(IBM Mainframe Discussion List) wrote:
In a message dated 2/7/2008 12:27:49 A.M. Central Standard Time,
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I believe someone on here said that the DOD said 15 writes over the
data set was good enough.
The latest (JUN 2001) DOD specification that I read on the Int
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> >> I believe someone on here said that the DOD said 15 writes over the
Van Dalsen, Herbie wrote:
On this note... We have about 5000 Double-(blue) and 3000 triple
density(green) Carts, due to the sensitivity of the data on them,
company policy prohibits us from transporting them to the mother ship
who is in the process to devouring us, even though they are encrypted
R.,
1. JCL EXEC ...,PARM='parameter'
Can I read data from PARM field in EXEC statement ?
Any ACCEPT ?
It is accessible from the LINKAGE-SECTION:
LINKAGE SECTION.
01 PARM.
05 PARM-LENGTHPIC 9(4) COMP.
05 PARM-STRINGPIC X(999).
PROCEDURE DIVISION USING PARM.
A00-BEGINN.
Both questions regard COBOL
1. JCL EXEC ...,PARM='parameter'
Can I read data from PARM field in EXEC statement ?
Any ACCEPT ?
2. Dynamic allocation
Can I use permanent dataset without DDNAME ?
In other words can I specify dataset name instead of ddname ?
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On this note... We have about 5000 Double-(blue) and 3000 triple
density(green) Carts, due to the sensitivity of the data on them,
company policy prohibits us from transporting them to the mother ship
who is in the process to devouring us, even though they are encrypted,
so how do you destroy them
David, Even if it is ASM, would he not need the DD to read a permanent
dataset ?
He can still use a constant DD in COBOL and do dynalloc using bpxwdyn,
putenv or TSO ALLOC against the dataset, then read that DD, correct ?
-Gani
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 05:39:18 -0700, David Logan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
We purchased a degaussing machine and run the tapes through it, a lot fast
then trying to erase w/ drives
you can rent one also, we did 3490E carts when we went to 3590's so there
was not a market for the carts
so we crushed them afterwards in our compactor
http://www.datalinkassoc.com/products/d
On Feb 8, 2008, at 2:36 AM, R.S. wrote:
SNIP-
Gentlemen,
Don't you think, the "magic numbers" of the rewrites comes from
voodoo (or black magic) rather than from technological reasons ?
Any disk taken (stolen) from DASD array contains
Sam,
Thanks for the detailed post. Funny, the other day when I was jumping
though hoops [1] to get RSV working IBM L2 never mentioned AOS.
So I don't leave anyone out... Thanks to everyone else who responded
on IBM-MAIN and off list.
I had never even heard of AOS before (nor anyone else
The idea of massive volumes is intriguing, but my concern would be
backup/restore. On some our non-z platforms we have huge volumes many times
the size of 3390-3. When one of them went south a while back, it took hours
and hours to get it restored. With RAID arrays, of course, that's not
supposed t
If I have a machine with 2 processors, and 2 lpars, with each LPAR assigned
one of the processors, does each MVS image on each LPAR run with a processor
starting at 0, or does one MVS run with 0, and the other with a processor 1,
skipping 0? Have always been curios about this, but can't fin
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Both questions regard COBOL
1. JCL EXEC ...,PARM='parameter'
Can I read data from PARM field in EXEC statement ?
Any ACCEPT ?
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Can't answer; never learned COBOL.
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2. Dynamic alloc
You can pass the File-Name itself on a call to a subprogram, and this will
expose the FCB to the subprogram, however I would guess this is protected
storage and wouldn't let the program change any of the values.
As it doesn't expose the DCB I don't think you could use this to dynamically
change
On 7 Feb 2008 14:51:15 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>AOS works fine instead of RSVF for us.
>You can open a PMR or better just ask Level-2 to test this with you the
>next time you have a PMR active for something else. The IBM folks may
>enjoy the practice too some don't use i
I am attempting to IPL our test system - which is being upgraded to z/OS 1.7
(Prod is at 1.4) - I know 1.7 won't last long before it has to be upgraded
again.
I have just taken over this system from a colleague who has done most of the
SeverPac install - and now passed it on to me.
Soon after IPL
During IPL all unit addresses not marked as offline will be scanned by the
NIP routines. If a device is not available (maybe a hardware reserve) you
will get that message.
As you have seen, replying CONT will cause NIP to take the device offline.
For you, it appears to be non-problematic.
As to
This has been cross posted to the MXG list.
At the end of last year I was asked to determine what would be practical
soft caps for our LPARs. We are currently at z/OS v1.7 so we can't cap
at the CEC level yet. Of course, the reason for the cap was to keep
software costs down, especially for t
Have you checked to make sure that volume is not in your JESPARMS. Have
you checked VATLSTxx to see if and how that volume is being mounted.
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"Eatherly, John D [EQ]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
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Date:
02/08/2008 01:32 PM
Subject:
Re: Unable to complete IPL - message IOS12
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:37:24 -0600, Nigel Wolfendale wrote:
>
>Soon after IPL we get the message:
>
>*01 IOS120D I/O TIMED OUT FOR DEVICE 044D. REPLY 'WAIT'
>FOR I/O COMPLETION OR 'CONT' TO CONTINUE WITH DEVICE OFFLINE
>
>As the manual indicates, if we reply 'WAIT', the message reappears, and
>reply
Lots of replies - with varying degrees of accuracy and current COBOL support
usefulness. However, both of these are easy and well documented in current
native COBOL.
For getting the PARM string (no matter its length), use the LE callable
service CEE3PR2. See:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-
Kelman, Tom wrote:
Now, after that explanation, my question. Has anybody had to cap their
machine by LPAR like this? If so, do you insure that the individual
caps would add up to some sort of specified limit, or did you set them a
little higher realizing that they probably wouldn't hit the max
If I'm remembering correctly it depends on how you define it in the HMC.
Pat Mihalec
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Can that device be reserved by another system? Check that.
Thanks
John Eatherly
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Subject: Unable to complete IP
Are there any outstanding replies? I would think that if there is an
issue with that volume being offline, there should be a 'reply device
name or cancel' outstanding.
Also, how did you start JES2. If you started it without the noreq parm,
then you will have to issue the $S command after the S
Darren,
Yes you can I do it all the time, Do you want an example..??
Regards,
Scott Ford
IDF
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I am just now looking at this. I have a Escon CTC between my two z/OS
1.8 images. It is currently used for VTAM cross domain. I funnel my NJE
traffic between the two images on this. Oh, these two images are on the
same physical box. I also have IP connectivity between them via OSAs. I
am considerin
Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 09:33:48 -0500, Thompson, Steve wrote:
Did you try or ?
Instead of RESET? RESET seems to be the only thing that has any
effect while the keyboard is locked. (I realize this is getting
into terminal emulator idiosyncrasies and VTAMicity.) In
May I ask, just for helping me to understand, why one wouldn't do this to keep
software costs down?
I'm still, after a long time studying (in a vaccuum) trying to understand all
this, so that may be a dumb question. Also I may be mixing up "soft capping"
with "resource group capping".
Lindy
Skip,
On FICON it would be reasonable to expect to get 50MB/sec to and from your
Disk and tape drives. I know FICON can go faster (I've run 377MB/sec through
a FX4 port), but you'll normally have to share with all the other traffic in
the SAN, disk, and tape units. 50MB/sec would be a reasonable n
McKown, John wrote:
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[snip]
call 'putenv' using by value file-ptr ret
Edward Jaffe wrote:
RESET is just a local 3270 key. It sends no message to the host nor
can it effect the state of a half-duplex SNA LU2 session.
Oops. Should have written "affect the state of ..." :-[
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Los Ang
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 09:33:48 -0500, Thompson, Steve wrote:
>>
>I did this quite by accident this afternoon -- bad finger fumble.
>And I watched while the progress bar began to creep across the window
>with aching slowness. Curses! But wait; there appears to be an escape:
>the key legend at the bot
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[snip]
>
>call 'putenv' using by value file-ptr returning rc
> My question is how (if any) do I check whether or not any specific
> EC/MCL requires a specific level of z/OS or specific PTFs?
The only time I was in such a position was when we had a R14 with
overdue service... The engineer that proposed the microcode was able to
supply me with all the necess
Sure, but you can have DYNALLOC do either of two things:
(1) You specify your own DD name, or
(2) Allow DYNALLOC to generate the DD name for you
Because COBOL likes static DD names, you can specify the dataset name, and
ask it to relate it to a DD name that you then specify in your FD.
Da
In a message dated 2/8/2008 3:45:21 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>On FICON it would be reasonable to expect to get 50MB/sec to and from your
Disk and tape drives.
...
>So 54,000MB at 50MB/sec is 1080 seconds, or 18 minutes.
I may be wrong, but I think backup/archiv
>May I ask, just for helping me to understand, why one wouldn't do this to keep
>software costs down?
If it's valid, it's a good choice.
But, sometimes you screw up performance/throughput and project deliverables.
This is also a cost item.
The issue is to determine which is the more effective alt
Greetings folks,
I wrote an application some years ago to pull LPAR utilization data off the
system in real time - using the CMS Pipelines STARMON stage, which connects
to z/VM's *MONITOR service. The IFL this runs on is being shut down so the
functionality needs to move to z/OS. I can see that I
"R.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Van Dalsen, Herbie wrote:
> > On this note... We have about 5000 Double-(blue) and 3000 triple
> > density(green) Carts, due to the sensitivity of the data on them,
> > company policy prohibits us from transporting them to t
Per question #2, look up DYNALLOC. I don't know if there are any COBOL calls
for it, but you can write a routine in C/C++, PLI, ASM or just about any
other language to make an SVC 99 call.
David Logan
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R.S. wrote:
>Both questions regard COBOL
>
>1. JCL EXEC ...,PARM='parameter'
>Can I read data from PARM field in EXEC statement ?
>Any ACCEPT ?
Yes! This example accept a numeric parameter of 2 digits. This example is
used to accept a number 1-12 (month) and give a RC based on input. If no
para
R.S. wrote:
Both questions regard COBOL
1. JCL EXEC ...,PARM='parameter'
Can I read data from PARM field in EXEC statement ?
Any ACCEPT ?
2. Dynamic allocation
Can I use permanent dataset without DDNAME ?
In other words can I specify dataset name instead of ddname ?
I see you got a nice clea
Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM wrote:
[...]
We degaused some 5000 cartridges years ago before selling them to a
broker as used cartridges. Degausing erases the data, including the
label, so the tapes must be reinitialized but that is all.
Not in this case. 3590's are *unusable* after degaussing. The sam
Mark,
I suppose that you have already got the answers that you wanted, This is
just an alternate idea.
When we initialized our Shark array's in 2004, we create a few with 1113
cylinders, a few 10017 and most 3339 cylinders.
The last two we installed, we had mainly 32760 Cylinder volumes, about
1
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>
> Both questions regard COBOL
>
> 1. JCL EXEC ...,PARM='parameter'
> Can I rea
the other possible culprit i forgot to mention was Websphere App server
6.0.
even though the same error occurred after WAS was taken down, it might
have left some residual side effects. the z/os 1.7 lpar where
TOMCAT/JBOSS does work does not run Websphere App server (just HTTP
server) and the z/os
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 13:36:08 -0800, Ron Hawkins
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>...
>I don't recall the differences, but as long as I can remember
>the way to cancel most things in TSO was to "reset then PA1"
>or "Reset then ATTN" This was on real CRT and emulators.
>
>I don't recall RESET alone doi
Oh, I forgot the CEEOPTS DD statememt for specifying LE options. You can
use that if you need to exceed the 120 character PARM= length.
//CEEOPTS DD *
ENVAR('DD1=DSN(MY.SEQ.DSN) SHR','DD2=DSN(MY.PDS(MEMBER)) SHR')
/*
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Just a little nitpicking - enclave SRBs for distributed threads are in DIST
but the executable code for SQL and V9 native stored procedures resides in
DBM1. Off course it's all charged to the SRB ( thus to DIST ).
Mohammad
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 19:17:28 -0500, Wayne Driscoll
<[EMAIL P
H - if you can't ship them, what's the point of encrypting them. I guess
they could get stolen from your site. Why can't you ship them? That says to
me you don't believe the encryption is very safe or effective!
When I was at P&H and they decommissioned our z/OS datacenter almost 2 year
In a message dated 2/8/2008 12:59:35 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
some adjustments to the IODF to ensure that only the correct volumes are
online at IPL time -- and that you have all the volumes that you need
>>
I'd scan parmlibs for the volser then sort the membe
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Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 7:55 PM
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Subject: Re: Why isn't OMVS command integrated with ISPF?
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:15:35 +0100, Lindy Mayfield wrote
Gil,
I don't recall the differences, but as long as I can remember the way to
cancel most things in TSO was to "reset then PA1" or "Reset then ATTN" This
was on real CRT and emulators.
I don't recall RESET alone doing anything but unlocking the terminal for the
PA1 or ATTN.
Better people than me
On Feb 8, 2008, at 3:50 PM, McKown, John wrote:
I am just now looking at this. I have a Escon CTC between my two z/OS
1.8 images. It is currently used for VTAM cross domain. I funnel my
NJE
traffic between the two images on this. Oh, these two images are on
the
same physical box. I also have
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 12:23 -0600, Kelman, Tom wrote:
> Has anybody had to cap their
> machine by LPAR like this? If so, do you insure that the individual
> caps would add up to some sort of specified limit, or did you set them a
> little higher realizing that they probably wouldn't hit the max a
Well, 15,000 RPM works out to 250 RPS. However, I seriously doubt that
a RAID disk will read exactly 57K of emulated track per revolution.
Whether it is more or less, I haven't a clue.
(IBM Mainframe Discussion List) wrote:
In a message dated 2/8/2008 3:45:21 P.M. Central Standard Time,
1. Slightly less time than it takes to backup 32760/3339 (approx. 9.81)
mod 3 volumes that are being stacked to the same output tape. Figure
some housekeeping occurs when the backup software finishes one volume &
then starts another. The difference should be minuscule when total
number of un
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