Re: IBM Mainframe: 50 Years of Big Iron Innovation

2009-05-16 Thread Richards, Robert B.
You're kidding, right Pat? We count almost as much as accountants and statisticians! After last year's three heart attacks, I am very glad the counting continues! 58 rules! Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Patrick

Re: TSSO Message TSSA305E

2009-05-16 Thread Brian Westerman
Can you send me a short synopsis of what you're processing offline? I can't seem to reproduce it, but that doesn't mean that you are doing it wrong. It's being issued from 10, and only happens if the message is not connected to any console, so if you send me the syslog of the message and the

Re: USERCAT Error (Out of Space)

2009-05-16 Thread Scott T. Harder
Also, because I like the product... CIM (Catalog Information Manager), from ASPG, Inc. (last I knew) is also a very good catalog mgmt tool. Very extensive ISPF interface; tons of online help, etc. The developers are also *very* willing to provide desired features/functions, as requested. All

Re: TSO/E Exits

2009-05-16 Thread Scott T. Harder
Jeepers creepers... I think most of the responses to Bin are a bit excessive, here. He merely posed a valid inquiry. The best part of this list is when someone questions why?, eliciting the best from the best minds. I would suggest we slow this flame train down a bit. All the best, Scott T.

Re: z/Journal Does it Again

2009-05-16 Thread Scott T. Harder
I rather think that they (client/server model... we're getting rid of the mainframe) tried that in the 90's. On 5/14/09, Phil Smith III li...@akphs.com wrote: Eric Bielefeld wrote: I just received another z/Journal email sponsored by Microsoft urging us to get off the mainframe and going to

Re: z/Journal Does it Again

2009-05-16 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main as well. scottyt.har...@gmail.com (Scott T. Harder) writes: I rather think that they (client/server model... we're getting rid of the mainframe) tried that in the 90's. there were lots of

Re: Batch Process Calling a Web Service

2009-05-16 Thread Josef Klitsch
If you have DB2 for z/OS installed you can use the DB2 SOAP User Defined Functions (UDFs) to invoke a Web service simply from dynamic or static SQL embedded in your COBOL program. This would not require Java programming. You can find more information in chapter 8 of the IBM Redbook SG24-7663

Fw: BLOCK CONTAINS

2009-05-16 Thread Bill Klein
Frank Swarbrick fswarbr...@gmail.com wrote in message news:listserv%200905151108397984.0...@bama.ua.edu... On Fri, 15 May 2009 09:27:42 -0400, Thompson, Steve steve_thomp...@stercomm.com wrote: snip It depends on if the file is pre-defined. If it is not, and I don't include DCB stuff on the

Re: CHECK(IBMCSV,CSV_LPA_CHANGES) exception for Device Support LPA

2009-05-16 Thread Peter Relson
Upon re-reading my own append, I realized I had omitted a few words Everything in LPA is marked in some way (or not marked) as PLPA, MLPA/FLPA. I omitted or dynamic LPA And in case it wasn't clear, when I wrote During IPL, IOS identifies modules needed to support the I/O configuration based on

Re: USERCAT Error (Out of Space)

2009-05-16 Thread George Rodriguez
I just wanted to say that the MERGECAT was successful. I did make a small mistake, but nothing that was not correctable. Thanks to all the members from the list that assisted and provided the support (you guys are really GREAT!). I think I'm going to make a pitch for one of the catalog recovery

Re: z/Journal Does it Again

2009-05-16 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com writes: overnight batch window. The problem was that the parallel distribution object-oriented technologies introduced a factor of 100 times (two orders of magnitude) increase in processing overhead ... totally swamping any anticipated throughput benefits of

Re: USERCAT Error (Out of Space)

2009-05-16 Thread Ulrich Krueger
BTW, one list member, Larry Crilley, mention creeping key and I was wondering if anyone else has heard about this. George, The Creeping key - phenomenon comes up in a catalog when you have an application that constantly creates new dataset names containing either a sequence number or a

Re: VSE I/O Performance VS MVS [was BLOCK CONTAINS]

2009-05-16 Thread Clark Morris
On 15 May 2009 17:24:25 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: Frank, I suggest you download the Redbook, VSAM De-Mystified. It will answer your questions concerning VSAM performance. As my instructor told the class years ago - Don't take the defaults! Specify CI sizes that give the best

Re: USERCAT Error (Out of Space)

2009-05-16 Thread Amerigo Baldassarri
I enclose a link detaining the creeping key issue that may be of interest to you. http://www.mainstar.com/pdf/010-0107_ICFCAT-Prac_WP.pdf regards Amerigo -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of George Rodriguez Sent: Sunday,