Re: Hiper Dispatching

2012-02-24 Thread Brian Peterson
We have a 2097-504(E12). Does anyone know if turing on Hiper Dispatching on a single book box machine would make a difference in performance? According to IBM System z10 Business Class Technical Overview http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247632.pdf at page 153-154 in topic 7.3.12

Re: Abend S0C4 in an internal sort

2012-02-13 Thread Brian Peterson
SORTSTMT DCAL2(SORTEND-SORT) SORT DCC' SORT FIELDS=(1,1,CH,A)' DCC' RECORD TYPE=F,LENGTH=80' SORTEND EQU * I noticed you've not included a trailing blank after the last control statement. According to the DFSORT manual, a

Re: Abend S0C4 in an internal sort

2012-02-13 Thread Brian Peterson
The program works when I change RMODE to 24. I suspect the lines SORTPARM DCA(SORTSTMT) DCA(E15_EXIT) DCA(E35_EXIT) DCF'-1' are not coded correctly - specifically the references to E15 and E35 exit address entry points. The manual says the

Re: IBM SR availability problems

2011-12-13 Thread Brian Peterson
I am unable to use SR today, and I was unable to use the SR feedback link on the IBMLink ServiceLink home page either - same symptom for both applications (click on link, spinning circle in web browser, no response). Brian --

Re: SHARE Attendance

2011-08-30 Thread Brian Peterson
Not quite right. There were 1,081 folks in Orlando at SHARE. See the wrap-up article published on the SHARE web site for more details about the event: http://www.share.org/Events/PastConferences/SHAREinOrlando/OrlandoWrapUpArticle/tabid/787/Default.aspx Brian From: Carl Swanson Date: Sun,

SHARE Luau!

2011-08-05 Thread Brian Peterson
Cross-posted from the IBMVM listof interest to those of you attending SHARE in Orlando starting Sunday August 7, 2011. Brian From: James Vincent Date: Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 6:53 PM Subject: SHARE Luau! To: The IBM z/VM Operating System ib...@listserv.uark.edu Are you going to SHARE in

Re: 1021 STP

2011-06-13 Thread Brian Peterson
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/0/897/ENUS909-120/ENUS909- 120.PDF Brian On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:13:32 +1000, Shane Ginnane wrote: On Sun, Jun 12th, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Azim Syed wrote: Hi , Please can some one help in this, we have 2 z9 BC machines . We want to install STP 1021

Re: New HMC to Old SE

2011-01-24 Thread Brian Peterson
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 06:04:55 -0800 (PST), in bit.listserv.ibm-main, Costin Enache wrote: Hi, Is is possible to connect a new, Linux-based HMC (v2.10.2) to an old, really old, OS/2-based SE (v1.6.1)? I have tried to do this, via Add Object Definition, the HMC tries to communicate with the SE on

Re: HIPER PTFs/APARs

2011-01-24 Thread Brian Peterson
On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 22:04:50 +0100, Jürgen Kehr wrote: Hello, today I have a question regarding HIPER PTFs or APARs. Until now I thought that a HIPER PTF is a PTF which addresses a HIPER APAR. You may get a list of all HIPER PTFs, if you download the file /s390/assigns/hiper_prp.txt from

Re: TSO daemon subtask

2011-01-24 Thread Brian Peterson
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:52:59 -0600, McKown, John wrote: OK, I'll try to explain what I want. My code is often sick. I do a fair amount of UNIX work. I also use TSO a lot. I don't really want to have both a TSO session and a UNIX shell session going. Yes, that may be what I end up doing. So, I

Re: Red Alert: Possible corrupted backup copy for z/OS 1.10, 1.11, 1.12 users of zHPF PDSE (2011.01.11)

2011-01-11 Thread Brian Peterson
Unfortunately, it appears the PE flag was set for these PTFs just last week, and the initial PTFs in error from August 2010 became RSU1009 (recommended in early October 2010), which gives a window of approximately three months duration where the PTFs were installable as recommended. Folks who

Re: Red Alert: Possible corrupted backup copy for z/OS 1.10, 1.11, 1.12 users of zHPF PDSE (2011.01.11)

2011-01-11 Thread Brian Peterson
From the IBM Red Alert 2. The PDSE to be backed up resides on a device which supports zHPF channel programs From this, I believe the answer to your question is you are not affected. All I know is what I've read today in the alerts, however. Brian On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:15:43 -0500, Mark

Re: Red Alert: Possible corrupted backup copy for z/OS 1.10, 1.11, 1.12 users of zHPF PDSE (2011.01.11)

2011-01-11 Thread Brian Peterson
manual, I would also see ZHPF in this message if zHPF was enabled for this particular device. It would be interesting to hear from one of our list colleagues who might care to post what the D M=DEV() message looks like for a zHPF-enabled device. Brian On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:28:04 -0600, Brian

Re: Migration to Trusted Key Entry Workstation 7.0 tips

2011-01-09 Thread Brian Peterson
Did your CE just install something? You wrote Miscellaneous Equipment Specification Instructions which sounds to me like the printed paperwork the IBM CE gets from manufacturing when they get an MES upgrade for installation onto a machine. Ask your CE for the MES paperwork that came with the

Re: ReSizing the SMF Man Files

2010-11-16 Thread Brian Peterson
Mark is of course correct. In case you need a pointer, here's the IBM reference to the restriction on changing the CISIZE for an SMF data set. It could be a bit tricky to find as CISIZE, CI size, and control interval size are all keywords to describe this concept in the manual. From z/OS System

Re: Missing APARs for DB2 Admin Tool

2010-10-08 Thread Brian Peterson
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 18:37:52 +0200, R.S. wrote: DB2 v9.1 is installed with quite recent service (half of Sept 2010) I'm trying to install Admin Tool 7.2 for DB2 (which is the most recent version). SMP/E APPLY fails, the causers are the following APARs: AM06344 AM17999. I tried to download fixes

Re: Missing APARs for DB2 Admin Tool

2010-10-08 Thread Brian Peterson
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 22:17:51 +0200, R.S. wrote: Just to make sure I understood it correctly: Should I simply bypass the APARs and APPLY the function along with the PTFs??? 1) You should APPLY and ACCEPT the Base Function ONLY. Specify BYPASS(HOLDERROR) on the APPLY and the ACCEPT. 2) Then,

Re: Duplicate Volser

2010-10-05 Thread Brian Peterson
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 21:49:48 -0400, Jim Mulder wrote: I have examined the relevant code, and it appears to (incorrectly) do exactly as you have described. I have updated your PMR. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY I would love to read the APAR problem description

Re: Duplicate Volser

2010-10-04 Thread Brian Peterson
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 14:44:23 -0500, Steve Dover wrote: I went back and reread my original post. I did leave out one very important coincidence. When we ipl'ed the production lpar Saturday, I was expecting and got the message IGGN505A, looking for our shared

Re: Registers in a SLIP IF dump

2010-09-16 Thread Brian Peterson
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:06:02 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: Aha! When I transfer the dump to another 1.10 z/OS machine, the output is correct. So presumably the first LPAR is misconfigured somehow, though it's a puzzle how IPCS is getting the bad register values it is displaying, since they (well, at

Re: ShopzSeries My Licensed Software

2010-08-25 Thread Brian Peterson
I'm getting the exact same error message. Brian On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:54:16 -0400, Ken Porowski wrote: Trying to pull down a report on my licensed software, not sure if the issue is with me or IBM. Anybody else get this pulling a 'My Licensed Software' report from ShopzSeries? Proxy Error

Re: EBCDIC-ASCII translation and vendor products

2010-08-24 Thread Brian Peterson
Here's my two cents. http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0708L=ibm-mainP=R22070 I wrote the above post in August 2007, and it is still true today. Every z/OS shop should do this - Unicode On Demand works great! Brian --

Re: SMP/E RECEIVE ORDER: JAVA 5.0 PTFs not found by server??

2010-08-24 Thread Brian Peterson
I opened a PMR with IBM to inquire about this. I learned two things: 1) The PTFs UK59131 and UK59134 are now available as of today. 2) It might be a good idea to wait for new PTFs UK59501 and UK59510 which are coming real soon and will replace UK59131 and UK59134 respectively. I've asked IBM to

Re: EBCDIC-ASCII translation and vendor products

2010-08-23 Thread Brian Peterson
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:57:14 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: And, it is damn frustrating that iconv() doesn't use it. Huh? From z/OS 1.11 C/C++ Compiler and Run-Time Migration Guide for the Application Programmer: 4.2.4.1 User-defined conversion tables and iconv() functions

Heads Up: JES2 APAR OA32551 Undiscovered Toleration

2010-08-19 Thread Brian Peterson
Nearly two decades ago, I first met Toby from IBM at SHARE. At that time, she represented DFSMS Level 2 at SHARE. Among many fond recollections from that time, I recall a phrase I first heard Toby use to describe an APAR that addressed a release-to-release toleration fix that was NOT published

Re: DAE / ADYSET00 / SYSMDUMP

2010-08-16 Thread Brian Peterson
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:06:27 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: For postmortem action items, I want the SYSMDUMP DDs removed or not to point to sysout. But I was wondering if there was any reason I am not thinking of that the DAE SYSMDUMP setting can't be changed to suppress duplicates like SVCDUMP?

Re: Anyone Using z10 Large Pages in anger

2010-08-16 Thread Brian Peterson
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:09:04 -0500, Elpida Tzortzatos. wrote: I do want to emphasize that even with the APAR, capacity planning needs to be done before selecting the LFAREA size. The optimal configuration is when there is enough in the 4K memory pool to handle the 4K workload and enough in the

Re: Anyone Using z10 Large Pages in anger

2010-08-16 Thread Brian Peterson
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:26:54 -0700, Norman Hollander on DesertWiz wrote: Very much agree, Brian. You can never predict who will start up another region or when. Of course you may know when the phones start ringing with poor performance to find your system is paging excessively... zNorman I

Re: SMP/E packaging - using CALLLIBS

2010-08-10 Thread Brian Peterson
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:28:13 +0300, Binyamin Dissen wrote: According to my understanding of the doc, by placing a //*CALLLIBS=YES in the JCLIN input after a job card and before the LINKS step will cause SMP/E to allocate the SYSLIB DDDEF's and do a link of the specified module with the CALL

Re: SMP/E packaging - using CALLLIBS

2010-08-10 Thread Brian Peterson
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:57 +0300, Binyamin Dissen wrote: According to topic 9.6.2 Link-Edit Control Statements in Standard Packaging Rules for z/OS-Based Products Document Number SC23-3695-10 SYSLIB DD statements are processed only if the CALLLIBS operand is specified on the JCLIN command or

Re: EMC Timefinder Snap and Dealloc

2010-07-26 Thread Brian Peterson
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:36:29 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: Several shops I have been at (including my first exposure to MVS) had a proc called X which was a copy of DEALLOC. The operator would VARY xxx,OFFLINE then S X to kick in deallocation. This goes back to at

Re: EMC Timefinder Snap and Dealloc

2010-07-26 Thread Brian Peterson
Doing anything thousands of times is very likely NOT a good idea. Sounds like a serious problem with MFE 7.0 to me. I don't know the history of DEALLOC. From SMP/E on z/OS 1.11: Entry Type: PROC Zone Name: MVST100 Entry Name: DEALLOC

Re: EMC Timefinder Snap and Dealloc

2010-07-26 Thread Brian Peterson
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:08:20 +, Bill Fairchild wrote: This is why I think that a VARY command should not simply add a command to a queue for later processing but should rather process the command immediately and fully, or at least immediately start the

Re: EMC Timefinder Snap and Dealloc

2010-07-26 Thread Brian Peterson
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:50:20 -0400, Lizette Koehler wrote: However, the main question I have is - Is it still necessary to do this? According to EMC they indicated that the reason they added the S DEALLOC was because varies were taking upto 6 mins. So the use of S DEALLOC was to speed that

Re: HCD or IOCP version for 2098?

2010-07-26 Thread Brian Peterson
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:17:55 EDT, Ed Finnell wrote: Should have been covered in SAPR? Have to pull the PSP bucket for 2098 to get your software up to migration levels. APPLY CHECK SOURCEID(IBM.Device.Server.z10-BC-2098) . should do the trick. Brian

Re: smpe receive from network and JavaSDK

2010-07-09 Thread Brian Peterson
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 07:29:41 -0400, Tim Brown wrote: At level of SMPE 35.18 on Z/OS 1.11 Recieving product to apply from ShopZSeries Receive JCL refers SMPJHOME DD PATH='/usr/lpp/java//' which is used for integrity checking I dont appear to have the Java SDK loaded. Can I bypass integrity

Re: DSLIST sort-by-CREATED

2010-07-09 Thread Brian Peterson
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 10:11:59 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 20:37:36 -0700, ps2...@yahoo.com wrote: paul: This behavior of vsam has been around for years. What you need to do is to exclude index data has existed since day one of vsam. Ed Are you saying DSLIST has a selectable

Re: Dumb question on DEFINE ALIAS

2010-07-09 Thread Brian Peterson
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 11:45:24 -0700, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: What is the reason for defining a catalog alias? I think I understand the technical effect but I don't understand the big picture purpose. I would suggest Managing Catalogs as a good introduction to the big picture for

Re: Z9 machine crash

2010-07-06 Thread Brian Peterson
On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 12:50:09 +0300, Matan Cohen wrote: -In the ‘Hardware Messages’ we found a new message from 9:41 AM the message indicate on a ‘POWER PROBLEM – problem # 81’ . You should engage your hardware vendor for support for this problem. If you wish to play CE yourself, from the HMC,

Re: Enclaves hung up

2010-06-18 Thread Brian Peterson
One thing we do to protect our system from runaway distributed DB2 queries is to make sure the WLM service class for possibly-ill-behaved queries has two periods with the final period set to Discretionary. That way, we have a chance of logging on and dealing with an ill-behaved thread without too

Re: Emulator Sessions Hung

2010-06-18 Thread Brian Peterson
My (non attachmate) emulator has a keepalive setup option. Did you compare the settings for each of the emulators you're having trouble with compared to an emulator that is working OK? From your reply (below), it sounded like you were talking about z/OS TN3270 options, not emulator options.

Re: CA's MSM

2010-06-17 Thread Brian Peterson
I've been working with CA MSM for a year or so - first the R2 release, then the R3 release. I really like this new tool. (I remember, and hated, aggrivator). It seems to me that one of the most significant results of this common installation tool initiative is actually not the tool itself.

Re: zOS1.11 Allocation error

2010-05-27 Thread Brian Peterson
Interesting APAR OA31970 I wonder if you might have set the following in ALLOCxx: SYSTEM IEFBR14_DELMIGDS(NORECALL) I believe the default is IEFBR14_DELMIGDS(LEGACY) which might provide you with better results, while waiting for a fix from IBM. Brian On Thu, 27 May 2010 10:24:12

Re: zOS1.11 Allocation error

2010-05-27 Thread Brian Peterson
Do you have SYSTEM IEFBR14_DELMIGDS(NORECALL) set on your z/OS 1.11 system? My point with mentioning OA31970 was a more general observation that there are problably some number of problems with IEFBR14_DELMIGDS(NORECALL). It is also possible that the brand new fix (May 2010) for OA31970 will

Re: zOS1.11 Allocation error

2010-05-27 Thread Brian Peterson
Per OA31970, you can turn off this new behavior dynamically using the following command: SETALLOC SYSTEM,IEFBR14_DELMIGDS=LEGACY It would certainly be interesting to me to hear if the IEFBR14 problem you've reported goes away with LEGACY set for this parameter. Brian On Thu, 27 May 2010

Re: Calculating the pipe size for DASD mirroring

2010-05-26 Thread Brian Peterson
We replicate all JES2 data sets (spool, checkpoint, etc) to our remote site, and we have NEVER failed to warm start JES2 using our asynchronous DASD replication solution - a solution which also guarantees consistency. If the DASD replication solution is valid - that is, that consistency is

Re: Enterprise Extender, z/OS 1.11

2010-05-24 Thread Brian Peterson
to this thread. Brian On Thu, 20 May 2010 17:54:09 -0500, Brian Peterson wrote: I am pretty sure there was an incompatibility with EE across some number of z/OS releases. Your z/OS 1.4 system might NOT be able to connect to a new z/OS 1.11 system via EE. Last year, we almost had to delay our z/OS 1.10

Re: Enterprise Extender, z/OS 1.11

2010-05-24 Thread Brian Peterson
Try http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA28727 I've no idea why the difference in the uid= value with the URL you cite. Brian On Mon, 24 May 2010 19:54:43 -0500, Chris Mason wrote: Note that IBM presents me with Error, Document not found when I try

Re: Enterprise Extender, z/OS 1.11

2010-05-20 Thread Brian Peterson
I am pretty sure there was an incompatibility with EE across some number of z/OS releases. Your z/OS 1.4 system might NOT be able to connect to a new z/OS 1.11 system via EE. Last year, we almost had to delay our z/OS 1.10 implementation due to downlevel partnersas I recall. I would open a

Re: IBMLink and CA Support planned outages this weekend

2010-05-08 Thread Brian Peterson
EMC support is *also* down today The Service Request system will be unavailable on Saturday, May 8 from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. (EDT). EMC apologizes for the inconvenience. Hmmm On Fri, 7 May 2010 17:31:39 -0500, Brian Peterson wrote: Quite a coincidence Planned IBMLink Outage

ShopzSeries down?

2010-05-07 Thread Brian Peterson
Anybody else having trouble with ShopzSeries this afternoon? I'm not a web app expert, but the below error message make me think the problem is internal to IBM - would be interested to hear if anyone else is having trouble today. Here's the two errors I've seen today: Internal Server Error The

IBMLink and CA Support planned outages this weekend

2010-05-07 Thread Brian Peterson
Quite a coincidence Planned IBMLink Outage - May 7 5 May 2010 This is to inform you that IBMLink will have a planned outage starting on Friday, May 7th at 9:00 PM Eastern Time through Saturday, May 8th at 9:00 AM Eastern Time (Saturday, May 8th from 01:00 UTC to 13:00 UTC). and

Re: IEBCOPY ignoring SYSIN override?

2010-05-07 Thread Brian Peterson
Dumb question Did you CLOSE your SYS1 file before issuing ATTACH? Brian On Fri, 7 May 2010 16:01:32 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: I have been wrestling for the past couple of hours with a problem in which IEBCOPY ignores a SYSIN override. (snip) You can see the length of 48 and you can

Re: Auxiliary Storage Management I/O in a RAID array world

2010-05-05 Thread Brian Peterson
And, IBM removed suspend/resume logic from ASM's channel programs in APAR OA14248 back in 2006. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA14248 Brian On Wed, 5 May 2010 21:22:58 +, Bill Fairchild wrote: The trick involved setting the Suspend flag bit in the last CCW so that the

Re: ZFS

2010-04-29 Thread Brian Peterson
I agree 100 % with Mark. I've been using zFS for my root file system (and slowly converting all other file systems) ever since z/OS 1.7, when IBM announced zFS as strategic and made it possible to use zFS for any file system purpose. (Prior to z/OS 1.7, zFS wasn't appropriate for the root

Re: ZFS

2010-04-29 Thread Brian Peterson
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:58:46 +1000, Shane Ginnane wrote: Took IBM a while to get there didn't it ?. How can they expect people to rush into these things when they (IBM) apparently didn't trust zFS enough to allow the root (until 1.7 as stated). Then they take away functionality, and advise

Re: ZFS

2010-04-27 Thread Brian Peterson
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:15:13 -0500, Bruce Burgdoff wrote: Our upcoming migration from HFS to zFS for the root file systems is causing a new problem for us. Up through z/OS 1.10, I kept our root ZFS data sets on a dedicated volume cloned in parallel with the main sysres. (While I think of this

Re: SMP/E RECEIVE ORDER outage

2010-04-26 Thread Brian Peterson
In my PMR with SMP/E (the support organization for RECEIVE ORDER), the SMP/E tech told me that, upon querying Boulder, he was told there was a scheduled outage this past weekend affecting the system which processes RECEIVE ORDER orders - eFactory or something like that. Unfortunately, the

SMP/E RECEIVE ORDER outage

2010-04-25 Thread Brian Peterson
Looks like IBM's RECEIVE ORDER system is not working this weekend. I've been running RECEIVE ORDER jobs since 4/24 and all I get back is GIM69147S SMP/E WAITED 120 MINUTES BUT ORDER order IS NOT READY FOR DOWNLOAD. Further, RECEIVE ORDER(PENDING order) continue to fail after 120 minutes, more

Re: Turning on ACF2 SECURITY Privilege through an exit . . .

2010-04-23 Thread Brian Peterson
My opinion There are bits in control blocks which will allow the access you seek. An exit, such as an ACF2 exit, would have authority to fiddle with those bits. The control block(s) involved are protected by storage protect key - thus to fiddle with those bits requires APF authorization

Re: Link Failure IOS581E

2010-04-19 Thread Brian Peterson
The group that handles the Cisco says they are not seeing any errors on the Cisco. Some fluttering, but no failures. I would call fluttering a failure (albeit one which was recovered). My opinion. Ask your Cisco team to show you the FICON log from the MDS 9509 devices (both local and

Re: SYSPLEX/CFRM Couple dataset(s) relationship

2010-04-09 Thread Brian Peterson
I believe simply rewriting the policy was not sufficient. Please tell me if this is what you did: 1) First IPL at DR site specified CFRM CDS data set one. This IPL specified CFRMPOL(policy_a). Policy_a was not correct. 2) Second IPL at DR site used the exact same CFRM CDS as in attempt 1. In

Re: SYSPLEX/CFRM Couple dataset(s) relationship

2010-04-09 Thread Brian Peterson
Without logs, it is only my imagination where debugging takes place. Given that disclaimer When you said you did delete and redefine the CFRM dataset, is it possible that you actually created a new CFRM dataset, and then tried to update COUPLExx with the new data set names and/or volser for

Re: Overlap Error

2010-04-05 Thread Brian Peterson
All of the responses to this query thus far have spoken about vanilla PDS support within the DFSMS component of z/OS. However, in your case, you are actually using PDSMAN, which is hardly vanilla. As I recall from experience with PDSMAN (now several-years-old experience), the characteristics of

Re: Heads Up: APAR IO11698 - New SAF FACILITY class definition required for any SMP/E use

2010-04-02 Thread Brian Peterson
My use of the phrase (fortunately) rare was a qualitative judgment on my part, based upon observation of the z/OS service stream for many years. At SHARE in Washington DC (Summer 2003), I talked about secret APARs and provided a technique that any customer can use to make their own quantitative

Heads Up: APAR IO11698 - New SAF FACILITY class definition required for any SMP/E use

2010-04-01 Thread Brian Peterson
Heard at SHARE in Seattle IBM SMP/E APAR IO11698 introduces a new SAF FACILITY class which you must define in order to allow any use of SMP/E after you install and activate the corresponding SMP/E PTF for your release. In my case, that would be PTF UO01052 for SMP/E 3.5. If you do not

Re: z/OS V1R11 Library unzip problem

2010-03-31 Thread Brian Peterson
According to the following article, IE6 can only download 2 GB files, and IE7 only 4 GB. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/298618 -=-=-=-=- Symptom: When you attempt to download a file from the Internet by using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) in Microsoft Internet Explorer, you may find that

Re: Read only vts in DR

2010-03-31 Thread Brian Peterson
Back when we had a VTS, we also had this same need. I used TMSUX2A and TMSUX2F to disallow writes to the production tapes in the shared library during DR tests. DR was only allowed to write to its own special range of tapes. I'm glad to hear this feature is now available in CA-1 directly

Re: Safeguarding your JES2 Proc (was Re: The hardest JCL ERROR I have met)

2010-03-30 Thread Brian Peterson
Have you tried the Contact Us button on the web site? I had thought I understood that if you ask, SHARE will give you an ID for the site. Brian On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:54:56 -0500, Ward, Mike S wrote: I guess you can't see the presentation if you are not a share user. It asked me for an ID and

Re: Safeguarding your JES2 Proc (was Re: The hardest JCL ERROR I have met)

2010-03-30 Thread Brian Peterson
From z/OS JES2 Commands: 4. default MEMBER=HASjesx member of the default PARMLIB concatination In this case jesx is JES2. Brian On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:48:39 -0500, McKown, John wrote: 2) Put JES2 parm member HASJES2 in logical parmlib concatenation ...

Safeguarding your JES2 Proc (was Re: The hardest JCL ERROR I have met)

2010-03-29 Thread Brian Peterson
I suggest that you consider removing all those statements from your JES2 proc. My production JES2 proc looks like this: BROWSESYS1.PROCLIB(JES2) - 01.02 Command === * Top of Data * //JES2PROC //JES2EXEC

Re: Trying to understand ALLOWUSERKEYCSA and subpool storage

2010-03-24 Thread Brian Peterson
In my opinion, a magic SVC is a MUCH WORSE integrity exposure than allowing authorized code to GETMAIN Key 8 CSA. Brian On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:45:22 -0500, Wayne Driscoll wrote: Diane, Based on the below code snip segment, your installation has a magic SVC to get into SUP STATE KEY 0. which is

Re: AMATERSE: AMA574I. Wrong message?

2010-03-24 Thread Brian Peterson
My first suspicion is that something odd happened when the file was originally tersed. If it was me, I would ask that the person who provided the tersed file show me the exact job output which generated the tersed file. I would specifically be looking for any possible DCB overrides used on the

Re: What's with IBMLINK now??

2010-02-26 Thread Brian Peterson
I'm getting the classic: 500 Internal Server Error Brian -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Re: anyone notice a reroute going to IBMLINK

2010-02-23 Thread Brian Peterson
FWIW - I think the recommended link to get to IBMLink is: http://www.ibm.com/ibmlink Brian On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:53:47 -0500, John Kelly wrote: I'm going to IBMLINK via http://www.ibmlink.ibm.com/ibmlink I get an Untrusted popup sayin secure certificate only good for www-304.ibm.com but

Re: Dynamically removing lpars to the I/O configuration

2010-02-17 Thread Brian Peterson
On z10 machines, you can do this. On older machines, I'm not sure. Use ACTIVATE IODF=nn,TEST to find out whether your new IODF is valid for dynamic LPAR updates. On z10, I was recently allowed to change an LPAR name from LPAR1 to * - the asterisk character represents a reserved LPAR, and to

Re: TcpIP resolver on z/os 1.10

2010-02-16 Thread Brian Peterson
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:50:33 -0600, Chris Mason wrote: For confirmation of what we said, you should find the log of the address space with the name RESOLVER which was the one which initiated as part of the IPL process. That should show the procedure name IEESYSAS - I think since I can't recall

Re: TcpIP resolver on z/os 1.10

2010-02-15 Thread Brian Peterson
Did you notice the requirement that the JCL for the RESOLVER proc must be fetched from MSTJCLxx's PROCLIB concatentation (probably SYS1.PROCLIB)? Did you code RESOLVER_PROC(name) in BPXPRMxx? When this statement is not coded, then RESOLVER is started using certain default values you cannot

Re: Debug Tool problem

2010-02-15 Thread Brian Peterson
I believe you must run your IMS MPP in a single message region. Which message region(s) are eligible to run a particular IMS MPP program is defined by the IMS sysprog who assigns IMS transactions to classes, and classes to regions, as I understand it. The following quotation from Debug Tool for

Re: SV: Debug Tool problem

2010-02-15 Thread Brian Peterson
Your IMS systems programmer should handle this for you, per the IBM (vague) documentation. Doing so is a required setup step. If your IMS systems programmer refuses to do so, that's a different (management) problem. Brian On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:38:35 +0100, Thomas Berg wrote: I'm afraid You

Re: Mhvrcfs? (was: SMP/E DDDEF SYSOUT OUTLIM?)

2010-02-15 Thread Brian Peterson
While the topic Readers' Comments only shows the US mail address, the discussion of readers' comments found on the copyright page at the beginning of the manual DOES include an email address. Brian On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:03:48 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:30:48 -0500,

Re: SMP/E DDDEF SYSOUT OUTLIM?

2010-02-12 Thread Brian Peterson
1) You should look in SMP/E Reference for the definition of the DDDEF keywords. For example: o SYSOUT is mutually exclusive with BLOCK, CYLINDER, TRACK, CONCAT, PATH, and DATASET. 2) I don't see how OUTLIM would be remotely useful in SMP/E,

Re: Racf Question

2010-02-10 Thread Brian Peterson
From http://www.go2vanguard.com : 1-877-794-0014 (it's on the top right corner of their home page) Brian On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:05:15 -0500, Sabo, Frank wrote: Good Afternoon, I have a RACF question I need to remove a CICS profile from a class, I have a product Vanguard Administrator

z/OS 1.12 Preview: VSAM CA Reclaim

2010-02-09 Thread Brian Peterson
Each individual or site who reviews the IBM z/OS 1.12 Preview Announcement Letter will see features described that are of more or less significance to their own sites. It seems to me that one of the more broadly significant features previewed in today's announcement is that of CA Reclaim, which

Re: How stable is the Name/Token area mappings?

2010-02-09 Thread Brian Peterson
What if What if you created a fail safe routine that would attempt to detect whether your high performance access to your anchor is valid? For example, at product start-up, use standard name token services to save something, and then try to find it using the high performance method you

Re: SMP/E -- Removing a CSECT from a load module?

2010-02-09 Thread Brian Peterson
I'm thinking that had the packaging been originally designed using the ++MOD entry's CSECT parameter, removing a CSECT from a ++MOD would have been straightforward. Given the packaging you've described - a reasonable way to structure the module - the solution is likely to be something like this:

Heads Up: Possible Data Loss for Temporary Data Sets starting 2010

2010-01-07 Thread Brian Peterson
A friend pointed out the following document which points out a data loss scenario for sites which have chosen an interesting serialization architecture for their systems. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1012005 This document describes situations where it is possible to have

Re: SMS Failure when allocating Large JES2 Hasp space

2009-12-16 Thread Brian Peterson
This is the JCL I use to allocate a HASPACE data set to occupy an entire volume. I just think it's cool to use MXIG Brian //STEP01 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 //SSPX0W DD DSN=SYS1.NEW.HASPACE,DISP=(NEW,KEEP), // DSNTYPE=LARGE, //

Re: z/OS ServerPac Product Prerequisite

2009-11-25 Thread Brian Peterson
Jim makes a good point, one which I did not know. However, here's what happened to me. I ordered 5655-S28 through ShopzSeries on Oct 6, and requested a license on our CPU by serial number. The order was sent to the order center, and was electronically delivered a few days later. After reading

Re: Change system date

2009-11-19 Thread Brian Peterson
For what it's worthHourglass is now an IBM product. http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/hourglass/ Brian On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:06:28 -0600, John Laubenheimer wrote: (snip) There were many date and time testing packages available for Y2K testing ... HOURGLASS 2000, from a company canned

Re: TCDB Error 014

2009-08-31 Thread Brian Peterson
I believe CTSSYNC invokes the IBM CBRXLCS service to update the TCDB. The CBRXLCS return and reason codes are listed in z/OS DFSMSdfp Diagnosis in topic 12.5 LCS External Services (CBRXLCS). Brian On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:12:57 -0400, Lizette Koehler wrote: I ran a CTSSYNC job for the VTS and

Re: SETSSI and Pitfalls

2009-08-13 Thread Brian Peterson
And, the manual doesn't come right out and say this, but this default behavior can be overridden as follows: Instead of: S TDP4,MSGCLASS=R Use instead: S TDP4,MSGCLASS=R,SUB=JES2 This makes the started task run under JES2 instead of *MASTER*, which is the default for subsystems. Brian On

Re: UCB PINNED by CAS, Why?

2009-08-08 Thread Brian Peterson
Looks like IBM plans to fix this behavior in APAR OA28844. Brian On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 02:26:55 +0800, Johnny Luo wrote: Hi, We planned to remove some 3390s from one system via iodf dynamic activation. First we successfully varied them offline: IEE457I 17.56.01 UNIT STATUS 529 UNIT TYPE STATUS

Re: Problem with I/O

2009-08-06 Thread Brian Peterson
In this context, a subsystem is an LCU in a DASD box. The subsystem numbers used by a DASD box are defined by the support CE when the box is installed. You can see the subsystem numbers for all your DASD boxes at IPL time, in a series of messages that looks like this: IEC336I STORAGE SUBSYSTEM

Re: Make a job non-swappable

2009-08-04 Thread Brian Peterson
Check and see if PPT entry NOSWAP is set for the program in SYS1.PARMLIB(SCHED00). That's another way that an address space can be marked non-swappable. Brian On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 18:04:19 -0400, Gerhard Postpischil wrote: gsg wrote: How do you make a job non-swappable? Can this be set

Re: DFSAFMD0 USERMOD to update IGC0805A IEAVADFM any way to do this dynamically? Existing Requirements?

2009-07-27 Thread Brian Peterson
In IMS V11, PTF UK47419 for APAR PK86958 is now available. APAR Identifier .. PK86958 Last Changed 09/07/01 IMPLEMENT DYNAMIC IMS ABEND DUMP FORMAT EXIT. Brian On Tue, 16 May 2006 10:54:43 -0400, Knutson, Sam wrote: Hi, I opened a marketing request with IBM. If you are

Re: IODF for FCTC connect with FICON director

2009-07-14 Thread Brian Peterson
Here's an example of part of a CTC definition using a FICON director which is part of a cascade. In this case, my CTC network doesn't participate in the cascade - it is local only - but when a director is part of a cascade, you always have to specify ports using the cascade or two byte format.

Re: Device type 2059.

2009-07-09 Thread Brian Peterson
I see machine 2059-B17 in our list of CPUs in ShopzSeries. Monthly licensed software usually shows up in the ShopzSeries license inventory under the actual machine, like 2064 or 2094. The Description for these machines is something like IBM zSeries 900 for example. We also have some IBM

Re: Weird Formatting of posts

2009-06-25 Thread Brian Peterson
The same thing happens to me when I use IE6. I proved to myself that my issue was a browser problem by slowly resizing the browser window and watching the words reflow. As the words reflow, the duplicate words disappear. I don't have the problem anymore as I managed to finagle a copy of Firefox

Re: Weird Formatting of posts

2009-06-25 Thread Brian Peterson
with this in Firefox, which appears to have no difficulty correctly flowing text every time. Brian On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:34:32 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:02:47 -0500, Brian Peterson brian.peterson.ibm.m...@comcast.net wrote: The same thing happens to me when I use IE6. I proved

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