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From: Kurt Quackenbush [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, this sounds very strange to me as well. The only thing you need is
an id on ShopzSeries so that you can obtain a certificate that will
identify you to the server. I don't believe getting a ShopzSeries id is
related
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From: Thomas Conley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#4 - Directory blocks should ALWAYS be a multiple of 45. That way I won't
get directory out of space the next time you expand your product.
I wasn't aware of this. Why should directory blocks for PDSes be multiple of 45
?
I
Hi
Thank you very much
I see in the JAVA class hierarchy the zip (deflate ) library
We are using the same deflate library in C for compression
The idea was to call the JAVA functions instead of C and let the zAAP to
process it .
The application should remain in C++, only call the JAVA deflate
Hi all again!
I looked through the archives for a solution for my question, but with no
luck...
I want to prepare a Monoplex system for a easy migration into a Sysplex. So
I want to implement Shared HFS without being in a Sysplex, but the IPL
failed when starting USSs. My question is: Can I use
Sorry!
I forgot this thread!
Finally I managed to get what I needed. I'm recovering the gap manually (5
by 5 seconds). When I use Calculate Button most of times I get an error and
no stream data from my ETS. But sometimes I get the data, so I know my
deviation from this ETS.
My problem is solved
-- snip --
Just ran into that. Things that large should be on physical tape (if you
have it). We ran a report of dsns with more than 20 volsers and are
just about all of them were from DB2 and jobs created by the same
DBA. Our default forces things to virtual and people do have to let
us
-- snip --
Alright this is a head scratcher at least for me... We have recently
installed
a VSM5 and also have some VSM4's in the mix. We have one job that runs
that is continually getting channel detected errors every time it runs and
the
errors are only occurring on the VSM5. Below is a
John,
Go to the HMC and do problem analysis on the PCHID to see if you are getting
sequence errors.
Possibly a bad cable or connection.
Doug
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From: John Ticic [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 11:16 +0200, John Ticic wrote:
BTW. What are your plans (Shane/Mark) for migrating to VTCS 6.2.
Specifically, how long do you plan to wait before installing the new
software?
Not my call - I have mentioned it to my customer.
Once the decision to order it is made, I
-- snip --
John,
Go to the HMC and do problem analysis on the PCHID to see if you are
getting
sequence errors.
Possibly a bad cable or connection.
Doug
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IOS050I CHANNEL DETECTED ERROR ON 1891,17,01,**02,PCHID=0231
IOS050I CHANNEL DETECTED ERROR ON
John Ticic wrote:
[...]
VSM (and VTS) offer simple, application independent duplication for
disaster recovery purposes. When you change jobs from using virtual tapes
to real tapes you have to look at how you're going to duplicate the tapes.
It's one reason to try to keep all your tapes virtual.
-- snip --
VSM (and VTS) offer simple, application independent duplication for
disaster recovery purposes. When you change jobs from using virtual tapes
to real tapes you have to look at how you're going to duplicate the
tapes.
It's one reason to try to keep all your tapes virtual.
[...]
It's
On 5/13/2007 11:39 PM, Paul
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@bama.ua.edu wrote:
A few months ago, I asked in this forum whether I could disable Confirm
Data Set Delete in my Profile. The modal reaction was, No! Very Bad
Idea! Extremely Dangerous! We hope IBM never provides such a facility,
even as an
A problem was already opened with Sun. Now here is what they found. There
is another shop with the exact same problem. It has only been seen when
using FDR and a mix of VSM4's and VSM5's. If it creates one tape on a
VSM4 then tries to create another on a VSM5 then it get's the error. So
Gentle Listers -
I have searched the archives and found a lot of discussion but nothing I was
looking for.
We currently have Open Tech to stack virtual tapes on one physical 3590 tape
(VDR).
Are there any other equivilents or is Open Tech it.
We are running z/OS V1.7 with DFSMShsm. We also
Microsoft has dropped the other shoe. It claims that Linux infringes
on 235 of its patents and it wants payment:
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/100033867/index.htm
My personal theory is that they have read the paper by open-source
philosophers Eric Raymond and
Hello Lizette,
Take a look at CA VTAPE:
http://www.ca.com/files/DataSheets/brighstor_ca_vtape_r11-5_ds.pdf
Success story that discusses tape stacking:
http://ca.com/files/SuccessStories/29989_county_el_paso_bvs.pdf
It integrates nicely with CA1 as well.
Bob
Robert B. Fake
InfoSec, Inc.
On Mon, 14 May 2007 10:10:18 +0200, Víctor de la Fuente
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all again!
I looked through the archives for a solution for my question, but with no
luck...
I want to prepare a Monoplex system for a easy migration into a Sysplex. So
I want to implement Shared HFS without
On Mon, 14 May 2007 11:16:32 +0200, John Ticic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-- snip --
Just ran into that. Things that large should be on physical tape (if you
have it). We ran a report of dsns with more than 20 volsers and are
just about all of them were from DB2 and jobs created by the same
It sounds like you are an IBM virtual tape shop. As far as I know VDR is
the only product that will copy onto a tape and stack it for offsite
shipment. IBM recommends using this rather then the Export and Import
utility. We use STK and a package with the STK software called DR
utilities.
On 5/11/2007 1:58 PM, Mark H. Young wrote:
On Fri, 11 May 2007 10:35:13 -0400, John Eells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can I tell which version of DFP is on out installation, 1.3 or 1.4 ?
We run zOS 1.6, will be running zOA 1.8
The sysprogrammers don't know.
snip
Mark Zelden wrote:
On Mon, 14 May 2007 11:16:32 +0200, John Ticic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-- snip --
Just ran into that. Things that large should be on physical tape (if you
have it). We ran a report of dsns with more than 20 volsers and are
just about all of them were from DB2 and jobs
This almost sounds like in 1999 when someone claimed a patent on a date
conversion routine, and wanted to charge anyone who was converting dates
in their Y2K efforts. I'm sure MS has very good lawyers working on this, but
how are you going to sue millions of LInux users. The people that work
On Mon, 14 May 2007 10:15:11 -0400, Walt Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thus, it makes little, if any, sense to ask what release of DFSMS or
RACF you have. Rather, you ask what release of z/OS do I have.
There are some exceptions. For example, some elements of z/OS ship new
function
Or management might see that MS really does know the only way to use
computers and finally get rid of all of the dinosaurs.
Good luck on your interview.
/Tom Kern
On Mon, 14 May 2007 09:29:28 -0500, Eric Bielefeld [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
This almost sounds like in 1999 when someone claimed a
On Mon, 14 May 2007 16:26:48 +0200, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, it's safe, convenient, error-proof, but EXPENSIVE.
Yes... it has a cost. As I said, the cost of duplexing test data is probably
a nit. For production, yes we are duplexing things that *may* not be
needed for DR (but who
Walt Farrell wrote:
On 5/13/2007 11:39 PM, Paul
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@bama.ua.edu wrote:
A few months ago, I asked in this forum whether I could disable Confirm
Data Set Delete in my Profile. The modal reaction was, No! Very Bad
Idea! Extremely Dangerous! We hope IBM never provides such a
John,
Not only are Enterprise disk prices coming down, but virtualization gives
z/OS shops access to Midrange disk drives which have a much lower unit cost.
That's one of the reasons why HDS have gone into the Virtual Tape business
with VTF
Hate to interrupt with a question; this is a good thread going.
The 3590 are getting hugeHowever, What are MVCs?
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Mark Zelden
But the other benefit (and part of the reasoning behind it and
MVC = Multi-Volume Cartrige
These are the back end physical cartridges (STK 9840 in my case) that
virtual tape data is backed up to in a VTSS (Virtual Tape Storage
Subsystem).
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Clark, Kevin
Sent:
It's one reason to try to keep all your tapes virtual.
It's a small trade off for simplifying the
management of the environment (which is very large) and guaranteeing
to the business that we will have all the tape data in a disaster.
Well, it's safe, convenient, error-proof, but EXPENSIVE.
Groklaw's take on it (my favorite blog)
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070513234519615
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Senior Systems Programmer
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Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage
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The information contained in this e-mail
snip
Or management might see that MS really does know the only way to use
computers and finally get rid of all of the dinosaurs.
/snip
Or even boot Microsnot(not a typo) out and run Linux on desktops/servers
(and keep the dinosaurs) G
Yes, this sounds very strange to me as well. The only thing you need is
an id on ShopzSeries so that you can obtain a certificate that will
identify you to the server. I don't believe getting a ShopzSeries id is
related to a SW support contract, so I think what you heard is false.
This is
Bruce, I know of this paper but these studies are related to IBM-Hardware.
How about EMC-hardware?
I guess you must ask EMC. I don't know of any.
I may be corrected, but I do not know of anything in the implementation of
MIDAW that was hardware related. The hardware may have some
Why should directory blocks for PDSes be multiple of 45 ?
Thats not entirely accurate. A 3390 track holds 46 directory records,
but allocating only 45 allows the EOF for the directory to be placed on
the same track.
But for additional directory space, use multiples of 46, formula
Folks:
Just in case some of you weren't around in the mid-80s doing development
and the like, IBM decided to go OCO (we will drop the cause of this
decision) and the CEO (Ackers - if I remember the spelling of his name)
promised that nothing would go OCO until it had been correctly
documented.
IOS050I CHANNEL DETECTED ERROR ON 1891,17,01,**02,PCHID=0231
IOS050I CHANNEL DETECTED ERROR ON 1891,13,01,**02,PCHID=0140
All I can say for sure is that the **02 (channel status) indicates
interface control check. for real devices, this indicates some
problem on the channel or the channel
Lizette, go to our website (below) to read about our product FATSCOPY.
--
Bruce A. Black
Senior Software Developer for FDR
Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Thompson, Steve
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 10:06 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Data Areas Manuals to be dropped
/snip/
The following is their [IBM's] official policy and
Bruce, I don't want to go up against you in a DASD knowledge battle (I know
I would lose), but my copy of IBM 3390 Direct Access Storage Reference
Summary, GX26-4577-2, August 1990, Table 2 (3390 mode), page 10, says that
255 to 288 byte blocks with keys of 1-22 bytes are max 45 to the track (not
Edward Jaffe wrote:
John Eells wrote:
Paul Gilmartin wrote:
snip
I.e. 32760. So I can equally well use BLKSIZE=0 for load module
libraries as for
other data sets. It matters little to me whether BLKSIZE gets set by
SDB or by
the binder.
snip
It gets set by the first program to open the
Tried to bring up 1.7 this weekend in PRODUCTION and ran into major issues.
While climibing back through the logs we discover things like the network
trying to come up using SYS1.SISTCLIB, which is normal, except it and other
tasks are showing APF issues. Hm. It's in there.
1. New volumes
Hello,
Hi,
Please provide me your suggestions/solutions to achieve the following:
A production job runs daily and creates a huge file with 'n' number of records.
, I want to use a utility (assuming SYNCSORT with COUNT) to know the 'n' number
of records from this file and want to split
Hate to interrupt with a question; this is a good thread going.
The 3590 are getting hugeHowever, What are MVCs?
MVCs are the same as IBM stacked volumes. Backend tapes for the Sun/Stk
VSM.
MVC= Multi Volume Cartridge.
John Benik
This e-mail, including attachments, may include
It's one reason to try to keep all your tapes virtual.
It's a small trade off for simplifying the
management of the environment (which is very large) and guaranteeing
to the business that we will have all the tape data in a disaster.
Well, it's safe, convenient, error-proof, but
On Mon, 14 May 2007 10:30:02 -0500, Jeffrey Deaver
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Both will mirror the data on the back end for BCP purposes. Why even keep
the RTDs? This stuff is inexpensive enough to keep all the tape data on
spinning disk and fully mirrored. We're seriously thinking about it.
This customer has around 5 Petabytes of tape data.
Yeah - That would be 320 of the Thumper devices just to house the primary
copy. So the scale is good for little old us, but certainly not everyone.
Jeffrey Deaver, Engineer
Systems Engineering
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
651-665-4231(v)
651-610-7670(p)
Raj,
If your ultimate goal is to break up the one large file into multiple
smaller one you can do this without COUNT. There are a couple of ways
to do this. The easiest is probably using the SPLITBY parameter of the
OUTFIL control statement. This should work with either SyncSort or
other sort
Hi folks - we are a bit scant on USS knowledge at the moment and have a
problem! The RACF group in TTYGROUP in BPXPRMxx does not exist. USS
seems to have initialised OK, but we are having some problems with VPN
access.
Does anyone have an idea what the implications of having a missing group
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
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Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 12:42 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: TTYGROUP missing at IPL time USS
Hi folks - we are a bit scant on USS knowledge at the moment
Set up a job that creates 1,000,000 records in a pass, then submits itself
to intrdr if rc=0.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Rajeev Vasudevan
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 12:08 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Dynamic
Lizette,
With CA-1 as your tape management system, of course the recommended tape
stacking software is CA-1/CopyCat. This will work very well in terms of taking
hundreds of virtual-volumes and stacking them on a physical cartridge for DR
purposes.
Russell Witt
CA-1 Level-2 Support Manager
Some things that may point you in the right direction:
D PARMLIB
D PROG,APF (assuming you are using PROGxx)
MXI's PARM command
ISPF command DDLIST APF
Don Imbriale
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Daniel McLaughlin
Sent:
Another technique can be to select records based on some data; such as
the last digit, or next to last digit of an account number or employee
ID, and parsing to separate files based on the digit or range of digits
in that spot.
This has the advantage of not needing to know any counts of records
Daniel,
Are you using indirect cataloging? It sounds like you MASTERCAT is
pointing to the xxxMS* packs. Used Symbolic in the listcat
IPLRS1,IPLRS2, etc
Kevin
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Daniel McLaughlin
Sent:
On Mon, 14 May 2007 10:30:02 -0500, Jeffrey Deaver
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why even keep
the RTDs? This stuff is inexpensive enough to keep all the tape data on
spinning disk and fully mirrored. We're seriously thinking about it.
Probably works for us better than most, however, since we
Bruce, I don't want to go up against you in a DASD knowledge battle (I know
I would lose), but my copy of IBM 3390 Direct Access Storage Reference
Summary, GX26-4577-2, August 1990, Table 2 (3390 mode), page 10, says that
255 to 288 byte blocks with keys of 1-22 bytes are max 45 to the track
On Mon, 14 May 2007 12:41:48 -0500, Andrew Metcalfe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi folks - we are a bit scant on USS knowledge at the moment and have a
problem! The RACF group in TTYGROUP in BPXPRMxx does not exist. USS
seems to have initialised OK, but we are having some problems with VPN
access.
On Mon, 14 May 2007 09:29:28 -0500, Eric Bielefeld wrote:
If on the off chance that MS would win, how would that affect z/OS users? I
can see that it might help. People might get pissed off enough at MS, and
convert to a mainframe. (Oh well, its a good thought).
Or, companies faced with the
On May 14, 2007, at 2:08 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
Or, companies faced with the specter of such MS predation might find
incentive to relocate operations to countries with more rational
laws concerning software intellectual assets. In a word, offshore.
Scary thought gil, IBM is moving to
The easiest is probably using the SPLITBY parameter of the
OUTFIL control statement. This should work with either SyncSort or
other sort products. The SPLITBY=n parameter writes groups of records
in rotation among multiple output data sets and distributes multiple
records at a time among
On Mon, 14 May 2007 10:43:54 -0500, Staller, Allan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
Or management might see that MS really does know the only way to use
computers and finally get rid of all of the dinosaurs.
/snip
Or even boot Microsnot(not a typo) out and run Linux on desktops/servers
(and keep
On 2007-05-13 18:00, Beat Gossweiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about
'OUTPUT JCL: ' to IBM-Main:
I would like to add a value passed by a symbolic variable to a pre-
coded text enclosed in apostrophes in the TITLE= parameter of the
OUTPUT JCL-Statement. The OUTPUT-Statement is contained in a
On Mon, 14 May 2007 13:35:24 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote:
An interesting article on this subject:
Tape and Disk Costs - What It really Costs to Power the Equipment
http://www.clipper.com/research/TCG2007014.pdf
From the article:
Key Findings
1. SATA disk system has nearly 26 times higher energy
Mark Zelden wrote:
snip
It hasn't been done since OS/390, but you were able to order and install
a higher level of DFSMS than the DFSMS level that was originally distributed
with the OS/390 level at the time (all in a supported configuration). My
memory is a little fuzzy on this one, but I
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 10:15 -0400, Walt Farrell wrote:
Thus, it makes little, if any, sense to ask what release of DFSMS or
RACF you have. Rather, you ask what release of z/OS do I have.
Generally when I have been asked a question like this it is because a
*vendor* asked - and won't accept
So at that point the extra cost (beyond in-house recovery) is shipping the
duplex MVCs off site and storing them,
We found an easy way to store them, in a previous life.
Both sites has two libraries.
Production, and the back-up from the other site.
(GDPS).
-
Too busy driving to stop for gas!
Raj,
These options handle the splitting for you, you need to search the posts
about dynamically allocating datasets since the final process you design will
need to keep allocating additional datasets based on the input.
For a non-production, or a 'I really do not care about performance'
Mark Zelden wrote:
snip
I don't think I've ever seen a statement that indicates IBM won't do
something like that again with z/OS.
snip
John Eells wrote:
You haven't seen one that says we will, either (grin). Back
then, DFSMSdfp was a nonexclusive element with its own product
number so that
Mark,
A few problems I see with this article:
1) They purchased the tape libraries based on 2:1 compression and the SATA
with zero compression. Virtual tape software will compress the data on disk
at the same rate as tape.
2) Where did they get this disk storage from? The whole 1st year
On Mon, 14 May 2007 16:23:25 -0400, Neil Duffee wrote:
Beat : does this help? It's not in a PROC but it does illustrate
that you have to include the apostrophes within the variables to get
the proper value for TITLE=.
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What is 'OCO' ?
Thanks
there were several OCO-wars threads/discussion on vmshare. it was
somewhat more of an issue in vm culture ...
I want to prepare a Monoplex system for a easy migration into a Sysplex.
So
I want to implement Shared HFS without being in a Sysplex, but the IPL
failed when starting USSs. My question is: Can I use the Version
parameter
while I'm using Sysplex(NO) parameter?
Depends what you mean by
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Shared HFS is a pretty strange thing. It really isn't like anything
else in the MVS world as far as I can tell.
1. You have to be some sort of sysplex. I am pretty sure that XCF
signaling will be enough to get you up and running.
2. You have to have the HFS sharing data set setup.
3.
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