Re: Something keeps releasing space on a large (annual) DS

Its probably doing a release. Do a cylinder allocation to at average 7 tracks after release. Defragment to consolidate extents weekly / twice a week / MWF / daily. On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 11:45 AM Bob Bridges <0587168ababf-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > I'm not a sysprog (just a se

Re: Something keeps releasing space on a large (annual) DS

Our site submitted defrag jobs. Not part of release processing. On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 3:33 PM Ed Jaffe <05acc3c79bf7-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On 2/21/2024 12:52 PM, Gibney, Dave wrote: > > However, HSM Partial Release should consolidate extents... > > Not in my experience.

Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal.

Yep. Magnetic fields moving over power lines generating massive amounts of current. https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/44957/20230721/quebec-blackout-1989-lessons-geomagnetic-storm-shocked-entire-nation.htm On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 9:08 PM Michael Oujesky wrote: > > And all it will take is one

Re: 35th International Rexx Symposium in Birsbane (Australia) about to start

https://www.rexx.org/ Last Release Aug 2022. On Fri, Mar 1, 2024 at 8:23 PM Paul Gilmartin <042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Sat, 2 Mar 2024 09:44:54 +1100, ronyF wrote: > > > >The link to further symposium information including the schedule can be > >found at

Github infections

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/01/github_automated_fork_campaign/?td=rt-3a -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instru

Re: Mainframer Lunch

https://community.ibm.com/community/user/integration/communities/globalgrouphome?CommunityKey=e22492ad-a425-4d88-b8af-19d978e58af5 On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 9:41 PMwrote: > > Hey, > I would like to have a LUNCH get together with any mainframer's in the > Indianapolis Indiana area. > Maybe once

Re: What happens in HSM when I change a Management Class

You should be recycling tapes with a low percent of active datasets. This copies the remaining active datasets to a new tape then marking this on as inactive. You can manually issue a recycle command against a specific volume. On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 10:56 AM Gadi Ben-Avi wrote: > > Hi Paul, > T

Re: Hmm, 3 ... (Re: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

https://github.com/CBTTape/CBT993 Probably other CBT tape members to process. On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 7:11 PM Rupert Reynolds wrote: > > SMF logging of data for management information? I never did much with SMF, > but I can't see why not. > > I did briefly consider being able to parse existing m

Re: TSO ALLOC with/wo unit

UNIT is defined in the I/O gen and is customized by each site. 3390, SYSDA, etc may or may not be present. On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 1:57 AM ITschak Mugzach <05a7ced721d8-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > I have a program in Rexx that allocates a dataset using dsname and volume > serial

Re: Ideas for less-distruptive disruptions - Netmaster:Solve and CICS

Here is a set of CICS transactions to perform DogeCoin transactions via CICS. The first screen could be simplified to be display only, https://github.com/mainframed/DOGECICS On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 4:01 PM Tom Longfellow <03e29b607131-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Paul > > The an

Re: IBM VTS and cloud

https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp5573.pdf Updated Jan 2024. On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 11:07 AM Radoslaw Skorupka <0471ebeac275-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > The following scenario: > Two TS770T (with TS4500 attached) connected in grid. > Now there is a business require

Re: Slow FTP's

How about processors (z15/z16)? On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 7:30 AM Jousma, David <01a0403c5dc1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > All, > > Grasping at straws here, IBM support center is baffled too. > > To clone z/OS maintenance to various disconnected sysplex’s I do a DFDSS > dump, and F

Re: Posting issues?

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/03/outlookcom_blocked_by_gmail/ Might be part of the issue. On Sat, Apr 6, 2024 at 2:22 PM Phil Smith III <060e4b8f09b8-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Indeed. I'm thinking that either UA.edu or their provider stepped up their > filtering. But tha

Re: ./ ADD - which utility?

No relation to the ditty bops band. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu7289s7l64 On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 4:56 PM Rupert Reynolds wrote: > > Affectionately known in UK as I-E-B-up-ditty :-) > > On Sat, 13 Apr 2024, 15:39 ITschak Mugzach, < > 05a7ced721d8-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: >

Re: ./ ADD - which utility?

You can set it up for a //SYSIN DD DATA,DLM='??' and add the '??' Card at the end. On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 6:52 PM Paul Gilmartin <042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Apr 2024 08:34:30 +1000, Wayne Bicker

Re: IMS - DFSRRC00 vs ODBA

VSAM? No IMS / DB2 overhead. Datacom? PS-FB. On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 5:08 PM Pierre Fichaud wrote: > > I think in most cases, the database will be local. > > Assuming local, is access faster using DFSRRC00 or ODBA. > > If not local, what is faster? > > Thnx, Pierre > > -

Re: Adoption of ASCII [Was: EBCDIC/ASCII - FTP]

And beyond the 7 bit ASCII there were many National ASCII code pages using the 8th bit. On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 12:07 PM Steve Thompson wrote: > > I think the answer to this question "If IBM had "inflicted" ASCII > on its customers in 1964, would the System/360 have had the wide > acceptance that

Re: Restore members in a PDS - how/which tool?

If you have HSM backups, hrecover dsn should get the last backup (last night?). On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 9:15 PM Paul Gilmartin <042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Thu, 9 May 2024 01:52:31 +, Mark Jacobs wrote: > > >Look at this. > > > >https://cbttape.org/freepds.htm

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: JOB card format

357912 so 5x the 64k limit. * 60 = 2,1474,720 seconds. About 1/1000 of a 2GB limit if .001 second units. On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 12:48 PM Pommier, Rex wrote: > > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: JOB card format > > On Thu, 9 May 2024 10:44:10 -0500, Steve Beaver wrote: > > >TIME=1440 turns off the timing

Re: Inquiry Regarding Sudden Increase in DFSMSrmm CDS Utilization

Is CA-Reclaim active to reuse empty control areas? You can add it to existing datasets but won't reclaim CAs already empty. On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 5:00 AM Jason Cai wrote: > > Dear all > > We have encountered a situation that requires your expertise and guidance. > > Today, we have noticed a s

Re: DFSORT newline

https://www.editpadpro.com/tricklinebreak.html Windows, and DOS before it, uses a pair of CR and LF characters to terminate lines. UNIX (Including Linux and FreeBSD) uses an LF character only. OS X also uses a single LF character, but the classic Mac operating system used a single CR character for

Re: Fault Analyzer output for executed instructions?

Length is a nibble, x0 is one byte, one digit, one sign, xF is 16 bytes, 31 digits, 1 sign. On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 6:48 PM Seymour J Metz wrote: > > I have a program that is getting an S0C7 on an EX instruction. The output > from Fault Analyzer contains the target instruction as is, with a zero

Re: ./ ADD - which utility? (RANT)

Here's what is available. Please submit any additions you may know. https://www.cbttape.org/xmitview.htm On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 4:32 PM Paul Gilmartin <042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Sat, 18 May 2024 23:15:26 +0200, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: > >... > >Yes, we

Re: How to convert these IMS unload files from EBCDIC to UTF-8 encoding.

Each segment must be its own table with the combined key that includes the key of the parent in parent order. On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 6:56 AM Binyamin Dissen wrote: > > On Tue, 21 May 2024 04:08:16 -0500 Jason Cai wrote: > > :>In the IMS system I work on, 99% of the segment fields are not define

Re: How to convert these IMS unload files from EBCDIC to UTF-8 encoding.

All thength fields MUST occur before length depending on. On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 10:23 AM Binyamin Dissen wrote: > > On Tue, 21 May 2024 15:01:12 + "Schmitt, Michael" > wrote: > > :>3. Depends on the language. IMS can have variable length segments but not > variable length fields, so any v

Re: How to convert these IMS unload files from EBCDIC to UTF-8 encoding.

depending on name5-length. On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 11:39 AM Mike Schwab wrote: > > All thength fields MUST occur before length depending on. > > On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 10:23 AM Binyamin Dissen > wrote: > > > > On Tue, 21 May 2024 15:01:12 + "Schmitt, Michael"

Re: VTOCs vs. catalogs

For the most part the catalog lets you locate your dataset no matter which volume you put it on. For non-vsam, that is about all that is stored, dataset characteristics are in the VTOC. And with non-SMS volumes you can have uncataloged datasets on DASD or tape. VSAM came from the Future Systems de

Re: hints and tips and help for Git and GitHub for mainframers

DogeCICS is a live git project you can use. (Linux on iOS or Android, Mocha 3270 lite), Hercules, TK 4- or 5, KicksForTSO, 3270 emulator. On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 8:05 AM Rick Troth <058ff5c2d0a7-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > howdy folks ... > > I was asked this week for help with G

Re: VTOCs vs. catalogs

Or one dataset on 59 DASD volumes. Get one out of order you might have problems. On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 8:21 AM billogden wrote: > > Subject: Re: VTOCs vs. catalogs > > I'm curious whether any of you old-timers can explain why we have both > VTOCs and catalogs. > > Please note that you can have

Re: VTOCs vs. catalogs

st a tranparent replacement for a PDS, but there are still > > some things possible with a PDS that are not supported for a PDSE. > > > > If VSAM's goal was to replace all other file organizations, it failed. > > The only old dataset organization to be made totally obsole

Re: Missing SMF Record Type 89

In the system log check the SMF swap times and the batch jobs that copy and re-initialize the SMF files. On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 9:07 AM rpinion865 <042a019916dd-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > We are running z/OS 2.4 on a z15 with three LPARs (Production, Development, > and Sandbox)

Re: UUID for z/OS Instances

IBM Customer number? You would have to manually retrieve from each customer then apply to their records. And customer number may apply to the service provider and not the individual customers they support. Stock ID on NYSE, AMEX, et? Customer abbreviation of name? On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 3:35 PM

Re: AI

Just like Tesla is the most valuable automobile manufacturer despite the very low volume of autos manufactured. On Wed, Jun 5, 2024 at 3:10 PM Dave Beagle <0525eaef6620-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > NVIDIA just passed 3 trillion in market cap. Based upon AI chips that they > are y

Re: Inquiry about Installing Hercules on LinuxONE

Needs an OS already installed to download, compile, install Hercules emulator. Then you install an operating system on Hercules. On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 4:58 AM Jason Cai wrote: > > Hi all > > I am reaching out to see if anyone has experience installing Hercules on > LinuxONE. I have a few ques

Re: Inquiry about Installing Hercules on LinuxONE

hercules-390 on group.io will be you best support forum. https://hercules-390.groups.io/g/group On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 5:42 AM Jason Cai wrote: > > Thank you for your prompt response. > > I have experience using Hercules on Windows and understand that I need it to > work with the relevant z/OS

Re: Inquiry about Installing Hercules on LinuxONE

Transactional execution facility instructions have not been implemented. Has your z/OS machine stopped working or the current z/OS can't be upgraded due to hardware requirements? https://www.ibm.com/docs/bg/zos/2.4.0?topic=guide-transactional-execution On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 12:58 PM Jason Cai

Re: Inquiry about Installing Hercules on LinuxONE

Hercules emulates Mainframe DASD on Open system disk. On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 2:50 PM Jason Cai wrote: > > Thank you very much for your response. Our historical backups are made > through DSS dumped to IBM TS7700 tape library, and the data mainly consists > of IMS and DB2 image copies and their

Re: Inquiry about Installing Hercules on LinuxONE

We kept a system up for inquiries, finalizing transactions for a couple of years. Then the users printed reports and sent them to a open systems so they could manually search them. Hercules TK5 has Intercomm, a cics like application software, there is also KicksForTso. But the Cobol 68 compiler

Re: Epoch Index

If I remember correctly, the timestamp runs from 1900 to 2042, checking 1 high bit gives you 2 X 71 year epochs, 2 high bits gives 4 X 35.5 year epochs, 3 high bits gives 8 X 15.75 year epochs, 4 high bits 16 X 7.875 year epochs. Suggest checking 2 high bits, treating current and past 2 epochs (71

Re: ARC1114I

Define Alias Usercat updates the master catalog to point to the correct usercatalog. Required after import. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=catalogs-defining-aliases-user-catalog On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 8:10 AM John Cassidy wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > a little saga.. this is a

Re: DB2 V12 RSU2403

With a large number of PTF, sounds like one of the changes that require a certain set of prerequisite compatibility PTFs be installed on all systems and subsystems before the held PTFs are installed on any system subsystem. You have to read all the holddata comments. On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 11:27

Re: iewl/iebcopy device options

Well, https://ibmmainframes.com/references/disk.html shows 2311 with 3,625 bytes, 2314 with 7,294, 334x with 8,368, 3330 with 13,030, 2305 with 14,136, 3350 with 19,069, 3375 with 35,616, 3380 with 47,476, 3390 with 56,664. Devices under 32K handle 32K physical blocks with track overflow. So 6K fi

Re: ACS Routines Missing Source

DCOLLECT SMSDATA can collect information on the storage class, data class, management class, storage groups. Does look like it gathers the exit code. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=commands-dcollect Have you tried HRECALL or HRECOVER? On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 11:35 AM Rebecca Martin

Re: ACS Routines Missing Source

Try CBTTAPE file 781. >> //***FILE 781 is from John McKown, and is his modification of an* FILE 781 //* IBM-distributed sample program called RACSEQ. The* FILE 781 //* disclaimer of the IBM sample program allows that it * FILE 781 //* be reproduced h

Re: ACS Routines Missing Source

OK. Might help recreate the acs routines, I.E. HLQ or size or etc. to determine a value. On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 1:11 PM Michael Oujesky wrote: > > Appears to be RACF related and not for ACS routines reconstruction, > > Michael > > At 07:23 PM 6/18/2024, Mike Schwab wrote: >

Re: GRS in MONOPLEX without physical CTCs ?

Can z/VM do this? Costs? On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 8:45 AM MANCINI Frédéric (80) wrote: > > Actually, we do share a few DASD devices between our lpars. > > Thanks to all the replies, I understand better now what we must do in > order to implement a fully functional GRS without buying an external >

Re: WIn-10 FTP logon failing after upgrade to z/OS 2.2

Well, if it stopped working before the upgrade, the upgrade is not the problem. Possibly somebody else tried to login with the wrong value and locked it up. Has it been reset, or did somebody disable it otherwise? On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 2:11 PM Bob Bridges <0587168ababf-dmarc-requ...@lists

Re: GRS in MONOPLEX without physical CTCs ?

My site requested cables for x meters, the company won the bid based on x feet, won the bid because it was half the cost.. After delivering the x feet cables, they had to make the x meters cable. (1 inch is defined as 25.4 mm, so 39.37 inches, 3.3 feet, 1.1 yards). On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 11:28 A

Re: GRS in MONOPLEX without physical CTCs ?

> ____ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of > Mike Schwab <05962a42dc49-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> > Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2024 3:21 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: GRS in MONOPLEX without physical

Re: Data Set Commander Monitor (DSCMON) Access Authority

We did UACC(WARN) and monitored to make sure somebody put RACF on it. We eventually went to NONE. On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 7:16 AM Radoslaw Skorupka <0471ebeac275-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > W dniu 23.06.2024 o 10:51, Mike Cairns pisze: > > No Bob - I meant UACC(READ) or its equiv

Re: RMDS error DBNV016

Most exits are assembler, right? Run a disassembler and save the generated source. Compare with sample and instructions of old version (last before required recomplie) and create comments, variable names. Review required changes and new facilities and update as needed. On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 1

Re: Provenance of term "yonder"?

14th century middle English. A long distance but within view. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yonder On Mon, Jul 1, 2024 at 5:38 AM Seymour J Metz wrote: > > Is the use of "yonder" to designate instructions with long displacements > official IBM nomenclature? What is its provenance?

Re: Links to manuals?

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=ucbs-retrieving-information-about-io-hardware-io-path The format of the IHACDR is documented in z/OS® MVS™ Data Areas in the z/OS Internet library. For more information about the contents of CDRs, see ESA/390 Common I/O Device Commands. On Tue, Jul 2, 20

Re: C interface to MVS

The MVS/380 effort was about compiling GCCMVS on MVS. He has concentrated on C/90, so may be out of date. On Mon, Jul 8, 2024 at 5:08 PM Charles Mills wrote: > > I wasn't sure what you meant. I think what you are asking is: > > Is there a fairly generic C library for MVS other than LE that provi

Re: OS/VS2 Release 2: Happy 50th Anniversary!

1972 OS/VS1 introduced Virtual Storage. 1974 OS/VS2 introduced Multiple Virtual Storage 1983 MVS/XA introduced 31 bit storage / I/O subsystems 1988 ESA introduced Access Registers 2000 z/OS introduced 64 bit memory. On Mon, Jul 8, 2024 at 11:23 PM Timothy Sipples wrote: > > Michael Schmitt wrote:

Re: another z/OSMF rant. -- Catch-22 is killing me

The server packs are that way too. Geared toward building a brand new system and never experience the customization issue to update an existing system. On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 11:32 PM Brian Westerman wrote: > > It just occurred to me that maybe the people who build z/OSMF never really > had to

Re: Mainframe history - 12 inch floppies?

Note 3830 was the dasd string controller for 3330 volumes https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html floppy disk was originally developed for loading microcode into the 3830 disk controller ... and was also used for loading microcode into many of the 370 mainframe machines. this typically happened a

Re: Sever error while opening the dataset in 3.4

PDS is limited to 1 volume 16 extents, PDSE limited to 1 volume 12? extents. https://www.techagilist.com/mainframe/jcl/space-abend-sb37-sd37-se37-resolution/ says SE37 says no more volumes are available. So, either you have 16 extents, or the secondary allocation is larger than the largest free spa

Re: Mainframe history - 12 inch floppies?

BBC wrote and broadcast sample programs for their computer, similar to the sinclair zx spectrum. https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/over-the-air-basic/1774/6 On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 11:12 AM Radoslaw Skorupka <0471ebeac275-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > W dniu 15.07.2024 o 14:35, Pau

Re: Connect:Direct

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect:Direct Mid 1980s The Systems Center created by UCC employees. Determined need for high speed data transfer between mainframe OSes, added midrange then PCs. Merged with VM Systems to form Systems Center Inc. Bought by Sterling 1993. Sterling Commerce sold to SB

Re: World’s largest computer outage!

https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/u882o5/intro_to_tcpip_over_packet_radio/ On Fri, Jul 19, 2024 at 11:27 PM Paul Edwards <0676ab6435a5-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Jul 2024 13:04:00 +1000, Wayne Bickerdike > wrote: > > >*Are you suggesting using physical

Re: Reading VSAM LDS data records

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_data_set#:~:text=A%20linear%20data%20set%20(LDS,bytes%20in%20increments%20of%204096. It is just an array of data bytes. Application reads by RBA. No pointers or control characters to signify a new record. On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 1:25 PM Don Johnson <02

Re: Does MVCDK move 'per byte' like MVC?

MVC has another exemption. The entire 256 bytes appear to move at once. Vs MVCL appears to move 1 byte at a time with register updates. On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 3:47 PM Paul Gilmartin <042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 15:30:31 -0400, Tony Harminc wrot

Re: Does MVCDK move 'per byte' like MVC?

wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 16:03:40 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: > > >MVC has another exemption. The entire 256 bytes appear to move at > >once. > > > How can you tell? How might this "appear" different from moving > sequentially? Was that true even

Re: Does MVCDK move 'per byte' like MVC?

edu> wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 17:01:35 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: > > >Sorry, it appears to operate between doubleword (multiple of 8 byte) > >boundary to other processors, page 301 on > >https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSQ2R2_15.0.0/com.ibm.tpf.toolkit.hlasm.doc

Re: Does MVCDK move 'per byte' like MVC?

How about MVC DEST,=8C' ' MVC DEST+8, DEST (for LDEST-8) Honors doubleword boundary yet reduces literal size to doubleword? On Mon, Jul 29, 2024, 04:01 Erik Janssen < 062c999269e8-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jul 2024 11:56:44 +, Peter Relson > wrote: > > >An altern

Re: How to "touch" mainframe files

Future? I don't think so. How about an IDCAMS or TSOBATCH print COUNT(1) so you won't have to create any JCL. And z/OS doesn't read the whole file, so size will have little impact, just the files not big enough to fill the buffers will be a little faster.. On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 10:06 AM Billy

Re: trying to determine cause of LASTACK State

10,* is your Wide Area Network within your business router. Similar to 192,168.* within a smaller router https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 12:50 PM Lizette Koehler wrote: > > > > List > > > > I have a condition where if I do TSO NETSTAT (PORT 23 - Yep Mai

Re: 3270 programming

There have been no updates. On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 2:30 PM Lennie Bradshaw wrote: > > Many thanks for that David. That would be useful. > Also thanks to Alexander for bitsavers reference. > > But does IBM no longer publish the 3270 interface material? > > Lennie > > -Original Message- >

Re: 3270 programming

> > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > Subject: Re: 3270 programming > > > > I think IBM still supports 3270 access, if not the 3270s themselves. > > > > But if the data stream hasn't changed since the -7 manual was published, > > there's no need fo

Re: getting HOLDDATE report after apply

???Retrieve the updated Holddata and look in the last several months for the prefixes you have??? https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/enhanced-holddata-zos On Sat, Aug 17, 2024 at 4:11 PM Paul Gilmartin <042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Aug 2024 15:04:21 -0500,

Re: Improving OMVS performance using WLM ?

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-do-i-tune-my-zos-unix-maxprocsys-maxprocuser-and-procusermax-settings On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 4:25 PM Lionel B. Dyck <057b0ee5a853-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Are there any studies, white papers, redbooks, presentations, articles, or > ... th

Re: HSM question

There is usually a delay of a few days to allow undeleted of the tape volumes. Best to set an retention period so they expire after so many days / after n versions are created. ‪On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 12:03 AM ‫גדי בן אבי‬‎ wrote:‬ > > Hi, > We use HSM to backup datasets to virtual tape on a TS

Re: Stubborn Flashcopy Relationship

CG means Copy Group, right? Does the volume need to be removed from the copy group definition? On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 11:43 AM Ed Jaffe <05acc3c79bf7-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Hello Storage Gurus! > > We're trying to get rid of an incremental Flashcopy relationship. We > first

Re: Non-reentrant program not allowed (where?); Advantages of reentrant programs?

For a perfect solution, you need a minimum of 256 bytes of constants or add non-modified filler to reach the 256 byte amount? Is there a technique to achieve this? BR R14 ORG *+256 ORG *-256 LTORG name DS (unmodified) ORG , * to address after 256 bytes unmodified storage On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 2

Re: SHELLSCR installation - Liberty sos

Prerequisites should handle it. On Mon, Sep 2, 2024 at 8:09 AM Seymour J Metz wrote: > > Are there appropriate holds? > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי > נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר > > > > > From:

Re: Storage Solution selection Criteria

Information needed to select equipment. Processor, storage devices name, model, and capacity, FICON cards, switches for each site, distance of each site from other sites, network capacity between sites. On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 3:52 AM Peter <05e4a8a0a03d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: >

Re: POSTing a WAIT in another Address Space; POST ASCB= parameter; S602 Abend

How about RUCSA (or CSA)? Common memory addressable by all address spaces but only used by affected address spaces. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=overview-virtual-storage-address-space-esa-extensions On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 2:48 PM Rob Scott <0618c90e6fdf-dmarc-requ...@listserv.u

Re: Huawei storage mainframe

I found a mainframe modernization in cloud product. https://www.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/about/info/2024/202406060001.html On Thu, Sep 5, 2024 at 6:53 AM Radoslaw Skorupka <0471ebeac275-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Does such storage device exist? > I have never heard about it. >

Re: 24-bit private region on z16 processor

Varies by operating system level occasionally PTF, and user configuration such as TSO in (non-)LPA area. On Mon, Sep 9, 2024 at 8:25 AM Mark Jacobs <0224d287a4b1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Silly question. Is there anything different as it relates to sizing of the > 24-bit priva

Re: RMODE 64

z/OS 3.1 Limitations: 31 bit address. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=subcommands-test-command On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 7:28 PM Joseph Reichman <05812645a43c-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > I am running this code under TEST I make a break point at the BASR > > I know I ha

Re: Congratulations IBM!

Sure it isn't a lot of stock buybacks, authorized by Reagan ? On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 1:27 PM Dave Beagle <0525eaef6620-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Congratulations to IBM & the excellent management team. IBM stock hits a new > high today! I guess the demise of the mainframe in 1

Re: PCOMM 15 UID

There have been bugs reported with 2 products having the same UUID. https://community.veeam.com/blogs-and-podcasts-57/detecting-and-exporting-duplicate-bios-uuids-on-windows-computers-with-powershell-4523 On Sat, Sep 14, 2024 at 10:04 AM Paul Gilmartin <042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.

Re: Ubiquitous ZOS Tape Utility?

IEBPTPCH first x record(s) of each file to print or dummy, start with oldest unread tape? On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 11:37 AM Steve Beaver <050e0c375a14-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > I was not aware VT tapes degraded like RT tapes > > > Sent from my iPhone > > No one said I could type

Re: Is z/OS FTP encrypted?

Shared volume? Terse, xmit, receive, unterse would be an alternate path. ADDRSU or other backup to (V)Tape and restore? On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 1:50 PM Bob Bridges <0587168ababf-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Newbie question: I've just started work for a new client, and they > (

Re: ISPF/PDF list/log file allocations

Log filling up? Allocate a larger amount of space. Review the disposition, if it is cataloged you can wrap around the letters and numbers fairly fast and cant log on due to a duplicate dataset name. Rename or delete. On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 5:26 PM Albertus de Wet <062595278496-dmarc-requ...

OT - another Legacy operating system

http://www.zdnet.com/article/a-23-year-old-windows-3-1-system-failure-crashed-paris-airport/ -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Fastest way to read OLDEST GDG entry

If you delete all GDG members, the next one created will be G0001V00. TSO Batch IF dsn(-255) exist THEN ... On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 4:06 AM, Lizette Koehler wrote: > I have a request to read the oldest GDG to process. But CSI is slow sometimes > and better other times. > > So here is the basic

Re: Fastest way to read OLDEST GDG entry

Latest GDG is (-000) . They were wanting the OLDEST GDG with an uncertain number of entries. On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Peter Hunkeler wrote: > >> Check out the GDGORDER parameter. It became available in z/OS 2.2 and allows >> you to process generation data sets in the order they were cr

Re: Fastest way to read OLDEST GDG entry

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > What makes "V00" ever Vnn, where N<>0? > > -- gil Possibly an IEBGENER from data.set.name(-000) to data.set.name(-000) DISP=(NEW,CATLG). I did do an IEBGENER data.set.name.G0123V00 to data.s

Re: (External):Is there an Standard Size for 3390-27's?

Page 9. For this design of storage device, one extent is 1113 cylinders. A volume consists of one or more extents. Another extent can be added to an existing volume, then run ICKDSF to utilize the additional space. EAVs go to 256K (or so) tracks and now 1024K (or so) cylinders. Design limit of 4

Re: FIPS 140-2 Compliant

http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/140sp/140sp720.pdf On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Lopez, Sharon wrote: > Is there a manual or a red book that outlines all of the steps needed to > implement FIPS 140-2 compliant on the mainframe? > > > > >

Re: Fastest way to read OLDEST GDG entry

It remains cataloged. It is just no longer part of the gdg. Good thing those thousand or two files were just a few tracks. On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 9:59 AM, J O Skip Robinson wrote: > I haven't experimented with this, but going with NOSCRATCH is likely to cause > big problems with DASD GDGs. A

Re: Privately owned mainframes (Was Re: I just bought an IBM z890)

MVS would not run on a 360, requires 370 with Virtual Storage. MFT would have a good chance. On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Rupert Reynolds wrote: > I have a yearning for a S/360 box to keep my garage/workshop warm in > Winter. I already have some mods to MVS 3.8J under Hercules, to make it > f

Re: Earlier than a z9?

As long as you don't need more MIPS, keep chugging along. Which is why IBM cuts off the upgrades. On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Brian Westerman wrote: > We have both a consulting and a software side, on the consulting side the > oldest machines we have are: > > 4 z/800's running os/390 2.10,

Re: Were you at SHARE in Seattle? Watch your credit card statements!

On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: > At 08:42 -0600 on 11/22/2015, Joel C. Ewing wrote about Re: Were you at > SHARE in Seattle? Watch your credit card st: > >> The biggest incentive was on merchants to get chip-card-capable readers >> in place to avoid higher fraud liabil

Re: IBM Automatic (COBOL) Binary Optimizer Now Availabile

I would imagine there are lots of programs that only use S/370 instructions, and use base / index registers. And there are lots of sites with System z processors but not z12s. How about a version to where during the install you specify what is the lowest processor you might run on? And in case you

Re: Interesting Article About Cobol

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Lizette Koehler wrote: > And then any time you would recompile your program, you would need to run it > through ABO again. > Lizette > Not if you change your ARCHLEVEL parameter on your compiler. -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go

Re: Straightforward way to determine hardware architecture level?

z900/z800 archlevel(5) z990/z890 archlevel(6) On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Charles Mills wrote: > Wow! Thanks! > > And all written in S/360 assembler! Will run on Connor's z890! > > Charles > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU]

Re: REXX to know the CPU and MSU consumption.

https://www-304.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/lib03060.nsf/pages/lsprindex?OpenDocument https://www-304.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/lib03060.nsf/pages/lsprITRzOSv2r1?OpenDocument On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Ed Finnell <000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > http://2000clic

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