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Personally, I'm with Mark
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 07/18/2008
02:39:40 AM:
Personally, I'm with Mark Zelden on this, especially as we are upgrading
to z/OS 1.9 with ALLOWUSERKEYCSA(YES) mainly because of 2 IBM products:
Tivoli Identity Manager Omegamon/IMS.
There is an open APAR
Ed Finnell writes:
I read thru the thing at http://www.ibm.com/investor/2q08/
and it looked like a lot of consolidation back to the
mainframe-most likely z/VM and z/Linux. Especially if you
look at decline in i-System on p.21.
You have to be very careful about the System i numbers though, and
Hi
We received a request from the developers to create a dataset with LRECL
32727. They will be receiving data from the open systems environment
that will be + 52000 bytes long and need to process that data.
I found the following in the archives but have no idea how to do it.
Actually, your
Ed Jaffe of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote
on 07/17/2008 02:27:44 PM:
SYSIN and SYSPRINT are not used by TSO. I have never seen them coded in
a TSO logon procedure. However, doing so harms nothing.
They are allocated in the ServerPac logon procedure in
In a message dated 7/18/2008 4:13:52 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
microprocessors definitely -- but now it's official.) So some of the System
p sales are to run i OS (on the whole server or part of the server), and
reported System i sales reflect only System i
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:55:10 -0500, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have long been in the habit of using:
//HIDDEN DD * (text to be ignored)
All the unprocessed text
that I want.
I think this makes my intent far more clear than relying on your
What's wrong
ITYM GET DATA.
IIRC, I think the logical record is reconstituted but you lose the
length prefix. However, you can retrieve it from DCBLRECL.
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:07:04 -0500
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Circular buffer
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
If the first two
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 2:05 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Example of what a very small JCL Interpreter can
do to your installation.
I guess this
1. System z (hardware) revenue was up 32 percent for the quarter (year
over
year); capacity (MIPS) grew 34 percent. That means System z gained
marketshare again. It also means customers keep getting lower average
per-MIPS pricing, especially for most non-U.S. dollar buyers. (That's
just
The TLMS ALOG is the Alternate LOG, and used to do forward recovery on the
VMF (Volume Master File). Here are two snippets from the TLMS Systems
Programmers Guide:
TLMSUPDT—TLMSUPDT manages access to the Volume Master File at
the logical level. Records are retrieved from the VMF, updated with
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:55:10 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
I have long been in the habit of using:
//HIDDEN DD * (text to be ignored)
All the unprocessed text
that I
Time for a John Blutarski quote (from Animal House)
Over? Did you say over? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it
over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! And it ain't over now.
'Cause when the goin' gets tough... the tough get goin'! Who's with me?
Let's go!
Alan
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:47:14 -0500
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Example of what a very small JCL Interpreter can do to your
installation.
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:47:20 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:55:10 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
I have long been in the habit of using:
//HIDDEN DD * (text to be ignored)
All the unprocessed text
that I want.
I think this makes my intent far more
Timothy Sipples wrote:
Ted MacNeil writes () in reply to me ():
1. System z (hardware) revenue was up 32 percent
for the quarter (year over year); capacity (MIPS)
grew 34 percent. That means System z gained
marketshare again.
You CANNOT say that, as a completely accurate statement!
I have a number of datasets which AUDIT MEDIACONTROLS says exist in some
SDSP datasets, but are not catalogued. I tried using the FIX parameter,
but that did not delete the HSM migrated copies. Any kind person want to
point me to the right section of the FM?
--
John McKown
Senior Systems
The ODS of the Audit statement should have included the statements you need to
fix the offending DSNs. Not all errors are corrected by the FIX parameter.
From: McKown, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Fri 7/18/2008 11:24 AM
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The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main as well.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Sipples) writes:
The quarterly financial results for any publicly traded company, including
IBM, get reported to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,
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Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 10:47 AM
Subject: Re: IBM's 2Q2008 Earnings
Time for a John Blutarski quote (from Animal House)
Over? Did you say over? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was
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Subject: Re: DFHSM question: hdelete uncatalogued dsn
The ODS of the Audit statement
Then the following should work:
FIXCDS D TCPIP.HOSTS.SITEINFO.OLD3 DELETE
From: McKown, John [mailto:
Sent: Fri 7/18/2008 11:39 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: DFHSM question: hdelete uncatalogued dsn
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From: IBM Mainframe
The DFSMShsm Storage Admin Reference has the table with these errors and
troubleshooting hints.
It says for an invalid copy, an HSEND DELTE userdsn should get rid of
it.
Alternatively, you could re-catalog it to MIGRAT and then delete it.
ddk
McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Believe it or not, I actually can type.
The command HSEND DELTE userdsn in my last email should have been
HSEND DELETE userdsn
Bad fingers! Bad!
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Well, elided. I guess the AUDIT ... FIX did work. It didn't say
anything, but I reran my AUDIT ... NOFIX and there are now no errors. I
guess that it took some time for DFHSM to actually do anything.
Sorry for the alarums.
--
John McKown
Senior Systems Programmer
HealthMarkets
Keeping the
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Sipples) writes:
You have to be very careful about the System i numbers though, and
Loughridge explained this. When you buy a new
If the increased capacity went to existing
companies, then there is NO increase in share.
Actually IBM's CFO said that (gained marketshare), so I'm just repeating
what he said.
Just because the CFO said it, it doesn't make it so.
To prove an increase in share you need at least a market
Hi folks,
just starting to build a second channel subsystem on a z9 box.
o I know you cannot span ESCON channels.
o I know you can span FICON channels.
but can you span OSA channels?
What about hipersocket channels (IQD), can they connect between different
Channel Subsystems?
Have
Here's one customer's perspective of 'IPL stages'. It's what I see without
knowing anything significant about the underlying code.
0. Click 'go for it' on the LOAD ACTIVATE confirmation box.
1. Get back 'OK' from LOAD ACTIVATE .
2. Get the first output line on a console that can display NIP
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Warnock) writes:
Even the very first Lisp (1958) had a compiler (by 1962) to native
machine code, as did almost every one which followed
To all,
I am looking into having a server application send data to the mainframe
via the z/OS HTTP web server PUT method. I want to store the data in a
dataset so that a batch job can process it.
I have used HTTP for a server app to retrieve mainframe files. This is
pretty easy. But, writing to
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:55:10 -0500, Paul Gilmartin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
o Duplicate DDNAMEs within a step should be treated as a JCL error.
(I understand JES3 already does this.) This itself would have
blocked the pitfall described in this thread.
...
I've seen jobs that actually
Cross-posted to Linux-390, IBMVM, and IBM-MAIN
I'm pleased to announce that the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 Starter
System for IBM System z is now available. (Don't you just love the catchy
name? I think it just rolls off the tongue.) As before, the good folks at
Sine Nomine,
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Post
Cross-posted to Linux-390, IBMVM, and IBM-MAIN
I'm pleased to announce that the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 SP2 Starter System for IBM System z is now available.
(Don't you just love the catchy
Mary Kay Tubello wrote:
To all,
I am looking into having a server application send data to the mainframe
via the z/OS HTTP web server PUT method. I want to store the data in a
dataset so that a batch job can process it.
I have used HTTP for a server app to retrieve mainframe files. This is
The application can send data to CICS via SOAP and the CICS transaction
can write to files (VSAM, SEQ, databases).
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Mary Kay Tubello
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 2:59 PM
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On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:12:21 -0400, Mark Pace
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
I don't see ALL CAPS and extreme sarcasm for any other product.
...
I don't kow about the ALL CAPS part, but you're right about the
sarcasm. You certainly will find no sarcasm on IBM-Main execpt
that aimed at IBMLink.
Patrick O'Keefe wrote:
I don't kow about the ALL CAPS part, but you're right about the
sarcasm. You certainly will find no sarcasm on IBM-Main execpt
that aimed at IBMLink.
It would appear that the use of CAPS and sarcasm in IBM-MAIN postings is
proportional to the magnitude of the
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:45:58 -0400, Jim Mulder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
The data collection for IPLDATA STATUS was just a little thing
I hacked together in OS/390 1.3 to help me find a starting point of
where to look when I got asked to help diagnose why did that IPL
take so long?
You'll need to use the SITE command for specifying the allocation
parameters.
If you are on the mainframe FTP client and doing a get use LOCSITE, from
the other side use SITE.
For example,
SITE RECFM=FB LRECL=80 BLKSIZE=0 TRACKS PRIMARY=10 SECONDARY=10
put jcl.file
Roger Bolan
IBM
Good afternoon (I'm in CDT today :) ),
Could I get someone to open a real manual?
Either
GC22-7064 (IBM System/360, System/370, 4300, and 9370 Processors Input/Output
Equipment Installation Manual - Physical Planning)
or
GC22-7072 (IBM General Information Installation Manual -
Roger Bolan wrote:
You'll need to use the SITE command for specifying the allocation
parameters.
If you are on the mainframe FTP client and doing a get use LOCSITE, from
the other side use SITE.
For example,
SITE RECFM=FB LRECL=80 BLKSIZE=0 TRACKS PRIMARY=10 SECONDARY=10
put jcl.file
Glen,
This is from a marketing brochure G221-2426-02 The IBM 3490 Magnetic
Tape Subsystem Family
A10 0.6 KVA 2,100 BTU
B40 1.4 KVA 4,500 BTU
Glen Gunselman wrote:
Good afternoon (I'm in CDT today :) ),
Could I get someone to open a real manual?
Either
GC22-7064 (IBM System/360,
Couldn't find the book, so I queried Google, using
3490-a10 +btu site:ibm.comfor my search. Give it go :-)
Linda Mooney
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From: Glen Gunselman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Good afternoon (I'm in CDT today :) ),
Could I get someone to open a real
We just received an IOS dump and we took it to IBM. The fixing APAR/PTF for it
was OA21317/UA36298. (1.8). I have received and applied all maintenance up to
RSU0802 and PUT0712. This was not on. This PTF was RSU0712 and PUT 0709. I
have not figured out why it is not on. Anyone else have
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:58:07 -0500, Eatherly, John D [EQ]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We just received an IOS dump and we took it to IBM. The fixing APAR/PTF for
it was OA21317/UA36298. (1.8). I have received and applied all maintenance
up to RSU0802 and PUT0712. This was not on. This PTF was
I do bypass the IPL. I have all of the SMPPTFIN's from all of my receives. I
can't find that PTF. I have checked RSU0712,10 and 9. No luck yet. I also
keep all of my apply jobs. I figured that I would determine when I received it
before I start looking at my apply jobs.
Thanks
John
I will be out of the office starting 07/18/2008 and will not return until
07/23/2008.
I will respond to your message when I return. If you need help with CICS
or MQ, please contact Scott Weisskirk at x4271.
This e-mail is intended only for its addressee and may contain information
that is
I looked at all of my SMPPTFIN data sets from RSU0707 through 0803 and that PTF
does not show up. No clues here.
Thanks
John Eatherly
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I am running batch SDSF for the first time, using PGM=IFSAFD so I can
enter both line commands and also be able to fill in the XD output
screen fields. OS level is z/OS 1.8.
Here is the input to IFSAFD:
//GETSDSF EXEC PGM=ISFAFD,PARM='++0043,133'
//ISFOUT DD SYSOUT=*
Jim,
Thanks,
Glen Gunselman
Systems Software Specialist
TCS
Emporia State University
Jim Phoenix [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/18/2008 3:29 PM
Glen,
This is from a marketing brochure G221-2426-02 The IBM 3490 Magnetic
Tape Subsystem Family
A10 0.6 KVA 2,100 BTU
B40 1.4 KVA 4,500 BTU
Glen
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
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Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 5:52 PM
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Subject: FILTER cmd not working in batch SDSF?
I am running batch SDSF for the first time, using
In this case we're talking about an operator error which caused the
data (possibly) to be lost, so that situation needs to be described
in the comment section of the report. As long as these mistakes do
not happen with any regularity then there should be no problem with
having this one report
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Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 6:30 PM
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Subject: Re: FILTER cmd not working in batch SDSF?
Snipped
Perhaps filters are OFF. Setting a filter condition
On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 15:01 -0500, Patrick O'Keefe wrote:
None of our MVS system programmers knew about
this command. We don't know when our intermittant IPL problem
will strike again, but you can bet this command will be issued
afterwrds.
There are lots of things to see in a dump - I
Ed Finnell writes:
The beauty of the Z6/Z10 was that by using the G6
Power fabrication foundry IBM should be able to use
a single supply chain for materials and packaging.
I would beg people to just go to Google, find the 30,000 foot digital
images of the z10 and POWER6 microprocessors, and
In a message dated 7/18/2008 11:26:58 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I really, really don't know where this they're the same mythology got
started. Take a look at Charles Webb's presentation if you want a partial
list of the many differences. Or just look at the
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