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When you change the quotes to double quotes, PS1 will contian the current
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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."
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I'm with Fred here. Out of curiosity, the code you posted seems to be
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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.
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Is this roughly right? I'm just curious.
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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.
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I thought PAUSE / RESUME is a slim process.
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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
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>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.
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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.
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>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?
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to printed separately from the data field as well.
But I'm fine with this. Just wanted to make sure I'm not misinterpreting
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Those dates are in the data set's DSCB. There is none for migrated ones. So for
once, ISPF is not guilty.
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> 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.
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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).
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> 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
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?
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>>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.
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>Used to be 7, IIRC.
Don't you mix that up with TSO Userids which are re
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.
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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.
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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
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
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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
>http://petelancashire.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=7139
I guess you can't make this availble to bitsavers, can you?
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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
entries.
A step level switch, i.e. EXEC parameter, would make sense for exactly this
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What i
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>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?
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,
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s and features. There
is a manual providing this list.
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spaces Datum: 01.07.16, 15:41
JOBNAME
*MASTER*
ALLOCAS
ANTAS000
ANTMAIN
APPC
ASCH
ASCHINT
AUTOTSO
AUTOVIEW
AUTOVSSI
AXR
BPXAS
chines I work on anyway. Too impatient to
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point. But it does not have a list of these adrdress spaces.
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ls -s /\$SYSNAME/etc /MaintP21/etc
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need either $SYSSYMA or $SYSSYMR to indicate that the next directory level in
the path specified is a system symbol.
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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).
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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.
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>you Kees ...
JES2 is usually defined with NODSI in the PPT (SCHEDxx) and does not hold an
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is explained in Init&Tuning Ref, IEAOPTxx.
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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?
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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.
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>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
=(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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's embarrassing how rusty my dump reading skills have become.
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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.
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.
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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.
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. the content from R15 is seen as
the PSW's NSI address.
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'. 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
> 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.
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>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.
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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
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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
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
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
om a pageable, private storage subpool,
>with BNDRY=PAGE specified.
I stand corrected. Thanks for remembering me.
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*** 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
you might find useful, I
would very much appreciate.
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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
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.
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ttle helpers' and a
SYSMDUMP DD be added. Hopefully I will have more information next time it fails.
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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).
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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).
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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.
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Fortuntately, I've been doing application programming a lot in my career as
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