Re: Explination of EUT/FRR
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:59:53 -0400 michealbutz michealb...@optonline.net wrote: :FRR information is stored off of PSA - not in any task related block. :Statement. As opposed to a SCB Thus the routine FRR can be called by a SRB or TCB since :PSA is :related to the CPU : Question What if there is a CPU switch in the routine being protected by the FRR If locked or disabled there ain't no CPU switch. The unit of work does not lose control (if there is a program check, the FRR gets control which is the same unit of work). :When DAS came out (MVS/SP1.3) ESTAE could not operate in other than :primary=home=secondary. The only way a PC routine could do recovery was thru :an FRR. Rather than require that these routines get a lock to be protected, a :secondary FRR stack was created and a bit in PSA that indicated that an EUT :FRR stack was active. Then, if there is a task switch, the EUT FRR stack is :saved and restored upon redispatch. :Question I thought PC routines are protected by a ARR Young grasshopper, the ARR is a relatively new invention. I doubt that it was even in XA. ESA, with access registers, made things easier. :Question Going back to the first comment if EUT FRR are per TASK how does the Z/OS know :they are : the secondary since all FRR's Are Created by SETFRR If SETFRR is issued with EUT=YES and EUT is required since this is an enabled user task a bit is set in the PSA indicating that EUT is active and thus the FRR stack is saved upon CPU switch. -- Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
HMC emulator
Hi, Is there any HMC emulator availalbe for running on a PC? I don't mean the Hercules emulator. Because we need to reconfigure 3 LPAR image profiles with dedicated CPs among 7 running LPARs in a CPC. We don't want to have any impact on other running LPARs when we deactivate/activate new image profiles for specific LPARs. That's to say, let the unrelated LPARs running as normally. We'd like to test this idea on a emulated environment. We welcome any ideas. Much appreciated! P.S. If you want to know the details about this test, please refer to the post named 'PR/SM Logical CP issues'. Alex -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Explanation of EUT/FRR
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:37:17 -0400 michealbutz michealb...@optonline.net wrote: :.1.. TCBRTM1E X'40' - RTM1 IS :CURRENTLY PROCESSING :EUT FRR'S FOR THIS :TASK :If its enabled for I/O and external interrupts and didn't issue a setlock then the :FRR is a EUT FRR ? Unless EUT is specified, the FRR is a regular FRR and will be lost if there is a task switch. Specifying EUT=YES causes PSAMFLGS to be set if the environment is EUT. -- Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Explination of EUT/FRR
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:22:23 -0500 Jim Thomas j...@thethomasresidence.us wrote: :ARR's are only required by PC-ss and then too, only if they're entered in :an enabled and unlocked task mode. Don't think we had them back then, hence :FRR's. ARRs are NOT required by PC-ss - ESTAEX works perfectly fine in XMEM mode. ARRs are a lot cheaper since they do not require any executable instructions to enable. :Aside from that, FRR's are LIFO and I believe (though I cannot remember them :of the top of my bald head) there are TCB flags that indicate their :presence. Not aware of any TCB flags that indicate FRRs. There is a PSA flag that indicates the presence of EUT FRRs. And FRRs, like SCBs, are LIFO. -- Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: HMC emulator
W dniu 2011-07-18 10:50, Alex pisze: Hi, Is there any HMC emulator availalbe for running on a PC? I don't mean the Hercules emulator. Because we need to reconfigure 3 LPAR image profiles with dedicated CPs among 7 running LPARs in a CPC. We don't want to have any impact on other running LPARs when we deactivate/activate new image profiles for specific LPARs. That's to say, let the unrelated LPARs running as normally. We'd like to test this idea on a emulated environment. There is no such emulator. You can do anything you need on your live system, safely. Two methods: a) backup/restore of profiles or simply full backup. b) create another Reset profile and note modifications for (same unfortunately) LPAR profiles. There are so few setting that it's quite feasible to simply note the changes on sheet of paper. Remeber, that all the changes in profiles will NOT affect your running systems. You need POR or at least LPAR recycle to make them effective. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- Tre tej wiadomoci moe zawiera informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wycznie do uytku subowego adresata. Odbiorc moe by jedynie jej adresat z wyczeniem dostpu osób trzecich. Jeeli nie jeste adresatem niniejszej wiadomoci lub pracownikiem upowanionym do jej przekazania adresatowi, informujemy, e jej rozpowszechnianie, kopiowanie, rozprowadzanie lub inne dziaanie o podobnym charakterze jest prawnie zabronione i moe by karalne. Jeeli otrzymae t wiadomo omykowo, prosimy niezwocznie zawiadomi nadawc wysyajc odpowied oraz trwale usun t wiadomo wczajc w to wszelkie jej kopie wydrukowane lub zapisane na dysku. This e-mail may contain legally privileged information of the Bank and is intended solely for business use of the addressee. This e-mail may only be received by the addressee and may not be disclosed to any third parties. If you are not the intended addressee of this e-mail or the employee authorised to forward it to the addressee, be advised that any dissemination, copying, distribution or any other similar activity is legally prohibited and may be punishable. If you received this e-mail by mistake please advise the sender immediately by using the reply facility in your e-mail software and delete permanently this e-mail including any copies of it either printed or saved to hard drive. BRE Bank SA, 00-950 Warszawa, ul. Senatorska 18, tel. +48 (22) 829 00 00, fax +48 (22) 829 00 33, e-mail: i...@brebank.pl Sd Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydzia Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru Sdowego, nr rejestru przedsibiorców KRS 025237, NIP: 526-021-50-88. Wedug stanu na dzie 01.01.2011 r. kapita zakadowy BRE Banku SA (w caoci wpacony) wynosi 168.346.696 zotych. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Lines, Bars and ... mini-bars???
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:09:44 -0400 Peter Relson rel...@us.ibm.com wrote: :The z/OS 1.13 support is for a program to be able to survive the things :that programs cannot typically avoid -- such as external and I/O :interrupts, page faults. :If you can get your program up there (whether by yourself or by use of :directed load (LOAD with ADDR64), and if it calls no system routines of :any kind (whether by branch, SVC, or PC), then have at it. You cannot :LINK, LOAD (wtihout ADDR64), ATTACH, XCTL, SYNCH or IDENTIFY to something :above 2G. I can understand why SVC would not work as there ain't nowhere to save the full PSW. And branching in AMODE64 to a routine that does not expect it would lead to astonishment. But the hardware does the entire PC process. The stack entry has plenty of room for the entire PSW. One wonders why the residency would have an effect (with the exception of LOC=RES which may incorrectly determine the RMODE of the caller). :This should not be construed to imply that further support will be :forthcoming. -- Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Sequence of ON PGMST restart instructions in Control-M job schedule
We're using Control-M for job scheduling. We recently had to add some steps to (the end of) an existing job. Before that, Control-M should restart the job on the *first* job step in any case, so the schedule definition looked like this: ! ON PGMST ANYSTEP PROCST CODES EXERR A/O * ! ! DO IFRERUN FROM $FIRST . TO . CONFIRM Y ! ! DO ! ! ON PGMST ANYSTEP PROCST CODES * A/O * ! ! DO SYSOUTOPT C PRM E FRM R ! ! DO SYSOUTOPT R PRM FRM ! ! DO ! Now, for the additional steps, a restart is to be done on specific steps depending on the step that had troubles. The changed scheduling definition looks like this: ! ON PGMST ANYSTEP PROCST CODES EXERR A/O * ! ! DO IFRERUN FROM $FIRST . TO . CONFIRM Y ! ! DO ! ! ON PGMST PVSLOG## PROCST CODES C U S*** JFAIL A/O * ! ! CODES ! ! DO IFRERUN FROM SORTLOG1 . TO . CONFIRM Y ! ! DO ! ! ON PGMST PVSLOG#2 PROCST CODES C U S*** JFAIL A/O ! ! CODES ! ! DO IFRERUN FROM PVSLOG#2 . TO . CONFIRM Y ! ! DO ! ! ON PGMST ANYSTEP PROCST CODES * A/O * ! ! DO SYSOUTOPT C PRM E FRM R ! ! DO SYSOUTOPT R PRM FRM ! ! DO ! We expected Control-M to propose SORTLOG1 and PVSLOG#2, resp., as the steps to restart on in the restart confirmation dialogue. We were astonished to see that $FIRST was proposed instead. The manual is not too specific about this. We understand that the ON PGMST are worked sequentially, i.e. top down. Therfore, we expected the step-specific IFRERUN to override the ANYSTEP IFRERUN, but it seems the latter is stronger than the former. Does anyone have more insight in how ANYSTEP, $EXERR, $FIRST and step-specific instructions related to each other? -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Explanation of EUT/FRR
Question What if there is a CPU switch in the routine being protected by the FRR As Binyamin wrote, FRRs are processor-related. There is a stack. The obvious inference is that if a work unit is undispatched the stack must be saved. It is. When the work unit is redispatched, whether on the same or a different processor, the stack must be restored. It is. Question I thought PC routines are protected by a ARR PC routines entered in task mode with no locks held and enabled for I/O and external interrupts *may* be protected by an ARR. ARRs protect only PC routines. Those two statements do not imply that PC routines *are* protected by an ARR or that they cannot be protected by some other kind of recovery routine (including ESTAEX or IEAARR, both of which are ESTAE-type).. if EUT FRR are per TASK how does the Z/OS know they are the secondary since all FRR's are Created by SETFRR Each work unit has an FRR stack. A work unit runs on one processor at a time. As discussed earlier, upon dispatch the work unit's FRR stack is moved to processor-related storage. Upon undispatch the work unit's FRR stack is copied from that storage to work unit-related storage. there are TCB flags that indicate their presence. No there are not. But there is a pointer in the TCB to the area that contains the saved FRR stack for the task. Similarly, there is a pointer associated with an SRB to the area that contains the saved FRR stack for the SRB. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Explanation of EUT/FRR
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 07:48:19 -0400 Peter Relson rel...@us.ibm.com wrote: :Question What if there is a CPU switch in the routine :being protected by the FRR :As Binyamin wrote, FRRs are processor-related. There is a stack. The :obvious inference is that if a work unit is undispatched the stack must be :saved. It is. :When the work unit is redispatched, whether on the same or a different :processor, the stack must be restored. It is. My understanding was that the EUT bit in PSA was added because the FRR stack was not saved. Perhaps it was not saved in EUT mode and the bit caused even EUT's to have their FRR stack saved? -- Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
How to merge two differents files with ICETOOL
Hello folks, I need to obtain an output file of 300 bytes from two differents files: - FILE1 with a lenght of 80 - FILE2 with a lenght of 300 I need to merge both files, first FILE1 and after FILE2. I have several tested but I don't find the correct solution. The last one JCL that I used, I only obtain FILE2: //STEP0001 EXEC PGM=ICETOOL //TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=* //DFSMSG DD SYSOUT=* //IN1DD DSN=FILE1,DISP=SHR //IN2DD DSN=FILE2,DISP=SHR //OUT DD DSN=FILE3,SPACE=(CYL,(10,1),RLSE), // DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE),UNIT=SYSDA, // DCB=(LRECL=300,RECFM=FB) //TOOLIN DD * COPY FROM(IN1) TO(OUT) USING(CTL1) COPY FROM(IN2) TO(OUT) USING(CTL2) //CTL1CNTL DD * INREC FIELDS=(1,80) //CTL2CNTL DD * INREC FIELDS=(1,300) /* Where is the error or how to obtain FILE3 with the combination of two different files ? Kind Regards Hilario Garcia -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands
Thanks for all the questions. I'll put the questions and answers together for convenience. Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:35:30 +1000, Clement Clarke wrote: Isn't much of this what SMS is designed to do nowadays? You can still use SMS. Jol uses a simple VSAM file to store the information in. It's easy to add or change information. Do I understand two separate modes of operation, dynamic and generative? Yes. It can generate JCL, or use Dynamic Allocation to run the job in Batch, or immediately under TSO. Does it provide en masse enqueues as JCL does, to avoid deadlocks? I suppose this would be intrinsic in a generative mode. In Dynamic Allocation mode, there is still some JCL generated to ensure this. In TSO (Immediate mode), it is on a program by program basis. There is also an Enque instruction which you can use to enque on any resource. How does it interface with JES3 setup processing? It has instructions to interface with JES3. You can also put any JCL statement out as part of the generated JCL. And there is an extremely flexible Macro language you can use to create new English style commands. These commands can effectively do anything from running programs in the compiler phase, or have them run at execution time. Or even generate JCL card images. In a dynamic mode, are there any restrictions on running APF-authorized programs? Must the interpreter be APF- authorized? There is a Jol Execution Monitor. It must be APF authorized to allow authorized programs to run. It uses the same style of ATTACH that the Initiator uses. It also allows Jol to put all important information on the Job Log. So, for example, all Catalog and Delete statement results can be found in one place, instead of having to hunt through the JCL listing. Ia it portable? In at least a generative mode, can it run on a non-z platform? I keep much of my JCL as here- documents (in-stream files) in self-tailoring shell scripts on a Solaris platform (could be z/OS Unix except for performance and flexibility). There are two main versions. The Mainframe version written in Assembler. The PC version is written in C. It will execute on Windows and generate Mainframe JCL to submit. The Linux version is 99% complete. And does it address more of the recurrent JCL complaints: o PARM100 characters? Parameters can be up to 3,000 characters in length. o In-stream data sets in procedures? (Ah! that's coming in z/OS 1.13.)? Instream data is supported. Not only that - substitution of Symbolic Parameters may be done in the card image files to generate utility control cards. And we can use Allocate, Read and Write instructions for any data set at Compile Time. Data can be read directly into Symbolic Variables, and tested and manipulated with IF and SET instructions. This facility is used, for example, in the SAVESYMS command which saves specified Symbolic Variables in a file that can be accessed by another job to created a tailored job stream depending on what the first job did. There is also a Panel instruction that is used to display full screen data entry panels, complete with Menu Bars and Pulldown lists. User data entered is stored in Symbolic Variables, and can be used as any other Symbolic Variable - tested, added to others, and so on. o Substitution of dynamic system symbols? Substitution of Symbolic Parameters. Jol automatically sets various symbols up such as the current day and so on. Symbolic variables can be tested, set or used in arithmetic. For example: If %day = 'Monday' then Copy Input.Data.Set to Backup.ofMainFile.%day; /* Note %day in Dsname */ User exits can also create any symbols you require. Exits can be written in Assembler or PL/I. o Symbol substitution in in-stream data sets? Yes. For example: Declare X * replace; This is a card image file. Today is %year,%month,%day EOF; -- gil Thanks again, Clem Clarke -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: PR/SM Logical CP issues
snip Our CPC (2094-S18-708) now has 8 Physical CP and has 1 production LPAR, 2 maintenance LPARs, 2 ICF LPARs and 2 test LPARs running at the moment. Currently, all LPARs are equipped with shared CPs and have weight values assigned. The details are as follows. production LPAR 1 initial LCP 8 reserved LCP 10 weight 40 /snip Are you saying that all LPARs have 8 active(shared)/10 reserved LP's assigned? If so, this is a bad thing to do! PR/SM overhead is excessive (only the active LP's affect the overhead). The logical/physical ratio should (ROT) not exceed 2 to 1. I have pushed this to 3 to 1 with some very low activity test LPARs where performance was not critical. snip We have referred to the z9 PR/SM planning guide. It's saying we just need to create new image profiles and deactivate/activate test LPARs. Then the changes will be available. /snip True, as far as it goes. It ignores the changed LP/CP ratios after activation. The good news is to regain the former performance, just a reactivation of the original profiles for the test lpars is required. snip Now, we plan to assign each test LPARs with 3 dedicated CPs due to some test requirements. That is to say, the 2 test LPARs will cost 6 physical CPs in total. Meanwhile, however, does this operation have any impact on other LPARs running in the same CPC? For example, do we need to deactive the production LPAR and change its image profile. Because there will be only 2 PCPs available for it, however, it has 8 LCPs configured. /snip No. IBM does not prevent you from defining more LP's than CP's. However the overhead becomes excessive when the LP/CP ratio exceeds (2 to 3) to 1. Just my $0.02. YMMV, -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands
Hi Till now I didn't find a working link to a description/download On 7/18/2011 2:41 PM, Clement Clarke wrote: Thanks for all the questions. I'll put the questions and answers together for convenience. Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:35:30 +1000, Clement Clarke wrote: Isn't much of this what SMS is designed to do nowadays? You can still use SMS. Jol uses a simple VSAM file to store the information in. It's easy to add or change information. Do I understand two separate modes of operation, dynamic and generative? Yes. It can generate JCL, or use Dynamic Allocation to run the job in Batch, or immediately under TSO. Does it provide en masse enqueues as JCL does, to avoid deadlocks? I suppose this would be intrinsic in a generative mode. In Dynamic Allocation mode, there is still some JCL generated to ensure this. In TSO (Immediate mode), it is on a program by program basis. There is also an Enque instruction which you can use to enque on any resource. How does it interface with JES3 setup processing? It has instructions to interface with JES3. You can also put any JCL statement out as part of the generated JCL. And there is an extremely flexible Macro language you can use to create new English style commands. These commands can effectively do anything from running programs in the compiler phase, or have them run at execution time. Or even generate JCL card images. In a dynamic mode, are there any restrictions on running APF-authorized programs? Must the interpreter be APF- authorized? There is a Jol Execution Monitor. It must be APF authorized to allow authorized programs to run. It uses the same style of ATTACH that the Initiator uses. It also allows Jol to put all important information on the Job Log. So, for example, all Catalog and Delete statement results can be found in one place, instead of having to hunt through the JCL listing. Ia it portable? In at least a generative mode, can it run on a non-z platform? I keep much of my JCL as here- documents (in-stream files) in self-tailoring shell scripts on a Solaris platform (could be z/OS Unix except for performance and flexibility). There are two main versions. The Mainframe version written in Assembler. The PC version is written in C. It will execute on Windows and generate Mainframe JCL to submit. The Linux version is 99% complete. And does it address more of the recurrent JCL complaints: o PARM100 characters? Parameters can be up to 3,000 characters in length. o In-stream data sets in procedures? (Ah! that's coming in z/OS 1.13.)? Instream data is supported. Not only that - substitution of Symbolic Parameters may be done in the card image files to generate utility control cards. And we can use Allocate, Read and Write instructions for any data set at Compile Time. Data can be read directly into Symbolic Variables, and tested and manipulated with IF and SET instructions. This facility is used, for example, in the SAVESYMS command which saves specified Symbolic Variables in a file that can be accessed by another job to created a tailored job stream depending on what the first job did. There is also a Panel instruction that is used to display full screen data entry panels, complete with Menu Bars and Pulldown lists. User data entered is stored in Symbolic Variables, and can be used as any other Symbolic Variable - tested, added to others, and so on. o Substitution of dynamic system symbols? Substitution of Symbolic Parameters. Jol automatically sets various symbols up such as the current day and so on. Symbolic variables can be tested, set or used in arithmetic. For example: If %day = 'Monday' then Copy Input.Data.Set to Backup.ofMainFile.%day; /* Note %day in Dsname */ User exits can also create any symbols you require. Exits can be written in Assembler or PL/I. o Symbol substitution in in-stream data sets? Yes. For example: Declare X * replace; This is a card image file. Today is %year,%month,%day EOF; -- gil Thanks again, Clem Clarke -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: PR/SM Logical CP issues
W dniu 2011-07-18 14:42, Staller, Allan pisze: snip Our CPC (2094-S18-708) now has 8 Physical CP and has 1 production LPAR, 2 maintenance LPARs, 2 ICF LPARs and 2 test LPARs running at the moment. Currently, all LPARs are equipped with shared CPs and have weight values assigned. The details are as follows. production LPAR 1 initial LCP 8 reserved LCP 10 weight 40 /snip Are you saying that all LPARs have 8 active(shared)/10 reserved LP's assigned? If so, this is a bad thing to do! PR/SM overhead is excessive (only the active LP's affect the overhead). Can you define excessive or simply tell us how big overhead would you expect in such scenario? The logical/physical ratio should (ROT) not exceed 2 to 1. I have pushed this to 3 to 1 with some very low activity test LPARs where performance was not critical. Let's assume you have 15 LPARs. How would you assign CPs to those LPARs? Is it possible to have CP shared between, let's say, 2 LPARs, but not other 13? As far as I know the only choice is SHARED or DEDICATED. Shared by *all* LPARs. There is also CF CPU(n),OFFLINE... [...] No. IBM does not prevent you from defining more LP's than CP's. However the overhead becomes excessive when the LP/CP ratio exceeds (2 to 3) to 1. IBM allows to create 60 LPARs on machines with theoretical limitation 32 CPs. z/990D32. Regards -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- Tre tej wiadomoci moe zawiera informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wycznie do uytku subowego adresata. Odbiorc moe by jedynie jej adresat z wyczeniem dostpu osób trzecich. Jeeli nie jeste adresatem niniejszej wiadomoci lub pracownikiem upowanionym do jej przekazania adresatowi, informujemy, e jej rozpowszechnianie, kopiowanie, rozprowadzanie lub inne dziaanie o podobnym charakterze jest prawnie zabronione i moe by karalne. Jeeli otrzymae t wiadomo omykowo, prosimy niezwocznie zawiadomi nadawc wysyajc odpowied oraz trwale usun t wiadomo wczajc w to wszelkie jej kopie wydrukowane lub zapisane na dysku. This e-mail may contain legally privileged information of the Bank and is intended solely for business use of the addressee. This e-mail may only be received by the addressee and may not be disclosed to any third parties. If you are not the intended addressee of this e-mail or the employee authorised to forward it to the addressee, be advised that any dissemination, copying, distribution or any other similar activity is legally prohibited and may be punishable. If you received this e-mail by mistake please advise the sender immediately by using the reply facility in your e-mail software and delete permanently this e-mail including any copies of it either printed or saved to hard drive. BRE Bank SA, 00-950 Warszawa, ul. Senatorska 18, tel. +48 (22) 829 00 00, fax +48 (22) 829 00 33, e-mail: i...@brebank.pl Sd Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydzia Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru Sdowego, nr rejestru przedsibiorców KRS 025237, NIP: 526-021-50-88. Wedug stanu na dzie 01.01.2011 r. kapita zakadowy BRE Banku SA (w caoci wpacony) wynosi 168.346.696 zotych. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: How to merge two differents files with ICETOOL
Hilario G. wrote: I need to obtain an output file of 300 bytes from two differents files: - FILE1 with a lenght of 80 - FILE2 with a lenght of 300 I need to merge both files, first FILE1 and after FILE2. I have several tested but I don't find the correct solution. Did you supplied to Frank Yaeger what he asked in thread: 'How to obtain a file bigger than 80 chars from two inputs file' Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: PR/SM Logical CP issues
Alex, 1. What about ICF processors? Do you run ICF LPARS on regular CP's? If yes, then I would strongly recommend to change it. It is strongly recomended to use dedicated processors for CF, and ICF engine is much cheaper. 2. I don't like idea to dedicate CPs for tests. IMHO t should be enough to dedicate CP weight. Such weight can be easily and quickly changed from test mode to production mode. And I don't buy the requirement - IMHO it's not justified. 3. If you reaaly want to assign 6 CPs for 2 LPARS then all the rest have 2 CPs. Not so bad, assuming you have ICFs for ICF LPARs. Of course not so bad means you can share the CPs, but I don't know your CPU power requirements - maybe you need 250 MSU and you have only 160 MSU. The number of CPs is not primary issue here. 4. LPAR reactivation. Yes, it is possible. Yes I did it. No, it doesn't affect other LPARs. But in your case - change CP from shared to dedicated - I believe - you will need to deactivate all LPARs using those CPs. However the only risk is failure of the operation - you'd get a message saying the change cannot be performed. BTW: I still suggest to assign equivalent CPU power in shared CPs instead of dedicating the CPs. BTW: I remember I worked on 1 CP. We had 5 LPARs then. It was not very strong 9672-RA4 (37 MIPS). -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 2011-07-18 05:51, Alex Wang pisze: Our CPC (2094-S18-708) now has 8 Physical CP and has 1 production LPAR, 2 maintenance LPARs, 2 ICF LPARs and 2 test LPARs running at the moment. Currently, all LPARs are equipped with shared CPs and have weight values assigned. The details are as follows. production LPAR 1 initial LCP 8 reserved LCP 10 weight 40 The maintenance LPARs, ICF LPARs and test LPARs have similar configuration but less weight valule specified. Now, we plan to assign each test LPARs with 3 dedicated CPs due to some test requirements. That is to say, the 2 test LPARs will cost 6 physical CPs in total. We have referred to the z9 PR/SM planning guide. It's saying we just need to create new image profiles and deactive/active test LPARs. Then the changes will be available. Meanwhile, however, does this operation have any impact on other LPARs running in the same CPC? For example, do we need to deactive the production LPAR and change its image profile. Because there will be only 2 PCPs available for it, however, it has 8 LCPs configured. That would be great if everyone of you could show me the solid proof of a manual or based on your work experience. Thanks in advance! P.S. We also consider a senario saying we have a CPC with only 1 PCP. If we set a LPAR with 1 dedicated CP. Can we have another LPAR run in the same CPC with 1 shared LCP? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- Tre tej wiadomoci moe zawiera informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wycznie do uytku subowego adresata. Odbiorc moe by jedynie jej adresat z wyczeniem dostpu osób trzecich. Jeeli nie jeste adresatem niniejszej wiadomoci lub pracownikiem upowanionym do jej przekazania adresatowi, informujemy, e jej rozpowszechnianie, kopiowanie, rozprowadzanie lub inne dziaanie o podobnym charakterze jest prawnie zabronione i moe by karalne. Jeeli otrzymae t wiadomo omykowo, prosimy niezwocznie zawiadomi nadawc wysyajc odpowied oraz trwale usun t wiadomo wczajc w to wszelkie jej kopie wydrukowane lub zapisane na dysku. This e-mail may contain legally privileged information of the Bank and is intended solely for business use of the addressee. This e-mail may only be received by the addressee and may not be disclosed to any third parties. If you are not the intended addressee of this e-mail or the employee authorised to forward it to the addressee, be advised that any dissemination, copying, distribution or any other similar activity is legally prohibited and may be punishable. If you received this e-mail by mistake please advise the sender immediately by using the reply facility in your e-mail software and delete permanently this e-mail including any copies of it either printed or saved to hard drive. BRE Bank SA, 00-950 Warszawa, ul. Senatorska 18, tel. +48 (22) 829 00 00, fax +48 (22) 829 00 33, e-mail: i...@brebank.pl Sd Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydzia Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru Sdowego, nr rejestru przedsibiorców KRS 025237, NIP: 526-021-50-88. Wedug stanu na dzie 01.01.2011 r. kapita zakadowy BRE Banku SA (w caoci wpacony) wynosi 168.346.696 zotych. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu
Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands
The Mainframe version written in Assembler. The PC version is written in C. Somewhat OT but why? Why not C on the mainframe? Why two code bases, one fairly easy to debug and one relatively hard to debug? I am thrilled with writing software for the mainframe in C (C++ actually) after years of laboring in assembler. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Clement Clarke Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 8:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands Thanks for all the questions. I'll put the questions and answers together for convenience. Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:35:30 +1000, Clement Clarke wrote: Isn't much of this what SMS is designed to do nowadays? You can still use SMS. Jol uses a simple VSAM file to store the information in. It's easy to add or change information. Do I understand two separate modes of operation, dynamic and generative? Yes. It can generate JCL, or use Dynamic Allocation to run the job in Batch, or immediately under TSO. Does it provide en masse enqueues as JCL does, to avoid deadlocks? I suppose this would be intrinsic in a generative mode. In Dynamic Allocation mode, there is still some JCL generated to ensure this. In TSO (Immediate mode), it is on a program by program basis. There is also an Enque instruction which you can use to enque on any resource. How does it interface with JES3 setup processing? It has instructions to interface with JES3. You can also put any JCL statement out as part of the generated JCL. And there is an extremely flexible Macro language you can use to create new English style commands. These commands can effectively do anything from running programs in the compiler phase, or have them run at execution time. Or even generate JCL card images. In a dynamic mode, are there any restrictions on running APF-authorized programs? Must the interpreter be APF- authorized? There is a Jol Execution Monitor. It must be APF authorized to allow authorized programs to run. It uses the same style of ATTACH that the Initiator uses. It also allows Jol to put all important information on the Job Log. So, for example, all Catalog and Delete statement results can be found in one place, instead of having to hunt through the JCL listing. Ia it portable? In at least a generative mode, can it run on a non-z platform? I keep much of my JCL as here- documents (in-stream files) in self-tailoring shell scripts on a Solaris platform (could be z/OS Unix except for performance and flexibility). There are two main versions. The Mainframe version written in Assembler. The PC version is written in C. It will execute on Windows and generate Mainframe JCL to submit. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Allocations greater than 65535 tracks
On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:29:34 +, Mingee, David david.min...@libertymutual.com wrote: Yes, I think the number than causes the failure is cyl 4104? The math is too hard for me. 4369 Cylinders = 65535 Tracks Regards, Art Gutowski Compuware Corporation -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: PR/SM Logical CP issues
SNIP snip Our CPC (2094-S18-708) now has 8 Physical CP and has 1 production LPAR, 2 maintenance LPARs, 2 ICF LPARs and 2 test LPARs running at the moment. Currently, all LPARs are equipped with shared CPs and have weight values assigned. The details are as follows. production LPAR 1 initial LCP 8 reserved LCP 10 weight 40 /snip Are you saying that all LPARs have 8 active(shared)/10 reserved LP's assigned? If so, this is a bad thing to do! PR/SM overhead is excessive (only the active LP's affect the overhead). Can you define excessive or simply tell us how big overhead would you expect in such scenario? /SNIP I have seen about 15% of capacity in a large (before corrected) scenario. YMMV. SNIP The logical/physical ratio should (ROT) not exceed 2 to 1. I have pushed this to 3 to 1 with some very low activity test LPARs where performance was not critical. Let's assume you have 15 LPARs. How would you assign CPs to those LPARs? Is it possible to have CP shared between, let's say, 2 LPARs, but not other 13? As far as I know the only choice is SHARED or DEDICATED. Shared by *all* LPARs. There is also CF CPU(n),OFFLINE... /SNIP IIRC, the meaning of DEDICATED is that work on this group of CPs will only be dispatched on these CPs. SHARED CPs *may* be dispatched on DEDICATED processors if resource is available (I am sure someone will correct me this is not true). This reduces context switch between the processors and reduces overhead. CF CPU(N),OFFLINE will reduce the number of logical processors to be dispatched and improve the LP:CP ratio. SNIP [...] No. IBM does not prevent you from defining more LP's than CP's. However the overhead becomes excessive when the LP/CP ratio exceeds (2 to 3) to 1. IBM allows to create 60 LPARs on machines with theoretical limitation 32 CPs. z/990D32. /SNIP See above. IBM does not prevent you from doing this. However, the results may not be something desirable. Kathy Walsh and Cheryl Watson have both consistently recommended that the LP to CP ration be less than 2:1. My experience corresponds with their recommendations. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: How to merge two differents files with ICETOOL
Do you truly mean merge? That implies that the records have some sort of key field(s) and you want to interleave the records in the two files together based on the key(s). Or do you mean concatenate as in create a new file will all the records of the first file, in their current order, followed by all the records of the second file, in their current order? It seems, to me based on your example JCL, you want to concatenate with an output of 300 bytes. Do you want to pad the 80 byte records with blanks or x'00's or some other character? You're very close! In the CTL1CNTL use the OUTREC command to make the 80 byte records 300 bytes by padding. Something like: //CTL1CNTL DD * OUTREC FIELDS=(1,80,220X) /* On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 07:18 -0500, Hilario G. wrote: Hello folks, I need to obtain an output file of 300 bytes from two differents files: - FILE1 with a lenght of 80 - FILE2 with a lenght of 300 I need to merge both files, first FILE1 and after FILE2. I have several tested but I don't find the correct solution. The last one JCL that I used, I only obtain FILE2: //STEP0001 EXEC PGM=ICETOOL //TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=* //DFSMSG DD SYSOUT=* //IN1DD DSN=FILE1,DISP=SHR //IN2DD DSN=FILE2,DISP=SHR //OUT DD DSN=FILE3,SPACE=(CYL,(10,1),RLSE), // DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE),UNIT=SYSDA, // DCB=(LRECL=300,RECFM=FB) //TOOLIN DD * COPY FROM(IN1) TO(OUT) USING(CTL1) COPY FROM(IN2) TO(OUT) USING(CTL2) //CTL1CNTL DD * INREC FIELDS=(1,80) //CTL2CNTL DD * INREC FIELDS=(1,300) /* Where is the error or how to obtain FILE3 with the combination of two different files ? Kind Regards Hilario Garcia -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- John McKown Maranatha! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Explination of EUT/FRR
Read what the Authorized Assembler Services Guide has to say about EUT for a background info level set. Bill Fairchild Rocket Software -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of michealbutz Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 2:46 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Explination of EUT/FRR Hi, I have seen these terms EUT Enabled Unlocked Task /FRR and this my understanding I ASSUME Enabled means Enabled for I/O interrupts BIT 6 of Psw the only way I know how to set this is with the LPSW inst Unlocked means not holding a Lock Holding a Lock means using some Flavor of the SetLock Task means running in Task Mode as opposed to a SRB When the Term FRR is appended it means this unit of work is protected by a FRR Thnks in Advance for any clarifications -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Explination of EUT/FRR
The STNSM and STOSM instructions can also be used to disable or enable a CPU for I/O and external interrupts. Bill Fairchild Rocket Software -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of michealbutz Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 2:46 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Explination of EUT/FRR Hi, I have seen these terms EUT Enabled Unlocked Task /FRR and this my understanding I ASSUME Enabled means Enabled for I/O interrupts BIT 6 of Psw the only way I know how to set this is with the LPSW inst -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands
On 7/18/2011 9:22 AM, Charles Mills wrote: The Mainframe version written in Assembler. The PC version is written in C. Somewhat OT but why? Why not C on the mainframe? Why two code bases, one fairly easy to debug and one relatively hard to debug? Perhaps there are historical reasons - one version existed long before Clement decided to add PC support, and the C route looked easier than converting mainframe assembler to PC? I am thrilled with writing software for the mainframe in C (C++ actually) after years of laboring in assembler. Good for you, but some of us have built extensive macro and subroutine libraries to use with assembler, and find it as fast and easy to use those than to live with (the confining limitations of) higher level languages. De gustibus. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: need help trying to apply PSP bucket ptf's for z/OS 1.9
I checked my UTILITY ENTRY LKED and it has HIGHEST RETURN CODE,===,4 but my SMPE says: MAX ACCEPTABLE RC=0 There are three possible sources for the maximum acceptable return code for a load module, used in this order: 1) RETURN CODE subentry in the LMOD entry. Gleaned from the JCLIN if specified, this value is stored in the LMOD entry and used whenever the subject load module is link edited. In this situation, LMOD IEAVNPF9 does indeed have a RETURN CODE subentry of 0 as defined in its JCLIN, hence you see the comment MAX ACCEPTABLE RC=0 in the link edit control statement output. 2) RETURN CODE subentry in the UTILITY entry. Defined by you, usually with recommendations from the software vendor (for z/OS IBM recommends RC=4). Remember the active UTILITY entry is identified by the active OPTIONS entry, and the active OPTIONS entry is either specified on the SET command or defined in the TZONE entry as the default OPTIONS entry to use for that target zone. 3) SMP/E's default link edit return code. The default value is 8, which is used only if a value was not found in the LMOD entry or the active UTILITY entry. Kurt Quackenbush -- IBM, SMP/E Development -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Lines, Bars and ... mini-bars???
He did not say the PC instruction will not work above the bar, nor am I saying that it will work above the bar. He also did not say that branching will not work above the bar. I would add that neither am I saying that branching will work above the bar except that I think it is too obvious to us all that branching around within the load module above the bar must work. He said that system routines cannot be called from code resident above the bar. There are three current ways to invoke system routines, branching, SVCing, and PCing. None of them will work if the code being branched, SVCed, or PCed to is a system routine. Bill Fairchild Rocket Software -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 4:31 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Lines, Bars and ... mini-bars??? On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:09:44 -0400 Peter Relson rel...@us.ibm.com wrote: :The z/OS 1.13 support is for a program to be able to survive the things :that programs cannot typically avoid -- such as external and I/O :interrupts, page faults. :If you can get your program up there (whether by yourself or by use of :directed load (LOAD with ADDR64), and if it calls no system routines of :any kind (whether by branch, SVC, or PC), then have at it. You cannot :LINK, LOAD (wtihout ADDR64), ATTACH, XCTL, SYNCH or IDENTIFY to something :above 2G. I can understand why SVC would not work as there ain't nowhere to save the full PSW. And branching in AMODE64 to a routine that does not expect it would lead to astonishment. But the hardware does the entire PC process. The stack entry has plenty of room for the entire PSW. One wonders why the residency would have an effect (with the exception of LOC=RES which may incorrectly determine the RMODE of the caller). :This should not be construed to imply that further support will be :forthcoming. -- Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: PR/SM Logical CP issues
Because there will be only 2 PCPs available for it, however, it has 8 LCPs configured. /snip No. IBM does not prevent you from defining more LP's than CP's. However the overhead becomes excessive when the LP/CP ratio exceeds (2 to 3) to 1. Actually, PR/SM does NOT allow this. If there are only two (physically) available, the max allowed for any LPAR is two. Dedicated CPs are removed from the shared pool. - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Twitter: @TedMacNEIL -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
z/OS COBOL Programmer/Designer Contractor Want
(Posting approved by Darren) We are looking for a very experienced z/OS COBOL programmer/designer for some part-time contract work. You can work from home, but need the ability to use TN3270 to log into our test system in Dallas. (Evenings and weekends are fine.) Because most communication will be via email, you also need fairly good communications skills. We are developing some software tools in z/OS COBOL, and need the experience of someone who considers themselves an expert. You also need to be efficient in ISPF and DFSort, because both will be used quite heavily. There is no specific time frame for the project, although we are ready to get started now. We'd like a commitment of some number of hours per week, but that can vary from two to eight (or more), depending on your situation. You will need to sign a non-disclosure agreement before starting. We do not have a specific pay rate in mind, but will pay what we need for the right experienced person. Please send your resume, rate requirements, time availability (hours per week and when you might be available). If your resume looks promising, we'll send you a mutual non-disclosure agreement and request a sample of a COBOL program that you've written. In case you're wondering, we did post this to the COBOL Users Group, but without adequate response. While we know that IBM-Main is not loaded with lots of COBOL programmers, we think you might know of someone who could be interested, could pass this along or post it elsewhere. Best regards, Cheryl == Cheryl Watson Watson Walker, Inc. www.watsonwalker.com 941-266-6609 == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Authors Wanted for Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter
(Posting approved by Darren) We are looking for occasional authors for our Tuning Letter. It's published six times a year. The articles will be similar to those we currently include, but will address areas that would require too much research time for me personally. If you are interested for writing for us, please send your resume and indicate your areas of expertise. If you have already written articles for other publications, please send us an example of your writing. (Previously published articles are OK, and might be used if you have the right to republish.) We are especially interested in performance and usage expertise on DFSMS, GDPS, CICS, JES2, sysplex, RMF, Unix, zLinux, ZFS, and Communications Server. The articles for our Tuning Letter will need to conform to our standards, such as always including an introductory explanation and overview, and providing as many specific references as possible. Best regards, Cheryl == Cheryl Watson Watson Walker, Inc. www.watsonwalker.com 941-266-6609 == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: PR/SM Logical CP issues
ASHARED CPs *may* be dispatched on DEDICATED processors if resource is available (I am sure someone will correct me this is not true). Assuredly. Dedicated processors are just that. Dedicated! Only the lPAR they're assigned to may run work on them, regardless of the activity. That's why I agree with RS -- use equivalent weights instead. - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Twitter: @TedMacNEIL -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: PR/SM Logical CP issues
Thanks for correcting my erroneous impression. snip ASHARED CPs *may* be dispatched on DEDICATED processors if resource is available (I am sure someone will correct me this is not true). Assuredly. Dedicated processors are just that. Dedicated! Only the lPAR they're assigned to may run work on them, regardless of the activity. That's why I agree with RS -- use equivalent weights instead. /snip -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Lines, Bars and ... mini-bars???
He did not say the PC instruction will not work above the bar The Entry Table Entry for a PC routine has not been expanded to 64 bits. Until it is, a PC routine cannot be above the Bar. It appears that Amode 64 is supported (but not documented) but the PC routine cannot reside above the Bar Bob Shannon -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Servicing z/OSMF (Was: A Warning to Anyone Servicing z/OSMF - SOLVED!)
On 7/16/2011 8:28 PM, Greg Dorner wrote: I've experienced some strange install/maintenance scenarios with z/OSMF, but have managed so far to get it all put back together again. I went from z/OS 1.10 to 1.12 with z/OSMF, which was a bit tricky with all the config file changes, but I haven't had any problems with PTF's. You just need to NOT take the holddata literally. They give you the parameters to run the shell script. but the user controlled variables, like config name and location must be replaced with those required for your environment. The doc in the hold could be worded much better. The primary intent of my post was to ascertain, from IBM-MAIN participants with off-platform WAS maintenance experience, whether similar manual, post-service requirements exist on other platforms or if this need is a z/OS idiosyncrasy... -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 310-338-0400 x318 edja...@phoenixsoftware.com http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: WLM Resource Group zIIP
Thank you Scott; good to know. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Lines, Bars and ... mini-bars???
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:45:35 +, Bob Shannon wrote: He did not say the PC instruction will not work above the bar The Entry Table Entry for a PC routine has not been expanded to 64 bits. Until it is, a PC routine cannot be above the Bar. It appears that Amode 64 is supported (but not documented) but the PC routine cannot reside above the Bar Is this a hardware restriction? I had thought the hardware design was running far ahead of the software in erasing all the lines and bars. I suppose a linkage vector could reside below the bar and the bulk of the code above. I also thought that Linux for z was free of 31- and 24-bit dependencies. What facility (branch, SVC, or PC) does Linux use for system requests? (It can't be purely branch because it's necessary at some point to enter Supervisor state.) -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: DFHSM QUESTION - PRIMARY SPACE MANAGEMENT
Sorry for my delayed response to your questions. I asked our SMF guru for a description of the 2 SMF records in question, here is what I got: 136 IGGPOST0 DADSM Alloc. 139 IGGPOST0 DADSM Scratch I am still looking for the reason. I think, as most have suggested, that DFHSM is the culprit. However since I do not have the SMF tapes going back to October 24 2010 backwrds it is hard to prove the cause of the deletion. --- On Wed, 7/13/11, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za wrote: From: Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za Subject: Re: DFHSM QUESTION - PRIMARY SPACE MANAGEMENT To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Received: Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 11:47 AM Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: willie bunter wrote: I went back as far as July 01 SMF records and nothing showed despite searching for records 14 15 17 18 61 62 63 64 65 67 68 136 139 Why SMF record type 138 and 139? What product is generating them? Aw, f** s***, I really mean SMF type 136, not 138! Damn that stupid fingers of me! ;-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: DFHSM QUESTION - PRIMARY SPACE MANAGEMENT
DFHSM is the culprit. On behalf of DFHSM, I object. HSM merely enforces policy. If there's a culprit here, it would be the person(s) who designed the policy or maybe applications for not understanding the rules. They do know there are rules, right? ;o) ddk This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reading, dissemination, distribution, copying, forwarding or other use of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message and all copies and backups thereof. Thank you. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: DFHSM QUESTION - PRIMARY SPACE MANAGEMENT
Darth, You are spot on. HSM is doing what it is supposed to do. I cannot understand why the STC didn't use the dsn during all this time. Although it is in the startup the program which calls the dsn hasn't been used at least since October 24, 2010. --- On Mon, 7/18/11, Darth Keller darth.kel...@assurant.com wrote: From: Darth Keller darth.kel...@assurant.com Subject: Re: DFHSM QUESTION - PRIMARY SPACE MANAGEMENT To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Received: Monday, July 18, 2011, 8:25 AM DFHSM is the culprit. On behalf of DFHSM, I object. HSM merely enforces policy. If there's a culprit here, it would be the person(s) who designed the policy or maybe applications for not understanding the rules. They do know there are rules, right? ;o) ddk This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reading, dissemination, distribution, copying, forwarding or other use of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message and all copies and backups thereof. Thank you. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Lines, Bars and ... mini-bars???
z/LINUX uses SVC to invoke the kernel. Which I find most interesting as it means that, theoretically, one could write a z/LINUX ABI interface which uses Subsystem SVC screening to run z/Linux applications on z/OS UNIX. On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 10:14 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:45:35 +, Bob Shannon wrote: He did not say the PC instruction will not work above the bar The Entry Table Entry for a PC routine has not been expanded to 64 bits. Until it is, a PC routine cannot be above the Bar. It appears that Amode 64 is supported (but not documented) but the PC routine cannot reside above the Bar Is this a hardware restriction? I had thought the hardware design was running far ahead of the software in erasing all the lines and bars. I suppose a linkage vector could reside below the bar and the bulk of the code above. I also thought that Linux for z was free of 31- and 24-bit dependencies. What facility (branch, SVC, or PC) does Linux use for system requests? (It can't be purely branch because it's necessary at some point to enter Supervisor state.) -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- John McKown Maranatha! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Lines, Bars and ... mini-bars???
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:34:52 -0500, John McKown wrote: z/LINUX uses SVC to invoke the kernel. Which I find most interesting as it means that, theoretically, one could write a z/LINUX ABI interface which uses Subsystem SVC screening to run z/Linux applications on z/OS UNIX. fork()? Pipes? Sockets? Environment variables? File access? EBCDIC--ASCII autoconversion? SYSCALLS back to Classic facilities and Classic Data Management? What are the advantages of PC over SVC? Why did Linux for z eschew PC and stay with SVC? -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: running Assembler I/O macro code as AMODE 31, RMODE ANY
In 4e20f40d.2050...@phoenixsoftware.com, on 07/15/2011 at 07:14 PM, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com said: There is no way the processor can know in advance which bits will be on in a branch target register, so its seems likely that the pipeline must be flushed when 'surprise' AMODE switching occurs for pointer-defined linkage. Why would a branch with AMODE switching require more pipeline flushing than a branch without? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands
In 3339201005293115.wa.paulgboulderaim@bama.ua.edu, on 07/17/2011 at 11:13 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: It's pretty hard to tell whether you're a Luddite or merely a masochist. Especially if he's neither, just more perceptive than you. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Lines, Bars and ... mini-bars???
On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 10:47 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:34:52 -0500, John McKown wrote:
z/LINUX uses SVC to invoke the kernel.
Which I find most interesting as it means that, theoretically, one could
write a z/LINUX ABI interface which uses Subsystem SVC screening to run
z/Linux applications on z/OS UNIX.
fork()? Pipes? Sockets? Environment variables? File access?
EBCDIC--ASCII autoconversion? SYSCALLS back to Classic
facilities and Classic Data Management?
Well the emulation should take care fork(), pipes, and sockets by doing
conversion from the Linux requirements to the z/OS requirements, then
invoking the z/OS equivalent (if any).
Classic facilities? Well, that's more difficult. Simplest would be to
declare the z/Linux to be a closed world with little or no interface to
classic stuff. Try to run a normal shell script and read a sequential
dataset.
Code translation is a PITA. Environment variables could be kept in
native code points for easy of use by Linux code. Create a new
facility in z/OS UNIX to access ASCII oriented environment variables.
Perhaps ${{varname}} instead of ${varname} which the z/OS UNIX shell
would recognize as varname needs to be translated to UTF-8 or Unicode
before doing a lookup in the environment table, then translate back to
the z/OS UNIX shell's code point for its value. As you say: I hate
EBCDIC!
What are the advantages of PC over SVC? Why did Linux for z
eschew PC and stay with SVC?
Don't know. Talk to IBM. Perhaps it was closest to what x86 uses, which
is the INT instruction (INTerrupt).
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CA-1 TMS QUESTION - IEFTMS9 TMC BACKUP REQUIRED
Good Morning Gentle Readers, I was called because the following message was coming up on the console: IEFTMS9 TMC BACKUP REQUIRED, AUDIT FILE UTILISATION IS CURRENTLY 82%. I executed the following job: //STEP1 EXEC PGM=TMSCOPY,REGION=7M //TMSRPT DD SYSOUT=* //TMSOPTNS DD DISP=SHR,DSN=SYS4.TMS.PARMLIB(TMSOPTNS) //DUMPDD DD DSN=TMS.HESZ94M1(+1),UNIT=TAPE, // LABEL=1,DISP=(,CATLG),DCB=(DUMDSCB,BLKSIZE=32640), // VOL=(,RETAIN) //DUMPDD2 DD DSN=TMS.HESZ94M2(+1),UNIT=TAPE, // LABEL=1,DISP=(,CATLG),DCB=(DUMDSCB,BLKSIZE=32640), // VOL=(,RETAIN),DATACLAS=OFFSITE //AUDITDD DD DSN=SYS4.TMS.AUDIT,DISP=SHR //AUDUMP DD DSN=AUDIT,UNIT=PASS,DISP=(,PASS), // SPACE=(CYL,(20,5)),DCB=BLKSIZE=8880 //* //STEP2 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER,COND=(0,LT) //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSUT1 DD DSN=AUDIT,DISP=(OLD,PASS) //SYSUT2 DD DSN=TMS.HESZ94AF(+1),UNIT=TAPE,LABEL=2, // VOL=REF=*.STEP1.DUMPDD,DISP=(,CATLG),DCB=(DUMDSCB,BLKSIZE=32560) //SYSIN DD DUMMY //* //STEP3 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER,COND=(0,LT) //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSUT1 DD DSN=AUDIT,DISP=(OLD,DELETE) //SYSUT2 DD DSN=TMS.HESZ94AF.COPYIDS(+1),UNIT=TAPE,LABEL=2, // VOL=REF=*.STEP1.DUMPDD2,DATACLAS=OFFSITE, // DISP=(NEW,CATLG),DCB=(DUMDSCB,BLKSIZE=32560) //SYSIN DD DUMMY //* What I would like to know if this is the correct action to take or should I have done something else. Please advise. Thanks in advance. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Lines, Bars, . . . and mini-bars?!?
Bob Shannon writes: begin snippet The entry table for a PC routine has not been expanded to 64 bits. Until it is, a PC routine cannot be above the Bar. It appears AMODE 64 is supported (but not documented) but the PC routine cannot reside above the bar. /end snippet His first point is a valid and important one, but I am not sure what the second one means. A 24-bit address can be represented, trivially, as a 64-bit address, as can a 31-bit address. A 64-bit address cannot in general be represented as either a 24- or 31-bit one. I routinely stow tables above the bar, using AMODE(64) code resident BELOW the bar to access them. I am sure that Bob Shannon it not himself confused about these issues; but we all tend to write things that confuse novices by implicitly confounding AMODE and RMODE ones, as evidenced by the strange questions that are asked here. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Lines, Bars and ... mini-bars???
Having the PC routine above the bar is not the same as having the single PC instruction above the bar that is used to invoke the PC routine, wherever the PC routine may be loaded. All that the PC instruction does is generate a number and then use that number to index through the linkage table structure to find the address of the routine to be called. Also executing the PC instruction in 64-bit addressing mode causes a 63-bit return address to be stored somewhere (depending on whether stacking is used or not), so a return to the instruction after an above-the-bar PC is possible. What happens inside the called routine is an independent topic. Bill Fairchild -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Bob Shannon Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 9:46 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Lines, Bars and ... mini-bars??? He did not say the PC instruction will not work above the bar The Entry Table Entry for a PC routine has not been expanded to 64 bits. Until it is, a PC routine cannot be above the Bar. It appears that Amode 64 is supported (but not documented) but the PC routine cannot reside above the Bar Bob Shannon -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Need reviewers for new paper: Setting Up the IBM HTTP Server
For years I've suggested to folks they should try the free (well, included-in-the-price) HTTP server that comes with z/OS. Several people have replied that would love some training in tailoring z/OS UNIX and in setting up the HTTP server. But those are systems programmer courses and my focus has always been on the applications side of things. Finally I've decided to write a paper, a semi-cookbook if you will, on getting the HTTP server up and running quickly. So I've produced a 38-page paper on exactly this. But I would like some of you systems types to have a look and see if it is clear and accurate and if there are better ways to do things and so on, before I publish the doc on my website. If you'd be interested in reading / critiquing this paper, drop me a line off-list and I'll send you a copy. If you have suggestions that I incorporate I'll include your name on the acknowledgements page. Thanks. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled by September 1, taught by year end 2011 * Check out our entire DB2 curriculum at: http://www.trainersfriend.com/DB2_and_VSAM_courses/DB2curric.htm -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands
charl...@mcn.org (Charles Mills) writes: Somewhat OT but why? Why not C on the mainframe? Why two code bases, one fairly easy to debug and one relatively hard to debug? I am thrilled with writing software for the mainframe in C (C++ actually) after years of laboring in assembler. the los gatos vlsi lab was using metaware for a lot of (mainframe) vlsi tool development. two people from the group then di mainframe pascal compiler ... which eventually evolved into vs/pascal product. I was working on getting one of the people (responsible for mainframe pascal) to do C language front-end ... when he left and went to work for metaware. when the palo alto group was planning on doing BSD unix for mainframe, I talked them into contracting with metaware for the C compiler. However, before that mainframe BSD unix shipped, the group was retargeted to PC/RT ... eventually coming out with AOS (bsd unix running on pc/rt) ... but still using metaware's c compiler. the disk division eventually sponsored the posix support on MVS ... one of the many things they were doing to try and get around the stranglehold that the communication group had on the mainframe datacenter (most of which the communication group vetoed ... since the communication group had strategic ownership for everything that crossed the datacenter walls; disk division being hdqtrd in silicon valley possibly helped with their perspective) misc past posts mentioning disk division talk at annual, internal, world-wide communication group conference that started out with the statement that the communication group was going to be responsible for the demise of the disk division (the communication group stranglehold was already resulting in data fleeing the mainframe datacenter to more distributed computing friendly platforms). http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal a co-worker that helped with the original CMSBACK (eventually morphs into today's TSM) ... misc. past posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#backup ... left and did a lot of consulting for various silicon valley chip shops. At one place, he did a lot of work and enhancements for the ATT C compiler (and some number of other vendor C compilers) for their operations on mainframe (as part of porting BSD vlsi tools to the mainframe). At one point he was doing a lot of work doing mainframe ethernet support as part of supporting SGI graphics workstations for displaying VLSI designs. The salesman dropped in and asked him what was going on and after being told, the salesman suggested that he should be doing token-ring support instead (or otherwise the customer might find mainframe support and maintenance suffering). Afterwards, I got a phone call and had to listen to several hours of comments about the company, local branch office and salesmen. The next morning, the vlsi company had big press release that they were moving off mainframe to servers. -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: CA-1 TMS QUESTION - IEFTMS9 TMC BACKUP REQUIRED
This looks correct. You JCL runs TMSCOPY to backup the TMC and audit files. If the audit file gets down to 3 records, your tape processing would stop until you ran TMSCOPY. The message may be due to a much larger tape activity on a one time bases, in which case you likely need look no further. But if it is from normal growth, then you will start seeing the message more often, in which case you will either need to run TMSCOPY more frequently, or expand your audit file. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACS, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 07/18/2011 11:12:59 AM: From: esmie moo esmie_...@yahoo.ca To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 07/18/2011 11:18 AM Subject: CA-1 TMS QUESTION - IEFTMS9 TMC BACKUP REQUIRED Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Good Morning Gentle Readers, I was called because the following message was coming up on the console: IEFTMS9 TMC BACKUP REQUIRED, AUDIT FILE UTILISATION IS CURRENTLY 82%. I executed the following job: //STEP1 EXEC PGM=TMSCOPY,REGION=7M //TMSRPT DD SYSOUT=* //TMSOPTNS DD DISP=SHR,DSN=SYS4.TMS.PARMLIB(TMSOPTNS) //DUMPDD DD DSN=TMS.HESZ94M1(+1),UNIT=TAPE, // LABEL=1,DISP=(,CATLG),DCB=(DUMDSCB,BLKSIZE=32640), // VOL=(,RETAIN) //DUMPDD2DD DSN=TMS.HESZ94M2(+1),UNIT=TAPE, // LABEL=1,DISP=(,CATLG),DCB=(DUMDSCB,BLKSIZE=32640), // VOL=(,RETAIN),DATACLAS=OFFSITE //AUDITDDDD DSN=SYS4.TMS.AUDIT,DISP=SHR //AUDUMP DD DSN=AUDIT,UNIT=PASS,DISP=(,PASS), // SPACE=(CYL,(20,5)),DCB=BLKSIZE=8880 // * //STEP2 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER,COND=(0,LT) //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSUT1 DD DSN=AUDIT,DISP=(OLD,PASS) //SYSUT2 DD DSN=TMS.HESZ94AF(+1),UNIT=TAPE,LABEL=2, //VOL=REF=*.STEP1.DUMPDD,DISP=(,CATLG),DCB=(DUMDSCB,BLKSIZE=32560) //SYSIN DD DUMMY //* //STEP3 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER,COND=(0,LT) //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSUT1 DD DSN=AUDIT,DISP=(OLD,DELETE) //SYSUT2 DD DSN=TMS.HESZ94AF.COPYIDS(+1),UNIT=TAPE,LABEL=2, // VOL=REF=*.STEP1.DUMPDD2,DATACLAS=OFFSITE, // DISP=(NEW,CATLG),DCB=(DUMDSCB,BLKSIZE=32560) //SYSIN DD DUMMY //* What I would like to know if this is the correct action to take or should I have done something else. Please advise. Thanks in advance. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reading, dissemination, distribution, copying, forwarding or other use of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message and all copies and backups thereof. Thank you. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: How to merge two differents files with ICETOOL
From: Frank Yaeger/San Jose/IBM To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 07/18/2011 08:09 AM Subject:Re: How to merge two differents files with ICETOOL Sent this morning but hasn't made it to the list, so resending (please ignore if already posted). Hilario G. at IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 07/18/2011 05:18:02 AM: I need to obtain an output file of 300 bytes from two differents files: - FILE1 with a lenght of 80 - FILE2 with a lenght of 300 I need to merge both files, first FILE1 and after FILE2. I have several tested but I don't find the correct solution. The last one JCL that I used, I only obtain FILE2: //STEP0001 EXEC PGM=ICETOOL //TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=* //DFSMSG DD SYSOUT=* //IN1DD DSN=FILE1,DISP=SHR //IN2DD DSN=FILE2,DISP=SHR //OUT DD DSN=FILE3,SPACE=(CYL,(10,1),RLSE), // DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE),UNIT=SYSDA, // DCB=(LRECL=300,RECFM=FB) //TOOLIN DD * COPY FROM(IN1) TO(OUT) USING(CTL1) COPY FROM(IN2) TO(OUT) USING(CTL2) //CTL1CNTL DD * INREC FIELDS=(1,80) //CTL2CNTL DD * INREC FIELDS=(1,300) /* Where is the error or how to obtain FILE3 with the combination of two different files ? The correct DFSORT JCL would be: //STEP0001 EXEC PGM=ICETOOL //TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=* //DFSMSG DD SYSOUT=* //IN1 DD DSN=FILE1,DISP=SHR //IN2 DD DSN=FILE2,DISP=SHR //OUT DD DSN=FILE3,SPACE=(CYL,(10,1),RLSE), //DISP=(MOD,CATLG,DELETE),UNIT=SYSDA //TOOLIN DD * COPY FROM(IN1) TO(OUT) USING(CTL1) COPY FROM(IN2) TO(OUT) //CTL1CNTL DD * INREC OVERLAY=(300:X) /* Note the use of MOD for // OUT. Note also that this is not a merge - it is a copy. Merge implies that the input files are already in sorted order and the output file should be in sorted order. Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM) - yae...@us.ibm.com Specialties: JOINKEYS, FINDREP, WHEN=GROUP, ICETOOL, Symbols, Migration = DFSORT/MVS is on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: CA-1 TMS QUESTION - IEFTMS9 TMC BACKUP REQUIRED
Jonathan, Thanks very much for your help. --- On Tue, 7/19/11, Jonathan Goossen jonathan.goos...@assurant.com wrote: From: Jonathan Goossen jonathan.goos...@assurant.com Subject: Re: CA-1 TMS QUESTION - IEFTMS9 TMC BACKUP REQUIRED To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Received: Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 4:49 AM This looks correct. You JCL runs TMSCOPY to backup the TMC and audit files. If the audit file gets down to 3 records, your tape processing would stop until you ran TMSCOPY. The message may be due to a much larger tape activity on a one time bases, in which case you likely need look no further. But if it is from normal growth, then you will start seeing the message more often, in which case you will either need to run TMSCOPY more frequently, or expand your audit file. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACS, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 07/18/2011 11:12:59 AM: From: esmie moo esmie_...@yahoo.ca To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 07/18/2011 11:18 AM Subject: CA-1 TMS QUESTION - IEFTMS9 TMC BACKUP REQUIRED Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Good Morning Gentle Readers, I was called because the following message was coming up on the console: IEFTMS9 TMC BACKUP REQUIRED, AUDIT FILE UTILISATION IS CURRENTLY 82%. I executed the following job: //STEP1 EXEC PGM=TMSCOPY,REGION=7M //TMSRPT DD SYSOUT=* //TMSOPTNS DD DISP=SHR,DSN=SYS4.TMS.PARMLIB(TMSOPTNS) //DUMPDD DD DSN=TMS.HESZ94M1(+1),UNIT=TAPE, // LABEL=1,DISP=(,CATLG),DCB=(DUMDSCB,BLKSIZE=32640), // VOL=(,RETAIN) //DUMPDD2 DD DSN=TMS.HESZ94M2(+1),UNIT=TAPE, // LABEL=1,DISP=(,CATLG),DCB=(DUMDSCB,BLKSIZE=32640), // VOL=(,RETAIN),DATACLAS=OFFSITE //AUDITDD DD DSN=SYS4.TMS.AUDIT,DISP=SHR //AUDUMP DD DSN=AUDIT,UNIT=PASS,DISP=(,PASS), // SPACE=(CYL,(20,5)),DCB=BLKSIZE=8880 // * //STEP2 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER,COND=(0,LT) //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSUT1 DD DSN=AUDIT,DISP=(OLD,PASS) //SYSUT2 DD DSN=TMS.HESZ94AF(+1),UNIT=TAPE,LABEL=2, // VOL=REF=*.STEP1.DUMPDD,DISP=(,CATLG),DCB=(DUMDSCB,BLKSIZE=32560) //SYSIN DD DUMMY //* //STEP3 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER,COND=(0,LT) //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSUT1 DD DSN=AUDIT,DISP=(OLD,DELETE) //SYSUT2 DD DSN=TMS.HESZ94AF.COPYIDS(+1),UNIT=TAPE,LABEL=2, // VOL=REF=*.STEP1.DUMPDD2,DATACLAS=OFFSITE, // DISP=(NEW,CATLG),DCB=(DUMDSCB,BLKSIZE=32560) //SYSIN DD DUMMY //* What I would like to know if this is the correct action to take or should I have done something else. Please advise. Thanks in advance. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reading, dissemination, distribution, copying, forwarding or other use of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message and all copies and backups thereof. Thank you. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Need reviewers for new paper: Setting Up the IBM HTTP Server
Good day Steve, I'd be interested in reviewing your paper if you feel inclined to send me a copy. Thanks, Alan -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 9:38 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Need reviewers for new paper: Setting Up the IBM HTTP Server For years I've suggested to folks they should try the free (well, included-in-the-price) HTTP server that comes with z/OS. Several people have replied that would love some training in tailoring z/OS UNIX and in setting up the HTTP server. But those are systems programmer courses and my focus has always been on the applications side of things. Finally I've decided to write a paper, a semi-cookbook if you will, on getting the HTTP server up and running quickly. So I've produced a 38-page paper on exactly this. But I would like some of you systems types to have a look and see if it is clear and accurate and if there are better ways to do things and so on, before I publish the doc on my website. If you'd be interested in reading / critiquing this paper, drop me a line off-list and I'll send you a copy. If you have suggestions that I incorporate I'll include your name on the acknowledgements page. Thanks. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled by September 1, taught by year end 2011 * Check out our entire DB2 curriculum at: http://www.trainersfriend.com/DB2_and_VSAM_courses/DB2curric.htm -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: CA-1 TMS QUESTION - IEFTMS9 TMC BACKUP REQUIRED
One of my best CA colleagues is Russ Witt, who generally follows this list. He is greatly involved with CA's Tape solutions. He was my go-to guy for any product-like questions. If you don't find your answer here, he'll have the answer. You'd also be able to see him in person at Share in Orlando (shameless plug). zNorman -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of esmie moo Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 Monday 9:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: CA-1 TMS QUESTION - IEFTMS9 TMC BACKUP REQUIRED Good Morning Gentle Readers, I was called because the following message was coming up on the console: IEFTMS9 TMC BACKUP REQUIRED, AUDIT FILE UTILISATION IS CURRENTLY 82%. I executed the following job: //STEP1 EXEC PGM=TMSCOPY,REGION=7M //TMSRPT DD SYSOUT=* //TMSOPTNS DD DISP=SHR,DSN=SYS4.TMS.PARMLIB(TMSOPTNS) //DUMPDD DD DSN=TMS.HESZ94M1(+1),UNIT=TAPE, // LABEL=1,DISP=(,CATLG),DCB=(DUMDSCB,BLKSIZE=32640), // VOL=(,RETAIN) //DUMPDD2 DD DSN=TMS.HESZ94M2(+1),UNIT=TAPE, // LABEL=1,DISP=(,CATLG),DCB=(DUMDSCB,BLKSIZE=32640), // VOL=(,RETAIN),DATACLAS=OFFSITE //AUDITDD DD DSN=SYS4.TMS.AUDIT,DISP=SHR //AUDUMP DD DSN=AUDIT,UNIT=PASS,DISP=(,PASS), // SPACE=(CYL,(20,5)),DCB=BLKSIZE=8880 //* //STEP2 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER,COND=(0,LT) //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSUT1 DD DSN=AUDIT,DISP=(OLD,PASS) //SYSUT2 DD DSN=TMS.HESZ94AF(+1),UNIT=TAPE,LABEL=2, // VOL=REF=*.STEP1.DUMPDD,DISP=(,CATLG),DCB=(DUMDSCB,BLKSIZE=32560) //SYSIN DD DUMMY //* //STEP3 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER,COND=(0,LT) //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSUT1 DD DSN=AUDIT,DISP=(OLD,DELETE) //SYSUT2 DD DSN=TMS.HESZ94AF.COPYIDS(+1),UNIT=TAPE,LABEL=2, // VOL=REF=*.STEP1.DUMPDD2,DATACLAS=OFFSITE, // DISP=(NEW,CATLG),DCB=(DUMDSCB,BLKSIZE=32560) //SYSIN DD DUMMY //* What I would like to know if this is the correct action to take or should I have done something else. Please advise. Thanks in advance. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: running Assembler I/O macro code as AMODE 31, RMODE ANY
On 7/17/2011 11:11 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: Why would a branch with AMODE switching require more pipeline flushing than a branch without? If the target AMODE guessed by the hardware is wrong, then it will have to start over again fetching and interpreting the instructions in the correct AMODE. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 310-338-0400 x318 edja...@phoenixsoftware.com http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: How to obtain a file bigger than 80 chars from two inputs file
Hello folks, The additional information for the problem are: 1) FILE1 MEMBER OF A PDS LRECL=80. FB 2) FILE2 PS LRECL=210, FB 3) OUTPUT=FILE1+FILE2 PS,LRECL=210, FB FILE1 contains the header data for SMTP protocol. FILE2 is the attached file sentd via SMTP. I need to merge FILE1 (LRECL 80, FB) with data file FILE2 (LRECL 210, FB) to obtain a PS (LRECL 210, RECFM=FB)- I hope that anybodoy can help me. Kind Regards. Hilario Garcia -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: CA-1 TMS QUESTION - IEFTMS9 TMC BACKUP REQUIRED
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:12:59 -0700, esmie moo esmie_...@yahoo.ca wrote: Good Morning Gentle Readers, I was called because the following message was coming up on the console: IEFTMS9 TMC BACKUP REQUIRED, AUDIT FILE UTILISATION IS CURRENTLY 82%. snip What I would like to know if this is the correct action to take or should I have done something else. Please advise. Thanks in advance. Correct actions for something like this: 1) Look up message IEFTMS9 from the CA manual and note the action 2) If you don't understand #1, contact the vendor. Your statement should I have done... implies you already did this, so it doesn't appear to be an 0 dark 30 question where you didn't understand the manual and didn't want to wait for a return call from the vendor. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Lines, Bars and ... mini-bars???
In ofa1775815.a71a18dd-on852578d0.00732c2b-852578d0.0079b...@us.ibm.com, on 07/17/2011 at 06:09 PM, Peter Relson rel...@us.ibm.com said: If you can get your program up there (whether by yourself or by use of directed load (LOAD with ADDR64), and if it calls no system routines of any kind What about taking exits, e.g., SPIE, STAE exits? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands
In 4e243efe.2010...@valley.net, on 07/18/2011 at 10:11 AM, Gerhard Postpischil gerh...@valley.net said: Good for you, but some of us have built extensive macro and subroutine libraries to use with assembler, and find it as fast and easy to use those than to live with (the confining limitations of) higher level languages. And some of us don't regard C as a higher level language. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Explination of EUT/FRR
In 000701cc44c2$cf0ad6c0$6d208440$@net, on 07/17/2011 at 04:47 PM, michealbutz michealb...@optonline.net said: Questions in RED No. There are no colors in RFC 5322 e-mail. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Explination of EUT/FRR
In tpt727h2cfbmucaoos09907lv33nhft...@4ax.com, on 07/18/2011 at 12:12 PM, Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com said: If locked or disabled there ain't no CPU switch. The unit of work does not lose control (if there is a program check, the FRR gets control which is the same unit of work). True for spin locks, but you can take a page fault while holding a suspend lock. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: How to obtain a file bigger than 80 chars from two inputs file
Hilario G. at IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 07/18/2011 11:57:52 AM: The additional information for the problem are: 1) FILE1 MEMBER OF A PDS LRECL=80. FB 2) FILE2 PS LRECL=210, FB 3) OUTPUT=FILE1+FILE2 PS,LRECL=210, FB FILE1 contains the header data for SMTP protocol. FILE2 is the attached file sentd via SMTP. I need to merge FILE1 (LRECL 80, FB) with data file FILE2 (LRECL 210, FB) to obtain a PS (LRECL 210, RECFM=FB)- I hope that anybodoy can help me. I thought I had already helped you. Anyway, you can use a DFSORT/ICETOOL job that like this: //S1EXEC PGM=ICETOOL //TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=* //DFSMSG DD SYSOUT=* //IN1 DD DSN=pds(member),... (FB/80) //IN2 DD DSN=... input file2 (FB/210) //OUT DD DISP=(MOD,CATLG,DELETE),DSN=... output file (FB/210) //TOOLIN DD * COPY FROM(IN1) TO(OUT) USING(CTL1) COPY FROM(IN2) TO(OUT) //CTL1CNTL DD * INREC OVERLAY=(210:X) /* Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM) - yae...@us.ibm.com Specialties: JOINKEYS, FINDREP, WHEN=GROUP, ICETOOL, Symbols, Migration = DFSORT/MVS is on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: CA-1 TMS QUESTION - IEFTMS9 TMC BACKUP REQUIRED
More correct actions for something like this: Look in the install/ongoing support sections of the documentation, find where it says you should run TMSCOPY on a regular basis and schedule such a job :) Make sure you do the other regular maintenance to the TMS that are documented in the same section of the manuals. Add automation to act on the IEFTM99 message with an alert and a special run of the TMSCOPY job. If this was an out of the ordinary, greater than usual amount of tape activity, find out what happened and be sure it was valid, Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 12:13 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: CA-1 TMS QUESTION - IEFTMS9 TMC BACKUP REQUIRED On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:12:59 -0700, esmie moo esmie_...@yahoo.ca wrote: Good Morning Gentle Readers, I was called because the following message was coming up on the console: IEFTMS9 TMC BACKUP REQUIRED, AUDIT FILE UTILISATION IS CURRENTLY 82%. snip What I would like to know if this is the correct action to take or should I have done something else. Please advise. Thanks in advance. Correct actions for something like this: 1) Look up message IEFTMS9 from the CA manual and note the action 2) If you don't understand #1, contact the vendor. Your statement should I have done... implies you already did this, so it doesn't appear to be an 0 dark 30 question where you didn't understand the manual and didn't want to wait for a return call from the vendor. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands
In m38vrvy1w2@garlic.com, on 07/18/2011 at 12:44 PM, Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com said: However, before that mainframe BSD unix shipped My understanding is that none of freebsd, netbsd, openbsd[1] can pass the UNIX® certification from TUG (formerly X-Open). [1] With corrected capitalization. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: running Assembler I/O macro code as AMODE 31, RMODE ANY
IIRC Ray Wicks said they achieve about 91% hit ratio from HSB, but that was for XA don't know what the numbers are for 64 bit. In a message dated 7/18/2011 2:17:31 P.M. Central Daylight Time, edja...@phoenixsoftware.com writes: If the target AMODE guessed by the hardware is wrong, then it will have to start over again fetching and interpreting the instructions in the correct AMODE. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: running Assembler I/O macro code as AMODE 31, RMODE ANY
In 4e248256.90...@phoenixsoftware.com, on 07/18/2011 at 11:58 AM, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com said: If the target AMODE guessed by the hardware is wrong, then it will have to start over again fetching and interpreting the instructions in the correct AMODE. Are you saying that the processor starts fetching instructions for the branch prior to executing it? I would expect the processor to only be reading ahead from the locations following the branch until it was ready to perform the branch. Of course, there are techniques to execute a branch out of sequence, but I see no reason that the AMODE wouldn't be handled as part of that. Could one of the IBM processor people comment? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Where are J2EE components located in java ?
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Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:34:25 +0200, Michel Castelein wrote: JCL consists of about 120 words last I checked (not counting those goofy conditional statements IBM created recently for those who couldn't comprehend COND codes), average batch job uses about 20 or 25. ... It's pretty hard to tell whether you're a Luddite or merely a masochist. I'm both a Luddite and a masochist, and proud of it. As upper management perceives, even through media such as airline magazines, that (some; I'm confident not all) z/OS systems programmers exhibit public delight in unwillingness to assimilate new technology and in performing their jobs in a needlessly difficult, even painful manner, it bodes ill for the future of the platform. My apologies if I overlooked whimsical intent, as I hope. -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: CA-1 TMS QUESTION - IEFTMS9 TMC BACKUP REQUIRED
Why don't you just backup the TMC? Surely you have a daily job that does this - and it should clear the AUDIT file when it runs the backup from what I remember. From Quickref: Action: Execute the backup program, TMSCOPY. All CA 1 utilities except TMSCOPY and TMSINIT will abend with a U0008 abend code until the backup is performed. When the Audit data set has no records left, all jobs requesting a tape mount will abend with a system code S7yy until the backup is performed. C. Todd Burrell PMP, MCSE 2003:Security MCITP: Enterprise Administrator MCITP: Enterprise Desktop Admin 7 Security+, Network+ ITIL V3 Foundations CSC Lead z/OS Systems Programmer ITSO (404) 723-2017 (Cell) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 3:13 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: CA-1 TMS QUESTION - IEFTMS9 TMC BACKUP REQUIRED On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:12:59 -0700, esmie moo esmie_...@yahoo.ca wrote: Good Morning Gentle Readers, I was called because the following message was coming up on the console: IEFTMS9 TMC BACKUP REQUIRED, AUDIT FILE UTILISATION IS CURRENTLY 82%. snip What I would like to know if this is the correct action to take or should I have done something else. Please advise. Thanks in advance. Correct actions for something like this: 1) Look up message IEFTMS9 from the CA manual and note the action 2) If you don't understand #1, contact the vendor. Your statement should I have done... implies you already did this, so it doesn't appear to be an 0 dark 30 question where you didn't understand the manual and didn't want to wait for a return call from the vendor. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Where are J2EE components located in java (resolved)
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Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands
W dniu 2011-07-18 22:15, Paul Gilmartin pisze: [...] As upper management perceives, even through media such as airline magazines, that (some; I'm confident not all) z/OS systems programmers exhibit public delight in unwillingness to assimilate new technology and in performing their jobs in a needlessly difficult, even painful manner, I'm not 'upper management', I'm very downlevel manager and I don't read airline magazines at all, I prefer some good redbook instead... HOWEVER MY OPINION IS EXACTLY AS THE ABOVE! Yes, majority of mainframe people I ever met do their job in needlessly difficult, sometimes even painful manner. SOme of them are absolutely unwilling to assimilate anything new, even like DFSMS (is it modern? is it cool? did it come from colorful worlds of Windows, Apple etc.?). Of course there are also people more opne-minded, but the majority... Oh, someone could say there are old farts and young wolves. No, the division is not so simple, I know clever open-minded gray-haired folks and young but very old-minded adepts. it bodes ill for the future of the platform. Yes, I wish it would be untrue. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- Tre tej wiadomoci moe zawiera informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wycznie do uytku subowego adresata. Odbiorc moe by jedynie jej adresat z wyczeniem dostpu osób trzecich. Jeeli nie jeste adresatem niniejszej wiadomoci lub pracownikiem upowanionym do jej przekazania adresatowi, informujemy, e jej rozpowszechnianie, kopiowanie, rozprowadzanie lub inne dziaanie o podobnym charakterze jest prawnie zabronione i moe by karalne. Jeeli otrzymae t wiadomo omykowo, prosimy niezwocznie zawiadomi nadawc wysyajc odpowied oraz trwale usun t wiadomo wczajc w to wszelkie jej kopie wydrukowane lub zapisane na dysku. This e-mail may contain legally privileged information of the Bank and is intended solely for business use of the addressee. This e-mail may only be received by the addressee and may not be disclosed to any third parties. If you are not the intended addressee of this e-mail or the employee authorised to forward it to the addressee, be advised that any dissemination, copying, distribution or any other similar activity is legally prohibited and may be punishable. If you received this e-mail by mistake please advise the sender immediately by using the reply facility in your e-mail software and delete permanently this e-mail including any copies of it either printed or saved to hard drive. BRE Bank SA, 00-950 Warszawa, ul. Senatorska 18, tel. +48 (22) 829 00 00, fax +48 (22) 829 00 33, e-mail: i...@brebank.pl Sd Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydzia Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru Sdowego, nr rejestru przedsibiorców KRS 025237, NIP: 526-021-50-88. Wedug stanu na dzie 01.01.2011 r. kapita zakadowy BRE Banku SA (w caoci wpacony) wynosi 168.346.696 zotych. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands
In my 20 plus year career I have seen a lot more people with mainframe backgrounds expressing a willingness to learn and integrate usage of non-mainframe technology than I have seen people from an open-systems background show a willingness to learn anything about the mainframe. === Wayne Driscoll OMEGAMON DB2 L3 Support/Development wdrisco(AT)us.ibm.com === From: R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 07/18/2011 03:50 PM Subject: Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu W dniu 2011-07-18 22:15, Paul Gilmartin pisze: [...] As upper management perceives, even through media such as airline magazines, that (some; I'm confident not all) z/OS systems programmers exhibit public delight in unwillingness to assimilate new technology and in performing their jobs in a needlessly difficult, even painful manner, I'm not 'upper management', I'm very downlevel manager and I don't read airline magazines at all, I prefer some good redbook instead... HOWEVER MY OPINION IS EXACTLY AS THE ABOVE! Yes, majority of mainframe people I ever met do their job in needlessly difficult, sometimes even painful manner. SOme of them are absolutely unwilling to assimilate anything new, even like DFSMS (is it modern? is it cool? did it come from colorful worlds of Windows, Apple etc.?). Of course there are also people more opne-minded, but the majority... Oh, someone could say there are old farts and young wolves. No, the division is not so simple, I know clever open-minded gray-haired folks and young but very old-minded adepts. it bodes ill for the future of the platform. Yes, I wish it would be untrue. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- Tre tej wiadomoci moe zawiera informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wycznie do uytku subowego adresata. Odbiorc moe by jedynie jej adresat z wyczeniem dostpu osób trzecich. Jeeli nie jeste adresatem niniejszej wiadomoci lub pracownikiem upowanionym do jej przekazania adresatowi, informujemy, e jej rozpowszechnianie, kopiowanie, rozprowadzanie lub inne dziaanie o podobnym charakterze jest prawnie zabronione i moe by karalne. Jeeli otrzymae t wiadomo omykowo, prosimy niezwocznie zawiadomi nadawc wysyajc odpowied oraz trwale usun t wiadomo wczajc w to wszelkie jej kopie wydrukowane lub zapisane na dysku. This e-mail may contain legally privileged information of the Bank and is intended solely for business use of the addressee. This e-mail may only be received by the addressee and may not be disclosed to any third parties. If you are not the intended addressee of this e-mail or the employee authorised to forward it to the addressee, be advised that any dissemination, copying, distribution or any other similar activity is legally prohibited and may be punishable. If you received this e-mail by mistake please advise the sender immediately by using the reply facility in your e-mail software and delete permanently this e-mail including any copies of it either printed or saved to hard drive. BRE Bank SA, 00-950 Warszawa, ul. Senatorska 18, tel. +48 (22) 829 00 00, fax +48 (22) 829 00 33, e-mail: i...@brebank.pl Sd Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydzia Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru Sdowego, nr rejestru przedsibiorców KRS 025237, NIP: 526-021-50-88. Wedug stanu na dzie 01.01.2011 r. kapita zakadowy BRE Banku SA (w caoci wpacony) wynosi 168.346.696 zotych. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: How to obtain a file bigger than 80 chars from two inputs file
Hello folks, The additional information for the problem are: 1) FILE1 MEMBER OF A PDS LRECL=80. FB 2) FILE2 PS LRECL=210, FB 3) OUTPUT=FILE1+FILE2 PS,LRECL=210, FB FILE1 contains the header data for SMTP protocol. FILE2 is the attached file sentd via SMTP. I need to merge FILE1 (LRECL 80, FB) with data file FILE2 (LRECL 210, FB) to obtain a PS (LRECL 210, RECFM=FB)- I hope that anybodoy can help me. Kind Regards. Hilario Garcia Hilario, I think what you really want to do is send via SMTP a file. The best way would be to use SAS EMAIL process if you have SAS or XMITP. Both of these processes make sending email from the mainframe easy. SAS is a product you pay for and it is part of the BASE SAS. XMITP is free. Lizette -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Wayne Driscoll wdri...@us.ibm.com wrote: In my 20 plus year career I have seen a lot more people with mainframe backgrounds expressing a willingness to learn and integrate usage of non-mainframe technology than I have seen people from an open-systems background show a willingness to learn anything about the mainframe. I completely agree with this statement. It is typically a requirement of mainframe types to understand open system terminology and then speak of mainframe using open systems language. sysplex vs. cluster is a typical rough and ready analogy. I've yet to see an open system person have even a vague understanding of record oriented I/O or PDS processing. The list goes on and on. === Wayne Driscoll OMEGAMON DB2 L3 Support/Development wdrisco(AT)us.ibm.com === From: R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 07/18/2011 03:50 PM Subject: Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu W dniu 2011-07-18 22:15, Paul Gilmartin pisze: [...] As upper management perceives, even through media such as airline magazines, that (some; I'm confident not all) z/OS systems programmers exhibit public delight in unwillingness to assimilate new technology and in performing their jobs in a needlessly difficult, even painful manner, I'm not 'upper management', I'm very downlevel manager and I don't read airline magazines at all, I prefer some good redbook instead... HOWEVER MY OPINION IS EXACTLY AS THE ABOVE! Yes, majority of mainframe people I ever met do their job in needlessly difficult, sometimes even painful manner. SOme of them are absolutely unwilling to assimilate anything new, even like DFSMS (is it modern? is it cool? did it come from colorful worlds of Windows, Apple etc.?). Of course there are also people more opne-minded, but the majority... Oh, someone could say there are old farts and young wolves. No, the division is not so simple, I know clever open-minded gray-haired folks and young but very old-minded adepts. it bodes ill for the future of the platform. Yes, I wish it would be untrue. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- Tre tej wiadomo ci mo e zawiera informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wy cznie do u ytku s u bowego adresata. Odbiorc mo e by jedynie jej adresat z wy czeniem dost pu osób trzecich. Je eli nie jeste adresatem niniejszej wiadomo ci lub pracownikiem upowa nionym do jej przekazania adresatowi, informujemy, e jej rozpowszechnianie, kopiowanie, rozprowadzanie lub inne dzia anie o podobnym charakterze jest prawnie zabronione i mo e by karalne. Je eli otrzyma e t wiadomo omy kowo, prosimy niezw ocznie zawiadomi nadawc wysy aj c odpowied oraz trwale usun t wiadomo w czaj c w to wszelkie jej kopie wydrukowane lub zapisane na dysku. This e-mail may contain legally privileged information of the Bank and is intended solely for business use of the addressee. This e-mail may only be received by the addressee and may not be disclosed to any third parties. If you are not the intended addressee of this e-mail or the employee authorised to forward it to the addressee, be advised that any dissemination, copying, distribution or any other similar activity is legally prohibited and may be punishable. If you received this e-mail by mistake please advise the sender immediately by using the reply facility in your e-mail software and delete permanently this e-mail including any copies of it either printed or saved to hard drive. BRE Bank SA, 00-950 Warszawa, ul. Senatorska 18, tel. +48 (22) 829 00 00, fax +48 (22) 829 00 33, e-mail: i...@brebank.pl S d Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydzia Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru S dowego, nr rejestru przedsi biorców KRS 025237, NIP: 526-021-50-88. Wed ug stanu na dzie 01.01.2011 r. kapita zak adowy BRE Banku SA (w ca o ci wp acony) wynosi 168.346.696 z otych. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands
Hear Hear ... I guess I'm not the only one that feels this way ... I will have a 'nasty-gram' later ... so stay tuned :-) Kind Regards Jim Thomas 617-233-4130 (mobile) 636-294-1014(res) j...@thethomasresidence.us (Email) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Sam Siegel Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 4:46 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Wayne Driscoll wdri...@us.ibm.com wrote: In my 20 plus year career I have seen a lot more people with mainframe backgrounds expressing a willingness to learn and integrate usage of non-mainframe technology than I have seen people from an open-systems background show a willingness to learn anything about the mainframe. I completely agree with this statement. It is typically a requirement of mainframe types to understand open system terminology and then speak of mainframe using open systems language. sysplex vs. cluster is a typical rough and ready analogy. I've yet to see an open system person have even a vague understanding of record oriented I/O or PDS processing. The list goes on and on. === Wayne Driscoll OMEGAMON DB2 L3 Support/Development wdrisco(AT)us.ibm.com === From: R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 07/18/2011 03:50 PM Subject: Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu W dniu 2011-07-18 22:15, Paul Gilmartin pisze: [...] As upper management perceives, even through media such as airline magazines, that (some; I'm confident not all) z/OS systems programmers exhibit public delight in unwillingness to assimilate new technology and in performing their jobs in a needlessly difficult, even painful manner, I'm not 'upper management', I'm very downlevel manager and I don't read airline magazines at all, I prefer some good redbook instead... HOWEVER MY OPINION IS EXACTLY AS THE ABOVE! Yes, majority of mainframe people I ever met do their job in needlessly difficult, sometimes even painful manner. SOme of them are absolutely unwilling to assimilate anything new, even like DFSMS (is it modern? is it cool? did it come from colorful worlds of Windows, Apple etc.?). Of course there are also people more opne-minded, but the majority... Oh, someone could say there are old farts and young wolves. No, the division is not so simple, I know clever open-minded gray-haired folks and young but very old-minded adepts. it bodes ill for the future of the platform. Yes, I wish it would be untrue. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- Tre tej wiadomo ci mo e zawiera informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wy cznie do u ytku s u bowego adresata. Odbiorc mo e by jedynie jej adresat z wy czeniem dost pu osób trzecich. Je eli nie jeste adresatem niniejszej wiadomo ci lub pracownikiem upowa nionym do jej przekazania adresatowi, informujemy, e jej rozpowszechnianie, kopiowanie, rozprowadzanie lub inne dzia anie o podobnym charakterze jest prawnie zabronione i mo e by karalne. Je eli otrzyma e t wiadomo omy kowo, prosimy niezw ocznie zawiadomi nadawc wysy aj c odpowied oraz trwale usun t wiadomo w czaj c w to wszelkie jej kopie wydrukowane lub zapisane na dysku. This e-mail may contain legally privileged information of the Bank and is intended solely for business use of the addressee. This e-mail may only be received by the addressee and may not be disclosed to any third parties. If you are not the intended addressee of this e-mail or the employee authorised to forward it to the addressee, be advised that any dissemination, copying, distribution or any other similar activity is legally prohibited and may be punishable. If you received this e-mail by mistake please advise the sender immediately by using the reply facility in your e-mail software and delete permanently this e-mail including any copies of it either printed or saved to hard drive. BRE Bank SA, 00-950 Warszawa, ul. Senatorska 18, tel. +48 (22) 829 00 00, fax +48 (22) 829 00 33, e-mail: i...@brebank.pl S d Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydzia Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru S dowego, nr rejestru przedsi biorców KRS 025237, NIP: 526-021-50-88. Wed ug stanu na dzie 01.01.2011 r. kapita zak adowy BRE Banku SA (w ca o ci wp acony) wynosi 168.346.696 z otych. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands
I have nothing against anything 'new' and highly doubt that other mainframer's do either. Come from the world of Windows or Apple ??.. I am not even going to comment on that. That said, what are we trying to achieve ?? .. the blue screen of death on the mainframes ?? (be it z/OS, z/VM, z/VSE or even z/Linux).IMHO, everybody and their mother, to include IBM has been bent over trying to do the same for at least a decade that I can now state. I don't think I need to point out or bring up too much evidence on how spectacularly specialized and efficient the PC world was in populating and letting the world know, how efficient they were with the 'blue screen of death' and I know that none of you know what I speak of right ??. The 'mainframe' environment has been robust for MANY decades. Is there anybody that can state the same of the PC environment that everybody just insists on incorporating into the mainframe world ??. As both, a former developer and a systems programmer, I can very honestly say that we'd (one way or the other) get out of an unwarranted or unwanted IPL most always (especially with z/OS). Can anybody in the server world say that ??. Seems to me that the defacto action is always CTRL-ALT-DEL .. be it the 'server' or 'router' or whatever else. By the by ... before Winblows 3.1 came out ... I did a lot of work on Novell too ... so I do have some experience, knowledge and exposure to what I speak of. 'old' mainframer's, IMHO, do not have any problems or hesitation with adapting and or using 'new' technology 'when and if it works'. Why is CTRL-ALT-DEL a viable option for replacing mainframe for PC servers when the said company just ends up paying more than they really did with 'an old mainframe'. On the same token, why is an IPL of my MVS image (or PLEX) not acceptable ??... it's the same as CTRL-ALT-DEL is it not ??. AFAIK, us old mainframer's ... want to do our jobs, which is to say, do what we enjoy the most but not want to have to do it repeatedly or redundantly, over and over and over again. I have spoken (rather vehemently unfortunately) to many PC developers and WEB developers that simply could not understand why a given product, system or sub-system that I was owned at that point it time, had not been completely re-written and 're-complied' ... More often than not, after a couple of hours, I gave up and said ... 'because I do not have to re-write and re-compile the world just to feel important or justify my job'. There is also another thread about wanting 'script's instead of JCL... have any of these folks looked into REXX ?? or even CLIST ??. There was some negativity about DCB's ... oh .. okay .. we don't need DCB's but .. lets just have a two and a half mile long PATH that each applications programmer has to maintain and or keep track of. Sure .. yep .. it's very simple and applications programmers will keep a track of them all my foot !!. Were the non mainframe environment at the very least, a little more stable, I'd venture to say that most all, if not all, 'old' systems programmers (or even us 'old' developers) would gladly welcome and incorporate required changes. Lastly and fully knowing that I'm 'rocking the boat' .. what the heck, manager's ?? .. management ??. The only comment I'll make (for the moment) is that a few years ago, I actually had a ... umm .. manager call me and get pissed off in about five minutes into the conversation because he was adamant that 'MVS' meant 'Microsoft Virtual Studio' which was around a lot longer than MVS on the mainframe ... I asked for his academic qualifications and was told that he had an undergrad degree in Journalism. Of course, I blew it because I asked him if he knew how big an idiot he was and if he'd be willing to write about his own stupidity in the local papers ... Ooops !!. Radoslaw, please forgive me but in my experience, nine out ten, supposedly young and open-minded kids don't have a clue what they speak of. Note however, they are not to blame and instead the finger (IMHO) should be pointed at the wonderful universities, the business world and of course, last but definitely not the least and the very most important, the wonderfully smart CEO's that really should (supposedly) be looking out for the company but in reality only look out for their own pockets. I know many a company that follows that trend. IOW, if you nose is not crusted extremely brown, you will be fired, let go, laid off, or whatever the hell else that somebody in some worthless HR department can come up with. Of course, all of this is going to be in the name of 'saving' the company some money !!. I long for the day that the investors wake up !!. Kind Regards Jim Thomas 617-233-4130 (mobile) 636-294-1014(res) j...@thethomasresidence.us (Email) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Monday, July
Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands
W dniu 2011-07-18 23:10, Wayne Driscoll pisze: In my 20 plus year career I have seen a lot more people with mainframe backgrounds expressing a willingness to learn and integrate usage of non-mainframe technology than I have seen people from an open-systems background show a willingness to learn anything about the mainframe. My observation is the same. But it's not related to the previous statement. BTW: Common joke in (young) mainframe community in Poland: Why, the hell, does it work in such way??? Just to make mainframe more complicated. to make it more complicated Oh, BTW, please don't kill messenger. I never said that I like such situation, but I would be dishonest claiming ther things are different. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- Tre tej wiadomoci moe zawiera informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wycznie do uytku subowego adresata. Odbiorc moe by jedynie jej adresat z wyczeniem dostpu osób trzecich. Jeeli nie jeste adresatem niniejszej wiadomoci lub pracownikiem upowanionym do jej przekazania adresatowi, informujemy, e jej rozpowszechnianie, kopiowanie, rozprowadzanie lub inne dziaanie o podobnym charakterze jest prawnie zabronione i moe by karalne. Jeeli otrzymae t wiadomo omykowo, prosimy niezwocznie zawiadomi nadawc wysyajc odpowied oraz trwale usun t wiadomo wczajc w to wszelkie jej kopie wydrukowane lub zapisane na dysku. This e-mail may contain legally privileged information of the Bank and is intended solely for business use of the addressee. This e-mail may only be received by the addressee and may not be disclosed to any third parties. If you are not the intended addressee of this e-mail or the employee authorised to forward it to the addressee, be advised that any dissemination, copying, distribution or any other similar activity is legally prohibited and may be punishable. If you received this e-mail by mistake please advise the sender immediately by using the reply facility in your e-mail software and delete permanently this e-mail including any copies of it either printed or saved to hard drive. BRE Bank SA, 00-950 Warszawa, ul. Senatorska 18, tel. +48 (22) 829 00 00, fax +48 (22) 829 00 33, e-mail: i...@brebank.pl Sd Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydzia Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru Sdowego, nr rejestru przedsibiorców KRS 025237, NIP: 526-021-50-88. Wedug stanu na dzie 01.01.2011 r. kapita zakadowy BRE Banku SA (w caoci wpacony) wynosi 168.346.696 zotych. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: VSAM definition deck from file itself
Macro4 Insynch has an panel Option for VSAM Utilities which allows you to direct the IDCAMS Define to a data set. There must be others. Entry Name === 'AFITJLM.DELETEME.' User Catalog === Entry type === 1 1 - KSDS Cluster5 - Alternate Index 2 - ESDS Cluster6 - Path 3 - RRDS Cluster7 - Generation Data Group 4 - LINEAR Cluster Model name === Run type === PARM (EXEC, PARM, BOTH) From:McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com To:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date:07/15/2011 07:13 AM Subject:VSAM definition deck from file itself Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Is there some IBM or vendor utility which can recreate the DEFINE CLUSTER / DEFINE AIX / DEFINE PATH for a given VSAM sphere? We simply don't seem to have an accurate set of DEFINE decks for our VSAM files. Or will I need to parse up a LISTCAT using REXX? John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: running Assembler I/O macro code as AMODE 31, RMODE ANY
On 7/18/2011 12:55 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: Are you saying that the processor starts fetching instructions for the branch prior to executing it? Absolutely! There is a multi-stage pipeline that allows the processor to get ahead of the current instruction's execution to fetch and decode instructions, resolve addresses, fetch operands, etc. in advance of the actual instruction execution. Branch prediction (with a history table or target buffer) is used to help ensure the pipeline keeps flowing even when branches are encountered. IIRC, some models even fetch down more than one branch target path to minimize the performance hit if the first prediction is wrong. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 310-338-0400 x318 edja...@phoenixsoftware.com http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: How to control in an JCL that a file is empty or not exist ?
I created these a while back for my programmers. Just use Batch TSO to
invoke
=== pass a DD to this one
/* rexx*/
trace i
arg dd
/* rexx */
x = listdsi( dd FILE)
if (SysUSED = 0) | (SysUSED = 'N/A') then DO
trace
Say '*** '
Say '*** Dataset IS EMPTY DD: ' dd
Say '*** '
exit 6
End
exit 0
(OR)
=== pass the DSN as a parm.
/* rexx */
/* trace i */
arg dsn
ALLOC DD(MT) DSN('||dsn||') SHR
if rc 0 then DO
Say '*** '
Say '*** Failure to alloc ds: ' dsn
Say '*** Either in use, or does not exist '
Say '*** '
exit 12
End
execio 1 diskr MT (stem rec. finis)
cc=rc
free dd(MT)
if cc 0 then DO
Say '*** '
Say '*** Dataset IS EMPTY ds: ' dsn
Say '*** '
exit 6
End
exit0
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Re: accesing output from jes spool
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Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands
There are a few of us not sure how many, that are on both sides of the aisle. I work in z/OS, Windows and Unix, including Linux and enjoy and embrace new ideas Scott J Ford Software Engineer http://www.identityforge.com From: Jim Thomas j...@thethomasresidence.us To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 5:58 PM Subject: Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands Hear Hear ... I guess I'm not the only one that feels this way ... I will have a 'nasty-gram' later ... so stay tuned :-) Kind Regards Jim Thomas 617-233-4130 (mobile) 636-294-1014 (res) j...@thethomasresidence.us (Email) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Sam Siegel Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 4:46 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Wayne Driscoll wdri...@us.ibm.com wrote: In my 20 plus year career I have seen a lot more people with mainframe backgrounds expressing a willingness to learn and integrate usage of non-mainframe technology than I have seen people from an open-systems background show a willingness to learn anything about the mainframe. I completely agree with this statement. It is typically a requirement of mainframe types to understand open system terminology and then speak of mainframe using open systems language. sysplex vs. cluster is a typical rough and ready analogy. I've yet to see an open system person have even a vague understanding of record oriented I/O or PDS processing. The list goes on and on. === Wayne Driscoll OMEGAMON DB2 L3 Support/Development wdrisco(AT)us.ibm.com === From: R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 07/18/2011 03:50 PM Subject: Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu W dniu 2011-07-18 22:15, Paul Gilmartin pisze: [...] As upper management perceives, even through media such as airline magazines, that (some; I'm confident not all) z/OS systems programmers exhibit public delight in unwillingness to assimilate new technology and in performing their jobs in a needlessly difficult, even painful manner, I'm not 'upper management', I'm very downlevel manager and I don't read airline magazines at all, I prefer some good redbook instead... HOWEVER MY OPINION IS EXACTLY AS THE ABOVE! Yes, majority of mainframe people I ever met do their job in needlessly difficult, sometimes even painful manner. SOme of them are absolutely unwilling to assimilate anything new, even like DFSMS (is it modern? is it cool? did it come from colorful worlds of Windows, Apple etc.?). Of course there are also people more opne-minded, but the majority... Oh, someone could say there are old farts and young wolves. No, the division is not so simple, I know clever open-minded gray-haired folks and young but very old-minded adepts. it bodes ill for the future of the platform. Yes, I wish it would be untrue. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- Tre tej wiadomo ci mo e zawiera informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wy cznie do u ytku s u bowego adresata. Odbiorc mo e by jedynie jej adresat z wy czeniem dost pu osób trzecich. Je eli nie jeste adresatem niniejszej wiadomo ci lub pracownikiem upowa nionym do jej przekazania adresatowi, informujemy, e jej rozpowszechnianie, kopiowanie, rozprowadzanie lub inne dzia anie o podobnym charakterze jest prawnie zabronione i mo e by karalne. Je eli otrzyma e t wiadomo omy kowo, prosimy niezw ocznie zawiadomi nadawc wysy aj c odpowied oraz trwale usun t wiadomo w czaj c w to wszelkie jej kopie wydrukowane lub zapisane na dysku. This e-mail may contain legally privileged information of the Bank and is intended solely for business use of the addressee. This e-mail may only be received by the addressee and may not be disclosed to any third parties. If you are not the intended addressee of this e-mail or the employee authorised to forward it to the addressee, be advised that any dissemination, copying, distribution or any other similar activity is legally prohibited and may be punishable. If you received this e-mail by mistake please advise the sender immediately by using the reply facility in your e-mail software and delete permanently this e-mail including any copies of it either printed or saved to hard drive. BRE Bank SA, 00-950 Warszawa, ul. Senatorska 18, tel. +48 (22) 829 00 00, fax +48 (22) 829 00 33, e-mail: i...@brebank.pl S d Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydzia Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru S dowego, nr rejestru przedsi biorców KRS 025237, NIP: 526-021-50-88. Wed ug stanu na dzie 01.01.2011 r. kapita zak
Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands
EXCELLENT rant, Jim. Got fired up just reading it. I occasionally annoy our local unix and web programmers by reminding them that their pay is NOT related to the number of directories they create... and reminding them that each level in a path slows down their system. And to even SUGGEST that you put ALL of the executables for an application in the SAME directory BLASPHEMY !!! Each programmer has their various types of files squirrled away in various places, and none of them can find the other's stuff without a major search. Amazing to behold. Oh well, all of our problems will be solved when we complete our SAP conversion, so I need not worry. From: Jim Thomas j...@thethomasresidence.us To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 07/18/2011 03:10 PM Subject:Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu I have nothing against anything 'new' and highly doubt that other mainframer's do either. Come from the world of Windows or Apple ??.. I am not even going to comment on that. That said, what are we trying to achieve ?? .. the blue screen of death on the mainframes ?? (be it z/OS, z/VM, z/VSE or even z/Linux).IMHO, everybody and their mother, to include IBM has been bent over trying to do the same for at least a decade that I can now state. I don't think I need to point out or bring up too much evidence on how spectacularly specialized and efficient the PC world was in populating and letting the world know, how efficient they were with the 'blue screen of death' and I know that none of you know what I speak of right ??. The 'mainframe' environment has been robust for MANY decades. Is there anybody that can state the same of the PC environment that everybody just insists on incorporating into the mainframe world ??. As both, a former developer and a systems programmer, I can very honestly say that we'd (one way or the other) get out of an unwarranted or unwanted IPL most always (especially with z/OS). Can anybody in the server world say that ??. Seems to me that the defacto action is always CTRL-ALT-DEL .. be it the 'server' or 'router' or whatever else. By the by ... before Winblows 3.1 came out ... I did a lot of work on Novell too ... so I do have some experience, knowledge and exposure to what I speak of. 'old' mainframer's, IMHO, do not have any problems or hesitation with adapting and or using 'new' technology 'when and if it works'. Why is CTRL-ALT-DEL a viable option for replacing mainframe for PC servers when the said company just ends up paying more than they really did with 'an old mainframe'. On the same token, why is an IPL of my MVS image (or PLEX) not acceptable ??... it's the same as CTRL-ALT-DEL is it not ??. AFAIK, us old mainframer's ... want to do our jobs, which is to say, do what we enjoy the most but not want to have to do it repeatedly or redundantly, over and over and over again. I have spoken (rather vehemently unfortunately) to many PC developers and WEB developers that simply could not understand why a given product, system or sub-system that I was owned at that point it time, had not been completely re-written and 're-complied' ... More often than not, after a couple of hours, I gave up and said ... 'because I do not have to re-write and re-compile the world just to feel important or justify my job'. There is also another thread about wanting 'script's instead of JCL... have any of these folks looked into REXX ?? or even CLIST ??. There was some negativity about DCB's ... oh .. okay .. we don't need DCB's but .. lets just have a two and a half mile long PATH that each applications programmer has to maintain and or keep track of. Sure .. yep .. it's very simple and applications programmers will keep a track of them all my foot !!. Were the non mainframe environment at the very least, a little more stable, I'd venture to say that most all, if not all, 'old' systems programmers (or even us 'old' developers) would gladly welcome and incorporate required changes. Lastly and fully knowing that I'm 'rocking the boat' .. what the heck, manager's ?? .. management ??. The only comment I'll make (for the moment) is that a few years ago, I actually had a ... umm .. manager call me and get pissed off in about five minutes into the conversation because he was adamant that 'MVS' meant 'Microsoft Virtual Studio' which was around a lot longer than MVS on the mainframe ... I asked for his academic qualifications and was told that he had an undergrad degree in Journalism. Of course, I blew it because I asked him if he knew how big an idiot he was and if he'd be willing to write about his own stupidity in the local papers ... Ooops !!. Radoslaw, please forgive me but in my experience, nine out ten, supposedly young and open-minded kids don't have a clue what they speak of. Note however, they are not to blame and instead the
Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:10:06 -0500, Wayne Driscoll wdri...@us.ibm.com wrote: In my 20 plus year career I have seen a lot more people with mainframe backgrounds expressing a willingness to learn and integrate usage of non-mainframe technology than I have seen people from an open-systems background show a willingness to learn anything about the mainframe. I agree 100%, but that may only be because many of the people I've worked with over the years have either thought their mainframe jobs might go away or actually were going away. If all the airline magazines pronounced wintel or *nix was dead or would be dead by the year 2020, I think you might find the same thing. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: HMC emulator
Thank you for your advices! I agree that it's simple to do some tests on a test live sysplex. :-) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands
I don't, in general. It is more just a step above assembler. Now, if you want a true HLL, use APL2! On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 15:21 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In 4e243efe.2010...@valley.net, on 07/18/2011 at 10:11 AM, Gerhard Postpischil gerh...@valley.net said: Good for you, but some of us have built extensive macro and subroutine libraries to use with assembler, and find it as fast and easy to use those than to live with (the confining limitations of) higher level languages. And some of us don't regard C as a higher level language. -- John McKown Maranatha! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands
On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 14:45 -0700, Sam Siegel wrote: On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Wayne Driscoll wdri...@us.ibm.com wrote: In my 20 plus year career I have seen a lot more people with mainframe backgrounds expressing a willingness to learn and integrate usage of non-mainframe technology than I have seen people from an open-systems background show a willingness to learn anything about the mainframe. I completely agree with this statement. It is typically a requirement of mainframe types to understand open system terminology and then speak of mainframe using open systems language. sysplex vs. cluster is a typical rough and ready analogy. I've yet to see an open system person have even a vague understanding of record oriented I/O or PDS processing. The list goes on and on. PDS is a weird beastie. IMO, the closest analogy would be a directory with very restricted file names. Record I/O might be possible if they use a looping language like C or Perl to process each row in an SQL result set. -- John McKown Maranatha! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
