Re: Can I do a Hex Sort in ISPF Edit?

2009-04-03 Thread Raymond Noal
This may be more work than it worth, but have you considered converting the hex values to decimal, sort the decimal values and then convert them back to hex. HITACHI  DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: A foolish consistancy or 3390 cyl/track architecture

2009-03-26 Thread Raymond Noal
Well, if your new DASD architecture was manufactured in the same manner as previous DASD devices, you would have 32,769 spinning platters to deal with and an access arm with 65,535 R/W heads to move back and forth with all of the implied momentum of a device that size. How tall do you think 32K

Re: initialize (reset) file

2009-03-25 Thread Raymond Noal
Frank, Since I'm only somewhat dangerous with VSAM and even less informed in IMS, does not the IDCAMS DEFINE for a VSAM file give you an empty/initialized VSAM file? Isn't there an end-of-file at the very beginning of the file created by DEFINE? What does IMS consider an initialized/empty VSAM

SCSIDISC SAMPEXEC on z/VM 5.4.0

2009-03-18 Thread Raymond Noal
Dear List Members: Just to save you some time and grief, I'm passing this along. We have just started using FCP devices for our Linux (SuSE Red Hat) virtual machines running under our z/VM 5.4.0 system. In order to verify our hardware configuration and our switch configurations, I was able to

Re: SCSIDISC SAMPEXEC on z/VM 5.4.0

2009-03-18 Thread Raymond Noal
Subject: Re: SCSIDISC SAMPEXEC on z/VM 5.4.0 Sounds even worse than the example I found a few years back of a supplied sample (to do Shark analysis?) which required SAS. i -- Original Message -- Received: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:07:13 PM COT From: Raymond Noal raymond.n...@hds.com To: IBM-MAIN

Re: Multi-dimensional arrays in REXX

2009-03-17 Thread Raymond Noal
Terry, OK - I'm no REXX expert, so take this for what it's worth: In the technical/classical sense of arrays, REXX does not have any support of arrays per se - either single or multi-dimensional. When I was using Fortran you had: Dimension array(10,10) Do I = 1 to 10 Do X = 1 to 10 Array(I,X)

Re: NEED SOME HELP WITH IEBCOPY

2009-03-13 Thread Raymond Noal
Howard, First, if by 'flat files' you mean sequential files, then I don't think IEBCOPY is want you want. You should use IEBGENER to copy flat/sequential files. But, for IEBCOPY, here's an example: //S1 EXEC PGM=IEBCOPY //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //IN DD

Re: REXX and SDSF

2009-02-10 Thread Raymond Noal
Maria, I would suggest adding a 'DROP LINES.' statement just before the DO loop to insure that 'lines.' has the same number of lines that 'isfulog.' contains. HITACHI  DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: JCL job execution order

2009-02-10 Thread Raymond Noal
Dave, Submit job AAA and as the last step in this job, have it submit job BBB and so on by using the internal reader. HITACHI  DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: MPFLST Exit

2009-02-07 Thread Raymond Noal
George, the value in CMDLEN is suspect. The command you want to execute is 5 characters in length, not 4. Without checking on the macro definition, is CMDLEN only the length of the command or does it include the two bytes of length before the command? From:

Re: help with System rexx script - the solution

2009-01-27 Thread Raymond Noal
Where is this 'AXREXX' documented? I can't find it in the z/OS commands manual or in any of the TSO/E - REXX manuals. TIA HITACHI  DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: help with System rexx script - the solution

2009-01-27 Thread Raymond Noal
Thanks to all who responded. I'll check back on this when I migrate to z/OS 1.10. Currently z/OS 1.8. Thanks again. HITACHI  DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: ICSF and VISA/MasterCard?amex reference list

2009-01-22 Thread Raymond Noal
Rather than a list of user's of the HW crypto feature, would not the security/certification level of the IBM processor's be even more impressive? HITACHI  DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: new lpar

2009-01-02 Thread Raymond Noal
Kurt, My personal preference is to always use the HCD for maintaining your configuration files - both IOCDS and IODF. The IOCDS is written out to the processor and used during POR and LPAR activation to configure your LPARs. The IODF is used by z/OS for its configuration information. If you

Re: new lpar

2009-01-02 Thread Raymond Noal
Kurt, Tom is correct. Each z/OS system image must have access to the 'current' IODF for its own processing. If your current LPAR was using SYS1.IODF15 as its current production configuration, you could IPL your new LPAR by using the same IODF configuration file. If z/OS does not find an IODF

Re: Activate lpar automatically?

2008-12-12 Thread Raymond Noal
What you want to do can be done using the HMC. You can activate/IPL an LPAR on a scheduled basis. I don't recall all of the steps involved, but you start by using Single Object selection with your CPC already selected. From there you can select an option that will give you automatic operations

Re: Tape Space Issue

2008-12-08 Thread Raymond Noal
What is the device type for the device numbers assigned to the esoteric - HCRT? Check in your current EDT. HITACHI  DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: Activation of IOCDS fails

2008-12-03 Thread Raymond Noal
Jerry, You need to ACTIVATE both your IOCDS and IODF using the same ACTIVATE command. Use: ACTIVATE ACTIOCDS=A2,IODF=XX,FORCE=(DEVICE,CANDIDATE) -or whatever suits your needs. You must have the IOCDS and IODF with the same token value. Use: D IOS,CONFIG - to display the currently active

Re: z/VM and Mirrored DASD owned by z/OS

2008-11-24 Thread Raymond Noal
Using Offline_at_IPL will only correct the problem when z/VM is being IPL'ed. If the target volumes present a state change interrupt after z/VM is IPL'ed, z/VM will bring the volumes online. The safest way to go is to mark the target device numbers as 'not_accepted' to z/VM. HITACHI  DATA

Re: procs and concatenations

2008-11-10 Thread Raymond Noal
Frank, If you want a private PDS/Copybook to precede your production COBOL copy book PDS and have it unique to each user, how about this - //syslib dd dsn=sysuid..pvtcobol.copylib //dd dsn=appl.prod.copylib HITACHI  DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer

Re: EXEC PGM=??? to issue operator commands from the JCL stream?

2008-10-20 Thread Raymond Noal
Todd, You can use the 'COMMAND' JCL statement. See the JCL Reference manual. EX: //___COMMAND'S_VTAM'__comments (where underscores are blanks) HITACHI  DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Invalid dataset name in catalog, how to remove

2008-08-08 Thread Raymond Noal
have you tried putting the dataset name in quotes on your IEFBR14 using the DISP=(OLD,DELETE) parameter like this DSN='P.FSPOL.SBHF38AA(0)' Data set names on the tape HDR1 record (assuming standard labels were used) is only the last 17 characters on the tape, but not on the catalog entry. HTH

Re: TN3270 SSL problem

2008-07-14 Thread Raymond Noal
Dave, z/OS 1.9 already splits out the TN3270 server into a separate address space. See below: D A,L IEE114I 12.15.30 2008.196 ACTIVITY 965 JOBS M/STS USERSSYSASINITS

Re: STARTIO macro doc

2008-07-08 Thread Raymond Noal
Have you considered an application like Diligent's Virtual Tape Facility for the Mainframe - VTF/M for short. Or you can call us as well since we are a reseller for VTF/M (sorry, I couldn't resist - my apologies to the list in advance) I use and support this product and there is a lot more to

Re: Help with DFDSS Restore of PDS-E Datasets

2008-06-03 Thread Raymond Noal
Lizette - According to message ADR380E discription - Data set not processed. Catalog entry for an SMS-managed data set was found but there was no corresponding VTOC entry HITACHI  DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message-

Trying to Learn z/Linux ISHELL Scripting

2008-05-29 Thread Raymond Noal
Dear Lists, Could any of you recommend reference material (web sites, manuals, redbooks/redpieces) so I could learn something about writing scripts under ISHELL in a z/Linux environment? TIA HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978

Re: how do I pause a set of commands

2008-05-14 Thread Raymond Noal
Arthur, We developed our own program for this function and it incorporates a SLEEP function. Here is a code snip from the program: A010 DS0H GET SYSIN,CMDIN CLI CMDIN,C'*'

Re: FTP from z/VM to z/OS JES Spool

2008-04-04 Thread Raymond Noal
Lionel, Have you tried - SITE JESLrecl=xxx where xxx can be 1 - 254. This specifically sets the LRECL for the JES internal reader. HITACHI  DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Displaying multiple volumes allocated from DSLIST

2008-03-26 Thread Raymond Noal
Gilbert, The display you are seeing for the data set's volume list is due to the fact that the data set is SMS managed. The * in the display of volumes indicates that SMS had additional volumes in its candidate list when the data set was allocated. The data set was only allocated on one volume

Re: more than 8 PPRC paths

2008-03-17 Thread Raymond Noal
Hello Anybody, The 8 path restriction is per LCU, not your USP V. The USP V should allow a total of 16 paths for connections between storage subsystems. You can use our Storage Navigator application to create this configuration. If you are having problems in doing this, please contact your

Re: Extracting SMF 30 records

2008-03-07 Thread Raymond Noal
You can go to the www.cbttape.org web site and download the CBT files 617 and 523. CBT file 617 is a REXX program that will give you a report using SMF 30 type records. CBT file 523 is an assembler program that will extract SMF records you select using SYSIN control cards. You can also

Re: EMC Power Down/Up Billable

2008-02-12 Thread Raymond Noal
What!!! snip EMC, like Sun and IBM and the rest, charge these days for everything. /snip I resent the implication! We (HDS) do not require a FE to be on-site if our customer decides to power off our equipment. Granted, it's a two step process to effect - push and hold the ENABLE switch that

Re: Sub-CEC Reports

2008-01-10 Thread Raymond Noal
We FTP our SCRT reports to IBM and they have no problem with this approach. HTH HITACHI  DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Green Sent:

z/OS + TSO + ISPF versus z/VM + CMS + ISPF

2008-01-03 Thread Raymond Noal
Dear Lists: I am cross posting this question to the z/OS and z/VM lists due to the nature of my question, which is - Will z/OS, TSO ISPF panels and dialogs work under the z/VM, CMS ISPF program product? Is there any degree of compatibility between the two ISPF products? Is there any

z/OS + TSO + ISPF versus z/VM + CMS + ISPF

2008-01-03 Thread Raymond Noal
Dear Lists: I thank all of you who have responded so far and so quickly. The consensus of opinion is that it may be doable. I realize that there are differences in the I/O support afforded by both platforms. This may be a small amount of the conversion effort. Several responders mentioned that

Re: How Compatible is BS/2000 with IBM zSeries?

2007-11-28 Thread Raymond Noal
VOS was the operating system developed by Hitachi for their domestic market. Back in the early 80's we (NAS, now HDS) had some customers who would entertain the idea of running non-IBM operating systems. This approach never really took off and VOS remained in Japan. HITACHI  DATA SYSTEMS

Re: ICSF First-time Startup

2007-11-27 Thread Raymond Noal
John, Based on the CSFM506I message, it looks like your LPAR does not have any crypto hardware as part of its configuration or there is no domain assigned to your LPAR for master key processing. Check the configuration of your LPAR from the HMC/SE for your CEC and the activation profile for

Re: Running REXX program in a batch job

2007-11-10 Thread Raymond Noal
Mark, when running REXX in batch and to disassociate your code from a TSO user-ID, as the first statement in your script use the PROFILE NOPREFIX statement. Then you can reference z/OS data sets by name, with or without a TSO prefix as the HLQ. From: IBM

z/TPF List Server

2007-10-30 Thread Raymond Noal
Dear Lists: Is there a list server for z/TPF? HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Flashcopy and ADR369D

2007-10-17 Thread Raymond Noal
Greg, You can code/use the IEAVMXIT MCS exit to automate this reply. I can give you a copy of our source code for a quick jump start on this. Please contact me off-list if you want a copy. HITACHI  DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978

z/OS using a guest virtual LAN under z/VM

2007-10-01 Thread Raymond Noal
Dear List: Does anybody have a z/OS system (I'm using 1.8, but it does not have to be) running in a virtual machine under z/VM (I'm using 5.3.0, but it does not have to be) and the z/OS virtual machine is connected to a guest virtual LAN. If so, can you please answer the following questions: 1)

Re: Writing 23FDs

2007-09-26 Thread Raymond Noal
Dear List: An IBM 4361 Model Group 5 had the ECPS feature - Extended Control Program Support (ECPS) -- offers VSE mode, VM/370 mode, and MVS/370 mode. These modes provide microcode assists that make the system control programs operate more efficiently. HITACHI  DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal

Me thinks 'Chuckie' is afoot -

2007-09-06 Thread Raymond Noal
Ok, you network gurus; I've got one for you - The TCP/IP address of my z/OS 1.8 system is 111.222.333.11. (not really) When I run this REXX Exec - /* REXX */ SAY SOCKET('INITIALIZE','MYID') SAY

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2007-06-05 Thread Raymond Noal
If the user's TSO logon proc will allocate a new profile data set if one is not present, either rename and/or delete the user's current profile data set. HITACHI  DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Deleting console UCB's

2007-04-19 Thread Raymond Noal
Hal, Are the console device numbers marked as DYNAMIC - NO in your IOCDS/IODF? HITACHI  DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hal Merritt Sent:

Re: Extract listing of production datasets

2007-04-11 Thread Raymond Noal
Robert, You can try either ISPF 3.4 or ISMF option 2 (data set). Both will allow you to generate a list of data set names using %%%1.** as a filter and then save the resultant list to a data set. Hope this helps. HITACHI  DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office:

Re: Extract listing of production datasets

2007-04-11 Thread Raymond Noal
Robert, Sorry, must have had a brain cramp - that's option 1 from the ISMF panel and your filter would be (in your case) %%%P.** HITACHI  DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: What's a CPU second?

2007-03-29 Thread Raymond Noal
Charles, Like Bill explained in his reply, the time reported is the time your program spent in execution regardless of how many processors it was dispatch on. HITACHI  DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: DYNAMIC I/O ENQUEUE IOS513E

2007-02-27 Thread Raymond Noal
Tomas, What was the format of your ACTIVATE command? Did you use the FORCE option? HITACHI  DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tomas Larsson

z/OS 1.8 to Win 2003 Server FTP Problem

2007-01-23 Thread Raymond Noal
Dear List, I am trying to FTP a 10GB file from my z/OS 1.8 system to a Windows 2003 Server platform. After about 9.2 GB of data being transferred, the FTP process is aborted with the error message of - No CSI structure available from the Windows FTP process. Has anyone else seen this? TIA

Re: Linkage Editor

2006-09-29 Thread Raymond Noal
Mark, IIRC, by default, the entry point to your load module will be the entry point of the first INCLUDED CSECT. You can verify this on the mapping provided by the linkage editor when it documents the information after creating your load module. This may require the MAP option when you run the

Re: The Fate of VM - was: Re: Baby MVS???

2006-08-17 Thread Raymond Noal
snip but z/VM *is* the most programmable, flexible, powerful, and robust hypervisor in existence. /snip A-M-E-N to that!!! HITACHI  DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

z/OS DASD Allocation using Esoterics

2006-06-15 Thread Raymond Noal
First I want to thank all of you that responded. The gist of the responses tells me that I may be giving z/OS allocation logic too much credit. Not what I hoped for of course but this is why we do testing - right? The cigar goes to John Kington who suggested allocating my eight data sets in a

Re: z/OS DASD Allocation using Esoterics

2006-06-15 Thread Raymond Noal
Thanks David, I will definitely add this to my 'must read' list. HITACHI  DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Betten Sent: Thursday, June

z/OS 1.6 DASD Allocation using Esoterics

2006-06-14 Thread Raymond Noal
Greetings Listers, What I thought should be a straight forward approach to influence z/OS DASD allocations has turned into an internals class for this function. I created an Esoteric with 8 DASD device numbers assigned to it. The volumes on these 8 devices all have the same amount of free space,

z/VM and SuSE Linux Ver 8

2006-05-12 Thread Raymond Noal
Dear Lists: Our z/VM and Linux testing goes in about 6 month cycles. The last time we used SuSE Linux under z/VM, we had z/VM 5.1. We are now using z/VM 5.2 at the 0501 RSU maintenance level. All of a sudden now (?), we can no longer connect to our Linux virtual machines using PuTTY. The

ISPF - CS

2006-05-03 Thread Raymond Noal
Dave, (and list) I tried to download and install the WSA.exe file to my PC. I downloaded the member ISPGUINX (assuming this is the Windows version) from the ISP.SISPGUI data set. Renamed the downloaded file to ISPGUINX.EXE and then double clicked on the renamed file. I receive an error message

ISPF - CS

2006-05-03 Thread Raymond Noal
List, Thanks to all who responded. I had to copy my AUTOEXEC.NT file into the path that the install program was using. In my case, it was not a matter of the AUTOEXEC.NT file being incorrect or not setting some variable/condition for a DOS environment, it was more that the file could not be

Assigning Device Numbers to an Esoteric

2006-04-20 Thread Raymond Noal
Dear List: On my z/OS 1.6 system I am trying to create a new esoteric name using the HCD. On the Assign/Unassign Devices to Esoteric HCD panel, I am given a list of devices by device groups. Is there any way to have this HCD panel display only single device numbers similar to the I/O Device

Re: 3390-9 in the IOCP Gen.

2006-04-06 Thread Raymond Noal
Howard, Unless you specify the device model as a comment in the HCD panel(s) when you define your 3390s, there is no way that I know of to distinguish the model type within the HCD. The HCD only specifies generic device type information - i.e. 3390 (all models), 3390A and 3390B (for Base and

Large SMF Data Set Allocation

2006-03-29 Thread Raymond Noal
Juan, To allocate a 10,000 cylinder data set for SMF use, the data set has to be SMS managed and you will need to use DATACLASS and STORAGECLASS parameters in your DEFINE CLUSTER control cards for IDCAMS. The DATACLASS you use must specify the extended format option as either preferred and/or

MSg IEC614I and the virtual ENTER Key.

2006-03-22 Thread Raymond Noal
Dear list, I may have found a glitch in DASDM RENAME processing where the system only allows for RENAME processing to be via PDF/ISPF and not through batch. I receive message IEC614I with return/reason code values and when research these values you find -

Re: Basic question on deleting datasets

2006-01-30 Thread Raymond Noal
Rex, If you only have a single disk pack of data sets to process you could use the data set list option in TSO / ISPF and specify only the vol-ser of the volume in question. This will list all data sets on the volume if they are cataloged or not. You can then delete any data set you so desire. If

Re: 3270 Session Manager survey

2005-12-02 Thread Raymond Noal
Bruce, BlueZone from Seagull Software (formerly known as Renex) is a TN3270/E application for Window based platforms and it also includes a session manager as part of the install. They also offer a free FTP application and BlueZone also supports scripting. I've used BlueZone for over 10+

Re: FTP issues

2005-11-30 Thread Raymond Noal
Thirumurugan, I would suggest that you take a backup of your source PDS using IEBCOPY and then process the IEBCOPY backup using IBM's DTERSE (pack) program to create a file that is safe to FTP. Then FTP the output of the DTERSE program to your other system. Once the DTERSE'ed file has been

Exporting RMF DDS data to MS EXCEL

2005-10-03 Thread Raymond Noal
Dear List, Are any of you exporting data from the RMF DDS (Distributed Data Server) into Microsoft EXCEL? When I try it using z/OS 1.6 and EXCEL 2003 (MS OFFICE), the following error occurs - Has anyone else encountered this problem? HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Lab Manager, San

Re: IMBED in R8

2005-09-28 Thread Raymond Noal
Skip, What is the 'supplied utility' you are referring to? HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Lab Manager, San Diego Facility Office: (858) 537 - 3268 Cell: (858) 248 - 1172 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Skip

Re: IBM and gaming

2005-09-15 Thread Raymond Noal
I don't recall if MFT ever had TSO. I know it had CRJE. Anyone care to guess what CRJE stands for?? ;-O HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Lab Manager, San Diego Facility Office: (858) 537 - 3268 Cell: (858) 248 - 1172 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

What is CRJE

2005-09-15 Thread Raymond Noal
CRJE - Conversational Remote Job Entry - RIGHT!! Frank Krueger wins the Cigar. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Lab Manager, San Diego Facility Office: (858) 537 - 3268 Cell: (858) 248 - 1172 -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: PPRC Interface

2005-09-15 Thread Raymond Noal
Mark, AFAIK, there is no IBM supplied interface within ISPF for PPRC functions. But, at the risk of offending list-server protocols, HDS does have an application called BCM (Business Continuity Manager) that is written in REXX that runs under ISPF and supports TrueCopy (sync and async pairs) and

Re: Recatalog IODF

2005-08-24 Thread Raymond Noal
This should work for System B: DEFINE CLUSTER (NAME(SYS1.IODF00) - VOL(XX) LINEAR RECATALOG) And when you want to remove the entry from System B do a DELETE - NOSCRATCH. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Lab Manager, San Diego Facility Office: (858) 537 - 3268 Cell:

Auto re-IPL

2005-08-23 Thread Raymond Noal
OK, I would like to add my $0.02 to this thread. soapbox You may want to consider the old adage of be careful what you ask for, you may get it may apply to this topic. Consider if you will, something happened to z/OS that was sever enough to cause a wait state and/or stand-alone dump to

TSO/REXX Question

2005-08-11 Thread Raymond Noal
Dear TSO/REXX gurus - I am more familiar with REXX under z/VM CMS and in this environment there is a statement - VMFCLEAR - that you can use to clear the terminal screen for additional output and not cause the screen display to 'scroll'. Is there an equivalent command/function available under

Re: Updating the Esoteric Table

2005-08-02 Thread Raymond Noal
Robert, You should be able to update your system dynamically by making your changes to the ESOTERICs and then issue the z/OS command - ACTIVATE IODF=XX,SOFT This does imply that you built a new IODF that is different from your current IODF but you do not need to actually rebuild a new IOCDS.

Re: The secret to multi-volume, non-SMS, DASD allocations?

2005-07-28 Thread Raymond Noal
Steve, If by 'SYSDA' you are referring to the esoteric name assigned to your DASD device numbers, you can use the HCD to display/modify the device numbers associated with the esoteric name of SYSDA. I believe this is kept in the EDT (Eligible Device Table) for z/OS which is part of the IODF for

Re: Releasing 510RES from system

2005-07-07 Thread Raymond Noal
Not knowing why you would want to attach 510RES to MAINT, have you considered using the virtual full pack mini-disk address of 123 (usually) which is already defined for MAINT. Do a Q V 123 from MAINT. I doubt that you will be able to detach this volume from a running system. HITACHI DATA

Re: Releasing 510RES from system

2005-07-07 Thread Raymond Noal
Erik, If MAINT is still logged on and you have an exact duplicate of your 510RES system available on another volume, you should be able to DDR COPY the first few cylinders from your new volume to your currently running 510RES volume and again use the virtual full volume device number of 123 for

Re: SMS monitor and report

2005-06-16 Thread Raymond Noal
Wang, Have you checked into using the Data Set option on ISMF? There are several parameters you can specify as to how ISMF will generate a data set report for you. Hope this helps. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Lab Manager, San Diego Facility Office: (858) 537 - 3268 Cell: (858) 248

Problem with z/VM TCP/IP

2005-06-14 Thread Raymond Noal
Cross posted to both lists for all you TCP/IP gurus out there. After starting TCP/IP under z/VM and then doing a NETSTAT DEVLINKS command, the response shows that the OSA device 0B0-0B1 is Waiting for start pkt. I assume this means that TCP/IP is starting its protocol with the OSA card in the

TCP/IP Guest Lan Configuration

2005-06-13 Thread Raymond Noal
Dear List(s): I'm trying to set up a VM GUEST LAN to be used for our z/Linux virtual machines. I do seem to be able to convince TCP/IP on how to do this. Here is a copy of my PROFILE TCPIP file: DEVICE OSA0 LCS 00B0 00048 LINK ETH0 ETHERNET 0 OSA0 00049 00050 DEVICE ZVMLAN1 OSD 10B0 PORTNAME

Re: Additional DASD devices

2005-06-07 Thread Raymond Noal
It sounds like you told the HCD to allocate the UCB's below the line as opposed to above. Check your specifications for the STK DASD you mention. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Lab Manager, San Diego Facility Office: (858) 537 - 3268 Cell: (858) 248 - 1172 -Original Message-

HSM Migrage Message ARC1208I

2005-06-06 Thread Raymond Noal
Dear List, More fun and games with SMS / HSM - I created a 10GB (yes, Giga-) data set and then tried to migrate (HMIG) it to HSM level-1 DASD. I received for my efforts the ARC1208I message with return code 8 and reason code 0010. This states that I tried to migrate a data set that is greater

FW: JOB card error - it has me stumped.

2005-05-31 Thread Raymond Noal
Mark, You have a comma after the 'programmer name' (COMP SEARCH PARMS, in your case) which is indicating a continuation. Column 72 has nothing to do with indicating a continuation in your example. Using Col. 72 to indicate continuation was the old format for JCL. Now, if you end the text in a JCL

DFSMS/HSM

2005-05-31 Thread Raymond Noal
Dear List, Is there a programmatically way using REXX to interface with ISMF, specifically to inquire about the current values for a storage group's allocation and percentage of available free space? TIA HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Lab Manager, San Diego Facility Office: (858) 537

Re: FTP.DATA

2005-05-31 Thread Raymond Noal
Howard, Check your PROCLIB procedure for stating FTP. Ours looks like this: snip The SYSFTPD DD statement is optional. The search order for FTP.DATA is:

DFSMS / HSM Inquiry

2005-05-31 Thread Raymond Noal
Dear list, Since I can not find a dedicated list for HSM users, let me ask this prestigious list of users - Is there any way that a user can influence which volume(s) HSM chooses for migration processing - SETSYS / DEFINE statements, User HSM Exits? I have done due diligence in the RTFM

Listserver for DFSMS/HSM

2005-05-27 Thread Raymond Noal
Dear List, Is there a list server for IBM's DFSMS / HSM topics? TIA HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Lab Manager, San Diego Facility Office: (858) 537 - 3268 Cell: (858) 248 - 1172 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Rexx Question

2005-05-26 Thread Raymond Noal
Ray, Did you consider using DATE('B')//7 which will give you an answer of 0 thru 6, for Monday thru Sunday, respectively? HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Lab Manager, San Diego Facility Office: (858) 537 - 3268 Cell: (858) 248 - 1172 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Appreciations to those who responded

2005-05-26 Thread Raymond Noal
My thanks and appreciation to those of you who responded to my last two posts regarding CMS / XEDIT maximums and how to create a new member in an existing PDS data set. This list is just great. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Lab Manager, San Diego Facility Office: (858) 537 - 3268

TSO/E REXX

2005-05-24 Thread Raymond Noal
To all you TSO/E - Rexx gurus: Doesn't REXX under TSO/E have a function similar to REXX under CMS (which I am more accustomed to) for storing/retrieving variable data across REXX routine invocations? In REXX under CMS you have the LASTING GLOBALV option for the VALUE function which lets you save

First time for everything

2005-05-20 Thread Raymond Noal
Hello List, OK, first time to try this and I have an up-front question for you TSO / Rexx gurus: I want to create a new PDS (not PDSE) member in an existing PDS that already has members. I plan on creating the new member name via my REXX logic. My question is how to bridge the gap between my