Re: AW: Re: Is first page always backed by real storage upon return from STORAGE OBTAIN?

2015-12-02 Thread nitz-ibm
Peter, > I'm allocating 10MiB, that is to work like fill page, I assume. IPCS tells me > the full page is X'00', so there is nothing written in that page. > As said in another response, it's pure curiosity. ask IPCS if the first page is really backed (ip rsmdata virtpage ra(x'page address')) an

Re: Delete part of spool for active job

2015-12-18 Thread nitz-ibm
> In a case # 2 situation, you could force the job to be swapped out > unconditionally by quiescing it: E jobname,QUIESCE. This might give you some > time to purge enough unneeded output to be able to login to TSO and perform > further actions. Actions might be to save the output to a data set t

Re: S00C Slip trap for any Stc

2015-12-18 Thread nitz-ibm
abend00C always means some problem with coupling services. If you don't know which connector will be hit for which structure/group, I suggest to set the slip trap rather generically as sl set,c=00c,a=(cu,h,s),dspname=('xcfas'.*),id=s00C,e Not having tested this for correctness, the a=(cu,h,p,s

Re: Coupling Facility Structure Re-sizing

2015-12-18 Thread nitz-ibm
> 1) Should INITSIZE and MINSIZE always be specified? I have always specified both, and I have always made them equal. I had some unpleasant surprises when MINSIZE was smaller than INITSIZE. And I have always set INITSIZE to half of SIZE. > 2) Are all structures 'eligible' to be defined with the

Re: S00C Slip trap for any Stc

2015-12-18 Thread nitz-ibm
> Please show the full error message(s) why the 'a' is invalid. Perhaps Barbara > and your z/OS systesm are on different versions. As I said, I did not test this for syntactical correctness. The a should stand for asid, and I am sure that the (cu,h,s) are correct. Check the manuals for what the

Re: rsync anyone?

2015-12-29 Thread nitz-ibm
> Q). Does anyone have a better way to move a directory that has files and > subdirectories to a different LPAR? Or do you just keep installing the same > code for each instance? Not sure it is a better way, but when I migrated to 2.1, I converted all ZFSs back to HFSs since I find them infini

Re: System Identifier in low level qualifier of name of temporary data set

2016-02-22 Thread nitz-ibm
> Again there once were more members in the plex, but where would I find that > number? D XCF tells me the names of the systems, only. Do an ADRDSSU print dump of the sysplex CDS (or use review to browse online). Then you should be able to see the names of the long gone systems. I cannot check

Re: [SURVEY] What ISPF terminal model do you use

2016-03-10 Thread nitz-ibm
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 21:45:48 +0800, David Crayford wrote: > >What screen size do you use? > I would love to use the standard 62x162 screensize (and have for the past 7 years or so), but unfortunately my new employer uses an attachmate extra emulation that can only do 27x132. Does anyone know

Re: [SURVEY] What ISPF terminal model do you use

2016-03-10 Thread nitz-ibm
> Barbara - I've been trying to find a way and so far (at least up to > Attachmate release 9.3) have not found a way. Pity. I can hope that the new emulation they want to use can handle it. (Saying in German: Hope dies last - die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt). Barbara --

Re: [SURVEY] What ISPF terminal model do you use

2016-03-10 Thread nitz-ibm
> Can anyone tell me where this is? Don't see it under Options, 6. Set screen > characteristics... ISPF options 0, when you only have 24 lines it is on the second screen. Additionally, your 'logmode' has to match and you have to have your emulation set to accept the largest screen size it can ha

Re: [SURVEY] What ISPF terminal model do you use

2016-03-19 Thread nitz-ibm
> Hi Barbara, > > I use Attachmate Extra also. Depending on what I am doing, I use mod 2 > (24x80), mod 3 (32x80), mod 4 (43x80), or mod 5 (24x132). It depends de on > what I am doing. I also have 12 sessions defined, some with different > background colors that I only use for one lpar. Open yo

Re: EAV bug or feature?

2016-05-10 Thread nitz-ibm
> One of the things I found appalling is that there is not a single > example of how to allocate an EAV dataset in the cylinder-managed space > anywhere in any IBM doc. You can find EATTR=OPT if you know to look for > it, but do a search on how to allocate an EAV dataset. Nothing. When I trie

Re: IBM secure z/OS software delivery: Don't get locked out!

2016-05-10 Thread nitz-ibm
Kurt, we do have a problem with https download because the certificate we have is for one part of the website, but the test adds a 01 inside, and the corporate firewall objects to that (I am currently home so I cannot name the full url). When we manually remove the 01 in the url, we are able to

Re: IBM secure z/OS software delivery: Don't get locked out!

2016-05-13 Thread nitz-ibm
> Just because I specify deliverycb-bld.dhe.ibm.com doesn't mean that when > it resolves that it is the same: > > Connecting to: dispby-117.boulder.ibm.com 170.225.15.117 port: 21 > > I ran into this with our Firewall weenies and it took a bit of work for them > to get it right. > > This

Re: IBM Knowledge Centre and Browsers

2016-07-02 Thread nitz-ibm
> * Disable any script blocker. * Well, if you only allow cookies selectively, then it is hell browsing IBM websites if you are forced into disabling script blockers. I should know, I get forced into using IE with scripts enabled (cannot disable them). What happens is that there is a general sc

Re: IBM Knowledge Centre and Browsers

2016-07-03 Thread nitz-ibm
> Assuming you can *find* the damned PDFs! That takes a while now. Sad what > IBM has become. Try Pubcenter: http://www-05.ibm.com/e-business/linkweb/publications/servlet/pbi.wss?CTY=DE (and don't use the DE at the end). Barbara

Re: AW: Re: Follow-on: S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address with all X'00' bytes

2016-07-27 Thread nitz-ibm
> >I don't know how LE plays that game. A SLIP of the 0C4 would have true > >contents. > System Trace would also help with this information but it is not in the dump > produced by the "little"helpers". Setting a SLIP in production is a not so > short adventure trip; and SLIPping for a 0C4 is no

Re: Follow-on: S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address with all X'00' bytes

2016-07-28 Thread nitz-ibm
> All I'm looking for is a system trace. Hoping to find hints what do look for > next. Make sure that you have your systrace set at maximum, then (not the default 64K, and even 1MB will not be enough, especially on a busy system). LE processing takes up a whole lot of real estate in systrace fro

Re: Authorizing 8 char technical userid to use TSO CONSOLE command

2014-07-08 Thread nitz-ibm
> IKJ56644I NO VALID TSO USERID, DEFAULT USER ATTRIBUTES USED > IKJ55353I THE CONSPROF COMMAND HAS TERMINATED.+ > From what I have read in the FM and in the archives of this forum, I tend to > conclude that there is no way to authorize an 8 character userid to use the > TSO CONSOLE command,