Re: Favorite Service for Parallel Sysplex Aggregation?

2006-11-30 Thread Jan Vanbrabant
Hi Timothy, Re. >Speaking of paranoid, what has been your experience with concerns about >XCF, console, and GRS "risks"? Yes, w've once had a nasty experience with XCF structures being too small & hence impacting the whole sysplex (obviously ;-) ). But this could have been avoided if w

Re: 9037-002 sysplex timer connect with external source (GPS)

2006-11-30 Thread Tommy Tsui
Hi Rick, How did you sync with PC? ar you using 9037-002 ? how can you connect to PC server? thanks for your help Tommy On 11/30/06, Rick Fochtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- > hi all, > Is there any shop use the 9037-002 sysplex timer with ext

Re: Moving LOADxx

2006-11-30 Thread Gibney, Dave
Sys1.parmlib should be empty anyway. It's fine on ipl volume. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant > Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 6:14 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Moving LOADxx > > On Thu,

Re: z/OS 1.8 Features

2006-11-30 Thread Edward Jaffe
Ed Gould wrote: On Nov 30, 2006, at 2:57 PM, Edward Jaffe wrote: Ed Gould wrote: Not knowing a lot about desktop publishing ... Why not .PDF ? PDF is a file format, not a desktop publishing application. OK so I used the wrong term The application that creates PDF's . That's *all* PC appl

Re: Favorite Service for Parallel Sysplex Aggregation?

2006-11-30 Thread Timothy Sipples
Rick Fochtman writes: >My favorites were GRS and JES2 Checkpoint. Unfortunately my senior >management team would never sign off on it for production use. Paranoid >about risks. Speaking of paranoid, what has been your experience with concerns about XCF, console, and GRS "risks"? This is for the be

Re: z/OS 1.8 Features

2006-11-30 Thread Ed Gould
Steve, OK I missed some hidden annoyance that you have against adobe. But it is at least cross platform (PC & MACs) .. Ed On Nov 30, 2006, at 3:02 PM, Steve Comstock wrote: Edward Jaffe wrote: Ed Gould wrote: Not knowing a lot about desktop publishing ... Why not .PDF ? PDF is a file fo

Re: Z9 CPU "too fast" :-)

2006-11-30 Thread Jeffrey D. Smith
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Chase, John > Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 12:35 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Z9 CPU "too fast" :-) > > On the lighter side > > Been getting some change control approva

Re: z/OS 1.8 Features

2006-11-30 Thread Ed Gould
On Nov 30, 2006, at 2:57 PM, Edward Jaffe wrote: Ed Gould wrote: Not knowing a lot about desktop publishing ... Why not .PDF ? PDF is a file format, not a desktop publishing application. OK so I used the wrong term The application that creates PDF's . Ed -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Softwa

Re: DD FREE=CLOSE -- when effective?

2006-11-30 Thread Ed Gould
Robert, The problem I think is with SAS (design issue?) . I believe that with any other application when you get to the the end of input you would reasonably close the data set. But I am guessing that SAS does not close the input until it has completed processing . I am not familiar with

Wisconsin User Group for Linux on System z (Dec 13 afternoon)

2006-11-30 Thread Pamela Christina from z/VM in Endicott NY
(Cross-posted to vm,ibm-main, and linux-390) Register and attend if you're interested... Wisconsin Linux on System z User Group Wednesday, December 13th, 2006 1:00-4:00pm Aurora Healthcare - Aurora Conference Center - Sycamore Room 2920 W. Dakota St. Milwaukee, WI 53234

Re: [SPAM] OA17514 z/OS Message Flood Automation

2006-11-30 Thread W. Kevin Kelley
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:29:49 -0600, Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Too bad the support didn't also include defining IEAVXMIT to use the >Dynamic Exit Facility. That would have made it easy. I wonder if >there is some technical reason why it can't be. > >Mark > There is no technical r

Re: [SPAM] OA17514 z/OS Message Flood Automation

2006-11-30 Thread W. Kevin Kelley
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:54:40 -0600, Matthew Stitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I don't consider it a good thing, since I have my own IEAVMXIT. Now I must >merge it with the one that has MFA into it, or never get to take advantage >of the improvement. I guess I could modify one of them to call t

Re: [SPAM] OA17514 z/OS Message Flood Automation

2006-11-30 Thread W. Kevin Kelley
The decision to make Message Flood Automation generally available was made about a year ago as a result of a crit-sit at a large non-GDPS customer. As recently as July, it was to be a web deliverable; the decision to make it part of the Consoles component and deliver it as an SPE is therefore q

Dec 7 Webcast: Consolidating Oracle databases to Linux on System z

2006-11-30 Thread Pamela Christina from z/VM in Endicott NY
Cross-posted to VM,IBM-MAIN,and Linux-390 Here's the details I received on an upcoming System z webcast: Reap the benefits of virtualization Consolidating Oracle databases to Linux on the IBM System z platform Date/Time: December 7, 2006, 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time Registration: http://www

Re: MB to Cyl Conversion

2006-11-30 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
So I suppose you insist the number of the beast are 666. The phrase following the noun does not change it from singular to plural or back. There is only one number and it is what it are. -Original Message- From: Ted MacNEIL [mailto:snip] Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 3:15 PM To: IBM-

Re: MB to Cyl Conversion

2006-11-30 Thread Thompson, Steve (SCI TW)
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 5:15 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: MB to Cyl Conversion >SAY 'THE NUMBER OF TRACKS IS' TRK UGH! Where's your grammar? Home. Baking cookies

Re: MB to Cyl Conversion

2006-11-30 Thread Charles Mills
"The number of tracks is 1" is correct in my book. Number is singular. The number ... is 1. "The number of tracks are 1"? I don't think so. OTOH, about the all upper-case ... Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL

Re: Effi[ci]ency of branch table vs individual compare & branch

2006-11-30 Thread Kirk Talman
You certainly got my attention. I have worked on a number of speedup projects in this life and prior. We have one right now where we need a vendor to make a change. The vendor will learn about this. Previously though, the two techniques were hashing to reduce the length of queues and the use

Re: MB to Cyl Conversion

2006-11-30 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>SAY 'THE NUMBER OF TRACKS IS' TRK UGH! Where's your grammar? Home. Baking cookies (or dropping them onto your PC). I can accept 'The number of tracks are'! Even for 1. I cannot accept 'IS'! I actually check for that exception when I SAY something. When in doubt. PANIC!! --

Re: IBMLINK and SHOPZSERIES are Both Down

2006-11-30 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:08:06 -0500, Petersen, Jim wrote: >Here we go again. I love these reliable new tools IBM has given us. >IBM please take us back to the reliable green screen. IBMLINK was down this morning, too, then it finally came back after about 1/2 hour. It may have been down long

Re: MB to Cyl Conversion

2006-11-30 Thread Friske, Michael
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jan MOEYERSONS Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 4:12 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: MB to Cyl Conversion >Is there a formula for this ? Also Gb to cyl. >Thanks Here is a little REXX

Re: IBMLINK and SHOPZSERIES are Both Down

2006-11-30 Thread Imbriale, Donald (Exchange)
I just got into IBMLink without problem. Haven't tried Shop. Don Imbriale -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Petersen, Jim Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 5:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: IBMLINK and SHOPZSERIES are Bo

Re: Effi[ci]ency of branch table vs individual compare & branch

2006-11-30 Thread Ed Gould
John,, Could you give us an example, please? Ed On Nov 30, 2006, at 8:13 AM, McKown, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kirk Talman Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 5:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU And of c

Re: Moving LOADxx

2006-11-30 Thread Horein, Steve (HAR-ORL)
Thanks Bill, It's actually my first steps to rectifying a rigid system structure that's already in place. My true end-goal is to keep a single IODF, build my LOADxx member(s) so I can use it between both systems. It boils down to an audit issue where by before I can put it into Production,

IBMLINK and SHOPZSERIES are Both Down

2006-11-30 Thread Petersen, Jim
Here we go again. I love these reliable new tools IBM has given us. IBM please take us back to the reliable green screen. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot Technology Center 1300 Park Center Drive, Austin, TX 78753 www.homedepot

Re: Moving LOADxx

2006-11-30 Thread Choate, Bill
I'm not sure what you mean by maintain production integrity, but if it is to totally separate datasets for your production and sandbox LPARs that sounds right. If that is what want to accomplish I would start by asking why do you need separate SYSx.IPLPARMs and IODFs? Is this a management mand

Re: STDATA

2006-11-30 Thread Walt Farrell
On 11/30/2006 3:42 PM, Shane wrote: On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 11:39 -0500, Walt Farrell wrote: Generally I suggest doing such modelling using a REXX exec that can build the appropriate RDEFINE command, rather than issuing RDEFINE directly. Command !!! - panel Walt, panel ... How am I ever going

Re: Moving LOADxx

2006-11-30 Thread Horein, Steve (HAR-ORL)
Well ! So basically I'm not in a very good position, and back to square one. It seems to me that to accomplish what I want, and maintain Production integrity, I need to create an uncataloged copy of .IODFxx (which is found in HSA) on a new volume. I then create SYSx.IPLPARM on this new IODF volume

Re: z/OS 1.8 Features

2006-11-30 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:02:41 -0700, Steve Comstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Edward Jaffe wrote: >> Ed Gould wrote: >> >>> Not knowing a lot about desktop publishing ... Why not .PDF ? >> >> >> PDF is a file format, not a desktop publishing application. >> > >Right. After I write the course, I a

Re: [SPAM] DFDSS - DISASTER RECOVERY (RESTORE) QUESTION.

2006-11-30 Thread Ed Petka
John, Listed are the cards we use to perform logical restores of our SMS environment. RESTORE - INDD(TAPE1) - DATAS(INCLUDE(**)- EXCLUDE( - SYS1.**, - ICF.** - )) - CATALOG

Re: z/OS 1.8 Features

2006-11-30 Thread Steve Comstock
Edward Jaffe wrote: Ed Gould wrote: Not knowing a lot about desktop publishing ... Why not .PDF ? PDF is a file format, not a desktop publishing application. Right. After I write the course, I actually do produce PDF files for lecturing and printing from. Kind regards, -Steve Comstock

Re: z/OS 1.8 Features

2006-11-30 Thread Edward Jaffe
Ed Gould wrote: Not knowing a lot about desktop publishing ... Why not .PDF ? PDF is a file format, not a desktop publishing application. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ph

Re: z/OS 1.8 Features

2006-11-30 Thread Ed Gould
Steve, Not knowing a lot about desktop publishing ... Why not .PDF ? Ed On Nov 30, 2006, at 5:07 AM, Steve Comstock wrote: This year, I have had to convert all my course materials from Ventura Publisher 4.1 to Ventura Publisher 10.3, since VP 4.1 does not run under Win/XP. That's around 10,00

Re: Z9 CPU "too fast" :-)

2006-11-30 Thread john gilmore
In a perhaps too serious vein, one of the merits of using STCKE values in keys is that they are guaranteed to be unique and in monotone ascending sequence even when two or more STCKE instructions are executed in immedciate sequence. Moreover, UTC date and time values are of course encoded in/e

Re: STDATA

2006-11-30 Thread Shane
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 11:39 -0500, Walt Farrell wrote: > Generally I > suggest doing such modelling using a REXX exec that can build the > appropriate RDEFINE command, rather than issuing RDEFINE directly. Command !!! - panel Walt, panel ... How am I ever going to convince the (especially newer

Re: Descriptive term for reentrant program that nonetheless is not multi-taskable?

2006-11-30 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 06:38:51 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote: >On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:31:26 -0500, Craddock, Chris wrote: > ... >>Oh dear, the thread that will never die. >... >That's NOT what it says in the Program Management manual. >... I almost responded to Chris, "No. This a new unending thread;

Re: Single sysplex

2006-11-30 Thread Tom Russell
>Date:Wed, 29 Nov 2006 06:18:09 -0500 >From:B Sysprog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Single sysplex >We have two separate zSeries processors, each with its own production >sysplex. >CPUX - 2-LPAR basic sysplex with JES2 and ACF2. GRS ring. >CPUZ - 4-LPAR parallel sysplex with JES3 and RACF,

Re: fd_set, select() and z/OS XL C 1.7

2006-11-30 Thread Don Poitras
Dan Espen wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Poitras) writes: > > >> Sorry, I did miss that. Unfortunately your example compiles cleanly on my > >> 1.7 > >> system using the same options except for LOCALE and LSEARCH. Use of the > >> SHOWINC > >> option will show what is going on in the header f

Re: Z9 CPU "too fast" :-)

2006-11-30 Thread Clark Kevin (DTI)
Wow... Next it will be that the job is requiring DATE cards now, because they finish before 2400 hours. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-

Re: ISPF PF Key Mapping

2006-11-30 Thread Steve Comstock
Thompson, Steve (SCI TW) wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 1:37 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ISPF PF Key Mapping Under help / tutorial the function key assignm

Re: Used 7060 H50

2006-11-30 Thread Andy Pesce
IBM should have one. I worked for a company that just returned one to IBM Leasing. We had the machine on a 36-month lease. The company had decided to move the datacenter in one year. I told them that they would not be able to get that done. They decided to go month to month (which I told t

Re: ISPF PF Key Mapping

2006-11-30 Thread Thompson, Steve (SCI TW)
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 1:37 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ISPF PF Key Mapping Under help / tutorial the function key assignments are generally these: F1 /

Re: z/OS 1.8 Features

2006-11-30 Thread Shane
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 04:07 -0700, Steve Comstock wrote: > This past month and a half, I've been updating all the > courses I'm responsible for to reflect changes brought > about by z/OS 1.8 in each course's subject area. Since > most folks don't get a chance to explore the new features, > thought

Re: ISPF PF Key Mapping

2006-11-30 Thread Steve Comstock
Thompson, Steve (SCI TW) wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Imbriale, Donald (Exchange) Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 12:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ISPF PF Key Mapping What if you go into Dialog Test,

Z9 CPU "too fast" :-)

2006-11-30 Thread Chase, John
On the lighter side Been getting some change control approval requests from the folks who maintain a rather ancient CICS/VSAM application here. In "Reason for change" they put "New CPU too fast." Seems that since we implemented the new z9 processors, parts of the application that generate VS

Re: [SPAM] OA17514 z/OS Message Flood Automation

2006-11-30 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:54:40 -0600, Matthew Stitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I don't consider it a good thing, since I have my own IEAVMXIT. Now I must >merge it with the one that has MFA into it, or never get to take advantage >of the improvement. I guess I could modify one of them to call the

Re: Moving LOADxx

2006-11-30 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:51:20 -0600, Matthew Stitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I find it to my advantage to keep SYS1.PARMLIB on the IPL volume. I catalog >it with VOLSER of ** so I can find it on whichever volume I IPL from. > >I also don't change or put anything into it that IBM did not prov

Re: Virtual Tape vs. TMM

2006-11-30 Thread Ed Petka
If at all possible you may want to bypass L1 migration and go directly to L2, even if it means keeping some data on L0 longer. SSM will kill your mips. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send ema

Re: ISPF PF Key Mapping

2006-11-30 Thread Steve Comstock
Howard Brazee wrote: On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:04:55 -0500, Dan Espen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm not sure what you're missing.But key maps are not global for me - moving from menu to menu, I find that my changes aren't all there if I haven't made them there. Try entering "keylist off".

Re: ISPF PF Key Mapping

2006-11-30 Thread Thompson, Steve (SCI TW)
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Imbriale, Donald (Exchange) Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 12:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ISPF PF Key Mapping What if you go into Dialog Test, set breakpoints (DISPLAY, SELECT,

Re: ISPF PF Key Mapping

2006-11-30 Thread Howard Brazee
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:35:16 -0700, Howard Brazee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >What does this do?I'm unfamiliar with keylist, and don't see that >typing keylist off and keylist on does anything. (I called up two >different keys with keylist off and with keylist on) Ahh, I exited TSO and r

Re: Quoting/Attribution (Was: [SPAM] OA17514 z/OS Message Flood Automation)

2006-11-30 Thread Edward Jaffe
Edward Jaffe wrote: Jon, Please be sure to include the name of the person you are quoting as I have done with your statement above You removed Matthew Stitt's name from the above post and my name from the prior one. Poor attribution makes a discussion hard to follow ... Oops. Meant to wri

Quoting/Attribution (Was: [SPAM] OA17514 z/OS Message Flood Automation)

2006-11-30 Thread Edward Jaffe
Veilleux, Jon L wrote: I don't consider it a good thing, since I have my own IEAVMXIT. Now I must merge it with the one that has MFA into it, > or never get to take advantage of the improvement. I guess I could modify one of them to call the other. That would be an issue. I am not thri

Re: ISPF PF Key Mapping

2006-11-30 Thread Howard Brazee
On 30 Nov 2006 09:47:14 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thompson, Steve , SCI TW) wrote: >I have an option line displayed from within HELP, where I can enter >KEYS and change F7 & F8 to LEFT & RIGHT (which is what you want). > > >The problem is, this in house application is based on a program (not >REX

How tell in program if allocation from catalog?

2006-11-30 Thread Charles Mills
Is there a reasonable way for a program to tell if an allocated input dataset was located via a catalog, or OTOH from a DD statement VOLSER? Yes, I could look up the DSN with LOCATE and CAMLST, but it's not quite the same thing (it's whether a DS of that name is cataloged, not whether THIS DS w

Re: fd_set, select() and z/OS XL C 1.7

2006-11-30 Thread Don Poitras
Henry Willard wrote: > > Michael Knigge wrote: > > > On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:31:12 -0800, Henry Willard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > >How about reading the manual? > > > > How about reading my posting? Or am I blind? > > > > > #define _OE_SOCKETS > > > #define _OPEN_MSGQ_EXT > >

Re: ISPF PF Key Mapping

2006-11-30 Thread Howard Brazee
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:04:55 -0500, Dan Espen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm not sure what you're missing.But key maps are not global for >> me - moving from menu to menu, I find that my changes aren't all there >> if I haven't made them there. > >Try entering "keylist off". > >This keylist

Re: [SPAM] OA17514 z/OS Message Flood Automation

2006-11-30 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
> > I don't consider it a good thing, since I have my own IEAVMXIT. Now I must merge it with the one that has MFA into it, > or never get to take advantage of the improvement. I guess I could modify one of them to call the other. That would be an issue. I am not thrilled with the implementati

Re: DD FREE=CLOSE -- when effective?

2006-11-30 Thread Walt Farrell
On 11/30/2006 12:38 PM, Charles Mills wrote: Walt, thanks. I would respectfully suggest that the JCL Ref is wrong and should be changed. Yes, in both cases, the program in question is "the last step that needs the DS" but that's kind of an imprecise and circular definition. I would submit that t

[SPAM] RE: ISPF PF Key Mapping

2006-11-30 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
Have you tried disabling keylists from the ISPF SETTINGS menu? Jon L. Veilleux [EMAIL PROTECTED] (860) 636-2683 - This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you think you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the send

Re: ISPF PF Key Mapping

2006-11-30 Thread Imbriale, Donald (Exchange)
What if you go into Dialog Test, set breakpoints (DISPLAY, SELECT, VGET, anything just to get it to stop), run the app, then use the dialog test functions to see what's going on? Don Imbriale -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tho

Re: Effi[ci]ency of branch table vs individual compare & branch

2006-11-30 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main as well. Dan Espen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Back in my insurance days on an IBM 1440, I was able to > demonstate impossibly fast state lookup times with the > simple expedient of putting NY, N

Re: [SPAM] OA17514 z/OS Message Flood Automation

2006-11-30 Thread Matthew Stitt
I don't consider it a good thing, since I have my own IEAVMXIT. Now I must merge it with the one that has MFA into it, or never get to take advantage of the improvement. I guess I could modify one of them to call the other. On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:52:39 -0500, Veilleux, Jon L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Moving LOADxx

2006-11-30 Thread Matthew Stitt
I find it to my advantage to keep SYS1.PARMLIB on the IPL volume. I catalog it with VOLSER of ** so I can find it on whichever volume I IPL from. I also don't change or put anything into it that IBM did not provide when the system was installed. Since I have multiple systems, each system has

Re: ISPF PF Key Mapping

2006-11-30 Thread Thompson, Steve (SCI TW)
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 11:27 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ISPF PF Key Mapping On 30 Nov 2006 08:51:58 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thompson, Steve , SCI TW) wrot

Re: fd_set, select() and z/OS XL C 1.7

2006-11-30 Thread Henry Willard
Michael Knigge wrote: > On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:31:12 -0800, Henry Willard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >How about reading the manual? > > How about reading my posting? Or am I blind? > > > #define _OE_SOCKETS > > #define _OPEN_MSGQ_EXT > > Both are defined using the following Compiler-

Re: DD FREE=CLOSE -- when effective?

2006-11-30 Thread Charles Mills
Walt, thanks. I would respectfully suggest that the JCL Ref is wrong and should be changed. Yes, in both cases, the program in question is "the last step that needs the DS" but that's kind of an imprecise and circular definition. I would submit that the phrase in the JCL Ref, which I quote here ex

Re: ISPF PF Key Mapping

2006-11-30 Thread Howard Brazee
On 30 Nov 2006 08:51:58 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thompson, Steve , SCI TW) wrote: >However, from the application panel if I hit PF1 [HELP] the panel that >is displayed is only scrollable by PF10/11! I just can't seem to figure >out how that is happening. And since there is no command line in the

Re: Effi[ci]ency of branch table vs individual compare & branch

2006-11-30 Thread Howard Brazee
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:56:14 -0500, Dan Espen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Back in my insurance days on an IBM 1440, I was able to >demonstate impossibly fast state lookup times with the >simple expedient of putting NY, NJ and CA first in the table. That probably wouldn't be optimal with the Unive

Re: ISPF PF Key Mapping

2006-11-30 Thread Howard Brazee
On 30 Nov 2006 08:02:14 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thompson, Steve , SCI TW) wrote: >While pondering this, could someone tell me, where in the Fine ISPF >Manuals, I can find how to control scrolling in a help panel. I grow >rather tired of the PF10/11 being jammed down my throat instead of PF7/8 >

Re: ISPF PF Key Mapping

2006-11-30 Thread Thompson, Steve (SCI TW)
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 11:14 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ISPF PF Key Mapping Does someone have a list of various places that we need to go to to change a key

Re: ISPF PF Key Mapping

2006-11-30 Thread Howard Brazee
I'm not sure what you're missing.But key maps are not global for me - moving from menu to menu, I find that my changes aren't all there if I haven't made them there. I also recommend that you vary as little as possible from the default standards, making your keyboard useable to all. When you

Re: MB to Cyl Conversion

2006-11-30 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Fochtman) writes: > There are similar references for all the "newer" DASD since that time, > as well. But they're hard to find. i would be happy to update gcard s

Re: ISPF PF Key Mapping

2006-11-30 Thread Thompson, Steve (SCI TW)
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stocker, Herman Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 10:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ISPF PF Key Mapping The keylist that controls HELP are ISPHELP, ISPHLP2 & ISPKYLST. If you change

Re: Favorite Service for Parallel Sysplex Aggregation?

2006-11-30 Thread Rick Fochtman
--- As many of you know, to qualify for Parallel Sysplex software pricing aggregation there are a few requirements. One requirement is that you have to run at least one qualifying service from a list of about 20. I'm working with a couple

Re: DD FREE=CLOSE -- when effective?

2006-11-30 Thread Walt Farrell
On 11/30/2006 9:18 AM, Charles Mills wrote: Well, the code is now working and the answer is Yes, the ENQ ***is*** released. I am allocating a dataset with SVC 99 DISP=NEW and FREE=CLOSE, and writing into and the closing it. Then I am submitting a job that allocates the dataset with JCL DISP=SHR a

Re: IXGLOGR and RACF

2006-11-30 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman > > > > > I am in the midst of installing z/OS V1.7 and having troubles with the > >IXGLOGR task. . . . > > > > >

Re: STDATA

2006-11-30 Thread Walt Farrell
On 11/29/2006 3:40 PM, Shane wrote: Does anybody have an explanation why STDATA isn't included in a new STARTED entry if it is modelled on an existing entry ??. Catches our RACF people out damn near every time. Only certain information is modeled by RDEFINE ... FROM, as documented. I can

Re: IXGLOGR and RACF

2006-11-30 Thread Rick Fochtman
I am in the midst of installing z/OS V1.7 and having troubles with the IXGLOGR task. The following messages are issued when starting CICS T/S V3.1. Similar messages are issued when IPL'ing while logger functions are starting and

Re: [SPAM] RE: MB to Cyl Conversion

2006-11-30 Thread Rick Fochtman
There used to be reference cards that gave the formulas for calculating DASD device capacity. The one I have stashed away is for 3350 and is GX20-1983. It details the variables needed to accurately calculate space needed based on track size, blksize,

Re: ISPF PF Key Mapping

2006-11-30 Thread Stocker, Herman
The keylist that controls HELP are ISPHELP, ISPHLP2 & ISPKYLST. If you change them it should correct your problem, or disable keylist. Regards, Herman Stocker avis budget group Phone:1973-496-4847 fax:1973-496-8201 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- F

Re: ISPF PF Key Mapping

2006-11-30 Thread Stocker, Herman
I user "PF21 . . SWAP PREVIOUS " and having no problems. On z/OS 1.4 Regards, Herman Stocker avis budget group Phone:1973-496-4847 fax:1973-496-8201 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On B

Re: ISPF PF Key Mapping

2006-11-30 Thread Carol Srna
And can someone tell me why I get this message: "Line command error"; (hit PF1) gives me this message " A command is already in the line command field." This is after I created this PFKey: :listc ent(/) all LONGlistc I asked this question a couple of months

[SPAM] OA17514 z/OS Message Flood Automation

2006-11-30 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
"Before you get too excited, understand that the new implementation isn't much better than what's been shipped with GDPS since 2003. The MFA code is inserted directly into IEAVMXIT. :-( Hopefully, a future z/OS release will make MFA functionality an integrated part of the system and not something

Re: ISPF PF Key Mapping

2006-11-30 Thread Thompson, Steve (SCI TW)
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 9:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: ISPF PF Key Mapping Hi, All, Having a bit of a problem getting SWAP PREV mapped to PF18. I've previously m

ISPF PF Key Mapping

2006-11-30 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, Having a bit of a problem getting SWAP PREV mapped to PF18. I've previously mapped SWAP NEXT to PF21 and SWAP LIST to PF24 and they both work, but PF18 only returns "Command Not Active" error message. I've updated both the non-keylist and "active keylist" settings and the updates show i

Re: bama.ua.edu mail server blocks my webmail account since yesterday

2006-11-30 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 11/30/2006 9:17:01 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know who else is affected by this UA madness, and >I suspect my >emails to Darren aren't getting through either. > >> Right. Since it's at the domain level, can't send to anybody to repor

Re: Decimal FP (was: vendor JCL)

2006-11-30 Thread Howard Brazee
On 29 Nov 2006 13:37:33 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arthur T.) wrote: > In 1989 a well-known hacker was asked what the >biggest problem of computing in the 1990s would be. He >replied, "There are only 17,000 three letter acronyms." As long as we don't demand uniqueness, the number is unlimi

Re: [SPAM] OA17514 z/OS Message Flood Automation

2006-11-30 Thread Edward Jaffe
Veilleux, Jon L wrote: FYI...Message Flood Automation has been made available. It has the potential to save a system from programs that are looping and issuing WTOs. Before you get too excited, understand that the new implementation isn't much better than what's been shipped with GDPS since

Re: Moving LOADxx

2006-11-30 Thread Edward Jaffe
Tom Marchant wrote: On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:16:12 -0800, Jerry Whitteridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why not just use something like LOADPx for the production LOADxx and LOADSx for the sandbox ? You can't do that. The xx in LOADxx is a hexadecimal value: 00-FF. You're confusing

Re: bama.ua.edu mail server blocks my webmail account since yesterday

2006-11-30 Thread Arthur T.
I'm sending this on to the Listserv because, apparently, Phil can't but would like to. On 29 Nov 2006 22:58:55 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main (Message-ID:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) "Phil Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, I've sent three messages via the email interface and none has a

Re: Moving LOADxx

2006-11-30 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:29:01 -0600, Tom Marchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:16:12 -0800, Jerry Whitteridge ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Why not just use something like LOADPx for the production LOADxx and >>LOADSx for the sandbox ? > >You can't do that. The xx in LOADxx

Re: OA17514 z/OS Message Flood Automation

2006-11-30 Thread James Chappell
Thanks... FYI... APAR in SUBJECT is correct,APAR in the text has a type-o. APAR IS OA17514. -Original Message- This morning, we made available SPE OA17154 z/OS Message Flood Automation. z/OS Message Flood Automation is based on the Message Flood Automation that has been shipped with GD

Re: Favorite Service for Parallel Sysplex Aggregation?

2006-11-30 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:48:16 +0900, Timothy Sipples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >As many of you know, to qualify for Parallel Sysplex software pricing >aggregation there are a few requirements. One requirement is that you have >to run at least one qualifying service from a list of about 20. > >

Re: Effi[ci]ency of branch table vs individual compare & branch

2006-11-30 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of john gilmore > > Tom Marchant writes: > > >I seriously doubt that TRTO is faster than 50 compares on a modern > >superscalar processor. I hope you mean faster by a factor of 10x, not > >by a factor of 10k. The lat

Re: DD FREE=CLOSE -- when effective?

2006-11-30 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
Ok, that part looks incorrect. Kees. "Charles Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Because (as I said in the OP) the documentation for SVC 99 DALCLOSE in z/OS > 1.7 Authorized Assembler Services Guide says "See the description of > FREE=CLOSE in z/OS MVS JCL R

Re: Moving LOADxx

2006-11-30 Thread R.S.
Chase, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of R.S. Tom Marchant wrote: On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:05:27 +0100, R.S. wrote: Tom Marchant wrote: [...] I _strongly_ suggest that you move SYS1.PARMLIB off the IPL volume. Why ??? So that you don't h

Re: Effi[ci]ency of branch table vs individual compare & branch

2006-11-30 Thread john gilmore
Tom Marchant writes: I seriously doubt that TRTO is faster than 50 compares on a modern superscalar processor. I hope you mean faster by a factor of 10x, not by a factor of 10k. The latter is absurd, the former unlikely. in response to my . . . Maintaining/replacing ad hoc code of this sor

[SPAM] OA17514 z/OS Message Flood Automation

2006-11-30 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
FYI...Message Flood Automation has been made available. It has the potential to save a system from programs that are looping and issuing WTOs. Jon L. Veilleux [EMAIL PROTECTED] (860) 636-2683 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Kelley Sent: Wednesday, Nove

SOLVED: Re: fd_set, select() and z/OS XL C 1.7

2006-11-30 Thread Michael Knigge
Ahhh, of cource, my fault... I've specified the "#include-Datasets" using the SYSLIB DD-Statement and not with the "SEARCH" Compiler-Option. So... by coding "#include " the Headerfile "time" was taken from the first dataset in the SYSLIB-Concatenation, which is "CEE.SCEEH.H" - but time.h from CE

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