Re: Replacement for CA - TPX - Session Manager?

2008-02-24 Thread Edward Jaffe
Chase, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:21:21 -0600, Jackson, Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Give the product marketed by Macro4 called TUBES a try. Which has been reincarnated now by IBM

Re: Z10 coupling link

2008-02-24 Thread Edward Jaffe
McKown, John wrote: The only reason that I can think of to tell anybody anything under an NDA is so that they have time to write nice things about on day one. It takes time to read the stuff, think about it, then write (hopefully) glowing prose about it. Some people might actually need to

Re: Z10 coupling link

2008-02-24 Thread Edward Jaffe
Ted MacNEIL wrote: No matter the reason, anyone involved would undoubtedly be subject to the terms of an NDA. Which is why I'm surprised this topic even came up on IBM-Main. How could anybody even ask a question such as this, under usual terms of an NDA. 1. Nobody under NDA could admit

Re: SPAM: Re: LZW Compression/Expansion

2008-02-24 Thread Edward Jaffe
Rick Fochtman wrote: I can't say for sure what compression algorithm I'll use in the updated ARCHIVER; overall performance and some of the technical details will still need exploration but I've got some starting points now. Remember that there are high-performance, hardware-assisted

Re: SHARE no handouts(?)

2008-03-01 Thread Edward Jaffe
Warner Mach wrote: SHARE is now wrapping up and was, as usual, highly worthwhile ... However, one aspect bothers me greatly: That is a new emphasis on 'being green.' And how does SHARE propose to save the planet? A: By encouraging speakers to NOT pass out the customary handouts which show the

Re: IBM announced z10 ..why so fast...any problem on z 9

2008-03-01 Thread Edward Jaffe
Tommy Tsui wrote: ..I think z9 is announced around 3 years...As I remember, IBM never try to announced a new model of mainframe computer just three years later... Using http://www.tech-news.com/ as a reference, the history of IBM CMOS mainframe processor hardware generations is as follows:

Re: new Feb2008 zPOP: Execute Relative Long

2008-03-01 Thread Edward Jaffe
Tom Schmidt wrote: See SA22-7832-06 for the EXRL instruction. (I'm sure Ed's been aware for several months now, but the rest of us may be happy now.) Give 'em an inch and they'll take a yard! People are already clamoring for additional forms of EXRL that can OR the mask with other than

Re: z10 LSPR

2008-03-01 Thread Edward Jaffe
William Bishop wrote: Since when are the MSU ratings dependent upon which release of zOS you are running? I believe the LSPR workloads for z10 are executed with the HiperDispatch feature fully enabled. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800

Re: IBM announced z10 ..why so fast...any problem on z 9

2008-03-01 Thread Edward Jaffe
Gibney, Dave wrote: The Multiprise 2003's were also CMOS. We replaced a 3090-400J with one sometime after 96. Yup. As well as MP3000s, P/390s, etc. I didn't mention them because I don't consider them direct ancestors of the current machines. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software

Re: SHARE no handouts(?)

2008-03-01 Thread Edward Jaffe
Mark Post wrote: (Even doubled-sided 2-up copies add up when you're giving 7 hours or so of sessions. Anything like 4-up gets as many complaints as no handouts.) I have for many years distributed handouts that are 4-up, double-sided i.e., 8 slides per physical sheet and never, ever had a

Re: SHARE no handouts(?)

2008-03-01 Thread Edward Jaffe
Norman Hollander on h-WiZ.biz wrote: By the way, Eric, you can reduce your registration costs but doing a presentation at SHARE. Each day you do one, you get to attend that day for free. Granted, it doesn't help with travel and hotel, but it is something. Be sure to work with the

Re: SHARE no handouts(?)

2008-03-02 Thread Edward Jaffe
Kenneth E Tomiak wrote: [snip] I don't know the best answer, certainly making attendees realize this is a USER group conference and handouts are not part of the conference fee is part of it. Excellent post, Ken! It's important to point out that it has *always* been the case that some

Re: SHARE no handouts(?)

2008-03-02 Thread Edward Jaffe
Edward Jaffe wrote: Every presentation I gave had a handout. And, every presentation I attended had a handout. Correction! There was no hand out for the Bit Bucket -- Friday @ 11 am. That ad-hoc session is traditionally composed on-site, during the conference, by the presenters. No SHARE

Re: zIIP API for ISV's

2008-03-03 Thread Edward Jaffe
Bob Shannon wrote: If you write code to run on a zIIP on your own system, you will probably be in violation of the contact someone signed for your processor. Before there were zIIPs -- only zAAPs -- I tried to find this language and could not. I asked IBM to point it out for me and they

Re: SPAM: Re: new Feb2008 zPOP: Execute Relative Long

2008-03-03 Thread Edward Jaffe
Rick Fochtman wrote: Let's all quit trying to second-guess IBM and instead just wait a while. I'm certain that there will be additional upgrades as the z/10 goes through evolution. Let's see what time brings us. Customer dialog helps influence IBM's design and direction. If customers always

Re: Large Page Datasets APAR OA20749

2008-03-04 Thread Edward Jaffe
Shane wrote: But what if customers *do* go back to single (*really* big) page datasets per volume ???. I don't think anyone is suggesting customers reduce the number of page data sets in their configuration. But with the subject APAR, they can now make them larger than 4G. (Actually, they

Re: DCF (was Re: System z10 announcement (in English))

2008-03-05 Thread Edward Jaffe
Alan Altmark wrote: I'm not sure why you're tying book format to DCF. DCF is rarely used with System z publications, as book maintenence and formatting were moved to workstations years ago. The tools can produce a variety of output formats, depending on the requirement. What software

No IOS070E MOUNT PENDING Messages Under z/OS 1.9

2008-03-05 Thread Edward Jaffe
Someone just pointed out to me that our z/OS 1.9 systems have never issued IOS070E MOUNT PENDING messages. I searched the log history and confirmed. We used to get these messages all the time on older z/OS releases. We trap them and forward as an instant message reminder to our tape person.

Re: Metal C Question (was COBOL Java Ldap and between)

2008-03-05 Thread Edward Jaffe
Rob Schramm wrote: Does anyone know if the license for the IBM Metal C is more attractive to the customers that may have balked at the IBM C/C++ compiler? AFAIK, METAL is an option not a compiler. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los

Re: No IOS070E MOUNT PENDING Messages Under z/OS 1.9

2008-03-05 Thread Edward Jaffe
Mark Zelden wrote: What do you have specified or defaulted for MNTS? Did that change in recent years? I see the default is still documented as 3:00 IOS086I 09.46.38 MIH AND IOT TIMES 889 MOUNTMSG = YES,HALT=00:05, MNTS=03:00, UREC=03:00, DASD=00:15, TAPE=03:00, GRAF=03:00, CTC

Re: No IOS070E MOUNT PENDING Messages Under z/OS 1.9

2008-03-05 Thread Edward Jaffe
Mark Zelden wrote: Looks like it's time to open a PMR (I just did a quick IBMLINK search and came up empty). Please post your results. I am very interested also because we have not rolled out 1.9 yet but will be doing so soon. Record 53521,227,000 has been submitted. -- Edward E Jaffe

Re: SMF program IFASMFDP cannot read DSNTYPE=LARGE dataset with size CYL 10152

2008-03-05 Thread Edward Jaffe
Stephen Mednick wrote: check out APAR II4094 ITYM APAR II14094 -- 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: No IOS070E MOUNT PENDING Messages Under z/OS 1.9

2008-03-07 Thread Edward Jaffe
Edward Jaffe wrote: Record 53521,227,000 has been submitted. APAR Identifier .. OA24276 Last Changed 08/03/07 MISSING IOS070E DEV, MOUNT PENDING MESSAGE AT Z/OS 1.9 WHEN ENABLED VIA PARMLIB IECIOSXX EX:MIH MOUNTMSG=YES,MNTS=03:00 The 08/03/07 date means March 7, 2008. (Today

Re: FTP Failures

2008-03-07 Thread Edward Jaffe
Greg Shirey wrote: Doing a PING first will let you know if you can connect at all, but it won't help guarantee the FTP will succeed.We have many jobs that connect successfully to an FTP server, begin the transfer and then fail. In the security-conscious IT world in which we find

Re: DCF (was Re: System z10 announcement (in English))

2008-03-07 Thread Edward Jaffe
Roger Bolan wrote: Some Information Development groups don't even produce BookManager format output but produce some books in PDF format only now. Eclipse-based Infocenters are the in thing now. It's all XML based. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd,

Re: Transfer reports from lpar to lpar

2008-03-07 Thread Edward Jaffe
Pat Mihalec wrote: I haven't been following this but has anyone suggested setting up a CTC between the LPAR's. The connection is setup over Escon channels. Or, better yet, TCP/IP over HiperSockets should be *screaming* fast -- assuming the LPARs are on the same CPC. -- Edward E Jaffe

Re: SPAM: Re: Transfer reports from lpar to lpar

2008-03-08 Thread Edward Jaffe
Rick Fochtman wrote: That will make a very reasonable physical connection; the next step is to configure software to actually use it. :-) I vote for a NJE connection, with routing JECL where appropriate. It's a LOT less prone to error than trying to do spool OFFLOAD and LOAD. The OP

Re: DSN ENQ conflict - debugging after the fact.

2008-03-10 Thread Edward Jaffe
Lizette Koehler wrote: Just issue TSO ISRDDN on the command line. These days, you simply issue the DDLIST command directly to ISPF. No TSO command needed. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318 [EMAIL

DDLIST (Was: DSN ENQ conflict)

2008-03-10 Thread Edward Jaffe
Eric Bielefeld wrote: I tried DDLIST on both my production 1.4 system and my 1.7 test lpar. It doesn't work on either. I looked in my SITE commands in ISPF 3.9, and found the following entry: DDN 0 SELECT CMD(ISRDDN) NEWAPPL(DDN) Is that the same thing that you were talking

Re: clock, daylight savings time

2008-03-11 Thread Edward Jaffe
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: Is CDT really 7 hours off from GMT? CST is -0600. Fall back one hour and you get -0700. Huh??? You don't fall back from CST. You spring forward to CDT, which is -0500! http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/na/cst.html

Re: clock, daylight savings time

2008-03-12 Thread Edward Jaffe
Doc Farmer wrote: Aw, the HECK with this. I hereby declare that from now on, daylight savings is banned and all clocks shall be set to GMT only, worldwide. I have no issue with time zones. But, I really don't like the semi-annual confusion caused by switching between Daylight Saving and

Re: GRS concurrent enqueue limit

2008-03-12 Thread Edward Jaffe
Ed Holt wrote: The QCB chain that was pointed of the RIBE has been removed in Z/OS R9 - RIBQCB. Any ideas how I can search the QCB's? I believe the intent of this change is to discourage customers and ISVs from looking at QCBs directly. (This allows them to be eventually moved into 64-bit

Re: Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-12 Thread Edward Jaffe
John Mattson wrote: Programmers have been deleting for years using BR14 (MOD,DELETE), and IDCAMS DELETE. I am finding that we are spending ever more time on HSM Migrated ds being recalled just to delete them. Is there an EASY way to convert these deletes into HSEND DELETE? I thought

Re: Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-12 Thread Edward Jaffe
William Bishop wrote: The problem is that if you perfrom an IDCAMS DELETE and specify nonvsam, HSM does a recall. Without the nonvsam, he does an HDELETE if the dataset is migrated. This sounds APARable to me. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd,

Re: Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-12 Thread Edward Jaffe
Walt Farrell wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:03:41 -0700, Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William Bishop wrote: The problem is that if you perfrom an IDCAMS DELETE and specify nonvsam, HSM does a recall. Without the nonvsam, he does an HDELETE if the dataset is migrated

Re: Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-13 Thread Edward Jaffe
Dave Cartwright wrote: No, a VSAM cluster is turned into a flat file on migration and is cataloged as a NONVSAM dataset on volume MIGRAT. If its device type is tape it shows as MIGRAT2, else it's MIGRAT1. Too bad. That seems like a poor design choice in hindsight given the current topic.

Re: Execution job class restriction

2008-03-13 Thread Edward Jaffe
Robert S. Hansel (RSH) wrote: If you can find a copy of the IBM publication GG66-3218-01 RACF Security Administrator's Quick Reference, March 1992, there is a sample JES Exit 6 in Appendix G for controlling the use of JES input class. It uses profiles in the FACILITY class of the format

Re: z/OS 1.7 to z/OS 1.9 Migration - Increase in CPU/MSU Consumption

2008-03-14 Thread Edward Jaffe
Chase, John wrote: We are just about to start the migration from z/OS 1.7 to z/OS 1.9. Would someone provide a ballpark percentage increase in the amount of CPU resources between the two releases so we can estimate the monthly increase in our z/OS base monthly billing? I believe IBM

Re: z/OS 1.7 to z/OS 1.9 Migration - Increase in CPU/MSU Consumption

2008-03-14 Thread Edward Jaffe
Mark Zelden wrote: On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:51:56 -0700, Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe IBM currently uses an unofficial goal of a 5% decrease in utilization per release. Doesn't that conflict with the goals of the hardware sales people? ;-) Seriously, that's the first

Re: z/OS 1.7 to z/OS 1.9 Migration - Increase in CPU/MSU Consumption

2008-03-14 Thread Edward Jaffe
Ted MacNEIL wrote: I believe IBM currently uses an unofficial goal of a 5% decrease in utilization per release. Actually, it's simpler than that. IBM used to promise it would not cost more for the same functionality in each subsequent release. Mind you, if you exploit new technology all

Re: z/OS 1.7 to z/OS 1.9 Migration - Increase in CPU/MSU Consumption

2008-03-15 Thread Edward Jaffe
Walt Farrell wrote: To try to clarify that question a bit: I think -I- know what we're trying to do, but I'm not sure everyone on the list is interpreting that 5% decrease in the same way. Or maybe it was just Ted (sorry, Ted :-) who confused me. I'll accept some of the responsibility for

Re: WTO from REXX under Unix Ssystem Services?

2008-03-15 Thread Edward Jaffe
Patrick O'Keefe wrote: I need to be able to issue a WTO from REXX running under Unix System Services on z/OS 1.8 and beyond. [snip] Would somebody point me to a sample that does this, or at least point me to a manual describing it? message = 'Hello World!' rc = syscalls('ON') address

Re: z/OS 1.7 to z/OS 1.9 Migration - Increase in CPU/MSU Consumption

2008-03-16 Thread Edward Jaffe
Binyamin Dissen wrote: But until application code starts using, i.e., the compilers generate z10 code, the performance improvement of just the supervisor will not make THAT big a deal. The compilers are already supporting z10 via ARCH(8)/TUNE(8). See

Re: z/OS and Linux on same z/VM Image

2008-03-17 Thread Edward Jaffe
Alan Altmark wrote: When you bring up z/OS as a guest on the z/VM LPAR, it will report MSU usage consistent with the share of the CPU it gets from z/VM (SET SHARE). SET SHARE provides significant granularity in setting processing capacity:

Re: z/OS 1.7 to z/OS 1.9 Migration - Increase in CPU/MSU Consumption

2008-03-18 Thread Edward Jaffe
Chase, John wrote: When I manually navigate to the correct folder on ftp.software.ibm.com, right-click on either package and select Copy to Folder..., I get the access denied error. Sounds like a firewall/proxy error. A colleague said he downloaded it earlier yesterday morning. I wonder

Re: ServerPac IYO (Installing Your Order)

2008-03-18 Thread Edward Jaffe
Mark Zelden wrote: I like when IBM (and other vendors) give you better documentation or better ways to view it. I don't like having things taken away. In the past, IYO came in several formats: BookManger, AFP and in readable text in the orderhlq.SCPPLENU data set as member LIST1403. Does it

Re: MVS initiated FTP to Windows

2008-03-18 Thread Edward Jaffe
Daniel McLaughlin wrote: That's some of the 'it depends' stuff. Can you get a static IP address for the PC? If it's on DHCP and is up/down frequently, then how would you hit it? A full Dynamic IP implementation requires both DHCP and DDNS. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International,

Re: SDM and zIIP

2008-03-18 Thread Edward Jaffe
Andy White wrote: ... I guess we could always just purchase a zIIP and look at RMF but would prefer something to read now to tell management why we would even go down this road. You might want to read up on specifying PROJECTCPU=YES in IEAOPT00. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software

Re: IBM Debug Tool

2008-03-18 Thread Edward Jaffe
Ted MacNEIL wrote: Can you find a measurable difference between 'optimised' and 'non-optimised' code, these days? I/O, yes. CPU, no. I disagree. Software CPU optimization is an area of intense focus right now. Compilers, in general, are able to optimize more effectively now than at any

Re: MVS initiated FTP to Windows

2008-03-19 Thread Edward Jaffe
McKown, John wrote: I have the problem with my Linux desktop. It is not part of the Windows domain and so does/can not register itself with DDNS. I know it is possible, but politics on the part of the Windows support staff deny me the option. It might not just be politics. There are

Re: ServerPac IYO (Installing Your Order)

2008-03-19 Thread Edward Jaffe
Daniel McLaughlin wrote: Ah, but Adobe Acrobat reader has a voice and will read your manual to you. It's a bit monotonous and calls ZOS zee-oss, but book manager won't do that! Not true! BookManager softcopy books can be read via any web browser. (For an example, see IBM's public library

Re: Define Pagespace -- SWAP vs NOSWAP?

2008-03-20 Thread Edward Jaffe
Eric Bielefeld wrote: Actually, as others have pointed out, swap datasets are pretty much dead. The paging algorithms have been changed to efficiently swap to the regular page datasets. This is not what was done! The concept of physical swap was removed entirely. The operating system no

Re: Define Pagespace -- SWAP vs NOSWAP?

2008-03-20 Thread Edward Jaffe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As soon as I read your post, I remembered that they took out physical swap. I am curious though - I know address spaces still get swapped out - how does that happen without a physical swap? I used to know that at one time, but I can't remember. There is now

Re: Can forked/spawned address spaces be identified as such?

2008-03-20 Thread Edward Jaffe
Support, DUNNIT SYSTEMS LTD. wrote: So is there any way to determine the original parent address space's name from within the child's address space? BPXEKDA returns the structure mapped by BPXZODMV. OdmvPPID is the parent's Process ID. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International,

Re: SMF in logstream and IFASMFDL

2008-03-23 Thread Edward Jaffe
Peter Relson wrote: To be fair and complete, it has clearly been stated that IBM understands that the lack of a delete/clear function is considered to be a problem and we hope to provide a solution. To be even more complete, it should be noted that this requirement had been articulated to

Re: Long translate (TR) instruction?

2008-03-24 Thread Edward Jaffe
McKown, John wrote: I don't think you have a choice, in the general case. That is because all the new TRxx type instructions seem to terminate when the data in your buffer equals to the contents of the low order byte general register 0. I.e. they stop at an end of buffer type character, like a

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Edward Jaffe
David Andrews wrote: Guess I'll contribute my $.02. Tiny (2096-G01) uniprocessor. 1 100199% complete within 00:00:00.300 2 14000 190% complete within 00:00:02.000 3 3Execution velocity of 10 Hey! This is fun! (2096-L03) # Duration Imp Goal

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Edward Jaffe
Matthew Stitt wrote: In your case, the correct solution would be to set up SDSF command security to prevent the operators from changing the service classes. Of course this will probably become a management political hot potato. As a carrot I would also sit down with operators and determine

Re: Long translate (TR) instruction?

2008-03-25 Thread Edward Jaffe
Art Celestini wrote: It seems that the TRE instruction has been in z/Arch for at least a few years. If anyone is inclined to try this, it would be interesting to see how it fares against Ed Jaffe's code: XR R1,R1 Clear for insert LR15,LengthLoad string

Re: Enhanced PSP Compare Program

2008-03-27 Thread Edward Jaffe
Cyrus Goodriver wrote: A question for IBMers who posted on this subject: Why the nice feature of informing PARM=* to PSP tool to screen all target zones defined to the Global CSI has been dropped from the new version ? (it ends in error). Weird! It appears I received this same message

Re: JES2 DD Concatenation issue

2008-03-28 Thread Edward Jaffe
Paul Gilmartin wrote: Are DEBs created by ALLOCATE? I had imagined it was OPEN. Indeed. In an earlier contribution, you mentioned that JES holds no ENQ on the PROCLIBs. That sounds terribly dangerous. Why would they design it that way? MVS programs honor the settings in the PPT.

Re: ESQA allocation question

2008-03-28 Thread Edward Jaffe
Ted MacNEIL wrote: I converted to 64-bit so long ago, that I had forgotten all the details. But, I remember we had to increase our ESQA allocation in order to be able to IPL. In our case, z/Architecture was not the culprit. It was PAVs that blew INITSQA out of the water! -- Edward E

Re: ESQA allocation question

2008-03-28 Thread Edward Jaffe
Jack Kelly wrote: Ed, Since we're finally getting to PAV, would you please expand on the problem/issue, e.g. how many PAVs and how much of an increase to the initial SQA? I honesty don't remember the specifics after so many years (we upgraded to ESS (2105-800) from RVA in 2002). But,

Re: JES2 DD Concatenation issue

2008-03-28 Thread Edward Jaffe
Paul Gilmartin wrote: To my meager understanding, if JES2 is down you're SOL, whether or not it ENQs (but is there a special case in which JES2 might crash but fail to free the ENQS?) By my ancient experience, if JES2 is down, TSO is likewise SOL (or was it Roscoe, then?) We run TCAS under

Re: SDSDF Command Line

2008-03-29 Thread Edward Jaffe
Lindy Mayfield wrote: I any case, does anyone know how to tell SDSF to put the command line on top? I've been through all the options and the docs with no luck so far. Command line placement is an ISPF setting. You won't normally find it discussed in the documentation for individual ISPF

Re: SDSDF Command Line

2008-03-29 Thread Edward Jaffe
Paul Gilmartin wrote: It ain't that easy. I've selected / Command line at bottom (my choice; don't argue with me -- I'm not a very good typist and I believe it helps to have my fingers in my peripheral vision as I view the command line). Yet the command line jumps distractingly between bottom

Re: SYSLOG problem

2008-03-31 Thread Edward Jaffe
Yukus, Mary J CIV USMEPCOM wrote: Hi Everyone, We have an issue with our syslog. The command was issued to stop the syslog to write it out. Normally a new syslog is created. Unfortunately this time that didn't happen. We are now using the logger data set on this partition, just the hard

U.S. suspends IBM from seeking new federal contracts

2008-04-01 Thread Edward Jaffe
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSWNAS644620080401 Ed Gould must be on vacation. So, I'm posting this instead. ;-) -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-04-02 Thread Edward Jaffe
Aimee Houghton wrote: Here is my service class for TSO: Base goal: CPU Critical flag: NO # Duration Imp Goal description - - - 1 800280% complete within 00:00:00.300 2 4Execution velocity of 40

Re: Another RNL question

2008-04-03 Thread Edward Jaffe
John McKown wrote: Can anybody tell me the logic at IPL time to force the IPL'ing system into a wait state if the new system's RNL does not match the RNL of the sysplex? I'm pretty sure it just issues the LPSW instruction. ;-) -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W

Re: SYSAFF card

2008-04-03 Thread Edward Jaffe
Mark Zelden wrote: On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 14:27:11 -0400, Craddock, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes the job can run anywhere that has an available initiator for the job class. However as a practical matter (at least with JES2) the job almost always runs on the same system where it is

Re: Faxing from the mainframe

2008-04-03 Thread Edward Jaffe
Brad Wissink wrote: We currently are using PSF download to send purchase orders to InfoPrint/AIX V4.1 and then faxing from there to the vendor. We have learned that fax support will no longer be included in InfoPrint on any platform. So I was just curious as to how other shops are dealing

Re: Another RNL question

2008-04-04 Thread Edward Jaffe
Chase, John wrote: More likely the IFL has one or more instructions disabled, without which z/OS simply won't IPL. Rick is implying that the disabled instruction on specialty engines is not documented in POO. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd,

Re: Another RNL question

2008-04-04 Thread Edward Jaffe
John McKown wrote: We pressed for a parallel sysplex, but it was too expensive and not worth the cost ($175,000 US for a CFL was what I was told we were quoted. Firm price, no futher discounts, pay up or forget it.) ITYM an ICF not CFL (Canadian Football League). $175K seems way too high to

Re: Another RNL question

2008-04-04 Thread Edward Jaffe
Ted MacNEIL wrote: $175K seems way too high to me. Are these Canadian dollars? The first price I was ever quoted was $125,000 US. The last price I saw was circa $90,000 US. I've never seen $175,000 US. Also, the Canadian dollar is worth more (or at par) than the US. The Canadian

Re: Another RNL question

2008-04-05 Thread Edward Jaffe
Ted MacNEIL wrote: The CDN$ has improved vs the US$, not because the Canadian economy has improved, rather the US has declined. Like all major petroleum exporting countries, Canada's GDP has been rising in recent years as oil prices and demand, especially from Asia, continue to rise

Re: FTP from z/VM to z/OS JES Spool

2008-04-05 Thread Edward Jaffe
Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 12:52:31 -0700, Lionel B Dyck wrote: Raymond wrote: SITE JESLrecl=xxx where xxx can be 1 - 254. This specifically sets the LRECL for the JES internal reader. I didn't know that option existed but it does and it WORKS ! ! ! ! But beware!

Specialty Engine Prices (Was: Another RNL question)

2008-04-07 Thread Edward Jaffe
Edward Jaffe wrote: John McKown wrote: We pressed for a parallel sysplex, but it was too expensive and not worth the cost ($175,000 US for a CFL was what I was told we were quoted. Firm price, no futher discounts, pay up or forget it.) ITYM an ICF not CFL (Canadian Football League). $175K

Re: How to check if a job has run?

2008-04-07 Thread Edward Jaffe
Michael Knigge wrote: Hi, If you have access, you can look in the system log. Tools like OPC will capture the end of job event and then do something. Well, I need to do this in a program. Could you bring me in the right direction and tell me how I can capture the SYSLOG? My problem is

Re: My last post in this forum.

2008-04-07 Thread Edward Jaffe
Ron Hawkins wrote: Although he won't read this, I wish him luck ... Past experience has shown that people who claim to leave the list in anger, disgust, or after some sort of humiliation, never do. They continue to monitor and eventually post again. I'll offer this wager... If Shai Hess

Re: Specialty Engine Prices (Was: Another RNL question)

2008-04-07 Thread Edward Jaffe
Jan Vanbrabant wrote: Hi Ted (and/or Ed), Is this documented somewhere in an official IBM document? jan I'm not sure exactly where this is documented in the maze of IBM announcements and related material. But, in this February 2008 IT Jungle article by Hesh Wiener, he summarizes the

Re: SMFEWTM

2008-04-07 Thread Edward Jaffe
Gunnar Opheim wrote: Thanks for the hint. I tried TEST with L 10.%+C4%+7C% L(12) C and got .00..SSS2HKR Issuing L 10.%+C4%+7C% L(32) on z/OS 1.9 yields the following glue routine: |00D61000. 41D0D000 41E0E000 58F0F020 0BEF58F0 | 001058F0 F0C458F0 F17858F0 F0500B0F -- Edward E

Re: IBM CEO's remuneration last year ?

2008-04-07 Thread Edward Jaffe
Anton Britz wrote: Do you think by Chairing a Big Corporate organization. remember he has LOTS of people working for him, is worth 20 Million a year. If you are an IBM shareholder, unhappy with the amount of your per-share dividend, stock price/performance, and/or you believe the board to

Re: SMFEWTM

2008-04-07 Thread Edward Jaffe
Jim Mulder wrote: That is the base z/OS 1.9 (HBB7740) version of the IEEMB8G8 glue routine. The IEEMB8G8 eyecatcher was added in PTF UA38369. In spite of the fact that I install recommended maintenance every other week, I don't have that PTF yet. Must be something about the way the

Re: How to format the current linkage stack for a SLIP dump taken in SRB mode?

2008-04-08 Thread Edward Jaffe
Binyamin Dissen wrote: Why should there be an SSRB? The code running in SRB mode is active at the time the SLIP(IF) hit. Unlike a TCB, there is no control block to represent an SRB while it runs. An SSRB has to be created (acquired from an ESQA cell pool) every time the SRB waits. --

Re: z/OS-MVS Control Block Layout - Offsets

2008-04-08 Thread Edward Jaffe
Stan Weyman wrote: Hi there, At one time I had a cheat sheet holding the control blocks, their offsets from other control blocks, fields and offsets to help when traversing through IPCS. I've searched and can't seem to find it again. Does anyone have a text, PDF or whatever file that

Re: z800 to z9 migration

2008-04-08 Thread Edward Jaffe
Miklos Szigetvari wrote: Anything special to migrate from z/800 to z9 ? (We are a small dev. shop, we would like to keep the IO and OSA config ) Starting with z990/z890, there is no longer basic mode and the I/O configuration changes drastically. You now have the CSS layer and must

Re: IBMLINK/VM/Classic appears down

2008-04-08 Thread Edward Jaffe
Glenn Miller wrote: Anyone else having problems accessing the IBMLINK/VM/Classic version. I receive the following message when I select IBMLINK on the Product Selection Screen: I've been logged on since last Thursday and it's still responsive ... -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software

Re: How to format the current linkage stack for a SLIP dump taken in SRB mode?

2008-04-09 Thread Edward Jaffe
Barbara Nitz wrote: First, as Ed pointed out, an SSRB will only be generated when the SRB has to wait for something like a lock or get willingly suspended. The reason Tom has only seen ssrbs in his dumps may well be that they're scheduled with the local lock (or some other lock) held, and

Re: TIOT filling up: too many dynamic concatenations

2008-04-09 Thread Edward Jaffe
David Eisenberg wrote: The problem is that I have reached a practical limit of approximately 540 files in the folder, because when I reach that point, I get a dynamic concatenation ABEND due to the TIOT filling up. I am told that our TIOT size is the default of 32K, which would allow for a

Re: OA22578 NEW FUNCTION (GRS) migrate GRSRNL=EXCLUDE environment to full RNLs without requiring a sysplex-wide outage

2008-04-09 Thread Edward Jaffe
Ted MacNEIL wrote: Release 73J Release 730 Release 74J Release 740 What releases of z/OS do these correspond to? z/OS 1.8 and 1.9. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dynamic PER Traps

2008-04-09 Thread Edward Jaffe
Chase, John wrote: How quickly does the first of a pair of SLIP IF traps arm the second one? AFAIK, it happens synchronously with respect to the first one. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318 [EMAIL

Re: TIOT filling up: too many dynamic concatenations

2008-04-10 Thread Edward Jaffe
Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) wrote: Why do you concatenate them that way? Why not just find/open/process each independently? Or if you prefer, find all of them, then in a loop (allocate, open, process, deallocate) each individually? Yes, it is a bit more difficult to program, but it is infinitely

Re: OA22578 NEW FUNCTION (GRS) migrate GRSRNL=EXCLUDE environment to full RNLs without requiring a sysplex-wide outage

2008-04-10 Thread Edward Jaffe
R.S. wrote: The relationship between Release 730 and system level (or FMID) can be found in Program Directiory (available on Web). IMHO it is one of difficulties without any point. The only reason I can imagine is just to make things more complex. I believe limitations in the HONE system --

Installers (Was: IBM announcements)

2008-04-10 Thread Edward Jaffe
Arthur Gutowski wrote: rant Since SMP/E is required to do any z/OS installation and maintenance, and ServerPac Dialog is all but required, and CBPDO is relatively integrated into SMP/E... Is there any hope of IBM integrating the ServerPac application into SMP/E? Is there any hope that ISV's

Re: How to format the current linkage stack for a SLIP dump taken in SRB mode?

2008-04-10 Thread Edward Jaffe
Peter Relson wrote: By the time slip got around to scheduling the actual dump request, that SRB had already run to completion The idea's right, but one minor detail: SLIP will have issued SDUMP. SDUMP will have done SUMLST processing, and SDUMP will have scheduled the rest of the dump. All

Re: Authorized Rexx Assembler Function

2008-04-10 Thread Edward Jaffe
Lindy Mayfield wrote: It appears that this isn't possible but I wanted to triple check because while Googling I found some vague some references. Is there any way to create a Rexx function that runs authorized? Seems that when a Rexx function is called the JSCBAUTH is turned off. Your

Re: Authorized Rexx Assembler Function

2008-04-10 Thread Edward Jaffe
Rob Scott wrote: It IS possible - but not straight-forword. You need to reearch the IKJEFTSR service as described in the TSO/E Programming Services guide. You assembler rexx function acts as a parser and function bridge and then uses IKJEFTSR to invoke your authorized function (normally in

Re: Send a command to a desktop from MVS

2008-04-10 Thread Edward Jaffe
David Day wrote: I have a mainframe application that uses FTP to transfer some data to a PC. Currently use FTP in an ISPF application to an FTP Server, FileZilla, on the desktop. Data gets where its supposed to go, and in the correct format. Does anyone know if there is any way to tell

Re: Installers (Was: IBM announcements)

2008-04-10 Thread Edward Jaffe
Shane wrote: Excellent !!! - did he say excellent ???. Perhaps one day I'll bump into Mr. Jaffe in a bar somewhere and coax out of him who this mystical (mythical ???) vendor might be ... ;-) In October 2000, a man I greatly admire and respect kindly wrote:

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