Re: Looking for a Utility to Re-Catalog Only the x Most Current GDG Generations

If the GDG base is defined as scratch and you modify the GDG limit to x, everything greater than x gets scratched. Or at least, that's how we have done this in the past. Bob Herring Texas Farm Bureau Insurance Companies Waco, TX WWW.TXFB-INS.COM CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The foregoing

Re: Clarification on IEHPROGM

reply to the sender that you have received the message in error, then delete it. Thank you. -Original Message- From: Herring, Bobby Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 9:36 AM To: 'IBM Mainframe Discussion List' Subject: RE: Clarification on IEHPROGM We still use it to batch rename members

Re: Clarification on IEHPROGM

We still use it to batch rename members in a PDS. Is that covered by the IDCAMS functions? Bob Herring Texas Farm Bureau Insurance Companies Waco, TX CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The foregoing message (including attachments) is covered by the Electronic Communication Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C.

Re: SPOOL move

How do you keep something on the spool for years? We delete stuff over 5 *days*, every day at 17:00! We had programmers that wanted us to guarantee that their stuff would still be in the queue after a week and we told them it wasn't possible. Also, when it gets 80% full, it changes the delete

Re: DFDSS - restoring VSAM from a PHYSICAL DUMP

We once tried this and fought it for several days before finding out that a VSAM restore from a physical backup cannot be renamed. Rename is only valid for VSAM if it is from a logical backup. Bobby Herring Systems Programmer Texas Farm Bureau Insurance Companies CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT:

Re: DFDSS - restoring VSAM from a PHYSICAL DUMP

and then overwrite the existing and it will work , or am I wrong? On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Herring, Bobby bherr...@txfb-ins.comwrote: We once tried this and fought it for several days before finding out that a VSAM restore from a physical backup cannot be renamed. Rename is only valid for VSAM

Re: CLOCK change problem

I thought I remembered it being there on the 138. This picture says it's from the front of one. Found it on Google images. http://www.purestockphotos.co.uk/cgi-bin/sitewise.pl?act=detpt=p=140 Bob CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The foregoing message (including attachments) is covered by the

Dino Software RTD Product

We are thinking about getting the RTD product from Dino Software. Does anyone have any good or bad experience with the product? Offlist if fine if you prefer. Bobby Herring Systems Programmer Texas Farm Bureau Insurance Companies Waco, TX CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The foregoing message

Re: Language Environment and z196

Yes, we do a yearly DR test. This year, we had a z10 and ran on a z10 at DR. We have now installed the z196 and the question came up because we are not guaranteed what machine type we will be running on at the BCRS site. It could be a z10 or as old as a z900, like we did at the 2010 test. We

Language Environment and z196

We just recently installed a z196. At IBM's BCRS, we will be running on a z10 or possibly as old as a z900. Management is questioning our Language Environment settings. They are afraid that if we use the new LE Cobol compiler, the load modules might be incompatible with the older machine at

Re: WLM and FTP GETS From Open Systems

Also, make sure you get the case correct. We got burned once when it wasn't folded to uppercase and didn't match. Bobby Herring System Programmer Texas Farm Bureau Ins Waco, TX CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The foregoing message (including attachments) is covered by the Electronic Communication

Re: So About those Consoles on the z10 HMC

We were told that 32760 sessions were not allowed on the Linux HMC. Something about it causing problems. We installed PComm on another workstation connected to the router that the HMC uses. We used the same addresses we had used for the HMC console sessions. We added VNC to that workstation so

Re: USB on HMC running OS/2 Warp

You do realize that any DR site you go to is probably going to give you a portion of a z9 or z10 equivalent to your needs and those boxes will not have an OS/2 HMC? Sounds like you are planning for something that is not available now, except at your site. Thanks, Bobby Herring -Original

SMF Image counts and physical page counts

Does anyone know of a way to obtain image counts and physical page counts from SMF records? We've looked at file1 on the CBT tape and didn't see anything that looked like it would collect printer statistics from SMF. We are at z/OS 1.10. Thank you, Bobby Herring Texas Farm Bureau Insurance

IBM DS-8100 and TPC Software

We have IBM's DS-8100 DASD and are trying to get their Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk(TPC) software to work. It seems to mostly work for the dark side people but we have not been able to get it to work for the mainframe side. It doesn't show the volser of the volume. It has something

Re: Maximum Channel Busy Recommendation for 3494 VTS ESCON Attached

Thanks for all the ideas and replies. We weren't seeing a problem with the tapes. We were looking at something else and happened to notice the channel utilization on the VTS virtual drives. We were thinking that the virtual tape performance was ok. We will do some more investigation and will

Maximum Channel Busy Recommendation for 3494 VTS ESCON Attached

We have a 3494 VTS, with 64 virtual 3490 drives, connected with four ESCON channels. At times, we are seeing 80-90% channel usage. I have searched manuals, the web and IBMLink and cannot find a number for what is considered a limit for Escon channel usage. Does anyone know what that number

Re: Maximum Channel Busy Recommendation for 3494 VTS ESCON Attached

Well, we're not sure if it is a bottleneck or not. It we were hitting a wall, we wanted to know so we could look at options. We weren't sure if there was a saturation design point like the one advertised for the CPU. So, you think 100% is ok and we probably shouldn't worry about it? Thanks,

DFSort Question

We are trying to sort DASD addresses and it puts the alpha addresses in front of the numerics. I seem to remember a long time ago, we used an alternate sort sequence for something like this. Does anyone use this? Thanks, Bobby Herring Texas Farm Bureau Ins -Original Message- From: IBM

Rexx to Extract XCF Structures

I have searched the archives and Google and came up empty. Does anyone know of a Rexx exec that can read the XCF dataset and extract the definitions needed to re-create it for DR purposes? Someone here thought they had heard it mentioned somewhere but can't remember where. Thanks, Bobby

Re: Time Change at IPL

We didn't know about the CICS P RESET command. How do you deal with DB2 subsystems? Do you bounce them? Thanks, Bobby Herring Texas Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent:

Negative Weight on LPAR Setup

My manager went to the zSeries Expo a few months back and said he heard a presentation that mentioned using negative weights when configuring LPAR's. We have 4 LPAR's and want two of them to only get time when the other two don't need it. We have them capped now but that also limits them when

Sysplex timer

My management is asking if z/OS can use an atomic clock like the server farm does. The last I remember was a sysplex timer with an external time box of some kind. I'm speaking from memory and not experience. Are these still used and can they be attached to a z890? Are they expensive? Any