Re: Scrubbing sensitive data in dumps

2017-08-11 Thread Jim Mulder
someone's wish for this type of function for z/OS dumps. We concluded that in general, identifying the sensitive data to be modified would be so problematic that it was not worth pursuing. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY IBM Mainframe

Re: Scrubbing sensitive data in dumps

2017-08-11 Thread Jim Mulder
To correct myself, there is a type SS record. I almost never see them. There are also type A, SC, SD, and SC records which could contain sensitive data. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > I found the patent filing to be an amusing read,

Re: Scrubbing sensitive data in dumps

2017-08-13 Thread Jim Mulder
these records would be something which starts with a 3 character prefix that IBM has assigned to the vendor. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > From: Thomas Loges > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date: 08/13/2017

Re: Why would LE not trap?

2017-08-27 Thread Jim Mulder
AMODE ESTAE-type recovery exits receive control in the AMODE that was current at the time-of-set (time-of-PC AMODE for ARRs) with the following exceptions: ?ARR, IEAARR, and ESTAEX exits receive control in AMODE 31 instead of AMODE 24 when established for AMODE 24 programs Jim Mulder z/OS

Re: SMFLIMxx parameter

2017-08-29 Thread Jim Mulder
REGIONABOVE controls 31-bit addressable storage. You cannot address more than 2G with only 31 bits. MEMLIMIT controls 64-bit addressable virtual storage. It has nothing to do with the amount of real memory you have installed. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp

Re: SoftwareXcel Discontinued

2017-09-07 Thread Jim Mulder
t how many bugs to include in the software. :-) Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > From: Gord Tomlin > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date: 09/07/2017 03:58 PM > Subject: Re: SoftwareXcel Discontinued > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discuss

Re: Dynamic Steplib and z/OS 2.3?

2017-09-22 Thread Jim Mulder
change this paradigm, so IBM does not, and will not, provide such a capability. IBM does provide products which use TASKLIB on ATTACH, such as ISPF, and TSO commands issued from READY after a TSOLIB command. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY IBM

Re: SMF30 EXCP count confusion

2017-09-25 Thread Jim Mulder
IEASMFEX with a count of 1, so for non-SAM use of EXCP, it is the count of EXCPs. IEWFETCH (an IOS driver which fetches load modules) counts the number of SSCH for non-VIO data sets, and uses EXCP for VIO data sets. So either way, it is the number of channel programs executed. Jim Mulder z/OS

Re: Is the AFP control bit (big #13 in CR0) testable in an application?

2017-09-26 Thread Jim Mulder
In the old days, you would check CVTBFP EQU X'10' Binary Floating Point support @MGA *(simulated unless CVTBFPH is on) @MGA That bit is always on with OS/390 2.6 or higher. You definitely should not look at the CR0 b

Re: DLIB volume for SAD

2017-09-27 Thread Jim Mulder
The only restrictions on the SAD IPL device is that it must not contain a page data set for the system being dumped, and it must not be used as an output device for this dump. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > This is general quest

Re: DLIB volume for SAD

2017-09-27 Thread Jim Mulder
I don't know of any SADMP PTFs that were not downward compatible within the same release of z/OS, and we would certainly try to avoid creating that scenario. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > In addition the SAD IPL volume should in p

Re: DLIB volume for SAD

2017-09-27 Thread Jim Mulder
In that case, you are taking a risk. We don't try to make SADMP upward or downward compatible across releases, so whether or not that happens to work depends mainly on what changes were made in the Real Storage Manager component. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test

Re: ASCBEJST

2017-09-29 Thread Jim Mulder
Yes, it is CPU time, not elapsed time. The comment on the field which says "ELAPSED TIME" goes all the way back to MVS 3.8. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY Charles Mills wrote on 09/29/2017 01:12:16 PM: > From: Charles Mills &

Re: Batch TSO command (ADDUSER) tracing and diagnostics

2017-10-27 Thread Jim Mulder
System Integrity and thus the security of your system, since it will allow the unauthorized transaction programs in those regions to take over the system in anyway that they desire. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Question on some z/OS Tuning Parms USEZOSV1R9RULES and MEMDSENQMGT

2017-10-27 Thread Jim Mulder
long DQE/FQE chains due to fragmentation caused by Getmain/Freemain activity in OPEN processing. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 10/27/2017 11:36:02 AM: > From: Lizette Koehler > To: IB

Re: AW: Re: IKJEFTxx should fail if not JobStep Task (was: Batch TSO command ... )

2017-10-30 Thread Jim Mulder
program. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 10/30/2017 02:53:00 AM: > >>>The TSO TMP is designed to be attached only by EXEC PGM=IKJEFTxx, > or by the TSO/E Session Manager (when Session Mana

Re: Standalone IPL ADRDSSU and Operating Systems Messages z14

2017-11-03 Thread Jim Mulder
There are PTFs for standalone ADRDSSU and standalone ICKDSF to support the z14, which are necessary because the z14 does not support ESA/390 mode. You need to install the PTFs and then regenerate the IPL tape. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY

Re: Odd SMF 30 data within IEFACTRT (Part 2)

2017-11-09 Thread Jim Mulder
Page-milliseconds is number of pages multiplied by number of milliseconds. SMF30ERS will always contain zeros on zOS 1.6 or higher, since z/OS does not use expanded storage in zArchitecture mode. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY IBM Mainframe

Re: CSVDYLPA ADD question.

2017-11-29 Thread Jim Mulder
IEFSSVT was created in MVS/ESA SP5.2.0, before the existence of CSVDYLPA, which was created in OS/390 2.4. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY John McKown wrote on 11/29/2017 11:50:46 AM: > I'm guessing that LOADTOGLOBAL literally mea

Re: CSVDYLPA ADD question.

2017-11-29 Thread Jim Mulder
difficulty for doing SSI enhancements. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY John McKown wrote on 11/29/2017 01:53:00 PM: 12:37 PM, Jim Mulder wrote: > > > IEFSSVT was created in MVS/ESA SP5.2.0, before the existence of > > CSVDY

Re: RSM Freemained Frames - When do they apply?

2017-12-14 Thread Jim Mulder
RSM will free frames if available frames are in short supply. If you obtain a smaller amount, get it backed, and then release it, you may be more likely to observe the frames being retained. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > Running z/OS V

Re: RSM Freemained Frames - When do they apply?

2017-12-15 Thread Jim Mulder
It can improve performance for any number of processors, but the value increases as the number of processors increases. We do not condition its use based on the number of processors. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discu

Re: CEEDUMP possible following 'new' failure

2016-10-06 Thread Jim Mulder
age exhaustion. (And I say "our intention" because we do sometimes find cases where we did not do what we intended). Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscri

Re: CEEDUMP possible following 'new' failure

2016-10-06 Thread Jim Mulder
From some internal discussion after this issue was raised today, our intention is that LE will move the CEEDUMP modules to SCEELPA in the next release of z/OS. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > > So, when will CEE.SCEELPA be z/OS st

Re: CEEDUMP possible following 'new' failure

2016-10-07 Thread Jim Mulder
ss space for memterm? Since memterm does not access the storage of the address being terminated, there is no connection between IEFUSI and memterm. There is no requirement for any available storage in the address space being memtermed. Task termination, yes. Memory termination, no. Jim Muld

Re: diagnose 8 / interesting dilemma

2016-10-17 Thread Jim Mulder
anages double frames (used for access lists, and before z/Architecture, for segment tables) and quadframes (used for segment tables and region tables). There are no external interfaces for double frames or quadframes. There is IARV64 GETSTOR with TYPE=FIXED and PAGEFRAMESIZE=1M. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnos

Re: diagnose 8 / interesting dilemma

2016-10-17 Thread Jim Mulder
n about that (Peter Relson will remember the first time). z/VM 6.4 will support 1MB pages for guests. http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/9/897/ENUS216-009/index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test

Re: When does compare-and-swap-and-store facility 2 come along?

2016-10-21 Thread Jim Mulder
00369000 FLCEOBSOLETECPUMEASUREMENT EQU X'01' Obsolete. Meant CPU-measurement *0037 facility supported. Use *00371000 FlceCpuMeasurementCounter & *00372000 FlceCpuMeasurementSampling 00373000 Jim Mulder

Re: When does compare-and-swap-and-store facility 2 come along?

2016-10-21 Thread Jim Mulder
IHAPSAE is in z/OS V2R2 MVS Data Areas Volume 2 . Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > Ah. I was looking in MVS Data Areas. Is it in there somewhere? I did not > find it. > > I suppose I could have looked at STFE. > > CSST is p

Re: AW: How large are your system trace & master trace on z13?

2016-10-27 Thread Jim Mulder
t. Or you can use SYSTRACE filtering to reduce the number of formatted lines. The new EXCLUDE(BEFOREALL AFTERALL) introduced for z/OS 2.2 in APAR OA49814 can be very useful for this purpose. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY -

Re: DAIR error 0470 allocating internal reader

2016-11-08 Thread Jim Mulder
The OA50565 fix changed the TSO/E environment service to turn on PSCBJCL when running in an APF authorized jobstep (i.e. when JCSBAUTH is on). IDCAMS is linked in SYS1.LINKLIB with AC(1), so an EXEC PGM=IDCAMS jobstep is APF authorized. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test

Re: DAIR error 0470 allocating internal reader

2016-11-09 Thread Jim Mulder
mechanism in TSO/E to serialize against deletion of control blocks created by IKJTSOEV, so it is not safe to delete them. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > Jim- > Thanks, so we need to apply the PTF. I will changes my code to check for >

Re: DAIR error 0470 allocating internal reader

2016-11-09 Thread Jim Mulder
ee to submit a requirement through the usual mechanism, or engage via the support process. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > > The OA50565 fix changed the TSO/E environment service to turn on PSCBJCL > > when running in an APF au

Re: Problem with startup DB2

2016-11-10 Thread Jim Mulder
A 028-04000200 would not be due to either of those things. A more likely cause would be a page table overlay. The first step for doing any diagnosis would be SLIP MOD,ID=X028,DISABLE and then reproduce the problem. Open a PMR and send the dump to IBM. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis

Re: AW: Re: Real Storage Display

2016-11-16 Thread Jim Mulder
online to the partition. LPAR assigns real storage, and now that real storage is unavailable to be assigned to other partitions. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > >I discussed this further with Jim Mulder. The z12, where I recently >

Re: z/OS 2.2 and z9

2016-11-18 Thread Jim Mulder
> 1. As far as I know z/OS 2.2 will not run on z9 machine - is it true? > > 2. What message one can expect when trying to IPL the z/OS 2.2 on the z9? Wait state code 07B A required processor facility is not available. The wait state reason code identifies the missing facility. Jim

Re: Which STEPLIB concatenation is not authorized?

2016-11-18 Thread Jim Mulder
That may be a reasonable thing to submit to DFSMS as a requirement or request or whatever we call those things now. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY -- For IBM-MAIN sub

Re: z/OS 2.2 and z9

2016-11-18 Thread Jim Mulder
loaded (the program check new PSW is simply a 019 wait state that early in IPL processing). In the next release, we have moved the architecture verification to be at the beginning of IPL, so that we will load a 07B wait state as i

Re: LOOKAT gone?

2016-12-02 Thread Jim Mulder
ng in front of a workstation with a real keyboard and mouse and dual 27 inch monitors, that is what I want to use to look up message information, not a Smartphone with a small screen and a small simulated keyboard. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Developmen

Re: Question on SPKA and Control Register 3

2016-12-12 Thread Jim Mulder
key is set on. ?The bit matching key 9 is set on. ?For a task attached with ATTACHX using the KEY=NINE parameter, the bits that were on in the PKM of the ATTACHX issuer are set on. ?All other bits are set off. If the resulting PSW is in supervisor state, the caller?s PKM is unchanged. J

Re: Question on SPKA and Control Register 3

2016-12-16 Thread Jim Mulder
oblem was due to your code defect. More likely, we would not be so lucky, and that PMR would go unsolved, after spending a lot of time looking for a nonexistent bug in SLIP. Your code must be changed from STOSM PSWMASK,0 to STNSM PSWMASK,X'FC' . And that means that PSW and your c

Re: Question on SPKA and Control Register 3

2016-12-16 Thread Jim Mulder
ion or the target PSW is not in fixed or DREF storage, the LPSW instruction or the PSW operand page could get get invalidated by RSM running on another CPU, and then, since, the LPSW instruction is executed while disabled, the resulting access exception would get turned into a 0C4 abend. Jim Mul

Re: Question on SPKA and Control Register 3

2016-12-16 Thread Jim Mulder
> Right? Not right. STNSM is Store *Then* And System Mask. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: COBOL inline CPU timer

2016-12-20 Thread Jim Mulder
microseconds (not milliseconds). ASCBEJST contains accumulated CPU time for all TCBs and SRBs in the address space. ASCBEJST does not include the CPU time spent in the current dispatch. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY -

Re: Diasabled wait 088 when trying ipl z/os 2.1 under zVM 63 on zPDT

2016-12-26 Thread Jim Mulder
ify the same load parameter on the VM IPL command as you did when IPLing standalone? IPL LOADP xxxx Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Current work unit

2017-01-14 Thread Jim Mulder
the address of the currently dispatched WEB. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.ed

Re: Current work unit

2017-01-15 Thread Jim Mulder
> Jim Mulder said the Current work unit is in the Web I said nothing about what is in the WEB. This is exactly what I said: "LCCACWEB (which is classified as not a programming interface) contains the address of the currently dispatched WEB." > I looked at that and saw

Re: WAIT ECB=ECBLIST Storage Key

2017-01-31 Thread Jim Mulder
in? Is it an APF-authorized job step? What exactly are the ECBs on which you want to WAIT? How did you get the addresses of those ECBs? Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 01/30/2017 10:00:46 PM: > F

Re: BSAM vs QSAM

2017-02-03 Thread Jim Mulder
parameters. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 02/03/2017 09:06:16 PM: > From: Jesse 1 Robinson > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date: 02/04/2017 01:38 AM > Subject: Re: BSAM vs QSAM > Sent by

Re: BSAM vs QSAM

2017-02-04 Thread Jim Mulder
> Is this still, as Ed recalls, part of a separately-priced SAMe feature? I asked Wayne Rhoten. His recollection is that SAMe GAed as a product around 1978, and was integrated in the early 1980s. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie

Re: Query regarding MVCSK/MVCDK

2017-02-09 Thread Jim Mulder
vicinity, machine model, system trace entry for the PGM 004 Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Layout CPC serial number z13S

2017-02-17 Thread Jim Mulder
e are two zIIP threads online to z/OS, so one more to SIGP to for things that z/OS has to broadcast to all online threads. But I would not expect that to make much difference. The system trace in a dump taken while things are slow might provide some clues. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, D

Re: VSMLIST

2017-02-21 Thread Jim Mulder
> I'm trying to find data for PGSER FIX > > would VSMLIST. For free space give me address of storage that have > been allocated but paged out No, VSM (and hence VSMLIST) knows nothing about if or where any virtual storage is backed. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Devel

Re: How determine effective architecture level of a z/PDT?

2017-02-23 Thread Jim Mulder
However, keep in mind that this is a statement about the CPU architecture, and not the I/O architecture. For example, zPDT does not support MIDAWs, which were introduced on the z9 machines. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY Steve M Bohn

Re: IEE114I header line summary figures - what do they mean exactly?

2017-02-23 Thread Jim Mulder
unning a job, D A,ALL will show two entries for the same ASID (one for each CSCB). For BPXAS address spaces, both will be marked O (dubbed). But OAS will count that address space only once. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY IBM Mainframe Discuss

Re: IEE114I header line summary figures - what do they mean exactly?

2017-02-24 Thread Jim Mulder
When OMVS was first implemented in SP4.3.0 (around 1993), I have a vague recollection that OMVS may have used the APPC Scheduler - ASCH) to manage its initiators, to reduce implementation cost in the first release. However, that is no longer the case. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design

Re: How determine effective architecture level of a z/PDT?

2017-02-24 Thread Jim Mulder
S as a z/VM guest on zPDT, then AUTOIPL may work. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

How *not* to SLEEP in REXX

2014-01-14 Thread Jim Mulder
JEFT01 *S222 76K 13:49:49.95 14:00:39.23 14.00.39 JOB53814 $HASP395 TSOOPR03 ENDED Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Need help setting up SLIP trap

2014-01-16 Thread Jim Mulder
hinks is a function routine. R14=80CA9100 is common to all of the abends because that is the return address in the z/OS SSI module which is making the call to the bogus function routine address. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY --

Re: Need help setting up SLIP trap

2014-01-16 Thread Jim Mulder
V product, at time 01/14/2014 09:09:04, which is around when your 0C4 abends started occurring. This can be found in the report from VERBX VSMDATA 'OWNCOMM DETAIL CONTENTS(NO) SORTBY(ADDR)' So it seems likely that the SSVT overlay is due to the ISV product storing beyond the area

Re: Dataspace versus common area above the bar

2014-01-20 Thread Jim Mulder
access the tables, and that will not be affected by data space vs. memory object. HIS sampler data (available on z10 and newer machines) is the best way to determine how much time you are spending in this code. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -

Re: Dataspace versus common area above the bar

2014-01-20 Thread Jim Mulder
ta spaces. I started > using memory objects 10 years ago and have nearly forgotten how to use a > data space. Guard pages and protected pages can be created in data spaces using IARV64 with TAGET_VIEW=HIDDEN and TARGET_VIEW=READONLY Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp.

Fw: Dataspace versus common area above the bar

2014-01-20 Thread Jim Mulder
t but not in data spaces. I started >> using memory objects 10 years ago and have nearly forgotten how to use a >> data space. > Guard pages and protected pages can be created in data spaces >using IARV64 with TAGET_VIEW=HIDDEN and TARGET_VIEW=READONLY I meant IARVSERV,

Re: Fw: Dataspace versus common area above the bar

2014-01-20 Thread Jim Mulder
that happens only in my dreams. Pretty much the same way that fast skating and goal scoring happens only in my dreams. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / a

Re: Fw: Dataspace versus common area above the bar

2014-01-20 Thread Jim Mulder
upport installed. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Dataspace versus common area above the bar

2014-01-21 Thread Jim Mulder
performance. Can you explain which instructions you think are faster than some functional equivalent, and why you think they are faster? Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscri

Re: Dataspace versus common area above the bar

2014-01-21 Thread Jim Mulder
their use as a base or index register. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Fw: Dataspace versus common area above the bar

2014-01-21 Thread Jim Mulder
ve been cases over the years where some processors required extra cycles to perform operand extension, especially when involves sign bit propagation. For specific instructions on a specific processor, I can ask the engineers if that is the case (as long as it is a recen

Re: Dataspace versus common area above the bar

2014-01-21 Thread Jim Mulder
was implemented in millicode on the z900, z800, z990, z890, and z9 machines. It was moved to hardware on the z10 and later machines. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscrib

Re: CPU time

2014-02-03 Thread Jim Mulder
n yet, so this probably still is included in "uncaptured time". But at least we are collecting the data now, so that it could be reported separately as a new component of captured time, in the future. Jim Mulder z/OS

Re: JESGB400/IEFGB400

2014-02-04 Thread Jim Mulder
does nothing but issue a PUT macro in 24-bit addressing mode. It created in the days when PUT could not be called in 31-bit addressing mode. That restriction being long gone, the allocation message module was changed in z/OS 1.10 to do its PUT directly, instead of calling IEFGB400. So your metho

Re: Storage Obtain .....

2014-02-11 Thread Jim Mulder
t > the very start of my program. > > The trace table shows the SSRV for the OBTAIN .. but it's obviously > failing... It's not failing. If it was failing, with the default of COND=NO, you would have gotten an ABEND. What is in the SSRV 78 trace e

Re: Storage Obtain .....

2014-02-12 Thread Jim Mulder
onfusion like this several times over the years. I would have preferred to abend when a length of 0 is requested. But it has worked this way since at least MVS/370, and maybe even long before that, so for compatibility reasons, we do not change it. Jim Mulder z/OS S

Re: RES: Console status after IEARELCN

2014-02-20 Thread Jim Mulder
ey 0 ESQA storage. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

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

2014-02-24 Thread Jim Mulder
ll change the location of the PARM= string. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the mes

Re: Disabled wait

2014-02-28 Thread Jim Mulder
ace entry to find which module issued the C0D abend. Look at the source code for that module to see what the abend means. Which model of machine are you running on? Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -

Re: 0C4 from TSOEXEC IEBCOMPR

2014-03-05 Thread Jim Mulder
RE TYPORG=PO" > QUEUE V1 > "EXECIO" queued() "DISKW SYSIN (FINIS" > "DELSTACK" > "TSOEXEC IEBCOMPR" > "FREE FI(SYSUT1 SYSUT2 SYSIN)" For one thing, you are invoking IEBCOMPR as a command processor, and it may not be designed

Re: Write Inhibit (Was: Re: [OT ] Mainframe memories)

2014-03-08 Thread Jim Mulder
or LPAR to provide a write inhibit switch for a device. z/OS does scan and modify DASD channel programs, so it might be reasonable to have DASD UCB switch which says to set the mask byte in the Define Extent (or analogous command) parameter to inhibit all write operations. Jim Mulder z/OS Sys

Re: SL SA and range parameter

2014-03-26 Thread Jim Mulder
em does not have the information which would be needed to do the kind of filtering that you desire. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: S0C4 abend on old assembler program when upgrading to z/OS 1.13

2014-04-09 Thread Jim Mulder
U gets CONFIGed OFFLINE while your program is accessing its PCCA. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.

Re: S0C4 abend on old assembler program when upgrading to z/OS 1.13

2014-04-09 Thread Jim Mulder
equently bring other CPUs online during Master Scheduler Initialization, if there is at least one other online CPU, we configure the IPL CPU offline and back online so that its LCCA and PCCA can be located as directed by DIAGxx. If there are no other CPUs online, then of course we can't do th

Re: Logical Choices (was: ISPF dynamically allocating dataset with DISP=OLD?)

2014-04-09 Thread Jim Mulder
ng the nucleus is such a small part of system initialization time that it is not worth spending significant development resources to make it faster. How small is it on your system? Under IPCS, do IPLDATA STATUS Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Slow vary commands processing

2014-04-21 Thread Jim Mulder
S(WAIT1) (STIMER WAIT,BINTVL=WAIT1 ); END; WHEN ('OFF') DO WHILE(UCBONLI); IF WAIT1¬=0 THEN GEN REFS(WAIT1) (STIMER WAIT,BINTVL=WAIT1 ); END; OTHERWISE ?ABEND (3) DUMP; END; IF PTOKEN ¬= NOTPINNED THEN /* UNPIN IF REQUIRED */

Re: Is there a significant performance penalty for non-aligned operands?

2014-06-02 Thread Jim Mulder
perand crosses a cache line. Of course things could change again in the future. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Is there a significant performance penalty for non-aligned operands?

2014-06-02 Thread Jim Mulder
for several generations before that. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: SNAP/SNAPX macro usage

2014-06-02 Thread Jim Mulder
> Does anyone know if it is possible to suppress the DUMP INDEX > portion of the output of a SNAP/SNAPX macro? It is not possible, other than by modifying the code in module IEAVAD01. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsi

Re: XR vs SR

2014-06-03 Thread Jim Mulder
/SLR for clearing a register, and they have some benefits on prior models. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to list

Re: Address space puzzle

2014-06-26 Thread Jim Mulder
s spaces you are trying to access are nonswapable, you may experience random ASTE-validity exception program checks. Also, you should be concerned about how you serialize against the freeing of an ACEE whose address you obtained from TCBSENV. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie,

Re: Address space puzzle

2014-06-26 Thread Jim Mulder
y point in address space creation. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Address space puzzle

2014-06-27 Thread Jim Mulder
H. If I was trying to understand why a REQUEST=AUTH was taking longer than the amount CPU time consumed, the first thing I would do is set a SLIP IF,A=SYNCSVCD on the instruction following the return from REQUEST=AUTH, and look at SY

Re: AW: Re: ECSA Survey

2014-07-02 Thread Jim Mulder
fessor Harold Hill. Gary Conservatory of Music, gold medal class of '05. Harold, there wasn't any Gary Conservatory of Music in '05. Harold Hill: Why, there most certainly w... Marian Paroo: Because the town wasn't even built until '06. Jim Mulder

Re: z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses

2014-07-24 Thread Jim Mulder
Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY > I had a question about how z/OS handles physical memory for the same > load module that is loaded at different virtual addresses in > different virtual address spaces. > > For example, let's say on the same z/

Re: z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses

2014-07-27 Thread Jim Mulder
ress in all of the sharing address spaces. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: "Numeric Part of PC Number" in linkage state entry

2014-07-29 Thread Jim Mulder
t or 31-bit mode or a one in bit position 0 if the resulting addressing mode is the 64-bit mode. What part of the entire value is missing? Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signo

Re: "Numeric Part of PC Number" in linkage state entry

2014-07-29 Thread Jim Mulder
se in order for RTM2 to find an ARR address, we need to reconstruct the PC number from the linkage stack entry, so we can use it to locate the Entry Table Entry for the PC number, which contains the ARR address). > On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 17:39:44 -0400 Jim Mulder wrote: > > :>> T

Re: Different results with ASCRE starting IEESYSAS vs. own proc

2014-08-19 Thread Jim Mulder
C=NO > ADDR SPACE ASTE=53E88C40 The START command processor treats IEESYSAS as a special case: -UPDATE CSCB WITH START COMMAND RELATED INFORMATION. IF A SYSTEM ADDRESS SPACE IS BEING STARTED @

Re: PLPA entry (was PLPA enty)

2014-08-21 Thread Jim Mulder
mps. And I have seen the failures on several occasions. I am not telling you not to use it, as long as you are in an environment where you can understand and accept the risks. But it was not possible to design it in a way which was free from risks. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Po

Fw: PLPA entry (was PLPA enty)

2014-08-21 Thread Jim Mulder
old LNKLSTs to complete before control blocks that they may have been using get freed. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY > From: Jim Mulder/Poughkeepsie/IBM > To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > Date: 08/22/2014 12:32 AM > Subject: Re: PLPA entry (w

Re: OS message on HMC

2014-08-22 Thread Jim Mulder
>Though it may also be possible that this shop is trying to run multiple GTF Tasks >at the same time on the same LPAR. Which, as I recall, still cannot be done. >Only one GTF to rule them all. Support for multiple GTFs on the same z/OS image was introduced in z/OS 1.6. Jim Muld

Re: SUBSYS interface

2014-08-27 Thread Jim Mulder
ght that z/OS would have the capability to do the AMODE 31 call > for I/O at my level (2.1). > > Any ideas on how to let JES exit know to invoke ACBINRTN in AMOCE 31? IGG019DJ is part of DFSMS, not JES. I have looked at the code, and I don't see any provision to allow the ACBINRTN

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