Re: z/OS IPL Issue

2013-10-24 Thread R.S.
No. Master console *was* a thing from MCS world. During NIP there weren't master console - just console, only one. And there was (and still is) an order which console will be used from devices available. First on the list taken (if available), but it has nothing to do with master. Nowadays

Re: PL/1 and z/OS 2.1

2013-10-24 Thread Beesley, Paul
Hi Gary Yes, There are many many calls to MQCONN, MQOPEN, etc in the PL/1 for MVS programs. Regards and thanks Paul -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Gary Jacek Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 10:00 PM To:

Re: Issue with the REORG of BDAM datasets

2013-10-24 Thread Roger Steyn
Thanks gentleman ..That was it . A standalone REORG needs space to hold the new index and CA suggested us to do ASYNCH REORG . Thank you !   On Wednesday, October 23, 2013 8:07 AM, Roger Steyn roger.st...@yahoo.com wrote: Greetings ,    Recently , we had a problem during the REORG of

Re: Allocation problem with LMCOPY

2013-10-24 Thread Thomas Berg
You are right , I was thinking of the case when you use the format 'LMINIT DATAID(LMID) DATASET('dsn') ENQ(SHR)' Here it allocates a ISPn dd. Best Regards Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS\RQM\IT Delivery

Re: z/OS IPL Issue

2013-10-24 Thread John McKown
Thanks. I am so used to being the _only_ person in our _very small_ shop who does IPLs that it never occurred that the person doing the IPL or shutdown would need a helper. Unfortunately, one of the other people here who will (1%) occasionally IPL tends to just punch it out if the shutdown doesn't

Re: z/OS IPL Issue

2013-10-24 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 21:54:54 -0500, John McDowell jmcd...@gmail.com wrote: I agree that the inability to share the Integrated 3270 among multiple concurrent sessions is unfortunate and that it would be a useful enhancement to list that restriction. Off the top of my head I can see that the

DB2 v9-v10 problem

2013-10-24 Thread R.S.
Environment z/OS 1.11, DB2 v9.1, CICS TS 4.1 is being migrated to z/OS 1.13, DB2 v10.1, CICS TS 4.2 (DB2 in Compatibility Mode) One CICS transaction expected strange behavior: much more CPU used for open cursor operation. Acces path wasn't changed. It seems DB2 lost ability to read index in

Re: DB2 v9-v10 problem

2013-10-24 Thread Robert Galambos
This would be better asked on the IDUG.ORG forum On Thursday, October 24, 2013, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: Environment z/OS 1.11, DB2 v9.1, CICS TS 4.1 is being migrated to z/OS 1.13, DB2 v10.1, CICS TS 4.2 (DB2 in Compatibility Mode) One CICS transaction expected strange

Re: Allocation problem with LMCOPY

2013-10-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:12:39 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: This will also fix the INIT issue that if a JOB Step has a DISP=OLD with further steps as DISP=SHR, the dataset remains exclusively held until the last DISP=SHR step ends (since INIT can not downgrade the EXC ENQ to the SHR ENQ used

Re: z/OS IPL Issue

2013-10-24 Thread Mike Schwab
As long as you accept a complete line at a time, like multiple SDSF operator sessions, it should work, unless two people happen to issue the same command and it causes problems. On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:28 AM, John McDowell jmcd...@gmail.com wrote: Mark, I understand what you are saying,

Is there currently a way to access MongoDB from z/OS LE languages?

2013-10-24 Thread Ze'ev Atlas
Hi all Is there currently a way to access MongoDB from z/OS LE languages? ZA -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Is there currently a way to access MongoDB from z/OS LE languages?

2013-10-24 Thread David Crayford
On 25/10/2013 10:04 AM, Ze'ev Atlas wrote: Hi all Is there currently a way to access MongoDB from z/OS LE languages? It should be simple enough to build a client. There are many http://docs.mongodb.org/ecosystem/drivers/. Of course, that's for accessing MongoDB running off the mainframe. I'm

Re: Is there currently a way to access MongoDB from z/OS LE languages?

2013-10-24 Thread David Crayford
On 25/10/2013 10:29 AM, Ze'ev Atlas wrote: Assuming I use my experience in porting Open Source C libraries to the mainframe and import the MongoDB C driver and compile it successfully, my main issue would then be, as usual, the pesky EBCDIC. When working on the PCRE library, there was

Re: Is there currently a way to access MongoDB from z/OS LE languages?

2013-10-24 Thread Ze'ev Atlas
It should be simple enough to build a client. There are many http://docs.mongodb.org/ecosystem/drivers/. Of course, that's for accessing MongoDB running off the mainframe. I'm interested to know why you would want to do that? I have no intention on porting the whole engine because I understand

Re: Is there currently a way to access MongoDB from z/OS LE languages?

2013-10-24 Thread Ze'ev Atlas
EBCDIC may not be your only problem! What about endianess? I suggest you study the wire protocol if you are serious thank you for pointing me to the right direction. I will look at the documents you've mentioned about both, EBCDIC and endianess and see if it it worth it. ZA

Re: Is there currently a way to access MongoDB from z/OS LE languages?

2013-10-24 Thread David Crayford
On 25/10/2013 10:58 AM, Ze'ev Atlas wrote: It should be simple enough to build a client. There are many http://docs.mongodb.org/ecosystem/drivers/. Of course, that's for accessing MongoDB running off the mainframe. I'm interested to know why you would want to do that? I have no intention on

Re: Is there currently a way to access MongoDB from z/OS LE languages?

2013-10-24 Thread Ze'ev Atlas
It's not much fun accessing Mongo in C let alone COBOL. Agree My language of choice is Perl which flaws with that stuff and I am working on my JavaScript skills. However, what drives me is frustration. Whenever I do a mainframe project, I see how much I miss the other side's features and then

Re: Allocation problem with LMCOPY

2013-10-24 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 14:24 -0500 on 10/24/2013, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Allocation problem with LMCOPY: On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:12:39 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: This will also fix the INIT issue that if a JOB Step has a DISP=OLD with further steps as DISP=SHR, the dataset remains exclusively held

Re: Is there currently a way to access MongoDB from z/OS LE languages?

2013-10-24 Thread John McKown
I'm not sure about the following. I'm up late due to ... well, it doesn't matter. But I am wondering if it would be easier to interface MongoDB (on a remote system such as z/Linux) with a z/OS Java routine. And then interface the Java routine with COBOL. I need to read up on the Java - COBOL

Re: Is there currently a way to access MongoDB from z/OS LE languages?

2013-10-24 Thread Ze'ev Atlas
Actually, it looks like there is support to UTF-8: ___ You need to do two steps to convert ASCII or EBCDIC data to UTF-8: Use the function NATIONAL-OF to convert the ASCII or EBCDIC string to a national (UTF-16) string. Use the function DISPLAY-OF to convert the

Re: Is there currently a way to access MongoDB from z/OS LE languages?

2013-10-24 Thread Tony Harminc
On 24 October 2013 23:49, Ze'ev Atlas zatl...@yahoo.com wrote: About a previous post, the endianess should not be a big issue to deal with once the two sides of the protocol are well defined. The EBCDIC issue is a make or break issue. MongoDB works decidedly with UTDF-8 and I need COBOL to

GDG question

2013-10-24 Thread Phil Smith
Apologies for the naïve question, but I spent some time Googling and reading and didn't find a clear answer to this. We have a data set that gets fetched from the network and changes occasionally. I'd like to untie this update from normal operation-that is, on the off-chance that the network

NY Metro NaSPA Chapter Meeting: Tuesday, 29 October 2013

2013-10-24 Thread Mark Nelson
he next meeting of the NY Metro NaSPA Chapter will be on Tuesday, 29 October, 2013, in room 1219 at the IBM Building at 590 Madison Avenue, New York City, from 10:00 AM until 4:30 PM. Sessions for the day include: A Perspective on System z Capacity Delivery - Past and Future, Bob

Re: Want your feedback on shell command interface to V2R1 IAZSYMBL

2013-10-24 Thread Rob Schramm
Oh yea.. I guess if I paid more attention to the topic... I would have seen that. It is funny that everyone starts to gravitate towards problems around the same time. Been working some on RDz.. BPX_SHAREAS and SPAWN_SCRIPT have recently become very interesting to me. I have to admit that the

Re: Is there currently a way to access MongoDB from z/OS LE languages?

2013-10-24 Thread David Crayford
On 25/10/2013 12:28 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: On 24 October 2013 23:49, Ze'ev Atlas zatl...@yahoo.com wrote: About a previous post, the endianess should not be a big issue to deal with once the two sides of the protocol are well defined. The EBCDIC issue is a make or break issue. MongoDB

Re: GDG question

2013-10-24 Thread Rob Schramm
Phil, AFAIK, the whole GDG assignment only happens once.. during initial creation. MODing will change the size of the data set.. not the GVoo number(s). With SMS a new GDG entry gets rolled in at step end. Most everything you need to know is in Chapter 29. Processing Generation Data Groups

Re: Is there currently a way to access MongoDB from z/OS LE languages?

2013-10-24 Thread Rob Schramm
With a JDBC driver and a bit of JAVA code..you could use the COBOL/JAVA procedure BCDBATCH to help tie the two together. Did a quick scan and there appear to be at least few JDBC drivers. Rob Rob Schramm Senior Systems Consultant Imperium Group On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:18 AM, David Crayford