--snip
Getting back to the comment about the proliferation of ( usually wintel)
single application servers. In my experience, this occurred because
different business units liked having and controlling their own
---snip--
They're not as prevalent as they once were, but each IBM branch has (or
has access to) an Environmental specialist. They're a good resource and
will assist as much as you can stand. Power, HVAC, water, ventilation,
snip
I've just ran into a situation where I could really use some new
systemsymbols in JCL. In a batch job, we can basically only use
SYSUID in the JCL. I could use two more, and I don't think that they
would introduce any
snip-
Who remembers acronyms?
---unsnip-
We all do, even though we don't often realise it. I still remember some
that I haven't used in 35+ years, like TDY, COMUSMACV, Ma Deuce, SOG.
Use
-snip
Call me lazy...I save keystrokes whenever and wherever I can...as I am a
slow typist!
-unsnip-
Typing isn't the only thing you do slowly, Bob. g, d r
--
--snip---
It appears that some kind of monitor of 3rd party software usage could
be used to create competitive upgrades to their license fees.
-unsnip---
If you'll
--snip--
And as vain and self centered as I am, I'm not so much to use facebook
or twitter.
--unsnip-
HURRAY! Good sense prevails. :-)
--
Rick
--
-snip
Doesn't GRS-Ring?
I know GRS* does not; I thought Ring did, though.
--unsnip--
Not sure but IIRC, GRS Ring requires at least a Basic Sysplex
--
Rick
--snip-
Anyone running a program called EDVPARM? A consultant is trying to
convince us to install this program to an authorized library with AC(1).
Looking at the source concerns me. It appears that you can pass it a
--snip---
You are allowed take the initiative and think independently/creatively.
--unsnip-
NOT IN THIS SHOP!!! If you're anything more than an unthinking robot,
you're likely to
--snip--
I believe referenced usually means OPENED. I had a similar problem a few
years back when we IPL'ed a system that had not been down in about 6
months. HSM came up first, and deleted some files related to Netview.
-snip
I put up a blog post asking What (More) Open Source Software Do You
Want for z/OS? It's an open invitation to post your wishlist, along
with as much information as you can provide about why particular open
source
When they ask for All the heavy users of CPU time, but don't specify
what a heavy user actually is, to me, then the only option is to show
all the CPU users, in descending order of CPU time vs. wall-clock. Wayu
too often, this runs to several pages, just because of the nature of the
workload.
Larry, if that JCL is all in PDS's, you might try the PDSUPDTE program
from the CBTTAPE site. It's fast, easy to use and relatively effective.
Blowing my own horn here; I wrote it. :-)
-
Brown, Larry - St.
--snip
What needs to be done to move a VSAM dataset from Prod lpar to Test lpar.
---unsnip---
If you are truly MOVING the cluster, a simple EXPORT on the PROD LPAR,
I don't know if BDAM was updated to use Format-1 CCWs, but IIRC, BDAM
went Class-C on maintenance before the Format-1 CCW existed. This could
be considered a definite drawback for any new application considering
its use.
Edward Jaffe wrote:
Tom Russell wrote:
This does not match my
IIRC, CLASS-C Maintenance meant that old faults would be repaired but
that there would be no further updates to account for hardware or OS
upgrades.
Patrick O'Keefe wrote:
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:44:23 -0500, Rick Fochtman
rfocht...@ync.net wrote:
... IIRC, BDAM went Class-C
Maybe because BDAM as a far shorter instruction path, consequently
using far less CPU time. And a LOT of people find it easier to use than
VSAM. It's good stuff, but also easily misused.
esst...@juno.com wrote:
In to days Z/OS environment is BDAM faster than VSAM. I understand that IBM
does
Some shops call that Promotion to the sidewalk.
Barrett, Dennis wrote:
Very funny.
In every shop I've ever worked, such creative genius would earn you the
title of Former Employee.
Dennis Barrett
-Original Message-
From: Elardus Engelbrecht
-snip---
It seems to be saying that the System/360 was the first mainframe. What
is the definition of mainframe being used here?
unsnip-
Apperantly someone doesn't consider
snip
I have been given a distasteful task. TPTB have decided that test
jobswill only be allowed to run for a maximum of 2 hours of WALL CLOCK
time. The only way that I've determined to do this is to set ESTIME
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Petersen, Jim
. . .. They also found that Omegamon was going to take 3 full time
people just to do the customization of Omegagmon and maintain it.
^
Freudian
snip
Steve Horein wrote:For those that keep track, yesterday I had the sad
duty of shutting down our z/OS environment for the last time. Ours
wasn't a big shop with a single z890 running 2 LPARs (one Production and
one
--snip-
Perhaps there is more to the emulation of CKD than the thread touches
on. Disk Drives stopped recording in CYLS some time ago because the time
for head switching is greater than the minimum seek time. Drives today
Dave, I wish you the best of luck, either in maintaining your position
or finding a new one. Friends always.
Dave Cartwright wrote:
We turned our mainframe off yesterday. Z9BC running zOS 1.4 (yes! Had a 1.7
system ready, but there didn't seem any point). I didn't know whether to
continue
No. Just use the PostProcessor control statements to pick out what you need.
Lieven Borgs wrote:
Hello,
Is it possible to load RMF records (SMF type 7x) that are in a VBS dataset to a
RMF vsam file so I can use the RMF monitor to look for some info?
Lieven
---snip---
Tell me about it.
The ax fell on Friday, for me it's the second time in less then 18 months.
Banking industry is in trouble all around.
---unsnip-
Sorry
---snip-
Well, if IBM's new DASD architecture were manufactured in the same
manner as previous DASD devices, you would have 278,921,216 tracks
on each surface. What diameter do you think such platters would be?
How long would it take
--snip---
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
---snip--
P S wrote:
Well, I'm showing my RACF ignorance in a big way, obviously! That
doesn't bother me, I can take it.
The issue is code that currently generates some data objects (they're
all small) and caches them in HFS.
--snip-
I used CNV because it allows the function two work for all three file
types (ESDS, KSDS, RRDS).
unsnip--
IIRC, the RESET option only works if the cluster is
snip-
No, definition of arbitrary objects in RACF is NOT an option
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the intent here, but why can't you define an
'arbitrary object' in the ichrrcde?
One of the constraints you'll see is that IDMS can't write to the LOG
file fast enough. A reduction in overall capacity will adversely affect
IDMS's ability to respond to application calls, whether online or batch,
in a timely manner.
Adams, Tracy wrote:
Okay, this is a continuation of a
IIRC, it was used to allocate space on a DASD volume. Been a LOOONG
time, so I may be wong.
Paul Schuster wrote:
Does anyone know what this SVC does? The diag ref manual only says 'reserved'.
Thank you.
Paul
--
For
snip--
Is there a standard z/OS tool to initialize a VSAM file?
unsnip---
No.
---snip-
If yes, what are kind of datasets are in your CSVLLAXX member? Source,
proclib, loadlibs or?
---unsnip---
In my CSVLLAxx I have the main ISPF Panel library and my main production
--
Having grown up in farm country, I can tell you that domestic turkeys
are the absolute stupidest creatures on God's green Earth! You wouldn't
believe it unless you saw it!
The wild turkey is
Having grown up in farm country, I can tell you that domestic turkeys
are the absolute stupidest creatures on God's green Earth! You wouldn't
believe it unless you saw it!
Schlueter, Edward wrote:
As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!
- Arthur Carlson, WKRP in Cincinnati
---snip-
Another question. If I do a pack to pack copy do I still need to put the
ipl record on the new pack or will those copy too?thanks
unsnip--
I strongly recommend that you
Jim, IEHDASDR never KNEW about VIO. If you acquire the OS/360 source
from the CBTTAPE web site, IEHDASDR is included. Standalone Dump
Generation is, I believe, also present. Perhaps that will give you a clue.
IIRC, Stand Alone Dump generation created a complete jobstream that
contain IPL text
I hope you're one that gets picked up, Lionel. Jobs are rather scarce
these days, as I've learned to my detriment. Good luck to you...
--
Rick
--
Remember that if you’re not the lead dog, the view never changes.
snip---
There is also another side issue I have experienced myself. in the it is
extremely common to search proclib for a dest= (for production and
non production) chances are with your way moving it to
---snip-
daver++ wrote:
From: Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net
Steve, to the best of my knowledge, the only requirements(?) are common
sense, working with z/OS, good sportsmanship and professional behavior.
While
Steve, to the best of my knowledge, the only requirements(?) are common
sense, working with z/OS, good sportsmanship and professional behavior.
Most of us frown on personal attacks, name-calling or off-color language
and off-topic posts. And I believe we have far more lurkers than
posters.
--snip--
Good evening IBM-MAIN,
Is anybody using Batch Pipes in production? Does the product really
expedite execution of multi-step jobs? Is this a robust product for
processing millions of records per day? Any gotchas with
Is there no way to prevent journalling of these actions? Perhaps there
should be such a mechanism, perhaps under RACF control in the FACILITY
class. Perhaps a way to disable journalling a complete run of FIXCDS?
Sounds like a possible requirement here.
--
Rick
--
Remember that if you’re not
I disagree, Ed. Reading a list of destinations from a parmlib-type
dataset can be the easiest, and best way, to handle this situation. But
updates to this dataset should be controled and audited, just like a
PROCLIB or any other control-related library. Make provision for
comments in the
You may have had some exceptionally long RESERVEs on the Checkpoint from
another system is the MAX-plex.
George Rodriguez wrote:
Yesterday, the system started displaying the following messages on
SYSLOG for z/os v1.4:
$HASP9212 MVS NOT DISPATCHING JES2 MAIN TASK DURATION 000:01:55:09
Have you IPL'd the system after installing your exit? IIRC, you need to
do so.
Tommy Tsui wrote:
Hi all,
After I installed exit ICHPWX11 and copy the REXX IRRPHREX into
SYS1.SAXREXEC but I didn't works. I try to turn on the debug='ON
..but nothing showsanything I miss?
ICH525I
Jack, IIRC I was told that RACF templates are downward compatable. Why
not just re-INIT your current RACF DB from the new level system, using
the new level templates, and leave it at that?
I've done that for years, ever since RACF 1.4, and NEVER experienced a
problem when a back-level system
Used it only to terminate displays and V xx-xxx,OFFLINE. no bad
experiences. It's a Godsend when operators have brain-checks, or
finger-checks.
I would strongly suggest that GRS-related commands be at the top of the
list for exemption from termination. With the exception of display commands.
--snip-
Is there any RACF password rule that can validate the password cannot be
a part of USERID? or only write a user exit to implement it?
--unsnip---
I used an exit to
snip
Yikes,
Should I be scared of this? Externalizing the password rules in REXX?
Seems to make it too easy to collect passwords.
---unsnip-
You can always use RACF to
snip---
IMHO: exits as a subspecies are evil critters. They become an ongoing
maintenance challenge and tend to attract unwelcome attention from
auditors. Exits are hard to write, hard to stress test, and introduce a
level
headache for its
inheritors. 5% of my experiences involved exits where the original author
was still available...
Jaded. :-(
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf
Of Rick Fochtman
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 12:34 PM
Jim, would you please elaborate on the values placed in that field?
---snip---
I have not found any such documentation. z/OS does set the TOD
Programmable Register so that within a sysplex, each system has a unique
value.
I think I speak for many of us here when I offer my deepest condolences
to family and colleagues. He was a fine gentlemen and a valued friend.
Jim Mulder wrote:
Sadly, I must report the death of Bob Wright, a frequent contributor to
IBM-MAIN, and the
author of IPCS.
Dan, you might also want to take a hard look at FDRDRP. When we
installed and implemented it, our restore time at DR went from 3 hours
to under 1 hour. Depending on your particular mix of full volumes and
incrementals, you MIGHT experience similar benefits. YMMV.
I've always used Optimized PL/1 for these sorts of requests. It took me
a while but I created PL/1 Structures for the various SMF records as
needed; that was the hard part. After that, I used PL/1 to create quite
a number of reports in a fairly short time: program usage statistics,
ABEND
There isn't one.
גדי בן אבי wrote:
I know about IDCAMS, but the user wants a pure JCL solution.
Gadi
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Mike Shorkend
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 2:17 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Deleting a discrete profile entails resetting some bits in the Format-1
DSCB. When you specify NOSET, this process is bypassed and no access to
VTOC entries is required.
Bri P wrote:
Thanks for that, Ulrich - that worked!
Why did it work? What's going on 'under the covers' there?
Brian
Just go ahead and DO IT. We've been doing it for years with nary a
problem or issue. Shared Spool, aka MAS, works very well. You MIGHT need
to adjust your checkpoint reserve times, keeping them short.
Ron Wells wrote:
z/os 1.9
not sharing spool yet.wanting to between DEVL and PROD lpar
We've never found any need to use USS beyond what the OS requires, for
TCP/IP, etc. We use very little C/C++; most of the distributed
applications are written in JAVA, on various SUN platforms.
P S wrote:
Do folks care about USS? That is, do most z/OS shops actually use
USS for anything
snip---
Yea... I should have said generally used. And perhaps slightly less
than 20 years. In an offline conversation I just had with Art, I had to
look back at my resume to be sure. My first exposure to MVS was MVS SP
1.3 in
Carlos Cordero wrote:
Colleagues,
Somebody knows if there is an alternate way to proctect a password of a userid, this means that the
userId is for a GroupWise application; but as always happen, this user sometimes is used to try to
signin to the platform (this must be not allowed by
snip--
I have discovered we have been experiencing high disconnect time to most
our LCUs/DASDs due to NORMAL/RANDOM read CACHE misses (only 50% hit
ratio). I have read somewhere that NORMAL read normally is not
recommended for
As far as I know, the only date information you can get is to list the
ALIAS entry in the catalog and see when it was defined. If you can find
any datasets defined under that alias, you can use the Dataset Audit
Facility from the CBT site to look through SMF for references. A VTOC
list or
--snip-
You may find that Sequential IO cache benefits are something of an
illusion. While cache is involved, the benefit actually comes from the
pre-fetch process, where the storage controller is fetching tracks
asynchronous to the
-snip---
Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 15:10:21 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote:
r 00,'DATE=.ddd,CLOCK=hh.mm.ss,UTC|GMT'
Does specifying UTC on this command actually adjust the value
--snip-
The problem is that i want to extract the SYSIN info from jobs that were
submited long ago, so their outputs are no longer in the spool. Anyway,
i do not want to simply read or see the information, I want to
--snip
We are z/OS V1R9. I won't go into the sequence of events that happen
this weekend, but we had a problem with the timestamp in the couple
datasets and the system time mismatch ( we know how that happen) and we
--snip
Ed Gould wrote:
_SNIP__
(Frank Yaeger) wrote:
I have done a couple of conversions but that was
more than 10 years
ago so anything I write could be out of date so
---snip--
OK bad design, we have lot of cack here, probably due to hiring cheap
programmers, any way, I digress.
Here s the SDSF summary:
PREFIX=GCSPROCP DEST=(ALL) OWNER=* SYSNAME=FMVS
NP DDNAME STEPNAME PROCSTEP DSID OWNER
snip
Ted MacNEIL wrote:
I don't use this word very often (I don't swear very often), and at the risk of
being barred from this forum:
You are a total ASSHOLE!
--snip
While auditing RACF reports came across few userids for which the Last
access date is older than 300 days but still the userid is Active. SETR
INACTIVE 90 has been set. What could be the issue ? Z/OS ver is 1.7.
-snip---
Rick,
Thanks for the reminder. Wow, 8 years ago. Time flies Back on topic:
Anyone experience any downside to specifying the maximum?
Bob
--unsnip-
The only downside I
--snip
R.S. wrote:
Eric Bielefeld pisze:
I'm almost hesitant to ask this, as this is something that should
have been dealt with over a decade ago, but is there any difference
in having SYS1.UADS as 80 byte records or 172 byte
-snip--
Tom Marchant wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:36:19 -0600, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:53:45 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote:
Maybe. If the gener abends, the XMIT group will be kept. If it fails with
a
---snip---
By far the best snapshot monitor is IMON
http://www.prycroft6.com.au/IMON/index.html
Very easy to use, very inexpensive. You could say, what I like is the PRICE!
---snip---
I looked at the JES2 Init and Tuning Reference manual and it indicates
that the default value is 2, not 10. 10 is the maximum value that
can be specified.
I would be interested in the rationale from anyone who has the maximum
-snip--
I'm almost hesitant to ask this, as this is something that should have
been dealt with over a decade ago, but is there any difference in having
SYS1.UADS as 80 byte records or 172 byte records? Any real advantages?
--snip-
We are using 3390-3's for all our local page datasets and one of our
systems is needing additional paging space. i know the ROT is to keep
all the page datasets the same size but we are running short of mod-3's.
Is there
snip
I would like to submit a job from a VM system to one MVS system, have it
expand a JCL PROC, and submit those JCL statements to another MVS system.
That way I don't have to duplicate the PROCLIB across the different MVS
systems.
-snip--
.Wall Street is a joke.
-unsnip--
Except that it long ago ceased to be funny HA HA and became funny
PECULIAR.
--
Rick
--
Remember that if you’re not the lead dog, the view never
---snip-
Colleagues, follow up this problem
Yes, the user for both purpose is the same (so as to execute the DEF
through IDCAMS and run in the command line the DEF command)
Separate, review the IKJTSOnn members on every Host and LPAR
-snip-
Hi Folks,
I've got a product (CA-Allocate) that allows dynamic increasing of
the allocation of System Temporary datasets. This current state.
As I move to SMS, I see that only a STORCLAS is assigned for these.
If I
---snip-
The thing that's always bugged me about GDG files is they way they are
selected starting with the highest gen # first down to the lowest if you
specify the GDG-base name on a DD.
--snip--
Swoyer makes some good observations ...
http://www.esj.com/news/article.aspx?EditorialsID=3475
An interesting phrase in there: freshly minted IT pros. I was
freshly minted 30-something years ago, but I sure wasn't a pro.
-snip
Total agreement! What I wish were a possibility would be an totally new
construct with similar semantics to a GDG. But the LLQ would somehow
encode the creation date time (perhaps to the nearest second). No, I
don't know
--snip--
Well... if the system allowed larger limits then we'd probably use them.
GDG catalog processing has always been something of a kludge (my
opinion... sorry if you're lurking, Mark). GDG sphere records are too
big for their own
--snip-
We're definitely talking huge $$, here. MXG is an EXPENSIVE $1500/annum
as a site licence. How many multi-millions site can affor such an outlay?
---unsnip---
What about the cost
--snip
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman
You should have seen how they were managed in a CVOL environment!
Chewing gum, bailing wire, spit a and LOT of prayers! . . .
So, does
--snip-
I have a problem.
In my environment, i have same volser per tape a disk. When I submit a
job, during the allocation of unit, I have this message:
Statement JCL of JOB
//SYDD DSN=SYSG.ACS.BACV.SSIGB2R0.DMSC.S2009016.T235759,
Query: why not run everything in BATME group and be done with it? The
(admittedly rare) online transactions won't be affected and you'll se a
better balance of CPU SHARING. ??
Reza Heydarpour wrote:
Rick,
without a lot more information about the overall workload, it's
very hard to make
Obviously, security awareness is not a high priority at IRS. They seem
to be more interested in audits, etc. :-)
Kopischke, David G. wrote:
From SearchDataCenter today
IRS MAINFRAME NOT SECURE ENOUGH, GOVERNMENT REPORT SAYS
Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
The federal Government
Reza, without a lot more information about the overall workload, it's
very hard to make any projections or suggestions.
-snip
Also,
What other products are being used (or are you using) to optimize batch jobs?
Are they good?
Worth
Please have a look at this scenario:
CICS of organization A is connected (LU6.2 Connection) to CICS
oforganization B. No problem with that. I looked into the CDRM and
found some other application of organization B defined in VTAMLST of
oranization A. Tried LOGON APPLID(xxx) and gpt the GMtran
-snip--
I'm sorry I can't help myself!
Many years ago, we had a quite a bit of Series/1 equipment, which was
largely customer set up.
Once I needed to move an attachment card from one cpu to another. As was
their want, IBM charged a
I resemble being called Extinct, under any title. There's still a
place for usDinos who prize nice tight code that accomplishes the
required purpose. :-)
Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Ed
snip-
I just IPL'd z/OS 1.9 for the first time. I've been waiting for about 35
minutes after the IPL messages stopped coming out for JES2 to issue a message.
If I do a D A,L, it shows JES2 as running, and a bunch of tasks starting,
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