Re: Determining MSUs

2011-12-13 Thread Timothy Sipples
I like the RMF way. I think you can see MSU information in the (no additional charge) z/OS Management Facility, too. Although I work for IBM(*), does anyone happen to know how to find similar MSU information in BMC's CMF, for completeness? That's just in case somebody is trying to write documentat

Re: Nice article, high level - homegrown vs. vendor basically

2011-12-13 Thread Timothy Sipples
Packaged applications -- or whatever other term you'd like to use -- have been around and popular since at least the 1960s. Many/most portfolios of mainframe-hosted applications have always blended purchased applications and application components (purchased "libraries" and "frameworks," as example

Re: case from DR in France.

2011-12-13 Thread Ed Gould
Don: I have decided to change my email account so I can delete his entries and a few others. The others that contribute to the list do not make a point of pushing their code. With "him" its a monthly push of his propaganda. If you guys want to put up with his noise I will just delete his stu

Re: Fwd: case from DR in France.

2011-12-13 Thread shai hess
HI, >>This month, Mark Zelden and Clark Morris referenced their >>contributions to the CBT tape. Just small fix, MFNetDisk is one man (me) product. If I understand the meaning of "their" (more then one). Thanks, God bless you all Shai On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:18 AM, Don Imbriale wrote: > Give

Re: Fwd: case from DR in France.

2011-12-13 Thread Don Imbriale
Give it up Ed. Your keyboard does have a delete key, doesn't it? - Don Imbriale On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Ed Gould wrote: > Mark, > > I was referring to pushing their code. > > Ed > > -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signo

Re: Determining MSUs

2011-12-13 Thread Hal Merritt
There are potentially lots of MSU values depending on the capping strategy. David's suggested display should show all of them to you. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of David Andrews Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 1:42 P

Re: zFS parm sysplex=filesys

2011-12-13 Thread Marna WALLE
Walter and John, Thanks for the good suggestions for improved messages on a successful migration health check run. I will pass them along. The indication that the check did pass (I hope) would be enough to let you know that the migration action didn't affect you, even if the message wording co

Re: How to easily see the contents of SDUMPX PSWREGS=

2011-12-13 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:50:51 -0600 "Justin R. Bendich" wrote: :>Back in March, Binyamin Dissen wrote: :>>Yes, I can VERBX SUMDUMP and see PSWREGS=DATA lines, but I would have expected :>>the register contents to be in 2.2. But 2.2 shows all registers as zero. :>>Am I missing something obvious?

Re: How to easily see the contents of SDUMPX PSWREGS=

2011-12-13 Thread Justin R. Bendich
Back in March, Binyamin Dissen wrote: >Yes, I can VERBX SUMDUMP and see PSWREGS=DATA lines, but I would have expected >the register contents to be in 2.2. But 2.2 shows all registers as zero. > >Am I missing something obvious? I am trying to solve this problem, too. Specifically, i am invoking SD

Re: S402 ABEND upon cross-memory POST

2011-12-13 Thread Justin R. Bendich
Peter Relson wrote: >I share Rob Scott's concern about keys (i.e., system integrity) with the >approach that has been mentioned. I do, too. I am working with the designer to provide a better solution. >Peter Relson >z/OS Core Technology Design Justin R. Bendich

Re: Is there an IBM program that will tell me what job created a DASD DSN?

2011-12-13 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 12/13/2011 1:15 PM, Bill Fairchild wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 12:43 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Is there an IBM program that will tell me wha

Re: JCL "sheesh!" for today

2011-12-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <4958036703080127.wa.paulgboulderaim@bama.ua.edu>, on 12/13/2011 at 09:27 AM, Paul Gilmartin said: >What would be a less misleading name? BPXresult? DYNresult? Anything that suggests that it is the result from the BPXWDYN. >"LASTCC" simply because it's used by other utilities? Defini

Re: Fwd: case from DR in France.

2011-12-13 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:16:21 -0800, Ed Gould wrote: > Has anyone noticed that we never hear from any of the contributors from the > CBT ? No. This month, Mark Zelden and Clark Morris referenced their contributions to the CBT tape. You have made your views clear about Shai's contributions. Yo

Re: Is there an IBM program that will tell me what job created a DASD DSN?

2011-12-13 Thread Bill Fairchild
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 12:43 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Is there an IBM program that will tell me what job created a DASD DSN? >>Mike Wood wrote:

Re: IBM SR availability problems

2011-12-13 Thread Skip Robinson
I hate to be contrarian, but I've had no particular problem with SR nor with ServiceLink in general. (My entry into SR is always via the ServiceLink.) Be aware that the initial SR screen has changed. I could swear that it changed some time this morning in between my logon and a later return. (I

Re: IRA103I SQA/ESQA HAS EXPANDED INTO CSA/ECSA BY 510 PAGES

2011-12-13 Thread Shaffer, Terri E
So overflow is NOT a bad thing assuming you have available growth and potentially want to maximum the private area, either <16M or >16M line. Remembering ECSA will overflow in CSA and ESQA will overflow into SQA. In looking at your numbers from the snapshot depending on your requirements for p

Re: Is there an IBM program that will tell me what job created a DASD DSN?

2011-12-13 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Mike Wood wrote: >One more thing no-one mentioned yet :-D >The format-9 DSCB contains the creating information. This requires a format-8 >DSCB rather than format-1. >So, going forward, hopefully, more data set will readily have that information >in the vtoc. Please be very kind to share

Re: IBM SR availability problems

2011-12-13 Thread Brian Peterson
I am unable to use SR today, and I was unable to use the SR feedback link on the IBMLink ServiceLink home page either - same symptom for both applications (click on link, spinning circle in web browser, no response). Brian -- F

Re: IBM SR availability problems

2011-12-13 Thread Linda Mooney
Hi Sam, On the whole, my experience is that SR that it is much LESS available than ETR ever was. Just now, it took 11 minutes to get the IBM Service Request screen up.  It's all grayed out though, I can't select or do anything. Regards. Linda - Original Message - From: "

Re: Fwd: case from DR in France.

2011-12-13 Thread Ed Gould
Mark, I was referring to pushing their code. Ed -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu

Re: Fwd: case from DR in France.

2011-12-13 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Really? Mark Zelden Jim Marshall John Kalinich Rick Fochtman just to name a few that came to mind in 60 seconds Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 1:16 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.ed

Re: Fwd: case from DR in France.

2011-12-13 Thread Ed Gould
Has anyone noticed that we never hear from any of the contributors from the CBT ? Ed -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Sear

Re: zFS parm sysplex=filesys

2011-12-13 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Walter Marguccio > > From: Marna WALLE > > > Subject: Re: zFS parm sysplex=filesys > > > look at the output from check ZOSMIGV1R13_ZFS_FILESYS (available on > > R11 and R12), . . . > > I did run the check and this i

Re: IBM SR availability problems

2011-12-13 Thread Martin, Larry D
I have had problems all day with SR. .Larry -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Knutson, Sam Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 12:28 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: IBM SR availability problems We have seen recurring

IBM SR availability problems

2011-12-13 Thread Knutson, Sam
We have seen recurring problems with SR yesterday and today hangs and HTTP 500 Internal Server Error. A ticked was put into the SR Helpdesk which is a completely unsatisfying fill out the form and pray experience. This is occurring for multiple users at multiple sites and no other web browsing

Re: Fwd: case from DR in France.

2011-12-13 Thread shai hess
Right. On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Ron Hawkins wrote: > Or you may use one of the many flavors of asynch mirroring products with > multi-volume consistency that do not have a delay in the IO performance > when > they transfer to the remote storage controller. XRC for example... > > > > > So,

HUMOR- OLD letter written to Datamation

2011-12-13 Thread Ed Gould
Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal [ A letter to the editor of Datamation, volume 29 number 7, July 1983. I've long ago lost my dog-eared photocopy, but I believe this was written (and is copyright) by Ed Post, Tektronix, Wilsonville OR USA. The story of Mel is a related article. ] Back in the goo

Re: Fwd: case from DR in France.

2011-12-13 Thread Ron Hawkins
Or you may use one of the many flavors of asynch mirroring products with multi-volume consistency that do not have a delay in the IO performance when they transfer to the remote storage controller. XRC for example... > > So, better if you have the money to use remote mirroring which doing the > s

Re: Fwd: case from DR in France.

2011-12-13 Thread shai hess
The answer is no. If there is crash on the system, all the requests tracks to be re sync are written to bitmap file or send to PC for request Sync. So, if the system crash, or the disk crash, the PC or the MF bitmap may have the tracks which need to be SYNC. If the disk return to life, the MFNetDi

Re: Is there an IBM program that will tell me what job created a DASD DSN?

2011-12-13 Thread Mike Wood
One more thing no-one mentioned yet The format-9 DSCB contains the creating information. This requires a format-8 DSCB rather than format-1. So, going forward, hopefully, more data set will readily have that information in the vtoc. Mike Wood ---

Re: Fwd: case from DR in France.

2011-12-13 Thread Ron Hawkins
Are you supporting multi-volume consistency? > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of > shai hess > Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 9:47 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: [IBM-MAIN] Fwd: case from DR in France. > > --

Re: JCL "sheesh!" for today

2011-12-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:21:08 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: >In <1698154905956185.wa.paulgboulderaim@bama.ua.edu>, on >12/12/2011 > at 08:06 PM, Paul Gilmartin said: > >>As in RC = BPXWDYN( ... )? > >Exectly. > >>Well, RC really is a variable. > >A variable with a misleading name and

NSS and Datapower

2011-12-13 Thread Rob Schramm
Does anyone have any experience with NSS and Datapower that they would be willing to share? Thanks, Rob Schramm Senior Systems Consultant Imperium Group -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send ema

Re: JCL "sheesh!" for today

2011-12-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <1698154905956185.wa.paulgboulderaim@bama.ua.edu>, on 12/12/2011 at 08:06 PM, Paul Gilmartin said: >As in RC = BPXWDYN( ... )? Exectly. >Well, RC really is a variable. A variable with a misleading name and one that you are liable to step on inadvertently when you add code. > It has

Re: Portable "jar" command?

2011-12-13 Thread Kirk Wolf
Gil, For a portable script that uses the jar command, I would first look in $PATH, and then in $JAVA_HOME/bin. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructio

Re: zFS parm sysplex=filesys

2011-12-13 Thread Walter Marguccio
> From: Marna WALLE > Subject: Re: zFS parm sysplex=filesys > look at the output from check ZOSMIGV1R13_ZFS_FILESYS (available on R11 and > R12), > then this check will tell you whether > 1) this migration action is applicable to you and > 2) if it is applicable to you, whether you've correc

Re: Portable "jar" command?

2011-12-13 Thread McKown, John
On my z/OS 1.10 system: type java jar java is /usr/lpp/java/J5.0/bin/java jar is /usr/lpp/java/J5.0/bin/jar On my z/OS 1.12 system: type java jar java is /usr/lpp/java/J5.0/bin/java jar is /usr/lpp/java/J5.0/bin/jar On both systems, I have multiple Java releases. Due to CICS/TS restrictions, I

Re: zFS parm sysplex=filesys

2011-12-13 Thread Marna WALLE
Hi All, As was mentionedthis migration action is only applicable if you have a shared file systems environment and are using zFS. If you don't meet this criteria, you have no migration action to do. May I also add (which no one mentioned so far), that if you are running the IBM Health Chec

Re: Java apps have most flaws, Cobol is cleanest.

2011-12-13 Thread John Gilmore
The line > Automatic, LIFO dynamic storage IS readily available in PL/I . . . in my post is literal nonsense. It should be > Automatic, LIFO dynamic storage IS readily available in COBOL . . . David Crayford wrote: > I'm a rare bird in the z/OS sense in that I code in C++. I'm lucky enough to

Nice article, high level - homegrown vs. vendor basically

2011-12-13 Thread McKown, John
http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/homegrown-solutions-the-good-and-the-bad-181268 Once upon a time, when AS/400s roamed in vast herds and S/390s ruled the roost, just about all of IT was homegrown. Vendors didn't have "solutions" -- they had platforms, and you customized them to fit busine

Re: Portable "jar" command?

2011-12-13 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
On 12/13/2011 1:51 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: I'd like to be able to write a portable script (or EXEC) which uses the "jar" command. I find: On OS X: 507 $ type java jar java is /usr/bin/java jar is /usr/bin/jar On Solaris: 133$ type java jar java is /usr/java/bin/jav

S402 ABEND upon cross-memory POST

2011-12-13 Thread Peter Relson
I share Rob Scott's concern about keys (i.e., system integrity) with the approach that has been mentioned. The change to key 0 may have let the post complete without abend but may well have introduced unacceptable system integrity issues. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design --

Portable "jar" command?

2011-12-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
I'd like to be able to write a portable script (or EXEC) which uses the "jar" command. I find: On OS X: 507 $ type java jar java is /usr/bin/java jar is /usr/bin/jar On Solaris: 133$ type java jar java is /usr/java/bin/java jar is /usr/java/bin/jar OK. Those are on my

Re: Is there an IBM program that will tell me what job created a DASD DSN?

2011-12-13 Thread Lizette Koehler
You did not state what kind of dataset 1) SEQ/PS/PO/PDSE Or 2) VSAM If the first - SMF 14/15 - there are records for create/update/read/delete for these types of files. If the second - SMF Type 60s (I do not have the SMF manual to refer to which one is CREATE for VSAM). There are different r

Re: zFS parm sysplex=filesys

2011-12-13 Thread Mark Jacobs
On 12/13/11 04:55, Walter Marguccio wrote: Q2: What observable effect(s), if any, would occur if we specify sysplex=filesys in our 1.11 images without sharing file systems? Honestly, I didn't tried. I would think that sysplex=no takes precedence over sysplex=filesys, but again, it is on

Re: zFS parm sysplex=filesys

2011-12-13 Thread Walter Marguccio
> From: "Chase, John" > Subject: zFS parm sysplex=filesys > Q1:  Has anyone here IPLed a z/OS 1.13 system into a "supported > back-level" sysplex WITHOUT shared file systems AND without having > specified sysplex=filesys in the "back-level" members? We did. I already IPLed z/OS 1.13 on two of o

Re: Is there an IBM program that will tell me what job created a DASD DSN?

2011-12-13 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Cosby, Bob wrote: nothing? ;-) Ok, From the subject above you want something to tell you what created a dataset? One question: do you want to be notified IMMEDIATELY or do you want some 'after the event' reports? You got good replies for the latter. For the first, AFAIK, there is nothing 'r

Re: Is there an IBM program that will tell me what job created a DASD DSN?

2011-12-13 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2011-12-13 08:57, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM pisze: [...] And the final detail: SMF14/15 is written at CLOSE. If a dataset is created and never opened, there will be no SMF14/15, nor any CA-DISK info. If the dataset is cataloged, you can look at SMF61 (catalog define). Of course one must care

Re: Is there an IBM program that will tell me what job created a DASD DSN?

2011-12-13 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
"Roberts, John J" wrote in message news:<93891f43642f3c419a7d75acc2b1db6f3c12507...@exchangemb2.dhs.state.i a.us>... > Going back to fundamentals, my recollection is that this information is not in the VTOC (F1 DSCB), nor is it to be found in the catalog. Unless someone puts it there, like CA-DI