Re: V2X2 vs. Shark (SnapShot v. FlashCopy)

2007-01-05 Thread Bruce Black
My current client has a V2X2 and is thinking about replacing it with a Shark. SnapShot is used to snap 600 volumes in about 5-10 minutes. The physical tape backups are done from the snaps and take about 8 hours. This DR process is fully tested and works great. My main concern if we replace

Re: z/OS 1.7 Standalone Dump REXX Utility -- Where?

2007-01-05 Thread Bruce Black
the 1.8 manual has been updated to say The REXX utility AMDSADDD resides in SYS1.SBLSCLI0 and so it does; I checked. -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software Developer for FDR Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300 personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sales info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tech support: [EMAIL

Re: Costs not to go to z/OS 1.7 by March 31, 2007.

2007-01-04 Thread Bruce Black
system but if you have a plan to upgrade but can't make it by the 1.4 EOS date, skipping the expensive support contract may be an option -- Bruce Black Senior Software Developer Innovation Data ProcessingExisting -- For IBM

Re: Withdrawal of VM ServiceLink

2007-01-02 Thread Bruce Black
Personally, I like IBMLINK/2000 better than the VM interface for most operations. HOWEVER, the VPL application (to view non-OCO IBM module listings) is available ONLY in the VM interface. As an ISV, we often use VPL. Until IBM provides an alternate method of accessing the listings, we

Re: unsubscribe

2006-12-29 Thread Bruce Black
--- Marcin, you can't get off the list by sending a message to the list itself. See the notes at the bottom of EVERY email on the list for unsubscribe instructions. Or go to this link to unsubscribe: http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=ibm-mainA=1 -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software Developer

Re: Remote Tape drives

2006-12-29 Thread Bruce Black
Also check out McData.com (also known as InRange) for channel extenders. Like CNT, they have units that operate over IP -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software Developer for FDR Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300 personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sales info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tech support: [EMAIL

Re: Dump 3490 tape contents to 3590 tape,possible?

2006-12-27 Thread Bruce Black
//DITTOTT JOB CLASS=A,MSGCLASS=X,MSGLEVEL=(1,1),NOTIFY=SYSUID //STEP1 EXEC PGM=DITTO,PARM='JOBSTREAM',REGION=4096K //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //TAPEIN DD UNIT=3490,LABEL=(,SL),VOL=SER=XX,DISP=SHR //TAPEOUT DD

Re: Max Allocation w/ Space= DD

2006-12-22 Thread Bruce Black
meant by LBI, which is actually something quite different (large blocks on TAPE, nothing to do with disk). -- Bruce Black Senior Software Developer Innovation Data Processing -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Listcat Volume under z/OS 1.8

2006-12-22 Thread Bruce Black
with CC=0. Scan your lisitng for error messages: try FIND P'IDC###' If there are no errrors but you are still getting the CC=4, you have a bug; opne a PMR with IBM -- Bruce Black Senior Software Developer Innovation Data Processing

Re: Max Allocation w/ Space= DD

2006-12-22 Thread Bruce Black
In fact, my first guess was 64k track limit, but 4000 CYL is 6 tracks. That's less than 64k. Check the OP. His allocaiton of 4000 cyls worked, but the EXTEND to another 4000 cyls fails because of the 64K limit -- Bruce Black Senior Software Developer Innovation Data Processing

Re: HCD EDT's Generics

2006-12-21 Thread Bruce Black
I would like to break out the 3390 generic into 2 groups; 3390-3 and 3390-9. Sorry, generics are based on the 4-byte device type in the UCB, and there is only a single device type for all models of 3390. As others suggested, esoterics are the way to go -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software

Re: Dataset Name Report

2006-12-19 Thread Bruce Black
I have a need to create a report of all catalogued datasets and to produce totals by high level qualifiers (at different levels) of space allocated and used, etc. Roberto, I can't tell your company name so I can't tell if you are licensed for FDR products. If you have FDREPORT, you can do

Re: Dataset Name Report

2006-12-19 Thread Bruce Black
I have had a couple of offline requests for the FDREPORT input to do what Roberto wants, so here it is. This is a slightly modified version of a report included in our HealthCheck series (member HCHECK8 in JCLLIB). //CATDSN EXEC PGM=FDREPORT,REGION=0M //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* TITLE

Re: Descriptive term for reentrant program that nonetheless is not multi-taskable?

2006-12-15 Thread Bruce Black
There is no thus. I've dealt with plenty of LPA-resident code that wasn't reentrant; in fact, I've dealt with LPA resident code that was neither reentrant nor refreshable. I don't doubt you but I am trying to figure out how this could occur. The LPA is (by default) store protected so an LPA

Re: IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones

2006-12-15 Thread Bruce Black
And that is what makes software patents so frustrating. How do I, as a programmer, know if some code sequence that I just wrote from my own head, violates a patent? From what I have been told, it is impossible to know because only a patent attorney is qualified to make that call. And if I look

Re: delete noscratch performance at DR

2006-12-13 Thread Bruce Black
When we do our Disaster recovery tests we wind up do a large amount of delete noscratch against our user catalogs. We basically uncatalog all of our disk datasets leaving just the tape datasets in the catalogs. The catalogs are restored along with full pack restores of certain volumes. We

Re: IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones

2006-12-13 Thread Bruce Black
From my experience with software patents I've been involved with, one does not patent code. One patents ideas and techniques. The actual code implementing those ideas/techniques is not part of the patent, and can remain a trade secret. In a patent infringement case I was involved in, the

Re: look-up value

2006-12-12 Thread Bruce Black
What is the difference between a DASD device that returns a look-up value from EDTINFO of X'00012000' and one that returns a value of X'00022000'? Are these values documented somewhere? Both of these are for esoteric device names (such as DISK and SYSDA). They are unique to each

Re: IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones

2006-12-12 Thread Bruce Black
If I understand the filing, I believe that the difference is that both FLEX-ES and Hercules are in fact instruction simulators, whereas PSI was producing an instruction emulator. IBM alleges that what PSI is doing is translating executable object code for zSeries into executable object code for

Re: Migrating to z/OS 1.7

2006-12-12 Thread Bruce Black
We have 1.7 up on our sysprog LPAR. This month is kind of a mess w/ the holidays vacations, etc. So we're planning on moving it to our test LPAR 1/6. Any issue with leaving it in the plex for that long ? You mean that the sysprog LPAR is part of the sysplex including the 1.4 systems? If so,

Re: job abended with IEF240I TASK I/O TABLE EXCEEDS TIOT LIMIT OF 0032K

2006-12-11 Thread Bruce Black
If these are VSAM (we can't tell), then each one requires two TIOT slots if the data and index are on separate volumes. If they have AIXs with the UPGRADE attribute, then it needs one or two slots for the AIX,. Are you sure there are no candidate volumes in the catalog? -- Bruce A. Black

Re: job abended with IEF240I TASK I/O TABLE EXCEEDS TIOT LIMIT OF 0032K

2006-12-11 Thread Bruce Black
I am listing the catalog and find the data are defined with dynamic volume count with 15. then I turn off the data class from 15 to 0. it still abend with TITO limit over 32K will it calculate each dataset with 15*20 bytes? but it only used 1 volume actually..but not 15 volumes. Ah,

Re: job abended with IEF240I TASK I/O TABLE EXCEEDS TIOT LIMIT OF 0032K

2006-12-11 Thread Bruce Black
I see, so I have to reorg the dataset and change it back to volume count to 1 You may be able to use the IDCAMS command ALTER REMOVEVOLUMES to reduce the spare candidate volumes in the catalog. Check the syntax -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software Developer for FDR Innovation Data Processing

Re: tape marks and EOF

2006-12-08 Thread Bruce Black
One solution I have heard used is to start writing at EOT, and then power down the drive before it has a chance to write the special EOT mark. A similar system may work on other drives, but it risks some of the data after the EOT. Even if that was feasible for m/f tapes, the OP just

Re: tape marks and EOF

2006-12-08 Thread Bruce Black
Does it write the EOT mark after _every_ write operation? I don't think so, but I forget how it decides when -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software Developer for FDR Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300 personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sales info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tech support: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tape marks and EOF

2006-12-08 Thread Bruce Black
What tiny interval? Open that freshly INITted tape for output, write one short block, and WTO and WAIT. Sure, if you want to write a program. -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software Developer for FDR Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300 personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sales info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How recover from unrecoverable DCB ABEND?

2006-12-08 Thread Bruce Black
1. Au contraire, I don't think it says that. It seems pretty clear to me: The DCB ABEND exit is provided to give you some options regarding the action you want the system to take when a condition occurs that may result in abnormal termination of your task. This exit can be taken any

Re: How recover from unrecoverable DCB ABEND?

2006-12-08 Thread Bruce Black
I think that SYNAD will meet your need -- Bruce Black Senior Software Developer Innovation Data Processing -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

Re: IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones

2006-12-07 Thread Bruce Black
(or violated patents were paid appropriate license fees), me, the end user, is not involved and gets no implied patent license (which would allow me to contstruct my OWN product). -- Bruce Black Senior Software Developer Innovation Data Processing

Re: Get around Double tape marks?

2006-12-07 Thread Bruce Black
to work with you on this. -- Bruce Black Senior Software Developer Innovation Data Processing -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

Re: Console MIA

2006-12-05 Thread Bruce Black
The z/OS 1.4 to 1.7 migration manual at http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/zoslib/pdf///e0z2m13a.pdf has some comments about required updates to the CONSOLxx member and about co-existence PTFs related to console. -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software Developer for FDR Innovation Data Processing

Re: IBMLink and EOS for z/OS 1.4

2006-12-04 Thread Bruce Black
to provide 1.4 service after the EOS date, but the price may be steep -- Bruce Black Senior Software Developer Innovation Data Processing -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: How to use 'RECFM=VM' data set?

2006-12-03 Thread Bruce Black
. Sounds like the file was corrupted in transmission -- Bruce Black Senior Software Developer Innovation Data Processing -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How tell in program if allocation from catalog?

2006-12-01 Thread Bruce Black
Is there a reasonable way for a program to tell if an allocated input dataset was located via a catalog, or OTOH from a DD statement VOLSER? In the JFCB, flag JFCCAT in byte JFCBTSSM (JFCB+x'34') indicates that the dataset is cataloged, which implies it was located via the catalog. You can

Re: DD FREE=CLOSE -- when effective?

2006-12-01 Thread Bruce Black
Am I correct in assuming that does not mean what it says; that what it should say is something like Coding FREE=CLOSE has no effect except when it is coded in the last jobstep that refers to the dataset? No effect? FREE=CLOSE deallocates the dataset; if on tape, it frees the tape drive. It

Re: IBMLink Internet access out to lunch again?

2006-11-28 Thread Bruce Black
I called the IBMLINK 800 number and got put thru to some wonk who was obviously working from a script. He asked me to start checking Internet Explorer option settings, although I clearly told him at the start that I use Mozilla Firefox. After a few minutes of this, I asked if he had logged on to

Re: zSeries videos

2006-11-27 Thread Bruce Black
its not video or flash, but if you go to this link you will find a set of basic info manuals for z/OS http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zoslnctr/v1r7/index.jsp -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software Developer for FDR Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300 personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sales

Re: copy/backup a z/OS unix directory?

2006-11-25 Thread Bruce Black
nothing about the Unix files within the file system. You can only restore the entire dataset and its associated file system, not individual Unix files. -- Bruce Black Senior Software Developer Innovation Data Processing

Re: copy/backup a z/OS unix directory?

2006-11-25 Thread Bruce Black
the TAPE1 DD to be valid on your system -- Bruce Black Senior Software Developer Innovation Data Processing -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN

Re: [SPAM] DFDSS - DISASTER RECOVERY (RESTORE) QUESTION.

2006-11-24 Thread Bruce Black
that the backups and restores are correct, yes, each restored dataset will be cataloged, so it will solve the catalog sync issue. -- Bruce Black Senior Software Developer Innovation Data Processing -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: [SPAM] DFDSS - DISASTER RECOVERY (RESTORE) QUESTION.

2006-11-24 Thread Bruce Black
, from FDR backups. Of course, none of these problems exist in the current versions of FDR - we've come a long way baby, -- Bruce Black Senior Software Developer Innovation Data Processing -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Data Retention Question

2006-11-22 Thread Bruce Black
government agencies in various countries. -- Bruce Black Senior Software Developer Innovation Data Processing -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message

Re: What values for VTOC/INDEX recommended for MOD-27 DASD

2006-11-22 Thread Bruce Black
they just made all the VTOCs the max size. We get calls from customers rather frequently asking this exact same question. I think it is time for IBM to provide some more detailed guidance on VTOC and VTOCIX sizes. -- Bruce Black Senior Software Developer Innovation Data Processing

Re: Data Retention Question

2006-11-22 Thread Bruce Black
still open and close the output file to indicate this. -- Bruce Black Senior Software Developer Innovation Data Processing -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Data Retention Question

2006-11-21 Thread Bruce Black
knowledge and low level tools -- same threat faced in the PC world. True, but don't forget that the SVA et al compresses the data, and I don't think that STK/Sun discloses the compression format. Adds another level of difficulty. -- Bruce Black Senior Software Developer Innovation Data

Re: Data Retention Question

2006-11-21 Thread Bruce Black
://innovationdp.com/products/fdrerase/index.cfm We have a version for erasing open system data in BETA test. -- Bruce Black Senior Software Developer Innovation Data Processing -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: AST Notification

2006-11-21 Thread Bruce Black
I believe that you will get an AST notification every time the APAR is updated. No all updates are to sections that are visible to us. -- Bruce Black Senior Software Developer Innovation Data Processing -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Pedantry (was RE: Shane's antipodes)

2006-11-17 Thread Bruce Black
I'm sure you meant to write Native American instead of American Indian, right? Native American may be PC, but a few years ago on vacation in Arizona, we took a tour with a company owned and run by Indians, and our guide clearly told us that they prefer to be called Indians. Of course, we had

Re: IDCAMS lies.

2006-11-17 Thread Bruce Black
We created an Extended Format VSAM file. The CI size is 8192 (0x2000). A LISTCAT of the dataset says that the PHYREC-SIZE is 8192 as well. WRONG! The physical record size is 8224 (0x2020), due to the 32 (0x20) byte overhead that is not part of the logical CI. I know because I physically printed

Re: 1401 and MUSIC

2006-11-17 Thread Bruce Black
Gee, I remember way way back when ... in my yuth we had a 1401 and some one places a small portable radio next to the CPU and there was a distict music pattern you could hear on the radio. Back about 1966, Carnegie-Mellon Univ had an RCA RACE mass storage unit, with a computer acting as a

Re: ISV magnanimity (was Catalog screwups)

2006-11-16 Thread Bruce Black
Kudos to all those involved - potentially critical fixes were highlighted ASAP. A service not offered by IBM that I am aware of. The IBMLINK ASAP application provides prompt notification of APARs marked HIPER or similar status. However, you have to subscribe to the FMIDs you are interested

Re: Extended Catalog Sharing PROBLEM

2006-11-16 Thread Bruce Black
You see the part of about OA18578 which is not available yet! We are turning ECS off for now. The exposure is still lurking in the shadows. The PTFs are available as of today. -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software Developer for FDR Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300 personal: [EMAIL

Re: IBMLINK Failures -- Attention of IBM Management

2006-11-15 Thread Bruce Black
2. If you eport a sev1 problem you have to treat it as sev1 (until it gets lowered). That includes working on the problem in the middle of the night if that's when IBM comes up with something. Agreed. Sev1 gets IBMers out of bed if needed. I had a Sev1 once that got passed from US support

Re: Dynamically obtaining allocated space characteristics

2006-11-15 Thread Bruce Black
I refuse to admit that this is not kept handy somewhere. ISPF's Dataset Information has it, why can't I. ISPF does not display the primary allocation, it displays the first extent size General Data Current Allocation Management class . . : **None**

Re: Inflating Severity

2006-11-15 Thread Bruce Black
Now, getting the Dungeon Ma...oops! Duty Manager out of bed at 3am is entertaining, but not suggested unless you have a Sev1 that's missing its criteria! Alan, as an IBMer you would probably know this better than I, but doesn't duty manager imply that they are on-duty, not just on-call and

Re: link to a real, working IBMLINK ?

2006-11-14 Thread Bruce Black
www.ibmlink.ibm.com doesn't get you anywhere except back to the home page I followed this link, selected Open a Service Request selected Software and System z: z/OS SoftwareXcel and it took me to IBMLINK. But my bookmarked link is

Re: less generic, more informative subject lines

2006-11-14 Thread Bruce Black
Uh Oh! Now we have the subject line police. (But you do have a good and valid point). He sure does. Sometime back someone started a thread with the subject Question; what good does that do anyone? In the Assembler List, there is a current thread with the subject Assembler Question; of

Re: IBMLINK Failures -- Attention of IBM Management

2006-11-14 Thread Bruce Black
If you can open a PMR against IBMLink when it is down, do so (I have no idea if you can), You can, by calling the IBMLINK support line. The problem is that the support line number appears when you are signed on to IBMLINK. When it was down a few weeks ago, I spent 5 minutes trying to find

Re: IBMLINK Failures -- Attention of IBM Management

2006-11-14 Thread Bruce Black
It's better than when physicians ask you what level of pain you are at. Different people give very different numbers for the same pain level. Good analogy! People tend to give pain numbers based on the highest pain they have ever experienced. Similarly, someone who has never experienced a

Re: Multifile multivolume tape data set problem

2006-11-11 Thread Bruce Black
that this only works if a scratch tape was requested (no volser) in the very first step -- Bruce Black Senior Software Developer Innovation Data Processing -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: 3480 Discontinuance????

2006-11-10 Thread Bruce Black
I'm looking for the end of service for 3480 A22 and B22's My source for info like that is the IBM Sales Manual, which you can access at the Offering Info site http://www-306.ibm.com/common/ssi/OIX.wss For 3480s, it does not show any EOS date for the A22/B22 drives. The entry was updated

Re: Multifile multivolume tape data set problem

2006-11-10 Thread Bruce Black
One of the data sets have gone to a second volume. Subsequent generations were added with DSN=GDG(+1),LABEL=(n,SL),VOL=SER=(VOL1,VOL2). Access to a single data set in VOL1 or VOL2 has no problem. Also, access to two or more data sets that reside in VOL1 in a concatenation has no problem.

Re: GTF question with MODE(INT,EXT,DEFER)

2006-11-07 Thread Bruce Black
I will agree that the GTF documentation is less than clear. MODE=EXT is the most common way to run GTF. In this mode, GTF writes all trace data to the output trace dataset immediately. Once you stop the trace, you can format the trace data with IPCS. But one warning: if you are outputting to a

Re: COND CODE 3592

2006-11-06 Thread Bruce Black
ISTR that R14 in a jobstep programme points directly at an SVC 3 instruction. You used to be able to tell if you were the jobstep programme by looking at that. An ATTACHed subtask also gets an R14 that points to the SVC 3 (EXIT) in the CVT, so your test for jobstep task was never valid. --

Re: DATACLASS DVC

2006-11-03 Thread Bruce Black
in the dataset itself, so they can only be gotten by referencing the data class, such as DVC, so a change in the DC does retroactively affect existing datasets. I haven't surveyed the data class to see what else might apply -- Bruce Black Senior Software Developer Innovation Data Processing

Re: HyperPAV

2006-11-02 Thread Bruce Black
Kudo's to the wizards in IBM! We work with some of the IBM wizards, especially in the IOS area, and most of them do deserve the title! -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software Developer for FDR Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300 personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sales info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tech

Re: What's a programming language

2006-11-02 Thread Bruce Black
MFCM. The MF was often rendered in a vulgar fashion. Used on the 360/20. and the CM was often rendered as card muncher -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software Developer for FDR Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300 personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sales info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tech support: [EMAIL

Re: Comparison of TN3270 Clients

2006-11-02 Thread Bruce Black
Not only that, it is the only emulator I know on which the default configuration not only works out-of-the-box, but also corresponds to how I want to use it. Shows that this is a product written by someone who understands what the needs of the actual worker are. Agreed. Tom, in his other

Re: ESCON EOS

2006-10-31 Thread Bruce Black
can anyone tell me if there is an end of support date for ESCON connectivity ?? Not that I am aware of. IBM's latest disk and tape and CPU offerings all still support ESCON. -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software Developer for FDR Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300 personal: [EMAIL

Re: How long does Flashcopy really take?

2006-10-26 Thread Bruce Black
(2) a system event that can be seen by system automation or installation exits upon completion of an individual flash copy. That would require that the control unit generate a state change asynch interrupt when each flashcopy relationship is finished. I don't believe it does so. Some doc

Re: Apology

2006-10-26 Thread Bruce Black
Eric, You have a last name that's probably misspelled/mispronounced as often as mine is. Smith would be nice. I'll sell you the rights to use Black for a very reasonable price. Maybe I should put it on EBay (people will buy anything there!) -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software Developer for FDR

Re: Tape access problem

2006-10-23 Thread Bruce Black
After I submit the above JCL the JOB waits with the below message - *IEF233A M 0590,R1076A,,EXTRACT,STEP01,SYS1.OS161076.DOCLIB Then again I issue d u,tape,online - RESPONSE=LCZOS4S IEE457I 11.27.46 UNIT STATUS 402 UNIT TYPE STATUSVOLSER

Re: Is the teaching of non-reentrant HLASM coding practices ever defensible?

2006-10-23 Thread Bruce Black
That will round out each CSECT to a 4K multiple. Suppose you want to link two or more CSECTs together and have the resultant *module* rounded to a 4K boundary? In the binder input, the PAGE csectname command will align that csect to be loaded on a page boundary. Also, the ORDER statement

Re: Tape access problem

2006-10-23 Thread Bruce Black
Are you asking me to insert the tape? if so the tape is already inserted. Are you asking me to issue any mount command ? If so I Issued - /M 590,VOL=(SL,R1076A),USE=PUBLIC Again, I get this message in the log - *41 IEF235D MOUNT 590 WAITING FOR VOLUMES.TO CANCEL WAIT REPLY 'NO' Suggest me if

Re: Question on setting a storge alteration slip trap to take an SVC dump

2006-10-23 Thread Bruce Black
Since this is not an error situation, in the sense that there is an SDWA and such to be recorded and RTM2 area to look at, what do I tell the slip process to record such that I can go to the dump, and easily identify the task and PSW that is walking on a piece of storage? The storage is in

Re: reusability hierarchy

2006-10-23 Thread Bruce Black
On REFR, when does a module ever get refreshed?? I can conceive of a real storage parity error, where the virtual page is reassigned to a different real storage page, and the module that occupied it refreshed. Is this true? Are there any other reasons to refresh a module? -- Bruce A.

Re: Tape access problem

2006-10-23 Thread Bruce Black
Do you have any command for me to try to clear this MountPending error? Mount Pending is not an error, it means that z/OS does not think that the tape is ready. You could try ejecting the tape and reentering it (in general I would not enter the tape until you get the MOUNT message). You

Re: MIGRAT1 Dset

2006-10-23 Thread Bruce Black
I thought that if a dset is cataloged to MIGRAT1, I could just select it and it would be recalled. (??) Isn't that the way it should work?? We do not use HSM, we use FDR. Yes, that is the way it should work. What happens instead? Carol, why aren't you calling us first on questions like

Re: XRC Primary Volume SWAP w/TDMF or FDRPAS

2006-10-20 Thread Bruce Black
FDRPAS issues a warning message if you swap from a duplexed volume to a non-duplexed volume, but it lets the swap continue. It currently only tests for PPRC but we plan to add a test for XRC. But it must be the responsibility of the customer to decide what to do about the situation. To

Re: XRC Primary Volume SWAP w/TDMF or FDRPAS

2006-10-20 Thread Bruce Black
Given that situation, will FDRPAS allow the Swap to complete? And When complete the Swap Source has a new Vol=ser= label and the Swap Target has the Source Vol=ser label. With FDRPAS, the target disk must be offline when the swap starts. We will complete the swap, although we do warn that it

Re: flashcopy

2006-10-19 Thread Bruce Black
IBM some time to add them. -- Bruce Black Senior Software Developer Innovation Data Processing -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

Re: Can't Access FDR Manuals website.

2006-10-19 Thread Bruce Black
Carol, it just worked for me. Try again -- Bruce Black Senior Software Developer Innovation Data Processing -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message

Re: IBM 3Q2006 Earnings: Mainframes Strong (Again)

2006-10-18 Thread Bruce Black
I suspect that most, if not all, HR staffs are woefully ignorant of the vast variety of titles used to describe mainframe-related positions. Its been a long time since I had to interview (I've been with Innovation 22 years) but I recall a few cases where I interviewed with a HR wonk who just

Re: Another BIG Mainframe Bites the Dust

2006-10-13 Thread Bruce Black
What a terrible thing to say about one's wife ! Talk about a CPU hog! Luckily, she doesn't read this list gr -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software Developer for FDR Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300 personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sales info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tech support: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Moving data from old cartridges (3490) to new ones (3590)

2006-10-13 Thread Bruce Black
We have had a couple of clients that have verified it made a very big and noticable improvement when they turned off this option with CopyCat. And CopyCat is simply doing OPEN TYPE=J after increasing the file-sequence number for the next volume, and the allocation of course has RETAIN coded on

Re: FDRCOPY/MOVE Statement Doc. DSG=

2006-10-12 Thread Bruce Black
Hi All. It's me again. I am not at my main site, so I am depending on the WEB for FDR documentation. I KNOW that IBM has a website that holds FDR doc. I'm having trouble finding it; just the LasCon website (which is good) and the Innovations website that has a lot of advertisement but not

Re: Moving data from old cartridges (3490) to new ones (3590)

2006-10-12 Thread Bruce Black
It is in ALLOCxx and it is actually VERIFY_VOL POLICY(YES) -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software Developer for FDR Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300 personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sales info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tech support: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.innovationdp.fdr.com

Re: Moving data from old cartridges (3490) to new ones (3590)

2006-10-12 Thread Bruce Black
VERIFY_VOL POLICY(YES|NO) was new in z/OS 1.7, and the default is YES Russ, do you have any idea if this affects programs like FDRABR and COPYCAT which create multiple files in the same program execution? The text refers to passed and RETAINed tapes, but it is not clear about multiple

Re: Moving data from old cartridges (3490) to new ones (3590)

2006-10-12 Thread Bruce Black
VERIFY_VOL POLICY(YES|NO) was new in z/OS 1.7 Sorry, spoke too fast. It was introduced in z/OS 1.5 -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software Developer for FDR Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300 personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sales info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tech support: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web:

Re: Moving data from old cartridges (3490) to new ones (3590)

2006-10-12 Thread Bruce Black
Russ, do you have any idea if this affects programs like FDRABR and COPYCAT which create multiple files in the same program execution? The text refers to passed and RETAINed tapes, but it is not clear about multiple OPENs. We have the default of YES, so I GTF traced a multiple file create on

Re: NaSPA is Alive

2006-10-12 Thread Bruce Black
I must admit that my definition of mainframe may be tainted. NaSPA stopped being a mainframe magazine several years ago. I dropped my membership years ago, after being a fairly active member, because the magazine started to heavily focus on non-MVS systems and became of little use to me. I

Re: NaSPA is Alive

2006-10-12 Thread Bruce Black
Currently the link (www.naspa.com/2020) doesn't work but I sent them a message about it. the link is working now. -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software Developer for FDR Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300 personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sales info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tech support: [EMAIL

Re: Another BIG Mainframe Bites the Dust

2006-10-12 Thread Bruce Black
forgive the history, but early in our marriage, my computer operator wife (how we met is another story) got a job with a small insurance co with a s/360-22 running some flavor of DOS (I think). She worked overnight, and she loaded the card read, submitted the jobs, and took out her novel.

Re: FDRABR documentation

2006-10-11 Thread Bruce Black
but when we REALLY need FDR, the z/OS system is down. Which is why we provide a CD with all the doc in Bookmanager and PDF format, plus the Bookmanager software and some Adobe Reader software to install. Plus, customers with an access code (provided free) can access the PDFs of the manuals

Re: FDRABR documentation

2006-10-11 Thread Bruce Black
Also, provide SAR(Standalone Restore) to boot directly from DASD. Now you can boot SAR directly from our documentation CD! If the HMC has internet access, you can boot it from our FTP site! Yup, all the bases. -- Bruce Black Senior Software Developer Innovation Data Processing

Re: How is the mainframe like the opera?

2006-10-09 Thread Bruce Black
I, personally, believe the answer is number 2. IBM likely wants to kill the zSeries. Unlikely, I think. I can testify that IBM puts in a lot of effort taking care of their largest customers, who are on z/OS with large DASD farms. That is why they invented the 3390-27, 3390-54, and alternate

Re: FDRABR DUMP TYPE=ARC

2006-10-08 Thread Bruce Black
and options, and most customers don't. We be selective about what we document to keep the size down, since we have a lot of options, especially for Archive -- Bruce Black Senior Software Developer Innovation Data Processing

Re: FDRABR DUMP TYPE=ARC

2006-10-06 Thread Bruce Black
Seriously - there is nothing wrong with a vendor having undocumented features or parameters etc. as long as they don't intend for customers to use them on a regular basis or without the direction of their support. I don't know where this example fits in. Exactly. Thanks, Mark. SCAN=ALL is

Re: PPRC status display reporting

2006-10-05 Thread Bruce Black
, with PTFs released on 8/29/06, updated ANTTREXX. APAR OA04022, from 2004, added 4 members in SAMPLIB showing how to do various functions (flashcopy, pprc, etc) using ANTTREXX. So I don't think it is going away -- Bruce Black Senior Software Developer Innovation Data Processing

Re: FDRABR DUMP TYPE=ARC

2006-10-05 Thread Bruce Black
I emailed Carol a description of the undocumented operand SCAN=ALL -- Bruce Black Senior Software Developer Innovation Data Processing -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

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