ISMF Log Information

2008-06-16 Thread Sivakumar, Manikandan
Greetings! Is there any possibility to view the ISMF log information? Sorry if I am asking differently How to trace the ISMF activity ? Is it possible to track ? Thanks in advance. J Regards, Mani The information contained in this transmission may contain privileged and

Re: APAR OA25468

2008-06-16 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)
Sounds like you're not looking in IBMLink. APARs are generally released to the public web interfaces once the APAR has closed. OA25468 is open. You're of course right. Stupid me! Thanks -- Peter Hunkeler Credit Suisse --

Re: RMM CDSID SYSZRMM

2008-06-16 Thread Mike Wood
Michael, You must be looking in a pre-z/OS V1.9 book. Here is the section in 1.9 book http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi- bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dgt2c860/2.5.5? SHELF=EZ2ZO10K.bksDT=20070424113027 and then there is the z/OS Migration book here http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-

Re: ISMF Log Information

2008-06-16 Thread Lizette Koehler
What specifically are you looking to trace? ISMF is an ISPF application, as such it will have some ability to have ISPF trace some of its elements. If you are looking to trace some of the functions for audit, you might be able to turn audit on with your security product for the various facility

XPLINK

2008-06-16 Thread Magen Margalit
Hi List, We are Z/OS 1.7 with Enterprise cobol 3.4 and SDK 1.4 I'm trying to run an OO Cobol program which invokes a Java method and I'm having problems with the LE runtime option XPLINK The compilation and linkage work find. I'm trying to run the program using the BPXBATCH utility with PGM

Re: XPLINK

2008-06-16 Thread Denis Gäbler
Hi, I am not 100% sure, but I recall that coding //STEP1 PGM=JAVACALL,PARM='XPLINK(ON)' once worked for me. I prefer a CEEUOPT Module linked with the application, similar like the SYSIN below as input to assembler: //SYSIN??? DD * TITLE 'CEEUOPT' CEEUOPT? CSECT CEEUOPT? AMODE ANY

Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)

2008-06-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/15/2008 at 11:04 AM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: And if there are INCLUDE members with similar numbers? The C/I should identify both the line number and the member. I like HLASM's technique of an additional Informative message which identifies the

Re: EXCP access methos

2008-06-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/11/2008 at 10:37 AM, Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Makes perfect sense to me. Under OS/360, we didn't have the protection that CCW translation gives us today and it was incredibly easy to destroy part of the OS Not by pointing a CCW at it; storage

Re: EXCP access methos

2008-06-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/11/2008 at 06:50 PM, (IBM Mainframe Discussion List) [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I don't know what VSAM-like access methods are. ACB/RPL. That includes VTAM and access to SPOOL data sets. I believe that JES2 still uses EXCPVR but JES3 uses STARTIO. -- Shmuel

Re: EXCP access methos

2008-06-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/11/2008 at 04:58 PM, J R [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I don't think so. I remember writing code for OS/360 that, during early testing, incorrectly calculated a buffer size requirement. Sure enough, when a subsequent READ CCW tried to read into beyond the end of the

Re: EXCP access methos

2008-06-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/11/2008 at 05:38 PM, Gerhard Postpischil [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: You had storage? All of our programmers had core, and persisted in that usage even into the late seventies. Yeah, but not all shops saved money by buying a 370/155 after the 370/158 had been

Re: EXCP access methos

2008-06-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/12/2008 at 11:39 AM, Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: And, EXCP is an ordinary unauthorized interface. STARTIO and EXCPVR are not. Are you a betting man? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: Space allocation with SMS

2008-06-16 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
BillD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Before SMS came along, it was a good idea to get all the space needed in the first extent and allocate a 10-20% secondary for contingencies. This was known to be more efficient. Why? Why before SMS? With older, real

Outsourcing hits new low

2008-06-16 Thread Matthew Stitt
Saw this on through the CNN.COM web site early today. This has got to be a new low for outsourcing. http://www.kitv.com/money/16607424/detail.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Outsourcing hits new low

2008-06-16 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
Matthew Stitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Saw this on through the CNN.COM web site early today. This has got to be a new low for outsourcing. http://www.kitv.com/money/16607424/detail.html What's new? I know of much more work, that is sent

Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)

2008-06-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:00:09 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/15/2008 at 11:04 AM, Paul Gilmartin said: And if there are INCLUDE members with similar numbers? The C/I should identify both the line number and the member. I like HLASM's technique of an

Re: Outsourcing hits new low

2008-06-16 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM Matthew Stitt wrote ... Saw this on through the CNN.COM web site early today. This has got to be a new low for outsourcing. http://www.kitv.com/money/16607424/detail.html

Re: Outsourcing hits new low

2008-06-16 Thread McKown, John
[snip] Right on! Much better to put the locals on some kind of welfare program, AND pay for the off-shore order-takers. -jc- I am somewhat confused by this as well. But I'll admit that I'm not an economist. I'm a computer techie. But as more things are done far away, that reduces the

Re: Outsourcing hits new low

2008-06-16 Thread Anton Britz
Yes,, I ordered a Leather Recliner from Costco 4 weeks ago, for my Mother's visit from South Africa. So, this weekend, I phoned the Customer Support help line and I was routed to India. They requested my order number and did a computer look-up and just read to me , what I could see on the

replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-16 Thread McKown, John
Well, it looks like SAS is pricing itself out of our range. Or management is just doesn't think that we are getting our moneys worth or ... Anyway, other than using HLASM or maybe shudder COBOL, anybody have any suggestions how to easily do some ad hoc type SMF reporting? What would be really

Doniparti Lakshminarasimha Rao/India/IBM is out of the office - 16th and 17th Jun-2008.

2008-06-16 Thread Anton Britz
I will be out of the office starting 16/06/2008 and will not return until 18/06/2008. Conclusion : Now we know that Lotus Notes can even send out of Office messages for IBM from INDIA...Amazing stuff. Why am I reposting ? Because I have software grease monkeys in the USA that responds

Re: 2105 sense code hds

2008-06-16 Thread Joel M Ivey
Ron Glenn, thank you. I had already varied the target offline on the other zos lpar, but the target was online to a VM system.The PPRC copy now works. Thanks for the assist! Joel On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:17:38 -0500, Glenn Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Joel, I also have twin

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-16 Thread Kirk Wolf
John, You might also consider using the Assembler DSECT mapping support that is available in the alphaWorks version of JZOS. With it, you can generate Java record mapping classes from Assembler DSECT and then process the records using a Java program. See:

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-16 Thread Shane Ginnane
I see customers stampeding to SAS/PC (or whatever it's called). Barry has some notes on how to get the SMF data up to the mickey-mouse servers - even the PDBs I hear. If you pull from the PC end, all the EBCDIC/ASCII, [big|small]- endian issues are resolved. Must be cheap too ... Have a look.

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-16 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 6/16/2008 9:51:37 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: download that to my PC and run Java against it. If necessary, I could even develop and test the Java code on my PC and run the application on the mainframe once it is working. (or use Co:Z to ship the

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-16 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shane Ginnane Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 10:20 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports? I see customers stampeding to SAS/PC (or whatever it's called).

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-16 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
I keep telling myself I need to look closer at this . . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Programming_System -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 7:51 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU

UR1 vs FIN

2008-06-16 Thread Edward Jaffe
I'm being offered UR1 closure for an APAR. The description sounds just like FIN closure. Is there a difference? -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-16 Thread Shane Ginnane
Quoting McKown, John: (or, in my group, at the doctor's). Huh ???. You work for a place called HealthMarkets ... Shouldn't the quack come to *YOU* (in your cubicle) as a perk of the job ???... g,d,r Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-16 Thread Thomas Kern
If you can get the SMF data into a usable format and get it down to PCs, you might try this R statistical/graphing package: http://www.r-project.org/ /Tom Kern On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:51:12 -0500, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it looks like SAS is pricing itself out of our

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-16 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Kern Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 10:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports? If you can get the SMF data into a usable format and get it down

Re: UR1 vs FIN

2008-06-16 Thread Brian Peterson
From ServiceLink User's Guide Document Number SH52-0300-10 September 1996, as found in VM IBMLink: Appendix B.1 APAR Closing Codes The APAR closing codes are: ADM A

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:52:03 -0500, Thomas Kern wrote: If you can get the SMF data into a usable format and get it down to PCs, you might try this R statistical/graphing package: http://www.r-project.org/ And: From: Longnecker, Dennis

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-16 Thread Thomas Kern
I have a hard time reading the documentation too. I think it was written by statisticians for statisticians. Maybe if some really high-powered people who know how to do this kind of data manipulation/statistics were to start working in R or W and made some sample code public, then the rest of us

Re: UR1 vs FIN

2008-06-16 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 11:36 AM Subject: UR1 vs FIN I'm being offered UR1 closure for an APAR. The description sounds just like FIN closure. Is there a difference? Ed, It's better

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-16 Thread Scott Barry
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:51:12 -0500, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it looks like SAS is pricing itself out of our range. Or management is just doesn't think that we are getting our moneys worth or ... Anyway, other than using HLASM or maybe shudder COBOL, anybody have any

Re: UR1 vs FIN

2008-06-16 Thread Edward Jaffe
Brian Peterson wrote: FIN Fixed in next release UR1 Programming error in the reported release; the problem has been corrected in a release not yet available from distribution Sounds like UR1 means something to the effect that the problem has actually been fixed in an announced

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-16 Thread Ron Hawkins
John, Buying single user licenses is probably the most expensive way to get SAS for Windows. If you have 5 people that will use SAS then get a five user license. If a single user license is all the budget can take, then a method I use with my team is to load SAS for Windows onto a fairly heavy

Re: Outsourcing hits new low

2008-06-16 Thread Ron Hawkins
Anton, Would you feel better if a call centre in Texas gave you the same kiss-off? Ron -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anton Britz Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 7:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN]

Re: Outsourcing hits new low

2008-06-16 Thread Anton Britz
Hi Ron, Yes, because the Viagra Stimulus Checks would then stimulate your own Economy, taxes, roads etc. (Check the mess Arnie is in currently.. Budget deficit wise but yes, I saw his wife on the Tim Russert show yesterday, talking from Sun Valley.. Ever been in Sun Valley ? ) Alternatively,

Re: UR1 vs FIN

2008-06-16 Thread Roger Bolan
In my experience, the difference is normally this: UR1 is used for changes that are regarded as new function or some kind of improvement or enhancement that was not technically a programming error (close code PER) because the program was implementing what the programming specification had said

Re: UR1 vs FIN

2008-06-16 Thread Robert Wright
Roger Bolan wrote: FIN means fixed in next, but this does not absolutely guarantee that there will be a next release. That's why you might have heard it as fixed IF next. It's generally used for certain kinds of changes that are only allowed to happen on a release boundary (like a

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-16 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I keep telling myself I need to look closer at this . . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Programming_System Yes, but. Neither MXG, nor (neu)MICS, support WPS. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: UR1 vs FIN

2008-06-16 Thread Roger Bolan
In addition to Bob's update, I was told the same thing offline. Fixed If Next. Roger Bolan infoprint.com Boulder, Colorado, USA P Think before you print Robert Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU 06/16/2008 12:24 PM Please respond to IBM

Network Time Protocol (NTP) client support question

2008-06-16 Thread Chauhan, Jasbir
As part of the PCI audit we need to look into adopting NTP (network time protocol) on the mainframe to ensure all of our 'systems' are synchronized. Can STP provide NTP client capability to maintain 'same time' across heterogeneous platforms. Hopefully, some one out there has a solution. I'll

Re: Outsourcing hits new low

2008-06-16 Thread Kelman, Tom
Matthew Stitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Saw this on through the CNN.COM web site early today. This has got to be a new low for outsourcing. http://www.kitv.com/money/16607424/detail.html C.P. Vernooy posted on June 16, 2008 8:29 AM What's new?

Re: Network Time Protocol (NTP) client support question

2008-06-16 Thread Edward Jaffe
Chauhan, Jasbir wrote: As part of the PCI audit we need to look into adopting NTP (network time protocol) on the mainframe to ensure all of our 'systems' are synchronized. Can STP provide NTP client capability to maintain 'same time' across heterogeneous platforms. Hopefully, some one out there

Re: Network Time Protocol (NTP) client support question

2008-06-16 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chauhan, Jasbir Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 2:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Network Time Protocol (NTP) client support question As part of the PCI audit we need to look into

Slow FTP transfer from z/OS to Unix

2008-06-16 Thread François Paré
Hello, I'm running a batch job that does a FTP transfer from a z/OS mainframe to a LINUX server and the transfer rate is about 20K/sec. If I do the same FTP transfer to a Windows server I got a transfer rate of about 900K/sec. The mainframe OSA card is running at 100 Mb/sec full. Since the

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-16 Thread Scott Barry
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:41:40 +, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Yes, but. Neither MXG, nor (neu)MICS, support WPS. snip Not yet.both Merrill and CA have announced they have current WPS initiatives. And Dr. Merrill's RD team has taken it a step further integrating some

STK9310 ( PowderHorn ) ATL and STK9840D tape drives

2008-06-16 Thread Glenn Miller
We have been trying to upgrade the LMU/LCU on our STK9310 ( PowderHorn ) ATL to support STK9840D tape drives. We currently have microcode level 1.9.26 on the LMU's and we have microcode level 4.2.04 on the LCU's. For the 2nd weekend we attempted to upgrade the microcode level to 1.9.74 on

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-16 Thread Kelman, Tom
From Longnecker, Dennis Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 10:33 AM I keep telling myself I need to look closer at this . . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Programming_System This product is now marketed by IBM. In 2005 Barry Merrill started testing his MXG code against the WPS

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-16 Thread Rick Fochtman
--snip-- Well, it looks like SAS is pricing itself out of our range. Or management is just doesn't think that we are getting our moneys worth or ... Anyway, other than using HLASM or maybe shudder COBOL, anybody have any suggestions how to

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-16 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 3:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports? [snip] Let me point out that PL/1 lends itself very nicely to

how to properly set #of logical processors per LPAR?

2008-06-16 Thread Pawel Leszczynski
Hello everybody, recently, as our production LPARs apetite for CPU has grown meaningful (we are in process connecting succesive branches of bank to new application), our sysprogs decided to simply put online subsequent processors to this LPARs. We ended in 12 processors assigned to each of them.

Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)

2008-06-16 Thread William H. Blair
Paul Gilmartin wrote: I had imagined the TMP interposed its own filter behind BSAM/QSAM. Educate me: How, outside the TMP, can one code a call to BSAM or QSAM to perform folding? Is there something line DCB=(OPTCD=FOLD)? You can't. No, there isn't. OPEN device-dependent code itself will

Re: Slow FTP transfer from z/OS to Unix

2008-06-16 Thread Wissink, Brad [ITSYS]
We had a similar problem and found it was related to port 113 and firewalls. We had the ftp server on a Linux box and were using the client from z/OS. We ended up creating a rule to keep the Linux ftp server from sending to port 113 of the client. Port 113 has something to do with identd.

Re: how to properly set #of logical processors per LPAR?

2008-06-16 Thread Martin Packer
Pawel, it's hard to advise on that unless you give us some more hints about your configuration... e.g LPAR setup, software and hardware models etc. Just for starters it's entirely reasonable to consider that a logical 12-way might find inside one processor book of a z9 S54. Martin Martin

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-16 Thread Martin Packer
It's not the ability to map SMF data that counts here - for anyone considering doing this in a programming language other than SAS (or indeed replacing ANY commercial SMF analysis product). It's the intellectual capital involved in knowing what to do with the data. So I, personally, wouldn't

Re: how to properly set #of logical processors per LPAR?

2008-06-16 Thread Kelman, Tom
From: Pawel Leszczynski Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 3:18 PM Hello everybody, recently, as our production LPARs apetite for CPU has grown meaningful (we are in process connecting succesive branches of bank to new application), our sysprogs decided to simply put online subsequent

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-16 Thread Thomas Kern
Usually we don't choose to move away from good products like SAS or from 3rd party performance monitors. It is usually a Management decision to lower costs at any cost that forces us to go back to basic analysis/reporting, often done in freebie languages (FORTRAN-G, PL/I-F, Rexx, etc) And

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-16 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
Have you considered DFSORT and ICETOOL? -Original Message- From: McKown, John [mailto:snip] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 1:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports? I would love to try C or PL/I. But all we have are HLASM and COBOL. Oh, and the current

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-16 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schwarz, Barry A Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 4:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports? Have you considered DFSORT and ICETOOL? I don't know how to

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-16 Thread Ted MacNEIL
So I, personally, wouldn't recommend moving away from products that manipulate the data. The OP doesn't want to move. He has been 'told' to move. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

DB2 group by with date functions

2008-06-16 Thread Lindy Mayfield
I seem to have forgotten how to do this, and I cannot seem to find the answer in the docs or via Google. I want to group by using two columns which are year() and month(), but the result set isn't grouping. For example: Select Year(Expdate), Month(Expdate) , Category, Sum(Expamt)

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-16 Thread Scott Barry
And, also, consider the analytic data processing requirement for summary- level reports, both on-the-fly from your detail and and also with using a permanent trending data base of some type. An underlying database engine / technology would need to be factored into any replacement initiative,

Re: DB2 group by with date functions

2008-06-16 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lindy Mayfield Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 4:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: DB2 group by with date functions I seem to have forgotten how to do this, and I cannot seem to find

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-16 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
If you post a message with DFSORT and SMF in the title, I'll Frank will respond with some suggestions if not a complete example. -Original Message- From: McKown, John [mailto:snip] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 2:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports? I

Re: DB2 group by with date functions

2008-06-16 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Thanks John. That's exactly what I thought, then I started doubting myself when I couldn't get it to work. Select Year(Expdate), Month(Expdate), Category, sum(expamt) from EXP.EXPENSES group by Year(Expdate),

Re: Outsourcing hits new low

2008-06-16 Thread Gary Green
Yeah, I read about that last year. It's not only McDonalds that is doing this. Gary Green I can use all the help I can get with my fight against cancer! Please support my efforts! Thank you. http://www.active.com/donate/tntsonj/tntsonjGGreen -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: DB2 group by with date functions

2008-06-16 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Ok, this is getting weird. Right out of the example: SELECT SUBSTR(WORKDEPT,1,1), MIN(EDLEVEL), MAX(EDLEVEL) FROM DSN8910.EMP GROUP BY SUBSTR(WORKDEPT,1,1) ;

Cloning USS files

2008-06-16 Thread Mike Myers
All: How do I go about cloning part of a HFS file system across LPARs? What I am trying to do is to copy part (one directory and all sub-directories) from one HFS file on one LPAR into an HFS file on another LPAR. The HFS file containing the desired directories is mounted as root on one

Re: DB2 group by with date functions

2008-06-16 Thread Mike Bell
There isn't one - the fine manual (from V8) says grouping-expression cannot include any of the following items: | A correlated column | A host variable | A column function | Any function that is nondeterministic or that is defined to have | an external action | A scalar fullselect | A CASE

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-16 Thread Frank Yaeger
Barry A Schwarz wrote on 06/16/2008 02:15:19 PM: If you post a message with DFSORT and SMF in the title, I'll Frank will respond with some suggestions if not a complete example. -Original Message- From: McKown, John [mailto:snip] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 2:03 PM To:

Re: DB2 group by with date functions

2008-06-16 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Thanks, Mike. So using Group by year(xx) is something new in V9 it seems. Funny, though, I instinctively tried that syntax first and was surprised it didn't work. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Bell Sent: 17.

Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)

2008-06-16 Thread Bass, Walter W
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 1:00 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts) snip 6) A new parameter on

Re: DB2 group by with date functions

2008-06-16 Thread Bass, Walter W
I don't believe this is quite correct. SUBSTR(), YEAR() and MONTH() are not column functions, they are scalar functions. I believe the problem may be that you cannot even use SCALAR functions in the GROUP BY unless you are in version 8 NEW FUNCTION MODE. Check to see if your site is on

Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)

2008-06-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/15/2008 at 09:07 PM, John McKown [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The above inserts the comma between (e.g) TOM and DICK. Suppose that I need a PARM of 80 characters which contains no commas anywhere in it? Then you run it out to column 71[1], put a continuation character

Re: STK9310 ( PowderHorn ) ATL and STK9840D tape drives

2008-06-16 Thread Ambat Ravi Nair
what version of NCS are you on ? - ravi. On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:27:15 -0500, Glenn Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have been trying to upgrade the LMU/LCU on our STK9310 ( PowderHorn ) ATL to support STK9840D tape drives. We currently have microcode level 1.9.26 on the LMU's and we have

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-16 Thread Clark Morris
On 16 Jun 2008 13:16:44 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 3:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

Re: STK9310 ( PowderHorn ) ATL and STK9840D tape drives

2008-06-16 Thread Glenn Miller
We are currently running HSC/MVS R6.1. We have also installed the STK recommanded PTFs that were suppose to provide the support of the STK9840D tape drives. I should have mentioned that we are using COAX attachment to the STK/LMU's ( we have a Dual LMU configuration ) via twin VISARA SCON-22L

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-16 Thread Gibney, Dave
One license and Remote Desktop? Surely you have a under utilized Intell server some where in the machine room :) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 8:25 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-16 Thread Ted MacNEIL
One license and Remote Desktop? Surely you have a under utilized Intell server some where in the machine room :) And, then you get into a server vs a desktop licence! - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Slow FTP transfer from z/OS to Unix

2008-06-16 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:14:52 -0400, François Paré [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I'm running a batch job that does a FTP transfer from a z/OS mainframe to a LINUX server and the transfer rate is about 20K/sec. If I do the same ... I thought I had responded to this but I guess it went into the bit

Re: UR1 vs FIN

2008-06-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:24:08 -0400, Robert Wright wrote: OA25428, for example, let current IPCS developers know that a developer 14 years ago made a data entry field on one panel two characters too narrow to accept the widest item that can properly be entered there. Hopefully, a lot of these

Re: Network Time Protocol (NTP) client support question

2008-06-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:10:51 -0500, McKown, John wrote: -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chauhan, Jasbir Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 2:03 PM As part of the PCI audit we need to look into adopting NTP (network time protocol) on the mainframe to ensure all of

Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)

2008-06-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:56:33 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/15/2008 at 09:07 PM, John McKown [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The above inserts the comma between (e.g) TOM and DICK. Suppose that I need a PARM of 80 characters which contains no commas anywhere in it?

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-16 Thread Ron Hawkins
Ted, For Windows it is nothing to do with the Hardware Platform - server or desktop, but rather the version of the OS you are using. Windows XP and VISTA are regarded as desktop products and pricing is based on that. Win 2003 is a server product and you will be charged a server price. This is

Re: Outsourcing hits new low

2008-06-16 Thread Ron Hawkins
Anton, I can't sit in the senate. I've been a foreigner in every country I've lived in for the last 15 years. Best I can manage here is to be the Guvna. I'd be more than happy for my nieces and nephews in Australia and the Philippines to have a job in a call centre for a US company as they

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-16 Thread Mark van der Eynden
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:25:07 -0500, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is a possibility as well and is being discussed. But then we'd need a license for every desktop user (well, that's only 5 of us). But if person#1 does the work most of the time, then it would be difficult for person#2