Re: Customer is Using CPACF (Crypto) purchased Crypto Express

W dniu 2017-06-12 o 14:12, Tony Thigpen pisze: We are talking about encrypting "Data at Rest". There is *no* key exchange involved. The only purpose for encrypting keys is so you can send them to someone else. No. The purpose of encrypting keys is something called "secure key cryptography",

Re: Rexx SORT

W dniu 2017-06-09 o 14:54, John McKown pisze: [...] ​If the ISPF people would port their code to be usable from an UNIX shell prompt, I'd have _no_ use for TSO again. What I vaguely envision is having ISPF use "curses" for a character user interface. The second phase would be to extend ISPF to

Re: curious: Anybody still use ADDRSPC=REAL ?

W dniu 2017-06-08 o 17:45, John McKown pisze: This still seems to be supported in z/OS 2.2. Does anyone need to run a program V=R in today's world? I'm just curious because this support seems to be a "waste" of protect keys 10 through 15. Of course, if those keys were "freed up", what could they

Strange issue in ISPF edit

My co-worker noticed the following issue (error?) which I cannot explain: A dataset JANEK.JANEK.LUDZIE, PS VBA, containing some output from RLIST command. Note: JANEK is userid of the co-worker, LUDZIE can be translated to PEOPLE. ISPF Editor - a command FIND does not find anything! I have seen

Re: DR Failover

W dniu 2017-06-02 o 00:24, Jesse 1 Robinson pisze: Never got traction on two of my questions, which are independent of technology. -- During a failover (test I would presume), who actually performs the DR procedure whatever it is? Sysprogs, operators, production control folks, or someone

DFSORT TRAN=UTOL and codepages

I use OUTREC BUILD=(1,80,TRAN=UTOL) to change uppercase to lowercase characters. However it does not change the case for polish national characters (ąćęłńóśżź). I tried to use LOCALE=PL_pl, but with no effect. Is it possible to provide codepage information to UTOL or I have to use something

Re: Looks like lots of folks in marketing said thanks but no thanks

W dniu 2017-05-30 o 17:27, Paul Gilmartin pisze: [...] https://www.ted.com/talks/eric_whitacre_a_virtual_choir_2_000_voices_strong ...not symphony, but still remote collaboration. Timothy Sipples quoted A symphony can hardly be performed with everyone working remotely The collaboration

Re: DFOSRT and headers

Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> wrote on 05/19/2017 01:54:12 PM: From: "R.S." <r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 05/19/2017 01:54 PM Subject: DFOSRT and headers Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSER

Re: Survey: How many APF-authorized libraries?

99 libraries on APF. Majority of them comes from IBM (z/OS and its components, DB2, CICS, etc.) Some from ISV's. One is for our code, and this is the most important part of the list! We do care about its content. In short words: every member has a description and owner (admin/sysprog) assigned.

Re: Looks like lots of folks in marketing said thanks but no thanks

1. Pure confirmed. YMMV. 2. Pure observed everyday, YMMV. 3. It depends on many factors, including openspace, which I hate. YMMV. Note, sometimes poeple cannot work as "lonely wolf" the have to cooperate with other folks. If your task is 100% to be done by you with no interactions, then you

Re: IBM wheels out bleedin' big 15TB tape drive Proprietary tape format bits shrink while capacity bulks up

W dniu 2017-05-13 o 06:44, Edward Gould pisze: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/11/ibm_15tb_tape_drive/ Interesting: this drive is NOT supported in z/OS. The IBM webpage regarding TS1155 says nothing about mainframe. Note,

Re: SDB (system determined Blksize)

Just curious: the formulas can give fractional values. How to round them? OK, I assume the physrec/trk should be rounded down, but what about D? Regards -- Radoslaw Skorupka -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

DFOSRT and headers

How to exclude header lines from being sorter/filtered? For example, I have the following file: FIRSTNAME LASTNAMEYEAROTHERDATA --- - JOHN SMITH 1945e JOE ZAWINUL 1932r GEORGEALTMARK

TIME jn JCL (again)

The topic was discussed recently, but I haven't found in the listserv archives an answer to the following question: Let's assume TIME in JOBCLASS definition is 60 TIME in JOB statement is 90 TIME in EXEC statement is 80 (single step job) What is effective time limit for the step? My

Re: AT-TLS replace ICF processor ?

W dniu 2017-04-25 o 18:42, Nathan Astle pisze: Hi Cross posted Not trying to.resolve anything. Recently had a discussion with a TCPIP/SNA person and he feels that most of the task offloaded to ICF processor can be handled by AT-TLS. I was not.able to make any sense out of it. Aren't ICF

extended format PS limits

What are the limits of extended format PS dataset? 123 extents per volume - that's clear 59 volumes - that's also clear. However during RTFM I found the following limits: a) 1 000 000 000 tracks per volume (see IEC030I) b) 2^32 blocks, for half-track blocksize it mean approx. 2 147 483 648

Re: Vendor Licensing Frustrations

W dniu 2017-04-21 o 21:48, Tony Harminc pisze: On 21 April 2017 at 15:09, R.S. <r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl> wrote: Regarding the "call home" method - I DONT LIKE IT! Really, that's not good idea to enforce Internet connection just to perform such an action. I wou

Re: Vendor Licensing Frustrations

W dniu 2017-04-21 o 16:20, Wendell Lovewell pisze: I work for a vendor, so I understand the necessity of making sure that licensed products are used properly. But I also understand the inconvenience for both the customer and the vendor of managing software keys. I’m wondering what the list’s

Re: Vendor Licensing Frustrations

My observations: Rules created by lawyers are complex and impractical. Rules created by technicians are simple and easy to use. IMHO: optimal solution: A product is able to run for limited period (a week) and new key is then delivered in case of real disaster. For DR drills grace period is long

Re: ISPF edit macro

W dniu 2017-04-19 o 22:54, Paul Gilmartin pisze: [...] I believe "ADDRESS ISREDIT END" must appear *** inside nestmac ***. That's bad, because I want to call existing macros with no changes inside. Otherwise I would need two flavours of every macro: for "standalone" use and for "nested" (all

Re: ISPF edit macro

sage - From: "R.S." <r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 2:35:30 PM Subject: ISPF edit macro I have an edit macro for issuing another macro against all member is a given library. It works OK, but in "attended" mode - ev

ISPF edit macro

I have an edit macro for issuing another macro against all member is a given library. It works OK, but in "attended" mode - every change has to be confirmed by issuing PF3 (or PF12 if you don't want changes in a given member). I'm looking for something more automated - a macro, which issues

Re: Old hardware

W dniu 2017-04-18 o 21:47, William Donzelli pisze: Just on Saturday, the 1401 at Binghamton's Center for Technology and Innovation was powered up for the first time in about 25 years. The fun lasted about 20 minutes before one of the power supplies shut the machine down, but not before we

Re: Old hardware

W dniu 2017-04-18 o 17:49, Phil Smith pisze: Besides Connor, what's the oldest box anyone here has running z/OS? Any z9s still out there? z990s? Just curious... z9, z990 and z900 on the board. However none f them is in use. z900 is just empty cabinet (planned for decoration of our new

Re: RLS for catalogs

W dniu 2017-04-05 o 20:23, Jesse 1 Robinson pisze: I’m curious about using CA MIM Resource Sharing within a sysplex. Historically I used it in the days before sysplex, before PDS/E, before other newfangled contraptions that depend on XCF for serialization. We still use MIA for tape allocation

Re: REORGANIZING HSM CDS

W dniu 2017-03-29 o 18:47, John Dawes pisze: To answer your question about the Listcats I do them to compare (before and after reorg). I do have a separate job to backup the dsns (using logical DFDSS) in case something goes wrong. You recommend to DELETE and recreate it. Is there a reason why

Re: REORGANIZING HSM CDS

In short words, there is no black magic here, it is regular VSAM KSDS cluster, so any method to reorganize it is OK. I don't like your job because of irrational CONDs and disputable LISTCATs (why ?) In general: 1. Check your clusters using LISTCAT and/or EXAMINE if you want, but definitely

Re: SMP/E Tutorial

Off-topic note: the document mention z/OS 2.2 can be ran on z9 machine, which is untrue. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 2017-03-27 o 18:52, John Eells pisze: Dan Kalmar wrote: Can you still use PROGRAM elements for LE based modules ? Yes, provided you can bind with the

Re: LISTCAT QUESTION - TEMP-EXP

W dniu 2017-03-27 o 17:21, esmie moo pisze: Gentle Readers, i have a question about TEMP-EXP which appears on a LISTCAT of the HSM BCDS. I did a REPRO to a test BCDS however when I run the LISTCAT of the Prod version (so as to compare the TEST & PROD. allocations) it shows TEMP-EXP in the

Re: GREAT presentation on the history of the mainframe

-- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 2017-03-27 o 16:09, Dana Mitchell pisze: On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 20:44:10 +0100, R.S. <r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl> wrote: BTW: What about LPARs? 3090 was first generation with PR/SM facility. CEC could be PORed in PR/SM mode or 370 mode.

Re: GREAT presentation on the history of the mainframe

W dniu 2017-03-24 o 18:04, Pommier, Rex pisze: The only thing I wish he would have included in the presentation was the original 9672/9674 which was a huge shift from the GA-AS technology to silicon. I wish I hadn't worked on pre-9672 machines. Was it really non-silicon? I was pretty sure it

Re: Spool file

W dniu 2017-03-21 o 13:46, Joseph Reichman pisze: Hi I'm having problems with my spool file SYS1.HASPACE It happens to be in the same pack as my parmlib And other important files I'm wondering can the spool file be on any pack ? Yes, but this is not recommended. Typical setup for

Re: Broken VBS and ICE141A

W dniu 2017-03-20 o 22:39, Paul Gilmartin pisze: [...] IIRC, he said LRECL=32760. SMF. Why isn't LRECL=32767 allowed for RECFM=VBS? A 32767-byte record might span blocks that don't exceed 32760. (a little bit off-topic) Actually you can have PS with LRECL=32767, but you cannot specify this

Re: Broken VBS and ICE141A

W dniu 2017-03-20 o 22:07, Bill Woodger pisze: Simple, John. You produce the message Paul wants. Can't be clearer. Radoslav, Was the data set written with LRECL=X, to get "long" records? What is the data? Why is it VBS? This is SMF, it was never been processed with LRECL=X. -- Radoslaw

Re: Broken VBS and ICE141A

. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 2017-03-20 o 19:15, Sri h Kolusu pisze: I used to fix it with ICEGENER and SPANINC=RC4 option. However it does not work - ICEGENER job ends with RC16 and ICE141A 2 SPANNED RECORD ON SORTIN COULD NOT BE ASSEMBLED - REASON CODE IS 03 R.S

Re: Can SMPPTS datasets be consolidated?

W dniu 2017-03-20 o 14:54, John Eells pisze: R.S. wrote: Once upon a time I had to change SMPPTS to PDS because of ...size limits. The limit of *single member( for PDSE was not enough to keep my big fat PTF (yes, it was WAS). PDS has no such limit - the limit is full PDS (64k TRK). However

Broken VBS and ICE141A

I have a broken PS VBS file (incomplete records), when I try to read it with IEBGENER or IFASMFDP (it is SMF dump) I get abend S002. I used to fix it with ICEGENER and SPANINC=RC4 option. However it does not work - ICEGENER job ends with RC16 and ICE141A 2 SPANNED RECORD ON SORTIN COULD NOT

Re: Can SMPPTS datasets be consolidated?

W dniu 2017-03-17 o 23:28, CM Poncelet pisze: [...] BTW SMPPTS is written to only during RECEIVE. Else it is only read. What about ACCEPT? -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland --- Treść tej wiadomości może zawierać informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wyłącznie do użytku

Re: Can SMPPTS datasets be consolidated?

W dniu 2017-03-18 o 22:38, Mark Zelden pisze: On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 22:00:52 +, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: Pretty sure I used to do exactly this for the same reason Mark does. However, now SMPPTS% is all PDSE, compression becomes a non-issue. The system knows not to

Re: Can SMPPTS datasets be consolidated?

W dniu 2017-03-17 o 22:03, Paul Gilmartin pisze: On 2017-03-17, at 14:44, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: By 'compress', I mean plain old IEBCOPY to squeeze out the gas left by deleted members. I realize after my previous post that I now routinely create SMPPTS% as PDSE, so compression is not an

Re: ComputerWorld Says: Cobol plays major role in U.S. government breaches

W dniu 2017-03-17 o 10:41, Mark Regan pisze: ComputerWorld is reporting "Cobol plays major role in U.S. government breaches" http://www.computerworld.com/article/3181809/government-it/cobol-plays-major-role-in-us-government-breaches.html Yeah, I've had a team working on this over the past few

Re: Merging two CTN STP

W dniu 2017-03-17 o 07:36, Mohamed Gomaa pisze: It locks that, I did not ask the question properly. What I want to see do I have to stop in previous all the LPARs getting the time from this CTN, because I feel if any LPAR see that the CTN name changed it may have some corruption To clarify:

Re: Linux Copying z/OS Volumes Using Raw-Track Access Mode?

W dniu 2017-03-16 o 10:34, Timothy Sipples pisze: A few years ago (2013) Linux started supporting "raw-track access mode" to ECKD DASD, beginning with Linux kernel Version 3.11. Eberhard Pasch briefly describes raw-track access mode here:

Re: JES2 Spool Volume size

W dniu 2017-03-10 o 16:48, Lizette Koehler pisze: Just guessing here I think for one HASPACE there is a maximum of 1,048,575 tracks So you would be able to have so many volumes of HASPACE upto 1TB of storage. Maybe this supports EAV Volumes for HASPACE? Lizette No Lizette, the explanation

Re: DSN=&,DISP=(,DELETE) vs DSN=HLQ.MLQ.LLQ,DISP=(,DELETE)

W dniu 2017-03-10 o 14:40, PINION, RICHARD W. pisze: >From an SMS ACS perspective DSN=&,DISP=(,DELETE) creates DSNTYPE=TEMP. However, coding DSN=HLQ.MLQ.LLQ,DISP=(,DELETE) does not. Is there a way to treat them the same? Yes, there is a way, but IMHO it's not worth effort. It's easier to

Re: JES2 Spool Volume size

W dniu 2017-03-09 o 15:37, Richards, Robert B. pisze: Anyone using the larger volume MOD sizes for spool volumes? Any issues? Largest SYS1.HASPACE ? :) Activating LEVEL=z22 this weekend. Anyone seen issues after setting the new mode? Current limit is 1TB. That require LARGEDS.

Re: Mobile Workload Pricing

W dniu 2017-03-09 o 02:22, Frank Swarbrick pisze: There hasn't been much (any?) discussion here on MWP since it was announced in May 2014. Is anyone doing this? What methodology did you choose to allow you to track mobile vs. non-mobile "transactions"? Why did you choose that method? Which

Re: z/OS 2.3 preview announcement

W dniu 2017-03-08 o 14:02, Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM pisze: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: 08 March, 2017 13:43 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS 2.3 preview announcement W dniu 2017-03

Re: HCM Simulator for training?

W dniu 2017-03-08 o 13:19, Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA) pisze: Is there an HMC simulator that can be used to train Sysprogs and operators? Yes, three possibilities: 1. Use your old/backup/sandbox machine 2. Get the education from some company (BTDT) 3. Use IBM machines, probably in IBM premises. --

Re: z/OS 2.3 preview announcement

W dniu 2017-03-08 o 01:15, Paul Gilmartin pisze: On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 15:13:32 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote: Did anyone notice the z/OS 2.3 preview announcement today? http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/5/897/ENUS217-085/index.html_locale=en I found this

Re: Can you use IDCAMS REPRO on zFS files

W dniu 2017-03-06 o 14:37, Carmen Vitullo pisze: I check the filesystems using the diff uss command mount the new FS somewhere temporart like /u/userid/tmp then use the diff command to compare the dir and file structure write the results to a compare.txt file diff -r /u/userid/tmp /oldmount/

Re: Can you use IDCAMS REPRO on zFS files

Q1. Is it supported to make a IDCAMS REPRO from non-EA VSAM to EA VSAM? Q2. Is it supported to make a IDCAMS REPRO from non-EF VSAM to EF (EA) VSAM? (EA - extended addressability, EF - Extended Format) Q3. How can I check the filesystem consistency, what tool to use? -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz,

Re: Unix System Services Automount - why?

W dniu 2017-02-24 o 16:37, Lucas Rosalen pisze: Cześć Radosław, In my shop's case we have over 1000 user-filesystems, so we use automount to only mount the filesystem when the user logons. It would be impractical for us to keep that huge amount of mount statements in BPXPRMxx and to keep it

Re: Fujitsu Mainframe Vs IBM mainframe

W dniu 2017-02-24 o 15:14, Bernd Oppolzer pisze: Am 24.02.2017 um 14:37 schrieb R.S.: W dniu 2017-02-23 o 20:09, Bill Woodger pisze: 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

Unix System Services Automount - why?

I'm trying to find a reason to use automount facility. Is it better than static mount of all needed filesystems? -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland --- Treść tej wiadomości może zawierać informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wyłącznie do użytku służbowego adresata. Odbiorcą może

Re: Fujitsu Mainframe Vs IBM mainframe

W dniu 2017-02-23 o 20:09, Bill Woodger pisze: 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,

Re: Hardware support for z/OS 2.3

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. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Extended ZFS

W dniu 2017-02-23 o 14:04, Allan Staller pisze: 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.

Re: Fujitsu Mainframe Vs IBM mainframe

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

Re: maximum numbers of z/OS V2.1 devices per Control Unit, FICON channel and CSS using z13s.

W dniu 2017-02-22 o 10:01, Arye Shemer pisze: Hello z/OS experts, I need the maximum numbers of z/OS V2.1 devices per Control Unit, FICON channel and CSS using z13s. I tried to read in z/OS V2.1 and z13s books, but the information is scattered and not clear enough for me. What limits

Re: S/390 G6 SE Driver Disk

W dniu 2017-02-22 o 01:41, Jim Stefanik pisze: Perhaps against the advice of others, I'm considering getting an S/390 G6 without the SE's. I know without them, it's a paperweight. However, my curiosity has lead me to wonder - can ANY S/390 G6 SE driver disk be used to restore a blank SE, or

Re: Question on an HMC's ethernet adapter

W dniu 2017-02-19 o 02:55, Mike Myers pisze: Hello all: I have a remote client that has experienced an ethernet LAN adapter failure in their HMC and I won't be able to see the system until I travel there next week. Can anyone tell me if the adapter in an older HMC (for a z9) is likely to be

Re: Maximum size of a PDSE library?

W dniu 2017-02-17 o 17:08, Farley, Peter x23353 pisze: Thanks for the reference, Tom. But what about total PDSE size? Can it exceed 4Gb uncompressed? Obviously compression is a viable option too, but it would be helpful to know the actual cylinder/Gb size limit (assuming there is one).

Re: IBM's 12-month SVC period replaced with MVM

W dniu 2017-02-17 o 10:39, Timothy Sipples pisze: I can add a few more comments to Al's nice summary: [...] 2. One of MVM's operational implications is that you might not be required to delete all copies of a previous, retired version as long as you remain licensed for the current version.

Re: Layout CPC serial number z13S

W dniu 2017-02-16 o 08:42, Ron van der Zande pisze: Thanks for the answers. Layout as I expected. But serial numbers I got still looking strange. Layout 84y and 02y to be seen in D m=cpu before model at every cpu menthioned The y might be 8 for BASIC mode and 9 for LPAR mode but

Re: New DASD for mainframe

or vendor. Probably there will be chatter if some shops are using it. Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2017 10:04 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: New DASD for mainframe

New DASD for mainframe

I just learnt there is new DASD (disk system) provider for mainframe. It's INFINIDAT. From the sales pitch it looks very promising. The architecture is similar to XIV and the designer is the same person: Moshe Yanai. The difference is Infinidat support FICON connectivity and all "must have"

Re: Loyalty

W dniu 2017-02-13 o 16:26, Steve Smith pisze: "It's just business." - Sal Tessio Yes, it is business. However the long term business should be made with good people, with long term vision and real motivation. There is only one way to get this: respect people. Hear them, be honest. Inform

Re: zOS SYSPROG jobs

W dniu 2017-02-08 o 19:57, Edward Gould pisze: On Feb 8, 2017, at 9:14 AM, R.S. <r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl> wrote: W dniu 2017-02-07 o 17:58, Bobbie Justice pisze: I've seen several for NYC and places close to NYC (no thank you). There are companies that don't like U.S. employees

Re: zOS SYSPROG jobs

W dniu 2017-02-07 o 17:58, Bobbie Justice pisze: I've seen several for NYC and places close to NYC (no thank you). There are companies that don't like U.S. employees doing remote work for whatever bogus reason. They will post the job as "onsite only", then six months later they will outsource

Re: CPACF DES/TDES enablement feature 3863 with no Co Processors/Express Cards

W dniu 2017-02-08 o 14:11, Crispin Hugo pisze: I have been tasked with setting up ICSF . We have CPACF DES/TDES enablement feature 3863 with no Co Processors/Express Card on zBC12. All the manuals I have read only seem to show configuration as you had Express cards. Anybody able to point me

Re: HMC V2.x max USB flash drive size

W dniu 2017-02-08 o 05:12, Brian Westerman pisze: HI, Does anyone know what the maximum USB flash drive size is you can use on the HMC for the Version 2.x (Linux based) HMC's? We added some maintenance to the z13s this weekend, and when the next backup ran, it ended up giving us a message

Re: Problem with java 64-bit

W dniu 2017-02-07 o 17:15, Don Poitras pisze: [...] 200 000 KB (or 212264k) isn't "really close" at all. It's about 1/10 what you could probably get. It's only one missing zero ! ;-) I have: DEVA> ulimit -a core file 163840b cpu time 86375 data size unlimited file

Re: Problem with java 64-bit SOLVED

THANK YOU ALL WHO HELPED ME Solution: I increased "ulimit -A" and it helped. Silly me - I set TSO region at approx. 200MB not 2GB. Missed one zero character. So, it can be TSO REGION 200MB, but you have to increase ulimit -A to ~1.5 GB or just logon to TSO with region close to 2GB (which

Re: Problem with java 64-bit

W dniu 2017-02-07 o 16:43, Allan Staller pisze: Have you set a JAVAHOME, or is JAVA in the path... PATH="/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/lpp/java/J8.0_64/bin:./" No JAVAHOME or any other JAVA* variable. Note, the following command: /usr/lpp/java/J8.0/bin/java end with typical help message => it works.

Re: Problem with java 64-bit

W dniu 2017-02-07 o 16:27, John McKown pisze: On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 9:12 AM, R.S. <r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl> wrote: I have a problem with java 64-bit. When I type "java" from TSO OMVS prompt I get the following "JVMJ9VM015W Initialization error for libr

Re: Problem with java 64-bit

W dniu 2017-02-07 o 16:30, Elardus Engelbrecht pisze: Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: I set ASSIZEMAX at 2G, huge TSO region. No effect As Jack said, you need lots of memory. How big is your 'huge' TSO region? Yes, that's why I used 200 000 kB (close to ~2GB limit) Note: with smaller TSO region I

Problem with java 64-bit

I have a problem with java 64-bit. When I type "java" from TSO OMVS prompt I get the following "JVMJ9VM015W Initialization error for library j9gc28(2): Failed to instantiate co mpressed references metadata; 200M requested Error: Could not create the Java Vi rtual Machine. Error: A fatal

Re: BSAM vs QSAM (and SORT).

W dniu 2017-02-06 o 19:55, Paul Gilmartin pisze: On 2017-02-06, at 07:22, R.S. wrote: It's worth to mention that performance of reverse processing dataset on real tape is worse than horrible. And IMHO it's not argument for using virtual tapes but for not using datasets on tape

Re: Documentation in non-English languages?

W dniu 2017-02-06 o 20:16, Paul Gilmartin pisze: On 2017-02-06, at 06:27, R.S. wrote: W dniu 2017-02-06 o 14:03, Sean Gleann pisze: Ok, I've only done a cursory search, but can anyone tell me if IBM documentation ( the 'old-style' manuals and the redbooks are available in languages other than

Re: BSAM vs QSAM

W dniu 2017-02-06 o 14:59, Ron Burr pisze: As far as I know, reading a physical sequential (or partitioned dataset member) in reverse order can only be done using BSAM (via the BSP macro). Not that many applications require that mode of processing. But if one does, well then, that appears to

Re: HSM followup question

W dniu 2017-02-05 o 13:20, Richards, Robert B. pisze: [...] 1) Changing the MC only affects NEWLY CREATED datasets No, MC change affect all datasets with the MC assigned. Caution: there are two changes possible: ALTER dataset NEW-MC - change MC value for existing datasets. some-MC modification

Re: BMC Products Licensing - CPU Serial, MIPS or both?

W dniu 2017-02-03 o 16:22, E Van Wyk pisze: Hi, I'm looking to find out if anyone knows if BMC products make use of CPU Serial alone or MIPS and CPU serial for it's licensing checks? We're planning on adding MIPS to the system by moving to a higher config for an additional LPAR but the

Re: Documentation in non-English languages?

W dniu 2017-02-06 o 14:03, Sean Gleann pisze: Hello Ok, I've only done a cursory search, but can anyone tell me if IBM documentation ( the 'old-style' manuals and the redbooks are available in languages other than English. My search (such as it was) does not lead me to think so... Redbooks -

Re: HSM followup question

W dniu 2017-02-04 o 02:14, Lizette Koehler pisze: We do lots of alter for mgmtclas. We cannot alter Dataclass. Yes, and no. No - you cannot alter dataset parameters like LRECL or RECFM. You can change it as DC parameters, but existing dataset will be unaffected. Yes - you can change DVC

Re: Limit RACF access to ISRSUPC (compare mode)

W dniu 2017-02-01 o 17:49, Jorge Garcia pisze: Hi all, I know It's a question about a RACF topic, but we need a workaround to solve a problem access. We've limited the ISRSUPC program access to the devolpment teams to avoid searchs in long PDS with many elapsed and cpu time. The problem

Re: Dynamic Activate of New IODF

W dniu 2017-02-01 o 17:46, Elaine Beal pisze: I have made changes to the EDT so need to hard activate the new IODF on my first test system. After I do this the IODF will be out of sync on my other LPARs. Can I still do a soft activate on the out of sync LPARs? (I didn't think you could when

Re: COUPLExx syntax question.

W dniu 2017-02-01 o 15:09, Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM pisze: Thanks, because of the absence of negative replies, I assume there are not limits. It would be handy if this had been documented. I think this is the case where technical limit is way out of practical limit. In other words

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: HMC Mail domain

In my humble opinion this is not a problem with HMC but network/email folks in the organisation. Any HMC name and domain has to be somehow "authorized" within company network. So, *some* effort has to be done, irrespectively of the name of HMC. If I could choose I would pay much more effort

Re: Is it really possible to migrate Mainframe to Cloud ??

Yes, it is! The only trick is to put a mainframe in a cloud. BTW: There is no cloud. It's just someone else's computer. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland --- Treść tej wiadomości może zawierać informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wyłącznie do użytku służbowego adresata.

Re: SDB and Program Object Library

IMHO it is plain stupid, but "it works as documented". Dot. End of discussion. Any documented stupidity is authorised to remain unchanged. I wish I would have SDB for DSORG=PO,RECFM=U with the value of 32760. All exceptions could be solved with providing explicit BLKSIZE value. BTW: I can't

Re: Problems installing Suse Linux under zpdt.

W dniu 2017-01-12 o 10:17, Itschak Mugzach pisze: I am trying to install Suse linux 12 SP2 on a zPDT native.I using instruction from a redbook titled The Virtualization Cookbook for SLES 11 which has instructions for SLES 12 as well. The problem I face is a message ** No repository found. I

Re: VSAM: Why MAXLRECL?

W dniu 2017-01-11 o 22:30, Frank Swarbrick pisze: Is there a downside to always defining VSAM files with a MAXLRECL of 32761, which seems to be the largest value for this parm for an UNSPANNED dataset? Besides CISZ and other performance issues there is another big issue: the application. Let's

Stupid pax -rf problem

The following scenario: pax archive created in some directory, let's say /aaa/bbb (many files and subdirectories here) the resulting archive is /TEST.pax I'm able to restore the archive using the following command: pax -r -peW -f /TEST.pax However the command above restores the archive in a

Re: Freeware SMP/E installable product

W dniu 2017-01-10 o 17:16, Nathan Astle pisze: Hi Are there any freeware product which uses SMP/E to install. There are several IBM products which are free of charge. While it's not the same as freeware, every legal z/OS user can download it and install. Majority of the products are available

Re: SUPERPAV

W dniu 2017-01-03 o 07:59, Timothy Sipples pisze: SuperPAV is an extension to HyperPAV and provides cross-control unit aliases. Aliases are first selected from the "home" control unit, as with HyperPAV, but (only if necessary due to alias exhaustion) can be borrowed from a like "peer." For more

Re: Here comes an extra second

Leap second? I don't care, I have a MAINFRAME. The mainframe (with STP enablement feature) manage leap seconds perfectly and harmlessly. BTW: If you wish, you can connect PPS time source using coaxial cable (yes! there are still BNC connectors in z13!) and have 10 microseconds accuracy. --

Re: Looking for USERMOD samples

Gentlemen, Thank you for your help, explanations and examples. I appreciate it. I'm going to do some test on my sandbox environment, so likely I will ask further questions ;-) Regards -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland --- Treść tej wiadomości może zawierać informacje prawnie chronione

Re: Recommendations for RECOVERY options

W dniu 2016-12-29 o 14:45, James Peddycord pisze: [...] In this forum with so many people who have so many opinions, I can't believe that nobody is offering suggestions for the RECOVERY parameter when asked. Well, I had noticed this topic, let's call it "system parameters related to given

TZ valid codes

I'm trying to find out the list of valid timezone abbreviations in z/OS Unix. I found I can provide any code (i.e. TZ=STUPID), but invalid code means UTC. I would like to set it up to Poland, but no CET or CEST is valid. Any clue? -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland --- Treść tej

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