We add the IPLTEXT to the volume prior to using it the first time.
Cheers,
Paul Gillis
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From my last Share meeting in the mid 80s,
JES3 is 1 Better.
Paul
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should
arise. The main issue is how close to the bleeding edge of maintenance do
you maintain your systems at. Terry's point about multi-skilling is valid as
no-one wants to be expert in only one or two products.
Do it well, not half-baked.
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of trying both downloading to PC and DVD
installations and basically gave up and asked our local SAS office for 3590
media which they provided.
Cheers, Paul Gillis
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While I managed to install SAS 9.2 on z/OS, I failed dismally with the DVD
and eventually had SAS ship a 3590 cart. Then the install was easy.
Still have the depot on my laptop from the failed attempts.
If I have to install it again for another customer, I will use 3590 again.
Cheers, Paul
of
WPS but have not touched that yet.
Cheers, Paul Gillis
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WPS claims
What? Millions of type 89 SMF records. Nah, about 12,000 a month. Or report
on SMF70LAC field in type 70 records, I do this daily for one of my
customers.
Cheers, Paul Gillis
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with the PTF applied.
Cheers, Paul Gillis
Quoting Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com:
I have been working on the new version of DAF.
When I assembler it I get an RC04 on the Macro IGWSMF at AO25205 level for
my z/OS V1.9 system. Is that okay? Or should the macro resolve correctly?
I
Hi Sam,
Not a major issue, but I cannot access any of the cbttape.org links using
Safari, but it does work OK on I.E.8. This is accessing the updates page
etc.
Cheers, Paul
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I used Jol from 1970 through 1988 and was very happy with it, then
when I changed jobs I had to relearn JCL. Jol certainly provided much
of what has been discussed here since the early 70s.
Never tried a parm greater than 100 bytes, wonder if that would work.
Probably no reason why it
on an IPL volume, not an exact change listing.
Happy New Year everyone,
Paul Gillis
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I have a pair of small assembler programs that (a) list a vtoc and (b) list
a directory entry and use both of those to detect changes to an IPL volume
when I generate a new one. If that is what you are after, I will put them
onto my file on the cbt tape.
Cheers, Paul
Has anyone written a
will be suggesting we order on those in future. It just takes
too much of my time and too much space to perform the download/upload of
z/OS.
Regards, Paul Gillis
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Did you assign a userid in the STDATA field of the STARTED/APPC.* general
resource rule, and did you define a group as well, the user must be a member
of the group if you did.
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I do not believe so. There may be some performance monitors on the CBT site,
but you will get what your client is prepared to pay for.
Nine tenths of Zero.
Cheers,
Paul Gillis
Due to licensing cost cutting my client is considering removing CMF. Also
he is not ready to go
catalog and the job is done.
Cheers,
Paul Gillis
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What
Pacific Systems Management in Australia provide TheBill. http://psm.cx/
Regards,
Paul Gillis
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Gadi,
For ordering jobs by their submission sequence I sort on ST-Date and ST-Time
both descending. The job numbers roll over which makes them a bad choice to
sort on only when that actually happens.
Paul Gillis
3. The order of the jobs on the Status screen is different than
Mark,
I run a daily extract for the type 89s and accumulate that for each LPAR.
This makes the end of month processing run in seconds instead of hours. We
create a new GDG each month for this and have had no problems at all with
the process. Should we destroy the GDG we can rebuild it from the
mainframe product SAS is dirt cheap. Zero cost
in the hardware and software will translate to a fleshware cost when the
interesting questions are asked, but your management probably won't care.
Just my personal observation.
Cheers, Paul Gillis
Compression 9 trks 2.03 secs
Cheers,
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, by using a special program:
Compressable is not known.
It's now Beer O'clock,
Cheers, Paul Gillis
What I was really fishing for was user experiences with using DFSMS
compressed extended-format sequential data sets.
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Subject: Compression figures, anyone?
Hi.
My semi-facetious remark about ZIP archives got me wondering
about what sort of compression ratios users of compressed
extended-format data sets are getting.
Zipping text can get 75% to 90% compression (ie. reducing the
data to 25% to 10% of its
Haven't had a 3592 shipped yet, but have been able to read 3590 ServerPac
carts from an ATL. Will have to check tomorrow at work, but I believe all I
had to do was to (1). Insert the volume serial into the volcat. (2). Insert
the volume as an unlabeled cart into the ATL. (3) Read it.
Cheers, Paul
Here's a slightly dated diagram, but it may convey the flavor [thanks to
Paul Hrycewicz]:
http://www.kcats.org/pub/CB%20Diagram.pdf
Looks pretty current to me..
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with
inexperienced personnel will stop right there and as far as they are
concerned the product is a dud.
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LPAR its own CDS and extract/collect only
for that one LPAR.
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sea levels to rise 160 feet Birdsville will be
underwater, which would be unique experience for the town. Some of the other
facilities needed are also a little short in Birdsville, but they can cater
for up to 6000 visitors in a single weekend.
Paul Gillis
My boomerang won't come back. :-D
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Here in Oz they call that a stick.
It's almost Friday for me.
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reason it may stay
broken for a long time. The source comes with the package so one could
potentially resolve the problem oneself.
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that Standard Oil was one of his
customers. I was an operator with Shell at the time and was inspired by Clem
and others to move into systems programming.
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software vendors to get together, assuming that
the emulation way is either dead or dying.
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McKown, John wrote:
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McKown, John wrote:
I simply cannot get ICSF to work on our z890
the book to the best of
my ability. I had it working on our old z800 may moons ago. We are
planning to upgrade to a z9BC in about a month. Should I give up until
then?
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John,
Do you have the CSF started task running? I am running that on a z890
without crypto coprocessors.
Paul
?
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and SUPS all the potentially applied and accepted sysmods.
Someone else may have suggested that during this thread.
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tapes and have a small procedure to run through to tell HSM to
use its alternate 3590s, which of course are sent offsite daily with the
DR tapes. I will check, but I don't believe that we disconnect the tape
catalogs.
Paul Gillis
Dee Shrier wrote:
Real tapes in a tape robot do not change
,
Paul Gillis
Retired JES3 bigot, now JES2/SDSF apprentice.
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the work to.
I also know that a number of CSC Australia people are supporting USA
customers from here.
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task is running in
that service class.
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that JOL will
be available in the public domain? I remember cutting my assembler teeth
on JOL at Shell in the 70's.
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Paul Gillis wrote:
Clem Clarke wrote:
Greetings.
I want to share some PL/I and Assembler code through Open Source, and
wonder where the best place might be to do this.
Hi Clem,
Either Sam Knutson or Sam Golob at www.cbttape.org would be more than
happy to provide a place for your code
John S. Giltner, Jr. wrote:
I vaguly remember reading a paper (about 7 or 8 years ago) where
somebody turn off SMF recording and saw no measureable difference in CPU
utilziation.
I wonder how they measured it?
Regards, Paul Gillis
Shane wrote:
On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 17:42 +1000, Paul Gillis wrote:
Took a few breaths and re-read your email. I would recommend it all went
onto the cbttape, and if an open source license is required, why not use
the GNU General Public License available at
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt
Timothy Sipples wrote:
I'd also be interested to know why HP recently *entered* the mainframe
outsourcing business. My best guess is that HP identified an opportunity.
Better not tell the CEO. :-)
They've been at it here in Oz for a while, not many clients though.
Paul Gillis
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if a
cart is lost.
Another customer uses 3590 inside an ATL on 30Gb carts and the
recall/recycle/tapecopy performance is OK. If we lose a cart the impact
will be nowhere near as high as if we lose a 3592 cart.
I prefer VTS to TMM or CA-VTAPE but that's another dollar or two.
Paul Gillis
a slab of it in the fridge.
I think you partially answered your own question. Use TRSMAIN and ftp
the file as a binary to the PC and also onto the mainframe. Then unterse
it with TRSMAIN.
Regards,
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MASSIMO BIANCUCCI wrote:
Really strange ! I'm experiencing some problem on finding the books. A serach
in the redbook site shows no results for ABCs V3/4/6/7/8. Any idea ?
They haven't been written yet.
Paul Gillis
maintenance. My previous
site, we did all maintenance into product separate CSIs and then let the
DBAs perform their post-apply magic. At my current site, the DBAs do it
all, which in my opinion is a bad thing.
Paul Gillis
Nothing about this on the university web site. The 3 companies mentioned are
close to the last of the not yet outsourced organisations in the country.
Paul Gillis
Technical Director
Pacific Systems Management Pty. Ltd.
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