Re: Debug SVC

2012-07-21 Thread Costin Enache
There is a major difference between the SVC interrupt handler and an interrupt routine. You really don't want to mess with the former at all, and you shouldn't mess with the latter until you understand the SVC types and have some experience writing privileged code. Mea culpa :) I was

Re: BDAM READ with BLKREF of X'0'

2012-07-21 Thread David Stokes
Ok, here is an asm list of a READ macro and expansion with corresponding BDAM options READ PDA_DECB0, - DECB for read DI,123,234,'S',- Read options MF=L - Read l form

Re: Storage utililzation Optimization

2012-07-21 Thread Mike Schwab
Reduce migration thresholds so you scan dasd volumes. If a storage group has low utilization set a few volumes to disable new, migrate the datasets, and return the volumes to spare for other uses. Large sequential datasets place on VTAPE. On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 6:54 AM, mfstorage

Re: Storage utililzation Optimization

2012-07-21 Thread Rob Scott
To reduce current storage shortages, you need to analyze the data returned by IBM's DCOLLECT utility to work out which datasets are over allocated, unreferenced or wasting the most space. There are commercial products that can perform this function for you (including MXI with its Storage

Re: COBOL packed decimal

2012-07-21 Thread John Gilmore
The Unisys 1108, a (36-bit) word machine, was originally the UNIVAC 1108 I (circa 1965) and the UNIVAC 1108 II (circa 1968); and UNIVAC was at that time a division of Sperry Rand. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA, 01721 - USA On 7/20/12, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: Shmuel, Who did the

Re: Storage utililzation Optimization

2012-07-21 Thread Lizette Koehler
Hi, In our ever expanding Storage needs...my management has tasked me to review the storage we are using and targeted a reduction of 10-15% of it by doing necessary cleanup. Can someone suggest the best practices i could follow to achieve this. Thanks, Rahul What products do you

Re: COBOL packed decimal

2012-07-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:43:45 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: Is this because Unisys is deficient in conformance to the standard, or because IBM's implementation contains an extension to the standard? No, it's because UNIVAC used ones complement arithmetic on most of its lines, Including

Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing

2012-07-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:55:28 -0700, John Mattson wrote: Shmuel ! Its amazing how much you contribute without access to a z system. Hope my memory and research is that good when we go off zOS (we're being SAPonified). So, are you on a slippery slope? -- gil

Re: Passwords and user-ids was Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek

2012-07-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 23:22:38 -0300, Clark Morris wrote: If you believe that user-ids should be larger than 7 characters or even 8, then what are the implications for SMF records and various control blocks in z/OS? Many modern products use XML to avoid such hard limits. -- gil

Re: Storage utililzation Optimization

2012-07-21 Thread mfstorage
Thanks for your response all. We have a SMS managed environment having data over 3000TB of disk storage which makes it very complex. SAS+MXG and SAS+MICS ISFM CA Vantage I am now making analysis using the Vantage reports. I shall take the suggestions made and hopefully get good results of it.

Re: Storage utililzation Optimization

2012-07-21 Thread Lizette Koehler
Thanks for your response all. We have a SMS managed environment having data over 3000TB of disk storage which makes it very complex. SAS+MXG and SAS+MICS ISFM CA Vantage I am now making analysis using the Vantage reports. I shall take the suggestions made and hopefully get good

Re: COBOL packed decimal

2012-07-21 Thread Scott Ford
John, Ty, i am more than aware of Unisys and Univac my father worked for them for 37+ yrs as a field engineer. I wasnt sure if the 1108 had come from RCA or Buroughsbtw my father worked on the 1108 hardware   Regards,  Scott J Ford Software Engineer http://www.identityforge.com/  

Re: COBOL packed decimal

2012-07-21 Thread Scott Ford
gil,   Thats the reason I asked ..see my other post. Could say I have a vested interest. My late father Scott J Ford Software Engineer http://www.identityforge.com/   From: Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Saturday, July