to the z/OS 1.5
manual not the 1.7 one. A team member wanted to pull it up in preparation
of
Gentle Listers
We are trying to get rid of some SAS-components like SAS-Graph and SAS-IML.
To get an idea about who uses these components, we activated the
SAS-SMF-Record. So far so good. We can now see when which SAS-procedure gets
called; but could anybody point me to an url or a manual where
Tom - try searching through this website:
http://support.sas.com/onlinedoc/913/docMainpage.jsp
Regards!
JD
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To:
All,
We are switching from BASIC mode to LPAR mode. I created a new reset
profile and an image profile. When we activate the new reset profile
and image, will an ICON for the new image appear under the group
IMAGES?
Mike Martin
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Mark Vollmer wrote on 09/08/2005 12:02:35 PM:
I am interested in creating my own user defined control block formatting
for use under IPCS.
I've read the manuals, and I find the information very daunting. I
think I feel that way because the information is spread out so much over
the
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 11:02:35 -0500 Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:I am interested in creating my own user defined control block formatting
:for use under IPCS.
:I've read the manuals, and I find the information very daunting. I
:think I feel that way because the information is spread out so
Binyamin,
Would you care to share any short examples of how you would write
something like that, and how to get it installed and working in IPCS?
Thanks,
Mark Vollmer
Binyamin Dissen wrote:
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 11:02:35 -0500 Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:I am interested in creating my own
Do you use MXG? If so, the variables SASPROC and SASPROD in the TYPESASU
file should contain what you're looking for.
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Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600
Yes. Adding an LPAR and then P-O-R will add the new LPAR to the Defined Images
screen.
Steve
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Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 1:36 PM
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Try this link.
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/bkserv/zos_migration_m
anuals.html
Rob Jackson
Rite Aid Corporation
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Your welcome. Well, I really don't know all that much about HSM and I hate
to sound simplistic but what I would do if tasked with this exercise is
use our sandbox to turn compaction off and then force ML1 action and
measure CPU. I would then turn compaction on and then force ML1 action and
Thanks but this doesnt include JES2 which is what we are looking for..
Andy S White
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All,
Can we (non-disruptively) create an IOCDS using the HMC without bringing
our running systems down? (we have z/OS running under VM and I am told
we have problems creating a IOCDS thru z/OS batch IOCP - we usually
drop z/OS and VM, then IPL z/OS natively and run batch IOCP). I would
like to
Mike,
You should be able to do it through HCD. Selection option 2 from the main
menu, the option 2 again to build the IOCDS. It should be able to access the
local CEC's service element to create the IOCDS. Also, you can add the SNA
address of the service element to the Processor definition
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Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 2:30 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Creating IOCDS via HMC
All,
Can we (non-disruptively) create an IOCDS using the HMC
Your welcome. Well, I really don't know all that much about HSM and I
hate
to sound simplistic but what I would do if tasked with this exercise
is
use our sandbox to turn compaction off and then force ML1 action and
measure CPU. I would then turn compaction on and then force ML1 action
and
Hi,
How can I make a list of all the FMIDs present in an SMP zone, whether
using batch or the dialogs?
TIA
Rodolphe Audette
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All,
Can we (non-disruptively) create an IOCDS using the HMC without bringing
our running systems down?
Go into option 6 Migration Assistant. You can generate a few different reports
from there. Check out Products Applied FMID Descriptions.
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Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 3:44 PM
The SMP/E Commands manual and the User's Guide provide pretty good
explanations of the LIST command.
Don Imbriale
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 15:44:14 -0400, Rodolphe Audette
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Hi,
How can I make a list of all the FMIDs present in an SMP zone, whether
using batch or the dialogs?
Don and Stephen,
Are you saying that Stand Alone IOCP isn't really stand alone? i.e.
It runs concurrently with everything else running (z/OS, LPARs active,
etc.)?
Mike
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Has anyone checked to see whether there's any practical reason (i.e.
$$$) to migrate at all? Disk is pretty cheap these days and HSM is a
notable pig in most shops, ours included.
I question the value of spending CPU
Andy White wrote:
snip
Does anyone know how to handle the following problem.
On the website
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/bkserv/r7pdf/jes2.html
When you click on the JES2 Migration book it brings you to the z/OS 1.5
manual not the 1.7 one. A team member wanted to pull it
I hope you don't mean zap literally, no need.
I did mean literally, zap, which was the only solution that had been
handed down to me from my predecessor.
For SMS try IDCAMS DELETE NVR
Worked great. Thanks!
Jeffrey Deaver, Senior Analyst, Systems Engineering
651-665-4231
In a message dated 9/8/2005 3:02:58 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Are you saying that Stand Alone IOCP isn't really stand alone? i.e.
It runs concurrently with everything else running (z/OS, LPARs active,
etc.)?
It runs fine concurrently. It's the big
I am saying I'm not quite sure why you would have to do a standalone IOCP. You
can use HCD or a batch job under z/OS.
What were you told was the problem of updating the IOCDS from z/OS under VM?
What does IBM say about that?
I'm not sure, but for future use, if you define an extra LPAR that
Stand-alone is perhaps an unfortunate choice of words to describe it,
but that's what it's called. You DO need a logical partition activated.
From the manual:
1. The support element resets the targeted logical partition (System
Reset Clear). The logical partition must be activated with I/O
Don't forget the standalone DDR for z/VM shops.
/Tom Kern
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Just a thought for you SHARE people to consider trying to get on the
requirements list.
Wouldn't it be helpful if there were an architected, __simple__, way to
place a stand alone utility
We have a process that creates a FBA dataset formatted to print graphics
and text.
The JCL to print it has the appropriate OUTPUT card with a
CHARS=(GT15,FM15) to deal with the graphic and text lines.
This all works and prints fine.
A user is asking if there is a way to save or capture the print
OK, now I am really getting confused. We are currently running in BASIC
mode. If I drag and drop the CPC ICON onto the Input/Output (I/O)
Configuration Task to access IOCP on the HMC, will it crash my running
system(z/OS running under VM)?
Mike Martin
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Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 3:45 PM
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Subject: Re: Creating IOCDS via HMC
OK, now I am really getting confused. We are currently
running
Have you looked at the TXT2PDF program from Lucious Leland. It used to be
packaged with XMITIP? XMITIP should be able to transform your print-format
dataset into a PDF and email it to your user.
/Tom Kern
--- George, William (DHS-ITSD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We have a process that creates a
On Sep 8, 2005, at 2:43 PM, Craddock, Chris wrote:
---SNIP---
I question the value of spending CPU cycles shoveling bits from one
cold
place to another - typically in the same array. If it were mine, I'd
leave it spinning on disk until it was so old it had cobwebs on
Thanks John ill pass it on...
Andy
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Andy White wrote:
snip
Does anyone know how to handle the following problem.
On the website
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/bkserv/r7pdf/jes2.html
When you click on the JES2 Migration book it
The dataset has text that is CHANGED TO GRAPHICs for the printout via
JCL parameters. If one just looked at the dataset it would be all text
but garbage until it is processed by the OUTPUT graphics font setup via
the JCL.
Is there a means for TXT2PDF to deal with this??
I'll see if I can find
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 13:20:22 -0500 Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:Binyamin,
:
:Would you care to share any short examples of how you would write
:something like that, and how to get it installed and working in IPCS?
This is old, but should give you the basic idea.
Simple IPCS REXX program to
We place Icons on the HMC for each IPL pack (and system) , SA Dump
and so on. Operators just have to select the Icon and Activate it rather
than looking up L1 and L2 parms for each occurance. We then have ZZSA
CD's by each HMC in the complex for those extreme moments.
That should meet your
Listers,
I've got a problem that has me twixed. I'm trying to receive a pdo and
continue to receive SMPPTS E37-04 abends. I've moved to a MOD-9 device and
allocated a new dataset as large as I can (4,000 cyls) and I still get the
abend.
I'm not sure what to do to get the receive to be
Gentlemen and Ladies,
I am trying to receive a CBPDO and I keep getting E37-04s on SMPPTS. I've
moved to a mod-9 and have tried to allocate the dataset as large as
possible and I still get the e37. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks so much.
Chip Grantham
Read about SMPPTS spill datasets in the SMP/E doc.
Bob
Chip Grantham wrote:
Listers,
I've got a problem that has me twixed. I'm trying to receive a pdo and
continue to receive SMPPTS E37-04 abends. I've moved to a MOD-9 device and
allocated a new dataset as large as I can (4,000 cyls)
In a message dated 9/8/2005 4:43:01 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
moved to a mod-9 and have tried to allocate the dataset as large as
possible and I still get the e37. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Up the directory blocks? Lay in some spill datasets
If you try to run the MVS IOCP program under a VM guest, you get a message
saying that's not allowed. BTDT (last week), and of course Mike already
found that out.
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make the thing a monster PDSE dataset.
problem solved.
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Subject: SMP/E Receive Space Problems
Gentlemen and Ladies,
I
Binyamin Dissen wrote on 09/08/2005 05:03:14 PM:
Simple IPCS REXX program to display the SSCT chain:
/* REXX */
ADDRESS IPCS
SSNAME =
POINTER =
SSCTADDR =
EVAL 10.?+128?+18 CLIST(STORAGE(SSCTADDR))
DO WHILE SSCTADDR ^= RC = 0
EVAL SSCTADDR+8
You can set up the SMPPTS spill datasets. Basically it is (in each of
the zones you will be using) set up DDDEFs and corresponding libraries
called SMPPTS1, SMPPTS2, etc. SMP/E will spill over to them when the
SMPPTS is full. Just make sure you don't skip any because if you do,
SMP/E won't see
Alex, yes you could just use the sample EDGUX100 and EXPDT=98000.
You also cold use EDGUX100 sample customized and set the option to ignore
file 2 onwards when the first file is being written by CAESDR.
Mike Wood RMM Development
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 00:31:59 -0500, Alex B Nielsen [EMAIL
In a recent note, Robert Justice said:
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 17:57:44 -0400
make the thing a monster PDSE dataset.
problem solved.
Will that solve anything? See circa:
Linkname: Re: Spanned PDS/PDSE (was: Re: SMPE PTS ... )
URL:
Has anyone checked to see whether there's any practical reason (i.e.
$$$) to migrate at all? Disk is pretty cheap these days and HSM is a
notable pig in most shops, ours included.
...
I brought this up almost a year ago, and I was told I didn't know what I was
talking about.
Earlier in my
In this case, yes, since he's got 5,000 free cylinders on the volume.
Bob
Paul Gilmartin wrote:
In a recent note, Robert Justice said:
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 17:57:44 -0400
make the thing a monster PDSE dataset.
problem solved.
Will that solve anything? See circa:
It is the 'changed to graphics' that has lost me. I don't know if TXT2PDF will
help you. Sorry if I sent you on a wild-goose chase.
/Tom Kern
--- George, William (DHS-ITSD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The dataset has text that is CHANGED TO GRAPHICs for the printout via
JCL parameters. If one
Chris,
A good argument when you are migrating between like disk technology and
compression of the data is the only saving. However, now that us mainframers
have access to cheaper rack stack storage and SATA disk the economics of
migration change, and the savings may be more substantial than
Richard,
In just about all Remote Copy designs there are three things that you must
consider:
1. Point in Time Consistency
2. Point in Time Consistency
3. Point in Time Consistency
I should also mention Point in Time Consistency, as this can be important
also. From the
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 09/07/2005
at 12:33 AM, Robert A. Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Since the Attachment is defined as External, it does not get uploaded
to the SMTP Server and thus does not travel with the message.
Then it's not an attachment and you still have to deal with the
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on
09/07/2005
at 04:06 PM, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
This works OK on an Intel PC. IIRC, it was the ONLY way to do it on
the PDP boxes.
Huh? C has functions for string copies.
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In a message dated 9/8/2005 6:18:09 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It is the 'changed to graphics' that has lost me. I don't know if TXT2PDF
will
help you. Sorry if I sent you on a wild-goose chase.
AFP can be a very complicated structure. Unless TXT2PDF can
do
If I ever get some spare time I need to analyze our current migration
rules and do some tuning. I'm sure we are moving some things to ML1 and
back that would best be left alone.
But that said, when you add DR to the mix, movement to ML2 tape of the
really idle datasets with low recall rates
On Sep 8, 2005, at 4:03 PM, Chip Grantham wrote:
Gentlemen and Ladies,
I am trying to receive a CBPDO and I keep getting E37-04s on SMPPTS.
I've
moved to a mod-9 and have tried to allocate the dataset as large as
possible and I still get the e37. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks so
G'day
Thank you all for your help. Finally, I took the MXG-approach: Source
Member ADOCSASU contains a complete list of all procnames and their
corresponding SAS-component.
Cheers
Tom
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