Re: zOS 3.1 - zosmf

2023-03-05 Thread Peter
Thanks for all the response Looks like the zosmf is the way to go. I will start looking the way to get zosmf running on my test LPAR. Is there any videos created by IBM to demonstrate it's usage for installing the products?(ofcourse I will look into the manual) I remember CA CSM had a very good

Re: zOS 3.1 - zosmf

2023-03-05 Thread Timothy Sipples
Peter wrote: > CBPDO option is a good alternative. As we are a shop which predominantly >uses Software ag product I don't understand how that follows. Would you elaborate? As you've probably observed in the z/OS 3.1 preview announcement there are even more z/OS features and operations that

Re: Running a Coupling Facility using a CP for a test Parallel Sysplex 0 anyh gotcha's?

2023-03-05 Thread Timothy Sipples
I think you've covered most of the bases. A few points from me: 1. If you can afford to dedicate a whole engine to the production Coupling Facility — at least for the intervals when you're using the production CF "nontrivially" — then that'd be ideal. But if you cannot afford a whole engine

Re: Ad TCP/Socket programs in REXX (Re: Mainframe REXX (Re: Badmouthing Rexx and ooRexx - again (Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-03-05 Thread David Crayford
I'm sure your BSF4ooRexx is a really nice library. But it's moot point talking about it on this forum because ooRexx has not been ported to z/OS, I'm sorry to say that I think it probably never will be. Unless, of course, there is a REXX enthusiast who has the time and skills to do the port. I

Re: Common standard for number formatting equiv. to mainframe facilities?

2023-03-05 Thread David Crayford
On 6/3/23 05:07, Tony Harminc wrote: On Sun, 5 Mar 2023 at 08:32, David Crayford wrote: strfmon() should do the trick. Sigh... Binary floating point for currencies. Doesn't end well. Even Bitcoin et al expect correct decimal results. Yep. C was never really used for writing business

Re: Running a Coupling Facility using a CP for a test Parallel Sysplex 0 anyh gotcha's?

2023-03-05 Thread Mike Schwab
Since you will be the only user, no one else will be impacted. On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 3:49 PM Laurence Chiu wrote: > > That's the debate I'm having. The CF is only to support VSAM RLS and most > of the time only one member of the sysplex will be up so the load on the CF > is not going to be

Re: Running a Coupling Facility using a CP for a test Parallel Sysplex 0 anyh gotcha's?

2023-03-05 Thread Laurence Chiu
That's the debate I'm having. The CF is only to support VSAM RLS and most of the time only one member of the sysplex will be up so the load on the CF is not going to be high. I just can't persuade the outsourcer we don't need a dedicated engine for the CF. On Mon, Mar 6, 2023, 9:49 AM Seymour J

Re: Common standard for number formatting equiv. to mainframe facilities?

2023-03-05 Thread Charles Mills
Would be better, or a better alternative, to accept two integers with at least the first being 64-bits: the significant digits in one and the number of decimal places in the other; or alternatively the digits to the left in one and to the right in the other. One of my very, very first

Re: BookManager

2023-03-05 Thread Seymour J Metz
AFAIK, IBM used the BookManager BUILD tag set, which is a superset of BookMaster. Note that the PC versions of BookManager BUILD were totally different and did not support Script input. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM

Re: Running a Coupling Facility using a CP for a test Parallel Sysplex 0 anyh gotcha's?

2023-03-05 Thread Seymour J Metz
AFAIK, the only issues for connecting two LPARS with a CF running on a CP of the same CEC are cost and performance. For cross-CEC connections, a CTCA link is enough for XCF, but anything more, e.g., GRS star, requires a CF link. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: Common standard for number formatting equiv. to mainframe facilities?

2023-03-05 Thread Tony Harminc
On Sun, 5 Mar 2023 at 08:32, David Crayford wrote: strfmon() should do the trick. > Sigh... Binary floating point for currencies. Doesn't end well. Even Bitcoin et al expect correct decimal results. > https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009604599/functions/strfmon.html There seems to be a

Re: Virtual Storage Manager - LDA.

2023-03-05 Thread Seymour J Metz
VSMLIST is certainly the best way to test what z/OS has allocated in large blocks, but I believe that the OP would be better served by using PL/I facilities to allocate and report the storage. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: Running a Coupling Facility using a CP for a test Parallel Sysplex 0 anyh gotcha's?

2023-03-05 Thread Seymour J Metz
The issue is performance. Depending on what you are doing, the degraded performance may be acceptable. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Laurence Chiu

Re: Common standard for number formatting equiv. to mainframe facilities?

2023-03-05 Thread Rupert Reynolds
Thanks--that's interesting. On Sun, 5 Mar 2023, 13:32 David Crayford, wrote: > strfmon() should do the trick. > > https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009604599/functions/strfmon.html > > > On 5 Mar 2023, at 4:06 am, Rupert Reynolds wrote: > > > > To explain, I'm writing new PC code. I want

Ad TCP/Socket programs in REXX (Re: Mainframe REXX (Re: Badmouthing Rexx and ooRexx - again (Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-03-05 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
Comment, asking: > Like what? Have you ever tried to write a TCP server in REXX? Comment, receiving: > Start here and it is reasonably simple: - TCPIP.SEZAINST(RSSERVER) - TCPIP.SEZAINST(R6SERVER) Comment: so writing a TCP server in REXX is not only theoretically possible,

Re: Retrieve HiperDispatch CP Polarity information ?

2023-03-05 Thread Boesel Guillaume
Hi, Thank you very much for the STSI tip. "But then what kind of action are you going to take that would differ depending on the result?" It is just for educational purpose, I'm building my own little system monitor tool and I wondered how tools like Sysview or Mainview retrieved this

Re: Running a Coupling Facility using a CP for a test Parallel Sysplex 0 anyh gotcha's?

2023-03-05 Thread Laurence Chiu
The debate I am having with the outsourcer is whether or not it's feasible or even practical to run a test CF on a general purpose engine. They say it requires a dedicated engine and I think that is nonsense! If I can get that over the line (and that is the challenge) then I can suggest what you

Re: Retrieve HiperDispatch CP Polarity information ?

2023-03-05 Thread Tony Harminc
On Sun, 5 Mar 2023 at 04:38, Boesel Guillaume wrote: I'm trying to retrieve realtime HiperDispatch CP Polarity information but I > can't find a clue how to do that in the documentation. > STSI instruction? (If you can make it through the 25 (!) pages of Principles of Operation). In any case

Re: Common standard for number formatting equiv. to mainframe facilities?

2023-03-05 Thread David Crayford
strfmon() should do the trick. https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009604599/functions/strfmon.html > On 5 Mar 2023, at 4:06 am, Rupert Reynolds wrote: > > To explain, I'm writing new PC code. I want the equivalent of EDMK in > (something like) snprintf() format strings to print numbers

Re: Common standard for number formatting equiv. to mainframe facilities?

2023-03-05 Thread Rupert Reynolds
(sorry about quoting a different thread, BTW) That's a thought. Thanks. I had my PL/I experience in mind, and thought it's a bit niche. But Cobol's facilities look /very/ similar :-) Thanks again. Roops On Sun, 5 Mar 2023, 11:07 Binyamin Dissen, wrote: > A COBOL picture string would

Re: Common standard for number formatting equiv. to mainframe facilities?

2023-03-05 Thread Binyamin Dissen
A COBOL picture string would probably be the most understood and complete. On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 20:06:43 + Rupert Reynolds wrote: :>To explain, I'm writing new PC code. I want the equivalent of EDMK in :>(something like) snprintf() format strings to print numbers with optional :>floating

Re: zOS 3.1 - zosmf

2023-03-05 Thread Keith Gooding
A z/OS CBPDO a good alternative ?. Really ?. I would say a good alternative to z/OSMF on one of your systems to install z/OS is to get the customised offering driver system, although I have not used that for many years. Keith > On 5 Mar 2023, at 03:54, Peter wrote: > > Thanks Kurt > >

Retrieve HiperDispatch CP Polarity information ?

2023-03-05 Thread Boesel Guillaume
HI, I'm trying to retrieve realtime HiperDispatch CP Polarity information but I can't find a clue how to do that in the documentation. The only reference that I found about CP polarity in the ASM Authorized Services or Data Areas is the TFWAPOLARITY in the SNAP/IPCS TFWA mapping but nothing