AW: Re: Changing OMVS Prompt to indicate SuperUser challenge

2016-04-20 Thread Peter Hunkeler
table, but $PWD changes with every "cd" command. When you change the quotes to double quotes, PS1 will contian the current working directory at login time, and this will not follow you "cd"s. -- Peter Hunkeler ---

AW: Re: JES3 SDSF 'LOG' command very slow response

2016-04-20 Thread Peter Hunkeler
delete them via JES3 command or using SDSF or (E)JES, I would say (can't try myself). -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

AW: 64-bit caller and VL-bit

2016-04-27 Thread Peter Hunkeler
be able to determine how many parameters were passed. That separate parameter could be within the parameter list (for example, the first parameter list slot) or could be in register 0." So, no, you don't miss anything. -- Peter Hunkeler ---

AW: Re: An explanation for branch performance?

2016-04-29 Thread Peter Hunkeler
> Uhm... I don't see any conditional branch at the start of the loop that > branches or falls through? I'm with Fred here. Out of curiosity, the code you posted seems to be incomplete. Is it? -- Peter Hunkeler -

AW: Re: Following IBM-MAIN on iOS (or Android, for that matter)

2016-04-29 Thread Peter Hunkeler
Thunderbird on my PC is the one that gets the mail from there via POP and DELETE. Apple's mail client is only configured to be able to send out, because I consider this app less than basic in functionality. -- Peter Hunkeler ---

High number of samples seen in IEAVEPS1. What does this tell me?

2016-05-03 Thread Peter Hunkeler
couple of IEAVEPS1 entries in a row? Of yourse 1/100s is a long time so other things may have happened inbetween, not being caught ba MA-Tune's sampling. I wonder, however, if and what could case this to take longer that what I would expect. Any clue? --

AW: Re: High number of samples seen in IEAVEPS1. What does this tell me?

2016-05-03 Thread Peter Hunkeler
r, when finished, the SRB cross-memory posts the TCB/RB. Is this roughly right? I'm just curious. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua

AW: Re: High number of samples seen in IEAVEPS1. What does this tell me?

2016-05-03 Thread Peter Hunkeler
nd looks at the OPSW in the RB, which points to PAUSE. Anyway, I still am interested to learn how the flow from the application TCB/RB to DBM1, its SRB and back are working. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscrib

AW: Re: High number of samples seen in IEAVEPS1. What does this tell me?

2016-05-03 Thread Peter Hunkeler
the question marks disappear. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

AW: Re: High number of samples seen in IEAVEPS1. What does this tell me?

2016-05-04 Thread Peter Hunkeler
E processing takes so long. I thought PAUSE / RESUME is a slim process. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Another WLM question

2016-05-15 Thread Peter Hunkeler
RG has *no* upper limit specified. So, when we run with the base policy, nothing is limited via RG, because there are no limits set. When need arises, we simply switch to another policy, based on what limit we want to set. We're

AW: Re: Whither VIO?

2016-05-16 Thread Peter Hunkeler
ings (or things to come) just as Expanded Storage was. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

AW: Re: EAV bug or feature?

2016-05-16 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>So if you want to use EAV's, make them SMS. ... ... and be prepared to have to deal with strange errors with software which is not EAV-savvy, i.e. which show strange behaviour with cylinder managed block addresses. E.g. code written with SAS-C may not like them. -- Peter

AW: Suggestion for conditioning step on symbols

2016-05-16 Thread Peter Hunkeler
h or cry. DFSort is a great tool, no doubt; it's control statements (I intentionally don't called it "language") are a nightmare, no doubt. Hopefully noone will ever consider the above as something suitable for production. Overkill; not maintainable. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

AW: Re: ADRDSSU message Keywords Clarification

2016-05-17 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>There are manuals for DFSMSdss that should be helpful on the ibm website. ADR and ADRY messages are documented "z/OS MVS System Messages Volume 1 (ABA - AOM). As obvious as can be, isn't it? -- Peter Hunkeler -

ADRDSSU PRINT function not listing KEY (of CKD) as separate item?

2016-05-25 Thread Peter Hunkeler
s the when printing. -- Peter Hunkeler -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

AW: Re: ADRDSSU PRINT function not listing KEY (of CKD) as separate item?

2016-05-25 Thread Peter Hunkeler
to printed separately from the data field as well. But I'm fine with this. Just wanted to make sure I'm not misinterpreting anything. Thanks Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access in

AW: CREATED date for migrated data sets?

2016-05-26 Thread Peter Hunkeler
> Alas, ISPF DSLIST does not show created date for migrated data sets. Those dates are in the data set's DSCB. There is none for migrated ones. So for once, ISPF is not guilty. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN s

AW: Re: Questions on DPMOD

2016-05-26 Thread Peter Hunkeler
WEBs which have that Service Class assigned will get the new dispatching priority at time. And this may change the order of WEBs already on the WUQ. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

AW: Re: TSO receive on MultiVolume PS error

2016-05-27 Thread Peter Hunkeler
> However, I don't think that is your problem. The XMIT dataset should be FB 80 3120. Just for the records: The XMIT data set *must* be RECFM=FB, LRECL=80. The blocksize should be as large as possible to minimize the number of I/O operations to be run. 27920 is optimal. -- Peter

AW: Re: TSO receive on MultiVolume PS error

2016-05-27 Thread Peter Hunkeler
block sizes. I never cared to look at what TRANSMIT allocated. I just tried and found that TRANSMIT overrides the block size with 3120, when the data set already existed (and uses this when it allocates the data set). --

AW: Re: Questions on DPMOD

2016-05-29 Thread Peter Hunkeler
ause > that order is selected on the basis of address space dispatching priority. > Once the control program selects an address space for dispatching, it selects > from within the address space the highest priority task awaiting execution. > Thus, task priori

AW: Re: Displaying Users and Processes for UNIX z/OS Functions

2016-06-13 Thread Peter Hunkeler
d. "ls" will not show this file. "fsinuse" will show processes that use files in a specific directoy, but /tmp might be used by many. So, how do you indentify the one eating up all space? -- Peter Hunkeler ---

AW: Re: Where is format of Job ID documented?

2016-06-16 Thread Peter Hunkeler
h OS/390 V1.3 (I seem to remember). Before that, APPC initiators were used to provide a home for non-local child processes. -- Peter Hunkeler -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

AW: Re: Where is format of Job ID documented?

2016-06-16 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>>I guess IBM's thinking is that we should just treat it as a magic cookie. It >>is guaranteed to be 8 EBCDIC characters that will identify a job or the like. >>End of story. >> >Used to be 7, IIRC. Don't you mix that up with TSO Userids which are re

AW: Re: Where is format of Job ID documented?

2016-06-16 Thread Peter Hunkeler
am from dynamically allocating a SYSOUT file? If not, JESx must know about that address space and thus the Annn number would be managed by JESx the same way JESx is managing the number for TSU, STC, and batch jobs. -- Peter Hunkeler ---

AW: Re: Where is format of Job ID documented?

2016-06-16 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>... OTOH: It might run under Master Scheduler not JES. Makes perfect sense to me. Firstly MOUNT is an MVS command, and secondly, one would not be (or have been) able to MOUNT a volume when JESx was down. -- Peter Hunke

AW: Re: Highest address "below the bar"

2016-06-16 Thread Peter Hunkeler
S. That makes the highest numbered, accessible byte to be at address x'7FFFEFFF' -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

AW: Re: Where is format of Job ID documented?

2016-06-18 Thread Peter Hunkeler
C's AS or again in a UNIX initiator AS, but the jobid will be Snnn in both cases. But even standard MVS services might be run as STC or as batch job. Some run CICS or IMS as STC, some as batch job. So, CICS/IMS will show up as either Snnn or Jn

AW: WAIT >1 (Friday type question, a day late)

2016-06-19 Thread Peter Hunkeler
ity that waits for either an MVS STOP command or until a specified time interval has expired. It sets up the timer and the CIB, then WAITs for one of the two events to happen. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signo

AW: Display in ULOG of SDSF

2016-06-21 Thread Peter Hunkeler
ssions? Did you go into ULOG on both? If so, messages will only show up on the session where you entered ULOG first. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@

Re: TIOT exceeded

2016-06-21 Thread Peter Hunkeler
ng a data set still adds an entry to the TIOT? Only authorized code is allowed to as for the entry to be added to the XTIOT. I guess IDCAMS is using the XTIOT, but user programs, including TSO and ISPF do not. OTOH, why not deleting the GDSs with IDCAMS "DELETE your.gdg.base.* MASK&q

AW: From when I didn't have gray hair nor needed glasses

2016-06-21 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>http://petelancashire.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=7139 I guess you can't make this availble to bitsavers, can you? -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: TIOT exceeded

2016-06-22 Thread Peter Hunkeler
x27;t it? -- Peter Hunkeler -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

AW: Re: TIOT exceeded

2016-06-22 Thread Peter Hunkeler
ete all generation data sets (GDS) currently associated with the GDG. Questions would be how to handle newly created, but not yet rolled-in GDSs (jobs running in parallel). And what about new GDS created in step n of a job running in parallel, and step n+m referring to that GDS? There are pr

AW: Re: TIOT exceeded

2016-06-22 Thread Peter Hunkeler
entries. A step level switch, i.e. EXEC parameter, would make sense for exactly this reason, I guess. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

OT: Test regarding ReplyTo - Please ignore

2016-06-24 Thread Peter Hunkeler
Havong some troubles with Reply-To. Please ignore this message. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

AW: OT: Test regarding ReplyTo - Please ignore

2016-06-24 Thread Peter Hunkeler
Replying from AltaMail. -- Peter Hunkeler Von: Peter Hunkeler An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Betreff: OT: Test regarding ReplyTo - Please ignore Datum: 24.06.16, 12:28 Havong some troubles with Reply-To. Please ignore this message. -- Peter Hunkeler

Aw: AW: OT: Test regarding ReplyTo - Please ignore

2016-06-24 Thread Peter Hunkeler
Relaying from GMX Webmail -- Peter Hunkeler > Gesendet: Freitag, 24. Juni 2016 um 12:29 Uhr > Von: "Peter Hunkeler" > An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Betreff: AW: OT: Test regarding ReplyTo - Please ignore > > Replying from AltaMail. > > > -- > Pe

AW: Re: [Bulk] Re: [IBM-MAIN] Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

2016-06-28 Thread Peter Hunkeler
wever if this matters for your query. --Peter Hunkeler -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 9:19 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild What i

AW: Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

2016-06-29 Thread Peter Hunkeler
er if this matters for your query. --Peter Hunkeler >What is the *smallest* volume size everyone sees in general use? > >For example, will we create any problems if we assume that "everyone" >has or can define at least a 3390-9 size volume these days?

AW: Re: IBM Knowledge Centre

2016-07-01 Thread Peter Hunkeler
ay I save the link to the z/OS V2.1 bookshelf part: http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.1.0 Just don't try to use it with IE (up to IE11), use Firefox, Chrome or whatever, just not IE. -- Peter Hunkeler -

z/OS V2.1 MVS Data Area manuals missing in the Knowledge Center

2016-07-01 Thread Peter Hunkeler
Would anyone of the IBMers watching the forum know whom to contact to tell them that the zOS/ V2.1 MVS Data Area manuals are missing in the new Knowledge Center? The feedback link on the page seems to be just general feedback about IBM. -- Peter Hunkeler

Short description of system address spaces

2016-07-01 Thread Peter Hunkeler
s and features. There is a manual providing this list. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

AW: Re: Short description of system address spaces

2016-07-01 Thread Peter Hunkeler
A bit too brief -- Peter Hunkeler Von: Mike Schwab An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Betreff: Re: Short description of system address spaces Datum: 01.07.16, 15:41 JOBNAME *MASTER* ALLOCAS ANTAS000 ANTMAIN APPC ASCH ASCHINT AUTOTSO AUTOVIEW AUTOVSSI AXR BPXAS

AW: Re: z/OS V2.1 MVS Data Area manuals missing in the Knowledge Center

2016-07-01 Thread Peter Hunkeler
chines I work on anyway. Too impatient to wait for the internet. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

AW: Re: Short description of system address spaces

2016-07-03 Thread Peter Hunkeler
/OS Basics redbook that Mike pointed to is indeed a known good starting point. But it does not have a list of these adrdress spaces. Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

AW: Symlinks with $SYSNAME variable

2016-07-05 Thread Peter Hunkeler
ith he backslash. ls -s /\$SYSNAME/etc /MaintP21/etc -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

AW: Re: Symlinks with $SYSNAME variable

2016-07-06 Thread Peter Hunkeler
e latter is a system symbols and would need either $SYSSYMA or $SYSSYMR to indicate that the next directory level in the path specified is a system symbol. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive a

AW: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IBM Knowledge Centre

2016-07-06 Thread Peter Hunkeler
herwise the KC works quite well on the iPad (iOS 9.3) --Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

AW: Re: IBM Knowledge Centre

2016-07-07 Thread Peter Hunkeler
okshelves and books onto any platform I'll be regularly working on. And lack of IBM Library Reader, I use PDFs. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

AW: Re: AW: Re: IBM Knowledge Centre

2016-07-08 Thread Peter Hunkeler
forms (at least I now about Linux, iOS, OSX, Windows, Android). -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

AW: Re: Short description of system address spaces

2016-07-08 Thread Peter Hunkeler
Thanks. What I imagine is a short descriptive paragraph (two to three sentences) for each AS. I already started with this. I will happily share the doc with anyone interested once its finished (make take a while, though). -- Peter Hunkeler

AW: Re: AW: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IBM Knowledge Centre

2016-07-08 Thread Peter Hunkeler
ferent browser and make it the default browser. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: IBM Knowledge Centre

2016-07-08 Thread Peter Hunkeler
to download the books for offline reading. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

AW: PSF Issue

2016-07-18 Thread Peter Hunkeler
Mark,You may want to try on the AFP-L list (http://listserv.uga.edu/archives/afp-l.html). AFP and Printer experts hang out there. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

AW: Re: DFsort and zIIP

2016-07-18 Thread Peter Hunkeler
exagerated, I know). Also "IBM Sort for DB2 for z/OS" (can't remember the exact name), is offloading to zIIPs, if I remember correctly. This procuct is based on SyncSort code as far as I understand. -- Peter Hunkeler

AW: Re: Exclusive ENQ on a TSO logon procedure

2016-07-19 Thread Peter Hunkeler
ser C was able to log on . Thank >you Kees ... JES2 is usually defined with NODSI in the PPT (SCHEDxx) and does not hold an ENQ on the data sets it has allocated. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

AW: Re: Exclusive ENQ on a TSO logon procedure

2016-07-19 Thread Peter Hunkeler
on is different. And it also does not help with $ADD PROC. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

AW: Re: DFsort and zIIP

2016-07-19 Thread Peter Hunkeler
Q. The reason for the wait time mechanism is explained in Init&Tuning Ref, IEAOPTxx. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message

Interface to query length of storage allocated with CEEGTST LE service

2016-07-20 Thread Peter Hunkeler
service. LE remembers the length of the area. Is there an interface or any other documented way to get the length of an area at a given address? -- Peter Hunkeler -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

AW: Re: Interface to query length of storage allocated with CEEGTST LE service

2016-07-20 Thread Peter Hunkeler
details about the why and what for.) Thanks for the hint regarding LE possibly rounding up. Since I do not know details what they intend to do, I cannot say if this rouding is important for them. But I'll pass it on. Thanks -- Peter Hunk

AW: Re: DFSORT and zIIP

2016-07-20 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>For DB2 Sort for z/OS, zIIP -- Peter Hunkeler >exploitation makes technical sense. For DFSORT -- except for exploiting >zIIPs on behalf of DB2 utilities and in other ancillary ways -- it doesn't >seem to make technical sense. All this speciality engine thing never ma

Setting dump options for SVC dumps taken by StarTool DA-Batch?

2016-07-21 Thread Peter Hunkeler
=(SUM), but that should not apply in our case. Before you ask: No I have not asked the ISVs since I'm not in the position to ask them. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruct

AW: Resource Group Limits as a cost containment method?

2016-07-21 Thread Peter Hunkeler
RG does not have a MAX value. MIN values are always empty (0). -- Peter Hunkeler -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

AW: Re: Setting dump options for SVC dumps taken by StarTool DA-Batch?

2016-07-21 Thread Peter Hunkeler
s me think that StarTool DA is specifying its own SDATA options when requesting the dump. >Under IPCS, what does VERBX IEAVTSFS display for Partial Dump Reason Codes? I'm at home now, but will check the above tomorrow. -- Peter Hunkeler --

AW: System symbols in batch JCL

2016-07-21 Thread Peter Hunkeler
rking with batch JCL. Try using &LYYMMDD and &LHHMMSS (I hope I remember the names correctly). -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.ed

AW: Re: System symbols in batch JCL

2016-07-21 Thread Peter Hunkeler
was no system symbol support for batch jobs, and for batch and STC, that there was no support for system and JCL symbols in instream data. I personaly have quickly started to use instream support, and to a lesser extent, system symbols in my own jobs. -- Peter Hu

AW: Re: Resource Group Limits as a cost containment method?

2016-07-22 Thread Peter Hunkeler
oups can, this is what they have been invented for. So at critical times such as month ends, we're limiting what batch can take, effectively a kind of capping within a z/OS instance but only for certain types of workload, i.e. batch. -- P

AW: Re: AW: Re: Setting dump options for SVC dumps taken by StarTool DA-Batch?

2016-07-22 Thread Peter Hunkeler
artil dump reason codes are all zeroes. So I'm left with the hope that SmartRestart or StarTool DA (whichever schedules the dump) can be told to include the trace table in the dump request. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IB

S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address with all X'00' bytes

2016-07-22 Thread Peter Hunkeler
is in SP 1, key 8. Any hint what I'm missing? -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

AW: Re: S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address with all X'00' bytes

2016-07-22 Thread Peter Hunkeler
ion at the PSW's NSI. The storage at this address is a couple of x'00', and the storage is in SP1, key 8. If anyting was allocated but not accessible, a S0C4-4 would occur, not an S0C4-11. --Peter Hunkeler -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-

AW: Re: S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address with all X'00' bytes

2016-07-22 Thread Peter Hunkeler
0 PSW16 47850400 8000 231A7BB8 Seems to match. Unfortunately, there is no LOGREC entry in the dump for this error, the system trace table has not been dumped (Grrr...), and there is no SDWA in the dump. I'm lost how to find the TEA in this case. --P

AW: Re: AW: Re: S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address with all X'00' bytes

2016-07-22 Thread Peter Hunkeler
tle (sometimes useless) helpers. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

AW: Re: S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address with all X'00' bytes

2016-07-22 Thread Peter Hunkeler
inue debugging the problem. It's embarrassing how rusty my dump reading skills have become. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

AW: Re: AW: Re: S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address with all X'00' bytes

2016-07-22 Thread Peter Hunkeler
specify that dump defaults and change dump options shall be ignored (seen in the SVC dump, dicussed in a separate thread). Thanks for your help so far. I'll restart posting on Monday, if I have new questions or new information with wich you could help me.

AW: Re: S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address with all X'00' bytes

2016-07-22 Thread Peter Hunkeler
IP is set to be not limited for the target job(s), only. Bad, IMHO. I did check if there is another SVc dump from that time around which could have provided me the missing system trace, but Murphy made sure there is none. So yes, for the time being I'm left with the toy dumps. --

AW: Re: System symbols in batch JCL

2016-07-22 Thread Peter Hunkeler
probably done before something changes the CLASS form A to C. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

AW: Re: AW: Re: Setting dump options for SVC dumps taken by StarTool DA-Batch?

2016-07-22 Thread Peter Hunkeler
Great! Just the information I was looking for! Now I just need to convince our engineers to actually do it. And yes, I have been debugging using this dump in IPCS. This is how I found out that TRT is not specified in the SDUMP macro. -- Peter Hunkeler

AW: Re: AW: Re: S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address with all X'00' bytes

2016-07-22 Thread Peter Hunkeler
. the content from R15 is seen as the PSW's NSI address. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

AW: Re: S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address with all X'00' bytes

2016-07-22 Thread Peter Hunkeler
'. Sorry this was not clear enough. And I dd not post the ILC because I considered it irrelevant. With a 0C4-11 the NSI points to the failing isntruction itself and this was x''. But I admit, this was again su

AW: Re: S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address with all X'00' bytes

2016-07-22 Thread Peter Hunkeler
> These days the PER bit is *always* on, in any serious development/test > environment, because of the ever-present ZAD SLIP in effect. Good hint. I would hope we don't have this active in production (the problem occurred in production). Will check on Monday. -- Pet

AW: Re: AW: Re: S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address with all X'00' bytes

2016-07-22 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>Oh gawd. This is where I shrug my shoulders and wash my hands of it. I >like SVC dumps with all storage dumped and nice long trace tables. >Anything else is just frustration in a can! I couldn't have said this better. --

AW: Re: S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address with all X'00' bytes

2016-07-22 Thread Peter Hunkeler
some other code some time later. The result is what I got; with not hint on what wrote when and where, when it should not have This kind of problem is difficult enough, I don't want to base my analysis and guessing on a dump I cannot trust. -- Peter Hunkeler ---

AW: Re: AW: Re: S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address with all X'00' bytes

2016-07-22 Thread Peter Hunkeler
7 as EP? I don't have clue. The storage where R7 point to belongs to a load module is called SQLBATCH and it seems to belong to Smart/Restart. Not our code. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscrib

AW: Interface to query length of storage allocated with CEEGTST LE service

2016-07-23 Thread Peter Hunkeler
l have to ask for more details. Anyway, I will not suggest to learn this information by scanning undocumented control blocks. It is too dangerous for production use. They will need to keep that information, if realLy required, in their own data. They already keep all kinds of things arou

AW: DFSMSdss address spaces started by DFSMShsm

2016-07-23 Thread Peter Hunkeler
START ans IEESYSAS while ago, but can't find the result at the moment; will have to dig a bit. I seem to remember that depending on how exactly DFHSM starts those address spaces, they will match a STARTED CLASS profile IEESYSAS.DSSFRB*, or not. Have you tried yet? If so what did you try and

Follow-on: S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address with all X'00' bytes

2016-07-26 Thread Peter Hunkeler
0 |..?.UD |+00120 DD40 LENGTH(X'20')==>All bytes contain X'00'*** Data at offset x'90' matches the NSI in the PSW and R15 as displayed in the CEEDUMP: GPR15 _A31A7BB8*** TRNE from XSB of current PRB is: TRNE

AW: Re: AW: Re: AW: Re: S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address with all X'00' bytes

2016-07-26 Thread Peter Hunkeler
om a pageable, private storage subpool, >with BNDRY=PAGE specified. I stand corrected. Thanks for remembering me. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

AW: Follow-on: S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address with all X'00' bytes

2016-07-26 Thread Peter Hunkeler
Oopps, I was afraid of that. Does IBM-MAIN allow attachements? Can't remember, but will try. -- Peter Hunkeler *** CEEDUMP data folows: CEE3DMP V2 R1.0: Condition processing resulted in the unhandled condition. 07/15/16 12:12:28 AMASID: 0159 Job ID: J0274722 Job name: P07

AW: Follow-on: S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address with all X'00' bytes

2016-07-26 Thread Peter Hunkeler
you might find useful, I would very much appreciate. Thanks Peter -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the mes

AW: Re: Follow-on: S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address with all X'00' bytes

2016-07-26 Thread Peter Hunkeler
rage is available, otherwise it would be marked as "inaccessible storage". I don't know what to expect at that address, it is not my application, I was merely asked if I could help debugging what seems to be a storage over

AW: Re: Follow-on: S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address with all X'00' bytes

2016-07-26 Thread Peter Hunkeler
Thanks, Ed, I wasn't aware of the *trailing* whilte space behaviour. However, I think apart from that Listserv removes all leading space (and multiple spaces?) and thus also makes reading the dump output difficult. --Peter Hun

AW: Re: Follow-on: S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address with all X'00' bytes

2016-07-26 Thread Peter Hunkeler
ttle helpers' and a SYSMDUMP DD be added. Hopefully I will have more information next time it fails. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

AW: Re: Follow-on: S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address with all X'00' bytes

2016-07-26 Thread Peter Hunkeler
4-11 messages start to show up. I'm hoping for a system trace in the SYSMDUMP that I was requesting to be added to the job (mentioned in a previous post). Kind of seems to be a case liek the one Skip Robinson mentione (S0C7). We'll see. -- Peter Hunkeler -

AW: Re: Follow-on: S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address with all X'00' bytes

2016-07-26 Thread Peter Hunkeler
x27;m hoping for the SYSMDUMP. If that fails, I will take the burden and ask for a SLIP. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the m

When to use TRNE in the XSB? (was: S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address...)

2016-07-26 Thread Peter Hunkeler
PSW1... 478D0400 A31A7BB8 RTPSW2... 00020011 231A7800 What can I learn from this? How do I properly use these fields in dump analysis? More information from the dumps can be found in the attachement (same as attched in the original discussion). -- Peter Hunkeler

AW: Re: codepage restrictions on IBM applications

2016-07-26 Thread Peter Hunkeler
all, even z/OS base components issue WTOs in mixed case. ZFS is one that comes to my mind, and I'm pretty sure there are more but I can't name them without looking up. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscri

Re: Follow-on: S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address with all X'00' bytes

2016-07-26 Thread Peter Hunkeler
as the address in R15 231A7BB8. Why the difference? -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

AW: S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address with all X'00' bytes

2016-07-26 Thread Peter Hunkeler
list is to me :-) Fortuntately, I've been doing application programming a lot in my career as well, so I know both sides very well. What I'm pretty ignorant at is Cobol. I'm mainly a PL/I, Assembler and REXX programmer. But I'm learning -- Peter Hunkeler

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