Mautalen Juan Guillermo wrote:
However, the last couple of days, the VBS dumped file (output of IFASMFDP)
has DUPLICATED its size.
The SMF records types we write has not changed. In our shop, allmost all
space in SMF datasets is used by type 110 registers (CICS). This has allways
been the case.
Have a look at smf type 99 records, do you need them ? Are they increased ?
2007/10/30, Mautalen Juan Guillermo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi,
We have an automatic procedure that dumps (and clears afterwards) the
MANx datasets (when 100% full). The size of our MANx Vsam datasets has
not changed.
To all who replied on this subject, giving me lots of food for thought and
some good advice: THANK YOU!!!
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Thanks again to everyone who assisted with this, particularly Mark and Peter.
While its true that we could name the exit anything, the IBM supplied sample
jobs use IEFU29 thereby duplicating the dummy name.
It would be interesting, if I wasn't up to my handsome nose in DB2 v8, to
research the
John, You need to run CATSYNCH to correct the status to match the current
catalog status. You must be on a VERY old release if you cannot do this.
CATSYNCH has been available since 1999 as part of DFSMS/MVS V1.5
Mike Wood RMM Development
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:23:01 -0700, John Mattson
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Though in the past I would agree with you, I no longer do. I've
In a message dated 10/30/2007 6:10:44 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
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Seems like they should have made IKJCT441 smarter -- able to
copy/relocate any variable referenced by an AMODE(24) caller.
Yeah, seems like XA Conversion guide circa 1983 would be required
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:39:23 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
Ah, but if the programmer hadn't coded BLKSIZE in the DCB but
left it zero ...
Actually, in COBOL, you had to specify BLOCK CONTAINS ZERO.
Otherwise you got unblocked.
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I'll try again with the possible security / function-loss scenarios.
Let us assert that HSM can recall a migrated non-SMS-managed data set back
to a different volume than when it was migrated (I think this is true, but
not being an HSM expert, cannot swear to it).
We know that HSM can recall a
Thanks for everyone's help.slowly getting this stuff
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The word Engineer is in my title as well.
Unless you are a true P. Eng., you are not legally allowed to call yourself (or
have your company call you) an engineer.
At least in Canada; I thought the US, as well.
That's why IBM changed the title Customer Engineer to Customer Engineering
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The word Engineer is in my title as well.
Unless you are a true
On 31 Oct 2007 05:52:47 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown,
John) wrote:
Yes - and the worst ones are the ones who also insist on being called
Software Engineer. The word Engineer is in my title as well. I never
use it. I'm a sysprog, damn it!
I once worked for EDS when I was given that title. I
Mark,
I'm with you, I like the tree mode as well.
The only thing I'm not really happy about with it is the fact that when
you scroll down to something in tree, then drill down into it by opening
it, and then back out, the tree doesn't stay focused on the spot you
were at. The trees all seem to
Ted MacNEIL wrote:
The word Engineer is in my title as well.
Unless you are a true P. Eng., you are not legally allowed to call yourself (or
have your company call you) an engineer.
At least in Canada; I thought the US, as well.
In the U.S., there is no federal regulation to that effect,
Darren:
Thank you for your excellent work.
Best wishes for you!
Enjoy YOUR time!
Kind regards,
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Best of luck in all you choose to do. IBMMain is a tremendous legacy to
leave behind. Well done! If I ever get back to Tuscabama, Dreamland is on
me.
Regards,
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Ted MacNEIL wrote:
The word Engineer is in my title as well.
Cross-posted to IBM-MAIN, IBMVM, and Linux-390
It's been what seems like forever coming, but Novell, David Boyes and I are
happy to announce the immediate availability of the SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server 10 SP1 Starter System for IBM System z. To provide an overview of what
the starter system
I beg to differ right back, the default buffering is 2, according to the
IBM Manuals. Your shop might have changed that through SMS. Some places
do that.
SnipIn truth, the physical geometry is largely
Unknown and most of the data is actually returned from some level of
cache,
where blocksizes
Chris,
If you're actually getting these, it's an improvement over what used to
happen when you IPL'd systems too closely together chronologically.
They used to either wait state, or go out to la la land and never
report back, load an OS, or wait state (green on HMC, operating, but
no OS ever
started reading and see that for a Anonymous user a chroot is issued if
setting up for this type of user..
any means of doing the same for a normal user ??
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FWIW, from Wikipedia:
Engineer as a title
In some countries of Continental Europe and Latin America the title is
limited by law to people with an engineering degree, and the use of the
title by others (even persons with much work experience) is illegal. In
Italy the title is limited to people
Hypothesizing that we could differentiate these two cases, would you want
us to
-- never flag migrated as an exception
-- flag migrated as an exception only for case 2
-- flag both cases as exceptions
-- have a 2-way parameter that lets you say both or never
-- have a 3-way parameter that lets
Hi
I have configured PSF to print on an Infoprint 65000 using IPDS.
Everything works fine except one small problem with the Job separator.
In order to separate the jobs our print operator requires marking on the
perforation of the job separator page. If anyone has succedded in doing
this I would
On 31 Oct 2007 09:20:20 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Engineer as a title
In some countries of Continental Europe and Latin America the title is
limited by law to people with an engineering degree, and the use of the
title by others (even persons with much work experience) is
Hello Listers
I have reviewed many z/OS 1.8 responses in the archives,..even saved
most of them off for reference. Is anyone willing to share their 'after
the fact' experiences of this 'unsupported' migration path, either On
List or Off List ??
(Note: Many reasons for the delayed/canceled
Hello Listers
I have reviewed many z/OS 1.8 responses in the archives,..even saved
most of them off for reference. Is anyone willing to share their 'after
the fact' experiences of this 'unsupported' migration path, either on
List or Off List ??
(Note: Many reasons for the delayed/canceled
GAVIN Darren * OPS EAS wrote:
I beg to differ right back, the default buffering is 2, according to the
IBM Manuals. Your shop might have changed that through SMS. Some places
do that.
Hmmm. Which manuals? Here are some excerpts:
JCL Ref.:
under DD DATA it says, in part:
JES3 will honor
Hi,
I know for a job step there is a CDE chain (JPAQ) which describes all
modules in JPA (or CSA if LOAD GLOBAL is used). However, for LPA it's not so
clear to me. I have searched the archive and could not find a satisfying
answer. I hope I can get some help here.
My current understanding is
We use an overlay to place a small shaded box in each corner of the
separator page. The overlay is specified in a formdef which is pointed
to by the JOBHRDR DD statement in the PSF proc. Below is an example of
the JCL
//JOBHDR OUTPUT PAGEDEF=SY000L, /* JOB header separator pagedef */
//
On 31 Oct 2007 06:22:46 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Actually, in COBOL, you had to specify BLOCK CONTAINS ZERO.
Otherwise you got unblocked.
I've never tried unblocked. I really don't know what happens in that
case.
BLOCK CONTAINS ZERO is what I use, even though it semantically
I am confused by why I have paths unavailable for only one message size on
my CF. I have 5 different transport classes and one always has all paths
unavailable for all the requests. There are only 6 and no others show the same
condition. This is true for outbound signals to all the other LPARs.
On 30 Oct 2007 19:22:47 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerhard Adam)
wrote:
As for rough transitions, I have to wonder whether people that can't get
BLKSIZE and LRECL straight in their minds are in any position to be
designing or developing anything. This is some of the most trivial of the
snip
The word Engineer is in my title as well.
Unless you are a true P. Eng., you are not legally allowed to call
yourself (or have your company call you) an engineer.
At least in Canada; I thought the US, as well.
On Oct 31, 2007, at 10:24 AM, GAVIN Darren * OPS EAS wrote:
I beg to differ right back, the default buffering is 2, according
to the
IBM Manuals. Your shop might have changed that through SMS. Some
places
do that.
SnipIn truth, the physical geometry is largely
Unknown and most of the data
Howard Brazee wrote:
On 31 Oct 2007 06:22:46 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Actually, in COBOL, you had to specify BLOCK CONTAINS ZERO.
Otherwise you got unblocked.
I've never tried unblocked. I really don't know what happens in that
case.
BLOCK CONTAINS ZERO is what I use,
Hi,
While at SHARE in San Diego, I recall passing someone in the hall who
mentioned they just got out of a JES2 session where an IBM supported
version of JES2 dynamic exit reload was mentioned (was it you Brian?).
I thought I even heard it would be rolled back to z/OS 1.8.
Is there an APAR (I
Hi,
In a series of recent posts entitled Re: z/OS 1.9 Features summary there
was a debate about the default number of buffers with views offered as to
whether it is 2 or 5 with claims that the documentation states 2.
Well there is scope for differing opinions on the default BUFNO as it varies
Peter,
We almost got a z9 towards the end of the 1st quarter of 2007. At the
time IBM Ireland needed to boost it's sales figures for the 1st quarter,
and were prepared to give is loads of software for up to 3-years free of
charge. The z890 we currently have come from a canceled deal in the UK
and
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Juan,
You wrote the following:
The SMF records types we write has not changed. In our shop, almost
all
space in SMF datasets is used by type 110 registers (CICS). This has
always been the case.
Is this also true with your increased size? If not, is it possible that
the RACF records increased?
Chris,
You must be IPLing multiple systems at once to see this. There is a short
section of processing that only one system can do at a time. Your system is
waiting it's turn. If you are not IPLing multiple systems, or the time delay
is
very long then please contact me directly at [EMAIL
Mark Zelden wrote:
While at SHARE in San Diego, I recall passing someone in the hall who
mentioned they just got out of a JES2 session where an IBM supported
version of JES2 dynamic exit reload was mentioned (was it you Brian?).
I thought I even heard it would be rolled back to z/OS 1.8.
Is
BLOCK CONTAINS ZERO is what I use, even though it semantically makes no sense
It's actually short for:
BLOCK CONTAINS ZERO RECORDS
The key word RECORDS is now optional.
It wasn't 30 years ago, when I learned COBOL.
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Too busy driving to stop for gas!
Chris,
Peter Relson or John Eels might be able to shed more light on this, however,
tuning a sysplex to allow 15 images to IPL directly into the same PLEX at the
same time may be a technically impossible goal with current model software and
hardware.
And as far as I am aware, the HMC doesn't
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Subject: PL/S ??
Does a copy of PL/S from IBM exist anywhere in the public domain?
Or would there be
On 31 Oct 2007 09:20:20 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main Howard Brazee
wrote:
Engineer as a title
In some countries of Continental Europe and Latin America the title
is
limited by law to people with an engineering degree, and the use of
the
title by others (even persons with much work
Thanks Gary that is excellent information. We are actually a test lab and we
are trying to IPL 15 LPARs at one shot. At this point we have not be able to
get them all up in a sysplex environment. I am trying to figure the best way to
tune the sysplex to make that happen.
Thanks,
Chris
Does a copy of PL/S from IBM exist anywhere in the public domain?
Or would there be somewhere on a z/OS mainframe system I could find a
sample of the code?
This is what I found on Wikipedia:
PL/S, short for Programming Language/Systems, is a machine-oriented
programming language based on
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Subject: PL/S ??
Does a copy of PL/S from IBM exist anywhere in the public domain?
Or would there be somewhere on a z/OS mainframe system I could
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Darren,
Thanks for all your help over the years and good luck in your future
endeavors!
As one last favor... can you explain why the post I made from the web
interface this morning around 10 am central time didn't show up in
the web archive until around 2 pm central time. I saw lots of other
yup !
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is anyone else having trouble getting into IBMLINK on the web
Good information all,
I was basing it off the JCL manual.
I rarely get a chance to dig through the DS Macros, or DFHSMS Manuals,
or some of the other more technical manuals, which is why I never caught
that change.
However it still is a good idea to try to match buffering to today's LBI
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:02:05 -0500, Mark Zelden
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Hi,
While at SHARE in San Diego, I recall passing someone in the hall who
mentioned they just got out of a JES2 session where an IBM supported
version of JES2 dynamic exit reload was mentioned (was it you Brian?).
I
Gary,
That's great information, thanks. We are not doing loads on activates.
We do all the activates and then loads. We are trying to stress hardware with
this test. Looks like we'll have to go a different direction.
Thanks,
Chris Burgess
EMC²
where information
Mark,
I have a manual titled Guide to PL/S II - GC28-6794-0 from May 1974,
54 pages.
Not sure whether you can find copies on the web. It has examples of
code.
Alan
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Subject: PL/S ??
Does a copy of PL/S from IBM exist anywhere in the public domain?
Or would there
What trick is required to ALESERV ADD an address space to the PASN_AL of
another address space?
I have a job with AX=1 attempting to ALESERV ADD using the ASSBSTKN field of
another (non-swapable, if it matters) address space. I am getting RC=8. I have
tried various combinations of ACCESS=. Using
Peter,
We are doing 15 LPARs at one shot. We have seen the delay as high as
twenty minutes at times. The others appear to hang while this is going on. If
we re-ipl the LPAR with the messages, the rest come up.
Thanks,
Chris Burgess
EMC²
where information lives
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:32:23 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
I don't even think that there is the equivalent of a Language Reference
manual around for it that is not INTERNAL USE ONLY.
It was listed as IBM Confidential - Restricted which meant that it required
you to sign for your copy (on an
Hi, Chris.
I assume this is in response to Health Checker messages? I just
finished updating all systems to make the messages go away. Easiest thing
would be to review your COUPLEnn PARMLIB member:
/* */
/* Transport classes for Large and
Copy of manual at
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/pls/GC28-6794-0_PLSIIguideMay74.pdf
Charles S. Kammer
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Are you key 0 sup when you execute the ALESERV?
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Subject: ALESERV for an address space
What trick is required to ALESERV
If I remember correctly, PL/S has been replaced with PL/AS (and
somewhere in there was PL/X). And if memory serves me correctly, PL/AS
was being used in 1990 at STL. And it was so protected that if you
were
a contractor, you could not see the input source, only the ASM listing
produced (for
My instructions to operations (which has always worked and I have tested
many times) is to wait for this message prior to starting to IPL the next
LPAR when IPLing multiple LPARs in the sysplex
ISG004I GRS COMPLEX JOINED BY SYSTEM sysname
This is right after all the couple data set
I think you need a special ring identifying you as member of Skull
cross bones.
Or you could thy this link:
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/pls/GC28-6794-0_PLSIIguideMay74.pdf
Hutchison, Gregory A.
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On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:33:40 -0600 David Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:Are you key 0 sup when you execute the ALESERV?
A big YES to that.
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On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:17:53 -0500, Mark H. Young
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does a copy of PL/S from IBM exist anywhere in the public domain?
Not a chance. There was a version made available to ISVs for a brief period
in the 1990s, but not before or after. (Well, not under any generally
available
Meaning: Program error. The caller is not
EAX-authorized to the specified space; the entry is
not added. The ALET returned is incorrect.
Action: Verify that the intended STOKEN is
specified.
The above from the manual, return code 8 for ALESEV. What you describe
is what I do all the time,
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 10/31/2007
04:02:00 PM:
What trick is required to ALESERV ADD an address space to the PASN_AL of
another address space?
I have a job with AX=1 attempting to ALESERV ADD using the ASSBSTKN
field of
another (non-swapable, if it
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:10:50 -0700, Edward Jaffe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not sure about an APAR number. But, I thought this was to be rolled back
to z/OS 1.8 as early as next month.
Hi Ed,
Do you know if it is part of 1.9 base? I looked at a commands manual
(web, book-mangler) prior to my
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:57:12 -0500, Doug Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:02:05 -0500, Mark Zelden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
While at SHARE in San Diego, I recall passing someone in the hall who
mentioned they just got out of a JES2 session where an IBM supported
version
Steve,
I agree with TFM statement. I've had better luck using Google. I
got you, I'll just assign a list structure/pathout to the message class.
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On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:23:48 -0500, Mark Zelden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you know if it is part of 1.9 base?
No, it's not in the base for 1.9. Hopefully the apar will close soon.
To see what the externals will (probably) look like, check out the end of this
presentation:
I believe the apar is OA21346. It is for zos 1.8 and above and is still
open.
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Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 11:02 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: IBM Supported JES2 Dynamic
Check out the Proceedings submission for session 2667 JES2 Short Subjects
from SHARE in San Diego. My part was the first 10-15 minutes, and I
discussed our experience with JES2 Large SPOOL. Dave Danner then
presented a variety of topics, including his experience with the new JES2
Dynamic
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:51:11 -0700, Steve Comstock wrote:
If you omit the BLOCK CONTAINS clause, the default is
BLOCK CONTAINS 1 RECORDS. (talk about not making semantic
sense).
It isn't even syntactically correct.
But the original COBOL designers were pessimists. They never
imagined that IBM
This should have been fixed in the access method so it would benefit all
applications, not in the COBOL RTL where it benefits only COBOL.
Fixing blocking factors has always been a performance issue.
I remember, shortly after becoming a performance analyst (1981), my ex-wife
(application
Sure they are trivial - until we move into an environment where there
are multiple DASD sizes with different optimal BLKSIZE needs.The
programmer shouldn't care what disk his files are in - the systems
people should have the ability to quickly and easily move the files
depending on current
How many different DASD geometries are being
encountered today under z/OS?
As inefficient as it may seem, IBM promised (a long time ago) that they would
not change the geometry of disk.
So, it comes down to two BLKSIZES: DASD Tape.
-
Too busy driving to stop for gas!
How many different DASD geometries are being
encountered today under z/OS?
As inefficient as it may seem, IBM promised (a long time ago) that they
would not change the geometry of disk.
So, it comes down to two BLKSIZES: DASD Tape.
Exactly ... which is why I don't understand all the talk
IBMLink is down for the second time today and not a good day for this
nonsense as the software gods have been very angry the last week. Being
deprived for IBMLink for extended periods and after hours is like being
put back into the support stone age:-(
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On Oct 31, 2007, at 2:32 PM, McKown, John wrote:
--SNIP---
From what I understand, you are more likely to get Top Secret
information out of the CIA than get PL/S out of IBM. I don't even
think
that there is the equivalent of a Language Reference manual around for
it that is
I hate to answer my own question cause it means I didn't do enough work
before asking.
I just wrote a program to scan LPDE queue via CVTLPDIA and found that
LPDECHN of the first LPDE is zero and it's impossible for a chain. Then I
guess it might be an array-like structure, not a chain. So I
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