Re: z9 / z10 instruction speed(s)

2010-03-03 Thread Edward Jaffe
McKown, John wrote: There are multiple z9 models. Each model has its own MSU rating, which is basically related to the number of CPs enabled and their speed. Now, I know that all the CPs on all z9 run same hardware speed. So, I'm wondering how they are knee capped? Now, I know that the knee

Re: Mixed case to a CLIST from ISPF command line?

2010-03-03 Thread Robert Birdsall
No matter what I try, I still can't get tsocmd;foo bar to work correctly (lower case bar in the Rexx exec) when the command input field is CAPS(ON). If it works for you, though, try this: cmde;foo bar Recent ISPF versions (I'm on z/OS 1.10, but I'm sure it was in 1.9, maybe before) have this

Re: Need tool to zap core

2010-03-03 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#10 Need tool to zap core http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#11 Crazed idea: SDSF for z/Linux

Re: O/T IBM ditches more people

2010-03-03 Thread Arthur Gutowski
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 15:00:59 -0800, Ed Gould ps2...@yahoo.com wrote: Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/02/ibm_us_job_cuts/ IBM cuts more than 1,600 US jobs Under the reporting radar By Timothy Prickett Morgan Posted in Servers, 2nd March 2010 16:49 GMT IBMers from a number of

Re: OT: The gaming world has met the date issue and failed

2010-03-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 22:59:38 -0800, Ed Gould wrote: http://kotaku.com/5482328/ps3s-suffering-from-global-lockdown?skyline=trues=i PS3s Suffering From Global Network Lockdown [UPDATE 7] Following the link to:

Re: SORT question: How to store record count in existing trailer?

2010-03-03 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Hi Frank, Thanks for the suggested solutions. In my case, the header and trailer are identifiable (HDR=X'00', TRLR=X'FF', pos 1 for let's say at least 10 bytes). The file is VB, LRECL=8004, and the data records vary widely in length. Header and trailer are length 700 always, but both header and

Re: Mixed case to a CLIST from ISPF command line?

2010-03-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 07:24:44 -0600, Robert Birdsall wrote: ... (I hate case-sensitive commands and file names). ... Recognize, of course, that OS/360 was one of the earliest systems to perpetrate this behavior, by making its Data Management Services case-sensitive. It's easier to exhibit

Re: Improving my SMP/E usermod procedure

2010-03-03 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
If your RESTORE/REJECT will be immediately followed by a new RECEIVE/APPLY or even just a stand-alone APPLY REDO, you should not need to do anything to the GENASM entries. If you are removing TST2JOBC, then you probably should create the corresponding UCLIN statements to DEL the GENASM entries

Re: Mixed case to a CLIST from ISPF command line?

2010-03-03 Thread Charles Mills
Well, thanks all. I used a combination of approaches. 1. I found the TSOCMD approach totally unsatisfactory. It seemed to upper-case the argument and throw me out of the panel I wanted to be on and onto ISPF 6. 2. In the Rexx, if the arguments show up as mixed case I use them as-is; if they show

Re: SORT question: How to store record count in existing trailer?

2010-03-03 Thread Frank Yaeger
Peter Farley wrote on 03/03/2010 07:16:55 AM: Thanks for the suggested solutions. In my case, the header and trailer are identifiable (HDR=X'00', TRLR=X'FF', pos 1 for let's say at least 10 bytes). The file is VB, LRECL=8004, and the data records vary widely in length. Header and trailer

Re: More calumny: Secret Service Uses 1980s Mainframe

2010-03-03 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
Hello all, I have two machines with OS/2 V 3 still running, and it is not called WARP, but there was a version V3 already called WARP, too, AFAIK. (The machines are from 1997 and 1999, by the way, and they still have the original IBM SCSI drives, no problems so far). The blue screen is not

Re: Mixed case to a CLIST from ISPF command line?

2010-03-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 09:32:04 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: 2. In the Rexx, if the arguments show up as mixed case I use them as-is; if they show up all upper case I prompt for the user (me) to re-type them as Rexx Pull input. Are you delighted, or do you just want to wash your hands? 3. The *** is

Re: Mixed case to a CLIST from ISPF command line?

2010-03-03 Thread Charles Mills
Well, I guess the good news is that coding around the oddities of OS/360, MVS, OS/390, and z/OS has provided a fairly good living for me over the years. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent:

the best way to configure HIS 2006?

2010-03-03 Thread Matan Cohen
hi, i'm in the middle of configuring an HIS server 2006 and there are several question on my mind ( i lack of knowledge in communication). the reason we configure an HIS its because we trying to perform a CICS print to a TCP\IP printer by defining a terminal(printer). -is there no way to perform

Re: the best way to configure HIS 2006?

2010-03-03 Thread Chris Mason
Matan About the most useful observation in your post is your suspicion that the Microsoft HIS White Paper concerning setting up Enterprise Extender (EE) - aka IP-DLC - between HIS and VTAM is unreliable. It is just about the most terrible pretence at a description of VTAM definitions I know

Re: Improving my SMP/E usermod procedure

2010-03-03 Thread Gibney, Dave
Final on this topic until next release. It was advised not to just put the entire assembler source in the ++JCLIN. Why not, it appears to work? Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University -- For

Re: SORT question: How to store record count in existing trailer?

2010-03-03 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Frank, Thanks once again! This looks like just what I need. I may not get around to trying it until tomorrow, but I wanted you to know I saw it and will try it out on my file. I'll respond again after I work on it. Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

NULL SMS configuration, versus MINIMAL SMS configuration.

2010-03-03 Thread Glen Gasior
* I am building a first copy of a stand alone sysres, commonly called a mini z/OS and I would like SMS to come up in a null configuration. * I have found RTFM guidelines for setting up a MINIMAL configuration but no specifications for a NULL configuration. Am I missing something or do I have

Re: Mixed case to a CLIST from ISPF command line?

2010-03-03 Thread Tony Harminc
On 3 March 2010 13:14, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 09:32:04 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: 2. In the Rexx, if the arguments show up as mixed case I use them as-is; if they show up all upper case I prompt for the user (me) to re-type them as Rexx Pull input. Are

Re: Improving my SMP/E usermod procedure

2010-03-03 Thread Glen Gasior
* I do not think there is a simple or a right or wrong way to do your typical usermods, as long as the data in the CSI correctly inventories your software. * The crux of the problem is installing the usermod is not the same process as maintaining the usermod. I think blending the two into one

Re: Mixed case to a CLIST from ISPF command line?

2010-03-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 18:48:20 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote: On 3 March 2010 13:14, Paul Gilmartin wrote: SMBMIT does that to you.  How silly.  I wonder if it could be OUTTRAPed and issued as a ZEDLMSG?  (Just being compulsive.) Depends on whether it issues a PUTLINE or a TPUT. It's probably a

Re: LOAD Problem after POR

2010-03-03 Thread Glen Gasior
Correct IOCDS is important, I do not remember if any state of the IOCDS would prevent a LOAD. * Does an activate of the LPAR work ? * Can you access the support element from the HMC ? * I would also check if the IODF dataset is in extents, it must be contiguous. * I imagine you are sev1 with IBM

Re: Mixed case to a CLIST from ISPF command line?

2010-03-03 Thread Tony Harminc
On 3 March 2010 19:16, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 18:48:20 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote: No way that I know of to use the VSAM interface from REXX or really anything other than assembler. Wasn't there a REXX VSAM package out there somewhere? Even if so, it would

Re: Mixed case to a CLIST from ISPF command line?

2010-03-03 Thread Al Loeffler
Here's a rexx exec to trap the submit and display a message. /* rexx */ arg dsname . x = outtrap(submit.) address tso submit 'dsname' subrc = rc

Re: LOAD Problem after POR

2010-03-03 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 3/3/2010 6:23:44 P.M. Central Standard Time, glen.manages@gmail.com writes: Correct IOCDS is important, I do not remember if any state of the IOCDS would prevent a LOAD. Without a Wait state I'm curious if the migration plan included PSP upgrade to the z10

Re: Mixed case to a CLIST from ISPF command line?

2010-03-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 23:06:12 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote: OTOH, writing directly to INTRDR bypasses the obsolete (now delusional) FIXED-80 JCL restriction. Only for inline data, surely? It's too much for my old brain to Yes. By crude experiment (not well documented in JCL RM): For JES2,

Re: Mixed case to a CLIST from ISPF command line?

2010-03-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 22:27:20 -0600, Al Loeffler wrote: x = outtrap(submit.) address tso submit 'dsname' subrc = rc x = outtrap(off) Interesting. Works as I'd expect. But if I do: x = outtrap(submit.) address 'ISREDIT' 'SUBMIT' /* Submit ISREDIT buffer. */ subrc = rc x = outtrap(off) ...

Re: Calling JAVA from SAG Natural.

2010-03-03 Thread Timothy Sipples
How about through CICS Transaction Server (e.g. EXEC CICS LINK...)? I am (perhaps) assuming that the Java code would run as a CICS transaction and (most likely) use JCICS interfaces for access to COMMAREAs or (preferably, moving in the direction of) containers. This should all be very simple,