Re: S30A-10 Abend and S878-18 abend during freemain

2007-12-30 Thread John Ticic
Our shop had migrated to z/os 1.7 from z/OS 1.4. After migration one of our production job is abending with S30A-10 abend during freemain and subsequently the job encounters another abend S878-18 (with z/OS 1.7). When we resubmitted the same job in another two different LPAR that has

SMS ACS Routine Coding

2007-12-30 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I haven't code ACS routines in years. Does anybody know where to find a reference on how to do it? - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: S30A-10 Abend and S878-18 abend during freemain

2007-12-30 Thread Bill Wilkie
There are several possibilities as noted in the 30A-10 abend and the 878 abend but since it seems to be occurring only in 1.7, I would first check that the Getmain or Storage request executed successfully in 1.7 and that the address of the area acquired as well as it's length was saved properly

Re: SMS ACS Routine Coding

2007-12-30 Thread J R
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/dgt2c750.pdf Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:41:01 + From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SMS ACS Routine Coding To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU I haven't code ACS routines in years. Does anybody know where to find a reference on how to do it? - Too busy

Re: Curiousity question: the processing of DD DUMMY.

2007-12-30 Thread J R
Why do so many senior managers seem so know-it-all-ish?? Dunno. Maybe for the same reason as senior techies. You know, like the ones that specifically remember things that never existed. Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:02:45 -0600 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Curiousity question:

Re: SMS ACS Routine Coding

2007-12-30 Thread Lizette Koehler
Ted, There are three presentations on SHARE.ORG on Coding and Debugging ACS routines. This was presented by DTS Software. One thing to watch out for is the ACS source code must be unnum'd. Otherwise you get a strange error that makes no sense. Lizette I haven't code ACS routines in

Re: Apple Patent

2007-12-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/28/2007 at 07:26 PM, Doug Fuerst [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Maybe Apple will patent air next. They can join Microsoft in the application. This is insane. It's certainly abusive if apple means to enforce the patent, but if it's just a defensive patent then it's a

Re: Curiousity question: the processing of DD DUMMY.

2007-12-30 Thread Rick Fochtman
---snip--- IIRC, SYS1.NULLFILE was recognized by the system as a special case of DUMMY. But it filled in the DSNAME field of the JFCB. You are thinking of DSN=NULLFILE. Now we also have PATH=/dev/null.

Re: SMS ACS Routine Coding

2007-12-30 Thread Doug Fuerst
Try looking at the DF/SMSdfp Storage Admin Guide and the Reference Manual. The reference manual has the actual coding stuff in there. Doug At 09:52 30-12-07, you wrote: Ted, There are three presentations on SHARE.ORG on Coding and Debugging ACS routines. This was presented by DTS Software.

Re: Controlling COBOL DDs named SYSOUT

2007-12-30 Thread Howard Brazee
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:46:05 -0800, Paul Knudsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Judicious use of DISPLAY statements can tell the programmer, for example, exactly which record to pull from the input file. Yes, you can also figure that out from the dump, but it takes longer. Don't you have a debugger,

Re: Controlling COBOL DDs named SYSOUT

2007-12-30 Thread Bill Wilkie
Howard: You bring up a very good point. I was thinking as I followed this thread, that when I supported a large group of Cobol programmers that all of the posters thus far had a valid point. At one point we too said there was no need to use the display, or something we saw once in a while,

Re: Controlling COBOL DDs named SYSOUT

2007-12-30 Thread Don Leahy
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:46:05 -0800, Paul Knudsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Judicious use of DISPLAY statements can tell the programmer, for example, exactly which record to pull from the input file. Yes, you can also figure that out from the dump, but it takes longer. Don't you have a

Re: It keeps getting uglier

2007-12-30 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 09:39 + on 12/29/2007, Phil Payne wrote about It keeps getting uglier: Some agencies (governments, defence departments, etc.) require vendors to supply FULL documentationn on any products delivered. IMO that would include the trade secret stuff. Someone needs to find a jurisdiction

Re: SMS ACS Routine Coding

2007-12-30 Thread Ed Gould
On Dec 30, 2007, at 8:52 AM, Lizette Koehler wrote: Ted, There are three presentations on SHARE.ORG on Coding and Debugging ACS routines. This was presented by DTS Software. One thing to watch out for is the ACS source code must be unnum'd. Otherwise you get a strange error that makes

Re: It keeps getting uglier

2007-12-30 Thread John P. Baker
DoD, etc., has such requirements, but there is always an NDA in effect, and the identities of those persons having access to the materials subject to the NDA are clearly spelled out, as are the penalties for any disclosure of the contents thereof. The FOIA specifically excludes trade secrets and

Re: Controlling COBOL DDs named SYSOUT

2007-12-30 Thread Ed Gould
On Dec 30, 2007, at 4:03 PM, Bill Wilkie wrote: Howard: You bring up a very good point. I was thinking as I followed this thread, that when I supported a large group of Cobol programmers that all of the posters thus far had a valid point. At one point we too said there was no need to use

Re: Curiousity question: the processing of DD DUMMY.

2007-12-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/28/2007 at 06:52 AM, Barbara Nitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Actually, I just had a bloody row about a DD dummy statement in the JCL for a new release of a vendor product. It appears that a dd dummy generates a dsn of NULLFILE in the JFCB DSN=NULLFILE has been

Re: It keeps getting uglier

2007-12-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/27/2007 at 11:16 PM, Doug Fuerst [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: You bet Ed. I learned things about diagnose that I never saw written down Perhaps you looked in the wrong places. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: Curiousity question: the processing of DD DUMMY.

2007-12-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/28/2007 at 03:55 PM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Which was a grievous and irresponsible and unnecessary design blunder. No. Who benefits from this special treatment of PATH=/dev/null? What special treatment? It only adds confusion by making the

Re: It keeps getting uglier

2007-12-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/28/2007 at 10:10 AM, Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The most basic description was present, but all it really said was machine dependant. That's really all that they could say, except for the caveats. I, for one, would like to see more detail, Be careful

Re: It keeps getting uglier

2007-12-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/27/2007 at 09:53 PM, Ed Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I could be wrong but I think he is talking about the undocumented option codes that a diagnose could *really* do. There may be many such on current processors, but can you cite any in the 1960's? --

Re: MFNetDisk Hiper fix. Using ASync or FastSync mode, MFNetDisk used excessive CPU utilization.

2007-12-30 Thread Shai Hess
To the people who did not like the high CPU utilization in MFNetDisk. The bug is over! Try it again. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

Re: It keeps getting uglier

2007-12-30 Thread Ed Gould
On Dec 30, 2007, at 7:58 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/27/2007 at 09:53 PM, Ed Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I could be wrong but I think he is talking about the undocumented option codes that a diagnose could *really* do. There may be many such on

Re: It keeps getting uglier

2007-12-30 Thread Doug Fuerst
I don't think so. Unless of course the Senior IBM factory reps didn't know either. I think they knew where to look. Doug Snip Perhaps you looked in the wrong places. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Doug Fuerst Consultant BK Associates Brooklyn, NY (718) 921-2620 (Office)