Help with S237-04 on Tape

2010-12-12 Thread Lizette Koehler
I had someone cancel an SMF dump job (z/OS V1.11) while it was writing its output. Now when I try to read it - S237-04 invalid block count. I do not have DITTO, or SMFUTIL. The process I have is IFASMFDP Anyway to recover some or all of the data on the tape? How would I go about recovering

Re: Help with S237-04 on Tape

2010-12-12 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 04:05:51 -0500 Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: :I had someone cancel an SMF dump job (z/OS V1.11) while it was writing its :output. Now when I try to read it - S237-04 invalid block count. : :I do not have DITTO, or SMFUTIL. The process I have is IFASMFDP :

Re: Help with S237-04 on Tape

2010-12-12 Thread John McKown
Write your own HLASM level program. Use the block count unequal exit to ignore the condition. http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dgt2m330/2.8.1 Use LABEL=(2,BLP) and VOL=SER=vv to read the data from that one tape. Not going to work for a multivolume dataset.

Re: REXX : allocated PDS and DDNAME by a STC

2010-12-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In e49ef7fdf6cdbd4f90e68956406d700d02c58...@praab01exchc12.applications.services.axa-tech.intraxa, on 12/06/2010 at 01:17 PM, CUNY Yann yann.cuny.anta...@axa-tech.com said: I have a rexx ... this rexx needs to know which PDS are allocated in a STC, with his DDNAME ... Is there a supported

Re: Product Announcement Policy

2010-12-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 000801cb96eb$c3731050$4a5930...@hfdtechs.com, on 12/08/2010 at 10:22 AM, John P. Baker john.ba...@hfdtechs.com said: In any case, even if we deem the product announcement to have been issued in violation of listserv policy, the insult issued in response was totally inappropriate and

Re: Product Announcement Policy

2010-12-12 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 22:46:26 -0500 Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: :In 000801cb96eb$c3731050$4a5930...@hfdtechs.com, on 12/08/2010 : at 10:22 AM, John P. Baker john.ba...@hfdtechs.com said: :In any case, even if we deem the product announcement to have been :issued

Re: Help with S237-04 on Tape

2010-12-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 04:05:51 -0500, Lizette Koehler wrote: I had someone cancel an SMF dump job (z/OS V1.11) while it was writing its output. Now when I try to read it - S237-04 invalid block count. I do not have DITTO, or SMFUTIL. The process I have is IFASMFDP Anyway to recover some or all

Program Interrupts

2010-12-12 Thread michealbutz
Hi, I know that when a piece of code issues a wait or any other type of SVC the registers and PSW get saved in a RB If the dispatcher for what every reason gives up control to some other task for some other reason The Time Slice is up Where would the info get saved ...  

Re: z/OS Systems Programmer Job Available

2010-12-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
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Re: DDNAME= oddity

2010-12-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 021101cb9896$225a7120$670f53...@org, on 12/10/2010 at 10:14 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: Is DUMMY in the TIOT? There are flags in the TIOT for several types of allocation. I recall that I asked on this list a while ago and I believe the answer was that it is in the TIOT only

Re: Program Interrupts

2010-12-12 Thread Dave Day
When a program is interrupted to process a pending interrupt, the psw is saved in the current RB, and the registers are saved in the TCB. --Dave Day -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Program Interrupts

2010-12-12 Thread michealbutz
What happens when there is no interrupt its an endless loop -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Dave Day Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 1:22 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Program Interrupts When a program is

Re: Help with S237-04 on Tape (Resolved)

2010-12-12 Thread Lizette Koehler
Thanks everyone. I had thought of the BLP after a few hours of rest as well as an assembler program. That seems to have done the trick. I am not sure if the SMF data is sorted properly, but at least I know I have not lost too much. I have run it though MXG to validate what I think should be on

Re: Program Interrupts

2010-12-12 Thread michealbutz
BTW if whitin the same task there is a interrupt where would the registers be saved RB ... When you issue a WAIT regs are saved n the RB -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of michealbutz Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010

Re: Product Announcement Policy

2010-12-12 Thread John McKown
Like some ads I get via email which start with THIS IS NOT SPAM! Right, sure it isn't. Many companies today think that email is like US Mail. They have the __RIGHT__ to send email to anybody for any reason. But, that's OK by me. I put them in my autodelete list so I never see them again. And in

Re: Program Interrupts

2010-12-12 Thread Blaicher, Chris
WAIT SVC causes the PSW to be recorded in the PRB and the registers are saved in the TCB. There are always interrupts, I/O, TIMER. Unless you are running disabled, the system always dispatches you having first set a timer. Actually, even if you are running disabled, a timer was set, it is

Re: Program Interrupts

2010-12-12 Thread michealbutz
Then what are RB register save area used for -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Blaicher, Chris Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 3:42 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Program Interrupts WAIT SVC causes the PSW to be

Re: Program Interrupts

2010-12-12 Thread Mike Myers
They are used to save the registers at the time the interrupt occurs, if the interrupt creates a new RB that is added at the top of the RB stack. In such a case, such as an asynchronous exit (creates an IRB) or execution of an SVC instruction (creates an SVRB), the registers at the time of the

Re: Help with S237-04 on Tape

2010-12-12 Thread Mike Schwab
DCB=EROPT=SKIP might work. Skips bad blocks. Not sure if it handles the missing trailer label. On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 04:05:51 -0500, Lizette Koehler wrote: I had someone cancel an SMF dump job (z/OS V1.11) while it was