Re: Question regarding sharing of CF

2014-08-30 Thread Martin Packer
You can't share a CF LPAR between sysplexes. You should define at least 2 CF LPARs. And you should avoid - if at all possible - having CF LPARs sharing ICF processors (unless you really don't care about performance). Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator,

Missing Records in SMS Managed PS Dataset - Dataclass dependant

2014-08-30 Thread Peter Hunkeler
Hi Beat, I've had numerous problems with weird behavior of the software when datasets were allocated on EAV volumes with the data set extended attribute (EATTR) set to Opt and the software was not prepared for this. EATTR=OPT allows the data set to reside in the extended addressability are ov EAV

Re: Is there a CPU cost to using key9 storage while running with key8

2014-08-30 Thread Peter Relson
I'd have thought that CICS (in particular), in an early stage of startup when it runs authorized, would set the Storage-Protection-Override Control (bit 39 of CR0) if STGPROT=YES was specified as a DFHSIT parm. Storage protection override is set for everyone in z/OS and has been pretty much

Re: Understanding Data Set Information?

2014-08-30 Thread Walt Farrell
On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:47:03 -0500, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: _UNIX03=NO cp -B -P'SPACE=(1,(0,300)),BLKSIZE=0' /dev/fd/0 //TEMP.CBT854.ZIP As I understand the JCL SPACE parameter, SPACE=(1,(0,300)) asks for a primary space allocation of 0, with a secondary space

Re: Understanding Data Set Information?

2014-08-30 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 29, 2014, at 11:43 PM, retired mainframer wrote: The ACS routines once existed in source somewhere. When they are compiled into an SCDS the DSN and member names are saved in the SCDS also. However, nothing prevents them from being modified after compilation. (This is no different