Re: zfs files

2011-01-07 Thread Patrick Loftus
One thing I hate is when something/someone places a large amount of data into a filesystem, which automatically grows. You then find that data was placed there accidentally, or incorrectly. You're left with an over allocated filesystem, with no way of dynamically (that I know of anyway) reclaimin

Re: CA-OPS/MVS question: OPSCAWTO

2011-01-07 Thread Patrick Loftus
We use OPS/MVS to raise all kinds of alerting - batch job failures, STCs falling over, error messages from syslog, etc etc etc, you name it. OPS/MVS uses OPSCAWTO and sends SNMP traps over to a server running BMC software to raise the incidents. We have a generic REXX which numerous rules pass data

Re: REXX, the new Cobol ?

2011-01-07 Thread Jan MOEYERSONS
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 23:18:50 +1100, Shane Ginnane wrote: >I find myself inexorably drifting away from REXX. Seems to be the dying >"language". Are you saying COBOL has died, then? If only I got a penny for every line of COBOL written today in the world, I could retire this very minute and step

Re: REXX, the new Cobol ?

2011-01-07 Thread R.S.
Jan MOEYERSONS pisze: On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 23:18:50 +1100, Shane Ginnane wrote: I find myself inexorably drifting away from REXX. Seems to be the dying "language". Are you saying COBOL has died, then? If only I got a penny for every line of COBOL written today in the world, I could retire th

IBM Boulder site having problems?

2011-01-07 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Anyone else having trouble with service.boulder.ibm.com? I have an automated process of getting enhanced holddata that has failed the last two days in a row with: EZA2589E Connection to server interrupted or timed out. Receiving data EZA2590E recv error from receive_data - EDC5120I INTERRUPTED F

Re: S5C6 Abend when run MQ Panels in ISPF - resolved

2011-01-07 Thread Terry Sambrooks
Hi Patrick, Many thanks for your comprehensive response which proved useful, as it gave some indications of where to start. The actual problem was two libraries missing from the TSO STEPLIB i.e. thlqual.SCSQANLE thlqual.SCSQAUTH in our case thlqual is CSQ700 Kind Regards - Terry Director KM

Re: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook)

2011-01-07 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <1294308564.4d2594d48c...@postoffice.tpg.com.au>, on 01/06/2011 at 09:09 PM, Shane Ginnane said: >Personally I prefer regex Regexen are fine for simple tasks, but beyond that you need a more heavyweight tool, e.g., YACC. For XML, why reinvent the wheel? Write or download a wrapper around a

Re: CA-OPS/MVS question: OPSCAWTO

2011-01-07 Thread McKown, John
Patrick, Thanks for the information. I "knew" that SNMP is not guaranteed delivery, but it was not at the forefront of my thoughts on this. We currently have CA-7 use CCI to talk to a server running "nizm" (that's what it sounds like when my boss talks about it). This server then generates a CA

Re: REXX, the new Cobol ?

2011-01-07 Thread McKown, John
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Re: SMPE 3.5 and Message Severity

2011-01-07 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 01/06/2011 at 11:02 PM, Binyamin Dissen said: >As it has a W suffix, the issue would be with the binder. Why? For both the Binder and the old Lnkage Editor, the GIGO rule applies. Do you have any reason to believe that IEW2556W message was invalid? If the message is correct then the e

Re: SMPE 3.5 and Message Severity

2011-01-07 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 08:11:58 -0500 "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" wrote: :>In , on 01/06/2011 :> at 11:02 PM, Binyamin Dissen said: :>>As it has a W suffix, the issue would be with the binder. :>Why? For both the Binder and the old Lnkage Editor, the GIGO rule :>applies. Do you have any reason to

Question About run REXX Under TSO

2011-01-07 Thread Sergio Lima
Hello List, I'm tring use here, the REXX program CSQOREXX , under TSO. So, We insert in my procedure of LOGON the library's need for run this, but something is wrong, and I can't see. Our procedure of LOGON is now this : //IKJSUP EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01,DYNAMNBR=500,PARM=ISPSUP //STEPLIB DD DI

Re: Question About run REXX Under TSO

2011-01-07 Thread Darth Keller
>>I'm trying use here, the REXX program CSQOREXX , under TSO. >>So, We insert in my procedure of LOGON the library's need for run this, but something is wrong, and I can't see. Did you log off & back on after changing the LOGON proc? ddk This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with i

Re: Question About run REXX Under TSO

2011-01-07 Thread Sergio Lima
Yes, Sergio > Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 07:45:01 -0600 > From: darth.kel...@assurant.com > Subject: Re: Question About run REXX Under TSO > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > > >>I'm trying use here, the REXX program CSQOREXX , under TSO. > >>So, We insert in my procedure of LOGON the library's need for r

Re: Question About run REXX Under TSO

2011-01-07 Thread Sergio Lima
Hello, Another thing, I can't see the MQ Libraries in our ISRDDN command, only in the STEPLIB, but SYSEXEC, not. Thanks, Sergio > Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 07:45:01 -0600 > From: darth.kel...@assurant.com > Subject: Re: Question About run REXX Under TSO > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > > >>I'm tr

Re: Question About run REXX Under TSO

2011-01-07 Thread Scott Rowe
Do you have a logon clist/rexx that is modifying allocations? On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Sergio Lima wrote: > Hello, > > Another thing, I can't see the MQ Libraries in our ISRDDN command, only in > the STEPLIB, but SYSEXEC, not. > > Thanks, > > Sergio > > > Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 07:45:01 -0

Re: Question About run REXX Under TSO

2011-01-07 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 16:47:39 +0300, Sergio Lima wrote: >I can't see the MQ Libraries in our ISRDDN command, only in the STEPLIB, >but SYSEXEC, not. Then, assuming that this is in fact the logon proc that you used, something has freed SYSEXEC. Is there a logon clist or exec? -- Tom Marchant -

Re: Question About run REXX Under TSO

2011-01-07 Thread Sergio Lima
Hello Scott. My ISRDDN screen show this : Z2RES1 SHR,KEEP >STEPLIB DIT.SDITMOD1 Z2RES1 SHR,KEEP > WMQ600.SCSQANLE Z2RES1 SHR,KEEP > WMQ600.SCSQAUTH Z2RES1 SHR,KEEP >SYSEXEC EUVF.SEUVFEXC Z2RES1 SHR,KEEP >

Re: Question About run REXX Under TSO

2011-01-07 Thread Sergio Lima
Hello Tom, Here, is what We see, in the SDSF screen of IKJSUP PROC : COMMAND INPUT ===>S 1 //IBMUSR3 JOB 'ACCT#',REGION=4096K 2 //IKJSUP EXEC IKJSUP XX*--

Re: Question About run REXX Under TSO

2011-01-07 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: "Sergio Lima" Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 8:42 AM Subject: Question About run REXX Under TSO Hello List, I'm tring use here, the REXX program CSQOREXX , under TSO. So, We insert in my procedure of LOGON the library's ne

Re: Question About run REXX Under TSO

2011-01-07 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 17:21:20 +0300, Sergio Lima wrote: >Here, is what We see, in the SDSF screen of IKJSUP PROC : > > 4 XXIKJSUP EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01,DYNAMNBR=500,PARM=ISPSUP The ISRDDN output that you showed includes SYSEXEC with several data sets. They were allocated by something, proba

Re: REXX, the new Cobol ?

2011-01-07 Thread Scott Ford
Nice rexx ispf macro. As someone who has written rexx since it first 'hit the scene' on VM , I feel as a language it has a lot of flexibility. I have used it on TSO/NETVIEW/MVS/VM and Object Rexx on Windows and Linux. I also write in Cobol and Assembler, language is a matter of what you want to d

CMS Sort Descending?

2011-01-07 Thread Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN
Group, We maintain the SYSTEM CONFIG on z/VM using an exec that renames the members. I need to run this exec on the oldest file first. If I could sort FLIST/LISTF in descending date order I would be able to process the files in order from top to bottom. I looked at FLIST and found:" If th

Re: CMS Sort Descending?

2011-01-07 Thread Walt Farrell
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 09:07:34 -0600, Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN wrote: > We maintain the SYSTEM CONFIG on z/VM using an exec that renames the members. I need to run this exec on the oldest file first. If I could sort FLIST/LISTF in descending date order I would be able to process the files in o

Re: CMS Sort Descending?

2011-01-07 Thread Charles Mills
It's been a long time since I used CMS, but what happens if you issue the same sort command a second time? There is a VM-specific mailing list I think, but someone here should know the answer. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On

Re: SMPE 3.5 and Message Severity

2011-01-07 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler > > Great points. > > Unfortunately this is vendor code. So I will ask the vendor to change the RC > on the Lked. Arguably "better" to suggest the vendor fix the defective object module. -jc- -

Re: CMS Sort Descending?

2011-01-07 Thread Larry Dinwiddie
Run the following PIPE from your Ready prompt pipe command LISTFILE fn ft fm (DA | sort 63.2 d 57.5 d 66.8 d | > sorted list a Of course you could call the exec from the PIPE if you want, but this gives you a list of files in descending order by date/time Larry -Original Message- From

Re: IBM Boulder site having problems?

2011-01-07 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Richards, Robert B. > > Anyone else having trouble with service.boulder.ibm.com? > > I have an automated process of getting enhanced holddata that has failed the last two days in a row > with: > > EZA2589E Connectio

Re: CMS Sort Descending?

2011-01-07 Thread Larry Dinwiddie
Another way (and maybe better for you) is to issue the following: LISTFILE fn ft fm (DA EXThis creates a CMS EXEC file XEDIT CMS EXEC A Issue the XEDIT command: sort * d 70 71 64 68 73 80 Issue the XEDIT command: FILE >From the Ready prompt issue: CMS EXEC execname This w

Re: IBM Boulder site having problems?

2011-01-07 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 06:46:40 -0500, Richards, Robert B. wrote: >Anyone else having trouble with service.boulder.ibm.com? > >I have an automated process of getting enhanced holddata that has failed the last two days in a row with: > >EZA2589E Connection to server interrupted or timed out. Receivi

Re: IBM Boulder site having problems?

2011-01-07 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Patrick, I *was* trying to get the full.txt file, but I am seeing the same problem with the full.bin file. Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Patrick Lyon Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 10:46 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.e

Re: IBM Boulder site having problems?

2011-01-07 Thread Richards, Robert B.
John, I am not even at the RECEIVE portion yet. Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 10:34 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: IBM Boulder site having problems? SMP/E RECE

Re: IBM Boulder site having problems?

2011-01-07 Thread Michael Wickman
I had the ftp timeout issue earlier this week. After a couple hours it worked fine. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Patrick Lyon Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 10:46 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: IBM Boulder

Re: strange issues with LE abending, looking for pointers as to where to even look..

2011-01-07 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Iain, We put the patch on about 3 weeks ago and haven't had the problem since. Thanks again for pointing this APAR out to us. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Iain Robertson Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 4:00 AM To

Re: IBM Boulder site having problems?

2011-01-07 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 11:02:29 -0500, Richards, Robert B. wrote: >Patrick, > >I *was* trying to get the full.txt file, but I am seeing the same problem with the full.bin file. > >Bob > > Interesting. I just tried and downloaded full.bin just fine and then realized I forgot to put it in binary

Re: IBM Boulder site having problems?

2011-01-07 Thread Chase, John
The RECEIVE ORDER command sends the request ( CONTENT(HOLDDATA) ) to a (different) server in Boulder, downloads the HOLDDATA and then RECEIVEs it, all in one "swell foop". This also presumes that you allow z/OS to reach the external server. -jc- > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainfr

Re: CMS Sort Descending?

2011-01-07 Thread Mark Pace
In FILEL an /SD command will sort by descending date. On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Charles Mills wrote: > It's been a long time since I used CMS, but what happens if you issue the > same sort command a second time? > > There is a VM-specific mailing list I think, but someone here should know

Re: IBM Boulder site having problems?

2011-01-07 Thread Richards, Robert B.
I am getting more than my share of misses then! Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Patrick Lyon Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 11:22 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: IBM Boulder site having problems? On Fri, 7 J

Re: CMS Sort Descending?

2011-01-07 Thread Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN
Larry, Thank you for looking into this. Yes, I want the most recent Date/Time field LAST which is the opposite of /SD in FLIST. The CMS sort is ascending order only. CMS sort is where I was hoping for a choice of sort orders, but it's not there. Thank you for pointing out the XEDIT sort.

Re: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook)

2011-01-07 Thread Kirk Wolf
There seem to be several tools that convert PDFs to MOBI, have you tried all and found them to be unsatisfactory? I have a Kindle (3), and to my thinking it is never going to be satisfactory for reading technical manuals because of the speed of the E-ink display. IMO reading these requires fast s

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Re: can I dynamically increase tso size

2011-01-07 Thread Krishnan
Hi All I am having a similar problem. I am unable to edit a dataset and instead am getting the 'browse substituted message' The ISPF edit was attempted for a dataset with following characteristics - RECFM=VB, LRECL=5000. - DSORG=PS - BLOCKSIZE=27998 - It's total size is 31MB and has 1003372 r

Re: can I dynamically increase tso size

2011-01-07 Thread Larry Macioce
When you login in the tso screen has a size parm. You can try to increase the size, but you may be limited to the size you can put in , but it is worth a try Mace -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: can I dynamically increase tso size

2011-01-07 Thread Mike Schwab
1. Your site may have set a maximum region size that overrides the setting on your tso login screen. 2. The temporary file that edit uses until you save your edits may be too small. Do a 3.4 on datasets starting with your userid while not editing a file, then again while successfully editing some

Re: can I dynamically increase tso size

2011-01-07 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Krishnan > Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 1:10 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: can I dynamically increase tso size > > Hi All > > I am having a similar problem. I am unabl

Re: CMS Sort Descending?

2011-01-07 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 08:33:58 -0700, Larry Dinwiddie wrote: >Run the following PIPE from your Ready prompt > >pipe command LISTFILE fn ft fm (DA | sort 63.2 d 57.5 d 66.8 d | > >sorted list a > I tried that, and I got Y2K problems. How quickly we forget. -- gil ---

Re: can I dynamically increase tso size

2011-01-07 Thread Lizette Koehler
IIRC, this can also be controlled via the ISPCONFG process. In our shop we throw our users into BROWSE if the file is too large. The suggestions of logging on with a large region size (if allowed through your security product) or allocating a large file for temp are good. Lizette

Re: can I dynamically increase tso size

2011-01-07 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>2. The temporary file that edit uses until you save your edits may be too >small. I may be wrong, but I always thought that ISPF EDIT used memory only, except when submitting jobs. Of course, it's also been over 20 years since I directly supported ISPF. Does anybody know? - Ted MacNEIL eamac

Re: can I dynamically increase tso size

2011-01-07 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>IIRC, this can also be controlled via the ISPCONFG process. >In our shop we throw our users into BROWSE if the file is too large. That, again, supports my recollection that EDIT does not use disk for managing files. - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca -

Re: can I dynamically increase tso size

2011-01-07 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 13:09:52 -0600, Krishnan wrote: >I am unable to edit a dataset and instead am >getting the 'browse substituted message' > >The ISPF edit was attempted for a dataset with following characteristics > >- RECFM=VB, LRECL=5000. Edit/View does not support that LRECL. Not sure what

Re: can I dynamically increase tso size

2011-01-07 Thread Lizette Koehler
I almost had it. From the Customization manual Under the ISPF Configuration Section MAXIMUM_STORAGE_ALLOWED_FOR_EDIT The maximum number of kilobytes of storage that the editor can use when initially reading in data. If the initial read of the data requires more storage than this value, browse

Re: can I dynamically increase tso size

2011-01-07 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 13:54:41 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote: >Edit/View does not support that LRECL. Not sure what the maximum is, >but IIRC it used to be 256 bytes. Sorry, I should check before I post. The above is incorrect. -- Tom Marchant

Re: can I dynamically increase tso size

2011-01-07 Thread McKown, John
No longer true. EDIT ,TSH009.BIG.TXT ,Columns,1,00124, Command ===>,tso listds big.txt ,Scroll ===>,CSR , **,

Re: can I dynamically increase tso size

2011-01-07 Thread Bob Rutledge
Krishnan wrote: Hi All I am having a similar problem. I am unable to edit a dataset and instead am getting the 'browse substituted message' The ISPF edit was attempted for a dataset with following characteristics - RECFM=VB, LRECL=5000. - DSORG=PS - BLOCKSIZE=27998 - It's total size is 31

Re: CMS Sort Descending?

2011-01-07 Thread Tony Harminc
On 7 January 2011 14:36, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 08:33:58 -0700, Larry Dinwiddie wrote: > >>Run the following PIPE from your Ready prompt >> >>pipe command LISTFILE fn ft fm (DA | sort 63.2 d 57.5 d 66.8 d | > >>sorted list a >> > I tried that, and I got Y2K problems. Meaning t

Re: Question About run REXX Under TSO

2011-01-07 Thread Ken Brick
On 8/01/2011 01:37 AM, Tom Marchant wrote: On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 17:21:20 +0300, Sergio Lima wrote: Here, is what We see, in the SDSF screen of IKJSUP PROC : 4 XXIKJSUP EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01,DYNAMNBR=500,PARM=ISPSUP The ISRDDN output that you showed includes SYSEXEC with several data sets. T

Re: can I dynamically increase tso size

2011-01-07 Thread Jonathan Goossen
>>2. The temporary file that edit uses until you save your edits may be too small. >I may be wrong, but I always thought that ISPF EDIT used memory only, except when submitting jobs. >Of course, it's also been over 20 years since I directly supported ISPF. >Does anybody know? Per the ISPF Edit

Re: can I dynamically increase tso size

2011-01-07 Thread Joel C. Ewing
While the active copy of data being edited IS kept in memory, if edit recovery is "ON", when the first change is made the original data and any subsequent changes are also kept in an external edit recovery BACKUP dataset until a SAVE is done and the associated edit pending state data is kept in

Re: CMS Sort Descending?

2011-01-07 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 01/07/2011 02:48 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: On 7 January 2011 14:36, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 08:33:58 -0700, Larry Dinwiddie wrote: Run the following PIPE from your Ready prompt pipe command LISTFILE fn ft fm (DA | sort 63.2 d 57.5 d 66.8 d |> sorted list a I tried that, a

Re: CMS Sort Descending?

2011-01-07 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 17:12:46 -0600, Joel C. Ewing wrote: >On 01/07/2011 02:48 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: >> On 7 January 2011 14:36, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >>> On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 08:33:58 -0700, Larry Dinwiddie wrote: >>> Run the following PIPE from your Ready prompt pipe command LISTFIL

OT .. Geological time scales

2011-01-07 Thread Ivan Warren
I am irritated by some geology textbooks that specify dates in years BP (Before the Present) I can't see what's irritating here. To me, 'BP' (before present) stands as : somewhere of the vicinity of now, and *NOT* right now ! Geological timescales are sometimes in K Years.. Mostly in M yea

Re: can I dynamically increase tso size

2011-01-07 Thread Cris Hernandez #9
some things aren't meant to be done foreground. why not run a batch job to sort the file into 2 files, one containing records requiring edit, and the other the ones that don't require editing. make the changes and merge back together batch mode. if all records need editing, write a batch prog

Re: OT .. Geological time scales

2011-01-07 Thread Sam Siegel
How does the geologist impress his blond girlfriend? He tells her that a certain lake is a million and 1 years old. She says how do you know that so precisely? He says "last year when I went there, the tour guide said it was a million years old". On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Ivan Warren

Re: can I dynamically increase tso size

2011-01-07 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 15:13 -0500 on 01/07/2011, Bob Rutledge wrote about Re: can I dynamically increase tso size: Krishnan wrote: Hi All I am having a similar problem. I am unable to edit a dataset and instead am getting the 'browse substituted message' The ISPF edit was attempted for a dataset with follow