Re: Why is it still there?

2006-08-25 Thread Peter Hunkeler
r of the ABEND macro detemines whether it will be seen as a user or a system abend, right? Since the OP's question seemed to more of a beginner's type of question, I didn't want to go into more (assembler) details. Usually, Sxxx abends are for system code, user abend for

Re: HFS file questions

2011-02-11 Thread Peter Hunkeler
ok at HealthChecker, to name but a few. We should really help those willing to learn about USS instead of unprofessionally teaching them that "USS" has got more than one meaning. No offence intended, but I'm getting sick of this repeated, useless p

Re: HFS file questions

2011-02-12 Thread Peter Hunkeler
Linda, are you aware of the MVS-OE list? It is dedicated to z/OS UNIX. -- Peter Hunkeler Credit Suisse -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET

Re: Doubtful list etiquette (Should have been: USS misuse again, Was: HFS file questions)

2011-02-13 Thread Peter Hunkeler
itself. I'd really love to understand why on earth people like you are defending that term in the name of VTAM. You won't change this anymore, like nobody else will. "USS" has become the defacto standard name for z/OS UNIX System Ser

Re: HFS file questions

2011-02-13 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>Are you suggesting that I leave this list and go there? No, definitely not! Others have already guesed what I wanted to suggest you. I apologize for having been to lazy to add another sentence or two. -- Peter Hunkeler Credit Sui

Re: WLM and FTP GETS From Open Systems

2010-01-25 Thread Peter Hunkeler
1 TN FTPCLIEN ___ FTPSTD NETWORK 2 UI SYSXFER FTPHIGH NETWORK 1 TN ETCRC* ___ SYSSTC SYSTEM 1 TN ETCINIT* ___ SYSSTC SYSTEM -- Peter Hunkeler

Create a new user System Command

2005-05-12 Thread Peter Hunkeler
a subsystem routine listening on the SSI command broadcast function. Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical Sales Support, Switzerland -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, s

Re: Create a new user System Command

2005-05-13 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>You can do it with an exit specified in MPFLSTxx member. Forgot about this, indeed. Too long since I last worked on this question, it seems. Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical Sales Support, Switzerl

Re: RECFM=V/VB on SYSOUT: honored by JES?

2005-05-13 Thread Peter Hunkeler
x) definition. JES2 truncates trailing blanks by default (for line mode data). Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical Sales Support, Switzerland -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instr

Re: RECFM=V/VB on SYSOUT: honored by JES?

2005-05-16 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>and he of course meant to write > >. . . unless you have BLNKTRNC=NO . . . My statement was more towards the comment "...you need to have a look at what really is on the spool....". Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical Sales S

Re: Create a new user System Command

2005-05-16 Thread Peter Hunkeler
ognize "their" commands. Also, the same command can be used by more than one instance of a subsystem, each having a different command prefix. Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical Sales Support, Switzerland --

Re: RECFM=V/VB on SYSOUT: honored by JES?

2005-05-17 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>Perhaps. But it was flatly in error as it appeared in your post. Oh,...ohh, I see. I was mislead by your "and *he* of course meant" which I read as a referral to Jay. I didn't even think I was meant. Sorry, and thanks for pointing it out. Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Speci

Re: Calling a PL/I program from REXX

2005-05-19 Thread Peter Hunkeler
t;, I'd expect it to work, indeed. LINKMVS should build a standard OS parameter list and each parameter should be a "CHAR() VARYING", i.e. halfword length followed by the character data. Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical Sales Support, Switzerland --

Re: Calling a PL/I program from REXX

2005-05-19 Thread Peter Hunkeler
ok at that version of the manual). The net seems to be you can't pass more that one argument from REXX to PL/1 at the OS PL/1 V2R3 level. Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical Sales Support, Switzerland -

Re: "Leftover" data: can it be seen?

2005-05-19 Thread Peter Hunkeler
ge and assign ownership to some task above the job step task (there are also some subpools which exist for the life of the address space). If that program does not free the storage upon termination it will then only be freed when the owning task ends. Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeri

PARM=

2005-05-20 Thread Peter Hunkeler
o need for a system wide option, no need for a system command, cheaper to implement, and most importantly, no unnecessary incompatibility. Just my 2 cents, of course. Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical Sales Support, Switzerland ---

Re: PARM=

2005-05-23 Thread Peter Hunkeler
oned isn't too different *but* the architectural limit (still) is 100 bytes not 50, not 16, programs are expected to reserve 100 bytes for the PARM. 50 instead of 16 bytes would not overwrite data outside of the 100 byte variable. Peter Hunkeler

Re: PARM=

2005-05-23 Thread Peter Hunkeler
"Y" According to the principle of least astonishment, we should not incompatibly change the rules to benefit a few programs. Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical Sales Support, Switzerland --

Re: This is a short PARM length survey via Zoomerang

2005-05-23 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>Ugh, don't know...I tried it from AOL account w/o problems. Maybe >if you cut and paste directly with IE browser?? ^^ What's that? I'm only using Firefox. I wonder what I voted for.. Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zS

Re: PARM=

2005-05-23 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>I did a quick scan on the sources of our tools and found several that >move the parmarea, using its length field, to a 100 byte area. Glad to read I'm not the only one :-) Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical Sales Support,

Re: PARM=

2005-05-23 Thread Peter Hunkeler
te the PARM length restriction is under discussion. Whatever the solution will be, it will help. Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical Sales Support, Switzerland -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive a

Re: PARM=

2005-05-23 Thread Peter Hunkeler
s aside, I think that application programs are designed for a specific environment: MVS Batch, CICS transaction, IMS transaction, etc. You don't call a day-end-processing batch program from TSO forground, do you? Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical Sales Support, Switzerland

Re: PARM=

2005-05-23 Thread Peter Hunkeler
task in a batch job, i.e. the one being called because it is named in the PGM= parameter on the EXEC statement. Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical Sales Support, Switzerland -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / si

Re: PARM=

2005-05-23 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>So you've never run a batch program under TSO TEST? For production We're not talking about the debugging case. Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical Sales Support, Switzerland --

Re: About dispatching process

2007-10-24 Thread Peter Hunkeler
m with a S071 Reason= - Not responding in time (the WTOR times out) leads to the same abend. -- Peter Hunkeler Credit Suisse -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Can forked/spawned address spaces be identified as such?

2008-03-27 Thread Peter Hunkeler
ngle digit is added to jobnames shorter than 8 characters. After 9 has been used the digit wraps back top 1. Eight character jobnames stay unchanged. In some cases a new, completely unrelated jobname may be used. -- Peter Hunkeler Credit Suisse ---

How to know which codepage mainframe uses or supports?

2005-06-01 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>I know mainframe supports IBM-1047 codepage, but how to know wethere >it supports others(eg. IBM-047 or Japanese)? If it supports, how to >know it? Code page support is product specific, some have it, some don't. You would have to search the product specific documentation, I

Re: GDG gen existence check via JCL

2005-06-02 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>I have a GDG base that has no GDS's. I ran an IDCAMS step specifying: >LISTCAT ENT(GSP.FAM.GSW02.KEEP.*) This only works if the GDG is defined with SCRATCH. With NOSCRATCH, the LISTCAT ENT() would also find rolled-off data sets. But you probably have SCRATCH, right. Peter Hunk

Re: Additional DASD devices

2005-06-07 Thread Peter Hunkeler
on went >down by 1 MB. Unfortunately I can't remember what areas caused this. UCBs use E/SQA. They will reside above or below the line according to the device definition in HCD. Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical S

Re: Additional DASD devices

2005-06-07 Thread Peter Hunkeler
I/O, I think. If you add devices and do not IPL with CLPA, your available SQA will shrink since PLPA boundary is kept constant. With CLPA, the SQA= parameter from IEASYSxx is honoured and PLPA is moved, if necessary. Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical S

What level of UNIX is z/OS

2005-06-09 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>z/OS is sitting at the XPG 4.2 branding level achieved back in MVS >5.2.2. IIRC, MVS/ESA 5.2.2 as well as OS/390 1.1 were at XPG 4. OS/390 1.2 got the XPG 4.2 (UNIX95) branding in 1996. Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical Sales Support, Switz

*MASTER*, START PENDING device wxyz vs ISG343I DEVICE:wxyz ... RESERVED BY SYSTEM ... S=SYSTEM ARCGPA ARCOCDS

2005-06-09 Thread Peter Hunkeler
O. When this I/O times out (MIH) a first START PENDING message is written and this message should show HSM. The I/O will be redriven but this time the IOSB is scheduled under the MASTER ASID. If the I/O times out again, you will see another message but with *MASTER* this time. Peter Hunkeler Seni

Re: What level of UNIX is z/OS

2005-06-09 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>Then it is z/OS 1.2, not os390 1.2 ? No, it was OS/390 V1R2 that first got the UNIX branding. z/OS is the successor of OS/390 and z/OS V1R2 was GA in 2001 Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical Sales Support, Switzerl

Re: *MASTER*, START PENDING device wxyz vs ISG343I DEVICE:wxyz ... RESERVED B...

2005-06-10 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>It could also be reserved on the same system. But this would not block access from the same system, so START PENDING does not apply here. Of course, there can be contention by means of an ENQueue, but that would just block a task long before an I/O is even started. Peter Hunkeler Senior

ftp structure command - description

2005-06-10 Thread Peter Hunkeler
o improve their documents. Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical Sales Support, Switzerland -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message

Re: JCL COND= processing

2005-06-10 Thread Peter Hunkeler
ss is built after firstname.lastname at ch.ibm.com Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical Sales Support, Switzerland -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTEC

IBM JCL Utilities Guide for DFSMS

2005-06-12 Thread Peter Hunkeler
r6pdf/dfsms.html Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical Sales Support, Switzerland -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-

Re: LLA Question and PDSE

2005-06-13 Thread Peter Hunkeler
There is a new Redbooks Technote related to the above question at http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips0567.html : "Partitioned Data Set Extended (PDSE) Hiperspace (Caching) Problems, Considerations, and Parameter Changes" Peter Hunkeler Senior

Re: z/OS UNIX in a legacy world ( was: USS in a "legacy" world.)

2005-06-15 Thread Peter Hunkeler
agree. I was trying to convince our development that such a course is desirable. My voice wasn't heard, though. Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical Sales Support, Switzerland -- For IBM-MAIN subscrib

Host text file in Arabic

2005-06-15 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>If someone can send a text file which contains Arabic text in 420 >code page. What exactly do you need? Can't you create one with the help of iconv? Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical Sales Support,

Re: AW: Calling authorised modules from non-authorised environments

2005-06-15 Thread Peter Hunkeler
much wish to administer z/OS on it.) Hey, you're missing a great experience ;-) Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical Sales Support, Switzerland -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access inst

Re: Host text file in Arabic

2005-06-15 Thread Peter Hunkeler
sbdataconn=(IBM-420,pc-arabic-codepage)" on the ftp session. Replace the pc-arabic-codepage with the local codepage on NT. However, I never thought about and am not sure right-to-left is supported on z/OS. Anyone care to enlighten me? Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSerie

Re: Logical CP settings.

2005-06-15 Thread Peter Hunkeler
, the select the CEC again and right-click on the icon, then select "CPs" (not sure what it really says on the pop-up but you'll be able to find out, I'm sure ;-) Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical Sales Support, Switzerland ---

Re: CHECKPOINT OUT OF DATE?

2005-06-17 Thread Peter Hunkeler
o have seen the same problem on my Flex-z/OS V1.6. I've found that some HASP checkpoint routine abended (haven't analyzed it further, yet). A hotstart of JES cured the problem (it seems). Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSerie

Re: What is driver 55k in z machines ?

2005-06-23 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>It's the level of the code in the HMC. The code is in the SE not the HMC. Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical Sales Support, Switzerland -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access inst

IPL periodicity

2005-06-23 Thread Peter Hunkeler
Out of curiosity, how often and for what reasons do you IPL your z/OS systems? Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical Sales Support, Switzerland -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: IPL periodicity

2005-06-24 Thread Peter Hunkeler
Thanks for all your replies. Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical Sales Support, Switzerland -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the