What is command to define more terminals?

I've added more devices to my machine (through VM CP DEFINE GRAPH ). But the D U,GRAPHIC doesn't show that device in the list so I cannot logon using it. What command is it to add these new terminals? Thanks Lindy -- For I

Re: Former Marines

"Jim Harrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Hey Ted - try losing the petulant Canadian attitude. If it weren't for > US marines, you'd all be speaking German and your currency would the > Deutschmark. We had some OT threads the last years, but this beat

Re: procs and concatenations

Try this: //IGYWC PROC LNGPRFX='IGY.V3R3M0',SYSLBLK=3200 //COBOL EXEC PGM=IGYCRCTL,REGION=2048K //STEPLIB DD DSNAME=&LNGPRFX..SIGYCOMP, // DISP=SHR //* //SYSLIBDD DDNAME=OWNSYSLB // DD DISP=SHR,DSN=APPL.PROD.COPYLIB //* //OW

Re: Former Marines - Kill Thread!

You guys are boring. This is of no interest to the rest of the world. Please stop flooding us with this. Regards, Ahmed Rahim System Z Technical support Group Technology (011) 500-6490 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Ev

Re: Former Marines - Kill Thread!

On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Ted MacNEIL wrote: >So, I'm saying nothing more on this off-topic subject, on this forum. Yes, Let's please drop this subject now! Darren -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, s

Re: Measuring performance with job elapsed time

Roded, You should expect your CPU busy to be higher, but for less time. For example if the current program runs for four hour using 1 hour of CPU time it will contribute 25% of a single CP to CPU busy. If you cut it into four parallel jobs that run for one hour and use one hour of CPU time the

Re: Former Marines

>Did you free Holland all by yourself? Maybe not. But, the US wasn't there. My point (obscured by personal attacks) was that the US did not (does not) protect us all. They joined both world wars late, after their interests were compromised. Not from some moral imperative. But, since I've pointe

Re: Former Marines

>So I guess this is your testosterone driven drive to prove that you are my >intellectual superior. Get a life and go eat some Hudson Bay ice. Never my intent! It was a rebuttal! You were the starter of the holier than thou with the statement that if it weren't for the US, we'd be Germans. But

Re: Former Marines

>>Hey Ted - try losing the petulant Canadian attitude. >>If it weren't for US marines, you'd all be speaking German and your currency would the Deutschmark. >Bull droppings. American jinogoism. >And, another example of the US only knowing about US history. >We participated in WWII. >And, while

Re: Former Marines

So I guess this is your testosterone driven drive to prove that you are my intellectual superior. Get a life and go eat some Hudson Bay ice. But, I hate to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man! -- For IBM-MAIN s

Re: Former Marines

>Hey Ted - try losing the petulant Canadian attitude. >If it weren't for US >marines, you'd all be speaking German and your currency would the Deutschmark. Bull droppings. American jinogoism. And, another example of the US only knowing about US history. We participated in WWII. And, while your m

Re: procs and concatenations

That seems like it may work. I'm heading home now, but I will try it on Wednesday (holiday tomorrow!). Probably I would have an empty library as the first one, so I could always include it but not have to have the main production library as the first concatentation. Thanks for the idea!! Fra

Re: procs and concatenations

Nice idea. Though it doesn't address: 1) Wanting to include from someone else's private library as well as or instead of your own. 2) Not wanting to include from anyone's private library (sometimes I have the new copybook in my private library but want a compile to pick up only the production v

Re: procs and concatenations

I was wondering (though I might be wrong) if the use of INCLUDE statements might not help. Inside the PROC itself you could have //IGYCW PROC //COMPILE EXEC PGM=x // INCLUDE MEMBER=DEVEL1 Developers Copylib Dataset // INCLUDE MEMBER=APPL1Specific Application Copylib Dataset // INCL

Re: Former Marines

Hey Ted - try losing the petulant Canadian attitude. If it weren't for US marines, you'd all be speaking German and your currency would the Deutschmark. What has Canada given us lately since the Guess Who and Bachman Turner Overdrive? Oh, by the way, we're voting to let Alaska secede from th

Re: procs and concatenations

On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:35:26 -0800, Raymond Noal wrote: > >If you want a private PDS/Copybook to precede your production COBOL copy book >PDS and have it unique to each user, how about this - > >//syslib dd dsn=&sysuid..pvtcobol.copylib >//dd dsn=appl.prod.copylib > Then each user must

Re: http://zcandoit.com new web site System z can do it

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Re: IBM Debug Tool 8.1 in CICS

Paul Peplinski wrote: IBM claims this works as designed - for better or worse We have cases where we need to debug "other user" transactions, essentially a transaction running under an id other than the person debugging. This could be something coming in MQ, Web, non-terminal, etc.) Whenever th

Re: procs and concatenations

Frank, If you want a private PDS/Copybook to precede your production COBOL copy book PDS and have it unique to each user, how about this - //syslib dd dsn=&sysuid..pvtcobol.copylib //dd dsn=appl.prod.copylib HITACHI  DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office

Re: procs and concatenations

Argh, I forgot to describe something else I tried that did not work: In the proc: //SYSLIBDD DISP=SHR,DSN=APPL.PROD.COPYLIB // DD DDNAME=COPYLIB2 // DD DDNAME=COPYLIB3 In the JCL //STEP01EXEC IGYWG ... //COBOL.COPYLIB2 DD DSN=FJS.PDSE.COBOL,DISP=SHR This works if

procs and concatenations

I have a question that is going to keep bugging me until I ask it, even though I'm fairly certain I will not be happy with the answer... The following is the system supplied Cobol compile procedure, IGYWC: //IGYWC PROC LNGPRFX='IGY.V3R3M0',SYSLBLK=3200 //COBOL EXEC PGM=IGYCRCTL,REGION=2048K

Re: EMC in Sync and Async mode

yes. On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:31:57 +0800, Jason To <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is it possible to configure a single EMC box to run both SRDF in async and >sync mode at the same time using different RDF groups? TIA. > >Regards, >Jason -

Re: OSA-ICC Console over long distance

On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:19:05 -0500, Ken Porowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Anyone have experience using an OSA-ICC attached Console over a long >distance, say 8000 miles or so? > >I'm a little worried about the effects of latency and/or timeouts. > One way to know is to test it with an optical d

Re: Measuring performance with job elapsed time

Roded Bahat wrote: Hello, We're rewriting a batch application to work with more than one task as it does now. The basic idea is to divide the work needed to be done into 2 or more different tasks in order to allow parallel processing and decrease the job's elapsed running time. The improvement w

Re: Strange ISPF initialization problem

Hi everyone, I found it, thanks to an off-line note that at least pointed me in the right direction. I'm replying to the first note that mentioned the root cause, but all of your notes were helpful, including the off-line ones. I had done a lot of things already, such as comparing RACF profiles,

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Re: Strange ISPF initialization problem

Greetings! By any chance are the failing users profile datasets full or very close to it? Linda Mooney -- Original message -- From: Ray Mullins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi everyone, > > > > First, I’m doing fine…things have happened, but I’m back on my feet and I

Re: Strange ISPF initialization problem

Ray Well, perhaps I should have left well alone - not to be hoist with my own petard! It turns out that I misunderstood what the MVS System Codes manual meant by "The system" when it said "Explanation: The system detected an internal error. System Action: The system ends subcommand processing.

Re: Strange ISPF initialization problem

Error messages? Screen prints? Crystal ball? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Peterson Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 2:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Strange ISPF initialization problem One idea - can you

Re: Strange ISPF initialization problem

Ray Perhaps fortunately for you I had some time on my hands with nothing better to do than check a thread I would not normally look into. First I looked at the responses you had already received in case the answer was going to be offered - maybe. Then I thought to do what must surely be what y

Re: Former Marines

Well, I guess you're going to *really* be honked off when Saint Swithin's Day comes around... :) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 15:58 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Former M

Re: Strange ISPF initialization problem

On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:33:19 -0500, Lizette Koehler wrote: > >What about terminal screen size? Are all users using the same 3270 device or >are some reconfiged for a MOD3, MOD4, or MOD5? > >One thing I would look at is the terminal size. Then I would look to see if >maybe some have an ISPF conc

Re: Former Marines

As many a jarhead will tell you, there's no such thing as a *former* marine... Semper Fi, from the grateful son of a swabbie. -snippage>- I know that it is off topi

Re: Strange ISPF initialization problem

Try a clean/ empty ISPPROF or, use a copy of a good, working ISPPROF... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Re: Strange ISPF initialization problem

I would recommend deleting (or renaming) and re-creating the ISPPROF dataset of one of the users concerned. Rob Scott Rocket Software, Inc 275 Grove Street Newton, MA 02466 617-614-2305 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Strange ISPF initialization problem

One idea - can you compare the RACF TSO segment for a user who works, and a user who doesn't? Maybe the UNIT value is wrong... LU userid NORACF TSO <-- to list the TSO segment Brian On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:21:24 -0800, Ray Mullins wrote: >Hi everyone, > (snip) > >But I’ve run into a strang

Re: Strange ISPF initialization problem

Ray, What about terminal screen size? Are all users using the same 3270 device or are some reconfiged for a MOD3, MOD4, or MOD5? One thing I would look at is the terminal size. Then I would look to see if maybe some have an ISPF concatenation process. The use of ISPF TEST might be helpful h

Re: Strange ISPF initialization problem

Ray - have you looked at the logon proc for the library concatenation for the sysproc/sysexec and the ispf libraries and verified that the dcb's are correct? Is it possible that these users could have a logon exec or clist being executed that is changing the environment? I'm not familiar with

Strange ISPF initialization problem

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Re: Configure Physical CP Offline - SOLVED

Timothy Sipples wrote: just out of curiosity - why ? I'm very curious, too. But I can think of one possible reason. Let's say you have a System z9 BC currently in some ?03 capacity configuration, as the original poster has. (The "?" is any letter, A to Z.) Let's further assume the other 4

Re: OSA-ICC Console over long distance

Anyone have experience using an OSA-ICC attached Console over a long distance, say 8000 miles I was using it from Hawaii to the East Coast for a couple of month but it was mostly a console to the sand box system. Never had any problems. Jack Kelly ---

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Re: OSA-ICC Console over long distance

We aren't doing 8000 miles, only 1500 and there aren't any obvious problems that we can detect. Response is as good at the local consoles. Alan -Original Message- Subject: OSA-ICC Console over long distance Anyone have experience using an OSA-ICC attached Console over a long distance,

Re: OSA-ICC Console over long distance

We only go 800+ miles and seems to work fine. But cant tell you about 8000 Andy S. White "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote on 11/10/2008 01:19:05 PM: > Anyone have experience using an OSA-ICC attached Console over a long > distance, say 8000 miles or so? > > I'm a little worried about

Re: OSA-ICC Console over long distance

On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:19:05 -0500, Ken Porowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Anyone have experience using an OSA-ICC attached Console over a long >distance, say 8000 miles or so? > >I'm a little worried about the effects of latency and/or timeouts. > >Ken Porowski >AVP Systems Software >CIT Group

Re: OSA-ICC Console over long distance

>Anyone have experience using an OSA-ICC attached Console over a long distance, >say 8000 miles or so? Never that far. >I'm a little worried about the effects of latency and/or timeouts. It's not exactly a real-time device like disk. Time-outs can be handled with MIH parms. Have you ever used a

OSA-ICC Console over long distance

Anyone have experience using an OSA-ICC attached Console over a long distance, say 8000 miles or so? I'm a little worried about the effects of latency and/or timeouts. Ken Porowski AVP Systems Software CIT Group E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: PDS Lock

On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 12:30:06 -0700, George Fogg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 13:50:21 -0500, Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>>On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 14:36:29 -0400, Scott Rowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I make it a point NOT to have a PASSWORD dataset on my sy

Re: zLinux Request for Information Update

>Um, you do know that we have the same holiday here in Canada, right Ted? Of course, I do. >Honouring Veterans, no matter what country they are from, does not constitute >"propaganda". It does when combined with the celebration of (US Marines, when it's O/T, and when the subject is wrong. >(I

Re: zLinux Request for Information Update

Um, you do know that we have the same holiday here in Canada, right Ted? Honouring Veterans, no matter what country they are from, does not constitute "propaganda". (I am a proud son of a Canadian vet). On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could at least

Re: zLinux Request for Information Update

You could at least have the decency to change the subject line, so we know that we are being inundated with more US propaganda! --Original Message-- From: Ed Finnell Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List ReplyTo: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Sent: Nov 10,

SV: Former Marines

Please, don't make this Yet another homungus OT thread! (It's NOT friday, and even then it's no good.) Regards, Thomas Berg __ Thomas Berg Specialist IT-U SWEDBANK > -Ursprungligt meddelande- > Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailt

Re: Former Marines

I really hate these US-centric messages. There are more countries represented on this list than the States. And, you don't see us sending messages regarding our celebrations. If you flame me for this, fine. Your words will be unimportant, and I won't here them! - Too busy driving to stop for gas!

Re: Former Marines

As many a jarhead will tell you, there's no such thing as a *former* marine... Semper Fi, from the grateful son of a swabbie. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jackson, Robin Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 10:26 To: IBM-MAIN@BAM

Re: CR+ / T-Rex

On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 01:20 -0600, Magen Margalit wrote: > CR+ (MainStar) and (T-Rex) Dino software. Ron Ferguson and Larry Crilley are both great friends of ibm-main, so I'm glad I don't have to choose on THAT basis! -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: Former Marines

"Doc Farmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:... > As many a jarhead will tell you, there's no such thing as a *former* > marine... > > Semper Fi, from the grateful son of a swabbie. > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Beha

Re: Former Marines

Happy Birthday, Marines! Here's a birthday message from CMC... http://downloads.feedroom.com/downloads/t_assets/20081007/CMC08_FINAL_Do wnload_2VDP.wmv Semper Fidelis, John Maxfield 4069 Systems Programmer 1981 - 1990 http://www.marines.mil/usmc/Pages/2008MarineCorpsBirthdayBall.aspx -Or

Re: Former Marines

Gentlemen, I must insist on the one point, as I have received several responses to the effect that there is no such thing as a 'former' Marine. There is no such thing as an 'x' marine. There are former Marines. And,,, once a Marine, always a Marine. Semper Fi. Rob Jackson Senior z/OS Syste

Re: zLinux Request for Information Update

In a message dated 11/10/2008 7:03:14 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: latest. Here is the US we do take a day to honor our Veterans. If you'd ask a Veteran, they would say all the praise needs to go to the families, Mothers, Fathers, etc of Veterans. It is much harde

Re: PTF UA90380 and EC J99677

1) Microcode updates are usually documented in ResourceLink. 2) EC holds are usually benign. i.e. the code will install, but be ineffective until the required MCL is installed. IOW, go ahead and install the PTF. When the MCL is loaded, the code will become effective. 3) UA90380 appears to be the P

OT: Former Marines

I know that it is off topic and I don't like cluttering the list myself. But it is appropriate: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALL FORMER DEVIL DOGS. NOV 10 1775 Rob Rob Jackson Senior z/OS Systems Programmer Work phone: (615) 231-4998 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: IBM M

Re: VVDS fix catalog - broken link

Traylor, Terry wrote: Did you try this like? ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/s390/mvs/tools/VVDSFIX.VER13.TRSD This link works OK. THANK YOU! I submitted to IBM notification about broken link. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- BRE Bank SA ul. Senatorska 18 00-950 Warszawa www.brebank.pl Sąd

Re: VVDS fix catalog - broken link

Did you try this like? ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/s390/mvs/tools/VVDSFIX.VER13.TRSD Terry Traylor charlesSCHWAB TIS Mainframe Storage Management Remedy Queue: tis-hs-mstg (602) 977-5154 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R.

VVDS fix catalog - broken link

I'm trying to download tool called VVDS fix catalog from IBM site, but the link does not work. How can I get it ? Maybe alternative link or ftp site ? -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- BRE Bank SA ul. Senatorska 18 00-950 Warszawa www.brebank.pl Sąd Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydzia

zLinux Request for Information Update

I am really amazed at the numbers who are taking me up on the offer I made to send out some of the comments along with answers to popularly asked questions in a range of topics from Technical, cultural, financial, psychological, political, sociological, etc, aspects of implementing z/VM & Linux

Re: STP question

Hi Gadi, You certainly cannot setup STP over your existing CTC connections but if you meet all the hardware and software requisites I think you should be able to install Timing-only links. Take a look at the STP page and the two excellent Redbooks especially the Planning Guide. Of course if y

Re: STP question

""??? ?? ???"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED] m>... > Hi, > > > > We are working on replacing out sysplex time with STP. > > > > We currently have two machines connected is a BASIC sysplex using CTC's. > > > > I spoke to someone at IBM, and he said that

STP question

Hi, We are working on replacing out sysplex time with STP. We currently have two machines connected is a BASIC sysplex using CTC’s. I spoke to someone at IBM, and he said that he remembered that in order to use STP, a coupling facility is required. >From what I’ve read, this is not

EMC in Sync and Async mode

Is it possible to configure a single EMC box to run both SRDF in async and sync mode at the same time using different RDF groups? TIA. Regards, Jason -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send em

PTF UA90380 and EC J99677

The PTF 90380 contains several HOLD's, one of them is HOLD REASON(EC) which say that I should have EC J99677 MCL 333. I checked - I don't have it. My microcode level is up to date - that's what I'm getting when trying to retrieve new code from IBM. Any clue? BTW: Are the microcodes documented