-- snip --
With VAM (Since I AM a Silverback), you can use a DDNAME of VDSDIAGS
to trace the allocation thru the selection routines. This helps to see
why a dataset didn't go where (I thought) it should have.
.
.
Does SMS have a similar DD? I've used the TEST facility in SMS, but
find it
As the subject, would like to know if this is workable .
- Setup FTP and allow the remote user to submit a job. The job
can issue MVS commands directly thru JCL or via utility run
from the JCL.
- The utility might be some home written program to issue MVS
commands from within batch jobs,
On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 20:20 -0400, Warner Mach wrote:
We recently did this, so I sent him, offline, a note about our experiences
We learned a number of things by flogging around.
Interesting timing for such a thread.
I happen to have an unloved MP3K lying around the office, and have
recently
Anthony Fletcher from the IBM Mainframe Discussion List
IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 06/08/2007 12:25:01 AM:
Has anyone experienced a problem with PDS86 leaving out a chunk of text
from
a LOAD module?
I was looking in .SCEERUN(CEECCICS) to see what was in the CEEEXTAN
CSECT. I
used the LIST
Another option would be to use MQ if you have that installed. Issue
a PUT to a remote trigger queue that would fire off a CICS txn that
could issue whatever command you wanted.
At 11:26 PM 6/7/2007, Tsai Laurence said:
hello,
As the subject, would like to know if this is workable .
[snip] Is there a medium to large IBM box that can run a couple
hundred of virtual windows 2003 servers? And said box can scale up to
approximately 1000+ virtual windows servers? [snip]
I am doing research for the possible replacement of 200+ windows
server in our datacenter. We
Wow, what are you trying to do Bill? Make those of us who started in
this business using punch cards feel like old geezers.
Tom Kelman
Commerce Bank of Kansas City
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On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 08:35 -0400, Bill wrote:
According to Wikipedia's On this day..., Herman Hollerith received a
patent for his punch card calculator on this day (8 June) in 1887. Go,
Herman!!
H - my first experience with Hermans baby was cards that had to be
punched by hand -
I find the same problem under 1.8 with the latest cut.
If just doing a L CEECCICS everthing after CEECDEL and
before CEEPTLR is missing. Here is a partial map:
CEEBTOR 003C68 000120 RMODE ANY AMODE 31
CEECABND 003D88 000468 RMODE ANY AMODE 31
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 17:12:51 -0500, Kenneth E Tomiak
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To download:
ftp bin
to upload:
ftp bin
Assuming the FTP translation tables on both the download and upload are the
same. They are on my test.
What do translation tables have to do with a binary FTP?
Mark
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According to Wikipedia's On this day..., Herman Hollerith received a
patent for his punch card calculator on this day (8 June) in 1887. Go,
Herman!!
I still have a handful of blank cards that I liberated from a service bureau
ca. 1985. I use them sometimes to write notes to myself
For CICS commands, the CPSM Web User Interface (WUI), may provide the
capability that you seek.
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On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 06:15:58 -0300, Shmuel
Wednesday was also IBM-Main's anniversary, 21st I think.
Darren, Ed is that correct?
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That means IBM-Main is finally old enough to buy beer in the US. Bartender
give me a mug of your best draft!
Darren's your man! Makes his own...
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My first job in the computer field was a part time job as the night
shift computer operator with Mead Packaging while I was in college.
They had just replaced their IBM 1401 with an IBM 360/30. Even though
they had tape drives the payroll master was on cards. Each Friday I
would get a deck of
That means IBM-Main is finally old enough to buy beer in the US. Bartender give
me a mug of your best draft!
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Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 09:32:42 -0400
Wednesday was also
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 08:35:46 EDT, DASDBill wrote:
I still have a handful of blank cards that I liberated from a service bureau
ca. 1985. I use them sometimes to write notes to myself (without punching
them, though). They fix perfectly in my shirt pocket.
You must have a deep pocket. Don't
In a message dated 6/8/2007 8:33:20 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
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Darren, Ed is that correct?
Absolutely! I made a Bill the Cat badge for the 20th, but couldn't get any
takers so sort of sloughed off to my own devices(sic)
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 09:27:00 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
How are block boundaries represented? I agree with Shmuel that
these are essential for IEBCOPY unloaded data sets.
checking isn't what it should be.) I'll send you my test
JCL privately.
Never mind. I was testing with z/OS at both
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 13:32:34 -0400, Jack Kelly wrote:
Now that Paul has opened the subject of IBM doc'm, how about getting
STK/SUN/STC to do something with their, I guess that you would call it,
documentation? Who is the division head that we can write to? And let's
Answered in part privately.
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Subject: Re: IEBCOPY Unloaded dataset to PC and back again...not
snip
This doesn't seem to come from RFC
Anthony Fletcher from the IBM Mainframe Discussion List
IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 06/08/2007 12:25:01 AM:
Has anyone experienced a problem with PDS86 leaving out a chunk of text
from
a LOAD module?
I was looking in .SCEERUN(CEECCICS) to see what was in the CEEEXTAN
CSECT. I
used the LIST
We recently upgraded our DASD from EMC Symetrix to HDS/Sun 9990.
Although the elapsed times for our batch window jobs overall has
improved significantly we have two batch CICS jobs whose elapsed times
have almost doubled. I/O performance is good, the CPU usage is not
excessive. Just these two jobs
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 07:59:40 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
The method is documented and is simple. The downloaded file is
especially encoded as it is downloaded. With a very simple encoding
method. Each data byte in the range 0x00-0xFE comes down unchanged. A
0xFF data byte is encoded as two bytes:
The Enterprise COBOL 3.4 Programming Guide contains a lot of information
about XML processing, including a section that has an example (with
code).
Don Imbriale
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I don't know if the rules of this list allow cost discussion - but I'm not
asking for specific numbers, and I'm trying to avoid being specific about
the vendor, so maybe it will slide?
We're trying to evaluate switching to Tape Mount Management versus virtual
tape. This post is not about the
Sam Knutson said:
snip
As far as I know this is not available in native DFSMSdfp but a small
simple products from DTS Software SMS/Debug will do just what you want
I
think.
http://www.dtssoftware.com/product_sms.htm
Best Regards,
Sam Knutson, GEICO
Is ibmlink on the same system as the site for submitting the SCRT
reports? There were problems with that site at the beginning of the
week. If they are on the same servers it might be related. Maybe IBM
needs to get bigger servers. :)
Tom Kelman
Commerce Bank of Kansas City
(816) 760-7632
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 09:08:43 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 07:59:40 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
The method is documented and is simple. The downloaded file is
especially encoded as it is downloaded. With a very simple encoding
method. Each data byte in the range 0x00-0xFE comes
Is it just me or is ibmlink availability getting to be a real issue?
-Rob Schramm
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We are about to implement cascaded FICON switches. Right now we have two
McDATA FICON switches with a number of DASD and TAPE devices connected.
The devices are all local and use a single byte link id (chan.link e.g.
4A.30).
We have to upgrade the McData's to allow cascading which apparently
The IBM problem number for today's severity 1 world wide IBMLink outage was
32126998.
I think IBMLink might actually be working now
Brian
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 11:01:13 -0400, Schramm, Rob wrote:
Is it just me or is ibmlink availability getting to be a real issue?
-Rob Schramm
Again too bad the green screen ServiceLink has sunset-d. The web version
finally let me in, several 'so sorry' screen, but its responsiveness
leaves much to be desired. So if everyone gets off, then i can do my
queries-maybe!
Jack Kelly
LA Systems @ US Courts
x 202-502-2390
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 10:24:32 -0400, Tim Hare wrote:
If anyone has actual cost figures for their virtual tape box separately,
could you give me a ballpark of what the ratio of the cost of the virtual
compontents to the tape components should be so I can do a sanity check on
what I'm hearing?
I'm
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 10:15:31 -0500, Bill Godfrey wrote:
It is in RFC 959. See 3.4.1 STREAM MODE.
So the documentation relevant to STRU R appears under MODE S Thanks.
RFC 959 also requires:
5.1. MINIMUM IMPLEMENTATION
I, too, still have about 200 blank cards. Some are edge cut, others are
complete rectangles. If you still
have any VCR tapes, the cards scotch tape perfectly on the box and can be
used to identify the contents
of the tapes that you record.
On 6/8/07, (IBM Mainframe Discussion List) [EMAIL
Rob
I can imagine that ibmlink availability is always an *issue*[1], the
question is - has it also become a *problem*?
Couldn't resist that - it's so obvious - and, hey, it's Friday ...
Chris Mason
[1] Original meaning.
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As Sam has already pointed out, there is nothing available in native SMS
other than the ACS test option.
Oh ye of little faith! Since z/OS 1.7, there is a console command
SETSMS VOLSELMSG which will provide summary or detailed info about the
SMS allocation process. It can be limited to
I was looking in .SCEERUN(CEECCICS) to see what was in the CEEEXTAN CSECT.
Try LIST CEECICSS MOD(CEEEXTAN)
This will display just the CSECT you are interested in
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IBMLink down and out again. Estimated up time 1400 EDT.
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IBMLink down and out again. Estimated up time 1400 EDT.
It's back now, but it still sucks.
Tom
meanwhile the 3270 interface, oh no wait, those morons eliminated the one
freaking interface that was actually WORKING CORRECTLY !
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It has been slow or down all day. How can an organization (IBM) who is trying
to promote the mainfame as a platform of choice, migrate one of their most
important functions off the mainframe? Sounds like very few listserv members
are happy with their decision and we are their loudest advocates.
Ladies Gents,
Just thought I would share this with everyone since I just happen to
stumble across it.
Our DFHSM tasks create an extraordinary amount of output in the job log.
Our SMS group would have to do a controlled shutdown and restart of these
tasks on a regular basis so that the output
Intuitively I'd make some arcane comment but this has happened so often
that it's not worth the energy - maybe that's their plan to simply wear us
down??
Jack Kelly
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I started this analysis thinking a robotic tape library was the way to
go, but I've changed my mind. I can't see how anyone can justify
physical tape anymore.
Most virtual tape systems eventually write to physical tape as they
internally perform hierarchical storage management. There's an
Since we have the capacity on our DASD to provide
a disk buffer for the sequential datasets we
currently create on tape it's hard to see the benefit
of going to a virtual tape rather than just a
sequential dataset on disk.
Is your 'disk buffer' on your enterprise disk? If so, how much does
I seem to remember a sev1 ticket I created about web ibmlink in which they
replied to me that the 3270 interface wouldn't be eliminated until the web
version was STABLE.
H.
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On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 13:42:25 -0400, Tim Hare wrote:
Most virtual tape systems eventually write to physical tape as they
internally perform hierarchical storage management. There's an OS that
does HSM functions on a bunch of disk, and when the disk space gets full,
the datasets representing
Sounds like you need to re-open it if you can.
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Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 1:03 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: ServiceLink is taking the day off
I seem to remember a
shock and surprise, my sev1 records about web ibmlink availability have
magically disappeared. I list all of my records and they don't show up.
Hmm, if all problem records are deleted, does that mean there's been no
problems?
Hey, I'll have to try that one here.
I sent our ibm customer rep
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/07/2007
at 05:30 PM, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
o you, S.Metz and anyone who want to tell us
what the only right meaning of acronym/acceptance is.
Please stop lying about what I want.
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ISO position; see
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/06/2007
at 06:29 PM, Brian Tidlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Check what options TSSO is using on the SVC 34. This is probably a
console-restructure issue. Look for MGCR in the OSCMD source and see
whether you need an update.
077 and 088 were collators. 088 was the device that required cards on one
side the 9edge first and the other 12edge first. the 077 did not require
this.
082 083 (1000 cards/min) 084 and 101 were sorters.
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 06/08/2007
02:01:02 PM:
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 13:30:48 -0500, Robert Justice [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
shock and surprise, my sev1 records about web ibmlink availability have
magically disappeared. I list all of my records and they don't show up.
Hmm, if all problem records are deleted, does that mean there's been no
In
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
on 06/06/2007
at 08:05 AM, Veilleux, Jon L [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
SDSF REXX interface.
C/SDSF//
MCODE = GETMSG('DISPMSG.','SOL',,,10)
DO x= 1 to DISPMSG.0
You might want to insert a delay in there.
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ISO
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/06/2007
at 10:16 PM, Ed Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I respect you but I got this from a excellent source (IBM type person
who has been a friend of 30+ years).
Could that have a been a non-defunct product called something like
WinU, originally written to support
On 8 Jun 2007 10:42:51 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
It has been slow or down all day. How can an organization (IBM) who is trying
to promote the mainfame as a platform of choice, migrate one of their most
important functions off the mainframe? Sounds like very few listserv members
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/08/2007
at 10:15 AM, Bill Godfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
It is in RFC 959. See 3.4.1 STREAM MODE.
In a record structured file EOR and EOF will each be indicated by a
two-byte control code. The first byte of the control code will be
all ones, the escape
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/08/2007
at 09:38 AM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I guess Shmuel, Kenneth, you, and I all agree on XMIT/TRSMAIN.
With the existing TSO commands, I find XMIT easiest. However, I
haven't played around with WSA for the purpose.
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In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/07/2007
at 05:12 PM, Kenneth E Tomiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Assuming the FTP translation tables on both the download and upload
are the same.
Why would those matter? You used a bin command, which sets image
mode.
3.1.1.3. IMAGE TYPE
The data are
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/06/2007
at 07:39 AM, Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Well, you might try the TSO OPER command. Depending on your
authority you can probably do quite a bit.
OPER is very limited, regardless of your authority. The way to go is
CONSOLE.
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In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/06/2007
at 07:04 PM, Dave Kopischke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
I was reading a few weeks (or months) ago that someone actually did
boot a windows server under LINUX.
Possibly under a VM application on Linux; certainly not directly on
Linux. Also, that would have been
In [EMAIL PROTECTED],
on 06/07/2007
at 11:55 AM, Thompson, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Didn't IBM wait until there was a clear definition of what a system
that claimed to be a UNIX system did before implementing it?
There were two competing definitions; IBM had to document the
deviations
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/07/2007
at 07:27 AM, Dave Butts [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I'm sure most people here know this answer already, but I am curious.
What is the JES2 songbook?
It's the manual for an old card sorter called the model 88[1].
Seriously, I's a series of songs compiled by the
In [EMAIL PROTECTED],
on 06/07/2007
at 12:37 PM, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Some instructions on the zSeries are patent protected. That means
that writing any code or making any hardware which has an identical
effect, regardless of how it is done, can only be legally done if the
I think that I'll summarize what I have gotten from all this back and
forth about ftp'ing z/OS datasets.
1) If it is a PDS, then use XMIT to flatten it to a sequential format.
2) If it is VSAM, do an EXPORT TEMPORARY to flatten it to a sequential
format.
3) If it is a sequential file (possibly
In a message dated 6/8/2007 1:31:12 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
magically disappeared. I list all of my records and they don't show up.
Hmm, if all problem records are deleted, does that mean there's been no
problems?
For something to be this bad for this
The model 88 referred to here had and has many manufacturers, most famously
Steinway Sons.
Bob
Kirk Talman wrote:
077 and 088 were collators. 088 was the device that required cards on one
side the 9edge first and the other 12edge first. the 077 did not require
this.
082 083 (1000
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I seem to remember a sev1 ticket I created about web ibmlink
in which they replied to me that the 3270 interface wouldn't
be eliminated until the web version was STABLE.
H.
Well, dead
On Jun 8, 2007, at 12:31 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/06/2007
at 10:16 PM, Ed Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I respect you but I got this from a excellent source (IBM type person
who has been a friend of 30+ years).
Could that have a been a non-defunct
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 14:31:23 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
Could that have a been a non-defunct product called something like
WinU, originally written to support a windoze API on a Unix platform?
If so, it required a recompile of the application to match the
platform.
That would be
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 14:11:02 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/08/2007
at 10:15 AM, Bill Godfrey said:
It is in RFC 959. See 3.4.1 STREAM MODE.
In a record structured file EOR and EOF will each be indicated by a
two-byte control code. The first byte of the
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 17:18 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote:
http://www.bristol.com/windu/features.htm
Can't tell if it's defunct or not. The web page is dated 2004.
Oh, it would be defunct.
Bristol had a source licensing agreement with M$ost, and sued for a
couple of hundred million when M$oft
Hi,
IBMLink is down completely again. I contacted the IBMLink help desk at
800-543-3912 as I am trying to update a PMR for a Media Manager defect
which has again caused a production job to fail. This is a case where
the update is detailed enough to bar any thought of having Level 1 put
it in
The only change I have is: I only use TRSMAIN if it is going to IBM. Otherwise
transmit and receive will work for me on more z/OS systems without the need
to try and upload TRSMAIN. (I used to have JCL to pull it straight from IBM
but they are leaning towards making you click an I AGREE button
This has nothing to do with SDSF.
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:05:11 -0400, Veilleux, Jon L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
SDSF REXX interface.
/* REXX */
CONSOLE ACTIVATE
CONSPROF SOLDISPLAY(NO) SOLNUM(100)
ADDRESS CONSOLE
d a,l
DISPMSG = ''
MCODE = GETMSG('DISPMSG.','SOL',,,10)
DO x= 1 to DISPMSG.0
In a message dated 6/8/2007 9:20:41 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Manage NOW/SEV 1 # 32130396 was opened internally and the issue is being
worked on but there was no estimated uptime the help desk could provide.
Seems like the whole network is hosed, getting
In a message dated 6/8/2007 3:19:49 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The model 88 referred to here had and has many manufacturers, most famously
Steinway Sons.
I got that early on, now if I could just figure out how to get SONG204 into
WORD(2003). I got XMIT
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