Maybe the system is in China or India, where it would be and early
Saturday Morning?
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Steve Comstock
wrote:
> Well, I just tried to do some online credit card
> account maintenance with my Capital One card, and
> got the message 'System Unavailable'. I called
> tec
>So, is this correct, that if we do not use an IPL the STP will adjust the
mainframe at 2am to 1am?
>In which case my bad application will see the 1am hour again.
The DST change will happen at 2am if you select "Automatically adjust" on
the
Adjust Time Zone Offset panel (Timing Network -> Adjust T
I don't know if they work. Have you tried an IDCAMS PRINT (perhaps
with dump option). IEHLIST is more directory oriented, but comparing
before and after and looking at the start location.
Say you create a xyz.loadlib. Directory is 62 (or so) blocks (to take
up the entire first track).
You compi
Ed:
Are you trying to do something with a PDSE on SYSTEM 'B' after SYSTEM 'A' has
changed it from under you?
I have encountered problems this way.
Thank you.
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Sort is simple and doesn't require to use OE.
And it doesn't need knowing switches like -r etc and sort is well
documented unlike the OE.
Yes I know we all want to show off talents that are gotten over a wood fire and
bubbly cauldrons. But for something like this the KISS methodology is never
w
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:53:18 -0500 "McKown, John" wrote:
> Minor Perl script to totally remove IDCAMS title lines from a
> LISTCAT. Use of "tsocmd"
>
> fromdsn -r 'idcams.output' |\
> perl -n -e 'next if m/^1IDCAMS /;next if m/ LISTING FROM
> CATALOG /;print;' |\ todsn -r 'idcams.output.notitles'
Our SyzMPF/z product ( http://syzygyinc.net/SyzMPFz.aspx ) also performs these
types of changes. Among many many other features, you can highlight/lowlight,
change color, change video mode (i.e. make in reverse video and/or blink), and
you can also issue other highlighted or operator alter mess
On 10/28/2011 8:43 AM, Bill Fairchild wrote:
After following the advice in all the other previous answers, sooner or later
you will still need to know how to test your SRB and its recovery routine. You
probably won't be able to instruction-step or trace either very easily with
TSOTEST or XDC.
If we want to delete the skip to channel 1 then I think you want to omit it
not include. However if the idea is to make you own decision on where to skip
to channel 1 you would have to insert at a later time the skip to channel one
and the header yourself.
Ed
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On 28 October 2011 16:29, Steve Comstock wrote:
> Well, I just tried to do some online credit card
> account maintenance with my Capital One card, and
> got the message 'System Unavailable'. I called
> tech support and they said they were doing maintenance
> on the system. Regular weekend maintena
On 10/28/2011 3:09 PM, Kirk Wolf wrote:
Here's some pseudo-code for how I think it is calculated:
used_tracks = DS1LSTAR.TT (the first two bytes of the TTR)
if (DS1STRP) {
used_tracks = (DS1TRBAL<< 16) + used_tracks; // two new high-order
bytes
} else if (DS1LARGE) {
used_tracks = (DS1
On 10/28/2011 3:39 PM, Joe Aulph wrote:
The code is not-reentrant, I've done no GETMAIN's, has anyone ever ran into
this sort of thing? Any help would be appreciated.
Your second sample doesn't show you loading R1 after the LOAD.
If that's not it, then the most likely cause, in my experience,
On 10/28/2011 1:36 PM, Jim Thomas wrote:
The comment of a directory page of a PDSE containing member data
does not really make sense.
Regardless of it's 'official' block size (stored in the disk label), FAMS
manages 4K pages for a PDSE. Level 2 found a page that was supposed to contain
direct
Regarding the time change behavior (automatic, immediate, scheduled, etc.)
you’ll need to take a look at your equivalent of Defined CPCs > System
(Sysplex) Time > Adjust Time Zone at the HMC.
Regards,
Kevin
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uplifting message that I am sure many of the mainframe generation will remember.
The Lyrics to "Get Together" as performed by the Youngbloods
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Well, I just tried to do some online credit card account maintenance
with my Capital One card, and got the message 'System Unavailable'. I
called tech support and they said they were doing maintenance on the
system. Regular week
Lizette,
I'm curious how this was handled in the pre-STP days?
Surely the same issue applied that in November the time appears to go
backward for an hour and the application had to do something.
Alan
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Lizette:
Your talking about NTP ...the daemon on Unix that provides the correct time
from Atomic clock sites ?
If so, did you all write the app or is it some else's app?
Scott J Ford
Software Engineer
http://www.identityforge.com
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To: I
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Abject frustration here, as I was just reading this stuff last week, and
today just "drew a blank" on where I was reading it.
And "they" keep telling me that getting old(er) is better than the
alternative ;-)
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On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:17:43 -0400, Lizette Koehler wrote:
>
>If so, then I think our only option would be to shutdown the LPARs at 1am
>(12:59) and then when it is the time, IPL so that 1am is only seen once by
>this application. The application itself cannot be down for 1 hour. POLITICS.
>
I'
If you've seen the Red Alerts, maybe they added a CF with > 64 channels.
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Ed,
0F4 is somewhat generic ... question that I had was if there was
any analysis or comments or why the PDSE was broken. Current SMS
environment, any OEM software that was used .
The comment of a directory page of a PDSE containing member data
does not really make sense.
Again, there ha
Probably not a mainframe system. When I was working at EDS we had some
unix folks who pulled the same trick on a production system. Boy, the air sure
turned blue! :-)
Leslie Turriff
State of Missouri
Information Technology Services Division
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Are you really that stupid? Anybody on the list has standing to correct
anybody else on the list unless Big D says otherwise.
That may very well be, but can't we do it wi
Well, I just tried to do some online credit card
account maintenance with my Capital One card, and
got the message 'System Unavailable'. I called
tech support and they said they were doing maintenance
on the system. Regular weekend maintenance.
At 2:00 on a Friday afternoon? Does anyone know if
t
We just implmeneted (it is only a couple of days old) the STP on our z10s.
We have an application dependent on LOCAL time. So when the clock changes on
Nov 6, we think this application will see 1am twice and have problems.
So, is this correct, that if we do not use an IPL the STP will adjust th
I have modified the HSM exit ARCRPEXT (RECALL/DELETE/RECOVER PRIOITY EXIT) on
our z/OS 1.11 system. Is there a way to display HSM command priorities to
confirm the exit is working properly?
z/
Domenic Cifani
Technology Consultant III
Network Software Canada
HP Enterprise Services
Telephon
Ed,
Would it be possible to write small test drivers that run in multiple
address spaces and concurrently access a PDS/E in (random generated)
patterns similar to your product/site use? If such a thing could be built
that would reliably reproduce the problem, then you could give it to IBM.
Of c
Ed Gould wrote:
> How about SORT ?
That can work, just a simple COPY, while preserving sequence, and INCLUDE
COND=(1,7,CH,EQ,C'1IDCAMS') is all you perhaps need to drop that pesky header
line with '1' and then passing the rest to an output DD somewhere.
( Please Note: above syntax is *untested*
Hello List,
I'm having an issue with calling IDCAMS from within my program and if anyone
could shed some light on this I'd appreciate it.
The scenario is like this my program manipulates the SYSIN input to IDCAMS
and would, post call, manipulate the SYSPRINT output.
The execution JCL allocates bo
Stupid
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yes
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OK, now that you mention DSCBs, let me ask the VTOC gurus a question about
FMT1/8 DS1LSTAR -
I want to confirm my reading of how the number of "used tracks" for a
dataset is calculated in the context of large and extended formats.
Here's some pseudo-code for how I think it is calculated:
used_tr
Hello List,
We try made here, all end-of-week , a compress of our load libraries.
So, We think first, do a Backup from Tape (Cartridge), and then execute a
EIBCOPY JOB, that Will do a compress.
What We don't know, IF this is that is possible, get a report, before , and
after the libraries, for s
Or, in my neck of the woods, Silly WAG :)
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Document Systems Inc.
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Correct-o-mundo.
Bill Fairchild
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Scientific Wild-Assed Guess?
yes
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Scientific Wild-Assed Guess?
Scientific Wild-Assed Guess?
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How about SORT ?
Ed
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Hi Gil,
Pedant, I know, but sophist I had to check with dictionary.com. While there, I
found this quote, and I thought you guys might enjoy it.
"The scholar, without good breeding, is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic; the
soldier, a brute; and every man disagreeable."
-Philip Dormer St
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:54:57 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
>
> 2. I once worked with someone whose van had the license number
>PEDANT. I was, of course, jealous.
>
Did you try for SOPHIST as a poor second choice?
-- gil
On 10/28/2011 4:53 AM, Jim Thomas wrote:
Has there been any isolation to environmental factors and or specific
OEM utilities used ??.
I presume that you do have dumps of the 0F4's ??.
LOL! Of course! We've had hundreds of dumps. IBM analyzed some of them and
discovered that they are all virtu
I think Bill Fairchild's advice is very good advice because I do
something very similar.
I do, however, take things a step further. I put such code in a
trivial in-line framing macro of the form
| macro
| FRAMETEST &diag=no --|yes
| . . .
|&omit setb ('&diag' eq 'no'
Michael,
When you mention testing the "RTM" routine, I have to ask, do you mean the
FRR routine or the RMTR? I think most of the responders assume you meant
the FRR. If you meant the RMTR, that is much more difficult, because you
need a way to ensure that one or more SRB's remain that haven't
Thanks, Bill, John and Tony.
Abject frustration here, as I was just reading this stuff last week, and
today just "drew a blank" on where I was reading it.
And "they" keep telling me that getting old(er) is better than the
alternative ;-)
-jc-
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After following the advice in all the other previous answers, sooner or later
you will still need to know how to test your SRB and its recovery routine. You
probably won't be able to instruction-step or trace either very easily with
TSOTEST or XDC. What I do to test code that is sEEEriously di
The answer to this question was given a couple of weeks ago by Bob Shannon and
it is in the IBM-MAIN archives, always a good place to search along with the
Internet for technical info.
Try doing an ISPF 3.14 against SYS1.MACLIB(*) and/or SYS1.MODGEN(*) for the
character string "DSCB". Yes, ther
On 28 October 2011 11:13, Chase, John wrote:
> OK, now I know I've gone blind: I can't seem to find a DSECT for the
> various formats of DSCBs. It also seems the Data Areas manuals aren't
> published any more (I don't find them in the z/OS 1.11 MVS or DFSMS
> bookshelves). I've run SuperC searc
Data Areas manuals (1.13)
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/Shelves/iea2bkb3
dscbs, which are in the DFP bookshelf, not the z/OS bookshelf:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dgt2s380/1.1.1
Macro: SYS1.MODGEN(IECSDSL1)
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OK, now I know I've gone blind: I can't seem to find a DSECT for the
various formats of DSCBs. It also seems the Data Areas manuals aren't
published any more (I don't find them in the z/OS 1.11 MVS or DFSMS
bookshelves). I've run SuperC searches on MACLIB and MODGEN, but
nothing there "jumps out
In
<2101290758-1319650465-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1732476978-@b11.c1.bise6.blackberry>,
on 10/26/2011
at 05:34 PM, Ted MacNEIL said:
>Gee, I don't think you should call Mr. Mason a null.
I didn't; he does other things besides correct incorrect usage.
>Who, besides you and he
In
<665755e5c3e01845ad6bda0855b8cec733258fb...@gscmamp01ex.firmwide.corp.gs.com>,
on 10/26/2011
at 11:39 PM, "Bonaduce, Frank" said:
>Another possibility in addition to those mentioned is using the
>Catalog Search Interface, IGGCSI00. If you are versed in Assembler,
CSI works perfectly well f
In
,
on 10/26/2011
at 08:59 PM, John Gilmore said:
>In order to shore up my position as the resident pedant
1. That is not an undisputed position
2. I once worked with someone whose van had the license number
PEDANT. I was, of course, jealous.
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In <35pga755l03ear7inlrt5o4mok19bd0...@4ax.com>, on 10/26/2011
at 09:51 PM, Binyamin Dissen said:
>When you suggest RTFM,
Those are your words, not mine.
>what is the point of a useless suggestion?
Why do you beat your wife?
A suggestion is only a suggestion; some pan out, others don't.
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:58:23 -0400, Kurt Quackenbush wrote:
>> (But can JCLIN for one FMID add LMOD subentries referring to an LMOD
>> introduced in a different FMID?)
>
>Yes.
>
Then will DELETEing an FMID cause removal of all LMOD subentries it
introduced, particularly from MOD entries belonging
If you have system automation table or just a Netview automation table, you can
trap the message and
run a Rexx clist that issues WTO commands and sets the descriptor codes.
Run HELP WTO on Netview for more info.
DESC, WT
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(But can JCLIN for one FMID add LMOD subentries referring to an LMOD
introduced in a different FMID?)
Yes.
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> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
> Subject: Re: Lines per page - IDCAMS output
>
> Hmmm - I'm not altogether sure that I'm comfortable with IDCA
Humm ... why not just specify a linkedit statement ??.
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On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:47:47 -050
Paul Gilmartin wrote:
Ouch! It has long been my understanding that SMP/E has an inadequate
understanding of ownership of LMODs by FMIDs.
In the general case, FMIDs do not own LMODs.
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On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:47:47 -0500, Matthew Stitt wrote:
>Trying to install a new product and I have run into a situation
>where another FMID provided Linkedit information for a module
>which is different than the new product.
I suggest that you contact the vendor and tell them about the
impro
I presume by "RTM routine" you mean "FRR".
It is not appreciably different than testing any other recovery routine.
You have to do something so that that the "mainline" blows up. If you can
run z/OS under VM, that could be ideal.
P.S., Follow Chris's advice.
Peter Relson
z/OS Core Technology
Sir,
Forgive me but what are you trying to accomplish and why ??.
The information that you're looking for is not something that is 'easy' or
for that matter, attempted by folks that have been coding for quite a while.
Please do not take offence but you're trying to play with fire and if not
p
That submits one job per DEFINE ALIAS. My solution and the awk solution submits
a single job with multiple DEFINE commands. A matter, in my eyes, of
"elegance". I use that word a lot. I prefer "elegant" solutions. I'm still in
the "CPU is precious" camp. Which is important here because we want t
CC,
I concur and apologize .. I replied to Michael's email before I saw yours.
Kind Regards
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Sir,
Pardon the intrusion.
Has there been any isolation to environmental factors and or specific
OEM utilities used ??.
I presume that you do have dumps of the 0F4's ??.
Kind Regards
Jim Thomas
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>
> Hmmm - I'm not altogether sure that I'm comfortable with IDCA
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