Re: Exclusive ENQ on a TSO logon procedure

2016-07-19 Thread Roger Steyn
on . Thank you Kees ... Roger Steyn -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Exclusive ENQ on a TSO logon procedure

2016-07-19 Thread Roger Steyn
the proclib irrespective of DISP=SHR ? TIA Roger Steyn -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Exclusive ENQ on a TSO logon procedure

2016-07-19 Thread Roger Steyn
a JCL having multiple steps . But the job which had a DISP=OLD in my system had only one step and it was hanging because someone had opened the logon proc in edit mode and forgot to come out of the session . TIA Roger Steyn

Re: Spawned Address Space Control in tcsh shell

2013-12-30 Thread Roger Steyn
John , This talks about the _BPX_SHAREAS environment variable. This environment variable is not mentioned anywhere in the documentation of tcsh.  Your are right . BPX_SHAREAS cannot be used for tcsh . It is documented in USS planning guide . _BPX_SHAREAS Specifies whether the spawned

Re: Local Page dataset sizing/quantity ROT?

2013-12-28 Thread Roger Steyn
Hello David , DB2 support also says set dump services to allow for 16Gb SVC dumps to accommodate DB2 Since you say 16 GB for SVC dumps , you should atleast have a minimum of 48 GB local page space to start with (that is 1:3 ratio ) When we had to increase MAXSPACE limit to 16 GB couple of

Re: CHPID dynamic Activation error

2013-11-22 Thread Roger Steyn
Hello Jake , This actually means The system could not add the specified path to a path group. Is the cable connected properly ? That's the first thing to be checked . Also look at logrec data  Sounds to me like a no resources condition over the control unit . Try these commands a) DS

Re: FACILITY Class profile BPX.DEFAULT.USER in zOS 2.1

2013-10-30 Thread Roger Steyn
This is pretty old ... Have seen this several times in the past . And of course...There are bigger fishes to fry  :) On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 6:57 PM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: If you have not done so, you can join the RACF newsgroup with this URL

Re: Issue with the REORG of BDAM datasets

2013-10-24 Thread Roger Steyn
Thanks gentleman ..That was it . A standalone REORG needs space to hold the new index and CA suggested us to do ASYNCH REORG . Thank you !   On Wednesday, October 23, 2013 8:07 AM, Roger Steyn roger.st...@yahoo.com wrote: Greetings ,    Recently , we had a problem during the REORG

Issue with the REORG of BDAM datasets

2013-10-22 Thread Roger Steyn
Greetings ,    Recently , we had a problem during the REORG of SAR index file . It was observed that the index file utilization increases abnormally while the REORG job runs  and comes down once the job completes. In the mean while , if the utilization crosses 100 % , the job fails and SAR

Re: z/OS IPL Issue

2013-10-21 Thread Roger Steyn
Hello, Was CLPA specified in IEASYSxx when you IPL'd first time ? .If not , that could lead to a wait 064  If not , I am wondering how you got a wait 064 for syntax error in LPALSTxx . On Monday, October 21, 2013 3:25 PM, saurabh khandelwal sourabhkhandelwal...@gmail.com wrote: Hello,  

Re: List out all Indirect catalogued datasets

2013-09-20 Thread Roger Steyn
Baby , I thought you are on z/os 1.11  . If that's the case , i dont think you can do indirect cataloging on VSAM datasets . Lizette  , please correct me if am wrong . From: Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent:

Syncsort v1.4 doesn't support Tape sorting - Need help !

2013-09-03 Thread Roger Steyn
Greetings ,   We are currently using syncsort 1.3.2 and would like to upgrade it to new version 1.4 . In the new release v1.4 , it no longer supports tape sorting . Hence it becomes necessary that i have to identify all the jobs which are currently using this feature and have them converted

Re: Syncsort v1.4 doesn't support Tape sorting - Need help !

2013-09-03 Thread Roger Steyn
That's correct Martin . It is the tape sort work datasets that are not supported . Syncsort support says that they have a new function called MAXSORT   in the new release which has replaced the tape sort feature due to poor performance . Ravi ,    You wouldn't be having SYNCTAPE load library

Re: Syncsort v1.4 doesn't support Tape sorting - Need help !

2013-09-03 Thread Roger Steyn
Yes . That would work fine in the case of scheduled jobs . But in our shop,there is one more challenge that we have a lot of Auto-sched jobs (jobs that are trigerred externally from an MQ server ).  And i do not know how many of them use tape sorting . This makes the task more difficult .

Re: Syncsort v1.4 doesn't support Tape sorting - Need help !

2013-09-03 Thread Roger Steyn
Yes...I was referring to MFX 1.4 ... From: Blaicher, Christopher Y. cblaic...@syncsort.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Wednesday, September 4, 2013 4:37 AM Subject: Re: Syncsort v1.4 doesn't support Tape sorting - Need help ! The current Syncsort

Re: MAXSPACE and central storage

2013-07-26 Thread Roger Steyn
Take a look at the APAR OA22623 . This is pretty old one , but worth reading Thank you, Roger From: Vernooij, CP - SPLXM kees.verno...@klm.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 6:38 PM Subject: Re: MAXSPACE and central storage I

Re: SRCHFOR command

2013-07-13 Thread Roger Steyn
'                                      ... SRCHFOR  'whatever string #n' //* Cheers, Chris Poncelet  Roger Steyn wrote: Hello Lizette , Thanks for quick response . I had already tried that , but it didn't show up .(It says member not found ) . I suspect that something is missing from my

SRCHFOR command

2013-07-12 Thread Roger Steyn
Greetings  , I know this is a silly question . Unfortunately I am not good at ISPF and needs some help to fix a problem . I have a problem with SRCHFOR command in ISPF . Normally , when a srchfor command is issued by passing a string in 3.4 , it returns a response 'String(s) found or not

Re: SRCHFOR command

2013-07-12 Thread Roger Steyn
See where it turns up Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Roger Steyn Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 3:10 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: SRCHFOR command Greetings  , I know this is a silly question

Re: Install IBM SDK for Z/os java2 technology edition v7

2013-06-27 Thread Roger Steyn
As someone said , java is a pretty simple install . the program directory has everything documented . you really don't need a senior systems programmer's expertise to do this . you can read through and complete the install yourself . But if you need any suggestions , we are always here to help

Re: XCF / GRS

2013-06-21 Thread Roger Steyn
That's a nice article . Thanks Chris ! From: Chris Brooker cbro...@us.ibm.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 7:04 PM Subject: Re: XCF / GRS Hi Augie, You may already now about this, but the GRS team wrote a Hot Topics Article