Re: CSVDYLPA DCBPTR=CVTLINK

2008-02-22 Thread Tom Marchant
, such as, for example, a compiler. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives

Re: CSVDYLPA DCBPTR=CVTLINK

2008-02-25 Thread Tom Marchant
or UPDATE. Thanks for the tip. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu

z10 LSPR

2008-02-27 Thread Tom Marchant
The z10 LSPR data is now available too. http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/lspr/ -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message

Re: z10 LSPR

2008-02-28 Thread Tom Marchant
?) I don't see what your complaint is. The font is a full 4.5 points; Word supports down to 1 point. And IBM Writer (Is that what it was called?), packaged with OS/2 could support down to 0.2 point. Seriously, though, it looks like the the same size font to me. -- Tom Marchant

Re: SDSF User Manual

2008-03-05 Thread Tom Marchant
panel that you get by pressing PF1 from the main SDSF panel, you type I in the help to get the index. Yes, a tutorial would be nice, but I've always found the basic help info sufficient. There is a tutorial, at least with z/OS 1.9. I haven't used it, so I can't say how good it is. -- Tom Marchant

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Tom Marchant
for it. For the most part, you don't want them doing that, though. Let WPL start the initiators as it sees fit. You'll probably find that there are fewer jobs running at the same time, but the overall throughput will be higher. You'll probably see how badly over-initiated you were. -- Tom Marchant

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:50:16 -0500, Aimee Houghton wrote: One more question. Are the durations cumulative or per period? From Planning:Workload Management: Duration is the amount of service that period should consume before going on the next goal. -- Tom Marchant

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-25 Thread Tom Marchant
. The P2 duration less than the P1 duration would make P2 irellevant. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Re: help

2008-03-26 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:38:41 -0500, Jan MOEYERSONS wrote: Help! I need somebody, What was the point of posting that off-topic copyrighted work here? -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Enhanced PSP Compare Program

2008-03-27 Thread Tom Marchant
in the archives twice, too. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm

Re: How to?

2008-04-02 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 07:54:24 -0400, Steven Conway wrote: If you've already lost the old email address, then contact the list owner for assistance. Or sign on through the web interface at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- Tom Marchant

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-04-02 Thread Tom Marchant
00:02:00.000 It's not the way I did it, but I like it. Thanks. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Re: Another RNL question

2008-04-03 Thread Tom Marchant
production work to the other LPAR, then shut down the idle one and IPL at any time. Then shift all the work to the upgraded LPAR and IPL the other one. It could mean zero downtime to do a software upgrade. And zero risk if something makes the IPL take longer. -- Tom Marchant

Re: Another RNL question

2008-04-03 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 14:44:53 -0500, McKown, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 09:21:19 -0500, John McKown wrote: Just another I hate sysplex message from me. No, don't bother

Re: Another RNL question

2008-04-03 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 14:31:34 -0500, McKown, John wrote: But the question remains as to why I cannot more easily recover from this sort of user error? Because you're not in a Sysplex doing rolling IPLs? g -- Tom Marchant

Re: SMFEWTM [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-04-08 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 14:17:05 +0300, Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My complements. It would have been real easy to blame the ISV. Another post with a strange subject line. That's the third this month, the first two from Scott Rowe. I wonder what's causing it. -- Tom Marchant

Re: Subject line garbage [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-04-10 Thread Tom Marchant
are now getting garbage tacked onto the subject. anyone have any ideas what to look for? If you look at the headers of a message that had its subject corrupted, do you see the crap in there? If so, perhaps if you post the headers, someone here can figure out what might have happened. -- Tom

Re: Authorized Rexx Assembler Function

2008-04-11 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:55:18 -0400, Daniel McLaughlin wrote: Are all libraries in the concatenation of the linklib in the APF list? If one isn't that may cause your issue. If the load library is being accessed through the LNKLST, it is ok to have libraries that are not APF. -- Tom Marchant

Re: Authorized Rexx Assembler Function

2008-04-11 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:30:10 -0400, Mark Jacobs wrote: Tom Marchant wrote: On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:55:18 -0400, Daniel McLaughlin wrote: Are all libraries in the concatenation of the linklib in the APF list? If one isn't that may cause your issue. If the load library is being accessed

Re: Question On Space Allocation

2008-04-11 Thread Tom Marchant
to block it 2 records per block, the block size would be 28320 and only one block would fit on a track. Higher blocking factors would push it abofe 32760. IAC, with no BLKSIZE specified, SDB would normally select the most efficient block size. -- Tom Marchant

Re: Authorized Rexx Assembler Function

2008-04-11 Thread Tom Marchant
concatenation unauthorized. But not so with LNKLST. It can be a mix of APF and non-APF libraries. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message

Re: SHOWZOS output.

2008-04-11 Thread Tom Marchant
, or a local subroutine's return address. Rick is right. I'd look at the assembly listing at displacement 7EB9. Did something happen in that area that shifted an instruction to an odd address? -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Installers (Was: IBM announcements)

2008-04-11 Thread Tom Marchant
about multiple related products from the same vendor? I'm working in software development now, but when I was a sys prog, I always found it annoying when a vendor insisted that every product had to go in its own zone. -- Tom Marchant Compuware

Re: Authorized Rexx Assembler Function

2008-04-14 Thread Tom Marchant
, but it saves a lot of time on a sandbox. I don't see how it really helps on a sandbox. What's so hard about adding your test library to the APF list? -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: SPFLOG

2008-04-15 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:38:34 -0500, John P Kalinich wrote: Logging is only necessary when you are tracing variable and function calls with Dialog Test (Option 7). You forgot to say, IMO. I find it useful. -- Tom Marchant

Re: Consistent Data Set Names (Was: Workable Debuggers ...)

2008-04-16 Thread Tom Marchant
and they seemed to work quite nicely. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu

Re: Consistent Data Set Names (Was: Workable Debuggers ...)

2008-04-16 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:06:04 -0400, John Eells wrote: Tom Marchant wrote: On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:28:25 -0400, John Eells wrote: Extended aliases (those defined with SYMBOLICRELATE) don't work well (i.e., at all!) for entries in the master catalog. Did you mean data set aliases? Really

Re: IRREVX01 strangeness

2008-04-17 Thread Tom Marchant
and someone else won't have the same problem that you had. rant Obvoiusly the sample was never tested. /rant -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: SVCDUMP capture phase statistics.....

2008-04-17 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:05:29 +0200, Barbara Nitz wrote: That lpar has 8704M real with the local page ds's normally at 10%. You didn't mention how many local page data sets you have. Perhaps more locals, spread across more devices and channels would help. -- Tom Marchant

Re: IRREVX01 strangeness

2008-04-17 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:05:26 -0500, McKown, John wrote: ... Of course, since R7 is a self-defining term, the code assembles just fine self-defining term? No, there is an EQU in the code. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Unable To Delete Data Component

2008-04-18 Thread Tom Marchant
RETURN CODE IS 90 - REASON CODE IS IGG0CLFP-16 IDC0551I ** ENTRY MJERMG.ITRD.TUNIT.ESDS.CONT1.DATA NOT DELETED IDC0001I FUNCTION COMPLETED, HIGHEST CONDITION CODE WAS 8 Run a LISTCAT ALL on the data component and post the results. -- Tom Marchant

Re: Logon statistic

2008-04-18 Thread Tom Marchant
system you will need to contact the vendor. Perhaps if you tell us who the vendor is, someone will know. If it's in-house, you are on your own. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: Help with applying maintenance

2008-04-23 Thread Tom Marchant
-- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

Re: Help with applying maintenance

2008-04-24 Thread Tom Marchant
, it is necessary to allocate a data set larger. That was the OP's problem. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Re: Help with applying maintenance

2008-04-24 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:17:10 +0800, Tommy Tsui wrote: sorry, I mean take a backup then cleaning up the library and move all data back. this just another option. How does that differ from a compress? How will it help when a compress isn't sufficient? -- Tom Marchant

Re: Help with applying maintenance

2008-04-24 Thread Tom Marchant
the gas members and does not necessarily allow for two copies of the same member. True, but neither will purge/compress/reload. If you have a PDS that has a lot of gas, I think you'll find that the space used by it is the same after a compress as it is after purge/compress/reload. -- Tom Marchant

Re: ipsf HIGHLIGHT option

2008-04-24 Thread Tom Marchant
annoying at times. At those times I put the cursor where they are not in the way. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN

Re: ipsf HIGHLIGHT option

2008-04-25 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:42:07 +0200, Hunkeler Peter wrote: With PCOM's default, Ctrl-Home toggles the cross-hair on and off. I use it in such situations to quickly find where the cursor is on the screen. Cool! Thanks. -- Tom Marchant

Re: ipsf HIGHLIGHT option

2008-04-25 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:39:07 +0100, Greeley, Kevin wrote: ISREDIT X ALL ISREDIT F ALL STRING FWIW, I prefer this sequence: X ALL string FLIP -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: SMS PUZZLE

2008-04-28 Thread Tom Marchant
. SMS assigns the data regardless. Many shops have a pseudo storage class, such as NONSMS that is used to tell SMS that the data set is not to be managed. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: SMS PUZZLE

2008-04-29 Thread Tom Marchant
WHEN (ANYVOL = VOL_NONSMS OR HLQ = HLQ_NONSMS) SET STORCLAS = '' -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Re: SVC99

2008-05-05 Thread Tom Marchant
the catalog directly? Have you considered using CSI? -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives

Re: allowuserkeycsa

2008-05-05 Thread Tom Marchant
for systems that were designed to require that user key programs make some kind of update. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

Re: SMS-releasing unused space

2008-05-06 Thread Tom Marchant
this might have happened. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm

Re: SMS-releasing unused space

2008-05-06 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 6 May 2008 09:05:34 -0400, John Kington wrote: Tom Marchant wrote: I think it's unlikely that the volume is so fragmented that the first extent allocated was only 1 cylinder, but that he was able to obtain a total of 220 cylinders in 12 extents. It is especially unlikely considering

Re: APAR acronym

2008-05-06 Thread Tom Marchant
. Some of that has to do with the arrogance with which you post. Radically uninformed? Perhaps so. I've only been working with APARs since the early '70s and they were Authorized... then. I'm sorry, but I no longer have any references. Apparently neither do you. Gartuitous? PKB -- Tom Marchant

Re: SMS-releasing unused space

2008-05-06 Thread Tom Marchant
run? Perhaps that is what is releasing the space. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives

Re: Service Unit to CPU minute conversion

2008-05-06 Thread Tom Marchant
of CPU time. This is the factor that is used to calculate unweighted CPU service units per second from CPU time. You'll need to adjust for the CPU service coefficient. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Another one bites the dust.

2008-05-07 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 7 May 2008 11:22:28 -0500, McKown, John wrote: ... I don't know of any system, other than the z10, which implements decimal floating point yet, so I would not use that. Didn't I read somewhere that the P6 uses the same decimal floating point unit? -- Tom Marchant

Re: 3 Page Datasets on one Volume

2008-05-08 Thread Tom Marchant
40 model 27 drives on that array could cause contention. Fortunately, cache helps a lot. There was a time that the recommendation was to put paging data sets on dedicated volumes attached to dedicated control units. I've never seen anyone do that with ordinary DASD. -- Tom Marchant

Re: absurd programs that used to be everywhere ...

2008-05-09 Thread Tom Marchant
the images into a PDF file and email it... Then some poor sucker can write a program to process the images and recreate the data, kind of like OCR. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Where do I find Instruction/Function Defs

2008-05-09 Thread Tom Marchant
Extended Translation Facility 3 -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives

Re: Where do I find Instruction/Function Defs

2008-05-12 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 9 May 2008 15:49:02 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: Tom Marchant wrote: Yuck! ITYM TMFLCEFACILITIESLISTBYTE2,FLCEEXTENDEDIMMEDIATE Personally, I prefer to use the mixed case symbols from the PL/X expansions: TMFlceFacilitiesListByte2,FlceExtendedImmediate Agreed

Re: Mainframe programming vs the Web

2008-05-13 Thread Tom Marchant
, requiring that Firefox be recycled (at a minimum) or that Linux be rebooted. I keep my software up to date. With the installation of Noscript, and enabling Javascript only when I need it, those problems seem to be a thing of the past. At the very least, they are far less frequent. -- Tom

Re: Mainframe programming vs the Web

2008-05-14 Thread Tom Marchant
to date. With the installation of Noscript, and enabling Javascript only when I need it, those problems seem to be a thing of the past. At the very least, they are far less frequent. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: VMWare more reliable

2008-05-14 Thread Tom Marchant
- reliable-than-the-mainframe-says-mag/?track=NL- 576ad=639921asrc=EM_NLN_3643720uid=1900046 More MS BS -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message

Re: crazy thoughts - keeping product installation infomation

2008-05-15 Thread Tom Marchant
resources. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

Re: ADD library to Linklst

2008-05-21 Thread Tom Marchant
and Tuning says keyword(value), the implementation allows you to specify them either way. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM

Re: Controlling the execution sequence of dependant jobs in JES2

2008-05-27 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 23 May 2008 10:57:56 +0200, Vernooy, C.P. wrote: ... The only reliable way is to have each job submit its successor. Or submit them all with TYPERUN=HOLD and have each job release its successor. -- Tom Marchant

Re: Mainframes.. Extinct or still going strong ?

2008-05-27 Thread Tom Marchant
of the largest mainframes available. Each of them about four MIPS. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives

Re: Chargeback reporting

2008-06-04 Thread Tom Marchant
might want to consider also the cost of environmentals such as floor space, power and cooling for the processor. Also the cost of the system software. Any application software is another story. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM

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

2008-06-04 Thread Tom Marchant
starts with the first non-blank after the third character of the next line. Eg: //DD1 DD DISP=SHR, -- SPECIFY DISPOSITION HERE // DSN=THIS.FILE -- THE NAME OF THE DATASET That's how it works today -- Tom Marchant

Re: COBOL abbreviated IF message IGYPS2048-S

2008-10-13 Thread Tom Marchant
2006. My interpretation is that the COBOL IF statement was incorrect in 2006, but the compiler did not correctly flag it, and that error has now been fixed. The programmer's second issue became - so what's wrong with the IF statement anyway? -- Tom Marchant

Re: COBOL abbreviated IF message IGYPS2048-S

2008-10-13 Thread Tom Marchant
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:11:58 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:50:46 -0500, Greg Shirey wrote: IF WC-FUNC (SUB) = (X OR Z) X = X'E7' Z = X'E9 (X OR Z) = X'FF' Oops (X OR Z) = X'EF' -- Tom Marchant

Re: FMID List

2008-10-15 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:40:30 -0400, Jousma, David wrote: Why not run a SMPE LIST FEATURES command against the SMPE zones? That should give you what you are looking for. Or the Migration Assistant reports. -- Tom Marchant

Re: Finding the correct IEASYSxx member

2008-10-15 Thread Tom Marchant
by the IPL LOADPARM ... or in IEASYMxx. IEASYS00 is always used. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Re: Finding the correct IEASYSxx member

2008-10-15 Thread Tom Marchant
/1.2.2?SHELF=IEA2BK90DT=20080618072559CASE= http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IEA2E290/1.2.3?SHELF=IEA2BK90DT=20080618072559CASE= There are other places in the manual where it is documented. -- Tom Marchant

Re: Finding the correct IEASYSxx member

2008-10-16 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:57:12 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:26:00 -0500, Tom Marchant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:58:56 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: Yes, but don't be fooled by the IEASYS list specifying only 1 suffix if it isn't 00. The last time I checked

Re: Finding the correct IEASYSxx member

2008-10-16 Thread Tom Marchant
IEASYSxx list, the value in the alternate list overrides the value in IEASYS00. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

Re: D/T2098 PROCESSOR ?

2008-10-16 Thread Tom Marchant
was supported by the Flex-ES system? In that case, some sort of internal DASD would be a requirement. PSI? -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: IBM PR: System z Announcement Webcast on October 21, 2008

2008-10-16 Thread Tom Marchant
. The memory on a PC can't handle that kind of data rate. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives

Manuals (Was Re: Message ICE099A ... )

2008-10-16 Thread Tom Marchant
recommend using the SoftCopy Librarian, which you can get at http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/softcopy/hilite.html#scl The SoftCopy Librarian makes it easy to download multiple manuals and bookshelves to create your own repository of manuals, either in .boo or .pdf format. -- Tom

Re: Default class for JES2 SYSOUT

2008-10-17 Thread Tom Marchant
A. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

Re: C03 abend when omitting CEE.SCEERUN from JCL

2008-10-17 Thread Tom Marchant
is duplicated and where the duplicates exist. Cool! Thanks John. BTW, either LINKLIST or LPa will add both LPA and the current LNKLST. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: C03 abend when omitting CEE.SCEERUN from JCL

2008-10-22 Thread Tom Marchant
is not able to close it. This is not because LE stopped doing this. It is because some other change caused the DCB to be released, freed or overlaid. Whatever is causing this to happen could cause other undesirable results. -- Tom Marchant

Re: WLM Service Class

2008-10-30 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:07:22 +, Ted MacNEIL wrote: 4. CPU delay is not necessarily a problem. Think of I/O-bound jobs. Huh? CPU delay is delay because CPU is not available when the job is ready. -- Tom Marchant

Re: ECSA near full

2008-11-05 Thread Tom Marchant
of CSA/ECSA is increasing, you should contact the vendor. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives

Re: Performance Question - Dynamic PAV

2008-11-05 Thread Tom Marchant
was in fact invented to solve a problem, as Ron noted in the previous post. I agree with the IBM presenter - that is the fact of the matter. Fine. You've now stated that. Your original response didn't state that. Yes it did, Ted. And you quoted it in your first reply to Ron. -- Tom Marchant

Re: Phased Maintenance

2008-11-06 Thread Tom Marchant
there.I personally don't like it and it has caused a problem or two in the production sysplex over the years that I have been supporting it. I'm confused. You don't like what? -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Differences in IEFTMS7 and IEFTMS8

2008-11-11 Thread Tom Marchant
mainframes have a good hardware clock. Perhaps it was a decent sanity check 30 years ago, but today it makes no sense. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: procs and concatenations

2008-11-11 Thread Tom Marchant
was issued for a dummy data set using an access method other than QSAM or BSAM. Correct the DD statement to specify a real data set, or access the data set using BSAM or QSAM. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Differences in IEFTMS7 and IEFTMS8

2008-11-11 Thread Tom Marchant
product. If I remember correctly, there is no harm in running TMSINIT when TMS is already active. So Richard could run TMSINIT daily (or wekly) and it would never complain about the date unless it was really wrong. -- Tom Marchant

Re: procs and concatenations

2008-11-12 Thread Tom Marchant
not supply all the data control block information, make sure that the DCB parameter supplies the missing information. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: procs and concatenations

2008-11-12 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:06:42 +, john gilmore wrote: Tom Marchant has made another of his characteristic contributions... Thank you. And Mr. Gilmore has once again failed to shed any light. Mr. Marchant reminded me that an entire DD DUMMY statement can also be overridden. This is true

Re: The Register article on HP replacing z

2008-11-13 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:28:59 -0500, P S wrote: ... specialty engines help keep the cost of z/OS and friends high... They do? Not that I can tell. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Recataloging Linklist Datasets

2008-11-13 Thread Tom Marchant
: Copy the data set to the new location with a new name. Update Parmlib to reflect the new name. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message

Re: concatenations, again

2008-11-14 Thread Tom Marchant
? The UNIT is not necessary for SMS-managed DASD data sets. The space was probably provided by the DATACLAS that was assigned to your data set. See your Systems Programmer. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: IFL Extended to OpenSolaris

2008-11-19 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:45:10 +0100, Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM wrote: As I read it, z/VM on an IFL is now allowed to run a Solaris guest, until now z/VM was only allowed to run z/Linux guests. How would it know what operating system is being IPLed? -- Tom Marchant

Re: searching all members of a pds using wildcards

2008-11-19 Thread Tom Marchant
SOC$$$XX and it will not find SO HKJHKJ EK -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http

Re: IFL Extended to OpenSolaris

2008-11-19 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:29:36 -0500, Mark Jacobs wrote: Tom Marchant wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:45:10 +0100, Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM wrote: As I read it, z/VM on an IFL is now allowed to run a Solaris guest, until now z/VM was only allowed to run z/Linux guests. How would it know what

Re: IFL Extended to OpenSolaris

2008-11-19 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:57:09 -0500, Mark Jacobs wrote: Tom Marchant wrote: Is there a licensing restriction on an IFL that specifies what operating systems can run on it? Or is the licensing restriction on MVS to prevent it from being legally run on an IFL? Yes on the first question

Re: Has the TCB been moved above the line ?

2008-11-19 Thread Tom Marchant
moved above the bar or these threads use another control block that resides above the line ? TCB is still below the line in z/OS 1.10. http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/MVS10DA6/67.1?SHELF=IEA2BK90DT=20081114143209CASE= Or http://preview.tinyurl.com/5u6nhq -- Tom

Re: IFL Extended to OpenSolaris

2008-11-19 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:50:51 +0100, R.S. wrote: Tom Marchant wrote: [...] I see that z/VM was licensed to run on an IFL only to run Linux and now it is licensed to run on an IFL with OpenSolaris guests as well. Not exactly. You can run VM under VM on IFL. In simple words you can run under VM

Re: IFL Extended to OpenSolaris

2008-11-19 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:48:07 -0700, Mark Post wrote: Tom Marchant wrote: ... if someone was still running MTS, would they be legally able to run it on the IFL? Yes, as long as any license MTS might have would allow that (along with your unspoken assumption that someone had actually ported MTS

Re: IFL Extended to OpenSolaris

2008-11-20 Thread Tom Marchant
. Similarly, would there be a need to talk about licensing terms for RACF/VM to run on an IFL, if z/VM were used solely as a Linux hypervisor? Sure. To control who performs the needed maintenance and administration, for example. -- Tom Marchant

Re: Preventing allocation on non-sms volsers

2008-11-20 Thread Tom Marchant
' EXIT END Good idea to put out a message. That won't cause the allocation to fail, though, will it? You'd probably want to assign a storage class so that it would go on an SMS-managed volume. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM

Re: z/OS upgrade

2008-11-21 Thread Tom Marchant
://preview.tinyurl.com/6n4svv -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives

Re: z/OS upgrade

2008-11-21 Thread Tom Marchant
://preview.tinyurl.com/6zcgsb -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu

Re: Catalog and VSAM Knowledge Base

2008-11-24 Thread Tom Marchant
Mark Thomen old posts? I wish Mark Thomen speedy recovey good health. The Knowledge base was moved years ago. I found the following in the archives of ibm-main-archives: I tried but couldn't find it. Tom Marchant

Re: CPU time/instruction table

2008-12-02 Thread Tom Marchant
this article very interesting: http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/journal/rd/483/heller.html -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN

  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >