Frank,
It was not said that explicitly, but you have the choice to either cache the
directory or cache often used loadmodules or do both. So if you have a number
of frequently modified members and a number of static and heavily used modules,
you could get the best of both worlds by not caching
Charles Mills writes:
>You could use 16 bits for every character, with some sort of
>cleverness that yielded two 16-bit words when you had a code
>point bigger than 65535 (actually somewhat less due to how the
>cleverness works). That is called UTF-16. Pretty good but
>still not very efficient.
In
Yup.
Charles
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Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 8:19 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Subject Unicode
At 17:45 -0800 on 01/09/2014, Charles Mills wrote abou
At 17:45 -0800 on 01/09/2014, Charles Mills wrote about Re: Subject
Unicode:
You could use 8 bits for most characters, with cleverness that
expanded that out to two or three bytes for more obscure characters.
Pretty efficient, and you could make the first part of the character
set the same as
Guys,
This was my thinking also, I wasn't 100% sure. We started hit issues with
various code pages.
So this would be the way to resolve it much appreciate for more eyes on the
situation..
Scott ford
www.identityforge.com
from my IPAD
> On Jan 9, 2014, at 8:52 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
As of z/OS 2.1, ISPF supports UTF-8, so a binary transfer will still show an A
if it
was an A on the PC. I don't know which emulators will show all the other
bazillion
glyphs though...
In article <022c01cf0da5$a7b25180$f716f480$@mcn.org> you wrote:
> There is no such thing as "French Unicode."
Are you saying that your program did a MODESET AUTH=SUP prior to issuing
ISGENQ? If not, then you are not running authorized. Otherwise you are correct
and you should get reason code 040D.
Jon Perryman.
>
> From: Donald Likens
>
>
>My authorized program is ch
On 9 January 2014 20:39, Scott Ford wrote:
> We send a data message from a pc, we encrypt it with AES128 , the message is
> received at the host (z/OS) decrypted then converted from ascii to ebcdic..so
> I am trying to figure out how to
> Determine what codepage the pc uses and have z/OS convert
Wait. Unicode, or some "ASCII variant" like, say, a French 7-bit PC code page?
Other than with a lot of inferential cleverness, there is no way to look at an
"ASCII-like" file and tell what the code page is. Think about it. The whole
problem is that you use X'9B' on your PC to mean ¢ and a Frenc
Scott - The PC is going to have to provide the codepage of the message data
someplace in the communication protocol. Either as a separate field,
separate message or as a prefix/suffix to the message data.
It will be pretty dicey to attempt to guess the codepage based on the
message data.
One oth
There is no such thing as "French Unicode." That is the "uni" part and the
beauty of Unicode.
There are several flavors of Unicode, but they relate to how the code points
are stored in a file or transmitted, not to the character set. All of Unicode
is something like a million possible character
Gil,
We send a data message from a pc, we encrypt it with AES128 , the message is
received at the host (z/OS) decrypted then converted from ascii to ebcdic..so I
am trying to figure out how to
Determine what codepage the pc uses and have z/OS convert it to the proper
EBCDIC codepage from ASCII.
If you need (or could need) z/OS 1.13, please place your order now. The
recommended last date for order processing is January 17, but all orders
must be processed this month (January, 2014).
Ti
LOAD allows GLOBAL=YES,EOM=NO to put the module in CSA. Or you could use MVS
commands to add the module to MLPA and activate it as an exit. .
Jon Perryman.
>
> From: Peter Relson
>
>
>
>>If I understand the processing for this exit, the exit
>>routine must be
On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 16:35:55 -0800, Scott Ford wrote:
>All:
�
I have a fundamental question on Unicode, or more of how it works . I am
confused about the following scenario..
PC ( data using a foreign language Unicode page, like French )� going to z/OS
and being keep in tact. Names and addres
All:
I have a fundamental question on Unicode, or more of how it works . I am
confused about the following scenario..
PC ( data using a foreign language Unicode page, like French ) going to z/OS
and being keep in tact. Names and address type data. As the application do I
have to query the
Thanks Joel. I did understand that user did not mean a specific user (like
myself). I was pondering if it would be useful for "production application"
libraries, but it sounds like it would not be worth the disadvtanges, since we
do update those frequently. Perhaps for IMS system libraries, t
I'd like to jump in with a couple of comments from prior appends, and generally
confirm what others have said...
z/OS V2.1 and z/OS R11 is not coexistence supported. "Coexistence" means
sharing resources either concurrently or non-concurrently. A sysplex
environment is definitely sharing reso
On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 11:51:04 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>>
>Is this "cloning", sometimes called "deployment" to a live system? It seems
>there's a flaw in the process if the live system is not updated by a process
>identical to that used on the maintenance system.
Sort of. Deployment is a mo
If it is a highly used load library, access will be faster and physical
I/O to the library reduced if it is defined to LLA, because an
LLA-managed library has its directory cached in memory and a highly used
load module could itself become cached by the VLF address space.
The disadvantages are
(1)
O332 Library Lookaside from SHARE 72 sent under separate cover as .pdf
attachment.
In a message dated 1/9/2014 2:12:06 P.M. Central Standard Time,
frank.swarbr...@yahoo.com writes:
simplistically!) explain what advantages (and disadvantages) there might
be in having a user lib managed by
Maybe.. something like a new enque level that would allow for child to
supercede a parent enque?
On Jan 9, 2014 3:20 PM, "Walt Farrell" wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 11:34:13 -0600, Paul Gilmartin
> wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 8 Jan 2014 23:01:56 -0800, Henry Willard wrote:
> >>
> >>I believe init (pid 1
On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 11:34:13 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>On Wed, 8 Jan 2014 23:01:56 -0800, Henry Willard wrote:
>>
>>I believe init (pid 1) becomes the parent. ...
>>
>I stand corrected, according to experiment with all of OS X, Linux,
>Solaris, and z/OS.
>
>But still, it could provide a mod
I believe those PTFs
> Release 750 : UA68052 available 13/03/12 ( )
> Release 760 : UA68053 available 13/03/12 ( )
Might be available under IBM Extended Support contracts.
But, as others have said, the most venkat should hope for is toleration (the
various LPARS/OS Levels can tou
I am in applications, not systems, so I don't understand all of this. Could
someone briefly (and simplistically!) explain what advantages (and
disadvantages) there might be in having a user lib managed by LLA?
Thanks!
Frank
>
> From: Peter Relson
>To: IBM-MAIN
Hi
Going back to my thread using stoken paramter on CSVDYNEX
Has one caveat.
It can be in the private area
But not. In PSW 8 - 15
Something like maybe 252
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Of course there is going to be a need for monitoring/terminating ill
behaving tasks.
Rob
Rob Schramm
Senior Systems Consultant
Imperium Group
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Sam Siegel wrote:
> search google for examples of the msgxxx functions. Since they are
> published standard functions
Thanks Kurt Q. for your assistance. I'm not a systems programmer
(even though, for requirements of my job I've been granted RACF
authority to use the dreadfully dangerous SMP/E -- that *really*
ought to be fixed), so I don't know how things got out of sync,
nor where to find matching instances. I
On Wed, 8 Jan 2014 23:01:56 -0800, Henry Willard wrote:
>
>I believe init (pid 1) becomes the parent. ...
>
I stand corrected, according to experiment with all of OS X, Linux,
Solaris, and z/OS.
But still, it could provide a model for an alternative to orphans'
ABENDing: if the parent ENDs, the
HAVE YOU LOOKED UP "Wait State 082" in the MVS SYSTEM CODES manual?
" System action
The system entering the sysplex is partitioned from the sysplex and wait state
X'082' is loaded on that system to prevent global sysplex data corruption.
For reason code X'00', message IEA002I is issued, eit
Back in the late 80s I worked with the champion of this benchmark. He
alienated absolutely everyone except the boss, with whom he was a
personal friend. After the company was bought out and everyone went
their separate ways we found out the guy was in a bad way with cancer.
We rooted for the
"Happens all the time" ?? This should never happen unless you are testing a new
level of SMP/E via STEPLIB and don't also point to the maintenance z/OS root
file system. It most likely indicates that either maintenance was a applied to
the live system or cloning the z/OS root file system wasn't
When I tried to IPL z/OS 2.1 stand alone, It works fine. Then I changed
parmlib COUPLXX member and tried to make this z/OS 2.1 system as member of
current SYSPLEX, I got below error in HMC Operating system message.
IEA002I APAR OA36207 is not installed on TST01. SYSTEM TST02 is being
Partitioned .
Please note: z/OS V1.11 is not discussed. I do not think that z/OS V1.11 is
supported in the configuration you have (z/OS V1.13, z/OS V1.11 and z/OS V2.1).
OA28873: NEW FUNCTION - COMPATABILITY
Without this compatibility APAR, systems prior to z/OS V1R12 HBB7770 cannot
coexist in the same s
This issue also seems to point to a risk of catalog pollution as it's easy to
expect that the VVDS will not be in the catalog so deleting it may be
overlooked when reclaiming a volume.
Again, does anyone see any value in cataloging a VVDS? Does anyone know why
Respack VVDSs get cataloged?
Dav
And as I and others have mentionedthat is not possible with the 1.11
system(s) as part of the sysplex. Come up with a different plan. Lizette,
Elardus, Allan, Saurabh, and I have offered suggestions. Pick one.
Bob
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venkat kulkarni wrote:
>When I tried ipling z/OS 2.1 system after making changes in COUPLEXX member
>for sysplex definition, I got below error
What changes?
>*IEA002I APAR OA36207 is not installed on TST01. SYSTEM TST02 is being
>Partitioned .*
Which of TST01 or TST02 is at 2.1?
>*IXC220W XC
venkat kulkarni wrote:
>As I mentioned in my previous email, My intention is to make new z/OS 2.1
>system to be part of current sysplex having z/OS 1.11 and z/OS 1.13 systems.
Ok. time for me to Jump in. As others said, it appeared to me you cannot have
z/OS v1.11 and z/OS 2.1 in the same Syspl
Hello,
As I mentioned in my previous email, My intention is to make new
z/OS 2.1 system to be part of current sysplex having z/OS 1.11 and z/OS
1.13 systems.
When I tried ipling z/OS 2.1 system after making changes in COUPLEXX member
for sysplex definition, I got below error
*IEA002I AP
I agree with others that you may not be able to have your z/OS V1.11 system
in this plex with z/OS V2.1.
In the text of the APAR on IBM.COM it states
PTF List:
Release 750 : UA68052 available 13/03/12 ( )
Release 760 : UA68053 available 13/03/12 ( )
Release 770 : UA68054 avail
Okay...time to regroup and re-ask some questions.
What are your intentions in regard to the z/OS 2.1 system? Is it TOLERATION or
COEXISTENCE?
Toleration, in my mind, means that you can "touch" your 1.11 and 1.13
data/datasets from a 2.1 system without causing corruption of same. It does not
im
Answers on below question .
What actions did you take prior to bringing up z/OS V2.1?
Ans :I installed z/OS 2.1 in separate LPAR. There is no mitigation
involved. I used z/OS 1.13 system as driving system to install z/OS 2.1
Did you review the toleration maintenance and install it?
Ans :
For ge
The VTOC index is cached on all available systems. The 213-18 abend indicates
that the cached index does not match the DASD.
The complete solution to this issue is:
1) vary the volume offline to all systems except the system used for step2
2) Run ICKDSF with 2 control cards. BUILDIX OSVTOC and BU
Hello,
Yes, FIXCAT report run good on z/OS 1.11 but when I tried
downloading PTF mentioned in this report using Shopzseries, I got below
error.
SDF Order# was Rejected at 00:23:04 01/09/2014 UA68053 (ORDERED) <<-- Fix
not found UA68449 (ORDERED) <<-- Fix not found UA68484 (ORDERED) <<--
Jake,
Please post complete messages.
Go to option 3.4 and view TKOL01. Use PF11 to move through the panel
displays. Do all datasets except this one look valid? If not, you may have
a larger issue.
Did you recently init this volume?
Is the dataset in a usercat or master cat? Is that catalog ava
Why would STOKEN be wrong in a initiator job within the job step
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On Jan 9, 2014, at 7:51 AM, Peter Relson wrote:
>> If I understand the processing for this exit, the exit
>> routine must be in common storage (e.g., LPA or CSA) if
>> you specify MODADDR on the CSVDYNEX ADD
*NO*
z/OS 1.11 cannot co-exist is a SYSPLEX with z/OS 2.1
HTH,
As of now my target is to use z/OS 1.11 , z/OS 1.13 and z/OS 2.1
system in same sysplex. Can we just achieve this by applying toleration PTF on
z/OS 1.11 and z/OS 1.13 system.So that all system with different version can
This url will explain co-existence between z/OS Versions
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v2r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.zos.v2
r1.e0zb100%2Fcoexpol.htm
URL for the migration manuals
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/library/bkserv/zos_migration_manuals.
html
Note in the migration ma
I am using the LOAD/MODADDR because I would like to get the address to debug it.
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On Jan 9, 2014, at 7:51 AM, Peter Relson wrote:
>> If I understand the processing for this exit, the exit
>> routine must be in common storage (e.g., LPA or CSA) if
>> you specify MODADDR on t
For starters, I would APPLY CHECK and then APPLY *ALL* "good" and RECEIVE "yes"
PTFs.
While that is running, order the "good" and RECEIVE "no" PTFs. Once they are
received, APPLY CHECK and APPLY them.
Rerun the FIXCAT report.
Do you receive the enhanced "FULL" holddata on a daily basis? If not,
Here we go again.
"again"?
We're getting:
RECEIVE LIST
FROMNTS ...
GIM69217ITHE LEVEL OF PROGRAM GIMJVCLT (36.17) IS NOT COMPATIBLE
WITH THE LEVEL OF THE SMP/E CALLING PROGRAM GIMSMP
(36.38).
It's my understanding
that Java is used only to calculate t
Correct. But you only need to do it on the LPARs where that volume
has been online since before it was INITed and the LPAR was not IPLed.
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 7:08 AM, John McKown
wrote:
> I have had strange problems if I initialize a volume on one LPAR while it
> is still online to another LP
The first version of LLA (Linklist Look Asid) managed Linkist only.
The next version also managed user libraries and was renamed to Library Look
Aside, luckily keeping the same abbreviation.
Kees.
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Hello,
FIXCAT report Job statement :
//SMPCNTL DD *
SET BDY (GLOBAL) .
REPORT MISSINGFIX ZONES(MVST100)
FIXCAT(IBM.COEXISTENCE.Z/OS.V2R1).
/*
Output of FIXCAT on z/OS 1.11 system
HOLD MISSING HELD RESOLVING
SYSMOD_
FIX CAT
LLA manages all LNKLST data set by default. Any user load lib can be added
to LLA management whether it is in a LNKLST or not.
Peter Relson
z/OS Core Technology Design
Thank you.
I've also been able to get to the archives (IBM-Main), finally, to do some
serious searching. [My ISP is
It should.
Just for fun, post your FIXCAT statements that you used for reporting on
toleration and coexistence and the output for same.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of venkat kulkarni
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014
My authorized program is checking an if an enque is available and the return
code is 4 reason code return is 02340404.
My ISGENQ macro follows:
ISGENQ REQUEST=OBTAIN,QNAME=WKPROD,RNAME=STCNAME,
SCOPE=SYSTEM,ENQTOKEN=TASKTOK,
RNAMELEN=STCNL,CONTROL=EXCLUSIVE,TEST=YES
I have had strange problems if I initialize a volume on one LPAR while it
is still online to another LPAR. The other (non-offline) LPARs cache old
VTOC information in the UCB (especially the TTR of the VTOC). I would do a
VARY ,OFFLINE on _all_ the LPARs, then do a VARY ,ONLINE to put
them
Hello,
As of now my target is to use z/OS 1.11 , z/OS 1.13 and z/OS 2.1
system in same sysplex. Can we just achieve this by applying toleration
PTF on z/OS 1.11 and z/OS 1.13 system.So that all system with different
version can be part of this same SYSPLEX.
As per the below link APAR O
I know, I posted the contents of that, then saw a conflict in documentation.
The OP could apply UA68602 to 1.11, UA68604 to 1.13 and let us know if that
solves his problem.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of saurabh khan
Peter answered your questions about LNKLST(s).
To answer the part of your question "What I am trying to do is ...", in
addition of Peter's last remark: you can give the LLA/VLF performance to
any user library, without the need to make it a LNKLST dataset of any
kind.
Kees.
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http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA36207
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Richards, Robert B. wrote:
> Adding a link that provides this information:
>
> http://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/zsq03064usen/ZSQ03064USEN.PDF
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainfra
>If I understand the processing for this exit, the exit
>routine must be in common storage (e.g., LPA or CSA) if
>you specify MODADDR on the CSVDYNEX ADD macro. So unless
>your LOAD is satisfied from LPA I doubt that this will
>work properly.
Walt is correct, with the addition of "unless you
I'm not sure what named lnklst has to do with user libraries in LLA.
LNKLSTs are defined in "sets". Each "set" has a name. One "set" is
current. Others (previously "current") may still be active. The name is
the handle by which the set can be referred to in the SETPROG and DISPLAY
PROG commands
Adding a link that provides this information:
http://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/zsq03064usen/ZSQ03064USEN.PDF
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Of Richards, Robert B.
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 6:09 AM
To:
Good catch! You are right!
The OP must get off of any z/OS 1.11 systems first. Migrating it to 1.12 would
probably be the least painful.
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Of ITURIEL DO NASCIMENTO NETO
Sent: Thursday, Jan
Hi,
I don't know if z/OS 1.11 can coexist in the same Sysplex with z/OS 2.1.
Atenciosamente / Regards / Saludos
Ituriel do Nascimento Neto
BANCO BRADESCO S.A.
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Sistemas Operacionais Mainframes
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Agora
Q1 - YES, that is why they were built. Put on *ALL* toleration/coexistence PTFs
mentioned in those reports
Q2 - Select the following radio buttons:
Z/OS Service
Individual PTFs by PTF number
Do not use a report for this order
On the next screen, cut and paste the PTFs tha
>I think of UNIX exec() as the closest thing to MVS XCTL.
IMHO, no. exec() is equivalent to end of job step A and start of job step B.
You cannot allocate memory before the exec() and pass it to the program
invoked by exec(). You can, however, with XCTL.
>But UNIX processes are different; the pa
Apology for the wrong header(Not a VTOC index problem).. The volumes are
accessible from other LPAR but not sure why it is stopping me to access
these volumes from the current LPAR.
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Jake anderson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to access some of the dataset sittin
Hello,
I am trying to access some of the dataset sitting on a particular volume
called TKOL01,but I end up with the error:
IEC143I 213-18,IFG0196X
Manual : 18An I/O error occurred in writing back a format-1 DSCB.
Will it be safe to run a build index Job. Post the Buildix the Datasets
wo
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