Re: Dataset in Two master catalog

2014-06-16 Thread John Eells
es required to IPL in the first place are essential. What scared *me* the most was not having those at hand, as they were supposed to be. This was probably why I kept a list and a set of labeled dump tapes in my desk...just in case. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poug

Re: IKJ56228I trying to delete a data set

2014-06-18 Thread John Eells
gt;>> "DEL 'SYS1.XCF.CDS03' CAT('MVSR21.ICF.MASTER')" IKJ56228I DATA SET SYS1.XCF.CDS03 NOT IN CATALOG OR CATALOG CAN NOT BE ACCESSED IDC0551I ** ENTRY SYS1.XCF.CDS03 NOT DELETED IDC0014I LASTCC=8 +++ RC(8) +++ -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing

June 26 Webcast about z/OS V2.1 (a Management View)

2014-06-19 Thread John Eells
/OSMF simplifies management and usability with new superior performance Q&A afterward. To listen in or participate, go here (registration is required): https://engage.vevent.com/rt/ibm~thinkzos -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@u

Re: SMPE problem

2014-06-23 Thread John Eells
en Enhanced HOLDDATA was introduced, the ~2250K size of the Full file was a lot of data to download. Today it's peanuts. Just get the Full file. We should probably think about taking down the Month/Quarter/Year options at some point. (Yell if you think you need them! But tell us w

Re: SMPE problem

2014-06-23 Thread John Eells
This should, of course, say: "I'm afraid it is not the case *that* no ill effect can arise from processing older HOLDDATA than you have already processed." John Eells wrote: I'm afraid it is not the case there no ill effect can arise from processing older HOLDDATA t

Re: Catalog considerations for a new(ish) systems programmer (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-06-24 Thread John Eells
as the new architectural limit is 123TB) starting in z/OS V1.12, and access usercats and volcats in RLS mode starting in z/OS V2.1. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: IEFUJI problem, preventing TSO logon

2014-06-26 Thread John Eells
cessary with an updated copy. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

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

2014-07-08 Thread John Eells
uctures make it a stony path. But, as said above, my main goal is to get a deeper understanding of how TSO works. Additional Q: Does anyone know where the "default attributes" mentioned in msgIKJ56644I are documente

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

2014-07-08 Thread John Eells
tation the design's age is probably at least a year or two older than that. I suspect those designers have long retired, and doubt that anyone still at IBM recalls why they chose the design they did choose. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie e

Re: "Secret" Machine Instruction?

2014-07-17 Thread John Eells
flagged to note the actual mapping. There are now a number of these instructions and they should be identified. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: OPEN not filling in DCBBLKSI for RECFM=U data set

2014-07-18 Thread John Eells
. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Beginners question about SHARE

2014-07-23 Thread John Eells
.a few of them follow this list. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the me

Re: Beginners question about SHARE

2014-07-23 Thread John Eells
Lizette Koehler wrote: Or you could write or call Share directly for friendly answers There you go, Lizette, making sense again. Probably the best answer of all! -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Monitoring Solution for mainframe

2014-07-28 Thread John Eells
Charles Mills wrote: Is zAware "free"? That was not my impression but I could easily be wrong. zAware is a priced feature of zEC12 and zBC12 servers. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

Re: LE APAR PM99349

2014-08-01 Thread John Eells
.me" that it's a security / integrity APAR and just apply the PTF? -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email t

Re: LE APAR PM99349

2014-08-03 Thread John Eells
CVSS scorings and APAR/PTF information in the portal, not direct information about the vulnerabilities themselves or ETR text. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subs

Re: LE APAR PM99349

2014-08-03 Thread John Eells
they think it's an important one. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with t

Re: no GIM41802I in ACCEPT step?

2014-08-04 Thread John Eells
to a relative file. But that's sophistry even more extreme than my pedantry.) -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, sen

Re: Extents more than One for load modules library

2014-08-11 Thread John Eells
size, and it's never worse. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Extents more than One for load modules library

2014-08-11 Thread John Eells
t you won't find a larger one that makes it worse. Search the archives for prior discussions on this with my name attached for far more detail. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- Fo

Re: Extents more than One for load modules library

2014-08-11 Thread John Eells
due to "fixed block thinking" as a good submultiple of the track length, but full track blocking would actually have been better during the 2314/3330/3350 era. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -

Re: Extents more than One for load modules library

2014-08-13 Thread John Eells
and having to redrive the I/O. So larger block sizes still mean better performance. * All this led to a number of changes in IBM product packaging (RELFILE block sizes and recommended allocation block sizes for load modules), IEBCOPY (PARM=SPCLCMOD), SMP/E (which now uses COPYMOD), and Ser

Re: Extents more than One for load modules library

2014-08-14 Thread John Eells
out in some detail a long time ago in various papers, presentations, books, and such. (Siebo and I corresponded in the late 90's about the special case represented by load libraries.) -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poug

Re: Mainframe jargon and acronyms wasRe: AMBLIST, AMASPZAP, and UNIX Program Objects

2014-08-18 Thread John Eells
microcode" in the acronym, or in which contexts. Both terms remain in our books, and both are defined here: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/terminology/i.html As you can see, both "microcode" and "microprogram" seem to be in use for the "M&

Re: IBM Boulder Website down?

2014-08-18 Thread John Eells
service.boulder.ibm.com) happens to be unavailable, as is the case this morning. You might want to try that one, or begin using it instead. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: IBM Boulder Website down?

2014-08-18 Thread John Eells
om Port 80 Bruce Lightsey Database Manager MS Department of Information Technology Services 601-432-8144 | www.its.ms.gov -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014 9:42 AM To

Re: Compare SMP/E DDDEFs and actual libraries

2014-08-26 Thread John Eells
rence, this is for z/OS v2.1 Thanks Gadi -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu wit

Re: Deleting Cluster Using IEFBR14 or IDCAMS

2014-09-15 Thread John Eells
processors look, smell, and feel "just like TSO/E commands," but are not necessarily part of TSO/E. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acc

Re: Never Ending Batch versus Started Task ??

2014-09-19 Thread John Eells
I always found that amusing, but perhaps I'm easily amused.) -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@

Re: SCEELKED Restore

2014-10-01 Thread John Eells
mainframe1...@gmail.com (Mainframe Mainframe) wrote: We have sys1.sceelked in linklist. But I feel we should use below parm to restore from backup, but not sure. OK, I have to ask: What made you think SCEELKED should be in the link list? -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM

Re: SCEELKED Restore

2014-10-02 Thread John Eells
ndeed not safe if invoked in an authorized environment. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listser

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

2014-10-03 Thread John Eells
that the CATALOG address space must be active before UCATs are accessible but I'm rather fuzzy about exactly where in the system initialization timeline this occurs (i.e. relative to the components that want to access these datasets). What other installation-allocated datasets that z/OS ac

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

2014-10-06 Thread John Eells
n CPP do not necessarily match information in the manuals. b. Not all customers utilize CPP. Not quite. (a) is certainly true, sometimes to keep ServerPac support costs under control and sometimes because (gasp!) someone has marked something in error during product integration. Errors her

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

2014-10-06 Thread John Eells
does that." On the other hand, if you find a data set for which no additional setup is required marked MCAT=Y when it shouldn't be, I'd suggest opening a PMR to get that fixed. We shouldn't all try to live with "e

Re: Verify APF libraries

2014-10-20 Thread John Eells
a sets. Hope this helps... -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: QUESTION ABOUT VSAM / VSAM EXTENDED

2014-10-22 Thread John Eells
cylinder's worth of space. Here's a link to the topic in the z/OS V1.13 level of the book (watch the wrap): http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dgt2d4a0/1.3.2.3?SHELF=all13be9&DT=20110606092005&CASE= * I believe that is most likely GiB for the

Re: QUESTION ABOUT VSAM / VSAM EXTENDED

2014-10-22 Thread John Eells
marketing decision ever made by the industry. I don't even know who started it (IBM or a PCM way back when--it certainly predates me). But while it's true that we advertise (unformatted, IIRC) disk space in powers of ten, most system limits are in powers of two, including this one. -- Jo

Re: ShopzSeries down?

2014-10-24 Thread John Eells
The Shopz team knows it's down, and they are working to get it up and running ASAP. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruc

Re: ShopzSeries down?

2014-10-24 Thread John Eells
And, it's back up (since at least 2:00 US Eastern time; i.e., a bit over an hour ago). ee...@us.ibm.com (John Eells) wrote: The Shopz team knows it's down, and they are working to get it up and running ASAP. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

Re: RFE voting at IBM developerWorks

2014-10-27 Thread John Eells
evelopment community for at least a little while (smile). thomas.b...@swedbank.se (Thomas Berg) wrote: I'm looking at RFEs at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute May RFEs are marked with a "private" symbol which means I can't look at it or vote for it. Why is that?

Re: TS1150 and software installation

2014-10-28 Thread John Eells
ac and CBPDO, and service. I would like to hear from anyone who really *needs* tape delivery, whether on 3590 or on newer devices, along with the reason why it's needed. You can post here if you want, but to avoid clutter you can just send me a note: ee...@us.ibm.com -- John Eells z/OS T

Re: TS1150 and software installation

2014-10-30 Thread John Eells
For z/VM, perhaps, but for z/OS? I thought that it wasn't supported. Or are you talking about a driver system on DVD with a S/A restore? -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: TS1150 and software installation

2014-10-30 Thread John Eells
nders the entire product taxable when it otherwise would not be. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...

Re: Abend s0077

2014-11-03 Thread John Eells
that someone chose not to document all of them in Chapter 4. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: STGINDEX definition (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-11-18 Thread John Eells
into one or both niches above simply copy their existing allocations when they need a new STGINDEX data set... ...but what do I know? -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscri

Re: STGINDEX definition (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-11-18 Thread John Eells
wrote: Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE John, Thank you for a pertinent, clear and precise answer to my query. I am quite content to use VIODSN=IGNORE but, because STGINDEX is still utilized at many of the shops I visit, I was looking for (and unable to find) the documentation. --

Re: Page Data Set Sizes and Volume Types

2014-11-19 Thread John Eells
of paging slots for each page space is 16M. Hope this gets you started... -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send emai

Re: WLM in batch?

2014-11-20 Thread John Eells
(Reposting to the list server.) A while back, when it became obvious that we needed a way to prime a WLM policy for new systems, SYS1.SAMPLIB(IWMINSTL) was born. Maybe you'll find the IWMARIDU program useful in this context, and maybe not...if I recall correctly it uses an ISPF table. (I act

Re: Why is the "System Data Sets" book no longer deemed useful?

2014-12-01 Thread John Eells
7;d have said "all," once, but since we know we missed one, I won't. -- John Eells (back from a week off) z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arc

Re: Why is the "System Data Sets" book no longer deemed useful?

2014-12-01 Thread John Eells
s you mentioned and found them very helpful and useful. What about the majority who do not have access to ServerPac? With role based security these days, many, perhaps most, do not have access. snip> -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing

Re: Page Data Set Sizes and Volume Types

2014-12-04 Thread John Eells
. ...and, in 1974, that would have been the right answer. But, like the front end lubes we needed for cars every 20,000 miles in 1974, advances in technology have rendered some practices unnecessary and impractical (or even undesirable) today. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Pough

Re: DFHSM BCDS Z/OS 1.13

2014-12-11 Thread John Eells
of repetitive CA reclaim/split processing won't exactly help performance. If it develops that you actually do have a data set that's processed that way, turn it off for that data set. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Mar

Re: DFHSM BCDS Z/OS 1.13

2014-12-12 Thread John Eells
off at the system level(NONE) or put it under control of what's specified in the data class (DATACLAS). -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl (R.S.) wrote: > W dniu 2014-12-11 o 21:53, John Eells pisze: >> mark.jac..

Re: DFHSM BCDS Z/OS 1.13

2014-12-12 Thread John Eells
entryname RECLAIMCA|NORECLAIMCA ...to change it. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with t

Re: Requirements for use of RECORD parameter on SETRP macro

2015-01-09 Thread John Eells
in/bookmgr/Shelves -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Requirements for use of RECORD parameter on SETRP macro

2015-01-09 Thread John Eells
elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za (Elardus Engelbrecht) wrote: Thanks John for this URL. Much appreciated. No problem...and no promises that it will be there forever (I don't own it, or know who does, I just knew it was there). -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeeps

Re: SMP/E version in z/OS 1.4

2015-01-14 Thread John Eells
I love archeology (grin). In z/OS V1.4: Element Last changed: Equivalent: SMP/E: z/OS V1R2 SMP/E for z/OS and OS/390 V3R1, 5655-G44 -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM

Re: SMP/E version in z/OS 1.4

2015-01-14 Thread John Eells
elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za (Elardus Engelbrecht) wrote: John Eells wrote: I love archeology (grin). May I ask where is the URL of that digsite you used? ;-) I "dug into" the same one I posted last week, namely: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/Shelves I found

Re: IPCS error help

2015-02-10 Thread John Eells
abend code 878, reason code 0016. Abend in host command SELECT or address environment routine ISPEXEC. I was able to open another DUMPS but it just ends only for a specific dataset. z/OS : 2.1 -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: CA/Reclaim Question

2015-02-12 Thread John Eells
ed "one last reorg." Or not, depending. HTH, -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.

Re: MTRACE?

2015-02-12 Thread John Eells
t recall the SU bit string or SUs. I recall that MTRACE was there by MVS 3.8 SE2, but I can't vouch for it being present further back than that. -- John Eells (as it happens, the slayer of the IHASUBIT macro) z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeep

Re: CA/Reclaim Question

2015-02-12 Thread John Eells
A's, or do I need to reallocate the dataset? Sorry, Mark, I missed the "back into the existing data set" part of your question. VSAM Development tells me you must delete and reallocate the data set to eliminate the empty CAs that existed before CA Reclaim was enabled. --

Re: RCF vs. COMMENT (was: IGW01595E message ...)

2015-02-19 Thread John Eells
d of blasé for such a nasty bug; definitely not your father’s IBM! …phsiii (who is kind of disgusted at this response) -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Shop zSeries Issue

2015-02-25 Thread John Eells
I'm told Shopz is back up. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the me

Re: SMPE CSI issue

2015-02-27 Thread John Eells
Just out of curiousity...do you have CA Reclaim turned on for your CSI data sets? mainframe1...@gmail.com (Mainframe Mainframe) wrote: Hello Group, While receving RSU, I encountered space issue with globai csi. So, I followed below steps to resolve this issue. -- John Eells z/OS

Re: SMPE CSI Name Change

2015-03-20 Thread John Eells
d not take too long to repeat the process. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu wit

Re: Intermittent, not consistently reproducible problems with PDSEs on z/OS V2R1 (incl. infrequent S0F4-20 RSN 1C0752EE ABENDs)

2015-03-20 Thread John Eells
? CLPA IPL after the latest service was installed to the system? Channel paths connected where they're supposed to be? etc.? Assuming all things of that ilk are well, I think it's PMR time... -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeep

Re: Sort Jcl - hi-jacking

2015-04-02 Thread John Eells
hat the 3 character prefix was assigned by "somebody" within IBM at their own whim. I.e. they are just picked "at random" and don't really mean anything. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -

Re: Distance considerations fo a Parallel Sysplex with DB2 Data Sharing

2013-10-08 Thread John Eells
s at least in part on what CF response times you find acceptable. The inherent propagation delays of ~1ns/foot have to be considered when you are looking at this. GDPS plays in this space as well but I don't have the details handy. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie e

Re: Catalog Rebuild JCL

2013-10-08 Thread John Eells
log so they need not be redefined when the catalog is reallocated, and prevent new catalog entries using those aliases from being defined until the new catalog is available. This is intended to simplify the reallocation of user catalogs." -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poug

Re: z/OS 2.1 Font Publication

2013-10-22 Thread John Eells
om: http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/v2r1pdf/ -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.ed

Re: Linux on System z (IFL) and Spares

2013-11-01 Thread John Eells
, single-operating system MP effect. This MP effect is far more pronounced than the one above, and it's the one I had always heard people talk about (up until today, that is). You learn something new every day... -- John Eell

Re: Linux on System z (IFL) and Spares

2013-11-01 Thread John Eells
John Eells wrote: There is indeed a machine-level curve that reduces the capacity of the overall machine when an engine is added (or activated) to a CEC. Oops; I should have written: There is indeed a machine-level curve that reduces the capacity of *other processors within* the overall

Re: Size limits on hsm cds files?

2013-11-06 Thread John Eells
r DFSMShsm's CDS. If you do that, it seems quite possible you will never have to run a reorg again...and should run out of space less often, I'd think. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com --

Re: D T command gives no result.

2013-11-12 Thread John Eells
John Norgauer wrote: After a long weekend with NO system changes(that I know of) when I issue "D T", nothing else appears on the console. Any thoughts please. Does it show up in SYSLOG/OPERLOG? -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

Re: SET IBM-Main NOMAIL

2013-11-15 Thread John Eells
email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN" ...which is different. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archi

Re: "hexadecimal"?

2013-12-10 Thread John Eells
HPF), which doesn't actually use CCWs... -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

SMP/E RECEIVE ORDER and Internet Delivery Questions

2013-12-10 Thread John Eells
ate it. We are *especially* interested in people who would answer "yes" to #2. (If people are interested in the answers I'll roll them up and post them mid-week next week.) Thanks! -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM

Re: VARY OFFLINE fat finger

2013-12-12 Thread John Eells
DASDBILL2 wrote: Is this real or is it a Friday post a day early? Someone whose surname is Fatzinger posting on the topic of a "Fat finger"? I can assure you that it's really Peter's last name. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeep

Re: "Deinstall" software, for example BDT

2013-12-17 Thread John Eells
y all) of the parts of another product during installation. Deleting such a product will remove those parts, and can leave stuff behind that no longer works. (Sorry, I have no idea whether BDT has any VERSION statements.) -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ib

Re: "Deinstall" software, for example BDT

2013-12-17 Thread John Eells
ID(5694-A01) FEATURENAME(BDTFTF) VERSION(*) RELEASE(*) MOD(*) STATE(DISABLED) <== TO THIS!! Good catch, Ed. I'd forgotten BDT was part of z/OS (blush). -- John Eells z/OS Te

Re: IPL Issue

2014-01-07 Thread John Eells
IPL and a missing DFSMRCL0 in RESLIB. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message

Re: Add FORMS= info to JES Banner Page

2014-01-20 Thread John Eells
~~ */ RSTACK TEST=CRSTK,DELIMITER=YES; /* Start of DJDE *** */ Like all of the old things disregarded, LCDS is a very nice language. This all depends on how the data is blocked coming down the wire. XEROX Manual can be viewed here. http://download.support.xerox.com/pub/docs/DocuPrin

Re: System Symbols Question

2014-01-22 Thread John Eells
view, but choosing not to change the format of catalog entries to expand the volume serial field to 8 characters and allow it to exceed 6 only when the characters matched the syntax of a system symbol. But, right or wrong, that's how it happened... -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketin

Re: CPU time

2014-02-04 Thread John Eells
l correctly, average memory latency is more like 950 cycles on current processors. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: Default OMVS segment

2014-02-11 Thread John Eells
. (Both have been around a Long Time.) There's a not-so-new health check for AIM stage 3, that was added for z/OS R12 with UA64936 and for z/OS R13 with UA64937 in April 2012, and a related check to see whether UIDs will be automatically assigned. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketin

Re: DFSORT and FREE=CLOSE

2014-02-27 Thread John Eells
nce still documents FREE=CLOSE as valid, and a quick test on a 2.1 system shows that it's still accepted. So...what led your users think this is a new restriction? (It seems as though we might have to fix something, somewhere, but what?) -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketin

Re: Disabled wait

2014-02-27 Thread John Eells
before and can give me some indication of where to look? Did you use CLPA for the IPL? -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: IDCAMS if-else

2014-03-06 Thread John Eells
way. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: mainframe "selling" points

2013-01-25 Thread John Eells
Auditing. Isolating failures as much as possible and collecting diagnostic data. And so on... (Hey! How'd that soapbox get down there, anyway?) -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: Utility issuing STOW Initialize?

2013-01-28 Thread John Eells
command. For example, you can now remove all members of a PDS or PDSE data set in a single command. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Mislocated doc (was: ... STOW Initialize?)

2013-01-28 Thread John Eells
embers of a pds on z/OS?" This is not meant to excuse anything, but it seems an effective coping strategy that is reasonably independent of how we might choose to organize the information. YMMV, of course. -- John Eell

Re: Dynamic Allocation error in CA-Endevor

2013-02-05 Thread John Eells
which should vastly reduce the probability of that sort of problem occurring for temporary data sets. The keyword is SYSTEM TEMPDSFORMAT(UNIQUE|INCLUDELABEL), and INCLUDELABEL (the way the system used to act) is the default. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ib

Re: z/OS v2.1 preview

2013-02-05 Thread John Eells
all supported servers. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM

Re: z/OS v2.1 preview

2013-02-08 Thread John Eells
d (or should) we let people know? -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INF

Re: z/OS v2.1 preview

2013-02-11 Thread John Eells
Edward Jaffe wrote: On 2/8/2013 7:41 AM, John Eells wrote: Edward Jaffe wrote: On 2/6/2013 6:16 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: FTPS, but not SFTP? Is this retroactive to products older than 2.1? As I understand things, this really has nothing to do with z/OS V2R1. Not sure why it's i

Re: I do not understand S0C6 on CDSG

2013-02-27 Thread John Eells
thing. For load modules the best block size on any device remains 32,760. I can re-post why, but I've posted it before and it's in the archives. IIRC (always a dangerous assumption), the page size changed from 2K to 4K in MVS 3.8 SE2. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Mar

Re: SAVE macro

2013-02-28 Thread John Eells
would wish is far safer. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-06 Thread John Eells
bz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/e0z2b1c3/1.1.1?SHELF=all13be9&DT=20120919155103 -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arch

Re: Long Passwords

2013-03-20 Thread John Eells
Keith Smith wrote: In my experience password phrase must be at least 14 characters. By default, that's true. But you can allow it in an ICHPWX11 exit if you choose to (and there is a sample exit and accompanying REXX exec that runs under SYSREXX). -- John Eells z/OS Technical Mark

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