Re: SPOOL move

2011-10-10 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2011-10-07 20:37, Shaffer, Terri E pisze: So since I am always curious and sometimes like to shoot from the hip. What would happen if you quiese the system down to JES2, NET and TSO. Submit a batch DFDSS FULL volume with copyvolid, then abend JES2, vary the old volume off and new

Re: SPOOL move

2011-10-10 Thread Ed Gould
Well the spool for one and the checkpoints for another (for sure). Chance are it would work but you might be missing things like the syslog and expect some nasty messages when restarting JES2. As others have noted there is a reasonably clean way of doing this now why not use it? Ed -

Re: LBI Performance?

2011-10-10 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2011-10-10 05:30, Mingee, David pisze: Hello All, Anyone had success with performance gains in run time and fewer tapes being created when using z/OS Large Block Interface(LBI)? We are on R1.11 and have created tapes with blksize of 256k(262144) and the block count is

Web page , link to all (most) z/OS messages

2011-10-10 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi Searching something like Lookat, which would contain all (or most) of the z/OS messages. In the Lookat there is no DB2, CICS, MQ etc etc -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Chaos feared after Unix time-zone database is nuked

2011-10-10 Thread Tom Marchant
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011 16:35:36 -0400, Ed Finnell wrote: Seems like it ought to be a link from NOAA or Naval Observatory time. That could work for locations in the USA. It would be no help at all in places where the time zone was changed for the benefit of a visiting foreign dignitary. -- Tom

Re: TSO TEST Debugging with TPUT and input paramters

2011-10-10 Thread Walt Farrell
On Sun, 9 Oct 2011 10:15:55 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In of6cdc7ddc.e421ca97-on86257922.00663a69-86257922.00666...@us.ibm.com, on 10/07/2011 at 01:38 PM, Wayne Driscoll wdri...@us.ibm.com said: TPUT has supported a USERID= operand, which will route

Re: 1TB EAV Support

2011-10-10 Thread John Eells
The COD requires 3390-9 or larger volumes. In ServerPac, z/OS itself is not in dump/restore format, but in data set unload (IEBCOPY, IEBGENER, IDCAMS, pax) format. The data sets are allocated in the ISPF dialog. The target libraries for z/OS itself will probably still fit on three to five

Re: whereis command for TSO.

2011-10-10 Thread Mark Baron
I contributed a FIND package to the CBTTape a number of years ago and updated it sometime in 2009. I based the code on an old version of FINDALL that was on the tape when Wall Street still had its wall. This latest version puts the results into a scrollable ISPF Browse dialog. It's in file

Re: Chaos feared after Unix time-zone database is nuked

2011-10-10 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mike Schwab For the US. Each country sets it own time zones. In Australia, each state. Maybe we could get the UN or the Astronomical Union to keep track of time zones? lobby Convert all local schedules, etc. to

RES: Fairwell to a Friend

2011-10-10 Thread ITURIEL DO NASCIMENTO NETO
We will miss him, but somehow he will live forever in his amazing tools. Atenciosamente / Regards / Saludos Ituriel do Nascimento Neto BANCO BRADESCO S.A. 4254 / DPCD Engenharia de Software Sistemas Operacionais Mainframes Tel: +55 11 4197-2021 R: 22021 Fax: +55 11 4197-2814 -Mensagem

Re: whereis command for TSO.

2011-10-10 Thread Mark Baron
Sorry all - the package is in file 761. Thanks to Herman Stocker at Avis for pointing out my error ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message:

Redbook

2011-10-10 Thread Steve Comstock
The weekly redbooks announcement includes this book: Considerations for Transitioning Highly Available Applications to System z http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247824.pdf which, on a quick perusal, seems to be really good. Recommended reading, I think. -- Kind regards,

Re: Chaos feared after Unix time-zone database is nuked

2011-10-10 Thread McKown, John
Though I agree with you, at my first job - when I implemented OS/VS1 using GMT, I was nearly lynched by the Production Control people and Programmers. The print outs (remember them?) all said like: 20 Jan 1978 14:37 . When ask what the 14:37 meant, I said it was military time - subtract 12

Re: 1TB EAV Support

2011-10-10 Thread Mike Myers
John: Thanks. I am leaning towards 3390-9 volumes throughout, as this is going to be z/OS running as a zVM guest and the zVM guy is expressing a preference for mod 9s for zVM. I have seen very little need for larger volumes that mod-9s for z/OS so far. It was basically a question of what

Re: A little bit more about Gilbert Saint-flour

2011-10-10 Thread John P Kalinich
Sam Golob from the IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 10/09/2011 09:43:52 PM: Gilbert was responsible for keeping the CBT Tape up for five years. He supplied the MVS machine that the support ran on. If it weren't for him, I doubt that the CBT site would even exist

Re: Chaos feared after Unix time-zone database is nuked

2011-10-10 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:14:16 -0500, Chase, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mike Schwab For the US. Each country sets it own time zones. In Australia, each state. Maybe we could get the UN or the Astronomical Union to keep track of

Re: whereis command for TSO.

2011-10-10 Thread Walt Farrell
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 13:52:51 -0700, Donald Russell russell@gmail.com wrote: Thanks so much Dave, That sounds like what I had done before, in a previous life that will be perfect for my needs. Don't forget, though, that: (a) you'll need to use CSVQUERY to see if the module is in LPA, but

Re: A little bit more about Gilbert Saint-flour

2011-10-10 Thread Rob Scott
This truly is sad news about Gilbert. An inspiration to many people. Rob Scott Lead Developer Rocket Software 275 Grove Street * Newton, MA 02466-2272 * USA Tel: +1.617.614.2305 Email: rsc...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Fairwell to a Friend

2011-10-10 Thread scott
On 10/09/2011 07:33 PM, Clark Morris wrote: On 9 Oct 2011 06:34:13 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: On 10/8/2011 12:19 PM, Rick Fochtman wrote: Received from another list: -- To those who

Re: Chaos feared after Unix time-zone database is nuked

2011-10-10 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:38:16 -0500, McKown, John wrote: ... Which confused me since this was city government and the court records were timestamped. And we could not stop processing during the fall back, so we had 1 hour of duplicate time stamps in court records. Which a defense lawyer would

Re: Fairwell to a Friend

2011-10-10 Thread Scott Ford
An excellent idea and I am sure at this rough time for his family they would appreciate the thoughts and prayers.. Been there Scott J Ford Software Engineer http://www.identityforge.com   From: scott svet...@ameritech.net To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Monday,

Re: Chaos feared after Unix time-zone database is nuked

2011-10-10 Thread Chris Hoelscher
I believe that in KY such a court case was brought to the state Supreme Court and any such laws were ruled invalid and unenforcable Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped! (Groucho Marx) Chris Hoelscher IDMS DB2 Database Administrator 502-476-2538 You only need to test the programs

Re: Chaos feared after Unix time-zone database is nuked

2011-10-10 Thread zMan
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Chris Hoelscher choelsc...@humana.com wrote: I believe that in KY such a court case was brought to the state Supreme Court and any such laws were ruled invalid and unenforcable Sorry, which laws? Ones passed during the one minute to midnight? Or some other

Re: LBI Performance?

2011-10-10 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 10/9/2011 10:34 PM, Mingee, David wrote: Hello All, Anyone had success with performance gains in run time and fewer tapes being created when using z/OS Large Block Interface(LBI)? We are on R1.11 and have created tapes with blksize of 256k(262144) and the block count is reduced

Re: Chaos feared after Unix time-zone database is nuked

2011-10-10 Thread Chris Hoelscher
Sorry - any laws passed during the fake 3-hour 1 1 minute before midnight timeframe were ruled as unenforcable Chris Hoelscher IDMS DB2 Database Administrator 502-476-2538 You only need to test the programs you don't want to get called on later -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Fairwell to a Friend

2011-10-10 Thread Bill Godfrey
Gilbert helped me out even though we had never met. I later saw him at SHARE and was happy to be able to thank him in person. A great guy. Really sad to hear this news. Bill On Sat, 8 Oct 2011 11:16:14 -0500, Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net wrote: Received from another list:

Re: Chaos feared after Unix time-zone database is nuked

2011-10-10 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John Though I agree with you, at my first job - when I implemented OS/VS1 using GMT, I was nearly lynched by the Production Control people and Programmers. The print outs (remember them?) all said like: 20

Re: Chaos feared after Unix time-zone database is nuked

2011-10-10 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:38:16 -0500, McKown, John wrote: ... Which confused me since this was city government and the court records were timestamped. And we could not stop processing during the fall

Gilbert Saint-Flour condolences

2011-10-10 Thread John Gilmore
I have bundled these condolences--those that had appeared before 11:05 USEST or 16.05 GMT--together and forwarded them to GSF's family, annotated in French where but only where clearly necessary, fairwell (sic) == adieu, and the like. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721, USA

Transitioning Highly Available Applications to System z (Was: Redbook)

2011-10-10 Thread Chris Mason
Steve Thanks for the reference. I hope you don't mind the subject change although I guess it's a topic which will interest all subscribers and Redbook as a subject is designed to intrigue all! Probably it's absolutely superb throughout and, of course, I will need much more time to become

Redbooks in general (was: Transitioning highly available . . .)

2011-10-10 Thread John Gilmore
There is a Redbooks [and Redpapers] website that is immediately accessible from the IBM publications website. Immediately in point here, redbooks always appear first as drafts that aqre open for comment, even radical revision. The first few of these drafts that are currently available to be read

Re: Transitioning Highly Available Applications to System z (Was: Redbook)

2011-10-10 Thread Steve Comstock
[top posting] When I made my post I forgot to mention the one qualm I had right away: 'PL/1' instead of 'PL/I'. I quickly sent off an email to the redbooks folks. You might do the same with your comments on OSA. On 10/10/2011 9:25 AM, Chris Mason wrote: Steve Thanks for the reference. I

ADCD Download zip files for z/PDT

2011-10-10 Thread Dave Day
I can wait for the DVD's to be mailed, or I can start downloading the zip files. Anyone have any idea how large the zip files are? Thanks. --Dave Day -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Transitioning Highly Available Applications to System z

2011-10-10 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
we had started ha/6000 in the 80s ... and then I coined the marketing term HA/CMP to also capture the work on cluster scaleup (work for both commercial and numerical intensive) ... more recently renamed PowerHA http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/availability/aix/index.html under my

Re: ADCD Download zip files for z/PDT

2011-10-10 Thread Geoff Rousell
Dave, They range in size from about 220MB (System Volume 1) to a little over 2GB (for one of the IMS volumes) The majority are under 1GB. Geoff Rousell IBM System z SE UK -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Chaos feared after Unix time-zone database is nuked

2011-10-10 Thread Ed Gould
John, It must be nice to have a short time job, I haven#39;t work those hours in over 40 years. Ed -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET

Re: ADCD Download zip files for z/PDT

2011-10-10 Thread Dave Day
Thanks for the response Geoff. I will probably wait for the snail mail to deliver the DVDs. --Dave - Original Message - From: Geoff Rousell geoff_rous...@uk.ibm.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 11:32 AM Subject: Re: ADCD

Re: Magical Incantations in ADRDSSU

2011-10-10 Thread Justin Eastman
While I am not certain of any magical incantations, if you update the DATACLAS for the existing data sets with the desired EATTR value then, during a DSS COPY, the new allocation of these data sets should be allocated with the new EATTR value you defined. You could also define a new DATACLAS,

000-z05

2011-10-10 Thread carlos roberto visconde
Does anyone have a sample of Test 000-Z05: IBM System z and z/OS Fundamentals Mastery? tks, visconde -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET

Re: Fairwell to a Friend

2011-10-10 Thread Greg Dorner
I worked with him when he was converting a VSE-ZOS site in Wisconsin. Before I'd met him I'd used many of his utilities, including SHOWMVS, BYPASSNQ, and many others. He was a VERY nice guy, very down to earth (it goes without saying that his technical skills were top notch). I am a bit

Re: LBI Performance?

2011-10-10 Thread Mingee, David
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 12:01 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: LBI Performance? Do you have both jobs? No, I would have to run the job again - once for each

Re: Magical Incantations in ADRDSSU

2011-10-10 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 10/10/2011 10:18 AM, Justin Eastman wrote: While I am not certain of any magical incantations, if you update the DATACLAS for the existing data sets with the desired EATTR value then, during a DSS COPY, the new allocation of these data sets should be allocated with the new EATTR value you

SQL Query

2011-10-10 Thread Ron Thomas
Hi . Here is a sample data Plan Name Payroll date Historty cd aaa 2012-01-011 bbb 2012-02-022 bbb 2012-03-032 Plan Name Payroll date lfycd aaa 2012-01-011 bbb 2012-02-022 bbb

Re: SQL Query

2011-10-10 Thread Lizette Koehler
You probably want to post this on the DB2 Newsgroup. Lizette -Original Message- From: Ron Thomas ron5...@gmail.com Sent: Oct 10, 2011 2:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: SQL Query Hi . Here is a sample data Plan Name Payroll date Historty cd aaa

Re: Magical Incantations in ADRDSSU

2011-10-10 Thread Justin Eastman
EATTR only specifies whether a data set is allocated with F8/F9 DSCBs. In order for a data set to be allocated to the cylinder managed space, it must have EATTR = OPT (or EATTR=NS for VSAM as the default is to have F8/F9 DSCBs) and then it must be larger than the defined Break Point Value(BPV)

SRB code

2011-10-10 Thread Micheal Butz
Hi, I have piece of code that I am running in my program as a SRB the question I have is the following the The addressability to this piece of code is that by the base register established at entry to this program or the code gets control at SRBEPA has the entry point pointed to by

Re: SQL Query

2011-10-10 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ron Thomas Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 1:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: SQL Query Hi . Here is a sample data Plan Name Payroll date Historty

Re: SRB code

2011-10-10 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:30:09 -0400 Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.net wrote: :I have piece of code that I am running in my program as a SRB the question I :have is the following the : The addressability to this piece of code is that by the base register :established at entry to this

F8/F9 DSCB Mapping

2011-10-10 Thread Rick Fochtman
Where are there macros, if any, to map the F8/F9 DSCBs? And F7 DSCB as well? Given the number of OEM and RYO utilities that analyze and display VTOC information, standard macros and mappings would be a blessing. Rick -- For

Re: Magical Incantations in ADRDSSU

2011-10-10 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 10/10/2011 12:07 PM, Justin Eastman wrote: EATTR only specifies whether a data set is allocated with F8/F9 DSCBs. In order for a data set to be allocated to the cylinder managed space, it must have EATTR = OPT (or EATTR=NS for VSAM as the default is to have F8/F9 DSCBs) and then it must

Re: F8/F9 DSCB Mapping

2011-10-10 Thread McKown, John
Format 7: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dgt2r171/6.7 couldn't find 8 or 9 in that book -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone *

Re: F8/F9 DSCB Mapping

2011-10-10 Thread Bob Shannon
Where are there macros SYS1.MODGEN(IECSDSL1) Bob Shannon Rocket Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the

Re: F8/F9 DSCB Mapping

2011-10-10 Thread McKown, John
Format 9: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dgt2s380/1.1.1.8 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 *

Re: EMC DLm SMS or not

2011-10-10 Thread R Hey
Thanks Radoslaw Mark. BE would have VNX disks. I'll chase up the user guide, thanks. Cheers. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN

DSLIST-like output for Non-VSAM Files in Batch

2011-10-10 Thread Lenz, Joseph
Greetings, I want to generate DSLIST-like output from a batch job similar to what is displayed in ISPF 3.4 with the Space option for non-VSAM (flat files) defined on my system. Command - Enter / to select actionTracks %Used XT

Re: DSLIST-like output for Non-VSAM Files in Batch

2011-10-10 Thread Dave Salt
One way to do this would be to write a simple REXX that uses the SAVE option of the LMDLIST service. Together with STATS(YES) this should give you what you want, and the REXX could be executed in batch or foreground. HTH, Dave Salt SimpList(tm) - try it; you'll get it!

Re: DSLIST-like output for Non-VSAM Files in Batch

2011-10-10 Thread Mark Zelden
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:22:37 +, Lenz, Joseph joseph.l...@ttiinc.com wrote: Greetings, I want to generate DSLIST-like output from a batch job similar to what is displayed in ISPF 3.4 with the Space option for non-VSAM (flat files) defined on my system. Command - Enter / to select action

Re: DSLIST-like output for Non-VSAM Files in Batch

2011-10-10 Thread Mingee, David
Hi, One option is to do an ISPF 3.4 dslist and then enter - SAVE MYFILE on the command line. This will create a disk file named 'userid.myfile.datasets' that contains all the info and can be edited and sorted as needed. Or try: //STEP1 EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01,DYNAMNBR=20

Clarification of Sysevent

2011-10-10 Thread Micheal Butz
Hi, The following is a description from SYSEVENT ENTRY=SVC for the following SYSEVENTs: DONTSWAP OKSWAP TRANSWAP STGTEST

Re: Command JES2 $AJ

2011-10-10 Thread Grillo Paul
I am sorry Lizette, but i didn't intend to mess the threads, from now i will post in a new. Jorge Campos TM Solutions 2011/10/9, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com: I need information about command Jes2($AJ), submited for job in execution, i saw in SYSLOG, that it was requeued,

Re: A little bit more about Gilbert Saint-flour

2011-10-10 Thread Graeme Gibson
I started saving copies of particular posts of Gilbert's in 1998 and have a couple of dozen at hand. I've been re-reading them this morning. I was always impressed not only by the depth and application of Gilbert's technical skills, but also by his relaxed and articulate style, the vehicle

Re: DSLIST-like output for Non-VSAM Files in Batch

2011-10-10 Thread Lizette Koehler
I want to generate DSLIST-like output from a batch job similar to what is displayed in ISPF 3.4 with the Space option for non-VSAM (flat files) defined on my system. Command - Enter / to select actionTracks %Used XT

Re: DSLIST-like output for Non-VSAM Files in Batch

2011-10-10 Thread Ed Finnell
Or run ISPF in batch? The hard part is where to put the delimiters... In a message dated 10/10/2011 7:48:13 P.M. Central Daylight Time, stars...@mindspring.com writes: You can roll your own with LISTDSI or --

Re: F8/F9 DSCB Mapping

2011-10-10 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 15:15 -0500 on 10/10/2011, McKown, John wrote about Re: F8/F9 DSCB Mapping: Format 7: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dgt2r171/6.7 couldn't find 8 or 9 in that book A format 8 is EXACTLY the same layout as a Format 1. The only difference is that the Format

Re: zVM V4 on zEnterprize

2011-10-10 Thread Arye Shemer
Thank you Bob, Arye. On 9 October 2011 13:47, Bob Shannon bshan...@rocketsoftware.com wrote: We still run VM 2.4 as a second-level guest on a z196. A V4 system is new compared to that. Bob Shannon Rocket Software -- For

SaDump Statistics (was: AUTOIPL)

2011-10-10 Thread Barbara Nitz
As promised, here are the comparison statistics. It was an interesting excercise. I used a 1.12 system with 2 locals of 49500 tracks each, about 21% in use in the first dump, 14% in the second. 2GB central, 2 logical cps. Dump options in the first dump (essentially 'dump everything'): CSA