Re: IRS - 60-Year-Old IT System Failed on Tax Day Due to New Hardware (nextgov.com)

frank.swarbr...@outlook.com (Frank Swarbrick) writes: > Here's a somewhat interesting document: > https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pia/imf_pia.pdf. > "IMF is a batch driven application that uses VSAM files." > Date of Approval: February 28, 2017 PIA ID Number: 2140 A >

Re: OAM and Object Tape Support with an MTL

I'm not really sure if software delivery on physical tape is a benefit or not. Personally I don't think so, but I also don't think it costs IBM anything to provide it if someone (anyone) might need it. What would be kind of cool is if they could provide it in some standard virtual tape

Re: DFSMSdss dump fix after binary transfer

Jerry,   Yes, IND$FILE is OK to transfer to/from a PC.   I have a program to dump VSAM and OSAM/QSAM datasets in IPCS-readable LRECL=BLKSIZE=4160 format. Let me know if you want a copy.   Cheers, CP   On 24/04/2018 12:00, Jerry Paper wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > thank you for sharing your

Re: OA53355 - USERKEY COMMON MIGRATION SUPPORT

It is, of course, just a set of flag bits in an existing section. Doesn’t seem to me to be the most difficult of things to map and summarise. Cheers, Martin Sent from my iPad > On 25 Apr 2018, at 04:24, Jousma, David <01a0403c5dc1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Thanks Carmen.

Re: AW: Re: Where do I find a list of world timezones in z/OS USS notation?

On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 07:37:53 +0200, Peter Hunkeler wrote: >>What is important is the numeric part. > >... and whether or not there is a text string *after* that numeric part. It is >the trigger to activate the automatic daylight saving time handling. No >string, no DST handling. > Not

Re: DFSMSdss dump fix after binary transfer

On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 00:24:00 -0500, Brian Westerman wrote: >That sequence won't work, when you upload it the the PC the blocks will be >messed up. DFDSS (and FDR) both use special blocking that gets broken if you >don't handle it correctly. > >If you need to go to the PC, then you should

Re: Where do I find a list of world timezones in z/OS USS notation?

On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 13:19:11 +, Allan Staller wrote: >Try setting: > > TZ= IST2IDT >export $TZ > >in a Unix shell and see what happens. > Close, but no cigar. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Standard_Time#Differences_between_other_countries The POSIX convention (used by

Re: OA53355 - USERKEY COMMON MIGRATION SUPPORT

Thanks Carmen. I'm not SASsy...Not much of a SAS coder these days. Seems like this is going to become a pretty common report that folks are going to be running over the next two years until V2.4 looms near. I was hoping to ride on someones coat-tails.

Re: OA53355 - USERKEY COMMON MIGRATION SUPPORT

I have a bunch of MXG source to read the SMF_30, but not the variable you're looking for - let me know, I'd be happy to share Carmen Vitullo - Original Message - From: "David Jousma" <01a0403c5dc1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Tuesday,

OA53355 - USERKEY COMMON MIGRATION SUPPORT

So, has anyone written a SAS/MXG program to read through these SMF30 records yet, that they would care to share? Seems to be the easiest method to run through the daily data to determine who is using USER Key common? I see the slip noted in the APAR, and I could go that route, but still

Re: OAM and Object Tape Support with an MTL

Edward Gould wrote: On Apr 24, 2018, at 12:58 AM, Brian Westerman wrote: OAM is pretty fast for SMS managed tape. For example, we have a client that uses literally thousands of really small tapes per day (it's a long sordid story as to why) with 512 virtual

Re: How determine if current address space is swappable?

Ed, Thank you, I had the same question. (Charles: Thanks for asking!) Regards, Mike Baldwin Cartagena Software Limited Markham, Ontario, Canada http://www.cartagena.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: How far out of date are my skills

The mechanics of base z/OS skills have gotten much easier, amazingly so thinking back to the 1970's when releases and PTF's arrived by tape and SMPE was new. So, the basics are easier, and if you used Internet delivery, and installed OMVS and Communications server to include TCPIP with 1.13 you

Re: IRA400E RC=04

Jerry, you may want to talk to your favorite CICS person. Was a change to internal CICS storage settings. Or was there a misbehaving transaction or two. Thanks.. Paul Feller AGT Mainframe Technical Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: z/OS java development : off platform IDE

John, There was a previous discussion about JZOS licensing in this forum in the December, 2017, thread "JZOS on open systems question." I recommend reading through that thread in the archives if you haven't already. However, to net it out, JZOS is part of the "IBM SDK for z/OS, Java Technology

Re: IRA400E RC=04

Thanks Paul, We received the IRA404I message about 13:42 for 5 CICS regions, both production and test. From about 11:00 until 13:45, the page fixed storage went from about 65%, normally < 50%, to critical about 80%. Which is what puzzles me, because there really hasn't been any changes to the

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: SMF record analyze

Yes, it’s 2.1 so almost everyone can do it now. Thanks, Vignesh, for mentioning my quite old blog post. There is only one place where I process SMF with REXX: I wrote a prototype to extract the Deactivated LPARs from 70-1. I guess I was lazy. :-) This code is actually quite handy - and I should

Re: IRA400E RC=04

I have had to fight this kind of thing in the past. 1) Get a SA dump 2) IPCS and do a VERBX RSMDATA 3) Validate that only pages in that range are 31-bit restricted. - At one point I had a system with 90% of the 24-bit frames occupied by pages that could have gone into 64-bit frames 4) Here is

Re: IRA400E RC=04

Thanks Paul -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Feller, Paul Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 8:23 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IRA400E RC=04 Jerry, you really need to find the task or tasks that did lots of

Re: OAM and Object Tape Support with an MTL

> On Apr 24, 2018, at 12:58 AM, Brian Westerman > wrote: > > OAM is pretty fast for SMS managed tape. For example, we have a client that > uses literally thousands of really small tapes per day (it's a long sordid > story as to why) with 512 virtual tape

Re: IRA400E RC=04

Jerry, you really need to find the task or tasks that did lots of page fixing of storage. I think there should have been some IRA404I messages as well as the IRA400E message. That will help you understand what happened. That's the first place I would start with. Thanks.. Paul Feller AGT

Re: IRA400E RC=04

20GB, up from 8GB -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 7:59 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IRA400E RC=04 On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 11:24:26 +, Edgington, Jerry wrote:

Re: IRA400E RC=04

On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 11:24:26 +, Edgington, Jerry wrote: >We had a problem, yesterday with shortage of pageable central storage frames, >pageable frames between 16 megabytes and 2 gigabytes shortage. How much central storage does that system have? -- Tom Marchant

IRA400E RC=04

To all, We had a problem, yesterday with shortage of pageable central storage frames, pageable frames between 16 megabytes and 2 gigabytes shortage. In IEASYS; RSU=0, In IEAOPT; CPENABLE=(10,30), ERV=5, HIPERDISPATCH=YES, PROJECTCPU=YES, INITIMP=E We are

Re: DFSMSdss dump fix after binary transfer

Dear colleagues, thank you for sharing your opinions and experiences. I'm aware that tersing first or using an alternative block-preservation method is the right approach (as we are doing it for years), but it wasn't the case in this scenario. The data only exists as a file on PC at the moment

Re: SMF record analyze

On 24/04/2018 3:04 AM, Kirk Wolf wrote: Black Hill Software also has some SMF reporting tools which look pretty nice. Thanks for the mention. EasySMF includes reports to shows rolling 4 hour average service by service class, report class and even job name to help you see exactly what

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: SMF record analyze

Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: >https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/MartinPacker/entry/processing_vbs_data_with_rexx?lang=en > >Believe REXX can read VBS... since v2r2 or something. Yes, I forgot about this which were also discussed in IBM-MAIN some time ago. That new ability

Re: Where do I find a list of world timezones in z/OS USS notation?

BTW, John, when looking for possible "standard" names for timezones, I ran across the following page... http://www.linuxhowtos.org/manpages/3/newtzset.htm ...that misled me to think there is such a list. On the above page there is a specific example for Israel specifying IST2IDT (no minus

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: SMF record analyze

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/MartinPacker/entry/processing_vbs_data_with_rexx?lang=en – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh Sent: 24 April

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: SMF record analyze

Believe REXX can read VBS... since v2r2 or something. – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: 24 April 2018 09:48 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL]

Re: SMF record analyze

Oren, Yifat wrote: >Take a look at: >http://ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/tipstechniques/applicationdevelopment/rexx_smf_part3/?page=1 >I've used the Rexx code sample in this article as a good starting point for >analyzing SMF 30s. Thanks for that link. I certainly know that REXX can't read SMF

Re: AW: Re: Where do I find a list of world timezones in z/OS USS notation?

On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 07:37:53 +0200, Peter Hunkeler wrote: >>What is important is the numeric part. > > >... and whether or not there is a text string *after* that numeric part. It is >the trigger to activate the automatic daylight saving time handling. No >string, no DST handling.

Re: SMF record analyze

Hi, Take a look at: http://ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/tipstechniques/applicationdevelopment/rexx_smf_part3/?page=1 I've used the Rexx code sample in this article as a good starting point for analyzing SMF 30s. HTH, Yifat -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: How far out of date are my skills

Brian Westerman wrote: >The ABC's of systems programming series are actually fairly good for something >like refreshing your memory and showing how to now do things which may have >changed in the past 10 years. Agreed. Those bookies were good and I kept them somewhere in a folder to avoid

Re: DFSMSdss dump fix after binary transfer

If you change it to RECFM=U first, and restore the DCB attributes after restore. Works with SMF data, so you aren't stripping the length descriptors. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Brian Westerman Sent: Monday, April 23,