Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-08 Thread Steve Comstock
On 4/8/2011 5:43 PM, Dave Salt wrote: In my experience it's usually quite straightforward to set up a workstation connection, especially if you set one up at work (i.e. where the PC and mainframe are both on the same intranet). Even if you don't have a static IP address, the ZIPADDR system var

Re: How to start RMF Monitor III automatically after IPL the system.

2011-04-08 Thread Ed Gould
From: Mark Zelden To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Fri, April 8, 2011 9:09:52 AM Subject: Re: How to start RMF Monitor III automatically after IPL the system. Mark: I know this may be your sandbox system but perhaps you and others do need to say up front don't d

Re: 0Cx abends

2011-04-08 Thread Ed Gould
From: Rick Fochtman To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Fri, April 8, 2011 3:55:28 PM Subject: Re: 0Cx abends BY ALL MEANS. A system abend code only means that the problem was DETECTED by the system. Rick snip Rick: Hehe well it depends on who you a

MFNetDIsk and living in Ashdod

2011-04-08 Thread shai hess
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Re: COBOL abend debug question with AbendAid/CICS dump

2011-04-08 Thread John McKown
Correct. All I can do is help by assisting the programmers with diagnostics such as a trace back. On Apr 8, 2011 9:08 PM, "Ted MacNEIL" wrote: >>without a lot of >> political pull that I >> don't have. > > In other words: even if you know how to fix it, you may not? > Sent wirelessly from my Black

Re: COBOL abend debug question with AbendAid/CICS dump

2011-04-08 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>without a lot of > political pull that I > don't have. In other words: even if you know how to fix it, you may not? Sent wirelessly from my BlackBerry device on the Bell network. Envoyé sans fil par mon terminal mobile BlackBerry sur le réseau de Bell. --

Re: COBOL abend debug question with AbendAid/CICS dump

2011-04-08 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Sent wirelessly from my BlackBerry device on the Bell network. Envoyé sans fil par mon terminal mobile BlackBerry sur le réseau de Bell. -Original Message- From: "McKown, John" Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 14:59:40 To: Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Disc

Re: DATACLASS

2011-04-08 Thread Joel C. Ewing
Except that cataloging can't be separated from the act of allocating in the case of SMS-managed data sets, which are required to be cataloged regardless of what the allocation DISP may specify. One would hope that these days this would include all but selected system-level data sets, so the ty

Re: WLM TCB value change

2011-04-08 Thread jagadishan perumal
Scott, I have changed the value in the WLM panel and also modified the defintion to reflect the NUMTCB=1, But when a user tries to invoke the DSN1WLM proc the started task again shows the value as NUMTCB=1. for this change I have even Re-started the DB2 region but no luck. Gerard, I will try cha

Esoterics names for DB2 V8

2011-04-08 Thread Grillo Paul
*Hi all* ** *Does anybody can help me about esoterics names in DB2 V8 ??? We want to make a migrate, to unit Hydra, and we are not sure, if exist this nomination for it, tests were made in previous version(V7), and failed.* ** *Answers will be welcome * ** *Best regards* ** *Jorge Arueira *

Re: WLM TCB value change

2011-04-08 Thread Bob Rutledge
jagadishan perumal wrote: Hi, When I view the Started task DSN1WLM I see that the NUMTCB value is set to 8 but i want to change it to 1. I browsed the SYS1.PROCLIB(DSN1WLM), but I could find the first two lines. 1 //DSN1WLM JOB MSGLEVEL=1 2 //STARTING EXEC DSN1WLM,DB2SSN=DSN1,NUMTCB=8,APPLENV=

Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-08 Thread Dave Salt
In my experience it's usually quite straightforward to set up a workstation connection, especially if you set one up at work (i.e. where the PC and mainframe are both on the same intranet). Even if you don't have a static IP address, the ZIPADDR system variable usually contains the right IP addr

Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-08 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 15:52:37 -0700, Dick Bond wrote: >a couple of glitches - make sure have a "fixed" IP address for your >workstation (could be a big glitch in some shops) and also, if you are lucky WSA sounds like a good candidate for SSL/SSH implementation, with port tunneling. I suppose they

Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-08 Thread Dick Bond
a couple of glitches - make sure have a "fixed" IP address for your workstation (could be a big glitch in some shops) and also, if you are lucky to have a fixed IP address, make sure you can "ping" it from your ISPF session before bothering to set this up - if you can't ping it for one reason or an

Re: Cobol and SMS question

2011-04-08 Thread Ward, Mike S
And the winner is LE. Thanks to all who replied we will investigate the LE setup. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 5:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Cobol and SMS questi

Re: Cobol and SMS question

2011-04-08 Thread Steve Comstock
On 4/8/2011 3:49 PM, Ward, Mike S wrote: Hello all, we are z/os 1.11. I had a programmer complain the his job didn't jcl out on him and he expected it to. His program opens CCTXNSO and GLTXNSO as output OPEN OUTPUT CC-TRANS. OPEN OUTPUT GL-TRANS. Since he did not have a DD for these two files

Re: Cobol and SMS question

2011-04-08 Thread Scott Rowe
Well, I wouldn't expect a JCL error, as there is no error in the JCL. I would, however, expect an open error for those files. I don't know that I would look to SMS, it might be a "feature" of COBOL or LE, but I don't know them well enough. On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Ward, Mike S wrote: >

Re: Cobol and SMS question

2011-04-08 Thread Gibney, Dave
I believe it's Cobol runtime being "helpful". I think there is an option to disable this "useful" feature Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Ward,

Re: Cobol and SMS question

2011-04-08 Thread Sam Siegel
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Ward, Mike S wrote: > Hello all, we are z/os 1.11. I had a programmer complain the his job > didn't jcl out on him and he expected it to. > > > His program opens CCTXNSO and GLTXNSO as output > > OPEN OUTPUT CC-TRANS. > OPEN OUTPUT GL-TRANS. > > Since he did not hav

Cobol and SMS question

2011-04-08 Thread Ward, Mike S
Hello all, we are z/os 1.11. I had a programmer complain the his job didn't jcl out on him and he expected it to. His program opens CCTXNSO and GLTXNSO as output OPEN OUTPUT CC-TRANS. OPEN OUTPUT GL-TRANS. Since he did not have a DD for these two files, it looks like SMS had enough info about t

Re: WLM TCB value change

2011-04-08 Thread Scott Rowe
I'm pretty positive that this proc is being started by WLM, so it is the WLM application environment settings that would control the value. On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Gerhard Postpischil wrote: > On 4/8/2011 8:46 AM, jagadishan perumal wrote: > >> When I view the Started task DSN1WLM I see t

Re: COBOL abend debug question with AbendAid/CICS dump

2011-04-08 Thread Gibney, Dave
The PERFORM return cells are in the Cobol TGT data area. There should be a map in the compile listing. It's been a long time, but I used to be able to decipher this answer. Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-08 Thread Rick Fochtman
* Finally, to make the list, the cool thing has to be taught in one or more of our courses + So we name a cool feature and can also show you where to learn how to use it (Of course, one can theoretically learn these things oneself by reading and trial and error; but we write courses to save

Re: 0Cx abends

2011-04-08 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman > Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 3:55 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: 0Cx abends > > >

Re: April 7, 1964 IBM Announces "System 360" Computer Family

2011-04-08 Thread Rick Fochtman
-- 9. The oft-forgotten eighth dwarf, Philco: 0.7% What about Bendix, DEC, LGP, SDS, Sylvania, TRW and various European vendors? -- Reminds m

Re: 0Cx abends

2011-04-08 Thread Rick Fochtman
-- :>I wonder if i had something to do to resolve this issue as a system programmer :>or should i direct the problem to the programmer himself. As a system :>programmer i checked the syslib libraries and the compile options

Re: COBOL abend debug question with AbendAid/CICS dump

2011-04-08 Thread Barkow, Eileen
We have Expediter active in one of our production environments for these type of problems. If you have it, you can turn it on for the one transaction. I have not used Xpediter much since we used to have Intertest, which gave a trace back of the performs - But I imagine that Xpediter will do the s

Re: COBOL abend debug question with AbendAid/CICS dump

2011-04-08 Thread Schumacher, Otto
The abendaid dump viewer should be able to display the working storage for the program at the time of the dump. If you set abendaid up correctly. Regards Otto Schumacher   HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account CICS & Capacity Technical Support P.O. Box 6462 2000 Wade Ha

Re: COBOL abend debug question with AbendAid/CICS dump

2011-04-08 Thread Dan Skomsky, PSTI
I feel your pain. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 3:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: COBOL abend debug question with AbendAid/CICS dump Can't touch the source. That's no

Re: COBOL abend debug question with AbendAid/CICS dump

2011-04-08 Thread McKown, John
Can't touch the source. That's not my job. The source must be changed by the appropriate programming group, then the changes tested by them, then Model Office, then placed into production. That is what is in progress now. But putting in "debugging output" is against shop standards. Making an ad-

Re: COBOL abend debug question with AbendAid/CICS dump

2011-04-08 Thread Dan Skomsky, PSTI
Copy/change the source, and compile the object module into a temporary STEPLIB. Run the job specifying the STEPLIB and all is still good with the world. Every account I have worked at had a temporary STEPLIB set for every JOBSTEP running in production. This makes life so much easier. It works

Re: COBOL abend debug question with AbendAid/CICS dump

2011-04-08 Thread McKown, John
That's what I'm trying to do now. I was hoping that AbendAid would have a simplier method. John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * ww

Re: DATACLASS

2011-04-08 Thread Bill Fairchild
Closer, but still no gold-plated cigar. Cataloging a data set means writing metadata into a catalog (a specific type of system data set) to describe the volume(s) on which another data set is allocated. Allocating a new data set means writing metadata into a VTOC (Volume Table of Contents) on

Re: DATACLASS

2011-04-08 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
"Scott Ford" wrote in message news:<215021.39749...@web65508.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>... > I realiaze the BR14 doesnt really 'do anything' , but with JCL > Shmuel: > > I realiaze the BR14 doesnt really 'do anything' , but with JCL attached to it > with a disp=new,catalog, I assume that an entry is c

Re: COBOL abend debug question with AbendAid/CICS dump

2011-04-08 Thread Rob Schramm
Can't you get the offsets from a compile and use them to help debug? Rob Schramm On Apr 8, 2011 3:36 PM, "McKown, John" wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List >> [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Dan Skomsky, PSTI >> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 2:30

Re: COBOL abend debug question with AbendAid/CICS dump

2011-04-08 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Dan Skomsky, PSTI > Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 2:30 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: COBOL abend debug question with AbendAid/CICS dump > > Just change the source to place

Re: COBOL abend debug question with AbendAid/CICS dump

2011-04-08 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Galambos, Robert > Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 2:29 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: COBOL abend debug question with AbendAid/CICS dump > > Do you have Strobe? > If so this

Re: COBOL abend debug question with AbendAid/CICS dump

2011-04-08 Thread Dan Skomsky, PSTI
Just change the source to place some literal into working-storage prior to performing paragraph DO-READ. Example: 01 FILLERPIC X(14) VALUE 'W-WHO-AM-I-->'. 01 W-WHO-AM-IPIC X(20) VALUE SPACES. . . . . PROCEDURE DIVISION. . . . --STUFF-- . . . 0001-PARAGRA

Re: COBOL abend debug question with AbendAid/CICS dump

2011-04-08 Thread McKown, John
Thanks. I was a bit vague. But I was basically wondering how to get from the PERFORM'ed paragraph(s) back to the originating PERFORM verb. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets® 9151 Boulevard 26 . N. Richland Hills . TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone .

Re: COBOL abend debug question with AbendAid/CICS dump

2011-04-08 Thread Galambos, Robert
Do you have Strobe? If so this can be easier addressed by strobing this program The contents of this e-mail are intended for the named addressee only. It contains information that may be confidential. Unless you are the named addressee or an authorized designee, you may not copy or use it,

Re: COBOL abend debug question with AbendAid/CICS dump

2011-04-08 Thread Mike Schwab
Double check for a PERFORM label THRU DO-READ. If present it should be using the label before the DO-READ. On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:03 PM, McKown, John wrote: > I am not really a COBOL programmer. But I am familar with COBOL. Anyway, we > had a looping transaction in CICS/TS 3.2 on z/OS 1.10. I

Re: DATACLASS

2011-04-08 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
Show us the definition of &ABSPPS. You might also want to consider inserting some debugging WRITE statements. Something like FILTLIST ABSPPS INCLUDE(...) FILTLIST DSORGS INCLUDE('PO', 'VS', 'IS', 'DA') WRITE DSN= &DSN, DSORG = &DSORG IF &DSN = &ABSPPS THEN DO WRITE DSN MATCHES

COBOL abend debug question with AbendAid/CICS dump

2011-04-08 Thread McKown, John
I am not really a COBOL programmer. But I am familar with COBOL. Anyway, we had a looping transaction in CICS/TS 3.2 on z/OS 1.10. I used a monitor program - Mainview for CICS from BMC, to abend the transaction. This produced an AbendAid/CICS dump. Which is of little use because our COBOL code i

Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-08 Thread Dave Salt
> Except that as GUI's go, it is exceptionally sucky :) I couldn't agree more, which is why I never use ISPF in GUI mode. I think many people have the misunderstanding that the ISPF Workstation Agent (WSA.EXE) means you have to work in GUI mode, but it's simply not true. You can have a worksta

Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-08 Thread Mike Schwab
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/tivoli_support/patches/CIMSLab/documentation/cimsmart/v130/ispfwork.pdf Is that the instructions? On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Dave Salt wrote: > I think one of the coolest thing in z/OS is the ability to connect an ISPF > session to a PC/workstation. > >

Re: DATACLASS

2011-04-08 Thread Scott Ford
I realiaze the BR14 doesnt really 'do anything' , but with JCL Shmuel: I realiaze the BR14 doesnt really 'do anything' , but with JCL attached to it with a disp=new,catalog, I assume that an entry is created in the catalog and the actual dataset is created by the allocating program . Correct ?  

Re: How to start RMF Monitor III automatically after IPL the system.

2011-04-08 Thread Mark Zelden
I am not talking about using COMMNDxx here. I am talking about using the COMMAND program from the CBT. The problem is that RMF III needs to be started via MVS MODIFY command to RMF. You CAN put RMF startup in COMMNDxx, but since there is no built in delay or way to recognize that RMF has star

Re: WLM TCB value change

2011-04-08 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 4/8/2011 8:46 AM, jagadishan perumal wrote: When I view the Started task DSN1WLM I see that the NUMTCB value is set to 8 but i want to change it to 1. I browsed the SYS1.PROCLIB(DSN1WLM), but I could find the first two lines. 1 //DSN1WLM JOB MSGLEVEL=1 2 //STARTING EXEC DSN1WLM,DB2SSN=DSN1,N

Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-08 Thread Don Leahy
The GUI does suck. However, WSA provides a lot of other capabilities too. Such as the ability to use the ISPF editor to edit files on your workstation or use a workstation editor to edit a data set on the host. You can also issue workstation commands from your TSO session. My favorite is ISPF's

Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-08 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 12:28:23 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: >do you >mention the ability to have multiple named splits in ISPF? A lot of people I know can't seem to go beyond two. So far today, I have only five. Often I have ten or more -- at 90x142. -- Tom Marchant -

Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-08 Thread Gibney, Dave
Except that as GUI's go, it is exceptionally sucky :) Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Dave Salt > Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 9:57 AM > To: IBM

Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-08 Thread Steve Comstock
On 4/8/2011 10:28 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In<4d9b1116.2070...@trainersfriend.com>, on 04/05/2011 at 06:54 AM, Steve Comstock said: * Finally, to make the list, the cool thing has to be taught in one or more of our courses + So we name a cool feature and can also show y

Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-08 Thread Steve Comstock
On 4/8/2011 10:20 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In<4d9b1116.2070...@trainersfriend.com>, on 04/05/2011 at 06:54 AM, Steve Comstock said: * Finally, to make the list, the cool thing has to be taught in one or more of our courses + So we name a cool feature and can also show y

Re: How to start RMF Monitor III automatically after IPL the system.

2011-04-08 Thread Rob Schramm
You can always jam it into the end of the JES2 parms. $VS,'any old mvs command here' The problem with COMMNDxx is there is absolutely no order to the execution... which is documented in the manual. Getting some sort of automation working is probably a good idea in general and should return the a

Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-08 Thread McKown, John
No, I haven't. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidenti

Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-08 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Have you tried it under Wine? Not saying I have, just curious if that would work. It would be what I would try if I could find the time. Peter > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of McKown, John > Sent: Friday, April 08,

Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-08 Thread McKown, John
No Linux/Intel client. John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message

Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-08 Thread Dave Salt
I think one of the coolest thing in z/OS is the ability to connect an ISPF session to a PC/workstation. The ISPF Workstation Agent (WSA.EXE) seems to be one of ISPF's best kept secrets. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't use it and I couldn't imagine working without it. Dave Salt Si

Re: Identifying Latest zOS Fixes

2011-04-08 Thread Mike Schwab
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Gibney, Dave wrote: > I do it most every day, it's cheap and easy. And use CONTENT(ALL) or at > least be sure to get the HOLDDATA also. > I think HOLDDATA could be more important than up to the minute fixes. Exactly. They will describe the problem and how to avoi

Re: DATACLASS

2011-04-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <01cbf379$98b4cfd0$ca1e6f70$@hawkins1...@sbcglobal.net>, on 04/05/2011 at 03:09 AM, Ron Hawkins said: >I'm not so sure. Based on what I think is Shmuel's logic, no JCL >dataset is allocated by a PGM because allocation occurs before PGM >Fetch. The Initiator is a program. It's just not

Re: DATACLASS

2011-04-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <002701cbf341$0b008b80$2101a280$@hawkins1...@sbcglobal.net>, on 04/04/2011 at 08:24 PM, Ron Hawkins said: >Well, in that case no program allocates a dataset listed in JCL. Oversimplified. A program could do dynamic allocation of the same dataset under a distinct ddname. >Otherwise, what i

Re: Identifying Latest zOS Fixes

2011-04-08 Thread Gibney, Dave
I do it most every day, it's cheap and easy. And use CONTENT(ALL) or at least be sure to get the HOLDDATA also. I think HOLDDATA could be more important than up to the minute fixes. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Mich

Re: REXX INCLUDE ?

2011-04-08 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 11:14:00 -0500, Jonathan Goossen wrote: >Here is the closest to an INCLUDE that I have found for interpreted REXX. >The following REXX snippet loads values from a file. > >/* load threshold values */ >"EXECIO * DISKR SCRTHRES (STEM @LOAD." >IF RC >0 THEN RETURN 13 >DO @I = 1 TO

Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 04/06/2011 at 11:57 AM, Sam Siegel said: >Please consider the RAS on the US domestic phone switching network. Ah, the little girl[1] with a little curl. Having dealt with verizon this year, I would not advise that they brag about their RAS; a one week outage due to a bungled repair on

Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <4d9b1116.2070...@trainersfriend.com>, on 04/05/2011 at 06:54 AM, Steve Comstock said: >* Finally, to make the list, the cool thing has to be taught > in one or more of our courses > + So we name a cool feature and can also show you where > to learn how to use it > (Of course,

Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <4d9b1116.2070...@trainersfriend.com>, on 04/05/2011 at 06:54 AM, Steve Comstock said: >* Finally, to make the list, the cool thing has to be taught > in one or more of our courses > + So we name a cool feature and can also show you where > to learn how to use it > (Of course,

Re: New job for mainframes: Cloud platform

2011-04-08 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 10:01:16 -0600, Mark Post wrote: > >>> Don't you just compile on your platform and run? >> >> No. > >I would have said "yes, for the most part." There are always people who do >silly things like put inline (Intel) assembler code in C source modules. The >people who pay attent

Re: Best way to multiply doublewords

2011-04-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 04/05/2011 at 11:22 AM, Chris Craddock said: >true, and somewhat ironic given that it is one of the few interfaces >where there truly is no need whatsoever to preserve the caller's >state. That's true only if there is a guaranty that the program is called only via an ATTACH; the desig

Re: REXX INCLUDE ?

2011-04-08 Thread Jonathan Goossen
Here is the closest to an INCLUDE that I have found for interpreted REXX. The following REXX snippet loads values from a file. /* load threshold values */ "EXECIO * DISKR SCRTHRES (STEM @LOAD." IF RC >0 THEN RETURN 13 DO @I = 1 TO @LOAD.0 INTERPRET @LOAD.@I END File: SCRTHRES contains the follo

Re: coax (3174) throughput

2011-04-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <4d9ad84f.8070...@bremultibank.com.pl>, on 04/05/2011 at 10:52 AM, "R.S." said: >What is the throughput of coax connection? How high is up? The question is meaningless without specifying what you're attaching and in what mode. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO

Re: April 7, 1964 IBM Announces "System 360" Computer Family

2011-04-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <46fe133d4aaa934296decc2288050f2b02f4c...@gp2k0084v3.geico.corp.net>, on 04/07/2011 at 01:26 PM, "Knutson, Sam" said: >9. The oft-forgotten eighth dwarf, Philco: 0.7% What about Bendix, DEC, LGP, SDS, Sylvania, TRW and various European vendors? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg

Re: New job for mainframes: Cloud platform

2011-04-08 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
ibm-m...@tpg.com.au (Shane Ginnane) writes: > And how is any of this news ?. > (comment aimed at the wider community, not Lynn specifically) re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#7 previous was from several days ago ... more recent items from today: IBM Jumps Into Cloud, Customers Tip-toe B

Re: New job for mainframes: Cloud platform

2011-04-08 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 4/8/2011 at 10:21 AM, "McKown, John" >>> wrote: >> Does zLinux have a x86 emulator? > > Not really. But you may be able to run BOCHS on it. slowly. BOCHS will indeed do the job. Adam Thornton of Sine Nomine got Windows NT running on the mainframe using that. >> Isn't Linux is proces

Re: mainframe fresher

2011-04-08 Thread Pamela Christina where its almost spring
Replying to an IBMVM post but information is applicable to readers of IBMMAIN and Linux390 > Przemyslaw commented... > It's unbelievably difficult to find a mainframe job with my current > professional experience so I decided to write this mail as my last try > to remain in the mainframe world

Re: New job for mainframes: Cloud platform

2011-04-08 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab > Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 9:13 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: New job for mainframes: Cloud platform > > Does zLinux have a x86 emulator? Not really. But

Re: New job for mainframes: Cloud platform

2011-04-08 Thread Mike Schwab
Does zLinux have a x86 emulator? Isn't Linux is processor independent? Don't you just compile on your platform and run? On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: > New job for mainframes: Cloud platform > http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9214913/New_job_for_mainframes_Cloud

Re: How to start RMF Monitor III automatically after IPL the system.

2011-04-08 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 16:46:11 +0800, ibmnew wrote: > do I prepare a proc and put COM='S RMFIII' statement in the COMMND00 >after COM='S RMF.RMF,,,MEMBER(00)' statement > > //RMFIIIPROC > //COMMAND EXEC PGM=COMMAND > //IEFRDER DD * >D R,R

Re: New job for mainframes: Cloud platform

2011-04-08 Thread Shane Ginnane
And how is any of this news ?. (comment aimed at the wider community, not Lynn specifically) Make it happen folks. Shane ... On Fri, Apr 8th, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: > New job for mainframes: Cloud platform > http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9214913/New_job_for_mainfr

New job for mainframes: Cloud platform

2011-04-08 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
New job for mainframes: Cloud platform http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9214913/New_job_for_mainframes_Cloud_platform from above: As companies take steps to develop private clouds, mainframes are looking more and more like good places to house consolidated and virtualized servers. Their big

Re: Identifying Latest zOS Fixes

2011-04-08 Thread Staller, Allan
Job Security! ...confirms my worst suspicions in that it will be a full time job. Oh joy! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN I

Re: Identifying Latest zOS Fixes

2011-04-08 Thread Michael Wickman
We do this monthly but receive just the fixes marked as critical "CONTENT(CRITICAL)". Mike Wickman -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 7:12 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [

WLM TCB value change

2011-04-08 Thread jagadishan perumal
Hi, When I view the Started task DSN1WLM I see that the NUMTCB value is set to 8 but i want to change it to 1. I browsed the SYS1.PROCLIB(DSN1WLM), but I could find the first two lines. 1 //DSN1WLM JOB MSGLEVEL=1 2 //STARTING EXEC DSN1WLM,DB2SSN=DSN1,NUMTCB=8,APPLENV=DSN1WLM XX

Re: How to start RMF Monitor III automatically after IPL the system.

2011-04-08 Thread carlos roberto visconde
What about a command on System Console: F RMF,START II 2011/4/8 ibmnew > > Mark > > Wherther do I prepare a proc and put COM='S RMFIII' statement in the > COMMND00 after COM='S RMF.RMF,,,MEMBER(00)' statement > > //RMFIIIPROC > //COMMAND EXEC PGM=COMMAND > //IEFRDER D

Re: Identifying Latest zOS Fixes

2011-04-08 Thread McKown, John
Being the cynic that I am, I wonder about the reason behind this. Perhaps it is to "prove" that z/OS is actually more likely to contain programming errors and so be open to "cracking" and thuse "less secure" than some other beloved OS? After all, Windows doesn't have the hundreds (if not thousan

Re: Identifying Latest zOS Fixes

2011-04-08 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Craig Pace > > One way to accomplish this would be to order, using ShopzSeries, all new > PTFs based off of a Service report of your SMP/E environment. You can > find information on the ShopzSeries web-site about info

Re: 0Cx abends

2011-04-08 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 06:11:31 -0500 Supra Uche wrote: :>I wonder if i had something to do to resolve this issue as a system programmer :>or should i direct the problem to the programmer himself. As a system :>programmer i checked the syslib libraries and the compile options. Those :>seems ok. B

Re: 0Cx abends

2011-04-08 Thread Lizette Koehler
> >Supra wrote: > > > >>We continuously get 0Cx abends from our application in the production > >>and > >test environments. Our application consists of PL/I and Assembler programs. > > > >Is that application homegrown applications? > > Yes homegrown applications. > > You need to review any dumps

Re: 0Cx abends

2011-04-08 Thread Lizette Koehler
You may wish to review the REDBOOK ABCs of z/OS System Programming Volume 8 Which is all about abend analysis. Lizette -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with th

Re: 0Cx abends

2011-04-08 Thread Supra Uche
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 05:47:51 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: >Supra wrote: > >>We continuously get 0Cx abends from our application in the production and >test environments. Our application consists of PL/I and Assembler programs. > >Is that application homegrown applications? Yes homegrown app

Re: 0Cx abends

2011-04-08 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Supra wrote: >We continuously get 0Cx abends from our application in the production and test environments. Our application consists of PL/I and Assembler programs. Is that application homegrown applications? How continuously? Do you get the same abends with same or different inputs? >Before migr

Re: How to start RMF Monitor III automatically after IPL the system.

2011-04-08 Thread ibmnew
Mark Wherther do I prepare a proc and put COM='S RMFIII' statement in the COMMND00 after COM='S RMF.RMF,,,MEMBER(00)' statement //RMFIIIPROC //COMMAND EXEC PGM=COMMAND //IEFRDER DD * D R,R DELAY 10

Re: 0Cx abends

2011-04-08 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 01:14:47 -0500 Supra wrote: :>Hi, :>We continuously get 0Cx abends from our application in the production and :>test environments. Our application consists of PL/I and Assembler programs. :>Before migration to z/OS 1.10 from z/OS 1.7 we were getting similar messages :>during

Re: Identifying Latest zOS Fixes

2011-04-08 Thread Tony Lessells
Thanks for all the replies regarding this - certainly gives me plenty to go on ... and confirms my worst suspicions in that it will be a full time job. Oh joy! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, s