Re: Antwort: Differences between REGION=0K and REGION=0M

2011-05-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 27 May 2011 14:41:53 -0600, Frank Swarbrick wrote: >I prefer SPACE=(0,0) > I'd suggest SPACE=(0,(0,0,0)) to avoid allocating directory blocks and secondary extents. Being considerably whimsy challenged on Fridays, I was impelled to try this. To my minor surprise, it executes with no JCL

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - SDSP DSNS

2011-05-27 Thread Brian Fraser
>Since the volume is defined as SDSP shouldn't only dsns that fit the >criteria be housed on the SDSP volume? No, defining a volume as SDSP only says that it contains a KSDS VSAM file that can contain small datasets as records of the KSDS. Any space not occupied by the SDSP KSDS can be used for

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - SDSP DSNS

2011-05-27 Thread Mike Schwab
42,499 - 42,403 = 96 + VTOCIX, VVDS, SDSP = 101. Do a TSO ISPF 3.4 and list the datasets on the volume. You should have 101 datasets on the volume. They could be coming from datasets bigger than the SDSP size limit and there was space on the volume, or even allocated because you have it mounted as

Re: PF9 Swap question

2011-05-27 Thread Chris Mason
Gerhard and Rick Be assured that the 3278-5 was *monochrome*, usual green on black. At the time it was announced its USP was the 132 character width and - IMMSMC - this announcement was cotemporaneous with the colourful 3279 - all models - somewhere in the vicinity of 1978. I remember the 3278

Re: PF9 Swap question

2011-05-27 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 5/27/2011 4:17 PM, Rick Fochtman wrote: IIRC, my 3278-5 also had color capabilities. I used Google to search for the model 5, and found no reference to color (but as stated here before, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence). I did find some vendors who wanted to sell a 3278-5 fo

Re: z/OS SYSLOG to UNIX syslog daemon?

2011-05-27 Thread Ed Gould
Rick: My loose memory of it was the length of one cartridge was around 100 feet (it could have been more). My memory also indicates that the 2321 and the 3850 were at least 10+ years apart and the magnetic cartridge "ribbon" would have been at least a generation apart in IBM and they probably

Re: Mainframe C Link Step Error - using pthread (POSIX)

2011-05-27 Thread John Weber
We believe this module needs to be dynamically linked for the purposes of utilizing sockets. If you don't mind, could you briefly explain hard-linking (static?) versus dynamic-linked with regard to this? Thank you... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-M

Re: Antwort: Differences between REGION=0K and REGION=0M

2011-05-27 Thread Frank Swarbrick
I prefer SPACE=(0,0) On 5/27/2011 at 10:42 AM, in message <005101cc1c8d$07532e00$15f98a00$@mcn.org>, Charles Mills wrote: >> REGION=0K requests only one-thousandth as much as REGION=0M. > > Does SPACE=(TRK,0) allocate only 1/15 as much DASD as SPACE=(CYL,0)? > > Charles > > -Original Mess

Re: Mainframe C Link Step Error - using pthread (POSIX)

2011-05-27 Thread Staller, Allan
The IEW2456E says module not in SYSLIB/SYSLIN. I checked the C and LE libraries and could not find PTHREAD@ (lots of refs in the COMPILER/RUN TIME LIB docs). This can most likely be fixed in one of 2 ways depending on what is desired. If you really want PTHREAD@ hard-linked in you LMOD, I wou

Re: z/OS SYSLOG to UNIX syslog daemon?

2011-05-27 Thread Rick Fochtman
Ed Gould wrote: From: Rick Fochtman To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thu, May 26, 2011 1:53:50 PM Subject: Re: z/OS SYSLOG to UNIX syslog daemon?

Re: PF9 Swap question

2011-05-27 Thread Rick Fochtman
You copied that wrong. 3272 through 3278 were all monochrome (green from IBM, and at least one competitor had an easy to work with cyan); the first IBM color tube was the 3279, but it only had 7 colors and black. The

Re: INOPERATIVE PATH

2011-05-27 Thread Ed Castro
Hi Christian, can you tell me what devices you are connected to and if you are using switches between the cpu and the devices.. Best Regards. Sergio E. Castro Hitachi Data Systems Global Support Center 15231 Avenue Of Science San Diego, California 92128 USA Phone: +858-537-3075 Office

Re: INOPERATIVE PATH

2011-05-27 Thread Cris Hernandez #9
please dont think I'm being insultin, but you didnt say... did you check the obvious? the physical connections and their corresponding logical definitions (new library?) ? --- On Fri, 5/27/11, Ibm Main wrote: > From: Ibm Main > Subject: INOPERATIVE PATH > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Date: F

Re: Antwort: Differences between REGION=0K and REGION=0M

2011-05-27 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 27 May 2011 14:56:01 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: >On 27 May 2011 12:42, Charles Mills wrote: >>> REGION=0K requests only one-thousandth as much as REGION=0M. >> >> Does SPACE=(TRK,0) allocate only 1/15 as much DASD as SPACE=(CYL,0)? > >Generally yes. But it could be different on older dev

Re: Mainframe C Link Step Error - using pthread (POSIX)

2011-05-27 Thread John Weber
Here is the link step. Thanks! 77 //LKED EXEC PGM=HEWL,COND=(4,LT,COMPILE), 78 //REGION=&LREGSIZ,PARM='&LPARM' 79 //SYSLIB DD DSNAME=TCPIP.SEZACMTX,DISP=SHR 80 // DD DSNAME=&LIBPRFX..SCEELKED,DISP=SHR 81 //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* 82 //SYSLIN DD DSN

Re: Mainframe C Link Step Error - using pthread (POSIX)

2011-05-27 Thread Lizette Koehler
> >We are receiving an 8 on our linking of a C module on the mainframe (z/os 1.7) > >The error is: IEW2456E 9207 SYMBOL PTHREAD@ UNRESOLVED. > >Does a library need to be included in our link's syslib? > >Thank you! Can you post your JCL for your LKED step? Lizette -

Mainframe C Link Step Error - using pthread (POSIX)

2011-05-27 Thread John Weber
We are receiving an 8 on our linking of a C module on the mainframe (z/os 1.7) The error is: IEW2456E 9207 SYMBOL PTHREAD@ UNRESOLVED. Does a library need to be included in our link's syslib? Thank you! -- For IBM-MAIN subscri

Re: Antwort: Differences between REGION=0K and REGION=0M

2011-05-27 Thread Tony Harminc
On 27 May 2011 12:42, Charles Mills wrote: >> REGION=0K requests only one-thousandth as much as REGION=0M. > > Does SPACE=(TRK,0) allocate only 1/15 as much DASD as SPACE=(CYL,0)? Generally yes. But it could be different on older devices with a different number of tracks/cylinder. Where you *real

Re: My first mainframe experience

2011-05-27 Thread Chris Hoelscher
Back in high school (circa 1973), I got to play on an 1130 (given to us by a local think tank (Battelle Memorial Institute, where Xerography was developed) with an 1132 printer - I gotta say, I (like so many others have mentioned) was hooked Was/Is an 1130 considered a mainframe? (or was EVERYT

Re: My first mainframe experience

2011-05-27 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
gerh...@valley.net (Gerhard Postpischil) writes: > The 2260s were attached to a 2848 control unit. I worked at ADR when > they were announced, and a couple of us used them for playing games > (e.g., a battleship game by Dave McBride). {partly as a result of our > experience, we won a CIA contract f

Re: Any way to monitor Member Updates in a PDS

2011-05-27 Thread Hrycewicz, David
CA has CA Compliance Manager for z/OS; please see: http://www.ca.com/us/products/detail/CA-Compliance-Manager-for-zOS.aspx for additional information. Regards, Dave David Hrycewicz CA Software Architect david.hrycew...@ca.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: My first mainframe experience

2011-05-27 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 5/27/2011 11:17 AM, Petersen, Jim wrote: How about 2260's was a terminal control unit for terminals which only had 12 lines by 80 Cut my teeth on 360/65 and a 360/50 and a 360/40 and they had a 360/20 down at one of our sites for RJE. The 2260s were attached to a 2848 control unit. I worked

Re: FDR/UPSTREAM on zOS

2011-05-27 Thread Patrick Fitzsimmons
Hello Depending on how many file servers/or virtual machines and/or the number of files that you need to backup simultaneously will determine how many FDR/UPSTREAM z/OS started tasks that you will need. If it is a single file server with 1 PB and 100+ million files, going to be hard to get th

DFHSM QUESTION - SDSP DSNS

2011-05-27 Thread willie bunter
Hallo To All,   I ran a report to obtain a list of SDSP dsns on an ML1 volume which is defined as SDSP : HSEND LIST DATASETNAME MCDS SELECT(VOLUME(ML1101) SDSP).  There were 42,403 dsns listed.  I ran another report HSEND LIST DATASETNAME MCDS SELECT(VOLUME(ML1101)).  In this report there were

Re: Antwort: Differences between REGION=0K and REGION=0M

2011-05-27 Thread Bill Fairchild
Yes, since 1/15 of zero is equal to zero. I have a file that occupies 0 Petabytes. Man, that thing is really HUGE. Bill Fairchild -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 11:42 AM To: IBM-

Re: Antwort: Differences between REGION=0K and REGION=0M

2011-05-27 Thread Charles Mills
> REGION=0K requests only one-thousandth as much as REGION=0M. Does SPACE=(TRK,0) allocate only 1/15 as much DASD as SPACE=(CYL,0)? Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 4:38 P

Re: My first mainframe experience

2011-05-27 Thread Kammer, Charles
Oh yes... A 256k IBM 360/50 with a 1MB LCS box attached running OS/MFT. Also CRJE on 2740/41's, 2260's came later. Operations greatly improved when we installed this type-3 program called "HASP". Charles S. Kammer Systems Programming Administrator Bexar County Information Technology San Antoni

Re: My first mainframe experience

2011-05-27 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
jim_peter...@homedepot.com (Petersen, Jim) writes: > How about 2260's was a terminal control unit for terminals which only > had 12 lines by 80 Cut my teeth on 360/65 and a 360/50 and a 360/40 > and they had a 360/20 down at one of our sites for RJE. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#41 h

Re: My first mainframe experience

2011-05-27 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
ps2...@yahoo.com (Ed Gould) writes: > Back in the 70's & 80's the place I worked had 1500 (or so) local 3270's off > of > a 168MP. > We were truly at the UCB # limit for MVS. We were forever having to do > sysgens > as our VP was a hungry for drives. The conversion to 3350's did save us a bit.

Re: My first mainframe experience

2011-05-27 Thread Petersen, Jim
How about 2260's was a terminal control unit for terminals which only had 12 lines by 80 Cut my teeth on 360/65 and a 360/50 and a 360/40 and they had a 360/20 down at one of our sites for RJE. ___ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot Techno

Re: Problem with resolving own host name

2011-05-27 Thread Robin Atwood
Chris - Thanks for the response. Since I posted I have tried running hometest, telnet, with the trace and they do "gethostbyname()" without problems, so I am inclined to think the problem lies with the SAS/C runtime. Unfortunately SAS/C is no longer marketed and is basically a bit moribund, so I do

Re: Use of MCSOPMSG

2011-05-27 Thread Chuck Arney
The problem is resolved but I did not get much detail to relay. I believe it was just typical AR mode programming problems. Chuck Arney illustro Systems International, LLC http://www.illustro.com Internet-enable your applications with z/Ware V2 Voice: 214-800-8900 X#5562 -- This e-mail is private

Re: Problem with resolving own host name

2011-05-27 Thread Chris Mason
Robin I see you have not had a response to this. Please be aware that the greatest concentration of IP-based expertise is in IBMTCP-L: For IBMTCP-L subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO IBMTCP-L > Turning on the resolver

Re: Accelerrate your migration z/OS v1r12

2011-05-27 Thread Marna WALLE
Hello All, If you weren't able to make the live webcast yesterday, the replay is available right now from the webcast website: http://events.unisfair.com/rt/ibm~zosr12mig That should help those with a Down Under timezone :). You do need a logon userid/password to get to it. You can use your ex

Re: Automatic response fail on Console

2011-05-27 Thread saurabh khandelwal
Thanks for reply. We do not use any product for scheduling. We just use free scheduling procedure. We are using z/OS 1.10 system running. The program which we use is called AUTO and is available in SYS2.PROCLIB(AUTO). Menu Utilities Compilers Help ÄÄÄ

Re: Automatic response fail on Console

2011-05-27 Thread Lizette Koehler
> On a few systems the daily SMFDUMP that starts to run at 2200 hrs. > bets a message from RMM due to the daily backup running. Something is > different with > these systems as our automatic response to the message fails saying that > "Reply xx > was not requested from this console". > > 220

Automatic response fail on Console

2011-05-27 Thread saurabh khandelwal
Hello, On a few systems the daily SMFDUMP that starts to run at 2200 hrs. bets a message from RMM due to the daily backup running. Something is different with these systems as our automatic response to the message fails saying that "Reply xx was not requested from this console". 2200 hrs is wh

Re: INOPERATIVE PATH

2011-05-27 Thread Lizette Koehler
Sorry I misread the path name So the command should be D M=CHP(B0) Also check out the redbook FICON Planning and Implementation SG24-6497. It has a decent write-up of various reasons for the IOS2001I messages. Since you B0 / FF is not documented, I would recommend contacting IBM IOS group throug

Re: How do XCF couple datasets get serialized in a sysplex?

2011-05-27 Thread Bill Neiman
XCF does not use any of the interfaces that establish a reserve on a device - not ENQ / RESERVE in any of its external implementations, nor the Device Reserve (B4) command. The reference to device-level serialization in my earlier append wasn't really correct. More precisely, XCF uses approp

Re: INOPERATIVE PATH

2011-05-27 Thread Lizette Koehler
> we are upgrading our z10's to z196's and during the last machine upgrade we started > loosing paths to different devices and from different channel paths. > > We have now one z10 and one z196 with 4 LPARs each in SYSPLEX. > The messages are displayed through the LPARs of the z10. > > *IOS001E 5

INOPERATIVE PATH

2011-05-27 Thread Ibm Main
Hi, we are upgrading our z10's to z196's and during the last machine upgrade we started loosing paths to different devices and from different channel paths. We have now one z10 and one z196 with 4 LPARs each in SYSPLEX. The messages are displayed through the LPARs of the z10. *IOS001E 5DDC,INOPER

Re: How do XCF couple datasets get serialized in a sysplex?

2011-05-27 Thread Giliad Wilf
On Wed, 25 May 2011 07:04:04 -0500, Bill Neiman wrote: >... >XCF uses several types of serialization to protect couple data sets. >But to clear up one misconception right away: Hardware reserves are *NEVER* >used to serialize couple data sets. >... Thank you Bill. One last question: When y

Re: Facebook for professional usage (was Re: Recent maintenance for z/XDC)

2011-05-27 Thread Martin Packer
Facebook access is not just allowed in IBM but actively encouraged. And heavily used. (Likewise Slideshare, LinkedIn, FourSquare and Twitter - and this isn't a prescriptive list.) Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-

AUTO: Jim Obrizok is out of the office on vacation and the holiday, returning Tuesday, May 31st.. (returning 05/31/2011)

2011-05-27 Thread James Obrizok
I am out of the office until 05/31/2011. If this is a emergency, please contact my backup - Fernando Vega - on 1-404-238-4580, or fv...@us.ibm.com. Thank you. Note: This is an automated response to your message "IBM-MAIN Digest - 25 May 2011 to 26 May 2011 (#2011-146)" sent on 5/27/11 0:00:03.