I am the systems programmer. (and I have been one for some 20 years, but I have never run an IMS region.) I took over for a previous systems programmer, so I haven't even run an install yet. I am trying to find the most expedient way to understand my problem without having to walk through an entire install and set up everything manually myself, which of course is what I would normally do if I weren't taking over for somebody else :)
Anyway, I *have* JCL, and it's already customized for this IMS region. It occurred to me that I couldn't find his STG1MACS, so I redid it from the one in IMS910.IMSGEN.CNTL, and maybe there was a parameter discrepancy. So I set IMSID=IMS1 in there and reran my stage1/stage2. It didn't help. Then I discovered that my MPP regions also wanted the previous IMSID (which was IVP1.) But instead of fixing all of that right now, I just did /R XX,IMS1 to each of my MPP regions, and they all came up. However, when I run my G1CP transaction, I get exactly the same response: DFS064 06:23:22 DESTINATION CAN NOT BE FOUND OR CREATED My main frustration (other than the perceived complexity of IMS) is that there is no actual information associated with this error message. I'm not sure what commands to issue to look to see if things are up, I'm not sure what parts to look for to see if things are running or connected, I'm simply not sure what it wants that it doesn't have. After a previous responder mentioned having MPP regions running, I though "Oh yeah!" because I had forgotten about those :) But now they appear to be running, and yet no improvement. *sigh* Thanks for the help. I will keep looking for answers. David Logan -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Klein Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 1:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: IMS - how do I run an interactive transaction? Are there any IMS systems programmers or even application programmers at your shop? It seems to me that you are starting "out of your depth". any way, you may want to look at: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dfsisdf9/4.8.1 for JCL to start a MPR. If you are actually trying to test an application program, then I would strongly suggest starting with something like BTS - rather than trying to start your own control region and MPR. Can you tell us the actual "task" you are trying to accomplish as well as what existing IMS personnel there is at your shop? It has been a LONG time since I had to do much of this, but as I recall, almost NOTHING that you should be doing needs (or should be) done from the master console - which seems to be where you are doing almost everything. "David Logan" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<001001c9d1bb$d89ac140$89d043...@net>... > OK, yes, I am remembering now. Man, I hate IMS :) I really need to get > better versed in it. > > Anyway, what's happening is that IMS isn't automatically starting any of my > MPP regions. When I try to start them with /START REGION xxx, I get a whole > bunch of MPP regions that all say: > > DFS690A IMS91M11.REGION.IMS91M11 - CTL PGM NOT ACTIVE, REPLY 'WAIT', > 'CANCEL' OR 'ALT-ID' > > And yet again, the message manual explains the obvious (such as "if a > control region is going to come up soon, reply wait".) It doesn't explain > what I should be doing to figure out why it's not seeing a control region > that is *supposed* to be running. > > So what are the MPP regions looking for that it doesn't have? The IMS ID > seems to be fine. The MPP regions have IMSID=IMS1, and the IMS control > region has "IMS1" in it's operator reply, so it *looks* like the IMS IDs > match. > > David Logan > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Jim Thomas > Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 11:30 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: IMS - how do I run an interactive transaction? > > Not into IMS either but ... > > I think you'd need an MPR / MPP available first... (start an MPR / MPP and > then issue a /DIS A) > > First off ... assuming that the transaction was call TEST01, clear your > screen and key in TEST01_ where the '_' is meant to be a space. > > If that does not work, you're likely missing an /ASS TRANS TEST01 CLASS ?? > where the '??' would be class available on the MPR / MPP and defined to the > TEST01 transaction. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of David Logan > Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 11:52 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: FW: IMS - how do I run an interactive transaction? > > Hi guys. Sorry, but I am not very well versed in IMS, and I sure am missing > something. I want to run an IMS transaction, but no matter what I do, all I > get is: > > > > DFS064 11:46:46 DESTINATION CAN NOT BE FOUND OR CREATED > > > > I've looked this message up in various places, but I have found nothing at > all useful to resolving it. What am I missing? This is IMS V9 under z/OS > 1.8. It's got default security, which means it won't let me do hardly > anything via terminal commands, I have to do everything via message replies > on the master console. I have done a "/START DC", although I don't know how > to tell if it was successful. > > > > OK, I've provided the information I can think of to provide. Any > suggestions? > > > > Thanks! > > > > David Logan > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.325 / Virus Database: 270.12.23/2106 - Release Date: 05/10/09 > 07:02:00 > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.325 / Virus Database: 270.12.23/2106 - Release Date: 05/10/09 > 07:02:00 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
