Re: OT - What is the proper term for K notation?

2013-05-03 Thread Mike Schwab
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: Shmuel, I always used K, with the understanding it was 1024 ...if you write assembler a base register used to cover 4K ,,4096 bytes it's all through IBM manuals as far as I know ...unless your doing baseless.

Re: Historical article re: Mainframes

2013-05-03 Thread Mike Schwab
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Phil Smith p...@voltage.com wrote: http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/508-mainframe-computer-history.html It's an irritating slideshow, with captions cut off until you click see more for each, but at a quick glance it's not too bad. Though it does omit

Re: Undocumented VSAM Return/reason code

2013-05-08 Thread Mike Schwab
Combine all these codes into one manual for an easy look up. With a link to the proper manual to learn about what you need to change. On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:26 AM, Jantje. jan.moeyers...@gfi.be wrote: On Sat, 4 May 2013 06:25:41 -0700, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: It is

Re: ternary logic, was: What is... K notation?

2013-05-08 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org wrote: On 05/08/2013 08:02 PM, Lloyd Fuller wrote: Not sure. I was just talking one time to one of the military people that were involved with Univac and the university (Oregon State, I think). He mentioned that they had

Re: Interesting slashdot thread about why companies don't upgrade

2013-05-10 Thread Mike Schwab
Yep. We have some hardware devices that require DOS or Win 3.1. No drivers for a later version available. On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Phil Smith p...@voltage.com wrote: Some of it applies to z, too:

Re: OT: Business politics and software development

2013-05-12 Thread Mike Schwab
They kind of listened with the Windows 8 almost instant on feature. Too bad they forced the tablet interface with it's restrictions on top of it. On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: Very interesting Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD

Re: OT: Business politics and software development

2013-05-12 Thread Mike Schwab
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Sun, 12 May 2013 18:55:05 -0500, J. Leslie Turriff wrote: Sorry; I should have marked that Off-Topic. This is an interesting exposition on the subject. I suppose that this is unavoidable in any

Re: HOST feature or understand a sentence

2013-05-15 Thread Mike Schwab
This is writing an emulator for the host environment to run on x86 or x64 hardware. I.E. Hercules for S/370+, System I for AS/400 hardware. On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 1:17 AM, Miklos Szigetvari miklos.szigetv...@isis-papyrus.com wrote: If someone can help to understand this : replacing the HOST

Re: Will VALIDATE save transfer time?

2013-05-16 Thread Mike Schwab
If they are empty, Don't move them at all. Vary them offline. Rename them to something you don't move (ZZ). Init new dasd as spares and the one you don't use at targets become your new spares. On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Ken Leidner kleid...@earthlink.net wrote: I asked this earlier

Re: MIGRATE FAILED. RC=0045, REAS=0092

2013-05-17 Thread Mike Schwab
You might need to take a backup first. Issue a HBACKDS to create a backup. Issue a HMIG to migrate. On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 11:11 AM, willie bunter williebun...@yahoo.com wrote: Hallo To All Members I am trying to migrate a gdg dsn which has been newly created. However I get the error

Re: Business politics and software development

2013-05-17 Thread Mike Schwab
First written on the PDP-11, inspired by the assembler rework needed to move from the PDP-7. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_%28programming_language%29#Early_developments 3rd paragraph, sentence 1-2: The original PDP-11 version of the Unix system was developed in assembly language. By 1973, with

Re: XMIT Manager

2013-05-17 Thread Mike Schwab
How about just ZIPing up the installed files, including the original documentation? On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Farley, Peter x23353 peter.far...@broadridge.com wrote: There was a person who offered to re-package the XMIT software in a more current installer a few years back, but IIRC

Re: Rather interesting article on hacking the mainframe using ftp

2013-05-18 Thread Mike Schwab
On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 5:15 PM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: OK, this is more like an authorized system user doing something beyond what they are really supposed to. The real crack would be unauthorized use of a valid id password/passphrase/cert. I still thought it was

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - ARC0378I

2013-05-18 Thread Mike Schwab
On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 5:20 PM, John Dawes jhn_da...@yahoo.com.au wrote: G'Day, I have a problem with a backup tape. HSM was performing its scheduled incremental backup when a problem occurred with the drive. The tech. needed the drive to fix it so I had to cancel HSM, however I stopped

Re: Rather interesting article on hacking the mainframe using ftp

2013-05-18 Thread Mike Schwab
Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 6:30 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Rather interesting article on hacking the mainframe using ftp On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 5:15 PM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote

Re: B37 för FTINCL in ISPF for userid.ISPnnnnn.SPFTEMPn.WORK datasets

2013-05-20 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Thomas Berg thomas.b...@swedbank.se wrote: What is REALLY needed is to get rid of the absurd requirement to specify the amount of storage to allocate for datasets! The system should allocate/reallocate according to what is needed in the actual/immediate

Re: B37 för FTINCL in ISPF for userid.ISPnnnnn.SPFTEMPn.WORK datasets

2013-05-20 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: deleted I'll restate my wish for an input DDNAME option to SUBMIT. Even if not a pipe, it might be an allocated UNIX file. z/OS UNIX with its private HOME filesystems approximates the Windows desktop behavior: you

Re: B37 för FTINCL in ISPF for userid.ISPnnnnn.SPFTEMPn.WORK datasets

2013-05-20 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Thomas Berg thomas.b...@swedbank.se wrote: Our site has several dataclas with DCB and Space parameter values suitable for smaller files FB 80 and VB 251 with Cyl 10 10 rlse. Well, how do you do when you not know in beforehand if the job needs 1 track or 5000

Re: Predict WLC invoice amount ...

2013-05-21 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Bob Shannon bshan...@rocketsoftware.com wrote: Generally, I don't think announcement previews include pricing information. Usually, only official announcements have that. The salient point is that customers need to know of price increases in advance of GA. If

z/OS Unix System Services Backups

2013-05-23 Thread Mike Schwab
z/TSM has been obsolete, is going out of support, and may or may not work on z/OS 2.1. We backup the root system on the IPL volumes with ADRDSSU. The system HFS/zFS are backed up with ADRDSSU Logical, and is OK since they don't have running applications. Application HFS/zFS are backed up with

Re: z/OS Unix System Services Backups

2013-05-23 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Mark Jacobs mark.jac...@custserv.com wrote: We backup all of our zFS file systems with ADRDSSU logical backups and have never had any problems. Can you post a sample DFDSS job step (with control cards) for people to look at? -- Mark Jacobs -SPRX054 STEP02

Re: zLinux - redhat 7.1 setup on IFL (eth0 error)

2013-05-23 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Mark Post mp...@suse.com wrote: On 5/23/2013 at 12:16 PM, de Wet, Albertus H dewe...@ghc.org wrote: Trying to setup a Redhat 7.1 image on an IFL. Get it to boot from the HMC's CDROM. Reply to enter the network device, as eth0 and also tried qeth For the

Re: B37 för FTINCL in ISPF for userid.ISPnnnnn.SPFTEMPn.WORK datasets

2013-05-23 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Pommier, Rex R. rex.pomm...@cnasurety.com wrote: OK, I had never heard of this either, so I bit... 1 //RRPBR14 JOB ,TECHSUPT-RRP,MSGCLASS=X,CLASS=A,REGION=8M 2 //STEP1 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 3 //D DD DSN=MVS.RRP.JUNK,DISP=(,CATLG),

Re: B37 för FTINCL in ISPF for userid.ISPnnnnn.SPFTEMPn.WORK datasets

2013-05-23 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com wrote: On Thu, 23 May 2013 16:44:55 +0200, Thomas Berg wrote: deleted For situations like that, I like to use an allocation like CYL,(1,100). Allocate a small primary and a much larger secondary. Maybe also allowing

Re: Really? No FTP SITE RLSE?

2013-05-25 Thread Mike Schwab
Does it save it to memory or a temporary file until the transfer is complete? On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Interesting. Thanks. That's from the Configuration Reference. I was looking at IP Commands, which is subtly different: For allocating

Re: To Backup or Not to Backup Data - That is the question

2013-05-31 Thread Mike Schwab
Any presentations on the Hurricane Katrina scenarios? One company shut down their Miami data center and transferred operations to New Orleans. 3 days later Miami was still without power and New Orleans shut down. On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com wrote: There were

Re: To Backup or Not to Backup Data - That is the question

2013-05-31 Thread Mike Schwab
We don't have enough DASD at the hot site for that. On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Jeffery Swagger jeff...@comcast.net wrote: Yes, this! Prereq: The company must have a DR manager of which one of his responsibilities is to ensure the families of those who leave are taken care of. Here I'm

Re: To recompile or not recompile, that's the question

2013-05-31 Thread Mike Schwab
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Fri, 31 May 2013 21:24:06 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: The production-library member must be identical to the acceptance-test library member, and the only way to ensure that this is the case is to copy the

Re: To Backup or Not to Backup Data - That is the question

2013-06-03 Thread Mike Schwab
It is enough to get Tier 0, 1, and some 2 going. Then wait for more dasd to be installed and raise the CPU limits when we need it. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com wrote: On Fri, 31 May 2013 20:09:33 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: We don't have enough DASD

Re: Citation for reformatting of VSAM, HFS and zFS data sets

2013-06-03 Thread Mike Schwab
I went through the z/OS 1.13 manuals on defining VSAM datasets, but even where the internal pointers were mentioned, it didn't say each CA and CI was written as empty when defined. Just explained what was there in each CI. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)

Re: OT: New AFP related list started at UGA.EDU

2013-06-03 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+...@patriot.net wrote: In dc74548a025aff4a85f46926802a9b230a24c...@chsa1035.share.beluni.net, on 06/03/2013 at 12:17 PM, Hunkeler Peter (TLSG 4) peter.hunke...@credit-suisse.com said: I was more looking for something to help

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - SIGNIFICANCE OF ADDVOL PARM

2013-06-04 Thread Mike Schwab
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r11/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.zos.r11.arcf000/hr1003.htm Datasets migrated from a volume in the pool are recalled to any volume in the pool. If a dataset is APF authorized for a particular volume, migrating and recalling to another volume would make it

Re: Check out Moto X: Motorola reveals plans for ink and even pills to replace AL

2013-06-04 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org wrote: On 06/04/2013 01:02 PM, Ed Finnell wrote: _Moto X: Motorola reveals plans for ink and even pills to replace ALL your passwords | Mail Online_

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - SIGNIFICANCE OF ADDVOL PARM

2013-06-05 Thread Mike Schwab
in the following: ARC1299I rc=14 where 14The data set is an authorized program facility (APF) authorized library. Unless of course the migration is running on an LPAR where said library is not APF authorized. -Original Message- From: Mike Schwab [mailto:mike.a.sch

Re: XRC Volume Resync on a Return Home

2013-06-06 Thread Mike Schwab
With PPRC, you would break the pairs and re-establish in the opposite direction. When are all replicated and almost up to date, shut down the primary, wait for updates to propate, and start at the secondary. XRC may be a bit different. On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 4:26 PM, VanBebber, Edmond@CIO

Re: XRC Volume Resync on a Return Home

2013-06-06 Thread Mike Schwab
Actually, once Site A was down and Site B was Production, you should have established mirroring from Site B to Site A in case a problem happened at Site B and you needed to resume at Site A with the data from Site B. On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.com wrote:

Re: Age of datasets in hours, not days?

2013-06-07 Thread Mike Schwab
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second Time of day adjustments occur on the last second of any day of any month, but so far have only occurred on Dec 31 or Jun 30. You could skip 23:59:59 or add 23:59:60 UTC, simultaneously around the world. On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Paul Gilmartin

Re: XRC Volume Resync on a Return Home

2013-06-10 Thread Mike Schwab
PPRC has a bit map for updated tracks. If a mirroring set becomes suspended, you can resume the mirroring and just the updated tracks are sent. On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 2:24 AM, Paolo Cacciari paolo.cacci...@it.ibm.com wrote: AFAIK, XRC incremental resynch is a GDPS-only feature. I've never seen

Re: Choosing a tape library

2013-06-10 Thread Mike Schwab
LTOs are pretty high capacity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 6:52 AM, גדי בן אבי gad...@malam.com wrote: Our goals are: Make backups run fast so we can back more data in a limited backup window. Transfer the tapes to our DR site. They definitely have

Re: Storage paradigm [was: RE: Data volumes]

2013-06-10 Thread Mike Schwab
Download GnuPartEd, Burn it to CD-ROM, Boot from it, resize as needed. On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Roberts, John J jrobe...@dhs.state.ia.us wrote: For Windows Capabilities, I suggest reading about Dynamic Disks and Dynamic Volumes on MSDN:

Re: DFHSM QUESTION : Allocation/migration Threshold: High . . 95 (1-99) Low . . 80 (0-99)

2013-06-10 Thread Mike Schwab
We use 10% 1% for these types of volumes. Not 85% 1%. On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:38 PM, willie bunter williebun...@yahoo.com wrote: Would lowering the high threshold to as low as possible (for example 20) solve the problem. The objective is to keep the volumes as free as possible because

Re: Choosing a tape library

2013-06-11 Thread Mike Schwab
And he is wanting to shut down the project. On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 2:27 AM, גדי בן אבי gad...@malam.com wrote: While being a good idea, MFNETDISK is nowhere ready for production work. Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On

Re: (OT?) Supreme Court rules human genes may not be patented

2013-06-13 Thread Mike Schwab
They overturned the Patent on the BRCA gene, so other companies can test for it. Other companies haven't been able to work with this gene to create their own test. They kept the Patent on that particular test that included a particular strand of created DNA. On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 3:47 PM,

Re: Auditing vendor source code

2013-06-19 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 8:22 AM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps there is a place for a trusted third party who can audit the source and issue some sort of assurance that the vendor could then attach. Of course, this suffers from a number of problems. Such as cost. The

Re: Auditing vendor source code

2013-06-19 Thread Mike Schwab
This was true in DOS 6.X. The object modules would be loaded into memory, and the first thing the program would do was decompress the rest of the module into another memory area and run from there. This was when software to compress DOS disks was becoming popular. But it would run on any PC.

Re: Run TSO batch as different user?

2013-06-19 Thread Mike Schwab
Most job scheduler programs can assign other user IDs and authenticate them. On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Thanks. Solved the problem. I'm good. Believe it or not I've never in 44 years of MVS used JOB USER= before that I recall. deleted

Re: EBCDIC and the P-Bit

2013-06-20 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Roland Kinsman rjkins...@hotmail.com wrote: deleted http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM This is fascinating. Someone should put this on Wikipedia. Posted link on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC#External_links -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do

Re: What programmer's fear (not IBM specific)

2013-07-05 Thread Mike Schwab
z/OS 2.10? In 2023? I haven't even seen the announcement for z/OS 2.02. On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 2:06 AM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/07/2013 2:56 PM, Martin Packer wrote: If that's true in Another World I wonder what it'd take to make it true in THIS one. For a start

Re: Method to measure usage of a physical tape

2013-07-09 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za wrote: Victor Zhang wrote: I am using physical tape drive with high capacity which connect via FICON director with CPU,there is no virtual tape storage used, data is directly backed to physical tape drive,my

Re: regex that never matches?

2013-07-09 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Tue, 9 Jul 2013 11:34:55 +0200, Boris Lenz wrote: does /(?!)/ work for you? Thanks! I never woulda thoughta that. Seems to work for sed and grep; nearly an exhaustive sample. Now I need to try to understand it:

Re: DB2 image backup and DFSMSdss dataset backup

2013-07-10 Thread Mike Schwab
We put DB2 databases in their own storage group, and don't take DSS backups. Same with IMS. Application needs to be shut down and use DB2 / IMS / Database backup methods. The ADRDSSU backup with the transaction going would probably not be in a consistent state, I.E. some parts include a specific

Re: Old usercatalogs with IMBED and REPLICATE

2013-07-16 Thread Mike Schwab
Another option would be to move various Aliases (HLQs) to new usercatalogs. Perhaps splitting them into more, smaller user catalogs. On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 2:26 PM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: OK, OK, all ya'all have worn me out! grin/ I scan to see how many catalog I'm

Re: Old usercatalogs with IMBED and REPLICATE

2013-07-16 Thread Mike Schwab
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Re: Old usercatalogs with EMBED and REPLICATE

2013-07-17 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg hal9...@panix.com wrote: At 12:42 -0500 on 07/17/2013, Joel C. Ewing wrote about Re: Old usercatalogs with EMBED and REPLICATE: Not sure about rules in multi-system environment, but with one system I believe it was possible to DIAGNOSE a

Re: Relative generation - how to recognize new datasets under TSO

2013-07-18 Thread Mike Schwab
I think the TSO FREE would change the relative GDG number. Define a GDG. Write a small Clist. Allocates new HLQ.GDG(+1), writes a record into the dsn, FREEs it, Allocates old HLQ.GDG(+1) input to read and display the text. Probably the Allocate (+1) will error and has to Allocate (00) to read

Re: COBOL was: COBOL Parser

2013-07-18 Thread Mike Schwab
Alphabetic would almost certainly be very inefficient. A minimal optimization would be a binary search of a table or states, or order the states in most to least order for the (1. number of transactions, 2. number of policies, 3. number of agents, 4, population).Setting a subscript once and

Re: Question about ML2 expired datasets

2013-07-18 Thread Mike Schwab
When you get rid of bad tapes, you have to recover or delete any datasets left on the tape. On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: Allan, My issue the files are all SMS managed and I am z/OS v1.12. We have a lot of old tape media and I suspect some

Re: NFS automount help requested

2013-07-19 Thread Mike Schwab
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r11/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.zos.r11.idan400/cpn1co71.htm Instead of automounting the file, I think you need to login to mount the NFS, then logout to unmount it before accessing it from another userid or system. On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Alan

Re: BLKSIZE=3120

2013-07-22 Thread Mike Schwab
3120 * 15 = 46800 / 55996 = 83.58% of maximum. On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Hmm. I *may* need to take back what I said. It looks like for XMIT I specify 27920 but it forces 3120. Would need to do more research and no time at the moment. I *know* I

Re: Query for Destination z article -- computer museums

2013-07-24 Thread Mike Schwab
https://www.google.com/search?q=computer+museums includes a bunch. http://dir.yahoo.com/computers_and_internet/history/museums/ Has 13, maybe add some of the other links? http://www.corestore.org/ is a personal collection that was in Scotland then NYC and now New Zealand. On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at

Re: SMP/E vs. NON SMPE Installs (Was BLKSIZE=3120)

2013-07-24 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: I might slightly disagree with removing the SAF and APF requirements. From a sysprog perspective, I can allow my applications groups access to LIST functions but NOT REC/APP/ACC. This is beneficial. I do not

Re: Mainframe vs Server - The Debate Continues

2013-07-29 Thread Mike Schwab
Umm, isn't that the Internet? Mainframes, Servers, and PCs able to access almost anything. On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Duffy Nightingale, SSPI du...@soundsoftware.us wrote: I predict that one day everyone on Earth will be connected to one giant IBM Mainframe and all share in the payment!

Re: Mainframe vs Server - The Debate Continues

2013-07-29 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: This was posted on the VM newsgroup and l thought I would pass it along http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/opinion/Evolving-IT-needs-and-capabil

Re: Looking for a CA-1 feature.

2013-07-31 Thread Mike Schwab
EXPDT=90nnn (to 90365) Keeps nnn days after deletion. Normal used might be 90005, where it is not deleted until 5 days after deleting. But alter the EXPDT to keep the last one for up to 365 after deleting. Re-catalog before the expire date to recover. On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Vernooij,

Re: Looking for a CA-1 feature.

2013-07-31 Thread Mike Schwab
What our VTS does is scratch enough of VTAPEs to keep 5% space ready to be written to in a particular file system. So it might be a week or two or a few months before a particular tape is removed from VTAPE. If the EXPDT=90nnn doesn't work like I thought, then set a fixed EXPDT for selected

Re: Large BLKSIZE

2013-08-21 Thread Mike Schwab
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r12/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.zos.r12.idad400%2Fblksz.htm Use BLKSIZE=0. It will use the optimum (largest) blocksize that is valid. 32K, 64K, or 256K. On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.com wrote: We're having

Re: DASD, Tape and other peripherals attached to a Mainframe

2013-08-22 Thread Mike Schwab
IBM mainframes use ECKD formatted tracks. Since the manufacture of actual 3390s ended, DASD storage has been emulated on FBA (PC / Unix disk), usually in a RAID 5 configuration. Occasionally, you might run across a 3380 volume as these are also supported. Yes, Virtual tapes are stored on disk,

Re: SCRT question

2013-08-25 Thread Mike Schwab
On emulated DASD, I/O is almost always an entire track at a time. On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 3:25 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: Gerhard, Your arguments would be/are persuasive for a real, spinning DASD. On an emulated one they are not. What, for example, does 'track oriented'

Re: EMC DLM Data Domain and z/OS

2013-08-29 Thread Mike Schwab
See below. On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: We are beginning to investigate the possibility of having a DLm and Data Domain tapeless solution in our shop. We are just looking If anyone in a medium to large shop is using this, and you would like

Re: timezone_name?

2013-09-06 Thread Mike Schwab
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: I'm currently sticking the first three characters of TZ or a string such as EST5EDT in timezone_name, and I know that's wrong. What *should* I be doing instead? Charles You should use the portion in front of the offset

Re: timezone_name?

2013-09-08 Thread Mike Schwab
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 5:52 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In 011401ceaa8d$7b6acab0$72406010$@mcn.org, on 09/05/2013 at 04:13 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: EST5EDT Due to parsing ambiguity, that doesn't tell you when to switch. -- Shmuel

Re: timezone_name?

2013-09-08 Thread Mike Schwab
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database does tell you when to switch. And when to add or subtract leap seconds. On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 5:52 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In 011401ceaa8d$7b6acab0$72406010$@mcn.org, on 09/05/2013 at 04:13 PM, Charles Mills

Re: timezone_name?

2013-09-08 Thread Mike Schwab
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database Does tell you the offset, when to switch. And when to add or subtract leap seconds. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Comp-3 data defintion

2013-09-09 Thread Mike Schwab
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca wrote: On 6 Sep 2013 08:22:58 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: Hello We have a job in which the input file that is comming has one on the field (Location Number) is defined as X(4). This file is comming from a

Re: Teletypewriter Model 33

2013-09-09 Thread Mike Schwab
MTS/370 and APL/360 have been ressurected to run on Hercules. On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com wrote: On Mon, 9 Sep 2013 11:13:35 -0400, Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote: i got online 2741 at home And in another post he mentioned MTS (Michigan Terminal System),

Re: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5

2013-09-14 Thread Mike Schwab
z/OS 1.6 put the ISAM modules in a separate library. This library was not included in z/OS 1.7. http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ratdevz/v7r1m1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.ent.cbl.zos.doc/topics/igym1ch7.htm On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Replaced

Re: Makes you go hmmmm, EVA MSU of 21 Cyls

2013-09-16 Thread Mike Schwab
The DS8### series allocates devices in multiples of 1113 Cylinders. Beyond 65520 cylinders, all EAV volumes are multiple of 1113 cylinders. The EAV portion is allocated in 21 cylinder amounts, with 53 groups of 21 cylinders per 1113 cylinders. On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 6:57 AM, John Chase

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-16 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote: On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 19:10:08 +0200, Jan Vanbrabant wrote: Hi listers, The base IOS apar OA41040 has been closed. It contains now: ... *V1R13 SA22-7608 MVS Programming Authorized Assembler Services *Guide

Re: Makes you go hmmmm, EVA MSU of 21 Cyls

2013-09-17 Thread Mike Schwab
Ignore the bytes. In the EAV region, you get 53 groups of 21 cylinders for every 1113 cylinders. On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Grantham, Charles cgrant...@syncsort.comwrote: Thanks for the response. I'm still a little confused by the 21 thing. By my calculations 21*47,619,047 yields

Re: Looking for COBOL V5R1 Softcopy Librarian docs

2013-09-17 Thread Mike Schwab
Since Cobol 5.1 and z/OS 2.1 haven't been released yet, I would wait until the GA date and see if the bookshelves are updated. On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net wrote: On 17 September 2013 07:13, Kevin Minerley k60ek...@us.ibm.com wrote: deleted Before with

Re: Does z/OS 2.1 support COBOL 4.2?

2013-09-18 Thread Mike Schwab
Effective ?Jan 1?, 2014, Cobol 3 and 4 prices will be raised to match Cobol 5. On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Rouse, Willie wro...@co.pg.md.us wrote: Hello All, I would like to know where to find what IBM products z/OS 2.1 supports. Respectfully, Willie C. Rouse -- Mike A Schwab,

Re: NSA foils much internet encryption

2013-09-18 Thread Mike Schwab
“NIST would not deliberately weaken a cryptographic standard.” (But the NSA wouldn't let a cryptographic standard out the door unless they could decode it. - Mike Schwab). http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=nsa-nist-encryption-scandal Computer scientists for years suspected

Re: Allocation test

2013-09-20 Thread Mike Schwab
One suggestion I would like to make. When a dataset is deleted, a very tiny EOF record is written to each track. Just enough so the actual dasd unit erases all records on that track. If we were still using real 3390s, I would suggest a track full of EOF records. And not an intensive rewrite of

Re: HMIGRATE in parallel

2013-09-24 Thread Mike Schwab
Configure your backup job to write to a non-GDG PS disk backup. Once the backups are done, copy them to a GDG on tape. The next day, overwrite the PS disk backup. Our job using ADRDSSU: //CPYADRDS PROC HLQ=VLT,VOL1=DUMMY,GENI='(00)',TYPEI=W, //

Re: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5

2013-09-24 Thread Mike Schwab
For that, 1. Create HLQ.COBLIB.PDSE, 2. Copy everything from HLQ.COBLIB (PDS), 3. Compiles should link edit into both libraries. 4. Test with the new library. 5. Verify HLQ.COBLIB and HLQ.COBLIB.PDSE have the same members and contents (date time stamp). 5. Shutdown everything. 6. Rename HLQ.COBLIB

Re: Pissing contest(s)

2013-09-24 Thread Mike Schwab
In Outback restaurants in the U.S. They have a sign Used Beer Department. On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 5:15 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za wrote: Vernooij, CP wrote: When this thread popped up, I first was happy, so I could easily skip this subject and concentrate on

Re: NSA foils much internet encryption

2013-09-24 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/nsa-backdoor/all/ On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 3:37 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: The the implications of the post by J.P. are entirely correct; but the post itself is---I don't mean this pejoratively---a little naif. The NSA cannot be expected

Re: Using DFDSS to move multi volume SMS managed datasets.

2013-09-25 Thread Mike Schwab
. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 14:14 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Using DFDSS to move multi volume SMS managed datasets. After the Disable, New, you can also

Re: Using DFDSS to move multi volume SMS managed datasets.

2013-09-25 Thread Mike Schwab
[mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 14:14 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Using DFDSS to move multi volume SMS managed datasets. After the Disable, New, you can also backup, migrate, and recall the dataset. On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 7

Re: Deleting multiple data sets

2014-02-20 Thread Mike Schwab
HDEL in front of each dataset name, instead of D. Type HDEL on the first one, = on the rest. On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: Often, after finishing a series of tests, I have several dozen data sets to delete. Actually, I'm careless; often I don't

Re: Deleting multiple data sets

2014-02-21 Thread Mike Schwab
HDEL doesn't have the option of confirming each dataset. And I don't like to turn off the confirmation. On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 2:21 AM, Hunkeler, Peter peter.hunke...@credit-suisse.com wrote: HDEL in front of each dataset name, instead of D. Type HDEL on the first one, = on the rest. DSLIST

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 elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za wrote: Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: According to the Evil Overlord Rules Web Site

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 pacemainl...@gmail.com wrote: Oh fun! - VERBEXIT MTRACE - ABENDs IEE30008I

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 john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: Our 3494-B10 is messed up. It is shared between two LPARs in

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.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In 531475fd.8070...@isis-papyrus.com, on 03/03/2014 at 01:30 PM, Miklos Szigetvari miklos.szigetv...@isis-papyrus.com said: Is it possible to access

Re: Disabled wait

2014-03-04 Thread Mike Schwab
UA69565 http://www.ibm.com/Search/?q=UA69565co=uslo=anysn=lang=encc=USen=utfhpp= 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

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 IO

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 dgrins...@mt.gov 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

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 paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: don't support 24-hour. My bicycle computer is peculiar: it offers either

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.

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