On 6/21/2011 10:51 AM, Minoru Massaki wrote:
> As Mike told, in real 3490E, block count in block ID (32-bits) is 22-bits
> long.
> High order 10-bits in 3490E block ID is used other purpose.
> In case of 3590 as well as 3592, the block count is 32-bits long.
>
> But in 3490E emulation mode of 35
We have a tape robot (forget device type). We can share a 3592J drive
between the z and distributed systems. It is very important to be sure
the data is compatible between the systems. We use "printable" character
data and do the EBCDIC to ASCII translation on z/OS. Windows remains
"other system" u
On Wed, Jun 22nd, 2011 at 6:02 AM, Bill Fairchild wrote:
> Warwick is alive and well in Hong Kong
I recall Warwick presenting a paper along the lines Bill was describing to
Share here in Aus - similar timeframe I suspect.
Full (assemled) listing handed out and discussed in detail. Much fun ensue
What type of data? What windows application will read the data?
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Dears listers,
question as the subject , any idea ?
appreciated your idea.
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On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:24:15 +0300, Binyamin Dissen wrote:
>I used STARTIO in order to make the CONSOLE input field no-display so that
>passwords could be entered even if someone was shoulder surfing (with some
>help from Warwick Teale, if he is still around).
>
This seems to me to be more a matte
yes, but
MIPS have nothing to do with that!
Ted MacNEIL
eamacn...@yahoo.ca
From: Hal Merritt
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Sent: Tue, June 21, 2011 4:33:27 PM
Subject: Re: Production MIPS
The MIPS of a typical production mainframe would be greater than that need
Well, now I recall the limitation was related to block count.
However I still see no reason why it's a problem for STK T1 but not
for emulated drives. From operating system point of view it should be no
difference between real and emulated drive!
Mike wrote "Depending on how the data is accesse
I went to that 2 week Amdahl class I think in 1982 or 83. I thought it was one
of the best classes I ever attended. It was held in Columbia, Maryland. They
had a hillside right next to the hotel where there were performances almost
every day. There was also the Library, a bar made to look li
The MIPS of a typical production mainframe would be greater than that needed to
provide acceptable service levels. That can vary form the teens to the
thousands.
IBM, your business partner, or independent contractors have tools that use
your SMF/RMF data to evaluate your unique workload a
Warwick is alive and well in Hong Kong, working for Hewlitt-Packard, but not
involved with mainframes. I attended his wedding there last November. I can
send you his address, phone number, etc., if you want.
Bill Fairchild
Rocket Software
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I used STARTIO in order to make the CONSOLE input field no-display so that
passwords could be entered even if someone was shoulder surfing (with some
help from Warwick Teale, if he is still around).
Advantages of STARTIO are that you do not need the device allocated (in fact,
it can be allocated e
>
>http://www.share.org/Events/UpcomingConferences/SHAREinOrlando/BuildingaCasetoAttendSHARE/tabid/395/Default.aspx
>
>Regards,
>John K
>
Everyone Thanks so much. For some reason I seem to have a lot of difficulty
finding things on SHARE that use to be easy.
Lizette
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I haven't read any of the referenced documents and/or urls, but I know from
experience that a very good way to justify going to SHARE is to prepare a topic
for presentation at SHARE that will somehow enhance your employer's reputation
in the industry if it is presented, then explain to your man
If the device that you wish to emulate has a certain feature that (1) you wish
to support, (2) IBM software and hardware supports such a feature, but (3) you
cannot use that feature if you write your I/O requests using EXCP, then you
will need to use STARTIO somewhere in your emulation. You wil
http://www.share.org/Events/UpcomingConferences/SHAREinOrlando/BuildingaCasetoAttendSHARE/tabid/395/Default.aspx
Regards,
John K
From: Lizette Koehler
Lizette,
They have a "Building a Case to Attend SHARE" page. It is on the
registration page.
http://www.share.org/Events/UpcomingConferences/SHAREinOrlando/BuildingaCasetoAttendSHARE/tabid/395/Default.aspx
Ian
http://www.cicsworld.com
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I thought there was a business case out on SHARE.ORG that could be used to
justify going to share, but I cannot find it.
Does anyone have a simple but effective paragraph on going to share they could
share??
Thanks
Lizette
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I totally apologize if I am beating the dead horse. But if I understood
correctly, software that emulates a device like MFNet could be done with a
supported means/interface, and I assume from what I read would be EXCP running
authorized.
So if I wanted to write something like MFNet (and i don'
As Mike told, in real 3490E, block count in block ID (32-bits) is 22-bits long.
High order 10-bits in 3490E block ID is used other purpose.
In case of 3590 as well as 3592, the block count is 32-bits long.
But in 3490E emulation mode of 3590/3592, you can use 32-bits block count.
I think that ST
I tried to do something like that around 1985. At the time I was using EXCP in
an authorized program to do most of the same things that STARTIO will allow you
to do but unauthorized EXCP will not, such as do I/O to an offline device, do
I/O to an unallocated DASD track, etc. The way I was doin
Anyone want to play with this here you go...
%USERTEST;4
results in a single line returned:
"USER SELECTED OPTION 4".
%USERTEST NONDISP;4
results in the panel being displayed with "4" in the ZCMD field...
Command ===> 4
Options - 1 - One
- 2 - Two
- 3 - Three
- 4 - Four
August, 1987 in Chicago. I did a newer version of it in March, 2009 in Austin.
I may have done it once or twice at SHARE after AUG 87, but I don't remember.
I based my presentation on the sample code written by Peter (unknown last name)
referenced in Lindy's first posted url of
http://lillia
Edward Jaffe wrote:
I just reduced the screen geometry of my 3270 displays from 90x142
down to 68x142 due to ever-increasing eye strain. When I started in
this business, I worked with a 24x80 display. At this rate, I'll
probably retire with the same screen geometry I started with... :-D
I'm
Walt,
Yes, normally "DIALOG;4" would bypass the 1st panel and pass "4" as it's
ZCMD value. The difference between that and the NONDISPL panel is that if
the ";4" was not specified the panel would be displayed. The NONDISPL panel
will NEVER be seen by the user thus the next segment of the sta
>I can't explain why you need "DIALOG;;;4" rather than "DIALOG;;4" which I
>would have expected.
My CLIST test works with two or more delimiters. Anything more than 2 is
ignored.
Enter TSO commands below:
===> dand;;;u.1.1
Regards,
John K
ISPEXEC CONTROL ERRORS RETURN
ISPEXEC CONTR
Thank you all, folks,
we will probably open a PMR on IXC255I error.
Sandro Ambrozic
+34 666 803 223
2011/6/21 Staller, Allan
> Agreed. My previous response was poorly worded.
>
> My escape clause is/was:
> Create the CDS's using the documented procedures and all should be well.
>
>
>
> >The
Agreed. My previous response was poorly worded.
My escape clause is/was:
Create the CDS's using the documented procedures and all should be well.
>There is no format program for the WLM CDS. The WLM CDS is formatted
>when a policy is installed/activated, or the CDS's are migrated.
>Create the
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:40:39 -0400, DanD wrote:
>The )BODY section of the USERINFO panel does contain CMD().
>As it is never displayed it only contains a single line of blanks with an
>attribute byte as the 1st character. You get an error when you have a
>null )BODY section.
>
>Are you saying th
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:24:54 -0500, Staller, Allan
wrote:
>There is no format program for the WLM CDS. The WLM CDS is formatted
>when a policy is installed/activated, or the CDS's are migrated.
>Create the CDS's using the documented procedures and all should be well.
WLM most certainly relies
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From: Walt Farrell
Thanks, Dan. I had missed that you set it up so the installation or user
would alter a different panel. You could, of course, have them alter your
dialog's first actual panel, but I can see the benefit to using a separate
one.
I think you'll find t
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:55:11 -0500, Walt Farrell wrote:
>
>Yes, they can all be captured. The only issue may be that if the command
>doesn't properly issue the responses then you may not be able to tell that
>the response is for the command you issued. But once you (a program) sets up
>a console, y
Check $TJOBCLASS,XEQCOUNT=n
This will limit the maximum number of active jobs in the class
sysplex-wide.
Try XEQCOUNT=MAX=n for the JES init deck.
HTH,
I can limit the number of jobs running in a certain WLM class by using
the $TJOBCLASS commands XEQMEMBER parameter.
Is there an equivalent pa
>
> I can limit the number of jobs running in a certain WLM class by using the
$TJOBCLASS
> commands XEQMEMBER parameter.
>
> Is there an equivalent parameters for the JES2 startup parameter?
>
> Gadi
>
>
>
You can always place JES2 commands in the Init deck.
Lizette
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Hi,
I can limit the number of jobs running in a certain WLM class by using the
$TJOBCLASS commands XEQMEMBER parameter.
Is there an equivalent parameters for the JES2 startup parameter?
Gadi
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On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:16:37 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>But when an operator command is issued from SDSF (or any program)
>is it generally possible to capture the reply? I suspect z/OS's
>characteristic adverse layering design (Conway's Law) intrudes
>here. Ideally, there should be a base la
Raj,
I just execute SDSF from batch like this:
//STEP2 EXEC PGM=ISF,PARM='++900,250'
//ISFOUT DD DSN=&&LISTOUT,UNIT=SYSDA,DISP=(,PASS),
// SPACE=(TRK,(10,10)),RECFM=FBA,LRECL=251,BLKSIZE=0
//ISFINDD *
PREFIX
OM
HTH
Steve
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:01:15 -0500, Rajender Vemula
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:36:34 -0400, Dan D wrote:
>I have an ISPF dialog that needs site specific information. What the data
>is doesn't really matter, but it is not available in a control block and I
>do not want to maintain it in each users's ISPF profile. My example below
>it just that, an ex
Sandro,
In z/OS V1R8 (HBB7730), XCF introduced an optional interface that can
be exploited by components that own couple data sets (CDSes) to address
exactly this problem. When an alternate CDS is rejected because it wasn't
formatted for at least the same capacity as the existing primary CDS
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe
>
> I just reduced the screen geometry of my 3270 displays from 90x142
down to
> 68x142 due to ever-increasing eye strain. When I started in this
business, I
> worked with a 24x80 display. At this rate, I'
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 05:15:19 -0500 John McKown wrote:
:>I'm fairly sure you can using VM's VCTC to connect the guests with a
:>Virtual CTC. You'd likely need to IPL CMS to have it's PROFILE EXEC do a
:>CP COUPLE, then IPL z/OS.
No need to re-IPL for that. CP commands can be issued from the VM co
You can also do a parallel sysplex quite easily.
See the manual z/VM Running Guest Operating Systems:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/hcse7b30.pdf
Chapters 4 and 8.
The key for your CFRM policy is going to be the SIMDEV option on "TYPE":
DEFINE POLICY NAME(POLICY1) REPLACE(YES)
Thanks
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Subject: Re: Creating a BASIC sysplex between two VM Guests
I'm fairly sure you can using VM's VCTC to connec
The z/OS 1.10 migration info on CDS size talks on CDS size only, which in
our case didn't change.
We defined new CDS in the alternate site, using current WLM configuration
values in 1.10, and the created CDS was the same size of our production (let
say, 'old') ones. That's why we didn`t expect tha
Hi,
I deleted the System Automation FMID for the IMS stuff. Where we do have
the product, I just point to the appropriate place (ready to forget when
we are running two levels of CICS for instance).
Best regards,
David Tidy Tel:(31)115-67-1745
IS Technical Man
I'm fairly sure you can using VM's VCTC to connect the guests with a
Virtual CTC. You'd likely need to IPL CMS to have it's PROFILE EXEC do a
CP COUPLE, then IPL z/OS.
On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 11:08 +0300, גדי בן אבי wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to create a BASIC sysplex between two VM guests?
>
Radoslaw, I believe the 'limit' that most likely causes problems is the
block ID.
3490/3590 devices use different formats. If you look at the doc for the NOTE
and POINT macros for sequential data sets in DFSMS pubs you will get some
idea of the differences.
Basically, the 3490 blkid limited the num
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:01:15 -0500 Rajender Vemula wrote:
:>Good Day,
:>I want to execute some set of display commands (like D GRS,ENQ,C) on
:>console is there any batch utility to do that? . Can i automate this batch
:>job to execute on scheduled time. Finally Can I write the output of these
Hi,
Is it possible to create a BASIC sysplex between two VM guests?
Both guests are running under the same physical machine.
Thanks
Gadi
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"Sandro Ambrozic" wrote in message
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> 2011/6/20 Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
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> > In
> > ,
> > on 06/20/2011
> >at 10:02 AM, "Vernooij, CP - SPLXM" said:
> >
> > >1. this newsgroup is a mirror of the news-server. Most people get
> > >their posts only from the newsserver.
Ok, typo. I m
I submitted it as RCF (Reader's Comment Form) to IBM. The manual say
*NOTHING* what to do in case you don't have those products.
IMHO it's one of the most irritating things in the ServerPac.
Oh, btw - IBM didn't reacted to the RCF in any way.
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Lodz, Poland
W dniu 2011-06-
W dniu 2011-06-20 19:15, Mike Schwab pisze:
I know our STK9840C 40GB drives were defined as IBM 3590.
That's OK, but (at least for 9840A and B) you could define them as 3490
as well. Also other types of hardware and emulated tape drives do offer
such definition.
However my question just out
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