Re: Running REXX compiled in z/OS in CMS

2011-04-13 Thread Michael Donovan
John, For C/C++, COBOL, and PL/I that is true on z/VM also. We ship the LE runtime libraries for these as part of the z/VM base. The ancient FORTRAN product for z/VM is not LE-enabled. Mike Donovan From: McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date:

Re: Sevice level

2011-04-11 Thread Michael Donovan
Language Environment (LE) has its LEMODLVL routine which displays the APARs applied to each part used to build an input MODULE name, e.g. LEMODLVL CEEPLPKA will display a list of all the parts used to build CEEPLPKA MODULE and the latest APAR applied to each part.Specifying the SEGMENT option

Re: Question about SSL Service

2010-11-29 Thread Michael Donovan
need to have a NAMESAVE TCPIP statement in their respective CP directory entries so they can both get to the DCSS. I apologize for any confusion my append may have caused. Mike Donovan From: Michael Donovan

Re: Question about SSL Service

2010-11-24 Thread Michael Donovan
Dave, You stated you are receiving the following: -- The issue continues to be the following error when TCPIP starts: DMSACR1184E Directory VMSYS:TCPMAINT.SSLPOOL_SSL not found or you are not authorized for it DTCRUN1001E VMLINK .DIR

Re: Question about SSL Service

2010-11-24 Thread Michael Donovan
Dave, The SSLSERV userid needs to have CP Class E privileges so it can define and save the DCSS and own the shared queue SSL will be using. Mike From: Dave Keeton dave.kee...@state.or.us

Re: Question about SSL Service

2010-11-24 Thread Michael Donovan
On 11/24/2010 at 04:25 PM, Michael Donovan dono...@us.ibm.com wrote: The SSLSERV userid needs to have CP Class E privileges so it can define and save the DCSS and own the shared queue SSL will be using. Mike, If that's true, then shouldn't

Re: Performance Toolkit archiving

2010-11-01 Thread Michael Donovan
Frank, You should look at the FCONTROL SETTINGS subcommand and its TRDFILID and SUMFILID and on how to change file ids for the trend and summary files. These commands in conjunction with the FCXRENAM EXEC should give you the ability to archive these files in any manner you want., Cheers!

Re: Maintenance Warnings

2010-10-27 Thread Michael Donovan
George, There are actually two answers to your first question. 1, The restrictive RMODE message is an annoyance, not a problem. The CEEBCKRI MODULE is built correctly. The warning occurs because of the (mis)placement of some DSECTs during the compile stages and the way the CMS loader

Re: Maintenance Warnings

2010-10-27 Thread Michael Donovan
Michael Donovan dono...@us.ibm.com Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU

Re: Maintenance Warnings

2010-10-27 Thread Michael Donovan
George, Yes. PUT2PROD will rebuild the NSS/DCSS which were hit by service. Thanks! Mike | | From: | | ---| |George

Re: Is there a JAVA implementation for CMS?

2010-09-27 Thread Michael Donovan
There was a Java port for CMS, in days long gone. It was withdrawn from the product and the web pages were removed after z/VM 4.4.0. If you had installed the Developer Release 1.1.6 on a system prior to that and migrated that Byte File System forward, you could continue to use it on newer

Re: BFS problem

2010-08-05 Thread Michael Donovan
Jim, To continue with Rick Troth's note ... make sure the following statements exist in your CP directory GLOBALDEFS POSIXGROUP system 0 POSIXGROUP staff1 POSIXGROUP bin 2

Re: TCP/IP Server

2010-07-21 Thread Michael Donovan
If you are using the OpenExtensions Shell Utilities (SU) code on CMS, then you want to leave those ids in the CP directory. If you are not using the SU code, then feel free to remove these ids. They are place holders for certain functions used by the SU. Thanks! Mike

Re: Invoking the VMFMKOVR panels stand-alone

2010-02-11 Thread Michael Donovan
The following little exec is a quick and dirty form of getting VMFMKOVR working. This does assume as input a product id (prodid) and a component id (compid) where the product and component are installed on your system. You need to have the 5E5 and 51D disks accessed to make things work. There

Re: XEDIT SET CASE default setting - is it the best?

2010-01-28 Thread Michael Donovan
Mike, The XEDIT default settings are described in Appendix A of the z/VM: XEDIT Commands and Macros Reference. The case settings are determined by the filetype of the file. If the filetype is not one in the recognized list, then the case defaults to upper. Thanks! Mike

Re: NUCXDROP

2009-09-08 Thread Michael Donovan
Jim, APAR VM64552 removed NUCXDROP MODULE from the S-disk and moved DMSNXD into the CMS nucleus. When service was applied, SES was smart enough to know these changes had been made and it erased NUCXDROP MODULE as part of the rebuild step. Cheers! Mike Donovan

Re: SYSPROF.EXEC

2009-07-17 Thread Michael Donovan
Fair enough! It seemed to me as though the discussion had turned to more of a concern over the amount of time needed to rework exits each time service or a new release came out. Since there have not been changes made since VM/ESA 2.2.0, I was curious as to why the perception existed that there

Re: SYSPROF.EXEC

2009-07-16 Thread Michael Donovan
I don't mean to be a completely wet blanket and I certainly do not want to dampen the enthusiasm for suggested changes, but ... what I'm going to say is probably going to do just that. I went back through the development and service archives and checked on when changes were made to SYSPROF EXEC.

Re: Old CMS Checkstop Error on a 2097 z10

2009-02-04 Thread Michael Donovan
Denny, The HCP1459E message does state that this can be caused by a bad page in a Named Saved Segment. Try IPL 190 and see if that works. There is no restriction on running CMS 14 on a z10. I was just able to bring up a copy of CMS 14 on our z/VM development z10. Mike Donovan

Re: ZCMS - NUCXDROP not found?

2009-01-06 Thread Michael Donovan
Bob, U ... My guess is that you applied APAR VM64552 / PTF UM32567 to your base z/VM 5.4.0 system. This APAR moved NUCXDROP into the CMS nucleus and erased the NUCXDROP MODULE from the S-disk. Since the ZCMS nucleus is not serviced or serviceable, the nucleus change was never included in

Re: ZCMS - NUCXDROP not found?

2009-01-06 Thread Michael Donovan
Bob, I have rebuilt the z/VM 5.4.0 ZCMS LOADDECK and included the change for APAR VM64552. The new copy of the ZCMS LOADDECK and instructions on what to do with it can be found at http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/donovanm/mjdfaq.html#ZCMSnuc If you have any problems getting to that page or

Re: z/VM 5.4.0 CMS commands are now mixed case

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Donovan
Ray, I'm confused. To my knowledge, nothing changed between 5.2 and 5.4 with the way CMS commands are handled. Do you have an example? Thanks! Mike Donovan Ray Waters

Re: CMS machine size calculation??

2008-11-04 Thread Michael Donovan
The output of the CMS STORMAP command shows the total and largest available chunks of storage both below and above the 16M line. Other than that, you would have to write something to chase the CMS free storage chains and figure out what is available. Mike Donovan

Re: z/VM JAVA VM

2008-10-22 Thread Michael Donovan
z/VM 4.4.0 was the last release where JAVA was available for VM. We actually got to a roughly JDK 1.1.6 level before discontinuing support. If you still have a z/VM 4.4.0 system and you want to attempt moving the JAVA code from there to a more recent z/VM 5.x system, the code should

Re: JAVA and Z/VM

2008-05-27 Thread Michael Donovan
Ed, The Java and NetRexx support discussed in the redbook, VM/ESA Network Computing with Java and NetRexx, was discontinued before z/VM 5.1.0 became generally available. The level of Java had become very outdated. If you want and need Java support, you should be looking at running it from a

Re: I just wiped out my 49E disk (LE) by accident.

2008-03-10 Thread Michael Donovan
Daniel, The LE shipped with z/VM 5.2.0 consists of the base LE shipped with z/VM 4.4.0 plus all service up through the end of z/VM 5.2.0 development. There used to be a table somewhere that listed where the various minidisks were on the installation DDR. I don't remember where that table is

Re: I just wiped out my 49E disk (LE) by accident.

2008-03-10 Thread Michael Donovan
Are Coming From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Donovan Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 12:45 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: I just wiped out my 49E disk (LE) by accident. Daniel, The LE shipped with z/VM 5.2.0 consists of the base LE shipped

Re: VM Software Licensing

2008-02-19 Thread Michael Donovan
David Boyes wrote and there is an embedded cut-down LE preinstalled that will probably suffice for your use. The LE supplied with z/VM is the complete LE package. It contains the run-time libraries for C/C++, COBOL, and PL/I. There is no other version of LE available or needed

Re: EXECLOAD

2008-01-16 Thread Michael Donovan
Stephen, If your CMS user is running with more than 16M of storage and you EXECLOAD a REXX exec, the EXECLOAD processing will automatically try to load the exec in free storage above 16M. You do not and cannot specify where the exec is loaded.As Kris pointed out, the SYSTEM option just

Re: LE problem when RUNNING PROGRAM UNKNOWN - PJBR

2007-11-26 Thread Michael Donovan
José Do you have all z/VM LE service applied? There have been some problems in the past with z/VM LE and DB/2. One such fix is APAR: VM63885 PTF: UM31625 Description: VAGEN Z/VM 4.4 LE U4036-02 ACCESSING DB2 UDB ON LINUX SERVER I believe there are also some DB/2

Re: zVM 5.3 TCPIP memory problem

2007-09-17 Thread Michael Donovan
Mark, et al. The web page does indeed describe the changes in the LE C sockets code which were delivered in z/VM 4.4.0. Actually, those C sockets changes were made late in LE 1.8 and shipped with either z/VM 4.2.0 or 4.3.0 (I don't remember exactly). The major difference between the LE 1.8

Re: zVM 5.3 TCPIP memory problem

2007-09-14 Thread Michael Donovan
Jim, There are several reasons for the increased use of virtual storage when running the TCP/IP functions and utilities. You can read about some of these at http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/donovanm/zvmle.html and specifically look at

Re: NetRexx and Java...

2007-09-10 Thread Michael Donovan
Dave, Both Java and NetRexx were dropped when z/VM 5.1.0 was released. We had fallen drastically behind in the level of Java support we were distributing and with more recent levels available through Linux, it was decided we should end our foray into shipping Java on z/VM. As for the

Re: Changing in and out of ( SYSTEM mode

2007-08-30 Thread Michael Donovan
John, In your assembler code, you could use the DMSKEY macro to change from user key to nucleus and back. There are a lot of warnings in the CMS books about using DMSKEY though. You will want to read through all those.Another option is to use IPK and SPKA instructions around your

Re: 2007 Order of the Knights of VM

2007-08-16 Thread Michael Donovan
What a pleasant surprise! Thank you all for including me in such distinguished company. Thanks especially to whoever nominated me. Congratulations to all the members of the Class of 2007. Cheers! Michael J. Donovan Sir Mike of the Enclave

Re: FTP to/from IBM

2007-08-02 Thread Michael Donovan
Richard, Use the following information: * * * VM Service FTP Information * * * FTP site: testcase.boulder.ibm.com VM directory: /fromibm/vm File is probably 1) packed (using COPYFILE with the PACK option) 2) sent in BIN F 1024 mode 3)

Re: Programmable operator

2007-04-09 Thread Michael Donovan
Steve, I've always let my PROP action routine exec see all incoming reader files and then let the exec sort out what it wants. The following line in the PROP RTABLE works for me (the scale is there just to show column placements):

Re: Programmable operator

2007-04-09 Thread Michael Donovan
2007/4/9, Michael Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Steve, I've always let my PROP action routine exec see all incoming reader files and then let the exec sort out what it wants

Re: When applying a Service Corrective

2007-03-09 Thread Michael Donovan
Frank, Check the copy of SYSTEM NETID on the MAINT 490 minidisk. PUT2PROD will first rebuild the CMS nucleus on the 490 disk and then copy the contents of MAINT 490 to MAINT 190. If the SYSTEM NETID file on 490 is different than your 190 copy, this could explain why you have to keep recovering

Re: Fw: a C language question....

2007-01-25 Thread Michael Donovan
Dave, First ... I apologize for the late response. I was out of the office yesterday and I am just getting caught up on all my mail. If you specify the option TARGET(0x4104), sans quotes, on the compile command, you should be able to cleanly compile your source and still use all the

Re: Performance Toolkit and VM64152

2007-01-18 Thread Michael Donovan
This fix only pertains to Performance Toolkit. If you are not running Performance Toolkit, you do not need this fix. Thanks! Mike --- Law of Logical Argument: Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about.

Re: Performance Toolkit and VM64152

2007-01-18 Thread Michael Donovan
Correct. RTM will not run on z/VM 5.2.0. Since you will be running Performance Toolkit on your 5.2.0 system, you should install VM64152/UM31956 to Performance Toolkit before trying to bring it up. Mike Donovan

Re: Performance Toolkit

2007-01-15 Thread Michael Donovan
It appears you have run into the same problem one of our internal accounts encountered yesterday. It appears there is a time-of-day boundary check being performed inside the PERFKIT MODULE. Around Noon on 14 January, the TOD clock rolled from BFxx to C0xx and this TOD

Re: Performance Toolkit

2007-01-15 Thread Michael Donovan
Sorry if I am being thick but can you tell me the exact FTP site that I need to address for this? Thanks Colin Allinson Amadeus Data Processing Michael Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote :- It appears you have run into the same problem one of our

Re: Performance Toolkit

2007-01-15 Thread Michael Donovan
Ladies and gentlemen, It has been brought to my attention that the APAR for PERFKIT's TOD glitch is VM64142. PTFs to follow as soon as possible. Thanks! Mike Donovan

Re: Maintenance for VSWITCH

2006-09-27 Thread Michael Donovan
Tom, You said, When I run the standard DRDA client code, which uses LE functions, the communications work, just poorly. If the client code is running on the z/VM system, make sure the z/VM LE APAR VM63885 is installed as well. This corrects some problems with DB2 code running on z/VM that

Re: EXECLOAD

2006-09-13 Thread Michael Donovan
EXECLOAD first determines what type of EXEC or XEDITmacro is being loaded. If the object being loaded is REXX or alternate (read: compiled REXX), then storage to load the object is obtained as LOC=ANY. If your virtual machine is larger than 16M and there is available storage above 16M, the object

Re: Testing LE options

2006-07-10 Thread Michael Donovan
You can also run with a single CMS and multiple LE segments using a series of SEGMENT ASSIGN commands. Refer to http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/donovanm/zvmle.html#MULTI for an example of how to do this. Mike Donovan

Re: CURRDATE/CURRTIME

2006-04-14 Thread Michael Donovan
Richard, CURRDATE and CURRTIME are updated during CMS IPL. Any STIMER or STIMERM call will also update those fields. Mike Donovan Schuh, Richard