Re: DASD Response Time (on antique 3390?)

2006-08-24 Thread Shane
On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 13:27 -0600, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: > ... basically found that (all things otherwise being equal), > for a given amount of aggregate electronic memory, a global, > non-partitioned cache was more effective than any partitioning the > same amount of electronic memory. Ever

Re: cannot ping the gateway in TCPIP ZOS 1.7

2006-08-24 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WE have an IP configuration using an OSAE 10/100 base with the following definitions DEVICE OSA1 LCS 0C40 LINK OSALNK0X ETHERNET 0 OSA1 ; ; ; ; HOME internet (IP) addresses ; ; NOTE: ; ;The IP addresses for the ;the LINK s

Re: HLASM macro-call question (assembler list)

2006-08-24 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 8/24/2006 2:06:03 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AFAIK he is also subscribed here. >> But doesn't post very regularly(anymore). -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acces

Re: DASD Response Time (on antique 3390?)

2006-08-24 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#68 DASD Response Time (on antique 3390?) part of this is global cache/lru vis-a-vis local cache/lru. i had been doing global cache management nearly 40 years ago in cp67 ... at the time when at least some of the academic literature was focused on local

Re: HLASM macro-call question (assembler list)

2006-08-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/24/2006 at 02:51 PM, john gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >o the fact that John Ehrman, who owns the HLASM, and his (remote >Australian) development team are active participants. AFAIK he is also subscribed here. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and

Re: HLASM Macro Call Question

2006-08-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/24/2006 at 09:52 AM, "Thompson, Steve (SCI TW)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I am afraid that the problem is what I suspected, and what another >poster suggested, that this (&COND) is handed to the IF macro as a >string and not a "parse-able" line of text HLA parses

Re: EXCP with a DEB

2006-08-24 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
Phil Payne wrote: Anyone remember SQUISH from the GUIDE Goodie tape? An SIO appendage to set the #1 DEB extent to the physical volume? No, but I got a copy from SHARE, and have some major modifications (may call IEBCOPY to compress while copying; use up to eight input volumes; etc.). Still

Re: CA7 Slowdown after 1.7 implementation

2006-08-24 Thread Curt Thompson
Casey, My shop runs CA7 extensively, and we encountered an issue simlar to yours. However, it was not related to the migration z/OS v1.7. We discovered this in the later part of 2005, prior to my migration to v1.7. My Performance Team recommends you look at your Dormancy and Hold values for y

ISPF and Rexx requirements posted for discussion

2006-08-24 Thread Pinnacle
FYI, ISPF and Rexx requirements have been posted for discussion on the SHARE requirements site. Please let your voice be heard. If you did not receive the Email announcing the posting or do not know how to access the SHARE requirements site, send me an Email and I will tighten you up. Reg

Re: USS Mount Authority & RACF - Resolved

2006-08-24 Thread Walt Farrell
On 8/24/2006 11:17 AM, Terry Sambrooks wrote: I had thought I had tried the SETR RACLIST(UNIXPRIV) REFRESH earlier only to receive an indication that it has no effect. The display of active classes had UNIXPRIV on the list. This time I issued consecutive SETR RACLIST(UNIXPRIV) followed by SET

Re: >27x132?

2006-08-24 Thread Eric N. Bielefeld
Shmuel, I had a good laugh over your answer below. What good does it do the poster to know that it is in your bookcase? Although he does know it exists! Eric Bielefeld Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer Milwaukee Wisconsin 414-475-7434 - Original Message - From: "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)"

Re: HLASM macro call question

2006-08-24 Thread Thompson, Steve (SCI TW)
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray Mullins Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:35 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: HLASM macro call question MNOTE 'Send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]' MNOTE 'SUBSCRIBE ASSEM

Put SETLOCK TEST question to rest

2006-08-24 Thread Sail Kim
> But the real question is: what are you serializing? Can you use ENQ? can > you use PLO? Inappropriate use of the CMS lock can adversely affect the > running of the system. Peter, first let me thank you for the education I couldn't get from the book. Again, I'm in the research phase and decided

Re: HLASM macro call question

2006-08-24 Thread Ray Mullins
MNOTE 'Send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]' MNOTE 'SUBSCRIBE ASSEMBLER-LIST your name' &knowledge setb 1 (Steve, did you know that you don't need the return code parameter in MNOTE?) Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmu

Re: USS Mount Authority & RACF - Resolved

2006-08-24 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Terry Sambrooks > > [ snip ] > I had thought I had tried the SETR RACLIST(UNIXPRIV) REFRESH > earlier only to receive an indication that it has no effect. > The display of active classes had UNIXPRIV on the list. >

Re: USS Mount Authority & RACF - Resolved

2006-08-24 Thread Terry Sambrooks
Hi Walt, In respect of the earlier post on: What actually occurs is a security violation on class FSOBJ. ICH408I USER(UNXSTU1 ) GROUP(UNIXGRP ) NAME(UNXSTU1 ID ) 978 CL(FSOBJ ) INSUFFICIENT AUTHORITY TO MOUNTSETUID

EXCP with a DEB

2006-08-24 Thread Phil Payne
Obscurity: Every now and then someone gets named as a "master criminal". That, of course, is the one thing they're not - because they got caught. Real master criminals don't get caught. Security by obscurity meets offences by obscurity. z/OS security is an embodiment of the expression: "You

Re: HLASM macro-call question (assembler list)

2006-08-24 Thread john gilmore
Yes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Two of its chief merits are o the quality of its contributors, although there is significant overlap with IBM_MAIN, and o the fact that John Ehrman, who owns the HLASM, and his (remote Australian) development team are active participants. John Gilmore Ashland, M

Re: HLASM macro call question

2006-08-24 Thread Thompson, Steve (SCI TW)
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of john gilmore Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 9:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: HLASM macro call question Seymour's contrary view noted, this thread nevertheless belongs on and should

ABCs Volume 7

2006-08-24 Thread Matthew Stitt
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Re: DASD Response Time

2006-08-24 Thread Patrick . Falcone
In our environment Shark 800 w/ficon it's 2 ms or less into the hundreds of mic's with cache hits in the 90 - 100% range. When we supported RVA T82, w/escon w/3390 emulation I seem to remember 4 - 7 ms with same cache hit ratio. I also found some old doc from out site that showed STK 8890 with

Re: USS Mount Authority & RACF

2006-08-24 Thread Walt Farrell
On 8/24/2006 9:24 AM, Terry Sambrooks wrote: I have attempted to introduce SUPERUSER granularity by exploiting UNIXPRIV within RACF. I have defined a number of resources including SUPERUSER.FILESYS.MOUNT and given UNIXGRP (my chosen name) update access which according to the z/OS 1.6 UNIX Syst

Re: HLASM macro call question

2006-08-24 Thread john gilmore
From the current (V1R5) HLASM Language Reference manual, SC26-4940-04: COMPAT(NOSYSLIST), abbreviation CPAT(NOSYSL) instructs the assembler not to treat sublists in SETC symbols as character strings, when passed to a macro definition in an operand of a macro instruction. Seymour's contrary vi

Re: HCD problem with CFR-CFS pair

2006-08-24 Thread Neubert, Kevin (DIS)
I don't know what hardware you have available... If you have peer mode capability you need to use ICP for the "channel path type" otherwise for compatibility mode if I recall correctly you need to use ICR/ICS. Unless you want to override the values the control unit and device numbers are suggested

Re: JES2 migration (z/OS 1.4 to z/OS 1.7)

2006-08-24 Thread Francois Paré
I don't need to keep the old z/OS 1.4 system so I think that it is simplest/quickest to do the first IPL in production with the new z/OS 1.7 system with JES2 using the old z/OS 1.4 spool. No need to do the spool offload/reload because I don't have to change the size of the spool. Francois Pare

Re: HLASM Macro Call Question

2006-08-24 Thread Thompson, Steve (SCI TW)
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 7:10 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: HLASM Macro Call Question You need to provide a bit more context. Please do a cut & paste fr

Re: EXCP with a DEB

2006-08-24 Thread Mike Wood
Paul, Suggest you take a look at the DALLIKE text unit which is documented in the Authorized Assembler Programming Guide; it allows a model data set to be specified on a new allocation. Mike WoodRMM Development On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:28:52 -0500, Paul Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >T

Re: SETLOCK TEST question please

2006-08-24 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi Sail, What is the SRR? Is this a construct of yours (Vanguard) that you are trying to serialize? If so an MVS LOCK is probably not the best choice. Best Regards, Sam Knutson, GEICO Performance and Availability Management mailto:[EMA

USS Mount Authority & RACF

2006-08-24 Thread Terry Sambrooks
Hi, Yet another opportunity to demonstrate my ignorance has arisen. I have attempted to introduce SUPERUSER granularity by exploiting UNIXPRIV within RACF. I have defined a number of resources including SUPERUSER.FILESYS.MOUNT and given UNIXGRP (my chosen name) update access which according to

Re: IBM and Oracle must change software pricing

2006-08-24 Thread David Andrews
On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 15:05 +0900, Timothy Sipples wrote: > I have sympathy for AMD's position, but let's bear in mind they want to > sell lots and lots of chips, and (to be totally cynical) virtualization is > not in the interests of a chipmaker interested in high volumes. Well no, they don't wan

Re: Bypass Update of Last Used Date in OPEN (was EXCP with a DEB)

2006-08-24 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 8/24/2006 7:11:16 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >(*) I used to work with a guy who prided himself on >being "clever" enough to program around any restrictions >imposed by the OS that got in his way. Of course, >this always involved APF, Key0, e

Re: Bypass Update of Last Used Date in OPEN (was EXCP with a DEB)

2006-08-24 Thread J R
Steve Myers said: utilities generally verify read access through SAF, and do a data ENQ on the data set name, but they do not actually process the data set through OPEN. While it is dangerous ... Dangerous? (*) Sensitive to OS changes, maybe, but as long as *all* the necessary precautions are

Re: DASD Response Time

2006-08-24 Thread Gary Eheman
David Day: Very interesting thread. Since I read IBM-MAIN in DIGEST mode, I missed it yesterday during real-time. I don't think I have ever heard of anyone considering slowing down response time to make it as slow as a mainframe for benchmarking purposes. Neat idea. I have only used it many times

Re: SETLOCK TEST question please

2006-08-24 Thread Peter Relson
>However, I don't want to obtain CMS lock while CMSSMF or CMSEQDQ is held (ABEND073). And how are "you" getting control? You should have understandings of your caller's environments. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I cannot think of any place in the system where non-system code would get called holding the

Re: HLASM Macro Call Question

2006-08-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/23/2006 at 07:03 PM, "Thompson, Steve (SCI TW)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I need a bit of IEBEYEBALL by some of you heavy weight MACRO writers. You need to provide a bit more context. Please do a cut & paste from the actual listing, showing where you set the LCLC

Re: HLASM Macro Call Question

2006-08-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/23/2006 at 05:08 PM, "Jeffrey D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Your question belongs in the ASSEMBLER list group. This is a legitiamte list for the guestion, and it probably has more eyeballs. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO posi

Re: >27x132?

2006-08-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/23/2006 at 04:43 PM, Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >The 3278-1 had a primary screen size of 12x40 (480 bytes) and an >alternate screen size of 12x80 (960 bytes). That came later. >I am shocked that no one bothered looking in their handy 3276 >Descriptio

Re: >27x132?

2006-08-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/23/2006 at 03:01 PM, "Patrick O'Keefe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >That's what I thought, too, but Googling 3270 "Model 1" results in >several hits showing 16x40. The official IBM manuals trump google. In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/23/2006 at 03:01 PM, "Patri

HCD problem with CFR-CFS pair

2006-08-24 Thread munif sadek
I have defined CFR(Dedicated) and CFS(Shared) channels for my Production CPC and when I am connecting them, its failing with following HCD message: Processor X cannot be connected via different control units to the coupling facility - partition CF01 of processor X. I am afraid I have/can not de

Re: Bypass Update of Last Used Date in OPEN (was EXCP with a DEB)

2006-08-24 Thread Greg Price
Steve, Too late - check out IHAUDA in SYS1.MODGEN. Cheers, Greg -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http:/