Re: Automatic LRECL in JCL

2007-10-05 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)
[snip]. I think that all high level languages do the same. And even your low level language programs, such as High Level Assembler ;-) would not normally require RECFM and LRECL in JCL. The program is coded to handle records of specific format and length, so RECFM and LRECL are coded in the

Re: GETMAIN/FREEMAIN and virtual storage backing up

2007-10-05 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)
After a successful GETMAIN request, I will get a virtual storage area to Is that area supported by either real storage or auxiliary storage as soon as the GETMAIN completes? This is where PIC 10/11 enter the scene: You got your virtual storage but it is not yet associated with any real storage.

Duplicate Dataset Entries with wildcards

2007-10-05 Thread Varun Manocha
Greetings, One of the user's have reported me an issue regarding duplicate entries for a particular dataset on the same volume. While I can try and fix the issue (by un-cataloguing/cataloguing the dataset), I cant really understand how the two entries would be displayed in the first place.

Re: IBMLink is UP - just kidding

2007-10-05 Thread Chris Mason
Shane That'll be because, where you come from, Eastern Time, or Pacific, or Mountain would all be the same, I expect! Chris Mason - Original Message - From: Shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 11:13 PM

Logical PRocessor assignment - Processor Weight

2007-10-05 Thread Jacky Bright
Hi, I am using shared processor across LPARS. I need to restrict my one LPAR to 200 MIPS only so that it can not consume more than 200 mips. I am also using Coupling Facility. How can I achieve that ? What Initial Weight I need to assign in the Change Logical LPAR controls panel ? Can I change

VTS Issue

2007-10-05 Thread Daniel McLaughlin
We have the VTS in place and the latest microcodes on it but seem to be having a controller problem. We can only get one controller online, and none after that. We'd like to have 64 drives in it, but can't get beyond 16. We are designating the units as 3490 which limiits us to 16 per

Re: Logical PRocessor assignment - Processor Weight

2007-10-05 Thread Dave Thorn
1. You need to cap the LPAR at the 200 MIP level. (on the panel I believe it's a check box under Initial Capping) If you have 2 LPARs on a 1000 MIP machine, for example, and all CPs are shared, you could weight the capped LPAR at 20 and the other at 80. (20/100=.2, .2*1000=200) 2. Yes, it

Setting Weights on LPARs

2007-10-05 Thread Lizette Koehler
I am trying to understand how weights work with LPARs. We have 1 z890 with 2 LPARS (prod and test) We set the weights to 65/35 for Prod vs. Test Our DBAs said to raise it to 75/25 so that PROD would get more steam. We only have 3 engines They said when we did that it got

Re: Logical PRocessor assignment - Processor Weight

2007-10-05 Thread Dave Thorn
Correct. I was just using the environment presented and assuming all LPARs were IPLed. But if the smaller LPAR is capped I don't think it will exceed the cap, regardless of what else is going on. Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees,

Re: Duplicate Dataset Entries with wildcards

2007-10-05 Thread Staller, Allan
Look for the dataset to be cataloged in 2 different user catalogs This must be done by a LISTCAT for each individual usercatalog. ISPF 3.4 cannot do this. It must be IDCAMS LISTCAT. Try LISTCAT ENT('your.dataset.name') ALL CAT('your.usercatalog.here') either online or in batch. *ONCE FOR EACH

Re: High Water Mark for a HLQ

2007-10-05 Thread Kelman, Tom
Posted by Ed Gould: My experience with Kommand is rather dated. But when I knew it it was nothing more than one or two smf exits and a few cobol programs which seem to blow up about weekly. At the time it had no DASD space accounting. Ed: Admittedly my experience with Kommand is dated

Hipersockets performance

2007-10-05 Thread George Soley
We've been testing a hipersockets connection between z/OS V1R7 and linux partitions. After following the setup steps in the Hipersockets Red Book transmit speeds using ftp or scp have been disappointing. Either our testing process is incorrect or the configuration is wrong. Does anyone have

Re: Setting Weights on LPARs

2007-10-05 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 08:40:37 -0400, Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have 1 z890 with 2 LPARS (prod and test) We set the weights to 65/35 for Prod vs. Test Our DBAs said to raise it to 75/25 so that PROD would get more steam. We only have 3 engines They said when we did that it got

3270 emulator for Mac?

2007-10-05 Thread McKown, John
I don't remember anybody asking about this before. I just got a new Mac Mini and put it on my LAN at home. I use x3270 on Linux, but don't like it very much compared to Hummingbird on Windows. I know that I can use x3270 on my new Mac, but I'm wondering if there are any Mac native (Aqua) 3270

Re: Logical PRocessor assignment - Processor Weight

2007-10-05 Thread Conmackie, Mike
Dave Thorn wrote: snip Correct. I was just using the environment presented and assuming all LPARs were IPLed. But if the smaller LPAR is capped I don't think it will exceed the cap, regardless of what else is going on. /snip Yes, the cap will be enforced as intended as long as both LPARs are

Re: Logical PRocessor assignment - Processor Weight

2007-10-05 Thread Conmackie, Mike
Dave Thorn wrote: snip 1. You need to cap the LPAR at the 200 MIP level. (on the panel I believe it's a check box under Initial Capping) If you have 2 LPARs on a 1000 MIP machine, for example, and all CPs are shared, you could weight the capped LPAR at 20 and the other at 80. (20/100=.2,

Re: Setting Weights on LPARs

2007-10-05 Thread Joel Wolpert
The weights only take effect when the machine is at 100%. You should check the CPU utilization of the machine and the lpar in RMF. If the machine is at 100% and the lpar is at 100% than this most probably did help out. Lizette said: I am trying to understand how weights work with LPARs. We

Re: GETMAIN/FREEMAIN and virtual storage backing up

2007-10-05 Thread Johnny Luo
On 10/4/07, Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote PIC 11 means DAT finds an invalid pointer to a real frame associated with the virtual address being translated. This means, there is currently no real frame assigned. But it can still be divided into two situations: 1. No real

Re: GETMAIN/FREEMAIN and virtual storage backing up

2007-10-05 Thread Johnny Luo
I know that course. I borrowed the hard copy textbook of it from one friend last year. Textbook is excellent but in my opinion, it's too slim compared to the topics it wants to cover. On 10/4/07, Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the 2 week internal course still exist?

Re: 3270 emulator for Mac?

2007-10-05 Thread Steve Flynn
On 05/10/2007, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't remember anybody asking about this before. I just got a new Mac Mini and put it on my LAN at home. I use x3270 on Linux, but don't like it very much compared to Hummingbird on Windows. I know that I can use x3270 on my new Mac, but

Re: 3270 emulator for Mac?

2007-10-05 Thread Johnny Luo
John, I found this link: http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/CIS/tn3270/index.html On 10/5/07, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't remember anybody asking about this before. I just got a new Mac Mini and put it on my LAN at home. I use x3270 on Linux, but don't like it very much

Re: 3270 emulator for Mac?

2007-10-05 Thread John P Kalinich
John McKown of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 10/05/2007 08:19:32 AM: I don't remember anybody asking about this before. I just got a new Mac Mini and put it on my LAN at home. I use x3270 on Linux, but don't like it very much compared to Hummingbird on

Re: Duplicate Dataset Entries with wildcards

2007-10-05 Thread Varun Manocha
Thanks Allan, That was it. The dataset was also catalogued in another usercat. Regards, Varun This is a PRIVATE

Re: Logical PRocessor assignment - Processor Weight

2007-10-05 Thread Joel Wolpert
What type of mainframe are you running? Joel Wolpert Director - Performance and Capacity Planning Shared Data Center Securities Industry Automation Corporation 2 Metrotech Center New York, NY 11201 (212) 383-3323 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Setting Weights on LPARs

2007-10-05 Thread Dave Thorn
Changing the weight from 65 to 75 (in your particular environment) increased the available MIPS to the PROD LPAR by 15%: (75-65)/65=15.3% Another simple example: if you have 1000 MIPS, your Prod LPAR went from 650 to 750 MIPS, which is not an insignificant change. Conversely, the test LPAR

Re: Hipersockets performance

2007-10-05 Thread Mark L. Wheeler
George, FTP is going to be limitted by the speed of your disk. SCP, unless you have crypto hardware, is likely going to be limitted by CPU. I've FTP'd between Linux virtual machines over a real hipersocket on single-IFL z9-109 at over 200 megabytes per second. Just a note that FTP get is MUCH

Re: System REXX for z/OS R8 Web Deliverable - Fixed!

2007-10-05 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 13:27:27 -0700, Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bohn, Dale wrote: OA22774 has been opened to address the missing proc. Bad IFREQs! Missing PROCs! (What's next?) Obviously, the System REXX install was never fully tested. I wasn't going to say it... but now that you

Re: Duplicate Dataset Entries with wildcards

2007-10-05 Thread Gates, Guy
Does this Dataset have an Alias assigned to it? I used to work at a shop that used a lot of Dataset Aliases and when we did a 3.4 List we got two entries, One for the Alias and One for the Real Dataset. I don't remember if there was an option to suppress listing two entries, but I think there

Re: GETMAIN/FREEMAIN and virtual storage backing up

2007-10-05 Thread Johnny Luo
On 10/5/07, Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Storage management is done in 4KB units (aka pages). A segment is 1MB. I got this from Carmine's book and it might be wrong. While GETMAIN does not immediately associate real storage, FREEMAIN does disassociate and free any

Re: GETMAIN/FREEMAIN and virtual storage backing up

2007-10-05 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)
While GETMAIN does not immediately associate real storage, FREEMAIN does disassociate and free any associated real storage and all slots on page data sets if any of the pages have been paged out. I guess only those complete pages will be released? Like what PGRLSE does. My fault. This was not

problem with automatic handling of message IEC534D

2007-10-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi listers, I have a customer who has no tape management system. He preloads 6 tapes on his 3590 loader. The first backup job runs normally and uses 2 tapes. The third tape is for possible data growth. Now the second job starts, but because there is currently the third tape mounted, which is

Re: High Water Mark for a HLQ

2007-10-05 Thread Ed Gould
On Oct 5, 2007, at 8:14 AM, Kelman, Tom wrote: Ed: Admittedly my experience with Kommand is dated also. It's about 6 years old. However, when I worked for a company that used it, the product had an SVC with it. This SVC trapped every request that would cause a change in a dataset's size

Re: 3270 emulator for Mac?

2007-10-05 Thread McKown, John
Thanks to all for the pointer to Brown university. I went there and downloaded the dmg file. It does really say whether this is a Aqua (native) or X version, but I'll give it a try. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative

Re: GETMAIN/FREEMAIN and virtual storage backing up

2007-10-05 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)
But it can still be divided into two situations: 1. No real frame, no auxiliary slot 2. No real frame but has auxiliary slot assigned. Right. If the request is valid, i.e. VSM says the storage is allocated case 1.) means this is a first time reference. Case 2.) means the real fram has been stolen

IBM Tivoli License Compliance Manager for z/OS

2007-10-05 Thread Bill Johnson
We are doing some initial information gathering on IBM's Tivoli License Compliance Manager for z/OS and was looking for any recommendations and/or feedback from shops that might be using it currently. Is it doing what it claims and how happy are you with it? TIA, Bill Johnson

Re: 3270 emulator for Mac?

2007-10-05 Thread Bill Hecox
I remember something about MacKermit having 3270 emulation - Original Message - From: McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 9:19 AM Subject: 3270 emulator for Mac? I don't remember anybody asking about

Re: 3270 emulator for Mac?

2007-10-05 Thread Roger Bowler
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 08:19:32 -0500, McKown, John wrote: I don't remember anybody asking about this before. I just got a new Mac Mini and put it on my LAN at home. I use x3270 on Linux, but don't like it very much compared to Hummingbird on Windows. I know that I can use x3270 on my new Mac, but I'm

Re: IBMLink is UP - just kidding

2007-10-05 Thread Howard Brazee
On 4 Oct 2007 14:14:26 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shane) wrote: Just say Eastern Time, or Pacific, or Mountain... It's just as accurate and you don't have to worry about confusing people. Wanna bet ???. Shane ... Especially if you are in Arizona in the summer, one of the few places that

IXC454I messages

2007-10-05 Thread Chris Burgess
I have trying to research the cause of IXC454I messages when we IPL and have come up empty. We have a test environment where we bring up one LPAR (to initialize the Sysplex) and when complete, we bring up 15 more in one shot. A few will come up completely and others get IXC454I messages. We are

Re: 3270 emulator for Mac?

2007-10-05 Thread Mark Vitale
Others have mentioned the web site for the Brown tn3270 emulator. I use this program frequently on my Mac. It is OSX-native and it works fine, even with custom screen sizes, but it does have some rough edges and bugs. There are a few commercial offerings for the Mac as well, but I have not tried

Re: Logical PRocessor assignment - Processor Weight

2007-10-05 Thread Ken Porowski
Another possibility is to use WLM defined capacity. Set the MSU's to the equivalent of 200 MIPs (30-32 MSUs depending on the conversion factor) and set the LPAR to WLM managed. It will be able to get more than the specified limit but the 4 hour rolling average will not exceed the limit.

Time Zones (Was: IBMLink is UP - just kidding)

2007-10-05 Thread Edward Jaffe
Howard Brazee wrote: Especially if you are in Arizona in the summer, one of the few places that doesn't believe we save time by changing our clocks. Of course, Shane was referring to the fact that he lives in Australia. Eastern Time for them is not the same as Eastern Time in the United

Re: 3270 emulator for Mac?

2007-10-05 Thread Schramm, Rob
John, You might try focusing on JAVA based tn3270 emulators. There are a ton of hits. -Rob Schramm This e-mail transmission contains information that is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended only for the addressee(s) named above. If you receive this e-mail in error, please do

Re: System REXX for z/OS R8 Web Deliverable - Fixed!

2007-10-05 Thread Marna WALLE
Hello, Yes, the SAXREXEC isn't installed into by the System REXX Web deliverable FMID HBB77SR, however, we do reserve the right in the future to ship a PTF to HBB77SR that *does* use this data set. (I'm aware that the current level of the Web deliverable program directory says it used 16 tracks

no mail

2007-10-05 Thread Philip Miscione
How do I set the no mail option Thanks, - This electronic mail message contains information that (a) is or may be CONFIDENTIAL, PROPRIETARY IN NATURE, OR OTHERWISE PROTECTED BY LAW FROM DISCLOSURE, and (b) is intended

Re: VTS Issue

2007-10-05 Thread Patrick . Falcone
You should be able to get at least 32 virtuals online. We are currently running a way back leveled B18 with LM 531.11B and VTS 2.23.38.05 w/FP11 and have 32 virtual drives on 2 logical controllers. Our TVC is 72 GB and so our FC is less than what would be required to run 64 virtuals. I'm not

Re: VTS Issue

2007-10-05 Thread Ken Porowski
CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=A580,PATH=((CSS(0),B0,B1,B2,B3)),* UNITADD=((00,016)),CUADD=0,UNIT=3490 IODEVICE ADDRESS=(580,016),UNITADD=00,CUNUMBR=(A580),STADET=Y,* UNIT=3490 CNTLUNIT

Re: Time Zones (Was: IBMLink is UP - just kidding)

2007-10-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 08:17:03 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: Of course, Shane was referring to the fact that he lives in Australia. Eastern Time for them is not the same as Eastern Time in the United States. Worse yet, responding to the OP's plaint, in the Uniform Daylight Time Act of 1966, the U.S.

Re: IXC454I messages

2007-10-05 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 09:41:04 -0500, Chris Burgess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have trying to research the cause of IXC454I messages when we IPL and have come up empty. We have a test environment where we bring up one LPAR (to initialize the Sysplex) and when complete, we bring up 15 more in one

PEND (was: System REXX for z/OS R8 Web ...)

2007-10-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 09:22:38 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: For those that need it, the PROC is extremely simple: //AXRPSTRT PROC //AXRPSTRT EXEC PGM=AXRINSTR,TIME=NOLIMIT // PEND Is PEND tolerated in library PROCs nowadays? I have always considered it a PITA and extraordinarily stupid that

Re: Time Zones (Was: IBMLink is UP - just kidding)

2007-10-05 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 08:17:03 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: Of course, Shane was referring to the fact that he lives in Australia. Eastern Time for them is not the same as Eastern Time in the United States. And it's winter there when it's summer in the northern hemisphere. IMHO, we should

Re: no mail

2007-10-05 Thread daver++
Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with SET IBM-MAIN NOMAIL as the body. You can find this out by sending a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with GET IBM-MAIN INFO as the body, which is listed at the bottom of every post. Original Message From: Philip Miscione [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Time Zones (Was: IBMLink is UP - just kidding)

2007-10-05 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe [ snip ] Of course, Shane was referring to the fact that he lives in Australia. Eastern Time for them is not the same as Eastern Time in the United States. When I was a kid, we had one analog

Re: problem with automatic handling of message IEC534D

2007-10-05 Thread Dan D
Where is MPFXTALL from ... CBT or homegrown? This exit needs to be updated to allow you to indicate that you want to act upon the WTOR version of the IEC534D message. The MPF exit parameter list has a flag to indicate that the message is a WTOR, so the update should be fairly simple. Dan D

Re: FW: Setting Weights on LPARs

2007-10-05 Thread Mark Zelden
Herbie, I monitor IBM-MAIN via the web interface and I haven't seen your post yet. Maybe it was rejected due to the images you attached (deleted from my response). To answer your question... The weights are normalized to 100%. So 33, is the same as 333 if using 1000 as the total instead of

Re: problem with automatic handling of message IEC534D

2007-10-05 Thread Dan D
Where is MPFXTALL from ... CBT or homegrown? This exit needs to be updated to allow you to indicate that you want to act upon the WTOR version of the IEC534D message. The MPF exit parameter list has a flag to indicate that the message is a WTOR, so the update should be fairly simple. Dan D

Re: 3270 emulator for Mac?

2007-10-05 Thread Howard Brazee
On 5 Oct 2007 06:19:53 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown, John) wrote: I don't remember anybody asking about this before. I just got a new Mac Mini and put it on my LAN at home. I use x3270 on Linux, but don't like it very much compared to Hummingbird on Windows. I know that I can use x3270 on my

Re: VTS Issue

2007-10-05 Thread Daniel McLaughlin
I've gotten some good things to go by. I'll run them by the guy who is doing the work. He knows the values for the TVC and so on and might even know the microcode level from IBM. Thanks for the suggestions to this point and I'll post what happens here.

Re: IXC454I messages

2007-10-05 Thread Chris Burgess
Thanks Mark for the info. I have not tried an additional structure, we only have one now. Is there any trick to setting up a second? Thanks, Chris Burgess EMC² where information lives Phone: 1-800-445-2588 x42149 1-508-249-2149 Pager: 1-877-443-8447 Fax:

Re: Time Zones (Was: IBMLink is UP - just kidding)

2007-10-05 Thread Howard Brazee
On 5 Oct 2007 08:41:37 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edward Jaffe) wrote: IMHO, we should either a) make all time-telling devices adjust themselves automatically -- with some way to keep up with the local policy changes that will inevitably occur from time-to-time -- like mainframes do when

Re: Time Zones (Was: IBMLink is UP - just kidding)

2007-10-05 Thread Howard Brazee
On 5 Oct 2007 09:27:19 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: Or c) set all clocks worldwide to GMT (UTC) and just learn what time of day things (like sunrise, sunset, lunchtime, bedtime, happy hour, etc.) happen in your locality. World sports (ESPN time) may lead towards some public

Re: Time Zones (Was: IBMLink is UP - just kidding)

2007-10-05 Thread Howard Brazee
On 5 Oct 2007 09:46:49 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Marchant) wrote: My preference is B, though I don't see why we should make a half hour adjustment. I don't really care that much what time it is. I just wish the government would quit mucking with my clocks. I wonder what they do with all

Control Program of OS/360 reel tape

2007-10-05 Thread Patrick . Falcone
If you download the iso file from Ken's site you can use a demo from dvdSanta to burn it in DVD format. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

Re: Time Zones (Was: IBMLink is UP - just kidding)

2007-10-05 Thread Gary D. Maxwell
I always thought the purpose of daylight savings was to force drive-in theaters out of business!!! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN

Mass PDS Compress Without Volume Specification

2007-10-05 Thread Edward Jaffe
I've recently put together a service update procedure that starts by invoking DSS to compress all PDS-type libraries whose data set names match a given pattern. These are SMS-managed data sets and will reside on any of the volumes in the storage group. I tried this and got the error shown:

Re: Mass PDS Compress Without Volume Specification

2007-10-05 Thread Alex UMX
Maybe you coud write an ADRDSSU UIM to do that? should be relatively simple to do - provide storage group and a pattern in DD:UIMIN, build a sysin and attach adrdssu. Alex -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Mass PDS Compress Without Volume Specification

2007-10-05 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 12:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Mass PDS Compress Without Volume Specification I've recently put together a service update

Re: GETMAIN/FREEMAIN and virtual storage backing up

2007-10-05 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)
ASM, RSM and VSM all work together to resolve these kinds of issues; it's called Teamwork. If you've validly GETMAINed the storage, you'll never know where the storage resided when you started the access; if you don't validly own the storage, you'll see the mainframe equivalent of Microsoft's

Re: High Water Mark for a HLQ

2007-10-05 Thread Kelman, Tom
Ed: Admittedly my experience with Kommand is dated also. It's about 6 years old. However, when I worked for a company that used it, the product had an SVC with it. This SVC trapped every request that would cause a change in a dataset's size such as new allocation, deletion, and

Re: IXC454I messages

2007-10-05 Thread Mark Zelden
Nope. Just use a different name (it must start with IXC). Obviously you have to add it to pathin/pathout in COUPLExx to be available at IPL time, but you can add it dynamically while your LPAR(s) are still up to verify it is working. PATHIN STRNAME(IXCSTR1,IXCSTR2) PATHOUT

Re: IBMLink is UP - just kidding

2007-10-05 Thread Kelman, Tom
Just say Eastern Time, or Pacific, or Mountain... It's just as accurate and you don't have to worry about confusing people. Wanna bet ???. Shane ... Especially if you are in Arizona in the summer, one of the few places that doesn't believe we save time by changing our clocks.

Re: Mass PDS Compress Without Volume Specification

2007-10-05 Thread Ray Mullins
But Ed, think of the possibilities! Write it, add it to Phoenix' stable of excellent products, sell it for a pittance so many companies could afford it... :-D Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/

Re: Mass PDS Compress Without Volume Specification

2007-10-05 Thread Edward Jaffe
McKown, John wrote: Off hand, without having coded it, I'd say that I'd try to use REXX. I'd OUTTRAP the contents of a LISTC. For each NONVSAM entry, I'd do a LISTDSI to check. If the RC=0 and the DSORG=PO, then I'd ALLOCATE it and then call IEBCOPY to do the actual compress. I think that

Re: problem with automatic handling of message IEC534D

2007-10-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It is the MPFXTALL from CBT. Where do I have to specify the parameter list and how is it coded? kind regards Franz Josef Pohlen Dan D schrieb: Where is MPFXTALL from ... CBT or homegrown? This exit needs to be updated to allow you to indicate that you want to act upon the WTOR version of

Re: Mass PDS Compress Without Volume Specification

2007-10-05 Thread Traylor, Terry
Well, IBM has a STORGRP parameter for DSS copy. Too bad they don't have one for COMPRESS. Terry Traylor charlesSCHWAB TIS Mainframe Storage Management Remedy Queue: tis-hs-mstg (602) 977-5154 WARNING: All email sent to or from this address will be received by the Charles Schwab corporate

Re: Check out E-Mail Problem Creates Message Flood - AOL News

2007-10-05 Thread Matthew Stitt
Several years a company I worked at saw their e-mail system get hit with a similar (non-)attack. An executive went on vacation and set the out-of-office reply to respond to reply-all. Couple that with a few more people out of the office, and it did not take long to bring the company's network to

Re: IBMLink is UP - just kidding

2007-10-05 Thread Howard Brazee
On 5 Oct 2007 11:39:50 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kelman, Tom) wrote: Just try Indiana. At least Arizona can agree on how to set their clocks state wide. Indiana can't even do that. Some of the state goes to Daylight Saving Time and some doesn't. I thought I read that Indiana finally gave in.

Re: Hipersockets performance

2007-10-05 Thread Matthew Stitt
What is the MTU size set to on your system(s)? With HiperSockets you can go to large MTU and not be stuck with the old size of 1492. I believe 64K is not too unreasonable. We've been testing a hipersockets connection between z/OS V1R7 and linux partitions. After following the setup steps in

Re: problem with automatic handling of message IEC534D

2007-10-05 Thread Dan D
As it's from CBT, I suggest you either contact the author (Glenn Siegel) or see if someone else knows this utility. It may have the capability now of GETing the next part of the message when the first IEC534D is seen. After a quick peek at the code, I noticed that Glen has made other updates

Re: Check out E-Mail Problem Creates Message Flood - AOL News

2007-10-05 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 10/5/2007 2:16:43 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Several years a company I worked at saw their e-mail system get hit with a similar (non-)attack. An executive went on vacation and set the out-of-office reply to respond to reply-all. Couple that

Re: GETMAIN/FREEMAIN and virtual storage backing up

2007-10-05 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hunkeler Peter , KIUK 3) writes: OS/360 was a real storage only operating system. DAT was introduced with S/370. OS/390 could run on that

mass pds compress

2007-10-05 Thread Havelock, Glenn A
If you have CA'S PDSMAN its FASTCOPY utility will handle this. Regards, Glenn -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 10:44 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Mass PDS

Re: Check out E-Mail Problem Creates Message Flood - AOL News

2007-10-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 14:16:06 -0500, Matthew Stitt wrote: Several years a company I worked at saw their e-mail system get hit with a similar (non-)attack. An executive went on vacation and set the out-of-office reply to respond to reply-all. Couple that with a few more people out of the office,

Re: Time Zones (Was: IBMLink is UP - just kidding)

2007-10-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 11:36:32 -0600, Howard Brazee wrote: On 5 Oct 2007 09:27:19 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: Or c) set all clocks worldwide to GMT (UTC) and just learn what time of day things (like sunrise, sunset, lunchtime, bedtime, happy hour, etc.) happen in your locality.

Re: Setting Weights on LPARs

2007-10-05 Thread Ted MacNEIL
The weights only take effect when the machine is at 100%. Not quite accurate. All LPARs also have to 'want' CPU. If one is coasting and the other wants more, it will get it (unless capped). EG: Weights: LPARA -- 650 LPARB -- 350 Off shift LPARA is nearly idle Processor usage 100%

Re: Time Zones (Was: IBMLink is UP - just kidding)

2007-10-05 Thread Shane
On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 11:35 -0600, Howard Brazee wrote: China has one time zone. Which (of course) is set for the convenience of Beijing. Pity the poor souls in (far) western regions. The difference is noticeable just trying to arrange photos at dawn each day as you putter up (what is known as)

Re: mass pds compress

2007-10-05 Thread Anthony Saul Babonas
back in the old days we'd simply hmig and hrecall the whole lot. can't say if that still works or not. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Havelock, Glenn A Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 3:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU

Re: GETMAIN/FREEMAIN and virtual storage backing up

2007-10-05 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 10/5/2007 4:43:46 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: initially running on 360/67 machines. it had hack on the side to create a single 16mbyte virtual address space and some simple interrupt handler for page faults. it also had CCWTRANS (and associated

Re: Check out E-Mail Problem Creates Message Flood - AOL News

2007-10-05 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 15:13:22 -0500, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Why would a MUA ever be designed to allow sending an OoO message via Reply All? ... Designed? You're making a rash assumption. Pat O'Keefe --

Re: Time Zones

2007-10-05 Thread Ted MacNEIL
China has one time zone. So does India. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the

Re: GETMAIN/FREEMAIN and virtual storage backing up

2007-10-05 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This has always intrigued me. What was done to eliminate the possibility that the channel had to access a virtual page that had been

Re: Hipersockets performance

2007-10-05 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
George Soley wrote: We've been testing a hipersockets connection between z/OS V1R7 and linux partitions. After following the setup steps in the Hipersockets Red Book transmit speeds using ftp or scp have been disappointing. Either our testing process is incorrect or the configuration is wrong.

Re: Mass PDS Compress Without Volume Specification

2007-10-05 Thread Ed Gould
On Oct 5, 2007, at 1:02 PM, McKown, John wrote: John, When I tried this (a few years ago) it seemed to work. I am working from memory but you can figure out the correct syntax without too much effort. compress dsorg=po etc... Don't specify dsn's. Ed

Re: Time Zones

2007-10-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 22:47:21 +, Ted MacNEIL wrote: China has one time zone. So does India. And Chile has two. And Russia has 11. -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Duplicate Dataset Entries with wildcards

2007-10-05 Thread Bruce Hewson
Hello Varun, ISPF 3.4 will search every available catalog to build the dataset list. I do recall seeing either on this list or the ISPF-L list posts describing an ISPF built-in function that will allow you to determine which catalogs are used to build the dataset list. Regards Bruce Hewson

Re: Time Zones (Was: IBMLink is UP - just kidding)

2007-10-05 Thread Bruce Hewson
Of course this annual discussion of daylight savings, and now time zones, has always been one of my favourite gripes. Working as I am in Asia, for a multi-national company, being involved in any global conference call is always tricky. I keep suggesting that we should all just book such calls

Re: Check out E-Mail Problem Creates Message Flood - AOL News

2007-10-05 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 15:45 -0400 on 10/05/2007, Ed Finnell wrote about Re: Check out E-Mail Problem Creates Message Flood - AOL Ne: Wasn't the original Christmas Worm on VM an OoO attempt? If I remember correctly it was. User 1 had scheduled a message (I think it was a large message he wanted to get

Re: Check out E-Mail Problem Creates Message Flood - AOL News

2007-10-05 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 0:55 -0400 on 10/05/2007, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote about Re: Check out E-Mail Problem Creates Message Flood - AOL Ne: At 23:02 -0400 on 10/04/2007, Ed Finnell wrote about Check out E-Mail Problem Creates Message Flood - AOL News: _E-Mail Problem Creates Message Flood - AOL News_

Re: Duplicate Dataset Entries with wildcards

2007-10-05 Thread Bruce Hewson
The post I remembered is:- http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0108L=ibm-mainP=R50688I=1X=- Regards Bruce Hewson -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the