Re: Barbaras (mini-)rant

2006-03-29 Thread TISLER Zaromil
- snip - I'm with Jim on this. I was a contractor in the mid to late '90's and came across the early TCPIP stack, written in PASCAL and ported from VM. As I recall it performed OK, and had some quite advanced features like VIPA which was the subject of another recent thread. - snip

SMFPRM

2006-03-29 Thread Luis Correia
Hi to you all, in the SMFPRM I found the following: SYS(NOTYPE(14:19,62:69,99),EXITS(IEFU83,IEFU84,IEFACTRT, IEFUSI,IEFUJI,IEFU29),NOINTERVAL,NODETAIL) /* WRITE ALL EXCEPT DATA MANAGEMENT RECORDS, TAKE EXITS. */ What type of events are not being logged ? Who, when, type of

Re: SMFPRM

2006-03-29 Thread Chris Mason
Luis, You should become familiar with the z/OS MVS System Management Facilities (SMF) manual, SA22-7630-10 for V1R6.0-V1R7.0, http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IEA2G251/ I presume you are asking about which types the statements you show select. Checking on NOTYPE revels

Re: Bringing the fun back to z/OS - new course

2006-03-29 Thread Timothy Sipples
A couple thoughts here, since I think Steve was talking about letting IBM know of these issues. First a point Barbara made: We are in the process of moving the UNIX apps to Linux under VM, where they can use the other type of processors and save us a lot of software costs (BMC is killing us,

Re: 3380-3390 Conversion - DISAPPOINTMENT

2006-03-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/29/2006 at 12:35 AM, Ron and Jenny Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: No I'm not. Then where do you get the idea that the number 256 has anything to do with text record sizes? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: Barbaras (mini-)rant

2006-03-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/28/2006 at 02:54 PM, Patrick O'Keefe [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I suspect the rewrite story is apocryphal. Possibly the details are. But it is a fact that IBM ported a Pascal-based TCP/OP from VM to MVS, including a simulated VMCF. It is also a fact that OS/390 2.5

Re: Barbaras (mini-)rant

2006-03-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/28/2006 at 12:00 AM, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I heard a story, many aeons ago, that the original TCP/IP for ESA/OS390 was a direct port from VM, written in PASCAL. And, it was a PIG! Correct, including simulation of VMCF, which in the VM world has been

Re: CICS down after transaction exec wait macro.

2006-03-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/28/2006 at 03:28 PM, Jorge Arueira Campos [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Issuing a wait macro in a CICS transaction, in the main task, is forbidden. Why no have a protection for not down the CICS ??? It would be expensive to enforce the various rules that a transaction

Re: CICS down after transaction exec wait macro.

2006-03-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/28/2006 at 09:04 PM, Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: One interpretation of what Shmuel says is that it is still something a CICS transaction programmer shouldn't even think of doing. Is there another interpretation[1]? But note that the it in question was

Re: Legality of z/OS 1.5 in 31-bit mode under z/VM at D/R Test

2006-03-29 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Skip Robinson Whoa. Was this a trick question like, 'Are you allowed in California to marry your widow's sister?' ? Bimodal Accommodation absolutely stopped with z/OS 1.4. It does not bear on the original query.

Re: Barbaras (mini-)rant

2006-03-29 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 3/29/2006 2:58:30 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the release 3.1 or 3.2 there were two FTP servers, one written in C and one in PASCAL(/VS?). Same recollection and that since TCP was shipping statically linked VS/PASCAL with it's code

Re: Anyone Using IBM 3592, Sun/STK 9940, or Sun/STK T10000 Cartridges for HSM ML2?

2006-03-29 Thread Friske, Michael
For an explanation of tape recall takeaway, click on the following link. http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DGT2S630/2.3. 3.1.1?SHELF=EZ2ZO10EDT=20040711204223CASE= -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark

Re: SMFPRM

2006-03-29 Thread Chris Mason
Luis, Thank you for the private thank you in which you indicated that your second question was what type of events were being logged. As I mentioned, it is every type of SMF record *except* those excluded by the NOTYPE specification. You will see very many types described in the SMF manual -

Re: Legality of z/OS 1.5 in 31-bit mode under z/VM at D/R Test

2006-03-29 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
Chase, John wrote: Since one can specify MACHINE=XC and define a 31-bit-only virtual machine, any thoughts on whether it would it be legal (in the US) to IPL z/OS 1.5 (effectively in ARCHLVL=1 mode) on that virtual machine for D/R testing if the real machine is a z/Box? There have been

Re: Barbaras (mini-)rant

2006-03-29 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
Ed Finnell wrote: Same recollection and that since TCP was shipping statically linked VS/PASCAL with it's code violated packaging rules and couldn't be order via Software Manufacturing(PDO,S*/PAC). Doesn't anyone change subject lines anymore? This thread has absolutely nothing to do

Re: Removed 3480 drives - question

2006-03-29 Thread Bruce Black
The DEVTYPE in the catalog is the actual value not the esoteric. The only time there is an esoteric is if the catalog entry is created via a Catalog Command (ie: IDCAMS/IEHPROGM/etc that is true, since the DEFINE NONVSAM or CATLG command only knows the esoteric or generic provided in the

Re: Wonder why IBM code quality is suffering?

2006-03-29 Thread Timothy Sipples
They're not. The latest matrix price I saw for this position was $50. Ennh, thank you for playing. The $50 goes to the pimp, who turns around and maybe coughs up $35 to a W-2 who's paying for his own health care, etc. I guess I interpreted matrix price differently. Obviously $50/hour

Re: Tape Encryption

2006-03-29 Thread Timothy Sipples
In the IBM-MAIN archives (from about August or September, 2005) there should be a list of tape encryption products posted. (Search on tape encryption and it should be pretty easy to spot.) There were also some follow-up posts noting CA-BrightStor and OpenTech as additional vendors in that

Re: z/OS Change Management / Change Control Procedures

2006-03-29 Thread Froberg, David C
Doc, Are you looking for programs and code or discipline and procedures? I'm not sure if this helps, but The Visible OPS Handbook (http://www.tripwire.com/practices/visops.cfm) by Kevin Behr, Gene Kim and George Spafford lays out a superb framework for change and configuration management. Is

Re: Legality of z/OS 1.5 in 31-bit mode under z/VM at D/R Test

2006-03-29 Thread Timothy Sipples
Since one can specify MACHINE=XC and define a 31-bit-only virtual machine, any thoughts on whether it would it be legal (in the US) to IPL z/OS 1.5 (effectively in ARCHLVL=1 mode) on that virtual machine for D/R testing if the real machine is a z/Box? I don't see why not, it is legal to us the

Re: Systems Programmer Levels Justification

2006-03-29 Thread Klein, Kevin
Grab a Messages and Codes manual. Count the number of resolutions that say something along the lines of Contact your SYSTEMS programmer vs. Contact anyone else. :) Perhaps a little bitterness seeping through here. I have a DBA that stops working on anything once he finds that phrase in the

FLEX-ES

2006-03-29 Thread Phil Payne
.. mainframe malarky .. There's no money in it. And I'm not the only one pissed at IBM's legal team - they seem to have adopted a policy of making swimming along with them as difficult as possible. As far as I'm concerned, the market is going below critical mass. I'll do a page or two for

Re: Systems Programmer Levels Justification

2006-03-29 Thread Greg Shirey
Also, go to the IEFSSN member of PARMLIB and check if there are any applications programmers that know anything about how to set up/configure any of them (or even what they are). Then throw in Workload Manager, VTAM, and all your (other) ISV products, too. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company

Re: Legality of z/OS 1.5 in 31-bit mode under z/VM at D/R Test

2006-03-29 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples [ snip ] Right, z/OS Bimodal Migration Accommodation is/was available only up through z/OS 1.4. When running z/OS 1.5 (at least not under z/VM) on a z/Architecture system it has to IPL in 64-bit

Re: Systems Programmer Levels Justification

2006-03-29 Thread Low, David
At the same time provide management with information as to why SysProgs are higher salaried than application programmers. They are at a loss as to why that is. Weird that they do not question why a network tech makes more than the applications also. I think many sysprogs are also

z/OS 1.7 and Large Sequential Data Set Offering

2006-03-29 Thread Phil Payne
Actually, the bit is used by VSE. But it's use was never recorded in any OS mapping of the Format-1 DSCB. The DOS footprint bit? It _was_ mapped at one time. DS4DIRF or something like that. DOS could happily use an OS/360 volume but didn't maintain the Formet 3s. We used to switch 2311

Re: Legality of z/OS 1.5 in 31-bit mode under z/VM at D/R Test

2006-03-29 Thread R.S.
Edward E. Jaffe wrote: Chase, John wrote: Since one can specify MACHINE=XC and define a 31-bit-only virtual machine, any thoughts on whether it would it be legal (in the US) to IPL z/OS 1.5 (effectively in ARCHLVL=1 mode) on that virtual machine for D/R testing if the real machine is a z/Box?

Re: z/OS 1.7 and Large Sequential Data Set Offering

2006-03-29 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
Phil Payne wrote: Actually, the bit is used by VSE. But it's use was never recorded in any OS mapping of the Format-1 DSCB. The DOS footprint bit? No. You're thinking of a different bit altogether ... in an entirely different control block (Format-4 DSCB)! -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix

Changing Cobol Default Options

2006-03-29 Thread Alan Schwartz
I'm merging two lpars and, not surprising, there are some customization differences in COBOL and LE. Most are easily changed and don't really affect how jobs run. However I have two differences that concern me. LPARA (the sending lpar) has INTDATE=ANSI and LPARB (the receiving lpar) has

Re: Legality of z/OS 1.5 in 31-bit mode under z/VM at D/R Test

2006-03-29 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
R.S. wrote: Edward E. Jaffe wrote: There have been several responses. Amazingly, none of them address the most fundamental issue of all. Your premise is wrong. z/OS does *not* support ESA/XC architecture. It supports only z/Architecture and ESA/390 architecture! If you try to IPL z/OS (any

Re: Trex Catalog software.

2006-03-29 Thread Judie Limes Wilson
I use TREX on a daily basis to backup my catalogs and maintain my catalog environment...i.e. clean-up errors, etc. I love the product..the support is excellent. As for REORG--TREX can REORG with parameter changes, such as IMBED to NOIMBED, REPLICAT to NOREPLICAT, SPACE allocations, move to a

SVC screening and locks

2006-03-29 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi If someone can advice: In the SVC SCREEN table only on pair of lock flag ( CMS or LOCAL) , but different SVC could need different LOCK setting. How can I handle this correctly ? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Reading a Load Module

2006-03-29 Thread JONES, CHARLIE
I would like to convert a loadlib module to a format that I can read with a REXX Exec. Is this possible? Can VPSPRINT copy a sequential datasets with the FOLD option? Any suggestions would be a great help. Charlie -- For

Re: Changing Cobol Default Options

2006-03-29 Thread Charles Mills
I don't have the answer but I know IBM is not going to be much help. It's not a defect, it's a usability issue and the only way IBM is going to help is by sending over somebody from IBM Global Services at $$$/hour. Ah, remember SE's? Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

No More JES2/JES3 Migration Guides!!!

2006-03-29 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
Please join with me in complaining to IBM that there are no more migration guides for z/OS JES2 and JES3, beginning with z/OS 1.7. These _extremely useful_ books were scrapped because some genius erroneously believed that the z/OS 1.7 Introduction and Release Guide would provide equivalent

Re: Changing Cobol Default Options

2006-03-29 Thread Alan Schwartz
And PSR's. Surprisingly the first PSR I ever knew (I was a DOS operator and he was helping us switch from GRASP to POWER) is now part of our DBA group. Alan Charles Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU 03/29/2006 01:10 PM Please respond to

Re: Reading a Load Module

2006-03-29 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JONES, CHARLIE Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 1:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Reading a Load Module I would like to convert a loadlib module to a format that I can read

Re: Reading a Load Module

2006-03-29 Thread Richard Tsujimoto
try superzap JONES, CHARLIE [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU 03/29/2006 02:03 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU cc Subject Reading a Load Module I would like to convert a

Re: z/OS 1.7 and Large Sequential Data Set Offering

2006-03-29 Thread Ted MacNEIL
In faact I think even OS used to set it on before allocation and clear it afterwards. Wasn't it used for the indicator as to whether you had a VTOCIX or not on a pack, in the early 1980's? - -teD I’m an enthusiastic proselytiser of the universal panacea I believe in!

Re: Reading a Load Module

2006-03-29 Thread Charles Mills
Depending on what he wants, reading it with Rexx could be a chore, albeit not impossible. Don't forget that key load module data is stored in the directory entry. Much of the directory entry is logically part of the load module. And it's not in the most friendly format for programs without good

Re: Barbaras (mini-)rant

2006-03-29 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:28:45 +1000, Shane Ginnane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Quite a few of us were forked by the merge of the IP stacks in 2.5 ... ... And some of us expressed that feeling a bit more publicly than was called for, perhaps. But the rewrite was needed, and eventually IBM turned

Re: Reading a Load Module

2006-03-29 Thread Thomas Conley
- Original Message - From: McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 2:19 PM Subject: RE: Reading a Load Module -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JONES, CHARLIE

Re: Anyone Using IBM 3592, Sun/STK 9940, or Sun/STK T10000 Cartridges for HSM ML2?

2006-03-29 Thread Ed Gould
On Mar 28, 2006, at 11:19 PM, Mark van der Eynden wrote: SNIP Just a point of curiosity here... I have been out of touch on this and my knowledge maybe out of date. With the new larger tapes there maybe more than the 255 file limit? When was DFHSM (for that

Re: Changing Cobol Default Options

2006-03-29 Thread Schiradin,Roland HG-Dir itb-db/dc
Alan, download the Cobol-Analyser from www.cbttape.org FILE#321. Verify the output after a scan of you load modules. 1. Verfiy the curent compile option INTDATE(ANSI) or INTDATE(LILIAN) 2. Verify if the cobol makes a call to CEECBLDY or CEEDAYS. The Cobol- Analyzer will report such static

Re: Reading a Load Module

2006-03-29 Thread Dave Salt
WTF you be talkin' 'bout Willis? Rexx cannot read a load module as-is. The EXECIO gets an IRX0509E that only RECFM F and V types are supported. Do you have some type of add-on routine that does this? Tom, I believe he's referring to the LMGET service which can be issued by REXX to read a

TCP/IP archeology (was Re: Barbaras (mini-)rant

2006-03-29 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:20:44 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Subject changed in response to Ed's bitter complaint. :-) ] ... I suspect the rewrite story is apocryphal. Possibly the details are. But it is a fact that IBM ported a Pascal-based TCP/OP from VM

Re: Reading a Load Module

2006-03-29 Thread Tony Harminc
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:03:37 -0600, JONES, CHARLIE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to convert a loadlib module to a format that I can read with a REXX Exec. Is this possible? You can call most of the Binder APIs directly from Rexx, and they can return all the text (and a great deal more)

Space limit for SMF datasets?

2006-03-29 Thread Mautalen Juan Guillermo
Hi, We are still at OS390 2.10. Our DASD are 3390 model. After converting to a new CICS version (from 1.2 to 2.2), we found out that our SMF datasets were filling up too fast. The reason is that the lenght of standard type 110 monitoring records (that we collect) has hugely increased (we are

Re: No More JES2/JES3 Migration Guides!!!

2006-03-29 Thread Bob Rutledge
I did mention this at least a couple times at JES2 SHARE sessions. The good news is that there's a JES2 migration guide on the z/OS 1.7 DVD; the bad news is that it's for JES2 1.5. How useful! By the by, the JES2 1.7 Installation Exits book needs to be read with a salt shaker nearby, e.g.

Re: No More JES2/JES3 Migration Guides!!!

2006-03-29 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:15:14 -0800, Edward E. Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... and TCP/IP over NJE! ... Ooh! Neat trick! The old migration books provided, not just a list of changes and new features, but guidelines and specific details on tolerating/exploiting them. They were an invaluable

Re: Space limit for SMF datasets?

2006-03-29 Thread Knutson, Sam
Allocate more MAN data sets (you are not limited to 3 which is the most common configuration I have seen) Speed up your SMF dumps by assigning a preferred SERVICE class to the dump jobs and using DFSMSdfp features like striping the output. We use striped and compressed which makes for a very

Re: Space limit for SMF datasets?

2006-03-29 Thread Imbriale, Donald (Exchange)
As well as allocating larger SMF data sets, why not allocate more? This should give your dump process enough time to dump and clear any filled data set before it is needed again. Don Imbriale -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: Systems Programmer Levels Justification

2006-03-29 Thread Desi de la Garza
I hear you Dave. We just hired an App Pgmr from within our dept. We tried for so long to find a SysProg and could find one. So we had to hire from within and train that person. We are still unable to fill our other SysProg position here in San Antonio.. Thanks everyone for their help

Re: No More JES2/JES3 Migration Guides!!!

2006-03-29 Thread Pope, Lynette
Ed, Have you checked the z/os 1.7 migration guides? I believe that it was IBM's intention to consolidate ALL the migration information into a single document. Lynette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward E. Jaffe Sent:

Re: No More JES2/JES3 Migration Guides!!!

2006-03-29 Thread Skip Robinson
Tom Wasik from JES2 development was at SHARE in Seattle the whole week. In once case where we cited missing doc for exit conversion, Tom logged on via wireless during the session and made some manual updates on the spot. Complaints about doc do get attention. . . JO.Skip Robinson Southern

Re: Reading a Load Module

2006-03-29 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Conley Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 2:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Reading a Load Module snip John, elided you be talkin' 'bout Willis? Rexx cannot read a

Re: Space limit for SMF datasets?

2006-03-29 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:27:09 -0300, Mautalen Juan Guillermo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Questions: Is there a way we can allocate an SMF dataset of 10.000 cylinders? If there is no way to allocate such a dataset, how do you suggest to deal with this problem? SMF dsns still can't be bigger

Re: I/O Retries

2006-03-29 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 3/28/2006 2:52:42 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In a multiple CPU environment, z/OS normally only has a single engine enabled for I/O interrupts. I think this is because the IOS supervisor does a TPI instruction which will test for pending

Re: Anyone Using IBM 3592, Sun/STK 9940, or Sun/STK T10000 Cartridges for HSM ML2?

2006-03-29 Thread Bruce Black
Just a point of curiosity here... I have been out of touch on this and my knowledge maybe out of date. With the new larger tapes there maybe more than the 255 file limit? When was DFHSM (for that matter TMS) updated to allow for these Longer more dense tapes? I don't believe that the file

Re: z/OS 1.7 and Large Sequential Data Set Offering

2006-03-29 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 3/29/2006 12:07:09 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The DOS footprint bit? It _was_ mapped at one time. DS4DIRF or something like that. DOS could happily use an OS/360 volume but didn't maintain the Formet 3s. We used to switch 2311volumes

Fw: Changing Cobol Default Options

2006-03-29 Thread Bill Klein
I don't know what you wanted to hear from IBM. However, if your question is whether differences between these options will change run-time behavior, the answer is DEFINITELY yes. 1) TRUNC - is a compile-time option. Do you do compiles on both LPARs? If not, a change won't impact anything. If

Re: Anyone Using IBM 3592, Sun/STK 9940, or Sun/STK T10000 Cartridges for HSM ML2?

2006-03-29 Thread John Eells
Ed Gould wrote: Just a point of curiosity here... I have been out of touch on this and my knowledge maybe out of date. With the new larger tapes there maybe more than the 255 file limit? When was DFHSM (for that matter TMS) updated to allow for these Longer more dense tapes? Was the

Re: Reading a Load Module

2006-03-29 Thread Ray Mullins
And if it's a program object, all bets are off - time for the (at least) $15K DFSMSdfp Advanced Customization Guide, or parse SPZAP output. Later, Ray -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Wednesday March

Re: z/OS Change Management / Change Control Procedures

2006-03-29 Thread Doc Farmer
Procedures and disciplines only. I'm not too fussed about the programs and code at this point. This is more research for a comparison of application change management versus operating system change management. Plenty of data out there for the application side, but almost nothing has been

Re: SVC screening and locks

2006-03-29 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 20:56:42 +0200 Miklos Szigetvari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :Hi : :If someone can advice: :In the SVC SCREEN table only on pair of lock flag ( CMS or LOCAL) :, but different SVC could need different LOCK setting. :How can I handle this correctly ? Get them yourself, later.

Re: z/OS 1.7 and Large Sequential Data Set Offering

2006-03-29 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
(IBM Mainframe Discussion List) wrote: ... The acronym stands for DASDM Interrupt Recording Facility. The bit is (or was) turned on at the beginning of a long process in which multiple DSCBs had to be updated. When all updates were done, the bit was turned off. If on a new allocate the

Re: TCP/IP (was: Barbaras (mini-)rant)

2006-03-29 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I'm not convinced they needed to wed it so tightly with Unix System Services, but I bet they are not about to undo that with another rewrite. I think they had no real choice. The original spec was written for UNIX, so they wrote it to call UNIX system functions. - -teD I’m an enthusiastic

Re: Barbaras (mini-)rant

2006-03-29 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Dave Cartwright wrote: I'm with Jim on this. I was a contractor in the mid to late '90's and came across the early TCPIP stack, written in PASCAL and ported from VM. As I recall it performed OK, and had some quite advanced features like VIPA which was the subject of another recent thread. The

Re: Space limit for SMF datasets?

2006-03-29 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Questions: Is there a way we can allocate an SMF dataset of 10.000 cylinders? If there is no way to allocate such a dataset, how do you suggest to deal with this problem? Standard VSAM has a limit of 2GB. With an extended format file you can go to 4GB times the CI-size (4K in SMF's case). Or,

Re: z/OS Change Management / Change Control Procedures

2006-03-29 Thread Peter Greening
Doc Search on ITIL ITSM change management itSMF and you'll be swamped. http://www.itsmfusa.org would be a place for you to start You could buy the ITIL Service Support manual from itSMF-US for $US100 or so, and use the 50-60 pages on Chg Mgt as a start for operational change mgt procedures

Large SMF Data Set Allocation

2006-03-29 Thread Raymond Noal
Juan, To allocate a 10,000 cylinder data set for SMF use, the data set has to be SMS managed and you will need to use DATACLASS and STORAGECLASS parameters in your DEFINE CLUSTER control cards for IDCAMS. The DATACLASS you use must specify the extended format option as either preferred and/or

Re: Fw: Changing Cobol Default Options

2006-03-29 Thread Alan Schwartz
I know that TRUNC(OPT) is preferred. But the lpar that uses OPT is moving into the lpar that has STD as the default. When a program is recompiled will it function the same albeit less efficient? My feeling is it will I appreciate your explanation of INTDATE only impacting calls to LE date

Changing Cobol Default Options

2006-03-29 Thread Bill Klein
I made TWO errors talking about INTDATE It is a compile-time, not a run-time, option. (So again, if you don't compile on both LPARs, then it won't impact you). Also, it impacts only COBOL intrinsic functions - not LE callable services (but setting it to LILLIAN will make the intrinsic functions

Re: Large SMF Data Set Allocation

2006-03-29 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 14:13:07 -0800, Raymond Noal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Juan, To allocate a 10,000 cylinder data set for SMF use, the data set has to be SMS managed and you will need to use DATACLASS and STORAGECLASS parameters in your DEFINE CLUSTER control cards for IDCAMS. The DATACLASS you

Re: Fw: Changing Cobol Default Options

2006-03-29 Thread Steve Comstock
Alan Schwartz wrote: I know that TRUNC(OPT) is preferred. But the lpar that uses OPT is moving into the lpar that has STD as the default. When a program is recompiled will it function the same albeit less efficient? My feeling is it will Not likely. TRUNC(STD) says truncate to the

Re: Changing Cobol Default Options

2006-03-29 Thread Charles Mills
It is not out of the question - but it does violate the SMPE approach - to have two sets of COBOL customization on one machine. Basically, you assemble and link one set of compiler options into LOADLIBA and the other set into LOADLIBB. Then programmers who formerly used LPAR A use //STEPLIB DD

Re: Systems Programmer Levels Justification

2006-03-29 Thread Neubert, Kevin (DIS)
This might be a worthwhile visit: http://www.bls.gov/oco/home.htm. Specifically: http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos110.htm. Regards, Kevin -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Desi de la Garza Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 12:43 PM To:

Re: z/OS 1.7 and Large Sequential Data Set Offering

2006-03-29 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:58:00 -0800, Edward E. Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Talk about a digression. Phil is talking about the WRONG bit altogether! The VSE bit that wasn't mapped was x'20' in DS1FLAG1 -- not x'04' in DS4VTOCI. Sheesh! ... Well, ok, but it was a BIT. He got that part

Re: Bringing the fun back to z/OS - new course

2006-03-29 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
there is also the folklore of the contractor hired to do the original tcp/ip implementation in vtam. the initial try had tcp benchmark w/thruput much higher than lu6.2. it was explained to him that everybody KNEW that a CORRECT tcp/ip implementation would have thruput much lower than lu6.2 ... and

Re: Systems Programmer Levels Justification

2006-03-29 Thread Desi de la Garza
Thanks to everyone. Now if we only could find a SysProg... Desi de la Garza Systems Programmer Bexar County Information Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neubert, Kevin (DIS) Sent:

Re: Anyone Using IBM 3592, Sun/STK 9940, or Sun/STK T10000 Cartridges for HSM ML2?

2006-03-29 Thread Russell Witt
Ed, As others have stated, the file-limit was never 255. It used to be (as Bruce indicated) and still is if you use JCL. However, if you do OPEN TYPE=J and modify the JFCB file-sequence you can go up to 32k or 64k (I can't remember if its a 2-byte un-signed or a half-word). But the number of

Re: No More JES2/JES3 Migration Guides!!!

2006-03-29 Thread Ed Gould
On Mar 29, 2006, at 1:15 PM, Edward E. Jaffe wrote: Please join with me in complaining to IBM that there are no more migration guides for z/OS JES2 and JES3, beginning with z/OS 1.7. These _extremely useful_ books were scrapped because some genius erroneously believed that the z/OS 1.7

Re: Anyone Using IBM 3592, Sun/STK 9940, or Sun/STK T10000 Cartridges for HSM ML2?

2006-03-29 Thread Ed Gould
On Mar 29, 2006, at 3:33 PM, Bruce Black wrote: Just a point of curiosity here... I have been out of touch on this and my knowledge maybe out of date. With the new larger tapes there maybe more than the 255 file limit? When was DFHSM (for that matter TMS) updated to allow for these

Re: Anyone Using IBM 3592, Sun/STK 9940, or Sun/STK T10000 Cartridges for HSM ML2?

2006-03-29 Thread Ed Gould
On Mar 29, 2006, at 3:46 PM, John Eells wrote: z/OS R7: Extend Tape Table of Contents (TTOC) records to raise the DFSMShsm limit on the number of data sets per tape to support more than 330,000 data sets per volume. This can provide better DFSMShsm exploitation of new larger capacity

Re: Anyone Using IBM 3592, Sun/STK 9940,

2006-03-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Russell Witt said: Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:57:47 -0600 As others have stated, the file-limit was never 255. It used to be (as Bruce indicated) and still is if you use JCL. However, if you do OPEN TYPE=J Sigh! Conway's law at it's most pernicious? Don't

Re: Delete VSAM file flagged as Open

2006-03-29 Thread Joel C. Ewing
Jim Willingham wrote: I have a VSAM file that is used in CICS. The region is down and we are trying to restore the file but it will not restore because it is flagged as open for update by multiple users. How do you correct this? Normally one would use IDCAMS or TSO VERIFY command to reset

Re: Systems Programmer Levels Justification

2006-03-29 Thread Joel C. Ewing
Tom Schmidt wrote: On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:43:05 -0600, Desi de la Garza wrote: We are in the process of justifying the requirement of having multiple levels of SysProg job titles depending on experience and knowledge. At the same time provide management with information as to why SysProgs are

Alternative to mvsqr, was: Bringing the fun back to z/OS - new course

2006-03-29 Thread Arthur Fichtl
Hi colleagues, snip We are in the process of moving the UNIX apps to Linux under VM, where they can use the other type of processors and save us a lot of software costs (BMC is killing us, followed by CA.) snip I was asked to find out whether there exist z/OS based products from IBM or 3rd

Re: Alternative to mvsqr, was: Bringing the fun back to z/OS - new course

2006-03-29 Thread Rich Smrcina
Arthur, Similar functionality to which products? Arthur Fichtl wrote: Hi colleagues, snip We are in the process of moving the UNIX apps to Linux under VM, where they can use the other type of processors and save us a lot of software costs (BMC is killing us, followed by CA.) snip I was