ISMF Log Information
Greetings! Is there any possibility to view the ISMF log information? Sorry if I am asking differently How to trace the ISMF activity ? Is it possible to track ? Thanks in advance. J Regards, Mani The information contained in this transmission may contain privileged and confidential information and is intended only for the use of the person(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, any review, dissemination, distribution or duplication of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you received this email in error, please contact the sender immediately by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. This email is not intended as an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any financial instruments. -- 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: APAR OA25468
Sounds like you're not looking in IBMLink. APARs are generally released to the public web interfaces once the APAR has closed. OA25468 is open. You're of course right. Stupid me! Thanks -- Peter Hunkeler Credit Suisse -- 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: RMM CDSID SYSZRMM
Michael, You must be looking in a pre-z/OS V1.9 book. Here is the section in 1.9 book http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi- bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dgt2c860/2.5.5? SHELF=EZ2ZO10K.bksDT=20070424113027 and then there is the z/OS Migration book here http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi- bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/e0z2m151/9.1.3? SHELF=EZ2ZO10K.bksDT=20080125121550 My recommendation would be to update any existing RNL definitions for SYSZRMM MASTER.RESERVE to GENERIC. Mike WoodRMM Development -- 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: ISMF Log Information
What specifically are you looking to trace? ISMF is an ISPF application, as such it will have some ability to have ISPF trace some of its elements. If you are looking to trace some of the functions for audit, you might be able to turn audit on with your security product for the various facility classes for DFSMS. But the rest can probably be found in SMF records. Lizette [] -- Snip Is there any possibility to view the ISMF log information? Sorry if I am asking differently How to trace the ISMF activity ? Is it possible to track ? [] -- UnSnip -- 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
XPLINK
Hi List, We are Z/OS 1.7 with Enterprise cobol 3.4 and SDK 1.4 I'm trying to run an OO Cobol program which invokes a Java method and I'm having problems with the LE runtime option XPLINK The compilation and linkage work find. I'm trying to run the program using the BPXBATCH utility with PGM myprog and STDENV DD which contains _CEE_RUNOPTS=XPLINK(ON) Even so I get the following error code: CEE3555S A call was made from a NOXPLINK-compiled application to an XPLINK-compiled exported function in DLL libjvm.so and the XPLINK(ON) runtime option was not specified. From entry point GetJVMPtr at compile unit offset +00B8 at entry offset +00B8 at address 3E8AB618. Any Ideas? thanks Magen -- 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: XPLINK
Hi,
I am not 100% sure, but I recall that coding //STEP1
PGM=JAVACALL,PARM='XPLINK(ON)' once worked for me.
I prefer a CEEUOPT Module linked with the application, similar like the SYSIN
below as input to assembler:
//SYSIN??? DD *
TITLE 'CEEUOPT'
CEEUOPT? CSECT
CEEUOPT? AMODE ANY
CEEUOPT? RMODE ANY
CEEXOPT XPLINK=(ON),? X
?? POSIX=(ON), X
?? ENVAR=('_CEE_ENVFILE=/u/gaebler/hello/ENV')
END
//*
The file /u/gaebler/hello/ENV can then contain USS Variables, but there are
also DD Statements to achieve this:
LIBPATH=/usr/lpp/java/J5.0/bin
PATH=/usr/lpp/java/J5.0/bin
...
Hope that helps.
Denis.
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Subject: XPLINK
Hi List,
We are Z/OS 1.7 with Enterprise cobol 3.4 and SDK 1.4
I'm trying to run an OO Cobol program which invokes a Java method
and I'm having problems with the LE runtime option XPLINK
The compilation and linkage work find.
I'm trying to run the program using the BPXBATCH utility
with PGM myprog and STDENV DD which contains
_CEE_RUNOPTS=XPLINK(ON)
Even so I get the following error code:
CEE3555S A call was made from a NOXPLINK-compiled application to an
XPLINK-compiled exported function in DLL libjvm.so
and the XPLINK(ON) runtime option was not specified.
From entry point GetJVMPtr at compile unit offset +00B8 at entry offset
+00B8 at address 3E8AB618.
Any Ideas?
thanks
Magen
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Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/15/2008 at 11:04 AM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: And if there are INCLUDE members with similar numbers? The C/I should identify both the line number and the member. I like HLASM's technique of an additional Informative message which identifies the directory and member and relative line number in which the error was detected HLASM also shows the sequence number. In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/15/2008 at 11:11 AM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Which access method do programs running under TSO use to read from DSN(*)? BSAM and QSAM. I thought I had coded MACRF= to use BSAM. I had thought that BSAM was an access method. Does either BSAM or VTAM do the folding? BSAM, not VTAM. QSAM as well. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- 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: EXCP access methos
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/11/2008 at 10:37 AM, Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Makes perfect sense to me. Under OS/360, we didn't have the protection that CCW translation gives us today and it was incredibly easy to destroy part of the OS Not by pointing a CCW at it; storage protection was good enough for that. The holes were things like failure to ensure that key 0 code came from authorized libraries.. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- 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: EXCP access methos
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/11/2008 at 06:50 PM, (IBM Mainframe Discussion List) [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I don't know what VSAM-like access methods are. ACB/RPL. That includes VTAM and access to SPOOL data sets. I believe that JES2 still uses EXCPVR but JES3 uses STARTIO. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- 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: EXCP access methos
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/11/2008 at 04:58 PM, J R [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I don't think so. I remember writing code for OS/360 that, during early testing, incorrectly calculated a buffer size requirement. Sure enough, when a subsequent READ CCW tried to read into beyond the end of the GETMAINed area, a S0C4 was the result The CCW-related failure was not an ABEND S0C4, but an error code in the IOB. If you got an 0C4 it was not from executing the CCW. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- 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: EXCP access methos
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/11/2008 at 05:38 PM, Gerhard Postpischil [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: You had storage? All of our programmers had core, and persisted in that usage even into the late seventies. Yeah, but not all shops saved money by buying a 370/155 after the 370/158 had been announced :-( In PCP all of storage was fair game, I believe that PCP supported storage protection, although, of course, it shared the exposures that MFT and MVT had. (there were a couple of loopholes in SVC parameter validity checking that IBM fixed eventually). There were more that IBM never fixed in OS/360, and some that they didn't fix in SVS. lucking out with an add-on memory whose protection capability had not been configured correctly. At least you didn't have an alternate tape channel that hadn't been upgraded to support IDA :-( -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- 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: EXCP access methos
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/12/2008 at 11:39 AM, Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: And, EXCP is an ordinary unauthorized interface. STARTIO and EXCPVR are not. Are you a betting man? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- 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: Space allocation with SMS
BillD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Before SMS came along, it was a good idea to get all the space needed in the first extent and allocate a 10-20% secondary for contingencies. This was known to be more efficient. Why? Why before SMS? With older, real devices, extents could generate larger headmoves which could hirt performance. With current, cached disk devices, this does not count anymore. With faster devices and SMS maybe getting secondary extents as a matter of course is no big deal. Coding secondary extents larger than the primary still makes no sense to me. It depends, mainly on how much data is created. Compare it to the SPACE=(CYL,(0,100)) for dump datasets that might or might not be used. On the other hand, allocating a large primary extent and releasing unused space is as efficient. Ps: this newsgroup is a mirror of a listserver. Use this listserver to address the majority of this group's population. Information will be automagically inserted below. Kees Any comments? Sincerely, Bill Davis Sr. Programmer/Analyst Good Samaritan Hospital/PHP ** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ** -- 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
Outsourcing hits new low
Saw this on through the CNN.COM web site early today. This has got to be a new low for outsourcing. http://www.kitv.com/money/16607424/detail.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
Re: Outsourcing hits new low
Matthew Stitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Saw this on through the CNN.COM web site early today. This has got to be a new low for outsourcing. http://www.kitv.com/money/16607424/detail.html What's new? I know of much more work, that is sent (electronically) to Texas and Mexico to be processed there by cheaper hands. I heard of Chinese callcenter workers that are trained in the different US accents, to give the US caller the feeling he is talking to a fellow countrymen. As fast as you gather information from allover the world, work also flows over the same network. Be honest, you don't want to pay xx% more for a hamburger to assure a local person is taking your order, do you? Kees. ** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ** -- 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: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:00:09 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/15/2008 at 11:04 AM, Paul Gilmartin said: And if there are INCLUDE members with similar numbers? The C/I should identify both the line number and the member. I like HLASM's technique of an additional Informative message which identifies the directory and member and relative line number in which the error was detected HLASM also shows the sequence number. And, at least for those lines lacking unique sequence numbers, the C/I should identify the relative line number. In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/15/2008 at 11:11 AM, Paul Gilmartin said: Which access method do programs running under TSO use to read from DSN(*)? BSAM and QSAM. I thought I had coded MACRF= to use BSAM. I had thought that BSAM was an access method. Does either BSAM or VTAM do the folding? BSAM, not VTAM. QSAM as well. I had imagined the TMP interposed its own filter behind BSAM/QSAM. Educate me: How, outside the TMP, can one code a call to BSAM or QSAM to perform folding? Is there something line DCB=(OPTCD=FOLD)? -- gil -- 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: Outsourcing hits new low
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM Matthew Stitt wrote ... Saw this on through the CNN.COM web site early today. This has got to be a new low for outsourcing. http://www.kitv.com/money/16607424/detail.html What's new? I know of much more work, that is sent (electronically) to Texas and Mexico to be processed there by cheaper hands. I heard of Chinese callcenter workers that are trained in the different US accents, to give the US caller the feeling he is talking to a fellow countrymen. As fast as you gather information from allover the world, work also flows over the same network. Be honest, you don't want to pay xx% more for a hamburger to assure a local person is taking your order, do you? Right on! Much better to put the locals on some kind of welfare program, AND pay for the off-shore order-takers. -jc- -- 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: Outsourcing hits new low
[snip] Right on! Much better to put the locals on some kind of welfare program, AND pay for the off-shore order-takers. -jc- I am somewhat confused by this as well. But I'll admit that I'm not an economist. I'm a computer techie. But as more things are done far away, that reduces the average and median income in the local economy. Which reduces the ability to make money in that economy. Eventually, it seems to me, the local economy will no longer be able to support itself and will collapse. I what the big boys hope to do is syphon off money in the interim and so don't care about the long term. That is one problem with globalization, in my ignorant view. And, of course, long term today implies beyond this fiscal cycle. Unlike the 3 year and 5 year plans of my misspent youth. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. -- 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: Outsourcing hits new low
Yes,, I ordered a Leather Recliner from Costco 4 weeks ago, for my Mother's visit from South Africa. So, this weekend, I phoned the Customer Support help line and I was routed to India. They requested my order number and did a computer look-up and just read to me , what I could see on the Internet lookup my self. Conclusion : I am in America, I can use a Computer and I know how to set my email Out of office message... Why do I need to phone India for this information. NotE: I even knew Pakistan won the cricket game and that NZ was in a spot of bother against England. Anton -- 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
replacing SAS for SMF reports?
Well, it looks like SAS is pricing itself out of our range. Or management is just doesn't think that we are getting our moneys worth or ... Anyway, other than using HLASM or maybe shudder COBOL, anybody have any suggestions how to easily do some ad hoc type SMF reporting? What would be really nice would be some sort of SMF to XML output program. I really like the IRRADU00 output (RACF SMF data translated to XML). I download that to my PC and run Java against it. If necessary, I could even develop and test the Java code on my PC and run the application on the mainframe once it is working. (or use Co:Z to ship the XML to my Linux system and run the code there with the response going back to the mainframe). -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. -- 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
Doniparti Lakshminarasimha Rao/India/IBM is out of the office - 16th and 17th Jun-2008.
I will be out of the office starting 16/06/2008 and will not return until 18/06/2008. Conclusion : Now we know that Lotus Notes can even send out of Office messages for IBM from INDIA...Amazing stuff. Why am I reposting ? Because I have software grease monkeys in the USA that responds with I did not see the Out of office message... can you point me in the right direction Seriously, I am not kidding you. Note: Maybe we can stop this by cutting the cable going thought the Mediterranean... Maybe even get IRAN to do it and then they can flatten the Middle East before they leave office.. Five birds with one stone -- 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: 2105 sense code hds
Ron Glenn, thank you. I had already varied the target offline on the other zos lpar, but the target was online to a VM system.The PPRC copy now works. Thanks for the assist! Joel On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:17:38 -0500, Glenn Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Joel, I also have twin HDS9980V subsystems with TrueCopy and ShadowImage installed. I tried your ICKDSK JCL on using two of my 1 cylinder DASD volumes ( they are former XRC utility volumes ) and I believe I received the same error: ICKDSF - MVS/ESADEVICE SUPPORT FACILITIES 17.0 PPRCOPY ESTPAIR - DDNAME(A) - MODE(COPY) - PRIMARY(X'992F',43323,X'3E') - SECONDARY(X'992F',43323,X'3F') - LSS(X'0F',X'0F') ICK00700I DEVICE INFORMATION FOR 3F3E IS CURRENTLY AS FOLLOWS: PHYSICAL DEVICE = 3390 STORAGE CONTROLLER = 2105 STORAGE CONTROL DESCRIPTOR = E8 DEVICE DESCRIPTOR = 0A ADDITIONAL DEVICE INFORMATION = 4A35 TRKS/CYL = 15, # PRIMARY CYLS = 1 ICK04000I DEVICE IS IN SIMPLEX STATE ICK10710I I/O ERROR OCCURRED ON DEVICE 3F3E CSW = 0EF038 0E00 CCW = 270EF060 0021 000EF060 + 00 62413E3F 0F00F0F0 F0F0F0F4 F3F3F2F3 000EF070 + 10 992F0F00 F0F0F0F0 F0F4F3F3 F2F3992F 000EF080 + 20 00 ICKDSF - MVS/ESADEVICE SUPPORT FACILITIES 17.0 SENSE = 8000 BE0F 5800 23124800 992F0F0F 40C2 ICK34082I A COMMAND WAS RECEIVED THAT IS NOT VALID FOR THIS PPRC STATE ICK30003I FUNCTION TERMINATED. CONDITION CODE IS 12 ICK2I ICKDSF PROCESSING COMPLETE. MAXIMUM CONDITION CODE WAS 12 I had the PPRC source volume, UCB address 3F3E and the PPRC target volume, UCB address 3F3F online to all of my z/OS images. When I varied the PPRC target volume offline ( as Ron Hawkins suggested ), the command worked: ICKDSF - MVS/ESADEVICE SUPPORT FACILITIES 17.0 PPRCOPY ESTPAIR - DDNAME(A) - MODE(COPY) - PRIMARY(X'992F',43323,X'3E') - SECONDARY(X'992F',43323,X'3F') - LSS(X'0F',X'0F') ICK00700I DEVICE INFORMATION FOR 3F3E IS CURRENTLY AS FOLLOWS: PHYSICAL DEVICE = 3390 STORAGE CONTROLLER = 2105 STORAGE CONTROL DESCRIPTOR = E8 DEVICE DESCRIPTOR = 0A ADDITIONAL DEVICE INFORMATION = 4A35 TRKS/CYL = 15, # PRIMARY CYLS = 1 ICK04000I DEVICE IS IN SIMPLEX STATE ICK02203I PPRCOPY ESTPAIR FUNCTION COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY ICK02231I DEVICE IS NOW A PEER TO PEER REMOTE COPY VOLUME ICK1I FUNCTION COMPLETED, HIGHEST CONDITION CODE WAS 0 I also received the following messages on each of my z/OS images, which I normally receive whenever I start a PPRC pair on my system: IEA494I 3F3E,SO3F3E,PPRC PAIR PENDING,SSID=992F,CCA=3E IEA494I 3F3E,SO3F3E,PPRC PAIR FULL DUPLEX,SSID=992F,CCA=3E HTH Glenn Miller -- 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
Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?
John, You might also consider using the Assembler DSECT mapping support that is available in the alphaWorks version of JZOS. With it, you can generate Java record mapping classes from Assembler DSECT and then process the records using a Java program. See: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/zosjavabatchtk The Java program could either run on z/OS, or you could still use Co:Z to ship the raw SMF records to Linux and run the Java processing program there. Other than Java, you could use C and use the z/OS C++ CDSECT compiler utility that converts a DSECT into C header files. FWIW: here's example JCL that dumps SMF and offloads processing of it using Co:Z. Our download site has a sample C program, but you could also use Java. http://dovetail.com/docs/coz/cookbook.html#4_5 Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:51 AM, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it looks like SAS is pricing itself out of our range. Or management is just doesn't think that we are getting our moneys worth or ... Anyway, other than using HLASM or maybe shudder COBOL, anybody have any suggestions how to easily do some ad hoc type SMF reporting? What would be really nice would be some sort of SMF to XML output program. I really like the IRRADU00 output (RACF SMF data translated to XML). I download that to my PC and run Java against it. If necessary, I could even develop and test the Java code on my PC and run the application on the mainframe once it is working. (or use Co:Z to ship the XML to my Linux system and run the code there with the response going back to the mainframe). -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. -- 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
Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?
I see customers stampeding to SAS/PC (or whatever it's called). Barry has some notes on how to get the SMF data up to the mickey-mouse servers - even the PDBs I hear. If you pull from the PC end, all the EBCDIC/ASCII, [big|small]- endian issues are resolved. Must be cheap too ... Have a look. Shane ... Quoting McKown, John : Well, it looks like SAS is pricing itself out of our range. Or management is just doesn't think that we are getting our moneys worth or ... Anyway, other than using HLASM or maybe shudder COBOL, anybody have any suggestions how to easily do some ad hoc type SMF reporting? -- 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: replacing SAS for SMF reports?
In a message dated 6/16/2008 9:51:37 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: download that to my PC and run Java against it. If necessary, I could even develop and test the Java code on my PC and run the application on the mainframe once it is working. (or use Co:Z to ship the XML to my Linux system and run the code there with the response going back to the mainframe). Didn't have much luck with JAVA RMF under Windoze, maybe it works better on Linux? _http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/rmf/rmfhtmls/pmweb/pmweb.ht ml_ (http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/rmf/rmfhtmls/pmweb/pmweb.html) Anyway, won't SAS run on Linux? Seems that would be cheapest. Do what you've been doing just do it on the PC. Dr. Merrill has examples at _www.mxg.com_ (http://www.mxg.com) on how to process SMF data on the PC. **Vote for your city's best dining and nightlife. City's Best 2008. (http://citysbest.aol.com?ncid=aolacg0005000102) -- 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: replacing SAS for SMF reports?
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shane Ginnane Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 10:20 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports? I see customers stampeding to SAS/PC (or whatever it's called). Barry has some notes on how to get the SMF data up to the mickey-mouse servers - even the PDBs I hear. If you pull from the PC end, all the EBCDIC/ASCII, [big|small]- endian issues are resolved. Must be cheap too ... Have a look. Shane ... That is a possibility as well and is being discussed. But then we'd need a license for every desktop user (well, that's only 5 of us). But if person#1 does the work most of the time, then it would be difficult for person#2 to come in and take over while they are on vacation (or, in my group, at the doctor's). -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. -- 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: replacing SAS for SMF reports?
I keep telling myself I need to look closer at this . . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Programming_System -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 7:51 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: replacing SAS for SMF reports? Well, it looks like SAS is pricing itself out of our range. Or management is just doesn't think that we are getting our moneys worth or ... Anyway, other than using HLASM or maybe shudder COBOL, anybody have any suggestions how to easily do some ad hoc type SMF reporting? What would be really nice would be some sort of SMF to XML output program. I really like the IRRADU00 output (RACF SMF data translated to XML). I download that to my PC and run Java against it. If necessary, I could even develop and test the Java code on my PC and run the application on the mainframe once it is working. (or use Co:Z to ship the XML to my Linux system and run the code there with the response going back to the mainframe). -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. -- 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
UR1 vs FIN
I'm being offered UR1 closure for an APAR. The description sounds just like FIN closure. Is there a difference? -- 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/ -- 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: replacing SAS for SMF reports?
Quoting McKown, John: (or, in my group, at the doctor's). Huh ???. You work for a place called HealthMarkets ... Shouldn't the quack come to *YOU* (in your cubicle) as a perk of the job ???... g,d,r Shane ... -- 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: replacing SAS for SMF reports?
If you can get the SMF data into a usable format and get it down to PCs, you might try this R statistical/graphing package: http://www.r-project.org/ /Tom Kern On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:51:12 -0500, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it looks like SAS is pricing itself out of our range. Or management is just doesn't think that we are getting our moneys worth or ... Anyway, other than using HLASM or maybe shudder COBOL, anybody have any suggestions how to easily do some ad hoc type SMF reporting? What would be really nice would be some sort of SMF to XML output program. I really like the IRRADU00 output (RACF SMF data translated to XML). I download that to my PC and run Java against it. If necessary, I could even develop and test the Java code on my PC and run the application on the mainframe once it is working. (or use Co:Z to ship the XML to my Linux system and run the code there with the response going back to the mainframe). -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology -- 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: replacing SAS for SMF reports?
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Kern Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 10:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports? If you can get the SMF data into a usable format and get it down to PCs, you might try this R statistical/graphing package: http://www.r-project.org/ /Tom Kern I do have R loaded on my Linux PC. But I haven't had time to really look at it. Also, I cannot seem to find any easy to read documentation. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. -- 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: UR1 vs FIN
From ServiceLink User's Guide Document Number SH52-0300-10 September 1996, as found in VM IBMLink: Appendix B.1 APAR Closing Codes The APAR closing codes are: ADM A partially closed APAR; can still be added to AST list; contains administrative information only right now; technical information will be added later CAN Canceled by person who submitted APAR DOC Documentation error DUA Duplicate of a resolved APAR closed for more than ten days DUB Duplicate of a resolved APAR closed for ten days or less DUU Duplicate of an unresolved APAR FIN Fixed in next release MCH Machine or microcode error PER Programming error PRS Permanent restriction REQ Requirement for Development's consideration RET Returned for additional information STD Open Systems Standards deficiency SUG Suggestion for product enhancement UR1 Programming error in the reported release; the problem has been corrected in a release not yet available from distribution UR2 Same as UR1 but written against an unsupported release UR3 Programming error in the reported release; does not exist in the current release available from distribution UR4 Same as UR3 but written against an unsupported release UR5 Unable to reproduce on the reported release USE User error Sounds like UR1 means something to the effect that the problem has actually been fixed in an announced but not yet GA release. In presentations more recent than the above document, I've heard IBM refer to FIN as Fixed IF Next so that the FIN code is not interpreted as being a commitment to deliver a product prior to such product's actually being announced. I would further say that if you believe the problem should be fixed in the current release, you should still ask for that. If you believe IBM is correct that an upcoming release is adequate, then accept IBM's offer for the UR1 closing code. Brian On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:36:24 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: I'm being offered UR1 closure for an APAR. The description sounds just like FIN closure. Is there a difference? -- Edward E Jaffe -- 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: replacing SAS for SMF reports?
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:52:03 -0500, Thomas Kern wrote: If you can get the SMF data into a usable format and get it down to PCs, you might try this R statistical/graphing package: http://www.r-project.org/ And: From: Longnecker, Dennis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Programming_System On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:51:12 -0500, McKown, John wrote: Well, it looks like SAS is pricing itself out of our range. Or management is just doesn't think that we are getting our moneys worth or ... So, is it plausible that with competition from R and W looming on the horizon, SAS is planning to maintain its level of revenue by increasing its rates? -- gil -- 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: replacing SAS for SMF reports?
I have a hard time reading the documentation too. I think it was written by statisticians for statisticians. Maybe if some really high-powered people who know how to do this kind of data manipulation/statistics were to start working in R or W and made some sample code public, then the rest of us can start with the samples to explore the capabilities. I would never have tried SAS for SMF processing if I had not seen Barry Merrill's code. Thank you Barry, you saved lots of weeks/months of effort and ulcers. /Tom Kern On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:56:22 -0500, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do have R loaded on my Linux PC. But I haven't had time to really look at it. Also, I cannot seem to find any easy to read documentation. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology -- 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: UR1 vs FIN
- Original Message - From: Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 11:36 AM Subject: UR1 vs FIN I'm being offered UR1 closure for an APAR. The description sounds just like FIN closure. Is there a difference? Ed, It's better than a FIN because the work's been done. I've had FIN's get lost before, and waited multiple releases for the fix. Tom -- 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: replacing SAS for SMF reports?
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:51:12 -0500, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it looks like SAS is pricing itself out of our range. Or management is just doesn't think that we are getting our moneys worth or ... Anyway, other than using HLASM or maybe shudder COBOL, anybody have any suggestions how to easily do some ad hoc type SMF reporting? What would be really nice would be some sort of SMF to XML output program. I really like the IRRADU00 output (RACF SMF data translated to XML). I download that to my PC and run Java against it. If necessary, I could even develop and test the Java code on my PC and run the application on the mainframe once it is working. (or use Co:Z to ship the XML to my Linux system and run the code there with the response going back to the mainframe). -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. -- 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 I sometimes encounter these emotional management attempts to excercise cost-containment before really understanding the time and effort that would be needed to replace (and maintain / update as technology changes) SAS and all surrounding application code. My recommendation is to survey your SAS users and generate a concise list of the SAS Base and other optional components being used today at your site which may help educate and enlighten management about what SAS really provides the enterprise. SAS can generate a SMF record to identify specific component-level usage (PROCs) and some more basic SMF 14/15 information and/or PGM=SAS software program usage in batch can also help pinpoint the SAS application users for management to ask pertinent questions, like do you have time and budget to replace your existing SAS application functionality today or at a minimum do without whatever it is that SAS provides your group so you can do your job? SAS has some very powerful facilities, imbedded in the SAS Base product, for generating visually-stimulating web, PDF, and other report/chart outputs. Also, there are some SAS DATA step functions you just can't do with ANSI SQL, frankly. And the point raised about WPS' solution as a SAS replacement, really should be given serious consideration as that product evolves and improves, rather than basing any opinions on past experiences. Lastly, since January 2007, SAS Institute will in fact negotiate with its clients, so you are encouraged to gather your stats (using SAS, likely) on how SAS is being used, where it's being used, and state what your enterprise is willing to do to consolidate that usage, ideally to a sub-capacity LPAR. It's up to the client to formulate this type of pitch, to the point that you will need to tell SAS what you're willing to pay for some reasonable amount of their software capacity. Toss in some licenses for a few Windows / AIX/ *nix servers and some desktops, and make it worth the discussion with your account rep. Scott Barry SBBWorks, Inc. -- 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: UR1 vs FIN
Brian Peterson wrote: FIN Fixed in next release UR1 Programming error in the reported release; the problem has been corrected in a release not yet available from distribution Sounds like UR1 means something to the effect that the problem has actually been fixed in an announced but not yet GA release. In presentations more recent than the above document, I've heard IBM refer to FIN as Fixed IF Next so that the FIN code is not interpreted as being a commitment to deliver a product prior to such product's actually being announced. I specifically asked if UR1 meant it would be fixed in R10. They said No. That means it must be R11 -- which (AFAIK) has not yet been announced. -- 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/ -- 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: replacing SAS for SMF reports?
John, Buying single user licenses is probably the most expensive way to get SAS for Windows. If you have 5 people that will use SAS then get a five user license. If a single user license is all the budget can take, then a method I use with my team is to load SAS for Windows onto a fairly heavy duty PC and Remote Desktop to it. One immediate advantage is that compute intensive SAS procs run in the background without slowing up your desktop/laptop. We have plenty of licenses, but it means we don't have to run the big stuff on our laptops. It also means that person #2 can very easily take over from person #1. Person #2 just uses Remote Desktop to get to the Workstation when person #1 is away. You can also share time on the same workstation as SAS can run multiple sessions. If Person # 1 is halfway through something, person # 2 can take the workstation and start a different SAS session without killing off person #1's work in progress. If you company has blade servers than it may be easy to get blade for yourself and load up XP, SAS and MXG. I've been using iSCSI to HDS 9500 rack stack storage, and the FTP access method to read SMF directly from the z/OS LPARs. No Fibre Channel and no File transfers required - just a PDB served on a platter. If you get pricing make sure you get the SAS for Windows pricing and not the Server version. The price difference is substantial. Oh, and once you have used the GUI on SAS for Windows you will never want to go back to the MF version. Ron That is a possibility as well and is being discussed. But then we'd need a license for every desktop user (well, that's only 5 of us). But if person#1 does the work most of the time, then it would be difficult for person#2 to come in and take over while they are on vacation (or, in my group, at the doctor's). -- 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: Outsourcing hits new low
Anton, Would you feel better if a call centre in Texas gave you the same kiss-off? Ron -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anton Britz Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 7:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Outsourcing hits new low Yes,, I ordered a Leather Recliner from Costco 4 weeks ago, for my Mother's visit from South Africa. So, this weekend, I phoned the Customer Support help line and I was routed to India. They requested my order number and did a computer look-up and just read to me , what I could see on the Internet lookup my self. Conclusion : I am in America, I can use a Computer and I know how to set my email Out of office message... Why do I need to phone India for this information. NotE: I even knew Pakistan won the cricket game and that NZ was in a spot of bother against England. Anton -- 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
Re: Outsourcing hits new low
Hi Ron, Yes, because the Viagra Stimulus Checks would then stimulate your own Economy, taxes, roads etc. (Check the mess Arnie is in currently.. Budget deficit wise but yes, I saw his wife on the Tim Russert show yesterday, talking from Sun Valley.. Ever been in Sun Valley ? ) Alternatively, you have to sit in the Senate for 50 years, to become a Chairman of an appropriations committee in order to channel a few Billion to your local Mom and Pop shop. Currently your local Mom and Pop shop needs to be manufacturing bombs to be able to pay the groceries. Note: What's going to eventually happen to all the bombs/Nuclear heads being manufactured because Cabella's can not sell them yet or my brother-in- law could not buy some this weekend. ( He farms in Africa and was impressed with the war arsenal you can buy in the USA stores. The computer stores are all closing down) Anton On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:44:45 -0700, Ron Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anton, Would you feel better if a call centre in Texas gave you the same kiss-off? Ron -- 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: UR1 vs FIN
In my experience, the difference is normally this: UR1 is used for changes that are regarded as new function or some kind of improvement or enhancement that was not technically a programming error (close code PER) because the program was implementing what the programming specification had said it should do. It also means that the fix will be in a PTF for the current release. FIN means fixed in next, but this does not absolutely guarantee that there will be a next release. That's why you might have heard it as fixed IF next. It's generally used for certain kinds of changes that are only allowed to happen on a release boundary (like a significant change in the packaging protocol) or some other kind of really significant change that can't be done by just a PTF. Roger Bolan infoprint.com Boulder, Colorado, USA P Think before you print Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU 06/16/2008 09:36 AM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU cc Subject UR1 vs FIN I'm being offered UR1 closure for an APAR. The description sounds just like FIN closure. Is there a difference? -- 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/ -- 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
Re: UR1 vs FIN
Roger Bolan wrote: FIN means fixed in next, but this does not absolutely guarantee that there will be a next release. That's why you might have heard it as fixed IF next. It's generally used for certain kinds of changes that are only allowed to happen on a release boundary (like a significant change in the packaging protocol) or some other kind of really significant change that can't be done by just a PTF. FIN really means Fixed IF next for good, legal reasons. In addition to the situations that you describe for FIN use, it opens the door wider for customers to report nits that neither the customer nor IBM thinks warrant shipping more PTFs in the service streams for current releases. OA25428, for example, let current IPCS developers know that a developer 14 years ago made a data entry field on one panel two characters too narrow to accept the widest item that can properly be entered there. Hopefully, a lot of these irritants can go away as a consequence of similar FIN APARs. Bob Wright - MVS Service Aids -- 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: replacing SAS for SMF reports?
I keep telling myself I need to look closer at this . . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Programming_System Yes, but. Neither MXG, nor (neu)MICS, support WPS. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- 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: UR1 vs FIN
In addition to Bob's update, I was told the same thing offline. Fixed If Next. Roger Bolan infoprint.com Boulder, Colorado, USA P Think before you print Robert Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU 06/16/2008 12:24 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU cc Subject Re: UR1 vs FIN Roger Bolan wrote: FIN means fixed in next, but this does not absolutely guarantee that there will be a next release. That's why you might have heard it as fixed IF next. It's generally used for certain kinds of changes that are only allowed to happen on a release boundary (like a significant change in the packaging protocol) or some other kind of really significant change that can't be done by just a PTF. FIN really means Fixed IF next for good, legal reasons. In addition to the situations that you describe for FIN use, it opens the door wider for customers to report nits that neither the customer nor IBM thinks warrant shipping more PTFs in the service streams for current releases. OA25428, for example, let current IPCS developers know that a developer 14 years ago made a data entry field on one panel two characters too narrow to accept the widest item that can properly be entered there. Hopefully, a lot of these irritants can go away as a consequence of similar FIN APARs. Bob Wright - MVS Service Aids -- 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
Network Time Protocol (NTP) client support question
As part of the PCI audit we need to look into adopting NTP (network time protocol) on the mainframe to ensure all of our 'systems' are synchronized. Can STP provide NTP client capability to maintain 'same time' across heterogeneous platforms. Hopefully, some one out there has a solution. I'll also contact IBM to see if how they have one. We are running on a z9-BC. Best Regards, Jasbir -- 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: Outsourcing hits new low
Matthew Stitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Saw this on through the CNN.COM web site early today. This has got to be a new low for outsourcing. http://www.kitv.com/money/16607424/detail.html C.P. Vernooy posted on June 16, 2008 8:29 AM What's new? I know of much more work, that is sent (electronically) to Texas and Mexico to be processed there by cheaper hands. I heard of Chinese callcenter workers that are trained in the different US accents, to give the US caller the feeling he is talking to a fellow countrymen. As fast as you gather information from allover the world, work also flows over the same network. Be honest, you don't want to pay xx% more for a hamburger to assure a local person is taking your order, do you? Kees. But in the article McDonalds admits they aren't saving any costs by doing this. So what's the purpose? It seems to me that it's only reducing the employment opportunities for the Hawaiians. * If you wish to communicate securely with Commerce Bank and its affiliates, you must log into your account under Online Services at http://www.commercebank.com or use the Commerce Bank Secure Email Message Center at https://securemail.commercebank.com NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any attached files are confidential. The information is exclusively for the use of the individual or entity intended as the recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, printing, reviewing, retention, disclosure, distribution or forwarding of the message or any attached file is not authorized and is strictly prohibited. If you have received this electronic mail message in error, please advise the sender by reply electronic mail immediately and permanently delete the original transmission, any attachments and any copies of this message from your computer system. * -- 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: Network Time Protocol (NTP) client support question
Chauhan, Jasbir wrote: As part of the PCI audit we need to look into adopting NTP (network time protocol) on the mainframe to ensure all of our 'systems' are synchronized. Can STP provide NTP client capability to maintain 'same time' across heterogeneous platforms. Hopefully, some one out there has a solution. I'll also contact IBM to see if how they have one. We are running on a z9-BC. STP is a cost option. If you don't have it, you can still synchronize your systems for free by running SNTPD under z/OS UNIX. -- 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/ -- 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: Network Time Protocol (NTP) client support question
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chauhan, Jasbir Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 2:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Network Time Protocol (NTP) client support question As part of the PCI audit we need to look into adopting NTP (network time protocol) on the mainframe to ensure all of our 'systems' are synchronized. Can STP provide NTP client capability to maintain 'same time' across heterogeneous platforms. Hopefully, some one out there has a solution. I'll also contact IBM to see if how they have one. We are running on a z9-BC. Best Regards, Jasbir z/OS cannot be an NTP client. However, you can use STP (which is not NTP!) to maintain the clock on the z and then use z/OS as your NTP server for the rest of your systems. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. -- 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
Slow FTP transfer from z/OS to Unix
Hello, I'm running a batch job that does a FTP transfer from a z/OS mainframe to a LINUX server and the transfer rate is about 20K/sec. If I do the same FTP transfer to a Windows server I got a transfer rate of about 900K/sec. The mainframe OSA card is running at 100 Mb/sec full. Since the Windows and the LINUX server are on the same switch and got the same throughput capability I suppose that there is an optimal setting that is done automatically when the transfer is done with a Windows server but this setting is not done automatically with a LINUX server. I tried PASV but it didn't change the bad transfer rate. Could you tell me what this setting could be? Thank you! Francois Pare Universite Laval Service de l'informatique et des telecommunications 1055 avenue du Séminaire Pavillon Louis-Jacques-Casault Quebec (Quebec) Canada G1V 0A6 tel.: 418-656-2131 ext. 4013 fax: 418-656-7305 -- 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: replacing SAS for SMF reports?
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:41:40 +, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Yes, but. Neither MXG, nor (neu)MICS, support WPS. snip Not yet.both Merrill and CA have announced they have current WPS initiatives. And Dr. Merrill's RD team has taken it a step further integrating some initial WPS-related support parameters into the current/recent maintenance versions, along with published DOC on WPS support experiences. Scott Barry SBBWorks, Inc. -- 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
STK9310 ( PowderHorn ) ATL and STK9840D tape drives
We have been trying to upgrade the LMU/LCU on our STK9310 ( PowderHorn ) ATL to support STK9840D tape drives. We currently have microcode level 1.9.26 on the LMU's and we have microcode level 4.2.04 on the LCU's. For the 2nd weekend we attempted to upgrade the microcode level to 1.9.74 on the LMU's and 4.4.08 on the LCU's. The installation/activation of the microcode appears to successful. The LMU's activate successfully, the LSM's activate successfully and all of our tape drives work. We are able to mount/dismount tape cartridges in all of our tape drives. However when we attempt to any type of CAP processing, 'ejects' or 'enters' something goes very wrong and the entire SILO ( the entire ACS ) appears to become unresponsive because the STK HSC host software reports that the ACS is disconnected. Last weekend we were running on the 'new' LMU/LCU microcode for more than 90 minutes before we attempted to perform a CAP 'enter'. The robotics appeared to 'read' 11 tape cartridges before we recieved the ACS Disconnected message on the z/OS consoles. Yesterday we were running for about 30 minutes before we attempted to eject 1 3490 tape cartridge. The robot had retrieved the cartridge from its storage cell, moved it to the CAP cell before we received the ACS Disconnected message on the z/OS consoles. We have engaged STK software support who says they have not encountered any problems with this level of microcode. They are attempting to analyze some HSC 'trace' data we captured yesterday when the problem occrred. I was wondering if anyone has STK9840D tape drives installed in a STK9310 ( PowderHorn ) ATL ( not an SL8500 ) and if so, would you be willing to share with me your LMU/LCU microcode levels and if you do any CAP processing. Thank you in advance for any help you can give us. Glenn Miller -- 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: replacing SAS for SMF reports?
From Longnecker, Dennis Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 10:33 AM I keep telling myself I need to look closer at this . . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Programming_System This product is now marketed by IBM. In 2005 Barry Merrill started testing his MXG code against the WPS system. At that time he felt the system was still vapor ware. It appears to be improving over the years. Barry continues to test MXG against it, and the progress is recorded in the NEWSLTRS member of MXG.SOURCLIB (Search for WPS). From the way I read the NEWSLTRS member Barry will support running MXG on WPS under certain conditions. For example, if your MXG run abends you need to call WPS first. If WPS then says the problem is in the MXG code, you need to send everything to Barry. He'll run it using SAS instead of WPS, and if the abend still occurs he'll check it out. If anyone is thinking of getting WPS to replace SAS I would get an agreement that you can do through acceptance testing before signing a contract. Especially if you are using more advanced functions of SAS like creating graphs, html, and PDF files and putting them on the HFS system using SAS ODS, or if you're doing any heavy macro processing. * If you wish to communicate securely with Commerce Bank and its affiliates, you must log into your account under Online Services at http://www.commercebank.com or use the Commerce Bank Secure Email Message Center at https://securemail.commercebank.com NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any attached files are confidential. The information is exclusively for the use of the individual or entity intended as the recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, printing, reviewing, retention, disclosure, distribution or forwarding of the message or any attached file is not authorized and is strictly prohibited. If you have received this electronic mail message in error, please advise the sender by reply electronic mail immediately and permanently delete the original transmission, any attachments and any copies of this message from your computer system. * -- 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: replacing SAS for SMF reports?
--snip-- Well, it looks like SAS is pricing itself out of our range. Or management is just doesn't think that we are getting our moneys worth or ... Anyway, other than using HLASM or maybe shudder COBOL, anybody have any suggestions how to easily do some ad hoc type SMF reporting? What would be really nice would be some sort of SMF to XML output program. I really like the IRRADU00 output (RACF SMF data translated to XML). I download that to my PC and run Java against it. If necessary, I could even develop and test the Java code on my PC and run the application on the mainframe once it is working. (or use Co:Z to ship the XML to my Linux system and run the code there with the response going back to the mainframe). unsnip--- Let me point out that PL/1 lends itself very nicely to processing of SMF data, with offset variables, etc. It's a little more work than just SAS processing, but the various data types in PL/1 can map SMF data variables very nicely. SAS was very effectively priced out of our shop long ago, and they were not willing to negotiate at all on the pricing issue. -- 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: replacing SAS for SMF reports?
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 3:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports? [snip] Let me point out that PL/1 lends itself very nicely to processing of SMF data, with offset variables, etc. It's a little more work than just SAS processing, but the various data types in PL/1 can map SMF data variables very nicely. SAS was very effectively priced out of our shop long ago, and they were not willing to negotiate at all on the pricing issue. I would love to try C or PL/I. But all we have are HLASM and COBOL. Oh, and the current freebies such as Java (which nobody but me has much familiarity with), REXX, Perl, and maybe some others. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. -- 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
how to properly set #of logical processors per LPAR?
Hello everybody, recently, as our production LPARs apetite for CPU has grown meaningful (we are in process connecting succesive branches of bank to new application), our sysprogs decided to simply put online subsequent processors to this LPARs. We ended in 12 processors assigned to each of them. I would like to know if 12 processors/LPAR is not too many, i.e. measure how much capacity it 'wasted' that way. I realise that RMF monitor III shows overhead on let's say LPAR dispatching but I guess that's a different story. Where is this CPU 'wasted'? That's my naive thinking (please correct me): Serialization beetween processors within LPAR is done via locks. Requests for spin lock (from this point of view) are 'CPU-wasting' - processor have to wait actively (if wait at all) for obtaining such a lock. Where are other places??? Is there any tool which sums such 'CPU-wasted' cycles and shows how many percent of CPU is 'wasted' in such way? Regards, PAwel Leszczynski PKO BP SA -- 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: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)
Paul Gilmartin wrote: I had imagined the TMP interposed its own filter behind BSAM/QSAM. Educate me: How, outside the TMP, can one code a call to BSAM or QSAM to perform folding? Is there something line DCB=(OPTCD=FOLD)? You can't. No, there isn't. OPEN device-dependent code itself will detect the TERM=TS allocation and setup a specific access method- dependent GET / PUT routine, which is where the folding occurs (or at least did occur the last time I looked at the MVS source). It's not that hard to understand. If the device allocated to the DD statement is ordinary DASD, then MACRF-specific code will be selected that generates CCWs to read from the tracks allocated to the data set on disk. If the device allocated is the terminal then obviously different code has to be used. The code selected is a compatibility interface (like the one used for BSAM and QSAM when a JES SPOOL data set is allocated to the DDname) and it does what it does. And one of the things they do is to fold lower case characters to upper case. The TMP has absolutely nothing to do with it. It's all in the access method compatibility interface (although it was not, at first, called that, since it came out with TSO in OS/360 20.01 and 20.1). But the same mechanism was then later used in OS/VS2 2.0 (MVS) to plug in the ACB/RPL compatibility interface layer. -- WB -- 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: Slow FTP transfer from z/OS to Unix
We had a similar problem and found it was related to port 113 and firewalls. We had the ftp server on a Linux box and were using the client from z/OS. We ended up creating a rule to keep the Linux ftp server from sending to port 113 of the client. Port 113 has something to do with identd. Brad Wissink Information Technology Services Iowa State University 515-294-3088 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of François Paré Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 2:15 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Slow FTP transfer from z/OS to Unix Hello, I'm running a batch job that does a FTP transfer from a z/OS mainframe to a LINUX server and the transfer rate is about 20K/sec. If I do the same FTP transfer to a Windows server I got a transfer rate of about 900K/sec. The mainframe OSA card is running at 100 Mb/sec full. Since the Windows and the LINUX server are on the same switch and got the same throughput capability I suppose that there is an optimal setting that is done automatically when the transfer is done with a Windows server but this setting is not done automatically with a LINUX server. I tried PASV but it didn't change the bad transfer rate. Could you tell me what this setting could be? Thank you! Francois Pare Universite Laval Service de l'informatique et des telecommunications 1055 avenue du Séminaire Pavillon Louis-Jacques-Casault Quebec (Quebec) Canada G1V 0A6 tel.: 418-656-2131 ext. 4013 fax: 418-656-7305 -- 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
Re: how to properly set #of logical processors per LPAR?
Pawel, it's hard to advise on that unless you give us some more hints about your configuration... e.g LPAR setup, software and hardware models etc. Just for starters it's entirely reasonable to consider that a logical 12-way might find inside one processor book of a z9 S54. Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU -- 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: replacing SAS for SMF reports?
It's not the ability to map SMF data that counts here - for anyone considering doing this in a programming language other than SAS (or indeed replacing ANY commercial SMF analysis product). It's the intellectual capital involved in knowing what to do with the data. So I, personally, wouldn't recommend moving away from products that manipulate the data. Unless you have an issue with their ability to do the right thing with the specific SMF data in question. It would seem to me to be moving away from the folklore pack and into shark-infested waters on your own. :-) Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU -- 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: how to properly set #of logical processors per LPAR?
From: Pawel Leszczynski Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 3:18 PM Hello everybody, recently, as our production LPARs apetite for CPU has grown meaningful (we are in process connecting succesive branches of bank to new application), our sysprogs decided to simply put online subsequent processors to this LPARs. We ended in 12 processors assigned to each of them. I would like to know if 12 processors/LPAR is not too many, i.e. measure how much capacity it 'wasted' that way. I realise that RMF monitor III shows overhead on let's say LPAR dispatching but I guess that's a different story. Where is this CPU 'wasted'? That's my naive thinking (please correct me): Serialization beetween processors within LPAR is done via locks. Requests for spin lock (from this point of view) are 'CPU-wasting' - processor have to wait actively (if wait at all) for obtaining such a lock. Where are other places??? Is there any tool which sums such 'CPU-wasted' cycles and shows how many percent of CPU is 'wasted' in such way? Regards, PAwel Leszczynski PKO BP SA We need a little more information here. For example, what are the total number of physical processors? One rule I've followed is that you don't want to have the number of LPs to be more than 2.5 times the number of PPs. That might be a little outdated, I don't know, but it's what I use. * If you wish to communicate securely with Commerce Bank and its affiliates, you must log into your account under Online Services at http://www.commercebank.com or use the Commerce Bank Secure Email Message Center at https://securemail.commercebank.com NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any attached files are confidential. The information is exclusively for the use of the individual or entity intended as the recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, printing, reviewing, retention, disclosure, distribution or forwarding of the message or any attached file is not authorized and is strictly prohibited. If you have received this electronic mail message in error, please advise the sender by reply electronic mail immediately and permanently delete the original transmission, any attachments and any copies of this message from your computer system. * -- 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: replacing SAS for SMF reports?
Usually we don't choose to move away from good products like SAS or from 3rd party performance monitors. It is usually a Management decision to lower costs at any cost that forces us to go back to basic analysis/reporting, often done in freebie languages (FORTRAN-G, PL/I-F, Rexx, etc) And training for knowing what to do with the data? That training budget was eliminated 15 years ago. /Tom Kern On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:40:43 +0100, Martin Packer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not the ability to map SMF data that counts here - for anyone considering doing this in a programming language other than SAS (or indeed replacing ANY commercial SMF analysis product). It's the intellectual capital involved in knowing what to do with the data. So I, personally, wouldn't recommend moving away from products that manipulate the data. Unless you have an issue with their ability to do the right thing with the specific SMF data in question. It would seem to me to be moving away from the folklore pack and into shark-infested waters on your own. :-) Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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: replacing SAS for SMF reports?
Have you considered DFSORT and ICETOOL? -Original Message- From: McKown, John [mailto:snip] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 1:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports? I would love to try C or PL/I. But all we have are HLASM and COBOL. Oh, and the current freebies such as Java (which nobody but me has much familiarity with), REXX, Perl, and maybe some others. -- 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: replacing SAS for SMF reports?
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schwarz, Barry A Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 4:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports? Have you considered DFSORT and ICETOOL? I don't know how to process repeating groups in ICETOOL. Or other advanced SMF records which do not have fixed offsets. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. -- 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: replacing SAS for SMF reports?
So I, personally, wouldn't recommend moving away from products that manipulate the data. The OP doesn't want to move. He has been 'told' to move. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- 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
DB2 group by with date functions
I seem to have forgotten how to do this, and I cannot seem to find the answer in the docs or via Google. I want to group by using two columns which are year() and month(), but the result set isn't grouping. For example: Select Year(Expdate), Month(Expdate) , Category, Sum(Expamt) from EXP.EXPENSES group by expdate, category order by 1 desc, 2 desc, 3 Gives: 20086 Adjustments12.68 20086 Car10.50 20086 Car18.50 What is the syntax for the group columns when they are functions? Thanks! Lindy -- 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: replacing SAS for SMF reports?
And, also, consider the analytic data processing requirement for summary- level reports, both on-the-fly from your detail and and also with using a permanent trending data base of some type. An underlying database engine / technology would need to be factored into any replacement initiative, such as SQL Server. Additional considerations such as data-volume and subject matter expertise for SMF data record structures should present some interesting discussion with management when considering replacement solution auditability, if such a policy/process exists. Of course, business decisions for capacity planning and service quality warrant credible, validated information resources, correct? Whatever happens, be sure to get any management acceptance / concurrence, in writing for the history books. Scott Barry SBBWorks, Inc. -- 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: DB2 group by with date functions
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lindy Mayfield Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 4:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: DB2 group by with date functions I seem to have forgotten how to do this, and I cannot seem to find the answer in the docs or via Google. I want to group by using two columns which are year() and month(), but the result set isn't grouping. For example: Select Year(Expdate), Month(Expdate) , Category, Sum(Expamt) from EXP.EXPENSES group by expdate, category order by 1 desc, 2 desc, 3 Gives: 20086 Adjustments12.68 20086 Car10.50 20086 Car18.50 What is the syntax for the group columns when they are functions? Thanks! Lindy Select Year(Expdate), Month(Expdate) , Category, Sum(Expamt) from EXP.EXPENSES group by Year(expdate), Month(Expdate), category order by 1 desc, 2 desc, 3 ref: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DSNAPK10/1.1. 6 -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. -- 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: replacing SAS for SMF reports?
If you post a message with DFSORT and SMF in the title, I'll Frank will respond with some suggestions if not a complete example. -Original Message- From: McKown, John [mailto:snip] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 2:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports? I don't know how to process repeating groups in ICETOOL. Or other advanced SMF records which do not have fixed offsets. -- 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: DB2 group by with date functions
Thanks John. That's exactly what I thought, then I started doubting myself when I couldn't get it to work. Select Year(Expdate), Month(Expdate), Category, sum(expamt) from EXP.EXPENSES group by Year(Expdate), Month(Expdate), Category order by 1 desc, 2 desc, 3 -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ DSNT408I SQLCODE = -104, ERROR: ILLEGAL SYMBOL (. SOME SYMBOLS THAT MIGHT BE LEGAL ARE: FOR WITH FETCH ORDER UNION EXCEPT QUERYNO OPTIMIZE DSNT418I SQLSTATE = 42601 SQLSTATE RETURN CODE DSNT415I SQLERRP= DSNHPARS SQL PROCEDURE DETECTING ERROR DSNT416I SQLERRD= 0 0 0 -1 158 0 SQL DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION DSNT416I SQLERRD= X'' X'' X'' X'' X'009E' X'' SQL DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: 17. kesäkuuta 2008 0:14 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DB2 group by with date functions -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lindy Mayfield Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 4:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: DB2 group by with date functions Select Year(Expdate), Month(Expdate) , Category, Sum(Expamt) from EXP.EXPENSES group by Year(expdate), Month(Expdate), category order by 1 desc, 2 desc, 3 ref: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DSNAPK10/1.1. 6 -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology -- 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: Outsourcing hits new low
Yeah, I read about that last year. It's not only McDonalds that is doing this. Gary Green I can use all the help I can get with my fight against cancer! Please support my efforts! Thank you. http://www.active.com/donate/tntsonj/tntsonjGGreen -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Stitt Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 9:16 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Outsourcing hits new low Saw this on through the CNN.COM web site early today. This has got to be a new low for outsourcing. http://www.kitv.com/money/16607424/detail.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 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 270.3.0/1504 - Release Date: 6/15/2008 5:52 PM -- 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: DB2 group by with date functions
Ok, this is getting weird. Right out of the example: SELECT SUBSTR(WORKDEPT,1,1), MIN(EDLEVEL), MAX(EDLEVEL) FROM DSN8910.EMP GROUP BY SUBSTR(WORKDEPT,1,1) ; -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ DSNT408I SQLCODE = -104, ERROR: ILLEGAL SYMBOL (. SOME SYMBOLS THAT MIGHT BE LEGAL ARE: FOR WITH FETCH ORDER UNION EXCEPT QUERYNO OPTIMIZE DSNT418I SQLSTATE = 42601 SQLSTATE RETURN CODE DSNT415I SQLERRP= DSNHPARS SQL PROCEDURE DETECTING ERROR DSNT416I SQLERRD= 0 0 0 -1 2040 0 SQL DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION DSNT416I SQLERRD= X'' X'' X'' X'' X'07F8' X'' SQL DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION Must be something I'm doing wrong. Has to be, but I don't yet see it. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: 17. kesäkuuta 2008 0:14 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DB2 group by with date functions Select Year(Expdate), Month(Expdate) , Category, Sum(Expamt) from EXP.EXPENSES group by Year(expdate), Month(Expdate), category order by 1 desc, 2 desc, 3 ref: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DSNAPK10/1.1. 6 -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology -- 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
Cloning USS files
All: How do I go about cloning part of a HFS file system across LPARs? What I am trying to do is to copy part (one directory and all sub-directories) from one HFS file on one LPAR into an HFS file on another LPAR. The HFS file containing the desired directories is mounted as root on one file system, which is the downlevel system from which I am migrating. I want to carve out a copy of selected directories and files from it and put them into an HFS file that will be mounted and used on the uplevel system. What are the steps I need to do to accomplish this? Mike Myers Pitt County Memorial Hospital Greenville, NC -- The contents of this e-mail (and any attachments) are confidential, may be privileged and may contain copyright material. You may only reproduce or distribute material if you are expressly authorized by us to do so. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, disclosure or copying of this email (and any attachments) is unauthorized. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and immediately delete this e-mail and any copies of it from your system. == -- 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: DB2 group by with date functions
There isn't one - the fine manual (from V8) says grouping-expression cannot include any of the following items: | A correlated column | A host variable | A column function | Any function that is nondeterministic or that is defined to have | an external action | A scalar fullselect | A CASE expression whose searched-when-clause contains a quantified | predicate, an IN predicate using a fullselect, or an EXISTS | predicate Note column function as part of the list. The standard solution is to create a view which makes the year and month into real columns (in the view) and then you can group by the column name in the view. Mike Select Year(Expdate), Month(Expdate) , Category, Sum(Expamt) from EXP.EXPENSES group by expdate, category order by 1 desc, 2 desc, 3 Gives: 20086 Adjustments12.68 20086 Car10.50 20086 Car18.50 What is the syntax for the group columns when they are functions? Thanks! Lindy -- 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 -- Mike -- 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: replacing SAS for SMF reports?
Barry A Schwarz wrote on 06/16/2008 02:15:19 PM: If you post a message with DFSORT and SMF in the title, I'll Frank will respond with some suggestions if not a complete example. -Original Message- From: McKown, John [mailto:snip] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 2:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports? I don't know how to process repeating groups in ICETOOL. Or other advanced SMF records which do not have fixed offsets. DFSORT/ICETOOL has some formats for handling special SMF fields, but it doesn't have any built-in features for handling triplets or the complex record types SMF builds. It only handles linear records. You would have to be able to address the fields you want by their linear starting positions in order to use DFSORT/ICETOOL for that kind of processing. That said, FWIW, here's a couple of simple ICETOOL examples for SMF records from z/OS DFSORT Application Programming Guide: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ICE1CA20/6.7.5.12?SHELF=DT=20060615185603CASE= http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ICE1CA20/6.7.5.13?SHELF=DT=20060615185603CASE= I think Martin Packer might have done some tinkering with using DFSORT/ICETOOL for SMF reports, so maybe he has something to add on the subject. Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM) - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Specialties: PARSE, JFY, SQZ, ICETOOL, IFTHEN, OVERLAY, Symbols, Migration = DFSORT/MVS is on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort/ -- 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: DB2 group by with date functions
Thanks, Mike. So using Group by year(xx) is something new in V9 it seems. Funny, though, I instinctively tried that syntax first and was surprised it didn't work. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Bell Sent: 17. kesäkuuta 2008 0:52 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DB2 group by with date functions There isn't one - the fine manual (from V8) says grouping-expression cannot include any of the following items: | A correlated column | A host variable | A column function | Any function that is nondeterministic or that is defined to have | an external action | A scalar fullselect | A CASE expression whose searched-when-clause contains a quantified | predicate, an IN predicate using a fullselect, or an EXISTS | predicate Note column function as part of the list. The standard solution is to create a view which makes the year and month into real columns (in the view) and then you can group by the column name in the view. Mike -- 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: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 1:00 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts) snip 6) A new parameter on the DD * and/or DD DATA, SYMBOLS=YES. This tells JES2 to examine the instream data, looking for symbols which can be resolved, such as SYSUID, HOME, a static system symbol, or any other symbol set with the // SET statement, and replace the symbol with its value. If there is no value for that symbol, leave the symbol alone. Yes. This has also been discussed before. snip 9) Similar to 6 above, but maybe somebody here would like to do it. A subsystem which can be used on a DD statement to translate system symbols to their value as lines are read from the file (be it a dataset, UNIX file, or instream). There used to be a subsystem (GPSAM?) on the CBT that would be a good starting point, although it would be nice if IBM provide a standard subsystems for this. Another good starting point might be a program I recently posted to the CBT as file 779. It performs pretty much what is described above. It reads one or more input DD's, performs substitutions and writes the files back out to paired output DD's. The values for the symbols are retrieved from the JESJCL dataset via a call to SDSF, so there is no need for passing them on parms or other manipulations. If the symbols are known in the JCL, this program can determine their value for the step in which it executes. This program does have one very limited situation in which it may not be able to determine the correct value for a symbol, but it is coded to detect if that happens and issues a bad return code and a detailed error report. Here is an example of how it might be used: //*** // SET DB2SUBS=TSTDB2S // SET DB2DBNM=TSTDBNM // SET DB2CRE8=TSTOWNR //*** //DOSYMBOL EXEC PGM=SYMBSUB //CNTL001I DD * DSN SYSTEM(DB2SUBS) -TERM UTILITY(UNLMYTBL) END //CNTL001O DD DSN=TERMCARD,DISP=(NEW,PASS), //DCB=(LRECL=80,BLKSIZE=0,RECFM=FB), //UNIT=VIO,SPACE=(TRK,(1,0)) //CNTL002I DD * UNLOAD TABLESPACE DB2DBNM..MYTBLSPC LOCK NO QUIESCE YES QUIESCECAT NO SELECT * FROM DB2CRE8..MY_DB2_TABLE FORMAT USER () OUTDDN(SYSREC00) //CNTL002O DD DSN=UNLDCARD,DISP=(NEW,PASS), //DCB=(LRECL=80,BLKSIZE=0,RECFM=FB), //UNIT=VIO,SPACE=(TRK,(1,0)) //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSUDUMP DD SYSOUT=* //*** Bill Bass United Health Care Greenville, SC This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or proprietary information, and may be used only by the person or entity to which it is addressed. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or his or her authorized agent, the reader is hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by replying to this message and delete this e-mail immediately. -- 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: DB2 group by with date functions
I don't believe this is quite correct. SUBSTR(), YEAR() and MONTH() are not column functions, they are scalar functions. I believe the problem may be that you cannot even use SCALAR functions in the GROUP BY unless you are in version 8 NEW FUNCTION MODE. Check to see if your site is on version 8 in COMPATIBILITY MODE? Bill Bass United Health Care Greenville, SC -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lindy Mayfield Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 6:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DB2 group by with date functions Thanks, Mike. So using Group by year(xx) is something new in V9 it seems. Funny, though, I instinctively tried that syntax first and was surprised it didn't work. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Bell Sent: 17. kesäkuuta 2008 0:52 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DB2 group by with date functions There isn't one - the fine manual (from V8) says grouping-expression cannot include any of the following items: | A correlated column | A host variable | A column function | Any function that is nondeterministic or that is defined to have | an external action | A scalar fullselect | A CASE expression whose searched-when-clause contains a quantified | predicate, an IN predicate using a fullselect, or an EXISTS | predicate Note column function as part of the list. The standard solution is to create a view which makes the year and month into real columns (in the view) and then you can group by the column name in the view. Mike -- 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 This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or proprietary information, and may be used only by the person or entity to which it is addressed. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or his or her authorized agent, the reader is hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by replying to this message and delete this e-mail immediately. -- 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: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/15/2008 at 09:07 PM, John McKown [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The above inserts the comma between (e.g) TOM and DICK. Suppose that I need a PARM of 80 characters which contains no commas anywhere in it? Then you run it out to column 71[1], put a continuation character in column 72[1] and continue it in the next record, per existing rules. In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/15/2008 at 09:08 PM, John McKown [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I know that BSAM itself doesn't do the folding. Then it doesn't get folded, because there is no TSO code between you and the READ or CHECK macro. What I think happens is that the TSO service What TSO service? The behavior is the same when you do the READ from your own code. Is IEBGENER a TSO service? [1] If IBM adds support for VB and long FB then the numbers would be variable, but the technique would still apply. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- 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: STK9310 ( PowderHorn ) ATL and STK9840D tape drives
what version of NCS are you on ? - ravi. On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:27:15 -0500, Glenn Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have been trying to upgrade the LMU/LCU on our STK9310 ( PowderHorn ) ATL to support STK9840D tape drives. We currently have microcode level 1.9.26 on the LMU's and we have microcode level 4.2.04 on the LCU's. For the 2nd weekend we attempted to upgrade the microcode level to 1.9.74 on the LMU's and 4.4.08 on the LCU's. The installation/activation of the microcode appears to successful. The LMU's activate successfully, the LSM's activate successfully and all of our tape drives work. We are able to mount/dismount tape cartridges in all of our tape drives. However when we attempt to any type of CAP processing, 'ejects' or 'enters' something goes very wrong and the entire SILO ( the entire ACS ) appears to become unresponsive because the STK HSC host software reports that the ACS is disconnected. Last weekend we were running on the 'new' LMU/LCU microcode for more than 90 minutes before we attempted to perform a CAP 'enter'. The robotics appeared to 'read' 11 tape cartridges before we recieved the ACS Disconnected message on the z/OS consoles. Yesterday we were running for about 30 minutes before we attempted to eject 1 3490 tape cartridge. The robot had retrieved the cartridge from its storage cell, moved it to the CAP cell before we received the ACS Disconnected message on the z/OS consoles. We have engaged STK software support who says they have not encountered any problems with this level of microcode. They are attempting to analyze some HSC 'trace' data we captured yesterday when the problem occrred. I was wondering if anyone has STK9840D tape drives installed in a STK9310 ( PowderHorn ) ATL ( not an SL8500 ) and if so, would you be willing to share with me your LMU/LCU microcode levels and if you do any CAP processing. Thank you in advance for any help you can give us. Glenn Miller -- 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: replacing SAS for SMF reports?
On 16 Jun 2008 13:16:44 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 3:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports? [snip] Let me point out that PL/1 lends itself very nicely to processing of SMF data, with offset variables, etc. It's a little more work than just SAS processing, but the various data types in PL/1 can map SMF data variables very nicely. SAS was very effectively priced out of our shop long ago, and they were not willing to negotiate at all on the pricing issue. I would love to try C or PL/I. But all we have are HLASM and COBOL. Oh, and the current freebies such as Java (which nobody but me has much familiarity with), REXX, Perl, and maybe some others. With reference modification available, the only things that are awkward in COBOL are bit switches and the 1 byte binary fields. I have written usage programs that parse the SMF 14/15, 30 and 64 records. If IBM would just implement the data types in the 2002 standard including the new floating point usages as IEEE, COBOL the above caveats would go away and COBOL would play nicer with JAVA. COMP-1 and COMP-2 could be retained for hex floating point so a single COBOL program could have both types of floating point. YES there is a SHARE requirement for this. -- 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: STK9310 ( PowderHorn ) ATL and STK9840D tape drives
We are currently running HSC/MVS R6.1. We have also installed the STK recommanded PTFs that were suppose to provide the support of the STK9840D tape drives. I should have mentioned that we are using COAX attachment to the STK/LMU's ( we have a Dual LMU configuration ) via twin VISARA SCON-22L controllers. Also, this ACS is only accessible by our z/OS mainframe, no Open Systems servers. As I said eariler, we are working with SUN/STK software support regarding this issue, they are telling us there are other users with the same configuration as us who are not experiencing this problem. I'm interested in 'talking' with any site that is running the same configuration as us. HTH Glenn Miller -- 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: replacing SAS for SMF reports?
One license and Remote Desktop? Surely you have a under utilized Intell server some where in the machine room :) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 8:25 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shane Ginnane Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 10:20 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports? I see customers stampeding to SAS/PC (or whatever it's called). Barry has some notes on how to get the SMF data up to the mickey-mouse servers - even the PDBs I hear. If you pull from the PC end, all the EBCDIC/ASCII, [big|small]- endian issues are resolved. Must be cheap too ... Have a look. Shane ... That is a possibility as well and is being discussed. But then we'd need a license for every desktop user (well, that's only 5 of us). But if person#1 does the work most of the time, then it would be difficult for person#2 to come in and take over while they are on vacation (or, in my group, at the doctor's). -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. -- 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
Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?
One license and Remote Desktop? Surely you have a under utilized Intell server some where in the machine room :) And, then you get into a server vs a desktop licence! - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- 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: Slow FTP transfer from z/OS to Unix
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:14:52 -0400, François Paré [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I'm running a batch job that does a FTP transfer from a z/OS mainframe to a LINUX server and the transfer rate is about 20K/sec. If I do the same ... I thought I had responded to this but I guess it went into the bit bucket. We had a quite different situation, but it may shed some light on yours. We went through 2 datacenter moves over the past couple years. Each time there was a set of remote FTP clients and servers that had been local but were now a couple thousand miles away. And each time there was a small percent of servers some servers (I'm pretty sure they were always servers) transmission times became terrible. Transmissions to/from similar servers were not much effected by the increased distance. In each case the problem was with the server's TCP/IP windowing scheme - whomever set up the server had not enabled window scaling. The maximum allowed number of unacknowledged bytes was far too small to allow efficient transmission over a fast media with high latency - a long fat pipe (the official term). If you have 2 servers that should be performing similarly but the exchanges with one are very slow, make sure the TCP/IP windowing has been set up correctly. Make sure that window scaling has been enabled. BTW, this is not anything recent. It is described in RFC 1323 from 1992. Pat O'Keefe -- 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: UR1 vs FIN
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:24:08 -0400, Robert Wright wrote: OA25428, for example, let current IPCS developers know that a developer 14 years ago made a data entry field on one panel two characters too narrow to accept the widest item that can properly be entered there. Hopefully, a lot of these irritants can go away as a consequence of similar FIN APARs. OTOH, over time I reported two errors in SMP/E very similar to the above: one where it got an error on a widest possible item, and later another where it got an error on the narrowest possible item (in the same field). Both were fixed in the service stream. And another that I called a SEV4 on SMP/E's issuing an unclear error message. They produced a PTF within 3 weeks that removed the error entirely. SMP/E development has pride in craftsmanship. I hope JCL development is paying attention. -- gil -- 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: Network Time Protocol (NTP) client support question
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:10:51 -0500, McKown, John wrote: -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chauhan, Jasbir Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 2:03 PM As part of the PCI audit we need to look into adopting NTP (network time protocol) on the mainframe to ensure all of our 'systems' are synchronized. Can STP provide NTP client capability to maintain 'same time' across heterogeneous platforms. z/OS cannot be an NTP client. However, you can use STP (which is not NTP!) to maintain the clock on the z and then use z/OS as your NTP server for the rest of your systems. There are several sides to this topic: o AFAIK, there is no way to maintain accurate time on z without spending the big bucks for STP (or ETR, if it's still supported). o With STP, z will probably have the most accurate time of any system in your shop. Logically, z should be the NTP server. o But, as so often stated in this list, logic must sometimes yield to Legacy inertia. And in the OP's case, it appears that Legacy is the existing non-z NTP server. IBM would be well advised to learn to play well with others as an NTP client. -- gil -- 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: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:56:33 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/15/2008 at 09:07 PM, John McKown [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The above inserts the comma between (e.g) TOM and DICK. Suppose that I need a PARM of 80 characters which contains no commas anywhere in it? Then you run it out to column 71[1], put a continuation character in column 72[1] and continue it in the next record, per existing rules. As I stated, if columns 71-72 fall within a JCL symbol, the converter fails to substitute the symbol value. IBM has told me this is working as intended. I'm highly skeptical. This strikes me as less likely the effect of what the designer intended and more likely the effect of an implementor's lack of pride in craftsmanship, with ex_post_facto specification. In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/15/2008 at 09:08 PM, John McKown said: I know that BSAM itself doesn't do the folding. Then it doesn't get folded, because there is no TSO code between you and the READ or CHECK macro. What I think happens is that the TSO service What TSO service? The behavior is the same when you do the READ from your own code. Is IEBGENER a TSO service? Ummm. I was able to circumvent the behavior with a TGET. What acess method, then, does TGET use? Or is TGET itself an access method? -- gil -- 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: replacing SAS for SMF reports?
Ted, For Windows it is nothing to do with the Hardware Platform - server or desktop, but rather the version of the OS you are using. Windows XP and VISTA are regarded as desktop products and pricing is based on that. Win 2003 is a server product and you will be charged a server price. This is the case even if the two OS run on the sane desktop or server. Ron -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 5:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] replacing SAS for SMF reports? One license and Remote Desktop? Surely you have a under utilized Intell server some where in the machine room :) And, then you get into a server vs a desktop licence! - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- 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
Re: Outsourcing hits new low
Anton, I can't sit in the senate. I've been a foreigner in every country I've lived in for the last 15 years. Best I can manage here is to be the Guvna. I'd be more than happy for my nieces and nephews in Australia and the Philippines to have a job in a call centre for a US company as they stimulate my family's' economies. I don't see a problem. Viagra Stimulus Checks, War arsenals, Nuclear bombs... WTF are you rabbitting about... Ron -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anton Britz Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 10:16 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Outsourcing hits new low Hi Ron, Yes, because the Viagra Stimulus Checks would then stimulate your own Economy, taxes, roads etc. (Check the mess Arnie is in currently.. Budget deficit wise but yes, I saw his wife on the Tim Russert show yesterday, talking from Sun Valley.. Ever been in Sun Valley ? ) Alternatively, you have to sit in the Senate for 50 years, to become a Chairman of an appropriations committee in order to channel a few Billion to your local Mom and Pop shop. Currently your local Mom and Pop shop needs to be manufacturing bombs to be able to pay the groceries. Note: What's going to eventually happen to all the bombs/Nuclear heads being manufactured because Cabella's can not sell them yet or my brother-in- law could not buy some this weekend. ( He farms in Africa and was impressed with the war arsenal you can buy in the USA stores. The computer stores are all closing down) Anton -- 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: replacing SAS for SMF reports?
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:25:07 -0500, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is a possibility as well and is being discussed. But then we'd need a license for every desktop user (well, that's only 5 of us). But if person#1 does the work most of the time, then it would be difficult for person#2 to come in and take over while they are on vacation (or, in my group, at the doctor's). -- We have a little batch process that fires up on our (single) MXG SAS PC every 10 mins during business hours and runs any 'ad hoc' work submitted by the users. Basically the user FTPs his request/program from the mainframe to the SAS PC. The SAS PC runs it and Emails the results back to the user. -- 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
