Your mainframe's pegs not fitting in Amazon's elastic holes? Syncsort has a hammer for that

2014-05-20 Thread Ed Gould
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Re: VSAM question/problem

2014-05-20 Thread Clark Morris
On 20 May 2014 14:25:42 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >(3,3) While I don't have the VSAM manuals handy, I think in most cases the share options should be (2,3). Review the manuals Clark Morris > >-Original Message- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSE

Re: VSAM question/problem

2014-05-20 Thread John Clifford
Rex, That is almost definitely it. We only allowed shr(3,3) in TEST CICS. Every once in a while a batch update to a file opened in CICS would get an abend and the file looked hosed. I had to close in CICS and reorg it, then re-oipen it. Bad practice. I think they went to the H&W SYSB-II pro

Re: VSAM question/problem

2014-05-20 Thread Pommier, Rex
Gene, Yup, that's why I'm guessing it's a sharing/protection issue. I didn't build the stuff, just got the corrupt VSAM dataset dropped in my lap. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Gene Hudders Sent: Tuesday, Ma

Re: VSAM question/problem

2014-05-20 Thread Bob Rutledge
Pommier, Rex wrote: REPRO'ing with the REUSE reset the statistics and did the mini reorg. This leads me to further believe there was an application hiccup that caused the problem in the first place. I can't say for sure, but my guess is there's something 'not-quite-right' in the enqueueing

Re: VSAM question/problem

2014-05-20 Thread Gene Hudders
Hi: " I can't say for sure, but my guess is there's something 'not-quite-right' in the enqueueing logic that is supposed to be protecting the dataset from being updated by CICS and batch simultaneously." ATTRIBUTES KEYLEN30 AVGLRECL2965

Re: VSAM question/problem

2014-05-20 Thread Pommier, Rex
(3,3) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed Finnell Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 4:24 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: VSAM question/problem What are SHR options? In a message dated 5/20/2014 4:21:17 P.M. C

Re: VSAM question/problem

2014-05-20 Thread Ed Finnell
What are SHR options? In a message dated 5/20/2014 4:21:17 P.M. Central Daylight Time, rpomm...@sfgmembers.com writes: I can't say for sure, but my guess is there's something 'not-quite-right' in the enqueueing logic that is supposed to be protecting the dataset from being updated by CI

Re: VSAM question/problem

2014-05-20 Thread Pommier, Rex
John C., REPRO'ing with the REUSE reset the statistics and did the mini reorg. This leads me to further believe there was an application hiccup that caused the problem in the first place. I can't say for sure, but my guess is there's something 'not-quite-right' in the enqueueing logic that is

Re: VSAM question/problem

2014-05-20 Thread Pommier, Rex
John, REPRO'ing to a flat file works fine. Yes, there were more records in the dataset at one point. As I just responded back to John McKown, the dataset is normally defined to CICS and is getting records added to and deleted from all the time. I'll try the REUSE trick to see if it straighte

Re: VSAM question/problem

2014-05-20 Thread Pommier, Rex
John, I'm gonna chalk it up to application error. I (after the fact) just found out this is actually defined to CICS. CICS puts records into this DS, then apparently a batch job comes along and reads the records, writes them to MQSeries, then deletes them off the DS. Rex -Original Messa

Re: VSAM question/problem

2014-05-20 Thread John Clifford
Rex, Have you tried using REPRO (IDCAMS) to unload it to a flat file (vb/9160/27998) and see if it goes clean or issues an error message which may be more informational. If no error, try to repro 'reuse' back over the file with the unloaded record. Being there are some counts in the splits field

Re: VSAM question/problem

2014-05-20 Thread Pommier, Rex
Allan, I got a sneaking suspicion I'll be doing the "fuggiddabaddit" rather than spending a bunch of time on it - and if it happens again I'll be taking it to IBM. The "average key length: 0.0" is the same output I get on the working repro'd copy. I was just wondering if anybody had seen som

Re: VSAM question/problem

2014-05-20 Thread John McKown
I don't know VSAMUTIL, but it likely looks at the catalog statistics. With VSAM, the catalog statistics are _NOT_ guaranteed to be correct. In fact, your LISTC has this warning it the listing: STATISTICS (* - VALUE MAY BE INCORRECT) The only way to "fix" this is to delete/define/reload the data

Re: VSAM question/problem

2014-05-20 Thread Staller, Allan
"AVERAGE KEY LENGTH: 0.0 " This looks suspicious, but is not supported by any of the other doc you have supplied. The listcat shows a KEYLEN of 30, not zero. You might try a print of the INDEX component and see if it shows anything, otherwise, I am at a loss. If it really gives you that

VSAM question/problem

2014-05-20 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hi List, We have a VSAM KSDS with 1 record in it that is causing us some heartburn. I was able to create a new dataset and REPRO this one into the new one successfully, and the new dataset works fine, but I'd like to know what may be causing the original to be having problems - and possibly ho

Re: SSH connectivity with OMVS

2014-05-20 Thread Rob Schramm
Unless PA has changed.. it won't help with OpenSSH. The ported tools OpenSSH book has what you need in it. The only thing not covered is the use of openssh for key conversions. But it is just needed if you are interested in keeping the known_hosts keys in RACF.. or in converting existing keys. R

Re: DFSORT SVC

2014-05-20 Thread Sri h Kolusu
Juergen Kehr, Yes you can SVC 109 for DFSORT by specifying SVC=(,ALT) ALT - specifies that alternate DFSORT module IGX00038 is used in conjunction with SVC 109 rather than default DFSORT module IGX00017. ALT applies only when you choose SVC number 109. The form (109,ALT) is the same as (,ALT)

Anyone still really using PL/1?

2014-05-20 Thread chris lindenhauer
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Re: SMF Logstreams

2014-05-20 Thread Jonathan Miller
I found the solution to this problem so no need repsond. Thanks -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: DFSORT SVC

2014-05-20 Thread Bob Shannon
> The question is, if I can use IGX00017 for SYNCSORT and IGX00038 for DFSORT > (both are SVC 109) in parallel? SVC 109 is simply a router. If both products support extended SVCs then the answer is yes. Bob Shannon Rocket Software ---

Re: DFSORT SVC

2014-05-20 Thread Juergen Kehr
I don't think that they are compatible. The question is, if I can use IGX00017 for SYNCSORT and IGX00038 for DFSORT (both are SVC 109) in parallel? Regards Juergen -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruction

Re: SSH connectivity with OMVS

2014-05-20 Thread Ambros, Thomas
If you want to spend some money, Tectia makes an SSH server for zOS. It has the advantage that it handles MVS datasets ('legacy') directly. It also, if you want spend even more money, has a key manager product so if you have a large SSH population (mushroom farm of *ix machines in little boxes

Re: DFSORT SVC

2014-05-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 20 May 2014 08:21:05 -0500, Juergen Kehr wrote: > >we are using SYNCSORT as primary sort application, but although DFSORT in >connection with DB2. Now we plan to install the DFSORT SVC in parallel. >SYNCSORT uses SVC 109 routing code 17 (IGX00017). For DFSORT we would like to >use SVC 10

DFSORT SVC

2014-05-20 Thread Juergen Kehr
Hello, we are using SYNCSORT as primary sort application, but although DFSORT in connection with DB2. Now we plan to install the DFSORT SVC in parallel. SYNCSORT uses SVC 109 routing code 17 (IGX00017). For DFSORT we would like to use SVC 109 routing code 38 (IGX00038). Is this possible, or do

Re: SSH connectivity with OMVS

2014-05-20 Thread John McKown
You need to install IBM's OpenSSH. It is freely licensed. http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/features/unix/ported/openssh/ . This is the only SSH server that I am aware of for z/OS. In addition, I would _strongly_ suggest that you download and install the freely licensed Co:Z toolkit from Dovet

Re: SSH connectivity with OMVS

2014-05-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2014-05-20, at 06:37, Staller, Allan wrote: > > We are using z/OS 1.13 system and now customer requirement is to > connect to OMVS using SSH. Do I need to install IBM porting toolkit to make > this ssh connection work or any other way to solve this connectivity issue. > > > YES!. >

Re: SSH connectivity with OMVS

2014-05-20 Thread Staller, Allan
We are using z/OS 1.13 system and now customer requirement is to connect to OMVS using SSH. Do I need to install IBM porting toolkit to make this ssh connection work or any other way to solve this connectivity issue. YES!. You might also look at the policy agent (part of z/OSMF) and

SMF Logstreams

2014-05-20 Thread Jonathan Miller
How do i extract smf data that has already been marked for delete from a logstream? We use the archive feature and had a problem and one of the archived tapes was delete. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access ins

Re: Transfering a variable length file from VSE to z/OS

2014-05-20 Thread John McKown
Where is the ftp server. It is on z/VSE & z/OS. Or do you use the Microsoft ftp server at any step? If you are using a Windows desktop to first contact the z/VSE ftp server, download the data to Windows, then contact a z/OS server to upload to z/OS, I have a possibility. In the scenario below, ass

SSH connectivity with OMVS

2014-05-20 Thread Mainframe Mainframe
Hello, We are using z/OS 1.13 system and now customer requirement is to connect to OMVS using SSH. Do I need to install IBM porting toolkit to make this ssh connection work or any other way to solve this connectivity issue.

Re: Transfering a variable length file from VSE to z/OS

2014-05-20 Thread גדי בן אבי
I looked for 'vse terse', and didn't find anything useful Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jim McAlpine Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 2:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Transfering a variable length fi