Re: Lnnnnn tapes mystery

On Apr 24, 2007, at 4:01 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: --SNIP- There is also the poor design of Tape Labels where you have only 17 positions to store the last 17 characters of 18-44 character long DSNs and also waste 9 of them for GDGs when the G and

Re: Has anyone seen that error?

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/19/2007 at 11:01 AM, Vi­ctor de la Fuente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Please excuse me for my English, but...What does ETR mean? Electronic Trouble Report. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: The Sky is indeed Falling

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/19/2007 at 09:01 AM, Clem Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Of course, the Source Code for early versions of the OS and language >translators was also available. The source code for the OS through OS/VS2 R3.8 in available, including the bundled compilers. However

Re: Lnnnnn tapes mystery

At 20:44 -0500 on 04/23/2007, Ed Gould wrote about Re: Ln tapes mystery: I have heard no complaint that the 44-character z/OS limit on data set names is inconveniently large and should be decreased. A long time ago (30+ years) I worked at a bank where the used a *LOT* (read most) of dsns

Re: z/OS 1.8 reliability question

McKown, John wrote: I remember from messages posted here that z/OS 1.8, at least when originally released, was (let us say) not up to our usual expectations of RAS. Assuming that I order z/OS 1.8 soon and so get current maintenance on it, it is now "up to snuff"? Funny you should ask. The last

Re: RACF and Member Level Protection

In a recent note, "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" said: > Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:56:06 -0300 > > >channel programs addressed to any member-protected PDS. The change > >would examine all CCWs to make sure the channel program was going to > >process a member the user was allowed to use. > >

z/OS 1.8 reliability question

OK, another chance to prove me an idiot. I'm used to it. I remember from messages posted here that z/OS 1.8, at least when originally released, was (let us say) not up to our usual expectations of RAS. Assuming that I order z/OS 1.8 soon and so get current maintenance on it, it is now "up to snuf

Re: RACF and Member Level Protection

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/05/2007 at 09:29 PM, Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >The real performance impact would be to programs that do multiple >member processing, No. It would have to read the entire member in order to determine where to set the limits, even for single member

Re: RACF and Member Level Protection

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/05/2007 at 10:54 AM, Walt Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >However, they would involve changes in EXCP processing for all >channel programs addressed to any member-protected PDS. The change >would examine all CCWs to make sure the channel program was going to >p

Re: PDSE to PDSE copy

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/22/2007 at 07:22 AM, George Dranes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >We recently copied many of our RECFM=U PDSEs (no aliases) to other >volumes and I used an old job inadvertantly which used COPYMOD >rather than COPY or COPYGRP. Everything appears to have worked fine

Re: Maintenance how current? was APAR OA16372

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/23/2007 at 08:40 AM, Craig Bakken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >This may be somewhat of a religious question, Is it better to be >right up to the current level of available maintenance or is it >better to hang back a few months worth so as not to apply a PTF that >goe

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/24/2007 at 11:45 AM, Clem Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >In PCP, MFT and MVT, SVC 99 didn't even exist! Nor TSO. Try again; DAIR uses SVC 99. You generate OS/360 with TSO, you get SVC 99. The interface to it is different from what you're used to. >I guess one

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/24/2007 at 07:56 AM, Steve Samson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >My recollection is different. SVC 99 (Dynamic Allocation) was a >necessary element of the TSO infrastructure. Correct; if you generated OS/360 with the TSO option you got DAIR, which uses SVC 99. Note

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/24/2007 at 07:38 AM, "Staller, Allan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >AFAIK, TSO was always a "gennable" option of MVT. >Certainly as of MVT Rel 18 (circa 1972) Release 18 was well and truly obsolete in 1972; could you be thinking of 21.8? As I recall, TSO became ava

Re: CA-DISK to DFSMSHSM

If you wouldn't mind all your test data going only to ML2, then you could either change the management classes of the test data to go to ML2, or if you use some of the same management class for both you could code an HSM migration exit to send test data to ml2 only. Production data could then go to

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

In a recent note, Ed Finnell said: > Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:34:19 EDT > > Been so long, don't remember only that it wasn't fullword aligned as we got > it. CNOP 0,4 made everything happy. As has been pointed out, relinking might > have been all it needed. Also had more fun on the OEM d

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

Was SVC 99 the other name for the DAIR (dynamic allocation interface routine(s?)) or did it replace them? I vaguely remember using DAIR decades ago. Listings trashed/lost two moves ago. In S229-3169-3 (1971Jul no release) SVC32 shows parm of R1-->UCB list but no mention of DSN, disp, etc. IB

Re: Download of Audit and report application

- Original Message - From: "Vinod Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 3:55 AM Subject: Download of Audit and report application Anybody attempted to download the "Audit and Report Application" for RACF from ftp://lscftp.pok.ibm.com

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

Rick Fochtman wrote: --- On 4/24/2007 12:29 PM, Rick Fochtman wrote: Before SVC-99, we still had SVC-34, but the setup was somewhat more complex and far less forgiving of errors. I suspect you meant SVC 32, not SVC 34. -

Re: Download of Audit and report application

Hi, Try this link for Audit and Report Application manual.. http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/abstracts/sg244820.html?Open Regards, Prathap KBS On 4/24/07, Vinod Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anybody attempted to download the "Audit and Report Application" for RACF from ftp://lscftp.pok.i

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

--- On 4/24/2007 12:29 PM, Rick Fochtman wrote: Before SVC-99, we still had SVC-34, but the setup was somewhat more complex and far less forgiving of errors. I suspect you meant SVC 32, not SVC 34. --

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

-- BR14 Actually, IBM supplied a PTF (which doubled the programme size): SR 15,15 BR 14 The reason being bad (non-zero) return codes. (I really don't know if this is appocryphal, or not). I

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

In a message dated 4/24/2007 1:16:02 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: case, why the CNOP? BR and SLR/SR are all 2 byte instructions. So I'm kinda lost about why the CNOP (which would only inject 0700, right?). >> Been so long, don't remember only that it wasn't fullw

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Finnell Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 12:55 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes Yeah, it went away. Don't know when(used to be corpora

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

In a message dated 4/24/2007 12:25:00 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Plus the eyecatcher and the CNOP for alignment. > >> Yeah, it went away. Don't know when(used to be corporate standard). We had to put in the CNOP for XA 1.3. Don't know if it was the OEM disk

Re: IBM donates $25 m z900 hardware/software to Univ of Arkansas

Timothy Sipples wrote: z/OS can now tell you what workload is zIIP and zAAP eligible. Also, z/VM 5.3 can simulate zIIPs and zAAPs without actually having the hardware. All that is perfect for an educational system even if it isn't appropriate for a commercial system. What you've written he

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

Ed Finnell wrote: Plus the eyecatcher and the CNOP for alignment. TCB#7 RB#1 - z/XDC TPUT INTERFACE XDC ===> _ _00F09000 0s (A.S.userid) --- IEFBR14+0, @R15+0, PLPA+1C _+0 >@R15 EQU * _+0 1

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

1. IEFBR14 2. add SR 15,15 3. add RENT (I filed this under VS1) 4. add AMODE/RMODE -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:23 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

In a recent note, Rob Scott said: > Subject: Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes > > Haven't you two guys just re-created the apocryphal IEFBR14 APAR ? > I find the word "apocryphal" well-chosen insofar as the many times I've heard this story I can't recall the APAR's

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

On 4/24/2007 12:29 PM, Rick Fochtman wrote: Before SVC-99, we still had SVC-34, but the setup was somewhat more complex and far less forgiving of errors. I suspect you meant SVC 32, not SVC 34. Walt -- For IBM-MAIN su

Re: SYSOUT Archival Product with Content Search capability?

In a recent note, Anthony Saul Babonas said: > Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:39:53 -0500 > > The SAPster replied "there won't be any more reports." Then the room went > totally silent and we listened to the lights buzz for a minute or 2. He went > on to explain that reports are old school th

Re: APAR OA16372 - attn Bruce Black

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:29:37 -0500, Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:10:20 +0100, Beesley, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Our customer was also running SAP with lots of DB2. >>Yup, I think the bug has been there since 1.7 base; there was some >>change in multivol

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

Don't forget: AMODE 31 RMODE ANY That was an actrual APAR to IEFBR14 !! :-) McKown, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Staller, Allan Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 8:14 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subjec

Re: End Of Service for z/OS 1.6 in September 2007?

>Or have I been living under a rock, again? It was announced while I was between opportunities in 2004, after being downsized from IGS, Canada. Plus, their three-year policy has been around for aeons. - Too busy driving to stop for gas!

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

- In PCP, MFT and MVT, SVC 99 didn't even exist! Nor TSO. Strange. ISTR using TSO under Release 18.6 of MVT. Communications were via TCAM. - I guess one could say

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

>BR14 Actually, IBM supplied a PTF (which doubled the programme size): SR 15,15 BR 14 The reason being bad (non-zero) return codes. (I really don't know if this is appocryphal, or not). - Too busy driving to stop for gas!

Re: IMS/DLI PreProcessor

The CICS translator should do the trick. I've used it for over 15 years. On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:58:30 -0700, Carl Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am in the process of moving an IMS application from >VSE to Z/os. The system I am working on does NOT have >the latest Cobol Compiler, hence no

Re: CA-DISK to DFSMSHSM

Hi Dave, I was afraid of that. Thanks for the confirmation. Thanks! <*BobL*> -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:16 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CA-DI

IMS/DLI PreProcessor

I am in the process of moving an IMS application from VSE to Z/os. The system I am working on does NOT have the latest Cobol Compiler, hence no integrated transltors. I have a number of programs BATCH and CICS that use the EXEC DLI ... construct. I am looking for the DLI preprocessor that converts

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

My recollection is different. SVC 99 (Dynamic Allocation) was a necessary element of the TSO infrastructure. When TSO went GA, SVC 99 had to be there. TSO was available when I moved from New York to Poughkeepsie in 1972. Steve Samson Staller, Allan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clem Clarke)

Re: CA-DISK to DFSMSHSM

Bob, In that case I think you need to plan on mirroring your test ML1 dasd as well. I don't see any way to separate it. Even if the test data were in its own storage group the SMS policy would call for it to be migrated along with Prod unless you separated your SMS environment as well. Cheaper t

Re: Download of Audit and report application

Vinod Kumar wrote: >Anybody attempted to download the "Audit and Report Application" for RACF from ftp://lscftp.pok.ibm.com/pub/racf/mvs. It is not working for me and am just wondering if download instructions have changed since the book "SG244820 RACF Audit Tools" was published in 1996. Any h

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

Nope. Those are not there!! In a message dated 4/24/2007 8:14:01 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SR 15,15 BRR14 >> Plus the eyecatcher and the CNOP for alignment. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / s

Re: Installation of Hercules(s390 Emulator) on Windows

-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aven Brett Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:38 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Installation of Hercules(s390 Emulator) on Windows I tried installing hercules on windows XP but could not follow

Re: CA-DISK to DFSMSHSM

Hi Dave, DASD is shared between PROD/TECH LPARS. PROD/DEV/TEST all on same (PROD) LPAR. Thanks! <*BobL*> -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 8:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BA

Re: CA-DISK to DFSMSHSM

Bob, Is your test environment totally segregated from your Production environment or is the DASD shared? -Original Message- From: Lester, Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 10:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: CA-DISK to DFSMSHSM Hi All, I'm convertin

CA-DISK to DFSMSHSM

Hi All, I'm converting from CA-Allocate & CA-Disk to DFSMS and DFSMSHSM. We're at z/OS 1.7. In my CA-Disk environment, I have multiple L1 migration volume pools. For example, Production data is migrated to L1 DASD that is mirrored to our DR site, while test/devl data is migrated to non-mirr

Installation of Hercules(s390 Emulator) on Windows

I tried installing hercules on windows XP but could not follow the instructions... Can anybody help with the instructions for installation.. Thanks in advance. Aven. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruct

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

In a message dated 4/24/2007 8:14:01 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SR 15,15 BRR14 >> Plus the eyecatcher and the CNOP for alignment. ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. -

Re: COBOL compiler option TRUNC(BIN) performance degradation.

In a message dated 4/24/2007 7:36:26 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My understanding is TRUNC(BIN) was used by a lot of customers because they were afraid of data being truncated when working with, say, DB2 and other apps that use the whole capacity of a binary field.

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This posting has been approved by the list owner prior to sending. There is a current opening for a System Programmer III position here in Tallahassee, Florida. Duties include but not limited to: Top Secret, CICS, IMS and Networking. Please look for more information within the State of Florida's

Re: End Of Service for z/OS 1.6 in September 2007?

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:49:24 -0500, McKown, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >OK, so I'm not on top of things. But this seems like short notice to me. >Or have I been living under a rock, again? > >http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/ > Well, it is the standard 3 years from GA so it

Re: Latest Principles of Operation

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:10:15 -0700, John R. Ehrman wrote: >The new updated to the z/Architecture Principles of Operation is now >available at > > http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/a2278325.pdf Thanks, John. Will it be available as a BookManager book too? -- Tom Marchant

Re: End Of Service for z/OS 1.6 in September 2007?

That notice has been out there for awhile, one of the reasons we have 1.8 rolling into production this month. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: G

Re: End Of Service for z/OS 1.6 in September 2007?

McKown, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Pinion Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 8:59 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: End Of Service for z/OS 1.6 in September 2007? It's a good thing your company wa

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

Oops. I think you forgot the SR 15,15 I seem to remember we apared it at Shell, Melbourne, some centuries ago!!! Clem PS: Others probably did the same. Bill Wilkie wrote: In case anyone lost it, assemble this: BR14 Just hive it a name. Bill --

Re: End Of Service for z/OS 1.6 in September 2007?

> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Pinion > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 8:59 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: End Of Service for z/OS 1.6 in September 2007? > > > It's a good thing your company was get

Re: End Of Service for z/OS 1.6 in September 2007?

It's a good thing your company was getting rid of the mainframe! And I prefer living under soapstone. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: End Of Service for z/OS 1.6 in September 2007? Date: Tue, 24

Re: End Of Service for z/OS 1.6 in September 2007?

> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 8:53 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: End Of Service for z/OS 1.6 in September 2007? > > > On Tuesday 24 April 2007 09:49, McKown, J

Re: End Of Service for z/OS 1.6 in September 2007?

On Tuesday 24 April 2007 09:49, McKown, John wrote: > OK, so I'm not on top of things. But this seems like short notice to me. > Or have I been living under a rock, again? > > http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/ > You have. This has been announced for a while now. -- Mark Jacobs

End Of Service for z/OS 1.6 in September 2007?

OK, so I'm not on top of things. But this seems like short notice to me. Or have I been living under a rock, again? http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/ -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group In

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

Yup!!! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Scott Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 8:25 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes Haven't you two guys just re-created the apocry

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

Haven't you two guys just re-created the apocryphal IEFBR14 APAR ? :-) Rob Scott Rocket Software, Inc 275 Grove Street Newton, MA 02466 617-614-2305 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rs.com/portfolio/mxi_g2 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Staller, Allan > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 8:14 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes > > > Nope, > > The actual code is:

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

Nope, The actual code is: SR15,15 BRR14 Bill Wilkie wrote: In case anyone lost it, assemble this: BR14 Just hive it a name. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAI

Re: IEFSSNxx Question

Lizette, Great explanation and just enough to keep from confusing me. Thank you. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the a

Re: Lnnnnn tapes mystery

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:48:54 -0700, Schwarz, Barry A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Don't your emergency IPL tapes (e.g., SADUMP or DFDSS) need to be >non-labeled? > No. You can hit load 5 times to get past the labels. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zuric

BR14 APAR 1 (was Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes)

-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Wilkie Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 7:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes In case anyone lost it, assemble this: BR14 Just

Re: IBM donates $25 m z900 hardware/software to Univ of Arkansas

What large corporation is located right down the highway from the University of Arkansas? (hint: Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas.) What large corporation in northwest Arkansas has a large z/OS installation? What large corporation will have access to the finest z

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

In case anyone lost it, assemble this: BR14 Just hive it a name. Bill From: "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:08:41

Re: Lnnnnn tapes mystery

-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 7:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Ln tapes mystery In a recent note, Ed Gould said: > Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:56:24 -0500 >

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clem Clarke) writes: > > >>In PCP, MFT and MVT, SVC 99 didn't even exist! Nor TSO. >> >> > > > Yep. TSO was, as I recall, *added* to MVT somewhere along the line. And SVC 99 was not used, again, as I recall. That came with MVS or maybe VS2? AFAIK, TSO was always

Re: COBOL compiler option TRUNC(BIN) performance degradation.

Peter Nuttall wrote: Hi IBM-Main, I read somewhere that there have been some major performance improvements to the use of the TRUNC(BIN) compiler option. ENTERPRISE COBOL FOR Z/OS 3.3.1 and ENTERPRISE COBOL FOR Z/OS 3.4.0 Does anyone have any information on this ? ... Most of the info

Re: IBM donates $25 m z900 hardware/software to Univ of Arkansas

Timothy Sipples wrote: Ed Finnell writes: Wonder why they went with z900? No zIIPs or zAAPs. Maybe for the price they just added another couple CPUs and let VM figure it out. The z900 is not at all surprising (and likely does not represent the bulk of the donation's value). A z900 c

Re: IEFSSNxx Question

The IRLMs are identified by what your DB2 SYS PROG requests and is specific to your shop standards. So the IRLP or JRLP would be something unique to your shop and it is possible no one else would use that convention. You will need to contact the person that installs DB2 at your shop to get a bett

IEFSSNxx Question

We are testing 1.7 and getting ready to go. While messing around with DB2 we had an issue with the region coming up until we added IRLx and JRLx entries in the IEFSSN00 subsystem names. I'm not a DB2 type, nor do I completely understand all the relationships such as IRLP/JRLP for a production D

Re: Lnnnnn tapes mystery

I have never IPLed SAD off anything but disk. For the other things you can IPL from a tape unit like FDR, DFDSS, ZZSA you can just repeat the IPL function till you get past the labels to the program. I always kept the FDR install tape in the computer room for just that reason as it was a ready ma

COBOL compiler option TRUNC(BIN) performance degradation.

Hi IBM-Main, I read somewhere that there have been some major performance improvements to the use of the TRUNC(BIN) compiler option. ENTERPRISE COBOL FOR Z/OS 3.3.1 and ENTERPRISE COBOL FOR Z/OS 3.4.0 Does anyone have any information on this ? ... The background on this is we are undergoin

Re: How to determine if an ALIAS is being used

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/20/2007 at 09:48 AM, Jack Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I'm surprised that smf14 doesn't have the alias name, Why would you expect the SMF 14 record to have the alias? The JFCB should contain the true name after allocation. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, S

Download of Audit and report application

Anybody attempted to download the "Audit and Report Application" for RACF from ftp://lscftp.pok.ibm.com/pub/racf/mvs. It is not working for me and am just wondering if download instructions have changed since the book "SG244820 RACF Audit Tools" was published in 1996. Any help will be appreciated.

Re: Lnnnnn tapes mystery

Don't your emergency IPL tapes (e.g., SADUMP or DFDSS) need to be non-labeled? -Original Message- From: Tim Hare [mailto:snip] Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 7:07 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Ln tapes mystery Is there ever really a reason for using NL tape, these days? I ma