The implications of IBM selling its chip manufacturing business

http://www.itworld.com/hardware/404469/implications-ibm-selling-its- chip-manufacturing-business?source=ITWNLE_nlt_tonight_2014-02-11 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@lis

Re: XCFAS holding OMVS and XCF CDSes

> You never add PCOUPLE. You promote from ACOUPLE to PCOUPLE via PSWITCH. You do if you activate a CDS for the first time. There is nothing preventing you from specifying both pcouple and acouple in the same command. Admittedly I have never tried to switch both primary and alternate to a new n

Users of CSP and its successor migrating to COBOL 5.1

If your shop uses an IBM z series computer and it is looking to upgrade to version 5.1 of Enterprise COBOL and it is using Cross System Product (CSP) or its Visual Gen successor, migration may be a problem. CSP and possibly its successor forced an F zone on all signed fields with positive values l

Re: Storage Obtain .....

What is the MVCL trying to accomplish? Clear a number of bytes equal to the address of WORKAREA? Might you want the length of the OBTAIN and the length of the MVCL to be the same? Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of

Re: Storage Obtain .....

> BAKR R0,R0 > MSTA R0 > MSTA R12 > MODESET MODE=SUP, >KEY=ZERO > L R11,PSAAOLD-PSA > SETLOCK OBTAIN, >ASCB=(11), >TYPE=CML, >MODE=UNCOND > XRR4,R4 >

Re: Storage Obtain .....

Hello ... Given the below ... BAKR R0,R0 MSTA R0 MSTA R12 MODESET MODE=SUP, KEY=ZERO L R11,PSAAOLD-PSA SETLOCK OBTAIN, ASCB=(11), TYPE=CML,

Re: SMP/E SYSMOD SOURCEID(s)?

On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 08:56:03 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 06:38:33 -0600, Kathryn A. Pinto wrote: > >>Skip has given most of the answers already. But to summarize the processing >>of UCLIN on the SOURCEID subentry: >> >Thanks. > >Should I have been able to infer all this cl

Re: To restore Purged STC output

In , on 02/11/2014 at 10:31 AM, mf db said: >Is there a possibility of recovering a particular Purged STC back to >spool ? Did you do an offload? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see We don't care. We don'

Re: Implicit VVDS creation

In <6330372289028276.wa.markmzelden@listserv.ua.edu>, on 02/10/2014 at 03:22 PM, Mark Zelden said: >Could have been. That was a batch tool only that used GTF like >trace data IIRC, and may have even read GTF input. I vaguely recall that CMF had a seek optimizer that used GTF data. --

Re: Implicit VVDS creation

In <5873965579866770.wa.markmzelden@listserv.ua.edu>, on 02/10/2014 at 08:41 AM, Mark Zelden said: >Yes, of course the VVDS existed. Been there since ICF (MVS/SP 1.3 >?). DF/EF provided the ICF. Later on DFP came along and included DF/DS and DF/EF. Neither was bundled with MVS/SP. --

Re: Large Multi-Volume Physical Sequential allocation question

Bob, 20++ years ago I ran into something like this and I started to educate the people (small bytes at a time) on how things should be done and how these changes can be instrumental in cost savings to the business (it was a semi not for profit business which made it doubly difficult) and

Re: Large Multi-Volume Physical Sequential allocation question

I agree 100% but here is our problem: "What's the difference between obsolete hardware and obsolete software?" Obsolete hardware is in a museum - Obsolete software is in production running your business. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.E

Re: Large Multi-Volume Physical Sequential allocation question

W dniu 2014-02-11 19:18, Cosby, Bob - OCFO pisze: Question 3: Any reason not to use an SMS pool? Yes; we are a Payroll Processing center that pays 660,000 Federal Employees utilizing Computer Associates IDMS. A lot of the code was written in the 1970's and 1980's; more impor

Re: VTOCIX out of VIRs, how to reorg?

Looks like a successful re-init with larger VTOCIX and SMALLDS. On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Staller, Allan wrote: > At this point: > 1) delete the SMALLDS, it is empty. > 2) re-init the volume with appropriate VTOC/VTOCIX > 3) redefine the SMALLDS and prime it. > 4) Add the volume back into

Re: IBMLINK SR problems?

Whew. Glad I am not alone. There is a statement on their webpage to IE10 users, with a work around, which I tried to no avail. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Harold Zbiegien Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 3:46 PM

Re: IBMLINK SR problems?

tried to update a PMR, got the same problem, IE9, I deleted cache, retried, same problem From: "Wissink, Brad [ITSYS]" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 3:41 PM Subject: Re: IBMLINK SR problems? Just entered a new SR ticket at

Re: IBMLINK SR problems?

Just entered a new SR ticket at 2:00 pm and everything was fine. I use Firefox. Brad Wissink Information Technology Services Iowa State University 515-294-3088 "If it ain't broke, you ain't trying" - Red Green -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@

IBMLINK SR problems?

Anyone try to open a new ticket today on Service Request? IE9 here on WIN7, and it fails. Both for me, and a team mate after you fill out the ticket, and click on open, comes back with the form emptied out, and error messages saying to fill in subject, problem text, etc. Form is messed up to

Re: To restore Purged STC output

On 2/11/2014 8:38 AM, John McKown wrote: But, even in these cases, you cannot "restore" it back into the SPOOL as it was before it was deleted. You may, at most, be able to retrieve the data which was in it and place it in a different SPOOL data set or a DISK data set or . But you can't make

Was: Implicit VVDS creation now: FDR & VVDS's

I do not have access to the FDR manuals now. I am trying to remember if FDR consolidates the SYS1.VVDS extents *AND* releases unused extents of the VVDS? I would guess that it does but without manuals its hard to guess. BTW FDR is one of the few companies I cannot say enough good things abou

Re: XCFAS holding OMVS and XCF CDSes

A new data set (of a type that is already in use) is always added this way: 1. Do PSWITCH 2. Add ACOUPLE 3. For a second new data set, repeat steps 1 and 2. You never add PCOUPLE. You promote from ACOUPLE to PCOUPLE via PSWITCH. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric

Re: VTOCIX out of VIRs, how to reorg?

At this point: 1) delete the SMALLDS, it is empty. 2) re-init the volume with appropriate VTOC/VTOCIX 3) redefine the SMALLDS and prime it. 4) Add the volume back into HSM for use. Al Staller | Z Systems Programmer | KBM Group | (Tel) 972 664-3565 | allan.stal...@kbmg.com -Original Message-

Re: VTOCIX out of VIRs, how to reorg?

OK. We just did a free vol. VTOC shows only the VTOCIX, VVDS, and SMALLLDS. Listcat of the SMALLDS shows 1 record, records added and deleted don't match. IDCAMS PRINT of the SMALLDS shows one record, 1st byte 'Z' followed by 43 '9', Remainder is X'00' out to X'C7'. Is this an end of file marke

Re: Large Multi-Volume Physical Sequential allocation question

Question 1: I see you got 3 extents. How many of the 7 volumes did that cover? Two (2) mod-9's; RLSE released all the other requested space. From MVS File-Aid C-HH D A T A S E T N A M E --- Org Trks XofY STATVOLSER 02999 0

Re: XCFAS holding OMVS and XCF CDSes

(Quick Reply with no research) Does the fact he is trying to add an as yet unused set of datasets mean he should add the PCOUPLE first and then the ACOUPLE ? Jerry Whitteridge Lead Systems Programmer Safeway Inc. 925 951 4184 If you feel in control you just aren't going fast enough. -Orig

Re: Error overriding concatenated DD in PROC where one is instream data

Hi everyone, I played a bit with this over the past couple of days, with several combinations of DDs, and it all points to the DD that's used to tell allocation to leave the second DD as-is. It's incorrectly being processed with a generated temporary data set name instead of letting the instre

Re: To restore Purged STC output

But, even in these cases, you cannot "restore" it back into the SPOOL as it was before it was deleted. You may, at most, be able to retrieve the data which was in it and place it in a different SPOOL data set or a DISK data set or . But you can't make it to be part of the job's output again.

Re: To restore Purged STC output

To Ed's point. If the STC is still running and you only purged a small subset and you DO NOT HAVE SPIN=CLOSE,FREE=UNALLOC In SDSF issue the ST command. Then prefix the name of your STC. Issue a ? (question mark) next to the name. If there is any output available, you can see it there. Otherwi

Re: To restore Purged STC output

On 2/10/2014 9:01 PM, mf db wrote: Is there a possibility of recovering a particular Purged STC back to spool ? If you purged only a subset of output files from the STC, it is often possible to recover them with the right tools. If you purged the entire job, no recovery is possible... -- Ed

Re: DF/SORT, joinkeys or splice ?

Tony, It is quite easy to get the matching records from both files. Here is a DFSORT JCL which will give you the desired results. I assumed that your inputs are already pre-sorted on the key to be matched. If they are not then you just need to remove SORTED,NOSEQCK parms from the control cards.

Re: XCFAS holding OMVS and XCF CDSes

I should have amplified. For XCF, there is no such thing as an 'invalid' couple type. If the TYPE= specified is not in use in the sysplex, he does not assume a typo. He assumes that the type named is not (yet?) in use. For the types that are actually in use, issue D XCF,CPL. All in-use couple d

Re: file types

Still should work, but only for QSAM files. To work on VSAM files would require reverse engineering the OCO FIB structure in the COBOL runtime to find the ACB. Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Andreas F. Geissb

Re: XCFAS holding OMVS and XCF CDSes

The problem is that you're using the wrong TYPE keywords. They should be TYPE=SYSPLEX and TYPE=BPXMCDS . . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com From:

Re: XCFAS holding OMVS and XCF CDSes

Thanks for the responses, Skip and Lizette, I probably wasn't clear that I did issue SETXCF CPL,ACOUPLE=SYS2.DKLOMVS.CDS03,TYPE=OMVS and received "IXC388I SETXCF COUPLE,ACOUPLE REQUIRES TYPE OMVS TO BE ACTIVE ON THIS SYSTEM" and similarly for TYPE=XCF. I suspect it's something to do with the B

Re: SMP/E SYSMOD SOURCEID(s)?

On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 06:38:33 -0600, Kathryn A. Pinto wrote: >Skip has given most of the answers already. But to summarize the processing >of UCLIN on the SOURCEID subentry: > Thanks. Should I have been able to infer all this clearly from the SMP/E Commands manual? If not, I'll submit an RCF.

Re: file types

IMHO defining two FD's wins the simplicity and clarity medal. However I used the subroutine method in the (distant!) past to change the DDNAME on the fly: CLOSE FD-FILE-NAME. MOVE IN-REGION TO DDNAME-SUFFIX. CALL 'FDFIXUP' USING FD-FILE-NAME, DDNAME. OPEN OUTPUT FD-FILE-NAME. e.g. to write / outpu

DF/SORT, joinkeys or splice ?

I'm trying to match-merge 2 input files based on a key. I want to create an output file with a record for every key from input1 plus all records with a match key from input2. I haven't found a specific example in the books so I'm asking for help. What I have: //input1 dd * key1 blah key2 bl

Re: Default OMVS segment

BPX.DEFAULT.USER is ignored in z/OS 2.1. This has widely been reported in IBM announcements The Migration Guide and this forum. Check the archives. Your choices are: 1) create the OMVS segment for this user manually. 2) Set up the BPX.UNIQUE.USER/BPX.NEXT.USER environment as described in the m

Re: file types

John, I didn't realize that there could be two SELECTS that can reference the same DDNAME. I learned something new, well everyday I learn something. I will give this a try. Regards, Scott Ford www.identityforge.com From: John McKown Sent: ‎Monday‎, ‎February‎ ‎10‎, ‎2014 ‎1‎:‎06‎

Re: Default OMVS segment

venkat kulkarni wrote: Yes, z/OS V1.13 is planned to be the last release to support *BPX.DEFAULT.USER*. IBM recommends that we either use the BPX.UNIQUE.USER support that was introduced in z/OS V1.11, or assign unique UIDs to users who need them and assign GIDs for their groups. Of course,

Re: Dumb SMPE question

I think all you can do is "assume" that no matter what, you want to continue, so after the "unreceive", use the SMP/e command "RESETRC." This will reset the return code so that other commands can be executed. Al Nims Systems Admin/Programmer 3 Information Technology University of Florida (352)

Re: Implicit VVDS creation

DMS and another large DASD management product suite called SAMS were marketed by Sterling for many years before CA acquired Sterling in ca. 1999. Bill Fairchild - Original Message - From: "Ed Finnell" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 5:00:14 PM Subject:

Re: XCFAS holding OMVS and XCF CDSes

Gary, XCF dynamically allocates in-use couple data sets, which will result in a SYSTEMS scope ENQ for each one. If XCFAS continues to hold an ENQ on a couple data set that is not in use by any system, you should probably consider pursuing this as a defect. If you prefer, you can contact

Re: SMP/E SYSMOD SOURCEID(s)?

Skip has given most of the answers already. But to summarize the processing of UCLIN on the SOURCEID subentry: A SYSMOD can have multiple SOURCEIDs. The ADD and DEL UCLIN operations can be used to act on one or more SOURCEID values and leave the existing values as is. For example, if a SYSMO

UK -- Next GSE Large Systems Working Group - Call for Papers

All, We are planning the next GSE LSWG meeting that will be held on the 2nd April 2014. The most likely venue is IBM Southbank, but that depends on the feedback we get. The reason for the email is that I am looking for speakers for the day. Looking for fairly technical sessions that are Large

Re: Default OMVS segment

You should join the RACF Group and ask this question. That group could be more helpful. Second, go to Robert Hansel's website. He has many RACF Papers that may help. http://www.rshconsulting.com/racfres.htm I would also review the following SHARE presentation as well https://share.confex.com/s

Re: To restore Purged STC output

Once output is purged on a JES2 SPOOL there is no recovery. If you have offloaded the output to a tool like JES2 Offloader, CA View, $AVERS, XPTR, etc, then you can. But if you did a direct command in JES2 like $P, then no. It is gone Lizette > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe