Kevin,
maybe som of the others have the same problem *I* have in understanding
the term 'monitor message'. I just reread Planning:OPS and the message
manual where the IEF's are in, and I am still unclear what 'monitor message'
is/means.
Take IEF403I and IEF404I (two of those that I need in
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We're doing some load testing, and running out of storage, but we can't
figure out how to tell WHAT storage.
For this and the other thread (z/os 1.11 and low private):
Set a slip trap on the 878 (overriding the default that probably everybody has
to suppress them) and look at the resulting
That is usually a tricky problemanalyses: you will probably catch the
victim of some other extensive storage consumption done earlier in time.
Comparing VMSDATA from 1.9 and 1.11 might give a clue.
Kees.
Veilleux, Jon L veilleu...@aetna.com wrote in message
Back in the joblog should be an abend message of some sort that shows the type
of storage requested.
The SDSF display would not be very credible to me as you might have had dump
processing, cleanup, etc running.
I'd look at your REGION= (on both job and EXEC cards) as well as your IEFUSI
HI,
To the users of MFNetDisk,
Important fix!
Better error recovery in case of TCP error which is simulate by MFNetDisk as
NO_PATH_AVAILABLE. Full control of the IOS message in case of the error.
More users are using the replication feature (In addition to the emulation
which many users
HELIO pisze:
All list,
We have a 3494 tape library. I need to eject the cartridge (ce xxx)
which used by the technical service.
Does anyone know how I can eject cartridge?
1. Why? Why do you need it?
2. Simply pause the library, open (ONE!) cabinet and take the cart.
After you close the
Maybe I was too hasty. If a message is suppressed from every console
AND from the log, it could be considered lost.
Exactly. That was my first thought. In my experience, I am *required*
to proof to all and sundry (most notably IBM software support) that
things happened in a certain order or
Kevin ,
The SYSLOG / OPERLOG in many place treated as an aeroplane black boxes. It
records *everything *that is happening in the system. It server as tool for
technical and legal problems investigation and it is archived for years.
There are installations that forbid suppressing any message,
Phil,
You do not say what kind of batch job it is. Is it normal qsam/vsam or is
it DB2?
The CPU percentage (CPU time /elapsed time) is over 70%. This is very high
for a non DB2. Even for DB2 it would have to find most of the data already in
bufferpools.
The fialure is
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:12:35 -0400, Cheryl Walker che...@watsonwalker.com
wrote:
The link work fine for me using Safari 5.0.2 on a Mac.
I also use this for z/OS - http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/news.html
Cheryl
==
Cheryl Watson
Watson Walker, Inc.
Hi to all, it's probably a stupid question.
Which is the most expensive method to call a program in batch mode?
Using a PGM=program within a submitted(and converted) jcl or calling the
program from a another one.
And what about data definition?
Allocate a file within a program or from the jcl?
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:34:42 +0200 Marco Gianfranco Indaco
mgind...@gmail.com wrote:
:Hi to all, it's probably a stupid question.
:Which is the most expensive method to call a program in batch mode?
:Using a PGM=program within a submitted(and converted) jcl or calling the
:program from a another
By any chance did someone change the LINKLIST set recently without an IPL? That
can cause this error, although with your high usage numbers it does seem an
unlikely possibility.
You could always run a GETMAIN trace to see where the storage requests are
coming from.
-Original Message-
Correct, the last GETMAIN is probably not the problem, but the VSMDATA detail
listing might help to locate who is using the storage.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010
from today
Western Digital Launches First 3TB Hard Drive
http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/portable/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=227900320itc=ref-true
mentions that it is a FBA4096 drive (rather than FBA512 that has been
standard for so long) suggested retail is $239, $74/tbyte (2.5TB
We're doing some load testing, and running out of storage,
but we can't figure out how to tell WHAT storage. Shortly before it
blew off, the REAL column in SDSF showed 120T. We're pretty sure that
wasn't 120 terabytes; it seems to be T for Thousand. But that isn't a
lot of memory?!
Here's the
Please excuse me for that weird post before. Finger check; it wasn't
meant to be sent out at that time.
We're doing some load testing, and running out of storage,
but we can't figure out how to tell WHAT storage. Shortly
before it blew off, the REAL column in SDSF showed 120T.
We're pretty
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:16:24 -0500, Barbara Nitz nitz-...@gmx.net
wrote:
Mark,
1) It is recommended to NOT use IEFUSI for OMVS (I removed it many
years ago).
2) When I did, I checked for OMVS and skipped writing the messages:
CLC 0(4,R5),=C'OMVS'
BE SKIPWTO
ehm,
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:13:12 -0400, Cheryl Walker
che...@watsonwalker.com wrote:
Although this email is a little late, a good reference for dependencies at
start
up and shut down can be found in the MTTR Redbook -
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247816.html?Open. Although the
TCP/IP
Thanks to all who replied. I discovered, as I was teaching myself this logic,
that the ECB actually had the completion code in it, but only after the
completion of the WAIT ECB, which proceeded the ATTACH. Additionally, the
existing logic in the program took the ECB
ECB = X'84806000' in this
On 10/20/2010 06:00 AM, Binyamin Dissen wrote:
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:34:42 +0200 Marco Gianfranco Indaco
mgind...@gmail.com wrote:
:Hi to all, it's probably a stupid question.
:Which is the most expensive method to call a program in batch mode?
:Using a PGM=program within a submitted(and
For example, can z/OS 1.6 run on hardware without it?
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Thanks to all who replied. I discovered, as I was teaching myself
this logic, that the ECB actually
had the completion code in it, but only after the completion of the
WAIT ECB, which proceeded the
Art (and Cheryl)
Note that somehow the . became part of the url in Cheryl's note.
Probably because she typed it! We are all taught that a full stop - called
a period in some geographies, in others a point final and so on - is,
unlike a
preposition as Winston Churchill reminded us, a
Then quit PUN-inshing us! G
snip
.One benefit of this can be that the URL characters may no longer[1]
need more than one line in order to be presented.
Chris Mason
[1] I really need to give up this punning habit!
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On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:16:24 -0500, Barbara Nitz nitz-...@gmx.net wrote:
Mark,
1) It is recommended to NOT use IEFUSI for OMVS (I removed it many
years ago).
2) When I did, I checked for OMVS and skipped writing the messages:
CLC 0(4,R5),=C'OMVS'
BE SKIPWTO
ehm, my
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 07:37:42 -0500, Arthur Gutowski aguto...@ford.com wrote:
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:16:24 -0500, Barbara Nitz nitz-...@gmx.net
wrote:
Mark,
1) It is recommended to NOT use IEFUSI for OMVS (I removed it many
years ago).
2) When I did, I checked for OMVS and skipped writing the
As has been stated, you cannot percolate an abend from one task to
another.
If a subtask abends with completion code x, the mother task can see that
in the ECB post code if the subtask was attached with ECB.
However, it would be not be OK for that mother task to contort things so
that it
There has not been a level set yet for z/OS, though there has for z/VM.
Release 1.12 will run on any zArchitecture hardware, including z800 and
z900. AFAIR, the Extended-immediate facility was introduced with the z9-109.
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On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:00:23 -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
I find the best way to present an URL in a post is to put it, all by itself,
on a
separate line - and resist the temptation to add a full stop.
Amen. But some mailers have a compulsion to break lines at less than
80 characters, often
I would like to see you change MPFLST, so if you suppress messages (i.e. IEC*)
that highlighted IEC messages would still display on the console.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
W. Kevin Kelley
Sent: Tuesday, October 19,
For example, can z/OS 1.6 run on hardware without it?
Extended immediate instructions were introduced on Freeway (i.e., z800/z900)
processors. Operating systems prior to 1.6 could run on 9672 processors. 1.6
requires a Freeway processor. 1.6 went out of service 9/30/2007.
Bob Shannon
Rocket
Hi colleagues,
In the installation they want all files are PDS PDSE rather than because they
consider as a method PDS old compared to PDSE.
I would like the experience of others on their premises and in which cases are
recommended one or the other.
Is there any document about it ?
Thank you
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:57:08 +, Bob Shannon
bshan...@rocketsoftware.com wrote:
For example, can z/OS 1.6 run on hardware without it?
Extended immediate instructions were introduced on Freeway (i.e.,
z800/z900) processors. Operating systems prior to 1.6 could run on 9672
processors. 1.6
How did you now that .you really helps me out
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 19, 2010, at 10:06 PM, David Kreiss david.kre...@neon.com
wrote:
In IPCS try 2 (ANALYSIS) enter undocumented 6i option and select
VSMINFO.
Dave
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion
Cross posted to MVS and RACF.
We don't use OMVS and have no plans to do so except for the bare minimum
required. I did not choose to use the 'backstop' and so code a OMVS segment on
each user and group profile as appropriate.
Somehow I have accumulated a number of (non human) profiles with UID
Go to SHARE and see Jerry Ng's IPCS presentations...
Tom Harper
IMS Utilities Development Team
Neon Enterprise Software
Sugar Land, TX
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Micheal Butz
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 10:46
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:46:09 -0500, Hal Merritt hmerr...@jackhenry.com wrote:
Cross posted to MVS and RACF.
We don't use OMVS and have no plans to do so except for the bare minimum
required. I did not choose to use the 'backstop' and so code a OMVS segment
on each user and group profile as
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:46:09 -0500, Hal Merritt
hmerr...@jackhenry.com wrote:
Cross posted to MVS and RACF.
We don't use OMVS and have no plans to do so except for the bare
minimum
required. I did
Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] För Hal
Merritt
Skickat: den 20 oktober 2010 17:46
Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Ämne: Assigning UID's
Cross posted to MVS and RACF.
We don't use OMVS and have no plans to do so except for the bare minimum
required. I did
We use the high order bytes of the UID to discriminate between human and
non-humans and have different codes for regular employees versus contract
employees.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Hal Merritt
Sent: Wednesday,
Search the archives for 6i. Bob Wright of IPCS fame posted this on 11 Apr 2008:
If you're running release 8 or later, take a look a dialog option 2.6i.
It's not advertised on the analysis panel, and the disclaimer on the
2.6i panel hopefully explains why.
Dave
-Original
Thanks to all who replied. Terry Draper asked some specific questions:
You do not say what kind of batch job it is. Is it normal qsam/vsam or is
it DB2?
This is doing encryption of huge volumes of data. I/O is very low.
The CPU percentage (CPU time /elapsed time) is over 70%. This is
I am the IBM developer, who for the past 24 years of my working career, has
been responsible for the care and feeding of the XCF signalling service. I
designed and implemented the support for XCF signalling structures. I know
how they work. I understand the interplay between their sizing, the
--- On Tue, 10/19/10, Craig Dudley craig.dud...@sacsi.com wrote:
From: Craig Dudley craig.dud...@sacsi.com
Subject: IBM Announcements URL
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 1:44 PM
Hi,
I am trying to access the IBM announcements web page at:
Be aware that some PDS cannot be PDSE (for example, SYS1.NUCLEUS). Look in the
archives (see footnote for url) for discussions of problems with sharing PDSEs.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Fran Hernandez
Sent:
Hi Ed,
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/index.wss
---SNIP-
I tried again this morning and got through with no issue. Try it again
and see if it now works for you.
Still same problem with Safari 5.0.2 Firefox 3.6.11 on Mac OS X 10.6.4.
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Systems
I'll try it with Firefox on Linux when I get home tonight. IBM has been
pretty good about coding their web pages to be browser-agnostic.
-jc-
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Craig Dudley
Sent: Wednesday, October
A dummy question. When I do a VSAM logical dataset restore using DFDSS, does
it do a reorganization of the data? I would think so, but I cannot find it
in the manual. This would be from a logical dump.
--
John McKown
Maranatha!
Sent from my Vibrant Android phone.
Hi John,
I don't expect that it would. As far as I know, DF/dss logical processing is
aware of datasets and records (i.e. blocks) but doesn't usually concern
itself with the content of these datasets. There are two exceptions that I'm
aware of:
1) DF/dss can change the amount of unused (pad)
The part of file allocation that has significant cost is basically the
same whether the allocation is via JCL or dynamic allocation.
While the true cost in CPU seconds for a dynamic allocation might be
exactly the same as for a static allocation, where those CPU seconds
are recorded in RMF and
Thanks, Alan.
How about IDCAMS EXPORT / IMPORT? We are looking at what it would take to
replace CA-FAVER. It is a good product, but we are looking at possible
alternatives. IDCAMS is __slow__!
--
John McKown
Maranatha!
Sent from my Vibrant Android phone.
On Oct 20, 2010 2:59 PM, Starr, Alan
We are z/OS V1R11. We have encountered a problem that it took about 4 hours
from the time the note was received until it was delivered. We still have about
200 that are in the retry Queue. I have tried the RSET NOOP commands it just
responds with 250 OK but still nothing happens. This
Yes John... As far as I know, both REPRO and EXPORT result in a reorganized
VSAM dataset.
While you're looking at alternatives, you may wish to consider Innovation's
IAM. We are quite happy with it.
Regards,
Alan
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
If looking for an alternative to the traditional IDCAMS REPRO for the
reorganisation of VSAM(and IAM) files, Innovation Data Processing's FDREORG
solution might be worth looking at:
http://www.innovationdp.fdr.com/products/fdrreorg/
Apart from being able to offer significantly better
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:46:09 -0500, Hal Merritt wrote:
We don't use OMVS and have no plans to do so except for the bare minimum
required. I did not choose to use the 'backstop' and so code a OMVS segment on
each user and group profile as appropriate.
If you have _any_ other in-house UNIX
Use the employee number
That's actually against the privacy laws in Canada.
And, many companies use that number for access to HR systems, so it could be a
major security hole.
-
I'm a SuperHero with neither powers, nor motivation!
Kimota!
On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 14:14 -0700, Starr, Alan wrote:
Yes John... As far as I know, both REPRO and EXPORT result in a reorganized
VSAM dataset.
While you're looking at alternatives, you may wish to consider Innovation's
IAM. We are quite happy with it.
Regards,
Alan
IAM is probably
On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 08:27 +1100, Stephen Mednick wrote:
If looking for an alternative to the traditional IDCAMS REPRO for the
reorganisation of VSAM(and IAM) files, Innovation Data Processing's FDREORG
solution might be worth looking at:
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:57:07 +, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
Use the employee number
That's actually against the privacy laws in Canada.
And, many companies use that number for access to HR systems, so it could be a
major security hole.
I guess the motivation is good. I didn't even bother to
Mark
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On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:08:26 -0500, Mark Steely
mark.ste...@wnco.com wrote:
We are
Check the transmission headers in one of the delayed emails once it gets
received. (In MS Outlook, you open the email in its own window, click on Option
in the View drop-down). The timestamps in the headers should tell you which
server is causing the delay.
Ant.
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Ich werde ab 21.10.2010 nicht im Büro sein. Ich kehre zurück am
22.10.2010.
Bitte wenden Sie sich in dringenden Fällen an Willem van den Haak ( email:
willem.vandenh...@ecs-group.com Telefon: +32 2 773 22 99)
I am not in the office from 21.10.10. I am back on 22.10.10.
In urgend cases please
But employers need some kind of universal unique keys, not so tightly secured
so that, for example when employees
terminate they can:
Yes, but there are Federal regulations against certain numbers in use.
In Canada, both SIN's Emp#'s are restricted.
-
I'm a SuperHero with neither powers, nor
Alan and John,
In the case of John's question the answer is no, the KSDS will not be
reorganized when you use DFSMSdss RESTORE.
However, this is not true for all DFSMSdss processing. Where you copy or
move a dataset DFSMSdss will try to use utilities to process the file, and
in the case of VSAM
Thanks. My boss already mentioned something from FDR. With the comment that
the cost was way too high for us. We're still downsizing. And looking at
replacing CA-FAVER to reduce software cost. One doesn't save money by
replacing a Ford with a Lexus!
--
John McKown
Maranatha!
Well considering the
In the installation they want all files are PDS PDSE rather than because they
consider as a method PDS old compared to PDSE.
Well, if your installation likes performance problems, go right ahead.
*Especially* if any of your PDSs contain recfm=V(x) records.
IBM development has told me (through
consider as a method PDS old compared to PDSE.
Well, if your installation likes performance problems, go right ahead.
Barbara, you have to learn to stop beating around the bush and tell us what you
really feel!
(8-{]}
BTW, I used to be a big fan of PDSE.
Now, except for source code, I won't
John,
With BUFND set to the number of CI per CA, or equivalent in KB, REPRO will
almost always outperform DFSMSdss. The best you'll get from DFSMSdss for
logical dump is one track per IO, even if you specify OPT(4).
Tuned IDCAMS is _FAST_!
Ron
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