Phil Payne wrote:
I'm surprised that the first referencable account appears almost three months
after FCS and is
ostensibly (Computerworld) only a two-way in a range that supposedly includes a
54-way.
Nothing better to be proud of?
I've heard rumours about catastrophic z9 acceptance, but
Many thanks for the responses to my query.
Based on these I changed all the SYSOUT statements for the WebSphere PROCs from
SYSOUT=*,SPIN=UNALLOC,FREE=CLOSE to SYSOUT=H. WebSphere came up fine. I
reverted back to the previous SYSOUT syntax and WebSphere came up fine again.
I have no real
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Timothy Sipples wrote:
On this general topic, has anyone else priced z800s lately? A z800 ranges
from ~40 (smaller than the smallest Multiprise 3000) to ~630 MIPS with 10
capacity settings over 4 engines. Minimum memory is 8 GB. Runs all
software (i.e. it's 64-bit). It's even Parallel
All
Shmuel Metz wrote:
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/05/2005
at 08:49 AM, Daniel Cremieux [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I am converting a rexx program to cobol and having this problem . The
data is , for example x'0123' and after conversion , it must have
the value 123 (decimal)
In rexx ,
From experience on education systems I'd say the $PJES2 isn't even
necessary.
I would not subscribe to that. $PJES2 should always be done. If JES2
comes
down is another matter.
I agree, doing the $PJES2 will not hurt.
This makes me belive JES2 is one of the (few?) products that listens
for
the
In
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
on 12/06/2005
at 03:00 PM, William Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Have you ever seen a situation where the START command is issued, but
the address space fails with no diagnostics:
No. How would I know that it had failed without a message to that
effect?
05340
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/04/2005
at 09:56 AM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Bill's point is not so easily dismissed. So deferring symbol
evaluation would significantly erode the serialization and deadlock
protection that many production shops depend on.
But that's no obstacle to
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/04/2005
at 10:26 AM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
But that hierarchy has embraced Rexx, even if at shotgun-point.
Partially; it certainly hasn't embraced newer language facilities.
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ISO position;
Avram Friedman wrote:
I am a bit confused.
Dose the term 'DB2 catalog' in the original posting refer to
the ICF catalog that points to data sets of any type
or the special set of objects in DB2 that contains DB2 system information.
I fankly assumed it was the second case ...
IMHO bad
Pretty innovative how the handled the COBOL programmer issue:
'But what about the COBOL programmer shortage IBM is predicting?
We've skirted the issue by doing all of our COBOL in India where there
is virtually an unlimited supply. I can call and have 100 COBOL
programmers working on a project
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/06/2005
at 10:37 AM, Ed Finnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I'd stay away from the topica site as much as possible. Almost like
phising. But maybe that's just me...
It's not just you; google for topica in NANA*.
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Froberg, David C wrote:
Pretty innovative how the handled the COBOL programmer issue:
'But what about the COBOL programmer shortage IBM is predicting?
We've skirted the issue by doing all of our COBOL in India where there
is virtually an unlimited supply. I can call and have 100 COBOL
I'm surprised that the first referencable account appears almost three
months after FCS and is
ostensibly (Computerworld) only a two-way in a range that supposedly
includes a 54-way.
Nothing better to be proud of?
Have no idea. Maybe we'll find out together in mid-January from Mark
Loughridge.
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Pretty innovative how the handled the COBOL programmer issue:
'But what about the COBOL programmer shortage IBM is predicting?
We've skirted the issue by doing all of our COBOL in India
where
What would you like know?
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Is-it the good solution to print on a LPD from transaction CICS that write in a
TD queue ?
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Richard Pinion
Date: mercredi 7 décembre 2005 14:27
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Objet:
I would say yes and we use Infoprint this way.
Also, the VPS products from LRS is another possibility. I'm not saying the VPS
products are better or worse, only that they are another possibility.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/7/2005 8:52:47 AM
Is-it the good solution to print on a LPD from
I'm trying to sort out the impact of various sysout limitating options
but the FM is not absolutely clear in every aspect. Comments,
corrections
and suggestions are welcome.
Leaving punched cards aside, there are four JCL/JES parameters that can
be
used to limit the amount of sysout output from a
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 15:00:51 -, William Walsh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Have you ever seen a situation where the START command is issued, but the
address space fails with no diagnostics:
05340 13:30:58.39 WWALSH 0290 START
BBO6ACR,JOBNAME=BBOS001,ENV=CPAC.CPAC.BBOS001
05340 13:30:58.44
In a message dated 12/7/2005 6:53:37 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's not just you; google for topica in NANA*.
Don't know what the circumstances are that made afp-l use topica,
but there is a good bit of developer involvement. There used to
be a few AFP
Kumar
This is a diffrent problem ...
First an additional comment about the original discussion based on the
many replys I say (I use the digest for this news group)
IMS just like many other packages has several ways to specify a value.
For MVS DCB can come from many sources like DSCB Program and
With the announcement of encryption to DFDSS, will ABARS take advantage of
this to encrypt its output? This would include encrypting input from DASD
and TAPE.
Has anyone done this process successfully yet?
Thanks
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Dear friends,
I am working on a system which currently receives output via NJE from an
AS/400 system. This output is then processed by Output Master and
printed on a XEROX 4850 printer. The Output master product is apparently
adding AFP-like enhancements to the output before printing. The
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 09:50:00 -0600, Frank Rodriguez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With the announcement of encryption to DFDSS, will ABARS take advantage of
this to encrypt its output? This would include encrypting input from DASD
and TAPE.
Has anyone done this process successfully yet?
Thanks
Hi,
Preference from SumTotal Systems, Inc. (was Pathlore) currently
allocates user key common storage
A Service Pack for release 7.9.1 is planned to be available in January
of 2006. The Service Pack for PHOENIX and PREFERENCE includes the
following:
SNIP
Protect use of CSA and ECSA storage.
In a message dated 12/7/2005 9:41:41 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why do you believe you have 20-30 minutes to do something? I would look how
long can the weakest component stay available: switch or any other interface
on the path to devices and then to the mirror
Knutson, Sam wrote:
... to fix them and do a quality job of it in a reasonably short time.
Jim Mulder made the IgvNoUserKeyCSA DIAG TRAP available in OS/390
V2R6. Using this tool, the pro-active ISVs identified and fixed their
issues before you ever saw them. Now you're cheering the
Hi Ed,
Are you familiar with the Parable of the Prodigal Son:-) You can
forgive and cheer a vendor that really didn't understand the problem
initially but accepted information, learned, and remediated it once you
found the right contacts.
IBM would do us all a favor by documenting use of
Nope. That is for DFSMShsm full volume dumps which are not the
same as ABARS even if they do both run thru DFSMShsm.
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Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005
Knutson, Sam wrote:
Are you familiar with the Parable of the Prodigal Son:-) You can
forgive and cheer a vendor that really didn't understand the problem
initially but accepted information, learned, and remediated it once you
found the right contacts.
Interested ISVs have been privy to
The reason I would do a $PJES2 is to prevent new work from starting. If you
know that the end of the world is imminent, the less still running the
better. Otherwise you could have all manner of tasks kicking off at a
really unfortunate time. Maybe a simple $P would be even better just to
turn off
TISLER Zaromil wrote:
-- snip --
Let's assume the following scenario:
Disastrous power outage occured, no alternate power source is
available, only UPS battery. Time for battery discharge is approx. 20-30
minutes.
-- snip --
Why do you believe you have 20-30 minutes to do
We are trying to FTP a large file from mainframe to mainframe. The file
has lot of packed fields. We are using BINARY transfer. We have tried all
the options including NOWRAPRECORD, RECFM, LRECL combinations, but the
file is wrapping the records on the destination. Please note the file is a
To throw my $.02 in, do you have any non-critical equipment on the UPS
that could be powered down ahead of time (non-essential tape, printers,
etc) that could possibly extend the UPS uptime duration? I have lived
thru this scenario - lost street power and no generator. We were able
to extend the
Cause it is variable you can never re-build at destination .
You must first change to Fixed-Block bei either using TRSMAIN info here
http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/390/trsmain.html
to create a DS with LRECL=1024 which can be FTPed -
or you may use XMIT with OUTDSN , to create a dataset with
Pommier, Rex R. wrote:
To throw my $.02 in, do you have any non-critical equipment on the UPS
that could be powered down ahead of time (non-essential tape, printers,
etc) that could possibly extend the UPS uptime duration? I have lived
thru this scenario - lost street power and no generator.
The FM suggests MODE E TYPE C.
The FM also suggests that Binary (TYPE I) is not appropriate in this
situation.
Works for me.
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Behalf Of Singar Arthanarieswaran
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 1:59
I do this all the time.
Use TYPE E, MODE B options. Also let the system automatically send the file
characteristics and allocated it dynamically.
I assume you are going MVS to MVS?
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 21:17:56 +0100, Frank Krueger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Cause it is variable you can never
On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 20:54 +0100, R.S. wrote:
Back to the question, what about DB2, which I'm most worried ?
I'd like to quiesce all the system activity as much as possible, just
to avoid long time for get the DR system ready. I don't want to spent
hours to backout uncommited
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Singar Arthanarieswaran
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 1:59 PM
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Subject: Mainframe to Mainframe FTP
We are trying to FTP a large file from mainframe to
R.S.,
For *SIMPLE* solution that is also *clean* I recommend issuing -STOP DB2
MODE(FORCE) command for each DB2 subsystem. (Command syntax changes based
on if you are data sharing or not.) For tasks not currently in DB2 it
will post an exit; for tasks in DB2 it will stop during next suspend
Matthew
i have tried to often and got errors when doing FTP from MVS to MVS
with VBS or U files . I am doing a lot of Studies with SMF Data -
the only proven way for me is with fixed length records .
And XMIT off course can be used without JES connected -
just use XMIT with OUTDSN , then FTP ,
Oops. Got it backward. Sorry.
TYPE E MODE C.
Use MODE B if the data is already compressed. MODE C usually gives me
upwards of 60% compression. MODE B may work better for DFDSS ADRDSU
backups.
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Behalf
Is there a way to issue an operator command such as
Start in a JCL COMMAND statement without causing the
system to ask the console operator to allow it or not?
I want to issue a series of commands, one to start
SMTP, another to submit an email via IEBGENER and
the internal reader, and another to
This almost sounds like a network issue. Some misconfigured 'black hole'
routers will silently drop packets or otherwise garble the data. Some
network folks believe that error reporting is a security risk.
Hal.
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I now have SOAP for CICS installed and working. By working I mean I have
the sample programs running.
I am running this on z/OS 1.4 with CICS TS 2.2.
I have noticed that all of the CICS activity runs under the default CICS id.
using two transaction ids.
Does anyone have experience or
The COMMAND= parameter in the JES2 JOBCLASS(..) statement. I don't know how or
whether JES3 does it.
Bob
Steve Comstock wrote:
Is there a way to issue an operator command such as
Start in a JCL COMMAND statement without causing the
system to ask the console operator to allow it or not?
I
Steve,
I used the JCL below to issue operator commands to all our lpars in the
sysplex.
You could probably substitute your commands .. Not sure if you will run
into RACF issues at your site.
gabe
//FACGTCMD JOB '2',TORRES,MSGCLASS=Z
//SUBMITEXEC PGM=IEBEDIT
//SYSUT2DD
Steve Comstock wrote:
Is there a way to issue an operator command such as
Start in a JCL COMMAND statement without causing the
system to ask the console operator to allow it or not?
I want to issue a series of commands, one to start
SMTP, another to submit an email via IEBGENER and
the
We transfer VB files across LPAR's using FTP without tersing the file.
The following options works for us.
TYPE E
MODE B
Thanks
Nat
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Bob Rutledge wrote:
The COMMAND= parameter in the JES2 JOBCLASS(..) statement. I don't know
how or whether JES3 does it.
Bob
Hmmm. Good thought. I find COMMAND=VERIFY, so I'll try COMMAND=EXECUTE
I'll have to re-cycle JES then, right? Or even re-ipl?
[I don't care about JES3, since I am
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Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 4:06 PM
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Subject: Re: Commands in JCL
Bob Rutledge wrote:
The COMMAND= parameter in the JES2 JOBCLASS(..)
Gabe Torres wrote:
Steve,
I used the JCL below to issue operator commands to all our lpars in the
sysplex.
You could probably substitute your commands .. Not sure if you will run
into RACF issues at your site.
gabe
//FACGTCMD JOB '2',TORRES,MSGCLASS=Z
//SUBMITEXEC PGM=IEBEDIT
//SYSUT2
Cox, Dave wrote:
Steve,
Curious: Why JCL ?
Do you have any automation such as Control-O on your system ? If not,
sometimes I will submit commands using a BR14 with $VS commands like so
through Control-M scheduler:
/*$VS,'F CONTROLO,O=OPER.CNTLO.PRD1.V5.RULES(DB2CICUP)'
McKown, John wrote:
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Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 4:06 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Commands in JCL
Bob Rutledge wrote:
The COMMAND= parameter in the JES2
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 22:31:59 +0100, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Steve Comstock wrote:
Is there a way to issue an operator command such as
Start in a JCL COMMAND statement without causing the
system to ask the console operator to allow it or not?
Yes.
It depends on JES2 settings.
(I assumed
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Or with a command,
$T JOBCLASS(E),COMMAND=DISPLAY
with COMMAND=VERIFY to set it back.
In my experience, it does not work to put this command as the first command
of a string of JCL commands because apparently it takes effect too late.
Charles
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The more I think about this, the more I think less is better.
Given the amount of time to fully understand the situation, find the
procedure (which has never been tested), get a management buy in to pull
the trigger, thoughtfully issue the correct commands in the correct
sequence (watching for
In a recent note, Charles Mills said:
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 17:39:43 -0500
Or with a command,
$T JOBCLASS(E),COMMAND=DISPLAY
with COMMAND=VERIFY to set it back.
In my experience, it does not work to put this command as the first command
of a string of JCL commands because
You assume the server is not a PC. I wonder
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Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 11:54 AM
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Subject: Re: ftp.emea.ibm.com replaces testcase?
A suitably
In a recent note, Hal Merritt said:
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 16:57:10 -0600
You assume the server is not a PC. I wonder
No. Nor do I assume that it's a PC running/not running Linux;
only that the FTP server software has (or can be modified to
have) some facility comparable to the
Charles Mills wrote:
Or with a command,
$T JOBCLASS(E),COMMAND=DISPLAY
with COMMAND=VERIFY to set it back.
In my experience, it does not work to put this command as the first command
of a string of JCL commands because apparently it takes effect too late.
Charles
My strategy is: submit
In a recent note, Charles Mills said:
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 18:13:10 -0500
No, no, if the current setting is verify, then the $T command has to be
verified. No (fundamental) logical flaw there.
Good. But doesn't this, then, fail Steve's requirement (as I
perceived it) that he be
Does anybody have any examples (Assembler) of CICS CONVERSE tidy up
routines?
In particular, I need to know the correct EIB fields to examine and what
actions to take based on the values.
I understand basically what the fields indicate and what actions to take
but I have a program that gets ATCV
I've dwell on some questions for days :
1,In TSO,I use 'listalc status' to find that SYS1.UADS has been allocated to
DDNAME 'SYSUADS'.
For a test, I issue 'allocate dsn(center.uads) dd(sysuads)' and get the
meesage that filename is
in use. I resort to manuals and know that to do this I
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