Re: VLF caching

2014-11-26 Thread Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Thompson Sent: 26 November, 2014 21:08 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: VLF caching On 11/26/2014 11:19 AM, Bob Shannon wrote: > I tend to agree with the OP. LLA will on

Re: VLF caching

2014-11-26 Thread Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bob Shannon Sent: 26 November, 2014 17:20 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: VLF caching >>VLF writes SMF 41 records, but they are unusable for LLA. >That is not correct. It is t

AW: Re: Where is the JESMSGLG described?

2014-11-26 Thread Peter Hunkeler
> What are you trying to do? Just curiosity. Got a hint offline. It's in the JES2 init & tuning guide, chapter 2, JES2 System Data Sets. I've been almost there, but then gave up too early. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN su

Re: Where is the JESMSGLG described?

2014-11-26 Thread Tony Harminc
On 26 November 2014 at 14:25, Peter Hunkeler wrote: > And, yes, I'm talking about the first sysout data set in any job; Seen as > jeSMSGLG in the DDname column in SDSF. > > > By header and footer I mean all the messages in this log that which do *not* > have a message identifier. There can be a

Re: VLF caching

2014-11-26 Thread Steve Thompson
On 11/26/2014 11:19 AM, Bob Shannon wrote: I tend to agree with the OP. LLA will only check VLF for modules it previously cached. Granted there may be some trimming, but I don't ever recall seeing less than a 100% hit ratio for LLA. The other VLF exploiters behave differently and the SMF stat

AW: Re: Where is the JESMSGLG described?

2014-11-26 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>Maybe JES2 Init and Tunning Reference/Guide. I got some hits searching on them. That's what I thought, too. I've been searching MVS and JES2 messsages manuals as well as some other JES books. And, yes, I'm talking about the first sysout data set in any job; Seen as jeSMSGLG in the DDname co

Re: ShopzSeries problems?

2014-11-26 Thread Matthew Stitt
I just checked and it now lets me access the download information. So ShopZseries appears to be working again. Matthew On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 07:20:23 -0500, Richards, Robert B. wrote: >Thanks for confirming "it ain't just me!":-) > > >-Original Message- >From: IBM Mainframe Dis

Re: Eniac on display

2014-11-26 Thread Ed Finnell
Right next to the 750 kva generator? In a message dated 11/26/2014 5:22:24 A.M. Central Standard Time, elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za writes: When I'm big and rich, I want one of such toys and wire it up for z/OS, but where oh where do I store that 27 ton thing? ;-) ---

Re: FTP hangs?

2014-11-26 Thread Kirk Wolf
Phil, We also use IBM z/OS RDP, and although I haven't seen FTP "hangs", I have noticed that when uploading lots of files that there are commonly errors that require "retry". We found that if using the Ant FTP task, that setting "retriesAllowed" fixed the problem. I would suggest that you se

Re: Archive search problems

2014-11-26 Thread Chase, John
Google 'bit.listserv'. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Dazzo, Matt > Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 11:21 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Archive search problems > > Dave, thanks that's awes

Re: Archive search problems

2014-11-26 Thread Dazzo, Matt
Dave, thanks that's awesome. Is there an index in google for all the listserv groups? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 10:03 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: Archive search problems

2014-11-26 Thread Tony Harminc
On 26 November 2014 at 10:00, Dazzo, Matt wrote: > I am unable to search the archives because listserv.ua.edu keeps telling me > to sign in, even though I am already signed in. I even changed my pw and > confirmed it. But when I go to the archives and try to search I get the sign > in screen an

Re: FTP hangs?

2014-11-26 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 09:17:15 -0600, Barry Merrill wrote: >Our PASV experience with users uploading data files to us and >downloading the (one) MXG Software file has been binary. > >At some sites PASV is required, or the transfer never initiates, >while at other sites, enabling PASV causes the tran

Re: Getting ptfs for a specific FMID

2014-11-26 Thread Lucas Rosalen
Well played mr. Gould! --- *Lucas Rosalen* rosalen.lu...@gmail.com +55 19 9-8146-7633 2014-11-26 14:44 GMT-02:00 Ed Gould : > Thanks. > However *I* was the one that raised

Re: Getting ptfs for a specific FMID

2014-11-26 Thread Ed Gould
Thanks. However *I* was the one that raised a SHARE requirement for forfmid. :) Ed On Nov 26, 2014, at 7:30 AM, Lucas Rosalen wrote: To apply PTFs for a specific fmid: //APPLYEXEC PGM=GIMSMP,PARM='DATE=U',REGION=0M //SMPCSI DD DISP=SHR,DSN=your_csi //SMPCNTL DD * SET BDY (your_target)

Re: VLF caching

2014-11-26 Thread Bob Shannon
>>VLF writes SMF 41 records, but they are unusable for LLA. >That is not correct. It is true that LLA does know what it put into the cache >(as would most VLF exploiters), but (as with all VLF exploiters) it has no >idea what VLF has taken out due to trimming. I tend to agree with the OP. LLA wi

Re: VLF caching

2014-11-26 Thread Peter Relson
>VLF writes SMF 41 records, but they are unusable for LLA. >Since LLA manages its VLF cache and knows what is in it >and what is not, it will always have a 100% hitratio on >its VLF cache, which will be reported by VLF records 41. That is not correct. It is true that LLA does know what it put i

Re: FTP hangs?

2014-11-26 Thread Barry Merrill
Our PASV experience with users uploading data files to us and downloading the (one) MXG Software file has been binary. At some sites PASV is required, or the transfer never initiates, while at other sites, enabling PASV causes the transfer to fail, often with a BROKEN PIPE message after moving man

Re: since last official 2.1-ptf-update problem with PASN-AL-entries

2014-11-26 Thread Peter Relson
This is likely due to an intentional change in OA45768. It was never documented that z/OS would delete entries from a PASN access list for a deleted data space. Doing such deletion, in some cases, causes problems that can be dealt with only by not having done the deletion. A program relying on

Re: Archive search problems

2014-11-26 Thread Jousma, David
In the absence of that, you can see everything here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bit.listserv.ibm-main I actually find it easier to use this than the archives. _ Dave Jousma Assistant Vice President, Mainframe Engineeri

Archive search problems

2014-11-26 Thread Dazzo, Matt
I am unable to search the archives because listserv.ua.edu keeps telling me to sign in, even though I am already signed in. I even changed my pw and confirmed it. But when I go to the archives and try to search I get the sign in screen and my pw is not accepted. The results are the same with Chr

Re: ShopzSeries problems?

2014-11-26 Thread Skeldum, William
Our nightly job to download PTFs also failed last night. GIM69207S ** THE CONNECTION WITH THE SERVER FAILED. java.net.ConnectException: EDC8128I Connection refused. HTTP Server Error: 502 Bad Gateway Connection attempt: 60, WAIT time remaining: 1 minute. Will retry connection to the

Re: Where is the JESMSGLG described?

2014-11-26 Thread Lucas Rosalen
Maybe JES2 Init and Tunning Reference/Guide. I got some hits searching on them. Lucas Rosalen Em 26/11/2014 11:41, "Elardus Engelbrecht" escreveu: > Peter Hunkeler wrote: > > >I can't seem to remember what manual describes the header and footer > messages in the JES2 JESMSGLG data set. Does anyo

Re: AMODE Problem with CSVDYNEX

2014-11-26 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Donald Likens wrote: >I use CSVDYNEX to dynamically load an IEFU83 exit defined as AMODE31 (use >system definition). On what z/OS version? (At least on v1.13, that CSVDYNEX macro is only for AMODE 24 and 31.) Please post your SAM and CSVDYNEX statements plus all keywords. Groete / Greetings E

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2014-11-26 Thread Mark Regan
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Re: Where is the JESMSGLG described?

2014-11-26 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Peter Hunkeler wrote: >I can't seem to remember what manual describes the header and footer messages >in the JES2 JESMSGLG data set. Does anyone know? I as$$ume you are talking about the 'dataset' inside a job like these: JESJCL, JESJCLIN, JESMSGLG, JESYSMSG. Could you be kind to show us examp

Re: AMODE Problem with CSVDYNEX

2014-11-26 Thread Dave Day
How are you doing the add? If you are giving it an address of code to use as opposed to a module name, that may be the problem. Based on what you posted here, I don;t believe it is griping about the code doing the add. Its the module being added. --Dave On 11/26/2014 7:06 AM, Donald Li

Re: Getting ptfs for a specific FMID

2014-11-26 Thread Lucas Rosalen
To apply PTFs for a specific fmid: //APPLYEXEC PGM=GIMSMP,PARM='DATE=U',REGION=0M //SMPCSI DD DISP=SHR,DSN=your_csi //SMPCNTL DD * SET BDY (your_target) . APPLY PTFS FORFMID (your_fmid) GROUPEXTEND BYPASS(HOLDSYS) RETRY(YES) C(ALL) . Hope this is what you've been looking for. Lucas Rosale

Re: ShopzSeries problems?

2014-11-26 Thread Roger Mihay
I also am having a problem with downloads from ShopzSeries. I wasn't on IBM-MAIN yesterday. I started a PMR yesterday afternoon and got this relpy: There was an issue reported that was making that message appear. The internal teams have been working over the issue and it should be fixed by now.

Re: Is there any other way to implement base sysplex excepting CTC

2014-11-26 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Cai Jin Song wrote: >This system is a base sysplex,so we need to define CTCs between LPARs. WAD >We don't like to define CTCs. Why? >Is there any other way to implement base sysplex excepting CTC. AFAIK, no. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht --

Re: Death of spinning disk?

2014-11-26 Thread Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM
>-Original Message- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On >Behalf Of John McKown >Sent: 26 November, 2014 14:14 >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Subject: Death of spinning disk? > >Well, maybe, according to: >http://www.itworld.com/article/2851057/intel-a

Where is the JESMSGLG described?

2014-11-26 Thread Peter Hunkeler
I can't seem to remember what manual describes the header and footer messages in the JES2 JESMSGLG data set. Does anyone know? -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to li

Death of spinning disk?

2014-11-26 Thread John McKown
Well, maybe, according to: http://www.itworld.com/article/2851057/intel-and-micron-are-going-to-kill-the-hard-disk-drive.html According to this, Intel is thinking that 10Tb SSDs will be available in a couple of years. From what I have read, despite the "wearing" problem, with SSDs, one which is pr

AMODE Problem with CSVDYNEX

2014-11-26 Thread Donald Likens
I use CSVDYNEX to dynamically load an IEFU83 exit defined as AMODE31 (use system definition). I have been working to move information above the 64 bit bar and now have a problem I do not understand. As far as I can tell the last SAM instruction issued is SAM31 (Set Amode to 31) before issuing th

Re: Is there any other way to implement base sysplex excepting CTC

2014-11-26 Thread John McKown
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 5:53 AM, ibmmain wrote: > > Hi all > > There are three LPARs in our SDM system in the same machine. We don't > have any CF for this system > > This system is a base sysplex,so we need to define CTCs between LPARs. > > We don't like to define CTCs. Is there any other way t

Re: ShopzSeries problems?

2014-11-26 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Thanks for confirming "it ain't just me!" :-) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 7:19 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ShopzSeries problems? Ok, gettin

Re: ShopzSeries problems?

2014-11-26 Thread Jousma, David
Ok, getting a little further, site is really slow. And then I get the same error as you: ERROR: SHP0003E: An unexpected error occurred. Please try again later. If the problem persists, please contact us (visit our Customer Service page for contact information). _

Re: ShopzSeries problems?

2014-11-26 Thread Jousma, David
No problem. I was just able to get past the signon, and then after clicking "my Orders" things grind to a halt. _ Dave Jousma Assistant Vice President, Mainframe Engineering david.jou...@53.com 1830 East Paris, Grand Rapids, MIĀ  4954

Re: ShopzSeries problems?

2014-11-26 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Thanks Dave. I can get in and see my "two" downloadable orders, but after clicking on "Download"...nothing, followed a minute or two later by that SHP0003E message. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent:

Re: ShopzSeries problems?

2014-11-26 Thread Jousma, David
I can't even get into the site this morning. I have an order that is still downloadable, and was going to try that for you. _ Dave Jousma Assistant Vice President, Mainframe Engineering david.jou...@53.com 1830 East Paris, Grand Rap

Re: ShopzSeries problems?

2014-11-26 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Yesterday, I sent the email below and did not hear back from anyone. Can someone confirm that Shopz "download" is working? IBM acknowledged receipt of my reply to Customer Service but then silence. I tried again this morning and still no joy. Bob From: Richards, Robert B. Sent: Tuesday, Novemb

Is there any other way to implement base sysplex excepting CTC

2014-11-26 Thread ibmmain
Hi all There are three LPARs in our SDM system in the same machine. We don't have any CF for this system This system is a base sysplex,so we need to define CTCs between LPARs. We don't like to define CTCs. Is there any other way to implement base sysplex excepting CTC. Thanks a lot!

Re: Eniac on display

2014-11-26 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Mike Schwab wrote: >http://www.wired.com/2014/11/eniac-unearthed/ Very very interesting! Thanks Mike, for kindly sharing this entertaining article. When I'm big and rich, I want one of such toys and wire it up for z/OS, but where oh where do I store that 27 ton thing? ;-) Groete / Greetings E

Eniac on display

2014-11-26 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/eniac-unearthed/ -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@lis

Re: FTP hangs?

2014-11-26 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Ok, ok, ok, I hate to post twice, but here goes... ;-) Phil, more diagnostics things you can review: What version of z/OS are you using? Are you using IBM's TCP/IP software or another vendor's package? DATACTTIME FIFOIOTIME Insert/remove TRACE and DEBUG statements. Check your PROGxx parmlib m