Re: SETLOCK OBTAIN

2012-05-23 Thread Ron MacRae
Sorry should have added. My situation, multiple SRBs in a single address space, some of which might be non-dispatchable, doesn't appear to match any of the subcodes of the S073 abend. I suspect this will be some variant of s073 but not 100% sure. Ron. --

SETLOCK OBTAIN

2012-05-23 Thread Ron MacRae
Hi all, I have the following piece of code running on many SRBs to give serialisation. SETLOCK OBTAIN, TYPE=CML,ASCB=(11), PRIMARY ADDRESS SPACE MODE=UNCOND,

Co-existance of z/OS and z/VM on same DASD farm

2012-05-16 Thread Ron MacRae
that VM will only touch the 6 volumes it is given at install time. Regards, Ron MacRae. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Backlevel IPCS issue at z/OS 1.13

2012-03-12 Thread Ron MacRae
Mark, Your CLIST is almost identical to my REXX exec. Except I have to push the TSOLIB command onto the stack as it won't run under rexx, even with an address TSO in front, and I therefore also push "ISPF" as well. I tried typing in your commands at the TSO ready prompt. Still no joy I

Backlevel IPCS issue at z/OS 1.13

2012-03-09 Thread Ron MacRae
Hi all, I've got a REXX exec that sets up an IPCS environment for z/OS levels other than my current release. We have SYSRES volumes for every release but don't have all the levels IPLed. With this REXX exec I can select a version of IPCS modules/panels/ for every release of z/OS fro

date message in jes log

2011-05-10 Thread Ron MacRae
Hi all, I hope someone can clear up some confusion on my part. In the jes log for running jobs and stcs messages are produced of the format - 18.36.58 STC01465 SATURDAY, 30 APR 2011 ...snip... 00.00.05 STC01465 SUNDAY,01 MAY 2011 ...snip... 00.00.05 STC01465

Re: Data Areas for z/OS 1.10

2009-09-04 Thread Ron MacRae
Shane, Thanks. I've downloaded the Data Areas manuals, but as you say they're a) PDF and b) not indexed into Librarian/reader, although I guess I can build an index too. Perhaps someone in IBM, or anyone else in the know, can comment on - Why the Data Areas stuff was dropped from Softo

Re: Data Areas for z/OS 1.10

2009-09-04 Thread Ron MacRae
On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 15:15:45 +0200, Leopold Strauss wrote: >Look at this: > >http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/Shelves/IEA2BK91? FS=TRUE > Leo, That's exactly what I don't want to use as it's slow and poorly formatted. I want to be able to download the books to my PC and

Data Areas for z/OS 1.10

2009-09-04 Thread Ron MacRae
helf or renamed or is the only place you can get them on the online book manager site as HTML? That's not much use as it's s slow and the format is poor. Regards, Ron MacRae -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

CEEDUMP Interruption Code

2009-06-19 Thread Ron MacRae
Hi all, I'm trying to debug an S0C4 from a JAVA program from a CEEDUMP. I'm more familiar with SYSMDUMPs etc. I'm getting - Current Condition: CEE3204S The system detected a protection exception (System Completion Code=0C4). and Machine State:

Re: peripheral: thoughts on Amazon Kindle DX & PDFs

2009-06-17 Thread Ron MacRae
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:41:35 -0500, McKown, John wrote: >The newest Kindle DX from Amazon can be used to store and read normal PDF manuals. I am considering this device and loading all my z/OS manuals onto it instead of lugging around a laptop or other, larger, device. It also seems that it wo

Re: Anyone heard of a company called TIBCO ?

2008-08-28 Thread Ron MacRae
and I'll find someone who can help you. (If you are looking for an unbiased opinion on the company then I guess you'll need to go elsewhere, the website mentions quite a few customers.) Regards, Ron MacRae, ex Amdahl, ex Softek, ex Fujitsu, ex ObjectStar

How to allocate multiple uncataloged datasets?

2008-05-09 Thread Ron MacRae
L2) shr" doesn't work. If I allocate either file individually I get the correct, uncataloged, files allocated. If I allocate both together I get the cataloged versions. What am I doing wrong? How do you allocate multiple uncatalog

Re: How fast is XCF

2008-04-22 Thread Ron MacRae
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:21:44 +0200, Barbara Nitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If you're running a sysplex, it is always a good idea to tune XCF (as far as that goes), but keep in mind that my response time numbers are for the ISGLOCK structure. We monitor that because it transfers almost no data

Re: How fast is XCF

2008-04-22 Thread Ron MacRae
he best I would get, in which case why bother and just stick with TCPIP. >From the numbers you quote it seems it is possible for XCF to significantly outperform TCPIP, which is the question I was asking, so it is going to be worth my company's time to investigage further why our XCF

Re: How fast is XCF

2008-04-21 Thread Ron MacRae
ommunications between LPARs or would TCPIP do just as well for that? Regards, Ron MacRae. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN IN

How fast is XCF

2008-04-20 Thread Ron MacRae
with dedicated hardware etc we could get it in line with TCPIP but even if we tune things to the Nth degree and throw hardware at the issue what sort of response times can we hope to see? Regards, Ron MacRae. -- For IBM-MAIN subsc

Re: A new low in e-mail disclaimers (Was Re: Z9 Upgrade)

2008-02-15 Thread Ron MacRae
Just be greatfull it's a URL and the whole document is not in the email!! Ron. On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:44:20 +0200, Sarel Swanepoel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >NB: This email and its contents are subject to our email legal notice >which can be viewed at http://www.sars.gov.za/Email_Disclaimer.pd

SQL size limitation

2007-10-22 Thread Ron MacRae
hink DSNHPC generates dumb code. Before I take this to IBM have others been down this path before, and if so what joy did you get? Regards, Ron MacRae. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, se

Re: Why is not AIX ported to z/Series?

2007-08-03 Thread Ron MacRae
OSB as their gateway to all thing mainframe from the wierd world, which I'm slowly being dragged into kicking and screaming. Ron MacRae, ex Amdahl, ex Fujitsu, ex ObjectStar, currently Tibco. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: IPCS Dump. How can you see the stack?

2007-07-24 Thread Ron MacRae
ll command with lots of options, well worth spending the time to RTFM. There is some stuff in the MVS IPCS commands book and more in the Language Environment Debugging Guide If you need all the specific registers at all levels you need to run the R13 save area chain. Regards, Ron MacRae. On

HSM/RMM tape reuse

2007-01-18 Thread Ron MacRae
he tapes reinitialised, we just want to re-use them. What changes, presumably in RMM, can have caused the ARC0261I msgs to start? Thanks in advance, Ron MacRae -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruction

Re: ISV Anchor Table

2006-08-30 Thread Ron MacRae
it be retro fitted to earlier supported levels? If this is all documented somewhere perhaps you could point me at the doc. Regards, Ron MacRae. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAI

Re: DASD allocation guidelines

2006-02-15 Thread Ron MacRae
Guys, That explains most of my issues. We have some fairly large LRECL FB sequential work files and were finding them unblocked, which increased our I/O quite a bit. So SDB always blocks for maximum capacity, regardless of performance implications. I guess we have to manually block these file

Re: DASD allocation guidelines

2006-02-14 Thread Ron MacRae
pacity. I'm looking for guidelines to determine if SDB is getting it right. Regards, Ron MacRae -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET I

DASD allocation guidelines

2006-02-13 Thread Ron MacRae
Appologies if anyone got this twice, it didn't seem to come through first time. Guys, At the time that real 3390s were replaced by RVA/ICEBERG DASD we threw away all our DASD allocation guidelines on blocksizes and space allocation as RVA compressed the track anyway before storing only the us

Re: Impossible? convert PDF to Book/Manager format?

2005-05-25 Thread Ron MacRae
On Wed, 25 May 2005 09:00:03 -0500, McKown, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <> >> >> It's exactly this kind of 'hidden loophole' stuff that makes >> the Web so >> scary to the uninitiated. I switched off Java scripting, and now Acrobat asks me every time do I want to enable Java scripting. Can I