Re: Dependencies between subsystem initialization routines

2008-08-26 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:50:41 -0500 W. Kevin Kelley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :IBM would like to know if anyone has created dependencies on the ordering of :subsystem initialization routines or depends on the subsystem initialization :process being synchronous. :We are specifically interested in

Re: Share proceedings when being a GSE member

2008-08-26 Thread Jan Vanbrabant
Ed Jaffe wrote: I believe that for many years SHARE has made the current conference proceedings public. Past proceedings require credentialed login. Well, that's it, Ed John. I got this reply from Abbey Nystedt, SHARE Inc. headquarters: You must be a SHARE member to access SHARE conference

SV: SYSOUT LRECL/dcb parms and JES2 performance

2008-08-26 Thread Thomas Berg
-Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] För William H. Blair Skickat: den 26 augusti 2008 03:27 Till: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Ämne: Re: SYSOUT LRECL/dcb parms and JES2 performance snipped ... JES uses its equivalent of VB when

Re: Porting Apache 2.2.9 to z/OS 1.9, and other matters

2008-08-26 Thread Joe Fragale
Steve, I would be very interested in seeing your paper on Apache to z/OS 1.9, , if You would be so kind as to send me a copy at the above email address I would be very thankful and I would attempt to get the powers to be here to allow me to install it , I would be glad to provide feedback on

REXX GIMAPI Interface / CBT778

2008-08-26 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hello, when I tried to use the REXX GIMAPI interface (CBT778) I get the same problem which is described in an older maillist entry: The issue that I have is that it only honors the GIMSENTRY specification for the first item that matches the filter. All further matches only list the default

Re: Platinum and z/OS V1.9

2008-08-26 Thread Lizette Koehler
That information is dead on to my problem. However, Platinum generates the control cards. Unless there is a way to influence their process, I am not sure how to resolve this issue. I will see if CA or the DB2 newsgroup can assist. Lizette Check in the z/OS 1.9 migration guide under DFSMS

Re: SMS Dynamic Volume and still D37

2008-08-26 Thread R.S.
Jack Kelly wrote: I thought that I understood this option until a user came in. Researching this issue, I discovered, what everyone else probably knows but, Dynamic Vol addition doesn't occur if there's no secondary allocation requested, eg SPACE=(TRK,(10,0)). This was obfuscated by

Re: REXX GIMAPI Interface / CBT778

2008-08-26 Thread Shane
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 12:49 +0200, Jürgen Kehr wrote: when I tried to use the REXX GIMAPI interface (CBT778) I get the same problem which is described in an older maillist entry: The issue that I have is that it only honors the GIMSENTRY specification for the first item that matches the

Re: Dependencies between subsystem initialization routines

2008-08-26 Thread David Andrews
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 19:50 -0500, W. Kevin Kelley wrote: IBM would like to know if anyone has created dependencies on the ordering of subsystem initialization routines Sun/STK's SMC and HSC subsystems have dependencies on other subsystems (such as TMS). These are documented in their

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2008-08-26 Thread Steven Liston
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Re: Dependencies between subsystem initialization routines

2008-08-26 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
David Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 19:50 -0500, W. Kevin Kelley wrote: IBM would like to know if anyone has created dependencies on the ordering of subsystem initialization routines Sun/STK's SMC and HSC subsystems have

Re: Dependencies between subsystem initialization routines

2008-08-26 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:36:56 -0400, David Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 19:50 -0500, W. Kevin Kelley wrote: IBM would like to know if anyone has created dependencies on the ordering of subsystem initialization routines Sun/STK's SMC and HSC subsystems have dependencies

Re: Enterprise COBOL v3.4.1 run time issue

2008-08-26 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:45 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Enterprise COBOL v3.4.1 run time issue On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:26:19 -0600, Steve Comstock

Re: Enterprise COBOL v3.4.1 run time issue

2008-08-26 Thread Mansell, George R.
Pack of FOW123 followed by zap and unpack would do this without a data exception. Only changes the zones C,D,E. Probably pic 99 == pic 99. Why not use If not numeric? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent:

Re: Dependencies between subsystem initialization routines

2008-08-26 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 8/26/2008 8:34:15 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The ones that may matters most (as I'm sure you know) are the subsystems looking at console messages. Netview SSI, other automation software CA's setup and authorization routine CAS checks itself

Re: Enterprise COBOL v3.4.1 run time issue

2008-08-26 Thread Chris Mason
John In my opinion the emphasis in your reply is wrong. Not only is there no checking that the source bytes are correct unpacked decimal bytes but you may very well want there to be no check performed. An example doesn't come to mind right now - perhaps someone else still interested in this

Re: Enterprise COBOL v3.4.1 run time issue

2008-08-26 Thread Don Holstein
I Agree with the IF NOT NUMERIC. When you read data into an area, the validity of the data is not checked. The Data Truncation Option on the compiler does not check the validity of the data at runtime. It is up to the application programmer to edit the data and check the validity of that data.

Re: Dependencies between subsystem initialization routines

2008-08-26 Thread Wayne Driscoll
While it is true that much software (as mentioned below) do have serialization issues, I think Kevin was referring specifically to the IEFSSNxx parmlib member entries that specifies INITRTN, like DB2, RMM, DB2 PM, MQ etc, not to dependencies between pieces of system code that doesn't run during

Re: Erase tape data securely

2008-08-26 Thread Mike Wood
Victor, You would use the DFSMSrmm supplied utility EDGINERS to erase the tape. EDGINERS uses the DSE CCW to tell the hardware to erase the tape contents. You can drive the EDGINERS actions via the volume ERASE release action, and can set the ERASE action in any of these ways; 1. via command

Re: Erase tape data securely

2008-08-26 Thread Thomas Kern
Is this utility available for the DFSMSrmm that is available/required for ATL/VTS use under z/VM? /Tom Kern /301-903-2211 On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:49:01 -0500, Mike Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Victor, You would use the DFSMSrmm supplied utility EDGINERS to erase the tape. EDGINERS uses the

Re: REXX GIMAPI Interface / CBT778

2008-08-26 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:28:33 +1000, Shane wrote: I know we keep harping on to IBM (et al) to provide us with (documented !!!) APIs, but I have to consider this one a less than outstanding success. And like the CSI, the documentation is (was) average at best. Playing with it is about the only way

Re: 3390-27

2008-08-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/20/2008 at 03:06 PM, Dennis Trojak [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: How many cylinders on a 3390-27? There is no 3390-27, so if you're using that name for a custom volume size you're free to use whatever you want, subject to software support of your chosen size. --

Re: A couple of memory/storage questions

2008-08-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/19/2008 at 06:08 PM, Lindy Mayfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Don't I simply schedule an SRB to run in that address space, map out all the tasks, subtasks and memory allocated by each one, and then just read it? If it's never swapped out. If it's for production use

Re: A couple of memory/storage questions

2008-08-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/19/2008 at 06:13 PM, Lindy Mayfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Nothing thrilling happened. )-: Try it with a privileged PSW. Just S478-08: A problem program tried to free subpool zero. Sure, but subpool free is not the same as attempt at subpool free. Try it in SM

Re: California's COBOL payroll system

2008-08-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/17/2008 at 05:05 PM, Warren Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The new math came out forty years ago! The term may have come out then, but that just reflected the ignorance of the educators who coined it; the Mathematics involved was far older. -- Shmuel

Re: Any other Tools can replace APPC suites from IBM (withdraw support using SNA protocol)

2008-08-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/19/2008 at 12:09 PM, Tommy Tsui [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Assume the TCPIP FTP PORT is not open yet and only SNA transmission is avaiable for mainframe. any other tools that can replace the APPC suite? Why not carry the libraries forward? If you can't, look at the

Re: Anyone heard of a company called TIBCO ?

2008-08-26 Thread Mike Baldwin
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:05:55 -0400, Tony Harminc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/8/21 Tony B. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Supposedly they develop mainframe/open systems related products. The only thing I know about them is that they acquired the Huron/Objectstar product from Amdahl/Antares/Fujitsu

Re: z/OS V1.10 - VSAM buffers above the line

2008-08-26 Thread Steve Comstock
Phil King wrote (off-list): Hi Steve, I am a lurker on IBM-Main and read with interest your piece dated Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:40:41 -0600 about z/OS Features of interest. One thing I noticed was news to me: ... _Various interesting developments_ ... * VSAM buffers are now allocated above

Re: Checking Volume Capacity

2008-08-26 Thread Mike Baldwin
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:20:29 -0700, Howard Rifkind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used to be able to check the capacity of a volume somehow using ISPF option #6...I could be wrong. I can't seem to do this anymore. I'm I wrong, or how can I do this now. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks rmm lv

Re: db2 precompiler error

2008-08-26 Thread Don Leahy
FETCH FIRST n ROWS only applies to a cursor. Your statement is a singleton SELECT, so, by definition, can only support 1 returned row anyway. If your SELECT statement attempts to retrieve more than 1 row, you will get a -811 SQLCODE at run time. Convert your statement to a Cursor and you should

Re: A couple of memory/storage questions

2008-08-26 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Like this? MODESET KEY=ZERO,MODE=SUP STORAGE RELEASE,SP=0 It didn't complain about it this time. Didn't throw off any sparks either. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: 26. elokuuta 2008 17:57 To:

Re: Erase tape data securely

2008-08-26 Thread Hal Merritt
Depends on the level of security you need and how much you are willing to spend. Many of us simply physically destroy the tape. Depending on the situation, the total cost of erasing a tape (to include any human interventions) exceeds the cost of a replacement tape. HTH and good luck

Re: db2 precompiler error

2008-08-26 Thread Brain
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Re: Checking Volume Capacity

2008-08-26 Thread Stocker, Herman
Hi Mike, ISPF option #6 on my panel is Command. If you have a TSO command/Clist/REXX/program that can give you volume statistic it will work. What did you do in #6 before? ISMF can be used, QW;;s can be used, I think that DITTO has some function that may give information on the volume. There

HSM SETSYS Parameters

2008-08-26 Thread Darth Keller
When I issue an HSEND QUERY SETSYS command, I find the following 2 fields: DATA SET BACKUP MAXIMUM DASD SIZE=003000, and DATA SET BACKUP STANDARD DASD SIZE=000250 We're at zOS1.9 and I'm trying to find where/how the values for these 2 fields are set. So far, I'm not having any luck with

Re: HSM SETSYS Parameters

2008-08-26 Thread Darth Keller
I think I've found it - DASDSELECTIONSIZE(3000 250) ddk /-/-/-/-/-//-/-/- When I issue an HSEND QUERY SETSYS command, I find the following 2 fields: DATA SET BACKUP MAXIMUM DASD SIZE=003000, and DATA SET BACKUP STANDARD DASD SIZE=000250 We're at zOS1.9 and I'm trying to find where/how the

Re: 3390-27

2008-08-26 Thread Ron Hawkins
Dennis, If your CE is from HDS, SUN or HP then when we initially format the array groups we have some common sizes to select from, but a custom size can also be specified with 1 CYL granularity. The designation for the last two iterations of large volume support in z/OS are 3390-L and 3390-M,

dynamically generating Netview global variable names

2008-08-26 Thread Barkow, Eileen
Would anyone know if there is a way to dynamically set the name of Netview global variables. i tried in both Netview clist and Rexx languages but cannot get what i want. ie: PNAME = 'ABC' CGLOBAL PNAME results in global variable named PNAME but i really want the global name to be the

Re: 3390-27

2008-08-26 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Note that these are suggested sizes only. The engineer has to enter the actual size that the customer requires the RAID Group formatted as. I tend towards the maximum size supported at your disaster site. PAV and go! - Too busy driving to stop for gas!

Re: REXX GIMAPI Interface / CBT778

2008-08-26 Thread Kenneth E Tomiak
You mistake someone working for IBM and donating sample code to CBTTAPE as an API from IBM. It is not. I'll give it a try tonight. I assume the OP did notice the sample Rexx code traps the output into a compound variable, not a singular variable. You did display from stem.1 thru stem.[stem.0]?

Re: Find out allocations of current MSTJCL

2008-08-26 Thread Kenneth E Tomiak
I followed the control blocks up and found them using the supported releases of z/OS. On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:25:54 -0400, Gerhard Postpischil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Volkmar Langer wrote: I wonder if there's a way to find out which datasets are allocated to master jcl (some control block

Re: SYSOUT LRECL/dcb parms and JES2 performance

2008-08-26 Thread William H. Blair
gah wrote: How do you do the timing? tused = Task_CPU_used_AFTER - Task_CPU_used_BEFORE Does it include all CPU cycles used by the user program, JES2, SVC handlers, etc.? Yes, everything that MVS charges to the task CPU timer. So, in a nutshell, the answer to your question is: YES.

Re: dynamically generating Netview global variable names

2008-08-26 Thread Chris Mason
Eileen According to some clists I wrote some time ago which I have preserved on my PC, the ending quote in the REXX statements with the GLOBALV commands are to the right of the variable name and not to the left as in your statements. For example, having set a value in the variable SNMPAGENT, I

Re: dynamically generating Netview global variable names

2008-08-26 Thread Pedro Vera
I am rexx person, but not a Netview person... you might try the INTERPRET command. INTERPRET 'CGLOBAL' PNAME It will resolve PNAME first then execute the whole thing. Pedro Vera -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: REXX GIMAPI Interface / CBT778

2008-08-26 Thread Kenneth E Tomiak
I tried it and am not sure what the complaint really is. Right in the source code it advertises it is a front-end to the GIMAPI. It is not the API itself. So it does what it does. If you want to do something different then you should write a better front end and donate it on CBTTAPE.org. That

Re: Erase tape data securely

2008-08-26 Thread Linda Mooney
Here is a link for the Redbook that describes EDGINERS - http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg245983.pdf Linda Mooney -- Original message -- From: Thomas Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is this utility available for the DFSMSrmm that is available/required for ATL/VTS

Re: Erase tape data securely

2008-08-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/25/2008 at 12:47 PM, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: First, it depends on what you mean securely. No, it depends on answering the question he asked instead of an unrelated question. He wants a utility that will issue DSE. He didn't ask how secure DSE is, although it's

Re: Erase tape data securely

2008-08-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/25/2008 at 02:42 AM, Victor Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Could you anyone send me a sample jcl or tell me where to find the procedure? Richard's program should work once you convert it to MVS, and Steve's suggestion to use FATS is a good one. -- Shmuel

Re: Erase tape data securely

2008-08-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/25/2008 at 07:28 PM, Russell Witt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: What the others have told is correct. However, one more thing to be aware with STK drives is that there is an option to perform a fast erase and a full or slow erase. Does that apply to DSE? --

CICS TS 3.2 Apply/Check Question

2008-08-26 Thread Howard Rifkind
I tried to do an apply/check against a selected PTF. Having problems with this and being I haven't done any SMP work in well over two years I would really appreciate some one taking a look at what I've done and if possible give me some direction as how to resolve all this business. If not for

Re: CICS TS 3.2 Apply/Check Question

2008-08-26 Thread Gibney, Dave
It's not for any version you have in your SMPE zone. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Rifkind Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 6:16 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: CICS TS 3.2 Apply/Check Question I tried to

Re: Dependencies between subsystem initialization routines

2008-08-26 Thread W. Kevin Kelley
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:37:18 -0500, Wayne Driscoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While it is true that much software (as mentioned below) do have serialization issues, I think Kevin was referring specifically to the IEFSSNxx parmlib member entries that specifies INITRTN, like DB2, RMM, DB2 PM, MQ

Re: Dependencies between subsystem initialization routines

2008-08-26 Thread W. Kevin Kelley
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:04:15 +0300, Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have written such code, since there is no other hook area to get control early enough in the IPL process. I know that placing the SSI routine first guarantees that other SSI stuff will wait until it is done. I have

Re: dynamically generating Netview global variable names

2008-08-26 Thread John Giltner
Here is code that I use to check and set global variable that uses dynamic variable: /* DCGLOBS */ /* Display and Set Global Variable */ 'GLOBALV GETC 'MSGVAR(1) SAY 'Old value of 'MSGVAR(1)' is ' VALUE(MSGVAR(1)) ' and will be MSGVAR(2) INTERPERT MSGVAR(1) ' = MSGVAR(2)' GLOBALV PUTC

Re: Erase tape data securely

2008-08-26 Thread Russell Witt
Seymour, Yes, this option on the STK drives does apply to the DSE CCW command. They have had this option to have a fast DSE, that will only erase a fixed amount of tape. What I don't agree with is that they changed the default and made a fast DSE the default for their newer drives. Since a