Where to obtain IODF dataset name

2006-01-26 Thread Andrew Metcalfe
We have a home-grown utility that reports on various system values (the usual IPL date/time, sysres volume, software level etc.) It also reports the IODF dataset name. It retrieves this from the IOVT which is chained from CVTIXAVL-IOCIOVTP. The IODF dataset name used to be at offset x'160' down

Have you ever abended IDCAMS?

2006-01-26 Thread Marco Gianfranco Indaco
Hi to all. Does somebody know if IDCAMS has(inside?) a kind of exit to call to have abend after an error? I mean: for error in a AMS command the maximum return code that we can have is 16 but this error never satisfy the abnormal completition of jcl because it intercept System and User Abend

Re: TSSO

2006-01-26 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:46:40 -0500, Kittendorf, Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TSSO from FILE 404 solved my problem. We have a routine which does OSCMD D A,REGION. Then if CMDOUT 0 it checks the last line to see if REGION was not found. On the previously installed version, we got CMDOUT = 3.

Re: Where to obtain IODF dataset name

2006-01-26 Thread Schiradin,Roland HG-Dir itb-db/dc
Macro IOCINFO Roland -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Metcalfe Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 9:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Where to obtain IODF dataset name We have a home-grown utility that reports on

Re: Where to obtain IODF dataset name

2006-01-26 Thread Rob Scott
Andrew, The IOVT is not a GUPI - however - if you look at offset x'18' into the IOVT - and follow the address - you should come to the CDA control block and you should be able to glean the required info. Normal caveats apply for processing control blocks like this (ie PTFs/FMIDs can change the

Re: Where to obtain IODF dataset name

2006-01-26 Thread Rob Scott
Macro IOCINFO Now Roland - where is the fun in using a supported interface :-) Rob Scott Rocket Software http://www.rs.com/portfolio/mxi/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Where to obtain IODF dataset name

2006-01-26 Thread Andrew Metcalfe
It appears from the docs that IOCINFO returns the IODF token. The IODF token does not have to contain the IODF dataset name. Andrew -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: Where to obtain IODF dataset name

2006-01-26 Thread Schiradin,Roland HG-Dir itb-db/dc
Look into the source and be aware of the NOTE: IOCAREA=iocarea is the name (RS-type), or address in register (2)-(12), of an optional 256 character output into which IOCINFO is to return the I/O configuration information. This area can

Re: Where to obtain IODF dataset name

2006-01-26 Thread Schiradin,Roland HG-Dir itb-db/dc
The IOCAREA is not a part of the intended programming service Enough room for fun :-)) Roland -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Scott Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 11:10 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Where to

Re: State of the Mainframe - News Article

2006-01-26 Thread Timothy Sipples
The user had to pay for IMS based on the size of the processor Yes, in the late 1980s. Fast forward to the 2000s and there's subcapacity workload-based licensing, for IMS and just about everything else. Now I'm not arguing that it's the perfect answer in every situation, but it's

zIIPs

2006-01-26 Thread Phil Payne
Stealth announcement? I can still find no English language press coverage (there's a little piece in Computerwoche) and the only hits in Google are my site's index page and a short analysis I did. Nothing searchable from IBM. I've put up a couple of links to the zSeries pages and the overview

Test, pls ignore

2006-01-26 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
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State of the Mainframe - News Article

2006-01-26 Thread Phil Payne
Yes, in the late 1980s. Fast forward to the 2000s and there's subcapacity workload-based licensing, for IMS and just about everything else. Now I'm not arguing that it's the perfect answer in every situation, but it's relatively new and much more business-friendly, IMHO. It doesn't even

Re: QSAM DCB not restored by CLOSE following S013-18 on OPEN

2006-01-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 01/23/2006 at 09:17 AM, Charles Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Isn't that what I said? No. You said When the gurus of the sixties designed QSAM, the theory was that after a DCB ABEND the program went away, At that time there was no DCB ABEND, so there could not have

Re: TN3270 Question

2006-01-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 01/25/2006 at 02:11 AM, Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I appreciate this is a serious comment from you but I hope you'll forgive a light-hearted take, at least initially. Why? Certainly I would never crack a joke, make a pun or write a double entendre ;-) Cyrnfr

Re: What happens if CR's are directly changed?

2006-01-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 01/24/2006 at 04:59 PM, Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Why? If someone wants to try it at their own shop, I'm sure that it will be educational. I'm a bit twiddler from way back, willing to get into the trenches and change low level system behavior when there

FTP to/from tape

2006-01-26 Thread Bruce Baxter
We're trying to set up FTP processes that go both to and from Virtual Tape and are having problems getting it to work. The client would be on AIX or Windows and would connect to the z/OS 1.4 FTP Server to GET and PUT traditional z/OS style tape datasets. We're entirely SMS managed and use

Re: FTP to/from tape

2006-01-26 Thread Scott Doherty
check to make sure you have this coded in your FTPDATA : AUTOTAPEMOUNT TRUE; allow automatically mount tape volumes Here is URL to the Z/os 1.4 communication server : http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/Shelves/F1A1BK33 HTH Scott

Re: FTP to/from tape

2006-01-26 Thread John P Kalinich
We had to specify this option in SYSFTPD. AUTOTAPEMount true ; non-mounted volumes mounted automatically Regards, John Kalinich Computer Sciences Corp

Wd4z ver 6.01

2006-01-26 Thread Andy White
Is anyone out there using IBM WD4Z 6.01 (websphere Developers studio). I installed it for an AD unit but had questions about UNIX access for the users. I am in touch with IBM but not getting very far thought id try with a 'real life' user. If you can tell me what permission's your customers

Re: Have you ever abended IDCAMS?

2006-01-26 Thread R.S.
Answer to the topic question: YES. Answer to message body: In fact I don't understand your intention. What do you want to get ? I believe, that IDCAMS abend is not the goal, rather a way to achive the goal. Maybe there's another way. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland Marco Gianfranco Indaco

Re: What does XL of XL C/C++ mean?

2006-01-26 Thread R.S.
Hal Merritt wrote: XL means 'eXtra Loot'. 'Loot' is US slang for money. So, XL = Higher price. I am joking, but renaming or rebranding is usually a sales/marketing ploy. Very rarely of technical interest except as an administrative headache. IMHO it's headache only. What marketing

Re: What happens if CR's are directly changed?

2006-01-26 Thread Walt Farrell
On 1/24/2006 12:48 PM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 11:08:27 -0600 Craddock, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :There are a whole bunch of integrity issues. When you use the official :interfaces, the OS keeps you out of the weeds. When you DIY you're on :your own. In this particular

Re: IDENTIFY macro question

2006-01-26 Thread Peter Relson
IDENTIFY creates a CDE. IDENTIFY RC=4 more or less indicates that an existing minor CDE was found that matches the input name. IDENTIFY RC=8 indicates that an existing major CDE was found that matches the input name When IDENTIFY creates a CDE, the new CDE usually is a minor CDE and is enqueued

Re: Tape is Far More Expensive the DASD? (Was: State of the Mainframe - News Article)

2006-01-26 Thread R.S.
Ron, Some corrections about Hitachi boxes: 7700C could be expanded to 1,5TB. 5 cabinets (2L,Controller,2R). It wasn't described in initial documentation, but Im' pretty sure it is possible, because I used such configuration. 15 classics sounds horribly, but the same capacity can be easily

Re: Wd4z ver 6.01

2006-01-26 Thread Steve Comstock
Andy White wrote: Is anyone out there using IBM WD4Z 6.01 (websphere Developers studio). I installed it for an AD unit but had questions about UNIX access for the users. I am in touch with IBM but not getting very far thought id try with a 'real life' user. If you can tell me what permission's

Re: Identify Macro

2006-01-26 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
Ira Broussard wrote: What it boils down to is that I just want to know why the second (and subsequent) IDENTIFY gives a RC=4 if the loaded module previously came from STEPLIB and a RC=8 if the loaded module previously came from the LPA. Remember that in both scenarios, the entry point

Re: Test, pls ignore

2006-01-26 Thread Matthew Stitt
M$ Exchange server has been known to do this. I wouldn't doubt a few other mail server systems work the same way. Worked(?) with our company's e-mail admin, and was never able to get them to recognize it was a problem, let alone this anomaly did exist. Every once in a while a message would slip

Re: DFSORT - simple formula for SORTWKn size?

2006-01-26 Thread Howard Brazee
On 25 Jan 2006 16:43:34 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Yaeger) wrote: A better option than trying to sort each tape separately is to split the file using OUTFIL. The following control statements would accomplish this: OPTION COPY OUTFIL FNAMES=(TAPE1,TAPE2),SPLIT TAPE1 and TAPE2 are the

Re: What does XL of XL C/C++ mean?

2006-01-26 Thread Howard Brazee
On 19 Jan 2006 21:34:53 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bo Xie) wrote: As of z/OS V1R7, the z/OS C/C++ compiler has been rebranded to z/OS XL C/C++. What does XL of XL C/C++ mean? Well, Superbowl XL is coming up in another week. (I wonder how long they are going to live in the Roman Empire?)

Re: What does XL of XL C/C++ mean?

2006-01-26 Thread Chris Hoelscher
Well, Superbowl XL is coming up in another week. (I wonder how long they are going to live in the Roman Empire?) Until the Saints play the Lions in the Coliseum ? The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain CONFIDENTIAL

Re: Have you ever abended IDCAMS?

2006-01-26 Thread David Andrews
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 14:23 +0100, R.S. wrote: Answer to message body: In fact I don't understand your intention. What do you want to get ? I believe, that IDCAMS abend is not the goal, I seem to recall that e.g. SORT and FDR both have options to ABEND in lieu of returning a severe RC. Marco

Have you ever abended IDCAMS?

2006-01-26 Thread Phil Payne
If I understand the question correctly - yes, and not just IDCAMS. We're going back several decades here, but at one time quite a few programmes (SORT was one) used to signifiy any failure (even fatal I/O errors) with RC=16 rather than an ABEND. I think just about every shop either wrote or

Re: What does XL of XL C/C++ mean?

2006-01-26 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 1/26/2006 8:21:48 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Until the Saints play the Lions in the Coliseum ? I'm so old I remember when they had a team in LA and the 49ers and Raiders were competitive! They showed the Ice Bowl(Packers vs. Cowboys) on

Re: What happens if CR's are directly changed?

2006-01-26 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:38:12 -0500 Walt Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :On 1/24/2006 12:48 PM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: : On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 11:08:27 -0600 Craddock, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] : wrote: : :There are a whole bunch of integrity issues. When you use the official : :interfaces, the OS

Re: Is VIO mandatory?

2006-01-26 Thread Greg Shirey
It apparently is not. Our system has no defined VIO. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Francois Paré Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 9:03 AM We are defining a new IODF and we are wondering if

Re: Tape is Far More Expensive the DASD? (Was: State of the Mainframe - News Article)

2006-01-26 Thread Ron and Jenny Hawkins
Radoslaw, Some corrections about Hitachi boxes: 7700C could be expanded to 1,5TB. 5 cabinets (2L,Controller,2R). It wasn't described in initial documentation, but Im' pretty sure it is possible, because I used such configuration. That's correct using 9GB drives. The 7700s I've worked with

JES2 job execution routing

2006-01-26 Thread Hal Merritt
We are now running most all our work on z/os.e. We have a z/os LPAR in the MAS for exceptions such as TSO. What we would like is for jobs submitted on z/os to be executed on z/os.e unless explicitly routed. We dislike exits. We have a grand total of two and that's two too many. I

Re: Is VIO mandatory?

2006-01-26 Thread Bruce Black
We are defining a new IODF and we are wondering if it is mandatory to define VIO in the EDT (UNIT=VIO) and VIO devices? AFAIK VIO is required only if you have JCL using UNIT=VIO (or some other UNIT= which equates to VIO devices). At one time some IBM supplied PROCs (compiler PROCs and such)

Re: Have you ever abended IDCAMS?

2006-01-26 Thread Marco Gianfranco Indaco
Thanks for your reply. I'm not so lazy.. :-) This is not a way to avoid cond in some steps... I try to explain better the concept and apologize if my english is so complicate to understand. In Icetool, for example, we can code ABEND to terminate abnormally the execution of a step(using in this

z890, HMC, LPAR Numbers?

2006-01-26 Thread Kittendorf, Craig
Hi, We have our z890 up and running one test LPAR. We noticed that the LPAR numbers showing up in SMF and SHOWMVS are not the same as the MIF image id or LPAR numbers we entered in the profiles through the HMC. Should SMF report the MIF image id, or perhaps is this the order the profiles were

PUT LEVEL

2006-01-26 Thread Desi de la Garza
How can I find out what PUT LVL our system is at? Thanks, Desi de la Garza Systems Programmer Bexar County Information Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: PUT LEVEL

2006-01-26 Thread Dean Montevago
do a sourceid query on your global zone -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Desi de la Garza Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 10:46 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: PUT LEVEL How can I find out what PUT LVL our system is at?

Re: JES2 job execution routing

2006-01-26 Thread Matthew Stitt
How about WLM Resources and Scheduling Environments? You could define a default scheduling environment to all the job classes through the SDSF JC screen. Then define a resource connected to the scheduling environment that is on for the little MVS, and off for the big MVS. Have another

Re: PUT LEVEL

2006-01-26 Thread Desi de la Garza
Did query on my SMPE.GLOBAL.CSI and found lots of PUT sourceid's. Do I look at the one with the biggest #? Thanks, Desi de la Garza Systems Programmer Bexar County Information Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Have you ever abended IDCAMS?

2006-01-26 Thread R.S.
Marco Gianfranco Indaco wrote: Thanks for your reply. I'm not so lazy.. :-) This is not a way to avoid cond in some steps... I try to explain better the concept and apologize if my english is so complicate to understand. In Icetool, for example, we can code ABEND to terminate abnormally the

Re: PUT LEVEL

2006-01-26 Thread Dean Montevago
Well that depends. My answer was based on the fact that I know what PUT/RSU's I have applied to my system. So in my case the highest number is the one that I have applied. You could receive maintenance and not apply it so the highest PUT/RSU might not be the one installed. Anybody have any ideas ?

Re: Tape is Far More Expensive the DASD? (Was: State of the Mainframe - News Article)

2006-01-26 Thread R.S.
Ron and Jenny Hawkins wrote: Yes, I chose the oldest unit that I recall you are using (I checked your post of Jan1 last year and you did say HDS7700) to dress up the argument. The Maintenance on 10TB of DASD more than two or three years old would still be a damn site more expensive than 10TB

Re: Have you ever abended IDCAMS?

2006-01-26 Thread Marco Gianfranco Indaco
Hi Mr Lodz, you are right but it's a trick. My question regard mainly the association of 3th dispostion and IDCAMS... I'd like to know if it's true that is unuseful. If we cannot use an exit is true else is false...(so... how?) We can write program or use IEFBR14(as you suggest) to solve this

Re: JES2 job execution routing

2006-01-26 Thread Walt Farrell
On 1/26/2006 10:48 AM, Hal Merritt wrote: We are now running most all our work on z/os.e. We have a z/os LPAR in the MAS for exceptions such as TSO. What we would like is for jobs submitted on z/os to be executed on z/os.e unless explicitly routed. ...snipped... I feel sure this has been

Re: Have you ever abended IDCAMS?

2006-01-26 Thread David Andrews
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 16:21 +0100, Marco Gianfranco Indaco wrote: I'm not so lazy.. :-) This is not a way to avoid cond in some steps... Sure, but same idea. You want to avoid having to code extra JCL to test the return code from IDCAMS, and conditionally delete your dataset. What I'm

Re: Have you ever abended IDCAMS?

2006-01-26 Thread Marco Gianfranco Indaco
Many thanks Mr Andrews... Thanks for this piece of history :-) that I didn't know... I don't want to submit a requirement other than this that I repeat... is useful but mainly fun because using sort I solved this problem... Usually for deldef or other AMS usage I use cond like the great part of

Re: Test, pls ignore

2006-01-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Phil Payne Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 8:59 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Test, pls ignore Testchecking my posts, I don't see them arrive Just your own? ISTR there's a subscription option that

Re: zIIPs

2006-01-26 Thread Richards.Bob
What makes it even worse is that I jumped on the initial information and forwarded it around, got executive interest and follow-up questions and now am looking silly that I can not provide any additional information or appropriate answers to their questions! The FAQ was great, but generates

Re: JES2 job execution routing

2006-01-26 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:25:55 -0600, Hal Merritt wrote: We are now running most all our work on z/os.e. We have a z/os LPAR in the MAS for exceptions such as TSO. What we would like is for jobs submitted on z/os to be executed on z/os.e unless explicitly routed. We dislike exits. We have a grand

RES: IBM VTS and data sharing

2006-01-26 Thread ITURIEL DO NASCIMENTO NETO
Hi, We have been using a VTS shared by 2 monoplexes for years with no problems at all, but we had VOLCAT and Tape Management package shared too. I think that share a VTS among 2 SYSPLEXes is the same thing. Take a look at GRS definition of VTS VOLCAT, excluding it, define CBRUXENT to accept

Re: What happens if CR's are directly changed?

2006-01-26 Thread Craddock, Chris
Walt Farrell and I agree that this sounds like a bad idea. There is a need, as the AX (via AXSET) is a global address space value. There is no way (that I can find) to legally change the AX for a single unit of work. There is a good reason for that. The AX is irrelevant unless you are

Re: Support of zOS

2006-01-26 Thread Skip Robinson
(Posting the reply to a private note.) First off you need to know your environment(s). If one sysres is going to serve all systems, it has to contain *everything* that's needed *anywhere* in the enterprise but does not need anything that's not used at all. For example, we don't run BDT. Therefore

Re: Test, pls ignore

2006-01-26 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Payne Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 8:59 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Test, pls ignore Testchecking my posts, I don't see them arrive Just your own? ISTR there's a

Re: PUT LEVEL

2006-01-26 Thread Skip Robinson
'PUT level' has been rendered obsolete by RSU. A given PTF may take quite a while to make the RSU list, or if it's HIPER, it will show up immediately in the next RSU order. As others have suggested, you can scan a listing of PTFs installed in your target zone and eyeball the latest ones, but the

Re: State of the Mainframe - News Article

2006-01-26 Thread Bill Seubert
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:23:15 +0100, Phil Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesn't even come close to solving the problem. In fact, after two and a half decades of attrition, it has almost no effect at all except partially helping to contain increases due to extra MIPS capacity with

Re: z890, HMC, LPAR Numbers?

2006-01-26 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 10:43:39 -0500, Kittendorf, Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have our z890 up and running one test LPAR. We noticed that the LPAR numbers showing up in SMF and SHOWMVS are not the same as the MIF image id or LPAR numbers we entered in the profiles through the HMC. Should

Re: IBM VTS and data sharing

2006-01-26 Thread Larre Shiller
All - Thanks for all of the advice. Based on the responses, it would appear that virtual volumes can be shared across SYSPLEXes. In fact, the IBM Redbook Guide to Sharing and Partitioning IBM Tape Library Dataservers (SG24-4409) has a reasonable discussion of the topic at hand. Thanks again.

Re: Test, pls ignore

2006-01-26 Thread Darren Evans-Young
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Chase, John wrote: REPRO (echo own posts back) | NOREPRO. I believe NOREPRO is the default for IBM-MAIN. REPRO is the default. Always has been. Darren -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: What happens if CR's are directly changed?

2006-01-26 Thread Jim Mulder
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 01/26/2006 09:47:40 AM: : There is no way (that I can find) to legally change the AX for a single unit : of work. The AX is intended by architecture to be maintained at an address space level. The AX is maintained in the ASTE,

Re: JES2 job execution routing

2006-01-26 Thread Hal Merritt
Being a simple minded kind of guy, I like simple solutions. The command seems to be working exactly like we want. Thanks to all -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Schmidt Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 10:57 AM To:

Re: What does XL of XL C/C++ mean?

2006-01-26 Thread Hal Merritt
IMHO, we are genetically programmed to respond to anything new. In olden days, something new could be food *for* you or something that wanted to make food *of* you. Either way, your survival depended on quickly paying close attention. Marketing types have known this for years. So much so

Re: What does XL of XL C/C++ mean?

2006-01-26 Thread Ed Gould
On Jan 26, 2006, at 8:18 AM, Howard Brazee wrote: On 19 Jan 2006 21:34:53 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bo Xie) wrote: As of z/OS V1R7, the z/OS C/C++ compiler has been rebranded to z/ OS XL C/C++. What does XL of XL C/C++ mean? Well, Superbowl XL is coming up in another week. (I wonder

Re: Have you ever abended IDCAMS?

2006-01-26 Thread Bruce Black
My question regard mainly the association of 3th dispostion and IDCAMS... I'd like to know if it's true that is unuseful. If we cannot use an exit is true else is false...(so... how?) We can write program or use IEFBR14(as you suggest) to solve this problem but I'm interested to know if this is

Re: Is VIO mandatory?

2006-01-26 Thread Ed Gould
On Jan 26, 2006, at 9:40 AM, Bruce Black wrote: We are defining a new IODF and we are wondering if it is mandatory to define VIO in the EDT (UNIT=VIO) and VIO devices? AFAIK VIO is required only if you have JCL using UNIT=VIO (or some other UNIT= which equates to VIO devices). At one time

Re: Is VIO mandatory?

2006-01-26 Thread Hal Merritt
Once upon a time long ago, I seem to remember a problem with one of the old COBOL compliers where it supported only 3350(!) for its SYSUTx work datasets. You could use different geometry, but the compiler would occasionally fail on a bogus I/O error. The complier was already long out of support

Re: Have you ever abended IDCAMS?

2006-01-26 Thread Capomaestro
Could the modal commands (IF-THE-ELSE; DO-END; SET MAXCC/LASTCC; CANCEL) be of any use? IIRC the max CC from IDCAMS is 16. Testing the RC in the JCL for some strange value (an odd integer?) could then bypass steps of flush the JOB.

Re: Wash DC Job Opening

2006-01-26 Thread Desi de la Garza
I understand that you might be interested in an IBM Mainframe Systems Programming opportunity. I am currently looking for someone with MVS (Os/390-z/OS) experience that would be interested in working in San Antonio, Texas. The environment is County Government. The platform is z/800 running

Re: What happens if CR's are directly changed?

2006-01-26 Thread Ted MacNEIL
What's so hard about following the rules? CR's are not a specialty of mine. But, I agree with the sentiment. The rules are there for a reason (usually learned the hard way), so follow them. Gone are the days of cowboy sysprogs. Besides, there are still enough problems out there, so why try to

Re: Is VIO mandatory?

2006-01-26 Thread Ted MacNEIL
But, I still run into people that are convinced that VIO performs better than DASD. Sigh In a non-paging environment, it still does. - -teD I’m an enthusiastic proselytiser of the universal panacea I believe in! -- For

Re: z890, HMC, LPAR Numbers?

2006-01-26 Thread Barry Merrill
There is a recent change that changed the meaning of the LPAR Number in SMF records: APAR II13668 said that after z990s, LPARNUM (SMF70LPN) was no longer a static identifier, but instead is now a system generated number of the alphabetical location of the LPAR name, and the LPARNUM

Re: Where to obtain IODF dataset name

2006-01-26 Thread Barry Merrill
IODF Dataset Name and Create Date Time stamps are in RMF 73 and RMF 74 subtype 7 records, each RMF interval, as an alternative source. Barry -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: z890, HMC, LPAR Numbers?

2006-01-26 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:15:28 -0600, Barry Merrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a recent change that changed the meaning of the LPAR Number in SMF records: APAR II13668 said that after z990s, LPARNUM (SMF70LPN) was no longer a static identifier, but instead is now a system generated

Re: Is VIO mandatory?

2006-01-26 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Bruce Black said: Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 10:40:50 -0500 AFAIK VIO is required only if you have JCL using UNIT=VIO (or some other UNIT= which equates to VIO devices). At one time some IBM supplied PROCs (compiler PROCs and such) used UNIT=VIO for temp datasets so

Re: Is VIO mandatory?

2006-01-26 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I wonder about teD's statement that there remains a performance edge for VIO. There's always a caveat! I haven't had a paging system for over 15 years. On memory-rich systems, VIO (or any DIV solution) beats physical I/O (even to cache). If you're paging, VIO isn't worth it! If you're not, go

Re: Is VIO mandatory?

2006-01-26 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Ted MacNEIL said: Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT I haven't had a paging system for over 15 years. I guess I'm stuck in the Dark Ages; I'm astonished. Does that mean you don't even bother to define page data sets. In defense of my naivete, we run so many test

Re: Is VIO mandatory?

2006-01-26 Thread Ted MacNEIL
guess I'm stuck in the Dark Ages; I'm astonished. Does that mean you don't even bother to define page data sets. In defense of my naivete, we run so many test systems under VM that I believe paging is commonplace. No, you still have to define page datasets. We just find them very inactive.

Re: Is VIO mandatory?

2006-01-26 Thread Ron and Jenny Hawkins
Gil, When Expanded Storage was introduced on the 390-200 the way VIO worked was changed. VIO was written to ES and not the page datasets, which meant that unless you had really saturated your ES and pushed the migration age down, VIO rarely went any where near a real disk. In a real sense it

Re: Is VIO mandatory?

2006-01-26 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder about teD's statement that there remains a performance edge for VIO. I understand the paths for paging are highly optimized. But with modern buffered and virtual DASD the difference ought to be shrinking. And there's the offsetting overhead of emulating

Re: What does XL of XL C/C++ mean?

2006-01-26 Thread Arthur T.
On 26 Jan 2006 05:31:08 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main (Message-ID:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (R.S.) wrote: Hal Merritt wrote: XL means 'eXtra Loot'. 'Loot' is US slang for money. So, XL = Higher price. I am joking, but renaming or rebranding is usually a sales/marketing ploy.

Testing ASM under TSO

2006-01-26 Thread William McKinley
I am writing Assembler with the new 64-bit instructions, and frequency use the TSO TEST command for debugging. TEST does not recognize the new instructions for commands such at AT +12C if the instructions is a LG. What do assembler programmers use with the new instruction set? Regards Bil

Re: Testing ASM under TSO

2006-01-26 Thread Art Celestini
z/XDC from Cole Software is my tool of choice. I'd say that would also be true for most of the other Assembler programmers I've worked with over the years. There is also the IDF that comes with the HLASM Toolkit, but the last time I tinkered with it, I was disappointed in its lack of certain

Re: Is VIO mandatory?

2006-01-26 Thread Greg Price
Years ago I found directing compiler (PL/I and Assembler) work files to VIO could reduce the elapsed time of a compilation to a fraction of what it otherwise would be. May not be true now... or systems are so fast it doesn't matter much anymore. The big advantage of VIO that I still like is the

Re: zIIPs

2006-01-26 Thread Timothy Sipples
Bob Richards wrote: The FAQ was great, but generates TONS of questions. Feel free to post some questions. Who knows? Some of us lurkers might be able to find out more. - - - - - Timothy F. Sipples Consulting Enterprise Software Architect, z9/zSeries IBM Japan Ltd. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FTP to/from tape

2006-01-26 Thread Timothy Sipples
check to make sure you have this coded in your FTPDATA : AUTOTAPEMOUNT TRUE; allow automatically mount tape volumes Just be a little careful about denial of service-style attacks with this. I suppose it'd be possible to make the robot really busy with a bunch of random FTP

Re: zIIPs

2006-01-26 Thread Volker Bandke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hunkeler Peter (KRDO 4) said the following on 01/24/2006 05:11 PM: zNUPs - zSeries No Use Processor - Its a simple one: it doesn't do anything except from appearing on your maintenance bill No no, you got that wrong: zNUPs are required! You need