Hi,
Has the URL for announcement letters and/or sales manual changed?
I get a 404 on
http://www-306.ibm.com/common/ssi/OIX.wss
(or http://www-1.ibm.com/common/ssi/OIX.wss
or http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/OIX.wss)
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-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:51:55 -0800, Edward Jaffe wrote:
Jim Elliott, IBM wrote:
Weird, they are apostrophes.
four Model 65's, three Model 50's
Of course, those apostrophes should simply be
I know that using dynamic proclibs gives you the ability to change the proclib
concatenations dynamically and also the ability to rebuild pointers if a
library has gone into extents or been compressed.
My shop uses static concatenations. We haven't needed to change the proclib
concatenations
In listserv%200911210814513481.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 11/21/2009
at 08:14 AM, Jim Elliott, IBM jim_elli...@ca.ibm.com said:
The 9020 (not 2050) was made up of modified 360-65 and 360-50 systems.
A modified 2050 or 2075 was one of the compnents. But don't forget the
modified 2040 (360/40) used
In 26b24817b5a24f19b095f98d12a3a...@ericnbpc, on 11/20/2009
at 09:34 AM, Eric Bielefeld eric-ibmm...@wi.rr.com said:
This is kind of off the topic, but related. Wasn't there a discussion on
IBM-Main a couple years ago about the air traffic control system being
run on old IBM 3081s?
Stock
In 67954f200911210718i2ce5ac8ftbc76732634439...@mail.gmail.com, on
11/21/2009
at 10:18 AM, P S zosw...@gmail.com said:
Jim, what were the weird characters after 65 and 50 supposed to be?
Interesting. He sent his message as ISO-8859-1 and you sent your reply as
UTF-8 without translating those
Similarly, while I am sure that Kees is right about z/OS 1.8,
I have not yet been able to find documentation of the
change in behavior.
From: George jiri.aich...@ca.com
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:18:01 -0800
Thanks a lot for your answers.
I still don’t understand why I can’t see all
Try
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/index.wss
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Jan Vanbrabant
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 4:52 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: [IBM-MAIN] URL for announcement letters changed?
Hi,
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:51:54 +, Jan Vanbrabant
jan.vanbrab...@telenet.be wrote:
Has the URL for announcement letters and/or sales manual changed?
I get a 404 on
http://www-306.ibm.com/common/ssi/OIX.wss
(or http://www-1.ibm.com/common/ssi/OIX.wss
or http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/OIX.wss)
I
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:43:44 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
Skeptic that I am, I'd be very interested in seeing the header
line that you trimmed, akin to the one I posted:
SDSF EDITHFSMAC (JOB00503) JCLEDIT Columns 1 00072
** * Top of
In listserv%200911220705337562.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 11/22/2009
at 07:05 AM, Jim Elliott, IBM jim_elli...@ca.ibm.com said:
Weird, they are apostrophes.
No. Your e-mail software probably has a bug in it, but apostrophe in
ISO-8859-1 is '27'x, not '92'x.
Aso, where does that '0B'x come from?
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:54:28 -0600, Rabbe, Luke
luke.ra...@countryfinancial.com wrote:
I know that using dynamic proclibs gives you the ability to change the
proclib concatenations dynamically and also the ability to rebuild pointers
if a library has gone into extents or been compressed.
My shop
In 94c476c03bff5e42ac3518fdac9643c4e2de970...@hqmail.rocketsoftware.com,
on 11/20/2009
at 01:13 PM, Bill Fairchild bi...@mainstar.com said:
I had some interaction with one of the FAA's Air Route Traffic Control
Centers in May, 1978. The IBM mainframes then being used by the FAA
were specialty
Biggest reason to use Dynamic Proclibs is your end users cannot
reallocate/compress it and cause JES2 to fail.
The other process I like my end users to use is JCLLIB dd statement. Then
they have complete control and do not need me to handle their proclib
datasets. They are responsible for
Luke Rabbe of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
wrote on 11/23/2009 07:54:28 AM:
I know that using dynamic proclibs gives you the ability to change
the proclib concatenations dynamically and also the ability to
rebuild pointers if a library has gone into extents or been
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 12:10 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Apostrophes
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:51:55 -0800, Edward Jaffe wrote:
Snipped
It's
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
[mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Rabbe, Luke
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 7:54 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: JES2 Dynamic Proclibs - Advantages?
I know that using dynamic proclibs gives you the ability to
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:55:59 -0600, John P Kalinich jkali...@csc.com wrote:
I know that using dynamic proclibs gives you the ability to change
the proclib concatenations dynamically and also the ability to
rebuild pointers if a library has gone into extents or been compressed.
My shop uses
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:03:52 -0600, Mark Zelden mark.zel...@zurichna.com
wrote:
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:55:59 -0600, John P Kalinich jkali...@csc.com wrote:
I know that using dynamic proclibs gives you the ability to change
the proclib concatenations dynamically and also the ability to
rebuild
In a message dated 11/23/2009 3:52:41 A.M. Central Standard Time,
jan.vanbrab...@telenet.be writes:
Has the URL for announcement letters and/or sales manual changed?
Got my 11/17 Announcement as usual. In the text there's this verbiage:
--- quote -
To search for other
I've been told that most networks are single points of failure. For whatever
reason, load balancing, etc is simply not done as a matter of course.
I would speculate that configuring such routers/firewalls would be one or more
orders of magnitude more complex than the already overly complex
thanks Walt!
And guess what ... clicking on 'Announcement Letters' as you mentioned yields
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/index.wss
. without the previous OIX low-level qualifier ! What's in a
name...
Rgds, Jan
- Oorspronkelijk bericht -
Van : Walt Farrell
Have a look at APAR II14517, this describes the z/OS 1.8 new behaviour
for GDGs.
Kees.
J R jayare...@hotmail.com wrote in message
news:blu137-w18cdbbc291c50b4bef683aa3...@phx.gbl...
Similarly, while I am sure that Kees is right about z/OS 1.8,
I have not yet been able to find documentation
Hi all,
During a recent CPU upgrade from a z9 to a z10, it would really have helped if
we could have pretested the new s/w licenses for the 2097 on the old 2094.
Anyone know of a free or low cost way to do this (to allow the software
vendors to sleep better during the cut over).
We did get
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:47:25 -0600, Zaromil Tisler wrote:
Sorry for the late comment.
I use PersComm with 62x160 screen size.
If I define Screen format Std in Settings pannel, I get
=PROF ISFEDIT (VARIABLE - 81)
If I define Screen format Max in Settings pannel, I get
=PROF
Thanks to all for the replies.
Luke
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Rabbe, Luke
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 7:54 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: JES2 Dynamic Proclibs - Advantages?
I know that using dynamic
Bob wrote:
During a recent CPU upgrade from a z9 to a z10, it would really have helped if
we could have pretested the new s/w licenses for the 2097 on the old 2094.
Anyone know of a free or low cost way to do this (to allow the software
vendors to sleep better during the cut over).
We did get a
In 4b096c2b.40...@phoenixsoftware.com, on 11/22/2009
at 08:51 AM, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com said:
Of course, those apostrophes should simply be removed.
That depends on which style guide you are using, alas.
This is plural not possessive usage.
The apostrophe is used for more
In p06240804c72f50f6d...@[192.168.1.11], on 11/22/2009
at 03:37 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg hal9...@panix.com said:
The problem is that they are the curly quotes in the Windows-1252
Partially that, and partially that the messages header specified
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
In 7.0.1.0.2.20091118095716.023b4...@pobox.com, on 11/18/2009
at 10:03 AM, David Shein dsh...@pobox.com said:
It has ALWAYS been this way. When you link a program RENT you're
telling the system that the program does not modify itself.
No; you are telling the system to allow concurrent
In b0c6f15b0911180948m22a96c1fh9f10e696c00cb...@mail.gmail.com, on
11/18/2009
at 11:48 AM, Chris Craddock crashlu...@gmail.com said:
Despite what the books say, reentrant programs have NEVER been placed in
protected storage UNLESS they were loaded from an APF authorized
library.
The system
In listserv%200911181224379387.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 11/18/2009
at 12:24 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said:
My understanding is that is what REFR was intended to mean. (Etym.: If a
memory page physically failed, that page could be REFReshed from a
pristine copy, perhaps in a page
In a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea005bde01...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom, on
11/18/2009
at 12:43 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com said:
As I recall, back in the days of OS/360 and OS/VS1, there was a
transient SVC area. This area was small (4K?).
As I recall. 1KiB in OS/360, 2KiB in
In 4b043e8f.6040...@valley.net, on 11/18/2009
at 01:35 PM, Gerhard Postpischil gerh...@valley.net said:
The linkage editor started out with a read only option, namely REFR
(refreshable). But it was not honored by the early loaders, that treated
it as interchangeable with RENT.
Not quite;
In
!!aaayaih+nruo4exaufaxntnnphscxbiaea3es6bzldpoo2wt55t0jniba...@gmail.com,
on 11/18/2009
at 01:44 PM, Don Williams donb...@gmail.com said:
REFR is old. In those days, physical memory could and did fail
occasionally. I just never understand why IBM forced the
In b2b367b60911200604h209f52a2wc780eeda025ab...@mail.gmail.com, on
11/20/2009
at 08:04 AM, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com said:
And how are regular expressions applicable in a Java program that wants
to access a field formatted (eg. SMF) record?
How is SMF relevant to the text that I was
In listserv%200911220852558477.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 11/22/2009
at 08:52 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said:
... which your editor, too smart by half, converted to
right-single-quotes,
Right single quote in ISO-8859-1 is ' ('27'x), not (dipthong AE, '92'X).
and which P S's viewer
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:36:45 -0600, Rabbe, Luke
luke.ra...@countryfinancial.com wrote:
Thanks to all for the replies.
Luke
I have a question if I may...
What happens if say there is a dynamic library in the concatenation missing at
JES startup? Does JES continue on notifying you of the
Yes, some vendor software does have a grace period so it will work
during a cut over/upgrade or in the case of a disaster recovery test or
the real thing - others don't. The problem is that the really critical
pieces of software usually don't.
Why do you want your vendors sleeping during the
Define 'isolate'.
If, by that, you mean no shared resources (like DASD), then yes.
If you share resources (tape, dasd, etc) then the answer is still yes but some
results might be a little unpredictable. Even moving resources from one time
base to another needs a little thought. A scratch or
Dovetailed Technologies was sensible enough not to spam the mailing lists
with their company propaganda. However, I don't work for them and I think
this is worthwhile enough to tell everyone about. So, I will--Please don't
hate me. Every week or so, people ask questions about doing SFTP on the
A batch process creates a sequential dataset with RECFM=FBM I transfer
that to a zLinux system using FTPS in ASCII mode
Is there an FTP option to specify that says don't send the carriage
control character?
Either in the PARM= or through the SYSFTPD DD statement?
I haven't seen such a thing
You get allocation error message IKJ56228I and JES2 continues on its
merry way. No responses necessary.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Patrick Lyon
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 11:56 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Kelman, Tom wrote:
In 35 years in the business, first as a MVS sys prog and now as a
performance analyst, I've never seen anyway to pretest the software
keys. I'd be interested if anyone knows of one.
z/VM can set a guest's CPU serial to any value. This works to fool
only a subset of
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
[mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Donald Russell
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 12:37 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: FTP PUT RECFM=FBM files
A batch process creates a sequential dataset with
RECFM=FBM I
I'd go to the root of the problem and fix the bug in the zLinux software.
Unless, of course, you are a competitor :-)
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Donald Russell
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 10:37 AM
To:
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:32:48 -0700, Steve Comstock
st...@trainersfriend.com wrote:
[cross posted to ibm-assembler]
All of a sudden, WTO code I've used for ages is abending
with SD23. I've checked and rechecked the code. I've
created a minimalist program. Same story. Is there something
going on
D23- What form of the WTO are you using? What release of z/OS, what
has changed on your system recently?
===
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OMEGAMON DB2 L3 Support/Development
wdrisco(AT)us.ibm.com
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From:
Steve
Thanks Dennis and Mark!
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[mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Hal Merritt
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 2:28 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: FTP PUT RECFM=FBM files
I'd go to the root of the problem and fix the bug in the
zLinux
[cross posted to ibm-assembler]
All of a sudden, WTO code I've used for ages is abending
with SD23. I've checked and rechecked the code. I've
created a minimalist program. Same story. Is there something
going on with WTO?
--
Kind regards,
-Steve Comstock
The Trainer's Friend, Inc.
That entirely depends on whether you have taken the default of CONDITIONAL
or if you code UNCONDITIONAL. If you take the default, there will
be a JES2 message (not the TSO / DYNALLOC message) about the
allocation failure and you will get the standard $HASP469 parm error reply
message. See
John,
I can't speak to whether downloading ADATA is a problem, but I
wouldn't have thought that to be a problem. Best to clarify this
with IBM via an ETR.
But everything you need to run the JZOS RecordGenerator - both the
generator and the runtime is in alphaWorks and subject to the
alphaWorks
Hall, Keven wrote:
What length value does the assembler generate for:
mvc Detailmsg,sDetailmsg
Keven Hall | keh...@informatica.com
Software Operative
Office: 512-795-6959
Ah! That's got it! Thanks, Keven, and Robert. Once
I added in a length modifier, it works!
--
Kind regards,
-Steve
I don't consider this a bug at all... FTP's job is to transfer the file,
warts and all.
I was just hoping that when IBM taught it to handle //DD: , they might have
added an option to not transmit the CC character when the file is
RECFM=..A|M
It's not a HUGE deal for me, I was just hoping to writ
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:46:15 -0700, Steve Comstock
st...@trainersfriend.com wrote:
Hall, Keven wrote:
What length value does the assembler generate for:
mvc Detailmsg,sDetailmsg
Keven Hall | keh...@informatica.com
Software Operative
Office: 512-795-6959
Ah! That's got it! Thanks, Keven,
IMHO, software contracts ought to include indemnity clauses if such a key does
not work for any reason. That is, the vendor would have a monetary vested
inertest in getting the key right the first time, every time.
A cutover is stressful enough without that PITA.
If a key does not work
It appears to not be allowed. I found the following statement on the Web on
IBM's site:
quote
Program Name: IBM 31-bit SDK for z/OS, Java Technology Edition, Version 6
Program Number: 5655-R31
Authorization for Use on Home/Portable Computer: You may not copy and use this
Program on another
a few of our s/w products drill down to the model number
not just the serial #, but all that could not be done prior had grace
periods
or so called emerg keys
Edward Jaffe
We routinely run the following JCL:
//STATS1 EXEC PGM=AFOLIBR,PARM='NRJS,NJTA'
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//MASTER DD DSN=NCPS.LIBRCM.SRCLIB,DISP=SHR
//OSJOBDD DUMMY,DCB=(RECFM=F,LRECL=80,BLKSIZE=80)
//INDEXDD SYSOUT=*
--snip
I did it. Why? Because we had some __USER__ proclibs in PROC00. What
happens if they are deleted? JES2 stays up, but fails at the next IPL.
With dynamic PROCLIB, JES2 will come up, but with error messages about
If you were initiating the ftp from zLinux, it would be very simple. But the
z/OS ftp client is brain dead. Uh, that is, minimally compliant with the
required RFCs. In the off chance that anybody is interested in how to do this.
1) create a Perl script likeunto (put it in ~/bin/strip1.pl; chmod
Mark Zelden wrote:
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:46:15 -0700, Steve Comstock
st...@trainersfriend.com wrote:
Ah! That's got it! Thanks, Keven, and Robert. Once
I added in a length modifier, it works!
Wow! I didn't know IBM-MAIN even had clairvoyant people monitoring
the list. What a bonus
On Nov 23, 2:18 am, George jiri.aich...@ca.com wrote:
Thanks a lot for your answers.
I still don’t understand why I can’t see all datasets when using
'HLQ.TEST.G' mask. I tried to find any IBM documentation about it but
without any success. Don’t you know where I can find more info about
it?
Well, that's an interesting idea...
How's this for convoluted? ;-)
From MVS, I can FTP PUT a file with the name of the dataset I want the linux
machine to get...
Then, on Linux I use inotify to trigger the FTP GET from Linux... using the
pipe as you suggest to remove incoming CC chars as they
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:49:16 -0800, Donald Russell wrote:
I don't consider this a bug at all... FTP's job is to transfer the file,
warts and all.
Yup.
I was just hoping that when IBM taught it to handle //DD: , they might have
added an option to not transmit the CC character when the file is
Jim, for questions about migration to DB2 for z/OS you can drop an e-mail
to this address:
db2...@us.ibm.com
The folks there should at least get you pointed in the right direction on
the database front.
If you're also interested in converting Natural, there are several
potential options. I find
Hi List,
Has anyone seen this error message ...I looked in the manuals and more than
below illustration could not find anything.
IEC161I 008-0571 messages whenever the
dataset is VSAM and is not RLS. The message does not indicate a
problem, but is a nuisance
I see below error message in the
Thanks for the reference.
However, II14517 and the underlying II14250 seem to deal specifically
with IDCAMS LISTCAT being changed to use CSI rather than the base
SVC26 LOCATE.
In z/OS V1R8, LISTCAT was modified to use the Catalog Search
Interface (CSI).
The objects returned from CSI
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