Re: ISPF: How best to change ISPSPROF variables programmatically (was ISPF: How best to change user variable ZRETMINL in ISPSPROF)

Hi Dave, That helps enormously - thanks! Best regards, David Tidy Dow Benelux B.V. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Dave Salt Sent: 12 August 2010 17:01 To: IBM-MAIN@

Re: CA MSM First Contact

> An overview of the various address spaces involved with MSM (4 >long-term plus other short-term), what types of functions in MSM cause >tasks to to farmed out to other address spaces or the creation of other >address spaces for running tasks. What? 4 new permanent address spaces?!? IBM and

Re: PDSE Performance

>I know there has been plenty of previous discussion on this topic. However, I >couldn't find a simple answer to what I'm after. >We have a relatively small number of large PDSE's (25-30K members) that take >inordinately long to bring up member lists for (PDF 3.4) - ~20 seconds or more >on the fir

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Re: PDSE Performance

See if http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246106.html?Open is helpful. Hank O From: George Mosley To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 13/08/2010 03:12 AM Subject:PDSE Performance Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List I know there has been plenty of previous disc

Re: Basic question about CPU instructions

Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In , on 08/12/2010 at 01:09 AM, Supra Uche said: I think that new instructions run applications more efficiently than the previous ones. Not quite. New code *may* run faster if it uses the new instructions; old code will not be affected. When the

CA MSM First Contact

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Re: Basic question about CPU instructions

On 8/12/2010 6:13 PM, Bob goolsby wrote: I can't seem to find anything equivalent for the MVS world. A Google Search on 'MVS+Benchmark' turns up lots of Vendor 'benchmarks' of their code running on various releases of MVS and zOS, but nothing that allows me to time arbitrary code. I really ha

Re: basic questions about machine instructions

--- Are there optimizers for library languages such as C? Or isn't that considered important anymore? -- Optimizers can help BUT: 1: they can't always

Re: Oracle: The future is diskless!

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TableBase Question

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Re: Basic question about CPU instructions

Mornin' All -- This thread brings up a question that has been knocking around in my head for a couple of months -- Is there a benchmarking facility for IBM Assembler code? This is the kind of question that gets answered in the Unix world by writing a snippet of code and running it a few thousand

Re: Oracle: The future is diskless!

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Re: Oracle: The future is diskless!

Well, the traffic may get a little heavier during summer weekends, and flood insurance could be rather expensive ;-) >>> Rick Fochtman 8/12/2010 5:44 PM >>> -- > "Last mainframe will turned off in 1996" hahahahaha > "No mo

Re: Oracle: The future is diskless!

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Re: Oracle: The future is diskless!

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Re: JES2 MAS member restriction

Scheduling environments *COMBINED* with job class will provide the requested function;. See SCHENV= on the JES2 JOBCLASS definition. If this is not done, either JCL will need to be changed or an exit coded to provide the correct SCHENV for this work. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Ma

Re: JES2 MAS member restriction

JES2 exits (if you want to write / support them) can also help do this without having to change JCL. Of course there are products like MVS Solutions ThruPut Manager that have a CLIST like language to do the same sort of control (with vendor supported JES2 exits behind the scenes doing the work).

Re: IBM 3883 Manuals

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Re: JES2 MAS member restriction

Restrict by what? job name? RACF id? Products used? WLM service class? Job class? We use job class and use JES initiators so that the proper LPARs run the proper job classes. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland

Re: JES2 MAS member restriction

Some ideas: 1 - Set up SCHEDULING ENVIRONMENTS in WLM and use that to steer the jobs to the appropriate LPARs 2 - Set up initiators so that only certain classes are defined on PRD3 and 4 This presumes you aren't using all 36 classes already and could define some uniquely to PRD3/4. 3 - Use /*JO

JES2 MAS member restriction

We have two LPARs (PRD1,PRD2) on a MAS, but have included 2 more (PRD3,PRD4). Due to a special IBM pricing, we only wants that certain workload could run on the new ones. We have WLM and IRD working on our systems. Basically we would like to segment or restrict JOBs (Batch or TSO) from running whe

Re: IBM Data Encryption Facility?

W dniu 2010-08-12 21:30, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] pisze: Is anyone using the IBM Data Encryption Facility? Obviously yes. Does it support encryption of FDR volume dumps or did you also need to obtain the FDR Encryption offering? AFAIK no. There is an option (paid feature) for DSS dumps

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Re: IBM Data Encryption Facility?

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IBM Data Encryption Facility?

Is anyone using the IBM Data Encryption Facility? Does it support encryption of FDR volume dumps or did you also need to obtain the FDR Encryption offering? Anyone using the hardware encryption offered by Oracle/Sun/STK? If I can avail myself of your research/experience in this matter it would

Re: Valid EBCDIC Characters for DB2 Plan name

Thank Sent from my iPhone On Aug 12, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Mike Schwab wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Micheal Butz > wrote: Hi Would anyone know what are valid ebcdic charcters for a DB2 plan name EBCIDIC has 3 classes of characters. Uppercase Alphabetic A-Z Lowercase Alphabetic a

Re: Basic question about CPU instructions

OK,the 9121 had some CMOS in it, but also still had much Bipolar logic: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=212AEDFD169F4B9A8AB5D641C4560917?doi=10.1.1.86.4485&rep=rep1&type=pdf >>> "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" 8/12/2010 1:05 PM >>> >>> In , on 08/12/2010 at 10:59 AM, Tom

Re: Basic question about CPU instructions

On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:05:43 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: >In , on 08/12/2010 > at 10:59 AM, Tom Marchant said: > >>Are you sure about that? > >Certainly for the ES/9000 and 43xx processors; I'm not sure about, >e.g., the 370/145. Are you saying that the ES/9000 and 43xx were impleme

Re: EDG3001E RMM command from batch REXX

Enrique, I ran your code in batch here, and it works just fine. The explanation for message EDG3001 states: The DFSMSrmm subsystem is not active. DFSMSrmm TSO subcommands cannot be used to display or alter information contained within the DFSMSrmm control data set. Since you are using TSO com

Re: PDSE Performance

Hi George, I believe that the answer to your question is a qualified "yes". I believe that the time lapse is due to infrequent OPENs of the PDSE. Thus, the directory has to be read, in its entirety, into cache (a data space). Once the directory resides in cache, subsequent member lists are spee

Re: Basic question about CPU instructions

shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes: > Certainly for the ES/9000 and 43xx processors; I'm not sure about, > e.g., the 370/145. late 70s there was start of effort to move the large variety of internal microprocessors to 801/risc (iliad chips) ... this included the follow-

PDSE Performance

I know there has been plenty of previous discussion on this topic. However, I couldn't find a simple answer to what I'm after. We have a relatively small number of large PDSE's (25-30K members) that take inordinately long to bring up member lists for (PDF 3.4) - ~20 seconds or more on the first

Re: Valid EBCDIC Characters for DB2 Plan name

On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:06:48 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: > >EBCIDIC has 3 classes of characters. >Uppercase Alphabetic A-Z >Lowercase Alphabetic a-z >National @#$ >Numeric 0-9 >Special printable charaters >Control characters (printer positioning, etc) >Accented characters (Á :Â, etc) >Non-printable c

Re: Basic question about CPU instructions

In <4c63e39f.8489.00d...@joann.com>, on 08/12/2010 at 12:05 PM, Scott Rowe said: >Yeah, I have to agree. I remember getting a tour of the plant and >hearing that the TCMs for the 9021 and 9121 were very similar, except >that the 9121 was air cooled. The 9121s certainly weren't CMOS. I'm pre

Re: Basic question about CPU instructions

In , on 08/12/2010 at 10:59 AM, Tom Marchant said: >Are you sure about that? Certainly for the ES/9000 and 43xx processors; I'm not sure about, e.g., the 370/145. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see We d

Re: NO RESPONSE TO MY EARLIER POST ON HSM - REPOST

Well, HSM obviously thinks that there is another HSM host running recycle, and I'm pretty sure that that belief is due to a field in a CDS record. Is there any chance that your HOST= value was not always "C"? if not, I agree with Tom that you need to open a PMR with IBM, it would appear that s

Re: Debug Tool Question

I believe DT needs a Sysdebug file for each program you would like to use the tool with. Please always remember that I'm here for your Amusement! Greg Hutchison -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of gad...@malam.com Sent:

Re: NO RESPONSE TO MY EARLIER POST ON HSM - REPOST

I verified, the HOST=  value was/is 'C'.  I will take yours and Ed's advice and open a PMR with IBM.   Thanks for all your help.  --- On Fri, 13/8/10, Scott Rowe wrote: From: Scott Rowe Subject: Re: NO RESPONSE TO MY EARLIER POST ON HSM - REPOST To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Received: Friday, 13 A

Re: Basic question about CPU instructions

Yeah, I have to agree. I remember getting a tour of the plant and hearing that the TCMs for the 9021 and 9121 were very similar, except that the 9121 was air cooled. The 9121s certainly weren't CMOS. >>> Tom Marchant 8/12/2010 11:59 AM >>> On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:08:09 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seym

Re: Basic question about CPU instructions

On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:08:09 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: >the entry level and midrange boxen >were never bipolar. Are you sure about that? They were certainly not ECL or CML, but I thought that they were TTL or a variant of it and were constructed of bipolar transistors. -- Tom Mar

EDG3001E RMM command from batch REXX

Hi forum. I am trying to run a RMM command from a REXX program on batch mode, but get this message: EDG3001E DFSMSRMM SUBSYSTEM IS NOT ACTIVE But when using it online it works fine. Let me explain. The REXX has coded an "RMM SD ..." instruction I want to be executed just to get the datasets and

Re: NO RESPONSE TO MY EARLIER POST ON HSM - REPOST

Here it is: ARC0101I QUERY ACTIVE COMMAND STARTING ON HOST=C   ARC0144I AUDIT=NOT HELD AND INACTIVE, LIST=NOT HELD AND INACTIVE, RECYCLE=NOT  ARC0144I (CONT.) HELD AND INACTIVE, REPORT=NOT HELD AND INACTIVE   ARC0160I MIGRATION=NOT HELD, AUTOMIGRATION=NOT

Re: NO RESPONSE TO MY EARLIER POST ON HSM - REPOST

Could you post the full response to a QUERY ACTIVE command? >>> John Dawes 8/12/2010 11:19 AM >>> Scott, To confirm, the DASD is not shared with any other LPAR. It is totally independent. There are no other HSMs that the share the CDS. There is only 1 HSM in this LPAR and nothing shares it.

Re: ISPF: How best to change ISPSPROF variables programmatically (was ISPF: How best to change user variable ZRETMINL in ISPSPROF)

On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:00:50 -0400, Dave Salt wrote: >You can manually turn Tab to Point and Shoot on or off by entering this command on any ISPF command line: > >ISPFVAR PSTAB(ON) > > (cross posted to IBM-MAIN and ISPF-L) I knew of the ISPFVAR command but always use "SETTINGS" to change the th

Re: NO RESPONSE TO MY EARLIER POST ON HSM - REPOST

- Original Message - From: "John Kelly" Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 11:10 AM Subject: Re: NO RESPONSE TO MY EARLIER POST ON HSM - REPOST ARC0846I ML2 TAPES ARE BEING RECYCLED BY ANOTHER HOST I do believe what's being asked, is there another LPA

Re: NO RESPONSE TO MY EARLIER POST ON HSM - REPOST

Scott,   To confirm, the DASD is not shared with any other LPAR.  It is totally independent. There are no other HSMs that the share the CDS.  There is only 1 HSM in this LPAR and nothing shares it.   I will continue digging around.  Let me know if you have any other thoughts.   --- On Fri, 13/8/

Re: NO RESPONSE TO MY EARLIER POST ON HSM - REPOST

ARC0846I ML2 TAPES ARE BEING RECYCLED BY ANOTHER HOST I do believe what's being asked, is there another LPAR using the HSM CDS'? If not it soounds like the LPAR/HSM was terminated during a RECYCLE of ML2 and you'll have to zap the control block to clear it. Jack Kelly 202-502-2390 (Office) -

Re: Valid EBCDIC Characters for DB2 Plan name

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Micheal Butz wrote: > Hi > > Would anyone know what are valid ebcdic charcters for a DB2 plan name EBCIDIC has 3 classes of characters. Uppercase Alphabetic A-Z Lowercase Alphabetic a-z National @#$ Numeric 0-9 Special printable charaters Control characters (print

Re: NO RESPONSE TO MY EARLIER POST ON HSM - REPOST

So, by saying it is independent you mean that it does not share DASD with any other systems? Has there ever been any other HSM address space that has used these CDSs? >>> John Dawes 8/12/2010 10:43 AM >>> Scott, I am sorry that I wasn't clear. When I said " no other host " I meant that this

Re: ISPF: How best to change ISPSPROF variables programmatically (was ISPF: How best to change user variable ZRETMINL in ISPSPROF)

You can manually turn Tab to Point and Shoot on or off by entering this command on any ISPF command line: ISPFVAR PSTAB(ON) You can turn TPS on or off programatically by doing this: address ispexec "CONTROL ERRORS RETURN"

Re: Basic question about CPU instructions

In , on 08/12/2010 at 07:51 AM, "McKown, John" said: >New instructions do not necessarily run more efficiently than >previous instructions. It depends on what the instructions do, of >course. I have not tested it myself, but I've been told that on some >processors, the MVCL instruction is actu

Re: Debug Tool Question

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Valid EBCDIC Characters for DB2 Plan name

Hi Would anyone know what are valid ebcdic charcters for a DB2 plan name Sent from my iPhone -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN I

Re: NO RESPONSE TO MY EARLIER POST ON HSM - REPOST

Scott,   I am sorry that I wasn't clear.  When I said " no other host " I meant that this partition is independent and does not have any other HSM STCs  or Address space executing.  There is only 1 HSM STC executing. --- On Fri, 13/8/10, Scott Rowe wrote: From: Scott Rowe Subject: Re: NO RE

Re: NO RESPONSE TO MY EARLIER POST ON HSM - REPOST

John, I seriously doubt it is because of SSM, I run recycle with SSM every day here, with no problem. I was curious whate you meant by these statements: The only problem is that there is no other host which is using this address space. This partition is not shared by another resource. The m

Re: basic questions about machine instructions

> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 9:31 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: basic questions about machine instructions > > On 12 Aug 2010 06:35:34 -0700, john.mck.

Re: basic questions about machine instructions

On 12 Aug 2010 06:35:34 -0700, john.mck...@healthmarkets.com (McKown, John) wrote: >So the programmers don't even need to understand machine architecture any >more. >Unfortunately, this leads them to write poorly performing code due to a total >lack of >understanding of even basic knowledge of

Re: NO RESPONSE TO MY EARLIER POST ON HSM - REPOST

John,   It could be because the Secondary Space Management is executing.  However, since I am a newbie I would wait for the HSM gurus to respond.  --- On Thu, 8/12/10, John Dawes wrote: From: John Dawes Subject: NO RESPONSE TO MY EARLIER POST ON HSM - REPOST To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Received

NO RESPONSE TO MY EARLIER POST ON HSM - REPOST

G'Day,   Did anybody have a chance to read my earlier post regarding HSM?  Just in case, I am reposting it.   I have noticed something very strange.  A recycle did not execute because of :  ARC0846I ML2 TAPES ARE BEING RECYCLED BY ANOTHER HOST. The only problem is that there is no other host which

Re: Basic question about CPU instructions

In , on 08/12/2010 at 01:09 AM, Supra Uche said: >I think that new instructions run applications more efficiently than >the previous ones. Not quite. New code *may* run faster if it uses the new instructions; old code will not be affected. If the operating system or libraries use the new ins

Re: auditor request question

In <1654937378-1281569019-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-19398315...@bda026.bisx.prod.on.blackberry>, on 08/11/2010 at 11:23 PM, Ted MacNEIL said: >But, there is a blood test (PSA) that will do the same thing). By all means rely on that advise; I'll continue to rely on the medical l

Re: SHARE - REXX requirements

In <01cb39b8$ed41cfb0$c7c56f...@netcom.com>, on 08/11/2010 at 07:54 PM, William M Klein said: >I recently posted this information in the comp.lang.rexx Usenet >group, but thought there might be some in IBM-MAIN would also be >interested. What about TSO-REXX and the equivalent VM list, if

Re: IBM 3883 Manuals

re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#41 IBM 3883 Manuals http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#42 IBM 3883 Manuals http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#43 IBM 3883 Manuals for other 3380 related info ... this old email talks about track spacing (being 20 track widths on original 3380 and

Re: basic questions about machine instructions

> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of john gilmore > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 8:10 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: basic questions about machine instructions > > > Moreover, concern with these 'bits a

Re: Basic question about CPU instructions

On 08/12/2010 01:09 AM, Supra Uche wrote: > Hello List, > I want to learn how a cpu type change effects my application performance. > When a new generation mainframe is produced, it comes with hundreds of > new instructions. I think that new instructions run applications more > efficiently > t

Re: basic questions about machine instructions

I very largely agree with Gerhard Postpischl's comments. The question of the effects of new machine instructions on execution times does, however, require further comment. The first, surpassingly obvious thing that must be said about new instructions is that not every mainframe currently i

Re: Basic question about CPU instructions

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:51 AM, McKown, John wrote: > New instructions do not necessarily run more efficiently than previous > instructions. It depends on what the instructions do, of course. I have not > tested it myself, but I've been told that on some processors, the MVCL > instruction is act

Re: Basic question about CPU instructions

> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Supra Uche > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 1:10 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Basic question about CPU instructions > > Hello List, > I want to learn how a cpu type change

Re: What are types of "Work" in SMF 30 record?

Thanks. Did "APPC/MVS transaction program" go to SNA heaven? Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Cheryl Walker Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 7:38 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: What are types of "Work" in S

QUESTION ABOUT HSM - RECYCLE

Good Day,   I have noticed something very strange.  A recycle did not execute because of :  ARC0846I ML2 TAPES ARE BEING RECYCLED BY ANOTHER HOST. The only problem is that there is no other host which is using this address space.  This partition is not shared by another resource.  I noticed that

Re: auditor request question

In <1491318961-1281558009-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-4985524...@bda026.bisx.prod.on.blackberry>, on 08/11/2010 at 08:20 PM, Ted MacNEIL said: >4. Are you attempting to hijack this thread, or to belittle a valid >concern? No. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT

Re: IBM 3883 Manuals

In <03cf01cb399d$fdb1d590$f91580...@net>, on 08/11/2010 at 04:41 PM, "William H. Blair" said: >According to a paper in the IBM Systems Journal, Volume 25 Issue 3.4 >(1986) on pages 274-305, titled "Impact of memory systems on computer > architecture and system organization" --. >> A sector on

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Re: auditor request question

> >> <>This has been an interesting thread. It seems we all really > >> ENJOY auditors... Can someone say prostate exam? > >> > >> Isn't that essentially a different kind of audit ??? > > - >--- Yes it is, but I'm not sure which o

Re: Basic question about CPU instructions

On 8/12/2010 2:09 AM, Supra Uche wrote: I want to learn how a cpu type change effects my application performance. When a new generation mainframe is produced, it comes with hundreds of new instructions. I think that new instructions run applications more efficiently than the previous ones. Also

Debug Tool Question

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ISPF: How best to change ISPSPROF variables programmatically (was ISPF: How best to change user variable ZRETMINL in ISPSPROF)

Hi, I was actually hoping to see a response to something more similar to Mark's interpretation. In particular I wanted a programmatic (REXX) way to (re)set the "tab to point and shoot fields" on the way in to TSO/ISPF. This in particular because MXI turns it on, but of course if you time out, it i