Mainview for DB2 or CICS

2012-05-11 Thread Donald Likens
Simple question can BMC's Mainview for CICS or Mainview for DB2 issue console messages or write SMF records when events occur. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: Have you ever done this using FTP?

2012-04-27 Thread Donald Likens
If FB PDS you can MPUT each member and mput the members but an easier way is to use TSO XMIT. TSO XMIT the PDS to a flatfile and then binary ftp the flatfile. It works with load libraries. XMIT N1.TSSDON DA('TSSDON.v.LINKLIB') + OUTDA('TSSDON.v.XMITLINK') FTP v.XM

Re: USS File Integrity

2012-04-20 Thread Donald Likens
flockfile seems to be a C thing and locks the file from other tasks. That will not help me. First this is a Java application and second I want to share the file between tasks of the same program. I allocate the file in the Java application. I do not specify a DD. All I do is open the file in th

USS File Integrity

2012-04-19 Thread Donald Likens
I just ran two STCs that updated the same z/OS USS file at the same time. How do I stop multiple processes from updating the same z/OS USS file at the same time? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: Detail SMF record processing

2012-04-17 Thread Donald Likens
I do not need to include the processing before doing the SMFEWTM if I am attempting to determine how much processing is done after the SMFEWTM is issued. Assume I have already gathered all the data and now I am attempting to determine what I should do with it. -

Re: Detail SMF record processing

2012-04-16 Thread Donald Likens
I am attempting to determine how much processing is performed before the iefu8x exit is invoked. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAI

Detail SMF record processing

2012-04-16 Thread Donald Likens
Does anyone know where I can find detail information about SMF record processing? For example: SMFEWTM is issued X routine is invoked to do such and such Y routine is invoked to do such and such Etc. -- For IBM-MAIN subs

SMF from critical application

2012-04-11 Thread Donald Likens
We are thinking about writing a SMF exit (IEFU8x) to not write certain DB2 IFCIDS of the SMF 102 record. Can anyone direct me to some documentation that would help me to understand how much processing time would be saved by doing this? ---

Audit SQL Collector

2012-04-06 Thread Donald Likens
I've been looking through the "IBM InfoSphere Guardium S-TAP for DB2 on z/OS" manual. In this manual they talk about a "Audit SQL Collector" (ASC) and that this ASC collects all reads and all changes. Will someone please tell me how the ASC does this? ---

Confused on concatenated parmlib and IEASYSxx

2012-02-27 Thread Donald Likens
If IEASYSNV in VENDOR.PARMLIB specifies PROG=VN and IEASYSLX in LVL0.PARMLIB specifies PROG=LV and when I IPL I state: SYSP=(LX,NV) What PROG members will be executed? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instru

TCP/IP time to indicate error

2012-02-23 Thread Donald Likens
I have a TCP/IP Socket client that is talking to a windows (Java) TCP/IP socket server. When I subdown the server I detect a problem and close down the connection and attempt to connect again. When I attempt to connect it takes about 3 minutes for the client to detect that the server is not goin

Sending LF files to z/OS

2012-02-06 Thread Donald Likens
I have not made it work yet but I am convinced that the best way to handle sending files that use LF (unix) new line indicator to a system that understands CRLF as the new line indicator is to use a special translation table (Translate x'15' to x'25'). In the z/OS case I updated the ASCII-to-EB

Re: CPP (C++) file on z/OS

2012-02-06 Thread Donald Likens
I have not made it work yet but I am convinced that the best way to handle sending files that use LF as the new line indicator to a system that understands CRLF as the new line indicator is to use a special translation table (Translate x'15' to x'25'). In the z/OS case I updated the ASCII-to-EB

Re: CPP (C++) file on z/OS

2012-02-01 Thread Donald Likens
It looks like Wordpad did convert the file to CRLF properly (because it looked much better in notepad after I saved it). Thanks -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: CPP (C++) file on z/OS

2012-02-01 Thread Donald Likens
The cpp files are currently on my windows system. I am attempting to send them to my z/OS system. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MA

CPP (C++) file on z/OS

2012-01-30 Thread Donald Likens
I am attempting to port a C++ (.CPP) file to z/OS. I appears that .CPP files do not have new line indicators because when I FTP it I get one long record that exceeds 32765 bytes and the FTP failes. Also when I read these file with notepad they are one long stream. Any advise? --

S72A-10 Abend

2012-01-06 Thread Donald Likens
I am getting the following Abend: IEA995I SYMPTOM DUMP OUTPUT 172 SYSTEM COMPLETION CODE=72A REASON CODE=0010 TIME=10.15.04 SEQ=01338 CPU= ASID=0042 The book states: Explanation: During processing for an ATTACH macro, the system encountered an error. Regi

Re: WAIT ECB WITH 00 First Byte

2011-12-16 Thread Donald Likens
I see this situation in a locked up (waiting forever) environment. I have no idea how it gets set this way. I have decided to do it another way. Thanks for your help. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruct

WAIT ECB WITH 00 First Byte

2011-12-14 Thread Donald Likens
I know that an ECB's first byte is x'80' if waiting and x'40' if posted but what does X'00' mean. When I zero out the ECB I zero out the whole word. This ECB has a PRB in it. Thank You for your help. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Last use date of a PDS member

2011-12-07 Thread Donald Likens
I didn't go through all the replies so forgive me if I am repeating was someone said... There a CA product (use to be called PDSMAN) that records the last referenced date in the directory. With that said, I am not sure if that means JCL procedure execution.

Re: Notification at file update (state of art)

2011-11-11 Thread Donald Likens
MEAS from Infosec Inc. currently monitors file update activity (SMF 015 records). It could be easily updated to monitor scratch/rename SMF activities. MEAS is design to pass these events to SIEM or logger systems that can be used to send email or other real time notification systems but it could

Re: SMF 119 report

2011-11-11 Thread Donald Likens
MEAS 5.0 from Infosec Inc. captures 119 records and sends them to SIEM technology to be reported or alerted. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message:

subtask recovery

2011-09-07 Thread Donald Likens
In the “IP Sockets Application Programming Interface Guide and Reference” IBM discusses data services task (DST). This uses sub-tasks to do I/O. When I designed my program using DSTs I had a problem I could not resolve. I have been informed by IBM that sub-tasks are suspended during an abend and

Re: PTF question

2011-09-07 Thread Donald Likens
I can never get the r00 straight. I always opened each link until I found the PTF for my FMID. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN

Shared Hiperspace write serialization

2011-08-10 Thread Donald Likens
I have looked in the manuals so if the answer is there, I could not find it. I am looking to write to a hiperspace from the IEFU8x exits. I do not see anything to stop this but I am concerned about writing to a shared hiperspace from multiple addree spaces. Do I need to be concerned? If in a mid

Re: SETLOCK in IEFU85

2011-08-10 Thread Donald Likens
I was planning to check the return code of the obtain lock to determine if I should release it. I do not think it is as elegant as your approach but I think a little easier. Does anyone see a flaw in this idea? You stated that I could not get the CML lock if the local lock is help. Is there a p

Re: SETLOCK in IEFU85

2011-08-10 Thread Donald Likens
I actually load it into CSA, set the address of the buffer and then dynamically add it to LPA. It works well. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message:

Re: SETLOCK in IEFU85

2011-08-09 Thread Donald Likens
You understand completely. I thought of the control block structure you talk about but I wanted to control how much space I used in CSA and avoid the extra overhead. Of course I could limit the number of control blocks I create but this seemed to work. PS. I anchor the buffer in a module dynami

Re: SETLOCK in IEFU85

2011-08-09 Thread Donald Likens
I am not familure with FWIW? I think I need the CMS lock because I am updating CSA. If there are more than one CMS locks how do you tell the system which lock to obtain. I was planning about issuing the following commands: SETLOCK OBTAIN,

Re: SETLOCK in IEFU85

2011-08-09 Thread Donald Likens
I read that U85 may already be locked. I figured I would simply issue the setlock command and check the return code. If I get a 4 return code I will not release the lock. I think I answered all your other comments or suggestions in previous replies. Thank You! -

Re: SETLOCK in IEFU85

2011-08-09 Thread Donald Likens
Thanks for the suggestion. I have never heard of PLO before and I do not understand it 100% but I do not think it will work. I need to do a bunch of instructions handling end of buffer operations and a MVCL. -- For IBM-MAIN subs

Re: SETLOCK in IEFU85

2011-08-09 Thread Donald Likens
Thank You for your help... What I have got from your responses is: 1. There are other ways to serialize. I tried a CS loop but here is what I think is happening: In CS loop. Interrupt occurs. Process other address space. Loop forever waiting for other CS loop (system stops). I am attempting to

SETLOCK in IEFU85

2011-08-08 Thread Donald Likens
I need to update common storage from my IEFU85 SMF exit. I am currently using a compare and swap loop to serialize on this update but I think there is a problem with this approach and looking at using SETLOCK. My question is... IEFU85 is in cross memory mode. I need the CMS lock. To get the CMS

Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

2011-08-01 Thread Donald Likens
I did not look at all the other responses so please forgive me if someone already gave you the answer. Most the time I have seen this error the lrecl/blocksize was reset by creating a member with a different lrecl. All you have to do is create a member with the right lrecl/blksize and all but th

Re: Diagnose S0E0 Abend

2011-07-05 Thread Donald Likens
Thank you for your help but I have opened an IBM problem for this one. The abend occurred randomly and when I replace BAKR/PR with standard linkage (+ LAM/STAM) it works perfectly. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive a

Re: Real return address for link and attach

2011-07-05 Thread Donald Likens
This has all been interesting but I don't think my question has been answered (sorry if I missed it). Some said I could get the real return address in the save area trace but I do not think that is correct since the calling program saves the registers and R14 points to LINK(x) or ATTACH(x) when

Real return address for link and attach

2011-07-01 Thread Donald Likens
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: Diagnose S0E0 Abend

2011-07-01 Thread Donald Likens
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.

Diagnosing Memory Leaks in z/OS

2011-06-30 Thread Donald Likens
I was not freeing storage in CSA and eventually filled it up. I found the problem and fixed it by simply looking at the memory in the dump but I was mislead because I was actually looking at released memory for a while. I remember that I use to get a map of storage somewhere where I could tell

Diagnose S0E0 Abend

2011-06-30 Thread Donald Likens
I am getting a S0E0-34 abend (sometimes). This abend indicates: 34 A Program Return (PR) instruction was issued against a linkage stack entry that has the unstack suppression bit set. The system sets this bit in a linkage stack entry to prevent SVC routines from unstacking entries they did not add

Re: Looking for solution Mainframe system management report tool

2011-06-24 Thread Donald Likens
I think others have answered your question. My question is Would it be of value to have these type of reports for the whole IT environment (including the mainframe)? There are products that help make this happen. -- For IBM

SYSLOG saving

2011-06-08 Thread Donald Likens
In my previous shop we used a product called $AVRS to retain SYSLOG for an extended period of time. I assume other shops do the same. I need it in a readable format with as much information as possible. If you save SYSLOG at your shop, how do you do it? ---

Re: How to diagnose memory leak?

2011-06-08 Thread Donald Likens
I suggest using GTF trace to track getmain/freemain for your address space. Reduce your region size to be at a minimum. When it fails look at the dump to determine what storage is duplicated and use the GTF trace to determine where the getmain came from.

Jobname on MCS console message

2011-06-04 Thread Donald Likens
Can I get the issuing jobname for messages on a MCS console? Background: I have created an EMCS console with the following attributes: CN=CNSL STATUS=ACNID=0104 KEY=NONE SYS=S0W1 ASID=002E JOBNAME=TSSDONMC JOBID=JOB06615 HC=Y AUTO=N DOM=NORMAL TERMNAME=CNSL

Re: Problems with TSO TEST

2011-05-31 Thread Donald Likens
I saw the same problem. It has to do with system maintenance (I do not know what maintenance). We backed off the maintenance and it is working again. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Any way to monitor Member Updates in a PDS

2011-05-28 Thread Donald Likens
There is a product by CA called PDSMAN that can log (in SMF) and activity to PDS members. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO S

Re: Use of MCSOPMSG

2011-05-25 Thread Donald Likens
Thanks for looking at this... I have abended after the OPMSG macro and R1 looked exactly like R9 in this dump. Here is my code to set R9 and I display the return code MCSOPMSG DS0H MCSOPMSG REQUEST=GETMSG,NAME=CONNAME,RTNCODE=

Re: Use of MCSOPMSG

2011-05-24 Thread Donald Likens
EC PSW at time of error 070C4000 80007702 00040007 Access Registers at time of error 0-3 9679EC12 4-7 8-11 01010037 12-15 0

Use of MCSOPMSG

2011-05-24 Thread Donald Likens
I have never coded in AR mode and also not used MCSOPMSG before so please bare with me. My program gets zero return codes from both the MCSOPER and MCSOPMSG macros but when I attempt to access the MCD I do not get what I expect and abend on an S0C7 working with the time. I am using R9 to acces

Re: java executables using batch

2011-05-23 Thread Donald Likens
I exec Java from batch: Here is what my JCL looks like: //TSSDONS1 JOB (DON,DON),MSGCLASS=A,NOTIFY=&SYSUID //* Caps must be off //MEASSRVR EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH,REGION=200M, // PARM='PGM /u/Java6

Reading dumps with secondary address spaces

2011-05-17 Thread Donald Likens
Where is it documented on how to read sysudumps with secondardy address spaces. I need to see the information in the secondary address space. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Subtasks during cancel

2011-05-14 Thread Donald Likens
I am in a sub-tasking environment and I am using specific tasks to do I/O. For the most part this is working well but when I cancel the address space the system shuts down these I/O tasks and my ESTAE routine needs them. Does anyone have a way to keep the system from shutting down the subtasks

Re: IPLed Volume

2011-04-07 Thread Donald Likens
I just have a suggestion... Create a batch procedure to copy your active IPL volume to your target IPL volume. The catalog entries are using indirect addressing either using symbolics or vol(**). Make sure all datasets that do not support indirect catalog entries are off the sysres (As I re

Re: Default ISPPROF

2011-03-26 Thread Donald Likens
We simply created an ISPF profile dataset (SYS2.ISPF.PROF) that was copied into the new user ISPF profile PDS the first time the new user logged on. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email t

EDC5111I Permission denied

2011-03-26 Thread Donald Likens
I have a very nagging problem where I cannot run a java program on z/OS-USS that is attempting to use the network interface (UPD PORT 514) to write to the SYSLOG daemon. The following is the message I am getting: java.net.BindException: EDC5111I Permission denied. Talking to IBM they say this

Re: This is a TCP/IP USS Issue

2011-03-15 Thread Donald Likens
Thank you all for your help… To explain a little further… I have a TCP/IP Socket port open to receive information and I am attempting to write messages to the SYSLOG daemon (UDP port 514). I have written this process in java. Java gave a lot of error messages but the only one with meaning is

TCP/IP Socket Server connection problem

2011-03-14 Thread Donald Likens
message that the client is shutting down. All commands get a return code that state they were successful. Sincerely, Donald Likens InfoSec Inc. Home: 215-493-0852 Mobile: 267-981-0073 Email: dlik...@infosecinc.com Visit our new website at <http://www.infosecinc.

This is a TCP/IP USS Issue

2011-03-14 Thread Donald Likens
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