Storage Alternation TRAP

2008-06-28 Thread George Kozakos
Miklos Szigetvari wrote: >How can I set an SA trap, to specify the BEFORE and AFTER values (i.e the content before the alternation and after ) ? My suggestion of using TARGETID is probably not what you want. The main problem is that RANGE could change in between so the match would not necessarily

Re: Virtual tape on VM

2008-06-28 Thread Glenn Miller
Hi Lindy, Don't know if this will help, but I recall using a product about 10, maybe 15 years ago on our VM systems called: VM Magic , from a company called SDI ( looks like SDISW now ). It allowed the user to emulate any DASD device on any real DASD device. In our case we needed to run a DOS

Re: Virtual tape on z/OS (was: Virtual tape on VM)

2008-06-28 Thread Kees Vernooy
You can read some more at: http://ca.com/us/products/product.aspx?id=1599 http://ca.com/files/ProductBriefs/ca_vtape_virtual_tape_system_pb.pdf The Virtual Tape system intercepts requests for scratch mounts, buffers them on disk as Virtual Volumes then stacks the Virtual Volumes onto a physical t

Re: SYSREXX and SDSF REXX support together: is it possible ?

2008-06-28 Thread Kenneth E Tomiak
System REXX is not the same environment as TSO, so there are limitations of what you an do. Don't assume evey component that comes out with a REXX API (like TCP/IP, SDSF, IGGCSI00) is going to work under System REXX. Nor that the z/OS manuals (not REXX manuals) that document System REXX are goi

Re: Set JobId on Submit..

2008-06-28 Thread Kenneth E Tomiak
And if you populate your RACF TSO segment you can also affect the outcome of submitting something without a JOBCARD. On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:27:31 EDT, Ed Finnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >In a message dated 6/19/2008 11:32:27 A.M. Central Daylight Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >Wait a m

Virtual tape on z/OS (was: Virtual tape on VM)

2008-06-28 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Just curious, how is that done on z/OS? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: 27. kesäkuuta 2008 23:32 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Virtual tape on VM There is a product from CA, also called VTAPE, which

Re: TSO EDIT QUESTION - CUT & PASTE

2008-06-28 Thread Kenneth E Tomiak
ISPF cut & paste will do lines, not characters, so the 'INSERT is on' should be irrelevant. There is no 'rest of the data on the right' since you will have pasted an entire line. If INSERT is on, you will have to had placed the 'a'/b' on the line already, since you can not insert inthe line num

Re: Problems that occur in production

2008-06-28 Thread Kenneth E Tomiak
Any language can have problems if the author lacks basic programming skills for error handling. Make sure data is correct and use every available file- status/SQLCODE/return code instead of assuming an operation worked. It will bloat your code and make it run longer than not taking such precautio

Re: questions about extended format

2008-06-28 Thread R.S.
Well... Where's the question? EF is nothing new - I can say that for feature which is 10+ years old. No "gotchas" are secret. No exotics. It's good way to avoid x37 abends, especially when used with some DATACLASS features like DVC, Reduce Space Allocation, etc. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Pol

Re: zAAP engine Benefit Question

2008-06-28 Thread Kenneth E Tomiak
And Redbook authors really only know/write about the facts they know from doing the effort they set out to do, they are not updated as time goes on to be living documents. Some Redbooks get updates if the authors are till around and have the time, but not advances in general. So there may be oth

Re: We're losing the battle

2008-06-28 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Sipples) writes: > Whether you're seeing these particular trends at your bank or not is > interesting, but from an industry view I think this is a reasonable (and > unsurprising) generalization. (Certainly the biggest application provider > in this market, ACI Worldwide,