Re: TCPIP PROFILE

Carlos > I need to configure > Since I´m not familiar to this, ... I suggest you get your colleague who *is* familiar with the IP component of z/OS CS to subscribe to the IBMTCP-L list as recommended by Lizette Koehler and post a much more accurately expressed specification of what you need

Re: Real return address for link and attach

On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 16:18:33 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: . . . >Attach always provides a 144-byte save area . . . Not always. Not when SVAREA=NO specified and condition of supervisor state or system key met. -- For IBM-MAIN subs

Re: Ads on IBM-MAIN

On 7/1/2011 2:10 PM, Lindy Mayfield wrote: Not sure if this is my business to say so, but normally on this list we try to keep ads to a minimum. Though I'd say that a few people contribute to the list 95% of the time, and only advertise in a very subtle way. Email footers, for example. People

Re: z196-BC announcement pending?

The Register have more info on the new BC http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/29/ibm_systemz11_bc_mainframe/ -- Ian http://www.cicsworld.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

CA Updates mainframe "tools" with New Interface

Watch Wrap: >http://news.techworld.com/data-centre/3288044/ca-updates-mainframe-tools-with-new-interface/?cmpid=TD1N5&no1x1&olo=daily%20newsletter > Addressing some of the chief problems faced by mainframe operators today, CA Technologies has updated its stack of mainframe management software to

Re: Real return address for link and attach

On 7/1/2011 1:45 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: What do LINK and ATTACH respectively pass the child program as a save area pointer? o The caller's R13? o Other (specify)? The answer for LINK is fully documented. http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/iea2a9b0/69.1.4 (Hint: R1

Re: Real return address for link and attach

On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 15:45:30 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >What do LINK and ATTACH respectively pass the child program >as a save area pointer? I'm not sure about LINK. Attach always provides a 144-byte save area regardless of what was in the attaching program's r13. >If the caller ATTACHes mul

Re: Real Storage Occupancy

>I find the problem is only real storage is increasing, virtual storage looks ok..can not understand why.. As I've tried to tell, this NOT a problem. Virtual storage is stable. There is no paging issue. So, what's the problem? - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Twitter: @TedMacNEIL ---

Re: TCPIP PROFILE

> Hello TCP/IP z/OS gurus > > I need to configure a telnet access thru tcpip z/OS 1.5. Since I´m not familiar to this, > seems that all is defined in gateway statement. > > My home address will 192.168.1.230, gateway is 192.168.1.225 and network mask is > 255.255.255.240 How should I define my ga

Re: Real Storage Occupancy

It's not abnormal. Storage occupancy is next to meaningless if there's no paging. That's why IBM's recommendation is to set the SDC to ZERO. Your task is referencing pages and no other task needs more, so the RSM has no need to take them away. - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Twitter: @TedMacNEI

Re: Real return address for link and attach

On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 15:33:07 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: > >LINK is an SVC and the linked program runs under control of an SVRB. The >return from the linked routine also takes you to CVTEXIT, which is an SVC 3 >instruction. The SVC will delete the SVRB and return control to the RB that >was active

Re: Vector processors on the 3090

IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 07/01/2011 03:37:31 AM: > From: Timothy Sipples > And before *that* there was the IBM 2938 Array Processor which you attached > to your System/360. If this is the beast I think it is, it attached only to 360s as a channel that had outboard channels. M

Re: Real return address for link and attach

On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 12:38:53 -0700, Schwarz, Barry A wrote: >If an "attached" task has terminated, there should be nothing in your >dump related to it. The BR 14 in the task should branch to an >operating system routine to post the ECB and perform the appropriate >housekeeping. The only thing

Re: B&T cables

Have some is California, also a couple Info Window 3270's. Dale McCart Senior Systems Programmer / zSeries, z/OS, z/VM, zLinux Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. 9950 Jeronimo Rd. Irvine, California 92618-2084 Telephone: (949) 770-0400 extension 2316 Fax: (949) 460-5576 E-mail: dale.mcc...

Re: B&T cables

All gone, but towards the end we were using some of the Info Window boxes(maybe 3192 something) with VGA hookups and Dell flat screen monitors. In a message dated 7/1/2011 2:52:32 P.M. Central Daylight Time, wdonze...@gmail.com writes: IBM 3270 family terminals (any vintage). -

Re: Vector processors on the 3090

: Rick: OK will do. I disagree with the "none of the higher level languages support it". I have found several mentions of FORTRAN. However I was not looking for usage techniques just some general information. I haven't looked at

TCPIP PROFILE

Hello TCP/IP z/OS gurus I need to configure a telnet access thru tcpip z/OS 1.5. Since I´m not familiar to this, seems that all is defined in gateway statement. My home address will 192.168.1.230, gateway is 192.168.1.225 and network mask is 255.255.255.240 How should I define my gateway sta

B&T cables

I have a couple of requests for some bus and tag cables - one request from the Computer History Museum - as well as a request for some old IBM 3270 family terminals (any vintage). Does anyone know of any in the New York/New England area I could go fetch? -- Will -

Re: Vector processors on the 3090

On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 15:37:31 +0800, Timothy Sipples wrote: > >Before that there was the IBM 3838 Array Processor which ran (eventually) >the Vector Processing Subsystem (VPSS)/XA. I think the 3838 debuted in 1976 >or 1977. Your VPSS stuff could run on the VFs using (what else) VPSS/VF. >VPSS/XA

Re: Real return address for link and attach

If an "attached" task has terminated, there should be nothing in your dump related to it. The BR 14 in the task should branch to an operating system routine to post the ECB and perform the appropriate housekeeping. The only thing in your dump should be the ECB. The mother and daughter tasks b

Re: Enclave help

Hi Mike, An enclave will involve more than one address space.  I do not know enough about DB2 to advise you, except to recommend that you identify the parent and the children.  Why do you want to cancel? HTH, Linda - Original Message - From: "Mike S Ward" To: IBM-MAIN@b

Real return address for link and attach

I have a situation where my subtask terminates and it seems it returns to somewhere in my program and starts executing my primary task (hard to believe isn't it). I want to check out my theory by determining in a dump where the attachx is going to return to after I execute the BR 14 (and return

Re: z196-BC announcement pending?

It´s a z196 BC announcement.! Carlos Bodra IBM Certified Specialist System z Sao Paulo - Brazil Em 30/06/2011 16:33, Pommier, Rex R. escreveu: Just got an invite to a live virtual event on July 12 regarding the "evolution of the z hybrid". Here is the first paragraph of the an

Re: Empty output in netstat home z/OS 1.10

Jorge The who manage the IBM web site have removed a "Techdoc" which - I have every confidence - used to explain this problem. The Techdoc was referenced in the following post: http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0912&L=ibm-main&T=0&F=&S=&P=54471 A possible useful explanation may be being pro

Re: Empty output in netstat home z/OS 1.10

Chris is likely correct. I would suspect you did not properly clone or otherwise upgrade your Unix System Services root when you moved to z/OS 1.10 Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:

Ads on IBM-MAIN

Not sure if this is my business to say so, but normally on this list we try to keep ads to a minimum. Though I'd say that a few people contribute to the list 95% of the time, and only advertise in a very subtle way. Email footers, for example. People on this list have been very fair, but at t

Re: Vector processors on the 3090

On 7/1/2011 7:39 PM, Abe F. Kornelis wrote: Who would be able to contribute code samples (read: test cases) if such an extension to z390 would be built? Anybody interested? I doubt it... VF has been deprecated (in its current form anyway) for quite some time.. To a point where the op codes f

Re: Vector processors on the 3090

All, I still have an electronic copy of the SA22-7207-00 ESA390 Vector Operations manual. I've been considering for a while to write an extension for Don Higgins' z390 assembler to create Vector Facility support there. I haven't started yet, as it seems a lot of work, and doubtful that anybody

Re: Empty output in netstat home z/OS 1.10

Jorge I've just spotted this but I have time only for a quick message: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ieduasst/stgv1r0/topic/com.ibm.iea.co mmserv_v1/commserv/1.9z/appl/FTP_Other.pdf Chris Mason On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 07:07:10 -0500, Jorge Garcia wrote: >Hello: > > Last Saturday we've

Re: Real Storage Occupancy

It's difficult to find the reason from the program logic...:-( Wang Xiaobing On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 23:15:04 +0800, Johnny Luo wrote: >Virtual storage used by the task won't increase unless new GETMAIN is issued. > >After initial GETMAIN the working set will increase as the task begins >to access

Re: If you found used gum in the parking lot, would you chew it?

Is this recent? That very same thing was done, jeez, if I remember, about 10 or so years ago, give or take. And if this is recent, just goes to show you, after it all, nothing really changed very much over the years. I wonder if this or what other tactic could be used to break into a mainfr

Enclave help

NP NAME Time,OwnerSys,OwnerJob,OwnerAS,OwnerASX,Original,Scope 194002C094F 1.31 SSFE DB2PDIST 134 0086 YES LOCAL Hello all, I have a question. Is there any way to cancel the above enclave? Thanks in advance. == This email and any files transmitted wit

Re: Vector processors on the 3090

l...@garlic.com (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes: > try search "linkpak 3090 vf" for various other refs finger slip ... that should be linpack (not linkpak) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LINPACK first top 500 doesn't have ibm mainframe http://www.top500.org/list/1993/06/100 old post w/s-computer sep8

Re: If you found used gum in the parking lot, would you chew it?

On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:41:05 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > >>people who picked them up plugged the devices into office computers. >>And if the drive or CD had an official logo on it, 90% were >>installed."" > >A large share of the blame goes to the monopoly software vendor that >wrote

Re: Real Storage Occupancy

Virtual storage used by the task won't increase unless new GETMAIN is issued. After initial GETMAIN the working set will increase as the task begins to access more pages without FREEMAIN. These days, as real storage is usually not a problem, it's possible that those pages will reside in central s

Re: Real Storage Occupancy

On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:54:44 -0500, Dale R. Smith wrote: >On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:22:24 -0500, Wang Xiaobing > wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>We use a rexx program invoking ISFAFD to monitor the BATCH JOB, it >is a long >>term running address space. The name is JCSOL, but we found the >REAL >>STORAGE occupie

Re: Real Storage Occupancy

Thanks, TED and Kees.. The system is no paging..but I would like to know the reason. The Virtual Storage usage of the task - JCSOL is no increasing during the days.. Do you think it is normal ? thanks. Wang Xiaobing On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:59:45 +0200, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote: >"Ted Mac

Re: Empty output in netstat home z/OS 1.10

Jorge > Last Saturday we've upgrade our production lpar to z/OS 1.10. I believe you have a problem accessing the templates used to define the fixed content of messages. You should review your installation steps in order to work out something not done or not done correctly. I have no experien

Re: PDSE cache

Hi Thank you, I will read her posts, but reading now it only works for SMS managed PDSE. My PDSE's are not SMS managed. D SMS,PDSE1,HSPSTATS says that all my dataset 's are cache eligible. On 7/1/2011 4:11 PM, Rob Scott wrote: Miklos Barbara Nitz has explored this area in great detail i

Re: PDSE cache

Miklos Barbara Nitz has explored this area in great detail in various threads over the last few years. Check the archives and read her posts - they are excellent. Rob Scott Lead Developer Rocket Software 275 Grove Street * Newton, MA 02466-2272 * USA Tel: +1.617.614.2305 Email: rsc...@rs.com W

Re: Vector processors on the 3090

Why are we even talking about VPs? The z196 has OOO which enables HPC in any language. On 1/07/2011 10:36 AM, Rick Fochtman wrote: Ed Gould wrote: All the google searches are mute (or Cost $$$) As to the mega flops the facility had. Anyone have the numbers? Sorry to ask these semi off topic

PDSE cache

Hi Started in zOS 1.11 the SMS PDSE1 address space with large cache, buffer_beyond_close etc. For my big surprise no any change in a program runtime, which is intensively using modules from PDSE libraries. -- For IBM-MAIN su

Re: If you found used gum in the parking lot, would you chew it?

In , on 06/29/2011 at 03:03 PM, Darth Keller said: >""Bloomberg reports that The US Department of Homeland recently ran a >test on government employees to see how easy it was for hackers to >gain access to computer systems, without the need for direct network >access. Computer disks and US

Re: Installing Java 64bit v6.0.1

In , on 06/29/2011 at 12:07 PM, said: >The Program directory says that UA16880 is a prerequisite, but it >looks to me that it this PTF is for VTAM in z/OS 1.10. Are there any ifreqs? Look for ++ IF. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: Empty output in netstat home z/OS 1.10

On 7/1/2011 2:41 PM, Jorge Garcia wrote: The TSO HOMETEST works fine: EZA0602I TCP Host Name is: VREA EZA0605I Using Name Server to Resolve VREA EZA0611I The following IP addresses correspond to TCP Host Name: VREA EZA0612I 10.255.224.222 EZA0614I The following IP addresses are the HOME IP add

Re: Diagnose S0E0 Abend

Lots of info in the POP about linkage stacks! Thanks Note: I now believe this is an IBM problem. This started after system changes made last weekend and the job will shutdown normally 50% of the time. Looking at POP to determine how to trace. Thanks for your help.

Re: Diagnose S0E0 Abend

This is unlikely to be a problem in z/OS What is more likely is that there is a logic error somewhere in your error recovery and the linkage stack level at retry is not what you (or the operating system) expect. Rob Scott Lead Developer Rocket Software 275 Grove Street * Newton, MA 02466-2272 *

Re: Empty output in netstat home z/OS 1.10

The TSO HOMETEST works fine: EZA0602I TCP Host Name is: VREA EZA0605I Using Name Server to Resolve VREA EZA0611I The following IP add

Re: Vector processors on the 3090

timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com (Timothy Sipples) writes: > That's not really true. For example, there was the IBM Engineering and > Scientific Subroutine Library (ESSL) Vector and Scalar/370 software. That > software provided a library of mathematical functions you could call from > FORTRAN, C, PL/I, A

Re: Empty output in netstat home z/OS 1.10

Hi There is also a TSO HOMETEST command. Do you see something "unusual" during IPL ? Mount problems , TCPIP startup problsm etc ? On 7/1/2011 2:07 PM, Jorge Garcia wrote: Hello: Last Saturday we've upgrade our production lpar to z/OS 1.10. Since last saturday when we enter the netstat h

Empty output in netstat home z/OS 1.10

Hello: Last Saturday we've upgrade our production lpar to z/OS 1.10. Since last saturday when we enter the netstat home command we received this output: EZZ2350I MVS TCP/IP NETSTAT CS V1R10 TCPIP Name: TCPIP EZZ2698I -- reserved for future use -- EZZ2699I -- reserved

Re: If you found used gum in the parking lot, would you chew it?

W dniu 2011-06-30 17:38, Darth Keller pisze: And what about USBs on offer at a conference ? (*). I'll bet a *lot* of them get stuffed into work machines. I'm looking at a stylized chameleon I'm pretty sure I got at a zSymposium. Shane - I agree with you. If I picked it up at a confere

MFNetDisk PRO TCP issue PTF=160

HI, As I said yesterday the change in MVS make big improvement using DFDSS with almost 64K block size. I tried to change the same value in Windows, Windows did not react to the change at all. I looked in the Internet and I saw that Windows uses it way to deal with this parameter and it is depen

Re: Packet Trace by specific jobname

John Not too many takers, polite or impolite! The greatest concentration of folk capable of making useful comments regarding matters related to the IP component of z/OS Communications Server (CS) are to be found here: For IBMTCP-L subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Vector processors on the 3090

The 1984 withdrawal announcement for the IBM 3838 Array Processor is still available at IBM's announcements Web site. The announcement number is 184-060. I found a list of several other high-level software products that apparently supported the VFs, at least some of which could be used by high lev

AUTO: Jim Obrizok is out of the office on Friday, July 1st, and July 4th, I'll be back in the office on Tuesday, July 5th. (returning 07/05/2011)

I am out of the office until 07/05/2011. 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 - 29 Jun 2011 to 30 Jun 2011 (#2011-181)" sent on 7/1/11 0:00:04.

Re: Vector processors on the 3090

Rick Fochtman wrote: >Unless you're a serious masochist, I suggest you drop that line >of inquiry. None of the HLL's support the Vector Processor so you're >stuck using Assembler Language if you want to use it. That's not really true. For example, there was the IBM Engineering and Scientific Subro

Re: PSP buckets for a z10 mainframe

Hi John, at one time we added this statement to our LOADxx member after similar problem:- INITSQA K 0001M On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:57:01 -0700, John Norgauer wrote: >We had a system wait state code of 9064. > > > >John Norgauer >Senior Systems Programmer >Mainframe Technical Support