Re: AZD messages?

2020-06-04 Thread Michael Babcock
Oh and beware, just because the Verify Feature Bits job (and a couple of others) gets a zero condition code doesn’t mean it executed successfully. You have to check STDERR and STDOUT tabs. Mine always gets a syntax error. On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 10:05 AM Sean Gleann wrote: > It's been really

Re: Netview 5.4

2020-06-04 Thread Allan Staller
Is NV 5.4 even supported at this time? I am running NV 6.2 on z/OS 2.2. and 2.4 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2020 2:48 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Netview 5.4 [CAUTION: This Email is from

Re: Netview 5.4

2020-06-04 Thread Steve Horein
When Yahoo Groups was no longer an option, the NetView and System Automation folks moved here: https://groups.io/g/NetView https://groups.io/g/SAUsers On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 2:38 PM William Widmayer wrote: > Apologies if I posted in the wrong forum. If there is a better one for > Netview,

Re: zSHOP order too large to download

2020-06-04 Thread Brian Chapman
We have a similar problem when applying a new version of CICS. We must have the AGGRGROW option specified on the USS file system mount for the directory. Thank you, Brian Chapman On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 12:11 PM Carmen Vitullo wrote: > another thing I'd do is allocate your SMPWORK as a tfs

Re: Netview 5.4

2020-06-04 Thread Seymour J Metz
I don't know of a Netview listserv, but even if there is one this is a legitimate place to post Netview questions. You'll probably get more eyeballs here than one a more specialized list. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From:

Netview 5.4

2020-06-04 Thread William Widmayer
Apologies if I posted in the wrong forum. If there is a better one for Netview, please let me know. I am in the middle of z/OS upgrade from 2.2 to 2.3 . Is anyone running Netview 5.4 on a z/OS 2.3 system? Bill Widmayer (c) 2020 Ensono, LP. All rights reserved. Ensono is a trademark of

Re: AZD messages?

2020-06-04 Thread Michael Babcock
3.2, Retrieve workflow version always works for me. 3.5, verify feature bits, always fails with a syntax error. The script being built is too long and gets truncated. I ended up creating my own script and running it. On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 10:05 AM Sean Gleann wrote: > It's been really quite

Re: SMF109 macro

2020-06-04 Thread Charles Mills
I remember SMF 109 now. There is nothing really to map. Everything through SMF109SID is standard -- use any SMF record DSECT you want and change the names to SMF109xxx. Here is the mapping for the only additional field: SMF109LOG DS CL4096 System logging daemon (syslogd) messages.

Re: No Java, in the archive, z/OS 2.3 Serverpac

2020-06-04 Thread Gibney, Dave
Thanks, you are probably correct. In the end, I need the batch piece also. Otherwise, CAMSM fails. I now have several paths to consider > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Jousma, David > Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2020 9:38 AM > To:

Re: No Java, in the archive, z/OS 2.3 Serverpac

2020-06-04 Thread Jousma, David
I'm pretty sure that the modules in SYS1.IEALNKE are only needed for java batch launcher. For what you need in SMPE, I think the filesystem is all you would need. I think someone already provided, but here is the download link https://developer.ibm.com/javasdk/support/zos/

Re: zSHOP order too large to download

2020-06-04 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
My Db2 guy once came to me with a similar complaint. He had submitted his order several times with space increasing far beyond the normal size. Turned out that when he placed his order, in inadvertently checked the option to 'include prerequisites', which in his case meant include all of z/OS!

Re: No Java, in the archive, z/OS 2.3 Serverpac

2020-06-04 Thread Gibney, Dave
It takes more than just the JAVA ZFS. Parts of z/OS JAVA reside in SYS1.SIEALNKE. I do have my z/OS 2.1 SYSRES and active systems available, so far only sandbox at 2.3. I am still the Sysprog for my systems. Unfortunately, my IBM id is no longer licensed for z/OS. I can't order directly. No

Re: zSHOP order too large to download

2020-06-04 Thread Carmen Vitullo
another thing I'd do is allocate your SMPWORK as a tfs file system that's large enough to unpax your order when you do get to the part of the process of receiving the order to SMP/E MOUNT FILESYSTEM('TMPSMPWK') MOUNTPOINT('//local/smpe/workdir') TYPE(TFS) /* Filesystem type TFS */

Re: zSHOP order too large to download

2020-06-04 Thread Carmen Vitullo
my DB2 guy has that product installed, he uses the same shopz zfs I've allocated for all his orders and has not had any issues with the order being too large, I'd still be looking at, if you don't already create a separate zfs filesystem just for shopz downloads and ensure it's large enough to

Re: zSHOP order too large to download

2020-06-04 Thread Bill Giannelli
My mistake.the product I am trying to download now is Query Monitor for Db2 z/OS v3.3 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO

Re: zSHOP order too large to download

2020-06-04 Thread R Dooley
Hello, Probably best to look at enlarged the ZFS space available and if required lash a few volumes together to create a multi-volume ZFS. The storage admin should be able to assist you if you need assistance.

Re: zSHOP order too large to download

2020-06-04 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Not sure if that's an option, for me, my z/OS order is usually very large, my shopz zfs is allocated with a LINEARE dataclass and primary allocation is 1 cyl's and 500 secondary,all my DASD is now MOD54, when this dataset was defined it was on several MOD27's ALLOCATION

zSHOP order too large to download

2020-06-04 Thread Bill Giannelli
I have ordered a CBPDO order (Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS) and it is too large for any of my USS file systems. I am as yet unable to get the space I need. Is there a another type of order that is smaller (maybe with fewer PTFs)? thanks Bill

Re: AZD messages?

2020-06-04 Thread Sean Gleann
It's been really quite a troublesome effort for me, Michael, but I guess it's true to say that most of the problems are down to my rudimentary knowledge of TCPIP and networking in general. For various reasons, I have to use a tunnelled connection through to the z/OS guest, and that makes things a

Re: SMF109 macro

2020-06-04 Thread Carmen Vitullo
do you just need the record layout, and offsets ? for z/OS 2.3 I have this document for the 109 record type https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.halx001/sm3.htm mostly all other TCP related SMF records are now written to the 119 record Carmen

Re: System Exit

2020-06-04 Thread R.S.
W dniu 04.06.2020 o 15:46, Lizette Koehler pisze: Do you have any tools like EASYEXIT? Or ACC? Or BMC Tools (use to be Stop-X37 or PROSMS)? In ISMF You can set up a class to include dynamic volume count. In SMS environment we see Seq and VSAM regularly take up to 100's of extents when a

Re: SMF109 macro

2020-06-04 Thread Pierre Fichaud
Charles, No. I searched MACLIB,MODGEN and the TCP maclib for SMF109DTE (for example) as documented in the IP Prog Guide. No luck. Regards, Pierre. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: System Exit

2020-06-04 Thread Vernooij, Kees (ITOP NM) - KLM
In my experience, changing secondary allocations can create problems, because on fragmented volumes it is more difficult to get large secondary extents than small extents. We provide dataclasses with DVC for large datasets with or without poor secondary allocations. Kees. -Original

Re: AZD messages?

2020-06-04 Thread Michael Babcock
Sean, I’m just going through the provisioning process now. Any gotchas that you care to share? On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 5:30 AM Sean Gleann wrote: > Thanks, Gadi. > Yes, there are GLZ messages associated with these AZDs, but all they do is > identify the stored failure data. > > It's all

Re: Punched cards and character set

2020-06-04 Thread Seymour J Metz
On S/360, column binary reads each column as two six-bit bytes and stores it as two eight-bit bytes with high order 0, i,e., 0-0-12_row-11_row-0_row-1_row-2_row-3_row 0-0-4_row-5_row-6_row-7_row-8_row-9_row -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: System Exit

2020-06-04 Thread Vernooij, Kees (ITOP NM) - KLM
> Do you work with your users on how to properly allocate a dataset? I have given up a long time ago to make users do what I want them to do. I use the ACS routines to make them do what I want them to do. Met vriendelijke groet, Kees Vernooij KLM Information Services z/OS Systems Tel +31 6 10

Re: What is GRXBIMG

2020-06-04 Thread David Spiegel
No and No. I've been using Rexx on TSO since the day it came out and have never coded this DDNAME. Regards, David On 2020-06-04 10:09, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 09:27:59 -0400, David Spiegel wrote: Hi Ken, I had the same idea and 3.14d all of the relevant LNKLST and LPALST

Re: What is GRXBIMG

2020-06-04 Thread Seymour J Metz
1. That's the text that started this discussion. It doesn't explain why, after what has already been written here, you believe it. 2. Quoting the text again doesn't answer the question "What does that mean?". -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: Punched cards and character set

2020-06-04 Thread R.S.
Gentlemen, First I want to thank you for your explanations, I appreciate it. It seems I read wrong documentation, that mean the documentation was OK, but it described older "character sets" than used in S/360 family. I read many web sites and the most popular description of "IBM code" was

Re: What is GRXBIMG

2020-06-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 09:27:59 -0400, David Spiegel wrote: >Hi Ken, >I had the same idea and 3.14d all of the relevant LNKLST and LPALST >Datasets. >It came up empty. > Is it in your LOGON proc (JCL or CLIST)? Is it mentioned in SAMPLIB? -- gil

Re: System Exit

2020-06-04 Thread Steve Pryor
There are a couple of vendor products that could do this, including ours (SRS, which is our successor product to our original STOP-X37). You could, if you wanted to write your own IGGPRE00 exit, do this, but products such as SRS provide a lot more feature and function. Steve Pryor DTS

Re: [External] Re: What is GRXBIMG

2020-06-04 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hi Joe, The point here is that even though this has been documented for decades, nobody is actually doing this. Nobody seems to know what this DD would be used for, it isn't being allocated, and beyond what you show from the manual, there's nothing to show what the DD card would look like for

Re: System Exit

2020-06-04 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
We have IBM's TAAM, which increases the secondary allocation amount after "x" number of extents. I'm in the process of eliminating the TAAM intercepts, that SMS provides. The only thing that SMS doesn't do is the increasing of the secondary allocation. I'm turning on the DVC for all of our SMS

Re: System Exit

2020-06-04 Thread Lizette Koehler
Do you have any tools like EASYEXIT? Or ACC? Or BMC Tools (use to be Stop-X37 or PROSMS)? In ISMF You can set up a class to include dynamic volume count. In SMS environment we see Seq and VSAM regularly take up to 100's of extents when a dataset is poorly allocated. Do you use SMS for

Re: Base SYSPLEX setup

2020-06-04 Thread R.S.
No. FICON cascading is FICON over *two* switches. It was available on z/900 with proper microcode. And change from direct or single switch to multiple switches is somehow revolutionary under the cover. One can see it when adding some CU connected to second switch and the chpid was already in

Re: Base SYSPLEX setup

2020-06-04 Thread R.S.
Yes. Even 10 LPARs may share the chpids and proper CU definitions allow to create logical "any to any" connection between LPARs. I'm not sure about translation, we call it complete polygon. For 3 LPARs there are 3 paths For 4 LPARs there are 6 paths For 5 LPARs there are 10 paths For n LPARs

Re: System Exit

2020-06-04 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Not sure an exit can, IGGPRE? maybe, but SMS an SMS dataclas can using dynamic volume count, something like what STOPX-37 did Carmen Vitullo - Original Message - From: "RICHARD W. PINION" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2020 8:30:13 AM Subject: System Exit

Re: Debug Tool for recovery routine

2020-06-04 Thread Joseph Reichman
I don’t know what other information to provide I code Estae/x followed by H’0’ Or deliberate s0c7 and debug tool abend on the PC or SVC of the Estae/X in anticipation of the abend > On Jun 4, 2020, at 9:34 AM, Binyamin Dissen > wrote: > > Does it make you feel better for people to ask you

Re: SMF109 macro

2020-06-04 Thread Charles Mills
I assume you tried IFASMFR 109 with no luck? Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Pierre Fichaud Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2020 5:41 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: SMF109 macro I can't find a macro that

Re: System Exit

2020-06-04 Thread Steve Beaver
The only PRODUCT I know of is Stop-X37 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of PINION, RICHARD W. Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2020 8:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: System Exit Does anybody have a system exit that has

Re: Debug Tool for recovery routine

2020-06-04 Thread Binyamin Dissen
Does it make you feel better for people to ask you to show the doc? Has there been a single time where you actually provided information? On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 08:09:17 -0400 Joseph Reichman wrote: :>Has Anyone used debug tool to debug a recovery routine I cant seem to drive the code I code the

Re: What is GRXBIMG

2020-06-04 Thread Joe Monk
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.ikja300/tsorun.htm "You can invoke a REXX exec in the TSO/E address space in several ways. To invoke an exec in TSO/E foreground, use the TSO/E EXEC command processor to either implicitly or explicitly invoke the exec and

Re: Base SYSPLEX setup

2020-06-04 Thread Allan Staller
Yes. I have done this. The biggest obstacle I found was the naming conventions and HCD definition. BTW. The 4 chpids are shared across all LPARs at the IODF level Only 2 physical paths are needed. Each physical path is bi-directional. i.e. the input from LPARB to LPARA is the output from LPARA

System Exit

2020-06-04 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Does anybody have a system exit that has the ability to increase the secondary allocation for a data set, after "x" number of extents? Confidentiality notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the

Re: What is GRXBIMG

2020-06-04 Thread David Spiegel
Hi Ken, I had the same idea and 3.14d all of the relevant LNKLST and LPALST Datasets. It came up empty. Regards, David On 2020-06-04 09:13, Ken Smith wrote: Has someone searched SYS1.LINKLIB and the rest for a reference to GRBXBIMG? also, is it GRBXBIMG or GRXBIMG? On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at

Re: Base SYSPLEX setup

2020-06-04 Thread R.S.
Peanuts mean really cheap. I know companies which disposed (dropped to the trash) old Brocade 5100 switches. They even paid for disposal. Such switch is sufficient for that purpose. Of course it is second hand equipment, no service contract or some "poor" contract with second hand provicer or

FW: Cl/Supersession

2020-06-04 Thread Steve Beaver
I spent 2 hours with a guy in Cali this morning on WebEx. He helped me solve my issues then I added 140 APP Sessions. He also explained how SSTERM1 and SSTERM2 work and he showed me how To kill the PERSONAL Information Screen and get TCPIP working. Once I finish adding all the APPDEF's then I

Re: Base SYSPLEX setup

2020-06-04 Thread R.S.
It's tricky. Dana said about LOGICAL CUs, that means single physical box with multiple CUADDs. Usually DASD array or virtual tape (also disk array in fact). However in Dana case we have single physical connection CPC to CU-box. CUADD or logical CU is like LPAR on CPC. However in order to

Re: What is GRXBIMG

2020-06-04 Thread Ken Smith
Has someone searched SYS1.LINKLIB and the rest for a reference to GRBXBIMG? also, is it GRBXBIMG or GRXBIMG? On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 7:56 AM Scott Chapman wrote: > I was making a similar point to somebody recently that, the majority of > the words in the manuals do not change between versions

Re: What is GRXBIMG

2020-06-04 Thread Seymour J Metz
What does that mean and why do you say so? It's not a DD that you need to use REXX in TSO, because IKJEFT01 works fine without it. It's not SYSPROC or SYSECEC, which would make sense. And it has a prefix not associated with REXX or any other z/OS component. If it were indeed a DD statement

Re: What is GRXBIMG

2020-06-04 Thread Joe Monk
Its some REXX DD that has to be allocated before you can run in TSO. Joe On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 7:25 AM Seymour J Metz wrote: > Idle speculation: it's the file name of s bit map meant to go into the > manual and the text was supposed to say SYSPROC. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz >

SMF109 macro

2020-06-04 Thread Pierre Fichaud
I can't find a macro that generates a mapping for the SMF 109 type record. It is described in the Communications Server IP Programmer's Guide and Reference. IBM has documented the record in "Appendix C Type 109 SMF records" but has not provided a mapping macro. Thanks in advance, Pierre.

Re: What is GRXBIMG

2020-06-04 Thread Seymour J Metz
Idle speculation: it's the file name of s bit map meant to go into the manual and the text was supposed to say SYSPROC. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of

Re: What is GRXBIMG

2020-06-04 Thread Seymour J Metz
My guess is that it was never applicable and that GRBXBIMG was a bitmap file meant to go into the manual. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Scott Chapman

Re: LCUs on spanned channels

2020-06-04 Thread Seymour J Metz
My guess is that when you define a chpid in LCSS 1 you automatically get a chpid for the base exposure. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Gord Neill

Debug Tool for recovery routine

2020-06-04 Thread Joseph Reichman
Has Anyone used debug tool to debug a recovery routine I cant seem to drive the code I code the Estaex and after wards have a H’0’ to drive the code and tool abends at the PC or SVC of the estaex -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: No Java, in the archive, z/OS 2.3 Serverpac

2020-06-04 Thread Carmen Vitullo
last time I checked the IBM supported versions of java, java 8 31 and java 8 64 bit were both available for download, very easy way to get the latest greatest if needed Carmen Vitullo - Original Message - From: "Allan Staller" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Wednesday, June

Re: What is GRXBIMG

2020-06-04 Thread Scott Chapman
I was making a similar point to somebody recently that, the majority of the words in the manuals do not change between versions and just because some words were written back in the 90s (or earlier?) and are still in the manual, doesn't mean that they're equally applicable in today's world.

Re: No Java, in the archive, z/OS 2.3 Serverpac

2020-06-04 Thread Jousma, David
Is your old SYSRES volume laying around that had java on it? If so, find the JAVA ZFS container, and mount it on your new system. Or copy that container to a new one, and mount it. Or is all of the this the responsibility of your MFaaS provider?

Re: AZD messages?

2020-06-04 Thread Sean Gleann
Thanks, Gadi. Yes, there are GLZ messages associated with these AZDs, but all they do is identify the stored failure data. It's all somewhat moot now. I tried to /P the container, and got told the task was non-cancellable. Eventually I resorted to a FORCE ARM to get rid of it. Restarted the task

Re: AZD messages?

2020-06-04 Thread Gadi Ben-Avi
I found this: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4.izso100/izso100_diagnosisservice.htm It looks like the real information is in GLZ messages. I don't have z/OS v2.4 running, so I can't really check. Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

AZD messages?

2020-06-04 Thread Sean Gleann
Can anyone point me at documentation for AZD... messages coming out of a zcx container, please? I'm getting: AZDN0004E Failure configuring IPv4 address and AZDP0001E Unexpected error 5 configuring data disks but various attempts at searching for these produce 'nothing found' responses. Regards

Re: Base SYSPLEX setup

2020-06-04 Thread Brian Westerman
So the 4 paths can be shared via the three LPARs? Brian On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 13:01:50 +, Allan Staller wrote: >4 ficon ports(CHPIDs) and 2 ficon cables are required. Each cable is shared >in a bi-directional manner. > >e.g CTCchipd1 <> chpid2 CNC Signalling Path 1 > CNCchpid3

Re: Base SYSPLEX setup

2020-06-04 Thread Brian Westerman
SO just how much are the peanuts? What exactly am I looking for and do you have any vendors that you can suggest? Brian On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 10:26:16 +0200, R.S. wrote: >W dniu 03.06.2020 o 06:09, Brian Westerman pisze: >> no switches exist at the site. >> >> I can't see how to share the CTC