Re: S0C2 in DB2 application program (was Stored Procedure) IFF run from a PDSE

2014-02-21 Thread Mike Schwab
Turning off the high order bit? UMH. Sounds like an AND X"7F" against that byte. It might think it is an address in the parameter list (R1) but it actually has the entry point of the program (R15). On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: > On 21 February 2014 11:37, Chase, John w

Re: Prepare System for Discontinuance

2014-02-26 Thread Mike Schwab
50. Didn't help in Independence Day. 60. Basis of the plot line for Mercury Rising. On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: > >>According to the Evil Overlord Rules Web Site >>(http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html), which is a fun lis

Re: Disabled wait

2014-02-28 Thread Mike Schwab
It is part of the IPCS product. (z/OS 1.12 is what google found for me). http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r12/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.zos.r12.ieav200%2Fipcs.htm On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Mark Pace wrote: > Oh fun! - VERBEXIT MTRACE - ABENDs IEE30008I > > For giggles I looked

Turn off auto complete

2014-03-01 Thread Mike Schwab
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57615394-93/man-sues-govt-for-harassment-blames-googles-autocomplete/ -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signo

Re: critical (to me): 3494-B10 error messages

2014-03-03 Thread Mike Schwab
Issue command D M=DEV(0609) for z/OS 1.13+ Could be a problem with the fiber or adapter on either end. Check for a LOGREC at the time the problem started. On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 8:59 AM, John McKown wrote: > Our 3494-B10 is messed up. It is shared between two LPARs in a basic > sysplex with the d

Re: z/OS WIKI access from a mianframe (TSO)

2014-03-03 Thread Mike Schwab
Lynx runs under Unix System Services (z/Unix). On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > In <531475fd.8070...@isis-papyrus.com>, on 03/03/2014 >at 01:30 PM, Miklos Szigetvari > said: > >>Is it possible to access the z/OS WIKI from a mainframe application ? > > The re

Re: Disabled wait

2014-03-04 Thread Mike Schwab
UA69565 http://www.ibm.com/Search/?q=UA69565&co=us&lo=any&sn=&lang=en&cc=US&en=utf&hpp= ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/eserver/zseries/holddata/quarter.txt ++HOLD(HDZ1D10) FMID(HDZ1D10) REASON(AA42179) ERROR DATE(13365 ) COMMENT(SMRTDATA(FIX(UA69565) SYMP(PRF) CHGDT(131231))) UA71730 http://www.ibm.co

Re: HCD Question regarding the "deletion" of LPARs

2014-03-10 Thread Mike Schwab
For an error free removal, do it in two steps. > [deleted] Configure the channel path offline to the > partition(s) that are being deleted from the CHPID candidate > list. [deleted] 1. Configure the IO gen with the LPARs to be deleted with all the CHPIDs offline, and activate. 2. Configure the

Re: AUTO: Umberto Silvestri is prepared for DELETION (FREEZE)

2014-03-10 Thread Mike Schwab
I would think it is more retirement or transfer requiring a new email address. On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Grinsell, Don wrote: > Bummer. I think I'd much rather just get a pink slip in my inbox. > > -- > > Donald Grinsell > State of Montana > 406-444-2983 > dgrins...@mt.gov > > "They have

Re: Another reason to hate the time change

2014-03-11 Thread Mike Schwab
Set bicycle computer to desired clock. Adjust the tire size calibration number to yield the correct distance in the other measuring system. On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: <> > don't support 24-hour. My bicycle computer is peculiar: it offers either > km/24-hour or mi/12-

Re: Now IEBGENER, Was Help with IEBCOPY?

2014-03-20 Thread Mike Schwab
You didn't say anything about reformatting data. IEBGENER or SORT can copy fields from one column and place in another column and fill in constant values as needed. Set up 2 steps, one for each member. http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r12/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.zos.r12.idau100%2Fu1127

Re: JFCB LBI Blocksize

2014-03-25 Thread Mike Schwab
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r12/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.zos.r12.idad400%2Fblksz.htm Do not use the BLKSIZE field in the DCB. The system uses it. Use the BLKSIZE field in the DCBE. For more information about DCBE field descriptions see z/OS DFSMS Macro Instructions for Data Sets. ht

Re: Ever see "automatic" 30-day trials for mainframe software?

2014-03-26 Thread Mike Schwab
Haven't seen anything. Possibilities would be a date in the program and if past that date the program stops. Site would need to keep updating the download to reflect a later date. Or detect the create date of the library the program is installed in, or save the install date into a member, possib

Re: DS6800 disk - was support is ending for Windows XP - Microsoft Windows

2014-03-26 Thread Mike Schwab
I configure 4 IBM ESS F20 from a Win NT SP6 isolated PC. On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 3:03 PM, R.S. wrote: > W dniu 2014-03-26 19:04, Pommier, Rex pisze: >> >> >> any site that has the SMC connected to an external network >> might want to reevaluate that >> >> >> Therein lies the rub. At my site,

Re: C Compiler Library Search

2014-03-28 Thread Mike Schwab
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r12/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.zos.r12.cbcux01%2Fcbcug19023.htm On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Chuck Arney wrote: > I'm making a first attempt at C code on z/OS and I'm having trouble making > the compiler work the way I understand it should from the m

Re: OT? New slimy computers?

2014-03-28 Thread Mike Schwab
It was predicted in Star Trek Voyager. On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 1:42 PM, zMan wrote: > Will give new meaning to "my computer has a virus" and "my computer died"! > > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:34 PM, John McKown > wrote: > >> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140327100335.htm >> >> A

Re: DSF INIT STGR

2014-03-28 Thread Mike Schwab
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Mark Pace wrote: > No vendor products at all. I have some DASD volumes that I want to use as > a Storage group and I wasn't the one that initialized them. They already > have some data one them so I couldn't re-initialize. > 1. Add to volume to a Storage Group an

Re: Ever see "automatic" 30-day trials for mainframe software?

2014-03-28 Thread Mike Schwab
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 6:44 AM, Bill Soper wrote: > Makes me curious of the lists opinion on if z/OS LPARs are usually able to > contact an internet site, or are commonly isolated? There are some systems that are totally disconnected. Maybe 1-10%? --

Re: Redirecting stdout to a data set?

2014-04-03 Thread Mike Schwab
Older versions of ISPF edit required VB 251 or less. JES2 maximum printable characters on a line is 240. Almost no one uses lines longer than 132 characters. VBA 133 should work unless you have an application that uses long print lines. On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Phil Smith wrote: > Thank yo

Re: Redirecting stdout to a data set?

2014-04-03 Thread Mike Schwab
Hmmm. Must have been the Xerox printer limit then. On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Thu, 3 Apr 2014 19:03:29 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: > >>Older versions of ISPF edit required VB 251 or less. >>JES2 maximum printable characters on a line is 240. &

Re: OT: How would you like _this_ as your "z/OS has hard waited" message?

2014-04-10 Thread Mike Schwab
You would need to do something like a Tiny URL link to the big link. On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Ken Porowski wrote: > How large would the QR code have to be to replace a stand alone dump? > > > > CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 > 973 740 5459 (tel

Re: Rather nice article on COBOL on Vulture Central

2014-04-10 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.hercules-390.eu/hercfaq.html#3.01 VM/370 on a Compaq iPAQ 5450 handheld PDA. An iPhone should be able to add S/360 Cobol. On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > John McKown wrote: > >>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/08/cobol_s_360_anniversary/ > > Thanks. It

Re: Emulator Screen Size with Attachmate Extra X-treme 9.3

2014-04-11 Thread Mike Schwab
What modes are available at the site you are trying to connect to? On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 10:32 AM, George, William@FTB wrote: > Is anyone aware of a means to configure Attachmate's Extra X-treme (v9.3) > emulator to display a screen size other than the base models (2,3,4,5)? > Checking the hel

Re: Another Golden Anniversary - Dartmouth BASIC

2014-04-11 Thread Mike Schwab
Newbie. TRS-80 Model 1 16KB with cassette tape at high school. Later, the first computer I bought was a used TRS-80 Model 4 with 3 5.25 in floppies. On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Frank Swarbrick wrote: > TRS-80 Model III for me. > > >> >> From: John McKown >>To

Re: How often does SMS update its free space information?

2014-04-11 Thread Mike Schwab
When I have added volumes to a storage group, the old totals remain until a dataset is allocated on a volume, then that volume's stats were updated to the storage group. Recently, I think IBM put in logic to update the storage group's totals when a volume is varied online or offline. During the r

Re: Emulator Screen Size with Attachmate Extra X-treme 9.3

2014-04-11 Thread Mike Schwab
Again, it depends on the LOGMODE table at the site. On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Kreiter, Chuck wrote: > My last two companies have used Extra and I've never found a way to use > anything beyond the provided dimensions. I used PCOMM and Vista previously > and had a 60x162 screen (or 62x160

Re: "NSA foils much internet encryption"

2014-04-11 Thread Mike Schwab
NSA used the Heartbeat bug for at least the last two years. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/04/heartbleed-bug-internet-security-ssl On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Thu, 5 Dec 2013 15:19:55 -0600, Mike Schwab > wrote: > >>Microsoft finally wok

Re: Emulator Screen Size with Attachmate Extra X-treme 9.3

2014-04-14 Thread Mike Schwab
The system programmer at your site defines the logmode and its parameters. On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:14 AM, George, William@FTB wrote: > Thanks Linda. But, where would I define the screen parameters, for example; > 60 x 132? > > Bill ---

Re: Accessing DASD areas that have no DSCB (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-04-15 Thread Mike Schwab
If you deleted a dataset and the DASD is thin provisioned, it will recycle the tracks when the VTOC is updated, and the records are gone. If you deleted a dataset and RACF has Secure erase, the tracks are erased before the VTOC is updated. If you deleted a dataset and another dataset has allocated

Re: Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) can help ?

2014-04-16 Thread Mike Schwab
If you use ADRDSSU to backup OMVS files, the files are quiesced during the backup. On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 2:42 AM, Miklos Szigetvari wrote: > Hi > > Maybe the PFA can help us, but I don't know how : > > We have a long running USS process, so called "stress test".After some > hours, stops to

Re: IBM Development Clueless about COBOL DEV activities

2014-04-23 Thread Mike Schwab
We are still running OS/VS Cobol with Report Writer. On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Joel C. Ewing wrote: > True, but there are so many other reasons why code that old should have > already been migrated and re-compiled on a newer COBOL compiler sometime > in the last three decades. If you've g

Re: IBM Development Clueless about COBOL DEV activities

2014-04-24 Thread Mike Schwab
Easytrieve plus has a case structure and end-???. I assume you would need Cobol 2 or higher to have equivalent structures. On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Ken Hume IBM wrote: > I talked to the developers today and IMU generates fairly vanilla COBOL > code. It should "compileable" with any suppo

Re: Enterprise COBOL v5.1 and RDz v9.x

2014-04-25 Thread Mike Schwab
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > I see the descriptions of the XPLINK and XPLINK-64 conventions in that > manual, but nothing about those conventions would prevent calls to programs > with other linkage conventions or address modes, IMHO without much trouble at > a

Re: New install library size

2014-04-28 Thread Mike Schwab
1. Defrag should not release space when secondary space is 0. 2. I vote for 20% free space when secondary space is 0. 3. I vote for 20% of primary as secondary space. On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 2:58 PM, John Eells wrote: > One or two people at the past SHARE voiced this very same opinion. Let's > sa

Re: Using C or C++ for System exits

2014-04-29 Thread Mike Schwab
Unix, and especially the freely available Unix utilities, were written in C. So Linus started coding a kernel to run the free Unix utilities. On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Shane Ginnane wrote: > On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:05:20 -0600, Mark Post wrote: > >>Linux was initially written in C for what

Re: VATLST ISSUE

2014-05-05 Thread Mike Schwab
The volume field is 6 characters long, and the first comma must be in column 7. On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:21 AM, venkat kulkarni wrote: > Hello, >We have single volume z/OS(z/OS 1.13) system and our VATLST00 > entries are as below. > > VATDEF IPLUSE(PRIVATE) SYSUSE(PRIVATE) > RES* ,0

Re: VATLST ISSUE

2014-05-05 Thread Mike Schwab
ntry, whenever anybody create any dataset, it > will go into OPER01 volume. > > Now I changed the syntax of VATLAST and first comma in column 7. Will it > work,if I do IPL or any more changes required . > > > > > On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: > >

Re: VATLST ISSUE

2014-05-05 Thread Mike Schwab
<> >> RES* ,0,0,3390 <> Column 1-6: RES*-- OK Column 7: , OK Column 8: 0 OK Column 9: , OK Column 10: 0 OK Column 11:, OK Column 12-20: '3390' OK >> OPER0* ,0,0,3390 <> Column 1-6: OPER0* OK COLUMN 7: blank: invalid. COLUMN 8: blank: invalid COLUMN 9: , OK COLUMN 10: 0 OK COLUMN 11: , OK COL

Re: z10 IPL from Utility Tape

2014-05-08 Thread Mike Schwab
There was an evaluation version of z/VM that was bootable from a DVD in the HMC. I would give that a shot. On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 7:05 PM, Ed Finnell wrote: > Think the key is get a working VM system by whatever means available. From > there validate IO config. > Attach a few devices and see if

Re: z10 IPL from Utility Tape

2014-05-08 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.vm.ibm.com/eval/ is the page to download the evaluation z/VM ?5.3?). Or ordering 5.2, 5.3, 6.1. Get the file downloaded and burned on a DVD-R by the local staff and inserted into the DVD drive. http://www.cbttape.org/~jjaeger/zzsa.html Is the stand alone ZZSA files. CD-R. On Thu, May

Re: FW: z10 IPL from Utility Tape

2014-05-08 Thread Mike Schwab
f OSA /OSC is not reconized > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Mike Schwab > Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 2:43 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: z10 IPL from Utility Tape > >

Re: FW: z10 IPL from Utility Tape

2014-05-08 Thread Mike Schwab
ion from an adjacent z/OS, so there may be native > z/VM facilities that I'm not aware of. > > . > . > J.O.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 626-302-7535 Office > 323-715-0595 Mobi

Re: Mad Men and the IBM 360

2014-05-12 Thread Mike Schwab
First picture is this Model 50 picture. http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_2423PH2050.html On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Dave Jones wrote: > A posting to the VM list from Billy Bingham: > > I haven't watched Mad Men before, but while channel surfing last night I s

FDISK C: all Emory computers?

2014-05-17 Thread Mike Schwab
http://it.emory.edu/windows7-incident/ -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.u

Re: copy data issue

2014-05-21 Thread Mike Schwab
They are in use. Shut down the application using them. On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 3:15 AM, Mainframe Mainframe wrote: > Hello, > I am trying for volume level copy of datasets but getting below > error for some of the dataset. > > //COPY10 EXEC PGM=ADRDSSU > //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* > //I

Re: MISSING CHANNEL AND DEVICE END

2014-05-21 Thread Mike Schwab
Set MASDEF to 100. Or change your I/O gen so only 1 system uses JES2 Checkpoint Volumes with MASDEF=. On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 5:46 AM, Mehrshad Manshadi wrote: > Hi, > > I encountered the following message on the production system as follows : > > IEF196I IOS071I 1000,4D,*MASTER*, MISSIN

Re: Special characters for Passwords

2014-05-24 Thread Mike Schwab
Since I use my password on a mainframe, I limited myself to the IBM 370 National Characters. Using the same characters on Netware, when I used the @ and # characters, my logins would fail about 50% of the time. No such problems with the $. On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Clark Morris wrote: >

Re: Special characters for Passwords

2014-05-24 Thread Mike Schwab
Posted at http://www.ahajokes.com/com065.html with one character changed. On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: > then there is this password rule Corporate Directive parady dated > 1April1984 ... I had received it Friday afternoon from a mainframe > engineer in POK and red

Re: Restoration of IAM datasets

2014-05-26 Thread Mike Schwab
VSAM, IMS, DB2 all require their own backup program. I would expect IAM to have their own backup program too. On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Jon Perryman wrote: > Martin is implying you should contact Innovation and ask them if logical > backup/restore is appropriate for IAM. They developed t

Re: Friday Puzzler

2014-05-26 Thread Mike Schwab
Step2: DISP=(OLD,PASS) to pass to next step. DISP=OLD means DISP=(OLD,PASS) because of the previous DISP=(NEW,PASS) implies delete when done. On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Ravi Gaur wrote: > There's been no. of posting on it ..so i best tried to go through most of > them ..and I thought to e

Re: non-IBM: SONY new tape storage - 185 Terabytes on a tape.

2014-05-31 Thread Mike Schwab
There is Error Correcting Code to help recover each block. Up from Parity to detect errors on 7 and 9 bit tapes. Recommendation is to duplicate each tape. On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Rob Schramm wrote: > Is there such a thing as RAID S tape storage? Thus helping to ensure data > integrity

Re: SMPPTS and funny (IMHO) problem

2014-06-04 Thread Mike Schwab
PDSE V2 toleration PTFs for z/OS 1.12 and 1.13: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA40844 On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: > On 4 June 2014 11:04, Geoff Rousell wrote: >> "DFSMS V2.1 is increases the PDSE member size to approximately 2,146,435,071 >> records.

Fwd: Orphaned VVR

2014-06-07 Thread Mike Schwab
- > CATALOG(SYS1.F37A.MCAT) > /* > // > -------- > On Wed, 2/5/14, Mike Schwab wrote: > > Subject: Re: Orphaned VVR > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Received: Wednesday, February 5, 2014, 8:27 AM > > We ran it under

Re: RENT, REFR and key=0 storage - A correction

2014-06-16 Thread Mike Schwab
Some co-workers had an application that kept doing this. Two people would browse the same record, and while talking on the phone each would enter their own updates. The second update screwed up the key to the various lines of text for the screen. I suggested, and it worked, that the last update

Re: RENT, REFR and key=0 storage - A correction

2014-06-17 Thread Mike Schwab
delete the lines of text as needed. No lock while displayed on screen. On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On 2014-06-16 17:28, Mike Schwab wrote: >> Some co-workers had an application that kept doing this. Two

Re: How to? Designing a "graph" of information

2014-06-20 Thread Mike Schwab
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:44 AM, John McKown wrote: > Another thing which is a "biggie" is the 4 hour rolling average MSU. Why? > Because if we are running below our cap, then we are "saving up" MSUs. What > this does is mean that we can use some of these "saved" MSUs to exceed our > Group Capaci

Re: IEB319I INVALID SYSPRINT/SYSIN BLOCKSIZE

2014-06-23 Thread Mike Schwab
Try //ddname DD *,RECFM=VB,LRECL=259,BLKSIZE=0 On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > I can confirm Gil's experiment as far as ISPF SUBMIT will allow me. Even if > the submit is done from a RECFM=VB,LRECL=259 PDS, IEBGENER gets the "WRONG > LEN RECRD" error for SYSUT1 w

Re: Address space puzzle

2014-06-25 Thread Mike Schwab
Boy, this is complicated. Too bad the 64 bit address could be redefined to have a 16 bit ASID and 48 bit virtual address in a 64 bit address field. It would limit z/OS to 64K ASIDs of 256TiB address spaces. Would require hardware changes in a new model due in about 4 years. On Wed, Jun 25, 2014

Re: Local Time conversion to/from UTC Time

2014-06-27 Thread Mike Schwab
Indiana you have to go by county. Several counties have unique DST time zone history. On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 6:46 PM, retired mainframer wrote: > If it were only that easy. Parts of Texas are in two different time zones. > I believe at least one other state is split also. Some states in Austr

Re: Local Time conversion to/from UTC Time

2014-06-28 Thread Mike Schwab
ck > > > Charles (Chuck) Hardee > Senior Systems Engineer/Database Administration > CCG Information Technology > Thermo Fisher Scientific > 300 Industry Drive > Pittsburgh, PA 15275 > Direct: 724-517-2633 > FAX: 412-490-9230 > chuck.har...@thermofisher.c

Re: international cuisine; was Re: OT: Re: Freebie software; was "Feebie" software

2014-07-08 Thread Mike Schwab
I just got in 4 tins of Surströmming from Sweden to try for the first time. Fish is about 6 inches long, height about 1 inch, quarter inch thick after gutting. Put into cans with low salt brine. Looked like smoked salmon, tasted very salty like anchovies. Just touching it with a fork and the meat

Re: "Freebie" software

2014-07-11 Thread Mike Schwab
ISPF is more like DOSSHELL on DOS 4.0. On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 8:50 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > In <2104291439117353.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu>, on > 07/09/2014 >at 05:07 PM, Paul Gilmartin > <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> said: > >>But I think it's fa

Re: Cleanup Sort Volumes

2014-07-14 Thread Mike Schwab
We have some small datasets from started tasks. Don't delete until the next IPL. On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Doug wrote: > Some shops allow the sort volumes to be used for datasets that are passed > between jobs and the last job of the series 'is supposed to' issue a delete. > (or not) gr

Re: Cleanup Sort Volumes

2014-07-15 Thread Mike Schwab
SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 626-302-7535 Office > 323-715-0595 Mobile > jo.skip.robin...@sce.com > > > > From: Mike Schwab > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, > Date: 07/14/2014 02:58 PM > Subject:Re: Cleanup Sort Volumes > Sent by:IBM Mai

Re: regd: to make DASD volumes Active

2014-07-22 Thread Mike Schwab
O is Online, but no files in use. A is Active, online and at least 1 file open. So, start an application that uses a file on the desired volume. On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Rajesh Janakiraman wrote: > Dear Mates, > > Its really urgent, DASD volumes in PRODUCTION box is not active. Actually

Re: Beginners question about SHARE

2014-07-23 Thread Mike Schwab
You can get a non-member account to look at their existing materials. http://www.share.org/p/cm/ld/fid=9 It is a one time fee for your organization to join, then everyone at your workplace can join for no additional cost. For everyone who attends a meeting, you then get a $400 per person discount o

Re: Monitoring Solution for mainframe

2014-07-28 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.bsp-gmbh.com/turnkey/cookbook/bsppilot.html On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 12:25 AM, mf db wrote: > Hi > > I am looking for a mainframe monitoring software which reports all the > exceptional messages to the mainframe operators. I know a few products like > Omegamon or OPS/MVS but just lookin

Re: Z/VM migrate from CKD to FBA

2014-07-29 Thread Mike Schwab
On CKD, z/VM formats it with Fixed length blocks. Should be able to ICKDSF the new volume then Backup the old volume and restore to the new volume, or use a move command. On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Mark Post wrote: On 7/29/2014 at 05:15 AM, Dick de Groot wrote: >> We want to use FBA

Re: z/OS V2.1 and System Symobls and JCL

2014-07-30 Thread Mike Schwab
Try it with a period at the end of each variable. On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 08:49:36 -0500, Peter X. DeFabritus wrote: > >>I suspect they mean something like >> >>// SET ABC&LYR2=10 >> >>but I

Re: Tape Initialization Issue

2014-07-31 Thread Mike Schwab
What UCBs were used? On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Rajesh Janakiraman wrote: > Dear Mates, > > While i Initialize a new tape cartridge for monthly backup, it was showing > in spool that > > IEH622I SERVO TRACKS MISSING AND THE DEVICE DOES NOT SUPPORT FORMATTING. > RETURN CARTRIDGE TO SUPPLIER

Re: LE APAR PM99349

2014-08-03 Thread Mike Schwab
On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Shane Ginnane wrote: > Then of course we have the inane stupidity in force at USA airports. 'Bruce > Schneier regales us about that regularly - nuff said. > > Shane ... There is a photo meme going around. A TSA officer putting on a latex glove with text above: "

Re: Initialization problem in Storage Group

2014-08-03 Thread Mike Schwab
Allocate a dataset on the volume then delete it. Requires a management class of Guaranteed space Y. On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Rajesh Janakiraman wrote: > Hi Mates, > > Our production system Storage Group initialization is not getting > initialized completely. > > Whenever we initialize the

Red Alert: z/OS 2.1 DFSORT records out of Sequence

2014-08-04 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www14.software.ibm.com/support/customercare/sas/f/redAlerts/20140801.html - TITLE: z/OS 2.1 DFSORT records out of sequence - URL: http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/redAlerts?myns=z000&mynp=OCHW188&mynp=OCHW18N&mynp=OCHW19Y&mynp=OCHW20L&mynp=OCHW22D&mynp=OCHW23D&mynp=OCHW25D&

Re: Initialization problem in Storage Group

2014-08-05 Thread Mike Schwab
Volumes named but not created appear on the list but all values are blank. On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Pommier, Rex wrote: > Neil, > > What does the StorGrp display look like in ISMF when you have the > non-existent volumes in the SG? Do they show up on the CDS-name display but > not on th

Re: Restoration of Multivolume GDG from Physical Dump Backup

2014-08-07 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.ibmmainframes.com/about59585.html On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Rajesh Janakiraman wrote: > Hi All, > > Please help on restoring multi-volume GDG dataset. I've used the below > JCL. > > //MULTPS JOB 'DUMP',CLASS=A,NOTIFY=&SYSUID, > // REGION=0M > //REST EXEC PGM=ADRDSSU PARM=

Re: Check out BBC News - USB 'critically flawed' after bug discovery, researchers

2014-08-10 Thread Mike Schwab
You have to have firmware to run the USB. And in their example they were able to create a malicious firmware that nothing checks for. On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 11:00 PM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: > On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 17:42:12 -0400 Ed Finnell > <000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:

Re: INITILAIZE COST

2014-08-12 Thread Mike Schwab
01 EXAMPLE-TABLE. 05 MY-COUNT PIC S9(9) COMP VALUE 0. 05 MY-TABLE. On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Ron Thomas wrote: > Hello. > > We have a array like this , what would be best way to initlaize this array > in terms of performance ? > > 01 EXAMPLE-TABLE. > 05 MY-TABLE. >

Re: U4093-92

2014-08-19 Thread Mike Schwab
http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/bit.listserv.ibm-main/2010-05/msg00585.html LE? Region? On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Ron Thomas wrote: > Hi . We are seeing U4093-92 in the loadlib of a module, but the programs are > running in production with out issues. Kindly let me know is

Re: General question on moving DFHSM work from mix TAPE/DASD to More DASD

2014-08-23 Thread Mike Schwab
List the tapes, excluding scratch tapes, including blocksize and number of blocks. For each tape, multiply these together to get the size of that tape. Sum up the size of all the tapes. On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Lizette Koehler wrote: > The driving force is the Mgt team is familiar with Ne

Re: Understanding Data Set Information?

2014-08-29 Thread Mike Schwab
1/2 track blocking factor, so 2 blocks per track in actual usage. 1 cyl = 15 tracks or 30 blocks, so allocation units are in cylinders. 240 blocks is 120 tracks is 8 cylinders, so looks like it did a release. Blksize of 1-22 bytes occurs 86 per track. 10,000 / 86 = 116.27 tracks, rounded up to cyli

Re: Demonstrating Moore's law

2014-09-02 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 08:56:23 -0400, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: > >>l...@garlic.com (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes: >>latest story is that IBM was willing to pay $1B for somebody to take >>chip fab

Re: Another shop that has -- no, wait, what?

2014-09-09 Thread Mike Schwab
Somebody stole the servers ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-NpLu2xC38 On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Aled Hughes <0050619ca8df-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Thanks for that 'cure' Elardus, much appreciated! > > Now, why don't IBM use this information to advertize their wares? I

Re: Question on tracking software

2014-09-12 Thread Mike Schwab
https://ibmsystemsmag.webex.com/mw0401l/mywebex/default.do?siteurl=ibmsystemsmag Oct 8 event. On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Ed Gould wrote: > Here is an IBM presentation on software inventory. I think someone asked > about this a day or two ago. > > > > We invite you to join us for a complime

Re: Logon / Command Procs

2014-09-16 Thread Mike Schwab
In my userid.CLIST(SIGNON), I have these lines at the bottom: WRITENR TO ALLOCATE DB2 LIBRARIES - P=PROD, T=TEST(G,H), N=NONE: READ &ANS IF &ANS = N THEN EXIT WRITE >>> STARTING DB2ALLOC CLIST >>> IF &ANS = T THEN DB2ALOCT IF &ANS = P THEN DB2ALLOC To change, type LOGONGO at the

Re: EZANS Requirement

2014-09-17 Thread Mike Schwab
It is set when you select which product your request applies to. So the group in charge of that product determine for all RFEs for its group are public or private. On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Mike Wawiorko wrote: > I see this in the RFE. > > --- > Visibility: > Pri

Re: LDAP Browser/Admin Utility

2014-09-17 Thread Mike Schwab
I'd get rid of those USS ported tools too. All of it is freeware, none of it written by commercial software. Applies to z/Linux too (except the Mainframe I/O stuff). On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Klein, Kevin wrote: > z/OS 1.13 using Tivoli Directory Server LDAP. > > This is more of a "What

Re: Data Conversion

2014-09-19 Thread Mike Schwab
Hexadecimal is a way of expressing the value of 4 bit with one number or digit. It does not assign a meaning to the data. It could be a binary number, a packed decimal number, a floating point number (hex float or decimal float or ???), ASCII or UTF-8 characters, EBCDIC characters, or a z/Series

Recompiling in Cobol 5.1 saves 10-20% CPU.

2014-09-23 Thread Mike Schwab
http://insidetechtalk.com/whats-keeping-you-from-cobol-5-1/ -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: DIV and 4GB+ Linear VSAM

2014-09-26 Thread Mike Schwab
http://bit.listserv.ibm-main.narkive.com/lWTpjzIy/data-in-virtual-performance On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Dno wrote: > Hi, > > I've looked everywhere for doc describing the limitation that DIV cannot > support files larger than 4GB. Can anyone point me in the right direction? > > Thanks, >

Re: FICON efficiency question

2014-09-29 Thread Mike Schwab
You should be able to run all channels at full speed if the I/O was being generated by the CPU regardless of configuration. And yes, definitely spread I/O channels over multiple cards to continue operations if a cable or channel goes down. On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Gibney, Dave wrote: > I

Re: More on the Bash Security Vulnerability: CVE-2014-6271 & CVE-2014-7169

2014-10-01 Thread Mike Schwab
Yes, there are commercial microwaves that read food package barcodes, look up the power settings and timings from a website, and run according to the stored directions. http://madebynathan.com/2013/07/10/raspberry-pi-powered-microwave/ (home built but states commercially made microwaves available)

Re: More on the Bash Security Vulnerability: CVE-2014-6271 & CVE-2014-7169

2014-10-02 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Chris Hoelscher wrote: > Your microwave should be safe - as long as you do not heat ... corn beef bash > ... > My favorite for about the last year. Would like to find a source for bangers and haggis. -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers g

Re: z/OS datasets that must be in the MCAT (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-10-02 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246982.pdf PDF page 63-64, printed page 47-48. On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Storr, Lon A CTR USARMY HRC (US) wrote: > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > Caveats: NONE > > Hello List, > > It appears that some of the old restrictions regarding MCAT-catalog

Re: Extensions (was: Interested in BASH ... )

2014-10-07 Thread Mike Schwab
If Bash was added to the POSIX standard, they would have to support it. On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 07:21:43 -0500, John McKown wrote: >>> >>> o find -i >>> o find -l >>> o find -follow # but breaking

Re: TSO in batch, RECEIVE storage class - solved

2014-10-10 Thread Mike Schwab
How about, on the existing allocated message, listing the Dataclas, Mgmtclas, Storclas, and Storgrop? How about, on the existing dsn deleted message, listing the # volumes, # extents, and # tracks currently allocated? On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Ted MacNEIL wrote: > Unfortunately, in the ca

Re: Performance in S9(08) COMP

2014-10-16 Thread Mike Schwab
z/OS 2.1 Cobol 5.1 Performance tuning. https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/31c890c6-ace1-4eeb-af6b-5950f3a1a5d1/entry/enterprise_cobol_for_z_os_v5r1_performance_tuning_guide_now_available?lang=en http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27042388 On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 1

Re: Data type declaration

2014-10-16 Thread Mike Schwab
I am suspicious of the PIC S on ITEM-NUMB-OUT. X'C' is the zoned decimal positive sign. On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Ron Thomas wrote: > Hi. > > We have the below layouts in the module > > AS-IS Version of the code > > 03 MIA-KEY. > 05 MIA-SUFFIX PIC X(2) VALUE 'IT'. > 05 M

Re: HSM Recall process

2014-10-17 Thread Mike Schwab
Yes, once it mounts a volume, it will process other recalls from the same volume. Sorting by volume will help. Submitting all recalls grouped by volumes will be a touch faster. On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Lizette Koehler wrote: > z/OS V1.12 - Yes I know. > > > Okay, I am sure this is in a ve

Re: HSM Recall process

2014-10-18 Thread Mike Schwab
For the requests on the queue, in order. You may still be submitting requests when the first one gets processed. On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: > At 19:51 + on 10/17/2014, Chase, John wrote about Re: HSM Recall > process: > >> An exception to the order of process

Re: Message Handling

2014-10-22 Thread Mike Schwab
Check when http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PI19230 was applied. On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 6:54 PM, gsg <0053fe88ed35-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Does anyone know why a message would change when it's sent to the system log? > > Example: > > When the message comes out

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