Re: ''MVS overhead'' (as indicated by OMEGAMON)

2013-02-21 Thread Jan Vanbrabant
Hi Dave co-listers, 1° Is OMEGAMON capable of drilling down into MVS Overhead ? If not, how can further PD (Problem Detemination) be done? 2° Is the CPU-MF HIS approach based on SMF113 not too long-winded and over-doing? CPU-MF (HIS) NOT being a substitute for traditional performance nor

Re: SV: SV: SV: Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all

2013-02-21 Thread John Gilmore
No, unlike C, which has only pointers to functions, PL/I has procedure variables, which may of course be based, pointed to. A pointer, inclusive of a procedure pointer, should be just a pointer, no different from a pointer to an aggregate or scalar. What that pointer points to may of course have

Re: SV: SV: SV: Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all

2013-02-21 Thread John Gilmore
In my previous post = addr(s) ; is properly sp = addr(s) ; John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO

Re: Low priority workload

2013-02-21 Thread Natasa Savinc
Thank you all for comments. Joel, this is exactly what happens: if our rolling 4-hour MSU average starts with too high numbers in the morning, we are in trouble at noon. Of course that we monitor it and manage it, and constantly working on prevention (Werner, thank you for the idea of assigning

Re: Debug Tool with Subprograms

2013-02-21 Thread Chuck Arney
Donald, I can't help you with Test but you are welcome to install our TDF system for a no charge trial to see how it compares. I'll be happy to work with you directly to ensure you know how to do what you need. Just email me privately and we can get you started. Chuck Arney

DB2 V10 upgrade - SMS allocation failure

2013-02-21 Thread Jim McAlpine
cross posted to DB2-L and IBM-MAIN. I'm trying to run DSNTIJEN to upgrade to DB2 V10 new function but the job is failing on the reorg of SPT01. Following are the SMS messages. IGD17272I VOLUME SELECTION HAS FAILED FOR INSUFFICIENT SPACE FOR 808 DATA SET DB2E.IMAGCOPY.SPT01.D2013052.T125957

Re: [DB2-L] - DB2 V10 upgrade - SMS allocation failure

2013-02-21 Thread Lizette Koehler
Jim Does you SMS definitions have Extended Format Extended Address for the VSAM allocations? I think that is in the DATACLAS definition for this file? Since I do not see a DATACLAS defined, I am guessing it does not. For most of your DB2 files you should have a DATACLAS with Extended Format

Re: Problem with SYSEVENT QVS

2013-02-21 Thread Peter Relson
I think what Gerhard meant is that Jan should have L 15,CVTSRM-CVTMAP(,15) instead of L 15,CVTSRM-CVT(,15) If Gerhard meant that, he would have been incorrect. CVT is the name of the DSECT when CVT DSECT=YES is used. CVTMAP is a name for the beginning as well. I have no idea why it even

Re: [DB2-L] - DB2 V10 upgrade - SMS allocation failure

2013-02-21 Thread Jim McAlpine
Lizette, I thought that was only for the DB2 catalog and directory. This is just for an image copy dataset, does that requires those attributes also ? Jim On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.comwrote: Jim Does you SMS definitions have Extended Format

Re: [DB2-L] - DB2 V10 upgrade - SMS allocation failure

2013-02-21 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Jim, You might want to define a dataclass with the following attributes: Data Set Name Type .large . . . .(EXT, HFS, LIB, PDS, Large or blank) If Ext . . . . . . . . . .(P=Preferred, R=Required or blank) Extended Addressability . . N (Y or N)

Re: [DB2-L] - DB2 V10 upgrade - SMS allocation failure

2013-02-21 Thread John McKown
We don't have DB2, but most of our production DATACLAS entries include Data Space Constraint Release of Yes and a value in Reduce Space Up To. I don't know if these values are compatible with DB2 allocations or not. On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.comwrote:

Re: [DB2-L] - DB2 V10 upgrade - SMS allocation failure

2013-02-21 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Jim, Yes, Ext Add applies to physical sequential as well as VSAM. Dave O'Brien -Original Message- From: Jim McAlpine [mailto:jim.mcalp...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 8:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [DB2-L] - DB2 V10 upgrade - SMS allocation failure

Re: [DB2-L] - DB2 V10 upgrade - SMS allocation failure

2013-02-21 Thread Lizette Koehler
You might also want to consider the DSNTYPE=LARGE if you are going to put this on DASD. And ensure you have sufficient space in the pool. This may prevent future issues. However, as others have pointed out. An Image Copy is probably better on Tape than DASD. But if your shop does not have

DSNTYPE=LARGE with DUMP data sets

2013-02-21 Thread Adams, Anne (DTI)
Hello group: I trying to capture some Brobdingnagian SVC dump, and DUMPSRV keeps failing on space. I'm fairly sure I can increase the size of the dump data set with a DSNTYPE=LARGE but I can't remember how or where that's done. Anne R. Adams DTI, Systems Engineering

Re: DB2 V10 upgrade - SMS allocation failure

2013-02-21 Thread David Devine
Hi Jim, It's this one that's the issue:- IGD17279I 12 VOLUMES WERE REJECTED BECAUSE OF INSUFF TOTAL SPACE Which translates to:- The primary quantity requested was larger than the total capacity of the largest available volume. See z/OS DFSMSdfp Storage Administration for a detailed

Re: DB2 V10 upgrade - SMS allocation failure

2013-02-21 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
You need the dsntype=large due to the Primary allocation. If you reduce the Primary to say 2000 cyls then the allocation should work with just the volcount of 5. -Original Message- From: Jim McAlpine [mailto:jim.mcalp...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 9:45 AM To:

Re: DSNTYPE=LARGE with DUMP data sets

2013-02-21 Thread Mark Jacobs
On 02/21/13 09:22, Adams, Anne (DTI) wrote: Hello group: I trying to capture some Brobdingnagian SVC dump, and DUMPSRV keeps failing on space. I'm fairly sure I can increase the size of the dump data set with a DSNTYPE=LARGE but I can't remember how or where that's done. Anne R. Adams DTI,

Re: DB2 V10 upgrade - SMS allocation failure

2013-02-21 Thread David Devine
Hi Jim, what are your primary secondary allocations? if your dataclas doesnt have space constraint relief it will still try and get it in one lump. If i'm doing my calcualations right, thats @5120 cyls for the first one. Try an allocation of 1000,100 Cheers Dave

Re: DSNTYPE=LARGE with DUMP data sets

2013-02-21 Thread Peter X. DeFabritus
Alternatively, add the keyword LARGE to the end of the invocation of AMDSADDD, e.g. AMDSADDD DEFINE (SADMP1)(SYS0.SADMP) (3390,,DCSADMP) 30040 YES LARGE On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:58:40 -0500, Mark Jacobs mark.jac...@custserv.com wrote: On 02/21/13 09:22, Adams, Anne (DTI) wrote: Hello group:

want to purge all my jobs ended with a RC=0 automatically

2013-02-21 Thread CUNY Yann
Hi all, For some volume reasons, we want to automatically purge jobs that ended with a RC=0. But we don't want to do it, for CPU and Spool reasons, with a JES2 command. We want to do it automatically. I'm sure that somebody already had the same need, no ? Any Idea ? Thank in advance ... Yann

Re: want to purge all my jobs ended with a RC=0 automatically

2013-02-21 Thread David Devine
Hi Yann, there is a big flaw in this, in that the fact that the job has a rc of zero doesnt always mean that it has worked sucessfully as designed. I think you would be better off using RMDS (or a similar product) to offload production joblogs from your spool to disk and have sms assign a

Re: Dualcase vs monocase. Was: Article for the boss...

2013-02-21 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
jwgli...@gmail.com (John Gilmore) writes: The matter can be put in even more forthright fashion. Operational IT costs can be significant for, say, a bank or an airline. IT-development costs and IT-group budgets, on the other hand, are trivial. Their effect on the bottom line is seldom

Re: want to purge all my jobs ended with a RC=0 automatically

2013-02-21 Thread Peter X. DeFabritus
In your JES2 parameter member, you can specify the following: OUTCLASS(v) OUTDISP=(PURGE,WRITE) This will cause class v output to be purged if the job does not ABEND, and left on the output queue if it does. On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:15:29 +, CUNY Yann yann.cuny.anta...@axa-tech.com wrote:

Re: IGD17271I under ISPF but only sometimes

2013-02-21 Thread Jim Mooney
Thanks very much Art. It is easy enough to test the WTPMSG profile setting, so I did. It appears to have no influence on this. I run my session with WTPMSG. If I set my profile to NOWTPMSG, I still get the IGD msg for FileAid (while I don't get it for ispf 3.2). Next, I edited the 'F2' clist

Re: want to purge all my jobs ended with a RC=0 automatically

2013-02-21 Thread CUNY Yann
Hi David, Thanks for your answer, The problem is that we are scheduling 200 000 jobs per day in our production. Even we launch a JES command to purge the spool every hour (for example), we have a risk to saturate the JES2 Spool. Currently, all jobs are rerouted in EOS, but because of the

Re: want to purge all my jobs ended with a RC=0 automatically

2013-02-21 Thread CUNY Yann
That was a possibility. But a RC=12 for example, is considered as a normal completion. That's why we wanted to only purge the RC=0 jobs. -Message d'origine- De : IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] De la part de Peter X. DeFabritus Envoyé : jeudi 21 février

Re: want to purge all my jobs ended with a RC=0 automatically

2013-02-21 Thread John McKown
JES2 exit 28 is an end of job exit. I don't see an equivalent for JES3, but I'm ignorant of JES3. The OP seems, like us, to be concerned about CPU utilization. So something like RMDS or JMR (CA) or maybe SyzSPOOL/z ( http://www.syzygyinc.com/SyzSpool.htm) might be unacceptable. SyzSPOOL/z might

Re: want to purge all my jobs ended with a RC=0 automatically

2013-02-21 Thread Peter X. DeFabritus
Another trick you could use (but which you may not want to use) would be to add a last step which only executes if a prior step gets a non-zero return code, and which ABENDs. That would prevent the job from being purged. --

Re: Problem with SYSEVENT QVS

2013-02-21 Thread Richard Peurifoy
On 2/21/2013 7:54 AM, Peter Relson wrote: I think what Gerhard meant is that Jan should have L 15,CVTSRM-CVTMAP(,15) instead of L 15,CVTSRM-CVT(,15) If Gerhard meant that, he would have been incorrect. CVT is the name of the DSECT when CVT DSECT=YES is used. CVTMAP is a name for the

Re: want to purge all my jobs ended with a RC=0 automatically

2013-02-21 Thread CUNY Yann
We were looking in this way ... and will take this solution if there is no other ... -Message d'origine- De : IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] De la part de Peter X. DeFabritus Envoyé : jeudi 21 février 2013 17:12 À : IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Objet : Re:

Re: ''MVS overhead'' (as indicated by OMEGAMON)

2013-02-21 Thread Horst Sinram
Jan, it appears the monitor is trying to tell you that you have a low capture ratio. Searching for that term should give you a good understanding of what the message really means, and in a lot of good advice, e.g. in the Effective zSeries Performance Monitoring Using Resource Measurement

Re: DSNTYPE=LARGE with DUMP data sets

2013-02-21 Thread Lizette Koehler
Anne, I think you create the appropriate dataclas in SMS and then use the DD ADD command to establish it DD ADD,SMS=(DUMPC1,DMPADIT) Or have the ACS code set it up. From a previous thread by Jim Mulder In z/OS 1.13, SDUMP specifies the DSNTYPE=LARGE text unit when dynamically allocating a

Re: SV: SV: SV: Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all

2013-02-21 Thread Clark Morris
On 20 Feb 2013 13:37:40 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main Leslie wrote: On Wednesday 20 February 2013 02:15:51 Thomas Berg wrote: It's not the features that are bad in those instances, but rather the syntax for requesting the features; that syntax is about as far from the purported

Re: DB2 V10 upgrade - SMS allocation failure

2013-02-21 Thread Paul Peplinski
Are they in a SMS class getting the extended attribute? I recall having to make that change for V10. Paul -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the

Re: Low priority workload

2013-02-21 Thread Don Williams
Low priority work may have exclusive access to other resources (locks, enqueues, memory, etc.) which blocks (i.e., effectively preempts) higher priority work. In most cases, this type of preemption does not last long enough to be significant; however, when your system is on running on the edge

Re: DFSORT

2013-02-21 Thread Ron Thomas
Thanks for the replieds, i was able to make it work. Regards Ron T -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Problem with SYSEVENT QVS

2013-02-21 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 2/21/2013 11:13 AM, Richard Peurifoy wrote: Just to cover all the bases, if you specify a label when invoking the CVT macro, that label will be used rather than CVTMAP. I just confirmed that; I've been using CVTMAP for forty-odd years and never noticed that. And I had been burned on not

Re: USPTO does another goodie.

2013-02-21 Thread Don Williams
LOL -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 9:35 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: USPTO does another goodie. On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:52:40 -0600, Ron Wells

ISPF Scrollable area

2013-02-21 Thread Dan
I have a simple panel that contains over 100 rows within a scrollable area. When I scroll down to the line I want to update, insert the data into the input field and hit ENTER the panel is re-displayed as if it was scrolled back to the top. To verify that the data was correct I have to scroll

Re: Load To Global with PC_cp (OT)

2013-02-21 Thread Don Williams
In simplier terms, both the chicken and the egg may have been first. Don -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Gilmore Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 10:16 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Load To

Re: Problem with SYSEVENT QVS

2013-02-21 Thread Don Williams
Yeah, it is annoying, but... Naming standards to change over time (50+ years for MVS), from component to component, and due to reorganizations, mergers, acqusitions, etc. Therefore the old grandfathered names are typically going to be inconsistent. Then there is the code that existed prior to

Re: Problem with SYSEVENT QVS

2013-02-21 Thread Bob Rutledge
Peter Relson wrote: I must admit that I'm surprised you'd get ASMA044E Undefined symbol - CVT in such a case. But you do. That does not seem like the best message for this situation. Here's a testcase: TEST CSECT SYSEVENT QVS CVT USING LCVT,11 LCVT DSECT LCVT1

Re: want to purge all my jobs ended with a RC=0 automatically

2013-02-21 Thread Don Williams
I agree with Dave, that there can be hidden problems. However, if you still want to purge RC=0 jobs, refer to the JES2 Initialization and Tuning Reference. The JOBCLASS/STCCLASS/TSUCLASS parmlib statement has several parameters which can be used: CONDPURG=Yes|No Specifies whether (YES) or

Re: want to purge all my jobs ended with a RC=0 automatically

2013-02-21 Thread Don Williams
If you have access to the submitted JCL or maybe the PROC, you could add a final abend step. // IF (RC NE 0) THEN //ABEND EXEC PGM=ABEND // ENDIF -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of CUNY Yann Sent: Thursday, February

Re: Debug Tool with Subprograms

2013-02-21 Thread George Young
On 2/20/2013 11:00 PM, Donald Likens wrote: I am having many problems with the IBM debug tool but what is driving me nuts right now. This is a little difficult for me to explain so hopefully someone will remember the old TSO TEST commands. What I want to do is (using old TSO Test terminology)

Re: ISPF Scrollable area

2013-02-21 Thread Skip Robinson
What you're observing is the default behavior of ISPF dialogs from the dawn of time. Unfortunately I can't put my hands on an example right now, but if you want a panel to redisplay 'as before' with the same line on top, your dialog code needs to remember the line number of the top line and

Re: ''MVS overhead'' (as indicated by OMEGAMON)

2013-02-21 Thread Dave Barry
Jan, Omegamon has no way of attributing MVS overhead. It simply subtracts the RMF processor busy time from the interval time and reports the difference. Being time-driven, WLM uses very little CPU on it's own behalf. In fact, as has been pointed out, when capping is in effect, IRD weight