TISLER Zaromil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL
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So, missing interupt messages should pop up after 45 seconds. Don't you
see any IOS messages in the syslog?
Yes,
IOS002A NO PATH AVAILABLE ...
at the moment the electricity was gone.
By the time we tried to
Tom Schmidt wrote:
[...]
We can't standardize the symbol processing in MAS sites today -- that's the
core issue (which was discussed on ibm-main, what, 6-9 years ago??). But
each site also has systems programmers being paid, presumably, to program
something.
Not necessarily. The companies
Dear Listers,
I need to write two REXX routines that would perform the following
tasks.
1) Read a Job Procedure and generate a sequential file listing all the
files that get created in all uncommented steps in the PROC
2) Read the file generated in (1), open up each file listed, and perform
a
Another important difference:
Before:
ICE752I FSZ= 26843782528 BC IGN= 14280193 E AVG= 1000 0 WSP= 34865459
C DYN= 630120 56664
Now:
ICE752I FSZ= 26663697126 BC IGN= 14119737 E AVG= 1000 0 WSP= 34631560
C DYN= 1389344 24544
Thanks
Chr.
On 12/1/05, DMR-Qualitas Outsourcing [EMAIL
Thanks Terry,
we have received similar answer from another forum:
I would have thought for a heavily hit DB2 there will be a heavy load on
the Catalog at startup and at peak load times, depending on how many table
spaces and index yor database comprises. I think the default is still 3, so
I
One way to do it is supplied below. Be aware that it's not tested !
And that it's not foolprof depending on the read JCL (e g: it could be JCL code
as inline data etc.).
Thomas Berg
/* REXX 1 */
Address Tso
Arg jobprocdsn . /* The jobproc to scan */
ALLOC F(REXX1) DA('jobprocdsn')
Error in my code corrected below:
One way to do it is supplied below. Be aware that it's not tested ! And that
it's not foolprof depending on the read JCL (e g: it could be JCL code as
inline data etc.).
Thomas Berg
/* REXX 1 */
Address Tso
Arg jobprocdsn . /* The jobproc to scan
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Hi,
We've had 3 instances today when we received IAR005E messages. The complete
message is:
IAR005E PREFERRED AREA HAS EXPANDED, RECONFIGURABILITY AND PERFORMANCE
MAY BE IMPAIRED. CHECK RSU VALUE.
DMR-Qualitas Outsourcing wrote:
Hello,
I'm investigating little ghost in a sort job batch due to this job was
working with hiperspaces and, without any changes, it has started to use
dataspaces.
Being Snip
End Snip
Thanks in advance
Alan Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm in the market for a TSO/REXX book to accompany and improve on the IBM
manuals. A search of Amazon shows:
Rexx Programmer Reference by Howard Fosdick
Programming in Rexx by Charles Daney
The Rexx Language by Michael Cowlishaw
Practical Usage of TSO
You normally don't see this, but this still does not mean it cannot occur.
Were the devices really offline?
I do not believe they were offline in the system (another thing to check
during the test!), but they were offline in the real world.
The UCB Online, Alloc, Busy etc. indicators are
Anyone got a link to a tool that'll delete a broken VVDS catalog entry ???.
We've had two (yep *2*) sysplex-wide outages to move the MCAT onto a
dedicated CSV. The REPRO fails due to shonky cat entries. My attempts to get
things in order prior to Sunday night are in a mess.
DEL NSCR on a couple
TISLER Zaromil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL
PROTECTED]...
Thank you for your input.
Zaromil
Just out of curiosity: are you testing disaster situations or did you really
have a complete power outage on a storage device and was the device configured
sufficiently
On 11/28/05, Bill Neiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hence the IXC256A message. I'm not sure why
a D R,R failed to display the outstanding message, since IXC256A is
issued
with descriptor code 11.
Just to tie up this loose end - D R,R doesn't display an outstanding
IXC256A because IXC256A isn't
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 09:46:59 +0100, R.S. wrote:
Tom Schmidt wrote:
We can't standardize the symbol processing in MAS sites today -- that's
the core issue (which was discussed on ibm-main, what, 6-9 years
ago??). But each site also has systems programmers being paid,
presumably, to program
Tom Schmidt wrote:
Actually, JES2's SEGMENT support is based on the number of PAGES, which in
turn are based strictly on skips to channel 1, while the JES3 THRESHLD
support is based on the number of LINES. Presumably JES2 output that has
LINECT=0 specified (somewhere) would result in no
How about the old VVDSFIX program - is that still available (and
usable?)
Rob Scott
www.rs.com
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On 12/1/2005 1:07 AM, Joe Zitzelberger wrote:
On Nov 30, 2005, at 12:20 PM, Walt Farrell wrote:
Unfortunately, since different systems in a sysplex (or sharing the
spool) could have very different times and dates, they could get very
unexpected results if we let those symbols be used in batch
Yep, I was PM'd a link.
We'll see if that (still) does the job
Cheers ... Shane
From: Rob Scott
How about the old VVDSFIX program - is that still available (and
usable?)
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ibm-main [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Anyone got a link to a tool that'll delete a broken VVDS catalog entry ???.
We've had two (yep *2*) sysplex-wide outages to move the MCAT onto a
dedicated CSV. The REPRO fails due to shonky cat entries. My attempts to get
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 07:13:56 -0600, Bill Neiman wrote:
On 11/28/05, Bill Neiman wrote:
Hence the IXC256A message. I'm not sure why
a D R,R failed to display the outstanding message, since IXC256A is
issued
with descriptor code 11.
Just to tie up this loose end - D R,R doesn't display an
Their were three main competitors in the Direct Junk Mail industry:
Group One, LPC
and Postal Soft. Pitney Bowes bought LPC so Group One went with a
holding company
to get the revenue to compete. Apparently didn't work as Group One
is now owned by
Pitney Bowes. Not sure what happened to
Would you care to share the link?
Thanks...
- Original Message -
From: ibm-main [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: Broken VVDS catalog entries
Yep, I was PM'd a link.
We'll see if that
Looks like Group 1 is part of Pitney-Bowes now. They have Mailstream,
Code 1, and Finalist. I don't know what the differences or prices are.
Apparently they're the one wanting to charge us an outrageous upgrade
fee.
Thanks,
Craig
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of DMR-Qualitas
Outsourcing
Another important difference:
Before:
ICE752I FSZ= 26843782528 BC IGN= 14280193 E AVG= 1000 0
WSP= 34865459 C DYN= 630120 56664
Now:
ICE752I FSZ= 26663697126 BC IGN=
Shane,
I have successfully used this to delet a vvds from a volume.
//STEP1 EXEC PGM=IDCAMS
//DD1DD VOL=SER=MVSSM3,UNIT=3390,DISP=OLD
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSIN DD *
ALTER
Kees,
are you testing disaster situations
We are a GDPS site, 3 production parallel sysplexes, 2 - 3 sites, PPRC and
Hyperswap, with unplanned Hyperswap in test parallel sysplexes (two of
them). A smaller part of production volumes is not mirrored (customer's
decision).
Because of GPDS we do
You should consider to change your IEASYSxx parameters. I run with
REAL=0,
RSU=0,
If you are not using dynamic storage reconfiguration, set the RSU
parameter to 0. If you don't have any jobs that run with ADDRSPC=REAL
set REAL to 0.
Best Regards,
Sam
In a message dated 12/1/2005 7:38:17 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The CASS certification was originally 99.5% and was slowly increased
to 99.8% of
addresses had to be corrected to get the bulk mail discounts.
We fought this with the mail distribution,
A few times I had to check the system datasets (or sysres volumes) for a
specific string occurence. I found it very expensive (CPU and elapsed time)
to search a PDS dataset using rexx (allocating every single member as a
sequential dataset). To reduce the number of allocations I called program
On 30 Nov 2005 22:54:40 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hunkeler
Peter , KRDO 4) wrote:
Be careful. //* may be ambiguous in a JES3 environment.
Most of the JES3 control statements start with //*xyz.
JCL comment statements should start with //*b (b=blank)
to avoid such ambiguity (this applies to JES3
Thanks a lot.
Henry Daries
Senior DB2 Support
Cell 785-969-1905
Ofc 785-291-7481
Fax 785-291-8548
Bpr 785-295-5734
- Forwarded by Henry Daries/bcbsks on 12/01/2005 09:29 AM -
Henry
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/01/2005 01:14:36 AM:
Hello,
I'm investigating little ghost in a sort job batch due to this job was
working with hiperspaces and, without any changes, it has started to use
dataspaces.
...
Any idea to continue working?
If you want to know why hipersorting
Walt,
-- snip --
Unfortunately, since different systems in a sysplex (or sharing the
spool) could have very different times and dates, they could get very
unexpected results if we let those symbols be used in batch job JCL.
Suppose the job converted on a system where the date is today,
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TISLER Zaromil
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 10:52 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Using symbolic in JCL
snip
How is then possible to have different times and dates in a
Hi,
Anyone else heard of this change to the normal IBM FTP server for
support we got this feedback from two different PMR's just recently.
This is the second time IBM has made a change in less than a year IIRC
and I think some folks may not appreciate the amount of paperwork filled
out in
Have a look at the IBM REXX website where you'll find lots of good references:
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/rexx/
And this page as well:
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/rexx/library/published.html
Sebastian.
If you don't have any jobs that run with ADDRSPC=REAL
set REAL to 0.
There was a discussion of ADDRSPC=REAL on this list some years ago,
instigated by IBM who was considering dropping that support. The
conclusion was that there was no obvious need for ADDRSPC=REAL and most
shops set REAL=0
Try TYPE E instead of TYPE I (BIN).
IMHO, BIN is not appropriate for this situation. As you can see, some
attributes are lost.
The FM suggests TYPE E MODE C for all z/os to z/os transfers. Works well
for me. TYPE E MODE B might be better for files already compressed as
are ADRDSU.
HTH and
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Knutson, Sam
Hi,
Anyone else heard of this change to the normal IBM FTP server
for support we got this feedback from two different PMR's
just recently.
It seems that different IBM product owners are making the
Yeah, they wanted me to use this, I had too many problems uploading
stuff to it. I keep insisting on using testcase, and so far, they
have been accommodating.
At 12:07 PM 12/1/2005, you wrote:
Hi,
Anyone else heard of this change to the normal IBM FTP server for
support we got this feedback
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 07:36:55 -0600, Tom Schmidt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't you need to have AMRF=Y set in order to capture (and display)
outstanding action messages? (Not all sites run with AMRF=Y... my current
site, sadly, is one that uses NOAMRF.)
Tom,
Yes, you do. At the risk of
We've run with AMRF(N) for years.
Health Checker says this is the preferred state.
One must presume the folks in CONSOLES know what they are doing
Don't you need to have AMRF=Y set in order to capture (and display)
outstanding action messages? (Not all sites run with AMRF=Y... my
current
Greetings,
Is there an way to print all the VRS records from RMM? I tried to
create a User Report to list them, but I don't know enough about RMM to
get it to run. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks...Guy M. Gates Jr.
TTI Z/OS Systems Programmer
Phone: (817) 740-9000 x-4627
I would just like a quick confirmation that the following will not cause
any problems.
Will moving a volume (assigned to the spill storage group, Overflow = Y) to
a primary storage group (Overflow = N) affect the datasets on the volume?
(The spill primary sg are in the same acs routines ).
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:35:10 -0500, Farley, Peter x23353
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... JCL Conversion and Interpretation are no longer handled in one
place, much less that Execution is a separate third phase. ...
... I would expect them to reflect the
EXECUTION-time environment and no other.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Silvio Camplani
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 2:29 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: SMS question
I would just like a quick confirmation that the following
will not cause
any
Hi,
try this JCL here:
//STEP1 EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01,DYNAMNBR=10
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSTSTRM DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSTERM DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSTSIN DD *
RMM
In a recent note, Patrick O'Keefe said:
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 14:31:18 -0600
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:35:10 -0500, Farley, Peter x23353
[log in to unmask] wrote:
... I would expect them to reflect the
EXECUTION-time environment and no other. The Conversion and
Interpretation
I have a lot of datasets of the form:
HSMBAK.VTOC.Tnn.Vvolser.Dn
The volser above belongs to volumes which no longer exist. For these
volumes, I have sent the command:
HSEND DELVOL volser PRIMARY
I 100% get back volume not defined. Can I just delete these datasets?
--
John McKown
In a recent note, McKown, John said:
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 11:00:03 -0600
For the truly strange (like me): Imagine a sysplex where there is a
different z/OS image for every possible time zone in which the company
does business. The users in that time zone are directed to their z/OS
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 13:01:58 -0600, Alan C. Field
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We've run with AMRF(N) for years.
Health Checker says this is the preferred state.
One must presume the folks in CONSOLES know what they are doing
Alan,
I've been discussing this with the Consoles folks, and it
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 15:37:25 -0600, Bill Neiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That check says that if you are running AMRF(Y), and
if you are retaining eventual action messages, you should update your MPF
specifications to retain only immediate and critical action messages.
Sorry, that should have
Exactly right. That's why symbol resolution belongs only in the execution
environment, not in conversion or interpretation. When and where the JCL
executes is the only time and place that count, so that is where and when
the symbols should be resolved.
And no, I can't have my symbolics resolved
Gil,
No, I made no mistake. I do understand that JCL is (in effect) a compiled
language. Even a compiled language can call a dynamic subroutine to get a
value when it needs it. But yes, I do expect IBM could implement deferred
evaluation of environmental values (i.e., symbolics in the context
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/30/2005
at 12:46 PM, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
(*) Note: VSAM is older than RACF.
Note: dataset passwords are older than VSAM. VSAM just inherited the
original bad design.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see
One small typo in the code below: The 2nd constant in the INSPECT statement
has the replacement C and D reversed:
INSPECT WS-HEX-OUTPUT CONVERTING
X'FAFBFCFDFEFF' TO 'ABDCEF'. == Note: DC not CD
Should be instead:
INSPECT WS-HEX-OUTPUT
In a recent note, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) said:
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 14:38:02 -0500
In [log in to unmask], on 11/25/2005
at 03:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [log in to unmask] said:
(1) Certificates of Deposit: Certificates in my family's name were,
without authorization, put
This has been on other lists. I would think the appropriate action is to
moderate this id's messages.
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 12/01/2005
06:37:31 PM:
In a recent note, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) said:
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 14:38:02 -0500
In
On Dec 1, 2005, at 1:01 PM, Alan C. Field wrote:
We've run with AMRF(N) for years.
Health Checker says this is the preferred state.
One must presume the folks in CONSOLES know what they are doing
How true how true... BTW the question needs to be asked. When was the
last time IBM had an
Hi Listers,
I've been asked to find a list of 3270 Session Managers and have come up
with the following.
I'd really appreciate any feedback regarding the listed products (and any I
may have missed).
Our use is simply to be able to jump between 3270 sessions and to be able
to modify the list
of
to what end?
Someone with some grudge against Wells Fargo (perhaps related to the message
of the OP)?
Charles
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 3:38 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
It's apparently a real person using a real e-mail address - very
non-scam-like.
I don't want to violate anyone's privacy here, so I won't post details, but
suffice to say that the most rudimentary investigation of domain names
pointed to someone who was not hiding in the recesses of the Internet.
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/30/2005
at 05:22 PM, Bruce Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The lines are still comments as far as MVS/JES is concerned.
Are you a betting man?
--
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ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/30/2005
at 04:42 PM, John S. Giltner, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Any line that starts with //* is a comment to JES.
He's not running OS/VS1. There is no MVS component called JES. There
is a component called JES3, but //*opcode is a control statement[1] to
it. A
In
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
on 12/01/2005
at 04:37 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
OTOH, SYSUID certainly ought to reflect the TSO userid of the actual
submitter from the actual submitting system,
No way. The only value that makes sense is the userid for the job,
regardless of who
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/01/2005
at 09:46 AM, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Look at VMS, Unix, Netware, Windows. No assembler coding.
ROTF,LMAO!
In the MVS world we have systems programmers who don't know how to
program. In the Unix world they have systems administrators who can
and do
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/30/2005
at 09:02 PM, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
BTW: I think the problem with symbols is not so bothersome, because
batch schedulers provide equivalent functionality.
Some do, some don't.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position;
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/30/2005
at 01:40 PM, Tom Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I, for example, would NOT want to see the Reader time/date used; I'd
rather see the Interpreter time/date since that is closest to the
execution of the 3 choices available (without an exit).
Not only would it
In
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
on 11/30/2005
at 04:36 PM, Hunkeler Peter (KRDO 4)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Isn't TSO logon demand selected the same way STCs are?
Yes, the logon code is very similar[1] to the START code. Symbols are
permitted in both.
[1] Some of it is the same code.
--
Shmuel
In
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
on 11/30/2005
at 01:35 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Let me just relate the point of view of the simple application
programmer: Symbolics are a Good Thing, and I ought to be able to use
them in my ordinary Batch JCL. As for values, I would expect them
In
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
on 11/30/2005
at 01:58 PM, Alan Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I'm in the market for a TSO/REXX book to accompany and improve on the
IBM manuals.
I'm generally wary of aftermarket documentation; it frequently has
errors, does not correspond to the version you're
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 19:48:59 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
on 11/30/2005 at 01:35 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 said:
Let me just relate the point of view of the simple application
programmer: Symbolics are a Good Thing, and I ought to be able to use
them in my ordinary Batch JCL. As for
Bruce Jefferies wrote:
All war stories appreciated - gotcha's etc, please.
VTAM/Switch
In the early nineties my company bought another that was running this
product. It worked like a charm except on the 3180s that we brought with
us when we merged computer centers. It assumes that the screen
I managed to convince the customer that following the book wasn't going to
get them a solution.
Rather than try an old (potentially unmaintained) utility like VVDSFIX, I
went my preferred route.
Open source.
Used Alastair Grays *excellent* REXX replacement RCNVTCAT from the cbt.
I've used it in
Bill,
At the risk of starting a tangential thread, why would a site choose to
run with NOAMRF?
did you by any chance also talk to console level2 and ask them how many
problems were introduced by running AMRF=Y, especially before console
restructure?
One very bad problem (that as far as I know
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz said the following on 12/02/2005 01:02 AM:
REXX Reference Summary Handbook
You can have my copy when they pry it out of my cold dead fingers.
If you are talking about the spiral bound manual published by C.F.S. Nevada
a) Yes, those were very good
b) I
From: Kees
Probably not of much help, but do you mean with the MCAT the one and
only shared MCAT for the entire sysplex?
I have never understood the rationale of those constructs: first IBM
invented sysplex to create a single system view on separate systems, that
could be transparently
-- snip --
There was a UPS problem, it registered(?) anomaly in the electricity and
itself and cut the electricity on the site (that was my understanding). I
came later in and had to do only with the problems on the mainframe side.
The simplex devices (that is, not mirrored) were not critical for
John,
-- snip --
I've lost track here! You're running GDPS (I assume with PPRC and
Hyperswap), and you lost power to your secondary site. I assume that those
devices were also the secondary Duplex devices.
-- snip --
Yes, GDPS with PPRC and Hyperswap. But, we have simplex (i.e.
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