Re: EZASMI TIE storage

2009-11-16 Thread Rob Scott
The TIE for the SELECT is normally the same one used on the INITAPI for your listener task. Rob Scott Developer Rocket Software 275 Grove Street * Newton, MA 02466-2272 * USA Tel: +1.617.614.2305 Email: rsc...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: IFCEREP1 utility description

2009-11-16 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi For me also worked, thank you very much Clifford McNeill wrote: Miklos, I've had success with this jcl. Also check http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IEA2A671/27.14.3?SHELF=IEA2BK81DT=20080117104757 //EREPRPTS EXEC PGM=IFCEREP1,

Re: EZASMI TIE storage

2009-11-16 Thread Joe Reichman
After the Select (say I have four connections/tasks) where the sequence of Calls is Accept - GiveSocket (and in the Task I do a ) TakeSocket which Causes a Exception in the Main Program Processing a Select (in the main Program) then Close ( in the main program) then processing goes to the Task to

SMTP Addrespace issue

2009-11-16 Thread SrinivasG
Hi, I am trying to startup the SMTP addresspace. I get this error : EZA5562I Resolver Usage YES Specified EZA5210E Bad format SMTPNJE.HOSTINFO file found. Please run SMTPNJE EZA5211E to create a new SMTPNJE.HOSTINFO file. When I try the command : smtpnje 'CPAC.PARMLIB(JES2PARM)' I get the

Re: EZASMI TIE storage

2009-11-16 Thread Rob Scott
An easier way of thinking about it is that the TIE is related to the TASK rather than the connection. Assuming a design where : (a) You have a main listener task (b) When connections are initiated, you hand off the work to subtasks (either ATTACHed on demand or pre-ATTACHed and woken up with

Re: Does // terminate JCL?

2009-11-16 Thread Terry Sambrooks
Hi Paul, In respect of: But today I happened to glance at one of my jobs with SDSF SJ. The // and all the following stuff are visible. So, from the SJ display I issued SUBMIT. The // and following are not shown by SJ for that submitted job. So, I try writing the content of the edit buffer to

Re Edit Attributes in SDSF SJ

2009-11-16 Thread Terry Sambrooks
Hi Paul, Re (VARIABLE - 81)??? Why!? I can deal with it, but it's startling. Is there a good reason for this choice of attributes? As I am sure you are aware all spooled output is Variable, even standard LRECL=133 type data sets tend to be RECFM=VB, LRECL=137 if the request is made to save

Re: Edit Attributes in SDSF SJ

2009-11-16 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Paul Gilmartin wrote: SDSF EDITHFSMAC (JOB00503) JCLEDIT Columns 1 00072 =PROF ISFEDIT (VARIABLE - 81)RECOVERY OFF WARNNUMBER OFF.. ... (VARIABLE - 81)??? Why!? I can deal with it, but it's startling. Is there a good reason for this choice

OS/390 2.4 guest under z/VM 5.3

2009-11-16 Thread J. Cassidy
** Already cross-posted to IBMVM ** Hello all, am trying to run (believe it or not) an OS/390 2.4 guest under z/VM 5.3 (0703) on a CP (z990). The usual CP Directory statements are in place, memory is 1G. I am getting as far as the first reply request, see below: === IEA371I SYS1.PARMLIB ON

Re: OS/390 2.4 guest under z/VM 5.3

2009-11-16 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:50:29 +0100 J. Cassidy s...@jdcassidy.net wrote: :am trying to run (believe it or not) an OS/390 2.4 guest under z/VM 5.3 :(0703) on a CP (z990). :The usual CP Directory statements are in place, memory is 1G. :I am getting as far as the first reply request, see below:

Re: SMTP Addrespace issue

2009-11-16 Thread Mike W Stayton
If your parmlib member is using INCLUDE statements, then specify the member with the NODE and DESTID() statements. The SMTPNJE program does not do INCLUDE statements. Mike Stayton z/OS Communications Server m...@us.ibm.com IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on

Re: Instream Commands

2009-11-16 Thread Walter Farrell
Thanks. Walt -- Walter Farrell/Poughkeepsie/i...@ibmus STSM, z/OS Security Design 845-435-7750 (tie: 295) e-mail: wfarr...@us.ibm.com From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net To: Walter

Re: OS/390 2.4 guest under z/VM 5.3

2009-11-16 Thread Mark Zelden
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:50:29 +0100, J. Cassidy s...@jdcassidy.net wrote: ** Already cross-posted to IBMVM ** Hello all, am trying to run (believe it or not) an OS/390 2.4 guest under z/VM 5.3 (0703) on a CP (z990). The usual CP Directory statements are in place, memory is 1G. I am getting as

Re: OS/390 2.4 guest under z/VM 5.3

2009-11-16 Thread Paolo Cacciari
Mark, we actually tried CP TRACE statement to let an OS/390 2.4 start under Z/VM 5.3 on a Z9 CPU, and it runs Provided that (as per our experience): 1 - you don't define more than ONE CP to the virtual machine; 2 - you don't assign more than 512MB of central storage to the virtual machine;

Re: OS/390 2.4 guest under z/VM 5.3

2009-11-16 Thread J. Cassidy
Thank you Mark. It works... Regards, John = On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:50:29 +0100, J. Cassidy s...@jdcassidy.net wrote: = =** Already cross-posted to IBMVM ** = = =Hello all, = =am trying to run (believe it or not) an OS/390 2.4 guest under z/VM 5.3 =(0703) on a CP (z990). = =The usual CP

Re: EZASMI TIE storage

2009-11-16 Thread Joe Reichman
Thankx I had a problem in my second handler doing a read Sent from my iPhone On Nov 16, 2009, at 5:22 AM, Rob Scott rsc...@rocketsoftware.com wrote: An easier way of thinking about it is that the TIE is related to the TASK rather than the connection. Assuming a design where : (a) You

Re: Re Edit Attributes in SDSF SJ

2009-11-16 Thread Edward Jaffe
Terry Sambrooks wrote: The results you observe suggest to me that the SJ command has simply grabbed the records ASIS from spool without any editing so the extra character would be a leading control character as per traditional printed output. JES does not store JCL images with carriage

Re: OS/390 2.4 guest under z/VM 5.3

2009-11-16 Thread Edward Jaffe
Paolo Cacciari wrote: Mark, we actually tried CP TRACE statement to let an OS/390 2.4 start under Z/VM 5.3 on a Z9 CPU, and it runs Provided that (as per our experience): 1 - you don't define more than ONE CP to the virtual machine; 2 - you don't assign more than 512MB of central storage

Re: OS/390 2.4 guest under z/VM 5.3

2009-11-16 Thread Mark Zelden
Can you provide details please? Paolo wrote just prior to your post that it worked for only one CP and less no more that .5G of memory. I'm trying to remember back to OS/390 2.4 and even a single z990 engine is much faster than the 9672 machines my clients were using back then and half a gig

Re: SMTP Addrespace issue

2009-11-16 Thread Chris Mason
Srinivas The last time I addressed one of your questions I put the suggestion at the end. Since it was rather a long post, you may have been too tired to notice it, so I'll put it first this time. quote Incidentally, questions regarding the use of the IP component of Communications Server

Re: OS/390 2.4 guest under z/VM 5.3

2009-11-16 Thread J. Cassidy
Mark and Paolo, it works.. I reduced memory to 256M in the CP directory. Issued CP TRACE IPTE RUN NOTERM from the CP console and the old beast IPLed. I have defined only one engine in the CP directory. I am in a rush this afternoon, I will try and bump the memory to 512M during the week.

Re: Re Edit Attributes in SDSF SJ

2009-11-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:27:32 -0800, Edward Jaffe wrote: JES does not store JCL images with carriage control characters. But, JES2? JES3? Does it matter? apparently SDSF's browsing mechanisms are hard-wired to use/need/expect/insert them. Also, JES stores the original length of each record on

Re: Re Edit Attributes in SDSF SJ

2009-11-16 Thread Edward Jaffe
Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:27:32 -0800, Edward Jaffe wrote: JES does not store JCL images with carriage control characters. But, JES2? JES3? Does it matter? Neither JES stores JCL images with carriage control. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International,

user-written MVS subsystems

2009-11-16 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
Dear listers, at my customer's site there are some user-written MVS subsystems, written in the 80s and 90s. They seem to be very important and are in production use every day. Now I was asked to take responsibility for them, because the guy who wrote them will be retired soon. I started

Re: user-written MVS subsystems

2009-11-16 Thread Edward Jaffe
Bernd Oppolzer wrote: Maybe the services didn't exist yet when the original code was written? Very likely. What do you think of this, is it ok to do it this way? Are there any drawbacks? Do you have any hints in general? Would you consider to rewrite significant parts of these subsystems to

Re: user-written MVS subsystems

2009-11-16 Thread Rick Fochtman
--snip-- At my customer's site there are some user-written MVS subsystems, written in the 80s and 90s. They seem to be very important and are in production use every day. Now I was asked to take responsibility for them, because the guy who wrote

Re: ESTAE/ESTAEX are anchored, where?

2009-11-16 Thread Gord Tomlin
Yes it does, and yes it's different from ESTAE(X). The FESTAE macro directly manipulates fields in the SVRB, and there can only be one FESTAE under an SVRB. Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In 45d79eacefba9b428e3d400e924d36b902bba...@iwdubcormsg007.sci.local, on 11/11/2009 at 03:16 PM,

Re: user-written MVS subsystems

2009-11-16 Thread Mark Zelden
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:59:50 -0800, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: Bernd Oppolzer wrote: Maybe the services didn't exist yet when the original code was written? Very likely. What do you think of this, is it ok to do it this way? Are there any drawbacks? Do you have any

Re: user-written MVS subsystems

2009-11-16 Thread Martin Kline
I started examining the code and observed that he doesn't use the services described in the books like Using the Subsystem Interfaces, Chapter 4, Writing Your Own Subsystem, but instead he inserted the control blocks like SSCT and SSVT using GETMAIN and CS (taking care of parallel writers) and

Re: Edit Attributes in SDSF SJ

2009-11-16 Thread Sandy Stone
On the other hand, my options are; ISFEDIT (VARIABLE - 255)RECOVERY OFFNUMBER OFF.. CAPS ONHEX OFFNULLS ON STDTABS OFFSETUNDO STG... AUTOSAVE ONAUTONUM OFFAUTOLIST OFFSTATS OFF. PROFILE UNLOCKIMACRO NONEPACK

Re: user-written MVS subsystems

2009-11-16 Thread David Andrews
On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 14:36 -0500, Martin Kline wrote: If it was written in the eighties, there was little documentation and fewer macros to support subsystem interface. IBM did teach basic SSI architecture in that two-week MVS internals class. I remember spending many hours pouring over

Re: Edit Attributes in SDSF SJ

2009-11-16 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 11/16/2009 1:41:08 P.M. Central Standard Time, sandy.st...@antaressolutions.com writes: Must be a system or SDSF installation setting? User education? Look at APPL or NEWAPPL on the entry into SDSF select. Normally this is ISF and gives a different profile from ISR.

Re: user-written MVS subsystems

2009-11-16 Thread Elliot, David
This was the way things were done back in the days when IBM published things like debugging handbooks and logic manuals. I still have a copy of MVS Interface Facilities, a student text rescued from a trash bin, and dating from the days when writing this sort of home grown software was

Re: Edit Attributes in SDSF SJ

2009-11-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:53:19 EST, Ed Finnell wrote: User education? Look at APPL or NEWAPPL on the entry into SDSF select. Normally this is ISF and gives a different profile from ISR. Under 7 you can view if you know the APPL. Or you can browse profile PDS and look at members. Danger Will

Re: Edit Attributes in SDSF SJ

2009-11-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:40:49 -0600, Sandy Stone wrote: On the other hand, my options are; ISFEDIT (VARIABLE - 255)RECOVERY OFFNUMBER OFF.. CAPS ONHEX OFFNULLS ON STDTABS OFFSETUNDO STG... AUTOSAVE ONAUTONUM OFFAUTOLIST OFFSTATS

Re: user-written MVS subsystems

2009-11-16 Thread Arthur T.
On 16 Nov 2009 11:37:23 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main (Message-ID:listserv%200911161336217871.0...@bama.ua.edu) martin.kl...@yrcw.com (Martin Kline) wrote: If it were my code and I still supported it, then I'd rewrite it to use the 'preferred' macro interfaces. On 16 Nov 2009 12:24:03

Re: Edit Attributes in SDSF SJ

2009-11-16 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 11/16/2009 2:36:35 P.M. Central Standard Time, paulgboul...@aim.com writes: Did he keep a backup? Nope, but we had it on 'Incrementals'. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Re Edit Attributes in SDSF SJ

2009-11-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:27:32 -0800, Edward Jaffe wrote: Does finding more idiosyncratic SDSF behaviors really surprise anyone? Well, I was interested in comparing idiosyncratic behaviors of (E)JES with those of SDSF, particularly for SYSIN with RECFM=V. But we have (E)JES only on our JES3

How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?

2009-11-16 Thread McKown, John
From what I can see (and I'm a novice), the JAVA language does not have anything like a C/C++ struct or COBOL data defination which can be used to read records kept in a dataset (such as VSAM or PS). I know of the Alphaworks program which can take ADATA from HLASM and generate Java code which

Chargeback (was: New DSCOPY Program Posted)

2009-11-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:15:34 -0500, David Cole wrote: 5.) All information needed is specified through JCL or through the PARM field. No control dataset (SYSIN, for example) is needed. How much information can you put in that there PARM field? (Rhetoric! do not answer!) If you could put all your

Re: user-written MVS subsystems

2009-11-16 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:59:50 -0800 Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: :Bernd Oppolzer wrote: : Maybe the services didn't exist yet when the original code was written? :Very likely. Absolutely. : What do you think of this, is it ok to do it this way? Are there any : drawbacks? Do

New DSCOPY Program Posted

2009-11-16 Thread David Cole
I have just posted to ColeSoft's website a new version of my DSCOPY program. The link is www.colesoft.com/Downloads/downloads_utilities.html. DSCOPY and everything else that you find on that page is free. DSCOPY is a generalized sequential file copying program. It features include the

Steven Liston/IS/SLC/StandardLifeGroup is out of the office.

2009-11-16 Thread Steven Liston
I will be out of the office starting 17/11/2009 and will not return until 18/11/2009. Please contact the TST MF mailbox for any urgent requests. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: SMTP Addrespace issue

2009-11-16 Thread SrinivasG
Thanks Chris. I am new to ZOS. So I was not aware that there is a separate List Serv for TCP. About the feedback , I will make it a point to let everyone know if the solution worked. Thanks and Regards, Srinivas G -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: OS/390 2.4 guest under z/VM 5.3

2009-11-16 Thread Timothy Sipples
John, there is at least one serious financial implication when running all (or any part of) OS/390, so please be aware of this. Please note that, as always here, I do not speak in an official capacity for IBM. One of the (very few!) requirements for enjoying (or continuing to enjoy) any

Re: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?

2009-11-16 Thread Timothy Sipples
For VSAM specifically, have you looked at the JRIO methods? Here's the entry point for JRIO information: http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/software/java/products/jrio/overview.html That should solve your problem quite directly and neatly. The JRIO methods have been included in the

Re: user-written MVS subsystems

2009-11-16 Thread Brian Westerman
Unfortunately, you're in a pretty difficult situation. In a perfect world I would say that you should re-write the stuff correctly, but here in the real world, you probably don't have the time to do that. You may not even know how to do it the right way, but I think that you will probably work

JES2 output non-purgable

2009-11-16 Thread Anthony Thompson
Hi: I have some held JES2 output that will not purge from the system. Messages associated with the purge request are: $COJ(29612),OUTGRP=2.1.1 $HASP003 RC=(52),CO 890 $HASP003 RC=(52),CO J(29612) - NO SELECTABLE ENTRIES FOUND Listing the job shows: $DJ(29612),LONG $HASP890 JOB()