Re: Avoiding DFSORT dynamic allocatoin, was: Abend S0C4 in an internal sort

Try specifying one a sortwrk dd with space=(cyl,(1,1) by do so sort should not use dynamic allocation. Please let me know your results. Regards Otto H Schumacher Transaction and Database Systems - CICS Specialist U. S. Mainframe HP Enterprise Services Telephone +1 864 987 1417 Mobile +1 864

Re: STEPLIB problems - was: PDSE

We used a product that dynamically allocates the steplib in the tso logon proc. This allows us to do what the ispllib does for the products that require us to use the steplib in the logon proc. We were able to go from 90 logon procs to 3. We use the ispllib where possible as well as the

Re: PDSE

I recommend that you use the real dataset name not the alias name in the LINKLIST and use the symbolic alias to isolate the required JCL changes if the dataset is required in any JCL. Since the dataset is in the LINKLIST then you should not need to specify the dataset in any JCL. Regards

Re: PDSE

It is my felling that IEBCOPY should be corrected to compress a PDSE inplace to degas a dataset defined as a lnklst library. If copy done under TSO releases to the lnklst dataset releases the gas bubbles in the PDSE then IEBCOPY ULTILITY should also accomplish this task to relieve the a D37

Re: Last use date of a PDS member

We have developed reports from SMF that we can run to get this information using SAS and MXG. The only time this question was easy to answer was when a company I work for used PANEXEC. This software gave you the last access date for program and procedure. Regards Otto Schumacher   HP

Re: Which manual for ECA* messages ?

This message come from HSM. See below ECA1004E EMC HSM MIGRATOR V1R3 Regards Otto Schumacher   HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account CICS Capacity Technical Support P.O. Box 6462 2000 Wade Hampton Blvd. LC1-302 Greenville,  South

Re: Suggestion for a Job running Under a Loop

Generally, performance problems with batch Db2 are related to the SQL code in the program. Do you have any tools to analyze the DB2 activity done by the program. Regards Otto Schumacher   HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account CICS Capacity Technical Support P.O. Box

Re: Check out Hurricane Irene : Tracking Map : Weather Underground

When Hugo hit South Carolina my sister in law was without power for 3 months. At least she still had a house with a roof on it. The neighborhood would cook on a charcoal grill. They had to bring in water and buy ice. All the tree looked like a mower cut the tops off about 20-30 feet above the

Re: Custompac Dialog -- Change a Mountpoint?

Look in the sys1.parmlib(bpxprmxx) where the xx is the parm member activated on your LPARA. Regards Otto Schumacher   HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account CICS Capacity Technical Support P.O. Box 6462 2000 Wade Hampton Blvd. LC1-302 Greenville,  South Carolina,

Re: dynamic STEPLIB

The is a relatively inexpensive product called Tsoplus that provides a steplibx function to provide dynamic Steplib function for tso. Regards Otto Schumacher   HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account CICS Capacity Technical Support P.O. Box 6462 2000 Wade Hampton Blvd.

Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands

Easier for whom? I have not seen anything developed in Unix that communicates with z/OS made easier by the implementation of Unix - more complex yes, less visable yes, error messages none available, platform portable yes, but not easier. I do not find Unix commands easier than JES2 commands I

Re: Re-entrant module stores into itself with no 0C4

REENTRANT Program: Re-entrancy is a useful, memory-saving technique for multiprogrammed timesharing systems. A Reentrant Procedure is one in which multiple users can share a single copy of a program during the same period. Reentrancy has 2 key aspects: * The program code cannot modify itself.

Re: running Assembler I/O macro code as AMODE 31, RMODE ANY

If the assembler program is not LE compliant and Reentrant and Reuseable there will be a performance issue when the module is called Dynamically. Regards Otto Schumacher   HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account CICS Capacity Technical Support P.O. Box 6462 2000 Wade

Re: CEEXOPT macro ..where reside ?

Check in you sceemac library. Regards Otto Schumacher   HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account CICS Capacity Technical Support P.O. Box 6462 2000 Wade Hampton Blvd. LC1-302 Greenville,  South Carolina, 29606 Cell: 864 569--5338 Tel: 864 987-1417 Fax: 864 987-4500 E-mail:

Re: running Assembler I/O macro code as AMODE 31, RMODE ANY

To fix this problem of allowing all storage to be above the line the Assembler I/O subroutines will need to be rewritten. You can have the Cobol program compile specifying the compiler option DATA(24) this will indicate to the COBOL compile to obtain working storage below the line. This action

Re: RACF and TSS in the Parallel Sysplex

We used the Vanguard Corporation to help with a project to convert one site's CA-TSS security to RACF. We also used the same corporation to convert another site from CA-ACF2 to RACF. We also use the Vanguard Security Administration and Reporting products to enhance the RACF security

Re: COBOL abend debug question with AbendAid/CICS dump

The abendaid dump viewer should be able to display the working storage for the program at the time of the dump. If you set abendaid up correctly. Regards Otto Schumacher   HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account CICS Capacity Technical Support P.O. Box 6462 2000 Wade

Re: Auditing PDSE Libraries

There is a product that does control of program, JCL, and Procs changes. The product is CA's Endevor it provides audit reports and standard move procedures. Regards Otto Schumacher   HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account CICS Capacity Technical Support P.O. Box 6462

Re: ZCIOWAIT message

You could also not have enough sessions define from your TOR CICS region to your AOR CICS region this will cause your transaction to wait for a session. This is sometimes what you what to do rather than to clog up the AOR with tasks that will not run do to deadlock situations. Regards Otto

Re: Difference Between R-INACT and REVOKED

The R-INACT status tells the RACF Admin that the user with this status has exceeded the inactive period defined in the RACF database but has not yet attempted to sign on. Since RACF will not actually revoke the user until the user actually attempts to sign on at which time the user would be

Re: Unicomp

I have never used Unicomp. However, you might want to talk to Vanguard. They are very reliable with some very good RACF Administration and Reporting software that may help you. Regards Otto Schumacher   HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account CICS Capacity Technical

Re: IEFBR14

The IEFBR14 program using allocation actually does an hdelete on a dataset that has been migrated with SMS rather than requiring that the dataset be recalled so that the file can be deleted. This feature was introduced with zOS 1.11. This new feature saves a lot of time and I/O to delete files

Re: IEFBR14

I was not saying that IEFBR14 changed but that when run file allocation would do an HDELETE. I also know that HSS does dataset migrations. I was just telling the person that allocation may be causing the issue and/or his region specification maybe to small. As I remember there was a problem

Re: How to discover compiler options from a csect/load module.

There is a product called Edge Portfolio Analyzer that will give you the level of all your load modules and the sub-routines with the options they were compiled with. The product is not very expensive. Regards Otto Schumacher   HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account

Re: Can anyone recommend a replacement for SAR or CA-View Spool?

BMC has a product called Control-d. Regards Otto Schumacher   HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account CICS Capacity Technical Support P.O. Box 6462 2000 Wade Hampton Blvd. LC1-302 Greenville,  South Carolina, 29606 Cell: 864 569--5338 Tel: 864 987-1417 Fax: 864 987-4500

Re: Storage usage in a job

If someone added a module into a library that is in the linklist and by doing so caused the library to go into extents. You could start getting load failures on modules. Regards Otto Schumacher   HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account CICS Capacity Technical Support

Re: FW: The meaning of SCIDS.

I always thought it was Society for the Consumption of Intoxicating Distilled Solutions Regards Otto Schumacher   HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account CICS Capacity Technical Support P.O. Box 6462 2000 Wade Hampton Blvd. LC1-302 Greenville,  South Carolina, 29606

Re: IDCAMS DEFINE and OWNER

Can the owner be the owning group rather than a userid? Regards Otto Schumacher   HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account CICS Capacity Technical Support P.O. Box 6462 2000 Wade Hampton Blvd. LC1-302 Greenville,  South Carolina, 29606 Cell: 864 569--5338 Tel: 864

Re: Replace Compuware products with CA

We replaced the Compuware Products(Abendaid, Xpediter, Fileaid) with Macro4's(Dumpmaster, Tracemaster, Insync). We replaced the Strobe product with BMC Tritune product. Regards Otto Schumacher   HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account CICS Capacity Technical Support

Re: Replace Compuware products with CA

You are correct the Unicom's Products are functionally equivalent to the Compuware's products. The easy of use of the Unicom products is not as good as the Compuware's products. The Unicom support is nowhere as good as is Compuware's support. However, management loves the price. Regards

Re: Possible DFSORT problem?

Try recompiling the program with DATA(24). PS all sub-routines must be compiled with DATA(24) if the main program is compiled with DATA(24). Regards Otto Schumacher   HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account CICS Capacity Technical Support P.O. Box 6462 2000 Wade Hampton

Re: Enterprise Cobol

Vice President, Mainframe Services david.jou...@53.com 1830 East Paris, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 MD RSCB1G p 616.653.8429 f 616.653.8497 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Schumacher, Otto Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 4:45

Re: Enterprise Cobol

Guy, What was to LE ptf that was not available and what was the symptom of your problem? Regards Otto Schumacher   HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account CICS Capacity Technical Support P.O. Box 6462 2000 Wade Hampton Blvd. LC1-302 Greenville,  South Carolina, 29606

Re: Compuware FileAid to IBM FileManager Conversion

Do I understand correctly Fault analyzer software can eliminate the need for Dumpmaster(Macro4) and/or the Abendaid products(Compuware)? Is this also true for CICS and IMS online dumps? Regards Otto schumacher HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account CICS Capacity

Re: re : monitor/auditing tools

You may want to check out the CA SYSVIEW product. It will give you some visibility to the DATACOm and CICS. Regards Otto Schumahcer HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account CICS Capacity Technical Support P.O. Box 6462 2000 Wade Hampton Blvd. LC1-302 Greenville,

Re: undoc'd DFDSS msg

Are you running on zOS 10. This message should be in the messages and code for DFSMS It came in with zOS 10. I think the dataset is an extended multi volume dataset. Check with you storage Admin support. Regards Otto HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account CICS

Re: undoc'd DFDSS msg

The smphold dataset is a PS file. Are you trying to do an IEBCOPY? If so you can't do it. Regards Otto HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account CICS Capacity Technical Support P.O. Box 6462 2000 Wade Hampton Blvd. LC1-302 Greenville, South Carolina, 29606 Cell: 864

Re: IDCAMS Delete via DD

If you use Iefbr14 and the dataset is a large dataset that was migrated to LM2 then your job may wait hours for it to be recalled and then deleted. The idcams with a a delete nonvsam and reset the return code if the dataset is not defined. Idcams will not wait on the recall it will issue an

Re: Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture

That was the company that recommended the worlds largest Textile firm JP Stevens divide up into divisional companies. There are only a one or two of those companies left the rest when bankrupt. They really hurt a large number of people. Regards HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure

Re: Image Copies

Yes, image copies are resistered in the DB2 bootstrap datasets. DB2 calls for these datasets when a database recovery is requested. Regards HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account CICS Capacity Technical Support P.O. Box 6462 2000 Wade Hampton Blvd. LC1-302

Re: Change system date

There are products like CA-date and others that set the date for certain jobs/users. These were used for Y2K but are applicable for application year-end testing. Regards HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account CICS Capacity Technical Support P.O. Box 6462 2000 Wade

Re: Symbolic parameters inside SYSIN

Add the ref to the del1 and del2 member name. This would accomplish what you desire. Regards Otto Schumacher Technical Support, CICS EDS, an HP Company Ahold Account 2000 Wade Hampton Blvd. LC1-302 Greenville, South Carolina, 29615 Tel: 864 987-1417 Fax: 864 987-4500 E-mail:

Re: VSAM Query Product

There is Fileaid from Compuware and Insync for Macro4 both do Vsam, and DB2. Otto Schumacher Technical Support, CICS EDS, an HP Company Ahold Account 2000 Wade Hampton Blvd. LC1-302 Greenville, South Carolina, 29615 Tel: 864 987-1417 Fax: 864 987-4500 E-mail: otto.schumac...@eds.com We

Re: SDSF Batch command size limit

You can do a / under option 6 of tso which will allow you to issue commands larger than the command line. Regards Otto Schumacher Technical Support, CICS EDS, an HP Company Ahold Account 2000 Wade Hampton Blvd. LC1-302 Greenville, South Carolina, 29615 Tel: 864 987-1417 Fax: 864 987-4500

Re: Enterprise COBOL for z/OS V4

I am getting the option SIZE(MAX) flagged. The error is only a warning does anyone know what the option should be set to? Regards Otto Schumacher Technical Support, CICS EDS, an HP Company Ahold Account 2000 Wade Hampton Blvd. LC1-302 Greenville, South Carolina, 29615 Tel: 864 987-1417

Re: Enterprise COBOL for z/OS V4

[mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Schumacher, Otto Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 1:55 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Enterprise COBOL for z/OS V4 I am getting the option SIZE(MAX) flagged. The error is only a warning does anyone know what the option should be set to? Regards Otto

Re: Enterprise COBOL for z/OS V4

.com 1830 East Paris, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 MD RSCB1G p 616.653.8429 f 616.653.8497 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Schumacher, Otto Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 1:55 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re

Re: Enterprise COBOL for z/OS V4

Of Schumacher, Otto Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 3:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Enterprise COBOL for z/OS V4 Thanks, Bill that is what I was looking for. It would have been nice to put that into the error message. Regards Otto Schumacher Technical Support, CICS EDS, an HP Company Ahold

Re: Enterprise COBOL code generation question

We force Trunc(STD) for all programs in CICS. We have not had any reported problems. Regards Otto Schumacher Technical Support, CICS EDS, an HP Company Ahold Account 2000 Wade Hampton Blvd. LC1-302 Greenville, South Carolina, 29615 Tel: 864 987-1417 Fax: 864 987-4500 E-mail:

Re: CF Level Considerations at DR

Depending on the level we had to increase the size of the structures for CICS log and shunt before the regions would come back up. Regards Otto Schumacher Technical Support, CICS EDS, an HP Company Ahold Account 2000 Wade Hampton Blvd. LC1-302 Greenville, South Carolina, 29615 Tel: 864

Re: can SMS managed VSAM file be deleted while allocated

[mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Schumacher, Otto Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 6:43 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] can SMS managed VSAM file be deleted while allocated We just had a incident where a 121,000,000 record multi volume file lost 25,000,000 records

Re: Propagate systems enq

At the current time GRS does not support Enq propagation across SYSPLEXES. However MIM/DASD does. Regards Otto Schumacher Technical Support, CICS EDS, an HP Company Ahold Account 2000 Wade Hampton Blvd. LC1-302 Greenville, South Carolina, 29615 Tel: 864 987-1417 Fax: 864 987-4500 E-mail:

Re: can SMS managed VSAM file be deleted while allocated

We just had a incident where a 121,000,000 record multi volume file lost 25,000,000 records. What occurred is that the volume was erroneously setup in HSM to be managed from SYSPLEX1. The file should have been setup for a read only with no management. The file was actually opened and was being

Re: MVS NFS client B78 5C on z/os 1.9

You have just begun. There are several vendor software that do not support the CSA Key change. Good luck. Regards Otto Schumacher Technical Support, CICS EDS, an HP Company Ahold Account 2000 Wade Hampton Blvd. LC1-302 Greenville, South Carolina, 29615 Tel: 864 987-1417 Fax: 864

Re: UNABLE TO DELETE ML2 DSN

Have you tried to do this recently. IDCAMS delete does an HDELETE on a ML2 migrated file under zOS 1.9 without doing the recall. Regards Otto Schumacher Technical Support, CICS EDS, an HP Company Ahold Account 2000 Wade Hampton Blvd. LC1-302 Greenville, South Carolina, 29615 Tel: 864

Re: Any Batch Pipes experience?

We elected to running the STARTOOL from Serena and the SRS(STOP-X) by DTS instead of Batch-Pipes because of the administrative requirements of Batch-Pipes. Regards Otto Schumacher Technical Support, CICS EDS, an HP Company Ahold Account 2000 Wade Hampton Blvd. LC1-302 Greenville, South

Re: DB2 Table archiving...

BMC's Change Manager Regards Otto Schumacher Technical Support, CICS EDS, an HP Company Ahold Account 2000 Wade Hampton Blvd. LC1-302 Greenville, South Carolina, 29615 Tel: 864 987-1417 Fax: 864 987-4500 E-mail: otto.schumac...@eds.com We deliver on our commitments so you can deliver on

Re: Endevor and TSO in Batch

We have a WEB application that is invoking a CICS application via CICS CTG via an MQ queue that starts the request in CICS. This application then does a request to update to an IMS database via DBCNTL and an local access to DB2 sub-system which is using a DB2 database alias to request a remote

Re: Cobol: Maximum number of FD Statements

I would contact Ca to see if they had a problem with Ca workbench. This sounds like a problem with control blocks location changes. Regards Otto Schumacher Technical Support, CICS EDS, an HP Company Ahold Account 2000 Wade Hampton Blvd. LC1-302 Greenville, South Carolina, 29615 Tel: 864

Re: What do you call...

I the US you just have to be certifiable (crazy). Regards Otto Schumacher Technical Support, CICS EDS, an HP Company Ahold Account 2000 Wade Hampton Blvd. LC1-302 Greenville, South Carolina, 29615 Tel: 864 987-1417 Fax: 864 987-4500 E-mail: otto.schumac...@eds.com We deliver on our

Re: SMPE/HFS issue:

The HFs files are not temporary these files are used by the Unix zOS interfaces. CICS has Java interfaces. DB2 has JDBC and ODBC connect interfaces. If a when you start using these interfaces. These HSF file will be required for products interfaces to WEB sphere , mQ, CTG, JAVA and DB2

Re: Syncsort vs competitors

The SYNCSORT and DFSORT products are highly compatible. These products do not acquire temp storage the same. Nor are the controls cards coded the same. Both product work well but expect critical job abends and syntax errors after the conversion. Regards Otto Schumacher Technical Support, CICS

Re: AIX gets 64 bit COBOL but still none for Z/os ...

I still can't get user to fully use AMODE 31 COBOL. However, we are getting closer. I vote for giving the COBOL development time to do it right and work out the complexities. It is a lot easier to say it than to do it. Regards Otto Schumacher Technical Support, CICS EDS, an HP Company Ahold

Re: Anyone using JAVA 6.0 on z/OS?

It just depends on the applications you are running and if they support the higher version. Java is not downwardly compatible. Your application may have to install new drivers in support of the newer release of JAVA. We had to run multiple paths. Regards Otto Schumacher Technical Support,

Re: z/OS upgrade

We went from 1.7 to 1.9 the biggest problem we had was the key 8 CSA security issue with OEM code. We had to turn it off the key 8 protection because we had vendor code that had not coded for this change. Regards Otto Schumacher Technical Support, CICS EDS, an HP Company Ahold Account 2000

Re: LE question about COBOL compatibility

We have COBOL programs using both OS/VS COBOL and COBOL 2 running on zOS 1.9. The COBOL2 should be fairly easy to convert by just recompiling and making sure that the LE runtime is used. Even if you use the COBOL2 compiler using the CEELKED library in the link edit will assure that these program

Re: SDSDF Command Line

-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 3:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SDSDF Command Line Paul Gilmartin wrote: It ain't that easy. I've selected / Command line at bottom