Re: ISR only with SW contract

2007-05-16 Thread Walter Marguccio
- Original Message From: Kurt Quackenbush [EMAIL PROTECTED] Therefore, to use SMP/E Internet Service Retrieval you do not need to have a SW Support contract. If anyone experiences something different, or is told something different, please let me know, with details such as

Re: Virtual tape limits (Was: OEM software electronic download report card)

2007-05-16 Thread R.S.
Ron Hawkins wrote: Shane, Wintel solution? Who mentioned a Wintel solution? The software runs on Mainframe. The virtualization of SATA is handled by a USP. How much more robust can the HW and SW be? [...] So, I have to buy USP (I like USP, but like the *choice* more), then I have to buy some

Re: Release a dataset from a user of MVS

2007-05-16 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -cell00.bisx.prod.on.blackberry... Why does RACF not support rules restricting the set of users who may ENQ on protected data set names? It does: via the restriction who can read or update the dataset, ain't it?

Re: DB2 version 8 SPUFI and ISPF

2007-05-16 Thread Jim McAlpine
Thanks Kevin. I'm not really bothered about the DSNE345I message per se. If I'm really sure that the code page being used is 1146 and that the message is just reporting that ZTERMCID is not being set then I'll just restore the DB2 ptf that issues the message. Will SPUFI be using code page 1146

Report on TSO usage

2007-05-16 Thread Sridhar K Veena
G'day All, Am new to this list, sorry if am asking the wrong question here ! Am looking for some kind of report which will pull out the info on TSO usage on a mainframe. Something which would individually list all the TSO users who logged on and their various resource consumption stats. Please

Re: Virtual tape limits (Was: OEM software electronic download report card)

2007-05-16 Thread Shane
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 05:25 +0800, Ron Hawkins wrote: Wintel solution? Who mentioned a Wintel solution? First paragraph of your reference link; Virtual Tape Library Solutions by Hitachi Data Systems enables storage managers to obtain all the benefits of backing up to disk without changing

Re: Report on TSO usage

2007-05-16 Thread Vinod Kumar
Hi Sridhar, Check if SMF record 30 32 will help you. Regards, Vinod Kumar -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sridhar K Veena Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 2:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Report on TSO usage G'day

FW: Virtual tape limits (Was: OEM software electronic download report card)

2007-05-16 Thread Ron Hawkins
Radoslaw, You do not have to buy a USP or a USP-V. The NSC55 can do this just fine, and you can buy it without any disk drives. This is an enterprise class rack-mount controller that can run with external storage only. I'm not aware of anyone else providing virtualization for Mainframe, so yes

Shared ICP between 2 SYSPLEXES

2007-05-16 Thread Cwi Jeret
Hello, I have the following question : We have the following configuration : 2 CPC's , on each one 2 LPARS, one CF and One MEMBER of SYSPLEX1. both CF's are connected to the members of the sysplex of the other CPC with a pair of ICP connections . CPC1 CPC2 ++

Re: Virtual tape limits (Was: OEM software electronic download report card)

2007-05-16 Thread Ron Hawkins
Hmmm, when did z/series and s/390 stop being servers? Did you assume... :-) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shane Sent: Wednesday, 16 May 2007 5:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Virtual tape limits (Was: OEM

Duplicate CTC addresses

2007-05-16 Thread Errol
Hi to all. Does anybody know if it is possible to define duplicate ctc addresses to a DR LPAR? I have two processors and can define duplicate LPARs to each of them, so that each CPC has LPARS A to E defined to it. CPC 1 has LPARS A and B running normally on it and CPC 2 has LPARs C D and E.

Re: Virtual tape limits (Was: OEM software electronic download report card)

2007-05-16 Thread Shane
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 17:26 +0800, Ron Hawkins wrote: Hmmm, when did z/series and s/390 stop being servers? Did you assume... :-) Where-ever did you get that idea ???. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Report on TSO usage

2007-05-16 Thread גדי בן אבי
Hi, This information is stored in SMF type 30 records. You can either write your own program to analyze these records or use a third party product to do so. I would suggest you look around the CBTTAPE at www.cbttape.org and see if there is something there that fits your needs. You might

Re: How to reload SSL certificate for z/OS TN3270 server

2007-05-16 Thread Wayne Driscoll
Chris, All true, except, encouragement should be replaced by long term requirement as z/OS 1.8 is the last version of CS that supports the TN3270 running as a subtask of the TCPIP stack. The sooner you get to running the TN3270 in a separate address space, the sooner you eliminate a migration

Re: Data Areas Manuals to be dropped

2007-05-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/15/2007 at 10:28 PM, Greg Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I think I've still got my Just say NO to OCO T-shirt that I bought at a NaSTEC. You can have mine when they pry it out of my cold dead fingers ;-) -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO

Re: CLIST question (the ampersands are killing me)

2007-05-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/11/2007 at 06:05 PM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Actually, CMS EXEC supports the same modal interaction with CMS EDIT as CLIST with TSO EDIT. You can invoke a CMS EXEC or EXEC2 procedure from within CMS EDIT, but if you invoke EDIT from within an EXEC

Re: Data Areas Manuals to be dropped

2007-05-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/15/2007 at 07:16 AM, Peter Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The data areas books have forever been generated automatically from macros; I don't recall when the change occurred, but the OS/360 System Control Blocks was not automatically generated. FWIW, automatic

Re: DB2 version 8 SPUFI and ISPF

2007-05-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/15/2007 at 03:01 PM, Jim McAlpine [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: As you are no doubt aware there are code page pre-requisites for DB2 V8. I have applied a ptf to SPUFI which shows the incompatibilities in code page betweed SPUFI and the ISPF terminal like this What is

Re: Data Areas Manuals to be dropped

2007-05-16 Thread Mark Baron
Of course, reading the softcopy manuals has become very difficult as well. Library Reader is no longer available (unless, of course you happen to have a very old library distribution - probably prior to 2001 or 2002 - laying around). Softcopy Reader doesn't work properly, or at all, under

Re: Data Areas Manuals to be dropped

2007-05-16 Thread R.S.
Mark Baron wrote: Of course, reading the softcopy manuals has become very difficult as well. Library Reader is no longer available (unless, of course you happen to have a very old library distribution - probably prior to 2001 or 2002 - laying around). AFAIK it is still available, but hidden

Re: Data Areas Manuals to be dropped

2007-05-16 Thread Mark Baron
On Wed, 16 May 2007 14:15:06 +0200, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Baron wrote: Of course, reading the softcopy manuals has become very difficult as well. Library Reader is no longer available (unless, of course you happen to have a very old library distribution - probably prior to 2001 or

Re: DB2 version 8 SPUFI and ISPF

2007-05-16 Thread Fletcher, Kevin
Jim, Spufi will use CCSID 37. If you restore the PTF you are not really gaining anything since the conflict will still exist, with the PTF DB2 is just telling you about it. There is another thing I tried was to put my terminal emulator to a 1140 CCSID (which on our system translated to a blank

Re: Data Areas Manuals to be dropped

2007-05-16 Thread R.S.
Mark Baron wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2007 14:15:06 +0200, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Baron wrote: Of course, reading the softcopy manuals has become very difficult as well. Library Reader is no longer available (unless, of course you happen to have a very old library distribution -

Re: Shared ICP between 2 SYSPLEXES

2007-05-16 Thread Bielskie, Stephen
Do you mean CFP (ICP are Internal Coupling Peer, which have no physical connection and are limited to within a single CEC)? I believe the limitation is only that there can be only on CF accessed on each end of the CFP. Washington Systems Center published zSeries Peer Mode Links whitepaper in

Re: Shared ICP between 2 SYSPLEXES

2007-05-16 Thread Field, Alan C.
I think you can - we have z9EC machines with ICB-4 links that can be shared, though we don't. In HCD define the icp as SHR and assign it to the appropriate LPAR(s). I would hope HCD wouldn't let you define an illegal configuration. I expect documentation will be found in the HCD manuals.

Re: Data Areas Manuals to be dropped

2007-05-16 Thread Rick Fochtman
Mark Baron wrote: Of course, reading the softcopy manuals has become very difficult as well. Library Reader is no longer available (unless, of course you happen to have a very old library distribution - probably prior to 2001 or 2002 - laying around). Softcopy Reader doesn't work properly, or

Re: Duplicate CTC addresses

2007-05-16 Thread Rick Fochtman
-snip-- Hi to all. Does anybody know if it is possible to define duplicate ctc addresses to a DR LPAR? I have two processors and can define duplicate LPARs to each of them, so that each CPC has LPARS A to E defined to it. CPC 1 has LPARS A and B

Re: How to reload SSL certificate for z/OS TN3270 server

2007-05-16 Thread Alan Scott
Either way, Subtask of TCPIP or seperate address space, doesn't matter. To reload the SSL cert for TN3270 all secureports must be stopped. Can be done with OBEYFILE commands, but will disrupt all secure TN3270 connections. --

Re: Report on TSO usage

2007-05-16 Thread Rick Fochtman
--snip--- G'day All, Am new to this list, sorry if am asking the wrong question here ! Am looking for some kind of report which will pull out the info on TSO usage on a mainframe. Something which would individually list all the TSO users who logged on

Re: Shared ICP between 2 SYSPLEXES

2007-05-16 Thread Paolo Cacciari
Well, I think you can't do that. on every side of a peer link you can have ONE and only ONE CF. In your case, you have to add a second peer link for new sysplex. Otherwise, you have to rebuild your configuration, using a couple of peer links (no redoundancy) for both PLEX1a and PLEX1b

Re: REXX Question

2007-05-16 Thread Mark H. Young
On Wed, 16 May 2007 01:15:08 +0530, Varun Manocha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that worked. Thanks! It was driving me crazy... Can you please send me a copy (offline) of your working REXX code? THANX. mhyI -- For

Enterprise Class? (Was Virtual tape limits)

2007-05-16 Thread Jeffrey Deaver
This is an enterprise class rack-mount controller What the heck does enterprise class mean nowadays, anyway? As I'm looking at virtual tape solutions that involve SATA disk for a MF solution, I'm being told by certain folks that its not enterprise class. Why? Everything in the box is

Re: Another migration from the mainframe

2007-05-16 Thread Howard Brazee
On 15 May 2007 14:35:16 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown, John) wrote: 1) They'll deny it by creative accounting. This happened at one place that I worked when the PC revolution was new. The individual departments were responsible for their own PC workstations and software. Therefore the

E-Mail From the Mainframe Question

2007-05-16 Thread Robert Pelletier
I have been asked to have the frame send e-mail to a specific address for encryption and then the server would send it out. Would anyone know where the address is specified on the frame side? Thanks in advance. We use the XMITIP utility under TSO to send the mail. Have a Nice Day ! Bob

Re: How to reload SSL certificate for z/OS TN3270 server

2007-05-16 Thread Chris Mason
Wayne How time flies! It seems only yesterday I was reflecting on the novelty of actually having the TN3270 server function running as an external client as is the relationship of all the other server - and indeed *real* client - functions associated with TCP/IP for MVS - as I first knew it -

Re: Shared ICP between 2 SYSPLEXES

2007-05-16 Thread Neubert, Kevin (DIS)
If you have peer mode capable links you could certainly do what you propose, but it would not be adhering to high availability connectivity design. It really depends on you comfort level, your CF structures, if you're exploiting system-managed CF structure duplexing, etc., but you might be able

Re: Duplicate CTC addresses

2007-05-16 Thread Chris Mason
Errol Is it possible you could use dynamic XCF in place of the current channel-to-channel definitions? In any case you should mention in what sort of VTAM definitions your channel addresses appear, TRLEs or CTCA or MPC, in support of the SNA or IP components of CS. Also with something as

Re: LOADxx PARMLIB statement, can dsname include SYSR1 symbol?

2007-05-16 Thread Jakubek, Jan
In case others would have a similar interest, I did an experiment. This is unsupported: Case 1: --- PARMLIB SYS1.PARMLIB.SYSR1 At IPL we get: IGGN307I sysr1,SYS1.PARMLIB.SYSR1,DATA SET NOT FOUND ON VOLUME IEA345A SYS1.PARMLIB.SYSR1 NOT USED (NOT CATALOGED) - PRESS ENTER TO CONTINUE

Re: E-Mail From the Mainframe Question

2007-05-16 Thread Barkow, Eileen
Each site may have different requirements for the control statements to send email i think that XMITIP was different. But i have been using just IKJEFT01 to send email like this: The email address to send to goes in the RCPT TO: fields SYSTSIN DD * TRANSMIT NODENAME.SMTPSRV DD(SYSIN) SEQ

Re: LOADxx PARMLIB statement, can dsname include SYSR1 symbol?

2007-05-16 Thread Lizette Koehler
I only have a minor question to ask. Is SYSR1 in your IEASYM member for that system at IPL time? It almost looks like SYSR1 is not resolving and I am not sure that is a default IBM symbolic. Though I could be wrong. So this is just a question. Lizette In case others would have a similar

How do I find the SPANNED indicator in a VB record?

2007-05-16 Thread Robert Bardos
Folks, quick question (since I'm chasing/trying to recover severe production problems in parallel): how do I find the spanned indicator in a VB record? Background: had a program abend which processes IMS log records. CA support very aptly pointed to a statement in the code where there was a

Re: E-Mail From the Mainframe Question

2007-05-16 Thread Lionel B Dyck
Robert - XMITIP by default sends all outgoing mail to the JES2 spool and then the z/OS SMTP server picks it up and sends it out to its destination. z/OS SMTP can be configured to route all outgoing mail to an in house SMTP server running Sendmail or one of the other mail handling programs

Re: How do I find the SPANNED indicator in a VB record?

2007-05-16 Thread Jim McAlpine
IIRC it's in the first byte after the 2 byte length field in the RDW. See below - 00 - complete logical record 01 - first segment of multi segment record 10 - last segment of multi segment record 11 - segment other than the first or last. Jim McAlpine On 5/16/07, Robert Bardos

Re: E-Mail From the Mainframe Question

2007-05-16 Thread Robert Pelletier
Thanks very much. Bob Pelletier Connecticut Student Loan Foundation Rocky Hill, Ct. -Original Message- From: Lionel B Dyck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 11:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: E-Mail From the Mainframe Question Robert - XMITIP by

Re: E-Mail From the Mainframe Question

2007-05-16 Thread Alan Scott
You need to specify the address of the server you want all of your mail to go to in the SMTP configuration file. The parameters to set are; 1. IPMAILERADDRESS - Set the address of the server to recieve all SMTP mail here. 2. RESOLVERUSAGE - Set this parameter to NO. This prevents the SMTP

Hexadecimal value

2007-05-16 Thread Amlan Prasad
Hi, I have a requirement to send the Hex value in the file field. For example after some caluculation I get a 4-char value whose hex equivalent is X'076DC419'. Now I need to pass '076DC419' in a 8-char field to be written in a file. This will be processed by the other system. How can I do it

Re: E-Mail From the Mainframe Question

2007-05-16 Thread Robert Pelletier
Thanks again. Group is great. Have a Nice Day ! Bob Pelletier Connecticut Student Loan Foundation Rocky Hill, Ct. -Original Message- From: Alan Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 11:53 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: E-Mail From the Mainframe

Re: How do I find the SPANNED indicator in a VB record?

2007-05-16 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
You can start here (watch the line-wrap): http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DGT2D430/3.1.3.2? SHELF=DGT2BK41DT=20040624112123 From that page, the third byte of the RDW for each record is the segment control byte, only the last two bits of which are significant: Figure

Re: How do I find the SPANNED indicator in a VB record?

2007-05-16 Thread Bill Wilkie
Robert: I could probably dig out the details, but here is the link to what you're asking aboutfor VB and VBS: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dgt1d405/3.2.3?SHELF=DT=19990106110554 Bill From: Robert Bardos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: PSF-PRINTER

2007-05-16 Thread Ron Wells
Anyone here work with OMR Optical Mark Recognition Looking for samples of code... -- Email Disclaimer This E-mail contains confidential information belonging to the sender, which may be legally privileged

Re: How do I find the SPANNED indicator in a VB record?

2007-05-16 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Bardos Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 10:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: How do I find the SPANNED indicator in a VB record? Folks, quick question (since I'm

Re: Data Areas Manuals to be dropped

2007-05-16 Thread Mark Baron
On Wed, 16 May 2007 08:41:41 -0500, Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Baron wrote: Of course, reading the softcopy manuals has become very difficult as well. Library Reader is no longer available (unless, of course you happen to have a very old library distribution - probably prior to

Re: Data Areas Manuals to be dropped

2007-05-16 Thread Walt Farrell
On 5/16/2007 7:56 AM, Mark Baron wrote: Of course, reading the softcopy manuals has become very difficult as well. There's always reading them on the web, assuming you have an Internet connection. Walt -- For

Re: LOADxx PARMLIB statement, can dsname include SYSR1 symbol?

2007-05-16 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 16 May 2007 11:40:37 -0400, Lizette Koehler wrote: I only have a minor question to ask. Is SYSR1 in your IEASYM member for that system at IPL time? It almost looks like SYSR1 is not resolving and I am not sure that is a default IBM symbolic. Though I could be wrong. So this is just a

Re: Hexadecimal value

2007-05-16 Thread Mark Jacobs
Amlan Prasad wrote: Hi, I have a requirement to send the Hex value in the file field. For example after some caluculation I get a 4-char value whose hex equivalent is X'076DC419'. Now I need to pass '076DC419' in a 8-char field to be written in a file. This will be processed by the other

Re: How do I find the SPANNED indicator in a VB record?

2007-05-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 16 May 2007 17:41:47 +0200, Robert Bardos wrote: quick question (since I'm chasing/trying to recover severe production problems in parallel): how do I find the spanned indicator in a VB record? assembler illiterate I'd really appreciate it if anybody could give me a clue where to look

Re: How do I find the SPANNED indicator in a VB record?

2007-05-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 16 May 2007 11:56:46 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: You can start here (watch the line-wrap): http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DGT2D430/3.1.3.2?SHELF=DGT2BK41DT=20040624112123 (unwrapped?) You could process the file as RECFM=VB with a JCL override and

Re: Hexadecimal value

2007-05-16 Thread Flint, Mike
Seen many times before: 05 ws-num5 PIC 9(5) COMP-3. 05 ws-hexvalue2 redefines ws-num5 PIC X(2). 05 ws-hex5 PIC 9(5). 05 ws-display4 redefines ws-hex5

Re: CLIST question (the ampersands are killing me)

2007-05-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 15 May 2007 20:51:56 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: You can invoke a CMS EXEC or EXEC2 procedure from within CMS EDIT, but if you invoke EDIT from within an EXEC then it loses control until EDIT completes. There is no equivalent to DATA and DATA PROMPT. My recollection differs,

Re: How do I find the SPANNED indicator in a VB record?

2007-05-16 Thread Frank Yaeger
Peter Farley wrote on 05/16/2007 08:56:46 AM: You could process the file as RECFM=VB with a JCL override and scan for byte 3 NE x'00'. Sort should handle this nicely. Something like this (untested): SORT FIELDS=COPY INCLUDE COND=(3,1,NE,X'00') Well, that would be: INCLUDE

Re: How do I find the SPANNED indicator in a VB record?

2007-05-16 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
SORT (both DF and SYNC) always did process RDW as data, at least in my times (1972+). In fact, I always have to think twice when coding SORT control statements for RECFM=V input, always need to remember to add +4 to any field offset to account for RDW. Peter -Original Message- From:

Re: Hexadecimal value

2007-05-16 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 16 May 2007 10:54:55 -0500, Amlan Prasad wrote: Hi, I have a requirement to send the Hex value in the file field. For example after some caluculation I get a 4-char value whose hex equivalent is X'076DC419'. Now I need to pass '076DC419' in a 8-char field to be written in a file. This

Re: LOADxx PARMLIB statement, can dsname include SYSR1 symbol?

2007-05-16 Thread Glenn Miller
Hi Jan, We have placed the following comments in the bottom of our LOADxx members to remind us of the restrictions: * * NOTE APAR II11230 (5/27/98) * ENTRY IN CATALOG FOR CONCATINATED DATA SET(S) (PARMLIB) *

Re: How do I find the SPANNED indicator in a VB record?

2007-05-16 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Frank, won't the RDW's be processed for each segment independently if the SORTIN DD has an override for RECFM=V or VB, bypassing the Spanned processing? -Original Message- From: Frank Yaeger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 12:24 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU

Re: How do I find the SPANNED indicator in a VB record?

2007-05-16 Thread Jack Kelly
Does buftek=a still combine spanned records? seems like it's documented in the 1.7 jcl reference, so it may still be good Jack Kelly LA Systems @ US Courts x 202-502-2390 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: How do I find the SPANNED indicator in a VB record?

2007-05-16 Thread Frank Yaeger
gil wrote on 05/16/2007 09:18:42 AM: Will SORT support processing RDWs as data? DFSORT can process an RDW as data, but per my previous note it converts an SDW to an RDW before it starts processing. Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM) - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Specialties: PARSE, JFY, SQZ,

Re: Hexadecimal value

2007-05-16 Thread Hardee, Charles H
You can do the following: 05 HEX-DATA. 10 HEX-NUMERIC PIC S9(9) COMP. 05 HEX-DIGIT OCCURS 8 TIMES PIC 9(1) COMP. 05 DIGIT-INDEXPIC S9(04) COMP. 05 HEX-STRING 10 STRING-CHAR

Re: How do I find the SPANNED indicator in a VB record?

2007-05-16 Thread Robert Bardos
Thanks guys, appreciate your superfast replies. As such this thread is closed. I just go on mumbling a bit. The whole story has potential to drive me crazy. While a few hours ago I could reliably reproduce a S0C9 having a certain IMS SLDS (secondary log data set) as input dataset, now that you

Re: LOADxx PARMLIB statement, can dsname include SYSR1 symbol?

2007-05-16 Thread Jakubek, Jan
On Wed, 16 May 2007 11:40:37 -0400, Lizette Koehler wrote: I only have a minor question to ask. Is SYSR1 in your IEASYM member for that system at IPL time? It almost looks like SYSR1 is not resolving and I am not sure that is a default IBM symbolic. Though I could be wrong. So this is just

Re: How do I find the SPANNED indicator in a VB record?

2007-05-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:24:13 -0700, Frank Yaeger wrote: Well, that would be: INCLUDE COND=(3,1,BI,NE,X'00') but it actually won't work because DFSORT assembles the spanned record into an unspanned record before it processes the INCLUDE statement. So the INCLUDE statement will see an RDW

Re: How do I find the SPANNED indicator in a VB record?

2007-05-16 Thread Frank Yaeger
Peter Farley wrote on 05/16/2007 09:32:35 AM: Frank, won't the RDW's be processed for each segment independently if the SORTIN DD has an override for RECFM=V or VB, bypassing the Spanned processing? Well, I couldn't make it do that. I set up an input data set with

Re: How do I find the SPANNED indicator in a VB record?

2007-05-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 16 May 2007 12:32:35 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: Frank, won't the RDW's be processed for each segment independently if the SORTIN DD has an override for RECFM=V or VB, bypassing the Spanned processing? Depends on the processing. Technically, this should be reported as a data

Re: How do I find the SPANNED indicator in a VB record?

2007-05-16 Thread Frank Yaeger
gil wrote on 05/16/2007 10:11:27 AM: Ummm. How, then, does it deal with logical records longer than 32767 (65535?) bytes, supported in JCL by LRECL=X? DFSORT doesn't support that. Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM) - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Specialties: PARSE, JFY, SQZ, ICETOOL, IFTHEN,

Re: How do I find the SPANNED indicator in a VB record?

2007-05-16 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 5/16/2007 11:59:58 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thought I wait a bit before saying Thank you as you all gave the thread an interesting twist. Guess I'd run EREP and see if you're getting any hits against the tape drives either TEMP or PERM.

Re: How do I find the SPANNED indicator in a VB record?

2007-05-16 Thread Robert Bardos
Ed Finnell replied to my mention of the drastical change (i.e. disappearance) of the problem: Guess I'd run EREP and see if you're getting any hits against the tape drives either TEMP or PERM. Maybe with the shift change the heads were cleaned? Thanks Ed, I was also speculating about

Payback on zIIPs

2007-05-16 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, Looking for (pointers to) real-world data on software license cost savings attributable to zIIP processors: Percentage reduction in chargeable MSUs or VWLC dollar costs, and specific types of workloads that qualified for execution on the zIIP. Currently running z/OS 1.7 and getting

Re: How do I find the SPANNED indicator in a VB record?

2007-05-16 Thread Jon Brock
Since when does Visual Basic use spanned records? Do I lose my list membership for this? Jon -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN

Re: How do I find the SPANNED indicator in a VB record?

2007-05-16 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Brock Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 1:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How do I find the SPANNED indicator in a VB record? Since when does Visual Basic use spanned

Re: RMM web service web server(s)

2007-05-16 Thread Mike Wood
Radoslaw, Yes, the book is correct; the web service for DFSMSrmm is shipped as a Enterprise ARchive for deployment under WAS. It requires a Java run-time and the WAS environment to get to the web service. We ship a sample client that makes it real easy to demonstrate... But yes,

Re: Payback on zIIPs

2007-05-16 Thread Richards.Bob
John, A tool is not available yet that can do this automagically. My performance folks have indicated that, from Day 1 in our environment, they offloaded over 300 MIPS and 200 MIPS of zIIP-eligible work was still running on GP processors. Needless to say, we installed another zIIP per CEC. I

Re: How do I find the SPANNED indicator in a VB record?

2007-05-16 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 5/16/2007 12:53:18 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: units/volumes. I just think they are, judging from the drastically reduced mount times in the first few minutes after they had recently been mounted. Even if it's a VTS should get sense data

Re: Enterprise Class? (Was Virtual tape limits)

2007-05-16 Thread Bruno Sugliani
On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:46:10 -0500, Jeffrey Deaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is an enterprise class rack-mount controller What the heck does enterprise class mean nowadays, anyway? As I'm looking at virtual tape solutions that involve SATA disk for a MF solution, I'm being told by certain

Re: Enterprise Class? (Was Virtual tape limits)

2007-05-16 Thread Ron Hawkins
Jeff, A lot of the difference comes down to good old RAS. You may want to look up the old Raid Advisory Board definitions that defined the difference between fault tolerant and disaster tolerant. Ron -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

LRECL of Spanned Records

2007-05-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
3 //STEP EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 4 //SYSUT1DD UNIT=SYSALLDA,RECFM=VBS,DSORG=PS,SPACE=(1,1), // LRECL=32767 //* STMT NO. MESSAGE - 4 IEF638I SPECIFIED NUMERIC EXCEEDS MAXIMUM ALLOWED IN THE LRECL SUBPARAMETER OF THE DCB FIELD Why? -- gil

Re: LRECL of Spanned Records

2007-05-16 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
z/OS 1.6 JCL manual, under LRECL subparameter says: The value of bytes is: 1 to 32,760 for non-VSAM data sets. Peter -Original Message- From: Paul Gilmartin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 5:38 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: LRECL of Spanned Records

Re: LRECL of Spanned Records

2007-05-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Farley, Peter x23353 said: Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 17:48:25 -0400 z/OS 1.6 JCL manual, under LRECL subparameter says: The value of bytes is: 1 to 32,760 for non-VSAM data sets. But what is the rationale for that limit? Anyway, by experiment, that statement is

Re: LRECL of Spanned Records

2007-05-16 Thread Bob Rutledge
I think you want LRECL=X. Bob Paul Gilmartin wrote: 3 //STEP EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 4 //SYSUT1DD UNIT=SYSALLDA,RECFM=VBS,DSORG=PS,SPACE=(1,1), // LRECL=32767 //* STMT NO. MESSAGE - 4 IEF638I SPECIFIED NUMERIC EXCEEDS MAXIMUM ALLOWED IN

Re: How do I find the SPANNED indicator in a VB record?

2007-05-16 Thread Shane
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 09:24 -0700, Frank Yaeger wrote: Well, that would be: INCLUDE COND=(3,1,BI,NE,X'00') but it actually won't work because DFSORT assembles the spanned record into an unspanned record before it processes the INCLUDE statement. So the INCLUDE statement will see an

S01D abend Reason Code CF050311 while importing Dump

2007-05-16 Thread Ankur Batra
Greetings, I am getting S01D abend Reason Code CF050311 while trying to import a Dump in Dumpmaster. The explaination of the reason code says : The new current size exceeds the maximum size for the data space and Hiperspace. Can you suggest what should be done to correct this? Thanks in

Re: Enterprise Class? (Was Virtual tape limits)

2007-05-16 Thread Eric Bielefeld
I don't recall every seeing a definition of Enterprise Class, but I always just assumed from the name that it meant anything that worked well for a large enterprise. In my mind, that means reliable, scales well, and is secure. I was going to say RAS, which adds Available. H, sounds like a

Re: LRECL of Spanned Records

2007-05-16 Thread GAVIN Darren * OPS EAS
The LRECL is driven by 4 bytes (first two bytes as nulls) inserted in front of each record to hold the record length as a binary integer. The 32K limit is driven by the fact this binary integer is considered Signed; so instead of 0 thru 65535 it's -32767 thru 32768 The last 8 bytes are lost to

Re: Top 10 software install gripes

2007-05-16 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Neal Eckhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 4:18 PM Subject: Re: Top 10 software install gripes On 11 May 2007 12:17:17 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Marchant) wrote: On Fri, 11 May 2007 11:21:13 -0500,

Re: Top 10 software install gripes

2007-05-16 Thread Richards.Bob
Tom, You aren't the only ones, just the vocal ones! LOL Bob Richards -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pinnacle Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 6:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Top 10 software install gripes -

Re: How do I find the SPANNED indicator in a VB record?

2007-05-16 Thread Frank Yaeger
Shane wrote on 05/16/2007 03:06:29 PM: I reckon I needed to get at this data once before - I think a quick E15 solved it for me. That would only work if the E15 read the records itself in some way that could access the SDWs. If DFSORT reads the records from SORTIN and passes them to the E15,

Re: Top 10 software install gripes

2007-05-16 Thread Kenneth E Tomiak
I am not hard set on filling the track for filling sake. I do it because it seems orderly. Certainly a vendor should allocate 'stingy' because they are also not providing the disk space but they should be considerate and use reasonable numbers. We should not be guessing how many more directory

Re: LRECL of Spanned Records

2007-05-16 Thread Kenneth E Tomiak
VBS 32767 SMF data has annoyed me since I first started working with it. JCL LRECL is limited to 32760, LRECL=X I never got to work with my COBOL program. For pure allocating a dataset to hold SMF data I always used DCB=SOME.SMF.ARCHIVE.DSN to carry along the attributes. In desperation I once

Re: LRECL of Spanned Records

2007-05-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 16 May 2007 15:37:16 -0700, GAVIN Darren * OPS EAS wrote: The LRECL is driven by 4 bytes (first two bytes as nulls) inserted in front of each record to hold the record length as a binary integer. The 32K limit is driven by the fact this binary integer is considered Signed; so instead of

Re: LRECL of Spanned Records

2007-05-16 Thread Bob Rutledge
H. I used LRECL=X, BFTEK=A and locate-mode GET in my assembler programs. Does COBOL not support that technique? Bob Kenneth E Tomiak wrote: VBS 32767 SMF data has annoyed me since I first started working with it. JCL LRECL is limited to 32760, LRECL=X I never got to work with my COBOL

Re: S01D abend Reason Code CF050311 while importing Dump

2007-05-16 Thread Shane Ginnane
IEFUSI in play ??? Shane ... I am getting S01D abend Reason Code CF050311 while trying to import a Dump in Dumpmaster. The explaination of the reason code says : The new current size exceeds the maximum size for the data space and Hiperspace. Can you suggest what should be done to

Re: Top 10 software install gripes

2007-05-16 Thread Ted MacNEIL
If they already fill 43 directory blocks, then using Tom's method they should have upped to 90, not 45. I could live with that. If they fill 2 directory blocks then I do not want to see 90, 45 is still okay by me. I think we're optimising the wrong thing! At the cost of today's disk, why are

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