Re: IBM software module names

2012-05-30 Thread Larre Shiller
Hi Jim - I use the zOS MVS Diagnosis: Reference manual for that. http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r13/topic/com.ibm.zos.r13.ieav200/bpfind.htm#bpfind Larre -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: ICSF Troubles

2011-03-09 Thread Larre Shiller
Hal - Is this issue described by APAR OA29163? Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN

Re: ICSF Troubles

2011-03-08 Thread Larre Shiller
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Re: DFdss DUMP DATASET runs longer on z/OS 1.11 vs. z/OS 1.9

2010-07-19 Thread Larre Shiller
This sounds like OA32120. Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration 410.965.2209 www.ssa.gov The contents of this message are mine personally and do not necessarily reflect any official position of the US Government or the US Social Security Administration

Re: Hidden APARs (Was: Heads Up: APAR IO11698...)

2010-04-02 Thread Larre Shiller
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Re: CPU Uncaptured overhead

2009-11-10 Thread Larre Shiller
--it all ends up in uncaptured time... I don't know if this is applicable to your situation or not, but figured that it might be worth a look. Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration The contents of this message are mine personally and do not necessarily reflect any official position

Re: Fw: INFOPAC

2009-04-16 Thread Larre Shiller
to the previous behavior. If/when DB2 has the performance problem that started the whole bloody mess, we may revisit the issue--hopefully long after all of the vendors have corrected their code. Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration The contents of this message are mine personally and do

Re: Sun/STK T10K tape drives and HSM

2009-04-13 Thread Larre Shiller
is being backed up. But once we got everything corrected, it all seems to be working as designed and we are using the default 97 PERCENTFULL value. The ML2 recall times have been slightly increased as compared to the 9840C, but the backups run lickedy-split. Thanks for asking. Larre Shiller US

Sun/STK T10K tape drives and HSM

2009-03-18 Thread Larre Shiller
have this issue? What did you do to correct it? Thanks! Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration The contents of this message are mine personally and do not necessarily reflect any official position of the US Government or the US Social Security Administration

Re: Sun/STK T10K tape drives and HSM

2009-03-18 Thread Larre Shiller
Dave/Rick - I believe that the HSM folks want to use them for all HSM functions, but I think the function that is failing at this point is ML2. We have PERCENTFULL set to 97% and IBM is telling us that the PERCENTFULL values greater than 100% is only valid for 3490-type virtual tape. In

Re: IEAOPTxx

2009-01-23 Thread Larre Shiller
). And other than setting DVIO=NO and HIPERDISPATCH=YES, we use all other default values. Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: SMPE APPLY - CHECK QUESTION

2009-01-23 Thread Larre Shiller
Howard - I believe that is because SMP/E does not OPEN the data sets for an APPLY CHECK. That's why an APPLY CHECK can end with a CC 0, yet when the SYSMODs are actually applied, the data set can run out of directory blocks or space and the APPLY will fail. Larre Shiller US Social Security

Re: FW: HSM weirdness

2008-12-04 Thread Larre Shiller
storage leak that is currently under investigation. Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

Re: Fw: TSO broadcast

2008-09-11 Thread Larre Shiller
about this and they had suggested an MVS exit, but I figured the automated operations route was easier. Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Code Page 1047 vs 037 (Was: coming soon ...)

2008-07-08 Thread Larre Shiller
Try setting your terminal type in ISPF Settings to '6' = 3278T. Ed - I don't know how you figure this stuff out, but that did the trick! Amazing...! Thanks! Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration 410.965.2209 www.ssa.gov   The contents of this message are mine personally and do

Re: Code Page 1047 vs 037 (Was: coming soon ...)

2008-07-07 Thread Larre Shiller
] * Ô[,MF=(L,xmfctrl»,xmfattr|0Dº)] * Ô[,MF=(M,xmfctrl»,COMPLETE|NOCHECKº)] * ¿[,MF=(E,xmfctrl»,COMPLETE|NOCHECKº)] What am I missing...?? Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration 410.965.2209 www.ssa.gov   The contents

Re: Code Page 1047 vs 037 (Was: coming soon ...)

2008-07-07 Thread Larre Shiller
it's not just me!! FWIW, the characters to the right of the equal signs (and elsewhere) are x'8B' (bracketing the data with the x'9B'--no pun intended, of course). Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration 410.965.2209 www.ssa.gov   The contents of this message are mine personally and do

Re: IEESYSAS and ARCNXXXX address spaces.

2008-05-08 Thread Larre Shiller
Ummm. Maybe. The TCPIP NJE address spaces appear that way as well. Based on my simple-minded understanding of how these address spaces are created, that's just the way that it is. Does it cause some kind of operational difficulty? Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration

Re: IEESYSAS and ARCNXXXX address spaces.

2008-05-08 Thread Larre Shiller
as ARC* and that is working as it should, as well. So, I think you should be able to accomplish your goal (no pun intended...) using the ARC* names. Perhaps somebody else has a different experience...? Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration

Re: IEESYSAS and ARCNXXXX address spaces.

2008-05-08 Thread Larre Shiller
be a difference there, too. I'll agree that this particular aspect is annoying. Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Question on ARCNMIGR

2008-04-18 Thread Larre Shiller
Andy - We reported a very similar issue (abend878 in ARCnBKUP) and it turned out to be a problem with TicToc/ATF (OA23255). The APAR just closed and the fixing PTF (UA40486) is available. This may or may not be your issue, so it wouldn't hurt to open an ETR for verification. Larre Shiller

Re: RSV-XCEL Going Away

2008-02-07 Thread Larre Shiller
Mark - I have not had to use this in an emergency, but I have tested this: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/assistonsite/form1.html And is seemed to work just fine. Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: CEA RACF userid and SPECIAL

2008-01-11 Thread Larre Shiller
segment will be associated with the default user ID and CEA will start |in minimum mode. Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration   The contents of this message are mine personally and do not necessarily reflect any official position of the US Government or the US Social Security

Re: Running with SQA/ESQA 100% CHECK(IBMVSM,VSM_SQA_THRESHOLD) doesn't allow that as normal

2007-09-06 Thread Larre Shiller
Sam - That's an interesting idea--it seems logical to permit values greater than 100% in this case. We have the same issue, but we just converted the check to a LOW severity and ignore the exception. Also, note that APAR OA15758 was taken to correct the goofy numbers that you see in the

Re: IGD17272I sms extended dataset allocate

2007-07-03 Thread Larre Shiller
Hmmm. I'm not a storage administrator, but I thought that one of the reasons to allocate a data set as extended was so that the allocation *could* exceed the size of any one volume in the storage group by striping the pieces to fit on the selected volumes. No? And, for what it's worth, SMS

Re: IGD17272I sms extended dataset allocate

2007-06-25 Thread Larre Shiller
Dave - What a coincidence--just last week I opened an ETR for what I suspect may be the exact same issue, except I'm using 3390-9's instead of -3's. After some initial investigation, the SMS L2 technician thinks that OA20446 may resolve the issue, but he needs to confirm that with

Re: PUTTING DISK OFFLINE - JES3 ENVIRONMENT

2007-05-15 Thread Larre Shiller
Try issuing the JES3 Inquiry command: *I D,D=9F46 And if you get: IAT8570 DEVICE=9F46 NOT FOUND IAT8500 INQUIRY ON DEVICES COMPLETE You'll know it's not a JES3-managed device and you can just use the MVS VARY command. Larre

Re: TRSMAIN and Tape

2006-10-12 Thread Larre Shiller
Lizette - I don't know why the documentation would say that, but I do exactly that all the time. Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration [EMAIL PROTECTED] V/M: (410) 965-2209 FAX: (410) 966-1936 www.ssa.gov   The contents of this message are mine personally and do not necessarily

Re: TLMS Label Printing

2006-08-25 Thread Larre Shiller
Jorge - We ran into this same issue a couple years ago. We purchased an IBM label printer (4400), attached it via TCP/IP, and used JES/PSF to send it labels from CA-1 by SYSOUT class. Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration [EMAIL PROTECTED] V/M: (410) 965-2209 www.ssa.gov

Re: SMP/E Internet Service Retrival

2006-04-25 Thread Larre Shiller
Alan - We have just started to invstigate the use of SMP/E Internet Service Retrieval and we also use Top Secret. Now you have me scared! Exactly what is it that is failing? Can you share any messages? What is the name of the CA cookbook and why is a cookbook necessary? Isn't SMP/E

Re: IBM VTS and data sharing

2006-01-26 Thread Larre Shiller
All - Thanks for all of the advice. Based on the responses, it would appear that virtual volumes can be shared across SYSPLEXes. In fact, the IBM Redbook Guide to Sharing and Partitioning IBM Tape Library Dataservers (SG24-4409) has a reasonable discussion of the topic at hand. Thanks again.

IBM VTS and data sharing

2006-01-25 Thread Larre Shiller
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Re: IBM VTS and data sharing

2006-01-25 Thread Larre Shiller
Jay - Well, since you are actually using that particular configuration, perhaps you can best answer my exact question! Assume that a job in PLEX1 created a data set on virtual volume 11. Would a job on PLEX2 or PLEX3 be able to read that data set? Is there any difference if the virtual

Re: Is there a JES3 equivalent to SEGMENT= in JES2?

2005-11-28 Thread Larre Shiller
Peter - Take a look at the THRESHLD parameters of the OUTPUT JCL and the JES3 //*FORMAT PR statements. Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration [EMAIL PROTECTED] V/M: (410) 965-2209 FAX: (410) 966-1936 www.ssa.gov The contents of this message are mine personally and do not necessarily

Re: Two questions: Q1 - DFHSM CPU usage; Q2 - Tape Allocation

2005-06-01 Thread Larre Shiller
that we ever confirmed that. Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration [EMAIL PROTECTED] V/M: (410) 965-2209 FAX: (410) 966-1936 www.ssa.gov The contents of this message are mine personally and do not necessarily reflect any official position of the US Government or the US Social Security

Re: SA78 abends

2005-06-01 Thread Larre Shiller
Ed - I believe that FINREVERSAL is used when an APAR closes FIN but then one or most customers requests that it be fixed in the current release and IBM agrees to do that. IBM documents this by opening a new APAR and marking it as a FINREVERSAL of the old APAR. Larre Shiller US Social Security

Re: Using IP attached printer for TMS Labels

2005-05-24 Thread Larre Shiller
On Tue, 24 May 2005 10:58:36 -0400, Hall, Ken (IDS DCS PE) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great, one more question: Do you route the output via SYSOUT class, or DEST? Thanks. You are welcome. One more answer: We use DEST! Larre