Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disk compared to Fibre Channel

Issued: Error! Unknown document property name. iii Our organisation is considering Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disks in a Hitachi USP-VM for our mainframe environment instead of the usual Fibre Channel disk. Anyone using SAS disk in the mainframe world? Any comments regarding performanc

Re: Delete all members of a PDS that is allocated

On 6/30/2010 9:16 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: And it would be interesting to determine whether the common practice of updating a PDS with a primary ENQ of SHR has led IBM to add format 1 updates to the STOW logic. I doubt it; they don't permit concurrent OPEN for update. Rather than

Query in Sort

Hi All, My input files are as follows File1 --> IMS DB unload - Sequential file having Parent and child combination SEGMENT1 RAM12345--> Numeric after name is the key--> 12345 Position - 12 Length --> 5 SEGMENT2 .. SEGMENT3.. SEGMENT4.. SEGMENT5.. SEGMENT6. . SE

Re: searchdatacenter.com article

I would only be "very surprised" if everybody could honestly say "nope, never done that". I would be mildly surprised if the number who owned up to having done it was small (FSVO "small"). Shane ... On Fri, Jul 2nd, 2010 at 3:40 AM, Rick Fochtman wrote: > You might be very surprised, Shane. -

Re: ENQ trap for dynamic allocation

Hadn't picked up on that - thanks for the heads up Mark. Don't use it much any more, but it still comes (came) in handy for unusual circumstances. Shane ... On Fri, Jul 2nd, 2010 at 2:53 AM, Mark Zelden wrote: > This change also broke some tools like the popular > "BYPASSNQ" from Gilbert St. Fl

Re: Prevent ICF catalog out-of-space problems

Without further details it seems the CA Reclaim feature in z/OS V1.12 might give some relief Avoiding data fragmentation and planned outages for data reorganizations - With the new CA (Control Area) Reclaim capability, applications that use VSAM key-sequenced data sets (KSDSs) can benefit from imp

Re: Delete all members of a PDS that is allocated

On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 19:38:40 +0200, Thomas Berg wrote: >> -Ursprungligt meddelande- >> Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] För Paul >> Gilmartin >> Skickat: den 1 juli 2010 18:26 >> >> On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:51:40 +0200, Thomas Berg wrote: >> >> >When I have n

Re: Prevent ICF catalog out-of-space problems

>>--- >>How does a catalog get to be any where near 4 Gig (or even 2)? >>--- >>Haven't you ever heard the term "putting all your eggs into one basket" >>?? 'Nuf said? We deal

Re: Prevent ICF catalog out-of-space problems

--- How does a catalog get to be any where near 4 Gig (or even 2)? --- Haven't you ever heard the term "putting all your eggs into one basket" ?? 'Nuf said? Rick --

Re: AF/Operator

Tom P Hylton suggested: > The enterprise systems automation list still receives traffic. > > List:automat...@protechpts.com > > Subscribe To:list...@protechpts.com > Subscribe Text: "join automation" (in body of document) That didn't work (the "listman" e-mail account is

Re: Question on Started Jobs

On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:36:29 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: >In , on 06/30/2010 > at 08:42 AM, Mark Zelden said: > >>[1] Many people don't realize that at the same time the started jobs >>support came in, enhancements were made to the START command to >>support JOBCARD parameters. > >

Re: CNET: IBM names Firefox its default browser

I certainly hope so, Steve. I got soo tired of removing the "Backdoor Graybird" virus from IE in my registry and watching it being installed promiscuously, albeit the windows were in Chinese, on YouTube. Never had another problem after switching to FF and installing Kaspersky Anti-virus. Not

USS automount and migration

We are getting a couple application request to hold reference data long term in our USS file structures for user SMB access. Since the access can be little to none for weeks or months, we are considering using automount and allow HSM to migrate the idle file structures. I was just wondering if

Re: Prevent ICF catalog out-of-space problems

On 1 Jul 2010 08:27:02 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >af dc pisze: >> Hello, >> today we had problems on one catalog that tried to expand over 4GB that it >> was not EA. From your experience is there a way to prevent these >> out-of-space conditions ?? >> Env is z/Os V1.10 > >Yes, SPL

Re: OT completely..........

>Between a persistant virus and a hard drive failure, I've lost >my entire address list and ask for your help in rebuilding it. >I've also lost a lot of other things, but that's another story. :-( You need Kaspersky Anti-Virus. It is the best anti-virus software I know. I had a similar experien

Re: searchdatacenter.com article

--- Very occasionally. In around 2007, I had an archive-to-CD prototype running. You gave it a list of MVS datasets and it would offload them to a PC (after converting to AWS format). The PC burned a pair of CDs and compared th

Re: searchdatacenter.com article

-- I guess that means you don't have someone like a Bill Fairchild on staff then John ... ;-) Just how many sysprogs do you reckon have had a go at writing channel programs to hit offline volumes ... ---

SV: SV: Delete all members of a PDS that is allocated

> -Ursprungligt meddelande- > Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] För Paul > Gilmartin > Skickat: den 1 juli 2010 18:26 > Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Ämne: Re: SV: Delete all members of a PDS that is allocated > > On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:51:40 +0200, Thomas Be

Re: searchdatacenter.com article

They taught all the obscure utilities like IEBCOMPR and IEBDG. Outside of that set of courses, I've never used either in the Real World, ever. Quoted below is the funniest part of the article. *This document is the

Re: Question on Started Jobs

-- In , on 06/30/2010 at 08:42 AM, Mark Zelden said: [1] Many people don't realize that at the same time the started jobs support came in, enhancements were made to the START command to support JOBCARD parameters. I

Re: AF/Operator

The enterprise systems automation list still receives traffic. List:automat...@protechpts.com Subscribe To:list...@protechpts.com Subscribe Text: "join automation" (in body of document) Purpose: Discussion forum for Data Center Automation

Re: ENQ trap for dynamic allocation

On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 09:18:46 -0500, John Hooper wrote: >Fifteen years ago I wrote a facility that front-ends the ENQ SVC. It traps all >ENQ requests and if SYSDSN ENQ comes back with a return code of 4 it >examines the environment, issues console messages, and usually waits a >minute and tries EN

Re: SV: Delete all members of a PDS that is allocated

On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:51:40 +0200, Thomas Berg wrote: >When I have needed to compress a PDS that was in frequent/continuous use, >e g a target load library in test env, I use a command/rexx that submits >a job which begins with submitting another job that has the pds allocated >with DISP=OLD. Th

Re: AF/Operator

In the interest of complete information, please rest assured that AF/Operator has not been phased out in favour of System Automation. AF/Operator is a valued part of the System Automation portfolio of solutions (which also includes System Automation Application Manager, System Automation for Multi

Re: Library won't add to LNKLST00

-Original Message- I don't think you can add to the existing linklist. You need to copy it to say LNKLST01. Add your new library to LNKLST01 and then activate LNKLST01. New tasks will get LNKLST01. Existing tasks will continue to use LNKLST00. Search the archives. This process has been d

Re: CNET: IBM names Firefox its default browser

-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 10:11 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: FW: CNET: IBM names Firefox its default browser http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20009387-264.html I w

Re: Vista large screen size not working

Tom Conley notes: > I've never seen this issue with Vista. Did you report it to Tom > and send him the corrupted .ses file? When I initially saw it repeatedly, yes, I did. Tom wrote me that it was an unusual [but not unprecedented] problem, the ".ses" file was clobbered, he had no clue how it

Re: ENQ trap for dynamic allocation

It is likely that the "enqueue" is now either being done by ENQ LINKAGE=SYSTEM or by ISGENQ - both forms will *not* issue the old enqueue SVC. Do NOT attempt to front-end the GRS PC - this would be *very* dangerous. The GRS execution environment can be extremely complex with various cross-memo

Re: Prevent ICF catalog out-of-space problems

af dc pisze: Hello, today we had problems on one catalog that tried to expand over 4GB that it was not EA. From your experience is there a way to prevent these out-of-space conditions ?? Env is z/Os V1.10 Yes, SPLIT THE CATALOG! AFAIR, catlogs (more correctly: BCSes) cannot be EF and then canno

Re: ENQ trap for dynamic allocation

> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Dave Day > Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 10:18 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: ENQ trap for dynamic allocation > > As far as I know, there is no mechanism provided by IBM f

Re: ENQ trap for dynamic allocation

As far as I know, there is no mechanism provided by IBM for hooking a PC. Ch. 10 of the Pops manual discusses the mechanism used to process a PC and a PR. Ch. 5 discusses the translation and look-up mechanisms involved. There are a lot of ISV products in the market that do front-end PCs...b

FW: CNET: IBM names Firefox its default browser

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Re: Library won't add to LNKLST00

This worked. Thank you -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Saraco Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 8:53 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Library won't add to LNKLST00 I just create a member like this and do a set p

Re: ENQ trap for dynamic allocation

On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 09:18:46 -0500 John Hooper wrote: :>Fifteen years ago I wrote a facility that front-ends the ENQ SVC. It traps all :>ENQ requests and if SYSDSN ENQ comes back with a return code of 4 it :>examines the environment, issues console messages, and usually waits a :>minute and t

Re: Question on Started Jobs

On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 09:49:05 -0400, Donald Johnson wrote: >running our CICS region as a started job versus an initiator-based job. Good idea. By running it as a started task (or started job) you always get a clean address space. Many sites have been running CICS that way for a long time. Movi

ENQ trap for dynamic allocation

Fifteen years ago I wrote a facility that front-ends the ENQ SVC. It traps all ENQ requests and if SYSDSN ENQ comes back with a return code of 4 it examines the environment, issues console messages, and usually waits a minute and tries ENQ again. Thus a test job reading a production file would

Re: CA's Hyperbuf

wrote: >Does anyone have any comments on CA's Hyperbuf product? We are replacing >BMC's Batch optimizer and we are having alot of problems with Hyperbuf. > I had problems and abandoned the same migration you are doing. If i recall it was something about files being opened multiple times in de

IEBDG (was searchdat acenter.co m article) ‏

Until now posters to this thread, making jokes at the expense of the handicapped, have mostly stopped short of nonsense; but | They taught all the obscure utilities like IEBCOMPR and | IEBDG. is not innocuous. Obscurity is of course situational. Urdu poetry is obscure to me because I n

Re: IEBCOMPR (was: searchdatacenter.com article)

On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 09:16 -0400, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > If the CD id burned from a .iso image, it's possible on either OS X > or Solaris to read the character special file underlying the mounted > CD and compare it exactly to the .iso. On Windows, ImgBurn will > extract a .iso from a CD; I woul

Re: Library won't add to LNKLST00

I just create a member like this and do a set prog=xx EDIT SYS1.CCSDZOS.PARMLIB(PROGL7) - 01.07Columns 1 00072 ** * Top of Data ** 01 LNKLST DEFINE NAME(LNKLSTL2) COPYFROM(CURRENT) 02 LNKLST DELETE NAME(

Re: Question on Started Jobs

Thanks for the help everyone! We are going to go ahead with this on a limited basis, and will try to see if there is a measurable difference running our CICS region as a started job versus an initiator-based job. * Don * On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) < shmuel+ibm-m...@p

Re: SAS is gone - long live ... ICETOOL?

RACFICE2 has symbols for the unloaded RACF SMF records. Does anyone know if there are symbols available for other SMF record types, especially type 30? Thanks, Wendell -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access inst

Re: Library won't add to LNKLST00

You need to create a new linklist set (copied from LNKLST00), add the library to that new set, then activate that new set. - Don Imbriale On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Ward, Mike S wrote: > Hello all, I was trying to add a library to lnklst00, but the system > would not allow me to do it. Wha

Library won't add to LNKLST00

Hello all, I was trying to add a library to lnklst00, but the system would not allow me to do it. What's the use of having a command to let you add libraries to lnklst when you can't? Will someone please help or explain? Thanks in advance. SETPROG,LNKLST,ADD,NAME=LNKLST00,DSNAME=IGY.SIGYCOMP,ATBO

IEBCOMPR (was: searchdatacenter.com article)

On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 08:44:30 -0400, David Andrews wrote: > >In around 2007, I had an archive-to-CD prototype running. You gave it a >list of MVS datasets and it would offload them to a PC (after converting >to AWS format). The PC burned a pair of CDs and compared them to make >sure the CDs were re

Re: SAS is gone - long live ... ICETOOL?

We are doing a trail of Spectrum SMF Writer. So far it looks like a good option for us; especially since the price is right! It might be something that could help you as well. Here is the link to their website: http://www.spectrumwriter.com/indexsmf.htm --

Re: Migrate From Mainframe? To What?

I wish that this happens but I'm not very hopeful until there is something available for installation to all the dummies wanting to do so. Also it has to be within the budgets of these dummies. Mohammad On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:27:46 -0400, George Henke wrote: Before you know it bookstores

Re: Language Environment on VSE

It is delivered as part of the base operating system. 2010/7/1 גדי בן אבי > Hi, > > Is Language Environment on VSE part of the OS package like on z/OS, or is > it a separately orderable (and chargeable) package? > > TIA > > Gadi > > -- Rich Smrcina Velocity Software, Inc. -

Language Environment on VSE

Hi, Is Language Environment on VSE part of the OS package like on z/OS, or is it a separately orderable (and chargeable) package? TIA Gadi לשימת לבך, בהתאם לנהלי החברה וזכויות החתימה בה, כל הצעה, התחייבות או מצג מטעם החברה, מחייבים מסמך נפרד וחתום על ידי מורשי

Re: HSM Incremental Backups for Sys1.**

So my question(s) to the group: 1. Do you normally use HSM to provide Incremental Backups of your Res volumes or do you rely on DR Volume Backups? 2. When upgrading OS versions do you routinely Bdelete the old HSM Backups and take a fresh set? Other Sys1.datasets show s similar pattern. 1) NO.

Re: searchdatacenter.com article

On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 17:16 -0400, McKown, John wrote: > Anybody here use IEBCOMPR? Very occasionally. In around 2007, I had an archive-to-CD prototype running. You gave it a list of MVS datasets and it would offload them to a PC (after converting to AWS format). The PC burned a pair of CDs

Re: searchdatacenter.com article

I guess that means you don't have someone like a Bill Fairchild on staff then John ... ;-) Just how many sysprogs do you reckon have had a go at writing channel programs to hit offline volumes ... Shane ... On Thu, Jul 1st, 2010 at 10:19 PM, "McKown, John" wrote: > Actually, we use OpenTech's

Re: searchdatacenter.com article

> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ken Porowski > Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 4:26 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: searchdatacenter.com article > > Of course, don't you compare every dataset you have to t

Re: AF/Operator

Sebastian Welton opines: >...but as seeing that AF/Operator is, probably, being phased >out in favour of SA... No. - - - - - Timothy Sipples Resident Enterprise Architect STG Value Creation & Complex Deals Team IBM Growth Markets (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com --

HSM Incremental Backups for Sys1.**

I'm curious as to how others deal with Sys1 datasets and HSM Incremental backups. I inherited a system where the sets of res packs were eligible for Incremental backups. However I now find that I have backups for prior releases of Zos. example: TSO HLIST DSN('SYS1.CBRDBRM') BOTH results in the

Re: Vista large screen size not working

On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:27:43 +0200, Miklos Szigetvari wrote: >Hi > >If someone has seen this: >For a PC the Vista large screen size is not working any more, for all >other PC's it is o.k and for this PC it was still yesterday o.k. I have been running Vista3270 version 1.27 from the day it became

TIMEUSED equivalent for CICS

I would like to measure CPU performance of sections of a running transaction. Under MVS it is relatively easy as the TIMEUSED macro will give me just the CPU time. This won't work under CICS as the CPU time will include other transaction that may get control as I request a CICS service. I do want t

Re: Taglines

In <160723604-1277828820-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-14195422...@bda026.bisx.prod.on.blackberry>, on 06/29/2010 at 04:27 PM, Ted MacNEIL said: >Too much time on your hands? PKB -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see