Has anyone tried WS MQ V7.1.0 on z/OS V1R10?

2012-05-21 Thread Giliad Wilf
Reading system requirements for WebSphere MQ for z/OS versions 7.0.0, 7.0.1, and 7.1.0, I could see that the minimal level for installing versions 7.0.0 and 7.0.1 is z/OS V1R8, while the minimal level for installing version 7.1.0 is z/OS V1R11. Due to an attempt to bridge the gap over SVC

Re: JES2 USE_XCFGRPNM parameter

2011-11-23 Thread Giliad Wilf
There is a statement including more than one MAS in a sysplex is not recommended on chapter 3.2.1.1 Group Names and Members for MVS Components and Subsystems in the Setting Up a Sysplex manual. This new parameter, USE_XCFGRPNM, is meant to help you set two or more separate, distinct MAS

Re: Installing Java 64bit v6.0.1

2011-06-29 Thread Giliad Wilf
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:07:01 +0300, #1490;#1491;#1497; amp;#1489;#1503; #1488;#1489;#1497; gad...@malam.com wrote: Hi, I would like to install Java 64bit v6.0.1 I am running z/Os 1.11 The Program directory says that UA16880 is a prerequisite, but it looks to me that it this PTF is for VTAM in

Re: Installing Java 64bit v6.0.1

2011-06-29 Thread Giliad Wilf
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:59:23 +0300, #1490;#1491;#1497; amp;#1489;#1503; #1488;#1489;#1497; gad...@malam.com wrote: I know, but the PTF doesn't make sense. I tried downloading it using SMP/E RECEIVE ORDER and got a message saying NO APPLICABLE ++VER Gadi Sorry. Maybe it is a doc error (PTF

Re: No Space Left in NUCLEUS, SIOALMOD and SDITMOD1

2011-06-24 Thread Giliad Wilf
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:24:13 +0530, sourabh khandelwal sourabhkhandelwal...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I was applying RSU on one of our z/OS system but during apply process I received D37-04 abend for below datasets. 1) DIT.V1R3M0.SDITMOD1 2) SYS1.NUCLEUS 3) SYS1.SIOALMOD . . . 2) I had

Re: No Space Left in NUCLEUS, SIOALMOD and SDITMOD1

2011-06-24 Thread Giliad Wilf
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:24:37 +0530, sourabh khandelwal sourabhkhandelwal...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, 1) DIT.V1R3M0.SDITMOD1 -- This dataset is being used by LLA and XCFAS 2) SYS1.NUCLEUS -- Now its not being used by anybody. 3) SYS1.SIOALMOD -- LLA and XCFAS. I think I will have have to

Re: VS COBOL II signature bytes

2011-06-24 Thread Giliad Wilf
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:00:46 -0500, Chip Grantham cgrant...@ameritas.com wrote: I've found the answer to my dilemma for compiler options from a COBOL load module. They call them signature bytes. So now I'm looking for a VS COBOL II V1.x programmer's guide, specifically the pages on signature

Re: Obtaining System Information from a COBOL program

2011-06-23 Thread Giliad Wilf
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:36:13 -0500, Daniel Rose dan.r...@parker.com wrote: I had a COBOL programmer ask me how they could get the LPAR name, SYSNAME, or SMFSID from a COBOL program. I could not find a LE Function that would do that. So, a co-worker located a sample program that chases

Re: Clobbered SMPSCDS

2011-06-23 Thread Giliad Wilf
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:02:22 +, Linda Mooney linda.lst...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Lizette, I could browse some of the members, but not all.  Could not copy to another dataset - tried IEBCOPY, CA-Disk (backup, compress, archive), FDR (FDRDSF) and was not able to get the dataset copied. 

Re: How do XCF couple datasets get serialized in a sysplex?

2011-05-29 Thread Giliad Wilf
On Fri, 27 May 2011 07:02:30 -0500, Bill Neiman nei...@us.ibm.com wrote: XCF does not use any of the interfaces that establish a reserve on a device - not ENQ / RESERVE in any of its external implementations, nor the Device Reserve (B4) command. The reference to device-level serialization

Re: How do XCF couple datasets get serialized in a sysplex?

2011-05-27 Thread Giliad Wilf
On Wed, 25 May 2011 07:04:04 -0500, Bill Neiman nei...@us.ibm.com wrote: ... XCF uses several types of serialization to protect couple data sets. But to clear up one misconception right away: Hardware reserves are *NEVER* used to serialize couple data sets. ... Thank you Bill. One last

How do XCF couple datasets get serialized in a sysplex?

2011-05-24 Thread Giliad Wilf
Hi All, We are trying to figure out how do XCF couple datasets get serialized in a sysplex. We can see there is a SYSDSN shared SYSTEM(*) ENQs on each sysplex member system, but seems this is only the result of XCFAS doing dynamic allocation for them when the system is being IPLed. So,

Re: How do XCF couple datasets get serialized in a sysplex?

2011-05-24 Thread Giliad Wilf
On Tue, 24 May 2011 13:26:45 +0200, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: Just to complement Barbara's excellent anwser: One of the reasons why CDS datasets should reside on separate volumes is hardware RESERVE. It is used for CDSes, at least in some situations. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz,

Re: CR+ / T-Rex

2008-11-16 Thread Giliad Wilf
suggestions and requests, to the extent of writing additional code for incorporating them into the product. In short: The product is excellent, and the support is excellent. Giliad Wilf Systems - z/OS Technical Support iteam, a Mizrahi-Tefahot group member 15 Lincoln, 67134 Tel-Aviv, Israel ph

Controlling COBOL DDs named SYSOUT

2007-12-25 Thread Giliad Wilf
We are trying to target cases where a COBOL program goes production but is still riddled with lots of active DISPLAY(*) statements left from its debugging period Examining the output of such a program, one can see millions of records written to a DD named SYSOUT (COBOL's default) We want to

COBOL diagnosis manuals

2007-11-28 Thread Giliad Wilf
Hi All, In the days of VS COBOL II R4 we had three wonderful manuals that helped us wade through dumps: LY27-9522 VS COBOL II Release 4 Diagnosis Reference LY27-9523 VS COBOL II Release 4 Diagnosis Guide SC26-4049 VS COBOL II Release 4 Application Programming Dubugging Now that we use

z/OS V1R6 to V1R9 migration

2007-11-16 Thread Giliad Wilf
Hi All, We're a shop running z/OS V1R6 and z/OS V1R7, looking into migration to z/OS V1R9 Migration manuals for z/OS V1R9 say nothing about supported migration paths for safely going from z/OS V1R6 to z/OS V1R9 and insuring safe fallback in case backing out is required (maybe IBM is only