Re: REXX GIMAPI Interface / CBT778

Hi, I think I have to clarify, what in detail my problem with the prgram from CBT file 778 is: I modified the sample REXX to point to my CSI dataset: /* REXX */ GIMCSI='SPSOS.P0802.GLOBAL.CSI' GIMZONE='OST'

IMS performance tuning consultancy

Cross posted to the IMS LIST - I'm looking for names of companies in the UK who provide performance tuning for mainframe IMS/TM and IMS/DM systems. Jim McAlpine -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: REXX GIMAPI Interface / CBT778

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 16:57 -0500, Kenneth E Tomiak wrote: > You mistake someone working for IBM and donating sample code to CBTTAPE > as an API from IBM. It is not. I did not. I am well aware of what an API is - including this one. Don't foist your own misunderstanding of discussions onto other

Re: CICS TS 3.2 Apply/Check Question

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:15:44 -0700 Howard Rifkind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :>I tried to do an apply/check against a selected PTF. Having problems with this and being I haven't done any SMP work in well over two years I would really appreciate some one taking a look at what I've done and if po

SV: SYSOUT LRECL/dcb parms and JES2 performance

> -Ursprungligt meddelande- > Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] För William H. Blair > Skickat: den 27 augusti 2008 00:49 > Till: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Ämne: Re: SYSOUT LRECL/dcb parms and JES2 performance > > > > Would have been interesting although to

Re: 3390-27

Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM wrote: "Ted MacNEIL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<119599-1219778103-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-881 [EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Note that these are suggested sizes only. The engineer has to enter the actual size that the customer requires the RAID

Re: 3390-27

>Another approach is to use max. size (32760 or 65520) for "regular" volumes >and define custom-size for the remainder. >Then "remainder" volumes can be used for non-ciritical (non-replicated) >applications. >Of course it depends on datacenter's needs. As I've said, it truly depends on what your

IBM THINK original equipment sign

All I was cleaning out this week, and found an IBM THINK original equipment sign that was given to me by a retiring COBOL programmer in 1968 when I worked for Electronics Communications Inc. (Later E-Systems and now Raytheon). The sign is laminated black letters on white background on a woode

Re: IBM THINK original equipment sign

On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 06:40 -0500, Don Higgins wrote: > Is there a market for such relics? Couple of folks here help out with museums - they may be interested. > PS: I'm not ready to give up my IBM coffee mugs which I use every day. When I was at Amdahl, the tech services manager of one of (th

Re: IBM THINK original equipment sign

Hey Don, Watch on ebay item 230284517985 which is now listed for sale. See what it fetches once the auction is over. I have one of these too. Plus other memorable stuff accumulate during my years with IBM. Never thought about the value of these items. Warren Brown -- Original me

Re: 3390-27

Ted MacNEIL wrote: Another approach is to use max. size (32760 or 65520) for "regular" volumes and define custom-size for the remainder. Then "remainder" volumes can be used for non-ciritical (non-replicated) applications. Of course it depends on datacenter's needs. As I've said, it truly dep

Re: 3390-27

On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 13:56 +0200, R.S. wrote: > However when you decide to use > "standard" (note the "") size, then you'll find out it's easier to > establish remote copy pairs or migrate from one DASD box to another. Has a side benefit (for me at least) as well. The DASD folks like standard

Re: REXX GIMAPI Interface / CBT778

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:57:05 -0500, Kenneth E Tomiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You mistake someone working for IBM and donating sample code to CBTTAPE >as an API from IBM. It is not. I didn't even that that was allowed. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lea

Re: IBM THINK original equipment sign

I can match that with the black plastic "Shark Fin" that was handed out to selected customers when the 2105 first hit the street. Or the three-chip CMOS paperweight from the 9672 rollout. :-) Don Higgins wrote: All I was cleaning out this week, and found an IBM THINK original equipment sign

Re: IBM THINK original equipment sign

Several years ago, I rented a storage unit in Houston. The only item left by the prior tenant was an old "IBM S/360" sign that would have been attached to the top front of a S/360 class CPU on stand-offs. It was aluminum, painted black, with no paint to create the logo. I carried it around for

Re: 3390-27

Has a side benefit (for me at least) as well. The DASD folks like standard sizes - makes their lives easier. And happens to leave "scrag-ends" unallocated at the end of ranks. Guess who lays claim to all those ???... :0) Gre

Re: db2 precompiler error

Not true, this clause is not specific to a cursor and can be used in a singleton SELECT though any value of n other than 1 does not make sense. A cursor will unnecessarily cause three calls to DB2 (open, fetch and close) where one will do. Problem in the given code is the missing number, it sho

Re: IBM THINK original equipment sign

We still do that sort of thing. You know, wear a competing vendor's polo shirt to a meeting, etc. It keeps things lively sometimes. Jon When I was at Amdahl, the tech services manager of one of (the ???) biggest Aussie customers had a pretty good collection of vendor mugs. He made a point of

Korean insurer retires 7,000 MIPS mainframes

"Korean insurer Samsung Life Insurance shut down its IBM zSeries mainframes, shifting a 7,000 MIPS workload, including loan, contract and payment systems to two HP Itanium 2-based Superdomes running HP-UX." http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid80_gci1214459,00.html -- M

Re: 3390-27

Rick Fochtman wrote: Has a side benefit (for me at least) as well. The DASD folks like standard sizes - makes their lives easier. And happens to leave "scrag-ends" unallocated at the end of ranks. Guess who lays claim to all

Re: CICS TS 3.2 Apply/Check Question

PTF UK30311 does not apply to the version of CICC installed in SMPE3.CICSTS32.GLOBAL.CSI. Browse the PTF in the SMPPTS and compare the ++VER FMID against the FMID of CICS in the GLOBAL CSI. There is most likely another PTF that will match you version of CICS. A quick glance at IBMLINK suggests th

Re: Korean insurer retires 7,000 MIPS mainframes

I think this has been posted before...and is pretty old. By Matt Stansberry, Site Editor 06 Sep 2006 | SearchDataCenter.com Denis. -Original Message- From: Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 3:12 pm Subject: Korean insurer retires 7,0

z/OS 1.9 and CSP Support

  This is a double post to IBM-Main and CICS-L   We just upgraded z/OS 1.7 to z/OS 1.9 and CCS/TS 2.3 regions to CICS/TS 3.2   We are running Cross System Product (CSP) in one of my regions. This is a product from IBM and is no longer supported     The CSP is OK under CICS/TS 3.2 region, ho

Re: Korean insurer retires 7,000 MIPS mainframes

On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 08:12 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: > "Korean insurer Samsung Life Insurance shut down its IBM zSeries > mainframes, shifting a 7,000 MIPS workload, including loan, > contract and payment systems to two HP Itanium 2-based Superdomes > running HP-UX." Deja vu again ???. Didn't we

Re: IBM THINK original equipment sign

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shane) writes: > When I was at Amdahl, the tech services manager of one of (the ???) > biggest Aussie customers had a pretty good collection of vendor mugs. > He made a

Re: Korean insurer retires 7,000 MIPS mainframes

Mark Zelden wrote: "Korean insurer Samsung Life Insurance shut down its IBM zSeries mainframes, shifting a 7,000 MIPS workload, including loan, contract and payment systems to two HP Itanium 2-based Superdomes running HP-UX." http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid80_gci

Re: Korean insurer retires 7,000 MIPS mainframes

Sounds like they weren't writing too many policies.. Doug Shane wrote: On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 08:12 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: "Korean insurer Samsung Life Insurance shut down its IBM zSeries mainframes, shifting a 7,000 MIPS workload, including loan, contract and payment systems to two H

Re: Korean insurer retires 7,000 MIPS mainframes

If this is old news, does any one know how they have done two years on? Thank You, Joe Aulph, Senior Systems Programmer: 850-487-8945 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steve Comstock

Re: Here we go again (was z/OS Hot Topics 19)

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/18/2008 at 09:03 PM, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >If response (application) is acceptable, why waste your time? You're begging the question again. The issue isn't whether to waste time, but whether to monitor. Perhaps your management enjoys surprises; s

Re: Historical question -- GDG allocation

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/11/2008 at 02:03 PM, "Chase, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >A colleague asks, "When did the requirement to pre-allocate the first >"goovoo" as a "seed" go away?" AFAIK there was never such a requirement. Are you thinking of model DSCB's? -- Shmuel (Seymo

Re: Historical question -- GDG allocation

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/11/2008 at 10:41 PM, Warren Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >The model was required with operating systems MFT amd MVT. Not if you had the appropriate JCL. >The model requirement went away when IDCAMS became available. AMS is not relevant to the issue. --

Re: Historical question -- GDG allocation

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/12/2008 at 03:49 PM, Ralph Kaden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >"Another requirement (in addition to a GDG base entry) for a GDG is a > data set label. Label? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: A couple of memory/storage questions

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/26/2008 at 08:37 PM, Lindy Mayfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >MODESET KEY=ZERO,MODE=SUP >STORAGE RELEASE,SP=0 >It didn't complain about it this time. Didn't throw off any sparks >either. Interesting. That suggests that the Initiator uses SZERO=NO. Otherwise I d

Re: dynamically generating Netview global variable names

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/26/2008 at 03:18 PM, "Barkow, Eileen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Would anyone know if there is a way to dynamically set the name of >Netview global variables. Does the value function work? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; se

Re: IBM THINK original equipment sign

In a message dated 8/27/2008 8:09:59 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We still do that sort of thing. You know, wear a competing vendor's polo shirt to a meeting, etc. It keeps things lively sometimes. >> Well, I used to like my XLR8 mug from years past, but boy th

Re: z/OS 1.9 and CSP Support

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:21:00 -0700, Shahnaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >  > >This is a double post to IBM-Main and CICS-L >  >We just upgraded z/OS 1.7 to z/OS 1.9 and CCS/TS 2.3 regions to CICS/TS 3.2 >  >We are running Cross System Product (CSP) in one of my regions. This is a product from I

Re: Korean insurer retires 7,000 MIPS mainframes

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:23:20 +1000, Shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Didn't we already go over this a while back ???. Sorry. I supposed we did and I missed it or don't remember. I didn't realize the date was almost 2 years ago. Can I use "I hadn't had my coffee yet" as an excuse? (same excus

Re: Korean insurer retires 7,000 MIPS mainframes

Mark Zelden wrote: >"Korean insurer Samsung Life Insurance shut down its IBM zSeries mainframes, shifting a 7,000 MIPS workload, ... snipped ... Eric N. Bielefeld already informed IBM-MAIN on Wed, 6 Sep 2006 about this insurer, same day when SearchDataCenter published that. Groete / Greeting

Re: SYSOUT LRECL/dcb parms and JES2 performance

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:49:13 -0500, William H. Blair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . >In the sense you are speculating about, no. But >obviously it will be somewhat different, because >JES3 code is used instead of JES2. But it's the >same process, basically, and the same SVC (111). > >That disappe

Re: Korean insurer retires 7,000 MIPS mainframes

Mark, No problem - I do things like this myself - even when I have had my coffee .. :-) It was interesting though - they have bolster the ability to dynamically add servers and remove them as needed. We used to "provide" the same under VM , back in my VM Software days. Brian Fitzgibbon S

Re: A couple of memory/storage questions

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:54:25 -0300 "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :>In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on :>08/26/2008 :> at 08:37 PM, Lindy Mayfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: :>>MODESET KEY=ZERO,MODE=SUP :>>STORAGE RELEASE,SP=0 :>>It didn't complain about it this time. Didn't thr

Large DASD Farms

Does anyone have more than 4,000 DASD units defined? Regards, John K -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at ht

Re: IBM THINK original equipment sign

There's also a book on ebay titled "As a Man Thinks" which, according to the description, is Thomas J. Watson's philosophy of life as expressed in his editorials. It was published by IBM in 1954. Currently the bid for the THINK sign is $10.50 and the bid on the book is $3.00. To me the book woul

Re: Large DASD Farms

Something like 5300. Why? Brian On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:20:43 -0500, John P Kalinich wrote: >Does anyone have more than 4,000 DASD units defined? > >Regards, >John K -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruct

Re: Large DASD Farms

I've got about 30,000 head of DASD on my ranch in Montana (right next to my waving fields of dental floss, and just up the road from my free-range Nauga herds). -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Peterson Sent: Wednesday, Aug

Re: Large DASD Farms

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:20:43 -0500, John P Kalinich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Does anyone have more than 4,000 DASD units defined? > Defined, or online to one system? I see about 9000 online to one system but there are certainly many more defined. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and System

Re: IBM THINK original equipment sign

I bid on ebay all of the time. For many items, the serious bidders wait until there only seconds left before they bid. So, the current price on an item many times is not really realistic Warren Brown -- Original message from "Kelman, Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -- > Th

Re: db2 precompiler error

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Mohammad Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not true, this clause is not specific to a cursor and can be used in a > singleton > SELECT though any value of n other than 1 does not make sense. A cursor will > unnecessarily cause three calls to DB2 (open, fetch and cl

Re: A couple of memory/storage questions

Oh yeah, duhh. I seem to recall reading somewhere that z/OS is the most complex thing ever invented. Or maybe the most complex software ever created. BTW, I came this close to asking how to find the TCB address when in SRB mode. Since PSATOLD is zero. I held out though until I found it on a

Re: Large DASD Farms

Define 'DASD unit', please. Is that a volume? You only counting volumes physically online or do I get to count BCP copy volumes as well? How about PAV volumes? How about mirrored volumes in the 2nd data center? Jeffrey Deaver, Engineer Systems Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] 651-665-4231(v) IS

Re: A couple of memory/storage questions

Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/26/2008 at 08:37 PM, Lindy Mayfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: MODESET KEY=ZERO,MODE=SUP STORAGE RELEASE,SP=0 It didn't complain about it this time. Didn't throw off any sparks either. Interesting. That sugges

Re: Erase tape data securely

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/26/2008 at 10:27 PM, Russell Witt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Yes, this option on the STK drives does apply to the DSE CCW command. >They have had this "option" to have a fast DSE, that will only erase a >fixed amount of tape. Ouch! Where were there heads? >Since

Re: IPCS Rexx Exec w/ISPF TBDISPL Services Options

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/23/2008 at 02:02 AM, Todd Burch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >(I posted this directly to the Google Groups version of the list, There is no google groups version of the list. The list is gated to a news group called bit.listserv.ibm-main, but that has nothing to do w

Re: JCL parser

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/22/2008 at 09:05 AM, John McKown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >does anybody think that donating >this to the CBT would be worth while? Yes. >I was thinking either a tree structure which describes the JCL, Yes. >maybe the JCL converted to an XML format Also ye

Re: IMS performance tuning consultancy

Consider an offshore alternative: the US :-) Sorry, couldn't resist. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim McAlpine Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 3:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: IMS performance tuning consultancy

Re: Historical question -- GDG allocation

- "Another requirement (in addition to a GDG base entry) for a GDG is a data set label. Label? - There's a lot of this sort of "mythology" floating around. Let's pu

Re: Large DASD Farms

John, I work in a Lab environment, so maybe this doesn't count. We were running some tests a month back with approx 40,000 volumes genned. It was HUR testing, so we only had 20K online at a time. I did some work at a site in South America about 4 years ago with a 16-way SYSPLEX and 19K online vo

Re: IBM THINK original equipment sign

- We still do that sort of thing. You know, wear a competing vendor's polo shirt to a meeting, etc. It keeps things lively sometimes. -- I like to re-read the competitor's literatu

Re: 3390-27

R.S. wrote: Rick Fochtman wrote: Has a side benefit (for me at least) as well. The DASD folks like standard sizes - makes their lives easier. And happens to leave "scrag-ends" unallocated at the end of ranks. Guess who lay

Re: Korean insurer retires 7,000 MIPS mainframes

"Korean insurer Samsung Life Insurance shut down its IBM zSeries mainframes, shifting a 7,000 MIPS workload, including loan, contract and payment systems to two HP Itanium 2-based Superdomes running HP-UX." http://searchdatacenter.te

Teaching Linux on Mainframe

Interesting article about Linux being taught on a mainframe instead of an x86 box. Watch the wrap. http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid39_gci1327045,00.html?track=NL-795&ad=657824&asrc=EM_NLN_4320237&uid=1900046# -

Re: Large DASD Farms

We used to, until we converted to large volumes. At one point we had about 8000 (mostly 3390-9). >>> John P Kalinich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8/27/2008 11:20 AM >>> Does anyone have more than 4,000 DASD units defined? Regards, John K -

Re: 3390-27

Rick Fochtman wrote: R.S. wrote: Rick Fochtman wrote: Has a side benefit (for me at least) as well. The DASD folks like standard sizes - makes their lives easier. And happens to leave "scrag-ends" unallocated at the end o

Re: Teaching Linux on Mainframe

A university professor said this - amazing. Now if some of the university computer science departments across the country would just get a clue. (Note: The placing of the quote marks are as they were in the article.) "We are the only university in the world we know of running SAP with IBM DB2 on

Re: db2 precompiler error

My bad, I didn't realize that the integer is optional and defaults to 1. I have always specified this value whenever I used this clause. Given that the SQL does look valid and should not be flagged by the precompiler. Next thing I'd check is the precompiler listing to make sure that the SQL as s

Initialize NL tape

Is there any way initialize a tape as NL after it already has had a standard label? I tried different things with IEHINITT with no luck. I may be overlooking something obvious... Any ideas? Thank you, Luke Rabbe -- Fo

Re: 3390-27

Radoslaw, In the case of HDS, standard size volumes offer no advantage for TrueCopy, HUR or XRC. My past experience with SRDF is the same. I assume this is also true for IBM. On platforms other than MVS this never seems to be an issue. Sites with a plethora of LUN sizes tend to use sizes with a

Re: Large DASD Farms

Jeffery Deaver of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 08/27/2008 10:55:18 AM: > Define 'DASD unit', please. Is that a volume? You only counting volumes > physically online or do I get to count BCP copy volumes as well? How about > PAV volumes? How about mirrored volumes in the 2nd da

Re: Initialize NL tape

> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rabbe, Luke > Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:35 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Initialize NL tape > > Is there any way initialize a tape as NL after it already has had a > st

Re: A couple of memory/storage questions

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/27/2008 at 06:00 PM, Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >SUBPOOL zero in key zero is not the same as SUBPOOL zero in key 8. They say that the mind is the second thing to go; I can't recall the first thing. Okay, so what's the fallout when a SM key 0 progra

Re: 3390-27

>I mean on-line replication, like PPRC or SRDF, or TrueCopy, or XRC. All of >them are volume based. In such case I like "standard" volume size. Just out of curiosity: Why? What difference does it make? - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -

Re: Initialize NL tape

We needed to do just that in order to repurpose some excess-to-requirements z/OS scratch tapes to be used as stack tapes for our virtual tape server. The media was idential, but the virtual tape server rejected tapes with an internal SL label in the z/OS volume serial range. A complexity is th

Re: z/OS 1.9 and CSP Support

We had the same issue this weekend and are also keeping around the LE libraries from z/OS V1R7 Edouard A. Myers Senior Information Technology Specialist Office of the Chief Technology Officer DC Government 222 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Suite 200 Washington, DC 20001 Phone : 202-727-4017 Fax: 2

Re: 3390-27

We went with the 30051 size for our M-27 type volumes. I believe the new IBM dasd box that can grow volumes does so in 1113 cylinder increments, and that is the only reason I have heard to stay with some multiple of 1113 cyl sizes. "This email is intended to be reviewed by only the inten

Re: SV: SYSOUT LRECL/dcb parms and JES2 performance

Thomas Berg wrote: > Interesting. I see that You used FA. What would the result > be with V/VB ? Identical. See the results in the table where I did that (for the smaller record sizes). Blocking the output INCREASES the per-line CPU overhead (for the reasons I speculated). > I suppose the cp

Re: 3390-27

Roland, I don't dispute your considerations. But my management has made the decision that daily backups for the RACF DB file is sufficient and I no longer have any say in the matter. "The boss isn't always right, but he's still the boss" :-( ---

Re: Initialize NL tape

Thanks to all that replied. Brian - this did the trick. Luke -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Peterson Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 1:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Initialize NL tape We needed to do jus

DFHSM DELVOL error

The fine manuals have been unhelpful: F DFHSM,DELVOL ITP159 DUMP(PURGE LASTCOPY) ARC0263I DUMP VOLUME ITP159 NOT DELETED, VOLUME 350 ARC0263I (CONT.) STATUS=UNCHANGED , RETCODE=0006 ARC0260I DUMP VOLUME ITP159 ENTRY NOT DELETED-CDS ERROR Rc= 6 The DVL record was in use

Re: DFHSM DELVOL error

Dave, You can patch the DVLFUSED field to BITS(.0..) in the DVL record to turn off the in-use bit. Verify that it is set to BITS(.1..) before you change it! The DVLFUSED field is located at x'48'. ThanksRick -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMA

Re: Initialize NL tape

In a message dated 8/27/2008 12:50:39 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You must have the appropriate authority to use LABEL=(1,BLP). >> And run in an INIT that allows it? **It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here.

XML install questions.

Anyone out there familiar with the installation of the of the XML 1.9 product might be able to help me out with this. My manager wants this product installed in its own CSI. The problem is that the first install job included with the CBPDO doesn’t have a job to allocate and set up a new CSI and

Re: XML install questions.

If you are at z/OS V1.9 check and see if the XML that comes with the Serverpac has this for you. The HFS/zFS file name I have for z/OS V1.9 SMPE zones is HLQ.OMVS.XML Lizette > >Anyone out there familiar with the installation of the of the XML 1.9 >product might be able to help me out with

Re: Erase tape data securely

Victor, Opentech Systems has some Tape Library Management Utilities available with our TapeCopy product. The utilities will support erasing tapes using the control unit DSE. The erase utility will also validate with the tape management system that the tape is in scratch status to prevent someone

Re: XML install questions.

No serverpac CBPDO only. Has never been installed before. >>> Lizette Koehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8/27/2008 4:59 PM >>> If you are at z/OS V1.9 check and see if the XML that comes with the Serverpac has this for you. The HFS/zFS file name I have for z/OS V1.9 SMPE zones is HLQ.OMVS.XML Lizet

Re: XML install questions.

I went into my Serverpac for z/OS V1.9 and have this entry XML TOOLKIT FOR Z/OS 5655-J51 010900 > >If you are at z/OS V1.9 check and see if the XML that comes with the Serverpac >has this for you. > >The HFS/zFS file name I have for z/OS V1.9 SMPE zones is HLQ.OMVS.X

Re: XML install questions.

When I originally installed this, I installed it into the existing z/OS CSI for my z/OS operating system. Then, every time I upgrade z/OS to a new release via ServerPack, I just include XML in the order - no extra work, it's just there. Brian On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:52:30 -0400, Howard Rifkind

Re: XML install questions.

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:52:30 -0400, Howard Rifkind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Anyone out there familiar with the installation of the of the XML 1.9 >product might be able to help me out with this. > >My manager wants this product installed in its own CSI. Why? Oh well... as Rick wrote, the bos

Re: XML install questions.

>>My manager wants this product installed in its own CSI. >Why? Oh well... as Rick wrote, the boss is the boss. I've only had one boss that fully 'trusted' my judgment on mainframe technical issues. And, that's because he didn't know anything about them. I tried to explain the important ones t

Re: XML install questions.

Mark, Perhaps you can point me to the place in you web site where the JCL to do the SMP CSI create is. Thanks I checked both URLs...couldn't find it. >>> Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8/27/2008 5:05 PM >>> On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:52:30 -0400, Howard Rifkind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Anyo

Re: XML install questions.

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:49:16 -0400, Howard Rifkind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Mark, > >Perhaps you can point me to the place in you web site where the JCL to >do the SMP CSI create is. > >Thanks > >I checked both URLs...couldn't find it. > http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html On the lef

Re: DFHSM DELVOL error

Are you sure about the x'48'? MCH= 02042103 C05D40B7 7D973C00 C024BA79 3C745200 ** + F3F5F9F0 60F14040 D4F00311 78048083 00015CC4 E4D4D7F1 40404001 07087FD7 *3590 1 M0 DUMP1 P* +0020 C2C9C7F0 F1150008 5800 00403030 200FD7C2 C9C7F0F2 1502

Re: XML install questions.

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:52:30 -0400, Howard Rifkind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Anyone out there familiar with the installation of the of the XML 1.9 >product might be able to help me out with this. > >My manager wants this product installed in its own CSI. > Howard, Have sent you an e

Re: XML install questions.

>http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html Gad, you're a baby! You have hair. And, it's coloured. (8-{]} - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EM

Re: DFHSM DELVOL error

I think it's 08 and I still verify manually. I use /* ARC0309I TAPE VOLUME HD0172 REJECTED & ARC0814I LIST RC07 */ /* INUSE BIT (X'40') IS ON IN THE DVL */ /* THEN DO HSEND DELVOL HD0172 DUMP */ HSENDCMD WAIT /* TYPE Y IN DVL CNTLBLK,THE BC

Re: Enterprise COBOL v3.4.1 run time issue

On 26 Aug 2008 08:04:56 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >I Agree with the IF NOT NUMERIC. When you read data into an area, the >validity of the data is not checked. The Data Truncation Option on the >compiler does not check the validity of the data at runtime. It is up >to the applic

Re: DFHSM DELVOL error

This worked, thank you both. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Kelly Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 4:26 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DFHSM DELVOL error I think it's 08 and I still verify manually. I use /*

Re: XML install questions.

I also needed to have the XML Toolkit installed for CICS TS 3.2. So I downloaded it, built a global zone, defined some DDDEFs, did the receive, apply, and accept. Pretty basic SMP/E stuff. It does not just come with a z/OS 1.9 ServerPac, you have to select it with the order. We did not, so we o

Re: REXX GIMAPI Interface / CBT778

I read more than your post before responding. The source code clearly states RXGIMAPI is a front-end to the GIMAPI. On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:20:13 +1000, Shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 16:57 -0500, Kenneth E Tomiak wrote: > >> You mistake someone working for IBM and don

Re: SYSOUT LRECL/dcb parms and JES2 performance

Abe Kornelis wondered: > I guess it does make a difference when redirecting > spooled output to a DASD or tape dataset? > Experience says it does make (a lot of) difference > in that case - but I may be outdated on that one. Well ... since I have this handy-dandy little test program, I changed t

FIXCDS, was DFHSM DELVOL error

How about the format of a type t (TTOC) record. I have some virtual tapes that give me: IEC022I 137-0C,IFG0552R,DFHSM,DFHSM,SYS00030,0B0E,Z42179,DFHSM.BACKTAPE.DATASET When I use F DFHSM,AUDIT MEDCTL VOLUMES(Z42179) FIX The audit did a lot of patching before the abend, so I figure I've recla

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