OAS is counted this way:
DO J = 1 TO ASVTMAXU; /* Scan all the ASCBs. @P9A*/
ASCBADDR = ASVTENTY(J); /* Get the ASCB pointer from the
current ASVT entry. @P9A*/
IF ASVTAVAL(J) = OFF
& ASCBADDR ¬= ZERO
& ASSBOASB ¬= ZERO
THEN
Lionel,
Thanks for the info we discussed privately. I will attach the main points for
the group and for history.
Dan,
we also thought about this conversion’tool’, but it remains complex.
To all: if you have GDGs or customers with GDGs which they want to convert to
Extended, but you don’t have
>I have a question about error recovery and here is the situation.
>
>1. Cobol STC calls an assembler module which passes
>a RACF command using IRRSEQ00
>2. The customer has a large profile, over 32K
>3. We are seeing a S80A in 'IRRSEQ00'
>
>Now the question, I know I can write a Cobol Condition
>Since we do not use APPC, are type "AO" address spaces all UNIX process
>running in BPXAS initiator address spaces?
It appears so. I recently implemented OPERCMDS security for START/STOP
commands, and when a SAS User tries to kill his hanging process/thread/whatever
into USS, the CANCEL profil
Hi,
This question may be simple but i have no clear idea how TSO/E Logon
procedure invoke while login ?.Also want to know, how many Procedure's are
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> However, keep in mind that this is a statement about the CPU
>architecture, and not
>the I/O architecture. For example, zPDT does not support MIDAWs, which
>were
>introduced on the z9 machines.
And there are other hardware features that are NOT implemented, which I found
out the hard way
On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 22:12:00 -0400, Clark Morris wrote:
>
Just read carefully. JCL Ref.; EXEC Statement; PARMDD paramter says ...
>The knowledge center says the processing strips out blanks and
>sequence numbers. I am not certain as to where a sequence number
>would be in format V or VB data set
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bill.wood...@gmail.com (Bill Woodger) wrote:
>I don't think so either. There is documentation of the possibility of symbol
>substitution, but nothing about placement of commas, nothing about
>continuation symbols, and a piece abou
Well, that's one way to avoid a plagiarism charge -- translate to gibberish
and back!
On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 6:51 PM, Mike Myers
wrote:
> Mike:
>
> Interesting that you bring that up. I was working at the IBM Poughkeepsie
> lab at the time and was charged with comparing Fujitsu documentation wi
Mike:
Interesting that you bring that up. I was working at the IBM
Poughkeepsie lab at the time and was charged with comparing Fujitsu
documentation with the IBM equivalent manuals. I don't recall which
specific manuals those were, but I do remember that the English version
seemed to be writt
If the GDS datasets are on DASD I think I've read it is possible to
create a new GDG with a different name and rename a GDS so it in effect
moves from the old GDG to the new GDG. If so, you could do that to
preserve all the generations under a different GDG, delete the old GDG,
define an Extende
On 2/23/2017 1:36 PM, scott Ford wrote:>
> Now the question, I know I can write a Cobol Condition Handler, but since
> the abend is occurring in an assembler module, can i change the Assembler
> called to do a ESTAE ..? I want to be able to note the S80A abend but
still
> recovery. I am being r
I don't think so either. There is documentation of the possibility of symbol
substitution, but nothing about placement of commas, nothing about continuation
symbols, and a piece about embedded blanks being possible. Particularly this
latter could be affected by the embedding of comments in such
On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 16:23:24 -0400, Clark Morris wrote:
>
>>It will work more or less as you expect, with no C's necessary. The
>>following is cut-and-pasted *exactly* from a working job, and the parm works
>>as expected.
>>
>>/CZAAPILD EXEC PGM=CZAAPILD,
>>// PARM=('INST(CAM.Test.Agent)',
>>//*
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charl...@mcn.org (Charles Mills) wrote:
>It will work more or less as you expect, with no C's necessary. The
>following is cut-and-pasted *exactly* from a working job, and the parm works
>as expected.
>
>/CZAAPILD EXEC PGM=CZAAPILD,
I suppose I should chime in an modify my occasional plea for vintage
manuals, documentation, and software.
This stuff for the Japanese machines is very thin on the ground. The
computer museums in Japan (check out the IPSJ website, by the way,
when you have time) really do not have much at all, nor
I’m pretty sure it's Friday somewhere. I once visited a mainframe shop where
the only visible IBM-branded gear on the floor was a 37x5. I remember
-- Magnuson CPU (that would be a relic to come across)
-- StorageTek disk and tape
-- Raytheon terminals
-- Some kind of Brand-X printers.
They ran
Using 0M can cause other issues. If the task abends and there is not enough
below the line storage (usually about 2M is needed) for abend processing,
strange and fun things can occur.
I prefer to know what is needed and what can be coded.
I have some tasks where I have the user use 256M
Lizet
Change jobcard to REGION=OM
That usually fixes 99% of the problems
Steve
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Subject: Cobol - S80A aben
Also note that if you see a current job-ad for Fujitsu Mainframe skills in the
UK, it will be for an ICL Mainframe, running VME, and being distinctly
different from... anything from IBM. The COBOL is to the 1974 Standard (with
Extensions, including COMP-5 which allows the definition of "bits").
What is the region size the job has coded? What is the region the job needs
for this process?
Maybe you can fix the reason for the S80A and not change code.
Lizette
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> Behalf Of scott Ford
>
All:
I have a question about error recovery and here is the situation.
1. Cobol STC calls an assembler module which passes
a RACF command using IRRSEQ00
2. The customer has a large profile, over 32K
3. We are seeing a S80A in 'IRRSEQ00'
Now the question, I know I can write a Cobol Condition
No charge for the upgrade. They get it from ResourceLink, have them look
under the Tools option and 1090 Support.
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Date: 02/23/2017 01:23 PM
Subject:Re: How determine effective architecture level of a z/PDT?
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Definitely. Thanks!
> All zPDT 1090 SW updates can be obtained for ALL zPDT Customers through
Information Technology Company (ITC).
Dumb question: is that a chargeable upgrade, or is it "can be obtained" as
in "can be obtained at no charge."
(We don't have one -- we're Dallas users -- but I want
I can't decide whether this thread is fascinating or stultifying. I guess
that means it's fascinating!
On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Andy Wood wrote:
> >My €0.02:
> >There are (were) both: hardware and OS software.
> >
> >Software: IBM OS/390, Fujitsu MSP, Hitachi VOS and AFAIK Siemens (don
>My €0.02:
>There are (were) both: hardware and OS software.
>
>Software: IBM OS/390, Fujitsu MSP, Hitachi VOS and AFAIK Siemens (don't
>remeber the name)
>The clones were very similar, but not the same.
>
>Hardware: you could run IBM OS/390 on Hitachi or Amdahl machine, it was
>both feasible,
Charles, this link might help:
https://www-356.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/servlet/ContentHandler/pw_com_zpdt_whatsnew
It has a history of releases back to 2010.
From: Charles Mills
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Date: 02/23/2017 12:52 PM
Subject:Re: How determine effective arch
@Jim, my concern at this moment is with C++ compile ARCH level, so I/O macht
nichts.
@Steve, the Redbook says E39 is z800/900, and I am confident of my mapping
of z900 to ARCH(5) -- assuming it is running in Z mode, not ESA mode -- and
HLASM opcode level ZS.
Charles
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The information I think you're after is found in SG24-7721-05 'IBM System z
Personal Development Tool: Volume 1' June2013:
Table 1-1 System z architecture levels
Release datezPDT releasezPDT build
level z Architecture
2009, 2010
Correct, enter it in a Linux Terminal session.
And I don't know the answer to your E39/ARCH/ZS question. I don't believe
that is the case.
From: Charles Mills
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Date: 02/23/2017 11:59 AM
Subject:Re: How determine effective architecture level of a
However, keep in mind that this is a statement about the CPU
architecture, and not
the I/O architecture. For example, zPDT does not support MIDAWs, which
were
introduced on the z9 machines.
Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp.
Poughkeepsie NY
Steve M Bohn/Cinci
BS2000 is a Siemens Operating System (BS = Betriebssystem, german for
Operating System)
which is still in use today. It seems to run on other platforms, too;
german Wikipedia says: S/370, S/390, MIPS, SPARC, x86.
BS3000 was a Siemens Operating System, too, but it was in fact MVS,
which lead to s
Thanks.
And I gather that's a Linux command, not a "z/OS" command.
And working from the Redbook, the output below would indicate an E39, an
emulated z800/900, ARCH(5) or ZS, right?
Charles
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Have them send you the output of the z1090ver command:
$ z1090ver
z1090, version z1090_v1r0_E39, build date - 10/17/08 SUSE 32 bit
From: Charles Mills
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Date: 02/23/2017 11:28 AM
Subject:Re: How determine effective architecture level of a z/PDT?
Sen
There may have been several versions but, when I was involved in getting IDMS
to run on Fujitsu, Hitachi, Siemens and others, it was BS2000.
Charles (Chuck) Hardee
Senior Systems Engineer/Database Administration
EAS Information Technology
Thermo Fisher Scientific
300 Industry Drive | Pittsburgh
On 23-Feb-17 4:56 PM, Mike Beer wrote:
If I remember correctly - the Siemens (later Fujitsu Siemens) offering
was "BS2000".
Mike
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I gave an internal presentation about setting up an synchronous cross-memory
environment about 6 years ago - I can give you a sanitized version of the PPT
if you like.
E-mail me at "rscott at rs.com" for a copy
Rob
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What command or similar do I ask the customer to run to determine that?
"Please send us the output of the command." (Or " report.")
Charles
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I have read all the available documentation and it tells me how to
mechanically do everything from the PRIMARY,
But it does not tell me how the PC rtns are used
Steve
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If I remember correctly - the Siemens (later Fujitsu Siemens) offering
was "BS2000".
Mike
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We are RDz shop. I've looked at z/explorer. It appears to be a stripped down
version of RDz. If a user has RDZ (well iDZ now), then no need for both on
their workstation.
In fact, the mainframe portion of RDz has been split into two parts. The RSED
portion is now part of z/explorer.
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Charles, the architecture level is fixed at the zPDT's release level. For
example: zPDT V1R6 runs the z13 architecture level.
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I have it installed, no RDz required --- so far :)
Carmen
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Does this free tool require RDz or can it be
Does this free tool require RDz or can it be installed and used without RDz?
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Sorry for not replying to others replies - I didn't realize that after I
changed my list setting to digest mode, I wouldn't get replies to my own
subject thread.
After looking at all of the options, I'm not going to bother with this machine.
I'm just going to keep my eyes out for an early zSer
W dniu 2017-02-23 o 16:18, Vince Getgood pisze:
Can someone please point me to the announcement? I can't find it. Thanks.
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I talked with the author and the tool was designed in an environment without a
lot of sms managed datasets. He doesn't know (and I haven't used it) about
your 2nd questions.
He would be interested in your feedback and/or improvements.
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AFAIK, the DATACLAS cannot be altered(nothing to do w/ZFS). The dataset must be
copied.
dfDSS logical copy will work just fine. Other methods of your choice.
Dataclass can be altered, but existing VSAM dataset cannot be altered to
become EF. Thi
I will ask the author and get back to you. You may have found a flaw in the
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My €0.02:
There are (were) both: hardware and OS software.
Software: IBM OS/390, Fujitsu MSP, Hitachi VOS and AFAIK Siemens (don't
remeber the name)
The clones were very similar, but not the same.
Hardware: you could run IBM OS/390 on Hitachi or Amdahl machine, it was
both feasible, and legal
It will work more or less as you expect, with no C's necessary. The
following is cut-and-pasted *exactly* from a working job, and the parm works
as expected.
/CZAAPILD EXEC PGM=CZAAPILD,
// PARM=('INST(CAM.Test.Agent)',
//* 'COMM(";"),MAJ(CorreLog),MIN(5),TRACE(),LEN(PREFIX)', Test
//
One of the funniest things I recall was attempting to understand the
documentation. I wish I had kept some of the old manuals just for a laugh.
Apparently they had been translated from the IBM documentation into Japanese,
and then translated back into English. They were both awful, difficult
Thanks Lionel,
Since your name is mentioned as being involved, I hope you can answer some
questions:
- are SMS-managed datasets supported? How can each SMS-managed GDS be
uncatalogued without being deleted (and later re-cataloged and re-associated
with the GDG)?
- Does the utility still work wh
Do I understand correctly? All z/PDT's return z1090 or z1091 for D M=CPU?
How can one determine the effective architecture level? Is it pretending to
be a z9 or a BC12?
(On a customer machine. I know that possible general answers are "write a
program to query the facility bits" or "use a CBT tool
[Default] On 22 Feb 2017 14:28:53 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu (Paul Gilmartin) wrote:
Could someone try the following to see if it works? Assume the C for
continuation is in column 72.
//STER1 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14,PARM=(PARAM1, some comment
Copytree is pretty fast.
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Well, what I would try is to use DFDSS
> On Feb 23, 2017, at 4:07 AM, Mike Cairns wrote:
>
> The first ten years of my mainframe career I never saw a true IBM
> installation. First I worked with a Fujistu and MSP, then I moved to a shop
> that had Amdahl kit, and after that a shop that was Hitachi. At least for
> the Amdahl and H
Well, what I would try is to use DFDSS to copy existing ZFS container to new
name that has the proper dataclass assigned to it. Before I mounted it for
real use, I'd attempt the ZFSADM command to make it the size you want.
Assuming that work, then unmounts, and remount at the location you wan
Check out CBTTape.org file 951 which is a utility that will convert a GDG to an
extended GDG.
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On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 7:05 AM, Allan Staller
wrote:
> I would not want to migrate a 4GB plus dataset. Very Slowww!
>
IIRC, we changed from "normal" to extended addressing by creating an EA
data class, dumping the DSN with ADRDSSU, then restoring the DSN with the
new data class. If you
In response to a "D A,L" the system displays message IEE114I. In the header
part, messages shows some totals as "JOBS", "M/S", "INITS", "OAS" (and others
which I'm not interested in).
After the heading information about active address spaces is show; two per
line. The type is shown as "Jx", "A
Yes unfortunately there is no way to "convert" to extended GDG.
On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 08:04 Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM <
kees.verno...@klm.com> wrote:
> Hello group,
>
> We like to start using Extended GDGs for the nice LIMIT(999) feature.
> I found that I can ALTER a GDG to a LIMIT > 255,
I would not want to migrate a 4GB plus dataset. Very Slowww!
So you could try to cheat.
HSM Migrate/RECALL with an updated DATA Class.
DATACLAS is only valid when the dataset is created. So you cannot assign EA/EF
without a DEL/DEF function (yes there are other elements that can be
AFAIK, the DATACLAS cannot be altered(nothing to do w/ZFS). The dataset must be
copied.
dfDSS logical copy will work just fine. Other methods of your choice.
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Hello group,
We like to start using Extended GDGs for the nice LIMIT(999) feature.
I found that I can ALTER a GDG to a LIMIT > 255, but only if it is an Extended
GDG.
I could not find that I can ALTER an old GDG to an Extended GDG. Is this not
possible and can I only define a new GDG as Extende
Nathan,
try something like this: -
RESTORE TYPE=DSF,ICFCAT=ALIAS
SELECT DSN=old dataset name,
NEWN=new dataset name
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Back when I too worked on Amdahls in the 80s, the SEs told me the Fujitsus had
31 bit I/O architecture! Don't know the truth of that, though.
Robin
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The first ten years of my mainframe career I never saw a true IBM installation.
First I worked with a Fujistu and MSP, then I moved to a shop that had Amdahl
kit, and after that a shop that was Hitachi. At least for the Amdahl and
Hitachi the OS was really MVS, OS/390 etc.
The Fujitsu environ
Original publications
GG22-9201 Introduction to Cross Memory Services (1980)
GG22-9231 Cross Memory Services User Guide (1981)
Both authored by Paul Dorn and Udo Pimiskern
Obviously does not include subsequent developments, but instructive
nonetheless.
MKB
Steve
There are quite a few people on this list that have experience in this area.
What do you need to know?
Rob
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I remember from the time we still received the source of DMS (CA-DISK) there
were checks every now and then to see if it was running on a Fijutsi or a
Hitachi (they also had one) MVS. So this means it was very similar to MVS, but
of course hardly comparable to z/OS with its 30 years of subsequen
The rumor back in the 80's was that they had reverse engineered the FACOM's
from SYS1.MACLIB. I know they made it to XA 'cause several 3rd party
vendors were routed thru SFO on their way over. Think Bruce Black(FDR) and
others mentioned they got most of it right with the exception of a few
i
Gadi,
Your problem could be caused by the routing from z/OS to z/LINUX or it could
be caused by the routing back from z/LINUX to z/OS.
I suggest using the TSO PING command with the SRCIP option so you know which
IP is being used at both ends and which IP z/LINUX is routing back to.
Try it with d
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